skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people will make mistakes. If you expect papers to be 100% accurate, you'll always be disappointed. You have to account for possible mistakes. Whether they're accidental or misleading on purpose is to a degree irrelevant at first - we should always watch out for them.

Even in situations where mistakes cost lives, we put multiple failsafes and reviews and clear instructions in place - and still say they reduce the likelihood, rather than prevent accidents.
A few years ago, I left a $1000 tip at the restaurant up the street because Chrome filled out the tip field with my zip code (which thankfully merely defaulted to max $1000 instead). The tip field was off-screen, and the ordering software didn't have a confirmation screen, just a "we just charged your card $X amount" screen, which made my eyes boggle.

EDIT: Looking at the original March 17th, 2015 bug, it would have been at exactly around that time...In fact, checking my emails, this happened on March 18th, 2015. I had ordered from them several times before this with no problems (they used "chownow.com" for their ordering backend).
I remember when I used to play WOW like 10 years ago and every time when I had the loading screen before getting into a PVP arena I would do push-ups from the second the loading screen starts until it finished

After few months I start looking like The Rock
Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
I recently got Affinity Designer and Publisher, each for $39 during a promotion this summer; the regular price is $49. If you look at the specs for Designer, it makes Adobe look kind of bad in comparison: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/full-feature-list/

Also, the non-Adobe Mac graphics software market is pretty robust, with Acorn, Pixelmator, Polarr Photo Editor, CorelDraw, etc.

I've been an Acorn user for years; has all of the important features of Photoshop in a much more accessible interface for a fraction of the price. Just checked—it's on sale for $14.99: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
I’ve always thought Windows was compromised for consumers because of the need to support this sort of enterprise. In some ways it opened up the opportunity for Apple to makes its comeback.
We can mention the war. Should we now talk about Britain’s darker history?
I didn't say you could materially reduce fires, only the ones caused by PG&Es negligence. There will still be fires, but maybe they won't be caused-in-fact by lack of reasonable maintenance of power lines.
Ok, but how is that abuse? And if autocomplete=off is part of the html standard, how are the password managers spec compliant if they can't deal with it? Are people doing this just to annoy users who prefer password managers?
S3stat, Twiddla, Unwaffle, the Expat site, and a dozen other old projects all still run on a single box in a Colo.

it costs about $800/month for the half cage and all the hardware in it, when you amortise it out. And there's plenty of performance overhead for when one project gets a lot of attention or I want to ad something new.

Pretty much the only thing I use cloud computing for is the nightly job for S3stat, because it fits the workload pattern that EC2 was designed for. Namely, it needs to run 70 odd hours of computing every day, and gets 3 hours to do it in.

For SaaS sized web stuff, self hosting still makes the most sense.
Go is a fine GC language - in many ways, it's a lot better than the likes of Java! But it's nonetheless way too clunky for many use cases, which is what the OP may have meant by their remark. And the concurrency support comes with a lot of nasty pitfalls, especially compared to Rust or even Pony.
Code coverage is almost pointless for tests
How could they know who did it? It could be any one of their neighbors, and most lots have 5 adjacent lots.

In a place I used to live, there was a rooster that would constantly crow. Someone killed it. I wasn't involved but I'm certainly glad it happened. That rooster was driving the neighborhood insane. The police were useless in that situation. They never cared about noise complaints.

Basically if the state doesn't take care of these problems, people will. And when they do, it's not pretty.
Yes, I saw the story that someone who was on oxygen died during the outage.

People with life essential medical equipment which runs on electrical power absolutely must ensure they have a backup power supply, be ready to activate it, and have a plan should an outage continue beyond their backup capacity.

Power goes out, whether it’s a blackout, brownout, planned maintenance, or otherwise. Everyone should have plans for managing during an outage.
The way I see it, autofill off should mean off and if I click the icon in the address bar to bring up, well, let’s call it “quick access to per-site settings” then maybe I could override it for a specific page load or site, like you can Flash, etc.? This per-site configuration is starting to become “normal” given iOS 13 does the same in Safari for permissions, content blocking, automatic reader mode, etc. It would make sense that the default is “follow the HTML5 spec” but you could put a notice in the address bar if you really felt otherwise...?

Safari does a much better job by only filling visible form fields, I think (though it too has a tendency to put my address both in Line 1 and Line 3, which is annoying...).
A rare example where an editorialized HN post title is appreciated. Bravo!
It seems to be borrowing from clojure, in which both (field container) and (container field) do the same thing.
list comprehensions can be elegant and actually improve readability. However, I do agree that it can be easily misused. I have seen many junior Python programmers writing super long, complicated comprehensions that hurt my brain. They think it is pretty cool just because their solutions are one-liners.
And most important: TF2
They’re great. But the sound of my own heart beat is annoying. And I’m worried about if I’d hear the smoke alarm.
I also used a VNC client to turn my iPhone into a trackpad my mac... slightly unrelated but no notable latency and similar tech used.
No offence but you seem to have just done exactly what GP accuses Google (and most other big s/w corps to be honest) of doing. I am an average user (in the sense I'm not a professional s/w dev although I do know coding and have a more than normal interest in the inner workings of computers, but most youth are similar anyway. No one is dumb unless they've been trained to relinquish thought), and in two decades of using computers and the Internet I have to say I did not get hoodwinked into installing a single malware or getting a single virus. And uptil at least the last decade s/w wasn't as controlling and infantilising as it has lately become, and I got along just fine. In fact the slight difficulty actually enabled me to learn interesting stuff which modern UX almost totally stonewalls with its opaque "let me hold your hand" interfaces.
Can’t agree more. I bought a Creality Ender 3, and added since: a new bed plate, a leveling sensor, a raspberry pi to control it

For the future, I know I’ll replace the fans, and probably the main board

That’s without adding my time: updating the firmware (overheating protection seems cool), calibrating and configuration of the various bit (like the probe position relative to the hot end), finding the correct slicer and config for it.

Now it works fine.

Still, it cost me way more than the list price to get to this point. A prusa mini would have been a better investment !
This comment is a perfect illustration of the bizarre irrationality people have when discussing Apple.

Yes. I've been involved with the Mac user group community for many years; this is the kind of logic I've heard many times.
It is so, so frustrating to read these kinds of things.

You can bemoan the state of the MBP all you want (and yes, much of it is valid), but here's the thing: realistically, Apple doesn't have to care because no other company produces a laptop that's as well made and long-lasting.

I've been trying to find a laptop that doesn't fit the following - it's mind-boggling how bad this industry is once you try to leave Apple's walls:

- It cannot look like something a 14 year old gamer would flock to, complete with lights and design trends straight out of a Bayformers film. This invalidates any "gamer laptop" short of some Razer models, and the Razer models have notable fan issues (among other things).

- After using a MBP for years, I refuse to go back to something that's made with cheap materials. If it bends the frame when I type the middle of the keyboard, it's out (so we can throw out most System76/Clevo stuff right here...)

- People like to look good. Apple products legitimately look good. I don't want to give that up. It cannot look bulky, clunky, and generally not fashionable - short of... what, one HP Notebook that I could find, the rest are just abysmal. You see non-Apple people wonder about the obsession with thin laptops and so on - this is it. People legitimately do buy with fashion in mind.

- No other laptop is as well integrated on both the software and hardware side as Macbooks are. You can tinker and get it close, sure, but the reason that Apple can sell less powerful hardware is because the system is so optimized for it.

Apple's killed it in the past decade or so on all of these. Keyboard issues start coming up? Why would they care? Where exactly are you going to go...? They'll fix it when they get to it and you'll like it.

You won't find another laptop and ecosystem as well integrated as the one Apple's made over the past decade. It doesn't exist.

For crying out loud, if System76 could just sell a cloned MBP shell that'd be amazing.

End rant, I guess. This has been a personal pet peeve of mine for weeks, the laptop industry is so abysmal all around.

Edit: Yes, before anyone points it out, Thinkpads are well made and long lasting. They do not visually look good in my opinion.
Curious as to the global business impact this has had. I personally have spent at least a dozen hours debugging forms and trying to disable autocomplete/autofill on my kiosk-based applications. How many development hours collectively have been wasted on this unilateral decision.

I have not been this frustrated since the days of writing css for ie6, and at least back then the devs response was more "sorry its our rendering engine" and not battre just saying GFY seemingly out of disdain.

I try to be as free-market as possible but I sure wish that the w3c had some teeth when it came to things like this.
> This move destroys the reputation of Mac as a game platform

Apple Arcade rescues that somewhat.

I'm not a fan of not owning games or not being able to play them offline whenever I want in the future, but Apple Arcade is actually kinda nice so far.
Chernobyl: The Retold Story by HBO
That's not a terrible solution. I've just been looking at possibly forwarding SSH over WebSocket - then I can put that behind CloudFlare. Latency would however suffer.
Carbon Based Lifeforms: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMAuwgr6s72Vlowid2EsbQ

The Psychedelic Muse channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAepXw94EhaO0CZV9f5D3fQ
I've done manual h-bridge style control and it just can't match a proper driver. You're going to get a ton more vibration and less power.

I use Leadshine ones normally. They're big but also very reasonably priced and work very well.
I got a CO2 meter out of curiosity. They are, indeed, about US$150. I get a little under 500ppm indoors.

Incidentally, humans can tolerate much higher CO2 levels with accommodation, but, as with altitude, it takes days. The US Navy submarine people have done considerable work on this. So this is not a global warming issue.

Real CO2 sensors are still about US$60 as a part. The standard sensor has a heating element, and uses about 75mA, so this isn't suitable for battery operation. 1mA sensors are now available, but for US$160 or so. This cost problem is holding back widespread use in HVAC systems. HVAC systems for rooms where the people load varies widely (classrooms, offices, hotel function rooms, restaurants) should have a CO2 sensor to tell how much outside air you should be pulling in. But outside of hotels, they're rare.

Cheap "air quality sensors" measure volatile organics, which is something else entirely.
From the subtitle:

> The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.

This is a great article, but did I miss something or is this subtitle more or less irrelevant? The only source of noise mentioned related to the tech industry is the lead-in story's data center cooling system, and 95% of the article has nothing to do with it.

This is interesting to me in and of itself: it's another unfortunate example of The Atlantic's long-established internal struggle between quality journalism and clickbait, but it's also another fascinating data point for how the term "tech industry" has become a universal-purpose scapegoat for the kinds of simpletons looking for simple, singular explanations for all of the world's ills.
Why are so many folks here running media servers? Are you really streaming your own video / audio libraries, or is there something else it is useful for? I'd be rather shocked to learn people still store digitally media locally.
To me personally, Microsoft Surface Book is a very valid alternative.
Why does Bill Gates need an intro to any one? Who wouldn't want to meet him?
Sounds like it'll be a massive hit with late night kebab shops!
From previous discussions I remember payment and bank forms use autocomplete=off and chrome developers don't like it, they want card numbers to be pre-filled.
I use mine for designing and building robot parts. I can design, print, and test like 5 different component designs per day. The difference this makes in quality of construction is insane. Even if I had a full tool tool shop I wouldn't be able to iterate like this. It's truly incredible.
Fun fact: something similar once happened in production in the early days of an iPad-based point of sale startup.

In certain cases, a previously-entered zip code was interpreted as the number of cents to tip.
> The humidity across CA was really low

It was 40-50 percent near Palo Alto, including in areas where power was cut. That’s actually relatively high by California standards.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-c...
I sometimes react similarly to downvotes, especially when I believe I'm saying something that isn't controversial. My solution is to just hide scores, I don't need to know when lots of people generally agree, and I'm hoping that people will comment if they believe I'm very much wrong/have missed something important. It's similar to all this "dance as if nobody's watching" self-help stuff: comment as if nobody is voting.
> And the thing with TVs is that the most irritating sound frequency they emit is the one that is barely audible when you're in the same room, but when you are in the next room and trying to sleep it is the main frequency that you hear.

Are you talking about the low-frequency burbling? I have windows that face the street and used to have a sleep disorder that made me more sensitive to noise, and when I'd occasionally sleep in the living room I'd get woken up in the morning by this emanating from my neighbor's apt.

> All of that made me miserable. There were actually moments when this situation triggered suicidal thoughts.

I feel you 100%,its really hard to describe how life-destroying consistent lack of sleep is. Earplugs worked wonders for me (along with the longer term solution of fixing my disorder, but that's not relevant here).
The sad thing is, Apple is on the USB-IF and could've donated their Magsafe patent to USB C and made the magnetic connector an option the USB C (not a requirement, too expensive, probably) and they could've kept a magnetic connector for all their USB C laptops , it would've come for free for the iPad and tomorrow, of course, the iPhone could have one too. It's not like other manufacturers having this option would be worse than Apple not having it!

There is a Kickstarter which promised and showed demos of running Thunderbolt over a magnetic connector. I do not think it's a scam, we will see, but what I am saying, this is not out of the realm of possibilities. Yes, it's tricky running 40gbps over pogopins this small but if Apple helped? That's vastly different.
Actually, I’ve heard from friends with extensive careers in finance that the value deduction for illiquidity is 30%. I’m sure this figure varies based on how far from liquidity said asset is likely to be.
Chug! Chug! Chug!

(the kool-aid)

That author had to jump through so many hoops to make an argument his chiropractor must be rich. Seriously, that entire article was nonsense from top to bottom.
Prior to using Sidecar I was using Duet Display, which is a software solution to the Luna hardware module. I can't see any benefits of using Luna over the Duet App, and most of the Pros/Cons on the Luna website are outdated as of Duet 2. If Sidecar didn't kill Luna, Duet would have.
Thanks, it seems you're right.
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit
One acquisition in particular really gave me the vibe that I’d been sold like cattle. From what I hear that is frequently enough exactly what has happened.

Founders sometimes have part of their pay structure tied up in retention numbers. They have an incentive to stretch the truth until those milestones are met.

The first time I was in a sale, a bunch of us had options that were worth $40k+ On paper, which isn’t amazing but for your first one out it’s pretty cool. But they couldn’t take in our culture like they said they wanted to, so it started to unravel almost immediately.

What I found out later is that there’s a kind of merger where the buyer swaps stock for your liquid assets. The founder got payed less cash than the company had in cash and accounts receivable. All that money went into payroll as the combined company cratered in slow motion. Ten months later our options were underwater, and all of that imaginary money we were going to get was lost.

By the time I had another set of options worth anything, it didn’t take much for a coworker to talk me into selling them the moment I could. Bought my first MacBook for starters, and started a love affair with a bag company. Ultimately I made more money off of the annual bonus than the stock, and got out three weeks after the bonus was paid. I put part of that money into Apple stock, which quintupled within the next couple years. And I’m still not rich.
Random thoughts

1. I generally trust when I update linux that things have been inspected. Maybe I'm dumb. I also trust that if I don't update immediately but a few weeks or months later, if anything snuck in it has been found, reverted, fixed. So, by not making updating automatic that would seem to help somewhat?

Of course the opposite is if there is a critical vulnerability then automatic updating helps many people. I believe this is mostly why Windows is so insistant on updates is that so many non-tech users were not updating and then getting powned.

2. It seems like maybe there'd be a market for a curated service. Neither Google's App store, nor Apple's, nor the Chrome Web Store, nor the Firefox Extension Gallery are curated well IMO. They are all 80-95% full of crappy software meant to scam you in one way or another.

I wonder if someone would make a startup that for $$ curated software and/or extensions including checking changes. Maybe publishers would have to pay to certified or maybe users would pay to fund the checking. Well I can wish :P
Of the developed countries, those that are most pro market and have freest societies also have the most preserved environments. Those that are under authoritarian regimes care a lot less about the environment.
I'm not sure that's down to Venezuela's power companies. That's right about when the US was trying to coup their government, right? Stuxnet's origin story can tell us a bit about what kinds of sabotage they pull.
Here's just some of the stuff from the Trump administration and Republicans in the last few years:

Adds billions in loan guarantees to build nuclear plants
https://www.apnews.com/38189fb0550e401da6b339ad9870a007

Signs NEICA
https://www.energy.gov/articles/president-trump-signs-bill-b...

Republican bill NELA
https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/3/murkow...
No, postmodernism is not identity politics. This video explains this very well: https://youtu.be/26fIBA7O5Ag

Although postmodernism isn’t as strictly defined as other philosophical movements, one can still clearly say what it doesn’t represent. Postmodern philosophy is typically associated on the internet as feminism/multiculturalism/Cultural Marxism, although it is none of that at all. It may have some loose ties by influencing some feminists and critical theorists through some scholars such as Foucault and Deleuze, but you can’t really mash all of them into a same philosophical movement.
> Chinese app on Xi's ideology implements Xi's ideology

... and exactly nobody is surprised.
What do you think about Microsoft Surface laptops?
hmm that's right. Will definitely focus more on software projects going forward
permission to create a "harmonious society"
~30 euros for an external dedicated server, and for the home stuff it's mostly a one-time fee for a NAS (+ an occasional hard drive replacement).
Apple and other companies should totally experiment with new things like Touch Bar and keyboards but try them out on stuff like the Mac book or products where it’s not like the hard core work laptop.. I mean 7 years ago literally everybody I knew bought a MacBook Pro because it was the best hands down but now I know virtually nobody who does.. its totally not upgradeable (soldered ram and SSD), super expensive, keyboard is who knows what’s happening there, Touch Bar — nobody asked for emoji bar.. and oh yea the once basically flawless trackpad is now ludicrously big for what reason again and has a haptic click instead of a real mech switch..

If somebody could make an updated like 2013-2014 timeframe retina MBP with replaceable nvmE disk, replaceable LPDDR5, I think people would love that..

I honestly can’t figure out how to replace my 2012 Mac book pro.. maybe Linux laptop from somebody? Any suggestions?
Show HN: A stack which will deploy a EC2 instance with auto shutdown
can someone elaborate on this passage:

The beauty of programming language design is not building the most complex edifice like Scala or making the language unacceptably crippled like Go - but giving the programmer the ability to represent complex ideas elegantly and safely. Rust really shines in that regard.

i'm fairly ignorant on the various differences but my general feeling was that Go is quite useful?
I do. I have over 1,000 CDs losslessly ripped on my media server. I stream these around the house into good quality amps and speakers, and also down convert them to mp3 for portable devices. I don't like being held hostage by streaming services who one day may suddenly remove all the music that I like just because not enough people are listening to it. That'll never happen to my CDs - they are mine and no-one, bar a burglar, can take them away from me.

I also used to have all my DVDs ripped onto my media server, but I never really watched any of them, so now they are just gathering digital dust on some offline disks.
>Are people doing this just to annoy users who prefer password managers?

People are doing it because they don't understand password managers, and think blocking them makes people more secure. They believe that if a password is in a manager, that password is less secure than if that password was purely in the user's head.