skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So let's circle back to metrics and ways to ensure we use them for guidance rather than obey them reflexively.

I'm not sure this is the right framing of the problem. "Guidance" is too nebulous and leaves us with the same problem of interpretation.

Advice from an old tracker: You want to find someone, use your eyes.

When I have someone who is getting themselves/us in trouble by looking at charts, my remedy always includes the notion that charts are for asking questions, not answering them. You might have a chart that says user response time has improved, but have you tried using the service from your phone (with wifi disabled)? If the chart says the times are shifting, we need to know why they are shifting, because that's information. "Looks like response time went down," is only useful as the introduction to a question, like, "did we change something?" or "did we have a routing issue?", or "can we do the same thing on this other service that is drawing complaints?"

Getting good questions also often involves cleaning up sources of noise in the charts. It's too easy for someone with an axe to grind to jump to conclusions that this is a repeat of a problem we had before (ie, this is Team X's fault... again) or that lack of improvement means failure to act. It is not impossible that I fix one regression at the same time someone else causes another, or changes the denominator by the same magnitude as the fix.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that people spent some time to understand a law which may or may not affect them, but if it does, they should probably already have known about it. "Should" in the sense that it would be good for them it they did, not in the sense that I think they were negligent, as honestly I think there's a bunch of laws that affect people like this that that most of us are unaware of.
What benefits? If i dont want this data to be public that is my decision which should be respected. I am glad that this is also the stance of my government.
Experts always have questions about disruptive technology.

They are often not right, since disruptions are not incremental change, but tons of nuanced ones that lead to a significantly better overall system.

Edit: "Often" does not mean always, or the majority of the time. Lilium is clearly not a scam, and seems to be making steady progress towards their goals.
Elixir inherits those properties from the Beam VM it shares with Erlang - both languages are effectively great for this WS/Channels use case - but Channels seems unhelpful unless you're already using phoenix. I can't see that it can be used in say Erlang.
Indeed, and what will keep being even more true as apple silicon evolves and the PS5 and XSX stay the same for 5 years or so.

Likely related to this, I've heard that both Sony and Microsoft have approached apple about getting more games on their platform.
Maybe a slight interest for now but in the future? No one will care. Todays generation is far more sex positive than previous - even if they’re getting laid way less than previous ones due to dating apps.
I agree. But that doesn't make all of HN an 'anti-MS echo chamber'.
Yeah, Sony's PS2 pre release marketing hype was out of control, and a lot of it was directed at how the Dreamcast wasn't going to be worth it. The CPU of the PS2 was called the "Emotion Engine" with Sony just straight up saying it had the power to emulate the human mind.
I am interested as well. They appear to be spouting off pseudoscience that sounds much better than the average person but I am open to seeing evidence otherwise.
Lilium, as I see it, has by far the most secure design of all air carrier designs we have seen recently. And there have been a lot including some really nice!

Lilium is the only company going for this distributed propulsion system with so many rotors, adding the the safety of the whole thing. Safety should be paramount! A couple of deadly accidents can literally ground a fleet otherwise.

Volocopter also tries a similar approach, but the lack of eVTOL probably makes that bird much slower than the Lilium product.
It sure sounds like they spent a lot of time here: https://www.naturalnews.com/
And all the other ones: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html

BSD jails are similar but not quite the same thing.
> nightmarish pain point that is the amount of time we spend implementing the same features across the three different platforms

I've been toying with the idea of providing dynamic extensions to Matrix rooms by sending a WASM payload as an event.

That WASM could then provide new UI elements, interactions, interpret events, etc. This could be used to implement polls (I know it's coming, but that's an example) or whiteboards inside existing clients.

It's just an idea, not sure how it would work in practice... But if anyone wants to have a go at it, be my guest!
What gives you this impression? They have amazing engineers and huge backers. My impression is that they are one of the most likely to succeed in this space.
My apartment block has a dialing system, that, instead if using a cale that goes to your apartment, relies on IP telephony and calls your mobile phone. It stos working if there is no internet, or your phone is out of battery, or you are not home but your wife is.
We have about 500ms to make our assessment so we wouldn't follow a link in realtime and depend on it resolving and redirecting etc.

Instead we expand them later and visit and scan them after the fact. But at that point the email is often already delivered.

But bottom line url shorteners are so abused as to be a de facto sign of spam.
Which should be a red flag not to use the service because they're collecting your data for any and all reasons.
Porsche already makes popular EVs. They also recognize that ICE cars (by all manufacturers) sold today, and for the last few years, are likely to be on the road in 2030, probably even 2040. Seems that the introduction of a new hydro-fuel with significant CO2 reduction would be a massive environmental win, for Porsche drivers and for everybody else. I don't think you are doing the world any good by painting Porsche's efforts in a negative light.
Its not conspiracy, if you consume a few grams of lecithin before bed, your dreams will be based on what you saw just before bed. So if you can use a phone to make sounds or says things to someone in their sleep at pertinent moments, you could start having a conversation with them in their sleep or just trigger them to see what they say! You should try it, its fascinating!
I’m sure the issue is actually that most people don’t want it on the ground, they want it up higher where it’s easier to see, change, and interact with the baby. So people were probably placing the box onto tables, shelves, etc. where the risk of it falling off were deemed too high.
It's good to have options.
It didn’t help that the Saturn didn’t ship with an SDK and was painful to develop 3D titles on due to being a sprite based machine (3D was effectively transforming sprites. Which caused bugs like breaking alpha blending).

The PlayStation wasn’t exactly easy by modern standards either but it was compared to that generation of consoles. For starters it had an SDK. Then there was the lack of storage constraints (unlike with the N64 cartridge). And while it didn’t have a Z index, at least it’s polygons weren’t just hack around 2D sprites.

That all said, I do still love my Saturn and N64 more than my PlayStation. This is Tony a rational preference but more just what I enjoy more as a retro gamer. In some ways their faults enhance the console.
Yes it seemed like it would be valuable if you need to send lots of invoices, pay lots of bills with checks, make many refunds, etc. Quickbooks gives you a formal process for doing so, easy ability to generate documents, etc.

Automating transaction mechanics can certainly facilitate doing accounting later, but it doesn't seem like what I expected from "accounting" as in the stuff you would normally have an "accountant" do. Rather it seemed that you had to set up most of your own accounting (eg defining the data model of all the accounts), and Quickbooks would help you by entering in data for the transactions types it knows about (and you use it for).
I disagree. Google has always been a consumer hostile company. The only "at this point" thing is: they have become worse at hiding it.
My team built a similar tool in Python to load any delimited file, json, parquet and Avro with one command:

https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler

Effectively loads anything into a dataframe. After that you can profile the data, merge, save, load, and take differences between profiles before generating a report.
It’s happened to me on home edition.

If you intentionally restart you computer every week or two it will never happen to you though. Or set your computer up to not do it.
> There is no research to suggest that a standardized test would improve student outcomes or enhance teacher pedagogy.

From https://www.nber.org/papers/w14021 ,

> By estimating the effect of teacher attributes using a value-added model, the analyses in this paper predict that observable qualifications of teachers resulted in average improved achievement for students in the poorest decile of schools of .03 standard deviations, about half the difference between being taught by a first year teacher and a more experienced teacher. If limited to teachers who are in the first or second year of teaching, where changes in qualifications are greatest, the gain equals two-thirds of the first-year experience effect.

> our results suggest that recruiting teachers with stronger observed
qualifications, e.g., math SAT scores or certification status, could substantially improve student
achievement.
They've changed for the worse. I stay up later because I don't have to be up at a specific time to shower, commute and sit in an office. I normally go to bed around 2 AM and sleep until 8:30 AM.
> I was unaware one could do this, a quick Google suggests CD-R booting only possible out of the box on early Dreamcast models as a fix was introduced?

It was the vast majority of them.

> A dirty but effective copy protection would have presumably been to just make use of the full 1GB of storage the retail Dreamcast GD-ROM discs had, making them to large to copy to a generic CD-R.

They did that, so then the release scene would re-encode whatever videos inevitably were taking up space, and bring it back down under 700mb.
There is some odd use of language in this article that might be a little misleading.

"Social network", "population connectivity", and similar terms seem to be chosen to paint a very modern picture of one of the oldest trade-networks yet discovered. Such language suggests that people across Africa were in regular communication with each other through this network, much like people across the internet today. The truth is that there was probably zero social "connectivity" between people in this network beyond with their immediate neighbours, and it was almost certainly more about trade than socialization even then.

Trade networks occur wherever humans go. People have too much of the local stuff and not enough of the exotic stuff, so they trade one for the other with their neighbors. Trade networks rise, ramify, change, and occasionally break down. Pre-contact North America had trade networks that spanned the continent, but it's likely that people at the far end of the network from any particular trade-good had no idea where it really came from. Such networks do not require continent roaming traders to operate. It was likely patently unsafe for anyone to travel too far from their home territory and totally unnecessary for continent spanning trade networks to operate. All it took was neighbours trading with neighbours who then trade with their neighbours, and so on.

In particular, OES beads were likely to penetrate further into trade networks than most other commodities. Portable, valuable and not likely to break from wear and tear, they could have criss-crossed Africa several times over before winding up in a midden heap or burial. They were a bit like coins in this respect. During classical times, Roman coins penetrated far into areas where nobody had even heard of the Romans.
At least your buddy admits that they were misinformed. Some of my friends just move on as if nothing happened after I point out their distortions. They just repeat the same thing that they’ve just agreed in being false. Then I give up usually. People seem so mechanical sometimes
Their apology really doesn't address one of their most egregious wrongdoings.

I see them boasting that the IRB determined "our study does not constitute human subjects research."

I don't see them acknowledging that they slipped under the IRB's radar by consistently referring to human subjects as "websites."
More like researchers needs to take classes on law jurisdictions. They seemingly to believes that both laws have jurisdictions over everyone in the world, including countries and states that don't have such laws which causes people to be confused with it since it have legal statement.

The researchers created this issue because they don't understand (or tried to understand) the laws nor they do not screen their statements. The liability is not on the law, the liability falls on the researcher especially with "human subject" comment. Therefore, the researchers are likely to be in violation with their university IRB. The legal statement is forcing people (that are not applicable to them) to respond which in turn violated the ethics of IRB because they did not consent to this research. By 'forcing' them to respond to the research that they don't have people consent to do so will run afoul with IRB.
Micronaut 3. 2 Released for More Performant Microservices
I often answer "I type." Then I say that I'm a computer programmer.
Perhaps, yes. My answer was intended as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek response :)
>when Google reverse-engineered the hack used against American diplomats in Uganda, they found an elegant, tiny piece of code that adapted software from 1990s Xerox machines to fit a so-called Turing machine — essentially a complete computer — into a single GIF file.

LOL at describing PDFs as "adapted software from 1990s Xerox machines"

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
To put it bluntly: Perhaps now is a good time to cut your losses. Find something else to invest your energy in.

That might sound harsh, but I believe it’s sound advice.

Best of luck!
Because

(A) it's a usable interface accessible by pretty much anyone [with a phone number, as of recent]

(B) it's cheap as you don't pay for bandwidth and storage is either $0 for 15GB or paid storage at a low-priced rate[0]

(C) all of that storage is geo-redundant and thus extremely unlikely to ever be lost, outside of Google terminating accounts (which isn't part of a lot of people's risk models).

0: https://one.google.com/about/plans
Is that a surprise to anyone? It's literally a service where you upload your data directly to their servers. Businesses have contracts with other businesses to protect them against particular kinds of abuse of this data (e.g. google stealing business secrets, or leaking personal data as defined by GDPR) and google sticks to these because businesses would lost trust very quickly if they didn't respect the contracts they have.
It was ported to Arc, which is a Lisp variant written by pg.
Succeeded within what level of precision? The project is called OpenWorm, they have hydrodynamic models for macroscale cellular behavior and electrochemical simulations for modeling ion channels needed for the neural network. I don't have a reference handy but you should be able to find ample papers discussing accurate electrochemical modeling of synapses. The issue is that the models are complex enough that simulating a couple hundred neurons is expensive. As far as having accurate synaptic data so that they're simulating a specific worm rather than a random one pulled out of the æther, I believe that's still a work in progress.
You keep responding as if Steam is not a thing on MacOS, it is very much a thing and has been since steam launched.
That's fair enough, I was comparing single-AZ AWS outages to single-DC Hetzner outages, since that seems to be what people are focusing on. For multi-DC deployments, I think laumars' sibling response to mine makes a much better argument—ultimately, you're still choosing who to pay and who to trust, and if things go down, there's nothing you can do to fix it. "Low-tech" cloud providers like Hetzner, Colo providers, amazon, PaaS—in a physical downtime event like this one, they're all the same.
Is there any reason you can't just use PCSX2?

It works on my 2012 MacBook Pro...it should work on any fairly recent hardware with zero fuss...

https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Native-Mac-Testing-Build
Your wife has just re-invented gift registries! Maybe this is cultural, but in the US for baby showers and weddings, usually specific wants/needs will be compiled into a list and registered either at a specific retailer, or with a web service; so you don't get double-buys or things you don't need.

It is a great idea, but it makes more sense when the recipient does the registering IMO.
Updates from the Network Team
Porsche is currently facing a possible scandal about their Taycan batteries. Also, it’s clear their battery engineering is poor based on the battery warranty requirements [1]. Legacy automakers have made very little effort to move to EVs or work towards climate friendly goals, so no, I do not assume positive intent. I see their efforts (just like Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell engineering) as attempts to maintain the status quo at the lowest cost possible until proven otherwise. If this fuel is truly carbon neutral (which corn and sugar sourced ethanol fail on), does not emit harmful particulate or other emissions, and can be scaled up to support existing engines cost effectively, I will eat my words (Mercedes, in this article, says these fuels are a dead end and is pushing electrification, so I don’t believe this position is without merit).

> An apparent hint of Porsche’s challenges with the Taycan’s battery could be seen in the warranty for the all-electric sports car, which happens to be one of the lowest on the market with just 60,000 km or three years if following conditions (Porsche Warranty Requirements) are not met:

> Vehicles standing longer than two weeks supposed to be connected to a charger

* Customers must assure that the Taycan’s state of charge remains between 20% – 50%

* Customers must make sure that their Taycan is not exposed to continuous sunlight

> Vehicles standing longer than two weeks not connected to a charger

* Customers must charge the Taycan’s battery before to 50%

* Customers must check every three months and assure SoC remains at or above 20%

* Customers must assure that their vehicle’s temperature is between 0C – 20C

Compare to Tesla's battery warranty (8 years across all models, and between 100k and 150k miles, depending on model):

https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-warranty

You can even park in continuous sunlight.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/porsche-whistleblower-taycan-batte...
The IMF is not a company, it is an international collaborative institution. It makes total sense for such a body to openly describe a need for security improvements so that the people in charge can get motivated to implement them.

I am glad that systems are actively and preemptively tested so that issues can prevented. It is the duty for some body in society to do so and I would be incredibly angry if no one felt responsibility to do so.
I agree, I still don't see what was unethical about this.
Please don't post generic flamewar comments to HN. It leads to generic flamewars, which are the most tedious and predictable (and usually nastiest) format of discussion. We want just the opposite here.

Arguably the greater problem is that people upvote this stuff; this subthread was at the top of the page when I saw it (I've downweighted it now—which we try to do whenever we see a generic subthread at the top of a page). But it's harder to tackle the problem at that level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They won't be able to deliver on their spec. Not even close. https://www-aerokurier-de.translate.goog/elektroflug/lilium-...
> ...there is a reason why React has blown Angular out of the water.

- The ensuing paragraph suggests you are conflating Angular with AngularJS. Angular is build on top of proper, standard FRP and stream processing primitives. It is "reactive".

- Angular is in widespread use in the enterprise world.

- The reason ReactJS is much more prevalent everywhere else is it has no barrier of entry. None at all. This, however, is irrelevant with regards to the issue I am raising. I am complaining about the complexity ReactJS dumps on working professionals.

- I am not advertising Angular. I am telling you that EVEN Angular manages to suck less.

> The fact that hooks like usePromise and useInterval can be trivially written on top of standard web APIs ...

Again, not: "can". "Must"!!
Bastille template to bootstrap Firefox:

https://github.com/ddowse/jailfox
If that's the case they should ban half of their users who add their instagram handles in their profiles, and more than half of their very attractive users who do the same but make their app more desirable.
Sharing information and knowing something you are not supposed to is indeed Orwellian. It's not the absence of privacy that defines Orwells's 1984, it's government monopoly on it and all the information flows in general.
Ok that's great to hear, thanks for clarifying
Ha, an appropriate topic, given the lockdown restrictions on Christmas which we just narrowly avoided in the UK.
I'm in the US military, and although there isn't a public spreadsheet with a line for "warner25: $xxx,xxx" you could work out my income if you knew my rank, years of service, location, etc. along with how our pay is structured. Most people outside the system (i.e. my parents and extended family) wouldn't work this out easily, and probably think that my income is much lower than it really is. My co-workers, on the other hand, could probably figure out my income down to the last penny. I think this arrangement doesn't cause strife for two reasons that don't apply to most citizens in the private sector:

1. We knew the deal (how we would get paid, and that it's public knowledge) when we signed up. It's a not a leak.

2. Even if some higher paid co-worker seems like a clown or worse (toxic and counter-productive), we all know exactly what it takes to reach that same level of pay... i.e. a well-defined and generally attainable combination of years, education, certifications, and experiences to get promoted. So you don't need to pay everyone the same amount for the same role, but you do need this kind of deterministic structure.

It seems like number 2, in particular, has no equivalent in the private sector where pay is based on fluid market competition and negotiation and the whims or biases of hiring managers.
To me this seems to be readily apparent, but I'm getting downvotes without reply. I'm sincerely curious how what I've said can be disagreed with, do you not all use software that gives you a negative value but maybe gives positive value to your managers? Is that tool a monopoly or does my statement just hold true?

Every system that survives, survives because it generates positive value for most people, no? Are you telling me that every business that isn't a monopoly only generates positive value and there's no negative value generated for a minority of customers?
Then don’t host anything, don’t do software and don’t pretend to be “the future”.
However, Volocopter seems to be further with their product development, while there are serious doubts if the Lilium concept works at all.
I'll more worry about the security in the code...which is easier to do in mono...
The good news is that humans are self-documenting.