skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, I'll vote to the contrary; Comcast works roughly 99.95% of the time for me. Obviously that's an approximation, but I rarely experience outages and I've been using them from two apartments in the South Bay for 10 years. The first few years they'd occasionally have local service outages around 2am but since then I rarely have outages of any kind and my speeds are great. Not as high as they say I do but supposedly sometimes higher when I do speed tests.

And as far as alternatives, in the Southbay it's very limited. I looked into this when I moved earlier this year and even Sonic only had DSL available where I live now. AT&T didn't even offer gigabit, and I'm not exactly in a bad spot other than that it's a suburb area (but I'm extremely close to a HQ for a FAANG).
I've looked around for encrypting both Ubuntu and Windows on the same disk, and haven't found anything. After playing around with it a bit the other day, I think it's possible.

Has anyone done this or know of a guide?

Bonus points for 2 Ubuntu installations and 2 Windows installations.
HN was pretty enthusiastic about pod housing/hotels back in the day. Hip solution for affordable urban housing. All these tiny home homeless neighborhoods aren't much more than a closet even if they have a tiny window usually covered with foil or cardboard.
How Healthcare SaaS Is Revolutionizing the Medical Industry
My GoogleFi service went down at the same time as Comcast. I am in Illinois. We had Comcast outage for almost 1 hour today around 7:15 am. I was on a work meeting. When my internet went down, I tried to get GoogleFi hotspot. Mobile data was not working. Then I tried to dial into the meeting. And it said my cell phone was not registered to network. At one point, the cell tower strength indicator in my mobile was showing a circle (no connection). Thankfully, now everything is back to normal.
A distributed chat system with Matrix
I'd love to know how the vaccine industry for COVID-19 vaccines has peddled the research in the last 2 years or so. Have they done the same thing for generic drugs like Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Monoclonal Antibodies ("More research is needed")?

I'd imagine it wouldn't be difficult to see which trade organizations were involved in which papers that circulated recently around these drugs.

Before COVID-19 these were touted as the most safe drugs, with a very small history of death or complications.
IIRC it is still for "Software Engineers" but it has been replaced with Simplicity for "Site Reliability Engineers". Of course just changing the written rules doesn't change everything, and it creates an interesting friction.
That's a call to authority.

Sometimes, we are stuck in a local optimum, and a new redesign is needed, which involves some tough calls and unusual solutions.

As for a bedroom without windows, when I sleep I like that my bedroom is dark. When I don't sleep, I'm not in my bed or my bedroom.

So I'm not exactly sure what people complain about his design.
Because even though tons of people think customer success is important and give it focus, we talk to startups every week who are still under-resourcing it and not giving their team the right focus... even though they'd tell you they believe in the impact of customer success.
And the funny part is that the flash player is 10 times smaller than Electron. And sometimes 10 times faster. And nicer.
Mac is closed and walled ecosystem with questionable UI/UX running on heavily overpriced mostly unrepairable hardware (also closed).

Linux has point blank bad hardware support and UI/UX and missing parts of software here and there.

Windows is just working out of box on almost any hardware.
The thing is, it still wouldn't be enough. Ex. I currently use magisk to tell Google Play and all apps that my phone isn't rooted, allowing me to use app features they would otherwise lock me out of.
That's a relatively new "nice thing", though. Amongst a lot of techies it was actually a joke how bad SV and SFO had it with internet options until recently.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/fcc-siding-landlords-a...
This? https://www.wolframalpha.com/

It's alive and quite healthy
> there were lots of small machines built for the market of a small custom shop that might build things for local clientele. They have all been replaced by worse (in every respect) multi-function machines that only make boring things badly.

It's funny how similar this sounds to the framework situation in software development.
> John Deere employees now hold all the cards, if they stop working people will literally starve without tractors to do the harvest

or, you know, maybe John Deere owners/execs have the power? maybe if they paid their employees a living wage employees wouldn't need to go on strike?
Yeah, absolutely. I think CL the language should be modernised (more coherent stdlib, naming scheme for destructive functions, etc) but it's basically the only language that offers a handful of really cool features that I can't get anywhere else.
Please no allocations hidden in the short syntax. I use `errors.WithMessage` / `fmt.Errorf` with `%w` often within my application's main execution flow, but I don't need a stack trace attached to every missing file, parse failure, or connection reset.
> Stop testing people on memorization and then you don't have to worry about cheating

I'm not following. If you don't know the material, you have same incentive to cheat.
7 ways to Fight Climate Change as a Software Engineer
> You know, in sports, when someone manages to do something only two other athletes have managed before they usually still get praised for it.

You know, in sports, if you kept straddle-jumping until the 80s before finally transitioning to the fosbury like everyone told you for more than a decade, you wouldn't get praised for it.

> I don't know if this situation is comparable to that, but my point is that I also don't see how C# and Java doing this before inherently would make this less of an achievement.

Because they demonstrated it was quite reasonably feasible before Go even existed.

And also because, again, Go's situation was entirely predictable and self-inflicted, and C# and Java's own transitions demonstrated it plainly.
https://archive.md/XhhFG
And when the country requires that you pay the taxes in casino chips - and only those casino chips - what then?

And when the banks decide to peg their liabilities to casino chips to leverage that drive from taxation, what then?

Once you are required to get casino chips, or else, you will offer up real goods and services to get them.

Cash isn't real. It's an accounting fiction.
They might be in the cloud and never catch anyone's attention at all. I think it is much about catching interest and attention. If you don't know what is on the harddrive, chances are you will not bother.
International Blinking Pattern Interpretation (SFF-8489)
I prefer UUIDs as well but one other benefit of an integer type key is in the index. UUIDs, especially v4, make for bloated indexes. If there’s a very specific performance reason I’ll use int, otherwise uuid.
I realize that most people view broadband as a utility that should never be down, but are any of us really paying for even three nines of reliability, let alone five nines? Unlikely. Outages happen. This is why having a backup is important.
The difference is that a US merchant must accept US dollar for your purchase but must not, and in fact does not, accept cryptocurrency.
This just reminds me of the lack of popular, informed, critical, literate conversation about the risks (privacy risks and others) of widespread, centralized mm-wave cell networks. It's an awful taboo. People think you're spouting conspiracy theories when you link to published, peer reviewed papers that lay it all out. Or worse, industry whitepapers that literally spell out surveillance applications will get perceived as conspiratorial pseudoscientific nonsense. In the name of science.

It's a sick inversion of the conspiracy theory dynamic. In the mm-wave cell network case, industries, governments and academics are spelling out the plan and implementing it in broad daylight.

But if you speak critically of the plan, you don't know what you're talking about because you're no science expert. Well and even if you have a PhD in science, it's in the wrong field so you must be crazy.

Anyhow, a lot of the most interesting stuff gets relegated to the fringes, especially when it has the potential to stir up dominant social or political perspectives.

It's gaslighting by orthodoxy.
My guess would be so their algorithm can ID my face. Same reason I can't wear glasses in my passport photo.
This!

Cookbooks have editors, and the recipes are tested so they can be made with common ingredients. They want cooks to be successful!

Oddly I've found cookbook recipes to ALWAYS be better than online recipes. Book recipes tend to be shorter, clearer, and more successful. Online recipes are okay but sometimes don't come out the way I'd expect, they're more fiddly.

It's great to have options!
When a person can no longer survive breathing on their own, the anesthesiologist is called on to intubate them. After that you have the anesthesiologists monitoring all intubated patients. There is no surplus of anesthesiologists anywhere.
This is just so darn well put. Simple but effective. Props to you or whoever originated the quote.
Even the most obscure Postgres features are documented better than whatever code a dev would write in order to avoid using them.
> If you know a good usecase for ACL in database for OLTP workflows, I'm all ears.

Here's one that's meaningful to me. We have a single database with five different applications that access it, each of them managed by a separate team. By enforcing access constraints in the database we guarantee the access constraints will be applied in all cases. It is difficult to ensure that in application code managed by separate teams.

(Just to be clear: I don't think your advice is poor, I just wanted to give an example of a case where it isn't universally applicable.)
Yes, the sheet of notes means you're not memorizing formulae, but I'm 95% sure the real motivator for professors to allow them is you learn when you put the notes together.
Well, if what I'm reading about covid-19 in China is at all accurate, it isn't working any more...
As far as I could tell, the Metaverse idea is decentralized and based on standards.

But I don't really know what companies like Meta or Microsoft have in mind for it.
The problem is that I don't have an alternative method of proving my trustworthiness and as a result lose access to some products. Often times prepaid plans are not equivalent to postpaid plans, I can't just put a security deposit on a rental car to offset risk, etc.
Oh for sure. And the existence of the signed on copy with a timestamp can invalidate later signed copies, etc.

This is just a mechanism that provides that in a general way.

It’s sort of like, how, before Uber you could call up the few cabbies you had who you liked and get a ride but having Uber was a game changer anyway because the friction fell below some threshold.
Rolls-Royce plans to build small nuclear power plants in Britain
All of the discussion around the metaverse as if it's something we should take seriously has me baffled. It's an ill defined concept and the effort is being led by a company that hardly anyone trusts or even likes.

As far as I can tell it's the internet but in VR with an avatar. Or in other words it's the internet but with extra steps in the way of obtaining the information or completing the transaction, not to mention the increased hardware costs (VR headsets are expensive) and bandwidth costs associated with this superfluous fluff.

I just don't understand how they aren't being laughed out of the room. This is fantasy level stuff and it's going to be an absolutely massive failure.
> copyrightism

i've not heard of this. is it the same as critiquing the intellectual property system as a whole? if not, how is it different?
Doesn't seem to be on WBM yet. Any link to the full text (without paywall)?
Yes, I just did.
> You know, in sports, when someone manages to do something only two other athletes have managed before they usually still get praised for it.

This is more like solving a puzzle years after others proved it solvable and after having told everyone multiple times that it didn't matter, isn't it?
Like a Metatopia?
Ah, but the companies can't make money from standards and protocols like they can hosting it all.
Beaconization - boy is this going to get the conspiracies going. Why the need for a beacon when everyone is already chipped? /s
If you’re baking, sure measure by weight for best results. If you’re cooking basic, non-technical meals it’s more about proportions than anything else.
So, on one hand, I do really want a VR headset that can work well as a laptop/desktop replacement. But I find myself skeptical of whether this is going to work out. Making a VR headset that works for this involves a lot of hard problems--physical design problems to make it comfortable, optics problems to make the text readable, software issues all over the stack to get the latency low enough to not be nauseating, all on top of the standard problems that go into shipping a phone.

The current market leader, the Oculus Quest 2, is close but not quite good enough; the lenses and panels are not quite good enough to make small fonts readable, so while a VR desktop gets you lots of monitors, all the gains are lost by needing to use huge fonts everywhere.

In order to make a good laptop replacement, Simula One would need to beat the Quest 2. It's not necessarily impossible--targeting a higher price point might let them use better panels and lenses, for example--but it's definitely not easy.

Looking at their website, it seems as though they're not really focused on hardware/optics, but instead are focused on the window manager. That seems like a mistake to me. If there's a headset that's actually good enough, from an optical perspective, that people want to use it as a desktop, I expect lots of highly-skilled developers to come fill in those parts of the software for free.
> the whole windowless thing from COVID when they couldn't use the suite's common area.

Here's a daring thought: maybe the problem isn't the windowless bedroom by itself, but the idea that it's acceptable to lock people inside their own residence, or even to forbid people to use the common areas of their own residence.
LOL, well put! The new Quest (after quest 2) that Facebook is making supposedly uses color cameras of higher resolution, which should help.

I’m surprised at how well the stereo rendering actually works. Responsive and works better with eye hand coordination than I would have thought. Really interesting possibilities for rendering different wavelengths, night vision, etc.
It all comes down to technology. If we had the technology to create an atom-by-atom replica of a painting, then this justification would need to change. People would probably say “but these atoms are still the original ones.” Of course the only way to verify that at this point would be to have evidence of a chain of custody, which would likely be very difficult to establish with any confidence.

So paintings just “lucked out” and already had a convenient scarce item that interested parties could agree represents the “original act of creation of the work of art,” because the technology to create an exact copy doesn’t exist, and it’s extremely expensive and difficult to create a convincing forgery.
Who wants to make a new extension to replace the word Metaverse?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
Monkeybrains has been servicing SF since 1998
Adding on, even when you are trying to make a portable application, you tend to want to make it work on either X or Y, and you can still exclude people from switching their existing data from one to the other.

I've used software that at least tried to be portable, so you could install it with whatever database you had available.
That's awesome, i reached out :)
How my genius roommate changed my perspective
Thats just homes, there are tons of other property classes outside of personal residential.
What hardware powers GitHub Actions?
I/O is the biggest issue on NTFS (which is why we use WSL for most of our node work - lots of small files to futz with); how about native (kernel) support for ext4 or zfs? That would be sweet.
An example of a relatively simple non-C interface is the linux kernel interface. It's so non-C you can't even cleanly interface with it from C.
Fair... and that's a good counter-argument, but not a good reason to downvote someone who disagrees. (Not suggesting that you downvoted him yourself.)
Expanding on the regex trick: I often use [.] instead of \. to match a period.

They achieve the same thing, but [.] avoids the problem of your host language "helpfully" interpolating \. into . before sending the query to Postgres.
The owner of the NFT would have to fractionalize it, then anyone can buy fractionalized tokens that are backed by the NFT.
I believe the surprise comes from the reuse. Your brain feels at home yet gets a little stimulus of new.
Do you mean it only takes the Tesla a very short time to close the gap between it and the car upfront? If so, won’t passing make one stuck behind the next car? What’s the point? To leave less of a gap between the car than the Tesla was doing or to continually pass all the cars?
I remember reading that — I don’t remember the precise bureaucratic details - but the gist was if you tried to buy a single machine gun you wouldn’t be able to. “Of course they’re illegal for private citizens.” If you tried to buy 5000 machine guns, “Oh, just get this form filled notarized.”
Why Pharo Might Be the Future of Software Development (2017)
I would prefer to phrase that dynamic as, no one would knowingly opt into a money that can do that to them, so these kinds of schemes require first lulling/locking a population into that currency on a different promise, and only then debasing it, which is argued to solve certain public goods problems related to economies.

That is, people only accepted dollars in the understanding that convertibility wouldn't be suspended, just like they accepted the historical money that Freicoin was modeled after before knowing they'd do the Silvio Gesell scheme. It's an open question whether we've accurately modeled the full knock-on effects of reneging on the promise that got the currency off the ground (though personally I agree with you).
Can't type an apostrophe.

' breaks it.
> It takes a lot of people contributing to uphold it [Apartheid].

Actually it really, really didn't.

Students of history will know that National Party (which assembled Grand Apartheid and ruled from 1948 to 1994) merrily gerrymandered the entire country on a scale seldom seem.

1. liberal (more English) areas like those near Durban were magically made part of conservative (more Afrikaans) farming areas hundreds of kilometres away. A good example is the affluent enclaves of Kloof and Hillcrest in Durban were somehow part of the [at the time] extremely conservative Voortrekker town of Greytown a mere 150km away;

2. a further law deemed that the rural votes in each such Frankenstein voting district counted 100%, the distant urban votes a mere 75%

3. this happened everywhere and ensured a massive majority for the National Party in every province;

4. there was by design - and in the most literal sense - no way for the white population to vote themselves out of Apartheid. It was so successful that for many years their was only ONE liberal opposition member of parliament [Houghton, Johannesburg].

I understand details are tough and cloud the cartoon good-vs-evil polemic you were no doubt exposed to. I guess one does get more dopamine from wild sweeping statements that reinforce and display your own ignorance and bigotry. I wouldn't use my real name either in posts like yours.

For the casual observer: let this be a cautionary tale when gerrymandering is attempted in your own democracy.

[PS. Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - had a different, but equally effective voting mechanism to suppress the growth of a liberal opposition. For another day ]
I recently went vegetarian last year and didn't realize what meat prices were like until I had to pick up some for my room-mate. The quality, size, and price are all utterly insane for beef steaks. Rib eyes with zero marbling for 10+ dollars a pound cut into tiny thin steaks.
No shortcuts.

Errors reach end users, and they cannot read stack traces.

Every shortcut makes for bad errors, bad troubleshooting and unhappy users.

Errors document code (you literally write, in English, what you were trying to do but failed, at each level of your program.)

Errors report to the user the clear intent that failed and why.

Errors are a huge differentiator in quality. There is no shortcut to quality.
Not sure if this is the same but a few universities will offer certificates and degrees in various subjects off campus. I think these are mostly sold as "business development" but I always wondered if they were simply fly by night education with the stamp of "prestige college".
Hausdorff distance is also a simple probabilistic technique that works quite well:

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/6165/92-1...

In a different life I toyed with it a bit:
http://pugoob.blogspot.com/2008/01/pugoob-image-search-tool....
You always run the risk of John Deere just transitioning manufacturing to elsewhere, unless there are some sort of incentives at play here that prevent that, no?

Not saying I don't support the strike, or what the strike is trying to achieve, just trying to understand the nuance of whats going on here.
Is MLOps Leaving the Software Engineer Behind?
Homage to Catalonia Is another great book I’d add to your review list. His description of trench warfare and if bayonetting someone is one of the more horrible things I’ve read.
That's why

let ¤whatever = 123;

was invented instead.
This was an awesome read! I appreciate how you were able to cover a lot of ground that went deep technically while still being succinct.

I'm very curious on how you solicited feedback and collaborated on the article and design decisions up to now. Can you speak to what worked well or not so well as you hashed out the details?
Colleges have been quietly expanding the last 10-15 years with programs like these. They do it discreetly, sometimes with different campuses across town or simply online. From what I've seen, they may be an entirely separate school so as to not be reported on the same way (a 7% acceptance rate and high job placement rates at blue chip firms makes a difference when the major currency of universities is prestige), since many of them are essentially open admissions.

E.g. On LinkedIn I frequently see Harvard listed on profiles, but upon digging in, it is Harvard Extension School which mostly seems to offer certificates. The recipients win (they get to put Harvard on their resume, albeit paying high fees for online only, ignoring costs/default rates) and the college wins (they get paid, the marginal cost per student is probably favorable, degree vs certificates probably doesn't matter if the same content and tests apply). The only people potentially negatively impacted will be the students of the traditional organization in that they paid full tuition for a college brand that is actively diluting itself by selling certificates that may have lower standards that traditionally associated with the organization.
https://archive.md/Wx7mx
Finally. It has been definitively admitted as I have speculated before [0] and along side with this recent job posting [1].

Unsurprising how Apple (even Tim Cook) waits for the whole industry first before entering in themselves to 'get it right'.

It's likely they are going to partner with a leading cryptocurrency exchange or a bank that uses CBDCs to use cryptocurrencies all from Apple Wallet.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29065134

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/2b30e69d-6662-40e8-9735-eaea86629...
Metal coins are already 400% better than Bitcoin so...