skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating article. I thought she was exaggerating when she complained about people accusing her of being a media whore, until I scrolled down to the [flagged] [dead] and saw someone doing just that.

But I don't think she has a choice. In the past, it would've been possible for someone in her shoes to choose obscurity. In the past, the real Amanda Knox and the idea of Amanda Knox that exists in the collective unconscious of the media and media consumers would've drifted apart. Now, it's hard to imagine how that could happen. Even if she invented a new identity and moved to a small town in Alaska (which would be a new kind of prison sentence in some ways), it'd be newsworthy.
Your thinking is part of the problem.

Agile is rooted on focusing on people. Make a group of good people and empower them and they will create a process that works well. Also on the cases the process fail, they will change it. But if you go and decide the process, that's more than half the way towards a failure already.
What was she guilty of?
Sounds like the good old usb 3 interference. Tons of people experience it and it's frustrating because there is no real fix.
I took the deep dive into tech trying to fix the 2x cd drive someone gave me for my x86 pc. Part of the passion I have for tech is learning and digging deeper, and reading about topics I haven't learned yet to the point where I get a bit of malaise when I'm not learning something new. I say this as I'm repurposing an old pc to a full time nas and learning about zfs pools. There's always a simpler, faster, more expensive solution out there that takes the complexity out of the equation, but part of the fun is the complexity for me.
Right, but if this happens at a rate of X per 1000 customers for a number of years, and then suddenly starts to occur at a rate of 3X per 1000 customers, I think it's fair to look for causes apart from just normal human behavior.
>this never happened.

This is just Hollywood trying to add drama for the sake of making the story more "interesting". Little thought is given to potential collateral damage to truth. All protected under the umbrella comment "based on true events".
At least that’s just entertainment. Journalism frequently mischaracterizes people and events just to paint a narrative.
"Capitalism" and "moral obligation" are probably mutually exclusive, e.g. Milton Friedman's "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits". [1] Friedman would argue that the movie maker has a social responsibility to its employees and shareholders, and that bending truth to meet these obligations would be its moral imperative.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

edit: To downvoters, I'm not agreeing with the perspective, just saying that there is one.
The March 25 judgement referred to is here: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
Yes, this. I've never seen a "crisis averted by timely application of consultants!" post on Medium, but I'm sure many such tales exist, as I'm one of those consultants.
Typo, corrected. See edit.
HN != reddit
They simplified F1 a bit. Now the most unhappy participants are Haas.
Can't she sue the movie producers of Stillwater? Even if the movie producers didn't officially acknowledge inspiration, Vanity Fair mentions it:

> This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is “loosely based” or “directly inspired by” the “Amanda Knox saga,” as Vanity Fair put it in a for-profit article promoting a for-profit film, neither of which I am affiliated with

There is clearly precedence for this type of lawsuit because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclai...
I changed my last name when I got married. Does that mean that I own my last name but not my first name (which has been unchanged since birth)?
3x TC buys a bit over 2 years (time value of money) of doing whatever you want, for every year worked.

Money can't replace now time. But it can certainly buy future time.
> Not being able to hear is very clearly a bug.

It’s not obvious that the software sense of a problematic deviation between design and implementation is a good model.

Deafness clearly causes problems for people, that most people would not wish for.

However that doesn’t mean an individual deaf person can’t be happier than an individual hearing person with their overall experience of life, and therefore not experience deafness as an impairment.

> way too many articles/posts in ASD communities encouraging behavior that clearly shouldn't be encouraged

What kind of behaviors are you talking about?
I've kept laptops tightly packed, with a lot of force coming down on the lid, for hours at a time, and I've had no screen cracking. I've had a lot of marks from the keyboard on the screen, but no cracks.

In the times before we had a kid, I'd go motorcycle touring in the summer. I'd keep my laptop in a plastic rubble sack (for waterproofing), sitting on top of a wooden cutting board (for rigidity), with my clothes on top in separate bags, all packed into a gym bag. The gym bag would then be strapped to the passenger seat of my motorbike with 100kg luggage straps done up tightly enough to ensure the whole package is rigid with respect to the rest of the bike, with no risk of movement on the road. Without the wooden cutting board, there would be a bending force between the passenger seat and the luggage straps that I'd expect to do damage.

I did this mostly with a 2012 MacBook Air. Eventually the plastic hinge between screen and body developed a visible crack, but everything still worked (and still does).

It might be that the screen is cracking due to something between screen and keyboard. But it might also be that the M1 design makes cracking more likely.
How did you make those iPhone screenshots? They look great
Adultery? History tends to always blame the woman and shrugs at the man even though it takes two to tango.
Reminds me of the artist formerly known as Prince. We need a Prince symbol emoji.
Five months behind who, though?

I could imagine[0] that, on an individual level, when a student misses a lot of school, they fall behind their peers, and knock-on effects translate this into lower lifetime earning.

In the case of the pandemic, though, isn’t everyone in a similar boat? The “most qualified” student from the class of 2021 is going to have their pick of opportunities; there isn’t some “reserve” from an alternate universe that will outcompete them.

What could happen is that the pandemic disproportionally affects kids from certain backgrounds (minority, low SES, certain regions, etc). Unfortunately, the article doesn’t really delve into that.

[0] Estimating this accurately is likely very hard, especially if the “cause” continues into adulthood. Still, it doesn’t seem unlikely that there’s some sort of effect.
I don't think many people who are using containers are using apache.
I wonder how many Itanium CPUs they’ve sold in the last five years. Also do they just do a single waffer or two every now and then, or do they have a production line?
If I can't delete my browsing history before I pass on, you bet your bottom dollar I'm not letting my family have my keys!
I print my important keys to paper but also as a QR code. Easier to restore.

Have't needed to use them yet, but testing it was great.
> They didn't train it on anybody's private repositories.

Are you sure?
Makes sense, thank you.

It would be interesting to know how big and litigious a technology company would have to get before it made sense to develop their own litigation capability. Or would that run afoul of some legal profession expectation that "prestigious firms" are required, no matter the size of the tech company?
My hunch is that this is true in the US too. There are a few cities where I think foreign buyers may actually be buying condos and leaving them vacant (namely the nice parts of Manhattan and Miami) but it’s a very small portion of the total housing supply.

I think we want to pretend foreign buyers are the problem because it’s much easier to understand and try to stop than wealth/income inequality, access to credit, and low interest rates.
The Itanic sunk like 15 years ago, they just finally stopped making chick flicks about it.
This isn't just brazenly corrupt retribution; it's also brazen witness tampering.
Information storage in L-DNA with a high-fidelity mirror-image DNA polymerase
First off, I think this is an instructive case of reputation laundering. These seem like two independent sources at first, but if you dig deeper, both of these sites are mouthpieces for one Yaneer Bar-Yam.

I have to concede that he's not a crank, and appears to have meaningful pandemic expertise. I'm now aware of one expert who's confident eliminating Covid is possible. But this has to be evaluated in the context of the overwhelming consensus (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00396-2) that it's probably not, and these sites are structured as grand calls to action more than detailed arguments, so it's hard for me to figure out what the content of the disagreement is. What does Bar-Yam know that immunologists don't?
FWIW I had a non-M1 Macbook screen crack due to overheating recently, not sure if that is related.

I had quickly unplugged the Macbook from an external display and immediately put it into a backpack. Due to some OS condition it didn't go into sleep in time.
Ah that explains the false sense of superiority, without ever having done any UI/UX work to prove knowledge claims!
I feel that we are converging with each passing day.
I think this is a low-quality article. At the same time, different styles of writing, including those that some may see as "unprofessional" because it mimics how people actually write to one another, can actually at times be MORE interesting to me personally.

My issue is with the substance, not the style. On substance, the entire argument here is "well they're probably lying because SOMETHING has to explain it."

I get if you want to stick to traditional news articles. For me, I like seeing writers express themselves. I just prefer they bring more reporting to the process than this writer did.
ARM pre-dates Itanium by quite some way as well as outliving it. Design started in 1983 (!) https://www.cs.umd.edu/~meesh/cmsc411/website/proj01/arm/his... and by 1987 you could buy ARM home computers.

The ARM revolution has been a long time coming, but it was given a big boost by the use of the chip in phones, a market that Intel failed to break into (I have one of the rare x86-Android phones, a Zenfone 2). I can't imagine Itanium would have been any better at scaling down to fit into that market.

Intel had no choice but to kill it; it was outclassed by ARM64 and had a slowly shrinking customer base.
I assume transmissibility in the workplace affects decisions.
Well, and facts aren't always known with certainty (as in this case) and their interpretation will vary based on who's interpreting.
There's a lot of uncharitable talk in this thread, where comments like yours assume bad intent on behalf of businesses who find GDPR compliance challenging. It's a giant body of regulatory law, of course it's complicated! The GDPR probably _isn't_ hard to deal with if you don't actually care about privacy; it's easy to just not follow the law and hope you don't get caught. But if your company respects individual privacy, and collects personal data only with a lawful basis, and needs to make assurances to its customers that all the regulations are being followed, there's a lot of work you have to do to demonstrate compliance, and many specifics (for example, with regards to personal data erasure in backups and archives) are completely unspecified. How uncomplicated is that issue?
I mean considering how much abuse thinkpads have stood up to for years, it's kinda embarrassing how much Apple screws things up.

I mean I'm glad I hold their stock because they have a brainwashed fanbase that excuses these design flaws (e.g. the "you're holding it wrong" thing with a long-ago iPhone), but dog help me if I had to spend my own cash on one...
We probably just need to fix loopholes in slander and libel laws and give common people more power to enforce them without making it a huge financial risk. People realized many many years ago how people's names come be abused and drug through the mud and created a recourse for it.

Changing someone's name just a bit or creating fictional characters you can copyright that everyone knows is a substitution or can find the substitution if they're interested in linking the fictional depiction to the real depiction is just a loophole around slander and libel, which the author points out with Damien Matthews or whatever in the example. Completely legal and now you have artistic freedom to reshape the story however you want. The person with the most resources to fight legally typically wind here.

Throwing some disclaimer line in like "this is no based on actual people or events" or whatever seems to give far too much of a liability waiver. It's really just plain wrong and the author makes a great point about naming an event and agency. Branding is very powerful and can create subconscious links that otherwise shouldn't exist. Naming is a bit tricky though because you often pick an easy memorable name to associate with something. Naming sort of act like a hash map with collision handling in my brain.

When I see Bill Clinton's name or "Clinton" a whole slew of thoughts and memories link to that name or phrase and it can be difficult to determine what someone says. When you say Monica Lewenski's name on the other hand, she acts as a memorable unique identifier to the event, unfairly to her. I know exactly what you're talking about and I know about Bill, power differentials at play, and so on but the name needs to be unique and memorable in language. As the author points out, this naming convenience comes at a cost to those who might get improper associations for responsibility, so it's complicated. I think we should strive for branding that leaves out names where possible. Watergate seems like a great branding job, I immediately know it's Nixon and it doesn't dissolve him of any responsibility. Should the facts change and I read about Watergate later, say it was Deepthroat actually responsible somehow, the name Watergate name still exists and associations of responsibility in the future can change. Abstract your branding to avoid finger pointing.
"...everything we do that is 'technical' has ... consequences that go beyond the technical: The mere fact that most of the technical things we choose to do are done for non-technical reasons is enough to establish that."

Aha! But people do things just for technical reasons that don't affect the users in any way.

One could claim that just refactoring code without changing anything is a "purely technical" exercise.

What I've seen developers spend time on, that has absolutely no effect on end users in a large C++ codebase:

* Changing old C-style string handling to std::strings

* Change naming convention to uniform

* Random formatting that should be done automatically but someone decided to do by hand

* Sundry "modernizations" like replacing vanilla C++ loops with C++ range based for loops etc
> Well it depends, are you doing high school level mathematics, or are you trying to solve highly complex mathematical problems and/or devise new theorems?

Most people actually considers high school mathematics hard. It is easy to forget this when we are talking about how easy or hard things are for the average person.
Most code cannot be statically scheduled and code that can be is amenable to the big vector units we have now.
Good points, but I have to say that at least the summary article smells of reductionist science to me. It's both "water is wet" and "water is the only way to put out a fire" at the same time.

Even if there is a "statistically significant" correlation between (lack of) this particular marker and breakthrough infection, it is still at least as possible that immunity requires a coordinated response from several parts of the immune system, with no part particularly dominant. A weaker response by one part could be compensated for by another part. If you're not good at neutralizing the virus but you're really good at preventing it from entering, you may be just as ok as someone with opposite strengths.

Another way to say that is that there very well might not be a relevant threshold of this one marker, or the threshold may be so extreme as to be uninteresting. We might need to combine additional markers.

(I really ought to read the actual study before nitpicking on its reporting, though.)
I don't think anyone has, or would ever, use the expression you created, but the article describes why this bothers her: "Not a great adjective to have placed next to your name. Repeat something often enough, and people believe it."

I for one wouldn't like something to be described as "the sordid <my name> saga" if I was innocent.
It's a relatively small lab in a university and part of my job is keeping the computers running.

I could wipe, but I want to make as little work for my replacement as possible. Well, maybe a few minutes of extra work to get rid of a screensaver.
More languages more problems?

In a desktop environment you can have many languages that compile to the same machine code. You can compile interpreters that run in that machine code.

If browsers had to support ten languages then they would be ten times as complicated. You'd not just have quriks and bugs in Javascript but quirks and bugs in the other languages to worry about.

Today with WebAssembly you could compile any language you want for one runtime, though people have done that with transcoding to Javascript for a long long time.
I've often been surprised to see enthusiastic admiration for Craig Murray in this forum in particular. He's an outright raving conspiracy theorist, in this case painfully obviously sneaking out information about witnesses in a rape trial in part because of his belief that the trial was part of a massive state conspiracy.

His commentary on the Assange trial was so overwhelmingly and obviously biased that it was impossible to derive any useful objective information, so it was very strange to see him so heavily promoted.

It just seems like it would be possible you might object to the treatment of Assange—or be concerned about the trial's effect on free speech—without weirdly uncritical promotion of such an unreliable and unsympathetic narrator. At least it would be wise to treat anything he says with extreme skepticism.
Show HN: A script to make any Android app debuggable
What makes this worse is the ability of vaccinated people to spread the virus and show symptoms.

Easing masks mandates was a mistake imo, we are reacting way too slow, especially since we have always been lagging behind EU. They were struggling with delta weeks ago, so now it is our turn.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-mask-decision-stunning-f...
Google tells me a rebounder is a kind of mini-trampoline? What do you do with it?
This is the worst. Back in my help desk days, was working at a construction company, so we expected a lot of damage and failures from being on jobsites, no big deal.

Laptop came in with a non-functional keyboard and some other odd, flaky behaviors. The user was adamant it hadn't gotten wet, dropped, or otherwise damaged.

I was young and naive, so I believed him. Started the usual software diagnostics, driver updates, etc. After all of that fails, finally pull the keyboard out to replace it (back when you could do that) and discover.... coffee stains!

Which is not to say a screen should crack from a dorito, it absolutely should not.
Given the slow sales relative to projections, I wouldn't be surprised if they just did one run and it took that long to sell through. What was the last Itanium launched?
I like my coworkers to be people I know in real life; I also like to code in a silent room. One way of accomplishing that would be a private office at work, but hybrid WFH is the next best thing.
>How is this different from any other behavior?

Other behaviour does not cost any business money. People being obese makes businesses money, so why would they fund propoganda to stop it?

Leave obesity, what about water pollution? Do we still remember the events portrayed in movies like Darkwater and documentries like "What lies upstream"? How CDC just stood by while an entire area of human population were being subject to toxic water and produce getting cancer and other serious health issues..

After nearly 5 decades after the events shown in the movie DarkWaters, PFOA is still unregulated in many developing countries.

Where is the health agencies that so want to "save lives", doing something about it. F*k the whole lot of them!

Unvaccinated are a huge risk to the perception that being vaccinated is better option. Bret Weinstein talks about it in their podcast. If most people are vaccinated, then the vaccinated cannot be easily compared against the unvaccinated. So if just in case the vaccine didn't work as expected, it would be very clear by comparing these two populations. Which could be why the push to vaccinate everyone.
I dabble in "life storage" and your comment made me think that some sort of executable shipped alongside backup locations to read the data, if in some deduplicated backup form, seems valuable.

Eg Camlistore/Perkeep had the premise of using JSON to store data. However some random person isn't going to write code to parse all that data, pull files out, etc. A lifeboat .exe might be interesting.

Though doing it in the most simple, least configurable, least breakable way seems.. necessary. Yea some baked in UI would be cool, but more moving parts means less likely to work.
You might be interested in older work by philosopher Larry Laudan. He posited mutual positive feedback (or co-evolution) between: a) better data; b) better models or theories; and c) better instruments. Basically agreeing with you.

Likewise, he also noted that constructing better instruments is theory-dependent, as better theory allows a more complete understanding of sources of error (not to mention entirely new technologies).

Laudan called his a "tri-partite" model, as I recall.
Get out of the capital city.
Unlikely to be related. M1 laptops don't have heating issues. I say that typing on a laptop that doesn't have a fan and still stays cool.
And yet, when I criticized Docker in 2018, in an article much discussed here on Hacker News, many of the comments pointed out how much something like PHP would benefit.

raziel2p wrote:

"However, I think the author trivializes the amount of work required to make different types of Python/PHP/NodeJS/whatever apps all work in a consistent way through configuration management, saying "I can just write a bash script or makefile." or "just download roles from Ansible Galaxy". This is so painfully ignorant and irresponsible that I fail to take the article seriously as a whole."

From here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062288
IA-64 usually means Itanium. You probably mean x86-64 (also known as x64, amd64, Intel 64 or EM64T).
They said revenue but they don’t understand what it means. Only a few percent of that revenue is actually profit - perhaps there is no profit depending on the market. It’s an especially tiresome thing to point out since probably more than half of HN readers are paid a salary out of these kind of revenue figures.