skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but consider the engineering effort to create a general purpose memory safe language vs just a domain specific one in comparison to the work required to write a browser, which also includes another domain specific language (javascript).

Seat of the pants, I would say getting something like rust on par with g++/clang code generation, and 3rd party tools is probably in the same ballpark engineering wise as actually maintaining the browser.

And if you spend a little time looking at firefox, there is/was a lot of low hanging fruit. I've mentioned elsewhere the difficultly building it, but even more than that, is that pretty much every single version of gcc that came out for a while would break firefox in some fundamental ways. And overwhelmingly these breaks were caused by crappy C++ programming where people were doing things that were known not to be syntactically correct but no one bothered to fix them. Then frequently instead of actually fixing them they did things like switch from building with an old GCC to a newer clang because it threw fewer errors. Then they claimed that the result was "faster" than gcc, despite the fact they were comparing an old version of GCC with a newer version clang. When the work was done to actually get it to build with gcc, it turned out to be even faster. (not that gcc is better than clang, only that ideally a project like firefox would compile cleanly with a wide range of compilers). Said compiler warnings are frequently valid, and analyzing them at least to know if its true is a worthwhile code quality exercise.
you know those trucker do not represent all trucker.
The one protesting probably make less than 5% of all trucker.
It's not at all hard to argue. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not and have not been the parent of a small child. The psychological suffering the noise is causing is acute.
We have a word for "blocking infrastructure" as a form of protest: civil disobedience.

I'm sympathetic to (some) of the aims of the protesters but I think they've made their point and should go home. Still, this move by Trudeau seems like an overreaction considering there's been little/no violence.
> Is there a more comprehensive definition of a "mandate" than a federal election?

Governments chosen by a first-past-the-post system can barely be considered democratically legitimate, if at all.
It might have behaved slightly differently 20 years ago when I ran into it :) or maybe I misremember!
I don't think supporting a mandate to wear a basic cloth mask is a hill anyone should be willing to die on.

I'm fiercely, fiercely pro-mainstream-science, and there's no doubt that proper N95 masks (or better) are very effective against respiratory disease transmission. But mask mandates almost always permit basic cloth masks which lack strong evidence of efficacy. If we're not going to mandate an effective mask, I honestly don't see what the point of the mandate is.
The most interesting part I think is how I can't really describe why the results are bad. The colors, art style, silhouettes, etc are all exactly right. But they are just incoherent on a deeper level. Pokemon designs don't all match to living or realistic animals, but they largely do. When I look at these and imagine we made it real, I can't picture it actually being able to live while most pokemon do satisfy this test.

I think this is why its failing. The test and criteria that make it more realistic are too hard for the GAN to work out.
You can say that and it sounds intellectual, but the government’s real interest is in collecting taxes and preventing crime.

If you’re not trying to avoid legally-owed taxes or commit crimes, these things can all be done by traditional means.
Thanks for the call-out. I think you make an excellent point about them becoming just another corporation. I don't donate money to them for that exact reason. If there was some way for my donations to get routed straight to the Firefox team, even with enormous inefficiencies and percentage cuts, I'd still do it because I want the open web to exist. As it stands, I have no way to support that ideal monetarily.
they might not be rich, but most of them are solidly middle/upper middle class and have a strong family structure in which the parents take a very active role in their childs life and future. This is not to say Asians don't work hard, in general a lot of them work very hard and have high standards for themselves, but i would say that if they went to a state school vs Harvard, i would bet their future outcomes wouldn't be too different. If someone from a under represented minority who came from a poor family managed to get into Harvard, their future outcomes might change a lot, they could finally get access to a sort of "knowledge" that middle and upper middle class give to their children since the time they are born, a knowledge on what the world is really like and what is possible in this world.
It feels like Markdown and Jupyter notebooks in on the path to merging, and markdown is like the dumbed (need a different word for this, simplicated (though that that word is cumbersome)) down yaml which is a simplicated xml.

Why don't we just go back to xml and provide decent structured editors?
I think they're talking about the creator of JS giving money to a political cause trying to block gay marriage.

There was a big huff about it in the tech space for a while when it happened and he ended up secluding himself after that for a while.

It was really not a good look. In the years since, we've seen a much larger push to shine the spotlight on behaviour that would have previously been swept under the rug or hidden behind technological "tenure".
> Soon you can't have a normal life without installing at least a dozen of apps.

To whom it may concern,

Please unsubscribe me from your dystopian hellscape.

Very truly yours,

GonnaThrowAwayMySmartPhoneAndLiveOffGrid
A few years ago, there was an online poll to name a new scientific research boat.

The boat ended up being named 'boaty mcboatface'

I don't know how much I take stock in online polls especially made by partisan sources.

Huffington post did an online poll about who would win the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton received around 99% of the votes.
Popularizers are intellectual market makers
It certainly contributed to its development, in the same way that the pandemic accelerated acceptance of work-from-home and Zoom meetings. People need interaction, and the metaverse (whatever it is) is the latest iteration on that theme.
How does it work with the new permissions systems coming to mobile OS?
> You don’t manage people. If you do, you’re a bad manager.

People are not spherical beings in vacuum. Of course, you have to manage people.

My experience is that throwing projects at people and assuming that they are all interchangeable cogs that will be able to complete projects if they fit the project is just asking for problems.

Now, managing people does not have to be tantamount to standing there and pointing with your finger what they have to be doing next. "If you do, you're a bad manager."

But there are other more subtle ways of managing people and learning to be a manager means learning to be able to influence people to do what you want them to be doing as much as learning what they should be doing.
2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...
If all crimes resulted in dead bodies in the aftermath, I would agree with your reasoning here. But even violent crimes, most of the time, do not produce a dead body.

So given how flawed that premise was to begin with, I don't think an explanation is needed for why your overall point is disingenuous at best.
I love delivering. Seeing a vision realized. Love that in combination with hard to solve problems (whether its tech, organizational, strategic). I only get hands on keyboard when any of the teams I support need help, or when we're approaching a complicated domain. Recently that has been a parallel architecture for high-throughput/load & fast latency of AI/ML model inferences.

(10y in, weird position to explain between engineering, business strategy, and management)
The full article goes into the advantages and disadvantages of rounded corners.

From the article:

+ Boxy shapes are commonly seen as reliable, uniform, traditional, and professional.

+ Round shapes are commonly seen as charismatic, endearing, harmless, and friendly.

Sounds like you and the authors would agree.
And it probably contains ALL your secrets. Financials, Staff, R&D, Data encumbered by Federal Standards requirements...
I've worked as a developer for over 20 yrs. I recently stopped since I found myself not caring about someone else's vision of their projects or fixing a never ending list of bugs. But, I love being able to define my own project and doing all I can to make it a success.

Basically, I've burned out my ability to deal with the politics of software development but I still love creating a project from nothing. I suspect there are many burnouts like me. Had I known this in the pass I would have directed my career differently.

I'm in the process of switching my career since I have to pay the bills but I will continue to program as a hobby.
Oh yes, the glorious New York Times. Well known to not be biased towards police propaganda in the slightest.
I'm assuming that superior weapons, tactics and organization matter.

And if elements of the military are involved on both sides, it's not exactly citizen resistance anymore.
You may need to tap for the UI to show.
How about whoever wants them to enable them?
Shutting down the entire CN rail network apparently didn't qualify previously.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marc-miller-path-forward-pr...

These railway blockades forced layoffs, and the CBC also notes that rail carries three times more than what trucks do in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rail-shutdown-pro...

Instead, in this case, the Trudeau government met with the protestors and had a process of dialogue that resolved them peacefully after almost a year.
I like Comic Mono. It feels informal, playful, produces no fatigue, and keeps me from taking my code too seriously.

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
Hacker News has rounded corners on its buttons.
The same thing I liked when I started: hacking on random things and making ideas into tangible entities. And that's basically the only part I like which, as you get more senior, can become less and less prevalent.

My advice to avoid burnout is to keep hacking on your own weird ideas.
It was a snap election was it not? To me it seemed like the Canadian government was trying to take advantage of some weird timing/power trick to remain in government. Instead of waiting for the normal time to re-elect they saw an opportunity to stay in power. I am uneducated on Canadian politics so I could be seeing it wrong
Can you elaborate on what you mean by mini platforms? I think I am following but interested by what you meas and also curious what you mean by "the market doesn't provide multi-tenant products? Zendesk is a multi-tenant product. I think the problem you may be pointing out is it doesn't treat the tenant / organization as a first class object.
I'm co-owner of a Google group called blind dev works. It was born of a previous discussion on HN.

It's not big and it doesn't see much traffic but you or your friend are welcome to join.

https://groups.google.com/g/blind-dev-works
You can develop iOS apps in C++ if you hate yourself…
Yes. Trudeau's father did the same thing (look up "Just watch me"). Anyway, there's no such thing as separation of powers in Canada. It's called Parliamentary Sovereignty.
They were trying to take advantage of a pandemic lull to increase their power. It did not work.

However, there was still an election.
For sure! Most software has a purpose. If we can connect developers with that purpose they can be much more effective. There are a zillion ways I can build a feature. But if I learn about the business context and listen to the actual users, often the right choices become obvious.
In the current market a third party intermediary who takes dollars and sends dollars, e.g. credit cards, the costs of accepting a payment range from 10 cents to 3% of the transaction value. This can be higher than the use of USDC on the polygon network. There may be a delay measured in days or hours between accepting a payment, and the payment reaching your bank account. This compares to a USDC transfer taking seconds. The bank holding the funds may arbitrarily block your merchant account for reasons such as: operating in an industry the bank dislikes, transacting with international customers during a conflict.

By holding the funds in the business' own wallet, if the payment provider suspends services, the funds are not seized by default - and not having liquidity immediately seized during the crucial moments where the business is suspended have important advantages for many businesses.
$550 million in Minneapolis–Saint Paul (May 26–June 6, 2020)[5]
$1–2 billion in insured damages in the United States (May 26–June 8, 2020)[6]

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...
https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-foundation-raising-2...
If the greatest flexibility a government can offer its people is the ability to vote every few years then that government does not work for the people.
This is my guess. They’ve already blocked off another border crossing between BC and Washington State.

The government can come and clear it out, then they’ll be another assembly somewhere else by a different group. Unless Trudeau is willing to mass arrests of thousands of Canadians, he won’t stop it.

It seems to be the problem the government has is looking weak - but invoking an Emergencies Act only makes them look more desperate.

My guess is this goes on for a few more weeks while the Canadian gov’t and provinces declare “no more need for Covid restrictions thanks to our amazing handling of the situation”. The govt gets to save face while giving the protestors what they want.
Because the siege engines will round them off anyway if we make them sharp and our castle ever comes under attack. And our defending archers can better rain arrows down on attackers approaching from any direction from a rounded tower.
That is delightful. I remember using 3270's back in "the lab" in high school ("alt-pf2" twice to compile!), and marveling at the individual phosphors on the screen. (When I could see better, for sure.)
Self defense was already a thing. Why the need for new legislation?
I'd be interested to see canadian polls if you've got them.
Wow, the pricing changes my perspective quite a bit. I wouldn't have even considered paying $5 for a font. Think it's just one of those things I'm used to not having to pay for.

I guess if you find the current free offerings problematic then $55 is nothing for prolonged comfort if it does what it says on the tin.

For me i've always found the default in VSC on OSX to be really nice.

Tried ligatures once but it just became confusing tbh
NFT's Aren't as Stupid as You Think
If the non-profit can pay market rates for a CEO then it can pay market rates for developers.
VR/AR is a long trend slouching towards Bethlehem. It will always be getting closer, always be finding new applications, it might never change the world because details get in the way: the military thought it was a cool idea until they discovered that soldiers couldn't shoot their guns the normal way wearing a Hololens 2, you can't spend 8 hours a day in VR (with worthwhile VR experiences) the way you can spend 8 hours a day reading, watching TV, surfing the web, playing video games, etc.

Facebook has jumped in it because its core business has a half life a little longer than fresh fish, it can't buy TikTok, and it needs some new shiny to distract investors.
My friend was accosted for wearing a mask on Saturday in a restaurant. One of the two downtown grocery stores had to close because the employees were being intimated by the protestors to let them inside without a mask. A neighborhood ice cream store employee was assaulted for wearing a mask while walking to work, and the store closed down. The biggest shopping center downtown has been closed for 3 weeks, putting over a thousand people out of a job because the protestors kept trying to force their way in to stores without wearing masks.

These are not protests against the government. They harm actual people on the ground trying to get on with their lives.

I'm sorry the YouTube streams have not shown any of this. Who'd have thought that even youtubers can have editorial intent!
The Myth of Tech Exceptionalism
He wouldn't have had to invoke emergency act if the Ottawa municipal police, the ones responsible for maintaining order in the city of Ottawa, did anything at all. They sat on their asses for weeks. The municipal leadership was non-existent, the ontario provincial leadership was non-existent, so what's left?
Absolutely that fallacy. You're holding the 2020 BLM protests up as being far worse. In fact, you've quantified just how bad they were, as a means of demonstrating that these protests are not as bad. The fallacy is not the claim that this isn't a problem, but that its not nearly as bad as this other problem, and therefore not worthy of the reaction.

Many of the large auto manufacturers shutdown production lines in response to the bridge closure. Delayed revenue is lost revenue.
What does your last sentence mean? What is the "cost" for setting other vars?
Would you not agree that there are people behind the economic damage? Just calling it hurting corporations dehumanizes the automotive works that have been put out of work due to the temporary plant closures that the blockade has caused.
https://www.koin.com/is-portland-over/looking-at-the-data-po...

There definitely has been a surge of crime after the pandemic.
Yup and uh.. how do you connect that with the Boogaloo boys?
Upvoting because I'm also curious about this...

As far as I'm aware, S3 and SOix both exist on AMD, but I'm not sure whether they can exist simultaneously. There seems to be just as much confused annoyance at power consumption issues on AMD laptops as with Intel, e.g. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/P14s-Ge...

Not really sure what to make of that, but it sure is disheartening.

Separately, while AMD's better performance / watt would seem to make it a good candidate for laptops, lack of Thunderbolt across the board has also been frustrating, especially if you already have a nice TB dock setup.
You can do both. Check out the difference between `import` and `using`: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/modules/
Been wanting this for a long time!
well back when government buildings were being burned down and people were getting shot - it was commonly and correctly referred to as "mostly peaceful protesting"
It's weird but it feels extremely..welcoming and non-intimidating. I'm gonna give it a spin tomorrow even though I love jetbrains mono.
Optional part of free thing upsets HN, more at 11
He did win, but the majority voted against him. He won the plurality of seats, giving him a minority government, but with 33% of the popular vote. Another party got fewer seats with 34%. Canada’s electoral system sometimes works like that. Changing the system was one of Trudeau’s campaign promises in 2015!
> If Safari implemented all the Chrome PWA APIs it would open up the user to far more browser fingerprinting while also increasing the attack surface.

Surely the answer is "so Safari shouldn't implement those APIs"? It's app makers who think we need constant push notifications from everyone; by and large they're subtractions rather than additions.
Literally everything that you say is wrong.

Vaccines work, they work extremely well. You are literally making it up.

Restrictions have come and gone across the world as case numbers and hospital capacity go up and down. Most European countries have plans to drop mandates or are in the process as case numbers go down. This logic is repeating pretty much everywhere.

Your post is a textbook example of a slippery slope fallacy. I just went to a night club yesterday for the first time in two years - completely allowed by my government, in line with lowering case numbers, in a country with far less democratic tradition than Canada.

Stop the paranoia and understand the nobody's out to get you.
Two thirds doesn't seem like a particularly significant majority for such an authoritarian measure, and moreover the masses will always trade principle and liberty for a mere moment of catharsis--that's the whole reason we elect representative politicians: to be the prevailing cool heads who look out for our rights and liberties and not just the emotion of the moment.
Whats the angle to your question, or put another way what causal pathway are you proposing?

Neil Stephenson popularized the idea in the 90s, and the concept has been around longer than that.

Personally I haven't seen any indication that anyone wants the metaverse except for Facebook and some crypto scammers. I don't see organic consumer demand, even latent demand, for it.

On the other hand, free or negative interest money + inflation means an impetus to spend as quickly as possible to build something that will make more money, and so you get projects like metaverse drawing funding. I think the pandemic response has at least accelerated the tech bubble (we already were well into the next cycle, following junk bonds, dotcom / enron, cdos-> now VC to get ponzi style returns), so arguable it helped, but I think conditions existed anyway
This question about the cloud and services is especially prescient though, because it's about incentives. As a hardware and OS manufacturer, Apple was not highly incentivized to collect data on its users. But as a cloud/services provider, its incentives far more closely align with Google/Facebook. There are services, such as Apple's fitness apps, where they don't seem to play by the same rules as comparable apps. It has been unclear where Apple draws the line between itself and those in its ecosystem. To provide an almost silly example: you don't see the Phone app asking for permission to access your contacts. I do place a lot of trust in Apple, but I don't expect them to stay a neutral party.
> Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers.

I mean, looking through the git logs means you look at code contributions. If you're a software engineer, that's kind of, ya know, your entire jobs. You can get a lot from looking at someone's contributions, especially in code or documentation or slack responses. Volume doesn't mean shit though, that's the trick.

> Might as well replace managers with a bot.

Yes, please.
7 day weeks are part of the paid plan
Though that isn't really a safety issue. Traffic congestion and bad parking is a different type of problem. In parts of London they deal with the bad Uber pickups with cameras that record it and send a parking ticket in the post.
The first that comes to mind is [We need more than deplatforming](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...)

There's a bit of discussion about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25838861
End the mandates, they're evil and counter productive.
That's awesome. If I may ask, the data you operate on are still image-like grids or do you operate on more basic data types (e.g. strings)?

Personally I'm also working on an industrial application, using a CycleGAN-based system to augment real world data (e.g. training a network to "paint" an object so we can apply traditional computer vision techniques such as a HSV filter to locate the object). It's quite promising for this kind of application, albeit hard to fine-tune.
> If the disk is out of spare blocks, the bad block check won't save you; the disk simply shouldn't be used.

While I completely agree that data is more valuable than the spinning metal it lives on, if the bad block consumption rate is constant, there is little reason to assume the drive will die. You can probably use it as one of a dozen drives in a RAID-[0,1] read cache until it decides to self-retire.