skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a child, I would hear news reports talking about guerrilla attacks. It wasn't until I saw a Mad Magazine feature with a title along the lines of "if only the news meant what it sounded like" with a picture of gorillas attacking a city that I realized that they not gorilla attacks (I think it was a while longer still before I knew the word was guerrilla—I was a kid, OK?). This is the first sign that maybe the world could be as interesting as I imagined.
>I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear

I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.

Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don't want you poking around in your Xbox when it's under warranty are completely valid.

For any console that hasn't been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.

For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.

Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they're an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that's beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action/scathing reviews online.

Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?
Look at the Japanese with sepouku and Roman era civilizations. Suicide was normal as a means to end suffering or further pain being caught for instance. Your slippery slope argument is completely false because we have evidence of civilizations that have allowed suicide.
Didn't congress just approve to give them $10B so that they can survive.
Mid-80s there was crobots, you programmed the robots with a subset of C.
Comment on your first point— I have done the work you speak of (porting AWS-specific code to other cloud providers). It is absolutely possible and relatively painless if you design for that feature at the outset. Almost all of the lower level AWS services have a counterpart in the other ecosystems.

So if you build the right interface abstractions around those components, it gets you a long way.
Plastic does not sequester carbon.

However, if there were a bioplastic that did not degrade or a process to reclaim atmospheric co2 into plastic stock, it would be a great way to sequester carbon so long as it does not break down and is piled up somewhere forever.
Imagine making up strawmen on forums so that you can feel smug knocking them down...

The fact is that governments already spend far more than billionaires are able to spend and are relatively ineffective. No one has ever suggested they stop doing their part. Billionaires lending their expertise and money is not a substitute for government work, it's just a proven accelerant.

See Bill Gates' work in Africa for an example. He has leveraged his fortune to help find effective opportunities for his money and government money. He has has saved millions of lives that no government would have otherwise saved, even if he had donated all of his money to the U.S. treasury.
>I am not sure if there is a better solution

just because you are not sure doesn't mean there is no solution or doesn't mean no body else can't find the solution

>You will either get cops going in without fully assessing the situation or taking too long assessing the situation.

The fallacy is the assume there is only this two situation

>but it seems like you are suggesting there is a way to make it perfect

I never say or demand perfection, only improvement.

>That is holding cops to an impossible solution

You already assume the solution is impossible ?

If the police can't improve the situation then general public should demand whoever in charge to be fired/replaced.
I'd day there's another big group you're missing. People with large codebases that compile with tons of warnings that just get ignored. If you aren't willing to spend the time fixing the existing warnings to prevent problems why would you spend money on a tool that will give you more of them?
CS-E4580 Programming Parallel Computers: Best High Performance Computing Course
I am not talking about protected classes (a concept which only exists in the US, and therefore isn't useful generally). The point is about discrimination, which will occur irregardless of what laws you pass.
> “White’s attack on black is brutal. White is stomping all over black’s defenses. The black king is gonna fall … ”

Fortunately there's an easy solution: we can just replace "white" and "black" with neutral alternatives like "allow" and "deny" or "pass" and "block".
Not the first time. Bound to happen.

My main gripe is that Google has no money or brains to actually enlist humans to solve such problems.
At 3% growth they would be in that 7m group.
As I repeatedly said, the woke should really learn a bit history. Ignoring facts and promoting intolerance will eventually hurt even the woke. How many innocent people were beheaded by Robespierre? How many reg guards thought they were the reddest of the reddest yet were labeled "counter-revolutionary" or "Five Black Categories"? How many Russians or East Germans thought they were the most loyal to the revolution yet got executed? How many Cubans died of poverty and political persecution? How many Cambodians got killed in the name of cleansing the society? And we think those bloody histories all started with evil intention?
This was #1 on the front page a minute ago and now isn't in the top 20 pages. What happened?
GEM on an Amstrad. We had one when I was a kid. I played so many cool old games on it.
I'm sure plenty of folks on LinkedIn would lap it up and click on "thumbs up" or reply "Awesome!".
Undoubtedly the number in the media is under reported by a fair margin.

Informally there were so many tragedies when you ask around compared to the first wave.
That's what happens when you mix clueless relativism with figurative language.
I believe they do this because the plan for such people is exactly to let earth be destroyed. Don't do anything to revert global warming, because, after all, "we" have money and technology to colonize the space and let the poor die from its catastrophic results.
Clojure projects can start with literally no files (not even a deps.edn). By default, you get Clojure as a dep and src/ as a directory. Run `clj` to get a repl. If you make a function, you can call it with `clj -X my.ns/foo`. If you push it to github, others can consume it immediately by using your git url + sha.

There are lots of other things - they are all additive. Many Clojure libraries and tools don't need a build.clj or tools.build at all.

My experience is that deps.edn is much easier to get started with. With a template from something like clj-new you can get testing, a basic jar building script, etc to get started with and it's all there for you to muck with if needed.
(author here) Yes exactly! This is what I'm calling the Perlis-Thompson principle, although it still needs to be fully formed and explained. There are obvious objections to it (which I have some answers to).

Sketch of the argument here, with links: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-1.html#con...

Here's my comment which links the "Unix vs. Google" video (and I very much agree based on my first hand experience with Google's incoherent architecture, which executives started to pay attention to in various shake-ups.)

https://lobste.rs/s/euswuc/glue_dark_matter_software#c_sppff...

It links to my comment about the closely related "narrow waist" idea in networks and operating systems. That is a closely related concept regarding scaling your "codebase" and interoperability.

I have been looking up the history of this idea. I found a paper co-authored by Eric Brewer which credits it to Kleinrock:

http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Papers/InternetServices... (was this ever published? I can't find a date or citations)

But I'm not done with all the research. I'm not sure if it's worth it to write all this, but I think it's interesting I will learn something by explaining it clearly and going through all the objections.

I'm definitely interested in the input of others. I have about 10 different resources where people are getting at this same scaling idea, but I can use more arguments / examples / viewpoints.
Only a minority of programs need that functionality. Databases and everything which implements transactions or version control itself, certainly don't. Neither all the temporary files, e.g. a compiler creates. If version control of your configuration files is external to the host (e.g. if some configuration management system like puppy, chef, etc. is used) then it's get in the way as well.

Dave Cutler was wearing his marketing hat when he claimed that such functionality belongs in the file system code. It would be nice, if it were in a library all interested applications could easily link to though.
No more than French or Russian or Swahili. It would only be relevant if the business case demands Chinese language skill.
Well. The speech police started changing "blacklist" and "whitelist" in programming context, even when those had no racist history; maybe it's time to change it in chess. (After all, white always goes first, that is not very PC.)

Rename "black" and "white" to "second player" and "first player".
My favorite PM to work with never wanted any estimates to be optimistic. Things had to be within reason, but he preferred very conservative to very lean. Once the numbers for a given proposal had been collected, it was his job (and anybody else from the team who went into the pricing/costing delegation) to go back and forth with segment management:

"We can't win with these numbers. Are you trying to lose this business for us?"

"Nope. I'm letting you know what we believe is necessary to finish the work on schedule. We can be more aggressive in some areas and, if so, we'll add items to our risk register."

"You need to hit XYZ target or we're not even going to send a bid."

"Roger."

<Team decides whether it is possible>

The internal cost debate usually ends up with a good budget and the PM/team have an "I told you so" card in their back pocket in case the team can't meet the delegated EBIT. It isn't perfect but this friction (PM sticking up for his team and management pushing for competitive numbers) is better than nothing. I imagine it is similar at most engineering shops.

edit: The fun part is that everybody knows its a game. PM wants as much cushion as possible, management wants great profit at a low price, and the team wants to keep getting work so as to stay employed. Sometimes the costing/pricing stuff goes a little over the top and the infamous "death spiral" gets tossed out by management. Always a hoot.
Ah, sorry, well maybe dang can delete my comment since I no longer can
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if someone makes the argument that this automated flagging is an indicator that chess's language is inadvertently racially charged. And think about the concept of "white goes first." All it takes is a few viral tweets, and suddenly the game of chess is in the crosshairs.
Greg works a full time job and then works on projects like this as basically another full-time job.
Change the colours too. Red and neon brown.
I used to work at AWS, and my experience helping customers with these types of issues was almost without exception a credit/refund would be applied for any honest mistake that had corrective or preventative steps already in flight.

I say almost without exception, because the one case that wasn’t true was a Glacier transfer case like you described (except an order of magnitude larger in cost). We made it right for the customer in other ways. But I’m still seething years later about how poor and experience it was and how uncharacteristically unmoving and not customer obsessed whatever the decision making chain were on that particular issue. Just wanted to let you know you’re not alone, and it’s not just customers that had a bad taste from that experience.
I don't believe that is what she said. You are making the point that I say should be avoided: you believe she said one thing, so that must make her an X, and Xs are dangerous...you have no idea.

And if someone is discriminating against another person in hiring (btw, inevitable...height/weight/accent, it is basically impossible to remove this, people are fairly safe on religion because no-one can tell what religion another person is without asking) then that is enough. There is no need to examine the person's statements and try to work out how they would behave in a hypothetical example (doing this is discriminating...you aren't judging a person on their actions but how you believe they would act in a hypothetical you invent...would you like to be judged this way?).
Standing up for your rights is what comes next. Refuse to follow stupid laws.
That phrasing struck me as well. It's a classic false-dichotomy. It's funny to me to see it so prominent in what appears to be a fairly professional site.
I am surprised international chess organizations haven't denounced racism and announced the plan to change "white" and "black" to "A" and "B".
A key part of the argument here seems to be that certain people were inclined to take precautions or not take precautions and government mandates didn't change things much.

But that doesn't pass the smell test to me. My employer told everyone we had to work from home but that's because I have a really good employer. Huge numbers of people were told "you're going to be fired if you stay home" right up until the government mandated that people stay home. The number of people with that experience is so large that any analysis which finds them to be irrelevant is probably overlooking things.
“That’s the realistic path: decoupling health insurance from employment. In fact, all the systems are there already”

That’s one thing we can agree on. Employer based health insurance needs to go.
Rich states like Tamilnadu already have a successful free laptop program for Govt. high-school students and Govt. colleges.

Recent specs were LENOVO E41-25 (81FS) with AMD A4 and 4GB memory. There are rumors that there will be an upgrade this year with HP manufacturing the laptop as Lenovo is barred from Govt. contracts in India.

It's to be noted that the said state has also made all educational content for schools distributed over free-to-air channels.

So a modular computer based out of RPi which can receive TV/Radio can technically cost lesser than the aforementioned full-fledged laptop. I've been brainstorming such a device with others on the thread mentioned on my parent comment.
Personal use likely precludes the ability to transfer rights like this.
I happened to be looking for a programming-based video editor last night. It's hard to reuse patterns in conventional video editors. MoviePy is great but it looks like it's lacking maintainers and many wanted features are not available, such as GPU accerlation.
JD doesn't necessarily need to open their source code, it just has to be legal for others to disassemble and analyse their software and publish the results --- just like you can do with practically every physical object you own.
I was half joking, so let me try to make the serious case here.

By purchasing oil to turn into plastics, manufacturers are in competition with buyers who intend to simply burn their oil-derived products (fuels). This increased competition must cause some (small) increase in the price of oil that has to be paid by the oil burners, making it marginally less economically competitive in comparison to renewable energy sources.

The effect might be negligible, and I obviously haven't modelled whether this leads to a significant reduction in oil burning (especially relative to the carbon pollution of the container ships, as you say), but it is an interesting thought experiment.
I’m not sure what exactly you mean by “strong community” here, but that is a phrase often invoked for nativist and exclusionary impulses which I would rate as quite a bit less legitimate than a desire to see the world.
Wow between this and the donations Jeffy made a couple of weeks ago [1][2], he's either trying to write off as much of the money he made from the pandemic, or trying to whitewash his reputation to distract from criticism of sending himself into space. Or maybe both?

1 https://www.marssociety.org/news/2021/07/14/mars-society-sel...

2 https://airandspace.si.edu/newsroom/press-releases/smithsoni...
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott
I've used this material often to help myself and others make good use of knowledge-transfer time. It's helpful to have a resource that provides many "teaching hacks" that have some evidence of efficacy behind them.
> Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.

This doesn't necessarily contradict the food competition or climate change hypothesis. To the individual ape it might seem that he's just having a bad day, but then you could look at weather/food data and compare it to incidence of violence and see a causal relation. It would actually be surprising if those things didn't affect ape behavior.
Salk got funding for his lab from the billionaire Mellon family. The Polio vaccine is a prime example of how billionaires can help push civilization forward.

> Sarah Scaife's causes were family planning, the poor and the disabled, hospitals, environmental causes and various good works in and around Pittsburgh. Her most famous gifts, in the late 1940s, were to the University of Pittsburgh – $35,000 to equip a virus research lab. In that lab, Jonas Salk discovered his polio vaccine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clint...
I met one of my best friends on Grindr. But there’s no denying it’s primarily about hookups.
This is no censorship. Youtube only protects us from false information!
Yikes. Do you think Amazon engineers are overall just dumber or just less used to the lower abstractions? After all, I can’t even ssh into the machines my code runs on nowadays.
It’s a job hunter’s market right now. No prospective employer would turn you down for seeking to do something you’re more excited about.
Oh no. Please. Not chess. Can’t we just leave this one alone?
After reading the title I worried this was going to be yet another k8s bashing post. Pleasantly surprised to see this take because it’s a refreshing look at kube and I strongly agree. I think it’s the absolute best way to deploy large systems today, especially if you’re a polyglot organization. But it can be tough to grok without lots of labbing and experimentation - it’s hard to approach.

We are really at the infancy of containerization. Kube is a springboard for doing the next big thing.
It's not perfect, but the macOS way of creating "bundles"; where a directory looks like a single file if it has a particular extension is 99% of the way there. The average user double-clicks and it opens in the relevant app. The power user can right-click and choose 'view contents', which opens it like any other directory.

This can also be done via compressed files with an application-specific extension. We use it at work for Python zipapps, and of course everyone probably knows .docx and .xlsx

> file managers are not powerful enough for searching and managing all kinds of data, the fact that we need photo management software proves it.

I don't want to be responsible for manually managing all my photos, copying them off cards or downloading from online services or whatever. I also want to view the photos in various ways: I'm regularly browsing them via the map view, or person tagged in an image, and so on. Hence the photo management software that handles all that for me.

But the photo management could certainly be better integrated into the OS, ie open your Photos folder and rather than seeing raw image files, it would load the photo management.
Geometrically-growing arrays (std::vector) and hash tables also have amortized O(1) insertion complexity. They are some of the most widely-used data structures of all. I agree that amortized guarantees can be a problem in certain applications, but it seems that programmers are happy to accept them most of the time.
What stories about Riot Games?

I agree these allegations are unusually bad. Worse than I was expecting. If this doesn't get settled - or even if it does - the evidence that would be required would be pretty damming. I'd bet it exists given that this was brought at all.
I think what the commenter was referring to was with type of discussion than the nature of the post.
I personally don't like this. Hackernews and slashdot do good jobs of moderation by making you have to be a participant that's contributed with well thought out comments. Reddit fails because the "upvotes/downvote machine" is just an opinion meter. Also the gaming of it is not good either so it's a matter of time before Twitter publicly displays your stats as you tweet. It's another slippery slope for them to show ignorance at the top and not legitimate criticism that often gets downvoted because it doesn't fit the norm. Reddit died in the sense that /r/popular is as unique as 9gag. It's all content from other sites and 1 word top comments.
The individual military members are going to have quite the moral quandry about firing on its own people in a free country which was at least attempted to be built on integrity.
Ill go for both. Sprinkle some money around to distract from the actual issue.

Or is he thanking the Amazon workers again for making it possible for him to donate 200M ?
Pronouns will destroy, before aliens
People like Uber because it's cheaper than taxis but I'm hearing complaints that prices are up. Seems the reason it's cheaper than taxis is Uber is subsidizing with investor money and they shifted costs to the drivers, many who are realizing it's not worth it. Seems to me Uber has always been unsustainable (they're billions in the red, spending to capture market share) but they were hoping to have self driving cars to eliminate drivers by now.
uh, what? that does not sound like a feature to me - I expect that when I close a document without saving it is gone for good. Is there a way to turn that off?
everyone: look at the billionaire who bought himself a dick-shaped rocket ride to space

Jeffy: hey everybody, I gave away the change I found in the cushions of my couch!
That becomes a problem when you work across both ecosystems. I use devices in both ecosystems so an independent password sync utility is necessary for me to be able to access the same set of passwords on my macOS, Linux, Windows and Android devices and within Firefox (on all 4 underlying platforms). I personally use Bitwarden which seems to have good performance in Firefox at least. The Android Bitwarden app also supports password auto-fill in native apps on Android as well (and it works on iOS as well when I had an iOS device).
Google's pursuit of profit is responsible these and innumerable more injustices. Those who would defend Google often claim that automated moderation is necessary at Google's scale, but does anybody really doubt that Google would still make more than enough money to stay in business if they hired more humans? Automated moderation is not necessary.
How is that working out in Hong Kong?
Decoupling a Monolith with Strapi and Nextjs
Must be a slow news day. Youtube algo f-ups are just part of platform at this point.
Sure, just like building a superyacht today has some innovation as they customize it to each customer. But ultimately Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are retrodding old ground.
Not to offer a bonus or equity?