skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Aside on why I appear blasé: I grew up riding across a heavily trafficked bridge to get to school that was aggressively but unsuccessfully bombed by the allies. They once found a big one and closed the bridge for a few days while they removed it, but there's no reason to believe that there aren't more to be found buried in the mud.)

Well they didnt go off when they were supposed to and haven't gone off in 80 years -> there's a good chance there's something about them preventing them from going off.

The main danger is that disturbing them could remove the inhibitor. Also, age can make them unstable.

This is why we blissfully ignore the known unknown bombs that are everywhere in Europe but are extremely careful when we discover and try to remove one.
Splinter definitely implies separating from the parent entirely. A “spinoff” would be a related corporate entity.
The product will automatically execute runbooks for you. So far we've focused on using runbooks customers already have, since they know they work for them. We've also added the ability to turn of automatic execution for cases like a suggested runbook, so the customer can make any edits if necessary before approving it to be executed automatically.

Yea, this is a big challenge for us. We're using a variety of strategies to make sure hallucinations are rare, but that's why we're also committed to not executing actions that modify your cluster unless explicitly specified in a runbook
Of course, there not thing wrong with algorithms, until you go above and beyond and try to force everyone to obey it's recommendations.

Which they did.
California doesn't count because they have a de-facto landed gentry.

In 1978 they passed a ballot initiative[0] that locks in property tax rates until a home is sold or renovated. This was further amended[1] to allow generational transfers of those rates. The end result is an extreme disincentive to sell land and a class of homeowners with favorable tax treatment who want the state to be coated in amber. Any market intervention is useless without addressing the harms caused by the current property tax regime and the people who benefit from it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...
> why the second group ("the pure institution for institution sake" mindset) tends to take over the organisation.

Because they can focus 100% of their time and effort on controlling the organization, whereas the first group can only focus the time and effort on that that they can spare from getting the actual work done that they are in the organization to do.
What are "network locations" in this context?
Wow that looks like an amazing product TBH. If I wouldn't have a new laptop I would try it out.
Do Not Add the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) to SystemD
Societal crisis? Say what?
When almost all the money is going to the software and setup, it sure shouldn't cost less to do it yourself. It takes money to make a robust solution, plus healthy profit, but that money is spread across every customer.

Renting equipment is an entirely different issue, but I get the impression that the equipment cost is a pretty negligible percent of the number being discussed.
The Bolshoi does excellent opera and ballet.

Private US health care is way more expensive than basically anywhere else in the world, while delivering worse outcomes than most places.

Want to trade anecdotes all day? We can do that. Or you can address the question at hand seriously, as I suggested before.
We learned that freedom of speech is not an absolute right that trumps all others, but a right to be balanced against other rights.
Am I the only one who gets mildly annoyed by the plural in the title? Singular would be just fine - true, precise, without any vague implications.
1- That would throw out serverless with (free) unlimited use (A la PocketHost)

2- Then getting a third party to set up Dokku and then using that would qualify
(Because it'd be the same as getting AWS to setup their server abstraction)
The platform is serverless, you hosting it probably not, maybe server-light, as you setup the abstraction and use that for many apps
Uh, if you are employed by a US company, they absolutely have the technical ability to screen record everything you do 24/7 on their hardware, and have the legal right to do so. Right now.

Cops have LESS accountability than your average office worker.
I'm not aware of any that don't include a floating option.
Didn't Gnome want to do add tiling?

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-windo...

(hn link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880235)

whatever happened to it
I get your point but Michelin is a global company, that manufacturers in over 60 countries. Maybe leave the "Chinese" part out and go with just "cheap tires".
sorry for no subtitles, but the context is her saying she got married by one of the Argentinian early patriots (?) https://youtu.be/AS3aue2B7Ak
It means it doesn't run on specific servers that you manage.
Money Has Dried Up Startups Are Folding One After Another – Tech News
Looks like impossible to use it with just the one screen, as you are then looking at the back of the display. Don't think this is gonna be a great success. The other 'folding'/double display laptops seem to have a more practical layout.
Most laws have preambles and records of the debates to help with their intent.

The theory of strict construction is a protection in our legal system. Otherwise you'll end up with a system similar to the insurance you're complaining about - generalized rules, you won't know the outcome going into it, and they can find ways to make the rules for the desired outcome. (This stuff happens in the legal system today, it would just get immensely worse)
Not being able to have root on your own device is a downside of GrapheneOS, not a benefit.
>However, Coolify’s explosive growth in 2024 suggests we’re witnessing a different level of adoption and impact on the wider software community.

This worries me about the state of Github more than anything else. For the past couple years now we've been seeing these "viral" repos that catch on for one reason or another, get tens of thousands of stars in a few months (in part due to posts like this), and then languish. Time was that a few thousand Github stars really meant something; that a project had steadily gained support over years and was at a place that was production ready for the masses. Not so anymore.
Directionally that's true, but as a counterexample, I've never really had a need for anything > 10 Mbit/s while working from home, and maybe 50 Mbit/s for VOD streaming in the evening.

Much more important than high peak data rates was getting those 10 Mbit/s consistently throughout the workday, and in both uplink as well as downlink.

For that, top speeds per individual connection are almost meaningless; what matters is a not-oversubscribed network. I nominally got 1 Gbit/s, but during Covid often saw that slow down to 0.3 Mbit/s during business hours.

I'd much rather pay for 100 Mbit/s with an SLA (maybe something like "at least 50 Mbit/s to your city's top three POPs at the 99th percentile or you don't pay for the entire month"?) than for "up to 7 Gigabit!!!" with none.
> I agree in some sense, but spirit of the law also creates very uneven playground and leaves a lot of questions.

That happens anyway though, as much of law in Common Law systems is only settled by precedents, jurisprudence, etc. Even the US's Constitution interpretation is up to the courts when questions arise, that's the courts' job anyhow.

At least working with the spirit of the law allows ways to prevent loopholes in a way that the letter of the law process only allows if new legislation is passed to cover those loopholes.
Usually, you can get/download them from the manufacturer..

In true LMGTFY fashion, i searched it for you :)

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...

There you go ;)

Print it and put it behind your left sun visor which is usually the place first responders go look for it (LHD vehicle presumed).
I didn't say that America "shaped" the internet, I said that America invented it, which is a fact that you've admitted.
The second screen can fold all the way around, making it a single (thick) screen with knyboard.
The Long Road to Ropeless Fishing
So are Ford assembly line workers, but they don't get to kill people and then withhold evidence from the record for some reason.
If you don't know why society is dragging it's feet on wiping out, you should probably educate yourself before making such a suggestion.

Mosquitos suck, literally, and I despise them, but they are a critical link in the ecosystems they live in.

Everybody wants to save the bees because they make honey and aren't assholes like Wasps, but bees are far from the only pollinators.

Without Mosquitos, a lot of animals a few steps up the food chain suffer, including bats, birds, larger insect predators like dragonflys, but also frogs and fish.

Female mosquitos are the ones that are most problematic, since they need to consume blood for nutrition for reproduction, but mosquitos also consume nectar and are pollinators.

Wiping out mosquitos would probably be achievable, but it would also kick the ladder out from under ecosystems that are already extremely fragile at a time when we are in the middle of the largest extinction event in human history (and potentially mammalian history, depends how far the holocene extinction proceeds).
I've also seen external (touch) monitors that come attached with a hinge to fit on normal laptop for similar effect. It seems very attractive but so far been a bit sceptic about the real-life experience to try one out.
> These outages didn’t happen because developers didn’t test software.

Funny how there is no mention of how modern tech companies offshored/outsourced and even fired manual QA testers. Developers aren’t testers. Do we expect a civil engineer to test the bridge they created before opening it to the public?

Also, with a move fast and break things mentality, stable and quality software went out the window for a continuous release of broken/buggy software.
https://archive.is/ls42g
Who’s the scamming Sales team? Datadog’s?

I’ve seen it happen first hand where our side promises to be on board, and we start cancelling meetings with them, don’t follow Datadog training, report we don’t have time this week on Datadog meetings, etc. All after having paid for it.

I don’t see how that’s Datadog’s fault, but I’m eager to understand it better.
Parent didn't say women were better at mental effort. They said it's as much mental as physical effort. Men's physical strength advantage decreases in significance as the distances increase.
What RPM did you ride at?
> There's some irony when I read that while my laptop is running Linux Mint, which in my perception is much superior in many ways to the competition.

I think building a browser is quite a bit more complicated than building a Linux distro. More akin to building an OS to compete with the big 3.
Website won't load - just me?
Code Hike 1.0: Turn Markdown into rich interactive experiences
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I believe I can answer that question as well.

Dokku essentially just started a container. If your server goes down, so did this container because it's just a single process, basically.

Other PaaS providers usually combine it with some sort of clustering like k3s or docker-swarm, this provides them with fail over and scaling capabilities (which dokku historically lacked). Haven't tried this k3s integration either myself, so can't talk about how it is nowadays.
>Also, the argument for taxing vacancies is city taxes are often set on the assumption of occupancy. A vacant unit doesn't contain a tax-paying worker. The vacancy tax adjusts for that.

Also important for commercial vacancies. The rent is too high, costs for commercial goods and services (and especially food and entertainment) is inflated by inflated rent so restaurants and consumer businesses can't stay open because they can't afford to pay the rent and lower prices to attract customers at the same time. And yet a huge proportion of the commercial space is just empty.

A vacancy tax makes up for that missing tax revenue from a running business and also just raises the quality of life for the people of your city by giving them opportunities for things to do and lowering the bar for entry into running a business.
The trick to hackathons is to do a bunch of work up front, so on the day of the hackathon it's

import pre_hackathon_work as stuff_I_did_during_hackathon.

and then you tweak it a bunch of the course of the hackathon and then you're all set.
Pavel Durov is questioned on 12 charges [pdf]
The advantage of uv is that it's a statically linked binary.

(Yeah, that feels like cheating)
I have a literal pager because my company wants to take over my phone with their software and have the ability to wipe it out any time they wish. No thanks, kiss my ass. They will not provide a work phone either. An actual pager was the only alternative.
The intended effect is that they follow the law, it's really not that complicated. Why do people assume that US-based companies have this inalienable right to break any law they want in every country around the world and that we all have to cheer for them when they do it?
Most people could do an ironman with a year of training. Lots of people do it. It's not that hard assuming you are just trying to finish.
I would love to see a story for where the yield is coming from
I'll try to explain it a different way:

I once had a manager who, after working with for 6-8 months, gave me the impression of "working for a child."

He would interrupt me all day for very trivial matters, and insist that I drop what I'm working on to address some email that just came in. (And what I was working on was from email that came in yesterday, that I dropped what I was working on yesterday to start...)

Any time I started any task that required any significant concentration, I'd start to panic that I'd be interrupted before the task was complete. (And if you understand concentration, you realize that you just can't pick up an interrupted task where you left off.)

---

Where it came to a head was, late one Friday afternoon, I realized I needed to cherry-pick or revert something in Git. At the time, I was a bit of a novice to Git. I skimmed an article on how to do what I needed to do in Git, decided it would take me ~10 minutes, and that I'd leave when I was done.

No sooner did I make it through the first paragraph did my manager interrupt me with a question. I answered it, and tried to find where I was reading (in the article that explained what I was trying to do). Then the guy next to me interrupted me with a technical question. The two of them continued, ping-ponging each other, me being stuck trying to read a paragraph, until I was able to construct one single command.

Then my manager pulled me into his office. I saw that he was putting together a presentation, and I spent 10 minutes answering his questions.

I thought I was done and could complete my ~10 minute task, but no. After I constructed the 2nd Git command, my manager and the guy next to me resumed ping-ponging me with questions.

Finally there was a lull, and I started constructing the 3rd git command. My manager comes up behind me, and in a rather condescending tone, said to me: "What are you doing here? It's a long weekend, go home!"

I responded, "I'm just trying to complete a 10-minute task before I go home, but I keep getting interrupted!"

My manager didn't apologize. He grunted, and then ran out of the door, like a child caught making a mess, but not owning up to it.

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This manager, BTW, is why laws in the linked article exist. He once "forgot" to tell me he wanted me to work on a Saturday. I had plans so I ignored his Saturday morning call. Thankfully he was fired (or quit, it was ambiguous) about a month or two later.

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So, are you like my old manager, constantly interrupting someone, and not having the emotional intelligence to apologize or to pace yourself? Or, do you think before you interrupt, give people a chance to pause what they are doing, and pace yourself so you aren't monopolizing others' time?
Positron – an upside-down and portable 3D printer
In Russia, questions swirl over arrest of Telegram boss
> You insure yourself against exceptional things.

This isn't strictly true. We insure against the unexceptional as well. With regards to your specific example, I think refunding the flu shot is perfectly reasonable and an elegant solution to solving the social problem of getting people to be healthy. We all pay higher premiums but only those that actually do the preventative stuff get any benefit. Put another way, if health care plans were $1/month cheaper and the cost of the flu vaccine was $12, I'm pretty sure we'd see our already lackluster yearly vaccination rate plummet.
>Because of this huge codebase size, I wasn't able to get VS Code's C++ extension to work very well with the project. Features like go-to definition (which I usually rely on heavily when navigating codebases) and find references didn't work well or at all, and one of my CPU cores would stay stuck at 100% permanently while the project was open.

Chromium Code Search [1] tool is very helpful with that and I believe there are some extensions that integrate with it.

1: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src
Despite my best efforts to never have fun between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM, it still happens. Occasionally.
Any suggestion for a simple FaaS platform that isn't OpenFaaS? Fn Project looked promising, but their repo looks abandoned (more than one year without commits).
thats a really good suggestion-We are thinking to make it more collaborative-sort of figma/slack where users can come and collab and share it.
but we want to grow super fast and we think YC can help us do that!
I don't dispute any of this
It's difficult to simply make the legal system do this. You have to back it up with investigatory teeth, and the victim still has to file an understandable complaint to start the wheels turning. The legal system also has to be sufficiently "documented" so that people will file the right complaints. The net result is the same as the current system, basically.

As an example, insurance covering trans care is required by state law in my state. Is it any easier to be trans in New York than other states? Yes. But you still get very familiar with your insurance claims process and the documentation hurdles. ("We need a letter from your therapist, not your doctor." This exists nowhere in WPATH8, but it does delay the money going out of their bank account while a therapist copy-pastes the form letter. One week to wait for your appointment. One week for them to turn it around. 2 weeks of interest earned by the insurance company. And that's the best case for the patient that already has the necessary support network.)
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but why exactly can’t a general-purpose scripting language be used as a scripting language for a text editor?
i'd love to fight my insurance, but it's so unnecessarily confusing.

instead of describing the process in plain language, everything is wrapped in so many layers of legalese that even the 'happy path' becomes impentrable.

i particularly hate the 'EOB' which they tell you 'this isn't a bill' but then they make it look as much like a bill as possible and don't really tell you what its for other than to show off that insurance is... around
Do you know the history behind both BlackRock and BlackStone?

Same DNA:

>>he business that would become BlackRock started under the umbrella of Schwarzman’s firm in 1988. “They used to be called Blackstone Financial,” Schwarzman said. “We started in business together. We put up the initial capital.” Schwarzman started Blackstone three years earlier in 1985.

>>When Fink decided to branch out on his own, he needed a new name for his asset management operation, Schwarzman said. “Larry and I were sitting down and he said, ‘What do you think sort of about having a family name with “black” in it.’”

Thanks for the input though - I am working on figuring out how to document all these entanglements - there are a lot of others also attempting to do so, if you have any links to such, I appreciate real data that I can trust (I am mapping out The Oligarchs, their entanglements, and what/who they are/actually own.)
>what's the point

To get started in a simpler way, and in a way that solves 80% of use cases.
Once you need to scale, then you can scale. Why worry about that upfront with all the complexity it entails?

>what if your one server runs out of resources to fit more apps on

There's vertical scaling. Rent a bigger server.
>Every time I see the advice to wear insect-repellent every time going outdoors, I wonder whether that's actually good advice, and what the health pros&cons are.

The insect repellent isn't just for mosquitos. DEET is fairly effective against ticks and black flies as well, neither of which is particularly fun to deal with. Whether you need to apply it or not depends a lot on the environment and climate but I always keep a bottle of DEET based repellent and Afterbite in the car just in case.

>Also suspicious is that protocol is missing. For example, how do you use bug spray, where on body, do you really need it every time you go outside, when do you wash it off and how, what about clothing, why do only sometimes they say not to use such-and-such spray on children and pregnant/nursing women (but other times they don't), does advice differ for urban vs. rural, what are the side effects or adverse interactions to know, etc.

There's more then one kind of repellent, and their delivery is going to change the formula as well; lotion isn't going to be be same formulation is an aerosol or manual spray, even if the repellent itself is the same. Is it any real surprise that there isn't going to be some universal direction for application with so much variety?
mosquitos are also valuable pollinators, they drink nectar most of their lives. I believe they are also an important food source for dragonflies.

I am also unfamiliar with how they are planning on taking them out. we need to make sure there isn't collateral damage or hardening the genetic strength of mosquitos
Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds
> it should be illegal to charge too high prices!

Funnily enough, as far as I have been able to figure, this is basically the unifying element of all developed-country healthcare systems outside the US, which have a lot of variety but all seem to do this, one way or another.

Some do it with comprehensive direct price controls that are pretty much exactly “it’s illegal to charge too-high prices” (Japan), some through state monopsony (Great Britain), some through limited price controls but the very-credible threat of adding more if providers get too greedy (Singapore), and many through some combo of the above, but the effect always boils down to price controls.
I guess it depends a bit on your definition of "phone" and "realistic". I have a pine64 phone I mean to revisit - probably with a version of https://postmarketos.org/ .

I think we might get there unless fuchsia and google abandon the Linux kernel completely - for a more apple like lockdown - but I don't think we're there yet.
If the letter doesn't follow the spirit then fix the letter, don't add on more crust.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Right, and I'd argue that the belief that it can't do things well frequently comes from the government being deliberately handicapped by those who believe it should't do things well. For example crippling (or outright trying to destroy) the US Postal Service out of the belief (or vested interest) that private delivery companies shouldn't have to compete against a publicly subsidized service.