skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Direct access hems users in a static framework. Evolution is unfrequent and controlled by central and distant agents. Creativity is out of the user's hand.

> Time sharing, as it became popular, is a living organism in which any user, with various degrees of expertise, can create new objects, test them, and make them available to others, without administrative control and hassle. With the internet experience, this no longer need be substantiated.

This is why we need open computing, and this is why large entities often oppose it
The-scripts, a new GitHub repo
As a programmer, I've always been interested in the random and likely useless scripts people have built.

Stuff like a program that prints a coffee mug with changing steam or a Python script to print the price of Google stock.

And as such, I decided to make a GitHub repo to collect all of these in one place

Any and all contributions are more than welcome, the link is https://github.com/ThePotato10/the-scripts
> when assessments or a bonus depends on some field

Ugh, this reminds me of a mess I inadvertently participated in..

A certain employee, on an unrelated team to mine, decided to to go down the route of becoming an agile/scrum master/evangical and somehow got "reduce instances of X" as their personal KPI/development goal one year. Soon after this, they're pinging myself and other team leads on slack whenever X field is filled out on JIRA and demanding justification. Eventually because of this harassment I just stop filling out the field, leaving it as the default value and just verbally communicating the fact to whomever needed to know. Later on I find out that I wasn't the only one that took this route,And guess what happened next! The scrum master is promoted to a management position, in part due to their stellar KPIs! Excellent work all around!
Yep. It’s actually a pointer to the class instance for the object, which is a full object that contains more information than a typical vtable might, but it serves as a “type ID” that the runtime can use to dispatch on.
Again, this points to poor scoping, an imprecise language and a broken system. According to your assertion it's currently impossible for even professionals to know what should be considered in scope. This should be the trivial basis of a legal case, not the difficult and dubious extended research result of paid professionals.
I am late to this discussion. I worked remotely for a large tech company. My team environment became very toxic due to managers fighting, which lead to an environment of extreme paranoia.

I believe that transcripts of my Microsoft Teams calls were being read by my manager. I say this because he was not very clever about it and would often reference, in exact words I used, conversations I had in meetings he was not present in.

It happened enough that I began to pay attention to it.

This was the most frightening and upsetting experience of my entire career. Suspect this is the future for all of us - Every meeting transcripted, recorded and analyzed by AI.

It’s coming.
Next question: what can I do about this?
Okay. My belief is that their marketing is more indicative of their ethos than their tax planning though.
This is FUD, full control to handle the situation, to the extent of your knowledge is awesome.

When AWS goes dark, pray and go grab a coffee, there is nothing you can do.

Keep pressing refresh on aws status page.
Just my opinion, but I think Atlassian is a much more likely outcome.
> There is some discussion of other aspects of physics, but it tends to be limited to discussion. You need some degree of mathematical understanding in order for physics to have a meaningful impact.

What meaningful impact would, say, quantum chromodynamics have on the life of anyone other than a theoretical physicist? I don't see how more widespread education about these things would affect the field of physics itself, since any version taught to the masses would have to be extremely boiled down.
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination doesn't really get to the bottom of it, but it's a great book about the Kennedy assassination, and contains new information (including evidence that Oswald had a CIA handler in Mexico City.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-a-cruel-...
Mnuchin intends crypto wallet regs
Om Malik: On (not) leaving San Francisco
The video that was taken down and resulted in the strike was a claim that a guaranteed vaccine existed. It sounds like you would also disagree with that claim, and believe it to be misinformation, as YouTube did, in this case.
i don,t buy anything, as a practicing freegan, with few exceptions.

for gifts, i either craft them by hand, or i find something which makes me think of a person in my life, and then i gift it to them.
We got fed up with Salesforce's absusive behavior to smaller companies, or at least the behavior of the finance team we were assigned to, and left. We did an emergency Salesforcectomy in 30 days, switched to a new product, and honestly everyone who uses it is a lot happier. SF buying Slack worries me for the future of Slack.
We're Still Smarter Than Computers
Are people actually asking for these things? As in, en masse, and in general? Or is it a loud and frustrated few, suggesting that "people want this"?

I genuinely believe that there are a few people who have raised the above concerns, loudly, some other loud people have hopped on the bandwagon, and most people don't think about, nor care about, most of the things on this list.

Side nit:

On a fundamental level, "wanting a right" is an awkward fallacy, and this is border-lining a philosophical discussion. Like demanding a gift - it's no longer a gift if you demand it be given to you.

Is this punitive language necessary or helpful in any way? It comes off as super childish to me to word a request like this...
"If 0.1% of PCRs have mistakes that waste an hour of a doctor’s time, that’s 30,000 doctor-hours not spent on other patients."

There is a 0.0% chance that this happens (in my opinion as a paramedic). If I had to guess, 0.1% is probably the rough order of magnitude of the frequency with which doctors look at the PCR at all. We give a verbal report which covers the important details. I would be hard-pressed to come up with an error that could possibly waste an hour of someone's time.

"Did that quarter-second lag kill anyone? Was there someone who wouldn’t have died if the ePCR was just a little bit faster, fast enough to be usable? ... It could have saved the person the EMTs couldn’t get to because they lose an hour a week from extra PCR overhead."

Similarly, no. There is no situation in EMS where 250ms is the difference between life and death. It's not like the tones drop for a call and we say 'gee, I wish I could go help that person, but I still have this chart to write...'.

Performance absolutely matters (ironically, I'm a software developer for an EMR at my day job), but a little lag in an ePCR isn't going to kill anyone.
> (in a game England invented)

It seems that soccer was invented in China, not in England. [0]

[0]: https://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-soccer-footb...
this is why i hate the mobile web. its getting to the point i am seriously considering a text mode browser on my phone.
growlaw.net was online until very recently. There was no activity for a very long time. I used to visit that site regularly during the lawsuits, and waiting for SCO to go bankrupt.
I just took a cursory look at the Javascript source and looks like it's built without any view framework or even jQuery. Is this correct?

As a backend developer curious about such frontend development, could you write up on how to architecture large apps without a reactive view framework behind. Or, if a write-up like that exists, a pointer would also be great.
Isn't that argument put to bed by the fact that all of the BSDs still exist, are actively maintained including new features and are used by many individuals/corps in a diverse range of cases?
> navigating the complexities of dealing with different governments

That's how kids call "handing over all cloud customer data to FBI" these days?

Holy whitewashing batman, that's a lot of speculative mental gymnastics.

To put it simply you have no evidence that supports Apple here other than a "but perhaps the alternative was... whatever I just came up with" .

To paraphrase yourself in another comment: "that's intellectual dishonesty about Apple."

If Apple cared a single bit about privacy it would have encrypted customer data from the begining instead of planning to eventually do it one day only to give up uppon FBI request.
Sony thoroughly hack up their kernel for the PS4. They just don’t care about the cost of doing it again on a newer FreeBSD base.
Uh, no, bonuses and golden parachutes during a failing company go to execs when that happens. Middle and even upper management below the exec level rarely gets shit if the company is doing poorly.
Basic JavaScript: Golf Code
It’s not that the oldest hardware is moved there, it’s just that the oldest hardware was there to begin with. There are probably still first-generation EC2 instances running in us-east-1 on their original platforms.
My feedback is that you consider making your service accessible to nojs users.
It is a more efficient way to data analysis, SQL is just one way, Java is another way, and ObjectiveSQL, instead of using Java instead of SQL, let's forget about SQL
You use Chrome? Not judging (I use it too), but it was good to know given the pro-FF community here.
Or, the automobile, the industrial revolution, and a booming population through agriculture and medical improvements led to economic prosperity, despite a deadly plague.

It's a pretty hard case to make that a disease which disproportionately killed health 20-30 year-olds led to mass prosperity.

Given all the advancements which were happening in the early 20th century, I'm inclined to say that prosperity happened in SPITE of WWI and the Spanish Flu. Who knows where we would be, had we avoided two huge human catastrophes.
Great post - Your analysis is spot on financially, but I don’t think this is about growth. This is about further locking in customers and making sure that they aren’t crushed by Microsoft, Amazon, or Google. Microsoft is interesting because they’ve got a big alliance with them. But I’m sure they view Dynamics as a threat, and they’re own Chatter product is horrible. So all this is to say: this is strategic in their view, not about revenue.

Of course there is nothing SV companies seem to like to do more than bail each other out!
As a side note, South Korea was having fairly good success with it's UBI programs before the pandemic hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWv_1NbWyw
I was kind of nodding and agreeing with you but then I remembered a bunch of optimal code from back in those days that was very unwound and super large so it depended on the type of work being done. I guess one could say that purely algorithmic code tended to have size and speed correlated whereas code that was bottlenecked in memory read/write could benefit from being large. Cache wasn't having the big impact like today.
Tell them that's how it was done for decades and decades?

Plenty of successful software companies sell their software, instead of renting it.

Moreover, the billion dollar company I work for will not buy any software that requires a subscription, unless it's from Microsoft, Adobe, or another big name. If a program from Rando Joe's Softworks requires a subscription, the company will tell the employee to find another solution.
In the parent's suggestion, you still have immutable objects. "VerbalExpression()" is a valid regex, namely the empty one. Every subsequently called method concatenates some new regex onto the receiver and thus builds a new regex (since regular expressions are closed under concatenation).

Builders are used in Java* when you have an object which is invalid without passing in a bunch of parameters, but you don't want to have to remember the order of the parameters. But this is not one of these cases.

There is one drawback, however: you do have to compile the regex into a FSA at some point and it wouldn't be good to do that for every intermediate regex. So I assume that the compilation happens in the "build" step. They could have just called it "compile", though.

* named parameters in constructors seem a better alternative in every language that supports them, e.g. Kotlin
That's often done for producing a static performance and mix for distribution.

But when returning to a digital musical work months or years later, oftentimes the idea is to improve or otherwise rework it ... just as live bands do constantly. A non-working essential plug-in (filter, synth, VCO, whatever) might make that much more difficult.

One of the biggest headaches in computer music-making is how much time fighting the tech takes away from the creative process. Noone needs their OS to be adding to their distress. Let alone switching serial-port designs every few years (obsoleting trusted and often expensive equipment).
Even outside of weaponry, I see so many cool and innovative uses of lasers and optical technology these days. If I could redo everything, it’s certainly a field I’d consider.
Stepper motors and an active feedback loop most likely.
Typically also done by forcing some 'cloud sync' into it and then using that to justify the switch

Is this even needed on a Mac? Can't all Macintosh software just sync through iCloud, instead of relying on the developer's solution?

/ Serious question. I'm not a Mac software dev.
I was looking to build with this until I read this chain of comments. I feel worried about using it and I don't think I should use even simple well built tools if this is the case.
AWS Status website is down for me.

Is there a status website for AWS Status?
Higher abstraction -> less bugs. Forget low level, I beg you.
While not true of thousands of years, I'm (and I think most of the mathematical community) pretty confident all of the mathematics of the last 200 can be formalized. There isn't really much of a question of whether we can formalize modern informal, rigorous proofs. Indeed a benchmark of whether a proof is rigorous or not is whether there's a clear path towards formalization (similar to how we might use as an informal benchmark whether an algorithm is well-specified by whether we have a clear path to implementing it in a real programming language).

As such mechanizing mathematics into formal proofs has yet to meet any fundamental difficulties I'm aware of. The main thing is it's just a slog and few people are working on it because it's such a slog. It can usually take orders of magnitude more time to formalize a proof than to come up with its informal, but rigorous proof. But the process doesn't really require deep insights, at least not any more than translating an algorithm from a CS textbook or paper into real code. It mainly is just because there's reams and reams of tedium that can be encapsulated in a single "mutatis mutandis" or the like.

At this point Mizar has formalized essentially all of undergraduate mathematics and is gradually working its way into graduate mathematics. It's yet to meet any deep roadblocks and it's not anticipated to meet any.
My company will update their status but puts the most vague responses up. Reason is because we don’t want to appear inept when we crash the website. For example, because we ran out of disk space

Our competitors would have a field day with that
Suppose, hypothetically, that someone with malicious intent installed an advertising billboard, next to your home, that falsely accused you of having committed a horrific crime. Suppose, further, that you lost your job and your family because of the false allegations on that billboard. Would you work to get that billboard taken down or would you put up your own billboard to deny the allegations and call it a day?

Proving disinformation wrong does not make it go away and the answer to malicious speech is not more speech.
Twitch/Amazon is going through a bit of a midlife crisis with this too

They're cramming so many ads down the pipe I'm almost wondering if Bezos is cashing out
Ask HN: What do YOU call the little image when sharing links?
Link previews, social share, image cards... what do you call them?

Twitter, Facebook, even LinkedIn have different names for these rich previews. In building a brand around generating these I’d love to have some form of consistent messaging.

What does your circle call these? What do non-tech circles call them?
Ask HN: What challenges did you face when you quit graduate program?
I'm thinking with covid-19, the industry job market is not that good (I saw many layoffs in recent months). At the same time, academia could be a dead-end too. Many schools stopped hiring new professors this year, and I don't think things will get better at least for the next 4-5 years. Plus, there's so much pressure from inside academia that sucks the joy out of any course I take or any research project I take on. Just in my program, 4 people have quit in the last 4 years due to the amount of ridiculous workload and expectations (the qualifier exams being the major one). So I'm thinking about options outside academia, but the greatest fear I have is most skills I've learnt are useful for research and an academic career. Has anyone here experienced quitting from a graduate program? What challenges did you face and how did you overcome those?
Disclaimer: I'm the OP's big brother.

UX feedback: seeing this for the 1st time. Only took a few seconds to understand it and authn via twitter, and create my 1st blrb. The "edit" fn seemed unresponsive (at least before I tapped "save"). But it works, and I appreciate the focus on doing one simple thing.

The transcription was pretty good, just a few v minor errors.

I was quick to trust use of twitter for auth bc I know who you are, but was surprised at how frictionless it was -- did I really not see any disclaimers or opt-in / legalese at all?
Super fun. Mmhmm folks - some marketing tips: the entire landing page says nothing, provides no information. Then the abstract value prop but we have no idea what it is until we're many seconds into a video - even then it's not clear.

'What it is' needs to be clear very quickly or people won't go any further and 'Makes your Zoom calls fun' is not 'what it is'.

Finally, the video gets showcase pretty fast, with so much exemplary items, please just within 10 seconds explain what it is, give some basic examples.
What will happen is that people will just get poorer in general, than they would be without all this COVID mess.

Where I live we get 10x the gov. budget deficit than the previous year and the government is reducing and eliminating taxes at the same time. So the "taxes" will come in the form of reduced value of money, or taxes in the future. Level of taxation is pretty much equivalent to the level of government spending. There's, no way around it.

On top of that, general population's savings are being depleted. So yeah, future is bleak. Anyway, I hope the gov spending will get to sane levels soon.

It doesn't help that this is the global phenomenon, so economy/currency is not crashing as much compared to the surrounding countries. But there are still wild swings of ~10% or so compared to USD or EUR.
I enjoyed using Quiver (the note taking app) for a while, but switched to Windows for most of my professional work (at Microsoft). Now I just keep a folder called "Quiver" in my vscode workspace with my code snippets.
That's actually quite clever. I like it.

I can't figure out the puzzle's answer. Hopefully they'll post the solution someday.
> There is no situation in EMS where 250ms is the difference between life and death. It's not like the tones drop for a call and we say 'gee, I wish I could go help that person, but I still have this chart to write...'.

That wasn't how I read it. I may be incorrect, but my interpretation was that the 250ms didn't make the software too slow to be effective but rather too slow to be user friendly.

The idea isn't that it directly killed people by being slow, but rather that it was not adopted because people didn't like using it, and on the paper alternative, mistakes were made that would have been impossible to make on the computer.
I use taskwarrior and time warrior for keeping track of my tasks and the amount of time that I’m doing, and have task warrior set up so that it’s the first thing I see when I log into my home server.

I do use khal and sync it with my google calendar. I haven’t figured out multi-calendar sync just yet (work/personal/wife), but, it’s on my list.
As a side note, if you have the possibility to sort data before searching values in it then implement trie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie

This is the best for data with very few updates/modifications and a lot of queries. One example would be points of interest on a map, like restaurants on google maps. Not like those restaurants gets updated/modified every single day but you do have clients that while using your restaurant finder app they query a lot of them on a given radius around their GPS coordinates.

I had such a project in the past. My client acquired this data, around 3 billion points of interests residing in a PostgreSQL DB that was around 900 GB. While the server was beefed with 128GB RAM, was not nearly enough to have it all in memory and it had a responsiveness of several seconds, way too much for young impatient users and my client was seeing a decline in users. I reorganized data in PGSQL to fit a trie tree and now a query was solved in milliseconds. Accounting all other stuff on top, the app was now able to generate a response under a second. Trie ftw.
I couldn't read the article but as an aside, a charity is a non-profit but a non-profit isn't necessarily a charity.

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/how-nonprofit-hospital...

Data point: My father wanted to donate his house to the local hospital when he died. I told him I'd support whatever he wanted to do but I pointed out the the president of that hospital earned $1.8 million a year. (He changed his mind.)
"Gawain" is an example of the source material from which a survival guide could be inferred.
I have bad news for you all. This isn't just a phenomenon occurring in those far-off Asian countries...
>should not be upgraded

Most DAW-makers are constantly upgrading their software. And they often obsolete their older versions to get in sync with new OS's. 'Keeping the old stuff' sometimes isn't an option.

Physical instruments keep working for decades ... but thanks to OS upgrades, valued digital hardware and/or software instruments (say by Opcode or Native) can be lost to stupid or cavalier changes. Anyone who's been making 'professional music' for long has been bitten many times.
Everything you need to know is summed up in about three minutes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc

"Back, and to the left ..."
'Desires' taken out of context are also not very meaningful (e.g. "if money were no object.." type speculations). Cost, particularly relative to means, being a prime example of such context.
> Memory leaks are honestly not even a problem unless you have long running servers.

Firefox is a counterexample to this statement.

Rust appeared because experienced Firefox developers simply couldn't manage C memory manually, C memory with garbage collection, C++ memory manually, or C++ memory with garbage collection.
Playing it like this, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2X3wlvoShg

(for those who don't want to click: guy constructs horrible factory monstrosities and tests the limits of the game's physics)