skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for my parents, they really try to squeeze every cent out of us. I straight up bought my folks a medical reclining bed cause insurance was going to make them rent it and obviously cost more in the long run. They prey on the elderly who cant advocate for themselves or are too sick or recovering to figure out financing.
Pinball map is brilliant, I use it everytime I travel. So many new pinball machines coming out. The latest one I've been searching for is Labyrinth. Only in LA at the moment, but looks super fun.

Once you create an account you can make a note if the machines aren't working well and the owners will usually get someone in quick to fix too.
The risk that the quality of discourse on HN falls to Reddit leveles of shitposting seems a greater one to me. Having high volume of popular highly polarized discussions seems a great way to have an Eternal September[2] event, and there is no way to recover what makes a forum unique after that.

HN is a single place on the internet with clear moderation guidelines[1]. It doesn't have to cater to every form of speech. In fact, actively not doing so is probably the reason why HN's level of discourse is comparatively high.

People who want Reddit should go to Reddit, not drag HN with them through the mud.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
You can imagine it but its a less probable explanation.

It was common to leave things to the church and the poor so there was no need to make up the story to justify it. It is likely that a dishonest claim would be challenged by someone given that he said the same things to "everyone".
Reaction: Who's this magical "we", who's supposed to teach parenting? Is it related to the magical "them" who run the world, from a child's PoV?
Yes, with a low market cap of 1.22 Trillion and the stock price is up over 20% today. The end is near indeed!
Many universities will have a portal where students and professors can get free or heavily discounted versions of software, such as Mathematica.
I strongly second this post. I raised a puppy during COVID lockdowns while working remotely.

Raising, training, and socializing a dog are great training wheels for later becoming a parent. It is a lot more forgiving, and the childhood phase for a dog is way, way shorter than it is for a child. If you can tough it out for 8-10 months, you'll also benefit from a loyal and well-behaved companion.

There are also the additional benefits of befriending other dog owners, and the emotional support from a pet.

Not sure if this will work the same for a cat, but it doesn't hurt to try!
Meanwhile, stock is up 20% today..
Well, it is easy to see that is an incorrect statement.

GDP and wages can both easily be adjusted for inflation.

We can then measure and see that with inflation, while GDP continued to grow in real terms, all median worker wage increases were offset by inflation.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

What does this mean? It means that in 1971, creating a purely FIAT currency with unrestricted ability to devalue it, gave those in charge the ability to move all productivity gains from the wage earner to the capital owner.

And as the data points out, at no point has there been even a smidgen of release of the pressure on the wage earners throat to allow them at those productivity gains.

Any income gain a "median" worker can ever hope to achieve is more and more exclusively tied to not earning that income via a wage.

This basically defines where our housing and other speculation bubbles are coming from, and shows that people fundamentally know this and are trying to escape the rat race of being employees if they ever hope to build wealth.
"Israel" has a foundation that pays influencers millions to promote their lies. It's called "hasbara", and has a handbook you can download that describes how to counter arguments to promote their false narrative.

https://supportmiller.org/hasbara
Do you like my smell?
Because they were entirely different applications. It was an API platform for a suite of applications

There was almost zero crossover in functionality
Fortran: Array Language (Or Not)
Once had to interface with an external API for many of our client requests (booking requests for transportation). Due to certain combinations of queries, it could sometimes be slow to get a response if the requested journey would contain multiple legs and combinations. So we needed to have a high timeout for our requests to that system. Which was fine most of the time.

Unfortunately, if that system started to struggle, all our calls would be slow, or even time out. And of course us continuously spamming them wouldn't help (we were like 95% of their traffic). But that didn't just wreak havoc on their side, but it completely exhausted all our incoming connections, thread pools etc. just waiting for responses that would never come, with long timeouts.

A circuit breaker here was golden. When too many requests in a row were slow, we would break and stop requests from our side. That would allow them to recover on their side, and things on our side to fail fast and let other services still work.

A key here, was that the circuit breaker would allow a small percentage through still. How else would you detect things are back up again? And then slowly let more and more through if things are going fine (so not just open completely all at once).
I love one thing... first you can create subfolders there and put there pages. Second - it comes with free and unlimited hosting space. Third - it's extremely easy for novices to open ready templates and within few hours to make sites.

Now bad news - it's Electron App. Second - sometimes it's extremely limited (in order to save novices from mistakes). Third - can't create responsive images with few resolutions.
Maybe the mods can update for this one: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-wi...
Although I just checked your pricing on a whim and it's the most expensive per member service I've ever seen for devs. By a LOT.

I mean I still like the brand but wow.
Looked up the cited spec[0] and the relevant codes are on page 53[1]. If you send `00000010` it should delete the previous SMS. Pretty cool. Of course, this only happens if the device respects the spec (looks like the receipt of deletion, i.e. the SMS-STATUS-REPORT, can also be spoofed). In other words, SMS is still "stupid tech," and deleting is not guaranteed.

[0] https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gts/03/0340/05.03.00_60/gs...

[1] https://imgur.com/a/iLwXpMZ
Meanwhile "Meta shares jump after profit triples and company announces first-ever dividend", also from CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/meta-earnings-q4-2024.html
You're absolutely correct. Thanks
Send it to the CTO, the receptionist, or even HR. hell, CC them all with a note saying that it is unknown where to send it to so hoping someone will know where to forward it. It also sounds like your company needs better internal communication about communications within the company.
Back a few years ago when I was bored, I briefly made this satirical blog of "Business Plans from Hell - Ideas that should never see the light of day." One of the ideas on it was "Proximity-fired collision-avoidance missiles." Basically, with existing technology, we have collision-detection mechanisms on today's cars. What if, instead of flashing an indicator on the dashboard, we just fired an explosive device to take out the threat before it could hit us? Mass is the greatest, most significant safety feature you can get in an automobile, so if you want to be safe, you should divide the mass of other cars on the road into tiny particles so you can drive right through them.

The tagline would be "Turning the arms race in vehicle weights into a literal arms race."

This has significant game-theoretic benefits for the commons as well. It would remove the incentive toward larger vehicles that tear up the road, emit greenhouse gasses, and use up oil stocks. It would also incentivize people to be really, really careful when driving, if you got blown up every time it looked like you were about to collide with another vehicle. It'd defuse (or give people an incentive to defuse) road-rage situations, since if they escalate, you might end up vaporized. It would take the assholes off the road, and remove them from the gene pool besides.
This is all fantastic feedback thank you for checking it out and taking the time to comment!

Funny you mention the 'Resume' part, I just had to take that out because iOS was blocking a new mp3 file from playing without a direct touch input from a user. (I get why they do this but man was I disappointed). I have an idea on how to add it back it. It should 'skip' playing articles with a checkbox because you've read or listened to them already. Will get this one down -- I want it too.

Thank you again! My email is on the site, please don't hesitate to reach out if you think of anything else. Its really just some friends and family who like this thing at the moment so excited to share it.
12 years of primary school and 4 years of college and she can't read?

How much hand-holding do you need? College is supposed to be for high-performing, high-IQ individuals. I realize that is no longer the case, and I realize that has not been the case for some time, but guess what.

You don't "skim" professional communications. You read them. And you read for comprehension and understanding.

I forget where and when I saw it - it's been awhile back, and I think it was in Fortune magazine, or maybe Forbes, but one of the primary skills that both United States military officers and Fortune 500 company managers wished more prospective employees had is greater reading and writing ability. It's no fucking surprise though, given we've allowed communications to devolve into emojis instead of well-thought out sentences.
It works as a tax free investment. So long as it actually pays off in the future, they get to skip tax by putting it straight into R&D now instead of tomorrow. Another thing they did was sell hardware below cost, so the public kind of benefit - but at the same time FB potentially benefit by undercutting competition and gaining market share... One way of framing that last one might be "Deciding how their tax is spent so that it might benefit Facebook" - from that perspective it doesn't seem like a bad idea (purely from the business side, not public interest) to burn the tax yourself for a little more control.
> Interestingly, the large increase in travel & hospitality that I'd heard about last year seems to have petered out, and that sector is roughly normal.

That makes sense, I think; last year it would have been busy recovering from covid (it was _very_ hard-hit), but there's only so much covid recovery you can do.
TFA's cartoon head bills it as the "National Guard" vs the US; have Texians forgotten their neighbour's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door ?

(more recent followup https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/peggy-wallace-ke... )
How does the Apple launch tie into Meta's loss? Is the implication that the losses are going to deepen now that Apple's device is out?
Oh yes, systemd in general and timers in particular do have a whole bunch of awesome stuff - I just tend to forget any of it exists, it's my coping mechanism for dealing with "heterogeneous" environments. I still have CentOS6 machines in prod...

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
Alfred was styled "King of the Anglo-Saxons"; his grandson and (indirect) successor Æthelstan was first styled "King of the English". The same kingdom was taken by William I, who also styled himself "King of the English", as would be common amongst the Normans until John.

While Alfred may have borne a different title, he held the same office as the (later) Kings of England.
I share your sentiments, but realistically how would one implement that? The US (where meta is based) government (ie, the people) can't agree what benefits everyone. The positive side is all of the jobs it paid for.
It's actually very interesting. A lot of the things that people have been impressed by about Apple Vision pro was already possible with the Quest 3 (much of it with the Quest 2 as well). There are a lot of things wrong with Reality Labs as an organization (I used to work there) but I do think they're chasing something real.
Stock buybacks and announcing a new dividend will definitely do that on its own.
Well, if you connected to my service I can probably geolocate you. Or I can use a SSID=>lat/lon database to find where your wifi is assuming you have a unique name for your Wi-Fi network. Then I can go there and connect a laptop it and do nefarious stuff from there, and attribute it to you. Threaten the president, torrent Linux ISOs, etc.
As a father of 3 kids who has also raised puppies, I second this.
I think as people have become more and more aware that flag negatively weights items for rankings, and isn't just a "hey have the mods look at this rule breaking thing", more people have started using it as a downvote button. It was my understanding that HN originally didn't have a downvote feature to avoid the kind of issues that the flag usage is now causing.
The archive is 18GB. Since it's probably mostly zip files, that's probably about the size of everything extracted. So a static version wouldn't be too bad to just put in S3 and CloudFront or something, and that wouldn't require much work. I used to know someone who helped run it at NMSU in the 90s. (Can't remember which of two acquaintances, or maybe it was both.)
I'm curious what breaks with IPv6 on. I've been running IPv6 dual stack for over a decade at home and pretty much never have any issues. I think I've run into a prefix change get bugged on my router's announcements that required a reboot, but that's like 2 times in the last 10+ years and I'm not 100% sure that was truly the issue. My phone is pretty much always has an IPv6 address and pretty much never has IP-related connectivity problems. I'm not using Google Fiber's router though, so that could be the complication.
How Aircraft Sale and Leaseback Transactions Work
Probably the first trillion dollar company with just 66K employees.
Personally, I don't ever give up on projects like this (the one he discussed in the article is a cool idea also).

I work on small projects like this, I get them to a point, I pause. I come back a day or a week or a year later when I need it again (and find it broken) or want to add some feature. Sometimes I hate my code and want to rewrite it from scratch but I try to avoid that impulse as much as I can.

For me the key is to just never think of it as "giving up", I'm just not working on a particular project right now.
Is NFC ubiquitous now? Every phone has it? I used to use it for stuff when I used android like changing the phones mode when I got in my car before I could do it when connected to my cars bluetooth etc but I thought most phones didn't have it or were removing it a few years ago. I'm iphone 13 pro now no idea.
> I'm not interested in expending extra effort to rescue marginal stories with a low likelihood of generating a good conversation.

I didn't ask you to expend effort in rescuing stories. I took issue with the way you expend effort in burying stories, even before the comment section turns out to go sideways:

> I didn't flag (or see) that story, but I would have.
The alcohol industry is thousands of years old and has gone through varying levels of regulation and deregulation. The Prohibition happened. It was a big deal.

But even then, even given their incredibly entrenched history of consumption and relatively obvious risks, they still face real civil liabilities. Hard seltzer companies, most recently, have been sued and fined for promoting their brands as healthy. A very similar case happened to the sugary drink Vitamin Water.

But, if you really want to compare the alcohol industry to social media, you’d first need to give Budweiser a way to, in real time, modify the alcohol content of the can based on the current mental state of the drinker. Do that and it might come close to be a valid comparison. But you’d still need to change the clearly labeled alcohol content on the front of the can, and instead bury it in a fourteen-page terms of service agreement. Then, also give the can the ability to simultaneously monitor you, and inform the third-party salty snack-food manufacturers that your drunk and it’s time to send you a push notification from the chips bag, as you have a 40% increased likelihood of wanting chips. That might get you there.

The prescription pain-killer and tobacco industries have paid hundreds of billions in fines for covering up their addictive properties. The list goes on.

Section 230 needs to be seriously amended
Me too. I seem to remember we even had a NMI pushbutton with tiny contact pads the width of a ISA bus contact. You could force the kernel debugger to pop up when otherwise all hope was lost.
Why you don't need to freak out about the layoffs
> Who's this magical "we", who's supposed to teach parenting?

Schools? The same "magical" we who teach math, for example.

I haven't been in school for a long time, but back in the day we had home ec and shop classes. I even took a typing class in high school, which turned out to be quite useful. We can teach kids practical life skills.
That's just like, your opinion, man.

These are recalls plain and simple. The public perception of that requiring a dealer visit is just obsolete.

The combination of OTA updates and the potentially affected software now controlling vehicle operation/behavior/capability/safety etc makes it a recall for all intents and purposes.

Just because the news tends to sensationalize doesn't mean everything they say is clickbait. IMHO accurately reporting these recalls is a public service helping get everyone on the same page WRT what OTA updates actually are.
Title could be changed as "The EPA is proposing that nine PFAS be considered hazardous substances"
For my ISP, it's not just about the hardware, it's their provisioning software that needed replacing. It has to be simple for their support to understand how IPv6 is given to customers.
I don't see how this is worth it given the differences from the tourist visa. Sure it's a "legal" way to work while you're in the country, but the difficulties that already exist is going to make it not worth it. It's hard finding longer-term housing in Japan as a foreigner, much less doing banking. While it might be a nice springboard to find a job locally, the remote types that meet the income requirements are going to make much more working in the US, so why give that up? If it was at least a year, then it might be worth it. If it also had the option to extend it without having to leave, then it would be very attractive.
What are the benefits these chemicals have provided, and do the benefits outweigh the negative effects?

Are these chemicals dangerous in the forms that they're found in the environment, e.g. there are unlikely to be many pools of acid. Are they chemically bonded to something that reduces bio-interactivity?

I don't agree with the approach "you can't do anything new until you prove it's safe". I also am very skeptical of the EPA ever since they declared CO2 a pollutant (sorry, my exhalations are not "pollution").

Like every sane person I want a clean environment. Like any rational person, I want to understand the trade-offs of regulations before I support or oppose them.
You're right, this is always the tension because we're assuming risks either way. My half-serious CH-47 proposal, in particular, is probably the extreme version of "fighting the last war."

I think the consensus within the DoD by the mid to late-2000s was that the pendulum had swung way too far in the direction of technologically advanced but small and expensive, and there was a cultural revolution to swing things back in the other direction. Senior DoD and service leaders today are really a product of that.

I read a fresh opinion piece just yesterday arguing that we're still erring on the side of being too small and expensive, with which I tend to agree: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/01/pentagon-has-been-l...
Seems reasonable but not so friendly in practice. Not everyone can afford to raise a pet due to living conditions, financial reasons, and time and attention.

Edit: "Afford" might not be the best term to use here since it relates to money mainly. "Capacity" might be slightly better.
Spotify ordered to reverse layoffs in the Netherlands
You’re overselling it a bit. Teflon cookware at normal cooking temperature can be very harmful
To birds and reptiles.
Technically it should be cc-nat. This fck acronym seems like someone is trying a little too hard to twist it into something edgy.
This is the UK - do you have a US example? Because I know that doing this with current POTUS will get you a visit from Secret Service.
The real cult is the one where "productivity" is considered a measurable and worthwhile goal.

How could you *possibly say this !?!

It is literally the definition of not having to break ones back to feed their family!

The problem is, we have allowed our money supply to become manipulated so that inflation can capture the productivity increases to those controlling the money supply instead of to those producing the output.

I post this wherever I see this argument, as someone else has done the work to CLEARLY show the data that shows where the output goes:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Related: "Quishing", or phishing via QR code attacks: https://www.isaca.org/resources/news-and-trends/industry-new....
In Vim, J on a selected paragraph does this job.
You get a business visa. I have had several. For some countries they offer Visa Waivers.
Nvidia has a market cap of 1.5T and 26k employees.
People here, like tehjoker, are proposing total bans in this very thread.
Sam Altman led invests in a nuclear fusion company, Helion. Guessing the potential conflict of interest is why the 2nd article drew vote controversy.

https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/announcing-500-million...
Blogging in Djot Instead of Markdown
But are they good jobs, or low wage hell jobs?
AWS fees are $3.6/mo. Not to defend AWS, but Verizon business wanted $20/mo for a static public IP address.
"teach math so effectively".
I agree, and I think the author does too. Note that they said they were "putting it back on the shelf" and were willing to come back to it.

I think distance and time can help with perspective, too. In a number of projects, stepping away (especially during the rat-holing on useless cruft features or w/e sections) and coming back later can help bring some good clarity.
IDK if this is AI generated or not but I don't disagree!! :)
HN is present in more than just the US
When they ‘pretend’ they are doing it when they are not.
The line is fuzzy and getting fuzzier with every passing day. I wouldn't even consider the introduction of the tiltrotor to be the best example of that. The US Army straight up operates the MQ-1C, which is a derivative of the predator drone. That's an armed fixed wing aircraft! I haven't been able to find any statement from the Army explaining how that isn't a complete breach of Johnson-McConnell. The only thing I can think of is that it's unmanned?

Actually it doesn't just call Johnson-McConnell into question, it would seem to defy the Key West agreement as well
Do you know what the word "chemical" means?

We do need to be a bit more specific than that, or we're not gonna get anywhere.

Also, once we've specified which chemicals shouldn't be dumped, I'd like to include the atmosphere in the list of places where one shouldn't dump them. Seems to be a very popular place to dump really harmful stuff, we should stop that.
I outsource most of my esoteric `jq` syntax questions to ChatGPT. It does really well with them, usually turning up solutions that I'd struggle to munge together from several different google search results.

I wonder how ChatGPT would do with focussed pandoc requests.
Have you used a library for easing graph?