skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump was the one who killed GOP efforts to privatize Social Security and cut benefits.

Oh? From March 2024: "(CNN) - Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested he was open to making cuts to Social Security and Medicare after opposing touching the entitlement programs and attacking his GOP presidential primary rivals over the issue."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/trump-entitlements-s...
Most companies don't offer options. If you work for the rare one that does (generally a startup) it might be - but you better watch the books: most of them are not worth much if anything.

Never put your savings into the stock of the company you work for. If (as happens) the company goes bankrupt you can be out of a job and all your savings at the same time. The only exception is if you have reason to believe you will be CXX - at that level (or one below in some cases) your stock owners is published to shareholders and they look for high levels to show you have your personal wealth on the line for the company - and you also have enough power to do something about it. (most of us don't have enough power for anyone to care what we think). Stock options are the same as any other stock: don't put your net worth into it.

I have long ago learned that until the money is in my bank account it isn't mine. Sometimes the promised $$$ arrives, sometimes it does not. But always I want to see the money.
> From following the course curriculum, it'd be natural, however, to define a key for the Restaurants table as the combination of restaurantName, cityName, and year. The assumption is that name and city uniquely identifies a restaurant.

That's a strange assumption.
Try Mailshake it sends personalized emails, schedules automatic follow-ups, and tracks opens and replies.
You could buy an explosive gas detector:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=explosive+gas+detector

I am not sure how sensitive each model is.
I think it's absolutely fair to count games that are able to run in Linux with Proton via DXVK + Vulcan. Since it's well established and relatively popular thanks to Valve's efforts with the Steam Deck and Proton.

Given those efforts, if Apple/Mac had support for Vulkan, Valve would probably make it all just as available on Mac as they do on Linux for Proton.
The highest paid people are often the ones with the highest tenure. Have seen many people at a company over ten years, making 1-2M a year, head and shoulders above their levels comp bands. If you cant get promoted, then you have to job hop. But at some point, its really that you just arent that valuable.
Is there a good substitute for cling wrap?

I mostly store food in reusable containers. And I try to use foil as much as possible. But some things are irregularly shaped and need a tight seal, and I’ve struggled to find a good alternative.
Function pointers are not the problem. Returning function pointers is the problem.

And the problem is that we don't know if the caller will run that code or not, but if they do, that code is not in the subprogram anymore.

You can pass function pointers to callees, no problem.
The only exception is people that know the consequences on their every-day life.
There is volatility due to the buyer changing the terms of deal (including ending the deal), and there is also volatility due to the seller choosing to sell to different buyers, such as working in a different location or getting along with new colleagues, etc.

The former is not controllable from the perspective of a labor seller, but the latter is. Whether or not the tradeoff is worth it is dependent on the seller and always in flux.

I would say the tradeoff is usually not worth it.
Strategy 1: Stay for four years and vest your entire initial grant. Strategy 2: Stay 1-2 years and vest 25%-50% of your initial grant, and repeat 3x-1x.

If all the companies you work for have similar likelihood of doing exceptionally well, you've paid 4 years and gotten either one lottery ticket worth X (strategy 1) or 2-4 lottery tickets each worth 50%-25% of X. When you don't already have "enough" money, 25% of X is still life-changing, and if you can get 2-4 shots at it instead of 1, that can be a very workable strategy.
(Of the two links, I get a 404 and a blank...)
* Assuming the comments came from Israelis/Jews.
All the left and right-wing channels are infiltrated with Iranian agents(plenty of news on that topic in Haaretz/Walla). They are causing rift and radicalization in society.

That's a solvable tech problem to shut it down. Unfortunately, it's not a priority on a state level because everyone is doing it.
I'm honestly surprised AI-washing hasn't become way more widespread then it is at this point.

I mean recording a good song is hard. Generating a good song almost impossible. But my gut feeling would've been that recreating a popular song for plausible deniability would be a lot easier.

Same with republishing bestselling books and related media. (I.e. take Lord of the rings and feed it paragraph for paragraph into an LLM that you've prompted to rephrase each to a currently bestselling author.)
So the hiring bump was going up faster than inflation? So after 2-4 years a new hire at the same level would be making almost at least 50% more than you...
That's a good point about MySQL. PostgreSQL wasn't quite ready for primetime at that time, and Oracle and MSSQL aren't free. That left MySQL to fill the gap, but it's not really built for this style of development.
Slightly larger reusable containers?

There are also plenty of varieties of reusable ziploc-style bag out there, including ones in jumbo sizes.
Just because people say that doesn't mean they'll actually want it in practice.

As well, asking people how important they think something is may not equate to their support for sweeping legislation.
I’m someone that wouldn’t mind seeing single use plastics go the way of the dodo bird but 1) you should never trust issue polling even within a single country and 2) given that, I would trust it even less when the polling is “global”.
Although tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other stochastic parrots are useful in specific contexts, AI still has nothing of "I"; on the contrary, what they really do is generate text that makes sense (grammatical text, as opposed to ungrammatical texts), which was already possible with Prolog in 2011.

If you think LLMs are no more capable than Prolog, I'm not sure if you'll ever be impressed by anything.
I have Crohn 's disease and it's never occurred to me to fault my parents. It is a genetic disease, and I can only hope that the doctors you've worked with have helped you to understand the basics so you can educate yourself and help your son.

There's been a lot of really encouraging progress in the 15+ years since my diagnosis, but there are still a lot of unknowns. I got very little support in the dietary side of things other than the infamous elimination diet approach. It took a while for me to dial it in, but I did and am very rarely sick these days, now that I've discovered my own food sensitivities.

As much as you may want to solve this problem for him, it will take an immense amount of maturity on his part to want to discover and understand his limitations and to create and stick to a sustainable lifestyle.
Sure, until they realise how much this would cost, then you’ll rather quickly see that number go down
Like others I ran this through gpt-4o and it fails at reasoning because it does not realize Alice is a sister. In fact in one explanation it defines the siblings as: M brothers, N sisters, 1 Alice (!!)

I asked gpt “Is Alice a sister?” It answered yes and then answered the problem correctly
Correct, there is some additional value from the upside that mortgage holders may need pay in full to terminate.

However, this upside should be priced into the Mortgage price on the secondary market as well.

there are other factors as well, like holders of mortgages may care about much more than their market value. They are balancing time returns, risks, and their portfolio of investments.
Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused, several dozen if not hundreds of times, to be ecological. How many times have you used your last one?
There are beeswax based resuable clingwrap alternatives although I haven't tried them myself
Beeswax wrap for things that don’t need a tight seal. Most things should just go into a container that has a proper lid. IMO you save fridge space that way because now things stack.
They mentioned “average” vs best employee, and the raises each can expect.

So that at least seems to imply that they adjust for that. Specially the line where you can get a 1% raise or a 10% new offer.
The algorithm is public

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
This would highly depend on the strength of the market, right? Seems like a weaker market now
Not in communist countries though.
Silicone stretch lids and bees wax wraps. Wrap foil around it for added protection, and re-use it since it won't get dirty. I sometimes use small plastic bags I already have lying around for the last part.
Nvidia is obviously an exception. That’s like saying working at startups will lead to higher monetary rewards because “look at early Facebook employees”, whereas your expected pay after 4 years at a startup is almost always lower than if you just worked at a medium to large company that’s public. (See https://levels.fyi)
It takes more lines of code to draw a triangle in the screen with Vulkan than it takes to write a Gameboy emulator that can play Pokemon Blue. Vulkan is a modern stack, Gameboy isn't.
Oh shit I'm sorry I am so wrong. I had calculated falcon 9. Thank you for the correction
Optimizing the Shopify Contact Us Page
You need to buy a new mac so you can pay $200 per 256gb of storage.
I too think oranges are more capable than apples
Yeah I'm surprised that people are still surprised by this. It is a pretty well known practice at large companies.

If you have been at a company for a few years getting promos and stock refreshers is always a struggle due to limited budgets and internal politics. On the other hand if you "boomerang" (quit and come back after a year or so) you will automatically get a higher title and a fresh new hire stock grant.
>> Alyssa wrote an entire compliant driver on a non-native operating system running on locked-down hardware in one month flat.

Well if it makes you feel any better, remember that she has spent a few years doing very in-depth work on other graphics drivers for this hardware so she knows the hardware, shader compilers, etc inside and out. There is also a full test suite for Vulkan and existing driver code for other hardware to start from. Nevertheless, you're still seeing a great programmer at the top of their game :-)
vacuum containers
I'm glad everything went ok.
Needs a way to pause or disable auto-play.
Third-country imports apply pressure amidst German aluminium production decline
I'll admit I was a little skeptical of plastic bag bans here in Canada, but it's had a noticeable effect on how much random garbage ends up stuck in hedges and fences where I live. Adapting to it wasn't too bad and good reusable bags are a lot more ergonomic and don't tear as easily when carrying heavy loads.
pgTAP is pretty good for PostgreSQL, but I don't know what if any options are available for other databases.

https://pgtap.org/
The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC
What makes you say that? I support a ban and I totally understand that it will involve some pain until we adjust. Why would you believe others don't understand this?
> Warm arpeggios on an analog synthesizer with a gradually rising filter cutoff and a reverb tail

I appreciate that the underlying tech is completely different and much more powerful, but it is a pretty strange feeling to find a major AI lab's example sounding so similar to an actual Markov chain MIDI generator I made 14-15 years ago: https://youtu.be/depj8C21YHg?si=74a4DHP14EFCeYrB

(Not that similar, just enough for me to go "huh, what a coincidence").
Stop suppressing wages and quit.
Yes yes instead of single use bags at the store I now get more durable plastic bags that I throw away after using once. Well done.
I guess it’s OK. The biggest problem are store-bought products. The once in a while use of very thin cling film used when preparing food is minuscule in comparison.
https://archive.ph/WjNuU
A ban like that sounds good. But what would replace those plastics? For the take-out food containers a common alternative is PFAS-treated paper. Is it much better for the health environment?
My guess, and this is only a guess, is that someone will cherry pick data to skew the results their way.
"It's the latest hype bubble now that Cryptocurrencies are no longer the freshest sucker-bait in town"

Strong statement when Bitcoin is sitting at around all-time highs and ETFs are pulling in almost a billion a day.
This does make the "chicken big mac" they sold as a temporary item in Ireland (and I assume elsewhere) last year and earlier this year make a lot more sense.
Have you tried using act for that? https://github.com/nektos/act
Has saved me a bunch of CI debug pain.
No programmer ever work from zero. If you see the header files for the new drivers, most of them have multiple copyright information. The files themselves were "stolen" from other good drivers to reduce the amount of code that has to be rewriten and the potential bugs that could be avoided by simply reusing.
Isn’t this an equilibrium of sorts, those who trade stability and familiarity for slow growth? Those who can jump ship can and do and those who aren’t don’t.
They didn't have a technical reason to be that late, but they probably had a marketing reason -- and I don't mean "they made money by licensing Lightning." (They did, obviously, but I don't think it was raking in big bucks, at least not Apple standards.)

When the iPhone switched to Lightning from the clunky 34-pin iPod connector, a whole lot of people got pissed off with Apple and stayed pissed off with them for years. Literally years. People were convinced Apple did it just to sell more cables. So if you're Apple, and you know the history of the last time you forced everyone to buy new cables, and now you have orders of magnitude more people using your phone…you probably put this off as absolutely long as possible.

Would they have gotten there without pressure from the EU? Honestly, I think so -- I used to agree with you, but when the iPad Air, not just the Pro, went to USB-C, I changed my mind.
Protection from the elements is only needed in some places. If humans simply lived in the savannah and abandoned useless technologies like shelter and agriculture, we'd all be better off.

Frankly I don't see the point of shelter. What, so we're going to live in the inhospitable environment of Europe? What would be the point? We should focus on preserving and maintaining our current home.
Yes, that's how it's implemented in the EU directive at least.
I've considered a Chromebook at work where the real coding and builds are being done over SSH on a headless Linux machine anyway, but the fuss involved for just a basic shell and SSH were enough to turn me away. So I can't imagine using one for local development too, data mining aside. I know some people use it and it works with the right workarounds, but why bother.

Also idk why there's nothing as good as the Mac iTerm2 for Linux.
> Almost always people use that word to imply something clandestine, misleading, or both.

No, propaganda is often quite blatant. Look at the posters from both of the World Wars, depicting US enemies as vicious, inhuman monsters.

Even the “Rosie the Riveter” and Uncle Sam imagery is propaganda.

Propaganda can be any sort of one-sided media used to manipulate public opinion. It doesn’t necessarily have to be banned, but people need to learn more media literacy to recognize it.
I'm quite sure that's because your taste has improved. It says much more about you than it does about McD's.
Doing this will involve a dramatic reshaping of how society works.

All of the food packaging that is plastic needs to go away. This would entail large shifts in supply chains, how we buy groceries, and economics of scale for certain goods. We know it is possible (glass bottles were the norm even just 30 years ago), but doing that transition now will be huge.

Then there are all the plastic bags that food comes in. From cookie sleeves to protein bars, all those plastics need to go away. How products are made shelf stable will need to change, which means flavors will change, and some products may no longer be viable.

I hope we make the change as a society, but it will be absurdly complicated to do.

Edit: I'd love if the restaurant industry had standardized reusable takeout container sizes that could be washed and handed back to a restaurant for (sterilization and then) reuse! It would not only improve the quality of takeout food (better insulation), but be more environmentally friendly.
Do employees suffer from having too many jumps in their Resume? After some time, companies would be less inclined to hire these people right?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Serverless Framework?
Looking for alternatives to the serverless framework, we have been using it heavily since V1, however with their new licensing changes it is no longer viable. V3 is EOL at the end of the year and we need to migrate to something else before that.

We were quoted low 6 figures per year for our existing infrastructure which is actually more then we pay for AWS for our usage of API Gateway / Lambda. We also were told there is no way to automatically opt out of features such as traces/metrics, it must be done through their UI, which is extremely frustrating because it is a massive price hike and is worse then what AWS offers overall from what i saw.
"Ban unnecessary single-use plastic products most likely to become plastic pollution, e.g. shopping bags, cutlery, cups & plates"

Such a loaded question just weakens the point. That's why it's hard to take these efforts seriously.
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers
For example, a quick Google search told me that "whales move to warm waters to mate and give birth in the winter, and then to colder waters in the summer where there is an abundance of food."
This X post is related: https://x.com/coffeebreak_yt/status/1792961247438119258
I really wish this would change. I'm sick of constantly moving around every few years.

Too be fair the last 3 startups I worked at failed financially but still.

I would love to go work somewhere for 5-10 years. It's just hard to find these days.
Probably impressed with themselves
We have no idea if ChatGPT is conscious or not. We have no idea if it is "thinking" or not.

What we know with a reasonably high level of certainty is that consciousness and "thought" are physical processes. That's about it.

Pulling out the scalpel to start dividing up what physical process is and isn't conscious is a fools errand. And especially foolish when just making up arbitrary qualifications for it.

Am I saying that ChatGPT is conscious? No. But I am saying is you shouldn't give much credence to people who are anything more than agnostic about it.
Nvidia Close to Becoming a $3T Company
I only briefly browsed the code, but this seems to be roughly what yelp/detect-secrets does.

Anyway, that doesn't really answer my question. To summarize answers in this thread, I think PhilipRoman has captured the essence of it: strictly speaking, the idea of entropy of a known string is nonsense. So, as I suspected, information theory definition isn't meaningfully applicable to the problem. And as other commenters like you mentioned, what we are really trying to measure is basically Kolmogorov complexity, which, strictly speaking, is incomputable, but measuring the compression rate for some well-known popular compression algorithm (allegedly) seems to be good enough estimate, empirically.

But I think it's still an interesting linguistic question. Meaningful or not, but it's well defined: so does it appear to work? Are there known constants for different kinds of text for any of these (or other) metrics? I would suspect this should have been explored already, but neither me, nor anybody in this thread apparently has ever stumbled upon such article.
As far as I can tell "greatest ally" is just something these accounts say.

Jordan seems to be a much stronger friend to us in the region.
Why can't they use reusable containers that can be sterilized just like their contents? Just asking. I don't support such a seeping ban, because I know the ramifications.
Advanced life. There is no particular reason to think there is life out there (if there is or not - both are extraordinary). If there is, there is no particular reason it is advanced - vs just some plants and animals living a life but not doing anything different from the first members of the species. (that is not advancing to where they might get a house)
> World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace

Ah yes, the open-minded beacons of impartiality.

Next ask college lefties about rivers and seas. Ahem.
It's a one man job but you can feel he has put a lot of work and thought into it. The app has a lot of options but also a wizard that makes the set up easy.

I bought the premium version to support the developement. Support is over... email of course. He was very helpful when I asked about an issue I had with the app.
you mean like how we used to live? like when we used mostly glass and paper?
> […] the Chinese ordered all samples destroyed, and the databases were taken down or erased […]

If the evidence doesn’t exist then, absent evidence, you’ve got no reason to believe that evidence was destroyed.

> I disagree about science being "discovering the consensus".

Nevertheless, it moves.

> It's like that Nazi book they brought out 100 scientists against Einstein.

IIRC, those 100 scientists were not actually qualified to speak on Einstein’s work. Listening to them on Einstein is precisely the same thing you’ve been doing with your sources.

> if there's a real conspiracy and the theory is correct does it still count?

You’re assuming the “if” and the “and” before the fact again.

> As to evidence of what actually happened […] fhere are something like 1000 natural viruses like covid and none in nature has been found with a furin cleavage site.

So, here’s how you do evidence:

“86 diversified furin cleavage sites […] have been detected in 24 animal hosts in 28 countries since 1954. Besides MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, two of five other CoVs known to infect humans (HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HKU1) also have furin cleavage sites. In addition, human enteric coronavirus (HECV-4408) has a furin cleavage site and has been detected in humans (first in Germany in 1988)”

Liu X, Wu Q, Zhang Z. Global Diversification and Distribution of Coronaviruses With Furin Cleavage Sites. Front Microbiol. 2021;12:649314. Published 2021 Oct 7. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.649314

“Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family”

Wu Y, Zhao S. Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses. Stem Cell Res. Published online December 9, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.scr.2020.102115

But, please, and again — and now despite direct contradiction of your own ”evidence” — continue to conspiracy theorize.
Local restaurants here have started using DeliveryZero which is a reusable container program, you just take the containers back to a drop point.

That and plenty of places use non-PFAS-treated thicker paperboard. Those are also great in my experience.
Own a weather station? We want your data
The comment that humans are sometimes wrong too is absolutely ridiculous and I always think about the self-driving car incident in china where the car mistook an advertisement of a car above the road as a real car and hit the breaks causing a chain crash. Even the shittiest driver would never do that.