skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! I'm sure they wouldn't operate at a loss. They might be investing or having a bad year, but if they were losing money they would shut down the operations.

Good point about AWS though.
> I really don't feel like reading a book after I work the whole day at a computer.

Have you tried before spending your whole day at your computer?
I have found a high correlation in my life between book reading and general happiness.

When I am in a period when I am reading books regularly, I am generally happy. Things are going well, I have good life balance.

When I go a stretch without reading books, I am generally stressed out and in burnout mode at work, and home life is not great.

Note - this is generally fiction. I read very little non fiction.

Note 2 - most people I know have no books in evidence in their homes. Maybe they read Kindle or other ebooks? But I think many simply do not read recreationally.
Is gaming more active than reading? I ask this as a gamer because I genuinely don't think it is. I feel more involved reading than I do gaming.
"Overall, credit unions’ balance sheet positions seemed to be more resilient to unrealized interest rate risk than banks"

There's a way to measure the (mathematical economic) optimal size of a bank. Turns out, CUs are usually pretty close - much closer than your 'too big to fail' banks.
That’s not my experience with .NET, at least not on any project of non-trivial scope.

What kinds of things do you find take longer in .NET?
I perceive yet another motivation for companies to aggressively classify employees as contractors.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215750>

91 comments, 9 days ago.
> old people from having to pay for their dragon hoarde.

What, their retirement savings? How much is recommended to be saved by 65 now - 2 million dollars or something?
"CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THE CONFLICT-AFFECTED
REGIONS OF EASTERN UKRAINE"

https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/f/b/469734.pdf

"Out of the total 946 civilian casualties confirmed by the Mission, shelling and fire from small arms and light
weapons (SALW) accounted for 625 casualties (77 killed and 548 injured). More than 85 per cent of these
casualties occurred in Donetsk region."
You are right, immigration policy has no bearing in the dramatic rise in asylum requests and how they are honored. If someone from mexico comes to the american border and requests political asylum that makes sense, why are people crossing several countries to come here? Thats not asylum, asylum is escaping a hostile regime.
Thoughts on social media for notes and study discussion? Would you use it?
This will be a notes publishing social network to see the inner thoughts of individuals and spark collaborative discussion. You can search notes on a topic and level / at a certain organization. You can also form study groups.
When you need to move in temporarily, you can always rent a flat from a person just like yourself who bought one and is renting it out individually. In the absense of rent control and abundance of constructions, offers are plentiful.
I'm in the 46% that didn't read a book in 2023.

But I probably read 3 or 4 hours (or more) a day. I used to read lots of books before the internet but the internet mostly replaced it.

There are a few perspectives one can take.

Maybe (probably) attention spans, including mine, have decreased with the internet. On the other hand, many non fiction books could be summed up in pamphlet and are full of filler. It's not necessarily a badge of honor to trudge through repetition and filler for hours to grasp core concepts.
Ask HN: Can a US Citizen work at a company on FCC National Security Risk list?
At first I thought this was named for aho (アホ), Japanese slang for "stupid", then I remembered that Alfred Aho is the 'a' in 'awk'. Or maybe it's both?
> Some may consider it the end-goal, to be fair - as eventually you'd drive landlords completely out of business.

Great! Housing should never have been allowed to become a commodity.
Vox also tried too hard to stick to a coherent narrative that fit their own political outlook, which is normal for journalism but I think falls apart even more quickly when you try to provide context over time.
Urgent Areas of ClimateTech Ripe for Investment in Latam, According to VCs
> Old people in Texas get their property taxes frozen I believe at 65.

True but if you're turning 65 after you're tax bill has grown 10% for over a decade as your transitioning to your fixed income years; it's not a good thing just to freeze the tax bill. You might not have time to earn and save enough to cover the value it gets frozen at. It does help soften the blow for many though.

> But honestly it might be better for them to downsize into something more appropriate and perhaps free up the larger houses for families.

I wholeheartedly despise this line of thought, unless it's coming from their individual decision to downsize. You're basically treating the house like a commodity. It's a Home this person lived in, raised family in, hopes to continue hosting holidays in, where grandchildren can go to visit, etc. They should be able to use it until they decide to leave. On average, they only have another decade or so of life left anyway after their taxes get frozen at 65, let them enjoy their home.
I do read a lot, but I don't completely agree that reading is an active skill all the time. It also depends on what one is reading. When I am reading a fast paced thriller or page turner , it doesn't feel like a very active skill/activity.
Not if nobody makes it available.

Just because a copyright expires doesn't mean somebody has given you free access.

Plenty of copyrighted works have simply been lost to the ages.
We came to pretty much the same conclusions for our Django app. We ended up using the "connection created" signal to set SYNCHRONOUS=NORMAL, but I hope to see that supported natively in Django soon enough.

Honestly, this setup will keep us going for a long time. There are some design considerations that you need to keep in mind while structuring your Python code. For example, on a gp3 EBS volume, our mean single-write latency IN SQLite is about 100 microseconds, so in theory, if we can keep transactions short, the scale we can achieve on just SQLite is massive. We'll also get serialized isolation on writes and snapshot isolation on reads for "free." However, Django/Python are not super quick, so if we decorate all our Python functions that make writes with `@transaction.atomic` we end up with 10+ MILLIsecond locks on the DB, massively reducing throughput.

This is a price to pay for using SQLite, but honestly, even if we end up having to move to a proper RDBMS later, our database will probably be happier we wrote our code with transaction length in mind.
This

> reading scientific papers in PDF, listening to 2h conference talks

is not equivalent to

> Watching movies, playing a 60h narrative videogame
I guarantee that you won't have to compete verbally with anybody on who's more trendy. Silence is golden. Somebody will ask you if you like to travel. And if people aren't interested in you anyway, it's a blessing to let them do the talking.
> they are pre-vetting renters

Equifax, check. Ten minutes and done.

Maybe also all those things you did in high school that went on your "permanent record" ?
I cannot be the only one who reads AVP as “Alien vs. Predator”.
> From defending Amazon's right to pay low wages to “it's easy, just quit” demonstrates the disconnection of NH people with reality to the point of full psychopathy.

You seem to be under impression that people who express this view do not have sympathy for the workers. That's not true. We just refuse to accept that an employer becomes responsible for a person's condition just because he chooses to purchase the person's labour.

When you hire a plumber to fix your pipes, or buy tomatoes from a farmer, you don't become responsible for their condition. You don't have an obligation to pay higher than a market rate, or to continue paying them when you no longer want to. Why would you expect a full-time employer to have these obligations?

This doesn't have anything to do with sympathy. My sympathy for the poor people drives to me donate a significant proportion of my income. But I don't have any right to force my notion on charity on other people or organisations.
Same. As with all self-reported data, expected some lying shame-driven responses.

I also found myself having a lot less time to read after having a child. I've only started again this year because I feel like doomscrolling in bed is not the best way to fall asleep.
It requires new best practices in governance, and any progress here is difficult. Maybe AI could help.
Would you have dated her at all if she had been honest about how miserable she is up front? If her inherent personality is just miserable, then how else is she supposed to navigate through life?
Speaking as a .NET developer, I suspect this is because the base libraries are somewhat extensive.
If they're big it means they're eating well, so consider how many more bugs you'd be seeing if it hadn't already made a meal of them!
Europe is a lost cause. I pray for the friends I have there, and they will always have a home in america they will be welcome in.
You don't have to be cold or fake, but a vanilla answer is better than some competition of words.
The review process is generally garbage for everything below Tier 1 journals. The original point stands.

https://retractionwatch.com is a good one to read occasionally.
> handling showings

Sometimes, especially in peak season when they do open houses for a whole afternoon. Many times the broker told me to pick up a key from the doorman and let myself in and let them know if I was interested.
Yes, and those papers are increasingly being found to be fraudulent or not reproducible.
Someone should implement a "DeJargonify" button that looks through a dictionary of acronyms and shows you a table of ehat they mean

I use Hacki on Android, could be a fun project to try adding that if I get time to do it
Cynically speaking, HR is an abstraction layer between management and employees, sorry, 'resources'.

When I worked for a huge engineering multinational years ago, it showed time and time again that people went into HR with the best of intentions, but most were as time ground on disillusioned upon finding they were not, after all, employed to help other employees.

The good ones mostly left, the poor ones thrived. Sigh.

(That being said, I do believe HR has a purpose, ensuring (at least in theory) professional, correct and consistent treatment of employees.

Just don't make the mistake of believing they are on your side; they are not.
It suppose it depends on the game genre. In some of the more difficult puzzle games I have played I certainly feel pretty engaged.
On a side note, Benjamin Franklin is a wildly fascinating person. I highly recommend Walter Isaacon's biography of him. One of the most interesting (in a good way) humans I know of. I think most people would be surprised at how well they can relate to a man who lived in the 18th century. Check out his humorous essay on farting[1] if you want to laugh.

[1]: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/to-the-royal-ac...
Being fashionable makes a huge difference. If the Vision can be reduced in size to something like a normal pair of sunglasses, I could see wearing one becoming popular. This level of miniaturization is obviously not happening tomorrow, but is it impossible in 10-15 years?
Why? All are important for a well rounded, interesting person.
Besides, it's not just about profit. Retail is where they abuse workers, so it makes sense not to do business with that part of the company.
I’ve also seen people who were good performers but just difficult to work with that were categorized as non-regrettable.

“Hi boss, I’ve got another offer but wanted to give you a chance to counter” -> “Congrats on your new role, why don’t you go ahead and wrap up by Friday? I’ll skip over to HR and get the paperwork handled for you. Do you need a box for personal belongings?”
> It looks like people don’t get it.

They're probably on the spectrum.

(I'll get my coat...)
film cameras
The solution is strengthening the social housing sector. If anybody would be able to rent housing from the state, nobody would be dependent on private landlords (though private landlords could still fill niches like short-time rentals).

As it is though, the social housing sector is woefully underfunded, leading to sometimes decades-long waiting lists (at least where I live, in the Netherlands).
The whole reason that we’re having such a disagreement on moderation is that moderation has been weaponized for political purposes.

This has happened over and over - Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, even here (try posting a skeptical take on climate news).

I don’t know what the rules should be. But I don’t think that we can have well informed people if a small subset are allowed to filter what ideas people are even allowed to consider.
Sadly, I agree with you.

Between work and kids it just has to go. I am also blessed with no sleeping problems which means that I fall asleep the moment i go to bed. I try to read at least one book per year during vacation.

I read so much when I was younger.

I am not certain I will get the habit back when I get older.
> Landlords basically have no other option, we don't really have a credit score system like the US does, so it's much harder to verify how trustworthy you are. There are agencies that can tell you if somebody's currently in debt or not, but as far as I'm aware, somebody with no credit history is basically indistinguishable from somebody with "good" history.

And that's actually good. What more could you possibly need to know other than a person's revenues and their debt to be able to decide if they're capable of paying rent? Why would you care if they've had or had not had debt previously? The American credit score system is dystopian (it can literally make or break your life because it's being abused by prospective landlords or employers) and broken (made by private entities who suffer no consequences in case of mistakes, be they leaking your data or mistaking identities).
I'm not clear on when exactly he let HR know, but the original post makes it seem like he let them know a week before. I think at least a couple months notice makes more sense depending on the duration of leave.
I fought bed bugs once with DE, heat, and dry ice traps or you can use a co2 fish tank pump to attract them into a trap. We also placed containers filled with oil at the bottom of each bed post.

It took a year but we were successful
Well, remove democracy and what people want on a local level (preserve and grow value of their owned homes by limiting development) will not matter - and developers will built out so many homes housing will become affordable. Like in Russia for example - housing is cheap there exactly because it is an industrialised nation without democracy.

Remove market economy and the Party will distribute housing as it sees fit, and you have affordable housing, like in the Soviet Union.

Otherwise, inevitably housing will cease to be accessible once a bit more than 50% of population is happy with their housing conditions - then they will vote for people who will help them build value of their house by locking out the underhoused minority.

I can't see a fix to this that won't undermine either democracy (by somehow making people's political choices matter less or not at all, openly or covertly, aka "Putin elections"), or market economy. Both of which sounds worse than just putting up with unaffordable housing.
IDK if it's very common but it happens, especially at smaller companies who either don't know the rules or those who have gotten away with it in the past and think they are too small to get noticed.

Just recently here a restaurant was fined for not paying overtime by employing dishwashers and kitchen staff as "salaried" exempt employees.

At large companies with in-house legal and HR teams? It probably doesn't happen much, but even there they will know what they can get away with.
Because businesses need to make money to exist.
Credit history == has successfully made other people money in the past, and if past behavior is indicative of future behavior, they likely will to someone else too.
I need it even more after all day on a computer. I need an off ramp for my brain to wind down. I read before bed every night. I honestly don’t understand how some don’t.
Ask HN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection forced me to delete a picture
I took a picture of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer searching my bag at the entry point where everyone is and they forced me to delete it... I'm a U.S. citizen... is this legal?
I have the same thought when someone gives me an opinion on the car I drive or the food I eat and how I'm killing the earth, meanwhile they take 10x the number of flights I do and have no idea how their food gets to them.
In Sweden new rentals are exempted from collectively bargained rents for 15 years, the idea being that the landlord should be able to recoup enough of their construction and capital costs in that time to make it attractive.

It’s a way to get around some of the issues that rent control causes, such as reducing construction.

Unfortunately, due to how our rental market works, it’s largely young people living in those more expensive apartments, which is terrible for birth rates and inter-generational equality.
I was talking a friend in China about bed bugs recently. They said there is a medicine people take which makes our blood poisonous to them. Ironically enough, it's ivermectine... Makes sense I suppose, it targets parasites and bed bugs are a parasite. I read some papers about it, too. Doesn't seem to be a panacea but potentially useful in combination with traditional pest control.
I agree, one could read a load of crappy books.
The actual quality of specifically what you are reading / watching / playing matters a lot imo.
You will learn a lot more playing Kerbal Space Program than you will reading Harry Potter books for example.
Pages 124, 130, and 131 of the crosstab are fascinating.

From page 124, the 4 indicators that you probably read a book are Race (white), Income (100k+), Voter registration status (registered), and party/ideology (not a centrist).
In that case they shouldn’t be able to sign contracts
The car with autopilot?

There's standards for control like MIL-STD-1472 which I'll bet this meets.

I'm sure none of them are "the highly redundant sensor fusion system with absurd levels of automation and sensing, the operator should not be able to notice any lag"
I'll believe it when I see a French court actually enforce this ordinance. It seems too vague and rights-limiting to be more than a publicity stunt.

I also chuckle at a French government trying to encourage people to spend more time in public. Throughout history French governments have famously tried to keep people from taking to the streets. Most every revolt began with a conversation in a pub or coffee shop.
I agree that it's dumb to have to buy a new kitchen when moving in (and tear it down when moving out). In most cases, though, you talk to the next person that moves in and, depending on the quality of the kitchen and social factors, sell it to them or just give it away. That is, when it's not part of the lease, which does exist in Germany, even if it's not mandatory. Student housing, for example, is usually fully equipped.
Interesting that the folks making the broadcast weren’t listening to it.
A court ruled in her favor.

It stopped being speculation at that point. And while you may argue the court got it wrong, you have the burden of proof there.

- courts generally require due diligence

- There's no way in hell Amazon didn't try to out-money her in terms of lawyers and they still lost

- winning a wrongful termination case isn't typically easy.
And another 28% lied about it. I regularly ask people “Read any good books lately?”, half as a joke. Nine out ten people just stare at me blankly.
In CA, it’s any employer with 5 employees, thanks to the CFRA.

https://www.rigginslaw.com/cfra-vs-fmla-difference-between-c....

CA really is by far one of the most employee-friendly states, on nearly every issue.
> Another way to think about it: they’re selling at a premium well over they bought it for.

Not necessarily. The fact that they're getting priced out right now via taxes on the estimated value of the house doesn't mean they can sell the house at that value (being forced to sell) and that they can find a cheaper alternative that works as well for them. So they can be in for a net loss, all things considered.
I dont think so. For "great works" all that stuff has been covered somewhere if you really care.

You're putting way too much faith into people's intelligence (or projecting your own onto them) if you think people are picking up the nuanced bits just by reading.

Which still to the thread starts point. All of that stuff could be captured in a diff medium and to my point if it's worth capturing in the first place can be summarized and the additional stuff you're mentioning written as bullet points.
Mastermind in Dyalog APL
Why it's weird to blame them for product names? Because their purpose slightly different. I can see where negativity comes from and understand, but product name is a lot less important as consistent API experience. AWS is the best among big players by far, hats off and well-done to their teams and leadership. I hope the others will finally learn and follow.
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Currently, I'm working with a US client where I'm the sole backend engineer and responsible for implementation, deployment, and monitoring.

Previously, I worked at InterviewBit (3 yrs) and Apna (2 yrs).

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Because it's not your government. Between media message management, corporate lobbying, and outright gerrymandering, the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.

Unions, imperfect as they are, can be far more directly representative.
“ teachers more deranged than Snape and children more malicious than Malfoy”

Depressingly accurate and funny
Figured it out. There’s a pricing menu at the top. If you scroll down, you only get the buy now button which requires auth. Thanks for pointing it out.
Some people have a long history of non payment, damages to property and evictions. If you can’t filter these people out you get an adverse selection kind of problem and everyone pays (one way or another)
I live with them rent-free so it would probably go against my own interest as well to force them out via pricing.
I agree with you for the most part, but I do think there are games that are truly works of art. That Dragon Cancer immediately comes to mind.
Yes, this is much more informative. The real separation is college degrees. Only 27% with a college degree read no books, whereas 56% with no college degree read no books. Once you get into 1+ book categories, the degree separation is much smaller.
Why this is one of the planetary shifts scientists are most worried about
>Scientists often compare the AMOC to a conveyor belt, driven by differences in water density, which transports water, heat and nutrients throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
I agree, but I have no clue how to fix that. Many industries should take on more debt but somehow they don’t. Maybe they lack ideas what to do with the money?
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989>
Do you have a source describing how common retaliation is in the US? I always thought it was actually pretty rare.

Sorry you lost your job, but I find it difficult to believe that it is solely due to you announcing the arrival of your child. Paternity leave is rarely more than 2 weeks in the US, I can't imagine a company preferring to deal with potential law suit instead of just living 2 weeks without an employee.