skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to someone dismissing concerns as "reflexive hysteria." Historical parallels aren't uncivil, they help examine patterns. The HN guidelines discourage flamewars and personal attacks, neither of which I did. I challenged a characterization, not the person. If discussing historical parallels to current events is now considered inappropriate for HN, that would significantly narrow meaningful conversation beyond what the guidelines actually state.

I'd love some clarification here.
Why would group averages be helpful when making staffing decisions about individuals?
No matter how hard I try, I can't get the math to work on 10 year period, and my electricity is expensive!
On the other hand, parceling a large function into smaller functions can create indirection that is even harder to follow and harder to verify as bug-free.
I wonder how this works if you intend to travel should the train be on time, but become aware of the delay (or likelihood of it) and change your plans - what counts as proof of intent?

It would be better if the law was changed so that any transport company selling a ticket is forced to refund if they couldn't fulfil their obligation, regardless of whether the ticket was used or intended to be used. Can't provide the service? Then don't sell it!
The UK decided to build a nuclear power station as well in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

It is still not operational. Nuclear is too slow. As well as not especially cheap either.

There's also a lot of market stupidity in the UK: the marginal price for the most expensive generation sets the price for all generation. In some cases this results in weird situations like wind farms paying back the government because the electricity price was too high for their CFD.
> I’d much rather he’d have been struck by an e bike

E-bikes offer additional risk, not alternative risk, because they're ridden on pavements.
Is the 2nd part true though? In the US sales taxes are mostly applied at the state level where the governments don't have particularly privileged access to the banking system and is enforced by being able to physically go to the merchant in question.

Bitcoin would probably make that easier for the government as you could now track merchants sales volumes directly on the blockchain.

For the federal government being able to deputize the banks to flag suspicious transactions certainly helps find tax avoidance, we've had an income tax way longer then we've had credit cards.
How do you think unions start? Yes, an entire workplace can just up and decide some day to unionize but more often unions start as non-bargaining unions and then at some point get enough support to bargain with the companies.
If you want a more specific example, it's the company we're already talking about. There's no EU parallel to Apple, or the other FANG.
Can you use the new Pebble watches without an accompanying smartphone application? I've wanted to get a smartwatch, but have always been put off by the requirement of a stupid app to synchronise data with a recent smartphone to be able to use it. They have all the necessary hardware to record and process data on board... don't see why it should require an expensive Apple or Android every few years to keep using. My Timex from 2011 cost £35 and still works perfectly.
C and modern C++ are so different that lumping them together in a blanket assertion doesn't really carry much meaning.
It is a good point, and I've long been a proponent of this, that everyone needs to flag the excessive elements of "their side" more in the current climate.

Humans are humans. Some humans are dumb and emotion-prone. Some humans who are dumb and emotion-prone think their bad behavior is justified because they're on the side of justice/righteousness.

It's not enough, in our current climate, to look the other way because someone is on a similar team...

Reinvigorating honest, fair discussion requires everyone interact more positively.
It's obviously lacking a lot of controls if you arrive at the conclusion. Mostly just shows you are missing of a lot of context.
https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/video-game-workers-launc...

This is red. And look at the zine cover.
I would agree with you that as of late it has been bordering on excess, but comparing to the other large touring acts they're still cheaper. The most egregious thing has been leaning into platinum tickets, which Ticketmaster purports as a way to avoid scalping, but all it does is create an artificial scarcity that drives up false demand. For the last few years, there's rarely been a Phish concert where you couldn't find a face value ticket (or much cheaper) the day of the show despite every show selling out instantly. So it's all a facade designed to rent-seek the more wealthy fans, while keeping the less motivated fans away from the concert and encouraging people to buy up as many tickets as possible to use for trades, even if they have no intention of attending that concert.
I got a light interrogation as a US citizen. For the record, I have Global Entry, NEXUS, and TSA Pre-Check.

I handed the border agent my US passport and the conversation went like this

"why are you entering the country?"

"I live here"

"do you have legal status in the US?"

"I'm a citizen, you're holding my passport"

"have you ever overstayed a visa in the US in the past?"

"I was born here, so no"

"do you intend to do any work while you're in the US?"

"yes, I'm a US citizen and I have a job"

I didn't get pulled off to the side or anything, it was just standard questioning at entry processing when flying in, but it was just bizarre

the border agent kept looking me up and down suspiciously like I was hiding something, but he had my passport the whole time

even when I got questioned on my way to Canada (I would've stopped me too), they were much nicer about the whole process, it's an air of "we're just double checking cuz making a mistake here would be real bad, but as long as everything's legit, no worries, I hope you have a nice stay in Canada"

entering the US the vibe is "you're a violent criminal and it's my job to ask you questions until you slip up and admit that fact, the US is magnanimous for allowing you to touch our great country's land with your disgusting feet, and you should remember that every day you're here or we'll detain you so you won't forget again"

I'm a little surprised you've only had positive experiences.
If anyone was, how would it remain a feeling?
Yes, that's the cheap bit.
I have half a dozen in a box with my electronics projects. I used to pull the EEPROMs out of them for use in projects, which left them without serial numbers, hobbling the obfuscation, making them easier to use.
That is exactly what it is. That mission has been scheduled for more than 6 months (though the exact date changed a couple of times for technical reasons).
> I’m trying to think of a single example where one of these “vote with your wallet” certification movements have ultimately triumphed and become the new norm…

Kids toys.

There are a lot of successful wood kids toys brands now that exist as a backlash against plastic toys. Even mainstream retailers now carry an assortment of wood toys.

Melissa and Doug are one of the largest brands, but others exist as well.
This is an absolutely excellent way to learn, I am surprised at just how effective it was. I'd love a "manual" mode that let me discard countries/mark them to stay in rotation.
Security engineers aren't infallible. This is a really clever channel confusion attack that presumably just nobody considered. It happens, unfortunately.
What about it? It's called South China Sea for a reason. BTW, many countries are disputing over parts of it, not just China.

By contrast, US has been occupying parts of Syria and Cuba. It overtly seeks to take control of Greenland. It has 800 military bases around the globe; in most cases, de facto occupying a country.
Its not a market that in not elastic. It is physics, you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing. Deal with this. There are ways to handle the problem, like pumped storage power plants, but they require very particular terrain (a mountain next to the big lake). "grid-interactive buildings" are fun, but this is not the scale that can make any substantial difference. So far we do not have effective, long-term energy storage and no amount of hand waving is going to change that. So, let's be realistic and build nuclear power plants.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
Got any evidence for that? Is Google in the habit of paying out giant HR-related settlements for something other than protecting good ol' boys like Andy Rubin?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andy-rubin-google-settlement-se...

Google has enough money to hire the best law firms too. Why would any law firm engage in frivolous litigation against a potential future client?

The linked settlement is 10X that of this one, which if paid, would be divided among 6,600 people. Not exactly a huge payday.
Doesn't this kind of prove his point? People got sick a lot before they found a pattern and fixed their diet.
An AppView is a bit more than just the code. In example, you have to do moderation, which involves paying people for a thankless, awful task. (unless you are just a thin client to Bluesky records and rely on their moderation)
It's almost like hardware design is its own discipline! Kidding aside, yes, hardware design is its own discipline and hardware design is hard even for hardware engineers. Hardware troubleshooting is its own distinct discipline. Design for manufacturing, and supporting hardware through manufacturing are also their own disciplines. With issues from China practices pushing that last one to new heights.

A realistic trajectory that will be challenging enough is building (and troubleshooting) low frequency or simple microcontroller kits; HAM radio introduction stuff (also troubleshooting some); personal designs and lab at school; then junior time in a professional setting. Jumping into a design with the goal of having it be manufactured is not impossible - if you like a challenging hobby - but it's a hobby first.
While you could run larger models with 128GB, I feel like 64GB is just the amount needed to run models at a reasonable speed with a M Max (I have an M3 Max 64GB).
And then throw QR code menus into the mix. I'm 35 and I have to zoom so far in to be able to read the menu, which then also involves having to scroll horizontally to fully read most menu items, which makes it easy to lose your place, etc.

Being elderly, the frustration must be unbearable.
I believe Certified Humane has one of the most stringent requirements for animal welfare so there'll be fewer farms. There's other certifications out there such as Animal Welfare Approved. I admit for a welfare-conscious consumer it's not easy to sift through all the noise by doing actual research. Wish things were better but at least it's been trending in the right direction in the last couple of decades.
Additionally, cost is no longer a problem for choosing solar. Safe and scalable energy storage is the new bottleneck.
I'm sorry, is there a contradiction to guidelines? What wrong do you see in that post? I'm genuinely curious.
It is true that they are different, but also, given the significant overlap between the two, people will reasonably talk about them together.
Here is one nice appeal:

Has a great and free API.

Now, Bluesky has this great API that allows you to do cool automated things on top of it.
Twitter had it too, but they decided in the last 2, maybe 3 years, to play with the API so many times that there are no new coding tutorials that use Twitter API as an example. So except social media platforms, there are probably no more tools built on top of Twitter API as they damaged their reputation among developers. And they deserve it being so unfriendly towards developers.
Love this! Played Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) for a while and this would have been helpful.

Great application of spaced repetition beyond cards.
Exactly. You can't just simply assume that job performance is statistically independent of various seemingly unrelated traits. If you suspect age discrimination, you also can't just assume that age is uncorrelated with performance. Or being short sighted, or even things like weight or height. They may be uncorrelated, or they may be correlated.
it's as good of a concept as giving your checkbook to the Nigerian prince to be balanced, instead of to your local accredited accountant.
Java only has tearing for double and long, which are POD types and so are irrelevant to memory safety. Go has tearing for pointer-like objects (interfaces, slices), which causes the memory safety problems.

Data races on those pointer-like objects are undefined behavior in Go, whereas there isn't something comparable in Java. The reason why Go is considered a memory safe language is actually pretty mundane: it's simply that the data race issues are pretty hard to exploit in practice for a variety of reasons.
Google's overall approach to Rust right now is based on a philosophy that sees two categories of bugs:

1. bugs in new code

2. bugs in old code that have survived years of scrutiny

Their conclusion from this is that they're generally greenlighting Rust for new projects but not requiring a rewrite for old projects because they believe rewrites are likely to introduce new category-1 bugs (regardless of the target language). But new code always has category-1 bugs, so if they write it in Rust they cut down on the number of possible category-2 bugs thanks to the static constraints imposed by the type system.

I'm assuming the font module got rewritten into Rust because they planned to rewrite it period (i.e. their analysis suggests the current status quo of how it's built and maintained is generating too many bugs, and Google tends to be very NIH about third-party dependencies so their knee-jerk response would be "solve that by writing our own").
honestly, this is where Apple's intersection between science and humanities should include political science, and ethics.
A 5TB drive would cost more than 100€. Definitely more than I would like to spend on joining a social network.
Then I would assume it’d be treated as a tool in the creative process, similarly to a ruler helping you draw a straight line, but the author is still the human.

But they say when you assume you make an ass out of you and me, and we all know the law is an ass, so who knows.
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Verisimilitude: The Structure and Interpretation of Narratives
That's interesting. I'm using the Adguard from the Edge store, so I still have custom filters enabled. Seems only people using the Chrome store version have been updated with that change. Also sounds like Adguard is purposefully not pushing the latest version to the Edge store to avoid issues like this.

They did say they'll get the issue resolved in time. I use another extension that requires a filter list or things start to go haywire. I'd probably give up that problematic extension before going back to Firefox.

Reading that, I am still sticking with Adguard over uBO because it does sound like they are at least trying to implement these things. uBO is just pointing people towards FF.
> Even just a "little" (5%-10%) corruption is a moral stain on the whole thing.

Timeless: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

How about let's solve problems practically instead of having trillion dollar decisions made in the name of virtue signaling about "moral purity."

> But doesn't the DC bureaucracy represent a common enemy to those on either side who value democracy?

Uh, no. USAID etc. have money because our elected representatives gave it money, as prescribed by the Constitution which governs our country.
He didn't say so
ICE is often the employer of last resort for wannabe cops who can't get jobs at other agencies due to low IQ, poor physical fitness, criminal history, misconduct, etc.
That's obvious, no?

If group X on average performs better than group Y, then objective hiring will lead to more group X bring hired. Then group Y takes you to court for discrimination.
Many people use Twitter for blogging, whether in the old tweet-storm style or the newly supported long-post style.

They would want to port over the content just like someone migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll.
> But even with quite hefty price increse, the conditions will still be a living hell.

Local farmers markets sell animals that had quite happy lives. Some farms even have live webcams where you can check in on the animals 24/7.

Honestly the prices aren't always that much higher, especially for certain cuts, with prices being at worst, about the same as higher end grocery stores, and at best, halfway between fancy grocery stores and a regular supermarket.
Tools must be general. Im not going to invest time using a new one if it cant handle arb vaild filesystems. But thats just me.

https://github.com/jakeogh/angryfiles
People would literally rather die impoverished, uncared for, and with no dignity in a failing system than maybe have a few brown people around who casually speak a different language and yet, by the testimony of everyone I've ever asked work ten times harder than any local for literally anything.

Like, it's not a perfect solution, there are growing pains, but an adult someone else paid to give a high school education is an insanely good resource. The US's entire gimmick and history has been getting millions of poor immigrants with different ideas and a shred of hope and putting them to work building our country.

But nononono we definitely didn't do this bullshit already with chinese, japanese, german, italian, irish, african, jewish, polish, etc etc etc people. Don't you know it's utterly impossible for people from another country to ever get along with locals? They definitely don't consider themselves just "American" after three generations very reliably, no that would be too easy!

God forbid people in ten generations have slightly darker skin I guess.
It's not that. Some of my favourite games of all time have been made in the last few years. Japanese devs, eastern European devs, Nordic devs don't seem to have any issues making absolute bangers. Meanwhile, the most recent one in my list from an American developer is... Skyrim. Over a decade old.
> The point that started my original response.

The original response stated the following:

> The new administration has no regards for law. They are breaking multiple laws. This isn't how you get things done.

Your personal perception of hypocrisy is immaterial. OP's point is that this sort of policy is being supported bY rampant abuse and violations of the law and constitution.

If your original argument is how you think something violates the law, how come your high regard for lawlessness disappears as soon as you discuss abusing minorities?
From the article: Owned by Restaurant Brands International of which the Brazilian investment firm 3G owns ~25%, Canadian groups own ~25% and the two US groups mentioned own ~15% together. Local employment, Toronto HQ and regionally sourced supplies are keeping it more "Canadian."
> there's no need to buy old accounts

There is if you want to do this systematically rather than adhoc.

> there are hundreds of millions of people worldwide who have extremely strong anti-immigration beliefs

Totally understood, and know they are here and will flag things they disagree with while still being a real human.

I wasn't saying that is specifically what's happening with this post. I assume that's more what's happening when posts in /newest are flagged within a few min.

That part was just saying "this really wouldn't be hard to do if anyone put in just a little bit of effort, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was happening".
Shameless plug:

Or just press F1 if you use my shell.

https://murex.rocks/user-guide/interactive-shell.html#autoco...
Translation technology has gotten so much better in the meanwhile, I didn't even notice it at first.
It's only a leadership problem if you split the responsibility for the thing so you have A: a team that builds and maintains it and B: someone else who has to wake up at night and fix it.

If A and B are the same people, very little leadership is needed as they are innately motivated, and have direct experience.

> Punitive management policies erode morale and result in retention only of those whom have no better options. See "Price's Law"[0].

It's not punitive management. Someone will have to work when the thing breaks. It can be the people who can fix the problem, or it can be someone else.
When the car malfunctions mechanically it can be a basis for a lawsuit for the manufacturer. There is a practice of recall in the industry. So what would happen when software that you run on the car's computer malfunctions or you accidentally install malware on that computer? Do you blame yourself or manufacturer? What if there was a loss of life because of this malfunction?
> you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing

You can if it's solar panels! You can just turn the inverter off! The surplus is not in itself a problem, only the dark winter months.
My experiences with CBSA were pretty bad too.

I was grilled in Vancouver about whether the purpose of my visit was work or pleasure, after I helpfully told the officer that my dad was attending a work conference and I was traveling with him but sightseeing.

"Well which one is it, work or pleasure?!"

I don't know, dude. I just explained the situation: you're supposed to be the expert!
Same, this is why I haven't fully converted to lots of these newer tools. If I have to remember a bunch of special flags to make them look at the files I need them to, their advantage is lost. I'm better off using the originals and solidifying those flags in my muscle memory since at least those tools will be on any system I use. I do use ripgrep on occasion but not very often.
Note that this can lead to horrid economics for the user.

An example being Google unilaterally flipping on VP8/VP9 decode, which at that time purely decoded on the CPU or experimentally on the GPU.

It saved Google a few CPU cycles and some bandwidth but it nuked every user's CPU and battery. And the amount of energy YouTube consumed wholesale (so servers + clients) skyrocketed. Tragedy of the Commons.
Might be that he hasn't actually written the book yet. Once he has enough pre-orders, he can get financing and can hire a ghost writer to write the book.
Nuclear power plants can be built much faster. 6 years from the first concrete to completion is possible.

The key is to not design each reactor as a unique snowflake.
That's how I justify my pescetarian diet. Mammals and birds, too close to our cognition for comfort, fish.. eh, less so. I rarely eat fish anyway, but I haven't eaten mammals or bird since 2019. The second I can buy lab meat that is functionally the same but didn't require a brain (and suffering), I'm back to meat.
Sorry, didn’t mean to mislead you. Just remembered that this book helped me to get the basics pretty well when I was at the high school, but that was around 25 years ago, so my memories might be wrong that it was a “basics” material.
Nuclear is not too slow, bureaucracy and political ill will is.

How many nuclear power plants has china built during a similar period? How many did France when they were building out their grid?

This isn't a technical problem.
Hinkley Point is the premier example of how badly slow a nuclear development can be. Reactors are often built in 5-7 years.
It's a wonderful concept, but the implementation plan, the execution and the results are all terrible.

I'm all for audits, reducing waste, transparency, etc., not wanton firing and publicity stunts.