skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of talks on HN about the toxicity of social media. And people are pretty angry against Google and Facebook.

But to me the worse is by far Twitter. There are plenty of random people who have a disproportionate number of followers compared to the quality of their posts. And as a result can do these kind of mods. Which are amplified by retweets, something that barely exists in other social media.

Random people can have too much power. As a society we should really prevent anyone to have more than a certain reach, like for example 5k people viewing a post. If you want to have a bigger reach you should apply to get a professional account and be regulated.
The most disturbing and insidious sentiment of online mobs is claiming that the targets are "just being held accountable". Or that such people are just experiencing "consequences". I really can't express just how cold and bloodthirsty such statements seem to be. It's the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.
The issue isn't bad actors taking advantage and the issue isn't listening to victims. We should absolutely keep listening unconditionally and there will always be bad actors.

The problem is how we respond to what we hear. The core casue of the issue is treating online vigilante outrage mobs as an acceptable activity.
Utter nonsense! Why is SARS-CoV-2 different than other coronaviruses, which cause a big toll on the whole planet each year for millennia? Or why we are not immune to the flu for life? Too much wishful thinking nowadays!
No, OpenTelemetry is focussed on gathering metrics in distributed systems. Metrics, log aggregation and tracing of requests from the entrypoint (load balancer) all the way to the backend services and data stores.

Take a look at the Jaeger and Zipkin websites and it should be pretty clear what it is used for.
I use booky.io, which allows me to categorize my bookmarks easily, color-code them, and add notes.
> The only community I interact with candidly tends to be this one.

Same here. Even so, I make it a point to keep it positive, and about myself.

Interestingly, that gets people painting me as "stuck up," or a "goody two-shoes," and they attack me anyway.

Meh. Whatevs.
Healthcare is definitely another.

Government, too (especially non-US).
Public confidence in the engineers comes from the ethical standard to put public & environmental safety paramount to all other requirements. An engineer noticing a fault and ignoring it goes against those ethics so your example is a bit poor, though I do see the relation to the topic at hand.

Reading StrongTown's account of things is one side of the story, and they really do make it sound like a bunch of grumpy old assholes are throwing their weight around where they shouldn't be. Assuming this account of facts is accurate and not embellished, I really hope they win and people like the engineers pushing this bullshit get a reality check.

I am a P.Eng... Canadian though, and even though I hold the title I do not use the stamp or really work as a traditional engineer a whole lot. I just feel its important to point out that our ethical standards aren't so easily circumvented as ignoring a safety hazard because it might make us look bad.
The issue as described in the article is holding himself out as a “professional engineer” because that implies licensure. Specifically here the issue is that it is a claim to a legally relevant credential...i.e. as qualified to render expert opinion in a legal context.
No, it doesn’t just crash Safari. Apple has yet to fix exploitable flaw
They already sorta do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games
As someone who's needed to maintain complex, high-performance database drivers that needed to work across a bunch of different platforms, I've been following them and their predecessors of OpenTracing/OpenCensus. The problem that's always been interesting to me as a library maintainer is consistency across platforms and well maintained multi-platform libraries.

I hadn't really found an acceptable solution that would work across Java, Node.js, browser, and so on. We'd invented our own formats and then we owned all the integration problems with various monitoring tools. I left the team before we started to adopt, but they've started doing it and it looks like it's help with reducing integration burden. I also think using someone else's opinionated library can help avoid bikeshedding on concepts not related to your core value.
Getting started with OpenZFS 2.0 on FreeBSD
What do you mean by "most wrong?" Compared to her character in the book, or the character you'd like her to be instead?

I think Avasarala is actually one of the better written characters. As far as character development goes, she has one of the best arcs in the whole series. In the beginning, she is a politician and power broker who takes zero shit from anybody, especially the men who are supposed to be her superiors. Various tragedies like the Earth nearly getting wiped out nearly turn her into a bloodthirsty Belter-killing monster. She eventually softens substantially and only wants to do what's best for the human race as a whole. (But still taking shit from no one.) That she is an older Indian woman whose language would make a lumberjack blush is just an interesting twist.

One of the central themes of the Expanse (the books and the show) is that unlike most plots in books or movies, there are no good guys here. There are only people who are driven by some greater purpose (greed, power, loyalty to government, justice, etc). They do good things, they do bad things, they do stupid things. They are complicated, just like real people.

As an example, the characters that we might try to think of as the "good guys" are the crew of the Roci. Holden is a navel-gazing military wash-out who nearly starts an interplanetary war between Earth and Mars via pure speculation. And NEVER apologizes for it. Amos' background isn't explored in much detail in the show, but in the books he worked for a brutal crime boss on Earth and more or less just kills whoever gets in his way or because he thought they might. Alex was an absentee father and husband. Naomi abandoned her young child. And ALL of them stole their ship from the people of Mars. (They use the euphemism "Legitimate Salvage" in sorry-but-not-sorry kind of way.)

Finally, context is important. In the future of The Expanse, human civilization is pretty much A Fucking Mess. The Earth is overcrowded, half the population is on welfare, and crime is rampant. Mars is effectively a military state. In the Belt, you are as likely to die from a random equipment malfunction as saying the wrong thing in a bar. So a lot of parallels with countries in present-day Earth, just amplified.

Anywho, I don't agree with torture either, but it's hardly a surprise that it happens in that universe.
Spending $65 on a 6 foot cable as a "fix" for that doesn't seem like much of a fix at all.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24721
Protip: quoting Scott Adams, noted mediocre cartoonist turned right-wing gadfly, is not a good idea to convince me that multiple women accusing you of improper behavior are, in fact, full of shit.
From the linked Notion "Receipts" page:

> I've struggled to understand why so many people have piled on to these absurd accusations without facts.

I watched a similar situation play out in real time. A friend had to fire an employee who wasn't submitting work or even responding to communications. The employe retaliated by using their moderately large social media presence to disparage my friend and her company.

Strangely enough, other people with zero experience in the matter were piling on to support the claims. It seemed they felt obligated to amplify and lend credence to the allegations of one of their social media friends.

The experience was extremely stressful for my friend, but ultimately the former employee cooled off and deleted many of the posts. It's hard to tell how much damage was done in the process, but 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.
Spinoza and Cancel Culture
This is one place the ISOBMFF spec really screwed up, in my opinion. They should have included semantics for the colr box, i.e. which takes precedence.

Intead we get: "Colour information may be supplied in one or more ColourInformationBoxes placed in a VisualSampleEntry.
These should be placed in order in the sample entry starting with the most accurate (and potentially the most
difficult to process), in progression to the least. These are advisory and concern rendering and colour
conversion, and there is no normative behaviour associated with them; a reader may choose to use the most
suitable."
Indeed but note that if you search for "libera chat" or "libera.chat" (I think they are equivalent, github's search doesn't recognize punctuation I think), it filters out the commits that don't mention both "libera" "chat" in the commit message, and only turns up those that do. In particular, github's commit search does not search diffs, only commit messages, so even if the diff contains libera.chat, it won't turn up until the commit message also mentions it.
We are missing unprivileged builds and clean chroot builds for `makepkg`. Our interal devtools uses `systemd-nspawn` which requires root. But that should be easy to implement with the leftover code we tried to use with our reproducible builds tooling.

https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-repro/pull/70

Maybe a weekend hack to wrap `makepkg` with this.
> OP has a huge Twitter presence (600k+ followers),

He has 16k followers https://twitter.com/pasql
"Why would you spend more money on fuel when you could combine a trip?"

Because there is no laundry next to my grocery store?

Or Because you have to wait for hours for the laundry to finish, so for some people it's two trips, or because there are queues. There are no carbon savings in using a laundry, and this discourse in carbon accounting illustrates the problem perfectly - it is not possible for a consumer to trace the supply chain used by some megacorp which combines 150 minerals from 50 countries over 6 modes of transport to conclude anything accurate about carbon footprint.

You mention politicians, but thats only coming round to politicians and regulation because the market has failed.
Excellent point. Links would be interesting if you happen to have any.
> Also who are these _friends_ who jumps on conclusion without allowing for a defense?

I wonder if this person is referring more to their social group. I get the impression that there are groups of "friends" that are really more of a social group and are all walking on eggshells around one another re orthodoxy and and at the same time poised to jump on anyone who is perceived to do something against their group values.

Sort of like the situation in 1984, Winston, Syme, Ampleforth, Parson, are all "friends" in some sense but effectively would denounce each other immediately for anything and feel the need to insert little "there is a war going on of course" type platitudes in conversation.
Whenever you say words “natural”, or “friendly” you actually mean “what I am used to”. As the saying goes “Basically, the only ‘intuitive’ interface is the nipple. After
that, it's all learned.” (Usenet discussion about Apple Macintosh).

So, no, I spent couple of years struggling with non-modal editors, where I had that feeling all the time “I have no idea how to do it effectively in this $EDITOR, while I know five keypresses which would do it for me in vim.” Finally, I have liberated myself and switched back to vim.
If they are at Stanford and Princeton, they are definitionally members of the cognitive elite already. Period, and this goes for people that are admitted at all. Considering the median income in the country for a single-earner is about $65k they don't really get much sympathy (nor should they).

They shouldn't be treated better than the people at CSULA by virtue of their "genetic superiority".
The board dismissed that complaint per the article.
The Switches USB-C implementation is genuinely broken, so this isn't the fault of the connector. A spec-compliant charger, cable and connector will never brick anything (or catch on fire, for that matter)
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2022
Now I get Twitter ads for mom's toothpaste
These issues are much less about wanting the color that shows up on the user’s screen to precisely match the color the designer intended, and far more about making sure that if you send the same color to display on the same screen via PNG, WEBM, WebGL and CSS, that they should end up looking the same.

If you’ve got an embedded video that has inter titles whose background color is the same corporate red as your webpage header, you should be able to get the pixels to be the same color, right?
The post, and your comment, IMO wrongly frames this as courage .vs. cowardice in standing up for friends.

However, that fails to take into account any context of the particular “cancellation”.

eg, A situation with damning screenshots of lewd DMs are pretty ‘smoking gun’, and the barometer of “good friends would publicly support me” feels like an insane expectation when (in this hypothetical instance) the person did a bad thing.

Perhaps being cancelled isn’t the solution (because we’re all flawed) but the automatic expectation of character references come a scandal isn’t fair on one’s friends.
> why the system isn't clocking higher if the cooling system is running so comfortably.

Because there's a upper limit on how much power (voltage, clock rate, etc) you can shove though a CPU before it starts malfunctioning or getting damaged by purely electrical effects, no matter how effectively it's cooled?

It's entirely possible Apple has set the nominal limits fraudulently low for business reasons, but there are actual physical limits here, and depending on how the CPU is designed/optimized, it's quite possible that it's easy to build a cooling system that significantly exceeds what those limits allow to be demanded of it in a significant range of cases.
Why is this obvious scam still listed on Y, I’ve no idea. It does nothing but tarnish the brand. Anyone have insight into this on the VC side? Doge is a better investment than this.
> It's a pretty scorched-earth opinion on privacy

I honestly always tought it was common sense.

> None of this is to say that you should be a bad person online, or otherwise take advantage of anonymity. Being anonymous just gives you a healthy personal shield, and the option to "cash out" and walk away from that identity, if you so desire.

I wouldn't call it anonymity. You can read all of the posts I've made on hacker news by going through my posts (although I can't really prove that to you). My identity just isn't linked to who I am IRL, and both aren't linked to my twitter, and the three aren't linked to my discord. That means that I can be appreciated and judged as an indivudal on HN, but it won't have consequences on other platforms. On the other hand, if I make a really really popular twitter post I can't profit from it here. As you said, it's of course not a reason or way to be a bad person. I just think it's important for me to separate my different identities.
Ask HN: Tools for Optimizing Inventory Management
Hey HN - I'm a full-stack developer by trade. My friend runs a few local art stores in the state. He was asking me if there were any tools/techniques from the software world he could apply towards optimizing his inventory for each of his stores.

For instance, he would love if a tool could let him know if...

- Acrylic paint inventory should be sent from Store A to Store B where it is in more demand.

- Raising the price at Store A of paint brushes would increase profit percentage without diminishing volume sold.

- Doing a buy one get one free special for old products would be profitable in Store B.

Right now, he's only got intuition about which store should have which inventory at which price, but he'd like a tool that could help him optimize and validate these intuitions.

I guess I'm looking for a Google Analytics / Mixpanel style solution for the real world that could also assist with optimizing pricing and deals. Is there something on the market that handles this sort of problem? Or is this something that should be home-brewed?
>The elevation of the room where the rack is installed must be below 10,005 feet (3,050 meters).

seems to be excluding Bolivia and probably Mars too.
So, does anybody think it would be overkill to put
Kubernetes on this to host my blog?
How to Create an Effective Measurement Plan?
That is nicely done! I really like the UI.

My web site http://cookingspace.com used to allow users to save ingredients on hand in their kitchen, but I removed that feature 10years ago when I rewrote the web app (Ruby -> Clojure) because only about 1% of site visitors used the feature.
Sounds to me like internet fora inevitably fail, either suffering under over- or under-regulation. People usually act as though one of the two solutions could fix the problem, but having seen both, I cannot prefer either. The medium is broken.
We drastically need significant reform of our court system. We simply don't have the capacity to address the current demanda on the court system (which is why we need ao many plea deals.) We certainly don't have the slack we need in the system to be able to drastically expand the scope.
I am not super familiar with Zen, but my understanding is "yes, sort of". Zen come from Mahayana path and I believe it retains those teachings and cosmology, but it's not as central. Looking at it on Wikipedia, it looks like Zen is all about teaching enlightenment with very little importance placed on much else, so in that regard, yes.
I have a few legacy HP Proliant (cheap eBay) rackmount servers in my office closet. Oxide looks awesome, but obviously not targeted for home / small business use. I was hoping they would offer single-u servers.
> Treesitter added different syntax colors, but the result wasn't necessarily better than vanilla vim. More like an overly decorated christmas tree.

The problem here is that people use treesitter to add more colours to distinguish more types of tokens. For me this is too much and the colours lose their meaning.
I recently switched to a colour scheme that only changes the colours for strings, numbers and comments. Treesitter allowed be to add very targeted minimal highlighting. For example, I know highlight the first line of a function definition. This makes it very easy to see function scopes.

We don't really need more highlighting, but meaningful highlighting. With treesitter you can do both.
I just reread it as well, and what was clear is that the description of the engine, initially, was unclear. I assumed upon initial reading that the engine he was describing was conventional, and the author was talking about "detonations" in there, like the firing of a cylinder. If it was a turbine he was describing, there is no pulse, its a continuous burn. So overall, it didn't make sense to me, to describe an engine to use to compare the new tech to, that doesn't exist. Therefore I assumed that the author was comparing to an existing one, which does not detonate (well, they do, but its a BAD thing).
Disagree. Government oversight is usually never the correct answer. The simplest solution to this is through consumer choice. Simply pirate the content you want. If corporations don't want to lose money to piracy then they'll learn to stop doing anti-consumer behavior.
Nah, it's a symptom of America mostly producing TV shows and Movies as opposed to actual physical products that people need or love in their lives.

That particular business (Hollywood) happens to also be the propaganda arm for the current power, so naturally it's protected ham-fistedly by policy makers.
> It is not overhyped at all. It is misunderstood.

How many times have I heard that...
Add to this that it’s Microsoft owned.
> I'm here to balance the echo chamber

Y'know, the majority of voices criticizing one "side" when a major conflict happens doesn't necessarily mean that there's an "echo chamber."

Quite often, what it means is that the side being criticized has actually done something bad, and deserves the criticism.
It works but it if you run a high bandwidth game like Flight Simulator you might hit some performance limits, you can check your cable speed in the quest desktop app.
Singapore Approves Covid Breath Test with One-Minute Result
I'm fairly confident the nodes are half width; if you look at the latches it very much would appear you can pull out half of every 2u at once, and if you look at the rear there's 2 net cables going into each side.
Nobody uses HN because it's an amazing piece of software.
This is the worst possible outcome for hobby content. At least forum/reddit threads are searchable on the open web and likely to remain available at least for a while.
A freshman from Compton, CA or rural Alabama who goes to Stanford on a full-ride need-based scholarship is not part of the 'cognitive elite.' Second, these sorts of tax laws can apply to any school, including a UC or CSU (there will just be less taxes due to lower COA).

>Considering the median income in the country for a single-earner is about $65k

Median != 'elite'.

>"genetic superiority".

???
I wonder if anyone is going to create a linux distribution with a base system baked in with pkgsrc managing the applications. It would be very useful for containers and WSL.
Would it be moral to collapse the wealth of the 70% of Canadians who own homes?
This is precisely how we do this in many other domains of automation. Specify a test set, and let the generator meet that test spec.
>It would take the sort of effort (for the US or EU) only possible with total hindsight. But if Trump tried to seal our borders with force in Jan 2020, there is no way Democrats would have accepted it. They'd call it rationalization for an attack on immigration.

Much worse than that. Remember, Trump's (first) impeachment by the House had occurred in December 2019. He was not acquitted in the Senate until early February.

Patient Zero for the US is believed to have entered on January 15. Had Trump on January 14 announced a total and complete shutdown of the US border, Democrats and 95% of mass media would immediately have denounced it as Trump preparing a coup to seize total power, using the ridiculous pretext of a disease that had had zero impact on the US (and was racist to ascribe in any way to China).
Forgot? Or are too young to have ever known? ;)
> How they got away with such incompetence remains utterly baffling and deeply depressing.

What do you expect from such a unique, chaotic situation such as this?

> (A largely Conservative-supporting national press probably helped to some degree.)

Plenty of people say the absolute opposite.
Seems like a bad UI caused by the change that means anyone who bought ST3 in the last 3 years can upgrade to ST4 with their current license.

They should have released a small ST3 update that detects if the license would be valid for ST4 and prompts the frictionless upgrade only for this case, and otherwise maybe just makes an alert that a paid update is available if you want it.

I am planning to upgrade though as I’m a satisfied user of ST2 and ST3.
What goes around comes around?