skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call this the hyper-competence fallacy: the mistaken idea that some group of people (usually the ones in charge) are consistently and significantly more likely to have their shit together than the median person. I've met extremely smart people, and extremely competent people, but they were only smart at certain things, and only sometimes. They still made lots of mistakes, even basic ones.

Some people are certainly better at their jobs than others, but that you shouldn't just assume that the people in charge are right without thinking things through and raising your hand to ask questions.

Much more common are the people who are typically incompetent, but who manage to make people think they know what they're doing. People want to believe somebody knows the way. It can be hard to spot incompetent leaders until it's too late, which is all the more reason to be politely skeptical of anybody who acts like they aren't playing catch up most of the time.
I am torn on this issue.
On one hand I don't want to waste my time commuting nor I don't want to sit in open-space office where everyone screaming over everyone and I can't concentrate

On the other hand I need that physical separation between I work here and I relax here
Remember when Apple killed Flash?
People probably do this based on experience. You know from the wall clock time that you slept, say 7 hours. So on a daily basis, you know what 7 hours of sleep feels like and from that you can extrapolate: if you think you slept about half as much, maybe it was 3 hours. Kind of thing.
Really awesome to see this evolving to this stage :)
What the hell is a Juneteenth?
> If your purpose in life is to maximize the number of days you live, I guess you do you, but it doesn’t seem like a very high quality life to me.

People have a tendency to go to the extreme. There is a lot of middle ground between not caring at all and having a panic attack. This middle ground can be constructively used to make the lives of future generations easier, just like many of the people of the past have done for us.[0]

[0] Having spent a few months off-grid, I'm extremely grateful for things like electricity, tap water, sewage, central heating, a roof above my head, walls around me thicker than my tent, medicines, and many, many other things I used to take for granted.
I don't really think that getting an email at dell@domain.com means that a provider's security has been compromised. Not only do you need to use unique email addresses but they should be uncommon. Otherwise it doesn't really do a lot to address the issue. Might I also suggest using subdomains as well.
At this point, we have an over abundance [edit: of evidence] that when we as humans do new science in pursuit of good, we tend to overlook the negative aspects. Chemical companies spend a fortune on development of the new chemical and rush it to market to recoup investments. We never spend enough time looking at the down side of these new chemicals even though we have all of the information we currently have that shows these chemicals tend to not do so well in the environment. We also have abundance of examples where these companies knew the dangers and hid them in order to make their money. Yet with all of this information, nothing is done to prevent the release of these chemicals without 3rd party testing.

The citizens being affected have very little recourse.
What is the expectation for on-prem software which uses OAUTH SSO?

OAUTH requires a redirect URI [1] which presents challenges for vendors wanting to sell on-prem, because it demands the customer to set up DNS as well as TLS certificates obviously. This is an ongoing challenge for us because not all shops are wild about vendors dictating these requirements.

I'm very curious what other prem vendors do in this case, and what's the prem IT team's typical best case scenario here?

1. https://www.oauth.com/oauth2-servers/redirect-uris/
You can self-host keycloak. It's … curiously not that hard, though the documentation is a jungle.
Anytime the person recommending X is also the person who sells you X, you should be suspicious. The guy who comes to your door saying your roof needs fixing? That guy.

Without discounting any of the bad experiences people have had here: I've been going to the same dentist for 30 years. He never suggested teeth whitening to me, even though I obviously could have benefitted from it, and did when I explicitly asked for it.

In a way, painless dentistry probably increases the profit-seeking. At one time, drilling and other procedures were incredibly painful. Now they're only painful to your wallet.
Is it Facebook you don't like or the ability for billions of people to communicate with each other without an intermediary you dislike?

When I hear people criticize FB for "destabilizing democracy" or "spreading propaganda" what I generally hear is: "Having ordinary people able to communicate to each other without review by media &/or government is dangerous for our society." Can you distinguish your critique from that?
On leaving Mapbox after 12 years
The reality is that while you own your computer, you generally don't own the proprietary software on it, you _license_ it. That license entitles you to remarkably little beyond using the software as the software vendor permits.
I have used Ada in the past, and it is really a great language and quite performant.

I'm convinced that if the Ada designers had gone with a C-like syntax the language would've been more widely adopted and tons of bugs would've been avoided.
>cost out-of-pocket to address the cavities and they gave a number somewhat north of $200

Sorry for the all caps, but YOU HAVE TO NEGOTIATE PRICES! $200+ per filling is an ASKING PRICE. You counteroffer at $75/per filling. Maybe meet at $90/each.

IF YOU DO NOT NEGOTIATE PRICES YOU WILL BE CHEATED!
One Grocer Wanted to Give Up Plastic. It Got Rotting Bananas
Update on OpenType Math Fonts
>Sometimes I call this the “tyranny of choice”, tyranny is probably the wrong word but it sounds nice.

Barry Schwartz, is that you?
The WELL is still around, by the way.

Compared to modern forums, it's a bit hard to read because the subject lines don't change. Topics can last for many years and keep getting rolled over when they're full.
I cannot stand up to intrusive ad tech that Facebook can generate alone. At least, not at a reasonable time cost. Open source software can do pretty well. But I trust Apple more than myself to maintain a perimeter against Facebook and Googles intrusions on my behalf.
"Forgive me this long letter—I had not the time to make it short."
Kelvin Wave Pattern
> But often SSO comes bundled with a lot of overpriced garbage in some enterprise agreement.

Fair. But wouldn't the opposite also hold true? The purchasers who say "what..I got pay $10/user/month extra for JUST SSO?"
It's Facebook's job to convince users that allowing access to the data is worth it to the users. It's not Apple's obligation to give free reign to companies to their users' data. Their obligation is to their users and I'm happy that they decided to do it.

Facebook should instead spend more money and more effort to entice users to give this data that they used to get for free. To say that Apple has too much power is ridiculous. Apple and Facebook are orthogonal to each other in terms of markets so it's not even an anti-trust issue, it affects all companies that were used to this free data.
I’m fairly certain this works great for all systems that allow big bad enterprise to control what you do (Windows and IE, but Chrome is getting there too). Using FF on a Mac apparently makes it really hard to do automatic sign-on.
For context, CleanMyMac is based in Kyiv
But the cast majority of users will not care about fingerprinting by surveillance industry but about illegally Dow loading stuff. And there, VPNs are quite comfy.
You don't have to pay every month. You can just pay them a lump sum in advance. As far as I understand you can still do this like before.
> "Having to think about paying a bill every month"

Others can correct me, but I believe each payment just adds a month of time to your balance. So a number of months can be added at once.
I hate it when they do this in Linux. What's to maintain? LOL Keep the drivers.
CO2Rail Car: zero-carbon, regenerative braking powered Direct Air Carbon Capture
> If they never woke up to tell anyone about it (or died before they had the chance to wake up) would they not have been conscious?

This is an edge case where one could say the person was (or might have been) conscious but nobody else ever got the chance to find out. In any concept like this we should expect edge cases.

> who determines what inputs/outputs qualify as semantic?

The function of the inputs/outputs in the overall function of the entity and how it relates to the rest of the world.
An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’
Bummer to see that he recommends the Nexstand, which is a blatant copycat product of the Roost https://www.therooststand.com
Digital Computers Will Remain Unconscious Until They Recruit Physical Fields
So, I don't quite get it. They supposedly accept one-time payments, but their pricing page only shows recurring periodic payments. What gives?
Very interesting. Why is there work inside of the education sections of the life timeline? In the project planning example, I could see it being useful to have something like $ref references from Swagger to e.g. reference a duration from a project group into the overall section.
I think the times of €30/month are over, Hetzner is now a €40/month provider (unless you take some hardware from the auction - I did and it was mostly fine, but with much lower specs than their regular offering).
Apart from the points that the author makes I dislike the disproportionate political activisim because it's just plain cringe and arrogant.

When it comes from a multi billion dollar giant it's still annoying but more understandable that a giant organisation with thousands of people will have a lot going in it.

But when a dude behind a $2.95 "NFT chat bot for your grandma's crypto portfolio" app wants to do it, it's something else.

They need to find another avenue to express their political ideas rather than letting it bleed into an unrelated product.

There's something to be said about having some tact and knowing your place and where you stand. If you ship a little flashlight app on Android understand that you don't have that kind of room to attach political commentary and activisim next to it. The best thing you can do is to just be the little reliable unchanging app on someone's phone and not try to over reach.
There is! If you're using Git, you can do git diff --word-diff to enable word mode, which is computationally more expensive, but computing power is cheap these days. There's also an "ignore whitespace" mode (-w), though that doesn't play well with Python.
> Also, flushing on every newline is a needless pessimization.

Maybe, but when you're debugging it's essential. Those debugging cout's aren't going to be there in production.
Tumblr should have just dropped the share of their users that accessed their platform through the iOS app. But meh. They chose the other option.
Thanks ;)

I just recently upgraded my LG B8 OLED TV to a C9 model by switching out the main board with one I got from eBay. Now I have 4K@120Hz, HDMI 2.1, and VRR ;)
I expected to look at some assembly code with, but it wasn't that bad of build either. Great controller.

Edit: apparently the software part is handled by little-scale's genMDM project: it provides a MIDI interface and the associated software: https://catskullelectronics.com/products/genmdm?variant=2939...
Lots of company don't allow you to enter the + symbol in their signup field.
1. Ok sorry, I’m not trying to rigorously define what an illness is, I’m just saying obesity is categorically different because it’s self inflicted and reversible

2. It isn’t wrong in every situation, just in this particular one the motivating factor is lack of willpower, prioritization and education. There isn’t an “easy way” as of right now. If one comes along it will also likely carry side effects

3. Its usually ill-informed because the difficulty of dieting is a known one and steps can be taken to alleviate or bypass these issues. Usually medication with outsized effects have proportional side-effects. And we don’t always know what they are. I don’t leave out the possibility that someone could invent a pill that causes huge weight loss with little side-effects, but I would bet a lot of money against it
It's MAMAA now = Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet
Yeah, so long form 8601 are supported

`2022-08-02T23:00:00.000Z - 2022-08-03T00:00:00.000Z: Event`

but in general I do need to figure out a way to allow more customizable date parsing.[0]

[0]https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen/issues/27
> Luckily, there are a few proactive steps you can take to energize yourself without walking out of your job....she recommends creating “momentum” by shaking things up in your routine and making a list of small, affordable and practical things you can do to deviate from your norms.

It seems very good advice, but the article got me lost with the example.

> Twenty-three-year-old Katie did that and then some, quitting her office job during the pandemic when she couldn’t take the boredom any longer. ... Now, she’s working for herself as a travel blogger...

It is the exact opposite of the advice.

Boredom is a very interesting subject but the article is quite short.
> how much of that money goes into subsidising the free tiers

I've seen probably ~10 companies financials that do this. It's ALL OVER THE PLACE. The reality is that the free doesn't two things: tests those new features on guinea pigs and lets you upsell to someone who has given you permission to do so.

There's no free lunch.
> The opposite of burden is convenience, and that's fine to be charged for, in my book.

If we zoom out a bit more, the entire product is about convenience. The customer pays for the product because they have a problem/burden that justifies the purchase of a product. But customers usually buy a product for the things that are unique about it. SSO is not one of those things and is trending towards commoditization. The fact that it affords additional convenience doesn't necessarily mean customers are willing to pay for that.

SCIM is a bit more interesting, because it provides an abstraction layer over the things that are unique about a product. SCIM is also probably overkill for products with sufficiently simple offboarding needs.

> You might be making an argument for SSO _and_ SCIM to be part of base subscription for enterprise software, and I wonder where does the line get drawn for what's tables takes

SCIM hasn't reached the level of adoption (and customer expectation) that traditional forms of SSO have, and as a result I don't think it's in the table stakes conversation at this point. I think this will change over time if SCIM sees widespread adoption.

From a customer perspective, a product without SSO can be a non-starter. A product without SCIM just means some additional integration/automation will be needed, or at worst, a manual process will be implemented around offboarding.

> Then there's a good chance we've worked together :)

This particular world is definitely a small one, so maybe! ;)
French, especially academic writing, can have a lot of subordinate clauses:

> I asked the person who was standing there.

It has even more oratory precautions:

> We can argue that this result, that was seemingly proven wrong by a previous analysis, appear to be a consequence of a previous attempt that was investigated by my esteemed colleagues, who have looked into the author and found out that they …

If you want to split between each verb as they are, you end up with sentences that are in the wrong order:

> I asked a person. That person was standing there.

> We can argue that this result appear to be a consequence of a previous attempt. This result was seemingly proven wrong by a previous analysis. The attempt was investigated by my esteemed colleagues. My colleagues have looked into the author. They found out that the author…

So you are better off by thinking: what comes first? The person was standing there _before_ I asked, and I asked them because they were standing, so that information should come first:

> A person was standing there. I asked them.

Further, most actions in a chain of preposition explain a decision: those should come first.

> This result was surprising. Sceptics wanted to verify it. Their investigation concluded that the result was wrong. My colleagues wanted to know more. They investigated the authors of the result. They found out…

The outcome is a bit drier. The benefit is that if one sentence is longer, or an adjective inverted, or a complement put at the begining of the sentence, it’s more striking. That helps attracting attention to what matters, selectively.

For academic writing, you don’t need as many oratory precautions because you can report other findings without having to validate them as yours: you present them all as facts on equal footing. If you agree, it’s implied from the lack of criticism. If you disagree, it’s on you to prove why _after_ presenting the work fairly. For that, you have to include the key aspect to support you criticism in your first presentation.

I can also give the impression that you are just moving forward without a clear goal: “This happened, in particular then this happened, then this reacted…” which is why you want to summarise your point early: people will see the arguement getting closer to its goal, knowing what that goal is.
Those two (or one) choices are also voted on. You can vote in primaries.

AOC won the primary in a safe district against the 4th most powerful Democrat in the federal government.
Well this is just wrong. First off, there is no evidence that it will be impossible for medical science to eventually solve most aging related illness, and mitigate most diseases. There is no practical reason to assume that trying to increase lifespan is a fools errand. Medical advancements look like big breakthroughs followed by decades of incremental improvements. Right now, it's starting to look like AI can increase the rate of breakthroughs and tighten the incremental improvement periods, so an extra 5 years of life may end up being enough to benefit from substantial medical progress.

Second, obesity isn't caused by the availability of food. Most well developed countries have an essentially infinite amount of food for any given individual, and most individuals do not stop eating because they lack the resources to access more food. So why isn't every individual in these society with these resources massively obese? Because there are a number of psychological, chemical, and biological reasons for obesity. Largely, the cause for obesity comes in the form of appetite suppression vs satiation. There are many chemicals like PFAS which decreases satiety, increasing the calories you intake.

Just like how removing heavy metals from drinking water and increases in food availability increased the general quality of life for all affected people, decreasing the amount of chemicals affecting satiety in the general environment could have massive impacts for societies that are impacted.

In short, if your baseline hunger is lower, you won't get fat.
Azure Container Apps: the little told story of dapr pubsub
> It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY

Especially for those outside the USA!
I hope you go for a spying incompetent country in Europe :). Especially one which is not partnered with the US .. like the UK and others.
Not really, webauthn/fido and SSO are orthogonal (you an have one without the other, and you can have both).

FIDO was originally about ending phishing. With SMS or TOTP, if you give the SMS/TOTP code to a phishing site it can forward it to log in. FIDO is bound to a specific site, making it non-forwardable. Security no longer relies on users correctly identifying that they're on a invalid site.

Perhaps you are talking about the more recent push for passwordless FIDO [1]? Indeed the security argument for this is a lot more murky, and the cross-device portability tied to your browser-sync vendor looks a lot like Single Sign On.

However it's still not the same as SSO. SSO provides a single identity, but FIDO passwordless just shares a login credential, not the identity. You can log into two different sites with FIDO passwordless with different email addresses, with no way for the sites to know you are the same person. There's no "organization" that has the power to revoke your login (I mean perhaps Google can, but not your employer/school/whatever like in SSO).

[1] https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-t...
Try Poco F1, almost everything works, at least as a phone.
I think it's a good idea, but I also envision a lot of cheating just to get free money. If they can tailor this so that cheating isn't possible then I think it's a great idea for some areas of the country.
Agreed! In my experience the increased enjoyment comes both from being present and noticing things you wouldn't if you were lost in thought (eg. birdsong, butterflies), as well as learning to catch yourself yourself going through unnecessary/unpleasant thinking, and learning to just let that go and rest in the field of direct sensory experience.
Just for context, people asked for C "+=" type of assignment since Ada 83. Target Name Symbol solves that. Note that Target Name Symbol is actually more useful than C "+=", since you can do stuff like

My_Data (To_Index (1)) := @ * 2 - 3.0 * @;
I might agree if the expectation is that someone also has a deep understanding of infrastructure, but I'm not convinced by the rest.

I know a few exceptional software folks who have a deep understanding of React and Java backends. The problem for the most part is that it has been difficult to be a full stack engineer because of the churn of FE software frameworks. Now that React has be around for a while, it is well understood by many people and having a decade of software experience means that you can be very competent and knowledgable about both the FE and BE. My expectation is that if React stays popular and is generally similar to how it works today, we will see a lot more people be able to do both FE and BE systems.

Typically a person will still be stronger at one than the other, but they can still be great at both.
> -Missing a "killer app"

See "Reasons to buy" in the table:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...
Youtube has millions of viewers that could stumble upon your videos. If you host them yourself, you won't get any views.

Main value of Youtube is not their video hosting technology; it's the userbase.
I invite you to read the comment I linked.
Spanish airline reserves Airlander 10 blimps for 2026 passenger service
Who or whatever dynomight is, they take things seriously. And I, for one, am grateful.
>No idea why

Because that tends to be how people skim.

If the first sentence of a paragraph doesn't catch their attention in some way, they subconsciously assume that the rest of the paragraph (which is presumably related) doesn't need to be read.
Having now used SSO, I don’t think I ever want to go back to managing permissions separately for every individual user.

At the same time, I can’t pay $2000 extra for every service just to be able to use SSO. News like this is very welcome.
A spammer can just filter the +company bit out.
What about ovpn.com?
Python: Comparing Functions in Sets
All we needed was one clip longer than 2 seconds.