skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of automagic conversion of legacy code is great and the market is huge. But then Watson failed to deliver in the past and I doubt that this time it will live up to its claim.
I agree that the comments you've cited are a bit ridiculous.

But it's also important to acknowledge that pre-Covid, only a tiny fraction of jobs were remote at all. People who preferred remote work had very little choice in the matter. Our society assumes that commuting to work and sitting in a cubicle (or worse) is fitting for 99% of the work force.

So what I mainly see here aren't the comments you cite, but a "ugh but I like the office", which gets very little sympathy from me in a society where, virus aside, the majority of jobs are office-only. Like, the world is already tipped in your favor.

To put it into perspective, I was so desperate for a fully remote job that I took a $50,000 salary for it when I was making $130,000 in Austin, Texas. Now I live in South America on a beach doing exactly what I want to be doing.

I don't like the optics of calling Covid a "good thing", but it must be pointed out that it got offices (like my former job) that were adamantly ass-in-seat only to go remote-only. It spurred fundamental (hopefully lasting) shifts in our work culture. And a lot of them were a long time in the making and waiting. How many of these companies that were firmly ass-in-seat are now fully or mostly remote realizing that the sky isn't falling? I hope we reach a better equilibrium.

Ideally our employment options would have something for everyone without you needing to go for a $50k job to get what you want. Another culture change I'd like is for WFH options to come with a signing bonus to get your home office sorted out, something that's sorely lacking.
> We've replaced religion and witches with aliens, new age beliefs, flat Earth, reptile conspiracies, etc.

I think you are understating the problem. Aliens, new age beliefs, flat Earth, reptile conspiracies, etc. are fringe beliefs in our current society, and are recognized to be fringe beliefs.

Religion and belief in witches, in the societies you are referring to that had those beliefs, were not fringe beliefs; they were mainstream. The people who were believed to be on the fringe in those societies--the people who were viewed in those societies the way we today view, say, flat Earthers--were people who did not believe in the mainstream religion and all of its claims. For example, in Salem, Massachusetts in 1695, people who said witches did not exist were the ones who were believed to be on the fringe.

So the problem is not that individual people can have fringe beliefs. The problem is that an entire society of people, minus a few outliers, can have, and act on, beliefs that are later shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, to be not just wrong, but delusional. So the question we should all be asking ourselves is not, what is wrong with today's flat Earthers, but which of the mainstream beliefs we have today will end up being like the belief in witches in 1695?
There was mass shooter incident in Canada where the police used Twitter instead of emergency alert system to inform the public. Not many checked Twitter and got the memo. 22 people were killed at the hands of the shooter over the span of 13 hours. The number would have been significantly lower if they had used something more effective to inform the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks
Announcing Tokio 0.3 and the path to 1.0 (Async Rust)
> You can still publish!

Sure, but that's like "if the utility companies are cutting of your water and electricity, just make your own! nobody is stopping you from hooking an exercise bike to a dynamo and buy bottled water at the store". Technically true, practically not really a thing.
Their policy applies to content published on twitter, but does it also apply to linking to (or simply discussing) content published elsewhere? Because twitter has been removing posts and suspending accounts for that.
there probably is a middle ground. Just because i disagree with the rather radical opinion that claims it's most efficient to just barely fulfill minimum requirement and that throw-away & buy-new should be considered for civil engineering doesn't automatically mean i favor the radical extreme opposite opinion.

I am just stating the very obvious problem.
Why are you time limiting it

Because time matters. Look at elections (where there are huge incentives to exploit the fixed timescale), or look at fraudulent operations like pyramid schemes - eventually they get exposed, but if the originators are sufficiently disciplined to cash out and bail before that they may reap handsome profits. The incentives to spread false information are a function of the profits that can be obtained from doing so before the next decision cycle.

As a parallel example, look at the way the clock influences strategies in professional sports, with teams using timeouts and deliberate fouls to game the outcome of a match. At that point they're not playing ball, but rather a meta-game about time management. It's one reason I like baseball; the game runs for a defined number of plays (9 innings, each of which runs until 3 batters have been struck out), so while games can run very long, that sort of metagame doesn't really exist.
All of these things are productivity improvements. And I'm sure any company would buy them if I cared, but $200? It's a rounding error. And it liberates me from any choices they'd make.
Exactly. And people forget that depending on the UI libraries you use, you might get a mostly accessible app by default. All of core Windows widget classes, and WinForms and WFP, support accessibility features. Worst case you have a somewhat broken object tree without good labels, but that's already a start.

Dealing with something that believed it only needs a canvas to draw on is PITA.
The one thing I wish upstream K8s would implement is embedded etcd so that the operational complexity becomes a bit more manageable. Luckily k3s has that :)
It's interesting to me that you categorize irrationality with mental illness. I feel wuite the opposite. people make decisions based on many factors: logic, yes, but also past experience, common heuristics, mood, and situational context.

A lot of what education is supposed to do is shape your instincts towards what is productive: there's no particular reason that reading history in my spare time should _feel_ productive, but it does. That feeling was shaped by my education.

We've all been trained to think of arguments as logic. They're not; they're a conflict of mindsets, fully fleshed out states of being.

Arguments are a facades on beliefs - states of being. That's not an illness; that's being human.
They may not be legally liable but they are desperately trying to avoid alienating too many users by being party to questionable actions.

A client of mine recently asked to divest from Cloudflare because they have the Proud Boys as a customer. As much as Cloudflare has no legal obligation to police the content they host, customers can vote with their feet.
Sounds like an exciting project. What kind of data/information category do you expect people to store in the Filecoin ecosystem in the future? By information category, I mean is it medical data, internal enterprise data, politically sensitive data? Or is all data kind of encrypted so nobody has a clue as to what the data is that is being stored?
Do US credit cards even have PINs?
They've also heavily pivoted into tech in the past several years I think:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/10/technology/overstock-blockc...
Right, because it's only about conflict between browser vendors and 3rd party extension vendors. Somehow the user, a dumb machine browsing web, is only meant to be protected my browser vendor. There's no way for relantionship between user and extension vendor anymore.

You make me sick.
End of the Blog: The New Blogger Interface Is Broken
RIP the removable battery. Apparently the massive consumer demand for phones with low Z-heights has made replaceable batteries an impossibility and that's that. Same story for laptops. It's a only a matter of time before Tesla and other electric car OEMs realize they can force customers to buy new cars by making their batteries irreplaceable. All they need to do is build the batteries into the frame in such a way as to slim the cars profile and consumers will be fine with it. Something like a disposable low-profile Tesla Fiero with a 3-4 year maximum lifespan will quickly become the unavoidable reality car makers have always wanted to impose on the consumer.
Just mentioning two related programs in my mind: Franz (https://meetfranz.com/) and nativefier (https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier).
This article reminded me of 10+ years ago when I was browsing some MediaWiki code and came across "do { ... } while (false)", which had me flummoxed for a bit until I remembered that PHP has no goto statement.

fake edit: I just looked it up and it seems they added it to the language in 2009.
It's also used to portably implement generators and coroutines. See https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html More generally, the semantics are useful for machine code generation and translation.

Computed goto's are even more useful for the above, but they're an extension. I'd love to see computed goto's added to the C standard, but it's far too late to change the semantics of switch. Rather, just accept that their code flow semantics make them slightly more type safe syntactic sugar for goto--not just in how they're implemented, but in how they can be used.
I wish HN had direct support for quotations. It would benefit the discussion culture and solve these formatting problems.
The very fact that is successful just further reinforces my point doesn't it? If we see different countries as competing organisms, obviously in the 21st century China would have a leg over us precisely because of things like their government would shut down any anti-mask speech or movement at the first sight.

Imagine a terrorist cell just unleashed a biological weapon that's far more deadly than Covid. Which country do you think will fare better in this scenario, China or the U.S.? Would Americans still be arguing about the superiority of democracy and free speech if a majority of the people died?
cooll
What does it actually do besides collect a username and password?
> NY Post or NY Times?

After the 1619 Project, I'm not even sure anymore.
Introverts have never been the majority, even in tech. I'd also argue that with the rise of social media masquerading as development tools (gitlab/github), extroverts are now more over-represented today than even just a few years ago.
> this is like thinking because everyone is against what you are doing you must be doing the right thing

It's not, because silencing something is very different from being against something.
Oregon Trail Generation checking in. IRC, even the rowdy networks, had no free speech thanks to the 'tyranny' of channel operators. #politics on EFNet was (is?) notoriously right wing for instance. Message boards had no free speech thanks to their moderators. I don't see how this is any different?
This is how you get the FBI to raid your home and business. I'd hope that parties that interfere with our elections would be held to the same level of scrutiny as counterfeiters.
You'll note this is noted as happening a year + ago, when I had a credit card, yes, copied from the dickies online ordering system for a local franchise. Blaming the franchises and treating them terribly is why my local bbq place dropped their franchise and now is just their own shop.
How was that a lie? The statement from Mueller's team was vague and hardly a real rebuttal. It just says that it's not accurate and provides no clarification at all.

They had two independent government sources, which doesn't even come close to comparing to this story where the entire source is a single repairman who can't even get their story straight.

And there's a very big difference between being fed wrong information from two sources and not doing enough to verify it, in a time where said information could be crucial, vs "lying" as you imply, which is what NY Post is doing.
I don't agree with the comparison either, but, in the 16th century just about everyone could make a broad side and disseminate whatever they wanted.

Literally, wars were started because of this. Similar to today's information age propaganda wars and disinformation, physical media was used in a similar way. There are some valid comparisons here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars
sadly you need to run with kube-proxy and can't use calico's own sauce. but I already raised an issue for that, if I would use it more instead of kubespray (which I will deprecate soon) than I maybe fix it on my own time.
It looks like you're writing a program.

Would you like help?

* Get help with writing the program.

* Enable autocorrect and code prediction.

* Translate the program to COBOL.

* Write the program without help.

[ ] Pin Watson to taskbar.
> critical communications medium

Undersea cables, phone lines, and the radio spectrum are critical communications media. Private web sites with selective publication criteria by way of their content moderation policies are not.
We will almost certainly have one, and possibly multiple QAnon adherents in the US Congress next year [1].

1: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/qanon-republican-par...
If I’m using ‘deceptive rhetoric’ are you able to say what I am trying to deceive people about?

If other people are saying I’m using deceptive rhetoric, perhaps you can find an example?

I am having discussions with other people here, but none of them support your assertions about me, and none of them are making accusations the way you are or the way you claim they are.

They are all reasoned interactions engaging with one another’s statements to reach understanding.

Some of my comments are grayed out because people are angry with Apple and like you, some people perceive me to be defending Apple, largely because I’m not joining in with the condemnation.

Once again, you haven’t found any examples of me defending Apple, and there are numerous examples of me criticizing them or agreeing with criticism.

Only one person has descended into name calling, accusations, and mocking in this thread.

As to people villifying Apple. I explained why I don’t think that is helpful. This is not the same as your begging the question.

As to it bring ‘obvious’ - if you’ve read my comments, you’d know that I agree that Apple wouldn’t care about these things if they didn’t make Apple look bad.

But that fact doesn’t make it helpful to write snark about them.

This entire sub-thread is driven by you not liking the analysis of your snarky original comment that you asked me to provide.

I question where the delusion resides.
The problem with that is the additional friction.

If I could rent a car and it arrived in front of my house, no need to own.

But if the nearest car sharing station is 15 minutes away, that just added 30 minutes to every car trip, on top of the friction that comes with such systems.

That's where self-driving cars may be able to make a huge difference.
I always assumed the flat earth thing was more of a troll/protest than a genuine belief, basically people just want to assert that "you can't force me to believe a certain thing". Even if in this case that certain thing is in the class of completely irrefutable facts, it doesn't really matter because they're just asserting their power to disagree. Like a toddler that gets in a mood where they just say "no" to everything. Trying to reason with that type of response is useless and it's also beside the point, the point is that they just want to exercise their free will. And they also probably are enjoying that it is frustrating other people.

A mental illness framing is kind of interesting though, I've never really thought about it like that. It implies that it could be treatable, which I'm not really sure is true. Can you "treat" a troll?
I haven't watched the whole game, but watson jeopardy was to me the most amazing things i've witnessed in AI, and has only been superseded by GPT-3. And this wasn't at all due to its ability to answer fast, but rather to answer correctly to questions that required not only raw knowledge, but beeing able to understand pun, double-meaning, references, etc...

This seems to me much more impressive than playing go or chess..
> Even on HN, a site that usually is for free speech and discussing alternative theories,

Big Tech employees are the largely the same demographic as HN readers, which are a large proportion of would-be white knights, most making $150k or above, thinking they're gonna save the world from itself "because they know better".
The fact that you're being downvoted is so typical of the kind of midwits that inhabit HN. People vastly underestimate (read: do not even consider) the role that vast monetary manipulation has on a society. It creates so many distortions at so many levels. People spend so much of their energy and time on earth engaging with the monetary system and when you do very extreme things to that it creates a lot of problems (many of which have to do with distorting pricing signals and staving off bankruptcy which lead to many people doing completely unproductive work while at the same time giving them the feeling that they are).
Is Dixon’s Ticonderoga Truly ‘The World’s Best Pencil’? We Don’t Think So
> people love reading about and engaging in what they consider "stupidity

Its true. I think it appeals to our inner Just-world theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
> I really think social media companies are deliberately promoting stupid and blatantly wrong beliefs. It's good for engagement.

I don't think it even has to be deliberate; the algorithms social media uses, by their very nature, are going to promote stupid and blatantly wrong beliefs, since so many people will enjoy mocking them and there will always be some believers willing to argue back and keep the discussion going indefinitely.
That's what they denied me for too. Claimed I was clicking on my own ads.
Why call it white culture if it isn't related to genes (and built on lots of non white cultures)?
There's good scientific evidence that stupidity is expanding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
I'm 20 years out of college, and I feel the same way. At my best, I remember to scale my energy according to proximity: things nearer to me get more energy. Part of the problem is that we're presented with a parade of information about stuff that isn't happening here, around me. That, coupled with the aching feeling that you're a bad person if you don't pay attention to what's happening in the world, even its far away. That is really sick, because it's guilting you into paying attention to stuff you cannot, by definition, control.

And then we, the techno-futurists, don't want to deal with what's in front of us because its too small, doesn't scale, or because this problem will go away once we reach the economic Singularity or have flying cars or whatever utopian dream is in fashion.

Personally, I think we need better systems to leverage people's real, concrete pain into actionable change. Like, you should be able to donate money or time to fixing the things that really hurt you. Maybe its the DMV. Or maybe its traffic court. Or maybe its a late fee on a credit card. Or maybe its finding out that a fact you believed was made up. Right now, everything is so siloed. Imagine if everyone hurt by the DMV could pledge money to fix the problem.
I don't mean to attack you, but I don't think you are approaching this the right way.

There are exactly zero people who believe the earth is flat. Some join conspiracy groups because they are social outcasts who enjoy being part of a tight-knit group, while for the most part they are being isolated and rejected (sometimes, admittedly, because of faults of their own, unrelated to being flat-earthers).

They aren't insane, they are desperately lonely.
I've been using Raindrop.io for some months and can say I am a happy user. I will agree with others that it's mostly about the UX than anything else. I really appreciate the effort the developers of raindrop.io put into their product. Kudos, keep it up!
It reminds me of Oppenheimer's quote, "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."[1]

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer
I wonder why a landlord would even entertain such an offer. It's not uncommon for leases to be ~15 years. That is a hell of a risky move to think that you'll be ahead by offering a buyout with the hope of finding new tenants.
Private companies censoring things arbitrarily is pro-free speech.

I'm not making any particular argument, only showing the weakness in your cognitive dissonance.
The fact that NYT didn't post this story says more about their bias than the legitimacy of the story itself. You know full well they would post a story with this level of verifiability if it was damaging for Trump.
agreed that it's annoying, but not the end of the world neither, I don't install software multiple times a day every day
There was research last year that showed that cynicism is a way for less intelligent people to protect themselves from being taken advantage of. Basically, if you know you're not smart enough to figure out if other people are genuine or out to scam you, defaulting to assuming that all strangers are lying is a winning strategy.

The same kind of logic fuels conspiracy-minded people. The one thing they all have in common is that they reject the mainstream view, they reject the consensus. And in turn, they embrace outlandish explanations, and the communities around those, because it gives them a false sense of superiority. They know something the rest of the sheep don't!

So these two psychological defense mechanisms interact with each other, and when the information flow in society is increasing, the threshold for how smart you need to be to keep up also increases. So people in general probably aren't getting stupider, but they're getting more and more overwhelmed, which looks the same.
The iPhone 5 does not do battery performance management.

If your phone has gone into performance management (to prevent crashing) you will see it in your Battery Health "Settings" panel. You can disable it there as well if you would rather crash than slow down.
If you are a builder of platforms then I agree. You are like me except building it for your own audience. In which case waypoint is quite useful for tying together a number of the pieces.
Both the words stupid and genius are vague and undefined yet you know them when you see them. For one , they make you feel genius or stupid, respectively
> There are exactly zero people who believe the earth is flat.

I don't think this is true. At any rate, if it is true, there are certainly a significant number of people who are giving an extraordinarily convincing imitation of believing that the Earth is flat. So convincing that it's hard not to allocate at least some probability to the hypothesis that they actually believe what they say they believe and aren't giving an imitation at all.
What are "IC"s?
This article was good, The author described it very well
Name-calling isn't ad hom.

Poster didn't say "they are con artists", they said "they are doing this and this, because they are con artists".

Your response was tu quoque mixed with ad hom: "oh yeah? Well the other guy is a bad person!"
I realize what protesters do is the only semi-peaceful way of delaing with police brutality. On the other hand, these people whose photos gets published often receive threats (and their families too). Basically the people publishing and distributing these images are responsible for what happens next. I understand Apple would prefer not to participate in this.