skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Translate: "We have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it. But we've almost decided who to blame."
These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032... I can't be precise because they are dead and I am going off of when the hardware configurations were entered in to our database (could have been before they were powered on) or when we handed them over to HN, and when the disks failed.

Unbelievable. Thank you for sharing your experience!
If I can ask what is an sctb?
In my dad's view Watergate was itself the first signs of the decline, the press was unfair to Nixon, etc. Don't get him started on the press and Reagan.

There has certainly been a rise in the availability of low-quality crap since then - especially post-Twitter - but I have a pet theory that if people's politics hadn't shifted towards the extremes in a way that caused them to distrust the old mainstream, there would be less interest in the crap. (E.g. Fox News didn't "convert" anyone in that house, it was just a previously-unavailable sort of preaching to the choir that hit a ready audience. Funnily, after a couple decades of it, though, it lost its flavor to them.)

tldr: common view is "lower quality media" -> "partisanship and division" and I don't know how we'd be confident in that vs "partisanship and division" -> "more demand for low quality media."
I'm no expert but the news was a big part of causing American fervor when we started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We were united in a very unique way after the attacks and the news took advantage of that to drum up war support. We went to war with Iraq that literally had nothing to do with it. Wild when you think about it. I was young at the time and even I was calling for their country to be nuked. News 24/7 talking about the invasions.
Most rail profiles are like:

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But BARTD's are more like:

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Correction: the rails are flat, it's the wheels that are also flat. So pretend the above are the upper half of the wheel profiles.

End result is more surface contact = more noise/squealing, also less self-centering of the wheels on the tracks, so the lips also brush against the rails. I think this also exacerbates the washboarding of the rails.
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I'm not sure where you sourced your information. Taxi drivers are around as dangerous as loggers. Petro-chem (oil rigs) are also extremely dangerous.
4. You run away and they shoot you in the back.
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Really? Surely you're joking..? I've had the complete opposite experience, and in fact have never found a piece of productivity software as horrible as Office 365. Also on a Mac...

Email: Outlook UI and hotkeys are totally different from MacOS, Windows, and Web. Rules don't really work and are impossible to debug. Search is terrible. Threading is terrible (expands the subjects of each child message, but not their bodies... whyyyy).

Calendar: How the heck do you find an event you previously declined but changed your mind on? Why does Teams and Outlook both offer a calendar, with subtly different UIs and features, and the web interface is totally different yet again? It is incredibly slow (things take multiple seconds, like loading someone else's calendar, or clicking on an event it has to take time to load in the attendees...). The "suggested times" feature is hard to find and there's no visual guide (like a week view); also it again seems different between the apps.

Teams: Oh god. This... is what they came up with? It's sooooo slow on startup. It duplicates Outlook notifications. It is hard to find the meeting you're supposed to join when you first clicked on a join link, but then it asks you to login, etc. It's so much less feature-ful than Zoom, yet so much harder to use (and uglier) than Meet. Why do the chat rooms persist not only after a meeting but get resurrected later in the week, and why do they notify you for chats in a meeting that you're not even in. The share screen sidebar is atrociously hard to see to determine which window you're trying to share. Like... literally all the basics they got wrong, and this one software has the worst UX of anything I've seen.

Excel, Word, etc.: My god, the UI has gotten even worse, the forced OneDrive integration is terrible, etc...

I grew up using Microsoft stuff until Google started popularizing their online suite. In the years since, every employer except this most recent one has used Google and while it never struck me as particularly pretty, it was pretty easy to use for the most part. I was actually kinda curious to try the Microsoft stuff again, figured they had 20 years to catch up, it's gotta be better now, right? Nope. I've never hated a stack as much as this, even as a long-time Windows user... in fact it's going to be one of my questions for employers in the future, and a big red flag.

Sorry, I know I sound pretty agitated about this. Their software griefs me on a daily basis and is the single thing I hate the most about my job. It's just SO terrible. I guess YMMV, eh? I didn't realize there were actually people out there who preferred the Microsoft stuff... of the folks I've spoked to casually, all vastly preferred Google's implementations. But that's just anecdotal.
> I have enormous respect for his engineering

He has never demonstrated engineering skills. He has always been a business manager. But with all of the business comedy he has performed this year, I am beginning to doubt his business skills too. Perhaps it's the VPs under him who managed the business well, while Elon remained the PR front person and primary investor. Much like SpaceX.
Dickens is a pretty big outlier in sales longevity. The percentage of books that are still selling copies 100 years after they're published rounds to 0%.
I feel the voting process on HN deserves a lot of credit for the quality of front-page content. I wish a knew more about it, other than karma>500 giving the ability to downvote.
For the working programmer do you really want theoretical soundness? Though I have background in formal mathematics, when it comes to day to day, and what pays the bills, what I might need to operate in anger, I much much more care about legibility, debuggability, inspectability, easy to implement X (without a stdlib if need be), easy to test, no footguns, PL respects programmers (btw go fails most of these)
What about this one?

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
That is very insightful and you're on point!

I have to zoom in quite a bit and look closely to tell the difference and can still barely make out which one is better. Comparing with my setup (FF1.0/sway1.25) it looks different to both but perhaps that's due to different fonts or resolution. Anecdotally the performance here is better than your sway but worse than your FF. At this point it's similar to the difference between high and medium bitrate for an MP3 though - I might make out the difference if I focus but in no way does the lesser version affect my experience otherwise.

I guess this is semantics but I still wouldn't call it "blur", maybe "suboptimal downscaling".

That being said, I understand things like this affects us differently and that it's a valid issue for you and probably others - just like suboptimal audio encoding ruins the music listening experience for some.
Linux on the desktop is freaking awesome now. I wouldn’t have it any other way. It took me a few hours to get Arch the way I want it (with KDE) and everything just works now.
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I went and checked https://brutalist.report/ to see what the latest HN posts they had, read the headlines and then moved on. A few hours later I went to HN and they were back.

I wasn't worried about it, I figured dang and others were working on it and would have things back online.

I do depend on HN for taking a break from coding though and it was tough not getting my fix on demand :D
I never had a problem with this, between Slack integrations and connecting GCal to the desktop calendar app and using its notifications.

On the other hand, I seem to get 3-4 reminders about the same meetings -- even ones I'm already joining -- between Outlook and Teams.
Just coming from Hong Kong or Tokyo I don't understand how someone can write an article like this without feeling completely embarrassed. Bart is a symbol of American incompetence.

It's like, ok, unique decision on the broad gauge. But the Bart is a piece of shit. So why should I care?

A real topical blog post would be one comparing Bart to say the train systems in China; but instead they ignore the obvious and focus on this irrelevant detail.
And?

Is it Josh's fault that the market has listened to Musk when he's said, every year since 2016, that FSD is "coming, this year, for real"?
I have to be honest, I frequently find myself with NIH syndrome. I just don't understand how we can make progress if we defer to "everything is a solved problem!"

Truly, help me understand how to better navigate when to defer and when to have the courage to invent here.
This free 1g of turning force is apparently known among pilots as “God’s G”. It needn’t be produced as lift while you’re inverted at the top of a loop, so you get a good turn rate despite losing speed and hence lift as you get up there.
> Cosmos

The soundtrack for that comes from Heaven and Hell, one of Vangelis' best.
> I had to work on Java

...

> I had to fallback to using `any

What? Are you sure you worked with Java?
Ask HN: How do you figure out/prebook meetups for conventions like AWS reInvent?
My co-founder and I are heading to re:Invent, and while we've always gotten great use out of the technical sessions, we want to build our partnerships and maybe even find a few potential leads.

Does anyone have some tips on what kind of pre-work they've found that works?

Last time we came down to a tech convention, we found most of our meeting through HN, but that was a very long time ago. :)
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The purpose of the bill is to scare people and punish them for filming. The fear of a smashed phone or an arrest is enough to stop many people from filming.
I’d enrol the laptops at least into Microsoft Endpoint Manager (InTune) so you can apply device management policies and monitor activity; potentially doing for the server too.
You never know when it might be a friend or relative calling from jail or a mental health facility.

I tend to answer even still.
I don't want to be a naysayer. But the premise of the title is that Webpack is the current big thing. And I read the whole article and don't really understand why Webpack is the current big thing. The whole JavaScript ecosystem seems very disjoint and although I'm not immersed in it, I figured I would have heard of Webpack before or at least seen it on this site if it was so big. I have heard of npm and Babel before, but maybe that's just good marketing (or maybe I just missed a whole generation?).
It was Nortel, IIRC.
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, what is stopping anonymous bad actors from manipulating it?

The same can be said of anything on the internet, largely controlled by big tech, what is stopping them from manipulating information for profit?
If you're trading a horse for the car, a seatbelt might not be the first thing you'd think of. I don't think our views on danger have changed, it's just that any new technology requires a period of adjustment to it.
It will be steamrolled in court until it reaches the radical, ultra-conservative Supreme Court who will say that the Constitution doesn't mention cameras and has no opinion about filming, at which point the law will stand.
Scott Bell is a former[1] HN moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sctb

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055115
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It's on the list. We're slow.
Not only super/subscript, there's also some convenient fractions: ½ ⅔ ⅜, etc
This is the sad state of reality today. You can self-host in theory but it's a big, nasty, error-prone burden in reality.
The other part of the myth people forget is that the metaphorical fire-yellers were socialists distributing anti-draft pamphlets. It's hardly a good thing to cite today on freedom of speech.
That's dynamic pricing.

And it must be a side hustle so the Easter Bunny has something to do year-round.
The market crashed to hell and it makes no sense to close on a ~50% markup when the penalty is at most $1B. It seems kind of obvious to me he’s angling to get a nice discount and close, since he has almost all the leverage (the shareholders are going to sue the board if they end up having their stock directly exposed to the radioactive hellscape that is the equities market.)
So what you're saying is, Linux sucks?
Reasonable people can disagree with this thesis.
I wonder if this is an example of the downsides of not just doing something right from the beginning. If I understand correctly, this whole 737 Max kerfuffle was born out of Boeing trying to reduce costs for their "new" airplane by retrofitting an old one, intending to save on all sorts of costs. I don't know much about airplane development and manufacturing, but it almost seems like it would have been cheaper to just design a new airplane. Certainly would have saved lives, lawsuits, fixing hardware with software, and all this regulatory investigation.
There are many existing trains in Switzerland, even high speed ones. Yet those trains are largely above ground. (I can't find any statistics quickly).

This is supposed to be a low speed service - 30km/h - so they could meander around mountains to a large extent. Am I misreading that this is supposed to be entirely underground?
It definitely won't happen in Toronto, seeing as John Tory was, and still is, in bed with Rogers.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/john-a-tory-a-...
> In 2022, quantum mechanics does still seem to be a final answer—not an approximation to anything deeper as Einstein hoped.

Things that have big question marks, related to this debate:

- how do we mesh quantum with gravity?

- why do tangles cause quasiparticles?

- does tangling rescue geons?

One theory is that quantum mechanics is an approximation of tangles in a higher dimensional space when viewed as pseudoknots, in the style of AdS/CFT.
This was evident to me during the 2020 election, when many Republicans denounced Fox News over their early (but correct) call for Arizona, and starting advocating for everyone to ditch Fox and switch to Newsmax or OANN. Fox then had to do a lot of damage control to assuage their audience (essentially lowering the bar to satisfy them).
I thought I'd dive in and look for these plans, and as expected they're not at all easy to find.

For Telus, I had to go to four different plan/pricing pages before I found a link mentioning that cheaper plans are only available on Koodo (their lower priced brand). And then, the $35 plan is as lousy as they can make it and still comply with the CRTC - 3GB of data at 3G (only 2 generations ago, awesome) speeds, with overage costs of $13/100MB. Just absurdly bad. Or maybe you want something more reasonable, let's cut out that data access, you just want talk and text? That'll save you a whopping $3, at $32/month.

So that's the telecom situation in Canada; the first 3GB cost you $3, the next 3GB cost you $390.
The problem for Musk is that he filed an offer letter, which is normally what you do after due-dil, and there’s nothing in that offer that gives him a way out without pulling the MAE card, which is a pretty weak reed to rely on (though his most recent filing gamely works as many angles as possible, as you’d expect from Skadden).

The buyout offer was a ridiculous move that feels like it was predicated on hurt feelings over the board debacle, but it’s not the Chancery Court’s job to protect billionaires from themselves, and Musk is generally the sort of manager that the court casts as the bad guy in the little morality plays they make of cases. Doesn’t mean they’ll compel specific performance (I’m skeptical that an equity court is going to see that as the best option, not least because it’s not clear to me Musk would have enough cash to operate the company if the sale went through under current market conditions), but I suspect that, after protracted negotiations and litigation, either the board will accept a modest haircut on the offer (again, due to market conditions), or the court will award liquidated damages ($1bn) plus possibly some additional damages if Twitter wants to argue that Musk violated the confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions of the deal. (If the former, I suspect that we’ll see a bunch of strike suits from aggrieved shareholders land in court anyway, so buckle up for a lot of litigation regardless.)
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With standard tires though.
Good analysis.

> If Elon ends up not closing this deal with Twitter, I suspect that Twitter will go the way of Tumblr...eventually getting bought by a second tier tech company before being mismanaged into irrelevance.

Has Musk demonstrated that he has a viable business plan for Twitter that would help it avoid mismanagement into irrelevance?
And then there's Rust and Go, substantially less insane for the moment.

But Node.js, sweet node, how I love and detest thee.
At least in the case of PLT Scheme, I recall a conference where there was open hostility
to the notion that their academic language might (horrors!) become widely adopted.
Will no one defend the American Republic?
I can’t say too much, but check the deliveries on the 787 that past few months ;)
It does have something to do with accuracy, because further down the page the letter explicitly calls out the SEC filings and the 5% number and the fact that it was a rep and that there is an MAE.

The letter is throwing several pieces of shit against the wall and seeing which will stick.
I was a drive-by contributor of a few PRs to Ruffle out of love for old flash videos and one of my favourite users is The Internet Archive. It’s wonderful that this stuff is preserved in the active sense and that you no longer need to view YouTube/video renders of flash content to see all the old animations.

Obviously the vector graphics is both lightweight and scales beautiful, but somehow the loading screens and various bits of interactivity in primarily video content are almost as important to me at least.

This has saved parts of my childhood from the brink of extinction.
How many times have these covert phone-guns been used in crimes?

They are unlikely to be much use for that. Self defense or covert assassination, neither are at all common gun violence. Arguably a poor tool for much else.

QED most of these phone-gun owners are likely living in some fantasy world. See: "Sword Guys" archetype.
WSL is a godsend for Linux-inclined devs operating corporate laptops where Windows is mandated and filled with counterintrusion software up the wazoo.
Anyone familiar with car repair will tell you that if one headlight burns out you should just go ahead and replace both, because of this exact phenomenon. I suppose with LEDs we may not have to worry about it anymore
If only books made more money ohoho
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Here in BC Rogers came back about 4pm, but went down again around 7pm.
This is a list of things other people did. (what's his grandfather got to do with it?) Everything I mentioned happened after 2014.

However, he didn't do enough for median incomes (for a rich country the people are all generally kind of poor) or for women, who are more employed now but still underemployed and don't have nearly enough access to childcare.
Musk would have been a political player, as the owner of twitter. That could have gotten him into a fight with the wrong people, and could have hurt his business.

I mean AWS didn't get the big pentagon contract, under the previous US president. Mr. Besos was very upset about this. Now Musk is much more exposed to that kind of thing, as SpaceX is a major Nasa contractor.

There must be some politics here, if you consider the amount of tax money being involved. Now the politics of Mr. Musk doesn't quite align with that of the president, and we saw some spats between them in the past. I would argue that this would have a potential for escalation and would have much more weight than the bot issue on twitter.

'Biden wishes Elon Musk "lots of luck" on moon trip' - could be read as a kind of veiled threat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igSyBMYus5A

MSNBC says that Musk and Biden are in a kind of fight now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgj2jfmPfRE
You’d be surprised at the amount of things written by people to put a veil of logical reasoning behind impulsive, emotional and irrational life choices/decisions. Or maybe not.
My first thought was “oh sh*t, they finally added this to the list of time-wasting social media blocked sites” :( It was only when I saw it also didn’t work on my phone, that I realized HN itself was actually down
sounds like it https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/december-deadline-co...
Just posted to the linked thread:

kabdib> Let me narrow my guess: They hit 4 years, 206 days and 16 hours . . . or 40,000 hours. And that they were sold by HP or Dell, and manufactured by SanDisk.

mikiem> These were made by SanDisk (SanDisk Optimus Lightning II) and the number of hours is between 39,984 and 40,032...
I strongly disagree with this characterization. I am a registered Republican. There has never been overt corruption like there was during the Trump administration and it was horrifying.

I also respectfully disagreed with a lot of things about the Bush, Biden, and Obama administrations but they were in no way comparable to the transactional corruption of Trump.

He had massive conflicts of interest from day one and refused to step back from his business interests: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/313864-government-et...
Boeing CEO ready to cancel 737 Max 10 unless Congress acts
This isn't advice but this is what my local VONS stocks often for 2 for 1, and has the desirable caffeine interactions I described thus far:

https://www.amazon.com/Mushroom-Supplement-Vegetarian-Nature...
Now explain why they put carpet in a train.
Also the article is from March and mentions a private GitHub but it seems like it has been publicly released per context clues on this commit https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/bun/pull/205
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I don't think that's what the blub paradox is. I think the parent comment is arguing the opposite. People who believe in the blub paradox are usually so smug and full of themselves that they don't pursue simple solutions.
I call BS on your second point.

Just run a DNS server locally configured to serve stale records if upstream is unavailable.

As for your first point, the same local DNS server would also provide you with lower/no latency.
Well if rental and sale prices track, as they often do, this is also not a great strategy.
I wonder how many other billionaires are sitting around trying to figure this out, why he went so big and flashy
Something tells me this ride isn’t over yet…