skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Are you suggesting they can't?

I didn't say they would succeed, but that's not really the point. If people don't ask for this, no airline will implement it.

The airline industry has made customer segmentation an artform. They manage to charge hundreds of people different prices for the exact same service.

You don't think they can add a premium upgrade that lets you choose the aircraft type?

Get outta here.

Maybe that's what's wrong with the world. People aren't taught to ask for the things they want and just blindly accept the status quo.

Don't bother responding. The downvotes for my suggestion speaks for itself.

Sheople.
There is no way back to this kind of lock in. If anything, businesses expect the opposite: maximum ability to transparently move their load between various cloud providers and their own on-prem machines.

Perhaps specialized hardware (GPU) is different but not generic load.
I lived in the latino part of the brooklyn for a good time it was much better before the hipsters came I will always prefer that to what gentrification brings
I can agree, but what makes me doubt it is that "back in the day" (oh shit) we had lots of mainstream music that was different between themselves. we had the hiphoppers, we had the people that craved fast "whitney houston remix" level high energy dance stuff, we had the "hey i'm mean" rockers. all sharing the top charts.

if you take the medium bpm between the top 100 billboard tracks right now it must be somewhere between 69-80bpm and with the characteristics i mentioned above - and it's all a smear between "i'm depressed" and rhythm and blues.

i still can't quite confirm but yes, i am also getting old and cranky :)

but srsly, don't you feel music is just becoming a pasteurized smear of the 'same' ?
That's not how psychology of pain works.

I don't need to hold my hand in a fire to know not to touch fire again.

Giving someone pain/suffering to teach them a lesson is just abuse.
I mean, if pilots know they're there to test the MCAS changes then surely they'll be right on it anyway. So the whole "test" is sort of pointless isn't it?
Exposure to 835 MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity, autophagy and demyelination
Seems like people prefer to downvote rather than try to give a compelling answer to the question "is the literature on long term side effects of mRNA vaccines extensive".

If the argument towards this question is overwhelming, surely someone has made a lecture on it somewhere.
That was a fantastic read. It pretty much defined my standard for an engineering work ethic. There are other books he played a prominent role in that I enjoined.

Dungeons and Dreamers was a side by side story and contrast between Carmack and Id's path vs Richard Garriot and Origin Systems.

The History of the Future features a much older John Carmack at the top of the industry, joining Palmer Lucky and a team of young entrepreneurs to build Oculus and VR. The entrepreneurial and technical ride is at least as wild as the one in Masters of Doom.
December Core Update Analysis: Sorry Google, You Have a Spam Problem
For what it's worth, Spotify don't use mp3. They stream AAC for the Web player and Ogg Vorbis for the rest.
I think its more analogous to inspecting the biomedia to see what bacteria are growing there. As you know its important not to wash them with tap water, but you never really know whats growning there, unless it goes wrong and your nitrites spike.

You can buy sponges that have nitrate/nitrite removers in them, but they run out, and have to be replaced. Its far better to grow the bacteria to do that for you.

However its like starting a new tank from scratch, it takes at least a month before you can put even 1/4 the fish in. Its much the same with fields.
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Tile does this
It certainly didn't seem like it in the Balmer era. Today though? Officw 365, Azure AD, Microsoft (VS LOCAL) Accounts half forced on consumers indicate to me that times might be changing for MS.
Absolutely. The advantage is terseness of expression.

Less code means fewer bugs.
:) literally no reason other than curiosity and a strong will to get that yak shaved.

I don't hink X is dead for a while. There is a lot of reasons for application devs not to support sway unless a strong enough user-base from that camp justifies the effort. Consider also that some of the heavy lifting previously done by X is being offloaded to Sway.

My motivation to switch to it was because Sway claims that you can just drop in your .config/i3/config and sway will be compatible to it. (it's pretty close).

What I wanted was transparency (not via a clunky workaround like compton).
Also a system that takes less of my resources while in use to also roll it out on 10 or 15 year old machines I own. Sway delivers here and also has less issues with screen tearing than X with my card.

Literally everything I needed previously worked in Sway (often with different commands, e.g. wofi instead of rofi, or grim for screenshots, Waybar instead of Polybar, etc)

anything else like tmux, ssh-forwarding and all things in the terminal work perfectly.
No.

And, by the way, stop with the markdown README crazyness.

README files are supposed to be readable as plain text and hard-wrapped at 80 columns. I have found some "readme.md" monstrosities with github-specific markdown that were unreadable outside the github website. This is akin to presenting your readme file as a flash ainmation.
Murdoch has become the lefts version of George Soros
I guess what they could do is to sell concert tickets as named lottery tickets, that way :

- they can keep the price of an individual ticket relatively cheap

- fairness is preserved

- they probably would still get more money than now, while scalping would be basically infeasible
It’s a question of what “actually work” means, because if your purpose is getting your hands clean, you’ll be doing a very bad job.
Lol at ppl who think Java is dying.

You haven't lived until you've been serious with Java at some point imHo.
I agree there are some of the strongest-smelling chlorinated pools which seem no different than plain Clorox in the bottle, where we know there is no urine in the reference material.

On an ordinary chromatograph which has been dedicated to a degree for accurate analysis of chloramine, it will not be capable of detecting the amount of free chlorine gas in the same pool air sample.

The actual free chlorine would best be determined on different instrumentation, and correlated to the readings for chloramines to see if further trends can be revealed.

Whatever it takes to keep kids from playing in the toilet water and peeing in the pool.
In my opinion you are missing the point of parent's comment. It's possible to live by yourself without anyone. The question is the quality of that life. I've seen many, many, many people struggling with their daily problems to the point of suffering anxiety, depression and many other mental disorders and feel a lot of relief just by talking to someone else.

I agree with your point of being difficult to make friends the older you get but I for one, love to learn about others backgrounds and stories. If that lead to a new friendship I very much welcome it.
It’s readily apparent:

More efficient: using wasm has a necessary compilation or interpretation overheard. Seccomp doesn’t.

Simpler: wasm requires deploying running an entire wasm runtime, likely >= 50K LOC in additional complexity and attack surface. Seccomp uses a small 100 line shim.
More like the case of the Zoom employees are members of the Communism Party and decided to interfere to raise their profiles in the party. The alternative would be not taking action and be considered "enabling" the Tienanmen Square memorial to take place and obviously face punishment.
I have noticed this sleight of hand being used in a few different mRNA explainers. The two month window which has usually been sufficient to establish the safety of traditional vaccines isn't really applicable here, unless we have some reason to believe this new type of vaccine will present side effects and complications in the same way over the long term. But we don't have a good reason to believe anything about them in the long term because it has never been studied.
I’m not convinced this strategy can help create monopolies. If I can help create demand for my complement then that would make sense to boost my product but effectively creating a monopoly with my product is another matter.
Any graph can look conclusive if you play enough with it. That's why you need to add tables
I think at this point, it’s an unofficial HN tradition every time L-systems are mentioned, and I kind of love it.

(e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749806)
M5Paper ESP32 IoT development kit features a 4.7-inch e-Ink touchscreen display
> Google+ failed

Google itself has lots of (free) content. Search is a medium

While stirring content may exist (where is it?) , it rarely meets big tech (so it can be win-win for both)
Redundancy is sometimes good. When it comes to containing exploits, surely it's better to be safe than sorry.
Can the translation of GPLv3 project from Java to Dart be licensed MIT?
If this is a case of one party trying to throw more ads at the "user", and being miffed about earning less of the ad network tracking points than the other (meanwhile the ad networks win either way), then what are you defending?

Because in that case there is no good guy, no "other side", just garbage.

Stuffing the WWW with ad networks isn't exactly saving it.
Yes, the author was not just an ordinary student. I still consider this a fantastic improvement for two reasons:

> many opportunities ... out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers

> From there, a Bachelor’s degree typically requires an additional 3 years of study.

1) The author had a problem he wanted to fix; the traditional way required 3 years and lots of money; the alternative required only 3 months and less money.

2) If, hypothetically, there is an 18 years old genius who could accomplish this trick right after high school (maybe not in 3 months, but 6 or 12 months -- still faster and cheaper than the traditional way), they can, and this is how.
What we should do is turn readmes into readmes and not into documentation. Github-like readmes are awful for that purpose. They have no TOC, heading styles are often misleading after two levels, and there is no indenting that could help. For contrast, GTK documentation is great, and so are G docs in general. It usually has toc, intro, description, examples and then detailed and cross-referenced “what you pass and what you get back, and how errors are structured” and formatting to grasp it quickly. Compared to that, usual github docs are just unreadable crap with a little knowledge spread on paragraphs of spoken text.

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkWindow.html
Why have restaurant reviews become smackdowns?
Using Visual Studio Code in Google Colab
Browser Makers Ban Kazakhstan HTTPS Certificate Used to Surveil Citizens
https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-mt-jade.html

They've only got the 2U and no SATA, but that page prices up the rest of your specs.

You can run CentOS, Ubuntu, ZFS and Gluster.
Opera's features went on to inspire other browsers...
What happens when your domain registrar closes down business and goes bankrupt
It's not an either/or. Most likely Shopify runs WASM inside an seccomp enclosure. Possibly inside a VM as well. Defense in depth.
From a quick look at what's been published so far, they appear to be very effective if they have a high enough adoption rate and if people self quarantine after contact.

This is ancedotal, but the benefit of having a live person, working in an official capacity, doing the contact tracing, is that it gives definitive weight to the decision to quarantine and get tested.
> My friend told me at their company they'd commonly convene the "variable naming committee" for such occasions, and I can't help but think of it every time I find myself in the same place.

You better call it the bike shedding committee. I don't see how that saves time over, say, just let anyone working on that code who really dislikes to propose their change in a next merge request.
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In my experience, and that of my colleagues within a UK institution, also in computer science, the university does indeed take it seriously. We've had external auditors come in and ultimately do nothing.

The problem is that the university is setup to protect itself when such reports are made, so rarely is anyone fired or such. It's a much worse situation for the student than academic.
Running untrusted code in a wasm vm doesn’t add any extra defense over just using seccomp. It just adds unnecessary overhead and increases attack surface.
Are We on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
It's really interesting how people with theoretical knowledge of what the placebo effect is can still refuse to believe in it in practice. From my experience, I think a lot of doctors don't really believe in these effects.
I’ve often thought about this in two areas:

- “full stack development” attempts to commoditize software engineering within a firm, so that complements (product management, designers, political managers) are seen as having more value.

- various cloud vendors trying (so far mostly failing) to make software ecosystems commodities so that renting hardware from them to run the software can extract higher rents. Things like open sourcing Tensorflow & Keras, then turning around and selling a bunch of ML optimized GCP products - commoditize the specialist ML software labor, which is the complement to the cloud vendors offerings.

Software engineers really have to watch out for these situations and walk away from places trying to treat them as a commodity.
* Predictable performance.

* A wide ecosystem of mature language toolchains.

* Simplicity: JS implementation contain sophisticated JITs, which are harder to prove correct compared to a simple ASM translator.

* Portability: not tied to a specific HW architecture.
Can't say anything about the state of the tech right now, maybe they've screwed it up, but I remember back when I used it ~15 years ago it went on these very long escapades and very rarely repeated songs...

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing collapsed under the weight of some stupid policy of the rightholders (eg, make sure it plays Taylor Swift every 5 songs, or else!) or some other commercial consideration.
Where I live (NYC), everyone I know has been knocked out for routine wisdom teeth surgery.
This is just tip of ice burg. I aware of more advanced tricks involve no browser at all.
>Music discovery is easy, relying on a streaming service for discovery is lazy. What's hard is commitment. Taking time to explore the back catalogue of artists you like and taking the time to get to know music.

That is only true if you only use the Radio feature and never notice the suggested artists. Otherwise everything you listed is literally easier than it has ever been.

If you want to complain that other people are doing things wrong, then please stop. You have no control over other people.
Funnybot would be so proud
It's not regular US corporate policy to operate at the behest of the Chinese government.
When DevSecOps goes wrong: a short lesson from Huawei's source code
No, I am not saying that at all here.

Given his complicity in Mr. Epstein's heinous crimes against humanity, Mr. Nowak now needs to start following a little of his own advice: donate all future research results to the world "anonymously" to avoid forcing victims of sexual assault to have to relive their traumas from the mere mention of this child rapist enabler's name or the sight of his lying face.

Is that clearer now?
> Maybe my experience of vitiated friendships has had to do with being an only child

Probably true. Having siblings teaches people how to enjoy their peers. There 's a social imperative to have friends, but in the end it's about our reward systems. Friends are to be enjoyed, if not, then it s OK not to have any
"Consuming" always irritates me. We don't read written works or watch videos, we consume content.
Except when it's the government.
I would guess that depends on how complicated the entire thing is, if they have ten possible solutions and get told to try the one that works first would certainly improve reaction times.

However, that to me points to the larger problem, that "Boeing officials," whoever that group may entail precisely, treat the 737 Max safety as a test that needs to be passed, instead of a safety problem, that would require best effort.
I think it’s better to say it creates an oligopoly among the few strong competitors at the chokepoint non-commodity layer.

Various smartphone developers made app ecosystems into commodities, so those developers have a very, very large market share of all smartphone taken together.

But I do agree that this strategy doesn’t, on its own, create a monopoly for one member of the chokepoint layer vs another. It helps by allowing businesses in the chokepoint layer to be price-neutral to other layers above or below them that are commodities (those layers face so much price competition that they have no negotiating power on the other layers) and focus on monopoly strategies against other competitors in the same layer, free of concern about needing to compromise with other layers.
Judging by the (rather shallow) knowledge I gained from this thread, it seems AGPL is more suited for FOSS projects that intend to sell as a standalone package like Plausible, rather than some add on to some Corporates codebase. In that regard, it seems like a fitting license in this case.

Then again, I don't really know much about the OSS landscape.
Mojeek is the only horiziontal search engine with it's own crawler/index and which does not track you. Disclosure: I work at Mojeek.

https://www.mojeek.com/
https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a...

Other search engines mentioned here, and many more, are primarily syndication partners of Bing (mostly), Google or Yandex.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/
I've always been one that straddles this line. I enjoy the company of others, but only a few at a time. More than 2-3 people and it's more stressful than fun, and I either avoid it or check out and sit in a corner.

Articles like these do not understand people like me. They make the common mistake of assuming that everyone is the same as them, deep down inside. They are not. Some people are extroverts, and some are introverts, and most are somewhere in-between.
It's doable once you're out of pure experimentation and into the development phase at which test driven development can help.

Test that this ETL function expects a DataFrame with a given schema and returns one with a different (but also known) schema, even with all these edge cases in the filters and group-bys.

Test that the "train_classifier" method/function rejects negative penalisation parameters, returns an object of type X (a trained sklearn object say, or dictionary of weights that can be deserialised), fails loudly if you don't have enough samples from category Y etc.

Test that the predict method returns a probability as a float, a predicted class as an int, a DataFrame with metadata and headers, etc etc.
Unfortunately this is true for a lot of professional certifications. The goal is too often not really to teach anything but protect the company from liability.
Well, I've just profiled the incremental compilation of a 4.8k lines Rust project (using the `self-profile` option); top three offenders:

- LLVM_module_codegen_emit_obj: 47% of the time
- LLVM_passes: 16%
- codegen_module: 15%

Sample of Rust-specific passes:

- MIR_borrow_checking: 0.2%
- resolve_lifetimes: 0.0%

The two passes above are arbitrarily picked, but anything other than the top three takes cumulatively 22% of the time.

Based on this, the Rust IR generation and LLVM are the bottleneck. I'd be interested in the opinion of somebody knowledgeable, since there may be non-obvious mistakes in the above reasoning.
Perhaps you can recommend some movies and shows then? I'd really appreciate it. Aside from Ex Machina and a few choice others like Moon and Black Mirror, I really haven't found any recent intellectual films or shows.
They weren't even testing MCAS changes here.

They were testing if the original assumption that went into the original design of MCAS was correct. The assumptions that pilots would be able to react to a failure correctly within 10 seconds.

Basically, Boeing was trying to cover their ass.
I thought that frmi worked over seconds.... Yet the activity in the brain that creates elements of consciousness may work on 100ths of seconds.
But isn’t that how models are trained anyway? The training data provides the “test cases”. How would you write a test that doesn’t fit that paradigm?
FDA Authorizes Moderna Vaccine, Adding Millions of Doses to U.S. Supply
The only problem is that's hard to speak. Also, what's DDD?
Too many eggs in one basket? Why were so many US agencies all using the Orion software by Solarwinds?
Good thing I updated my employers systems yesterday. Love the Death Star metaphor!
Around 2 years ago in S3 there was an interesting quote issue - official documentation stated quotas per S3 prefix (kind of like folder path), but in practice it turned out only first 20+ characters of a prefix were taken into account for quotas, so our burst computations loading thousands of objects were mostly timing out. We had to add random prefixes at the beginning just to get around that. AWS updated their quota management to per-full-prefix, finally though.
The Cyberpunk 2077 FUBAR is not a tech problem as much as it’s a management problem. Tech can only compensate a bad employer this much.
Over time, regulatory bodies become populated by 'retirees' from upper management and directorship of the subject they once regulated. The google-able term for this is 'Regulatory Capture'.
I wonder if in the AR age this decade might end up being defined as, LIDAR will become the de facto outward-mapping tool to preserve some semblance of privacy while still capturing enough to make it viable and valuable?
If that was seriously intended as an analogy, it is at best comparing apples to apple tree fertilizer.

One can be appreciated by anyone for its own sake, answering fundamental human needs; the other can only be used by certain qualified technicians.

100% of people who heard my song in background of John Streamer’s Minecraft speedrun are capable of enjoying music for its own sake. (In fact, they may be more likely to listen to my song again and again than rewatch his speedrun. I have gained up to as many new listeners as John has had viewers.)

0% of people who used the app Kyle McDeveloper built on top of my web framework are capable of enjoying a web framework for its own sake. (In fact, 0% of humans are, and only a rounding error would know what it even is. I have not gained anything, so if Kyle is profiting off this I’d rather prefer if he sponsored me on GitHub.)
Ask HN: How is Kotlin for the back end compared to Java?
Hi all, has anyone been using Kotlin for the backend and how do they feel about it compared to Java?

Any sharp edges or issues with scaling projects up with more members? Is it worth the switch from Java with its much more modern syntax and pragmatic helpers?

Will Java eventually catch up? As Project Loom seems to be the superior approach to concurrency compared to co-routines that Kotlin has went with.