skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He submits PRs that have lots of weird merging issues [1] that are too complicated to unpack and I end up creating new branches to cherry pick his contributions manually.

You could start by not doing this and instead working your way together to fixing the problems because that's literally what PR's were made for, even more so on GitHub where unlike in email, you can discuss it in almost real time. It looks like you have as much to learn as him, because even if you have to make 500 commits to fix all issues, there's this git feature called commit squashing that helps you clean things up even after the fact, and branches, especially personal ones, can easily have their whole history overwritten without fear as many times as you need it.
Self employed in the sense of being part of the gig economy (serfdom), working all day for a modest living under Uber (local ruler of the day). The risk was dying when the next war broke out or it stopped raining for a year.
There are numerous ways to obtain crypto where it would be impossible to identify the owner of a wallet. e.g. mining crypto isn't KYC, or buying KYC crypto and trading it for a private ledger like monero on a non-KYC platform (and many exist, legally)

just to name a couple of ways you can obtain crypto with absolute guarantees your wallet can't be attached to your identity. (provided you don't leak metadata thru other means such as simply telling someone your wallet address)
That's not a full sentence that ends in a full stop, so he wouldn't let that fly.

(I'm only pointing out that absurdity, I agree that there is a lot of flexibility to make slides appeal to different audiences)
> People really like Python, much more than the professional developer community does.

Just to be clear, I'm not intending to pick a fight in asking this - who do we believe is using python, if not the professional developer community?

I think there are plenty of people in academia and research who are not principally programmers using it, but job postings et. al. would certainly seem to express that a whole lot of professional programmers are using it. Though perhaps less use at FAANG? - maybe that's the defining criteria here?
Just copy the latest Galaxy.
I feel like this could be easily solved by adding an "incognito mode" to the Spotify app.
Where is the USB-C option? lol
>The data is pseudonymized out of necessity if for no other reason; it comes in as such a firehose that it has to be immediately analytically bucketed or it overwhelms storage at the volume these tools get used

My 20TB drives say otherwise
I think this depends on if homomorphic encryption is feasible and fast. This would alleviate most of the concerns here.
Also the Equifax breach seriously messed up people's credit, work life, and daily lives.

Given Equifax's one job is to protect people's credit you would have hoped they'd have gotten more than a slap on the wrist of a class action lawsuit. At the very least, you would have expected their clients (banks) to have had trust issues in remaining their clients and something of a long term impact on their revenue. (It's done nothing but grow its revenue since the data breach.)
Exactly. Per stream means that accounts that play music 24/7 are allocating orders of magnitude more revenue than yours or mine, much more even than what they paid in subscription fee. It's an open arbitrage incentive model, ripe for minimum risk exploitation by gray hats. Of course, this practice has the ability to erode actual artist revenue, which is already very low.
> We'll be traveling through other galaxies

Counterpoint: no we won't lol.
Luckily that is readily available! The idea of these products is to prompt people to switch from bacon, not from mushrooms. I'm quite confident this is better for you (and the world, and certainly the poor tortured animals) than regular bacon.
on page xi: "A2. The only way to engineer such technology is to create a software emulation
of the human neurocognitive system. (Alternative strategies designed to
bring about an AGI without emulating human intelligence are considered
and rejected in section 3.3.3 and chapter 12.)"

This claim seems central to the book's thesis and, at least to me, very nonobvious/unintuitive so it's odd that its support is apparently relegated to one sub-sub-chapter near the beginning and one chapter near the end of the book. The introduction doesn't really even attempt to sketch a suggestion of an argument for this.
It's part of the 'great squeeze' affecting the 20-50% of Americans who do not have college degrees or highly paid, sought after skills (although some college educated people are indeed feeling the squeeze too). Expensive areas have higher rent but lower wages and fewer job opportunities. This is why so many people still recommend college, despite debt and loans, because it still offers the best shot of at least some semblance of a middle class lifestyle and home ownership, which is the only ticket out of the cash-to-rent wealth incineration trap.
A photo of a naked child isn’t automatically CP
> Idaho House Bill 666

I wonder if any of the fundamentalists are capable of seeing the irony.
The important part:

> Our app, Supernotes, is not E2EE

That should have been at the top, and saved me two minutes.

If someone develops a usable, cross platform, e2ee notes app with collab/sharing features, I'll gladly pay good money to use it.
> $200 a pop

To make up for the losses in revenue from bluetooth earphones I assume ;)
> I'd much rather have plain mushrooms, even over normal bacon

That's great for you, but it's not true for a huge number of people. For those people, who aren't happy to choose plain mushrooms over bacon, a mushroom-based product just has to be as (un)healthy and as tasty as real bacon to already be a big improvement in reducing animals farmed and (hopefully, depending on the tech used, but almost certainly especially as these production methods scale up and get improved upon) also be much more eco friendly than eating animals.

If they can go a step further and make something as tasty as bacon (again, subjectively, in the eyes of people who don't choose mushrooms over bacon) that's also healthier than real bacon, great! It's just not as simple as only looking at healthiness vs ideals.
The idea that he is "unhireable" in the security space because of this is rather amusing.
Indeed. Not as easy to organize as one with a front facing door, but we keep stuff organized in milk crates and it's worked great for our family for many years now.
Whew, I would assume no one is using Twitter DMs. If they are, these should be 100% personal and unimportant. If not, those people should be investigated, not Twitter.

I'm not defending Twitter, I don't engage with it at all.
Intel Scores $30B Deal with Brookfield to Fund Chip Factories – Barron's
If a picture of Larry Ellison in front of a thirty foot screen with the title "Oracle Data Cloud: 5 billion consumer profiles in database; largest consumer identity graph in the world" isn't enough evidence that they're storing and providing access to consumer dossiers, then what would be?
I think the US does it without the law. They’re proactive like that
There's a lot of focus on the corpspeak vocabulary, which is definitely ridiculous... My current employer incessantly refers to the recent layoff as "ETP" for, I guess, Employee Termination Program, and the laid off workers as "people affected by ETP".

But the thing that drives me insane is the tone of voice and cadence affected by people who are full-time corpspeakers. I can't quite describe it the way it deserves, but there's this singsong sort of rising and falling, yet monotone, sound to it that is so, so artificial and inhuman sounding.

Almost every sentence sounds like a question, in that there's an upward inflection at the end, except for the last sentence of each slide/paragraph which ends on a downward note. It's like they are intentionally sounding like they are reading a text that they don't fully understand -- except it's their own words!
I love pd! I learned it in Puckette's course as a freshman and honestly don't remember many things as fun.
That is quite a sweeping and bold statement that I would like to form my own opinion about. Do you have any links to reading material ?

Just to be clear I am not disagreeing or agreeing with you yet.
That sounds plausible to me.
Free market. People forget free market is not allways cheaper.
No. Landlords became greedier. In contrast to the kind, generous landlords of just a few years ago, landlords are now greedy. Building more units won't help. Supply and demand is a capitalist myth.
The U.S has stability? Mmm not really.
That's pretty damn good in my book! What are the main limitations out of interest? I have a student working on a project in this area. Also, regarding the threat model, presumably this focuses on spatial memory safety. Have you come across a need for temporal safety?
I thought you were kidding at first, it totally does!
Nonetheless, surely the point is well-made that just because 12 jurors or 1 judge decide that a presentation is more persuasive does not say anything about the truth value of the underlying science.

Just look at the junk science of the FBI crime labs - and that stuff is being measured at the higher "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard.
You could use blob storage until you know the relationships.

You lose a lot of the value of relationships in a schema if you don’t know what they are
Corbyn seems to have done a fine enough job smearing himself over his long and illustrious career of far-left populism and terrorism apologia. His campaign signed up a lot of fly-by-night party members and was successful in getting him elected party leader, but convincing the general public was far more difficult.

(Part of the answer to why Labour has been out of power for 13 years is the Corbyn disaster, it explains half of that time span).
Erm... Android is Linux.
Nope, not even close to the truth. You should probably stop spreading FUD when it's apparent you don't know one iota about history.

When an idea is transparently horrible, it's proponents are not interested in discussion except as a means to propogate their message to others. In a reasoned debate, fascists always have to work the least because it always takes more mental effort to debunk a terrible idea than stating said idea.

Meanwhile, adhering to the rules of respectability means the fascist gets to expose far more people to their message in a format where they get to express their message without interruption.

The only reason why you should ever talk to a fascist is to ridicule them. Jean Paul-Satre put it best when talking about anti-Semites (though it really applies to all strains of fascism):

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
If you wanted to scientifically study the effects of alcohol consumption among groups, you wouldn't take 5 people from one neighborhood, of one ethnicity, of one level of education, etc. and 5 people from a different neighborhood half way across the country of a totally different background, living under different circumstances, assign one group to drink, and call it a sound experiment. Similarly, alcohol consumption is not the only differentiator between Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
Even the fantasy dreamland design tool doesn't have an USB-C option.
Late game monopoly. Lots of wealth in the hands of a few, the rest meant to be content to go around the board paying them for the privilege of working for them.
Humanity's problems just not getting solved, short of a miracle engineering breakthrough, is more likely than all the nuclear states aggreeing to form one government. So here's hoping there is actually an illuminati running everything, I suppose.
Which would create a lucrative business for new real estate development, if the local governments allow more building and zoning expansions.
Yes, the population continued to grow, but the housing stock did not keep pace.
Tractors kill lots of farm kids. In the UK it's illegal to allow a child to ride a tractor.

Yeah, I know it's a tradition.
> Are there more privacy-focused alternatives to VS Code?

Sure, Sublime Text.
I don't like physical shopping and online shopping helps me discover and execute.

The physical shopping I generally do is: I'm walking and I want to change, I enter a store I usually go to because they sell things that suit my style or body, I pick something and wear it right there, I pay, and I exit.

It helps me discover by aggregating shops so I don't have to walk miles to discover new things, let alone if the shop is in a different city/country.

It helps me execute because I don't have to track down every shop's contact information, contact them, handle things. This is harder with clothes which I have semi-solved by going to a few shops that sell my style of clothing, or straight up offer someone wearing something I like to buy it so I don't have to go to a store and it doesn't become a "thing". "Can I buy your jacket?"

Clothing is complicated because I have borad shoulders and a thing waist (V-torso). Not muscular. Most stores aren't aware of the complications this have: prêt-à-porter is either the shoulders fitting but the waist is loose, or the waist fits but my shoulders are exploding through the cut. In bespoke shops, the moment you enter, the staff looks at you and know exactly what they're looking at and they tell you that your physique requires adjustments, which is reassuring because you already know, but most employees at clothing shops don't know a thing about cuts, fits, sleeves, etc. and I'm not even talking about button-down shirts.
I'm still a student, but I enabled commit signing for all of my friends after showing them the Linus Torvalds fake commits.
> Sara: “I own in a hot market and can do what I want.”

The article could probably have just been this repeated 1400 times.
Both things can be true to varying degrees. Russian propaganda exists but it wouldn't be nearly as effective if it weren't for our elite fumbling so badly.
Let's take a different example. Let's say you have a search box.

Option A generates 10 times more searches than option B. This may mean the search box is 10 times more useful than in the B case, or the users require 10 times as many searches to find what they want. Looking at the data, you really can't tell. Even without the data, you can dogfood your application and fairly quickly tell whether the feature is good or bad.

I'm not saying anyone is stupid. Naive, perhaps, but not stupid.

The problem is that interpreting data is difficult. Incredibly difficult. Scientists, who construct experiments and interpret experimental data for a living, with a decade of education behind their back, get this wrong all the time.
I hate that stdint.h (or whoever) defines those types as uint8_t instead of simply uint8. Why was the _t necessary?
Maybe I’m slow here, but the authors said they couldn’t get a molecular ion in mass spec, but the ESR shows an electron in the center like would be expected for an anion? Is that a radical? Did they mean they couldn’t get a cation?
> I would actually claim that not only did they consent, they did so in a legally binding way through the terms of service (that they didn't read).

Those 5 billion people don't all come from the same jurisdiction.

Under GDPR, no consent for trading your data can come through an implicit, coerced action like consenting to terms of services.

Under German law, clauses of terms of services are invalid if they aren't what a reasonable consumer would expect.

> I'm as guilty as everyone else here, but the fact is there are options to keep yourself out of these systems if you want to - nobody is forcing you to use a credit card or be on the internet.

I'd argue that having Internet access is quickly approaching the status of a human right (or should be), and buying things only is also getting increasingly common.

Thing is, there doesn't have to be this amount of data collection just to browse the Internet and buy things only.

I'm also not sure if lots of companies having dossiers on me is actually improving my experience anywhere. It seems likely they'll just use it sell me crap that I don't really want or need, simply by them being very persuasive and me having limited will power.
Most “writing code” is about solving extremely simple mathematical problems. “Knowing what code to write” typically is the harder part, and that is about communicating with others.

On the other hand, spelling and grammar need not be perfect to communicate well. I think you’ll lose good candidates (for example dyslexic ones) if you put too much importance on them.
> talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc.

This backfires when you have more hobbies or travels than the other party.

Also interests don't usually align (e.g "I spent last month looking for that one elusive comet from my DX-7512 telescope. here.. see this photo. What about you ? Umm. well nothing much")

It's better to gradually start with some topic where opinions are likely to align.

For small talk I do realize how important (and how easy once you've run this with 4-5 people) it is to find a hobby I enjoy, and pick sharable stories around it and back it up with some artifacts (like photos on my phone).

I think it would help to come up with clusters of topics that are well aligned. Pick a topic from one cluster and see how it works, if not pick one from the next. If it worked, pick another one from the same cluster.
ChherpJ seems more like a browser extension. TeaVM sounds like it at least from the runtime perspective (not so much from app model.. neither applet or Blazor alike? ... But indeed it is older). I think TeaVM could be the foundation to run applets on a WebAssembly and not browser extension.
Along the same lines he reminds me of one of my favorite youtubers: https://www.youtube.com/c/styropyro
The 7th day.
I'm not sure software is getting worse. It does more, and there is more. A lot of complaints on HN are about businesses they don't like, or technology they thought should never have been invented. It's unfortunate that tracking you across the web is hugely profitable, but the reason that business works isn't due to software malfunction. The software is working great.

Certainly, there is a lot of software out there with poor polish. My pet peeve is that devices like multimeters that used to have segmented VFDs, so had a certain design aesthetic by default. Clean, straightforward, readable. Now those have moved to low resolution LCDs, so you notice that the font they picked is terrible, and the font rendering engine they picked is even worse. It just looks bad, in exchange for more flexibility and features.

But, none of this is indicative that the software itself is getting worse. In the 80s, trivial software bugs were literally killing people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 In terms of radiation therapy machines, the underlying business hasn't changed much; people with tumors want them to be killed, and the difference between now and 40 years ago is that the machine doesn't kill them because of integer overflows.

(One interesting note about the Therac-25 is that it reused software for previous models that had hardware interlocks that masked the software defects. They didn't have any telemetry on when the hardware interlocks triggered, so they didn't know that the hardware interlocks were masking bugs in the software when it came time to remove them. If they had the data, they might have kept the hardware interlocks, or fixed the bugs before 6 people died. So maybe lack of telemetry is a greater ethics issue than including it!)
This is definitely an inspiring story but isn't it an isolated data point?

On average, the US has a lot of things going for it for a young software professional if he or she can navigate the immigration maze and is reasonably lucky. Might not be for everyone but for the average person, getting a cushy job in a large company might be better for stability and long term satisfaction that risking it on an attempt to create a unicorn (which is rarely successful).
> John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid and Zatko's lawyer, told CNN that Zatko has not been in contact with Musk, and said Zatko began the whistleblower process before there was any indication of Musk's involvement with Twitter.
This smacks of "the cyberpolice have been contacted" and "the consequences will never be the same".
Don't worry, the IRS is hiring 80,000 new agents to help the middle class count their taxes.
Great! So now you can sign commits on Windows (on GH repos) without installing GPG4Win (or having to use a WSL GPG)
Get yourself diagnosed properly. I let my anxiety control my life for far too long, now I am on the correct drugs, my quality of life is WAY better.
The thread reminds me of the Guardian's podcast "Sewage Sleuths" which uncovered catastrophic sewage being dumped into England and Wales's rivers and streams. Very informative and enlightening how bad some government infrastructure can be (hint: in the podcast they also enlightened HOW the failure got bad).

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/aug/15/sewage-sl...
The first one, and now the second one on top.
Understood. The UI text configurability should suffice, not many products right now even support that! Great work
Im hopefully for a rental class backlash. Hopefully enough people will vote for YIMBY policies and actually start building enough housing. I hope the backlash is strong enough that all the landlords squatting land and voting against housing get left holding the bag.

Housing should not be an investment. If it is we can never have affordable housing. Developing, renting out, and managing properties can be profitable without requiring the mere act of owning a house to be an investment that grows. A house should be a capital expenditure. It's shameful that for many, leaving the apartment or house empty can still make significant returns.

Land in places with jobs is scarce. We don't tolerate people hoarding other scarcities, land should be no different.
But You Told Me You Were Safe: Attacking the Mozilla Firefox Renderer (Part 2)
It seems, simply put, that more people are choosing to live alone in this market. If that holds true, then it could explain the large surge in demand in recent years. Perhaps it's not that the market lacks enough housing for people, it's that the market lacks enough housing for the number of people who wish to live alone.
Just the kernel is Linux, but with the "Linux" that is meant here, it has basically nothing in common, be it e.g. in the userland or "the spirit".

The Linux from "Linux Smartphones" e.g. fosters an open, user-first ecosystem, as opposed to the often very closed and locked Android Smartphones. Another examples are e.g. Safetynet or the Google Play Integrity API. Those primarily don't server the users. Or apps that either complain or even stop working on rooted phones. We have admin/root on normal PCs and nobody is complaining there.
Let’s not pretend corruption is unique to capitalism.
Not if they need to communicate with customers or are responsible for ‘selling’ ideas internally
Missing: removable battery, USB-C port, microSD card slot, dual SIM card tray, speaker and microphone(s), ear proximity sensor and/or face scanner

I’m assuming the home button can function as a rear fingerprint reader.