skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are mass layoffs "rightful" in any sense of that word?

I don't see those as inherently right or wrong.
Here's an analogy that I think about from time to time. Imagine your life as a garden. You have a finite amount of days, with a finite amount of resources per day to plant new things or caretake existing things. Your soul represents the breadth and depth of your reach on any given day, but it is a fixed size and you must choose how much breadth and depth it has through your choices. Consider each day as an opportunity for change in this ratio of breadth vs depth, and over time this will play out as a spectrum between the two following situations:

(1) You can spend each day traveling to a new area, planting a new seed wherever you go, but never watering the same area twice. You get to learn about many different seeds, but you never get to stick around somewhere long enough to watch them grow into fruit-bearing plants. Your soul will be full of different experiences, but you will not be able to relish in the details of any particular area (i.e. pluck the fruit from your garden when you are ready to relax and are thinking back on your life)

(2) You can choose to focus on one or a few areas to add depth, learn the fundamentals of how things grow in those areas, and learn to care for and nourish them over time. In the end, you will be left with a beautiful garden that you have perfected and know every detail about that is full of fruit-bearing plants. You can wander this garden and eat the fruit from any of your plants.

Your soul has a finite reach. By focusing on one thing, you are neglecting to focus on another, and there is nothing you can do to change that. It's up to you to choose how you want to live, and not making a choice is also a choice. If you don't make a choice (i.e. a sacrifice of not visiting some areas or not nourishing the area around you), you will be left with the worst of both worlds: a decaying garden and no knowledge of how to grow anything.
> propaganda news outlets.

Most major news outlets are still wildly pro-Israel. My and most people's opinions on the subject tend to not to drive from main stream media accounts, but research and journalistic investigations into the situation there.

I don't personally know anyone who has walked down the path of doing real research into the issue and not come out of it horrified with Isreal's actions and this has been long before Oct, 7 2023. Most people who are "fine" with the situation are the ones getting their opinions from the news.
> propaganda news outlets

Is ONU considered a propaganda news outlet nowadays? https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-i...
I mean... dictionary.com??

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive

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: to cease to feel resentment against (an offender) : pardon
forgive one's enemies
The mainstream narrative is expertly controlled and manipulated.

So yes, it is a fireable offense because "We're actually the good guys" to suggest otherwise will label you a bunch of names.
> Statement like yours are not doing any service to Rust. Rust advocacy can do very much without such "help". Hopefully it does not represent culture of Rust community in general.

Ugh. You’re disagreeing about which languages are best for some task. Are either one of you being-an-advocate? That’s up to interpretation.

It’s not fair to say that someone who vouches for Rust is being-an-advocate while someone who vouches for C++ is just arguing normally. What basis is there for that?

I could say that you are not doing any service to Rust-naysayers. That I hope that the culture of Rust-naysayers are not represented by people like you. Would that be fair?
> It is in the context of being a historical fact.

And if someone chooses to have all of their work destroyed, then that is their history. In any case "public interest" outweighs a person's personal wishes only in very rare exceptions such as statesmanship. Here it clearly doesn't.

> Non sequitur. Adding a book to a bibliography does not change the content of the books that have come before.

Only in the same way that a later chapter in a book doesn't "change" the ones that came before. It changes how the previous works are perceived - art is all about perception.

> If I am a student writing a PhD dissertation about him I absolutely want every single fact I can get my hands on.

There's little reason to care about any unpublished books, because they cannot have had any influence. It's fine to be interested in them anyways, but mere interest of the living is not enough to excuse any of this.

But even if the person who wishes to have their works destroyed gave a completely nonsensical reason, their executors still would not have the right to go against it.

If people cannot expect to have their wishes honored, they will merely take more extreme measures to ensure they leave things behind to their liking. Nowadays that likely means encrypted drives and dead man's switches. But do we really have to go there? Can we maybe instead just expect society to behave honorably?

> Original sketches are extremely important in every subfield of history: from poetry to literature to music to painting.

The word "important" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It is very important to my daily commute that there be a highway from my front door going straight to my place of work, but I don't think it's going to happen.
No info for trains in Mexico.

Mexico just inaugurated one section of the Tren Maya.

It will connect Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

Someday.
Part if it is that enjoying it is not the goal, losing the weight or passing the test or whatever is the goal. You're not trying to enjoy yourself, so if the pursuit of the goal is very painful for you, you're not going to enjoy it. But you had a reason to start. Sometimes we encounter very difficult obstacles in our lives and relationships, we get so far out into trouble and unhappiness that it seems impossible to get back. General advice in this case is to try to connect back to why you started. What does passing the test do for you, why did you want to lose weight, why did you originally fall in love with that person.

If you never had a grounding to start with then it's time to find one.
What's a good way to take a stance?
> You can be completely on board with the DMA but still see Epic's behavior as entirely profit motivated and "freeing Fortnite" should not be any official's priority.

The Digital Markets Act is all about profit-motivated businesses. It regulates markets, not charities. It's not anti-profit at all, just pro-competition, and Apple was attempting to stifle competition.
If only it were that simple!! Isn't the central problem that you're not allowed to sell in anybody elses house. I mean, if you're prepared to accept that you are leasing the device and that the lease will dictate what you can add can't do with the device, then I think your position holds, otherwise, it's a little tenuous.
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And this really seems like it's going to keep going that way in Austin. Any time I'm driving around, I'm passing under-construction apartment and condo buildings all over town. It's nuts. On my regular commutes, I pass probably 10-20 buildings, and just within a mile of me, there's maybe 5 multi-hundred unit buildings that are nearing completion.
I have no problem with this.

Write an open letter with signatures of many of your colleagues, or in extreme cases organize a walk-out or a strike in protest. Don't disrupt a meeting by yelling that you refuse to do your job, especially when it seems the meeting had nothing at all to do with the war and it was just that the presenter was Israeli and working in Israel... that's not so much a protest and more just racist.

You work in tech, probably in silicon valley. It was created by the department of defense.
> I think the other poster is pointing out that China already did this

No china didn't. That's my point. You and the poster's assertion is an outright propaganda lie that's been repeated ad nauseum. China has the same laws that the EU has and the US has. Where citizens' data is stored and controlled locally. Tiktok is storing american data within the US.

If china enacts similar 'tiktok' laws, then apple, microsoft and every tech company operating in china would have to sell its entire chinese operations to chinese entities.

I hope china, india, EU and the rest of the world takes the tiktok bill as a blueprint and enacts similar laws.
The machine and the operator are a superorganism system. Looking to place blame on one or a nebulous external cause is intellectually and morally dishonest because it denies culpability for specific instances of harm.
That sounds interesting, I'm only tangentially familiar with Ceph so forgive these stupid questions: So you have the Ceph "array" running on the Proxmox nodes, and then are your VHDs like objects on Ceph? Do you also use Ceph for direct data storage or are all your files and data within VM's VHDs?
Nice to see this here. I've stumbled on this page while researching my stop and train change in Brussels on the way to Config Management Camp. This is the internet that I remember from the very early 2000s. Just plain information, a person happy to share their own interest and carve some space out in this sea of webpages.

This is what I want to see more of in the internet.
It shouldn't end, we shouldn't let them do whatever they want.
Google Chrome will soon let you install any webpage as a desktop web app
I'm curious if this supports coroutines at tasks in Python. It's especially useful for genAI, and legacy queues (namely Celery) are lacking in this regard.

It would help to see a mapping of Celery to Hatchet as examples. The current examples require you to understand (and buy into) Hatchet's model, but that's hard to do without understanding how it compares to existing solutions.
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I've done some of those and can say - east coast to Chicago or just a bit beyond is pretty interesting.

And west coast is great, starting somewhere after the plains.

The plains are really boring - unfortunately I've not kept up with schedules, but if you can get the overnight to mostly be in the plains, you've something.

But on the east coast maybe you can take advantage of Amtrak's only profitable long-distance route! The Auto Train! wooohooo
No religion is a good idea, but no politics is impossible unless you don't understand the definition of politics.
My son takes ADHD meds and it would be great if we could do the med checks (which are almost entirely questions for the parents) remotely, instead of taking him out of school and one of us out of work for several hours.
Looks pretty great! My biggest issue with Celery has been that the observability is pretty bad. Even if you use Celery Flower, it still just doesn’t give me enough insight when I’m trying to debug some problem in production.

I’m all for just using Postgres in service of the grug brain philosophy.

Will definitely be looking into this, congrats on the launch!
That 200ms is the natural human delay. A "reasonable" 50ms animation is in addition to that, so it's equivalent to making the user 25% slower. It's similar to moderate alcohol intoxication.

I personally use 72Hz keyboard autorepeat, which requires both low latency and predictable latency to use effectively.
Unfortunately lost in the debate over free speech & how private companies have a "right" to suppress people with certain viewpoints is the amount of power these tech companies have over us - I would argue that Google has more power over us now than King George III had over his subjects in 1773, and certainly has more power in stifling information and suppressing speech. Americans can tut-tut Russia and China for suppressing dissent, but American corporations are doing the same thing, just with a different coat of paint. New boss, same as the old boss.
I know this isn't the most progressive thing in the world, but uh... what about a law that puts a hard upper cap on the tax rate of any primary residence while also limiting the amount of properties a person or corporate entity can own within an area? Seems to me that it would encourage cash-starved governments to encourage home building while discouraging seldom-used second-homes and single family rental properties.
Agreed. I have been on the same generic blood pressure medication for ~15 years now. I was recently on a vacation in Mexico and surprised to see that you can just buy it off the shelf there. That being said my healthcare plan includes a free yearly checkup with my doctor so it's kind of nice to have a yearly baseline of bloodwork/labs and be able to see it my patient portal.
Welcome to 101 in people do not like failure.
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really hoping dang doesn't let this get flagged off the front page like similar threads on this subject, even though it's obviously contentious. this is a conversation that needs to be had and also recorded for posterity.
What is the something else? There is an extensive tunnel network that likely allows insurgents to travel from the hospital to elsewhere. So you can't lay siege to it.

You could send troops in, but now you're in disadvantaged close quarters combat, which is horrific and guaranteed to get many of your troops killed.

The only reasonable strategy is to bomb the hospital. It saves the loves of your troops. Will there be civilian casualties? Yes. Is that preferred to losing your own citizens? Absolutely.
Why not both? Also stop foreign buyers from parking their money in our housing market.
>> If the justification for work from home is to avoid creating a documentation trail of illegal actions, that suggests that public policy should oppose RTO.

Your private data, showing up on a screen in someone's home is the reality of NO office. There are plenty of legal an contractual protections in place for that data. It is very easy to screw yourself and your company in the course of doing your job around these things. Good intentioned people make mistakes and now pictures of your last colonsopy are on the internet and in the next version of GPT is not what any one wants.

I didn't say they were legally gray, I said they had gray legal risks not because people are bad but because they are flawed.
Lotta people reading this comment as if it is taking a moral stance (siding with Google). I didn't read it that way but rather as a comment on the state of the current environment. Did I misread?
> ...not least of which being that it relies on dependency fulfilment order which can be non-deterministic (e.g. if you pass -j).

Didn't actually know that was a thing until I accidentally ran into it yesterday when I ran the make command in the wrong terminal window and the build was very, very unhappy.

At least it didn't bork my entire /home directory like that time we don't talk about...

My general rule is Make for simple things and CMake if it involves distro-packed library deps or I'm building python modules with complicated enough builds that I don't wan't to beat the dead horse of distutils into submission.

Honestly, if I can't tell what the build system is doing without having to ask google then it's way too complicated.
A wonderful story and very interesting to think that things were faster in some ways when the laymen had to use the CLI/TUI.

Here I am in 2024 actually trying to rebuild a setup very similar to yours; I do a lot of regular text editing to take notes and logs and journals, and with the world moving the text-first notetaking tools like Obsidian (markdown) or the classic and lovely Emacs (org-mode/roam), it's become more and more important to write and access text quickly.

And I think even us on HN have seen similar push for text use as paramount: people scraping away the guff from websites to end up with summarized texts and pseudo-RSS feeds, NLP and LLM reworking text to make it evermore accessible to us humans.

Text is king. And the rest is just clutter.

So, given that, why not have more terminals around the home? Buying extra PCs and thin-clients is a start, but expensive - what I /really/ need is /interfaces/, monitors and keyboards to work /quickly/. In the age of smartphone soft-keyboards I think we can all agree that typing on them or doing text work is horrible. Yet that's where most text is written.

So my point is, maybe we shouldn't have strayed so far - and I think there's a vibrant community of hackers bringing back CLI/TUI as a primary method of interaction. In fact, the physical terminal TTY is actually still quite useful and common for embedded hardware engineers who use it frequently, or old school hardware enthusiasts like this guy [1] who use modern MCUs to work with the traditional terminal standards, which, of course, still work great in Linux like nothing has changed :)

[1]: https://youtu.be/pyoiQKK-eh0
Family offices are the "private investing arm of wealthy families."
How is this not just racist behavior?

An Israeli presenter who is based in Israel is being protested. Was there any connection beyond that to the war?
If this guy thinks what Google is doing is "powering genocide", and Google is not going to change what it does, then he is just saying he's not going to do his job, right? So this move allows him to not work on powering genocide.

I mean I’m sure he was hoping that it would change somebody’s mind, but you’ve got to know that’s a long shot.
Lots of competition here as services like WhaleWisdom are quite powerful at the basics around 13F.

Some ideas:

* Cluster the 13Fs into buckets. Performance buckets and volatility buckets and aggressiveness buckets.
* Build model portfolios that blend holdings from the best performers.
* Do some basic regime analysis and find which 13F filers perform best during the various regimes.
Not where, when. And the answer is never, because the EU regulates what companies themselves either can't regulate themselves because no one's willing to adopt the other's standard, or there's a position of dominance that doesn't even require collaborating with anyone else. And they do that for a pretty simple reason: to ensure that businesses do right by the EU citizenship.

And they do that across _all_ sectors of industry, you only noticed the tech one because it's in the news you pay attention to, but everything from farming to textiles to tech to pharmaceuticals are heavily regulated so that the people that live in the EU can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.
In Europe unlike in America the government makes regulations that benefit the general public. That's it.
webauthn's objective is improving security for all users
Excited for this, Vite running on a single bundler means you can finally trust what you're seeing with the dev server.
Yes it can be ignored if it is insignificant, the issue arises when it isn't and long-term rentals are being transitioned to short-term. Cities and towns should have strict licensing requirements to control the effects. Airbnb itself does not matter as it's just a platform.

Some places have limited buildable land and Airbnb was taking over a lot of long term rentals.

Example of how this affects larger towns: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-tenant-receives-evictio...
You can't have employees disrupting company events to promote their political causes. This guy absolutely should be fired, and I'd be saying the same thing if his message had been pro-Israel.
I suggest you read this: https://radicalcontributions.substack.com/p/escalation-theor...

It is really insightful about how we train ourselves for compliance, but how that training struggles to cope when we interact with violence escalaters (who are common in some parts of society).

I live near a port town and face and threat of violence is easily visible in men and many women.
Thank you for that demonstration of the motte & bailey argument.
Microsoft and Google seem to be able to comply without publicly embarrassing themselves. Investors are not stupid, they understand that companies have to comply with the law. This behavior is totally on management. If I were a big investor I’d be more worried by this since it seems like management are acting irrationally without any plan.
As long as it's done correctly, mixing new entropy sources into an entropy pool will never _decrease_ the entropy. So in the case of LavaRand, even if it only ever returned a string of zeros, systems that mix it's output into their entropy pools wouldn't be any worse off than before. Perhaps we could have made this point more clearly in the post. (I'm one of the authors.)
At least in the U.S. business owners have the right to refuse service or turn away a customer to protect their patrons and business.

That's the issue with all these providers. Every couple of weeks there's a story from someone whose Google account was suddenly closed with no way to access their emails or pictures again.
What that means is "only status quo opinion and politics". It's implicit support of the mainstream ethos of corporate America, one which has well established it values profits over people.

Management works to serve those corporate interests, so it is in their interest to convey the message that the appropriate thing to do is be silent and comply.
That's the beauty of the free market, you have the freedom of choice. You can vote with your wallet or your feet. You can leave if your personal ethics and morality no longer align with the organization you're working for. A business doesn't owe you a paycheck simply because you think you're on the moral high ground.
And patents do quite the damage to the free market. The theory is that they incentivize innovation - in reality innovation is incentivized quite enough by the perspective profits. Patents incentivize rent-seeking and playing the court system.

Copyrights and trademarks are important though to prevent fraud and deception. The government has the role of upholding the rule of law and gentlemanly competition - I am not advocating for anarchy.
> I think that really depends on what theory of copyright you have operating in your society, many European societies have a theory of copyright that is about respecting artist's moral rights to own what they have created.

If that was the case, nobody in europe would be reading much of franz kafka's works nor anne frank's diary.
It's literally a Digital MARKETS Act. Markets are all about developing healthy profitable businesses. They certainly are not going to be bothered that Epic, a profitable business, wants a fair playing field to compete on.
> why india didn't ban facebook, instagram, youtube, etc

Has India almost went to war with the US in the last 5 years? No.

Has India almost went to war with China in the last 5 years? Yes.

That's why.

Before 2020, Chinese firms were trying to expand into India as their ideal target market. In retaliation for Galwan, they got kicked out.

> would build up their own tech giants

Why?

How many global software giants can you name from Israel, Japan, or South Korea (let alone the entire EU)?

The biggest reason that countries like Israel were able to rapidly develop was because of the soft power of being so integrated in the American tech industry.

IP driven industries like ICT, Pharmaecuticals, Semiconductors, and Finance represent 33% of Indian exports [0] but 10% of China's [1], and India's entire R&D capacity was built by western private sector companies like IBM, GE, TI, Intel, Nvidia, Apple, etc.

Kicking them out is economic and research suicide for India.

> I'm surprised that tiktok has been able to maintain its top spot for so long

Because every other country uses it because it's so popular.

[Is it just me or has HN gotten dumber recently?]

[0] - https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/104/export-basket

[1] - https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/43/export-basket
Related to the EA cult: AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/ai-safety-washingto...