skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the US: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp... I understand it was used as a talking point by a certain person in this last election, but it was only a talking point - not truth.

> Today, these shows are composed of 95% FFLs anyway, all of whom perform background checks

I have been to a gun show recently. We can, and should, close that 5% gap. An FFL is an intermediary and the ATF doesn't retain records about transactions they do by law. FFLs will maintain their own records, but they're no some widely searchable database (which is what people fear in an Orwellian sense).
I empathize with new grads. It can be hard to stand out especially at the beginning of your career.

But I predict this won’t do what the authors claim: it won’t fix anything, and it won’t change technical interviews that much. At most it might increase the number of companies that require remote candidates to fly in and interview in person to do the same practical coding problems they used to do online. Which would be the standard from just a few years ago, anyway.

Practical coding problems (also known as work simulation interviews) are the most effective and least biased tools available for evaluating candidates. Not every hiring manager does a good job using these tools, but if you see misuse, take it as a sign that the manager might not be good to work for.

I have trouble understanding the authors thinking here that anything would be worth the cost of this: it’s a trust-busting tool where people are deceiving their potential employer. Trust is foundational to everything, in work and in life. We need more trust in our society, not less.
Murder and civil disobedience are not equivalent.

Rosa Parks hurt no one. That CEO should have gone to prison, but that doesn't make murder OK.
Being Elon Musk, more or less.
I love `just` and have adopted it universally in all my projects. For what it does, it gets the job done fantastically.

That being said, I found myself needing a tool that builds a DAG of dependent tasks and automatically figures out what can be ran in parallel and what cannot -- obviously you have to spell out all tasks and who depends on what first.

Anybody knows such a tool?

EDIT: Apparently people did not get the hint that I believe `make` is an over-engineered pile of metric tons of legacy and I'll sooner slash my wrists than to learn it in full.

I did mean something ergonomic and easy to read and write. And no I'll never view `make` as such. I tried. Many times. I have better things to do in my life than to memorize exceptions of the exceptions.
Rather than trying to donate to the most popular packages, people could try to donate to the packages they use, and then their dependencies (it would be nicer, though, if repos had a way for packages to list their dependencies and automatically propagate donations they received down—which would be a usable by the top level packages but, eh, you have to trust people at some point).
Only in the archaic sense 3a, "to prosper in an undertaking", which is surely not what's meant in the TFA.
How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?
Kenneth Walker was in the exact position of someone defending against a night time home invasion. If you believe that defending yourself in such a way is a constitutional natural right, there is no choice but to conclude that his firearm use was justified. Then, this idea that police are justified in responding to a straightforward and lawful home defense by retaliating with a hail of bullets is plainly an anathema to the second amendment. As I said, what else do you think exercising the right to self defense in your home at night would involve?
I love just. The main benefit for me at work is that it's much easier to convince others to use, unlike make.

I like make just fine, and it's useful to learn, but it's also a very opaque language to someone who may not even have very much shell experience. I've frequently found Makefiles scattered around a repo – which do still work, to be clear – with no known ownership, the knowledge of their creation lost with the person who wrote them, and subsequently left.
Why don’t you want to incorporate in Delaware?
Delaware's large amount of court precedent is seen as an advantage because it reduces uncertainty in litigation. But lately some of that precedent seems to be pretty restrictive on companies. In particular the recent decision to overrule the clear expressed preferences of Telsa shareholders and award $345 million (over $17,000 per hour) to lawyers representing one shareholder with nine shares has people questioning whether Delaware's court precedent is really an advantage.
A more like comparison with tech is more that there are now steel ibeams but no one at all knows how to design a bridge with an ibeam to maximize its benefit. You get certain alpha build bridges that will be totally unsafe despite using the new technology of the new material. The designs haven’t had a chance to hit their bugs and be iterated out and new bugs are expected to emerge very often.

In your example your bridge builder presumably has a mature and stable software build equivalent of a steel ibeam bridge design that is basically going to be the same going forward. That’s more like when people still use cobol for decades because it works than when people are testing out the bleeding edge of software.
around ~2000, my build/install script had to simulate some kind of OO-like inheritance.. And there was python but noone understood it (and even less had it installed), so: bash - aliases had priority over funcs which had priority to whatever executables found in PATH.. so here you go - whole 3 levels of it, with lowest/PATH being changeable..
The Startup Trap (2013)
Before you start promoting your opinion, there actually was a very interesting debate in order to test the lab-leak theory. Here is a review of this debate :

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...
For Europe, in 2024, working on defence is indeed such a compelling mission for many engineers. I suspect that’s an aspect of the situation a lot of Americans aren’t realising.
Is it sexism to acknowledge that we have 80%+ men in tech? Is it sexism to acknowledge fields like nursing and elementary teaching have 80%+ women?

You're free to exist in the real world rather than some third wave feminism utopia.
> She was a freelancer most of her life, so didn't pay that much into it, and will drop from 1500 to 700 euros of monthly income.

A regretable mistake. from her side to not think about retirement.
you can always earn more money after you spend it
Strong Code Ownership: Lessons from Xiaogang
NATO propaganda is incredibly pervasive and much stronger than any other propaganda from outside can be.

Only because you don't see the latter (as propaganda).

But rather as a sequence of neat-sounding, worldview-confirming factoids.
What is the legal means to get it back?
> giving a sh!t about your people

One of the most stand-out moments of leadership I've ever witnessed was my boss protecting me and a colleague from another manager on a different team. He put his foot down and drew a line about what was to be expected of us (among our other competing responsibilities). Fight for me and I'll fight for you.
The disappearance of literary men should worry everyone
Right. Goodness of their hearts only comes from the US. The others just want to take advantage, careful! /s
Maven, Gradle, etc.
Honey supply chains are opaque and global, plus the incentives to cheat are clearly there and it's hard to definitively prove a batch was not adulterated. I'd say it's fair to be suspicious.

That said, this old article seems to think its not as common a problem as you would expect: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/11/25/142659547/re...
Exactly. Food purity and safety has probably never been higher. 100 years ago there was widespread adulteration and contamination of food, in addition to pure snake oil sold as beneficial medication.
IMHO you'd right to be sceptical because for me, it is only a slightly more ergonomic way to organise and run shell scripts. It's difficult to make the case it's much better but I found it interesting how "just being a bit nicer" for a common activity can be a really valuable quality of life improvement.

- easier - core benefit is making it nicer to implement multiple commands with arguments without inventing something equivalent in shell

- convenient - with "fallback" just will search up the folder tree to find the just command so I don't need to be in the right folder. I have justfiles at multiple levels in a project hierarchy and my cwd works as context to pick the right command

- polyglot - can use different languages as needed

- predictable - it's so nice when I return to a project and I have recipes for setting up my env, various types of build and test. The consequence of being a little more ergonomic means I capture more useful command lines that, for whatever reason, I would not have made into shell scripts because of the added friction.
Some people want to be hired based on 25 minutes of easy live coding. It’s ok that you’re not one of them but don’t piss in someone else’s cereal.
Articles aren't written for reports, or at least the advertising on those articles are directed at the managerial and above level.
Regulation can ensure that businesses doing things right can actually complete. How the hell is my local beekeeper supposed to compete against people selling jars of corn syrup?
Based on their current behavior, if you become a politically targeted person, your company will be de facto removed from your control.
Yes but the level of investment the Chinese have poured into battery production and EVs in general is also completely unparalleled. Industrial policy is nothing new for US and EU but just not at that level.

To be able to compete with China the West would need to:

- Match generous subsidies to companies, not just through banks but at the government level by building entire towns just for battery production.

- Making large parts of land uninhabitable for the cost-effective extraction of rare earths.

- Suppress wages at factories and engineering bureaus to be able to cost compete in manufacturing.

- Dramatically lower cost of energy production (only doable without renewables in the short term).

I just don't see any Western government having a strong enough mandate for any of the policy changes required to compete with China. The simpler reaction is just imposing tariffs.
Besides Make, I guess Bazel kind of fits the bill? It was very "Googly" last time I checked it out, but I think that was a decade ago and right when it was released, so it might be more fitting for not-Google nowadays.
That’s like saying we need a policy where every country agrees to be friends. If cables are cut as part of some clandestine operation by who evers security forces, they aren’t going to stop it because of some treaty.

(There are all ready guidelines from ICPC on cable protection design, cable crossings etc)
Better yet befriend a beekeeper. You gain a friend and honey.
Come on, be serious. If I wanted ancient sh-isms and bash-isms I would have learned make to 100% some 15 years ago.

I meant something ergonomic and easy to read and write.
I'm genuinely curious what happened, with some positive prior probability on all hypothesis, and I'm sad that in all likelihood I will never find out.
I'd argue there is much more fraud with product coming from china than what is locally produced. Fraud always existed but now it's more prevalent than before, simply because some countries don't really try to enforce simple rules.

For instance, Chinese mother refuse to buy powder milk in china since there has been so much fraud. Manufacturer put melamine (a plastic chemical) in powder milk for years to make them appear with more protein than reality, inducing kidney damage to newborn.

That kind of thing doesn't happen in civilized society, this require a complete lack of morality and wide corruption.
If you need incrementalism, Just is not for you.
People look at all manufacturing jobs disappearing as part of the reason the middle class is dead. Unfortunately, even if all of these jobs came back, few people want to pay $70 for a made-in-America shirt.
Ok, so in 4 years you will spend 67200 usd for flat and bills alone. That leaves 267 usd monthly for other things.
They’ve been manufacturing abroad since at least the 1960s.
That's a link to this discussion.
Anyone here still remember Chainer?
Is there also a bypass for the silly insufficient disk space error in whatsapp web, other than reloading the page?
Health Care's Intertwined Colossus
Maybe Ea-nāṣir was also too focused on profits, thinking more about shareholder value than the customer.
I think this is exactly the intended use case for Ninja. It’s discussed in this recently posted article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268310
If VCs are giving you money they want you to try to become a large public company, so maybe no amendment is needed?
I think you're imagining mental health evaluations as more subjective than they actually are. You're really just looking to sus out sociopaths, the extremity mentally unfit, obvious signs of suicidal ideation, and people with severe uncontrolled anger issues.

I don't really get why you're so defensive on this point? Like yeah, psych evals are probably a bit too onerous for every gun owner to go through just because of the time commitment alone but you seem to take issue with them on principle.

On principle I don't take issue with adding requirements to vote, you're more than welcome to push for them but additional restrictions do go counter the goal of increasing turnout which is already embarrassingly low.

Also I'm not taking a stance one way or another on the gun show thing, I personally don't care about them that much but by any definition they are a loophole. Even more so it's a near full escape hatch from the law. Instant background checks could be as easy as one of those Square payment terminals if we let it, the burden is really low.
The soviets did exactly that so they can attack large US convoys with long-range Anti-Ship Missiles

They had to use a fission reactor onboard those satellites to power the radar array

It consisted of 2 satellite types. US-A (active) and US-P (passive). US-A used radar and US-P used passive antennas so they can "see" signals from ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

Late Cold War AShM's (SS-N-19 Shipwrecks) could use those satellites directly to update the target location in-flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legenda_(satellite_system)
Wyoming is an outlier. There are no truly big cities in Wyoming. Wilmington, Delaware is part of the Philly metro area and has commuter rail access to it, along with also being very close to Washington DC and part of the eastern seaboard megalopolis! Nevada on the other hand, doesn't have mere proximity, it has Las Vegas, which was different from other big cities for a while but has grown a lot recently in terms of population and powerful institutions.

Not that have a good idea what this says about incorporating there. It isn't one of my core areas of expertise. This has Wyoming ranked 23, and it could be accurate, for all I know: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-start-a-business/36...
This and the fact that the initial WHO research team was closely regulated in their activities by the Chinese government, with the WHO later being denied access to data and further analysis. China has delayed and denied independent analysis. They burned trust when it was most important to the investigation. They are not to be trusted.

I don't know what the chances of a catastrophic viral outbreak being located next to a BSL-4 lab is, but it must be absolutely astronomical considering China has only 2 such labs in a country that spans 3.6 million square miles.

EDIT: Correction, looks like there's 4 (now?) BSL-4 facilities: https://www.globalbiolabs.org/map

My point still stands
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hello HN,

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Though, at the same time, it is hard to deny the helpfulness of AI when it comes to writing.

One of the problems that I run into is marketing my projects. More specifically, I want to grow most of my projects via SEO, but am having issues coming up with blog post ideas.

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This is an open source project (https://github.com/rasulkireev/seo-blog-bot/) that I plan to make super simple to self-host. It is not too easy right now. I decided to make it into a SaaS app (with a paid plan), but still tried to create a generous free plan.

I have also added an ability to generate the actual content from the ideas. Though it is not meant to

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I’ve had extreme control over my role over the past decade (leadership in startups) and I couldn’t even do what you suggest. I’m not sure how you think the average person could
There's a thread here (I'm not going to search for it right now, you can) where I pasted the earlier version of the AWB I'm talking about, so, no, I'm not, but this is just part of the dance. We're not going to convince each other, and I'm not trying to. I'm just going to make the case --- I think I've got it locked down and it's probably not worth pushing back, but you do you --- that this is not as settled as the root comment made it sound.

That's a very narrow, parsimonious claim, which is part of what makes it easy to defend.
The programming languages that I use don't need to be told to not rebuild from scratch so yours is a pretty strange argument.
Western nations have absolutely done this in the past. It’s the reason we are generally the richest and most secure nations in the world. The decision not to do this potentially means we forfeit those advantages for the rest of this century.

And China is hugely deploying renewables, which they happen to be able to produce very cheaply due to their industrial policy. The difference is that China is using their fossil fuel resources to make this investment, while the west is using its fossil fuel resources to shove crayons up its nose.
Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf]
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/20....

Looks like the owner VF Corp is consolidating campuses and wanting Dickies to be collocated with Vans in Costa Mesa.
I'm not an English native speaker but that doesn't sound correct to me. If you need next month's paycheck in order to survive that month, for whatever reason (even if you gambled last month's money away, much less saved up for retirement or spent it on your health), that's my understanding of living paycheck to paycheck: you miss one paycheck and you're bust. (I assume you can't take it back out of that 401k thing or it wouldn't be a pension fund but a bank account. Correct me if I'm wrong about the mechanics of a 401k)

Dictionary seems to agree, Merriam Webster says: "to spend all of the money from one paycheck before receiving the next paycheck", not specifying that you can't have spent the money on semi-essentials that could perhaps be moved by a few months but you'd need to catch up with sooner or later
Thanks. That article is fairly disappointing for not having even one simple example file though...
Cost of living in the US is very high. HN skews towards the SV crowd. $80k isn't even a year of rent for many here. If you instead bought a home recently in SV, $80k wouldn't even get you halfway through the year.

There's a reason people get paid $400k+/yr in SV. The place is expensive and you need to keep people there somehow.
Thanks for sharing your experience. And thanks for acknowledging your part in "the problem" -- truly, a lot of people in your position e.g. immigrate, and then try to pull the ladder up after them.
Isn't it a bit unnecessary to add blur when the website is almost completely black? Maybe put some screenshots on the page.
You can also do the extra work to bury the cable.
> I get that your project is Windows-only, but many projects aren't.

Nit: At this point you're better off starting a separate comment thread since you yourself already know that what you are about to talk about is not what my comment is talking about.
There's an older thread where I pasted a link to it, but I'm not going to dig it up right now (you can; I promise you it's there). I'm pretty comfortable with the idea that people will take my word on stuff like this. I'm really not trying to convince people that I'm right about this, only that the question is unsettled.
This post explores the debate between using table statistics and executing SELECT COUNT(*) queries for retrieving row counts for all tables in Oracle databases. It highlights the efficiency of relying on table statistics, which require minimal buffer gets (20–29) compared to the substantial overhead of directly counting rows, as observed in the test case with buffer gets reaching up to 492,252. Online statistics(12c) and Real-Time Statistics(19c) features are also highlighted. Overall, it recommends only using table statistics for row count retrieval when querying all tables in the database or schema.
> Is foregoing insurance an improvement over that

No, it isn't, which is why people want some form of insurance, whether public or private. To mitigate risk.

I was entertaining the comment about something being as "simple as getting the services you need in exchange for money". Which one certainly could do, but imposing that on everyone would also be a bad system for other reasons.
Cut out the middleman. Become friend with the bees. You gain a hive mind as friend, and honey! :D
[offtopic] From the report, these two findings:

> OPERATION WARP SPEED: President-elect Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — which
> encouraged the rapid development and authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine
> — was highly successful and helped save millions of lives.
>
> RUSHED COVID-19 VACCINE APPROVAL: The FDA rushed approval of the COVID-19
> vaccine in order to meet the Biden Administration’s arbitrary mandate
> timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about the
> dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of
> adverse events. They were ignored, and days later, the Biden
> Administration mandated the vaccine.

So, which is it?
Did you miss the part that says "it just runs commands in a convenient way" and "it is not a build system"?
It’s like going back to plastic bags, cups and water bottles. It just feels gross to touch and you can feel getting poisoned.
Very cool: to this complexity cells will do completely different things when they are eg: full vs hungry, sick vs healthy, young vs old, and weather their brethren are any of those things. We truly have an indeterminable number of variables and will only ever be able to look at tiny parts of a vast machine.
Which reminds me of nutrition science where they cut a live animals stomach open and use tweezers to hold some food in there. I mean, you can get some kind information out of that but saying you know what’s up is a stretch.
You could have used two minutes to skim the top of the README. Not all projects make you want to commit suicide. :)