skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Styrofoam melts with hot foods and ruins the taste. It's one of the things I hate about take-out and why I rarely order take-out for any hot foods, because they always taste like plastic.
About 10 years ago I worked under a video game project that was ongoing for 2-3 years before I joined. It is still in progress as far as I know. So more than a decade of development if you add the time I worked there

It is a very successful gaming company and released a couple games that sold very well. But the game project I was working on was basically a side-gig that no one (other than the owner of the company) cares about. It was like it was his hobby project and he was paying us to develop it. I think it was a good game and could have been successful but it was horribly mismanaged
> That's a somewhat inaccurate characterization of what they do. Firstly, liabilities don't exist in a vacuum. They exist because a creditor agrees to extend you credit under specific terms and conditions.

How does this relate to the actual article here, where somebody dies, a court determined that person X was personally responsible, and person X may or may not (we don't know) be using a trust, corporation, or other paper entity to shield himself from having to pay what he owes?

If that's just "the system" then we are saying the system is wrong. You're saying "smart people" use this system, and we are saying those smart people are the unscrupulous ones, taking advantage of the letter of the law to dodge what they owe. You shouldn't be able to use a structure of paperwork to avoid paying a judgment or fine that stems from wrongdoing. The corporate veil should be much more pierce-able than it apparently is.
Everything has a propagation speed :P, but yes she probably felt it before you, then her signal made it to you faster than the Earthquake did.

https://xkcd.com/723/
Even that thread is strange to me. There’s some people saying it takes 5-7 days to get delivery to Raleigh, while there’s also multiple people disagreeing saying they get 1-2 day delivery to east Memphis (less than 10 miles away).
> 4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones

NYC quake was at shallow depth.

4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
Yes. There is an excellent XKCD on the topic:

https://xkcd.com/723/

But in summary, the speed is slower than light, so yes you can find out through telecom faster than it getting to you.
chatgpt(8). It's pretty useless.

https://brynet.ca/chatgpt/
I mean you don't want to use a Task for per frame work like and use a coroutine instead because tasks are pretty heap allocation heavy. When did I ever mention ienumerator?
Did an internship once where they had me dig through a massive shared drive and map it out in an attempt to trim unused bits. Doubt it was ever used.

Also wrote some Visual Basic Code that I’m 100% dead certain was never used. Which was probably for the better
I felt it in Delaware!
It doesn’t take long for the left hand to not know what the right hand is doing, or even that there is another hand out there doing hand things. It’s hard to completely not care, but detaching from it to a reasonable degree is the only way to keep going in this career for the long haul, because you will repeatedly be asked to do seemingly dumb things. It’s on someone else’s dollar, if they want dumb thing give them dumb thing, and sleep soundly at night knowing that you were paid pretty well to do it.

Sometimes you have a voice in the room to prevent dumb things from being done. Use it if you have it, by all means. If you don’t get heard it’s a waste of time and mental health.
I have heard of a similar policy with State jobs in the US, in practice it's a formality (maybe because it's easier to fire people here). Sounded like "good governance" kabuki--I've never heard of anyone losing their job then.
Sometimes forcing a person out of their comfort zone is the best thing that can happen to them. In fact, nearly all good things that have happened in my life have required me to exit my comfort zone, which for a long time was playing games alone at home. Sometimes it has happened voluntarily, sometimes due to government (conscription) or social pressure (going to study in another city, because that's what you are supposed to do). In all cases, the outcome was good. My social skills improved, I got education, a job, wife, children, nice travel experiences.
The hurricanes are coming soon. Oceans are warming up at record speeds this year already.
This is the second quake I've felt in Pennsylvania. The first was in 2011. I was born here and lived here for my whole life except for 4 years when I lived in CA, where I didn't feel any earthquakes.
As an analyst, I've worked on my fair share of projects that have never seen the light of day, and essentially just ended up in a black hole.

A scenario like that typically goes like this:

- Client orders an analysis of something. They want all corners covered, and because they'll use it as evidence/argument/pitch or whatever, you're likely working on a tight deadline.

- You (and others) work tirelessly through the nights, pour hundreds of hours into the analysis, do get it finished before deadline. Everything needs to be perfect and bullet-proof.

- Client is presented with the delivery, skims through it, and thanks you for the work.

- The client changes their mind / abandons it all-together.

Those projects rarely feel rewarding, as you're mostly just fighting the clock, and doing lots of boring routine work. And when it turns out that you and your team are the only ones that will ever read the analysis, that kind of just makes it feel useless.
Ask HN: Email Domain reputation – From, MailFrom, Signed-by Which one counts?
After researching this topic, I couldn't find a straight answer and tbh I'm a bit confused now.

To protect the reputation of your root-domain, using a subdomain with a different IP for transactional mails or newsletters seems to be the general advice (best practice).

A different IP makes sense, since a lot of blacklists and mailfilters are IP based.

But what about the following scenarios:

from: Cloudflare noreply@notify.cloudflare.com
Received: from mta-87-158.sparkpostmail.com
mailed-by: spmailtechno.com
Signed by: notify.cloudflare.com

from: discover@airbnb.com
Received: from o34.email.airbnb.com
mailed-by: email.airbnb.com
Signed by: email.airbnb.com

from: business-noreply@support.facebook.com
Received: from 66-220-144-144.mail-mail.facebook.com
mailed-by: support.facebook.com
Signed by: support.facebook.com

from: CloudPlatform-noreply@google.com
Received: from mail-sor-f69.google.com
mailed-by: scoutcamp.bounces.google.com
Signed by: google.com

from: support@sav.com
Received: from a9-42.smtp-out.amazonses.com
mailed-by: a9-42.smtp-out.amazonses.com
Signed by: sav.com

from: receipts@spaceship.com
Received: from o13.mailservice.namecheap.com
mailed-by: em4882.spaceship.com
Signed by: spaceship.com

My gut feeling would adapt they Facebook-way, but AirBnb's looks cleaner on the receiving end.

The Glossary from PostMark says "Domain reputation is considered everywhere your domain is used...From,Return-Path,DKIM,links,headers,content..." [0]

Which (sub)domain does really count for the domain reputation of email senders?

--

[0] https://postmarkapp.com/glossary/domain-reputation
Yes! It was in the fall. The epicenter of that one was near Virginia though I think.

Edit: Here it is. It was the end of August which I consider the Fall cause that's when the Fall semester starts for me ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
A part of the reason might be how package delivery works in the US. In Germany a package delivery involves the courier seeing the receiver face-to-face and handing them the package (typically with a signature, but Amazon isn't as thorough there). As I understand it that is the norm globally.

In the US on the other hand a package delivery seems to consist of the the courier putting the package on the front porch, or even just throwing it on the property of the receiver. There it might be exposed to the elements for multiple hours, something cardboard boxes aren't good at.

In the scenario where packages are handed over face-to-face the advantages of plastic are pretty small and it's much easier to phase out. In the US the increase in plastic might just be a reaction to degrading delivery standards, which cause increased returns due to water-damaged products.
I don't think many TV consumers relied on it for their income.
In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.
Why finance teams hate Stripe
It's kinda hard to drink a soft drink with ice cubes without a straw. Get rid of the ice cubes, and you don't need a straw anymore. Or you could use a (paper!) lid similar to that on coffee-to-go cups.
I thought wind at first because it's been stormy lately
The earthquake was centered in NJ.[0] Propagation speed would be a function of the depth. [1]

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B040'58.8%22N+74%C2%...

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/seismic-wave
> Having discussions about what is "AI" without first defining it explicitly is usually a fruitless effort.

Oh nonsense. AI: Artificial Intelligence.

Artifical - made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

Intelligence - the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

ChatGPT is certainly artificial, but it lacks the ability to apply knowledge and skills. It will do it, KIND OF, on the knowledge front, if you ASK it to, but we wouldn't call a car that moves when the accelerator is pressed a creature, nor would we call google intelligent because it can respond to queries when prompted. It's a machine. Firmly in the realm of a machine that responds to input from other actors to accomplish a task presented it.

You can leave a ChatGPT instance running for a thousand years and it will never do anything until prompted. That's not intelligence.

There's simply no debate here to be had. It's a CLEVER machine, and it does things a lot of previous machines could not, but a machine it remains nonetheless.
They're really great for drinking while driving without spilling your drink on bumpy roads.
Cities provide all the services that a hermit needs in order to live a comfortable life. The forest does not.
I tend to shop at Aldi (US) and never seem to have a bag with me. I buy the paper bags for $0.10 or whatever they cost, then I reuse them for recycling until they tear or fall apart, then they get recycled themselves.

The bigger supermarkets (Kroger, etc.) all default to using single-use plastic. They will give you paper bags if you ask, and of course you can bring your own but it doesn't seem very common.

As long as the markets provide disposable bags free/cheap, people will tend to do that out of convenience.
in caifornia the bag tax is applied equally to paper and plastic bags.
The plastic straw thing makes me sad. We spent our societal outrage on those instead of single-use plastic bottles. Sigh. I think they're a distraction.
The work required to improve it now is much, much less than the work required to improve it later. Let's say it is 50x easier now.

We know that old tools get reused sometimes. Let's say it is 1/3 of the time.

It's a very good expenditure of resources to update this tool now, especially since no pipelines will blow up in real time if errors are made.

It is also possible your boss is testing you. Deciding this is a easte of your time is a good way to get fired.
I do. Work in a non-profit ISP in a large US city. We witnessed extreme abuse of the system from the big players. Even chatted with the FCC and whitehouse office about it. We were told to just abuse it ourselves because there was no political capital to actually fix it.

My organization is fighting for funding to continue it because despite the abuse, it is very much helping folks. I personally hope it dies though. This is how we get entrenched broken systems. We need to be fighting for a real solution (Municipal ISPs) instead.
Dogs and Cats Living together.
Exactly. There is no way that whomever named these systems didn’t do it intentionally. The question is why? what was the motivation?
“Pond-erosa Puff” lives in my head.

I think we’ve been using this a while, huh?
There’s a lot of strange psychology at work in the plastics packaging media zeitgeist. It’s hard to think of comparable examples of stuff that matters so little in the grand scheme but gets so many people so bothered. People really really want to be heated over plastic packaging, all evidence indicating that it just doesn’t matter relative to our real environmental
issues.
I thought a tree fell on the house. It was loud. We occasionally get branches that make a bang on the roof.

I’m about 15 miles from the epicenter.
It's also a testament to the power of open source software. ffmpeg is in a significant amount of software touching audio/video in some way, and we are all enriched because everyone is free to use it.
I doubt arguing about whether LLM are "AGI" or have "agency" is useful to developers at all.

But I also don't understand what the usefulness is of claiming architectures that are entirely passive- only speaking when spoken to, have "agency."

If you want a definition, let's start with a neural network that runs ongoingly, does some sort of goal driven, useful behavior, and doesn't merely respond to prompts.

Here's a different more sober take on current models:

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1718263303485501784?s=19
Extra fees of any kind just really, really annoy people. This is true at restaurants but also plenty of other industries. In the majority of cases, the loss of business from patrons who avoid your establishment due to the extra fees outweighs the revenue generated by the fee. Of course, you are welcome to test out your theories, but you're unlikely to find many people who predict they will be successful.
Well it seems we have to wait until Aunt Edna phones in and reports whether her ceramic collection survived unscathed.
I dislike that the conversation around apartment tends to be centred around form instead of function. Does it have better insulation, ventilation and sound proofing? That's all that matters.

Form gets so much attention because the public conversation around housing is dominated by older and more wealthy NIMBYs who don't have to live in apartments, so their only consideration is how they look as they drive past them on their way to work.
Everybody leaves during recruitment. That's what we are talking about, in particular the subset of candidates who already have a job. Make it a two year process, but at the end there's the promise of truly exceptional compensation, and you can take it as an absolute given that nobody will be left who would not do anything for money. (if you extend observation to those without a job, it's the exceptionally greedy plus those incapable of finding something different. congratulations.)
Better to use non-gated sites, plenty of coverage around eg.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/dark-energy-might-no...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/04/biggest-ever...

Etc
Hypocrisy in what? Denial of what? I don't think many consumers have made any sort of personal commitment to not use plastic.
Show HN: Traits for Java via True Delegation
Those reasons that we sometimes should do things that don't make economic sense are called "the public good". We don't need government and regulations to do things that are aligned with economic incentives--those things do themselves in a reasonably free market. We need government for those things that don't make economic sense, but that we should do anyway because it is better for everyone.

Unfortunately, the way the US and state governments tend to do these uneconomical "public good" things is: "Throw money at already-large corporations, who pocket the money and don't do the thing anyway, because there were no strings attached."
Relevant book to use as reference. Written by Simon who worked with web standards at Opera. The race to conform with whatever browser had the biggest market share that day (typically IE, or Chrome) - meant a lot of reverse engineering.

https://htmlparser.info/

This chapter https://htmlparser.info/conformance-checkers/ lists "Self closing tags" behind 2.46% of the errors at the time of writing.

I believe there is some reference implementation somewhere too, but I couldn't find it.
The marketing team at Rumble.com is really innovating these days, getting people to switch over from Youtube.
The mentioned companies will be trying VERY HARD to sway the result to the result they want, that's my opinion
AND -We all know which way they want it swayed,
Have recently become a Gnus convert, and inspired by a few of these libraries, I have begun to figure out implementing a Bluesky/atproto backend for it.

Not quite useless, (if it works out) it will probably be of interest to two or three other people.

1. https://gitawonk.com/dickmao/nnhackernews
2. https://gitawonk.com/dickmao/nntwitter
I mean, contractors rely on distributors like Home Depot for their income, that doesn't mean they have a right to Home Depot's in the middle of nowhere just because they want to work there.
fully agree. Totally ridiculous that a company who makes that much profit is allowed to delete the primary income source of these employees just because they decided to stop their car project.

I would love regulations to make it impossible to eliminate jobs unless the company is bankrupt. Considering how much is of your life is dependent on having an employer, it shouldn't be this easy for a company to toy with that. More so when a company has so much profits.

They could totally offer other positions within the company. If needed support people learning new technologies or languages. Or use these people's expertise to start new projects. but firing it totally unnecessary.
> The fundamental reality is that compressing decision timelines creates more effective military outcomes.

But popping off half-cocked often results in bad outcomes, so there's a tradeoff between decision quality and decision time.

In theory, having AI in the loop could improve both. In practice, I suspect you're right.
What I'm saying is that ffmpeg is the libraries. When you use the ffmpeg CLI to filter and rewrite audio, the ffmpeg command is just decoding it using a decoder in libavcodec, filtering using a filter from libavfilter, and encoding again using an encoder from libavcodec. The ffmpeg CLI is "just" an interface for the libraries.

The fact that Handbrake doesn't expose the same features as the ffmpeg CLI tool is frankly irrelevant.
> Is it any more horrifying or unethical to decide without AI?

It is harder to get 1000 people to participate in an unethical military campaign than it is to get 10 people. So if you can make those 10 people 100x as efficient...
Not sure about the vice versa part. Ansible is pretty much a superset of Terraform. I've used in multiple places to manage vm:s and other cloud services and generally been happy with the setup.
way to go Frank https://ssgeos.org/
> Might she have felt it before me?

Surface waves yes, body waves not necessarily. But surface waves are more destructive.
Are the secret government agent operatives in the room with us right now?
Jolt Physics v5.0.0 Released
That’s a stretch considering any Jewish person I’ve ever known would immediately associate “The Gospel” with Christianity and what officially their religion considers as a blasphemy and heresy. There is absolutely no possible way that whomever named the system wasn’t consciously linking it and invoking the religious connotation.
Bah, don't give them ideas!
Honestly, codecs are a worrying target for supply chain attacks because they're complex and use a lot of memory-unsafe code. Just look at all the image format attacks throughout history (a memorable recent one being the libwebp vulnerability.)
As deal rumors fly, Alphabet and HubSpot would be a strange pairing
Nope. DataStax has made no such claims & their own press release on the LangFlow acquisition says nothing of the sort.

Man is making these claims with zero faith. Wouldn't be the first time wool was pulled over the founder's eyes.
it's always been weird to me how badly elected democrats want to help republicans out in the in boondocks like I know those people show up at the state legislatiures but they're rigidly inflexible, ideologically committed and will never vote blue no matter what the democrats do for them, I want to shake my parties leaders sometimes like they will never love you, stop it.
It is made fairly clear by sentence #5 what the author means by "bog". And by sentence #7 it is made crystal clear.

You barely need to start reading to understand what the author meant.
For those of you who didn't grow up in earthquake country, some tips:

DO NOT get into a doorway, that's a myth. It's not a terrible place to be if it's a doorless frame, but if there is a door, it's more likely you get injured from the door smacking you than the earthquake.

DO get under a strong table. That's the safest place to be in a quake if it happens when you are indoors.

If you're outside get as far away from trees and power lines as possible (and glass), but if the ground is shaking too hard to maintain balance, stay in place. Again, you're more likely to get injured falling down than from whatever may be nearby.

If you're inside and not near a table, at the very least cover your head if possible and move away from bookcases and other tall or top heavy objects.

Also, if you did feel it, please help the USGS study earthquakes by filling out a Did You Feel it survey: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
I always have situations like these in the back of my mind when people try to justify their salaries, their self worth, by arguing they bring value to the world and those who make less don't.

(Not saying everyone doesn't genuinely contribute to the world, but moreso a propagation of a toxic, externally-based-worth mindset.)
I can't find any source that matches what you're saying. "Tremor" seems to always be defined in terms of earthquakes, either as a synonym or a "very small earthquake", which wouldn't even apply here because this was relatively large and clearly perceptible to the average person.
I believe there have been a few studies that studied localities (in different parts of the world) that banned plastic bags, and they've all had either zero net effect on plastic usage or it actually increased.

Anecdotally, 100% of grocery-store plastic bags I get are reused as trash bags and doggy poop bags. Same for most other people I know. Very few actually get thrown away after one use. And as it turns out, people in areas where such bags are banned, they buy other kinds of plastic bags to use for those purposes.
> “Dump the decentralized model”

I’m not sure it’s possible to do so without a huge regression in usability. Multiple people working concurrently on a codebase is a fundamentally decentralized activity. One of the big problems with the cvs/svn concurrency model is that you have to resolve conflicts (which corrupts your work in progress) before you can commit your edits, whereas with git the workflow is commit first then resolve conflicts. git gives you a lot more safety than svn, and more flexibility and tooling for managing work in progress.
Yes it all depends on how close you are to a distribution center and how built-out their local delivery service is.

For me, most Amazon deliveries take 2-3 days and most often delivered with the US mail but lately I am seeing more Amazon vans (or unlabled white rental vans) so it may be changing.
> reduce their workload

If killing the right person is too much work then you shouldn’t be killing
>4 is big enough to cause financial loss, if nothing more than some cracked plaster, or knocking over some fragile items.
March job growth zoomed: payrolls jumped by 303,000, unemployment drops to 3.8%