skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four things:

1) Apple is pretty well known for NOT up-selling and for right sizing customers, so you could actually get reprimanded at an Apple store if the sale was something as egregious as "gave customer laptop in smallest box".

2) The example we are talking about is a perfect setup for a "fuming customer"; smallest box laptop was "wrong laptop".

3) Apple depends on repeat sales and eco-system lock-in. The customer who returns the laptop may not upgrade their iPhone.

4) The request was ludicrous ... the Apple sales associate is not in the wrong for not simply going with it.
> This is really not a top priority for politicians. I don't see them running on a traffic safety platform.

That was Ralph Nader's whole thing in the 70s - "Unsafe at any speed". Politicians don't run on it now because driving has gotten much safer in the last 40 years.
I’ve just adopted the dark matter anti-version of this - edamagit on vscode. It brings emacs’ awesome magit tool to vscode.

It has hardly any likes on the vscode repos just now but it’s been solid.
Texts from a burner? Disposable email address? Dead drop notes? Lurking in the shadows of a parking structure? Plenty of options that don't require a smartphone. Not like journalism was impossible before the iPhone.
Seems to be lacking in ambition given the rapid pace of innovation elsewhere. Still, let's hope they focus on this rather than disparaging and suing SpaceX.
Continuous Learning Meets Work
That's great! Should be the same in the US, and also apply to payment processors.
Imagine a future where humanoid looking drones march in protests as a protestors avatar.
In 1995 EBCDIC, just like mainframes in general, were already quite obsolete.
Beautiful app and brilliant idea, wi5cat. You might consider marketing this to writers. A common method for editing is to change the font type/color/size of the text, which makes your brain less likely to skim over mistakes.

This app makes that technique very easy to accomplish, plus helps the reader concentrate, plus allows in-tool editing. I'll be sending the link to this to several of my novelist friends, and I suspect they'll love it.
Replit Donates $25,000 to the NixOS Foundation
It's honestly, genuinely not a question of philosophy. It is in the "does anything mean anything?" way but we're not talking about that. We're using the economists definition. Which is well-defined and well structured and you can't just re-define away because it doesn't suit your narrative.

It's like trying to tell your debt collector "the real money is the friends we made along the way." Ok, maybe to you, but those kneecaps are still going to hurt in the morning.

> Pickled cucumbers cannot be used to manufacture bitcoin miners, yet one can surely argue that they have “value” and a certain “price” (= “market value“) which is expected to be a proxy for the perceived intrinsic value.

I cannot make sense of this argument. Pickled cucumbers have an intrinsic nutritional value. They're food. Sure they don't have calories, but they have vitamin A, K, calcium, potassium, sodium. You know, things you need, to live.

Folks are welcome to have their extrinsic valuation of pickles too, but that doesn't mean they don't also have an intrinsic value.
CVS also has trouble with my name (I’m also a Christopher) as do some other private entities like my doctor’s office. So this may not be entirely a government thing.
Fitness+ introduces workouts and meditations with SharePlay
“No way it's "right" to fail an interviewee because [she] wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory.”

That made no sense to me, either. My reaction was that she was fortunate not to work there (but further down she mentions that she wound up there anyway).
We are looking to do desktop game streaming. I currently have a very cheap ($20) condenser mic that is ok, but I’m hoping for something in the hundred dollar range that can pick up sound a lot better. I have to pump up the gain on my cheap mic quite a bit right now.
That's about ten percent of spending. The social safety net (the important stuff) is already most spending: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170

Cutting military spending to politicians usually means something else, like cutting benefits to warriors who've already served (thus not really military spending).
I wouldn't say useEffect is a footgun, it just requires realising that React is doing shallow comparisons.
I also came in to comment on this excerpt that failing someone over something so trivial is literally insane.
I always heard "I don't know how to count that low" as more of a tongue-in-cheek joke about Google's scale, not necessarily a sign of smug superiority, or that work at smaller scales "didn't matter".

Like if someone was wondering "is it wasteful to store this data as a 1 GiB file, maybe we should compress it/structure it differently", someone might say "I forgot how to count that low", meaning, "that's a small enough amount of space that it's not worth it to worry about optimizing it".
who in this thread claimed that Raskolinov's real motive was "raising some cash and getting away with it"?

You can provide a sort summary of an argument you find compelling regarding Raskolnikov's motivations without adding about to the millions of words written on this subject. You are also free to describe your own interpretation without feeling obliged to add something novel or useful to what's already out there.

Considering how much I agree with you that Raskolnikov didn't "just need to keep his mouth shut" (a phrase that did show up in this thread), I'm actually and sincerely very interested in your interpretation.
Some links were submitted already:

The Financial Times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986601 (83 comments)

The Atlantic 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987133 (9 comments)

Politico https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987591

The Atlantic 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986688

The Verge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986512

The New York Times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986614

CNN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972584
Yes, they did. This is why everyone hates Silicon Valley tech bros.
Ah, thank you. I was wondering what vanishing Asian cultures had to do with the Amish.
As a data scientist, I like to use the most accessible tool that can get the job done without pain. Can I do it in Google Sheets? Awesome! I'll do that. Can I do that in SQL? That's great too! Will I have to use pandas on a cloud instance? OK, I'll do that. Do I absolutely have to use some complex pipeline? Then I will do that.

There are benefits to using tools that many people can understand.
WhatsApp has to be one of those most easily scalable projects to work on. You have the freedom to divide chatrooms across different databases/shards. Same goes for notifications, where users can be divided since they're all isolated. The hardest part is just coordinating all the moving pieces in a way that can grow well, and that mostly just involves avoiding pitfalls in your design that might bottleneck.
It’s a reference to an internal Google comedy video mocking these tendencies (one of the characters is an anthropomorphic broccoli)
If that also puts a single entity in charge of determining what features go into, and/or what fixes remain out of, that "better product", then there is a very real control issue.

Look at the case of the Web, HTML+CSS+JS standards and specifications (Drew DeVault triggered DDoS measures simply trying to access documentation), and the inability of even G-MAFIA scale companies from being able to sustain their own independent browser engine cores (Microsoft and MSIE).

Control is the ability to determine the options of others. A single entity providing an overwhelmingly appealing programmatic interface is a locus of control.
Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Cheap Drilling
I automate heating and lighting, essentially. Haven't had the time to hack into the AC (although I already know how to do it).
Meanwhile there's the people taking ivermectin killing their entrepreneurial spirit.
Given how difficult it's been to get GPUs recently due to supply chain crunch, are you sure you can actually get your order fulfilled without a significant wait period?
disagree with this take. It might stifle free speech but in my book it does not stifle democracy, and reducing the latter to the former is a mistake. I think the basic unit of democracy is the citizen, and the citizen is not a private person. Being a citizen means participating in public life, and public life brings with it, trust, accountability and reputation. I do not belief at all that such a thing as an anonymous democracy can exist.

Anonymity might be a useful tool against certain forms of authority, that is to say it can guard certain negative rights, but i think it is an absolutely wrong tool to build a community in any active sense, because to be part of a community means to have an identity and be accountable.

I think anonymity is appropriate for whistleblowers or transparency activists, but not for ordinary people who wish to participate in public and political life or discourse. I also don't buy the argument of the article that power imbalance justifies anonymity. People in power are not wrong just because they are in power. They should have the same recourse against say, vile attacks or defamation that anyone else has. This 'stick it to the man' impulse that allows viciousness in discourse just because there are imbalances in power is i think a form of misguided egalitarianism.

HN is I think a good example. Quite a lot of people here have their real names attached to their accounts, those that don't at least comment under a consistent pseudonym, the site is quite harsh when it comes to avoiding bans. This elevates the discussions here compared to completely anonymous websites which are effectively a toxic swamp. If I had to pick between the HN democracy and the 4chan democracy, I knew what I would pick.
Some people seem to have a very skewed perspective on "poverty". "After paying all of the expenses for my upper-middle-class lifestyle, and saving for retirement, and supporting my aging parents, I have barely anything left over. It's basically poverty!!"
Vincent's interview with This Week in Startups on Lambda School is also very interesting despite the weird McCarthyist line of questioning the host goes down.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8
Do you hate the idea of pair programming or the actual act? Have you tried it? It was indeed weird at first but then I had lots of fun from pairing, I really miss it since the whole corona started
I've been sharing this piece with friends to get them to 'get' web3. Good to see it getting HN love.
For drivers, yes. For other road users, not so much. The job is nowhere near done.
I was running the main ruby on rails app I work on via Rosetta since the first M1 MacBooks came out. The performance hit was there for sure, but not huge. Running local tests or seeding my database ranged to "about the same" to 10-20% slower than my 10 core iMac Pro, which is still a pretty fast machine.

Since I've upgraded the app to support Arm natively, almost everything runs faster on the m1 13" macbook compared to my 10 core iMac, with the exception of long running tasks that will use all the cores you can throw at them.
That's what voters want, sin and "nudge" taxes. It's a way to express power over other people to get them to do what you want, which is the purpose of democracy.
I mean honestly I live in the US and my life hasn't been that affected. I can go to karaoke, bars, parties, even with strangers with no concerns. I show I'm vaccinated, wear a mask, that's it. Oh, wait, I also use more hand sanitizer than before. I even got the nice kind that has a good scent to it and doesn't dry my hands.

I'm sure it sucks more for people with conditions that compromise their immune system or people who live with such conditions. And I wish more people would vaccinate and mask up like me so they don't have to worry about its spread. But its political now, so our most vulnerable suffer.
Facebook sues ukrainian man for collecting data on users via Facebook tools
John McWhorter on Woke Racism
> Do people really not watch fullscreen videos anymore or something?

In fullscreen, it puts a black bar at the top and the display becomes 16:10

I don't see the big deal. I'm looking at my 2019 16-inch MBP right now and it looks about the size of the notch from what I've seen. The camera has to go somewhere, and this solution just pushes up the menu bar to the sides of the camera instead of taking up part of the 16:10 section beneath it.
I don’t personally use any Facebook products (although I am sometimes required to use its APIs profesionally), in part because I find their business model and practices ethically questionable, and the products’ utility low.

I’ve yet to come across any kind of legal “smoking gun” in any of these reports. Click through some of the non-paywalled links and you’ll see how little of substance there truly is in the majority of cases.

The company is losing market dominance? They were grappling with whether or not to remove the “like” button? Even the seemingly major bombshells, like “facilitating ethnic cleansing”, are not supported by any sources or data present in the text.
Why do people implicitly assume that micro kernels are the best OS design?

In fact, micro kernels have a lot of issues and limit the possibilities of what an OS can do! One of the most important issues is they prevents resource sharing in a rich and efficient way between the components of the kernel. They make building rich relationships between kernel data structures and kernel subsystems very messy, complicated, impracticable and very inefficient.

Micro kernels are delusional and people should stop implicitly assuming their superiority.
Which is, obviously, not an argument against regulating those activities whose risk to others is particularly high. See: false equivalence.
Yes, once I heared that I was ok with the notch. Not only that, it makes much sense this way.
No, I'm rejecting your construction of "junior" and "senior".

Tasks are not really "junior" or "senior" tasks but really tasks that juniors or seniors could do with different results in terms of time, cost, quality, etc.

Sometimes a "junior" is more experienced at the latest methods. This is one thing you see with medical doctors or electrical engineers, that many people go through their careers and keep using the same methods they used at the beginning. (Think of the old saying that "Science advances one funeral at a time")

For instance 20 years I go didn't expect an undergraduate student to have any idea what version control is, today I expect them to have a Github account.
What responsibility do drivers have, in your opinion?
JavaScript is from 1996, it's 25 years old, and apps built with it are used by billions. With regards to the backend, it has a vibrant full stack ecosystem, it's performant, simple, and easy to hire talent for.

It's okay not to enjoy JavaScript (I'd always prefer to go with Dart or Rust myself), it's okay thinking that other languages (and ecosystems) are better equipped to solve some problems, but calling it unproven and exotic is very surprising to me.
You can get them. The supply crunch is why the GPU is ~$750 instead of ~$300.
Scaling down and scaling up are two very different problems. It isn't a given that scaling up is a harder problem than scaling down, it rather depends how far down and how far up.

If they were looking for a "subject matter expert", rather than someone who could become a SME then failing the interview is entirely expected. The techniques for scaling down are unrelated at best and at worst totally the opposite of the techniques used for scaling up.
Tangent: I'd like to see the effects of dog adoption on pregnancies.

I have witnessed and heard about a non insignificant number of young couples hesitant to having kids (because careers, mostly) deciding to adopt a dog for varying reasons. Typically, less than 18months later, boom, baby.
Sometimes articles like these are an attempt to push an agenda, regardless of whether this is good or bad (reason: good; sophistry: bad). Something is problematized (whether this is justified on independent grounds or not is not the point) and once it is problematized and people accept it as a problem, you have gained the assent of the public. Solutions are proposed and propagated by those with the power to broadcast their opinions. This can be the same group that problematized the issue in the first place. In order to propose a solution (which is to say, to propose a change), they must first have problematized the issue to make the public receptive.

Given background knowledge, it is possible that this sort of article is a way of getting the ball rolling with respect to the reduction of cars or the promotion of self-driving cars or whatever. The chip shortage and general disruption of supply chains and the effect on the prices of cars is opportune.
But it's just not true that everyone else was expected to do this. Credit card names are still running on ASCII! (I'm also, to be frank, highly skeptical that the court would have taken such a hard line if the customer had been complaining that Chinese characters aren't supported or that his Arabic name should be written right to left.)
>The school recently sent him a letter demanding his banking information so that it could track direct deposits from a job. If he doesn't comply, it threatened to charge him his full tuition of $30,000 regardless of whether he gets a job.

How disgusting. He should probably tell them no. Even if they wrote some non sense allowing this in the income share agreement, let them go to court.

I've never met a successful boot camp grad who didn't already have a four-year degree.

This is a very complicated problem, because you really do have tons of desperate people who are willing to sign their lives away for a shot at getting ahead.

$50,000 is an extremely low threshold, so if someone adds a few extra shifts working at Best Buy lambda school can then leech their meager income?

I'd argue the social experience of traditional college is easily a part of its cost. If you're coming from a bad background you'll surround yourself better people than you met back home.

It's also much easier to get a generic office job with a bachelor's in art history than it is with a ux certificate.
I look forward to not having to give a flying fuck about fuel level upon returning my next rental car. Enabling rental companies to fill up their vehicles on-site without requiring becoming a gas station alone is a glaringly obvious rental EV win.
No need for an injection, they can just rub their faces with a cat.
Large discussions from this year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26802601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26987632

Interview with Lambda School CEO Austen Allred and Vincent Woo.

https://soundcloud.com/vwoo/interview-with-austen-allred
Why does everyone cite k8s as the tool for the job when there have been massive problems actually getting k8s to work at scale without constant tweaking and babysitting? In reality this is almost always either traditional load balanced clusters, ala-carte systems like Google App Engine / Elastic Beanstalk or (more so these days) serverless compute. At Google, they use Borg internally which is an early precursor to k8s that is more akin to traditional load balancing.
Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple make a standalone camera?
I’ve been wondering this a lot lately. Apple’s photo processing is just phenomenal. (You could probably say the same about other high end smartphone makers too)

Moreover, popular camera software and build quality is just solidly “okay” in my experience.

My thought is that if Apple were to produce full-size cameras, they would be far better than anything else on the market. I would probably buy one immediately.

I’m wondering why they haven’t done it. Maybe making cameras is really hard? Cameras are too much of a commodity and the market is really saturated? Full size lenses are hard? Not enough profit margins? Maybe it would cannibalize iPhone sales?

I’m curious to know what others think about a full-size Apple camera.
> Java is not usually considered to be a statically-typed language

Java is absolutely considered a statically typed language. Compare it to Python and CL, then you know what the difference is.
Mikrotik, RouterOS 7.1beta2 added WireGuard support
There are many ways to REDUCE the number and severity of accidents. It starts with increasing the cost of causing one — fines, jail time, loss of license — there are many ways to discourage stupid driving, and the US absolutely does not take this option seriously enough.

Anyone who rides a bike or motorcycle knows that drivers freely overlook us. And we know why. When a fool driver kills one of us, they pay absolutely no price for it. Jail time? Never. Fines? Rarely, if ever. Why then should a texting driver refrain from LOLing to their heart's delight behind the wheel, at night, in fog? There's no reason not to.

We could also improve road safety greatly if driver training and testing were improved. Every EU member nation requires more rigorous driver training and exams than the US. And we should continue that training with mandatory refresher courses to renew and develop deeper skills as we age. To reward those who put more effort into sharpening their driving skills, insurance companies could offer discounts for those who choose to take even more instruction or score higher on exams.

There’s surely a virtuous cycle in here somewhere, but only if Americans care enough to so something about driving smarter. So far, we clearly haven't.
> Kalashnikov rifle family

was a copy of a German design, not independent invention.

> They made a lot of them

Most was just garbage. You'll have to know a year and a serial number range to have higher probability of picking an actually usable weapon.
> Two hundred thirty-two (232) additional offenses were classified as crimes against society. This crime category represents society’s prohibition against engaging in certain types of activity such as gambling, prostitution, and drug violations. These are typically victimless crimes in which property is not the object.

I have to admit I'm curious. How exactly does one commit drug trafficking or illegal betting with a hate bias motive? To frame a third party?
I was mostly in agreement. I suppose it depends on the scale of the data.

Fitting 1000 short rows in memory is something I'd expect anyone to know off the top of their head just works. It really depends on the specifics of the question and the seniority of the role...
1968 here. I'm not sure why, but The Electric Company resonated with me much more than Sesame Street. I was in awe of Morgan Freeman and his sonorous voice.

Years later, I remember seeing him start to get traction in Hollywood and thought, "Hey! That's the guy from the Electric Company!"
Hi, thanks for this piece.

I've been following these stories for a while and it seems like a lot of the big players are ridiculously predatory and are providing a catastrophically bad service. I'd like to ask if there are any that you think are actually doing a good job?

One in particular I'm curious about is Hackbright.
I'm a huge SAS fan, but after college it fell out of my toolkit for the same reason as the author: license fees. It's a shame, because I found SAS far and away to be the best tool for data cleaning and querying. Plus, it's got great readability...especially over R, though that may be a contentious opinion.

I'm honestly surprised and disappointed to see how little SAS has adapted to competition. I'm sure they'll milk their existing customers for another generation, but it'll kill their business on a long enough timeline.