skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a pretty poor characterization of the context of the comment.

I think it’s a completely fair characterization of the comment. You said:

>> Have you even tried to get the records? Or are you just complaining that they weren't provided in the announcement for your convenience?

The only fair way to read that comment is that if you haven’t gone through a FOIA process (on a holiday weekend), you can’t comment or complain about the lack of transparency in a decision.

It’s actually very common that press releases like this are offered up with appendixes that show the decision making process and examples. That didn’t happen here. It’s worth asking why and it’s worth criticizing the ruling party for not offering that information. That’s not a political statement.

> Accusations are flying around here including calling them liars and intentionally hiding information.

I didn’t make any of those accusations. I said

>> Ask the governor of Florida. He's the one who put out the press release but refuses to offer any evidence for why books were banned.

Because thus far, he is the one who has put out the informantion and has refused to provide evidence when asked (and he has been asked, as has the Department of Education). Not responding is a refusal (or worse, implying that details might not be public until the publishers have appealed). It allows people on both sides to invent reasons as to why books were banned, which doesn’t help anything. If you can’t share the details about specific books not being accepted (and I think that is a cop-out excuse), you shouldn’t issue a press release saying it is for X reason with absolutely zero evidence or context. That shouldn’t be a controversial statement or opinion.

> Unless the point is to complain uselessly into the void because of the need for two minutes of hate against political enemies. Then I'll bow out...

You seem to see this as an issue about political sides; it isn’t. I would have the exact same response if a Democratic governor issued an order without proof/evidence of why a decision was made, especially if it were blatantly about pandering to the base.
The point of "points" is nobody can estimate how long a task will take and it gets worse the larger it is. So it's better to have reference tasks of a certain size and complexity that you do know how long they took and compare to those to get a general idea. You could use hours in that context but it's trying to make you think is terms of size and complexity not hours.
This is great news. A win for the Internet Archive and other archivists.
Or those stories based their plots on these real life scenarios dialed to an 11
Sorry, I really wish I could but I've seen too many small good communities eventually turn into large bad ones.
Not debating about estimating or not. I'm only replying to the example:

CPUs can only execute, what the instructions tell them to do—like a production line—and not solve / create something (new).
My last Lenovo Thinkpad was an utter disaster. Despite being a mid to mid-top of the line notebook for performance it was stuck with a critical flaw that frequently throttled the CPU down to .39 GHz. Apparently it was a well known bug with the thermal control software and the ultimate solution was just to replace it with another model from corporate IT.

Edit: The throttling would happen despite the CPU temperature being normal for average workloads. It certainly wasn't running at full power near 95°C and then slowing down to protect itself. We even tried providing increased airflow and a laptop cooling stand. It didn't help or make a difference on when it would drop down to throttling range. We tried all sorts of Windows power management settings, a few Lenovo power management apps, updating the firmware, and yet nothing helped.
The iNaturalist app is also quite amazing for identification of all kinds of organisms by image. The also have the "Seek" app which identifies species even offline.
And what if Spartacus had had a Pipe Cub??
> Slices of all mortgages are less risky than a single mortgage

If you've not watched The Big Short (2015)[0], it's a really excellent film.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/
Yeah, they charge for state, but much less than Turbotax charges for state.

Of course this is a bit of a sore point for me since my state used to have free online tax filing but H&R Block got their rep voted in and killed the program "to save taxpayer money", it cost the state about $40k per year to run and now instead we have one of the highest e-filing costs in the country.
Being outwardly pleasant can take precedence over just about anything. I find it ironic as this can lead to a lot of other unpleasantness, perhaps even resentment, people leaving, etc.

Being technically competent while also being perceived as merely neutral personality wise can lead to a lower overall qualitative evaluation, potentially affecting raises, promotions, etc.

I guess the lesson is that you (almost) always have to play the game or at least that playing the game well can yield many personal benefits.
That's just like your opinion, man.
Well Cancun is not mx anymore. GF is from Queretaro, which is somewhat considered a safe place. She would not take an Uber alone anymore as she used to do.
The list of cool programs approved is astounding: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...

Small selection that jumped out at me:

> Mineral Clouds in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter

> The JWST Protostellar Ice Legacy Survey

> Analysis of Low-Albedo Asteroids

> Composition of an Interstellar Object – Unique Insights into Protoplanetary Disk Midplane Chemistry

> Mapping, Resolving and Penetrating into the Dusty Spiderweb Protocluster with Unique Pa-beta Imaging

The list just goes on and on, and I also found that the site hosts similar stuff for the Hubble telescope and more. Just a few hours ago, the HST looked at

> A wide, red-giant plus non-interacting black hole binary, or triple stellar system?

https://www.stsci.edu/hst/phase2-public/16654.pro

Instrument configuration, apertures, location to point it at of course, where in the orbit around earth it is at the time needs to be considered... this isn't as much point and shoot as one might think (I didn't consider this before). It also shows a warning message: "Electrons per pixel due to background (0.26) is less than the recommended threshold of 20 electrons". Since this was scheduled for only hours ago I guess the results won't be known for months, but even just what goes into the scheduling and configuration, there's so much info here.

Is there a channel or website somewhere that keeps up with the results? The list is way too long to really go in-depth on all of them, but 2 minutes about what the objective was and what they found would be super interesting for many of them.
Would be cool to provide exe-it,bin-it as a service. Where your exe file is simply doing a network tcp request. The app is simply a service somewhere listening to those incoming requests. Can be anything. Not only node.
Competent and legitimate tax professionals use those products (and also UltraTax, from Thomson-Reuters, is quite popular).

However, fraudsters will use DIY software like TurboTax but then charge for it, evading all the provisions of tax law that pertain to paid preparers. This is not as severe a problem as it was say five years ago, since IRS has instituted a number of security features to weed out the fraudsters who efile.
I've spent a lot of my time helping ours grow into a collaborating by walking them through my expectations of a product brief and what we need from our user stories. They're also really good at helping with the release, managing story sign-off and communicating changes with the other teams (customer success, account managers, sales team, etc). A good product manager manages... the product. They also collect all the user feedback, validate feature requests with data, and act as a guard for the rest of their engineering team.
Maybe they're afraid of Blue Origin? BO has a patent that covers "Sea landing of space launch vehicles and associated systems and methods"[0].

Of course, BO sued SpaceX and lost, so I'm not sure that they could win against Rocket Labs.

[0]https://patents.google.com/patent/US8678321B2/en
SpaceX's first stage lands itself, either on a droneship or on a landing pad near the launch site. The payload fairings splash down in the ocean, and get fished up for reuse. The second stage is not recovered.

Rocket lab just has a different approach to the same problem.
> These jobs aren't great.

Who's saying they're great? All I'm saying is that they're better than starving on the street, which as you pointed out is what would be happening to these people without the shitty sweatshop jobs. I really struggle to see how offering an alternative to starving on the street is a bad thing. Would you prefer these companies pack up the sweatshops, return production to countries with expensive labor, and force some of their former workers back to starve on the street? Personally I would not. If those people want to work in those conditions I think it's immoral to stop them.

> but promoting that is far from a "holy mission".

I don't think anyone is saying this either. Obviously sweatshop operators are looking out for their own interests, but that's the great thing about trade. When all participants are willing they are necessarily better off due to the trade, otherwise it wouldn't happen.
FAANG recruiters literally send the candidates emails that say things like "you should study Cracking the Code Interview beforehand". No, they aren't supposed to, and no, the incentives aren't set up correctly to prevent it (I've received these emails from Google, FB, and Amazon recruiters in the past).

We can't really go around penalizing behaviours that the recruiting side of the house is actively encouraging shrug
It used to be that they didn't moderate content themselves for fear of losing their "common carrier" protection.

Reddit allowed porn from the beginning. Facebook never allowed nudity. Neither one of them had any common carrier protections to protect or to lose by these policies.

Reddit proves that even subreddits, personal filters, and other self-moderation tools are not enough to prevent politician, media, and advertiser pressure around controversial content. The jailbait subreddit, like every subreddit that has been banned, was full of willing subscribers.

I can't name any prominent American politicians who really want social media to publish everything that's allowed under the First Amendment. Do you know of any?

Some politicians say that they do but I don't believe they have considered the full scope of what is actually allowed under the First Amendment. For example, Senator Tom Cotton published an apparently fierce defense of free speech on his own web site in June 2020:

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/op-eds/twitter-tried-to-c...

It ends with

These social-media companies have improved the lives of Americans in many ways. But they should not be surprised public opinion is turning against them when they act as censors and moral scolds to millions of Americans. Nor should they expect to find many people rushing to their defense. In fact, to coin a phrase, those of us in their crosshairs might say: No quarter for Big Tech censorship.

However, in September 2020 he accused Netflix of distributing child pornography (the movie Cuties) and wrote:

Netflix has a basic legal responsibility to not stream child pornography or otherwise promote the sexual exploitation of children.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/netflix-cuties-child-pornogr...

I don't think that he understands how broad the First Amendment actually is, and how narrow the exceptions for obscenity and child pornography are. He just wants to make tech companies stop censoring his tweets and start censoring movies. Likewise, many activists who are upset about (e.g.) LGBTQ content getting suppressed by YouTube algorithms don't much care about YouTube suppressing videos about guns and explosives.

There are few people except perhaps Constitutional scholars willing to defend the full breadth of what the First Amendment guards, much less require social networks to host content of similar breadth. I'm willing to defend the First Amendment as it currently exists, even the publications I find vilest, but I don't want social media forced to publish all of it.
JSX seems like a pretty common and significant DSL used in JS.
Turbotax did the same thing, at least a few years ago when I used it last.
Lear also made great mainframe terminals in the 1970s.
I started using their product last year, but ended up coming back to VS Code + .devcontainers.

I've found their configuration scheme (.gitpod.yml) confusing and lacking documentation. I couldn't get trivial stuff like Prebuilds to work correctly.
Because now your guessing on minutiae and will inflate the hours to reduce pressure. Or spending enough time to solve the task "estimating" the work due to the need to derisk it. Thus alleviating the pressure of being accountable.

Complexity points has value since they can be used in aggregate to estimate what a team is capable off, assuming the estimations on average are consistent between cycles.
McDonald's ECrew Development Program
Yes, I think working to accommodate the non-humans along with the humans is the right approach here.

Scrapers have a limited range of IPs, so rate-limiting them and stalling (or dropping) request responses is one way to deal with the DoS scenario.

For my sites, I have placed the majority behind HTTP Basic Auth...
Could they just generally increase taxes across the board, and give out cash to properties that provide EV charging (not as a rebate, but other incentive)?
Embedded Linux Web Interface Design
I have a standard project that I do whenever I learn a new language. The reason I do the same project each time is that I already know all of the business logic, so all I need to focus on for the new project is the language and syntax, not the business logic.

My chosen project is a MUD, which is a text-based MMORPG, effectively. I already know how the TCP connections work, how to load areas/zones, how to establish characters and monsters, and how all of those things interact. So all I really need to learn is the language.

So my advice would be to pick something you've already built in the past in a language that you're vary familiar with, then port it to the new language. It's easier than coming up with something from scratch.

Your mileage may vary, but this generally works very well for me.
I don't think you have to hold a candle to the M1 Mac mini to qualify as a low end desktop.
I was under the impression it was proportional to the 4th power of a vehicle’s weight: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...

But this might be measuring something a little different.

Regardless, in my city (Seattle), an asphalt bike path near me (Alki trail) is still in perfect condition after a decade of frequent cyclist and pedestrian use, and adjacent car streets are riddled with potholes and cracks despite frequent patching.
> 1) if I can cut out all of the BS in the feed, I can utilize the app more passively which likely reduces overall usage. I would try to get my social media into a weekly feed, which is not compatible with the business social media companies are trying to run. It's all about DAU's.

Fair point, some may use it much less. Ironically, I might use it even more, because now I can explore more. Being given only one path can bore me at times. Sometimes I want to choose my own path. I absolutely loved the Facebook Graph Search, but then it vanished and I'm back to just hoping that Facebook gives me what I want instead of letting me dive deeper. In other words, I spend a ton of time on Wikipedia rabbit holes even without an algorithm that tries to predict what I want.

> 2) total curation makes researching and optimizing the UX for eyeballs more difficult because you introduce an entirely new set of variables into the equation.

Ah, yeah, I agree with this. Fewer variables make it easier to run social experiments and behavioral research.
The baseline belief would be that their cost mix is about the average, which is up a little more than ten percent. But you flatly asserted that they had lost purchasing power. This is unlikely. You should not make such sweeping statements without first identifying some rational basis for them.
while it's certainly something that's unlikely to be exploited by a remote attacker, local privilege escalation is a real issue.

details on the LPE are not yet released, it's only shown in the video.

assuming the LPE is real and also caused by 7-zip, this is a critical issue for anyone that has unprivileged users use their systems where 7-zip is installed.
For my part, when someone's looking over my shoulder, I get too nervous to rely on basically any editor functionality except cut/copy/paste, undo, and save. I start second-guessing everything. So you may as well just give me Notepad, because I'm gonna look like an idiot in any editor when someone's watching and I'm not already quite comfortable with that person (and the inherent scrutiny/judgement aspect of interviews makes that impossible, in that context).
You can block devices enrolled in a MDM from upgrading to new macOS versions.
Time Team did an episode/dig about this, and another sbout doggerland in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvOcm5dgDI
No, nor can we just do it by IP. The bots are MUCH more sophisticated than that. More often than not, it's a cooperating distributed net of hundreds of bots, coming from multiple AWS, Azure, and GCP addresses. So they can pop up anywhere, and that IP could wind up being a real customer next week. And they're only recognizable as a botnet with sophisticated logic looking at the gestalt of web logs.

We do use a 3rd party service to help with this - but that on its own is imposing a 5- to 6-digit annual expense on our business.
I don't think I agree, I was just on holiday in a new country and am not a birder, but with birdnet and Merlin I learned to identify birds by song quite quickly. If not for the apps how would you even find out what bird you hear if you never see it, as happens often in dense forest?
> So in all seriousness, what is the point of crypto, other than a "new stock market"?

The society needs to start hanging banksters. This is a way there.

It is a market where the scum fat cats who entrenched themselves in political class by buying politicians do not have a monopoly on swindling gullible public.

cryptocurrency democratized behavior of scum. It is a good thing. When JPM Chase f!cks grandma out of her house there's some hand waving goes on as Chase does good hence maybe it was grandma fault and the CEO of JPM does not go to prison where he belongs. When grandma gets screwed by Jose the Neighborhood slickster, society will get the incentives to throw everyone who behaves like Jose the Nieghborhood slickster into prison, ensuring that the CEO of JPM and wall st bros go there as well.

And that's a good thing.
That was an overwhelmingly optimistic article made long long ago. The truth is that not even everyone who got to learn it uses preferently within Catalan speaking regions. Let alone southern France or Alguer (Italy).
So every time you have decided to drive your car somewhere instead of take public transportation you are being immoral? The reason we need nuance here is without it we are all evil people contributing to the destruction of the planet.
This is great feedback thanks! I very much agree with the size of the icons and will patch it soon
Bribery is illegal. Even of the form often presupposed on HN threads: "Congressman, if you vote for this bill, Exxon will make sure you have hundreds of donors contributing thousands each to your next campaign." I'm 100% sure such quid pro quos still happen, but because they're unambiguously against the law, they represent at most a tiny fraction of the lobbying dollars that flow through DC.

Most lobbying is boring stuff like proposed amendment drafting, outreach to Congressional and agency staff, highly targeted issue & message test polling, ...
I had no idea this was even being discussed. I'm glad they are reasonable on this. Wish they had been as reasonable on breaking encryption/DRM schemes.
That's great feedback, I will avoid .gifs in my future blog posts. I can see how that would be distracting and an accessibility issue.
You sound entitled, honestly. I'm sure this brand new project has no bugs whatsoever, right?
The 6 in-line is the least vibrating one of the options, but the 4 is very close.
Thanks! I have a lot more ideas of where to take this but wanted to see if there was interest before going all out into it. I'm excited to keep building
That's really easy to say, but not productive.
Nice to know Google Maps is up to date for once.
Considering how much our digital lives are interwoven with our real lives, who will be held responsible if someone takes their life in shear helplessness basis Google’s absolutely thoughtless and inhuman actions and unresponsiveness in the wake of them?

It might seem hyperbole but it isn’t. Who is to say it hasn’t already happened?
Also mentioned in the Pink Floyd song “Money”:

“I'm in the high-fidelity first-class traveling set
and I think I need a Learjet”
Could. Would they ?
The question remains: how did I lose an entire ext4 volume after pulling the USB drive from the machine without unmounting it.

Is anyone testing for these kinds of things?
If we're talking about mining lithium from elsewhere in the solar system or even galaxy, I'm willing to be that fusing hydrogen and helium to get there is a much more energy efficient route. Maybe this is something you do where you don't need as dense a form of energy, but still. It's only the 3rd element. Rare earth metal mining in the asteroid belt is the one most likely to be necessary.
TBH those names are the good ones.

Which Macbook Air do you have? Today, sure, you can say "M1". But earlier models did not have official names requiring Apple themselves to describe them in documentation as something like "MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)"* or worse, resort to the internal part number ("MPXQ2xx/A, MPXR2xx/A, MPXT2xx/A, MPXU2xx/A" in that case).

Not that "Sony WF1000XM4s" is anything to write home about either.
Well, it's barely done anything but press releases yet. They always tend to look good.

I'll celebrate when we see some important new data!
Why not the voters who voted for the politicians who were successfully lobbied?
isn't it supposed to be in shale outcrops all over the ocean floor?
> why do you think most scams and fraudulent schemes target older peopl?

(1) just following the retirement money

(2) student loans… crypto… mlm… home loans… plenty of scams target people at other stages in their lives. (I won’t even mention religions.)
This is why I think some things in life should not be digitized e.g. electronic voting.

Nobody can realistically know if all of the components from hardware to software is clean. And the more technical you are, the more you realize how many attack surfaces there are. It's impossible to verify everything and you just have to blindly trust that it's all safe.
For some mission profiles, SpaceX boosters land right back where they took off. Neat as can be.

Here's a photo capturing launch and landing at Cape Canaveral in the same view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Zones_1_and_2#/media/F...