skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliminate all news, politics, and other public policy groups and apps. Return to being just a way to connect with friends and family.

Maybe this is just me being a late adopter of facebook (2012 or 2013 here), but... when was this magical time without politics and news?
Was this in the time of game requests? Was there really no one sharing news stories back then? No groups discussing religion and philosophy and current events? No one organizing protests? No one commenting about how they disapproved of a lifestyle or couldn't ever harm a little, innocent unborn baby? Really??

I'm gonna guess you simply didn't see it from friends and family back then or didn't consider some of it to be political. It could be that people themselves share it more often now, but if that's the case, that's simply because the world has changed into such a world. But don't get me wrong, this isn't something facebook has done, as some folks have always been political and some loud about it.
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This is absolutely correct. For hundreds of years the poor "peasants" have eaten healthier than royalty. Pretty sure there's a research paper floating somewhere around HN about it (Victorians and their health). I grew up on and still eat rendered fat and crackling sandwiches, because a) crazy delicious, and b) crazy healthy (pig lard is by far all-around healthiest fat). My grandma raised pigs, chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, etc. We grew up in Eastern Europe, we ate meat on a regular basis (several times a week) as well as everything else that we grew or that grew in the wild around us. She lived through both world wars and lived to be 99.
I baited some scammers like this once. Nigerian prince type scam.

I led them on a merry chase for 6 weeks back in 2009. I managed to get them fighting amongst themselves, the whole group sending me angry emails, and eventually even got them to admit they were scammers under the pretense that I was a hacker for hire who could help them improve their operation.

It was probably the most hilarious thing I have ever done.

I still like to talk to scammers when they call, so I can figure out what the scam is all about and maybe waste some of their time. If it is a US company selling bogus car insurance or "vacation packages" (i.e. timeshare pitches), I'll keep them on long enough to to gather the necessary info for an FCC complaint.

A surprising number are companies operating on the edge of legality in the US, like the aforementioned timeshare and car insurance companies. I get a lot of folks trying to get me to provide my electric utility account number, which I presume means they are running a dodgy electricity credit reseller scam of some sort:

https://callmepower.com/suppliers/alternate-supplier-definit...

Then there's the "support the police" calls, which always trace back to a PAC which supports Republican candidates, but which has very little evidence that any of that money ever was spent in support of those candidates.

The other surprising thing: Most of these scammers know who you are, and where you live, and probably more about you which they aren't sharing. In recent years, they will hang up on me as soon as I provide a fake name. If I provide a real name, they often confirm my details with me.

This last thing - that scammers have all your info when they call - you can all guess how that happens.
I feel like that quote spoke to a particular time. Nowadays I'd point at premature abstraction as the fount of evil.
That's part of the art. It's obvious to anyone who knows it and mysterious and ineffable to anyone who doesn't.

The meta-point is that corporate developers have been through the hiring machine and are supposed to know these things.

Stories like this imply that in fact they don't.
I'm migrating from RethinkDB to FoundationDB right now. One thing which is easy to miss when you look at FoundationDB is that it is more of a toolkit for building databases than a database in itself. So, if you're looking for a faster horse, say a "better PostgreSQL", or a MongoDB that doesn't lose your data, it will seem disappointing ("where are all the features I expected?").

Where I think it really shines is when you couple it tightly with your application. Suddenly you get a fully transactional distributed database with clearly understandable semantics, and if you can show some flexibility in how you map your data onto the underlying primitives, you can get fantastic performance, as well as correctness.
Also worth noting that Java may be able to fix it in the future after Valhalla drops (and this may mean better implementation for JVM-based languages too).
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> You can’t hire enough safety drivers to scale this process and releasing it is the fastest way to get there.

I am sorry but I sincerely hope you are never made responsible for the release of anything remotely safety-critical.

Please re-read what you wrote. You are saying that because a business does not have enough money/resources to scale a process in real-world conditions that the solution is to release something and verifying in the real-world, on a public road, risking real human lifes?

If you don't have enough money to test it then you don't have an actual product/business.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as always enabling -Werror:

- new compiler versions regularly introduce new warnings, not a bad thing in general of course, but:

- even if your own code is warning-clean (which it really should be!), dependencies are usually full of warnings especially after upgrading compiler versions

- some compilers issue different warnings based on compile settings (e.g. optimization level)

- there's a threshold where picky warnings stop being all that useful. For instance hardly any C/C++ code I've encountered is -Wsign-compare clean, and some APIs are not designed with this sort of warning in mind, so you have the option of littering your code with explicit casts (which makes it less readable), or just ignore that warning and move on.

My own strategy is: enable -Werror for development and keep your own code warning free, while locally supressing warnings in dependencies. For release builds, don't use -Werror (because you can't know what compiler version your users are using).

There's also the theoretical feature that headers included with '#include <...>' don't generate warnings, but I haven't gotten this to work reliably across compilers.
Brave isn't a competitor with Firefox. Firefox is a browser, Brave is a crypto wallet/ethical ad aggregator/adblock/DNS/video-calling system/compensation network/social/IPFS viewer. You're welcome to choose for yourself, but I typically grab Firefox when I just want to browse the web.
After she was too much for my aunt even with a part time home healthcare worker she did move to a care facility where she has lived for the past ~7 years. The two she has lived at are decent from what I can tell and close enough to family that someone visits her on a pretty much daily basis. Both ways can work.
C'mon... admit it... these bands are starting to grow on you... slip out that credit card, my friend... that's right... just leave it sitting there beside you on the desk so it's handy... now a little more Queen... Mamaaaaa... Bohemian Rhapsody, now on Netflix... Oooooo... 20% off this commemorative mug...
I think it is very likely that it will be rewarded, just not this year. Some time need to pass, and even though the discovery should be rewarded, it also needs to be figured out who to reward it to. Probably there are more than 3 contenders.
I think part of the problem is you have to be willing to scam people with "We will pay _you_ to rent our truck!"-type deals.

After that, there are other uber-like startups like Dolly that do the moving for you, and depend on destroying humans in the process (by literally injuring and killing and bankrupting them), and by extension democracy, humanity, etc.

Maybe a co-op model would be something cool because then, even if you end up failing, at least you tried.

the US government doesn't really lend to co-ops, but that's starting to change ever so slightly.
Pobox (pobox.com) is probably what you are look for. $20 or $35 a year.

(Its the same company that runs Fastmail)
The Nobel peace prize is handed out by a different committee compared to the other prizes, so how its handled should generally not be seen as an indicator for the other Nobel prizes.
Whether the font is monospace or not isn't really the problem - that causes some aesthetically ugly spacing, but that's to be expected and it's still readable. The big issue is that the code has completely failed to find a glyph for one of the characters used in something as commonplace as a directory listing from the dir command and people expect better than this from font rendering in modern applications.
* J. Miller and M. Gordon at the NYT[1]

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...
This is really what I am after. "Summer storms" as I call them are really tricky, and being an avid motorcyclist in the northeast it's something I pay a lot of attention too. Basically a locus of hot humid air gets going and it will shotgun small but intense rainfall/thunderstorms over a whole area. Weather models kinda just thrown their hands up and say "There is a 30% chance you'll get nailed".
Mozilla offers an unbiased comparison ? I call BS.
. . ."Overall, Brave is a fast and secure browser that will have particular appeal to cryptocurrency users. But for the vast majority of internet citizens, Firefox remains a better and simpler solution."
No, but you can get into multiple car crashes throughout your life. One would hope they take precautions for the future and start wearing their seatbelt.
This was meant to be a joke.. The title is "The Fastest Path to the CEO Job, ..." and a TLDR would be even faster! :)
> There are a few security features in Brave worth highlighting, such as its automatic HTTPS connection upgrades (which Firefox also offers by extension)

This information is a bit outdated, Firefox has offered HTTPS mode built-in for a few versions now.
Quoting from the page: "The comparisons made here were done so with default settings and across browser release versions as follows:
Firefox (81) | Brave (1.14.81)
This page is updated semi-quarterly to reflect latest versioning and may not always reflect latest updates."

This is for sure not true, Firefox 81 was released more than a year ago
There's an autonomous shuttle in testing near where I live (goes between a high-density living/shopping area an a metro station) which only goes about 10 mph. So not entirely vaporware...
I wonder if it's possible that we standardize on the "hole" (USB-C) and then make little square things with a male side and a female side that plug into the cable and into each other to add capabilities to the signal path. Each of those square things would have a name and an icon and every device would be characterized by a list of these widgets.

(In part I propose this to validate whether this is the correct mental model for what a cable is and what it is expected to do.)
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And it looks like his chiefs are named..
yes, agreed, I really listed it because it's a necessary (imo) prologue to the events in `Marooned in Realtime`
Is this another pro in disguise?

Language compilation environments themselves are vulnerable to security vulnerabilities, like libraries... Practices previously considered acceptable may become harmful if they are revealed to create common correctness exploits in code. So if code that compiles under a previous version now fails to compile in -Werror on a subsequent version, that's a signal to the maintainer to either fix the code to be in compliance with best practices or manually disable that specific error with an explanation... A signal they'd miss if they didn't turn all the warnings on and stop compilation by default.
If they're on Instagram they are on Facebook. Instagram Stories and Facebook Stories are 1 and the same now.
Janssen vaccine is vector based, not mRNA like Pfizer Comirnaty or Moderna.

Although vaccinated people can be infected and even spread the virus, the disease is usually mild, amount of infectious virus and the time they are infectious is much smaller. And that is no speciality of covid immunizations, other vaccines like measles or influenza also don't prevent infection, but aim to prevent the disease.

The "not fully tested" meme is nonsense, many hundred million people have been vaccinated in the meantime, the safety profile is known.

Regarding long time effects beside immunity of vaccines, this interview https://lexfridman.com/vincent-racaniello/ goes into some detail. TLDL: there is nothing to expect/fear.
Inner city Paris is limited to 30km/h, I don't think going 25 km/h would be a problem.
No offense intended, I'm an Eastern European who has lived in the US for almost 3 decades now, and as prejudiced as it may sound, most Americans don't deal well with accepting reality that conflicts their own internal worldview. It's almost as if a big chunk of Americans haven't been taught conflict, disagreement, or a minimal tolerance of an opposing viewpoint.
One more thing:

If you ever decide on to do formal verification of your code, getting it into shape will probably take as much as the verification itself.

Being super-duper strict from day 1 of the project makes it so much easier.
Would just like to say that:

1. WT is probably my favorite Microsoft product

2. Since this whole affair, the developers have apologized and corrected themselves which is usually unacknowledged in these discussions.

3. The developers have made a number of performance improvements since (most of which are in the latest preview release).

4. This episode is constantly retold and used to bully the developers even after these apologies and this has lead to one of the developers to quit (paradoxically one of the devs who after these posts made the most effort to figure out where the bottlenecks are).
Netflix serves higher resolution video if the device can protect the video path from screen recording. Desktop Linux can't, so the resolution is limited, but you can therefore screenshot it.

(Worth noting this also applies to Chrome on Windows, some people find the content cannot be captured but that's to do with the compositing on hardware acceleration more than DRM, if you turn hardware acceleration off in Chrome's settings you'll find the same situation as Linux.)
Brave do less home call. And by home call for Firefox, I don't even mean Mozilla, but Google.

And giving they don't care about they use opiniouns they should just shutdown the telemetry.

(It's funny to see a download link for Firefox at the end of this article, look like they are desperate.)
Not at all. Here is the news of a woman who died after getting the Pfizer's vaccine: (In Portuguese) https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/gover...

The news say that it was unrelated to the vaccine and it was a heart attack. However, I do not believe in coincidences and am very skeptical that the vaccine has not had some effect on this. Note that she died 1 day after getting the vaccine.
No, there are very few people who actually do this.

People collectively do hard things when they are profitable.

Profitability here in most broad sense possible. US did not send men to Moon because it was hard. It was done because US was in a race with USSR and winning that race was profitable to US.

Having public opinion excited about some goal can be profitable, too.

If you don't believe, think about it: why has Apollo program been stopped? Because people got used to it and there was nothing further to prove -- further sanding people to Moon after US has demonstrated it can do it repeatedly was extremely expensive but there were no longer any significant profits from it.

So while it was still hard it actually became unprofitable to continue to do so.

If it was hard that caused US to send people to Moon, they would not stop sending people, they would be sending more, build base on Moon, etc.
You are a part of society. If something is bad for society, it will, in the long run, be bad for you.
They are not 'visible' if you just let them scroll by.

If there are individual warnings that have no meaning, turn them off.

Everything else, is help from the compiler, which is your only friend. Ignoring even one of those should not be tolerated at all. They must be analyzed and the code improved to remove them. And you enforce your team following that policy with -Werror.
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Besides Putin the papers reveal also the entire network of helpers - companies and other puppets. On those the revelations will be more striking, I reckon. This kind of business thrives by staying in the shadows so the more light the better chances to work against them.
Off topic: Why do people even share instagram videos? It prompts me to login and I can't even seek, go backward by 10secs etc. I think its a stigma on Instagram fronted developer.
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Even worse then, it sounds like they're doing a bad job of iterating on the design if it's continued to break.
Note that this con applies even if noone besides you builds the code as you might want to build older snapthots in the future, e.g. for git bisect.
To where?

Twitter and Instagram are just as bad as Facebook.

Reddit is magnitudes worse.
Oliver Burkeman's 4000 Weeks addresses a lot of this, and he similarly ends up recommending personal kanban.
The smoking analogy gets thrown a lot, but it’s just a further and less accurate one than the TV analogy.

The TV industry has been booming and the only issue is more advanced successors.

TV can be addicting, rage inducing, waste of time, ruining teenagers minds and giving them bad body images issues.

TV is also informative, educational, and makes people happy since it’s fun to watch at other times.

While some people have been for years complains about the destruction of human society by TV, the majority just nods and prefers having it to not.

(FB employee, opinions my own)
> not really idiomatic.

Really? I haven't used Java in a long time, but in the languages where I've used Optional types, you'd always check for presence once and then extract the value before further use.
There's a lot of doom and gloom here; let's see if it really got that bad.

>You need a PD charger and not a QC charger...

Impossible, all USB-C QC chargers are also USB PD chargers.

>into the correct usb port to charge the laptop

The port is either marked (everything but MacBooks) or doesn't matter (MacBooks, pretty sweet).

>buy an original charger for your laptop

Good! Now you have a USB PD charger that covers your laptop and also every device you own that's lighter in wattage. Less chargers to pack when travelling :)

>you're back at where we were 20 years ago

No, not at all. 20 to 10 years ago all charging ports (including on cameras, phones, everything) were barrel plugs of slightly different diameter; everybody's cranking out their own boxy black chargers putting out maddening variations on the same ~20V for laptops and 3-5V for smaller devices, you can't share chargers between devices, can't always find the replacement, especially if the device is on the older side. Buying a device with a different connector - bam, old charger goes to e-waste (or e-bay).

>but it won't charge. You need a fast charger...

EU makes it mandatory to say on the packaging what wattage the device needs, and what wattage the chager can provide. Granted, the laptops are not covered by the EU proposition in question yet, but have patience, we don't now have those 240W chargers for nothing :)
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I would like to see a source too (specifically for the "we won't tell you how we do it" part). Even in the BBC reporting, the Blairs were very specific how/why their name showed up in here, so it's not like they're "surprised"
But you are still profitable to FB regardless of your best efforts. They are profiting off of the data you give them while connecting to friends and relatives. They know who you are and what you're interested in based on who you associate with.

Facebook doesn't want to be the government, that would remove power from them at this point. There are all sorts of regulations on the government that they don't need to adhere to as a private business.
As a Swede, I feel like I need to point out that this comment seems misinformed on so many levels:

- the Nobel prize in medicine is not handed out by the Swedish government, so any dopey politics would not influence the Nobel prize. Rather, it is handed out by Karolinska Institutet (https://www.nobelprize.org/about/the-nobel-assembly-at-karol...)

- Sweden's handling of Covid has not been particularly influenced by politics, it's been run by the government-appointed experts (that were appointed before Covid broke out), so the "dopey politics" referred to have never really been politically motivated.

I don't think there's any reason for connecting Sweden's Covid response with who got the Nobel prize in Medicine this year.
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This is extremely outdated.
There is a great quote from Norbert Wiener about the procedure:

"[P]refrontal lobotomy ... has recently been having a certain vogue, probably not unconnected with the fact that it makes the custodial care of many patients easier. Let me remark in passing that killing them makes their custodial care still easier."

I've studied medicine but i'm not aware that it is still taught as a "tool in the toolbox" in the modern medical community.
Not to mention, if living your ideals is an important part of your own utility function, then yeah - it can be best for you even if it comes with other compromises.
>This is a bit over-hyped and not exactly a breakthrough. [...] This is nothing new.

>Slapping “AI” on this 25 years later is a good example of the whole present PR move of labeling things as “AI” that are just rather basic data analytics.

The New Atlas article has a link to the Nature journal paper it's based on. Your dismissal and summary of DeepMind's work described by the article as a "public relations move" is a disservice to readers.

The more detailed explanation in the Nature journal describes a new technique of "deep generative models" applied to weather radar. This was not available 25 years ago. In tests, their DGM forecasts became preferred by meteorologists 93% of the time for accuracy compared to previous "data analytics". Excerpt from Nature:

>We use a single case study to compare the nowcasting performance of the generative method DGMR to three strong baselines: PySTEPS, a widely used precipitation nowcasting system based on ensembles, considered to be state-of-the-art3,4,13; UNet, a popular deep learning method for nowcasting15; and an axial attention model, a radar-only implementation of MetNet19

>[...] When expert meteorologists judged these predictions against ground truth observations, they significantly preferred the generative nowcasts, with 93% of meteorologists choosing it as their first choice (Fig. 4b).
You can end your WiFi SSID with _optout_nomap to tell Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla not to collect it. Apple has no way to opt out.