skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but there are a lot of companies with negative links, although perhaps not to the level of UFC's genocide or military coups. Nike, IBM, Mercedes, etc. Either way, management would have changed twice or thrice over by now. But I would still guess the vast majority of people do not care how their bananas got to them as long as they are 49 cents per pound or their avocados regardless of which Mexican cartel sent them.

Does anyone really think clothing brands are avoiding Xinjiang cotton if their product still comes from China or another south/east Asian country?
A chief tool used by industry to deceive was to cast doubt on independent science and scientists. A popular book on misuse of statistical methods, one that I'd read and liked myself, How to Lie With Statistics, turns out to have been part of that effort, as detailed by Tim Harford in his own book, How To Make The World Add Up

https://timharford.com/books/worldaddup/

The ultimate cautionary tale here is Darrell Huff’s 1954 classic, How to Lie With Statistics. Huff’s book is clever, insightful, and impish, and it may be the best-selling book about statistics ever written. It is also, from cover to cover, a warning that statistics are all about misinformation, and that one should no more believe in them than in stage magic. Huff ended up testifying at a Senate hearing that the evidence linking smoking and cancer was as spurious as the evidence linking storks and babies. His unpublished sequel, How to Lie With Smoking Statistics, was paid for by a tobacco-lobby group.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/the-conspi...

People are very well aware that the war over what is truth and real continues to be fought. And that it is not merely corporations engaged in it, as control over truth and perception is at the heart of power. "All warfare is based on deception."

https://suntzusaid.com/book/1/18/

As a hint, if one side has a long record of lies, and another a long record of honest relations and owning their errors --- the smart money takes counsel from the second. It's wise to assess one's own sources on this basis from time to time.
I find a couple things pretty neat here:

1 - All of the screenshots are from a Mac. This never would have happened with the old MSFT.

2 - The performance of this is pretty good. Admittedly, I just played with this for a couple minutes, but even opening a folder with a bunch of files was snappy.
How do you know he was a he?
Do you remember the source?
The myth of management styles and how it changed in modern time
Epic isn't perfect but most customers seem to like it. Are the alternatives really any better? Most of the problems seem to be caused by customizations or lack of training rather than inherent flaws in the product itself.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/klas-ehr-market-s...
> .inputrc should be universal

Absolutely not. Using readline means completion and keybinding customization would be limited to what bash can do, or even worse as is typical with other readline based REPLs. What you're asking for is to gut a definitive feature of zsh only so that it can be bash. That provides zero value to zsh users.
> "I wish there was an app to help me connect to my niece" is a really fucking weird vibe.

It's not so weird. Facebook is essentially the same folly.

Perhaps you meant sad.
Literally all of HN. All you have to do is search threads from 2020. My point is more than this issue - it is how HN treats dissent and diverging opinions.
On the contrary, the first bug happens because docker-compose tries to decode the path as UTF-8, but it is not UTF-8-encoded. ("'utf-8' codec can't decode byte")
Apparently there were enough porters for them to organize. The power of a small but intense group, once again.
AR will likely be a subset of VR enable by pass through. Check out https://varjo.com/products/xr-3/

Until we can perfectly simulate physical reality, virtual interactions will never be as real as real world interactions.
When you have non-standard characters in your name you quickly learn to never use them in computers since even though most systems works fine, some don't. And you can't fix all the thousands of systems your name has to interact with.

I even had trouble booking flight tickets since their security system couldn't parse my name, and then had to go through some special security check due to it returning errors. After that, never again. Not sure how they managed to do it but they had some basic rules that they used to say "no real name can look like this, this is a fake person!" and just kicked it out.
It doesn't need to be mutable, it's just more efficient. Also the mutability only exists within the builder methods - you can build the struct and assign it to an immutable variable.
Hot take: Cometeer is kinda bad?
Cometeer has raised $35M to deliver frozen coffee pods to people. I had it a few times and I have to say, I don't get the hype around it. It tastes worse than a drip coffee, costs about $2 per cup, and saves me no time since I have to wait for water to boil anyways.

Am I missing something here?
His anti-vaccination stance (specific to coronavirus, I don't know if he's anti-vax in general).

He pushes ivermectin as a valid alternative to the vaccines when the data does not currently back that up.
Yeah so double byte characters costs extra. I don’t know, a checkbox or something default off. Always did still does. Double width costs even more.
The milestones switch from journal articles to corporate press releases at some point.

They miss the vibrant and interesting marketplace technology transitions.

I can think of several marketplace transitions that were never journal articles nor corporate press releases:

The conversion of home/personal sized computers from linear power supplies to switchers.

The widespread eventual total conversion of home appliance-type wall warts from transformer based linear supplies to switchers.

The conversion of radar from multi-KW pulsed magnetron to multi-watt solid state doppler.

"Successful" deployment of multiple trunking-style public safety radio networks.

Generally speaking the widespread conversion of personal electronic appliances from vacuum tube to transistor

The personal appliance transition from barrier-strip and point-to-point wiring technologies to PCB

The two marketplace transitions from memory limited sprite based video displays in the 6502 era to early VGA era simple large memory backed bitmaps back to very complicated parallelized 3d accelerated video cards.

The gradual marketplace conversion from simple voice phone in-band signaling to computerized out of band signaling from the 70s thru 90s. And I suppose the later marketplace conversion to voip.

The marketplace conversion from computer full control front panels pre 1980 to various post 1980 mass storage bootstrap systems still used today.

The marketplace era of closed source compilers, IDEs, languages, etc. There was a day back when you'd have to pay $5000 to compile Fortran and you liked it. Now the idea of paying anything for a compiler looks weird to most devs.

The marketplace conversion from 4:3 squarish video to widescreen and the GUI designs that still haven't caught on to wide-screen-ness in the 2020s...
Google Pixel Pass, all-in-one subscription combining phones and Google services
> Linux is a quivering basket case that cant decide if its Unix, MacOS or Windows.

A more positive spin on this would be that it combines the best of all three.

Personally I'm very much in the Unix camp though, and have the proverbial greybeard long enough to trip over. But I can see the value in the "Linux way" of doing things. Actually, I mostly just use Linux myself these days, mainly because of software compatibility and because it's "Unix-y enough" with the right distro; a decent trade-off.
My parents both grew up in poverty in disparate communities and both experienced potential food shortages.

Later in his early twenties my father was drafted. They also spent time doing bomb drills in elementary school because of the cold war, nuclear fallout was an actual worry.

>did I already mention that my and the later generations will face significantly less earnings than the generation of Boomers, and that income and wealth inequality also has risen constantly over the last decades?

I do worry about rising wealth inequality, but that is largely a factor of deficit spending and needing the fed to print money causing wealth transfer to the upper class. Unfortunately, most young people are all for the government spending even more money for various things which will only exacerbate the issue.

>(we sacrificed our youth for the at-risk population),

I dunno, the largest cohort of covid positive cases has always been the 20-30 age group by far.
Sounds to me like the "cost" is some bad people getting whacked by canes, which seems like a pretty low price to pay overall.
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Many years ago I could not access the apple developer panel because of the umlaut in my last name. It was eventually fixed but I was quite surprised that such a large company would run into such a basic issue.
Facebook has incredibly destructive impact on my society, on my government, even if I never use it (which I don’t).

The U.S. is currently engaged in two major crises: is our democratic system of government legitimate, and how do we deal with a pandemic?

In both cases, Facebook’s algorithm is encouraging divisiveness in the name of engagement.
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I think it's less that the US doesn't have those, it's just that they have both types, and they also mix them. Seinfeld wouldn't have been half as good as it was without you knowing the character and how they would react to specific situations.

I think part of what you're identifying about first episodes is maybe a difference in style between the US and UK. A lot of UK comedy definitely seems like the characters are pre-baked into the writing and the actor is already mature in the role in the beginning, while in the US it feels like they've left the role a little hollow at first and allow the actors (and future writing) to evolve the role into what it will be. This can make the first episodes feel "off" when you go back to watch them, but I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad way to go if the goal is to find a really good character.

It's also possible that the UK network(s) are amenable to planned out entire seasons while the US networks are more accepting of buying a pilot of a few episodes and seeing where something goes, which would favor some of these approaches in each case.
Yep. For example, the name of the third-largest city in Poland is "Łódź", which might look like it's pronounced "lods", but is actually pronounced more like "wootch".
Yeah I know that's what they said, to which my response would be: "Just talk to her, ask her what she's into. Failing that, pick a social thing that people do like mini-golf or a Starbucks or a restaurant, and invite her to do that".

The pain point of "I can't connect with my niece" is not solved with "I need an app to recommend social venues I can invite her to". That's just not the problem you're trying to solve - but it is a bullshit yarn you can spin to try to pitch yet another local venue discovery app.
None of it is open hardware but some of it has been reverse engineered. I know some x86 CPU's have had their microcode reverse engineered, starting with the 8086 but also AMD's K8 and K10. There are lots of die photos of the 486DX chips and a patent says the microcode was pretty small (only 250 "lines", 12kbits.) About the POWER CPUs I have no idea. They're RISC so do they even have microcode?
Everybody else has a worse shell.
So frustrating how this still happens. It's too latin centric.
This is the modern, post-ASCII computing world, we should no longer be willing to settle for the lowest-common-denominator of ASCII-only strings.

There's no excuse for actively supported, paid products to have these problems today.
What we do (at Kagi Search) to address this problem is use our own index which contains only non-commercial results from the web as well as forum discussions. Thinking behind is that the quality of the content is in inverse proportion to the number of ads/trackers/affiliate links on the site.

Our index is still in infancy but the example of it working for the query 'best laptop' can be seen in this screenshot:

https://imgur.com/ypyOilV
This is a good idea. Their brand is fu*ked right now. All age groups hate facebook for a variety of different reasons. They are synonymous with misinformation and terrible privacy. This is a good move by Facebook.
It speculates that Rust would help. That is very far from demonstrating that Rust would actually help.

Rust would certainly not help in this instance, because nobody is writing pty handling code in Rust. I.e., using Rust in place B does not help with bugs in place A. Any expectation that Linux would get more secure if some new code were Rust is optimistic to the point of fantasy.

The best possible outcome of allowing Rust in kernel code is that the kernel would not become even more insecure as a result of the added Rust code. That would be good, by itself, even if not what we really want. But whether even that would be achieved in practice is still to be demonstrated.
> exclusively owned by wealthy people

You are underinformed. Most Cessna owners I know, are middle-income fanatics, usually co-owning a single plane.
Decentralized-Religion
Googling "United Fruit Company" doesn't give any Related searches that mention genocides or coups for me. OTOH, the very first thing when googling Chiquita is "People also ask... Is Chiquita a bad company?" with an answer that is basically "yes".
Fish truly is superior for productivity.
The Lisp evangelism team can speak for themselves :)
Sorry, I didn't mean to start a flame war. I find regexes, HOF, and especially asyncio/Promises much more palatable in JS, which are things I look forward to when moving out of shell scripting land.
Disagree. There are abstractions and there are abstractions.

Macros are too big of a footgun of an abstraction. Because they can change the syntax of the language, they can hide functionality in non-obvious ways and they're just another band-aid on top of the languages limitations (the two latter points are especially true for C). And more often than not they're worse than just writing using the languages capabilities.

Yes I'm sure people writing C macros will sit down and document them, and make them usable. Not.

That being said, Rust macros are a world apart from C macros.
It's ok. We would have been too powerful otherwise
Not sure how they managed to do it but they had some basic rules that they used to say "no real name can look like this, this is a fake person!" and just kicked it out.
https://www.thelvbags.co/louis-vuitton-wallets-and-purses.ht...
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Why is Mozilla Foundation doing political activism? Is it just some money-grabbing scheme or what?

Mitchell Baker's blog:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/author/mitchellmozillacom/

Not a single word about Firefox, just some far-left propaganda about racial justice, empowered women in tech, Trump bad, and so.
I think this might be a universal quality of people,

"Individuals generated better tolerated than groups."
IIRC all the stats show that nowadays parents spend significantly more time raising their children than they did a generation ago.

E.g. here's one random analysis - https://qz.com/1143092/study-modern-parents-spend-more-time-...
I wasn't referring to a specific hardware stack when I was referring to AR. I was referring to a software stack which also includes experiences that do not incorporate physical reality. And in my opinion the holographic transparent AR glass tech track is largely a dead end. I think passthrough AR devices like the Lynx-R are the best proxy for future consumer devices that incorporate the physical world.

I feel pretty strongly we'll see a good Passthrough AR device from Apple in 2022.
I use zsh because of its tab completion lol
Nice info! Thanks!
Not open-source yet, the best alternatives for self-hosting right now are:

https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

Update: also check the discussion about their differences https://github.com/cdr/code-server/discussions/4267 (IMO both are much slower and worse than vscode.dev)
I’ll add, a genuine story that the Founder is apart of.
They could use a different name as their windows name (Do people use their real names as their usernames? I never do). Or, they would have to go through the pain of finding a real solution, like the author did.

Considering JetBrains seems unwilling to fix this bug, maybe the best solution of all is to switch to an IDE that works.
Yeah…because Google and all other big tech want a monopoly on user data. Do you think any of them want to ever not protect user privacy in the way you defined it?

They still have all this data on users. They don’t even tell you what they have. They have the BS marketing of Google Takeout. It includes nothing about the profile they have made on me. The logs and data they have on what I have clicked, etc.

Google wants to even protect you or I from knowing how much data they have. That’s not the protection any one should want.
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"Such a claim, if seriously advanced, becomes equivalent to a denial that there is even minimal scientific content in economics, and that, in consequence, economists can do nothing but write as advocates for ideological interests."

Wow, what insight
The scandals say otherwise. They are absolutely terrible at it.

The only efficiency they excel at is screwing over the players
If they are Vegetarian and they went to Harvard which one do they tell first?
Because the Fed is suppressing bond yields with their asset purchases. This artificially distorts many things in the market, generally towards a risk on fashion.

It's a big reason that housing is having an epic, historic rally, through suppressed 10y yields which tend to lead to lower mortgage rates. If you look at the summary of Fed purchases, published monthly, they are buying bonds across all maturities, not just short term bonds as they've done in the past.

It makes closing the bottle again more difficult. The Fed is effectively monetizing the US Government deficit by buying ~60% of all new treasuries issued (bank buys bonds and sells to the Fed).

And a lot of it relates to psychology of the markets. They continue to pour gasoline and encourage risk taking at exactly the wrong time.

It's likely this money will eventually make its way into circulation... it depends on consumer credit patterns. But the money won't leave the supply until the purchased bonds fully mature, which can be up to 30 years.

So yes, QE needs to end, regardless of whether the money ends up locked away in a bank's balance sheet. I believe the Federal Reserve should enact the best risk adjusted policy, not the best policy for the immediate term, which is their new mantra.

The medium-long term risks to their current policy far outweigh the benefit at this point. Easy money policies always look more appealing from a short term perspective... always.

That's why when populism takes over the monetary system, you see these policies proliferate, often with disastrous consequences. Look at the currencies of many South American countries for evidence of this.
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sadly the comments here reflect the overwhelming male capitalist bias of the HN community.

- A transactional view of life and relationships.

- Quick dismissal of concern for sex worker exploitation because "all jobs are exploitation", which simultaneously (a) minimizes the particularly bad nature of sexual exploitation, (b) speciously defines all work as exploitative, effectively neutering the word "exploitation" and (c) essentially saying exploitation is normal.

- There's almost a palpable giddiness in the comments overall. You can sense the immense confirmation bias. A post by a sex worker who portrays it in very businesslike and mostly positive ways, speaking positively about most of her customers, essentially providing validation for men who want to buy sex, who don't want to feel any guilt, or think about whether they are being exploitative / taking advantage of an imbalance of power.

- Few showing any awareness that Aella's is far from the typical experience, that most sex work is done in desperation, that our society doesn't give everyone even close to a level playing field.

- A harsh reaction against anyone being a party pooper by raising negative issues.

- Some comments showing veiled resentment that they have to pay a woman for sex, that women have it easier, that men are the unlucky ones, the oppressed ones.

- Compare the reaction here to posts about sexism in the tech industry.
I don't think this bug is anything to do with Windows, rather it is due to the way the paths are handled in the IDE's codebase. Presumably the same problem exists when using these IDEs in conjunction with a path containing non-ascii characters in the Linux or macOS world.
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Relevant HN discussion:

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I've come to believe that strong conventions matter a lot more than specific patterns because of stuff like this.
Anecdotally on Facebook itself I see the term "Zucked" thrown around a lot in groups for various topics, an example would be: "be careful with that post or you'll get the group Zucked". Maybe it's a regional or topic-specific thing but I see it quite a lot.
Hey, we used to do that one, too! ACARS data to see which executives were golfing together. It's hard to figure out who is buying whom, though. It's more useful for pure entertainment. The only way I actually made returns from CEOs on airplanes was when one happened to sit next to me on a commercial flight and proceeded to edit a powerpoint with "BUY XYZ CORP FOR $M.N BILLION" in 100-point bold letters on his gigantic laptop.
Unless you live on the airport in a hangar it's not going to be in concentrations high enough to worry about.

The wealthy are in jets or turbo props which don't use leaded gas.