skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that IMO helps HN a lot is that it de-prioritizes politics (at least hotly debated topics,) in part due to the rules, and in part simply due to having something else to talk about.

I don't think politics in general as a topic should be banned, but there is exactly zero intellectual gratification in reading a thread where I can predict without reading what the opposing sides are going to say and the respective counter-arguments.

I just can't see how thread #32768 about affirmative action or thread #65537 about abortion can be more interesting than the previous one. You'll just be served defrosted opinions.
While the whole ordeal is awful, it's even more depressing that this is still better-case scenario by having evidence with the conversation receipts. The cynic in me interprets this as a form of pre-pre-nuptial relationship insurance.
It's great to see Windows Terminal become integrated into Windows.

It would be equally great if Microsoft could tell us where and when PowerShell 7 will become the default PowerShell in Windows.
Qt is retained, not immediate mode.
What gets me is not the interfaces to control things -- that seems believable -- but rather the ease/speed with which they answer questions about reams of data. Like, I work on a system with a database and to answer any complicated question I am like, "OK let me use the shell and write a query and check some stuff ... and then make sure that I'm asking the right question, and verify that this data looks right...", and here they are in a dozen (or 30) seconds finding all the craft that could have a telemetry that would intercept with some orbit, or cross-referencing passenger/crew manifests with other data.

It bugs me but not enough not to enjoy the show. ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/

Noise is never an issue when you dont use stock coolers. Undervolting current gen gpus reduces a lot of noise and heat. A ps5 takes up more space than a PC.

No need for 2.5/3.5" drives gives you a lot of room to get rid of ;)
> dedicated to virtualization, done their way

This is a selling point - if it's actually better (which, why not? most of the existing virtualization management solutions either suck or are hugely expensive).

If it's not better, big deal? I'm assuming you could just throw Linux on these things and run on the metal or use something different, right? Given how much bcantrill (and other Oxide team members) have discussed loving open hardware, I seriously doubt they would intentionally try to lock down their own product!

> vendor-locked at the rack - if you have hardware from someone else, it can't live in the same cabinet

This is aimed at players so big that they want to buy at the rack level and have no desire to ever touch or carve up anything. It's a niche market, but for them this is actually a plus.
To be clear here you're advocating for a law that forbids the private ownership of an unspecified quantity of property. How do you intend for this law to be enforced?

Will every single private transaction be subject to scrutiny by some sort of administrative panel that takes into account the current holdings of the prospective buyer?

It's curious to me that there is such a visceral opposition to Bill Gates owning some farm land in a place neither of us have ever heard of when he has so much more direct power over all of us through Microsoft.

I don't think that there is a specific quantity of stuff that is too much stuff for one person to own. I think that there are issues with wealth concentration but I don't think it's absolute.

The issue isn't that one person owns a lot of stuff the issue is that one person owns a lot of stuff while most other people own nearly nothing or are in debt.
I would argue Apple is trying to follow the HBO formula. They are not quite there yet, but the Apple shows I have watched have all been good, with Ted Lasso being great.
Had me for a while, then unfortunately lost me at the quote of Scott Adams. Adams is EXACTLY who I think anyone should avoid quoting at all costs, when you’re rightfully criticizing the Internet Morality Hordes. If you wanna know why, just scroll his Twitter timeline.
I think licensing boards shouldn't be able to fine people for giving speeches.
Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Humanity
Does it have frayed rubber isolation around connectors and randomly along the cable? If yes, then it is a genuine Apple (tm) cable. If it has solid isolation ad looks good then it's probably a Chinese knockoff. :)
Some Select quotes:

>The office is primarily a social space, not a productive one. Most humans aren’t solitary, like snow leopards, but more like birds. The office provides a place to ruffle plumage and establish a pecking order.

> Nor is the office necessarily ideal for heads-down, focused work. “You should pretty much get rid of every desk in the office,” says Samuel. “My feeling is that if you’re going to sit alone at a desk, stay home. There are jobs that are the exception, but in most cases, the point of the office is other people, and the point of home is focus.”

>If returning to the office feels, at first, like a waste of time, remember that the point is not to be more productive. It’s to let colleagues (especially the ones who sign the paychecks) know we care.

It reads like the office is about ego above all. Maybe we can just start paying ceremonial tribute to our bosses so that they feel good about themselves.
n=nodes>0; n^0.5=(log n)^3, n~24128091.7 , which is millions not billions?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28n%29%3D%28log+n...
It's why people are making these assumptions about the term "telemetry". In certain circles it usually means spyware. One of those circles includes front-end web, which is pretty well-represented on HN.

[EDIT] and, especially, that's why they're jumping to the conclusion that github is gearing up to do more spying on its users, which is the part that I think people are bothered by, not the existence of this software package.
> 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

Curious what you mean about the design of OpenTelemetry precluding efficient implementation?
Huh? The day GitHub has that much control over the Git project, the world of software as we know it will end.

GitHub ≠ Git. Far from it.
You can certainly be both an "influencer" and a "techie" but what you describe is someone participating in the "influencer" side of things and no longer being just a "regular" techie.

There are a lot of benefits of being an influencer, but it has its downsides too.

(s/influencer/celebrity for a few decades ago...)
Not really. If you put a classified ad in a Chicago paper saying you were having a garage sale, you were exposed to a million people and had the direct attention of the many thousands who would actually read the ad. If you spent an hour putting up flyers at major intersections near the bar you were playing at on Thursday night, thousands of people per hour would see them.

It's important to remember that there are as many people following 10K people as are being followed by 10K people. They aren't really paying attention to 10K people's photos of their lunches or stray observations on Ohio sports.
'Professional Engineer' is a specific legal qualification. Further this isn't a case of lay people using a term incorrectly, this is a case of a professional engineer leading a movement to change professional engineering, using the term to help establish his expertise in marketing material.
Given the format of the application and the sectors they’re targeting for investment (companies that would benefit from applied AI, not other pure AI plays), this reads to me more like “there need to be more customers and demonstrated use cases for the tools we built, and fast” ... “and they should also be built on Azure infra”
+1 for pacman.

Homebrew's biggest issue is that it isn't a package manager for MacOS. You can interpret that however you want, but it's versatility is extremely limited compared to "full-fat" package managers like apt and pacman. At the end of the day, all of the MacOS package managers fit together to perform separate stop-gap solutions, where none of them really fell that great to use in the first place. Hell, pacman is so good that it's one of the core reasons I'll probably never end up fully switching my workflow to MacOS.
I see $10/month here https://imgur.com/a/yUXEfTW
seems like the big pile of money they sit on is proof of that.
I think that a culture of lovingly challenging our friends is part of the solution to that problem of that counterweighting. I should be the first to uncover the sins, if you will, of my friend, and urge repentance and restitution, temporarily withholding approval to achieve that end, and involving more people in that knowledge to the degree necessary with public shaming being a last resort. (In this example, the problem is not one requiring legal intervention.)

Sadly, the idea that a friend can be a loyal one, while insisting on good behavior, seems alien today.
By your definition, I've been a specialist in columnar store databases, high-performance RPC frameworks, compilers and toolchains, embedded firmware and vector graphics.

That sounds like a generalist to me.
The actual quote behind Plank's "Science progresses, one funeral at a time" is: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
It's as true for rock and roll as it is for science. Metallica never recorded a NuMetal album.

The problem is many times worse when it's instituted in the form of an... erm.. institution. It's as prevalent (in many forms) in companies as it is in professional bodies, government bodies, etc. IDK what the solution is, but institutions don't die, so Max's approach won't work on them.
>but you aren't cut off from the incessant social media and all

It is your decision to pay attention to the "news" and social media
A simple explanation for it would be a farming layout for irrigation.
In ideal world it would be part of spec of USB host that it can test cable and report to user. That would not be expensive at all.

Resistance is most important for power connection. To determine if voltage drop is acceptable does not need high accuracy.
The sorts of stuff collected by opentelemitry are benign. Can it be weaponized? Of course, but that's like using a screwdriver to kill a fly. If I wanted to collect evil "telemitry" I wouldn't touch opentelemitry because it isn't useful for that.

It's like being afraid your browser profiler is being used to spy on you. Could it do that? Sure. but there are so many easier ways to accomplish the same task.
"Most keys found underneath streetlights, says Facebook".

Facebook massively under resources finding IO and only responds when there's the threat of bad press. Of course they're only going to find them in the places that they're looking the hardest.
Screen readers doing OCR is a big no-no. There is no possible way that will have the effect you want it to have. The text-to-speech part is the absolute bare minimum of what a screen reader is actually doing. For example that would break horribly with the situation you describe, where some piece of text gets clipped.

Just IMO, it's unrealistic to expect to have an accessible GUI that stores no state, does none of that type of bookkeeping, has no OOP model, and only outputs to pixels. The point with these type of assistive technologies is that the user can't work with that type of visual data, they need more state presented to them. Sure, it makes everything easier to develop when you cut it all out and only use immediate mode, but that's exactly the problem: everything else has been cut out, on purpose.
They are agnostic data collection protocols/ systems / libraries. Just like a protocol they could do PII collection and unlikely to prevent that.

Ultimately the intended use matters more than the tech. And in this case it seems purposely built to measure performance.
> There are 1.4 Billion cars on the road.[0] Somehow that is Shells fault? Really?

Shell is at fault for providing a product that causes harms and not rectifying that harm.

Cars? Who cares, that's not what Shell sells.

I would love to shift some liability to city planners that have made so much of the population dependent on cars, and some liability to car manufacturers, and maybe even to the advocates that make it nearly impossible to build homes and workplaces that don't depend on cars. But the legal ground is much shakier.

And it's even possible to build cars that don't depend on carbon emissions, much of the liability that I would like to see shifted to car manufacturers is because they have actively foiled attempts to move off emitting power sources. But I wouldn't want to invest in a new ICE in this day and age. It's likely that it will be off the road long before its lifetime is over. Natural fleet turnover for our vehicles is not quick enough to solve the problem.

And if somebody else is going to "feed" our cars, they will be just as liable for the damage they cause.

A lot of people are going to have a HARD awakening in the coming decade. They have been believing the bullshit from fossil fuel companies, BS that even the fossil fuel companies didn't believe, but spread to eke out just another few years of profits before having to change their strategy. And the companies that refuse to disrupt themselves are the ones who will be forcefully disrupted.

This moment in time is like when the iPhone was released and Blackberry had no idea what was coming. Renewables are cheaper than natural gas right now, and by the time we need massive amounts of storage, renewables plus lithium ion batteries will be cheaper than combined cycle gas turbines. Every new natural gas asset will be stranded within the next decade, as new renewables+storage will be cheaper than the opex for continuing to burn gas.
+1. I did exactly this a few years back when I saw a prominent member of the Nodejs community get savaged for linking to an article (exploring the idea that campus speech codes might adversely impact autistic people). I thought "if they can (nearly) take down this guy (a Nodejs technical steering committee member) for linking to a blog post, what are they going to do to me, Joe Nobody?" I was primarily a consultant at the time and relied on being invited to conferences to give talks & trainings in order to drum up new consulting work. Reputational damage would have been devastating to my income as a freelancer.

So participating "in the public sphere" was just not worth the risk. I had no idea what view I express today might in the future be deemed unacceptable. Even just being visible on there makes you more of a target–it's harder to have a pile-on on, say, someone's blog.

I miss twitter and facebook at times (quit facebook for different reasons), but overall it's a huge relief to not be contributing to those ecosystems.
So what. Crypto and blockchains have no use case. Fair play to you you’ve taken advantage of the many fools out there but crypto is still a useless technology
This ^ your friends will have your back.
Lee-beh-ra, as "libera" (he/she/it frees) in Spanish.
I also hate the brewing metaphors. I don't know why MacOS developers feel so compelled to abstract integral parts of your program away into unrecognizable metaphors. It's like asking for ketchup at the counter of a diner, and they insist that they only have "Heinz Tomato Sauce". Nobody in real life does this because nobody likes a smartass, so it completely escapes me why people think it's suddenly okay to do in software, particularly software designed to be used in a professional, power-user workflow.
I love how you point out that the characters are all believable, flawed people. I love Avasarala's character (and the actress' voice on top of that is like icing on a cake), and the way she plays the Power game so well. I really dislike that her character would torture, but at the same time she's like a well-written villain. She doesn't quite fit on an alignment chart.

> ALL of them stole their ship from the people of Mars

I'm not sure how it is in the book, but in the TV show, a ranking officer of the Martian navy explicitly tells the ship that they are in control. As legitimate salvage goes, it seems pretty defensible. The only reason they don't go deeper into it seems, to me, to be because explaining that (and proving it) would be Very Hard, and they'd rather avoid the risk.
No one can buy Amazon or Tesla at their market cap today either.

Sure companies valuation are backed by revenue and profit numbers unlike crypto.

However the multiples both these companies trade at along with the way Amazon treats "profit" their dividend habits means no buyer can actually recoup the investment by means of profits generated in a reasonable investment window.

The only way to make actual money with these stock is to sell it even higher not that different from crypto.

Look at last 2 years of the stock market even ignoring GME/AMC there seem to very little correlation with the actual numbers for these companies.
The forest is so incredibly overgrown, sooner or later someone has to set it on fire.
The article mentions a student taking his own life. I remember this was huge news a couple years ago at ISCA '19 and something that really shook my decision to pursue academia.

After that event, SIGARCH launched an investigation. After a couple years, here were the results of that investigation.

https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/isca-19-joint-in...

Worth noting is that the investigation actually initially found __no__ misconduct. Imagine that? A student kills himself, and you conclude it was the victim's fault, and not the environment that drove him.

It was only until this post [1] emerged that they relaunched the investigation.

[1] https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/evidence-put-doubts-on-the-...
>I think licensing boards shouldn't be able to fine people for giving speeches.

You'll be glad to know that this one didn't. The issue being presented isn't that someone gave a speech -- because that would be ridiculous -- it concerns a very specific thing stated within that speech. But you know that already so I'm not sure I understand your comment.
That depends. In Canada, for instance, you absolutely have to be certified to call yourself an engineer.
There are for Windows, too. I don't know about Linux. The catch is that for really exact color work, you have to calibrate and tune for your computer/OS/video card/monitor combination, and check the calibration against a known standard periodically. It's a bit of pain.
I've lost as much respect for Scott Adams as anyone, so I'd agree that quoting him is ill advised, but the underlying sentiment is not wrong. Mobs do cause harm, not least because they make redemption harder than it already is. In a way, treating a Scott Adams quote as an automatic disqualifier is only making the OP's point.
OpenTelemitry isn't useful for spying purposes. It just isn't. If github wanted to spy on users they have way more direct methods that don't involve collecting the time your browser executes a function or waits on an AJAX request.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
> 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.

This is 100% Nintendo's fault for using the USB-C connector type but not actually bothering to adhere to the USB-C specification.
This is very good. I definitely endorse this approach (and largely agree with your final sentence).
Start refreezing the Arctic Ocean as soon as possible to save our megacities
I don't even know what the confusion is. Is the sun not white? It looks white.
I’m guessing you’re referring to the Latin doctore, which means teacher, and how it’s different from medicus, which means medical doctor or at least something much like it. The only place I’ve seen doctor used in English to mean doctore is in Catholic contexts.

But in English using the title Doctor is assumed to mean medical specialist in general circumstances. Any Ed.D that stands up when the flight attendant asks, “Is there a doctor on the plane?” deserves a scolding at the very least.

Interestingly every single American with any kind of a technical Ph.D that I’ve ever met goes by first name and doesn’t balk at being called mister in all but the most formal circumstances (Germans are an entirely different matter). It’s the ones with Ph.Ds in things like English that get demanding about being called doctor in everyday life.
> Now, for the second time, a professional engineer has filed a complaint with the state licensing board alleging that the writing, speaking, and advocacy for reform of Charles Marohn—the founder and president of Strong Towns—constitutes a violation of Minnesota law.

The complaint is that, in his advocacy, he described himself as a professional engineer, which he obviously is. The idea that one needs to stay in the good graces of the state in order to reference one's experience in their field as part of their political advocacy cannot possibly withstand genuine first amendment scrutiny, can it?
First of all, well done on getting this far. I've had several goes at writing a book and never got this far. Writing a book is really hard!

Some brief feedback though on the first chapter. I thought the writing style was fine for this genre but I didn't really understand what it was that would make me move onto the next chapter. I wonder if you're holding back just a bit too much of what is so special about the content of the trucks. Maybe it just needs a bit more to draw the reader in?
You're assuming that internet mobs only attack based on misconstrued online content, but that's far from true.

I think the best solution here is to speak up on behalf of those who are unfairly attacked, in spite of the negative fallout from getting involved. The worst thing that can happen in cases like this is when nobody supports the victim. That can be profoundly traumatizing.

For a more in-depth look at the impacts of internet mob attacks, I'd recommend this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_when_online_shaming_goe...
> In general, when people working full-time on a technology think it's dangerous and you don't see why, it's best to assume that they've spent a lot more time thinking of ways it could go wrong than you.

Or they could explain it to us in a way that's understandable. I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt when they've already thrown away so much goodwill.
You seem to be thinking that a server and a workstation are the same, ignoring that server skus need oob management, apis, hardware support and so many other things as table stakes
I took an online course instructed by those guys and it was great. Worth watching the videos just for the banter between them.
Cool, that's fine, I was just explaining why it's getting that reaction from people. Telemetry means different things to different people and a (quite new) use is basically just a euphemism for "watching over people's shoulder while they use our software"—but, among some people, that's the main use they encounter, so they assumed that's what this is.
Uber Recognises Trade Union
Sure, and the US and Canada had a downward trend last year before new peaks happened in fall/winter.
Brian, well done for the launch. I am in awe of your team's audacity, patience and execution.
Do you remember the outcry some time back against Google when they wanted to limit add-ons in a way that would make adblockers less effective? Well, Apple did that too but Apple doesn't receive as much flak. This caused some add-on developers to shut down their add-on development for iOS while others just warn that their add-ons are now crippled. That alone makes it not a recommendable browser for privacy.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/safar...

https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60000...