skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think pressure has always been high to conform. Maybe even more so in the past. But if you decided you didnt care you could relocate and your past wouldnt follow you around as much. Now the worst moment of your life could be the first thing anyone who googles you finds and it will never go away.

It's an incredible time we live it.
Story from Ars.

I was trying to help a lawyer out and trying to explain why the $5.00 USB-C cable he'd bought from Amazon wasn't delivering 4K video to his expensive monitor AND powering his laptop too.

Me: OK: so its a USB-C cable, but its not a high data rate USB-C cable.

Him: But, its a USB-C Cable.

Me: but, no, not all USB-C cables are high speed cables. And some of them can't do high speed and power delivery

Him: but... its a USB-C cable: it plugs into the port.

Me: Um... just because it plugs in, doesn't mean its going to work. You can have USB-C cables that are actually slower than the old USB ports.

Him: but.... shouldn't it just work?

And so on. For... 15? more minutes? maybe 30? I finally got him to buy a "proper" belkin USB-C cable . Which was bought from a company that should be anonymous, but lets just say that a "refurbished" cable was shipped, which, surprise, surprise ,didn't work, for ANYTHING.

This basically sums up everything that is wrong with Tech thinking vs User Thinking.
A thick, short, relatively inflexible, and expensive one.
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What a lovely surprise to see mention of him on HN
Had to google aggro, no aggression intended at all, but I frankly found the severity of GP question too scary to be considered.

> I considered this before posting ...

To me this is not someone asking a hypothetical but someone who is aware that what they are about to write is controversial yet are still considering it to be the best way forward. I happened to strongly disagree with that.
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> 2. Ban communication technologies which the underlying behavior is a black-box to the user. It should always be apparent to the user why they are seeing what they are, and in what order.

I don't understand elliptic curve cryptography, but I still use ECC TLS.
Consider yourself lucky for working at a place where you get recognition for "leaving the garden better for the next guy"! Of course, that also depends on the next guy taking the effort to understand your code and documentation instead of just thinking "I wouldn't have written it this way, so it must be bad", as many developers are wont to do unfortunately...
The stigma associated with having Facebook on your resume is definitely increasing.
> But there is no comparison to a small population being affected to potentially anyone and everyone being a potential subject.

If I may paraphrase... there's no comparison between oppressing a minority I don't belong to, and the entire population being subjected to the same risk.
Do you have some examples of what big-picture stuff Casey doesn't understand? Not talking about being a team-player.
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They sound like a good strawman, if I ever saw one.
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Similar concept is focused and diffuse thinking. https://fs.blog/2019/10/focused-diffuse-thinking/
It's not just Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. In North America, Cisco is in practically every corporate network.
It seems like this method outperforms those model-based approaches, why should we care that it's "just image analytics"?
One thing that I find interesting to think on is if there is a form of self awareness so greater in scope than our frame of reference.

That an outside entity possessing such a perspective would look upon us in a fashion not unlike how we would look at individual ants or bees in a hive.

Those animals don’t have the capacity to perceive our self awareness with the tools they have, perhaps more base motivations but never understanding more than our actions. How would we look upon a creature so much more expansive than ourselves? Would widespread cthonian-esque cosmic horror unfold among our kind, coupled to cultism and deification?

Much like the interpretation of the Thing from the alien perspective linked on the source article. It’s understanding of the universe is so profoundly different to ours that it is horrified by us.
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You're not wrong. This should be done with great care.
Statistically, almost no one is on Twitter. I think the recent numbers I saw were less than 3% of people send 90% of tweets and only 8% of Twitter users tweet at all.
The special part is the lived experience of social animals and everything that goes with that. Stuff that we have to work hard to get machines to understand, since they're not conscious biological creatures that have to survive, and thus we have to train or program them in a way that is somewhat different from being born and raised as a human.
The Bypass Paywalls Clean chrome extension works well:

https://github.com/qnoum/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-magnol...
Yeah, although in reality the OSS angle is kind of moot. There can only be one party in control of dependencies. If there is more than one party involved in the development of a product, only the downstream consumer can be in charge of dependencies. This happens all the time with closed source projects too, it's not specific to OSS.

There is a difference between being a leaf and a node in a tree of producers and consumers.
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The word "smarter" masks some of the complexity here. If you define it as "higher performance on a task widely considered to require intelligence", then we've had computers that are smarter than humans for at least decades. If you define it as "higher performance on every task widely considered to require intelligence", then I'll take that bet, please.
I have no idea. I have a computer science degree and I could only ever hope to understand it with cute metaphors.

So for my cute metaphor, which I look forward to improvements, I think of the general problem as "we need to run a business" as an analogue of "we need to run an operating system and some programs"; the machine architecture is the amalgamation of tools and techniques.

So if a business springs up as the form of a restaurant, and that business as operating system learns how to create successful patterns using spatulas and fryolators and hot plates, then to move your business to a farm that has tractors and shovels and troughs, you basically have to start all over with your implementation even if your business plan is the same.

But, as those patterns become satisfied, of "get my pile of stuff moved from this container to that container", the issue of plates and troughs becomes solved and you get rapid springs forward of completing your task of migrating.

I have no credentials to answer this basically but that's how I imagine it.
I think Deepmind has a different PR team, they seem to put a lot more effort into publicizing their discoveries.

But plenty of big results from people working directly for Google & FB.

Have you noticed how phones/home devices can actually understand you accurately now? Didn't used to be that way a few years ago, etc, etc.

Have you noticed how Google Translate is actually getting quite good now?
Anyone know an OSS alternative for this sort of time-scheduling? I use Trilium for all my notes currently but it's not great for time scheduling like Notion seems to be... Wish I could make a PR and add that feature but my Node skills are nonexistent.
In my opinion, this social cooling is the strongest argument in favour of privacy.

Imagine there's a camera in your living room. You don't know if it's turned on, whether anyone is watching, or why they would be. However, I guarantee that air guitar solos will be fewer and further between. You won't walk around naked, pick your nose or watch questionable content anymore. You might even avoid certain conversations. Even without known consequences, you will police your own behaviour, just in case.

Digital surveillance is a lot like that, but you know that someone is watching. You just don't know whether they are paying attention, or what their motives are.

Even worse, if the people who watch get greedy, if the government forces their hand, or if their security is breached, there's no telling how your data will be used. This sword will always dangle over your head.
I take commercial acceptance as a proxy for the acceptance and practicality of artificial intelligence at the 'everyday' task of driving. I would take the absence of commercial acceptance as evidence that artificial intelligence is not up to the 'everyday' task of driving.
I never read this site, but Mark definitely shouldn't be in a position of power.
It's really odd to see someone rebooting their own story. Either he'll make changes for change sake to make it fresh or the show may be boring since we'll know what happens.

(JMS will hopefully still be good at writing Babylon 5 but he wrote some really crummy comic books over the years, and one of his last Babylon 5 project was an awful "A ripoff of the Movie The Exorcist but in SPACE!" episode which hopefully isn't a sample of what we can expect from here on.)
There are special risks involved when relying on novel, market breaking features: Your offering will be dependent on that feature remaining available AND cost effective.

If the company ups the price or removes the feature altogether then you will be left without an edge.
I would say that criticism of opinions or bad jokes is still OK, but given the dynamism of virtual mobs, one should be more careful how it is done. Triggering an avalanche is rarely a good thing, in mountains or on Twitter.

As far as I am concerned, a personal "between four eyes" criticism goes the longest way.
Yeah, but these people are in the business of exploiting that trust. I thought they'd be smart enough not to have their own trust exploited...
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Is a reversible air-air heat pump a proper heating system?
Things like this is why its important that people can be anonymous on the internet. It gives you the way out to properly criticize people without fearing needless repercussions.

And yes, I'm aware of the risks of it being abused by trolls. It is a tradeoff we are better off making.
In my 25 years of software development I've found that I'm rarely able to enumerate what an application should or shouldn't do on my own. Unless the app is extremely simple and has very few options it's incredibly unusual for any individual to understand everything about it. While I don't have a use case where I'd want to use a variable space font in a terminal, that doesn't mean such a case doesn't exist for anyone. Maybe some people want that feature.

Windows Terminal, for some reason, gives users the option to change their font to one that isn't monospaced, so I'd argue that it should render them correctly if the user chooses to do that.
I believe comments die due to sufficient flagging/downvoting, and that moderator intervention is not required.
I was reading a 1987 article from Byte magazine that reminded me that many of the plots of "fractals" that you've seen are wrong.

Specifically, when people make a plot like

https://galileo-unbound.blog/2018/12/10/the-wonderful-world-...

you see these areas that look like television static that are wrong. The reason why you see chaotic motion in those areas (a infinite number of unstable fixed points) is that there are an infinite number of stable fixed points and they breed unstable fixed points on the separatrices between them.

If you look at the edges of the unstable areas you see a hierarchy of stable islands that come out of resonances having resonances with other resonances that have resonances with even more resonances, etc. If you could run the simulation long enough AND you ran it accurately you'd see that throughout the whole unstable region the chaotic motion weaves around numerous islands of stability it which would make a much more detailed and beautiful plot.

If you run this with, say, 64-bit fixed point math, you'd find that the dynamics after 64 doubling times is dominated by rounding errors. So a plot like that is showing just a fraction of the detail that's there.

Now you could increase the precision as you run over time and it ought to be possible to use interval math to do a grid search and prove the calculations are accurate, but it turns something that is O(N) in time where N is the number of iterations to something that is O(N^2). In terms of storage it goes from O(1) to O(N).

It's one of those problems that usually gets ignored and that's some of the reason why chaos and fractals get less respect and less progress than they deserve. I've been thinking about better ways to draw them however, not because I care about the dynamics themselves, but I want to make more beautiful images and see improved dynamics as the royal road to that.
The Universal Serial Bus.
I made a really dumb block-based, client-side-only tool for trying to play around with weekly scheduling.

https://jedahan.com/saltpeanuts/

The data gets serialized (but still human readable) in the url fragment, so its shareable, but server never sees it. You can also just download and run, or see the code for "jedahan's first and only Vue app" on https://github.com/jedahan/saltpeanuts#readme , which is the only user guide.

It has not helped my wrangle my time or focus at all.
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Is this not what old-school corporate dev environments did? Grunts filling in interfaces? I’m sure I’ve read this sort of thing before
> With that I mean the mass production of content that is illegal, harmful, misinformation, divisive, stolen or down-right low quality.

100%. Look at the front page of most popular websites. It's mostly outrage in some form or another. Reddit r/popular is so bad now. It's mostly videos of public freakouts, idiots in cars, or someone yelling about something on tik tok with the occasional uplifting post. Outrage content makes websites more money.
Then it's a UX problem. What if switching algo was like switching channels on your TV?
You've lost the original point: everyone was pretending this refterm was ready to replace the terminal app, criticizing microsoft for taking the slow but sure approach:

> The "complaining developer" produced a proof of concept in just two weekends that notably had more features[1] and was more correct than the Windows Terminal!

But now apparently pointing out that "MS was right not to want to take shortcut in unicode rendering" morphed into "criticizing in bad faith refterm for not being production ready"

Who's not arguing in good faith here?
This is a good question and you are being unfairly downvoted.

I think a big challenge is that there is no intuitive sense of "location"/position in the architecture.

But yes, sequential architectures can be scaled to lots of things beyond just words.
It is great. I own a Model S with autopilot, and have since early 2018. I have driven it across some dozen states, and two Canadian provinces. It is far perfect, but it is very, very good, and makes long drives much less stressful and tiresome.

And there have been at least two incidences that I can recall where Autopilot saved me from a wreck.

I would not choose to go back, and would buy it again without hesitation.
That's because you're not supposed to be watching, you're supposed to be actively involved in designing and writing the code whether you are at the keyboard or not. The navigator can also manage the todos, take notes, and look things up while the driver continues on the discussed implementation.
It doesn't matter how you put it.

If you say "tax the rich 95%." That's bad. "Tax everyone 95%" That's really bad. I don't understand how you cannot see that. The fewer people affected by something, the less evil it is even if it's evil.

I mean, what are you saying, H-wood blacklisting was bad, therefore what we see in social media ostracizing is acceptable? That seems... strange.

Of course not all sympathizers of communism also agreed with death camps, re-education, stifling of progress, etc., etc., but they tacitly contributed to to those bad things. A young person, or someone who thinks they are being funny or whatever caught in a bad moment is different from someone who knowingly supports tyrannical forms of government.
Can someone explain the actual risk Cheong addressed here?

i understand in principle the problems that can result because foreign entities are not subject to US law. But that is already addressed for certain cases (e.g. airlines, press, defense contractors) by simply limiting the ownership percentage.

The same could be done mechanically by assigning ownership percentages to certain SIC codes. Then you could do all the analysis retrospectively.

The prior review infrastructure seems crazy
I work as a mining engineer and in my eyes these stages are effectively the same as the author describes in the software world. I'd even argue they apply to most "professional" careers.
The toolbar works fine, seems like Safari is broken.

That being said, the article sucks and I hate his fonts.
>> I have no idea if this is the case here, and I suspect it might not be, but pretty much every time I've seen a developer complain that something is slow and then 'prove' that it can be faster by making a proof-of-concept the only reason theirs is faster is because it doesn't implement the important-but-slow bits and it ignores most of the edge cases.

Even in those cases it usually turns out that the handling of edge cases was considered reason enough to sacrifice performance rather than finding a better solution to the edge case. Handling edge cases probably should not cost 10x average performance.
Not to spoil your fund but the average age of US cars is over 12 years. Edit: Which means you already won as on average cars last 24 years.

Ops nm thought you where for it.
Probably you would have had this problem with any other platform you were not familiar with.

Tests can be written properly and in a very reliable way in any platform, and a mess can be made in any platform too.
It's funny how people ignoring regulation, that developed during decades for very valid reasons, usually do so to further businesses and projects that benefit greatly by doing so. Tesla is one example when it comes to self-driving, Uber another one when it come to the Taxi business. All for the greater good of course.
That's right, it's not just the MAGA crowd who's obnoxious, toxic and crazy. Liberals can get this way too in so many situations.
A warning being thrown for a user which is caused by a bug that leads to mysterious crashes in a codebase which is warning free for the developer is something which is almost unobservably rare. So sure, a user getting a failed compile is superior to a mysterious crash, but that isn't the actual tradeoff in practice.

Instead, if you have a post compile test suite which covers extensively all branches in the code you will catch things like miscompilation that warnings have little chance of catching. And well constructed the tests can have a zero rate of false positives-- which isn't something you'll get from warnings.

So another choice: take the time you'd spend on the sisyphean task of dealing with random failures due to Werror new/old/different toolchains and invest it on making better post compile tests and save the Werror for your CI where its time wastage is more proportional to the benefit it provides.
I think those cases are a minority, and in most cases you would have been fine with just slightly larger ints. It doesn't seems to cause any issue in python for example, because the cases where integers grow exponentially (which is the same as making their size grow linearly, so its still slow memory-wise) and without bounds are not all that common.

For example, an overflow bug was famous in java for being present in the standard library for a very long time: in a core function performing a binary search, the operation computing the middle of the two bounds was a simple average (max + min)/2, which overflow when max and min are big enough, even if the final result always fit in a standard integer.

In a lot of other cases, integer are used to address memory (or to represent array indexes, etc), so in most code they will naturally be restricted by the available amount of memory, even if intermediate computations can temporarily overflow.
I don't think Parallels emulates x86 windows either, does it?
My son changes Mark's last name to something that starts with F instead of S. So it can get worse.
Hmm, interesting. Not sure of the upside of that though? I assume that it wouldn't make much difference in how Facebook handles my data.
Just don't express yourself online non-anonymously, and in real life don't go to places where cameras are allowed.
Working with dips like this is dead. I fire people with this kind of inflammatory attitude towards others.
Looking at the scandals of the last decade, apology usually does not help the target at all. It is just part of the expected sick show before being fired or punished anyway.

One day, we will wake up in a world where apology has died out because it was never rewarded by forgiveness.
Momentum is still a thing regardless of where the technology is.

The current fastest production car in the world (and of all time) is an electric car, but most cars are still not electric. That doesn't mean gas cars are "better cars" than electric ones.
Social media might be doing you more harm than good? Offline surely isn’t like this for you too is it?
"We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs."

Sort of like Ford gets asked regularly about driving their cars on interstate highways ?

This is not a fringe feature or some weird corner-case ... this is the reason people buy your product.