skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t evaluate your audience; it’s a losing game. Write things so you can find them later, and leave the rest to chance. Worked quite well for me.
If you have a minimum wage job, your priority should be to find a better paying job. There is no fairness here and nobody cares about your problems like you do. Don't let the political attitudes or fashionable views of your friends effect your own agency, you need to look out for your own economic interests right now.

I think the study is kind of stupid, since the minimum wage category is a temporary category with extremely high variability, it's not a fixed target. So the base assumption that it stays put long enough to study doesn't hold water for me.
"In my [Franklin D Roosevelt] Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By “business” I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."

Emphasis mine.
Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job?
I feel like reading HN sometimes you'd get the impression that all software development now days is just building web apps or working on web services.

I'm curious for people who are programmers but don't work on the usual web stuff, what is your job/domain?
Quite interesting. After being raised fundamentalist / evangelical and quite strongly so, in my late 40s I had a "holy shit, I NO LONGER believe in God" moment.. That was quite a thing, and I never thought I would think that way.. It was quite some time to get there, and not one specific thing that triggered it, just a general acceptance of the randomness and meaninglessness of life..
Justice Department Sues to Block HPE's $14B Acquisition of Juniper Networks
The few annual tournaments in Vintage typically do allow players to show up and register their deck is present, then put it away in a travel safe and play with proxies. That's for decks that can easily be worth 50-100k.
More posts about mysql from Uber - it is interesting to compare state of Mysql in Uber with 2016.

* Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283348

* Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836748
I'd be interested in some of the speculated causation here, do folks think that because they're getting paid more then they are expected to work 4.6% harder therefore get injured at that higher rate?
This looks great! How small of an audio buffer have you been able to get down to? Any plans for an API?

I've been developing a VR spatial sound and music app for a few years with the Unity game engine, bypassing the game engine's audio and instead remote controlling Ambisonic VSTs in REAPER. I can achieve low latency with that approach but it's a bit limited because all the tracks and routing need to be setup beforehand. There's probably a way to script it on REAPER but that sounds like an uphill battle. It would be a lot more natural to interface with an audio backend that is organized in terms of audio objects in space.

What I'd like is more flexibility to create and destroy objects on the fly. The VSTs I'm working with don't have any sort of occlusion either. That would be really nice to play with. Meta has released a baked audio raytracing solution for Quest, and that's fun for some situations but the latency is a bit too much for a satisfying virtual instrument.

Here's my project for context: https://musicality.computer/vr
Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
I don't. Phones have a huge amount of downsides, attention spans, doom scrolling, etc. The upsides though, of this magic sci-fi supercomputer in your pocket, good damn.
7,000 times out of how many accesses?

7,636?

10 quadrillion?

Does California law enforcement's rate of misuse of information systems exceed, equal, or fall short of my own misuse (usually unintentional, due to lack of clear policy/guidance) of various information systems?
Art forgery is a crime. The original creators could, theoretically, be jailed for this.
That is not true. Try playing a $0.30 Underground Sea at Eternal Weekend and see how many rounds it takes before you get caught. Old cards have specific hues, imperfections, etc, that are not replicable in modern proxies. I have some Legacy proxies for local events that are proxy-friendly, and literally the first game I played someone noticed as soon as I put the card down that it was fake because it was printed way too well.
This would, if the system is working, be the blood that future regulations are written in. That these kinds of things happen so rarely came to us at a cost of past lives.
Not available for Bolivia!

Currently, we have restrictions, as there’s a limit of 50 USD on USD transactions per week for each bank. There is a constant growing interest in USDT and crypto here, especially since the middle class is quite aware of it due to the limited availability of USD in the country! It would be nice to explore this further, but it's a bit disappointing that it's not an option right now :/
Printer dots also led to the arrest of Reality Winner who leaked an internal NSA document to The Intercept which published it unredacted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
Yeah, mypy uses it themselves for their releases. I think they get 5x speedups empirically
Where do you think prize support for tournaments would come from if no one had to buy the cards?
Educated engineers generally don't want to work ATC jobs regardless of pay because they're not engineering jobs. Controllers are operators, not engineers. There are some working controllers with engineering degrees, but almost nothing in typical engineering coursework is directly relevant to the job.
This is a fabulous example of Japanese storytelling and the translation is rather good, too :)
> That capitalism causes democracy is so high-level that it’s just a propaganda line. People from Marxists to neoliberals could say the same thing

We have no evidence capitalism causes democracy. But every democracy on the planet emerged from a context with private property and the rule of law.
I'm pretty sure "training flight" in this context simply means they weren't actively carrying passengers. And it's not indicative of a junior or unqualified pilot (doesn't rule it out, just can't infer much from the phrase in this context).

At the extreme, fighter pilots fly almost exclusively training flights because we're not actively waging war at the moment.

There are a few military bases in the area - Belvior (Army), Quantico (USMC), Andrews (USAF), Pentagon, and some smaller ones (some of which have helipads, but no helicopters on station). And lots of shuttling of DoD and other government VIPs from location to location across the DC metro area.
A Tour of Ready Player Mode
Notable passage: "The program was secret until March 8, 1971, when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burgled an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, took several dossiers, and exposed the program by passing this material to news agencies."

Most of the various programs involving the CIA spying on, harassing and so-forth Americans have been revealed by either whistle blowers like Edward Snowden or group like the "Citizens' Commission" (basically a group of radicals, not a public organization). Which is to say that a lack of discussion of such activities isn't evidence they are not occurring.
Detached from reality
> The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background checks for concealed carry firearm permits

So for the concealed carry there is a background check involved, but it has to be done in a certain way, and the police instead were being more "thorough" and were digging through more databases than they were supposed to? I guess they do have access to those databases, but are only supposed to check them if they suspect a crime was committed.

What's the personal motivation there? It seems like they were going out of their way to be more "thorough", wouldn't it save them time and grief not to check more than needed. Is some higher political figure asking them to be more "thorough". I don't quite get the whole picture. Of course, they broke the law, but just wondering about their motive.
I'm not giving anything a blanket pass. The problem is ultimately government policy. If the Federal Reserve issues credit for worthwhile private banking endeavors, it is much more likely to be productive than anything the government spends money on.

>[...] especially while the unquestioned overall policy is such that diminishing one will automatically increase another.

I think it's wrong to take that for granted.
> This proves nothing, illegal immigration can still be a subset. I like food but dont like apples. This doesnt prove an apple isnt food.

This is not an analogous situation or context. It would be logically consistent to support a policy of importing food, except for apples, if you think apples are causing a problem that other foods are not.

We were not discussing the existence of immigrants themselves, which yes, by definition, illegal immigrants are a subset of immigrants since they are immigrants. But that is not interesting nor useful to converse about.

We were discussing the acceptance of immigrants (legal) versus the acceptance of illegal immigrants.
Every six months, I explore switching from MySQL to something new for a more modern tech stack. However, MyRocks (https://docs.percona.com/percona-server/8.4/myrocks-index.ht...) is truly impressive. It allows me to efficiently compress my text-rich rows.
Instead of subsidizing a business that provides some value and pays some wages, we then end up without the business, and with unemployed folks. These folks don't cease to exist, we don't want to tell them "go away and die", do we? So now the taxpayer pays the whole cost of keeping these folks alive, instead of a part of it, and the folks are possibly worse off, unless they find something to do with their time to earn an extra buck. And that something is usually not a legal employment.

Does it look like a win?
Lots of cool software was created by domain experts who taught themselves how to program. And quality is more than often is excellent.
It appears the LASD is not just at the top of the list, but essentially is the list: they account for 93% of the violations.

Which, as you point out, is not surprising. The LASD is enough of a mess that I've heard other nearby police departments complain about them, not to mention their history of gangs, corruption, and conflicts with the Board of Supervisors and FBI.
I'm confused by this essay. I'm a few years older than the author so I theoretically have a similar lived experience. I need to point out that the movie came out in 1999, near the peak of the dotcom bubble. At the time, "everything is awesome" was the vibe in tech.

And yet, the author says:

"The timing was uncanny. The Matrix arrived amid a perfect storm of millennial anxiety: Y2K fears about computers failing catastrophically, a disputed presidential election that would be decided by the Supreme Court, and then the shocking events of 9/11. For those of us just entering adulthood in the United States, these concurrent disruptions to technological, political, and social stability congealed into a generational dysphoria"

All those things (except for Y2K anxiety, which again, in the tech world led to a lot of spending on the fix for it), happened 1 to 2 years after The Matrix came out. The timing was uncanny in that the movie picked the late 1990s as "Peak Civilization" and everything did indeed start falling apart afterwards, but that was 1 to 2 years later. Watching The Matrix in 1999 didn't trigger generational dysphoria. It was just an awesome movie, just like other dystopian nightmare movies like Terminator or Aliens. Feels like they're stretching for a narrative that isn't quite there.
Reminds me of a friend that was selling "signed" comic books in high school. He did it for pocket money, infrequently and never exceeding $50 profit.

And there were many before him. Wikipedia writes that "in 2016, a relic of True Cross held by Waterford Cathedral in Ireland, was radiocarbon dated to the 11th century by Oxford University."[1]

Authentic collectibles are a timeless scam.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross
Hate to post the same thing so soon again, but here's a list of a bunch more related ops and examples of COINTELPRO as well:

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities...
That makes sense. So it can work for small functions but not an entire codebase which is the goal. Does that sound correct? If so, is it useful for small functions (like, let's say I identify some sections of code I think are important becuase they modify some memory location) or is this not useful?
I remember trying to print out fake magic cards in the late 90s (I picked a non-valuable card). I used two passes: a dye-sub printer with a laser for the black text. It looked great to the naked-eye, but trivial to see the difference due to differing print technology under a microscope. I'm slightly surprised that examination of the CMY pattern in the color wouldn't have been sufficient to identify a fake.

[edit]

Just re-read the post and realized these were identified as fake just from the picture posted online. That makes a lot more sense.
> The classic low wage job is flipping burgers. Everyone with a kitchen is a competitor to this business, and if restaurants all raise prices in lock step, it stands to reason at least some people will cook at home instead.

And meanwhile there will be more people with more money in their pockets able to now go out and get a meal somewhere. The secondary effects are many and you can't isolate price increase without looking at the new demand created. It may seem odd, but when you pay people more they end up spending more. [1]

Additionally, part of the problem here is the perception that 'The classic low wage job is flipping burgers.' with the implication that that is just for high school kids so not a real job. Unfortunately this whole country runs on gig and minimum wage jobs (or worse). Enabling these jobs is just a route to funneling money up and increasing the wealth gap. People are doing an honest day's work and should be paid enough to live on that. Any argument to short-change them is an argument that society has to pick up for the slack of the employer. Are you suggesting we increase taxes to pay for that gap? Because that is what actually happens. So, why not. But instead of taxing me for a bad employment model, let's instead put a huge wealth tax on businesses that pay less than a minimum wage and then use it to pay for all the social programs that are needed to keep that workforce alive. I don't personally like that idea but at least then the costs of cheap labor would be put onto the places abusing it and not me.

[1] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/spending-income-and-debt-resp...
Previous discussions on hackernews (see this comment [0]) claim that the paper handling hardware is part of the problem. It's apparently quite difficult to do reliably (thus all the 90s jokes about paper jams) and all the known solutions are locked up under patent

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007815
Considering how high stress the job is they definitely should have a 32 hour work week. Strange hours with lots of complicated bits.

And a union is about more than just workers rights it's about ensuring worker safety. Workers must be able to advocate for safety within their jobs and to ensure the best end result for a customer.
Huge performance increase I still do (probably with negligible effects) was to manually set the disk cache (or whatever it's called - ram using HDD) to a set amount (usually double the ram). Letting windows manage it meant it was constantly changing in size and moving around the drive and with spinning disks killed performance. Also made defragging often mkre necessary. And of course disabling system restore.

I still do it out of habit with SSDs and I imagine it's mostly unnecessary but never ran into issues. I figure at worst it may increase the life of the SSD
Pesko and Saenz show that FDA deregulation led to a boom in e-cigarette research and development which improved e-cigarettes and led to many lives saved as people switched from smoking to vaping.

but what about people starting with vaping and later trying regular cigarettes? If e-ciggs become super-popular this will probably have some bleed or spillover to tobacco products , alcohol, or drugs.
Optical Frequency Combs
Exactly. Or a pure HTML and CSS site, like Daan Luu’s or Russ Cox’s blog.
I don't think this is the reason because someone could harvest the heads from an existing printer and make everything else open source.
First U.S. Navy Ship to Deploy Artificial Intelligence System
How does AI affect Product Managers?
I come from a background in product. I started my career as a PM, but now serve as a pseudo-product manager at a software company. I am an expert on the customer and the problem and conduct demos during sales call. From here I help build the roadmap based off customers needs.

On the side, I have built multiple web applications with AI and have no coding experience. Are PM going to morph more into junior engineers who build out prototypes? Are PMs going to continue to become bottlenecks?
I didn't say it accomplished it, I said I thought it was their rationale.

Of course, they also fired a lot of their testers, and seem to have thought that testing was something end users do in prod, so...
Related:

Visualizing quaternions (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38043644 - Oct 2023 (42 comments)

Visualizing quaternions: an explorable video series (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083042 - April 2022 (15 comments)

Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310788 - Oct 2018 (32 comments)
The Best Way to Tell If Someone Is Lying, According to 50 Experts
Even when it does ship it'll probably be another year before enough browsers have updated to safely use it in production. So you'll need a polyfill. Which you can start using today anyways!
If you get your news only from mainstream media, you'll be strongly anti-Palestine. If you get your news from social media, you'll be moderately to strongly pro-Palestine. With this in mind, in your opinion, is one an adequate replacement for the other?
Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source – Open Source Initiative:
https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-ope...

If it would not be hijacked, then such articles would not exist.

META is falsely and deceptively, but also carefully, pretending to be Open Source.

The Open Source Definition – Open Source Initiative
https://opensource.org/osd

What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Word "Open" as in "Open Source" - Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

Please refrain from using "open" or "open source" as a synonym for "free software." These terms originate from different perspectives and values. The free software movement advocates for your freedom in computing, grounded in principles of justice. The open source approach, on the other hand, does not promote a set of values in the same way. When discussing open source views, it's appropriate to use that term. However, when referring to our views, our software, or our movement, please use "free software" or "free (libre) software" instead. Using "open source" in this context can lead to misunderstandings, as it implies our views are similar to those of the open source movement.
It results in more questions than answers. Like why was the impact of DEI on ATC competence overlooked by the Commander-in-Chief and DOD when training mission in DC airspace began?
> I don't think it matters

Of course it does. It doesn't absolve anything if the rate is low. But the frequency is absolutely meaningful.
Good practice but RDP should automatically not be showing the desktop background anyways (depending on RDP settings). You could also set a desktop background if you like and manually tell RDP to never show the background of the system your connected to.
OK so 10 years from now when everything is more-or-less the same as it is now, will you be standing up saying "I was wrong, I admit it, nobody should have listened to my hyperbole?"

If I'm wrong I will take up arms like anyone else. If you're wrong, I imagine there will be some excuse about how you were actually right and it's only because of some person or apparatus more politically palatable that averted this disaster. I don't mean anything against you personally but the same thing happened 8 years ago. Everyone was convinced that it was the end of the world and if you elide COVID-related things everything was pretty much the same as it was. The other side of the aisle said the same thing about Biden and that was equally false despite his objective and verifiable cognitive decline. The same thing will be true 4 years from now, 4 years after that, yet 4 more, etc.
AI is yet another platform shift
Author here: I was putting these events together as a zeitgeist aligning with entering adulthood for people my age. I probably should have added a "then" in between the Y2K and election references. But I wan't trying to draw a sequential connection.
'Copycat' websites targeted in court battle with pirate Soap2Day streamers
HN autocorrect that’s who! Haha
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> No, it will be detected as fake due to colorimetry.

That is a different question. You are answering if the usual methods would authenticate it as an original. I believe you are right that they wouldn't. Thus it would probably be worthless.

But that makes sense. There are many modifications you can do with a card which will render them useless and no longer recognised as an original.

For example you can burn the card to ash. They would not be even detected as a pokemon card, but they are still an original pokemon card (if they were ever) which got burned into ash.
> To help the poor, make it easy for them to climb the economic ladder.

Someone still has to be at the bottom of the ladder.
> but watermarking has been very effective at finding counterfeiters.

Whistleblowers, too. That's believed to be how they got Reality Winner, because the documents published by The Intercept contained those tracking dots.