skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree.

Apple is selling a ton of watches because the brand is currently so strong that it's a no brainer for most people.

Also, the product is actually not bad.

But, I don't find it attractive, I think the rectangular design was an early mistake that will hinder their design for a long time.

The software look good mostly because Google did a really poor job when porting Android to this form factor.

This is not the end of the story, and it won't need 10 years for competitors to catch up.
My favorite bumper sticker goes something like, "If loud pipes save lives, imagine how it'd be if you learned how to ride the thing"
iirc emacs implements a generic 'unexec' function which serializes the current process state so it can be reloaded later. Seems like you could use it to make snapshots.
When everything comes out, there will be some people able to say "I've told you so, for the last 40 years"... They still won't be listened to, and the general "known Truth" will resemble the actual reality about as much as it does now, even if society comes to believe we're vassals of an intergalactic feudalistic state.

It could be pure propaganda entirely focused on getting the Navy in control of the nacesnt "space force"; that'd be a bit more cynical and farsighted than I expect from large parts of government.
Every crisis is an opportunity IF you have business man's instinct.
I've worked at several tech companies with distributed or remote teams and flexible hours. Every one of them had a few employees who were considered so good that they could get away with working visibly fewer hours than everyone else and only being available when they wanted to work.

Great for them, terrible for everyone who had to work with them. When one person has significantly less availability than everyone else, the rest of the team is forced to structure their activity around catering to that person's schedule.

Superstar engineer only works a couple hours per day? Prepare to block that time off in your calendar so you can try to catch them to coordinate that work you need to do together. Rockstar coder unavailable every Friday? Better hope they're not blocking your work, otherwise you're waiting until Monday to make progress. Or more realistically, you're going to waste all Friday trying to solve something on your own that could be finished 10x faster if you could get 15 minutes of that person's time.

> Don’t lie, don’t make up excuses, but be prepared to say I did xyz as planned.

The fallacy is that for most tech jobs, that "xyz" is rarely the end of the story. Planning isn't perfect and we almost never know the complete scope of a task or project at the planning phase.

The end result is a lot of work shifted to other team members who are forced to pick up the slack simply because they're available and reliable, unlike the person who disappears every Friday or spends every afternoon at the gym.

This may work in a hypothetical workplace with perfect planning and perfectly isolated work units, but in practice it just moves the excess work burden to other teammates. You're not sticking it to the company, you're sticking it to your team.

When I transitioned to management I made a point to try to balance workload and availability across teams. It often makes more sense to let go of superstar engineers who are only available 4 out of 5 days per week and only working a few hours per day, even if their work is good in isolation.

A healthy team requires everyone to play by similar rules.
The other point is that such research usually targets non-human species. Say, they try to adapt a bat-virus to a ferret.

The idea that such a virus is transmissible to Humans, escapes and causes a pandemic is something of a miracle in itself. If it actually happened that way, which I don't believe right now.
I always find it funny how articles like this are behind a “privacy” cookie wall.
I bought The Witness (the PC version) a couple of years ago, even though it's not a game that I'm inclined to try to play (and I might not even be able to play it). I bought it partly because I was inordinately curious about superficial packaging details like whether or to what extent dynamic linking would be used, how assets would be bundled, and whether they would be obfuscated so they couldn't be viewed or played outside the game. But I also bought it because I knew it had some interesting audio and video recordings, like a recording of Brian Moriarty's lecture "The Secret of Psalm 46". Anyway, I found the audio of that Feynman clip you referenced, and it was indeed playable outside the game, in an ordinary audio player. Now I'm curious about this movie theatre puzzle and the significance of the Feynman clip in the context of the game.
>...Who cares if landlords got paid for rent...

Hmmm...unfortunately, most landlords are people who own a single rental, often the one they lived in previously that they cannot sell. By not bailing out landlords (not speaking of institutional investors here that buy up distressed mortgages in cash by the hundreds), you've hurt average-earning middle income citizens. So yes, with the moratoriums, you've transferred wealth from a chunk of the middle class to a different chunk of the middle and lower class.
It depends on a person. For me the lectures deserve all the praise they've got and more.

I've read Feynman lectures twice. First time in the secondary school -- it was above my head but it gave me an understanding, the right models to work with later. The second time I read it in the university after I'd already studied the topics by other means (through complex math using e.g., Landau and Lifshitz textbooks). Now, I could appropriate the full depth of the lectures.

It is often useful to have several perspectives on a subject , to know it better in particular to solve complex problems (the more tools you can apply, the better).
sure, but it’s essentially a social/legal problem, not a technical one. the onus is on the company holding data to show the chain of consent, which doesn’t require anything fancy outside a purpose-built database.
Why would one want to be pinned into the seat that way? Seems very dangerous during an accident, however, I must admit I'm not a rider so, I could be wrong.
Isn't the creator of MySQL named Monty?
Ad blocking works perfectly fine, wdym?
As I said (GP here) - I rode motorcycles since 2008; I'll grant you that sound is absolutely part of the fun - but loud aftermarket exhausts, detonating straight pipes, etc which are the subject of the topic here -- I feel the world's balance is overwhelmingly on the negative in the "joy to self" vs "average impact to others".

I understand many people put the aftermarket pipes "for themselves", at least consciously, or at least claim so - but I feel at best, it's a degree of self-centerdness to not realize impact on others. I see it on Subaru forums too - fellow WRX/STi owners moaning about their neighbour's complaints and cops stopping them and people giving them dirty looks etc etc - obliviously blind that it was themselves who brought in on by installing ridiculous loud exhausts. A factory exhaust on my bikes gave me plenty of thrill, and while I did put a high-flow cat on my Scoobie, I searched for an exhaust with nice sound but quieter actual dBs than stock. Few things are B&W - but there is a loudness at which point it really really is about others.

(note that when you say "past 10k RPM", it sounds like you likely have a sportsbike, and as you say a stock one; those can be loud at high revs, but generally speaking the loudest bikes in my experience tend to be modified cruisers and wanna-be Harleys.

Also note that rider may not always get straight opinions from friends, depending who wants to fight what battle when - e.g. last summer, a rider was revving his throttle at a friends' cottage and boasting about his aftermarket pipes; given we were both guests, I politely nodded and meandered away... but everything for the rest of the evening confirmed the image I formed the moment I heard his pipes :-/)
Show HN: Ready to move from jQuery to shiny reactivess?
Yes, call them spades instead.
Not just yet, stay tune for /dev/null based storage engine !
Interesting ideas.

> Any attempt at bullying would result in an immediate ban.

Alas, that turns accusations of bullying into pretty effective bullying.
Or maybe John Cena cares about upsetting a large part of his audience, he apologised in decent Mandarin after all. It's unsurprising that imperialist media would twist a perfectly normal apology video into something sinister.

If you talk to people both on the mainland and in Taiwan, you'll find the vast majority consider Taiwan to be a part of China. Many have family on the other side of the Taiwan strait, after all.

Taiwan's local government still officially claims all of China as its territory. This is unsurprising since it's a direct descendant of the KMT, who retreated to Taiwan after losing the civil war to the PRC on the mainland. Only more recently a minority are starting to move towards the idea of Taiwan as an independent country; this minority is overrepresented in Western media.
I understand what you mean, but it's important to understand the technological side here. Protonmail offers an email service, and despite all privacy marketing, very little of that applies to emails which enters or leave their own systems. This is a requirement if their users are to communicate with a non-Protonmail address.

Any message that interface with the standard email network is better off regarded as public communication. I can only imagine the legal implications that would compel Protonmail to assist law enforcement after their Service was misused and complicit in an alleged bomb threat.

Their Terms of Service surely outline that illegal activity will void their protection as far as possible. Keeping communications inside their in-house, zero-knowledge email service on the other hand, would make it very hard for Protonmail to produce any of this information. That is their actual privacy offer, as far as I understand.

To Protonmails defense, I haven't heard that this email has successfully been linked to any real identity past the phony Sulanov alias.
It sounds like a bad idea to keep nuclear bombs in the Netherlands. A small country that produces and exports a lot of food without much usable land.
That specific one was spared because it was well hidden, as soon as it became an easier target it had to be painted. Spragues, ghost stations, historical monuments, natural landmarks, Russian space shuttles… nothing is "too nice".

Vaugirard was more of a "monte-en-l'air" business for some of us ;-).
They need to bring the ground-penetrating radar to every residential school site now.
Wtf is a "Hindu" pm?
> Nothing prevents [...]

Oh, the power of small inconveniences.
Is there anyone eating that crap or people are just mimicking whatever others are doing?
I find it odd that some Christian conservatives in the US support policies which are essentially racist. I had a talk with my girlfriend about it and she mentioned one reason could be that they actually think they're doing the right thing according to the Bible. It's true that religion/belief-system "partitions" people -- you're either one of us or we must be against you. Not saying that some (supposedly) Christians aren't taking advantage of religion to justify their agenda, but many actually believe what they're doing is right.

It's also difficult to change this situation because for many people maintaining homeostasis is much easier and more favorable than opening up their minds to other opinions. Many religious people (not just Christians) I've known just want to follow a set of "rules" and have a simple standard life.
So how does that work then? How does Google prove that I clicked that accept-EULA button? Or that I approve of them keeping track of my information? I never put my signature anywhere and still there are companies holding or even trading my information.

> it’s essentially a social/legal problem, not a technical one

And ironically, it's the tech companies who are getting away with it.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that particular source is well known for making big claims with insufficient evidence, and it reads like it was written by a conspiracy theorist. Many of the author's claims have already been (imo, pretty solidly) refuted by Proton.

Disclaimer: using protonmail until my current subscription runs out, then selfhosting
Oh. Well I'm white British (also grew up with cricket) but wouldn't be surprised at companies from around several tens of employees and up having at least one sports team of some kind; the specific sport you want being more likely the larger company.

Most common here are probably football, netball, and cricket, I reckon. So if it was about what sort of company at which to find cricket specifically, then I misunderstood, tech link makes more sense!
For example, this 2019 NIH grant awarded to Ecohealth Alliance Inc.: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9819304

This is part of a series of ongoing projects that have received NIH funding over the last 7 years. Ecohealth, in turn, funds WIV: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4
This assumes that the non-breadwinner did not work. In the vast majority, the second party, almost always a wife, was busy homemaking -- toiling from sunup to sundown tending children, making labor-intensive meals, cleaning, doing laundry, making clothes, growing and preserving food, etc. Did they get paid for their 12-hour workday? No. They significantly enabled the breadwinner to specialize in his field, but only he is seen as contributing to the economy.

Today, we've got machines to do the dishes and the laundry, refrigeration, and foreign slaves / wage-slaves to make our clothes and crops. Homemaking is less labor intensive today, and what could be more leisure time has been replaced with two-income houses.

And, for example, my great grandma was both a housewife and she had a job at a sweatshop. The single-income household wasn't really an option for the poor in the 40s, and I suspect that it's only been broadly available to the upper class.
Thinking about this more, we know that the author saw a hot "write" method in the profile for the fast run and doesn't have a profile for the slow run. The slow versions could be spending most of their time in a completely different place.
Well, mimicking the higher ups is like 50% of climbing the corporate ladder in big, dysfunctional organizations....

Yeah, I've always wondered the same. Maybe recruiters?
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That mute and unfollow button though.

I do about 10 a day.
> Now, I know this will illicit dismayed responses from the other 5% who want 256GB of RAM, or a RAID-45.1375 18TB array, or some other edge cases, but I suspect we'll see this iMac show up in a lot of startup offices over the next year.

I don't really like how you characterize people wanting a bit more RAM and disk space. Sure, maybe it's not essential and mostly confort, but as a developer it's nice to not be limited too much by your machine. 16GB of RAM and 512GB of disk space is perfectly reasonable to ask for, especially since the Docker experience is quite a bit worse than on Linux.

Edit: As mentionned below, you can have 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of disk space, so ignore this comment.
I think you misunderstood me. I meant that developers must use KDFs and not cryptographic hash functions to store user passwords (at least until WebAuthn takes center stage), so that in the event they are pwned and have their db stolen, the brute-force attacks wouldn't be as effective.
I had an encounter in my teens in the 90’s. As such I don’t think these are radar glitches or psyop. These are in fact real.

Interestingly most video accounts I see are of gently floating ufo’s. The thing I saw was zipping around and treated the sky like an air hockey table.

I did a lot of digging to reconcile what I saw and came down to the conclusion that these are probably projected masses. (Not real objects)

Recently however I think I’m adapting the thought that these may in fact be real craft.

Definitely ours.
Or, more generously, just young and immature and not completely cognizant of the impact of your actions on others.

In a different lifetime I had a few bikes including a TL1000R that was just plain intoxicating to ride with aftermarket pipes.

There is no way in hell I could do that to my neighbors at this stage of my life, however, and I often cringe at the actions of my younger self. Nowadays, I refuse to even use gas powered garden tools for noise (and environmental) reasons.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if you are a knowledge worker you are already probably doing this unconciously. Online research, entertainment and shopping for non-work related stuff, errands, stock trading, etc. Working from home makes this easier because you can have a non-work computer right next to your work laptop so no chance of the company snooping into what you are doing.

Ofcourse if you work where every hour counts- construction, nursing, waitressing, driving for uber- it'll be a while till people figure out they need to be paid more or work less for the same $
"Here is my MBA, cloud certification, and a nano-degree... oh hi Steve! congrats on your anniversary made up by LinkedIn...".
About Yak Shaving
If you count how hard it is to get onto the poles in the US then its not bollocks.
Yeah, but I didn’t know that at the time I was naming the project. Just a coincidence.:)
> The word "design" should be banned.

You can only say that because Apple's design approach already won. Do you remember what computers were like pre-iMac? Technology was ugly, obtuse, and vexing to anyone who wasn't a self-described "nerd". Apple's leadership on usibility-centered design for technology is a major part of the reason we have a wide array of beautiful, pleasant to use technology products today.

Yes there were some excesses due to undue focus on aesthetics over functionality, but you don't want to go back to a world where hardware and software interfaces are primarily driven by engineering concerns.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9563/

Frankly, it was probably good research. If it did escape, it's not a particular China problem - viruses have escaped labs over and over all over the world.

I know of one lab here in the US that has a onsite fourteen day quarantine every time you leave the work area - you can imagine that it's not a popular place to work.
Hacking the Silvercrest (Lidl) Smart Home Gateway
The Interplay of Nakamoto Consensus and Byzantine Fault Tolerance
The mere fact that someone does not hold with leftist ideology does not imply this criticism is "not in good faith", the opposite is actually true.

Yes, the university curriculum - and especially the humanities - is a left-wing echo chamber. If you do not agree I'd like you to show me some proof in the form of neutral or conservative courses in these fields. Why do you even try to deny this fact, seeing as to how this is so obvious? If there were to be a place for a "not in good faith" accusation it would be far more towards your reply than to my original comment.

Also, there is nothing to "unpack", the message is clear and honest: universities are currently - and have been for a long time - largely left-leaning, especially in the humanities but more recently also more in other fields.
Forcing people to sign up and pay for every article they read doesn't scale with the digital age. It could have been a solution back when the average person read say 3 physical newspapers and 5 physical magazines (made up numbers just to show the point), but now that the 30 articles one reads in a week could come from 30 different online publications, some of which could well be different the following week, the same solution doesn't scale anymore, and the money spent in commissions and taxes for all those micropayments could be significant. I don't say it's inherently bad per se, but that we could find options that scale better with the growing numbers of articles and publications we're exposed to.

Ironically, one of the best ways to monetize without actually have people moving money would be advertising; too bad it got rapidly out of control and what could have been say a page with 1/10 or its surface occupied by advertising is now filled with junk because there is no control over it, so people start using adblockers to remove it and we're soon back to square one.
It's crazy how you are downvoted and people who are downright uninformed both about the licensing and the legal issues are upvoted.

Last time I used Ada, around ten years ago, the situation was exactly the same. This goes to show that the licensing issues around GNAT continue to hamper the ecosystem, contrary to what Adacore like to suggest.
For me, it's the nags (e.g. Garmin's 'time to be active') that make it worthwhile to get me out of my groove. Also, the sleep tracking includes things such as SpO2 measurement, which can help one see if changing sleep positions makes a difference. I feel somewhat confident in saying that my Garmins have likely extended my life by a few years.
Although I don't really consider a lot of what we (programmers) do engineering, it does make me happy that we do is documented reasonably thoroughly if it's open source.

There's so much brilliant work of the past only accessible in either archives or spoken word, whereas code can at least be preserved as-is.
But the supermarkets gather that data, for sure. Several times I've bought a brand name item, then reverted to generic, then got offers related to that brand (just because I was buying based on value). I assume if they can establish a buying pattern with a few offers then often that will convert someone to the brand goods. (It's way easier just to pick the packet that looks like the one you got before than it is to look for the best offer).

One thing about returning to relative wealth is how much stress it removes from 'weekly' shopping.
The "feeling of experiencing" is just a perception. That became obvious to me after dabbling in meditation/mindfulness exercises. My mental model of this is that in addition to regular sensory perception, the brain also perceives some of its own internal processing. That is, part of the further processing of the sensory data (or more generally of any cognitive processing) becomes itself subject to an internal perception (a bit like a debugger or profiler applied to its own execution). That recursion may even go one or two levels deeper. Or rather, there is no clean separation between the recursion levels, which somewhat obfuscates to the internal observer what is going on. Furthermore, it only perceives parts of its internal processing, so it doesn’t get the whole picture (probably far from it).

This is why consciousness seems magic and confusing. But when you think about it, everything we mean when we talk about consciousness is something we perceive ("feel", "experience", "qualia"), so clearly it’s something having a representation in the brain that is being perceived by another part of the brain (or partially the same part). What makes it confusing is that at that level there’s no clear separation between subject and object of the perception. But that fits nicely with the general messiness and staggering complexity of biological systems.

With roughly a 100 billion neurons and a 100 trillion synapses in a brain, it shouldn’t be surprising that the internal self-perception can be very detailed, complex, multifaceted, nuanced, subtle, and subject to itself.
Pycharm is also excellent at this. My biggest problem with the normal jupyter interface is years of reflex that Ctrl+w is for deleting words. Quite annoying in a web browser.
I think it's a lot less widespread, but on the other hand, I see this sentiment from a lot of people about Elon Musk.
Me as well, until I bought Forza Horizon and discovered my car had a turbo..

I don't dispute that some loud exhausts are the result of exactly what you describe, but also many are motorheads who have less restrictive exhaust systems for performance reasons or just to enjoy their vehicle (unfortunately sometimes at the expense of other peoples hearing)