skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a “no true Scotsman”, but I'd argue that if someone is just performing tasks from a JIRA queue and not doing any systems thinking or concerning themselves with the broader picture, they aren't just engineers, they're just programmers.
If I could choose one more thing (in addition to anything I’ve mentioned in the past) that I would wish to disappear forever, it would be metaphors.

I have literally almost never come across any metaphor, save for a very very small number of them, that are at all helpful even.

Most metaphors IMO only serve to obscure the reality of things and to draw false parallels between things, and to make it seem like knowledge is being imparted when it is not really.

On top of that there are all of the times that the metaphors themselves may consist of comparing against something where what they are comparing against is not even correct, such as may be the case here.

If I could legally change my middle name to “Enough With the Frickin’ Metaphors Already”, I would almost be inclined to do so, except I don’t want the word “Metaphor” to even be a part of my name because that’s how much I dislike the absolute majority of metaphors.
The more I read about California (and to some extent other extreme-left states like Oregon), the more it truly does seem insane. I used to be put off by California just because of the weather (good weather to me means heavy winters and cold year-round). Now I'm fully confused why people still want to move there when the leadership and policies are absurd, traffic is hellish, cost of living is towering, and even day to day life is impacted by drugs, crime, and natural disasters.
On first look it seems like a scary way of commoditizing one of the most personal connection requiring forms of care there is.

How do you ensure quality and aligned goals with the patients if it's literally just selling hours?
AIUI, Time Warner had rolled out ipv6 pretty widely before the merger and becoming Spectrum. I have had native dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 from TWC/Spectrum for several years now, in the RTP, NC area.
"infect" is not the right word. Prions are not viruses, they do not replicate, they ravage other proteins in their surroundings by misfolding them over and over again until it becomes a fatal pathology.
I am really hoping the steam deck gets close to that.
Planetary Annihilation was okay but didn’t really speak to me compared to SupCom/TA. I don’t know why, but I do feel like the planets are hard/annoying to navigate and don’t add anything. I really liked the TA/SupCom maps where there’s natural cover (water/walls) to navigate through, but with PA it’s just whatever since you can just launch some stuff from another planet.
> Yet the clearance rate for homicides in the US is below 60%

The war on drugs helped a lot with this.
If you enable IPv6, and test it yourself (you can use an IPv6 tunnel if your ISP does not support it), then you should be able to quickly go over the main features of your site and see if you have any issues (IP logging, for example).

It would be rather unusual to run a web stack that assumes strictly IPv4. Maybe if you have an SQL field that logs IPs, and a developer was very clever and optimized for IPv4, but that's pretty rare.

I am a strong advocate of IPv6 and early adopter, but would never bother emailing a website about it. Even GitHub. For a long time, AWS didn't have any IPv6 support (I'm sure it's part of their business plan too, to charge extra for IPv4 eventually).

As a hosting provider, the main benefit of IPv6 is that I can have unique IP addresses for my users. Nowadays, most people on mobile and more and more ISPs use a very small IP pool (CG-NAT), not to mention offices behind NAT (ignoring very large offices who use proxies).
The canonical saying is 'Just act normal, that is already crazy enough' ( don't stand out )
What Have Language Models Learned?
You’ll feel better about making “worse” decisions if you shift your thinking towards now/next/later.

_Now_, we choose off-the-shelf X because it will get us started and we have 99 other things to bootstrap.

_Next_, we throw the original away and plug in better tech Y.

_Later_, when resources are not an issue, we’ll use Kubern... tech Z. :)
Next, maybe time do the same thing for gain-of-function research?
Regarding the XML thing the author did mention later how complex a compliant parser is, so presumably tests have been… done. The “HTML/” before the XML is what really raised my eyebrows with the stuff, since not many people besides browsers implement the optional tag and tag soup recovery right. (At least it’s standardized in the spec now.)

Alright, looks like the self-brewed parser is explicitly for CHM HTML4 and EPUB XHTML only, with the more serious stuff in muPDF. I could still mess with it by self-packing CHM (HTML4 has optional tags for ergonomics too), but that sounds very boring.
I don't think there was ever any hint of an attempt to bring in money. I'm not entirely sure why the author choose to keep it closed source, maybe worries about others seeing "bad" code or something, but this is simply a case of someone no longer having time for their labor of love, not someone failing to monetize
Was a backer and just got one and I am pretty impressed. It works as an external monitor so it seems quite easy to use. You plug in a USB-C (for power) and an HDMI and you are ready to go ... worked as a display for my linux and mac machine. Tried some unity demos and they worked like a charm. Will update you on how easy the programming is.

Super impressed. If you have some questions, ask I might able to try things tomorrow.
Also ideas for projects welcome ...

we have some EDA and heartrate wristbands, so I first thought about displaying a pumping heart in sync with mine.
The ground you walk on is not political. If folks learn to take it easy, we'll be in better shape.
No disagreement there, but there would be many, many less humans.
There are many threads here about the politics of technology (big tech, open source vs closed source software, cryptocurrency and finance, the fabrication industry and China, etc) and there are also plenty of threads about politics unrelated or tangentially related to computers (off the top of my head, housing and homelessness, the schooling system, and climate change get discussed here not infrequently). HN isn't for just computers and technology, but rather for anything that sparks curiosity.

With that being said, the moderation here is very excellent and generally keeps the quality of discussion somewhat high, so I agree with your central thesis.
The counter-agent is that it's fictional. ;-) (We hope.)
Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds
What's "effective" mean in this context? The anthrax letters in the US in 2001 certainly dominated news cycles.
> I've been in academia for awhile, I'm used to getting serious criticism. I'm a man, my whole life I've been told to toughen up. There's really almost nothing you can say to me that is going to hurt me. I really mean it.

Tangential but whenever I read something like this, and people do post them a lot, I tend to assume they're actually normal, sensitive people who have learned that not showing any sign of harm means they're not experiencing any harm.

Nothing you can say can hurt me == I have an unhealthy habit of suppressing my negative emotions
if you want to kill lots people thats pretty much the worst way of doing it.
The word "prion" is actually a contraction of the words "protein" and "infection". (edit: although I agree it's not what one might conventionally think of as an "infection")
> after it is paid off you only get a few years before you have to buy a new one

I get that you want to say "it depends," but the original context is a TRACTOR. Something that, historically, can easily last 20 years, if not 50.
Well we don't really know that, because diagnosis is normally confirmed post-mortem. There could be many people walking around infected with prions that show no symptoms at all.
Cookies are used because people want to track users across networks. They might be on their mobile phone on home wifi, then on 4G, then at their office, etc.

On IPv6, your OS should also enable the privacy extensions, so that your device has two IPs: a stable one for incoming, and a randomly changing IP for web browsing. Sure, it's the same subnet, but it would be silly to rely on this considering the many other ways we can track users.
I've always thought a _very_ effective strategy would be to get a crop-duster and spray a prion-contaminated mist over a major city, basically contaminating every public surface in a large area

I'm also not sure how you would begin to clean up afterwards - do you remove the surface of everything in your city?

To those saying bio-terrorism is ineffective or would not kill a lot of people in any appreciable time-scale, think about the terrorism aspect - imagine not being able to interact with any surface? It would be like a permanent covid lockdown on the area

The psychological effect of a large-scale area-denial would be massive
Can Teslas do differential drive?
This is why I stopped posting on reddit and why I still feel somewhat comfortable posting on HN. It's been years since reddit crossed the line and just became a left-wing echo chamber like twitter (or any other mainstream media, really). I'm neither liberal nor conservative, but I can't stand participating in a community where you're expected to play along with the mob or else be vilified.
>I am sure those would have been autoclaved and reprocessed at some ridiculous pH value, no?

Probably not until they had reason to do so.

"Hot acidic environment" is hell when it comes to corrosion and the engineering incentive for medical stuff is only to be as corrosion resistant as you need because there are other design considerations and the most corrosion resistant stainless steels are not the bet fit for building a super precise needle you're gonna poke around in someone's eye so you wind up wanting to pick a middle ground alloy. Picking a middle ground alloy puts a hard limit on what you can do to clean your instruments before you degrade them in unacceptably short order.

I don't know how things have changed since. My medical manufacturing experience is out of date and limited.
This article is low quality IMHO. But if we stipulate that it's correct/fair/etc, does anybody stop and ask themselves why this happens? Could it be that we have made it utterly impossible for new recreational drugs to be created legally by scrupulous (and accountable!) people/organizations, and we've banned the known and in many cases mostly safe alternatives, thus forcing people who want to feel different into dark corners? And before we demonize people for wanting to feel different, consider that drugs (especially alcohol) has been as much a part of human history/evolution as anything else has.
Would it be better if you get down voted to hell and also get swamped with throwaway comments like "that's stupid"
What holds back the web is not what users want, but what Apple allows it to have
White House Asks CISA, NIST to Set Cybersec Goals for Critical Infrastructure
> sounds like it's at tesla's discretion but in fact…

I’m not sure I understand the “but in fact”, qualifier because the example that you point to exactly demonstrates that Tesla has the capability to make these changes at their discretion.

It sounds like it’s that way because it is!

Tesla has the capability to turn off features at their discretion, by altering a row in the database.

So…yes, if Tesla doesn’t think a user should have a capability that’s managed remotely, they update a database row (that they have exclusive control over), and that vehicle no longer has that capability.

The statement still reads as totally accurate to me.

The typical use is not malicious (oh, this free trial is now over, so disable that capability), but that’s still a demonstration of Tesla remotely disabling a feature that they don’t think a certain user should have.

My objection is to the capability, rather than a pattern of malicious use. I think the article was correct to point out the capability, and did so by relying on a well known example.

To me, I didn’t read it as an implication that this inaccurate remote disabling was a widespread problem for Tesla but I understand if you read it differently.
As always, with any crime, the more people involved, the greater the possibility that human factors will sabotage the operation.

The perfect crime has one perpetrator.

It is also why its fascinating that people will believe in conspiracy theories that supposedly involve tens / hundreds / thousands of people.

Theories that we faked the moon landing always intrigue me. Or that the earth is flat.
I can't comment on your own home or that of GP commenter, but in my home the cleaning and supplies services seem to take 7 days off per week, so I keep having to deal with cleaning the bathroom and stocking up on tea and coffee myself. At the office these tasks are taken care of, and when I get home the state of it and its supplies are no worse than they were when I left in the morning.
Wonder if there will be similar businesses and freelancers who will start to specialize in the migration from no-code to code in the same way that there are for on-prem to cloud.
And killed very few people. That's what we call terrorism (lots of news coverage for very few deaths) - it's not effective in doing anything but news cycles.
I actually looked it up.
A late 19th century engine had a 26% efficiency.
1960's engines had ~34% efficiency and in the 2010's it was ~43%.
So the same fuel consumption would give you 26HP in 1900, 34HP in 1960, and 43HP today.
You should read about strange matter/strangelets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers
> You won't, but many kids

I never said all kids, I said many kids.
I have a Vodafone cable in Berlin and it gives you one ipv6 address in NAT mode. Not really helping if using your own router and needing more than one ipv6 address (that is typically the case).

I do VPN from the router, giving me a proper /64 block...
Yup! That is one possibility. We offer an API so you can query all the available objects inside a user's Salesforce account, and from there you can have the user select what specific objects are relevant, and those will be pulled through.
> ”Upvote grey comments if they are not offensive or very wrong”

Maybe there should be a separate URL to view recent comments with <1 points?

/graycomments, or /controversial, or something like that.

I’d certainly use that to sprinkle some upvotes. There are often high-quality comments that get downvotes early for whatever reason. It has a discouraging effect even if it gets corrected over time with more votes.
Supreme Commander 2? I don’t recall that release, but there’s a black hole in my memory about some great disapointment
Man facing federal charges for threatening to kill Dr. Fauci, NIH Director
It is not just Bjarne that opposed GC - no compiler implemented it (or not a major one anyway).
> none of those other states have much of a meaningful tech industry

Microsoft, Amazon, Cray, Redfin, Convoy, Tideworks, F5, Tableau, and Zillow may beg to differ about Washington.
> Jaumain’s family has filed both criminal charges and an administrative suit against INRAE, alleging a range of problems at Jaumain’s lab. She had not been trained in handling dangerous prions or responding to accidents and did not wear both metal mesh and surgical gloves, as she was supposed to, says Julien Bensimhon, the family’s lawyer. The thumb should have been soaked in a bleach solution immediately, which did not happen, Bensimhon adds.

Sounds like a bad lab that wasn't following safety procedures. But even that is in question:

> Independent reports by a company specializing in occupational safety and by government inspectors have found no safety violations at the lab; one of them said there was a “strong culture” of risk management. (Bensimhon calls the reports “biased.”)

Why does every lab have to be shut down for 3 months?
I don’t know why you’d want that. The place where I have my big monitor is where I also have the space for a computer that has enough room to be always fast and quiet for my tasks that I can leave running things, while my phone is something that I need for communication which can help with information/scheduling and that I would like to have with me at all times. Having all my work on my phone would make me leave that phone at home and get an extra phone, I just wouldn’t trust myself with all that even if I have backups.
I know, but it's a poor choice of word since it's nothing like viruses or bacteria.
I feel like the solution is to allow downvotes, but not to allow the total score to go below 1.
I don't mind downvotes on my comments, I just wish a downvote required a comment stating some kind of reason for it. Even a short comment "I don't like this" would be telling because it would indicate they don't have a reason other than emotion. Often I initially get a bunch of downvotes and then later enough upvotes to even it out.
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yeah I wouldn't count on prions being as easily denatured as other proteins. E.g. mad cow disease spread because prions are not killed by simply cooking / boiling it.
How easy is it to debug something in Bubble for a dev and non-dev? They're using Javascript for the custom code part of the platform. Is it the same for the no code part?
It’s far from what you asked for, but Mindustry is kinda PvE-RTS-like. It’s also open source, i’d recommend to give it a try. It’s an ugly game though, but I do like the concept.
I don't have anything against proportional fonts for coding in, but the font has to actually be designed for coding, regardless of if it's proportional or monospace. That doesn't just mean having distinguishable 1/l/| and 0/O etc, it also means that the more obscure symbols/punctuation can't just be an afterthought and should compose nicely with regular characters and with each other: (foo) and [foo] and {foo} and <foo> should all look pleasant, things like += and <= and -> should not be misaligned, etc.
> My impressions is that it is mostly Photoshop users, that are expecting something else, or am I mistaken?

I use GIMP for my (modest) editing needs, and I like it. But some of the behaviour is.... weird.

For example, if you've got a region selected and you use the flood fill tool, it will only fill pixels within that region. OK, that's logical enough, a tool only applies to selected pixels, right?

But if you've got a region selected and you use the move tool, it'll move the entire layer. If you want to move only the pixels in the selected region, you gotta convert it to a floating selection.

And after you've moved your floating selection, you want to select a different region to move, so you drag out a new selection. Not so fast, your floating region has now vanished. You gotta defloat the selection by selecting nothing. But you can't do that by choosing 'None' in the 'Select' menu, that's greyed out for some reason.

I'm sure these behaviours all make sense to a developer or expert user - but nobody's going to be telling their friends that GIMP is easy to pick up :)
I think this is good news for IPv6 deployment. As ISPs start charging more for IPv4, companies will finally have a financial reason to seek the alternative.

It's sort of like taxing carbon to make non-carbon energy more competitive.
> You won't, but many kids

I didn't say every kid, I said many kids. Maybe you think it's fine if your parents are checked out, but not all kids do. Why assume and not just treat the kid like a human, ask them how they feel, and go from there? Otherwise you may end up in one of the countless scenarios where the kid harbors lifelong resentment for things the parent thought was perfectly fine to do. If you haven't witnessed such scenarios firsthand, that's lucky for you and your loved ones.
Agree completely.

While in theory I completely agree downvotes should be around, in practice I have seen they are an ideological voting machine used to suppress opinions.

It is kind of unusual how fast the downvotes appear, as if there are downvote bots running on the HN & Reddit. I've posted a comment and had what appeared to be 3 downvotes within a minute.

Of course, I am an evidence driven technologist that is not very partisan so that could explain some of it.
I imagine if you only have IPv6 then some parts of the internet will stop working, and customers will then blame the ISP. I can see why ISPs keep the status quo when it probably costs them very little to do so.
Given the information available at the time it isn't really that surprising that a lot of what drives people to become scientists would also drive them to religious studies. They are trying to understand the world around them and where we all came from.
Question, do compensate the users you are interviewing. I find it pretty insulting when I get emails to take time out of my work day to ostensibly help YOU make more money. And to do that for free.
I think you're missing the point of what the guy is saying ... He's not asking for tips and tricks to live happier in a downvote world. He's saying, I think, that downvotes are conversation stoppers and does not help us get to the bottom of things and they should not be the default were people form communities.
A subreddit tends to be more focused than HN. I'd chalk it up to user maturity, not that HN is without great fault on this either.
It is trivial in the Ubuntu installer.
Sure but the purpose of software is to build a program that works correctly. We're not building sunsets.
As a parent myself, I think most parents go into it with the best intentions but do not realize how hard it is. Of the parents I know, a handful seem to be naturally good at it. The rest of us muddle through the best we can.

I did not keep in closer contact with my parents after I became a father but I did come to appreciate how well they raised me.
And that's why I switch to a sane language like python once my shell scripts get longer than a few lines.

But I would love a shell with a sane language. At the moment I am using zsh + oh-my-zsh because I can not let go of the autocompletion I get. I tried some other shells like oil shell, ion shell, nushell and elvish but sadly the completion is just not there yet. The only shell with maybe even better completions I came a cross is fish, but I don't love the language, while it seems better than sh/bash to me I'd much rather have something more similar to ion shell with stronger typing.

Thinking about command completion, this seems like the analog problem to editors and the language server protocol. Is there something like a command completion server?
N4120 model.

Quad core and 8gb of RAM is underpowered? It's not the best gaming machine to be sure, and I have to be a little more careful with my browser tabs than on my 64GB workstation... but there's not really anything glaring it outright can't do.

Hard to answer what I do on it, since the answer is "everything". I run Plasma 5 on mine. Right now I have a lot of firefox windows open, Quassel (IRC), Qalculate, some file managers, some terminals, and some text editors. For heavy duty I sometimes remote into my workstation (graphically) which is fast enough on a LAN to use CAD and all the rest of it. I've even done ANSYS simulations this way.
Pretty sure it has a bad UX on purpose, they want to get people off the platform so they can shut it down.
I would pay the going rate for a font that I used every day (or expense it, anyway) but a splash page isn't enough to determine whether I would make a font my daily driver, especially since current fashion is quite different from my own environment.

(I do use a font ‘with character’, Fantasque Sans Mono)
> Connally used an email account from a provider of secure, encrypted email services based in Switzerland, to send a series of emails to Dr. Fauci and the Chief Medical Advisor to President of the United States, threatening to harm and/or kill him and members of his family.

I thought the Swiss encrypted email service the accused used might spark a discussion on HN.