skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Facebook will keep building for kids
I have worked at (and are currently working at) places that treat warnings as errors, and if the warning is not trivial to fix it just ends up disabled. People do notice it during code reviews but it usually goes through as someone "will fix it later".

So out of sight and out of mind.
“The Catholic Church teaches that contraception is immoral as it frustrates our natural sexual powers, thus your position would never be able to be adopted in the Catholic Church.”

I never get this stance. They are against abortion, but at the same time against sex ed or contraception.

It makes no sense. They are setting people up for failure.
Netflix recommendations is one of the reasons I’m not worried about tailored content. Netflix apparently have zero idea about what shows or films I like. Either that or they don’t have them. All I want is fantasy removed from sci-fi, explosions, spaceships and boobs.
It's not really readily available either, only a preview build.
Yes, the open source volunteers and random employees deserve it. They are responsible for all of microsoft's many sins, and we should find them online and tell them they are trash tier developers until they learn their lesson, right?

Ok, sarcasm off.
This attitude is utterly toxic. People who are ignorant of how fast their software could be do not deserve abuse from strangers.
Not just arm. The M1 is a point of reference for any portable computer.
that doesn't address my point, since you can say the exact same about wherever the site is hosted unless you strictly self-host everything, which the vast majority of sites doesn't do.
Time is on my side: wait events
I use a simple text file. It has a list of tasks with a minus or a pluses beside it. If I don’t do a task, it gets moved to the next day and a plus added to it. Eventually the pluses get annoying and I just leave the task as never to to do.

It’s worked out well, if no one ever asks me about the never done task, then I succeeded in not wasting my time. Sometimes people do pop in to ask about it, at which point I simply add a new task, referencing the old one. I don’t even worry about due dates, I just pick things off the todo list, mostly at random. Important things tend to get done early or on time.
How can they possibly nullify the bandwith costs?
> Magsafe is only nice to the extent that all Apple laptops used it

No, it still remains (arguably) the best laptop charging connector ever. USB C was a step backward in that regard.
Thank you. I appreciate you saying that the second paragraph is aggressive, but I think it would be naive to think that it isn't possible, or even probable - if there's money in play.

A lot of anti-virus protection companies did do exactly this - create the viruses that made their products sell. Its really not without precedent.
People are probably comparing Theranos to companies that bend the rules like Uber and AirBNB.

The latter are frustrating to regulators, but if those companies were like Theranos it would be like you ordered a ride on Uber, had your credit card charged, and got dropped off on the wrong side of town with no recourse.
A ‘Pacemaker for the Brain’: No Treatment Helped Her Depression – Until This
So stamps are like dependent types?
How does that work out for maintainability? Is Tesla going to maintain parts inventory long enough to support owners for the lifetime of the vehicle(15-20 years?)?
Desktop Organization with Python
And then some - hadn't really thought about it until your comment, but somehow we regressed from infinite orientations (well, in that plane) to one, and are now all excited about having two...

Are there any example of barrel-style connectors with >2 pins, i.e. coaxial barrels? Similar is the 'jack' (3.5mm and such) but with split regions along a single pin rather than concentric rings of course. I wonder why such designs aren't more popular/explored (that I'm aware of anyway) for multi-pin data connections?
Mindful Code Reviews
But doesn't work so well if you have a malthusian agenda.
McKinsey has hundreds (thousands?) of software engineers and data scientists.
> Current cloud deployment software is now so powerful that a lone developer can write and deploy entire systems:

When was this ever different? Single developers always could barf out whole systems. And going by my experience, the relative quality of fullstack-devs today is not better than it was in the past, they just have now more gears moving.

> And the salaries for developers are so much higher now than before.

Are they? Salaries are always going up, so going just by the numbers of course is it higher. But did salary in IT really grew stronger than in other jobs over the last decades?
LibreOffice Development blog has started
> Why is the point to tax the wealthy more? Why do we want to kill the incentive for starting companies and becoming wealthy?

There isn't any evidence that tax rates much higher than those we currently have have been any obstacle to growth. Perhaps in theory, but many countries around the world and across history (including the United States!) have had much more progressive taxation regimes and it hasn't "kill[ed] the incentive for starting companies and becoming wealthy."
Unpopular opinion: I prefer a laptop with a barrel jack than other with only USB-C for charging.

Not only is easier to find, also a lot more sturdy and easier to repair. I have changed some of them in relatives' laptops pretty easily, but I don't dare to do that in any USB-C by any means.
So if you’re one of these software vendors, why should you invest in building non-differentiating capabilities? Why should you deprioritize other features to write this one? What are your support obligations? What leverage do you have when the format lags behind and custom extensions happen that break compatibility?

Without a standard developed by an industry working group controlled jointly, it won’t happen. Otherwise you’re just making it easier for customers to avoid platform lock-in — the same lock-in that platform vendors are trying to encourage. Of course they want no part of this; I wouldn’t either. Even with a working group, it’s not clear that this technical problem is a business problem for the software vendors.
> if the terms hold if you choose to use it to host video

Pretty damn disingenuous if the terms don't hold based on type of content. There's no such caveat mentioned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831868

Seems to be a meaty thread if anyone else is curious.
"You don't like you country being occupied by Soviet Union? Would you prefer Nazi Germany instead?"
Plenty of medicines are used for multiple things. Just because something is labeled X, doesn't preclude it from also being effective at Y.

I'm not claiming that ivermectin is effective or not, but there is an incentive in preventing any FDA approved treatments from being used against COVID:

emergency authorizations (including the current "full", "non-emergency" authorization that is contengent on the completion of ~12 additional detailed studies over the next 3 years) are only allowed by law if no FDA approved medicine is available as an alternative treatment.

The fact that other, still experimental medications and vaccinations are allowed is proof that the FDA doesn't consider the current "non-emergency" vaccine authorization to be a "fully" authorized one.

The full authorization of any new or existing medication would preclude all other experimental treatments from being used under emergency authorization.
it's not. Chromes first paid bug was an overflow issue. Like you I had always used it so I wrote code like this

if (intA + intB < intA) {
// stop becasue overflow
} else {
// do thing
}

this worked until a new compiler took advantage of the fact that overflow is undefined so the check always failed allowing exploit
Your example is an investment bank that was caught and fined for advising clients to buy toxic assets during the 2008 housing bubble, while it simultaneously unloaded the same assets.

Of course they too publicly claimed that wasn’t a conflict or even evidence of a conflict, but then the communications were leaked showing Goldman employees knew the assets were toxic and the company needed to push on them on customers to keep the price up while the bank liquidated its own positions.
Crypto is more than cryptocurrencies, it's cryptography. Try doing online banking or shopping without it.
Vernor Vinge is awesome and I love the character Pham Nuwen.

His books are some of the smartest books I have read. I remember hearing an interview with Vinge and he talks about how he loved writing because you could actually write in a way so that readers who are smarter than himself could get more out of it. I thought that was interesting.

He was a computer science professor at San Diego State University.

I read Dune after reading Vernor Vinge and I realized how influenced Vinge was by Dune. Dune is also a very smart book.

Vinge is also the first to coin the term "The Singularity" in regards to technical innovation growing so quickly, and on top of itself, that we can't predict what is beyond.
Exactly. I'm surprised by the downvotes because, while it is not mandatory (yet?), I have definitely seen financial institution forms with an optional field for social media accounts.
Problem is, you are not alone on the road. And if somebody else does something really stupid, you can die as a consequence, without any chance to avoid it.

We are definitely not there yet, but I think of myself as a decent driver, and some assistant tools on high-end models are way better (just faster, probably) than me predicting stuff. For the first year this summer, I've driven a car that was quicker than I in an emergency break situation: while I started breaking, it depressed the pedal, and I was quite surprised, 'cause the car in front of me didn't begin breaking yet.
> everyone was pretending this refterm was ready to replace the terminal app

Who said that? Refterm isn't a fully functional terminal, it is just a terminal renderer bundled with a toy terminal.
WhatsApp, FB, and Instagram Down
FB Metaverse down
And see, even you've done it here. Command Prompt is `cmd.exe`, which is different from PowerShell (`powershell.exe`), and both of those are different still from `conhost.exe`, which is the actual console window itself. cmd and powershell are "shells", which both need to run in a console, and conhost.exe is that console (which is the "terminal window" for these applications). More reading: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/Niksa.md...

Conhost is the window that's had updates all throughout Windows 10. It's responsible for both the console subsystem, and the console UI. The UI though is the part that's largely being replaced by the Terminal. Conhost will never go away, but the Terminal is where all the action is these days.

(It's also shipping with Windows 11 by default)
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464
This article expresses some opinions I've also held about integer types. If we express integer types as what we need them to be capable of instead of what they are then the compiler can choose things like int_fast32_t on our behalf and without us having to deal with promotion or typecasting.

I've wondered too if it's possible to have more information about the possible values of a type. Imagine you declare an Int<1, 10>. You can only initialize it with 1-10 inclusive or face a compiler error. What happens if you then double it? Well the range must change to <2, 20> but you can also prove that the value will be even. If you increment it, could it become an Int<3, 21, Odd, ...> ?

My guess is there are an infinite number of similar traits an integer can have so, for this to be possible, the compiler would have to be able to evaluate only what traits are used by the code.

Does anything like this already exist?
Yeah, it's not the USB specs or cables fault, but they said it didn't matter on some devices and used the example of a MacBook, where it still does.
Cosmos vs. Polkadot: Which is the best interoperability protocol?
LLVM 13.0: Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support
I don't understand, can you elaborate?
We have beat humans on every single atari game by at least one order of magnitude, and we do that consistently, and it really only took 5 or so years since the first solution that provided tangible results. It has only been 8 or 9 years since GPGPUs were used for ML research.

We are also seeing models that are able to generate code given prompts.

Given enough representational power, I don't see why a model that learns to solve games can't figure out how to generate good enough subroutines for itself.

So I am taking the other side of this bet.

We will see ML models surpass Humans in every task in 30 or so years.

I will find you and buy you dinner in October of 2051.
or even not that -

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’ (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsoft...)
Try this link: https://onlineteachingjobs.site/2021/10/04/jony-ive-talks-ab...
When they announced the transition they said the number of users installing Bootcamp had plumetted. Presumably it's the same for people running Windows under a VM. My guess is they looked at this and decided it wasn't that important.
On a per-mile-driven basis, Tesla's self-driving accident rate is somewhere in the region of 5-10× that of human drivers, IIRC. And keep in mind that the self-driving here is already in a state of selection bias where it's more likely to be used in safer conditions (i.e., fully-grade-separated highway driving in clear conditions, rather than dense urban environments in inclement weather).
One of the most frustrating thing is that whenever I talk to people who claim to be environmentalist, they are deeply against nuclear power and don't want to face the facts that Germany's decision to quit nuclear was not a net positive for the environment and instead had a negative impact by keeping Coal factories open longer than they should have been.

It's important to finance renewables research and there's a bright future for them but, right now, nuclear is the best hope for mostly clean energy with a lot less negative environment impact than Coal and Fossil Fuel.
In the old days, there were no separate "engineer" and "factory worker" jobs, just "craftsman".
Or "architect" and "construction worker", just "builder".

Perhaps a similar separation will occur in programming, and perhaps (this is a separate assumption) the lower-skill jobs that involve mostly "plumbing" will be automated, just like "assembly worker" jobs are getting automated.

I doubt very much that the more complex and "creative" tasks could be replaced, not in foreseeable future.
Consulting is more about long-term multi-year projects to shape things like policy (for regulators) or strategy (for companies).
IPOs are very transactional by nature.

The walls you speak of are usually between the trading side and the capital markets side of the firm, where there is very little overlap. In this case though, I would wager people who worked on the regulatory side were constantly being restaffed onto the pharmaceutical side and vice versa.
This is indeed very important question. Nevermind newest technology, if we take existing and dated nuclear technology, and calculate safety in deaths per TWH generated, nuclear is in the same ballpark as Solar and considerably better than Wind [1] ... Gas/Oil and others are disasterous in comparison, let alone Coal.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
...and FYI, those volunteers get to pick and choose which calls they respond to. Not sure what axe you're grinding, but I'm glad you don't live in my district.
Yeah, that is a better link for the technical stuff, but you seem to imply it's clean when it comes to tracking and it's obviously not.
Code Smells – Maximiliano Contieri – Software Design
Seeker window design is a whole branch of missile engineering.

Most missles use a quartz window that is sprayed with an evaporative coolant. In more advanced designs the coolant flows through microchannels and then out micro holes on the leading edge, where the coolant evaporates and provides a film cooling.

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...
Sure but who really cares about back office staff in this context
WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram. 5xx Server Error. Facebook's error message still says "Facebook © 2020".
One thing that concerned me is that CF kicked a few "bad actors" off their network

One could argue that they have the right and/or duty to do that, but being closer and closer to a "internet backbone" provider, this can become scary.

Would you like water to be cut off to "bad actors"?
condescending: having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority.

In this case he also demonstrated his superiority with working code.

Better to learn from it than to pout about it.
This is incredible for something I have in mind. Going to do a bit more reading, but the price and size are ideal for my use case.
While I agree that ordinary people being cancelled for saying something stupid is a bad thing that should be condemned[0], I'll play devil's advocate: however unfair these events may be, are they truly statistically significant? Or is concern about "cancellation" of hard working people itself a moral panic amplified by the nature of modern media?

Sure, we've all heard of donglegate, or about that guy whose hand did an "OK" gesture on his car door and was accused of "far-right" symbolism, or about that teenaged girl who once said the И-word in a video celebrating her driver's licence which resulted in her rejection from university, and many many more. Yes, these things are injustices and they should not happen, and they should be stopped. But on the large scale of things, does saying something stupid really pose a significant risk of disproportionate public shaming to a normal person?

The online hatemob only has so much attention span to dedicate to its latest victim(s), and there is only so much airtime and tweets to be dedicated to the latest outrage. And, in the meantime, hundreds of millions of people live their lives as normal, with more-or-less online presence, saying, doing and posting things which may well be "cancellable" according to this or that neopuritanical value — and yet, nothing happens to them. And this is good.

Don't get me wrong, I do think that fear of "cancellation" inhibiting people's openness to express themselves and their mental well-being is itself problematic, however statistically irrational this fear may be. However, focusing attention on these rare events, even if it is to criticise the phenomenon, may only make the problem worse.

If you'll forgive the somewhat melodramatic analogy, it's a bit like terrorism. Just like disproportionately instilling fear of terrorism only serves to help the terrorists' objective to instil fear, so does disproportionately insisting on the unfairness and disproportionate consequences of "cancel culture" only serve to help the cancellers themselves in their desire to influence society.

[0] For a given meaning of "cancelled" and "saying something stupid", that is.*
Volvo announces plans to go public
WhatsApp access problem (5xx Server Error)
Well insurance companies are typically quite good with numbers and do not want to insure against a nuclear disaster
Article links to a preprint of a paper it describes as "the best study to date" to bolster its arguments. That paper contains the quote:

"Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant."
-Wsign-compare is a typical example of warning that implies a serious error unless you prove it couldn't happen; spending, typically, more effort than would be needed to actually fix the warning.
Instagram seems down, Facebook & WhatsApp too.
> I believe it is one of the few (maybe with Stripe) that is able to still work as a startup even though they have thousands of employees, which is quite impressive.

You wouldn't call it impressive if you had to wait >24h for a support response as a user with an enterprise package. I'd call it quite the opposite from my experience with them at my previous job.
"What may be asserted without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence". If someone is going to make the claim that Cloudflare is running an illegal protection racket and funds DDOS attacks against their customer's websites, then the burden of proof is on them to substantiate that claim. Otherwise, it's just pointless bad-faith remarks. And we can't just take the first paragraph in isolation—it depends on the second paragraph for logical support. How could Cloudflare prevent any non-Cloudflare site from being seen, or prevent any non-Cloudflare users from accessing the internet? There is no requirement that anyone use Cloudflare—they just happen to be the best game in town. If you believe otherwise, you have to assert arguments that support your position, you can't just state your thesis and expect people to guess what your reasoning is.
There’s both.

About the blacklist, I don’t know exactly how it works, who specifically has access to it or who can add entries to it, but I know it exists, I know people who have been affected by it, know people who have been told explicitly about it and know that at least some partners have access to it.
Limited time paywall, for a site without ads, was one thing... in 1996.

Today's world, the "signup" with or without fee is just a nominal number they can wave for advertisers as metric for "see how much attention we command".

Newspapers and magazines used to call it "paid circulation" and it wasn't a very real number then, either.

"cypherpunks" still works some places.
Actually, the Windows Terminal shares a lot of its codebase with the Windows Console. The buffer, the VT parser, the renderer interface, most of the UIA implementation - that's all the same code. Improvements here to the Terminal actually help conhost.exe as well.

The UI of the Terminal is what's new, because trying to iterate on the legacy UI of conhost.exe was simply not maintainable.
If you take a signal and add a lot of garbage, you may fool some people.

If you take out all countries from Africa where statistics about testing is questionable and 3 outliers Israel, Mongolia and Malaysia then you restore the signal.

Israel and Mongolia both vaccinated very quickly a large amount of people so sudden surge can be expected in both countries. Malaysia appears to be in the situation where Israel was in the beginning of the year - they got hit by a wave before vaccination was ramped up.
I'm always thinking the thing we have to keep in the back of our heads -- "cars" as humans have done them are stupid. Very very stupid. You go to LA and you see all the people going to places, each in separate cars, when trains and subways were invented a long time ago, and it becomes clear.

So, sure, you have an interesting technical question of "robots being able to drive like people," but let's not take any of this too seriously if we're comparing to a concept of "intelligence." The collective stupid is far too overwhelming.
> Intel and AMD should consider how much goodwill they may gain by just removing IME and PSP.

On a very practical scale; none. It'd make some nerds happy but it's like a subset of a subset of a niche population.

> The framework and librem laptops show that there is a market of people willing to pay for upgradable devices which are independent from makers and free from out-of-the-box backdoors.

All it shows is that there is some market for it but I think you're either severely overestimating framework and librem's scale or are severely underestimating intel and AMD's. I'm extremely skeptical that either company cares about that niche nor do I think they'd rework all their processors just to satisfy that niche.
down for M.E.
> and ship bug fixes for each person their prior code killed

My question is always, who is responsible for those deaths? Or will we just have so little care for life that we consider them "for the cause"?