skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fun and all, but are they random? It sounds hard, but not impossible, to balance these correctly. As neat as it would be to have some, if they can't serve the basic function of dice, they're just tchotckes.

(And testing that should be built into the app.)
Ask HN: How can I make VSCode faster?
I wish it wasn't built on electron, maybe one day they will release native version, it doesn't have to have latest features, it can update once a year and electron version can update monthly.

In meanwhile what can I do? Buy fastest ram? I've removed as many extensions I could.
There is a book called Because Internet. It's about linguistic change on the internet. It starts out by dividing internet into different periods and defining meaningful cohorts of users. The later part makes for a much more meaningful separation than old vs young. In fact younger users are often less techy than older cohorts since at some point you had to be technically fluent to even get on the internet.
Leah Rowe Coups Libreboot
On the company side? Not necessarily. Having a union "peacefully" is probably better than having a union while screaming about rigged elections, creating strife and chaos within your own company.

Companies' union-busting attempts are often the best advertising a union can wish for.
That's my kink.
I'm not attacking the people losing their life in these work infernos, I'm talking about the system which enslaved them and made them think this was their paradise

> There is a fulfilment I still miss in that work.

What work are you talking about ? Moving boxes of gadgets all day for lord Bezos while being tracked by optimisation software telling you when to pee or take a smoke break ? Slicing chicken breasts 10 hours a day in a slaughter house ? Driving your leased car for uber 12 hours a day to earn a semi decent wage ? Driving a delivery van, working crazy shifts and not being able to take restroom breaks ?

I'm not talking about a guy making hand made wooden tables in his garage enjoying his craft and skills, I'm not talking about a plumber or a mechanic fixing real world problems, I'm talking about human beings used as robots, doing indecent work for indecent wages.

People aren't stupid, they're lied too, since birth
I think you were manipulated with some examples, so let me know such example that you are thinking of, also try to fit your view with my examples: "miners union demand pay on time and safer conditions", "actors union demand safety", "teacher union demands a raise equal with inflation" . Your view is that this groups should wait until the free market will solve their issue? Many people here are comparing their programming job with someone that works an unskilled low paying job, this people can't individually demand things like "hey, put it in my contract that you will allow me 2 minutes toilet breaks, not 1 like the others, I am a 10X worker see my CV on GitHub"
The i in your pei shan't be there, the sound is a flat peh. All of the syllables are flat sounds, hah-lah-peh-nyo.
> We have some more blog posts planned :)

That's great, looking forward to them! :)

> Is there anything in particular you'd like to read about?

I'd love to get a better impression of what your setup, well, feels like. Specifically, three UX questions have been going through my mind lately – probably because I've been working from home for far too long haha :( and having a portal like yours would be fantastic!

1) How important, in your experience, is it for people to look (or have the impression of looking) into each other's eyes? What ways have you thought of that could accomplish that? Do you maybe even happen to have a solution? My gut feeling has been that being able to hold eye contact would go a long way towards making people on each side of the portal feel "close" to each other. So if this were possible somehow, his would be a game changer.

2) How would one do conference calls with your setup, UI-wise? (Let's assume for a moment that bandwidth is not a constraint.)

3) What about eye contact (question 1) when there's a group on each side of the "portal"? It seems almost impossible to achieve with a 2D screen.
I'm not surprised that's a Washington Post reporter's take, but given the same information I have a different take: this is very much the FAA's fault. This is a billion dollar development program and the FAA ought to be able to get someone in state for oversight, or allow remote oversight in cases where they can't get their guy there promptly (because, don't forget, of a different government bureaucracy, not SpaceX). Also they should be easier to reach.

By saying that SpaceX "must provide adequate notice of its launch schedule", they are basically saying that it's unreasonable for anyone to try a fast-paced space development program. SpaceX has to slow down so the FAA isn't inconvenienced by having to hire a local inspector, or having the inspector wait idle a few days, or keep their phone on and travel on short notice, or figure out remote inspections. Which is just the epitome of government bureaucracy.
Supposedly after it releases on the XboxX in a few months they're going to take a look at getting it onto Xcloud. Alternatively you could use something like Shadow which looks like one of the more straightforward cloud gaming services (although I haven't tried it yet)
I still think cooling is a larger long-term threat than warming. Warming is a temporary disruption for humans, but the biosphere will, overall, flourish. Cooling is more of a general threat to Earth life, and it's pretty sure to happen. We are subject to periodic ice ages. The difference, I guess, is that the warming is upon us NOW, while the ice age is potentially 50,000 years off.
> This looks like some badly-written, memleak-inducing code. You can cause that in pretty much any language.

I must have misunderstood you because it read like you were suggesting the code could be determined to be memory leak inducing at a glance — wanted to know which part of it looked like that if so.
Please, I remember we would all die a horrible death due to a nuclear armageddon.
When that didn't happen, we would all suffocate because all the forests would die due to acidrain.

Then we would all die of skin cancer due to the ozone-hole.

I actually remember the nuclear effects from Tjernobyl, glad I didn't die then.

In all of those cases they were massive problems that took massive efforts to fix. Have you heard of SO2 scrubbers? The Clean Air Act? The Montreal Protocol? The bunch of dead liquidators in Chernobyl?

For that matter you missed tetraethyl lead gasoline additives, dioxins, asbestos, and cigarettes. There are too many massive problems and too frequently there are greedy (evil?) people fighting to keep the status quo.

What's different is that global warming has been blunted by icecap melting, ocean warming, and ocean thermal expansion. We've used up our budget, and it will get abruptly worse. The sheer quantity of energy is beyond any prior problem humanity has ever created and you can't bargain with thermodynamics. Now it's our turn to deal with a problem, like previous generations did in the examples you mentioned.
> a lot of organizations want to beat the averages

Bold assertion! I think a lot of orgs would love to be as good as average, joking aside.
> they don’t get in trouble for you throwing away good food, but they potentially get in lots of trouble if you eat bad food on their recommendation. Their incentive in that situation is to be almost comically conservative

This seems like a common failure mode of bureaucracies. It reminds me in particular of the FAA's medical division (just because that's one bureaucracy I butt heads with a lot). They'll never get in trouble for saying no; "comically conservative" doesn't even begin to describe it.
they may not even have the site by the name registered
Perhaps intuitive is the wrong word.

Once you are familiar with it, it is easy to continue using, and much faster than fumbling around in a GUI trying to find the magic button.

For most commands it's also easy to find the necessary subcommand via man or -h or whatever. The other big thing is scriptability, there's a number of things I find myself doing a few times a day, I can throw that in a script (about a minute to do for most of them) and now they take .5 seconds to do, versus waiting for a GUI to load/run -- Plus, now it's my stupid 3 letter acronym I need to remember :P .
Germany stops using AstraZeneca for people under 60
"Nuclear agency" makes it sound like the NRC or DoE. This was U.S. Strategic Command, i.e. the nuclear weapons agency.
Good advice: "Employees should not be storing anything that could harm a firm reputationally on company servers. Training around this should be provided by organisations to all their staff."
> Looking forward to Safari [1], if we look at their Developer Release Note there has an unusually large amount of work in the past year post Safari 14. I think they hired some of the Firefox developers to Webkit. Hopefully that will speed up certain features implementation.

While certainly some people have been hired from Mozilla, I don't think it's particularly significant.

The areas which have seen increased activity are mostly down to earlier architectural work being completed, both speeding up new feature development and accounting for lack of new features previously.
People don't like having to type in their password each time they come back to the computer. Especially if their password is required to be fairly long and complex, which can become tedious to have to type in constantly during the day.

If you want users to adopt secure practices then you have to lower the amount of friction. Adding a fingerprint reader or some other kind of biometrick unlocking capability would probably help.

A better example: I think on macOS the system can be setup to automatically lock and unlock by wearing an Apple Watch.

The users aren't the ones that have to be trained, it's the flawed security practices that need to be fixed.
Recently had the same experience with Activision, turned out I was shadowbanned because my name contained the word "Erotica". No phone support, email or chat, I ended up finding a solution in a single thread on Battlenet forums.

Battle.net allows names that are banned by Activision, and when logging into COD it was automatically imported, banning my account.
So many world records involving the climate have been broken in recent years. Is there still hope left for our planet? I was in the ocean a few months back and the water was calm, the sound of the waves was peaceful. The beach was beautiful. But there was a problem beneath the surface. Plastic everywhere. Pieces of it broken down throughout the water and when I exited the water it was all throughout the sand as well. I walked up the entire beach and plastic was everywhere. Throughout such refined sand. I hit a low that day. Sometimes I lose hope, I'm just not sure we will be able to right our course towards sustainability and minimalism in time to avert climate disaster and this sixth mass extinction in the anthropocence. I just hope one day when I'm old I will not lose the sakura blossom festivals altogether and that posterity will still be able to enjoy the tranquility of a new spring.
Try to read the best models for the next 50 years by serious scientific groups like the IPCC. Try to ignore the denialist and alarmist reports that get to the front page of newspapers.
and em works in arabic and mongolian?
It's funny how game theory gets fouled up all the time in real life. A rainstorm or a faulty mechanism or a careless installer or 100 other human or non-human factors that aren't part of the game theory intervene to change everything.

If game theory is stacked against ethical behavior in a particular situation, I'll back ethical behavior. It's encouraging how often the game theory gets tripped up by factors outside the "rules".
> the world is shrinking as large corporations try and squeeze as much revenue as possible out of markets

this. My friends (I'm in highschool) that aren't as experienced in technology (use it as you describe, "God forbid you ever want to try and see if you can get 'A' to appear over the movie") are genuinely terrified of opening the terminal and using anything just slightly out of how it was meant to be used because they don't want to 'hack anything'.

> we need to make sure that new generations are brought up empowered to hack things in creative ways.

also this. Unfortunately, much easier said than done.
They must be willing to foot the bill for testing beyond a certain amount of the NASA award (40 million of the 135?).
This feels written by someone that was never in a bbs scene. They were usually far smaller in scope, but these emergent behaviors were fairly clear even then. Same happened on prodigy, compuserve, and aol.

Heck, the same mostly happens in your community center in really small towns, without care.
The US led western coalition militaries are all now pivoting to peer level(Russia/China) military threats.

Russia was a great power in great decline, but still capable of great disruption(Georgia/Ukraine).

China is a great power with great momentum.

But this is not another Cold War.

During the Cold War the world was largely bifurcated into competing networks based on ideology.

Nations switching from one network to another were rare and switching costs were high.

Now in a highly integrated global economy value proposition is what matters and switching costs for nations is much lower.

Having 1 billion daily active users in the developing world on a Superplatform(Facebook/WeChat) is worth more than the 1 trillion sunk cost invested in Supercarriers(Nimitz/Ford Class).

This is not another Cold War, it is ruthless and relentless competition between competing value propositions.
Even authentic users are bullshitted into unknowingly spewing unauthentic bs.
"Saves me setting up RAID then, thanks!"
Let me do some guesses.

Well, they are shooting at a per Raptor cost of 100k long term 250k short term. Even assuming it is 4x as much now, that is about 3m for the engines.

The stainless steel only cost a couple 100k$ at most.

Add in some bits and pieces, like flight termination system, thruster system and tanks, sensors and so on, add another couple 100k$, lets say 1 million. All of these are already produced by SpaceX in pretty large numbers.

Then manufacturing cost, is a bit hard to calculated, they are producing one prototype every couple of weeks and most of the labor is in welders and most of the machines are welding robots. Labor cost being the dominate cost.

A large part of the cost would likely be the launch site construction itself, and how you want to amortize to an individual prototype is hard to say.

Then there is another bunch of cost for operations and fuel add another couple 100k.

So I would assume a cost of 3 million to 20 million. I'm giving this a pretty large range because its a guessing game. Over the course of a year they tested about 10 increasingly complex prototypes. That would at the high end be a cost of 200 million for one year of this process, if we ignore the design cost.

Consider that NASA SLS has a budget of about 2.5 billion a year including ground system (and that has been going on for 10+ years and will go on for many more), SpaceX is basically nickel and dimming a launch vehicle of that size.

Elon Musk has a couple of saying along the lines of 'if its long its wrong' regarding development. Spending 50% less time while blowing up prototypes regularly is cheaper then spending longer on the project overall. A lot of the things SpaceX does is novel, so no matter how much design work, nobody has ever flipped a deep cryo methane tank and started a full flow staged engine with torch igniter.

Working the perfect design for this on paper would take incredibly long and even then you might have to start over again and once you finally test it.

This is certainty an expensive program, but compared to Starlink is seems less insane in terms of cash burn. Doing both together is a bit extra insane, but on the other hand if you have Starship, the cost of Starlink drops to pretty absurdly low level.
The pointless out of band emissions testing of an emissions compliant truck (that easily passes the tests) having to go in for a test because it smokes a bit under hard acceleration and someone called it in for "rolling coal" is very much a nuisance to the truck owner and a waste of time/resources for all parties involved.

An older diesel engine can smoke a decent bit under hard acceleration and still be entirely emissions legal - it's not until you get into the particulate filters in the... oh, 2010s or so (not sure, I don't have anything that new) that you can contain all the particulate matter.

If your stance is that diesels shouldn't be permitted, or that anything older than a certain age shouldn't be allowed to be registered, that's fine, but that's not what I'm referring to here.
Wages have stagnated since sometime around unions started to lose power. Wage growth has certainly not kept up with GDP. And the decoupling of these two things happened around the time unions started to lose power.
"500 years of typography is useless; let's throw everything out!"

"Also, I see no reason to honor the so-called “default line-height”. It’s basically a font designer’s personal preference, imposed on every user of the font in every viewing condition."

Yes, that would be "font design".
> Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words.

You seem to be proceeding from an axiom that Amazon is always scary competent at everything it does, so you can infer that something that is not scary competent is not from Amazon. I don't think that axiom is true, and Amazon's perfectly capable of doing embarrassingly ham-fisted things. Especially since great success tends to breed hubris and lowered sensitivity to small failures (since your other successes mean you can fuck up and still be fine).
This piece is oddly copy-edited. Paragraph 7 refers to "the infamous hacker group" and paragraph 5 "the cyber-criminal gang", but both of these expressions are serving as a pronoun reference to a previously named group. Then you look up to see if you missed the actual name of the hacking group, or even a link to the post, and... nope!

Then below the headline "The New Normal", a second group is introduced as "another ransomware group". I assume "another ransomware group" is the group subsequently referred to as "the relatively new gang". Also, relative to whom or what?

I am assuming the author of the piece originally named the groups or provided the detail you'd expect to have it make sense. Then editorial/legal spiked the names but did not copy-edit the rest of the piece to flow around the changes? I mention this because the article also weirdly edits around the nature or name of the firm targeted in the first story.

Weird.
Interestingly, the infamous "covfefe" tweet using the cryptogram-solver dissolves to "IMPEDED".
Yep the problem is the so called "bad information" is mostly just stuff the left dislikes due to Trump and not necessarily false. This is easy to see now that Biden is doing just as badly with immigration and even worse is some regards but now suddenly it's not an issue we need to be concerned with.

It's incredibly obvious that even factual information is being regarded as false if it doesn't align with a certain agenda. This is where it gets pretty scary and basically you're telling people you want their children in a re-education camp to make sure they fall in line. It's the opposite of the critical thinking they're supposedly pushing.
Why exactly is the video secondary?
> No, it should be very easy to keep people out, because that's the fundamental mechanism behind any community, defining its borders and limits. That's what freedom of assembly is. There should be many different communities and they all should easily be able to set differentiated rules for who can participate and who can't.

Sounds like you oppose Inclusion.

For your sake, I hope no one finds that controversial.
> . Other scripts are simply out of scope.

Luckily, the font engine developers for popular operating systems did not scope those issues out just because they were inconvenient for designers who falsely assume that "16" should mean an arbitrary part of a letter in a font is always 16 pixels high.

> There's no racism here.

No one said there was until you brought it up?
Leaky abstraction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
they're in a decentralized cult
> Heck, the same mostly happens in your community center in really small towns, without care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE
If they required values to always be initialized, that would either require a concept of constructors (the whole OOP thing they tried to avoid), or require all struct fields to always be explicitly initialized at every instantation (which can get awkward), or allow specify default field values (which sounds like implicit magic Go tries to avoid too).
In Go, by-value semantics is more common than in Java with its mostly by-ref semantics, so nil is less of an issue.
It's also easier to implement (the allocator already memsets to zero for safety)
So it's just a combination of factors, they took a bunch of shortcuts. Not defending it, but their choice makes sense, too.
> Who do you think builds and maintains tools like umap-learn, sklearn etc.?

A smaller set of people than those using them.
Did you read the post (there’s an attached blog post)? I was worried I wasnt giving golang a fair shake because the performance (under constraint) was so bad in comparison. Fasthttp did end up being faster also, I just had to fall into a bit of a pitfall first.
> It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors.

Personally I would wait for more evidence to judge (which seems unlikely to happen). It's not so hard to operate a false flag on platforms like Twitter.
My parents were of modest means, but they set aside some money for 18 years to help me with educational expenses. Not only did it help me graduate debt-free, but discussing what my education fund was doing as I was growing up left me much more comfortable than most members of my generation handling finances.
What a wholesome response!

For most companies and organizations, this is absolutely understandable. WFH is challenging, and balancing childcare even more so.

In this case, though, it begs the question - why does US Strategic Command even have a Twitter account? Are they going to post fun and engaging tweets about the nuclear football? Twitter seems like something this agency should not be doing.
This is too true. I just went through a full MacLeod cycle in the past three years and can attest how uncanny the accuracy is.
Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
I switched to Sublime Text because I wanted something that felt faster than VS Code.
> These measures seem rather basic and in the interest of both sides, to be honest. It's strange that there's so much resistance

Giving Amazon the benefit of doubt, some unions are notoriously corrupt. Giving that benefit to the union, it could have just been the latest stalling tactic in a long string of reasonable requests.
Font metrics are a pain. A while back I was working on trying to reliably reproduce the behaviour you get from the win32 font api using stb_truetype, but due to time constraints I just ended up having to manually tweak font sizes to match.
Good point. Haven’t considered that.
I’m obsessive about using the air recirculation button when driving to isolate the cabin any time I’m in the wake of a diesel vehicle, for this reason.

While health issues from diesel particulate is documented on a wide statistical basis, there’s ample reason to believe single exposure events may lead to individual negative health outcomes i.e. getting a lungful one time might just kill you.