skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-is-comi...
One big issue with this is that Microsoft has supported BIOS/MBR for way longer than it was needed - "MBR" is a legacy from the past, and having an executable UEFI bootloader in a GPT ESP is so vastly superior to just loading the first 512B of a disk and jumping to whatever there is in there. I haven't seen a BIOS-only system after 2011, so there's basically no reason at all to boot in Legacy/CSM mode.
Me. It rocks.
According to their website, Fastmail allows up to 100 custom domains on a single account, so it's not like you need to buy a second account if you just want to receive/send email on a domain.
As far as I understand Neanderthal genes in Humans don't actually exist in the Y chromosome.

That means that only female Neanderthals transmitted their genes down the Sapiens gene tree. This could mean all sort of things.

Maybe Neanderthal Males with Female Humans didn't generate viable off-spring. Maybe Our selection process favored non-Neanderthal genes and it was phased out of the Y chromosome gene pool? Maybe as you said Sapiens have a much darker past?
Guess someone had to try it
Interesting you got that impression because this kid obviously seems insanely gifted, you can’t force or teach that. It sounds like his father is more like his manager as others have said.

This echoes what we saw with Magnus Carlsen where his dad basically made Carlsen’s career his full time job (based on clips I saw about Carlsen as a kid)
This seems like more of a distinction between urban and rural, which exists in almost all countries.

LA and Miami are similar and almost indistinguishable compared to European countries which lie only 50 miles from each other.
Pretty sure Alex Jones has stated in court, in his own defense that everything he says is for "entertainment" has has no basis in truth or reality. So by his own admission, you can't trust what he says. You can be entertained though and apparently that's enough for many Americans.
Thankfully, Substack provides an RSS feed. If there's no RSS, I don't subscribe.

In the future I might try Kill the Newsletter as suggested in another comment.
I agree, it's just that you're not the average user. I am also surprised to see the spam folder surprisingly empty all the time, almost as if my email addresses were unknown to the world (which I am pretty sure they are not).

The average user probably sees this full spam folder as something he/she is doing bad, or the service itself is bad.

It's not just google or microsoft. I think most email providers do this, I might be wrong though.
I switched all my email newsletters to RSS newsletters with https://kill-the-newsletter.com and my life has gotten so much better.

I was inspired by the design of Hey email, whose designers reasoned that newsletters aren't really that important, they should just be something you scroll through and separate from other email which often needs a response.
Lifetime these days means 3-4 years.
" It reminds me a bit of the role of the DJ to do the searching and curating, but not actually create the music"

It very much depends on the type of DJ. But a good DJ performing live, is indeed generating music, as he feels the vibes of the crowd and mixes in the exact tracks fitting to that moment.

Not predefined track after track, but they blend in and over on each other.

If you do this with parts of a song from here and then there, with a small snippet from something else - it is indeed generating new music in my book.

And I think alien dreams and ai generated art alike ... can move into that direction. Generating art, by knowing the various tools and combining them.
> The company nearly doubled the number of Black+ people in U.S. leadership to 7.1% last year

It’s cool they’ve been able to find qualified people, taking a long time to fill those roles but very nice they are doing it!

They will more adequately address additional markets with this talent gravitational pull.

What is the percentage of Black+ in the population? The US census doesn’t have a + section, so we can deduce that it is at least 12% for standard tier Black, but when including the premium tier what percentage is that?

It’s nice that it is getting much closer to proportionate representation, it’s not clear how close
That's a different issue, though. We have problems that literally nobody knew the reason for, and they required formatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows to fix. They did eventually figure things out, but it was over a year later, IIRC.

In the mean time, the techs would get yelled at for not knowing what was happening. I wasn't surprised when they invented reasons... And they may even have believed them.

As for the rebooting... I've seen too many weird things to deny them the reboots. And a few times it has actually fixed my problem, even though I believed it impossible. (And had the same happen to customers I was supporting.) So I know it's frustrating, but it's necessary in a surprising number of cases.

Also, techs were often the worst customers. They thought they knew everything, even if it was just Dunning-Kruger. Forcing them to reboot was painful, but actually worked more often than non-techs because the non-techs would blindly try things like that after having been told it once in the past. There were plenty of times I fell back on the "I can't send this up until you reboot it" because I knew there was a good chance the reboot would actually work if the customer tried to avoid it.
What is Black+ and Latinx+?

This is the first time I'm hearing this term and can't find anything about it in the report or online.
An influencer is someone that influences people, usually teenagers.

Influencers and creators are not mutually exclusive. You can be both. That said, most influencers I know don't create anything and most kids who want to be influencers are not thinking about creating something of value, only about doing stupid things in front of a camera and getting money from sponsors.

An influencer, not so long ago, advertised some sports drink by saying it was better than water because water doesn't hydrate you. Then she went on a rant about how she doesn't want to use a mask and will refuse the vaccine. Make sure your kids don't follow every stupid influencer out there.
Wouldn't the better solution have been to support SSO?
Skyborg AI Computer “Brain” Successfully Flew a General Atomics Avenger Drone
I'd love to have a chat at some point. I'm trying to (slowly) bootstrap some tools for the embedded space, and we're trying to get a grasp on (a) what our MVP should look like, and (b) how to go about approaching customer #1.
How do I get notified of a new newsletter?

For me my Inbox is the only place I'm guaranteed to visit regularly. If a notification is on any other platform then I might not ever know about it.

But then - you haven't really explained what you mean. Do you mean in terms of rendering? notifications, sharing?

And it depends on your relationship to email vs other platforms. Tell us more about your reasoning.
I listened to a podcast a while ago where someone was speculating why programs processing data can't just be connected together like devices in a water system. Pumps, sinks, boilers, showers, etc. Or like electrical devices, just channel the data between them.

It occurred to me that data isn't like water, or electricity. Those are generic resources that can largely be easily standardised and treated consistently by any device. Data isn't like that.

Data formats and encoding vary hugely and can have crazy different properties. It's more like piping chemicals between devices in a chemical factory. You can't just take the output from a device producing acid and plug the pipe into the input of a device that's designed to process water, or ammonia, or petrol. They're all 'just' fluids and you can pipe them about, but their properties vary wildly. You can only feed one into a device as input if that device is specifically designed to process that specific material.

Yes it is possible to define standardised data formats, up to a point. XML, JSON, CSV, etc but even then you can't just feed arbitrary JSON into every program designed to ingest JSON and expect it to work, just because the data it expects is JSON formatted.

Yes Unix has pipes, but each tool in the pipe chain has to be told exactly how to process the specific input it gets from the previous tool. You can't just look in history for two arbitrary examples of using pipes, and cut and paste the first half of one pipe chain, and paste the second half of another arbitrary pipe chain on the end, and expect to get something useful out of the combination. Maybe you'll get lucky, but usually you'll get garbage.
Didn't Tenochtitlan have a famously-large population for the era?
This is utterly damning. I have already instructed my team that Copilot can never be used for our projects. Compromising the product because of unknowable license demands isn't acceptable in the professional world of software engineering.

But if we put the licensing to one side for a moment...

1/ Everything I've seen it generate so far is 'imperative hell'. It is practically a 'boilerplate generator'. That might be useful for pet projects, smaller code bases, or even unit-test writing. But large swathes of application code looking like the examples I've seen so far is hard to manage.

2/ The boilerplate is what bothers me the most (as someone who believes in the declarative approach to software engineering). The future for programming and programming languages should be an attempt to step up to a higher level of abstraction, that has been historically the way we step up to higher levels of productivity. As applications get larger and code-bases grow significantly we need abstraction, not more boilerplate.

3/ As someone who develops a functional framework for C# [1], I could see Copilot essentially side-lining my ideas and my approach to writing code in C#. Not just style, but choice of types, etc. I wonder if the fall out of what is Copilot's 'one true way' of generating code was ever considered? It appears to force a style that is at odds with many who are looking for more robust code. At worst it will homogenise code "people who wrote that, also wrote this" - stifling innovation and iterative improvements in the industry.

4/ Writing code is easy. Reading and understanding code written by another developer is hard. Will we spend most of our time as code-reviewers going forwards? Usually, you can ask the author what their intentions were, or why they think their approach is the correct one. Copilot (as far as I can tell) can't justify its decisions. So, beyond the simple boilerplate generation, will this destroy the art of programming? I can imagine many juniors using this as a crutch, and potentially never understanding the 'why'.

I'm not against productivity tools per se; it's certainly a neat trick, and a very impressive feat of engineering in its own right. I am however dubious that this really adds value to professional code-bases, and actively may decrease code quality over time. Then there's the grey area of licensing, which I feel has been totally brushed to one side.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
I'm in the same boat. Mac-as-a-developer-workstation, not Mac-as-a-consumer-dvice. Apple seems entirely disinterested in the former market segment. Perhaps it never was: the mass adoption of macs in the early-mid 2000s might just have been a fortuitous accident, not somethgin Apple ever courted.

Either way:

> It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently.

I see that too and it worries me. Not because I'm avidly anti-Microsoft, but because all the portents are we're heading back to the place where Microsoft dominates the desktop, with no practical alternatives. That wasn't good first time around and I don't see it being any better if repeated.

Microsoft is being very smart - and successful - in their strategy. Whereas the original Windows commoditised the underlying hardware, current "Windows" is commoditising operating systems. Hence subsuming Android and Linux into the platform.

"Windows", though, is really not the way to think about the platform. The deep integration of Teams into W11 is a pivotal step. Teams - with office365 - is the new "Windows" - the platform that Microsoft wants to dominate end-user computing with on the front end. With Azure on the back.

As a developer, I don't want to only have a single choice. But I don't see anyone meaningfully challenging Microsoft. Apple seems only interested in consumers. I wouldn't personally touch a Chromebook given Google's insatiable desire to monetise my every keystroke. Amazon seems only interested in the back end and, actually, that seems like strategic myopia. Microsoft really understands that owning the end-user experience is key. What future for AWS if all developers are using Windows, and it already "just works" with Azure?

So I'm not optimistic for the future. On the plus side, it's why I bought a laptop from System76, and paid ElementaryOS to use their distro. It's noise level compared to Windows/Mac, but that might just be what ensures there's a tiny crack of hope for desktop diversity.
Hey, me too! Never said I didn't. Just that it's nice to leave some parts of the world to itself.
that's pretty rad...both the song and vid :)
Didn't think I'd find some new music to listen on the drive back home from HN, thanks haha
I just stay away from platforms that are full of outrage porn. Another plus is that I have more time for other useful or enjoyable stuff.
I was googling someone's email address the other day and was able to access the admin panel of a corporate mailing list management software where I was able to view their data and accessed every email they had, including notes about them.

Totally messed up. I didn't try but knowing the slugs now I recon not too hard to find similar instances
I find this sentiment baffling.

> Now look at the web. It's unusable without an ad blocker.

Don't like ads? Don't visit sites that run ads. For instance, I can't read most of online newspapers because of the ads; so I just don't bother. I visit HN instead.

> The tech mafia keeps tracking people and censoring the web, practicing right-speak and removing critical voices.

I don't know what right-speak is (is it speaking correctly or speaking on right-wing political topics?), but:

- peer-to-peer technologies exist (Odysee, Bitchute, etc.; still relying on the browser to work)

- less censorious networks exist (e.g. locals)

- you can self-host your own platform where you set the rules (phpBB, mattermost, etc.)

- you can run your own blog ang right-speak there to your heart's content; and maybe if this right-speech in interesting, you can attract commenters to exchange ideas (if you find this valuable)
> amazon is well aware, but does not care, since it benefits them in some way

Given Amazon's egregious attrition rate and their yearly decimation policy, it's not very likely that they are not aware of what they are doing
This isn't a euphemism, though. In both situations, the loser is paying for damages they caused to the other party. It's the same thing, just settled out of court instead of being ordered by the court.
The first factual claim on miscarriages is false.

He says early pregnancy failures have increased ten percent. The graph he links shows no such increase according to line of best fit. It only shows it if he cherry picks the largest observation in the data.

Even if I grant this false assumption, his inference that late miscarriages have declined doesn't even follow, the data he's presented is fully consistent with an increase in late miscarriage of a few percent.

Regarding the testosterone question. The data in the tweet you mention actually does show such a decline - of almost 50 percent in young US males. His point is that the decline has stopped and levels have increased by an extremely small amount in the last 10 years, although that could easily be statistical noise since it is such a tiny increase. Overall, his data shows a large decrease over 50-100 years in the US.
Location: USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Arizona only

Technologies: JavaScript, C#, Python, .NET CORE, Angular, SQL

Résumé/CV: See linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-b-a30316212/

Email: kirk -> burleson -> yahoo.com

I really enjoy programming, so if you need a work-horse, I'm the guy. I'm comfortable on the command line and enjoy C programming as much as web development. I also enjoy working with new technologies, but I'm also right at home in a basement writing Perl scripts!

I really want to work remote until I see more of what happens with covid-19. But reach out anyway; your opportunity might be interesting enough to just throw a mask on an go back to the office.
Stories like this have me worried the vaccines aren't as effective as I once believed. Why would I be reading cherry picked stories instead of studies if the vaccine was easily shown to be effective?

Now, that isn't to say they aren't effective, but this type of headline is more likely to make me a skeptic than anything. I cringe every time I see this kind of junk being fed to the public. Is this what we want the next generation to consider evidence?
Latinx(+) is a term I’ve never heard a latino person use in real life. It seems like needless kid gloves and bastardization of language.
Okay, clinical pathology in hospital settings aside, what country are you talking about? Here in Germany cause of death determination for COVID-19 deaths is part of the data we gather.

Random German state (Bavaria) for example [0]: Cause of death known for 98% of all COVID-19 deaths, 87% of these died from the disease, 13% from other causes. I just don't really see how it's misattribution when that data is available (which I assume it would be in any country not completely overwhelmed by the pandemic).

[0] https://www.lgl.bayern.de/gesundheit/infektionsschutz/infekt...
Same here. I've build web things 10 years ago that still have happy visitors to this day. Every app I built (only 3) was removed within a year.

I don't feel crazy enough to waste time in things that can't exist without me permanently touching it for no reason
Sure, but it's based on something real (2^17 ~ 3^12) rather than being a pure historical accident.
In my experience, when you have a large systematic problem, the economic/viable/working/good solution is rarely to zoom in on a particular (pun not intended) problem and solve that, hoping it'll be the last of the problems caused by the broken system.

If the system is broken, the only economically sensible way to fix the problems is to change the system. Fundamentally.

(In this case, the "broken system" refers to the idea that when we go to work, we have to bring two resting chairs, a couch, and a large coffer. And all of society should be shaped around this daily furniture transportation. Tire dirt is just the second of a very long list of problems caused by this idea.)
I want to know also.

My guess is Black or Latino of every gender/sexuality.
I identity myself as "space-master". I can't find myself in there. Shame, I am such a minority group nobody cares.
Even includes the commented out code. Clearly Copilot has gained a deep understanding of code and is not simply the slowest way to make a terrible, opaque search engine ever!
Corporate newspeak. 2 + 2 = 5
Keeping track of all these terms is absurd. How about about this? We are all humans.
If I had to guess, I would say Black+ means anyone who has Black heritage, even if mixed. But it could be a sexual orientation thing too.
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a good book, really enjoyable read. But speaking to historian friends of mine has given me the impression that it's not highly regarded in those circles.

Unfortunately I can't give any criticisms beyond that because it has been a long time since I had those discussions and the details just don't come to mind, so I guess really what I'm saying is though it's a popular and enjoyable read, perhaps take the narrative it gives with a pinch of salt, perhaps dig into the current historical perspective and see where it differs?
FYI, for true pedantic accuracy, the term toxicant is preferred by toxicologists. Toxins are offensive poisons produced by organisms. Thus Lead is not a toxin unless concentrated to harmful doses by some organism.

Highly recommend anyone interested in medicine to study toxicology, because there are so many misconceptions and FUD in this space. It's a great bullshit detector for all the hippies crowing about "removing toxins from the body"
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27709057
I'm not the OP, but the answer is typically

1) Time, and..

2) Deliverability

Home grown email systems require monitoring (e.g. deliverability rates, IP reputation monitoring) and maintenance of the system itself which can be a time sink.

The reality is without using SES, Sendgrid, or a similar 3rd party provider, avoiding people's spam folder is very tricky.
In New York State with Fed, state and utility incentives it's like 4 years.
Is there a TL;DR?
I think it's for being Black + Gay or whatever other minority.

Latino is for males, Latina is for females so Latinx is for both and other genders and I guess the + indicates belonging to another minority group.

As a non-American this all seems silly but I see the point of it.
In the anglosphere (and especially in the US), the ethnic background of a person is given much attention. They have very odd labels with the intent to be more inclusive towards the "corner cases". The 'x' probably stands as a placeholder for 'o' and 'a' to capture both the male and female version.

This seems to be a oddity of the english-speaking cultures and not very relevant to other parts of the world.
This is not entirely true anymore. I can whitelist apps to install apps instead of making it on a per app level. So I can simply add stores and only confirm the 'danger' message once
Distributed systems, consensus & data consistency concepts
They could train on solely MIT-licensed code, and dump ALL the copyright notices of code used for training into a file. Problem solved.
When do electric vehicles become cleaner than gasoline cars?
It's possible, you just need to pay the extra 10% for premium support.
Navy ditches railgun, eyes hypersonic missiles
"The data in this section allows people of two or more races to more accurately state their
racial background. For example, Black+ includes all Googlers who identify as Black, plus
those who identify as Black and any other race."

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/diversity.google/...
Google doesn't track sexual orientation. Black+ means black or black plus some other ethnic minority (Native American, Latino, etc.).
Not yet because you only want to install on a newer roof otherwise you pay a lot to uninstall/reinstall on roof replacement.

Relative to price of a home, they are cheap, under $10k without storage. People spend 2-5x more on a kitchen or bathroom cosmetic remodel.

If you need financing, you can use a HELOC.
The break even is like 4 years.

Your statements are fairly hyperbolic considering something like 60% of Americans own their home, so it can't be impossible.
This is a little off topic, but your framework looks really interesting! How come you opted for building a functional framework in C#, vs using F#? I couldn’t see anything in the README about what was specifically frustrating about F#? I ask because we’re looking at introducing it at my company.
Even if it does, it's only the second of a very, very long list of problems caused by the car default. In an old, run-down, rat- and cockroach-infested, water-damaged ramshackle house you can't just flush the toilet and then go, "There! Sparkling clean!"
We are starting our first apiary this year!
Vietnam orders Netflix to remove Australian spy show over South China Sea map
I am a DJ myself, but I would still give credit to the authors of the tracks rather than claiming it for myself (even when it’s a unique interesting combination or flow).