skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software is fairly secure, this is how ppl compromise software in real life
There are modern day luddites, government agencies and just malicious actors who takeover technology companies by controlling the human resources and hiring managerial positions when they have a large enough user base. They compromise the software, play behavioral biology and psychology games that are meant to prevent software engineers from being able to think straight.

This includes some of the following mind games:
1.) Destroying people's ability to determine cause and effect through gaslighting.
2.) Wasting their executive function by getting them to uncontrollably interpret meaning into peoples body language, emotional state and unnecessary ambiguous speech. Think a game of charades where the players don't have the ability to stop playing.
3.) Triggering PTSD by creating entirely fake, scripted scenarios that are meant to raise someone's anxiety levels by making them feel as is they are incompetent. When you're really good at your job they try to make you look as if you aren't committing enough code or you're not meeting expectations etc.
4.). Trying to make you hate the things you love the most. If you enjoy coding, they purposely create bugs that are meant to create frustration until you hate your job and never want to code again due to fear or frustration.
While the trend is obvious, these types of super apps are neither desirable nor user centric.

They are hot-spots of monopolies, censorship and are front-line enemies for democracies. Especially if they include social / news / events / groups stuff.

I wish, there are more apps, bound together with integration mechanisms (loosely coupled, high cohesion) rather than one super app.

Unfortunately, the whole world is moving towards super apps. Google / Amazon / FB / Apple are all doing Commerce / Banking / Products / Entertainment / Internet Services / Cloud Computing / News & Information / Social at the same time. (There may be some exceptions, like Apple not doing commerce like Amazon)

I guess business moves in circles. There was consolidation in times of Standard Oil (or steel, I don't recall), where controlling everything in every vertical is the game, then business moved towards a more distributed services type structures, then we are witnessing another round of consolidation.

Across all sectors, this is more pronounced in US, a handful of companies directly / indirectly control huge aspects of an individuals life.

Unfortunate.
Oh yeah old computers were heavy. I just cleaned out a cabinet in my basement office, and on the bottom shelf were parts of a 1980's computer. It weighed tons! Broke my back carrying it all upstairs to get rid of.
This immediately made me think of the Unix philosophy (Do one thing well and provide the right way for other tools to connect to the output or pipe in input) vs the Emacs way (Operating System within an Operating System).

If we frame it this way, I think it helps us understand better the pros and cons of each, and importantly that they appeal to different type of folks depending on their use cases.

For e.g., one of the main appeals of Emacs is that it's easier to combine functionalities across mini-tools within Emacs than in Vim. However, it also means that when building one of these mini-tools, you have to have awareness of all other mini-tools in the system, and integrate with them properly, which makes the cost of building much higher vs Vim.
What is definitely missing is compile time reflection. I don’t think many devs care about the runtime one.
How is that different from if you ran all this stuff on prem?
Controlling the Terminal from Common Lisp
I agree with all those. As a counterpoint, I felt salt and sanctuary didn't quite live up to either dark souls or hollow knight with its NPCs. They just felt kind of generic.

To add some more to your list though, Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening probably had my favourite NPCs in zelda games. Both of those games had weird trippy vibes that the NPC's helped bring out. Especially majora's mask, everyone just felt wrong and their side stories and quests really helped make the game.
Most sound about right except for Global Accelerator, which isn’t a way to run your apps on edges, it’s a way to route all your network traffic through the AWS edges. Make it a bit more reliable and faster, and has really cool load balancing and routing options.
Very unlikely. The constant outrage from reporters and verified twitter accounts does not reflect the majority. The average American doesn't really care about the issues you listed. They may virtue signal and say "oh it horrible that tech platforms are censoring people" but they won't stop using those platforms. With unemployment benefits that pay more than working, the unemployed aren't going to be upset when they can't find work.

The average American is content with letting the government and corporations fuck them in the ass while they are told and believe that they have freedom.
There is simply more content to cover. The commenter seemed to believe that it is more difficult to write an article about knitting patterns because there is just less material to cite.

This is a clear example of bias. A person holds assumptions about the depth of a community.
But the same persons would be scandalized if youtube would censor US politicians propaganda.

Because I tell you, looking at Fox News as a European, I can't understand how it qualifies as "news", yet many americans are very attached to it.

I'm sure there are plenty of chinese people that feels like Fox News viewers about their own news sources. And they think they are right just as much.

And each camp will say "you can't compare us to them because...".

It's always the same story: it's not about the truth, it's about power and believes.
Sublime Text 4 is in beta and active development. AFAIK the latest build is 4074 released 28th April 2020.
Matthew Mercer (the dungeon master of Critical Role) gave this useful tip about NPCs during a Q&A after an early episode of the first campaign : the two most important things to know about your NPC is 1/ what they want and 2/ what they fear ; after that, you can improvise.

Of course, in a video game, NPCs won't improvise, but I guess it's a useful advice to tie NPCs in their environment and not just have them being some sort of isolated entities.

That being said, as both a d&d player and a RPG videogames players, what I would really want from NPCs in videogames would be for them to stop being just "switches", which I activate using an action button and who provide always the same text. The videogame which allows discussion with NPCs to be initiated by a question asked by the player will get all my attention :)
This is really terrible blanket advice, CF is one of AWS' worst products in my extensive experience with it (My team manages a ~$4 million monthly bill and locked into CF well before I joined). It has a number of significant limitations that aren't applied to terraform, it's pretty important to understand those tradeoffs if you're buying in.

Given that AWS supports terraform, it's really on them to provide a calculator for it as well. We're large enough that we just spent an obscene amount of money on employee time and effort to track our billing (lots of automated tagging), but until we did that it wasn't uncommon for a couple hundred thousand dollars of unnecessary charges to hit our bill every month.
This is incorrect. AdminFE exist.
You can only accomplish so much, but many places didn't even do the basics. I don't know what Sweden did specifically, but there are stories from many countries of elder care homes being required to accept coronavirus patients.
Oh I do the opposite too. Possibly more regularly.

I'm very comfortable with pirating, but if I actually end up benefitting/consuming the product I try to find a way to pay for it.
> Incidentally, Wal-mart in particular was on the conservative side of that culture war episode, and they did in fact refuse to sell those albums

Indeed they did. And the US government did not compel them to sell the albums, nor should they have. The albums found their audience in spite of some channels deciding it wasn't a kind of speech they would tolerate on their premises.

Similarly, some of the speakers who have been no-platformed will find their audience without a university's help; that doesn't imply the universities should be compelled to help them. And some toxic moderators and editors will continue to be toxic on some other site; that doesn't imply that site must be Wikipedia.
The Prius is the wrong kind of hybrid for that, as the Prius is a parallel hybrid; both the electric and the ICE power train terminate in a planetary gear for shifting power around between the two power sources and the wheels.

What you're looking for is a series hybrid, like the Chevy Volt. In a series hybrid the only thing the ICE powertrain does is run a generator to keep the battery topped up. This allows the ICE to run in its ideal power band range permanently, reducing its size and making gasoline only travel much more efficient while lowering vehicle cost.
This remakrable achievement is often used as the setting-off point to explain dimensional analysis.
I wonder what the effect of a protest by millions of YouTube users adding “五毛” (“50-cent party”) to comments for a week would be? No additional labor, since deletion is automated, but what other secondary effect costs would be incurred?

The comments are stored, and indices updated, so perhaps a lot of compaction might slow the site or cause other problems. What other secondary impacts, if any, can you think of?

Also, what happens if YouTube users put “五毛” (“50-cent party”) in their profile descriptions?

Not advocating this mind you, but thinking of it as a thought experiment. It's useful because it is a real world case of where a protest might incur an indirect DDOS (IDDOS?), and how can we prepare a site we manage against that kind of protest. Also, I am firmly against any kind of censorship that isn't clearly protecting against the equivalent of someone yelling 'fire' in a theater.
My slide rule isn't even digital, let alone decimal or binary.
That may be an attribution error.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/515/good-guys

> Producer Ben Calhoun tells Ira about a secret move his friend uses all the time — the "good guy discount" — that gets Ben's friend money off all sorts of items when he's shopping. (6 minutes)

More often than not, if you ask someone with the power to give one for a discount - for any polite reason - there's a decent chance they'll do it.
https://www.facebook.com/1515215380/posts/10222241141166862/...
Enormous subsistance craters are what I had in mind when I wrote “enormous crater”.
> Why does AWS use such convoluted language?

Because it's run by engineers (not a bad thing).
From a 'not currently in front of the class' perspective, it's pretty clear what the student meant by 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6. They were taking + to mean something like a general 'and' or combining action, not in the strict sense of standard fraction addition. It even has a name in mathematics, 'Farey addition'.

The kids clearly want to write it in shorthand, so maybe the thing to do is to come up with another symbol for this similar but distinct operation. For example, ⊕.
I'm pretty sure this is apocryphal. It seems more likely that somebody used cables with TDR to measure yield at some point, and somebody noticed that the ethernet interfaces on their PDPs had similar equipment, and made a story that combined them.
How to test custom prop validators in Vue.js
Semgrep – More Than Just a Glorified Grep
Okay that was fascinating. Thank you.
It's impossible to know the fabric there. So humans would just guess and often be wrong. That system needs an "unknown material" code.
I mostly work with Squeak and do small explorations with graphics and games
I read a different version of this story many years ago, but have not been able to find it again. In it, the machine did not send measurements to a more distant location, it recorded them in memory: core memory, with each core individually labelled, in case the machine didn't stay in one piece.

(If true, this probably implies the machine was not a QBUS PDP-11, and the reflectometer was not an ethernet card.)
There are different ways to say similar things so your lexicon really depends on where you've spent your time over the last 5 - 10 years. Product Market Fit (PMF), high leverage activities, and risk assessments all overlap in my mind, it really just depends on the book/blog you read.

PMF is really just a way to say "I de-risked these key areas", right? I think it does the best to encapsulate the idea of getting important things right but it's not the whole puzzle.

After PMF popularized, we had tons of people talking about Product/Channel Fit and Message/Market Fit, etc., since you need acquisition channels to work to fulfill demand and solid messaging to drive demand to begin with. Being lazy with channels is a big risk, IMO as a marketer. It's especially risky for bootstrapped startups to waste time on the wrong channels.
I like to have all my git repos in one place. I use VS code for frontend and JetBrains for backend.
Does it include UI components? Or is it designed to be used with third-party UI components like QT?
GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler: STG, Cmm, asm) illustrated
Good point, you would have to train them on separate data sets. I wonder how the error rate would differ from training one model on all the data.
The article sucks. I was hoping for a serious critique of Microsoft's new direction and the architecture of WSL2, .NET Core, etc., but it's just a handful of very trivial performance gripes, along with things the author simply doesn't understand, like the default application registered for *.json files being Notepad only until you install something better.

I wish there was a higher bar for upvoting articles besides "it bashes Microsoft, to the top with it"
How is Terraform better than CF for AWS? What are these significant limitations? I also know of plenty of large enterprises that use CF.
Lockdowns have to be executed differently next time. It's fine to require people to work from home if they can and close schools. But you cannot decide that only food is essential and shut down everything else. That leads to a lot of problems. They key is not having many people gathering in one place. There are many ways to ensure that without shutting down everything.
Anyone here who gives away some of their books, consider also the Little Free Library if it’s in your area.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8237696
I don’t think weight is much of an issue at this point. EV Acceleration in normal driving is fine and their range keeps going up. The new Roadster for example is aiming for a 200kWh battery and still has crazy acceleration. Cost seems like a bigger deal, but economies of scale are driving that down quickly.

EV’s hit 2.5% of total sales in 2019. 2020 is likely going to be odd, but scaling production still seems to be the bottleneck.
Please limit the personal attacks.

And as we all well know, a diseases' damage can grow geometrically. That's the whole issue. Which can also be 'conveniently forgot'
Student to Master: A Story About Brand Building
The title is a pretty neutral and accurate description of the article. The actual title is uninformative, and changing uninformative titles is standard practice.
I wish there was UI that I could just point at a repository locally and get a GitHub-like view of the repository, where I can browse all the files, see their last commit date/message, click on them, and see the contents as well as history and git blame. I keep hoping someone will build a GitHub UI without having to use GitHub but for some reason every one of these Git UIs focus on just showing me the commit history and diffs. This is useful too but it's not really much different from all the other apps that do this.
> the story doesn’t say [...] electrically copying [the signal] back to the bunker or something

That’s precisely my point: how do you reliably “copy a signal back” if one terminus of the cable cannot be relied upon to exist for long?
Router is not the bottle neck typically
> Personally I would prefer deniable encryption

May I ask why? If you are not willing to stand behind something that you said then do not say it at all.
Anyway, I do not think that deniable encryption is useful at all, after all potentially edited screenshots are taken as truth all the time. At least if you are using a non-deniable communication method you will be able to ask for proof that you wrote the post which they claim that you wrote.
I’m playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance at the moment. It’s one of the best open world experiences I’ve played thanks largely to the NPCs and their stories/requirements. A smaller world, by modern open world standards, which allows devs to create a more meaningful world. Hell, I’ve spent a third of my time playing Farkle (dice) with various NPCs, simply enjoying the pub background chatter etc.
> How much are they making (drivers)?

I don't know exact numbers; I know one did make $150 in 5 hours on a Friday night. I am not sure if that's typical, but I do know it was not possible when I was driving for DoorDash.

> Its a good idea but the site is a tad messy.

Yeah--developing a slick app and web 2.0 webapp isn't always the value add that silicon valley claims it is. It's great for GrubHub or DoorDash because it puts you in front of clients everywhere, but it's not that great for users or restaurants. The website sucks because the business runs primarily over the phone: A phone call lets you interact with a restaurant and delivery service in a lot of ways that aren't possible in an app--there's a reason the apps fall back to the phone when something goes wrong.
This is far closer to how a lot of modern RPGs work.
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is a classic for tech companies. It's not about the discipline of marketing, but more of a representation of what marketing looks like in practice. (And, perhaps to the astonishment of many, in practice it does not always look like a pyramid scheme.)
What role do you see fear playing in NPCs via video games? Outside of the occasional "scream" or "run away" I can't think of a time where I've seen fear utilized deeply via gaming NPCs
Belgian railway operator uses AI to check mouth mask use
Infrabel, which manages the railway infrastructure, uses artificial intelligence to check whether employees wear their mouth masks properly and keep a sufficient distance.
It has been my experience that most software posted on HN has little description of what it does, and no description of why it exists. The parent comment was highlighting the excellently concise mission statement written on the first page. I wish every project would do as well.
I stay on the "happy path." I have a Kindle e-paper reader. I buy a book, I can read it. It's probably DRMd. But it doesn't get in my way. I agreed to the price and I know I may or may not be able to read the book 5 or 10 years from now. I accept that.

I realize this may not be the experience or purchase model for everyone, but for a large segment of the reading public, it "just works."
potty training is also hard. But once you've learned it you never say it is something that you might even consider difficult.
There are both good and bad arguments for ending the lockdown.

The better arguments tend to focus, as this one does, on the fact that a lockdown does not come without its own harmful ramifications: delaying health interventions, increases in spousal/child abuse, increase in depression/suicide, loss of income/insurance, loss of financial stability, etc. I'm not necessarily saying that these arguments are or are not persuasive, but they're looking at the right things.

The worse arguments tend to focus on the lockdowns depriving Americans of their God-given freedom to attend pool parties and political conventions, regardless of the epidemiological data.

Unfortunately, many of the people who are really motivated by the latter tend to use the former as cover. (This doesn't just pertain to COVID-19, but to a lot of controversial issues.)

Generally, when you can reasonable predict that your argument may invite some unwanted bedfellows, it's nice to toss out a disclaimer -- something like, "Now I know some people will seize on my argument to advance X, which I reject, so let's talk about the limits and bounds of what I'm arguing." That way you can make it clear that you're not willing to let your remarks be used in ways that you don't intend.
If nothing keeps everyone together, how can there be a revolution, how can they put the differences aside and unite against the government and political elites? On the contrary, pushing people against each other is how people are kept from revolting. Plus throwing everyone in prison for the smallest things (especially those likely to unite against the government), making people very afraid of the police, controlling narratives in mass media and media platforms, etc.

I'd say US is one of the few countries where power is not just really well protected, but that protection is future proof. Look how all the new ways of spreading information, new media platforms ended up in the hands of few big domestic corporations who are obviously big supporters of the system they exists in and are very cozy with the government, with spreading propaganda, with censorship of pretty much whatever the government asks to the point of censoring literally all views on certain subjects if they do not parrot official government propaganda.
Thanks a lot, will check it out.

I am pretty okayish. 5 years commercial experience, 10 yrs experience in general. I am willing to work hard to build clientele, as I said in the post.
They didn't! Their revenue is driven by enterprise, and enterprise businesses are still using IE11 and will be for years to come.

MS doesn't care about the browser; they care about the friction that sells Windows on PCs and USLs for Office 365/etc. Otherwise, they would have stamped out Chrome years ago. They care now because newer web frameworks have proliferated, and Microsoft has the means to shift customers from IE11 ActiveX apps or whatever to Azure-hosted services like PowerApps.

It's one of the shitty things about this era... nobody is motivated to care much about the computers that we all rely on to work. Windows 10 lacks a unifying vision, MacOS is sort of a hobby project in the company, and Linux desktop is a dumpster fire.
That does not mean it doesn't lose money. You're talking about revenue.
I beg to differ.

I have already argumented against it, and provided evidence for my statement [0].

My argument is logically airtight.