skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were worried about internationalization and they though reserving vrai/faux, adevărat/fals, etc would be overkill.

I'm kidding. It does seem like a strange decision...
"It tries to trick users into installing it or it piggybacks on the installation of another program"

Doesn't Chrome do this with it's constant nag popops on Search if you're using any other browser, or how it's bundled with other software?
When I first started WFH almost 15 years ago, this was the exact conversation I had with my boss at the time. Video chat wasn't as big of deal then, so most calls were on the phone. Even though I ended up moving 2 time zones away, I kept my work hours the same, and it took almost a year before co-workers I interacted with regularly even knew I moved.
The UK lottery is owned by a Canadian teachers pension fund, https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3308480/For....

IIRC, Richard Branson offered to run it with 100% of stakes going to charity. Not sure what his angle was, probably worth it for the advertising?
Well, the article is about somebody doing this (in a simulator), not talking about doing it. Of course we are talking defense contractors here, so it's hard to tell wishful thinking from reality here. But logically, they would have been working on this for quite some time as it has been an obvious thing to be throwing lots of dollars at for some decade+ or so. So, it wouldn't surprise me if this was about as real as it looks.

Anyway, you can compensate for human smartness by just being unhumanly fast and compensating for their weaknesses. E.g. doing 16G turns, would kill/knock out the pilot but is probably OK from a structural point of view. Likewise, taking decisions faster than a human can take them matters when rockets are traveling towards you at several times the speed of sound. And of course maintaining situational awareness is a thing humans aren't good at when they are pulling many Gs and are dealing with a very complex battlefield. Tunnel vision, blacked out vision, etc. are all things fighter pilots have to fight against.

For the same reason, most dog fights are over before they begin these days. It mostly involves rockets fired from many miles away and a game of trying to dodge them. Basically, this space is already dominated by computer operated rockets. Shooting down planes with onboard machine guns stopped being a thing mostly. Except of course for countries still flying antiquated airplanes.
No worries, it’s possible to write a book without letter ‘e’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
The one thing I took from most threads on this topic is: Everyone seems to think broadband speeds are terrible and expensive at their place, fed by many anecdotes.
So? We have fully developed fiber networks everywhere in EU, but the last 500m ... 200m to every building is expensive (this about tree structures).
This seems to overlap with that Wolfram thread from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26544651
Now they just need to buy arm manufacturer and biochem company and they will be proper cyberpunk zaibatsu.
Because it has no app marketplace and targeted at tech people, not management. And management usually wins when they want everyone in one system. Also running both trackers is not an option b/c of the integration, licensing and support costs with little benefit for the management.
So the Chinese government 100% scrubbed down any data and silenced anyone working there. They stonewalled the WHO and world at large during the beginning of the out break, likely to cover their tracks.

What changed for me is how much circumstantial evidences exists and probably a stronger signal: there hasn’t been another plausible starting point. When something smells this fishy there’s likely a reason. It’s starting to feel like, Occam’s razor - ie that a lab leak is the simplest explanation.
China pissed and moaned when the WHO was considering recommending banning Chinese air traffic in precaution. Then swiftly banned Western air traffic when the shoe was on the other foot.

Many such examples exist. China did not lead by example, at all. What a strange take.
Seconding this. For individuals who can't separate work and play without physically separating them, yeah, I get you. I just don't have that problem, and there are almost no benefits to meeting in person for me.

Additionally, WFH (especially remote-only) gives me a chance to move to a bigger place outside the big city without having to balance the choices of between a small, cramped space for a shorter commute, or a bigger place with a longer commute. I like living in a place where the air is a little cleaner, there is more space and I don't have to commute for 1-2 hours back and forth on public transport or drive a car (at least not most days in the week).

A bigger place in turn solves the issue with penny-pinching or bureaucracy-heavy companies making it difficult to create a work environment which suits me. Yes, money is still a thing, but when tech is something you love anyway, spending a few hundred / thousand bucks on a work environment which will last 10 years is not that big of an issue.

At least right now, its a cycle which reinforces itself very nicely for its benefactors.
I learned Go as my first statically typed language(Worked on ruby and some python before that). Although I missed the functional goodies from Ruby in Go, I thought that was the price I had to pay for performance and static checking guarantees.. Nevertheless, I enjoyed writing Go and its take on writing concurrent programs. As others have called it, I thought of Go as "modern C with garbage collection and first class concurrency primitives".

All this changed when I started learning Rust, man was I blown away by the language.. I never thought a statically typed language with manual memory management can feel so "scripting language" like.(Sure the borrow checker annoys you sometimes, nothing a `.clone()` can't fix when you are starting out). I truly enjoy writing Rust these days and never have I missed anything major from Ruby.

I'll be damned if I sit here and criticize Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, but I feel like in their quest to make Go "simple" they've perhaps held a little too hard on to their past.

tldr; Go feels a little too verbose and "dated" after learning rust.
When I embarked on writing my first (of 10) books, my publisher shared a wise quote/insight, which I have never forgotten:

[The quote has been attributed to many authors, so I won’t engage in that debate]

“I don’t enjoy writing. But I love having written.”

Na’er a true word has been spoken.
(As covered in several HN threads in recent days. This is just Jalopnik catching up with the rest of the internet.)
So, stereotypically, women are more socially aware than men. Personally, this is something I've definitely noticed strongly with boys vs girls, even from a young age the girls seem to be more aware of others around them and their emotional state, whereas the boys usually seem more oblivious (on average, obviously, not saying this applies to every single girl or boy).

I know many social progressives would argue this is due to socialization...but the effect seems too strong at too early an age to blame solely on socialization to me.

On a related note, I recently read an article about trans men where one noted that they seemed to have become more conversationally impatient, and blamed it on the different hormones: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/07/20/feat...

> "The hormones made me more impatient. I had lots of female friends and one of the qualities they loved about me was that I was a great listener. After being on testosterone, they informed me that my listening skills weren’t what they used to be. Here’s an example: I’m driving with one of my best friends, Beth, and I ask her “Is your sister meeting us for dinner?” Ten minutes later she’s still talking and I still have no idea if her sister is coming. So finally, I couldn’t take it anymore, and I snapped and said, “IS SHE COMING OR NOT?” And Beth was like, “You know, you used to like hearing all the backstory and how I’d get around to the answer. A lot of us have noticed you’ve become very impatient lately and we think it’s that damn testosterone!” It’s definitely true that some male behavior is governed by hormones. Instead of listening to a woman’s problem and being empathetic and nodding along, I would do the stereotypical guy thing — interrupt and provide a solution to cut the conversation short and move on. I’m trying to be better about this."
Haha. It's weird huh? A noisy office bugs me, but the hum (sound and activity) of a coffee shop puts me into a deep focus.
It's not eerily prescient at all. It has been known a long time and the subject of much research that viruses jumping from bats to humans is one of the most likely, and most dangerous sources of new infectious diseases in humans.
That is true, but the difference is the lack of accountability, which is cultural/societal/political - there are virtually no external forces to counter a potentially dishonest official narrative.

A one party state means that there is no pressure from political opponents (political battles inside the party will never trump the party itself). And there is no pressure from journalists - China has the worst score for press freedom [1] (bar Eritreaa, Turkmenistan and North Korea) with a downward trend over the last decade. If there's no one to hold your feet to the fire, there's little incentive to self-incriminate.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/china
> the acqusition process may depend on the pedigree of your engineers

I doubt it. Investors care about sales, growth etc. If they really care about the technology itself they'd probably look at the CTO / tech leads and thats it. I don't see how some developer's interviewing skills matters to the bottom line.
I guess it depends on which Latin alphabet variation. Vietnamese or Polish speakers will probably not feel intimidated by Arabic :-p
> Take a look at some youtube videos of a Nikon P1000 at maximum zoom looking through ordinary atmosphere at some distance away for an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQlwKX3LQA

This is unbelievable.
> Heck, you don't need orbital assembly for that. SpaceX could put in orbit a single- or two-engine starship with no landing legs and no heat shielding for transfers.

That's SpaceX's lunar lander plan - a Starship that'd never need to come back to Earth except for refueling.
Source please, that will impact how much credence I give the article.
well that is just sad ...
I feel like there's a lot of people here that really hate going back to the office because they already moved out of location and are desperate to avoid any commute if possible.

There can be balance.It's not one or the other.
> If I say: "there's a 25% chance that Pat is from North Dakota", I'm taking as a given that there is a person named Pat, and I'm talking about the chance that Pat, whom we know to exist, is from North Dakota.

Yes, and if I say "there's a 0.001% chance that these coin flip observations were coincidental", I'm taking it as a given that there were coin flips observed (indeed, there were!) I'm talking about the chance that the observations, which we (indeed) know to exist, were coincidental.

That is... literally P(observations | null hypothesis) = P(10 heads | fair). It's clearly not P(null hypothesis | observations) = P(fair | 10 heads)...

> In this case, grammatically, they're talking about the chance that the measurement (data) is a statistical coincidence, as opposed to not being a statistical coincidence. They're not talking about the chance that the data exists, as opposed to not existing.

Which is... perfectly fine. The data clearly does exist (as would the coin flips in my example), so the chance of the data existing is 100%... there's nothing interesting to talk about there. But the chance of it having been coincidental is 0.001%.

This all seems correct to me...
But as you can see from this thread, it's not a problem "as compared to most, if not all, of the developed World". It's a problem in lot's of countries, including Germany, Austria, France, and the UK.
I think the more likely use is supplementing existing facial recognition. Recognize a face on a security camera, then be able to track their movements out and about after that. Before, too, if you store the satellite footage.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christianstork/spy-plan..., but at scale.
I live in small town.

I pay 645 rupees ~ 9 dollars per month, for 60mbps speed till 3.3TB, 2mbps beyond 3.3TB.

Other plans range from 30mbps to 300mbps with costs ranging from 590 - 1800 rupees i.e., 8 to 24 dollars.

Government plans to cover whole country by end of 2022.
How is the branding clean when you have different, thoroughly incompatible products under the same name and go to great lengths to blur the line between them? I can think of the following instances:

- Visual Studio (the real deal), Visual Studio for Mac (MonoDevelop), Visual Studio Code (Atom clone)

- OneNote (the original, part of Office), OneNote for Windows 10 (nerfed UWP rewrite)

- Skype, Skype for Business (Lync)

My issue is that the same name is slapped onto different products that have significant user-visible differences and lack compatibility with one another. That's why I'm not including Outlook, because every product that is called "Outlook" does at least talk to Exchange and doesn't create its own island.
Atmospheric distortions are worse when looking horizontally though the atmosphere (think marriage on the horizon).

It's also only the bottom few miles of atmosphere that is really thick.

Looking vertically from 400km up, there actually isn't too much distortion. The limiting factor is making high enough quality lenses and getting enough light onto your sensor without too much diffraction.
But it's less expensive per subscriber (and therefore more profitable and more expected to be delivered) when you have higher pop density.
Is there a good history of spy satellites anywhere? It ought to be amazing - I remember watching Ice Station Zebra as a kid, where super-spies fought to the death over a canister of film, and now Google gives away better resolution photos.

The US downgraded moon photos to prevent Russians getting an idea of the quality, Russian subs were analysed with one photo and a scratch on the titanium plating. It would be great to see that playing out - technology, analysis and politics shown together.
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Pattern of life analysis correlated with ground based intelligence, where your car goes, where it usually parks in the day and at night, etc. You would need a lot of LEO satellites to approach anything like persistent coverage, however, current sun synchronous things have very long revisit times for any particular site.
To me the question is, if it's still a bug once the original bug in 3.0.2 got fixed. I'd argue no, you might argue yes.

I think auto-upgrades of Docker are totally fine if it makes the lives of Docker devs easier and they can concentrate on more meaningful things. After all, the majority of the user base is not paying a single cent for the software. If a paying customer complains about auto-upgrades and wants to buy into their own support branch, that's a different story.
>And for 40 years they could not change?

Of course they 'could', but that would mean for corruption to have gone down and political competence to have gone up in those 40 years but unfortunately it hasn't, quite the opposite.

In Germany, high level corruption and political incompetence has only increased in that time (see BER airport, VW emissions scandal, and the handling of COVID).

Basically if you're well connected and rich, you're untouchable in Germany and your corruption mishaps will be swept under the rug as casual political 'whoopsies' right after you retire to a gold plated pension.
I’d settle for login forms that don’t hide the password box until you enter your username/email.

I don’t see how they benefit real users in any way, and my password manager can’t understand it, requiring manual copy/paste entry
Maybe it's time to take the US from the list of developed countries?
You claim that the cause for China's success is its reduction of the state-control of its economy, and that China's Communist nature does not play a great role in its success.

The countless countries with less state-control of the economy than China, but worse economic performance, stand as evidence strong that this is false.

Not sure what a bureaucratic administration is meant to have to do with communism.
I think it's definitely worth it for some people, at least financially. But many many others will study for months just to find out they can't make it no matter how much they prepare. I mean they accept how many - 2% of applicants? If you can look at it as a learning experience that's fine as well.
I've only heard "China virus" being used with xenophobic intent. Back in January 2020 before it has an official name it was referred to as the Wuhan virus.
Yup. And they are, technically, because if someone has that one login and password, they can access all your accounts.

But it turns out that keeping that 1 login and password in your head and trusting the rest to your password service (especially if you let it make random passwords) is way more secure than what people do if they have to try to keep them all in their head.

So it's about relative security. Both sides are correct, in their narrow views of the situation.
I've never heard of this either...and more interesting: Eric Schmidt, Chairman, NSCAI
> users need to give free access to their credit card for payment, at the promise that the other party will play nice

This is something I only encounter with American companies/sites/processors. When I shop or pay online locally, 3-D Secure is always required.

It's kinda appalling how much of the web/online experience is negatively impacted by US norms.
I'd wager it would have defeated the US in the Battle of Midway. And the position of tanks and soldiers is a gigantic part of warfare.
Doctorow's point is that the citenzens need to make themselves heard so this problem can be fixed. If you think your country has worse broadband than the US, vocally complain to your politicians too. Arguing over who's the worst won't help anyone.
Yeah, it's weird how the narrative is that mental health has plunged because people can't sit in traffic and go to the office while completely ignoring we've been in a pandemic for over a year.

I miss pre-pandemic WFH, and want to get back that ASAP.
They select people who have a lot of discretionary time. I guess that is ok, if you want an organisation consisting mostly of young people without family that are happy to work weekends and evenings.

I’m very happy to be in a position where I can do most learning during company time, and then spend my free time with my wife and kids.
Yes, if not explicitly then by their actions definitely. E.g.: there is only a single bank in France that hasn't switched to a stupid 6-8 digit system where you have to click buttons that appear in random order. Before then they often disabled autofill on passwords (luckily that could have been easily bypassed). They incessantly re-invent the wheel for 2-factor auth and so on. I find it very curious why banks of all institutions are those with the worst security.
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There will never be an apology. A corporate apology is an admission of guilt. An admission of guilt opens it up to lawsuits. Through its litigeous nature, the US has evolved a culture whereby apologies and human decency are antithetical to survival.
Slices are definitely full of "gotcha". As is the fact that interfaces have two types of nil, type and untyped.

And the extremely leaky implementation detail of maps and slices is definitely a gotcha. Usage wise both slice and map can be nil, but map has to be make()d, for no obvious reason.

The fact that the author was confused about "strings can't be nil" shows their Java experience, I think. Coming from C++ programmer I would go "well of course it can't be nil". (But slices and maps can? Wat?)

Slices have another gotcha, described, where yes there are arrays, but you basically never use them. They're just a ghost that pops its head in and is the explanation for why your code that treated slices like lists/arrays failed.

You're (almost) only supposed to use this leaky abstraction that'll bite you if you think your "list of items" is "a list".

I say this as someone who's coded a lot of Go, and reviewed much much more: Go, like other things Rob Pike makes, only make sense and are consistent and intuitive inside his brain. They don't make objective sense.

The poster child for this is "Go doesn't have exceptions". It has "unwind the stack, call cleanup code along the way, until a handler is met. If there's no handler it'll terminate the application". In Rob Pike's brain the very definition of "exception" is something completely different from "exception".

Even the defense "we don't call them exceptions because they should not be used e.g. for failing to open a file!" is complete nonsense to anyone who's ever heard of C++. Yeah. File not found is not an exception in C++, what's your point?

That and "well OF COURSE the go compiler for ARM is called 5g and x86 is called 6g!!!".
> Matrix is comparatively lacking in features

I'm curious, what features exactly you have in mind? The basic text chat feature is here, in both public and private form (tho, the concept of rooms for private messages is kinda weird) so is audio and video but I haven't tried that yet.
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Haha, nice. Maybe I need to rewrite my blog :-D
Yes, this is rather disappointing. It's probably also in breach of GDPR assuming backblaze haven't contacted customers directly, informing them about the nature and detail of leaked data (based on your use of backblaze on X, we see that the following filenames and Metadata was incorrectly handed over to a third party (Facebook)...).
> My impression was that "lab escape" was conflated with "deliberate release" by conspiracy types early on

No, the conflating was done by the media and this is exactly how I know it’s actually the most probable theory. The same thing happened for other few big "accidents", where the media/government were prompt to demonize a particular option and push a less convincing one.
I use Refined Hacker News[0] to get a list of past threads at the bottom of the page. dang himself has said[1] it overlaps surprisingly with their internal extension, so it might prove useful

[0]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20176460
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Try _nine_ decades!
Skype was the previous home of many of the communities that were the early adopters of discord, and they left after years of MS running the show, which seems like a better comparison to me
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The FCC is a victim of regulatory capture and the current Republican theory of government. If you've missed it, here it is: the government should not do anything besides courts and armies and tax policy.

The FCC was also hindered by the majority Democratic position that regulation of monopolies is a dangerous precedent and that positive economic incentives will work to encourage policy objectives.

It's never 20 years too late to adopt the reasonable position that Internet-connected bandwidth is a prerequisite for participation in the current economic and civic life of first-world economies.