skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, not really?

There's an implicit frequency hint with the word "good" that implies that it's not so rare as to not be present in a non-trivial portion of the population. If someone said to me "most good doctors can cure metastasize diffuse stomach cancer" and then later said "too bad only 1 in a million doctors are good" I'd roll my eyes pretty hard at them. But if the ratio is closer to 5% then I'd say it's a pretty fair ratio.

Anyway, back to the original point. I think anyone that's dealt with even high level languages like Python or Ruby has managed their way through almost all of those things. They're not so rare.
They are not shadow banned. They were explicitly banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091010

If there's something in the comment you want to respond to, great: then add your comment.
The meeting management tactics in this post are highly applicable in other situations as well, whenever you are presenting to a group of approvers/overseers. For me, that's launch reviews or program reviews. It takes a lot of time, but a smooth review pays it back many times over.
If you push enough people off a cliff some of them will learn to swim. If you don't push people off a cliff only those that think they'll be able to swim may jump.
Keepass2Android also supports webdav, http, ftp, sftp and nextcloud directly
Admittedly, this is anecdote. I grew up in a poor country, but raising my kids in the US. I can count the number of times they had to see a doctor because of fever/cough/vomiting/diarrhea using one hand (each). Had recently one of them struggle taking oral antibiotics because he never had to take oral pills before. My childhood recollection is packing the same amount of misery in one year, year after year. Not saying this is a bad thing, just that my kids grow up facing comparatively minor disease challenges. Life is a giant game of tradeoffs, etc.
It's not really that bad. You are told the permissions requested by an app on installation:

$ flatpak install flathub com.microsoft.Teams

com.microsoft.Teams permissions:
ipc network pcsc pulseaudio x11 devices file access [1] dbus access [2] tags [3]

[1] xdg-download
[2] org.freedesktop.Notifications, org.freedesktop.secrets, org.gnome.SessionManager, org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
[3] proprietary

ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. com.microsoft.Teams stable i flathub < 86.0 MB

Proceed with these changes to the system installation? [Y/n]:

and you can query an apps permissions at any time:

$ flatpak info --show-permissions com.discordapp.Discord

[Context]
shared=network;ipc;
sockets=x11;pulseaudio;
devices=all;
filesystems=xdg-download;xdg-pictures:ro;xdg-videos:ro;home;

[Session Bus Policy]
org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher=talk
org.freedesktop.Notifications=talk
com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar=talk
com.canonical.indicator.application=talk
com.canonical.Unity.LauncherEntry=talk

GNOME Software in GNOME 41 also has a much better list of permissions than the version shown in this article.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/09/09/software-41-cont...
To me, it’s more that lower-case f.
> likely because none of the NASA Centers is really focused on it.

That's what I thought until I started looking into it. The module has actually been built (several versions in fact), but never completed and launched.

It turned out during tests and simulations that the station's structural integrity was at risk and so it was decided not to attach a centrifuge to it.

Whether these concerns were warranted I cannot say, but engineers at NASA deemed it too risky to try.
Very nice.
Some ideas... that you already thought of ;-)
For a REPL it's a little too slow...

- Automatically do the LOAD "CPROG",8 and RUN

- Even better. Load the CPROG directly into the memory image and bypass the drive load completely

- Optimize Emulator startup
Copied From michaelbuckbee [1]

Ellsworth is a personal hero of mine - incredibly smart, wildly talented and has a real vision for this space.

All that being said, it's a nightmare of a space which is why I don't think there's been a big funding event for Tilt5.

"Meta View" was an AR company that raised $75mil, had a star studded list of VR/AR technology folks, only ever shipped a couple thousand units and now is defunct.

Magic Leap raised $3.5 Billion and now has given up on shipping a consumer device (Enterprise only).

Microsoft's Hololens exited consumer applications even earlier, enterprise only.

Oculus Quest is the most successful consumer VR tech (about 5 million sold) but it's really unclear if they're anywhere close to turning a profit and they've spent tons to try and jump start game developers in VR.

Tilt5 would require from the ground up games to be made, large volumes of orders/units to be profitable and even if all that came together could still be kneecapped by chip shortages and supply chain issues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322696
It was probably thrown in to give a sense of the variety available, but just about every grocery store or even gas station has cheap motor oil available. It's not like you need very much of it very often. It's just a bad article with bad quotes. I'm sure a huge number of people on HN remember weeks as a poor student and having to hack $10 to last a week or more. $40 a week, that's a luxury!
Very cool. One of the c64's glaring omissions for a hackable machine is a built-in monitor. My suggestion: throw a monitor program (my favorite: https://github.com/jblang/supermon64) onto the one of the disks and you'd have a just enough to do some actual debugging.
Which was also based on equal amounts of flaky evidence guided by the people that didn't want to associate themselves to the acting President at the time and his party. These people left truth behind, butchered science, eroded trust and sacrificed their integrity. In tough times, our leadership didn't stand up for the truth.

I think the society would be far better off if we completely cut out politics and make it super boring. Relentless push to put behind this tribal warfare and serve the truth, however uncomfortable it may be.

Lex Fridman's interview with the NIH director was eye-opening. They're acting like children. Of course, you can't see how unpopular it was because Youtube has hidden the dislikes. The cocktail of Big Tech + ruling party is equally as scary to me as Trumpism.
Maybe when Firefox was at 33% and Google was just starting to gain major dominance in Chrome, Firefox should have realized the game was changing and tried blocking ads for Chrome or even lying to Google properties that it was Chrome (as Microsoft Edge now is capable of even though Microsoft AFAIK hasn't flipped the switch).

If Google complained, Firefox could say it was a response to anticompetitive behavior. Google would then be a catch-22 where if they cut Firefox's default search funding, they would be inviting lawsuits and investigations. It wouldn't be a healthy relationship but it would have given Firefox a stronger footing than right now.

But Firefox just naively believed adding more fluff like Pocket and paying their executives ludicrous sums of cash would do the trick. You can't do that - you need to get into the mindset that Google wants to kill you and has the power and brand to do it, so you need to fight and stop the bleeding or get killed.
the title is taken verbatim from the article.
I have to agree. The desperation to “blame China” seems to be driven by people with fantasies about going to war with China. Not even economic war with China beyond current tensions is possible without completely wrecking the economy in ways that will take all of us but the Bezos of the world down. Very little of this seems grounded in reality or good faith desire to know the truth of the matter.
Yes, well, the words cousin and corona together rile me, and particularly... anyway, sorry.
> Deliveroo

How perceptions of this company has changed. Prices are ridiculous, both from the Deliveroo mark up and what the restaurants charge extra to make up for that markup (4EUR bottled water seriously?)

More than half the riders here in Belgium are illegal immigrants using fake rider accounts that don't speak the local language. There's a squat near my house where they all hang out waiting for a call.

Seriously, look in side the window and you see a bunch of guys sitting around on broken chairs and crates surrounded by their Deliveroo backpacks (which are all filthy and worn out). They're so destitute and sorry looking that when one comes in to a restaurant to pick up a delivery you think omg.

I'm not someone who usually takes the side of "those poor workers" but in this case Deliveroo really runs on paying the poorest, more vulnerable people in society pennies to deliver over priced meals that a restaurant sold them for something like 30% less than they usually would.

Meanwhile the industry's gravitating toward ghost kitchens, putting even more unfair pressure on local restaurants.

Seriously I'd love drag whatever MBA is behind this company and show them what their "high valued startup" looks like here. I don't understand how these people sleep at night.

And then there's Lendable: "Loans at 28.6% Representative APR" and we're supposed to be amazed they turn a profit?!
I am getting a 404 when I visit https://wasp-lang.github.io/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-lear.... Could you double check the permissions/link to make sure everything looks correct?
I do not agree with the thrust of this article. Some of the issues raised only arise because of the the sloppy or incorrect identification of root cause by software people, which then falls into a definitional whack-a-mole-game. Not helpful at all.

Now, the author rightly argues that coming up with RCA isn't easy. In particular it tends to follow a twin inverted V shape:

<--- starting wide various technical/operation issues considered

\_/

+ <--- narrowing to the root"ist" technical cause

/-\

<--- widening back into organization issues as to why an
agent of change could do or did do something

In addition, unlike manufacturing, there is no sense of 6-sigma riding on top of a domain of work governed by natural science so that arriving at a quantitatively convincing argument of root cause is generally not possible.

Even the book on TQM in 6-sigma work:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Total-Quality-Control-Japanese/d...

points out that technical issues often dissolve into organizational issues. See page 57-58 then elsewhere.

So where does that leave one? Dealing with the many contributing factors in an organization that impinge on decisions which may lead to bugs/outages/defects:

- Eliminate opportunity defects. Simplify.

- Inputs to the next process should be controlled (in manufacturing parlance they are X-sigma quality). It's harder for me to screw something up if what I start with conforms to its requirements aligned ultimately with customer satisfaction.

- quality is everybody's problem. See again pg57-58. Sectionalism is a major impediment to enterprise wide improvement

- the ultimate aim is continuous improvement of which RCA (fish bone diagrams and the rest) are but tools. The salient business question is: ok, a client outage occurred. Not OK, but does it repeat?

Root cause analysis? Plants are doing just fine. Human organizations can be helped by root cause analysis. That's just how it is.
source? My thought is if you tried this in israel the actual intelligence apparatus would have you picked up pretty quickly and in a dark hole for as long as they wanted.
ZGC and Shenandoah can be slower than G1, those are not silver bullets. The fact that there is 4-5 GCs explains the situation, there is not a single GC that is better than the others.

It really depends of the workload.
But that's totally irrelevant to where the virus came from, unless you're arguing that there's a massive global conspiracy.
This is complete nonsense. I don't know where you picked that up but wherever you did it isn't true.
no uh. not me
Yes it was great, and still … I use Vox 2.7.7, but not sure how long it will last with macOS moving forward. It was last version without requirement to login in cloud and pay subscription to use features as simple as equalizer. But even with this version, I had to `chmod -x /Applications/VOX.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/*` to stop background crap.
Isn't that because there is insufficient jeopardy for covering up a mistake?
If the lab leak was real, covering it up to the extent they did requires a literal conspiracy (not to mention hypothetical function gain research). In the absence of concrete evidence, it is quite literally a conspiracy theory.
Bukele is shorting the dollar by issuing dollar bonds and buying Bitcoin. Of course, the IMF is not happy.
It depends on what your criteria for "any good" are. Most cars that have depreciated rapidly do so because their maintenance burden is high. If you think you have a better-than-average ability to absorb or mitigate this risk, then it might be a wise purchase. If you cannot, it is probably an unwise purchase.
The Packaging Mistakes Companies Make–and Why They Make Them
VitePress is VuePress' little brother, built on top of Vite
https://archive.ph/X0efH
The US Government is not a single-minded entity. Covert actions sanctioned by a balding old men in a dingy fluorescent lit room can still end up quashed when they come to light and the courts get involved.
You can do lots of things that aren’t violent. You can convince them, first of all. Why isn’t that an option? Or we can compensate them. We can use social pressure. We can use the justice system. We can pass laws. There are plenty of options aside from violence.
Wow! 66% of Android devices support Vulkan. That's amazing. Thanks for finding that.
Atom Bank introduces four-day working week without cutting pay
> People that shop for groceries at dollar stores do it because:

4. They only have a dollar.

Yes, it's cheaper by the fluid ounce to buy a barrel of Pine-sol at Costco. But if you have $100 for groceries and household expenses this week, you'll pay more per ounce to minimize the cash-flow problem.

Their cash-flow constraints and cost of credit both prevent them from economizing. That is how most Americans shop.
If digital assets have no value, then you are probably fine with having your hn handle, your bank account and your phone number deleted?

The value of digital property is widely accepted for decades now.

What crypto adds is that you can hold the key to your property yourself. So others can not move or delete it against your will.
Have you ever won these giveaways? (18 only)
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Have you ever won anything from them?
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This seems like a pretty good take to me. As an American who cares a lot about having compelling reasons for my beliefs and opinions, it's so fucking exhausting.

Lately, I've been getting more comfortable with just saying "I don't know" for the latest controversial topic. It's not great for making small talk though.
It felt like reading a tutorial for handling vassals in crusader kings.
The Public Health England weekly report, already adjusted for percentage of vaccinated, for the last few weeks clearly shows more deaths of the vaccinated from covid and other causes

The USA having more deaths this year than last, with the Delta that spreads faster but is less deadly

Personally not vaccinated, had covid recently, and have no plans of getting vaccinated. Caught from my Pfizer vaccinated wife, and we both had the same symptoms
It's not a problem with linux.

It's a problem with a tutorial written by someone who is underqualified to be doing so, so that she can get page hits to boost her "brand."

She's a fucking streamer, employed by Microsoft to be a .NET "advocate" https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/advocates/gwyneth-pena...

Her site is just regurgitating the usual novice guides, of which you can find a dozen better examples.
My not-very researched take: entrepreneurship is a game played mostly by people from already wealthy families. Since the % of wealthy people in the US is higher, and their rich are richer, you get more "initially rich" entrepreneurs.
Experts caution use of 'looting' in describing rash of Bay Area smash and grabs
The soviets and Goebbels are blushing.
actually pretty funny ngl
How is fiat money not a ponzi scheme?
Because political ideals. The left treats this as a conspiracy because:

(1) Trump initially blamed COVID on China and the ethos of the left is that Trump isn't ever allowed to be right, and "resist" means unconditionally doing the opposite. So once Trump said it, half the country unplugged their brains.

(2) It's no fun to blame a lab in Wuhan when the left could instead blame DeSantis/Republicans/Unvaxxed.

(3) The US is kinda wimpy about a real fight over this, regardless of who is in office. Xi would tell Biden (or whoever) to pound sand if the US ever really tried investigating this and seeking some sort of retribution. Again, the path of least resistance is to stick one's head in the sand and find a convenient scapegoat like Joe Rogan or whatever.

(4) Too many people have already definitively declared it impossible so they're pot committed to their position even if it's wrong, no different than mask efficacy (zero). There have been a couple issues where one side went all-in so there's no reversal or even slight walking back because the repetitional risk is too high.
FWIW. This would probably present a challenge in most (all?) languages.

For example in libc++ due to SSO an std::string has a minimum size of 24 bytes.

For a billion strings less than 15 chars (+ the null byte) that gets you to 24GB, and that’s optimistically assuming each string is allocated in place.

I doubt heap allocated char* would do much better either. Just having a billion 8 byte pointers eats a lot of memory. You’d really need some sort of string packing scheme similar to what you did in Java.
From the article:

"All this may sound cynical or manipulative. It probably also sounds like a lot of work. It is all of these."

It's literally the point of the article.
> The gravity would be constant if the rotation was constant.

Hum... No. The gravity reduces linearly with height.

And yes, friction against the wall.
You're right, I missed this: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-denmark.pdf

But I can't find the other source, the point was the total overhead: income tax + healthcare + social security.

The US is surprisingly high when you add everything up.
> How do you do...

Those are all questions I have, as a 2-decade "traditional web app" developer who is now doing frontend work & hybrid mobile apps. I know the backend sucks for some of them too, so this isn't a set of questions to bash with.

They are the questions I'd spend money on a book or learning materials to answer. They are philosophical questions that seem overlooked.

I think the answer is JS/TS on server and client-side for a lot of them, so models/classes/structs are shared; form validation rules are shared (something let's face it that "traditional" web apps suck massively at).

The one Q I feel qualified to answer is:
> What about data consistency throughout the interface—when you update e.g. Document(id=45) with new data, how does that update get propagated to every other place in the app? Does that involve a client-side identity-map? Or are you manually trying to send updated data to other places with callbacks/whatever? etc. for ever and ever.

Assuming you're not talking realtime (because that's a problem for both) then this is why the concept of data stores (Redux, Vuex, Mobx to name a few) are so popular. Because when the data is changed, and you're using a reactive frontend framework, it updates all components that use that data. It is, frankly, magical and wonderful. But as you say, data consistency can be a problem...
And hiding something because it's believed by bad people is going to make those bad people look like heroes when they turn out to have been right in this particular instance.

If the goal is to make racists look good, that's a great plan.

Personally I rate the plausibility of a lab leak at over 90%. Quick back of the envelope: there is one such lab in China, where there are about 100 cities with over 1 million inhabitants. The probability that a pandemic randomly appeared in any one of them is therefore 1%, or put another way, there is a 99% probability that it appeared in Wuhan because of a link to the lab. There has been no new information in the past two years to change that assessment.
but the layer 1 cryptos are all moving towards private

even bitcoin’s taproot amendment that just got passed and implemented does this to a limited extent
To their credit, Beanie Babies holders were always upfront about their desire to make money. There was none of this fig leaf reasoning about how BBs are really a harbinger of a new paradigm of asset securitization.
I don't understand why lab leak isn't, like, the first or most important investigative line. It's just a matter of asking and checking - thoroughly - every person and every machine involved with the lab in that timeframe. After all, "the disease is the same name as the lab!" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8
Every option looks risky, people will not use it widely.
It’s frustrating how people cherry pick data and don’t think about important findings in their own cited sources. I’ve seen similar comments to that one so many times citing viral load being the same and always ignoring that the duration is much shorter. Their own citations undermine their point…
Unless you're running something like Firejail on your system, yes they are.

There are a metric ton of holes to plug in the Linux security model, Linux security is a dumpster fire. But... run Wayland, use Flatpak (and check your permissions), check file access/network access -- these are steps in the right direction, they are security improvements over apt-get. We know that isolation/sandboxing (and in particular filesystem isolation) is going to be an important part of security moving forward.

And if you're comparing this to Android/iOS, it's not even a contest, Android/iOS's model of app isolation is unambiguously more secure than an apt-get free-for-all; and repositories like FDroid allow you to set upstream maintainers the same way that you would in desktop Linux environments.

If you compare this to the web, it becomes even more obvious that resource/runtime isolation between sites improves security. Increasingly we're looking at not even sharing browser caches between domains, which is even more strict than Flatpak's shared runtimes. Isolation is a failsafe -- it means if something breaks or gets infected, it can't affect everything. It means that remote code injection into a properly sandboxed app can only compromise one app, and not overwrite your bashrc and insert random keyloggers into everything you do.

Improvements still to be made, I would not today assume that Flatpak is secure or battle-tested, and it definitely can't do much about X11. But we fix these things piece by piece, and the basic idea itself is still sound.
The new / current title "The Next ‘Lab Leak’" is even more misleading and baity, as it suggests a lab leak just happened or is imminent.
My Toyota Yaris is rated at 27 km/L = 63mpg

But maybe that's only downhill -- I'm certainly not reaching it :)

But other mini cars like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo

Or so I hear...
I see, it has a lower quota and only IndexedDB has a mechanism to request persistence.

Thanks.
I definitely agree that there's good reason to know what actually happened, if for nothing else for the sake of long term trust in institutions. Instead of group, something more like organizations and institutions with the ability to investigate and hold people accountable would probably be more accurate.