skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why this stuff isn't slipped into other must-pass bills like other riders?

There is vocal, widespread and organised opposition. Slipping things into bills works when the opposition is nonchalant, narrow and/or terribly organised.
eBay provides fewer platform support and therefore has lower commission? Also, second-hand doesn't always mean used. A good niche on eBay are New in the Box items that somebody wants to get rid of. The marketplace is pretty good there with individual ads with better accountability, vs. the aggregated mess on Amazon.

Bottom line is Amazon tries to hide the complexity of the marketplace and it ends up being the wrong abstraction and becomes straight lying.
Yes, mod facts you don't like down, Redditors. Or... inform yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwxYvQVU5g
Isn't this kind of logic capable of hand-waving anything away? 100 terawatt hours is no joke, if you can make it seem trivial by dividing by 8B that says more about the method than the number.
One side is actively and enthusiastically and loudly planning working preparing and acting to destroy the other. Through any and all means necessary. Openly and proudly.

Articles like this are attempt to be a wake up call to the happily ignorantly sleeping.
>> The tail is long and wild and wonderful.

Well argued! I concur.
>No, not really. You've regurgitated a number, but only as an appeal to emotion.

uhh what? I'm not advocating for one side or another. I'm only pointing out that if you think that aborted fetuses are "deaths", then a few extra thousand deaths pales in comparison to the number of "deaths" from abortions.

>You haven't connected it to the subject of this thread, which is the idea that even a fully formed human has no right to require physical sacrifice of another.

1. That's an nice argument and all, but it certainly wasn't in "the subject of this thread". I traversed through all the parent comments and couldn't find any comment that made an argument to that effect.

2. since we're already bringing this topic up, the obvious response I can think of would be: really? no "physical sacrifice" whatsoever? What about mask/vaccine mandates, which require some token/small amount of sacrifice? Obviously wearing something over your face/getting jabbed isn't equivalent to carrying a baby to term, but the argument (at least as you presented it) seems to take an absolutist position rather than some sort of cost-benefit analysis one.

>Persuasion means connecting things in a way that might sway an interlocutor, not merely bashing them over the head with claims that you find compelling.

Again, you seem to think I'm trying to convince people that abortions are bad. However, if you read my original comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883521) more carefully, see that I'm only trying to point out that the "deaths of thousands of young women" argument isn't persuasive.
Not exactly, but you may like https://youtu.be/QYVmZ0pEPdo.
More Aeon blather over the same reality/QM speculations I’ve heard a hundred times over the last thirty years.

Not a smidgen of anything new or insightful.
The CFTC escape is bunk. But I wouldn’t throw out the SRO idea so quickly. It will ensconce the incumbents, yes. But it also takes rulemaking and enforcement responsibility off the public’s purse to a degree. I’m not seeing regulators or Congress propose a meaningful regulatory framework; maybe an SRO will.
Look at the incentives. Spotify pays more for more popular artists. If you assume popularity is roughly "better", they want to keep costs low by playing cheaper (worse) music, except they are willing to spend more near renewal to keep you paying.

Maybe a bit of stretch? But it wouldn't surprise me if actually happens.
It Might Become True: How Prefactual Thinking Licenses Dishonesty[pdf]
It's earlier than that, dating to the time of the Altair clones. Refresh hardware didn't come with those machines so adding it yourself complicated the memory board.
Divide into squads, assign each squad a tech lead who is a hands-on contributor

The Mythical Man Month explains it best
Cost of Owning a Home Surges Above the Cost of Renting One
I think the author was implying if branches add complexity, which adds more points of failures. If your code doesn't branch, that's one less edge case to test :)
I am planing on getting a new Macbook soon and this finding does help me decide. I am a bit disappointed at Apple not releasing the M2 (and their pro/max versions) for the 14/16" models. Since it almost feels like buying them now will cause me to have an obsolete model in 6-12 months...

While at it... Now that the M-series has been out for a while. Does anyone have an opinion on if it would have been better to stick with Intel? I miss being able to select an i7/i9 for my Mac.
> Speech that singles other people or groups out for different treatment or is otherwise racist, sexist, etc is intolerant.

I think most people can get on board with that. The trouble comes when people start berating others for using words/phrases like blacklist, sanity check, backlog grooming, master, and spaz - just to name a few. 99.9% of people who use these words do not possess the mens rea of bigotry or intolerance.

E.g.: Right now, someone who read your comment is probably enraged on behalf of the people who have been hit by buses. Most of us know you mean no harm by it.
It might be a reference to:

https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...
It's more to do with whether or not you're prone to nostalgia.

And also whether or not you're a collector of physical stuff.

I'm (mostly) not. I sometimes like reading about old technology, but I have very limited interest in owning any.
And maybe "spaghetti code" could be "kudzu code"?
Lol, this is obvious if you mostly listen to folk/wailing/classical music. The "recommendations" for pop are obviously forced.
I think that was pretty widely accepted? Not sure if total drug use was higher than it is now but especially hallucinogenic drugs were much more popular than they are today.

I don't think the colourful styles of the 60s/70s were a coincidence either, no :)
>> Your automation may be an order of magnitude more complex than 2005, but it enables two orders of magnitude more functionality.

This!

The primary problems with DevOps are...

1. It is still in its infancy therefore it's changing quickly.

2. Bad (or no) documentation is much more painful than before. A single family house without blueprints can, usually, be adequately serviced; whereas, a 27 story office building cannot.
Assertions should be more debugger-oriented
I've worked in ops roles since about 2000 after a few years in backend corp IT stuff.

I agree that what you've described was the original intent and goal of "devops" but in light of that failure, the "cross functional team" definition took over and then in light of that failure, the SRE was born and we're basically back where we started but now the ops people use git instead of rcs.

In my experience and opinion, developers are really bad at ops and sysadmins/ops are really bad a development. Anyone that is truly good at both is a unicorn that is probably carrying their team.
So what does the ending mean then?
Spoken by someone with enough money to have owned multiple Tesla's IIRC.
> With good modding, no code is needed

This is nonsensicle and shows a lack of understanding. A code of conduct is just a guidebook for users to understand how your moderators will act, what to expect in a community.

How does "good modding" remove the need for that?
> Hence the current moral panic of denouncing all LGBT people as 'groomers' and insinuating or openly accusing people who disagree as pedophiles

I find it kind of strange that you are conflating marriage equality and concerns over sexualizing young children together. I don’t see people using this sexualization of children as an argument against gay marriage, I see it pretty hyper-focused on the sexualization of young children.

I am wondering why you are tying them together if the folks doing it don’t seem to be.
Vanadium: Use Linux kernel GPLv2-only approach going forward
> People like you must have always been...

No need for these assumptions. Your argument is clear without them.

Maybe you and i would not respond the same way on the same situation, and that's OK. Personally, when i had coworkers that would say things that i consider totally indefensible, yes, it made me feel terrible and angry, but at the same time, i was at least glad to now know who i was dealing with. I knew that person couldn't be trusted, and how i should (avoid to) interact with them. This is especially true for me in the cases where such person is a superior, or when nobody else in the organization calls on their shit; those are start-to-look-for-another-job situations for me personally.

And, sincerely, i don't think banning such topics from work environments would work for these kind of cases. Those people will keep being the way they are and acting their shitty way when and where they feel they'll get away with it; you'll just may not know who they are, yet.

Disclaimer: i'm not from the USA, or a "first world" country, so it's very possible for our cultures and work environments where we've been to be quite different.
The simple answer: just do it and don’t give up too early. Emphasis on the second part.
I guess the movie did fail, if by the end you're thinking of Roy as "the villain".
Think of a religion named like a chat software.
In my "the greatest" collection. Keep watching it every 3-4 years.
https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141 for context. Bromite is licensed under the GPLv3. The lead developer of GrapheneOS got mad at the Bromite developers for some reason, so he relicensed Vanadium to GPLv2 only to intentionally be incompatible with it going forward.
It can also be used to retrieve deleted/delisted information. It's not like an search engine, more like an indexed database.
I mean that's easier said than done in some cases. If your manager wants you to build a complete version of the functionality, just one that is very "quick and dirty" there isn't a whole lot you can do to make it not fully functional short of flat out refusing
You are not alone in thinking that, see 'The Thirty Million Line' talk by Casey Muratori.

(Long, but worth it, assuming you haven't seen it already)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
I don't think you can ever call anything the greatest ever. It's subjective and you can't make an apples to apples comparison when it comes to art. Blade Runner was brilliant. So was 2001, Star Wars, Star Trek, Contact. All brilliant in different ways.
Big part of my job is convincing the bosses we don't need X new shiny thing... we still waste years chasing random tech that doesn't benefit the customer at all though
Developers should have some grasp of ops work, and be able to deal with some ops-related issues, and take part of the design of the ops-side of the software delivery, so as to make sure the infra and deployment workflow they deal with works for them.

But yes it makes sense to me to still have people specialized in ops and infra in teams, collaborating with developers.

Basically, instead of having developers doing everything or just developing and throwing code out to an ops team, we should have developers educated in operations, working in teams with at least one operation specialist (or "DevOps engineer"). That way, you should end up with infra, deployment workflow that really works for the team and is optimized for the needs of the team.
I'm not convinced. I worked in VR.

The reason I'm not convinced (anymore): humans are incredibly good at abstracting things. We don't need extremely high fidelity or realism to understand concepts, or interact with an environment. I am transmitting ideas from my brain to yours, right now, via text. Text. That's how good we are. As such, once the wow factor wears off, VR's downsides start to overwhelm the upsides. VR sickness is still a thing. Discomfort and heat. Isolation from the world.

If I'm right, you'd expect a lot of crazy good demos, and then usage to fall off over time. This is the exact thing you see in user data.

If you had to describe the value proposition of VR - what is it? "It's just really cool" isn't as compelling as I once thought.
I'm aware of Unix, but there have been some developments and divergences since the 70's. MacOS could probably be called a Unix variant as well. And ChromeOS is a pretty different beast from Debian despite nominally both being Linux.
Not really. PayPal I believe it's ~3% fees + spread + taxes. That's not free. I just sent some money to myself (not via Paypal) effective fee was 2,38% and I will have to wait 3 days. Crypto for a time was a good exchange medium, low fees, almost instant, no KYC, less bureaucracy. But I believe those days are counted because for good and bad it's now regulated and was reduced to speculative virtual assets.
"Please be aware that this lock is only a demonstration of the mechanism, and cannot be used to secure doors, chains, or anything else. "

It's for locksport and to play right now. There's no ready means to actually... lock something.. with it.
The strongest point of the movie was really the question of what makes us human. Given that it's stated that Rachael was a replicant, there's the contrast of her character with that of Deckard, who we are led to believe is human.

Rachael, being a human creation, is made to embody what we think makes us unique and precious, the best version of ourselves we could think of. A worthy successor even.

The tension with Deckard is that you have to question if his, say, minimalist expression of those qualities disqualify him as human, even though we know well enough that he's perfectly within the range of human expression in reality, and you would only doubt his humanity in light of the existence of artificial humans who visibly display a greater, more intense range of the human experience than him. Not that they have a choice, either.

Of course then comes the filmmaker to state his intention with it, which takes away the mystique, but eh the artist having a more boring opinion on a work than the people who enjoy it is something that has been quipped about since antiquity.
Neural nets will be able to reliably "dox" people within microseconds, if they aren't already.

Cross referencing information they're trained on is something they're pretty good at.

"What is xxxSteven007xxx's real name?" is a question a human may need hours, if not days, of research to answer. Maybe Steven only slipped up once and used the wrong e-mail address in 2007 on some forum, quickly changing it, but not before it was archived by a crawler. Two decades later a neural net would be trained on that information and also on the 7 other links of the chain that ties Steven's username to his real identity.

"Steven" disappeared, because a police officer asked GPT-5 to give them a list of people who are critical of the ruling party.
> Taking a generally antagonistic and hostile approach to communicating with the developers rather than again supporting them

This point is very ironic given your entire comment.

It sounds like many of your complaints may be due to you not understanding the requirements that another team may have. You're complaining about costs and requirements that you are trying imposing on another team ($$, lax security).

As an example, logging can get extremely expensive. A "better system" can't always fix an ungodly amount of unnecessary data.

It might be best if you try to understand why they are working the way that they are. Trust me, they are not doing unnecessary work just trying to fuck with you.
They should transfer over to your main display (at least that's what happens for me).

This utility might help you see what's going on: https://github.com/Jaysce/Spaceman.

And while we're on Spaces, this utility forces mission control to show full thumbnails of all spaces by default: https://github.com/briankendall/forceFullDesktopBar
Why not all of the above?
Woolly mammoth habitats don’t exist anymore nor do their social structure. We might be able to guess at their habitats but we know very little about how they lived. I would think it’s cruel to try and bring another mammoth back to what ever we currently think is a good for them, especially since the whole venture would be likely at least partially be driven by a quest for fame and profit.

If humans go extinct and some alien species works out how to clone us in vitro and put us in a breathable atmosphere, do you think that would be a life worth living? Hard pass for me, I can’t see that being an experience I would want to endure. It’s life Jim but not as we know it.

If governments or the super rich want a cause to spend their super profits on then working on human immorality or curing our current environmental/social ills would be much more moral.
Danish ‘Super’ Hospital Chooses Ammonia-Based District Cooling/Heating System
I 100% agree with this. I love Docker, Terraform, etc. because it's much closer to the world I usually inhabit than patching drivers on physical servers, but I find it frustrating that once every month or two I'm asked to solve some issue that really requires the specialized knowledge I'd only develop if I was doing DevOps frequently. Instead, I get to the point of realizing there's some issue deep in the AWS networking stack and wish that I didn't have to spend the next day fiddling with subnets (and then not taking away anything tangible to help me solve the unrelated issue that'll crop up in two months' time).
That's Sir Ridley Scott to you 8)

Quite a bright boy but a phenomenal director and producer.
When I first got really into Blade Runner, having first seen the original director's cut, I enjoyed the question as a puzzle to be solved. Really got into fan theories online and the unicorn dream was the smoking gun, and wasn't that so clever! So cool.

Then I read a compelling essay online (that I can no longer find) that pointed out the entire film's thematic weight only exists if the opposite holds. I also saw the original theatrical cut and read interviews with the screenwriter and Harrison Ford and it became clear that the unicorn dream was basically a retcon by Ridley Scott and it really makes no sense for it to be there. So my version of Blade Runner is basically the final cut without the unicorn dream, that is a perfect film, ambiguous without that "smoking gun."

(don't worry I read your essay...and now THAT is a fan theory)
Me too, I can almost quote the movie.

But I wouldn't call it 'great'. A great movie has some weight to it, it establishes a world, has a deeper story. It's original and exceptionally well executed.

Spaceballs was great fun, good gags but it was still a parody lifting on the success of star wars. Without star wars it would not have been very funny at all.

Fun and entertaining and great are not necessarily the same IMO.
It's more with your understanding of your nostalgia.

Of course my situation is only applies to me, but after some... things what happened in my life I understoođ what despite my initial reaction I care more about things what directly relates with my memoeries than with things which triggers my nostalgia factor. All and all the only things I have what relates to my memories is a "Six string samurai" DVD, a pack (or maybe two? It had been years since I toched them) of 5,25" diskettes and two pictures of some noname artists wich always reminds me of the place and time I got them.
Ah shit here we go again.

Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is widely misunderstood to be a licence to be intolerant yourself. For the last time : it is not.

Popper was talking about a very specific case, where the intolerant exploit the tolerance of a society to physically take over that society and enforce their views.

Until and unless you have evidence of that plausibly happening, there is no Paradox of Tolerance. You can perfectly tolerate people who hate women, who hate men, who hate gays, who hate the rich, who hate the poor, who hate any and every religion, ideology, way of life, identity, worldview or personality type. You can tolerate each and every single one of them, you can tolerate infinite number of them, as long they don't try to make reality conform to what they preach.

It's well known in software that a data structure can have infinite readers, but the presence of even a single writer either necessitates that the data structure is completely private to the writer, or an explicit and consistent writing policy needs to be devised to coordinate the writer with the readers and possibly other writers. Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is a restatement of this basic observation in the context of human societies. You can have infinite tolerance and diversity, as long as not a single ideology or group "writes" their conflicting views to society. If you have a group that does that, then you must choose whether you will cede all control of society to that group, or to set a strong writing policy that is much less permissive than infinite tolerance.

Stop using an argument for tolerance as an excuse for intolerance.
Climate change caused extinction of woolly mammoths
I don't think we need to muddy the water by saying bad software. Just write the word software. It's multiple layers upon layers. This isn't automatically bad.

There's so much more going on. I don't know if the complexity is all required but we're doing more now. There's just more going on. That's how it is. We need the abstractions. Maybe not all of them. But we need more abstractions and tools running now. There's so much to manage.

I don't see us reducing this complexity that much other than consolidation and some simplification to clean things as they get sorted further. But there is still a need for the layers. It's not 2005. Things are more complex.

The nearest analogy is would you like to code everything in line numbered BASIC or would you like to do it using some modern equivalent? Even with the additional layers there has been real progress in the tools. Improvements across a multitude of metrics. It's not all complexity for the sake of complexity.

Smile. It's another stage of progress. The old mess will fall away. At the next stage what we see as an improvement now will be the next stage's mess.
There's a whole slew of problems that will need even newer tools.

We haven't even scratched the surface of the automation we'll require in ten years time.
People will pay higher prices to win at a competition.
By the looks of it,the r/drama website is still pretty alive. I think I read an article on here about it a couple months ago.
wherever that is, this comment won't be found on it.
Show HN: A framebuffer console viewer, pure Go
Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles!

Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies.

https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv

As usual, feedback please!
Some jits have a very cheap baseline compiler. This is nice vs the interpreter because you don't need to worry about abi.
Thanks I'll edit it
>Zimbabwe tried redistributing farms but it turned out horribly for them.

Recent history of Zimbabwe: <http://imgur.com/a/VdQdD>
IMO the 2000 mini-series had great acting and actually followed the books (a rarity in today's book to TV conversions) but the low budget really killed it. Many of the desert shots were painful to watch and the sets had a very cheap vibe to them.