skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for having a look at it! I didn't know extism, will definitely have a look at the readme right after I finish to write this comment.

The ctx variable is a piece of memory, kind of the heap where functions and variables are stored during the script execution; I did it that way because I wanted to keep whatever is in that memory after each script execution, so in a prior version you could define a variable x, run the script, then re-run a completely different script, but still have access to the x variable. I removed it at the end because I wasn't sure if it was a good idea, or at the very least should be documented, but I kept the ctx thing there (could easily remove it tho)
AI writes home page copy now. Nothing has to be accurate anymore. It's bullshit all the way down.
Farmers' protests have erupted across Europe. Here's why
> I am pessimistic ... etc

Your problem is not management, it's you (if this comment represents you) and your kind. The comment is lazy and just following an absurd fashion: wallowing in despair. Your advice is useless unless people organize and act. You need to do better; we need to do better. Though management could not ask for a 'better' worker, a better agent even (I don't think you are, but you might as well be).

People facing far more difficult odds have organized and won. Think of all the things our ancestors have overcome to build the world we live in, and what do we contribute? 'It's too hard'? 'I'm pessimistic'? No matter what we were working on, I'd eject you as soon as possible.
Why the fuck was this downvoted.

Very occasionally I get the feeling HN is entering the /. phase
From the beginning of adulthood to about mid-20s I was a "live in the moment" kind of guy. Then I started taking photographs. The latter is a way better way for me to live life. Now, sometimes as I walk to my desk the photo display switches to a moment that brings me joy and memories. It's really wonderful. Big fan of photographs.

And there's so much of Turkey I wouldn't remember without the photos. Good times good times.
Pretty much this

Also, the articles tries to pull the "there's no majority opinion" which is a sneaky trick and it's false. Because no, you can't consider the set as indivisible and one set of opinions different from the other, when they only differ by something like "if a tank should be considered". This is a similar problem to the air force finding out there's no standard human

And I'd say that, as much as lawyers like to play gotcha with the laws, I think you'd find the average lawyer is more realistic and practical than the "actually" takes here on this park problem
I kind of do expect expect to leave their private matters at home. Or the very least, to handle them during break time on their own phones. This does not seem at all oppressive to me.
Characters sucking is a common complaint about hard scifi which I can very much live with and am used to. Thank you!
If people paying for FOSS was the norm, we wouldn't have a post on the FOSS developers not making money on the front page every 2 months. I don't blame people for not going this route.
So you don't plan your maintenance well-ahead, and you trust your car producer not to try to take advantage of you (like imposing shorter maintenance intervals then really needed). You also apparently own modern car, and you bought it new, and authorized maintenance is available nearby, and they are probably competent enough. Nothing's wrong with it, but as you see, there are plenty of conditions which could be different for other people. Not to forget that many actually sell their cars after some time, not leaving them to relatives.
GDP / (average annual labor hours * number of people working in some way)?

GDP is a pretty rough metric for efficiency, but it's among the better ones that are collected somewhat uniformly.

"average hours worked * number of people working" is an approximation of total of person-hours worked (approx. because both numbers are probably cleaned up a bit in incompatible ways)

The result would be the value a person in the country contributes to the GDP every hour (on average), which should serve as a reasonably proxy for efficiency.
No, not something better designed. Something augmenting Bitcoin to make it cheaper to transact while maintaining a base layer for final settlement that is secure and decentralized.

You leave out other characteristics that make Bitcoin an attractive economic good, when you think that matching or exceeding the security at a lower cost is a valid argument against Bitcoin. If it was all about power consumption, Bitcoin wouldn’t keep increasing in demand and price.

Look, you can theorize all you want about the inefficency of Bitcoin, but the market has spoken and continues to speak.
"On a related note, it's one of my biggest irritations how it's becoming more and more difficult by the day to find the RSS feed underlying any given podcast."

It is unclear if this statement is intended to mean it's becoming more difficult specifically for the author, or more difficult in general, for everyone.

Please offer some examples of (free) podcasts to support the statement showing how it is "more difficult" to find the .rss/.xml feed.

In return I will demonstrate how to "easily" find the feed for the examples given.
> Ratio of speedup(-) or slowdown(+): -1.662x

Wait, what? negative 1.6x?
Worse than California?
I've almost always lived in big cities myself and had many pleasant conversations. But I'm pretty good at profiling.
Cool, so their self-interested actions strictly remove good from the world. Capitalism is great.
> considering how infamously bad traffic is in NYC I find it difficult to believe that you can actually just not own a vehicle in NYC.

> who knows, maybe it's not really that bad and I'm ignorant here, it's possible.

You answered your own question.
Go would need such a revamp to be anywhere close to a decent language, that it would be just a straight up other language.
> obviously police and ambulances (and fire trucks) doing their jobs don't have to follow the sign.

not obvious. there could be weight limits such that heavy vehicles like that could become trapped.
The trick is to just stick to the Pages Router in Next. The app router and RSC is still too early to use, imo, and needs at least another version or two to gain some support.
Ordinary Men
Ah yes 9 eyes - I was thinking there were 5 and then 7 eyes (and recalled NL wasn't in the first group).

While trying to find years old news articles that mentioned some specific instances of Dutch doing "quid pro quo spying" for another countries ... So far I ran into https://www.jns.org/dutch-agency-spying-on-holocaust-survivo...

And holocaust survivors fits description of OP news article? /Note I didn't read this JNS article, nor know if website is credible/
You can do that without having to make any changes to the fuel lines / injectors?
Not when you watch them move, I bet.
I may try writing something about my experience building this project, I'm terrible at writing but it was so much fun, I think it is worth the effort :)
I think that as long as a) the effects of the measure were well communicated and b) there were no significant impediments to actually voting, then the percent that vote is immaterial and the result of the vote should stand for everyone.

After all this is the way the US conducts its elections. Many elections have very low turnout, yet the results are binding.
Good point but Google gets a 30% cut for things on Android and they killed their VR/AR as well.

I do think the stupid ads and rent seeking turned out to be so incredibly lucrative that it's essentially all that companies can think about.
The interview the post describes actually sounds like a good format for me, but I do have some problems adjacent to the ones you mention.

As someone who struggles with ~parallelizing some tasks (especially when anxious), it would be great to have an up-front check in about how comfortable I am with the format of any technical ~challenge. (And even better to discover there's some wiggle room to accommodate.)

For example, I find it very difficult to code my way through a problem and narrate what I'm doing and take feedback while I know I'm being evaluated and the clock's ticking. If the interviewer says something important in the middle of this, I often have to put down any plates I've managed to get spinning (and maybe go offload some adrenaline) and then ask them to repeat before I can even parse the words they said, let alone figure out how they apply to the problem.
> The reality is that there is a judge, an authority, an enforcing body, and contingencies for failures of each of those.

The reality is that interpretation can change over time. There are a few major court rulings that have been subsequently ruled differently. Heck, the fact that the Surpreme Court is not likely to be unanimous demonstrates that even the judges will disagree.
Maps show how deadly fungal diseases are surging across the US
> Ok, exactly which communications does this AI monitor? This seems to be internal corporate coms (corporate email, internal chats) which are not subject to privacy

Expectation of privacy doesn't mean automation of surveillance is reasonable or acceptable. If you're out in public, there is no expectation of privacy, and I (a human) may take a picture of you without breaking any social contract. If someone sets up thousands of facial-recognition cameras in public space you use, that changes the calculus by a lot, despite no change in the underlying lack of expectation of privacy. Quantity has a quality of its own.
I name it depending on the need this software solves. I usually don't care about more absrract names.
One software i use has an name which is the polish word for hickup. It for comparing files for removing duplicates.
As a counterpoint, most people use their phones daily while sitting on the toilet and very rarely sanitize it. You may be diligent in keeping it sanitary but the past 50 people who kept their phones on the table while reading the menu probably didn’t (and the wet rag the bus person wipes the table down with probably doesn’t do much either).
"does not have higher priority"

Where do you have ANY evidence that his kid is being neglected? We are literally talking about 1 week. 1 freaking week. A long week of over time.

"misogynistic"

lol working with his wife as a team to take care of their kid is misogyny? I'm sorry but you obviously have a different definition. Because there's nothing bad about sacrificing for your family - even if you have fun while doing so.

Just like my question about you having proof of anything bad about this exchange as one half of the couple... what proof do you have of anything nefarious, misogynistic (other than the wording you don't approve of) or being "pussy whipped". I question your motives as your statements show you have your own bias that makes having a real conversation with you questionable.

"exceptions, not the rule of thumb" Correct. They are exceptions because they have fun doing what they do. the vast majority of people don't enjoy what they do. They work to live. Most people have jobs - not careers they love. They make money to provide for those they love (even if that's only themselves).

The rule is people sacrifice for themselves and their family.

The only part of this conversation that's the exception is the fact that this guy gets to play with an over priced toy and gets paid for it. He's still sacrificing (and without proof of neglect or harm to wife/kid - at least no more than any other 9/5 job would be considered).

Nothing you've said challenges my position that he's lucky for doing it but he's still sacrificing for his family. Props to him.
Even the 20 part of Google work is work, IMO, whether it turns out to be productive/inspiring/useful.
I never understand where it comes from, this idea that an unplanned social interaction in public necessarily constitutes one person choosing to waste the time of others, or that no one ever has any choice but to let an unwelcome interaction persist indefinitely. It gives the impression of a somewhat socially impoverished style of life, but I assume that's no more accurate a perspective than anyone else's.
For extra fun, CNG and LPG vehicles both exist in North America. Not too common, but they're both out there, usually in fleet operations.

LPG is used for BBQs and some heating, so more widely available, but hard to find cars that use it.
Well, that and the material growing far more complicated and demanding. I always had peers and online access to excellent teachers for any subject, if the professor wasn’t cutting it!
Yep, I got a 2380 on my SATs and the trick was literally to just study for the test (overfit on the style of the test)

Look through the questions and many of them mention specific passages. Mark those sections in the reading first and then read the passage.

Tons of little tricks like that.
It's unclear (probably some language barrier issues) if she was essentially saying "I did take pictures and videos, but there's no way Amazon could have known I did that", or if she was saying "I didn't take pictures and videos, but Amazon is using that as an excuse to fire me".

But even if it's the former, so what? Assuming she was taking those pictures and videos with the intent to document what was going on in case there was something improper, Amazon absolutely should not be permitted to fire her because of it.

Even if she was taking pictures because she's a gossip and wanted to share them with people because it's just generally shocking to see someone die like that... well, I'm still sympathetic to the idea that she was actually fired because she was complaining about the working conditions, and the pictures she took were just a convenient excuse.
But if you look at the graph of response sets it clearly isn’t “common sense.” Most people don’t agree and don’t come close to agreeing and, as Dan says, this is a fairly trivial example which doesn’t delve into corner cases.
I got 100% agreement with the simple rule of "no driving car-like things into/through the park".
I would call it less than nothing given it's not profitable[0][1] until there's evidence of pay off in future earnings from content and the operating losses are overcome.

[0] https://xrdailynews.com/quest-3-bom-production-costs-reveale...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/19/vr-market-shrinking-as-meta-...
Maybe someone knows how to solve a common sharing issue, I didn't see it mentioned here:

I have a single ultra wide screen and would like to share a virtual area that has a normal size (16:9) with people via Google Meets, Slack, etc. Otherwise I have to share a window, stop, share another one etc.

Really bad, especially during some on call emergency session.

So far I couldn't make it work, only Zoom had this feature at some point but nobody uses Zoom where I have worked.
> I live in a city, you can have all of those things here. ... but still doesn't touch NYC

One way of thinking about this is that everyone in NYC is wrong. Another way of thinking about this is that NYC might have more of those things and then some. Does your city have a dozen museums, dozens of museums, or hundreds of museums? Does your city have a 24/365 public transit system? Bodega cats? Offices of all of the top companies worldwide? Something equivalent to the high line? Broadway? If not, why not? Some places have some of these things. How many places have all of them?
Pictures like that were excruciatingly boring when I saw them on postcards as a kid. Now I treasure them because it helps me visualize what life was like for real people back then
I'm using dynalist.io. I'm just used to it. The app is Electron, though. but I feel it is responsive enough for writing.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47... is another good one. There are a few different posts on it scattered around:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...

https://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-has-already-yielded...

Related, looks like X is doing similar: https://twitter.com/XEng/status/1717754398410240018
US Festival
Buy it. Store it in an arctic tundra desert protected from the elements. In some decades, some country will roll out mass nuclear and dirt cheap H2 and you'll export it there as a $$$ vintage H2 car and make bank.
I am well aware of the math on that. Also, switching to faster infra can be a surprising benefit to your revenue, by the way, if it makes your app feel nicer.

The thing is, most features, particularly later in the life of a company, don't have an easy-to-measure revenue impact, and I suspect that many features are actually worth $0 of revenue. However, they cost money to implement (both in engineering time and infra), making them very much net negative value propositions. This is why Facebook and Google can cut tons of staff and lose nothing off their revenue number.

Also, there's a bit of a gambling mentality here which is that a feature could be worth effectively infinite revenue (ie it could be the thing that gives you PMF), so it's always worth doing over things with known, bounded impact on your bottom line. However, improving your efficiency gives you more cracks at finding good features before you run out of money.
This is my study strategy. You need time to digest what you've studied, especially for the topics that are particularly dense or just go over your head easily.
Perhaps the correct statement is something like "70% of security vulnerabilities in large projects written in C or C++ are memory safety issues", with the understanding that there are both a lot of software that are and aren't subject to that statistic.
Heat works.

We heat the room to 120-130 for 12-16 hours.

Some people are magnets. bedbugs love their blood.
I guess in my mental model, the deer continues to try and stand because it wants to things like food and water, and it sees other deer standing and walking around. Psychologists do talk about a state of "learned helplessness" if a living creature fails too often.

I don’t know anything about the state of research here, this is just what I always assumed. I’m sure there are built in drives and reflexes, etc. It seems perfectly reasonable that they could be "higher level" than the ones I assumed (food, water)
Governments can do less and spend more wisely.
hampers them, they have to be worried about being run over
I'm not sure what medical conspiracy theory you're on about, but it's trivially true that emotions have corresponding physiological signals. Electrical signals in the brain, hormonal signals to the rest of the body. The understanding of the physiological response to stress goes back at least to the 30s and 40s with the work of endocrinologist Hans Selye, before van der Kolk was even born. Unless I'm missing something, the article you linked seems to give an unproblematic summary of the basic science of the physiological response to trauma.

What your link doesn't address are the points brought up by the links I posted, such as van der Kolk’s attempt to revive the disastrous repressed memory theory, his misunderstanding of fMRI studies, his misrepresentation of the research on mirror neurons, his use of the discredited lizard brain idea, etc.
> If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve.

Talking to random strangers in public is generally very awkward and unpleasant for me and I don't see how subjecting myself to that would improve my life in the general case.
I actually discovered the product becuase I thought I had to invent it.
The way I see it is that there are certain number of mechanical process that keeps our standard of living high. I'm trying to shrink the energy footprint while maintaining or improving our high standard to living. I have an 8 apartment building that was formed by renovating an old school.

Everything is pretty energy efficient and we have a 40 kW solar array. The overall goal I have is to continue to reduce the energy footprint while maintaining I hight standard of living.

Ultrasonic is probably the most efficient way to eliminate our current laundry dogma. I don't know of any existing ultrasonic closets for clothes cleaning. I do know of ultrasonic water cleaners that are used to reduce detergents.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230001711/downloads/IC...
For some people, quitting their job is a financial death sentence.

It should be unsurprising that people continue to work at a job where they think it may negatively impact their health, rather than quitting, which they know will have serious consequences for them.
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A reasonableness test (like what a court system uses) makes this quiz really easy to answer. Basically everything is either allowed or a margin case except for the person driving their Civic in the park.

TBH, I think if you have this quiz to a non-engineer, they would come away wondering what the point is.

Perhaps the answer is that content moderation should just let a judge make a decision and maybe appeal?
Most presidents died before Biden got his first term.

I wonder whether this will be the norm in US.

I really thought this time the Republicans will get someone younger but I guess not.

Nikki H is a long shot but time will tell.
> I feel something is getting horribly out of balance

In my country, they dropped interest rates to near 0 in the wake of 9/11 in order to prevent the economy from crashing, and held them there until the Covid pandemic. It seems like that free money was used to buy _anything_ that could be invested in, driving up prices for assets like stocks, houses, and cryptocurrencies. I remember reading articles around 2018 that said that economists didn't know how the economy worked anymore.

The crazy low, long term interest rates are what _I_ feel has been freaky about the economy since at least 2005 when I looked at a dark, unremarkable 4 bedroom condominium priced at $400k, which was at least 6x my annual income.

It's felt like a huge house of cards has been built for over 20 years now, the whole economy outside of the service sector has been hollowed out, and I'm still waiting for it to all come crashing down.
Is this ever actually going to see the light of day? We've been hearing about Temporal for, what, 6 or 7 years now? In that time Moment has come and gone, replaced by Luxon, Date-fns, and others, and Temporal still isn't released.

Why does the Ecmascript process take so long? Entire browsers and operating systems come and go in that time...
No. I was referring to forcing yourself if you wanted to run the experiment.
Right, the epa did a great job with east Palestine and flint. Not having accidents is something amazon has an economic incentive for, what incentives do these other institutions have?
I was tickled by this statement:

"Those who might check their phone’s map when lost are instead being encouraged to ask for directions."

Having Interrailed across northern Europe and travelled within a variety of cities without an internet-connected phone, I am now confident in declaring that the average local is terrible at giving directions! Attempt to ask how to get to the nearest metro station or bus stop, for instance, and each of the friendly residents you ask will direct you in an entirely different direction. Of course, you'll also get your fair share of unsolicited travel advice: in Brussels, I believe I have now heard more instructions for effective fare-dodging than I have actual directions!

As a result of the typical denizen's questionable geography knowledge, I've now made sure I have a good offline map before embarking on any journey. If I know approximately which railway or bus lines I'll need to use, I'll download timetables for them as well. Of course, I could print out a dozen maps in advance - there's nothing inherently electronic about a map - but spurning maps entirely and asking for directions just won't cut the mustard!