skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The universe does not owe us anything. Speaking of email - why would I work for free (as an email provider) so that you can have a reliable email address and not pay for it? We live in a capitalist world. If you want free services - ask your government to provide them. Someone would still pay for that "free" service in tax.
A breach of licensing contracts is not "illegal".
So.... Ask contributors to any given group project what their contribution was. The total will almost always be >100%. Ask about share of blame, I reckon it will always be <100%.

Organisational culture and group psychology tend to prop up such fallacies, allowing everyone to overestimate and underestimate their contribution to success and failure... these accumulate to organisational fallacies over time. Venkatesh Rao once called the lies cumulating as a result of this "organisational dark matter."

Lies beget lies. If a team is responsible for 180% of the success and 45% of the failure... something has to account for that. External factors played a role. Someone else failed. The project is actually more successful than it is. Etc.

A lot of group psychology is just this... ways of supporting group beliefs.
React SPA

AWS API G/W

AWS lambda running NestJS

AWS dynamodb

AWS SNS/SQS

Managed with SLS and terraform via gitlab and gitlab-ci
But most Apple employees, especially engineers, are not in the EU
Well, you don't have accept the laws of nature and humanity is resisting a great deal, luckily, so that isn't necessarily something indicting. Depends on the context.
I use solarised, I like that light variant of papercolour more I think, but IMO the thing so broadly missed that solarised gets right is the dark variant's background - it's not too dark, not so much darker than the text that it looks like some sort of high contrast mode. I use it year round with the exception of very bright/direct sunlight in summer, when it's harder to see so I switch to the light variant.
The fediverse still has many issues:

- You don't own your content unless you run your own node

- You don't own your username, unless you run your own node

- From the previous 2, you can't easily move your stuff to a different node. If the node dies it's an issue.

- Nodes decide who they federate with, so you depende on your node to build your social network relations
As a casual smoker of good cigars, I strongly object to the comparison.

Just like you can drink wine responsibly, you can smoke responsibly. I don't think you can do heroin responsibly.

I'm not ok with being stripped of a wide variety of possible enjoyable experiences just because somebody is going to abuse them.
"Am I on a captive portal?" tests might make up a decent chunk of requests, I believe both Apple and Microsoft have equivalents to http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt
It also doesn't move!

Income tax can be shifted to capital gains, of corporation tax can be shifted to other domiciles etc.
It's disingenuous to say epic is "acting" like it has the moral high ground by just handwaving away discussion of the fact that they do, in fact, have the moral high ground.
What Are Smart Contracts? Smart Contracts Explained-Stephen Ajulu
This is the core of the issue: we don't get time allocated for innovation/creativity and other internal improvements. At town halls we get told we need to be innovative but then.. no time is allocated for it. I suspect a handful of other devs also has their own tooling as mine to make their lives easier, but keeping it for themselves, as telling/showing other can often invite unintended consequences.
Customer wants lock with non-resetable mechanical counter
I have a customer that wants to secure the server room.

They would like a lock that has a built-in non-resetable mechanical counter. Every time the lock is unlocked the counter should increment. They want each person to record the number when entering the room.

So far I have been unable to find such a thing, although it seems like a very useful device.

Does such a thing exist?
I actually tried to do this with Diaspora and a couple dozen of my closest friends. We tweaked it to not have like buttons, and like other fun stuff. The idea being that it'd be our own little space and we could be weird on there and design it as we felt like.

Sadly, it just did not catch on, people were not invested enough in it. These days, I'm not too sure there is a point to this kind of thing instead of a group WeChat/FB or Discord or what have you chat.

I do wish the community of HN had a forum kind of site, not quite social media but something with more persistent interactions on topics and perhaps among users.
> Error correction is an extremely rare event, if it happens at all.

your systems must all be running at sea level.
There are quite a few edge cases going the pipe route since there is no defined communication protocol and every game expresses some things slightly differently.

I try to keep the code as generic as possible but nearly every game I try has had a surprise for me.
I really don't want to have tons of special cases in the code but I think some might be unavoidable.

If you're writing your own Z-machine, then you can write it in a way that plans for such integration and that would make a direct-linked approach much easier.

My 'ssh toy' has proven quite popular so far and I hope it has introduced IF to some new people.

Thanks and best of luck with your Z-Machine. Hacks and Glory await!
I'm writing this from Harmonic - it definitely has upvotes + comment sending, but no comment edit / delete, or link posting.
> No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it"

Hmm, sounds like you need glasses, why don't wear them? Too hung up on looking cool?
I seem to remember it's just assumed that the washing machine is filled up to x % of capactiy on average, and that this is also at least partially to blame for the disappearance of smaller washing machines [1] – bigger washing machines are more energy-efficient, assuming they're actually used to capacity. Because assumed usage simply scales with the machine's capacity, manufacturers can simply bump up capacities in order to make their machines appear more efficient, never mind how much people actually fill up those machines in practice.

[1] Our old washing machine had a capacity of something like 4 or 5 kg, which was perfectly fine for how we used it, but when we had to replace it a year or two ago, it was hard to find anything smaller than 7 or 8 kg.
The caveats of Julia for image processing (ii) – the image structure
The thing I’d ask for both is how I get paid to make games if we abolished copyright. NFTs are obviously silly but there is scarcity involved in the production of digital things even though the marginal cost is effectively zero. It’s just effectively zero is doing a lot of work when no one is paying and you need to feed your family under a capitalist system for everything else. A system that time limits some scarcity in order that creative people can make a living under capitalism before returning things to their natural state is humane.
In terms of ownership structure, yeah, that's pretty similar.
I didn't read that as the conclusion at all. He didn't say screw anybody. He pointed out that he has provided tools for migration, and that about two of the people who are nevertheless still concerned by the situation won't be changing.

So to me it sounded more like admitting defeat for now with two people give or take, and letting the rest enjoy the benefits of the upgrade.
Indeed. There's also a nice origin story of the original Dracula theme. https://draculatheme.com/about
Also, as you get older, you realize how much of this churn is change for change's sake, bringing you no real direct improvement to your quality of life. In IT in particular, we like to reinvent the wheel every few years, because a new generation of hungry ninjas thinks they've discovered a new type of fire.
Working mostly in VMs, I use backgrounds and colors to visually remind myself what window I'm looking at.
Sports teams. Many admit failures collectively. Not always for sure, depending on the circumstances, but it happens very frequently. Small group though.
Yeah honestly forums counteract soooo much of the weird incentives that lead to a lot of yelling (yes there is still yelling in forums)

I’ve been in two “tiny forums” in the past and honestly I prefer that to the idea of a Twitter clone. Let’s people put in more effort, have real topics (like about events) and isn’t just streams.
It's (almost) worth the two years it took to get to me!
I prefer something more toned down -> https://www.nordtheme.com/ports
I think he meant to write heating. Because the moderate (slow) parts leave, keeping the 'hot' members.
I do but the company doesn't care about stuff like this at all. In other ways the company is great but in some other ways not so great.

I do have the urge to share it with others but on the other end I force myself not to do it. I care a great deal. I have shown things in the past, during screen sharing meetings, then I hear people taking screenshots of my work... no thanks.
Did the same thing in a Minecraft predecessor called Blockland. Even ran a big mod pack that was all about social stuff like having IRC inside the game client. And what you say about invite-only is totally true. I used to run a fansite about an Xbox game that was still "unannounced" and the community was very non-toxic because I started a private forum on the IGN message boards where it was only full of people that mentioned the game elsewhere. What a time!
EOL does mean something. I don't believe 3 years is long enough personally, but even if it was 10 years the same problem would exist, just for older phones. Then it becomes a semantic argument about where phones should ever have an EOL date for critical fixes.

I think Google would argue that malware interfering with your phone after its EOL date is a reason why you should upgrade your phone to a newer model rather than use that as a reason to extend the life of their phone software indefinitely.
For more on Kari’s law: https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/podcast/personal-story-behin...
Maybe phones should have a "Test" feature for emergency-services?

Smoke-alarms and GFCI-devices do, enabling folks to ensure that the device'll behave properly.

Presumably there'd need to be some sort of systemic support for a test-feature, where emergency-services would have recognition of the concept such that they'd filter out test-calls, but only at the very last stages. This way the entire system performs the test, but operators wouldn't be tied up.

Alternatively, route test-calls to a test-operator, that'd presumably be an automated system, as to not burden actual emergency-services.
It seems learning Rust is a must. What would you say is the best resource for learning Rust if I'm only experienced in interpreted languages?
> Some useful tips in here, but to be honest a better bash is to just install python and use that for scripting instead.

It's not a better option, it's "an" option.
Bash is very good for this purpose and very portable.
The Curse of Scalable Technology
Real-time data anonymization for MongoDB
Haha, I have seen many speeches of the US presidents and they all come off as nationalist. I imagine it would be very hard to win an election in the US without mentioning that Americans are the coolest people on Earth or something like that.
What is more worrisome than Google's response in that thread is fanboys defending it's a completely normal and expected for a 3rd party regular app to be able to take over emergency calls
Agreed completely, but it's all in our hands. We have the unique opportunity to create startups out of thin air, unlike all the other people like PMs and BAs.

And if business is not your cup of tea, keep searching for better companies and teams, you'll find a good one someday.
Facebook skirts App Store fees yet again with new ‘Stars Store’
That would explain the weird experience of having your open software used in Apple products — no one from the company ever talks to you. I'm a bit baffled how they deal with upstream bugs with this mentality. Not my problem, of course.
Just weird.
I suspect a handful of them have their own tools to ease their suffering, same as me, but most don't and are just apathetic and carry on with their day.
Malware-laden packages increasingly found in repositories like NPM
Do you want your kids to be indoctrinated into a fundamentalist religion without your knowledge? No? Then you might want to give other parents similar choices with their pain points, no matter how much you disagree with them. Parents keeping teenagers away from Internet or whoever their crushes are is bs, that's another story. But in general the problem is that there are too few categories, not too many. For younger kids let 3rd party repositories maintain their own and let parents opt in to ones missing from official Gnome.
It is a large endeavour. Have you encountered ZSCII and the "special" text compression algorithm yet?
> Based on our investigation we have been able to reproduce the issue under a limited set of circumstances. We believe the issue is only present on a small number of devices with the Microsoft Teams app installed when the user is not logged in, and we are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug. We determined that the issue was being caused by unintended interaction between the Microsoft Teams app and the underlying Android operating system. Because this issue impacts emergency calling, both Google and Microsoft are heavily prioritizing the issue, and we expect a Microsoft Teams app update to be rolled out soon

Let me zoom in...

> we expect a Microsoft Teams app update to be rolled out soon

Seems like a Microsoft issue to me.
the 12th gen CPUs are quite close to AMD on performance; perf per watt obviously depends, but it used to be way worse. don't assume intel is dead; AMD was assumed dead back in bulldozer years.
The World’s Biggest Startups: Top Unicorns of 2021
Oh.

I need this. I really do. Not for my knee, but for my ankle.

I've been waiting for this. I broke my ankle 4 years ago, destroyed a few things, among which the cartilage between my heel and the bone just above.

It hurts when I take my first step in the morning, and it hurts until I fall asleep. Every day. 4 years.

This would change my life.
Beliefs have no effect on reality, sorry.

Not sure what you mean by real there, the Avogadro number expresses precision at which you need to simulate reality to get something believable and a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms.
I don't want to have anything personal on a device someone else has full control over.

I don't want any work-related notifications after I clock out. If I'm being paid to work 8h/day, company has my attention for 8h/day. Overtimes can be arranged, but doing so on my own will and not being paid for it will never happen.

I don't want to be held liable for leaking company secrets in case I lose my personal device.
The solution is to simply use a live usb tool, which creates a usable partition in the rest of the device. There are plenty, for example, dus.

It seems that the developer isn't aware of this, indeed they developer were using something similar:

> For Linux developers, if you are interested, I have a script for creating a skeleton drive-image file, with a boot-partition and a working-partition, that will boot on either a legacy-BIOS or a modern UEFI PC. There are three scripts, '2createpcskeletonimage', '2createpcskeletonimage-encrypt' and '2createpcskeletonimage-gpt' -- for easyOS I currently use the middle one, which creates a MSDOS partition table and enables ext4 fscrypt in the working-partition. Syslinux is used for legacy-BIOS booting, rEFInd for UEFI booting. These scripts are in the woofQ tarball, available here.
What I really want to see is a guide on:

'How to convince all your friends to jump ship and join you on a platform you built, and abandon their friends in the process.'

/s
So the US is a criminal organization.
Why envy? I just dislike them. Dark theme only just sends me elsewhere.
Novi Wallet rolls out for WhatsApp in the US
Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
I'm not sure that many people would want to share what they put on social networks with their local computer enthusiast. Talk about hobby, neighbourhood questions, lost child—sure. But a lot of conversation on there are gossiping, private information, the occasional password.

A lot has been said here about privacy and how social media company might abuse it; the reality, is that they don’t care much about your private conversation, unless they can target ads based on this, or grab your attention. They don’t have the time or the inclination. Your colleague who can see all private message on Slack without notification and probably does religiously (yeah, that’s a thing) on the other hand…
amazon already owns alexa.com
A ca. 2700-year-old Assyrian-style leather scale armour in Northwest China
I only installed the teams app on my phone, because their web app only works in selected invasive browsers on the desktop, but not in Firefox, which I found already infuriating.

Why can't we have open standards for communication in 2021, where everyone can just use the software that they trust? I would never use teams if I had a choice, besides looking for another job.
not answering the question: in many situations it is likely that the direct carbon footprint of the website is completely insignificant compared to the indirect carbon footprint of the economic activity caused by the website.

e.g. does the website encourage people to buy more amazing kitchen gadgets, or fly more often to exotic yet authentic holiday destinations, or to meet sexy singles near you who are interested in starting families? that's where the real carbon footprint is going to be
Also, "If a Teams client for a United States Calling Plan user doesn't dynamically acquire an emergency address within the United States, then the registered emergency address is used to help screen and route the call. However, the call will be screened to determine if an updated address is required before connecting the caller to the appropriate PSAP."

Which is a clear violation of Kari's Law. A business phone system in the US is absolutely not allowed to intercept and divert 911 calls.
"except for Trump, but he's not representative of the class "US leaders""

He was the last elected US president and was almost elected a 2. time.

So like it or not, but to the world, he is a very strong current representative of a US leader.
And yes, a very nationalistic one at that. Who can be back to power very soon, or someone like him.
If you don’t pay for a cell phone what are they running the app on?
The next paragraph about her non-tech 88 year old stepmother seems worse, he's throwing all of those people under the bus by comparing them to her.

Vintage PCs don't really have USB, but well, in his defense, people working with vintage PCs are already used to extra steps (e.g. if the PC has token ring and they want to connect it to Ethernet), so they'll need to add the extra step of "Write contents of USB image to ISO"...
The best social network these days is a smallish closed group chat on your favourite platform.

There are apps that exist already to keep these private if you wish. But the key is curating the chat so there is good signal from friends who arnt starting flame wars.
It’s incredibly comforting that Washington Post still writes pieces critical of Amazon despite Bezos’ ownership.
I wonder if this affects emergency services in countries other than the U.S, for example in Denmark it is 112 in case of fire, accident, you need an ambulance.
Same reason math uses letters rather than words.

It's easier to pattern match strings that are short.

Having one `mr`/`mw` is confusing, but taking up whole lines with long strings can obscure the logic of the code.
Does PowerShell offer anything I couldnt do with https://www.autohotkey.com in a much friendlier manner?
NYT is extremely predictable - both in its choice of what to inform its viewers as well as what will fit their political stance (globalists). If you need this to be spelled out, either you’re being rhetorical or you’re uninformed - I suspect the former.
there a vicious circle here - the more it costs, the less you do, the less experience you have of doing it, the more it is going to cost when you do do it.

It is the equivalent of getting first time software engineers to build an enterprise wide system via Waterfall - of course it will screw up, take years, likely won't work as specified, which will then increase risk aversion for a future effort.
Bash is only portable if you don't shell out to other commands.
I can tell you from experience that it doesn't regenerate fast enough to make a difference after an accident.
Providing a set of "representative" inputs to optimize for is at least as much as what profile guided optimization gives the compiler (the compiler can always generate a profile from that input set)

The “intrinsic character of the algorithm used”, I think, would mean the programmer has to tell the compiler how to do this faster, which I think the OP did when writing something along the lines of

if n < divisor
n
else
if n < 2 * divisor
n - divisor
else
n % divisor
It sounds like glasses (or lenses) would help you. Glasses can fix astigmatism!

I can understand though that someone might not want to bother with glasses if the problem is easily fixed by using a light theme.
I didn't get what you were asking either!
The issue in the article was about finger clicking on links.

On a desktop OS, you should not have issues using pointer devices. (On mobile devices, when using fingers to tap, one normally pinches to enlarge and re-pinches to adjust size... Although I am not really sure if this still works with nowadays' mobile software: I am assuming text reflow, being that strictly required, and last time I checked most implementations in browsers were broken.)

For comfort in readiing, on a desktop OS, one is supposed to quickly adjust the zoom level with [Ctrl]+[Wheel], or [Ctrl]+[+/-] or similar...
We don't know everything, but we discern reality just fine. Those are two different claims.
Fibonnaci Calculator Online Retracements and Projections
I just do what I enjoy, and it happens that I found something I enjoy so much (racing small sailing boats) that I was able to become an expert in it.

The “advantage” over something like woodworking or playing the piano is that you can’t just do it all the time. You need the wind to be right, you need to get yourself to the sea, it takes time rig up your boat and get out on the water, ideally you need to arrange other good people to train with and it’s self limiting because it’s very physical. All these factors mean that although I’ve thrown myself headfirst into it and it’s something I plan my major life choices around, there’s still space to go wide and do other hobbies and activities.

The other things I’ve reached expert level in are complementary to sailing. If it’s too windy to train then I go windsurfing (so no trip down to the sea is wasted), if it’s not windy enough then I’m cycling to keep my aerobic fitness up.

I guess the takeaway from my experience is that if you find things that are complementary but cannot generally overlap then you have the chance to get good at all of them.
Thanks for reminding me of this. The ports list grew quite a bit since I stumbled upon them some time back. I think I need to give them a try.
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> I don't think you can do heroin responsibly.

Why not, out of interest?
Stick it on Netlify for free, then you don't.