skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “What we’re asking from both the U.S. and the European governments is to make it competitive for us to do it here compared to in Asia,”

Intel wanting subsidies to help be competitive, priceless.
MetaFilter might be for you then
I wouldn't feel easy uploading sensitive information for "transcription". Who is this service for?
As an interviewee I also wouldn't consent that potential employer could disclose my information in such way.
> the web is the greatest library in the history of the world

I think this is web-boosterism. Consider another candidate for greatest library in history of the world: the British Library. 200 million items, most of them available to read at 45 minutes notice, centrally located in one of the worlds most important cities.

I'm bet that 99% of what is on this page is in the BL. Is 99% of what is in the BL on the web?

EDIT: For context, here is some of the stuff in the BL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library#Highlights_of_...
> If I understand correctly, you're suggesting "Who are you" wasn't directed at me personally, "the person" wasn't referring to the OP but all possible authors, and "the question" wasn't referring to, well, the original SO question at hand, but the class of all possible questions.

yes, exactly ? but maybe it is less common to speak in such a general way in english than in my mother tongue
Buffett and Berkshire in fact have a long history of intentionally not always seeking the maximization of profit. Read Lowenstein's Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist for several examples.

Berkshire is not an "investment firm" (although that may have been an accurate description 40 or 50 years ago). And they operate almost solely by the dictate of Buffett, not by theroetical shareholder demand for optimizing for max profit. That means they operate by parameters that Buffett deems prudent. Berkshire for example could have been deep into the supposed sure thing of the real-estate bubble circa 2005, instead they were one of the few mega corporations on the planet almost entirely insulated from it (so much so they were the ones doing the bailing out of other large corporations). That philosophy is the same reason why Berkshire might choose to pass on a supposed sure thing in crypto today: they don't like the risk; others may see a sure thing, they're skeptical (for better or worse).
You’re just assuming a lot of stuff I didn’t say. I have a lot of respect for your perspective on software and always love hearing from more experienced programmers. I think universal tools are great for a lot of stuff, but they’re just not as productive as cargo and stack are. Have you tried really getting into one of these? Having package management, toolchain management, builds, testing, formatting, linting, and IDE support out of the box with one tool is really cool, and it’s not something that the distribution-centric tools ever provided.

I will say that adapting to change is part of the human experience and especially part of the programmer experience. I’m 22, but I’m almost entirely self taught as a developer and have only a year of college. I’ve been reading older programmers (and older people) lamenting the new way of things for at least ten years already, it seems to be a constant. What you now call infantilism will be the old way 30 years from now, and the kids writing software then will be doing stuff that confuses me, I’m sure. But this is how progress happens, and change is okay.
If it's a leasehold, you don't really own anything, you're basically just renting with more security.

Even freeholds sometimes you don't really own the land, just again renting it extremely long term.

1 bitcoin will always be worth 1 bitcoin and there will only ever be 21 million of them.
Considering the AWS API is essentially open for everyone to start a transcription service, what exactly is the difference here. If you know what you're doing you can build this in about 4 hours.
I love coding too. I really enjoy pair programming as a more social way of coding be it with better or worse engineers.
Still think of all the Beeenie babies wastefully produced and ending up in landfill. Now we achieve the same thing but without the Beenie baby. So kind of a little bit of progress.
I guess what did you think airtags were? They emit out a uuid and other iOS devices will process it in the background to let the owner know where they are, but not random users.

I think in terms of actual security risks it’s not worse then anything else you have. If it’s only in your house then you never need to worry about it pinging another users iOS device.
if monty picks a prize the game is over
I honestly don’t judge: zero negative feelings about anyone spending their time watching TV. If you read that between the lines, maybe it betrays your own disdain.

My observation is merely that a) people rarely seem “happy” in proportion to leisure time spent, b) most people’s leisure time consists of trite activities, steered by indulgent appetites, and is easy prey for others to profit off.

The thread at large makes it sound like all these philosopher kings would pursue their true calling and have wonderful adventures, living life to its fullest, if their boss never wanted them to work late.

Maybe a warmer more empathetic person would refrain from pointing this out. Would people be better off not hearing uncomfortable opinions? A consequentialist might approve of some tough love at times.
Because stuff fails?

Maybe getPrice used to be a static lookup from a map that couldn't fail, but then the Sales Team wanted to go multi-national and now it's a database lookup with multiple dependencies, that can fail.

"But why wasn't it caught in a code review" etc...

Have you actually worked with a big team ever? Why would (or how could) anyone (outside of Google) go through every dependency of the getPrice function and check that every use case is handling errors/exceptions properly?

Stuff breaks, code is read and debugged more often than it's written. Optimising stuff to be easy and fast to write is the wrong way to make maintainable code. Unroll your loops, add toggleable debug logging and add comments why stuff is done the way it is.
Integrating SMS messages with your workflow and getting the message out there is a no brainer. You can setup something like Zapier and https://textgun.io in 5 minutes. Response rates are still 5 times better than email.
You're comparing incomparable. Tritium is not Monsanto chemical solutions. It is in water naturally, even in human bodies.
It's kinda the era of paradox of choice / abundance.

We have access to everything all the time. Its probably linked to the addiction disorders online.

It's not hard to guess how people knew how to decide better when things had more weight or were more critical. Cold, food, drought, disease, energy.. when everything is tight your brain is sharper too.
Why does any site believe that playing video at me without giving me a chance to consent to it or an obvious "stop doing this" button is a good idea?

How does anyone come to the conclusion that this will increase their ad revenue/interaction/readability/whatever metric they want to measure?

I'm fascinated by what they think will be their reader's reaction to this. Did they do any research? If so, who did they pick as subjects? Does anyone like having a website play video automatically?
I agree with your criticism against pair programming. I also agree that it's helpful with an extra pair of eyes on anything you write, which is why I'm strongly in favour of code reviews.
~20% of users are still on 32-bit, how?
It was more of less that tone, they accidentally send an internal memo to me.

GDPR doesn't require me to become a user to get my data.
Rocket engines are far too complex to simply apply the cube-square law. In particular, the thrust of a rocket engine does not scale with the volume of the combustion chamber, but with the nozzle exit area (since exhaust velocity is independent of engine size). Thus, following your reasoning, thrust goes with the square of engine diameter, and weight as well, so thrust-to-weight is independent of the engine size.
It sounds like this was still the same day (did his kid not return home for three days), so even on 14.5 it wouldn't have triggered this.

So much for testing
extremis? And the petrodollar is useful to slavers, murderers and colonialists; Show me a currency-issuing superpower with no blood on its hands.

Much like piracy prevented the most deranged attempts of the copyright industry - cyber-currency may put limits on state seizures and overtaxing.

At least for now BTC isn't anonymous (leaves a public paper trail) so it's not so perfect for crime. And an anonymous currency will still be liable at the entry/exit points.
Don't get me started on Windows Event Log. Sure it might be better structured than syslog on paper, but it's even more of a mess. Not to mention that it's really hundreds of logs that just share a similar format and same UI.
you are correct, doctors should stay in their lane and diagnose and leave treatments to others
Dang has said this is done as a way to preserve history. I think that’s more important than some of the links being outdated.
I put mine on a specific bookshelf when I'm done reading. Sometimes habits are more reliable and more practical than technology.
Just checked their website and they do collect information centrally, by having everyone with the app notice any nearby Tile. I don't want that, I want to find it with my own phone or not at all.
I was in the same boat - check out DAS Budget. It's currently more or less a 1:1 clone of Simple's UX and is available as an open beta on both iOS and Android

It uses Plaid for its banking backend, and so far is working quite well for me and my partner
USAF UFO reports requested by NSA Director and more, 1950s [pdf]
How to make your pets listen to you
Yeah, a specific and almost opposite meaning to how it's used now!
Buffett isn't entirely adverse to metals such as gold, the reason he doesn't buy gold is he doesn't think it's often undervalued.

His history with silver for example:

"Warren Buffett made an unusual move in 1997 when he bought 111 million ounces, or nearly 3,500 tons, of silver. The famed investor's purchase helped make Thomas Kaplan a billionaire."

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/376711-evidence-that-warren...
Although I disagree with some part of the presenter's ideas. I learned struct initializers and _Generic keyword from the presentation. So that is a great win for me. Now I can write safer code with the const and non-const pointer types.

Suppose that I want to return a pointer to a field inside of a struct. Either I had to write const and non-const versions of the same function and use them which brings unreadable code.
Or I would have to define argument as const and return non-const pointer which defeats the purpose of const in the first place.

This keyword allows me to use same function name with const and non-const pointers.
Most of the democratic world fell under fascist and/or Marxist-Leninist totalitarian regimes within living memory.

There’s only four independent democracies uninterrupted over the past century. Two have widespread civilian firearm ownership.
Bitcoin's not the problem, America's shitty corporate culture around not treating cybersecurity as a priority is the problem.
Another attempt at finding an ALS pathogen is unsuccessful
That’s why I only drink Pepsi.
Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --

Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."

"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,

"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all."

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/cold_iron.htm...
The answer to the first question is detailed in the HOPL IV paper, 'Origins of the D Programming Language', freely available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
IS iOS 14.5 required to get notified? I'm having trouble finding information on that.

I know iOS 14.5 is required to setup AirTags.
> People say it's about collaboration... it's more about learning power phrases like “let’s timebox this exploration”, “you have to call the keyboard”, “let’s do plus and deltas”.

I sense that you might be saying those phrases can be used to manipulate the other half of the pair. For the first one, I can speculate: The pair disagrees how to approach some problem, then one of the two suggests to “timebox an exploration” into their favorite approach, and then after spending an hour on it (or whatever), the code is already there and nobody wants to delete it again.

But what do the other two phrases even mean, and how would they be used to manipulate?
In my experience, I've seen pairing work in the context of an experienced engineer mentoring a junior, as part of a spectrum of engagement: observing/reading, shadowing, pair programming, to then where the junior acts with more independence with some oversight, and then they're ready.

Beyond that, as a general rule it's only attractive to very mediocre engineers (who are honest enough to admit they need help).

In interviews for experienced roles, I might ask "what do you think of pair programming", and if they're positive about it there's a good chance I'll pass.
My impression from “work in progress” was that they’ll continue to be evaluated and evolve as time goes on.

Seemed like a decent faith attempt to try the things out.

I didn’t know, for instance, that without upgrading iOS they wouldn’t work, although of course that makes sense. Or about the three day beeping feature.

Or even that they only communicate with the network via other devices. Presumably the kids on the school bus didn’t have updated iPhones I guess.
> While it’s not as good as bash or zsh as an interactive shell

That's the problem though. For me it totally sucks as an interactive shell because it's far too verbose. And if I needed to write scripts on Linux then I'm already spoilt for choice: Perl, Python, Tcl, Awk, etc are all usually pre-installed with my Linux distros. Then you can add Ruby, Go, Javascript (via Node), PHP, Rust, C++ and any .NET languages like C# into the mix too....plus many many many more.

While byte streams are largely seen as a joke compared to typed pipes like in Powershell and Murex, you do have far greater compatibility with byte streams since all you're sending is bytes -- which means you can write scripts in whatever the hell you want and still use them in Bash / Zsh just fine.

Then you have the 40 years of coreutils. People talk about legacy as being cruft and while there is some truth in that, there's also truth in the fact that if you need to do something in the command line, there's probably already a tool written which does it. That comes from maturity.

Don't get me wrong. There is a lot I'd like to change with regards to command line usage and shell scripting (and I'm working on that ;)) but Powershell throws the baby out with the bath water. Though in fairness to Microsoft, they never quite had a mature command line prior to Powershell so there was no baby to throw out. But for Linux usage....no thanks.
A friend of mine just discovered that her new client's current website was on WP 3.52 which came out in June 2013. And hadn't been updated since then. She was locked out but with help from the web host was able to get in and update it. The fact that it had very few plugins probably aided in it's longevity.
I was forced to use systemd and journald for a while and I've seriously grown to like them, especially journald.
It's not only in my house, I carry it everywhere. I just don't lose it except in my house.
Are you arguing that the effort required to make a regex robust and correct is larger than the effort required to make some hand-rolled character-by-character based lexer robust and correct?

Because that sounds counter-intuitive to me. A regex is a higher level DSL for lexing.
Yes, that's the joke.
Request for Clarifiction on Muse Group's Involvement in the Audacity Project
In general, the cleanest way to short something is using futures, if they exist. They do for Bitcoin: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html .
Uranium and plutonium are also naturally found in the environment. So you are saying they are therefore safe...
> there is no animal you live inside, this is not a meat vehicle for something else, your body is you, it's not some machine you merely inhabit.

I wonder how history will view such statements once we manage the ability to uncouple our humanity from our meat prisons.
Why base a language on both Smalltalk and Objective-C when the latter was already based on Smalltalk and regular C? Feels like a solution in search of a problem.
> Why are so many scientists and doctors asserting, or implying that vaccine immunity is stronger and longer lasting than natural immunity when the data indicates otherwise?

Do they? I don't think I have ever heard this claim.
And this is really the heart of why capitalism is truly evil. You're stuck on a treadmill that adjusts as soon as you get comfortable. There are rows and rows of your peers next to you, and you see them running a bit faster, so you press the button to go faster so you don't look "slower" than them. It is built-in from the primate days of fighting for literal survival. You can't let them win or you'll starve and die.

If you're a well-paid SWE, you're probably in the top 1% of the world: eating anything you want, living happily, likely without debt (or could easily pay it off). And here you are thinking you still need more, and thinking you'll never be happy with it.
I can’t sell my own Fortnite skins, for example. If I wanted to access the Fortnite user base I have to use the Epic Game Store. I also can’t sell any game I want on their platform. I have to follow their rules, get approval? Etc.

Not to mention video game exclusives. Why do I have to download Fortnite through the Epic Game Store and have an Epic account? Shouldn’t I be able to sign in with another provider? I should be able to download, install, and play Fortnite with my Steam account and buy and sell in game content via Steam or other providers. It seems like they are limiting competition by forcing me to use their login system and micro transaction platform.

I just don’t find the anger at the Apple App Store compelling. The only reason we are talking about it is because it’s a popular platform.
The "additional support" they opened Sunday was a nightmare - lots of recordings on Twitter of the call center either hanging up on you in the phone tree, getting a rep who immediately says they cannot hear you before hanging up, or even reps who just laughed and hung up when you mentioned Simple.

I spent the better part of my Sunday calling trying to get my account unlocked, since it was automatically locked when their services collapsed during enrollment on Saturday.
This is literally what AirTags are.
I’m glad EFF is pursuing this. I’m surprised at how much credit people put into these signals without understanding how they work. Especially when vendors interpret signals for me and don’t provide any nuance. So there’s degrees of abstraction that should make information hard to act upon.

On a much lower stakes level, I’ve had coworkers adamantly claim that I read an email because they received a read receipt. Even though I didn’t. It was funny trying to explain that I didn’t read anything and that their signal wasn’t trustworthy, even to the point of finding the email in question and showing it still looking unread. But they believe Outlook more than someone’s direct statements. Even to the point of claiming that I purposely changed my client to show the message as unread after reading.

This wasn’t important so it was more curiosity about how people believe things, but it made me wonder what happens for consequential things.
That's what we already do however the popularity of things we thought were obvious implies we need to market D better.
> But it's like chasing the dragon. I don't think you can ever really satisfy this urge.

I theorize that people who believe this haven't really tried. In my experience it's easier than it seems; definitely not an insurmountable task.
There is the Code Napoleon, parts of which still form the basis of law in Germany and France. That was pretty progressive. Napoleon also is one the most successful, "best", military leaders in history. Right up there with people like Alexander the Great. His military reforms more or less paved the way for modern militaries ever since.

Historically, most of the Anti-French coalitions were led, and financed, by the British. So they are as much guilty of the Napoleonic Wars as Napoleon himself.

Do yes, Napoleon definitely is on of history's greats. Definitely worth remembering. And he would be even more so if he was a true class a a-hole. These people definitely should never be forgotten.
Sounds about the usual.

It's also worth noting nowadays:

- Women comprise 58% of Master's graduates and 53% of doctoral graduates.

- With a couple both WfH, it's possible now to prioritize life to have children in their mid-20's and still hold a job.

- There are plenty of people in non-majority groups who don't have chips on their shoulders and don't want the indignity of special treatment (which would imply that they're not as capable). If it were me, I would insist on no special treatment because that itself perpetuates presumptions of inferiority.

There are continuing, real problems with inconsistent education where the rich kids' public schools are far, far better than urban ones; it also extends to the pupils' peer attitudes about academic accomplishment (which can be inculcated with good, inspiring teachers).

Punishing one group or favoring another isn't a moral or ethical solution to actual disadvantaged situations; solving the root-causes of disadvantages by bringing appropriately-consistent resources and opportunities rather than after-the-fact identity merit points seems like common sense.
You… really think a tyrant would fail because of a bunch of armed general population? The make or break is having public support, a bunch of people armed with guns don’t make a difference - maybe they would when the amendment was written, but the efficiency gap between a person with a gun vs US military has increased 1000x.
Nothing I did was illegal. I downloaded an IPA file with Apple Configurator 2, the binary inside it was encrypted. However it was possible to read the entitlement without decrypting the whole binary. One can certainly automate this process if one can figure out how to download IPA file automatically.
That’s funny, we must’ve read that chapter completely differently. It’s what made me think of him as an example.

I see it as a rediscovery of how Feynman’ work was his true calling after all and how he chose to do more physics, instead of more reading, for pleasure.
Show HN: I launched a free email deliverability checker
Wait until they try unicode, then the joke will be on them.
A lot of spoken text is highly inefficient to read.
Yes, uranium is naturally in seawater and I would have no objection to releasing it into the ocean in amounts that won't change anything, similarly to this case of tritium.
You're right, Bitcoin is basically Ghandi.
They mean black taxis, drug dealing, unlicensed second-hand stores, etc.
The article says "a right-wing symbol", which is true.

That same sentence also says "is not considered a right-wing symbol in China", which agrees with you.

"It's a right-wing symbol" and "it's not universally a right-wing symbol" can be simultaneously true... but as with "the swastika is actually a symbol of peace!", being technically correct isn't a substitute for using good sense.
> gevent is a 5mo package. It's 1/6 of the ENTIRE python installer.

Oh no, that means I'll need 2 more floppies to distribute my software!