skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a paper that was published in Nature a while back called “Use Machine Learning to Find Energy Materials”. Scientific writing is so heavily steeped in the passive voice that it was shocking to read a title that was active, even imperative.

The author goes on to write the entire article in the same style, with short, active sentences - subject, verb, period. It felt like they wrote it and proofread it to ensure that every single sentence was as abrupt and pointed as possible, almost as a game. Very interesting writing style all things considered.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07820-6
Yeah I should have thought that through a bit more before posting it.

> Maybe it would work if it was based on the production volume and product category, not the size of the company. Not sure how the IP thing would work, but making it possible to reuse/recycle electronics that would otherwise end up in a landfill due to no other reason than software locks is a good idea.

THIS!

> But forcing a company to relinquish its intellectual property just because they're successful seems counter-intuitive. Maybe they just need to make it possible to install alternative firmware (whether or not it exists) in a reasonable way for no additional cost.

Well, this too, with a twist...

I'm not saying they have to relinquish their IP. There's a difference between open sourcing something and relinquishing intellectual property. One says "the world can USE this" and the other says "the world can use this and somebody can PROFIT FROM IT." I'm saying exclusively the former. I'm not OK with them being forced to allow somebody else to pick up their work and make money on it without them getting a cut purely because the government forced that function, that's not ok. So maybe if there's going to be a forcing function here there needs to be some kind of licensing that allows their IP to be used purely in non-profit contexts.

...but then again, coming back to my whole "should have thought it through before posting" notion, no profit might mean no maintaining body. So...I dunno.

It just rubs me the wrong way that Google launches new products and kills just as many every single year, and loads of people worldwide get screwed in the process while they get away with it every single time. If they're going to keep doing this, and let's face it, they are, the world at large oughtta get a little something out of it. Seems like having them open source the thing they're clearly not going to make any money on anyway is the right thing to do here.
Peter Drucker is so wise for urging companies to "kill your cash cow". The unfortunate constraint is that it requires extraordinary leaders and amazing luck to execute such killing successfully.
Gavin Belson agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4
I though the definition was "doing the bare minimum", which could be your job description or less if they let you.

On a side note, with all the fantastical language used in job descriptions these days I sort of doubt anyone knows what the actual metrics/standard or bare minimum is. I know I don't.
Does weechat support rich embedded media like images and videos, can you live stream games to your friends on it, talk with people, have profile avatars, use emotes, build bots that stream music to you?

Even something completely simple such as snip a portion of your screen and paste it in the chatbox so others can see it immediately, without having to mess around with dodgy image upload sites. This is basic functionality for 2022.

It's like comparing notepad.exe to Microsoft Word
According to the school board, the books were never banned.

What is causing this outrage? I am confused. Is there even a real story here?
> "what is the index of the last item?" 5

Usually, the more interesting question is:

What is the index of the next item (when extending the array)?
Which is 5 in 0-based indexing.
I expect a half-hearted rebranding effort followed by another ill-fated relaunch in the near future. Because Google is Google.
"Wrong" (as per language in use), you have to prove it. Frequentism does not count: it should be already understood that this purpose is not to adhere to language in use.

"Stubborn", makes a contradiction, if you - correctly - understand that the goal is different.

The goal in fact is more than «effective communication», but "correct expression". And as you should know, "wrong" means "twisted", but I am the one who is attempting to "make it straight".

Language "in use" will be followed as much as it fits with the prevailing goal of correctness. A philologist is not an ethologist.

For the other goals that you could adopt, consider "cleanness of thought".

And of course, I thank you for your best wishes in the pursuit!
working with the core ads platform, feels like one of the worst designed systems i have ever seen in my life.

definitely no innovation in that side of the business
>They have been all over the places, from cloud, finance, gaming, mobile, os, social, you name it. And most of their revenue still come from ads.

Telco, political machine, automotive, surveillance, more surveillance... and they made Flutter.
Text files are variable length; IP addresses are fixed length.
And assumptions about assignement of IPv6 addresse in the wild.

You will not subnet /64 without DHCPv6, even though you might need to.
Ask HN: PayPal 2-factor utterly broken?
Is it just me?

I just lost our paypal account for my company just by deleting an old phone number in the settings and adding a new one. After logging out there is no way to log back in, they refer me to their hotline.

A similar thing happened years ago when they introduced 2-factor, I never got that account back since I simply couldn't get through on their hotline. I had a private account with an old number, they introduced 2-factor and I missed their emails about it, and when I tried to login later, I was basically locked out.

Honestly we don't need Paypal in my company. So I guess I will heavily advocate against it in any companies I own or work in going forward.
God, I'm building a big MySQL schema right now, and I wish I had read this months ago! Too late for me now. Oh well, next project!
But how much "alphabet" is there still left, other than Google and YouTube? In hindsight it almost seems as if alphabet was deliberately set up as a pasture for the various doomed "moonshots" to die more quietly, with less impact on the main brand.
> Examples: "Oh this is HTML now build a website!" Bullshit. I want you to show me a full-fledged yet minimalist website, with a "front end" and a "back end" and "databases" and "plugins" yada yada that shows how everything works together - THEN I will know how to build a website.

Michael Hartl's rails tutorial[1] is like that.

[1]: https://www.railstutorial.org/
Ada indexes have to be continuous ranges. So you'd need a type that was only every 100th number in order to use them as indexes, which I don't think can be made (I've never seen it, and looking it up I'm not seeing any way to make it). But you can select any arbitrary range as your array index, very handy as it neatly resolves the 0-/1-based issue: Choose the natural range for your situation.
"Google Stadia is a cloud gaming service whereby games can be purchased and played, but don't have to be downloaded to a console or PC."

This was a doomed business model because it blurred subscription and purchase. If it was subscription, there should have been no purchases (hardware or software) necessary. There are millions of people - myself included - who would pay for a subscription game service. Stadia was not that service.
Google, where large engineering projects meet with half assed businesses.
Show HN: NumbersQ – Open source number tracking tool
Search for zwink university on youtube.
This is a federal case in Austin. I don’t think you’re talking about the same thing (Eastern District).
Google search when?
See: https://github.com/lukeed/tsm which is built on esbuild.
The other day I made a "chair" ai and my god it absolutely blows the rest of them out of the water. Just an incredible little guy to talk to.

I've lost hours on this site goofing off

Here it is

https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=sWmJWP54MljfcCu2yAhqI3az...
What I think happens in situations like these (from experience) is that the team is trying as hard as they can to prevent shutting down. And they either believe they'll succeed, or believe they can't succeed without boosting the expectation that they'll succeed by explicitly claiming they aren't shutting down.

If you say, both to the public and to the team, that you might shut down but you're not sure yet, that's as good as shutting down. And if there are rumors about shutting down, because it's close to happening, then you may have to address it. And you may believe that the only chance you have of not shutting down is to tell everyone that you aren't shutting down.
Small remark:

The diminutive form of the Russian name "Vladimir" is actually "Volodya".

While "Vlad" is the diminutive form of "Vladislav".
While we're on the topic of the site...

Why do you have links styled to look exactly like the other plain text?

At the bottom of the article, it says "This post has been heavily inspired by this question in SO ↩" and I could not for the life of me find the link to said question until I discovered that "question" was a hidden link.
This is not true, Russia started reducing output last summer. Before their invasion of Ukraine.
If they made it possible to cast Shorts like other videos, I might actually use them. I've tapped a Short several times because it looked funny, but it wanted to start playing on my phone instead of the TV. I watch TikTok alone on my phone and YouTube with my wife on my TV, so Shorts just doesn't fit into that routine.

It's mindboggling that you can't cast Google Shorts to a Google Chromecast. My hypothesis is that because Chromecast casting is so buggy and unresponsive (compared to Bluetooth), swiping from one Short to another would be such a frustrating experience that they dare not enable it.
Here's my opinion on the role of CEOs these days, for companies that are decently strong and have stable growth.

I think CEOs are there to simply not screw anything up.

In other words, they were picked so that there wasn't someone else there who would screw up more.

They are supposed to be quiet, run of the mill, go with the flow kinds of people. This is the implicit requirement. The explicit one is, "just keep the overall revenue growth stable".

There is no requirement about "solving existing issues" because that's not part of "the bottom line" or even to land any "big wins" because growth is already "good enough" and it's better to maintain it, than risk it and lose everything.

Why this profile for CEOs?

These days, everything is amplified and the smallest mistake can mean big trouble. Top leaders are already magnets for attention due to their role, and if they start to make noise about anything even minor, it will be bad attention.

If the business is already good, "let's not screw anything up".

That's what I'm thinking. I feel that this applies to Pichai, Cook, Nadella and others like them [1]

The danger could be that the companies may become complacent and get disrupted eventually. But perhaps that is something they watch out for (maybe another part of the JD) – and they buy out any competitors that get too haughty, as needed.

[1] Zuckerberg is an outlier because look, he's still a founder CEO unlike the others, and that's because, no matter what you think of him (or even if he's a robot ;) ), he has a terrific track record in decision making. So he's there and allowed to make decisions, even high risk ones, such as the whole Metaverse invention or the stuff about culling headcount "who shouldn't be here". Though he's also doing those decisions due to privacy regulations which seems to affect the stable growth mentioned above.
Pedantic would be more appropriate?
Fairness does not mean same pay. Maybe it's my ex-USSR background, but fairness involves paying according to skills/abilities/etc. But it's rare that skills/abilities/whatever differs 100x.
I'm still annoyed at the "hover to play" that I have to disable seemingly every few days.
side topic - instead of teaching PHP in your Advanced Web Development course, consider teaching React instead?
Dude it's no problem. EOD can do it. SeAL can do it. Like splinter cell unit of the Army can do it. Every nation can do it. I could learn to do it in high school. Any diver. Anybody. Easiest shit. The issue is not getting caught. Not like diving a mile down like the guys at oil platforms, gotta live always under pressure, 80 meters, easy shit. And the difficulty is depressurizing, not pressurizing. And like 200 meters below sea level you go into like a trance...eh. Still can accomplish the mission, if they can translate into trance-ease.

It's nothing. Not a whole lotta guards from the Kremlin with their evil faces like movie bad guys (they're never not the bad guy) the whole time watching over the pipeline, let me tell you.
fhe solves a ton of issues in sass products that don’t look great under audit. things where we sign off on audit today with fancy contracts called “data privacy agreements.” i think it will take some time (20 years?) but i expect zero knowledge for most of your data to be table stakes for saas offerings
18 years after :)
https://ubuntu.com/blog/install-dotnet-on-ubuntu
Voxer is also well-known enough, at least a decade ago, to be mentioned in the headline. I remember having it for some reason, probably because people I know actually used it in that early era of smartphones.
Intel accidentally leaked its 34-core Raptor Lake chip
A distributed SQLite benchmark: How mvSQLite scales
Already expired :)
Supplies gone!
It was arbitrary in that they chose to use a leaky abstraction to make it easier for themselves to make arrays using their memory model. The first person to do this could also have subtracted one from the user’s index to get the memory offset.
I don’t understand why engineers in this forum argue against own interest. Too much efficiency is bad for workers, you want successful companies like Google and Apple invest in projects which might have a high chance of failure. At a minimum it will give people jobs and builds expertise.

Investing in Stadia is 100 times better than Google using that money to buy back stocks and making day traders rich.
On the other hand, Google still just prints money with ads. Everything else is just a talent retention program.

'Success hides all problems', but exactly what real problems does Google have making money?
Okay, fair, design costs have to be amortized across the userbase, and probably the correct solution to this is to build hardware people want to use with or without Stadia, so your design isn't anchored down. I.e. I can (and do) pair PS5 and Switch Pro controllers with other OS's. Obviously those other platforms don't offer the force feedback or HD rumble, but at the very least it's a signal to the your designers and the market that you expect your designs to be competitive in the open PC market.

Obviously less viable for the set-top boxes, but still a valid strategy if you can do it.
Looks like the deal was so good it sold out.

> Thank you for the amazing response, Microsoft Ignite attendees! Due to overwhelming response to this special offer, our limited time offer and supply have been redeemed.
> Consider if your readers know the Latin expressions "i.e."

If they don't know that one, good luck to them reading the rest of the paper.
Fairness is precisely about putting aside things which would bias one to things which are not related to performance. My experience is people who are used to relying on privilege view fairness unfavorably because the alternative is admitting they don't measure up to others.
I will happily pay Nvidia to be able to play my Steam games in the cloud when I am out of state with no access to a gaming PC. But Google wanted me to buy a separate copy [!] at full market price [!!] while also paying them a subscription service [!!!]. And then there's no games, because they thought they could impose a specific graphics API instead of just porting D3D like Steam did, and in reality ports take time and nobody wants spend just as much money as any other console port takes in order to sell to a platform with a fiftieth of the users.
I mean...no one is implying that those two are related. The point is that this is the cycle.
This isn't for me but just wanted to say congrats and really good job. Really like the page you created to demo the functionality.
Exactly, it’s an arbitrary cultural standard now.
This is a bit tricky and I don't think many consider it. One of the leading theories for peace in Europe is the lack of militarization in Europe. Countries with standing armies are more likely to go to war with one another. So we got the rise of superpowers and where better to place that superpower than across an ocean and in an area with few contested borders and not thousands of years of history of fighting? I mean it seems the other approach is akin to what China did. Just be successful in conquering the region.

Obviously this point is _highly_ debatable but it is worth consideration. And it is not like the US hasn't benefited from the military industrial complex. Though I do think the funding structure could be reworked or we at least acknowledge that this is what is happening.
Thanks for this pointer. I’ve gone through the alt.2600.mbox files and it looks like they only cover 2002-2013, so only after the more interesting times alas.
I think everybody would agree that a blog post or even a nicely edited video is better than this.

But you have to remember that this was an impromptu live stream. It took much less effort on her part to create, literally just 30 mins (half of which was her trying to compile OBS).

And I think that's fine. I think the end result is the goal, blog posts are nice but not the focus here.
Note: The site claims to track "incidents", not "disasters". The word "disaster" is only here in the HN title.

Speaking of incidents that are not disasters... there was a 633ft high tsunami in Alaska in 2015 that I never heard of!? Wow..... Some of these incidents are really interesting to read up on, despite them having gotten little or no news coverage at the time.
Was that really working an hour ago? Shows "Offer expired" now.
> IPv4 remaining good enough

I agree with this,

> Low IPv6 adoption has nothing to do with dotted decimal address notation

But disagree with this.

A LOT of the time some equipment of mine supports IPv6, but I continue to access it by IPv4 because I can remember the damn address. So I continue to use IPv4 a lot of the time, IPv6 kinda just sits there and rots, rarely used because the addresses and notation are unwieldy. I'm also bad at memorizing hex compared to decimal. Many times I can relate an IPv4 address to some important numbers in my life, friends' birthdays, past zipcodes, digits of pi I've memorized, holidays, musical melodies, etc. so they tend to be easier to remember.
try new things under a different brand name that doesn't taint everything related to Google if you want to experiment

Google shutting down consumer products hurts Google Cloud in many developer's minds. Doesn't help that Google Cloud itself just as frivolously deprecates products or APIs that people build their businesses on. And customer support is equally terrible across the company
I feel your pain regarding ClojureScript.

A few years back there was a 3 month window where I had everything (lein,fighweel, emacs) configured just right, and I could reliably start a Clojure REPL, a Clojure Script REPL connected to a browser window, and switch between them from emacs.

It was really productive, I could work on the backend parts, frontend parts, and effortly switch between REPLS, but then there were some updates and I never got it working without friction again.
I mean if Google's goal is to maintain it's monopolistic lead in the search/ad space, that means gobbling up as many of the really talented devs as possible to keep them out of the hands of would-be competitors. Really talented devs want to work on new and exciting shit, so google continuously mints projects and kills them off when they are no longer shiny and new. Seems to me things are working as intended.
Pretty slick technology. I had a decent conversation with AI Elon Musk.

Here is the chat:

https://character.ai/p/QdjDmor_kkdj-kbeSspEgH6pl8jkfevFnIgJ5...

https://twitter.com/ElijahLynn/status/1575558627553058817
> I'm not sure I get any more value from the public service than anyone else.

"Clash of Autonomy and Interdependence" is an interesting somewhat related read on the topic[^1].

[^1]: https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/10/cl...
Interestingly, Egyptian mummies resulted from a process whereby the enbalmers would take apart the human body from the inside out and preserve the organs separately, so in a way, the Europeans were merely continuing the process of "parting them out".

As far as adding value, why not turn valuable works into NFTs by destroying them? https://culturacolectiva.com/art/frida-kahlo-artwork-burned-...
https://archive.ph/2h3t7
Boom.

This guy gets it. I have been passed over and screwed over for years. I worked above my level for 2 years without a promotion and a meager bonus. When they finally started talking about a "promotion" it would be a 13% increase in hours for a 7% raise, and higher expectations. They also wouldn't follow their own policies, to my detriment.

Basic psychology says I was conditioned to do the minimum because I get treated and paid basically the same whether I work hard in do the minimum. You reap what you sow, Mr CEO...
>don't know the difference between a beta+ and beta- particle.

I don't know the difference between a beta+ and beta- particle so please tell me, why would my, positive to some degree, views on nuclear energy be more valid if I did ?
They plan on de-anonymizing the internet and making you have a unique id that identifies you to get on. They can then leverage that to punish you for piracy. This is the long term plan, and pretty much nothing is being done to oppose this, and many people on this site who work for big tech are working to accelerate it.
Until they pick up ads OTA
ethernet has a broadcast mode in which the specific destination is not known (obviously "all nodes on some range" but that's not specific), and media is one of the tentpole use-cases of these sorts of multicast
Share files from Android to Mac in a second
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