skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
www.leadseeder.co
> You can't really expect that level of writing skill from a typical 10 year old.

Can't you? I've taken the quote from the parent comment and replaced every punctuation mark and coordinating conjunction that separates independent clauses with an interpunct, and bracketed the relative clauses.

> I love to receive letters very well • much better than [I love to write them] • I make but a poor figure at composition • my head is too fickle • my thoughts are running after birds eggs play and trifles [till I get vexed with myself] • Mamma has a troublesome task [to keep me steady] • I own [I am ashamed of myself] • [If I can but keep my resolution] I will write again at the end of the week • give a better account of myself • I wish you would [give me some instructions with regard to my time] • advise me how [to proportion my Studies and my Play] in writing • I will keep them by me • endeavor to follow them • I am with a present determination of growing better • [if you will be so good as [to favor me with a Blank Book]] I will transcribe the most remarkable occurances [I meet with in my reading] [which will serve to [fix them upon my mind]]

As you can see, there is no nesting deeper than one level except at the very end. There's a range of vocabulary, but most of the words were common in English at the time of writing and have simply fallen out of fashion. 'Fickle' is usually now 'impatient'; neither expresses a more complex idea than the other. Assuming the letter is representative of genuine sentiment, I find his desire for personal development more impressive than his language; indeed his commitment to reply to correspondence promptly is the most positive reflection of his character.
What an awesome awesome way to make light of what you’ve gone through. This is gonna help so many people in LA!

(Also hi from just a little bit up the 15 if you’re still in scripps ranch :))
What a strange argument. Nationalism is only around around 200 years old, because it's one of the basic ideas that formed the modern era.
I could not disagree harder. I know a decent number of Taiwanese people and their hatred of communists is like my ex-Soviet friends: very very deep
The numbers are discussed by upper engineering management. They might change over time depending on the situation the company is in.

Think of a hypothetical organization with 10,000 software engineers. You're the head of engineering. You have ten divisions, each with a VP managing 1000 engineers. Each VP has ten directors, each managing 100 engineers, and each line manager has 10 engineers on the team.

The engineering team reviews the past year. You notice, overall we fired 500 people last year. Okay, so on average that was 5% of staff. Seems reasonable just as a sanity check. (You ask your buddies at other large tech companies, and the other heads of engineering are reporting similar numbers.)

Now you look through the individual teams. A lot of 10-person teams don't fire anyone. That makes sense. But would you expect a director to fire nobody from their org? From 100 people... well, maybe. I'd be a little suspicious. I'd ask some other directors, does this person have a reputation of a very high quality team, or is it more likely that this director is lax, and their org doesn't manage out its underperformers?

Now imagine a VP fired nobody. 1000 people and they all were high performers. Yeah, that doesn't seem right. That VP is probably letting their team get away with low standards. If you were the head of engineering meeting with your VPs, I think the group would be able to come to a consensus of, there's a problem here. It's based on the 5% target but it's not a hard and fast rule.

In the long run, having a high-performing team is better for morale than firing nobody. It's the difference between working at Meta and working at the DMV.
> The truth is insurance agencies always want to find a reason to increase your premiums, because the law says you can't just increase the premiums for no reason.

How does this work? Are you saying all the insurance companies share data and collude to set your rate? Or they just hope you don't price shop every year or two and jump to an offering that is under the legal limit (whatever that is)? My state has over 50 auto insurance companies, so I don't see why they would have to resort to tricks like that to increase your rate in an unfair way.
Thanks for the link. I learned that CA bans insurers from deducting the value of land when purchasing a new home instead of rebuilding.

Land Value Deduction – In the event of a total loss to your property, the amount owed to you by the insurer is the cost to rebuild your home at its original location, including building code upgrade coverage and extended replacement cost coverage. Your insurer is not allowed to take a deduction for the value of land under the replacement home you purchase. [Cal Ins. Code 2051.5 (c)(2)]
We need a federal rule that prevents datacenters from tapping ground water for cooling.
I noticed it about 3 months ago. I never see it anymore. But yeah could be testing with a subset of users.
>The west is the strongest it’s ever been in its entire history.

I would argue the West was at its peak in the mid to late 20th century when we were so awesome we conquered the god damn Moon, made transcontinental, transoceanic and even space travel quick and mundane, invented the microprocessor, and then finally invented a communication system that connected the entire world.

Turn of the 21st century onwards has been a slow but steady and undeniable decline.

The world becomes more tumultuous every year, the East is clearly catching up and has in some aspects already surpassed the West, the Middle East is a bigger tinderbox than humanity has ever known, and liberal values like free speech and equal opportunity have become decisively unpopular.

A paradigm shift is coming, probably this century within most of our lifetimes, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to smell that.
I do wonder what the dumb hammer of a blanket school ban is going to do. A bunch of states are trying that.
Whenever I see "declarative" these days, I get suspicious.

See what people are promising when they say "declarative" is a dream. You just tell the computer the final state you want, and the language does what it needs to do to get there.

The problem here, is that in order for that to work, the language has to know how to get where you want it to go, and give you vocabulary to tell it that. That "how to get there" and "vocabulary" has to be written in a (gasp!) general-purpose language.

So now, you come across a situation where you need the declarative language to do something it doesn't know how to do. So now you're forced into the position of helping create the declarative language. And as it turns out, creating a declarative language in a general-purpose language is a lot harder than just using a general-purpose language to tell the computer how to go where you need it to go in the first place, because you have to delve into an existing codebase which is inevitably giant.

I've begun to refer to this anti-pattern as "Configuration-Oriented Programming" (COP).

I'm being a little facetious here--I've not looked into Nix enough to have any educated opinions on it. But it sounds like my outsider impression that Nix is a COP might not have been too far off.
Very cool. This scratches several itches. What data is this displaying? Are you tailing syslog and writing it to a serial output? Do you have some status monitor that assigns meaning to the lights?
It basically is! but the rules provide a few guardrails.
>I never lambasted Trump for this

Fair enough, that was a bit of a tangent.

>Plus, there doesn't seem to be a solid foundation on why we want to bring back manufacturing to the U.S.

Because the US used to have tons of good paying jobs for normal people who didn't need to get a 4 year degree. Everything used to be made here and we had a booming economy which had opportunities for people from all walks of life, including people who can't or don't want to get a 4 year degree.

>Republicans typically don't care about workers' rights or environmental impact

I think this is definitely not as true as many people think, the right has become a big tent at the moment and there are a lot of people in it who do care about these things. Workers rights do align with bringing jobs back to the US, look at how unions voted in the recent election, they superficially supported the left but most of their members voted for the right.

>where are we going to find enough workers to do that without a big influx of immigrants?

Wages go up, more people are able to live a middle class life, people have children.

Also, most of these jobs are becoming automated, your example of farm hands is a good one actually because a ton of farm work is now being done by robots. It won't be very much longer until almost every ag job is being done by robots. So bringing manufacturing back to the US means that the money stays here, people get better wages, and we have a way lower carbon footprint.

And yes, fewer people are employed because of robots but also SOME will still be employed.

We have been hollowing out the middle class by shipping many good jobs building stuff so that the top 1% can take advantage of slave labor on the other side of the planet. It was not a great idea.

Look at how much of a boon it has been for China, they have used the base of manufacturing jobs to bootstrap their entire economy in record time. Now they have so much manufacturing expertise they are able to do things we physically cannot, but we used to be able to build everything.
Lincoln's tax was universally hated even within his own party and was only authorized for a few years to pay for the war.
Thank you. Appreciate the reply. These gadgets are rather costly tbh. I did some digging around on YouTube for the compressor and I found this:

https://youtu.be/d3XxckqoeXE

Is it doing the same thing? Seems rather easy and cheap to make.
Same here. Any text editor would work, of course, but I like BBEdit because of all the customization options. I’ve set up a bunch of shortcuts for frequently used tags; after some practice, I’ve become able to write prose in HTML almost as smoothly as in a word processor.

When I redid my ancient personal site—started in the late 1990s—to make it mobile-friendly a few years ago, BBEdit was also useful when making changes across dozens of files at once.
As stephen_g pointed out, it's ok by the hardware exemption in https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

But I like the title Das Blinkenlights so have changed it anyway. @boznz: I hope that's ok!

(The post is currently at #3 on the frontpage so there's not much need for it to be high on /show in any case.)
Decentralized Diffusion Models
> "Is {sentence_a} similar to {sentence_b}?"

I also find this methods powerful. I see more and more software is getting outsourced into LLM judgements/prompts.
Trump says he will create new agency to collect revenue from foreign sources
The first author of the paper posted about it here: https://x.com/davidrmcall/status/1879215125573587247.
If we crossed the Yalu River today, do you think we'd be alive tomorrow to talk about it? Nuclear deterrence, as part of the taboo, prevents any nation from violating the sovereignty of a nuclear power. The only exception I know of is the Yom Kippur War, and if there is ever a person who never received a well-earned Nobel Peace Prize, it's Golda Meir.
US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles
So maybe don’t gamble?
I replied to your issue at https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/531. Not sure if it will be any help, but that's how I'm doing my mirrored zpool EFI boot partitions.
Sonos has been great for me for 12 years. The newer products also showed up as airplay targets, which made things even easier. You can do fun stuff like group one that target with other systems to stream the audio around, or group another room (say the kitchen) with the tv so you can keep listening to your show while you move between rooms.

But the app they released last year is an unreliable clusterfuck, and while you don't need the app for things like tv audio, if you want to stick an album on in your shed while you do some carpentry (one of my use-cases recently) then you're probably going to want to use it. And right now that's very hit or miss.

So I think a little bit of wait and see is probably the right choice. If they get good again and drop the moronic everything-goes-through-our-cloud approach, I'd have no hesitation in recommending them again.
The blog post talks as if a future stepping of RP2350 is all but guaranteed, they will likely fix the pull-down bug too. That matters a lot more to hobbyists than hacks that are very involved (and need phyiscal / voltage rail access).
Ask HN: Have any of you become homeless?
If so, how was it like? What happened?
Clearly there are more than a few of us.
Small discussion forming (4 points, 3 hour ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704420
Though it is also interesting to note that Islam is post-Paul and rather "Pauline" in its roots, too. There's always been a weird sense of "I learned it from you, Dad!" relationship between the two religions that maybe often isn't obvious enough at first glance. It's an irony that doesn't fail to escape me any time I hear a evangelical moron talk about fear of "Sharia Law". A lot of "Sharia Law" they would enact in this country if they could get the votes to do it, from many of the same bible passages, too. They don't understand how much it is the same picture. (Though some of the worst certainly understand the real difference is "white".)
great parallel. i think people are angry about both.
Mine aren’t teenagers yet, so we aren’t quite at the danger zone. So far we’ve been focused on letting them use devices in a controlled manner.

I’ve set up various network level controls via Pi-hole and opendns family shorties (obviously this is mostly dns based). YouTube and all the search engines are set to in strict mode.

The devices we have also have various restrictions on them. Kindle kids edition has been great- lots of options for games and videos but limited ability to get into stuff they shouldn’t. We also have iPads now, with the suite of family controls applied.

Our lives are complex enough that our kids have Apple Watches now, again with parent controls in place. It’s a good compromise- they can chat with thier friends in sms, but not the stuff that pushes content on you.

It’s not perfect, but we plan on not getting smart phones or allowing normal social media until like age 18
I would feel so productive! Well done.
Thank you for this.

Any chance you could just make it a single long webpage (as opposed to making me click through one page at a time)?

For some reason on my iPad the links don’t always work the first time I click them.
I recently learned the object tag can do what I wished for in the 90s... work as an include tag:

<object data="footer.html"></object>

Turn your back for twenty-five years, and be amazed at what they've come up with! ;-)

Should reduce a lot of boilerplate that would get out of sync on my next project, without need for templating.
Interesting. Being able to use regexps for text processing through my career has probably saved me a few thousand hours of programming one-off solutions so far. It is one of those skills that really pays off to learn proper.

And speaking of ffmpeg, or tooling in general, I tend to make notes. After a while you end up with a pretty decent curated reference.
What does this have to do with the scenario above? Of course you can reset the corporate SSO account as many times as you want. The point is that federated apps with a password reset flow should have some sort of MFA.
Docker and flatpak suck so much if you want to customize anything
Ongoing discussion (169 points, 8 hours ago, 295 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134
Both you and the world are changing so fast now that nobody can foresee where these changes will take us. And therefore nobody really knows what is good advice or what is bad advice.
Guix has stripped away the biggest plus from NixOS: the module system and replaced it with a half assed system
The idea that a PhD is an expert in the field is, I think, a generous assumption.

And you are missing my point about the wide range of fields to which these novice experts are coming from.

Rachael Gunn is an expert in the field of (break)dance, if I extend your position, and her essay is an expert testimony broadening the field of knowledge?

I think it's entirely possible for PhD (or Masters or anyone) to extend debunked theories, to extend or invent nonsensical positions yet to be debunked, to do research of no value, or merely for value to the student and their advisor as a way to increase citations, career advancement, and so on.

I would argue that this is a more reasonable default assumption. In fact, I think the university system favors this likelihood. Students aren't, to my knowledge, asked to examine the worlds problems and take a stab at them.

They are lead into very specific tracks, possibly by their advisor, possibly by the department, possibly by funding or current trends in the field, to do work around a particular area which may go nowhere close to helping all of humanity.

And a "thesis" is just a a really long essay. It has no special quality or instrinsic value, in my humble opinion.
So, actual androids?
There is a tool called entr, it kill and restart command when any file changes are detected, you could check it out.
I was of similar age then, before that it was nokias and Bluetooth, Facebook was where you could upload stupid shit and not go viral and people's walls were just rage and 9gag memes. With tiktok I think teenage social media and addiction and the self esteem stuff is a different beast.

Many people talk about screen time and age limitations, if a parent doesn't want to go that far there should to be algorithmic limits like block celebrities/gaming/onlyfans type of content
The flip flopping of religion is maybe just that. It wasn't really the case for me, cause my parents were Catholic but became quietly atheist, and I didn't know until they started complaining to me. But it happens a lot.

It seems to work for WASP. Superiority (or I guess family pride) is also big where my parents are from, Iraq and Iran. But my parents didn't take it in moderation, so the outcome wasn't good in the end for them.
The nationalist spirit is founded on imperial ambitions, and the pieces were in place for WWI partly due to empires and pretenders who would claim the title of "empire" both increasingly desperate to cement their legitimacy through power projection.
I'm not sure about the idea of retrospectively assigning IQ scores to dead people who never took an IQ test.

For what it's worth, I believe a reasonably intelligent child could have written that. Here's another letter, this one written by a 12-year old girl in 1842, which is similar to the other except for being, if anything, a bit more composed.

https://100yearsofstories.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/my-deares...

> My dear Papa,

> It is with much pleasure I write to you these few lines to inform you that our vacation will commence on the 18th of the month when I hope you will find me improved in all my studies in which I have done my best. Miss Sykes and Miss Martha present their compliments and hope though late you will accept their thanks for the very nice hare you were so kind as to send.

> With love to all at home, you remain my dear papa.
So your experience is the exact mirror of mine. Old app was flawless and pretty low latency.

As soon as the new one came along I had the issues you describe with control latency - volume or track changes would either take a random amount of time, or do nothing, or sometimes queue up and all apply at once. Also had inconsistent state, the app showing music as playing while nothing happened, or the reverse. The app's home screen only partially loading, all sorts of crap, with the same issues present on android or iOS.

And apparently I'm one of the lucky ones - some people can't add new products or find existing ones.

Maybe one day they'll release a version that works for both of us :)
Yes? North Korea's own nuclear capability is very limited, and China doesn't care enough about North Korea to use its own arsenal and risk nuclear annihilation.

I still wouldn't want to be in Seoul or Tokyo if that happens though, and yes, there's a non-zero risk somebody somewhere gets trigger happy and things spiral out of control.
Reading it now, I am reminded of the importance of sleep. The only time I have experience "visual aberrations" is when I have been very sleep deprived. Items in my periphery would rotate, like my mind was attempting to dream. And then there is this description of one of the cases

> single male who works for the U.S. Postal Service, typically during the midnight shift.

People should be very very cautious about working swing shifts or night shifts.

https://time.com/3657434/night-work-early-death/

I am not that far in, but it looks to me like STPD is a precursor to full Schizophrenia, and that if caught early could avoid it entirely. This might be what the book says.

Oh the DSM, it seems chock full of ... spicey illinformed kinda right by accident correlation isn't causation kind things. After reading enough of it, I don't even see it anymore. I am sure there is still some phrenology in there.

Hazing as a bonding exercise is barbaric. I have seen scrapbooks of USN sailors that have crossed the Tropic of Cancer and Equator. Yeah, no.
Because I want my kids to succeed in reading, history, math, and science, and schools instead give them iPads and teach them <rest of answer self-censored in self-preservation, but you know exactly what goes here>
This is some interesting shit, I love it! At least that parts I think I understand :P

> The goal of data versioning is to provide more mechanisms for library authors to evolve their schemas without imposing breaking changes often. Application developers will have limited use of this feature, as they would rather update their existing codebases and their types right away. Although this may find use cases around durable data and distributed systems.

"Hard cutover" is definitely a lot less laborious, but often times incremental updates are necessary - large teams, existing tables and whatnot. To that end, I would foresee a lot of appeal in app dev when applied to database migrations.
It's really a blog post and if you read it that way (i.e. a personal story / take on the topic) then it's fine.

I've replaced the title with a somewhat more neutral question from the article. If there's a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article), we can change it again.
If I have permission to do 150, you bet I'm going to do 150. Even though I don't exactly have a ton of experience doing it. A fair number of people are going to misjudge, overcontrol, suffer equipment failures, etc.
Most people don't realize that you can read the arch wiki and put the same settings into the nixos options. Where is the point in replicating that all again?
I mentioned the object tag elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706227
I don’t give a fuck if Bob Jones University rejects homosexuals and neither should anyone.
I think you misunderstood the question you responded to. The question was in response to (edit: your own conclusion) "ultimately, camera-only will be the best system" - and was wondering why the same camera system PLUS more sensors wouldn't be better?

edit: I think perhaps you didn't quite mean it that way, but it sounded like you were saying "eventually, camera-only will be superior to any other possible system, including camera + other sensors", which just seems nonsensical.