skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when someone starts telling a story that the story is going to come to some kind of conclusion at some point since that's how stories work

Yes, but you bought the start of the stories. You didn't buy the conclusion. There's no cheating involved.
> Why would I need four concurrent screens for myself.

If you have kids. Which is, y'know, not uncommon. The four screen plan has always, since it's inception, stated that is for four people who live in your household in the terms.
It was going to happen anyway, but not on a short term. While we here in the Netherlands where coerced from natural gas into electric (heat pumps), just over the border in Germany people are subsidised to actually get natural gas as a green move (as they where moving from oil and coal).
"Encouraged" is different from prohibited / it being a firing offense.

I just checked with my employer. To make sure I represented the situation accurately, here is what I wrote (I applied the situation to our line of business, IT security, and replaced credit cards with another type of authorization token to make it realistic for us):

> if <name of actual competitor> releases a hosted password manager, where you store all your secrets on their servers, would <our company name> condone me looking at the internals of that application in private time, or does <our name> rather think that's a liability risk?

The answer started with, and I quote: "not a problem". My employer did request advance warning (they expected me to actually have such plans it seems; I clarified afterwards this was completely hypothetical for a HN comment) such that, in case it's controversial, they can warn the competitor ahead of time and say it's just my private opinion, but that's just a request and sounds reasonable to me.
IBM Zurich did something similar a few years ago. Recognising the limitations of the Carnot efficiency when trying to scavenge energy from data centres, they opted to recognise the economic value of warm water for district heating.

https://www.edn.com/made-in-ibm-labs-ibm-hot-water-cooled-su...
Two reasons I read your top-level comment the same way gambiting did:

Idiomatically, "some responsibility" unfortunately isn't unambiguous. Yeah, you could mean it like how you clarified now, but if you tell someone "hey, take some responsibility for this!", that could just as well be equivalent to "hey, take responsibility for this!". It wasn't crystal clear to what degree you wanted to put it solely on the parents.

But more importantly, you ended your comment by referring to this as "stupid shit", which seems to indicate that you _don't_ think parents should be able to sue social media companies for addicting kids, that you might not even think it's worth considering, and because of that I think bringing up the comparison to tobacco and alcohol was relevant.
So whethee the law is bad or it is badly enforced - either way the government made life worse for people.

See also the “War on Drugs”.
Happens occasionally, I imagine the writer is not too pleased with not finishing the job either.

In SF earlier we had Harlan Ellison's postponed-to-irrelevancy third volume of Dangerous Visions anthologies, and David Gerrold's meandered-into-a-corner War Against the Chtorr.
Iranian patent trolls are gonna be so disappointed that they can't troll patents so easily anymore.
This is really nice. Trying to port Doom to RP2040 was on my on my todo list, but all along I feared that the SRAM would simply not be sufficient for a port with authentic feel and original assets. I'm glad to be proven wrong. I wonder if DEH support is out of question.

I can't wait to see what kind of a chip they make after the RP2040.
Challenges in Modern Kubernetes Testing
I would argue that A Song of Ice and Fire is not a series of novels, it is a single novel in many parts. Perhaps A Game of Thrones can be considered a stand-alone novel in its own right, but the others have little in the way of a self-contained plot, especially the last two books.

It's similar to The Lord of the Rings in this way - it would be pretty disingenuous to call, say, The Two Towers "a standalone novel", as it tells several disparate plots that start nowhere and mostly end nowhere, and have little interaction with each other. But that is not to say that it is not an excellent part of the Lord of The Rings.
It will be enough just to differentiate between Italy and Sardinia, they are very different
Yet Stack Overflow does…
It's true that a car can kill and that is an important difference but I don't think that is what's new here. What appears to be new is you're being asked to trust something new.

My heating system can kill me and my family. I trust the engineer to do a good job. That's no different to my car. My 2006 Yaris has a computer that could cause the engine to explode. The engineers where my car is serviced have must trust.

But truly, in either of those cases my ownership is beholden to others. I don't truly own it without support from others. Your FLOSS desktop will receive updates from people you don't know.

So the difference here is trust. I completely agree with the social evolution statement; that is inevitable.
Related:

Entitlement issues (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8136670 - Aug 2014 (151 comments)
Do you think posthumously we'll get another "here's the finished story based off of notes and manuscripts the publisher found in the author's study"?
It's a better data model with a significantly worse UI. Hard to believe they put it out there as is.
Awesome work, I'll be watching the project. A more efficient code editor is sorely needed, well done.
There are few issues there: Russians of course do not act for humanitarian reasons but for interests however they are right saying the NATO create a nazi gov in Ukraine and they are right saying they are not starting a war because the civil war between those nazi militias (like Pravy Sektor, C14, Azov etc) and Russian-speaking Ukrainian (30+% of the total population) was started in 2014 with the infamous Euromaidan massacre and keep going in a slow genocide since them. That's one of the real issues. Others are the fact that so far Russian do not start any war, while NATO have done that, and have done that with lie like the nonexistent Saddam mass-destruction weapons or the lie that the taliban (created by NATO BTW, to counter Soviet Union) host bin laden.

Long story short: putin is a dictator BUT his propaganda have plenty fo truth to use against NATO just because the other side (USA and UK in primis, BUT others as well) are equally dictatorships only with much more hypocrisy and less symbols. The famous putin's definition of the west as the empire of lie is unfortunately actually true.

The "solution" then depend on who: for us, Citizens, the solution is eradicating the neoliberal ideology will all their apical figure put to serve lifetime jail in condition sore enough to discourage anyone trying to follow their examples. For USA and UK gov. the war MUST go on though because they need to silence protests against them by their own people hit by economic crisis and Democracy destruction operated by them. China LIKE the war because for them means having plenty of Russian's natural resources, at a discounted price, and also probably access to high tech military gears, probably enough to counter USA in few years given their industrial power. Putin need a bit the war to silence protests in Russia itself, destroy the oligarch he dislike (and he actually thanks the NATO for sanctions help). So that's the issue: the solution needed by the people is the opposite of the needs of the "élites".
You could start by looking at average life expectancy, income inequality, education, literacy rate (the US is shockingly bad here), and health care access.

As for "innovation" and "unicorns", the US has done well, but a lot of the best examples have been European immigrants to the US.

When the chips were really down, in the Manhattan Project, who did the US rely on? Overwhelmingly it was Europeans who emigrated to the US: Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, James Franck, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, and Klaus Fuchs. The US would not exist if they hadn't. So let's not get too cocky.
sure. ubsan needs to be in the CI. only then you can try to upgrade to -O3 and -flto. even -fstrict-aliasing is then possible

but in my cases I do even have cbmc in my CI, formal verification. not just a single value is checked, all possible values are. overflows don't just happen with your simple test cases.
Because why learn how to make RPM's and build, test and deliver software in the OS' native format with just rpmbuild --clean -ba yourpackage.spec when so much precious time could be wasted perpetuating this fragile, order of magnitude more complex and shoddily implemented Docker / Kubernetes machinery?
> I'd rather live in a world where Martin and Rothfuss never finished their masterpieces than a world where the unfinished works never even existed.

We are living in a world where a hundred, a thousand works even more marvelous never even existed, aren't we?

> In fact -- has any fan fiction been published that attempts to continue these works

Yes, an obscure HBO show titled Game of Thrones attempted it to universal disdain.
Finally a good use for microsoft software: heating. If there is something Microsoft does good, that is heating. Teams might be slow and full of bugs, excel might be terrible but hey, the laptop is warm and this is all that counts.
Past purchases don't buy future books, true.

George is a free human not a slave to our desire for _content_, also true.

But I also understand fan frustration. When Gaiman wrote that, "A Game of Thrones" was already 15 years in the past. "A Dance With Dragons" had been promised for 2005-ish and was still 2 years in the future.

Since "GRRM is not your bitch", George has published 10 books, of which one advanced the core story of ASoIaF. Meanwhile, on his not-a-blog, George's infrequent posts usual refer to how busy he is while simultaneously telling fans they just need to be patient.

It's been 11 years since the last book in the main ASoIaF story line. _26 years_ after reading "A Game of Thrones" I'm not even mad. I've just given up. I'll just put this in the same category as Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai saga or Coleridge's Kubla Khan: brilliant but never-to-be-finished.
Make a website that connects people with ideas and people with skills needed to implement said ideas.
I knew it hadn't yet launched. thx for the update on the poster.

Still, the knowledge was hard-won, and I hope it helps someone else on the forum. I've had people randomly provide me with a few of their hard-won gems over the years, which when I applied it made substantial positive differences in my career.

It seemed relevant to the topic, even if not in the strict sense of advising directly the developer in this specific conversation. (Also, it'd not unlikely that the Dev would have the convo brought to his/her attention, so it may end up there anyway).
Name one thing that the US government has “banned” that people wanted where it has been effective?

And why would you want government control over what you can see and say?
Why is there a Swedish-speaking village in rural Ukraine?
Linux is still updated by someone that isn't you. Even "old" cars require specialist knowledge. You're still beholden to someone else. The difference is now you're being asked to trust someone new.
Ask HN: What has been your experience with bigger tech companies in London?
I'm interested in some of the bigger tech companies and I'm wondering about their presence in the UK.

Do you work there? What has your experience been so far?

How competitive are they relative to the rest of the market in London?

How challenging is the interview process?

Culture/work-life balance?

Is the number of teams and the problems they work on limited because they're not in one of the primary US offices?
Short summary here so people can understand why this is massive in France:

* (super summarized), France developped nuclear electricity back in the 70s. As a counterpart, Electric heaters were massively deployed

* Electric heaters were deployed with a technology named "fil pilote": when you change the phase, you can drive the target temperature https://www.vitahabitat.fr/blog/qu-est-ce-que-le-fil-pilote-...

* Unfortunatly, to drive the temperature, you need... something to drive it which was not deployed: you cannot plug a NEST and plugin in in a thermostat is complex

* In recent years, DIY based solutions based on Home Automation or Shelly were deployed by DIY communities but hey this require high skills & dedicated server (synology like), and sometime soldering. There is no plug and play solution on the market

* Heatzy.com proposed a wifi based solution but you can only do On/Off, not select a target temperature (so this is useless)

So having a single wifi small box to plug on the heater to drive the target temperature is a game changer

--> Since i'm looking at this market every years since 2013, it has not evolved until this post on hcknews! Very happy to see this solution coming! you made my day! (unfortunatly we're at the end of winter :))
https://archive.ph/2022.03.17-114831/https://www.thelocal.se...
Ok, here's proof for whoever downvoted me.

I made a new account, wrote a message, upvoted it with my current account.. and no change in points. I never see any message become black or "less grey" after upvote + refresh. It is a no-op for me.

https://i.imgur.com/ettYnxX.png
> They didn't pay him to write books in the future. I really don't understand this bizarre "fandom" idea that a writer owes his readers something beyond what they have paid for.

Do this day, 12 years after this was written, he blogs about how the books are his top priority. He is certainly giving his readers the idea that he owes them a finish by constantly communicating that he will finish.
This is the issue in today's market driven society, there's a big crowd which seems very open to forgetting the pleasures brought up during the development process, when the end comes and is not to their liking. They would all be much more content if they weren't so keen in erasing their own memory.
I would justify it because I have no legal duty to not open it unless it was postmarked, and I would look to ensure I'm not going to be an accessory to a crime. If it was really so confidential then deliver it yourself.
I'm building an investment tracking app: https://stockevents.app
My iPhone barely registers any battery usage by Find My but it hammers my iPad drawing the battery anywhere from 20 to 50% overnight. It’s a very real and very annoying problem.
> ... and not give just blindly give them laptops and phones

The problem is there's no "give them laptops and phones in a non-blind way".

It's either "don't give them neither a phone nor a laptop" or needing some safeguards to be in place.

My 7 years daughter can only watch, under my watch, Netflix / Disney / etc. (not that these don't have their own issues / political agenda). The other day I went to pick her at a friend's place: they were watching a video on YouTube, elsa-gate style, where one blonde was making another blonde binge-drink a 2 liters bottle of coke in one go. What the heck? Videos upon videos on YouTube of people ingesting insane amount of sugary drinks and sweets.

And, surely enough, her friend she's already obese.

I don't know who makes these videos. I don't know why they "auto play" to kids in YouTube. I don't know why nothing is done about it. But this is evil in its purest form, messing up kids for life.

It's under a different form but the Elsagate is alive and well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
People focus on the attack itself and reasons behind it. I feel that we are missing the bigger picture here: these type of supply chain attack in the open source world is a systematic problem. It’s a direct result of assumptions baked into services such as npm, pypi, rubygems, etc and assumptions people have regarding 3rd party dependencies.

The blast radius is monstrously giant. We seem to be still very naive in the way we approach, use, and implement those type of system, with an assumption that maintainers are working in good-faith and reliable.

I don’t know how things should be, and I don’t like to think of contributors and maintainers as a threat, but we have enough examples now to know ignore that risk is a fundamental issue.
Every time I compile something
Cruise ship? Private yacht?
I don't agree with Gaiman here.

His basic argument is that the contract is you paid $10 for each book you got, so the author doesn't owe you the next book.

I disagree with this. First off, the fact that the fans are so upset is evidence that this wasn't _their_ understanding of the contract.

The thing is, they didn't just spend $10. They spent time getting invested in the story. This emotional investment is left unfulfilled if they don't get the implicitly promised ending.

Now, let's turn this around. Let's say fans do decide that their $10 strictly comes with no expectation of the next book coming.

Well then many fans wouldn't have bought the first books until the whole series is finished. It would likely become uneconomical to write long fantasy series. Writers like Martin would suffer.

It's easy for Martin or whoever to drop the ball on the implicit contract now, after becoming rich; but if this contract hadn't existed, authors like Martin would probably have desired to create it explicitly. If you believe that, then Gaiman's argument doesn't hold up.

And so not finishing a promised series is taking from that trust commons.

Of course, sometimes humans _can't_ finish something, and readers should accept that risk. The authors shouldn't be harassed.

But wanting them to follow through is not the same as thinking "they're your bitch".
>You can put up a statue to say someone did something meaningful or historical, not that they were a good or noble person.

Yes, but we don't. We don't create statues of Christopher Columbus to place his actions in their proper historical context, or to memorialize his victims, any more than we do the Holocaust with statues of Hitler. We erect statues of Columbus because until relatively recently the entirely Eurocentric narrative about him considered him a heroic figure, and the subjugation of indigenous peoples a righteous and noble cause.
> That doesn't mean they can't voice their disappointment, even publicly, even in places where the authors might read it and feel bad and cause other authors to write defensive posts

This was "writing to another author attempting to egg him on to also voice his disappointment". Neil Gaiman didn't just stumble across someone's voiced disappointment, it was specifically directed to him. They just didn't get the response they were hoping for.
Some upcoming end of the story may be implied, but not seeing it doesn't make the author a bullshitter. What if the author doesn't have a good enough idea for the ending yet? Would you be satisfied with "And then a meteorite crushed everyone, the end." just because you want to see some result? The expectation that you can get a new book is basically "if I tied the author to the desk they'd write it"... but would they be able to? How do you know?
And of course there were artists who didn’t earn a living from their art, but still made art.

Wonderfully, there is now technology that makes it near zero cost to replicate their art and make infinite copies. Thus allowing great art to be created outside of commercial models.

Imagine if all the shower singing in the world could mix together and self arrange into symphonies that anyone could search and listen to for free. From shower singers who choose to share their songs, of course.
From a legal perspective, as far as I can tell, you're right. From a moral perspective, this only considers the well-being of the company with the security flaw. Limiting security investigations to those that have the full blessing of the company means that security flaws can be swept under the rug.
How did you test her capabilities?
Huh. I only watched the show and I felt it was much more guys being idiots, and women tending to be wiser if gender lines must be drawn.

I thought the show, despite very poor quality writing for the final seasons, managed its plot lines pretty well. It didn’t bring in all the threads but it finished most of the ones that started.

But the tone of things changed quite a bit following the red wedding. The red wedding, and the execution of Ned, were two fairly surprising events. They greatly shifted the arc of the story, and added a lot of drama to the world.

After this event I felt everyone started wearing their plot armor heavily. Main characters went off on their adventures and couldn’t plausibly die without making a good deal of the story otherwise pointless to have pre existed. I didn’t feel anyone’s death mattered after those two events, which frankly is also fine. That’s a cool, novel story structure in itself.
Some sprints I manage to get some code written in spite of how many meetings I have. I can't explain it.
Great Depression or Bust
Seems like an (short term) opportunity for someone to build a product that pulls existing Google Analytics data via their API and stores it in a database to allow for viewing historical analytics data.
For me, it would depend on how much I trust/know the other person. If a friend asked to deliver an unsealed envelope, I would do so without looking. Note, there are very few people I would do this for and I'd be asking pointed questions.

Under any other circumstance, I'd want to vet what I'm handing over because I don't want to become an accomplice to something illegal.
The start is only valuable if there is an end, especially for a novel built on mystery and intrigue. When George RR Martin will, sadly, die without having finished A Song of Ice and Fire, all its parts will be forgotten by history (except, perhaps, A Game of Thrones), as they only work as scaffolding for a future ending (save a few extraordinary moments here and there, like the Red Wedding). But if by some miracle he finishes them (and it would be a miracle by this point, given he has spent more than a decade writing the next book, with no end in sight), and if the finale holds up to the quality of the mysteries he has built up, then it may be remembered right next to Lord of the Rings as one of fantasy writing's greatest masterpieces.
Yes, and if they have a particularly cold night then can turn on Windows update.
Paranormal? Unexplained phenomena? You mean like: 'WTF?' That's exactly what I see for like every second bug in our software. Every day!

EDIT: Our software ist not that buggy!!
First, you're dealing with humans, rationality is a distant consideration in dealing with emotions.

Second, There's an implicit promise that stories have a structure, and that structure includes an ending, where there's payoff and/or setting other things up for a longer story. That lack of ending leaves built up tension that, well, hasn't been relieved. With that tension, see my first point.

Thirdly, I'd lay the vitriol that's brewed purely at the feet of David & Daniel for royally fucking up the TV show adaptation's final seasons. The catharsis of the "TV ending" could have given GRRM a good few more years to work on the book ending, as some would have put down the story with the end of the show, and others might have debated how the divergence between book/tv before would affect the book ending.

Instead, we got a train wreck, and snapping back to the reality that GRRM is getting old, and the only "canon" ending currently is.... not that good.

Edit: I'm not endorsing shitty behaviour from fans, I've seen it cause plenty of issues over the years, just trying to offer some perspective as to why.
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