skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it should not be.

Academic study just isn't sufficient to understand modern software development. One of the hallmarks of academia is how short-lived everything is. But many of the interesting issues in software development only become visible on long-lived projects. As a hiring manager, I consider fresh-out-of-school developers to be dangerous until proven otherwise.

I don't yet think software development is stable enough to turn it into proper engineering. But if it were, what I'd be looking for is a relatively high standard that includes both exams and a few thousand hours of supervised practical experience, similar to what they require of electricians or therapists.
see, if we just elected people that wanted good government then they wouldn't waste money on boondoggles

The problem here though, is that the interstellar space aliens are smart enough to have sightings in every state, therefore insuring wide spread political support for additional funding
“Breakthrough Advertising” by Eugene Schwartz.

The relevance for any marketer is incredible. Much of what I read from “gurus” is essentially just rewording this book.
Interesting theory but there's no way various government agencies stopped and started lying because of some signed orders. Perhaps very public facing transparent agencies like the department of transportation or the like, but the CIA and pentagon never stopped lying.
Targeted artificial ocean cooling to weaken tropical cyclones would be futile
Isn't it tied into your viewing history? I get a bunch of cool engineering, physics, and chemistry demos. It's like a personal Bill Nye for me. Oh, and cat videos lol.
Sorry, I intended to send this:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Fi...

The point is that pockets of AWS are recognizing a need for global resource search.

But we are totally taking note of your request for cross-region search :) It's valuable feedback to us and why we're posting here.
I think if you have all those things your title becomes “living genius” — no one will care about the founder part.
And who defines what constitutes as hate speech?

If I tell you to jump from a bridge to your death, is it my fault for telling you or your fault for acting upon it?

Punish actions, not words. The moment you punish peoples words, you remove the ability to debate, converse, express, rectify, understand.
The brain's way of storing and retrieving information is a absolute mystery. None of the proposed theories are consistent to everyday observations.
That's a fair point. But if we are including second order chains in our evaluation then we pretty much need everything at all times everywhere, to operate society. Magnets are just as important as food for basic survival under this model.
I'm sure they have something cooking, there's too much money at stake to just close up shop.
Pretty big slide at 0:29:28 into the event:

https://imgur.com/a/mSZ17Fv

That said, this was talking about the Apple Watch Ultra. I'd assume it's the same for the phone, but I don't have proof of that.
Sometimes we don’t have a choice, e.g. many American banks use SMS as the only 2FA
It doesn't matter as Bitcoin will just create more 'value' through existing bitcoins getting more valuable and therefore the domination will change.

It already happened. 10 years ago a pizza was worth how much? And how many bitcoins do you need now for one pizza?
Some of us are very happy to pay for entertainment like that. I consider this exuberant style a worthwhile niche of its own, like wire work in Asian films.
Ask HN: Worthy People to Follow on Twitter?
Which person on twitter inspires you or is worth a follow?
Apparently Trump is one of the only people you can blatanly trash on HN and not trigger a warning about breaking HN rules heh
Didn't the major story hit while he was president?
No one paid as much attention to the story because he was doing too many idiotic things simultaneously.
Does this mean one can actually use multiple apps open and running at a time on an iPad without that weird Stage manager thing?

It would be incredible if UTM could run an ARM Linux desktop as an “app” on iPad! Use ios as the base OS, and do multi taking in Linux! That’d be perfect! Simply closing the “Linux App” would be like Linux machine going to sleep.. I’d happily pay for that setup. Best of both worlds.
If we could find a way to redirect the massive defense budget from squabbling over dirt into space flight I have a hard time seeing a downside.

We just need some kind of narrative to trick politicians and world leaders into doing something useful instead of war.
> Youtube shorts affected countless Youtubers who made their careers on the platform. They stole the target audience of regular-length videos which lead to a decrease in the watch time for longer videos. Youtube neglected its core audience in favor of increasing user retention based on a current trend. Established Youtubers like Marques Brownlee and Mrwhosetheboss had to create a secondary shorts channel to keep up with their audience.

I think this part is the most remarkable of the article.

Yes, at this point, we all know about surveillance capitalism, the attention economy, amusing ourselves to death and all that jazz.

However, here is a concrete example where a platform operator actively forces its content creators to make their content more addictive. That's not the invisible hand of the market driving youtubers to do a particular thing, it's the quite visible hand of youtube.
watchOS comes to mind.

On Ventura several systems apps have been rewritten, including the preferences panel.
Posix used to feel like a nice compromise that worked for high level applications, one-off tasks, and low-level system software. I remember the first time I created an ISO file using "cat /dev/cdrom > some_file.iso", and I thought it was amazing that you didn't need a separate application for that (like you do on windows).

Now the posix APIs feels like the worst of both worlds.

Most applications shouldn't really store data on the filesystem, and probably not even configuration. Most applications use a database for a zillion reasons (e.g. better backup, restore, consistency, replication, transactions, avoiding random writes, ...). Yet the filesystem is also not a great interface if you're building a database: you want more control over flushing and buffering and atomic file operations. The filesystem is mainly good at storing compiled code.

The "everything is a text file" interface is not great anymore, either. Simple manipulation of the output of basic commands (like text 'ps') requires error-prone parsing and quite some skill with things like grep, sed, awk, sort, etc. That's OK for experienced sysadmins working on individual machines, but doesn't integrate very well in larger systems where you have lots of automated access to that information. I have some experience doing sysadmin-like work, but I still run into problems with simple things like spaces in filenames and getting the quoting and escaping right in a regex. One option is for it to be more database-like, but that's not the only option. Erlang provides nice programmatic access to processes and other system information while still feeling very free and ad-hoc.

Of course, Linux is still great in many ways. But it feels like some of the core posix APIs and interfaces just aren't a great fit, and a lot of the interesting stuff is happening in non-posix APIs. And applications/services are being built on higher-level abstractions that aren't tied to single machines.
I used to pay for wholesale rates in Australia with a startup that was passing through wholesale rates with no mark-up (instead, they charge a monthly service fee).

Switched away after $20/kWh days that wiped off a year of savings from no markip.
> Cranshaw mentions "tens of hours of downtime" as a drawback. Given that downtime sometime corresponds with times of high load aka, the really important times, that's going to be a deal killer for most.

I posit that this kind of "deal killer" is most often a wish list item and not a true need. I think most teams without a working product think these kinds of theoretical reliability issues are "deal killers" as a form of premature optimization.

I worked at a FANG doing a product where we thought availability issues caused by sessions being "owned" by a single server design was a deal killer. I.e. that one machine could crash at any time and people would notice, we thought. We spent a lot of time designing a fancy fully distributed system where sessions could migrate seamlessly, etc. Spent the good part of a year designing and implementing it.

Then, before we finished, a PM orchestrated purchase of a startup that had a launched product with similar functionality. Its design held per-user session state on a single server and was thus much simpler. It was almost laughably simple compared to what we were attempting. The kind of design you'd write on a napkin over a burrito lunch as minimally viable, and quickly code up -- just what you'd do in a startup.

After the acquisition we had big arguments between our team and those at the startup about which core technology the FANG should go forward with. We'd point at math and theory about availability and failure rates. They'd point at happy users and a working product. It ended with a VP pointing at the startup's launched product saying "we're going with what is working now." Within months the product was working within the FANG's production infrastructure, and it has run almost unchanged architecturally for over a decade. Is the system theoretically less reliable than our fancier would-be system? Yes. Does anybody actually notice or care? No.
> Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. Instead, they apply the effects and stunts excessively -- they go over the top in a major way.

This is precisely what Americans love about it though. Indian cinema comes from a completely different tradition than Hollywood, and it’s a breath of fresh air. Action movies should be more silly. It’s just entertainment.

A great analogy is to the Ugandan action films as well (go watch “Who Killed Captain Alex” right now if you haven’t). They are doing something completely new that breaks the Hollywood tropes. We really need more of this, because the American film industry has reached a creative dead end.
Probably the best Indian-as-indian-can-be movie that's released in a longtime. This is the highest grossing film of all time in Indian cinema, the Avengers Endgame / Jurrassic Park of India.

Pros

* Incredibly stylized and fresh (not derivative)

* great bro-drama

* arguably best dance scene EVER

* Not deeply cynical towards society like everything made today.

Cons:

* Long (but still somehow incredibly fast paced and dense, just a lot of arcs)

* over the top (but shamelessly so, and taken seriously)

______

RRR is a tectonic shift in how Indian cinema views itself. It is worth watching purely because of its place in the Movie movement zeitgeist.

IMO, This is the first Indian movie in 10 years that makes it to must watch territory for universal audiences (the last one being 3 idiots).
> I can only hope that ARM has learned from Intel's mistakes and the situation is better with their CPUs. How can we hope for bug-free software when even ISA semantics aren't clear?

ARM's research division has spent a great deal of time on this topic. This is a good introduction and describes where they were at in 2018: https://alastairreid.github.io/talks/formalizing-arm-specs-A...
What you need to build a Greek temple
That is not the case. All the developers who decided to stay at Twitter happily moved to other jobs. As should have happened, as they were all, smart, competent, and dedicated people.
I hope that's sarcasm
The conglomerate can do this even if the EU makes Netflix pay twice for bandwidth.

And calling it unlimited vs. metered is deceptive. ISPs can (and do) offer lower bandwidths (usually called "unlimited") instead of metering.
Agreed on The Discarded Image, it really is very good. I've read it together with Huizinga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages and they both provide fascinating insights into not just how people lived but more importantly what they thought. Medieval Europe is absolutely fascinating and it's great to be shown around by someone as erudite as Lewis and Huizinga.

If you liked The Discarded Image, Lewis's book on courtly love (The Allegory of Love) is also very good. Courtly love is such an inscrutable subject for moderns and I only wish more people wrote as intelligently on the subject as Lewis did, since everything from Petrarch's sonnets to the 16th century Madrigals and beyond are only intelligible if one possesses some understanding of how courtly love works. Now if only I have time to read through Gower like Lewis suggested...
Blender and Stable Diffusion
Tech workers don't own the code they write for their employer, or the infrastructure they maintain for ops. Tech workers don't receive a share of profits that result from the value they create for the company. Tech workers don't have complete control of their schedules.

I'll grant that working in tech often means more control and flexibility than other professions, and the pay is usually decent. But at the end of the day, tech workers are creating value for their bosses, and the bosses are the ones who benefit and tell the workers what to do. A unionized workforce would tip the balance a little more in favor of workers (and a worker-owned cooperative would flip the script entirely). A strong union ran by the rank-and-file would be awesome for tech workers.
There appears to be a recent shift on HackerNews no longer support freedom of speech. I don't know that its just HackerNews either - it seems like its 'internet residents no longer support freedom of speech.'

I'm not sure how to interpret this.
Oh don't worry, I get downvoted and flagged all the time for insulting him.
I don’t think they are necessarily the same. People on Wall Street only see crypto as an opportunity to make more money. Switching to proof of stake does nothing to really change that.

On the other hand, at least some people in the crypto industry care more about the other proprieties: anonymous, unconfiscatable, censorship resistant, fixed issuance/supply, free of central bank/government control, etc.

If you are correct, what reason would Wall Street folks have to be against a ban on mining?

If anything all a ban would do is enhance their ability to take control of crypto and make more money since they will be able to simply buy up the network ownership with their virtually unlimited cash. At least with POW, it actually takes some effort to buy up mining hardware, find an energy source, run the software, keep up operations, keep hardware and software up to date, etc. Much simpler to just buy up a stake and do nothing.
Not like greed has a limit. When a measurable percentage of congress is invested in conspiracy theories seems like a good time to get a bigger cut of an even darker black box.
I'm not going to pretend I understand much of the math/physics involved here, but that comment about the object moving at 46,000mph has me very intrigued.
> The main dropper is tiny—an executable file of just 376 bytes.

How does one write code to be that small?
implying they'd let him anywhere near those beans
I've recently started using trydeepwork.com! Nifty little tool for tracking your sessions.
Family offices are an investment fund + services company wholly owned by a single person/family for the benefit of that person/family's goals. It's much more than accounting services. It's a step above private bank / wealth and assess management by a firm with multiple clients.

Their quality and approaches are highly varied, but the one billionaire you know probably uses one, as the "never pay bills and no smart phone" is fairly indicative of a family office behind the scenes.
Agreed, he/she really needs to take a look at this book - https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
> Extra bonus feature? For me it's pretty obvious it's a necessity. Failover need to be in ALL case offline access.

It sounds simple if put that way, but there's a myriad of things that can go wrong, again, we don't know exactly what was the problem on their end, but I guess it had to do with authentication/authorization/security. It could be difficult to differentiate between a distruption of the service or abuse.

> I can't have an automatic backup done over each new password stored on it. If I need to do it manually each time, it's no longer really a password manager.

I disagree, a password manager is mostly for convenience and added security, although that could be a possibility I'm not talking about storing all the passwords somewhere else ( and thus updating the list every time ). I'm referring to the TOTPs and Recovery codes.

> it should not be the only place that stores all the means of accessing a service

If I were to lose access to Bitwarden right now, sure, I would not be able to use randomly generated passwords stored there, but my 2FA codes would still be with me, same with recovery codes, so that in the event in which I really NEED to access an account I can still do it, with increased friction of course, but I'm not locked out.
Apollo is the gold standard on iOS.
Being over the top is a unique characteristic of the Indian Cinema. If I wanted to watch "believable action scenes", I'd go watch a documentary. I honestly don't get this idea of standardizing everything as the West does. It's a great idea for some. For art? Come on.
according to the study, a valid hypothesis is that hn became more stupid

more seriously, the shift is not just HN it is everywhere. We have generations of people who have been grown up to self-censor at every step, so by natural extension freedom of speech is not a priority. Urbanization and the evergreen/growth/globalist agenda that comes with it is also in favor of restrictions that maintain the cohesion of large congregations
Spite Houses
Makes perfect sense to me. The free exchange of information is more appealing and less threatening when you have more information processing capability to begin with.
Believers seem to be completely uncurious about where these sitings occurred.

Which coincidentally happen to be the two most highly intrumented naval test ranges in the world.

Ranges exist for two reasons: safely testing and monitoring shit.

There’s a reason Capt. Obvious was a sailor.
You are referencing this because you want to distract from the current discussion and not because it adds anything to the current discussion.

And no I don't want to argue about pro and cons of air travel because it doesn't change the current discussion it only deflects.

This doesn't mean I'm pro air travel btw. Another weird outcome. What would you have won if I said 'yes also let's ban airtravel'?
Your location decides the latency of the request. If you are close to server you can do less than 200ms time to first byte. Getting a server near your users help.

After that you have 500ms to render your webpage. If you are lazy loading images, and most assets below the fold, thats a lot of time to get a page rendered.

You may take a look at my personal website (https://www.troysk.com/) which is hosted via Cloudflare so has CDN support and does sub second render on first load even though its image heavy.
This wouldn't make sense as a target. "We estimate we'll need seven quintillion dollars and it will take about seven hundred years" doesn't make for a good money-grab.
Indeed. We are only vessels for our genes, what we do doesn't really matter as long as we pass our genes along, from the perspective of our genes.

I would also recommend other Dawkins books such as The God Delusion, it was one of the pivotal books that turned me from someone vaguely religious to an atheist. It explains simply how the various fallacies of religions are explainable and unwrappable.
You'd expect that sort of misrepresentation in a sales brochure from the Manhattan institute, wouldn't you? Think tanks are not in the business of evaluating policy, they are in the business of selling it.
> If you want to know how to increase it ask me how.

how?
That's just not how any of this works

The gap between how the government runs in actual practice, and how citizens think it runs is so large that I'm not sure we can even communicate coherently about it
The older editions of "Physics for Students of Science and Engineering" by Halliday and Resnick are great.

Over the last 60 years, this has been the most commonly used physics text book in college. It's rather well written, and there are many very good homework problems. It covers the basics of mechanics and Electromagnetism and a few other topics also. The older editions have harder problems that are more instructive. By doing the homework problems, the reader learns physics, calculus, and the ability to manipulate and derive formulas.
I currently using a Corne[1]. I was never able to fully touch type on a staggered keyboard as I frequently pressed a neighboring key on the bottom and the number row. Now I only have to move my fingers up and down to find the right keys. Also my fingers have less distance to travel.

[1]: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
AT&T is pretty upset with T-Mobile over its recent ad campaign
I wish. I've been wanting a holographic display since I was a child.
Given the number of movies made and regions, and decades, I’d run out of breath. But I’d start here.

Malayalam Films : Known for their subtlety and craft in film making, and obsession with crime novels. Dhrishyam part 1 & 2 are like no movies I’ve seen in Hollywood.

Hindi Films: Or Bollywood movies, known for their big stars, great attention to set pieces of grand dance sequence s and decent romantic comedies / sports movies. Hard to pick one as nothing has shined recently. I’d give “Zindagi Na milega dubara” / “Chak dhe” a look. Again nothing spectacular recently unless you want to watch a classic from the seventies “Sholay”

Tamil movies : Gritty movies about inner city gangs / social upheaval or focus on stellar music/dance romantic comedies and major action blockbusters. From recent years I’d give “Vada Chennai”, or “Vikram Vedha” a chance for gritty urban movies. Or just the most recent action blockbuster “Vikram”. Which has a really good score.

Telugu movies (the original language for RRR) : I’d give “Pushpa” a look before watching CGI drenched RRR.
Great, simple answer. Thank you!
“A friend of mine that was in Desert Storm taught me this. Of course, he was on the other side…”
...I guess, to be quite honest, I'm starting to think we've reached the point where we ought to throw everything out and start over.

HTML can stick around indefinitely for legacy websites and truly static pages, but browsers should introduce a new standard DOCTYPE optimized for what we actually want the web to do.
Ukrainian forces enter strategic city of Izium that Russia occupied for 5 months
The most annoying thing is drivers do not appear to work entirely. I tried to get a printer driver working so I could configure the printer’s wireless, and it just bluescreen’d. The printer is 5-6 years old now, and they released updated drivers for Window 10, but yeah .. no dice.
Make Elisabeth the Last
It seems to be based on data grouped on questionable labeling of dubious grouping of people, correlated with a weak proxy of cognitive ability (How many word associations do homosexuals get right; that's really one of the cells in the analysis). And it answers nothing of interest. How is this publishable?
It is sad that people who believe in real free speech now have to clarify that they are free speech absolutists.

When it comes down to it, I don’t think any of those people you are mentioning ever actually supported free speech - just the idea of it before it came to a head.
It would be interesting to see if they could control for level of/exposure to formal education in cognitive ability (plenty of smart uneducated people, and dumb educated people). I think this would help tease of if this is a feature of cognitive ability, or if cognitive ability is just a proxy to how much civics education you've likely had.