skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know what even will cause a global internet outage at the scale but it will be global panic.

A coordinated attack on key infrastructure (eg: root DNS servers) could do it. Much of the internet is held together with duct tape and bubble gum. The reason it stays alive is because there are a lot of duct tape and bubble gum specialists :)

There are still a lot of ways to communicate without the internet over large distances (eg: radio, satellite, plane, drone, etc...) and there are different considerations/requirements for them. They are still an ultimate backup to the world we have created but shopping on Amazon via ham-radio would be quite painful!
I think that LLMs are therapists are here to stay, simply because there's so much demand at a price point too low for a human therapist.

I wonder if we'll discover that much of therapy's benefit is from having another human actually spare their time and attention, showing that they care, which will not be reproduced by ML.
Kind of odd to see this turning up here: this theory isn't new and in fact is one of the couple most accepted theories about the origin of the gospels. It was proposed more than a century ago, and this article doesn't say anything particularly new or interesting about it. Honestly, the Wikipedia page is probably better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source
Here’s a list:

https://creation.com/creation-scientists

Answers in Genesis has a whole page on both profiles and biases against non-evolutionary scientists:

https://answersingenesis.org/creation-scientists/?gad_source...

I’ll also add there are billions of people who are Christian, Catholic, Muslim, or Hindu. Most are likely to reject atheistic materialism that’s a presupposition of evolution theory. It’s hard to tell who godless scientists speak for but it’s a minority. They’re a majority where they have power, though.
As a sometimes-engineer, sometimes-manager in mostly multinational tech, this doesn't reflect my experience at all.

I've worked with plenty of low performing ICs (as both peer and manager), and the trends are clear:

* companies that don't do, or don't do sufficient, technical interviewing

* employees with heavy worker protections, like in Germany.

I've also worked with fantastic German colleagues btw. But one reason they tended to get paid so much less is that they came with much, much higher risk, as they were essentially un-fireable. Even with imminently clear under performance you're looking at a year of PIPs, paperwork, and CYA bureaucracy.

Personally, I've found it more fulfilling to work in at-will places, for much higher wages, with more uniformly excellent colleagues. There's a reason so many of the best software engineers in the world make their way to the US.
I have digital / print subscription to the NYT. It seems like stories were being published online Monday, and the paper paper arrived. Strike doesn't start until Tuesday?
And MLK, Einstein, Gandhi has the enormous advantage of the printing press and widespread access to the tools for writing as well as being in a substantially more literate time.

I think it's remarkable how well something from 2000 years ago has held up despite the obvious deficiencies according to modern documentation and preservation standards. You can find far worse examples of ancient texts, they just usually don't generate as much research interest so people mostly don't argue about them publicly.
There are already 34 companies using this tool to create high quality login form clones for phishing purposes.
Given the total lack of empirical evidence (that is: language-specific vulnerabilities in the myriad large high-profile Go projects run all over the Internet; instances of bug classes not found in other mainstream memory-safe languages --- "memory-safe" here just to factor C/C++ out of that set) for those security concerns, why do you prioritize them?

We of course continue to find SQLI, authz, SSRF, metacharacter parsing and cryptography vulnerabilities in Go codebases, the same way we do in literally every general-purpose programming language; what the the vulnerabilities we actually see, over 15 years of explosive growth in use, that are distinctive to Go? It's been 4 years since I was a full-time software security person, but I keep up, and did a lot of work in Go before then, and I'm not aware of anything beyond "if you skip the ,ok on a type conversion you might panic something".
Firefighting makes the next fire worse. You need to have a theory that doesn't involve more expensive fire fighting every time someone builds a new house. This is general means defending towns and letting the mountainside burn.
If its been documented then you're probably on your way out, or you should at least operate as if you are. I don't think a "stronger manager" would put you on an official PIP if they wanted to address the issue quickly. They would probably have a face to face discussion and let you know what the issue is. Nothing else is required.
>If you tell your county tax assessor that you want a quantity discount, you'll get "The Look of Disapproval".

1. Why would the assessor give bulk discounts in the first place? It's not like they can take their business (houses?) elsewhere if the assessor refuses. Many jurisdiction have transaction/transfer taxes, which mean even if they want to dump their holdings, the county would come out on top.

2. Is the assessor even allowed to give bulk discounts? Even if they could, given the political climate against big corporations, granting such discounts seems like political suicide. You're just asking to get challenged in the next election.
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Related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

The question is a central one in Western philosophy and religion. Less so in some other traditions. But it predates Christianity.
it's not on archive.org
My point is that such contractual terms should not be enforceable given their anticompetitive impetus.
Big investors are closer to the money hose. Money cost less for them since they got the future inflation in their pockets already.
> This seems like a LOT of issues that still need to be hammered out.

They have been negotiating for two and half years. That seems like plenty of time to me. Can you imagine a union nego taking that long in a country where labour laws are stronger? Seriously: Can you imagine Germany's IG Metall spending 2.5 years to negotiate (without success!) a new contract? It is unthinkable.

One thing I have observed over the years, no matter what are the core issues, it is "never a good time" to strike as a union. I see this sentiment repeated over and over again (over decades!) by anti-unionists.

> there's not a clear button the Times can push on behalf of the union to end the strike immediately

There is: Agree to the demands of the union.
Extremely heavy citation needed for Confucianism spreading across the Silk Road. As far as I am aware it just didn't happen.

Also, the Analects use a very different version of the Golden Rule, much more a prohibition than a moral standard: what you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others. But roughly around the same time Egypt and Greece also had this thought recorded and it's somewhat hard to believe this was due Confucianism spreading like wildfire. Thales used this in ~624-546 where Analects is later than that.
I agree about the diversity of finance as a sector. I know many people that work ”in finance” and that varies from glorified interior decorating for corporate real estate to running macros on spreadsheets to check loans to defining investment portfolios
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The fire insurance that is unaffordable or just straight not available anymore to those same people?
There's also a draw.io VSCode extension, for anyone who prefers that.
11€ for an entire year is honestly a steal!
(2015) Discussion at the time (451 points, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654681
>> it’s pretty fascinating how currency has evolved

> it's all been moving towards a more centralized/connection-dependent system. That's great [...] but raises some concerns about resilience.

Agreed. I hope that someone in these giant fintech institutions has considered that. It wouldn't surprise me if it's "not seen as a priority" though.
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Can one make towel rack/drier using same way?
Seems reasonable.

Stallmann is having a difamatory campaign against him by one person.

They are trying hard to remove him because he is a zealot of FSF.

Can he be obtuse? yes

Is he a sell out? no.

We need more people like him.
>When back pressure and fighting for your reports does not work, what do you do then?

Continue fighting the battles you can win. Do your job and do it well. Changing jobs is hard, stressful, unavailable to many people for a variety of reasons, and not guaranteed to improve things. Particularly once you start becoming senior and in management.

If I left a job every time I was faced with a bad situation I would never built up the soft skills or connections to be any good at any connection. Particularly as a first-level manager, where 80% of your job is delivering messages you had no say in but have to own anyway.
In my theology courses (attended a Jesuit university, so had a couple mandatory semesters), this was presented as the common assumption in the field.

The different books of the Gospels are different because they were pulling from different sources. Mark is assumed to be the oldest, since Luke, Matthew, and John all clearly had access to it. Luke and Matthew seem to be contemporaneous, several decades later than Mark, and thus had access to, on top of Mark, the evolving, partly oral, canon of information that formed within the first century and a half or so of Christianity. That's labeled "Q".
Why?

You aren't a persona who is targeted at all by Perplexity's product.

It's not a B2C or individual DevTool.

They've raised their Series A and B for an Enterprise Sales (ie. F1000 and strategics) motion.
Really? I can't imagine not running the code locally. Honestly, my company has a micro services architecture, and I will just comment out the docker-compose pieces that I am not using. If I am developing/testing a particular component then I will enable it.

How tightly coupled are these systems?
Why make only the batteries removable? Why not the fluid and resistor as well? At which point you've banned single-use vapes and only have reusable ones.
Judging by the opening post, the intention seems to be to use this on your own IP (hence them pointing out you can use it on localhost) to easily translate existing production material into Figma or similar tools where designers can then iterate on it, without having to replicate the existing interface pixel-for-pixel beforehand. So it's probably a very grey area to use this on other sites, but that's not the suggestion being made.
https://old.reddit.com/r/linusrants/

We might disagree on the definition of abusive though.
This is an insurance problem more than anything else.

If insurers were allowed to and incentivized to price accurately, homes in dangerous areas (flood plains, fire hazards) would be too expensive to buy, and people... wouldn't.

Especially given that if you can't get insurance, you can't get a mortgage, which drastically limits your buyers.
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The HN DOM is a testament to a bygone era. Remember when the web wasn't flooded with tutorials and you had to reverse engineer other people's work to learn new things?
Which is bonkers considering there is only one side that has attempted to overturn an election and has a candidate who openly admires autocrats and genocidal dictators.
It's uncharitable to respond so aggressively to the poster esp in the absence of evidence of bad faith.

Just compare the UnixWare 7 data sheet to the release notes, both rooted at: https://www.xinuos.com/products/unixware-7/documentation/

Data sheet: "Java support. Application developers can take advantage of the features in Java and users will have more applications available."

Release note (dated Dec 2017, but the only one linked from above): in the packages section: "Java 2 SE 5.0 Software Development Kit" "(1.5.0.17)"

(A reasonable reader would infer that the latest version of Java that Xinuos supplied was (1.5 aka) 5. Which would be pretty old even if you assume that they could not move to version twenty-something for license reasons.)
>but that's just the same problem with an extra step

I think it’s a totally different problem. The problem no longer is about how group X is compensated for doing job Y, but why group X is doing job Y in the first place.
This seems pretty reasonable.
Yep I thought my house has that until I tested cheap LED dome light from Aliexpress. It had an exposed screw and I was bare feet in garage (concrete floor). Lesson learned.
It's cheap solution for some problems but most importantly is widely available. I would say it is better than let small problems became more severe. It can't replace human connection of course but it can just talk with you. And that is Always better than nothing.
> But that just isn't possible with property taxes

I think what they mean is the overall hit from property taxes is marginal at their scale because of the better margins they get on other inputs like insurance.

That said, Zillow tried this strategy a couple years ago and it ended horribly for them.

I don't think yet another fund will be able to get an edge that local landlords and real estate companies have.
If you don't mind me asking, what init manager are you using instead?
Show HN: I built Timelogga so I can generate accurate timesheets quickly
I've been building and shipping products for nearly 10 years now. But not for me. For my employers. So I tried freelancing, to get started for myself.

The pain point when it came to freelancing wasn't finding gigs. Thankfully, I found many, and many found me.

The REAL pain point was creating a timesheet reflecting the hours I had put in so I could be paid for my time.

I initially used tools like Google Sheets but it was too manual. And I found similar products online which were either limited or expensive.

So I built my own tool, Timelogga.

Now I simply:
1. Click play when I start my task
2. Do what I need to do
3. Click stop

...and I have the makings of a timesheet.

I can generate my timesheet whenever I want. Not just for one client, but as many as I want.

Click on the link, and scroll to the interactive demo to try it out. I'd love your feedback

https://www.timelogga.io

Thank you!
Claims that there is no gender pay gap based on clearly biased sources irks me.

So firstly, you don’t know what the NYT tech guild analysis looked like, so why assume they didn’t control for other factors? It is plausible they could have, given their access to competent statisticians, but we don’t know either way. It seems like you may just want this story to fit your pre-existing narrative.

Secondly, there are so many high-quality studies out there better than an a blog post about a Forbes article about an interview from a conservative think tank that show the very real existence of a gender pay gap that _is not accounted for_ by fewer hours worked, experience, or job type (yes these do contribute but are far from the entire picture). Here’s a couple (read their citations for more):

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WB/equalpay/WB_issueb...
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21913/w219...

Lastly, _even if_ womens’ “lifestyle choices” were to explain entirely the pay gap (which they don’t, see above), think about what kind of career choices you’d make if you had to constantly debate about your right to equal pay with your supposed peers.
> You would end up with people paying property tax for their gym memberships and apartment rentals.

Economic theory on tax incidence says otherwise. Land, being inelastic, takes the tax burden. Land tax cannot be passed on to tenants or businesses.
On the topic of WWII incendiary bombs, the US also had some interesting programs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
The main benefit of a therapist is they give you the vocabulary to express a emotional state or thought process. Once you have the vocabulary to communicate your emotions then it will helps alleviate or eliminate the Cognitive dissonance.
So, dumb question / political hobby horse riding in: if neighborhood restrictions on political speech are considered a time/place/manner restriction, why doesn't that logic also foreclose the majority opinion in McCutcheon v. FEC[0]? How are campaign contribution limits not a time/place/manner restriction?

If money is speech, then me giving a million dollars to a Senator should be analogous to me with a megaphone shouting down anyone who disagrees with me until their eardrums bleed.

[0] The Supreme Court case that invalidated campaign contribution limits and foisted SuperPACs upon us.
If that is the deciding factor, you can put the buttons and knobs on a face plate mounted on top of a touch screen, with the unpowered buttons just acting as fingers. But I don't think manufacturing cost is the real issue.
This is a distinction without a difference if those rights constrain what can be done with the land.
How does this relate to https://github.com/lancedb/lance
That's an unfair comparison, but I will say that few people can defend Jobs' actions from a holistic standpoint. This was not a guy concerned with the plight of the Chinese indentured worker, the American factory worker or the minimum-wage cobalt miner - he exclusively cared about Total Business Warfare and wasn't afraid to put everything else aside to prioritize it.
they did the testing, but those lab tests didn't conclude walmart was the best. That conclusion was based on supply chain speed.
The only claim here is that companies should demonstrate just cause for firing!

The horror!
For new business. But what about managing existing accounts, or renewals
Do you think people with Green eyes are more or less compensated than people with blue eyes?
Sorry about the late response, the listing that I bought is this one:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804264671858.html

I didn't bother to mess around with mounting, I just used command strips to attach the driver board to the back of the monitor and mounted the monitor on one of these clamp-type stands:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MFDQR5D

The heat sink on the board can get warm but nothing to worry about regarding being mounted to the monitor.
To be clear, in many countries with stronger labour laws, "just cause" employment is the national standard -- a requirement. As I understand, the US has many laws that protect again discrimination (hiring and firing), but very few laws that protect all workers from arbitrary layoffs. (Companies can hire and fire as they please with very few severance requirements.) In practice, when you want to layoff low performing workers in places with stronger labour laws, you need to offer large enough severance for them to voluntarily resign. Depending on the country, culture, seniority, and industry, this can be anywhere from 3 to 24 months. Yes, there is a huge variance.

One thing that I don't see being discussed here: If you add "just cause" to your employment contract, you are pretty much trading away future pay raises for security. That is fine, but it needs to be said out loud.

Lastly: I never heard the term "just cause" before this HN discussion. It sounds like a US-specific term. I learned more about it on Wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_cause_(employment_law)
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The Craiglist guy and the MySpace guy beg to differ.
The Palestine exception to free speech.
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VS Code just released some cool Copilot-related features for Mermaid

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_95#_mermaid-diagram...
There was a period of time where pressed CDs were manufactured poorly, with the aluminum layer inside exposed to the outside, resulting in corrosion over time and loss of readability on those CDs.

Overall, though, properly-made CDs, handled carefully, have been excellent at storing data long-term.

But while this is nice enough I guess for storing individual musical albums long-term, it's not practical for storing truly large volumes of arbitrary data. CD-Rs and CD-RWs have not had the same durability demonstrated at all (quite the opposite in fact). DVDs are better at almost 4GB per disc, but here again only the factory ones are actually durable, and 4GB isn't going to store much these days, perhaps one movie with high lossy compression.
The scariest thing for me is how a really good company with a really good product can, through the intervention of boardroom lunatics, be converted to a trolling organization that tarnishes everything it touches. SCO OpenServer and UnixWare ran thousands of point of sale and restaurants and other types of set it and forget it use cases. They had good product well supported by a channel of VARs - people making a good living at it. To toss all that away was a disaster.

And now, SCO tech lives on in a gray limbo netherworld, like OS/2 with Arca Noae: in one case because of trolling and the other because of the tides of history. Such a sad end.
VS Code recently added some AI-related features for Mermaid

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_95#_mermaid-diagram...
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China is sliding and failing, 15-20 years ago it seemed imminent that China would surpass the US, but today the US is the strongest militarily and economically by far that it’s ever been by all measures.

Not everyone in the US is sharing in this success equally, but in pure economic terms the US is completely dominating the world stage, including being the biggest oil producer in the world, and home to the largets market cap companies.
Land ownership is state granted monopoly. This is antithetical to free markets.
For screen reader accessibility, isn’t text a better option? If I were working with an engineer who uses a screen reader, I’d document heavily in text. Good practice anyway, since diagrams aren’t great at depth.
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I think it's worth noting that we (in the west) have a lot less of most diseases and infections now, stuff like polio, plague, malaria.

I don't suffer from delusions that we have accurate data on conditions like obesity and T2D going back to the middle ages, but we have seen incidence rates of these kinds of disease explode upwards over the last century.

I'd be interested in more detailed data broken down by disease over time.
You think assuming humans in the future won't have eyeballs capable of viewing visible light is a bad assumption?

If the humans of the future are all blind, I think we can forget about worrying about preserving civilization.
I agree, and I think Aristotle would too. But inherently sticking with a bad or mis-guided belief is a human experience that has always existed, not a new political phenomenon.

The bias is just how people behave. There is a tried-and-true framework for undermining those biases and even dialectic processes by which one can be proven logically superior to the other. We watch debates, read op-eds and encourage discussions of policy so that these entrenched beliefs are challenged - a free country has no obligation to brainwash it's citizens, even for a good cause.
With few exceptions (pre-made obituaries for the famous, for example) print media is always yesterday’s news. The strike started today at 12:01am, as the very first line of the article states, production of today’s news was completed yesterday.
This would be neat to see in space where the fallout wouldn't be an environmental issue. I have to wonder if anyone with significant credentials has considered a high-thrust nuclear ion-drive yet. Certainly sci-fi has!
> 9X% of users do not care about a <1%

The same could be said about any accessibility issue or minority language translations