skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dreams is so powerful it's absurd
You make it sound like you flew VFR into IMC with an instructor. Is that what really happened? If so, I would suggest a different instructor!
awesome, I'm going to give this a try...

One thing I notice, is this url is just given, without much context:
`https://hydra.nixos.org/build/142828023/download/1/nixos-sd-...`

But I (think I) know enough about nix to know this is an image generated by the build system, and in theory I should be able to browse hydra, to find other images that I could try to burn, I think some info about where that image came from would be super helpful in understanding nix's build system.
I actually agree with most of your point here. The reason I objected is not because I think freezing to death is equally serious as a spa day. We have many serious problems that need to be solved quickly, including utility infrastructure. The very specific point I addressed, however, was that the claim that equal outcome itself is the singular measure of intent (and therefore some greater ___ism) is demonstrably false because it doesn't comport with the real world.

Orthogonal to that issue is the one you raised, and that is whether some people (regardless of race, income level, etc.) need improved utility infrastructure. Manifestly, they do. But I care about that issue because they're human beings. I care because the government has a moral duty to provide the life-critical services it promised its citizens. Freezing in the winter is a serious problem regardless of how we draw the demographic boundaries around those freezing.

Edit: It's for this reason I was frustrated in previous decades when politicians constantly used to say "do it for the children." No matter the issue, it was always "for the children." They still say it, but it's largely been replaced with "do it for the minorities." Why not just do it for people if it's a good idea? If it's a bad idea, let's skip it.
Yes. I self-host because the cloud is somewhat of a scam. Anything that is encrypted goes on there and I avoid paying for the subscription plan because that too is a scam. I limit the important files that get uploaded to the cloud.

The situation with WD, GitHub (For the past year), etc is the reason why I keep telling those to consider self-hosted solutions, even as a backup rather than going all in on the cloud.

It's a shame when a company that offers to backup to the cloud and your data is still lost with them. If it's self-hosted this sort of thing will not happen.
Afaik only some of them are from Panasonic.
What's wrong with Signal or Matrix/Element?
> and if you want people to be better educated about distinctions and jargon you gotta educate them

I literally did that in parent post and another earlier response to the same person.
I think you, like many of us are tired of computers but reluctant to admit it after all these years of forcing the smiles. Time to switch to an entirely different and active? career.
This and that have literally nothing to do with one another.

AFAIK Ruby's change was that they introduced a notion of encoding to strings. Python literally change the string types and its semantics.

Adding a bunch of other BC breakages was a good idea. Having been responsible for the migration of a large codebase the strings change was by far the most disruptive and problematic one, the rest did not even come close (the distant second was the change to rounding IIRC). Ripping the bandaid and adding a bunch of other BC breaks to clean things up or prepare for the future was I think an excellent idea. Most of those were easy to shim or work around (the syntactic BC breaks were especially trivial).

The problem, as GGP's comments correctly notes, was the incompatibility between Python 2 and Python 3: when Python 3 was first released it was impossible to write a non-trivial program which could run on both version.

Meaning if you wanted to port a project you had to convert everything at once. And as if the odds of that working were not infinitesimal enough, libraries had to fork their own codebases, and either try to maintain completely incompatible codebases concurrently or drop support for Python 2 while literally all their users were still on it.
Now you know why nato has loads of aircraft carriers but can't quite seem to keep Russia off of their intranet.
> These are two VERY different definitions of "data", mingling the two is not helpful to discourse.

Indeed, data has complex nuances that are sometimes missed.

Let’s not mingle data intended for advertisement with data intended for social science research.
Well, its very simple. Your CFO and accountants can get things done without those meddling IT people who take forever and don't know anything about the business[1]. Your CFO and accountants are also a big enough power block in your company that IT cannot dictate terms to them.

A lot of other programs that allowed end users to create content have fallen by the wayside, but accounting is more than capable of fighting off all comers. At some point, someone is going to get traction with a program easy enough for business and meeting IT's requirements.

1) yeah, I know its a bit over the top, but not much in certain companies
I know this is probably just a me problem, but man, that makes me feel kinda bad for all the times I've angrily typed out an insult-laden chat message into customer support chats for cathartic reasons before deleting it and sending something nicer.

Not entirely bad, because recording what I type without my hitting send is shady asf on the company's part, but it makes me feel bad for the human on the other end of the chat.

Anyways, thanks for sharing, I'll have to keep this in mind in the future and maybe do less angry-typing-and-then-backspacing.
> But given that you’ve identified a visceral opposition to that, you should consider not opting-in to that particular study.

The commenter referenced Rally's privacy policy. It is not specific to a particular study.
Here is the talk, queued up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI&t=730s

Yeah, I don't agree with everything he says -- I don't think boilerplate is necessarily bad. Especially in Elixir where It's hard to explain but usually it's easy to find the meat of what you care about -- your eye (or search cursor) just lands on it. And I also think specifically the solutions he proposes are not that great. Having a common language and not inventing too many more DSLs has value, even if it sucks a bit. But a lot of that shit needed to be brought up.
I'm surprised that there have been so few mentions on HN over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

This is a bit interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jwsec
"Ditching Electron" is a clickbait - it doesn't go native, just switches to their own clone which seems very reasonable to me as long as they are capable and willing of maintaining it.

Switching from Angular to React seems weird. What for? AFAIK the only way React is better is there are more developers familiar with it. I wonder if they considered switching to PHP instead /s
"Corporate Memphis," perhaps?

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Edit: I had this open in a tab for ~20 mins. which is why I didn't see caseyohara's reply before submitting mine. Please excuse the redundancy.
What do they do about open file descriptors?
Other car manufacturers are already catching up, so I guess we will see!
Software Shouldn't Flow Away
what's wrong with language-controlled humans?

oh right, humans can't be property
Isn't the only way to learn what things we can ignore and what things we can't ignore to do a lot more testing? Is there a better way to learn that? It seems like having a lot more data from tests is the kind of thing that would have some short term harm but massive long term benefits.
Because subscriptions would keep dropping, the reasons would be investigated, and there's a high risk that the people responsible for the fraud would do time?
> Is FNF really so significant that it was important not to miss it?

Probably not, but I also learned about Roblox, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok from teens long before any of those got popular in my usual bubbles. In part because when I would tell my usual bubble about them, they were dismissed as fads.
Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported
So you need something centralized for it to actually work.
Well, cost relative to potential revenue. How many people are going to spend maybe $5/month for a monthly magazine. (And that's probably low because the print advertising market is almost certainly not there any longer at anything like the level it was.)
Have you run into any challenges in learning Python?
> Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron?

Because its under their own control. Using a platform you control is great if you actually have the resources to maintain it.
But, Flickr, MySpace, and Digg are basically "has beens" now... Maybe the shiny college crowd of Facebook looked more interesting than MySpace. Digg had a user revolt and they all went to reddit. Flickr? Was it their business model (Yahoo bought them in 2005)? This was written before the iPhone was announced, but Instagram came 5 years later, when did the downturn of Flickr start?

Still, nowadays everything has to be social, so the article isn't wrong.
My impression is that yours is the consensus view in the medical community. But I think that what all these people are telling you is that they'd much rather have a much higher chance of a false positive stage 1 diagnosis than even a much lower chance of false negative diagnosis until they're at stage 4. And any positive result from this would obviously be couched in a doctor consult saying "if you have cancer, which this test doesn't definitively show, it's still very early, we're just going to keep an eye on it, we didn't get any confirmation from a chest x-ray or CT", etc

And having a memento mori can be a positive thing.
On a single PC it probably wouldn’t matter that much, but if distributed at scale, the savings in bandwidth could be enormous. Electron is quite large after all.

Teams shipped with incredibly outdated versions of Electron for a very long time.
Interesting. Perhaps we are kind of already at that point? Isn't that what video games like MMORPGs or Fortnite are for? Where the bored young males get to accomplish great adventures , build and show off their skills for status, compete and crush their enemies, and fulfill a sense of accomplishment.. all virtually?
> Your supposition is misguided.

Uh, which one? I can't work out what this refers to.

> If your friend opens a shop and knows their monetization model is sales, are you implying if you want to support them you are just going to hand out cash to them?

I don't understand how this analogy is supposed to work. In a shop, you exchange money for things. On youtube, you enjoy videos and..the creator gets paid somehow, you seem to be suggesting, by my watching ads, which is nowhere near acceptable to me[0], but since they want money, I suggested paying them money, which is a win-win, no?

> Me watching their video with the ads open up a whole lot of other revenue opportunities to them

Could you spell out what this means? What "other revenue opportunities"? Thanks.

> They are not a charity case.

I don't get the reference to charity. As if being made (against your will) to watch ads is somehow loftier than paying people who make stuff you like? but I'm sure I misunderstand your point.

[0] Well, before I had an adblocker in the last few years, I never found myself on a channel that showed ads. None of my favourite channels had ads. Hmm.
No the company is getting some extra structure to their bug bash with some prizes provided by Amazon, as well as being able to recruit other people by pointing out how good their current people are (because they are on the leaderboard).
do you not fix bugs in the course of your job anyway? it’s your employer who should be paying you, amazon is just giving you a t shirt for using their software
Do you understand that chacha20 is CTR? A bit flip only affects that single bit, does not propagate to any other bits?
Any technical resource/paper with the details on this?

This seems ripe for exploiting for nefarious purposes. With Apple having built it, all it takes is one court order targeting a serial# and it auto-installs full remote control spyware on that mac?
> One interesting fact is that the USA population has roughly increased by a multiple of Dunbar's number since its organizational structure was codified in its Constitution. Perhaps time for another look?

I have had that exact same idle thought.

In 1813, each of the 182 US Representatives represented on average ~40,000 Americans. Today, each of our 435 Reps stands for about ~760,000 people. That's over an order of magnitude growth. To keep the same rate of representation, we'd need to have over 8,000 Representatives, which is clearly too large a body to get anything done.

So we're probably well beyond the point where we could benefit from a large House of Subrepresentatives and then a smaller House of Superrepresentatives that aggregate them.
Mailchimp Suspends the Babylon Bee for 'Harmful Information'
I'm one of the very few people who actually read all of the disclosure documents. I wouldn't be surprised if I were the only person who read these documents in their entirety aside from the document drafter(s) themselves. And this wasn't in the privacy notice for a study but for the Rally browser extension. Rather confusingly, Rally has one privacy policy and each individual study will have their own, separate, privacy policy in addition to the Rally privacy policy.
How does this square with the inability of businesses to find workers and millions moving to better jobs?
Skimming through the Tweets, it seems like the rest of the online Office suite uses React and Teams was the outlier using Angular. Somehow it makes sense to use the same framework for everything and save resources.
I wonder whether enterprise slack does.
>we knew it wouldn't change anything. We'd just be replaced by someone that would.

Ye goode olde self-fulfilling prophecy.
I should have quoted only the latter part of your sentence. I disagree that it's an illuminating comment or that the reasoning behind it is strong. And in particular, "I disagree with it" is not in the same category as "most reasonable people consider this to be immoral" (you can question whether we have the same definition for "reasonable", but at some point you'll have to recognise that we all make some decision at some point as to what we consider reasonable or not).

That said, I didn't actually downvote it, I just gave some argument for why I think the downvote was justified.
Most companies struggle to build well understood products like apps and web sites. The leadership of most organizations is unable to organize the relevant work because they don't know anything about such products. If a company struggles to build an app, a product like an EV is a major undertaking.
true, but sounds incomplete! check this video's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME, it's called "Growing Reddit - Web Development" and in the description, they say "This video is part of an online course, Web Development. Check out the course here: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253." but can't find it in the Intro to backend course https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-backend--ud171
Do not use it for any comparisons. It is not what you think it is. It's largely there to impress you with how big Google is, and at this point, more historical inertia than anything else.

Here's a bit of outside analysis that's fun to read:
https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/04/trochee-chart/
Brazilian Jiu Jutsu. Every single day I go through the same cycle of wanting to skip that days class, convincing myself to drag myself there and walking out incredibly happy I went. I don't know what it is, but I'm loving being a complete beginner at something again.
Non binary is about gender identity. You're talking about gender expression. They're related but not the same.
You can just surround the new plants with the plant guards that come with the robot.
>About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer Inc. vaccine
> I would object to that product on the basis that kids need fewer, not more screens.

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Why javajosh? Why aren't you helping?

Would it be too on-the-nose to point out that this hypothetical smartwatch would probably be running Android?
Python 3 IO isn't UTF-8. The entire point of the change was to support _arbitrary_ encodings (most of which are legacy code pages).

Python would sometimes guess the output encoding on Windows to be ASCII even when UTF-8 was supported by the output device. So you'd end up with encoding-oblivious Python 2 programs that worked perfectly reading and writing UTF-8, and Python 3 programs that failed upon encountering a non-ASCII character.

They've since improved the defaults on Windows, but the changes in Python 3 that caused me a lot of pain were when they made IO to be non-Unicode.
The thing is, once you build a few billion dollar position, you can’t unload it quickly and profitably when you know you’ve been spotted.

Indeed, shorting AMC and GameStop was very rational by any single actor - the problems were that too many hedge funds were doing it at the same time, and that WSB noticed , turning the “market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” on against the hedge funds at full throttle.
It is not switching from Angular 2+. It truly is still AngularJS. Very different and an incredible leap.
There needs to be a law that any subscription that can be signed up for online should be cancelable online. I'm not in favor of just implementing new laws willy nilly. But it's clear that companies are never going to do this on their own.
There are a smattering (36 right now) of job openings on their career site that mention rust: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/search-results?keywords=... A few seem to be boilerplate lists of languages, but some actually mention a preference for candidates that know rust. My read on this is that there are probably some small teams (looks like in Azure) that use rust. But I don't see a big company-wide push yet--there would be a lot more open positions if so.
> Personally I don't think that researchers have any more business doing this kind of surveillance than Google and company do.

As other commenters have noted, then you should decline to opt-in to participating in research such as this.
This. Also, my Teams is _really_ slow. When I, during a video meeting, decide to paste my clipboard into the chat to share an URI, it takes upwards of 10 seconds from when I first push the chat button to it having loaded, and having loaded the input field to having sent the message. It is the same when loading a chat with a new person. It is just _slow_.

Thankfully it is weekend now, so I have two full days before returning to work and having to use Teams again.
These articles are always clickbait.

Their budget includes things like maxing out 401ks and 529s, spending almost $10K on vacations per year, $4K to charity, $2 million home, and it explicitly says things like “Old Navy instead of Gucci” for the clothing item to demonstrate that they’re being
frugal. Even if you subtract out the housing cost, this lifestyle is really stretching the definition of “middle class”.

Their example of a couple who makes this much money is a pair of Bay Area Rapid Transit employees who have a combined income of over $500K. Their professions? Janitor and elevator technician. They clearly went out of their way to find the most controversially high paid public employees they could find in order to feed the clickbait fire.
Commutes: heat, stress, grey, pavement, dirt and chemicals, danger, frustration, noise; all things that come to mind with commutes. Never again, I hope.
These are only storage devices, albeit EOL and no support or updates, but they still just work until... I anticipate to read in the near future about lawsuits around people losing their crypto access keys as well as entire business' closing from loss of their data.

Now consider the coming IoT flood that will also undeniably include medical devices, some of which will directly keep individuals alive AND be connected. In time this will redefine the phrase "End of Life".

Uncle Bob 1990-2042
Uncle Bob was a great human, had a great family and did great things in his community. Uncle Bob however failed to maintain his personal security practices and his medical device was compromised as a result therefore leading to his EOL. RIP U Bob.

Certainly unfunny dark humor derived from what is certain to come. The real problems are just 'warming" up.
I've dabbled in Android development for a rather simple app, and am fighting to keep it in the single digit MB size. I was shocked that even after as much build optimization as possible on libraries, a DEX analysis shows a handful of built in icons and menu translations into just 5 languages occupies over 40% of the package.

As an aside, I dug out an old 16GB Nexus 5 phone to use as a security camera monitor. With exponential app bloat, the basic camera app was a 300MB download, and ate 80% of the phone's free space. All that for a glorified video stream player. The rest of the phone with its outdated apps actually feels quite usable as a modern Android phone--what exactly did today's 10x size get us?
Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech?
Tax preparation is one of those places I've found that going to a person rather than a website actually really pays off. TurboTax et al handle simple cases fine but if you have a complex situation (I own a home, owned a business, etc etc) having a person who's in the room with you and can directly ask you questions and interpret data that you've got on hand is invaluable.

My tax preparer is something like $250 a year and reduced my liability in a very tumultuous year from about $20K to about $9K by understanding what I actually had going on and helping to work through it.
So - how did this virus spread through the population? 20 kyrs ago people didn't live in cities but in small bands of a few dozen people. It's easy to see how an epidemic might spread through a village but how would it move between isolated groups?
> Too many people will just hit override unless the price signals are very high.

But that's the point of an energy market, it will adapt the price signal to the supply and the demand.
People will override it without thinking only the first time. The second time they will remember the humongous bill they got because of that and will think twice.
> Sounds like designating Antarctica be used exclusively for peaceful purposes is good stewardship like the Maori would do and not a land grab

Ironically, the Maori are famous for doing exactly the opposite, which confuses me about the whole premise of the article.

Why don't we all just agree to the noble guidelines of the Antarctic Treaty without trying to justify them with some tortured scholarship?
A man whose software ate the world
Also not a very hard thing to investigate and track down for someone who is interested. I think a good portion of the readers here can design the equipment to do that.
That has nothing to do with this though. The global leaderboard is for fixing bugs in your own company.
vsco.co is the next bubble.