skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”

Is this supposed to be satire?

The Linux kernel mailing list is full of admissions from most of the subsystem maintainers talking about past failures. In fact, their strongest arguments for avoiding new commits is essentially that the changes smell like some of their past failures. Look at the kdbus thread. I'm certain I've also seen some ranting about untangling code related to CORBA as well.

Frankly, if an organization were more critical of ongoing fuckups and failures than the Linux maintainers, you'd have to question their core competency.

And Debian! What about the Debian dev who removed entropy from their key generator? Again, if Debian had a more egregious admission of systemic failure it probably wouldn't exist as a distro today.

Even cranks on HN don't attempt a steel man that fucking up the GPG key generation somehow wasn't a failure. Instead, cranks speculate about whether some super secret spy was recruited to introduce a "subtle" change that would have been laughed out of the room if anyone had bothered to directly ask an openssl dev about it.

Now let's commence HN cranks attempting to steel man a novel argument that two of the most prominently discussed groups on HN aren't actually groups.

Edit: also notice that Debian did not fork after the GPG key generation/valgrind patch debacle. AFAICT they released a statement saying, "All your Base from the past several years belong to script kiddies." One could argue that they didn't take the right steps to fix their process going forward. But one cannot argue that they didn't admit failure.
Got an opportunity to try it a few minutes ago and it's awesome so far. I was able to look for my code in repos I don't own, e.g `not org:user foo::bar`
> less trouble finding conference rooms, bathrooms ... nap rooms.

The discussion here is usually uber-focused on tech startups. Most jobs are not like that, they are normal offices without massages and washing machines, and are not overcrowded. But an office filled with 40% of random employees who are constantly making noisy zoom meetings feels more like a customer call center than a place where you can focus.

We 're still in the early days of remote and people are still afraid of it/ have not adapted their lives around it. When people settle in this new reality, the desire to see the office is going to wane a lot.
I’ve noticed more and more issues with sites on Firefox. Tried to buy some stuff on IKEA and the shopping cart just didn’t work on FF (tried Incognito too) but worked fine on Chrome/Safari.
Its a Non Fungible Token.

Not a Non Fungkble Skin.
It's been funny working at the intersection of human and animal health. The medical types all want to blame agriculture. The agriculture types all respond that they're not using major frontline human antibiotics (outside some stuff for companion animals).

It's sort of a complex mix - there's a lot of bulk use in agriculture, but the drug-microorganism pairings in human medicine are somewhat more acute.
TIL about https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
Do we even still have Moore's Law? All indications are that it died out a while ago.
Thank you for this. It has been nice to read the old threads.

btw, I appreciate you fixing my grammar in the title.
Lead Poisoning
This.

I've been working on native mobile apps in the last couple of years, and I realized the only reason companies want to push native apps is because they can do whatever they want with the tracking and 3rd party stuff in general.

Seriously this native apps world is so backwards compared to the web...

I'll take youtube as an example, on the mobile web app you can block most ads and you don't get the latest stupid features youtube is trying to push for some reason.
Sometimes I'm brought back to the native app through a link and I'm shocked.
The only reason I keep it is Chromecast support.
In that case the group didn't remain intact: it split in two.
To use the article's language, it's a group that tried to change its mind then fell apart as a result.
I respectfully disagree. A lot of the capital projects mentioned in this article (like NYC subway station) are municipal or state projects, which don't have the ability to print money like the feds.
Ubisoft users already have accounts, so they already have to deal with theft.
A Reddit comment [1] on this same article really hit home,

> Mr. Cook has watched China's middle class grow to four hundred million while watching the domestic middle class shrink. Like GM, which sells more cars in China than the USA, Apple knows where the market opportunities reside.

America needs growth again, whether that's immigration, childbirth and childcare subsidies, or seeking to merge with other democratic nations (Australia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan).

America needs to onshore manufacturing of critical chemicals and components. Steel. Electronics.

America needs education that is equitable, but it also needs to let academically or extracurricularly gifted students advance to special placement.

I want America to be #1. Free speech, being critical of government, and even having the ability to run for president are rights that every person should have.

edit: [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rb2774/comment/...
Cuba might not have a choice, thanks to US sanctions.
I have an incredibly unique project that I'm honestly very proud of, and very surprised how far I've managed to get with on my own.

For better or worse, that project is going to require a decent budget to organize, as hardware is a big part of some of the subprojects. Unity is at the core of both the interactive and less interactive aspects of the project.

It'll need to be pretty much a full-time gig for 6-9 months to pull off the stability the project will require to be safely scaled to the mammoth size it'll need to be.

Knowing that, I've saved dozens of prototypes over the years which represent different important iterations of the technology, and as technology grows some of those demos and ideas become more or less important.

I expect this year I'll finally have the finances to truly get started on some serious demos with the expectation/assumption that I will actually be going into full-time development shortly after the releases of the demos - I expect the demos to be fairly mind-blowing if executed better than they were able to due to technological and budget limitations, say - 5 years ago; and I've held out on speaking to investors or doing crowdfunding until I absolutely knew everything was there.

Since...well, the main chunk of this project has always been...not a video game - Unity allowed me the environment to create, I guess...something incredibly unique, because it was more of a sandbox to me than a game engine. I'm interested to see where I can take the project when I'm not hampered by the tech.
You can't attack another user like this on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. The damage it causes to the ecosystem outweighs any benefit of behaving this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

If you feel another account is abusing HN, emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look at it would be one good alternative.
there is a great article on this in the new yorker that has been discussed here a few times. Won some awards for its writing too: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
FamiTracker (a music editor) is in a local optimum of tech debt. It's written in MFC and DirectSound, mostly works, but is near-impossible to port to Linux or extract the engine core into a playback-only library not dependent on the GUI. 0CC-FamiTracker performed aggressive refactoring with insufficient testing, resulting in more bugs than older versions of the program. It's worse for end users, but a better starting point if anyone decides to finish separating the playback core from the GUI (and fixing bugs along the way).
It was always biased, and it's only gotten worse over time as browser toolbars have ceased to be a thing and data collection in browser extensions has been heavily discouraged. I have to wonder if that's one of the reasons they're phasing the product out.
GitHub Code Search developer here - try creating a custom scope to filter out that stuff! Click on the scopes dropdown and scroll to the bottom. You can filter out HTML by using a query like:

NOT language:html
I accidentally killed a very promising project this way. I gave a pitch demonstrating how it could stand up brilliantly to multiple avenues of ruthless investigation and criticism. People didn't listen to the words, they listened to the emotion of the ruthless investigation, and they discarded the idea in favor of one which would have tipped over if someone had brought a similar magnifying glass to within a mile.

Once I realized that good pitches were about emotions, I started getting much better results.
Just for reference, the total U.S. Department of Defense budget for 2021 was $705 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
I never understood how gravity waves can go through anything and not be weakened?

If the wave imparts energy on an object and makes it move, how is that energy still available for the next object the wave goes through?
Note, however, that if you have multiple different cleanup-and-exit points, it can be a maintenance issue. (On the other hand, the non-goto version can also be a maintenance issue...)
Marketing. Good (looking) design. Money for patents and more marketing.

I had one at some time in my life, it was OK but not life changing to cost 10x what a normal regular vacuum would cost.

It's just like any luxury item mostly flexing and status signaling through purchasing stuff, or so it seems to me
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I understood them back when my parents bought a Dyson bagless vacuum back in the early 2000s (iirc). It was high tech, powerful (I still remember them showing me how much more dust and dog hair it pulled out of the carpet), and advertised no loss of suction.

Unfortunately it did lose suction over time, and was eventually replaced by an absolutely ancient Kirby vac (the kind that were sold by door to door salesmen god knows how long ago), which is built like a tank and still works perfectly well today. Probably the sort of thing I'd put in the "buy it for life" category.

I still kind of put Dyson in that early 2000s category of products - both for aesthetic and general attitude reasons. It has that energy of "it's the year 2000, so stuff is now HIGH TECH", but often times the older, less flashy stuff is still better.
Constraints on estimating the CO2 fertilization effect emerge
yeah, it's pretty frustrating, regular people on the street and even semi-technical people I talk to say "Oh, Apple is just as bad as all the others"

They legitimately don't understand the difference between Facebook tracking every detail about your life and Apple having an account with your name on it
> the author started getting harassed off-site

Because of a post here on HN? What happened?
The article you linked says absolutely nothing about the helium cooling medium.

Three of the four imagers on the telescope are passively cooled and will work as long as they don't succumb to radiation, diffusion, etc. The fourth one (MIRI) has a cryocooler that uses liquid helium, but it will leak out very slowly and mechanical wear and electronics lifespan is expected to be the limiting factor there. [0, 1]

As stated in other comments, the primary driver of lifespan is a combination of how stable the telescope orbit is, and the resulting amount of fuel needed to keep the telescope in a stable orbit. Depending on how things go it has enough fuel for somewhere between 5.5 and 40 years of operation. Assuming nothing else goes wrong. :)

"Webb is designed to have a mission lifetime of not less than 5-1/2 years after launch, with the goal of having a lifetime greater than 10 years." [2]

0: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...
1: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-cold-can-you-go-cooler-...
2: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html
Yes, this is why we can't talk about Alexa at home. My roommate and I, if we're not talking to it, refer to it as "the A bitch." :D
There is no moral equivalency between the US and China. Stop this right away.
Even before that, as reported in the news in 2011 he stealthily built a swimming pool in the basement of his listed mansion without planning permission.

He obviously knew what he was doing and it worked since, although he was later caught, he managed to escape prosecution and was granted retrospective permission... I'm not sure authorities would have been that understanding with everyone.
If you give one person $1000 per month, you can improve that person's life with next to zero external consequences. If an organization gives half a million people $1000 per month, the external macro economic impacts must be considered. Societal quality of life improvement is not as simple as in the single-person example. You can't scale one up one to the other and expect the individual result to similarly scale.

If you doubt this true, consider the fact that the US Government currently spends upwards of $1 Trillion /year on welfare programs per year. That is money specifically dedicated to poverty elimination and/or management. An amount that makes the James Web 0.44 billion /year over 25 years look like a rounding error. By your numbers, that $1 Trillion could be used to give each of the ~0.5 million homeless around $1.7 million per year. If it's this simple, why hasn't it been done? Is your assumption about how poverty elimination is as simple as throwing money perhaps incorrect? What do you know that the US Federal government doesn't?

FYI emotional appeals about how a telescope can't help us love each other will do you no favours here. Likewise with implications that you are the only one who cares about homelessness, or that one cannot care about both homelessness and space exploration at the same time.
Except no, you shouldn’t just disregard the human rights / politics in search of “the best tools” which happens to be low waged workers who were famously killings themselves at work in such large numbers that their solution was to install nets so that they wouldn’t die when jumping out the windows anymore,
I don't think I've ever come across a Windows API that was pleasant to use

CreateProcess is probably my favourite example

NT didn't inherit the problems of fork() with unix, but it's still a disaster of giant nested structures, combined with several different ways of creating lists of parameters (some params need quoting in weird ways, others need manual construction of arrays of null terminated strings)

whereas the POSIX APIs tend to be small, clean and simple
This is cool. Maybe it’s an explanation for mass. When you’re at rest (or at a constant velocity) you’re constantly making a dent in spacetime, that closes up eventually behind you. Go faster, the dent grows, so you need a force to push through that initial resistance of making the dent bigger.
I would also note it seems to work very well on Android Firefox in desktop mode.
As mentioned above, to my roommate and me, it's "the A bitch." :D
I don't understand how apple.com can rank over youtube.com? In what way is apple a daily service that people must access? I guess some apple service that I don't use like music?
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account, regardless of what you're flaming for or against. This isn't a site for ideological battle or wake-up-sheeple rants.

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Anyone Did Naval Ravikant Meditation?
> This model is only a few orders of magnitude away from that

I think you can add several orders of magnitude to that since nerve cells are more like microcontrollers (with memory, adaptation etc.) than simple nodes. I remember a scientific article that made a big impression on me: when a dragon fly sees a prey, only 8 neurons (connected to the eyes and the wings) are responsible for keeping it oriented toward the target.
I shall, thnx.

ps: yes, enterprise server instances
Gravitational wave detectors can only detect oscillatory signals, not static ones.
there are a lot of funny passages in here, but this one really made me laugh:

> If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality. Ironically, for-profit entities are more sustainable than non-profit entities. They’re self-sustainable. You’re not out there with a begging bowl all the time.

Tech, finance, and the automotive industry are three great examples of for-profit industries that are almost always insulated from feedback from reality and are constantly "out there with a begging bowl."
Might also be worth checking out the syntax guide: https://cs.github.com/about/syntax#symbol
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China simply invested more in their people than USA it seems. You now see American business people like Elon Musk promote divestment from the USA in his attack on government deficits.
Does anyone believe these boosters will ever end? Covid is here to stay, regardless of how much we vaccinate and boost.

Meanwhile, from my understanding vaccination rates are still very low in the very populated Uttar Pradesh state in India [0]. Very few COVID cases compared to Europe, USA.

Same in many parts of Africa [1] where people also don't have much access to vaccinations.

Meanwhile the Western world is slowly moving towards a state in which people can't be part of society without getting a vaccination and n boosters.

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[0]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/29-new-covi...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa...
I think the mayor of NYC has a strong incentive to get credit for improving their subway system.
For the past couple years, every time I visit my mom I borrow her phone and unsubscribe her from a bunch of push notification spam senders. It is way too easy to allow these notifications.

Reading the messages in that bug tracker from ecommerce sites, I really do wonder how many of their customers genuinely want pushes for coupons and ads vs how many just see a "you need to click some button to get on with things" and accept because that's just how computers seem to work for them.

Then again, I'm perpetually cynical on these because I don't want push notifications for anything that doesn't actually warrant an inturruption to my daily life. I'm not 'settling for email' as one ecommerce marketer puts it. If you are sending your email content to notifications, then my notifications will just become another email inbox and lose their value.
> The problem, above, is that it’s the wrong person “investigating” this.

I don't follow. If there was a web interface, and I could upload an image of myself, a copy of my passport, my phone statement (that proves my phone number is linked to me) and estimated time slot and I dunno what else. And I get back a link to my phone to download the video in which _I am featured_.

Why is that an issue? Why can't that be setup on a official government website?

Extending that to a case where the legal guardian is requesting on behalf of the child doesn't add anything novel, and doesn't imply vigilantism.
Syspolicyd – CPU usage drains the battery on macOS
> If apple opts into WebPush this will cut into its AppStore revenue eventually.
I was a management consultant ages ago and worked on large capital projects. In my experience (as the article mentions) it was a mix of:

1. Red tape & public "input"
2. Layers of contractors and subcontractors, each taking their slice
3. No real incentives for governments to be cost sensitive. Usually capital projects last well into the next administration.
4. Too many cooks in the kitchen and consultations
>Isn't the training and GAN mean that the resulting image will look like the persons they trained?

FaceGAN style networks generate faces that don't look like anyone in the training set. In this case it all depends on how varied of training data they used.
No, I really am asking a person to provide facts to back up their claims. I was not aware this was considered trolling.
Which subreddit is that from? Seems like rare comment content for Reddit.
That would be a tough problem. As de-dup you probably want to show/point towards the 'original' tree. But which one is the source? Or even worse someone abandons a project but someone else forked it and kept going should it show that one instead? Or should it show the one it was forked from depending on the version number. Which one is the 'true' repo now? Most certainly an interesting problem.
That's huge. Everyday profile accuracy can be spoken of in "quarter wavelength"-like terms.
I know it's not perfect, but if you use Amazon's Alexa and know an Alexa you can change the wake phrase to a few others (iirc "echo" and "amazon" are among the choices).
It seems to me that we are in 1914 and Russia is the Austro Habsburg Empire, Ukraine is Serbia, the US is the British Empire and China is Kaiser Germany/US and that the war game is on. The establishment is arguing for a first-use nuclear attack on Russia:

A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack.

“I would not rule out military action,” Senator Roger Wicker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “I think we start making a mistake when we take options off the table. So I would hope the president keeps that option on the table.”

“What does military action mean, senator?” Cavuto asked.

“Well, military action could mean that we standoff with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction on Russian military capability,” the senator replied. “It could mean that. It could mean that we participate – and I would not rule that out – I would not rule out American troops on the ground. You know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action. We don’t think it will happen. But there’s certain things in negotiations – if you’re going to be tough – that you don’t take off the table.”

Wicker emphasized that his position was entirely bipartisan.
Generation of advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations
Very, very few people hold stocks for multiple years, so they have no reason to care about the company's long term future:

"There are different ways of slicing it, but Reuters calculations based on New York stock exchange data show the average holding period for U.S. shares was 5-1/2 months in June, versus 8-1/2 months at end-2019."
Hiding this complexity is useful if it also means handling it. What are the key patterns you apply in temporal to hide it? I’ve had a look at temporal and find it really interesting.