skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m disappointed with the personalization. I was hoping it would teach me interesting things in short videos and expose me to new ideas.

Instead after a few weeks it seems to mostly show me political stuff and pranks.
This is the most compelled I’ve ever felt to use Messenger.

Still not compelled enough though.
Companies have been known to claim copyright and ask for settlement without owning said copyright. I've been targeted like this, for a media piece that's been public domain for over half a century.
The link also mentions the (useful) name for this phenomenon, Hyrum's Law: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it doesn’t matter what you promise. Any observable behavior of your system will be dependent upon by somebody."

Related xkcd variant: "Every change breaks someone's workflow."

https://xkcd.com/1172/
I'm sure it will mysteriously return shortly.
if only the userbase of ubuntu users and people who paid more for the XPS linux edition cared.

But, no. I agree, it's not good but Dell has a history of doing this and other dodgy updates/implementations for their EFI.

But I did have a similar issue with Dell XPS 13's 9350, 9360 if I used a non -oem battery, on ubuntu and windows 10, immediate throttle even if I disabled speedstep. Only going to an OEM battery did it fix the issue - though I know 100% this is not related as the users are new laptop purchases.

Still my 9350 experience was great outside that.
The post on HN got 5 points so I don't know how likely a causation is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329842
Agreed, hypothetical dualities like this are extremely unlikely when it comes to something as complex as the brain
Thank you for the heads up on that! I think I should have the caching configured better now :)
the key thought I had is not having it end up like twitch where there's a firehose of emoji/gifs and actual conversation is diluted...
Django with a j
You missed the point entirely. She's not a conservative at all. You are engaging in the most absurd guilt by association one can imagine. You agree with X about Y. X is bad. Therefore you are as bad as X. That's just a bad argument.

"Conservatism" in modern US political parlance is just a bundle of beliefs. The two party system makes a false dichotomy, but that is not how the average person operates.
There are only 2 actual notches comprising this "system" it appears? [1]

Great and wonderful and all but perhaps they could've sent some engineers out to talk tot he people who mount gear in police cars and other working vehicles about making some deeper accommodations to the actual real world. Perhaps they'll do so now that they've dipped a toe into the idea.

[1] https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/owner-resources/vehicle...
The presentation does have a certain "too rich for Copenhagen Suborbitals" vibe going on...
No, these companies the people that upload/make the stuff are horrible, the jobs are merely a symptom.

Any company, large or small, that allows uploads of image content without strict identity verification of the uploader is going to be a vehicle for this junk. I had a super popular website in this space, as soon as I figured out what was going on I shut it down, I am of the opinion that it is not possible to run a service like that in a responsible way without causing damage somewhere.
I built my business around font rendering!

Shout out to Behdad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behdad_Esfahbod a one of a kind man doing god's work. If you've seen text on a screen, you've seen Behdad's work. I've had the lucky opportunity to chat with him briefly and he personally helped me debug a text rendering problem. He's a great guy!

Glyphs are registered, text is shaped, and everything is drawn via a ballet of various libraries, often with Pango and Cairo: https://pango.gnome.org/ https://docs.gtk.org/PangoCairo/

By the way, if you think this is interesting, you might also be curious to read about how fonts are installed/registered on Unix systems. It is a rabbit hole involving a key piece of software on pretty much every computer in the world called Fontconfig (also by Behdad) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig

Text and fonts are HARD. Give a hand to those who work tirelessly behind the scenes on this stuff for us.

( Shameless plug of my site https://fontpeek.com/ )
You wrote: <<The forcing is weird, right? Why in the world does it take so much work to reach out to someone?>>

No, forcing isn't weird if you have an introverted personality. I work with many people who have a strongly introverted personality. (I am a mixed bag!) They have taught me lots of social skills about how to interactive with people who have a different type of personality.

I am happy that the GP made the effort to make contact with "old friends". I hope the other side understood it was a big leap for you and made a good effort to be a friendly contact. I with GP luck in their effort to maintain contact while being an introverted person!
To be honest I loved it more back in the "old days". The barrier of entry to sharing your mind with the world was so much higher - you had to be on the TV, radio or at least a newspaper or a book to do that. Even with the advent of the Internet the barrier was still high - you had to set up your website or blog page, which was a fairly technical endeavor for some time.

Now every god damn idiot can have a Twitter page or a Facebook echo chamber group and easily spread their bullshit there. Yeah, I wouldn't mind going back to that era you mention.
It was the demise of Spotifeed which gave me the impetus needed to build this thing, all that was needed was some free time. When than came, this was born. Spodcast's fate depends on whether librespot-python continues to track whatever changes Spotify throws at its (v1) API.
One can only dream, but some kind of Adium/Trillian for social media would be amazing.
- Stop with the self-deprecation BS. It's hurting you, in the eyes of yourself and others. But don't be cocky, just be humble.

- Own your past. You've paid the price to society. Go public and tell your story -- be it a sentence, a tweet, a paragraph, an article, a podcast episode[1], or a book. Putting it all out in the open will make you more hireable.

- Don't fsck it up. Grow your integrity and ethics, or at least maintain them and keep them impeccable. Keep that old saying[2] in mind, it's so very true in a case like yours.

- Connect with others in areas you are interested in. (Twitter seems to be great for cybersecurity)

- You did the blackmail thing as part of your crimes, so realize it will take time and effort to gain trust.

- If you have that particular hacker mindset, you can quickly acquire the modern skill sets.

1. Maybe Jack might want to have you on Darknet Diaries at some point, if your story is interesting enough? He does it in a story-telling style that takes the pressure off the guest that they would normally have in an hour-long interview format.

2. (NSFW quote about bridge building) https://www.quotes.net/mquote/73833
So yeah my point was not about private to help other people or kids, it's the freebies toward companies who do stuff for a profit and are paid, and take free stuff, it's a bit less disgusting than restaurants who expect people to tip their staff for wage
How would you do that in an area where release cycles are slow, like embedded software or industrial automation?
Same here too, I'm on my third XPS. This is the same crap that gets pulled with non linux supported laptop and I sort of understand. But these are specifically Linux supported.
You can outsource the work, but the responsibility is still yours.
this.

i remember silly java consultants rabbiting on about TDD and agile while dismissing oss.

meanwhile, the curation of both testing and documentation as well as overall code quality on CPAN was light years beyond the best corporate code i've ever seen.

i'd argue that perl (with CPAN) was the first internet native programming environment.
I think they meant for the usual jobs unemployment would attempt to match with an ex-con.
The reason you have subsidies for production is because it's in the interest of society to have stability in food production. Left solely to market forces, agriculture, which is incredibly capital intensive would be hit with wide price swings that ultimately impact production as farms go out of business.
I don’t even feel like a bad person saying I hope they all die of Covid.
This x1000. A co-worker of mine just switched to Mac because of a horrible experience with a $4000 Dell XPS with a discrete GPU that had chronic overheating issues that seemed to be a design defect. Dell would replace it with a refurb and they all had the issue. Forums online showed other people all had the same experience. Dell just ignored it.

Dell would die a quick death without corporate IT.
I agree a 2C limit is probably impossible at this point but it's never too late to stop making things worse.
There is no one size fits all in software development.

For 90% of the programmers in 90% of the environments which are at best average, will spend 90% of their time spent on debugging code that refuses to work as intended.

As a lone programmer bugs often drains ones will power. Speaking of drain, another big mental drain is decision making, deciding between choices, naming, file organisation.

Pair programming - for me is two people working on the same ticket/issue, exchanging frequent feedback and being available to jump in to debug issues or offer ideas/feedback on code organisation or strategies.
Can we stop with the blockchain spam?
africa is poor precisely because agriculture is challenging. Africa is not an agricultural powerhouse, countries in more temperate regions are. See the indian plains, the yangtze delta in china, the american and canadian praries, western europe.

Africa doesn't grow all that much so simply being warmer is a moot point. and yes, africa is a vast continent but the regions that permit agriculture are few. Southern africa and the Mediterranean to name just two.
>Many gliders and helicopters have yaw strings. Airplanes don’t, because they usually have a slip/skid indicator which tells you the same thing.

Comment from a glider instructor of my acquaintance: Yeah, and that big fan in front of the yawstring doesn't help.

Might explain why yawstrings are more common in the twin engine case...
Really? You never had to change a single line of code in a servlet due to JRE/host environment changes?

I've had to migrate my server-side Java code at least twice in the last decade. But possibly I'm just not understanding the needful?
I’d argue it’s sufficient I if the problem of moderating content was a non-issue. However the article points out the problematic nature of the way content moderation currently works. Given that content moderation is core to their business, I’d expect the percentage spend to be >5%. By comparison they spend about 2x on Oculus.
Recent and related:

Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284596 - Feb 2022 (63 comments)

Other big Delphi threads, if anyone's curious:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
So how do you know if all of your reasoning hasn't been calculated into the price yet?

Maybe everybody knows Tesla is going to win out, therefore everybody wants it, and the price rises like crazy. And then the stock is way overpriced for what you get, and people like you still keep buying it.

There is a reason why Buffet needs to look into the numbers before deciding if something is a good buy or not. You buy underpriced, and sell overpriced. And you just cannot make that judgement without looking at the numbers.

There is another simple theory about your single stocks outperforming the index: smaller cap stocks generally outperform the index. As shown in this video, a monkey can pick stocks and outperform the index just because of this simple reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_3Ra-Q6vK4.
Earth is about to become hell for the disenfranchised, especially poor people, if it not already is, but this won't stop the lucky few living it up at the expense of others.

Of course the few don't see it as luck, they see it as talent, hard work or birthright. You can't feel life's tailwinds, only it's headwinds.

It's about to become very windy. Some will not be affected, some will be able to use it to propel themselves further than they would be able to otherwise, but most will be absolutely devastated.
I don't think it has something to do with the post here.

For me it seems like everything except the "Work from Home" forum has disappeared. So its probably just some forum issues.
I went through the leaks last night and they're wrong about the IP addresses. All of the IP addresses listed are internal to the service itself- they recorded the IP addresses of their own nodes (or possibly cloudflare edge nodes), and they're all from one of a few ranges or localhost.

The email addresses, names, country and zip codes all seem legit though.
This is a book that, if you can afford it, should be bought on general principle. There are very few books that show how recursive descent works and this one is incredibly well done.

The fact he gives it away for free is amazing.
The wave function can be viewed as another placeholder which gets you to your “legit” probability distributions over observables.
Its one thing for someone's product to suck because its slow, or even crash prone. Its another completely for it to display data wrong. I don't accept that its acceptable or normal. In my industry if our core applications did this it would be a massive regulatory scandal and wouldn't be tolerated by anyone.

I've been saying it for awhile that these kind of critical systems where lives, large sums of money or crucial infrastructure are on the line should fundamentally handle their software differently than the rest of the industry. The 737 Max crashed because the developers weren't held to the same standard as the aerospace engineers who built the plane. This account system failed because the developers weren't held to the same standard as accountants are. Why should developers get a free pass?

We need to stop treating all software with the same degree of validation and assurance. Some things are more important than others and should have legally codified practices and liability.
Following on - OP could also take an advisory role in a consulting firm - potentially in office strategy and implementation of penetration testing, etc.
I just wanted to clarify that it was a myth, I might have come across as a bit rude so I do apologize for that :D
I’m talking about sidewalks and roads and you turned the conversation to COVID lockdowns. Whatever you want to call yourself, I’m not interested in engaging further.
The way I heard this story is that the movie being saved wasn't actually the theatrical Toy Story 2. Instead, it was Disney's version that was mostly scrapped when they resolved their dispute with Pixar.
No. What is dangerous is refusing to recognize that bad people exist and do bad things. What is dangerous is calling into question people's right to defend themselves.

Nobody can stop you from believing that, e.g., Ukraine should just capitulate to Russia and give up its freedom. But don't pretend for a second that such a belief holds the moral high ground.
No, they do need to be done. After years of self-description as, what was it, some term, but in practice "the new new thing," a social network, and comparing itself to a door...or a chair? Which one was the satire? Well after all that self-presentation as a mysterious fundamental, ineffable thing, Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed it was "between a newspaper and a telecom."

So, as something somewhere between a newspaper and a telecom.

I suppose it could have been carried out in the late 80s through the telephone system if people left messages by calling 1-800-FACE-BOOK, and maybe touch-tone dialed text for the title, and then to check what your friends wrote you called 1-800-FACE-BOOK again, and after combining your friends' submissions it would call you back. It would let you select which you wanted to play by operating on the digital titles, again by dialing, and when you found one you wanted to hear it would play you the recording your friend wrote. And not only would it be less viable, in the 80s it would cost money to use, and have no advertising.

Just not viable. These days, it's viable, and there has just been too much in capitalist subsidies to return to a time before images. There was a time when condensing the sight before your eyes into two dimensions meant buying rolls of photos, taking a dedicated device that could imprint on them the light of reality, giving it time to use the material well until there was enough to justify a trip to get it developed--first dropping it off, writing down in a paper agenda to return in a few days, then returning and paying--and only then would you witness what the camera witnessed. And then cataloging the photographs in an album, and keeping that album on a shelf with all the other books--there were all sorts of different books for all sorts of things--and finally, years in the future, reviewing the photographs to relive the past.

But so much has been spent into making this process trivial. I would estimate trillions in R&D and subsidizing the semiconductors that made all the machinery that came before it a thing of the past. Not to mention bandwidth, without which sharing images on the web was still possible over the course of hours.

On the other hand, you're doing the right thing, right now, in choosing a social network that doesn't use images in almost any sense, has two moderators, and is broadcast-based nonetheless. Your post was just broadcast, brimble.
Don't hold your breath: Paula Vennells, who was chief executive of the Post Office until 2019, was awarded a CBE for ‘services to the Post Office and to charity’...
In Massachusetts, cross traffic doesn’t even always stop…
Sending XHTML as text/HTML Considered Harmful (2002)
Go figure, racial stereotyping attracts racial stereotyping. And while I agree that these things are privileges,the modern usage of privilege implies 'mere' privilege, like you just won some free lottery.

That sort of thinking is how you sabotage your your own access to similar privileges.
I’d probably double down on going after any legal bounties corporations have posted. Whatever certs you can get too for the HR reps in your future. Oh and “aggressive compliance” to probation and any and all laws.

Edit-also, you do have highly valuable skills and knowledge. Maybe make some 30 minute to hour long video tutorials. Then start drafting up a 1-2 week course plan for taking professionals up to your level if they start with some basic dev/ops knowledge.

Think about ethical and legal ways to teach things too.

Edit 2-or just go to any of the net sec teaching/tutorial programs and say you’d like to teach your knowledge in a legally viable/acceptable way within their frameworks. Etc.
Yeah I'm in the market for a laptop and had memories of people vaguely posting positively about the XPS line I was gonna look into. But I'll probably pass and stick with a Thinkpad.
This feels like the friend/emotional equivalent of a "Help Vampire" -- someone at work who is constantly asking for help. A /very/ distant friend/contact who is pinging you once every 1/2/6/12 months (thank you crontab!) are doing nothing other than "keeping a contact list"... while sucking blood from your neck. If they are an extrovert and you are a introvert, the exchange is not zero sum!
I'm facing a similar issue on a Dell XPS 15, purchased in 2020.

That, plus structural defects cause case flexing when picked up, resulting in the touchpad being inoperable and (more recently) freezing the system entirely.

This is even when the pick up is very gentle -- the case flexes under its own weight. If I type too hard or rest my hands too heavy on the system it can also occasionally cause the issue.

The issue started two days out of warranty.
Whoa, this has 95 points after only 20 minutes.
As someone in the security field, please don't sell exploits to brokers. Aside from the moral and ethical implications it's also doing a disservice to the industry in general.
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First of all, just having a full-blown shell with a text terminal would make the iPad much more usefull for small programming tasks. Then I can't see a reason why it couldn't run an X or Wayland desktop full-screen in a VM app, providing a standard GUI desktop just inside that app. It would make an iPad Pro much more useful when you can't justify to buy or just bring a dedicated laptop.
> How did Delphi solve the problems that Java still failed at 20 years later?

Writing Windows Desktop software was the primary focus of Delphi. Writing desktop software (but not Windows more than anything else) was one of many early focuses of Java, but never what you’d call the one primary focus, and by 2016 it had barely even been a focus for years.

So, in short, by viewing it as the most important problem to solve.
That works as long as you don't try to do things like phylogenetic trees, the ordering becomes so critical that even one swap can make things look like the order was the reverse. Of course you should never rely on just the one datum but the temptation to do so and to treat the software as correct is large due to the pressure to publish rather than to hold back and wait until there are multiple pieces of evidence.
Notice how nobody ever does that with an actual lock. It's a metaphor for never letting them go free.
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