skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Somehow the industry got by for decades without intimately knowing what version every single user of the software was running.

I don't think the scale nor the features of modern software is comparable to what we used to have.

Back in the days you didn't have such a diverse numbers of versions/machines combinations, software were much simpler, much less updates, &c.

We also survived just fine without cars, electricity, central heating, processed meat, &c. this isn't a valid argument
I'm curious as to how you monetised the site? Your site would have been so useful when I moved to the city a few years back.
As far as I'm concerned it's largely irrelevant, because the real question is how the governments all handled the Covid crisis, once it was out in the open.
The generic name for this is Newsfeed (or webfeed according to wikipedia, but never heard this in the wild).

Would you understand it with those names?
Creator of the fork here.

Had some troubles, as we (and I personally, and my loved ones) were hit by a 4chan raid. Take the comments in the issues on GitHub with a grain of salt, it's impossible to get ahead of this.

Need to wait for things to cool down to be able to organize everything later.

Anyways, AMA or something :)
Er, I mean Gnome 40 on Fedora 34.
Does Return to Castle Wolfenstein count as a best-seller or a AAA game?
I still hope Microsoft returns to the mobile vision they had with Windows running on the phone, a Continuum dock to turn it into a PC, and Android apps to close the app gap.

It seems like they keep pushing on all these technologies, although maybe for different reasons. Windows 11 is still one OS for all form factors. It runs on mobile devices (albeit for tablets.) And now it has the Android apps.

Just... make a new Nokia phone with WP11! Save us from the dichotomy of surveillance capitalists and forty-dollar-dongleists.
I'm truly sorry that your reality has imposed that view on you.

In my reality, someone who works less is able to relax more, leading to potentially better throught out work (be it code, design, writing, teaching etc).

In the end, the individual with the higher quality work will receive extra benefits. Not the one who produces the most.
> but it's also ultimately not something to be anthropomorphized, but rather a faceless machine that makes often bad decisions that I don't have any real influence over.

Shocking how it can take 17 years to realize that. And it's for a smart person! One really has to congratulate early Google execs for creating this super pervasive myth of genius around what's just another corporation.

Related - Systemantics is not a joke, it's an honest attempt at describing reality: https://mobile.twitter.com/SysQuotes
A WWII submarine-hunting device helped prove the theory of plate tectonics
Any large corporation needs to eliminate the bus factor of individual contributors (those who don't pay the management and politics game). You can't have an universally respected engineering legend contradict the board of directors; and the CEO it installs and influences.

Thus, you could argue that faceless, kafkaesque, "out of anyone's control" systems for talent management are a feature with trade-offs, not a bug.

While I have not worked at Google, simply being a user of its products for the past two decades has taught me that so much of its company culture and values have changed; and rarely for the better.
Does google claim to be neutral? Does twitter?

Why should the attempt to remove some harmful content from their platform create a requirement to be absolutely perfect at doing so? Was there any doubt that twitter had the technical capabilities to remove some tweets?

If you ever help a person, are you then required to help any other person in the same situation?

What's the outcome you want? Do you believe it's possible to moderate billions of tweets without a mistake? If not, what's so great about social media that is overrun with swastikas and porn after the toxicity scared away all normal people? How does that help?

Do twitter employees maybe have the free speech right of not being involved in the distribution of stuff they find horrible? What's worse, your tweets being deleted by twitter or being forced to make statements you know to be wrong and harmful (i. e. coerced speech)?

Do you realise the standard for newspapers in the US is "actual malice", meaning the editors must know something they are publishing is false and harmful, and they must act with the intent to cause some harm. Is that how you'd describe "lost liability protection"?
As mentioned by others, Google does "manipulate" search results too, but it is a slightly less sensitive/emotionalized topic because Google's content (web pages) is very different from Twitter's (personal utterances). The question is: what does "neutral" even mean in this context?

The dichotomy between neutrality and manipulation is artificial, although I do see the underlying assumption that the output of any algorithm would be "neutral" whereas manual interference with its results would be "manipulation".

In reality, however, the boundary is fluid. Would an algorithm that automatically excludes certain sites be neutral, while excluding the same sites manually is considered manipulation? Is "apply keyword search, then apply blacklist" an algorithm or manual manipulation?
On the other side, is an algorithm that automatically penalizes SEO-optimized (spam) sites neutral, even though a search term occurs much more frequently on that given site?
PTOD (paper title of the day) winner.

I can grasp this refers to microscopic reconfigurable optics, but I have indistinguishable-from-zero sense of the scale or any sort of practical application. Can someone provide a sci-fi illustration?
The web was always full of trash.

The problem is that the new trash is much more hostile: it's actively trying to subvert/cover the good stuff.
Blender 3.0 Postponed
The vast majority of the US has a murder rate comparable to Canada in fact, while having a huge number of guns.

Last year Chicago's so called top cop said the city has over 117,000 gang members that are part of 55 known gangs. That's merely one example, a few dozen other cities are similarly buried in homicides and gangs.

If you actually wanted to do something about the US murder rate, it's very obvious where to begin fixing things. Nobody wants to talk about it, it's not a national discussion at all, it just keeps getting swept under the rug (while the dead bodies pile up, year after year).
This video may not be much of a help, but...
I think is worth some reflections and it is something to many "forgets" / never sees.

"What If Money Was No Object?" /Alan Watts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOaAHK7efc
The way people are behaving over this makes me want the feds to take down 4chan. It's all fun and games until your loved ones are affected.
We have no point of comparison. Is this more than usual?
(not OP)

As a German, I might be used to a lot more rough-and-tumble language, but OP's statement sounds much like the sort of thing I'd hear at a social gathering. You know, a personal opinion? That, in a dialogue, one could bond (or not) over? Which might lead to a social bond (or not?)
Nand2Tetris and Roughgarden, looks like an excellent syllabus tbh.

Unfortunately it's pretty worthless without a paper degree. It's cool that Finland is now having open online registration for Finnish citizens to do online courses like https://fullstackopen.com/en/

It's a shame something like that doesn't exist in every country.
> Are we approaching (or have we already passed?) a singularity in the human race based on our ability to product fault tolerant ball race bearings and machine screws that never snap?

I guess not [0]. I don't know of any artificial autonomous self-diagnosing and self-repairing mechanism either. The current approach is to hope that either nothing breaks or that built-in redundancy is sufficient to compensate for mechanical failures.

[0] https://safety4sea.com/autonomous-vessel-prototype-pauses-at...
To be fair we need a regulation that will force companies to unlock bootloaders when the device hits end of life. But ideally, they should give ability to bring your own bootloader from the start.

I hate regulation, but what else can you do if voting with your wallet doesn't work, as majority of people don't understand the issue or don't care and companies have no incentive to behave responsibly.

They have a great PR machine about carbon neutrality and all that, who is going to notice some old phone destined to a landfill.
> It still puzzles me that people just can't understand the the huge chasm between storing and using peoples data from their own products and stealing data from other companies thats stored on your systems in the hope that one day it can be decrypted and used to improve ads.

Data is still data.

> Google is a huge company, the idea that it would set out to do something that everyone involved in would know is directly breaking the law (rather than doing something thats a grey area, or they know is legal but 'unethical' or could become a PR issue, or destroy trust in them and destroy their product) is fairly unbelievable.

They do this in Europe by not complying with GDPR. ( and they are not the only one)

> This comes up again and again with stories about Google and (particularly) AWS cloud computing. I hope for better on HN!
Employment Solicitors in Manchester
It is easy to find all of the details that you need but it can be hard to know which ones will provide you with the best service.
For the current pandemic yes, but we could start banning all gain of function research to make another one less likely. And increase lab safety measures.
The Grey Album is the only example comparable to what Copilot is doing. And even this is tenuous. It was a one-off and even though the copyright holder EMI did not give permission, the creators of the content remixed were happy with the re-use. Moreover, Danger Mouse could have sought a statutory licence that only applies to music under US law, whereas no such thing exists for code.

None of the other examples match up because the GIFs are not being compiled into films. The remixed works are in a different field of endeavour.

If Copilot were being used to show snippets that scroll across the screen in hacker films, or used by musicians to rap a few lines of Rust code, that would be palatable to the copyright holders. It is transformative and very likely to be fair use.

If Danger Mouse, who created the Grey Album, had instead started a business selling access to a tool that splices in copyrighted music and video based on a clip that the user provided, facilitating widespread, systematic infringement, creators would have been far less sympathetic, and EMI far more persistent in their legal attempts shut it down and collect damages.
With 23 years in industry, you were joining back when CS degrees were less common.

This is like the "boomer handshake" meme. Nowadays you need a degree.
Well, no premiums only if you’re single. The premiums are quite standard with a spouse/child/family (relative to other companies).
I m sure it is a net loss for people who could have benefited from free work indeed.
Yes, some kind of drilling is definitely necessary, the issue is that traditional drilling is not efficient and there is so much more to language learning.

I don't think traditional drilling doesn't work at all, it's just super inefficient and boring.

That said, I also kind of feel that dialogue with other students isn't that useful.

I don't know about English in Taiwan, but if it's similar to Mainland China then then many of them started with learning English when they were 3 or so. The level of English you get from that is rather disappointing.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...

> Summary, so far:

> Some things need talent to do really well.

> It’s hard to scale talent.

> One way people try to scale talent is by having the talent create rules for the untalented to follow.

> The quality of the resulting product is very low.
For someone who claims to know movies, these opinions are pretty bad.

Borat couldn't be made today... Except a sequel was made... but only because he's already famous? Certainly he had to know that Says Baron Cohen already had a TV show before making borat?

And scrolling through Amazon Prime to watch movies? Who in their right mind does this when they want to watch good movies? Streaming services rarely have good movies on them because their catalog is intended for the kind of people who want to binge watch The Office. These are not curated lists of the best films ever. In fact, even just scrolling through the IMDB top 250, I doubt you can even watch half of them on Prime/Netflix combined.
Solar sails might be acceptable for unmanned probes, but for an actual manned mission so close to Sun you need a huge vessel, which would require proportionately gigantic sail.

While you can deal easily with heat by reflecting the light, you need to contend with a lot of shielding necessary to deal with solar winds that are much more stronger and frequent so close to the sun.

It might be possible to run a train of supply missions this way, I would have to check the math but I am too lazy today to do it:) IN general it does not matter a lot how long it takes for a supply mission to reach the planet, you can have as many of them in flight as you want (and your budget allows).

It could actually be interesting to see if it would be possible to have a fleet of these vessels constantly moving between Earth/Mercury, taking cargo by randezvous at Earth's orbit and dropping it off at Mercury's orbit to come back for more cargo. Kind of light-powered conveyor belt.
If you cherry pick the data, you can have good numbers indeed.
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In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
You want to use a razor to shave a bear. Simplicity is not enough to favor a belief model. Machine Learning has shown us that large complex models can perform much better at providing the ground truths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

Razor's aren't scientifically rigorous theorems. Feel free to use them but don't argue by them in a public forum, it's disingenuous to truth.
KiCad is another good example, especially since CERN started funding improvements.
Influencers react to Norway photo edit law: 'Welcome honesty' or a 'shortcut'?
Ask HN: How to spot the next FAANG companies?
In the early stages of the growth (5-10 years), FAANG offered great learning opportunities.

Any suggestions on how to spot "FAANGv2" companies that are likely to offer similar learning experiences and opportunities?
Ask HN: How do I prevent stalker ex's from tracking my physical location
I have an ex who has a penchant for finding me. She claims she found me because of location sharing on my iPhone, but I double checked almost all the location settings and see everything looks disabled. Is there a full list of settings that I can run through to ensure she isn't able to find me via some rogue app leaking my current location? I didn't post any images with location meta data either. I don't have sharing on in Google Maps or Apple Maps. She's not listed in "Find My" or the other obvious IOS app settings. I'm truly baffled how she is able to find me. It's also quite frustrating, because there are like 50% of the apps that need location data, like I can't just turn if on and off every time I need to use Uber or my bank (which requires it for fraud detection I think). There are so many apps that have some good/bad reason to justify not just blanket turning off location data in a lot of instances and it's quite frustrating. Any general tips, lists of things to disable, etc would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'm concerned it's possible she may have installed some app that's quietly tracking me when we were together. I see many apps out there for sale that claim to do this. Wondering if people have info on those and how well they actually work and can stay hidden.
> but in the end that will mean more for your career than anything else, unfortunately.

I strongly disagree. In my organisation engineers have higher salaries than "people persons" like managers, product owners etc. Maybe it is something Eastern Europe (Romania) does better. In my country, people become managers when they don't know what to do in life, when they have not mastered any skill in 12 years of mandatory education + higher education. People who can't code at the end of the CS curriculum have three choices basically: HR, PMO or do a Master in a totally unrelated field to increase your employability. Do you really see yourself the "acting" leader, answering to phone calls all day like a secretary and asking people about the status of their tickets? I hope not. A "people person" is easily replaceable, a good engineer is not. When the financial crisis comes and the line is drawn, engineering skills remain. That is not to say that soft skills do not matter, quite the opposite, just don't make it a day job, you will become vulnerable.
Boiling frog syndrome. Change can be harder to recognise when you are in it.
For them, maybe not. But maybe you heard that there are some agencies which are interested.
How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?
Open faced helmets in general are a terrible idea. Close to half of motorcycle accidents will hit the part of the helmet that covers the sides of your chin. A scooter helmet or a brain bucket might keep you alive, but it won't protect the parts of your face you chew food and smell things with.

That extends to the rest of your body. Protective gear is the difference between a bruise and a scar.

Remember falling off your bike as a kid? At over 50 km/h with a 200 kg bike, you'll turn into a meat crayon.

As they say, dress for the slide, not the ride. Mine saved my life, and prevented a few scars.
The fork of Audacity due to some questionable changes[1] is here: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity. It already has 2k stars.

Telemetry for Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835

The issue about the Privacy Policy (related to the above): https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

[1] Description of the fork: Audacity Fork without any Sentry Telemetry or Crash Reporting.
For me, it's important that my applications will keep running long enough. I can't bet on a SaaS nocode startup if I have to throw away everything when the startup fail or is bought by a competitor.
But this interpreter does almost nothing. It draws mazes and prints text, and it only works in 80-char terminals.

A hosted DSL in a modern high level language gives you the full power of a modern high level language to build the simple constrained language of your choosing, and it can be highly portable to different environments, including keyboard vs network play, and different UI environments.
Per 100k people, the US has 3 times the murder rate of Canada. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/Uni...

Edit: changed from 23 times to 3 times.
I could teach you with 30 year experience writing GUIs, but most likely that would require listing several names that you already know.

So lets spend ourselves some time that you can get yourself improving your Electron skills instead.
I have renamed my wifi, thanks for the tip! Might have to take a trip to starbucks for some mischief tomorrow.

EDIT: awww, it looks like you actually have to attempt to connect to it, much less fun
You can also embed diagrams and flowcharts with Mermaid into Asciidoc, not only in Markdown.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/asciidoc.html#mermaid

Examples for Mermaid layouts in the GitLab handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/tools-and-tips/mermaid/
No gain in truth, let's just lie. Yeah, I think my government says the same things about UFOs. It's working out really well, for the past 80 years. We should have the truth so we can be abreast of what is possible in this world. For example, if actual engineers knew that Mach 10 UFOs existed, they'd probably be working on next-generation propulsion systems. And as for the lab leak, those in biological research would be a little bit more careful. How do you avoid mistakes if you are unaware one ever occurred? A lab leak that killed millions and changed years of our lives is not a white lie! It's egregious that you are willing to sacrifice truth for a diplomatic pin cushion.
Of course, you don't want a bus factor with executives either although it generally becomes more complicated as you get higher up at a company. You're not going to casually replace a CEO though you're not going to just shut down the company if they get hit with a bus either.
The web itself has transformed from a new frontier where people generally have good intentions, to a digital society undergoing active fraud, sabotage, and influence by commercial entities, governments, and wider society.
They are using AES-128.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn computer vision?
Same question was asked 4 years ago [0], but did any new good resources came out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651665
Nothing sinister when demagogues want to shut down the free press to cement their own power?
Single variable comparisons are always super helpful to have adult discussions.
> You can go freelance, set up company in Lithuania and pay <20% effective tax rate over 100,000€+ yearly income.

How would that work? Your personal income will still be taxed based on where the employee resides. The company has to disburse income for someone to use it.
The role of the UN is to prevent wars, not start them.

Regardless, the UN already has a minimum charter of rights [1], and the ability to enforce it via the UN Security Council. This can and does (rarely) get used, and it often ends up making things worse. For example, the UN-authorised bombing of Libya in 2011.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
That is a Christopher Nolan signature trait.
Maybe it is normal? (in the U.S.). Wouldn't that be more insane?
Since virtually every disease comes from nature and not from labs, the thing that would really make a big difference is stopping encroaching on animal habitats and distancing ourselves from animals (including stopping the eating of animals).. not to mention massive increases in funding to virology and way better pandemic planning.
Well it's approximately 4.5 years of shooting deaths in the UK in one day. Regardless of how you look at it, America has a serious problem.
This is about normal for the US, but quite high for anywhere else in the developed world. This long weekend had more gun deaths in the US than most developed countries have in a year.

The only countries that have US-levels of gun violence are unstable Latin American nations and war-torn countries in Northern Africa: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/09/6662094...
Nope, you are missing the whole picture in order to frame your argumentation.

Several Google contributions were taken, just not 100%.

One notable contribution was cleaning up the kernel from all VLAs, the fortifications of several modules, some cleaning outcomes from clang compilation support.

Or the ongoing efforts to allow Rust drivers.

With Sony there were 0%.
Just some light small-arms fire on the grocery run. Weather report calls for lead to be up this weekend.

--Florida Report