skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how many such findings per year we are currently producing?
We could perhaps get better software, but at what cost?

One of the nice things about engineering disciplines is that costs can be reasonably forecast. There are spectacular counterexamples (e.g. Big Dig), but bear in mind those projects were much more than "just" engineering projects.

Software costs seem hard to forecast. Software integrates with other software. Software is created via a whole pantheon of algorithms. The "better" algorithm is often context dependent. That context depends on what else gets integrated. Did I mention we probably won't know at the design phase how things will be integrated?

Other engineering disciplines integrate with things that are well-known: the ground, water flows, the atmosphere. These things don't change. This is nice.

This article makes it sound like "better" is just a matter of spending more. My read is different: spend more and be correct. Correctness _isn't_ just something we know but aren't allowed to implement. In many cases, we don't _know_ what correct is. We have to _find_ correct via exploration and experimentation. Even when we do, we might severely misjudge the effort required to get there.

This complexity isn't just accidental. The world is a complex place. Our human minds act on a small portion of that complexity, based on all sorts of heuristics we aren't even conscious of. They work most of the time. The rest of the time? We're compelled to shoehorn things into our heuristics. This ends increasingly poorly the more complex the underlying mechanism is.

This is a hard argument to make to someone who will not accept that they are not correct. Correct in their criticism. Correct in their diagnosis. Correct in the the behaviors that lead to our condition. Correct in asserting that avoiding those behaviors would result in no unanticipated consequences. Resentful about it because they were correct, and we didn't accept that.
It depends what you're doing but for my "workstation", Devuan is indeed working flawlessly. I'm running it since six months or so on my main PC (a little Ryzen 3700X / 32 GB or RAM) and I'm very happy with it.

Now if you're a sysadmin and have come to rely on systemd and are now locked in, Devuan is obviously not for you. But if you're running Linux on a desktop or on a laptop and aren't a fan of systemd, Devuan is great.
He doesn't even know how to read man pages (journald.conf(5) describes the setup he is looking for), and he doesn't know how memory usage on Linux works (shared /mmap()ed memory is counted for each process). Do you really think his issues go away when he switches to Devuan? He'll probably just yell at different clouds

Other than that, Devuan is a solid choice for people who want to get rid of systemd. It comes with the Debian-typical rather old versions of most programs, but I guess for a file server it doesn't matter much if you run kernel 4.19 or 5.15
> I don't think it's that the C920 is particularly brilliant

I used to sit in a cubicle under fluorescent lights, and I often received compliments on my webcam quality when I used a C920e, which I think has the same quality as the C920.

Don't underestimate absolutely horrendous laptop webcams becoming normalized, especially after stream compression.
Of course not. But I don't see that happening here. It's not like it was 50/50 in the past and now we have 80/20, eh?

FWIW, I know someone who works at a local elementary school and there are male teachers there, none of whom are being "chased out".
Let's go back to cats. Since macOS is becoming more and more like iOS, we don't have to limit ourselves to big cats anymore. Small cats are on the table too. There's gotta be at least 100 cat breeds, that should last us a while.
Apple is always searching for ways to get consumers to buy more of their hardware, so this does seem like a great way of entrenching users a little bit more.

What I didn't think about in my original comment is that their new solution makes use of two of the phones cameras (face view and the keyboard view)... I'm not sure consumers would be okay with THAT much hardware real estate being taken up by the addition of a wide angle lens (which is a really cool feature, albeit a bit is a gimmick for most). Though I'm sure Apple marketing could still make it generally desirable if they wanted to.
I love my new flex machines. My favorite Linux distro is that VM. Wish it had android going
Great concept! What's your conversion rate?
Is there a reason this wouldn’t in theory allow a full jailbreak and play of the $79 games?

PlayStations’ main unique feature are the narrative based single player exclusives. So, if you were going to get a PS5 and Xbox, it seems Xbox for multi and hacked PS5 for single seems like an excellent combo - you know - if you were the type of person that could justify that sort of thing.
I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but for me, lower quality setups are distracting and make it hard to focus on the material. Good setups “disappear” and let the content shine.

I think we only notice quality setup on video calls now because that one person that cares stands out.
I used to be able to set the exposure manually on my webcams in windows (more granular than the 7 levels I'm offered now). That option just disappeared a few content updates ago on win 10, so now I can't even fix my own lighting. I think it was mjpg support that was just removed?
Class of '04, Computer Science. Hotty Toddy.
Think relative speed. Even a bike touring cyclist will regularly travel at speeds around 40 kph (25 mph). If you then have cars travelling at 80 kph (50 mph).

Also, you learn hearing the difference in sound a car makes as it moves over to give room.

In short, I’d wager that < 0.5% of all people that have done any sort of serious biking would prefer to ride against traffic.
Care to share some quick tips?
Quantifying best is very difficult. Is it the best technically but market conditions makes it less appealing? Or is it the best fit for the market but it’s a nightmare to build and so they can’t pump enough of them out to be reasonable.

The products that launch end up being good enough in all areas but rarely/never the best in all areas.

It’s the sign of a healthy business IMHO
Honestly, having done everything you listed above over couple decades: no, not really. Developing code is still the hardest part. It's a lot harder to get a good programmer with consistent output you can rely on your estimates than an ass to warm a seat in Big Picture meetings.
I don't know you, but solely from this post I am going to go with "likely overconfident."
I’m not entirely sure why there’s so definite a link between being unable to ride a bicycle and riding a recumbent tricycle, though I know it to be so from talking to local manufacturers. For me, I’m perfectly able-bodied, I just wanted to ride a recumbent tricycle because it seemed to me that they would be generally better (for comfort, enjoyment and safety), and I have indeed found it so.

Fear not perception: as a generalisation, people love recumbent tricycles and their riders; my experience is that you will get an overwhelmingly positive reaction. I have observed negative reactions from drivers on a very few occasions (at a rate similar to an upright bicycle, I think), but overtly positive reactions from drivers very regularly, which is not common on an upright bicycle. As for pedestrians, well, if you’re open to it people will talk to you about your vehicle very, very regularly, positively and curiously.
After moving tk the USA I was shocked to find that fast food (mcD, burger king, etc) was cheaper than buying fruit and vegetables. In South Africa anything that tastes good costs a lot more money, so you're naturally more inclined to eat healthy - or eat nothing but meat, which is how my demographic solved that problem. Also, try and find granola or cereal without sugar, corn syrup, or dextrose (low fat or sugar free products all seem to contain dextrose, which is like "super sugar", congrats food industry on selling that one.)
What you're missing is that a large majority of tech was never about customers' money. It's about "growth & engagement" which can be leveraged to raise astronomical amounts of VC funding, much more than the product itself is ever expected to make (sometimes the product is fundamentally unprofitable and will never make any money).
That would really only be feasible if a cyclist could safely make such a judgment while keeping their eyes on the road.
If as a cyclist I'm holding up more than 6 cars behind me it's because whoever is in charge of building/ maintaining the road wasn't doing their job. I'd also say I've seen plenty times where cars have held up 20+ cyclists and given no indication they intend to let them pass.
I'm not sure I understand your comment that science is 'easy to verify' - how would any of us verify that the LHC actually found the Higgs boson a few years ago? (10 year anniversary coming up on July 4th)
Again, that's why I'm delineating between scale and complexity. Trivial implies complexity, but you seem to keep going back to scale of the change.

Saying something is trivial, by definition, implies its a simple change. Nothing mentioned so far is simple. None of your suggestions were modest.

I understand you're using the word according to how you think of it, but I'm trying to point out that you're incorrect, and that many of the things you say are modest are not so.

You're actively down playing the amount of work and it either feels disingenuous to make your point, or divorced from the reality of implementation.
Ah, that makes sense - though I wonder who usually is making that criticism. At least, I don't see why a union couldn't negotiate a base pay that still leaves room for bonuses if certain employees are particularly high-performing.

Unions have an incentive for the company to be healthy and profitable - just not at the expense of the workers.

Also, "talented" seems very vague to me. Of course everyone would like to be exceptionally talented and be placed above the others, but who in the end decides of you are talented or not and on which criteria?

This seems a bit like the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" situation, where you can be tempted to give up security in the present for some idealized but highly uncertain future.
There's FydeOS (dunno much about it other than it came up in a search for "CloudReady ARM", CloudReady being the name of ChromeOS Flex prior to acquisition) or build-it-yourself ChromiumOS.
Yes, the internet would be a better place if posting spam costs money.
Search YouTube in incognito mode for anything random and not connected to you.

Keep scrolling.

Observe how here and there are results unrelated to your search terms, but clearly aimed at you. They are discovering the user’s identity through UI events, such as scrolling and momentarily pausing to look at a video the user recognises.

The identifier videos are sparse enough, and only one of them is on screen at a time, so the mechanism must get rather good resolution this way.
It is funny to me to read this because I recently joined the Xcode Cloud team to precisely work on this, thinking that I could help Apple make developer’s life easier in the near future, but according to your comment, there are people out there who will consider my team’s work a regression.
Yeah, buy a video camera, not a $100 webcam.
> Phones have camera bumps.

And that’s pretty annoying, a computer lid bump would snag into everything.

> And screens could be thicker where needed.

My phone’s thrice the thickness of my laptop’s lid.

This would increase the laptop’s thickness by a lot, and mostly by voids.
This might help.

https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/
Thank you –

And this doesn't even scratch the surface of yet further "of sound mind" fuckery like the "black male/black guy's/black eyes" club.

I feel we live in a "each one teach one" period of history and as a species, nothing will change for the better until enough of the whole is made aware so that things like this won't as easily slip under the collective consciousness, which is the main way "they" have historically "gotten away with it all".

https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1269953677248229378?lang=...

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The other two theories of the legal system introduced in that class, ie, the "officially-accepted" ones, were:

1.) This is the best legal system known to human history and everything is fine in the larger scheme of things, nothing to worry about

and ...

2.) The system does in fact seem to have quite a few flaws, but these are unintentional, by coincidence, and they just "seem" to unjustly put the poor at a disadvantage, but this too is just an unfortunate series of coincidences and certainly not by the design of those who came up with the system in the first place
I've had two Google Nexus phones and one Android Wear watch, and all three became e-waste before their time purely because Google stopped updating them. In the case of the watch Google actually started sending out "updates" to their own apps that removed functionality from watches with older Android wear, with no possibility to update. It had less features when I threw it away than it had when I bought it.

I'm using Android on my phone not because I want to use a Google made OS, but because it's unfortunately the best option available, since I have other issues with Apple. A Google OS will never be the best option for my real computer, at least I certainly hope so.

I find it slightly hypocritical that the company that deliberately stops updating their own phones and computers based on dates can claim to want to reduce e-waste.

"Each device has an Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date."
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9367166?hl=en

"Reduce e-waste and extend the life of your existing devices by transforming them with a modern OS."
https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/
Agreed. The latter half is marketing speak and doesn't add much of value in providing information
Thanks, that's a mystery solved. I liked that feature a lot. Damn shame it's gone.
I don’t have anything to add other than that I have this too. It seems like it happens at exactly the point where I can either go to sleep or wake back up. Like suddenly all the volume rushes up and everything is at full intensity, and if I choose to sleep I guess it goes away. Super weird tbh
I love this scene because it captures the crazy dissonance between Latin as it was taught for generations (basically a highly structured linguistic hazing ritual) and the fact that it really was a lively living language once.
If they did mean it that way it still doesn't make sense to me. Where is the extra mass coming from? Are they just thickening the whole lid and fill it with solid lead? Mass comes from matter, if there isn't matter than there isn't mass. Adding a tiny camera, even if they did have to increase thickness a tiny bit of the entire lid it still wouldn't even come close to doubling the mass of the whole thing on an aluminum body laptop
Reading over the Rails committer message there… So Rails, decided that they did not want to discourage code PR contributors (despite getting some poor quality ones, I'm sure).

But other projects may actually want to discourage PR's, or especially Issues, so consider this a plus not a minus. Of course, you can just turn off Issues/PR's, or only allow maintainers to make them, if you really don't want them. But sometimes I'm guessing someone really don't want them but doesn't really want to say so...
I prefer to sit with my back facing a southern window. Washing out my webcam is my little petty protest against the use of video chat.
Show HN: Open source GamePort adapter to connect old DB15 joysticks to USB port
That's nothing...! My friend's smart-TV asked if I wanted to login on the Youtube app, presenting me with my username, after I'd spent an evening or two showing my new friend a bunch of YT vids on it (music/bands and more).

My phone and tablet were indeed on the same wifi, but they're not Android. And neither are my friend's devices. Except for the TV perhaps, IDK what the OS is there, it's not Apple for sure.

But I did pull up a heck of a lot of my favourite videos, for many hours. And previously the Youtube app on the smart-TV was mostly un-used. I guess it thought I might be the owner / primary user of the smart-TV.

I thought it spooky.

(I'm a software engineer by trade, I kinda totally understood how it might be done — but I'm also quite a privacy advocate, hence: spooky)
Not OP but I only have it when I sleep in the presence of voices
Zero-downtime deployments have existed years (perhaps decades?) before k8s was released to the public.

Controlling the upstream traffic via haproxy/nginx allowed Ops to roll out blue-green, canary and waterfall/rolling deployment methods albeit with more human interaction.

Digital Ocean have this [0] article from 2014 on load balancing.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...
I wonder how this will affect the "Big Tech" vs. startup calculation, which has gotten steadily worse for startups over the past ~20 years.

If you can get a job now with a FAANG (though more and more the "N" there looks less warranted), you'll be "buying" relatively low when it comes to your equity comp, so there is a good chance your total comp over the next 4 years will be exceedingly difficult for a startup to beat, even if they hit.
Toml-bombadil – A dotfile manager with templating, multiple profile
Can you install Firefox?
Right. Having every random person fly around is an absolute regulatory and organizational nightmare, not to mention that only wealthy individuals will be able to afford this for the next decade.

Meanwhile, catastrophic economical failure, food shortages, inflation and climate change are acutely threatening us, but at least some rich dudes can fly around to places without basic infrastructure, over the heads of the starving and struggling poorer quantiles, to “develop” them.

Makes sense.
Don't worry about your deployment being directly related to your dev environment. That's a good goal, but most people make do without it.

You can use Vagrant or Docker[1] locally and then deploy somewhere easy like Render.com[2][3].

Since you're new to fullstack, you may have an easier time with Next.js (definitely use the TypeScript option) because then you're only learning/using a single language in a single repository for both frontend and backend.

1. https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-dockerize-a-reac...

2. https://render.com/docs/deploy-flask

3. https://render.com/docs/deploy-create-react-app
Bovine gelatin is made from the animal’s brain tissues and it was a major transmission vector in the UK CJD disaster. At least that was the story then, apparently the truth is not so.
The "new" redesign is just so bad. Viewing a post only shows comments 1 level deep, and then to see the rest of the thread you have to click "continue this thread" and then you have to go back to get to any other threads, just constant tiresome clicks...

Reading the comments on a post in old reddit is a pleasure, but in the redesign it's a complete mess. Why?

Oh and what the hell is the deal with links to content containing other completely unrelated content as well?

The day they kill old.reddit.com or API access to force me to stop using Apollo (which is an insanely well-built reddit client for iOS) is the day I'll just reluctantly stop using reddit entirely.
Got caught up with a "nonexistent twin" for my old address.

I had address "123 Some AVE." in the town. There was also a road named "Some PLACE" in the town but there was not a 123 for the house number anywhere on the "Some Pl." road. "123 Some Pl." does not exist in the town.

BUT, you can type in "123 Some Pl." in Google or Apple Maps along with the town name and the maps program will just throw you at the closest numbering house on "Some Pl." If you're not paying attention you just think it's the correct address.

Somehow my voter registration was set to the "123 Some Pl." (but my driver's license was correct) so I was in the wrong voting district (quick phone call cleared that up). Also sometimes packages would try to get delivered over there to "123 Some Pl.".
“Proofs from the Book” is a great (and IMO fun) book.
The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel is amazing as well.
> I had assumed based on climate modeling that parts of Europe would not see such extreme heat but apparently that is not the case :(

I was in the Adriatic coast and in Germany last year during the Summer, and last year Germany had one of the gloomiest, wettest/coldest summers. This year during this heat wave at the Sachsenring MotoGP the riders and race teams were saying this is more comparable to Indonesia or Thailand than it is to central Europe.

Welcome to modern Climate Change, wherein it's less about a steady increase or decrease in one direction and more like it's wild swings in unpredictable ways with seemingly no consistency at all.

I was in S. Germany (the warmest part) in 2012 and it snowed in mid and late October Fall during harvest ahead of Octobefest, which I'm told is something that rarely if ever happens. I knew then that this wasn't about Global Warming, which i never accepted due to the aforementioned inconsistency, but more about the loss of predictable and consistent climate weather patterns: this would be substantiated with 3 more years of my horticulture apprenticeship.

It's alarming and should be a much bigger focus than it is, I just hope that with this Russian invasion we accelerate the major dependency on fossil fuels; I don't think it will ever be 100% removed, but it's hard to see how business as usual doesn't exasperate this situation even more.
It's not accurate to say it "drops" error messages. The bug causes these messages to not be attributed to a particular unit - you can still see them with `journalctl` but not with `journalctl -u foo`. Still pretty annoying and should absolutely be fixed (although I'm not sure if systemd is the right place to do it).
Same. If there's a problem, it's not this particular app, it's the status quo of Apple and Google's ecosystem.

I think there are really obvious reasons for ridesharing and taxi apps to exclusively use apps. Notifications are very important to the experience (which you can't do on iOS Safari). Having persistent location access like a navigation app is another key part of the system.

Don't like it? Put your arm up and hail a cab or call the dispatch office to request a ride, that's what we had to do not even 20 years ago.

The app store duopoly and privacy problem isn't one that's solved by playing whack-a-mole with individual companies on those platforms. The way to solve those problems is by regulating Google and Apple's App Stores for both privacy and business practices.
Ok. How did you not eat for 40 days and why?

I heard you can go without food for 30 days. My longest fast was 3 days and while I liked it, I function much better with food.
Southwest Airlines customer service agents go fully remote
I'm from a 3rd world country and can confirm, everyone is keeping their ps4 in v9.00, A shop near me is selling dozens of ps4 with +10 pre installed games, each for 280-300$.
> I think Firefox uses Courier New on Windows as the default monospaced font

Actually, it was recently changed to use Consolas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913
In many urban areas traveling by bicycle is objectively and measurably quicker than by car, even without allowing for additional time for parking/walking to/from wherever you can park.
Honestly, you're probably overqualified for an entry-level position at a FAANG. Go to an academic CS conference with FAANG employees, find some that are talking about interesting stuff, and give them your resume.

The resume funnels on websites of most large companies go straight to /dev/null. (University recruitment is another story; those usually get put toward the top of hiring managers' piles.)