skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is unsurprising [0], given the countless warnings [1][2] to avoid the hype and jumping into the start of its IPO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27983568

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27978320

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27937145
… and say what?
Isn't that why we have collapsible subthreads?
Password managers are an exception for me. I pay them so they can continually stay ahead with device/browser compatibility, security, and breaches.
Something I’ve been wondering: does graphQL Zeus increase code size as schema grows? I get that there’s a constant code size for the package, but I’m running on cloudflare workers for some processes, and scripts have a limit of 1MB. I’m using Hasura, so the gql schema is quite large. I’d like to switch over to Zeus for typings, but I’m worried it’ll push me over the 1MB limit.
After a certain length of outage, you have to start prioritizing differently though. I only have our own anecdotes there. But if someone was at a problem for 8 - 12 consecutive hours under pressure, the quality of their work is going to drop sharply. At such a point, it becomes more and more likely for them to make the situation worse instead of fixing it.

And at or beyond that point, you pretty much have to take inspiration from fire fighters and emergency services: You need to organize the experts on subsystems to rest and sleep in shifts, ideally during simpler but time consuming tasks. Otherwise these persons will crash and you lose their skills and knowledge during that outage for good. And that might render an outage almost impossible to handle.
I assume it has something to do with what the minimum for similar servers on current Robot auctions is. The servers I’m paying €21 for certainly never seem to hit lower than €29 these days.
Using "then" in ruby definitely isn't idiomatic and goes against convention.
> I don't understand why they protect the past exams with a password

As someone who administered the National Biology Competition in Canada and supported profs in administering the largest first-year biology course in Canada, I can say that there is a LOT of politics behind protecting past tests.

It's just so much labour to have professionals write new tests every year, when writing tests is not what they want to be doing. It comes from the urge to reclaim their time, and build a library instead of going thought the same heavy slog every year
... outpatient, sample size 42, open label, significantly older control group. This is a shitty trial, and definitely one that shouldn't be relied on to make such broad statements.
> calling non-TZ aware date objects

That's a great example. What if I'm working in a embedded system with limited memory and I need to shave off a few kilobytes? What if time zones don't matter for my implementation, say I make a timer app and the only thing that matters is the delta between two times?

There are things that I think rise close to the level of best practices. For example your password hash comparison function should probably run in constant time, but a linter is never going to pick up on something like that.
That is not possible if some people believe that government is infallible. That is a wrong axiom to take. On the contrary, I think the UK had government officials involved here. Handling of political dissent also is not optimal in many states and it tends to get worse the last 1-2 decades. To fight for safety and against terror while living in the safest time in history. It will never be enough for some and those people need clear red lines. Most constitutions have those, but careless lawyers found some ways to ignore those so that they mostly become meaningless.

If you have a bad conscience of neglecting your children, maybe start spending time with them instead of endangering secure communications. Most cases of child abuse isn't inflicted by strangers, even less so through the internet.

There is a measurable effect that mass surveillance has on many people and it already has a significant negative effect on trust towards state institutions. Self inflicted mostly.

No dialogue shall be had, encryption is a technology that is available to all. Maybe we should restrict governments because they have to provide transparency.
Their website has a press page with some reviews and presentations:
https://briarproject.org/press/
It is still the default text editor in our office
The fundamental problem of v6 is that it is not a simple extension of v4 in a practical manners. Too many add-on concerns like security. Should have fit it on v4 as well.

Good luck.
> subscription to software that never sees updates nor has infrastructure costs. That’s just a money grab

There is one case I can think of where this makes sense from both the provider and consumer side: niche software that has a high development cost and a small market. In this case, the one-time acquisition cost might be too high for many customers, so moving to a subscription model allows them to use something they couldn't otherwise afford.

Of course, that's not to say that updates shouldn't be expected.
Similarly, standard C++ is not usable to implement virtual machines like Hotspot, and yet all virtual machines are implemented using C++ compilers.
It only happened once, which was an obvious marketing stunt that presumably served its purpose. There's not much benefit to doing it over and over again.

If he was really doing it "for the lulz" then there would be many more such launches. Cars, a painting of some artist that offended him, etc. We haven't seen that though.
I think unfortunately the post you are replying to was another sarcastic joke about the JVM and probably didn't deserve your thoughtful reply.

Completely agree that web despite being perfect for light weight and casual gaming, is not (yet) the platform for AAA games.
"Computer science" is sort of a different thing and not necessarily engineering, even though the typical software engineer's formal degree is in "computer science" (and also people don't use the terminology totally consistently). But as for software engineering, I think the article makes a really solid case that electrical, chemical, and industrial engineering don't have anything relevant in common that software engineering doesn't, so putting the latter in a separate "lightweight engineering" category just isn't right.
You say this. But 99% of lawyers do not know how to do these things.
Not surprised at all.

Instead of making use of the WebRTC API in the browser, they just threw us back to Skype days of needing a native client installed on your OS....
Has anyone here deployed an IPv6-only web server (say as a personal or other non-critical website), and how did that go? Is it practical yet?
That's not in contradiction of coldness or inhumanity. You can be an utter sociopath, and reason accordingly. The view of Rand comes from the certainly implied lack of empathy with the lesser fortunate. There's a quote where she expresses appreciation of a serial killer, because of this.
People still call it GNU+Linux? Modern distros have less GNU pieces on each iteration. Might as well start calling it Gnome+Linux from now on.
When less is more: Simplifying inputs aids neural network understanding
AkelPad is great for big files, but at some point it stopped updating the date of a file when I edit it, which has been causing trouble for my backup scripts and for syncing. Is this a known issue?
Being alone all the time sucks hard.
Devil's advocate here- the sky either belongs to everybody or it belongs to nobody. Why do astronomers think that they have sole ownership of the sky?
Stereo Magnification with Multi-Layer Images
The issue of poverty as espoused by the Franciscan order was a hotly debated theological issue in the 13th and 14th centuries. Eventually the Pope had to get involved to denounce the idea of "Absolute poverty of Christ" as heresy. The Franciscan revolution may have not gone as far as some people have hoped, but it was an important step in the development of Western liberalism (cf. Larry Siedentop's Inventing the Individual, pp. 288-292). Incidentally, this same debate was also featured as the central plot conflict in Umberto Eco's historical fiction "The Name of the Rose".
In my opinion, electric blankets are a superior alternative to hot water bottles. They come in various forms such as throws, pillows and mattress toppers, and can be adjusted for temperature and don't need to be refilled. The only place they don't work is when you're on the move. For that you can nowadays get gloves with active heating that are powered by batteries, or chemical reaction handwarmers.

A good creative writing piece, but somewhat out of touch.
This professor of energy policy thinks it is making a difference:
“The end of nuclear power in Germany will likely push prices up even further, according to Sebastian Herold, a professor of energy policy at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences” (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211231-germany-to-cl...)

When you lose 25% of your 2011 energy producing capacity by closing many nuclear power plants, it’d be strange if there was no effect. The pollution increase is even more worrying after many new studies since then found negative effects on human health that we didn't know about earlier: https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2020/January/study-examines-...
This is because of the toxic effect of economics and marketing. Everything has to be centered on making the platform more money. Even in cases where it makes no sense to do so!

I've seen open source projects embrace market driven design methodologies, because they mistakenly think it matters.

There are so many designers and developers who have only worked at startups, and dark patterns have become baked into our development culture.

Mostly this attitude that you need to manipulate the experience of the user, and disregard any feedback from them, because you are the expert, and they don't know what they really want. That's what Steve Jobs said, and he was a success, right? So you should do that also.
I would classify soap as more of a discovery than an invention. Soap self generates in nature in certain environments.
It's likely that Hetzner doesn't make a loss on that machine, so they won't need to adjust prices there.
There's a link to the calculator in the first paragraph.
Quite a lot of his wealth is predicated on this actually succeeding, and is otherwise paper money.
My point is that they should -- not that everybody needs to be proficient with Word, but that "proficiency" should mean, one knows all or most of these inside and out.

Also, using styles and knowing about "keep with next" are really important for any job that involves producing documents.
Looking at Twitter seeing a few people cancel. I'm really curious to see what fallout there will be from this. Will it not really impact Hetzner or will it be a major segment.

I previously had a server with Hetzner a few years ago despite being from Canada. The main reason I picked them was their pricing over other competitors.
> Most people don't use styles, or use them improperly, or modify every instance randomly.

This is (one of the reasons) why I write everything in Markdown and export it to Word or PDF with Pandoc. There's no temptation to "fix" the formatting as I go along; it's just text, and I can apply a style sheet after the fact.
Excellent article. Shame so many wealthy people are cheap on tips. Always round up on the tip - the people relying on them need that extra $1-5 dollars more than you do. And if you can't afford those extra few dollars than what are you doing going out in the first place?
Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts
If you click on the Twitter handle of one of the authors at the bottom of the article you’ll see they list their job as “technical writing at fly.io”.
It's a lack of appreciation for how complicated the brain really is. The "secret sauce" is "it's really frickin' complex and we don't understand a fraction of it". It's like comparing an abacus to the latest AMD or Intel CPU and saying, "The abacus is a dead end because it's obviously missing that "secret sauce" that this magical computing oracle is doing"
What are your ARM plans, if any?
Solana client, written in pure swift
Isn't it more the case that it is a priority precisely because we have our current methods for detecting near-earth asteroids, but we're letting capitalism get in the way and launch Starlink satellites in space to trade off the safety of our species for more profit that, honestly, isn't even necessary? I mean, of course you can argue that the survival of our species isn't necessary and is not more important than money, but if you believe that, you should state that plainly because that seems to be where we'll have an impasse.
Didn't they stop people from forwarding certain messages? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/whatsapp-limits-forwa...
To play devil's advocate, don't some of these bullet points indicate that it was not a good plan to from the beginning? For example, if a plan's success hinges on building renewable generation in areas where it isn't wanted or can be blocked by the residents, it seems doomed.
The alternative was literally a lump of concrete.

That was the Falcon Heavy test launch and he wasn’t able to even give away the flight for free to anyone when he offered.
I tried it a couple years ago, but the only reason I saw to use it over other options is the support for loading massive files. Opening up a gigabyte+ log file is easy for it. But that's not all that compelling since I'm not looking to edit logs. I can use BareTail or similar programs for that.
I cannot tell you how unproductive I am in Microsoft Word. I use LaTeX, often in overleaf, often natively in linux, often on MacOS. Naturally, the latter has a Word version available in it and as a scientist at the interface of physics and biology/medicine I (un)fortunately have plenty of experience in both. Some of my colleagues carte-blanch refuse to try TeX (interestingly, I've never had a doctor refuse to write in Overleaf with me -- only biochemists).

Writing a paper in Word is like pulling nasal hair out through the back of my throat.

It's eminently possible to do it. Millions of people around the world do. Yet it is death by a thousand tiny, frustrating cuts. From the fact that the keyboard shortcuts are not those of the rest of the operating system (on MacOS or Linux on the online app -- e.g. ctrl+shift+arrow keys to highlight text works differently in Word to every other OS) to the fact that opening the paper, writing something, closing it, and re-opening it doesn't necessarily get you the same bloody document. I was editing something last night (from a biologist -- who had done MRI on Burmese pythons – alas the reconstruction was done in matlab and not python!) and each time I saved, my "tracked changes" went from displaying my name to "Author". I forget the number of times I've seen "Unknown field code changed" on the right hand side. If you want to work with references from many people, forget about it. LaTeX has literally none of these problems. Sure, it has a lot of other problems, but none of these ones. I just can't stand using Word; it is inconsistent, slow, and incorrectly second-guesses you. I'm not saying that everyone and their grandparents should use LaTeX, but the disparity -- and the comparative rareness of alternatives, outside of inDesign and Quark in the professional publishing scene -- does deeply worry me. Office is one of those areas where the Microsoft strangehold is strongest. And it's objectively a bad experience!

Seeing "Proficient with Microsoft Office" on a CV for me is a bit of a red flag; highlighting another job skill is probably a better use of space, at the very least.
> And I'm over 40

Should have started with that upfront, then I would have known to ignore your comment /s
>The fact starlink is an inconvenience to amateur stargazers doesn't seem very important in comparison.

Hm, I recall reading recently that Starlink satellites are hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids though. Can't remember where. It's probably not important.
> 99% of the time you don't need things to be pixel perfect and if you do you can figure it out on the fly

You can figure it out on the fly, not everyone has that reaction to unfamiliar software
Many end users do not understand the difference between "standalone piece of software" and something that has an ongoing cost for the developer.
I find it hilarious that when I downloaded the first set, I was immediately defeated by the first problem. Not because of the linguistics, but because I cannot for the life of me remember the other countries in South America.

Oops.
Top Ten Condensed Matter Physics Papers of the Year
1. It's just a pilot study, and outpatient at that.

2. N = 42 is .. small.. but see: #1

3. Holy crap that's fascinating results!! Wow! Can't wait to see what happens in a Real study (RCT) with higher N.

4. I'm smirking at the fact that the authors consist of the employees of the company that makes the compound in question, and those with the most to gain. But this in no way diminishes point #3.

5. Where did you hear of this? I'm disappointed in myself that I hadn't seen this, and it's from the middle of last year.
its entirely zoom's fault. the apis they should be using have been well known and in use for years before they used the improper APIs.

chrome's (and by extension every electron app) issues stem from the fact it had not updated to use the screencasting APIs. afaik they've been updated.

abusing APIs isn't the right way to go here. and zoom is entirely at fault for it. they should have used the correct (and known) apis and worked with upstreams to get the support in place. then they could have properly pointed to upstream and said 'it won't work until these issues are fixed' and provided resources to fix them.

as a result now they are in a shit position of having a completely broken app when the APIs in question do work. I know because I've built a screencasting program on top of them to cast my desktop to chromecast.
> No one else will care 10 minutes after you've won.

Depends on the competition, but success in federal/national/international competitions is an extremely positive signal during hiring. In my experience (from both sides), at least.
I have no problem paying for SaaS rather than one time when:

1. The SaaS price is significantly cheaper per month and allows for unsubscribing. I view this like a paid short term trial. I actually appreciate this option versus a high up front cost; or

2. When there is ongoing, regular feature or service improvement.

Microsoft and Adobe are two good examples where this is not the case, pushing customers who previously paid a one time fee to pay monthly charges with little additional value being provided.
Different use case, surely? This isn’t a laptop, it has no keyboard. And a used PC is going to take up a lot more space.

I see this as a competitor to, say, using an iPad or Android tablet as a kiosk-style device.
Backstage at Beacon Theater in NYC kicking off 30 shows in 40 days i opened up for Meatloaf in arenas up and down the East coast. It was the opportunity of a lifetime to soak in the brilliance and magic that he conjured every single night. We will remember him with the speakers turned up all the way. https://imgur.com/gallery/BN7ryt3
Only if companies force their users onto “their cloud”. There are plenty of remote storage services; why can’t we use those?

The answer is that it makes it harder to justify perpetual revenue streams then.
It does not have anything to do with the European Green Deal, and you probably even know that.
Putin is putting pressure on Europe, because his only lifeline for money is going to run dry if we require less fossil fuels in the future.
I'm not so sure.

I've heard of people keeping a version of XP running to run DAW software, never connecting it to the Internet, because newer versions of Windows have higher audio latency. Old games also don't expire--I'm sure some people still have their DOS machines to play old games, just like people keep their old game consoles.

Also some software is more or less "done". What more does Word need in it, for example?
Shame so many people think it is a customer’s job to pay anything more than what they are asked to pay.
This is just an Nvidia issue, they spent years trying to push their own driver model and have only recently come around.
The end of the URL got trimmed upon submition, so its pointing to the unrendered markdown URL for some reason. Here's the rendered page: https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md#title
>The problem is is that there is still a large portion of parents who will give their children devices despite being less educated on the dangers of online safety regarding children.

The government could educate, in my country there are a lot of informational on radio/TV like "drink at least 2L of water" , we need to attempt to solve the problem very close to it's roots. Like why should I click "I am 18" over and over again, the OS should know my age , the browser should ask my OS and if a parent setup correctly the device then the browser would refuse to load this website (the website would put somewhere in headers the age restrictions).

Honestly I do not see how removing encryption helps children, if you do it wrong you might even make it possible for people to now spy on children,
Wow, I'm very surprised at this. SO is where I got my current job from and IMO it's the best place for searching for jobs in software - esp because it was easy to search for specific requirements (ex visa sponsorship or remote). Running a job board must be much harder than I thought.
yeah it actually kind of made sense to me having the jobs right there. i haven't applied using the job portal yet but it was definitely something i was hopeful about. i recently got back into coding because of the pandemic and started to make some progress, been on a few interviews and hoping to find a company that appreciates what i bring to the table. so maybe i will try a few openings before they sunset and write a proper blog about the experience. regardless, stackoverflow having a job board makes sense to me.
If you take the point a step further, your argument can be applied to everything including sugar, salt, etc.

I think we are mostly in agreement - that any substance entering the body will have some effect.

The question is what effect, how much of an effect, and wether it is permanent/long lasting. Questions which require a study to answer.
Scientists confirm a highly eccentric black hole merger for the first time
I've certainly met more bad ones than good ones. A lot of them consider themselves artists and with a focus on appearance. Search is a box you put text into, not much room for expression. Search can be hard to get right and they tend to lose control of it to the devs who can easily screw it up and sink their UX. Even Apple does a terrible job with search.
Is nerd-gatekeeping the same thing as nerd-shaming?
Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon might be hiding an underground ocean
This is a great shame, because StackOverflow had real jobs, it had a great search and allowed me to filter out tech that I didn't want to work with. I could also block companies as well.

I'm now stuck with linkedin, which is frankly poo
Agreed. I will say Ayn Rand's philosophy doesn't really have any room for parents/children in it, people are just fully realized individuals suddenly and without any childhood/adolescence/schooling. None of her characters have any interest in raising children. Children are dependents, and parents (or the state if you want to go that route) need to raise them if you want a society to continue, it's a pretty huge blind spot imo. I thought this was gonna point this out, but this is just tired "lol capitalists" jokes.

The Ayn Rand school for tots joke from the Simpsons is a million times funnier and incisive imo as it targets this weakness of her philosophy and it's just a throwaway joke.
You can run a bare Postgres (or any other db for that matter) app on fly with any settings you want. It won’t be wrapped in their nice cli command but it will work.