skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That gave me a chuckle, thank you!

I've known at least two other kinds of Steves:

• The Steve who told me I would never be able to write a 6502 disassembler because "this is a microcomputer, and it operates on completely different principles than the mainframes you've worked on." (He was neither a programmer nor a hardware engineer.)

• The Steve who threw out several months of my Python work and ordered it rewritten in C++ because "we need precision in our calculations, and C++ has both floats and doubles, where Python only has floats." (He had a Python certification at our company, but he didn't know that a Python float is the same as a C++ double, a 64-bit floating point value.)
> Imagine it this way: The local supermarket is selling a product which claims to be food but actually contains a highly toxic poison

Basically anything on sale if had in the wrong dose. Example: a can of a sugary drink is OK, drink 6 of them per day and it's going to be bad for your health.

Let's try a different metaphor.
I want to say that BeOS did this back in the day. I don’t think it was specifically a FUSE mount, but rather that the contacts application read vcards (or something similar) stored as plain files in the file system. Then the Contacts app just needed to be pointed to the proper folder and it would work.

I definitely remember the email application working that way, but think contacts worked that way too.

It was quite a clever way of interacting with your system. Everything was still a file, but your client applications were a bit more clever in how they interacted with those individual files. It was very close to the file system as a DB concept that was popular at the time, but far more practical.
seems like we need the equivalent of a lockfile for dockerfiles. i want to build from a sha256 tag, but I want that to be based on a readable tag which is updated via pull requests by dependabot/renovatebot/etc.

that's essentially what this article is doing, but where is the readable tag stored; is it im source control somewhere? it needs to be, otherwise how can I understand it and update it locally?
Most outages are config errors. Code errors would be detected before they broke everything.
Just the Time Machine part I'm afraid. Diffing would be fantastic though for sure, I can think of several times that would have been useful in my team too.
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This led me to install Brave after being irritated at the umpteenth mid-article malvertising redirect. Definitely recommend Brave. They even pay you about 75 cents an ad for fairly unobtrusive, plaintext, notification area ads.
It's an update on the situation until they confirm the bug fix is completely rolled out. I certainly wouldn't expect they tell their customer base how they can exploit a bug to bring down part of their business.

With respect to partitioning - we don't know how or why an invalid configuration could poison so many nodes; if the config was physically present on them or if there was a cascade of healing/balancing issues stemming from it.

I would leave speculation on many of your points at the doorstep until we see a full report.
'Fraid you lost me at "YAML".
Anything built on YAML seems like it has to indicate bad judgment at the root.

There could be reasons, but I don't know them.
No. Did you read the blog post? The commercial business was acquired by Databricks. The project is still open-source and actively developed.
I recently read the 80/20 book and it had a good section about giving your subconscious something to chew on.

Our subconscious churns through a lot without us really realizing it. In the book, he suggests thinking/working on something and stepping away with intent when you get stuck to let your mind wander while your subconscious gets to work.

I think this is a similar concept. You don't necessarily need to be stuck, but while you're away from something your mind puts all the "files and folders" away neatly.
Human brain and testis found to have the highest number of common proteins
Fantastic angel investors and where to find them in NYC
'God save the angels' — say startuppers and want angel investors to choose their projects to invest in. It is not so easy to succeed without any funds, which makes investors real angels. But it is not so easy to find a good angel, especially in a particular city — for example, in New York. On the other hand, the Big Apple is one of the most popular places in the world where angel investors exist.
> Development of technologies that are somehow hampered by regulations in larger states, but not ethically questionable enough to get invaded over.

If its that consistently regulated, there's likely to be sufficient will to come up with an excuse to take action against a vulnerable violator. And a nation of boats doesn’t need to be invaded, they just need powerful nations to impose sanctions (including second-order ones on trade partners) on them.
third option is to go and work somewhere that builds software that helps people make product decisions - think a Dovetail, Figma, Atlassian etc. Your perspective will make you an effective engineering leader!
He designed his own house apparently
Developer here. Feel free to ask questions. I am also working on an Android client which should be available in couple weeks.
"You have a perverveted view of "forcing" if you think sharing information is, as it sounds like you seem to be saying, the equivalent of rape."

Something doesn't have to be rape to be non-consensually forced upon someone; consider slavery, or compulsory schooling, or non-free Javascript. A well-documented method of torture is obscuring a captive's vision and looping a single song on repeat.

"how do you pair the fact that you "forcing" your opinion on me about my opinion on advertising goes against your own principle? Isn't it kinda... a hypocritical blackhole of an opinion?"

You asked for me to share the opinion, and as such, have given consent. Wider, though, this is a message board. The point is to share on-topic messages. This includes opinions, but does not include ads.

Advertising at its core is manipulation, not sharing information. Most advertisements grant the viewer net-negative information.
You've worked around server-side DNS failures?
But the Update Catalog shows updates that you can apparently download as usual for Windows 7 in this case. There is a specific rationale given on at least one of the reports[1] for why a patch is still being issued even though Windows 7 is out of support. So I'm not sure this time it has anything to do with ESU.

[1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...
Chinese Etymology
That was downright amazing.
I looked at a PDF of the bill that was linked to in the WaPo version of the article. It probably doesn't matter until the House passes its version, but there are funds for AI workforce development for example that might be of interest to those early in their careers.
In their article they have compared the income tax rate with wealth adjusted tax rate.

Out of curiosity, what would a wealth adjusted tax rate be for a dual income family that owns a house?
Mozilla went that way on Android when they broke all extensions about one year ago except a few blessed ones.
https://theamigamuseum.com/amiga-kickstart-workbench-os/guru...
Panic reveals more details about Playdate
I am the developer of HACK - fully featured and well maintained app for iOS, iPad and MacOS with support for voting, commenting, favourites as well as notifications for replies:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...

Feel free to ask questions. I am also working on an Android client which should be available in couple weeks.
ProductBoard likes to tell me:

> Without good products, life would be a mistake.

> Make products that matter.

> Product excellence isn't a point in time. It is a state of mind, it is a way of life.

> So many feature requests, so little time.

Maybe they're being silly? I hope so. But I've also met product managers and designers who seem to think like that. It makes me internally sigh every time I have to use their product.
They should at least be reticulating splines.
Unfortunately some customer changes will need to go out quickly and globally for a CDN. Going much slower might not be a good option.

Canarying should detect this. Not clear if they do this or the canary failed to report this.

Sharding by customers could help reduce blast radius. But maybe not by much of this was a very big customer.
Anatomy of a conspiracy theory: how misinformation travels on Facebook
What are you reading?
Bezos and other rich people are sitting billions of unrealized gains.

1. Bezos gets lucky and turns $100 of founder shares into $100 billion of unrealized gains.

2. Bezos goes to the bank and gets a loan for $500 million to invest in a diverse portfolio of early stage startups knowing that only a tiny fraction of them will account for majority of his returns.

3. Every year a portion of his portfolio fails, allowing him to sell a portion of his original shares to offset the losses and show a net gain of 0, allowing him to pay no taxes.

4. He hits a Google or Uber and 10xes the original $500mil but gets to continue this scheme of not realizing the gains unless he has losses to match while his control of the universe continues to expand.

https://startupflux.com/jeff-bezos-investment-portfolio-owns...

"Jeff Bezos Investment Portfolio is very large and diverse. he owns a stake in several Very Very large companies that you’ll be surprised to hear. Bezos was one of the first shareholders in Google, when he invested $250,000 in 1998. That $250,000 investment resulted in 3.3 million shares of Google stock worth about $3.1 billion today."
I use Linux exclusively. You don't need a zero-day when everyone forgets to patch or takes a month to do so. To say nothing of the documented vulnerabilities with no available patch.
Can't wait to get metal support in PyTorch!
"We also ignored any itinerary that would be hell to fly-basically anything increasing total travel time by more than half through excessively long layovers, too many stops, or flying way out of your way just to change planes. Airlines may think that makes for a viable plan, but we don't."

Am I reading this wrong or does this indicate Frommer also prioritises avoiding long layovers.

(I dislike the inclusion of the long layover options too but I have always thought the reason the sites include them is that they actually sell. I once met someone who took these long layover flights on popular routes that always have many shorter options, so I know such people exist.)
> So long as their products are free, it’s hard to argue that consumers are suffering harm.

It kills competition since most of them are financed by an unrelated service (Googles ad network) and without competition we get such nice things like randomized automated life time bans, non existent customer service, products that are randomly killed, overly anti competitive licensing agreements (Android apparently cannot survive on its own merits) etc. . Privacy is just one of many many issues.
There is market competition in some utilities depending on where you live
I didn't know that. Do you know how much do they gain from that ad? Is it possible not to see any ad anyway?
Elon Musk isn’t trading on his public stage persona?

That aside, I guess I just don’t have much sympathy. If certain “rules” are gonna apply to billionaires and not normal people, that seems fine by me. It might seem “biased” or “unfair” to some people, but hey: Who ever said we were operating in a “fair” context to begin with? Sure this kind of bias could be turned against more vulnerable people, it already is, it’s about time it got turned against the people at the top.
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Thanks, that's interesting to note. The main thing people seem to talk about is the 52 billion for semiconductors which is the "CHIPS" act. Just wondering about the other 200 billion. It looked like $29 billion went to the NSF?
Who is going to try that and why wouldn't they meet the business end of a nuclear missile?
Paul Graham writes some very thoughtful and interesting stuff... that only applies to the circumstances of a very tiny minority of people
Researchers blast FDA for approving Alzheimer’s drug
The solar subsidies in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are regarded as a failure by partisans in both parties. I think the US is beyond fixing at this point. This $250bn is going to end up in Teslas, yachts, and Florida beach houses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/upshot/biden-stimulus.htm...
Do the senators that voted against this bill have a reason for voting against it? One that lines up with their voting record to prove they’re being consistent. If not, I can’t see how it couldn’t be possible the senators that voted nay are somehow getting kickbacks from Chinese interests.
At a guess, perhaps each server can serve everyone, and the system-wide config file that is shipped to each server (to handle each customer) perhaps became corrupted as part of a customer update, and it was rolled out to every node assumed to be correct.

A defense against this could be to ensure the system that applies the change validates some health-checks continue to work after the new file is made (or automatically rollback to previous configuration).

I can see how this would happen, assuming thats what happened.
Yes, that's the main reason why I added what I hope is that clear definition, to avoid confusion with the route in California.

Pacific Highway is well-known and unambiguous to anyone living in Australia, it's one of the busiest long-distance routes in the country.
you vastly overestimate the majority.
ShowHN: ghissue, a CLI to bulk-upload GitHub issues
You could just create battery trailer to power your house and drive to the next Tesla charging station with it whenever it runs low. No need for power lines or any power generation in your backyard. Maybe someone should propose that trailer idea to Elon? Tesla already produces everything necessary to take yourself of the grid, it only needs to be bundled up right.
Great work!

Consider submitting it to https://esolangs.org Since it's based on OCR, it might actually be completely novel. I've certainly never seen anything like it.

raise ParseError("Found an arrow, but not sure what direction it's pointing")

Hah. This is a great compiler/parser error message.
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I find the benchmarks confusing. If we normalize, is Apple close to beating Nvidia?
No one is forcing you to use it, and moving SMS to Voice wasn't great (though Hangouts never really was meant to be an SMS app), but for people like me who have used Hangouts for over a decade to chat with friends and family, it definitely isn't the doomed end most headlines made it sound. My family were asking me if we had to start looking for another place to chat 3 years ago, yet Hangouts is still up and working fine.
That's a casual chat of two strogg floor managers on their quake2 plant.
There is a Colab that you can run to set up the model with TPUs: https://colab.research.google.com/github/kingoflolz/mesh-tra...

A few demo examples: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1402468460681068544
The threat is Chinese leadership not their tech industry. High time Xi (and Putin for that matter) experience direct pain. All these indirect routes men like them dont give a shit about. They will keep searching for ways to destablize the west and democracies just for their own self preservation and nothing else. Tech is not the only tool they have.

Inhumane Leadership has to be attacked inhumanely.
Do you have a blog post about your build procedure?
>>.. Demanding changes...

Your words or theirs? . I would have thought big companies looking for changes (new features?) is the perfect monetizing opportunity.

I mean, can't you just say "sure, I can add that for $2000." if it's not worth a couple grand to them, then it's not that important or worth your time.

One way to sustain the open source model is a pay-for-development approach.
This persistent infantilisation of users is going to lead to a crippled world. Basic computer security and hygiene is not rocket science. We should start teaching this from school level so even "ordinary" people can make informed choices rather than being confined to gilded cages whose perimeter will eventually expand to encompass even the tech folk, as the gatekeeping power of these companies grows ever larger, with malware attacks acting as the convenient foil.
Yeah mostly Nvidia Jetson parts, so that'd prob work. Mongo seems to be a massive fav - I should dig in.

What do people think of CockroachDB?

Thanks.
You don't need permission but you need buy in.

Lessons learned when you are not promoted because you did the right thing but without telling your boss, who only cares about their own visibility.
I don’t need to punitively reread “if there is an error, stop and return it to the caller” a thousand times a day, for the same reason that I don’t need to read the code that sets up a stack frame for a function call. I think I want an editor mode that just displays the 30% that does something.
Hike is a bit hyperbolic
Hi all,

Our team uses ZenHub [0] for project management, which is a wrapper on top of GitHub Issues.

I found myself desiring a tool to easily bulk-create new Issues, from a CSV-like format. After finding nothing I liked (e.g. support for multi-line Issue bodies), I wrote ghissue.

Please let me know if you find ghissue useful, or existing alternatives I can turn to instead!

[0] https://www.zenhub.com/
Still upset about the pile as a dataset (the one used to train this model) because I wrote an issue asking if they would include my dataset debatesum into the dataset[1]. They mentioned that they planned to do it and even wrote another issue indicating that they would include it in the pile.

Months go by, and I ask why this dataset is still not included. They told me that the pile is complete and will not be updated anymore. I didn't have time to write my own PR for this and had no idea that there was a time limit to get it in.

Makes me sad. I don't know why this company has decided to stop updating the pile...

[1] https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/issues/56
Here is a figure from the CBO: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/images/full-reports/...
Capital gains are not "after-tax" earnings. That would be dividends which pretty much no one pays anymore (see stock buybacks). And corporate taxes are a joke, no one pays those either.

As a startup employee, I understand and appreciate the mechanics of capital gains taxes. But I also realize that the ultra wealthy are using a number tax maneuvers unfairly. They use shell companies to avoid paying corporate taxes, they use stock buybacks to avoid paying taxes on dividends, and they use stock as collateral for personal loans to avoid liquidating stock and paying capital gains.

My primary source of money/income are my wages. I have few if any options to defer or reduce my tax burden. Meanwhile folks much wealthier then I have figured out how to delay a large portion of their tax burden indefinitely. And in the meantime, roads need to be fixed, the military needs to be paid, etc... and many of these government expenditures disproportionately benefit the wealthy (roads subsidize cheap transportation of goods, military enforces US hegemony allowing for international trade (and stable allies in which one can locate their shell companies!)).

I am not a huge fan of wealth taxes, but I struggle to see a better solution that won't eventually get loopholed to death. A 1% tax on holdings worth more than $10M or so seems like it could be the solution. An added benefit is that it would "encourage" wealthy individuals to earn some income, take dividends, or realize capital gains in order to pay the wealth tax, and each of those actions would generate a separate set of tax revenues.
No, you make a ton of risky investments to build a diversified portfolio banking on only a few of them being unicorns. This allows you to cash out previous gains to match all of the losses that you pick up each year on the failed investments, while the successful ones keep appreciating and adding to your unrealized gains.

https://startupflux.com/jeff-bezos-investment-portfolio-owns...
Isn't it time we had more error messages? I feel like we got 40x, 50x and the pioneers left lots of space for more.

I quite liked the windows 0x800*** hex error numbers, though some were more useful than others.
Please don't cyberbully best Steve.
In addition to this new 300 mm fab, Bosch already has one 150 mm and one 200 mm fab in Germany. These are mostly for analog stuff, SiC power electronics and MEMS.
Depends how big it is. If it's a 12-person startup and OP has multiple 4k monitors, that's not nothing.
I just don't see who this is meant for. It's a truck shaped object. A 4 ft bed is nothing, my last compact SUV had more space. It's literally the worst(looks,aerodynamics) of both worlds.
Does it matter? Everyone is full of shit.
https://preset.io/?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're proposing.
> we will get that certification but also provide extension APIs that let you save the stream to your disk.

That means they will not get the right certification for DRM. The main reason behind them is to prevent saving the stream.
Sound advice. I would add find allies. Executive types are very politically savvy and will listen to you more if you have other executives or influential people backing you up.
> They all learn faster of they can do a short stint on a new task, say 10 to 29 mins, then come back to it after at least one sleep.

I have this experience playing GTA. After failing a hard mission 6+ times, I take a break, and usually pass it on the first attempt after the break. I also had not problem following the train, but the RC copters were a nightmare.
Oh yes, we like to do that.

Which is why we also need 14 years to build a new, medium sized airport in the capital.
Bosch is a privately owned company, which means they can act independently of the stock market. This always helps with making long term decisions.
possibly because the officers in the nuclear silo want some of their family members to still be alive when they go home. or possibly because the nuclear dudes don't know who to nuke. or possibly at the point where your answer to a military threat is 'well if they try that we could just nuke them' you are kind of admitting that it is a very serious threat indeed; note that nobody got nuked in response to 9/11
Even by poorest-country standards, a one-time $5 is pretty reasonable. It's basically only a minimal deterrent against unlimited generations of bots.

Now compare that to what Apple charges
Ahhhh. I’ve spent countless hours debugging “Guru Meditation” errors from FreeRTOS on my ESP32 dev boards. I always wondered what the heck that meant. Turns out I was just not in on the joke.
> When you search for "skyline berlin", you'll see images of berlin's skyline, before you see links to other image search sites.

What's next, should they also show Bing and DuckDuckGo search results when you search for an arbitrary query too?

The goal of Google isn't to link you to websites, it's to get you to your information as quickly as possible. Said information could be a website, just as it can be an image, a flight or a single sentence pulled into an Answer Box.
Taxes are a tool in the toolbox to organizing society for progress as a whole.

I think that making it so that people who have a lot of accumulated wealth are asked to put more into the collective coffers is an extremely obvious and fair-ish way of doing things. Much more so than dumb things like "roads should be paid for by gas taxes" (we don't pay for libraries with book taxes! Or schools with child labor income tax!)