skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They literally are described as satire, though? The problem with using satire in this way is that you need a solid understanding of something to satirize it effectively, but having that understanding in the first place causes the problem the satire pokes at!

As a result, it comes off as insincere and hard to take seriously, in a "It's obvious what has been done here, and it's really not that clever, and the author doggone well knows it" kind of way. Transparent lexical tricks are not sufficient to create the kind of mental distance or suspension of disbelief necessary.
(and touch id on the other side! the topic of this thread)
why is a coinbase ad on the hackernews frontpage?
A few hours later, I would like to emphasise a few things:

1. I am not saying "Don't ever use roads". Sometimes, I accept that road use by cyclists is unavoidable.

2. I am all for more money spent on bike roads and -lanes, both for upkeep as well as for building new ones. More good bike roads means less bike traffic on standard roads, mean less dangerous situations.

3. I do not hate cyclists. I just have been in situations that became incredibly dangerous because cyclists slowed down traffic considerably (either because they had low visibility, or they inspired other drivers to dangerous overtaking attempts, or because they acted in an unpredictable manner (e.g. by not signalling or not following stop signs/red lights, or sneaking up from behind at a traffic stop and appearing out of the blind spot).

4. Some car owners are assholes and do stupid things to annoy you - much like some cyclists may act less than gentlemanly. We need more street laws enforcement to get either of these groups under control - these groups are those that make their supergroup problematic to the other road parties.

In short: Be considerate, be responsible, be visible (high-visibility clothing is worn by construction workers on road locations for a reason), be predictable. Use designated lanes/roads if available. Even if you may be technically in your right, do not demand it if the situation could be unclear to other road users - chances are they have a lot more survivability than you have if things go wrong.

And for god's sake, there's no reason to use a country road as a bike sports racing track during rush hour.
You're quoting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25652412, in case anyone wants the link. In retrospect, my statement had a distracting red herring in it. I can make the argument clearer if I first simplify it to this:

> it's not plausible to think that the answer is "one side sees HN accurately, while the other side sees HN completely the wrong way"

The reason it isn't plausible is that the claims the various sides make (specifically about the ideological bias they perceive in HN, and in the mods) are so interchangeable—they resemble each other perfectly, except for one bit (the ideological polarity) flipped. It's possible that radically different mechanisms could be producing these isomorphic comments—wildly distorted perception in one case, accurate perception of reality in the other—but it's not plausible.

Suppose I come out of my house in the morning and the street is wet. Most likely it rained last night. Now what are the odds that most of the street is wet because it rained, but the stretch right in front of my house is wet because someone came out with a hose and watered it? That is possible, but not plausible. It's more likely that a common mechanism explains both, especially because there's a simple explanation for what that might be (that it rained).

I'm sure that's not the best analogy, but it's the first one that occurred to me (well, the second), and I can modify it to make it even more analogous to the situation on HN.

Consider that two neighbors are each convinced that while it rained on their neighbor's stretch of street, their own stretch is wet because someone came out in the night and watered it. It's possible that one neighbor is assessing reality accurately while the other is totally wrong. But it's not plausible. It's more likely that some common underlying mechanism is producing these perceptions, which are identical except for the obvious you/me bit flip, and which can't both be true because each claims the other is false.

> However, you seem to either deny holding it or deny that you are appealing to it as part of your argument.

It's the latter. The reason this is not an argument in favor of political centrism is that it's not an argument about the underlying politics in the first place. It's an empirical argument about the comments people post. These comments are so identical that it is not plausible that one mechanism produces half of them (or whatever the portion is) while a radically different mechanism is producing the other half. It is far more likely that a common mechanism is producing them—especially because there's a simple explanation for what that might be.
McAfee would likely still be around if he hadn't made such a blatant point of publicly thumbing his nose at the US Tax authorities. While it's possible that he was already under investigation and just decided to make a spectacle of it, one thing you do NOT want to do is piss off the bureaucrats. They'll then have literally nothing better to do than track you down, and the largest network in the world to do it, and that network has insane inertia - once they're hunting for you, it just keeps going, they don't get bored.
Sounds more like medieval clip-art than Photoshop.
> I think the common consensus is that any deflation is too much.

This depends on how broad you define it. We've seen deflation for the past decade now. In the sense that the buying power of your savings on a traditional savings account have shrunk, while official inflation was below zero at points. We've now bounced back to "high" inflation.

None of this is bad, as we can see clearly by how well tech has benefitted from this (cheap loans, beneficial DCF). This is even policy.
I think this is really "it's not hard to get into the 95th percentile of things that you are already fairly good at."

Yes, if you have a history of playing video games, it's not hard to pick up another game and do well--and, with some focus, do very well.

But what if he tried to pick up playing the flute? How about drawing comics? Competitive swimming? Investing?

What about being in the 95th percentile of a complex field like medicine or law?

Assuming he doesn't already have a background in those things, he's probably going to have a hard time reaching the "95th percentile" of skill.
I have personally found that the western european countries are not surprised and tend to talk like you're on the same base line. I suppose it comes off as "you know a lot about my country like everyone else from my country."

The exception is anywhere east of Poland. Then they're shocked I know anything at all.
C++ was just tied in "C++0x" debacle for over a decade, only delivered when they cut tons of stuff.
> Sven was my friend. I knew him well.

You are a wonderful friend.
This is a great example of a "Hacker" News article, revealing true hacker tricks.
> Once kids enter the picture, they they are the priority. Not giving up the "authentic life" to give your children the "best life" is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it's theirs.

This mentality is not only wrong, it's extremely unhealthy. Your personal life doesn't end when you become a parent. Parents shouldn't let their children's lives become the all-consuming center of your universe to the exclusion of all things self.

This mindset is actually extremely unhealthy for both the parents and the children. It's true that you need to provide attention and love and care to children, but you also need to grant them some space and autonomy as they grow older.

Take care of your kids, yes, but take care of yourself too. Everything in life is about balance and moderation. Go too far in any one direction to the neglect of other important things and you're only going to create problems for yourself, no matter how well-intentioned you thought you were.
I use this on my Pixel 2 XL -- it's an unofficial LineageOS fork but from the MicroG developers. It's worked great for me thus far.

https://lineage.microg.org/
But you're looking at "chess players with a lichess rating", not all chess players. Chess in particular has a ton of people who only play very occasionally, can barely remember the rules, and move the pieces semi-randomly rather than develop any sort of tactics or strategy.
I think the point of the article is more in line of: "If there's something useful you want to be excellent at, rest assured it'll take much less effort than you think".

> Take chess, for example. By practicing regularly on Lichess, you can achieve a skill level that will beat 99% of casual chess players.

> However, you'll almost never play against this people. You'll play against other folks on Lichess, who all play regularly, and a top 1% of all chess players can easily be in the bottom 50% of the people you'll play on Lichess.

Yes, that's in line with TFA and my comment (being middling against top 10% makes you excellent against 90% of people).

> It's not clear what you gain from being better than 99% of people who don't play on Lichess with any regularity, and you'll therefore never encounter.

You gain the ability to say "I'm probably in 95%-le of people who play chess". and "Oh you play chess? We should play!" and you will soundly defeat them. If you don't soundly defeat them, you can rest assured they have studied and practiced and regularly compete, since you do those things. Maybe you can organize chess clubs. Maybe there are in-person tournaments you'd like to compete in. Maybe it'll make you friends or a spouse or open up job opportunities or be a decent interview discussion to show "extra curricular activities". Who knows.

It's not as clear an advantage in every-day situations as, say, practicing a martial art or car maintenance or long-distance running or cooking, where the 10%/95%-ile tradeoff becomes painfully obvious. The problem is that chess isn't very useful. So, being 95%-ile at chess just doesn't get you much.
I agree. StackOverflow historically had done a good thing with this I think. If you were signed in and have contributed so that you have a modest amount of karma, you would just see sidebar ads. Which were almost always topical, minimally animated, and absolutely never in the way of the content. They set an example for the good parts of the web.
I was thinking he is using ancient method or a novel idea incorporating ancient ones. He used data curated by scientific observers around the world.
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> it would be a favor to humanity if we try to undo "photoshop" as a synonym for image editing

Well it's already common vernacular that won't go away any time soon. Many people including myself have old versions of PS installed on some dusty machine and it does its job well. It's now impossible to get free/cracked versions of the latest PS because it's all cloud based now, but there is a large cohort of people using older versions.
I suspect you may be confusing "cloud provider Kubernetes" (the topic at hand) with running your own Kubernetes on bare metal. The bare metal Kubernetes story still has a long way to go, but we're talking about public cloud providers.

> Out of the box, you get basically no isolation between anything

I'm pretty sure AWS Fargate and GCP's GVisor solve (or attempt to solve) isolation. Not sure about other cloud providers.

> you still have to deal with security contexts and have processes in place for keeping your container images secure

How do VMs help secure software artifacts beyond the security practices in the container ecosystem? And I would argue that "dealing with security contexts" is strictly better in Kubernetes than the equivalent in VMs if only because of the unified interface (Kubernetes manifests).

> If you use community Helm charts your services may end up running with essentially random privileges that may easily conflict.

You can run into the same issue with Ansible scripts on VMs. This isn't a Kubernetes specific issue--ultimately, all system administrators need to take care to run secure software on their systems. Neither Kubernetes nor VMs offer a silver bullet here.

> configuration management for it is still unsolved

If "configuration management" refers to configuration of the hosts, then yes, public cloud provider Kubernetes offerings solve for this--you don't have to manage the host configuration at all (unless you want to opt into it).

> Backups are also often forgotten; they're very easy with virtual machines.

The etcd backups are managed by the cloud providers, as are backups for mounted volumes. Not sure what backups you're thinking about.
> The places you see on the market are not free housing, so it doesn't really say anything about what we are discussing.

They tell us what is the expected standard of housing. You're of course free to believe that poor people should be subjected to conditions most people opt out of, but to argue that this is not the expected standard in developed countries like the ones discussed is disingenuous given that this is demonstrated both by the lack of any serious volume of alternatives most places, and the fact that in many markets it is not even permitted to offer housing with lower standards.

> This is just silly. Nobody wants to impose anything on anyone. We are talking about housing that is provided for free, I don't think anyone is proposing round up people and force them to live there.

If the alternative is no housing, it's disingenuous to suggest there's no pressure involved. Lower the standards, and many people will be without a choice - this is part of the reason why it is outright illegal to provide the kind of substandard housing you're arguing for, because it'd encourage a situation where more people are left without a real choice.

Most of the comments in this thread also makes no mention of free housing. Indeed the comment that started this whole sub-thread made no mention of free, but about providing housing for the poorest cheaper. Your answer to that person made no mention of free, but simply argued there was nothing wrong with sharing bathrooms. My responses have focused on the fact that there are clearly a whole lot of countries where this is considered so far below acceptable standards that it's either not allowed to even provide such housing, or that there's minimal demand for it.

You're of course free to argue for changes to such standards and the provisioning of such substandard housing to poor people rather than to provide for them what is considered the minimum bar of acceptable housing in these places today, but don't pretend you're not arguing for lowering the standard well below what is in many markets the worst housing possible to legally offer.
On airplanes, there is a reason you put your oxygen mask on first before your child’s: If you neglect taking care of yourself, your child will suffer, too.
Same here. The 2016 is still awesome and even gets all the OS updated so far. I hope this will continue because even the new SE is too big, in my opinion.
+1. It's perhaps a good tool for pure mathematicians or theoretical physicists, but applied problems are usually to messy to nicely integrate/differentiate and you quickly have to resort to numeric methods or, more recently, to automatic differentiation.

I for one bought the licence and was later very disappointed by how useless the tool was for the domain I intented to use it for (computer vision/3d reconstruction/SLAM).
Metaverse vs. employment law: The reality of the virtual workplace
Jetbrains has one IDE (IDEA Ultimate) and redistributes it with various built in plugins for cheaper licensing and marketing. If you get the more expensive Ultimate, it has support for all languages via the same plugins.
It's actually surprising how good it is
Not gonna lie, my one and only call with the IRS required waiting about 60 minutes on hold, but once I got to talk to someone, they were friendly, knowledgable, and completely took care of my problem.

In my interactions with app store review, it's usually resulted in a terse response that required some guessing to fully understand. In some cases, we simply gave up because it was too hard to get real answers from someone.
> I'm reading January was [to be] $60bn in purchases

January was $40bn, February is $20bn [1]. (There is a January release pointing to $30bn [2] from which I was remembering my figures.)

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operation...

[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_...
> This puts a bullet in my hopes for Swift. Why on earth would Apple not support this obvious A-Team player?

There's two sides to every story?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_technology has a long list of things that we might ascribe to either the Romans or to the late Renaissance but are firmly in the misnamed "Dark ages".
We're on Hacker News. I think we understand what he means by the term. Even if you're not doing anything remotely illegal or harmful it's still not a good idea to be overly open about who you are on the internet.
It definitely doesn’t work with mine, just a black pair of Ray-Bans. I just tried it again to make sure it hasn’t changed with the latest update. I use my phone as an offline GPS for hiking and it’s been a constant frustration for me, as there is a significant delay before it gives you the keypad after FaceID fails. I’ve tried setting up an “alternative appearance” in FaceID with my sunglasses on and it just complains that my face is obstructed.
An Introduction to Rational Trigonometry and Chromogeometry
> If you can save 200 hours of work per paper, you can put another paper out.

I guess that's an opportunity for those countries to focus on research quality instead of publication volume and sidetrack the entire issue.

But, well, they are not doing this. That's too bad.
European Chips Act – ASML position paper
Swift, First released in 2014. So we are coming close to 10 years since launch, and 12 years since initial commit. And I thought Swift was getting borrow checker?

I do wonder how many people prefer Obj-C to Swift. Philosophically speaking, Chris Lattner's ideal of Swift could replace PL from Javascript to C, while a noble goal was a big no no for me. I often think Swift is an unnecessary distraction in the overall Apple ecosystem.

And I do notice programming language design and usage tends to get very heated in discussions. And there is a growing charm in ugly language ( so to speak ) that shuts up and get the job done.

But a disagreement is one thing, being shouted at during an online video meeting? That is some level of aggression. Although there is always two side of the story.
++ original SE. A little large compared to the 4S but the TouchID is great. Saw current gen nighttime photos on a camping trip and am reconsidering though...
This is definitely a consideration for authorization. To do it well you need to be able to distinguish when you want to reveal information.

For example, our APIs push people towards returning a 404 if the user doesn't have read access (you shouldn't even know it exists!), but a 403 if you can read but not edit.

You would probably want to do similar here -- only return a reason if the user is allowed to know it exists, but they don't have access. (e.g. it might be "read_exist" vs "read_details" -> "you cannot read the details of this document because you are not a member of this folder".)
My point is that this has nothing to do with Verizon. I bought the Pixel 2 from Google and only used it on the Google Fi network. It's a bootloader lock, not a carrier lock.
I don't know the first thing about him, but maybe we could honor his contributions while not giving a blanket approval of everything he ever said and did?

Or is that, like, too subtle and nuanced a concept nowadays.
They are as easy on k8s as they are on VMs.

Or 'can':

If you use a VM on AWS, you also need to know that you need to configure a vm snapshot (very easy, totally agreeing here with you).

But you can also use a managed k8s from AWS which you can also backup as they are all on PV and they have snapshotfeatures.

I don't want to compare a VM + Snapshotting 1:1 with kubernetes though. It wouldn't be fair to k8s and it wouldn't be fair for all usecases which work very very well on one VM.
It works just fine until it doesn't. I went on a trip last week that involved frequent mask wearing. Unlock with Apple Watch worked on the first day, then every unlock after that involved typing in my passcode or pulling down my mask. No amount of restarting/airplane mode cycling got it working again... until I got home.
If you can actually contact the IRS at all. I called multiple times last year and wasn’t even able to be put on hold, just “sorry we have too many people trying to contact us, try later”. If you do actually get a hold of someone, IRS is helpful but also outdated (I had to sign up for a fax service to send documentation to them).

Apple’s responses often leave a lot to be desired, but at least you can use support forums and emails with a good response rate.

Note that I don’t think this is the fault of the IRS at all - they are woefully underfunded and understaffed.
It's an interesting article, but it seems they're extrapolating a lot from very little signal.

Look at the y-axis on the graphs. The average value for "relationship satisfaction" looks to be around 79%, but the variation over time only appears to go from a low of around 77% to a high of 83% (eyeballing it).

Basically +/- 3%.

There's barely any signal there. A variation of a couple percent up or down might indicate something small on a large enough sample size, but it's basically nothing in the big picture.
grep -rE '```\w+' |uniq seems like the same query across text files to me. it's not "trivial" but at least grep has a man page and people have used it reliably for decades now. Spinning up whatever it takes to get groq going is not the same thing as having widely available tools that just work.

Somehow structuring content in json is a new idea? There are a lot of html to json parsers out there already. jq and grep can do everything his post suggests and require no less or more investment from a dev perspective.
Does the airbnb app or website even serve third party ads?
>Bitcoin transaction processing (AKA "mining")

Unfortunately, mining isn't scaled with processing transactions.

Bitcoin has a hard cap of 7 transactions per second, regardless of whether 5 miners are running or 5 million.

The amount of resources that are put into mining scale with the price of BTC, not transactions.

Also Nvidia has made mining-only silicon for several years now. So Intel isn't the first major company doing it.
> by auto-generating python types

I'm assuming you are using a code generator? My understanding is that as MyPy is a static analyser there is no way to automatically create types at runtime (which is actually super annoying, particularly for a language as dynamic as Python).
A language's surroundings can still be improved, the documentation can still be improved, new tools can still be made, new libraries can still be written, etc.

And at the end if the language is inadequate for something then simply use something else that fits better, there is no reason to force all languages be gigantic kitchensinks.
Chris is one of those people who gets me to stop what I am doing, shut my door, put on my head phones and just listen. Do not disturb. I am a self taught programmer and have learned my way by many a night studying/reading/debugging but all that teaches me is code. Just code! When I listen to Chris, I feel like I am listening to a technical leader, mentor and visionary. It's hard to find things to teach me how to become that, and it just so happens (maybe it doesn't the more I think about it) that I can usually also learn Swift while learning these other great skills or perspectives _by just listening to him talk_. Thanks for all you've done for the Swift community Chris and good luck in all that you do.