skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a limited amount of time in your life.

It’s your time, you can use it how you want.

The way you want to use it is how you end up using it. You’re welcome to use your time to do things that others see as destructive. Of course there may be consequences.

I do believe in forced PTO because it creates an opportunity for someone to think about what to do with that time (which like you said, hopefully many people choose to use that time to decompress or rest). Up to them what decision they make. It tells a company what happens when a specific person is gone (Is Kelly the only one who knows how to do X? Is Chris stealing?).

I think there’s possibly a company culture argument where you don’t want a person on PTO logging into Slack, grabbing Jira tickets, going to meetings, or whatever. In that case you maybe end up firing the person if they cross whatever line too many times. But of course if the person is valuable enough, you might look the other way. Or your culture might be such that you don’t care. Up to the company.
Which doesn't change the fact that Win32 doesn't depend on it.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Story of the survivors of a sunken whale ship after a sperm whale attack. A source of inspiration for Moby Dick.
>Inappropriate for a global company.

Why? They've done local stuff like this for PR points before. Not much politically incensed about this.

You're also missing the obvious lede here that these portals probably are already separated by region. If not, definitely localized.
> The word "bullshit" is appropriate because human bullshitter is someone who picks whatever "seems right" with no particular relation to facts or logical consistency.

Not quite true - this is true for your random bullshitter, but professional bullshitters do, in fact, care for the impression of logical consistency and do have a grip on basic facts (if only so they can handwave them more effectively). As such, LLMs are definitely not yet pros at bullshitting :)
It is all in their mind: Information processing bias in lonely individuals
That's the way I think of it, yes, but I think it generalizes - during the backward swing it would "go", but when swinging toward the front of the ship it would "stop" - forever.
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.10.003
I’m pretty sure they have a big office in the Arts District. I listen to a lot of Ringer podcasts and the hosts are often talking about the crazy benefits Spotify offers.
Not really, not in practice. The order of execution is non-deterministic when running on a cluster or a gpu, or more than one core of the CPU and rounding errors propagate differently on each run.
Yet you can use the same OS for headless application development. No?

Not all x86 systems have keyboards and screen, but Linux and Minix work on them with no problem.
How would this representation be converted back to known types without similar decoders? Right now Gleam compiles custom types to Erlang records (tuples) and JS classes.
More colors (warning, flashing lights):

https://tiki.li/run/#cod=dVTBcqMwDL37KzTTmU7SDq5Jm0N20v2G3ju...
>They shouldn't be hiding SQL from your primary language, they should be exposing the relational model to it!

But this has never been their primary purpose and it's not what they are good at. ORMs are supposed to map the relational model into an object oriented model so that you can work with objects rather than sets of tuples. And that's exactly how people use them.

ORMs incentivise people to replace simple and declarative set operations with complex procedural code operating on individual objects.

ORMs are just a terrible idea - conceptually messy, hard to debug and optimise, full of needless complexity.
They cant walk back now without some major backlash.

The one thing I wonder is noise. That box is awfully small for the amount of compute it packs, and high-end Mac Studios are 50% heatsink. There isn’t much space in this box for a silent fan.
We are using Koa in production, and the library is still being maintained.

IMH, the upside is that it's a light abstraction of the node's HTTP request. All extensions are provided in different packages (unlike express).

The downside is that you need to set up the basics (like routers[0]) that are out-of-the-box.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/koa-router
I am not reading it
Oh man, I hope it wasn't one of the ones with the hydraulics, haha.
They've got a YouTube with pretty robust updates. Iirc, during the lock downs, he'd do live coding and stuff.
The Poincaré Conjecture by Donal O'Shea

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
I don't see why this is weird. Unique means no duplicates. Nulls can't be duplicates of each other because they're not equal to each other.

If you don't like null semantics, you're free to use sentinel values. You can make all the sentinel values the same, or you can make them all different. Either way, you or someone who has to use your system will be back here tomorrow complaining about how weird it is.
This is not correct, I urge you to read a bit about Lorentz invariance, once you understand you will see why your statement does not make sense given special relativity is accurate.

Lorentz invariance means the laws of physics remain the same in all inertial reference frames. Also a spaceship going 99.9999…% the speed of light.

This leads to effects like time dilation, length contraction and the speed of light itself.

The metronome can keep going at any speed independent on the speed of its own reference frame.
If you were to start over would you still go for Koa, or something else instead?
If I have no power or worse, am in the hospital: yes. There's emotional factors with others, but you may not physically be able to access such contacts and portals.
No. Even though Mathematica is arguably meaningful. It's very popular with some scientists, and in many aspects it's a respectable piece of software.

A few years ago Sean Carroll was hosting him on his podcast. It was a bit surprising to me because Sean would never give a crackpot the time of the day, and Wolfram is borderline in crackpot territory IMHO, but not quite. He hasn't published anything meaningful in a scientific journal in a long time as far as I know.
"Put directly, the sugar industry lied and is now responsible for tens of millions of deaths."

Frankly, the dishonesty of the Sugar Industry and the effects of its deception are utterly appalling. Tragically, this industry is not alone in deceiving both public and supposedly august (professional) authority—the tobacco industry is yet another, and there are many more.

The question I keep asking myself is why are both experts and governments so easily hoodwinked by these miserable Cretans when it's not that difficult to see though or undermine their bad arguments. Scratch the surface of false and or propped up arguments and they quickly fall apart. If any key proposition is proven false then it's likely the whole argument/case is a sham.

With regard to sugar, I'd have thought the long history of diabetes together with patient histories and their lifestyles ought to have been enough evidence alone to bring the Sugar Industry edifice down. No doubt the playing field wasn't level.

Re the Guardian article in your link, why for example was the author of Pure, White, and Deadly, John Yudkin so ostracized by his professional colleagues? If they had his or similar training and had checked the evidence then they would have known that he was correct and come to his defense. Given the enormous implications—the death of millions—they all should have been up in arms against the Sugar Industry, but they didn't act.

In a way I hold these professionals almost as culpable as the Industry itself. I've asked myself for years what motivates people to be such utter bastards (trouble is one of my subjects was philosophy but unfortunately I didn't study its other half—psychology, perhaps if I had I'd be somewhat the wiser).

You've mentioned millions dead, little doubt this is correct, although it'd be good to firm up those numbers with factual evidence. Perhaps over time AI could crunch the numbers together with all relevant docs and history and we could end up with a statistically accurate number of deaths together with error bars.

A definitive number of deaths would put an actual measure on the Sugar Industry's culpability and those companies still in business would be forever tarnished. But to conclude the Sugar Industry alone is responsible for the harm and deaths is not good enough, we also need to link to those people who were actually responsible. Whether dead or alive we need to tarnish and destroy their reputations as a lesson for others. These corporate bullies need to learn that they can no longer hide behind corporate walls.

This is not the first time this week I've raised this matter, if interested see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42629712. Also, note its thread below. Incidentally, the post received both up and down votes and currently stands at just one vote. It seems the notion of holding those responsible to account isn't overly popular with a significant percentage of the population. Perhaps guilt racks too many and this could be part of the reason why so many professionals failed to come to John Yudkin's defence.

I've also posted a similar rave about this in reply to mlyle.
It seems you are correct and I was only half right. Lets just say that quoting the man in public is still likely to get you in trouble. More than a few AFD politicians are finding that out the hard way.
Bruno Latour’s "The Pasteurization of France" is about Louis Pasteur and the creation and success of germ theory. It does explain it not by focussing on Pasteur per se, but by showing how different groups of people adapted it for different goals.
I accidentally joined a standup in a shared workspace. Ended up with three tasks and a backlog full of bugs to fix. No one’s noticed I'm not on the payroll yet... I’m staying!
While I see the appeal of this kind of system, it also could act to silo communities towards groupthink, exacerbating the misinformation woes that have fractured our society. "Trust, but verify" would be an interesting mantra to try to encode into such a system to resolve that.
I've recently read Annapurna by Maurice Herzog.
It's a recall of the first accent of an 8000m peak, told by the leader of the expedition.
I highly recommend it.
> GI is in our heads. The A is artificial which means built by humans.

Humans aren’t built by humans? Where do humans come from, then?

They say the kids aren’t having sex anymore, but I didn’t realize it was because they aren’t aware of the function.
If both of the major parties are against something, you can only vote for some independent third party, which in the foreseeable future will never even have a single seat in Congress (not to mention a ruling majority). In countries without winner-takes-all electoral system (everybody except UK and USA) it's much easier for smaller countries to gain ground and hence they have a wider selection of viable parties, but in the UK and USA people are pretty much screwed.
Disasters also burn down cell towers and other power outlets go off for safety. I haven't had power in nearly 24 hours and I fortunately haven't had to be evacuated.

I can still access internet, but I'd be unable to if I lived even 10 miles south
Will you call it the "Thomas Engine" that powers simple GUI games on PDF?
annoying non-answer to my question. i already know all about anna's archive. i'm asking if a person can download these isbns and use them to make data visualizations without fear of breaking a law? https://software.annas-archive.li/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...
Might help to insist that kind of investment goes into escrow before the photoshoot.
I wouldn't say goal as much as natural consequence. One of the pieces of media that sent me quite leftwards was a podcast called Behind the Bastard's episode on what the host, Robert Evans, calls "Elite Panic" and it's history intertwined through (and behind, heh) various disasters in our history, and specifically, how the wealthy cause and/or react to them in ways that are profoundly inhuman. Which is not to dehumanize them but quite the contrary, is a fairly clear (and frankly understudied) way that the accumulation of wealth screws with your mind.
Let's also all be reminded about how Oracle DB doesn't let you insert empty strings, and instead treats them as NULLS even if you gave it an empty string initially.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/203493/why-does-oracle-9...

That was a fun bug to find out, after having dealt with quite a few other DBs over the years. It was one of those "No, but surely" and "This can't be! This is Oracle!" moments. Found it while porting some old code that needed to store an empty string as being distinct from a NULL in that same column.
The Android container on my phone keeps its data in ~/.local/share/waydroid/data, so it just gets rsynced with the rest of the backup.
I was sort of puzzled by the meaning of "axiom for boolean algebra" as well, and I looked into this more.

The way I learned boolean algebra was by associating certain operations (AND, NOT, OR, etc) to truth tables. In this framework, proving a theorem of boolean algebra would just involve enumerating all possible truth assignments to each variable and computing that the equation holds.

There is another framework for boolean algebra that does not involve truth tables. This is the axiomatic approach [1]. It puts forth a set of axioms (eg "a OR b = b OR a"). The symbol "OR" is not imbued with any special meaning except that it satisfies the specified axioms. These axioms, taken as a whole, implicitly define each operator. It then becomes possible to prove what the truth tables of each operator must be.

One can ask how many axioms are needed to pin down the truth table for NAND. As you know, this is enough to characterize boolean algebra, since we can define all other operators in terms of NAND. It turns out only one axiom is needed. It is unclear to me whether this was first discovered by Wolfram, or the team of William McCune, Branden Fitelson, and Larry Wos. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra_(structure)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_axioms_for_Boolean_alg...,.
If nulls are distinct then group by should not group them together, this just ignores the problem. Why does group by treat them as equal?
I thought the same, but when Berkeley Mono got ligatures I gave them a go and never turned them off.

I think the truth is that any good monospace font is designed with an awareness of the grid those characters are laid out in. The rhythm and stability of that grid is a feature of monospace fonts. It lets us line up text, draw shapes and so on.

You would think not having the underlying characters visible would be an issue, but ligatures are just symbols like any other. In a short time you learn to read them, like you would any contracted word.
Challenges in Data Engineering (Book)
These ad spaces are using the GMS services which is a default system app on every Google Android this app has virtually all access on your device including position and such.
https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/a...
Your Tips to get rejected here aren't very AI-specific and even have some things listed where the usage of GenAI would actually help with mitigations (i.e. Have typos in your CV, Bullshit language like this).

Equating corporate background to a Company culture mismatch is quite a take tbh. You're a PHP-only shop, yet you see Too much emphasis on dated tech as a reason for rejection? ...an Application send by mail is considered "Applying on side channels"? You're a very small shop and seem very far from a corporate organization (something you yourself seem to despise, see above), so why should anybody care for your rigid application-process? I'd personally expect some resiliency from a team of 4!

I'm only writing this here because I feel that your rant really just feels like any unreflective rant, and you should really consider whether you'd want to put it out there as is.
Outdated documentation is pretty normal unfortunely, even .NET suffers from that nowadays.

Not as bad as Apple nowadays though, quite far from Inside Inside Macintosh days.

Glad to know about C23 features, as they went silent on C23 plans.

C++23 looks quite bad for anything that requires frontend changes, there are even developer connection issues for us to tell what to prioritise, as if it wasn't logically all of it. There is another one for C++26 as well.

Personally, I think that with the improvements on low level coding and AOT compilation from managed languages, we are reaching local optimum, where C and C++ are good enough for the low level glue, C23 and C++23 (eventually C++26 due to static reflection) might be the last ones that are actually relevant.

Similar to how although COBOL and Fortran standards keep being updated, how many ISO 2023 revision compliant compilers are you going to find out for portable code?
Same like you. I like it because is less a framework, and more like a library. Light alternative compared to Express. You can use it as base and choose the library you prefer for other functionality (routing,body-parsing,... )
Ask HN: What projects would require the most investment in programming (low-leve
Making a compiler, an operating system kernel, making a virtual machine, etc. These are all examples of big projects that take months or even years to develop, but they remain common. What would be less common projects that require just as much investment?
Or maybe it will fail to recall all of it and make something up. Because it has 300B parameters not infinitely many.

We currently pull out our phones at the pub/table to check something someone makes up to see if it's legitimate. Now we've invented the technology to have something be that thing that creates a half-truth from what it has absorbed.
That's because null in not-SQL is a rather different concept, and while it's pretty easy to understand it's absolutely is hard to actually work with. Hoare didn't call it a "billion dollar mistake" on a whim.
90% might even be too low.

If you look up business analyst type jobs on JP Morgan website they are still hiring a ton right now.

What you actually notice is how many are being outsourced to other countries outside the US.

I think the main process at work is 1% actual AI automation and a huge amount of return to the office in the US while offshoring the remote work under the cover of "AI".
Television is designed with a "framework-like" approach in mind. Here’s what makes it easy to extend (in a nutshell):

- Custom Cable Channels: You’re not limited to the built-in channels. You can create your own "cable channels"—essentially custom data sources—by tweaking a simple config file. As the project grows, the vision is for users to contribute their own channel recipes to the wiki, making it easy for others to pick and choose what suits their needs.

- Smart Shell Integration: Television integrates seamlessly with your shell, offering features like smart autocomplete and interactive piping of results. It’s also fully customizable, so you can tweak the smart autocomplete behavior or other features to match your workflow.

- Coming Soon: User-definable custom actions within cable channel recipes for an even more streamlined and tailored experience.

This probably doesn’t answer everything, but I’d be happy to dive into more details about any of the points above! :-)
That's why mammals can't breathe at high altitudes that birds can, but I'm not sure if that affects the body plan much in terms of size. The largest birds are smaller than the largest mammals on land or at sea. Then again, lower oxygen levels compared to the past seems to be a limitation for insect sizes too (who have an even less efficient respiratory system).

I also don't think it's the warmbloodedness. There are giant mammals in general after all.

Perhaps it is because bats form large, dense colonies? There is only so many resources available in any given ecological niche, so then for any species that fills a niche one would expect those resources to be divided either among many small individuals or a few large ones. Bat evolution chose the "big colony" route, which I assume favors smaller individuals.
You don't. But they want to minimize avenues to get sued because people can and probably will file an wrongful termination lawsuit.

I don't know the exact laws, but given California I would not be surprised if there's a "no, you cannot fire someone who's in the hospital over a state of emergency" clause. Similar to how you can't fire an employee to avoid workman's comp.

Or worse, it's not there and they set precedent.
For those uninitiated, this is a quote from Dragonball Z: Abridged. It's a fan dub of DBZ until the Cell saga, with incredible amounts of work put into each aspect of the production.

It's a true gem of the internet of the 2010s, and a must-watch for any fan. A bunch of voice actors even started their careers through it!
Yes, and for that metronome to continue "ticking" according to the normal laws of physics the distance must shrink to accommodate the limits on speed - Length contraction.

But, all the observable effects are the same under my "life raft" mental model: To an outside observer their time has stopped, to an inside observer it has not (I'm just thinking slowly). And the laws of physics are unchanged - as a function of time e.g., the number of clockwork steps per metronome tick.

I realized that my thought experiment is not special or unique. Here's the "light clock" version

https://www.emc2-explained.info/The-Light-Clock/
> Fruit bats eat fruits.

The most caloric dense source of nutrition available in nature? I don't see why that is a limitation to body size for a flying animal - quite the opposite!
It's weirder. If you insert an empty string into a VARCHAR field in Oracle, it returns Null back to you when you query that same field. At the very least, I'd expect a software system to behave in a deterministic way. I.e. either throw an error because you're not doing something right (whatever Oracle deems right in this case), or give you back what you gave it, especially for database software who's entire role of existence is to persist data without side-effects.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/
A bunch of academic hippies were working on windmill power in the Netherlands in the 1970s. But with cheap and unlimited LNG it was considered a technical curiosity.

Smart people did predict that gas would eventually run out but by then the country was supposed to have a dozen nuclear reactors like Japan.
Now we can't even build one- and it's not even because of the 40 billion € cost but because of bureaucracy and NIMBYism.

The best thing about wind turbines in the North Sea? Nobody lives there.
I am also color blind and the graph is not good.
There are no pure cultures – we have always been global
The wordpress ecosystem is a behemoth. Even it isn't for you and me, it plays a super important role.
Yes. People then don’t reflect on their own actions, and continue.

Also, I can say for sure - people came to that conclusion because they saw his words directly.

Others were also funneled in via the media channel.

People read Elon’s words in the context that gay people are perverse liberals.
No, it is not good, please remove it. There are many devs with overlapping experiences.

Bad decision to force people to put a stamp on them just to sign up!
The first book I thought about from this prompt is The Fountainhead. It's fiction and was written in the 1940's, but is very relevant to modern times. Very well written and in my opinion this book is better than Atlas Shrugged.
>An intelligent alien race, living there, will be able to catch you, don't you watch sci-fi movies?

The aliens on alpha Centauri are 12 ft tall blue hunter-gatherer humanoids. Not much of a help for your parking problems.
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