skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone at Microsoft needs to screw their head on straight and admit their experiment in "continuous updates" has failed.

Getting rid of the team that used to run tests on real hardware certainly didn't help.

>Microsoft laid off almost the entire Windows Test team as it moved the focus from three different systems -- Windows, Windows Mobile and Xbox -- to a single system. The company moved most of the testing to virtual machines and this meant according to Berg that tests were no longer conducted on real and diverse hardware configurations for the most part.

The teams ran the tests on "real" hardware in a lab through automated testing. The machines had different hardware components, e.g. processors, hard drives, video and sound cards, and other components to cover a wide range of system configurations, and this meant that bugs that affected only certain hardware components or configurations were detected in the process.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/23/former-microsoft-employee-...
I'm still traumatized by how difficult it was to find a job after college in the wake of the great recession. I haven't been unemployed since I started working in tech, and I'm going to make over 300k this year (half of which will go to taxes....), but I still feel like I'm constantly in danger of losing my job, that I'll never find another one afterwards, and I'll become financially insecure again and maybe even homeless.

I don't think this feeling will ever go away, even though it''s completely unfounded. I also can't bring myself to commit to a mortgage even though I can more than afford it at this point. I should have bought my first home years ago, but couldn't bring myself to do it because I always feel like the economy is on the brink of collapse.

I feel so much compassion for people who have trouble finding their first jobs, or lose their jobs during all of this, because I went through that. You feel so helpless and worthless. At least we have the stimulus checks and rent moratoriums this time around. But I feel like we're going to need them for years if we actually want to take care of those who have been affected.
The Untold Truth of Gizmondo, One of the Biggest Console Failures Ever
>This has nothing to do with tooling, but the fact that pulling the rug under an established code base could have very unintended effects, compared to simply adding and extending functionality without touching what is already there.

That's still a matter of tooling. With type-checking, static analysics, and test suites, changing code doesn't have "very unintended effects".

Back in the day, without those, things were much more opaque.
What is a piece of knowledge, who decidesn: A piece of knowledge in the domain. Of course there can be discussions around that as well, but should clear up the most obvious mistakes?

Principles and concepts: The reason for naming things is to be able to efficiently communicate things, make them memorable, etc? For example when communicating things in an interview? Why do we name things generally? Empire State Building? Or just the building on Xth street/avenue in NYC. Then of course, if everyone is misinterpreting the Empire State building for the Statue of Liberty then either the naming was off, or the teachings of the name....
Powered by AI in the blockchain.
There are competitors to uBiome that are still going (Viome, DayTwo) and are possibly not scams.

I did try uBiome because I dunno, I was bored. It seemed to give legitimate results (not the same thing every time) but the amount of "material" you submit was so small it can't have had much signal in it.
I learned a lot in university. My professors were amazing.
> "Japan is famous for its "lifetime employment" system, and the law here is very protective of employees. Many multinationals have tried to fire an unnecessary or problematic employee in Japan, only to see that employee sue for reinstatement and damages (and, in most cases, win)."

- one of the summaries from https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=japanese+companies+don%27t+...
It’s not just USGOV who has to approve that claim, it’s every country on COPUOUS : https://www.space.com/33440-space-law.html

It’s more likely that Musk will have to settle for his Earthen technokingdom.
> How do you figure that? If I buy one less Widget, that's one less Widget that needs to be restocked

But that’s fucking useless. It is simple math and the math is that you’ve moved the needle on carbon output from one company by 0.0000001%.

An advertising campaign that associates that widget with Devil worshippers probably moves the needle two orders of magnitude more than that.

Solving climate change is a global numbers game. If you’re not changing more than your own behavior, you are effectively complicit and not doing anything to stop it.

> If I tell ten people about my strategy and they buy ten fewer Widgets, that's ten fewer Widgets' worth of carbon footprint.

See, but this is the only bit that has any meaningful effect. This is you being political and affecting change.

You’ll quickly realize that your individual reduction is completely irrelevant in total harm you’ve reduced.
What other OS has shipped update bugs that deleted user data for the last three years in a row?
pay people a living wage for their labor

I truly don’t understand why so many think that someone doing less than what it takes to live (alone, independently) should be paid a living wage. Food, housing, energy, care, ... all take productivity; if someone can’t produce enough to cover their own needs, they need be recognized as a dependent and treated as such. It’s not your obligation to pay me a living wage just because you need floors swept or burgers flipped.
It’s weird. Kids are either expected to be little geniuses or are left to the wolves.

In the suburban district my nephews attend, parents double down on sports and refuse to let kids take standardized tests to make them look as good as possible. It’s monsterous.
Won't somebody think of the over 90 year olds?
You'd think that, but when the security guard who got shot sued the federal government, US District Court Judge Karen Gren Scholer dismissed the lawsuit and wrote: "The Court finds that the conduct alleged by Plaintiff fall[s] within the scope of the discretionary authority conferred on the FBI by the Undercover Guidelines and the [DIOG (Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide)]."
An older relative once gave me the hint to bury a question in my text to see whether the examiner would address it. I was actually surprised to get an answer when I tried that.
SOLID is folk wisdom to begin with. Most of developing (as opposed to computer science) is unresearched old-wives-tales and cargo cult.

Is SOLID any good? Who knows? Who proved it? Heck, who even did tests?
Yes it has gears, but not a multi speed gear box.
s/Americans/world/, and also

- Trees are being cut down at record rate for meat production. Meat production is one of the bigger culprits in deforestation (and particularly of the Amazon and other tropical rainforests). If the world were willing to eat less meat (we don't have to be all-out vegan, we just need to eat much less of it) we'd be a lot better off in terms of how much arable land we need to feed everyone instead of feeding a bunch of cows and then feeding everyone

- The world population is much bigger now. All environmental problems are essentially only an issue because we have too many people in the world right now. If we had the population of the 1800's, none of our modern lifestyle habits would be a serious problem.
Google: AR Synth
What would make you want it to explicitly not have fall-through? I can't see any negative to including it. If it's something you disagree with can't you just opt to not use?

It's very useful in times for us who use switch regularly. I have no skin in the python game though so just curious from an outside dev haha
Thanks. Was not aware of that side to Japanese employment.
We have a friend in their late 30s who also never went to the hospital but got sick with covid five months ago. They have yet to regain their sense of taste or smell.
To keep the fear and lockdown measures justified.

Just like "we don't know if vaccines affect transmission" or "masks work to mitigate the spread" (as if masks were discovered in 2020)
> but if you accept that as a goal then this narrowly focused "think of the children" actually makes logical sense because the afterlife lasts a lot longer than this one does.

The afterlife may last for a few minutes for all we know.

While I do agree with you that not everything neccesarily needs to be looked at and judged quantitatively, the deep dive into esoteric ideas such as the afterlife is misplaced.
The Inkplate 6 works pretty well - I am using it for my digital picture frame. The only disappointing thing for me is, that they haven't released the actual source files (Eagle, Kicad, etc..) for the hardware yet. [1]

[1] https://github.com/e-radionicacom/Inkplate-6-hardware/issues...
> Faculty weren’t as charmed with the cratered grades, though.

Maybe focus more on the teaching and less on the testing.
We are already looking at it, in China. The communist party is probably the only force preventing capitalism there from devolving into a thinly veiled oligarchy with the problems you mention we have in the west and in Russia.

They seem to be good at 1) long-term thinking, investing all around the world and building infrastructure 2) preventing people from moving out to big cities away from their birthplace 3) seem to be interested in addressing pollution externalities, building nuclear energy power plants fast.

They are still a massive polluter, so they are not perfect, and the political system is probably not a western liberal ideal, but we can and should learn from them.

The better capitalism will probably be less of capitalism and oligarchy, and more of a powerful social democracy state.
C# has some really fancy stuff as of 8.0. See:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

and

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Australia’s lockdown policies seem to have worked a treat
Public health England has been tracking that sort of information in their SIREN study.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Which is why I think my comparison to limited edition prints is the most useful.

1. A limited edition print doesn't confer copyright

2. A limited edition print isn't the original

3. A limited edition print may never have been in the presence of the artist.
Not "never", but when it does happen, they've got vastly more resources to hold their employer accountable. Moreover, if a single employee notices it happening, they can report it to their steward, and then word gets out to all employees to double-check their paychecks. Source: this happened to folks in a union I belonged to.
I finished my senior year of high school right when Coronavirus was starting to spread (and graduated in a mask), and I've got mixed thoughts about how this has gone down. On the one hand, I love online school. Zoom calls give me a lot of flexibility to create a better learning environment (listening to music, burning candles, being isolated), but it also takes the urgency out of it all. Last semester I failed 2 classes because the teachers didn't distribute a clear timeline of our work, which made it really difficult to figure out what was due, and when.

Ultimately, (surprise surprise) I think it comes down to an issue with our education system as a whole. Teachers are trained to get their students to "jump through the hoop", and when they fail they blame either the system or the student. The United States has an incredible opportunity to reassess what matters to students, and what the modern workforce is looking for. Our rhetoric around education is stuck in the last century, and we're in the middle of the largest paradigm shift the working world has ever seen.

Another tangential (but important) thing I've noticed is the disparity between our social messaging and teaching methods. Having spent the last 12 years of my life in a 21st century classroom, the emphasis is still on busywork (with an increasing amount of it automated or digitized. I empathize with the teachers who want to keep their workload to a minimum, but it's entirely at-odds with our social goals to make the next generation of students creative and leaders. In my Junior year, I took an AP Language+Composition class that handed out a grading rubric on the first day of class. Overall, the homework load was weighted as 15% of the total grade, so I simply didn't do it for the first trimester. When my teacher found out, he called me in for a discussion about "home life" and other vaguely patronizing things, but he seemed shocked when I told him that I saw his busywork as an opportunity cost. I felt pretty guilty for the next two trimesters, because at some point he just stopped handing me homework assignments with a defeated look. We shouldn't victimize students for thinking critically, and ideally we shouldn't even put them in positions where they have to choose between extracurriculars and practicing their times-tables.

That's just my two cents though.
Try reading the thread before you reply. It’s a complaint about the ebpf site itself not explaining what ebpf is. It has nothing to do with things that use ebpf.

> https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf
But why? Why would any government want to justify longer than needed lockdowns?
Then Google will need to build a better search engine, otherwise people will just move to a search engine that can get them the better results.
glide

https://www.glideapps.com
"Civilization is build around the existing climate and the cost of re-building around a new climate will be very very large"

But the climate will change over decades and centuries. People move, nation's build and rebuild, and crops change over centuries, climate change or not. Think how different the world and human diet was in 1900 compared to today.

I think a lot of people look at climate change as a war, where bullets start flying and suddenly there are 20 million refugees at your door. Climate change is slow and incremental, at least as currently predicted.
Learning Nim: Macros and Pattern Matching [video]
This is part 2 of an ongoing series of my efforts to learn the programming language Nim. I give you a quick overview on how to create a simple macro using pattern matching as well as pragmas and reflection functions.
The final code can be found here: https://github.com/David-Kunz/nim-macros
Thanks goes to the developers of norm, from which I took inspiration:
https://github.com/moigagoo/norm
I use it for 3D printing mainly. It's pretty good, but 0.18.x had some annoying bugs (i.e. it would occasionally just crash, wiping everything since the last time you saved). Nothing show-stopper if you save often and don't do anything too crazy.

I personally prefer Fusion 360 (it feels sleeker and is way more usable with a touchpad), but it's definitely a viable choice.
They were happy at first, unhappy two weeks later. The home school is strictly inferior - more boring, less discussion, less contact with other kids and teacher.

Then, holidays normally means a lot of activities. Travelling, camps, other kids to play outside with, parents not working and doing activities with you.

Meanwhile, lockdown without school means that you sit in your room day after day while parents work.
Start cold.

I had money saved up for a few months.

I sent some cold emails to some companies that I knew might be interested in my profile and contacted people looking for freelancers, monthly ask HN seeking freelancers was a good place to start. Also, I contacted some friends in the market offering my services.

Note to anyone considering doing something similar: Networking is an important business, don't neglect it.
I'd add another use of NFTs that follows the letter of the law, but violates its spirit: a trust fund whose beneficiary is an owner of a specific NFT. This allows to conceal the identity of the beneficiary and pull out various tricks, such as tax free transfer of wealth (e.g. to heirs) or outright illegal stuff like getting your life insured, then faking an accident and living off the payments under a different identity.
It's up to the U.S. to fix every single problem?
I thought the same thing when I was watching a friend do this work at 2 AM on a Friday night.
Then I realized it doesn’t cost the investment bank a single penny to ask an analyst to spend his weekend doing cut and paste work, whereas automating the process would cost something.
Well, they are also marketed as a way of isolating dependencies, which they do actually manage to some degree. So they could be weak security-wise without being completely pointless?
> Why can't CA bail out restaurants?

Because the US system has evolved to one which structurally depends on federal government deficit spending to rapidly meet economic emergencies since the feds have structural advantages in borrowing independent of self-imposed limits (borrowing in a currency you control is a massive advantage) and states tend to have (self-imposed, but inflexible in the short term, since they are usually matters of state constitution) budget rules which require balanced operating budgets and, where they allow debt-financed deficit spending, have slow processes (often something like a legislative vote followed by a public election) to approve it.

(Why it's counterproductive to raise taxes, instead of deficit spending, in the middle of a literally once-in-a-century economic downturn to pay for bailouts should be obvious.)
That's not sustainable, you're just living on scraps because a lot of other people have made bad decisions in your favor. They're not going to keep investing after that, and of course it's bad for the people who moved out - this is a cause of gentrification.

Tokyo, Vienna, Singapore are examples of cities with good housing policies. Although for Vienna's to get started all the landlords had to die in WW1, and then the planners died in WW2.
Archaeologists Solve Mystery of 5,600-Year-Old Skull Found in Italian Cave
Yep, this pattern is known as Table-Driven Methods.
Thing is, while PhDs are usually by far the biggest domain experts you'll get, the absolute majority of them comes absolutely ill-equipped to lead anything, as university rarely teaches any skills in project, people or resource management skills, business sense, opportunity cost and presentation.

I've had disastrous outcomes going by credentials for leadership positions and these days only hire for demonstrated results on a real-world project.

Just my personal anecdotal evidence points me towards stellar academic success having a slight negative correlation with on-the-job performance. People who prefer building things with impact over citation rubber points usually don't survive in academia long enough for enduring a PhD.
If I had to bet I would probably bet that "all the gamers in the world" are using more power than "all the crypto miners in the world".

I can't think of a way to immediately gather any evidence for this either way but it seems like a plausible position to take.

(However - I think the value > utility chain is easier to argue for with gaming. I'm not making the same argument as the parent post.)
> When the rubber hits the road (i.e. when it comes to spending money) the US as a country doesn’t care about things like early childhood education all that much.

What countries fund education better per capita than the US? Can you give numbers?

According to various sources, for example https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp , US per-student K-12 education funding is only behind four OECD countries: Switzerland, Austria, and Norway (and far behind Luxembourg, which is an outlier).

The US is ahead of highly developed peer countries like Ireland and Belgium, and *way* ahead of the OECD average.

Meta-point: It irritates me when people assume the problem with US education is low spending, because the US education system is obviously so bad that that must be true, when in reality the problem is much more complex.

In my experience the people who believe this never have numbers at hand; they are just shooting from the hip.
Unemployment rates for one. But now, numbers are skewed because we printed billions of dollars to bail out California.
There's a pattern I have developed for my python scripts of writing a object like that :

# where a and b are functions
FOO = { a.__name__: a, b.__name__: b }

and with argparse do

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(
"-f",
"--foo",
choices=FOO.keys(),
default=next(iter(FOO)),
help="choose your type of foo",
)
Armachat: Long Range Radio Messenger
A normal coffee machine or an espresso from my Gaggia.

It just depends on how lazy I am that day. Most work days, it's just drip coffee. I try to limit myself to 1-2 cups a day.
Well, looks like Emacs is really an operating system disguised as a text editor.
This heavily biases in favor of lone wolves in college. I was one myself. I'd say we are rare. Most people are social and learn by collaborating with others. It's the more natural approach. Evolution has groomed us to be social after all.
IMO NFT are a path to the commoditisation of belief and the communities which spring up around shared beliefs. Imagine if QAnon were to launch their own, with the proof of patriotism baked in to your online in or if some religion reinvented the indulgence. These would probably be done on their own coinbase.
I note that touchpads (especially on Macs) seem to have considerably higher perceptual lag compared to mice, I think because of the smoothing necessary to make touchpads less fiddly - and as most macOS users are using a touchpad I imagine that contributes to less complaints about lag specifically because it would be difficult to pin-down.
This is debatable, but it is common sense that it shoud have been the target. And for somne reason it wasn't.
I'm an offroader and camper who has a preorder for the cybertruk. I am very curious how many of my types will get one but I'm pretty pumped with the approach angle, huge tires, and potential overlanding ability I'll have with the solar panels. Seems primo for a basecamp where it slowly charges over the week while you ATV, fish, etc. The only thing I'm worried about is the craftsmanship of the suspension. I really don't want an axle to snap in Moab.
Some people in this thread talk about "bragging rights". I am genuinely curious if anyone would be impressed by someone bragging about purchasing this NFT, or know anyone who would be impressed.

I wouldn't and can't think of anyone I know who would, the emotional response would probably just be of frustration at the absurd amount of money being spent, much like bragging about any large value novelty purchase.
I’d be interested in hearing those considerations.
It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback when we’ve had a year of figuring out how to treat the disease and reduction in use of ventilators, which was killing people.

Last June, my aunt in nyc was stacking bodies like cordwood in the back of trailers. They weren’t all 90 year old diabetics with copd.