skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will also comment about the article.

> If you were born between March 21 and April 19, your astrological sign is said to be Aries. But this was only true for a while, back when the system was set up in 600 BC.

Actually, it is still approximately true, although the equinox does not occur exactly on March 21 every year. The beginning of the astrological sign Aries is at the time when the equinox does occur, which is not always the same time of day.

> From March 11 to April 18, the Sun is actually in the constellation of Pisces!

This is irrelevant. The Sun may be in that constellation, but the constellation of Pisces is not the same as the astrological sign named Pisces. Astrological signs are a measurement of ecliptic longitude.

> The science behind astrology may have its roots in astronomy but don't confuse these two disciplines.

This is correct, but it does not mean that astrologers use an incorrect position of the Sun.

> The ecliptic, or the path of the sun as it's perceived from the revolving Earth, passes through the constellations that formed the Zodiac: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Astrologers skip a 13th constellation that also resides on the ecliptic: Ophiuchus.

Again, astrological signs are not the same as constellations. (Also, there are no constellations named "Scorpio" and "Capricorn"; their names are "Scorpius" and "Capricornus".) Astrologers do not "skip" Ophiuchus; but there is not an astrological sign by that name.

There are good mathematical reasons to have twelve astrological signs and not thirteen. They named them after twelve of the thirteen constellations which cross the ecliptic (there are also constellations which do not cross the ecliptic), but astrological signs are not and never were the same things as constellations; they are a unit of measurement of ecliptic longitude.

> Ancient astrologers grouped the 12 signs according to the classical elements.

Yes, and modern astrologers still do. Additionally, there are also the three modes (cardinal, fixed, mutable). Together, these are like a residue number system, but with elements/modes instead of numbers.

> The first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere was once marked by the zero point of the Zodiac.

It still is, if you are using the equinox of date (which is common; it isn't wrong, although it is not the only way to do it). The first astrological sign is named "Aries", therefore the zero point is called "0 Aries" (like how the first day of the year is called "January 1", because the first month is called "January").

> The constellation Aries encompassed the first 30 degrees of the ecliptic; from 30 to 60 degrees was Taurus; from 60 to 90 degrees was Gemini; and so on for all 12 constellations of the Zodiac.

This was never true; they were never all encompassing exactly thirty degrees of the ecliptic. Astrological signs did and still do.

They also link to Astrodienst. At the time I am writing this, the Sun's ecliptic longitude is 20 Leo 50'21". This is the same as 140 degrees, and fifty arcminutes and twenty-one arcseconds.
I definitely agree that it depends on how you use the data, although that seems to bleed into a judicial rather than an investigatory role.

In the case of this geofence kind of data request, though, it seems to self-enforce that a little bit, though, right? If you cast too broad a net, then you “catch” hundreds of people, and the jury rolls their eyes at you pointing the finger at any arbitrary one of them. If you construe the request narrowly, then you get a small number of leads, but those leads are in actual fact that much more incriminating by dint of how precise they are.

In some sense it reminds me of the way the squishier sciences dealt with p-hacking by normalizing preregistration: you kind of have to set the “power” of your request ahead of time, or the black box that spits out the results becomes less useful to you (and less convincing to the people you have to make agree with you).
Fun read! So close to unlimited point generation and process tickets for those fancy flights~

I would say if you wanted to generate "free" flights, which is entirely possible, learn how GDS works and the workflow for a ticket purchase and how a coupon is attached ;) but that would probably be going to far then just normal poking and secure disclosure but there is enough techdebt that if you know how one airline processes a ticket, it will work on quite a few other too!

You can also do very tricky things too that would process as normal for a majority of airlines too - event though most airlines may fall onto amadeus/sabre, you'd be surprised (or not really) at the front end that will allow almost anything - and "farecodes" that could rewrite a ticket which have been exposed to customer facing endpoints that are best verified, with only an active PNR.

Then again, I do recall a famous post on here about australian politician and someone jusing using view source to verify a quantas ticket.
Here’s a technological concept that deserves all the hype in the world and will never get it:

- reliability
With lawsuit against advertisers, Elon Musk plumbs new depths of asininity
I don't know if the issue is identity as much as it is the cost of making the decision. All of those things are difficult to change. It's sort of like the sunk cost fallacy.

When having sensitive conversations I think it's important to consider how much it would cost someone to shift their belief.
Many companies have no choice but to self-host to comply with export control regulations. We use GitLab and drool over GitHub the whole time. But this is one advantage for GitLab, fundamentally we won't use GitHub because we need to control the data ourselves. Think for example of the defence industry, it's a big deal.
happy to see my chrome extension in the list (Chatgpt Writer)
>complains about polarized politics

>writes article whose content is obsessed with left vs. right
Lot of stuff can skirt by until it doesn't. That's how stuff like Beeper suddenly explodes into a kerfluffle in a matter of days over some dang blue bubbles.
It means that user feels the user interface is quite responsive.

It's not a very useful metric. A user having a flaky internet connection with high latency and low bandwidth and intermittent disconnections would complain that the platforms he uses are "slow".

Or a service is just bogged down by too many users but would be quite responsive if not overloaded.

EDIT: I was not writing about JIRA specifically. I agree that JIRA is ALWAYS slow. Ten years ago I had to wait five seconds after a button click. However I also had to handle a complain that something was slow just because that customer's internet was shit.

EDIT 2: I remember ten years ago an especially perverse variation. A friend of mine was complaining about the bad quality of video even after having upgraded his internet connection. The problem was asymmetric bandwidth. His friend had bad upstream and my friend just saw jerky movements and ugly artifacts and it was unusable for communication in a Signed Language.

I learnt that day: if something is slow, then it is not always easy to understand why. My friend was very disappointed in me.
Scm-manager [https://scm-manager.org/]
Oh thanks for this! I had the same question and assumed the Omega branding and Olympic rings were superimposed onto the image; I never assumed it would actually be an animated advertisement timed perfectly to match the runners' pace! I assume they had a different backdrop speed for the women's race, according to their projected pace? Or would the ad look squished for them? (or alternatively, the runners stretched?)

Now that I look at it, the logos in the men's photo finish look stretched, so maybe it's calibrated for the women's pace.
> On May 2nd, 2023, we identified that the Flask session secret for the points.com global administration website used to manage all airline tenant and customer accounts was the word "secret". After discovering this vulnerability, we were able to resign our session cookies with full super administrator permissions.

Seriously?
No one is dropping the term AI. There's only one culprit in all this: McKinsey. They are never the first to write the research, but when they do everyone follows.

> McKinsey research estimates that gen AI could add to the economy between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually while increasing the impact of all artificial intelligence by 15 to 40 percent.

When McKinsey releases a report, all product managers will present it in the next marketing slide and the ad budget will follow. If it fails to materialize, it's never their fault of course. The leader in market research is to blame.

Google has no business advertising Gemini on TV. Like who is the target really? But an enterprise not embracing AI after the biggest Market Research firm says it's the future? I'm putting my money on Long Island Ice Tea AI next.

[0]: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
A bittersweet post for the old programmers like me who have heard how we can't learn new things and how our dated skills make for a poor culture fit. I used Unix, vi, and mechanical keyboards forty years ago. Fad and fashion.

I saw DHH present Rails at OSCON in 2004. Many of the follow-up questions asked about which editor he used (it was TextMate) and the coding font. I can almost hear the mechanical keyboards clacking away at neovim installation.
Wait... in what year was this comment written ? ;)

There's type hinting and IDEs do navigate it.
> After using gitlab for a year I can boldly claim that it is inferior to github in every feature with subtle things being better in github which add up to a far better experience.

I find this remark baffling by how much it contrasts with reality. Others in this thread already commented on GitHub using terms like "mediocre". I wouldn't go that far but I am indeed aware that GitLab feels it works and is expected to work reliably, specially CICD which, unlike GitHub, they succeeded in turning it into a solved problem.

It's even more baffling reading bold claims like "Gitlab tries to do a lot and never did anything that well" when only a couple of years ago GitHub Actions were renowned for not even being prod-ready,whereas GitHub CICD just works and works well without requiring investing any thought into it at all.
incremental CI is absolutely the way to go
You just linked a shell script that writes an email.
I also stayed at Planet Hollywood with no housekeeping, although I wasn't around during the day to determine if there was an inspection.
One note, the 15 minutes blocks are work killers. I'm assuming it depends on the person, but I'm currently working to reorganize my calendar so that I have big 2 hours chunks of work.
one hour + interruption doesn't work, been discussing this with my manager and pm for a while (i'm a team lead, so i have plenty meetings, but i also code)
Falling into a Neutron Star (Simulation) [video]
Sure, I suppose.

I do want to re-state that if the majority of Patreon users (not creators but users, subscribers) agreed with you, Patreon already wouldn't exist. There is no conspiracy among creators to keep the platform afloat, they are constantly criticizing it. There are alternatives. Many of the alternatives have their own problems; the actual competitive coverage in this space is very low. But the biggest problem that all of them have is that they have a fraction of the userbase that Patreon has.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything, as far as I know you already use alternate services and you already support creators directly through other means. This is not an accusation against you, it is a general encouragement to everyone who dislikes Patreon, to please very literally put their money where their mouth is and go subscribe to creators on other platforms.
How I Git push from my laptop to my website
Freetube.io has it implemented already few years.
>I think this is a dangerous idea, that humans are just violent and abusive by nature and it's impossible to change.

All evidence points to this being the case. We have many millennia of history showing it to be true, over and over.

>It's something that is learned and taught and passed down, like anything else, which means it can be changed.

How and what to eat is also something that is learned and taught and passed down, but it's not something that can be changed without radically changing human physiology.

>and sooner or later we will make new bombs.

Of course, because if you don't, someone else will. Just look at Russia and North Korea.

>To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women.

Good luck with that. As long as people enjoy dominating and exploiting others, it can't change.
Gitlabs increased revenues are only due to price hiking and removing of lower tiers.

For example my bill with no additional needed features has risen from 6€ per user per month or so to €29 in something like 2-3 years.

I’m sure any serious buyer would look through that and realise some major churn is about to happen as renewals hit. - especially as they will be wanting customer/rev growth.
Not that much different from the recent crypto bubble TBH
I was hesitant to learn Go after 10+ years of Python, but then I started work on a side project where performance translated into actual money savings for me. My Python code routinely took between 100-200ms to run. I was happy, but I was also curious if I could do better without rewriting it in C/C++. Go proved to be easy to learn and being compiled it was much easier to deploy (that was before I could rely on Docker for packaging). The big surprise came when I ran my code and found out that each request would take 10-20ms to process same payloads. I have never written a line of code in another language on the backend ever since. The cherry on top is support for multithreading/multi-core CPUs. I've been in Python by day client work), Golang by night (my own work) mode for many years now. It's a great language. OK, I do admit to learning Rust, but... it's just out of curiosity, not out of need for anything "better".
GitHub has a self-hosted version of their enterprise product for that market:

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.14/admin/over...
The government and medical establishment has watched as cancer rates have risen over the last few generations. They're getting better at treating the things yes, as they help us get more over it.

Take mammograms for example. Some European countries have stopped using them all together because even the US admits it raises the likelihood of getting breast cancer. But the US medical system will tell you it's worth increasing your chances of breast cancer from mammograms, because they help you catch breast cancer you may have gotten in other ways earlier, thus making it more treatable.

Not a bet I would take personally. But women are rarely told that. Every women I've told that to is shocked.
The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist
Tiniri: A set of color themes from vlad.studio
That's a convenient generator for pull requests, sure, but a pull request is still a human mechanism, not a git mechanism. The "pull request" itself is still just a message requesting a pull, not some concept that git (either the commands or on-disk representation) is specifically aware of.

To that point, GitHub still does not use git-request-pull or even pulls to implement PRs, so the name is still not correct there. GitLab's naming is more accurate.
There is also git-as-svn, which provides access to a git repository through SVN: https://git-as-svn.github.io/git-as-svn/htmlsingle/git-as-sv...
I hate the new thing
I don’t give a shit what’s written in Apples TOS. If they wrote they were entitled to a 10000% processing fee, would that be OK?

Apple are using their status as software/hardware vendor to force their users to use their App Store. This is obviously illegal. There is no excuse for this.
> They literally offer no significant advantage other than being an alternative to Github.

They literally offer self-hosting at the same price as the SaaS version, which is still significant to some of us.

I'll go rather go back to paper than to just move every last bit of my companies data into the hands of a single company (looking at you, Microsoft).
AI being literally marketed to consumers in order to court investors is not the same thing as “AI is not being marketed to consumers” though
It seems there's also a "Coca Cola distinguished professor of marketing" and a "Yahoo! chair of information systems technology" too.

It's gross
Can you provide a link or two so one could read up on what you've mentioned in your post?
TESTICLE I believe
Why does it get no money then? The pricing is the same.
Is this really true? Maybe it just makes sense to put high demand refrigerated products in the refrigerated room near the loading dock where the refrigerated trailer is unloaded?
>As a final note our experience has been that the higher you go the more consistent and reasonable review becomes, but the front-line reviewers often take stupid, unreasonable positions like you'd see in a Hacker News comment

A sadly universal experience. Especially when the not-so-secret is that that frontline is often contracted or outsourced. They do not understand (by design) the subtleties of submission of creative content. They are simply cheap help to do the bare minimum to remove liability, and if a few false negatives happen during that time, oh well. thousands of other apps in the sea.

So like everything else, if you havev the money, clout, or simply sheer persistence (which shouldn't be necessary) then you can force yourself to someone who can actually help. But few will get there, even with persistance.
They should avoid actually deploying the massively invasive and power hungry anti-feature as well
> Or break up the damn covert cabal that’s the 3 major bios producers

I'm curious about that - why isn't there more competition, especially when everything you need to do it without them is easily available online? Like, not just specs, all the actual code you'd need is open source and AIUI friendly to use. Frankly, why aren't most motherboards shipping with lightly-patched coreboot+edk2?
All Kinds of Licenses (2023)
> Anything that can put a dent in that is going to far outweigh any potential risks and side effects.

Ha! Explain that to the anti-vaxxers.
Even if it is a typo, isn’t 0.113 above the limit of 0.005?

More than 22x the limit.

Natural gas has significant levels of mercury in it apparently, so it’d make sense to see levels like this.

My other question is how is the environmental report so screwed up? It looks like it’s mostly typos
AI is impossible to pitch to customers because its performance is not measurable. Could be good one day (remember Siri in 2017?) and crap the next.

How would you pitch a feature with erratic behavior?
We used a real estate agency focused CRM but it is just too niche and might expose my client. On the more popular end, I used hubspot, and a little bit salesforce. The main thing was any CRM that provided reminders. So, I often used Google Sheets and airtable and calendar events. Tried to convince the clients to use Monica or Nat for personal crm but they prefered Google Sheets.
Message Security in Matrix
> What do you think has changed since the 1960s? There were high paying private industry union protected skilled jobs, but many people went to work for NASA

We were spending more money. There was competition among contractors. And there were skilled low-level labourers from WWII.
Beijing is pretty humid in the summer, I’m not sure where you get dry from (although my first summer in Beijing wasn’t until 2002, not quite thirty years ago). Dust storm season is spring and pollution season is winter (especially when they get inversions). Fall is the best season to tour in Beijing if you want clean air and no dust, the air won’t start getting bad until November, although moving all the farmers away from coal heating has improved things a lot (they still have bad inversions, but like LA and Salt Lake City). Two strokes have been banned for awhile, electric bikes were already taking over in 2002, you already could no longer find the tuktuks that I remember from my first trip in 1999.
Odds are their "front line" reviewers are not highly technical, so Apple wouldn't want to commit to that. They are more than large enough to afford a few inefficiencies and pick fights the few times something like iSH "slip in".
Really? Current mainstream political shibboleths are more important than for example their stance on module versioning or on whether C code should have a right to exist?
The US constitution is all about protecting small groups from big groups. It’s a feature not a bug.

If you want to comfortably win elections you just have to win by more than a percent or two.
Astrology is a method of divination that does not involve random selection. If you want to choose randomly, there are other methods of divination, that do involve random selection (e.g. cartomancy).

Sometimes it does not matter that much if the method of divination involves random selection or not. And, sometimes it does not matter much if a pseudo random number generation is actually deterministic anyways. Sometimes these features are beneficial but sometimes not.
Jira is slow all the time. Sourcehut might, potentially, in contrived circumstances be at risk of becoming slow, but it's so well optimized that it's an outside risk, rather than a guarantee. Surely you understand the difference between the two categories of software?
There are a lot of people who care about the public, from social workers to teachers to city planners to the Dalai Lama. Let’s not be overly cynical here.
Yudkowsky's not a vegetarian though, is he? Not ideologically at least, unless he changed since 2015.
Brazil plane crash – Former NTSB investigator weighs in on possible cause [video]
If you have long running projects, e.g. 10-15+ years you will likely migrate from A to B (sometimes because A is so legacy you cannot even google its docs anymore and/or because B is super easy to hire for compared to the legacy A), it's based on requirements and scale.

Though in this example migrating to something else from tailwind will likely have the tooling (codemods) ready (or should have at least).
> You can if you know both Bob and Steve because you are their manager

Apollo involved almost half a million people. You cannot manage that on gut feel.
> Every programmer worth their salt must learn Perl, Bash and using these command line utils. There are chances you are writing lots of code which just doesn't have to get written.

I have written a rather lot of sh (I target POSIX sh, not bash) and I'm decently familiar with common cli tools (coreutils, moreutils, etc.). IME awk+sed cover most of the "fancy" text manipulation just fine; what am I missing out on if I skip perl?
It will have been 40 years in 2027. Give it another 3 years and I think we'll be close. It will be a $10 part (ok, maybe a $50 part) in a $3000 phone.
No, but there will be. Besides SpaceX there is also Rocketlab who has a CEO rocket nerd in charge.
> Stuff like integrations that don't seem to really serve any purpose other than to say they are integrated.

I don't think integrations are the example you think it is. The ones I tried work well and make it trivial to setup features that would otherwise feel like papercuts. I'm talking about things like being able to handle gitlab events without having to manage anything or provide your own event-handling infrastructure. If you have web hooks you need invoke or react to, as anyone who runs full CICD and cares about blocked pipelines does, with GitLab you don't need to worry about exposing custom endpoints and write controllers. For many, that is the difference between using notifications or not.
There are plenty of cities in the US that don’t require owning a car either.