skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its very frustrating trying to battle the people who

a) have never used an arm laptop
b) think legacy apps run well
c) think benchmarks are cool

its beyond impossible to dissuade someone from making the mistake of buying apples first gen chromebook without properly researching what they did to neuter macos to accomplish this.

basically every other reply here is too busy not realising A and singing praises to C
Death by a thousand small inefficiencies, quirks and bugs...

It's such a shame, because fixing most of these small bugs is far less work than building new features. Nobody wants to put the work in though... Nobody has the overarching vision of a consistent UX that just works out of the box without oddities, quirks and workarounds.
Sounds like there is already a working patch on GitHub, but it's not been reviewed because an MR wasn't opened on GitLab?
So your company cautiously chooses which services in AWS to use, and sticks to infrastructure offerings for now. Netflix called it "paved path", and it worked really well too for Netflix. Over the years, though, the "paved path" expanded and extended to more services. It's worth noting that EC2 alone is a huge productivity booster, bar none. Nothing beats setting up a cluster of machines, with a few clicks, that auto scales per dynamic scaling policies. In contrast, Uber couldn't do this for at least 5 years, and their docker-based cluster system is a crippled for not supporting the damn persistent volumes. God knows how much productivity was lost because of the bogus reasons Uber had for not going to cloud.
Did they correct for economic class? It's well known economic class correlates with health.
Yea, Apple has great build quality. I have a 2013 HP Envy 17 that's also survived because of the ability to replace (keyboard, battery 2x, SSD). Its chassis has unfortunately started collapsing, but I want to fix it and donate it to a relative.

I hope these newer Macs that have everything soldered together, at least last 4-5 years. I'm going to try get a Mac as my next work device, maybe 2 years from now, so my wife can use my current one in future.
Not your parent, but this is a good starting point: https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar...
>""SV-like" companies think of software engineers as the people best suited to solve the problems that the organization has. They hire not only for technical skills but communication and problem-solving ability. Their thinking is a bit more like this:

Software engineers are among the highest-paid people in our company.

This is because they can bring some of the highest leverage through coding and problem solving.

We want to expose them to the business, so while they are doing their "normal" work, they can also find more impactful opportunities for the business."
I like how much thought went behind this post. I think it can be very useful to anyone looking to start in the kitchen.

However, it really doesn’t resonate with me. I was hoping to get some extra tips for min/maxing my kitchen time or some tasty slow cooker recipes. Perhaps a recipe for a macro and micro nutrient rich smoothie with minimal ingredients.
Since the day rate varies wildy I wouldn't say that you can't compete if you stay in the public system but your baseline cost will be 5-7% higher than someone who switched to private. Also private insurance is typically considered "better", at least wait times are often reduced.

All of this being said I think the German private/public hybrid is pretty bad. Sure, they make it harder to go back to public when you get older but you can always accept a part-time job for a while and be "forced" to buy public.
Master of web puppets: abusing browsers for persistent and stealthy computation
Ferrum: An actor-based programming language
Perspectives are important and so is a humble study of history as way to understand human nature. We are so in love with your technological prowess that we forget it all sits on top of wetware that is very close to what it was 10000 years ago. Recognizing we are driven largely by instinct, some of which we can inhibit some we cannot, would help all of understand what works and what does not in a human society.
These user complaints are 100% legit...

But we need some good funding model to pay someone to fix them. Good funding models are something the opensource world has been missing for a while...
Other hosts exist. But Apple shouldn't be allowed to prevent sideloading which makes the app store no longer a monopoly.
Cooking anything acidic will strip all of the seasoning right off. I can easily keep a seasoning on my carbon steel woks, but it’ll vanish if I cook one Pad Thai. For my cast iron I can keep it there until I want to cook anything with tomatoes.
no desktop, no system tray icons.. gnome is a joke
You're arbitrarily discounting alternatives to fit your narrative. If you think that ACH or Amex is less accessible then that's no different than other networks not having the same scale or distribution as Twitter and Apple. Why is it ok for some but not others when they all technically have alternatives?

Anyways my greater point is that illegal actions should be forwarded to the appropriate state department which can investigate and prosecute with appropriate authority and accountability. Private companies are setting a dangerous precedent, especially as they gain superior scale and then collude at multiple layers against the same organization.
* VS Code is open source.

* Microsoft's Python language server (used by multiple closed-source products) isn't.

* The language server is compatible with VS Code.

* Microsoft is providing a free licence to the language server.

* Now people complain that it's not open source any more, because they provided a free licence to something compatible that is closed source.

So we can have a code base, not change any of the code or licence terms, and in the action of giving people a free licence for a compatible product, somehow the first code base is not open source anymore!

So according to your logic, a code base can remain static, with the same licence terms, and suddenly it's not open source anymore!

This is what OP means. They provide significant amounts of code into to Open Source, then provide a free licence to something closed source, and people call them fake and selfish unless they provide more stuff for free.
This isn't going to work.

1) There is an incredible amount of legitimacy and transparency in the system already.

Your linux analogy simply doesn't apply.

There are tons of 'eyes on the system', there are literally election observers. The rules are decided ahead of time etc..

With the 'Dominion' system there is literally a paper record of each ballot - there were recounts that validated the electronic counts perfectly.

The 'voting and ballot' part of the election is very secure, and there's no way to systematically defeat it.

2) If there is an issue with the elections, it's related to 'who can vote'. States are in a constant war over this, the rules over 'how to purge voter roles' (look into recent Georgia rulings). Those things, are today 'grey areas' not well defined by anyone so it means conflict.

3) "And it's blatantly obvious that we don't. "

Just the opposite, it's blatantly obvious that the elections are in fact secure - you've provided zero evidence to suggest otherwise.

But you're missing the issue - the perception of election of integrity has nothing to do with election integrity.

This has nothing to do with the facts.

This has to do with whatever Trump tells people (i.e. Cargo Cult).

If Trump had won the election, there would be zero concern over election integrity because it's entirely derided from his populist narrative.

The elections are as secure as they were in 2016 and 2012 - and there wasn't some big uproar over 'ballot counting' then, was there?

Why not?

Because 'some populist figure' wasn't screaming 'Fraud' 'Fraud' 'Fraud'.

And even if the election were 'mathematically secure' it still would not matter because this has nothing to do with reality, it has to do with narrative.

A populist figure will say 'The Election Was Stolen' - and his Cargo Cult followers will believe him, irrespective of the facts.
It does make Signal's own ads more expensive.

I miss the old Google layout where it was crystal clear what is an ad. Nowadays, you can't even blame normal people that they don't notice the tiny "Ad"
Yeah, fair enough. I'm just worried about these kinds of statements going unchallenged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
What? I have municipal water.
The best way to tell if a company values engineers is to ask which cost center they are in.

Is it IT? Then they will treat you like a cog and consider you just a cost to the company. Is it Product? Then they will consider you valuable and critical to the company's success.
One way would be to make the closed-source server speak mostly-but-not-quite-the-same protocol.
I'm from the UK so I don't have any skin in this particular game, but what would you do if you held an opinion that Twitter decided was pernicious enough to ban you?
Sure:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics/2020/09/kareem-ca...

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/08/2-plus-2-never-equals-5/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-...

https://arcdigital.media/mathgate-or-the-battle-of-two-plus-...

These are good summaries, they should have links to some of the relevant tweets.
Great point! If anyone is curious about how to write an “empty” loop that is not compiled away, I've seen this common implementation that doesn’t even need the standard library:

loop {

core::sync::atomic::compiler_fence(
core::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst);

}
I'm not a developer but I was using Pycharm (community edition, already free) and switched because I found it better for webdev, particularly the plugin ecosystem had useful components. Other apps do to, but I think vscode has gained a lot of development in the ecosystem because of the FOSS dressing it adopted. I think it's it has been closed source, paid for, then it wouldn't have garnered that attention and instead other OS projects would have gained more attention. So I don't think it's fair to say it's just about free-gratis status.

Vscode kinda brought me back towards MS, or at least closer to them. Once I'd started using it on Linux (Kubuntu) then trying Win10 again was less of a leap.

I've not bought in to the New Friendlier Microsoft, but the hope was growing.
One could have said that about electricians a century ago. "Men and Volts", a history of the first 50 years of the General Electric Company, makes that clear.
Any magnet close to your pacemaker or other implant will stop it. That's how they're supposed to (not) work.
Maybe somebody here can help me understand what I saw a couple of years ago.

Basically, I saw what appeared to be two satellites on a collision course. One was bright and travelling across my FOV from left to right fairly slowly. Then another much dimmer and faster light appeared in the right of my FOV and appeared to be on a collision course.

At the moment of apparent collision (from my POV) they appeared to very rapidly orbit around each other some number of times, before continuing on their original course. I believe the dim one was moving more slowly than before, but I am unsure.

This happened around July of 2018 I believe. From lat,lon of about 49.25,-123.12 looking south at the night sky at about 45°.

My best guess is it was an optical illusion, the two satellites were at different altitude and only appeared to be on a collision course from my point of view. Some sort of lensing effect? I don't know.
I appreciate your sense of humor
Possibly of interest to those who loved the music in the game... A Junebug album: https://junebug.bandcamp.com

(I've hard it in my playlist since discovering it exists.)
My ex husband was career military. At some point while he was in the military, they changed the fitness requirement for younger members but not for him and this really pissed him off. They told him "You have been working out your whole life. You are in the best shape of your life." but after a workout or PT test, he was really winded and needed substantial recovery time that the young guys did not need. They were fine within minutes.

The change was really rooted in the fact that younger people coming in were less fit. Young people used to take summer construction jobs and from what I gather that no longer happens anywhere near as much as it used to, which leaves the construction industry struggling to fill those jobs.

Kids used to run and play outside and now they play video games at the TV or the computer and hardly leave the house compared to when I was growing up. And there are just a whole lot of factors there.

My father grew up on a farm, though my father was born in the 1920s. I grew up with a garden out back and we used to go on public lands and pick blue berries in summer and part of the meat on our table was squirrel and deer meat that my father hunted (or, one year, a friend of his gifted us half a buck to fill our freezer).

I grew up in the 'burbs. I am sure there are still people who hunt and gather as part of their way of life, but I mostly hear this about Native Americans, especially in Alaska which is relatively undeveloped. There seems to be a lot less of that sort of thing for people in cities or suburbs, but I have no actual data on that. That's just an impression and I don't know how much that impression is skewed by personal experience, which doesn't always align with aggregate statistics.

But I'm quite clear we generally have less physical jobs/lives overall and more citified lives overall than when I was growing up.

I'm sure that's a big factor, but I also think there are myriad other factors that get short shrift and we mostly don't bother to discuss them. As just one example: Urban planners used to take fitness into consideration when planning cities and my understanding is this is mostly a thing of the past.
There is no manipulation. You offer better choices to people than they currently have, such as access to good education and tools they are free to use to manage their personal life (e.g condoms). As a side-effect it is expected that the number of birth per woman will reduce over time.

People are free to use or not birth controls if they want or not children, same for the education. People aren't tricked in reducing the amount of children they have. Data in developed countries seems to point that when people are better educated and have the tools to decide for children, they get them later in life and in less quantity (without considering other factors, such as religious communities that have more children per woman than average).
He IS actually offering a bounty, though..
> Your IP Address in Germany is Blocked from www.gutenberg.org

Of course, copyright trolls :)

Workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20180911045657/https://www.guten...

(Welcome to 2021, the year Silicon Valley went Catholic...)
Hosting WebAssembly in Swift
"We read, it is true, that wine is by no means a drink for monks; but since the monks of our day cannot be persuaded of this, let us at least agree to drink sparingly and not to satiety, because 'wine makes even the wise fall away.'"

I'm a Catholic, and this is the rule that amuses me the most.

The monks were willing to give up most material possessions and submit to a life of poverty, obedience, and sexual abstinence... but the one thing they couldn't be persuaded to give up was the hooch.
This brings up a great point about GNOME. GNOME appears to try to emulate macOS at times, but tends to try to oversimplify and paradoxically be quite user-unfriendly.
@realdonaldtrump can install it on Hilary's mail servers
Agree that's the true minimum viable set, and you can cook a lot of things with just that. But I think if a novice cook was trying to work through the cookbooks I recommended, they would find it frustrating not to have some of the other stuff I recommend. My "minimum viable" is sort of "your lack of X won't be a substantially annoying obstacle from completing most of the recipes in these essential books"
> The optionality of being cloud agnostic comes with a huge cost, both because of all the pieces you have to build+operate

This sounds like cloud vendor kool aid to me. Nearly every cloud vendor product above the infrastructure layer is a version of something that exists already in the world. When you outsource management of that to your cloud vendor you might lose 50% of the need to operationally manage that product but about 50% of it is irreducible. You still need internal competence in understanding that infrastructure and one way or another you're going to develop it over time. But if its your cloud vendor's proprietary stack then you are investing all your internal learning into non-transferrable skills instead of ones that can be generalised.
Yes, it was clear security was needed. But this wasn't any of those groups.
I run 1mi/day on average, i.e. 365mi/y. Right now I typically run 5mi/time but when I started it was much less.

I started when Mark Zuckerberg did his challenge 3y ago and have been doing it since. To be fair, last year I couldn’t run 366mi due to covid, but the habit/training didn’t change.
> Watching a movie? Is the movie good enough you want to give up 2 hours billable?

Lie?
I was expecting writing serverless to be a mess of writing configuration, but I've really enjoyed writing CDK for cloudformation. It's super unclear how you're supposed to write good cdk code, but I feel like I'm a lot clearer on what infrastructure I'm actually using than before, where I was relying on stuff set up by someone else ages ago with minimal to no documentation
I'm trying to find out how much faster than a typical PCIe4 nvme SSD, which I have on my desktop. I'm not finding anything useful. Do you haave an idea?
What I find more interesting than the rules themselves is in which ways were they broken. With any system of rules (and the more complex the better), there are bound to be omissions or conflicts which result in gray areas or loop holes.

While some monasteries were strict regardless, others pushed the boundaries. Relating to "CHAPTER 39 On the Measure of Food" for example, monk's meals were supposed to "have two cooked dishes". On the other hand, monks could accept gifts from the abbot "And it shall be in the Abbot’s power to decide to whom it shall be given". Naturally in some refectories, the abbot would receive dishes which he would then direct to other tables thus skirting the two dishes rule.

If you're interested in this and more, Max Miller's Medieval Rule Breakers[1] episode has many more examples

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0y1d6IIpY

Edit: It seems as selimthegrim has beaten me to the punch with the link
> Selecting only a specific set of events in specific areas is, by definition, cherry picking data.

You used the same phrase elsewhere in the thread. I am not sure if we agree on what "cherry picking" really means. There is a difference between isolating relevant variables and cherry picking data. For example, if you wanted to track the long term trend of lion weight in Africa, you wouldn't also include in your dataset the weights of monkeys in South America. That'd just add irrelevant noise because, even though they are measurements of animal weight, they are not what we are studying. It absolutely would not be "cherry picking" to exclude monkeys from your sample. Real cherry picking would be things like excluding particular years of measurements or finding other reasons to exclude data that goes against a trend you are looking for.
Experience is absolutely the right way to describe KRZ. I feel like it shares a lot of the same DNA as Visual Novel style games too. I just finished Snatcher for the first time, and got similar “feelings” while playing and reading through it all.
> give a few trusted people your phone number if they absolutely must reach you

My last team sent me a desktop IP phone they could call me whenever. I should have realized then it wasn't a great fit. heh.
Ask HN: Solar Powered Multimeter/Voltmeter?
I program embedded circuits, often using a multi-meter to verify functionality. Almost every multi-meter has an frustrating "beep after X minutes" when it's on. It's become a pet peeve! Are there any solar powered voltmeters out there? I want it to just always have power.

I know solar panels + indoor lighting don't work too well together. A second best would be one with a nice lithium rechargeable and adjustable "shut off period".
Show HN: CLI Heaviside text processing tool
For most of human history our main problems have been related to scarcity. Now our problems are problems of abundance.
Show HN: Build a wall of testimonials with videos/tweets/text. Here is mine
And nobody here is arguing "LSP is bad". They're instead criticising the duplicity of proposing and promulgating an open "standard" that LSP is supposed to be, and then breaking that practice.
> And what's that got to do with Trump constantly lying and falsely claiming that the election was somehow "rigged"?

There's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise, so I am going to skip over this.

> He's not making America great, he's making it worse. He's trying as hard as he can to turn America into a banana republic.

I thought "America was never great." Whoops!

> In the time since this article on disinformation was written Trump has incited a mob to invade the Capitol Building, again based on his false claims that the election was "stolen".

Trump didn't incite them, they were already incited. You are being willfully ignorant if you think otherwise.

To me, this looks like a lot of people who are angry at the congress critters over the lockdowns, the hypocrisy of those who impose them not following their own rules, burning cities for months, and overall disenfranchisement.

Do you think these people would go to the capitol building for something like that if they felt like the system was working for them? I don't. The system no longer works, people feel disenfranchised on both sides, the regime went too far and became too oppressive. The public struck back.

If you have a conscious, the only people you would blame for the events of 2020 are the politicians at the federal, state and local levels, and not their disenfranchised constituents.

I keep saying this over and over again and for some reason people on here don't get it. Quit blaming powerless citizens!
Why settle for scrum lord when you could be scrum king? Scrum emperor? One day even scrum Pope?
not sure you're going far enough there. Obviously we need a scrum king to guide our scrum lords as they help our scrum masters transform our organization.
You are right that sometimes people use much more sophisticated algorithms than are really required to solve a problem. My experience is that the simplest approach is often the best one in the long term. There are actually deep connections between problems in control theory and the topics in this book (e.g., LQR control), though these different communities often use different notation. The focus of the book is more on higher-level decision making, but the execution of the decisions---such as motor commands to an actuator---are often best done through PID or some other method that can be found in a control theory textbook.
You could also look at the concerted and organized shut-down of Tulsi Gabbard.
This is why you should always avoid every giant "do everything" framework. Use libraries that are small, focused, and do their one job well enough right now. Then it doesn't matter if it stops being maintained: it still keeps doing its job well. If you do have to replace it, it's much easier, because it doesn't do too much. Vue, Angular, React -- all of them are "build your application around our framework" libraries, not "easily incorporate our library into your workflow" libraries. That is enough for me to immediately reject all of them.
Indeed. Unbelievable omission for a project that touts simplicity and usability above else.