skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does learnings ever mean anything different than lessons? How did this enter corporate-speak?
Is there an antitrust case to be made here? Antitrust means a lot more than just 'big company'.
A lot of fun things aren't addictive. For example, I've done a lot of sports. I enjoy them. I don't suffer withdrawal if I stop doing them, and I don't feel a compulsion to start doing them. Indeed, I need to motivate myself to do them.

A lot of addictive things aren't fun. A gambler might be miserable but CAN'T stop. Likewise, there were a lot of time-wasting games in the 2010s which no one enjoyed playing, but which were very hard to stop.

A popular model was:

- Click on things to gather points / resources / etc. which you can trade in to be able to do more.

- You have a constant feeling of progress. There is often exponential growth of some kind of points / diamonds / etc. as you can trade them in for things which produce more.

- There is real-world time involved. For example, plants might grow in 8 hours, and whither in 24. You need to log in periodically or you lose them. There might be weekly rewards, which are one-shot (if you don't get one some week, you lose it forever).

- There is an element of randomness on rewards (treasure boxes) and determinism on punishments (if you've failed to log in one week, you lose that reward forever).

This was well-studied. Similar techniques are used by shopping vendors to get people to buy, employers to get people to work, etc. We've gotten really good at making things addictive.

Right now, there's a similar thing happening with hate and polarization. People have a need to follow stories which often have no effect on their lives (in some cases, are statistical anomalies), but which serve to scare. We're wired to follow fear. That's a lot more effective than the 2010 model, and makes people hate each other.

A lot of drugs create a dependence too, without being fun.
Based on my calculations, it was money.
It's precisely because we all act like this and essentially glorify the shooter. If we ignored it, it would go away.
Yeah, mixed environments are really tough. Though (most) of my machines are Linux, they often have _some_ stuff that should be the same and _some_ stuff that should not. My solution has been to use the fine-grained GNU Stow approach, which allows me to apply only the bits I need for a particular machine.

The files you're managing don't even need to be text, though, of course, it makes versioning, etc. a lot easier.

I also check the host name in some of the scripts to modify behavior depending on the machine.

I did a write-up about my whole setup (emphasis on GNU Stow + Git) here:

https://ratfactor.com/setup2
Fun fact; Gateway's founder, Ted Waitt, previously dated Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's protégé and now convicted child/teenage sex trafficker.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/29/ghislaine-ma...
I do like that page that's shown in the article. It looks like it has a nice flexibility between putting meetings/events at specific times on days, blocking out periods, to-do lists that can be sketched out for the week, and a catch-all space for things without times.

Does anyone know what planners have a layout like that?
How you use or abuse that freedom is entirely your choice.
Semantics again. Who cares?

Don't call it mental illness then, but mental states, neuro architecture, chemical disfunction, or bad brains.

It is clear that healthy well adjusted people don't fixate on slaughtering children
Most other countries have social media. Few other countries have a mass shooting problems. Restricting access to guns absolutely will lower school shootings. A disturbed 18 year old isn't going to have black market gang connections to get a gun.
> there was a significant amount of buzz around ... desktop GUI applications

As someone who is still supporting multiple desktop GUI applications in python, what did they pick instead? I'd love move off Python, but nothing else seemed to have the proper maturity.
Arm: a means (such as a weapon) of offense or defense.

Firearm: a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder.

Small arm: portable firearms, especially rifles, pistols, and light machine guns.

The second amendment as strictly read says only "arms" the definition which has not changed since it was written only the lethality of the arms has increased through technological advancement culminating in nuclear arms.

A "destructive device" is a type of arm as defined by the 1934 Firearms act nearly 150 years after the second amendment was written.

A machine gun is not considered a destructive device but is still regulated and obviously still a type of arm.

So clearly you are ok with adding restrictions on arms not specifically laid out in the constitution if you are ok with the regulation of "destructive devices" and "machine guns" semantic word games aside. Otherwise if you strictly adhere to the wording of the amendment then there should be no regulation on the type of arms a citizen may own up to including nuclear arms.
It basically boils down to everything, but for example the post-Dunblaine total gun ban that US gun control advocates point to was actually a total ban on handgun ownership - when they've been pushing heavily on the idea that rifles are obviously more dangerous than handguns and that it's nuts for them to be less heavily restricted. It's basically only the pro-gun side who seems to argue handguns are more of a problem, even though they do seem to be overall in the US too. (It'd also mean no more private armed security for left-wing Hollywood celebrities, an idea prominent gun control supporters dislike.) They get close sometimes for a moment, for instance the UK does have stricter gun licensing than the US - but we also let 14 year olds get gun licenses to create a culture where guns are seen as tools which can be used by those who show they can be trusted with them, something which would be unthinkable to US gun control supporters. (Until quite recently I don't think there even was a lower age limit.) They also like to point to scary-looking black small-calibre bolt action rifles as examples of guns too dangerous even to be sold to 18 year olds; as far as I can tell that's typically what a 14 year old would use as their first gun both here and in the US. It's outside my and most UK resident's area of personal experience of course, which is one big difference from the US.

Honestly, a lot of the UK stuff seems to almost have more in common with US gun owner culture than their anti-gun campaigners, though obviously organisations like the NRA would not be happy at all with UK levels of gun ownership restrictions. The fact that self-defence is not a valid reason to have a gun or any other weapon here would also be unacceptable to pretty much everyone in the US from what I can tell, not to mention unconstitutional. (This includes stuff like pepper spray.)
If necessary yes?
Thank you. Will do!!
My math skills are somewhat lacking but 3.64% of all respondents using the term to describe themselves doesn’t seem like mass adoption. And even that small group doesn’t use it around fellow Latinxs (don’t know the plural, Latinii?). Some might even call that rejection if they were so inclined.
Yep. And Studio Ghibli, that did Arietty, also worked on Ni No Kuni.
Enterprise software is such a mystery to me. I can't imagine any company ran by <40 yr olds ever paying $100k+ a year to VMWare, Symantec, Oracle, ...

To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with Linux directly
How would you contain the spread of information? Maybe you could do so 30 years ago, but I think that ship has sailed. It is very difficult to contain information these days.
Wow. This is such a deeply personal reply. Thank you to share about your experience. Please don't think this is only the Netherlands. The United States still has similar issues. If you have a name that "sounds Black" on your CV, you are much less likely to get a call for interview. It is sad, and it bothers me to no end. The same will be for people who have traditional Islamic/Moslem names (Muhammed, Siti, etc.).

What makes me most hopeful: These investigations and reporting demonstrates a functioning democracy is able to audit itself -- either internally or externally via media. Years ago, I had a Japanese co-worker. We were discussing recent news events in Australia. For whatever reason, Australia was in one of those mini-bubbles of political corruption. To him, it seemed like everyday was some new corruption in Australia! He asked me -- in all seriousness: "Is Australia a corrupt country? Look what we see in the news." I am not Australian, but I mentioned that it was positive the gov't and media was investigating and being transparent about it. That part was the most important to me. In the end, he seemed satisfied with my explanation -- and not excusing the scandal.
Neither of those serbian shootings were in schools. NYC has had shootings though not that many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_New_York_...

Also isnt there recent history of people going to different states to buy guns to shoot people in another state? Its not like there are border police checks
How about because:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

... is no longer either a true or useful statement?

I think I'm probably happy to toss the Third Amendment on a similar basis:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Does this speak to the problems that the republic faces today, any more so than does the Second?
How do you envision that going down, exactly? The army as a whole is generally pro-gun ownership and took an oath to defend the people.

General: "Commander, send the tanks to blast the protesters. They're exercising their constitutionally protected right to carry arms, for gods sake!"

Commander: =|
>Options have a tendency to disappear 90 days after cessation of employment

but according to a thread by CEO (?)[1] they made the exercise window "several years". That means the main advantage of taking the loans while you're still employed, is to get favorable tax treatment, ie.

>The capital gains clock begins AFTER options are exercised, meaning employees have to wait at least a year to get capital gains tax benefits

Looking at only the federal rates[2], if you earn between $204k and $459k, your marginal tax rate would be 35% but your capital gains rate would only be 15%, netting you a 20% savings on tax.

[1] https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493390184897032201

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
How do you enforce that in the era of 3D printers and consumer grade CNCs?
Slack-for-engineers Mattermost on open source and data sovereignty
An even better number is the types of guns used in homicides. AR style weapons are used in less than 150 shootings a year on average out of 24,000 homicides. It's mostly handguns. Just because they are prevalent in particular tragedies do they get such attention. It's dumb.
> This is one reason I'm bullish on some of the new UI frameworks coming out of the Rust community in particular. For example https://github.com/iced-rs/iced looks quite good.

What are you smoking? :-)

"Lack of x-platform native GUI frameworks" is not the reason for non-native GUI applications.

You're already spoiled for choice if you want to write a reasonably cross-platform native-code application. Personally I use Lazarus (calling into .so/.dll libraries for anything non-GUI).

The difficulty with using the existing frameworks is why developers are choosing Electron.

I don't think throwing another even more difficult and even more time-consuming tech stack into the mix is going to cause GUI application developers to decide "Finally we can do x-platform GUI apps".

If the creators of whatever application decided that it would take too long to design and implement in QtCreator, Flutter, Lazarus or any of the existing rapid tools, I doubt they are going to want to spend even more time doing it in Rust which doesn't even have the rapid-prototyping tooling!
An proposed language-neutral change to GitHub's Markdown admonitions beta
All the abortion bans are also currently unenforceable. But that can change with a simple precedent reversal from the supreme court. And note that the precedent to overturn for the guns is not as long standing.
I think this is good advice but it also shows why using TOTP as a default 2FA mechanism (instead of SMS) is a tough sell. How many people are set up to store a TOTP seed in a location other than their authenticator app? How many people even know what a TOTP seed is? I would wager that the vast majority of non-HN readers think of TOTP as a QR code that you scan into an authenticator app, if they are even familiar with authenticator apps.

SMS, for all its security shortcomings, is at least something that the vast majority of people understand already.
true, but most people doing hardware are doing formal designs and prove their work correct. While the proofs are not perfect, there are a lot less bugs. The cost of fixing bugs in hardware is a lot more than software, so it is seen as worth it.

Of course the cost of doing the above is one reason we don't do everything in hardware. If you have the money you could implement everything people do with computers in hardware, no software - I don't even want to think about the cost.
I was delaying my decision to play Elden Ring on PS5 due to numerous reports that it has pretty noticeable FPS drops, even in 'performance mode'. Finally decided to give it a chance and have zero regrets when it comes to it. Yes, it's far from perfect but good enough for me to not be annoyed with it. Times I have been upset because of FPS is close to 0, which is like 1000 times less than because of yet another death.

My point is, people talk about FPS drops, stutters, etc., but everyone has different tolerance to these things. So it's better to check it out yourself if this is the main reason holding you back. Make sure you can get a refund/sell the copy if you're unsatisfied.

Will likely play it again in my lifetime.
One thing you should know is this. Never advertise through Instagram and their ad platform. Instead, use the Facebook ad platform which will more effectively advertise on Instagram as well (if you even want to advertise).
I agree, further to this line of thinking I’m not really seeing how widespread adoption of arms by the general public has as many benefits as private vehicle ownership. Apart from environmental externalities, we know the cost for one is higher in terms of strict mortality… to that end shouldn’t the social utility of fire arms be higher? I can use my car to get my kids to school at least.

Perhaps we go in on a startup to modify the AR platform to distribute COVID tests or vaccines?
You didn't answer my question. What's the problem with the Go team's workaround? I get that DeVault would like to redesign the Go modules system to suit his own preferences, but that's not on the table.
I’m a little surprised the black market in highly regulated countries doesn’t adapt by way of 3D-printed guns. Obviously most criminals aren’t going to learn how to make their own, but rather there are specialists as there are with forgers and traffickers and so on (hence “black market”). I wonder if there’s some limitation to those guns that I’m not aware of?
VMware used to be centered around Virtualization until 2015-16 or so. Since then it has moved / expanded to Software defined Datacenters (technically virtualization, yes), Automation, Security (Carbon Black) and lately, K8s (with Tanzu). That does not mean a good chunk of revenue might still be from virtualization - FWIW, I do not have any idea on that.

Disclaimer: I am an ex-employee of VMware.
There is a difference between doing well and becoming China in terms of surveillance. Most of our revenue were from just plain head counting and from tracking cars in a smart city project.

The one face rec system we actually sold was used to measure waiting times in a retail setting, and replaced an existing system that was using AWS Rekognition in the same manner, except with all the video footage going to the cloud. That license has long expired and the system is no longer running.

In any case, what is stated in the app's privacy statement is what we are doing. At the moment I don't even collect the IP addresses of users connecting.
Sure, one can try this - but I suspect that 4chan will only get more powerful as a place to "get information that is being surpressed". Qanon started on pol, and making pol the best place to go to find the sweet details on the shooter is going to blow up in your face.
As a former employee, my outlook for VMW was already grim. Given Broadcom's history of acquisitions...this will probably not end particularly well for VMW as a company, and almost certainly will be bad for employees. Very glad I bailed out right after Pat Gelsinger did.
Oh agreed. I don't want to rely on that change.

At this point, I don't see the surf of shifting Congress being that much faster than shifting the court. Both are slow.
Link to the alternative proposal is in this comment: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/16925#discuss...
> It took a very long time but finally it was decided that Perl 6 wasn't really Perl 6, but some other, Perl-like language, and renamed to "Raku" to signal this. But by then it was already too late, most everyone had already moved on, and by the time when Perl 6 was finally released it was an extremely niche thing very few people had any interest in.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but I would like to emphasize the ordering of these events: first "Perl 6 was finally released", and only later was it "decided that Perl 6 wasn't really Perl 6 [...] and renamed to Raku to signal this". It was too late not only because most everyone had already moved on (by the reasons you mentioned: why would anyone invest in Perl 5, when the migration to Perl 6 would throw away all that investment?), but also because Perl 6 had already been released under the "Perl 6" name.
See https://www.pouet.net for endless supply of demos.

I'm not gonna spoil the fun by adding the name of some legendary demos.
I've written a few open source github apps and I've always had to ask for more permissions than I really want simply because Github does not have good enough controls.
Graphics programming perspective: We call this “rejection sampling” and may work and is a more general sampling method that can sample from more difficult probability distributions but has significant disadvantages. First the runtime is the worst case across all threads invoking this in a GPU simd unit. Second, you have to evaluate the pdf itself which is easy in this case, and harder in general. The sqrt really doesn’t really amount to much to outweigh the cons in a shader. You can use the rcp sqrt intrinsic if precision is less important, or square the LHS if the ALU is actually a problem (or to conserve more energy)
Germany too! I've heard multiple first-hand accounts from highly educated people who immigrated to Germany for work. They enjoy the high quality of life and feel welcomed in their community.
Not to mention in many cases, you can carry a gun in public, and you do need a license that has to be renewed, just like a driver's license. So the original poster's point is moot.
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Indeed. Prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act, you could order pretty much any gun through the mail.

The political violence and radicalism of the 60’s drove the legislation. Only automatic weapons were controlled before that.

So seems silly to claim “radicals took over the NRA” when any type of gun control is a very recent phenomenon. Hell, even during the 80’s most of the US had incredibly lax gun control laws compared to what is being suggested today.
Rich people have this sort of "everybody who is not me is either evil or a slacker" mentality.

It's true for both sides, matter of fact it's true for every side and everywhere.

But the petulancy of rich Californians is unrivaled, they don't even pretend to put together a coherent argument to express why people should put them in charge of organizations. "Current thing" what the hell does it even mean?

At least John Kerry and Larry Fink, the Davos crowd and all the proponents of ESG go through the effort of producing some 1500 pages documents with figures and numbers as opposed to blurting into the ether stuff like: "The current thing is truth"
Whoops! Totally misunderstood that page. Thanks for pointing it out.
This was submitted first, but most discussion is happening at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517184
Can you help me understand the problem with the workaround, which is precisely to have Google's proxy not excessively poll DeVault's service? It really seems like DeVault's real argument here isn't about the impact of this on his service, but that he doesn't like the design of the proxy. He has a lot of standing to complain about impacts on his service, but essentially no standing to complain about designs he finds sub-par.
I just have a dotfiles repository and in it an installation script, one for Mac and one for Linux.

Might be bad of me, but I definitely share it between professional and personal - it's just dotfiles after all.

The biggest difficulty is making sure that the installation script actually matches what you want to happen because it is difficult to test on already finished system. so every so often I spin up a Digitalocean droplet and try to configure my system from scratch using the dotfiles.
It feels like your argument is a bit of a strawman itself. I'm hard-pressed to come up with a situation where the code is broken but readable, and the quickest way to fix it is to make it less so.

Sure, there are times when I don't know or don't have the time to come up with the best structured solution, but have to put something out there that just works. I would argue that's where you should strive to make it even more readable, because the uncertainty means the odds of having to revisit it later are even greater.
They cost money.

They involve real woman (ethical concerns).

They might not show exactly what you are looking for.

Like the good scene is to short or the quality is too bad or there is only one video.

Also variation.

ML porn should be a good thing. Only thing Im not sure is about people creating pedo porn. But even that is better than real pedo porn :|
.... + $374.99 – $839.99 USD for the Vertical Axis Seismograph. Uhmm yeah, interesting but I sometimes feel like these "do this With A Pi" need the same caveat as scientific research that headline's read "Researchers discover $thing" << In Mice >>
As I understand it, if they're unable to tie you into their "social graph", you won't be able to use the service. I tried similar a couple of years ago when I begrudgingly wanted to participate in a group that insisted on using FB as the communication platform. Couldn't get an account to stick unless they had some way to figure out who I was. Eventually just stopped trying.
>Nobody is giving startups money to sit on it.

Depends on the economic environment. We are headed for a difficult cycle. Downsizing and doing a raise to at least partially "sit on" might be the best strategy at this moment. Money flow can go from huge to nothing faster than one might imagine.
I think that still makes sense. If you use that branch rarely enough that another one takes its place in the predictor, then it's likely not important enough to matter in the grand scheme of things. Cmov -vs- branch will be most important in stream processing / tight loop. When it's "once in a while" then who cares?
Investors pulling back or pushing forward in 2022, Sequoia sounds the alarm
I think this is the play. They can create or influence standards that favor their new position - build vertical integration where others in this space cannot.