skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue with tagging is it's a surprisingly personal and complicated topic IMO, at least enough so that generic apps can be complicated/costly to make for that purpose.

For instance I tag by date people, and purpose (e.g. 2021 tax declaration), and I want the date to always come first, but the rest should have a stable order, I want most of the tags in the file name, and ideally some meta groups handled outside (e.g. "official papers")

I'm not holding my breath for an app that does that, and paradoxaly it's also simple enough for me to build a home made partial solution. Picky customers that also will try to solve their own problems and only see value for the difference with their solution feels like a hell for any service company.
> Why are we particularly shocked about this instance and not many others?

Good question. Fatigue, cynicism, better media spin. There can be a lot of reasons why we're not sufficiently shocked about the other scandals.

However in general, if you look at statistics about the trust of the general population in politics (and magacorps), you can see a decline in the last decades. Seems to me, a lot of people are simply reacting to all of this by losing trust - because there is not much else for them to do.
If this is the same story as the one that did the rounds before: the company was working on a contract for the US defence department, of which one of the conditions was that only US citizens would work on it.
Bo.lan closed a few months ago due to covid, real shame because it was phenomenal food, used to walk there a couple times a month.
An article posted to a computer site used a computer word, of course the nerds are going to argue about it.
Seems testable by setting up randomized subdomains hosting http and visiting with different browsers. Also, make sure you aren't using Google's DNS services to resolve or managing your domain's DNS through their registrar.
Ugly American here, bound to a vehicle because I live in the suburbs.

> That there are complaints from car drivers about the number of people bringing their children to school by bicycle. Whether the cyclists are willing to adapt.

I can sympathize with this, or at least what I understand of it given it seems to be translated from Dutch. In the neighboring big city there are bike lanes (though sharing the same surface as the autos) for most of the major thoroughfares. Bicycling has become more and more popular over the past couple of decades, and I’m totally fine with that. I gladly yield to those paths and the cyclists using the where I can, and generally follow all the rules of the road. I’ve not had a traffic citation since 2004.

However I’ve noticed over the past decade or so that that cyclists are becoming increasingly aggressive - disregarding the rules they must follow: cutting through traffic, ignoring lights and not yielding to pedestrians at pedestrian crossings. It’s gotten so bad that some of the optimal paths I could take to the office I don’t. More than once has a cyclist confronted me, one even smacked my vehicle with his backpack, because I blew the horn when they jumped off the curb and directly into traffic. I want to support more bike friendly initiatives because I like the health and environmental benefits, I just don’t want to be associated with the assholes come with the territory.
Tourists routinely confuse those canal bike lanes for sidewalks and then complain about feeling unsafe around bikes in Amsterdam.
Craig Federighi, you have the right to remain silent. We're taking you in today for 'conspiracy to construct a walled-garden', do you understand the charges being leveled against you?
Yeah, it is part of a familiar trope that a Silicon Valley outsider with sharp wits can discover one simple fix that hundreds of trained logistics/operation engineers missed.
But less compatible, which is the goal here. Being a practical shell to use
Climate and terrain aren't that big a deal. Single biggest impediment to cycling is the how likely people are to be maimed or killed by drivers.
The issue isn't the TPM, it's who owns the keys to the machine. If the user configures their own keys, it becomes an empowering technology that allows them to verify their boot process hasn't been tampered with. If Microsoft owns the keys, they own the computer and the technology becomes their means of control over the user. They will use this technology to oppressively deny the user their software freedom while simultaneously extracting rent out of any developer who wants to reach that person.

Those who own the keys own the machine. We must ensure we are the ones holding the keys at all times or suffer the consequences.
It’s interesting that only republican states are holding google accountable on all this.
The fingerprint scanner almost never work in Windows either.

A recent win10 update for some reason removed fingerprint drivers for me and I didn't even notice it.
Or if you’re in the US the car driver will pull out a gun and shoot you.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/disconcerting-rise-road-rage-shoot...

> So far this year, as of June 7, a person has been killed or injured in a suspected road rage shooting on average every 18 hours in the United States
Yep. You'd expect a community like HN to understand that the newspaper industry is a gigantic evil cabal, but I guess we're just not collectively smart enough.
That makes sense. You're talking about a lot of glue for one panel, though, and at that point I would be worried about costing (and still more worried about delamination than with PVA). Plywood is weird when you think about it.
"What you cannot do is force other people to change their behaviour to accommodate your beliefs"

Now that is a tangent, because that is not what is being suggested.
Isn't that part of the whole "we're being silenced!!11~~" nonsense they've got going on?
I’ve repaired numerous non-lenovo laptops, it just required googling rather than an official web-page.
No one's suggesting to compress code. I was just saying in general, shorter things tend to be clearer and easier to read. (as long as it's not overly 'golfed' or obfuscated)
Homes are personal utilities for most people. They should be regulated as such. I would place an increasing tax based on some KPI to limit accumulation of real estate by corporations or individuals. Then I’d distribute that extra tax revenue to property maintainers and community development programs, maybe a portion where the money is required to be spent in mandatory projects. Then Get the federal government to invest in widespread underground rail.
Are there TPMs where the user has more control and can configure w/ a root password to control keys? I like the idea of a secure tamper resistant security device but I don't like that the owner of the PC does not retain absolute control over this device.
What about this old NSA backdoor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

If MS or Apple or Google or some hardware makers or some communication equipment makers have some backdoors for NSA, why would you think they would do such a poor job that anyone can pay $20k to prove it?
Are the ones that come out of the factory with Windows pre-installed also certified? I'm unclear on that aspect.
Is there much space saving after response compression?
You're right, it's a fine line. I think it falls on the engineering side of the line because the hypothetical and the consequences in the Martian are pretty mundane when you remove the setting and price tags. Imagine the same story but about a character abandoned at McMurdo Station in the present day. It would be a largely similar story with largely similar consequences. I think you might agree that it wouldn't be sci-fi.

The world isn't really any different for the hypothetical of Watney getting stranded on mars. It's just an event that happens. A hypothetical like -what if Mars were already inhabited by aliens or -what if we could launch items to space for less than $.10/kg using X technology would be more on the sci-fi side of hypotheticals to me. The latter because it would open up the question of how the world would develop differently, even though it's just a simple question of technology.

Edit: I should make it clear I loved The Martian, I'm just making the argument it could be called not sci-fi.
It's the hack which is the newsworthy part, not the outage.
Yeah, but they also need a minus sign.
There’s a setting (Web and App Activity) to let Google collect activity on Google properties to use for personalization features.

I’m pretty sure it does not track any activity on non-Google properties.
Having done this before? It is clearly, measurably more effective for most types of businesses (but not all).

It’s easy to spend massive amounts of money on print and other ads with literally zero actual sales coming from it, and everyone you talk to on the print side knows it - but won’t tell you and will happily take your money.

At least with online ads you can test, tune, get your own data, which while not perfect is miles and miles better than you’ll get from other types of ads.
I was disappointed, because actual Hydraulic RAM does exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory (using Wikipedia's own definition of Hydraulics as "involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids").

My thesis advisor - some years ago - worked on one of these systems, CSIRAC, many years earlier when he himself was a student.
on Python 3.6, the %X gives 14:09:44. Is this a intended or a bug?
A few day ago, I wondered if it would be possible to build a good Laptop around a Raspberry Pi? Not the best performance but modular, upgradable and well supported by the Linux kernel.
We need better communities.
It's "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on the short story by James Patrick Kelly [0]. It deals more or less with the transporer issue described in the linked article.

I remembet having read it when it was first published in Asimov's SF magazine. God I'm old.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
Good point! The connection to Azure has never occurred to me.
Germany is building risk into its playgrounds
"Sidewalks are for pedestrians."

Of course they are. If you cycle on them in the Netherlands, you'll get yelled at very fast. I don't think anyone anywhere claims that people should cycle on sidewalks. Still, in many bicycle-hostile areas, cyclists choose to do that over, you know, dying - but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's dangerous to cycle on sidewalks.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/target-shortens-hours-in-s...

> Target shortens hours in San Francisco due to ‘alarming rise’ in shoplifting

> “For more than a month, we’ve been experiencing a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents at our San Francisco stores, similar to reports from other retailers in the area. Target is engaging local law enforcement, elected officials and community partners to address our concerns,” a Target spokesperson said in a statement to MarketWatch.
> And let's not forget the excellent Linux support on the thinkpad line (partially thanks to Ubuntu?).

From what I heard, mostly thanks to thankless employees at Red Hat who get these machines for work and batter them into submission (by reverse-engineering the hardware and writing device drivers). Lenovo only deserves the middle finger here.

Edit: or maybe it does not. Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978330
I think how effective modern ad campaigns are run are part to blame. You don't just shove your product as gold, you make sure to throw dirt on the alternatives. Which includes online troll armies these days. We're talking about leaving billions on the table and possibly being pushed out by your competition. A death sentence in modern day economy. it just sounds anti-narrative and is hard to swallow.
Lenovo is a for-profit corporation which believes it will make more money by not supporting non-Windows OSes, particularly Linux-kernel-based operating systems, properly. "We need to talk" suggests Lenovo is somehow answerable to its users/customers; this is fundamentally not the case.

Anyway, the thing that annoys me the most is the terrible keyboards we've been getting, especially since X240. Keys need travel distance, and should not be ruined in order to make the laptop thinner. We use those things to work on, not to show off. ... and here I go myself, ranting as though Lenovo cares.
What an absolutely brilliant, incongruent piece. In the first part of his essay PKD breaks down all the myriad ways we ourselves as well as third parties create fictional narratives, only to jump into one of those narratives in the second part, balls deep.
PKD was a mad genius, with the balance tilting in both directions frequently. The central questions of this piece are: "what is real?" and "what does it mean to be an authentic being?", and the piece seems to fold itself & encompass itself like a piece of recursive code.
Was PKD describing the reality as he understood it, giving an authentic description of the world through the lenses of his schizophernic mind, or was he illustrating the point he made in the first part of this piece? I know too little about him to make up my mind, and I wonder if he himself could. Thank you for posting this brillianty insane piece
But to what tangible revenue will that foot traffic ever convert?
Its unethical to scare people into a commercial license when the AGPL license is good enough for them.
But even if you can somehow make your own hardware, how long until governments start requiring interaction with certain services (health, banking, taxes, etc) be signed by an _approved_ OS/processor combo?

Imagine tax software (comercial or gov provided) refusing to work unless you use an OS with TPM support for "security reasons".

Or even worse, what would happen if gov regulations started requiring ISPs to stop working with non-compliant hardware? I.e. something like requiring network devices to attest they are "oficially" approved before allowing to connect?

I don't think this will happen any time soon (hopefully) but I can see how even making your own hardware might no be enough.
That’s still ambiguous, since the government might only abolish DST for part of Asia/Eastern_Siberia, causing the zone to split.
Does anyone else wonder if Page and Brin feel any pangs of guilt over how their company went from "Don't be evil" to such corrupt practises? It really is a classic case study in the journey from apparent idealism to a complete moral vacuum.
Are comments allowed in this format?
How about something even smaller? Embedding the "site" within the URL?

https://itty.bitty.site/#About/XQAAAAI9BwAAAAAAAAAeHMqHyTY4P...
HDD content can be encripted without storing the password anywhere, without a TPM. If the ecryption algorithm is decent, good luck waiting billions of years to bruteforce, even with the next gen hardware.
We should certainly subsidize the building of homes and give them to the homeless (or at least make them very affordable).

Can you link to the details of the program in Charlotte?

As somebody who is from NC, most home building is driven by for profit developers and it actually increases demand. They target higher end construction since the margins are higher. This is a feedback loop since the increased density of wealthy residents results in areas gaining even more amenities that the higher density will support, and thus becoming more attractive places to move for people in higher col areas out of state.

Building wealth by ensuring new units end up in the hands of low income people is a wonderful idea, but around here it seems to be the opposite occurring.
The author of the project is a professor of programming languages at the institute of datalogy (DIKU), Copenhagen University.

I suggest connecting directly to DIKU for academic matters.

They are doing other interesting work on array based programming:

Futhark, a related data-parallel functional array language that compiles to GPU code and easily integrates into Python code is another interesting project from there.
Linux usability for "normal users" (no not your Grandmother, real users who do more than post on Facebook) has been an interesting arc. Linux ascended rapidly from 1991-2001 and then progress slowed. It's sped up recently, and I think that's because there's nothing else left to do (you can only reinvent KDE so many times). Now we have PipeWire and Wayland and other nice things. But you know what? It's going to slow down again. Once Wayland is the default on all mainstream distros, what next? What's the next big challenge to solve? There isn't one. We've reached peak Linux. We literally can't make it any better (without exponentially more effort).
I'm not sure, it seems like only a certain series is certified and some on that series do come with Windows.
> Also containers are not fungible between carriers, so the truckers have to drop their empty off at the right terminal. This is causing empty containers to pile up.

What does this mean? The individual containers are owned by carriers?

Could this be allieveted also by agreements between carriers (or a merger)?

Or is there some other reason containers are "sticky" to carriers?
It was painless for me on an X201. True, I never got the resolution switch function keys to work properly, but an Lubuntu installation went just fine (my first one was in 2015 IIANM).
Google only wants to show ads that people will want to click on and are relevant, or they are wasting their own revenue by wasting the display slot.

And one (but definitely not the most important one per your point #1) is how much someone is willing to pay for the slot.

If you’re paying $100/click, but no one ever clicks on it because it isn’t relevant (like trying to sell real estate to someone trying to find used computer parts or whatever), they’ll still not show the ad.
Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Germany... all modern examples of hyperinflation where the root cause was primarily through excessive money printing to fund debts/deficit spending.

There are other causes as well of course, but excessive printing seems the common thread between all of them.

I agree that an inflationary mindset is psychological and contributes, but without an increased money supply, people are constrained in how much they can spend.

E.g. how could a loaf of bread ever sell for 1000 USD without printed money? Nobody could afford those prices.

I doubt increased velocity of money alone is enough to sustain hyperinflation. Assuming velocity within the bounds of realism. Wages would have to rise significantly, creating a wage price spiral.
> What’s wrong with YAML’s arrays?

That there are multiple ways to define Arrays: "- item", "-\n\titem", "\titem" or "item, item" for starters. Parsing YAML into Arrays requires context of its surroundings.

Without the previous context, you cannot know what type of data you're parsing when you are at a "-" at the beginning of a line or a "," in the middle of a line.

This is just unnecessary parser complexity and human ambiguity in my opinion.

As a question to you in case you disagree: What happens when you write down an indented/nested "\t- name: John, Doe"? It's pretty much unpredictable without the previously parsed data structures or their history in YAML.

(I don't wanna start the discussion of "<<" and how it influences the parsing context of YAML data structures. I think the merge key also has no place in a data serialization format.)
>Paris - there are no rules, and someone will steal your bike anyway.

I'm still amazed about the roundabout around Arc de Triomphe.
Why would not some government fund the proper research into Ivermectin and Covid and be done with it. A lot of money was already thrown into the problem, throwing a bit more into a possible cheap and safe preventive treatment is a no brainer, unless I am missing something. Even this article suggests that there are some studies showing promise for Ivermectin, well, go create a big proper one and put an end to this debate. I can't stand Ivermectin zealots and anti-Ivermectin knowitalls.
It isn't only steel [0]. Old, low-background lead is necessary for some instruments.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/search-d...
> P2P is the way forward here IMHO.

But if any of the O(N^2) P2P links has unacceptable latency, eliminating the server would be counter-productive because the client-to-server connection may have less latency if the server is located appropriately.
Thankfully we don't have that Thai Restaurant mania in East Germany as elsewhere because we do have much better Vietnamese food. There is a large portion of Vietnamese immigrants. Some cities even have proper Cambodian street food, which is even better than Vietnamese.

Most of the Thai restaurants in West Germany are run by Turks, whilst our Dutch restaurants are run by Bulgarians. They were reacting fastest to the trends. Our Vietnamese are running Sushi side businesses for the clueless, but you can always order the original food.
Sure, nothing against this perspective and glad that this line was mentioned. My main point is that this kind of article doesn't deserve to be front page HN since it mostly distracts people away from more important things. I find these 'productivity porn' articles to be overly superficial and limiting to the true progress of developers... I miss articles like those written by Martin Fowler, Alan Kay and others which tried to tackle the big problems. I feel that a lot of valuable programming knowledge from the past is being swept under the rug. The software industry seems to be getting dumbed down over the past decade.
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
They still don't sell parts.
If there was a well-funded corporation, they would naturally focus on their stack of choice. I think that's what Red Hat does, focusing most of their desktop stuff on GNOME.
What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/27546

Perhaps I'm wrong, but my interpretation of this ticket is that Google's AMP validator currently does not validate self-hosted JS, which means no special handling ("acceleration") on their search results.
Like I wrote in response to a comment here, a short story exploring this exact scenario was "Think Like a Dinosaur", later made into an Outer Limits episode [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
Next I'd blame environment regulations that banned older short-haul trucks from operating in the state, but that's besides that point. The point being: there is no contradiction between wanting smaller government and less regulations and wanting a mess caused by heavy handed regulations to be fixed by heavy handed mobilisation of resources.
In our company, if they detect more than one MAC address behind a corporate switch port, they shut down the port. I don't know the exact rules, but I know, it does not need much to trigger to lock the port.
> But do you run a lot of software that works without glibc and other userland utilities?

Yes. I made a few of these utilities for my own use. I actually started developing a Linux system call library to facillitate this but then I discovered the kernel developers themselves already made one for their own tools.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/include/...

People can include this awesome header file in a freestanding C project and enjoy making 100% dependency-free Linux binaries. No C standard library cruft anywhere. It's amazing. You could boot Linux directly into one of these things just by writing init=/my/program in the kernel command line. You'd need to do some init stuff like mounting procfs and sysfs but it's totally fine. I've even seen graphical software running this way with OpenGL ES on top of kernel interfaces for mode setting and buffer management, people could even make video games that run this way. I really want to get into this.