skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the sensationalized "killer rabbit attack" for that matter.

The fact that someone would bend over backwards to misinterpret a sensationalized incident with a wild animal as Carter "being played" says more about that person's preconceived political ideology than Carter's, and identifies them as one of Carter's "political and ideological opponents". How exactly does a swimming rabbit "play" a human being, or frame him as hapless and enfeebled?

>The incident with the rabbit became fodder for political and ideological opponents who wanted to frame Carter's presidency as hapless and enfeebled, although the event's proximity to the U.S. release of the comedy feature film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which includes scenes of a killer rabbit slaying humans, led to some people describing Carter as having "fended off a killer rabbit" instead.

To get back to the actual point of this discussion, why do you believe that the sensationalized story about Carter "being attacked by a bunny" is more indicative of whether Carter was hapless, enfeebled, or getting played, than the objective historical fact that he bravely and selflessly risked his own life and health by saving a Canadian nuclear reactor after a meltdown?

Edit: I saw that. You just edited your comment to tell me that editing my comment (to add more information) is bad form, then you quickly edited your comment again to remove that remark after you remembered that was exactly what you were doing and have already done several times in this discussion, yourself (to change the meaning of your post). And that shows your intellectual dishonesty. So please stick to the discussion topic and reply to the points I raised, instead of hypocritically admonishing me not to do exactly what you've already just done repeatedly (like your "Racism bad" addendum -- we all already know that, but your original "So?" post sounded like you didn't believe that, so you had to add that obvious disclaimer, followed by more racism apologetic non-sequiturs, attempting to excuse Reagan's racism by pointing out that he used to be a Democrat). Denying and making excuses and carrying the water for racism is much worse form than editing comments, but "there you go again", to quote Reagan.
Running arbitrary Turing-complete programs that output Y from X is not customizability. I’m not asking to change the lock screen.

They have more than capable enough processors for that, it’s not some happy meal menu present that can only run a single stupid game.
Toronto is >50% foreign born. idk what stats you’re looking at
You gotta get creative. Walking down the street I met this one guy who's like 70, eccentric, military vet, owns the house, and rents it out individual rooms for $550/month. He's paid off the mortgage, just needs to pay taxes, and he's clearly making a profit since he's retired and constantly has new projects working on the house. For context that's 1/3 asking price out here.
“Why bother having any non-transactional conversation at all?”

lol this seems so wildly tone deaf. Good luck OP!
Apple has also gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware. Like the Facetime camera on the 2015+ MacBook. (Fair dues to the person who got that working).

One of my personal laptops is a 2015 MacBook Pro, and the camera driver is the only thing I had to manually screw around with. Everything else worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it.
I typically play video games for a couple of hours, hang out with my partner, and then read in bed.

But the thing that helps me the most is looking critically at my job and figuring out whether that's the best thing for me. I'm an introvert, and I find training groups of people really draining. Being engaging with 30-50 people is really taxing on me. So I do it less now, and thus find myself having to do less recharging on a daily basis.
For this and sibling comment asking basically the same question, I typed an answer here that I hope is helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969911
Lifting weights.
When you're dealing with small visitor numbers individual user tracking might seem very important. However, aggregate behavior is more insightful as it also smooths out outliers. Eg. 3% of all iPhone users traffic reach goal X every month; versus, this 1 user that visited the site 25 times in the last six months, 3 times through a VPN, 17 times from public, open access Wi-Fi, 5 times from a different country, reached goal X after spending 27 seconds on page Y.

The first one is directly actionable insight. Increase your reach to iPhone users, as more iPhone traffic leads to bigger conversion numbers. While the later doesn't lead directly to any actionable insight, but a bunch of theory crafting, while stripping away any form of privacy (and being a juicy target for intelligence agencies and hackers).

Now, that is of course my opinion. Having touched projects that had collected both "lightweight" analytics data, and everything the user touches. I'm sure the later could lead to more experimentation, but in the context of that project it amounted to just hoarding.

Instead, for other types of actionable insight I would suggest surveying converted users. Of course there can be selection bias, and unless the UI is done right can be obtrusive UX. This is the exact information more data would help you answer (in theory), but rather than asking the user you're trying to read their minds by tracking everything about them.

At least, again, my opinion based on experience.
Well he said he has been pitching large casting to OEM for a decade+ and then he sent a free suggesting excel table to Tesla after their analysis.

Within less then a year Tesla was pushing hard into that technology and invested many 100s of millions into it.

We don't of course know if Tesla did that because of his suggestions but they did 'the right thing'.

He also just bought a Rivian so he clearly is happy for all well engineered products.
Procrastination. Just do less work today to get more free time for relaxation. Obviously depends on urgency of your work.
Does anyone know a tool similar to Metabob?
I just started coding a few months ago and I've been using this tool that helps me to catch errors when I'm coding. It has been super helpful to me and I wanted to check if anyone knows any similar tool out there. Also, If you don't know this tool I encourage you guys to check it out!

https://metabob.com/
Is “Decentralization” Social Media's Best Hope?
> Wouldn't a pre-rendered video also force a single (possibly sub-optimal) experience across various form factors?

Since they'd still be working from a 3D scene, they could easily render ten different videos (or twenty, or thirty) and send a different one depending on the device.

> Especially in the context of low-end devices, I don't think the cost of bandwidth should be discounted here.

I agree, which is why I'm not positive they did the wrong thing, I'm just skeptical.

The thing is, it's not as though their current approach is particularly light on bandwidth. They appear to be downloading many (all?) of the models and textures ahead of time, which makes sense, since it's hard to predict what will be visible in the viewport first. By contrast, videos naturally lend themselves to incremental streaming.

We're also pretty good at compressing videos these days, and a lot of AAA video games are significantly larger than even movies on BluRay (although I admit, I've never quite grokked how this can be.)

So, I'd be interested to see the bandwidth comparison. It's not entirely obvious to me which would win out.
Researchers accurately identify people with PTSD through text data alone – Folio
Has it? Because in the past few years, it's started including ideas like 'The shadowy forces of Antifa and the occasional broken window on May Day is a bigger threat to liberty than actual fascism' and 'Is an election that the right loses actually a legitimate election?' and 'Basic public health measures are tyrrany!' and 'The most popular podcaster in the world with millions of followers is actually an incredibly repressed, censored, and silenced person, who can't say anything anymore because he's a straight white guy.'

If anything, the common trend seems to be insecurity and feelings of martyrdom among disciples of ideas that would have been considered batshit insane a decade ago. Have you completely failed to miss the boat where the American right took a hard step away from the center, courtesy of Obama, and later Trump and Q?
You can position the Dock to bottom, left, or right.
There is nothing not already implemented needed for compilers other than AppStore pulling the trigger on already working apps.
I agree with everything except that referring to someone as girlfriend is “reducing them to their role”. If anything, it’s adding information to your relations. She is not just Emma (what is a name anyway? Your argument could be followed until the end in which you can only say “that person”). She is Emma and also is your girlfriend. Would your mother be offended or feel diminished if you referred to her as “mother”? If anything she would be proud in most cases.
I guess to reduce banding and soften shadow edges. Specifically the glossy floors would probably look much worse without it.
It seems to make sense, if you view
that as current math theories
treated as "windows" into a space
of possible mathematics, like e.g.
quantum string theory possibility
space(10^500) vs "accepted string theories"
https://www.dummies.com/article/academics-the-arts/science/p...
Right. I remember a lawsuit from one of my favourite guitar players (Joe Satriani) vs Coldplay because of some part of the melody of a song... I thought that was so stupid. Both are great artists and composers. What if someone took a piece of your song and used it to inspire something new? That's called progress...
Sommerville was my graduate software engineering textbook in the late
1980s. Along with Jackson, Yourdon and a few others it was the bedrock
of my thinking about how to manage software projects over the past 30
years. It's not as if I got stuck in that mind-set, having been a keen,
early adopter (and early critic) of many faddish methodologies over the
years - but I've been astounded by the almost total lack of deep
traction these philosophies have had in cultivating a mature, long
term, responsible engineering attitude in our business.

I am really pleased to hear a heavyweight like Ian Sommerville
pitching in on what I've been seeing as a cultural crisis in software
spanning almost a couple of decades now. It's disappointing to hear
the usual dismissal of research and lionising of "industry" as if a
cowboy "move fast and break things" mind-set constituted a single
coherent commercial ideology. Can you imagine if the pharmaceutical
or aviation industry took a cavalier attitude towards "eggheads with
their cell biology theories" or "crazy academics with their fancy
aerodynamic equations".

Is software the only engineering discipline where the product gets
less efficient each year? Partly I think it's also the public's fault
for accepting such shoddy produce, and of governments for not being
stricter because of a Faustian bargain to enjoy mass surveillance and
cybernetic social control as vicarious side effects of a hands-off
approach.

It must be frustrating to have put a lifetime into carefully
considered formalisms and see so little uptake.

Anyway, what we've ended up with a bunch of non-interoperable,
insecure devices and services built by well paid but mostly unhappy
workers who have almost no grasp of the complexity, history or
societal import of what they create. Sooner or later the chickens are
coming home to roost, as cybersecurity, resilience or interoperability
issues.

Says Sommerville:

"As a community, senior members (and in this I include myself) have
failed to create an inclusive environment where new ideas from outside
of the traditional elite are supported. We do not act together when
dealing with policy makers and funding agencies and, with rare
exceptions, have not spoken out against the futile short-termism that
has hampered the development of our field."

I absolutely salute you Ian. I wrote similarly a year ago in my last
book that I feel a great sense of regret as a computer scientist who
did not speak out sooner and louder. Perhaps it's grandiose/omnipotent
to think we ever could have made a difference, but if not our
generation then I really hope a new, radical generation will emerge
who have the courage to "take back tech".
It isn't hard to show that Reagan was a racist. But you haven't connected all the dots. Particularly, you haven't shown any convincing evidence that people who voted for Carter in '76 and Reagan in '80 were motivated by Reagan's racism.
Apple iOS privacy clampdown 'did little' to reduce tracking
The worse the advertisement the better. I lived in an absolutely lovely townhouse which had no pictures posted and a description which failed to mention any of the amenities. My current house was shown with no staging and blackout curtains. They only got 3 offers in 2 weeks, in a market where most listings get t 30 offers in a week. It pays to look seriously when doing so takes more effort.
I’m adding to truth finding, in relevant context. My names in my profile. It’s a discussion forum - the opinions are the point.
> As a point of reference - the street food vendors (pani puri guys for eg.), the uber drivers, the blue collar workers and sometimes even the house help i talked to - they all made more money than the "IT people" they provide services to.

Don't know about Bangalore, but in Pune (another IT City in India), this is not true at all. These people might be earning more than fresher programmers and Testers just starting out but as soon as these freshers get 2-3 years of experience, their salaries get doubled and tripled quite easily. Also quality of life of a programmer working from a AC office and a Uber driver driving for 10-12 hours a day are 2 very different things. Also after 5 years this programmer will be earning much more than this taxi driver.
I wouldn't say it's as common as this thread makes it seem. It's a personal preference thing. I don't think there is always a reason behind it.
The same way choking on a pretzel would..
Show HN: It's like Sharktank, but for the rest of us
eBay Distributed Architecture to Handle Thousands of Library Releases
To be fair, they could be doing this already, I haven't dug in to see how much is dynamic.
Yes, absolutely!

I prefer something simple, preferably with a good amount of built-in cabinetry in the kitchen. My ideal kitchen might look like it came out of the 1940s or 50s.

My ideal bedroom is also simple, but functional and relaxing. Here is the one place I might have soft white lighting (I generally prefer daytime color temperature lighting). Little furniture (bed, nightstands, maybe a chair or other little place to sit). Soft, light colors. No or minimal wall art, and what’s there is not overwhelming.

My living room I like to be open and inviting. Here, I’ll mix it up, with mid century lines and some industrial touches. Overhead lighting, for sure. Wall art is interesting and engaging. Maybe even a feature wall.

I like my office to be simple again. This is a room to work in, so it has my large, solid wooden bookcases, antique teacher’s desk, metal shelving for miscellaneous storage. This room is somehow cozy and space efficient, while also being simple and easy to take in.
That doesn't answer the question. You could be out buying groceries, hear a good tune, and then pretend you invented it in steps when you get back to your studio.

Just like we pretend we figured out the tortoise/hare algorithm for finding loops in linked lists at interviews.
That sounds like a reasonable parallel.

In the field of Machining most of our new folks come from one particular Community College that offers a Machine Shop with a few CNC machines.

The sole instructor was a friend and would give me heads up on excellent machinists.

Stanly retires and new instructor brought in.

Fast forward a year and a competing companies CEO now sits on board of college.

He gets all the heads ups from the new instructor and we are left with the slackers to hire..
Kind of similar in Spain. Usually it's equivalent to a whole month rent.

A new law a couple years ago mandated that, if the landlord is not a person (a corp / company / org...) they must be the ones paying the fee.

But I've been "extorted" twice in the last year by companies moving the payment to my person. And I say "extorted" because they defer details or information about the rental until the last minute, when you are days away from having to leave your old place and you have no other option.
I think it can be confusing even for Americans. My wife goes nuts when my mom refers to our kids in the third person. Ex:”This child is so clever”, said in the presence of said kid, wife and me. Trying to pick apart American speech norms, education level, parents cultural differences can be very frustrating when trying to figure out what is really happening, that the individuals can’t explain. My mom grew is 1st generation American from El Salvadoran and Greek parents. My wife is first generation American from Taiwanese parents. Summary: it’s complicated, even for Americans.
It's great that worked out for you. It'd be great if people didn't have to get creative to find basic housing.
I think then we're on the same page. They have the right to fight for their own interests and see what they can come up with in the end. whether path to citizenship or the nearest international airport, but to just ask them outright to pack up and leave because the law says so turns the whole discussion unnecessarily negative.
Ecuadorian Police raided Ola Bini's workplace
> sense of aloneness

I think this is the biggest difference - economic differences are quite large in nominal terms but life always goes on, there's going to be food on the table and roof over your head.

Coming from East Asia a lot of my friends are not used to this - but I find myself enjoying the loneliness of it all - being on a boat in the middle of the lake at the middle of the night with no one around you in 2 miles radius is a blessing.

For a similar reason, I never liked New York, SF or LA in the US.
> So instead, the page lists "10,000,000+ users" so we can assume the true number to be above that, but below "100,000,000+ users" users

Can we? I can't seem to find anything that indicates if/when the next number jump is, just a lot of big name extensions at "10,000,000+". Back in 2016 ABP had a post about their extension alone having 100+ million active users https://blog.adblockplus.org/blog/100-million-users-100-mill... and that's ignoring the >50% of Chrome users on mobile which requires non-extension based blocking.

Going for someone else's numbers instead of trying to build my own I'm finding anything from 10% to near 50% with most estimates being in the range of ~25%.
Check this my article on how to use react-loader-spinner

https://dev.to/folasayosamuel/how-to-use-react-loader-spinne...
Oh the irony. The company that lets AI determine what it thinks is factual says using AI to generate content is bad.
I discovered Fastmail a few years ago and couldn't be happier. Migrating from Gmail was easy via the import option built into Fastmail.

I'm using a custom domain and pay $5/month for my account.

https://www.fastmail.com/
Much as I agree with the complete spin-doctor rewriting of this headline, we don't really do that on HN, do we?
My reactive workspace tool aka spreadsheet replacement (Inflex) is SaaS, but I’ve also considered offering a completely downloadable tool for a one off price. I think if ever get a substantial user base and people ask for that, it’s on the table.
Go solves the coloring issue without structured concurrency, that's true. But that statement says nothing about whether structured concurrency can or cannot solve the coloring issue, and if it could, then they're not orthogonal.

I think OP saying that structured concurrency solves the coloring problem is a very similar argument to the authors of Zig saying Zig is colorblind; it might be true for a portion of the userbase, mainly those who are callers, and mostly not for those who are library implementers.

I also think that the structured concurrency feature of "you can expect that the {thread, task, fiber, goroutine} is joned before the function returns" is weaker for the purpose of colorblindness than "you can expect that the {thread, task, fiber, goroutine} is joined before the next instruction is executed" which is what I think you'd need as a single tool for colorblindness
My problem with omemo is it is too opportunistic. But thanks
Thank you for the explanation. This looks to be correct, e.g. by changing 16807 to 16808 and using the sanitize options, the program can indeed terminate with SIGILL depending on the value of seed.
I can think of a route towards Wesman's stated goal: if you fire most of the worthless middle managers, and let the real workers work from home, then a majority of the workforce will be satisfied.
Its an Italian company that design and built the machine special on Tesla request for Tesla specification. The machine was quite a bit larger then other machines they had done before. It was first installed in the US and produced cars for export and the domestic market.

Its not like Tesla went down to the local market and picked up a few toys and put a factory together.

By your standard no company in history would be 'particularly special'.
I told a coworker once that I subscribed to the ACM (which I don’t anymore), and he looked at me like I’d just parted the Red Sea. He was amazed I could understand them. I told him I could only understand about half (closer to 3/4) which mollified him a bit.

There are any number of reasons I have stayed engineering track instead of going into management but the biggest is that talking about things and doing them are vastly different, and we’ve structured management and research around talking. Some days I worry I may know more about project management than I know about cloud or React, but it would kill me to be telling people how to do the job that I’m not also doing, and if I don’t like how they did it, have only words available to get it fixed.

In one of my hobbies, time and the pandemic have slowed me down quite a bit and I’m trying to manage more and do less, but unlike work there are plenty of opportunities to lead by doing. Doing 5-10% of the work and then guiding people to do the rest is socially acceptable.

In software we sometimes call that a lead developer, but that definition changes from situation to situation. But the more you do the less influence you tend to have on what you’re doing and why. Is that human nature or leftover from feudalism?
The misconception here is that the internet is not decentralized. The original idea of the internet is to be decentralized. There are just very large centralized silos built on top of its structure.
"Middle managers" are certainly needed as part of a corporate hierarchy. What is being exposed with WFH is -ineffective- managers.

Ineffective managers are at every level, including the C-suite. Middle managers just have a higher probability of being ineffective due to lack of experience/resources, so they get the headline.
It's mostly caused by the explosion of lifestyle inflation at universities. Rather than just providing an education and doing research they are now expected to be mental health counselors, promote "diversity" (aka we need more of certain skin colors over other skin colors), and make "democratic" decisions. In practice this means everything is filled with bureaucracy and you need to go through 5 committees and 3 vice chancellors before anything gets done.

Football and basketball are actually profitable at most R1 schools, even though the coaches make lots of money.