skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose because the cost to reach you is greatly increased, meaning the cost to exercise authority is greatly increased, so actual authority is greatly deceased.

Right now the cost for the government to send their agents to "the mountains" is trivial, the most remote you could possibly get is "a few hours commute and a helicopter ride". The government is more than willing to pay that price in important cases.

I think they imagine that space travel can increase that price to "months or years" and "expensive vehicles that support people during that time". Rather like how much it would have cost to send government agents to remote places hundreds of years ago.

(Personally I'm not particularly convinced, the number of habitable rocks in the solar system is small. Living not on a rock means you need to import resources. Maybe if we get interstellar travel).
The problem is - I'd trust french people, but not belarus/russia. As their quality sign - check out the cars they produce...
It was about 4 or 5 years ago, when I was in grad school.

The main problem I had with it is that it kept crashing or failing for misterious reason and it just printed out some obscure French error message (which I was forced to pass through Google Translate, since nobody in the whole class could speak French). This only happened for the most obscure errors, while the more common and easy to spot ones (logical errors, typos...) were well documented in English.

Also a lot of useful parts of the manual (and the community posts around it) were written in French.

I don't think it's really inferior to other tools, but the bad documentation and tendency to crash (which I hope had been fixed by now, TBH) got on my nerves.
Great read, thanks for sharing. It's always interesting to find out how AI is impacting occupations outside the technology sector.
From the opinion:

> The UMB Complaint was the culmination of a bitter dispute between Revlon and Citibank, on the one hand, and a group of Lenders holding a large interest in the 2016 Term Loan, led by or including most Defendants here, on the other. The group of Lenders alleged that, in the May 2020 Transaction, Citibank and Revlon had improperly manipulated the voting provisions of the 2016 Loan Agreement to gain approval of an amendment that permitted Revlon to strip collateral backing the loans.

> ...

> In that heated context, it was reasonable for the Lenders to believe — and several did believe — that Revlon and Citibank, perhaps with the help of Perelman and MacAndrews & Forbes, had figured out a creative way to pay down either enough of the Lenders to prevent them from filing the UMB Bank lawsuit or the 2016 Term Loan altogether.
Robinhood testimony
Congresswoman: <question> I need a yes or no

Company person: <canned statement>

Congresswoman: I need a yes or no

Company person: <continues canned statement>

Congresswoman: I do not have time for this, I need a yes or no

Company person: <continues a canned statement>

Congresswoman: The gentlemen will be denied further comment (or something like this)

The interaction was like watching NPCs
Just because we’ve never had a military coup isn’t a very high bar to gauge our system of checks and balances

American exceptionalism intrinsically relies on comparing itself to the worst countries in the world and being ignorant of other developed nations.
Reminded me of this, hilarious! https://www.thegunwriter.com/13693/ak-vs-ar-vs-mosin-nagant/
As was mentioned in the article, Citibank has a "six-eyes" policy. They had three people review and approve this transaction. They were all confused by the interface.

(I am not sure what this policy means if one of the three people has lost an eye; presumably it requires a fourth approval.)
Breaking the 2nm Chip Barrier
Is it really a deep craving, or even a real choice? I am working on an indie game. I really don’t want to play the social media game, I don’t even have Twitter or Facebook. Yet, I’m spending today researching how to make a YouTube channel and how to gain followers. Indie games just almost never sell unless you build an audience before release. Don’t assume everyone does this out of vanity or enjoys the idea of being talked about online
Vibreoffice: Vim Mode for LibreOffice/OpenOffice with Calc and Writer Support
You're going to see a lot of Rust, because by and large the programs ISRG and Google are talking about remain in memory-unsafe languages because they have constituencies where dynamic-runtime memory-safe languages are problematic. That's why security people are so excited about Rust: it's hard to come up with modern settings where Rust is unworkable, unlike Go (a language I prefer to Rust), which, for instance, isn't a good fit for the Linux kernel or for the guts of Chromium.
In so far as I can tell Pubnub does not do A/V streaming. Instead they partner with others such as Vonage and Agora: https://www.agora.io/en/blog/agora-and-pubnub-collaborate-to.... They're quite explicit here: https://www.pubnub.com/developers/demos/webrtc/
Not just that, you have to define the independent units. A 1 in 35M event is crazy over 35M days. It's less crazy over 35M trades. Without knowing which it is, 1 in 35M doesn't say anything.
What kinds of tax breaks are available for the case of using consultants instead of employees?
Absolutely no scruples to be found at FB. I’d never take a check from them.
Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1
> - They are loud

That really depends. This one seems pretty quiet: https://youtu.be/rGM8Y6yal-8?t=337, but buckling spring keyboards are obnoxiously loud (IIRC from my childhood).

> - The keys are massive and ugly

That's only true if your preference is for laptop-style keyboards.

> - Massive travel time (So slow to type on)

IIRC, one of the main benefits of mechanical key-switches is that you don't have to bottom them out to activate them. On my keyboard, there's at least 50% more travel after the switch is activated, and the travel-to-activation doesn't seem massively different than a laptop keyboard.

Also, non-mechanical desktop-style keyboards require the most travel time of anything.

> Sure they are a bit more customizable, but is that really worth all the drawbacks? Especially the worse typing, which is the main point of a keyboard.

Honestly, I think one of the better arguments for mechanical keyboards is that most non-mechanical keyboards were designed with cost reduction as the top priority (or in the case of Apple, thinness for its own sake). I guess if you're used to that, it's fine, but gunning for cheap usually leads to quality compromises in other areas.

The most annoying things regarding mechanical keyboards is that the culture around them has weird obsessions (like stripping things down to the fewest possible keys and using stylish custom keycaps). For instance, when I was searching for a quiet keyboard video, I found this one (https://youtu.be/O3-9ttpaU0E?t=57), where they guy misses the point and thinks the cool thing about Symbolics keyboards was the keycap style, when it's really the seven modifier keys.
Alarm fatigue might have played a minor role in Chernobyl but the main cause was authoritarian management trying to meet a scheduled deadline to run a test that the reactor was incapable of running safely in its current operational state. They purposely ignored the alarms in order to run the test. There was also a design flaw nobody knew about
(positive void coefficient) that caused the scram make things worse, but they'd never have needed to scram if the deputy chief engineer on duty had cared more about safety than meeting his milestone.
Robinhood has clearly been flying by the seat of its pants this whole time and the CEO is in a weird position where its better to let people think you are evil than know you are incompetent.
If the only possible alternative is killing everyone by exploding? Certainly.
> Well, one day, I decided "Meh. I'll just stop" and I did. Not because of any reason. I just chose not to.

My girlfriend smoked for almost a decade and did the same thing as you, including drinking. She's been 2 years clean.
Can't wait to see the "Will it run DOOM?" people doing this one.
No, that's the unportable camp, which doesn't have much following these days. Semi-portable basically means that you use #ifdef and similar techniques to control the code that gets generated for the particular CPU and platform. To give one example, a lock-free ring buffer may have memory barriers that are #ifdef'ed out on x86 because you can rely on total store order. Similarly, `volatile` on MSVC can be expected to provide memory ordering guarantees (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/volatile-cpp?view=m...).
> they're attempting to break into the game hunting market

They are already in that market, and the MP-155 shotgun (of which the new Ultima is a variant) is apparently one of their popular products in that market. But they've explicitly pointed to video game inspiration in its design, so I think the “game” in “semi-game” is a reference to that (though I think this is still in the hunting market, their are just trying to make it more videogame-like and social-media-friendly, to attract a less traditional market.)
It isn't even just for profit companies which have this dark pattern. My local PBS station, WETA, allows you to start monthly donations, increase the amount of your monthly donation and update your form of payment online, but to reduce your donation or stop your donation you must call them.
I'd say knock off more considerably than 10-20%, at least compared to this cost of living calculator:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...

$150k in Austin equates to $236k in Seattle (knock off 35%)

$150k in Austin equates to $296k in SF Bay (knock off 50%)
Lots of research on Tri-Color from Mike Pall of LuaJIT fame.

http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
The thing is, this is where the difference is between internal and external tools. Your client facing app has to confirm every action because the client isn't expected to have a deep understanding of the process. Bank employees are expected to have that understanding, so I'm not surprised there is no confirmation window. It's like with Linux - certain completely destructive commands have no confirmation before running, because clearly the user knows what they are doing - otherwise why did they type in that command in the first place.
I hire cars a lot. I can count on one hand the autos that I’ve been satisfied with. I admit they get slightly better each year.

They’re unpredictable, too eager to shift down even in torque-y engines, annoying going up hills where they’re too eager to shift up.

The only time I really appreciate an automatic is in a big diesel car. Manuals are painful in heavy diesels, especially in start stop traffic.
Yea correct. I am not an american. I like to listen to electronic, classical, international 'world' music.
doesn't matter, your subscribe-and-save shells will arrive late anyway, by tomorrow before 8pm.
>your argument really holds no weight with me.

It doesn't need to. I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm explaining to you why some people prefer the option to use an ecosystem that has a walled garden vs. one that doesn't. Unfortunately for you, the majority of people must agree and be ok with the walled gardens provided by Apple because they continue to buy the products.

If people wanted the freedom you're describing, they'd buy an Android phone. If they by an Apple phone, it's because they're ok with that not being an option and some, like me, not only don't mind but actively prefer that.
Asking for opinion: can one transfer experiences with non-drug addictions (videogames, promiscuity, social nets, etc) to the substance-abuse kind? How similar are these?
I often think I owe Infocom my career! I believe it was hugely valuable to have started hobby hacking at a young age, and Zork was what made we want to do it. Their language parser was just so cool. Like many of you I'm sure, a text adventure game was my final project in computer science at high school too. :-)
I don’t think those first two examples should be done either. In many countries in central and Northern Europe, it’s common journalistic practice not to print the names of those accused of crimes. Innocent until proven guilty, right? I think we’ll look back at the NYT et al publishing mugshots and full names of the accused as downright barbaric.
Interesting, just read more on this. The Jean Manco book ("Blood of the Celts") I had read on this topic seemed to err on an earlier side for the end of spoken Gaulish, but it sounds like some people people believe it may even have lasted into the 9th and 10th centuries (!). Some people even say there's evidence of contact with Breton, which would be neat (I wonder if there'd be some mutual intelligibility between those two, that late!)

* https://www.academia.edu/28555947/ON_THE_GAULISH_INFLUENCE_O...
Unfortunately, unless they told you that you would be receiving something they did not give you before you made the purchase, you are entirely responsible for the fact you have a piece of restricted hardware. Why buy something you know you aren’t going to like?
Just like horses.
the way your boss approaches tasks always trumps any CS education you might have had.
To those that are interested in the state of the art in commercial legal summarization (US law) as of Q1/2021: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.05757.pdf
Everyone who received the money by mistake should give it back. Anything else is immoral. Mistakes happen.
True, but they really raised the bar with their parser!
Well hang on, if you got yourself a rifle then I wanna get me a semi-automatic
Weapon!
You get a semi-automatic weapon and I'm gonna want an automatic weapon!
You get yourself an automatic weapon, I'm gonna get a super-automatic weapon!
Well if you get a super-automatic weapon, then I'm gonna get a
Super-duper-automatic weapon with a CD-ROM drive!
If you get yourself one of those I'm gonna get a
Super-duper-automatic weapon with a CD-ROM drive, and a big old hard
Drive, and a big guitar amp so I can play BTOs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9WEbExPpm4
A feature in 1780 that has been a bug for a long time, with several patches around the edges already
I made a different assumption about what happened here. The tool as developed fit requirements very well. Over time, the tool started to be used for things that were progressively further and further away from its intended design; I imagine that sending to a wash account was (for example) some employee’s clever idea of how to make use of what they already had when their overbearing boss told them to “just make it work.” Then, having been shown to “work”, the process became reified.
Yeah, they got a bunch of free publicity and a huge spike of new users. Even if 95% of them quit in rage, you're still dealing with solid growth numbers.
Or... the standard just has bugs which could be fixed. Bugs meaning: being out of line with the history of C and large amounts of C code in the wild.

The more people beat the standard drum, the worse things will get until the standard itself is fixed.

Other languages that don't have a standard don't have this problem (but they do have other problems).
As I said before, it was mostly because it used to crash a lot for weird reasons (I think it didn't really like something in my laptop's memory) and the only explanations I ever got were in French.

If they finally finished translating the documentation and the errors (or fixed whatever memory weirdness was affecting my version) it wouldn't be so bad. I'd still hate it from the countless sleepless night trying to get it start again before the weekly assignment's deadline, though.
Pretty much. My mom's soon-to-be-former partner had been an alcoholic previous to their relationship and was clean when they met. She got him some whisky for Christmas and figured it would be fine if he drank a little, because its never been a problem for her. Big mistake.

People are very very different in their drug tolerances and really shouldn't give advice to other people, because they are not the same.
Personally, I (also) like the ability to put the vehicle easily into neutral as a part of your normal driving routine.
There's a lot of great things mentioned in this article, and while not all of it applies to software engineers in terms of work-life balance, a lot of it still resonates, especially for those who have grown up poor and have seen both sides.

> “Whenever I tell people about that, they say, ‘He’s amazing! What a great partner,’” Michener said. “In the context of a family not living in poverty, to make the decision to stay home for a bit to care for an ill family member is considered virtuous. But for a woman living in poverty to take some time off to care for a family member is vice.”

I have also seen managers tell new fathers not to take too long a paternity leave. I have also seen managers that try to discourage taking hard earned PTO because it disrupts office coverage or there is some deadline "that can't be pushed".

We should always keep in mind that these corporate pressures are not just applied to the poor working class, it applies to anyone who is a laborer (yes, us software engies too), just in different but familiar forms.

> I’d met Lavender because she’s organizing for a $15 minimum wage, and she said the experience had been transformative.

I'm really glad she's pushing for change, and actively, against the corporate machine. We should think about it as well; our software culture could be a lot better too.
> “This Keyboard is designed for the Mac” <

Ships with a USB-A cord... ?

Seriously? Is a simple USB-C cable that much more expensive than USB-A? Even if my MacBook shipped with USB-A or I had a mini or an iMac, I’d still prefer USB-C.
No correlation between an insane and toxic interview environment and an insane and toxic work environment? I don't expect 100% correlation, but none? That seems rather implausible.
Yeah our org should really move away from flask-sqlalchemy and be more declarative about what session changes should actually be made on.

Being more hands on with sqlalchemy is probably the right approach.
I thought generating text from language models was a deterministic operation, searching for the maximum likelihood sequence using beam search?
There's tons of speculation here in this thread.

But without knowing what features specifically WiFi/BT will be used for, it's kind of pointless to make any kind of judgment.

They might be features for individuals, or features specifically for managing and tracking lots of guns at gun ranges. They might be to do with safety and security, or to do with stats and gamification. They might be to do mainly with the gun itself, or mainly with smart accessories for the gun.

But jumping to conclusions that this is merely gimmicky, or inappropriate for a gun's simplicity, is totally unfounded until we know what the actual features are.
> When you've got everyone's rifle connected to a network you can know who's having a bad day and have help on the way in case they ask.

This is the one (maybe) plausible use case I’ve seen in the thread so far.

I’m still skeptical though given how fast technologies can change. A gun maintained well can work fine 50 years later. Will Wi-Fi or Bluetooth still work the same 50 years from now?

Speed of change is also why luxury electronics is very different from traditional luxury accessories. How long is the useful lifetime for a gift of a Vertu smartphone [1] or an Apple Watch Hermès [2]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertu

[2]: https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-hermes/
Yeah, it's obviously something of a toy and marketing gimmick (and I'm not sure how much of it is “marketing the actual product” and how much of it is a concept-car-like piece to draw attention to the company more than or instead of selling the particular product.)
If you'd like to dig further, online text games (MUDs) are still around. https://mudlet.org is a nice modern client for playing them!

(bias: I'm the project lead)
Good question! Yes, it's in the interest of clients to cooperate.

Fundamentally, P2C thickens the interface between client and server by leaking the implementation and responsibility of balancing server load onto the client. Again, this works really well if there is a small, static set of clients as we have internally, but not that well if the clients are out in the wild (eg: on mobile devices). It's totally in the client's interest to upgrade, but that's always work and you just can't rely on that. :)

So imo this is a serious tradeoff that must be made before employing P2C. A good hybrid approach (briefly mentioned in the post) is to introduce a proxy that uses P2C. This is fully in your control and is cheaper than having the proxy maintain a full histogram of load on all downstreams.
The internet of lead.
>there is no technical reason why someone that uses Steam should not be able to play multiplayer game with someone that bought on GOG or PlayStation Store.

Exactly. Yet these limitations exist. That's why people should vote with their wallets and not support games that artificially limit this and why, if people want phones that don't have walled gardens, they shouldn't buy an Apple product.
Sweets can be very addictive.

You addiction might seem trivial in comparison, but you could be experiencing something quite similar to someone who is addicted to a "hard" substance.
Oh I think the technical argument makes sense, it's just that as a user, Signal is pretty different -- it's mobile first, using the desktop version requires having the mobile app (and account tied to mobile). It's a lot different than say ICQ in the 90s where the account is with the desktop client.

Additionally, I haven't tried it so I don't know how well file transfers on Signal work, but I assume it's not truly a first class citizen feature on it and if you start trying to send e.g. multi-GB files, I assume it starts to break down like most mobile IM where the intention is to only transfer small files (PDFs etc.) here and there.
I did the same thing. In fact, everyone I know who successfully quit smoking for a long time quit the same way. I’m not really sure that proves that cigarettes were any less addictive for you, unless you’re saying you never had any significant craving or desire to resume.
the universe is expanding, after all...
It is highly variable depending on the individual and how they performed over the last 6 months. It is mostly a conversation along the lines of "So, what do you think so far?" and then we go from there.

Obviously, those who exceed our expectations during the probationary period might receive more tempting FTE offers. Others might get additional contract extensions depending on what both parties are looking for.
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]