skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem explored by the author is quite an interesting one. Developer experience is indeed fragmented, varied depending on the toolchains chosen and not always good.

However, I have to disagree with the iPhone analogy. The consumer mobile phone market doesn't have any similarities with the developer tooling and software platform market. For one, Apple has always preferred to set trends and _tell_ people how to use their devices rather than provide openness and flexibility. Developers thrive on flexibility - shepherding them to the one true way of doing things, even if it provides a better experience, would unleash the inner forces and wrath which made open-source a thing. Also - the problem of "listening to music while taking a call" has vastly reduced complexity compared to anything done by developers. I don't think you can apply the same learnings. Each market and each customer segment require completely different business models and the iPhone bundling and "do few things right" strategy just isn't right for such a vast ecosystem of developers who are all doing so many different things. Yes, they are all deploying code to production. That's not a market. And to see the differences, compare the SDLC at a regulated bank to that of a 50-person startup with proper automation - you'll find they are light years apart. Not because the banks suck as devs, but because they are in a different market.
Espruino claims to do automatic power management.
Early morning, after a good night sleep, especially when I have an empty calendar.

In the afternoon I experience the usual energy slump.
I started thinking, using network namespaces to intercept traffic from client applications would be pretty neat trick.
they did learn from their mistakes.
they learned that there's zero consequence in trafficking the right lies for the right people and were professionally rewarded for doing so. it should be no surprise that the exact same people latched so heavily onto the steele dossier and the cult of mueller-ism
I keep expecting to see a FBI response.

"That subpoena never existed"

or

"We issued it and didn't find anything credible to forward to the DOJ"

or

"We don't comment on ongoing cases."

... I'm not sure what silence means.
Pretty interesting. There are minor bugs, but I like it
Doesn't need to be debris hours / days away from impact, just general "Yeah, over the course of 10 years, these ones look the most suspect" levels.
Thanks! METARs [1] are standardized weather reports that pilots use to evaluate current conditions. They're often reported from stations located at airports, and include (among other things) wind direction, cloud bases, temperature/dewpoint, current altimeter setting, etc. They look like this in raw text form:

KMDS 150935Z AUTO 30009KT 10SM CLR M02/M06 A3007 RMK AO2

This app parses METARs into a visual representation, and displays it in a widget on your home screen. Useful for keeping tabs on current conditions!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR
As is usually the case, the cover-up ends up being a worse scandal than the scandal. When will they learn? Spoiler: they won't...
Why is this a solution.

No one doubts Alan Jones identity for example.
PayPal reveals plans to charge £12 fee on 'inactive' accounts
Owning a laser printer instead of an inkjet changes the economics of home printing drastically. Also the time savings of not having to physically go to the library to print is huge.
Most of the solutions to the "developer experience gap" have already been built inside massive tech companies like Google. Smaller companies have their own rendition of this. Which is to say, we have a specific stack on a specific cloud provider and we use a specific developer workflow with a specific language and framework. And because of this we're all highly productive because we don't have to think about the tooling, we don't argue over design decisions or new things and when we see limitations we start to investigate the next dependency.

Pragmatically companies form opinions which differ very much to the "developers need choice" mantra of the industry itself. Choice is the enemy of productivity. Google maintained a single platform called Borg that ran self contained binaries and required you to use the Google-3; c++, java or python. Internally the majority of systems looked the same and everything was consumed with RPC apis using Stubby that's now open source as gRPC.

Explicit decisions and doing less makes us all more productive. The iPhone did that for mobile. Cloud is waiting for an industry standard.
There has been a few such posts on HN in the past.
eg:

FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22811653
Oh well :

Apple reserves the right to do any of the following,
at any time, without notice: (1) to modify, suspend or
terminate access to the IMDF Specification or any portion of
the IMDF Specification for any reason;
iPhone 12 models with 5G mmWave are US only
In Japan I would trust that system as well, here I am too worried that people syphon off the interesting confidental stuff off.
Apart from in the legal system, which is supposedly where we go to sort things like this out and discourage others from doing the same thing, intent has a massive impact ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea ) on the penalties you can levy to discourage said behaviour.
I dont think issue is uninformed people or people in general not making sensible decisions.

Large issue is euphemisms we use and collective inability to call spade a spade. Misinformation about covid does not randomly happen because uneducated Johny randomly something something. It happens, because well educated people intentionally spread it as a way to acquire or keep power. It also happens, because Youtube algorithms are easy to use by smart educated actor in order to promote whatever that person want to promote. And the people who put time and effort into this tend to be overwhelmingly bad actors.

I watched "triumph of will" once and then I was getting holocaust denial videos suggested for months. I was not getting history or lectures tho. After a while that went down. Then, I watched some gaming videos and started to get such materials again.

That is to point out that for whatever reason, youtube itself is promoting these things. It is not "people in general", I sure as hell was not seeking these materials. And maybe if we have been able to admit out loud that it is not just some teenagers cosplaying white supremacists or stupid hippy moms promoting anti-vaccins, but instead well organized political groups pressing for own agenda, we would be better off.

Because current discussion about speech is absurdely naive.
> real life up has been incredibly stable for the last couple of decades in the west

This isn't universally true in the US. Millions lost their homes in the great recession and never fully recovered, it's just easy to forget that the American economy doesn't work for everyone when it does work for you. Now millions more face eviction and starvation amidst a major public health crisis.

> In the 70s (before social media), there were multiple bombings every year in the US. That is completely unfathomable today.

True, but mass shootings were unfathomable in the 70's and happen at an alarming rate today. To your point, we've largely become desensitized to those stories because they just happen so often now. I think that the patterns of violence have shifted, not the presence of violence.

> Social media is just giving you the impression that things are unstable because people like to complain when by any standard long-term measure it’s just as stable as ever

I disagree with this too. Wealth inequality is skyrocketing and has been for many years. Average life expectancy has been declining in the US. Our current president has discussed running for a 3rd term and preemptively declined to accept the results of a Presidential election overseen by his own government. Has that ever happened before?

> when was the last time a prominent politician was assassinated? - when was the last time a government building was bombed? - when was the last time a prominent politician was assaulted and left in the hospital?

These questions say more about the government's ability to protect its members than providing insight into the stability of society. Congressman Steve Scalise was shot in 2017 during a practice session for a congressional baseball game, but survived. Gabby Giffords was shot in 2011 and survived. There are numerous attempts at these things that we'll surely never know about.

It's also worth pointing out that a group plotted to kidnap the sitting governor of Michigan and try her for treason. Law enforcement officials interviewed about that case largely said they'd never seen anything like that before.
> I wish CUPS would not be installed by default

I don't. CUPS does not harm (it's lightweight and quiet), and I don't want to have to install it or configure it if I ever need to use a printer. Drivers should be installed automatically too, so I don't have to think about it. I install whatever mainstream distro, connect to whatever printer there is at the place I am with my laptop and it should just work. People have other things to do than (finding out how to) configure a printer and install packages for that.

Distros cannot assume people will know in advance what printer they will need to use with a laptop. For a desktop computer, it's slightly different, but still, common things just need to work out of the box, life is too short for fiddling for most people (I like fiddling though, but only when I choose to do it).

On less mainstream / more KISS distros, it would be okay (better) not to install CUPS by default though.
ARM got the EOR spelling from the 6502.
Citation needed? I've never encountered that, and used plenty of those.

The main reason old instruction become slow is that the hardware implementation is replaced by a microcoded version.
Is the UK ready for a four-day work week?
There was an understanding that they don't remove content they disagree with and would get criticism in return if they do. Now people want them to do exactly that. That is far worse in my opinion, especially for those without power.
ah ok sorry i misunderstood. I thought you meant it was a failure for the invading mongols.
The DMCA isn't political? Hard disagree.
I switched into tech pretty much at exactly your age. I was a massage therapist and I started learning to code in 2014, getting my first paid job in 2018. My experience is only in webdev, so depending on your discipline your mileage may vary.

You're right in thinking that your lack of experience is going to be an obstacle, but it's not an insurmountable one.

Everyone tells you to have a GitHub profile with portfolio projects and this helped, but most recruiters for entry-level positions didn't know enough about tech to evaluate a project in a portfolio. They only speak "years of experience". The only way you get past that is getting lucky enough to have somebody who knows what they're talking about read your resume, which is what happened to me. I was 36, father of two starting in a brand new industry and it's awesome.

The great thing is that once you're in, you're in. And being on the older side for the industry is actually an asset. I'm right in the sweet spot where I'm young enough to not cringe too hard when my company names all development teams after video game characters, but old enough to add a little gravitas behind my opinions.
Exactly this. Amplitude is not a 1:1 substitute for Google Analytics.
I don't believe that censorship from a 10,000 foot view is a binary state. You're thinking that I support redaction, I suspect; probably because it's hard to represent my beliefs in a few lines of text.

My view is that attempting to convert facts -- delivered by the scientific method -- to fiction by way of purposeful misinformation is a more corrosive form of censorship than showing the door to a comparatively miniscule number of who-knows-whos seeking to corrupt our agreed upon truths for their own benefit.
> Or, if the problem is uninformed people, then adopt a representative democracy where a random sample of 1000 voters are chosen by sortition

I can see why that would help with corruption, but I’m not sure why it would help with a population being uninformed, let alone misinformed.
I notice that people with sleep problems usually really want to fall asleep and focus on that. Of course they do. I however usually go along a list like this:

- This bed feels good

- So nice to be not standing or sitting, my feet are even tingling a bit

- This bed really feels nice, I don't want to fall asleep, I want to enjoy this feeling just a bit longer...

- Maybe there is something nice to think about while enjoying this feeling of just lying in this nice clean bed with a perfect temperature...

- ... zzz

Maybe I'm just lucky I slipped into a nice mental routine by accident.

To clear the mind, I recommend just the free intro sessions of headspace (and possibly more), sometimes I do the "thoughts are clouds and I want a blue sky" -trick when the focus on the bed doesn't seem to work.
I wonder how many present-day luminaries will be ignominiously dumped in a future era.

As to the rapidly extending list today, I think we can expect London's Royal College of Art to rename the Darwin Building shortly. The full title of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is "The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life"

If only he'd thought a bit before putting pen to paper.
Wildly misleading statement, especially given the tiny sample size versus hundreds of millions of adults in the US.

From that same link (demonstrating Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines; which is obvious given the high vaccination rates in the US):

"While the vast majority (82%) chose in favor of vaccines, 8% selected responses expressing serious doubt. An additional 9% said they were unsure."

Also:

"In a survey of 1,025 randomly sampled adults, 84% of respondents said they believed that it is extremely or very important that parents vaccinate their children"

"Additionally, 86% believed vaccines are not more dangerous than the diseases they prevent, whereas 89% said they are aware of the advantages and disadvantages of vaccines."

https://www.healio.com/news/pediatrics/20200116/faith-in-vac...
I do the same:

In my tax report I think my house is valued at 400 000 NOK.

When I talk to the bank it will probably be worth 4 200 000 NOK.

Tax authorities here know as banks update them every year.

Also in accounting it is common. I remember asking my teacher about it when we had basic accounting and it is simple: if you depreciate (?) an item to less than it is worth you just have to report a profit when you sell a "worthless" asset. (I'm not an accountant and English is not my first language but I think it should be possible to understand.)
> If you believe that the species as a whole has never been this unstable before

What does this actually mean? The world is a very big place, covered by lots of political, economic, and power systems.

The West - primarily, but not exclusively, the English-speaking parts - has seen a big change in the way politics is conducted, with less dignity and more verbal viciousness, but this hasn't really been matched by physical or "kinetic" politics. The sibling comment that there are fewer bombs going off is correct. Even Islamic fundamentalism has got less dangerous in the west - while the great middle eastern war started in 2001 rages on, expanding upwards to Nagoro-Karabakh.

If we want to talk stability, perhaps we should return to control systems theory. The feedback loops of the world have got shorter and faster. This moves the poles of the system around - and, without damping, makes it less stable.
The nicest possible explanation is that this article is an excellent piece of sarcasm.

The very first thing in the article is a comparison of Waterfall and Agile but it is labelled "Software Engineering" and "Machine Learning"?!

Like, I am so confused. Is the implication that AI researches invented Agile or something? Literally everybody does (or pretends to do) some kind of Agile these days. And I don't mean this in a "my enlightened startup does software dev like this" way, big corporations have the actual job title SCRUM master for years now. I did mom-and-pop store Wordpress projects with "machine learning methods" apparently - nice!

After wording this out I brought myself to read the whole article, and, well, it is a marketing piece for their productivity tool Comet which solves all the problem you have by building AI, which does not have "The provable correctness of software engineering" (I wish software would be provably correct :| ).
People have stopped recognizing evil just because it suits their current myopic political agendas. Talk about lacking the power of critical thought, the problem for democracies are not the fringe loonies that believe in whatever the idiotic theory of the week is, but the majority that trades freedoms for momentary comfort. The argument for censorship always goes "I'm not really for censorship, but now we really have to thought police people who disagree with me, who am smart and correct, or the world will end" and it is invalid, evil and stupid in any context.
I note that on almost all my price watches (UK site), the prices that CamelCamelCamel shows me are not accurate (most frequently listed as "Not in Stock" when following the link to the product on Amazon shows that they are in stock); this all stopped working, I think, in the early days of Covid? When you were asked to stop doing it to ease load or some such?

Will it ever start working again?
I agree with the overall message, but I think we need to discuss this in the context of current reality, not pure theory.

First, neither copy the chinese system or vote by sortition are currently realistic alternatives.

Second, it's not like free speech exists in purely theoretical space. Free speech in an empty room is not interesting. Free speech before the press is not like free speech after. Free speech now is not like it was in the 90s. Youtube and fb genuinely created a lot more freedom of speech in practice. They also monopolize it.

Lets not pretend that there aren't costs, regardless of what way this happens.

That said, a world where the public, advertisers and politicians lobby a beseech youtube to restrict speech is a nasty one. This is going to be ugly.
Yes but then you have to buy cartridges from the manufacturer who has the control to say there are empty when in fact they are not. It is a completely closed ecosystem. I believe customers deserve better alternatives.
the zimmerman telegraph and the pentegon papers could both be roughly described as 'hacked materials' i think most would agree they still fell firmly within the public interest.
Which side?

Let me guess: "The Other One!"
Anywhere you want reproducibility

- Statistics,

- Deep Learning,

- Monte-Carlo simulation (finance, reinforcement learning, game AI, raytracing).

- Fuzzing

- Load balancing

- Peer selection (if non adversarial, otherwise use a CSPRNG)

Also non-determinism of CSPRNG (and floating points) would a huge issue for debugging machine learning models:

- https://www.twosigma.com/insights/a-workaround-for-non-deter...

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/3103

- https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/deterministic-non-deterministi...

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/2732

- https://github.com/soumith/cudnn.torch/issues/270

- https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/2831
> Hunter Biden's receipts from the computer repair shop are public for this too.

Where? I didn’t see those. How does he have public receipts for something he never paid for?

Edit: Never mind. I saw it. It’s a quote, not a receipt. I just can’t believe someone would take a laptop to a random, low quality based on the price, repair shop for data recovery like that. “Hi. Can you get my sex tape, crack smoking video, and incriminating, politically sensitive emails off this thing?”
hacker news shouldn’t be allowed to censor legitimate information or dissenting political opinions, which is what is covered by the 1st amendment. It doesn’t mean you can literally say whatever you want, e.g. flood sites with spam.
Show HN: DIY 4$ IoT Thermometer Using Esphome and Xiaomi Mijia LYWSD03MMC
I love that guy's voice. But usually I'm too interested to fall asleep, maybe not when I listen for the second time :)
Is there a good website or somebody who logs this stuff?
Finally, terminal reality sets in. The huge turnover is the start of a descent into a city wide homeless ghetto.
We have already seen that whole rows of cars get windows shattered via $2 carbide scribes from the $ store.
Online job mobility, and lower cost where you end up means you are not tied to the city milieu, once freed, few will return.
Diz iz because ze Cyber is absolute "Neuland / Terra Incognita" for us. Even our (current) chancellor said so in public ;>

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/neuland

Also maybe ambiguities between metric/imperial measurements, area of competence, having to ask around to be safe, waiting for answer/confirmation, and so on?
Is there a fork of Fortune that uses the PCG, Xoshiro or wyhash algorithm?

I am not fluent in C or Rust and time constrained, otherwise I would have taken a shot at it

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/master...
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wapm-packages/fortune/mast...

Or better, with an entropy source like rdrand or rdseed?
Printing is not overrated. I like paper, its reads that much easier. These days all in one laser printers are cheap, of good quality and they print for low €/sheet.

Personally I have great experiences with Brother on Linux. Brother has well-maintained Linux drivers, recommended.
> Globally, the median is close to $800/month per household.

You pulled that number out of thin air, didn't you?

I mean, some european countries like Bulgaria have a median household income of around 400€/month.

Do you honestly believe that Bulgaria is one of the world's poorest countries?

Getting back to reality, according to wikipedia, which cites OECD, India's median income in PPP is currently around 2500$/year.

India ranks 43rd in the world's median household income ranking.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD
Printers are cheap and widely available, which leaves a DIY printer which is going to be slower, more error-prone and more expensive as a very niche idea. There is a clear benefit to buying or building an open hobby 3D printer, whereas that's harder to argue for a 2D one - while there is a lot of crap around, there's enough workable choices, aftermarket inks/toner works, you likely won't be modifying/tuning a 2D printer the same way you maybe would with a 3D printer, ...

Ink delivery is likely the main challenge (although I've seen some low-res attempts), combined with the speed and precision needed for a good printer - reaching a few hundred DPI requires positioning things quite precisely. Laser printers are interesting, but then you need specialized parts like the drum that I'd expect to be difficult to produce in single quantities.

Open pen plotters are a thing, but again not typically used for normal printing duties.
Is something weird going on with the YouTube algorithm. In the last few days there have been a few posts here on HN that reference various Citation Needed episodes. Most notably the Cyberdyne post from this week.

Maybe it's just Baader-Meinhof syndrome, and it's all conincidental, but it's still super strange.