skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an easy way for a non-SK (and non Korean speaking) to use it?
There's Starlark...

...and CUE, and Jsonnet...

...and probably no-one wants to see BCL/GCL see the light of day :)
Longevity, by Design [pdf]
The resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor.

https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
Intel Pentium Pro: How it could succeed and fail simultaneously
The article is dead. Can anyone tell me whether fossil fuels have reduced more than they would have done had nuclear continued?

I suspect not.
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...

the ml at the end of the link is missing
HIIT fits the bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_traini...
how does Assange have anything to do with Biden...? Can we leave politics out of this.

he took the plea deal because he fears a Trump presidency is coming and Trump has a bone to pick with the guy

now, he's free instead of facing 519378347 years in prison
The PR was release in April, so archived:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20240515172653/http://ise.fraunh...
Projections and Projection Matrices
> because it was "free"

Being "free" wouldn't have had this effects.

It happened because "they already paid for it" (because of paying for office 356) and because it was "already installed" (kinda).

Also it's one vendor less (some companies care about that a lot).

But IMHO the whole office suite pricing is pretty absurd and unlikely to be based on proper working fair marked, likely even if you remove teams from it.
They stand out pretty well in the census map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel,_Indiana#/media/File:Ra...
> There is no reason to assume a normal distribution.

There absolutely is with sane assumptions about how any useful measurement tool works. Gaussian distributions are going to approximate the actual distribution for any tool that's actually useful, with very few exceptions.
I think the low status and the low pay of a janitorial job makes it pretty hard for a lot of people. Higher-paying, higher-status IT work has a different set of problems: meaninglessness, drudgery, and cognitive-dissonance.
That's a fair point - I could be wrong about my motivation there; I was more or less thinking out loud.
It think it's important to differentiate between life expectancy and quality of life. If you're a tub of good and sedentary, you might spend the last 10% of your life trapped in a failing body, which can very much tank your quality of life, whereas the fit person might actually be able to enjoy the golden years. I feel that's something that often is overlooked when talking about pure life expectancy.
Should people who quit get unemployment benefits, too?
It is not wise.

The AI/ML hype will die out, or you’ll be replaced by some third party service, and you’ll be left with no job, having to relearn how to be a regular software engineer.
Why? That would be expensive and the cars are designed to understand the lights as they are.
Amex get away with it because their customer base is a niche of higher income earners. Merchants would rather not accept Amex, but a lot of them want to attract that demographic as their customers. So they each make their own decision about how to balance those concerns.
No, there's nothing wrong with bonds, if the thing they get invested into has good positive ROI.

The elephant hiding in the rural balance sheets is boring economics, meaning that there's usually no such high-ROI thing within city limits, because to get good and affordable services the city needs economies of scale, and that requires both sizes and density.

This basically translates to things that these cities could do: rezoning and waiting, joining up with neighboring cities for deals (but this is usually already the case, school districts and water districts).

Homelessness and public safety is worse in urban cores, and this would require a lot more spending to fix. [0]

(These cores are usually poorer, have funding issues, crowding out effect of rich suburbs means that the police force of the urban core needs to sort of match the salaries, etc. [1])

Also ideological differences lead to worse outcomes in public safety definitely. (Again, especially in these metro areas where - as other comments have mentioned - it's relatively easy to push poverty and crime around.)

It's not a uniquely American problem, but the combination of wealth and income inequality, extremely fragmented hyperlocal institutions, gang and gun violence, plus senate veto make progress extremely hard. And in practice it serves as the perfect fuel for political radicalization.

[0] https://www.slowboring.com/p/fixing-the-police-will-take-mor...

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-police-are-in-the-wrong-pla... - https://pastebin.com/PHzjrCU6
When I was a youngster, the eight bosses line made me laugh because it was absurd. Deeper into my career, it makes me laugh because it's true.

On a good day, on an unimportant project, I still have three bosses. I have my team lead, my PM, and my actual manager. Currently I'm on a cross-team project of critical importance, so you can add on my manager's manager, his manager, the other team's manager, and his manager. I've got seven goddamn people breathing down my neck on this.

I used to work at a place where I had one manager, even for critically important projects. He was the only one breathing down my neck (and that wasn't often). No PM constantly hassling me to groom my backlog[0], the managers above my immediate manager all had enough trust to not directly meddle. Most productive I've ever been in my career. Ended up leaving because I just didn't give a shit about the project, but sometimes I dream of going back...

[0] I need to rant about this. How am I supposed to be agile if I have to have my backlog completely planned out for the whole project? And I can't just estimate it or backlog the big chunks, because when we start making progress and I update the backlog to reflect things we've learned, I have to justify every single change to my PM who will grumble that we are going off plan. If I don't update the backlog, I get grilled about how accurate it is at the next too many cooks/status update meeting.

We can either do agile or try to plan out the next six months of work at the start. Stop trying to make me do both.
I find youtube releases of D&D streaming sessions to be a good road trip background noise. It keeps me more engaged/awake than a podcast/audio book. It also helps that I'm super far behind on many D&D streamers so there are 50+ 3 hour long videos in my que sometimes for stories that stretch across multiple groups of players.
I've put a file in my home directory named the entirety of your comment, newline included. Unfortunately I had to trim "except / !" to bring it to 255 characters.

Now at least when some tool or pipeline blows up horribly, it'll be hilarious.
Show HN: Basepoker
Play poker with friends
Set up a Hold’em table to play with friends on any web browser.
If infinite scroll was an alternative to regular pagination on every site, you'd have a point.

But oftentimes it's the only option available, and it's garbage for everything except mindless scrolling.
> I think it uses Cohen's forcing

You don't have to give a full proof, just an intuitive explanation of why the "obvious" arguments fail. For example, we can prove the non-emptiness of product sets for finite sets. Why can that not simply be extended in the "obvious" way to infinite sets? How can making the sets "bigger" suddenly make the product empty?
If you think this is a "capitalists being evil" problem and not an "regulators over-regulating" problem, you should pay particular attention to fragments of the article:

> It’s not that hard to come up with a model for underwriting that is reasonably accurate; any bank with scale could probably do it. But FICO uses trade secrets, copyright, patents, or restrictive contracts to block anyone from doing so.

> First, the government guarantees most mortgages through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [...]. This complex process relies on a standard to price the loans, and that standard is FICO,

> A few years ago, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which runs most housing finance for the government through its control of secondary mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, decided that it might want to create some competition for FICO. So it turned to VantageScore. Only, it got backlash from Wall Street, which didn’t want to bother changing their models for mortgage backed securities.
Instead of allowing mortgage lenders to pick either FICO or VantageScore, FHFA simply required that lenders use both.

In short, the federal government essentially requires everybody to use the services of one specific private company. This company can raise prices not because it's anticompetitive, but because the government doesn't allow it to have any competition.

Perhaps, instead of trying to pass even more regulation, that government should just relax its restrictions and allow other participants on the market to compete fairly?
> If it's an app, you're not in the browser anymore anyway

Webapps would beg to differ
fwiw Meta AI is built into WhatsApp and I don't think it's possible to turn it off.
With these kind of remarks, the point being that .NET team isn't serious enough for having cross-platform GUI tooling that would enable a proper cross-platform version of Visual Studio.

Visual Studio for Mac (nee Mono Develop), could have been it, instead they decided to kill it, and focus on VSCode, which has already been communicated a couple of times, C# Dev Kit will never cover all use cases of VS proper, and it is also under the same license anyway.

So MAUI will never support GNU/Linux, was also not used in VS4Mac due to its Catalist underpinnings, Forms and WPF will stay Windows forever, MS will never used Uno or Avalonia, thus it leaves a Java IDE platform and Electron for their cross-platform tooling.

All, because regardless of what the .NET team does, upper management still wants to use .NET to drive Visual Studio and Windows licenses.
> but what does “traditional lifestyle” even mean.

It's the lifestyle that facilitates control over population in a dictatorial/theocratic regime.
Oh interesting, the relationship web on the Twin Peaks stack is truly awesome.

Someone put a whole lot of effort into this and it shows, it's genuinely a great way to present the data.

It's weirdly refreshing to see something that so much passion went into. It's got the same energy as the early days of the internet.
International regulation simply can't work, especially for these types of issues. No one will go to war to impose human rights on another nation, and even if they did, it would hurt both populations much, much, much, much more than the peace time violations of human rights. War is hell, so it can only ever be a weapon of last resort.

Even economic sanctions have a very poor track record of effecting any kind of change in a society or regime - they typically only hurt the poor, which minority groups who you are trying to help often are.
I have looking for a cheap low-res 18in x 10in display so that I can display stuff to it via Python using a raspberry pi; this is very interesting but its a bit too big and expensive.
> It's a ball. It's fun. It's a ball.

All that's missing is about 3 more README's of warnings and disclosures ending with "Do not taunt Ball." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
>Instead of treating each as exactly 7 feet, we can instead say that each is somewhere between a minimum of 6.9 feet and a maximum of 7.1. We can write this as an interval (6.9, 7.1).

This is not how measurements work in physics. You have to measure at least twice (If you measure only once the sample variance will be infinite due to the bessel correction).

Only then you can compute the mean value of your measurements and the standard error. Assuming you made two measurements 6.9 and 7.1 you would write length = 7.0 +/- 0.1 .
(see https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics/standard-error?v=t... )
Blue Origin files public comment asking FAA to cap SpaceX launches
PolyKill: Information about the recent supply-chain attack on polyfill.io
Elixir is peculiar in this regard because Elixir adherents outweigh erlang adherents maybe 10:1.

I really wish that someone would magically transpile all of ERTS so the documentation syntax was uniform.

Elixir is almost more of a guest syntax than it is a diff language.
Depends on the card type, merchant type and transaction type but about 0.14%
Group of Austrians Picks 77 Charities to Receive Heiress's Fortune
You're now arguing semantics.

Let's change course for a bit: If git was a CRDT, what would happen when there is a merge conflict between two branches?
Oh boy, I got my career start doing laboratory instrument IT. Some vendors have great software (Agilent), but lots of them are real stinkers.
Check out Downpour - probably the closest modern thing to HyperCard to make fun clicky apps and games.

https://downpour.games/
So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each person's nane.
Ask HN: Which software specializations are in highest demand for consulting?
I've established my own LLC and am aiming to pursue c2c or 1099 contracts through it. Though, for the most part - I am landing Software Engineering Contract roles, which is not exactly the "consulting" I was hoping for.

I read the Kalzumeus blog, and specifically this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805091

And the comments there are vastly related to Kalzumeus not offering a Software Engineering solution but some kine of Online Advertising/Marketing Service.

What Kalzumeus says makes sense - explain to employers how you can make money for them and then do it.

While it makes sense in theory -- if your background is something else -- how do you justify who else needs it?

For example, my background is in HPC and Software Systems. In most of my roles I've looked to improve software systems, the interactions of the different pieces together, performance bottlenecks, cost optimization, operations etc.

While marketing/ads seems very easy to reason and quantify results about, my niche is not that clear. Furthermore -- if basic engineering principles are followed it's very easy for a company to not need a guy like me. But in my experience, having worked in so many companies during my career, I've seen a lot of inefficiencies in processes but also poor solutioning.

While I do think that I can bring value to companies, it seems rather challenging to explain it or to seem distinct from a regular Software Engineer -- to which it would be very easy for them to say: well, we don't need you, we just need more headcount.

If you are truly trying to pursue a Freelance Consulting business approach, what are some things you can do to Echo the value you bring clearly, and also further define it so that you don't go hungry & broke.
I don't see how that consideration has any relevance. How does preference get enforced across time and space? Your argument seems to be "this outcome will occur because it is preferable" which seems like a canonical example of wishful thinking.
I know about HIIT and it makes sense to me but I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s better than less strenuous exercise, only that it takes less time.
Yay! Thanks for the link.
It took me a while to understand that example.

Basically if you multiply two intervals (-3,3) * (-3,3), it's relevant whether it's actually the same quantity multiplied by itself (in which case, you want the answer 0-9, because you'll always be multiplying something like -1 * -1, because you're sampling once from the interval and then squaring it), or it's two different quantities, both of which are in the same interval, in which case the answer you want is (-9,9), because you could be multiplying something like -3 * 3, because you're sampling twice from the same interval and multiplying the two results together.
Should Singapore really be put on a pedestal? They have inhumane laws and violate human rights regularly. Even free speech doesn’t truly exist there - some topics like criticizing religions are off limits. Competency in some areas through authoritarianism isn’t a sign of competency in general.
> Any driver that makes this kind of move is typically in the top 5%ile of driving skills.

Hard disagree.

It's pretty clear the car just didn't understand what the line of cars was doing.

> level of intelligence that needs to be applied for this move

If you were a human making this move, I would judge your intelligence as below average.
We all know what the "traditional lifestyles" means and that the OP is clearly anti-LGBT but we have to pretend that we don't know what it means and ask them to explain.

>What is gained by society by forcing a lesbian into a straight marriage? You've just created a sexless marriage with extra steps.

I think the point is than in Islam women have no choice but to sex with their husbands without a "good reason". For men it is marginally less obliged, but still expected that they should have sex with their women (though it is not as explicitly urgent, it seems, as for women to spread their legs when required).

Still, having sex with someone who's not really into it sounds fairly unappealing to me.
xroach - little cockroaches that would hide under your windows. When you closed a window, they would scurry around to hide under other windows.
We are, unfortunately, in violent agreement. What's to be done? Tell the
world about it, hope people wake up? It's better than nothing. I'm
starting with people I see face to face, and the tiny corner of the
internet I occupy.
I have an example of a database hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/ClickHouse/web-tables-demo

Which you can query anywhere using a ClickHouse local database engine.

When you do a query, it downloads only the required ranges of required columns from the server and does computations on your machine.

In the same way you can query any data sources with ClickHouse, either local or remote, which is a strict superset in power and usability than duckdb.
Video: Linux sucks 2024 (Bryan Lunduke) [video]
The Nintendo Switch Is Going Out with a Bang, Not a Whimper
If nuclear was kept around, would its capacity allow for fossil fuels to be reduced more?

Going by this chart:

* https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

* Also: https://www.iea.org/countries/germany

* Also also: https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/emissions#what-are-the...

Nuclear was previously providing 22 GW (2022) to 20 GW (2010) of capacity, down to 12.1 GW (2011), then 8 (2019): currently (2023) lignite can output 18.6 GW of capacity, and hard coal is providing 18.9 GW.

For output (per first link), at its peak nuclear provided ~150 TWh, while coal (lignite+hard) provided 120 TWh in 2023.

So AFAICT, coal capacity could have been cut in half (perhaps even not running that often) if existing nuclear was kept around. (New nuclear did not have to be constructed, just keep around the current stuff longer until (a) fossils are retired, and (b) more renwwables are built out).
That's true, but pagination without read ahead goes a long way to drop engagement, especially for users with slower Internet connections.
> If your Mac came with System 6, 7, 8, or 9, you had HyperCard.

I'm pretty sure Apple stopped development of it before System 8, and I'm certain it wasn't bundled. I'm also pretty sure (but not absolutely certain) it wasn't bundled with System 7.1.

Hypercard 2 (1990) definitely required a separate purchase (I had to talk my parents into buying it), but I think we had Hypercard 1 from being bundled with System 6.

I think Hypercard was one of last gasps of the idea that computer users should have the tools to create their own applications.
Meanwhile in France...
Tell that to ___lldb_unnamed_symbol74$$TextEdit
I spent a 2 years and all my personal savings making this game (alone).m
Looks like guardian changed headline, since they aren't even on the Boeing capsule
This brings back fond memories of the various Blue Meanies easter eggs in System 7.0.1 on my first Mac (actually my dad's LC).

"Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!"
There are times when I wish that HN's articles could be flagged with "this is only news if you're one of today's 10K".

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of Groningen
This was a great article. I've been playing around with Smalltalk for a few weeks, which I understand is like the spiritual ancestor of Objective-C, and this reminded me a lot of that. It's probably mostly down to the oddball calling convention, but I wonder if other GUIs are as easy to introspect and patch.
Reading the article, I'm not able to answer your question. But the decrease in fossil fuels consumption doesn't seem to have any link with the abandonment of nuclear power. They cite other things as the driving factors. Archived article is here https://web.archive.org/web/20240515172653/http://ise.fraunh...
It is (not) surprising that the BCG (A Global Consulting Firm) made a publication about burnout and tunneled in on inclusivity.

There are other aspects that contribute heavily to burnout and employee morale, the elephant in the room is the massive layoffs and the lack of promotions[0]. Consulting firms are affected by this a lot.

If you cut down most of your workforce, or give no “rewards” for the ones who worked their ass off your revenue, of course there will be burn out, depression, and all other things that would make one stop working.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/8c3679c4-b34a-41d0-93c9-af96ea6f9... (I couldn't get this archived).
I was recently arguing with a German who thought burning coal was completely fine as long as you were burning less than you used to. He didn’t see the reason for nuclear at all.
I find DDG better than Google in general but it's annoying getting local results for unrelated things inserted. For an example, if I search for "protonvpn opensuse", then on page 2 I get results for a local charity, a state political party, and a local cannabis dispensary.

Edit to add: I do not get those results when using bing directory.
Oh wow this threw me back to film school. There is a great book by Ester Leslie called Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde that walks through the overlap in animation and the avant-garde movement. It's very in-depth read if you liked this article
> there is no law that would permit the operation of Boeing, as a corporation, by the government,

...as we have both just been saying...

> and any such law, would, thankfully, be unconstitutional.

[Citation needed]

If the government can liquidate assets used in a crime, then if "Boeing" commits crimes, it follows that the government should be able to liquidate Boeing, because the entire company is an asset, and the ones committing the crimes are, in any meaningful sense, the people in charge of Boeing. Using that asset. To commit the crimes.

Given that, it seems to be a pretty huge stretch to claim that seizing such a company, and operating it (especially temporarily) for the public benefit, in order to both deny access to the fruits of the crime to its perpetrators, and prevent further such crimes, would be unconstitutional. It would also be massively less wasteful and destructive to the economy and the lives of the many innocent people working there to simply change out the criminal leadership for government-appointed caretakers rather than sell it all off.

Again: I'm not saying there are any laws on the books that would permit this. I just think the idea that it is prohibited by the Constitution is utterly unsupported and, at best, an extraordinary claim.
Germany did two things to cope with the loss of nuclear plants.

First they simply use less power than before.

Second they import nuclear power from France for reliability.

Seems kinda silly to me.