skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did, we are. We kept being offered tantalizing hope that they would resolve it. At least up until the last 36 hours when they started stonewalling.

We also don't have an easy way to pick up a fridge (it won't fit in our car) and delivery dates at other companies are just as far out.

So, having cancelled we're now just kind of SOL.

We may end up getting bailed out by a friend with a trailer, we'll see.

But I'm honestly as concerned about the fact that their support reps seemed legitimately scared when they couldn't help us and it was clear we were unsatisfied with what they could offer us as I am about our lack of a fridge.

Support people shouldn't be scared like that. It's not on them. It's on the company.
If they had picked a male name they would have received complaints that it is sending a message that if you need help you should ask a man.

They are going to lose on that front no matter which way they go, so likely the best approach is to pick which works best technically. I'd expect that would be a female voice due to less low frequency components, making it easier to get it to sound good on a small speaker.
Licenses can be revoked.

When you know you can lose your license, being a duct tape programmer becomes a liability.

People will want to understand what they do, and be reluctant to work for
tech debt mills.

As a result, tech debt mills would die and be forbidden from making software. It would be a wonderful world.
Same here. If I’m not using it it’s gone. If I need it for later I’ll save it somehow. My computer should have very little local state. Losing a window with dozens of tabs shouldn’t be some devastating loss. If it’s important save it.
I think you misunderstood my comment. The same code gets generated if you call the function `float fast_rsqrt` or `float fast_isqrt` for instance. I intentionally wanted it to be looking like `Q_rsqrt` so that people pick up on it quicker.
Not a household name? Not hip? Lacking imagination?

"How're you gonna do it? You're gonna PS/2 it!"
> Do you realize that it's not hyperbole to say press freedom in the United States hinges on this case?

If that were actually the case, I'd expect the kind of breathless coverage from the rest of the press that Assange's fans are clamoring for. So it's either...

1. there's a conspiracy afoot, and the press (as a whole) is deliberately coordinating amongst themselves to suppress this significant development, because they're all in the pocket of... etc., etc.;

2. the mainstream press are all dumbasses who don't know the difference between their head and a hole in the ground; or...

3. it is hyperbole to say press freedom in the United States hinges on this case.

My bet is with the latter. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the far safer bet.
Agree, though I give the article author credit for, while thinking Mence overstated his case, not extrapolating his perception of overstatement into "therefore vegans are dumb and I'm going to go get a factory farmed burger right now ha ha", which I still see all too often.

> Mance may overstate his case, but he is spot on to make us confront the horrible truth that the vast majority of us are supporting animal suffering every time we shop
> This becomes a minimum wage for nations

Why is that a problem?

> removes the incentive to compete to be the home of corporate headquarters

No, it shifts the means of incentives. It's no longer a race to the bottom tax rate.

As I understand it, the problem with a border adjustment tax is implementation overhead; it would be expensive to audit. Noting that the IRS in the U.S. is not funded enough to investigate tax fraud as it is, this seems to be a major problem. You would also likely need foreign cooperation. There's no reason to believe a corporation headquartered in the U.S. needs to be truthful about their foreign revenue, and how would you know if they were without a foreign government's assistance.

The problem with implementing a world-wide minimum tax rate is organization, getting all countries to agree and stand by it. This is something the world has been engaged in doing for around 100 years now. We've had failures (League of Nations) and successes. There's no guarantee of success, but importantly, tax havens can be isolated if 130+ countries agree to do so, until they follow suit.

Basically, even if global minimum tax is not the optimal solution (which remains to be shown), it's better to have a sub-optimal solution that can be implemented than an optimal solution that's impossible.
Few Teases to Apple’s AR and VR Headset We Got During WWDC 2021
> The oil and gas industry delayed real research and development of electric vehicles for 100 years.

Do you mean proactively somehow (as with GM and some trollycars)? I find that hard to believe and would love to learn more.

If you mean their very existence reduced incentives, well ok, but that’s simply path dependency and is the way life works.

There were other pressures on battery improvement (portability: schlepping a heavy box of protons around is a lot of work!) so I have a hard time blaming the oil and gas industry for that. But as I said I’d like to learn more, if that were the case.
My new Lenovo has a built in camera cover which was a nice surprise, but only a software hotkey for the mic.
What I would love even more than copilot helping me write code is a copilot to write my tests for the code I write.
In related news, Mach-E sales are up 27% in a single month (June vs May). That's 2,465 vehicles for the month of June. Still a long ways to go to catch Tesla, but they are accelerating quickly.
I guess you're right. Nice "flywheel", huh?
I was pretty impressed when I asked one to generate "Talking Heads album cover" https://i.imgur.com/P5jCBsw.png
Gitlab 14
Isn't already?
That exact same argument would hold true for drug dealers, mob enforcers, and a whole variety of people that do bad things. Sure, the mob boss is a bad guy for having the enforcer break someone's shop up; but the enforcer is _also_ a bad guy for doing it.
Ask HN: Any Open Source Libraries?
I was thinking of making an open source library that could host other open source works. The purpose of this post is the see if people know of any platforms/projects that do this so that I could either learn from their mistakes (If it failed) or contribute (If it's still active). Thanks.

Edit:
Not library as in code but as in a literal library to host open source articles.
Cancer causes cell
phones, by xkcd

https://xkcd.com/925/

Correlation != Causation :)
Meaning fur was lost before we split from neanderthals, so they would have had to lose their sweat pores and regrown that hair? Seems like a large mutation to take place.
Businesses can die. They aren't people.

People can find other work.

If suckers are happy, they aren't suckers. Of they aren't happy, they should refuse the job.

Amazon can pay for what they need or shut down.
Or hire a factoring company to take the risk out of it for you. Some banks provide this service. Sure, they take a percentage, but for a one man band, it's often worth the pace of mind to offload this work to a professional.
> I want hardware switches for

Here you go: https://puri.sm/security/.
This is just a scheme for Amazon not to have to hire delivery drivers as full time.
The intern system at large companies is supposed to, and often does implement the same apprentice function that the trades have.
> In spite of Balmer jumping up and down on stage yelling "Developers!!" ...

If you actually know how to support developers you don't need to jump up and down on stage screaming about it.
This is a fake argument. Owners of carnivores happily feed meat of numerous chicken, pigs and cows to their pets. Keepers of free-roaming cats accept that each of those kills 100 birds and rodents per year.
One or two of those will be dropped in the next decade or two. It is how things go.

In fact, Netflix is only there nowadays to avoid the acronym from becoming offensive.
You take a statistical outlier, apply a metric like pay/productivity, and then tie that to the minimum wage, and make a moral statement that therefore, it should be at xyz level today.

That seems like tortured analysis. If you take 1989 which was 20 years after your date, the minimum wage adjusted for today would be $6.78.

And there is no reason whatsoever that pay has ever been or should be tied to productivity. Humans haven't evolved to become better or faster or more adept in a workplace. We have technology. I don't see why I should pay employees more than before because simply because I also invested in some technology that makes allows them to get more work done with less effort. I see no logic in that at all.
The authors appear to make some valid arguments.

However, there is an argument for vaccinating children that I have never heard. It is simply the standard epidemiological argument that it will reduce the fraction of the population that is susceptible to virus and thereby reduce its spread through the entire population. This will be beneficiary to the population as a whole.
Unions are legal too.

No workers, no delivery company.
`import pandas as pd` occasionally gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
[Previous line repeated 221 more times]
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
__import__(dependency)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
[Previous line repeated 221 more times]
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 150, in <module>
from . import core
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
[Previous line repeated 221 more times]
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
from numpy.version import version as __version__
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
[Previous line repeated 221 more times]
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 844, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 939, in get_code
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1037, in get_data
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "/napkin-entrypoint", line 104, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
[Previous line repeated 59 more times]
1. as far as I know, there are more pre-orders for the Cybertruck than for the Lightning

2. the bottleneck isn't the production of the vehicles but of the battery cells. Tesla has secured far more battery production than Ford and the Cybertruck needs less cells than Lightning for the same range.

3. the advantages of Tesla will continue to increase as Tesla expands their charging network. Unless I'm mistaken, Ford does not plan to compete and wait for others to build a network.
Honestly, I see this exact issue as the main accomplishment of Copilot. It shows that the black-box machines are to be considered harmful and are incompatible with the current intellectual property and privacy frameworks.

This issue goes way beyond just code - imagine GPT-like systems being used in medical diagnosis and results can suddenly depend on the date of the CT-scan or the name of patient, because the black-box simply regurgitates training data...
> Apple has stated that they will provide software fix for this eventually

I would be really curious to see the source for this.
Hacker's push to secure the internet became a crucial part operating systems
> "Fascism" gets thrown around a lot and I know it feels a bit overplayed, and I'm not saying we're there yet, but when most people are apathetic and the remainder form their opinion based entirely on their political faction, it's hard for me to believe that fascism isn't inevitable. After all, what is fascism about if it's not 'party firmly over principle'?

The "it's a private company they can do what they want" argument often thrown by those who claims to "fight fascism" is just plainly ignorant of how fascism and Nazism got and stayed into power in the first place.

There were other news websites talking about this but they are algorithmically supplanted by "mainstream" news sites. For example it has gotten so bad that searching for the SpaceX's stream on YouTube yielded an entire page or results from "mainstream" outlets before the actual stream, even if the keywords were explicitly just about SpaceX.

Censorship never yielded net positive results.
It's discussed quite a bit in Manufacturing Consent, with many many examples given - in those days, the U.S. war with Iraq featuring prominently in examples of how broadcast and print media behaved.
Ex:

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Local is a great point. There's significant environmental actions to be had at the municipal level that requires environmentalist city councillors.

eg.
Building more safe, separated bike lanes is a simple and relatively cheap thing for municipalities to do. It increases cycling ridership, helps take cars off the road, lowering CO2 emissions.
Are there release notes somewhere?
funny story, i just spent a day troubleshooting why a microcontroller would not reset after cutting its power lines

turns out it was leeching power from another still-active device through its data pins!

there was not enough power flowing through this way to actually do something, but there was enough to keep the brownout detector from kicking in and resetting the chip
Does buying a new fridge guarantee faster delivery?
WD has been cutting engineering corners for years. It’s finally catching up.
The Business Insider @zx2c4 profile is unpaywalled at http://archive.today/ltskM
I never commit something that I can easily google (with a high quality solution) to memory
check out the Awesome lists:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
It provides water, electricity (most places), garbage collection, sewer, law, police, food safety, etc. Having them give a small sum every month isn't that big of a change
> Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is?

Unfortunately, in general, the republican base is not going to protest anything, preferring to settle things legally and in court. The main exception was Jan 6, which we've been taught to believe is apparently worse than the civil war. And yes, the sentiment to free assange is currently very common on the right.
No. Opiates make a person feel really good, fossil fuels enable modern society. I assume you see the difference now.
Overall a really good essay.

I would have split the "Types of visual programming" in two main categories: Visual and graphical.

E.g. scratch is only visual because it is an over-the-top syntax highlighting but still has an AST like textual programming (they are based on hierarchies and sequences).

Spreadsheets are also sequential but in multiple dimensions.

Dataflow- / node- based systems on the other hand are actually graphical (graph-based) and can not be mapped to hierarchies in text directly.
What If Regulating Facebook Fails?
I thought fast reactors were de facto banned in the US for civilian uses because of the proliferation concerns of the plutonium generated? Maybe this is exposing the extent of my knowledge and not all fast reactors are breeder reactors?
This entire conversation would be much more productive if you did more than just say I'm wrong or lying.

All of this seems like parts of the pretrial layed out by the US constitutional criminal procedure. I guess you could distinguish trial from pretrial, but if that was your point you really could have just stated that right away.
Even for me as a millennial, IBM is something of a history note.

Yes, I know them from computing history lectures, and I liked their ThinkPads (but they sold that to Lenovo when I was in high school).

I have only directly interacted with IBM product once, and that was Lotus Notes in one corporation I worked as a tech support in university years. And it was horrible.

At university, I thought of IBM as "they do things that are invisible but probably important?", but now I guess they don't do even that.
> I used to make fun of vegans and never for a moment took their position seriously. I couldn't imagine how anyone could voluntarily give up cheese.

Curious. Did you never question why they gave up cheese?
I've seen a number of announcements but this is the first 'I'm excited!' post I've seen that includes any information about what is being added.

Strike that, not entirely true: there was one good post 37 days ago, "Neovim is overpowering", that I liked a lot[1].

[1] https://crispgm.com/page/neovim-is-overpowering.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27291302
also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
> The two vehicles are in completely different categories.

And yet cost the same, thus my point.

> What would an average city dweller/commuter/soccer mom do with a truck?

It is a five-seater "crew cab"-style truck, so can perform the same basic functions as a sedan and more.

If you have $42K what are the arguments for the Model 3 over the Lightning? You just want a less functional/utilitarian vehicle that costs more after Ford's federal tax incentives?
> If an immigrant in Germany would raise the German flag on 3rd of October (the German equivalent to 7/4), that would usually result in raised eyebrows.

> This does not imply that the Germans are racist here, just that the unconscious definition of what it means to be a part of a nation is still quite different from the US. It more heavily refers to common values and allegiance to the constitution in the US, and common ancestry in Germany.

That's a bad example, anyone raising the German flag on 3rd of October results in raised eyebrows.
The firmware and configuration are already split into several devices. These machines have Arm Cortex A9 and similar processors that go through several stages to start up:

First, some internal boot ROM, likely with fuses burned in for the particular IO configuration, reads a bootloader (likely Das U-boot) from external flash memory. That first-stage bootloader initializes the parallel/SPI NAND/NOR flash interface and DRAM controllers, and then launches the second-stage bootloader. The second-stage bootloader uses those memory controllers to read the firmware image out of memory into RAM, then executes it.

If you want to update the firmware - more precisely, to change the location or signature of the image that should be loaded by the second-stage bootloader - it would be trivial to add a check for a GPIO switch to allow or deny changes.
I don't understand your project. It's like a curated list of open source libraries with a somewhat common api to call them all?
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> Wasn't until 3BSD from Berkeley that proper virtual memory was added -- hence why the kernel's name was changed from /unix to /vmunix. Which is where the "vm" in "vmlinux" comes from, in case anyone's curious.

Didn’t know that myself, thanks for sharing!
IBM was synonymous with COMPUTERS for quite some time.
Windows Zero Day - PrintNightmare – CVE-2021-34527
The argument is that I want a sedan, not a pickup truck, as do a million other annual car buyers.
Linux Leading over Early Windows 11 Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Performance
Orcs were the primary foot soldiers of the Dark Lords' armies and sometimes the weakest (but most numerous) of their servants. They were created by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, before the First Age and served him and later his successor in their quest to dominate Middle-earth and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
The fine Hetchr folks recently gave me a demo of the product, listened to my feedback, and more, which is greatly appreciated. It was refreshing to see the patience they had with me as I talked through my use cases, frustrations, and my thoughts on areas for improvement.

Secondly, I've been working on bringing Hetchr into my worflow, specifically with Github Pull Requests and JIRA Kanban board. Having everything in place where I can take a quick glance to see how things are going is very easy.

I'll keep on eye on how Hetchr executes on their roadmap, on feedback, and responding to bugs. Best of luck, Hetchr team!
I guess I should have been more specific. I mean a literal library to host open source content such as books & papers.
But Asians are being systemically held down by affirmative action and racial quotas. Proof that the power of systemic racism is very real no matter your income or class, or no matter if you're a minority or not. You are not safe as long as the cultural zeitgeist has decided so.
True, but that's no guarantee you'll ever be able to actually find it.
> What would an average city dweller/commuter/soccer mom do with a truck?

Wait til you hear what the average city dweller/commuter/soccer mom drives in much of US/Canada...

Most of North America has no incentive to drive smaller vehicles besides the cost of purchase and the cost of fuel. Since electric vehicles remove the cost of fuel, that leaves only the cost of purchase ... which is the same if you get an entry level model 3 or the entry level f150 lightning. The only people that have an incentive to get a smaller vehicle is if you happen to live in one of a few urban centres where vehicle size matters (NYC, SF, Boston, a few others), you need a new vehicle and can't use car share.
I think those companies still exist, but they exist in China.

I might be wrong though. I just see the growth of China and decline of the US, and I cannot stop feeling like those two are connected. But what do I know. People were afraid about Japan before.
I 100% believed that first post was real until the word "ambifacient," when I finally recognized our good old friend the turboencabulator.
Well, imagine someone dumpster diving at a bank/clinic/insurance provider that doesn't use a document destruction service. Probably plenty of PII/PHI could be reconstructed once the shredded fragments were singulated and scanned.