skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are nowhere close, the worst exists on modern TVs, the AI volume controller = you cannot change the volume but the TV automatically senses the noise level and adjusts the volume to what it thinks you want.
> If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better.

I think hardware is the same way. There's also protocols to fabrication that may be difficult to explain. You have support requests and emails wasting your time.

> "enough positive interest from the community". I don't understand that.

I read it as opposed to negative interest.

> If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better.

You should not be made to feel ashamed for giving something away for free. You should not even suggest that this should be acceptable. It isn't. People who offer comments on code beyond how to add material functionality (i.e. more inputs), make it faster, or decrease the code size are trash humans. Delete and ignore.
It's no surprise, that was classic MS strategy. Sell the thing everyone actually needs (Office, because they smothered the competition), but bundle it with something sticky which will also hoover up data about your workers - no need for the product to be any good, execs in charge of purchasing won't have to suffer with it for a fraction of the time employees spend. Oh also, I happen to have $200k of Azure credits here for you - no pressure but if you do start using Azure we'll make the bill for all this productivity software go away...
Bending forwards ninety degrees with a straight back and legs is something most people can’t do without feeling a strong pull in their hamstrings.

I had the same back soreness after starting using a standing desk. I was also running every day and not doing other exercise (thanks lockdown). It didn’t seem to improve over time.

When it was allowed, I switched to going to the gym and only doing weights (squats, deadlifts, pull ups). After a couple of months the soreness just vanished, even after standing all day.
There's always some local maximum most efficient process. If you take into account process inputs trees would likely come out on top. A lot of carbon capture tech can capture lots of carbon but consumes a huge amount of power/energy intense resources. My unit would be kg / (W * m^2 * s)
Indeed. It's well documented that Wehrmacht soldiers went out of their way to surrender to American and UK forces rather than fall into Russian hands.[1]

Tip to HN users: "This is indisputably true but I don't like it" isn't a good reason to downvote people.

1: https://socratic.org/questions/why-did-germans-forces-surren...
Microsoft Office form is not working ATM
He's no slouch, and Apple has been working on this for a decade+. My guess is a resource shortage prevened moving faster.
you deliberately misread my comment. f.x. I have no idea where I suggest meetings for every minor issue ...

having said that my suggested mo is directly related to organisations that fail to properly motivate and instead implement punish dedication. ime that's the norm in many teams.
> The advantage of planting trees is that we know it works, it's cheap, and we can do it right now

Here in Sweden it is the law that if you cut down a forest you replant it. We have been doing it for a century. All forests here is basically in a constant plant-grow-cut cycle unless the land is claimed for new buildings (farm land has been steady declining every year).

It is debatable if the practice is carbon negative or carbon neutral. Most of wood product do get burned sooner or later, or turned into bio gas which then get burned. Almost nothing remain as stable carbon sink. A planted forest is an future investment to be cut, processed and burned. The only exception is forest reservations and those are much more expensive to make than planting trees.

The advocacy behind replanting might be better invested into a political action of bringing similar replanting laws to other countries. Sweden mostly did it because it looked ugly to have wast areas cut down without regrowth, and because it hurt biodiversity. It also make sense economically in the long run.
In my case, people I met usually categorized me either into "everything is awesome" or "you're a failure". Few people took the time to listen and understand that things are going OK but of course there's always things to improve.

If you can get by financially and maybe save a bit for a bad day, then you're objectively doing OK or better. After that point, whether you're a success or a failure depends mostly on what you yourself think about it. There's a surprising amount of mean and selfish people out there. It's how they cope with difficulties in their own live.
Do you estimate there are any scale benefits or is it about twice the work? Honest question. The worst part most be more interruptions of the sleep, or do they wake up at the same time during the nights?
Completely agree with that. I was referring base NATS.

RabbitMQ plays in the field of traditional general purpose messaging system. NATS was specializing on performance. Kafka focused on streams. That is a focus and includes trade offs. Which is all fine. That is all I want to address.
Platform availability isn't the operative metric when concerned about browser monoculture. The only metric of concern is browser market share. Safari represents approximately 20 percent of browsers.
Thanks, the 3 min. video really showed of some cool things :)
“Get a copy of the data associated with your Apple ID account”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208502
Thanks for linking to those. I thought this was an interesting follow up from yesterday’s discussions.
This assumes that Google is actively pushing improvements to the web that are largely useless or solely beneficial to Google itself.

I believe that to be far from the truth, minus a handful of exceptions. I believe a better and more capable web is the only still "open" platform developers have if they don't want to submit to app stores.

You could of course support the idea of a more conservative pace, as dictated by Apple. I don't buy that. For that they need to be a stand-up citizen on the web. They are not. Apple doesn't document things, has no working feedback loop, actively hampers or obscures things important to the web.
The Nazis didn't promise pain, they promised a better world and told people they'd have to be prepared to go through pain and suffering to reach that goal. They also claimed the war was forced on them, that they had no choice. The speech was basically asking the people if they were going to bend the knee or stand up and fight to the last man. It was the Nazi version of the Braveheart speech, whatever we may think of that.
Does not show thumbnails to me.

I'm aware of ctrl-[shift]-tab. It is too slow if you have more than a few.
One of the things I realized way too late in the whole 'student debt' debate is that people in the US actually have to pay a market rate interest rate on it. Making it so that a lot of people can barely even pay the interest, let alone the principal.

$200k for a film degree, where you have a (arguably) one in 55 shot of even getting into the career should come with some warning signs to say the least.
> Imaging if Google invented hypertext and not CERN

CERN did not invent hypertext, just made a popular version on top of TCP.

Hypertext already existed at Xerox PARC and had multiple implementations since then across UNIX and 16 bit home computers.
What technologies do you use?
The only thing I can actually suggest is to avoid the hell out of logging if you can. It’s a really expensive concern and should be treated so from day one. If your system has nothing actionable to log them don’t log it.

At a high level from observations of trying to handle 100Gb a day.

Cloudwatch is inflexible and expensive.

ELK is expensive to run and administer. The commercial variants are even worse.

Splunk is expensive and slow.

Datadog is expensive.

Loki is expensive to run and administer.

ryslogd and grep starts to feel like a viable solution eventually. Then you realise that you need about 50MB of that 100G a day of logs and enlightenment comes.
The thing about wit and parodies and sarcasm is that not everyone is able to identify it.

There are plenty of examples of parody sites being cited as if they practiced journalism.
> I used to think thay I'd like working with advanced type systems with their "If it compiles, it works" guarantee.

I think honestly TS is a poor representation of this guarantee, it's extremely easy to trick the compiler and it often doesn't offer you the guarantees you think it does. Because of JS being so widespread TS has become a lot of people's interpretation of this idea. It's not to say it's a bad language and can't help a lot on larger JS projects but I think it shouldn't be put into this category of languages.
The Most Expensive Things in Life Are “Free of Charge” – Protect Your Data
They kind of are though. If you have a LOT of money, time, and personnel -- and they do -- you can find a lot of vulnerabilities.
> do you really think Google could get rid of third party cookies tomorrow and not get sued out existence?

Not disagreeing, but ad companies attempting to sue Google out of existence would be worth watching.
What if we build co2 scrubbers in every home?
The author doesn't owe you anything though.
At my school (where I studied design) there were these big screens that we used for presentations (I think it was LG?) that had an absolutely terrible gesture control below the lower bezel, the idea being that you would move your hand through the air below the tv to scroll through menu's, it didn't work at all, and the TV was almost impossible to control.
That is so ingenious, it's hilarious. I can imagine the collective cringe of all designers.
> Then you need to help me write the queries .

As it must be.

> Then you need to help me with the API calls.

As it should be, with visualizations of the time-series data, if applicable.

Banks are more than ever driven by their tech teams. Tell your manager if you're suffering.
It is inevitable for every place where humans work. Companies, government agencies and everywhere else.

The only solution is to not collect the data. It is also an easy and cheap solution if you really need additional incentives here...
Shame that community isn't hosted somewhere with a better UI.
I guarantee that whatever browser you use, they have 0day for it. Whatever ISP you use, they can inject traffic into it, and they have a much easier time about it if you aren't in the US.

If you're someone who uses the Internet, the NSA can take over whatever you use to browse with and have their way with it. If you don't, well that's what their interdiction program is for.

The thing is though, the economics of 0day indicate that the more you use it, the more likely it is that it'll get burnt, and supply is limited.

They can certainly hack anyone, but it doesn't scale, so they can't simply hack everyone. They can maybe use these techniques on a handful of targets per year, so they make it count, but most of their intelligence comes from the data we all give away for free every day.
Nice Chrome game (I assume).

Is there a plan to port it to other platforms in the future?
> Anyone have a good theory here? Last I heard from Trump he was urging everyone to “take the great American vaccines” (that he, Trump, sped along, he said).

Over on Gab, TheDonald, and similar places I've seen people reconcile that with their anti-vaccination beliefs in a couple ways:

1. It's part of his long term 4D chess plan to eliminate the Libs and to MAGA. Libs will respond to pro vaccination messages, get the 5G microchip DNA rewriting population control injection being pushed under the guise of a COVID vaccine, and there will be no more Libs next generation. Patriots are smart enough to recognize this for a fake out to eliminate the Libs and avoid the vaccine, or

2. The Jews got to him.
Why is that so important?

1) in production, hosts like aws have cheaper options for arm based compute
2) software emulation on m1 is largely comparable to native x86 performance, certainly per watt.
There is a significant faction of node.js who, hmmm how shall I say this, I had a js fanatic tell me here in HN that you can write device drivers in js, and that the only thing stopping js from dominating embedded dev was prejudice. Unfortunately, such attitudes color the perception of the entire field, and a technology becomes shorthand for a certain attitude, here’s an example : what do you think of when I say Visual Basic developer? The individual could be highly competent and work somewhere that Visual Basic is the tool, there’s surely a core competence for VB, I know that there is one for js, the frontend web, and certainly node.js has a set of core competencies too
No, but a history of what you’ve previously searched massively improves search results in just a few queries.
The beginning bit of the physics answer is the answer.

Pi comes from logic, not nature.

This is a bit like when you're trying to ask your kid what the area of the triangle is, and the kid tells you you've drawn the lines bent, or the corners aren't sharp. It's actually not terribly easy to explain to them that they're supposed to understand the idealized entity, and what exactly those ideals are, because you also can't actually draw a triangle with no width and then expect them to appreciate that the qualities you want to expose are somehow exposed when you're breaking your own rules.
True. However, one can still feel disappointed.
It would, but you run into all sorts of impedance mismatch. For example, how do you revoke and grant access to your photos folder to some applications, on demand? The straightforward way (create groups for each important folder access class) blows up in terms of size very quickly, and group changes don't really happen on-the-fly, either. Things can get even murkier when it comes to device access, and you also have to deal with all sorts of caveats like suid binaries. You also don't have the API required to easily deal with any of this (e.g. no simple API to prompt the user for permission to access a path, no simple API to retry access until the user either grants access or denies it etc.).
I miss Flash games... I could actually run them on FreeBSD using Opera.

Modern shit barely works when you use a platform as arcane as Firefox on Linux.
I think OP is saying that it’s “kidnap” when they do it but “extraordinary rendition” when we do it, regardless of what the accusation is. A helpful reminder that we correctly perceive this specific case as intolerable, and therefore we should not also allow our governments to do the same regardless of the euphemism they use
If you break the site guidelines like this again, we will ban you. Maybe you don't owe the other side better but you most certainly owe this community better if you're participating in it. No more of this, please.

Both of you have behaved disgracefully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you can't serve your users properly, then your information system is fundamentally broken and your architecture is inept. If your system is so distributed that you can't properly change linkages across the same user's multiple accounts, your system is poorly engineered.
An empirical study of emoji usage on Twitter in linguistic and national contexts
Are you aware that the technical writers parts of the MDN team were all fired as part of Mozilla's most recent restructuring?
They've had more than a decade to figure out their schemas and their distributed systems - a failure at this level is inexcusable, and is indicative of architectural laziness and potentially a lack of excellence.
I don't really know how these things work but it was quite crisp while my outgoing was very choppy so I hung up the mic and resorted to typing. I was assuming a lot of packet loss and it was rebuilding a little behind the times, the network was very slow that day in general but the voices were clear.
Weird take —- kind of the “640kb should be enough for anybody” but about one specific CPU that we know is about to get replaced with the M1X/M2.

Unsure what the point is here.

And there are plenty of workloads which are easily parallelizable across cores. Like compiling things. Or just running multiple programs at once.

Which you can see by typing “ps”.
Most people are mostly wrong about most things most of time.

So it's a safe bet that you and your personal board of trustees are probably wrong about you being a failure.

Also, I rather like how you write. Very droll. Please keep it up.
I was described as "too scholarly" by my PhD advisor when writing up my first couple of papers. I'm in industry now.

People doing a PhD/post-doc need to understand that there is no escape from "sales". Lots of academically leaning people, including myself, set out with a goal of avoiding becoming a seller and wanting to work in a space where data does the persuading rather than smooth talk. Unfortunately no such place exists. Even in the "purest" science-focused workplaces, you still need to sell your ideas to managers or funding agencies. To transcend "regular researcher" and become widely respected in your field, having thousands of Twitter followers will be more helpful than a paper in Nature.
Surely our elected officials will deliver.
Implementation of an eBPF memory profiler has helped us halve the memory usage
The purpose is stop Facebook implementing E2EE on Messenger, so that evidence is available for grooming/sextortion cases.
It was not allowed to use notes on your presentation in this class. It was a very demanding school.

The curriculum for French was to learn everything you learn on a normal school in the first two years and then spend the next 4 learning more.
This is how democracy dies
Dimensional Taxonomy of Data Visualization: A Proposal Tackling Complexity
Google wants Web == ChromeOS, it is their Windows, naturally they want it to succeed.

Android and Fuchsia are also ways to achieve it.

Chromium lacks lots of relevant features that most users actually want from Chrome.
Sounds like you have memory leaks.
Film critic here, who knows a lot of ex-Columbia filmmakers. The situation is the same everywhere. Columbia is still the very best film school in the US. But it's not comparable to other countries with proper film university programs. There the burn rate is probably below 10%.

US film schools are more like the shady private film schools in Europe, which focus more on practical tasks and where you have to pay everything by yourself or by external sponsors. Teachers are horrible. A bit like in art schools or theatre, bit more extreme on the financial side. Less harassment though.

I mean, in Vienna (Haneke) they only take about 8 a year, sometimes only 2. They take only the best, where they see they will make it.
In high school I worked some janitor jobs; every week your cleaning up a very similar mess as last week, but the work can be fulfilling if you're striving to do an excellent job and achieve mastery.

That's one area that is soul crushing in software; the complete disdain for excellence and mastery. Nobody on the business side seems to care about creating master pieces. They want to throw half cooked spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks before throwing more spaghetti against more walls, and they strive to be the next facebook and have tens of thousands of employees throwing spaghetti.

Android has 10 year old bugs with thousands of watchers and instead Google is off trying to use Android in cars or televisions or probably tennis shoes. Maybe it's finally fixed, but for years AWS cloud-formation and CDK was unable to be used with a significant and critical set of AWS services and features. Instead, AWS is off creating toy RC cars and creating elastic-cloud-simple-machine-model-shift service, which are both missing cloud-formation bindings. If your the guy who actually cares about your customers, and is trying to fix these things, you're career has been repeatedly hit-and-run by everyone else making career moves and running off to make purpose-built block-chain gamified cloud-native social machine-learned pez dispensers.

And even if you can't find a job that will let you create excellence, using and learning excellent tools can be rewarding. Instead it seems like a downward spiral. There was a brief moment of sanity when the industry dropped all tangled complexity that was XML, but in general it seems like the industry is going from well crafted products like PostgreSQL, to half-baked databases like Cassandra CQL which apparently doesn't allow NOT NULL constraints. Once Java, C++, and Javascript all start to have fairly nice feature sets, it suddenly becomes hard to not find one's self stuck in jobs requiring the obtuse language go. And then there's helm, which seems to be trying to win at a competition to see if it's possible to make a configuration that's more brittle and convoluted then the old M4 based Sendmail configs of yore.

Why should I even bother becoming anything more then slightly proficient in any of these if they're going to be replaced with something even uglier and less ergonomic next year? What's the point of pouring my sweat and tears into a product for a company if the company is just going to strand it and rush off to build something else that it's going to abandon and rush off to yet something else?
After Robespierre was taken out, the Convention was supposedly in charge. But they botched their win so badly that they ended up with the end of the Republic and Napoleon as Emperor.

That period, from 1792 to 1799, is worth more attention. Because it covers the death of what had been, briefly, a democracy. Compare with Russia after the breakup of the USSR.
...and ½τr² makes sense because it comes from an integration.

> If there's a better way, they'd use it

Oh sweet summer child.
That’s exactly what playing favorites is. If his headcount is more impactful to achieve company goals, he gets it. You need to learn to compartmentalize

If you feel someone is deserving of punishment, they should know why and it shouldn’t be through your budgetary control. It’s a misuse of power.
The mystery of Meesho’s ghost orders
I actually had to read the thread to see whether the author thought this was a good thing or bad. My first it seemed like a pretty high success rate for a single class.

I guess it’s because “famous director” sounds like one of those majors that your idiot friends go into that couldn’t possibly ever end up getting them a job in the real world. Just like Archeology and Marine Biology, you know there’s such a limited supply of Indiana Jones and Jacques Cousteau jobs out there that you have to wonder why anybody would actually pay tens of thousands of dollars and years of their lives to set them up for that much disappointment.

I mean, sure, NASA does in fact hire Astronauts every year. But it’s probably worth hedging your bet just a bit unless you have a big safety net.
Earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759814
That's not really a useful definition. A government mandating covid lockdown will almost immediately reduce the number of traffic accidents - a causal link - even thought there are intermediate steps of people not needing to drive to work, so there are less people driving. It's an indirect effect but still a causation.
My the most favorite one is when someone pastes link in a chat to MS Office document on Sharepoint/Onedrive. It is opened in Teams and when you close the document you might naively assume you will be back in the chat you came from but no, you end up on the main screen and you need to search for the chat window again.
That “different Iranian government” argument gave me a good laugh. Thanks
Spain to invest $5.1 bln in electric vehicle production