skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Linus Torvalds does scuba diving.

Recently finished his biography; he was not much into sports all when he was growing up. I suspect he took up scuba diving late in life.
In fact, my Android 11 device has no browser enabled, the play store is disabled, and almost every app it came with is disabled. It functions solely for email, instant messaging, a TODO tracker, and taking photos.

Edit: not sure why this was downvoted. Did someone find the idea of a narrowly-focused phone to be offensive or unworthy of discussion?
Been using this for a few months, really solid replacement for Amazon's own send-to-kindle, with a lot of potential.
I am utterly baffled as well. This was literally a front-page article in the NYT, not just the online home page but front page of the paper edition [1].

It's one thing to get the attention of some Googlers on the front page of HN, it's a whole other order of magnitude for the front page of the NYT.

I cannot imagine how this hasn't become an urgent priority for Sundar himself to make sure this gets fixed and fast, at a minimum in these known situations. What could they possibly still be debating or deciding inside there at Google...? Police determined no charges, so restore the accounts. I don't see any potential risk, legal/reputational/otherwise, this would open up. Google's inaction here boggles the mind.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2022/08/22/todays-...
I miss webpages with googly eyes that would follow your mouse on the screen. What a sense of whimsy.
Maybe this would be a better link than your own empty github page https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
Yes but OCaml syntax is Pascal inspired. It’s always going to be a lot more elegant that anything inspired by the horror that is the B syntax. It’s just less familiar to people who grew up using C, Java or JavaScript.
https://caniuse.com/css-container-queries
But those goals are redundant because they all effectively mean keep inflation in check. According to Powell's own argument in the 3rd paragraph in this speech, keeping inflation in check is a goal because "without price stability, we will not achieve a sustained period of strong labor market conditions that benefit all."
I went with Hugo too. I used Gatsby in the past, but it was slower and it felt a bit odd using GraphQL in the way it does. Maybe that'd make more sense if I was using an API to deliver content, but for simple markdown pages, it seemed unnecessary.
Or...we can let ISPs be common carriers. As they used to be in the US, until the "free speech" party decided to kill it.

Surely you'd agree that ISPs are closer to telephone companies than social media is. So many telephone companies are ISPs.

I love another comment I read on here: "Speech is free, reach isn't." Your ISP shouldn't be able to disconnect you because of your words. But equally you aren't entitled to an audience on MyFaceTubeTwit.
Much of the rest of the world is refusing to do anything about climate change because the US was doing nothing. That excuse has disappeared, so the IRA will have a multiplicative effect.

10s of billions of dollars have been announced for new battery plants to be built in the US and Canada since the announcement of the IRA. It's already having a massive effect.
I consider copyright immoral, but I still struggle with the idea that most of us have to honor copyright but the big companies scraping for image models don't have to. Maybe we could view that as a positive erosion of copyright, but we could also see it as unfair exploitation of artists. Google can scrape from artists but what would happen if one of us tried to take Google's code?

I have been playing with Stable Diffusion for a week. I think it is going to have a significant impact. The so-called disposable art probably gives lots of artists their first paid gigs that gives them paid time to practice and build a portfolio, while learning to work with customers. I think a lot of that work will shift to prolific prompt-engineers who know their way around the software.

I'm very pro-automaton (I'm a robotics engineer) but I don't like the idea of taking work from a bunch of artists without their consent to build a model that depresses their wages. I would rather these companies worked on sample-efficiency (an important area of research) and stuck to the millions of openly licensed images available on the web, then worked with twitter and instagram to add image license options to the photo widgets so that we can all build up a consent-based model. And artists that want to keep their work for themselves have that choice.

I don't think it will happen, but I do wish we actually honored the consent of the artists. I think it's a shame we're not.
As if the workers don't care about inflation and it doesn't affect their financial stability? At the lower wage end these price increases are eating up all of their nominal wage growth and more. There is a reason this inflation has become such a major political issue, people are angry about it. So yes, slowing the economy will slow down business demand e.g. for oil and that will bring some stability to gasoline prices. Powell's wishlist I'm sure is that companies will be able to freeze wages and stop new hiring for a while but avoid mass layoffs. That may not work out but the conspiracist mindset is absurd.
I've been happily using the Dell 55xx series for quite some time now. Though I do mostly use it with external keyboard and screen.
If you have a Mikrotik kicking around, you can build firewall rules for this (IIRC, it's just a wrapper over top of linux iptables).

Basically a "knock" on a port adds an IP to a list for N seconds. A knock on port 2 from an IP in that list adds the port to another list for N seconds. A final knock on a third port adds an IP in the third list to the allowlist for a period of time (generally as long as there is activity).

For extra fun, add some guard ports around the knock ports that cause an immediate IP ban.
Please explain the difference between a Buddha and the Buddha.
Yes. Even humans and bananas share about 40–60% of their DNA.
I have one too (17Z90N), and it's pretty nice, as laptops go.

~10h battery life on Linux with minimal tweaking, decent keyboard and touchpad, huge screen (I've tried to use the tiny laptops that are popular these days, and they just do not work for me).

Things I don't care much about and so explicitly won't review: camera, internal audio (I only ever use headphones), battery life when closed (I just go put it on my desk and plug it in when I'm not using it)

My one major complaint is that the edges are unreasonably sharp. Seriously, I don't know who designed this thing, but they apparently use laptop keyboards very differently than I do. I have been considering filing them down.

I also got it on ebay for what I now realize is significantly below the price it would've been new. I don't think it's worth $1800, but I don't think any (personal) computer is worth $1800, so adjust your weighting of this opinion as desired.
I find this entirely ridiculous. Just as a heuristic, the first complaint is about CoPilot. I don't use CoPilot. If that's the #1 complaint the rest is peanuts.

As for Github being proprietary, I don't get the issue. My supermarket is not open source. Should I ban it? To me, they are offering free services to support open source. Services that cost money. It costs money to store the data, to serve the data, to run the servers. It costs money to process github actions, to fight spam. to moderate disputes, etc...

Where is the lock in? Every piece of data related to your projects are available for you to access. Issues, Wikis, etc..

Even github actions, the runner is here and open source

https://github.com/actions/runner

There's no lock in. There's a company offering a free service to open source developers and hoping that you'll pay for anything not open source.

I don't see the issue any more than the fact that my grocery store is not some kind of collective.
if you don't want people to use github then why are you linking to your own personal github page rather than the article itself?
You go up at 5 AM in the morning. You ride your bike to a customer. You pass some security checks like, known guy, yes, no. You are shown to the servers in the cellar. Cause they are safe there. You get access to the admin account after 2 hours. You do some backup to a local disk. Somebody screams something but you can’t hear what because of the noise. You say yes and hopes it was about coffee even though the room is like a sauna. Now you pick up that CD and insert it. You are not allowed to use a USB-drive because it is mutable. Some clicks and the installation begin. And now you wait.

I am pro-devops.
"Not hard", to say the least, yeah:

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
Search function on the web shows 99.9%
The people spamming bigger dick pills, viagra, and the like back in the day made money, and in some cases quite substantial amounts of it. They did so simply for the fact that even if 99.9999% of people didn't go for it, that 0.00001% was far more than enough to show a healthy profit after 'advertising' costs.

The point is that advertising won't end until the formula of additional_ad_driven_revenue > ad_costs becomes false. And we're a long ways away from that given how inordinately expensive advertising is relative to the costs incurred by the companies selling the advertising. And each time that equilibrium price goes lower, the potential market of advertisers who may purchase ads grows.

This logic suggests that, if anything, advertising will get even worse as ad revenues decline. Go low enough and we'll be right back to square one with Google Ads promoting big dick pills and viagra. That's to say nothing of the fact that as revenues decline, both Google and advertisers will be looking for ever more insidious and forceful ways to make you watch and make you consume. Imagine, for instance, the countless dystopias things like Google Nest could enable - if such products ever managed to gain widespread adoption.
> Reserved instances are effectively a financial construct.

Almost true. It's also a powerful lock-in mechanism.
> What is going to happen of the next few years with AI is going to be mind blowing.

Or where it is headed it more dystopia.

AI has already been democratized to death by the same gate keepers creating dystopian deep fakes and training on tons of your data on lots of data centers to incinerate and burn up the planet with zero efficient alternatives.

The AI game has run its course, with nothing left other than the same Tech giants and one hypocritical Open 'faux' AI company.
Those NNs were not convnets.
I worked in LabVIEW for close to a decade. I never saw something close to that screenshot. I did see bad LabVIEW programs for sure, and nothing ever met my personal standards. I also saw a Python file that was the entire program with over 10,000 lines and function signatures / argument lists that were 10-30 lines long. Just the signatures / argument lists, not including the actual function body. My introduction to LabVIEW though was people taking it seriously as a programming language. We used Perforce and did code reviews using graphical code review systems. It was actually pretty nice.

My main point is that there is nothing inherent to the visual paradigm that causes this. It's mainly a merger of two things: the visual paradigm making it more apparent than text-based programs, and the makeup of people writing the programs. Any language can support a bad programming making all the foot guns they'd like.

The fact that that screenshot keeps appearing tells me it's reposted by people who have never actually worked in LabVIEW. It's just the first thing that comes up when they search for it.

I have some LabVIEW code here: https://github.com/slo-systems. It's just a couple of libraries I developed in my spare time at the moment and not big systems, but it's at least in a step in the direction of what I'd consider good code.

All that to say, can LabVIEW be improved? Yes, in the same way that any language and IDE can be improved. We have a long way to go for software development.
sorry for being misleading, I was not trying to do so. About the first one I was referring to our own web UI, considering the plugins you are right.
2. one they weren't used to ship with a 3rd party IDE afaik, that's why I've said full on-prem with web ui. don't remember saying anything about the 3rd and the 4th, and it wasn't supposed to be something offensive to our competitors
"MOC" is an online blowhard with a cult-like following
The Death Cheaters
The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever. Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the concept of persona non grata predates the internet.
Yea, I'd be fine seeing ads for camping gear on a site for neat hikes in my area... it's the fact that the advertisers are tracking everything I do instead of just putting relevant ads in relevant places.

To be fair, some ads are absolutely obnoxious.
A long-winded way of saying that if you want to hit the 3:2 and 4:3 sweet spots "closely enough", dividing the octave into 12 logarithmically equidistant bins works very well, and better than any other number of bins less than 50 (or maybe 30).
Ghost was possible on the desktop as well, IIRC. I wonder if it was intended as an accessibility feature or for new users who had trouble keeping track of the mouse.
I didn't see the words "owned by Microsoft" which would be first on my list of reasons for this...
Energy is fungible. Medicare, education and real estate aren't. Medicare and education are strongly impacted by Baumol's cost disease.
As more labor was automated, these exact arguments were made. It was thought that no machine could capture the beauty and skill of human craftsmen as creation was a fundamentally human task. It was thought to be "sad" that low-effort, mass-produced, standardized goods would be "good enough" to satisfy human needs, that there was some inextricable timeless beauty to human output that elevates over machine output. Time has shown us that machine output has become even more precise and skillful than human labor. These arguments feel almost 1:1.

At times this whole thing feels hypocritical. Generations of laborers grew up with the reality that their work was essentially a commodity. Now that it's our turn, we raise the age old arguments again.
> I don't use CoPilot. If that's the #1 complaint the rest is peanuts.

CoPilot launders your code, it doesn't matter whether you use it or not.
I mentioned this fretboard yesterday in another thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626218 ). One of the main proponents of the design talks about its advantages here: https://youtu.be/D8EjCTb88oA

I'm not crazy about the sound, myself. It's kind of like a guitar sample played through a MIDI keyboard.
I have no idea how they see things, I'm not telepathic. I'm in the "want neither" camp; I put up with whatever I can't filter. The kind of stuff I look for on YT often doesn't seem to be monetized.
Does OCaml not have nested comments? Typically a language supporting /* */ will treat them like parentheses and require each opener to match a closer. (Not that this doesn't make documenting the behavior of files/static/* harder - hence Rust and C# preferring to document with line comments.)
That's super weird and fascinating. I'm suddenly really curious if I would detect any change if I bought one of those grounded floor mats for my office.
"They" (IMF, etc.) seem exactly to know what they are doing but I don't know exactly what yet.
The big question is whether CEO betting against you being able to work around their data protection counts as namecheap permitting you to access that data.

If it does not (which IMHO is a reasonable interpretation), there is no issue and that's just empty boasting. But if it does, that's a violation - GDPR prohibits namecheap to allow anyone outside of company to handle that data without a proper controller-processor contract.

Not being a processor is a bad thing in this case, because being a processor is the only way how this can proceed legally. If you're not a processor, it's a violation for namecheap to give you that data; and if you're not a processor, it's a violation for you to process that data since you're also not a controller, you did not legally obtain this from the data subject, this is also not a purely household activity, no other exceptions seem to apply so the default condition applies i.e. that it's illegal for you to handle that data as you have no legal basis permitting it. (GDPR is a deny-by-default law; processing of private data is lawful if and only if specific conditions listed in GDPR are met. If some private data 'fell out of a truck', you can't legally do stuff with it).
I disagree that ui changes in general are an example of this.

You'll be able to find examples such as that, sure. But that doesn't make it generally true.
have you had a back-and-forth with someone who sat with you so you could type while they designed a system, because they can’t code and you’re not a game designer? Blueprint eliminates the developer time needed for that design work, and lets the designer design at their own pace. when they are happy, you (the developer) can turn that into code quite quickly, without the days required pairing with the gameplay designer to get the behavior where they want it.

More generally, there are benefits to every programming language ever made, if you count learning what not to do.
> "More than half of all reported trading volume is likely to be fake or non-economic"

I wonder what basis they use to determine "likely to be fake or non-economic". Seems highly unlikely they have any concrete evidence.

Makes me want to start a "think tank" where I can just publish whatever speculation I'm feeling at the moment with fabricated numbers built from specious methods to add a veneer of substantiation.

(Also, kind of amusing that an article about how bitcoin exchanges are fabricating numbers is fabricating numbers itself.)
Ardupilot
Yeah. As a developer, I need a competent QA and operations team to support me. I'm not competent at those things, but 90% of developers I've worked with are somehow worse at them.

I also need 1-2 months between major context switches, and the ability to declare a subcomponent "ready for release".

Moving forward, I will actively avoid companies that claim to use agile, scrum or devops.

Edit: Also, I want to work on a team that has a good release manager.
It's really interesting that such a bland, un-subversive show whose only mentions of sensitive topics are in bad throwaway jokes is so heavily censored. I guess a more interesting show would just not get aired at all.
I have served up various memes and annoying graphics on the off chance someone will investigate what they got.

Though, I assume if their scanner doesn't see the response it wants, it just automatically moves on.
Here's a 400 page book and a 12 week training course on all the processes we used to implement Agile's "People over process" principle.
It does sometimes get abused, but such abuses fall under wire fraud laws, which carry heavy punishments.

So, the legal system is the prevention mechanism for abuse here.
From the article being linked to:
>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.
Yes, was going to post the same reply. Iterative UI, A/B testing, webapp-driven (vs. installed versioned apps) are completely orthogonal to the OP discussion of Continuous Deployment / rapid deployment.

CD is a deploy strategy saying the aspiration is to do one deploy per commit, rather than batching commits and deploying once per N weeks or whatever. It has approximately zero to do with UX and product design/iteration approaches.
Same kind of numbers on my main host - 1325 the last 7 days, 1125 the 7 before that. Bloody annoying.
> We need better definitions for these terms

How about this? Let's describe levels of adoption. Think of the "normal form" concept for databases. Each level has a strict definition, and you can objectively observe which level you are using. And not every level is appropriate at all times.

So maybe a team could say, "we're at DevOps level 2," or, "we use level 3 Scrum."
My fan site for the TI-86 graphing calculator (first draft done as part of 5th grade Computer Class, revised to get extra credit in my algebra class a few years later) used it! I had no idea what Javascript even was, but I knew how to view source and knew that if I pasted in all the magic between <script> tags from my computer teacher's website I'd get the cursor effect. He (or the original dev…) had very well-annotated code that included a bunch of variables you could customize.
> In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.

What has that been like?
There were hundreds of doners to Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, let alone 2016 campaign. If not directly, then through other superPACS including FAANG companies [1].

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-tr...

If your viewpoint is so myopically constrained by a single data point, I don't know what to say.

I find intellectuals from all corners of political spectrum to be interesting. Usually, when people dismiss intellectuals not for their arguments, but by some ostensible thinly veiled morality or the media zeitgeist; it is already an indicator that something interesting is out there. Anyways, all I am saying is that Peter is not evil in any stretch of the definition as the media portrays him. He is just not your typical conformist thinker.

[1] They only paused after Jan 6th, they were happily donating to both parties: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-corporate-go...
I pay $50/year for email, because it is broadly useful across many vendors, sites, and service providers.

I would not pay $0.50 for any walled garden social media account; I don't even have any with them being free. They are just too intrusive and too limited.
I am truly shocked by this. What an amazing and nearly-unbelievable outcome!
Nixon had the good sense to resign, and then stay out of the public spotlight. Trump is today demanding he be reinstated as president, immediately, as the winner of the 2020 election. And Lindsey Graham and Trump this weekend are engaged in extorting the public via threat of violence on the nation if Trump is indicted by DOJ.

Nixon was not like Trump.
There's no "github". It's just a product at microsoft at this point. When you frame it as "should we host all of our code and version control on Microsoft servers" I think this becomes more obvious.
That's exactly the problem I had while traveling this month. I just posted about my setup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512576 -- so far it's been great.

See also nextdns.io for a turnkey alternative.
You’re really going to call people jihadis for talking about the technical strengths of a programming language?

And then you’re going to act like you’re the self appointed arbiter of discourse on HN, saying that this kind of article is ok but that kind isn’t? Maybe a person who calls those they disagree with jihadis isn’t qualified to police what others say.

Let’s talk about the way you talk. Here’s you from 5 days ago accusing a good tool of being a “dumpster fire” and saying “it crashes process IDs more often than Justin Bieber crashes Maseratis”. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32581005). But it gets worse, because later you start crying about being downvoted.

At this point it looks like a speed run of how many HN rules you can break. And then you follow that up with tone policing others.
The UFCW also helped facilitate two tier wage systems where new workers get compensated significantly worse than existing workers, so this isn’t the first time they’ve helped disenfranchise the members they supposedly represent.