skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do re-writes Fail?
I have worked at four different companies that have attempted to rewrite old software to newer tech stacks, and
audited several other project rewrites/implementations as an industry expert.

These systems range in size from a few million to tens of millions of lines of code.

Almost everyone of these projects fail or take orders of magnitude more time than the existing implementations.

These projects are not uncharted territory - there is already a working successful product/design to lean on.

Not as complex - the newer stacks e.g. web/cloud-based software are simpler than the previous desktop/greenscreens.
Todays tools and libraries are much more powerful and you get so much stuff for free.

Its not experience - the IT industry has evolved, with better practices and wider knowledge, also the access to resources and knowledge is much greater.

They are not resource constrained - almost everyone one of these projects have significantly more resources than the original implementations.

The thing I am struggling with is why does this keep happening?
> What's "real consumption"

Workloads you couldn't host on a cable modem
How to hack your Git history to look active
Ozy Media Board Announces Investigation of Business Practices
But on Windows/Mac there really is not a way to run Docker w/o Docker Desktop installed. And that could be a thing confusing people.

Linux, yeah, I don't think there is a Desktop version for that. It's all CLI
A few off the top of my head:
1.) Homosexuality is forbidden in Islam and is generally looked down upon.
2.) Not necessarily based off the Quran but their stance on Israel is generally not aligned with the western countries.
3.) Women's rights

Having strong views/beliefs that aren't aligned with the progressive agenda would pretty much keep you from any job at an Ivy league school no a days.
Not Your Ordinary MSP
Not only are we named after the norse god of knowledge but empower business owners with ours.
Facebook’s research on kids considered turning playdates into growth drivers
Why? The grandparent implies that universal healthcare would solve the person's problems. Sure it would solve the issue of health insurance, but I assume the person still needs an income to pay for everything else. So the problem still remains.
My exact thought. Please tell me this was filed as the Stonehenge Bug.
I wonder if Facebook/Instagrams sudden interest in content for children has anything to do with the unexpected popularity of youtube childrens videos.

I don’t think that sort of thing translates very well to a platform like instagram. Youtube has autoplay and suggested videos. I cant imagine a child would want to scroll a feed all day.
Actually, Caesar was not a surname (family name), it was more like a nickname. The name (using the modern spelling) was Gaius Julius.
This seems to be a case of the left being attacked by the further left. I am pretty damned far left, and this article resonates with me, so I wouldn't call it 'right wing outrage.'
> Also, given it was out in the open in broad daylight, I'm assuming a spy satellite could have gotten a picture.

Yeah, not even a tarp covering it.

Am I the only one that think it looks fake, like CG-fake?
Moderate Prosperity in All Respects
There exists Genuine Honda Rodent Tape which is part number: 4019-2317

(Random dealer site which lists it for sale: https://www.collegehillshonda.com/product/4019-2317.html)
Personally, I could never use a platform that didn't support inline links[1]. Simply unthinkable! How could you possibly indicate which part of the text a link was related to?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a
Three Hundred Walks
I’ve seen “concrete syntax tree,” delightfully.
I had no idea. :(
Publishers unite to tackle doctored images in research papers
"Enumerating" means identifying the specific beliefs of each individual in question, not waving your hands in the air and declaring what you think Ivy league professors are required to believe.
I’ve never understood why using a different user agent should make a difference. Ethically, if I can see the data in a web browser, I already have access to it and no one has any business dictating to me the programs I may use to access that data.
Thirty-Five Years of Lisa (Conference)
So your argument is, it can't be a conspiracy because that would be a big conspiracy. You mean, World Economic Forum big? Or Bilderberger big? Or free mason big? Bigger?
We had it on a copper cable line in university. The line was hung overly-tight without slack (old job).

When it got just cold enough in the winter: no connection. Warmed up: connection.

Finally realized it was the line, got Comcast to redrop from pole, and situation was resolved.
Israeli Diplomat Pushed UNC to Remove Israel Critic Teacher
I'm not a software developer so please pardon my ignorance, doesn't this put them at basically a "core complete modern cloud provider" - if you fully bought into architecting against them, with their workers product and all, could you fully build and run for CF?
Doesn't give any real examples.

"washing machine load/unloading"

What's the point here? If it can also move you have a highly complex robot like on the Jetsons.

Buy a washer dryer combo.

Buy a food processor.

A killer robot is a kit that makes my small engine vehicle (ride on mower) autonomous.
This is bait, but I'll bite.

A bunch of my uncles and senior team members are Indians who went to grad school in the US. All of them found it to be an amazing, welcoming and energizing experience.

They have many stories of committing social faux-pas of levels that you'd imagine christians would crucify you for. Contrary to expectation, their mistakes were quickly forgotten after everyone had a hearty laugh.

The left loves to pretend that the US an utmost racist place that suddenly got better once the proto-woke took over. However, demographic changes of such levels do not happen overnight or over decades.

The people of the US have issues, but they are orders of magnitude more multicultural than most other nations, developed or otherwise. (Govt/Policy level bias is a whole nother issue, I'm talking more about the day-2-day)
Well, I think I remember reading an article saying amatuer type stuff was some of the most popular. Ostensibly one could interpret this to mean that people want the realest stuff. I think a lot of this is cyclical, so maybe in 20 years or so we could see it swing back and have hyper real deep fakes all over the place.
> To top it all off, he has promoted or accepted strongly anti-immigrant policies, while his grandfather was an immigrant.

"Because Trump's grandfather immigrated to the US, that means present-day immigration is good for the current citizens of the US"?

There should also be a huge asterisk next to "promoted or accepted strongly anti-immigrant policies", since none of those policies registered as even a blip in yearly legal immigration: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/tab...
That doesn't necessarily mean much. It could be a scale model.
I'm sure people are working on it, but it's still a cost issue.

Currently, a few min of animation at the level of a AAA video game is going to cost you many thousands, more than $100k if you're modeling off of human actors (which games do) and starting from scratch.

By contrast, you can pay a desperate person less than $10k to film hours of porn, and the end result doesn't have a risk of an "uncanny valley".
Any recursive tree traversal function is incorrect. You need to write the function in an iterative fashion. Hoping that a recursive function won't run out of stack space is like allocating 500 characters to an input field and hoping that the user never will enter longer inputs. Consider a degenerate tree consisting of a linked list of N nodes. If N is large (100m perhaps) you will inevitably run out of stack.
There are squirrels in Brazil. They aren't as common as the (about equally sized) marmosets, but they are not all that rare. They are called "caxinguelê" or "serelepe".
Not true.

Markets take time to find new equilibrium points, during that time there can be shortages.

Not to mention that there is an upper limit on supply of labor in almost all markets.
Yes, and not at all unusual. The gap between the ideal world of textbook circuits and the messy and random world of real circuits is a source of constant distraction and surprise.

Thermal stresses, RF interference, issues caused by lighting, rain, and condensation, bad solder joints, other kinds of temperature sensitivity, designs with marginal component tolerances, component drift over time, vibration sensitivity, strange failure modes in damaged ICs, timing issues, power supply noise, coupling between circuit tracks and/or adjacent wiring, logic errors due to radiation (sometimes from surrounding metal), dust, insects, and animal damage - and on and on.
Take a look at the georgia guidestones. They say right there they want a population of 500m. So obviously some culling is also part of the plan. Might they cull some of the "wrong people"? Maybe, or maybe it is just a numbers game.
Totally.

The ICE boat has sailed!

People may love cars, but they generally hate owning cars because the industry is pretty horrible when it comes to servicing and repairs of ICE cars.

I don't know anyone who doesnt want an electric car. Anyone who does want an ICE vehicle either has a special use case for range or is an enthusiast. But even then, they'd get an EV if they could as a daily driver.
I would be interested in seeing this type of article for migrating an established App Engine "standard" environment application instead of the "flexible" environment, which is basically managed containers.

The first-generation standard App Engine service was/is a PaaS environment that provided a lot of functionality on top of the basic load balancing servers, such as an automatically high availability distributed NoSQL datastore, memcache, task queues, mail services, cron, and some special libraries. So migrating off of this involves not just the infrastructure but also a considerable amount of re-implementing equivalent services.
I know somebody who wrote a book on alphabets and said the Egyptian alphabet was based on some ancient Indian alphabet, which had its roots in some ancient astrological symbols.

There’s a lot of prehistory that is not well understood.
I deal with this all the time at work. People are capable of tuning out frighteningly obvious things, if they happen with enough regularity for long enough.
You know they do have to fly these things for real testing. Only so much can be simulated with computers and wind tunnels. It's not a matter if it's exposed, it's a matter of when and where it's exposed. Security through obscurity is very much still a legitimate thing for a lot of aspects.

We're not quite to a point yet where you have continuous ultra high resolution satellite imagery of the ground where you could feasibly record these things and eventually find them. Chances are you just don't have the data unless you know all the places to look. In the not too far off future it might be a bit more difficult. We're getting closer to that point for sure given export controls on AI software used in geospatial imagery analysis:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/06/2019-27...

Part of this I suspect is geared at stifling an adversary from utilizing lower resolution imagery data to identify targets of interest to point higher resolution imagery or other sensors and agents at to collect intel.
Parents post is about what the majority of Muslims believe, not tenured professors of Islamic studies. Other wise, in parents opinion, they would not get tenure.
Same here. No spoon for you.
Right. That explains why all the meta-analyses show ivermectin works. Because it is a sugar pill which works better than all the other pills... Because they aren't as good as placebo? Now that's a cool theory.
https://ivmmeta.com/
Right. That explains why all the meta-analyses show ivermectin works. Because it is a sugar pill which works better than all the other pills... Because they aren't as good as placebo? Noe that's a cool theory.
https://ivmmeta.com/
New Chinese vaccine could bolster global arsenal
How Geography Turned the Sahara Green
No because humans can spend that money on things. Squirrels can't eat more than they can eat.
Developers: Let Distros Do Their Job
Papa Franciscus ( Pontifex_ln) / Twitter
I hadn't seen that; thank you.

It's depressing that the CCP hasn't learned from the experience of Romania[1] and everywhere else governments have tried to increase fertility.

As I see it the only ways China's fertility can lift to or above replacement are: 1. reverting back to a pre-industrial, pre-germ theory society; 2. introducing pensions, introducing free health care, allowing free movement within the country (revoking the hukou system), increasing mandatory parental leave, providing permanent tax breaks and child support payments, replacing the gaokao by a lottery system for tertiary education, and controlling property prices.

On second thought, even doing all of 2 may not do it. Doing any less than all of it certainly won't.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans
Try reloading the page after opening the network tab.
Then it would be completely a waste of time. Graphene oxide aka NeuraLace has indeed been found in the jabs. Get over it.
In my experience of trying to calculate accurate click and open analytics, defining a user agent tells the software that they may want to exclude them and gives them an easy way to do it.

Some bots use a user agent that looks like a normal browser, so you have to try to determine patterns based on timing of events, IP address, and other data. If the request has a custom user agent, all you have to do is exclude the datapoints that have that user agent on it.

I personally always appreciate the bots that have custom user agents.
My favorite thing about this is that the URL is "dude-where-is-my-stuff"; can't use apostrophes in banking anywhere.
Deepfake Guide: How and Why They’re Made, and Their Future
The description at the top says "Voice: 90% cell edge probability, 50% cell loading factor, maximum resolution of 100 meters. Data: 5/1 Mbps, 90% cell edge probability, 50% cell loading factor, maximum resolution of 100 meters."

Basically, it's a probability gradient under certain conditions. You can be the 10%.
The hilariously fake Iranian Qaher F-313:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/what-became-irans-qah...
Ending the Hidden Practice of Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women
> I'm pretty sure Podman can't replace Docker Desktop.

Multiple siblings here have already mentioned that it absolutely can (and does for many).

My question is: in what way does it not? What is Docker Desktop doing for you that podman lacks? Just UI?
> Trespass To Chattels is a law that governs the wrongful use of someone’s digital property.

Statements like that make me suspicious of the quality of the rest of the analysis.
This has been the game forever.

My wife is a professor. At her university, there is a contingent of people who insist up and down that they are simply fighting for free expression in the classroom. What they actually do is receive training from broader institutions on precisely where their writing is protected, deliberately enroll in courses taught by black, gay, and trans professors, and write hate speech in these channels. When they fail the course (because they aren't actually doing the work and obviously don't care to learn the material), they claim that they are being punished for their beliefs.

There is an organized campaign to attack institutions and create a narrative of "I've been attacked for using gendered pronouns" or whatever.
The "Component crashed" message is most likely because WebGL isn't supported/working in that browser/device.
Amazon’s indoor camera drone is ready to fly around your house
Lucid to Deliver 520-Mile, $169,000 Electric Sedan in October
I feel a little bad for the squirrel. All that work wasted! I hope he makes it through the winter OK.
Unacceptable. Once you've run a highly public witch-burning and realized that was a Rather Bad Idea, you need to do better than quietly sweep up the ashes afterwards.
If there's no harm if public discover and view the content, you can just stream it to a Twitch or YouTube channel and skip all this complexity.
It wont come to real life though. If one company fires tons of great engineers for SJW reasons then other companies will thank them and hire all of them instantly. And if the SJW types would infiltrate all the big companies at once those Engineers would just create a new company where they make the rules.
Museum Lends Artist $84,000 to Reproduce an Old Work, he pockets it in protest
I had a group of Chinese grad students studying my black walnut trees, which was interesting in itself. They literally spent about two hours watching the squirrels go about their business.
37% of Covid-19 Patients Diagnosed with a Long-Covid Symptom
Perhaps in reference to the telemetry that VSCodium aims to remove? https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#why
> Let him make his points, but I refuse to believe in the stereotype that ideological homogeneity is some kind of crisis in academia. I’ll pay attention when they start purging the Keynesian economics professors and disallowing Christians from matriculation without denouncing their faith.

Liberal faculty outnumber conservatives on average 10 to 1, and are openly hostile to them [1]. UC-Berkeley has an official requirement for job candidates to have specific plans on how to increase diversity [2], and won't hire anyone that won't champion diversity. But neither of that is purging Keynesians or making Christians denounce their faith, so you're safe in continuing to not pay attention.

[1] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/study_liberalto...

[2] "eight different departments affiliated with the life sciences used a diversity rubric to weed out applicants for positions. This was the first step: In one example, of a pool of 894 candidates was narrowed down to 214 based solely on how convincing their plans to spread diversity were." - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...
Or to run a rotisserie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
> It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the cloud.

They do the same for other social media data.
And if there is a tenured Muslim professor of Islamic studies, what does that do to their argument?
A single party state is not an inherently evil thing. I think you can make a pretty strong argument that history has shown more negatives vs positives of single party states, but that’s not the same thing.

Acting contrary to your beliefs, not theirs necessarily, and since when is people joining a group for the purposes of mutual benefit (and yes, competition against outgroup members) dishonest?

There’s absolutely nothing inherently wrong with any of these behaviors, and I’m sure that there are many instances of behaviors you support in other circumstances.
I love the 500 mile email bug! I read another one years ago about a server that would inexplicably crash, and it turned out to be due to stepping on a particular floor tile in the server room. I wish I could find that one.
Ruby: Proposal to Merge YJIT
Universities have always been hotbeds of activism (and sources of an occasional revolution). Compared to the 20th century, the current level of activism is still pretty mild. No major faction, for example, is advocating for a violent revolution or recruiting for an enemy state.

What is different today is that one of the major political factions is absent. If your message is often anti-university and anti-education, your supporters will have a hard time maintaining credibility if they try to spread your message as students or employees of the university. At best, they can align with the student-as-such camp that claims that political and social issues have no place on campus. Because they have to remain silent, other factions appear stronger than they are.
Hasn't the rumor always been that they got a nuke from Israel or South Africa?
In college we had a transmitter that linked several campuses.

If internet went out on any campus we would go and replace the lightbulb left on the transmitter. A couple minutes later all would be good.
> Not to mention that there is an upper limit on supply of labor in almost all markets.

You don't think the hundreds of thousands or millions of workers that work at jobs like an Amazon warehouse and make 15/hour would switch to being truck drivers for 500k/year? My job is easy but shit, I would seriously contemplate becoming a truck driver for a that much.

It's supply and demand. Supply is low, increase pay and supply increases.
By "Solve the problem of people posting this to social media" I mean the more general "you shouldn't be accessing apps that are security problems while in a secure area, which I covered in a separate thread on this article.

In that respect, whether it's TikTok or any other social media makes little difference. If it's use of apps like that is prohibited, then it's either not a problem or it's a personnel following policy problem.

That said, if people really think TikTok is a problem they should be worried about some other app that's ties are far less known that might get far less public scrutiny and do far more. By the time we're nitpicking which specific social media platform is the worst to have posted to in this case, we're so far down the path of problematic behavior that we're in absurdist territory. The fact that someone's walking around with the equivalent of a video camera taking movies of what appears to be top secret material is the problem, and whether they put it up on TikTok or YouTube, or sell to the Washington Post or to RT is just bikeshedding mostly irrelevant details.

The solution to this all is probably along the lines of "don't allow smartphones in secure areas" or only allow smartphones that have been vetted by security.
> The government doesn't need web cookies to find you

Yet the government collects[1] them [2] in[3] bulk[4].

> Though it might feel like it, you aren't being spied on in any meaningful sense.

Not[5] true[6]. There are real harms done.

> Paid services that don't sell your data are the way to go

It's hard for paid services to compete with free ones, so they're incentivized to sell your data anyways.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism...

[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...

[3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/googl...

[4]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/25/tech-su...

[5]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-...

[6]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/grindr-and-okcupid-sel...
Yes the 520 miles on the Lucid Air shipping in October is a total game changer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28689432

Amazing how Norway is so far ahead on electrification. I feel like many people are still skeptical of EV range in cold weather but clearly it hasn’t been an issue.

With 520 miles instead of around 350 for most current models on the road, the Lucid cars are going to eliminate range anxiety. Can’t wait to see the prices come down as they scale up production!
This reminds me of what happened with Strava's global heatmap many years ago, that exposed military bases and where staff moved most frequently.

Strava at the time was high aggressively told they were at fault for "leaking" this information. But this is a problem more so with staff clearly using Garmin, Fitbits, Apple watches, mobile phones etc to log their activity and upload it to publicly available sites.

Strava also excluded the GPS activities from the heatmap where users marked the activity as private or opted out for data sharing.