skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with this article. It's a ton of making mountains out of molehills. People chill out.

In truth it doesn't really affect you. You're applying particular, selective tastes. This article covers those preferences well & gives them, in my view, the just & fair treatment they deserve. And concludes that those factors don't really matter. I personally concur with the author's review of the assorted complaints.

I'm ready to be surprised, but I just want to note how dangerous this post is to write: I'm arguing against people who complain, arguing against a vocal loud echoing force that is all over the place, complaining about this issue. This comes up repeatedly, people seem really distressed. Trying to counter that is an impossible task. These people will not be sated. We could fix the re-distribution of the runtime & it wouldn't be enough. We could get slack to fix their terrible memory-hungry code & it wouldn't be enough. I've picked a poor group of people to disagree with online: victory against this group is impossible. But I continue to think this is an extremely vocal minority, that it is an prevailing attitude & disagreeableness which we should identify & snuff out, which we should be aware of in ourselves & in others: our desire for things our way, and our willingness to permit other options.
Cybercriminal sells tool to hide malware in AMD, Nvidia GPUs
It has been argued that the complete implosion of Christianity in the Netherlands was due to the creation of a welfare state.

The Church was replaced by an irreligious state and that was it.
Yeah ... and that's my point.
Be super careful that you don’t end up at your 1 year review, and when they ask for your portfolio of work, you show nothing.
To be honest, if I were in that situation I'd be thinking something along the lines of "well, that was a dodged bullet".
No. This would entrench their monopolies even further.

It should be legally required that any device that is marketed as a general-purpose computer, whether pocketable or not, and is shipped in a locked state, is fully unlockable by the end user. Without a single network packet sent to manufacturer's servers. That's the only way we as a society could fix this dire situation.

In other words, if I buy a phone from Apple, I should have the choice for this to be the only interaction I have with Apple. They sold it to me. I gave them money, they gave me an iPhone. It's mine now. They're no longer in possession of it. I thus should be able to run arbitrary code on it with highest privileges possible with no hindrance.
that's what the upvote button is for :)
Obviously, you should plan around this by gathering all the MAC addresses of every machine in the office, and then have your machine spoof through them in rotation. /s
Not the fine features. How many 7 nm fabs in China? and smaller?
https://www.notebookcheck.net/China-is-catching-up-SMIC-foun...
The scientific method isn’t even the correct framework…
Maybe they’ll accept Mochizuki’s paper on the abc conjecture.
The direction of scroll is one small part of it. The Mac trackpad is perfectly balanced in various important areas: knowing when to reject extraneous fingers, high DPI/resolution, just the right size and shape, the same height as the rest of the laptop, feels smooth rather than some weird studded plastic nonsense, etc.
Really, this is a "loss" to consumers how?
> Does the general public even know what NFT's are?

Been featured in the mainstream evening TV news, radio news, newspapers where I live.
Probably not possible if you want to directly run a modern web experience on it. Classic macOS has effectively no memory protection.
The list is “common” not “comprehensive”.
It’s actually fairly easy to ask, and many candidates ask me that: “how do you organize yourselves?”

It’s a very reasonable question to ask during an interview.
It's not secrecy, you can be totally transparent about who is involved without revealing their residential address.

Courts don't post SSNs and bank account numbers in their transcripts, and residential addresses should be treated with the same level of privacy.
I agree, Apple should be broken up.
Look for professor Steve Keen in various media. He has explanations for these phenomena, and some potential solutions.

In the linked article, the term "economic growth" is used without definition. One of the main causes of inequality is credit growth - not growth in economic output, which wouldn't be problematic but there is almost no such growth in the west.

Keen sees a potential solution in what he calls a modern debt jubilee.

I also recommend catching Lacy Hunt when possible. These two economists have different perspectives, but both have fresh perspectives.
macOS is the hard one to solve. It does a lot of magic things in the background and Docker even created their own "distro" / VM build system, linuxkit, that went on to be useful in a lot of other places to make it work.

A lot of macOS developers imo seem to have more knowledge in their specific domain and less in how to wire up a VM to look seamless, they'll need the docker CLI to work with the local filesystem to keep a lot of existing Makefiles functional, I see a bunch of companies caughing up money in the short term just for that.

Docker Desktop on Windows itself proves quite well that WSL2 works fine for this use case.
The evaluation objective for those medicore devs should be to „get up to speed” or the company will never improve and soon become overrun by competition.
> When you go to the lavatory, spend longer time there than is necessary.

Ah yes, finally we’ve uncovered the real problem. Good grief.

I agree with the bit about people who proceed too cautiously and need too much approval. However this can be a type of worker, and it can also be induced by the workplace. Employees who try to be effective and productive only to get their hand slapped, or wind up in territorial BS, are liable to have this reaction. Changing how you hire won’t improve the situation in this case.
> You cannot really force the vendors to ship open source drivers for your OS.

But currently, mobile SoC vendors _are_ shipping open source drivers. They must release the source code of kernel-mode drivers in compliance with the GPL.

The problem with SoC drivers is that they're not upstreamed and upstreaming them would require major effort and specialized knowledge. SoC vendors work under intense scheduling pressure and feel the need to cut corners. In other words, this code remains outside the mainline kernel because it doesn't meet the quality bar set by Linux maintainers.

Many mobile hardware vendors don't even see value in maintaining a single kernel tree supporting all their SoCs: their approach is to freeze on an LTS kernel early in the development cycle of a particular generation and then never rebase their changes onto newer kernels. They also work mostly in secret until the new SoC is unveiled.

A stable driver API would appear to solve this problem, but actually causes huge constraints for kernel development while not solving the actual driver quality issue. GKI is an attempt to go down this path, but several kernel hackers disapprove it:

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/gener...
Religion isn’t the answer, it’s the question
Learning Highly Recursive Input Grammars [pdf]
That's actually a separate problem. Or rather, two separate problems: Inequality of growth, and externalized costs of growth.
Yes, we started the process.
Could this be cell service providers switching from 4g to 5g?

ATT sent me two new phones out of the blue b/c they are switching and previous phones were not 5G.
We have used SciTools Understand to do this on local source code. What is the use of putting this in the cloud? The website doesn't really explain that.
Painting the tape is not for every one but somebody got to do it.
You're right that the product number is not a very meaningful value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix

Take a look at this risk matrix. It's divided into cells that are each assigned a category. If you assigned numbers to it, you'd get conflicting results:

1. Possible (3) x Catastrophic (4) = Very High (12)

2. Likely (4) x Critical (3) = High (12)

In this case, 12 can mean either High or Very High. Therefore the category is more important than the product.

So basically, the product is only meaningful if the categories are defined in terms of it, which I don't think is common. Really, I should have said you need the category, rather than the product.
>That's the core problem with all crypto: it can prove on-chain, digital events, but it can't prove anything in the real world.

This is really the core problem with the cryptocurrency space. The whole "iT'S tRUSsLeSs" claim is complete nonsense as soon as you try to attach it to any meatspace system. And you need that bridge to the offline world to solve interesting problems.
I do not know if you know this, but back in the day, we used to publish entire doxxing books, listing everyone's address and home phone number. It was opt-out, and almost nobody did.

Why are people today suddenly so worried about that?
Me, I don't block Google Analytics intentionally, I run Ublock Origin to get rid of ads in general and it happens to block Google Analytics.
Sorry if I misunderstood but I have seen this kind of thought in non experienced programmers woking on greenfield projects and taking any decision as in "the end justifies any means"
Micro Business Loan: Same Day Funding – Same Day Business Advance
The documentary 'Coded Bias' goes in to some depth on this problem in facial recognition and on the wider problems of the social impact of biased algorithms.
I was involved in the self-driving efforts at Intel. Can confirm the incompetence.
That's lovely. I work in consulting and every hour I get distracted I have to make up at some other point in the day. usually late at night after my kid is asleep.

yes I'm looking for other work...
Ah you're the guy that submits PRs that just changes a failing test instead of the code it's testing
I think they know that it's something that may be able to sell for more money that what they spent. And they may be right.
and for those that think this is an anomaly (one judge getting these odd/crazy cases…) this is what trial court is actually like (nearly) all day every day.
> I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society.

Very well said. This is arguably what social media has done. From what people say and think, to the reaction to current events, everything suddenly is about the most sensitive, risk averse, neurotic interpretation. We need to be better at tuning this out.
> We are born with perfect pitch

I know there are some studies on this but it's far from conclusive enough to state this without any further qualifiers. I suppose you are indirectly referring to the study referenced in this article?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/21/timradford
I can't think of anything else they could be, honestly. If it's not money laundering, it's dumb. There's no such thing as a smart NFT purchase.
That's actually very interesting.

Is there any extension that blocks analytics selectively?
Companies make money on float[1], it is not surprising they would want to hold your money as long as possible.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/float.asp
Hidden services are not accessed through exit nodes. Relay nodes cannot capture your traffic or perform MITM attacks.
I'll consider it, but I find your perspective peculiar (perhaps insensitive) in that if someone has concerns about the future of children and humanity then it seems you think there must be something broken about that person. It's fairly presumptuous for you to think you can psychoanalyze me to that extent via text.

I have things to be sad about, and I've had depression in the past, but I don't think I qualify for depression. People are quick to pathologize the things that I talk about, but the reality is I don't think about those things in day to day life. I've largely moved on with my life and have plenty of good things to live for.

Yes, I find a lot about the state of humanity to be dissatisfying. And there are certainly people far more distinguished than I am whom share some of that dissatisfaction. Does it really make sense to conclude that we are all simply depressed? In that case, you might as well tell people they're pollyannas for having optimism.
This is my experience as well. I also use a lot of slowly sauteed garlic, like pretty much every day, and I'm completely reliant on a small nonstick pot to do it without sticking and burning.

Scrambled eggs too, especially the soft-scrambled kind ala Gordon Ramsay's famous short video. They simply wipe out of nonstick pan, and I've never seen this work with any other kind of cookware.
Good. I once bought into the gatekeeping concept - except Apple hasn't followed through with their end of the bargain. Scam apps are still rampant - even dominating the recommended sections in the app store. Customer service is abysmal - if you do go for a refund it's a crap shoot as to if you will ever get a human response. When they kicked Parlor for purely political reasons - that was it. Time to force the gates open and let the market decide.
The direct sale of indulgences has been prohibited by the Catholic church since 1567. I don't think it's very relevant here.
Its much easier if you skip the training step
Thanks!

Although that thread was posted earlier, I think we'll merge it into this one, on the principle that corporate press releases tend to make worse HN submissions. This is something of an exception to HN's original source rule.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The Yen isn't a reserve currency, and it's had 0% interest rates for ~30 years.

Why can't the dollar be the same?
Why We Love the Steelcase Gesture Office Chair
https://helloeffie.com/

Never used it myself but i have been curious if it actually works.
There is a community around watching court cases at /r/zoomcourt

Judge Middleton and Deborah Davis (the attorney) from this case are very popular over there. She is even a member of the subreddit IIRC.
It's a fancy receipt backed by hype and techno-woo.
This happened 5 months ago. HN looking like my YT recommendations
The uncommon need for sex and intimacy?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570.

Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28371504
About three or four years ago, college football formally implemented a targeting (helmet to helmet contact) rule that had immediate impact on the way tackling is taught in college and high school. Players are now taught to tackle shoulder first in certain situations or go for the legs in others. Pros have a looser, inconsistently applied, personal foul rule, but we're starting to see the techniques taught at lower levels in the pros.

Mind you, it's still an incredibly violent game, who knows if the new measures will make a difference, and we'll probably see shorter careers due to leg injuries.
It's unclear, because the exact details are specific to the license and therefore may vary from station to station. My local television stations usually air the news at 11, which is after primetime.
The #1 I have to say is my current Windows 10 Pro version (which I paid $100 for) is throwing a huge modal up each time I reboot trying to get me to create a non-local Windows account.

The only options are to create an account or dismiss the modal - no option to not ask me again.

#2 is all the telemetry.
Software cannot solve societal issues it can only scale them
that's not what the name implies. Gross simply means large or super, as in Super-Market or in Bulk-Sale. Originally it has also meant rough. In English it still does, but formerly in a sense of coarse, and I guess in this case especially rigid.

> ... Its meaning forked in English. Via the notion of "coarse in texture or quality" came the senses "not sensitive, dull stupid" (1520s), "vulgar, coarse in a moral sense" (1530s). Via notion of "general, not in detail" came the sense "entire, total, whole, without deductions" (early 15c.), as in gross national product (1947)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gross

Okay, not quite rigid, but not either dull, stupid. It's actually difficult to believe the outline, while the beginning is uncertain.

A gross may also have meant a dozen, and Groszen was a coin, maybe a dime a dozen. So, what are these twelve products that estimated national domestic production there and then, metal, salt, textiles, big macs?
>Basically, the return air gets exhausted while heating the incoming/supply air when CO2 concentration > X.

That’s the basic idea of demand control ventilation but how are the two air streams interfacing? If our concern is air quality, how is cross contamination between the two mitigated?
A contrarian note in the sea of negativity here: I have it on all my machines since the insiders release a couple of months ago and I'm very happy. Everything works. WSL2 has GUI support. UI looks nicer than Win10. I'm not sure about the hardware compatibility gripes -- will it really not install on old hardware or is this about "supported" status? It runs just fine on my Surface Go fwiw.
Can you elaborate on how the bike helmet sucked all the joy out of biking?
Just because it happened in the past doesn't make it right.

Lots of very grave things were done in history that we now know to be mistakes.

Also, I always opted out in those days. I should still be able to do that today.
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."[1] was a joke in the 90s and some people said the trend was obvious by the late 80s[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
> They offer total customer management.

No, they FORCE total customer management.
In fact, answers like that are not just common, they're entirely valid and usually the only answers. Switching from X to Y is unreasonably effective in the open-source world. Nobody knows how to fix anything, because things are usually poorly documented, change radically each version, and everyone you'll meet has a wildly different Linux setup than you. So people recommend it. It's like the Monty Hall problem, except the thing you want (the goat) keeps changing. Problem A? Switch from X to Y. Y causes problem B? Switch from Y to Z. Continue until you tire of switching enough to settle on something that mostly works for you.
> In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office.

To echo the statement from the other Googler who posted, this quote from the article is simply not true. It implies that if any employee chooses permanent WFH, you get a pay cut.

If you follow the link [1] from the article, you'll see the following reasons:

* Google supplied an online calculator to see how their possible relocation would affect their pay

* Pay rates are defined by metropolitan statistical areas (MSA)

* Google says "Our compensation packages have always been determined by location, and we always pay at the top of the local market based on where an employee works from,"

So, if you choose to WFH permanently and you commute far enough to live in a different MSA than your office, then you might see a paycut.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pay-cut-googl...
> In this case, the authenticity seems to be tied to whether the artist said this is real or not.

It's the case for a lot of collectible objects. They need to be authenticated in some way. NFTs are mostly the same thing. An item that some people are willing to pay money for (either for speculation or emotional attachement) but otherwise worthless.
That's interesting and well-put!

I've thought for a long time that the world is, in a sense, a mirror: what you see out there is a reflection of yourself. A social climber worrying about being used is a part of that I hadn't considered before.
My understanding is that only judges can share these recordings because it would be an ethical violation for the lawyers to do it, but I wonder, why isn't it an ethical issue for the Judge?
Aha. And should every single company employ above-average developers? How does that work out, mathematically?
Write Your Next Ethereum Contract in Pyramid Scheme
Docker Desktop becomes a commercial product for companies with 250 employees
You are in much better shape than most mortals in this respect.

> I can reliably tune an A440 to within 2 cents, but I doubt I could get some other arbitrary note to within 20.

But you can work your way up and down the keyboard from that initial A440 to check how the other As are and then expand from there until you have them all in tune. So you can't just pick a random note and tune it but you can for instance use your one reference to tune a whole keyboard eventually hitting on that one random note and getting it to within some tolerance.

> I've seen demonstrations of true, "one-in-a-billion" savants doing mind-boggling things like immediately naming every note in bizarre 15-note chords

That's the kind of skill to be very jealous of, at the same time these savants often seem to have to have given up something else.
And ALF in 1987 S02E05
> a helmet offers little protection against being hit by a car

This doesn't seem true? A lot of people who get hit by a car end up falling to the ground, where they can hit their head on the concrete.
Shortcuts has really taken off in the last year or two on iOS and I think it provides the most user-friendly way of creating a button that automates something tedious. Certainly a lot of its popularity is owed to the ability to create custom Home Screen app icons with iOS 14, but it's great if that was the spark that encouraged people to explore how they can automate their devices.

Later this year Shortcuts will finally arrive on macOS as well—I bet it will get a lot more use than Automator or AppleScript does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.
One of the papers quoted by this paper is something I always wondered about: how can anyone have absolute pitch when you can detune your intrument slightly, e.g. if the Oboe gives the A and everyone tunes to that there's no guarantee that it's 440. Not everyone picks 440 for A anyway so really absolute pitch has a basic cultural reference.

Apparently possessors of AP can re-calibrate to detuned sounds with some exposure.
We can’t identify "colors" in isolation either. Color is all relative. If a person had to identify the luminous intensity of a visual stimulus to within a factor of 2^(1/12) [the interval of one semitone], they wouldn't be able to do it. (With significant training and in standardized surroundings it could probably be learned by some people.) And precisely identifying hue/chroma in isolation is just as difficult.

(Note: there is no way to make a perfect analogy about sound vs. color identification, because the physical mechanisms and resulting perceptual spaces are completely different.)
There is a distinct lack of SlimJims being snapped into, nor many aerial moves in extreme programming.
> I'm somehow unable to identify the moment where the computer stopped being your kingdom

Phones started it, and Windows 10 followed (That's when I stopped using Windows). The only reason my kid still have a Windows PC is Roblox (but it is starting to work pretty well in Linux).
Are there any readily available stereo cameras besides RealSense? Turning this into a product for video conferencing would be a huge hit, been thinking of it for a while.
It's a lot faster when you aren't beholden to reality. You can save a lot of time by not having to do any of the background reading, or checking your conclusions against it.
Okay, then let have a study with elderly people, comparing percentage of childless people regretting their choice against percentage of those regretting having had children.
Based and Horse-Pilled
Reddit’s teach-the-controversy stance on Covid vaccines sparks wider protest