skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could the constitution not be amended, at least in theory?

Sure, but amending the Constitution for the purpose of permitting the government to impose greater limits on political speech is...going to be a hard sell for a lot of people, and have a high risk if successful of having pretty severe unintended (for non-autocratic supporters of whatever the particular measure is) consequences.

> Or the supreme court create a new interpretation?

Easier than passing an amendment, similar downsides.
Why would someone elected to office, who knows they can't run again, have any concern about the will of the people? At best you would have the same outcome that you get from politicians at the end of their terms, and it's not like these politicians are solving all of society's ailments.

If they can still get lobbying money by operating on the will of corporations, they could spend their whole term making money for themselves with no concern about re-election.

This solution just seems like hoping and praying the politicians we elect have higher regard for their legacy than their wallet.
> I'm not talking automated testes or anything.

I'd love to see an entire thread on this topic alone.
storage price continues to decrease. the point is that S3 price doesn't drop at close to the same rate. facebook and youtube aren't hosting on S3, so they get to experience the real decreases in storage cost.
What the hell? When did this happen? PWAs are some of the most exciting developments in web development. Did they give any reasoning about this decision anywhere?
7-10 years ago I had a safety deposit box at chase, nothing important in it. But I put a small tape that breaks easy right at hinge that connecte the lid to the base of the box. Few months later I checked on it and it was broken lol. Make of it what you will.
Similar experience here. My childhood friend bought a second-hand Atari 800XL, because it had cartridge games, and I begged him to borrow it for a week because I saw it accepted programs. Bought a cheap book called "Fred Aprende Informática" (Fred learns informatics) and had the best week of my life figuring BASIC out. It was painful to give it back, but that motivated me to save and buy one of my own.

Ironically, old computers/consoles were cheap then, I got most of them at bazaars for peanuts. If I knew mass-produced vintage hardware would become so expensive, I would have saved most of them. I can't imagine the same phenomenon with today's computers/consoles, everything is expensive and frail.
This blog has a lot of inaccurate information and bad advice. Easiest to just ignore it
> The test for democracy is whether elected politicians pass legislation that the public at large wishes to be passed.

Isn’t that just rule of the majority? Since when has that been a test of a republic?
Apple buys a new campus in San Diego
Intel Kills Optane Memory Business
I like it, way to go. I've been finalizing a plan to help my kids launch and maintain HTML websites as part of a summer learning project.
Wait.

"The First Basic Law prevents me from attributing a specific numerical value to the fraction of stupid people within the total population: any numerical estimate would turn out to be an underestimate."

If that held true for any estimate, the only correct answer is one hundred percent of the total population is stupid.
Netflix has a lot more to it than just serving video data
It's not an OS within an OS. Browsers aren't fully responsible for abstracting hardware, providing a filesystem, and doing low-level network stuff.

I dunno why people started saying "OS within an OS" just cause Chromium is multi-process.
Oh gosh, I’m American and absolutely loved watching the British show “The Inbetweeners” basically just because of all the slang. While I’m at it “Love Island Australia” was tolerable only because of the slang as well.
Not sure what is coloring my bias here but it personally seems American English is pretty boring in comparison.
Commuting. It is possible to commute to the low wages places within major cities while living in less expensive areas. This may be difficult if public transportation makes that too expensive and a losing prospect.

Total household income. It is possible to accept a lower wage job if the rest of the family is making more. A spouse or older child can add to the family budget even if the primary breadwinner is making more.

Grants / subsidized housing of some sort. College students making a few extra dollars while living in the dorms where the major expenses are paid elsewhere.

Back to the older children and summer jobs. Getting a job to do something over the summer and get a bit of spending money of their own.

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Yes, lower paying jobs within higher cost of living areas are going to be having trouble finding people to work there. This has been a thing for many years. Even in the before times, there were constantly places that had "help wanted" signs out and were paying minimum wage. The ones in higher cost areas of the city were more likely to close resulting in more expensive restraints that can be supported by the people who are living the higher cost of living.
Hence the $2.5T market cap.
> What happens if the majority of Americans want to pass laws against their best interest?

Democracy and good judgment are orthogonal concerns.

> What happens if the majority of Americans want to pass laws that are deeply immoral?

Democracy and morality of policy are orthogonal concerns.
But don't worry! The A/B testing has shown that users engage more with all the random crap we shove onto the feed, and therefore they love it!

If product leads could just stop with their belief that engagement == good ux, most websites would be a lot better.
>I don't have time to spend hours arguing in favour of retaining a feature inside Gnome.

Then perhaps you can see how developers of a desktop also do not have time to listen to every person arguing for every feature, or to maintain every possible feature that ever gets suggested, or even to maintain the current feature set indefinitely without removing something at some point.

>The particularly awful disease the Gnome project has is the "rewrite everything" disease. No software project can retain features if they do large rewrites from scratch every major release.

You are confusing refactoring with rewriting. Very few parts of it have been rewritten from scratch. Refactoring things isn't a "disease". Refactors are actually necessary to keep the project in working order and to pay off technical debt so you can actually have a chance to implement new features while retaining older ones.

>The end result is that features the developers personally don't care for don't get implemented in the new release.

This is the same as any project. If there are no developers to maintain the feature then it stagnates and eventually gets cut. It makes no sense to be pissed off at this one particular project about this, every project is bound to do it eventually. If your company ever went through layoffs then you can probably name some times you have had to do this at work.
I can't even imagine. Props to these people for holding it down and pushing forward.
Yeah, "We're ok with making people redundant, but cutting a top performer's bonus? That's crossing the line!"
You can blame the execs, but the real question is, where was the board of directors who were supposed to provide governance during this time. Ultimately they approved it and you don't hear anyone calling for their ousting.

I'm not going to bat for the executives at all, but given the opportunity to take $22m off the table ala Dan Wright, why wouldn't you? Shame on him but he'll wipe his tears with hundred dollar bills. Why did the Board approve this sale — that's the real question.
I mostly hear about whales in video games
That's a single protein not an organism.
I wanted to use this to copy my Android's clipboard to my Windows clipboard, which it claims to support but didn't. Uninstalled shortly thereafter.
> If the failure by “A Canticle for Leibowitz” to predict the nuclear holocaust tells us anything, it’s that this is indeed possible.

The nuclear holocaust wasn't really a prediction of that book; it was a premise.
There's no need for a recall because it can be fixed with a firmware update. And as the article mentions, vendors did issue urgent/critical firmware updates for it back in 2020.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetai...

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en...
I do like Salt Fat Acid Heat too :)

But I really didn't think this thread would go this way, it was clear to me OP knew his way around a kitchen and was from Europe so knew enough about Italian cooking stereotypes to understand the intended humor.

Fwiw, you learn mother sauces after six weeks of knife skills at Auguste Escoffier in the US so you could definitely be right about 102 :)
What a strange way to look at it, when most of the inhabitants of Middle Earth had no choice in the matter of whether they were involved in the business of the Ring, as catastrophe came to them regardless as to their interest, as evidenced by the return to the Shire at the end of the trilogy, the ending left out of the movies. Frodo even laments his own role at one point, and says he wishes that he did not live in a time with these events, and Gandalf assures him that is how all who live through historic events feel.

It was only because of the selfless sacrifice of Frodo and Sam that any may have been able to live a life untouched by the turmoil of the reawakening of Sauron. If they had failed, nobody would have had a choice whether or not to "care" about the Ring -- they'd simply be oppressed by it.
After reading, this part from "Inside Job" came to mind: https://youtu.be/T2IaJwkqgPk?t=5141 TL;DW: a lot of economics professors are likely engaged in some conflict of interest when publishing on policy.
I remember being hyped about it, having only seen some pre-release screenshots in magazine or something. Luckily, being 14, I couldn’t afford to buy it. I rented it from Blockbuster and felt cheated.
It doesn't depend on the faction, producing more bases doesn't depend on having more scvs, drones or probes. It depends entirely on what your opponent is doing and how you are countering it. Idle games are the worst analogy. Even rock-paper-scissors comes closer.
I don't know what they meant, but in principle, I don't see why WebAssembly apps can't be downloaded, since browsers do it? (Ideally they should be signed, but using a more distributed scheme, like DNS.)

Due to phishing, it seems like most people do need security software, but not necessarily provided by the OS vendor. It could be from a plugin.

The biggest issues are lack of resources and lack of standardization. What organizations have the people to do all these things, besides the OS vendors?
Wow, is that the full extent of your sales efforts? Your readers happen to include enough interested sponsors that you've been able to sell out your slots just by asking your audience? That's awesome!
Not so. Intel is the highest rated for failure from a QC point of view. We've been having a rash of such problems with our last batch that it's making everyone in our department nervous before shipment.
I played with their Jurassic model in their playground - to be honest I was not impressed. I asked for a list of datasets (something I like to do when I'm in a crunch for a research project), and I received what seemed to be a response from Quora. This prompt works very smoothly on OpenAI's davinci model.

But maybe others have had a much better experience.
Mostly HDDs, though.
MetaPost and ConTeXt Rendition of Byrne's Euclid
Or you can choose to install the firmware update fixing the issue and get back that sweet sweet uncertainty that your drive might live longer.
Cacao powder is the powder of raw beans, before any processing.

Cocoa is post processing, in the way to make chocolate.

It might be best for you to purchase both and taste. Cocoa tastes like chocolate, Cacao is kinda earthy and bitter. They cannot be substituted for each other in recipes.
The book itself is the prediction.
The myth also says, Apple CEO Steve Jobs saw Xerox PARC products, such as the GUI, either on a tour or at a trade show. He then, without permission, used the PARC GUI implementation to create the Apple Lisa and the original Mac OS / Macintosh GUI.
Yes, this is my point. They were bullies who finally met someone with the resources to stand up to them.
Just need to resurrect Steve Jobs to belittle everyone until it's good.
That, and the curse of working the same 18 months 4 times on the way to 'senior'.

All of these little companies starting with brand new hardware as well. Far from all but a few of those 'garage startups' I knew of did limp along on used hardware for some time. It happened again a bit after the dotcom bubble burst (especially for office equipment) and again around 2008.

But for drives in particular, people are pretty superstitious about giving them up.
Today, a SaaS I’m familiar with that runs ~10 Aurora clusters in us-east-2 with 2-3 nodes each (1 writer, 1-2 readers) in different AZs had prolonged issues.

At least 1 cluster had a node on “affected” hardware (per AWS). Aurora failed to failover properly and the cluster ended up in a weird error state, requiring intervention from AWS. Could not write to the db at all. This took several hours to resolve.

All that to say that it’s never straightforward. In today’s event, it was pure luck of the draw as to whether a multi-AZ Aurora cluster was going to have >60 seconds of pain.

That SaaS has been running Aurora for years and has never experienced anything similar. I was very surprised when I heard the cluster was in a non-customer-fixable state and required manual intervention. I’ve shilled Aurora hard. Now I’m unsure.

Thank goodness they had an enterprise support deal or who knows if they’d still have issues now.
My hunch is that all these 'pro' geoguessr players on youtube are cheating somehow.

Sitting on my to-do list is the notion of investigating whether metadata from the street image data could be refereced back to the actual geographic location. Then build a little app that snoops geoguessr sessions and reveals answers to the player.
You couldn’t buy one for literally months earlier this year.
So, just as I had written a few articles [1] about Optane persistent memory use for databases, Intel seems to be shutting down the whole thing (and moves on to CXL-accessible memory, which is somewhat like remote memory access over PCIe 5.0, memory boards disaggregated from CPUs, etc. The writing was on the wall actually, there were some successful niche use cases (for example Oracle's Exadata database appliance), but no widespread mainstream use. Terrible product naming too, Intel named regular NAND SSDs with a little bit of 3DXpoint/Optane cache in front of them "Optane Memory" - solid state disks that were called memory for some reason.

[1] https://tanelpoder.com/posts/testing-oracles-use-of-optane-p...

Edit: I'm still keeping my Optane DIMMs (called DCPMMS - data center persistent memory modules), I just love the tech adventure of having persistent RAM. Should try to write an experimental OS or something (but I also know that's not gonna happen :)
July Update: A Pinecil Evolved
Tim Cook said under oath that they don't need to differentiate themselves because they don't have to compete.
I guess the fact that it was C.S. Lewis that coined this is not at all surprising! I imagine arguing about something so obviously wrong with someone so smart would be amazingly frustrating.
Even for those who are not from the U.S.? Europeans in particular frequently vent their frustrations about the U.S., both realistic and unrealistic, in this space.

Would you feel better or worse if I elucidated my criticisms of Argentina en Español on an Argentinian website?

My intuition is that would be seen as aggressive or chauvanistic.
Most students that age play videogames
Finally getting the courage in my mid-thirties to get therapy for the sexual abuse I experienced in my early teens. Wish I'd done it sooner.

In my early fifties now and pretty sure I'd be dead by now if I hadn't.
When I last looked at Slack, they let the free plan access the last 20000 or so messages, which means the small private instances won't have to pay for years, and by the time they reach the limit, the information is stale that perhaps no one will miss it.

For those small private instance, there might not be many messages left after the 90+ days are hidden.
Firefox command line has multiple options for passing a URL.
>a hard limit on the supply of cars and houses

There is a regulatory limit, sure, but the literal parking lots - not garages, lots - visible from my downtown apartment begs to differ that we are anywhere close to a hard limit on the supply of houses.
Instagram Rolling Back Changes
In some ways that era of netbooks felt like the glory days of creative computing devices and OSes. Intel created this really lovely UI on top of Linux called Moblin. My mom ran Jolicloud, which was built around webapps. A bunch of netbooks were coming out with their own Linux flavors to the mass market and webOS was right around the corner.

I'm going to say this with a straight face: if only more people would have had better taste I think we might have inherited a beautiful future of free and open computing.

The Eee PC 701 was cheap and came with Linux OOTB. Now we have to spend thousands of dollars for underpowered garage projects like the MNT Reform or else pay about what we did for the 701 for underpowered laptops that will never get their bugs fixed like the Pinebook.
The Wolf
Meta: Efficient, reliable cluster management at scale with Twine (2019)
$40bn is the end of cycle number too. It’s over $70bn for the quarter after they drop a new one.
So they can hire all the Qualcomm engineers.
Having _everything_ on a single AZ of AWS is, indeed, a problem.

Having everything well-architected on AWS is...well, it's a problem for reasons of monopoly and cost, but it's not a problem for availability.
Direct-sales startups live and die by their sales people. Taking promised money away from the folks that have the least allegiance and most capability to move on is a quick way to make every employee redundant.
How to prove your product is secure:

1. Pay for a minimal test.

2. Minimal test does not find anything.

3. Tada! Your product is secure. Put the report on your website!
I was at two companies that negotiated data transfer rates with a minimum commitment . I think one was $0.01/GB min of 5PB a month.
> Operating system vendors have failed to provide UI SDKs that beat HTML & CSS (plus browser APIs for modification of that HTML and CSS).

Why would they be fighting against HTML & CSS? The best path is to embrace HTML & CSS from the OS level, that will provide the "flattening" you are looking for.
Wait. Are you saying that while AWS maintains multiple AZs they can’t maintain reliability on the failover systems between them?
I would bet supply constraints meaning they couldn’t make enough to sell. I was trying to buy large numbers for work (orders of 50-100 a time, multiple times) from Q4 through Q2 and ship times were months out at some points.

If you can’t make them you can’t sell them.
The many body problem remains unsolved. So the question is, is this approach useful?
I just open multiple browser windows...
It’s running Node and NPM and some other stuff as well, which makes it more like a full dev environment than just an editor. It only runs JavaScript though (I think).
100% agree. It is clearly a compromise of their user experience values in exchange for revenue on some slight above mediocre services.
I think the question is, why do people subscribe to Starlink in an urban environment that already has 5g available. The answer is probably that even if the terrestrial sites go down, you still have a satellite uplink. Edit: Or "It's Starlink!"
How much are politicians paid —and how does their salary affect corruption?

It might not be a popular opinion, but perhaps we should double the wages of US Representatives (they currently make $175k—not a lot in Washington DC). Is paying US representatives $350k worth the money?

First, a bigger financial cushion for representatives might reduce financial corruption. Second, a bigger salary might attract more talented leaders. Potentially, paying higher salaries would increase the quality of US governance. God, imagine if we could just pay for increased quality in government leaders!

TIL that in 1789, the US president made $25k—- worth $800k in 2022. But today, the US president makes $400k. Why try to save money on presidents and politicians?
I suspect for a lot of engineers, the fact that it isn't about how hard you worked or how great a product you created, but what revenue income/it generated is tough. And don't meet those metrics and too bad is tough.
For private unicorns I think the answer is no, I've seen plenty of good people join companies that are perceived to be likely to IPO soon. There's plenty of shady stuff that can still happen in late-stage startups, but I think the perception (which is probably somewhat but not completely accurate) is that at that point the equity is enough of a known quantity to be somewhat de-risked.

For earlier stage startups...yeah, I dunno. To be clear, I think the illiquidity and vesting period and all of that are basically fine, well-understood risks, and in principle startups can offer enough equity to compensate "true believers" for those risks. What gets me is the really shady unforeseeable stuff, like converting part of the acquisition price to retention bonuses avoid paying out ex-employees for their vested equity. Between that unquantifiable risk and the inherent risk and illiquidity of early startup equity, I'd personally discount the 409a valuation by something like a factor of 5 when evaluating a job offer from an early-stage startup.

I don't see a ton of people leaving FAANG or similar companies for early-stage startups, but obviously there are lots of engineers outside of FAANG companies, and I'm sure it helps that valuations are rich enough (or were until recently) to compete with non-tech companies on cash comp.
Most of what you read on the news and social media would have you convinced that civilization is declining or collapsing. If you actually measure the world, however, then by almost any measure things are better now than they have been in the past (two notable exceptions are climate change and democracy vs autocracy).

What does this mean? Why the difference between the measurable state of the world and the doomer discourse? I think its rooted in two things.

The first reason is that both social media and news media are monetized by your attention, and attention is far higher when things are presented as terrible than when things are presented as good. Bad news goes viral far better than good news.

The second reason is that being highly online is correlated with depression. The people who are most likely to be spending their time posting online are more likely to be depressed and lose perspective about the world around them.

What's the solution? I don't know for sure but I think a good first step is to limit the time you spend consuming news media and social media, and instead spend time offline living life. What's the point of a constant stream of information if it leads to inaccurate perceptions of the world?
what I don't like about this (in general) is that it's part of the overruling ideology that will turn the internet from a place where you can look up how to make any recipe for free into a place where you have pay somebody a monthly fee to look up how much sugar per cup of flour goes in some dish (to put an example)

of course, this is not exclusive to this project in particular, but it's a crummy trend that just keeps getting worse. and this project is part of this wave.