skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that companies choose workday because it saves them money. If I have an expense below a certain threshold, I just eat it rather than dealing with workday's insanely complex expense report flow.

I was railing against workday for a different reason last week. I had a qualifying event and needed to add a dependent to my health insurance. The first screen in the flow was to change my coverage, but it only offered "self" plans (not the self + dependent I was trying to change to). I finally learned (after 2 screenshot laden emails with HR) that I had to "submit my choice and continue" for the wrong plan before I'd be allowed to choose the correct self + dependent plan on some future screen that I had no idea even existed. The "submit my choice and continue" felt rather final.
Well, for starters, the graph lopped off the first twenty years from the data set so that it could "start" from the massive peak in the 20s and 1930. The top reply to your original tweet is a retweet of two videos that rebut the graph.[0]

It's further skewed by the use of decadal averages, which hid the fact that the greatest peaks included deaths that were either the direct result of--or greatly worsened by, conflict and/or a handful of specific policy decisions--food production failures during and conflicts such as the Zhili-Anhui War in 1920-21[1], floods that occurred during the Chinese civil war which dramatically worsened responses and recovery, the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33 and the Soviet famine of 1930-33 more broadly, the 1938 Yellow River Flood[2] following the intentional destruction of dikes in an attempt to slow the Japanese Army's advance, World War 2 more broadly in the 40s where you had both the food production interruptions of war on a massive scale and explicit acts of mass starvation, the Great Chinese Famine in 1959-61 which is considered to be one of the largest man-made disaster in history,[3] etc.

The graph falsely suggests that we've we've somehow stumbled upon a viable adaptation strategy that makes climate change nothing to worry about. Since 1900, we've seen massive medical advancements, improved early warning systems for at least some types of disasters, transportation networks and technology that helps move people away from disaster zones both before some disasters and in their aftermath, the ability to rapidly move large amounts of food to disaster areas, and more.

Those are all great achievements, but the largest factor in the decline your chart suggests (albeit through data misrepresentation) is the fact that we don't have massive conflicts on the scale we saw in the first half of the 20th century, genocidal dictators looking to quickly wipe out millions of people through starvation, or political ideology driving inane agricultural policies that killed tens of millions of people because the autocratic dictators of some of the most populous nations on Earth read some pseudoscientific drivel (Lysenko and others managed to inspire not only the Soviet Famine in the 30s but also the Great Chinese Famine in the late 50s) and decided it sounded pretty ideologically reliable. We still have conflict and famine, but nothing on the same scale.

Trying to take that and spin it as climate adaptation is, well, absurd. Even by climate skeptic standards, that argument's a real stinker.

0. https://twitter.com/TheDisproof/status/1633492932484374530

1. https://disasterhistory.org/north-china-famine-1920-21

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
This trail of resignations and drama only signals that whoever is left had to decide whether or not they're ok if they ended up wherever they're going.
As mentioned elsewhere, what this is actually doing is showing that string and String are not structurally equivalent in TS.

If you add another class Email that extends String, you can pass it as a Hash without any problems. And you can get rid of the Hash stuff altogether and do something like

compareHash(userInput, new String(userInput));

and that fails just as well as the Hash example.

Using extends like this doesn't actually fix the problem for real.
people start out wanting to smoke for whatever reason, but then the addiction kicks in and you just keep smoking even after that reason has passed.

among adult smokers, i've always wondered what the breakdown was between people that actively like smoking and want it in their lives versus those that are ambivalent but quitting is too much of a hassle?
Even optimized e-ink devices are not particularly suitable for those kinds of materials and most of the e-ink reader manufacturers have not tried to address that market. It is generally better served by LCD tablets.
Makes me sad that they’ll now have to increase profits forever, instead of functioning on their mission and doing what’s right. This may mean moving manufacturing to China, using lower cost components, etc etc.
I got aggravated, physically aggravated just by reading the cursed hellspawn’s name. I hate this website and everything it stands for.
I think the technology will explode when you can download a tune from classic or cool cars and have the sound and performance map of a Ferrari or Aston Martin when you go out for a fun drive on weekends.

It’s not about max speed but enjoying the experience of driving.
Have you tried watching a cricket match in India? The ad frequency is incredible. It’s usually essentially a long series of ads with a bit of cricket mixed in.

If advertising were lucrative, it probably wouldn’t be that way.
Not quite to the same extent, or nearly as late. China's Four Pests campaign, for instance, ran from 1958 to 1962 and was ecologically disastrous.

Meanwhile, in the US you already had strong conservationist movements starting up, leading to the creation of the EPA by 1970.

While China finally adopted some environmental protections in 1979, it wasn't until the late 1980s/early 1990s that they could override industrial development in key situations
> imprison or exile smokers, refuse medical treatment to smokers

.. doesn't work in the rest of the war on drugs. But on the other hand, if you care that little about their outcomes that you're willing to do those things, why are you doing them in the first place rather than leaving them alone?
The situation with ARM hasn't changed much unless your budget stretches to Amperes stuff, but the big change is that x86 SBCs and mini-PCs have gotten very cheap, and of course those Just Work with any Linux distro or even Windows. The Intel N100 is incredibly capable for the price.
> literally "other people are dying because of this habit so you need to hate this habit."

I didn't need a media campaign to hate this habit, although it probably helped when they made Mr. Potato Head give up his pipe, the smell and the residues everywhere were enough.

I guess it was one way to get kids to play outside; I never wanted to be in my grandparents' homes while they were smokers. Didn't matter if they were smoking at the time, it was always gross.
All while x86 morphed to x64 and gained back many of the features of big iron.

Much of the problem with PC software at the time was one of scaling. Getting software to use multiple processors effectively took decades, but the cost difference and ability to actually get the hardware cheap allowed it to win the market... then grow back into systems with hundreds of cores and terabytes of memory because the needs for big iron didn't go away.

With AI/training/LLMs/NNs scale, at least appears, intrinsic. We see this in the animal world. We see insects with a very basic brain capable of interacting with the world and surviving. Then we see mammals with larger brains capable of far more as the scale/complexity/interconnectivity of their brains increases. At least from what we can tell, throwing more power at any given problem will give us a better solution.
Because good parking encourages car use, increased car use encourages wide, high-speed roads, and bike routes are impediments to the development of wide, high-speed roads.
The free market did a terrible job incentivizing disassembly... Can't count how many no-screw assemblies have triggered me.

The right-to-repair situation is a joke right now with automotive, consumer electronics, and appliances.
Sure they have, the pandemic was a huge, but temporary, issue.

Something more capital wouldn't necessarily have helped with either.
So sad because so true.

Seeing working technology replaced because someone doesn't like it, get accolades for it, only to face the same limitations as old tech is just depressing.
there are likely technologies that could mitigate the effects while we work on a solution. geoengineering could help reduce the temperature of the planet although that has its own problems.
That looks awful. Unfortunately you could probably write a very similair article about many other corporate or governmental websites. E.g, applying for an ESTA felt like registering for some kind of scam. Or the systems to let friends and family park for a reduced fee in many municipalities also seem to be designed by people who hate humanity in general.
Yeah I once helped with Salesforce integration and then I was summoned for every subsequent feature.
Having zero Salesforce experience I was fumbling around heavily but still got things done, which I can't say about a certified SF contractor which we leased for $200/hr.

I am never again showing any signs of Salesforce knowledge.
Most English publications refer to it as the "Cucuteni–Trypillia culture", apparently in reference to the fact that two distinct discoveries were made in different locations and later recognized as belonging to the same culture. Seems TFA is an outlier in preferring only the latter name. Of course, neither name accurately describes the actual neolithic culture at all.

(Wikipedia elides the ~5-10 year gap between publication of Cucuteni and publication of Trypillia... very possible the latter discovery was just Ukranian Vincenc Chvojka trying to "get in on the action" after hearing about Cucuteni.)
> The team also provided Sandoval with air purifiers, a special vacuum cleaner that can suck dust out of the air, hypoallergenic mattress covers, and a humidity sensor — goods that retail for hundreds of dollars. Within a few months, Jorge was breathing easier and was able to run and play outside.

Seems like healthcare to me. Kid is now healthy. Nobody would have questioned hundreds of dollars of inhalers or antihistamines to treat his condition. Nor a several thousand dollar hospital stay.
Is this website still actively being used? One of the items is for something that appears only 4 years old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0ci2860tpRU

Some interesting comments in the source:

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I dread to think what garbage that is. Is it Yahoo SiteBuilder? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zfRBcFb9I
Mozilla Firefox Adds Support for AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video
Same could be said of your comment to my submission, and hard work.
I donate platelets with the Red Cross every month and I've got an app where they give me the blood pressure and hemoglobin level, and which used to tell me if I had Covid-19 antibodies before everybody did via vaccine or infection.

Before I donate I have to sign something that says, among other things "We're going to test your blood for AIDS and tell you if you have it, so if you don't want to know don't donate". I hadn't thought about the other things they test for but of course they don't want blood with Leukemia in it either.
Pioneer.app's ML-powered startup discovery pipeline
Even if it was operator error some sort of public COE would help others avoid the pitfall by design, e.g. restricting the permissions of terraform so that it can only affect resources for the system and availability zone (or better still cell) under deployment, e.g. you're running a deployment to system X, you shouldn't be able to destroy your backup buckets. Essentially minimizing the blast radius of configuration operation. I guess you'd also want to one-box the terraform change after testing it in preprod ideally though a pipeline with monitoring. "The power to modify is the power to destroy." Finally I wonder if there is a some way say to terraform, don't delete more than x resources and start very slowly, and only delete leaf resources, not the top level resource.

At the end of the day terraform can have a bug. You really want to control blast radius with permissions. Makes me wonder if the GCP VMWare integration is a boundary that doesn't expose granular permissions.

If it was operator error with terraform that should set off alarm bells through the industry. Who else is one fat finger away from total annihilation.
Lifetime earnings simply can't keep up with the cost of degrees
Truckers can easily spend thousands a day on fuel. They’ll take it.
Am I the only one who...kinda likes https://arngren.net? It makes me feel like I'm looking around at a garage sale, and it's somewhat enjoyable.
In 2001, Sony released the I-mode adapter in Japan
In 2001, Sony released the i-mode adapter in Japan, allowing the PlayStation to connect to a mobile phone and access network services through the i-mode protocol. Although Sony had intentions to expand the service worldwide, it ultimately remained exclusive to Japan.
This is the imbecile's solution to people pasting in their passwords from a text file. Except some people paste them in from their password manager.

Also, the error he got when he tried to put in the password the first time is likely because there's a mismatch between what it claims the password rules are, and what they really are. He might have exceeded the maximum password size (yes, I know they're supposed to be salted in the backend, and maybe then even are, but you still run into this). Or it might be that he used disallowed punctuation (some sites seem to dislike anything other than question marks and the ones over the 1-2-3 keys... I've personally seen the percent sign and ampersand both cause problems.

If there were some little embedded xml file that my password manager could pull from the page automatically that would tell it what the rules are, then I wouldn't have to debug your shitty account creation systems, nameless developer drones out there working for big companies! Not that you care.
I actually feel for these people. They know the site is awful and have no way to improve it except to make a manual.
> Having these pretuned AND having a dedicated support team doing the tuning
Dedicated support team costs a lot more than you think. I guess you never had to deal with Oracle support. If you get hold of someone, all they will do it point to the documentation.

All software products have documentation on how to install the product. Oracle has a large suite of products, their databases, ERPs, etc. For kernel parameters, its just a file, which takes a second
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...

In reality though, all Infra teams, have infrastructure to install OS (and manage the fleet), then post-install customize the OS to which team is requesting, usually done via puppet or ansible to manage the configuration. There will be standardized configuration for application, web, database (just to keep it simple).

I would be shocked if Oracle support (or any other vendor) is given login access to make changes on servers owned by clients. At best, you open a case, you get an incompetent support person who'll send you documentation.

Oracle support does not replace admins. Oracle support gives you access to bug fixes, updates, documentation. I believe you can download most Oracle software for free, but without the docs and updates, its worthless. Other vendors may use the opposite strategy, docs openly available but software downloads are paid/subscriptions.

> Spending $500k/yr on compute+support SLA is cheaper than $200k/yr on compute and hiring 3 admins dedicated to that piece of compute.

In reality though, there will always be admins, then a whole lot DevOps/Cloud Ops/Kubernetes/SRE/etc people added, smooth talking manager/director increasing the spend from what could be done on bare-metal under 20K to a 20 million dollar multi cloud strategy. Why have 3 admins report to you, when you can have an army of 200 people do the same work for 100x more cost? Success stories and promotions all around!
Former Diversity Program Manager at Facebook Sentenced for $5M Fraud
There is no slander here because there is no expectation that those are the actual people doing it.
Historical precedent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK01HhyOGA
I think people underestimate many illegal drugs because they don’t know long term users.

Alcohol and Tobacco have minimal short term health risks. Most people throw up rather than OD on Alcohol. Obviously driving while fucked us is dangerous, but the same is true of a lot of drugs. Driving stoned is an underappreciated risk.

LSD arguably the poster child for safe illegal drugs, but still physically risky due to people doing dangerous things in it and falling etc. However the mental risks with heavy use are significant much earlier. Luckily it’s not particularly addictive, but IMO it’s more dangerous than both Alcohol and Tobacco even as people claim otherwise.

Tobacco is seriously deadly long term, but the risks are low for the first 20 years. When you include risks from throwing up while unconscious etc, heavy use of many seemingly safe drugs end up risky on those timescales.
Workers can get to work without needing cars. Buses and trains exist. The reason why they don't in many cities is because people in the 40s and 50s collectively decided that cars are better, entire cities were designed around them, and designing cities for cars complicates public transportation planning.
OK, so you had to watch a little more than ten seconds.

There's no doubt that some diagnostic tests - like getting a full-body MRI as a precaution - may do more harm than good. Your apparent mistake is thinking that means all diagnostic tests probaby do.

We'll have to figure out which one this is; it's a start of that process. We've demonstrated we can do it; now we have to figure out if we can distinguish between "big bad scary" cancer and "whatever it won't kill you" cancer.
Combining semantic symbols is behavior we have evidence of in other species, but without evidence of structure impacting the relationships between the meanings we still don't have sytax. That seems like a good candidate for where we might find syntax given the apparent semantic richness, but we still have a lot of work to do deciphering prairie dog communication before we can make a scientific claim one way or the other about if it is language.
How we are using OpenAI/LLMs to build no-code financial models
NO ONE would trust an LLM to run long term, complex financial calculations for them. But what if you could hook up the power of a ChatGPT-like interface to ingest, infer and format all of your data - the system asks you questions (prompting you for information and "filling in the blanks") and then we automatically build the step-by-step model for you?
Freedom of travel is a fundamental right, yes, but that doesn't mean that using a particular conveyance is. For instance, driving is not a fundamental right at all and traveling by air is restricted in a number of different ways. Neither of those things run afoul of constitutional guarantees.
That prediction was just too easy [0], and it has now been finally admitted.

Time to them to dump their shares on the community.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28773122
This is also bullshitty, just in a different way.
Right... With precision...

Furthermore... big mountains are easier to weigh v small individual atoms? I think it's a little more complicated than big is easy to measure...

I care little about the precision... I've got other priorities. It's the same as the time the internet saves me... Big. It's obvious.

I stand by my statement. It's hard to measure...
SBC: single board computer
The Raspberry Pi is the best if you can find it at MSRP, but I haven't seen that for many years now. You can only find it for at least double and at that price it's not worth it.

There are many alternatives that, granted, don't have a community as big as RPi, but are perfectly valid and can be found at a normal price.
No: A 20W tire is a 20W tire at 18 mph. At 10 mph, it's roughly a 10W tire (rolling resistance should be mostly linear at these speeds). Going from 20W to 10W tires therefore only saves you 10W total at those speeds.

At 120W, you are idle pedalling. You do not really pedal lighter, so saving a few watts mean an increase in speed, but as both rolling resistance and aerodynamic drag goes up with speed the gain becomes small.

At normal climbs - the time where you'd wish pedalling was easier - you're either 1. spend in the area of 200-300W maintaining the same speed without increasing rolling resistance, making rolling resistance a smaller part of the load, or 2. drop to a granny gear, going very slow to maintain your 120W and thus making the rolling resistance negligible with any tire. In either case, rolling resistance matters much less in climbs.
Any Dolphin progress report will be full of these one-off quirks with an exhaustive deep-dive on how the issue was diagnosed and solved.

Setting aside the part about purists finding it unacceptable, I appreciate the tenacity of the devs that find these problems worth solving.
Honestly this quote is one of Chuck Palahniuk's best dialogues. Recommend checking out his other work like 'Rant.'
At 6:30 it's about a specific test for thyroid cancer, which as discussed in my second paragraph, was not found to actually improve outcomes for that specific type of cancer, not cancer in general.

However, early detection is responsible for greatly improving outcomes in many specific cancers. Full body MRI is not the test to achieve that. GRAIL's gallery test might be one to do it for many classes of cancer, but that still remains to be fully seen.

The general of idea of early detection is still an extremely promising one for most types of cancer, and in particular for some of the deadliest, like ovarian and pancreatic cancer.
Agreed, I recall a short time some arm of my company used workday learning for training courses. To do a course, you had to add it to a shopping cart for some reason, then "check out", which opens a popup. If you somehow managed to complete the course, the popup would just close with no indication that the course was actually done.
It is remarkable how dramatically smoking was intentionally removed from even period movies, and in some cases edited out of old content.

Perhaps silence works better than negative mention? There's a real problem with anti-war or anti-violence media accidentally making it look cool, similarly with biographies of "troubled star" types detailing their drug uses.
Also not really suited for Plex, since the transcode performance would be awful.
I wonder if the value of life for those whistleblowers no longer around is the same...
I saw this when it came out, and as someone that doesn't follow the ROM hacking scene, I'm wondering - why did this approach take so long to come up with? Translating the assembly instructions to C and then recompiling them seems like an obvious method to try early on, but I'm wondering if there was some other breakthrough that made this possible in a way it wasn't before?
Sure! You need a `type` field (or something like it) in TS.

You don't need that in a language like F# -- the discrimation occurs strictly in virtue of your union definition. That's what I meant by "native support."
In for a comment on the premise that led to this article:

Broadcom didn't make vmware desktop apps free because they want you to use them; they made them free because they don't want to sell or support them anymore. They only still exist because they have to ride out existing commercial support agreements and customers need the software while they transition their workflows.

Do not use Workstation or Fusion anymore; these products are dead-ended.