skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked the link really curious to learn why 60 knights engaged in a Battle Royale Death Match (every man for himself, fight to the death). I was disappointed to learn the click bait title had taken me in and all I would get to read about was a 30 on 30 arranged battle.
What's the use? California is one of the worst run states with a toothless police and very low conviction rates. We are witnessing the downfall of a society.
The "In my shoes?" bit was hilarious
I like it. Great and fun! I wish there was more functionality. Like allowing me to list the nodes of the cluster with extra colums like some labels, specific taints, ... Same with pods
> industry. It's finally dispelled the notion that "types == Java == bad/annoying",

Where is this industry and how do I avoid it?
> Is it so hard to believe that Meta is snooping on WhatsApp conversations?

Where's the evidence? I don't know what ethos "Hacker News" is supposed to capture, but surely it's not superstition?
This is fun, I've been fiddling with it locally.
Not just the CIA — Secret Service, FBI, DoD, DHS, etc — all work with mainstream media; same is true for any large domestic media company in any country working with local governments, including: China, Russia, etc.

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Source:

How the Central Intelligence Agency works with Hollywood

- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016344370910272...

- https://www.google.com/search?q=cia.gov+office+movie+industr...
Ask HN: I love to be alone. But this loneliness is killing me
It‘s not a phase. I am turning 30 soon. I have had this feeling ever since i can remember. I know, often times i am subconsciously aligning my actions to end up alone. Sometimes it seems like i do that to create something like a melancholic void, that i must feel, because otherwise, i would feel empty…

I can‘t summarize it better right now. I have learned the portuguese word „saudade“. That feeling, i believe i know. It seems somehow related, to what I am trying to describe.

I truly can not handle it anymore…

How do you deal with it?

Also I have recently read about „intellectual loneliness“ on here, which i resonated deeply with. It is not what i am describing, but rather a part of it. But the totality is too much for me.

I don‘t even know what to expect from posting here. I just have nowhere else to turn to…
kinda spoils it imho. why is it included? he surely didnt intend it.
Think this is the most-commented iteration of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937710
If California had a different climate with different native species, you would have a point.

By over-emphasizing climate change as the causal factor, you’re completely disregarding the conditions that existed prior. Wildfires were going to happen even without climate change. Probably the same wildfires, with the same amount of brush. It’s not that climate change isn’t a problem, it’s that you’re not persuading anyone that it is by over-selling it, nor would fixing climate change actually fix the issues caused by poor forest management in California. It also takes away from the fact that our forest policy is poor and as an issue also needs to be resolved independent of any actions we take to resolve climate change.
SpaceX shows the advantage of not allowing aerospace lobbyists and congress to design things. That's how you get the SLS with it's inane H2/LOX first stage and solid propellant boosters.
In the SF Bay Area, "French bread" and "sourdough" are near synonyms, or at least were prior to the reasonably recent culinary bloom (1990s / aughts). Though of course there are sweet French loaves and baguettes, and non-baguette sourdoughs.

General / wider availability of true sour loaves outside California was exceedingly rare as of the 1980s, and I'd tend to believe well into the early aughts.

2020 et seq blew the lid off the Dutch oven, so to speak, though Tartine Bakery and others were cultivating the field / getting ... started ... before. Tartine itself was founded in 2002, according to Wikipedia.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartine>

Google's Ngram Viewer shows a doubling of occurrences of "sourdough bread" in print from 2007--2019, roughly, with a long slow climb from ~1960 and a sharp inflection in 2007. That ... roughly ... matches my own recollection.

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sourdough+brea...>
Firefox has some really good privacy features built-in (some aren't enabled by default and requires minor configuration by users). In contrast, some big tech firms (you know who they are) that have a business model that involves profiting off of users' data are inherently deterred from delivering really good privacy features.
Consider SQLite as a conterpoint before using superlatives. There are others.

Edit: well, of course, a game bug, even if game-breaking, isn't safety critical. Yo have to plan what to spend time on.
Is there any chance that third party password managers like Bitwarden and 1Password will be able to implement add-ons and apps that replace this functionality, and that could open up migration paths? Or is the passkey future even worse than I feared?
Yeah I learned so much from this article. Generally I find the OP pretty verbose and not that interesting but I really loved this one.

It may or may not be relevant that I've been reading TAOCP assembly programs recently so may be thinking more in terms of pointers.
You really don’t need many cops for monitoring, especially when they won’t investigate or arrest people for crimes. Why spend money on employing them?

The police don’t get to decide whether people are guilty or can be convicted in court. Whether the DA prosecutes people adequately is a political problem. Whether the city spends millions employing cops that don’t do anything is also a political problem.
Okay article, but lacking depth, especially in the recommendations of what we can do.

> We can carefully design our metrics and think critically about the behaviors we expect them to incentivize

In The Wire, the metrics are carefully designed. Homicide clearance rate is a great, practical metric. Everyone is thinking, very critically, about the behaviors they expect the metrics to incentivize.

> We can extend self-awareness and critical thinking to all decisions made within an organization.

In The Wire, everyone is very self-aware and thinking very critically about the decisions made within the organization.

> We can look beyond metrics by qualifying success and failure.

In The Wire, everyone is looking beyond the metrics.

The problem with the BPD in The Wire isn't a lack self-awareness and critical thinking. It's that so many people are using their self-awareness and critical thinking to maximize their self-interest rather than the mission of the organization.
It's likely a hash of the game state. They save input and playback recordings of the game, expecting to always receive the same hash for the game state every frame.

Just this week I started on a similar system for a game engine I work on (Zelda Classic). Main reason was for testing purposes, but another benefit is that it is SO cool to see the game replayed for you. Like those self playing pianos.
I certainly don't know for sure, but one theory would be the 2010 Citizens United ruling.

https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/ci...
I grew up on the east coast; sourdough is normal and tasty to me. I doubt there is any real coastal trend. San Francisco is known for sourdough bread, but it wasn't invented and spread from there.
And then who will be left, but the dangerous idiots?
From first-hand authority, some encrypted/secure apps have client-side feature detection. Leaking features doesn’t count as violating a standard. May be running something like a named entity recognizer or keyword/category recognizer that is “sufficiently” anonymized. This on photos too; of course this can be adjusted for device parameters, battery availability, and geolocation. I cannot speak to WhatsApp specifically, but note this directly from at least one other popular messaging app. I would absolutely assume no encryption exists. Rats in the opera house.
Someone exploited American Airlines’ in-flight PA to broadcast their own voice
I see it a lot from non-techies who I think either don't know how to change it, or reasonably think that it's a conventional way to convey that one is on mobile (to explain why one is more terse, or heads up that they don't have access to info normally on desktop right now, etc.).

When the iPhone first game out, and was expensive and hard to get, the signature risked coming across as an affluence brag.
Most people don't care about anything that strongly. Among those who do, most of them care about things that others won't pay for (e.g. obscure open source project, or making a hobbit-like garden etc.).
I'll go further than your examples: I am sure hundreds of Ethereum enthusiasts have sent pocket change to Ukraine with it.

Nobody was sending a half-million dollars to FOSS projects with it pre-sanctions.
> Let's be real. Most of the traveling to conferences that Google employees do is just an excuse to get out of work and be paid to do so

Absolutely ok. In the world of work, that has been the case for a century or so. That's why those are considered perks. Because that's what they are. Everyone knows it. You just call it 'conference travel'.
Someone writing a new blog engine would need review from two people (one of whom is a government agent) in order to serve traffic outside the home?
Why your life could be part of someone else's game
I use stripe as well, but I found offering PayPal upped paid user conversion rate by 30%. I really have no choice but to support it.
> Its because 1990s world was still the feudal, one-way world in which large corporations dominated everything

Unlike today, right?
Typescript has a decent type system, but it is really held back by being "just" a type checker for JS, with all the JS semantics.

The way sum types are done in TS is really awkward.

The type system is unsound.

What's worse is that you never have a guarantee that the types are actually correct at runtime, due to bad third party typings, compiler limitations, use of any, ...

It's still a lot better than using plain JS, and a lot of the limitations aren't by choice, but come from the need to compile down to and remain compatible with plain JS.

It just could be so much better.
I am not a Portugal, but my understanding of this word is that if the situation is killing you, this is a wrong word.
As a German (Frankonian to be precise which even for Germany has an especially rich culture of bread) I find what Americans call "bread" quite gross. Most tastes are acquired and the low quality and culinary culture in regards to bread always astounds me when traveling anywhere outside Germany except Italy (they know how to make good white bread like Ciabatta) and maybe Indian naan and similar Asian variations, though that's something completely different to Western bread.
Switching windows is just one thing regarding multitasking though. Are there others regarding multitasking?

One thing I have found for myself is that the keyboard shortcuts on Mac tend to be more uniform among all the different programs. I've also found Command much easier to use than Ctrl on Windows. I say that as a Windows user, who went to Mac as primary device, and now splitting Windows/Mac roughly 50/50.

The shortcut schemes on Mac makes me a far better multitasker than on Windows (with that one caveat being switching between multiple windows of the same app, which I agree, is counter-productive).
Thank you for the correction.

Assuming the money would be ethical and cleared by the government (two separate things), I too would absolutely take it. :P
Sometimes, a suggestions box is a hunt for a scape goat. Do you plan to make an unpopular change but don't want any of the blame? Gather a bunch of suggestions, then choose one close to your original plan. Now nobody can say your choices show your disconnect from regular employees.
Didn't the legal system arise from anarchy where transactions like this were the norm, hundreds to thousands of years ago?
I mean it's pretty clear - the early Teslas all had dying onboard computers due to flash wear which they even refused to fix because the warranty has passed.

Those aren't companies that build anything lasting or environmentally friendly. It's just all throwaway toys.
Atari Email Archive
Related https://subpixel.space/entries/life-after-lifestyle/ argues "selling out" and "authenticity" are dead and that product and ideology are inextricably linked today.

"selling out" -> ironically embracing brands -> unironically embracing brands

And then, my view:

I used to hold on to this idea of authenticity tightly. Everything I saw I was suspicious of. "Who is paying you to say that? Is this an endorsement? What ideology comes with this message? Who would benefit from me believing this?" But the volume of messages is too vast, and at some point I accept myself under someone's "illusion". Who cares? We (as a society) have moved past the question of commodity fetishism; complaining about it is no longer critique, it's just annoying. "--Yes. And?" We've been writing about the collapse of the "sacred" since at least the 80s.
> I know the playbook, I know this is Police State 101, but are we really so lazy and pathetic that we still accept this answer as citizens?

The number of Amazon ring cameras sold suggests that we'll not only accept it, we'll pay for the privilege of bringing the police state right into our own homes!
> Unsure why the HN crowd is so hyper-focused on direct attribution.

Not only the HN crowd, but increasingly everyone, everywhere are so hyper-focused on direct attribution because...

> As a worker in a corporation you are part of a machine

...our work life, less, our actual society should not be made into a soulless machine for the profit of absentee shareholders.
I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “vwls”
Stocks tumble, dollar soars and bonds plunge as recession fears grow
About configurability, I installed more than a dozen shell extensions and my Gnome desktop looks like and behaves like what a desktop should be for me, quite distant from the ideas of Gnome's developers.
Don't forget Good-ol-boy nepotism. I've lived in SmallTown America and it's not great when BillyBob, his brother, his kids, nieces and nephews all run the town government, because BillyBob owns the car dealership and everyone in the town is financially connected-to or dependent-on him. Local power is accountable to so few people. We need less local power, not more.
Money is a good motivator to convince others join forces.
100% efficiency is obviously an impossibly high bar for anyone.

> I suspect that distributing the money to Microsoft employees would noticeably drop the total dollar amount devoted to charity, and exponentially increase the number of charitable experiments the money funds. I believe that's a good trade off - reasonable people can disagree.

I pretty disagree strongly with that sentiment. Had the money been distributed to employees, a negligible amount would have gone to charity. It's a stark difference.

I (obviously) don't have exact stats for how charitable Microsoft employees would be if they had more money, but I remember the median annual donation amount for someone earning $60k-$80k in 2010 was $107. Roughly 0.15% of their income. The rate wasn't that different for higher income brackets either.

Dividing Gates' wealth (including his non-Microsoft shares, since he diversified) among 91,000 employees would give them each about $1.1 million. It wouldn't have been a lump sum payment realistically. It would have been given as stock options that grew to that value over these people's careers. That's not a huge pay boost for a Microsoft employee (one site lists the average compensation at Microsoft as $121k/year, or about $3M over 25 years).

Unless Microsoft employees are very unlike other people, we're talking about going from 99% of the money being donated to less than 1%.

As an aside, I believe Microsoft employees do own a larger share of Microsoft than Gates does, even if we converted all of Gates wealth back to Microsoft shares.
> (C) an online service, application, or website:

> (i) that consists primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or other information or content that is not user generated but is preselected by the provider

(emphasis mine)

So it's kind of a case where extra clarification makes it less clear. Your interpretation would be that Wikipedia is not social media but it could still be interpreted that it is.
I'm not convinced budget is the issue. Many police still perform patrols around the city, and the data does not support the efficacy of that.

Data shows that crime occurs in highly concentrated areas, and those are typically the undesirable areas of the city where police rarely patrol. I also question the efficacy of city-wide patrols now that every citizen is carrying a phone and can easily call in an issue.

How would crime change if we committed just 2% of the 2000+ SF police force on permanent patrol in tenderloin? That's something like 20 officers walking around tenderloin at all times, it would make the open-air drug market significantly more difficult. You could commit 10% or 200 officers to tracking down citizen-sourced live-GPS crime. Car breakins where a GPS device was taken (airtag is present, or cellphone/airpods was taken).

I'd wager that those 12% of officers would make more total arrests than the 88% doing patrols throughout the rest of the city.
Actually, your ears are pretty close to logarithmic in perception so a difference of 20-40dB is a lot less than you might expect. Below a certain level ~40dBA it's hard to discern, because other noise sources dominate, but in a perfect anechoic chamber or alone in a cave you can hear significantly lower holding your breath. I've usually heard about sound Pressure levels at a specific distance (eg 1m) where 20dB is a 10x increase (not 10dB) while for sound POWER levels you're correct 10dB is a 10x increase and power is closer to our logarithmic perception.

Human hearing easily covers (and can distinguish loudness) over 5-6 orders of magnitude with ~1-3dB resolution.

0dB is the limit of a young ear
10dBA is normal breathing at 1m
20dBA is a soft whisper at 10ft
30dBA is a soft whisper (1m)
40dBA is a very quiet library (no distance)
50dBA is a coffee percolator (at 1m)
60dBA is normal conversation 1m
70dBA is a TV or a toilet flush 1m
80dBA is an alarm clock 1m
90dBA is a blender or shouting 1m
100dBA is a circular saw or motorcycle 1m
110dBA is a loud concert (no distance) or leaf blower (1m)
120dBA is an ambulance siren or jack-hammer 1m
Those keys don’t actually work with the elliptic curve that Ethereum keys use
Dina Katabi
The SFPD superfans will likely continue blaming Chesa Boudin for every past, present and future instance of crime, spilled milk, and bad weather for generations. He’s an incredibly useful boogeyman for people that want a complete and sovereign police state installed in that city.
> This is what pro level athletes do to compete and get into the Olympics and they regularly burn out after a few years of it.

I believe this is a myth. Excercising for 12 hours a day is not the best strategy to get your body and mind in shape for the Olympics. Internet sources claim that Olympics athletes train 5-7 hours a day. Pro football (soccer) players at top level, with absolutely insane amount of competition constantly breathing down their necks, usually train from morning till lunch and that's it. Doing more would only do harm.
That's a nice lie you have there.

The problem is that crime is not being prosecuted as it should. The fault lies with the DA's office.
Any other "solution" you offer will not actually resolve the effects of the problem until that problem is solved.

Once that problem is solved, I can guarantee you will see arrests increase. Maybe you're one of the ones who don't want that?
>And upon learning that, people will sometimes tell me, "oh, you must be thinking of

Nope, I think you must be an alien sent here to study us, but didn't quite get everything about being human right. Not liking chocolate is a shibboleth on if you can be trusted. You clearly cannot. ;-)
Your attempt to invalidate a statement with a another set of information is not useful. During the 1900s the left killed people on a scale never seen before in human history. I suppose I do question the psychological need you have to run defense for the left...
>I worked there [...] and know that they aren't

I know that, unfortunately, this is what puts bread on your mouth.

But, really? Are you suggesting that Cambridge Analytica didn't happen? Did we all hallucinate that?

You guys jumped the shark already. These attempts at damage control are laughable.
It wasn't enabled by Japan's demographics, it was enabled by the world's demographics relative to Japan. Japan has had to deal with a mass-aging demography in a relatively friendly global environment. They've had the latitude to experiment and develop various approaches.

Germany, South Korea, and others are going to hit the same problem in a much more hostile global economic environment, as most of the wealthy global consumers are going to simply disappear. At present they're woefully unprepared to deal with any of it.
I wouldn't be suprised if Beyond Meat and the other fake food companies are behind this. They are failing severly (look at their stock price) so now they're cornered rats and are fighting for their lives.

Though since the majority of women also eat meat this ad will fizzle out.
It's ... not terribly surprising that field-baked bread by nonprofessional bakers, mostly miners, operating with limited supplies and highly variable conditions would be of uneven quality.

The fact that professional European bakers arrived at the same time, with the still-extant Boudin baker being founded in San Francisco in 1849, and serving large numbers of customers, seems far more relevant to both the reputation and tradition.

Sourdough itself and the starter that sustains it is remarkably robust stuff, as both history and my own experimentation has demonstrated. The California gold rush isn't the only one to have a sourdough tradition, with the Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska) of 1896--1899 having a similar ... culture. Memorialised in the poetry collection Songs of a Sourdough by Robert W. Service (1907) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_a_Sourdough>.
I don't know if this product will successfully compete with Western Union.
The ability for older PC's or laptops to run a browser, word processor or spreadsheet

I booted up some old-ish laptops so the kids could use them, and they were grinding to a halt on windows 10

I get the options are chromeos or linux - but makes me think how much hardware waste is there when people replace windows laptops due to this
Intelligence quotients are relevant to developing infants. Think about it.
Trino SQL query engine aims to further improve Python support
Yes, GP does. That sentence clearly and unambiguously means unedited, continuous, and with a 1 week latency.
Excellent read, especially all the comments of handling weird hardware behaviour..
Especially the ones about <14 channels on Max resulting in > 44.1k output..
Amazing how much you can do on that little chip with its PIO..
I read a story, maybe 10 years ago on digg, about a janitor who cleaned a peta office. He routinely found wrappers of Slim Jims, McD's cheeseburgers, and other animal foods. It was great for a laugh. I'm hopeful I'll find it here in a few mins.
Hah! Rich people outright buying political influence at the federal level and lower, setting the agenda of the whole nation: not bribery. No: having to bribe policemen and petty officials is true corruption…
Wombat, a wails based gRPC GUI client has been working great for me and my team, and we use it for every gRPC demo we have to give since it's been introduced to the team.
So will they help fund the projects now, or will they just express their opinions on how your unpaid work should be done?