skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, probably the atomisation of the individual. We're fundamentally a social species but our current cultural moment is very antisocial.
nope I didn't mean that at all

I'd say the same about Stallman's page for instance, or Torvalds', and their politics are drastically different

entering in value judgments on the specific politics is a fool's errand - I think he's doing good work, and thus the politics are counterproductive as they take nearly all the attention away from their work
I'm sorry to hear that about your friend. Its never good to hear about how someone threw their life away for temporary rewards.

You say they weren't violent, but violence is not the only reason we incarcerate individuals. He broke the law, he knew it, he got caught, and now he's living with those consequences. I hope he learns a lot from this and decides to no longer break the law in the future. I hope others can read your story and decide that breaking the law is not worth it.

People are very cavalier with "non violent drug charges" as if dealing drugs is value neutral. It is not. There is societal harm to dealing drugs and I'm grateful for laws that forbid it and punish individuals that do it.
The only problem with this is that it frees your calendar so that other people can book things in. If something is booked for an hour but it can be wrapped up in 30 mins.. that gives 30 mins breathing room.
I'm working on a game for younger kids using pictures/emojis for "universal" conversation rather than text, so this gave me some good ideas. Thanks!
Can you please read the article all the way before commenting next time?

The log approach _is_ the most copied snippet.
DuckDuckGo reveals it picked up $100M in secondary investment last year
I wouldn’t consider 737s huge planes.

Also, their entire fleet is made
up of 737s, so it’s not like large airports get a massive planes (maybe a MAX vs a -700, but still not a huge difference)
One way to think about it the pre-Airbnb rates of improvement. Alas, I’m not qualified to comment, except anecdotally that I feel hotels have gotten much better with technology recently. 15 years ago, Expedia was faxing reservations to hotels.
Okikio/animate the animejs-esque library built using the Web Animation API
thanks for the ref
This is soooo cool, but getting a PCB made is super easy and cheap right now (chip shortages, notwithstanding). How will these types of circuits handle higher voltages and currents? Will that be simply a case of printing on the right substrate?
>so are you saying they have somehow more moral grounds to stand on when it comes to not sharing user data with others given that they see no problem with taking Google data and semi-packaging it as their own in the first place?

That isn't at all what I said nor implied. The gist of my comment was DDG is the lesser evil of all parties involved.

Your statement:

> DDG uses Google's and other search engines' data. DDG does not do their own crawling. Please do a quick search here on HN and read up on all the previous conversations about privacy and security implications of that [...] (emphasis mine)

You draw a connection between the potential third parties involved and the adverse affect to the individual's privacy and security stemming directly from their involvement. I was outlining that, if DDG was sending the request to those parties -- not the individual making the query -- the other parties wouldn't be aware of the individual unless DDG explicitly tells them (which I don't believe they do).
I've got a lot of trouble with some technical Googling that just doesn't get the right results in DDG. I assume it's because the algorithms have adjusted to my interests, but it's making using DDG for professional purposes quite hard sometimes.
Isn't tether the #1 way for US customers to gain access to the shitcoins that are too illegitimate to be traded on US accessible exchanges? They convert Bitcoin to tether that can then be deposited at unlicensed exchanges that don't do KYC/AML?
For c/c++ just use lemon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(parser_generator)

I think that lemon is comming from the same author as sqlite. I used it like 15 years ago ;) but i still remember lemon as high quality piece of software (Much better compared with flex, yacc, bison...)
> If you think psychological science is bad

I know it's often repeated, but is there evidence that "psychological science" is worse (by some measure and to a significant degree) than other social sciences? As long as we're talking about science, let's look at evidence! ;)

Anyone studying human behavior, on any scale, has the added challenge that it's so complex that you can't really isolate simple mechanics, as you can in physics or chemistry. People are far more complex than a molecule, or even a billion molecules.

BTW, I'm aware of the well-known cite, the NY Times article on the 'reproducability crisis' from a few years ago. Few seem to have read the article: The results were reproduced, but many were at lower strength than the original research. That's important, but it's not like the researchers just complete missed and results were arbitrary.
Technology enabling unsustainable practices goes all the way back to the bow and arrow. Not just the last couple centuries.
In years to come we will look down on the 5 day working week in the same way we currently do with 15hr factory shifts during the industrial revolution.

It absolutely blows my mind that 99% of office roles are still 5 days / week, Monday to Friday - why is there basically no variation on this model?

It annoys me so much that I recently launched https://4dayweek.io/ (Software Jobs with a better work / life balance)
I have a challenge for you. Try live a month eating nothing except for seaweed as your protein source and test how easy and enjoyable it is to completely replace one protein source for an other which has completely different taste, smell, texture, and cultural place in your diet. Bonus points if you actually do not like the smell and taste of seaweed and have to work really hard with seasoning to eat it.

It is vegan. It simply just a very different diet from what you are used to.
I’m not sure if that’s really a problem though. I read The Tipping Point and, yes, he isn’t always historically accurate but the point isn’t really the history in the first place. It’s about whatever big idea he’s taking about. If his largely fictional account of history teaches me the big idea, then I don’t really see the big deal.

Furthermore, he is extremely receptive to criticism and never presents himself as the one true source of fact.
How were you able to post that on Safari without cookies? HN needs to set a cookie called 'user' to know that you're logged in.
That's my worst. I think generally python3 is safe (if unnecessary) today? But for how long do we have to keep that around?

Can we now say Well python2 is EOL so python should certainly be v3+?

It is of course a more general issue with shebangs that it's a very loose 'dynamically linked' coupling, not necessarily judt affecting language version but environment/libraries too, it just seems particularly problematic or prevalent with python.
That may be true but another case where floating point should be avoided is with money. Now think about all the times a web developer innocuously used a JS number to represent a price. I wouldn’t be surprised if floating point errors affected billions of dollars of transactions.
What does "use a for loop" mean here? Aren't for loops infamously difficult for new programmers to understand?
How does that avoid the misrounding bug for 999,999B = 1000KB (wrong), 1MB correct?
You can, it's called NPM
> Adding a column, changing column's nullability and adding/changing constraints is already zero-downtime in PG.

Making a previously nullable column NOT NULL is not zero downtime. Neither are adding constraints -- except in some cases with NOT VALID, which isn't quite the same thing.

> Dropping a column and changing the data type are not zero-downtime.

Dropping a column is zero downtime.
I wonder why those stores didn't employ armed security like in Baltimore? Our Walmart's have actual police posted up at the exits.
Well, they know the lawsuit would be quite limited. If an uninsured person in the US gets hurt, there could be nearly unlimited liability.

Also, my understanding (although it could be wrong) is that insurance companies in the EU can't sue people to recover medical costs, so at worst you're on the hook for their deductible but you don't have to worry about the insurance company coming for the rest like you do in the USA.
I use DDG almost exclusively; it is normal that I do not search with Google in a calendar month. On some devices, when I do reach for Google, it asks me to agree to their T&Cs so I just hit back. However:

* Google is very much better at finding solutions to programming errors. Duck Duck Go sometimes works fine, but sometimes it sends me on a wild goose chase (if you pardon the ... almost pun). This has always been a problem since I started using DDG.

* Duck Duck Go is poisoned by useless autogenerated results. If I want to compare two options, I don't want an autogenerated comparison. I want actual analyses and anecdotes from users. In that case, I normally add site:reddit.com rather than !g so I can't positively say Google is better but I believe it is. This started bothering me at some point, but it might be my fault.

In both cases, I think the issue is the same: Google is still better at prioritising conversational content over content produced predominately to get eyeballs near ads. This is slightly ironic.
We can do it now, just not at anywhere near competitive scale/cost yet

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/12/2/22125518/lab-gr...
I don't care about cookies also provides a filter list that you can add to uBO - https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
Apple Executive Hints at Using AirPods to Provide Users More Health Data
Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders into Sellers
This is not true, Apple sticks pretty closely to AAPCS except for a handful of cases.
Indeed. I feel like many companies have their IT systems in varying levels of disrepair. Just look at the sheer amount of data breaches. At least this wasn’t a security breach (though I’d imagine (hope?) that it’d wouldn’t impact aircraft in flight.
> <edit> I've reconsidered. It's really insulting.

In the most objective way possible, if I was a FOSS author, I'd find this comment insulting

Pour a beer down your sink for every dev who has abandoned a project - mostly in free time - due to demanding and entitled users
> You are ignoring the article and attacking the publisher

I wrote specific criticisms of the article, and why shouldn't I criticize the publisher? It's necessary to know your source. People criticize publishers all the time; many criticize all journalists and their publishers with one broad brush!
You can use disk storage too. And network storage.
Has anyone tried using this on the GIMBAL/GOFAST UAP videos?
My experience wasn't in the trades, but I've worked 10-12 hour days with short weeks and had good results. 4 day weeks do work if you can arrange them. Especially for developers frequently in the flow state where interruptions just cost money. Then you put the long meetings at the start and/or end of the work week.
If you're already using JavaScript for some other reasons but occasionally have bit twiddling, byte munching needs, then trying to do that in JavaScript makes perfect sense. Is it the fastest option? No. But according to https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... it is generally within a factor of 4-5 of C++.

For an application area where this applies, consider a web-based game. Using JavaScript keeps you from shipping another application. But occasionally you may have bit twiddling and/or byte munching needs. Which you need to do in JavaScript.
After the recent censoring of "tank man", I don't trust DDG's (Bing's) image search anymore. I'm not sure about their search engine either.

Has DDG published a statement about the whole deal? I've only seen the Microsoft's response ("oops something went wrong we only intended to censor a little bit") but I don't think DDG even said anything.
paraphrasing one point in the article: "Back in the good old days ads were great".

Probably the legions of garbage ads have simply been forgotten about, and we only remember the greats. In the same way that the average quality of golden-oldie radio stations is better than new-stuff stations.
Knuth :)
> I also often find on StackExchange et al that quite often the most upvoted is the one that ‘fixes it’ for ‘most people’

And also first, or at least early, and subject to a reinforcing cycle of 'sufficiently good' or 'fixed it enough' that it achieves stratospherically more votes than an 'even more good' or 'fixes it properly' answer that came in too late for the same traction.
I guess they had to attribute this boost to something, but it was politically unsavory for it to be the number of days worked
That would be a 200% increase (to 300% of the prior value) in sales per labor hour.
x18 is the standard platform register. On Darwin 20 and higher Apple pins the Rosetta context to it. When not used, it gets zeroed out on return to userspace in what I assume is a subtle prod to avoid its use.
Free float barrels are designed more to make it so that a bipod or handgrip doesn't change the point of impact when you put wait on them, but I don't think that would matter here.

That being said, if I was designing a system like this, I'd be aiming for engagement ranges of ~100m to make target acquisition and aiming easier. You can ID something as "person" at 100m with a 4k video stream from a cell phone camera, but you'd need some really complicated optics to do the same at 1km. And at 100m, you can afford to lose quite a bit of accuracy to recoil.
Why are these screenshots animated? The command is still visible in the final frame, and the final frame shows the output we're interested in, but not long enough to read and understand it.
That's because it's nonsense. The US media hypes and kills stories constantly based on political disposition. Is it also designed to sow chaos?

Freedom of reportage doesn't have a political party. It is literally ensconced in the 1st Amendment. Attacking messengers when personal causes are impugned by truth: this is a red flag for extraordinary hackery.
Yep, that’s correct!

They heavily subsidize their VR devices…nothing unusual though, all game consoles are subsidized
You need consistent variation for everyone if you are in a fast moving organization.

I worked for an organization where people had one flex day off every two weeks. In practice, it made Tue-Thur the only days for collaboration as it was otherwise normal for someone to be out of the office. It worked because it was government with long project cycles. It would not work for my current company. It would cause issues with clients and project speed.
I would argue that 10,000 hours is represented as an inflection point in his book, more as a, "This number, with one significant digit, kept showing up when Gladwell would interview people who were great at specific things" instead of a, "do this amount of a specific thing and you'll then be great at that specific thing" or "magic" number in that sense.

It's hardly a steadfast rule and he never presents it as such, but it's easy to squint real hard and see it that way, if you just want to argue or be upset.
> ridiculous conspiracy theories, anti-science, and anti-reason

I am more humble than that.

It's not so much that I respect it out of awe or because I think it needs to be validated or is correct. It's that I disagree with such a hyper-rational conviction that there's no possible correlation between astrological events and human behavior (a market is entirely human behavior). Such conviction can be.. dangerous.

I do not believe a market is rational or scientific (they are certainly "efficient" though). I actually find those with a desire to approach such a human phenomenon scientifically to also fall in the anti-science anti-reason bucket, because they do not understand the limits of the scientific method or western rationalism.

When presented with a black-box market:

The scientific method can help you discover a model that answers the question, "how does the market work?".

Science cannot answer the question, "why does the market move?".
The article wrongly states that Fly.io created firecracker.
I've certainly said many times that people with strong passions feel that HN is biased against their views, and that this phenomenon is isomorphic under varying political persuasion. What I've not said is that this means that "HN must be unbiased" or "well balanced". That's clearly a non sequitur, and moreover it's one I'm careful never to make. If you can find even one place where I said that, out of 50,000 moderation posts, I'd be impressed.

There's a second non sequitur I encounter a lot too—people often interpret this empirical observation about user behavior as some sort of disagreement with their politics or some sort of endorsement of political centrism. That also is not what I'm saying and does not follow.

I definitely hadn't seen the comment you linked to. You seem to be overestimating how many HN comments I actually read. Had I seen it, I would have posted a reply saying that religious flamewar is not ok on Hacker News. That's a no-brainer—it's bog-standard HN moderation and has nothing to do with which religion is involved, nor which users.

> If I had posted a comment like Hopkins's, but about Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc,

You seem to be alleging religious bias in HN moderation. That couldn't be more wrong, as anyone can verify for themselves: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Religious flamewar gets exactly the same response, regardless of which religion (or which variety of irreligion) people are flaming about.
AWS has established itself as being highly backwards compatible - and the cost of that seems to be the long-winded process you described. If they were more liberal with what features they implement then they would have to either be more liberal with what features they deprecate (removing a core value proposition of AWS: backwards compatibility) or they would have to suck it up and deal with the bloat which would naturally lead to higher cost and overall slower delivery of new services.

For a counter example see GCP. One of the biggest barriers to entry is trust: no one wants to use it because they don't trust Google to not arbitrarily yeet features out the window with six months notice. Whether or not that's actually what GCP does, it's how people perceive Google.

I'll take AWS's approach for things that I work on professionally and have to support for many years.
Blink is just an application of the Pareto distribution to what information can be gleaned from someone in what amount of time. 80% of what you’ll get, you’ll get in those first few seconds.
Yes, agreed, for the most part, but it's also kind of painting with broad strokes. Those of us on the spectrum do not approach social interactions with the same mental framework as people without ASD. But from that rather large group one could easily divide groups of "I realize I am different and I must put an effort into pleasing others" personalities, and "I realize I am different but it does not matter as long as I am correct" personalities, among many others. ASD being described as a spectrum is accurate - the point where I don't think it should even all fall under one umbrella.

My point was only that there's a statistically notable number of ASD people in the computation fields, and there's a lot of anti-social personalities in the world, inlcuding CS, without ASD.

Apologies if it came off as painting people with autism as not caring.
The summary:

> Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
Its the most affordable one, so that must have something to do with its popularity. I think the term is captive audience?
Wow. Do you think it is exactly 10 000 hours? It is exactly 10 000 hours for everyone? I don't understand this kind of nonsensical interpretation.
ANU breakthrough lets people see in the dark without night-vision goggles
While that may be the case, it is probably not the best idea to lie to federal investigators when applying for a role as a federal investigator.
They didn’t say it’s not required.
Not sure why some programmers these days have aversion to simple loops and other boring - but readable - code.

Instead we have overused lambdas and other tricks that started out clever but become a nightmare when wielded without prudence. In this article, the author even points out why not to use his code:

Note that this started out as a challenge to avoid loops and excessive branching. After ironing out all corner cases the code is even less readable than the original version. Personally I would not copy this snippet into production code.
Steampipe [1] looks cool, previously I have used lynis[2].

It looks like there is also a steampipe GCP Compliance mod[3] steampipe too.

[1] https://steampipe.io/docs

[2] https://cisofy.com/lynis/

[3] https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-gcp-compliance
I just sprinkle short events that show me as “busy” and start at odd offsets like :15 and :45 so I can have some blocks of time where I get to take a break from meetings and do some of the work that stems from those meetings (otherwise when the hell do I do the work). The weird offsets really confuse calendaring applications :) which always try to align things to :30 or :00.
A bare metal physical implementation of WASM. That's right, a WebAssembly CPU (2018)
You can ldr and str those registers too, if you're implementing a NEON memcpy for example.
And in other breaking news - "Water is Wet!" /s

The App Store makes Apple billions of dollars by forcing developers to shell out an annual recurring fees, an arbitarily decided percentage cut of every sale from every app, and through "free" adware infested apps (that use Apple's advertising networks).

All this is only possible because the ios / iPadOS platform deliberately cripples the ability to directly install an app from anywhere else but the Apple App Store.

The result - developers make less profit, open source developers of free apps struggle, and owner-consumers of iPhones and iPads ultimately end up with costlier apps because of the "Apple Tax" most are not even aware of.
I've had success playing Concept with my 5yo. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147151/concept
What does predict those actions, then? Do you believe the sun will rise tomorrow?
I consider the domain sophisticated enough to be an independent skill

It's been a whole field with its own patron saint for a quite a while, take a look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan
> I don't really understand some people's extreme risk aversion today.

Evolution has wired us to be constantly looking for risk. If we don't find danger, we'll invent it.

As we remove the riskiest risks, the bar on what we're willing to spend and sacrifice to address the next level of risks goes higher and higher.

Then there's the press which lives by sensationalizing every bad thing that happens, leading us to grossly exaggerate risk levels in our society.
I wish to learn a better way. FP is sure to byte again and again.
The process I described would not in any way harm backwards compatibility though. They can still run the same process, but in parallel, so that iteration can happen faster amongst people who care the most.
The East side isn’t Seattle. If you want to include suburbs you also need to include Shoreline and Burien.

It depends a lot on your neighborhood. Mine is nice and I see kids running around the neighborhood regularly.

As I mentioned this is definitely a thing in Idaho. My brothers and sister all have families and live in areas where kids can have freedom in the neighborhood but away from home.