skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, good.

In Dublin, for a few weeks, seemingly half the buses had ads for something called Floki Coin, which was, and I can't believe I'm typing this, named after Elon Musk's dog. Everyone, _everyone_, who saw those ads and bought in would have lost money. Lost everything, if they'd stayed in.

(Ultimately, a complaint against the ads was upheld, but by then it was far too late: https://www.businesspost.ie/news/asai-upholds-complaints-aga...)

The world would be a better place with no cryptocurrency ads.
They were probably promised a very low price for their first few years, before their cloud costs get re-negotiated. Once they are locked in, the cloud cartel can jack up their price to make sure they get as much money as possible.

But also, mainframes are extremely expensive, so they can probably do better on commodity hardware. The cloud is a way to rent a lot of commodity hardware.

The big-brained move that they are almost certainly not doing is to use cloud services to bridge the retirement of their mainframes and move everything back on-prem with Linux boxes in 5 years.
Well, they kind of do. Try to cram more spaces into a car park, and make the ramps and access points narrower. A car is a car, but the tolerances get shrunk. You do 6 point turns and suchlike.
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> fresh browser context

I get your point, but I am not sure how fresh our browser context is.
Tragedy of the executives
Sounds a lot like farming out NOC-Ops to Wipro. Somebody had to think it was a good idea & managed to sell it to the policy makers for a nice promotion. So, when reality hits, does the same person get demoted further down than their original ladder rung?
> Of course, you can simply have a lot of money

Instructions unclear, I'm broke.
I don't think it will be a future generation of executives; I think it's the current generation of executives at companies and agencies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the NSA who will not rent all their information infrastructure. I agree that the executives who thus turn their companies into sharecroppers on land owned by Microsoft et al. will be richly rewarded despite the misfortune that befalls their stockholders; like Stephen Elop, if things go badly, they have an impeccable excuse.
There are very likely voices, but they didn’t win this battle.
He mentioned “conditioning” often made him discount his skepticism. What exactly do we mean by conditioning in these circumstances?
Don’t use iCloud and all your wishes are granted. You can use non-iCloud services for email, calendars, contacts etc. It’s true that you won’t get the full iCloud experience of course, but any such complaint is invalid—you can’t have your cake and eat it too, as the saying goes.
> How does one define creativity? How do you measure it?

Different studies might define it slight differently and test it via different tests. But to suggest that we as humans don’t have a fundamental understanding of what creativity even is quite hyperbolic.
> For example FedEx flies Boeing jets. It's completely reliant on Boeing for parts for those jets. Presumably Boeing can charge whatever it wants.

Nobody said that FedEx should build their own server hardware. And that's what you are comparing it too.

FedEx could just buy server appliances from e.g. Dell (buying the Boeing jet) and operating it. Because paying some other air cargo company will eat a lot of their margin, the same with Cloud infrastructure. They are not a startup which could better invest their time in development, they can without any problems hire some people to administer their server fleet. When they switch to a cloud they will likewise hire some engineers only managing e.g. AWS to administer it.
They are very well comparable as both get you from A to B.

Also, a sibling comment[1] seems to say that gas prices have risen more thus making it now even more cheaper to drive an EV than an ICE.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31984490
>GitHub Copilot, but for merge conflicts?

Great idea. The corpus of data to train with would be incredible. Every merge commit across all of GitHub.
Actually, I don't think the decision is that shortsighted in this case. It could work out pretty well for a decade or longer. IMHO FedEx is likely to have a good run before the costs and risks of this decision start outweighing its benefits.
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“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.

[Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry]”

― David Hilbert
Ask HN: Why does the MS spellchecker flag some everyday expressions as bad?
For example, if I clarify something with "definitely", or use "at all times" instead of "always", it will often react to that and suggest removing it.

It can be switched off, but why was this subfeature ever created? Why try to nudge away people's usage of normal synonyms, as a default behavior in MS products?
No, it makes no difference. Git doesn't look at the full history when performing a merge, it just looks for similarity between the paths and files in the commits being merged, and the common base commit (which you can discover by running `git merge-base`). It doesn't keep any metadata about whether something was a move: as far as the actual data structures are concerned, you deleted file a/b/c and added file d/e/f, that have the same file content hash.

You can find more information on how Git now does it at https://blog.palantir.com/optimizing-gits-merge-machinery-1-... . I think this first started to be released in v2.31.0, and completed in v2.33.0. v2.34.0 switched the default merge strategy to the new 'ort' strategy mentioned in that blog.
FedEx essentially does make their own trucks - they buy from white box suppliers who have very narrow margins. Ships are similar. Planes probably have slightly higher margins, but they still will buy used.

Getting computers from the cloud companies is very different: most cloud products (aside from server rentals) are not in competitive markets.
False equivalence. FedEx isn't building the servers here, either. But they do have their own maintenance for their fleet. Thus the better analogy would be if FedEx outsourced fleet management & maintenance to Hertz or similar.
I think they may have reversed this decision. I just went to replit.com, scrolled to the bottom, clicked c++ and arrived at https://replit.com/languages/cpp
After that I could just hit Run and it worked. The "Sign up for the full experience" button shook a bit to draw attention to itself, but otherwise no sign up was required to use it.
I can believe he wasn't sure mathematics was his calling during high school. I wasn't sure I would do a degree in mathematics until near the end, then I did (am no way near a fields medalist). But this is time up to 18-19. There's a lot of time after that.

However he took a course high in mathematical content and it sounds like he must have switched to mathematics for grad school, I.e. after his undergraduate or masters. In other words, he did the preparation. If it is anything like physics courses I have seen they feature a lot of mathematics courses anyway.

Some people have a lot of natural ability in mathematics but this is not enough to do good research. There's no way around hard work.

Also, dropping out of high school in many places significantly reduces your chances of going to university because you do the qualifications you need at the high school equivalent.
I must not be understanding what your point is because I think the data show that some doctors pay much more than $71k/yr[1]

[1] specifically the table on the last page of https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/ama-assn.org/files/corp/media...
A better headline might be - 'Why users with sensitive information on their computers shouldn't let people take remote control of their computers' - which is the risk being talked about here.
That's a DRM restriction.
> In H1 2022 >50% of German energy consumption was from renewables [1]

This is a false reading of the source. The source talks about domestic electricity production.

You said energy consumption, which would include gas/oil, and I really can not imagine that statistic to hold up considering all the energy we import.
The basic use case works, but quite a few things beyond that are broken. None of the various sandboxing attempts (not just Android, but everything) properly handles multi-file file formats [1], so that alone is very much not a solved problem!.

Keeping an LRU list for files that were opened from outside of your own app becomes needlessly complicated [2].

Access gained that way isn't directly compatible with things expecting classic File API access (and sometimes those things are outside of your immediate control, like external libraries and even parts of the Android framework itself), and unfortunately the easiest workaround to that problem is just copying the file into your own private storage.

[1] As far as I'm aware, only macOS attempts to at least handle related files that only differ in their file extension, but even that still doesn't cover more complex file formats like playlists, or HTML or DWG files or whatnot that can reference arbitrary other files.

[2] If the same file is shared via different apps, the way things have been implemented on Android it becomes more complicated for the receiving to check whether those two incoming file shares actually refer to the same underlying file or not. Plus for an LRU list to make sense you need to try persisting the file permissions so you can still access the file later on [3] and also especially take care not to leak those permissions when you clean up the LRU list.

[3] Which also leads to some strange scenarios like when you switch to a new file manager and uninstall the previous app, all LRU entries in other apps that were originally opened via that previous file manager now suddenly become invalid.
I think my inclination is to trust the algorithm more than any humans, which is the interesting part! It gave me a confidence boost far more than I've felt when other people have told me such things.
Instead of listening to QA, they add a bunch of telemetry, look at some fancy charts at the end of the month going downward, then make a poorly educated guess on what to do.
We know how ML models work: A machine-learning model finds patterns in the input data, looks at its vast statistical knowledge (lossy-encoded as multi-dimensional latent space), and then generates patterns which are statistically close to the input data.

If this instance of 'statistically close' corresponds very closely to what humans perceive as 'semantically close', we perceive this as parroting.

If this instance is somewhat distant but still connected to what humans perceive as 'semantically close', we perceive this as creativity.

If this instance of 'statistically close' is very different from what humans perceive as 'semantically close', we perceive this as an error, a glitch, a fluke, or the model not working well.

This is complicated by two things:

(a) we have a very limited understanding of what 'semantically close' means.

(b) we have a very limited understanding of how human brains work.

Edit: formatting
not where I live in Europe, while gas prices risen a lot, electricity risen even more
Yea, your missing the context. The entire point of the poem is that the two roads were identical and that the choice didn’t matter at all.
”FedEx first opened an on-premise data center at 250 Spectrum Loop in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008”

That seems implausible: where did they keep their mainframes before 2008?
How is sandboxing relevant here? A sandbox limits the capabilities of untrusted software to affect the outside system. It does not do anything for cheating, the system administrator can affect the sandboxed software in any way they want.
either big tech complies with national security rules of sovereign states or withdraws service from those territories. I have no doubt that twitter will do the latter, opening the way for a domestic competitor to emerge, a good thing for India's national security and digital sovereignty
It's a feature tier above, with much more emphasis on ease of use from the programmer's perspective.

It also allows for significantly more approachable programming models. For example: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c-wi...
This is generally because of DRM. They only support higher definitions on stricter levels of Widevine DRM, which need both software and hardware support.
Face pictures and IP adresses...
Thanks. I think it will have to be a future generation of executives whose egos won't be tied up in old debates and who therefore will be more willing to sacrifice old decisions. If things go badly, that future generation of executives will take over sooner.
Convincing people future risks outweigh the short term gains is very hard. That goes for all things.
> They were annoyed people they disliked were getting rich and now feel “vindicated” the bubble is popping.

No, I was annoyed that people were being scammed. The bulk of this crypto advertising was aimed at selling extremely dubious products to normal people who had no idea what they were getting themselves into. If another crypto ad is never placed, the world will be a better place.
I thought it was going to be the website whose hosting location is at the highest altitude. I wonder what that one would be now.
It as been OSS since forever, but I thought that there were some patent gotchas. In any case it now apparently even support non-SolarFlare NICs!

Onload has also has other nice features like accelerating machine-local stuff (pipes, unix sockets and other stuff).
I mean, yes, prepaying for delivery encourages people to buy more things from Amazon. But that's not anticompetitive. What's IMO anticompetitive is the vertical bundling of these unrelated services, especially because they're so big in commerce.

You speculate that Prime Video is a loss leader, and that would make it an even bigger an anticompetitive threat to the rest of the streaming market.
> Am I the only one who thinks that Git's UX is fine, and maybe even rather enjoyable?

Same here. Have been using git for over 10 years now though, so this might be an "experts view" kind of thing.
There's plenty of historical evidence, some of it described in the links I posted above.
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Considering them trying to force users over to the Windows-exclusive Minecraft edition, I’d be wary of that division too.

If the rumors about timed exclusives for the new Bethesda games are true, too, they’ll have lost all goodwill.
I agree on the point that Win 11 is anti-consumer, but I think that's part of the overall trend to turn the computer into an appliance, i.e. not a device that you have to administer, but a handy tool as easy as your fridge or washing machine.

Now if that takes away a bit of freedom and privacy, well, you can still opt out on any device that could run Windows 11, and use another OS instead.

I'm wondering whether this won't be possible later down the line, though, given the trend.
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I suspect cryptocurrencies will be back after a long winter, but I doubt the hype over NFTs is ever going back to 2021 levels. Unless they’re rebranded and repackaged yet again.
> that information infrastructure runs your company

This is silly. There is a lot more to FedEx than hosting physical compute infrastructure. FedEx doesn’t own all its own airports. A CSP is just another vendor.
I don't really feel a difference in productivity. It's usually browser/vscode/terminal with tmux on full screens anyway.
The biggest difference for me are the aesthetics and a distraction-free minimalist design.
I like to have my pixelspace used with close to no waste.

I've switched to windows because of laziness and need to reconfigure my dotfiles after like 6 years of using i3. This week I'm getting a new m2 disk and will be installing arch to finish my rice.
Why are there different ways of measuring energy?
> So there are still huge paper losses, but I doubt that many bought in at just 20+k.

I mean, ~everyone who believed the crypto ads that the article is about did, for a start.

I would assume it's far from done unravelling yet, though. Another dubious crypto HYIP seems to go under every few days at the moment.
The better analogy would be that Fedex, since they need to transport things from city to city, could choose to buy jets to transport with instead of renting them or contracting a company to fly for them, which they already do. To remove datacenters is more like removing the jets.

Edit: removed rude phrasing.
Problems for Goff’s Panpsychism
Each time I see something like this I think to myself that just because you can doesn't mean you should...
I cannot for the life of me understand why people feel compelled to jump on the Internet to denigrate others’ taste in movies.
And a more honest headline might be - "Why using Click Beacon™ is better than letting your clients to remote control your computer."
Gym for sure is not the best way, but I'm not really lifting heavy weights, it's more of a work on calisthenics, some cardio (usually rowing) and some mobility exercises with the occasional compound lift here and there, cycling is just my preferred cardio for multiple reasons - I can actually travel moderate distances as opposed to running, it's lower impact and I find it much more relaxing than running for instance.

Also, I'm not sure if you understood correctly - I've hit my 194 when I was out of shape and stepped on my bike and tried to climb the tiny hill (after doing about 20km or so). After about 200m of distance with about a 6% gradient, my HR was 194 and I had to step off the bike, my lungs felt like they were extending from my groin all the way to my upper arms on boths sides :D.

After going to the gym for two years I've never seen more than 187 during the HIIT sessions that we had (usually it's something along the lines 20 calories max effort rowing with 15-30 seconds rest, anywhere from 6-10 series) so my experience directly contradicts what has happened to him.
> you can go for a walk with a 90 bpm heart rate and lose a lot of weight

A 1 hour brisk walk is roughly 400 calories, which is roughly the same as a 5k run, not eating a Starbucks muffin, or not eating half a small pizza.

Exercise, even light walking is incredibly beneficial, but you won't lose any weight doing so. Weight is lost in the kitchen.
I have enjoyed Marvel movies in the way you describe. I've also been bored by Marvel movies that felt formulaic (partly as I've become more familiar with the formula).

My gripe is that Marvel's dominance seems to have massively reduced the variety of movies in the cinema. I'm not talking arthouse, I mean blockbusters.

About half of all big-budget movies seem to be about a guy (usually) with special powers. I know derivative sequels were a thing before Marvel, but it would be nice to have a little more variety.
owo -- the naming is a bit unfortunate!

(if you dont know, owo is a nsfw term)
Heart attack (myocardial infarction) leads to cardiac arrest all the time. That's how people die from heart attacks.

If someone has a myocardial infarction and then goes into cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm, shocking is absolutely the appropriate thing to do. (But it is only a temporizing measure - if the person does not get treatment for the underlying myocardial infarction, they will simply go into cardiac arrest again.)
Maybe, just maybe FedEx had a bunch of employees making a lot of calculations before going this route. Just maybe they made an educated decision, based on their inside knowledge of the company and it’s needs. Or maybe a bunch of people on HN just know better.
Yeah, this is the exact path described by the TMNT creators. First comics, then came the cartoons and actions figures, later the movie deals.
Due to anecdotal experience, I will never go back to anything that has their format without the ability to let my notes be or be exported. I was an early Evernote[1] user and Prime/Pro subscribe for quite many years. We even used it for team collaboration on documents. Unfortunately, I had to leave it like everyone else and have gone all plain-text (sometimes, spiced with MarkDown here and there when needed). Now, any tool should be a wrapper on top and should leave no damaging changes -- the best I found so far being Obsidian[2].

I tested/tried OneNote long back and doing a quick search says you can export[3] the whole at one go to a Word format. This should, then work macOS -- export to Word Format and Pandoc.

1. https://evernote.com

2. https://obsidian.md

3. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/export-onenote-files-differen...
It's not just money, it is also how you spend a limited quantity of organisational focus. You cannot do it all, this is actually even more important when you are that big of a company.
EVs are completely missing masses. Only rich people have money to buy a car for 30k-60k EUR
> as someone else said it basically replaces one proprietary commercial VBA with another proprietary commercial VBA.

Yeah, that's definitely a downside. I appreciate the author believes they can commercialise this more successfully if it's proprietary, but /personally/ I'd prefer something open source. One day I'll finish my own open source VB6 clone.

> There have been at least a couple of those who ended up being abandoned.

You're right. History is littered with abandoned VB6 replacements. Anybody remember GNOME Basic?

Nonetheless, credit where credit is due. Technologically, it looks like TwinBASIC has good foundations. It had a language server, although the VSCode extension is on hold for now. It imports VB6 project files, unlike looser VB6 alternatives like Gambas. And a combined Dim / Let (=) statement is long overdue.
Personally I never understood why the stash needs to be a stack. I can't think of a time when the order in which changes have been stashed has mattered, outside of dropping the older ones.
I used to work with a very smart man that I'm sure was some kind of secret genius. He's was that sort of tech gofer. Hardware, software, didn't matter, if there was a problem he'd solve it. Sort of guy you'd see carrying a thick ass SQL book around because he 'needed to learn it' to solve just one little problem. He built whole entire solutions for the company I worked at in his spare time that the company once tried to sell for 500k and at a previous company I heard he figured out a way for the pain mixing machines to save on paint or recycle it or something saving them 1.3 Mil a year. When Raspberry Pis first came out he was one of the first people I saw tinkering with them and he was in his 50's doing it just for fun, I think he ended up using it to open and close his garage door from work or something just to scare his wife.

That sort of guy. Well he once told me something about executives and upper managers working for corporations that I have never forgotten. He said to me, and of course I am paraphrasing:

"Change gives the illusion of progress". I asked him what he meant and he responded with something to the effect of "They have the habit of changing big things every 5-10 years on purpose to make it look like they are productive, and to justify their own roles, one guy will come in and 'cut costs', the new guy after him will 'invest'".
These folks are pretty clueless about pediatric speech pathology work. They are making a claim these kids are logging in and navigating ehr systems to extract phi about other kids. I’m not sure they are aware of target for service here.

Zoom does not allow screen blanking as far as I know. Remote access in these settings is both Monitored and can be canceled.

So this is a series of weird if statements. If this disabled kid gets up and runs to file cabinet in office, opens it, funds a file and extracts data phi is violated. Sure but pretty darn unlikely
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