skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If true, yet another reason why I'm glad I ditched Prime Video.

I noticed that FireTV Sticks now autoplay ads on launch without an option to disable that. For such setups, I'm likely to replace them with Apple TV (not perfect, but better) that aren't naked ad-delivery platforms like they're trying to copy something from a dystopian sci-fi movie.

Also, it wouldn't work on my main setup because it uses a soundbar that's only controllable by an IR remote. I would be willing to bet that it sends an HDMI CEC signal to unmute stereo receiver volume levels too.
C has arrays with more than one dimension. (but no direct support for strides). Of course, it is just the same thing as arrays of arrays.
Key features: high performance, zero memory allocation, up to 19 decimal places precision, fixed size memory layout (128 bits), no panics,..
https://web.archive.org/web/20250106203714/https://www.newyo...
> More and more, the sentences I had in my head were like the sentences I loved in books: they began in one place and ended somewhere you hadn’t imagined them going, though, at each turn, idea seemed to follow idea perfectly naturally. The surprise at the end, as the thought completed itself, seemed wildly exciting: the whole sentence needed to be reëxperienced in this light; waves of unexpected revelations and insights resulted.

Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of Several Short Sentences About Writing, calls these “volunteer sentences.” You don’t follow them, you tame them. Take control of your writing.
Housing wasn't an investment until it was turned into an investment in the 80s. Housing was always thought of as housing before that. It is the same as renting, but at some point, you stop paying rent and instead just pay your wealth tax on it's value.

In the US we treat it as not only an investment we expect to appreciate, but then turn around and treat it as a depreciating asset for taxation purposes if you are buying it to rent to people. It is a double standard that lets corporate landlords buy a property, collect rent, write off the mortgage interest, write off the "depreciation" of the property, all the while the property appreciates in value, creating multiple revenue streams (lower tax bill + higher leverage-able assets + rental income). THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED!

You should not be allowed to "depreciate" an appreciating asset on your taxes and get to lower your bill. If you want to write off depreciation, it should be appraised at a lower value first. Otherwise its book value remains constant (or adjusts for inflation?), and then just capital gains on the sale if someone wants to pay more than book value. This would make it less attractive to investors, prices would actually fall a bit (or a lot, IDK).
I think I've encountered cases like this watching Netflix movies originally in my native language but subtitled in English. But in every case I can remember the substitution made perfect sense.

Without adapting the translation the natives will immediately understand the reference while you, the non-native with no sense of who they're talking about are left wondering what's the real message. Calling someone a "Mother Teresa" might miss the mark somewhere in China. Same if an Italian movie made references to food like Casu Marzo and the average American would probably miss a lot of the context.

Just recently I saw this in a series where some workers in the oil extraction industry were staring at a pan of paella asking what it is and calling it jambalaya. Paella is world famous, how about khash?

That's why I said I understand the usage but it should only be done if it really helps the comprehension, not just the principle of gratuitously adapting to one language.
H.c.p.r.i
Did they move goal posts though? The original claim was that "once lawyers are involved, lawyers are the only winners." "Only" because "even if you win you still have to pay the lawyers."

Even if your app is successful, you still have to pay the programmers. Even if you sell the building, you still have to pay the construction crew. Even if you're packed during dinner service you still have to pay the chef.

None of these scenarios are painted as a pyrrhic victory because you had to pay the people who made it possible. All those people are generally paid hourly too. Is it because a good lawyer will bill you $400/hr? Is it because those generally have a lot more upside financially than simply winning a court case?

I think it's projecting anger from spec attorneys taking 40% of personal injury judgments, or class action attorneys making $50 million in fees when the people affected get checks for $8.72, but neither of those apply here particularly when you're paying an attorney $75 to send a demand letter template on their letterhead.
Also, no one to mention Perligata already??!

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
thank you for your outlier anecdote. i don't know anybody who doesn't know sugar is bad for them. i've been sitting on a sidewalk smoking a cigarette and a stranger told me that it will kill me. the fuck? like i don't know that.

> What's your view ? People get fat, age terribly and die as a result of a conscious decision process in which they arrive to the conclusion that losing their limbs to diabetes is OK because Coke tastes good ?

that's crazy anybody would ever think that, let alone me, who never said that.
Yeah, safety regulators would also need to prosecute companies that discourage people from using the E-stop button with terms like those.
I wonder if you can use an existing svg as a starting point. I would love to use the sketch approach and generate frame-by-frame animations to plot with my pen plotter.
(note: i wrote the link in the OP)

as it happens, i spent about a decade working on an electronic product that, for complex reasons, wasn't suitable for outsourcing overseas. i wrote a reasonably long and detailed post about this process recently, which you can find here: https://scopeofwork.net/proof/ i also wrote about it a bunch on my personal blog; you can find the relevant posts here: https://pencerw.com/feed?tag=thepublicradio
> Lots of travel

> This was the year I traveled the most in my life—and looking back, I probably should have traveled even more. I visited customers, helped with sales, conducted executive interviews, and spoke at a few conferences. It’s hard being away from two little kids, but each trip turned out to be worth it.

For me, no. Absolutely not worth it. I traveled during my kids early years and it was a waste of time. That job is long gone, do not even remember most names, it is just a vague memory. My children are here and I missed a too much time to be with them.

I count my remaining years in much shorter spans. I do not look back and say, I should have spent more time working and traveling.
Check my other comments on this submission - I got into BigTech without doing any coding too - AWS ProServe.

But I am self aware enough to know that isn’t a repeatable process that most people can do anymore than “selling potatoes online”.

I don’t have to “market myself”. My job at AWS fell into my lap more or less then after leaving, with that on my resume and LinkedIn profile along with my other experience, people reach out to me. I don’t spend time trying to be a “thought leader” online.
Show HN: Open-source Go tools for Firestore document management and restoration
Just released two utility tools for Firestore that might save you some development time. Not sure the overlap of firestore and go devs but it's been useful for us. As a small startup we are excited to get going on our opensource journey and welcome feedback!

Just seems like some of the data management tools are underdeveloped and everyone is supposed to write their own. Thought it would be good to build a community around building new ones.

firestore_doc_deleter - A Go-based tool for safe document operations featuring:

Batch deletions with configurable rate limiting

Automatic document backups before deletion

Subcollection handling

Dry-run mode for operation verification

Document restoration from backups

firestore_restore - A web interface (Go backend) for:

Database restoration/transfer operations

PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery) support

Collection/document level granular control

Progress monitoring and batch processing

Service account authentication

The tools are especially useful for dev/staging environments where you need more control over document operations than what's available out of the box.

Tech stack: Go, Cloud Firestore, GCS
License: MIT
You had real work ahead of you, but now you have a template for that.
Nvidia has had support for linux since 1999!
Nice! I might actually try drawing our factory with a shoddy pen plotter I built, could give some cool results. Well-built factories are really pretty, looks like small ecosystems growths when zoomed out. All the draw settings should make it easy to generate some good outlines
But for science to change, you must NOT trust existing science. The opposite of what 'the science' was telling people to do - "trust science".

The first mask message was that you don't need a mask. If you then censor and ban everyone who says "don't listen to fauci, buy a mask", and a few weeks later ban everyone who says "listen to fauci's statement two weeks ago, you don't need a mask", who's left then? If the "science changed", then the people not trusting the first "truth" were correct in not trusting it. But we censored them and called them idiots for buying and wearing masks, before the 'science changed'. They didn't trust fauci and the science, and had masks, the ones who trusted, didn't.

People literally died, that could have been saved by wearing a mask before mask mandates. Also people died because they trusted the vaccines, and killed other people, because they trusted the vaccines wold prevent spread. If you trusted the CDC director and visited grandma, you might have killed her. If you didnt trust the effectiveness of vaccines, you didn't visit her, and she could be still alive.

We had 4 types of vaccines in my country, astrazeneca, j&j, moderna and pfizer. All of them were "safe and effective". Then astrazeneca was pulled out, because of heart issues, but the other three were safe and effective. Then j&j was pulled out. Then moderna. In my country (~2mio pop), we had 5 deaths with(!) covid in the sub 35yo group (with the wonky counting of deaths), which is less than suicide deaths, overdoses, etc. Also 1 vaccine death ( https://www.gov.si/en/news/2021-11-30-expert-commission-conf... )

Look, I know what you're trying to say, scientists know what they're doing, but i'm pointing out that "trust" is not the right word to be used with science. Church? Sure, trust someone with some imaginary friend, because more than trust is impossible. But with science (as you said "total knowledge about the virus was changing from day to day"), you cannot call people to 'trust' it, because (again, as you said yourself), the science was wrong and "changed" and trust is broken.

Also "hey, we lied to you before, because we were incompetent at buying masks for medcical workers, so we instead chose to risk your life instead" is a stupid argument. This is how you lose what little is left of "trust" in those authorities.

TLDR: if you trust, you're stuck with stone tablets and burning bushes (well, leeches and smoke enemas in case of medical treatments). Only with distrust can science go forwards. If we banned all the smoke-enema skeptics back then, we'd never more onwards from there.
I didn't know VAX had web APIs.

Do you know that software can be used to build a wrapper layer around other software?
> Jokes are an example of something translators can do really well - things like puns don't work 1:1 across languages. A good translator will find a corresponding, appropriate line of dialogue and basically keep the intent without literally translating the words.

Again, those aren't "cultural translations" but "idioms translations", which I do agree should be translated into something understandable in the language, otherwise you wouldn't understand it.

What I was aiming at in my original comment was examples like these:

> Family Guy original voice-overs + subtitles making a joke about some typical father figure in Hollywood for example. Then the Latin Spanish subtitles will have translated that joke but replaced the specific actor with some typical father figure from the Mexican movie industry, while the Castilian subtitles would have replaced it with someone from the Spanish movie industry.
How would we know that the AI didn't hallucinate when it translated a tablet? In other words, how could one trust the translation? A human translator can still provide some justification for their interpretation.

Also, "acquired" could simply mean that the museum paid money to a third party to, well, acquire the piece(s) in question while not inquiring too deeply into how said third party came into possession of the objects that they sold.
Thank you. My efforts on preparing both EN/JP translations paid off :D
> She went to Ghana on a taxpayer paid political junket, which doesn't seem like something the mayor of even a major city would be officially involved in

I live in a very mid-size city for my province and our mayor goes on international trips on city business maybe once a year. The fact itself is not out of the ordinary.
Depends on the profession. As a software engineer in Eastern Europe, you can work for a Western company remotely and make kind of insane money.

I lived like a king in Warsaw (renting a small apartment in the historical centre, eating out often) spending about 1/20th of my income.

These days I work for peanuts for my friend back from kindergarten and am enjoying it tremendously!
To be honest, I don't know who buys these portable monitor. Any cheap Dell 24" (I use an old 2414h but newer are the same) for ~250€ will do. They detach from the stand using a button press (Dells proprietary mount system), have almost no bezel, and are relatively flat to fit into a suitcase or even backpack. I use an Osprey 80l travel backpack, and that 24" screen is easily placed at the very back of the backpack.

I even sometimes use a bigger suitcase with wheels, I can fit 2 screens in that suitcase easily and use a Dell MDS19 stand - the pro for this stand is, you can unscrew the bottom (no screwdriver needed!) and it is just a very thin flat piece. The other part is also basically just a long heavy bar with the monitor mounts, but in total it is easier than to transport the two individual stands.
A lawyer is NOT the right next step. As soon as you engage a lawyer the school will switch from treating this as a student policy matter (which will be resolved in a timeline of days) to a legal matter (which will only be resolved in a timeline of years). The timeline question is of no concern to the courts or the school but makes a huge difference to you.

It does seem like you need someone on your side. A list of people to consider: your academic advisor, the professor in whose course you built the prototype application, your department chair, student ombudsman, dean of students. If the university is being as unreasonable as your posting makes it sound like, you will have no trouble getting one or more of these people on your side and they will be able to apply pressure to the registrars office on your behalf if needed to get your hold lifted.
Google cloud run and Azure container apps both let you run an arbitrary docker image without having to deal with custom setups. Both scale automatically so they are serverless. AWS has apprunner but it doesn't scale to zero.[0]

[0] https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/9 (amusingly the issue OP posts on HN)
>Since when do women have more job opportunities than men?

It's not about raw absolute numbers but DEI policies in companies and some gov jobs, have made plenty of good white collar jobs restricted to only women or giving priority to female candidates at the expense of competence, which is legally speaking just gender discriminations with a PR spin on top. You are not allowed by law to discriminate job candidates by immutable characteristics like gender.

>Because men are -- as a group-- far more dangerous than females

Treating men, and individuals generally, as a group based on statistics is just discrimination legally speaking. Imagine saying that society should fear black people because they are more dangerous because statistically speaking they're more likely commit more crimes than whites. That's the same kind of discrimination. Are you ok with this?

>Until the rich no longer exploit the weak

What does this have to do with the life of average men? 99,99% of men individually, are not rich and powerful enough to cause oppressions at societal level. Lots of global oppression is happening due to capitalist corporate greed which are a collective hive mind, at which many women are also at the helm on boards and help enable this oppression. It has nothing to do with gender.

>AND male culture becomes more pro-social and willing to accept help

Please share what help are men getting and refusing. You're creating this narrative around "male culture this" and "male culture that" not backed by any facts.
Graduate students (who teach, do research, and some administrative tasks for the university) occasionally do. What American schools usually have is a “student government” which is approximately 90% roleplaying as elected officials, and the remaining 10% is deciding which banquets they should host themselves to spend the small budget the university gives them.
Job board board.
https://archive.is/gMzez
> I think that’s better than feigned incompetence.

Strategic incompetence.
Anecdotally, me too. If not nightmares, very bizzare dreams that leave me feeling a bit weird for the day and I don't really feel nearly as rested as regular sleep, even if I sleep for longer.
The device doesn’t ship with a known, unchangeable admin password. The device doesn’t needlessly require Wi-Fi access for basic local functionality. [my wish list]
I've got a Windows XP virtual machine on my Linux desktop computer exactly for a similar reason. I start it when needed and close it.

And of course it's not connected to Internet.
It's not the university's fault that the taxpayers refuse to fund a larger school.

Edit per reply: $1M/yr for the President is less than $50/student/year. Not funding more classes for students.
> Get these scholars to train the AI, then have it automatically translate all the other tablets

Which is great until it blithely translates an ancient curse and initiates the apocalypse.
Misconfiguration and skill issues (aka poor docs).

IME not a big difference vs 99% of the failures of business IT systems in general...
https://hiring.cafe/

Really good job search engine, with a filter for remote work.
"Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29381969 - Nov 2021 (15 comments)
Maybe not "evolve" but certainly would be different every time, right? If it already knows every conivable way to generate something, it stands to reason it will be different every time, as every request will be a little different, even if it's just the temperature of the room.

As a thought exercise: if I could automatically generate, at no cost in money or time, a "disposable" vehicle for every single trip I took, wouldn't it make sense that it would be different every time, even though the basic requirement (transportation) is the same? Why bother generating a car with A/C if it's cold out? Why have a passenger seat if I'm just going to the corner store for milk?
You need a lawyer. They will 100% bully the F out of you to get what they want. Do not assume good faith.
A real agency is unlikely to, but can definitely email/phone our of the blue to talk about representation. This is in a few cases: have you gone viral for some reason? Did you win an award somewhere for unagented fiction (short stories, a one-off poem, etc)? Do you have a large existing following in the field and have publicly said you're unagented/working on something an agent can represent you in? Do you already have a significantly successful literary career in the indie/self-published space?

But generally yes, an agent is not going to contact you randomly.
Again, these absolute numbers are misleading due to population growth. See my post up the chain.
Why should I be serverless? I like servers. I like containers. I like options.
I remember being there, long queues of people buying copied floppy disks.

We even created “Game Doctor” which is basically a device that could jailbreak SFC to play games copies to floppies.
I always travel (as in digital nomading for months, staying 14+ days in a single location) with a monitor (see my other explanations in that thread) because not only is a laptop screen to small for extended work, it is highly unergonomic to look down all the time.
10 is really old to be calling the cops on. My kids is 8 and we expecting her to walk to school alone this year like many kids.

But the lack of sidewalk and the description as a place “no on walks” is a bit more problematic.

We definitely have roads like that and would be horrified if my kid was walking along it — and the cops picking them up would be probably appropriate

But arresting the parents is over reaction; kids do stupid things, even when taught well. And there was a guardrail.
For stuff like this, the best thing is to have a style guide. If you disagree with something in the style guide (tabs/spaces, casing, etc.), you make a PR to the style guide and hash it out there. Also, those PRs need updates everywhere to make the codebase agree with the change and updates to relevant linters enforce it.

Outside of that, the style guide is law.
Too late. PSTN is already useless because of spammers, and we're all conditioned to not pick up calls from unknown numbers.

I sincerely hope the campaign contributions everyone got to ignore the problem were worth it. An enormously useless public good is essentially ruined.
Insipid? I don't see how my comment is tasteless at all
Isn't it a subset of the problem of "excessive, continuous profit maximization is a virus", and advertising is just one obvious manifestation of it? Maybe we need social ventures along the entire stack of hardware, software, and cloud platforms? And then group buys for licenses to and streaming of media?
It appealed to me as a 20 year old engineering student, eighteen years ago. And I see lots of 20s and 30s still out at big events; I wouldn't write the decline off as being about anything intrinsic to the activity.
I've stopped YouTube and podcasts for now
A bunch of things work in implementations, while but are not standard conforming.
I'm not too comfortable giving my voice data over to some random company. Just like I wasn't comfortable giving my DNA over to 23andme (who BTW was hacked, leaking 7 million user's profile data, and is now on the brink of collapse). Am I alone in this kind of thinking? What makes people comfortable using a service like this?
California's insurance is in crisis. The solution will cost homeowners a ton
> I know for a fact that I and dozens of other students would have happily paid hundreds of dollars to use your project

Is this normal in the US, that students have high enough disposable income that they would be able to pay "hundreds of dollars" to use a webapp to swap classes with each other? Or is this school uniquely one for the more well-off kids out there?

Remembering my time when my friends were in university, some while working, just about no one would have hundreds of dollars to spend on something like that.
Don't have a dog in this fight as I don't know much about synthesis, but I always remember the old saying. The best book to learn about "hard subject" is the third book you read on it.

How many people will comment on a youtube video, course, strategy or book, and say something like
- It's the best explanation. I tried all these different things and only this worked.
The common denominator is previous failed attempts at the subject.
EF5 tornado can be every bit as destructive as a wildfire and in some areas they recur pretty frequently.