skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Discord has begun the slow slide into being unusable while its developers ignore everyone. I speculated about this a while ago, I think after there were rumors of it being acquired, though that hasn't happened yet.

First it was AIM/YIM, then MSN, then Skype, then Discord, and so on. Some people used IRC or ICQ or whatever, or still do, I know. But many of us have migrated from one platform to the next as each one was ruined in turn.

By the way, check out how hard Discord makes it to report abuse: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000291932-H...

This is, funnily enough, easier than it used to be - you used to have to enable an "advanced setting" to even see the message ID.
"The version in apt-get", uh-huh.
The people are truly in charge. If everyone opposed something so heavily, they'd be able to vote out enormous swathes of the electorate till they get said desire.

You either get agency, or the ability to abdicate responsibility, not both.
Type stability lets us mutably alias, which atomics and Cell do not. It doesn't really have a Rust counterpart, a struct containing a bunch of Cells cannot be mutably aliased. If you're curious, this (draft) page has some information on it: https://vale.dev/vision/safety-2-type-stability

Vale also considers changing between Some<T> and None<T> to be a type-unstable operation, and the automatic borrow checker (HGM) detects the possibility for that (because the field was marked non-final), to not do auto-borrowing for it. We might decide to use something called the Undead Cycle to help with the Opt<T> case, though it comes with interesting tradeoffs.

There's a lot more to Vale, such as how our region borrow checker can enable zero-cost structured concurrency without the Send/Sync requirements, and the better RAII support. In the end, the only similarities we really share with Rust are the syntax and (hopefully!) the speed.

Vale regions are tracked like lifetimes, and have a concept of immutable vs const vs readwrite to aid in optimization, but they come with an implicit interface pointer to the containing objects' allocator, similar to Odin but memory-safe.

Oh, MLKit! I've looked into MLkit a bit before, but wrote them off because their regions needed a backup GC, where Vale's regions don't.

Keep an eye out, we'll be posting a lot of articles to HN soon ;)
More points of failure.
The article is talking about price inflation while the comments are talking about monetary inflation, which IMO is the main cause of the price inflation. The article asserts only that price inflation is the result of disrupted supply chains due to COVID, obviously a non negligible factor but it is highly irresponsible to leave out the leading cause, the greater than 40% increase in the supply of USD.

Of course their forecast went up. They knew it would. Everything a political entity says is political, their forecast was PR for their administration.
Totally! SLC looks increasingly awesome!

In Denver we have a hidden agenda ballot measure coming up that would allow residents to sue the city if they didn't clear out homeless camps in 72 hours, while also putting into law a maximum cap of only four outdoor homeless spaces (parking lots) - while allowing amenities like porta-potties!

Importantly the measure doesn't allocate money OR require these spaces. Just limits the max number the city can have ;(

funded by Republican PAC.

Oh and when a church tried to put one of the mini-camps in their parking lot in a nice neighborhood, the neighbors sued.

It would be so much cheaper just to continue buying old motels and building apartments. Give them the keys, try to help after that. Free & easy suboxone and immediate access to addiction/mental/health treatment if they want it. Naloxone on stand by with nurses in concentrated areas (e.g. an apartment block) would save a ton of money too, not to mention save lives...

https://www.denvervoice.org/archive/2021/7/14/dark-money-gro...
LOL, I think a better question is can people unlearn?
With a global chip shortage, Microsoft is trying to get you to replace your PCs
There’s more than one wealthy cabal. There’s the ultra rich power brokers like the Aliotos, Getty’s and then there’s the moderately wealthy people at the top of the government itself. Especially anyone associated with Willie Brown.

Government jobs are extremely lucrative, many pay six figures and opportunities to supplement with graft are plentiful. It’s a powerful club to be in and you’re potentially set for life. My spouse is a lifelong resident and remembers rushing to city hall with other hopefuls every time the city opened up applications.

The FBI is still working it’s way through the public works department with noted criminals like Mohammed Nuru and RoDBIgo Santos. I don’t really know what the Getty’s get out of playing kingmaker, but it’s pretty obvious what Willie Brown et all get out of neglecting the city and funneling money as they see fit.
But they are making rational decisions, in their own framework. And they are caring for themselves, as much as they care. Sure we could grab them up and throw them into institutions, and call the problem solved.
I’d rather see us hold them accountable for any behavior that harms others, and leave it at that. Sleep on the sidewalk? Fine. Block the sidewalk? Not fine. Litter, endanger, defacate in public? Same penalty as anyone else.
Looking at them as victims is degrading to them and paralyzing to society.
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But can LA do it with the 710?
Thanks to this article I can learn more. Expand my knowledge and abilities. Actually the article is very real.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dinar-guru-top-dinar-recaps/id...
What it’s like to be an older worker in tech
Google allows apks outside the store, even if they're discouraged. And they mostly don't enforce their policies on apks outside the store. (Of course, some policies are enforced by the OS/play services)
Except the aliotos cannot get elected. I'm happy to believe in conspiracies but if they control so much as you say, why can't they get their own elected.
Wait, Ansible is sold as being idempotent? Really?
Well, certainly we can agree to disagree.
There’s also a tool that converts Symantec VIP Access tokens to standard TOTP tokens:

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
Except no one takes life threatening risks to assemble a paper trail.
Plenty of unicorns around. They would love those googlers, and many are willing to pay SF wages in (say) Des Moines.
Developers really need to start a "software engineering association" with a simple rule: if you pay dues, you vote. No, not union: that association won't have any power over its members. With enough members, this association will be able to play hardball with Apple and other corps.
Would you please review the site guidelines and stick to them? They include:

"Please don't fulminate."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait."

Edit: actually, because you're repeatedly abusing this site, I've banned this and several other accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28335658
Yeah this is the "D"[1] is SOLID [2]. Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin talks about this in his books Clean Code and Clean Architecture. I'd recommend them. Clean Architecture is really good as an audio book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID
Indeed. The behavioral science would agree with you. There is no theoretical framework backed up by evidence that would suggest that prosecution and prison works as a deterrent. For punishment to actually work as a behavioral modification tool, it has to be consistent and immediate. Prosecution is neither. At lest getting caught red handed is immediate.
Sounds pretty bullish for decentralized systems
The first step against mental institutions was by Kennedy who's family had bad experiences with the mental health system. Blaming this solely on Reagan is misguided. Reagan just went with the flow.
We've banned this account for trolling.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s also a BS excuse because by any reasonable definition the DA is part of the police.
This is what concerns me about telegram now. It has one of most open APIs and I have spent thousands of hours building bots for dozens of my stuff. Can't imagine a time when they restrict it just like Discord
Blue Origin is attempting to drown NASA and its Moon program in lawyers
Some critical thinking.

Why would the CCP create "an impasse"? Why did they obstruct the WHO investigation? Because they knew there was nothing to find, right?
This just seems like someone out to wreck lives. There must have been at least a few victims that didn’t deserve that, even if some did.
The US is incapable of tracking Covid in its own country, why did it think it could track its origin in China?
Extra-judicial executions for unauthorized information access is not the right way to conduct yourself as a nation.
Freshworks S-1
I keep hearing people say this ("it's all team based"), and I don't doubt that it's true. Suppose I don't want to end up on one of those pressure cooker teams. How can you avoid that? I just don't see how it's possible, unless you know someone inside the company who can give you some insight as to which teams to avoid.
I doubt it's a bias toward apple so much as Apple's a large company with a diverse set of teams. There are definitely some teams at Apple that I would never want to work for; there are also some teams at Apple that are pretty awesome.

I suspect it's the same at all of the FAANGs, frankly. (Setting aside companies you may not wish to work for because of general company policy/work reasons)
Thanks for reminding me about David Thorne. Priceless.
And then multiply that by all the organized crime hackers out there... lots of bogged down slogs... so maybe let's find ourselves another way.
This is a pretty bold statement. And as the poet said: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. Do you have evidence to back up your claim that low prosecution rates actually leads to more crimes?

Your current anecdotes sound like hearsay to me, I would need to see some credible sources before I can start believing them.
This is not actually correct. Hyperinflation is not caused by loss of faith in currency, the causal chain is actually the other way around, hyperinflation causes loss of faith in currency. But when that loss of faith occurs you get a runaway positive feedback loop because behavior changes once the faith is lost.

The sticker value of everything in an economy in aggregate is a function of 2 things, the total value of everything in aggregate and the total circulating money supply. When the money supply increases, as it moves around this increase is reflected in the economy as an increase in prices. It is this increase that causes loss of faith. This is not evenly distributed across different industries and goods and services, as these price changes change peoples buying habits asymmetrically. Usually the things that rise in price first and the most are goods with inelastic demand.

They always try to downplay it because of what you said, they think they can keep the game going if they maintain faith, but it never works.
I think this would make a very interesting blog post, but is insufficiently served by a link to Wikipedia.
What a warm welcome! Thank you!
Police inaction is a long-standing problem that pre-dates the current DA by quite some time. SF police have not responded to garage break-ins or car break-ins for some time. They might show up 5 hours later, very annoyed, and take a report. Even if you have good quality HD video evidence. Even if you have a tracking device on the stolen property proving where it is. They will not gather evidence, collect fingerprints, or bother trying to solve the crime in any way. Even if you had them the case on a silver platter. Forget trying to get a detective involved. This was going on long before Chesa Boudin.

Part of it is housing costs and the department's difficulty filling open positions. Part of it is bad management of the police department: not having competent detectives dedicated to solving quality of life and property crimes. Some part is probably trying to make the current DA look bad because they're fighting.

SFPD has so far resisted any attempt at reform toward community policing or setting up dedicated QOL units. The city's broken NIMBY planning process ensures newly hired officers are not likely to be able to live in the community where they police. Fix those problems, then we can worry about prosecutions.
I was told alphabet city was like that. Squatting and soup kitchens; semi abandoned buildings.
I'll agree with this but the difference is drastic. Compare the number of people in Guantanamo to the number of people in Xinjiang. An order of magnitude of an order of magnitude difference.

Guantanamo is an embarrassment but it isn't even close to the Xinjiang camps
Yes right - and we can actually put that information to some use in some practical way. At least that's the goal.
I went down the same route and if Discord and the helpful people that I met on my way werent there I would probably be somewhere else.

I guess this is the end of an era
Thanks for this. I have always suspected such was the case, but never had any proof. I've even had people tell me I'm paranoid. It's good to know I was right. Fortunately, if my work did this to me, I could just say "no thanks, I already have a therapist."
> Probably not a price that S.F. is willing to pay.

a few years ago? definitely not.

today? possibly. people are getting really fed up
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It should be something done by some sort of Software Engineering Union, though I don't know if independent developers and small studios would be willing to join.
Over the last 6 years, I've been living this kind of life, half of which was intentional and the other half a work of circumstances. I'd work for like 3 or 4 months and make as much as I can from that job and live frugally, then live off the savings for 3 or 4 months and when about broke look for another odd job.
A history of cloud computing (2018)
Having been there and done that, I can safely state that it's not just Apple's fault. The entire culture is fucked.
This is laughable.
You're talking to an empty room. Startups operate by pushing money at features that are inherently unsustainable, so that they look like they're "better" than the competition. Now that discord is highly valued and looking for buyers there's no stress to ensure those features continue, or to in any way seriously improve the product. Standard push-pull economics.
login.gov would be great for this, with the obvious caveat being that it ties a persistent user identifier to sites you login with.

Maybe there could be two login flows - one that generates a unique pseudo-identity for each service, and another that actually beams over your PII for identity verification purposes.
Not just simplicity but consistency also.

The file system layout, configuration file syntax, and man pages are just far more coherent. Using Linux a lot then trying OpenBSD, after getting familiar with the general layout, it's clear OpenBSD is more rigorous with where files go and the system as a whole.

I had some trouble setting up a network connection with my ISP. My ISP does not share technical connection details favouring you just plug in their provided router. Never doing Kernel dev or C before, I was able to go into the OpenBSD kernel code, spot the logline I was seeing in the logs, see why my config was failing by checking the logic and fix my config. This was only just after trying OpenBSD for the first time and being extremely unfamiliar.

The sad thing is outside of my router, I've not found an opportunity to run OpenBSD. On servers, I mainly use NixOs for declarative setup. Also, with Docker being ubiquitous today, I need to be able to run containers natively serverside.

The same for the desktop, if I switch from OSX to OpenBSD, I'm making a few sacrifices with not much advantage as a desktop user, but if I switched to Linux, at least I'd get native Docker support to compensate for some of the things I'd lose not using OSX anymore.
They may well have believed what they shared. In this case, other subs were not removing more content, despite the claims [1], and it was simple to verify.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7jqbx/reddit-cant-quarantin...
What is a "per scope basis"?
Amazon do stuff here. I think Amazon 'fresh' was coded in Brissie. There's quite a lot of software and network engineering, but nothing like Sydney or Melbourne. CSIRO/Data61 are in town, there's film and animation industries, Web mgt and hosting.

I don't know much about the ruby scene here, sorry.
I, too, am wondering what you recommend be used instead.
Right - The point about human intuition is an important one. It's a key part of the approach that the blog talks about. When we start from intuition, we significantly improve our hypotheses about what could be correlated. And because no decision making is ever done in a vacuum, it's suggesting we lean into this and use it to our advantage instead of knocking on correlations all the time.
What kind of create standards could you create?

Some thoughts:

1) Certain infrastructure should be off the net automatically - pipelines, water treatment plants and similar things (or online with hardware guaranteed one ways connections).

2) Standards for testing backups.

3) Standards for IoS devices (a million insecure Internet light bulbs, what could possibly go wrong).

4) Standards for not having a hundred companies auto-updating onto the systems of critical infrastructure companies.
You can sort of read it here: https://neilbostian.github.io/static/js/main.319e1165.chunk....

Pretty print helps a bit.
Does the NY Times even print non editorial news anymore? I can't even remember the last time I saw something posted from them that was investigative journalism.

This feels like a bad magazine article
I work at Amazon and the work-life-balance is pretty chill. I do my 35 hours a week (7 hours a day--8 including lunch) and completely disconnect outside of that. Manager has been chill so far, expectations couldn't be clearer and are pretty reasonable.

A lot of my friends work at FAANG and finance in SWE roles too and their wlb is pretty good as well, with most working under 40 hours a week--some well under.

And we're all 1-2 years out of college. I really don't get the whole 22 year olds wanting to work a lot thing. Doesn't seem to hold true in my friend group (~10-20 samples).

You really wanna ask yourself if you wanna go thru the promo circus. What I get after a potential promo at Amazon 1.5 years from now is gonna be less than what I can get if I Leetcode hard and interview with some financial firms and unicorns so that's the route I'm planning on going. Knowing this, I don't even really need to meet expectations or try to go beyond them.

Point being: if you're willing to spend a couple hours a week keeping your interview skills sharp, you can afford to just meet expectations or even perform slightly under and stop worrying about promo and just jump ship when you get a better offer. If you go into every job with this mentality, you won't become attached to your job.
For anyone look into another bot/chat platform. I really like the telegram bot API. The API is very practical where they can accept both of GET or POST request, and the token is in the URL.

The bot can do interactive button/menu etc. I have been putting lot of my automation into Telegram bot.
That distinction is a little unrelevant, don't you think? Irregardlessly, you make a good point.
If you ever legalize marijuana, expect a million of those shops too.

Sincerely, Toronto and area where you can buy the same thing online and get it sent to your door for the same price.
Of course it is! What do you think actuaries do? Insurance is entirely about sharing risks across groups of people.
yeah cloud is a differnt beast. basically amazon within google
Unfortunately for many US workers, even well off tech ones, it is very hard to take a gap or retire early because of group health insurance. We've dug ourselves into this hole where workers are dependent on employers for life. That used to be called indentured servitude.
America has the largest slave population in the world, both per capita and in absolute numbers. I know you think that's funny, but most people don't.
I'm sort of at a loss for understanding the misunderstanding here. Someone without equity in their home probably cannot get a loan of any sort. Access to capital, as a loan or any other form, is a huge thing. So if your home gives you access to that loan, this is important.
Looks like the public instance at https://whoogle.sdf.org is hacked/corrupt since it returns different results to the other public instances.
Big tech is struggling to hire in a situation of its own making, by making the interview process so awful, and not caring about retention.
I don't get why you're linking those two groups.

As far as i understand, furries just want to dress up as animals and maybe have sex with other people dressed as animals, not have sex with actual animals. As long as everyone involved is a consenting adult i don't see anything wrong with that. I might think its weird, but that's true of a lot of "sex" things. Seems very very different from the people attracted to children.
How high can this ships go? How Fast?

All along the Andes in south america there is a dire need to efficiently move products from high altitude to the coast (where major cities are)

In Peru for example, there are hundreds of small farming towns sitting at 10'000+ feet of altitude but just 40 straight line miles from the ocean.. Today to get there, trucks have to use one of the few roads that ,zig-zag up to the high lands before heading into any of this towns. ( an 8 to 16 hour trip )

Being able to ship produce straight down to the big cities on the coast would be a game changer.
there’s no difference in pay other than the fact that anyone with an oncall rotation gets a minor salary bump
America killed a million Muslims just in the time that I've been alive. China has done nothing so psychopathic and cruel.
Insecurity is indeed a good way to describe it, then.
At the end of the day, a correlation analysis will never replace a causal study. So really un-intuitive relationships would likely have never been uncovered with this approach. But I believe most of the questions we're typically asking - especially in a business context - are super intuitive and, even with a big causal study, they are never that "surprising" - don't you agree?
And yet here I am at 5:30 am on a Saturday in front of my PC taking a break from some coding. Probably 4 hours before my 24 year old son even stirs from his pit.
Mine is aegis.. it's on f droid, completely open source, let's you backup your secrets so changing phones isn't a pita
The purpose of Ansible is so you can get a system up and running without having to waste time e.g. reading stuff. Big fail.

Also if I have to use Google to search within your website, you fail at website design, or your in-site search engine is crap.
if you start measuring suicides it could just push companies to weed out depressed people from their hiring pool, possibly increasing suicides overall by trying to avoid being painted as the cause (I tend to think the most ironic outcome is the most likely)
Are Pritzkers involved in "SF management"? They manage Illinois and Chicago in particular, and the politics style is similar to that in SF.