skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Countries in Europe have been pretty clear that no-one is going to back down on supporting Ukraine in order to get some cheap Russian gas. So the pipeline is useless to Putin.

Actually it’s been the opposite if you watch leaders speak and read between the lines. Only days ago, Macron gave an interview hinting that the Ukrainians may need to reach a negotiated settlement with Russia, and played coy with reporters when they asked if Ukraine might need to give up territory to do so. I’m willing to bet he (And especially the Germans) know something that the public doesn’t when it comes to the reality of the energy situation.
I have plenty of beef with SQL, but your insert versus update example doesn't make sense to me. That's a perfectly reasonable difference; insert is always a dense operation while update is usually a sparse operation.
yah, both can be repaired to be visually seamless, but plaster can be functionally seamless too. mold seems to love drywall but can at least be scrubbed off plaster. i've done this with bleach, which apparently some mold is resistent to, and then topped it with mold-resistent paint (since it was under/behind sinks/vanities, i didn't really care if the color matching wasn't perfect).

when i was researching how to repair plaster, i learned that old-school plasterers used to make 3 passes to make it perfectly smooth on top while thick and sturdy throughout, starting with a rough "brown" layer for the bulk to a fine white layer for aesthetics and water resistance. it takes skill to do but the results are both visually pleasing and resilient (having lasted ~100 years so far in my building).
why is it a misuse?
I make PluralKit[0], a FOSS[1] Discord bot designed as an accessibility tool for plural systems [2]. A lot of people say it's really helpful to them, some even say essential, so it probably fits under meaningful :p
It had massive growth the last couple years, going from 20k discord guilds to almost 500k now, making it one of the largest bots on the platform.

I was always interested in computing (to the point of asking my dad how to install linux when I was 6, not that he knew how to help lol) but only got started with programming (at about twice that age) when I started getting annoyed at how exactly computers worked, and figured out I can make them do different things with code.

I started working on PluralKit itself a few years ago - already a year or so after someone else created it - because I was struggling to find my own identity and this project helped a lot, and I guess I stuck with it!
I hope to make it a full-time job soon, but I am very much not a business person and it's a bit of a struggle to figure out the details.

For me, code is of course a tool to make machines do things I need it to, but more importantly it's art - what I do is something that helps people rather than harm them (cough adtech cough), and I think that's beautiful.

[0] https://pluralkit.me
[1] https://github.com/pluralkit/pluralkit
[2] <https://morethanone.info>
UPD:

I got a call today from Apple Retail Executive Relations department.
They made manual review of my account and restore it.
Problem solved.

Thanks everybody for your advice and support. I'm sure our discussion helped to get the problem noticed.
I heard from Zuckerberg's wife's niece that it's in preparation for a merger with Alphabet and Amazon.
If you ignore the law that was passed in Texas before Roe vs Wade was overturned giving private citizens the right to sue abortion providers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/abortion-law-regulatio...
The lack of social safety net for majority of US is kinda sad.
What’s win though? If his mobilization manages to keep Ukraine forces at bay and he goes through with joining Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhia to Russia - is that the win scenario?

He can probably pull that together pretty easily by dumping 1-2 million russians in it.

If he stalls things for 2-3 years with the new borders, the West is likely to give up and just have them be another Crimea. NATO certainly won’t send troops in.
If rules didn't cause inconvenience to someone, they wouldn't have to be written.
But you don't know his life. Why judge from afar? I'm not saying it's normal or recommendable for the average person. I'm just saying, we don't know.
You're either deliberately ignoring facts to retcon this, or have not paid much attention to this at all. The question has never been "are there bots?"; it has been "did Twitter mislead me/the public about how many?".
The meaningfulness is semi random but learning to program is easy, just like learning anything else: put in the time. Spend a bit everyday programming solutions to problems you have.
Yes. I am a Technical Advisor for early startups, and I will invariably recommend AWS over Google Cloud to people exactly because of this. I would not trust Google with any small piece of my company. I don't doubt that they CAN do things right, but I am sure they WONT, given their implicit monopoly status. Their arrogant "don't give a shit" attitude about users of their different platforms is amazing.

One just have to see how they treat their actual customers of their Ads platform, and think, if that's how they treat their customers, what can non-customer "lusers" of the other subsidized platforms (including GCS which is being subsidized at this point) expect.
The changes to Google maps api pricing made it entirely unsuitable for a whole lot of apps.
Same thing happened to us, after a week or so we just had to change subdomain of our login site. No answer was ever forthcoming on the previous domain and the new one remains unflagged months later.
Hi from Eastern Europe!

There are indeed many of you, but that is changing and I definitely wouldn't be so sure about you being majority anymore.

And now that Russia is all tied up and can't meddle in our public sphere as much, I expect you lot to thin out into obscurity :).
This is a lot lighter usage than what other people posted here. Are you rarely opening many apps at once until your ram almost full?
On my M1 MacBook Pro I see symbols on all modifiers except shift
AlphaMetaZon
I started doing impactful things by listening to friends express a need for something (like a shopping cart for their auto parts catalog circa 1998) and just doing it (they of course offered to pay me). I had no real clue what I was doing in code at that time, and had to learn a ton to get the job done.

Looking back on my career, taking vague requirements and turning them into something useful after a hard slog through unfamiliar territory is pretty much the common thread in all my successes.
Then would not the type 1 Hypervisor then become the "kernel" seing as we've defined kernels as "that chunk of code capable of unrestricted access to machine state"?
Because the stock market is efficient, the market price of the equity grant at the moment the employee receives it will be very close to the expectation of the price the shares will sell for when the employee decides to sell them discounted a little to account for the fact that the employee is probably not a professional investor (and consequently won't be quite as efficient as a pro would be at choosing the best time to sell).
Is it because they’ve not been updated to use the latest UI guidelines from the host system? Because they just look old and out of context, not particularly ugly.
I’m agreeing with you.
> The problem in the US is: housing, education, and medicine

Honestly I'm confused; These are very crucial, these are basic, and if they are out of reach for an average worker, does the higher purchasing power (assuming it's actually higher in US) even matter that much without them?
I've since left, but when I joined Google in 2018 one of the things they talked about excitedly at the orientation was how GCP was poised to be successful with enterprise. I may be misremembering some of the details, but they explained they had just hired a woman from Oracle(?) into a VP role for GCP who explained to them how an enterprise sales funnel worked, so now they were beefing up their sales team and GCP would finally get some real traction in enterprise.

It didn't _seem_ like they were being sarcastic, but they for some reason were claiming that the management team didn't understand how enterprise sales worked after a decade of trying to sell GCP, and were saying that like it was a good thing.
Should they then not just reply with "You're on the list because of the malware payload at <URL>"?
Yea in absolute terms, you are doing well. However, when you account for everything, the salaries don’t look as ridiculous as it sounds.

If you earn 450k for example working for Netflix in Los Gatos, CA (the salaries are geo adjusted so you’re not getting paid like that anywhere), you are essentially making 260k after taxes. Still a great salary.

Netflix is not remote first, so having to buy a house in a reasonable commutable distance is going to cost you around 2-2.3M, which a 30 year mortgage with 20% down is still going to cost you around 13k/month (with taxes and insurance) or $156k/year.

Still a lot of money left every year. ~100k. But once you start adding other costs, you realize, it’s just a upper middle class lifestyle in these expensive areas. The only time it helps is when you go elsewhere or leave your job and move out. Obviously no doubt that’s awesome, but majority of the time you’re living there, you are spending a significant amount of that salary and the govt takes half of it.
Ex-eBay exec James Baugh gets nearly five years in prison over stalking scheme
If valve didn't have access to free effortless money then it's informal structures might look very different by necessity. As of now there must not be much drive to change anything.
That depends on what kind of career you want to have--and if you want to contribute to the toxicity, or lessen it where you can. I don't claim that correlation equals causation, but at this point I am reflexively suspicious of coworkers who take Blind (or, for that matter, startup-culture Twitter or Reddit) seriously.

I generally recommend to juniors that they avoid those crab buckets and work on cultivating real networks with people they know. YM, of course, MV.
Reading this article I feel torn. On the one hand, I think Wikipedia is an excellent product and that inclines me to trust their decision making methods and outcomes. On the other hand, this seems like increased politicization

I note that there was no reference to testing anything. Has anyone tried taking large numbers of Fox citations, counting whether they are good or bad, and comparing that to baselines? Instead, per this article, it seems like the decision is based on volume of editor complaints.

I'm looking at the removed article[1] Slate references on Seth Rich. It doesn't seem so bad. It cites a private investigator and an anonymous FBI officer for evidence saying that Seth had been emailing with WikiLeaks at about the time of the DNC leaks and observes (correctly) that Assange refused to say if Seth Rich was involved or not.

If Fox made up the private investigator and the anonymous FBI source then I agree that would be bad. But if they are just citing people who turned out to be wrong, or those people were lying, then I can think of quite a few organizations guilty of that failing.

1 - https://archive.ph/TZWuE
Similar post about Comcast yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020571
Lots of pretty decent humor here, including a bit of meta-humor!

elmomust: If you're no longer alive, then you are the ghost of a dead person. Does that mean you're currently in heaven or hell, or some other place?

Ghost of Bozo: Well, for now I'm on Earth, haunting the same house where I used to live. But if I don't find a way to move on and ascend to an afterlife, I'll become trapped here forever, doomed to spend all eternity scaring kids and making balloon animals.

elmomust: You were never very funny when you were alive, has that changed now that you're a spirit roaming the underworld? Do you have any good jokes that make your fellow spooks laugh out loud?

Ghost of Bozo: I still struggle with humor. I've been practicing my jokes and my balloon animal skills. Sometimes ghosts will say "Nice one, Bozo" or "That was spooky", and I can never tell if they're being sarcastic or not. Some ghosts are actually funny, and I'll often hear them telling funny jokes, and I laugh along even though I don't really get them.

elmomust: That's fascinating! What was a joke they told that you didn't understand? Maybe I can try to explain it to you.

Ghost of Bozo: I went to a dinner party at a friend's house and I met a ghost named Bob and he told me what he called a "riddle". He said, "What's got two legs and bleeds a lot?" and I said, "A man with only two legs left?" and everyone laughed but Bob said, "That was way funnier in my head."

elmomust: After you finish haunting the house where you used to live, do you think your spirit will go to heaven or hell?

Ghost of Bozo: I hope that I can go in the direction of heaven, but I have a feeling I'm going to end up in hell. Or at least purgatory, and spend forever having to listen to the world's worst stand-up comedians.

Source: https://character.ai/post?post=2pk3CWjPc15eanmp4-EJKjvhhiSG5...
Not sure what's the exact problem you talk about.

If a USB-PD over commits, then the devices it tries to power will obviously get less power than advertised, or the internal over-delivering protections trigger and the source shuts down. The user will (maybe) notice and can do something about it.

I'm pretty sure everybody understands that you can't just plug 6 high power consumers in one USB device just because it has 6 ports and it supports USB-PD, just like people don't plug 6 kettles in one extension cord.
I'm glad someone put a name on the concept I've been advocating for a decade. Thank you! It's something we added at Netflix when we realized our logging costs were out of control.

We had a dashboard where you could flip on certain logging only as needed.
Isn't duckduckgo web search pretty much bing with tiny tweaks?
we’ve learned more from them than the inverse

Adding to this, their security forces learned a great deal as well. Here is a brief talk on this covering a little bit of the protest history and what is likely to occur. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooROZDeds8o [video 4 mins]
> you know, the most desired place in the world.

Paris says thanks for the compliment ;)
You are missing forest for the trees.

Here's the comment I assume you are allegedly trying to "correct":

> with full training you are out of luck with CPUs, the gap is much bigger. 64c TR could only get to roughly 1TFlops

1TFlops is not the main part of that statement, and it is qualified with "roughly" which I suppose is not too far from the truth in the context. And the context is "training ... the gap is much bigger", and in this case "much" is at least 30x even with the updated number.
The story of mapping is different for every corner of the world. E.g. in the blog post there's a pic where we mapped the city approximately due to absence of satellite imagery. In this post https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zverik/diary/399925 it shows that some regions like Africa were nearly empty ten years ago, before the Humanitarian OSM Team lauched their operations. And in 2012 the focus was mostly on basic map features like roads and rivers, while now we're adding final building outlines.
It's the alignment problem, but for people.
it's so common that "source: my wife’s boyfriend at Amazon in the traffic org" is an inside joke you'll often see in response
I’m not sure what world you were living through in March 2021, but no one was cutting back fiscally at that point. Had you forgotten the US then passed ARP in 3/2021?

The Fed’s only instruments are interest rate and signaling, QE is controlling long tail of the curve. You wanted the Fed to raise rates at the same time when fiscal policy added another $2T in spending?

The more logical argument is perhaps the US shouldn’t have passed ARP and poured gas on the fire.
It is possible to get groceries without a car in New York.

You are really ignoring the huge opportunity cost of land that is widespread personal car use in NYC - people just tend to ignore how much land that really is because they are so used to it*. Delivery trucks wouldn't be a problem if there were a lot less cars, but cars are sarcosanct in America.

[*] The story of the original Sim City comes to mind. They originally were going to show parking lots, etc, but realized all this infrastructure actually made it look stupid and empty.
Why do I always get a bad feeling about the motivations behind stuff like this? I want to believe it's for better privacy and security, but it's being driven by a corporation or two, and that makes me 100% suspicious. Like, for example, suddenly Edge is no longer respecting local DNS options and my pihole protects one fewer device from the real dangers to privacy. I don't want to be cynical so often, but this really doesn't feel like a benevolent move. Yeah, it's conditional at the moment, but as with Chrome and manifest v3, among many other examples, I'm losing my faith that anything with the potential to increase ad revenue will remain turned off for long.
Ask HN: Is the tech industry mostly in maintenance mode?
I was thinking the other day, with Facebook in decline and scrambling to stop TikTok eating its lunch, that many other tech giants are simply in maintenance mode and not growing.

Sure, there is plenty of innovation going on, as-well as growth, but the tech sector seems to be largely coasting along in a comfort zone and not growing in any substantial way.

I realize growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, but when you're a major player, that's your ideology, in other words, you must grow to stay in the game.

Is the tech industry mostly in maintenance mode?
Well, to be fair, as a passive member, they have statistically been correct over the past semester.

Also, Blind does lack coherency in rumors (and the toxic focus on compensation brings out the worst in people), but it has exploded during the pandemic due to WFH and newcomers seem to be less toxic.

I've actually seen people give good advice there recently, so it's become a bit nicer, almost like Fishbowl (which has its own problems, but I digress).

It's a bit like sitting on a stool at a very rowdy bar. You have ample evidence it's full of intoxicated people trying to assert themselves by showing off, but sometimes interesting facts spill out.

(Edit: which is why police does sit in bars.)
And JavaScripts staying power is backwards compatibility for billions of web pages, don't want to introduce another language to the browser because it would cost a lot of money for developers to build the engine and would increase the security attack surface, and all the browsers would have to add a new engine around the same time so developers would be willing to use it.
Yeah, no. There are no non-data Type-C cable assemblies. If you have a C-C cable without at least USB 2.0 data signals wired through, it's not standards compliant:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/6e4e502cb9f6e709.png
Overview: Safe Pinned Initialization
House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition
Buybacks are just distributions that give shareholders the option of taking the money or having the company reinvest it for them. If you think you can get better returns elsewhere take the distribution. If you don't let the company reinvest.
I wasn't aware of DuckDB but now that I read about I wonder should I replace my SQLite drivers with it, since it seems more versatile?
When did the world start trusting any company with a VPN more than their ISP? I still find the privacy pitch to be flakey at best, where at least I can choose who’s aware of my traffic, but getting past geo-blocks really seems to be the most obvious consumer value, which this Cloudflare vpn lacks.
How does MS know they aren't hosting it on purpose? That might cause them to just change the malicious URL.
It’s only data salaries, which are lower than software engineering salaries at most companies as compared to Netflix. The reason being Netflix considers everyone as softwaRe engineers and pays them the same wages, while other companies don’t.
> Already in 1964 the language PL/I (still named NPL in 1964) had "bit strings" as a distinct type from integer numbers.

That’s because lots of hardware back then had support for bit addressing. The machine I love the best, the PDP-6/PDP-10 had addressable bytes of width ranging from 1-36 bits, which were extremely handy.

The few C compilers for those machines didn’t support them of course because the PDP-11s didn’t support them, but C on the PDP-10 was only used for porting stuff anyway.

Honestly I’m surprised they haven’t been revived. Packed bitfields are really handy and should be fast.
Given that uber.com is prominently displayed in the title, I don't believe this charming and relatable little anecdote about title confusion.
most people spend their leisure time browsing mindless content on aggregators or netflix. this guy just really likes being a cowboy.

>building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity

eh, there's a limit. i spent past 10 years pretty much solely focused on gaining skills & career advancement and my one of my biggest regrets is not playing more vidya. i personally think work addiction is a bigger unspoken problem in society than game addiction. it certainly was for me.
That also explains why they always seem to own 3+ homes averaging 15,000 sq. feet each?
Per my understanding (as one of the earliest contributors to Terraform and employees of HashiCorp) that indeed he was a developer with an interest in operations, not a sysadmin. Mostly consulting work for rails.
Amount of data transmitted seems fine...but 131 network calls? No wonder it always feels so slow to use Twitter.
This was a crazy read. The photos make it even better.

“At an agreed upon location in NYC, Hindenburg founder Nathan Anderson went undercover, wired with hidden cameras, and acted as though he was the whistleblower that the "journalist" was looking for. The "journalist" who had reached out to the company's whistleblowers had promised to deliver another whistleblower of her own, complete with additional files on the company on a USB drive and documents in a manila envelope.”
>Is Ukraine worth the risk?

Ukraine isn't what's at stake here. Give in to Russia, and local conflicts will flare up all over the world, Russia escalating to Nuclear would definitely lead to WW3 one way or another, but I'd sure prefer it being World VS Russia instead of free for all that giving in to Russian agression will spark.
My own experience was with Wells Fargo, where I conduct quite a bit of business, but they still treated me like a criminal because their dumb AI thought that "I don't often initiate wire transfers online" and "my voice didn't sound like my age".
Analogies get in the way too often. Especially when they're bridging several politically sensitive topics. They're fine for illustrating an unfamiliar idea, but as soon as a conversation turns to debate or argument, the rhetorical usefulness of analogies drops off hard.
In that way, it may be an attempt for a desperate employee to prevent it from happening. Create a rumor, send link to HN, share on Twitter, etc. Everyone starts talking about it, and it reaches the executives at Meta. They try extra hard to not validate it, and perhaps switch strategies if already planned on it.

Though, in that same speculative direction, it could backfire and give them a great idea: "You know, we already took the PR brunt for for this rumor, might as well go ahead and lower our costs a bit of the next quarter".
No it doesn't. It simply tells that the detection system _has_ worked.
I've found JSON is extremely useful in command line tools, but with CSV people try to handwrite parsers for it that can't handle commas in fields.
I always do that for some reason!
I think Dalton Caldwell laid out an interesting vision of the "Twitter as protocol" argument: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been