skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those sentiments didn’t arise in a vacuum.
This reddit post about rabies shows some of the lurking horror of the "something bad happened, and now it's much too late to avoid the consequences" scenario: https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he_fed_the_cute_...
How is a user flashable chip any different than shipping it preconfigured to be safe in software?

The idea that there's more safety with physical separation but the same level of configurability seems incorrect at a glance.

People will misconfigure either way. Freedom is always safer given a large enough window, just maybe not always safer in the short term.
The Green Deal has been dealt – with much more to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Deal
> A really useful feature on MacOS is that you can scroll a window that doesn't have focus by hovering over it and using a mouse with a scroll wheel/surface.

Yeah, Windows has had that too for a while now. Dunno for sure how long; some five years (or eight? Ten?), I'd guess.
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sadly, a spanish multinational is planning to open up an octopus farm this summer -- the world's first commercial octopus farm -- which is to breed and kill something like 300,000 - 600,000 octopuses per year.

(i wrote about this development here: https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/against-octopus-farming...)
What processes are there (and how effective are they?) to determine if a non-expert SRE should fix something there-and-then (and potentially making things worse) vs. assigning it to a dev team for a correctly engineered fix, at the cost of delays?
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That was the original sales pitch which has been abandoned in favour of "Lets make a Rust-like language for shaders!".

It's a textbook case of: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Google tried to save it, but that proposal was rejected:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ybmnmmzsZZTA0Y9awTDU...

The Proposal to work with both WGSL, was also not accepted because it would "weaken the position of WGSL".

"But think of the children/open web!"

Apple knows how to push the right buttons on the Mozilla folks so that they tag along: Rust, wEB-StAnDARds, not invented here.

- SPIRV was done by an evil technological group, not an open and inclusive standard body. We would tie our standard to whatever the SPRIV says, that's not open web. The open web can only flourish if everything is text based! cough WASM cough
Rust ist such a modern language! -

It's similar to what happened to WebSQL, except this time it's much worse as it also ruins any hope that WASM might be able to replace all the other technological cruft. Playing the old guessing game of how the transpiler will mangle your SPIRV is simply not something that people want to go back to.
As someone that bet on Django early in their career before moving to angular.js and finally landing on React/Node.js: yes!

While I wouldn't personally use it for my own projects (since I'm productive in React/Node), if I had to start fresh again with what I know now, I'd pick Ruby on Rails.
This is really sad but why are they stopping study on these?

Why don't they just hire competent people?

We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves.

What gives?
I once encountered a smoker who smoked something seriously insane that smelled like burning shit. I could barely believe it's happening.
Yes, that's my experience as well, regarding Sublime. Although, for searching in large files, I prefer using ripgrep and if I know what I need to edit/replace, I tend to reach for sed.
I think it’s debatable as to the meaning of “want” of non-thinking/non-living things. Viruses continued existence depends on reproduction however, which they’ve been doing for billions of years. That’s a “want” in my book as far as something seemingly inanimate can want.

Viruses that don’t “want” reproduction fail to do so and disappear.
> Given that developers need to be paid, and resources cost money

This sounds true, but isn't. Some software grow new features and should sell new versions to users who want those features. But many applications continue to be rented while they reached peak features a long time ago.

Office 97 was fine. Office 2003 was more than fine. You buy it once, you should not need to buy it again, or "rent" it, for no benefit at all. Same for Windows NT / 7. Every Windows version since 7 is worse than the previous one!

Developers need to be paid only if they build something users want. Many times, the opposite seems to be the case: they build things users would really prefer not to have, yet are difficult to avoid.
Not to burst your bubble or anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24WZp0gVRg

If you want to have your (valid) criticisms taken seriously, it's best to keep up to date with what's going on on the ground.
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I posted this because I’m surprised that we’re in 2022, yet NPR found cases of large insurers still exclusively requiring fax or mail! I can’t see how to interpret this beyond technological obstinance or discouraging payouts with a difficult claim process.
I think my brain is constantly on the lookout for clickbait. When I read the headline of this thread, I immediately thought of a similarly worded clickbait type headline: "Man dies 3 years after eating cheesesteak"...

Maybe I just think about cheesesteaks too much.
Where is the link to the study?

> Musk, the world's richest man, has been sending an increasing amount of satellites into orbit since 2019 through his company SpaceX.

The personal tone in news about Tesla/SpaceX is funny. Sounds like SpaceX is the post office where Elon Musk goes to send his packages.
Is there a post-prick protocol? I'd almost vote for having the tip of my finger amputated post prion-lab accident if it would help and was an option. I get she should have worn gloves, but it seems like there should also be some set procedure.
Every day I am getting an email about some service I signed up for which costs were never going to be jacked up get jacked up. Nothing is sacred.
> Some companies would have a fit and go nuclear on people for that, for no particular reason

Sometimes it's even the Missouri state governor doing that too.
I linked the articles to point out that its not just me who is talking about this, and not just in one place.

I distinctly remember there being a massive increase in quantity of people needing hospital care but I didn't talk about it because I could not find the article for it, I also remember a local politician apologizing on implementing the reprioritization, but also could not find the article on it so left it un mentioned.

I'm pretty sure the entire thing in its original form was removed and re-evaluated after the disaster that was 2016 winter as Stockholm has not had these since, and I haven't seen any media Finnish, norwegian or swedish that would be gushing on how good the "gender neutral snowplowing" is, instead there was just silence as it was a terrible idea never to return.

The page you have linked talks in length about how and when things get cleared and is similar to Helsinki in that areas with "High capacity" aka lots of traffic get cleared first, which has very little in common if with the original video used in the article if you go and check it again, which does not seem to understand even basic logistics.
It's 2022, can't we stop conflating analogies and metaphors with "morally equating"?

When we "kill" a program there's no life murdered or equivalent moral issue involved either.

But I don't take issue with the wording just because I've had a relative killed in a bad situation. And I don't think anybody should (or if they do, they should get over it).
With Excel its: Do you know arrays, UDFs, Solver, lookups, mastery over chart design, and cell formatting. With word it's basically: Can you do a mail merge and a table of contents? Congrats. You're an expert.
That's drab, IMO.

Plenty of ways to interpret that sentence more charitably. How about "we" meaning "we the people of our time."
> I don't recall any customers coming on site at my last B2B company and there's no way sales had a travel budget.

That sounds odd. Maybe the company was so big you weren't aware of these things or the company wasn't mature and only had low value contracts. But eventually all b2b software goes to enterprise and that means face to face time with clients, expense accounts for thousand dollar dinners & travel budgets large enough to get global services status.
Some editors choke on long lines. A binary file can have long stretches without newline.
The lab changes under development should include a protocol for protection _after_ accidental prion-disease needle sticks. Prophylaxis protocols exist for clinicians dealing with HIV, hepatitis, etc. [0]

A radical (barbaric) way might be to immediately tourniquet the finger, anesthetize, and cut off the tip! They could hang a little guillotine next to the eye-wash station....

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/bbp/emergnedl.html
Torvalds was a strong advocate of GCC 2.95 (iirc), early on in Linux history, because he knew the kind of code it would emit and didn't trust the newer compilers to produce code that was correct in those circumstances.

The workarounds and effort required to tell a compiler today that no, you really did want to do the thing you said might well be insupportable. I figure they started going astray about the time self modifying code became frowned upon.
Crypto.com loses $35M in hack involving 483 users on its platform
For the same reason we can't do anything about people doing things in international waters: it's outside the jurisdiction of most countries. E.g. China might not like satellites flying over their territory but there's not much they can do about it legally. It's not part of their airspace. SpaceX doesn't need permission; just for operating radios on the ground that communicate with those satellites. Which of course a few countries won't be willing to do because they'd instead prefer to use their own satellites.

Because SpaceX is of course hardly the only one with plans like this. Like it or not, there will likely be tens or hundreds of thousands satellites in orbit in a few decades. Millions even long term. They are too cheap and useful for that to not happen. It's more a question of when than if other rocket companies get their act together. Lots of them have been inspired by the success SpaceX has had in recent years.

The downsides are extremely minor. Nobody ever complains about jets polluting our night skies (as opposed to our atmosphere, which they do of course do bad things to). There are thousands flying at any moment. And they are much bigger than the puny SpaceX satellites. And much closer too. And they are very easy to see because they actually have blinking lights on them that are designed to make the planes more visible. It's a complete non issue.
3 people to fix the Vital Component That Must Work At All Times.

97 people to check/restart/monitor their team's system, because the Vital Component has never failed before so their graceful recovery code is untested or nonexistent.
> The internet was not design to spy on citizens, it was design to connect citizenry!

Opponents are sending spies, we are gathering intelligence.

They are terrorists, but we are freedom fighters.

Mafia doesn't do racketeering, they offer protection, etc.
Can't help to think that if I pricked my finger while working with prions, I'd amputate that finger ...
This has never been about users having control over their own devices (that ship sailed since proprietary software became a thing). This is about big corps fighting about money trying to influence public opinion and legislation.
I dislike rubocop, not because I dislike linters (pep8 is fine), but because the defaults have strong opinions about things that don't matter

if foo? then
blah
end

will result in a complaint about how one should remove the "then". Sure, you can configure rubocop to not make that complaint, and then the next one, and then next one ... but whatever happened to convention-over-configuration? I choose the convention of not using rubocop.
Well, I’m as far removed from a Ivy League education as one can be and I found this quite funny. But I’m also someone who uses Word since early 00s and can relate a lot to this text.
Where are you seeing it accepted at face value? Here on HN or in general media outlets? It's hard to respond to your question as you haven't really stated it clearly. This is the first I've heard of this apart from a vague recollection of something floating past my news feed that I didn't read.

Therefore my perception is that this hasn't really been covered much at all. I can't recall the early days of Ivermectin coverage to make a comparison.
Except I personally don't really see shitty changes here.

Literally every UI change to every major UI product ingrained in out culture labeled as a UI travesty. It happens every single time. Look back a decade or so, it's so predictable. I saw an article like this coming from a mile away.

Still your argument could be valid. It just needs data to back it up. (I'm not making an argument either way... Just pointing out the biases)
Yeah, I'm not seeing it, either. Kubernetes' scope is right in the name: control loops. K8s is basically a super powerful IFTTT engine: it looks at state, looks at spec, and figures out how to jigger the system until state matches spec. It has nothing a priori to do with containers, it just happened to be written in service of that space. You could use k8s to run your teakettle.

It's like saying QEMU is the new Systemd; it doesn't even make sense, it's a category error.
Red Hat, Grafana, and Nextcloud all seem to be doing fine.
I wish! At least I enjoy studying for them.
And were these application servers (like JavaEE) that bad? Separately deployed EJB modules can also be considered microservices, and everything was much easier to manage.
This is great advice, have found much the same (different people are different).

I'd only add to make sure you're drinking enough water and have some quality snacks nearby.
"a software virtualization substrate"
I’ve been eying NestJS as a framework for my node.js work. The difference I find between NestJS and Rails for example is that NestJS puts the things together that sort of crystalized out in the wider community to spare you a lot of the glue code. While Rails has a more cohesive feeling and there are a lot of third party plugins that solve a lot of problems you can have.

PHP gets a bad reputation everywhere, even if is less deserved nowadays. I am still not a fan, the syntax, the libs, the community, it’s not mine. My impression of the community is they have a chip on their shoulder because of the bad rep and the bad rep keeps most new devs away that could significantly change the community. They also are in denial that a lot of the “bad old code” is the main reason they are as huge as they are today and that a lot of people chose PHP back then because it was better (cgi) or cheaper (own server vs cohosting) than the alternatives.
“Must know ten flavors of Markdown”
Are you in Washington or somewhere with a lot of hydro? Is that an all inclusive rate with delivery and line fees included?
I think they’re referring to Cloudflare Durablr Objects: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-dur...
Agreed -- but going back to Rails isn't the answer. Remix.run is moving things forward in the right way, ie
PHP/Rails -> SPA -> NextJS -> Remix.
Microsoft's canceled Andromeda OS running on a Lumia 950
I read about some of the most common prion diseases and as far as I can tell, all the transmissible ones require the ingestion of infected material. While a transmissible prion epidemic that spreads through the air would be really scary, it doesn't seem especially likely as an existential threat in our lifetimes.
In the deepest parts of my heart, I wish there was a programming language version of this.

It would make a good interview question to simulate reading a codebase in an unfamiliar language (without mixing the question to also test for problem-solving skills).
The problem is that providers will refuse to serve you that content in most cases. Some will let you have content if you use their windows store app on a sufficiently modern PC to support the CPU assisted DRM, at least until there's an exploit for that and then they'll discontinue sending that content to your system and you need to buy a new one.
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Small companies really can’t fix this. It means having the capability to legally comply with whatever US and foreign laws govern the hiring of a worker from that country. If you’re a tiny startup, there’s little incentive to take time to incorporate in a foreign country on the chance this potential hire is a superstar. So you work out some kind of contracting arrangement instead.
Take 10,000 UI vitamin D3 liquid form until your blood lab test results show adequate levels; obvious need to do this with your doctor.

Google searching for info puts all kinds of low quality results at the top, so I'll share video link of Bret Weinstein having 2 hour long conversation with 2 researchers who dove into the vitamin D studies, so you can hear their conclusions, actually here's a 17 minute clip - https://youtu.be/_xfzsEc0CTo - where first 5+ minutes gives good overview to begin, with YouTube and Spotify links to full version in clip description.
Upgrade pricing leads to feature bloat. Sure you could stop at say office 2003 features and then only update it (for free) when you need to fix bugs and compatibility issues with new systems.

But that's still work! So your only chance is to abandon the software and reap the insults coming from clients who upgraded to a new Windows installation and can no longer run your software.

If there was some realistic ways to bundle software in a fashion that it will continue to run forever even if environment changes, then sure–but your software better not be networked. (This is also where docker and the likes come into play).
Don’t overthink it people

Take thirty seconds to read it. Smirk. Or don't. Then move on.
They're really hellbent on destroying their financial sector at any cost.
My great love is travelling (mostly outside the EU/US) and this often involves countries where swimming in random bodies of water is part of the standard itinerary.

I'm sure I'm not particularly unusual in this respect. Most of friends have similar preferences.
Most US rates are typically fixed with yearly rate regulation cycles -- my rate in North Carolina ($0.11/kWh iirc) was determined at the beginning of last year by the state energy regulatory agency (the power company fills out this extensive application saying "this is what we want to charge and why" and typically it's like a 50-100% increase, and the state says "hell no")
The basic electricity coverage that you are getting if you have no contract with any provider was around 74 €ct/kWh beginning of the year (maybe even 80 €ct, depending on where you live). But some are reducing that to around 54 €ct/kWh again, since it was just to cover the surge of new users that required them to buy energy for high prices. Having a proper contract with an energy provider it's currently around 46 €ct/kWh last I checked.

Previous prices were around 31 €ct/kWh on average (seen them as low as 26 €ct/kWh).

People that have ongoing contracts are the lucky ones currently.
Apple + Mozilla did a bait and switch on developers in a textbook case of: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

The original google proposal was to simply use SPIRV. A compromise was then settled for the intermediary language to be isomorphic to SPIRV, removing some of the warts and edges of it and make verification easier.

However, Apple with the help of the Mozilla folk successfully managed to twist the semantics into something that is no longer easy to translate from and to.

Game developers don't want to work with WSGL, the whole point of the new WASM and WASI ecosystem is to allow devs to bring their own tools.

This is especially bad for something like a shader language, where you want to squeeze every bit of performance out of the hardware, often with hand rolled instructions. Having the browser run a mangled version of the SPIRV that you or your toolchain/engine e.t.c. produced is simply not acceptable.
It is universally more ergonomic to have a device that you can’t take to where you need to be working? Unbelievable.
I’d bet that you are the exception that prefers token or metered pricing.

Almost every time I’ve seen someone try that pricing model customers end up hating it and want a flat fee subscription.

I do think making it easy to pause and restart subscriptions is an underused model but would also bet lots of price smart SaaS companies have looked at that.
Can anybody speak to how this story relates to prions found in deer (and so venison) in Michigan and the Midwest? My family are hunters and now send all deer to be tested before eating, but most don't.
Not language/writing, printing press, medicine, food production, sanitation, or harnessing electricity?

Those are innovations, not achievements. They happened largely by small groups in parallel around the world, with some small improvements shared between people when they met over hundreds or thousands of years. They're amazing things, but they're all examples of slow, incremental developments.

The internet is a truly global communications network that works ubiquitously everywhere that's been in development for less than 50 years. Humans have never achieved as much to do something so useful in such a short time ever before.
Russians think there could be some hidden military use of Starlink and there could be some truth in that, as from a business point of view only Starlink somehow does not add up.
Wow that’s insane.
I'm similarly confused that anybody would even think Apple claim to have invented these things.

Particularly so since in the Keynotes where SJ introduced e.g. the iPod he shows the state of the competition and has a good critique before introducing his 'lame' replacement.
Yes. I don't need every upgrade, especially when 9/10 it includes new bugs on essential productivity software.
It has already been public on their repository, fairseq.
The article does mention she was supposed to soak her thumb in bleach immediately and did not.
> Anything sold on Apple platforms, for example, nowadays has to be updated at least once a year just to keep up.

Incorrect.
I think the attitude that they show in #1 - that TypeScript is only supposed to add typing to JavaScript and everything that goes beyond is bad - is wrong.

In fact, the only major problem I have with TypeScript is the lack of operator overloading [1]. This feature has been denied with the exact same justification. They will not add any feature that emits additional logic, so they cannot add operator overloading unless JS adds it. Also they will not add anything that needs runtime type lookup.

I think very simple, stupid syntactic sugar would be sufficient to solve 90% of use cases. For example, and please don't take this apart, I'm just making it up on the spot: transforming `a + b` to `a._op_add(b)` if a is not provably `any` or a primitive type.

Without operator overloading, for example vector math looks really ugly. I hope somebody will make at least a babel plugin or something to allow that.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6936
> nobody expected to get updates for free

Every single comment thread on Parallels releasing update is crying "money grab" over and over.
>Starlink is only a benefit for a small dwindling population of rural people in high income countries.

If this is true then you’ve nothing to worry about. Starlink will quickly fail, they’ll close up shop, and the satellites will de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

We need not worry about one American ISP or a European or Chinese competitor. As you’ve said, this only serves a dwindling population of rural people in high income countries. No one else would be so stupid to try and enter this market. There is clearly no need, terrestrial cellular will win.