skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and as a part of a deliberate effort to reduce the size and effectiveness of government agencies.

If you relocate a government agency HQ to an area that doesn't have any competitive jobs, you're making it more difficult for that agency to attract and retain tallent.

Just by moving the office in the first place you'll hemorrhage experienced personnel who don't want to move their lives across the country.

To proponents - that's a feature not a bug. Less effective regulation (and eventually deregulation) being the goal.
> From what I can tell their API deprecation strategy is quite hostile to developers.

Yes, every 3 months you need to revisit the API. It's good and bad. It means that if you're casually developing an app, this will consume a lot of time. Good because if forces you to update and keep your app relevant.
Not all opportunities are exercised - but especially on HN I would think we should realize that it's significant that they exist.

But your comment also brings up a possible secondary benefit: the benefit of the people to see and possibly get in contact with other real people (real for the most part hopefully), as they criticize world figures. This is something that doesn't exist in other media outlets or exists only for people who can afford to take time out to go to a protest or in person official function.
Sure, Alexandria was only the capital for 973 years.
Mighty fine of them to start caring about this months after the US election. They are run by transparent political operatives but the media constantly runs air cover for them. 50 years ago the media would be investigating the inner workings of Twitter with a microscope.
It could also potentially be your problem.

What if an officer pulls you over and has to compare current you to your ID? Could be cause for trouble.
Not really, it was pretty verbose, but wasn't hard. Pinning is for setting package priority between multiple repos.

What you're looking apt is apt-holding:

apt-mark hold libxfont1

That been around since 2013 IIRC. And there was dpkg way of doing it before.
That is a really good point - HN is much smaller and attracts a very different audience.

I agree, they have created a really unfortunate situation for us and for them.

In principal, forgetting the practicalities, would you support HN style moderation on Twitter/FB?

My gut reaction is yes. It seems to be a good balance of gut check and "we don't have time for this".

o/t

5 star online conversation dude.
The direction of webdev is webasm delivering full almost-desktop level apps and SPAs vs the documents with some minor scripting of the past.

Slow & safe javascript will simply not be adopted by the market because there is zero incentive to do so. Change the incentives and you will get the change you want.
Step 6: start noticing how some apps like to disable normal MacOS input and ignore text expansions, as well as the Character Viewer popup[1]. Notice that Electron apps are especially bad about this. Watch your hatred of Electron apps deepen.

1: cmd-ctrl-space, visit the gear menu and behold the huge number of Unicode ranges you can turn on and off in the 'Customize List' pane
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I'm in Spain so probably closer than most others here on HN, the latency is really not that bad. Seems you're related to Thomann/Stompenberg, so just wanted to thank you for this service! Will certainly help me in finding pedals without having to go through the buy/sell process I'm currently doing.
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I've not said why I believe Apple to be selfish, nor have you asked me. Though, my comments about Apple's history of user hostility might give you a clue.
> there were 141 deaths in the control arm, a 47.6 percent mortality rate

That seems very high to me. I checked quickly for data, and I found a study[0] showing mortality rates for hospitalized covid patients in the U.S. between from 9% to 15%.

So where did they find a control group with 47.6% mortality? Is care that much worse in Brazil vs. the U.S? Are they only giving this to mortally ill patients? The claim of 92% efficacy depends on this very high control group mortality.

[0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
It'd be awesome if this could help with two anti-user innovations in recent macOS:

1) Disable Apple Music, which has the annoying habit of opening every time I touch my headphones, and is not removable from my own computer.

2) Force macOS to remember that I gave Chrome location permissions instead of reseting Chrome after every update.
Yes! I included keygen music in our product key generator to great amusement of my colleagues. (No warez - internal tool to generate official license keys for our products)
Great literature transcends culture. Take Fiddler On The Roof, for example. People in... I forget, Japan maybe?... were saying "We understand why it's popular here, but why do they like it in America?" If you can reach to that level, it doesn't matter that you're a cis-het-male-Euro-American, or that you're a trans-gay-female-black-African. It won't matter if you set your story in America or Nigeria. Your literature will speak to lots of people in lots of different cultures and situations.

But if you're just a run-of-the-mill writer, your stuff won't transcend anything. Still, you should try to include the real variety of people that your setting really has, and to do so with as much understanding of those people as you can.
Messenger and Instagram are also down.
> front running == illegal with futures, I don't know about stocks.

"Front running" is only illegal if you're trading on private information. The classic example is a broker receives a large order from a client and before executing it they buy some of the same asset, assuming the clients larger order will drive the price up.

If the information is public though it's not illegal. For example, index funds publicly disclose their balances, and if there is a large market event that means they need to rebalance other traders may rush orders in because they know the index fund is going to buy/sell certain instruments in large volumes. This is legal because all the information is public.
Speak for yourself, I'm well aware that many of my preferences are esoteric. :)
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Can you give some examples of what you're referring to? I'm drawing a blank.
The article says that the contract is 0x610b8B78da143fC1E38b36C4EA0f68F86cc3b4f4

https://oko.palkeo.com/0x610b8B78da143fC1E38b36C4EA0f68F86cc... shows the trapped contract. Search for `def transfer(` on that page.
I don't have ADHD (that I know of), but often struggle with the "activation" bit as well. One seemingly simple thing that's really, really helped me was a quote from Jerry Seinfeld (on the Tim Ferriss podcast):

"You don't have to write, but you can't do anything else."

Replace "write" with "code" or whatever you need to do. His process was to set a fixed amount of time to work (having a defined length is important), sit down, start the timer, and either write or sit and do nothing.

Removing the mental pressure of "oh no I have to get this thing done" by making _doing nothing_ an acceptable outcome was huge for me. It took a few tries to actually stick to the "do nothing else" part--no HN, no phones, etc--but now I find I can dispense with distractions and get work done much more easily.
I think that's a legitimate stance, but one way to put a silver lining on this writhing cesspool of dog-eat-dog bot-fuckery is to think of it as early-access alpha testing; ironing out exploits in the wild west before it's stable enough for the not-as-extremely-online to run something useful on.
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, publishing in the Wall Street Journal. Gotta love populism.
I feel like someone should try to start from scratch and design a phone interface that any elderly person would be perfectly comfortable using and understanding.

And then sell it to the rest of us as well.
It’s not an unmodified kernel.
Org-roam: Plain-text knowledge management system
For background Duke Nukem 3D came out the same year as Quake. Quake had a far better engine that absolutely revolutionized shooters. It could do so much more than the 2.5D engines. Duke Nukem competed by having lot of character in the level design, enabled by a pile of hacks like these.
His execution on this is absolutely humbling to see. So awesome!
Yeah but this is really a list of “tweaks”. It’s a nice list don't get me wrong, but changing the currency without prompting the user, using green as the highlight color (bad for accessibility), disabling window animations, configuring Transmission and TweetBot... there is plenty in the list that is in no way a “default” nor really even a sensible outcome to expect after running the script...
Phew, it's not just me. Beyond me why more of these big tech companies can't build more redundancies for their services.
There is no correct answer. There is only answer that you want and what you can do is to fight for your answer to become the outcome.

That being said I prefer twitter to be as hands off as possible when dealing with this.
> Also this is an oral drug!

Asking as a layman:

Would that be a problem for patients who are unconscious or with breathing tubes?
Disabling natural-direction scrolling isn't sensible.

It's the first thing I fix on all other OSes. Why should the content go the opposite direction of the way I'm moving my finger?

This is one of the best fixes Apple ever made, back in Lion. Kudos to them to seeing the everyday and noticing that it was wrong.
Weird. I can't remember anyone doing that back in the day, as it was super easy to just ctrl-click. This seems like a "hack" for former Windows users ("switchers"), where ctrl-click has been around since Mac OS 8.
WSL2 is a custom Microsoft kernel
IP theft allowed China to acquire much needed technical know-how and to build up their manufacturing industry.
Clojure: Keyword argument functions now also accept maps
Any stats on how many (if any?) accidental lock outs have occurred to Democrat elected officials?

In contrast it was pretty quick to find other examples of it happening to other Republican Representatives and Senators:

* Rep. Nunes (R) - https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-suspends-devin-nunes...

* Rep. Boebert (R) - https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-locks-boebert-accoun...

* Sen. McConnell (R) - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/09/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-twi... (they don't mention it being an accident but they also walked back on requiring him to actually delete anything to get it unlocked so close enough)
I would too.

We currently have a situation (we use cheaper labor in developing countries to make stuff more cheaply). Some take issue with this for various reasons like exploitation, depriving local labor force of work etc. I genuinely would like to hear some viable alternatives.

The common response is "just pay them more". But that doesn't work in most situations. So what do we do?
Can confirm. Instagram is also down here.
Seems like not censoring anyone regardless of who they are is the best option.
You can see some of the indicators they use here:

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/orders/fraud-analysis#fra...

The thing where it calculates ip geolocation distance from the shipping address is a potential culprit. Maybe your IP address has a bad entry in their ip geo mapping software.

They also don't like proxies and VPNs.
implying that cartoons that inspire one to rise above can't also make you feel good, optimistic, or inspired?

I can't think of a miyazaki film that would make a kid feel bad about themselves.
It's a great idea as long as the long rates keep falling.

Also, huge volatility spikes can kill you, those are covert short vol instruments (i.e. they have a non-zero probability of 100% capital loss, due to the embedded leverage). This is not theoretical, 2020 saw liquidations of leveraged oil futures ETFs and ETNs that, had they not been liquidated at the most inopportune moment, would be perfectly fine.

Backtest on the standard cocktail of leveraged US Treasuries and leveraged sp500 before 1980 to see what do I mean, exactly.
Can you explain what you want to tell about Amman? I lived there when I was a kid (and the city a lot smaller) and it is the only major city in Jordan the the only logical choice as a capital. The position is also good for a capital city, there is nothing in the south (I lived in Aqaba first).
I have some scripts that are super useful but also should not be used by somebody who doesn't know exactly what they're doing, so I literally stick a `exit 1` or such in the header so a teammate can't run the script without having looked at it first.
In Hapsburg times, only a fairly small elite outside of Austria knew German. Most people in the Empire knew only their own language (or sometimes e.g. their own language and some degree of Hungarian). It wasn’t until after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that the average person – due to modern state-schooling curricula, business contacts with German speakers, or going to work in Germany – began to know German.

There is quite a body of scholarship on the sociolinguistics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, if you are curious.
I work for a big tech company that started doing 4 day workweek during COVID.

They basically tracked JIRA tickets closed and found a huge spike in those as well as developers reporting burnout. Higher-ups figured this could be a blanket solution.

Currently our setup is Wednesdays are not 'on-call'. Its being handled in a sort of "at your team's discretion" fashion to give you an idea of how strictly its being enforced and the style of implementation.

That aside, I love it. Possibly essential for a wfh environment. Burnout is real on an all code in your room schedule. It also gives me incentive to push on a project Tuesday night so I can sleep in Wednesday mornings. Projects that require a ton of communication take a hit (mid conversation Wednesdays go ghost), but I believe actual developer productivity goes up. Also I never lag on house chores or errands which is a massive boon to my mental health.

So all in all. Why not? It makes everyone happier and isn't a huge blow to output. My team has released some massive projects in the last year with extremely tight deadlines, so I imagine if it's not possible at your company, your entire situation is unhealthy.
Instagram also seems down, so likely something generic affecting faceebook's infrastructure
Did you run into noise issues? I actually haven't tried a digipot in a signal path (they do work great for other controls like LFOs and the delay time on a PT2399), but everything I've read online has told me to avoid it. I'm not hearing any in the demos so clearly it's workable!
Instagram is down for me (located in the midwest). Reports "5xx server error"
Marketing teaches us that this works, they call it a CTA - Call To Action, asking people to do what you want them to works...
Down for me in the UK for the past 30 mins.
> we're nowhere near the bandwidth limits of a hard drive

According to my calculations, SATA-3 could support almost four 4K60 streams, but only if the data for those videos was very carefully interleaved (never happens). Also literally nothing else happening on the drive, no bad-block relocation, no bottlenecks elsewhere in the system, etc. Closer to reality, those files would be laid out on different parts of the disk and you'd lucky to get even two concurrent streams without seeks between them ruining your throughput. So yes, you are at the real-world bandwidth limits of a hard drive.

By contrast, two physically smaller drives adding up to the same capacity in the same space could reliably deliver one stream each, plus probably a third with data stored on both if you had decent buffering (because now you have enough MB/s headroom to buffer) to cover the seeks that remain. Just as when I was building storage systems for video professionals in 1994-95, if I had to deliver such a system and it had to work before I got paid I know which way I'd go.
This seems like an anti-pattern and if they were sincere, wouldn't mention it at all.
Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are all down for me.
how about a simple rule?

No politicians on Twitter.
Almost every guy in that list is pretty damn handsome. The notable exception is Luisito Comunica, who I'm guessing makes up for it by being exceptionally interesting.
But not FB blue, interestingly enough for me.
Interesting to see a standard white error page with black Times New Roman text saying "5xx Server Error" at instagram.com.

Usually when Facebook goes down there's some kind of branded error page.

Does this say anything about what piece of infra is failing, especially if they share data centre space with FB but the big blue app is still live?
Yeah they do but it's been surprisingly useful for new logins and other places like adding it to the text of an email or DM.
There are some face-adjusting filters that make people "prettier" on both instagram and snapchat that immediately make them look like recognizable-looking aliens to me, but they're common enough that I could see people missing that it's actually a more extreme change in this case.
I do. In my experience a lot of newsletters that are monetized in some way or another don't get published on the web.
Massive global outage https://t.co/boWJaMxDG0?amp=1
Sounds like my kind of thing. Got a link?
Red light are meant for viewing high-contrast easily-legible maps in the dark while not ruining your night vision, and also to not give away your position as easily as a cool light would. Their purpose is quite specific. I agree that they would be an extreme measure for street lighting, and I think that colorblind people would find them problematic.
Same. Quick, SMS everyone a Signal link!
There's a broader outage somewhere, and I've had degraded service on Google Meet today. Thought it was my speed, but speedtest.net is down too! https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/speedtest.net
Not if you know how to take apart computers.
"D.C.'s median household income was only slightly higher than the national average in 2006. But by 2015 it was almost 40% higher"

Isn't this just another way of saying D.C. is defined to be a highly urbanized area?
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Does anyone know if AMD has any sort of strategy around Thunderbolt for their mobile chips? Are they stuck because of Intel IP issues?

Their desktop lines are basically the best you can get (assuming you can find anything in stock), but even the latest 5000 series laptops conspicuously lack Thunderbolt. This makes them a tough sell for some, as Thunderbolt has become the defacto standard for modern docking stations...
I have it working with vpn. We have vpn at work and it is forced tunneling mode. It modifies routes on my laptop. Since wsl2 is a vm on a different network the vpn client does not know about this network and doesn’t know how to route traffic. If you follows these instructions it solves the problem https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit
Tailoring Pants to your codebase: Automated BUILD maintenance via dep inference
Whatsapp is reporting same error here(India)
https://web.whatsapp.com/status.json
> it seems to run fine until you go over a bump, then it kills you

That's half of duck-typing. You're missing the exception response where safety is enforced. A static type system fails with the wrong type. A duck-typed system responds with something as sensible as it can reason with what it was handed. Must often, that's a hard failure because most code is brittle and doesn't need the robustness (i.e. don't build what you aren't going to need).
Safari does this too.. Apple is on some horse about requiring user intervention for every single location request even from sites you’ve already allowed in the past. It’s annoying.
Overall, I agree with you. Red lights are great for maintaining night-vision, but they're an extreme option. Color-blind people may also not get much use out of them.
FYI, you've used a slur -- Tr*p is a slur for transgender folks often used in association with porn. You may want to either clarify your meaning (in case you are using the word in a different meaning) or choose a different word.
this is exactly why we need 1000000 different messaging apps lol
Yes, it is an indictment of ethereum. The ERC-20 standard doesn't specify anything more than function interfaces. Those functions could do anything, including stealing all of your approved tokens. Or the contract could be changed without holder consent. That's a disastrous result for users, and not at all what people think is implied by cryptographic ownership of a token.
Yeah, lets replace this centralized service that goes down sometimes with another centralized service that hasn't started going down sometimes yet!

OR, get people on Matrix or similar so we can actually stop jumping ship when our centralized dear service stops acting in our best interest.
> Parking lots are not very valuable.

??? It depends entirely on the location of the parking lot.

The land value of a downtown parking lot which is the same size as a high-rise building lot next door is going to be similar. Obviously the high-rise is worth more money since there’s a building with leasable space, but the land value of both lots will be very close. A parking lot doesn’t need to remain a parking lot forever, you could borrow money and build a building on it.
Instagram is down: 5xx Server Error
This is a strange tweet. It assumes people are familiar with classical cancellation error, but not familiar with error analysis. Which in my experience... people either understand both, or are ignorant of both concepts.

The general point is that "cancellation error" happens more than just in floating-point operations, but also in "classic scientific sig-fig error analysis".

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The tweet should either be dumbed down to discuss cancellation error in floating-point arithmetic, or elevated up and assume people know about sig-fig analysis. It sits at a weird point in the "assumed knowledge" curve.

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For people unfamiliar with cancellation error, try the two following statements in Python3 (which defaults to double-precision... aka 53-bits of mantissa).

poor_ordering = 9007199254740992.0 + 1.0 + 1.0 + 1.0 + 1.0 - 9007199254740992.0
good_ordering = 9007199254740992.0 - 9007199254740992.0 + 1.0 + 1.0 + 1.0 + 1.0

What are the values of "poor_ordering" vs "good_ordering" ?? What does this tell us about double-precision?

9007199254740992.0 == 2^53. So it is impossible for a double-precision number to accurately represent +/- 1.0 at 2^53. (Note that +/- 2.0 will work out just fine).

Play around with 9007199254740992.0 +/- 1.0, or 2.0, and other values for about 15 minutes, and you'll probably learn everything you need to know about cancellation error from that playtime alone.

Double-precision numbers are composed of 52-explicit bits + 1 implicit bit + 1 sign bit + 11-bit exponent bits (yes, 65-bits total. The implicit bit "doesn't count", but makes 0.0 and subnormal numbers harder to deal with)
Ebola may persist in the body for years before sparking new outbreaks
They allow anti-semantic comments from some leaders and censor others over opinions that they don't support but haven't violated any actual reading of the rules. They have demonstrated that they cannot figure this problem out. So, since they cannot do it in an objective or fair way, they should not do it at all. People can follow or not follow. Elected leaders have always been a special case.
It's not just about adding redundancies. Redundancies don't protect you against bugs, and they're itself very complex, so they introduce more opportunity for errors. Even with best redundancy, you'll have incidents from time to time.
>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de)

Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset
Down in Brazil too together with instagram and facebook. More food for conspiracy theorists...