skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 10 yrs of BMW I moved to Model 3 and love it. It truly feels like the future. Most of my driving is on autopilot. Love the acceleration, the big touch screen, the updates, everything.

However, the little noises makes it feel like a cheap build. Been multiple times to the shop to fix the squeaky seats, steering. Now the steering has started making some creaking sounds. The only solution is to drive with music turned up.
I'm currently generating bloated JSON templates because writing any kind of non-Go plugin looked like a painful ordeal.
I think a lot short sellers have been wiped out at this point.
The second one. If someone were forcing you to perform slave labor for them, you'd want to do a crappy job as possible just to spite them.
That's because it _is_ a cheap build. Enjoy.
I think you're misunderstanding the comparison to Python. I am saying Rust will eat the world in the space that it fits in, which is still relatively large, in the same way that Python did, in the space that Python fits in. Not that Rust will take over very high level languages too.
It seems to me that you're confirming my point by making a strong generalization about HN based on what you noticed and disliked. I assure you that the people who dislike the opposite things notice the opposite things and make the opposite strong generalization.

If you're talking about the covid submissions that gus_massa came up with, they were flagged by users. In one case we lessened the penalty and the other looks like one we didn't see. I do think that it's unlikely that HN can have a curious conversation about that theme, much as we might both prefer otherwise. I don't think you can validly draw significant general conclusions from that.

A poll wouldn't convince anybody. It would just reconstitute the same disagreement at a meta level. I wrote about something similar here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239793. (Edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808089 in this thread, as it turns out.)
Is this still true?

As far as I can find on their website (and the reason I switched to self hosted Bitwarden) was that they switched to a subscription only model.
Anti-Noise Control Window reduces incoming sound by 10 decibels
they have a try server that developers can push to to run a swath of tests before bringing into the integration branch. outsiders can access that by being vouched for by a developer in mozilla and insiders obviously have access to it already. having used it as an outsider it's kind of a pain to use with a lot of setup and options. so having something like `mach try auto` would be awesome for outside devs in addition to the reduce server costs.
I have to confess I take some pleasure in asking people that say we're living in a simulation "oh, you're a creationist?"
I don't think it has anything to do with anonymity. Most people are using their real names on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. But quips and outrage get more attention and engagement than serious discussion (and none of these platforms are conducive to long-form discussion).

The biggest problem is that replying to a post makes it appear in more feeds. Never in the history of debate and discussion has "add more people!" led to more effective communication. Think of your own work experience - how many meetings were useful when they grew and grew every week?

HN benefits from the lack of a feed but also suffers from the inability to continue discussions over long periods of time between a few users. Something like slack's threads would be useful for a forum, as well as more permanent (old school) topic-based subforums and threads.
Here is some info on stuffed ear syndrome https://www.soundstagesolo.com/index.php/features/178-eardru...

Mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22078517
I imagine it was downvoted because it came across as a jab at the HN moderators.

Interesting. The comment seemed quite broad and generalized for one to come to that specific assumption, just because HN happens to be the where the discussion is being held, but appreciate the insight. Maybe I’m projecting a bit, since it’s not a conclusion I would have arrived at, but that’s for me to own and work on.
Just use Fedora and GNOME. Linux is good but suffers from the Android problem where third parties modify it with their own branding and ruin it.
It depends. Do what works for you. How productive do you feel? There is no right answer.
Isn't there a difference between knowing/understanding VCS and git flag trivia? Seems needlessly pendantic?
This Wikipedia article has pointers and references in so many directions, you're bound to find something about what you're looking for, or that points to something else that you're looking for. The article itself is a good start.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
I hope this doesn't get ugly when people try to actually leave.

On the bright side, I wonder what good things this will do for the UK. I doubt many of these people will vote Torry.
Might makes right, nothing we can do about it unless people are willing to die to protect them.
> Let’s be honest, none of us are sitting around waiting for our complex IDEs to render characters on the screen. No one really cares if it’s 1ms or 30ms or even 200ms.

I do regularly on my 2019 MBP - I 'only' have the basic SSD and 'only' 16 gigs of memory. Usually Jetbrains stuff, but things freeze up/pause on VSCode and Eclipse as well too.

I'll then be told "oh, must be your hardware", but this is a "feature" I've noticed of... not just JVM software, but probably MacOS in general - sporadic system pauses. SSD makes it more bearable, certainly, but it's not "this" hardware - I've had probably 8 different mac systems since 2008, and they all do this. But... in the 15+ years of Windows and Linux systems before that, similar issues. I see it on other peoples' systems too, but they seem to be able to bite their tongue, or genuinely don't notice (or don't care?)
That's the guide to embedded programming. If you're just looking to learn Rust, start here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302804/tesla-ranks-last...
The reason I was moved to comment is that I think it's actually not that large a space (the one that Rust plays in). Instead, I think it's just that the applications in that space loom large in our consciousness, because we all use and pay attention to kernels and browsers. And I expect the space of applications "languages like Python" play in to grow over time, and Rust's to shrink, not just because computers will get faster but because the runtimes for those languages will get cleverer (see, for instance, what's happening with Javascript).
you certainly can criticize pg's arguments and not get downvoted (i've done it in the past), but any ad hominems will, and should, quickly be downvoted.

if you think you have some real knowledge to drop, make a considered criticism instead of a snide remark.
And at least on macOS screen sharing doesn't work with a German keyboard layout. Neither the German nor the US keyboard layout modifiers work correctly. At least it is enough to bootstrap a better remote desktop connection.
I don’t understand how someone can say “this is the worst software I use daily” and then you say “you are wrong.” Maybe you use worse software than them? Also, you seem to implicitly default to comparing each piece of software to others in it's class; you’re grading on a curve. The parent comment is saying “of all software, these are the worst”, and you are saying “but other PM/VC/OS software is worse” which is different.

For example, git is the best version control software; it is also a disaster of a UX.

Your appraisal of Docker is also too generous, I honestly can’t tell if it’s sarcasm
The city that I live in faces similar issues, even though it is young by international standards, and those issues exhibit themselves in very peculiar ways.

If we were talking about a building that is actively maintained and played a significant role in events, I can understand the desire to preserve it. Yet, more often than not, the buildings are decayed due to neglect and very few people actually care about the building until it is about to be torn down. Worse yet, the structure has frequently been altered to the point where it is no longer of architectural interest. So yes, this is a concern from the perspective of the greater needs of cities. Which is why I was puzzled by the opposition due to the environmental impact.

On the other hand, I suspect that these attitudes stem from something other than a desire for preservation. It may sound noble to talk about the greater needs of cities, yet some mighty nasty projects have been undertaken in the name of redevelopment. For some people this brings up extreme cases of forced removal, serving the needs of special interests, or simply creating inhumane environments.
I’ve really only seen python used in academics and data processing.
As a Rust developer, I completely agree. I'd like to see Rust fully supplant C++ and C, but I don't expect it to fully supplant scripting languages, and I definitely wouldn't suggest rewriting working Python in Rust unless you need to improve performance or scalability, or you're having serious maintainability problems. Let many languages bloom.
No, but C/C++ is widespread and the relative understandability of Rust for those coders and advantages of Rust will certainly aid its adoption.
I have that scanner and love it. The firmware is clunky junk from 15 years ago, but its killer feature is scan to FTP. The workflow: insert document, press a button, and go look at PDFs in the NAS folder. No dinking with Sane like poor OP.
That name ️
I do believe Kanye West had something to say about that. It was quite some number of years ago, and I don't remember what he said, but I do remember it made Mike Myers visibly uncomfortable.
And sometimes the notification window is just a white box until you click on it.
Yes! The number of settings where $RUST_COMPETITORS are applicable is simply smaller than the number of settings where a high-level, dynamic or at least garbage-collected language is applicable. It's hard for me to imagine having a real justification for building services in Rust given the relative productivity of those high-level languages.

This is basically the reason I haven't picked it up for any personal projects, either. I admire the goals, but my interests don't call for a C++ killer.
That also makes sense. We used to call that behavior "isochronous." Do they still call it that?
macOS has an extremely weird UI to me.

* Why does the maximize button fullscreen by default?

* Why can’t I simply drag windows to the side to split half and half? No, I don’t want to switch to fullscreen mode to do this.

* What is the point of the minimize button and why do things minimize to a special area on the right side of the dock?
Made a short explainer video covering this: https://youtu.be/Ow9yMxJ8ez4
I've been using Teams at college for over a year now and at work for a couple months. It baffles me that there are simple, obvious bugs that have remained all that time.

For instance, on the Windows desktop app, the word "I've" gets marked as incorrectly spelled. When you click on it to see the spelling suggestions, it suggests "I've". Clicking on the suggestion does nothing and it continues to flag it. This has been an issue in the app for over a year and I refuse to believe that the developers are unaware of it. It's a very common word to be typing.

Another problem is sending files or images. You have to wait for it to finish uploading before it will let you send the message. Not only is it pretty slow (I would estimate 1MB/s, whereas Discord uploads at my full 12MB/s), but sometimes it won't let you send for a couple seconds even after it finishes uploading.

A couple months ago Teams added read receipts, which is really nice, but they don't always work. My work has them globally enabled and everyone is on the latest client, yet each person only sees them for certain other people. I don't see them for anyone, but my coworker sees them for about 50% of our staff.

Notifications are also buggy. Teams will just randomly decide to not give you notifications for messages or calls. I've missed multiple messages in Teams for days because it never alerted me. I had to actually open the specific chat with that person before I saw the message. I've gotten into the habit of checking Teams every 15 minutes because of this. Teams for Android also seems to send notifications a good 30 seconds before the desktop app does, so I usually keep my phone on my desk solely for Teams notifications.

I would also like to point out that Microsoft built a general-purpose notification system into Windows, yet Teams uses a completely custom notification system. This completely baffles me as they aren't even following their own company's best practices.
We have users on remote desktop machines but the microphone/sound doesn't pass through. IT's "solution" was to install the app on your phone and use that for talking and your computer for viewing. Yay.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration was a mistake. What did they think would happen? If not now then what about in 2047?! Were they hoping that was enough time to warm the new generations to the idea of giving up their rights?

There is no fixing this, but I appreciate the effort by the British. Many will not want to leave, understandably. But the threat of draining HK is an interesting sort of pressure to put on China..
If you mean our military bases in Japan and South Korea, who have no great trust of China, I'm not sure why China's opinion would be relevant there. If it's not controversial for Britain to offer them citizenship then it shouldn't be for US either. Even if it is...you gotta stand up to communism.
I wish HKer in the U.S. and Britain can have their own system (One country Two system). Otherwise it is worse than China.
the one confluence thing that gets me is that when editing, it intercepts the command + 1 keypresses when im trying to switch tabs.

instead, it just makes my current line h1.
Interesting, because we have something similar in Poland.

I am currently self-employed because not only does it give me the freedom to just invoice companies regardless of where they're headquartered but also because I can choose to have a flat 19% income tax rate and a pretty low, decoupled from my income pension contribution.

There's much more, but being self-employed is just this basic thing one usually starts with.
This study sends all kinds of red flags for me.

First, they are looking at a very wide range of activities and calling them enrichment. They include tutoring, music lessons, reading, and other "extracurricular activities" as an "enrichment activity." That seems like too wide of a net, as many extracurricular activities and homework likely are a waste of time, therefore diluting the extracurricular activities with positive effects.

Second, if I understand their methodology, they are checking students with no enrichment activities to children with a few minutes a week of enrichment time. Skill acquisition takes more than a few minutes a week, so of course those children would not be receiving benefit.

Third, the results seem absurd. They are saying there are no cognitive benefits to taking music lessons, but I guarantee that the children who took a music lesson is much better at playing an instrument than a student who didn't.

Fourth, there's already a lot of statistical and neurological evidence that reading is good for your thinking and your brain, and I don't think this study overcomes that evidence.
I think nim is the really interesting one to watch here...

Compared to rust it offers, say, 99% of the performance and 70% of the safety while really being almost as easy as python.
YouTube, supports delivering 8k video on a massive scale and a recommendation engine that is probably too good.
Homework is totally different for me in university compared to high school. Math in high school was easy. The homework just felt like a waste of time: repeatedly applying what you learned from one example.

In university, homework is everything. If all you do is attend the lectures, you will fail the midterm and final. In order to do well in the course you need to do all the homework which really pushes you to learn. The examples given in lecture are completely trivial compared to the homework problems which can often take hours to solve.

“Enrichment activities” would actually be useful if the content was actually enriched. Advanced students would get a lot more out of school if they were given work that was genuinely challenging for them and took a long time to figure out.
K what? ThinkGeek is gone? Wow, and the website redirects me to EB Games Canada. RIP :(
Outside of SV, thats plenty of money to bootstrap a company. Watch an episode of Shark tank -- there 'investments' typically are in the 100K to 200K for the bigger deals they do and many are less than 50K.
Really, are Puerto Rico and Guam really that bad of a concept? I don't think so. Most of the western US was simply U.S. territory for decades.
For some reason, I thought of the Leisure Suit Larry age verification system which asked questions that only an 18 year old ( at the time, with no internet ) could answer:
https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...
They talk about a lot more than just homework here. They talk about tutoring, reading, art and music lessons and other extracurriculars.
I made that complaint--as a flippant remark in class--to a high school statistics teacher once so he assigned me the task of writing my own final exam rather than taking a final exam, and gave everybody else the option of taking my exam or his. (Nobody took mine.)

My grades weren't that great (classic B student) and I doubt I had better mastery of the material than the more studious ones in class. But writing the exam was both fun and challenging--I definitely had improved mastery afterward, as well as a newfound appreciation for his job. He gave me a B+, though, out of fairness as I had several days to write the exam, open book. Which was fine by me.
Sounds like BS
And I go back to our lack of a fundamental definition of what we're trying to accomplish.

Tell me what it is first. Define "artificial general intelligence" in a way that is generally accepted.

Is it possible? I don't know because I don't even know what we're trying to do.
> What can be known in a system without rigor? That’s the question to make rigorous, I think.

Who is working on making that rigorous?
I have no problem with you putting up with those issues - but the last time I bought a Toyota Sienna for $40K new and it had very minor rattling problem which took only a day for the dealer to fix - I was very upset. For that reason alone I am not buying a Tesla. My mass manufactured CR-V has zero build issues and it was for me a very good experience for the kind of money I paid. It boggles my mind that Tesla hasn't been able to solve these issues for years.

I am curious if people would have lived with so many build issues if it was any other car - people buying traditional cars seem to expect much more.
First: those are hilarious, thanks. Second: I don't see how "Look at all these crazy reactionary right wingers" is really evidence that the median poster here is not skewed. Again getting to sampling error: you're a mod, you see the complaints more than the signal.

I'm talking about the skew of the people in the actual threads, and what opinions become acceptable consensus. And that's not the same population. Frankly most of us never see the garbage like that, because you flag it.

But what remains isn't "balanced" just because you find jerks on both sides. It's just as likely that one side is working the refs better.

Now again, I don't expect you to agree. But I see what I see. And I post to make sure that others don't see the same thing.
Sound like your problems are actually caused by Active Directory being shit and intentionally trying to lock out non-microsoft operating systems. Let this be a lesson to any future administrators. If you have Mac and Linux users, NEVER chose AD.
Sometimes I get signed out, because of VPN/WiFi issues.

It'll have a little text prompt at the top with a Sign In link.

But if I join a meeting, and I'm signed out, I just get a generic error message. It's like they didn't even code to check that I'm signed in when trying to join a meeting and advise me. Sometimes I have to restart the app after signing in to make the meeting link work again. Just feels janky.

I also had to mute it because on my budget work-provided laptop the Windows 10 notifications for every one line message take up a few inches of my screen which is pretty annoying when I'm working.
Ken Thompson is a giant in our field. This paper convinced me that pragmatically all computer security reduces to theater. There are too many moving parts and the likelihood of some TLA influencing one of them such that it has a backdoor is so high that you can comfortably assume that any information you enter into a computer network is publicly available. One of my ex-NSA buddies told me that they don't even bother attacking crypto algorithms, they just attack the implementation.
Time is the most valuable resource we have, why shouldn’t economists study how to most efficiently allocate that limited resource?
I think I'm not quite understanding what they're saying. In section 5.1 of the PDF tsumnia linked, the author talks about how it's not that enrichment activities have no benefit (despite saying actually writing that), is that the enrichment activities have no greater benefit than leisure activities. Did I get that right?

My older daughter loves to read, so she reads a lot, and her teacher (when school was in session) says she's one of the best readers in the class. So is this paper saying that if my daughter had done activities instead of read (like play video games or run around outside) she'd be just as good a reader? That doesn't seem right based on my experience.

Also, I read a lot about the benefits of having children learn to play music, especially starting with a piano. Some studies referenced here: https://www.lindebladpiano.com/blog/benefits-of-playing-pian.... Doesn't this paper suggest those other studies are wrong? I'm kind of slow when it comes to understanding papers like this.
Mistake what? Risk a war with China?
for me it's phpmyadmin. I guess I should just find another tool that does the same, but I don't use it that much, just for quickly changing things around when building prototypes or just looking at things. I've been using it for over a decade and 10 years ago, I loved it. now I hate it. it's inexplicably slow when doing nothing at all, it uses frames for the sidebar so your list of tables goes out of sync constantly (presumably so it doesn't have to reload all dbs/tables on every request, but then why is it still so slow? it takes like 10 seconds to load sometimes when I'm not even doing anything with any data involved). every change they make to the interface makes it worse and more cumbersome to use. the default settings paginate your sidebar after like 40 tables or something ridiculously low. so you have to wait for the slow-ass frame based sidebar to load 3 times before the table you wanted to look at is even in your list. you can change it by modifying some php file somewhere, but it didn't use to have this problem.
And, I would add, you can't have any significant discussion about topics which this group of people disagree on. For example, you can't say:

* The "free market," even suitably regulated, is not a good allocator of resources.

* Anything about the actual accomplishments of the Soviet Union or China, such as the USSR going from a purely agrarian society to putting a rocket in space in under 50 years, even while criticizing them for their failures (Uyghur concentration camps, etc.)

* Capitalism is not the best economic system, because it leaves too many people behind.

I could go further, but then I'd be accused of "nationalistic flamebait."