skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively: she was unfit for the role because she was unable to navigate (manipulate) this situation.

Should mobs rule? Probably not. Should a "Brand President" be capable of dealing with situations like this: absolutely. Should a CEO be capable of doing so? Yes.
You're on the right track. As told in the Next Web story, the workstation in question was a Silicon Graphics Octane or there abouts. These were incredibly expensive and were provided by the company. In addition, according to the story, they were the ones who set up the file sync for her to be able to work from home.

LGR and RMC have both done videos on the SGI Octane and are worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHsA8iq4N0s

Edit: It was Retro Man Cave, not Adrian's Digital Basement as originally written.
She was correct if you don't consider children as a vector for COVID-19 transmission to parents and grandparents. Hundreds of thousands more people would have died if schools weren't shutdown before the vaccine was available.
QuantumGate C++ networking library now supports peer-to-peer UDP connections
I cut my teeth on Delphi and didn't realize how good I had it. Nice, snappy IDE with point-and-click GUI builder, solid interactive debugger, robust library of free and paid components.
> As far as my experience goes, this applies exactly as well when conservatives are observing a person with a liberal view.

Absolutely. This issue is bi-partisan and affects everyone.
Surgeries and other appointments stopped briefly. And then resumed. This would be a good guess if the excess deaths followed that same pattern. And yet the excess deaths didn't follow that same pattern.
Since it relies on Bitcoin this shares all of the horrifying carbon and ewaste characteristics of PoW.

It also pretty liberally uses the phrase “layer 1” despite relying on another blockchain, Bitcoin, for “security.” Seems more like a layer 1.5 blockchain or something.
happy to have a chat with anyone that's interested: danielkelley@email.com
Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack
I did this in WordPerfect in dos, even though I could program in pascal. Getting a compiler on the same computer as a printer back then was the biggest chore :)
The more and more UI and Illustration are "accessible" and "cheap/free" the more people like me who can produce quality illustrations will have big bucks.
So keep it rolling with Corporate Memphisication.
The father is on the money.

I have a schizophrenic family member. It costs six figures annually to keep them in a facility - which is designed to handle a completely different type of disability - and off the street.

It’s dumb luck that this facility accepts them and cares for them despite a lot of drama and irregularity. Many others have shown them the door.

It’s even dumber luck that the money exists to pay for the care.

If an American or someone they love winds up with a similar affliction, the chances of finding such a disaster-averting outcome are close to nil.
You're missing the point. Yes, if you let randos upload publicly-visible media to your site you'll need to check it for illegal material (or, if you're a bigco, pay hundreds or thousands of other people to do it, because god knows the CEO, president, board, et c., won't subject themselves to that).

If you have advertisers (or just standards) you'll also need to check it for horrible stuff that's not illegal. And by "you'll", in the case of a place like Facebook, I mean "some other people'll".

But you could... not do that.
> Most impressively, without having an account or liking specific videos, it can narrow down the information. Especially since they have to use some kind of algo to contextually understand videos without hashtags or subtitles.

I think they use some kind of object recognition to sort videos . Like if you watch videos with one particular object, you are more likely to see videos with that object.
Beware that those tend not to be very profitable if not loss making.
I was hoping it was a new clever framework to avoid writing Javascript, hence no J.

Alas...
Having multiple backups, on unconnected systems, is the general rule.

Whether this is done in a chain (backing up the backups) or as multiple transfers from the sources is an implementation decision: ideally the latter as otherwise a break in the first backup system can stop the second updating, but this may require notably more resources at the source end so compete for those resources with production systems so the former isn't always a worse plan.

More importantly: test your backups. Preferably in an automated manner to increase the change the tests are not skipped, but have humans responsible for checking the results. Ideally by doing a full restore onto alternate kit, but this is often not really practical. A backup of a backup is no extra help if the first backup is broken in a way you have not yet detected.
Technical debt is an explicit choice to optimise for speed of delivery at the cost of having to do more work later to bring the delivered code up to the usual expectations of code/features in the system. Ideally the choice to take on that technical debt comes with an agreement of when the debt will be paid down and an understanding of the additional work that will be required because of the shortcut being taken now.

It is not technical debt if there is no explicit decision, or it is the gradual and continuous bitrot that all codebases suffer. I usually refer to this as cruft and while good design and writing code to optimise for readability / understandability reduce the rate that cruft accumulates, it cannot be stopped due to the nature of software. The best practice I have found to fight cruft is many small refactorings and cleanups as part of every piece of work I deliver. This strategy is outlined in https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/refactoring-not-on-th....
Who is this "we"? If you pulverized Facebook et al to dust, people like me would recreate something equivalent. Human beings enjoy many <-> many communications and will invent something to fill that void.

That passive-voice "social media couldn't exist anymore" implies an Orwellian bureaucracy that meticulously controls who is allowed to talk to whom. Someone has to enforce it.
Perl was, and is still, a remarkably powerful language. I used it starting in the early 90s to generate correct input decks for my simulations on supercomputers. Then I used it to orchestrate my (many) runs across a wide range of systems. We had small grants of CPU time, and lots of "you can use this box on nights and weekends" type access. Getting grants in the early 90s in a condensed matter theory group was hard, even had one larger one of ours cut so
its money could be diverted to another (infamous) project.

We had to make do with less. Perl was one of those tools that let us get our work done, as it enabled us to automate our tasks. Easily.

Later, I worked at SGI when all the kerfluffle about DVD decoding/playback was about. My recollection was that Perl was used for that as well[1].

When I started my company, most of my code was in Perl, with a little in C. I was using it daily until we closed in 2017. Now its a bit more sporadic.

At the day job, its Python everywhere. I've been told people would laugh at using Perl. Kind of a shame, as I see multiple pages of code that could be easily reworked into a far more readable, easy to reason about and comprehend small set of Perl code.

Perl really isn't great at mathematical operations, but then again, neither is Python without its C/C++/Fortran extensions. To Perl's discredit, the whole FFI bit took too many years for them to get right. Its there now, but the momentum is now behind other languages.

Again, a shame, as Perl is unmatched for its data wrangling capability. I didn't need 2 languages for the work I did in Perl. One sufficed, as I was happy to have simple language to reason about/support. This is curiously, why I like Julia so much.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2800097/seven-lines-of...
Funfact: Anna Menon's husband, Anil Menon, was recently selected in the NASA space corps. It would be fun to see if Anna Menon ends up flying before Anil Menon.

Would they be the first couple where both partners went to space?
> If your battery was almost dead, you could plug it into a charger and swap out the battery for a fresh one.

Yes, it does the same thing on my old ZTE z959. However, the phone boot loops if I try to boot it without a battery.
This is a link to a Reddit link to the actual post. Are we supposed to be discussing the two comments, or the actual post?
CDN's Aren't as Useful Anymore?
https://gomakethings.com/cdn-caching-isnt-the-performance-boost-it-used-to-be/

Just read this and was a bit surprised.
Just as a point, your argument is a false dichotomy. The only two choices you allow are a ruthless capitalistic society or a communist society. The poster could have allowed for any colorful regions of societies in between.

I would argue most societies throughout history have treated people with mental illness less than kindly. But if wish to treat them better we must stop thinking of people as factors of productivity, and therefore their worth is only as useful as the amount they add to the bottomline. (Though I'd presume, albeit with little evidence currently, that society would be benefited in probably cost and happiness if we were to take on the task of providing adequate mental care to all.)
Nice. enjoy it. The weather alone makes the south bay a great change from the northeast.
Perforce is still the defacto standard in the video game industry where it's not uncommon for a game's source assets to run into the tens of terabytes.

That said, Toy Story 2 was developed in the late 90s, and while Perforce existed then I don't know how popular it was.
We have Google Auth available in all plans as well btw
This is great.

Here's a tip from a designer and engineer by craft. If you want your website or app to have a great design, then either use high-quality images, icons, illustrations, etc, or don't at all.

This might sound unwarranted, but it's true. Your typography should be great, and so should your media assets. This is what makes up most content on any website.

See this for yourself by visiting Microsoft[0] and Apple[1] websites for example. Compare the quality of their product shots, images, and illustrations, if any. See how it makes or breaks the design of the whole site.

Ofc there's a lot more to design than typography and media assets.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/?ql=2

[1] https://apple.com
I think Visual Basic -- with the full weight of Microsoft behind it -- was a much bigger problem than thread libraries.
You still have to pay taxes on those dividends in the year they are paid.
your words are an escalation, I did not say what you just said, period.
If there are severe consequences for speech, to what extent can you say it's "free"?

It may fit a narrow legal reading of the First Amendment, but that's not necessarily the same as the ideal of "Free Speech".
Building an iPod for 2022
Ok guys, you won, I take it back.
Companies generally take uncontroversial-for-business stances, or possibly controversial stances on issues directly related to their bottom line. It should be self-evident why they wouldn't be interested in this one.
Good essay, though it's a little tilted towards the 'medical model' of mental health treatment. I appreciate the 'insight from epidemiology': "Health care itself explains only a small fraction of health outcomes. Much of what we need for better outcomes is fundamental, but it is not part of health care. Social factors [...] are much more important for health outcomes than your specific diagnosis or health-care plan."

I've commented somewhat extensively about my friend's struggle with the mental health industry. They've decided she's a chronic psychotic who requires anti-psychotics for the rest of her life.

A year after she was formally misdiagnosed by the mental health industry I found videos on my phone from ~2 weeks before that 2015 hospitalization. I think my videos prove that my friend's supposedly-chronic condition can be entirely explained by substance abuse.

The tragedy of "American Mental Health Care" is the use of palliative drugs, when the various causes of the various diagnoses have actually been figured out by researchers. Science knows exactly how stimulants harm the metabolism [0]. The symptoms of mental illness can usually be explained as a metabolic problem - sometimes caused by substance abuse, sometimes by diet, always exacerbated by 'stress'.

Emotional stress is the most important drain on the body's metabolism. I have a bunch of references from books about stress - went to the ASU science library to read a book referenced in Gabor Maté's In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts [1], and found a discussion of how 'stress' contributes to psychosis.

[0] My comment/quote/submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211048 - "I learned from a Hacker News comment/submission a while ago that cocaine causes its harm by shredding the mitochondria. [searching] Ahh, found it, this one:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956058

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_the_Realm_of_Hungry_...

In 2018, after her treatment center perpetrated fraud on the District Court, my friend got annoyed about how all the new clients at her treatment center were getting cheek-swabbed. She herself had not been cheek-swabbed when she was sent there 2 years before, and asked to have this genetic test. It revealed that she is a poor methylator, who cannot turn the provitamin folic acid (commonly used to fortify food as it is shelf-stable) into Vitamin B-9. She said that adding L-Methy-Folate to her routine was like flipping a switch from "depressed" to "not-depressed" [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27990331 (also some good responses to my comment - search for 'histamine')

The Supreme Court of the United States is going to be considering my petition soon. I'm optimistic that it will be one of the handful that they grant. All I'm asking is for them to order the district court to hold the evidentiary hearing that is required by the case law. (I'm currently working on a write-up of my experience for https://MadInAmerica.com, using some tips from HN moderator dang.)
As I understand it, deplatforming is a larger concept than "make sure everything ever said by someone readily available". Publicly curating the content leaves a trail to obtain that content, if you are interested. You are free to disagree.
The Story of Atmos Clock – Jaeger-LeCoultre
> The question is what is more dangerous? Having information running free? Or having a governance structure that decides what you should see or not?

Yeah that’s the $1M question.

We have far too many examples of the latter failing with horrific consequences, and some examples where the restrictions are annoying but not catastrophic.

With the former, I don’t think we have any examples of info running totally free.
@djang can you fix this title?
Please explain to me how embedding a Turing complete programming language inextricably from a currency adds anything of value that is not offset by the pitfalls of regular users needing to not only know how to code but understand the entire ecosystem that the currency interacts with.
At AWS, we use this story in some of our presentations to quickly illustrate the importance of backups and testing them. It also highlights the fact that DR scenarios can often arise from simple mistakes such as "rm -rf", and not the "hurricane" or other global event example that often gets overused. A good, cautionary tale.
It's hiliarous. I especially love the writing:

"""As he mills about his home, as he works, and eats, and bathes, it is there, a monotonal drone, a clatter unceasing, a constant, undesired companion to his life. It festers in his mind, clawing at his thoughts, probing his sanity, poisoning him with a constant spell of dread and anxiety. He cannot leave; he is not allowed to. He cannot escape. He is there, with it, a prisoner to its bewitching monotone."""
As someone who built a free educational platform - I do it because I want my students to have quality learning without feeding into the $300 textbook industry. I'm funded through my career, so it is a passion project. I wanted to build the thing, so I did. I'm not interested in taking on the responsibilities for making it a profitable company.
Personally I take it as a good sign if an application has an "ugly" information-dense website.
What happens when corporations apply this to all their employees? What's to stop them?
As a reminder: don't buy Dell, they have a history of ignoring issues and refusing to fix.

The US needs to adopt EU-style consumer laws.
Someone at Dell's presumably going to get educated about the Streisand Effect quite soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Neat.

The illustrations are not nearly as cringey as the Alegria style ones I see nearly everywhere now. More reminiscent of 90s corporate Memphis. Getting Micrografx Designer flashbacks.
Well, I don't know what you consider "significantly sized enterprise platforms", so I can't really refute you on that. Maybe, possibly, include a small example here?

Your complaints about the "MVC middleware stack implementation" only underscore the fact that you're making unsourced allegations here. DotNET middleware has been remarkably stable, only requiring some minor adjustments to source code.

So, really, can you give me one, just one concrete example of how .NET has "costs big money for clients"?

Software maintenance costs money, yeah. In Java, in Golang, in (dare I say it?) Rust, in C#. But is the latter platform really that much worse than any of the former?
> At the day job, its Python everywhere. I've been told people would laugh at using Perl. Kind of a shame, as I see multiple pages of code that could be easily reworked into a far more readable, easy to reason about and comprehend small set of Perl code.

Could you give an example? I would be curious to better understand python’s limitations.
> Which of those you conclude is a matter of semantics, and this interpretability contributes to the confusion around what CORS actually does. It's that confusion which another commenter was addressing [0] and that my comments sought to support/clarify. You may be unaware that some people believe that CORS is intended to "lock things down" vs. "open them up". They don't understand that it's opt-in or the default behavior without it.

Okay, sure, there's a semantics question and also some people are just confused.

So here is where I took issue: Yes, many confused people are conflating functionality and security. But while fivea/pshc's words might accidentally encourage that confusion, they were not confused, and were not conflating the two.
Moderation of a public forum is censorship
I'm on the same boat,however one things I learned with my kids is that you can apologize for what you feel embarrassed about.

I've resumed chatting with some people this way (even though they didn't feel there was a need)
Blockfi agrees to pay $100M in penalties and pursue registration
I am a huge fan of XPS laptops. Sad to see, this kind of reaction.
These days it's pretty common to develop on Windows and deploy on Linux.
Diversifying with some real-estate (maybe a REIT) sounds like a good approach to counter inflation.
Openmv is actually pretty great. I agree if you need 4k at 60fps, or stereoscopic, it’s not for you, but there are lots of industrial tasks that require nothing like that. I’m using it now and it’s great to program the thing in micropython and do blob tracking, fiduciary marker recognition, etc with it at 20-30fps or so, which is all I need.

I can see how you’d think it’s a commercial failure if you approach it with an incompatible use case.
And what was your impression of him?
Russ cox wrote about it too: https://research.swtch.com/govcs
I’m not certain, but I believe Etsy was never actually a public benefit corp but instead a B Corp, which they dropped because they’d have to convert to a PBC to maintain it. Whereas it sounds like this project will start as a PBC.

If that’s incorrect hopefully someone can correct.
Streisand effect in full swing
Send messages directly to people you know, or become a publisher (on your own website). If social media as we know it dropped off the face of the Earth tomorrow, it'd still be easier than ever before in history to get one's message out, by a long shot.

It'd be significantly tougher for advertisers and PR agencies, however.
Yes, I do think both of those goals are realistic, although certainly difficult to achieve.

I typed six or seven drafts of a comment trying to approach you from a convincing angle and realized that it was probably hopeless, because we likely have too many conflicting assumptions about society, morals, human nature, etc. to come to an agreement in a web forum.

I would like to extend to you an invitation, and that is to read the following essay:

> The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html

If you find this essay accurate and intriguing, consider sending me an email (address in profile) and I'll send you a large set of essays I've collected that discuss the same principle (i.e. that modern education is harming society more than it's helping).

If you find the essay naive and inaccurate, then there's likely very little that we would agree on at all, and it's not worth a 10-message reply chain where we argue over semantics. (Although I admit I enjoy a comments section rumble, as my post history reveals.)
Yes, wow, glad to see this. I have so many spam emails it’s crazy. All fake invoices / hr emails and meetings that are all fake.

I’ve been reporting so many that Google sent me a high spam report alert…

Not sure what to do, I was going to open a ticket with Google. I haven’t experienced any spam with google for over 10 years, something changed for sure.
Framework cannot expand their laptop line up soon enough ;)
I did a whole lot of consultancy work using Delphi 2 and 3 way back then, and it was incredibly productive, but I always thought that Delphi was hampered by having Pascal as the underlying programming language. It seems that Anders felt the same - hence C#.
How common was working from home in 1995?
Definitely not. For a recent example, both Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley of the first manned SpaceX Dragon crew have astronaut wives, (Megan McArthur and Karen Nyburg, respectively).

Jan Davis and Mark Lee, a married couple, both went up in 1992 on the same flight, STS-47. (I think they actually were selected prior to being married, and got married in secret during training, but I forget the exact timeline)
I am all for reducing hype and buzzwords. This post doesn't make the best case against them.

> Would it be accurate to call modern cars "engineless"?

No.

Uber/Lyft/Taxi perhaps would be closer to "engineless".

The point of "serverless" is to allow you to run your functions without (in an ideal world) worrying about the foundation that needs to exist for your function to run

> All this might seem as nitpicking but I don't think it is. I think the terms are intentionally misleading. What is your sentiment?

My sentiment is to not get bothered by hype and buzzwords.

The reason why we have so much high quality OSS in 2022 is because a lot of people with money but little understanding of technology get excited by hype and buzzwords and put in billions of their dollars as investments.

It is these investments that subsidize the high quality OSS we all depend on.

Once you realize this, you start to fall in love with hype and buzzwords as a way to extract maximum money from the clueless. As long as you try your actual best to deliver something, it's all good.

PS: WEB3, AI/ML, Blockchain, Crypto, NFT, Decentralized. The people putting in actual money into these have no clue what any of these mean and that's ok - their money gets us hired to work on these things.
Yes it does open the door to all sorts of pathologically inefficient routing.