skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I recently lived in a Greystar property in San Rafael. The garage gate broke and was tied open with a rope for several months. The front security gate latch broke and my key card didn't work on half of the doors. The mailboxes' latch broke and post office repeatedly notified management and stopped delivering mail for weeks at a time on several separate occasions. Same with the package room. There was no on site security -- you can guess how that turned out in the bay area.

When I moved in, the place was riddled with broken stuff. The toilet, sink, dish washer, and washing machine were broken. It took months of email and "support tickets", to get that stuff fixed, I fixed the toilet myself, and let the small stuff slide. Management was almost unreachable and seemed disorganized at the local level. It was totally surreal.

All for the bargain price of 3400/mo. Luckily it was a short lease. This was mid 2020, so I was happy not to be downtown for while, and San Rafael was wonderful, but I was out of that place as soon as the short lease was up. It took them six months to figure out how to cash my final check.

When looking for my next rental, Greystar managament was an instant deal breaker, and I would recommend avoiding at all cost.
2021 was a record-breaking year for cybersecurity startups
this project will either be very successful or end really fast. I don't see any other option
It's more than "being worked up" though isn't it? This is having real world consequences with zero tangible benefit to anyone.
I thought I recognized Jacquard as in the similarity measure, but it turns out that one is actually spelled Jaccard. Thereby arguably furthering the initial point.
It's fabulous in cases where there's a "big important business logic" or a "big important test" with tough to eliminate complexity, where you feel a diagram is so important that it's worth putting in comments beside said code. I do recommend that you be careful with this though; in places where it's not common to put ASCII art diagrams in code you'll probably receive pushback (it is afterall very large and distracting compared to said code). Be ready to save an in-code diagram for the 1-to-3 places in the business where they'll be a godsend.
It’s ironic to see the once market disruptor resisting the change to keep up with the market.
Yep. And that's also true on Android devices (though getting into a programming environment is often easier, or historically was easier, on them than with iOS/iPadOS devices). It's getting easier on iPadOS with Swift Playground (which has been around for a few years now) and other apps, but you still have to know about it and download it.

In the 70s/80s home computers dropped you into a programming environment immediately or a programming-like environment (the shell or command prompt). In the 90s this was less true, but it still wasn't a huge distance from launching to accessing a programming environment (and on Linux and BSDs you still typically started in the shell). In the 00s and 10s, on macOS/Windows/Linux you can still get to a programming environment or shell easily enough (and macOS and Linux generally come with a basic suite of programming tools like compilers and interpreters), but the "distance" for the user has been increasing. If you want even some common tools you have to download them instead of having them immediately available, or in macOS you have to know that there is a terminal which provides better access to the supplied development tools.

Mobile devices have always been behind on this, but they've become an increasingly common first computer for many which skews the relationship that people have with computers away from seeing them as tools to manipulate (via programming and scripts) to appliances. They have more in common with embedded systems like the Tivo or video game consoles than with PCs, providing users with a preset script on how to use them and not the more open-ended model of PCs.
Please don't post flamebait. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not, until it is...
Dudes are all secretly gangsta OGs working up the food chain to be a baws someday.
Depends on your perspective. Making an unethical company less productive isn't necessarily unethical in itself.
A buddy of mine lamented something similar recently.

He was talking about the free apps his children use on their tablets, and while he likes diversity, was astonished at how much of the apps were pushing chinese culture.

Both my boys (neither are ethnic Chinese) speak mandarin. None have come home from school espousing any ideals that differ from our family values, but it will be interesting to see as they grow.

Final off-topic comment, the world of Firefly is one where Chinese culture became the dominant culture (though for obvious reasons the show is in English)
This is a red flag:

"These experiments we've just completed had to work,"

Situations like this create a pressure cooker of bias. Maybe they got the result they wanted by force of will not because of the underlying science or engineering.
I'm a fan of the early universe explanation. Even by our most modest estimates from what we know we are likely in the very early like <5% of the time the universe will exist before heat death/rip/collapse. It might just be that if any life is out there it is still roughly at the same place as us technologically. Especially since even modest estimates of a von Neumann self replicating device takeover suggest that if they were out there we would have seen them by now.

Also I find the drake equastion estimates to be incredibly generous in most places that it is used. It often has very high estimates for inhabitable planets. Since we only know of one such planet anything over zero in that equation is basically wild speculation. Once you put one or zero for average inhabitable planets the drake equation gets depressing.
Yup - the common element between my phones is the underlying Android software / Android Auto software.
The Peloton experience and loyalty stems from the instructors and the classes - not the hardware.
I'm confused. What do you think the goal of the campaign was?
Can you give an example where NASA has actually said they found possible life?
And then there's all those times where it was not in fact nothing but major scientific progress.
There is no nuclear waste, what radiation are you measuring to come to this conclusion? neutrons that dissapear the moment the reactor switches off?
> Do other people really look at this UI as if it was a single form, rather than a submit per entry?

I don't understand why you would necessarily think that. The forms can be styled to look like regular forms, with multiple fields per page.

E.g. this registration form: https://tally.so/create?templateId=ywaZnM

I took the above warning as saying that if I type my first name in the first field, then change my mind and go away without submitting anything, then they record my first name.

My actions (leaving after I typed in something, without hitting submit) would in no way look like I intended to submit an entry.

While I think your expectation that there are other forms that do this is possibly valid, I don't think that many other forms I encounter every day do do this, and I would be grossed out if they did.
A pessary is a medical device inserted into the vagina, for further context.
Right, I was confused by my .gitconfig.
give it a year or two before professional offended people think it's outrageous that there's still projects using master branch, then give it a week before github start giving notice to those projects.

Did you see that some artist is close to be canceled for saying the most boring stuff? https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1491433294935867397

What you may find harmless and maybe even meaningless change, is actually part of a total insanity that he's not going to stop anywhere.
I have also thought about this. We use to have limited tv channels and limited radio stations. On any given day, there was a greater possibility that you shared an experience with your work colleague, your neighbor, or even a stranger. We shared more common culture.

Not that I'm pining for "the good ol' days". The internet has facilitated access to a flood of content. I have found great music that would never have been played on the radio. I also realize that no one else in my physical vicinity has or will listen to my favored musicians. Same for tv shows. I think the last common culture most people shared was Game of Thrones.

I do think this makes us more isolated from each other.
No different.
The prevailing sentiment had nothing to do with racism, I recall the more liberal circles of the Internet lambasting his "small government, pro-business" stance while he uses executive orders to clamp down on private businesses.
Please don't start flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Edit: since your account is using HN primarily for ideological battle, I've banned it. We ban accounts that do that regardless of what they're battling for, because it's so destructive of the intended purpose of this site. Past explanations if anyone wants more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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How is it pronounced, and how do you think it should be pronounced?
Weird Al should have a yakuza-themed album with about half nerdcore and half alternately shouting and squealing in Japanese.
> Did you see that some artist is close to be canceled for saying the most boring stuff?

I see the NY Post is once again running a "here are some random tweets" article of the sort they've been running for years now to fill clickbait space.
Sateen is not "phony/archaic/marketing". Its a totally legitimate word. Same with the other female-known words.

I'm guessing you're male? Consider maybe your assessment is just part of the same gender-difference that results in this trend and not some objective underlying fact.

(I don't want to get dragged into specific words, but certainly "bushido" is more archaic - it refers to a completely obsolete concept - and probably also phony - I've heard, but done no research on, that bushido only really exists as a rosy nostalgic view of a philosophy that was not really meaningful in the period it refers to).
In my experience, it's not the scientists (NASA or JET in this case) that utter such statements but journalists. NASA scientists will say something like "we've encountered something new, but we're not jumping to conclusions until we've investigated fully" and then you'll see some bloggers/journalists putting out clickbait titles like "Possible alien life discovered on Mars!"

In this case, the celebration seems well-reasoned. From the article:

"It's a landmark because they demonstrated stability of the plasma over five seconds. That doesn't sound very long, but on a nuclear timescale, it's a very, very long time indeed. And it's very easy then to go from five seconds to five minutes, or five hours, or even longer."
Deprewriter: On the fly rewriting method deprecations [pdf]
In the format of regular armored ASCII text that all .pem keys have. It doesn't take a whole lot of time to download an OCR program. I think Google Docs has had OCR for a decade. You go to your safe, take a picture of the printout, open it in google docs, and OCR the text. Takes, what, 60 seconds? 2 minutes max? Or like somebody else said, a QR code.
ive used this. its awesome!!
A company my previous employer partnered with once asked us to integrate with them.. via scraping and using bots to fill out forms.

Which would have been fine except they also imposed terribly low rate limits with no ability to check them.

We eventually pulled the partnership since it was more work than value.
Its done on your device, not on banks side iirc, but its an optional thing you can opt into if you wish, thats not the default config when opening an account (can also be toggled on/off at will in the app, so i'm not too worried about it tbh).
As @zerocrates mentioned, it's about the github auto commit feature when creating a new repo. This makes bootstrapping using terraform more complicated.
Many famous masters in the ancient world were even servants or slaves.
Actually, no. Thanks for the hint, I'll be testing that soon :)
It ridiculous how TikTok keeps getting a pass from practically everyone. Are memories so short lived?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725139

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23684950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477064
> I guess it goes with the usual irrational crypto hate that often flies here... but FWIW, I think reddit may be more concerned with the legal implications of paying cash (W9, and OMG the paperwork, accounting etc.)

"irrational crypto hate" says the guy who doesn't think that there are any tax forms involved at all when paying people for work in-kind using volatile securities.
Ah, I meant plaintext passwords are never persisted in a db anywhere. The only time passwords are decrypted are when they are used to programmatically log in, so they're never stored anywhere except in memory.
>Apple closed off the iphone NFC api which dried up VC funding in the mobile payment scene. This is one of the reason we have QR Codes everywhere today, and not NFC tags.

Yep, this was my experience as well, working in the NFC space at the time. Apple also basically forced the whole IoT space to start focusing on QR codes instead of NFC tags, because they were lagging technologically with the iPhone.
That only holds if you assume that "good" ethics must include being nice to everyone all the time.
Exactly. Many respondents who know "parsec" don't know it because they're astronomers, they know it because the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than twelve of 'em.
Ask HN: I am not a competitive guy, how will it affect my career?
Hello, I am not a competitive guy. Neither am I curious enough to dive deep into intricate details. I am jack of all trades but master of none. All I is know enough subject matters to make things work. Is there something fundamental that I am missing?

I enjoy life in the most boring way. Just doing enough to pass a day. I strive for being good, but my good is just average. Is it necessary to be competitive to have a successful career in tech?

How far can a boring person with diversified interest go?

If one doesn't aim for excellence, is it a bad thing?

I am really early in my career and sometimes I get cold feet when I see how incredible other people are.

What does it take to uplift myself and my own levels?

I have come to realize that just to make a small dent (as in new contribution beyond being a boring copy-cat), I would require tremendous amount of years of consistent effort.

Thank you for suggestions!
That's why in matters of redress, I always skew towards visibility over modification. The latter is too powerful, in the hands of too few.

I've had this same argument with military friends lamenting the prevalence of ex-military citizens among right wing nationalist groups. IMHO, "make people attend classes to fight indoctrination" is too easily repurposed by a future administration to do the exact opposite.
> The NYT isn't "the news"

I’m not sure what you mean by this.

At the end of the day, I think the answer is that local news rooms just aren’t going to be viable, by and large. This is a consequence of a century long trend to begin with.

The way I see it, either you have a broad enough reach, or you have to niche yourself into the broader content generation ecosystem. Local news publishing that just reprints of AP stories or talking about some new pop health study of the week isn’t going to survive. To the degree that local investigative journalism is valuable, it’s going to have to find an entirely new model to sustain itself.
Yes, matching structure of tuples in function definition etc.
Would have been a good idea to throw in a word that doesn't exist to get a feel of how honest the answers were.
It's a little pigheaded to call it a "once-in-a-millennium wave".

The system has been in operation for X years, and has captured one rogue wave. I'm doubtful we wait another 1000 years for the next one. Lol. Maybe another 5, 10, 20 years?

I'm not sure how scientists get away with saying this trash. Many people will take it at face value.

What it really says is science is still blind and dumb.
Are you sure that the head of the executive branch does not have authority to ban federal employees from using an app which potentially poses a national security threat?

I don't think its so clear cut. In any case its hardly the first time that a president made a potentially unconditional to be ruled upon by courts later.
Agreed, micropayments would be clutch here.
lol defrauding the US govt. only punishable by max 5 year, laundering funds is 20 years. You would think it would be reversed. Oddly enough, a max wire fraud sentence for defrauding an exchange would also be 20 years.
Apple force pushed over the commit yesterday and left this as a dangling ref, as archive.org confirms: https://web.archive.org/web/20220208052836/https://github.co...
Trolley problem, applied
Sorry, I don't want to misunderstand you: you're saying that the words better known by women are all phony, archaic, or marketing buzzwords; and the words identified by men are, contrariwise, all "real"? And they are phony or archaic because you, the smart one with a 75k vocabulary, don't personally know them? I can't believe someone could be so out of touch.

Just as one counter example, "bushido" is totally archaic, has been irrelevant for 150 years since the Meiji restoration.
3D Printed Maglev Switches Are So Hot
I think this explanation is more comprehensive:
https://youtu.be/JurplDfPi3U
Some car companies are trying to charge a subscription fee for heated seats, too. They obviously control whether it's enabled or disabled, but my point was that when you're using it the car doesn't control the interface.
As an optimization? Would futex support in io_uring be enough? https://lwn.net/Articles/857835/
This startled me in the same way as a really excellent magic trick. You are convinced it's not going to catch you out, but then it does. I pride myself of having a wide vocabulary (or so I thought) and the premise sounded unlikely to me and yet I knew all the male words and didn't know the majority of the female words. What an eye opener!
Tell me you're male without telling me you're male.
Giant corporations love identity politics. It completely distracted the left from expensive things that would actually help low-income people.

Big corporations woo the left with BLM retweets and pride flags -- which costs them $0 -- while utilizing the global poor stuck in grueling jobs with low pay.

It's so convenient I wonder if it's intentional. Getting pressured to unionize from the left? Just retweet BLM, name an arena Climate Pledge Arena, and then move on.
Politicians are voted in by the people, and giving money to politicians to advance an initiative isn't guaranteed.

You don't really see much difference? Democratically elected politicians versus central party that allows no dissent and has complete control over information and actions of its citizens to the point of genocidal assimilation.
I may have misspoken, you can change the default branch after the fact, my issue was with the "auto-create README" feature
There's also been a huge rise of non profit journalism.
It's incredible how much innovation it's coming from EU recently instead of US.
I wonder, in the future when everyone's attention has been burned by turning up the volume on all headings to 11... will everyone ignore and miss a truly "major" breakthrough.
GP originally replied to my comment about contactless payments, not cards. In the US their adoption was synonymous.
Yes this is also my 'experience'. In my younger days I spend years backpacking on a budget with only a rough outline of where to go.

To me traveling isn't about visiting different places. It is about opening up to the unexpected. Something we don't do so easily when following an itinerary.
> Early on, the justification for lockdowns, was that covid was going to be worse than the spanish flu. Hindsight now shows that was wrong and that lockdowns were significantly more harmful to society.

Certainly the extended lockdowns were harmful, I totally agree. I do think it's important to call out our increasing knowledge over time. Executively imposed lockdowns we're certainly justified under most states' emergency laws.

Firstly, based on what we knew at the time, lockdowns in March and April were absolutely warranted. Beyond that, many states started building frameworks to manage public health, relying on indicators and public data. Mostly those frameworks stopped adapting in summer/fall 2020 despite radically increasing knowledge. That's when it all became politicized.

Metrics should have been updated over time and they largely didn't. We started hearing whispers of hospital utilization and some metrics like bed count started showing up but then it became clear Those were misleading numbers anyway. We never got any sense of the medical staff burnout crisis which should have been critical.

Those emergency laws were badly abused though and many legislatures simply allowed the executive to usurp power instead of jealously guarding it (as they should) and taking up debate on its own. Emergency laws have expiration dates to prevent executive overreach and few states complained when the executive just started declaring the same emergency over and over again, a clear corruption of the purpose of the statute.
It's more like when USA Today says "NASA possibly found alien life on Mars." The path from the workers' "Compound A-9512 is present in thygmolonogical quantities in martian topsoil" to the PR office's "We found really exciting organic compounds on mars" to mainstream news's "Possible alien life found on mars" is so predictable and happens the same way every single time. It's depressing.
SSGs through the ages: The 'SPAs are awesome' era
10%? All the statistics
I've seen recently put firefox bellow 5% and often well bellow like 3-4%. Given that is less common than colorblindness, colorblindness is not all that well handled on the web, and not handling a disability is an actual legal liability..
Ask HN: Fantasy Stock Software?
I'm looking for stock tracker software that allows you to build a fake portfolio and track the gains or losses. Then rank everyone's performance in the group (like a classroom or grade).

I've found some stuff out there, but didn't see one that did the ranking. Any recommendations?
Yet another weird bit of N64 lore, I'm amazed mupen64 works as well as it does.