skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a bit more than just one thing missing there. It looks like 3 or 4 loose thoughts poorly put together on single sheet of paper as a snake oil remedy to all your aches. You don't need to strech your imagination too much to come up with counter examples which would make authors unfonfortable. Ie one of the most performant architectures are used in financial exchanges, they don't look anything like whatever this web page describes. Pretty much nothing there applies to people doing machine learning, working on games, internal services, prototyping and more – they can and often are distrubuted but not in the narrowed view of the world presented there. Some insights like "message-driven as opposed to event-driven" make you question author's knowledge on the subject of distributed systems.

Probably better to ignore and base yourself on more credible sources.
I'd be willing to try linux again, but the thing that stops me every time is having to go into terminal and start building my f'n software and manually updating or fixing some terminal only setting that is breaking things

I absolutely refuse to use an operating system for casual use that requires daily terminal knowledge and endless googling to remember and use.

It is what it is, but I do enough of this stuff professionally that I want an operating system that works from the second you push the power button with peripherals and software that work instantly after plugging in.

The second I'm digging through old forums looking for some multi-line arcane terminal script to paste to make things work, I boot back into something else and delete the linux partition
Nitpick: they don’t ban competing engines. They disallow JITing JavaScript outside a WebView. Firefox or Chrome could include their own, but the wouldn’t be able to JIT the JavaScript. A distinction without a difference, but it’s a lie to say they ban other engines.
Nice. I will take a look at this. Thanks
> I know about them. I also know that they couldn't draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of ivermectin,

There are new studies being done now. We don’t know what them results will be.

> meaning that people who are currently using it might as well be rubbing crystals for all the good it will do them.

You don’t actually know that because you don’t know the results of the studies.

> Just because a scientist tries something, doesn't mean it's a cure or a treatment.

Of course, but it means they don’t think the matter is settled.

You seem to be claiming it is, I.e. that you know better than the scientists conducting the studies.
> There shouldn't be a general-public UI to manipulate individual cookies, since making a mistake is very likely and leaks the user's private info. Power users can use the F12 tools

Um, I'm pretty sure deleting a cookie or too isn't going to leak my private data. If it does, it is because some third party website defaults to doing the stupidest thing possible.
Regardinf W^X, doesn’t the Linux kernel has some optional expensive debug operation that can be turned on/off through a self-modifying code removing the expensive branching?
> And crime begets poverty...

Doesn't this get cause and effect backwards? You have no job, no prospects, so you turn to crime. How does the reverse narrative work?
And from what I understood from the video – an incredible time consuming with a lot of manual tasks. Pretty minimal automation.
I'm pretty sure Teams came with installing office for me, not installing Windows 11. I could be wrong though.
Well now you've quite clearly demonstrated why you were turned down for the role.

As a someone who has done a lot of hiring: 'I know the type'.
Thanks, but I am done with GNU/Linux Desktop.
Creative Coding with Swift
> Point 3, at least in my shop, you're just wrong. I don't know anything about what you're writing. I probably don't even know what problem it is supposed to solve. You are mistaking the highway road crew for mechanics.

How? Honest Question. If you know nothing of the application how are you able to offer any input into the infrastructure it runs on.
Isn't graphene really prone to shear stress?
The reason was probably that no one ever needs to delete just a subset of cookies from a site. I certainly never have, and I'm a pretty technically-minded user. (Other than for development, in which case I'm using dev tools anyway.)
No that wasn't sampling in the sense that you asked the original question. They only tested symptomatic individuals. They didn't test representative random samples of the intervention and control groups.
> In classical economics, specialization is good, and industries should go to whichever country is most efficient at providing them. Any sort of national tariff interferes with that: to the extent that the tariff succeeds at collecting revenue, it does it by making consumers choose an inferior product (in the sense that without the tariff, they would've chosen differently).

The problem with that argument is that in a modern globalized world, what you're often doing is buying products at a lower cost because the negative externalities aren't reflected in the price. Products are often cheaper in countries with few environmental regulations and exploitative labor practices. Free trade can be a race to the bottom.

The general argument that tariffs between countries that are roughly equal in terms of wages, regulations, human rights, and so on causes more economic harm than the revenue it generates seems plausible though.
> I realize more clearly than ever before that, in 20 years from now, our children, both in the United States’ and our Allies’, will have no chance competing in a world where China has the drastic advantage of population over the US. If the US can’t match the booming, hardworking population in China, then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead. We can’t afford to be behind.

> While we wasted time in bureaucracy, our adversaries moved further ahead.

Zoinks! This matches my experience working in defense and is one of my biggest fears.

> I am becoming “technology stale”.

> The DoD is still using outdated water-agile-fall acquisition principles to procure services and talent

So glad that I left the industry. It's infuriating too because it's not a matter of if, but when. When the US faces a determined and modern adversary, the ones paying the price will be the men and women who serve in the military. It won't be the Pentagon brass or defense CEOs paying. This shit keeps me up at night. Worst of all the government has known it's a problem for decades if you read the Defense Innovation Board reports.

https://media.defense.gov/2019/May/01/2002126691/-1/-1/0/SWA...

> Nothing is changing: most of this has been said before and the 1987 DSB report on military
software pretty much says it all. What is it going to take to actually do something?
Sidenote, he lists "Push over-the-air software updates to weapon systems (U-2) while flying the jet" in his list of accomplishments. Is this what it sounds like? It sounds like a terrible idea.
Yes. But you can see it all in developer tools. Just not as accessible. At least when you are on that site. Which is a limitation for sure.
> invention of 4chan

They set out to transform a symbol, and they succeeded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#White_power_symbol

If you think it isn't real because it was made up, Vonnegut's Mother Night has you covered:
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
I have access to browser stats for a b2b saas. The majority of our customers use chrome for the app. Approx 70% chrome, 28% chromium, 2% safari (almost entirely mobile). NB: we discourage mobile or you'd see more ios; the main site is approx 50% safari (of that, > 95% mobile).

Last time I looked, only one person had used firefox in the trailing 3 months.
I've seen that with "I do crossfit"
This scene is a particular pet peeve of mine (I know it's a movie, but everyone needs something to be picky about...).

The character played by Fassbender at one point explains his peculiar accent by being born and raised in a village near Piz Palü (an hommage by Tarantino to "White Hell of Piz Palü" a 1929 silent movie). However, this mountain is located in Switzerland, right by the italian border, far away from Germany.
Still, his cover is blown by a tiny mistake on how he orders beer while everyone glances over the glaring inconsistency of his birthplace.
"how many user hostile moves is that in the last 30 days" seems a bit much for something that they are "planning on deprecating". It's not even clear if "making chrome://settings/content/all the place to manage storage" doesn't just mean everything is just going to move from two pages to one but have the same functionality.
There are health risks associated with THC:

- the possibility of psychosis or schizophrenia in people 16-35 (https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/step/resources/Cannabis...)

- the same risk that inhaling any combustible has

- overeating

- cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-con...)

For some people the benefits outweigh the risks, especially when practiced in moderation.
I am interested in the distributed computing/P2P space and study it.

Developers dont want to rewrite their data models to reflect a strange API or weird model. I dont want to pollute my domain objects with MutableReferences or extend HashedObject. So while I think the ideas in Hyperhyperspace are good, the programming model needs revisiting if you want people to actually use it. You need to use plain old objects and spider them for references.

ORMs dont require you to use MutableReferences, they let you use your actual data model as is.

If we can get the backend storage to be P2P then any application outside the backend storage can be written traditionally.

I am personally interested in distributed SQL databases and have written a simple distributed SQL database that could in theory be used as a P2P application backend with distributed joins

I think a combination of event sourcing and CRDTs could be used to provide arbitrary synchronisation and merging between peers that handles bad actors through web of trust.

I have started a discussion of P2P storage backends on Infinity family which is a community of inventors (I can provide invites). I have mentioned Hyperhyperspace there.

https://0oo.li/intent/74001/distributed-data-storage#1630701...
Came here to comment on binary finger counting; found it'd already been said!

I have trouble with some positions due to the ring/pinkie connection, but for me it's more of an internal count anyway, so something like counting a 'down' finger as '1' instead of '0' makes it a lot more comfortable, or even '1' is finger touching a surface, '0' is not - which can involve moving a digit only a few mm or so.

The 1023 thing does require fine motor control of at least ten appendages, though even legs-arms-tongue gets you to 32, if a bit inconveniently.
> Since when is removing features that users depend on a positive?

Most google chrome users aren't techincal users; they aren't familiar with cookie data controls and won't care if they're gone.

Google consistently drops technical features in the name of improving or simplifying UX for most of their userbase (in a way that's aligned with google's interests). This happens since the beginning of Chrome (merging the address bar and search bar seems like that to me); This approach is present in other google products too (e.g. it's harder than ever to override defaults in google search).
I use FF, uBlock and Privacy Badger. Of those - while uBlock is most powerful - I value Privacy Badger the most. It shows me 'number of cookies' in the toolbar icon on every page, and in the dropdown I can quickly toggle any 'suspicious' domains to be blocked. Only much less often do I take the time to do more intricate stuff using uBlock Origin.
When I first got Windows 7, I was annoyed by it placing libraries and homegroups in Windows Explorer's sidebar. Though Windows 10 is worse, with 3D Objects, the OS shilling OneDrive, Edge, mandatory Microsoft accounts, etc.
It was a bad word choice, I'll agree. Our training is on the job, mostly. I'd bet most of us know many different layers of abstraction, and ways to just get stuff done, that would take years to teach formally, if it could be taught.
When I was young I first realized that there was regional variety to this in the US, from Michael Jordan (he grew up in North Carolina):

2: https://i.imgur.com/J7MaBUq.jpg

3: https://i.imgur.com/wORrZjC.jpg

Where I grew up, several states north of the Carolinas, three is pretty much always the index/fore + middle + ring fingers. Prior to seeing Jordan do that I didn't recall having noticed someone counting / signaling three with the pinky instead of the index.
This. If you want to read more into the precise ordering of the neologism, it's agile sandwiched in the middle of waterfall.

Which is to say, the upstream and downstream didn't change how they do things at all, and somehow developers acting differently is supposed to convert everything to agile.

Or to put it another way, this is what you get when you tell everyone they need to "do agile" without actually retraining people on what that means and update processes to enable it.

Source: experience with healthcare "agile" and "sprints"
> The logical result of an entire generation that interacted by Biology mainly through Pokemons.

This seems like a stretch. As a kid, I liked Pokemons because they were Pokemons, not because of some weird associations with biology.
boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%

Anybody else think they meant 420% ?
That was not a condescending comment by my read.

Replace counting in other bases with “theoretical physics” or “woodworking” and it doesn’t read that way either.

I think this xkcd is relevant here: https://xkcd.com/2501/
I’m fairly certain I was taught the unary counting system in either kindergarten or 1st grade. And I wasn’t even in an advanced course.
We're seldom honest at work and with others, could this make it more delightful?
I'm in the US and I'm aware of it (granted most 'muricans are not). I'd be willing to wager Europeans would be much more aware of the meaning than what you're suggesting.
Tardigrades don't have muscles either. Yet they can walk.
It didn't work as well. Manufacturers didn't go digital just for giggles.
One could claim that knowing the algorithm exists, for all cloud photo services (scanning isn't just an Apple iCloud thing), means that these people just don't upload to cloud services and not worry about any of this. For the Apple implementation, avoiding detection is as simple as switching off iCloud sync in the settings. In the case where they've modified the images to enable iCloud sharing, that would be risky game since those tweaked images would most likely make their way back into the database, and any tweak to the algorithm would mean it's all detected. My naive assumption would be that the latest model would be required to interact with the iCloud service (seems like a good idea at least).
Why would you think I was joking. At ease was a simplified interface from the regular finder. It’s primary change was to flatten the file hierarchy into a limited set of panels. It pre-dated both palm os and iOS, and informed the design of both of them.
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, but this is the reality already. Maybe reasons behind are sometimes different, but the end result is the same.

Google is rebuilding their Docs for using canvas only[1]. You have no control over it.

Similar things are happening.
Web assembly is getting more popular, and in more cases browser is just a sandbox running arbitrary code.
E.g Microsoft has huge interest[2].

[1]: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...

[2]: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3613873/microsoft-gets-ser...
See https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2020/10/09/the-air-force-update...
Firefox in addition to user-friendly features, also has containers which are an environment to isolate and manage cookies. A noteworthy example being the facebook container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

Linking here to a previous discussion on Firefox containers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353876
Maybe. That would be the last place I shop, though.
The shoplifter gangs will just jump over the turnstiles. I imagine any store impervious to this attack wouldn't meet fire safety requirements.
Not then OP, but companies donating to political parties seems like a pretty obviously bad idea, and I wish we would ban it.
Models are a reflection of data, isn't that absolutely clear at this point? This should not be news to anybody. Applied ML today is, in large part (very large), collecting high quality data.
You don't need a nervous system for information processing
The primary input device to Apple hardware is the trackpad, so it’s kind of irrelevant. But two button mice have been well-supported since classic Mac OS circa 1997-1998.
The Design of Disasters and the Disaster of Design
> ...then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead. We can’t afford to be behind.

I ain't an American, but this strangely sounds like Cold War rethoric to me.

Nobody has to "win" anything, especially not states.

I am personally hoping for civilizational leaps, and more collaboration rather than competition. Examples of collaboration are free and open source software. And US people likely "lead" there along with European people (in the sense that most free software dev time is coming from those regions), but that's mostly due to the living standard making that possible.

Btw, I am sure government policy in China is even worse than this, but I prefer to be ideological rather than practical — my take on Brexit was that unions like the EU are worth paying for as a civilizational step forward, and one should not look for pure monetary value gained from it.
This guy went on to kill is girlfriend then (possibly accidentally) himself. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/too-much-jai...
I read it as water-agile-fail at first. Made more sense.

I think most of my experience with "agile" has been: we'll make a vague plan that came from god-knows-where, you'll do lots of releases, testers will test incrementally, you'll update us once a week, and at the end we'll release it and you'll do it all again when the users tell us they don't like it or (more likely) when management goes on a new whim.

It turned out making a huge plan at the start was a mistake. It also turned out that no one wanted to ask the users what they thought.
Never heard of it. I doubt the gaming industry makes up a sizeable portion of HN.
When the prosecutor refuses to prosecute anyone, there's no point at all.
Online order for pickup is close, at least if you can wait 6-8 hours for the order to process.

Had this same experience with a Walmart a week ago, btw -- it took me 15 minutes to find one item I was looking for, and by the time I realized that it was behind a glass door I'd already seen the lines of 8 people waiting for an employee to help them get what they wanted. At that point, I did the math on sunk vs further costs, set down the rest of my purchase, and went on to pay twice as much elsewhere and consider it a bargain.

The pandemic really created conditions that helped me realize how much of retail shopping is a waste of time.
What's a good X11 or Wayland environment if I want a lightweight low-latency environment with Super+Number app launching and Super+arrow or drag snapping/tiling? Xfce with Docklike is X11-based, and gets me everything except for window snapping/tiling (when I try configuring the keyboard shortcuts, it doesn't work).
U-2s are surveillance platforms. Hint: look at the letter.

He means the initiative to provide in-air updating of the surveillance payload in response to tasking. Probably ELINT-related.

Edit: He's probably talking about this https://mobile.twitter.com/WILLROP3R/status/1318161379304591... and this https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38162/u-2-spy-plane-ta...
There are lots of people you don't know that smoke pot regularly and you can't tell. I promise you.
DAW - digital audio workstation. https://ardour.org/
Not just on exit - cookie autodelete is awesome. 10s after I switch site all past cookies are gone
A bit off topic, but I frequently just delete all cookies on all browsers on my devices. Since I just use Safari on iOS/iPadOS/macOS and Chrome on Linux, this is such a quick thing to do.

I also try to make using a private browser tab or page as my normal way to do web browsing.
In a lot of cases a better alternative to subsidies is just to have the government be a buyer for locally-made products. That way you're not just handing people money, the government is actually getting something. That seems like it should be more politically viable. That's assuming the government has some use for the things being subsidized.
7 companies in 15 years is a lot of moving around, maybe this has something to do with it?
Things GPT-4 Will Improve from GPT-3 – By Alberto Romero
Unlikely.

I have nothing against Edge. I just already know where everything is on Chrome. That's why default changes annoy me.
Exactly this. All the functionality is already built into Chrome right here:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/storage/cookies/

Contrary to the headline, Chrome isn't removing the ability to do anything -- they're just removing it from the preferences interface, where I'm not sure it really ever made sense to include in the first place.

Truly, editing/deleting individual cookies isn't something any regular user ever needs to do -- just clearing per-site, which continues to exist in preferences.
The store can't afford to stay open because of all the crime, so it closes and lays off all its employees, who are now all in poverty.
In most cities in the US, land costs are not going to be a large part of the costs of building new construction. Materials and labor will be most of it.
There's an irony to the top comment on an article about organized shoplifting being a link to archive.is to get around the paywall. Especially given all the "tough on crime" and "rule of law" talk in the comments.
A Complete Overview of GPT-3 – The Largest Neural Network Ever Created
Strength is unrelated to brittleness.

Brittleness is a measure of plastic deformation at the (ultimate strength) breaking point.

Eg, diamonds, cast iron, and saltine crackers are all very brittle.

Resilience and ductility are related technical terms, but not quite opposites.
I used to use VSCode as a quick editor for small things, but the bloat seems to be accelerating. I really like Jetbrains editors (and pay for them). My biggest complaint about both is how they're so in your face about every little feature. I see you have this thing, should I enable feature X for you? It looks like you're editing a Docker file. Should I enable Docker integration.

I guess I'm a pair programmer with Clippy now :-(
The kind of repetition I'm talking about probably can't be detected by bots, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong about that. The data is all public so anyone can try!
I've done a lot of paid training as an IT employee. Studying for a cassandra certification, getting the Kubernetes Admin certification, regular redundant OWASP security trainings. Export restriction trainings. There were a lot more that I didn't take. We basically had our own khan academy worth of trainings you could take at my last job.
Timmy has 1 rock. Johnny gives Timmy 1 rock. Timmy now has 1 rock. Jenny gives 1 rock to Timmy. Timmy has 1 rock.
we could have argued for all masks being sold to post some measurable stat about the mask, but then others would have argued that would have prevented masks from even hitting the shelf and we'd be worse off.
IIRC they've said they have no problem kicking people off for ideological reasons, and that the name has more to do with pricing than anything.