skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got about 20,000 karma on this site, if we find one analysis of yours that's wrong does that give us the right to dismiss everything else you say?
If you drive in an urban environment, please remember to consider other road users (since most road design does not protect people outside of cars). Dooring can be extremely dangerous! Here are a couple examples that illustrate how lethal this simple mindless action could become:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SylGrcN0iTI

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

And please support traffic calming and safer design of your local streets, as well as increased access to public transit.
> I'll go against the grain and say that working in startups has been hugely overrated.

I don't think that's against the grain, and completely agree with the overrated part. The most surefire way for someone to become financially independent is to work in big tech. The money and job security is unmatched.

I've seen it said before that entrepreneurs don't start companies because they want to, but because they have to. Either they can't get those high paying jobs at a big corp or just can't deal with the BS. I found found this to be mostly true IME.

If someone can be a good corporate worker at any of the bigs techs, they should absolutely take that job over pretty much every other option.
They literally did that, in 2019: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note..., and specifically mentioned *then* that Python2.7 was not recommended.
Temporary benevolence and promises can’t fix bad incentives. If we want to change the behavior, we need to change the incentives and we need to do it in a way that actually has a hope of working.
I thought that YouTube had suspended their verification program? I.e. nobody can become verified now (who isn’t already).
The article doesn’t touch on this but maybe HNers know. What can we do protect ourselves or minimize damage from these solar events?
Feature flags aren't a gateway to half-done code and TODOs unless they're misused: all code should be production ready, whether it's behind a feature flag or not. A feature flag severs the relationship between the availability of a feature and its appearance in code, which is very useful for lots of reasons -- pushing half-baked code isn't one!
Many would argue that the destruction of their livelihood does much more long-lasting harm than suffering physical violence. Many a small business owner would rather catch a beating than see their business burnt to the ground.
Yes, we do, not in the way a lot of people are describing here (push without disruption, a/b testing). We deploy on prem applications that can be managed from the cloud, so when we add a new feature that involves said applications we have to observe which features the deployed application can use (til upgraded) and only display the appropriate ones from the cloud UI.
Peppermint Help Desk Solution
Yeah, they go to https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ or similar. Probably grid -> Redwood.

This is not yet a completely solved problem but by the time it's serious it will be solved.
Open source ticket management/helpdesk solution.

Go check it out!!
Major release are already such a pain in terms of just how many dev ecosystem things break every time. Doing it in a minor release is really a blessing in disguise -- all you have to deal with is this.
Are you aware that this quote is an epigraph at the beginning of this very essay?
Nobody is advocating for object permanence.

People advocate for understood constraints of critical infrastructure. Engineers usually have knowledge about longevity and reliability of components.

There are examples of man-made systems which absolutely require 100% reliability, but those still have lifetimes and will be destroyed at some point to be replaced with something else[0].

A bridge can be destroyed, but it should not collapse without prior warning.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY-XHAoVEeU
It shouldn’t be all that hard to write a shortcut or web extension that runs the equivalent of that.
Scientists Regrow Frog’s Lost Leg
I literally live on a lake and kids swim in it unsupervised all the time. I can't but feel you are just trolling at this point.
^ 100%
It's called the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...."
I can answer that myself now: Yes, using the web login credentials it is perfectly possible to edit locally and push the changes. Markdown doesn't behave quite as expected, though.
True.

I think the issue was that there was lots of uncertainty for people that actually want to keep their Google account for Google Photos other other products and that do not care for the custom domain (anymore). The official wording before this change was: “upgrade and pay or ..... Photos ‘may’ not work anymore”
That game was really solid
No, the infrastructure bill was bipartisan and it passed.

Pittsburgh got a lot of money from it for this kind of thing, although there obviously wasn't time to do anything yet.

The BBB bill wasn't for this, it was social spending.
The "_hk" at the end of their username might be a clue on their perspective.
The one with the names.
Has 12.2 been unstable for anyone else on M1? I've had 2 crashes since installing it where my system becomes unresponsive and reboots by itself.
I would support a more pro-active humanistic military, but many humanitarian causes have been left to the United Nations. The US knows its legitimacy (as well as political support) will come into question in those scenarios. How about we strengthen UN instead?
Yea, I generally am a bigger fan of what the US does just by being there than I am of our actual interventions in places which can frequently be seen as short sighted, bloody, and against our own principles at times.

But from a world composed of far more people that those in Chile, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, and South America. I think we've done a decent job overall from a historical perspective of promoting a fairly stable world during Pax Americana. With quite a few missteps along the way.

My point isn't that it's perfect, my point is that... all things considered, for a really large amount of the world's population, things aren't _that bad_ given historical context.

Sure, the child laboring to make phones in China isn't going to wax poetic about the wonders of Pax Americana. But my point is more... child labor was only more frequent in histories past.

Sure the murdered wedding goers in Afghanistan won't be happy about the state of affairs but civilians dying erroneously during combat operations has been a near constant in world history and at this point you're less likely to die in that manner than ever before.

You could argue that it's a result of larger populations but I'm not certain about that given Kazakhstan; Syria; China in Xianjiang, Hong Kong, the S China Sea, and Taiwan; Russia in Georgia, Crimea, and the rest of Ukraine; Myanmar; basically the entire Middle East.

It's easy to talk about how bad the USAF is, they've done a lot of bad shit over the years, my impression is it's still better than the alternative.
you're probably smart at something else
> In the Netherlands the car is always at least 50% at fault in accidents with squishy traffic

That's a fantastic term, "squishy traffic". In the U.S. we often use the term "Vulnerable users", but "squishy traffic" is so much better and so much more memorable.
Reinstalling macOS is no longer nuclear, in that it doesn’t materially touch your home folder.

Now it’s just a phenomenal waste of time.
There was no such legal requirement on this grant.

>"What tipped the scale, the people said, was an interview by prosecutors this month of a senior Energy Department official who is considered an authority on what disclosures are material on grant forms. The official confirmed that the 2017 form did not require disclosures of Chen’s ties to the technology university or other Chinese government organizations and programs, one person said"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mit-gang-ch...
I don't really see the problem with this though; people who are familiar with what bash and rsync are will probably understand computers well enough to install them with Homebrew or Macports or something.
I've been working for a startup for almost 6 months now, but before this, I've only worked at relatively larger companies, my last company being the largest (7k employees).

I like the independence of working at a startup and the speed at which things get done. This is also a curse though, because it often feels like engineers are competing for who can own or take over a project first. Things are done quickly but also haphazardly; for example, I recently jumped on a project where the lead engineer whipped up the repository within a day and already added a Makefile that had a couple of completely broken commands due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the build process.

With larger companies, I liked that I can largely remain invisible if I want to. So long as I finish my JIRA tickets, I usually "sign off" early and leave my messenger on if I'm needed for any urgent matters. Usually the leaders aren't expecting me to go "above and beyond" like my current job often feels like. I fulfill my creative programming pursuits on my freetime, and I prefer it that way. Also, I do prefer designated PTO time as opposed to "unlimited PTO" like many startups now offer.

So right now I'm in favor of larger companies, but take this with a grain of salt because I've only been in the startup world for 6 months.
How to Tame Your Front End
Sounds like somebody thinks they need root access to the production servers.
Many browsers have rolled out aggressive cookie deletion as a way to prevent exactly this kind of fingerprinting and personalization.
Zoning in the United States is out of control in most suburban-and -up places. Too restrictive. It drives a lot of our ills (megacommuting, unaffordable housing, sprawl, etc) and needs to be liberalized. Like sure, I get it, don't put a tire burning yard in the middle of a playground. But surely there's a way to avoid such outcomes without stifling all land use innovation and freedom across the board.
That's a pretty high horse you're on. Again, I've been in the salesperson's position, and it would have gotten no more than a laugh and a powercycle out of me, and probably a conversation with where he found out so much about a system that I was supposed to know like the back of my hand.

You don't demonstrate spectrum analyzers, especially programmable ones if you don't know how to use them in anger.

I went to a music fair a while ago (ok, a long while ago meanwhile) to watch some gear demonstrated, the people manning the booths were musicians, and they were competent. That's the sort of interaction you strive for when you pick the people to run a booth at a tradeshow.

Otherwise the answer to every question about the device is going to end up with 'I don't know'. And that's potentially a lost sale right there.
Importantly, to even have that thought, you need to own a home in the first place!
I'm currently working at a growth-stage company, and I wonder if its the worst of the two worlds.

We used to get things done quickly, and now we have all these bureaucratic layers inserted. But they are also immature in that folks are often thinking in the old world "we must pivot" mindset, which we just can't do given how things don't move quickly anymore.
Hopefully it won’t get a blur censor like the damaged pylon in the Mexico City Metro viaduct collapse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046462
> - My self-hosted blog built with NextJs. https://pankajtanwar.in/blogs

Looking good! Do you use any CMS to write articles? Or a code editor? (like VS Code) Any articles I can refer to?
Due in part to Hugo Boss.
> No vetting of apps.

This is not true, apps are reviewed now. IMO this is theater and useless, though.

> No inspection of source code for red flags.

This is also untrue, Google scans apps for known malware. Not sure how this was missed, though.

> And the sketchy apps can be rated five stars by a bunch of bots artificially inflating its popularity.

This is true. It's also a problem on the App Store and similar sites.

The App Store is not immune to these issues, either:

https://twitter.com/jonathandata1/status/1486458526767661060
Agreed, read more carefully and makes me feel like this comment is misplaced.
false equivalence. If you actually cared you would acknowledge the vast difference between China's human rights record and that of the United States.
That would indeed be all it would take to make most people happy. Unfortunately, Apple seems unwilling to budge on this unless they're forced by the state.
> So it's important that our 'values' of true justice, equality, transparency etc. are not compromised, and we don't want to regress to early 20th century racism

This is a challenging problem for a democracy being exploited by an authoritarian government.

The challenge is 1) Not causing xenophobia (as the article implies) while still 2) recognizing and preventing the practices and influence of the CCP on our population, corporations, and economy which do not align with our moral values and also preventing the export of externalities onto democracies whose very structure allows it.

Most of the books I read have something along the lines of first recognizing the author's appreciation for and love of the Chinese people then discussing what the CCP is doing and what a democracy can do to protect itself without compromising its values.

If anyone looking into this dichotomy has not seriously studied the subject and just thinks the US government is trying to start a Cold War, is paranoid, or that open markets and will magically fix this problem I recommend a book published in 2022. "The World According to China" - Elizabeth C. Economy.
i.reddit.com is still the best version.
I mentioned target because it was a very visible event; I think a lot of people saw that one picture of the self checkout machine being smashed with a hammer. What people don't seem to know or remember is that a lot of small, local businesses were also damaged. Even black owned ones!

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901859883/riots-that-followed...

It's just really hard to reconcile all this damage/looting with the notion that all of it was in protest. To me it seems like a lot of people just wanted some free stuff.
I'm hardly an expert on this, but I've heard that many places in the US have quite restrictive zoning laws that don't allow mixing residential and commercial buildings, require massive parking lots, only single family homes, and lots of roads.
My theory is that it's easy to hand-wave away those complaints as just coming from Luddites. You don't get the new layout, and are only complaining because you like the old layout and don't want to learn anything new.

Administratively, it feels good to know that I'm doing the right thing, and to know that you will eventually come around to the new layout design. You have to, because I'm right.

That's my theory. Smugness, maybe? Is that it? Overconfidence?
Twelfth Night
Perhaps confusingly, the term "immediate mode GUI" usually describes an API style. NOT an implementation detail.

It suggests a particular implementation, but in practice most nontrivial "immediate mode" GUI libraries (including egui [1] and the famous Dear-IMGUI [2] [3] ) retain some "shadow state" between frames. The existence or scope of that state is a (sometimes-leaky) implementation detail that shouldn't distract from the fact that the API presented is still "immediate mode."

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui#ids

[2] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#q-a...

[3] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...
For my employer we write tests for both sides of the flag.
Do you have some screenshots available? Is there a public demo?
> Couple that with all the security crap the DoD has to put on there (which probably spends half its time trying to grab resources from the other security software)

Corporate spyware is a huge impact to performance, particularly if you have an HDD. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen a computer start to lock up because some security software needs to absolutely abuse the disk.
Rise of the maintenance engineering mindset!
Yes, this appears to be the underlying simulation software. Here’s a home page link to the project as well: http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/schulten/Software2.0.html

“Lattice Microbes is a software package for efficiently sampling trajectories from the chemical and reaction-diffusion master equations (CME/RDME) on high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using both exact and approximate methods.”
> She said a service culture of stoically persevering in the face of impossible odds didn’t do anyone any favors. “If we suffer in silence it doesn’t get fixed,” she said.

And that's the point where IT should go, run a filter in the inventory list for all models < 2018 and have local IT service desks replace them. If you know your users are of the type to not cause any trouble with IT due to culture, you go the other way around to bypass that culture.
Why does that pain you? Given that they know how painful that move from 2 to 3 was, you can be sure that they will never even consider a break like that again.
> I vividly remember visiting NYC for the first time and being shocked that while starting to cross 8th ave and 15th st, that a yellow cab was already making a turn the second I put my foot in the intersection and was slowing creeping towards me.

I had the exact same reaction the first time I saw this. I was a teenager at the time and remember actually slamming the hood of a turning cab with my fist on more than one occasion, before realizing that what the cabs were doing was normal and accepted behavior.
As a parent with a child who's learning to drive, I love this idea and I'm teaching it to him.

It's funny how many other things like this exist in the driving world. I remember when my parents were teaching me about "backing up", I was told to put my right arm over the back of the passenger seat. This has a similar effect to the "Dutch Reach" in that it forces your body to look completely behind you, covering blind spots in both back corners so that you can see oncoming pedestrians and bike traffic (as well as cross car traffic) on a sidewalk as you cross it.
Growing? Twitter stopped being usable years ago when they changed from being a HTML website to a javascript application you ran in your browsers VM. Now when you attempt to view it as a website there is no HTML to render. It's just a white page telling you to go away if you're not willing to be their product.
(It was the colleague's wife's parents.) Obviously I never got the full story, but from what I heard, the parents were academics who had their house vandalized by the Red Guards and were sent to work the countryside.
If these things are important to you, they could be equally important to whoever you're stealing them from. It doesn't justify the theft. In the end, though, the morality of it is something you'll have to decide for yourself. It's your conscience. Just understand that if you do make that choice you are in no position to object if someone else does the same to you, and it's rather hard to survive—much less improve your circumstances—in a world where anyone can take whatever you've managed to save up at any time without recourse.
You get the same message from macOS Firefox.
The US had a riot on Jan 6th 2021 and it’s been portrayed as a crisis on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Millions of Americans think it was an insurrection. I don’t know if your theory holds up.
Great! Twitter is a cesspool and terrible for our society. The sooner it dies off, like quora and medium, the better.
The problem is definitely hardware. If you actually read the linked sources, it sounds like the Air Force bought a ton of spinning rust HDD machines in 2018 for the lowest possible price they could. They probably only have 4GB of RAM too, then, given what low end specs were like at the time. Good luck getting anything done today with those specs.
Apple supported Python 2 for two years after it was officially sunset by the Python Foundation. They've been advising that they will drop support for longer.

How long is long enough to avoid breaking something the users depend on? One more year? Five years? Fifty? I think we can all agree that it's reasonable to drop support at some point, making it just a question of when and at what cost.
Came here to say this but you already said it
Electrodes wired to sensitive bits, and a shockbox with a momentary switch sitting on the desk beside the keyboard, for convenience while working. Break out the whips and sticks for short "refresher" breaks and a quick workout and stretch.

Reserve the scourge for when you really need to get the blood flowing and regain intensity.
> Nobody is advocating for object permanence.

I am. People need to understand that bridges continue to exist when they're not looking at them.

(Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence)
I would rather say be proactive and communicate, preferably in a professional manner. Walking around deliberately unaware with blindfolds on by "assuming" everything is more a skill I would expect from the "go along to get along" crowd, which is why I mean that corrupt people could hardly find a better drop in replacement for him. A passive and ignorant auditor that has to be spoon fed everything is hardly going to uncover any relevant corruption.
This short video demonstrates why pipes were crucial for UNIX's success:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4
And if that friend Josh then sometimes pays them 10% in kickbacks, can you blame them for taking it? They are putting so much work in for so little, after all.
This also glosses over that commercial Unices weren't superior technology. There was more polish (and a ton of own proprietary ugliness too) but you could pretty much build and run the same application stuff on Linux.
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Agreed on this one, a great move tbh.
I'm sure if a politician spouted such things they would just get tons of votes from parents. Honestly its kinda interesting to hear you say such a thing out loud because some of the more extreme voices on the anti-mask side have claimed that control is exactly whats going on which makes me wonder if you are not just trolling at this point (or maybe they were right all along).