skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
often problems that impact a small segment is blown out of proportion and this is a classic marketing strategy. throw in anonymous social media handles and boom you created the illusion a need for a problem you dont have or likely have

but the reality is if you dont have 1M ARR from EU there really isn't enough on the table to matter. So you owe 1k in Hungary or UAE, they are not getting INTERPOL to bust down your door especially if you dont live in EU or have legal entity in EU.

It's amazing how rampant crowd thinking is among software engineers and its exploited constantly by a gaslighting crowd who show up to spread the fears until it becomes just accepted as a real risk.
Because we can barely get a temporary one working now. I'm sure they'd love to be able to make a permanent one, it's just not in the cards yet.
Please don't cross into name-calling, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. That only makes the thread worse.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
FWIW, the Patrick Cousot* perspective on abstract interpretation is that literally everything is an application of abstract interpretation. It's kind of a meme in the PL community at this point, but he's really all-in on it and even begins his course with a self-deprecating joke about this viewpoint.

*Patrick Cousot and his late wife, Radhia, are credited with inventing abstract interpretation.
> A tritone is very dissonant

I’m sure he didn’t mean it literally, but to be pedantic a tritone is only moderately dissonant. A minor second is very dissonant.
Exactly. I think people don't realize just how much they're going to need in order to live an arbitrarily long retirement. Retiring with only $200K is pretty much a retirement into severe poverty. $200K at a 3% draw-down is $6,000 a year. If you want to eat into your principal, do a 4% draw-down and you can live on a whopping $8,000 a year. And that's not today's dollars, that's the value of the dollar in the future.

US Poverty level for a couple retiring today is $20K/yr. You need $500K saved up to get that kind of income in retirement. And next year, inflation means you need even more.
Wonder how the join the arteries to it. Any pressure seems likely to kill biological tissue, and while it might grow on, presumably that would take a while. Maybe some kind of glue?
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/350/
I'm also constantly reminded that there was a counterflow brain-drain, from the US to Europe, both before and after WWII, largely of African-Americans fleeing oppression not just in the US South, but throughout the country.

James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Nina Simone. Others who didn't necessarily emigrate to Europe did spend much time there: Paul Robeson, John Coltrane, Lillian Smith, Alain Locke, and Ethel Waters amongst them.

You can also see patterns in movement of creative and technical talent within the US. There is of course the Great Migration from the South to northern, mostly industrial cities. California collected creative and technical talent from across the country, to a much greater extent than already established and notable Eastern states with large cities (New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, ...). In some specific cases (the establishment of Hollywood), we know that lax patent enforcement and ready escape to Mexico was a strong draw for the early film industry against Edison's lawyers. I suspect that in addition to the much-ballyhooed physical climate, reduced social strictures, ease of land development, and rapidly-growing metro regions particularly near Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, contributed. There's also of course the WWII and post-war / Cold War military economy which played a tremendous role.

You also saw organisations such as RAND moving wholesale to the West in the 1950s, for a combination of factors: more space, closer to major aerospace operations. Entire families were shipped west by railroad.

My hypothesis is that intellectual and creative talent seek freedom, in both positive (opportunity) and avoidance of negative (oppression, suppression, abuse) senses. As much as we talk of capital being more mobile than labour, creative labour being concentrated in a few individuals is especially mobile, and quite sensitive to conditions of oppression. One obvious risk shares some parallels with a paradox of transportation infrastructure: as transportation improves, formerly greenfield / undeveloped regions become developed and land values explode such that further improvements in transportation become exceedingly expensive, both financially and politically. In the intellectual and creative realms, moats and ramparts, institutional rigidities, commercial and political allegiances, etc., emerge, which actively retard further progress.

The challenge is in identifying where new regions (in the physical and geographic sense) of opportunity might be emerging.
Django is the perfect example. It has sane defaults and consistent convention, but isn’t enforced. It’s just Python you can modify however you need as you grow, you’re not locked into any vendor, it has batteries included that will solve problems for you later you aren’t even aware you’ll need to solve up front.

But most importantly, it creates a shared cognitive model that drastically lowers friction within a team.

The author is saying, there isn’t an open solution with strong convention but also escape hatches that enables a data team to hold a shared mental model (like Django).

And that’s consistent with my experience. Anyone on our team can jump into a Django issue, but looking at someone’s flavor of SQL thing they built is like, “give me a day to wrap my brain around what you’re doing and what data this is and I’ll get back to you”.

One problem is, I think, that SQL is great at handling data that’s consistently structured and normalized, but most data projects are loaded with one-off exceptions, and SQL is less great at handling those, and is better handled in a general purpose programming language. And that’s where some kind of “structured chain of units of work” is needed.
You don’t need to imagine it. 60% of the US is overweight or obese. People have weaknesses and want to compensate.

Imagine calling out people below the poverty line for being “weak-willed” that they choose not to work harder or smarter.

People can’t make the right choices for many reasons and that’s a weakness. That’s being human. The question is how to help with that as telling people “stop sucking” doesn’t seem to be a good intervention.
Looks like that one was posted later* so we'll merge that thread hither. Thanks!

* (you can tell from the item IDs)
NIST releases a tool for testing AI model risk
> Google et al are adding padding and white space to make their UIs more accessible for more people. It's not just eye sight we're talking here, but also physical issues with clicking/tapping small targets accurately (e.g. someone with Parkinson's), and also neuro divergent issues where a page full of text or whatever can disorient just by sheer amount of stuff happening on-screen at once (e.g. epilepsy)

We’re not in a physical world and FAANG is not bound by money (no, I don’t care about budget allocated to specific teams, I’m sure Android team has Pichai’s credit card), so why are we settling for lowest common denominator instead of creating best UIs for every user type?
I didn't hear that spot as a tritone substitution, personally, but a sort of non-harmonic counterpoint move ("passing tones" or "setup tones" to 19th century theorists).

More broadly, a lot of people like to point out wild 20th century chords in baroque music, but they really didn't think in terms of chords, and as such these pseudo-chords don't have the same function that modern versions of chords do. In particular, Scarlatti was a prolific user of the partimento method of composition, which is a slightly of abstracted version of counterpoint, and his sonatas are pretty good examples of pieces written with this in mind. The method revolves around intervals and movement between voices rather than chords. It's normal for someone thinking in counterpoint to produce some very "modern" "chords" because that's a common consequence of following nothing but voice leading to produce a piece of music.

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

See also Rick Beato mis-analyzing Bach's counterpoint as containing a very "modern" maj7#5 chord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1f_tzBx6ko&t=1s
Just want to do a follow up and make a correction that the command to go from whatever to RAID 6 for data and RAID 1c3 for metadata in Btrfs is instead: `btrfs balance -dconvert=raid6 -mconvert=raid1c3 /` instead of what I originally posted
For the “For a few centuries after the Reformation, Protestant regions did have higher rates of literacy than Catholic or Orthodox regions” claim, the map in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Age_of_Enligh... supports that claim. It mentions ten countries. The four most literate were largely Protestant, the six least literate largely Catholic.
Show HN: SwipeSort – Tinder for Your Text Lists (PowerShell/Batch/EXE)
I've created SwipeSort, a tool that lets you rapidly categorize lines in a text file using a Tinder-like swipe interface. It's available as a PowerShell script, batch file, and Windows executable.

Key features:

- Left/right arrow keys to categorize

- Up arrow to rewind multiple steps

- Saves progress between sessions

- Configurable UI (verbose/minimal modes)

I developed SwipeSort mostly using ChatGPT and Claude, refining the concept and debugging issues as they arose. The AI assistants helped with the initial script structure, feature implementation, and documentation, while I provided the core concept, guided the development, and handled real-world testing and debugging.

It's particularly useful for quickly sorting through any text-based data that requires human judgment or subjective decision-making, such as book or video titles, things to keep/toss, etc.

GitHub: https://github.com/mollyrealized/swipesort

Feedback and contributions are welcome!
> I would still buy it and just moderate my use.

I think I'd still use it exactly the same amount (I fill 1-10 pages a day) but I'd be more careful about letting unused pages go to waste.
Not enough useless whitespace for your taste?
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of what you think of another commenter's comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's been a couple of years since my last deep-dive on Amiga development inside MacOS. I never did find smooth dev workflow: compile inside the emulated environment, or cross-compile from macos? Edit inside the emulated environment, or edit inside VS Studio? etc.

Has anyone found a slick and effective dev flow?
Your anger comes from your frustration, your frustration comes from realizing that you're wrong.

If you want to keep control of a company - or anything - within certain hands, then you can't sell that thing to others. As evident by millions of companies never having their shares publicly listed or sold on any market. If you sell, you have to accept that you don't have any control of who owns in the future. You can't have your cake and eat it. Not even Europeans can do that.

"People buying up European talent" - they can only buy if Europeans are willing to sell. Such victims...

This reminds me of people complaining about foreign investors buying up real estate. But of course, no blame is to be put on the greedy sellers who slurped up that juicy foreign money.
I feel there is a vast and pervasive misunderstanding of Social Security, and I want to shout from the rooftops: "It's an insurance policy! Literally! Anyone pretending it's an investment account is a banker trying to trick you into letting them take all the money!"

If you reframe SS/OASDI as "someday starving because unable to work insurance", many different facets of its rules and financing fall into logical place.

As is, I feel like I'm watching people paying premiums for "house burns down" insurance and then being angry about "their money" not being "all paid back" when their house never has any problems. ("That's not how it works, that's not how any of this works.")
I see you took a page out of the Bloomberg Terminal.
Just play an old version like 1.12 - IMO it’s the version that has most of the quality of life stuff like elytra but not too many new blocks
All living birds share an 'iridescent' ancestor
Was just frustratingly designing a new daw for myself and my needs in my head while playing the other day.

The options I’ve tried seem to all want to be a “kitchen sink” type, and sometimes do incredibly frustrating things, especially around file management.

Currently using Ardor as my daily driver on Ubuntu Studio.

If anyone has suggestions on better DAWs, or batteries included OS’ like Ubunutu Studio, that are FOSS I’d love to hear about your workflow.
I just introduced my kid to Minecraft and it's fascinating how quickly they take to it, but to my (internal silent) horror, they've added so much that changes the survival experience from the early days that it's not really the same any more.

Now there's villages which provide pre-made shelter, you can just trade and build up villager slaves to make all the resources for you, you can get a bed (which you find in all villages) which let's you skip the night phase completely, and they've even added in wings so people are flying everywhere.

Ironically they've taken the mining out of Minecraft (both the mines because you get resources elsewhere and the minecarts because every other mode of transport is better) and the survival out of survival mode.

Of course, I got bored and tried my hand at building a new and better survival mode and recapture that magic mixed with my own curiosities of making a natural world simulation:

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/au-naturel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMuTS7tevt4&pp=ygUKYWNvd2Fkb25...

So maybe I'm just playing the game in 2024 after all :)

And my kid loves creative.
I wonder what a good way to help developers improve the quality of their contributions would be
Back in the XP days it wasn't uncommon to have your only computer directly connected to a modem (probably ADSL or Cable/Coax, but dial-up was also still around).

I'm not entirely sure when it became the norm for modems to have routers (and thus NAT) built-in, but I assume it coincided with the rise of smartphones around 2008. I certainly remember buying a separate wifi routers to connect to the single ethernet port of the modem even post-dialup.
This seems to be one of those non-converging title sequences because no option satisfies everyone.

We eventually changed it to "Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry", even though this omits the anecdote which the thread is mostly about. People won't miss that if they see the article's own title though.
Can you not just do additional voluntary contributions? I.e. max out your matched contributions then I’m thinking most schemes will allow you to avc into your pension as much as you like, no need for a sal sac agreement. There will be limits to how much you can avc, I don’t think they’ll care if you exceed the £60k/year but you will because that’ll blow your tax free limit. They’ll probably only care if you avc so much you put yourself below min wage.

I might be missing something though, there might be a benefit to sal sac pension I don’t know about, if there is I’m. Definitely all ears!

Sal sac car does mean your salary agreement is reduced so you’re right, would affect mortgage application or credit in general. AVC’s don’t impact your salary but obv they do reduce your take home which a mortgage application will ask for anyway so prob not much diff between.

I haven’t taken the sal sac car option yet but I’m seriously considering it.
The vast majority of people aren't even taught how money works. There also seems to be as assumption with certain people that everyone has an interest in it because they do.

From an anecdotal point of view, I have never cared for money in the sense that I have not been busy maximizing my money whether it be salary, retirement, etc. not to mention "investments". I could not care to play the game of money/investments, I want to do other things with my time and headspace. However, in our Western society I'm forced to play the money game and to "be on top of it" otherwise later in life I am f*ked.

"Money" seems to be mostly an "interest" of some people and somehow we seem to have pivoted our entire society around that.
Oh you mean like the Middle East where it’s still legal? Or Africa where it’s still legal? When you want me to look up dates, should my research be when various American Indian tribes made it illegal?

My point with all of this is that humanity in general sucks. We only get better due to active, willful improvement.
Why that restriction? Deciding the direction employees work in is part of the CEO's job. If he directed them badly (say, to work on a project that fails because he misjudged the market), the company would make less money and it would be the CEO's fault.
Please make your substantive points without fulminating, no matter how wrong someone is about urban housing policy or you feel they are.

Your comment would be fine without the first bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does he install ZoneAlarm on it?
On the other hand, an example i've posted before: i want DaisyDisk for my iPhone. It will never be available as long as Apple can censor what's released for their phones.
Almost every American citizen of retirement age (currently 67) will receive a monthly social security check. Even if you never paid into the system (because for example you never worked a day in your life) you would get $943 for an individual and $1,415 for a couple.
I mean the act of signing things is also less common today. My parents put their signatures on credit card terminals and employment agreements; I grew up with contactless payments and Docusign.
This is interesting because it proves something to me about my vision and visual comprehension.

The "Grid" view is absolutely fine for me. The "Table" view is unworkable.

I have a lot of trouble scanning across lines like this, where I will lose which line I am on (when my glance shifts). This, I have realised, is due to the tendency to shift eye dominance slightly across to the right. (My eyes are subtly misaligned so I have some prism correction; a recent change to my prism correction has improved this situation for me.)

This particular presentation has the indicator line in the low/high column placed so that it makes this accidental row shifting (which is always upwards) even worse.

For me, the line graph would be better off either as the background to the cell, or towards the bottom of the cell. And the rows would need zebra-striping, subtly.

The lesson from me, a fast and able reader who is not vision- or cognitively-impaired is: don't assume that you can put stuff across wide lines in tables like this. Provide affordances so people can hold onto the "row" as they scan across. The keyline separators are not enough, and the hover-over background change is not usable on a touch device.

As it is, when I encounter stuff like this, I often have to un-maximise the window and reduce the window height so I can scroll and use the bottom of the window or the title bar of another one to provide a consistent "edge" to see the data on. If I am using my iPad, I have been known to use a piece of paper or card.
Is Tech only Software?

If so, Apple and Nvidia won‘t qualify. They‘re more of a hardware company.

BTW Bosch‘s main business is automotive supplies. They‘re doing everything down to having their own fabs for automotive chips. It‘s just completely invisible to us as consumers that‘s why you consider it a dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and power tools company.
Hey everyone, it's the author here! Many of you have made an inaccurate assumption about something that I should have clarified in the article.

As a hiring manager you do cold out reach and meet people well before they are ready to look for a new job. You build a relationship over time so that when they are ready for a new job they reach out to you. That's what happened in this case.

I appreciate the feedback that I was not clear about that. I agree with you all that spending months actually interviewing is horrendous and unfair.

Let me know if you have more questions or thoughts!
I would think thriftyness would actually end up influencing your handwriting.-

PS. That'd make for an interesting study ...
My ISP didn't switch to combination devices until somewhere between 2013 (only got a modem) and 2018 (forced modem upgrade, included built-in router this time).
Clearly I do accept it since that’s what I said in the quoted text??
Au contraire. Appreciated.-
The secret of Minecraft is that it's the Lego game without Lego corporate involvement.

Or at least it was before MS bought it.

These days you have to find servers that disable the chat censorship if you're an adult that plays with adults.

And no, it's not kids only, as 90% of the other comments probably say.
Very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s schoolwork.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/a-few-blockbuster-podcast...
I would personally vote for Postgres and one of the many vector indexing extensions over Elasticsearch. I think Elasticsearch can be more challenging to maintain. Certainly a matter of opinion though. Elasticsearch is a very reasonable choice.
Your point is senselessly blunt without context, doubly so with incorrect context.
TIL 'technically' is the new 'ackshelly'
“Over-approximation” sounds like an oxymoron.
very cool, led me to find https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html and semgrep is taken so another symlink it is, w2vgrep?
Crypto fanatics flock to Trump, hoping to 'make Bitcoin great again'
That is just amazing!
> People are irrational. I have a loved one who told me they can’t afford car insurance, but subscriptions to Spotify, Netflix, Duolingo, and uses DoorDash, etc.

Yes, that's the Avocado Toast problem. You point out that maybe, just maybe, they don't need all of these optional luxury expenses if they can't afford to do "normal adulting". The response is always a cornucopia of excuses and fatalism: "Saving $5 is not going to make me financially stable!" and "There's no way I'll ever retire--I might as well live a little today!" and "I can't just eat rice and beans every day!" and "Why shouldn't someone have just one little luxury to make them feel happy?" and "The cost of my flagship smartphone is trivial, just 1% of my student debt!"

It's not the actual Toast that's the problem, it's the attitude that excuses the toast.
> No lava buckets

But that was available since InDev :'(. Cheers though, I appreciate the points you make and I agree with them. The mod adds too much realism for my taste, but most of the removals are very nice.
This is really great! Thanks. I wish that all the pages you can select had a search bar at the top. I noticed that the search bar only seems to show matching research article titles that show up on the first page with all the cs.xx article listings (and will not display a matching research paper title
that does not display until you scroll down in the particular arxiv subject area).
I noticed this bug with a cs.ir research article that had the word "topic" in the
title (the article was "Unveiling Legitimacy in the unexpected events context : An Inquiry into Information System Consultancy companies and international organizations through Topic Modeling Analysis.")
ah. was confused by the timestamping on my end (i.e. 41080654 shows just '2 hours ago' and 41086952 shows '7 hours ago'). must be some other inner-workings. but thanks for pointing out IDs to me for future reference.