skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no argument here, only a question. And it's a fair question to ask for the purposes of discussion.

You're right, piping to sh is definitely a risk, and we should do better as a community, and not make users normalized to piping to sh.
Because no Jello recipes on Fibber McGee and Molly‎
If you ever do decide to get a printer, get a laser printer w/ toner.
The cost per page is pennies and the toner doesn't dry out if you don't use it
for a few months/years.

Consumer Ink printers (inkjet/bubblejet/marketingjet) are truly a scam.
that only really works for static or mostly stable requirements. not so great for something like the fast evolving web platform of the late 90s when we re-wrote the Netscape/Mozilla rendering engine.
Doesn't France come with 25+10 holidays, though?
This gave me a good laugh. I too have been here.
Not only do I put date on each of my blog post, in my technical blog posts I try to record the version of each software program I use while writing the post.

This practice comes from my concern that a future reader, perhaps even myself, might stumble upon the post, follow the outlined steps but encounter different results on their computer. Without clarity on the software versions, I worry that it may become difficult to tell whether the differing results are caused by human error or if they are due to difference in software versions.

That's why I make an effort to note down every software version I use while writing a post, starting from the operating system version all the way to the software application of interest in the blog post.

If I may, I'd like to share a recent example from my post to illustrate what I mean: https://susam.net/jenkins-quicksort.html#run-jenkins
White House recommends use of memory-safe languages like Python
> I think they put quotes around the wrong part of the title.

The quotes aren't scare quotes, they are because material is directly quoted.
Well you can fill it up, but you have to run back in to get your change.

If you have two people one can wait, start it once the other pays, then you both go to the bathroom and pick up the change on the way out.
that's a tiny project. call back when you've got millions of lines
Amazon's top-selling video doorbells have no security
The real probable reason is that you will do it badly. The PREFETCH instructions are the closest things, which are mostly just a hint to the prefetcher. If you had actual cache control (on multi-tenant systems especially), programmers would probably overuse it.
No need to apologize at all. I haven’t seen these issues. But I’ve worked with this setup without mmu involvement.
Oh good, another thing called Gemini.
The fact that Anglophone countries don't have language regulator bodies id mind-boggling.

Basically schools marking down your work for mistakes can't refer to anything as the source of truth other than "this private entity, sometimes in a foreign country, published a book that says so" or just "it's common knowledge".
In 1999 the HP parts of HP were spun off into Agilent.
Personally, I think that HP completed its devolution in 1999, after they spun off their test/measurement divisions to become Agilent and left the rest to start dying.

But some of my friends place the date at 2002, when they merged with Compaq.
I was thinking of a different Pratchett joke: in Making Money, Moist is told to use the barber's knock: "shave and a haircut, no legs!"

I'm rereading the Moist series again, and it is so incredibly thick with humour and references. I mean, all of the books are, but that series really feels like him at the top of his game.
> From what I can see so far on Bluesky, it seems like a journalist circle jerk.

Out of all the circle jerks out there, I do not find the fourth estate very annoying.

The C-Suite circle jerk seems far worse. Unlike all other platforms aside from Mastodon, Bluesky is devoid of that top-down control, and I really appreciate that.
I'm just saying working on gta 6 is not fungible, is all. I agree remote work is not a right, but for someone working on their dream project, the most advanced game in the world (arguably), it's probably not as easy as just going and working on something else.
What if this is just one big practical joke?
There's a setting / filter in uBlock Origin to block auto playing videos.
On time travel (Or: fact-checking and the dangers of science populism)
Sure do that for a few lines or even tens of thousands of lines. Don't do that for millions of lines without real serious consideration, and I'd add, a good reading of Joel's post.
Right, lots of teapots also have a fine wire mesh to keep tea leaves from getting into your cup, but I doubt that'd be fine enough to catch 'chalky' microplastics. I would think espresso and French press would also need to have their water pass through a filter before coming into contact with the ground coffee.
> Pretty much like the US where trade unions can get formed through the NLRB :)

It's nothing of the same. The NLRB is the regulatory body that exacts the law and arbitrates.

It would be "pretty much like" if the US required all unions to be formed under the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and jailed anyone who didn't.
Im confused. You can already set up your own fediverse server, just as you can host your own personal blog.

Decentralization is just a parameter of how many people choose to join an existing server or create their own.
> after the QA confirms the fix in 2028.

Dang, your QA team is fast.
How do leap day birthdays get handled in general? How is the right age iterated every year?
Speech Speed May Indicate Aging Brain Health
A key reason for this is that we don't live a feudal society divided in serfs and lords by birthright, so most workers who do have the courage to stand up to management can (and in most industries do) simply become managers. So the population of people in abusive jobs isn't representative of the whole society, it's a self-selected subpopulation of people who are willing to tolerate that.
The developer, tester and devops time required to properly implement graceful degradation could easily accumulate to hundreds of hours.

Those hours are directly expensive when your developers cost hundreds of dollars a day; and have a material opportunity cost in that their commitment to one particular project delays the delivery of other features.

Moreover, any new features would have to be made compatible with the graceful degradation pattern, creating an ongoing cost.
2000lbs is pretty light though. A Miata is tiny, seats two, has a cloth top, and that's 2300lbs
And a bit earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327021 - Sept 2013 (154 comments)
When the lay-off happened at the workplace both the kinds of people - the "slaves" and the "it's 5pm, see you tomorrow, toodles.. nope, haven't got 5 minutes" - were laid off together, indiscriminately. So that's there.
Our Sophos anti-virus at work blocked access to every website this morning because of the leap year, had to disable the web filtering to get us back up and running.
Servers are made by different company "HP Enterprise" though. Not related to printers/laptop HP.
Yes. But many of those people are probably so proud of working on it and wouldn't want to stop.

Also, rockstar did make an effort to cut back on crunch after red dead 2, so the result is longer timelines. R* going back to crunch probably feels like backsliding to employees.
Yea I actually tend to agree with this. It really fits my daily use cases beautifully.
A better, more reliable experience.

Navigating a classic ipod is faster, easier, and more pleasant than a modern touch screen. The sound quality is higher. There's no stress about hitting a cellular dead zone. It still has a headphone jack for when your bluetooth headphones eventually run out of juice.
And as I just learnt elsewhere in this thread, it would actually be three four-hundredths less than that anyway, i.e. 365.2425, since only one in four centenaries is a leap year.
If it's such a dream project, I would think they wouldn't mind going in to the office during the final wrap up of developing it.

The janitors don't mind going in to the Rockstar office and their job is much less of a dream job.
>Cognitive components of aging-related increase in word-finding difficulty

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825585.2024.2...

Abstract

Word-finding difficulty (WFD) is a common cognitive complaint in aging, manifesting both in natural speech and in controlled laboratory tests. Various theories of cognitive aging have addressed WFD, and understanding its underlying mechanisms can help to clarify whether it has diagnostic value for neurodegenerative disease. Two influential “information-universal” theories attribute it to rather broad changes in cognition. The processing speed theory posits a general slowdown of all cognitive processes, while the inhibitory deficit hypothesis (IDH) predicts a specific problem in suppressing irrelevant information. One “information specific” theory of language production, the transmission deficit hypothesis (TDH), posits a breakdown in retrieval of phonological word forms from a corresponding lemma. To adjudicate between these accounts, we administered an online gamified covert naming task featuring picture-word interference (PWI), previously validated to elicit similar semantic interference and phonological facilitation effects as overt naming tasks. 125 healthy adults aged 18 to 85 completed the task, along with a battery of executive function tasks and a naturalistic speech sample to quantify WFD in connected speech. PWI effects provided strong support for the TDH but limited support for IDH, in that semantic interference increased and phonological facilitation decreased across the lifespan. However, neither of these effects on single-word retrieval associated with WFD measured in connected speech. Rather, overall reaction time for word retrieval (controlling for psychomotor slowing) was the best predictor of spontaneous WFD and executive function decline, suggesting processing speed as the key factor, and that verbal reaction time may be an important clinical measure.
Well there have been a few arsonists responsible tbh. But a lot of it is negligence.
Sansa Clip is great - but WAY behind iPods in Terms of usability regarding audio books. Even with rockbox.

I still like the idea of owning one.
This is the company that instead of ditching PHP created a full on PHP to C++ transpiler and then deployed their while site on that for a few years.
This has made me never buy any HPE servers ever again. Great job HP.
Our credit card invoice system shifted all invoices that were due 28th to the 29th of February. Still trying to figure out what happened.
It turns out a lot of people have a lot of problems bigger than yours.
I contacted Dr. Tiozzo about the similarity of the two fractals and he replied,

From Giulio Tiozzo

"Of course, the similarity between the set of zeros of Littlewood polynomials and Thurston’s entropy bagel is striking.

In fact, I proved a few years ago that the two fractal sets the same inside the unit disk!

The difference is that Baez’s set is symmetric under circle inversion, while Thurston’s set is not: the parts outside of the unit disk are completely different."
why is it a head scratcher? the error message seems clear?
I doubt that a serious linguist would really classify languages in a hierachical categorization system, and would not argue for a joined language continuum. I interact on a daily basis in english, german and swedish and it is totally obvious to me that there is a long list of things were two more or less randomly share one characteristic (or words) compared to the other, e.g declination in english and swedish, or compound words in german and swedish. Similarly, dialects (and other types of variations) are clearly intermediates based on geography. And time obviously also plays a role in divergence, hence would old norse be closer to todays english than swedish or norwegian (minus the modern words). But if I had to make a decision, english would be the outgroup.
This is a great point. Banks => Money => Government => bureaucratic rules.

I knew someone who worked in KYC/AML at a well known 24/7 US crypto exchange.

Their whole team would regularly have to work weekends to keep up with the transaction requirements.
This is a great article. Everything in it is 100℅ true if you've ever worked in finance.

The absolute most nightmarish situation you could possibly imagine is the overnight batch cycle running late or even worse, having some portion of it not complete. I've been involved in the cleanup of those sorts of issues many times, they tend to be incredibly complicated chains of hundreds of programs from all different departments, and there is not a modern concept of a single cohesive "application" that runs. Its a very crazy world that even web developers will inevitably encounter a bit of if they ever take a job at a bank for instance.
That's what I thought. Why are Phones (especially Android) so unreliable regarding audio... just frustrating.
Ask HN: Had AL. Company is "going corporate" & I'm uninspired. Time for new job?
Hey all, The above is a personal question but I figured it might be worthy of people sharing their stories and experiences.

Sorry if my thoughts are a bit scattered, it's just random things I feel at the moment and I'm trying to not give too many details. I don't know if it's burnout, bureaucracy or just boredom.

I just got back from over a month of AL and I feel very uninspired by work (a slow build-up over the months that AL hasn't resolved for me). When i joined we were a much smaller startup but now we're a very big company and we're in the middle of restructuring to make-it-work with our influx of teams and clients.. which just means renaming some folders and changing slack channels.

This is my first "proper" software job, and I've been here about 3 years now; I enjoy the work (and obviously appreciate getting food on the table) but having this inner feeling of "bleugh" slows down my work a bit and makes the whole thing less enjoyable. Python has many pain points, but people tell me that all software can be messy, no matter if it's golang, rust, or clojure (things that I've looked at with interest - new and exciting).

I know there's an element of "all companies do this" and naturally, finding success means bigger company, bigger company means more bureaucracy.

I've dabbled in making my own businesses / ideas on the side but it's hard to find the time when the main work really drains the spirit. Should I just look for more exciting work or just not take it so personally and focus on my side projects or what?

What have you done with similar thoughts? How do you find enjoyment in work, especially when it goes from "fun startup" to "corporate enterprise" - am I just being childish?
Plenty of thought has gone into this. Look at what database date functions do when you ask it to subtract 1 year. I will agree that there is not one answer.
I’m in New Zealand if that helps. Generally (please) don’t assume location dictates formatting, while Excel’s assumptions are often incorrect and so custom formatting is a requirement.
The waste of talent hours is directly connected to climate change. The waste of network bandwidth is as well as the waste of compute cycles to run these "social" platforms.

That all being said, as humans have free will, imagining what we "could have done" if we just _forced_ everyone to do something different is flirting with fascism.
I think the max charge rate for an Ioniq 5 is actually more like 225kW. The bit about 350kW stations enabling the 15m 20->80 charging is because the next step down in an EA/Chargepoint station is 150kW. And in practice, mine rarely gets up anywhere near max charge rate, though that probably has more to do with EA's station quality than the car itself.

The bigger issue with Supercharger is the voltage, if it's not a 800V charger. The internal converter in the E-GMP platform for a 400V source ends up being a limiting factor and drags the system down to something like 75kW, similar to a Bolt.
I just can’t agree with you anymore. I think companies that are government supported monopolies are a lot more difficult to change than those subject to competition. There’s just so little incentive to change and it’s baked into regulatory capture on so many levels that changing a company that appears to be available but actually isn’t is probably harder than making change when market forces can create incentives for that change.

I used to believe what you wrote, but my opinion has changed.
cries in new jersey
> It may be common, but that doesn't mean it's warranted. Logical fallacies, for example, are also common (so are spelling and grammar mistakes), and yet personally I prefer to commit them less often rather than more often. You think the quotation is a fairly accurate depiction of the sentiment expressed by another person.

This works both ways; your questions phrasing assumed that the person you responded to felt the same way about how quotation marks should be used. It seems likely that you knew the answer was that they weren't intending to literally quote anyone, but you didn't ask them about that first, which is why it comes across as passive-aggressive.

For clarity, this is the comment that the quote was referring to:

> The comment you are replying to makes so many mistakes about how Testcontainers works on Java that I'm not sure what source code the commenter is looking at.

The comment quite literally calls something wrong ("The comment you are replying to makes so many mistakes"), and it doesn't give any evidence to the claim that there are "so many mistakes" to explain this. When someone says one thing and then claims that it shouldn't be taken literally because they intended something entirely different, that's called gaslighting.
I agree with you there. Media today (not exclusive to NYT) does a terrible job of actually reporting on things. As you said, everything is viewed through a preordained set of assumptions that are unspoken and changing and often contain contradictions.

I'm not saying anything new, but most news today are opinion pieces disguised as news. But then again, it always has been.
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> No, it’s both. Autoclave machines aren’t rented, they’re purchased.

Eh, ok. We're talking order of magnitude single digit thousands again. I, personally and literally, can lend a friend in the medical profession that sort of money if they needed it. It isn't even close to being in the range of capital costs that would cause a monopoly to form.

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> Livers

I'm no expert here and you haven't explained why you think this is a natural monopoly. But looking at a random article [0] it is clear that no hospital is required. You need a few doctors and I'm guessing 2-4 rooms worth of equipment. There isn't much of a hospital.

If you want to add in rooms for patients to stay in that would be a hospital, but the room requirements for that aren't especially demanding and can be scaled over time, reducing the up front capital cost.

The equipment costs would range depending on the surgeon but even a conservative estimate of a few million dollars won't get into natural monopoly territory.

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> Also if you wait for demand to fit out a hospital...

Demand forecasting is a thing. Capitalists have solved that problem. We don't have to wait for an obvious future to materialise, people act preemptively. And it still isn't suggesting there are natural monopolies present.

In fact, this "waiting until enough of them die to decide to expand your hospital" problems is one that comes with public healthcare systems, they systemically under-call demand in my view. The queue in the emergency department is typically hours long in Australia and the hospitals chronically under provide beds. We only seem to seriously expand them when people start dying and/or a major sandal occurs.

One of the reasons I so like the idea of private healthcare is I'm confident that if I need care right now I will pay for it, then get it. That is not a guarantee the public system can make. Adjusting to demand is a point in favour of private healthcare; they make more money if they meet demand.

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> Also a watch can be an EKG machine? If my Dr pulled out any cheap piece of equipment to use on me I’d get off the table and leave immediately.

If you insist that your health care is expensive, that can be arranged. Good luck to you. Please also support the people who want cheap options.

However it is still not evidence of a natural monopoly forming. And I'm not sure what your complaint is - an ECG machine is obviously not that difficult to organise given that it can be done for a couple of hundred dollars and also you get a watch thrown in. This is not a cost that will cripple a new doctor's clinic.

If you want a fancier machine, sure. But the cost still isn't going to be that high. In industries where new business cost millions to start we still get competition entering the market, none of these borderline trivial costs like an ECG machine will stop new doctors starting practices.

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22930-hepat...
That used to be the case, but definitely Pak N Save and Gulf stations you pre-pay (at least put your card in and approve it) before hand...
> It's a nice idea, but it's hard to do. One person is using VIM, another is using emacs, another is using QTCreator, another primarily edits in VSCode.. Trying to get everyone on the same page about all this is very, very hard.

Bullshit, all of these (and additionally C lion) are fairly easy to configure these for, with the possible exception of QTCreator (not a ton of experience on my end).

Just make it a CI requirement, and let everyone figure it out for their own tools. If you can't figure that out, you get to run it as a shell script before you do your PRs. If you can't figure that out, you probably shouldn't be on a legacy C++ project.
Judging by https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaptblatt the Amish/Mennonite German is no more different than any of the many dialects (Hochdeutsch being a koiné language "Dachsprache") one hears in Germany today. Compare https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Haubdsaid

> „Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch.“ == [People from Baden-Württemberg] can do anything. Except speak German.
that really depends on the count of numbers you're entering. how often do you type in a long list of numbers?

I can enter numbers faster on the number keys than I can on the numpad for most tasks. I've never really needed a numpad in 30 years
Yep, thanks, I just wasn't aware of the latter rule at all. Time to re-read Falsehoods perhaps!
How far can you go with that line of thinking?

Why not charge $20. You only need one out of 20 people. Or 50, 5000, 5,000,000. There are ceilings and ranges to what someone will pay. Would you pay $5 dollars for a newspaper? You might pay a dollar. Would you pay $5 to make a payphone call? You might pay a dollar.
I will invest immediately.
> How am I supposed to write code...

You write code... using the numpad?

> There should be plenty of space in front of it for a full size keyboard.

That's not the reason. Most people are right handed and most keyboard have the numpad at the left. Most people also put their mouse at the right of their keyboard. This makes reaching for the mouse a major nuisance. Without a numpad or with a numpad on the side where you don't have your mouse, that problem disappears.

Now of course there are other pointing devices (trackpoint, trackpad, etc.) and some are located in the middle.

But the undisputable fact is this: most people are right handed and most people have a regular mouse and that mouse is located at the right of the keyboard.

Numpad sucks in that case.

Back in the days I didn't know about keyboards with numpads on the left of the keyboard and 60% keyboards weren't really a thing yet so although I'm right-handed I started using my mouse as a leftie (and still do to this day).

60% keyboard like the HHKB (one of the "OG" 60%) aren't about the lack of space in front of the monitor. It's about grabbing the mouse and coming back to the keyboard with less hand travel.