skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: not all employees.

Second, i think it really depends on how your employees need job security. I don't (most IT people in my country do not), so probably not playing games like that. I'll still be polite, and i'm really a good target for jokes, its rare i don't find one funny, but if you fire me, i'll just go my way and find another job. I interview well, and i do not need money.

[edit] I also have to add that some people on the spectrum (who were called "Asperger" a few years ago in my country) have troubles pretending and lying, so target those if you're afraid you're being lied too. They aren't easy to work with if you don't understand them (you really have to make them trust you and their environment, else they won't communicate as much as they should to be able to work in a team), but it can really be worth it.
Some tubs even support re-heating the existing water, so you can re-use the same bathwater the next day or later in the evening for other family members. (in Japan it's assumed you're going to shower and clean your body throughly before entering the bath, like in a hot spring/public pool, so the water doesn't get so gross)
"Our mission is to make cool stuff, learn some shit, and make money in the process" would apply everywhere. But business has the veneer of being super serious and you can't say things like that. It's an oddity of how society just has some taboos and acceptable behavior from companies.

It's also why the inverse (leadership at a company being straightforward) is seen as rare.
> The point is that given the locked in data that can affect real human lives, Meta and Google ought to put more into the process of reversing erroneously banned accounts.

There’s many things they could do to affect human lives better, but they have a fiscal responsibility to not spend money on that unless those humans are their paying customers.

Again, this is not a charity. This is a legal business, if you don’t like this you should fight for a change to the definition of “legal”.
Also how do you even test something like compost properly? It is not that uniform product, so test samples could be fine, but other parts metres away could have high levels of contaminants...
I think that’s just life. People in Finland go on strike, so a man in Germany spends 3 hours on the phone rearranging his flight, loses 150€ on his hotel reservation. These things happen all the time. Bigger and bigger systems are buggy, full of ignored edge cases, indifferent to you. Pay the bullshit tax amd move on.
Is there an acronym for building and testing they could have used in the title instead?
Why isn't there an independent video recording in the car itself that could be downloaded for review later?
Vodafone-Three merger faces competition probe
> The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge, actually.
> I bought an expensive PC just to play my stupid my 3D Steam games.

Depending on which games those are, you might able to get by on Linux just fine if you have them on Steam. I'm gaming on Linux multiple times a week and it's been a few years since the last major compatibility problem with the stuff I play. Maybe check out the compatibility database: https://protondb.com - If the stuff you want is all Gold and Platinum (like for me), you should be good.
The right type of camera at night will outperform human eyes by a lot. My aftermarket birds eye camera kit makes the road quite easily visible when I can't see it at all.

This is the sort of thing which HDR image capture should be spectacular at.
It’s really hard to come up with any kind of a solid digital-resolution-relatable number for any given film stock, if only because multiple layers of silver halide grains randomly distributed in an emulsion across three dimensions has no direct relationship to a two dimensional matrix of regularly distributed pixel elements, but the MTF curve of the stock describes its theoretical limit of resolution in terms of line pairs per mm. There’s published MTF curves for every stock, but the limiting factor is almost always the optical system, not the stock. An 8x10” negative shot with a very slow, black and white stock (say PanF for telescopic astrophotography) would exceed the practical DPI capacity of any extant commercial drum scanner… at a somewhat informed guess FP4 would probably top out somewhere north of 6400 DPI, as I’ve seen those scans not pick up details visible through a really good high power loupe.
> MacOS was always the good OS.

Emphasis, unfortunately, on _was_. From 2019 (and I have seen no improvement since, au contraire):

https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...
Indeed. Thanks for the link to the DIY setup. A few years ago, I would have been super excited about building one like this myself even if it takes a month of tinkering to get it to do what I want. Now with two kids and _life_ the way it is, my 5 hours on Saturday is precious. I need to choose between building tooling versus building the thing I want..
As much as I resist, I’m probably the target audience for companies like Shapeoko. I just can’t pull myself over the wall to spend three thousand plus Euros on a thing that will get used on weekends in my hobby workshop :-(
If it was about a thousand euros, I’d have found a way to justify it..

I see all the caveats about the lasers and also the nasty fumes they make me deal with - hence the desire to go with a mill - a known devil to me.

Also, I work most of the time with Hardwoods and CNC mill is more appropriate for the task than the laser regardless of power.

I’ll keep a look out in marktplaats for any used CNC mills. I hadn’t thought of that.
150 lbs at 6'2"? You must be rail-thin.
Well, it was a joke (hence the :)) showing that the quoted statement also applies in reverse and to continue with that joke it certainly seems like this case satisfies the "or are fully exterminated" criteria, so point taken :)

Slightly more seriously (Though only very slightly more seriously :)), IIRC our current understanding of history is that the jews are Canaanites. Quoting from Wikipedia "Ancestors of the Israelites are thought to have included ancient Semitic-speaking peoples native to this area.[59]: 78–79 Modern archaeological accounts suggest that the Israelites and their culture branched out of the Canaanite peoples through the development of a distinct monolatristic—and later monotheistic—religion centered on Yahweh.", so at the very least one of those peoples survived until today :)
It doesn’t know.
> > “We were lucky they didn’t pick up on the dragging,” one employee said a participant in the D.M.V. meeting had said afterward.

Yeah...that's the real problem here. Something very bad happened with a safety critical product, and anyone involveds instinct is to think that "getting lucky things weren't noticed" is a good thing.

Not to mention speaking incredibly poorly of the moral compass of whoever said that.
There are Hamas rape videos, you can easily find them using a simple reddit search. Please stop spreading propaganda.
I love Cliff, This Story about His Elementary School's Teacher teaching him about Matrices cracks me up every time (From a Numberphile podcast)

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8tfa5wN/
Using shell redirects sucks though, you need to run the shell as root.

Using cp seems overkill? It's really really designed to copy files between file systems and has a lot of logic to handle different cases and different optimisations which don't matter when writing to block devices.

As you say, there's no magic. I want a program which just calls 'open' on a path I give it and then uses 'write' to write my data to it. cp does so, so much more related to file systems, shell redirects aren't a separate program I can run with sudo, but I can trust dd to do the job. And it has a (kinds bad) progress monitor to boot.

The default 512 byte block size is unfortunate though.
I also feel like the start menu now is totally busted. In older versions of Windows I could find applications I installed via the start menu. Now it’s seemingly random whether it wants to find my application or whether it shows me an internet article about the application.
Yes. I understand, and agree.
Show HN: ERD Editor
Introduction
- Entity-Relationship Diagram Editor
- The top priority of the project is to focus on user editing experience.
So instead you want your government to pay money to a (possibly foreign) company just to be able to publish an app?
You may not be an Apple shareholder and I’m not sure how being a US Citizen has any potential to be a conflict of interest in this case but you still sound like you “drank the cool aid”… the question I have for you is where (if anywhere at all) do you draw the line between what Apple should be allowed to do and and what it should do voluntarily … and what rights you think individual nations have to regulate their internal commerce including regulations on what manufacturers and sellers of devices must make it possible for the purchasing public to do…

while this regulation is targeting Apple’s software control the same principles are underlying the regulations that allow bilingual countries to require products be labeled in both languages, allow countries to mandate hygiene in health care facilities, higher food safety or ingredient quality control to minimise food contamination risks…

Does Unilever have the right to decide what’s good enough for consumers in a country? Or does the country and its citizens have the right to demand Unilever products meet their standards if Unilever wants to sell in that country?
> Given the dramatically lower costs of utility-scale solar vs. residential rooftop solar

According to Wikipedia the LCOE on small roof top solar is about twice that of utility solar. [0] So yes, it's dramatically better. But typically the price difference between what the utility is paid and what the customer is charged is 3 times, so your average household is better off installing solar despite generating it at twice the cost of a utility.

The price difference isn't just transmission costs. It's also retail markup, regulatory charges and metering and billing.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_sourc... - there are a lot of tables in that page. Twice looks to be generous to the utilities.
I mean, sure, the monkey patching/extending is a thing. But if you import "foo" in one ruby file, surely it doesn't pollute the namespace of all other ruby files loaded after with that symbol in their global scope?
Daysdream: Apple responds to the EU's ruling by allowing each EU national government to open and directly operate its own National App Store. All profits flow directly to each nation's treasury, and all decisions about protecting its citizens from malicious apps & financial scams & etc. are made by the government's best experts. (Details of whether Nation_1's App Store can be used by citizens of Nation_2, or tourists visiting from Nation_3, or [...] are left for the EU nations to work out.)

With 2+ dozen nations in the EU, that would provide ample competition in the EU area. The bureaucrats and politicians could hardly complain about cash flowing into their own coffers. The people of the EU would receive the best protection humanly possible. And when those "Fairy Godmother Government" dreams crashed into the reality of bureaucratic bungling, political scandals, and security screw-ups, over and over - Apply could look darn shiny by comparison, without having to lift a finger.
Love the site, but the one thing I am missing is instantly seeing what papers are trending right now, instead of having to manually select a timeframe. Think hacker news frontpage. Would be interesting to add a "hot" filter, or similar. Average weighting by exponential decay over time? Not sure how you usually do that with pagerank.
Exactly in this case it is very likely more true that: "Guys, we found something for which people pay us money, lets try to give them the impression we are passionate about it".

Don't get me wrong, they might be passionate about creating a good product, but they would probably be equally passionate if it was about geodata instead.
> And no I obviously don't want want to become a packager.

That's where I disagree. It's not that hard, and if more people did it, more software would be packaged. Actually I am yet to find a library that I actually need and that is not already packaged and maintained by someone from the community. Then I could finally maintain one myself.

To me, you're basically saying: "I don't want to learn and commit to maintain a package for my distro, because reason, but I am fine spending time with all that tooling that I say "sucks" (Docker/Apptainer/Distrobox)". That's what I don't really get. There is a solution that works well (for me, at least): package the software that is not already available yourself.

> Some of the software I use is closed source so that's not even an option.

I would not want to maintain a package with proprietary binaries that I don't own, that's for sure. But if you need to, you can. As long as the author distributes binaries for your platform, it's not much harder than making an open source package.
Why not normal RAM? Ryzen 5600 with 128GB DDR4 is perfectly fine to run mixtral 8bit, and costs less than $1000.

GPUs are only needed if you can not wait 5 minutes for an answer, or for training.
Let's hope God doesn't decide to play with their marbles.
Externalities have a long history in economics. The concept has always been a somewhat slippery and controversial, but remains an important analytical tool for discussing market failures and government intervention [0].

The prospect of ecological collapse has drawn a lot of attention to the idea of negative externalities, but it's worth mentioning that positive externalities are also important in economic theory. For example, positive externalities to knowledge creation have been modeled as the engine of long-term growth by endogenous growth theorists since the 1980s (starting with Paul Romer and Robert Lucas), based on precursory work from the 1960s (e.g. Kenneth Arrow and Hirofumi Uzawa), and ideas reaching-at least-back to the work of Alfred Marshall in the late 19th c.

Still, let's hope that the global economic order doesn't depend on what economists are doing in their models :)

[0] For a nuanced historical perspective, see this paper by Steven Medema: https://sites.duke.edu/sgmedema/files/2022/12/Medema-ExceptU...
Around 4/5 hours if I recall correctly. It was over a year ago so not 100% sure.
Lazy god dev.
Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
At launch everyone has the complete package: polished website looks like they already have 1000 customers, are hiring, have investors, and ... well, it's all a bit generic and potentially ... phoney, right?

Wind back the block to Microsoft and Apple, and those guys were super scrappy, not an ounce of polish at the outset, yet they made their dent in the universe.

Now everybody's fronting like they're making a dent, but maybe it's just a slick template from WordPress again.
I'm not saying I agree.

edit: nicer words
Well, the "recyclable" plastics was a great lie pushed by the oil industry to counter regulations that would restrict their usage. That's fairly well documented by now.

Maybe it's time to restrict/forbid their usage, like has been done for other products and chemicals that have turned out unhealthy and/or dangerous although highly profitable. (Asbestos, CFCs, leaded gas, tobacco, [...])
What's the generally understood sense?

To me it's extraordinary because it's above what I'd consider ordinary. Let's say most people have Bachelor's and can't (or won't) start their own business. If you have someone with a Master's and also a startup owner they are extraordinary by that definition.

The USCIS has a much more concrete definition with different parameters. Is it an ideal one? No. But I guess any new improved definition still won't be universally accepted, especially by other talented people.
So much of this looks like green washing to me. Reminds me of those reusable coffee cups from bamboo or whatever. That ended up containing all the same chemicals...
timestamps on the transcript should be clickable to seek to that time in the video
I don't think such EU regulation exists. I transferred my number from one operator to a competitor recently. There was a one week (I believe) warning period that the transfer was announced, but could still have been cancelled.

The old operator used the week to make me 3 increasing discount offers. Had I switched just for economic reasons I could have cancelled the operation on Saturday just before the scheduled transfer at Monday noon and saved a bit of money.
I don’t get this. There was no actual punishment for Facebook — so what will make them change their behaviour? Secondly, how can the lawyers just LIE and say he deleted his account when the company itself must have records of that. If they didn’t have the logs to prove it then they couldn’t have known he deleted it. If they did have logs they could have proven it. So they were lying. Why shouldn’t that be punished with a 100m fine or something utterly crazy? This is just bizarre every way you look at it.
Stumbled across this thread from 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606723
If fewer people drove bicycles, there would be fewer deaths caused by cars /j
This is one of those things that seems incredible at first, but when you think about it, isn't actually that strange at all: Yes, some of these planets are massive, but the problem has always been (in observing or visiting them) their vast distance from Earth, not their actual sizes.
I tried to use that on my Turris Omnia and it broke a lot of things. I ended up using .lan
And by the way it does work really well for good software. Actually most Linux distros use a system package manager and have been doing it for decades.

So I think it would be more accurate to say that "it doesn't work for lower quality software". And I agree with that.
Japanese tubs are bigger partly because they are meant to have more than one person.

But in addition they are typically unit bathrooms - like prefab that are installed in a unit in like a day or two. This makes them way cheaper than USA bathrooms. In USA you need contractor, carpenter, plumber, electrician all at diff times and that makes the bathroom really expensive to install.

I assume that if bathrooms were cheaper in the USA we would have bigger/nicer ones. That could be with a bigger bath.
Round musket balls in hand packed smooth bore dueling pistols at 20 paces is inherently inaccurate - ten shots in a row from a pistol clamped in a vise will have a spread greater than the profile of an oppenent staning sideways.

Bullets with rifling came about circa 1820 (ish) but were not widespread by 1832 and traditional dueling pistols remained the norm for quite some time, the element of chance likely factored in as part of the hand of god influencing outcomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duelling_pistol

For some in the eighteenth century, duelling with less-accurate, smooth-bore weapons was preferred as they viewed it as allowing the judgement of God to take a role in deciding the outcome of the encounter.

There's not a lot of detail regarding the duel of Galois, his opponent isn't known for certain, nor the precise reasons, let alone the type of guns and ammunition used.
And how many companies are those? FAANG, major linux distros, plus a small list?

Now compare that with the corporate user base…
TFA mentions that you can use sync after cp to do the same thing as fdatasync. You can't "unmount the file system" because you're writing directly to the block device, the thumb drive isn't mounted.
In terms of publishing by email … HEY by 37 Signals has a feature where each user has world.hey.com/username blogs based on emails from username@hey.com sent to world@hey.com … very easy low friction publishing. This has subscriptions & RSS built in and you can import subscribers.

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For example: https://world.hey.com/jason
I'm not a lawyer or even from the US, but is it in the power of small claims to impose a 100m fine??
I think imternal, .lan, .inside should all be reserved and established to never allow registration with OCANN.
After you've read "On Bullshit" by Harry Frankfurt, you'll stop hearing
that as just potty-mouth.

Frankfurt's philosophy and human psychology in that essay was a much
needed tonic, to name a really quite specific /indifference to truth
and consequences/.

It's frustrating that he chose to overload "bullshit" as it makes it
hard to talk in a sophisticated and nuanced way with sensitive people.
We surely don't need another neologism for what everybody already
knows.

Actually when I say " /total indifference to truth/ " it hits a lot
harder. Only one rather stuffy junior once pulled me up on "bullshit"
and claimed offence. But when I say total indifference to truth, I've
had far more senior figures say "isn't that a bit strong?" Well
chosen words have power.

But it's still frustrating when you want to convey they precise nuance
of Frankfurt's observations without saying BS.

I have the same discomfort with Doctorow's "enshitification". Once the
novelty of throwing it into a conversation wears off, it becomes a
struggle to find the perfect word for the precise process of cynical
organisational exploitation that it describes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
> the word evoked the notion of a new kind of geometry — something fragmented, fractional or broken.

But that's not what "fractal" means; it means "fractional dimension". To say the word "fractal" evoked something is subjective - evoked it for whom?
I am done with the cloud as a backup. I use ZFS incremental replication of Snapshots automated with Sanoid and Syncoid. To my own off-site box. So glad I don't have to mess with the file level again. Syncoid in pull-mode does not even need to know ZFS encryption keys (zero trust!).
> There are tons of apps that let you get very cheap esims in any country, so you basically never have to pay roaming charges ever again.

... you mean, with Google/Apple's permission :)
Past a certain point optimism simply becomes wilful naivety.
Check-out The Conet Project [1] for recordings of "numbers stations" made in the 90s. The 4 CD set used to be freely downloadable, but this doesn't seem to be the case anymore - although a quick search indicates that there are full and partial copies available from various sources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project
This is a newish _Chrome_ feature (within the past 2 years) that Google rolled out. Any subdomain that looks like a domain (especially ending in a common TLD) will trigger that warning.

I learned that because, at work, I architected a system for serving certain assets for customer sites at a subdomain off a shared root domain, keyed by their full domain (like example.com.example.org—where example.com is the customer’s site domain). We ended up changing to example-com.example.org which is far better anyways since this feature started breaking stuff once it rolled out.

But this is a Chrome feature and should not affect your rankings themselves. But couldn’t hurt to take it down just in case.
actuall, since 17.3 i can do just that by: safari > youtube > fullscreen playback > power button > power button (yes, again) > play from lockscreen
Ha! I've been fighting the urge to make a portal 2 comment. What a wonderful game
Your question is valid. I think the person is just using bombastic words for something already well-known and simpler. A Markov Chain is just a FSM with probabilistic transition functions and in the limit is just a deterministic FSM when the transition function probability becomes 1.
Similar issue with modern devs that don’t know what a page of memory is.
Easy mistake to make, but architects design building.