skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused why this has AT as countrycode, but then saw "geek_at". I miss geeq.at
It's been far too long since I've made a regular practice of meditation - thank _you_ for the reminder.
Does this account for the fact that violence and murder committed by strangers is less likely to be solved?
WSJ would be banned without an anti pay wall link
From the opt-out link:

> If you are a California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Utah resident, you have the right to request that we delete personal information that we collect about you, subject to certain exceptions.

I think it's time to require this on a national level. This is getting ridiculous.
Says who? Even the aspiring indie filmmaker wants limited liability not unlimited liability.
A luminary icon much like Frank Zappa's Sheikh Yerbouti.
Tolkien, the catholic anarchist, made his utopian village into something feudal with a 'landed gentry'?

I suspect this person is reading things into these simulations of folklore that are unlikely to have a foundation in the author.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/j-r-r-tolkien-from-a...
Couldn't agree more. In the SMEs that I've been involved with, this has had a huge chilling effect on both hiring and innovation. I think that the change is a primary contributing factor to the layoffs and offshoring that have seized the market ever since.

I'm not convinced that this wasn't the intent of the change in the first place.
> This country is built on the idea of rugged individualism, ingenuity, and grit.

> It’s also built on the idea of equal opportunity

Anybody else get “out of touch” vibes from this post?
>The implication in both books and movies is that most Hobbits spent their time either farming or enjoying leisure time, but this makes little sense, when one considers what we know about premodern agriculture and what little of life and culture in the Shire.

That's not even wrong. Medieval peasants in certain places like Italy had like half the year off as public holidays. And those of us old and rural enough to have seen pre-modern life in rural villages, known there was still a lot of leisure time going around. As for domestic chores, those were a couple of hours at max, intermingled with other work and leisure - and having the grandparents living close by meant more hands for helping with cooking, kids, and so on.

In those villages there was (and still is, a little less so, but compared to modern city life orders of magnitude more) leisure time, people hang in the public square and cafes for hours on end, and it's not that different today. People from the city are often surprised like "wtf, is anybody working here?".
Nah. CSDs are great and don't waste space.
> what percentage of planetary warming is due to direct heating from energy consumption, vs. greenhouse gas effects vs. natural causes

Humans produce 20 TW of power [1]. (15 if we remove solar, wind and hydro.) The Sun delivers, to the Earth, 44,000 TW [2].

So raising the amount of the Sun's energy the earth retains by 454 parts in a million (329 if we remove solar, wind and hydro) adds to the Earth the energy of our entire civilisation. That is why emissions are the problem. Not our direct heat production.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/135642main_b...
Becoming any Android app via Zygote command injection
I think this is the future also.

But makes me think about how things like social media were supposed to lead to various positive outcomes that they certainly haven't.
flox is the best thing I know of for articulating binary dependencies (language runtimes, etc.), which is probably the sweet spot for nix anyways at the moment (i.e. as opposed to trying to build everything "With the One [Tool] to [Replace] Them All"). flox uses nix for its backend, but has a simple TOML syntax and is properly humble about what it can do -- but killer at it -- as opposed to promising the world.

https://flox.dev
In the Hobbit movie, Smaug's gold hoard was so vast that if it actually went into circulation, gold would be cheaper than iron. The citizens would be making roof tiles and plumbing out of it.

(Although iron ore is plentiful, it is expensive to refine and smelt.)

Even the relatively few Spanish gold ships hauling gold to the Old World resulted in massive inflation, not wealth.
I didn’t even get to that point, I got that when Tan referred to himself as a representative of “little tech”
Yes it could be like learning how to use google to get information, or to learn the logic to solve something. I think the main under hyped aspect of AI currently is how useful it can be integrated with whole bunch of regular programming code and UI/UX to implement parts of functionality that can't be programmed explicitly. Like even if gpt4 is the last AI model, if it keeps getting cheaper and faster, the amount of cool features that can be with with some code and a few API calls in parallel or in sequence will add a lot of nice features to all the apps people interact with everyday.

Like my Dad uses multiple apps to get the information he wants for all the sports games that happen during the week, and no app is perfect. If he could prompt something to make a UI with the relevant info he wants displayed like he wants, he would be so much happier. It's little things like that that will make software way more customized and useful for people.

I think there's a lot of hype on AGI and they'll be more, but just as another tool in the programmer's toolbox, LLMs will allow better product to be developed (if people learn how to prompt and think with LLMs in mind vs dismissing all of it when they see a mistake)..
While I agree toward the harm it's done, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a Supreme Court ruling; you can't "repeal" those. It must either be reversed/overturned by the Supreme Court or a constitutional amendment be made by the states. Those are both extremely hard and rare.
The article sounds more like Gnome has learned from their mistakes and makes Gtk4 more general purpose with the Gnome specific bits contained in libadwaita
"A type of speaking that rhymes with purse-- curse, of course."

I was actually thinking "verse" :-\
A standard CS master student's understanding of algorithms is very very bad. I wasn't necessarily any better at the time either; so I think ability to learn is more important than knowing algorithms fresh out of school.

The level of algorithm skills I deal with in code reviews is to correct and explain the redundance of statements like

bool variable = true...

if (variable == true) ...

So I don't dare expect a deep understanding of O notation and algorithm efficiency.
> As witnessed in Ukraine, tanks are toast, fighter planes are of relatively limited utility in contested airspace, and surface navy is a dinosaur

None of those are witnessed in Ukraine.

Tanks are only useless if you use them in roles most armchair strategists wouldn't be stupid enough to use them for, much less a proper military strategist. Ukraine is using tanks to great effect today - as are the few competent commanders Russia has. (though with drones tanks are not as useful as in the past they are still useful).

Ukraine is asking for more fighters for a reason - they believe that if they had greater numbers they could contest airspace and win. Fighters are useless in small numbers is a good lesson to draw, but that doesn't say anything about larger numbers.

Surface navy hasn't been fighting in Ukraine at all. We cannot draw any lessons from this conflict. Sure they are vulnerable to drones - but there are also protections that could be applied. You should perhaps look to the red sea where the US navy is fighting and shooting down drones with reasonable success.

Ukraine/Russia is one war. While there are a lot of lessons to learn there, do not draw the wrong ones. Militaries around the world constantly make the mistake of preparing for the last war. The next war (whatever it is!) will be different, and taking a lesson out context will lose the war for your side.
9 women can produces babies 9x faster than one woman can
Looks like a NY Times article detailed they were hosting awful stuff. They then implemented a verification system. Not sure about the activists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55304115
> KDE did the work to make GTK apps integrate as much as possible but I think GNOME did zero work to integrate Qt or KDE apps and they tried sabotaging everyone else by removing the Tray or the server decoration.

Sure it's nice I guess if they have their own theme for GTK apps, but if their own QT Kirigami apps look like this[1] on other desktop they should probably focus more on that than on apps not made with their UI framework.

> What I want from this apps is to use same Open File Dialogs

From what I remember it uses the xdg-portal for opening the file dialog, so either this has been fixed a while ago or the portal was misconfigured to use the GTK dialog (on the DE side).

> Also I remember GNOME guys claiming that you do not need thumbnails in the File Picker, that you are doing it wrong and the reality was that it was not easy to add the feature so they preferred to push that excuse that you are doing it wrong.

All I remember is that there were multiple times over the years when patches were sent and when changes were requested each time the submitter just vanished but I might be misremembering.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/dolphin-on-PUvU0ze
Looks like this is a step towards Google DRMing the internet.

This is bad.
Thanks for sharing the explanations, and hey it's open source so someone can make a linux version if they want!
I lost all interest in Harry Potter when he was hanging outside a window, helpless. Then, his buddy appears with a flying car to rescue him.

I'm not interested in such lazy writing.
Maybe it is like trying to make more babies using more women, which absolutely works.
Actual paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239642...
I've worked on big, custom gantry machines like a CMS Poseidon that were in the low 8 figures. It was purpose-built for milling and inspecting composite nose cones and rotor blades for military aircraft.

Anything with "inspecting" or "composite" or "military" or "aircraft" doubles the price, so you can imagine what happens when you combine all four!
Yeah, that was where I got off the PR train, too.
Ok so you admit that social distancing and masks help reduce the spread of covid-19. That’s great to hear.

What do you and Jim expect to learn from a scientific study? That 12 feet is better than 6 feet?

I’d like to hear from each of you what you hope to learn, and why you think it would have been worth intentionally infecting people with covid-19, as that’s what would be required for a conclusive scientific study.
>their weak solution can easily cost the company and its other engineers far more than it would have cost to interview engineers properly and compensate the fewer qualified engineers commensurately.

Anything that supports this? Because I don't believe it at all

The only thing that I can think of that could cost company a lot is data corruption / database being destroyed

Unless it is very specific case like HFT
> Also, you cannot expect a user to operate a vertical touch screen for many hours. Our human upper body isn't built for this

Indeed. Back in the days when people thought light pens were cool[1], "gorilla arm" was a common term for the way your body felt after using one for a while. I doubt it matters much whether you're using a pen or your finger, in terms of the fatigue that develops.

Ha! Just checked, and "gorilla arm" is still apparently in use.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31480/gorilla-arm

[1] Edit: Some say that what really killed off light pens was company lawyers freaking out over the idea of Junior using a pointy stick on a fragile glass CRT with vacuum inside. Definitely something that could go wrong in a big way.
https://github.com/gdamdam/iagitup
100% agreed, I would much rather have things just hammer the browser and be trivially correct. Far easier to debug and layer in a cache if needed when you know your specific case, rather than trying to debug a flawed cache.
We’re using a FastAPI stack, plus or minus Mangum, to selectively deploy to Fargate or Lambda depending on the workload requirements. Deploy using Terraform, ECS tasks just expose the local uwsgi and Lambda/Mangum just wraps the app entry point. It’s simple and lets us keep the codebases/libraries consistent.
That's not the same as conspiracy, though. People and institutions are fleecing apes left, right, and centre because they refuse to learn how the market works.

Anyway, in 2022 a dude called RC rugpulled the Bed, Bath, and Beyond apes to the tune of $68 million. The smarter apes rage-quit, the dumber ones deny he sold and scour RC's really bad self-written children's books for clues to his next "moves". Bed Bath has since gone bankrupt but the remaining apes still believe they're going to make millions. RC has since gone on to become the CEO of Gamestop.

That's a very quick summary that leaves out A LOT of craziness in ape-land.
Yes, the author has made a category error.
> it can't be correct

You are making a good point and I feel like I understand the basis of the original article's definition of straight as well as its basis for that definition. However, it does not seem to fully define the frame. If it had disambiguated the underlying terminology and assumptions, I'd maybe think some of the definitions unintuitive but ceded their right to define.

The way I would regard my interpretation to be valid is to take the sphere and slice it at the current line of latitude. That seems like a historic if not reasonable interpretation of "exactly due East". Then for further visualization, consider a cylinder that is perpendicular to and centered on the edge of the flat surface. If you cut the cylinder at the starting point and unrolled it, the resulting path to the other end would be a 2D ray. Traveling the center of that cylinder along the ray seems like a way to go "exactly due East". As a bonus, the tradition of following a compass would take you on the same path. Given the ambiguity and what I think are reasonable interpretations of some of the terms, I believe that this is a reasonably reachable result that can be called valid and/or correct.

The challenge here is the underdefinition of and opportunity to attach different semantics to the words in use.
There are other factors contributing to it, absolutely. I'm not disputing that.

What do you think are the main factors for highest % of men not being sexually active (compared to historically), highest % of people living alone (in US).
While I wholly agree with your prioritization - in fairness it is not impossible to take pragmatic helpful actions _while also_ ruminating on whether they are philosophically watertight.
Allen is probably the leading economic historian of the Industrial Revolution. Reading someone want to dismiss his book because someone used the same painting on their book cover later is probably the most HN comment I've ever seen.
> Will use it in violation of international law?

Checks notes: ....Uyghur camps...Hong Kong...takes whole South China Sea...

Yeap, my notes say it will.
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The reason that there is no discussion of the economics of the Shire in LOTR is because it’s not relevant to the story and the land and the people are all fictional. It doesn’t have to work.

Tolkien was setting up a dichotomy between the idyllic, paradise-like shire where everyone lives in harmony with nature and has lots of leisure time and no one wants of necessities and everyone gets along , etc, is to set up a counterpoint vs industrialization and ugliness and capitalism etc. it’s just a big old trope. Just like sets in a play, it’s two-dimensional. It’s also a backdrop setting up an “innocence lost” storyline for the protagonists.

The bottom line is that it’s a utopia and utopias only exist in stories; real people are fallible and have many motivations, some of which are not noble, and so such a place can’t exist.
Could this be tied to Google's push to force everyone to use Manifest 3, and nerf Add Blockers?
I missed the beginning of the story. Why and when does grokking occur? It seems to be a case of reaching a new basin, casting doubt on the shallow basin hypothesis in over-parameterized neural networks? The last I checked all the extrema in such models were supposed to be good, and easy to reach?
>One of my issues with distributivism is I'm not sure if we'd have the technological advancements under such a system

I'd take the simpler life, social harmony, leisure, equality and the rest, over the rat race with its technological advancements.
> the vast majority of relationships aren’t actually healthy in this way

The vast majority? I'd love to see data backing that claim up.
Sorry. Copy'n'paste crap. But it should be obvious, and from the linked article clear, that it should be 3.21*10E-11.
Yeah, I remember a time when it was easier/cheaper to drive somewhere to pick up a burned CD/DVD than to download it :)
What about prioritizing paying the people who made the content these models are using without consent?
Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence
Everyone into the Grinder
You aren’t a serious person.
Caring about privacy puts you on a list. It's like responding to spam asking to be taken off the mailing list; you're just verifying that you're someone they should be paying attention to.
In The Lord of the Rings and the published Silmarillion that's correct. But in some of the later drafts Tolkien wrote he moved away from that towards a story where the world had always been a sphere (often called the "roundworld" versions), seemingly in an attempt to add more realism to the story.

The "flat world made round" was recast as a somewhat primitive Mannish myth (as a way to recon the earlier writings).
Huge win for oil drillers and large scale pig farmers
Drilling and tunnelling is a huge industry with tons of markets.

If Elon was the one to do this, tech bros and investors would be all over it with ad-hoc rationalisations ("this is the tech we need to build a mars colony!"). Instead he used his "boring company" to kill public transportation, and you are here dismissing Quaise Energy - people who actually have put up the work to try something groundbreaking (literally) and whose future is not assured yet.
Well I definitely feel better running my meetup, I thought it was a failure, but would get 6 people on a bad meet and up to 40 on a good day. I ran it out of my own pocket, getting space was a pain. Most companies wanted to come sell their product, at best they will volunteer to buy pizza & soda, sometimes they didn't. After covid, I couldn't find anyone to take over and I let it lapse. I want to start one, but not sure I have the mental energy to devote to it.
My parents used to put me in after school education programs where they crammed memorization and "finding the trick" type problems. I'm not knocking that sort of thing, because it gave me a pretty solid problem solving kit, but most of this stuff is not at all relevant to any SWE job I've held. However, most people who are in tech companies are like me and are familiar with trick questions and memorization. So, that's how they test other people.

I think its useful to find the rare candidate who is both strong at algorithms and problem solving in general while being able to explain and talk like a professional.

Most of the time you get some "rock-wall" type who can crank out LeetCode but is awful to actually work with, or you get someone who is "toxic positive" and also awful to work with because they suck at the actual work.

So again, just gotta optimize for the sort of team you want to build. And most jobs where they ask these type of questions are offering high TC, so its not exactly unfair.

Like I mentioned elsewhere, I've worked at a company where people asked LC type questions and I chose to ask more domain related questions where I mixed in the algorithmic challenges. One thing I noticed is that we'd usually ask 2 questions each round so when ppl asked LC questions usually either the candidate failed quickly by getting KO'd at the 1st question, or they answered both flawlessly. Isn't that kind of concerning? So I'd start with the LC and then ask my domain focused algorithmic question, and notice that usually I'd get the KO/nerd on 1st question, but people might struggle on 2nd question I asked.

So idk. Long story short I prefer to work with people who can think and aren't rock-wall types.
Handle proposing a new language or framework the same as any other proposal: figure out the benefits and drawbacks, and decide if the former outweigh the latter.

Adding a new language or framework to an existing organization has big drawbacks: it requires developers to learn it, adds complexity overhead, and if the project using it integrates with any other projects, well, integration between most languages and frameworks isn't very good. If the organization is already using several languages and frameworks, presumably they cover a wide-range of use-cases, so they're less likely to encounter a new use-case that only a new language or framework solves.

But I'd strongly suggest not to implement a fixed "company will use N languages and M frameworks max", because it depends on the situation. It's similar to enforcing strict coding conventions (e.g. "variable names should be between N and M characters", "functions should be under N LOC", etc.). Sometimes there is a good reason to write unconventional code, and similarly, sometimes there is a good reason to add a new language, no matter how high the number of already-used languages is.
> It's empty because they won't attack Taiwan

Can you elaborate?
Generally speaking, N95s fit better than KN95s, because earloops aren't allowed in the N95 standard, and headbands provide more tension so there's a better face seal. This study only evaluated one brand of N95, but there are many other people that have tested various respirators with generally the same conclusions.
Two main reasons for recognizing the photons:
They have a specific frequency, 8.3GHz in this example. It's like tuning an FM radio to a station.
The photons are coming from a specific direction.

As to how they are decoded, you'll need to understand some modulation techniques.
How has this American data broker got my data when I am a British citizen? Wtf?
You can also still buy tokens/yottacash... they'll take your money but there's no way to cash out.

This is being caused by the Synapse/Evolve dispute
Show HN: WhoIsHiring filterable by tags and live text search
I recently created a little open-source webapp to help searching for a job on hackernews. It allows for filtering based on multiple tags, live text search and allows to create your own regex filter. Dark mode works fine as well now. Have a look at:

https://grburst.github.io/hnjobs

Note that there are a few limitations like only current month is shown and little optimization, but it was already a great help for me, so I am sharing it with you.
I will continue to improve it, because it is a fun experience and I am trying out new frameworks I haven't worked with before as well. As always: All feedback is welcome :-)

Enjoy