skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849787

Repeating my comment from that thread:

from diagrams import Diagram
from diagrams.aws.compute import EC2

with Diagram("Simple Diagram"):
EC2("web")

This has a very odd API. It's using (abusing?) context managers and contextvars to do weird spooky things that you could just as easily do with ordinary objects or functions.
If the idea of immoral business (under the false guise of "amorality" - false because amorality still implies the avoidance of explicit harm) becomes too widespread, the resulting suffering will be large enough that people will start killing CEOs (or the closest thing they can get) in numbers. Which, to be clear, is bad.
> claims like these always irk me, like did you just compare averages by race/gender? Whoever made this claim, did they control for other factors, like job title/level or productivity

Their methodology and third party checks are explained here:

https://www.nyguild.org/2022-nyt-performance-evaluations-rep...

Edit: removed dumb take
Look at the user's submission history.. they're aware (and have done multiple times).
This article could have been written as a single sentence and still been just as empty of substance as the original mess of sentences:

"By revolution, we mean that 'good' tech workers are just laying low."
For those who want to give some feedback. Feel free https://lalacheck.canny.io/feedback
Our HOA has rules about rental terms to block AirBNB—type short term rentals.
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Is anyone able to access the USPS website? I have been trying from multiple different IPs and had no luck. Could not find any info on social media about it.

I would normally think nothing of it, but the timing is conspicuous.
If your competition is collecting user data and you aren't then they have a competitive advantage in understanding where to make investments for future development investments.

It's really best to just kill the arms race and restrict data collection.
Understanding USB Type C: Cable Types, Pitfalls and More (2019)
> There will always be a good offering who doesn't water mark

There's a possible future where this gets legislated, right? Of course, there are lots of implementation challenges to this and it's probably a bad idea...
NYPD using drones to combat subway surfing
Mammoth has never had a K-Mart. If you click through the links in the article you will see that they are about Bishop. The author of the article doesn't understand that these are different towns 40 minutes apart.
Had no idea about this! Thanks!
"true software firm" this outlook is 20 years out of date. Software is everywhere, and a major part of strategic advantage for companies in almost every industry.

NYT annual revenue is $2.47B (https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nyt/revenue/) with 5,900 employees. $150M/yr, 600 employees for their Tech headcount doesn't seem like a huge proportion.

Edit: Avg Revenue/Employee is $425,170
> and then, obviously, into seeing the immediate truth of "there is a true sentence";

This is not actually an obvious link.

The thinking therefore is connection is not one of sentience, rather of EXISTENCE.

Existing is proven by the thought of it. Sentience is your assumption.

The rest digresses from there. All that stuff about language and sentience and etc.

Sorry bud, I know you thought you were on to something.

Existing based upon reflection is one thing, that other stuff is an extrapolation!
I think the orthodox Left response to this would be that the unseen hand of the patriarchy and general internalised gender roles cause women to hustle less/advocate for recognition of their performance less than men, or for men to overlook their contributions.
Large discussion (230 points, 5 days ago, 207 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995549
Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails
Thanaks. I skimmed too fast. Regardless, they are not detailed as claimed.

With climate change, for example, it says "she will unite Americans to tackle the climate crisis as she builds on this historic work, advances environmental justice, protects public lands and public health, increases resilience to climate disasters, lowers household energy costs, creates millions of new jobs, and continues to hold polluters accountable to secure clean air and water for all."

But doesn't explain any of it. This is not detailed. Just listing things you want is not detailed.

If I was running for president and said I want nobody to die from cancer, I want everybody to get a quality education and want to stop the fentanyl crisis nobody would say that was descriptive. How am I going to do any of those?

Hiliarously, it is trying to use Harris' vote on the Inflation Reduction Act to show she will lower energy costs and yet mine are more expensive now.
Reverberations of the Nazi's stealing the Swastika ...
The restriction already sunsets. Read the article it says 2038
> One caveat is that these decisions are local, so people who have not had a chance to move in because there is no housing don't get a vote.

That's a feature, not a bug. People who don't live in a community shouldn't be able to dictate how that community runs its affairs.
'A big lever for change': the contract protecting Hamburg's green space
These types of articles never list the actual arguments that are supposed to convince congressmen to expend some of their finite political capital for committee battles…

If it’s known to be at least partially political, then that would seem to be a pretty critical thing to know.

Edit: And needed to gauge relative prospects versus everything else on the agenda…
I'm not doubting that Albertsons is holding this lease, nor am I doubting that the reason they're doing it is to directly stifle competition. I literally said this in my comment.

What I will absolutely cast doubt on is that its the whole story. And, in fact, my suspicion was correct: as this other comment states, the story has a variety of inaccuracies [1].

Its honestly hard being so right all the time. My intuition is just too good, its a curse tbh.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42047004
But what if they rebrand into Anthropic or Humane? Won't it change everything, signifying how they care about lowly humanses :)
Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth
Inflating the engineering department head-count, a very important metric for c-level resumes.
Our prescribed burns are not nearly aggressive enough... now this. Wow.

In 2021, nearly half of RMNP burned down due to the lack of effective prescribed burns. I know the NPS/USFS are criminally underfunded, but losing these wonders is also a crime.

Edited: us forest service
Reading a little further:

On July 8, 2013, the Knesset approved the bill to extend IDT even further. According to the bill, IDT will begin on the Friday before the last Sunday of March, and end on the last Sunday of October.[14]
formation or joining of HOAs are entirely voluntary. On the other hand, cities can unilaterally claim jurisdiction.

If you were to draw a comparison, HOAs are far more consensual.
Another option is the PostScript programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#The_language

It is stack-based (which might delight Forth fans), but it excels at drawing and diagrams.

Ghostscript is a free PostScript interpreter: https://www.ghostscript.com/
And again, telcos don't deploy servers. The backend is provided by Jibe, it's already running.

The iOS 18 RCS client provisioned in the US, UK, Spain, Germany, ... connects to Jibe and can send messages to Android devices running Google Messages.
The public aren't the party you're negotiating with. You're negotiating with management.

What the public thinks is not particularly relevant, just like it's not relevant to my relationship with my manager.

The only time public sentiment is relevant from a strike is when the public's representatives can order you back to work. That's a risk for a teacher, or a railworker, but not for a newspaper tech.
These guys are so tone-deaf
I think as long as the LLM can "take full responsibility", there should be no objections from the shareholders.

Imagine saving an extra $50m per year? Yes, please!
> “this is noisy data that sometimes gives you important insights.”

This is called "broken clock shows the right time twice a day."

Also c'mon, fooling commit metrics is silly easy, just _also_ one of the most burn-out and check-out inducing things ever. And at senior level you _HAVE_ to do that these days. You _have_ to inflate them.

Your broken clock isn't free.
Ill ignore the stuff before the last question as it doesn't all seem in good faith. E.g. saying "it is an observation, not an argument" about a provocative statement containing the words "you'd be wrong". For other things you said it wont be interesting to dive into them on a HN thread. That is more about this medium than the points you made per se.

To answer the last question. First principles. Exponential growth tails off when resources limits are met.

At best Bitcoin takes over all currency usage and the value of it (at some point $ comparisons become useless as it has become more used than dollars) follows human progress i.e. the things we do to trade for bitcoin. There is no reason to believe that the growth rate of all human civ will be as high ad bitcoins break out from Satoshi. And if it is, it has nothing to do with Bitcoin and everything to do with AI. However the future is uncertain enough that we can't pretend this curve is a predictor.

Now my back foot is hurting so lets turn this around.

What are the underlying principles and systems that make your curve predictive?
After You Vote, Unplug
But you don't typically have any reliable info about how fresh produce is either?
Nintendo’s core strength is their IP. Sony lacks similar strength and has been performing poorly, so they backed Palworld to bring a popular Pokemon-like game to PlayStation. Nintendo wouldn’t win a copyright claim because Palworld would argue satire fair use in the US/other reasons in Japan. Nintendo doesn’t want to go to court with a trademark claim because any ruling that’s not totally in their favour would damage the value of their Pokemon IP. Going to court over patents is really about protecting the trademark, without risking a judgement against them that damages the trademark. A judgement against the patent(s) is a more acceptable risk.
> while making those who might test the waters subject to possible public ridicule.

I mean… No? A board basically showing that you're actually doing your job isn't going to get you ridiculed…? If it is, the person ridiculing you obviously is a moron.

> using git, in the aughts

Even in the late aughts, git was the obvious successor. Anyone who had spent any amount of time with it knew it simple and powerful.

We had our core application from which everything was forked in SVN. SVN was always a nightmare. Conflict resolution in SVN was basically just not going to happen. Blow the repo up and start over. SVN was never a usable piece of software.

This was the very first thing I moved to git, and it was a godsend.

We'd tried SVN for some of our other larger projects and it would always end up in some dumb broken state we couldn't get out of. I remember BerkleyDB corruption being like the name of the game.

> Why start with git, and not something like RCS/CVS which was structurally more aligned with the centralized model they were used to?

The way I was trying to get them to use git was basically no different from how they were already doing their work.

The way we worked there was only ever one developer on a project at a time. I basically just `git init && git add .` 'd the existing directories on the SMB share. The developers would continue to work on the existing SMB share as usual and all I was asking was just commit their work _on occasion_. I wasn't asking for branching or PRs or even sensibly structured commits. Let's just have some history to start with. Anything would have been better than the nothing we had going on.

The big incentives for the developers were:

1. Having an actual history of changes.

- While we had nightly backups, they only went back maybe a month at most. Something fell out of that time range, it's gone forever. Want to see how something worked six months ago? Too bad.
- Pulling backups was not an automated process. We had to contact our grumpy IT guy who lived in Juneau Alaska and worked Alaskan hours. Depending on when the problem happened, you simply had to wait for him to wake up sometimes. You almost certainly wouldn't contact him just to casually see how something used to work.

I'm more than certain our need for some sort of solution was obvious to everyone who worked there.

2. Having just any sort of history of who changed what, and ideally why.

It really was the wild west. Anyone could open any folder on the smb server and mess with anything. Then that change was liable to end up on production were it not caught in testing. This was a non-stop issue. Who broke X? No idea.
This reads like a Fark title
Or just set your browser javascript to temp whitelist only and rarely enable it while using HTTP/1.1. 99.99% of surveillance is mediated via javascript execution if only because it's the easiest way. Not a lot of people using actual logs anymore since they doesn't allow one to be really invasive.

The trust on first use self-signed TLS culture of gemini is great though and should be applied more widely by individuals in their behavior on the normal web.
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2024/new-york-times-te...

"Management says that the Guild has bogged down negotiations with what the paper sees as outlandish, even illegal, proposals. As Semafor previously reported, the Guild proposed a ban on scented products in break rooms, unlimited break time, and accommodations for pet bereavement, as well as mandatory trigger warnings in company meetings discussing events in the news."

"The union, which covers the newsroom's software engineers, product managers, designers and other tech workers, has also put forward language about journalistic integrity and issues around bylines, catch-and-kill, and letters to the editor - which management rejected out-of-hand."
> then what's with the pronouns

It's been the case that when I encounter people with non-normative pronouns they're trans, but you're right that isn't necessarily the case. My mistake!

I know I asked the initial question, but I guess I'm confused what exactly this conversation is about. Is the idea that people are only ever attracted to sixteen year olds because they learned to be? That feels like a challenging thing to demonstrate in the same way it being "in the genes" is, but perhaps I'm being overly reductive.
Maybe they can ask A.I. to read the room for them
>RMNP

What is this?

>NPS/NFS

Is this National Forest Service? What does NPS stand for?

Edit: Im not American, sorry for not knowing your acronyms.
Previously NYPD & drones:

911 call responses (89 points, 6 months ago, 94 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389544

3 times more often usage (140 points, 1 year ago, 163 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38251032

Noisy backyard parties (87 points, 1 year ago, 103 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37345195
Can we say that you are perplexed?
Will a kettle full of alcohol boil forever?
Does your grocer label their produce with date of harvest?
Crypto firms including Robinhood, Kraken launch global stablecoin network
I started exercising (a lot) in the year and found that has helped me fall asleep faster. It doesn't have to be a whole lot either. 30 minutes of jogging or fast walking is enough to do it for me.
I definitely feel it on days where I sit and do nothing. I have a harder time falling asleep.
national parks service maybe?

https://www.nps.gov/index.htm
TBH TI-89 titanium is a better engineering calculator since the UI is way better. I have both a HP50G and a TI-89 titanium and I've done way more useful engineering work on the TI-89 titanium just because it's so much easier and accessible. Also of course, BASIC is a lot easier than reverse polish lisp for making some quick scripts.

Also I will add, there are known symbolic math issues on the HP50G due to the CAS system it uses. I will see if I can find a link.
Rocky Mountain National Park, US Forest Service, National Parks Service
I'm no expert either but a complicating factor for undersea fiber-optic cables is that they need amplifiers every N kilometers. So even if the cable itself could theoretically support more bandwidth, the amplifiers might not. The amplifiers contain lasers of their own that fire at very specific wavelengths.
Employers generally would prefer to pay people less. If you don't ask for a raise you often don't get one. If you ask for a raise, you generally need to consider quitting if you don't get so kind of raise. Men are generally more aggressive about asking for raises. From a certain perspective when one sees a "pay gap" you could think, "Women need to risk more and fight for higher pay. They are bringing wages down for everyone. Let's encourage them to fight for higher pay at the same rate men do." Your mileage may vary.
Of course they can . . . because it's a "private association," which end-runs the whole idea of constitutional rights, which are designed to limit the power of government. Catholic associations don't have to admit non-Catholics, sororities don't have to admit men, etc. HOAs bastardize this by being "private" organizations that are fulfilling quasi-governmental-at-best roles.
Rocky Mountain National Park, National Park Service, National Forest Service
Rocky Mountain National Park
Ok interesting. Very weird since I tried from multiple devices and IPs.

Anyway thanks for confirming.
I'm no longer a resident of Caifornia, but California should use eminent domain to seize the forest land, or just burn it and ignore federal law. What are they possibly going to do?
In terms of testimonials, you display a grid -- I think you'd be better off choosing your two best testimonials -- getting rid of the grid and present it like books do -- flip a book over and one or two authors will tell you how good this book is -- and that text cannot be missed -- its centered and in a fairly significant font; your testimonials are in a tiny font <-- or maybe do both idk.

The diagram-image... could be more night-mode-y -- the contrast rn is blasting my eyeballs.
Oh I see, thanks! So you just need to opt out of their drivers entirely and configure with the alternative package’s driver.
I keep the pH within ranges that plants can uptake nutrients and apply both mineral and trace mineral supplements in sufficient quantities. Azomite for instance which I apply to working compost and calcium magnesium supplements. Additionally I apply other supplements like organic acids (fulvic and humic acid) which aid in the transport.

I also remove all minerals from irrigation water with RO and use an engineered growing medium rather than growing in native soil. But it's organic (and alive with microbes), not hydroponic or anything like that.
Oh my. No. This is a shortsighted strategy exactly because it forces decisions into bigger jurisdictions.

If you want to live in a world where the entire State, not your neighborhood, is deciding what you can build where and when, then keep refusing to make reasonable, regional compromises.
Looking at inflation-adjusted dollars or even fraction-of-GDP, Biden has spent more on stimulus and new investment programs than the entirety of the New Deal. So what gives? Maybe it’s not a capital problem.
I am getting MSX2 vibes ;-)
Unions may have a strike fund, saved up over time from union dues, to pay members their salary during a strike.
1. Bureaucrats choose to stop prescribed burns to ensure availability of staff and equipment to fight forest fires

2. Forest fires increase due to build up of flammable materials

3. Bureaucrats pat themselves on the back for their decision
In practice, we use the term “labor market” because those words tend to go together, but if we take a moment to stop and imagine it was an actual “market” it would be a pretty crappy one. Imagine walking into a grocery store and milk was priced as “between $5 and $15”. You need to haggle on the final number. And that’s if you’re lucky to live in a state where prices have to be posted at all! You also don’t really know what’s in it. There is also considerable investment whether or not you end up liking the price. (Imagine you have to stand in line for an hour before you can even begin haggling.)

Anyone who has applied for a job knows that switching companies isn’t free, as it would be in a “free market”. There’s any number of outside factors that could prevent it. And switching too often is also viewed negatively, which is not true of e.g. shares of Amazon.
> This week, the U.S. Forest Service directed its employees in California to stop prescribed burning “for the foreseeable future,” a directive that officials said is meant to preserve staff and equipment to fight wildfires if needed.

It sounds like it's a resourcing issue, not a change in philosophy. It doesn't change the fact that it won't be happening though.
Interesting, thank you. I don't use git that much and my own searching turned up creating a patch that seemed like it required git to apply.
Interesting. Does Ecto have any syntax that supports this behavior? Or do you just use raw SQL for this?
Is China the proof that communism works ?

I'm kidding ofc, but there is no denial that china with it's centralized planning is more than catching up with usa, they are on the edge of beating them.

Meanwhile in the usa people are fighting about some ridiculous matters, like when trump kept saying Obama isn't
born in America.

War is coming obviously, I hope Europe can stay out of it but even then with 2 great powers there will always be répercussion, whether it's economic or social with the income of immigrants
Serverless containers is where it's at.

https://youtu.be/GlnEm7JyvyY
Interesting but I couldn't understand what Gemini does. It is the web recreated on top of the web?
Why should CA budget to prevent forest fires when the federal government will just subsidize their natural disaster recovery?
Yeah,this would be grim because this is how genres are born.
Re: PIPs, it depends on how they’re used. For stronger managers, who address issues quickly, a PIP (even informal) can be effective at creating behavior change that sticks. However the way many companies practice them, they are simply a formal recognition by HR that things have gotten intolerable. The only way out of one of these other than leaving is to move to another team. Thankfully companies who practice this style of PIP are also usually full of junior managers who are easy to convince that they can “fix” whatever issues have caused the situation to arise.
Nah, not enough snark for the politics tab
> the stack always grows to the point that a dev can no longer test it on their own machine

So the solution here is to not have that kind of "stack".

I mean, if it's all so big and complex that it can't be run on a laptop then you almost certainly got a lot of problems regardless. What typically happens is tons of interconnected services without clear abstractions or interfaces, and no one really understands this spaghetti mess, and people just keep piling crap on top of it.

This leads to all sorts of problems. Everywhere I've seen this happen they had real problems running stuff in production too, because it was a complex spaghetti mess. The abstracted "easy" dev-env (in whatever form that came) is then also incredibly complex, finicky, and brittle. Never mind running tests, which is typically even worse. It's not uncommon for it all to be broken for every other new person who joins because changes somewhere broke the setup steps which are only run for new people. Everyone else is afraid to do anything with their machine "because it now works'.

There are some exceptions where you really need a big beefy machine for a dev env and tests, maybe, but they're few and far between.