skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it always came from the fact that truth doesn't really exist. Humans can really believe anything. There is no good and no evil.

It's not binary: While there's no source of truth and much uncertainty about what is true, it doesn't mean that there's no truth at all and that humans can believe anything. While there's uncertainty about good and evil, that doesn't mean there's none of either.

It's not simple, but we do have powerful abilities of critical thinking and judgment, and while they won't yield perfect results, they can be very effective. Compare how we live to how humans lived a century or centuries ago; our ancestors built a much more good world - with unprecedented freedom, prosperity, and safety - using the humans capabilities they had. We can do the same.
Mass-Driver Typefaces
China tutoring overhaul sets off market rout among edtech platforms
That is likely correct. Lenovo has an article about it here: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht505170-informat...

We actually use a 3-prong AC cable to prevent this from occurring.
That lady probably thinks programmers are the way they're depicted in Dilbert lol.

Anyways, I agree. It's another form of expression. Just like Math or Music.

But I do also agree, in part with her point, that kids should explore possibilities and be kids instead of having to worry about their vocation so young and being put on a track to become something.
Sounds nice, but how much is this really true in practice? If one guy on the team seriously screws up, won't the rest of the team naturally trust him less?
I don't think I get the punchline. Could someone explain?
ULA has contracted Blue Origin for their BE-4 engine to power their Vulcan. Future heavy lift launches will fund Blue Origin for a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE-4
They are in the market for reducing that bandwidth by caching stuff at CloudFlare, so it's not exactly surprising.
Maybe you could generate power by harnessing the wind generated by moving your eyelashes? Mount tiny little nano-windmills on each of them, with accelerometers, so you don't even need to use computer vision. Every time you blink it would generate just enough power to send a signal to your lightbulb.
Well, the computer company he did work for isn't around anymore, so Microsoft would probably be ok passing on him.
Ask HN: Where should I look for work?
I haven't liked most places I've worked, and I think it's a values mismatch.

I value (in no particular order):

- Interesting work
- Sustainable work (i.e. plan 2w of work, do it w/o scope creep)
- I love learning new things, but would rather specialize if they're unwilling to provide the time needed to do it right
- I tire of arguments against maintenance, then confusion when stories take longer because the code base is a mess. Maintenance isn't just a developer issue. This isn't my baby, it's your asset. Take care of it or not, it'll get worse over time if you don't plan this work. I'm tired of covering for poor management and planning practices so I don't look bad
- Momentum (do increasingly better work by putting time and effort into maintenance/training/whatever)
- Similar to/including momentum: I want things to get better over time, rather than "phew we really sprinted to make that. well no time to clean up, more sprinting to do! make sure you clean up in the evenings/as needed"

And most companies seem to value:

- More work (overtime, homework (self-training off hours), planning work/BA work, anything they can delegate really)
- Blurred roles (do whatever planning the PO doesn't get to, this will vary sprint to sprint, but should increase with your role, and you should do more over time)
- Self training (might provide a subscription if you're lucky, but no time, often no warning when new tech comes)

How can I find a company that's closer to my values?

I don't want something boring and bureaucratic... but I find companies really seem to want to be on one end of this spectrum[0], and view the middle as "leaving money on the table".

[0] https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/cargo-cult-software-engineering/
Most people had 512MB or 1GB back in the day, the lesser ones 256MB.
Absolutely. And then businesses complain because the external training doesn't do a good enough job preparing prospective employees for their specific needs. Go figure.
I'm so pissed at these stupid questions during interviews that now I start doing that.

The last one was "how many tennis balls could you fit in the Empire State Building?". I spent maybe 10 minutes asking idiotic "clarifying" questions before the interviewer realized I was messing with him (e.g. "can I use any color for the balls?" "Do I have a crew to help me?" "Can I try to crush them?" etc). He got pretty upset yeah, saying that I wasn't taking it seriously. I just said "with a question like that I think you're the one not taking it seriously". I didn't get the job.
I was under the impression that high end CPUs already perform value prediction while speculating?
A must: allow Dependabot to merge PRs automatically. The reason to refuse this is frankly ridiculous [1]. For JS projects Dependabot is little less than a spammer, and the ability to automatically merge minor/patch versions is a must. Having to rely on third-party actions to do this is probably a larger security risk than letting people decide what PRs they want to automerge.

[1] https://github.com/dependabot/feedback/issues/954#issuecomme... and the original issue: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/1973

And why it doesn't fly: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/1973#is...
Newton only contributed the three laws of motion to the model. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newtonian_mechani... The model includes additions from Leibnitz, Euler, Lagrange, and others from around the same time. The name "classical mechanics" doesn't pretend that Newton came up with all that stuff.
Yes, if you have root on your phone.
While we are on the feedback train, please consider making the Docker dependabot action more intelligent.

Right now, I have a monorepo with multiple Dockerfiles in subdirectories.

I end up having to add an entire docker block scoped to each directory that has a Dockerfile which is painful. Ideally, I would have a way to specify using */Dockerfile as a way to scan for Docker dependencies.

Also, multi-stage Dockerfile configs seem to confuse Dependabot where it'll submit a pull request to update the "AS build" but not the image to be used for packaging...

I really like the promise/premise of Dependabot, just want it to be easier to use (and edit across multiple repos).
Memorializing someone is not the same as endorsing all of their opinions and actions. Naming a space telescope after James Webb doesn't glorify homophobia any more than building a statue of Martin Luther King Jr glorifies adultery and academic plagiarism.
What if your business has fluctuating loads?

I can see how running game servers—with a (somewhat, maybe?) predictable load of players—can be done efficiently on baremetal and with colocating.

For another business that has huge peaks of demand, such as analytics with dynamic queries, I fail to see how baremetal can compare to spinning up hundreds of instances on-demand.

Perhaps it comes down to what services you offer your clients and how you implement them?
Hey, we have been operating in Chile for the last year, and we aquire users mostly with ambassadors. They refer our product and earn a commission. Most of our ambassadors are followers in IG (https://www.instagram.com/filadd.cl/). Most of our competitors are Tradicional academies that are losing more a more share with new Covid Paradigms
In what situation would you switch the lights on and off constantly to signal you need help? The only situation I can think of is that you're somehow too injured to make noise or move, but you're able to reach the light switch?
Never heard of Elastic Habits until now. Thanks for pointing it out
This looks great, and clearly addresses a serious need. I'm curious about your plan for scaling. It seems like finding qualified group leaders would be a limiting bottleneck.

How will you continue to find and supervise good group leaders as you draw more users?
There is no way German tax as part of GDP is just 11.5% Maybe just some subset of taxes

Overall it's 38%: https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-germany.pdf

For the US you're missing some taxes, too because the overall is somewhere near 30%, 10 percentage points lower than Germany. I think your US link does not include state and local taxes etc
How long do you plan to keep your laptop? For my "carry with me" laptop, I just plan to replace it every four years and buy four years of accidental damage coverage. I break the ports or the screen, Dell comes out the next day and replaces it. For the machine I use to do my job, that's a great thing to have.

I can see the advantage of fully serviceable if you're on more of a 7-to-10 year cycle, but then you have parts availability. I trust that Dell will still have service parts four years from now. I don't really have any reason to trust that this company will still exist four years from now, let alone still make a full line of upgrades.

(Ironically, I've found that an old, out-of-warranty Dell is actually affordable to do major component repair on - because there are cheap screens, keyboards, even motherboards readily available. That sweet spot where a bunch of business machines are coming off-lease is when you can get a new screen for $35.)
HN is also different in that it's full of serious thoughtful discussion about things that matter. It's certainly addictive, but after I get sucked in I don't feel the same regret as with FB because at least I learned something about a variety of topics and saw what some intelligent people's take was on each
For IL it's https://ilga.gov/LEGISLATION/ILCS/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2238&Chapt...
I asked a veterinarian friend who specializes in birds (and is a long time bird watcher), and she knew the app and said that it works pretty well (coming from her, that's definitely high praise)

The only thing she'd improve was exactly what you mentioned: offline recognition! (and also keeping the bird sound recordings to export them later)
Granola Shotgun reminds me of blogging in its prime. Maybe 15 years ago? I had a big RSS feed of several blogs like this that I really loved. Over the years I’ve either gotten worse at finding them or the average blog has gotten much worse.
The episode that mentions the experience of walking 800m in Houston from a hotel to a shop reminds me of an experience where a group of us (drunken Europeans) were trying to get from a bar in one hotel to another bar in another hotel in that city... I'm surprised we weren't arrested.
Ask HN: Favorite alternative to fizzbuzz for a quick test?
Well yea, that expectation was produced purposefully in order to be subverted for the actual punchline.
Yes, I thought of that, and it's a relevant point IMHO. But while hiring 10,000 people off the street won't improve things, GitHub hardly has its hands tied; they know how to get things done if they want to. We're talking about adding some basic features. Somewhere in GitHub and Microsoft, there probably are some additional highly productive developers who could be assigned to the project.
I'm fairly certain a square manhole cover with a sufficient perimeter would still have no chance of falling into a hole, depending on the diameter of said hole.
> What the legion critics of Bezos and Blue Origin miss is that the company legitimately has the goal of ultimately saving planet Earth. While Tuesday’s flight was clearly self-serving for Bezos, Blue Origin has follow-on projects in the works to support moving heavy industry from the surface of our planet into space.

I can't wait to see the most polluting industries, like agriculture or construction moved to space. I can't wait to see how heat-producing heavy industries intend to cool down in space either.

Great journalism here. Just repeat corporate bullshit without an ounce of critical thinking.
no the blink detector is not free and massively adds to the overheads compared to the LED output.
That's the entire point. They're mostly over the ocean/areas without high-paying customers 70-90% of the time. Because of that, it would be more like (in the best case):
42k sats@20G * 0.2 * 5 million subs target = 33Mbps/sub. However, that's not even close to realistic either because the high-paying subs are in the US and parts of Europe only, and you can't keep piling 42k satellites in the same plane. So in reality, that will be cut significantly from that.
Thanks for the info, that looks promising. I will have a look into it, maybe it helps straighten some problems out.
You could use two oppositely polarized lights, and wear polarized glasses, so you could switch the lights in the room on and off individually for each eye.
The battery impact for us at this point is likely more a factor of additional firmware and driver tuning that we need to do. We've tested to 10-11 hours in MobileMark 2018, but have actually seen video playback runtime (which should be a lighter load) drop below that due to some audio driver issues that we're working through.

There is certainly some impact to using DDR4 instead of LPDDR4, but we believe it is still the better choice for most consumers by allowing for greater product longevity at lower cost.
I work at the Cornell Lab, and we also have an app that is more consumer-oriented, and which DOESN'T require uploading the recordings to the cloud -- see Merlin Bird ID app https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

When the Lab’s researchers conceived of BirdNET, there were no reliable bird sound identification tools. BirdNET was built as a rapid prototype, engaging computer science students to build an app for that users to test the machine learning algorithms. BirdNET proved to be a research breakthrough and by 2020 was performing with far better accuracy than five other apps tested.

That success opened the way to apply computer vision to sound identification in the Lab’s outreach and education app, Merlin.

Merlin offers OFFLINE functionality, and multiple ways to help identify birds, including through a user describing the bird, taking a photo of the bird, and now recording a bird song or call. Merlin Bird ID is integrated with the Lab’s systems and resources, including updated taxonomy, bird information from eBird and Birds of the World, rich media from the Macaulay Library, life list building tools integrated with eBird, and more.
It’s been my experience that people who call things uninteresting are merely sharing their own unusual disinterest in something otherwise interesting. It’s also been my experience that said people are usually the most uninteresting in the room.

Also, I don’t know what it says about you that you went from effectively “trees falling in the forest” to the Hacker News infrastructure to defend your point about fun, thought-provoking idioms, but I do know it’s remarkably uninteresting.
#1 because the only way regular people can hold central bank money (as distinct from retail bank liabilities) is cash. And cash isn't convenient for most transactions.

#2 Yes, most money is digital. But most of that money is NOT central bank money. Imagine you 'have' $500k in the form of digital money. How much of that will you still have if your bank goes bust?

#3 Yes, this can be solved in a different way (as it has been in the UK).

#4 Regular banking and online payments are built on legacy payment rails. Transactions between customers of different banks are slow or expensive or both.

A CDBC does not need to use distributed ledger technology. Depending on your objectives, it could be 'just a database'. But that's the point: people are still trying to work out what those objectives are. Perhaps privacy and anonymity is an objective. Perhaps the opposite (all transactions can be tracked back to an individual) is an objective. Those objectives (and competitive forces) will determine how a CDBC is implemented.

"the entity involved is already literally the arbitrator and source of truth of how much currency exists"

Yes, but it might simultaneously want to increase transparency. How do you know the central bank is truthfully reporting M1? Could a distributed ledger help?
Oh yes, the redbean source makes for a nice & adequate addition to the list.

BTW, jart, let me thank you here: redbean is boldly innovative, refreshlingly witty. An inspiring work of art from a true hacker!
> If, instead, that person handed out pamphlets saying that the Pfizer vaccine was experimental "gene therapy" that will result in "infertility," what happens then?

See, e.g., https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/harm-to-reputat...

falsity + malice + harm is a basis for liability in a number of different specific forms, and there very little reason to suspect that a new specific variation of that template would not withstand Constitutional scrutiny.
I've tried Vim before, and I want to love it, but I never found myself able to enjoy using it as much as VS Code. I know I can probably replicate all the functionality I need with plugins, but at that point it feels like switching for the sake of switching.

I used to think I would learn Vim eventually so I could be productive on boxes I SSH into, but then VSC added native SSH/SFTP support and it's been a joy to use that. Completely obliterates any need to code in terminal anymore.

That being said, I do enjoy using tmux a lot, especially when performing pen tests and exploring new boxes. So, maybe one day I'll learn to love Vim too?
>Oracle was clearly on the wrong side of history here.

I agree insofar as that is a euphemism to mean that Oracle is not tightly aligned with the interests of the left. Google is a big donor both in cash and in kind. Oracle is much less so.

> The damage to the industry from allowing APIs to be copyrighted would have been immense.

If I were to copy Google Sheets, offer an online service called "Google Sheets" and the only difference is that I modified a handful of implementation details so the service would run my spyware, and not Google's, then I would lose any copyright claims made by Google, hands down. You could make an identical argument that the web interface is an "API" and copying their code is a necessity of providing equivalent functionality. Google ripped off Sun and got away with it because the US legal process is a farce. Denying the right to copyright ANY code at all would be a morally defensible position, but that's not the ruling.
K8, with no "s," eh? I've been seeing this more and more...
Right, because of that famous economic principle that monopolies create the best and most efficient technologies, and competition is bad.
Where did anybody expect Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic by this point? 17-20 years of R&D, building on decades of rocket science and space exploration, consulting with NASA et al. and between the three of them, only 1 has been able to send humans into orbit and that was only very recent.

20 years to go from a pile of cash and no experience, to a full production line of safe orbit-capable launch vehicles is a very big ask. SpaceX has achieved that, but at the cost of many of its employees (just look at the press around SpaceX working conditions).

Yes, it's longer than the time between the Mercury missions and Apollo 11, but the 50s-60s era of space travel was significantly higher risk. If corners could be cut in the same way, no doubt 20 years would have been fairly reasonable. Add in an existing presence in space R&D and the shorter time frames of the space shuttle program seem even more reasonable. But that just isn't possible in today's safety first world.
When I worked there in the early 2000's I had a friend of a friend whose fiancée graduated with a bachelor's degree in either CS or EE and applied for a developer position. Somehow, and I struggle to understand the mechanics of this because engineering was highly compartmentalized away from the "business" parts of the business, they managed to turn her down for an engineering role and got her a job in marketing.

Also, the manhole cover question was considered déclassé as early as 1999. One that was still making the rounds was...let's see if I can remember this... You have a soda machine that has three buttons, Coke, Pepsi, and Random (Coke or Pepsi). You know that your trickster coworker has swapped all of the button labels, so none of them are correct. What's the optimal strategy for getting a Coke out of the machine?
I hope so too.

Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50.

My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here):

- The vaccine doesn't provide sterilizing immunity -- you catch mild COVID, and then your body fights it off quickly.

- It does well for stopping original COVID fast, but newer mutations get pretty far before the vaccine stops them.

- The olfactory symptoms are neurological, and the phase when brain damage happens.

We'll see in a few months.
See also Snowball the dancing Eleonora cockatoo [1], who has at least 14 distinct dance moves which are shown in the videos in this article [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_(cockatoo)

[2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/07/study-of-snow...
> to get my brain back.

What do you do all day that is so different? I use social media (and this website) to kill time. I have too much time as it is to do nothing/nothing to capture my attention, I don't need more of it just wishing I was doom scrolling on Instagram.

At least on this website I learn stuff periodically throughout the day.
Netzgesellschaft Entstörungsdienst: It's an emergency service for gas leaks[1] - it may feel implausible but it's totally common in Germany to have a "Netzgesellschaft" or some other very generic name like "Wasserverband" (water organization).

1: https://www.nbb-netzgesellschaft.de/ueber-die-nbb/entstoerun...
Perl is cool but it's got a hell of a lot of cryptic operators for its syntax. They make sense after you learn them but for beginners it's clear why python gets picked up way easier. They're not having to think in symbols and stuff, it just looks more like a list of instructions rather than a mess of dollar signs and 'my' (my what? just not retrospectively intuitive...)

That said I like perl (And lately, awk/sed) a lot more for things that python is just SLOW at. Plus for systems-level scripts, considering that most linux/BSD installs you encounter on anything at all will have perl installed, let's say you encounter a router or something like that you need to work on somehow internally -- Do you even have room for another interpreter on there? Better be at least initiated in using perl if you want to hack on that. I've also recently found it really useful for rescuing an ancient database file format from the 1980s which was super handy considering other tools choked on it.
> Section 230(c)(2) provides immunity from civil liabilities for information service providers that remove or restrict content from their services they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected", as long as they act "in good faith" in this action.

Hmm, they're just doing a lot of "acting in good faith" then. Ok.
Not needed on Android 11+
US wasn't the only country involved in their virology labs. France too.
The only service AWS hasn't consistently lowered pricing on (unlike almost everything else) is their egress cost. Everyone complains about vendor "lock in" for anything AWS related, and I've never thought so since they've always reduced prices across the board. But egress is the exception. They're keeping pricing high for this exact reason to prevent folks from moving their data elsewhere.

I've got about 25TB of stuff I'd love to keep all in Glacier Deep Archive, but the restore costs are just too insane to justify due to the egress pricing still at .09c after all these years. Too bad.
Personally I've had more micro-USB connectors and cables fail than USB-C. Maybe it's just luck, but USB-C has been extremely reliable in my experience.