skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implore you to watch the incessant, and regular posts on HN claiming that microservices are the future for everyone and everything, and then be there to tell them you've seen this before. My guess is you won't be as lead-footed in those cases. The idea that if you write an article or an opinion, and have to do an hour of research to see if its been covered before is a high level of micromanagement that you just aren't ever going to see, I'm sorry. It's super unrealistic to expect that.
15+ years ago Firefox was focused on a fast, stable browser. It was the alternative to the Mozilla browser. They did an excellent job of keeping it both. At some point they decided to make it an experimental browser. As soon as they started having regular breaking changes to plugins was when I switched to Chrome.

I recently went back to Firefox on mobile, because I like the idea of not giving google all of my data. Also, they have ublock origin, privacy badger and noscript.

I have to look at fewer advertisements, but it still isn't as stable or fast as Chrome.

It would be great if they refocused on stable fast browsing or spun off a new browser for that purpose (and this time kept it that way when the stable/fast option becomes vastly more popular).
I used to agree. Now I'm not so sure. :-)
A quick update on some of the infrastructure behind the map: One day of being on the front page of HN has used up half of the Mapbox free quota of map loads. To sustain this level of traffic would cost me something like $2000/month just for Mapbox. Since this is a non-profit project that I do in my spare time, something is going to have to give.
Is this actually true? It makes some kind of sense, but it is hard to guess at what percentage of thieves will be deterred, versus what percentage of thieves will be encouraged.

Perhaps we have a natural experiment, since California recently accidentally leaked a bunch of details about gun owners in the state: https://www.newsweek.com/gun-owners-personal-info-leak-outra...

Maybe in a year we can see if those owners experienced higher or lower than expected breakins.
I don't see any language around how we're going to recover those funds, if they are not spent in ways that align with the requirements laid out in the bill. Did I miss that section? It is a pretty big bill.

I do see a section that would allow the suspension of new funds, if it's found that these companies aren't upholding the agreement. I don't think suspension of new funds is sufficient.
This paper is being a bit obtuse since it fails to note the location of the Wuhan Institute of Virology on it's maps, even though though the maps extents contain the Institute.

Also fails to note that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China became sick with a flu-like illness and sought hospital care in November 2019.

https://archive.ph/IC1p1
I'm one of the people who doesn't seem to have any issues with it since beta. I did spend weeks setting the thing up to get a clear view of the sky, and topped some trees. Trees have grown back in, and my sky view is a lot smaller now. But it's still working the same as before. I would think these issues would be a lot more universal. But maybe, despite being in one of the first cells that were opened up, my cell is just not very full...
Thank you for that info! I am in a similar situation and that was something that did not occur to me.
Not surprised at the list. Hack stands out as unique to facebook. Is hack being used in other large companies? I wonder if they will ever move back to php now that many issues facebook had have been resolved in later versions.
Today there are the Programming Journey Robots from Terrapin. My spouse uses the simplest, the Bee-Bot, in her kindergarten classroom. She wrote a grant to get about 15 of them. They use Terrapin's Logo and are much loved by her students.

https://www.terrapinlogo.com/products/robots.html
I agree with none of this except that they're competing w/ Google.
IfI had to guess, previous behavior by telecoms, banks, and airline companies.
The right time/place to argue this question is after the fact in front of a judge.
They've added some keys to keep BR discs playing in recent updates, and apparently you can't create a PSN account from a PS3 anymore. There were "quality" and "performance" fixes until 2020.

It's my last console, the first was a SNES followed by a PSP. I used OtherOS but then upgraded anyway when it was gone. The Youtube/Netflix apps still work fine. I'm going try CFW one of these days on my early slim, just to know the temperature. https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Thermal
Makes coding on a phone way easier.
The article provided two potential definitions of the word. I mean the term to be inclusive of the whole situation the article described as a concept which encapsulates both meaning of the word--hence why I quoted it and referenced discrimination policies which usually address both definitions conceived of in the article in the workplace.
The GGP talks about "something like autopilot" acceptance and the eventual goal of the system is to cut the human driver out.

GP is talking about insurance and how we regulate drivers, stating that we should be looking at the same for autopilot systems.

Parent says "Always prosecute the driver. There's no such thing as "the car did it"."

At what point does the "autopilot" have any skin in the game so to speak?
Is it a binary thing, one day we wake up to an update and the cars can drive themselves with no input?

Or will will be forever stuck in a quasi beta test, where the driver is liable for the actions of the system but has no meaningful way for controlling the system(autopilot) or even knowing how the system operates.

You can't have it both ways. Either the system is better than people and is going to take responsibility or it isn't. No one will accept a system they have no control over and do not understand but have to accept liability for.
thanks for the kind words and feedback!
>they seem to be recent pictures which have been photoshoped to look like glass plates:

If you click Tomas's name and scroll down some you see on his profile "Photographer Tomas van Houtryve captured the 19th-century grotesques, or chimeras, with 19th-century equipment: under a dark cloak, on glass plates, with a wooden camera he picked up in a Paris antique shop."

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photographer/tomas-van-...

He's a modern Belgian documentary photographer using period equipment.
Yes, you should tailor your communication to the audience, and join a technical debate on a subject when it's valuable to do so.

I think the technique in the article is best used in situations where you specifically do not want to do so. When there's no value for you in the debate, or you will only be giving legitimacy to a discredited and harmful idea.

Saying "we don't do that here" is definitely a bit of a power play and you wouldn't use it if you truly needed to convince the other party to believe the thing. If you merely need them to act on it though, and you have the power to pull it, it's fine for that.
Quote from the article:

> When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and energy to do that. And sometimes, even if I did have the time, the person involved doesn’t want to be educated.
That's a great point, and shows up in annoying ways in Sony's camera line up in whether "high frame rate" support exists. For Sony cameras, HFR implies "can capture a limited length (seconds, typically) of footage at a higher frame rate (240fps, 480fps, 960fps, etc) and reduced resolution as frame rate increases (this is not the same as normal video modes and S&Q video modes, which don't have time limits like these).

Sony includes this feature on cameras without interchangeable lenses (ie: "point and shoots"), and on their high end cinema cameras, but not on their mirrorless (interchangeable lens, but not considered cinema cameras) line.

Seems pretty clear this is designed to avoid their mirrorless lineup have a feature that might make it competitive with their cinema line. But they're ok including it on the point and shoot line because that already is well differentiated from the cinema camera line.
> I'm saying get rid of the 6 core product line when it's just as effective to artificially limit the better product just to have inventory.

Not everyone is willing to pay the same price. If there's a market for 100k processors at $200 each, there could easily be a market for 50k slower processors at $150 each and 80k processors at $250 each. If yields are 95% at 8 core and 100% at 6 core:

* The firm gets to make $7.5M more revenue

* The firm avoids waste of about 5000 processors in the single-price, 8-core-only scenario.

* The world gets 30,000 more processors vs. what the firm would make if they only could choose one price to optimize income

* The firm has flexibility on meeting demand: they can alter the mix of 8 and 6 core processors they sell instead of frequently modifying price.

This is a simple scenario, but it shows the reason for price discrimination: it generates more revenue and it also encourages a monopoly or a participant in monopolistic competition to make more product.

30,000 people who wouldn't have gotten a processor in the prior case now get one, and 20,000 people who would have otherwise gotten a high cost processor now spend less money.
> Rust gaining popularity

As it should.

Beyond that though. How relevant even is Meta anymore? They are a dying company aren’t they? Facebook hasn’t been relevant in ages. Instagram is losing footing too.

Only way I can see them maintaining relevance is if one or more of the following happens:

- They turn out to be right in their bet on VR and Metaverse. Personally I doubt it, and I think VR and Metaverse is closer akin to a hellscape than much else. Or,

- TikTok is banned like some media is talking about happening. Then people might flock to Instagram. Or,

- They aquire another up and coming social network. Maybe they will buy BeReal?
> I personally don't know any right-wingers that wouldn't call you by the name/gender that you request them to

I've never been faced with this problem personally, but what I can say that is that if you've known someone for any length of time say "Bill" and then one day "Bill" wants to be called "Jill" there is an ask that extends far beyond what is ordinarily reasonable.

That's why I think "deadnaming" is totally stupid. That name isn't dead. You just don't like/prefer it. But it was there and people know that name. They know you—and you just changed your mind. That's not their problem—that's yours.
I tried trillium and found it interesting but a little difficult to use (I prefer markdown to their editor). Then I tried editing on mobile and it really was awful. It was mostly impossible to use the contextual menu. Some words got doubled when I typed them. Pasting did not work.

So I came back to a folder of markdown files synchronized with syncthing that I edit with markor on Android and vim or vscode on desktop.
Live markets exist in China because there is low trust in the food supply. For many Chinese, they want to see the animal killed in front of them so they can make sure they're not getting ripped off.

Due to various policies, China is a relatively low-trust society. Of course, it's also low trust because ripping people off isn't necessarily seen as bad, it's seen as clever.
> Curius why people downvote this.. its a perfect valid argument.

Because it's a list of opinions on languages. No specifics provided, and stated in a way that appears to be trolling (deliberate or accidental on the author's part). Comments like that are a dime a dozen in programming language threads and add nothing to the overall conversation.
But we can't live in a world where the responsibility isn't on the individual, can we?

Ie if we expect corporations to not fuck you over, who is there to enforce that? Who has the power to keep them in check? Okay, maybe Government should hold that role - but who then keeps the government in check? Who ensures that the spying or privacy from the Government is kept in check? etc

Ultimately the buck always stops at the individual. And we have to be hyper aware of long term implications, because money, greed and power has deep, deep pockets (as you also mentioned) and the fight will be never ending.

We, as a community, have de-propritized education, health care, public safety, privacy, etc. Sure, powerful forces have been pushing for that exact thing, but we can't expect them to "just be nice" or w/e.

I'm very pro "Big Government". However my ideas behind big government will not work without individual responsibility. Until then citizens are purposefully and willfully giving their power away with every tiny step. The blame is on us, and our current state is inevitable. My 2c.
Like the article author, you sound like a self-elected cop of sorts. Have you considered channeling your energy elsewhere?
It's a sensitive topic for a lot of people (mainly because it contradicts world views they might have) but I don't think you are wrong. Consciousness, in so far it is definable at all, seems just an emergent property of our brain.

We're pretty sure it resides in our brain and not for example your toes or other parts of your body since there are plenty of nasty accidents where people lose various parts of their body; or receive replacements for certain things without that really changing who they are or how they think. Also, doctors mess with it intentionally once in a while which definitely has all sorts of effects.

As for anesthesia, that's just using chemicals to knock you out. I once had a mild anesthesia that messed with my short term memory while some unpleasant procedure was taking place. When I asked them when they were starting they informed me it was already done. I have no memory of the whole thing and was apparently "conscious" throughout. Great stuff; would have that again if the need arises.

So, the medically correct answer is of course that a deep coma is virtually indistinguishable from being dead in the sense that there is not a lot going on in terms of brain activity. That kind of is the point of inducing such a level of unconsciousness. It frees up the doctors to mess with out bodies without creating a lot of psychological trauma that excruciating pain might otherwise cause.
Could be mistaken by I think slack uses it
Whatever it says on your employee ID and internal directory is fine, or you have to ask to have it changed.

Whatever your employment contract says is what goes into the employee directory, and should be consistent with the tax office.

If you’re referring to pronouns then I don’t have a good answer honestly. I have a personal opinion that pronouns are not important. If you want to call me mister or miss or Mzzz then that’s not going to cause pain, unless you do it with malicious intent.
As noted above, the trade-off our society has chosen to make is search warrants. Otherwise, it might as well be "for the police to peruse at their leisure". Is Google going to rigorously vet every "emergency" request for data the police make?
I think one should be consequentialist about all things.
Coming from a small-ish area, how does this happen? Do they say "no" and then offer you the door, or how does it normally go? I assume it could be a manpower issue, if it is a city with more pressing issues, or a city without a detective unit maybe, but outright saying no is hard to justify. I can't imagine a situation that would make it normal to just say no with a straight face.
Sure. I didn’t say it isn’t.
> This makes Nikon look like a company that supports all its products in the long term.

Not "look like", that's how they operate. I love it, wish all companies were committed to quality and longevity, it would be the kind of world I'd like to live in.

Nikon is also pretty obsessive about compatibility, I can mount lenses from the 70s on my D7100 and the features work.

https://kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
>Giving a justification is seen by these people are an excuse to debate.

I know what you mean here, but I disagree that my suggestion opens up a debate. It is clear what about the action in question was, and it politely asks not to do it again. Debate cannot exist one sided, so if the person is intent on "debating" a simple, "we can take this offline later", or "its not up for discussion" usually clears things up. Just because someone wants to debate, does not mean that you need to engage them.

Regarding your scenario, if person B simply just said "No" it would eliminate all of the need for future questions. This isn't the same thing, as person A didn't violate any social agreed upon rules by asking their question.
I remember interviewing there in 2009 and I stopped counting the number of languages I was told were being used on the SRO / backend side. I'm sure it wasn't, but it seemed like it was basically "everything" :-)
Having an expiration date already breaks continuity.
I disagree. Given the enormous complexity browsers have aggregated already, we should strive to make browsers "player apps" (like MP3 players): a relatively simple front end with huge versatility in server apps and back ends, rather than, like, everything for everybody. I'm aware that ship has sailed a long time ago, but piling ever more not-so-well-motivated stuff onto browsers just means the next generation has to start over with a clean slate; actually I think this is inevitable already.

CSS nesting is clearly serving the use case of components in web apps, as opposed to mere content-driven web sites. IMO a sensible approach would be to give web app developers powerful ways to tie into rendering and layout programmatically (a la Houdini API) when those apps will require JavaScript, and in many cases use CSS-in-JS anyway, rather than burden browser cores with ever more questionable CSS features.

"Would solve 99% of use cases" also sounds like famous last words ;)
Apparently Slack uses it (https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/).
> They said no such thing,

> > In the world I want to live in, we don’t have to set negative rules like “don’t harass people.” Instead, we could get by with positive guidelines like “be welcoming” and “be kind” and use our giant human brains to figure out how to apply those values to novel situations. When I get the chance, I try to create those spaces. When I have the energy, I try to educate and inform instead of correct. But I still keep this simple phrase in my back pocket as a tool for ending and defusing situations when other approaches don’t work.

The author did put it at the end, but it's definitely there.
Why would you stop at the first model once you are already in the ecosystem? People upgrade their devices all the time.
'Feeling great' yet the white house is running deep fakes of him for official speeches: https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1552159515641933824 .
This is an awesome idea. Hope you have a lot of success, and congrats on the launch!
I don't know. Simple correction and wear leveling was required to get off the ground, and that by itself was enough to make early drives have sufficient endurance.

The real mitigation work was done in the service of storing more bits per cell, with endurance allowed to slip.

So sure effort has been put in, but the alternative wasn't disaster, it was using SLC more.
>what makes you stick to Outlook?

Not that poster, but in my experience there are often plugins that make it difficult to switch from Outlook to other clients. In many cases you can find a replacement plugin, but it takes time and resources to evaluate new software. Also, at a more general level, even though LibreOffice is a good replacement for the base functionality of the Microsoft Office suite, many VBA macros would need to be ported over.
rsync dot files to wherever.
Nah, that's been around since the 60s.
GitHub only limits global code search when not logged in, you can search in any specific repo just fine. That’s not even remotely comparable. How often do you need to search an issue tracker (and think of users who may not be developers), how often do you need to search through all code on GitHub?
I would think that junior level developers are usually walking into an architecture put together by leads/seniors? Juniors should be coming into a well-architected monolith that they can be productive in, if they can’t that’s kinda on the senior staff…
The one thing that makes me think the Lab Leak theory is true is that the Chinese government very very strongly denies the story and does anything it can to deflect or redirect the discussion to some other theory.

For anyone reading these kinds of stories and reports but is not a regular China follower, there is one thing you really should know. Anytime the Chinese government reacts very negatively to a story (Denial, attacking, undermining, deflecting), it usually means the story is true. The Chinese government is really terrible at information management and addressing anything that might make them look bad or lose face.

Just admitting a Chinese lab collected, studied and by accident a lab worker got infected with COVID is just something China can not admit. It is perfectly reasonable that some lab somewhere would collect and study the COVID virus. What is unreasonable is that the lab or a lab worker just got sloppy and accidently released that virus out to the world.
I think that it's a good way to uphold the unwritten rules of a community without making a big deal out of it. You don't need to be told why off-colour jokes are wrong, only that this is not the place for them.
In general, stock buybacks aren’t socially undesirable, but in this case would be more troubling I guess as they signal the company feels its R&D spending potential was already saturated.
I’d hazard a guess that Meta put a fair amount of effort into coming up with that list, applying business context to their specific technology problems.

Whereas the OP simply reeled off a list of half-baked subjective opinions.
Thanks for figuring that out!

Now further questions arise:

Did he artificially age the glass plates?

Because the damage of the photo layer at the edges would normally be due to aging?

How would you even age them artificially like that?

Also, where do you obtain fresh, unused glass plates nowadays? I have a suitable camera but no plates! :)
In cities and suburbs it will often be the case that there is a single cable provider who charges approximately the same as starlink due to being a regional monopoly. At my old place the sole choice was cox who had monopoly on internet
because the only other option was at&t dsl that offered 5mbs download for $60+/month. I was seriously considering starlink.

Two blocks over there was google fiber and at&t fiber but might as well have been 100 miles away for all the good that did me. Actually it would have been better because I wouldn't get adds telling me about fiber only to find it wasn't available.
It also powers the backend of Wit.ai which FB owns. Wit's open-source entity parser, duckling, is written entirely in Haskell. https://github.com/facebook/duckling
Wow, awesome product. Good luck on the launch!
The “all languages are ‘fundamentally’ bad except my favourite” argument?

It’s bad no matter what single language you’re promoting.
So, add the sound of splintering wood?
EbookFoundation/Free-Programming-Books
From the perspective of the company the negatives far outweigh the positives.

- They reject many times more than they accept.
- They've already decided and its done. They don't want to debate and discuss it with you.
- It avoids potential legal liability to just give everyone the same response.
I do most of my browsing on my desktop. On mobile, it's usually really light stuff like searching up a restaurant or store, reading HN or some other silly little thing. Occasionally I see ads which are annoying, but most of these things don't have many ads anyways, so its not a big deal.
I never knew what a flying buttress was. They sure are ugly. Makes the building look like a group of giant spiders.