skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran through this contest, picked a winner, downloaded that font and installed it in VSCodium…and very quickly switched back to the font I was previously using, which was also a contestant here! I guess I like different things when I'm reading syntax than when I'm comparing glyphs.
> This isn't AWS and Elasticsearch

Is your implication that there is something wrong about AWS running OSI-licensed open source software as a service?

In general your comment doesn't make much sense to me. First of all it assumes a highly biased position in the AWS vs Elasticsearch war, but furthermore it's not even clear that the two situations aren't comparable. In both cases something that was free is having something built on top of it.

BTW the whole idea of Wikimedia Enterprise is providing higher levels of service availability. It's not really about the "content" itself. It's analogous to when you have a user of some service of yours that is flooding the service with requests and causing performance issues. A common pattern is to convert them into a paying customer and give them some guarantees about availability, while using that revenue to make sure there's enough hardware / engineering time to keep things running smoothly.

Finally, the "middleman vs author" distinction you introduce is entirely irrelevant. To use the Elastic example, it doesn't matter who wrote the software, what matters is it was written under a permissive license, and therefore the author of a given code doesn't have any "ownership". Similarly, someone who contributes to Wikipedia doesn't own that content either. In both cases the actor is contributing to the commons and has no expectation to put any restrictions on their contribution.
Not true. You can charge more for an iOS imitated subscription than a normal one. YouTube Premium does this IIRC. You just can’t say that it’s available cheaper outside the app. It’s scummy, but they don’t restrict you from upcharging
Yes, and Ubuntu is one of the most bloated Linuxes. Windows especially fucked up in the file system department. NTFS is easily 100x slower than ext4 when you access a lot of small files.
Is that any % slower or faster than using Windows directly?
The problem is that the SC is also corrupt in India and highly undemocratic.

Even

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/in...

The judiciary acts like the mafia.

Then, in 1993, it ruled that only sitting judges would be able to appoint new members of the judiciary. It was a coup of sorts. India’s founding

Over the years, the scale of the problem has become staggering. In 2010, Bhushan’s father, Shanti—who, as the law minister in the government that dethroned Indira Gandhi in 1977, had been a key force in repealing many of her draconian decrees—submitted to the Supreme Court, in a sealed document, the names of eight chief justices who he claimed were “definitely corrupt.” His efforts went no further, though he now faces a contempt case of his own.
> To be fair stuff like Design Patterns, SOLID, Domain-Driven Design etc. come up in a lot of interviews for "business application development" roles in other languages as well, especially C# and Java.

Yea. I think there are basically two style of techincal interviews. One is FAANG where they ask you university level stuff. And the other is they ask you a bunch of stuff that they want to have implemented but haven't.

I think it's also why there is a massive culture difference in say Agile in FAANG and everywhere else. FAANG has people that don't know these things as well because to get their jobs they had to learn and study univeristiy level problems.

I think a lot of FAANG devs would get blown out of the water at some mid-level companies. FAANG has the reputation but the reputation is built on a very small subset of their actual engineers.
I read that about a decade ago and it helped me develop some of my opinions in these areas too.

One specific question I pondered around the time (I think Sagan may have raised it, but can’t remember for sure) was this: if we think about all the weird stuff that happens, the vast majority has a rational explanation that we can find, but for some extra weird events (let’s say 3%), what happened seems to require the supernatural, or aliens. How should we react to that 3%? Do we update our metaphysics? Or do we shrug and say “I don’t know, but absent better evidence I’m going to assume it wasn’t aliens”? How you answer that question determines your worldview.

This is where “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” really hits home. It’s the main reason I’m able to avoid wasting brain power on fringe theories. If the evidence mounts, I’ll update my beliefs.
I love python but I think the language will slowly die if they don't do something about the GIL. So these syntax improvements are nice but not exciting.
It’s only worth 1.5B if you can extract it as an open pit mine, which is terrifically terrible for the environment. Waving that number around is nonsense because it ignores the societal and environmental costs of open pit mining.
"Harm" doesn't equal crime, and most crime doesn't require malice or intent.

Equating "harm" to crime makes anything someone doesn't like at a given moment criminal.
Capital gains taxation is not double taxation: it is taxation only on the increase in value of assets.

CGT generally has the same rate as income tax: the reason why the rich are better off earning through capital increases than wages is that they get to decide when the capital gains happens, which means that their wealth managers and tax accountants can optimise their affairs to minimise tax.

The fundamental misunderstanding is yours.
Works very well for that! At least on high enough frequencies. Source: have done something similar.
Because without that aspect of a major political platform, there aren’t enough people who would vote them in. It’s strung along in order to maintain power.
Maybe he had dyslexia and had worked out what is now relatively better-known, that Comic Sans is actually really readable for people with dyslexia-spectrum issues.
I haven't read enough about GraphQL (or even used it) to debate its relative merits, but I find it very interesting from "business architecture" point of view.

For instance, assume the future of IT looks like it does today, only ramped up x10. Imagine the majority of business value is driven disparate API's/Services managed by companies or organisations, with numerous and diverse clients that can "plug in" for their respective needs.

GraphQL essentially allows you to simplify the work that any client (internal or external) needs to do to tap into your interface, provided that you invest the appropriate resources on the backend. (which you would, if that were your core business proposition and a piece of your competetive advantage)

If companies continue to digitalize (is there any doubt) then a company's value will be encompassed and driven by the quality of its API, and importantly, it's relative use of connecting with many diverse clients. Therefore backend API's that support and interface to digital products the best will win.

I see GraphQL supporting this in that it trades simplicity and a uniform mono-interface on the front-end for complexity on the backend. I think a lot of firms will look at that trade and call it a great deal.
I think you misunderstand the use of nation-state in the context of threat actors then. It simply means government backed, as opposed to a private entity like a ransomware gang or NSO Group. Splitting hairs about nationalities is irrelevant when talking about who is behind a cyberattack.
IMO, the best mental model is that this gives a more formal way for Google or Apple to donate to Wikipedia. Wikipedia's mission of free knowledge is unchanged, but hopefully tech companies can provide financial support in a structured, reliable fashion. Ideally, it's even positive sum (i.e. the Wikipedia-dependent services can perform better, so that the efforts of Wikipedia volunteers impact more people).
> "Generally, your best technologists are those who are really good at listening. They’re also insufferably curious, which makes them really good at asking questions after listening. They’re the best at ferreting out the real intention behind your stated intention, if you will."

Unfortunately, this ability is not really what many employers want; if the technologist figures out that the real goal is to commit fraud or something unpleasant like that. Or how about being asked to implement a user complaint system with a deliberately unfriendly user interface? "I see you want me to build something crappy to limit complaint reports, is that it?"

> "You’ve heard the maxim: Don’t hire… we’ll go with "jerks." I’ll expand that to include prima donnas, misanthropes and garden-variety narcissists."

Yes, you want to reserve these types for the executive suite, where being willing to screw over the employees and your customers so that the shareholders can reap big quartery profits is a job requirement (rewarded with large executive bonuses). Narcissitic jerks with no empathy for others are ideal for this role.

I would really like to see more tech businesses where the scientists and engineers, not some crew of shareholders and their pet executives, are the ones making the business decisions.
> exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters.

Never used a multi-user system with a moderate amount of files, did you? Let alone distributed filesystems.
That stuff is caveated to hell and back in the actual contracts. Or at least it was when I was in Oracle a few years ago.
Ah okay I was using innovation more in the way it’s used to describe a distinct big impactful change. I didn’t know the meaning of the word is simply change.

I included “either” at the end to point out I don’t see any of the three desktop OSes having done much of anything for a long time.

20 years for Mac is a long time though. OS X was just coming out then. I think just based off the fresh OS and simpler/cleaner user interface Mac was doing initially were decently big changes. You could say that only goes up to ~10.4 before there aren't many impactful positive changes besides security changes every one has been doing. 10.4 came out in like 2005.
Mostly that "web development" translates to services built on http/s only. Web is capable of other protocols. But everybody's favourite runtime has become the browser.
Youtube https://youtu.be/4VKZTmTP7oY

Wired https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-maker-community
It's not more effective, is it? The mRNA vaccines have proven to have zero efficacy after only a few months, at least for the goal they were judged against in the trials. They don't reduce the rate of infection at all. Even Boris Johnson has admitted that now.
I think WFH will become a valid - not just pandemic - category requiring businesses to be ready for a "hybrid" model. Software will be needed to support people that will be WFH and the people at the office. I think that's the big opportunity.
I extensively use C. Even for web apps.
> I don't even think about hardware compatibility

This is somewhat dated, by I've shopped for hardware for Windows by chipset because some worked great out of the box, while some was finicky.
With enough weasel words, you can say almost anything. Those words degrade a potential statement of fact to that of a mere opinion, and you are free to share your opinions everywhere and with anyone. Legally speaking.
Wow, it looks like a stone and not a chocolate bar. I think it's a great gift, but I'm not sure if someone would actually eat it. I'd save it and place it on my shelf or something like that. Too bad there's no such chocolate at https://chocolateandlove.com , but I think it could be there., I just think it's too expensive or just hard to make.
great article, I like the 4 laws you mentioned at the beginning
This is sort of disheartening... Maine would allow the mining if it were properly handled, but because it's cheaper to do in third world countries, companies will do it there. Electric has a very dirty side :/
GitHub Copilot for Neovim
It's gotten a bit more media attention recently as Linus (of Tech Tips/YouTube fame, not Linux/Git fame) has made a rather large investment in them and has been talking about them a lot on his platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxbc1IN9Gg
You understand that we are not entering into a contract with your public officials in exchange of ending the pandemic, right?

It's absurd to claim that some public officials failed on their contractual obligations by not ending the pandemic despite the public delivering on their antibody obligations. It doesn't work like that.

What happens is, people start getting sick and die. Public officials in charge of stopping this prepare an action plan based on the information available to them. They need to balance their plan according to the resources available and scientific advice available. Unfortunately, the resources are finite and the scientific advice can be patchy and change over time as the scientists study the new microbe.

That's why you have public officials saying that the pandemic will end at %60 but it turns out you need even more immunity. They say that X work but it turns out X is not as effective as Y or it might be even harmful.

I'm shocked that you see the public officials and scientists almighty infallible beings. Wow, is that some kind of religion?

If they failed at something, it could be due incompetence or expectations being beyond what humanly is possible or maybe they screwed up at communicating it or maybe they even lied on what's possible but there's no logical construct where public officials choose to continue the spread of the virus despite the public achieving immunity beyond the promised levels.

The premise of all this is simply appalling.
Obligatory watching/listening on this topic: https://archive.org/details/gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-...
This is incorrect. We are an Apple self-service shop (meaning we are authorized by Apple to do our own repairs, order OEM parts, etc.). In the 2019 models, battery replacement required a new top shell.
Download files flutter, images, pdfs
If that is true, it’s like saying iPhone has done some copying of Android and is too funny.

Still, Android dropped their entire Blackberry inspired/copied design and copied iPhone instead in 2007/2008.
I honestly had no idea that Thunderbird was still around. It looks kind of... nice, actually.
So if 50% of the mining power left the next block would take on average about 20 minutes. Where it routinely takes about that long, because that’s just the way statistics work. A non issue.

Here’s a graph of the time blocks took over the last three years:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtim...

Look at the peaks and try to remember the issues that resulted in.
Context: "recently" was over a decade ago, well before electronics of any sophistication could reasonably fit in such a form factor, if anyone was curious.
Could you give examples of states that you consider to be nation states? It seems like there must be a sliding scale, and basically any state would fail a "perfectly aligns" test, so I'm guessing there is some lesser definition to go by.
> because mediawiki apparently doesn't do proper caching and does a stupidly expensive re-rendering of every page

Don’t worry, they are hard at work at making workarounds for all their idiotic design decisions that seem to make absolutely no sense.. and those workarounds will be provided quite cheaply!!

Reminds me of the saying: “ It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It”

We can be quite sure that Wikipedias engineering will never improve if their income becomes dependent on providing workarounds for deficiencies in their solutions.
Could you explain why? I'm not arguing just wanting to hear your perspective.

I know a bit about the story, but from my limited knowledge it seems like a Pedophile had a lot of powerful connections. Which seems roughly on par with Michael Jackson. A BIG story, but not biggest story of the century.
Are there any inexpensive microphone arrays?

I was interested in making my own alexa-like device, but it seems mic arrays are sooooo expensive - more than the cost of an alexa device for the least expensive one i can find :/
Completely agree with you but that opinion is based on understanding that covid was created in a lab, and the vaccines are a power and money grab or worse.
From the caught cheating scandals I've read about, and with how easy it would be to cheat in small ways at bridge, I'm like 90% sure that all or nearly all bridge partnerships [EDIT: in "serious", competitive bridge, I mean] are cheating in limited, sparingly-used, practically-impossible-to-catch ways. Money's on the line, after all.
I see your point but I'll caution you that I don't think this cat has any experience building software, so his concept of how things flow is a little off. I'd completely ignore this entire paragraph and just focus on becoming an active listener and learning how to ask questions.
> if you agree not to consider whatever weird choices ubuntu makes the 'standard linux desktop experience'

For some reason, every large distro installs Gnome by default and throws its users into their hostile and clean (of functionality) philosophy. It would be better if this was different.
Thanks for explaining. My thinking was: by (optionally?) allowing the usual extra characters (#!python3 -> #!/usr/bin/env python3) it remains standard, avoiding an unnecessary roadblock for existing scripts and programmer workflows.

PS: I also like your shorter syntax and would be happy if it became a cross platform standard - Shebang 2.0..
Do you have a link to this article/study? I'd like to explore this concept more. I don't know if it's true but it certainly seems within the realm of possibility
The easiest way to pretend you are vaccinated is to take a screenshot from somebody with the certificate and photoshop the name.

Of course that's trivial to detect by interacting with it or scanning the QR code (which won't match the photoshopped name).
Florida now has America's lowest Covid rate
Same here. It's great.
Still the primary email client among all of my family. From the novices to the pros, Thunderbird just seems to work for them all. Big fan.
Hear hear. It's frankly amazing how this model did a 180 in these aspects.
So you agree then? This wealth tax will soon leech off the middle class?

That the Federal Income Tax is responsible for the United State's brief stint at Pax Americana, 80 years after it was instituted, is highly debatable to say the least.

But this time around, I challenge anyone to confidently say the US will maintain it's "global hegemony" within the next few decades. But at least the middle class will be poorer, and the government more powerful and burdensome than ever.
When I use a laptop I certainly don't live in the browser. It's just one application among many.
I mean, they should be. Google uses Wikipedia content extensively on search results.

Google USED TO also have lots of prominent links that would drive traffic (and hence, donations) to Wikipedia. Over time, it has removed a lot of those links and replaced them with ones that lead to more Google hosted content.

There's a distinct drop in Google-referred traffic to Wikipedia over time that's in stark contrast to the increased number of eyeballs on Wikipedia sourced content on Google's pages.

It's not clear to me whether Google's sponsorship reflects the value they've gained. And, yes, I get that they are under no legal obligation to do anything at all, since the content license allows for all of it. But as with rich snippets, you can't just "take", or eventually, there won't be anything to "take".
If you don't mean 'nation-state' then why use that very specific technical word instead of just saying 'country'?

It's like saying 'I saw a 2019 Ford Focus in blue' and then when someone points out it was actually a green Dodge saying 'well I just meant any car why are you splitting hairs'.
There continues to be a dominant mainstream view that whatever Europe does, "we" have to do the opposite because "we" know better. The results are very clear in the infection numbers, with transmission ratio back to 1 and above.

It will be a long winter.
I bet with the right license you could convey legal rights to the NFT owner.
Following Someone1234's comment[1]
Stupid idea(?): Attach a mid-power laser to zap bugs, could even be a DIY project with an arduino and an PTZ mount.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29015202
Why Monero Is the Best CryptoCurrency
Database Security Best Practices on Kubernetes
fwiw they did this in world war I with microphone arrays + seismometer tape (picture of tape on p5)

https://acousticstoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Battle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state#In_practice
> On Windows 11 I just search for 'Mouse' in the start menu

Same here on XFCE, it will give you the link to mouse configuration.
That's not at all what I think of when I hear the words 'replaceable battery'. Too bad.
You can agree to an outcome (win, lose, draw) ahead of time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/sports/chess-karjakin-mis...
Sounds odd. What does it do? No way to convert it to run inside Powershell instead perhaps (Powershell Core is now open-source and cross-platform and can run on Linux too!)?
Does Thunderbird have a hot key to archive an email?
Yeah, but at least we get Tucker Carlson's lawyer telling us that Tucker Carlson's words are non-factual. We get to see who the real clowns are eventually.

You can also see how FoxNews (and other media) are reacting to the libel / slander claims of Dominion Voting (the makers of the vote machines that Fox News claims were insecure). That's a factual claim and directly damages Dominion Voting's business. Fox News overreached severely, and are now backpedaling and cooperating with Dominion Voting's lawyers (https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-media-laws...).

We've got concession articles and "takebacks" from Fox. Its not perfect, but the legal system does in fact have emergency stopgap measures to pull a media company back from the brink.

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You won't even get that far on social media. You can't even pass step 1 of the suing process: naming the person to sue.
Except posts that are easily proven to be false flourish on Facebook because they're not accountable for what is posted. Traditional news gets sued when they post false information. Fox news had to publicly apologize for all the voter fraud stuff they talked about while anonymous accounts continued furthering the laugable theory on Facebook.
They predicted flying nuclear cars, but not driving 100,000 miles before the first tune-up.
Intel Adler Lake CPU with P and E cores
FTA: "this new MacBook Pro has, at the very least, the first reasonably DIY-friendly battery replacement procedure since 2012."
> Windows 11 is a free upgrade.

If your computer is new-ish.
The player negotiated the brand of cards to be used. I'm guessing if that brad was the Casino's default, that they'd wouldn't have had to specify it.
The slides were pretty good. I just wish they were shared in a different format and/or via a different medium.
Nope, not said that anywhere above; just that popularity is not necessarily the be-all and end-all of literary quality.
Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy
soon there will be nothing left to rewrite in Rust ;)
It's also a lot faster than exa!
For issues like these I have a tendency of just using xattrs.

To be fair, I'm aware that a poorly archived/copied file can lose them (especially over a network) and it's not part of `POSIX.1`. At the end of the day though I've found it's a reasonable "belt" to wear with your suspenders.
I disagree. That Twitter thread is a terrible look for the people participating, but NPR comes out of it looking fine. They reported the situation from Martha’s perspective. If Martha is worried about being able to find collars why would it matter that some completely unrelated people on Twitter think they already solved the problem? Makes no sense.