skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely.

Strangely, the term "two party system" might lead one to assume there's a meaningful difference in real-world policy outcomes. Sadly, this is all too rare and, in practice, the differences are mostly in the claimed intentions and not the delivered results.

As an American, please accept my apology for all uninvited interference in the economic and political affairs of other nations.
> they removed gvim (which is what I use in most cases). There is no comparable third party GUI like gvim available. They're all either abandoned, unstable or simply very different with lots of bling and gimmicks.

I'm not sure I understand what you're missing from neovim-qt?

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt

I suppose maybe we have diffuse cases - but I'm fairly certain I'm running qt neovim, and not nvim in a terminal - and I'm not aware of any issues?
What the hell?

Did they get year numbers consistently wrong?
I have some pretty bad internet addiction too. It was so bad I basically stopped playing guitar in my teen years. I restarted last year and had to basically start from scratch, it was so depressing. I used to be able to sight read sheet music, then I threw a budding life skill all away to look at memes I will never remember or play some dumb quest in a game.

I was addicted really to consumption. I stopped creating. Now I'm trying to make more time for it. The other night I fell asleep on the couch before midnight with my guitar in my hand and my fingers forming a chord, rather than being wired and awake on reddit until I look and notice it's 2am again. Still, the sting of knowing I squandered probably 10 years of youth just consuming junk is a lot to bear.

It's depressing knowing some very smart people are out there striving as hard as they can to get me and others away from looking inwardly and creating, or at least investing focus in one's own life and building yourself up, and instead hooked on the teet of endless content. It's like the end game with this endless consumption is The Matrix, where most of humanity is just plugged into the machine sitting there, thoughtless, sucking on the feeding tube and fueling the robots until they eventually die and are replaced by another warm body.
Feels like a staccato of names. Werner, Hans, Bauer, Lange and others all over the place. "Hans helped Werner carry Bauer" caught my eye and most sentences start with a name. Of course it was dark and foggy as well. Lots of adjectives I wouldn't miss if they'd be gone (complete silence, absolute blackness). Also felt no sense of direction or what these guys were even up to. That is easy critique from a reader. My writing covers e-mails and stuff.
> isn't that much

16 thousand people follow him. That's way more than enough to be considered a 'public person'
Talking about "a cancer which positively reinforces outrage and amplifies misinformation" and using a tweet from Scott Adams is quite ironic.
Oh good, so now I can silence a critical voice by unleashing a horde of bots and I don't even need to drown their voice?
They sell rack-mountable hardware (Mac Pros) running a certified Unix OS. It's only a matter of time until those are based on Apple Silicon too.
If I can sign a binding contract that regulates how my data will be used for as long as I have this software then I'm happy to use most products.

Your examples don't capture what is happening here. Fig is freely downloadable, with implicit terms of use. They can say whatever they want in HN comments, but that has no bearing on what the software will actually do. If I buy a compiler, I get explicit terms of use. If I use an open-source compiler, I know what I'm using and I can change it if it's doing something sketchy, or roll back if it updates in some way I don't like. I wouldn't use a proprietary compiler I didn't pay for. Image editors too. And you can bet I wouldn't let either of those use the network (why do they need to?)

Moreover, the potential harm of my code or my images being leaked is much smaller than every keystroke into the terminal being leaked. Not even saying anything about Fig requiring access to other aspects of your machine too. So even if Fig did have a binding contract I'd be wary, because if the app gets exploited the consequences could be devastating.
I think there's another layer here with the virtue signalling side of it, and that depends on the exact communities/movements that a person is a part of. Like, where is the cancellation of Marjorie Taylor Greene over the absurd Holocaust comments? Matt Gaetz claims to be "cancelled" but could appear on multiple prime time cable news shows basically whenever he wants [1]. It was a huge battle getting Bill O'Reilly off the air, and he walked with a $32M severance, more money than most normal people see in a lifetime— see the movie Bombshell for a dramatization of that story. These people aren't cancellable because they're already powerful, protected, and the audience they have doesn't care about the complaints (or revels in them).

Maybe it's something of a reaction to these frustrations that some progressive circles have adopted this knee-jerk zero tolerance stance, where no crime or perceived crime is too small to attempt to silence someone for. YouTube film commentator Lindsay Ellis went through a bunch of this recently, and basically dealt with it by making a 1.5 hour video where she itemizes everything she's been accused of, and drinks her way through explaining and apologizing for all of it (including, wretchedly, sharing about her own history with a sexual assault). [2]

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4
My view is more like "a true friend would help you hide a body", or the short story "Friends in San Rosario" by O.Henry. If I abandoned a friend to the mob due to "screenshots of lewd DMs", I'd have a hard time living with myself afterward.
Personally I think the pagination should stay. I waste too much time on HN already, but I generally feel like I've seen what I need to by looking at the front page and maybe the first page or two of "New". Infinite scrolling would only lead to pointlessly scrolling through older stuff without a signal that I've seen enough. That's largely the point on other social media. I hope it doesnt happen here.
I can't help but think that the whole distinction between Europe and Asia is based on European pride and racism. It definitely makes sense to divide them from a cultural perspective, but a geological one? Come on.
Agree, I feel like the best way to feel great and age well is not taking thousands of pills, but through classic healthy steps, not really sexy but they have worked well for many: get enough sleep, eat healthy, exercise alot, avoid stress.

Looking at long life proponent Ray Kurzweil, he takes one million dollars of vitamins and supplements yearly and looks alot older than his age. He seems to be wearing a wig lately which makes him appear a bit younger but I think his supplement regime is big waste of money.
Minnesota Threatens to Fine This Engineer for Calling Himself an Engineer
Ok. That last bit was totally sarcastic pantomime. (and I don't know why my first line, "Three things" got borked into "Three thin."
Vendor lock-in at rack level and custom servers? Sounds like blade servers.

A smart company would stay away from this kind of strong lock-in.
I haven't downloaded the torrent (and won't download it), but looking at the kat link, something weird is going on here. It says the torrent was uploaded and last updated 5 years ago in the video category of the site? Ubuntu 20.04 was released in, well, April of 2020. Unless I'm missing something that torrent can't possibly be Ubuntu 20.04, but it sure lines up that it could be Rebirth (2016) after all.
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Control-plane most likely, and having a mid-centered PDU probably adds to heat on the upper stack, which shortens life over time.

As someone who has designed quite a few datacenters, whats more interesting to me in this evolution of computing is the reduction in cabling.

Cabling in a DC is a huge suck on all aspects - plastics, power, blah blah blah - the list is long....

But there are a LOT of cabling companies that do LV out there - so the point is that when these types of systems get more "obelisk" like, are many of these companies going to die? (I'm looking at you Cray and SGI.)

When I worked at Intel - I had a friend who was a proc designer at MIPS - and we talked about rack insertion and a global back-plane for the rack (which we all know to be common now) - but this was ~1997 or so... but when I built the Brocade HQ - cables were still massive and it was an art to properly dress them.

Lucas was the same - so many human work hours spent on just cable mgmt...

Their diagrams of system resiliency is odd in my opinion:

https://i.imgur.com/GB0fzIl.png

That looks like a ton of failures that they can negotiate...

Whats weird is the SPF isn't going to be in your DC/HQ/Whatever - its going to be outside - this is why we have always sought +2+ carrier ISPs or built private infra...

A freaking semi truck crashed into a telephone pole in Sacramento the other day and wiped comcast off the map to half the region.

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/05/25/citrus-heights-an...

Thats ONE fiber line that brought down 100K+ connections...

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EDIT: I guess what I am actually saying is that this entire marketing strat is to convince any companies that *"failure is imminent and please buy things that are going to fail, but don't worry because you bought plenty more things to live beyond the epic failure that these devices will have"*

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Not to discredit anything this company has going for its product - but their name is literally "RUST" (*oxide*) --- which we all know is what kills metal.

And what do we call servers: *Bare Metal*
These charge-only cables are supplied as standard with cheap chargers.
>The price is about 37 times MGM’s 2021 estimated EBITDA - or almost triple the enterprise value-to-EBITDA multiple that Discovery’s deal implied for AT&T’s content assets - according to Reuters Breakingviews.

Was there another offer for slightly less than $8.45B? What kind of thinking would lead them to that figure, rather than a different one?
I've noticed that orgs where I've worked vary between being totally insensitive to observability cost to being real hardasses about it. But I think most smaller shops are falling into the former category. I've even heard in meetings crazy shit like "It's very low overhead, only about 5%" which would get you laughed out of the office at, say, Google. Unfortunately (to me) the focus on ease-of-use has meant that OpenTelemetry concepts are structured in such a way to preclude even the possibility of a very efficient implementation, which means that there will be a schism between people who are happy in the otel ecosystem and people who can't use it on cost grounds, who probably will splinter into distinct home-grown solutions.
I think this is a very reasonable position.

Reason magazine posted an article on this:

"https://reason.com/2021/05/25/minnesota-threatens-to-fine-th..."

While I generally oppose attempts to regulate the term "engineer", I do think Reason was a little fast and loose here. It wasn't like they went in and objected to the term "sound engineer" in a recording studio or "software engineer" at google. This was a case of using a term in a situation where it could cause confusion, although even in this case, I side with the person who wants to use the term, and against the PE regulators. I do think that professional engineering associations do have the right to create a terminology. I would just be much more restrictive in scope.

I looked into regulations around Industrial Engineering, since I have an MS in this field (my undergraduate is in math). As far as I understand, licensure in Industrial Engineering is a title designation. In other words, there's no specific practice you're allowed to do as a licensed professional industrial engineer that you wouldn't be allowed to do without this license. It simply gives you the right to professionally represent yourself as a licensed PE.

I support the licensing bodies rights to restrict narrowly defined terminology that clearly references licensure, but my personal feeling is that the scope should be very limited. In other words, I believe I should be allowed to casually refer to myself as an engineer, I think it's fine to say you're a data engineer rather than a data scientist depending on what you do. I even think it's ok to refer to myself as an industrial engineer (though I wouldn't personally especially want to).

The ambiguity creeps in if I refer to myself as a "Professional Industrial Engineer". I personally wouldn't do that, it would feel a little fraudulent, but that's a feeling, not something I'd enforce through law or even social pressure. To stay on the right side of scope, I think I'd be ok with someone doing that as long as they didn't throw in "licensed".

As for "engineering" as a general term, I think it's truly absurd that PE bodies would think they have a general right to prevent others from using this descriptive term in job or work titles, it's as general as "scientist".
I work with the researchers, and I think they'll be interested in knowing which version of the problem practitioners like yourself are most interested in. Do you ever add/remove edges, perhaps in bulk? Or do are you mostly interested in finding "best possible" layouts for static datasets?
I think this is the norm for most companies. Companies spend a lot of time and money filtering candidates. Unless they're asking for a lot higher than market rate, many larger companies are usually happy to upskill someone to a different u role.
Right, and nothing really exonerated him beyond the one set of Twitter DMs which didn't seem suspect (assuming those were actually the only messages between them). Nobody backed down from their claims.
Would be interesting to see how this compares to running on bare metal, I.E. a unikernel or RTOS.
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Outstanding!

Please publish a tutorial on how to self host.

I think you’ve developed a winner.

LRP
> As for concerns about user tracking & privacy, that's not generally what these operational tools are used for.

I'm not sure that the intended use matters. Unless the telemetry systems are carefully designed to not capture PII at all they become yet another channel that must be secured as if they are collecting PII. For example, see Windows 10 telemetry vs. HIPPA: https://hipaaone.com/2015/09/22/windows-10-and-hipaa/
Historically, even just a few decades ago, if you had reach of sixteen thousand (!!) people, you were incredibly publicly exposed.

To think that we now file it as “not that much” is something I can’t wrap my mind around.
The abstract of the actual paper[1] says they spotted the geoglyphs on gMaps, which I think is here[2].

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23522...

2: https://goo.gl/maps/hu1URcRkGZMdRdSf6
That seems like a strawman. The complaint is that he described himself as a professional engineer while his license had expired. As in, during that period, he wasn't a licensed engineer, and therefore shouldn't have called himself one.
I mean, I think the cover is cool. It makes me think of a Jason Bourne novel involving Nazis. Which is also a type of book I’d never read, sorry.
I wouldn’t agree with “no say whatsoever” but of course constant reform is needed in any society.
Fortunately, some of those same DSSD folks have joined us at Oxide -- and let's just say that they are of like mind with respect to Oxide's approach. ;)
> I was stunned at how someone with zero evidence and an obvious axe to grind could rally such disdain for someone else with little more than a few unsubstantiated social media posts.

I feel that this is due to the weird place victimization occupies in our culture combined with how anti-social social media is.

It's extremely easy to issue accusations and threats and have them be read by literally millions of people. You would never dare vocalize these same threats and and accusations publically - and even if you did, in the pre-internet days, it would reach far far fewer people.

At some point we to start thinking about strengthening our libel laws to act as a deterrent to this type of online behaviors. It's depressing to consider MORE litigation as the solution here, but I don't think we can depend on the good nature of people and rationality to ultimately prevail.
I'm not sure I would like it here on HN but in general I can see why that's a good idea.
I agree it's not realistic. The backwards arrow, however (i.e. you can get the real name from the handle easily, but you can't get the handle from the real name, or at least not easily) isn't hard to achieve and affords most of the protection.

If you're not going to be awful online, nobody will try to figure out who you are from a pseudonymous handle. But your employer/potential employer will certainly google your name.
I legitimately think we should consider replacing all licenses with certifications and just require anyone who practices a profession without a certificate to be totally upfront with their clients about that
At my local supermarket the price for food varies week to week depending on whether an item is on sale. For example sometimes items are "2 of 3.00" and sometimes they are 2.00 each. Unless someone is keeping records it would be hard to gauge.
After reading through the post on notion, I found it "impressive" that OP has dated with so many toxic persons over years. Is this normal? Or is OP self an outlier to have had so many toxic relationships?
I'm not sure we should accept "returned to shareholders" at face value.

Nothing is really returned to shareholders. Shareholders own that money (as they own all Apple's assets) before the buyback. After the buyback, they no longer own the money... but share value has (in theory) not changed because it now represents a larger portion of this smaller asset.
I'm pretty sure this is also what draws in a lot of researchers. We're lucky that the theory is also so often useful.
> So the common persons voice should be rate limited? Only those 'qualified' should be able to have a larger impact?

Yes, to both. To go along with what the OP was saying, the common person should have to get the attention of someone with a "professional account" in order to get their voice amplified. Of course, that's assuming "professional accounts" actually mean something and aren't handed out like blue checkmarks on Twitter.
That link has to deal with regulation and risk mitigation for removing Asbestos, not selling a consumer product with Asbestos.

The UK took its time but they did fully ban Asbestos in 1999.
Guilt should not be related to associations or political beliefs. This is a genuinely dangerous comment. Reserve your judgment for when you’re called for the jury.
"Something off in the room" could be mismatched file count, unusual memory footprint, or processes targeting that path.

Really hope the user can fight and/or summon daemons too.

Final boss could be Zalgo, who slowly corrupts your shell and makes it harder and harder to accurately type commands.
> Displays make (relatively) sharp peak emissions at one wavelength.

Even microLED spikes are tens of nm wide.[1] Calling that "one wavelength" seems problematic, given all the confusion here today, and in TFA, between wavelength and spectrum and perceptual color.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Measured-RGB-red-green...
Beats burning down the house though... Also in case of laptops, mobiles etc, the device can report the error.
Mods. You say something nasty, you get banned. You make sense, you get slightly promoted.
It's not all the funny when you consider that prices fluctuate so wildly that including them would make the numbers meaningless.

Even though they are excluded, they are still a component of other inflation factors. Food & energy costs contribute to the cost of materials & labor. So they are included by proxy in the long term.

And if you are really interested, the Fed does calculate personal consumption expenditures (PCE). See below.

https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-p...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE

As you can see, long term, the trend matches that of inflation. Short term, it is all over the place.
>These days, I try to find the lemonade made out of the fucked up lemons.

stealing this for my next confrontation with the in-laws
Good for Americans really. It’s not over for the rest of the world. “Murica!”
Dropbox is big enough that they could just acquire Oxide now before they even get to market. That might even be the plan all along. I can't imagine there are more than like a dozen companies that are their target market, i.e. big enough to need Facebook-level datacenters but not big enough (yet) to have that engineering team.
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Well said. And notice how the refrain changed. For years it was complete denial with "cancel culture doesn't exist". Now the response is, "it's just consequence culture".
s/All/Some/

Overlooks both Mimblewimble coins launched in Jan 2019.
Try to see money as a ablative material that allows to set up "alternative" realities. It has to be worn down and away by conflict, refugee streams, economic, environmental and social collapse before actual change can happen.
"Professional engineers" in USA should make sure that structures are built well enough to be safely used by the public. They have no business weighing in on the sorts of issues addressed by Strong Towns. The fact that they have done so in the past is proof of this, because streets and roads in USA are organized very poorly when compared to those in similar nations.

[EDIT:] Also, Marohn is licensed as one can see here: https://www.mn.gov/aelslagid/roster.html
“Get in, get out. Don’t linger. Go on.” Raymond Carver’s writing advice
Places like NY would likely spend couple billions to invest on dykes and then sell it as new water front property...
I have to agree. Really reminds me of IBM Watson's tech for revenue share arrangement. If any of it works well, why not build the business?
I for one welcome this announcement, take that enormous "AI" money and fund people who have an actual product. Brilliant.
The Nintendo Switch can be bricked if you use the wrong cable, although my understanding is that it's not built to the USB-C spec: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_...

Either way, this is an incredibly common device that can be damaged by incompatible hardware where it's difficult to determine compatibility without bricking the device.
The plugin you are referring to is evil-args (https://github.com/wcsmith/evil-args), which is included in Doom Emacs by default.
If you want to do anything about this, it should be evaluating how you came to accept a job at this undesirable employer in the first place.

Are there questions you should have asked in the interview that would have lead to a different decision?

Are there attributes that companies that pay at or above average are looking for in candidates that you lack and could work on?
I would recommend adding as a preamble a bit more on the specifics you care about. Reading through it seems like general analytics trackers are something you're trying to avoid, in addition to avoiding a few companies in particular. Spelling those out may help folks understand what drives your recommendations and conclusions here.

Otherwise in-section descriptions are great. Thanks for compiling.
That kind of scenario doesn’t seem relevant, given the kind of attacks this thread is about, but if shown a damning screenshot, I would hope that I would not not immediately disavow a friend before looking into it, and if the situation was indeed that bad, would still love my friend enough to help them rehabilitate and obtain forgiveness from the people they wronged. I believe it’s possible to temporarily withdraw good graces to that end without permanently disavowing someone.