skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty exciting to see the party being led by two Harvard grads imo.
My family accepts cash and equivalents for Christmas.

The past four Christmas I've sent bank transfers on the 25th.

Shopping malls, ATMs and banks get just too crowded those days.
This sounds more and more like an existential threat to Intel.

I thought the industry's consensus was a key component of Intel's dominance is they leveraged the best fab tech in the world, made possible by huge volume. That's a virtuous cycle on the way up and terrible as volume decreases...
Probably some trade consortium trying to convince you that cash is looked down upon. I've yet to meet a younger person who didn't appreciate "cold hard cash" in a card, a la Lucy Van Pelt.
Nice, good to know. Do you know if many common clients support it?
What you're referring to is called the "public forum."

In the USA, it's not only government-owned property that is considered a public forum.

E.g. Occupy Wall St was on private property (Zuccotti Park), but they couldn't be evicted for that -- because a park open to the public in that way is a public forum. (They were eventually evicted supposedly for health/sanitation reasons.)

> If I run an offensive protest inside of a mall, I will be asked to leave and ultimately thrown out. In this sense, Facebook is the digital equivalent to the mall - they own the space.

In fact, the public walkways in a privately-owned mall are considered a public forum.

https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...
They have, and did, and many psychologists, psychopedagosists, and other people in the cognitive sciences agree with the OP. I don't see how they were being arrogant and snarky when the exact argument he said does indeed show up in academia.
The built in serial port on the Amiga in Paula was probably the worst part of the Amiga's chipset. I remember having trouble with anything more than 9600 baud on my A500, as 16 colour hires graphics mode basically starved the CPU from accessing memory during anything but the horizontal blanking period. Maybe it's more tolerable in the A3000.

I do wonder if a copper based serial port driver would have been able to overcome this particular deficiency of the OCS...
Prophet vs. Linear Regression on Real Estate: The Zillow Case
Not a California thing. I live in Dallas and am all for coming to Texas, but don't expect miracles. There are homeless people everywhere, vacant buildings, my catalytic converter has been sawed off twice, trash all over the place, major road out of my neighborhood has had a pothole big enough to knock a wheel off for 8 months and the city has done nothing about it.

These are just city problems.

On the other hand, my mortgage, insurance, and property taxes are $2,500 a month for a 3,000 square foot, 4-story townhome with a private rooftop deck with a downtown skyline view, so there's that.
When did CMOVs become efficient again? The x86 optimization guide used to warn people not to use them, around 2008.
I am fairly certain template expansion and skipping over whitespace while parsing are two entirely orthogonal things. using a template might make compilation an "epsilon" slower in one instance of such a use, but then those epsilons add up...
Overpopulation is a myth.
> no one actually interacts with people selling you things like this

There's a whole successful social network (Goodreads) built on people's desire to talk about books, frequently in the form of effusive praise. I think being able to trace the product to a single individual (e.g. a book's author) helps make it particularly appealing to leave that sort of feedback: we know it feels great to hear that someone values a thing you've created, and we like the idea of giving that pleasure to the creators of things we like.
S.Korea to test AI-powered facial recognition to track Covid-19 cases
Best way? I can think of four:

1. Have a large enough Twitter following such that complaining will get somebody's attention;

2. Know someone at Google who can contact the right people to resolve this;

3. Be a large enough advertiser such that your account manager will make noise on your behalf; or

4. Be a large enough content producer such that the threat of you pulling your content from Youtube is sufficient to get their attention.

This isn't unique to Youtube or Google. It's just how "support" works on platforms these days.
VocalTractLab: High quality articulatory speech synthesis
There are plenty of little things that you can add to make even an automated system more humane.

For example, assign a unique ID to every automated decision and display it in the automated replay email. That way, affected humans can at least sue to get the basis of their decision disclosed.

Or why should noreply-support@company.com actually be a no-reply? Let's forward it to the manager who is responsible so that if people are genuinely upset, their "feedback" reaches the correct person.

Or attach a footer to those emails, which contains an email address for legal matters. Make sure to say "Please only contact this address for urgent legal matters" so that everyone correctly infers that it'll reach an actual human.

As for those gig apps, it's probably good enough to just include the actual reason in the JSON reply that the server sends, without ever displaying it in the app. Of course, that's for internal debugging only, but nobody's going to get the production deployment flags set correctly.

Or you can make the decision really obvious, by instantly loading it as an AJAX. Customer fills out a form, the spinner starts, and the result is displayed. "We're terribly sorry but your claim has been denied." But keep the inputs visible, so the customer can tweak the values and submit again. They'll surely figure out what makes the decision flip.

And I wouldn't worry too much about colleagues who'd do anything for money. They will probably go to FAANG for better pay anyway. And if all non-FAANG companies have significantly better service, the overall public will notice.

Bonus tip: If you ever want to reach a human yourself, there are services like hunter.io that'll procure the email address of a human for you. And then you just circumvent all the automation and directly CC the CTO to say "f* - oops - thank you for your great customer service!"
New WebKit Features in Safari 15.2
The European Commission is making its software open source to benefit society
Leaked Samsung Galaxy S22 photo shows off Samsung’s glossy new phone
All the storm chasers I've seen are out in the country too, where they have long sight lines and long, straight roads that they can drive very fast on if needed to get away. Plus they are hopefully experienced enough to stay out of the path and instead try to be on the side of it. Plus, don't most of them have cars that they've added armor and stuff to, both to protect from debris and to add weight so they are less likely to get blown over?
If it was truly so obvious, the government should have issued evacuation orders days in advance.

They didn't because that isn't the case.
The HN algorithm will de-front page stories where the comment section starts looking like a flame war. If you look up the stories which were removed from the front page, there is quite a bit of toxicity in the comments.

I personally like that they try to play down controversies instead of optimizing for engagement from them.
The job being done by gift cards is transferring money to your relatives with some protection against them spending it on drugs.

(Source: a relative who used to give me gift cards.)
No McDonald’s or anything to beg for a phone charger? This sounds like a nightmare scenario when you are already dead tired from traveling, let alone have luggage to drag back to the airport.

Glad you made it back safe. I can’t imagine my significant other going through this BS in a seedy part of an unfamiliar town.
The unintended consequence of banning nation specific licensees, is that you'd essentially be giving a huge advantage to the already global services. Any service that isn't global, wouldn't be able to compete with those who already are.

Netflix is global, Prime is on its way, and Disney and HBO are trying. But a BBC streaming service is going to outbid 10/10 times because they can't afford to buy North American streaming rights when they don't have a (viable) North American service.

The BBC would survives because the law mandates UK citizen pay for it. But any non-subsidized local service would be dead in the water.
I'm always interested to hear what people think regarding full text feeds versus headline/summary feeds.

I hand-edit my feed, so the brief summary is easiest for me to keep up to implement. I've also always felt that it was a bit wacky to send, like, everything I've ever written as one huge XML document just so people could check for updates...

On the flip side, I have no problem with any automated service that downloads the full article for real human readers/subscribers. I have no advertising or tracking, so arguably they're saving me bandwidth. :-)
Switch from back end to system (databases) developer: how?
My background is in backend, microservices and worked as an engineer, tech lead, and architect.I worked in different industries.

Recently I reflected on my experience and decided to go deeper into specialist path and focus on system programming, particularly, building databases and data processing frameworks.

I started to apply to the companies that build such tools. I got rejected after the first interviews with the main reason that I have never participated in development of such tools. Sure, I have used both SQL and NoSQL database, used Kafka, Flink, Spark, but it's different from building those.

I would like to ask here at HN, what would be a good approach to get a full-time role?

My current plan is to choose a relevant OS project that is friendly to contributors and start contributing there, besides reading books and articles to deepen my knowledge in the topics.
Everything you listed is someone else's opinion on what happened, but never stated by the company. All the company did publicly was say "this account is banned" with no libelous or defamatory statements attached. IANAL.
A tool to automate creation of workflows, training guides, and how-to's
Yeah - for example to determine if log4j is used in a maven project one would have to run "mvn dependency:tree | grep log4j".

Which I did today for our 60 microservices.

And also for projects deployed as war files - container server libraries also have to be checked.
Sorry, the knowledge-pods of those under 40 were defective, we just weren't born knowing everything we needed to know (unlike previous generations).
So, in a manner, all of them?
Ah, these are "high-res" icons; this isn't a link about anyone being hired.
It also goes the other way. As a marketer dont treat marketing as a sacred protected space. Work with the developer as the developer is very good at solving problem and can make sure that the best technology is chosen to reach the marketing goal as efficient as possible.
It seems like an unusual rephrasing of the saying "reasonable on the face", which means "reasonable upon first appearance, without considering deeper aspects."

It's judging a book by it's cover.
Good CoC:
"If at anytime you choose to do something that a rational person of average intelligence could reasonably consider your actions as "Being a dick", you are in violation of this code of conduct." [1]

Horrible CoC:
"Don’t use sarcasm and jokes that can be misinterpreted."

[1] https://github.com/karlgroves/dontbeadick
Thanks, this is exactly what i needed!

The trick was to go to File > New > Feed Account, as described in the linked page. Seems like the discoverability of the feature could be slightly improved, such as Thunderbird creating one such account by default.

That said, the reader functionality itself seems excellent! It displays the items like it would any other e-mail which is nice from a consistency standpoint, but also not only resizes the images to a reasonable size, but also displays them at the bottom of the actual text!

That alone puts it at the top of my short RSS reader list.

Edit: It seems that it's a bit buggy. I just added a feed account and added a feed to it, retrieved the items and browsed some of them. Then i removed the feed account, which i later re-added, the feed still being there. Not only was that a bit odd, but attempting to open this feed hanged the entire program. Oh well, these things happen. The feed could not be removed while the program was running, but disappeared after the next restart, as expected.

Seems like the format support is also decent, both RSS and Atom feeds work, but not the less common JSON feed format. Also, there are some problems with ordering feeds, since Thunderbird won't let me drag and drop feeds to re-order them for a particular account. The only way seems to be to use sub-folders which isn't necessarily what you might always want. But hey, it works otherwise.
It's also a great way to back up bulk content from feed sites I create into intuitive files for migration ETC... It's far more readable than JSon by bare eyes as well.

Retiring RSS was a scheme, just like removing headphone jacks on modern cell phones, which was really a ply to make new insecure bluetooth and wireless headphone sales more money.

I get weary of how many unreasonable and dreadful turns tech makes to re-invent wheels that are already installed and working fine.

RSS was also a great way of sharing content from sources without copying and pasting. It's a real tragedy it's barely used/accessible any more... And it's just a personal opinion, but OAuth is also mostly a engineered and tedious end product of retiring RSS that really was only introduced so that platforms can put an incremental price tag on data access.
> They happen a few dozen times a year for any given location.

Not really, no: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/2021_torww_to_date.png

The map is a little difficult to read, but I don’t believe “any given location” has reached even 10 watches in 2021. 171 total have been issued, which seems like a lot at first, but generally multiple watches are going to be issued on one day, so there are relatively few days a year on which TOR watches are being issued, even in areas where they are likelier to be issued.

Life shouldn’t shut down because of a TOR watch, but some people around here are acting like they’re a very common occurrence when they absolutely are not.
This is a textbook Gish gallop, so I'll avoid the trap of responding point-by-point and address all the irrelevance and inaccuracy of your comment simultaneously.

The premise I responded to was that UBI was the only way to free up OSS maintainers, and that they wouldn't care about the lost hundreds of thousands of income if their basic needs were met. My point was that if this was the case, you would already see the low-hours-per-week strategy in place as a non-trivial factor in OSS funding. And yet you don't, because the foundational assumption is incorrect.

Also note that 10 hours a week is hyper-conservative. The population of people maintaining OSS projects are more than capable of pulling eg $70/hr for contracts[1], especially at the low volumes we're talking about. To reach UBI levels of income at this rate would require _1.5 hrs/wk_ of work, or 6 hrs per MONTH. This allows you to drop the required talent level pretty low, despite already pulling from a population that's selected for "ability to maintain a useful OSS project".

[1] also very conservative: I wouldn't be surprised if a median estimate came closer to $150/hr for your average OSS maintainer
This would be a big (but exciting) departure from the current TS goal of "Impose no runtime overhead on emitted programs." [1]

Recently, I've been using Zod [2] and find it to be a satisfying equivalent: you define a schema, and then you get both a TS type AND a JS parser/validator (which works as a TS typeguard).

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
[2] https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
Can I use this incredible feature with other toolchains, or existing artifacts that have a glibc dependency?

Say if I am using a language/toolchain which pulls in a C/C++ compiler, are you able to substitute "zig cc" there and explicitly cross-compile to a different GLIBC version?
Well I do know the specifics, I've worked on our farm. I've worked in and for processing plants and at food retailers. I did an engineering degree in agriculture with a minor in economics (plus some post grads in IT). We produced and sold our farm products at local farmers markets. I now work at the agricultural government agency of my local region. And I can tell you that the margins that those gatekeepers take are not proportional the service of marketing and distribution they provide. I'm not talking about magic. I'm talking about mathematics and logic in the form of proof systems that have the authority that would otherwise be relegated to central enforcers. There is distributed ledger technology that already uses proof of stake like cardano or polkadot. As for high transaction cost and scalability of pos you should look into zero knowledge proofs which allows to package a massive amount of transactions into one proof that hides a lot knowledge and still allows for checking transactions: https://starkware.co/
> It's not an impossible task.

Ok, set it up and then maybe removing idiotic speech can be considered. Until then you have nothing but a desire to define what is undesirable.
So basically you’re upset about Florida and Texas for a different set of hysterical political reasons.

Personally, I’d find my daily life more affected by feces on the sidewalk than I would the existential dread of sea level rising half a meter in the next hundred years. Frankly if you want to be scared of natural disaster over that time period, it’s probably more dangerous to live on the fault line in San Francisco than it is to live on the beach in Miami (sudden catastrophe with no warning vs. decades of observably rising sea levels).
I was going to answer "patents" because that's what I had read in the past (that LZ '78 was encumbered by patents while LZ '77 was not), but this wikipedia talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:LZ77_and_LZ78#preference_... suggests that it's not just patent encumbrances.
Open Source in China: Next Four Years
"Conclusions: Protection from reinfection decreases with time since previous infection, but is, nevertheless, higher than that conferred by vaccination with two doses at a similar time since the last immunity-conferring event. A single vaccine dose after infection helps to restore protection."
More like, if eternal life can be bought, the first one to sell it would be the richest man in the world.
> but it’s obviously a better move for the school since they will eventually not have to pay out any funds to anyone who doesn’t actually work at the school.

The school district has to pay now rather than pay later (not only the employer contribution, but salary is generally higher to make up for the lack of a juicy pension). The 401K is also persistent (you don't need to work X amount of years at the school district for it to stick), and if you die early, your heirs inherit it rather than it just going poof. It isn't an obvious win for the school district...and it does keep them more honest in that they can't pretend their investment returns will be higher than they actually are.
These are so cool. Thank you!
Ah gotcha, I haven't done full restore of my main dataset.

I've only verified with a smaller test dataset to validate the workflow on s3 deep archive (retrieval is $0.02/GB). I've done full backup/restore with the zfs send/gpg/recv workflow successfully (to a non aws s3 destination), and used s3 for quite a long time for work and personal without issue, so personally I have high confidence in the entire workflow.
It's not just working class — a corporate lawyer friend of mine did the same.
Thought experiment #1: Facebook/Instagram disintegrate overnight. During that same night, a decentralized version appears that operates on something resembling the torrent protocol where users install a small receiver/transmitter on their machine and are able to participate in something perfectly resembling FB today (without the ads). The cases of bullying and such remain. How do you go about solving the problem in that case?

Thought experiment #2: The timeline is changed such that Bitcoin is actually made into a centralized protocol with one company at the middle with perfect control. Do lawmakers go about shutting it down because it contributes to drug exchanges and black markets?
Both can be true.

Facebook can be both a problem - and a boon. It certainly helps people find other people who share the same "pearl/rifle" clutching mentality - and amplifies them into eco-chambers.
That is a very fair point, as another commenter led me to discover!

Now, in my eyes, having separate applications for separate types of information consumption (e.g. reading news vs communicating with others) isn't a bad thing, quite on the contrary, but that depends on each person.
The definition of a 3 trillion dollar company is a company with a 3 trillion dollar market cap. Market cap is shares outstanding times the last price shares were traded at.

The right question is “Are shares of Apple overvalued, fair-valued, or undervalued?” Apple currently has a total annual yield of 3.5% which is 2.9% from share buybacks and 0.6% from dividends. It’s P/E is 32 and it’s revenue growth rate last year was allegedly 28%. It used to have a P/E of between 10-15 but the Nasdaq 100 index has a P/E of 30. This leads me to believe Apple is fairly valued relative to it’s peers but it’s more shareholder friendly that it’s peers because of share buybacks, dividends and voting rights.

I believe the 3 Trillion dollar market cap is justified and that neither scares me nor encourages me. Most people are better-off because of Apple’s contributions to the world —- shareholders, consumers, and employees.

Warren Buffett says it’s far better to be invested in U.S. companies that have exposure to China rather than any Chinese companies directly. He also likes companies with a large cash position. Apple is both of those two things. In a flight to safety, Apple shares may actually go up instead of down.

My biggest concern for Apple is the recent, repeated IOS Zero-day software exploits.
I ask myself that every day. Should I be the change? Or should I wait for someone else to do it? I don't have the guts to jump headfirst into a deep red area: I already get harassed for driving a truck with an obama sticker when i go off-roading in the red counties 5 hours from where i live. But I am interested in moving to one of the isolated purpler cities in the south. I'm hoping there's a "diffusion area" where it is safe to be liberal, but still having a net effect of changing a demographic.
We are a .NET shop and we are having to review some things regardless of not having any direct references to log4j or even any java source code.

Lots of developer tools happen to use Java - one immediate example we are investigating is Jenkins.
It's fine to use the word "cringe", but it might be cringe to use the phrase "it's cringe".
You need to be careful with this framing and also think about 'Population Pressure' in regards to most developed countries - https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/
The Session Extension
Yes, I'm no fan of the modern Metro UI either (Settings is the worse offender) but I personally believe Explorer in Win10 is peak windows design. Minimalist but with vibrant colorful icons, neatly organized but still information dense and no abuse of whitespace. It's a shame the entire Windows UI can't be based around it.