skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea, until "law enforcement" comes back with a "demand letter". Take a look at how that worked out for LavaBit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
And the requirements are dictated by what?

It certainly sounds reasonable to have an enclosed cargo area with sufficient head room for comfort, but saying they look like they do because there are requirements doesn't really explain it.
So "Tech Giants" are "anyone with >250 employees"..

That's a mighty tight clutch you have on those straws.
I mean sending a code VIA SMS. I mean I deleted the phone number from my Google account. Now I have only Auth App, & Google App. The code & recovery options are 8 digit recovery phrase, Tap in Google App on other device. No reset code SMS.
I kind of feel that the server itself should protect against attacks like that. Of course it isn’t inherent in the specification, but I don’t think it’s something that an implementer should have to think about either (beyond, ‘have I enabled DOS mitigation ‘ anyway)
Here's the gist: the government taxed the shit out of the landlords and forced them to sell their land cheaply. Europeans generally see nothing wrong with this strategy, whereas most Americans will feel shivers down their spines.

This difference comes from different attitudes around ownership. In places like China and Russia, owning a house means you get to keep the house unless enough people would benefit from you not owning it. In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't.

Europe is somewhere in between on that spectrum, and this attitude extends to not just land ownership. For example, a popular ad campaign in Austria is demanding from the employees of BioNTech to leak the base components and production instructions so that other companies can steal those trade secrets and supposedly help generate more vaccines. If you read the comments in one of the videos on this topic, you will see them being mostly in favor of the campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDnZd7UmBco.

It would be difficult to imagine many of my US friends advocating for stealing company secrets. I am not implying that either group has better ethics - they just have different attitudes towards the concept of ownership.
What's their actual goal? At one time it was an open source alternative to IE 6, then they were the ones with the best debug tools, that was 10 years ago, now what?

The modern evolutionary descendent of Netscape Communications needs a crisper purpose then just amorphous open source vibes. Blink and Webkit are in that game as well and they have the most profitable tech companies in the world behind them. Even Microsoft's current browser works in Linux. The world has changed.

At least Eichs post Mozilla project Brave has some patreon-style crowdfunding with crypto in exchange for revenue sharing ad dollars, it's a reason for existing. Say what you will about it but it's got a reason for being around.
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A new laptop with equivalent specs is probably a $300 Chromebook.

That thing is 7+ years old.

Don't be silly.
I’m not convinced emacs performance is that bad. It’s pretty highly optimised for typing at a normal rate though I agree the data structures aren’t great for more graphical things (lots of properties, random access inserts, even just long lines). But then the way to improve this is to improve the data structures rather than replacing emacs lisp.

Emacs performs better than many other applications at important objective measures, eg the time between pressing a key and the character showing up on screen. You might expect vim to be good at this but many terminal emulators are optimised for throughput rather than latency and are slower than gui emacs.

Certainly legacy is a problem but I worry that replacing eg font-lock with something with better performance properties (does this actually do that?) means throwing out the baby with the bath water as so many modes depend on these things.

Typically the reason that emacs becomes slow is due to an overload of features or bad asymptotics. Examples:

- global-auto-revert-mode plus lots of buffers plus some in a slow file system like nfs or maybe lots of open fired buffers

- some mode using a configured alist that works fine for small lists but really sucks for big ones (ie perf is linear in size of config, but often this comes hand in hand with trying to process big inputs so it can be worse.) I think this happened with spacemacs and which-key-mode for example

- flyspell + flycheck + build running in background + some autocompletion server. Even a powerful computer can be slowed down by this. Some of these are likely to slowly improve over time as they become more synchronous. Others are problems you’re likely to have with any editor (a nice emacs thing was that it was easy for me to add some advice to pin my build to not use all my cpu. It can be really hard to poke around in other plugin systems to do that sort of thing without a config option for it)

- just piling on the nodes with something like spacemacs and not paying attention to the performance of the whole. I think doom-emacs shows a lot of promise here.

I do think there are advantages that could be made by modernising emacs’ core and improving data structures (whatever happened to remacs?)

I feel like the fundamental design of emacs is good however and I like:

1. keymaps and the command loop

2. Buffer-local variables, advice, dynamic scoping

3. Documentation

4. Fundamentally text-based interface

Obviously you should disregard all of this though as I am very biased due to my emotional reaction to getting rid of emacs lisp which, frankly, you can pry from my cold dead hands.

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Some other thoughts I had on emacs lisp as a good language for a text editor:

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19343908

2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881597

3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18605001

On the “fast” measurement that actually matters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432292
I'm more of the opinion that in circles where it's looked down upon to be religious, some of those instincts pop up in other areas. Very-atheist people end up worshipping at the altar of the science priests instead.

Not everything is a bourgeois conspiracy to oppress the proletariat.
In multipitch climbing the clove hitch is used to attach yourself to every belay. In this situation adjustment is useful. It usually only holds body weight, and it's always tied in a carabiner, so you can slide the carabiner out instead of untying. It doesn't slip with climbing ropes either. So it's perfect for climbing.
I saw that, but those constraints don't seem to be necessary for postal vehicles in other countries. The person I was responding to was wondering why other countries seem to just fine with regular looking vans that have postal branding. It's worth asking about, isn't it?

Just because those things are spec'd as they are, that doesn't mean they need to be.
I think you misunderstand how Ansible is supposed to work. You can put in the work (much less than ~ 6 months, I'm available for freelancing!) and have it working. By then you will be able to run your command :-)

You will also be able to share as much of the deployment as you want/can between the different models/OSes. Templating configuration variables based on their characteristics.

What you're asking to is akin to "Why cannot I download an app that does what $PRODUCT does but for my business for free? Why do I need to write my own software?"
Social networks cannot exist and not devolve on today’s internet. Here is why:

1. They cannot be monetized via anything but ads. Sure a few people will pay for access to a social network. But the majority will not pay $0.01 because the friction of the transaction will prevent them. Moreover, an SN operator can make a lot more money from ads than from subscriptions, at least until proven otherwise. As a result any useful value that an SN provides will quickly be overtaken by more and more intrusive ads.

2. General purpose social networks are relatively boring. I mean how often do you actually hang out with a proportional representation of the general public? No, we want topic or interest based social networks. We want to form consumer tribes, political tribes, sports tribes, etc. We want to talk to people from our school, work, neighborhood, yoga practice, etc.

3. All that is overshadowed by the fact that most people straight up don’t have anything interesting to say. Think of the average person. Do you expect them to wow you with what they are working on even once a month? Chances are, most people will post pictures of their lunch or repost a stupid meme that they finally discovered. Twitter sort of solves this by letting you follow leaders in their fields, but still the SNR is so low that it’s really difficult to find meaningful interactions and unless you are one of those leaders nobody gives a crap about what you shout into the void.

The only thing I can see being a path forward is small communities forming their own very limited in size networks with some common authentication platform to help people jump between them. Discord is sort of that, but far cry from a sustainable model.
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> No one looked at this because they didn't know it about.

What are you talking about? Nobody knew about it? Is that a joke?

This long loading issue was posted EVERYWHERE and was the reason so many people gave up on GTA v. It’s simply impossible that they didn’t know the issue existed.

That they chose to ignore it is the reality.
He commented on this a couple hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566
The current absence of smallpox.
It was Zoom. Apparently once you allow a host to unmute you remotely, they are able to do so until you revoke the permission. I don't remember allowing that, although its possible I did and forgot about it.
"Opposite-driven" postal vehicles have been common/standard in Europe for a very long time. It's not a complex thing to change, especially since many car models are made to be sold in e.g. the UK anyways.
Until the Linux kernel isn't swiss, and Linux phones have secure boot, it's Graphene for me.
Also by people that have heard of relay but already have an existing codebase. It’s not something that’s very simple to adopt out of hand.
I don't understand how what you said is in disagreement with my claims. Yes, miners try to use their machines as much as possible, like any other business, but they still try to it as efficiently as they can.

Undervolting chips to increase efficiency is quite common, for example.

And my phone is not very specialized at all, when compared to a mining ASIC.
Was it really taking up that much of their time to maintain it? I like compact style I don't need huge everything. I still have pretty good eyesight.
You could use the same arguments and mindset when you're an antivaxx.
Vaccines can't be a holy cow that gets defended no matter what. It's always interesting that people who claim to not trust big business big pharma somehow defend everything vaccine related to death. Regulators halted it snd wait for new information to come in, that is how it's supposed to be.
The article (and your comment) explains how the design conforms to the constraints but what I think they were asking was why have those specific constraints in the first place (apart from "that's how it's always been done here.")

Now, I understand that it's to prevent accidents, make it more easy to put mail into mailboxes if they're situated right next to the road, etc. Yet somehow every other country makes it work without specialized vehicles.
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British Columbia's Dr. Bonnie Henry discusses [1] (5min YouTube clip up until 28m37s) the decision process surrounding Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFIs) [2] within the context of the EMA decision involving the AstraZeneca vaccine. Her explanations tend to mirror her refrain "Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe".

For those jurisdictions like the UK, India, and Canada that continue recommending AstraZeneca, I'd suggest that COVID-19 vaccines are like beer; the best one is the one in front of you.

[1] https://youtu.be/xbLJCh9XHl0?t=23m42s

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_adverse_event
Battery change is doable but be sure of the supplier. I got one of the swelling batteries.
Google Voice is US-only.
I've got a CA that can run a maze. Can I generate a maze using your maze-generating code and then use that as the starting point for my maze-runner? It doesn't seem to be possible - when I enter my maze running code and start the whole thing resets.
More likely, there were 99 other bugs that they had clearer metrics related to monetization that they prioritized (not that this bug didn't impact monetization - I bet it did, just not in a way they were measuring). Or that their QA engineers identified and flagged as high priority or major new features with their own bugs and regressions or whatever. These things get lost in the shuffle. More likely there were 1000s of bugs in the tracker, probably 10s of thousands.
> For that detailed effort, analysis and with a fix, I'd say that is worth around $80k.

No good deed goes unpunished. Rockstar went out of their way to thank this person and send them a check equivalent to several weeks of median developer salary. Can we not shame them for this goodwill gesture?

$80K would be on the order of half of the annual salary of most developers outside of SFBA.
The dropbox thread seems to be not the initial announcement but the public release which is after people have already tried it and not the initial reaction to the idea alone. The iphone is the same, people commenting while they have the product already. People tend to hate on an idea when they first hear it but come to like it after they have it in their hands (if its actually good)

I'm also partly taking in to consideration the reddit drama over the iphone and airpods which is a low bar I guess but the initial reactions, especially to the airpods was very poor.
> I felt like I've been transported into the future!

The Automat was invented in 1895 and they were common (largest national chain of eateries common) in the US in the past :)
I'm reading the OP as "use these considerations to determine when to stop trying and instead interrupt me", and the comment I replied to as "you should never interrupt me unless there is no other option". The former seems to want to optimize for overall productivity between all participants, the latter seems to want to minimize interruptions.
Both of Apple and Google are leaking my data into prism. I don't care about ad personalization as much as I hate tracking. These are related, but not one and the same.

I think personalized ads are overvalued and their price is driven up by either global conglomerates that are looking to make vast amounts of money from small margins or startups with VC cash to burn. I've never heard an organic business success story about adwords.
The egg that's on Rockstar's face has more to do with how much money they likely left on the table by not diagnosing and fixing this issue early on. (And assuming they had a team overseeing this aspect of performance with adequate tools to observe and debug it should have been trivial.)

I personally feel like the magnitude of this -- especially compared to how simple the solution is -- makes it a miss that's really much more extreme than most others.

EDIT: Though I agree that "shameful" isn't the right word to use. Rockstar wronged themselves much more so than any other party.
- having it in PATH is important.
- most of us are programmers, spend a few minutes writing scripts!

c@host:~$ ls ~/bin | wc- l
97
The most obtrusive recent UI change was the new tab switcher that tries to mimic the OS app alt-tab overlay bar. It was taking 30 seconds (not an exaggeration!) to load the first time I hit ctrl-tab on my fast desktop, and would randomly pause up to 5 seconds after that. It also turned what was a rapid-fire muscle memory action with an ergonomic behavior, into a slow and unpredictable chore. To top it off, it would always display full-screen, outside of my never-maximized browser window. Just glad it could be disabled.

If you work on Firefox, or are new to development -- this is not Luddism, and don't let this attitude discourage you. Let it be a lesson that you need to understand your users and not just assume that everybody uses a maximized window on a 13-inch laptop screen with all day to wait for slow code to load.
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Uhm, so far I've used network manager for wired and wireless ethernet, vpns via openvpn and fortinet, and network bonding (lacp etc).

Yeah you have to look the details for the specific kind of configuration, but reading the fine manual is the norm, not the exception.
> Low prices don’t mean much if there is no market availability. Many cities that are heavily rent controlled have horror stories of year long waits to get a unit.

That's not an accident or paradox: rent control is a deliberate, conscious choice to prefer cost control for current residents over availability for new residents.
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> The same reason Amazon runs its own shipping network instead of relying on UPS or Fedex.

Amazon use off-the-shelf vehicles though.

> one of the requirements was long service life

I wonder how they require that. Does the manufacturer have to warranty them all for 30 years? That's extraordinary!
I think they look kinda cool
Design is dead. Cheap, colourful, childish trash, non usable, non accessible is the trend. After 20 years of practice as a designer I now sell my expertise only on implementation - UI engineer. For me this is the last place of craftsmanship. Everything else from UX to Visual design is in the hands of marketing and wannabe decorators.
> Social networks cannot exist and not devolve on today’s internet... They cannot be monetized via anything but ads.

I tend to think of IRC as sort of a proto-social network (channels are kind of like tribes - there's usually a topic that is of common interest for those participating). It has existed for a long time without ads or even monetization.
The other option is IE --- I will continue to fight its deprecation because it still works damn well for the majority of non-JS sites, and MS continues to release security updates for it (contrary to what a lot of propaganda is saying.) Of course it doesn't have all the (site-facing) features of other browsers, and especially Google's behemoth, but I'm of the opinion that the web is already too bloated and needs to stop "moving forward" anyway.

(My main browser is IE. My secondary one is Firefox.)
I'd wager ~75% of mailboxes are delivered to with a RHD vehicle. So it matters a lot.
I’m sorry but no.

This bug existed for a very long time and was the #1 outcry from gamers. It is well documented all over the internet.

Every company I’ve ever worked at and every code base I’ve ever worked on would have made this a #1 priority. If it were a technical limitation of the devs I would agree it is “embarrassing” but this was not outside of their ability.

I simply don’t blame the devs, I blame management. Management should have allocated the resources to fix this truly game breaking bug but they didn’t because money was still flowing. Is it any coincidence that ads played during the 6+ minutes you would wait to get into a game?
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In fact, all Zen chips are equal in the cores part (except for clockspeed and other tuning) thanks to the reusability of chiplets. The only thing that differs between Ryzen, TR amd EPYC is the IO die. And the pins (TR and EPYC use the same package, yep).
Most of the enterprise world does, it's the default in RHEL (in 7 for sure, it probably still is in rhel8).

And regarding me personally: yes I would and I do. It's not that bad.
I have the perfect site for you then.

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Having confidence in your ability to do things and trying them is good. Doing pointless work because you were too proud to ask isn't. Juniors more often than not tend to err on the second side.

There is a lot of value in being humble and asking. You will probably grow faster if you ask too much than too little. People who keep asking the same things are the real annoyance.

Also seniors who resent helping juniors shouldn't be seniors. They shouldn't be there at all actually.
Well, that should be part of the plan too. We're making ourselves poorer half-assing everything.
“ China or socialism or whatever.”?
What do you mean?
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Those are entirely subjective and you can't tell someone what makes them traumatized
I want to use a non AMO extension
I was curious:

(10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365) = 564.1 years

If I add on "/(human lifetime)", Wolfram Alpha uses 72.6 years, which it attributes to a 2019 UN estimate.

((10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365))/(human lifetime) = 7.775 lifetimes
Is that what they did? If by that you mean that they used the tax system to discourage the development of investment properties and undeveloped land as well, then yes I guess. However land value taxes aren't a marxist idea, in fact LVT has been advocated for by Smith, Ricardo, Friedman, Stiglitz, and so on. Even a lot of libertarians like LVT.
Try to use it on real time bare metal scenarios.
With Firefox, opening a new tab in a non default container has a terrible default shortcut, and you can’t remap it to anything sensible (like cmd + some letter).

Just out of curiosity, have you tried creating a shortcut based on the menu name in the macOS global settings? As a Linux user who sometimes works for companies that issue Macs, that functionality goes a long way to preserving my sanity, but sometimes apps just hard-code a shortcut instead of using the OS.
I wouldn't be surprised if they found a faster turbotax made people trust it less. You want to see it chugging away to "find your deductions" and "catch your mistakes".

Ironically the hardest thing I needed TT to do this year was handle my wash sales and it didn't even blink as it imported the 1099s. Wait, maybe it didn't handle them correctly... See what I mean? Now I better double check.
Ubuntu really is starting to look like canonical wants to do its own version of everything. That's my reading.
None of what you said is special about mining.

If a factory increases efficiency by 10% it will simply produce more of whatever it makes as long as there's demand for it. And then other factories have to up their game.

Also the higher the price of the product the factory produces, the more it is worth spending extra resources producing it.

And of course this isn't limited to factories, it's true for businesses in general.

What is special about mining is that energy is just about the only resource it uses, so it's more obvious, while a factory might be bottle-necked by other resources like floor space and a software company might be bottle-necked by how many programmers it can hire/manage. Miners are similarly limited by how much mining hardware they have or are capable of managing.
It’s both cool and confusing that Github is posting git release notes.
You know what they say about history repeating itself...
Yep, I hate this with a passion. I deprecated text messaging a decade ago, too. Anyone who thinks they can reach me by some ancient 140-character mobile-operator-controlled service, it's their fault for not getting with the beat in 2021.
Most countries don't really have US-style mailboxes either.