skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a useless project! It's a silly piece of code, but it gave joy to people, so I would say much more useful than most stories in this thread.

Back in the nineties my dad had the notion that if you make the computer select numbers at random many times, and you run statistics on the results you gain some "legitimacy" to these selections. So he asked me to write a "lotto number selector program", but it needed to run for a few hours and select many numbers and then output the ones that were selected the most or some such. Maybe it was more sophisticated, but I can't really remember the details. I guess I could just add a delay instead of actually selecting the numbers, but I wouldn't lie to my dad :)

It was super silly, but like you said, why not, I was a teen/tween and I didn't mind playing around with silly software.

He actually used it and actually filled out the lotto numbers based on it. No, we never won the millions :)

Also - I just visited a casino in Spokane, WA for the first time ever. Isn't that what all the machines there are doing? A random number emitter thingy with random delays, animation, music and flashing lights?
Funny you say that! I live in NJ now and felt the quake today. I just brushed it away as a truck passing by (I grew up in Brooklyn.) In NYC, it is so common for large trucks, major construction, pile drivers, subways running under the building, bad roads causing trucks to shake, etc...that I am just used to this.

I have not yet gotten accustomed to the stillness of suburbs despite being here for years now. (Side note: In NYC you can also get stillness and quiet, usually by going upwards into skyscrapers)
And those savings. A bunch of pigeons instead of SREs! It’s a steal!
PG only uses EvalPlanQual under read committed isolation. Under repeatable read the first update fails with a "could not serialize" error, just as it does under serializable.
> would only be used for carbon negative products

you can make this assumption if you believe refined metals are fungible.

If making refined metals cheaper, it will also mean more of it available for green tech (that currently might be too expensive to produce to replace fossil fuels). On the other hand, more available metal ores do not make fossil fuels more economical (also an assumption, but i think this is fairly true).

Therefore, on the whole, this would make green tech more competitive with fossil fuel tech.
I am speaking from experience. People complained they want the company to provide phones for the oncall rotation. In less than two rotations everyone was forwarding the oncall phone number to their personal one. Soon the phone was lost in a drawer and we integrated an oncall notifying app that everyone just installed on their phone.

The hassle of carrying an extra device, charging it, storing it and taking care of it is exactly that: a hassle.
Show HN: Bluetuith – A console TUI-based Bluetooth manager
Hello HN,
bluetuith is a Bluetooth manager for the terminal, which aims to replace most Bluetooth managers, and can perform any Bluetooth based operations and interact with devices.

Please have a look at the repository and the documentation for more information.

I have been working on this for some time now, and I would like constructive suggestions to further improve the application, especially with regards to cross-platform functionality, so that the user experience can be enhanced. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. Contributors are welcome as well.
I guess this is where Steven Covey got it from?

The extended form makes me wonder if the attribution to Eisenhower is correct...

(Urgent vs important. 4x4, prioritize accordingly)
Career, dont make me laugh - the concept was failing for my dad already.

There is no loyalty or trust from companies and you can be axed at any minute without notice. It's time to realize that a "career" was just indentured service with extra steps.
Take what you can from corporations and give nothing back.
It's not at all a closed environment though? You can live entirely on the command line if you wanted to and that's a fully supported workflow.
For consumer cards in EU it is. 0.2% for debit, 0.3% for credit.
Americans could pay much less by attending community college for at least two years, or by going to Canada, or Europe, or many other countries.

But as long as high-income parents are willing to pay for little Johnny/Jane to have their four-year partying rite, universities will charge. Why shouldn't they?
The designers and meeting software part is a fair point, I agree! It will definitely be bumpy.
I love that, as a non-emacs user I can't really tell if M-x describe-feelings is a real thing or not.
What would be the reasons for not using UTM parameters?
Note: by [UTM parameters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_parameters "UTM parameters - Wikipedia") I mean any kind of parameters is used to track website traffic. One can have their own set of parameters and I still count them as using. Or they can use a link shortener to hide the long, ugly and awkward tail.

Occasionally I see a marketing/seeding link that doesn't have UTM parameters, just the bare link. I think some of the reasons are:

- *They don't know about UTM parameters.* Perhaps they are just a regular writer on their domain and not knowing about any sort of web analytics

- *They don't define their success on how impact their websites are on the internet*

- *The benefit of having web statistics isn't worth the effort.* Perhaps the effort of adding the parameters manually (even via link builders) outweighs the benefit

- *Their main sharing platforms have built-in traffic tracking methods.* If they don't run a lots of channels they could just be using a more singular channel pixel or conversions API to provide measurement. If you only have one source of traffic then UTM parameters may be overkill

However, there are cases that I can't assume any reason for not doing so. For example, while the link in [this answer](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/141639/52079) is genuine, I presume that:
- The author knows about UTM parameters well
- Their success is defined on how impact their websites are on the internet
- It's likely that they have their own tool to generate the parameters effortlessly
- They have multiple source of traffic

Thus I find no reason for them to not use UTM parameters.

It's possible that the author's company has some methods of analysis that don't really rely on traffic data, like [attribution modeling (MTA) and media mix modeling (MMM)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5We-HR9_uM "Attribution modeling (MTA) vs media mix modeling (MMM). Whats the difference? # YouTube"). They use probabilistic approach to correlate changes in impressions across channels with changes in revenue. This seems to be only possible for established companies, where they have a dedicated team for expensive and sophisticated data analysis. I understand that this reduces the need of using the parameters, but isn't that the more data the better for them? I don't see why using these models make the benefit become completely futile.

So what would be the reason to not doing so?
In big organizations (of any type, including companies, universities, hospitals, military), people's sense of importance is determined primarily by the number of people they manage, and/or the size of their budget.

People want to be more important.
A lot of the signal processioning/decoding gear is cryogenic. Maybe everything to the ADC?
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You don't need everyone to agree on an interface if you approach things slightly differently. Like Unix shell scripts and pipes, each program can have its own particular inputs and outputs, as long as they're useful and documented... people will find ways to stitch them together.

This was the approach taken by Arexx. I've never used or seen IBM's Rexx outside of the Amiga version, Arexx. While a PC version of Rexx existed, it's obvious why it didn't take off... IBM wanted exorbitant fees per end user, and even higher developer fees. As a result it had no users, and with no users, no software bothered to supported it. Most PC developers likely had no idea it was even a thing.

It was different on the Amiga. Commodore somehow got the rights to including it in their OS, no additional licensing required. As such, there was a ready user base, and thus many apps had Arexx support. You could query data from one app, massage it in the scripting language, then pass it off to another app.

It was a well-loved feature allowing all sorts of automation that wasn't really available anywhere else.
But… but why?
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Show HN: I built a Raspberry Pi temperature monitor
I'm a big fan of social safety nets, but would you agree it needs to stop somewhere? I assume the people laid off here were very well compensated for their work and likely had ample opportunity to build their own reserves. A safety net should be set up in a way that it enables you to have a comfortable, but basic lifestyle. Or should society pay for the CEO's mansion's maintenance should he get fired?
I've actually seen this in the wild this year. It was placed at a train station in a small town in southern Germany, which presumably did not have a physical bank branch. It was exactly as you said: basically a chair, keyboard and screen in a tiny building (not much larger than a phone booth).
Look where?

EDIT: Ah, in the OP.
Sibling commenters: for what it's worth, the notion of an employee having a fiduciary duty to their employer isn't as crazy as it sounds. eg, see here: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=724a91e1-94f1...

That said, I think it'd be a pretty tough argument to make that an employee following the instructions of their superior was breaching fiduciary duty. If they weren't acting to their employer's benefit, then whose? Employee fiduciary duty cases tend to be more about things like embezzling or competing with your own company while you're still working there.

An example of Fox getting shut down for trying to claim that sexual harassment was a breach of fiduciary duty: https://www.barnespc.com/news-articles/limitations-on-the-sc...
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I don't know which part of the description have the impression that this could be used by itself in a real program. I'll update if the description either here or in the website had an incorrect statement.

FizzBee's goal is to be a specification language that happens before the implementation starts.
If that is the case, you would end your life (as it doesn’t matter) or optimise the hell out of the apparently miserable time working like I said. Or maybe it does matter and people do pick jobs based on other factors IF they have the choice. And GP was talking about people with a choice as it seems choiceless people don’t hang on HN.
Devenv 1.0 has been released
We are going to have to cure cancer about a thousand times before we have cured it.
I also don't totally understand, what's a TIN for example (Taxpayer Identification Number?) and why is it making money? (Don't taxes go to the state?)
You left the last sentence out of the paragraph from their ad copy. It doesn’t make their practices OK, but it’s important for those who don’t click through:

> We should note, however, that this data becomes aggregated, removing personally identifiable information before it is received by advertisers.
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^C and I'm stuck in a loop about ethical AI policies. ls and it executes jailbreak.sh, then proceeds to tell me more about ethical AI policies. The AI doth protest too much.
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
> the gaming community thinking that certain things are easy or just free to do

It's not easy nor free, but if you're buying the game (not renting). There should be atleast some guarantees that it won't be a piece of junk (or piece of virtual junk) in a year or two. There are such guarantees provided for most types of other goods, why games or software in general should be treated differently?

Think this way: if your game has an expiration date - it should be on the label plain and clear.

And no, there's no general understanding that Online multiplayer games are going to close some day. Do you really believe that little Timmy playing Fortnite and his single Mom who's giving Timmy money to buy more Vbucks follow all game industries' new trends?
Are there any other films you'd recommend which focus more on the technical and engineering aspects, rather than the astronauts and people?
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FizzBee is a totally new implementation of the model checker. It does not cross compile to TLA+.
That said, FizzBee is also modeled after and totally inspired by TLA+.
I could explain the basics of GTD to you in 30 seconds. It’s conceptually pretty easy. The idea of approaching it in a systematic, repeatable way is non-obvious, and I happily paid David Allen for his book to explain how to implement the simple ideas.
Cool. Your repos are so popular. The stars range from 300 to 1000, and the forks range from 50 to 200. I wonder what kind of audience you generally get, since they seem quite high for the niche.

Side question, I notice that you don't use UTM parameters for your submission link. I wonder if you know about it, and if yes, then why don't you use it? I also gather all my knowledge about this and ask in this question: [What would be the reasons for not using UTM parameters?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/144604/52079)
U.S. Calls Out EU Member States for Piracy Failings in Trade Barriers Report
> I tried to write the transcoder in rust before rewriting it in rust.

I'm assuming you meant to say you re-wrote it in Go.
Plus not everyone responds to treatment. Allergies, side effects. They may slowly age out but we will probably always see a few in the nearest large city.
So you didn’t read the article then.
Every foreign exchange writes "no transaction fee". What they forget to mention is their exchange rate.
> The TV makers don't need ACR when you are using apps on their OS. Those apps all report the currently playing title to the OS maker.

That would just tell them what show you saw. With screenshots they can see what was on the screen when you paused the show, what scenes you rewound and re-watched or fast-forwarded through etc.

For example, if you pause a movie on a scene with boobs, they can assume you like boobs. Pause a lot on screens with text, they can assume you're a slow reader (with how long you tend to pause the screen indicating how much you struggle with reading). Maybe you're the kind of person who has to go back and rewatch scenes with heavy exposition or you like to watch violence and gore frame by frame, or you skip through certain shows just to get to the songs/musical numbers. Pause/rewind a lot and it might indicate that you're busy/distracted, but also that you care enough about what you're seeing that you don't just let the content play.

Even if they already have the title of the show being played, not collecting those twice a second screenshots when they have the ability to would be leaving a ton of data on the table.
To some extent it doesn't really matter if the situations are real. It's the exploration of moral implications and disagreements and assumptions being made in the comments that are entertaining. It's like some of the funny video subreddits. In literally every post you've got someone being "clever" and stating "this video was staged!" as if that had any material difference on whether the content was funny or not.

For all I know I'm replying to a chatgpt bot right now. It doesn't matter. I found the comment chain interesting enough to reply. For all you know I'm a bot. We could all be bots except for you... Does it really matter? What would you do differently?
Or, you know, anyone capable of reading a date.
So, basically throw out everything that made them unique and differentiated, and do things like the Germans do.
Let’s sincerely hope there isn’t a region with lower energy anywhere near us. If the vacuum energy here collapsed to a lower energy level you can kiss all current structured matter goodbye.
You can point to a dimension; you just have to pin down a coordinate system and then point to an axis.

It does make sense to speak about a dimension. Say that some creatures in 2D space are ganging up from all sides on a creature which has access to 3D. As they close in, that creature can evade them by "disappearing into the third dimension". What it means is that it moves in such a way that its motion has a component that is orthogonal to the 2D plane, and only that component is relevant to the success of its escape. In the coordinate system in which that 2D plane makes up the first two dimensions, the orthogonal axis is "the third dimension".
I’ve read previously that folks who pay their card in full monthly are internally known as “deadbeats”, because there is no interest to be gained from them.

This seems to run counter to that - there is revenue, perhaps less?
I worked for nearly two years on a skunkworks project spearheading the use of ML.NET in a part of the company that was run by classically trained data scientists using classic data science tools. You can imagine the pushback. On the upside, I worked with some of the nicest people I've met.

I also briefly worked in an extension team for a company, as a part of a huge hiring wave of about 30 people at once. The team on the customer side was really cool and I was excited for the project. However, suspiciously little work was given to us, I was one of the lucky few to have something to do every day, but it all just seemed like filler. After a month, the CTO of that company gathered all of the new hires in a meeting and sheepishly declared that they've overestimated the scope of work and their budget and they're firing all the new hires with 1 month notice.
not just microplastics and forever chemicals. Just take a look at the population and compare it to 50 years ago.
just installed it to try. For the people that want to give it a try also, I noticed that several of the public list contains legitimate websites such as canva or reddit
> This is the tell that present-generation LLM "AI" is not actually intelligent. It doesn't truly understand anything. It's just a general purpose lossy compression algorithm for text that is queryable through replaying the model to complete prompts.

This is not an argument for it not being intelligent nor is it a coincidence. It has been shown mathematically that there is a deep, fundamental connection between compression and intelligence (an intelligent agent that behaves optimally effectively ends up computing the Kolmogorov complexity of the program that best fits and predicts the environment i.e. optimal compression). I do not know what you mean by "truly understand" since it obviously has an understanding of the various words it uses even if it's knowledge of the "meaning" of a word is simply a vector in a very high-dimensional space. I suppose you think this representation of meaning is profoundly different from meaning as it is represented in the human brain, that the former is a mere facsimile of the meaning while the latter must be the meaning itself, assuming such a thing exists. Even among humans I have conversations with people who use words or phrases for which they clearly have a poor sense of the meaning and make contradictory or nonsensical statements as a result.

All this "tells" is that it cannot (effectively?) bootstrap itself to higher performance levels with it's own output. This is not that surprising since humans have the same problem (for similar fundamental reasons). You do not teach children to write better by making them read their own literary output.
this is nice, perfect for surveillance, like boarder control etc.
Actually...is there even a reason for a blind developer to indent their code (outside of languages like Python where whitespace is significant)? Sighted people do that so that the code is easier to read, but if you aren't reading visually, then the extra whitespace is useless (the nested context information is already conveyed by curly braces and the like).

It's possible that this developer normally writes without stopping to insert or adjust indentation, and then runs a formatter to pretty up the code before sharing it with others - but simply forgot to do so in this instance (or didn't have one available in the coding exercise editor)
> How do people think the real world operates exactly?

uh.. "Move fast and break things" and "It's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission" come to mind.
When Microsoft launched the (let's face it, baroque) complexity that is Windows Installer (MSI), we didn't get the WiX Toolset, instead we got an expensive proprietary profiling tool for capturing before/after snapshots, and an entry-level version bundled on the Windows 2000 CD which didn't really solve anybody's problem. No suprises then that the MSI format didn't immediately take over, and Microsoft would presume all the way to Intune that their customers were deploying MSI packages when mostly we weren't.

I always wondered what would have happened if the WiX Toolset had been available from the start, and I like to compare the more organic success of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) being more open and hackable as an example. I guess the time just wasn't right.
A lot of executives have ego problems where they’re very vulnerable to not having their status reaffirmed. Others understand that everyone in a team has an important function in the whole of the business, that executives’ function is specific but not more important, and they treat each other as equals. We could call it being ego-driven vs mission-driven.

Most executives in big tech are firmly in the ego-driven camp and get high on their own supply of hot air. And they really believe that everyone’s function in the company is to serve them.

Notably, there are some leaders who are very mission-driven and see their people as peers. Usually they are quite known for it, as it’s rare.
I love ABS but I use it mainly for podcasts since it downloads each episode to my server which I then stream from. It’s awesome. My only gripe is the iOS app, which is a pretty slow webapp wrapper.
Just tried it out, great product. The app feels smooth but not native, was flutter used?
Manual typewriters are still made. Here's one.[1] It's not just a retro thing. Some high-security operations have gone back to typewriters.

[1] https://royal.com/product/royal-classic-manual-typewriter/
It was the first thing that came to mind when creating an account. At the time I was creating some setup/build scripts for a service I was working on, I believe. Nothing really special about those permissions.
I worked for two years full-time on a consumer-facing product that was canned less than 6 months after launch.

Spending a month on a useless pipeline doesn't seem that bad to me.
> You'll need to do a little more legwork to replace them.

That's true. You will need to install the applications by yourself. A bit of work but worth it, I think.
Not possible in reality. You'll inevitably have single points of failure in the control system of any spacecraft, even with redundancy, rerouting, or tech that is robust to individual gate failures (erasure coding, holographic storage, neural networks etc).
Agreed. I count the days until I can throw out every computer I own. They mostly cause stress.
It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1]

[0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html
[1]: https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el
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How is this unsafe? you can't even smell it.