skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you share an account by the interns that showed him acting creepy?

I have been hearing a lot of allegations against Stallman, but cant seem to find the original accusation etc. If you know the primary source information, please link to it in a reply.
To me it sounds like GP was implying someone not on his team was trying to purchase the under-specced laptops for his team.
https://www.occ.treas.gov/ - office of the comptroller of the currency. That is the agency that regulates national banks.
I don't think that really applies here. The article concentrates on replacing cities and concrete with timber. Old towns burning down have different issues than downtown office buildings.

Also in general, processed timber can be made more fireproof than many usual materials.
In my experience (three years, two companies, so not much) refactors are beyond last place for prioritization. Even my current company which does a great job of handling tech debt doesn’t track refactoring well. How would you even do it? Imagine how many tickets you would have about the things that need to be improved.

I guess this is delving into queue theory and how the work queue is growing to infinity because there aren’t enough workers.

I miss personal projects
Dylan was the first Lisp that could fit that criteria, but then Apple went with C++ for the NewtonOS.

At least it survives as open source project.
NASA is wasting the bulk of their funding in an obsolete launch system. Over the he past 50 years they have held back any economical progress in access to space.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/nasas-artemis-rocket...
2000 USD per core per year.

https://www.lightbend.com/akka
Rapid vaccine development does indeed give some cause for optimism. Some counters that I'd have to that would be a potential resurgence of polio in the US [1] and the appearance of drug-resistant pathogens (typhoid fever in this case) [2], just to keep us on our toes and curb our enthusiasm...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7133e2.htm
[2] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/watch/xdr-typhoid-fever...
How can the gas problem not be entirely blamed on the current leadership? I have not heard of too many elections in recent times. Though, UK did change their prime minister... But still the same party and parliament.
And then the refactoring may never happen.

'Phase 2 never happens'
I remember a story a few months ago where a female player (her name was Queen something) posted a video on Twitter showing how she was being "abused" by a misogynistic man who told her to go play a farming simulator because she sucked at Halo or Battlefield or whatever. All the blue checkmarks came out of the woodwork to virtue signal how much the supported her and how brave she was.

The next day, someone posted a video of the very same female player abusing a male player and telling him his penis must be so small because of the way he played.

Crickets from the blue checkmarks.
What the author describes isn't really the kind of yak shaving I find myself doing as a programmer. Yes, fixing a bug in a single dedicated pull request is one technique that can be helpful in a very specific situation. But it's as if in the apple pie situation, the author said that the way to avoid yak shaving is to always have prebaked apple pies in your fridge. One quickly discovers how bad yak shaving can get when they go to store the apple pies in their fridge and find out that the fridge is full. Or when they go to open a pull request and realize that the CI tests aren't running because their credit card has expired and they can't update the card info because the person with access to that information is on PTO, and they spend the day trying to resolve the billing issue instead of just making a simple pull request to fix the bug.
Building a bootstrapped business (i.e. NOT taking venture capital) is a rare skill. I would keep on building without outside capital if you can continue to build growth. If you hit a ceiling (without growth) then you may want to consider looking for/accepting outside capital.

As soon as you accept VC funding, there are basically 3 outcomes for your company. Getting acquired, going public (if that's an option where you are) or going bankrupt.

If you can keep growing without VC funding, I'd keep doing that.
It's a single family house. So you're paying for the land. The house will have to be redone. After evicting the tenants, that is.
> Almost all of those 'correctness flaws' are bugs in packages that weren't interfacing with each-other correctly. Everything has bugs and correctness problems, but it may be that Julia users run into them more often because they compose packages in novel ways very often.

I agree with this. Yuri's post requires a bit of Julia experience to understand the context of it, that much of it is about drop-in combinations of packages and types that one wouldn't even attempt in many other languages. Julia allows you to do that and makes it programmatically easy, which has significant benefits. But it also requires work on the implementers' side to get right.

> But we also have very rigorous testing infrastructure and a community that cares deeply about these things and moves very fast to fix them.

Not sure how much I agree with this. If you're talking about the language itself, sure. But a lot of the libraries don't have extensive testing infrastructures, especially not the kind Julia obviously needs based on the above, with beyond-the-expected-usecase tests. Maintanence of packages varies a lot, with the median being on the slower side. There's definitely "a community that cares deeply about these things", we just need more of it.
Yes the example is wrong. It’s about making an apple pie, but figuring out you have no apples, so then you’re going to the supermarket etc etc.

It’s about “necessary” things to achieve a goal, without appropriately weighing costs vs benefits nor considering alternative solutions (perhaps making a chocolate pie instead).
Lotus 1-2-3 was a legacy code base already 30 years ago. Which was one of the contributing reasons to why it eventually died.
I understand you're the relative expert here, but even so I must disagree with your general thrust.

I've been hospitalized in four different countries. The least sane was America. The sanest was a private hospital in England, but the public hospital in England was fine too. My home country of Canada is sane, reliable, and reliably slow and mediocre bordering on subpar. Cyprus lacked toilet seats, but at least the food was fantastic.

America's healthcare system is bananas. Even trying to come up with a metaphor here is difficult. It's $5k a day stays with Wonderbread, tuna, and bad not-actually-mayo-mayo for lunch. It's well groomed, well respected, monied indentured second and third opinion servants. It's Moloch's own mediation on Moloch[0] sold on the discount rack of the bookstore pharmacy downstairs.

You can think Americans are different. They are not. They move to Canada all the time and we service their bum knees just fine.

You can think Americans do all the medical research in the world. They don't. Plenty comes out of Europe, China, and elsewhere.

You can think your tax code is unique. Ok this one I kinda agree with. It's almost as bananas as your medical system. But it doesn't change the fact that Americans put up with absolute bananaspants insanity for a healthcare system when they're perfectly capable of funding their libraries and roads.

China beats you on scale. And so on.

The basic fact is that Americans have what is essentially a psychopathic medical system at the best of times. One can negotiate with a psychopath, but Kafka returns your offer with a can of stale soup and doesn't even laugh.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
>I'm not defending Algorithms but manual curation doesn't scale.

There are tons of employees at YouTube. A lot of moderators as well. Each one of them could easily discover tons of content within YouTube to publish on personal pick pages on the site. YouTube chooses to only feature a handful of creators at a time because that protects revenue streams, not because content moderation can't scale. People would literally jump to curate content for free on YT as well, as many playlists are made every second by users.

I'd love to see a real honest stat on how views are distributed across YT content, I'm pretty sure the relatively few items featured on their front page and trending/sponsored playlists get the lion share of all views annually, and everything else suffers in silence (relatively).
Ask HN: Where is AI/ML adding value at your company (industrial plant)?
Now do TikTok
Most likely because they don't know they're doing it. And most people couldn't explain what algorithm means, or what it means in the youtube/tiktok recommendation context.
They should be forced to provide the costs of procedures up front. As in the whole procedures not just provide prices for a million sub-procedures that the _might_ bill you for. This is how it works in basically every industry. Healthcare tries to argue that it's impossible for them to do this, but is just a load of bullshit.
I can only add my own anecdotal data but this is certainly not been the situation at my midsized tech company. We were already starting to transition to a permanent work from home situation well before Covid struck so maybe that had something to do with it, but our metrics in terms of deliverables for our projects have never looked better and the engineering department is certainly a lot happier being able to work comfortably from home and without the drudge of a commute.
Despite all the negative comments, "Never fix a bug and refactor in the same pull request" is great advice and deserves reminders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubd-spHN-0

Basically, that thing you think is awesome will never be.
Pretty sure is a color switching laser (cheap at ebay) over clouds/fog.
0. both footages movement resembles a trembling/random hand moving laser
1. in first footage almost no stars. when laser is reaching "clear area" near a visible star, footage is cut. why? I think is because laser will disappear at that moment.
2. second footage laser is over clouds clearly.
The UK has a few nuclear projects in progress (mostly done by foreign companies, including the French state owned EDF and even a Chinese company at some point), and a domestic small modular reactor program in research.

There have been delays and budget overruns (nothing unexpected really) at Hinkley Point C (an EPR build by EDF; and where the cleanup and decomissioning costs are explicitly included in the overall costs of the project and the electricity price reflects that) and that had stirred some debate, but i don't think anyone is still complaining about it.
You'd have to pay me to use it.
Why is LibreOffice still so bad?
It is interesting how LibreOffice has grown, yet no matter how much attention it gets (even professional contributions such as from Collabora) it remains buggy, jittery, and with an ugly and non-intuitive UI.

Many bugs are over 10 years old, and it doesn't seem to have any substantial progress in terms of stability, ease of use, or usability. LO development feels more of a 'let's experiment with adding this new feature', rather than a serious product development.

I wish there was a new open-source office suite in development, especially when languages like Rush are now available.
Correction— the author of the op-ed, Nicholas Weaver, is a former lecturer in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

And a personal insight, as a former uGSI (TA) in the department, the problem isn’t paying TAs enough. The pay is actually quite high for a student job (especially when you factor in the fact that in-state tuition is paid for). But the course budgets simply aren’t high enough to hire the sheer quantity of TAs that would be required to handle all of the students who want to take the classes.

I was involved in hiring some semesters, and there were always more people we wanted to hire than the budget would allow. I believe the situation has only gotten worse since I left.
But what reason is there to believe that the synology software stack isn't doing the same scanning of your texts, photos, whatever you put there. What happens if synology decides you did something illegal or 'bad' whatever that could mean, could they block your access on your own device, even if you were exonerated? And while that seems to be a great system, they can have bugs, make a mistake, have bad policies.

I don't see a solution for this. Billions of people and probably a ton of people reading this on hacker news like me have their stuff at google or another top cloud provider. Google causes untold suffering for people by not let people recover their accounts. There was the recent librarian letter requesting help for people this happens too. We might know someone at google to ask for help. Wonder if this person did.
HN is my number one segway for sliding into Yak Shaving :-(
Eventually most of them will end up paying in one way or an other. Some might get away with it, but so do they today. If you own property I'm sure someone is willing to buy the debt and fund the fight.
I wonder if it would make sense for the processor to scope these settings to stack frames, and clear them when the appropriate ret happens.

Somewhere on this page there's a discussion of dirty upper half states in Intel vector instructions, and something similar might help there.
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I thought that I have ADHD, but apparently I just need to stop shaving the yak..

distractions are real, at some point I pomodoro technique helps, however when I get interested/distracted with something else at the code then it's pointless
Sure, but like 99% of the stuff that's being uploaded every minute to YouTube as you mention isn't getting recommended to pretty much anyone, ever, anyway. The vast majority of videos uploaded to YouTube have abysmally small view counts/reach, and the bulk of actual views on the platform come from content regularly being uploaded by a small percentage of the overall user base. Same as pretty much any platform, just at an exponentially increased scale due to how enormous and popular YouTube is.

I also believe it's entirely possible for someone (it won't be YouTube, they are too invested/tied into their existing model) to successfully integrate manual curation at scale. All you have to do is monetize the curators, and then reverse the traditional ad model being used on the majority of the web. Just like how people are already driven to go and watch live streams from creators who oftentimes simply serve to be a more active, on-screen role of one of these kinds of curators or "coolhunters" or whatever...it's been shown that people are more than willing to donate via superchats or sign up for additional membership features. So what's stopping a platform from doing more targeted audience-specific advertisements?
Don’t do it at some later date, do it right after. Just ship the low risk fix first. Otherwise if you’re not careful phase 1 never happens either.
Tamas, coming from CL, has donated a very nice list on how "make it easier to help you" on https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier..., so the Julia community has at most streamlined this process a bit :-)
No arguing that. It still doesn't mean that writing stuff in assembly is better than leaving it higher level. Nowadays we have new approaches that didn't exist back then. Look up any JavaScript optimization techniques to see stuff that's simply not possible to do once your code is moved down to assembly because it loses semantics. Or look at fusion and type erasure in Haskell. In my original comment, I wasn't arguing about the state of things 30 years ago.
There is another way, and I know they sometimes use it in Belgium: let the smarter kids help out the ones that still struggle with the material. That way they learn how to properly explain things, teach others. Maybe they don't see more material than the other kids, but they sure learn other usefull skills.
The license change is prominent in the title, even if digging into the exact price and terms part comes a few paragraphs down.

History lessons are always weird in these kind of announcements, but I think this one isn't that bad or deceptive in its approach.
I (and I assume many do) buy flight tickets with a credit card so at least one bank knows you are traveling. Never have I had any problem when traveling. But there is one time I wanted to wire myself from Bank1 to Bank2, got blocked, called to unblock, and got blocked again immediately after I attempt the same transaction. Have to goto a Bank1 branch and brainstorm what to do and they ended up giving me a "bank check" (what's that???) only for me to walk to a Bank2 branch to deposit.
Shot.
$2000 USD for companies earning more than $25M USD Revenue per year.

However, it's quite telling that the new blogpost discusses the new pricing but never actually shares the pricing, but only shares the condition for when it's free (as in gratis). Do lightbend themselves think its expensive?
Fascism is the union of government and corporate power. It has nothing to do with who they target.
To be fair, after 3 years it reverts to the Apache License. I don't think there is much reason for a fork. It is like Ghostscript has always done. I can understand the change might feel a bit sour, but wanting to drive them out of business is a bit much I think. Also, this software sounds like it is mostly used by big companies, they can pay up to keep this software going.
"Akka: enables organizations to execute their most digitally transformative strategies, no matter how complicated"

Thanks video
Just restating my argument to you, so you can better understand it.
It seems that when one of the words starts lowercased it’s always real/hacker news. All satire strings seem to be created with uppercased words only.
I don't know your company and projects but I weight these tasks as business risks, business opportunities and developer productivity.
> I'm not really sure though that energy prices can be controlled by govts.

It can. France has set up an electricity price cap, which EDF has bled billions to maintain (compared to the market price) resulting in it's renationalisation. The cap will remain in the foreseeable future.

> a) Foster the use of less energy overall, better house insulation, electric cars etc and b) grow home-produced energy (wind etc.) if those reduce dependancies on oil and gas then that's likely a nice byproduct.

None of these can be in place in sufficient quantity for this winter, and all have been in progress for years now, depending on the European country. (Stuff like massive tax credits and/or subsidies to insulate/buy an EV/switch to less energy intensive heating/etc.)
When I was there 20+ years ago, the intro course (CS61A) was definitely known to knock the unprepared/uncommitted out of the running. Back then it was taught with Scheme out of SICP.
You do have a real business already: understanding potential customer problems, solving it and charging for it. If you want to grow your activity, VCs are one way that has been pounded for the last decade or so, but not the only one! You could start by looking for an associate, you could employ someone to help with tasks you’re not comfortable with, etc. Be the entrepreneur you want to be, not what the crowd tells you to be!
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/wlCqS
> Assuming they're taxing based on the sugar content, then that's the expected outcome. Coke, Sprite, and juice have sugar in them, sparkling water doesn't.

But to what end? Those people still ate poorly, and continued to make those poor purchase decisions and had less money to justify making better ones as they didn't miraculously start drinking San Peligrino Italian soda, which also has sugar in them [0].

0: https://www.amazon.com/Sanpellegrino-Prickly-Orange-Sparklin...
That's a very bad short answer, because end users don't (and shouldn't) care about the programming language used.

The real reason to use KeepassXC over Keepass is because it's much better! The UI is better in almost every way.
Well, and they climbed 60% last year, so we're back to 'normal'. See the Baltic Dry Index [1].

[1]: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/baltic
This makes sense to me on a high level, but I would love to see more practical examples so I can quickly wrap my head around use cases without having to download and use the tool first.
I had been exposed to some of those, plus SunOS, Solaris, VMS, AmigaOS, QNX, Red Hat and Debian.

There was no such thing as a OS-monoculture.
Can I ask what it is that costs $350 per hour per student? There is one professor lecturing and a few TAs who work 20 hours a week at max. There are 60-100 students in all the major classes, 20-30 in more advanced ones. What exactly is the cost that leads to $350 per hour per student? Compute and infrastructure costs amortized over many students per year can't be it. Then what?
Man discovers that when giving it to a bank, his money simply isn't his anymore.

Not news by any stretch of the imagination.
In Firefox : « Your browser is not supported - WebGL is not available. »

Meh.
Really depends on the nature of the work, I'd say on the order of at least 90% of my friends in the tech industry are making the "work from home benefit" a line in the sand.

And honestly, they've got the collective clout to force the issue.
I hope this works out well for them.

One issue with the BSL is that old versions of the software are open source. So, with this change, you can still use a 3 year old version of Akka for free. Does akka change rapidly enough these days to justify the price?
What's that major metro area? I'm in San Francisco and I have family in Boulder and in both primary care is like one or two weeks. Dermatology was a week and a half for me. A few months ago I needed imagining for a foot thing and it took three days for ultrasound and one week for an MRI. I thought this was the norm on big urban centers.
I live in an old wood house that was built 200-400 years ago. I only know because my neighbor's house looks identical and is built around 1640. No structural things have been changed, only internal renovations and addons.

I was surprised myself. Even more so when you hear that most old concrete or brick town houses have been either destroyed and rebuilt or structurally renovated in the last 40 years or so.
> Sadly, open source is prone to the infamous “Tragedy of the commons”, which shows that we are prone to act in our self-interest,

Like, when somebody releases something open source, then notice that they can actually make money out of it and they change the license at the last minute. Oh the hypocrisy.

Seriously if you're bothered by people making money out of your product, keep it closed source, nothing wrong with it. On the contrary a plague of the latest years is this pressure that everything should be open source: it doesn't need to. If you're not comfortable with it, keep it closed source.

But if you decide to open source something, keep your promises, no matter what.
You are very welcome to invest your own resources to maintain this.