skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power resides in generational wealth not some commoners who got lucky. These people don't need to hold elected office because they can buy whatever they want, including manipulating government in their favor.
This seems cruel.
>You know what this is about.

No, nobody does. You keep making vague statements like this without actually saying anything.

>I assume you've read the links in my comment and the tweets

Yea, they just link to more of your own comments stating vague things like "I knew this would happen" (again, without ever saying what "this" is).

If you have concerns, state them. Otherwise this contributes nothing to the discussion.
Walmart Denies Litecoin Pact After Hoax Jolts Crypto Market
This is my personal understanding, that it is to prove to the landlord that they did the inspection.

However, isn't that their problem, not mine? Are they really using people's data to prove their business obligations?
> Matrix supports the concept of “key sharing”, letting a Matrix client which lacks the keys to decrypt a message request those keys from that user's other devices or the original sender's device.

I'm a bit curious why you'd ever need to request those keys from somebody else, in addition to your own devices (or your homeserver, where they'd be stored encrypted by a key known by your own devices).
Since a single unit is a hexagon, a 6 value block is possible right?
I quit Facebook (2019) and Twitter (2021). My general mood has improved, those platforms really are a cesspool that promotes and rewards the most hateful people and you can't help but get dirty from them and their attacks on anything and anyone they don't like. But I am quite a bit more isolated as an individual. And I noticed that HN serves me as kind of a surrogate.

We are slowly forgetting how to interact in the real world.
Not surprised. I had one of their devices, and it was just a mess.

The resolution and reliability was not as good as comparable devices in the price range like Microsoft's Azure Kinect DK.

Their software didn't work as well as what Microsoft cooked up, and it always felt like they put out this product and then just forgot about it.
still way above it's previous peak around $134/share in April.

there was a decrease into June down to mid $120's. then for a month climbing to around $150, where-about it's hovered. it went from $156 & is now down to $149 in the past ~week and is headed back up. this is a pretty minor shift.

last year was no where near so minor: apple was climbing fast. the stock had climbed slowly consistently to it's highest level every, an ~$80 peak in Febuary, took a dive in March to ~$60, then climbed to ~$124 into August. these little shifts we're seeing now look like nothing, compared to the huge massive rise in apple valuation that have happened ~1 year ago.
No one is suggesting that the company stop using it, where did you get such a silly notion?
Yeah, but picking Rust over Python won't get others killed.
Check out Pohl Anderson's "Tau Zero" which examines precisely this scenario. A starship using bussard ramjet needs to find an "empty" section of space free of interstellar hydrogen so they can fix their engines and decelerate without getting fried. This requires them to continue accelerating so that time dilation effects will allow the trip within the crew's lifetime. That's the setup, not the plot.
The facts are pretty thin here, but this seems to be the core tweet:
https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617

To summarize:

* Amazon has too much administrative influence

* Amazon has marginalized the core team

* also un-stated dirty tricks by Amazon

I think rust is great, and I love with the rust community has accomplished, and I wouldn't want to see Amazon break that. But from this thread I don't know enough to raise objections. It sounds like a Rust foundation governance issue, the sort of thing that comes up from time-to-time on most big successful projects.

[edited to fix formatting]
It's quite insane to me to, hence the curiosity.
> she just might not have wanted to become chairwoman of the foundation.

I can assure you she would have been happy to continue to be the executive director.

I talked about this briefly in the thread, but wasn't quite clear enough, so might as well also elaborate here, since it was brought up. I am not worried that she will not be the next ED. I mean, I would have preferred it, but it's not my decision to make. The structural issue here is that the foundation decided to forgo extending her contract while looking for a new ED; this means that the foundation currently does not have one, and we don't know when a new one is coming. During that time, the chair of the board has more power than they usually would, and Amazon is chair of the board.
Its time to do crowdfunding and gift them a few vowels.
Hmm. Looks like Nomad is intended for both production use and local development/testing (as opposed to using an alternative like k3s, minikube, or microk8s locally). One less source of reproducibility problems.
If it were just unreasonably hard to change default browsers, I wouldn't even care that much. The problem is that it's unreasonably hard to change away from Edge, but really really easy to change back to Edge.
The problem is that they are bromides and claptrap, not principles. There is an important distinction to be made here between principles and values, which they are not making in part because Amazon themselves do not understand the difference.[0] Having a community define its values is important[1], but this is emphatically not the way to do it -- and these are not it besides.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc

[1] https://vimeo.com/230142234
IMO Rust should have a future independent of Amazon. Ideally, we want everyone to be able to write Rust and not have it co-opted specifically for Amazon's purposes (I have no information that this is actually happening-- just reading the tweet like everyone else).

I wouldn't want a company like Google to think that Amazon has too much control over the direction of the language and choose not to use it, for example.
Does it? I find it really cumbersome. We were just interacting with it the other day and found it annoyingly baroque. There's a lot of assumed knowledge and I've read a fair bit of documentation and have been following Kernel development since before my career.

It "works" for the people who it works for and that's it.
But also consider that most of these projects are cost centers. Hn very much biases for people who are using tech as revenue (or at least core-value, in the case of not-necessairly-for-profit projects) props. It's understandable that the communities and tools should be orthogonal.
It's efficient and certainly has concise array syntax. But it's not actually used for high performance simulations. Nobody is running APL on petaflop machines to simulate galaxy mergers.
Sure, I understand that, but the tweetstorm is very non-specific. The only reason why I share your concern is because you built an amazing personal brand.
I have an org-mode file open in Emacs pretty much all the time that I can write stuff down in. Emacs used to have a reputation for being bloated and resource intensive but it's one of the lightest tools that I use these days and I just have it sat there in the background.
> Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.

This is because deliberate knowledge sharing is so ad-hoc and inconsistent. How often do new hires have to turn to someone to figure out how to get the project to build locally as the instructions suck? Quite often.
I would like to not put up with it, hence asking questions to see if they actually understand what they are doing...

It is also during period inspection, so they have asked to attend and it has been agreed.
Incredibly vague rants are designed to get people to take sides, presumably against Amazon, because they're big and therefor always doing evil.

This reads like drama for the sake of drama.

Edit: I should have said that posting this to HN is just posting drama. Using twitter to vent is fine, just not newsworthy in any way.
This feels like a wholly technocratic approach. It's like debating that philosophers have no relevance in genetic engineering, the only people that matter in that domain are geneticists, doctors, etc. But that completely ignores the discussion as to whether or not its moral/immoral/wise/unwise to wield such technology. I would argue the latter gets more and more relevant as humanity tries to emerge from it's technological adolescence.
That's one of the things I like about HN :-) The variety and range of different subjects being posted. I'm casually reading why we can't go faster than light, contemplating about Roko’s Basilisk or how to use a Raspberry for a strange project, and here comes along the definition of a Greek word (with a surprising number of comments and points).
This is a really good point I had not considered before. I assume there is no policy to look for diversity within countries? That’s a shame, because probably many majority nationals from one country may apply and many minorities from those countries are unlikely to make it through.
Not really, but I'm still using Basic HTML gmail!

It's a very well hidden option, but the https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ link should take you there.
Leaving social media really helped me evaluate who my actual friends are, and who were just names on a list. If someone is only willing to communicate with me if it's through a single corporate-mediated ad/promotion machine, and will just stop contacting if I'm not on said machine, are they really my friend? I've come to the conclusion "No" and honestly, I feel my life is better off interacting with fewer real friends than awash in the feeds of numerous names-on-a-list.

At the end of the day, I realized I don't care about such-and-such events, births, deaths, etc. of people who will only talk to me if it's through Facebook.
It's England. Edited post.
yea the flawless mac experience, what next being able to uninstall apple music or podcasts?
With the recent dust-up around protonmail's "end-to-end encryption", it's hard for me to believe that the hammer isn't going to come down on Matrix in a similar way. Nobody has seriously turned their attention to the compromised-homeserver issue, even though that's the only threat model under which e2ee makes sense. Expecting users in hundred-person group chats to manually verify each other individual user's keys is nonsensical. And even a single unverified key means that their homeserver operator could be listening in. I feel like Matrix should move more towards emphasizing how easy it is to self-host and maintain control of your own Matrix data, making e2ee is a non-issue.
The Clintons and Bushes are not really oligarchs. They represent a monarchy maybe of inherited wealth and status.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerburg are better examples of oligarchs because they managed to create their own wealth and with that obtained political clout.
Getting a foothold. Spain doesn’t operate on the same level as other European countries when it comes to some things, banking and trademarks would be two good examples of this.
There are tons of ways to write a story involving the force that doesn't boil down to destiny or power creep. Jedi are essentially swordsmen / samurai / ronin characters; and not every swordsman needs to be in a hero villain pair.

And there's plenty of fun stuff in the EU (Luke's Jedi academy, the force blocking Ysalamari lizards, Sith Holocrons, etc.) that could have been used to write a solid force-centric plot.

Though as you say the writers were too timid to do anything really interesting with it.
>In 2020, my linux laptop genuinely feels much better than the macbook my office issued me. Like - actually better. Not "Better because I control it and it's free/opensource", just "Better".

Yes! This is the point of Linux and other open source. We don't use open source because it's "morally better", we use it because it consistently produces superior solutions.
I've asked questions to see what grounds they believe they are using.
On mobile your site shows me that GitHub can support that query, but I’d like to be able to then tap on it and be taken to the GitHub search in question. At least on iOS with Safari, I could not find a way to be taken to the GitHub results by tapping on anything.
I think friendships develop when people keep this exchange going for a long time. You can trust that your friend is not going to take advantage of you.
12 year old VLC bug: repeated use of “next frame” leads to freeze
There is a multitude of ways in which you could format that code:

app.MapGet(
"/todos/{id:int}",
[Authorize("AdminsOnly")](int id)
=> "This endpoint is for admins only");

Or for people who don't like expression bodied members:

app.MapGet(
"/todos/{id:int}",
[Authorize("AdminsOnly")](int id)
{
return "This endpoint is for admins only");
});

Extracted to a method:

app.MapGet("/todos/{id:int}", GetTodos);

[Authorize("AdminsOnly"]
string GetTodos(int id) => "This endpoint is for admins only";

And more...

You could also put these methods in a class and put the attribute on the class, which would solve your "grouping" problem.
0.3% clearly can't be the real IFR, given there are places with significantly higher PFRs. E.g. 0.6% of the entire population of Peru died.

Please show a source for that claim about a 3.4% IFR in the IHME. As far as I know, nobody serious ever made such a claim. The serious IFR estimates from very early on were roughly 1% plus minus a little (e.g. the Imperial models were assuming a 0.9% IFR), and it looks like those initial estimates were spot on.

The exception to that is Ioannidis, who early on was claiming that the IFR would be two orders of magnitude lower than that. He predicted there would be only 10k dead in the US when there were 120 deaths. Three weeks later, there were 20k. He staked his reputation on absurd claims, and has been doubling down on borderling fraudulent research since then to support those initial mistakes.
Scientific fraud is a serious accusation. Which specific part of this peer-reviewed study is fraudulent? Have you contacted the WHO and asked them to retract it?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716331/

https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.20.265892
Steve Klabnik is well known in HN and in the Rust community, he mentioned it privately and doesn't seem to want to air dirty laundry more than he has too.

You can either see his history and trust that he wants to get as much done with as little said as possible or say you trust Amazon. Either is understandable but I think it's reasonable to be a known member of a community and speak up just enough to hopefully get the ball rolling in a better direction.
You've been downvoted but I believe your post is accurate. At least with regards to IMAP and any RFCs I've read myself, though I'm open to hearing from others. Much of email is absolutely implemented in client-side 'de-facto' ways.

edit: I see now in the RFC that there is a description.
With a majority state-owned joint venture
Super interesting read. I had prostate cancer 15 years ago at age 40 and had my prostate surgically removed, fully recovered now but it was stressful. It's great to see so much progress in the diagnostic field since the decision to have surgery is not an easy one. It's almost like there are two versions: the one you can live with for a long long time and the kind that kills you quick. Since the PSA test is so sensitive but not terribly specific a lot of men have to make a call based on pretty low-quality information, better diagnostics will go a long way toward helping in that area.

Paradoxically, for me the PSA test now is a great tool. Since it's very sensitive anything other than zero is a sign something is going on, if you still have your prostate PSA bounces around quite a bit even if you don't have cancer so it's a terrible first diagnostic.
Winds of Freedom
I was talking to a maths prof a year ago or so. It seemed that there was some Fortran stuff, although C++ seems the favourite.

Personally, back in the days, I never really got into the NAG libraries. I found it easy enough to roll my own. Maybe some of the stuff can save you time, but I ended up preferring hand-coding my algorithms.

The greatest thing to happen to Fortran was Fortran 90. None of that column malarky. Modules was kinda OK, but if I wanted to use well-structured code I probably wouldn't be starting with Fortran anyway. I don't think ANYONE I knew at the time used to new features other than format-free.

I tried poking around with allocatable arrays at one point, but didn't like it. I guess it was Fortran's way of trying to be like C.

One thing that is rarely discussed is that a programming language isn't just specification, but it is a culture and philosophy shaped by the programmers themselves. One guy made a reference to Cobol, and how object-orientation was an unused feature. He said that what the designers failed to consider is that Cobol programmers just don't "do" object-orientation.

Fortran - even Fortran 77 (IIRC) has some nice little features, like being able to specify parameters in a separate file, and read them in one line. I doubt most of the other guys in the faculty were aware of that feature at the time.

And my standard anecdote ... when I went to a new job, they actually had a little bit of programming in Fortran. We had Visual Fortran. I had to set up the environment to fiddle with something for a client. Set-up was straight-forward. I opened the project file, and the things opened and compiled without a single hitch. I was shocked - shocked I tell you - at how simple the set-up was. Normally one would expect endless futzing around to get the programming environment and libraries in place.

But that's not the real anecdote. One day I was passing by a meeting room. I overheard an outside consultant in discussion with some of our guys about a replacement for Fortran. He was going on about how flexible the system would be, and hey, it you needed to set up extra parameters you could always add them to an XML configuration file he was proposing.

And I thought to myself ... my God, that's complicated. In Fortran, you can read an array into a file in one statement. Bam! His method would have involved external libraries and some serious effort to get going.

I always joke that people should be forced to write Fortran for at least a year. For those that want to be JavaScript developers, two years. That should make people think much more simply about what it is you're trying to do.

A year ago I added programming microcontrollers to my list of things programmers should be forced to do. A resource-constrained environment should focus their minds a little more.
Yes, also it is to be expected that Uber has a large number of drivers that only do a couple of riders per week while a smaller number of drivers work full time. The larger number of drivers that only do a few rides of course would be in favor of flexibility, but this ruling is as far as I understand mainly about protecting those who work for Uber full time.
You make a good point. I'm relatively new to the industry (3.5 years) and this is job #2. I grew up poor, so I'm still in awe when I see how much I make – I guess I just don't know the etiquette here. It seems, according to the signal I'm getting from new offers, that I'm worth 25-35% more than I'm being compensated for. Particularly, it's interesting to see these new numbers without having volunteered my salary info. It seems like there is a ton of risk to asking for a raise based on other offers (admitting I'm interviewing elsewhere would probably scare my current employer), but also my current company is well-funded and I don't think it would impose a burden on them. I'm in a unique enough of a position to feel relatively safe right now (it's definitely sort of hard to hire right now). Any ideas?
You need to read below the fold to see the Amazon Leadership Principles (the ones that make Amazon a shitty place to work at):

How to Rustacean

Be kind and considerate

Bring joy to the user

Show up

Recognize others’ knowledge

Start somewhere

Follow through

Pay it forward

Trust and delegate
Ahh, well I don't know or care who would be familiar with your observation skills. Im asking for data, do you have that or not?
What was really the secret behind Van Gogh’s success?
>It's controversial, in part because there are very good reasons that it can cause neurological damage

I'm currently using it to treat long covid brain fog, out of interest, what are these reasons?
Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)
Jupiter’s energy crisis solved: Auroras roast upper atmosphere
Steve should write a blog post to flesh out his criticism.
They probably look at their market share and decide they're not a monopoly anymore.
No? The fluff piece says this new document called “Rustacean Principles” originated from Amazon, which is true. And at a glance it seems fairly banal. https://rustacean-principles.netlify.app/
> Email has never had explicit threading

The "In-Reply-To" header is described in rfc2822. It is an explicit header in the RFC that is how you create threads.

Every mail client I've used correctly understands how to thread reply-chains using In-Reply-To.

The thing you're talking about, steam receipts grouping, is not a feature of email, but a specific feature of gmail's web view which is not mandated by any RFC and indeed is not explicit threading...

But there is a real way to thread which is defined in the RFC, and if you use a reasonable email client (aka not gmail), every mailing list's threading will work for you.
Yeah... this was my first thought too. There is already VR avatar chat. This is not anything new.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good outrage.
I just had my worst PHP dev experience in 5 years of coding. Literally. I just had to leave the office. I'm on my way home and still feel fatigued.

The project not only doesn't use composer (well, it does now because I needed some components) but it has the same third party components duplicated or triplicated around the application. It looks like they downloaded them Everytime they needed them. Some of them are modified to make them work on newer versions of PHP. And the views and the logic are mixed together in big 4k lines files with no functions. Html, js, PHP, tens of SQL queries on loops, all mixed together.

It's so bad it looks that it was made like this on purpose.

The funny thing is a pretty important project for a pretty important and unique customer.
A life worth living. It doesn't have to be Instagram worthy.
The halting problem in Ethereum is "solved" (more like "dealth with") by a very simple technique: every EVM instruction has a cost and you have to provide "gas" to run your smart contract. If you don't provide enough gas, your contract call has zero effect and all the gas you paid is lost.

A contract call that would misbehave is guaranteed to halt: not by itself, but by the EVM, which, when the contract call eventually runs out of gas, shall take care of halting it.

It's pretty nice I'd say.
The police should be enforcing property crime.

> The apps failed and bought each other, and now three giants remain: DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub-Seamless

"failed", this line of thinking has always been confusing to me given Doordash is valued at 70B and Grubhuhb at 20B