skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to this logic, anyone who works in the subway should be dying, what, 10 years earlier? Which is obviously not happening." And you know this how?, Where YOUR numbers and conclusions come from?
1. Light mode is harsh on the eyes, especially in the dark and ruins night vision.

2. Light mode attracts more insects at night.
Remote Work Starter Kit – Desk Edition
ok now I have to watch this demo. thats crazy! i get a sense that i would hate pernosco as a vendor.
Not so much, publishers view the long tail of currently non-bestselling authors as a pile of lottery tickets. Some of those will pay off, and that funds the next pile of lottery tickers, which is the business model.
You can also tell git that the .git dir is completely separated from the working dir:

alias dogit='GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/src/dir GIT_DIR=/path/to/dotgit/dir git'
dogit pull remote treeish

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I set this up as a "poor man's version control" on a large client's server back in 2016-ish. I was lost for words when last year I saw my colleagues still using Ctrl-R to rerun that alias line.
Direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812...
Anecdata: I've been using ImprovMX on the free tier for a while for personal stuff and had no issues.
I can install it in a network isolated Qube. Data wouldn't go anywhere.
If you really love your son
,(and you do)you will fight the lockdown charade. This isnt how you fight disease. It IS how you implement a permanent police state. Your son's rights are everything.
Nobody distributes free software to be rich. Not sure where you're grabbing all this from...
The name (ProjectiFi) and the logo (which looks like LTE signal strength) are probably much too close to Google's Project Fi (now Google Fi).
The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
Even that change isn't as great as we have with clocks and electric light. You don't often need to farm when it's dark out.
Thanks! That last one is probably the most important one as that mostly makes my comments "disappear" I think..
Regarding discussions on Slack, since our product is open source we would ideally like to keep discussions somewhere viewable and related to the code changes so that people can see what was discussed later on.
It is a bit hard to find that on Slack, or do you have some form of "system" for tagging discussions in there?
This feels like Mint.com all over again. I do not feel comfortable sharing personal banking data with a hosted platform. We all know what happened when Mint sold out to Intuit!
> I find the subject very fascinating, because if we're in a simulation I'd expect bugs. And if there are bugs, there is the possibility of exploits.

Ultimately though there'd be no way to tell bugs apart from legitimate physics because we lack a basis for comparison. If we discover that we can, with enough trickery, generate infinite free energy or something, that's not evidence of anything other than our model of the universe being incomplete.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944616
Thanks :) here's the link: https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/
I'm not sure I implied that, and I've been a PC since '97.

This just seemed like a particularly pointless restriction. It's database. How hard can it be to support and convert?
The current solution obviates the additional work requirement of changing credit limits before purchase, so IMHO it's a better solution for that problem.

If you're protected from your credit card being used on a $5,000 purchase, why would you lower the credit limit below that?
That's a good point. My initial thought process with it was to stack the datasets so that everything underneath debt contributes to your net worth, with debt at the top "weighing it down" so to speak. You can also click the debt checkbox in the legend to hide that dataset from the plot. Still, your point stands that the stacked chart doesn't quite visualize the negative effect that debt has on net worth. Do you prefer the "Net Worth Over Time" plot?
I came here to share the Anthroposcene Reviewed episode on it (2nd half - starts around 12:30 in)

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
Alright, so there are several different things here:

> web pages with lots of ads and fonts

Ad blockers are a thing. I use them on every browser (it's even possible to do on iOS). It makes a big difference.

> Scrolling past one of those dumb sticky videos can cause everything to jump into place, then back out, then back again

There are plenty of annoying dark patterns (and simply poor UX) out there being used, but what I'm trying to get at here is specifically the perception of slowness for the web as a platform. UX problems can exist in any software.

> Navigating back in history can be so slow just hitting the cache that the previous (now forward entry) page shows up again and blocks rendering of the navigation

I think you may be misunderstanding here... some sites - especially news sites - use a dark pattern where they override the back button behavior to prevent you from going back (presumably to increase "engagement", or whatever). You could argue the web platform shouldn't let them do this, but that still wouldn't have to do with "slowness" (and wouldn't be solved by the OP).

> I’ve even hit bugs where trying something app-wide then reverting hit a very slow race condition and just completely deleted my settings.json

This just sounds like a logic bug; bugs exist regardless of platform

> If I accidentally trigger a font resize by missing cmd-backspace and hit + instead, I’m sitting around for 1-5 minutes waiting for everything to settle

> Restart to update can take a couple minutes too, and that’s to restore visible functionality while waiting for the changelog tab to randomly show up

This is absolutely insane to me. I just tried changing the font size in a very large VSCode project with 10 files open and it took 1 second to change the font size for the whole app. Killing the entire app (Cmd+Q) and restarting it took 4-5 seconds.

How many files do you have open? Are you using some crazy extensions that could be poorly-written or interacting badly?

> I’m in 8 Slack orgs, not a large number compared to some people I know. Refreshing the window takes long enough I just go take a break.

Again, totally crazy compared to my experience. I just refreshed the full window for the medium-sized org I'm in and it took 2 seconds for the UI to come back, and another 5 seconds to load the conversation text (the latter is pretty bad, but as I noted in my original post, not related to performance of the actual web platform)
+1 to "demo setup so I can just play with the output without having to input any data"
There are some Microsoft Bob easter eggs in other Microsoft products.

The nerd emote from MSN Messenger comes from MS Bob. The dog is an assistant in MS Office. There might be more too.
I'll read feedback in the form of comments. Indirect feedback by way of the down arrow will have no effect whatsoever on my views. So, if you want to persuade, use your words.
I don't know much about Wine, but I'm speaking in generalities, but I've worked jobs where we spend weeks to get <10% performance increases. Very often that last bit of optimization is the hardest part.
This is also why I don't let anyone else drive or have a bank account, or anything potentially dangerous at all. Free choice and the ability to make mistakes by ignorance means they can hurt themselves. Therefore the best solution is revoking that ability by force instead of putting the responsibility of learning unto them. It's perfectly acceptable that I get to control everything and crush businesses and users with anti competitive practices with my control. Or else - who's going to keep you 'safe'?

The idea of loving apples walled garden comes from a position of extreme privledge. You have to have lots of money to afford apples ecosystem. The hard reality is just like automobiles an iphone has become a societal requirement to participate in the common market.

You can't install 3rd party apps by default in android, you have to turn it on.
When do they gain this independence? Where I live, kids mustn't be left alone before age 10. We moved a few blocks from a school, and look forward to the day when kiddo can do just what you say.
Very interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!
> Improved Accessibility: Route changes are now announced by screen readers.

This is the type of thing I'd never think about but should Just Work out of the box.
I played many times with my family as casually as one can. I only recently picked up the game again after the 1.5 update. I decided to throw an extra challenge on top.

I think you might be looking for reasons to get upset about something. There are certainly far more perverse things in the world than people min-maxing a video game.
I think offshore wind farms have been proposed to protect the US from hurricanes. So apparently they substantially decrease wind energy.
Maybe you need to read the article again, because in this comment you are conflating different kinds of “value” as if they are all equally meaningful.
How do versioned objects make conditional puts unnecessary? I see little relation between them, except that you could use the version identifier in the condition.
It wasn't totally clear to me if those were all physical purchases or not. However, it would be shocking if in-store sales weren't markedly down. I basically haven't been in a store casually to browse for over a year and I doubt that's unusual.
Tesla discloses notice from EPA alleging noncompliance with the Clean Air Act
Honestly I don't see how they can justify more than a few percent cut. They offer no value in terms of discoverability anymore, app stores essentially only serve the purpose of a file host.

But even if they were only taking a 5% cut, I think the argument still stands that they have a negative impact on consumers in that they decide what the hardware you bought is and isn't allowed to do. Apple can invalidate entire business models if they disallow an app on their store, and an entrepreneur can spend millions developing a business only to have it rendered inviable by a change to the terms and services which can be made over night without warning.

All of this could be solved by allowing side-loading. It wouldn't even have to be made easy to do - go ahead and bury it deep in the settings behind a bunch of scary warnings. But I see no excuse for not allowing this at all.
Modern AI techniques also don't really work as well as many think; they're awesome, but the hype far exceeds the reality. (For example, self-driving cars are very far away.) A HAL-like approach is actually better for most purposes I've encountered than “throw the problem at a deep neural net”.
i think it's still called win32 today because win32 was a massive overhaul. 16 bit windows was loaded with that far and near pointer gunk to stretch those 16 bit pointers which win32 was able to do away with thanks to larger pointer widths.

regarding win32 vs. the nt api. i'm not super familiar with the pedantic distinctions there, but i do know, much to the programmer's chagrin, the thousands of windows api functions have varying levels of kernel entry, where i always have appreciated the (relatively) small number of unix style syscalls and the clear delineation between kernel and userspace api. (although i suppose futexes blur that, in name at least!)
NtXxxx or ZwXxxx
I've also played Factorio extensively. The two games are very different, even when played with similar playstyles or goals. Don't worry, I did the whole "build a factory as efficiently as possible" thing back in the 0.17 era.
One thing I've always struggled with in these "financial planning" products is how to make the numbers make sense on a gut level. My problem is that, after doing some level of "taking charge of my finances" to make a savings/investment plan, it still feels like I'm treading water and barely making any progress toward my goals. Yet when I plug my numbers into any financial planning app (including this one), they inevitably not only tell me that I'm going to be a millionaire when I retire, but also that I'll have tons of money within just a couple years. This usually makes me reflexively dismiss their conclusions.

I realize that part of the problem is that it's hard for my brain to extrapolate a few months of observations into a decades-long trendline, but I really would love to see a product that helps my brain bridge the gap between my own perception and the big money chart.
Eventually you can enslave the spirits of the valley to be your agricultural helots and pick your strawberries for you.
I lowkey have to wonder why Linux seemingly goes all-in on monster functions that implement a variety of operations depending on the arguments (as far as I can see from casual encounters). In my experience, such code often both reads poorly on the calling side and looks very messy inside. I came to prefer making distinct functions that spell out their intended action in the names. Windows apparently went the same path.

E.g.: syscall doesn't accept multiple handles and other bells and whistles? Well duh, it's not supposed to—just make a new one that does.

Of course, it's probably too late to change this design choice now...
Not quite. Writing was independently invented about three or four times:

• Sumerian cuneiform was undisputedly the first writing system to be invented.

• Egyptian hieroglyphics was probably made with knowledge of cuneiform, but could have been an independent invention. All Western writing systems (Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin etc.) are ultimately descended from hieroglyphics.

• All native writing systems of India, SE Asia and Oceania are descended from Brāhmī. I believe the current theory is that Brāhmī was descended from Aramaic script and hence also from hieroglyphics, but there are disputes.

• Chinese characters (hànzì) were an independent invention. Descended from them are Japanese hanja and kana, Vietnamese Chữ Nôm, Sawndip and some others.

• The writing systems of Mesoamerica (most notably that for Mayan) are of course a completely independent invention.

And then of course there are Hangeul, Cherokee, CAS etc., which were scripts consciously designed under the influence of other scripts. These tend to have rather unique structures compared to other writing systems of the world.
Not unless data has first been collected and analyzed. There was a long period of time between people suspecting cigarettes were unhealthy and actual data showing it
A pilot or bird can see the blades on a horizontal turbine, as they are perpendicular to the flight path.
Look at it as a part of the portfolio of approaches we take to address this problem. It may not solve the problem on its own, but it's an important step to take. And arguably a necessary one; a great deal of what gives these companies so much power is that people simply can't imagine trying to do without them and don't even try.

Just because people say to stop giving them so much money and attention doesn't mean that they think that's the whole solution. But if you aren't making even a token effort to stop giving them so much money and attention, you're probably more part of the problem than the solution.

If you think these companies are a problem... take action. If you aren't willing to even so much as cancel a streaming subscription or take responsibility for backing up your own photos or whatever the issue is, you're sending major signals to the legislative system or whoever else it is you expect to swoop in and save you that you don't care enough for them to need to do anything either.

I don't mean this to be absolutist, either. I use Google in a few places, even despite my distrust and distaste of them. But even there, I hold them at arm's length. If they completely nuked my current accounts, it would mostly be an inconvenience. Worst bit would be the ~$20 of apps I'd have to repurchase. (I'd lose more than that but mostly I could just let them go.)
25% is still "quite popular".

If 25% of servers switch to ARM that is massive.
This abuse is a huge issue in every single community and organization. When we aren't actively rooting it out, we are allowing it to flourish.
In the Texas panhandle along Interstate 40 west of Amarillo there is a continuous east-west line of wind turbines running about forty miles. The turbines face north because the wind is almost always from the north and the turbines are there because the wind is almost always from the north. Each turbine is placed to avoid casting its wind shadow on the other turbines...there are typically three or four banks of turbines from north to south.

Suppose the wind shifts to the east, enfilading all those miles of turbines. It’s a turbulence nightmare. But fortunately a rare event. An edge case where idling makes sense and staying online doesn’t.

At the extremes of nacelle yaw, the upwind turbines may cast a wind shadow on a downwind bank. Again an edge case where idling some turbines is a reasonable tradeoff.

These are networked smart devices. And humans in the loop monitoring and tweaking.
Guns don't kill people, it's the bullets that do it.
Sure, many of us can do stuff like that, but the average user can't.
I think we disagree on the bigger problem. In my view the bigger problem is the erosion of trust for open source. Over the last 10-ish years there has been a flood of research and marketing around open source software security. I wrote a white paper about it back in 2011. We know there are risks in open source and we know vulnerabilities are created both intentionally and accidentally. We also know open source maintainers are overworked and human. There will be mistakes and we must prepare for them. This is the reason why the fine folks at Sonatype, Snyk, and WhiteSource have jobs.

These grad students wanted to make a splash and went after one of the most important code bases on the planet. It stopped being an ethical problem when the kernel maintainers had to manually search for vulnerabilities. They are using hours that could be used elsewhere. The Linux Foundation is paying Greg Kroah-Hartman to solve this problem, so they have a financial loss due to the actions of these grad students. There's your civil liability. They "knowingly cause(d) the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer" so there's your criminal liability from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There's probably criminal liability in the state where they live as well.
The only time I have seen story points effective is when a team does the same type of work over and over.

For every other team I have seen it is a waste of time, you either under estimate how many points something is and you get moaned at you are late or you over estimate and you are praised for delivering early.

I pretty much caveat every single estimate I give (either time or the made up points) and say "if you want accurate estimates, a good rule of thumb is that I spend 1/4 of the time estimating to planned work - so if I think it will take 4 weeks, I should spend 1 week estimating" - no one ever wants you to do the accurate estimate so when I am moaned at because the estimates are incorrect I refer back to this statement.

What is the actual goal? Is it to track a teams progress (track by actual delivered work), is it to know how long something will take (story points are a distraction), is it to see how much work a team can do in a sprint (remove the 1 day planning/retro and you get an extra day to deliver the work), is it to fit into a bigger team of dependencies (story points, again, are a distraction).

If you are using story points to avoid figuring out how long something will take, then be brave and figure out how long it will take.

(sorry turned a bit ranty!)
i'm not aware of any comparisons but imagine a sparse forest.
> Why is it so trendy right now? If it's actually so useful, why does it appear only now?

I believe you could track this fairly reliably to the introduction of dark mode on iOS a year or two ago. At this point most platforms support native dark/light mode, including via browser preferences. So it's become more of an expectation that sites should support it.
...I have come across quite a few execs with a prostitute habit...in no cases has it been unrelated to their job performance (and btw, I live somewhere where it is legal...it is usually correlated to either sex addiction and/or other addiction/compulsive behaviour).
An interesting thought I've wondered about as well. I imagine the risks outweigh the benefits. I would think the same thing would happen when planting a forest (granted it taking much longer to produce an effect)
Wow, that thing looks amazing! Never seen this before and I thought I've seen them all. Definitely getting one.
Crash course: Amazon EC2 pricing (and cutting your AWS bill)
Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheres
Perhaps strong AI will require a real body, in real reality.
Ah, that's the classic Mike Tyson words of wisdom, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
Are you willing to continually learn?

Can you complete projects of at a minimum, small size?

Then, yes.
What are you referring to? That Intuit killed the product? I use Mint and don't particularly like it but am not yet aware of data abuses or breaches.
Probability of a payout in event of liquidation (low for stock, nothing for coin).
No, “legal person” (as opposed to “natural person”) is a real term.
I Agree very much with the general idea. One addition, though:

> Unfortunately, you have to take projects’ words that they do this on good faith as an end user

The same is true for applications running natively. Of course, those can be firewalled from any outgoing and incoming network traffic more easily. And they don’t feel like and don’t default to using a network connection all the time. But still, they could.
The "scapegoat" theory is the cynical take, but I don't see people often propose how to fix the situation.

If we take as granted that Accenture and similar do low-quality work as judged by tech experts yet have a large business with a mostly-positive general-public reputation... how is some poor middle manager or non-technical executive in a company that finds themselves needing a technology solution supposed to pick a good vendor? Go with someone big an well-known? Nope, that's shit, apparently. Go with someone small and unknown? That seems even worse - how are they going to be qualified to judge the bidders?
This has been replicated in the NFT market, with a slightly different structure: sell NFTs to yourself to "paint the tape" and create the impression that a hot resale market exists, then sell to random suckers looking for appreciating assets.
I would also like to see more of a demo of the product before having to go step by step into filling out my data
I assume this is related to the "Enter your email to read this article" popup?
As an aside, I used to work on a technical team that handled things like that on a relatively high-traffic website. I was told at the time that the rough "going rate" for an email address entered this way was $20.

This specifically always makes me wish that some kind of advertising revenue share would catch on and make this kind of thing feel like a win-win rather than feel as though I'm being exploited.
Yep, for ex: we use the exact same code to get/put files to DigitalOcean Spaces... the only thing that changes is a config value for the S3 endpoint. S3 is basically an open standard. The only vendor lock-in would be the time/money it takes to copy your data out of S3, but that's the same for anywhere you store your data... even when self-hosting.