skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, sorry I'm not too familiar with GraphQL, but that's certainly an eye-opener into why it's generated such a buzz
Yes. Millions of other people, mostly young and poor, are dying of the reaction to the virus.
> You’re just smuggling in your own implicit definition of “legally own”.

I suppose before trade secret laws were effectively expanded to items in our own homes, the commonly accepted definition of "own a thing" was "you are allowed use of the thing, but not to examine how the thing works"?

It's not I who is doing the smuggling, and there's a reason the law uses obfuscatory language.
I guess the hypothesis is that they engage in that behavior exactly because their business depends on driving up engagement so they’ll go as far as to, as you say, show people content that pisses them off so they’ll spend an extra hour as a keyboard warrior and hopefully see an ad in there. I don’t think those incentives exist for e.g a paid phonebook.
you simply convert renewables to methane
Than it's not ivermectin that is harmful. It's not seeking other medical attention. Which is logically a different thing. People self medicate because they are afraid of hospital costs. We don't blame the hospitals for people self medicating.
Much respect to the ScummVM team as they allowed me to play the original "Secret of Monkey Island" after it left my local library! Ironically, I no longer needed the "Dial a Pirate" code-wheel.
How effective would a mediocre filter be, just by physically bouncing the virus around? Is the virus fragile enough to be deateoyed that way?
I heard lots of good things about this book. But I gave up after a few chapters. I just didn't get on with the author's writing style.
When the login page helps you brute force your own account...

What if.. in the RARE case, a hacker guessed wrong, but was helped by google to get into your account?
Please stop spreading misinformation. I recommend that everyone get vaccinated if they can, but the vaccines have only a limited and temporary effect in reducing transmission.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

The reality is that those grandparents are going to be exposed to the virus regardless of what their grandchildren do. Those grandparents have had plenty of time to get vaccinated themselves.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> These are both extremes that are undesirable IMO.

The problem with putting them in the same sentence is that it equates them, in the same way "very fine people on both sides" did.

Being sent to a reeducation camp, keeping a billion plus population exposed only to propaganda, a total lack of free speech, and openly disappearing people (like Gedhun Choekyi Nyima of Tibet) is not in the same bracket as any of the other ills you were mentioning.
The first three don't have illustrations. There's one or two after that in the "good" run of BYTE that don't. All of the rest do. After 1987, their illustrator was replaced with a photographer and Photoshop.

«From 1975 to 1986, Byte covers usually featured the artwork of Robert Tinney. These covers made Byte visually unique. In 1987, Tinney's paintings were replaced by product photographs, and Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" column was discontinued.»

I said it was a rule of thumb, not an exact measurement.
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Thank you, my response would have been along the same lines. Regulation will come, but it's not going to be a united global front. From an economic perspective, stifling innovation is problematic, and countries that embrace the potential of cryptocurrency are going to reap rewards.

Even though there are a fair share of 'sovereign citizens' among cryptocurrency types, there are many who just see the potential for integration with existing infrastructure. Personally I'm more socialist-leaning, and want governments to embrace technology that will also empower them to provide sweeping social benefits for their citizens in a transparent way.
I took a class in my CS program where we had to write PID controller software running on a microcontroller to keep water at a specific temperature using a hot plate.

My concentration was embedded systems but the majority of the class were just regular CS students.
Geena Davis's new role:Training AI bots to scrub movie scripts of anything un-PC
Childcare will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future. The cost will keep parents, mostly women, out of the workforce.

Childcare used to be cheap, but overregulation at the state and local level have made it extremely expensive. For example, extreme caregiver to child ratio regulations really drive up costs.

On top of that you need a lawyer and a pile of permits just to open up a daycare center in several states now. Childcare could be a good job for lots of low-skill people, and could free up parents to re-enter the workforce.

Instead I imagine we’ll take the easy way out like we always do: print money and give it to parents and caregivers, which will not solve the problem and will just drive up childcare costs further.
It will be slow in the coming months. Windows has very fast UI response on fresh installs and degrades over time. It's really not an achievement to have responsive UI in 2021, Microsoft just hires the bottom of the barrel and bases everything on group studies, which yields the worst outcomes.
For me personally it's not sex or even immoral sex, it's betraying one's friends.

I know the wives were equally guilty. He seduced but never ever forced to anyone's knowledge.

He often committed these acts of adultery when he was welcomed as a guest at someone's home.

Having adventures on the bed with the wives of the people who invited you in their homes- pretty low to me.

The women were adult and consenting, but it is still betraying the trust of people.

If all these were to happen with the consent of the husbands, although it would be extremely weird and unnatural, not to mention- immoral, by the standard of the stark majority of any society, I wouldn't have given it any thought at all.
> A 50% drop in housing costs will serve them better than a 15% raise. The number of Americans who would benefit from a substantial deflation rises every day.

Except servicing existing debt would become nearly impossible as wages went down, but that pesky car payment stayed at $500/mo.
If properly delivered? Sure. As many folks seem to be indicating in these threads, as the primary or even sole topic of interest to them?

Would you then consider that a plus?
> imho the best software is written to scratch a personal itch. Not to appease this customer. Not for other humans.

This statement shows you partially understand, but don't understand the why. You recognize that people working on software for things they truly care about can write better more successful software, but you miss the final step of why that software is more successful.

The reason why Linus can write such great software for software engineers is because he is a software engineer. Fundamentally the software you love is successful for other people, it is for other people and because your idols are one of those people part of that group, they understand it as well as anyone.

Linux was made for passionate hobbyist programmers by a passionate hobbyist programmer. And because it is made for those people, and met their needs perfectly is why it caught on. The reason it met their needs is because Linus understood their needs, because he shared them.

That's the key piece - that great software is written by completely meeting users needs. The easiest way to understand and meet other people's needs is by sharing them. That's the final step of it.

Fundamentally software becomes successful by meeting other people's needs. Anything else that doesn't, you've never heard of.
Can confirm. Live in Madison, WI. People here call it a "city" and "tech hub" but the downtown is like 3 square blocks and there's like half a dozen """tech""" companies in the area and maybe twice as many small startups. lol
If the reverse happened, no doubt Microsoft would be sending cease and desists to edgedb.
Screenshot https://imgur.com/a/nxvH8cW
Social media is a cancer for anyone foolish enough to use it
For society, the NYT is a cesspool.
So the CIA explicitly did what they are chartered to do? They spied on conversations taking place in another countries embassy?

While it might be the subject of a court case in Spain, it probably will not play out the way Assange apologists hope. The actions taken by Undercover Global at the behest of the CIA were likely coordinated by the CITCO and with the blessing of the British government.
What I've learnt talking to 2,500 companies about remote work – a thread
young people haven't taken on debt yet, they will be better served by a world where things are cheaper

older Americans with high debt loads are DOA no matter what
> having your business jeopardized because you don't control your whole stack

It's hypothetically possible, but in reality most businesses are just fine outsourcing most of their stack to Windows, Mac, Zoom, GSuite, Outlook, Slack, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, etc. Don't confuse a possibility for likelihood.
True, we would be much better off without both of them
I had just moved to Toronto in about 2002, and was waiting for an interview. I saw one of those microwave horns on a building in the distance. Puzzling over what it was.

Interview started, talking about something glanced over the background and muttered verbally "Microwave" as it hit me that it was a microwave waveguide of some sort.

Didn't get the job...
I'm not sure what you're responding to, but I wasn't merely suggesting that a benefit of cryptocurrency is the ability to fool the government, though privacy-coins certainly are an important tool in areas with oppressive governments.

At the same time, the leading crypto platforms enable an amount of transparency that isn't possible with traditional financial institutions.

The wasted energy argument has already been addressed, and is specific to proof of work platforms which are the minority of the top 50. After the ETH2 transition is complete, it's likely proof of stake crypto will have a larger market cap than proof of work crypto.
Relief of the housing drought to the point that prices _do_ drop 50%: I hypothesize that alone would allow the low and middle class to save again and thus hope again.
I think a weariness about Brexit and politics in general too.
Definitely! it’s worth the hype
Lebanon's Main State Power Plants Run Out of Fuel, Shut Down
Damn, that's hostility on another level. Do you have a link to more reading on this?
I imagine over time the rules and regulations have become more strict.

Pretty cool app by the way.
Reunification in this case is as legitimate as speaking of German reunification before 1990 or Korean reunification now.

So are the quotation marks because they are actually quoting or because of some other reason?...

In this article it seems to me that they do beyond quoting.
AT&T built one as well, the WT4/WT4A system.

https://archive.org/details/bstj56-10-1829
> Sanctity of life occurred gradually, and is in part a luxury of abundance.

"Thou Shalt Not Kill" was not a product of an abundant, decadent society, and I promise you that Neumann had heard of it.

I agree that Neumann gave humanity great scientific and technological gifts that brought us into the modern era, but so did Wernher von Braun. Both also used their gifts to cause suffering and destruction on a massive scale.

We can't just whitewash their history; given their intelligence we must admit that they knew what they were doing and what they were angling for. And it still matters, because very intelligent and clever people in today's world are building weapons and killing machines, and hiding behind the same excuses.
There’s a little-used feature on HN that allows one to “vouch” for a flagged comment that is made for these situations.
It's nice to see here! I wrote the index by year comment / review, and I wasn't sure whether 1-up or 2-up was better. Thoughts?
Why is the Title Edited ?

>Vintage Skynet: AT&T’s Abandoned “Long Lines” Microwave Tower Network

The original title of the article, actually make sense in the subject of "Long Lines". But the submitted title make it sounds like AT&T totally abandoned Microwave Network. I dont know about AT&T but Microwave Network is still actively being used today and refined even in the latest 5G 3GPP Spec Rel 16, 17 and 18.

Other than that it is a nice piece and history of the system.
The title is a bit misleading: EdgelessDB was not developed by Microsoft but by a German startup (Edgeless Systems, https://www.edgeless.systems/ and https://github.com/edgelesssys/edgelessdb).

The announcement is about its availability on the Azure Marketplace.
Please provide a source. There is absolutely no truth to what you are stating. Id like to see where you got that nonsense information from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaBH4LqGsI
Wouldn’t be a bad idea to start having air filters in confined spaces.

Elevators, gyms, restaurants.

Not saying it has to happen all at once, but it would help decrease most respiratory diseases from spreading.
The United States of America is preserved today - intact - specifically because Lincoln valued coexisting with the confederates above almost all else. He made clear even in his first inaugural address that the preservation of the Union was paramount.

There is an incredibly important distinction between fighting against the ignorant temper tantrum of your brothers and sisters and exterminating them all.
Ask HN: Non-WiFi smart locks for residential use?
Does anyone know any smart locks that are either non-wifi or only connect to the local network (and don't phone home)? I'm having trouble searching/finding for locks in this niche.
AROS One x86 v1.6
Essentially, circa 2015+, Australia began loudly pushing back on Chinese claims to the South China Sea & regarding Taiwan, and banned Huawei involvement in core telecom.

China, seeking to make an example in the region, escalated.

https://www.hudson.org/research/17228-how-china-overreached-...

"Since 2018, China has refused to accept cabinet-level meetings with Australian counterparts, and for the past year is refusing to even accept phone calls. Since 2020, Beijing has imposed punitive measures against Australian barley, coal, timber, beef, cotton, sugar, copper, wool, lobsters, wine, and liquefied natural gas. These export sectors bring in around $15 billion a year from China. State authorities have issued arbitrary travel and safety warnings to Chinese students hoping to study in Australia."
> The green movement has instilled the idea

I do not think this narrative is reasonable because almost no one ever cared about 'green movement'.
The error was made Wendsday and corrected Thursday.

The wrong number is suspiciously close to total hospitalizations.
Does anyone use it seriously? I guess I need better informational resources. I’m still wondering where the man pages are.
I am sure many people are saying "great", one bug gone. But bumblebees are rather harmless. As a kid they were everywhere, and a few would land on me. I never got stung by them and I thought they were fun to watch them fly between flowers. Sadly I have not seen one in a very long time.

Just another notch on mankind's pole I guess.
Please show us real code where std::unique_ptr vs std::shared_ptr makes a considerable difference (with benchmarks). A pointer indirection causes a cache miss?

A shared_ptr can be optimized to unique_ptr if it's not copied.

Not sure what you mean by "a GC language". Most cito targets are garbage-collected.
Does it run exclusively in the browser, or does it communicate with a server to compile the code?

> Several language features are missing.

Does anybody know more about this, e.g. which features? I suspect threading is among them.
Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_61#_telemetry-setti...

You are not enrolled into the auto telemetry yet, the deprecated options are still respected for now.
The new telemtry has the levels of on, crash and off. Useful if I want not to contribute my device info, but still help them with issues with the software itself.
I use vouch all the time, including several times today, however I've never seen it on a comment, only threads in [new]
So this article is telling me that the best Linux distribution for the desktop is Windows?

Makes sense.
They were used up until the mid-90's really.

They effectively had a commercial life of 35-40 years, and went thru 2-3 generations of technology, some of them were even upgraded to digital.
What's the performance? WSL2 was really slow for hard disk access.
I’ve worked for half a dozen companies over the last decade as a programmer and I’ve never experienced this.

Most of this article feels completely detached from reality for me. I suspect the author has only worked for the most dire of companies.
While you give an (afaik) accurate retelling of how Assange got in legal trouble, it amounts to little more than "might makes right" (hidden behind a layer of "might makes the laws").

Whereas I believe the GP was making a moral argument, that Assange deserves it because he leaked US secrets.

There's also the issue of US jurisdiction expanding into other countries being given a level of casual acceptance not afforded to any other country. As another commenter pointed out, these allyships can be very one-sided:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...
The main points made by the article are not unique to any particular job or industry. The method, if one is to get more freedom of choice in work, is to get yourself onto important projects that contribute to the bottom line.

For a broader view, years ago I read the book, "Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't" by Jeffery Pfeffer, and it was an excellent object lesson in understanding how and why companies work the way they work, how decisions are made, and why you can do the same job in different organizations and yet have a totally different experience one organization to the next.
This person's experience is not universal and mostly applies to the least desirable tier of programming jobs. A proper list would contain a mention of the physical effects of long term computer use, artificial lighting, plastic-y environments, and the like.
This article is classic bait for the Hacker News audience, submitted by HN user "codedaddy" whose account was just created 2 hours ago to submit this post.

The entire point of this article is to make us all mad. Let's not be silly by giving the author what they want.
I find it interesting that everytime something like this comes up: a person (usually female) gets fired from a tech firm and alleges abuse and toxic work place, the response from the Hacker News crowd is is heavily negative (to the person) and tries to say the person is crazy/overly sensitive/hysterical.

I'm not saying this specific person is right, but if the argument in the comments of "if everyone you work with is a moron, then maybe the problem is you" is true (and I think it can be) then we must consider that some of these stories are true and some people (and it appears to be often women) are being treated abysmally at work.

If Apple can scan people's photos (just in case there's something nasty there) then they should welcome government investigation of their workplaces (just in case).
There's a company looking into this turquoise hydrogen that said the method has previously been optimised for multiple outputs to make the most money, but if it works at the scale we need it to for decarbonisation, we'll be overrun with carbon as a byproduct, so it would be unwise to assume you could sell all of it for the price that you currently can get, as you'd completely swamp the market, that's why they focus on making the economics work for just the hydrogen alone and consider anything else a bonus.

I'm sure someone will come up with something more interesting to do with it than just dumping it though if it all works out.
DOS programs were run in V86 mode.
Xi's reiterating boilerplate language on the issue since forever. This has nothing to do with distracting from domestic politics. It's generic status-quo messaging after recent US-Sino talks that reaffirmed One China Policy. Especially timed around PRC national day on Oct 1st and ROC national day on Oct 1th. This is routine not rattling.
Click on the comment’s date. Then you’ll get the option to vouch for it. (Assuming you meet some unknown karma threshold.)
It depends. Some of Apple’s internal systems are very specialized. People who have been there for a long time could grow dependent on its idiosyncratic systems and processes. This isn’t exclusive to engineering.

Of course, the same could be said of other large corporations.
Unemployment doesn't last very long, nor do you make much because it's based on what your income was. COVID gave special rules that extended and substantially increased the amount. That has since passed, and the amount was enough to only afford rent, food, and maybe a car payment in an affordable town.

Housing and public transportation. The two things cities don't want to fix, because city boards are fascists that know only the wealthy of the city control it.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Conjuror
The reason why most Chinese people care about completely different issues is not because they are uninformed. The average person in Chinese is much better informed about China and its domestic issues (including Tiananmen) than most people outside of China. After all, they actually live in the country and experience it every day. Many people personally lived through the events of Tiananmen, or know people who did. But frankly, after 30 years of massive societal change and (for people in the developed world unimaginable) improvements in living conditions, it isn't on the top of people's minds. There are other issues - issues that are rarely covered in the foreign press - that are much more pressing.

I find that many Westerners believe that because they can read the New York Times or Washington Post, they know more about what's going on in China than people in China do. The problem is that those newspapers only cover a tiny sliver of what goes on in China, and they focus almost exclusively on a small set of negative stories (and very often, this reporting is extremely inaccurate, partial or exaggerated). Imagine if you didn't speak English and had never been to the US, and all you ever read about the US was how terribly prisoners are treated and all the wars it fights around the world. You would have an incredibly skewed picture of the country.

What do people actually care about? Things like the corrupt local officials who may be colluding with property developers (and consequently, the ongoing anti-corruption campaign is very popular), or the rat race to get ahead in an ultra-competitive society.

> Hong Kong and Taiwan are considerably more wealthy on a per-capita basis, at least largely because they don't live under the sane ultra authoritarian system.

The gap between the more developed parts of the mainland and Taiwan is rapidly closing, and is not that large any more. Beijing and Shanghai are not far behind Taipei, and may catch up in the next few years. Hong Kong, on the other hand, is considerably wealthier than either Taiwan or mainland China.

I just think that most of the Western press does a terrible job of covering China, and is actually significantly misinforming its audience in this regard. The quality standards for China coverage are just incredibly low (and because the audience is mostly uninformed on the topic, they mostly can't tell), and the geopolitical rivalry seems to color and shape the reporting to a huge extent.
Yea, it's real, you have screenshot in description and PRs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+telemetr...
As someone who likes both trains and automation, it was also illuminating join digital railroad groups to see the perspective of railroaders, who arent typically as fond of the later, seemingly coming for their job or just makes it harder and less enjoyable.