skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know what else was done to the site while jQuery was removed.

I would assume that the British government had considerable resources to put on the rewrite so it's quite possible that the removal was part of a general site refresh.
Better mental healthcare might have saved Swartz's life, not different laws.
It'd be nice if politicans funded butter (infra) and not guns (ridiculous military spending and foreign aid)
Pretty sure this is how most Zendesk responses are generated anytime I email tech support.
Obsidian - https://obsidian.md/
This effectively changes nothing. Authorization is still in quotes and remains subjective.
That's cool. Smoking is still around though and you can do it all day in your home using your resources.

I don't mind people/regulators thinking/doing something if there is a though process and procedure that is established vs the pitchfork approach.
I think perhaps then you got the wrong idea then because generally the service provided by utilities in the U.S. is far-and-away superior to that provided in India.
Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks[1] is a delightful time capsule of 2005 software development. It includes interviews with @pg, the Reddit founders, and other delights. It's available on youtube now.

When I interviewed at Fog Creek, they had a DVD copy of Aardvark'd in a care package in my hotel room. I watched it that night, and for my interview day in the morning it felt like everyone I interviewed with was a movie star. Sneaky plan, Joel. Well executed.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg
You're not at all wrong that we don't see the benefit we should for each dollar spent, and I wish we could see some systemic fixes to address these issues beyond the age old "throw more money at the problem"

I will add a fresh anecdote however. I was recently involved in bidding a project for a municipality, it was a FEMA mandated sewer improvement project. There was one respondent to the RFP (ours), that was substantially higher than the Engineer's Estimate. Aspects of the bid are still under review by state offices and FEMA, thus the bid was rejected, and the project will circle back for another round.

Was the bid high? Was the Engineer's Estimate low? Both? Why did no other contractors bid on the job?

There only being one respondent can certainly have pushed the price higher. I know for a fact that my portion of the work was estimated responsibly, but it was nonetheless expensive due to a tight schedule required by the city, and restrictions placed upon the work by proximity to residences and historic structures of concern.

Can the schedule be opened up to allow for less pressure? Can the specifications or restrictions be relaxed? What will entice other parties to bid? Can the review process by outside agencies be sped up to allow for the project to proceed? In my experience, such reviews always eat away at the project lead-up time, without respective time added to the schedule to allow the work to be performed. It's a lose-lose.

And I kinda lost what I was even going for here. Anyway, you can see any number of stumbling blocks that can be addressed, for one small sewer project. Expand this to public works across the country and imagine it.
> Not really, they are among the rare laptops to still offer S3 for Linux.

The features are great but my complaint was about quality control. My T460s has had every single part but the chassis replaced, some multiple times, and still failed. A new T14s had to have the keyboard replaced because it randomly missed keystrokes. It then started having the screen randomly start flickering after resume. A new X1, top of the line 4K spec, has the internal screen randomly lose sync. The days of Thinkpads as dependable machines seem gone.
Agreed! Got one from work, and it's a beast on Fedora 36 with the 11th gen. Even the discrete-ish Iris Xe graphics are surprisingly fast. So cool that we'll actually be able to update the innards in a few years as necessary to keep it feeling fresh.

Edit: A small but nice design feature is the light that comes on to imply whether the usb-c port is charging properly. Coming from a mac that removed this feature when usb-c charging was introduced, this is a huge luxury.
Man, Yo Yo Ma's post-classical career is killer. Obrigado Brazil gets a lot of airtime in my playlist, now I have a new one to add.
This sounds like a thing that happened on the Intel ones. The M1 laptops have a large cooling overhead that would render the point moot.
I was going to respond meaningfully to your other comment, but seeing your full perspective on the topic, it's not actually good-faith enough for engaging with.
This makes me very, very sad. One of my favourite composers are artists, with an amazing knack for melody. And he was still cranking out new music!
"Do these sound like the actions of a man who had had ALL HE COULD EAT?!"
Hammy, I said nothing about you sealioning. I think you're getting yourself confused and overwrought.
" Yes, it is my fault for not being smart enough to parse the language’s syntax, but also, I do have other things to do with my life, like build hardware."

and
"Rust Is Powerful, but It Is Not Simple"

among all the other points, should be enough to disqualify it for mainstream use. The core of most arguments against C++ boil down to those two points too. If a large percentage of the engineers working in the language have a problem understanding it, they are going to have a hard time proving that their aren't any unexpected side effects. Of which both C++ and rust seems to be full of, given the recent bug reports in rust and projects people are using it in.

So, I'm still firmly in the camp that while there are better system programming languages than C, rust isn't one of them (hell even Pascal is probably better, at least it has length checked strings).
It's not your code, it's Google's and I don't see how this is an anti-pattern. It is actually one of the best thought out solutions to balancing source code supply chain security and productivity. The fact that the industry has moved towards git and allows employees to clone proprietary codebases onto developer machines anywhere in the world is pure insanity.
Yes, in that hypothetical this may be an issue. But if you fear a DNS resolver, it is really not sensible to use Android and any Playstore app without some filtering proxy in between: 1) first for verification in a safe environment and 2) in real dangerous scenarios once you're sure it's safe, and without installing/using any previously unverified apps or any new updates (good luck ensuring that).

Google didn't save anyone, by discouraging an exceptional developer with this kind of privacy policy https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md from contributing anything further on to Android app ecosystem, while keeping all the data stealing apps and ad supported apps, and Facebook SDK using apps, in play store.
I deeply resonate with this article. It's like the author read my mind.

ADHD feels really big and complicated as it lives in my brain, and it's always difficult to grapple with the question of, "Am I really addicted and need help for that, or is it my ADHD and need help for that?"

My best wishes go out to the author. I feel you.
Unreal Engine 5 Superman Demo Is Mind Blowing [4K]
Thanks for the sarcasm.
Here are the HN guidelines;

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Does anybody have any factual insight on what is actually going on here? It seems inappropriate for Microsoft to Tailor it's content in the United States according to Chinese politics but that's not what's actually happening here, most likely
Used it for half a year. All works awesome, but I don't know how to update firmwares on my Linux Mint/Ubuntu. There are some guidelines on website, but they don't seem official, and say something like "you may need to fix your bootloader after" which sounds scary that I'll break my perfectly working system.
She should offer a service for hire to sleep with Apple and Google employees to get people's accounts turned back on. Seems more direct and effective than creating a twitter storm to try to punch through their Kafkaesque support processes.
It would be nice if older Framework hardware could be donated to some form of charity.
If it he doesn't want to "feel abused" maybe he should not have been shipping people's contact lists off to a third party without their knowledge or permission while claiming to be a privacy-oriented application?
Coursera has a monthly $45 fee for the whole specialization. But, the specializations also include a 7 day trial. You get access to all course material and assignments and all courses. Back in my college days(2-3 years ago), I would start a specialization and blaze through in 6-7 days. Money saved and time well spent. Ofc now that I am working, it's not going to be that easy.
> Don't know numbers off hand but we had a <4% rate ARM because it was the lowest rate and we liked the flexibility of paying it off asap (or if something happened, paying it off over 30 years) versus a 15-year fixed.

you can pay off a 15-year mortgage in less than 15 years - the lien will be released, etc whenever the principal is paid. Everything depends on the specifics of your contract of course but it would be extremely unusual to have a mortgage where this is not allowed.

fixed vs ARM purely depends on how the interest rate is determined, that's it. In principle ARM should be a bit lower than a fixed rate financed at the same time - but if the prime rate goes up then your rate goes up too, where with a fixed it's locked-in forever. Fixed will have a higher interest rate because someone has to assume that risk of an increase in the prime rate, where with an ARM that someone is you.

Taking an ARM vs a fixed is a bet on whether rates are going to stay the same or decrease, vs increase. And boy if you thought 2020-2021 rates weren't going to increase at some point in the future, uh... it's not every day you have a once-in-a-century pandemic that nukes the economy and drives demand for money almost to zero.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying about balloon payments either, the balloon payment happens at the end of a balloon mortgage, with the intention that values will have gone up so you can refinance at that point - but of course, what if they don't?
IANAL, but I question whether the wire fraud charge would hold up. The layman’s definition doesn’t seem to apply.

Of course, my memory my be failing me as to details that would make it relevant in his case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud#Wire_fraud
Like this?

if let Ok(x) = my_func() {
// ...
}

Or do you mean something else?
Typically what happens is that the government contract effectively requires the use of union labor, which then fixes a substantial element of the cost for all bidders due to union work rules and salaries. Insofar as price is a competitive element of the bidding, you're then talking about the other costs.
Aside from this article, just continuing to scroll down reveals quite a few interesting headlines.

Here's one I found particularly interesting in light of current events and reports of looting:

"How German Soldiers Used Lentil Soup as an Effective Defense Mechanism Against the Soviets"

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lentil.html

To gain time for a retreat they cooked soup for the attacking underfed Russian soldiers. The ruse was successful.

> The Soviets were hot on their heels at first, but once they reached the steaming pots of soup the scent was simply too much to resist. The hungry Soviet troops clambered over each other to grab some of the soup, inadvertently giving the Germans more time.
This is not necessarily true. "Bigger" does not mean "more stable." Big companies like Netflix did layoffs just now; meanwhile there are plenty of small companies that are profitable and doing great. A friend of mine runs a profitable startup (~50 people). A few months ago, a candidate turned them down to join a 500+ person well-funded company that seemed more stable–that company is now bankrupt, while my friend's startup is continuing to grow.

I wrote a blog about this topic: https://www.airplane.dev/blog/evaluate-startup-offers-in-a-t...
I am not familiar with the specifics of their business model, but the definition of risk premium allows for multiple types of risk.

A company being unable to meet its original obligations due to a bad business model is a type of financial risk that falls under this definition.

> risk premium arises from supply and demand in markets typically with some kind of quoting system.

Risk premium arises any time there exists an investment that's riskier than the safest possible investment (whatever it may be). No other conditions are necessary.
That was the Intel models.
This is very sad, his music has been an inspiration for me for a large part of my life. This is one of those days you knew were coming but hoped they didn't.
Well... our stuff costs more because we're having to pay so much extra for the social safety nets like universal health insurance... Oh... wait... nm.
Yes exactly. You can handle inflation for 6 months to 2 years
> Somalia ruled by the warlords was a freer market

That kinda sank your argument, as Somalia is anarchy, not a free market.

> it's by no means clear which one is working better

The US economy does much better than the European one. Look at investment returns, for example. Look at which country all the FAANG companies are in.
Isn’t that a good general practice todo? Exit early
Math Support in Markdown
I was young and poor, if you're young and poor don't take the long shot bets. You need to build stability. Long shot bets will burn you out if you don't have a safety net (and living with your parents is a completely reasonable safety net, just unfortunately one I didn't have!). I wasted my 20s thinking if I worked 60+ hours a week for a startup I would be one of the lucky ones, and it was foolish.

As usual, there's no one-size fits all advice.
Shameless relevant plug: that's the exact goal of Vale! [0]

It turns out, when one removes the borrow checker, they get something that's much more readable, because a lot of Rust's complexity was added to help support the borrow checker.

Ironically, we can then add back in a different, easier form of borrow checking to get the speed benefits.

[0] https://vale.dev/
Not corn syrup. He probably ate well while he was vacationing in Europe. Exercise doesn't really burn as much calories as people think.

I did similar things where I probably had 10k steps a day in Europe because we walked everywhere all the time. We also ate a lot and often. So my weight didn't change. Heck, I thinks some people gained.
Future of Work: ‘The office as we know it is over,’ Airbnb CEO says
You can also purchase an yearly Coursera subscription for $299 or $399 and get access to all the specializations/projects on Coursera for one year.
C++ is one of the most used languages, and it does seem to me that Rust has enough momentum going for it to be a commonly used system programming language as well.

I do agree with his points, but I don't think it's enough to disqualify it for mainstream use.
The ICC only claims authority over crimes committed in member states or by their citizens.
When I use a machine with a spinning rust drive, my brain keeps interrupting me: "Why is this computer clicking?"
https://archive.ph/ml4Vw
After he resigned, everyone cut tie with him and his grants were took away. If he had sued the university, the university can't do anything to him while the lawsuit is going on.
The “too many" part is obviously subjective, but cryptocurrencies are all just zero-sum trading vehicles similar to Ponzi schemes. Unlike real businesses which expect natural resources or build things, there is no new wealth being created in cryptocurrency. Mathematically, only a minority of participants can ever get rich. The majority of participants are suckers who will be left holding worthless coins when bubbles pop. Of course that could take many years, so in the meantime traders who are lucky enough to time the markets correctly can make huge profits.
I hate MATLAB with a burning passion, but Simulink is a damn good piece of software.
That was an intel mac thing.
> are over

For a few years
Sure - I know only salary needs to be specified. My point is, while the CO law (I live in CO) is a step in the right direction it doesn't have a lot of bite. There is still plenty of room for significant pay discrimination - like $100,000 of room.
Using Raft for Centralized Cluster Configurations in Redpanda
Yeah, doing negativity right isn't easy! It's essential to look inward for how the expression might impact people.
Shun the Grifters
> This slow down will have a disproportionate impact on international companies, asset heavy companies, low margin companies, hardtech, and other companies with high burn long time to revenue.

Wonder how things will shake out for biotech. I know biotech investors have long timeline, but surely they are feeling pressure too ("LPs will expect more investment discipline")
The point is: if I can tell to what to do when it comes to bitcoin I will eventually end up telling you all the things that you can and cannot do.

> People have quantified it. About 0.55% of global energy consumption for almost no meaningful benefit.

I hate weasel words. Almost, Meaningful. Who gets to decide what is meaningful? Or, if you take the Thanos approach: Most people live a meaningless life and consume a boatload of resources. Should we get rid of them? What's meaningless you ask? It's whatever I decide it is. It has a fluid definition.
Evidence-based writeup of the other side would be helpful. Not just using euphemisms or vague categorical descriptors like "inappropriate behavior".
Because she has been caught lying countless times?
No medication is ever the best first step but it's often a necessary one.
If the hypothesis is that home prices are going down - then dollars are not going down the same amount WRT house prices.
Well, he's been stumbling in the dark and decided to try this but I don't think it's necessarily a reasonable guess. In hindsight, it's easy to look at this commit and see that as being the reason, but if I were the dev, it wouldn't be my first idea, especially since this feature has been there for a while and since it doesn't actually share contact details at any point, it's just a feature related to contacts that optionally retrieves the favicon.

Of course, if I were the dev, I'd eventually try and go through anything that touches contact and disables that to try and see if that solves the problem, but again that shows that Google doesn't communicate at all.
Why would own a home make a difference? My manufacture date is in the early 90s and I’m saving for my retirement. With or without a home I don’t think I’ll be able to generate as much income later. Worst case I have a cushion if I ever want to make a risky bet. I don’t know what to use my money for other than travel anyway.
Hmm. It seems like the homepage link to the DIY order was incorrectly directing to the prebuilt option. But it's fixed now.
That's one of these posts that it's unsettling for me to upvote/like. Sad news, great composer of someny incredible tracks.
My first introduction to Vangelis was a vinyl of the album Spiral when I was younger ... I didn't even know he did Blade Runner until years later, but I really liked that album. Sad to hear he passed away though.
Poe's law prevent me from knowing whether you are sincere or not, I'll assume good faith though
Not sure if you lived in India briefly or where you lived to have bad experience with the power companies. But I can attest that service in one of the most remote regions of India is very good. There are no power cuts and if there are because of some storm or other natural disaster they are resolved within 2-3 days.
Hmm. You are being downvoted, but your comment actually prodded me into thinking.

Gay sexual harassment cases seem to be rather rare. But gay relationships probably do happen on the campus and between co-workers fairly frequently, much like straight relationships.

Are estranged gay lovers/couples less likely to report their former relationships to authorities in order to exact vengeance?
Rust is awesome. I’ve been in love since the moment I met it.
> Currencies are inflationary to incentivize spending

Really? Doesn't seem like getting off the gold standard was so miraculous in preventing recessions. Spending is great for consumerist societies, but people who are allowed to save are allowed to make far better economic votes on what is valuable past short term pleasure. Inflation doesn't encourage spending, it kills saving and makes storing wealth something only the sophisticated and wealthy can achieve.

> As a 'hedge against inflation,' it's garbage. In the most inflationary period in decades, it went from 69K to 28K. That's a drop of 60% in nominal terms. While the dollar dropped 9%. That means it dropped 69% in real dollar terms in a few months. RIP.

Pathetic cherry picking. How about I do the same thing and I start in 2013 and end anytime in the past 8 years? Price discovery is an obvious reason you as a laymen should be aware of. On chain security scaling with price is one you could be forgiven for being ignorant of. Price and security do not greatly separate and Bitcoin actually needs time for adoption for fundamental reasons (not just waiting for people to understand it).

> - As a 'store of value,' it's garbage. A store of value must be predictable. You should have a reasonable expectation that you can extract the same amount of value from it in the future. See above.

Redundant and addressed.

> It's an environmental catastrophe, wasting as much power as an entire nation (and yielding kilotons of e-waste per year) to achieve 6tps. Millions of times less efficient than Visa, or FedNow or RTP

Bitcoin is not comparable to Visa. Bitcoin is final settlement. Huge banks and financial institutions only do final settlement once a week for a reason - its slow and expensive. Bitcoin is actually faster cheaper and easier than a wire transfer and it uses far, far less energy to do so securely.

> Lightning

Lightning isn't the only layer-2, and it isn't killed by routing complexity, it simply requires more centralized routing hubs, users don't just connect to all their friends directly. This is fine for payments small enough to justify it.

Other layer 2 solutions are custodial and semi-custodial, which, just like financial systems now, settle large amounts of transactions at one time. Even a fully custodied Bitcoin bank (with insurance) fulfills the promise of secure and sound money. It also makes that bank highly auditable and accountable.

Fundamentally sound means what it says. It means the most basic function is the best in its class, and that once the market realizes it the world will build around it.
Is full disclosure good faith?
For example, Google Vision API can do some out-of-the-box classification on arbitrary images with no training needed. Covers super common cases such as explicit content detection and object detection.

There are more customisable products within Google where you can provide training examples and labels using a UI (AutoML I think it's called). The result is an endpoint you can use to do inference, based on the model created behind the scenes.

I just mention these examples because I've spent a little time researching them at top-level.
No. That is the reason it's a great example. Nestle perpetuates horrors around the world and barely enough people know or care enough to even stop purchasing their products. "Voting with your wallet" is apparently not a very effective deterrent because it doesn't stop anything. Even a company who does as much damage to the world as Nestle.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-...