skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my problem is in the excommunication style of dealing with cheating. Reparation and nullification of cheat wins makes sense. Beyond that? You wind up encouraging scorched earth defence of celebrities. Or worse, when the stakes start to outweigh the actual costs.

Note that I'm not clear there is any path free of ego based hiding of behavior. Not do I really have actionable ideas. About the only faith item that I still have is redemption. And it is crazy to me how hard the modern world seems to try to block that off. Worse still, when allowing for redemption is mistaken for endorsing the previous behavior. Often in bad faith discussions.
I am big on B2B businesses. I think the higher bureaucracy the better moat! But I think, IBM really tested this philosophy to its breaking point.

My sentiment is that IBM Cloud should be broken down to smaller distinct ventures and hiring visionary leaders at each ventures. Like government, enterprise, Small Business+Startup+Open Source etc.

They got incredibly lazy.
On top of all these , this particular announcement is nothing close to a commercial launch. It is like this forever beta phase where only Waymo engineers are getting picked up and nothing different than a thousand other startups that are running autonomous cars in SFO along various spectrum of autonomy.
I met someone years ago who was an adjudicator for Guinness. I remember two stories in particular. One was a trip to Venezuela to judge a biggest bowl of soup (chicken IIRC), the other to Italy for a biggest doner kebab! (yes Italy not Greece). She said her biggest concern was that the doner kebab would fall off an underspecced trolley and kill someone, though I imagine that would probably have achieved a record of its own!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluey_(2018_TV_series)
Regex has been very useful in my career. I would also add SQL as well.

Everything else on your list is highly domain specific and mostly useless outside of their domains.

> Calculus for solving all sorts of problems

I even like calculus, but the number of times i have used it in the tech industry is precisely zero (not counting big-oh notation which can be defined in terms of limits,because obviously that is not what is meant). There are specific domains where calculus comes in handy (i assume AI and graphics, im not really involved in either) but if you dont do that stuff its super useless.
I fail to see how driverless cars make any of that better. Congestion might even get worse as people might be willing to wait longer if that means they can be “productive” doing something else in the car.
Tesla ranks behind Lexus, Acura, BMW, Cadillac, Lincoln, and many other luxury cars in the same reliability studies. Even if most things are minor, they still have significantly more problems than the established automakers.

I wonder whether the average amount spent on non-warranty repairs would be a good metric to add to "average years on the road and miles driven". That would hopefully remove initial defects from the first few years and also remove defects that are so minor that most people won't pay to have them fixed.
No OP, but:

1) Telemetry that is ON by default is what I don't like. Not being able to opt out makes me uninstall/disable/unregister it.

2) I don't want to read documentation about a "feature" I couldn't care less about (i.e., telemetry)
So much for "devops" merging together development and operations.

"A developer’s dream is a devops engineer’s nightmare" underines the failure of devops.
I've watched a few of this guy's videos, and it's deeply impressive. He reminds me of the grizzled old guys from the 1980's that actually know the deep internals of an OS. They didn't just take it in school, they lived and breathed it. He's the guy that made the 'myth' of a 10x coder a reality for me.

I get this is his passion project, but part of me wonders what he could accomplish working on the rough edges of linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDkALRz5Rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f78ZVLVdO0A

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/59...

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/941292021/paycheck-to-paychec...

(replied instead of emailing to keep the knowledge graph intact)
Zelle scam: Bank impostor taunts woman after stealing $3,500 using her name
Oh, cool, 100% agree, too! I switched to using star or square drive screws for putting the 1x4s on porches and stuff, that coupled with even a cheap impact driver means no more snapped screw heads, and i usually don't have to use the countersink bit i have.

I wonder if your logic was because of the larger pneumatic "tire gun" style things. Anyhow, sorry for going off topic!
It works for any type that implements the `std::error::Error` trait; which is something you can easily implement for your own types.
If you want your errors to be integers for some reason, you can wrap that type in a zero-sized "newtype" wrapper, and implement `Error` for that.

The Stack Overflow answer you linked seems to be claiming that it's simply easier to return strings, but I wouldn't say this is a restriction imposed by the language.
The term to search for related to this is "convergence" - the idea that the very different computing form factors that we use today (smartphone, laptop, desktop, server, and so on) may gradually blend.

Reference: https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/device-convergence-affe...

(in a separate context, "convergence" also relates to an idea that gained traction after WWII that the ideologies of the East and West could gradually combine into something reflecting the benefits of each while removing the downsides; that's another story, though)
Another anecdote - I switched earlier this year (prompted because of the ending of my grandfathered Gapps account, but my experiences are largely with the "standard" Gmail account vs. Fastmail).

Spam filtering on Fastmail has been the same/better than Gmail was - including possibly fewer false-positives on the Fastmail side. Gmail was getting worse about those, both with mailing lists and individuals' emails.

Like many on HN, I'm diversifying my data/access risk across more providers. Too many wake-up calls recently about Google locking people out. There are still some services Google is compellingly better enough that I still use them (Android, Maps, YouTube, Google Sheets), but Email was too precious to tie up with them. I also wanted to finally kick myself into stoping using the `gmail.com` address at all anymore (maybe 20% of my emails before the migration).
I worked at TurboTax. They are really good at separating employees into two groups.

Group 1, which is by far the largest group, really wants to make it easier for people to get their taxes done.

Group 2 makes sure that the govt doesn't make any progress on making it easier for people to do their taxes. Make taxes even more convoluted, so that you need TurboTax (not just personal but also their software for CPAs). Make sure there isn't any actually free way to easily do your taxes. Get laws passed making sure of it. Act like you have a free version but make it nearly impossible to use it without paying for other stuff.

Intuit goes to great lengtsh to make sure that group 1 (which is most of the company), doesn't know about the existence of group 2. I only knew about group 2 because I knew of it before I worked for Intuit. A lot of people there were very surprised when I shared the truth with them about group 2.

I didn't end up a fit for this garbage and quit after 6 months.
This reminds me of when I built an amplifier around 2002.

Just before this I built a crystal radio - basically a very long wire, a diode, and a crystal earphone. No amplifier.needed because the earphone is so sensitive.

As I got the amplifier all soldered up, I heard radio on a speaker without any signal connected if I touched a metal tool on some contact.

I asked about this on an electronics mailing list and if I recall correctly people were mostly annoyed that I was talking rubbish. But I'm pretty sure something was acting as the diode, I was the antenna, and the amplifier put the signal out.
For me it's practicing art.

Mainly playing music with a group, sometimes writing and occasionally drawing or painting. It focuses me on the emotional experience and response to entering the unknown and finding flow there

There's a book called Art and Fear that nails the tao of it.
Is there a thing that Nix can't solve?

This is a CI/CD system. It's not made to configure a single machine from coded configuration, but to build, test, publish software for multiple targets and then manage deployment to different clusters.
But if you're writing a compiler, the program becomes the data ...
Distributed Latency Profiling Through Critical Path Tracing
For Office365 / AzureAD this is a configuration choice, admins can enable the numbers option which reduces the chances of accidental allows
> It was a tool used to influence elections in the United States

Are you talking about fake Russian accounts buying $100k worth of facebook ads in 2016? That constitutes 0.00625% of total spending (1.6 bn) on the 2016 election. Or are you talking about something else?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/facebook-sold-100000-ads-fak...
Are you going to pay them six figures to keep doing art?
Frontier exec says biggest challenges to fiber build are labor, materials
There's only a couple drugs I know by name to look for on package labels and pseudoephedrine is one of them.

The other one is diphenhydramine (an antihistamine i.e. Benadryl) because its common side effect of drowsiness means that its also one of the most common sleep aids. It has been more than once that myself or someone near me was having an allergic reaction and the 7/11 down the block didn't have any Benadryl but did have some sleep aid.
Currently I only trust these 3 factors of authentication used in combination correctly:

1. Memory (enter the site-specific password via the password manager which is unlocked by a password is from your memory).

2. Device (device-internal-hardware backed certificate bound to this device).

3. Physical Presence (FIDO2 Key touch)

Most importantly, it is extremely important how secure the reset auth flows is.
And if any one of the three factors need to be reset, then the system should require the other two to be valid, plus it should require an in-person identity verification (if implemented correctly, video KYC should be acceptable). Plus there should be a reset-buddy designated by the user who should second/vouch the user's initiation of reset.

Without all of these (2 factors of auth from the user plus system automated video kyc + reset-buddy vouching), even the admin shouldn't be able reset auth of any accounts. This is crucial.

Plus there should be a pre-cooloff period after reset request is raised but before it is actually processed, and a post-cooloff periods for any additional factor reseting, and regaining full privileges.

Independently, there should be fraud/risk systems for safeguarding any sensitive operations (like creating additional users, exfiltration of data etc).
They should have convenient hardware support (vector extensions for example). I'm sure you could design floating-point decimals that work nicely with vector extensions (which usually do cover integers), but it would be a significant project.

If your language is going to plug into the numerical computing stack (BLAS+LAPACK then all the fun stuff built up on that) then it'll need to talk binary floats.

All the annoying stuff that numericists understand but would like to not mess around with, like rounding directions and denormals, are handled nicely with 754 floats.

These are all sort of backward compatibility/legacy issues in the sense that they are based on decisions made in the past, but the hardware and libraries aren't going anywhere I bet!

Also, note that IEEE 754 does define a decimal interchange format. I bet they aren't handled as nicely in hardware, though.
I was literally just posting a story to that effect :)
You could still have all of those deductions, but let people request that the IRS do their taxes for them, which would cover the 90% of cases where your standard deduction is optimal for you.

They have my bank accounts, they have my brokerage accounts, they have my W-2s. There's no reason I can't just ask them to do my taxes for me.
I used to think a limit on the total size of the law like that would be a good idea, but some areas of regulation are inherently complex. I still hold a related position: an adult of reasonable intelligence should be able to easily learn all the laws that they're likely to encounter, and learn which fields are subject to detailed regulation.

To give an example, the regulations governing design of commercial aircraft can almost certainly be simplified from their current state without killing people, but probably cannot be simplified to the point that someone who isn't already an expert on aircraft design can learn them in a week without killing people. Knowing that field is subject to special rules is enough to avoid accidentally violating the regulations.
It was summer reading and we were made to email the teacher weekly about the assigned section.
That's only the 'basic concept of capitalism' at a reductionist Fischer-Price level-of-understanding by its detractors. That's just as impoverished a model of the real world, in its own way, as simple microeconomics analyses of 'perfect competition'.
It’s fun when a technology evolves beyond its original name. E.g. Taping a song, filming a movie, dialing a phone, etc.
> NyQuil

I don't know about this medication in particular (since I don't live in the US), but I see it contains DXM (dextromethorphan), which is a dissociative (such as ex. ketamine), which probably causes the effects you described. I'm seeing it also contains acetaminophen, which probably makes it hard on your kidneys, if you take too much, so that is probably why people don't abuse it more (I guess or hope).
What extra abstraction?

I'd expect without monomorphization the code should perform the same as interface{} code, perhaps minus type cast error handling overhead. That's the model where generics are passing interface{} underneath, & exist only as a type check (à la Java type erasure)
Visual Studio Code March 2022
I understand your view. It is probably more correct to say “you’ll receive occasional marketing emails from me”.

My view is mostly from the “there is no such thing as a free lunch” perspective. If I see an exchange of value it’s fair to me. I can always unsubscribe or not buy what he’s selling.

Personally I just can’t fault him for trying to make a living.
Merlin himself actually used the system, so, at least he bought into his own hype.
Web Reading Experience Is Getting Worse
Good comment. While it seems obvious, the whole environmental, infrastructure cost and land (mis)use aspects are not in the conversation often enough. Usually it's only work productivity and preferences.

The key observation is really that the societal costs of supporting a commute culture are so enormous that for it to make any sense, the productivity of being in-office would have to be many multiples higher than remote.

We can argue whether remote or office is slightly more productive this way or that way, and there are plenty of studies showing both directions so it's probably a wash, depending on team.

But no study ever suggests that in-office could possibly be so immensely more productive than remote that it could justify the costs to society of doing it.

Of course, it'd be great if there is some research attempting to quantify this more precisely (including road construction & maintenance, inefficient land use, pollution, time lost, health impact from the stress, and on and on). Any links?
plugin support? pretty much required for accessibility reasons for me to try an editor
You're not going to go to jail because you're $100 off on your taxes.

If you're $100 off on your taxes, they are going to tell you that you're off, give you the reasons why they think you are off, and ask you to pay them.

Now, if you keep refusing to pay, and refuse to provide a reason why, eventually, some point a long way down the line, jail becomes an option.
I remember reading about composable pipelines a while ago. I remember thinking this is going to take the devops world by storm, hopefully Dagger brings us closer to that dream.
seems like we have a whole international alliance for mutual defense assurance
Also worth context here that Stagwell is set up like another major holding company. They own Targeted Victory (R) and SKDKnickerbocker (D) as their two pillars in DC/public affairs/campaign comms. They also own other non-political communications companies.
Not if existing fleets can be retrofitted to be self driving. At $15/hr, if you can keep a car or truck driving 100 hours per week that's $6,000 month of labor costs saved. It's reasonable to expect insurance costs will be lower as well. Fuel economy would be better too, since a self driving car would be happy to drive at 60mph or less to get more MPG.

Even if the system + retrofit costs $50,000 that's an ROI of ~8 months. These numbers are made up but even with the most pessimistic of assumptions I believe widespread adoption will happen much faster than 10 years.
> which direction we should walk down the aisle in the grocery store

I could be wrong, but wasn't this the stores setting those rules and not the central government?

And if I did manage to be correct there, that'd be capitalism at work. Customers could choose to do business with companies setting those rules. And if enough people voted with their wallets, stores wouldn't have those rules. The people I see "raging" about these things are the same ones I see promoting free markets and things like that.

If I was incorrect, well, ignore me.
So does paying them in rubbles let them evade sanctions because it creates a large international market for rubbles allowing Russia to conduct their own foreign purchases in rubbles? Where as paying in euros let's them prop up the exchange rate of the rubble but ultimately restricts what they can transact? Or is there some nuance of international finance I'm missing?
'Cover Story: Power Trip': podcast investigating psychedelic healing and assault
This is super interesting to know! This means that future implementations of Frozen Arrays could optimize copy-on-write operations by sharing such chunks!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11045895/
In the language? In the implementation?
Don't get too comfortable with Google or any big cloud provider (including Digital Ocean). They have their own reasons for doing what they do and those reasons are not at all aligned with you or any small/startup company.

I'll paraphrase a comment I saw on HN recently:

"The old advice 'save often in case of loss' has now become 'save often to prepare for when Google shuts you off'."

Use big cloud technology to learn and further your projects BUT DO NOT RELY ON IT (unless you like to gamble).
`Rc` and `Arc` have weak references which have worked just fine for me to break cycles in a graph. Not saying my use case is the most complex, but I haven't noticed this as a problem yet. YMMV
So this describes P(audit | bracket), the probability of me getting audited give what I earn.

But those brackets are very different sizes. What I'd find more interesting is "do they focus on minimizing the amount of money stolen from other tax payers?"
That would be more like the absolute number of audits in each bracket, divided by the total number of audits. (or audit hours, if you want to go for a "bang for buck" type analysis)
All bands need help in one form or another. The Beatles understood this, and would get help as needed (even Eric Clapton contributed). Michael Jackson got Quincy Jones to produce his breakout albums. The Monkees believed they didn't need help, and could do it all on their own. "Headquarters" was the result. It's a very weak album.

In my not-so-humble opinion, the Monkees were given the greatest opportunity dropped in their lap, and completely muffed it. They just weren't smart enough to compete with The Beatles.
I have been using Fastmail for roughly three years now and happy with it.

https://www.fastmail.com/gmail-alternative/
Related:

The Hipster PDA (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245408 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

The Hipster PDA (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929462 - July 2021 (1 comment)

The Hipster PDA (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743224 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

Introducing the Hipster PDA (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429300 - May 2017 (1 comment)
I’d also do the same! Back in the 80 in Chile meant no access to foreign languages so SW was incredibly amazing for me. What radio do you suggest so I can show it to my children?
Yeah, well, people's interests don't all align. There's tens of millions of people who look at this headline and say "this is good, IRS should not compete with private businesses".

My rep represents me well. She got like 85% of the vote in her district. She votes along with my interests nearly all the time. But the fact she frequently votes for things that don't end up getting signed into law isn't her fault. The fact that a lot of policies I like don't even get voted on because they don't have a chance isn't her fault either.

Suffice it to say, we most likely don't have Free File because of voters.
That is a very good point. After I made that comment I kept wondering what is the real difference of traditional private data centers and big cloud. Like they do 99% of what the cloud companies provide. It is all about the buzzword.

I tell interviewers that I don't use AWS or GCP because I don't need to use it. I use my RPI where I can use docker/virtual environment, SSH/SFTP, use it as a NAS but it is always a hard sell. In the last 5 years the term "Linux Experience" has been switched to "AWS Experience" yet they require exact same skill set! The only issue is that billing dashboard. But beyond that I wonder, has things really changed.
I was replying to

> The answer may be robotaxis. I am very optimistic that this could solve a large degree of the issues.

What I was trying to say is that cars (autonomous or not) are to mass transportation what copper wire is to the internet: better to keep the bulk of it out of it.

Also car infrastructure is extremely expensive, both in and of itself and as a collateral, parking lot requirements have a huge maintenance and spatial cost.
Putin doesn’t care what the foreign audience thinks, whatever he says is almost certainly intended for his domestic audience.
I followed the link to the flatgame game jam and tried a few of the submissions. I really like the aesthetic. There's something comforting about its non-digital art.

It's always nice to see creative projects like these, so thanks to whoever posted it.
The "AK" standard library that they use is extremely good and very dynamic. Much better than the C++ STL
Google is really an advertising company. Everything else is just a secondary support entity. Your cloud hosting needs are not their real focus.
Your keybindings and the admin's keybindings don't have to be the same. Also yes as someone with RSI I will bother syncing those bindings to every machine I work on because if I don't I will experience physical pain.
Yes, it's a different risk profile that doesn't suit all businesses. VCs are in the business of power-law returns: They're looking for homeruns, not base hits. It's really important for founders to select the right sources of capital for their business. The good news: YC itself is a pretty good actor on that front -- the new $500k uncapped SAFE helps founders retain optionality without fully committing them to hypergrowth trajectories.