skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hardly have the time to read the books I want to read. My second cup of coffee on Sunday morning is about the time I'm willing to give to reading about books somebody else wants me to read (or not), and for that the NYTBR is ok.

Anthony Trollope give a chapter to criticism in his autobiography, which you can find at Gutenberg.org (else I wouldn't be quoting it). The second-last paragraph concludes

And readers will also find that by devoting an hour or two on Saturday to the criticisms of the week, they will enable themselves to have an opinion about the books of the day. The knowledge so acquired will not be great, nor will that little be lasting; but it adds something to the pleasure of life to be able to
talk on subjects of which others are speaking; and the man who has sedulously gone through the literary notices in the Spectator and the Saturday may perhaps be justified in thinking himself as well able to talk about the new book as his friend who has brought that new book on the tapis, and who, not improbably, obtained his information from the same source.
I think roughly the same rules around consent for sex (ie."ongoing enthusiastic consent") should also apply to money.

They should have to actively ask "are you still using us?" if you aren't using the subscription ending it if you don't get back to them.
No. The way we have built our healthcare system on top of private actors (at least here in Finland) has very little to do with capitalism.

Successful lobbying, if not straight corruption, would be closer to the current situation.
As the linked post says itself, "2FA-SMS is Better Than Nothing"
Does this fall within their job description? Especially, after the recent Chevron ruling.
A particularly egregious example is that once you get a mortgage you'll get flooded with hundreds of letters over years bearing the name of your mortgage company in the top left corner of the window claiming to be extremely urgent. If you look closely at these mailers you'll note that the name of the mortgage company isn't quite where the return address should be, and if you open the mailer and read the fine print they do finally disclaim being the mortgage company, but they're intentionally designed to mislead you into thinking they're from your company in a way that really ought to be illegal but isn't.
Google Instant (2010)
> The weights are the derivative work of the GPL licensed code

EU courts disagree:

> Under European copyright law, scraping GPL-licensed code, or any other copyrighted work, is legal, regardless of the licence used.
It looks like it enables people who don't understand tech to use natural language to deploy resources on AWS that are billable, so I bet the engineering resources Amazon put into this won't be wasted at all.
EU has the Europass, I just use that.
Yeah, it's a turn-off; if they're using some cheap low-effort filler crap, who is to say they're not using more in the text?

I'm a little surprised it has become so common; it can't possibly _add_ value.
You missed hearing loss. Prolonged exposure to loud noise will damage hearing to a certain degree.

No one is blaming bitcoin mining, it's a single company that doesn't adhere to the noise standards is the problem.
I‘m sending emails with notes to my own gmail account since years (I have a filter that moves emails to myself to a notes folder). It works from everywhere, costs nothing, support all kinds of attachments. I can read them with every email client on every OS out there. No note taking app comes close to the flexibility and usability of emails.
Same rule has been in place in the EU for a few years, such a godsend. Before there were still a lot of places where subscribing could be done online, but unsubscribing required a registered letter.
Invoices are too high friction, both for the user and the business.

You just need a central tool to manage your subscriptions without all the dark patterns, where you can be sure if you terminate the subscription you 100% won't be billed again.

Also, pay as you go business models are great, but more work for app developers, so there'd need to be a good tool to make that easier.
> 2. Arbitrary precision numeric data types with vetted operations and rounding modes.

Be aware that a good rationale for choosing the database but you should enforce a specific precision per table otherwise you can get nasty accounting bugs because you're adding a 3.0095 amount with an 9.99 amount.
Yes indeed, they bought it for peanuts? Wework got billions and many other BS startup. 665 million is like almost free
There's an experimental OpenAPI import function.
Are you suggesting that the contents of Google Docs documents are used to target ads?
As far as I know Adobe was a billion-dollar company decades before forcing subscriptions on users
It doesn't support OAuth2 yet, but I do plan to add more auth schemes in the future.
Iarpa Video Linking and Intelligence from Non-Collaborative Sensors(Video LINCS)
Nintendo Targets Switch Emulators Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi
Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer
Show HN: Shootmail- Template first mail platform with scheduling and analytics
I am trying to solve major pain with sending good looking emails by creating purposeful email templates that developers can edit by passing JSON. It is a complete mail platform where you can register your domain to send mails and track analytics.
> I don't think people's habits will change irreversibly.
I actually disagree. A great example is smoking. It's been declining for the past 70 years. It just became unattractive.

> Sadly I don't think taxes end up working this way for long. They might or might not start by doing this, but then they just stay forever.
I just described my idea how to approach this. I agree that governments are far from being perfect in this matter.
If any zed devs are in this thread: I highly highly suggest that any auto-download or upload (be it telemetry, plugins being downloaded, and worse: plugins uploading god knows what) is opt-in or at the very least easy to opt-out.

The eagerness to download stuff without my consent at the moment precludes me from using this e.g. in a job that touches a sensitive proprietary codebase.
Poppycock. We gladly buy payed upgrades. If and when we deem it worth it.
I don't think the interpretation of the 2019 Directive is correct.

There is definitely arguments to be made that Copilot contravenes this:

> they can be applied only in certain special cases that do not conflict with the normal exploitation of the works or other subject matter and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the rightholders.

and the only other exception is:

> ... (a lawful use) ... of a work or other subject-matter to be made, and which have no independent economic significance, shall be exempted from the reproduction right provided for in Article 2.

By laundering licensing restrictions copilot definitely has the ability to conflict with the normal exploitation of works and also doesn't have independent economic significance because it competes with programmers.
Ironic quip:

The guy who apparently got Adobe to switch to subscriptions was on the Hacker News cofounder matching, claiming that as one of his big accomplishments. I almost wanted to try and match with him just to impart the magnitude of the pain that decision had caused in the user community, and how it ultimately has opened the door for photoshop competitors even if it has juiced short term profits. Definitely a short sighted business move that is going to eventually end Adobe's market dominance.
While this sounds fun and satisfies our justice reflex, the only person you're "getting back at" here is a low paid call-center worker who you're causing stress by missing their targets and tanking their metrics, who has no power over decisions like this.

It's the equivalent of trying to inconvenience BigStoreCo by harassing a register worker and something best avoided.
So does sublime. Indeed I rely on this behaviour almost unconsciously.
> You just need a central tool to manage your subscriptions without all the dark patterns, where you can be sure if you terminate the subscription you 100% won't be billed again.

This is why I like to pay via Apple App Store.
The difference is that the other side is paid to do it, and the caller is wasting their time.

Another difference is that the customer wants something, and the other side can just hang up if their patience runs out.
Also here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait
Do you read boring books because they're all about working in fields and mills? Do you enjoy adventure books, but avoid reading them because the content isn't weighty enough?

Personally I powered through some boring-but-virtuous books in my youth, but now I'm a middle-aged adult with less free time, I've realised reading is supposed to be fun.

So if a book review tells me a book is virtuous without telling me if it's fun, that book review isn't much use to me.
> what if you simply forget you even had a subscription?

Isn’t that the business model of a lot of businesses these days, specially junk apps and gyms?
Where can I see the value of the "user has granted permission" boolean relevant to my account, clearly and unambiguously? I want to be sure that I haven't accidentally given permission via an action that I may have not understood.
What? What you replied to had nothing to do with ‘not paying,’ or ‘getting things for free,’ it only discussed their dislike for the subscription model.
I program that is Turing complete cannot be reasoned about unless you can solve the Halting problem. So you cannot decide at compile time if a dependency that is imported is actually needed or not. In rust even the build-scripts are Turing-complete rust-programs, which makes this even harder.
Maybe it could run in the background and use inotify to just update the database all the time, or at least keep track of what needs rescanning?
If anyone is suggesting that this would help with the climate crisis, then it's worth noting that it would require other sources of energy (solar, wind, nuclear) to produce substantially more energy than the total amount consumed by humanity. So it's viability is very dependent on just how efficient the process is -- is there 10% waste energy or 90%?

This article did not say.
If any piece of mail has “standard postage” stamped on it on the top right, throw it in the trash. Any legitimate mail has “first class” stamped on it.

https://www.mw-direct.com/blog/posts/first-class-mail-vs-sta...
Ah, you make me yearn for the days when I had time to troll someone like that over bad business practices.
Thank you for the help! Will definitely try this instead of my current method, if you’d like you could join the discord https://discord.gg/s4uVTQwk and let me know if you have any other ideas
Yes. The data type itself supports arbitrary precision. I'm not suggesting that you chose the precision arbitrarily.
Yeah… I’ve been playing around with windows forms. at least Visual Studio and the tooling is great.
https://archive.ph/Gh9tq They are a bit vague on absolute sales
Chatgpt would verbatim output its training data when given 200 successive “a “ in the past. Now this has been fixed by showing an error when you try this. You arent going to convince me this is anything but compression.
My experience is rather different.

The community is welcoming, and will help solve issues. However, it’s true (and good IMHO) that the project seems to have a strong idea of what is and is not a core feature. They prioritise building what you might call the Helix editing model and the Helix vision for what an editor should be.

Importantly, Helix isn’t (or doesn’t appear to be) trying to become something approaching an OS, or to be a faster, easier to configure way to get an editor that works like [your preferred configuration of] vim or emacs with lower input latency.

I applaud these things! I like the Helix model more than the vim or emacs models, and the project’s priorities for what should and shouldn’t be in an editor core are pretty well aligned with my own. I do not find I’m desperate for plugins to fix some major deficiency, though I’m sure I’ll use a few once they become available.

This is all what I want to see and fits my definition of a good “benevolent dictator”, maintaining focus and taking tough decisions.

I do maintain a reasonable set of extra keybindings and small configuration changes, as well as a very slightly modified theme [0], but I don’t think many of them are essential and I try pretty hard not to conflict with Helix defaults or radically diverge from the Helix editing model.

It works for me right now, and keeps getting better (rather quickly if you install from git as I do). I’m excited for the future, especially seeing some of the features and improvements moving through PRs.

YMMV.

[0] https://gist.github.com/barnabee/82f39d02a85291b0045f53f2473...
FWIW, literally the first sentence on the page is wrong:

> An Elizabeth Line train at the Shenfield station west of London.

Shenfield is east of London!
> The weights are the derivative work of the [GPL licensed] code

This is not immediately obvious to me.

A small though experiment: the Harry Potter books are clearly copyrighted works. If I generate a frequency list of all words in these books, i.e. a list of all words and how often they appear, that frequency list is derived from the original work, in the normal way we would use the word "derived". But is it a "derivative work", under the strict legal definition of this term?
That's called PayPal
Typst a way simpler approach to this:

https://typst.app/
BANK OF PASSWORDS: Android password manager based on specific requirements (pdf)
Yes, for Hashimoto's thyroiditis there seem to be some approaches: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38621508/ Let's see how this plays out.
SpiceNice – An Open Database of Culinary Spices
Is recording and storing of 25 billion events per day really necessary to drive the development of a fancy WYSIWYG editor? I'm pretty sure you could record a tiny fraction of that to get the same statistical value and store all that on a single machine.
State-Sponsored Russian Media Software for Malign Influence Activity [pdf]
California legislators just worked overtime to pass a law allowing restaurants to not include all fees in their menu prices.
Some counterexamples, subscriptions that I and others are happy to pay and which tend to provide a worse experience when funded any other way:

* Email provider.

* Online Newspapers.

* Heavily online collaborative SaaS.

* MMO games.

The common thread is that the alternative funding model can't usually be a one-time purchase because the product is delivered over indefinite time, which leaves some combination of ads and microtransactions as the remaining viable funding models. Given a choice between the three, subscriptions have reliably produced the best experience for me as a user.

Obviously, I'll heartily agree that subscriptions are overused and abused (I'm looking at you, car manufacturers), but I tend to take a more measured approach than avoiding all subscriptions of any kind. And I would absolutely hate to receive and manage invoices for these things.
"The core is always the user and what they need."

I was referring to this and the main thing users need, is software they can use to solve their problems. If they have to study IT to do so, or hire programmers first, then this would be primarily a new (and big) problem to them, before they even can start working on their problem.
Annals of Technology: How Crichton's "Westworld" Pioneered Special Effects (2013)
You don't see many people who went to St. John's college. If the author or any St. John alumni are reading this, I'd love to hear what you thought about the experience.
Laid off November, hired March. In the Swiss job market. As usual, I targeted my search carefully, at least for the job I really wanted.

The unemployment office also made me spam out 8 applications a month to other random crap jobs. Sorry about that, hiring managers. I sent half-baked ChatGPT cover letters to jobs I knew would not hire me (ageism is convenient when you DON'T want to be hired...)

What do you expect? Make stupid rules, get stupid behavior. Sigh
This is all well and good but I thought the primary reason for eschewing traditional design was the cost of labour rose just as the cost of material production fell (a gap which continues to increase)

You can’t get a highly skilled stonemason to devote dozens or even hundreds of hours to ornate a building’s nonfunctional aspects without inordinate wealth and a lack of desire for a ROI on the building’s construction

Glass, steel and concrete have emerged as the cheapest mainstay structural materials, and without cheap labour was bound to become the language of contemporary architecture
I think the presentation of a resume is much less important than the content. It’s interesting that sourcers and recruiters make most of the decisions about who gets to the interview stage (particularly in a down market), yet they are the least qualified to assess the capabilities of the candidate of everyone in the whole process. Despite that, their assessment of a candidate’s resume has an outsized influence on the candidate’s outcome.

When you have 1,000 resumes from laid off software engineers from FANG companies that all look mostly the same, how do you decide who to call?

I’ve been thinking lately that an interesting project might be to look for publicly available resumes of people who have recently accepted new jobs within the tech industry and compare their resumes against those of people who have been looking for a new job for a while. The comparison would be qualitative if only a few resumes are available or perhaps quantitative (i.e., a classification model) if many are available.

Recruiters are not looking for the same signals as hiring managers, and since I’m not a recruiter, I would really like to know exactly what it is that they are looking for.

As an example of this kind of discrepancy that caught me totally off-guard, I was slightly below the “years of experience” requirement on a particular job posting that seemed to match my background perfectly. The recruiter I was talking to had reached out about another job posting where I did meet the YoE requirement, but I said the other posting was a significantly better fit for my skills and experience. The recruiter replied that the YoE requirement was not negotiable, so I was put onto the interview loop for the much less applicable role because of this arbitrary and narrowly missed line in the sand (and of course I failed that interview, wasting both my time and theirs).

A hiring manager would care less about years in seat and more about capability. That such a YoE requirement might be used as a hard filter when scanning resumes caught me by surprise—I had previously sent out plenty of resumes where I narrowly missed the YoE requirement, and in retrospect, my application was probably discarded immediately while using up the “quota” of how many times I could apply to that company. These sorts of insights from the recruiting world would be great to know in advance from the candidate’s perspective.
The reasoning indeed seems a bit simplistic. As if a C file werena creative work but the resulting EXE file would not be.
As far as I know, Jetbrains, HashiCorp, SublimeText etc. has not yet gone bankrupt.

When a product(or service) generate real value, people will happily hand over their money. The only people having issues with giving away something free are mostly generating negative value overall in my experience, hence they need dark patterns.
I missed it also
I think what the author misses is that SQLite's choices make a lot of sense in a world where working with the DB is super easy and you can move a lot of the complexity to the code around it. With traditional databases it used to be the case that you manage everything in the DB, because it's expensive to call it, and because you don't always know who's going to call it, but that's clearly not a typical scenario for SQLite.
> And afterwards my Roku TV box somehow managed to resub me twice even though I didn’t watch any Prime content ...

Is that the kind of thing that a pet chewing on a remote control (or similar) could trigger?
"- Do you guys know a program that stores keystrokes of the keyboard?
- Yes, MSWord."
/Anonymous, ca. 20th century/
Fact of the matter is that SQLite shouldn’t be used in a non embedded context. There’s a reason people use Postgres.

There are some neat things you can do with it like using HTTP range queries to query it directly from object store or Litestream, but my point stands.
> Now consider that 99.9% of humans can't do this

OK. Now consider that those same humans have no need to do it or even attempt it.
When I was looking for cars recently, I was frustrated by the inventory search on the websites. Subaru made it difficult to search a wide area for it's vehicles for example. I wrote a full stack application where I reverse-engineered the public APIs and did the inventory search for myself. I also made a web app to go with it to display the vehicles in a card format that gave me the important info I needed in an eye-pleasing format. I stopped development once I found my car.

I didn't spend a ton of time making it. It was honestly a lot of fun and I got to work out my development skills again. I really doing this kind of work too be honest.

I did use ChatGPT a bit to help rationalize some things as I was doing development.
Unsolicited advice:

If you're going to that trouble, finish the swing. The final product here is BAD.

The person reading the resume doesn't know it's automated so no credit points for that, and it looks like a person didn't pay attention to basic detail. This does you no good, it hurts you.

Example glitches:

The contact row dropping LinkedIn to next line. The ragged bullets hanging to the left of the left margin relative to headlines. The dates not right aligned. The too-large font making it take ALL of two pages for just a decade.

These things do get judged at a glance when someone's looking at lots of PDFs.

Also, just because a resume goes into an ATS doesn't mean the hiring manager isn't looking at the original PDF. Usually the ATS surfaces/sorts applicants but one reads the original PDF or Word doc anyway, because the ATS interpretation is often unreliable on its own.

All that said...

One idea to counter the above advice is either in italics under the contact line or in a clear footer, put a colophon or imprint saying: This PDF was auto-generated from my job history data, blogged about the automation here: https://full.web.link/resume-blog-post

But still, exhibit a higher bar for the end product. Engineers that fall in love with over-engineering without regard for the output and "end user experience" are everywhere, and a problem. Engineers that produce above-the-bar output end users appreciate, while ironically over-engineering, with full tongue in cheek recognition of the over-engineering, are rare.
You're still thinking about capitalisation and the scalability of space. EU doesn't think that's a viable expansion route - already expressed my view that EU thinks 10 launches a year is more then enough to cover all bases.
How do you typically deal with "missing features" from SQLite (e.g. stored procedures)? Do you use extensions like https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean in production?
Court: Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers severance
AFAIK the world record for this is held by Moscow, where some lines run every 80 seconds in regular schedules operation. That's departure to departure, and it's virtually impossible to go below that, because the speed of humans boarding becomes the limiting factor. Some automated lines claim 75 seconds as a theoretical limit, but AFAIK nobody actually does this.
Thinking about this some more, does this system not already exist for the disk quota calculation in the kernel? How does that work? Would it be possible for a tool to scan the disk once, and then get information about file modifications from the system that's used to update quota info?