skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You touch on a point that has been bothering me for a while.

In the 90s I remember what it was like to be in an industry beholden to MS and other proprietary software. I worked for an MS partner and did the cert thing etc but it felt uncomfortable to me. There were lots of people happy to soak in everything MS and ignore everything else. They were basically tiny pawns in a global Microsoft sales strategy. Most of their knowledge was product details, and how to glue multiple MS products together.

I switched to the FOSS world to get away from that product focus and lockin. I enjoyed the freedom of evaluating and choosing tools and building things from interchangable layers. I wasn't beholden to any vendor and was part of a community instead. As Linux later grew into a mainstream OS it worked out great for my career too.

Now with everything in my circles moving to AWS and moving into higher level managed services with massive lockin, the creeping notion of everything (incl the certified engineers) turning back into proprietary products is reminding me of how I felt in the late 90s about MS.

It's all in the name of efficiency, simplicity and value for money. But I'm not seeing it play out like that. Our Infra/Devops/SRE/etc teams seem to be getting ever larger and ever more swamped in ever complexifying CI/CD pipelines and endless freaking IAM policy tweaking and hand holding of self service development teams. Meanwhile the annual AWS bills dwarf our previous on prem colo and hardware replacement budgets (eg 10x), even though we haven't saved anything on staff costs as that has gone way up too.

We're back to just gluing vendor products together again, with general purpose tech knowledge being replaced by proprietary product knowledge. And the new generation of engineers and managers that don't remember the 90s see all this as progress and not a problem.

I am now an "old man despairs at cloud" meme....
Linguistic sexual dimorphism.

Many men on this thread seem surprised at just how "male" they seem to be. Perhaps tech-awareness has become a defining trait of maleness, just as a large musculature has become mostly redundant.
Is acetaminophen not available OTC in the UK? I am baffled by the disparity otherwise.
I had the same experience. I tried OpenSCAD after trying and discussing pretty much every other piece of CAD software that would run on Linux. FreeCAD's UI feels like a hot mess and Blender's UI is for power users only (plus Blender isn't really designed around creating physical objects based on specific dimensions).
Just want to say I love the illustrations here. Very simple and effective.
We call it paracetamol. You will also find Aspirin is rarely used OTC here.
The slices depend on record size and sector size. For 4 data disks and default 128k record you have 32k per disk per record. With more disks, the proportion of a slice per disk decreases, not increases, and it's rounded up to the sector size, so there's usually some loss of space on larger parity schemas.
Can it help to notify issues like log4j?
The Royal Society would disagree
>> Consider, for example, the obsession in Christian countries with equality.

> Citation needed.

Jacques Ellul got you covered[1], if you dig through the footnotes and references in his books you'll be able to find hundreds more.

Jacques Ellul's La subversion du Christianisme (The Subversion of Christianity)

also "Trahison de l'Occident" (The Betrayal of the West)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#Bibliography
Top-tier hackers mostly use Windows 10 computers with the biggest norton utilities subscription installed for extra securities. They mostly use professional grade machines like Dell or HP.

* Sits back to enjoy the downvotes because his humor is largely misunderstood.
I was just about to comment on exactly this. The number / fraction of obese people in these photos is tiny compared to the people you see in modern US life now.
There is SO much potential in actual model trains. HO scale has standardized digital control (DCC) but the advanced high-end controllers (like Märklin CS3) are crazy expensive, and so are trackside signals. At this point any engine could be programmed for autonomous operation under the control of centralized signaling that implements a system-wide operating schedule... if you can just figure out how to cram the electronics into the loco body shells and wire up their internals. If anyone knows where to find the "state of the art" of distributed loco intelligence, please provide pointers !
Fun thing is that people will decide if it's "over" or not. Not corporations.

If most of employees hands in resignation notes; then the policy will be reverted as quickly as it was created. Unless whole management is toxic and they cannot survive without having ability to micro-manage and shoulder-peek all day long.
"Europe" is a purely geographical term (to Europeans at least), not a political one.
on the one hand, yes, but on the other I think that would be the one to get me thrown into the smart-ass pile, probably though I have an intrinsic smart-ass delivery so I have a hard time imagining asking that question and not offending whomever I asked.
You don't rent Intellij AFAIK, you can pay for a specific version and all older versions, and that will be valid forever. You keep paying so they can provide updates that constantly break it :p
Stretching/yoga constantly. Keep the mat unrolled and while something builds, stretch.

Walking. A lot. As I’ve not been able to dance all night since COVID, I’ve started “dance walking” . It looks pretty ridiculous and keeps people guessing.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949183 (8 years ago)
> It may not reflect the actual reality behind the black hole

And therein lies the problem. I'd rather see literally nothing, a black hole, than some AI-constructed representation of what an algorithm determines 'should' be there.
It's the stack they understand the most so they appreciate the advantages and limitations of said stack.

For example I know Linux far more than Windows, to the point where I can administer Linux and the security policies, firewalls, etc. If I need to connect to a wi-fi hotspot "anonymously" I know how to scramble the MAC address of my laptop's wi-fi interface. I don't even know if that's possible in Windows or not...
LC-46 has been around for decades (seriously, very few people have any idea how many launch pads there are at KSC and CAB), 46 is scheduled to support Astra launches this year. IIRC, the pads were numbered by their construction order, I remember a plan outlining the location of a (unbuilt?) LC-56 from the 1960s... [1], suggesting that LCs up to that number were planned at least.

[1] http://heroicrelics.org/info/ksc/ccafs-maps/nasa-utilization...
How Far Can a Rivian R1T Pull a Trailer versus a Toyota Tundra?
As you said, it's not easy. This is the long and the short of it. Especially if you want to compress multiple pages together and somehow reasonably handle compression of toasted values across multiple rows and pages.

That said, there has been some progress in the general direction of allowing this: supporting new storage implementations, e.g. zheap (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Zheap). But it's a large effort. Consider it has to implement new crash recovery, for starters.
Blender is really nice for certain things, but:

1) Blender is a general purpose 3D tool, and many things that you need for CAD aren't there. Fillets, Chamfers and a robust boolean engine are missing. Also, when you do things in Blender, everything is geared towards how it will look, not towards making sure that things fit each other precisely. For example, getting blender to place an object 3.4mm off the face of a rotated cube along the normal of that face and rotated 33 degrees around that normal is possible, but really not easy.

2) It can be programmed via python, but it isn't the core use case and for programming 3D models using blender, a) the learning curve is very steep b) the resulting code is very verbose because the API wasn't really designed for this use case. c) there is almost no documentation and very little examples of parametric modeling using the blender python API available on the internets.

3) the boolean engine in blender is fast, but it is far less robust than the one in openscad (CGAL-based) and will often simply refuse to produce a model for reasons that are entirely obscure.

4) Even with the newer geometry node engine, Blender is basically centered around a destructive workflow (early steps in the construction of a model can only be changed via undo/redo), and building paramatric models is really not easy unless you get down to the python API.
> Forbes had this particular one that acted like turning off nonessential cookies was this whole convoluted process that required waiting and processing something. There'd be a progress bar stating "please wait, processing your request".

Weather Underground, formerly an indie weather service that IIRC goes back to a telnet interface before the web existed, does something similar. A window from trustarc.com appears showing a progress meter counting up the percentage 'processed', alongside "We are processing your request, this could take up to a few minutes to process." Haha. I flipped 2 bits.

Now owned by The Weather Company (who also owns The Weather Channel), who are owned by IBM, who proudly say it uses the IBM Cloud, which apparently needs a few minutes to process this. Shameful deception of end-users.

I had used wunderground for my entire life on the Internet until I saw that. The National Weather Service is pretty good - and no dark patterns.
Have you ever tried to do a fillet with libfive?
What is the "intent" behind a piece of classical music? Within this highly limited domain, the generative art is already indiscernible from the squishy meat art. Emily Howell passed her Turing test close to three decades ago.

What is the intent behind abstract art? What is the intent behind the tilings found in Islamic art, or in the spirals on Myan pyramids, or any of the countless splattering of paint on canvas with no discernible figures in them?

What does it mean to have intent? Does it relate to having an objective function? Lots of algorithms have those.

What if I started up some instances of a program in the cloud and gave them the same objective function as us: make enough money to pay their own rent. If the program took some art jobs on fivver, would it not be making art with the intent of paying the bills? When we say a human makes art with intent, and you follow the chain of reasons for why they made what they made and did what they did, do you not eventually reach the evolutionary prime directive of furthering their genetics? What do we have that this hypothetical "self employed algorithm" doesn't?
> We call it paracetamol.

And at that looks like acetaminophen is the "adopted" (made up) name -- huh.

The chemical name is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, which explains why I see it called "APAP" in medical contexts.
Attestations are not "pinky promises". They are third party verifications of the data:

https://www.ispartnersllc.com/blog/defining-attestation-assu...

Moreover, there's no need for private organizations to adopt the toxic neuroticism that deems anything not under the supervision of a single government authority (e.g. the Federal Reserve system) to be like a contagion to be avoided.

This kind of strategy seems to be based on a zero-risk cognitive bias, rather than a rational cost-benefit analysis. Over-reacting to risk can be just as destructive as under-reacting.
"They're made out of... meat?"

https://mediachomp.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-sci-fi-short-...
Indeed. It's tongue-in-cheek. As an aside, I heard a rumour it was Regan, not Bush who first uttered it. As a second side, I'm not sure it's technically a malapropism.
Saint Barthélémy is closer to Hawaii in status. Puerto Rico doesn't have much representation at the federal level as far as I know, I'm not even sure if people there are full US citizens.

People in Saint Barthélémy are just regular French and EU citizens who live far away from the mainland. The territory does have some degree of autonomy (more than other overseas départements) but still less so than a US state relative to the US federal government.

In that, most French territories would have a status maybe more comparable to a county within a US state (afaiu the US system) than to a US state within the US. The whole comparison is a bit sketchy but France isn't a federal state and only New Caledonia and Polynesia have local legislation, all the rest of the country is very unitary in political and administrative aspects.
The second finale was really good, too.
>On October 1st, the comedian Bill Hicks, after doing his twelfth gig on the David Letterman show, became the first comedy act to be censored at CBS’s Ed Sullivan Theatre, where Letterman is now in residence, and where Elvis Presley was famously censored in 1956. Presley was not allowed to be shown from the waist down. Hicks was not allowed to be shown at all. It’s not what’s in Hicks’ pants but what’s in his head that scared the CBS panjandrums.

Note what qualified as "censorship" to The New Yorker in the 90s.
> why would they have to take any of those down?

Because there is significant evidence that the author is untrustworthy?
Absolutely.

See DOC (Italian), AOC (French), and PDO (EU).
If you don't mind emulators you can tinker with the ghosts of horrors that were:
https://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/

A very nice one:
https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80-emulator
(has a beautiful interface and can switch between versions of various TRS-80 Model configurations.)
> A good algorithm will absolutely represent reality, otherwise you would notice that it's not working. It may not reflect the actual reality behind the black hole

If you define "represent reality" as "lie in a convincing way", then maybe. But, it has zero with reality.
I'm close to your age than some of the other commenters, but I also find that marriage/child statistic unsurprising, not least given the events of the last two years, and the assumption of a vaguely affluent, coastal peer group.
>popular culture hasn't thought about it much since the end of the cold war

And thank God for that! Fear of nuclear war is a terrible scourge, and reduces quality of life. And I'm not convinced that the fear did anything to reduce risk - so it was all cost, and no benefit. Good riddance to "The Day After" style fear, and do not return!

It seems more likely these days that we'll have a bad nuclear accident, or a terrorist attack, than a world-ending event. TBH I'm fine with that, as it's nothing compared to the Cold War MAD doctrine.
There is a clip on Youtube of Letterman playing the banned performance when he had his mother visiting.

It's a shame it happened, but remember, it's just a ride.
Chrissie, do you work for Blizzbrush? I note that your entire contribution history on HN is solely dedicated to this product. I dunno if the admin agrees, but IMO that’s really shitty behaviour. Flagged.
I've been running a Minecraft server for over 11 years. It's finally time to switch it to offline mode and roll my own in-game authentication via plugin. So please pirate the game and join the fun. :)

Will probably result in more griefing and rollbacks but oh well.
I don't really think it's better - certainly it was not better until many years after release when they started admitting their big mistakes.

But even today, codepoint indexing is too easy and doesn't crash so lots of code is still subtly wrong. Memory usage of a string grows 3x if you add a single emoji. Most libraries are still agnostic about whether they take bytes or str so you still get exceptions thrown with no easy solution. (The growing popularity of type hints is fixing this, but that's not really related to Python 3.)
people always compare the shows but a few superficial similarities aside I found Rick and Morty to completely lack the sincerity and humanism of Futurama. To a large extent it is toilet humor and edginess with some very heavy-handed dramatic moments thrown in.
There are plenty of PHP developers that focus on PHP careers, C# developers that focus on C# careers. Windows developers that don't develop for Linux, and vice-versa.

The cloud providers are just one abstraction above of OS's. AWS is Linux. Azure is Windows. GCP is Mac. No, not really. Just as an analogy of approximate customer market share, and again illustrating that there are plenty of people who could build careers on specializing in only one. Most developers, even.

Then there's something like Kubernetes. Which, extending the analogy above, makes me think of HTML5/JavaScript development with Electron - write your logic once, run on any OS (or Cloud Provider).

Now Electron is great, and web development is clearly very popular. But would you recommend that from an engineer's point of view, focusing on Web Development and Electron is the only way to build skills that are "highly transferable, fundamental skills"?

Now if by transferable skills, you meant actually the underlying OS/networking/infrastructure/data center skills, well then that's A) not really cloud skills, and B) soon will be as niche as C/Assembly programmers - still vital, essential, and widespread - but also a tiny minority.
I enjoyed the later seasons, although I'm the type that would prefer a relationship to gradually decay until you don't have any interest rather than cut your losses while it's still good.

If we took this same approach to star wars and killed the franchise during episodes 7-9, we would have never gotten The Book of Boba Fett.
But commercial airplanes also have TCAS [1]. If both transponders are working fine, this gives a simulated radar view on who is where.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
Probably depends on the country then, but it happens all the time in France, Belgium and even the UK.

I'd say it's even rare in France to say "Union Européenne" instead of just Europe, unless it's in a quite formal context.
I saw 2 instances of bad teeth, otherwise I'm not sure what you're referencing. They all look pretty normal for their age to me.
I don't know if that approach works better in terms of numbers, but it's a lot better for your own happiness.
Ask HN: What was your best interviewing experience like?
What did you like about it, and which company was it?
what did they do to Termux and sshelper?
The English or rich kids?

If the former, it might be worth remembering that ARM, which many consider the be the next big leap in computing (there was a thread saying it just yesterday) is an English company. Of course I could give many more examples, the technology you're using to post this comment for one, but I think I've made my point.

If the latter, I imagine thats too generic a group to say
Now try and lookup "TCP"

One big difference in the UK to the US is we seem to use far fewer brand names when it comes to medicine.

Except Savlon. Savlon is forever in everyones childhood memories
People always have been misled by branding. For example, AT&T today actually has (almost?) nothing to do with the original AT&T; the name was effectively purchased.

These days, I find very few people will even engage in evaluating the credibility of what they read - they seem to scorn the issue. Look at all the links to Wikipedia here on HN, for example - something I didn't see until maybe a year or two ago: Wikipedia was always seen as a bit dubious and uncertain. I haven't seen anyone argue otherwise, but again they seem to scorn or resent even raising the question.
Become morbidly obese or eat less high calorie food and walk 2 miles a day.

I just spent 20 years being fat and now wonder what I was thinking. I am a healthy weight now with a remnant of stretched skin.

Garbage in, garbage stay.
Are these even real words?
>Nowadays, mechanization and automation make large-scale nuclear first strikes pretty much pointless. Add to that the improvements in missile defense and the result is a different scenario. If we ever see nuclear weapons used in anger again it will probably take the form of artillery used against armored formations, fleets, and satellites.

I don't think BMD has really improved enough in the last 40 years to make "limited nuclear war" (at least between the US and Russia or maybe China) a real possibility. I also can't find, in my 30 minutes of research, anything supporting the idea that the US/NATO has any small tactical nuclear devices hanging around anymore.
Here's why this is complete and absolute nonsense fabricated for political reasons. The only people who think Scandinavian countries are "democracies" are those who haven't read their constitutions... and that includes most of their natives.

* Their monarchs have absolute power, the monarchs give right to the parliament to exist for example

* The monarch can decide who gets to run for elections

* The monarch can veto against any legal decision

All of them do have elections and they do appear to have some impact on policies... but the supreme power is hidden and made to look ceremonial to the masses when it is totally not the case.
I made this a while ago, but still use a 2nd hand command station to program the loco addresses on the decoders for example.

https://github.com/hsanjuan/go-dcc

Digitalizing locos with DCC decoder chips is mostly possible and a good exercise.
I never understood it. Bookmarks is a mess which could be cleaned up and encompass this.
Do bars really work? I keep seeing this advice, but I never see it happening when I'm in bars. People usually show up and leave as a group, especially now with social distancing measures.
>> The phrase “semantic creep” has been used to describe how the meaning of words change over time. What we’re seeing today, according to the psychologist Nick Haslam, a professor at the University of Melbourne, could be called “trauma creep” — when the language of the clinical, or at least the clinical-adjacent, is used to refer to an increasingly expansive set of everyday experiences... But as words gain useful new meanings, over time, they can also lose precision.

A similar semantic shift might be seen with the term racist. It's my impression that what used to be a term reserved for blatantly discriminatory and prejudiced behavior has shifted to the point where it might be applied to someone who holds a political or economic view that clashes with the person declaring them racist. It sucks the power out of the word, in a way: when being labeled racist once meant something, now it is thrown around so often that it is just another term of abuse.
I got an interview scheduled with Meta/Facebook, for monday (14th Feb 2022). Their careers portal has a lot of sample leet codes, I'm not even able to do the level 1 puzzles. Sure going to bomb the interview with live codinng session! Sigh... this would have been a life changer for me
> I’ll just tell you that there’s no such thing as a standard feature set for smart phones.

Indeed, there's no such standard feature set. Various smartphones offer various features, and you still call them smartphones.
GP already answered your question in the post that you are replying to.
what sort of chain reaction are you referring to?
First of, I agree with you. But people nowadays take YouTube way too much for granted. It's amazing that we have a platform where we can upload videos for free and not even have to share them publicly and just use it as a free video storage. I don't think I would describe it as dystopian if such a platform didn't exist or let anyone monetize the videos they upload. We should be happy we even have it imo