skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious when it was you were there. I was in IBM from 1985-1992, and it felt like the ending of an era. At first, it was a place that invested heavily in its people. Private offices, nice facilities, very good pay, and a _requirement_ that you had to take classes related to your field every year. IBM would hire excellent faculty and instructors from universities and other companies to teach them. They sponsored technical conferences that were really good (actual learning, not just sales). When I was in graduate school, my director had me focus on doing my homework and projects as 80% of my time -- literally getting paid to be a student. My colleagues and I were proud to be "IBMers" at that time.

But things started to change in 1990-91. The company lost money for the first time in its history, and then divided into separate parts. My division became what is now the horrible IBM Global Services. In those last 2 years it became clear to me that it was time to branch out of there. Since then, I've know no IBM employee at all who is happy, much less proud.

All these great old institutions ultimately fade or fail. It used to seem more sad to me, but I've grown to favor "fail fast" more. IBM should just go...sell all the IP and branding off and call it a day. Then, new innovation will happen faster.
more testing, more cases
> ps Pretty sure the comment you responded to was sarcasm

I think it was more mockery than sarcasm. It’s a pretty common insult to make fun of people that wear masks, quarantine, etc. as being afraid or weak. It’s not a constructive or interesting viewpoint.
No question military experience can be extremely traumatic even without exposure to combat. People vary greatly in "resilience", some are very sensitive to trauma but may have no way to know that about themselves before encountering the damaging situations.

Thing is mental health conditions in general are a huge problem: "Neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States, accounting for 18.7% of all years of life lost to disability and premature mortality." [0] The numbers vary in different countries/regions but the prevalence of such disorders is still non-trivial.

In addition most people don't seek or get adequate treatment, I think stigma is a big factor contributing to making a bad situation worse.

The elements you talk about are certainly true. It really would be a major change for the better if technological advances could make a difference. Given the developments of the last few decades I wouldn't say it can't happen. IMO the jury's out on the question, conceivably research will eventually have something to offer.

[0] https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/m...
>Are you going to spend your life terrified of this "what if" scenario too?

This might be worth reviewing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Yeah, the less charitable but probably more accurate interpretation was that not only were they wrong, but for the wrong reason, too.
To help Ukraine, Google rolls out “Air Raid Alerts” system for Android
It's just a fix-it ticket. Just pay a cop and get it signed off.
> If you do enable Bluetooth on an iOS device, any Airtags detected will be reported to Apple over any available data connection, and this cannot be disabled in iOS as far as I know.

That certainly seems to contradict Apple's own documentation on the Find My network. At least according to my interpretation, it seems very clear that disabling the "Find My network" toggle will disable your device's participation in the network.
Add support for multiple-column primary keys (2005)
To any fellow seekers of the Tootbird, I can answer questions if you have them.
This act by definition cannot be unbiased because only one side decides what information is false.
Sounds expensive? I doubt it was common to do so in the past, except for government (i.e. for disaster/war preparedness, etc)
Maybe they shipped this out too quick since it doesn't seem to work for me, funnily enough.
But without internet they barely knew what was going on.
They're probably using Big Tech as a stand-in for Big Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
How is this different from getting a notification in gmail?
Yes. And I think the great thing about her observation is the naive view is actually true in practice (to some degree...). It is very difficult to distinguish between a 'legitimate' user that is a human and a bot. At least without reverting to captcha's and if the benefit to subverting the captcha's is high enough then you can just get human's to solve the captchas.
No, you're correct. I meant Alfas in general here are selling below MSRP, not that particular model. Hot hatches don't sell nearly as well here as they do in Europe.
3.8+, iirc
TIL there is a 29MB Minimal Ubuntu!

https://ubuntu.com/blog/minimal-ubuntu-released
> "once or twice in our lives for flu."

I guess some people are more susceptible than others (or have more risk due to lifestyle factors), but only once or twice in a lifetime? I'd guess I've had a really bad flu at least once every 4-5 years or so on average in my lifetime, and moderate cases probably every 1-2 years.

I had Covid twice as well, within a year (both times in 2020, before vaccines were available).
You scared me. He is very much still alive. (Or do you know something I don't?)
I don't think Apple have ever cared about these ratings unfortunately. But they should.
I would love to see research that shows that to be a correct statement and why so many in Asian countries do not seem to have compromised immune systems would be interesting as well.
> that people can use to spot potentially pre-suicidal behaviour in the people they love.

The people they love did not obtain consent from them.

> You know that suicidal people often don't, can't or won't reach out for help at all, right?

Yes. First hand. Suicidal and/or mentally ill people have rights such as one for privacy just like you.

> and a tool that can help clarify what the reliable indicators are, really might stop people killing themselves. We want this, don't we?

We don't. Assholes who think using other peoples' death and illness to perform non-consensual medical examination is good do. By this logic, you will eventually even say people's eating habits and behavior should be monitored before they kill themselves by eating food that causes obesity and diabetes before dood addiction starts.

I concur about the predictability of HN comments. When euthanasia pods became a thing in sweden you all lauded it because someone is profiting. Here too, someone will do a startup out of this so it is a cause for celebration. Never mind privacy, free will and self-determination.

> t is their damn business; they have a duty of care.

So things made by darpa never make it to public use and service members have no right to medical privacy like us HIPPA enjoying civilians? Okie...

To your last paragraph: those people agree to consensual and explicitly stated evaluations not non-consensual psychological examination of a medical condition.
Also from him:

“The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was”
I agree with everything you just said, it's just that in my (maybe twisted) mind the principle of back-pressure can be implemented in a number of ways and adding a blocking queue in front of a system that is falling over is just one of those ways. But yeah, I guess at some level everything is a queue (or has a queue in it) so you win.
This is what's confusing me, West already providing weapons to Ukraine. Doesn't that mean the same thing as providing the air defense, i.e. no-fly zone?
Of course. Desperation moves - like engaging vigilantes - do more harm to Zelensky's purpose than good; it's a signal of failing, panicked leadership (though most signals demostrate otherwise for Zelensky). For example, when engaging independent soldiers Zelensky did not engage them as vigilantes: the Ukrainian government requires volunteers to have prior military service, to serve in uniform in the Ukrainian military and under Ukrainian command, and to use weapons issued by the Ukrainian military. Zelensky didn't say, 'whoever wants to help, start shooting!'.

It's a mistake to think that Internet cyber operations are different.
I'm always amazed that so many feel strongly about car A looking better or worse than car B. The way people talk about the differences, it's like they're comparing an art nouveau house to a ranch style home -- you know, two things that have massive, immediately obvious differences.

But really, comparing cars (even across decades of time) is more like comparing trends in suits. Does it have two or three buttons? Single or double breasted? Single or double cuff? I'm amazed that anyone, barring a small minority with serious artistic sensibilities, can muster the energy to find one vastly different from the other -- at the end of the day, it's the same damn thing. A suit is a suit, a mass-market car is a car, and car appearance = 4 wheels, 4 windows, headlights, a color, generally aerodynamic shape. Everything beyond that is (in modern cars) some minor tweak. Even the two trucks the article gives as examples look basically the same to me; I'll grant that the newer model tries to look more "badass", but the metaphor of it going to bomb a village is pretty silly.

I guess it's a function of this being an extremely expensive object that was, for a long time, a status symbol. But I still can't see how people feel passionate about any of it -- again, excluding people like Jony Ive (who designs for a living) or own / desire models of car that are, in fact, vastly different (usually antiques or niche brands).
Yeah, we've started looking at Kotlin Multi-platform Mobile to keep our business logic cross-platform, but then native UI. The discussion we're having is if it is mature enough for our needs now, or if we write in Flutter with the expectation we throw it all way in the near future.

We all use Android while our users are mostly in single platform approach won't work for us. We're also a hardware company, so need BLE and WebBle support isn't good enough for us.

Thanks for your answer
I'm not trying to promote their blog and am not a fan of it and won't link it, but I know of at least one Substack blog by one such actor who indeed makes their blog highly meme-based. The fact that you can insert arbitrary inline images in blog posts and write whatever text you want near them is pretty much all you need.
>The reason I do so is because it has an audience baked in

Does it? Do people browse medium looking for things to read? Where does the 'baked in' audience come from?

My personal opinion of medium is very different - I usually see it as blogspam.
"once or twice in our lives"
flu is a seasonal illness, unless you're a complete shut in, you get it much more frequently than that, considering the modern diets and vitamin deficiencies.
> Then how come most of the oil in Iraq was leased to other countries, not the US?

Because state production policy, not nationality of the firms involved, was the mechanism of influence sought.

> And how come they didn't install a puppet regime, winning the war and all?

They did; for quite some time after it was established, the post-Saddam Iraqi government took direction from the US.

It didn't turn out to be durable nor did the US manage to use it as the planned lever against the rest of the Middle East, in part because a substantial part of the war and post-war planning was coordinated by “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet” [0] (to quote Gen. Franks) and as a result the occupation/counter-insurgency phase was both botched from the beginning and, arguably, not really a realistic way of achieving some of its broader objectives even if it had been planned competently and executed ideally, and in part because the US changed policy priorities and executive administrations during the occupation away from the original objectives (in part because different policy makers has different ideology, and in part because of recognition of the how badly the situation was botched.) Hence the upthread description of failed imperial warfare, which would not be used of if the imperialist objectives motivated the war had been achieved.

[0] it's looking like the planning for the Ukraine operation by Russia may have had similar levels prioritizing what the ruling clique finds to be ideologically-appealing fantasy over hard-nosed practicality in its planning.
What are the chances of encountering performance issues and/or incompatibilities when using Alpine Linux as Docker image for Go apps in production?
I didn't mean to imply that NFTs were the biggest economic driver of ETH, but rather that they occupy the zeitgeist. There are systems that are successful because they are successful. If you look at Bitcoin, ETH, and a couple other altcoins, they are much more popular than all the other blockchains out there, and are seen as much more important than other blockchains. They have a perceived legitimacy and large numbers of people participating that other cryptocurrencies do not. Due to the nature of human attention and competition, there's room for a handful of cryptocurrencies in this space, and the rest, including Beacon, will never garner the same kind of attention or participation unless they replace one of the big ones.

When you have way more forces in the market, many who aren't motivated by making it work, I think that's where PoS has some real weaknesses, and I don't think we'll see practical attacks against it until one of the important ones goes PoS.
Should WebAssembly consider compatibility with the Open Web Platform important?
If you don't want to do business in the EU, sure. Collecting the data of EU citizens and using it for advertising purposes means you're doing business in the EU though.

This applies whether it's you doing the collecting or Google's "free" analytics service.

Of course if you're a running a small website you'll probably get away with it. For now.
now we've gone full circle re-introducing a build chain.
True, but "not great" is different than "maliciously bad".
IBM salesmen were very iffy at the best. But the two best computers I used in the 1980s to 1990s were the 4381 super-mini, and the various IBM PC models. Great hardware engineering, and in the case of the 4381 great software engineering.
> ...since patients will often tell their clinicians what they think the clinician wants to hear rather than how they are truly feeling

Right in the article. The idea is to find out medical information patients aren't willing to share with their physician.
so do you think we should get rid of safety warnings on products and product recalls? I mean kids and elderly people are more vulnerable to them and according to your logic, these warnings and recalls will do nothing.
> So were you going through life wearing a mask to mitigate the risk of a deadly flu in 2018 and before? I think probably not, but if your priority is risk mitigation, shouldn't you have been?

No because those flu viruses were not novel, or as deadly.

When there is a large degree of uncertainty (like a deadly novel virus), I personally tend towards caution and am fine being too cautious rather than not cautious enough. If you don’t, that’s fine and that’s your choice.

The lifestyle examples you give are too simplistic. I’m willing to bet you’re willing to ride your bike on some roads and not others, or swim at some beaches in some weather conditions and not others. To act like you never assess the situation or act in a way that mitigates your risk is absurd. I bet you wear a seatbelt on occasion and look both ways when crossing the road. Those are risk mitigation techniques.
serious question: how is this any harder than just "subscribe to n subscriptions for an x% discount"?
I think you're missing a part of the puzzle: The Fed really doesn't like deflation, and doesn't like being up against the zero-interest-rate bound where their main weapon against it is useless. They want some inflation, and they've been trying to get it for years.

It's not that they "aren't as independent of the USG". It's that they have more problems to worry about than most people recognize, and that shapes their policy in ways that surprise people.
Do men in lower paying jobs also start working for free in October?
it's done that for a long time, and you've always been able to force a match by wrapping a word in quotes.

(I don't think it's a 100% "must have this keyword" in the boolean sense, but it is an extremely strong suggestion to the engine.)

Maybe we have finally reached the point where people don't know boolean operators anymore though
Subscriptions have become such a massive consumer pox over the past few years. It's the new de facto way to scam people out of far more value than you provide.
> will a device that's in constant use develop them faster than a physically identical device that's switched off and in storage

Storage was one of the areas I researched extensively. It was like that scene in the movie "Clear and Present Danger" [0] in that the answer was always the same frustrating one regardless of conditions:

Stochastic growth onset; 0 to 3 years; can't predict growth start or rate; can't stop them; they will penetrate almost anything practical you can put on a board.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqtjbWJPIgQ
This Orwellian shit is coming faster than most of us thought!
Transformers are really just fancy graph neural networks, the next step is diffusion networks.
I've always loved P.G. Wodehouse:

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

(Especially as an Englishman who is terrible at French)
interesting, i hadn't heard that. could you tell my what research university in your ass you pulled that out from?
> private methods are part of an internal API for the class that is used by your future self and coauthors

Indeed. In a good code, one could say it's libraries all the way down.

For example, I've refactored a lot of business code such that it can be easily re-used in different parts of our application. Ta-da, I effectively have created a piece of library code, and I'll want to write tests for it to make sure it doesn't break any consumers, current or future.
In addition to the great advice already given:

1. Don't wait for your job or your industry to give you challenging problems.

2. Figure out which problem domains you find the most attractive.
you're thinking of Finnegan's Wake. And it doesn't.. but
Have you considered selling an $80/year membership where users could subscribe to up to say 20 blogs and the fee gets distributed to those creators?

Or even have an unlimited package.
Face-to-face interaction enhances learning, innovation
original ones aren't legal to make anymore due to epa spillage regulations. You can get aftermarket spouts marketed for "water only" though that actually work
But if you truly find it boring it’s still going to be difficult to frame it that way. Picking up too much work you don’t want to do can make you resent a job very quickly.
Engineering usage seems to match the physics usage. In classic engineering fashion however we were always taught just to 'plug them in' without learning all the minutia that go with them.

For example the stress and strain calculations which are used for calculating Deformation (Say if you were rolling a sheet of steel in a mill) makes use of tensors and also something called an "Invariant" I assume this also comes from Physics/Mathematics world.
> they are explicitly adding bias here.

All search engines are explicitly biased. That is the point, they generate a ranking of results. Heck even how you tokenize text is an explicit bias of what you match against.
Or if you ask a Russian, they'd say replacing Germany with the Ukraine and Russia with the USA in your analogy.

I don't think you are squinting too hard, there is a common view in geopolitics as Russia being a peer (super)power and future tie breaker between the US and China.
Or at least there was until two weeks ago.

One explanation for recent events is China letting Putin stick his head out and by literally sitting back and doing nothing they'll essentially get to own Russia now. Which fits their style of doing things historically.
I've never forgotten the college lecture on English History that began with this:

"When last we left, St. Thomas of Becket's brains were splattered across the cathedral floor."

*murmuring, sounds of pens dropping*

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_Baldwin_Smith
I don't know what to make of this. Why would you insist on going to a public channel, and then to a completely unrelated channel (HN) instead of just contacting their customer support directly? If their devices would brick themselves randomly it would've been all over the tech news long ago.
I use it mostly as a build image in order to produce completely static binaries which isn't possible with most other distros because the glibc maintainers at some point in the distant past decided to impose their opinion on the matter upon you by making it impossible to statically link against glibc.
The author needs to add this and then try if everything works as expected (like npm and pip and so on)
I recently deployed a small fleet of Dell thin clients around my house to run zwavejs2mqtt[1] via docker. I decided to use Alpine because the machines have 2GB of ram and 8GB of eMMC storage and I figured Alpine would minimize resource usage. They're working great so far!

[1]: https://github.com/zwave-js/zwavejs2mqtt
'Asia' is a big place and it's a pretty bigoted statement to allude 'asia' hygiene/exposure standards exceed those of the reader.
On the upside, Dacias are typically larger then other vehicles in the same price range. While you would you be able to buy a small city car from another manufacturer, you could actually buy a Dacia useful for the whole family. Yes, it will be underpowered and noisy, but it will be reliable, cheap to maintain and above all, safe. They get poor safety rating because of the way cars are tested today, but I argue that even a new "less safe" Dacia is safer then a 10 year old "safe" car.
The whataboutism is incredibly strong here.
That video is just silly.

It's a lot easier to just press the button under your thumb on the steering wheel and say "turn on the defroster."

Or you can say front defroster, rear defroster, etc.

No need to do all that stuff.

So again, it's an imagined problem, not a real one. The button is muscle memory.
The funniest express lane sign I've seen is at the entrance to northbound 101 from San Antonio Road in Mountain View. When I drove by, it read (paraphrased) "Toll to Embarcadero: $1.30".

Embarcadero Road (and Oregon Expressway) is the very next exit. The San Antonio entrance puts you directly onto the exit-only lane for Embarcadero/Oregon. This lane is 1.2 miles from entrance to exit, and it's rarely backed up even if the rest of the freeway is, as there is no stoplight after you get off the freeway.

So most rational drivers making that short trip just stay in the exit-only lane.

But now the sign tells me I can use the express lane for $1.30! What a deal. In the space of 1.2 miles, I can cut across four lanes of traffic to get to the express lane, and then cut back across four lanes again to barely make the exit.

This will make me a popular driver, won't it?
to add to that, its pretty common for respiratory infections to take months to clear up. its not a covid specific thing
What do you think of readers like feedbin that some folks are outsourcing their email inbox to?
Functional Web App (FWA)
Yes we're keen on this. In fact, although you can't add RSS in the app (yet), you can add it on the web at https://reader.substack.com/inbox and it will show up in the app

However, I can't promise that we won't push Substack content. We will :)
some number of which are former soviet labs. the dod is involved under the antiproliferation umbrella

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukra...