skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To provide some context around this, one influence which could plausibly be behind a lot of peoples' criticisms of the BBC is the strong political resistance to the TV Licence Fee, which makes up about 3/4 of the BBC's income. The BBC's somewhat negative reporting of Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Conservatives) made the BBC quite a few enemies in Parliament, and there were subsequently no less than four different private members' bills from Conservative MPs and Peers to either greatly restrict the revenue that the BBC gets from the TV Licence Fee, or abolish it the fee entirely. Additional frustration comes from non-partisan criticisms of the heavy-handed behaviour of TV Licensing enforcement, which often intimidates people into paying unnecessary fees with misleading letters threatening criminal prosecution (my household has received such letters in the past).

How does all this affect the BBC? Well, everyone feels differently about the situation, but it's probably reasonable to say that the BBC has had a somewhat more pro-government bias since efforts to abolish the TV Licence Fee have begun in earnest, and the BBC tends to avoid some topics more than in the past. Its broadcasting has moved slightly to more profitable ventures, by developing programmes that it can sell abroad (nature documentaries with the slick new 'BBC Earth' moniker, Doctor Who etc.) rather than focusing on domestic educational content and reporting, which doesn't have a large international market and is therefore more reliant on TV Licensing income. It is likely to frustrate the Hacker News clientele with its vague coverage of 'Science and Technology' topics, which generally boils down to simplistic pop-science about black holes and the like.
“Here’s a hypothetical ideal analogy, doesn’t that seem reasonable?” is one of my least-favorite types of arguments in cases where the observable reality is extremely different.

Who cares what it might be like? We can see what it is like.
I echo this. Every time I've had nothing to do I mention it to the "boss" and the response has been: "Let's fix this".

And letting others know that you want to do work, is being proactive. At least according to my standards.
“I am a competitor looking for information about your service”

“I am a jerk trying to annoy you”

“I am a bot scraping your web site”

“The people setting up the website are incompetent and a blank entry was just added to the database”

“I am a dishonest salesperson with a harebrained scheme to pad my metrics”

I do think we just found the poster who has not worked in sales, though. Please, be sure to count your blessings!
Coincidentally, a "leak" was reported yesterday suggesting EU MP's intend to exempt "confidential" govt info, as well as police, intelligence, and military personnel from Chat Control:

https://www.eureporter.co/business/data/mass-surveillance-da...
> there are legitimate situations in which a potential customer requires that they speak to someone or they will simply ignore the company.

That's a good point. There are a lot of those, and a significant fraction is about some information critical to the customer, that is not present or not entirely obvious on the site. Things like:

- Are you double-plus sure that when I order a violet widget, I get a violet widget? The UI isn't inspiring confidence, and there's a deadline, so unless I can be certain, I'll go with the more expensive vendor whose site is more clear on that.

- There's bunch of bank holidays and stuffs coming up in the next couple days; I need to be sure you'll send the package tomorrow at the latest, or it'll hit a weekend and then a holiday and it'll arrive late, by which time it'll be worthless for me.

Etc.

I've abandoned plenty of carts due to inability to clarify things like that, and I've many times significantly overpaid just to deal with a vendor or system where I don't need to ask for clarification in the first place.

Still, here's the thing: in each case, I had enough information already that I knew I want to buy. I knew the costs and delivery estimates and exact models/parameters. Without all those information, I wouldn't be calling to clarify - I wouldn't consider buying in the first place.
While the world has changed since 1903, the point remains that having a more educated population is desirable for a country to have.
US taxes as a percent of GDP are close to post-WWII lows

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/2023-revenue-plunge-confirms-2022...
Everything is relative. This won’t scale on large websites with huge amounts of components. More useful is guidelines or tips on how to organize.
You probably never lived in a communist (or any ultra authoritarian) state or never talked to somebody that did. The amount of horror that comes with it is beyond imagination, erosion of basic rights and threat of violent punishment for even the smallest infraction being on top of the list.

Everyone could be snitching on you and everything could be used against you.
Your phone scanning your images probably brings back memories to the older people that most of politicians are.
Just massage, which would take the pain away for a few hours at best.

I went to a physio about my bad back once and she put ‘magic sticky tape’ on my back and not much else. Didn’t bother returning and thankfully the running was the answer.
This is just one theory, another that it's a way to legally do layoffs without facing the consequences of actual layoffs.
I retired fairly recently and I seem to have largely gone back to a Moleskin weekly calendar and a couple of notebooks. (I do try to avoid too many random pieces of paper.) For more detailed tracking for dev (etc.), I could see using GitHub or something along those lines but paper works pretty well as long as you don't need to share.
I wonder what the existing breakdown is. If, hypothetically, all males had HIV already, then the new HIV infections would be 100% female. Obviously that isn't the case, just directionally this stat in isolation doesn't really show whether HIV is disproportionately affecting women.
"Chrestman pulled the boat up to each dog, and Gist and Carlisle loaded them one at a time into the boat. The crew filled the boat with dogs, went to shore and back for a second load, and on third load, the crew got some additional help from a man with a GPS tracker and were able to rescue more. A total of 38 dogs were rescued.

The dogs were a part of a fox hunt that day in Grenada and had chased after a deer that went into the lake.

The crew said with the help of his fishing guide noticing the dogs, they would have kept on bobbing for fish.

He said the dogs had been treading water for at least 45 minutes to an hour."

Holy fuck, those people shouldn't have dogs. Doesn't even mention if they got them all.
Or Typescript.
As I said, that was my non-American perspective.

You gave a specific legal definition in a single jurisdiction. It does not match the definition in many other jurisdictions or the intuitive understanding many people have.

From my perspective, there is no fundamental difference between an ordinary company distributing its profits as dividends, an employee-owned company distributing profits as higher wages or bonuses, and a coop distributing its profits by providing better/cheaper services to its members. They are all for-profit businesses. Only the mechanisms of profit distribution are different.
Compilers was a graduate course at my school.

CS as a field has grown quite a lot over the years, and it seems that colleges are responding by pushing the more theoretical classes into grad school to make room for the more applied classes.
My personal take is that state has to mandate that systemic companies (>100M users or X $B in revenues) have to have high quality customer service at cost. It probably cost Meta $500-$2000 to adjucate hacked account case so it's unreasonable to ask company to do it for free (hackers/bots can also file those requests). I should be able to pay Meta $2000 to recover account if my business depends on it - even if it means I have to go somewhere in person to show my ID.
The limit varies based on demand, now with the release of the new model it's very limited, but it wouldn't be like this forever.

Honestly, like I did with GPT-4 and GPT-4-turbo, I would just use the API on an alternative frontend.
> Those natural language interfaces that Actually Work aren't even 2 years old yet

Siri. Introduced 2011.

Before that...

Q&A Database, the product that Symantec was founded to sell. Released 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_(Symantec)

Before that...

The Infocom adventure game parser.

https://www.ifwiki.org/Infocom-type_parser

Infocom was founded in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom

Before that...

SHRDLU, 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

Before that...

ELIZA? (1964)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
It’s worth adding that each customer app, is setup in its own monorepo which contains the app config and apps specific plugins. With a dependency on the main repo. Thus a updated framework version is easy to roll out to customer apps, while allowing custom components to be used where as needed.
Show HN: A JavaScript lib for simulating automotive tires
Lowering cost for patients is not an objective of this system. They will take the money and pay their execs and shareholders more.
That's when I started vite first time. I think it's the build tool closest to no build tool.
I don’t like seeing test files close to the code. It’s clutter and distracting. Some people do and that’s fair, but there’s no one way.
19 years!!

So imagine - you're relying on some piece of software released around 2005. 2.6.10 Linux kernel, ext2 (maybe reiserfs?) TLS is called SSL and you're good if your DSA key has 512 bits... This essential service your company needs had long been abandoned and all attempts to mitigate the imminent disaster have failed. (Migrate to competitor, revive the code base, run in a VM)

... Or some CTO has seriously done a bad job anticipating whatever maintenance necessary over last decade.

I appreciate that change is hard sometimes, but maaaan life is so much easier if you upgrade/migrate/rebuild every now and then with some frequency.
Do your work and don't worry about it.
And fwiw, the company Gilead is indeed named for the Balm of Gilead.
you are right on both points.

there is a term for your latter point:

poetic licence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_license

aside: I realize i also kind of applied artistic licence in my comment here :), by not capitalizing the first words of my sentences, partly because feeling a bit lazy (on my mobile, typing is tedious and slow enough, even without switching case), and partly because I think single case (no concept of upper and lower case) is a better option.

sanskrit, for example, does not have upper and lower case, just one case, or maybe none.

go figure, er, i mean, go letter ;)
I don't mind paying for news, in fact I subscribe to a site or two.

What I do mind is sites that are peddling the Orwellian narrative.
And don't forget about:

3) Employers who are fully remote (as opposed to even 1 day per month in office) can hire in different locations. For many roles, you can find great employees in places like Eastern Europe for far cheaper than in Silicon Valley, for example.
I normally don’t press anything to get that result.
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A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”

“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What's that?”

“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”

A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.

“What?” they said.

“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

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Assuming you understand the business at a high level, and who the customer is more or less, you can ask management and leadership about the priorities in regards to what features are more important and why. The objective would be to align your own perspective and incentives in such a way that you can help with identifying the most critical tasks and adjusting your focus accordingly.

Using a sports analogy, If you know where the goal is, and how the game is played, you are in a better position as one of the team players to not only react to the ball appropriately but also position yourself on the field in such a way that will benefit scoring more goals.
Benchmarking MySQL on a Raspberry Pi
I'm not saying this is true, but as a thought experiment, imagine you are an agent of the Chinese government assigned the task of weakening the west relative to China over the course of a decade or two given TikTok as a tool. What would that look like?

It can't look like obvious propaganda; people wouldn't use it. It doesn't have to convince people of any one thing to work anyway. Just shortening the average attention span would be enough to weaken a society a little. How about increasing polarization? People produce plenty of polarizing content on their own; just favor that a little more than an algorithm merely trying to be addictive does. Antisocial and self-destructive behaviors should also get a subtle algorithmic boost. Aggrandizing the platform itself is harmful as well - if someone chooses to be an influencer instead of a scientist, damage is done.

If those all sound like things most social media does, that's the point. It's like popularizing a junk food that's just a little higher in sugar, fat, and salt than the rest. Harmful elements of social media are harder to measure than that though.
Im retired so can tell the truth now)
If you’re going to imply the office saves that, worth noting there’s a lot of non-forced organic face time from wfh available from your neighborhoods and communities, and that “Anxious Generation” screen time probably refers to teens and adults piping their lives into a phone, and not the important tradeoffs of staring at a screen in an office park or starting at a screen in your home.

Constantly the office is treated as the only existing socialization source and it really makes me wonder what people’s lives at home are out of work.
"Six Degrees of Separation" with Donald Sutherland and Will Smith was the first relatively arthouse movie I saw and it introduced me to the genre.
I think some of the confusion is because you're referring to the type variables as parameters. Parameters and type variables are not the same thing. A is a type variable, X is a parameter in your example.
Restricted from to 65, and then also anyone on Medicare, Tricare, or any federally provided medical insurance....
It is. Studied in the literature under the name "chain of thought" (CoT), I believe. It's still subject to the limitations I mentioned. (Though the output is more persuasive to a human even when the answer is the same, so you should be careful.)
Since this is the topic, I'm going to post my own recent experience with Google/Youtube: (also with the hope that a good soul can assist/give pointers)

I have a YT channel with a short-feature documentary film I uploaded 13 years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nz4N2K64o8). Last year YT started sending emails that channels with inactive accounts will start being deleted. So I have been working on logging on my channel account which is a Google ID tied to an email on my own domain (startingupinamerica.com) on which I still get emails. I still have the correct password to this Google ID, and 2FA was never enabled.

Google will not let me log in, as they insist on sending a verification code to a phone number I no longer own since years ago. Support requests keep sending me to a guide/process that will repeat the same thing again and again and that if I don't have any option that's that. All I get are the emails that "someone is trying to access your account" when I try to login.

I have been wondering what is the resolution in this case, it seems it's either know-someone or going to court (and risk getting banned?).
I know I'm dealing with a small company if their only web presence is Meta.
A larger company with normal risk mitigation policies would not take that chance.
So it's sort of self-selecting that only a company that's okay with having small claims court be there remedy would use Meta.
> The result is a ~300 KiB statically linked executable, that requires no libraries, and uses a constant ~1 MiB of resident heap memory (allocated at the start, to hold the assets). That’s roughly a thousand times smaller in size than Microsoft’s. And it only is a few hundred lines of code.

And even with this impressive reduction in resource usage, it's actually huge for 1987! A PC of that age probably had 1 or 2 MB of RAM. The Super NES from 1990 only had 128Kb of RAM. Super Mario Word is only 512KB.

A PlayStation from 1994 had only 2MB of system RAM. And you had games like Metal Gear Solid or Silent Hill.
you don't need a lot of the overhead in team-focused working models. As suggested already, paper based lists work well. Only you need to know what needs to be done, and you are generally focused on only a handful of things at a time.

Pomodoro has been another thing that works well for me to split up my time/keep getting things done while making sure I'm taking frequent breaks.
didn't catch hype and big VC money..
Thanks for the insights! Typo on my previous post, its 75 cents/watt vs 10 - 20 cents/watt. Too bad they can't survive more than a few months!
Hmm.

Fujitsu + Boeing search:

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-re...

Just about using RFID for maintenance, but I was curious if there was a connection.
Show HN: From web dev to shipping my first native app
I wrote this guest post on the expo blog about what it was like to build my first native app — a flexible, offline media library — as someone with a web dev background.
Amazing. I guess SARS-CoV-2 is much less stable in comparison to HIV?

Higher mutation rate and other shifts vs broadly neutralizing antibodies? Anyways, it would be nice to fully "solve" COVID-19 as it's still wreaking havoc somewhat silently (?)

I also wonder when or if we'll see therapeutic vaccines against either of these and more sooner than later?

Each time I only briefly start staring into the abyss that is "wetware" I'm gladly returning to our comparatively trivial (self-inflicted) complexity in the world of software / computing.
I think thats andoando's point, people do things fairly unconsciously so symptoms which align them with a particular diagnosis can be absent for a multitude of reasons. In your case you developed an unconscious habit of frisking your pockets as part of developing a coping strategy. It may be coping with "ADHD" or coping with being a flawed human as we all are.
How about google just delist the fraud sites or ban their advertising? Google is making money on this...
"The VA is the penultimate example and I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy. That's where our veterans go to commit suicide in the parking lots waiting on help."

The people I know who use the VA are quite OK with it. It's not perfect but none of them would want to put up with the insanity the rest of us has to.
Addiction was a meaningful word long before the DSM
The roads being empty at their peak commute hours probably had something to do with it…
Anecdotal data but UHG one of the largest health care companies in the world had a huge stake in commercial real estate pre-covid. They owned virtually every building their employees worked out of all over the country.

Once covid hit, they saw the writing on the wall and have been liquidating their real estate holdings over the past 3 years or so. I live in Minnesota and they've sold five of their buildings here alone, including one of their older main HQ buildings.

They now have one HQ which is a three building campus and have gone to an almost 100% WFH model with an optional office arrangement where you can reserve a desk if you know you need to be in the office.

Many of the downtown Minneapolis buildings have also changed hands including the Wells Fargo and Capella towers. If anything, what you're seeing is a lot of the S&P 500 companies are divesting their commercial real estate holdings since it doesn't appear as though in office time is going to increase or be anywhere near what it was pre-covid.
Strange world indeed
With all of the story's apparent popularity, the message still doesn't seem to be getting through.

As long as entrenched equity will profit from war, it will continue.

In spite of our hero Smedly being quoted "I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.", the US military continues to function in this capacity.
At some point the courts might start complaining to the legislatures and the congress. Or they might start adding punitive damages to their rulings.
Has there been updates about this product? I want to try it out ever since it got posted here 2 years ago but haven’t heard anything since.
And in the early 20th century pahlavi’s regime beat women who chose to keep wearing the hijab. Religious extremism in the form of salafi Wahhabism isn’t common in the country, nor is militant jihad. It’s theocratic authoritarianism. I think the difference is worth noting.
Are you talking about how they are handling the thing, or the thing itself? If the thing itself, I'd say it is closer to niccotine/bigTobacco more than fast food. These people are intentionally tweaking the algo to make it more addictive just like bigTobacco did.
i'd love to write a book on hyperscript, but i should probably get it to 1.0 first :)

maybe next summer
Copyright laws are far too screwed up and don't make any sense in the modern era. I hope its all archived offline.
as CharlieDigital said, a paper notebook. would recommend art store quality large and wide sheets and a handful of pens. depending on work, you can get different colors of pen. the very fine archival widths are great but easily bend outta shape. ideation and project development has phases, you must uncover and scope, and then implement. this oscillation of tides is natural and ensures healthy progress.
for here, once the app is adequately scoped it's time to implemenr. but pretty much everything is designed on paper first
You wouldn't get close to ASI before laundry problem had been solved.