skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples of why this is important: Will asking OpenAI about this topic yield biased results? How about other topics? Would you trust OpenAI to not spy on your prompts? Are they selling your data? Leadership morals matter.
What I’ve observed is it becomes part of the job of the office admin person. So not zero headcount maybe 0.1 or 0.2 but that’s pretty good if the SaaS bill is another 0.2 headcount.
I've been riding motorcycles for about 30 years now, I started back when Neal Stephenson's Zodiac was still new, and this part was still ringing in my head:

“I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me. My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe--to see you, and to give a fuck--you've already blown it... We had a nice ride through the darkness. On those bikes we were weak and vulnerable, but invisible, elusive, aware of everything within a two-block radius.”
― Neal Stephenson, Zodiac
The western idea of making things better for animals often involves abstinence. Which is unpalatable if you are a meat eater.

The messaging should be to reduce your meat consumption. By reported national averages, I eat 25% of the meat eaten by the average Australian. And I don’t feel that I’m missing out.
Almost this. The better answer is because we want to get ALL the milk.

So instead of letting the mother cow nurse her calf for the first few months and then start taking her milk for our use, the more "modern" practice is to separate the calf immediately.

Which means if you are drinking milk, you are drinking it from seriously depressed cows.

I wonder how this contributes to our culture's growing mood of depression?

see i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/mums-ask...

or just google dairy cows separate from calves
If you're interested in prior art, Ian Currie's NewSpeak was an attempt at a non-Turing complete language for safety critical systems. Most of the search results are for a different language with the same name, but "RSRE currie newspeak" should find relevant links.
Pocker (Custom Docker Alternative for PocketHost/Pocketbase)
talk to a lawyer, it doesn’t mean taking action, but I’ve been in a number of situations at work that were quite “grey”, and the value of knowing where I stood, where the lines were, and what to do/not to do were invaluable. I never planned on taking legal action, but knowing the landscape was invaluable and often kept me out of trouble down the road when people were playing CYA…
"Find all the information you need to start shopping for ENERGY STAR certified products, including product details, rebates, and retailers near you."

So, the product search works like a shopping cart site, and has no historical products, only new ones, and helpfully lists the prices.

Who is this meant to benefit?
I think people that believe they were better off when they couldn’t go to the grocery store without a mask or thousands were dying of covid a day are delusional, frankly.

But it does sometimes work if you remind them.
I once changed my schedule for a month to sleeping 4 hours, waking for 4, sleeping 4, and then waking for 12. I would work in the day, come home, sleep 4, wake 4, and then sleep 4 more, then off to work again. On weekends I switched to a normal 16/8 schedule.

I got plenty of rest and got all my domestic stuff done overnight - 24h grocery store, laundromat, etc. I was never unusually tired.

The down side is that it mostly killed my social life. So I quit; the advantages didn’t outweigh the disadvantage of being on a different schedule than everyone else.

Also this was in the late 80s/early 90s before cell phones and the internet.
Nice project, short and concise enough for an undergrad to learn basic os concept and implementation.
Their response on face value doesn't make sense. But if I had to guess, you inadvertently made someone in the registrar's office look bad. They probably had to answer to "why didn't you think of this?" If that is the case then it makes a lot more sense and is retaliatory behavior. You can't undo their insecurity and loss of face. Therefore you should not expect a reasonable response.

Act accordingly.

Educate yourself on your options. This is why people are recommending a consultation with a lawyer.

Reach out to your friends and contacts in the University. Leverage existing ones to make new ones. Others may be in a stronger position to put pressure on the registrar's office.

Use the news and media to further ratchet up pressure.

Stay positive. Fon't stoop to their level, it won't help you.

And if you have to walk away it won't hurt you too much in the long term. After about 5 years in industry nearly all companies stop caring about credentials. Just get your foot in the door somewhere and shine, that's what I did and it worked out for me 26 years later.

Hang in there.
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Any way we could fight this? It seems things are getting worse and worse and I don’t see any solution
Python Packaging: Why we can't have nice things – Part 2: Stupid Pipx Tricks
Hi HN,

This is the second post in my series, which I wrapped up quite late last night and am finally getting around to submitting here, not-as-late tonight. In this one I highlight some of the benefits of using Pipx to install Python applications - relevant both for end users and for developers. I also discuss some of the limits that you'll run into with it (especially as a developer), and show some neat ways to work around issues and get more out of your Pipx installation.

In particular, a few setup steps and wrapper scripts allow you to reuse Pipx's vendored copy of Pip for any virtual environment on your system (and create new virtual environments faster, by not bootstrapping a copy of Pip into them), and to get raw access to the virtual environments that Pipx creates - allowing you to explore and debug installed code, and treat Pipx like a primitive environment manager.

From my point of view, the advice I offer here is a stopgap - one of the tools I'm developing, Paper, is intended to replace both Pip and Pipx (although the intended scope is still nowhere near "complete workflow tool"). But hopefully you find it useful right away.

Later this month I'm planning a broader piece about my experience with Linux, and especially my experience of using Python on Linux, and the scripts I show here will be some useful background for that.

My next planned post is about a long-standing (I mean over a decade) bug in Pip which I consider both surprising and embarrassing (and arguably an important security issue).
So Newsom made NorCal ship all its water to SoCal, but it’s Newsom’s fault the hydrants ran dry in the Palisades last night? Or that the brush was dry?

Come on, at least try to be self-consistent if you’re going spout this stuff.
There’s nothing wrong with America that would necessitate the gloom certain less informed quarters of the populace have. Nothing.
Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across departments
Exactly. I think this study could equally be interpreted as demonstrating the limitations of the researchers ability to control for variables.
My mom's iPhone should not be summarising spam messages if we "aren't quite there yet."
Like it getting flagged on HN?
Coddling people for being wrong doesn’t seem like a scalable solution here.
The "majority" of people probably aren't clicking on untrusted links either, but we still advise people to keep their browsers up to date. Many people also need to open .docx files from strangers because it's part of their profession/business. Small business owners need to read RFPs and pay invoices, and jobseekers might need to open a questionnaire from a potential employer, all of which could be in .docx. The sender doesn't even have to be malicious. It's possible for one person, who's used to opening untrusted documents on a regular basis (eg. recruiter), to get infected, and for the malware to infect other documents that person sends to others (eg. finance).
100% agree. The article does not seem to be written by someonene who is particularly interested in this subject. The fact that it starts talking about what is IMO the most overrated scene ever, Berlin, says a lot.
This was a wealthy area built within canyons and other natural areas. Controlled burns are possible in some areas but I can't imagine it would have been possible there.
From my perspective it doesn't matter if AIs are smarter than human assistants. The problem here is that AI summarization is predictable. Spammers will run the summarization tooling on their own AI-generated messages until they find candidates that don't get recognized as spam. No matter how smart the AI is, they'll eventually beat it. I'm sure the results are going to be super fascinating.
Kettle Cookery
Frankly a major skill issue. I know lots of people that have no problem doing that. These are state school and community college educated folks I went to high school with.
It's a trick! Despite the name, the real numbers aren't real at all. Most of them don't exist...

Now the computable reals, on the other hand... maybe.
The OP sorted out the subscription/signup/billing issues.

The main reason I signed up was for a nice way to search through YouTube transcripts. YouTube requires many clicks, and the transcript is jammed into a small div.

Another reason I signed up was because I was curious how the YouTube videos were being embedded. It seems like just via the YouTube API?
What happened to the comments about the above link?
They were there a few hours ago ?
yeah, the funny thing about the anthropomorphism debate is that supposedly the thing that makes humans different from (other) animals is our "advanced" brain, i.e. language, civilization, etc.

in other words, all the ways we have to manage emotions, and all of our "non-emotional" functioning.

So we have somehow evolved to be able to better manage emotions.

Ok, so if we grant all of that, then haven't we just said that emotions are common to animals? So then how is it anthropomorphising to say that animals have the traits which we've just said define animals, whereas what makes humans special is that we have 'risen above' mere emotion?
Small related discussion (19 points, 23 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630993
See, this is a huge difference with life here. You can refinance in Australia for the cost of drawing up the loan docs. Not a % of the life of the mortgage left and it's size. The cost of doing paperwork is a constant mostly. The penalty for a fixed interest buy out is there, but it's nothing like 30 years penalty. I guess if we had a 30 year fix the penalty would be commensurate.

"appraisal" doesn't exist here either, as it does in the US. it's different.
It's possible there's deception here, but I also knew a few kids in high school who graduated with their Associates (equivalent to 2 years of college). This can allow a student to skip the general education courses and focus exclusively on major coursework, which depending on the program and how well the student can schedule classes can mean finishing in 2 years.

Their profile also mentions "Stanford Summer Session" in Jun 2022, which does give college credit, so Associates or not they were definitely more active in pursuing a degree than most high school students.
It doesn’t have to mean cutting people out of your life, but you’d have to be more organised in scheduling events. You’d also be unable to regularly attend recurring meetups.

I knew of a sysadmin who followed this schedule so he could monitor the system at different times of day. There’s probably the same upside for people who manage certain 24-7 operations (though the downsides outweigh them in most cases).
You're elevating games to the level of security software. Isn't it an issue that a game is literally policing your entire system? If you had any passwords, or literally anything else, they can take it. This is about as far as a "trade off" can go.
Wow. RIP. It is a name I hadn't thought of in years. I was on Ubuntu Forums and some other Ubuntu communities as an observer/power user, and I recall him being a source of knowledge and education. "slangesek".

45, so young. Thanks for being there for all of us re: Ubuntu!
Ask HN: What is the great (or better) option to replicate storage?
Hello.

I (or we're) am running a Kubernetes Cluster.

It's total of 11 worker nodes. each node have a 2 HDDs and mostly 2 of NVMe Storage.
on Networking side, just 1 10Gbps Ethernet port is attached to each nodes.

However, it's pretty hard to determine which distributed storage solution (or way) is fit to our situation.

We've tried a various ways to achieve.

- Longhorn: Great. Simple to Setup. Sometimes it goes to Read-Only State. (because changed block couldn't synced to other replicated storage, especially Superblock)

- OpenEBS (copied version of Longhorn iSCSI version): Same as Longhorn.

- Ceph: Great. No issues at all. But really stressful when HDDs are jammed with S.M.A.R.T. Error.

How do you manage a storage cluster like ours?

Someone suggests to "don't replicate unless you need to" or "use NFS to Shard disks" but IDK it's the best way to keep the data on failure.

Thank you in advance.

Lee.
For a long time humans did not breed animals for the sake of eating them, they used to hunt (just like a lion). No one was guilt-tripping anyone in those days (I hope), as we had to survive (not thrive).

The situation has changed completely in the modern world. We have created meat factories, forcefully torturing millions of animals daily, and have somehow agreed upon what animals to kill and not to kill.

A lion will kill anything that moves (as long as it is not poisonous), are you willing to kill (and eat) any animal under the sky?

What about pets? Do you think they suffer any kind of pain and suffering ? If yes, that's the same way any other animal you eat (regardless of intelligence) feels when being slaughtered.

One more question to think about:
A young child (in a modern urban world) will be more comfortable plucking and eating fruits from a tree ?
OR
killing a pig -> draining blood -> cutting it into pieces -> cooking it to eat it ?
Easy Way to Track Performance of Every Flyer Copy
If you knew Facebook people, they were super super scared. They literally bought those apps out of pure fear.
I wake up in the morning, role out of bed, walk over to my home office, shut down my computer after 8 hours and get on with my life.

I don’t have to worry about finding customers, I have unlimited paid PTO and I plan to take 30 days this year not including 10 paid holidays.

My wife and I travel a lot and we did the digital nomad thing for a year.

If the company decides they don’t want to employ me anymore, I find another job like I have done 10 times in my career including last year and the year before. Both times it took three weeks.

I don’t live in the Bay Area , I live in a nice condo with access to 5 pools, a private to the condo association fishing lake and two gyms, bars and restaurants all within walking distance in state tax free Florida.
I was so confused reading those as well. I'm concerned how it's even moderately acceptable to anybody.
Why "fix" mountain biking, when it's inevitably environmentally destructive? It needs to be banned, period.
Yes. And they were petrified of becoming not cool/population aging out/etc from day one.
Every. Single. Venue. Implements a different state transition for seemingly simple things like order ack, cancels, fills, etc.

And sometimes they lie in their docs about it. And sometimes their certification environments behave differently than production.

A pox on them all.

*note my info is over a decade old so maybe the poxy devils have changed their ways, but I doubt it.
Practicality. To put it bluntly, the majority of humans do not think it is immoral in principle to kill and eat an animal. After all, that's how biological life just is. At an individual level, you can choose to think it's wrong but you do have to simply accept the fact that not everyone agrees, and very likely there will always be someone who disagrees.

To most people, killing an animal for food is not a problem conceptually. Causing undue and unnecessary suffering is a problem for pretty much everyone with a functioning moral system.

But given that mass farming will not be stopping tomorrow, would you rather the animals suffer more? Or is less suffering better? Should we actively torture the animals on the way to slaughter or maybe not?

All that aside, if we stopped farming tomorrow, a billion or two people would have to stop eating. So we do the least worst thing and give the cow a pat on the head before we grind it up.

That said, most people would probably prefer if no animals were killed at all. Once cultured meat starts producing at the required scale, industry farming will probably end very quickly.
Everyone has to start somewhere, but if you don't know what ZIRP stands for you just don't have the fundamentals/haven't taken enough interest in economics to participate in a conversation related to macroeconomics and posting grumpy comments out of ignorance won't help you. You're going to have to read up on it.

Although FWIW you probably aren't a bot, an AI would likely know all about ZIRP.
>Sure there's always going to be someone, but it's hard to attribute a specific figure for support cost to any given sale (you don't know about future support requirements, or for a subscription when do you account for support costs). This is why COGS usually doesn't include support.

By that logic, do cloud companies need to factor storage costs into COGS? Most people don't store exactly 1TB when they get the 1TB plan, and many don't use anywhere near that amount. Does that mean dropbox can pretend their offering has 100% margins? Sounds unlikely. The principle of accounting is that the numbers should reflect the actual business. Customer support costs don't have to be allocated to sales with 100% accuracy, but they can't pretend it doesn't impact unit economics either.
Interesting. Does Epic come with any pre-built UI for its products? Some of the bad UX complaints have been explained away as bad reuse of interfaces adapted to the realities of US private health care (which is very different from Norway’s public health system).

I do not think a language barrier is at play; Norwegians and the other Scandinavians are among the most fluent English speakers of English as a second language in Europe, surpassed perhaps only by the Dutch.
That's less an issue of a lack of manpower and more the result of one person up top pushing everyone away. A less annoying owner could lay off 70% of the staff without gutting revenue.

Though Elon Musk's purchase of the company was entirely in his own self-interest, and unfortunately, it's serving him well so far. Buying a company for a fraction of his personal wealth and leveraging that into having the president as his personal servant is one of the greatest investments in American history.
According to the numbers in that link, their nominal revenue per employee flattened out shortly after IPO up until it stops listing them in 2020.

I imagine getting that ratio up is important, especially with recent inflation.
The blame starts with the mayor and top brass of the city government. The literal job description involves running the city based on money they have, including prioritizing what’s important. Fire departments and emergency services are the last departments that need budget cuts. Obviously some blame does also fall on the fire chief, but fire departments are usually well run and from the looks of it, there seems to have been an effort to absorb most of the cost cutting in vacant admin positions. Whether there was an opportunity to make cuts elsewhere from the FD’s pov, we’d need to look at the data more closely.
If this company future is resting on “agent force” i would imagine more engineers are leaving than wanting to work there anyway
My brother had a friend try this in university while studying for exams and, according to my brother, it basically made the guy lose his mind. Seems like a roll of the dice on whether it works for people or not.
This seems like the biggest disadvantage to me too. I see friends four or five nights a week so I would have to give a lot of that up.

Which is a shame because longer days would probably significantly improve my sleep.
It really wasn't, but it did assume the audience was familiar with a specific bit of discourse about, well, ZIRPs. In particular that when debt is super cheap, companies can afford to do a lot of things that would be stupid when capital comes at a higher price. Which generally seems to have been true about a lot of SV companies.
First I heard of it but Chimera sounds very interesting from an IoT / Embedded Linux perspective.

I've been looking for a while for Linux distro that's easy to build from scratch and customizable.
Haniwa
See also these internet-historical gems from everything2:

Uberman's sleep schedule - every 4 hours, sleep 20 minutes.

https://everything2.com/title/Uberman%2527s+Sleep+Schedule

Everyman sleep schedule - per above, with an additional 3-hour nap each 24 hours.

https://everything2.com/title/Everyman+Sleep+Schedule

Of course, the surest way to experiment with an alternative sleep schedule is to simply take care of a newborn, something humans have gotten pretty good at over the millennia.
> I had the same initial reaction, because in my mind 2^{ℵ₀} is a more fundamental concept than ℵ₁.

> But the notation, and probably the theory, suggest otherwise, in which case saying there are 2^{ℵ₀} reals might be a bit like saying that there are |ℝ| reals.

That's a good point, but, interestingly, and as you doubtless know, this article points out a rigorous sense in which it's the other way around: we know very explicitly at least two sets whose size we know is 2^{\aleph_0}, whereas we don't know any whose size we know is \aleph_1!
Why should anyone care whether they're upset? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What are they even upset about?
I don't know any individual that pay for office. Google Docs is good enough for 90% of things and free.
These aren’t “forests” like in other parts of the West so much as cliffs covered in dry, scrubby brush. I’m pessimistic that they could be systematically cleared or burned in a controlled way.
Many neighborhoods and landmarks along PCH in Malibu just gone. There's nothing left. Hard to fathom or overstate what the impact of all this will be. Every year I go down to the beach at sunrise on January 1st with my dad. We pulled over somewhere, don't know where, along the way, to catch the sunrise. Today when I first woke up I opened twitter and saw a video of the charred skeletons of the houses right where we were standing just one week ago. Recognized it from the background of the picture I took of him. Fucking insane.

edit: much of today has been giving me flashbacks of the Woolsey fire. the only way, probably, this fire today is better than the Woolsey fire, is that there likely won't be a mass shooting the very next day, like what happened back then, at the Borderline shooting.
A college like UW may have sports revenue on order of $300M, much of which goes to the university, and means students may pay less than if there were no sports. Dig carefully through UW finances, which are usually public record. Paying a coach whose program is a massive profit center enough to have a team of quality enough to land bigger TV deals may be a financial benefit.