skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This sounds alot like the excuses for not taking action against COVID-19 which we hear over and over again.

Not sure where this theory of inaction against Covid-19 comes from.

Actually, the world took quite a lot of action against Covid-19: forced masks, economic shutdowns, vaccines to keep your job, quarantines and isolation, preventing travel, preventing hospital visits and even funerals, mandating testing, and even blocking treatments for many actual health problems, and many more uncountable illogical and monstrous things.

I just had an acquaintance who had a desperately needed cancer surgery delayed for 2 weeks due to a false Covid-19 test. We're still dealing with lives ruined by this utter nonsense.

> I know there are pensioners who find meaning in life from looking for any evidence that the government made some mistake or may make some mistake about handling COVID-19.

When it comes to the massive loss in freedom, economic devastation, deaths directly caused by government actions, careers and job losses and other ruin caused by government policies, and possibly leading up to the destruction of the economy and resulting in many millions (if not billions of) deaths, our precious government officials should feel lucky that the least that happens to them is the mildest little criticism from an upset pensioner.

> The outcome of that situation, quite depressingly, is that the next crisis is going to be harder to handle.

On this, we agree with each other, albeit probably for different reasons. For me, it's the boy-who-cried-wolf effect to keep in mind. A large segment of the population will not trust what the government/media tell them on health matters ever again. All social capital and trust was wasted on a cold with a very high survival rate for most people. Not the smartest move. If there's ever a real dangerous pandemic, many people will not believe it.
EBITDA is a meaningful term that communicates a lot of information. "Synergy" is useless, and is essentially an SEO tag for an idea you want people to pay for.

I'm not saying that different disciplines don't have jargon that is useful, I'm saying that a lot of jargon is not useful.
In Marc-Uwe Kling's "Qualityland", reversing elevators, turning around subway cars, and flicking traffic lights is a level-skill obtained by accumulating social credit points.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Qualityland-Visit-Tomorrow-Marc-Uwe-K...
Autism and Forecasting
> 'I love [the strategic thing] but I've struggled to communicate it effectively to my team. How can I make it easier for them to understand?'

That is very transparent, by the way. If your goal was to hide that you don't understand it, you didn't achieve it.

You will probably get a better answer if you are honest, anyway. If you never worked with [the strategic thing], you should not be expected to know it.
From the primer, C3 follows the C++ rules here, not C rules. Changing to using C++ struct/enum/union naming rules here is a much less invasive change than what I'm discussing.
Where are my Virtue's Last Reward fans at?
You can have a "warranty" while still barring "any-cause" returns.
Why did you post it twice?
It'd be nice if there were a tool you could run over your code that did this sort of thing. Even if it can technically break shit in absurd cases, I'd totally run it on my code, which isn't absurd.
Show HN: We created a password and data manager for teams
Yeah, that's the fragmentation part thing. I have no idea how to properly solve it, but I'm sure throwing lots of money at the problem would help.
> Lastly, Why is it so frowned upon to not like a company in a non-violent way and voice one's opinion?

Nono it's fine I guess - it's just that a companys culture forms from top down. Granted, if Nadella is just Ballmer in Nadella clohing, then this doesnt hold up, but that would also validate the argument that Ballmer was just a Gates in Ballmer clothing.

The board chooses the CEO, the CEO is the top authority in the company. He sets the tone. There is no "Windows team" anymore, were going full in on Azure and Linux. Its simply a different time.
A big bet on geothermal could help prevent a climate catastrophe
I've got a 2019 16" with 32GB ram and Apple offers $400 for it.....
I agree that we need to at least name nanoservices -- microservices that are "too small". Like surely we can all agree that if your current microservices were 100x smaller, so that each handled exactly one property of whatever they're meant to track, it'd be a nightmare. So there must be a lower limit, "we want to go this small and no smaller."

I think we also need to name something about coupling. "Coupling" is a really fluid term as used in the microservice world. "Our microservices are not strongly coupled." "Really, so could I take this one, roll it back by 6 months in response to an emergency, and that one would still work?" "err... no, that one is a frontend, it consumes an API provided by the former, if you roll back the API by 6 months the frontend will break." Well, I am sorry, my definition of "strong coupling" is "can I make a change over here without something over there breaking", for example rolling back something by 6 months. (Maybe we found out that this service's codebase had unauthorized entries from some developer 5 months ago and we want to step through every single damn thing that developer wrote, one by one, to make sure it's not leaking everyone's data. IDK. Make up your own scenario.)
Screen sharing is still a awful yeah. It either just works or you’re into a world of pain with user level systemd units that log nothing useful or nothing at all, dependencies that you have to somehow know to install with no instructions, arcane program arguments and env vars that mean hacking desktop files or shell scripts for things that are otherwise straightforward and then random breakages with upgrades.
Why would that be a sign of a bubble and not simply an overvalued stock?
The funny thing is that going into a game where someone absolutely hates me (confined to the game), it was easy to get others to see them as being weak. The more people who hated me in Diplomacy, the easier the game became.
From AI to abortion, scientific failure to understand consciousness harms nation
State-level is a label for groups that have resources and persistence and perhaps the technical acumen that is available to states.
Is the apple bounty program still terrible in terms of payout and length of time to approval?

I can’t see many people submitting bounty reports if it’s too much of hassle or not worth the effort.

Since the apple ecosystem is mostly proprietary, it’s hard to gauge as individuals if this just provides a false sense of security or not against “state actors”.
I think I still like that better than anything I recall from the past of X servers running on Windows or OSX.
Shopify is the Canadian meme stock. When I worked there everyone I met knew about them, not because of the product, but because the news loved to talk about Canada's one domestic tech success in the last 10 years. During the pandemic they briefly became Canada's most valuable company, and then lost all their gains for the past 2 years, then did a stock split because it was trendy with retail investors.

They have a ton of terrific engineers but the nouveau riche people from the IPO are largely insufferable, and the amount of reverence for tobi inside and outside of the company is just unhinged.
If you care about your privacy don't upload your private data to ANY cloud service.

Even if iCloud was encrypted they still run on third party cloud providers who nobody knows what relationship they have with governments. Many types of encryption are breakable if you have effectively unlimited resources.
If you fullscreen an app on a notched Mac it blacks out the area where the menubar would be, making it look like a top bezel the same thickness as a non-notched model. Of course, being an LCD, in person it will be more like a black notch and a very dark grey area either side of it.
it's hilarious that KJU was probably among the biggest benefactor of crypto boom.
I'd love to see evidence of this.
You can brush your teeth in the shower too.
Computer security is notoriously difficult, but at the same time, none of this is magical, this is meticulous hard work, and with enough time, skills and money I don't see how you can't plug all the holes.

At least the remote attack surface does not seem to be that huge...
How well does this play out with things like GDPR? I can only find one sentence about it but this seems like a direct conflict.

Who wins? The USA, the EU, no one, everyone?
The story is as old as Emacs itself. Many people (if not most) start using Emacs by treating it as "an editor". They think they have to configure it by tweaking settings and changing various options.

But Emacs is nothing but clay, an assortment of Lego pieces, building blocks, programmers' equivalent of IKEA furniture, DYI toolkit, etc.

It's not an editor, it's material for you to build your own editor.

> I never wanted to write enough ELisp

That's the mistake Emacs newcomers often make. If you truly want to master Emacs, there's no way around it - you have to accept Emacs Lisp. With all its flaws and incredible power.

If you hate Lisp because it's not like languages you learned and used before; it doesn't look like Python, Javascript or Ruby, then maybe you're missing something.

One needs to set aside their prejudice about parenthesis, learn structural editing commands, understand REPL-driven workflow, and then, once they are over that initial barrier, they may realize that all those [more popular] languages borrowed heavily from Lisp, and Lisp is an extremely nice programming language.

True craftsmen very often make their own tools. I am of course biased here, but in all honesty, every single professional I know, whom I can count as an Emacs power-user or even a master; Every single one of them is truly an incredible hacker.

ps.: "you" used here in the general sense, not targeted to the OC personally.
It's not especially comparable to what an actual government has to deal with though. It's superficially similar I guess.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that. All I can say is this: You should reconsider your position, look into it deeper until the apparent "things that don't make sense" dissolve. If not, you'll be really pissed about a huge missed opportunity, some day soon...
I'm with you, in that a Star Trek utopia is indeed possible, technology and resource wise. And i would love to see the world society bending the trajectory, before it's too late. I just have seen too much greediness, to see a chance, that this will happen. Some poles would have to be moved, to bend the trajectory ;)
I still haven't used a IDE that has made my developer experience better than simple text editor and some cli tools. They all seem to fail spectacularly if you have to do something bit more different than they were designed for (usually regarding how the project is built), and often feel very sluggish. Also the project files or build files they generate are usually horrible, and not great for version control.
This feature is really fantastic, and it re-affirms my commitment to using Apple devices due to security in preference over Android. The only thing I could see that would be a superior alternative could perhaps be something like Graphene. Already today I locally set up a profile via Configurator in order to ensure that my phone can't be hijacked by some local attacks, the work that is happening Lockdown is even better and I'll be enabling this as soon as it becomes available to me.
If I recall correctly, v4 is also supposed to have better baked-in multiplayer support. I'm also looking forward to the eventual release!
The analogy I like the most is that they've found the "shape" of languages in high dimensions, and if you rotate the shape for English the right way, you get an unreasonably good fit for the shape of Spanish, again for all the other languages.

We're at a point where it's now possible to determine the shape of every language, provided there are enough speakers of the language left who are both able and willing to help.

<Snark> Once done, Facebook can then commodify their dissent, and sell it back to them in their native language. </Snark>
I think they're focusing on the notion of protecting against well-funded mercenary firms with the resources/time/ability/motivation to target specific individuals with specific exploits. I have a hard time believing that anyone would enable this Lockdown Mode _prior_ to being owned though.
It's brilliant, really. Not only do we empathize with the enslaved, but we also see how under capitalism the typical employee differs from them only by degree. Their enemies are our enemies. We have to stop identifying with the reptiles who own and manage the cane fields.
Show HN: Barfi – Python flow based programming with GUI
What? Another flow based programming library for Python?

Yes.

All the FBP libraries out there for Python need to be run as a self contained application. They are not components that could be integrated into your existing data workflows. Barfi, on the other hand can be integrated. At the moment it has a Streamlit component that you can use in your Streamlit apps.

Currently, I am working on a Jupyter notebook widget.
I think my other answer here should provide an answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989227
The sterile area between the gate and the border control is treated as international waters/lands, which sounds fine, and IIUC there is the logic that laws don't apply there so you can be forced-forced anything free from constitutional protections. Not sure if that actually works though.
The Growth Ponzi Scheme is the thing that explains this.

The cost of building out infrastructure the first time is covered by the sale of the newly constructed properties (and sometimes state or federal grant money) which is all one-time income.

Taxes are supposed to cover the eventual replacement cost, but they can’t because the level of taxation required to actually do this would make suburbs unaffordable. Instead, they primarily use debt and tax revenue from newer properties that are supposed to be paying for their own eventual infrastructure replacement to make up the deficit.

This is why Strong Towns calls it the growth ponzi scheme: the city can only outrun the cost of infrastructure replacement by taking money from new properties to pay for old ones until they run out of land to build or assets to leverage for debt, at which point the whole scheme fails.
Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring a mechanical engineer
Also a part of the trolley problem is that your action space is limited to two actions. In practice that's never the case.
Businesses typically pay market rate. If this rate creates suffering situations, it's a problem of the market, not particular employer.

If living wage is substantially different from the market rate, employer cannot afford it without going out of business. Employers don't have infinite money, they have checks and balances. Paying employees more would require different pricing model, for example. If your pricing is far enough from what customer is ready to pay, customer is not paying and you end up out of business.

Basically, employer's responsibility is to pay market rate, not living wage. If there's a disconnect, it needs to be addressed on the legislation level, not individual employer level.
The author of this piece has a book, "Freedom from want: the human right to adequate food". The publisher's summary quotes Richard Pierre Claude, founding editor of Human Rights Quarterly and professor emeritus, University of Maryland:

"As a legal claim, the 'human right to adequate food' may seem thin gruel, but George Kent enriches the concept with data-based policy analysis, compelling ethical arguments, and a full review of concerned international, national, and nongovernmental organizations. He persuasively makes the case for accountability where the face of famine, malnutrition, and starvation confront the hands of those who hold political power at every level in our new global economy."
This is a great answer.

It’s easy to assume someone else’s job is simple when you don’t understand it.

I bet we all know a few “Business” people that assume sysadmin is just turning on machines, and programming is really simple and easy.

But the reverse happens all the time too, where “technical” people assume the business jobs are easy. That sales, management and marketing are easy.

None of the jobs are easy. Lack of understanding the difficulty is not evidence of simplicity.
Yeah, el reg sort of prove the maxim "believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see".

Like once I was reading that a product I was an engineer on got a huge contract that I absolutely would have known about and would have been on call for. Remember that a lot of reg stories are banking on the idea that anyone who actually knows better won't break their NDA to inform the public.
A keto diet without sugar or starch should prevent most plaque formation, shouldn't it?
The company has been blaming supply chain issues. They haven't had any product available for a couple of years now.

At least one person is claiming that this is just a re-organization and that the company plans to continue operations after bankruptcy: https://www.reddit.com/r/drobo/comments/vp34dl/if_your_drobo...
> Security breaches can be discovered and used by anyone with the right knowledge and skills

That's often not enough.

You need a lot of resources and most importantly prosecutorial immunity.
I don't know in the last 5 years, but Opel had a lot of different faults due to cost cutting measures, and depending of the model and the year of the different Peugeot and Citroën, it has or not lot of problems.

One one hand, we have the examples of those models that had the infamous FAP HDi 110 hp engine that gives a lot of problems, and Citroën's "Hydractive" (hydropneumatic) suspension was discarded due to the many problems they gave. We had a 1st gen Citroën C5, that had those two, and it needed to visit the garage every every 2 year to have some pretty costly repairs. Also, some of their newer cars with AdBlue have factory design problems in this system, and repairing that module is knowing that is gonna be relatively expensive and it's gone to fail in the future.

On the other hand, we had models like the Xsara, the 206, the 406, the C15, the Partner/Berlingo combo, and many others that were very reliable cars that rarely had problems.
Nope, sorry, blockchain is still shit tech. Permissionless & censorship resistant better keep looking.
I'm not really that picky about era of MBP, honestly I'd be happy with any of them save for the era with the bad keyboards. But the 2015 vintage was certainly a good one.

I have a late-2015 rMBP as my daily driver. I'm only now starting to run up against its limitations. USB-C, better 4K support, form factor, battery life, overall speed are things I'm looking forward to when I finally upgrade.
The original was taken down after it was posted to HN.
Hey so, I have been working on a specialized search engine (at least you can think of it in this way). And for me a lot of the gains came because we could structure and restrain the search space in a meaningful way, such that we could build better distance metrics than a pure text search could do.

I wonder what you think about that. Maybe one could submit a code snippet, or mark something as an error, or ask for a refactor of some code. But then again, this gets close to what copilot is doing.
The police can get whatever they want in the end since the police can threaten to "do nothing" if they don't get it.

There needs to be a secondary police force with a different chain of command and funding to act as a redundant mechanism. Having military national guard replace the police is not a viable solution.
Woot.com used to have this no return/low price model, before they were bought by Amazon. Now they take returns but charge for the shipping
I bet you that you won't. Hope I'm wrong.
They just split their stock and it's continuing to tank. Had a friend get his interview canceled today because they removed the position, said it was for financial reasons.
Computers are hard, but do precisely what they are instructed to do even (unless actually defective). Correctly translating what you want to instructions the computer understands is hard and complex.

Humans are hard, and cannot be forced to do anything no matter the instructions. Individuals may be coerced or motivated or bargained with in specific ways. Correctly translating what you want to instructions the human understands is also hard and complex.
> can detect that an expression cannot be modified

Can you give some examples? I use Python a lot and it's absurdly dynamic. I've sometimes wondered if there'd be some way to let me as the programmer say "dynamicness of this module is only 9 instead of the default 11" but I'm skeptical of a tool's ability to reliably deduce things. Here's just one example:

a = 0
for i in range(10):
a += 1
log('A is', a)

In most languages you could do static analysis to determine that 'a' is an int, and do all sorts of optimizations. In Python, you could safely deduce that 99.9999% of the time it's an int, but you couldn't guarantee it because technically the 'log' function could randomly be really subversive and reach into the calling scope and remap 'a' to point to some other int-like object that behaves differently.

Would "legitimate" code do that? Of course not, but it's technically legal Python and just one example of the crazy level of dynamic-ness, and a tool that automatically optimizes things would need to preserve the correctness of the program.

EDIT: tried to fix code formatting
If you are "a target" and going to take measures of basically disabling everything on your iPhone, wouldn't it just make sense to get a burner dumb phone?

Hasn't this been happening for years (drug dealers, anonymous, etc..)?
Part of the puzzle:

The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
Why not just continue the work that's already been done in developing GM strains of S. mutans that don't produce biofilms?
Down $60 million in last 24 hours. Withdrawals continue.
Compromise or you will loose.
How is that worse than Zig in that context?
Satire can be useful and persuasive (assuming it's satire) but it's not right for a mainstream institution to be publishing something like that with apparently no disclaimer at least on the bottom that the piece is meant to be thought-provoking in some way rather than a serious piece.

Let's ban the UN for misinformation I guess. Isn't that the thing to do?
I've done a penance ^h^h career in advertising ,[0] and I left because advertising sold out. Advertising and commercial art/advertising/deductible graphics used to nurture the most amazing arrays of cultural perpetual moonlighting geniuses. Now that went down the first conversion funnel long ago. We're not even a number were just amorphous $rnd now.

[0]Computational advertising for print in the very early nineties...)

Edit: a last gasp website I absolutely considered Sui Generis and was invaluable in the graphics world was Drawn.ca . I'd be immensely grateful to hear of any mirrors or archive.
Do you think that would cause things to veer back toward a paid model or do you see a third way between straight up FOSS and paid software?
Church of England taps debt markets with ‘Cranmer’ bonds