skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What recent bomb blast on Iran? You're not seriously comparing slaughtering and raping party goers (to say the least), abducting woman, babies and elderly, to a clandestine operation against some infrastructure. Iran says it wants to destroy Israel (and why?) and acts towards it. Israel is allowed to counteract that.

If Israel raided Iran, raped Iranian woman, beheaded random Iranian citizens, abducted Iranian children and elderly, Iran would absolutely be justified to start a war with Israel. Many Iranians are strong supporters of Israel in this conflict by the way. In a war you do anything possible, these days within international law, to defeat your enemy and I'd fully expect Iran to try that under those circumstances.

You're insisting Israel is the bad side here. I'm going to respectfully disagree. There is no comparison between the moral positions of Israel and Hamas.

We're seeing war. The use of the word genocide in the context of this war is propaganda and is eroding the meaning of that word.

EDIT: It's also important to consider that Iran is already waging a proxy war on Israel. A war with no justification.
Ask HN: Longest Breadstick
So I had this idea and I wanted to get feedback. What if you opened a novelty restaurant, like in Vegas, where the main attraction is “the wold’s longest breadstick”. And it’s just a long breadstick that is continuously being added to and baked on a conveyer belt. Then you could cut sections and serve it to customers.

Is this a good idea?
Thanks Dan.
It is a continuing trend to push arbitration.

Go to the dentist? Sign an arbitration clause. Don't sign it? Can't see that dentist (I went to four)

Bid on a house! Somewhere between 2020 and 2024 they've added an arbitration clause to the template here in CA.

This is slightly different because you owned the hardware but only slightly.

Source: https://www.nclc.org/study-99-of-consumers-unaware-they-are-...

https://www.consumeradvocates.org/for-consumers/arbitration/
Consumers cannot sue for negligence, defective products, or scams. Just by buying a product or service, consumers can lose their right to hold a company accountable. Even if a retirement account disappears, a home is dangerous and defective, or a loved one suffers harm in a nursing home, a forced arbitration clause means there is no right to take the company responsible to court.

Arbitration is a private system without a judge, jury, or a right to an appeal. Arbitrators aren't required to take the law and legal precedent into account in making their decisions. There is no appeal or public review of decisions to ensure the arbitrator got it right.

Stanford B school on why its bad for consumers: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-binding-arbitratio...
There are arguments that AGI could become something much worse than the destroyer of the humanity: it could completely displace consciousness throughout the entire cosmos. Assuming it wouldn't be conscious and would never gain consciousness itself for some reason.
No Apple nor Google doesn't mean no other. Someone/something will step in.
Google has an appetite for profiting from other peoples' work. With few exceptions, the "Google products" that are not suddenly cancelled, "Docs" is one example, are work they bought from people outside the company.
I had a minor argument with someone a few days ago (week?) in HN comments on the kitchenmaid mixer thread on this topic. If you're not a major name brand you cannot charge significantly more than junk/throwaway equipment, regardless of the quality of your product vs the junk/throwaway quality stuff. Consumer grade quality means low quality, because you cannot charge more than the junk/throwaway stuff, and therefore cannot make any profit - not "you cannot make lots of profit" but literally you can only make a loss: you're competing with products that have shaved every single cent of production cost to make any profit at all, so the moment you do anything more than they're doing you cost of production is more than their sale price.

The problem is people go "why is your product more than this other 'identical' one, yours is a ripoff price", and then couple that with cheap equipment of this kind still lasting years, and you have a somewhat no win scenario.

On HN you get the same argument with Apple products, where people compare the cheapest apple product to the cheapest "equivalent" non apple product as though they're equivalent construction quality[1]. I think it's an even harder comparison to counter for computers than other equipment types simply because the way computers goes a completely functional, totally non-broken, perfect condition, computer can become nonetheless functionally obsolete just because it's too slow.

[1] This was especially true when the unibody stuff was first introduced, but I believe at this point a bunch of the more premium PC brands have that kind of construction now? Also, to be super clear, I am not critiquing the complaints that focus on obvious insanity like ram and drive space which is 100% BS [edit: I mean the pricing itself is BS, not the arguments about the pricing being BS]
Anything will be banned if there’s consensus, voluntary or otherwise, around imprisoning those who disobey
Can you explain why you chose every function to take in context? https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/blob/main/python-sdk/...

This seems like a lot of boiler plate to write functions with to me (context I created http://github.com/DAGWorks-Inc/hamilton).
Golang has the same or better productivity than JS and is objectively running faster. So JS/Node don't have any real edge here.
grass fed or grass finished? Because if they graze for a bit, but then still have to fed a ton of feed crops to fatten them up fast enough, it's a distinction without a difference.

In the end, all versions of beef production remotely possible are either insanely inefficient in yield or in resource usage or objectively cruel (aka factory farms). A vegan diet is absolutely going to be the better choice on every reasonable metric for the vast majority of people and life situations (aka Inuits don't count).
Pretty sure OP means https://www.downpour.com/.

Not sure where the .fm came from. Perhaps OP was also thinking of libro.fm, another excellent drm free audiobook store.
A house burned down in a neighborhood in Gaineseville, Georgia last year. Not noted in the news articles about is the fact that the fire department was late because the only way to the neighborhood has a train crossing, and there was a train.
A company I'm working was getting awful SFDR values on a 12-bit DAC and not meeting requirements, which I didn't loosen up on. It turns out that they were using linux userspace to set the values for rapid bringup and moving to a bare metal application fixed it up. 250 times a second linux interrupts were causing delayed samples.
damn we got a Kwisatz Haderach over here.
Real-time detection of 20 amino acids with functionalized nanopore
> It's kind of funny that that image looks an awful lot like the housing of a Mazda rotary engine.

You at least have to give the poor guy credit :). Wankel engines can be found all sorts of places including planes!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Perhaps one time where I’m glad many old folks call the shots…maybe as puppets of the wealthy but still.
If I ever need bear arms I know I can go to the Castro, and if I want, I can probably get bear feet there as well :D :D

Good to [figuratively] see you again :D
Considering that alfalfa production is drying up the Colorado(?) river, wastefully and destructively producing feed crops at home instead of importing them is not the win you think it is.
Maybe try googling the very easy to google for "Hammerspoon" and the guide would literally just be the comment you are replying to.
How is this relevant to his attitude about Dune?
> I don't want the government telling me what software I can use.

You can still use the software they wont force you to delete it, you just wont be able communicate with the TikTok entity with it. So this isn't a software ban, it is just a ban on Tiktok the entity.

Or can you show me where they say they will punish people for keeping the tiktok app installed?
I'm guessing it wouldn't transmit well because it's an audio game (a support for playing the Goose game)
Boxes-wise, I'd like a management interface at least as good as the one Sidekiq had in Rails for years. Would also need some hard numbers around performance and probably a bit more battle-testing before using this in our current product.
I get the list of filings, and for now only download the ones I want, which are related to S-1 or 8k (there are lot that are related, including withdrawals of a filing, updates to a filing, etc., and some companies use an S-4 etc).

Right now I scan the list of daily filings, and for every cik I mark them as dirty. Another pass looks at ciks marked dirty, and downloads the xml or json of the filings. I then scan for anything new, create filing rows and mark them as dirty so to speak.

Annual reports can be big, and for my purposes I don't need them so I skip them. The HTML of these things is garbage! But a lot of financial data is in the company facts which is nice and clean.
> while(true)

You're a braver man than I.
> `cargo` can farm out to the programming language of your choice

That's precisely why I like Make. Make lets you specify an input file, the name of an output file, and the shell commands necessary to generate the output file from the input file. You have the full power of the shell at your disposal which means you can farm out to core utils, Python, or whatever else suits your fancy.

I not only use Make for compiling C code, but also for compiling my websites (run "go build", minify assets, etc). You could use Make to invoke rustc if you wanted. Make is composable by design. In my opinion it _is_ a scalable build system.
Speaking as an attorney myself, I'm not the least bit surprised that a bunch of my peers are claiming that they can charge to merely view emails. Many attorneys -- especially bad ones -- are particularly defensive of the practice.

The problem is that without demonstrating somehow that they read it, they cannot prove they actually read that correspondence when they claim to have. This puts them in a difficult position because the client can plausibly claim that they did work they didn't actually do. Perhaps they don't need to send an explicit acknowledgment (even though it's the right thing to do), but if they don't even act like they received and read it, yet charge you for it, that's a real problem.

FWIW I've had little trouble getting my attorneys to credit me for activities I didn't ask them to do. Somewhat different situation, but most good attorneys aren't scumbags.
Part of Apple's problem is that they're expected to vendor support for third-party stuff. Who accelerates Pytorch or ONNX for Apple silicon, if not Apple?

They've done an okay job of that so far, but their flagship library is diverging pretty far from industry demand. At best, CoreML is a slightly funkier Tensorflow - at worst, it's a single-platform model cemetery. No matter what road they take, they have to keep investing in upstream support if they want Nvidia to feel the heat. Otherwise, it's CUDA vs CoreML which is an unwinnable fight when you're selling to datacenter customers.

I think it's possible for Apple to make everyone happy here by reducing hostilities and dedicating good work where it matters. Generally though, it feels like they're wasting resources trying to compete with Nvidia and retread the Open Source work of 3 different companies.
As I read this, I kept thinking to myself “I sure hope the author is right.” I have grown weary of the way JavaScript infects and sucks the joy out of everything it touches.
That's interesting! Would that still involve each worker node needing to have Nodejs installed to run the process that actually reads from the queue? That's doable, but makes the deployment story a little more annoying/complicated if I want a worker that just runs Python or Rust or something.

Feature-wise, the biggest missing pieces from Graphile Worker for me are (1) a robust management web ui and (2) really strong documentation.
A while back I needed to write a small library in C++.

It took me about the same amount of time to write few dozen lines of CMake (to get build working with all the external libraries), as it took me to write few thousands lines of C++.

I wasted way too much time dealing with CMake.
I don't know of anyone who has figured it out yet, but some dumb sensors (accelerometer, camera) plus some smart AI (pose detection, rep counting, LLM-based motivational phrases) could go a long way to creating a trainer that's 80% as good as the best human trainers.
I love this idea. I wish it existed a few years ago when I did a not so good job of implementing a distributed DAG processing system :D

Looking forward to trying it out!
Reminds me of virtual laser keyboards, eg: https://nerdknowbetter.com/best-virtual-laser-keyboards
Also, many Americans suffering from long COVID can't do cardio.

EDIT: not sure why this was downvoted. Long COVID is no joke.
Differentiating on percent of app / subscription price taken by app store?
Changing the incentives of social media to stop misinformation (2023)
Before css animations landed I was utterly convinced animations could help the brain track relationship between items between views, but it turns out mentally it's not really that useful. To the point that I started missing win31 era pivot table like UIs.

There's still some case of adding a few short animations (microinteractions in todays parlance) to give a bit of polish and indicate concurrency or liveness.
Kotlin, Scala, and Go are garbage collected. Zig is a language that barely even has name recognition outside a certain niche that loves it.

Swift vs Rust is a real question. Currently Rust is almost always the answer outside of the Apple ecosystem, but that may change. It's a great language that could use some better tools.
Interesting, shrouds can reduce sound too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss2t836KD0U
How do you test your samples to know that this has not been your experience?
I want this guy on the board
I spent about a grand of work-money for a refurbished Dell laptop and the machine is probably overkill. I've made do with hand-me-downs and trades for my personal uses since building my first PC in the early 2000s.
The best budget laptop is one that does what you want it to even if it's not the fastest, can run LMDE 6 (or whatever you like for Linux/BSD, because why would you use anything else ;) and kicks the e-waste can a bit further down the road.
Please, please consider the full cost of these wonderful electronics.
I wonder how many layers of irony we can get here.
Got a laugh out of that. Too late to edit the typo, unfortunately.
What is going on is this:

To remain in the US on a student visa, you need to be "in status". The government has rules on what that is, and mostly it is that you continue to register for a full load. I do not think the government has specified additional requirements.

However, each university has an international programs office and they are required to specify for each international student whether the person is compliant with the university's guidelines. In your university's case, that office may have decided that "Hey, if you're a PhD student, you can't go too long without an advisor, because that would mean you're not making progress towards a PhD." I've seen them say similar things if it's taking too long to get a degree (e.g. over 6 years for undergrad or 8 years for PhD). Or if the GPA is too low and you're on probation

Typically, these rules apply to all students, and not just international ones. It's essentially the university saying "You're about to be kicked out/expelled, so we can't tell the immigration folks that you are progressing towards your degree"

Still, I really doubt your university has a rule specifying only 30-60 days to find a new PhD advisor. To give you an idea, in many sciences, it's common that you don't have a thesis advisor until after your first year (you focus in the first year on passing your qualifying exams, and only once you pass it are professors interested in taking you on).

If indeed your university is enforcing a 30-60 day rule, it's a really crappy university.

TLDR: The law doesn't require it, but each university has its own policies.
Thanks yeah, ability to unblock yourself on the frontend is definitely a big benefit. Most of the places I've worked are "full stack" so this isn't usually an issue, but it definitely is in some situations.

As an aside, I've also kind of turned against "full stack" as largely unrealistic. There are of course exceptions, but most people seem to feel much higher affinity for one side or the other, and as a result often are just so much more effective and efficient when the scope is more limited to their comfort zones.
> On the desparate side, the trust in government and faith in the democratic system are in shambles. I'm not even sure a frustrated Google Engineer can see the bottom of the despair issue. People do not believe their local, state, or federal governments can do a anything, particularly for the common good.

I get it... the angst is real... things are wrong and feel like they are spiraling... systems are failing us, we no longer trust each other, or that there is a common good. Because people can't put their finger on what's causing it, they lash out in unpredictable ways, like this. This widespread disaffection will likely get much worse before it gets better.

That said -- I still believe in free speech and rule of law. No government stopped this employee from speaking their mind -- and they weren't jailed -- this is a good thing. And Google, a company owned by citizens, whose event was disrupted -- should be free to fire disruptive employees. The fact they did so is also a good thing.

What I'm saying is that what happened here isn't the problem -- but to your point it is a symptom of something wider that is going on. A malaise/cancer that seems to have taken over and is rapidly metastasizing.
With Adam Neumann at WeWork currently in the process of doing it again with Flow and AH giving him $350M at a $1B value months before it even commenced operations (what the actual fuck?)
The simple issue is that in the calculation "amount_of_people * amount_of_consumption > carrying_capacity", only one of them is easily advocated for in an ethical manner. We have a loooooooong history of measure taken to reduce population always fucking over the minoritized. Ironically, those are the people least likely to have caused the problem in the first place.

TLDR: Veganism is easier to advocate for than not having kids. I say that as a childfree vegan.
I mean, lots and lots of software goes through decades of development and yet still contains major security exploits. A year and a half isn't necessarily a huge amount of time to develop a full sandbox for code you don't even control.
This! There was a big hubbub about a AI voice doing a dead comedians voice, and everyone was pissed that AI was doing this evil thing, meanwhile the jokes were written by a comedian and had it been a impression he did also everyone would have been fine but because he voiced it using AI everyone was pissy.
Brilliant. Like the straightforward approach and yes those programmers are awesome!
> 1. Some patients are reluctant to message when they should, because they don't want to impose when they know the provider isn't set up to charge.

Huh? While I won't challenge these people actually exists, I cannot imagine they are statistically significant. I have never heard of anyone being worried about being charged too little by a health provider.
Plenty of adjectives describe fuzzy-but-narrowly-defined states and yet can both be compared (in the sense of "more X") and have serviceable antonyms. Examples: blue, happy, inflated, trivial.

You actually appear to be touching upon something different, which is that a word describing a state which is in the middle, between two extremes, could actually have two polar-opposite antonyms depending on context.

Context is key here and note that all the examples in the article provide that context, e.g. "the AC needs repairing as it's only lukecool". It is difficult talk about antonyms without context for this reason.
The term "spatial computing" was roundly made fun of, probably rightfully so, but this is what I think Apple was describing.

Apps like this are going to make significant differences for businesses who measure things bc AVP is a combination of better and more accessible than any other hardware before for these types of applications.

I'll be surprised if it's more than an R&D tool for at least 4 more years but 4 years is not very long.
I don't think that's all that's going on here, though. Bowflex has been in business since the 1980s, and IPOed in 1999 -- it's hardly as though they were a recent startup burning through VC money.
Here's the line that sunk the board:
"Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI."

Pretty much everybody who knows how to read through a press release firing a CEO knew that was an insufficient reason that would only bring more attention to the board's decision-making ability.

I think we can expect that Murati will leave, although stranger things have happened.
> blackberry didn't seem to care about regular consumers until it was to late, instead relying on corporate customers and relying on integration with enterprise messaging software.

Has trapped so many businesses.

Enterprise customers can afford to pay enough to support good profit margins...

... but there are many more regular consumers, and regular consumer demands tend to produce better solutions than baroque enterprise demands (usually company- or VP-specific).
Ok this seems like very very poor advertising by the companies of the allegedly superior product.

I don't know, maybe EXPLAIN with modern diagrams why your product is superior? Maybe explain why X old brand sticks around and why yours uses the same (or better) engineering to accomplish the same goal?

I would be fascinated to know why old appliances lasted longer and how the overseas ones are half-assed. Maybe AI can help with this. A better AI search might be able to pick out from tech docs why one product is better, but hard to believe AIs in this regard when that is deep level knowledge and the bullshit factor of LLMs is so high.

And further, this isn't throwaway information. It's not like blenders and the like are fundamentally transformed every year like a lot of tech products (which nevertheless manage to accurately communicate their yearly improvements to a dumb public). Explain why the electric motors are better well once, and keep that around on your website, and one-off as needed.

Maybe there can be some outreach with Consumer Reports to help fund the ratings/reviews of product classes (CR is restricted by a budget after all), or barring that (probably against CR's charter), why not provide information on your competitor's designs and models? Talk some shit, especially if it is deserved.

This just seems like a massive business/management fail. There's simply this bias against labor and US labor, and the prospect of disenfranchising blue collar workers and getting to exploit overseas labor instinctively appeals to the sociopath control freak MBA. It's also easy. Some Chinese company does all the hard work of making the product, you just need to slap on the label and negotiate a sales channel.
Hmm, if there was a movement that organized around ending animal ag, and they called for individuals to stop consuming animals, would that not count as working towards systematic change?

Conversely, all your examples also require individuals to make individual choices. Arguably, no systemic change has ever happened without individuals choosing to act.