skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UI ≠ UX.

Teams, Google Meet, etc all seem to fall apart on large calls with participants who have questionable hardware and/or wifi. Zoom works with those same people.

This is based on my experience early in the pandemic, so it's possible the landscape has changed since then. We tried a bunch of different options at my company, because we explicitly didn't want to use Zoom, but Zoom worked like nothing else did.
Naval Gazing Main/Nuclear Strategy
What is a human right to you then? I think of human rights as those things required by all humans to live and be healthy, but you must have your own definition.
> I would desperately like Signal to have a commercial service offering you can pay for which would of offer the possibility of sustainment.

That will kill it even quicker. What does this look like? All users have to pay to have an account? Now you’ll have less users and miss out on network effects. If only some users have to pay, what do they get besides feel goods? Ad removal? They’re stuck, Signal must continue being free. So agreed, Signal has a finite lifespan
Margaret Atwoods Maddaddam Trilogy
Shouldn’t it be fairly easy to identify the location of the crime? Just measure mercury levels repeatedly going upstream. Perhaps even using a “quicksort” like pattern.
Ever used MS Teams?
I'm quite surprised this is the first comment about the site itself. I know it's off topic but I find the setup to be more interesting than yet another discussion about pans.
Your comment made me curious and I looked up what I paid for my skillet 10 years ago. I found the order confirmation e-mail, it was 12.99€ - that's over a 10x difference. I'm sure that explains why my skillet had a rough surface, but still, the price difference seems crazy to me, considering how there are no quality issues at all with my skillet even after a decade of use.
In my eyes, not "having good science on the last few percent of carbon emissions" was never a valid reason. We always had good science on how to get rid of 80-90% of the carbon emissions. So we should have done that quicker, as even if that were the limit for quite a while, it would cut down the problem by 80-90%. That would have given us valuable time to solving the remaining emissions.
> has something changed over the year that made changing Mac addresses more complex?

It just depends on what the driver/hardware lets you do. Some drivers don't support changing it and some hardware/firmware may just be built in a way that doesn't make changing it (easily) possible. Not being able to change it may be more of a WiFi thing though. I've had the displeasure of dealing with one of those cards. Not sure if it was just the driver.

The Linux Kernel driver for Intel Ethernet supports changing the MAC address, so there's an example of what that may look like: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19/source/drivers/net/et...

That's already at the driver level though. There's a couple dozen other manufacturers with drivers in the Linux kernel, and their cards may work entirely differently.

If however your hardware allows you to have sufficiently low level access, your MAC address can be whatever you want it to be. After all, if your device says "this is my MAC address", then that is its MAC address as far as anyone talking to it is concerned.

If your card is a black box and is doing all the work internally (I think that'd be most cards?), then you're at the mercy of what it lets you do.

At the other end of the spectrum you'd have programmable NICs/"FGPA with an Ethernet port".
Betelgeuse star had an unprecedented eruption
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/climate-...
I just a read a two paragraph total rewrite of how I understood the Kennedy era.

I am happy to rethink my mental
models but it would be nice to have more info

Edit: Ok so not as complete as I thought

>>> problem the Biden administration has so far dealt with clearly in the mold of Kennedy, more focused on their fear of what the other side will do than on making them afraid of what we will do. This is best shown by their repeated statements of what they won’t do, providing clear space for Putin to maneuver in, and things like cancelling previously-scheduled military exercises for fear that they would be seen as “escalatory”. A better policy would be ambiguous but also assertive, making Putin wonder how far he can push us.

Yeah. Umm. Yeah.

Judging the state of mind of an opponent (let alone state of mind if all elites in a decision chain like Russia) is really hard. And in the end "vague but assertive" is great, but politics is about probing. Finding what are the real limits. Making vague statements has to be backed up with specific actions - and then the opponent can judge.

The issue Kennedy faced was (as I understand) that neither side wanted nuclear war, but actual talking was much more useful (the back channels) than any geopolitical manoeuvre
Wanted to try it, but when I try to complete my profile my emoji is apparently invalid, and my city as well. It's just a regular city, though.
Era aside, Carmack is a special guy, he can talk articulately and gently for hours. He did a talk few years ago (quakecon ? .. I forgot), basically a 3h long monologue about thinking while coding, there was only a single 5min pause to sip some water, incredible.
Which happened with the Spanish Flu. There was a mutation that made it more deadly for young people.

Such concerns also apply in the abstract to some unknown future virus which may work via a different mechanism to Covid and be capable of something far worse in terms of mortality*infectiousness.
At the time I wrote the comment, almost all of the other comments were criticizing and mocking common-sense pro-productivity values that were worshipped here 10 years ago.

EDIT: Also gone is the value of charitable reading. This is not specific to HN, but I'm just used to holding HN to higher standards than other fora.
> Even foreigners from friendly nations can obtain a permit and carry, not even the USA doesn’t do it.

People admitted under ESTA can legally possess a firearm (state law still applies). The 2nd amendment rights are the same for Green Card holders as they are for U.S. citizens, and for everyone else there’s the hunting permit loophole.

What do you mean, even the USA doesn’t do it?

In Czech Republic you need to take an exam on weapons law, which you must take in Czech.
I use dish soap to clean mine after every use, haven't had any issues.
I've read that lye-based soap will attack the seasoning coating, but modern hand-safe dish soap will not.
Ok I have a clearer picture now but it's still something that would probably need case by case analysis to get a full grasp what is possible and how to use it for the customer and not against him. Thank you.
Discord watches what apps you launch, primarily games, and sells this data to others to determine what games to make, or what games people are playing. It’s the same purpose of all the game launchers out there that run even when you’re not playing a game from that company.
Ew. :/
> a torchlight walk during a conference (fairly soon after Charlottesville)

So what? I've done dozens of those over the years, for a variety of reasons, including celebrating ... the end of the Nazi occupation in my own country.

Of all the alleged "Nazi connections" this is the most idiotic and narcissistic one. Yes, it's exceedingly narcissistic and toxic to expect everyone to pay attention to the latest American sensitivities over minor things that are common and innocent in other cultures. Not everyone needs to pay attention to your American bullshit.
I heard that it used to be true but the chemicals in soap changed and now its safe to use, but I don't know enough to verify this.
Street level light rail is fantastic. My city replaced most of it with subways. Which, don't get me wrong, are preferable to almost everything else. But it does mean getting to and from the train requires an additional walk and stair/escalator/lift ride, in addition to whatever distance you already had to walk. This easily triples the time it takes to get to the train for many trips.

Of course, there are advantages, as well, principally a better separation from traffic.
Everything is about compromises. Once seasoned, you don't need to re-season if you follow certain rules. Clean up is pretty easy IMHO; even a little detergent is fine, and you can soak for a couple of hours (just not overnight). Ceramic will apparently wear through the coating eventually. With cast iron you can re-coat (i.e. season), while ceramic you can't. I use cast iron pans for almost everything, the rest is in a stainless steel pan.
Ask HN: What was the best article you read this week?
It's VC-talk for someone who does stuff at a company.
No, they cover up their patrons. The Germans.
> The problem with that is that you have no idea of who and where is going to handle the exception.

I don't buy the argument.

By design exception handlers are handlers of exceptional events, which due to their exceptional nature either lead to a controlled recovery or controlled exit.

Once you're faced with your personal need to care enough about specific types of exceptions to the point they are no longer exceptional but a common occurrence, you're already mishandling exceptions at a fundamental level.

Consequently the solution is to not handle these expected cases as exceptions, or at most add try-catch next to the potential source of these commonly-occurring exceptions and don't let them leak beyond their source.

Exceptions are a kin to fire alarms and exception-handling is a kin to an organized evacuation plan. If you're misusing the fire alarm to the point you're complaining that you pull a particular fire alarm so often during your normal workflow that you start complaining you can't track badges during emergency evacuations, you should take a step back and take a long hard look at what you're doing, and how you're misusing that safety feature.
Good point. But in my experience scooting was always paired with a lot of walking as well.

Put another way, scooting is the "skip to the next track" of walking.
Show HN: A web text-editor where you can write, compute and draw
Ask HN: Tools for Code Typing Simulation?
I'm looking for a tool that could mimic Code Typing but do it smoothly. I need it for recording tutorials but I don't want to record myself typing the code as that is not always smooth and is time consuming.

Something like TypeIt[0] but with Code Highlighting.

This is what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/U4ogK0MIzqk?t=9

[0] https://github.com/alexmacarthur/typeit
> but I understand better why boards end up paying what they do.

maybe simple supply and demand?
I’m not sure. I’d say it’s mostly on hire unwise the choice is, and how predictable the results. Kinda like the fable The Scorpion and the Frog.
How to vet a startup when you're interviewing there
Criminal consequence to executives is what I have been calling for. Intentional and calculated skirting of regulations and privacy laws should have prison time consequence. Fines should be measured based on a percentage of a company's valuation.
> Huh, you must me lucky enough to live somewhere that the wind always blows and the sun always shines.

This blend of puerile argument had been thoroughly refuted for over 30 years. Please find another cliche to parrot.
That's an unfair argument to make though. I think in practical terms an auto update on a browser like chrome prevents an enormous amount of security breeches from truly malicious, criminal actors using public CVEs for their average users. And as much as i dislike google and their privacy invasions, chrome is likely one of the most secure browsers out there and a lot of people rightfully rely on chrome's security for very important things like their online banking.

I'd rather have my mom use auto-updating chrome than having to remind and reteach her how to update chrome manually once a week.
> With ironically energy shortages as the water cooling for nuclear power plants is failing.

lol what? No, energy shortages are occurring because of government rationing of fossil fuels.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/20/europe-to-ask-countries-to-r...

I can debate the other points, but the fact remains — 12 years into Germany “going green” and hundreds of billions of dollars and all they can show for it is… drum roll… 10% of their energy consumption and they’re currently rationing energy.
Yeah when he said this it I couldn't help but think of Sean Barrett/nothings.org coding videos. I was always shocked by people using VS6 post 2003 but it provides 50-75% of what people want from an ide these days. (A big proponent is inline debugging as mentioned) but I don't recall intellisense on this version, only keyword colouring and non trivial header exploration... Makes everything look bearable these days (even if run from a browser UI)
There's apparently something of a trade in antique cast iron; I don't have any, but I've heard it used to be smoother. But even in new stuff there are different qualities; my no-name cheapie is definitely rougher than my Victoria brand pans.
Can you do a classic french style omelette in one? Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU
Of course English is the language for science and commerce, but that has nothing to do with it. Because you can't tell people "you can't speak your language here".
Sorry. Noticed I didn’t actually have contact info in my bio. Have added it now.
Can't speak to Jupyter notebooks but the rest works on Jetbrains products too, something I find closer to Visual Studio (what Carmack was referring to) than VSCode
Element had a jitsi plugin i think. the matrix voice/video is new and i only used it once
As opposed to other online dictionaries that are still updated.
Repository is live now. Commit cbde04c9bc45ea54cc509a65247c62a82f64bca9

From README

> We are not providing exact glitch parameters. The presentation slides contain various hints and the parameters will vary depending on how you patch the firmware.

Some may see this as capitulation towards Starlink business interests but a more benign reason could involve the glitch parameters varying based on various hardware factors and as stated the execution of firmware as well.
What made you change? And what does kitty improved for you?
Do you mean they refuse or they can't?
Appropriately, I was just reading a climate change denying article by Bjorn Lomborg from the last Ukraine gas crisis in 2014.

He said we shouldn't roll out more solar and more wind, because they are never going to be cheaper than fossil fuels. How does that claim stack up today?

He also really doesn't like EVs. Imagine a German (and global) car industry that was making as many EVs as it is today, and growing every year, but 8 years ago, what would that would do to Russia's geopolitical strength.
I’m on board with corruption for the greater good. Giving Joe Manchin $1 billion and a yacht would be a bargain.
Dictators are always going to do their thing.

2 years ago the price of oil dropped below $0. Don't believe the hype about oil policy being predictable.
> but ability to communicate and "get people on your side" is at least 50% of a CEOs job;

It's gotta be 50% of every job. Heck, even on open source projects, you need to be lucid and explain what you are doing.

Look no further than for example, the ANTS project, which has done some very cool work in the plan9 space but hasn't always gotten a good reception due to the author being somewhere between Terry A. Davis and a normal programmer. And it's in the communication that's key.
> What makes Objective-S more general than other languages?

They describe that on the site. The notion is that most of our modern languages are more geared towards expressing algorithms and data structures, and not so great for expressing programs better suited to different architectural styles that don't necessarily follow a strict call/return type of semantics.

That's not entirely wrong. You can build a library/eDSL in a call/return language that will implement other architectures, but it will still look and behave like a call/return abstraction. Ostensibly Objective-S's goal is to make programs written in other architectural styles look like they are expressed natively in those styles, rather than an embedding of that style in a call/return architecture.

I'd like to see Objective-S implement Prolog or other logic programming to put that claim to the test. The other architectures they list aren't too far from call/return style, but logic programming certainly is.
Another successful special environmental terrorism operation

Time to analyze the corpse of the ill beluga found in the Seine last week, it seems.
> If you don't have a try/catch immediately around the throw, say at a higher level of where the function was called or, in the "worst" case, in the main body block, then the handling becomes hard to reason about.

what exactly do you call "hard to reason about" ? if it's an exception most likely the library itself has no business handling it and should just let it propagate to the user of the library.
I heard on IRC that the person they arrested was the one who generally merged PRs. With closed source the closest equivalent is the leader of the development team. I would be surprised if a law enforcement agency is unable to locate that developer.
Some things in this life are supposed to be diverse but they are not really :(
I think assuming people are too dumb to make a decent choice would also be a problem you could blame democracy for and be an argument for a dictatorship. That’s kind of what misinformation management by the company who is controlling your method of communication feels like, a dictatorship of ideas. It gives Black Mirror vibes controlling truth, and sort of comes down to the basic argument of what is better you, safety or freedom as well. Slippery slopes are an actual thing and just having any of that power available opens up the door for abuse especially like in the case of this article where there is perceived pressure from the government, the only entity allowed to use violence, on stopping the spread of anything but their idea of the truth. Just imagine if these particular vaccines actually weee dangerous, even to a specific people with specific conditions - trials aren’t the same as mass adoption. The levels of information blocking in place could have hindered research as you literally would get banned for mentioning you had a bad reaction. In my opinions ideas should stand on their own, and if good enough eventually people will come around.
"Climate change" is generally understood as rapid changes, like the ones we are experiencing since 1800s (estimated average delta of at least +1.5C in 250 years). Past "climate change" of +1C in 1000 years is natural.
User friendly shortcuts ? It uses Ctrl/Shift + functions keys all around... Not user friendly for me, on my laptop I would have either to hit Ctrl/Shift + Fn + plus one of the top row keys, or go into the BIOS, reverse the the top row so that I can press directly a function key but give up on the possibility of hitting volume/brightness up/down... I am sure it works for some though.
Oh the quoting is absolutely appalling, but on my Mac it is the only one out of the work chats that actually supports pasting an animated gif into the chat.

You know where the priorities are.
For the longest time the web client was super glitchy (stuttering) on MacOS. Haven't used Zoom for maybe 2 years now though so things might've changed.
He doesn't use VS6 himself, he was most likely referring to Sean Barrett (aka "nothings") who worked on the original Thief as well as at RAD Game Tools and made the stb_ single header libraries. He has mentioned several times that he sticks with VC6 since he prefers the UX it has.
Not only does the Itanium C++ ABI allow for using a pre-canned std::bad_alloc (because __cxa_allocate_exception() can do whatever it wants on an allocation failure), but most of the common implementations do just that.
Teams is just so bad. If a company you're interviewing for has chosen to use Teams, what people do you think they choose to promote? What strategies to pursue? Clearly their decision making process is broken, and the consequences probably don't stop at using shitty software.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but for me Teams is a real turn-off.
I mean, adding to a doubly linked list is just four lines of code and deleting is just two, right? A bit more if it’s possible for the list to become completely empty.
Then heat sand, turn sea water into hydrogen, compress air. There are plenty of options that can be explored that don't require continuing to dig up what we can't replace.
If you use the grill function and put in a cast iron pan, the pan will heat up to those levels even if your oven normally just goes up to, say, 250 degrees Celsius.
It has been covered before on HN [0], as well as a similar product called BearBlog [1], although that requires a signup which Prose does not require, which puts Prose above BearBlog for me. God forbid you ever lose your ssh keys however...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32128013

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32127363
I definitely do. It's something that turns a basic necessity into a speculative asset, with a price distorted by the money poured into it. Airbnb is also a deeply harmful influence on housing prices.

Imagine if we did the same thing with, say, water: privatized it and then "democratized" ownership of it.

It's easy to get retail investors to buy things at inflated, speculative prices, so the price of water would go up. People would say, "Why are so many people dying due to lack of access to water?" And we would blame these startups, laws would be passed, and we would fix it.

Unfortunately the necessity of housing is not as direct and clear, and we have a long history of denying housing to people who are unlucky, sick, or the children of such people.
> This seems like pointless scaremongering to me.

One man's infosec advisory on attack vectors is another man's scaremongering. Hand waving around a problem does nothing to address it.
> Temperature variations in ancient times are very unreliable, because they can only be inferred indirectly

> The big giveaway for anthropogenic climate change is co2 concentration, since we can directly measure its value hundreds of thousands of years in the past thanks to air bubbles enclosed deep in glaciers

I can't believe that these two are consecutive sentences. Are you manipulating the meaning of "direct measurement" on purpose?

You can't really get a direct measurement of something from the past without a time machine.

Glaciers are, by definition, an indirect measurement, that relies on a specific model to calculate the measurement value.

There is a lot of criticism of this model from chemists, but since it is no longer a scientific discussion, but a political one, these people typically get repressed.
VS6 has intellisense but doesn't cope that well with macros.
I am not sure about the point you are trying to make. Yes, politics makes a lot of mistakes and those deserve to be critisized. And the efficiency point I made was about countering the previous posters numbers - which were plain wrong.

And of course the end user pays the costs. But if heat pumps are cheaper over the life time than gas, they are cheaper. And they were already pre-war and now are drastically so. By the way there are huge subsidies for heat-pumps in Germany, the state really helped there.

Not sure how remote work fits into the discussion about which are our energy sources. Obviously, we should also try to not waste energy - at least until we have a surplus of renewables. Doing more remote work can certainly help with that. Less traffic would be beneficial beyond carbon emissions. Remote work is one thing we should do more, but it isn't applicable in all case and only a part of the solution.
> I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.

Why would that be desirable?
Maybe they love your eyes <3 :)

Actually I thought it looks good.