skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently trying to work out why glyph heights are the same on all platforms except MacOS in LibreOffice.

I suspect I will be writing a utility to look at each font's glyphs and metrics. Funnily enough, MacOS is literally off by 1 pixel from every other platform in terms of glyph bounding box height.
My father died unexpectedly and suddenly. He was not sick. At the beginning of his last Summer, I asked if I could move in with him for the Summer. “Why?” he asked. “So we can spend time together”, I said. For a complicated reason, he said no, although I know he wanted to say yes. He died at the beginning of Autumn that year, as I said, without any warning and very quickly. No time for goodbyes.
This is also true for iOS. It used to be hold any key to move cursor, then they got rid of that functionality. I found out last week you can hold space bar! It's back!!!
Hehe. 12 hours!

In India it’s routine (in fact standard) for US companies to have the Indian on-call person for 24x7 on-call. Rarely companies have follow the sun policy. Very few! Definitely not Ubers and Amazons.

And Indian managers are the enforcers of this - it’s probably one of the only significant USP these managers have “I’ll get it done by same engineers at the lower Indian rates“.

US HR and leadership wash their hands off the problem - “oh, we give you full ownership, you should decide and own this” :)
>At some point I recall Apple announcing that they had switched autocorrect to a full machine learning implementation.

>For example it just tried to sub-in “Quaker” for “quality” in the previous sentence. Why??

We need to organize and get a huge number of people to start sending text messages one day, using the autocorrect as it works, and not correcting the autocorrect. Just let it put whatever words it wants in there, and send those messages, no matter how nonsensical they are.

If everyone just does this for a week, it'll completely ruin these companies' ML models and they'll be forced to switch back to simpler autocorrect implementations that are actually useful.
It's a refundable deposit, not a down payment. There is no obligation on either side. There is too much demand and the service is oversubscribed in populated areas. Planes spend a lot of time in areas that aren't populated, so it makes perfect sense that they can offer service to planes before people in oversubscribed regions.

They are working as hard as they possibly can to get Starship working, which will enable Starlink V2, to dramatically increase capacity and get you service. And the revenue from serving planes is going to help them get there without going bankrupt first.
Does anyone know what impact if any the release of Ghidra had on Hex-Rays?

IDA never really accommodated to the hobbyist, so I wonder did it have any impact on the commercial side of things apart from the IDA Home release?
Can you link the other post for the lazy but curious people like me please?
Yeah, well, "whatever the future may hold" isn't enough to get people to switch. I'm at least somewhat productive with how things are. You want me to switch? Show me how to be more productive with something that is concretely available today. You have something that may be revolutionary sometime in the future? Then I'll care sometime in the future, if it turns out to be actually revolutionary.

I can't be productive on vaporware and dreams.
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Interesting list but I'd considering being less prescriptive in the future. Hard for me to really buy in when the opinions shared are so explicitly hardline: "ideally, every day"; "never" (3x!); "always", "every single" (both 2x) "everything possible."

Part of the problem with today's parenting and why it's so demanding are these completely unreasonable expectations we are setting.
I'm working on https://superintendent.app regularly. I use it at my work to process very large CSV files with SQL. Excel can't handle more than 1M rows. I could have used a database, but it is such a hassle.

It is built with Electron + React + Rust + C + Sqlite.

Right now I'm adding the workflow feature where it can chain multiple SQLs together called a workflow. Then, I would be able to handle the repetitive task better at work.
There is not, and it pains me to hear people reinforcing that narrative. There are immunocompromised individuals within my family that have significantly higher risks of complications than the next person. For this reason, we take every precaution to avoid exposure and transmission. We have been fortunate to remain COVID-free so far, but please remember that there are lives hanging in the balance.
The difference is our brains can immediately judge the result of an image transform, but it takes a re-read to see if the text transform hasn't done something bad, like lost the meaning of the text.

A blurry image is less likely to get you into trouble than saying the wrong words, so it is critical to validate manually what it says.

That said, such tools could be useful for recommendations on how to rephrase things.
Working on Scholars

https://www.scholars.io

It's a free tool to read & review research papers together with your colleagues. You can annotate, draw and comment on papers you upload. It's a tool that I wish I had when I was doing my research and super excited to finally work on it!
Hover, Windows 95?
std::vector, with dynamic memory allocation, is not necessarily safe for embedded applications. It seems like Rust provides bounds checks at a primitive level.
necessary context:

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-18-2022-the-at-protocol

the appropriate place to develop protocols is within IETF, W3C, or other open groups which I'm absolutely sure Twitter could have played a role within.

Kind of discouraging to see this PBLLC doing things their own way.
There was so little space for debate that the Biden administration attempted to force employers to mandate either the vaccine, or routine testing at the employee's expense, for most working American adults.

If this move hadn't been struck down by the Supreme Court, you can bet some version of this restriction would still be in place and would be defended by many.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072165393/supreme-court-bloc...
I have that 50/50 custody. And it sucks.
Though that's true, it's not now dang chose to admonish.

An additional concern of mine is that HN guidance tends strongly to reinforce a highly inequitable status quo. It comes quite close to tone-policing.

I'm in favour of refining and improving messaging, but there's also acknowledgement of the inherent disadvantage of the disempowered, disenfranchised, and vulnerable.
Do you also grow your own food to avoid the overhead of paying farmer and grocer?
There's nothing like the feeling after typing a whole paragraph and accidentally deleting it without any way to undo. :) Anything more than a sentence I type in a notes app because of that
I just wish I could make iOS turn off the stupid "." shortcut they attach to the spacebar. All my google searches look like "how.do i.find.a better.phone"?
Screws have evolved a lot over the years, in particular over the last century. Instead of precision screws being made from a pattern, screws like metric ones have specifically designed pitch and thread shape.

We still use wheels but they don’t look like ones on old waggons either.
I know that I come from a family of five and was starved for attention. My husband comes from a family of 2 and felt he always got attention when he wanted it.

Like some of my strongest memories are of leaving notes for my Mom about how I felt neglected and was in <x> room waiting for her just to BE there with me. She'd last about ten minutes before she'd begin multi-tasking. Not because she was a bad mom but because she just had so. much. to do with five kids and a full-time job.

If you're going to have a large family older kids have to take on some of the emotional labor or the younger kids are totally shafted.
If it makes you feel any better I delayed having kids and spent my 30s dating and hanging out and going to bars -- and it was terrible. I was never more depressed. I got tired of dating. I got tired of bars. I was lonely. My life had no meaning or direction. I had a nice career and could go anywhere and do anything I wanted, but it turns out none of that made me even a little bit happy.

I remember one summer making plans to go camping with three different groups of friends three weekends in a row and realizing at the end of it that all three weekends were exactly the same. Nothing new happens. You're not missing anything if you just stay home.

Happiness is extremely overrated. I had a lot of laughs in my 30s, but my life was a disaster. Now I'm tired and busy and I don't go out and do "fun" stuff very often, but I'm much more satisfied. My biggest regret is that I waited so long to start my life. Brunch isn't life.
The headline would be more accurately stated (according to an image in the article) "81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending growth"

The most common response (39%) was the C suite wanted spending to remain the same.
This app is profit seeking.
Yes, the largest volume chooses the cheapest ticket. However, enough people choose premium options that premium airlines exist.
Team may not be amazing, but it is certainly better than Skype for Business. You'll like it much more.
This also applies to open source projects. As a maintainer, you're flattered that others are interested in your project and want to contribute, so you might be tempted to accept a PR for a feature you didn't initially want to have, and forget that the person who submitted it might not stick around to maintain the feature, fix bugs etc.
If machine learning worked, my iPhone could take a long string of letters and see that I’m invariably putting an “n” between words where a space should be and fix it for me.

Typing on my iPhone is my worst daily tech experience.

My worst weekly tech experience is my Amazon FireTV needing to be rebooted every time my cable internet blinks. That it can’t recover gracefully, like every other device in the house — including Amazon Echos — mystifies me.
The original bitcoin software ran on Windows if I'm not mistaken, so I don't know about "mostly Linux users".

Maybe it was different in the US. In Europe I get the impression the FOSS community is predominantly left-leaning. My local Debian community certainly is, and they're anti-cryptocurrency (like myself).

Slashdot was also quite skewed against bitcoin, and that was a pretty international geek readership.
Ok I made it a bit wider, I hope it helps a bit. Will think about doing 100% on mobile...
Catholicism Wow!
My 2 and 5 year olds do this every night after talking to grandparents. The paragraphs they produce are pure nonsense
Renting can be cheaper than owning if the person you rent from can leverage economies of scale that you can't dream to achieve.
Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to Ghidra. While it excels in some areas, the licenses are pricy even for tech employers, and entirely out of reach for students or colleges. It's hard to convince an employer to fork out cash for IDA licenses when new employees are asking to use Ghidra, because that's what they use at home and at school.
Vagrant Holiday IV – Japan
Who named it?
> have pretty much always been air to ground

That’s not been true for over 5 years, getting closer to a decade. I’d be happy to show wifi speed/GPS location pairs for United Airlines flights over the past decade, including many trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic flights.
I use this. Thanks.
> federal law bars the states from replacing SNAP benefits using federal funds

Could states use federal funds to purchase insurance that would restore benefits to victims?
The link between religion/philosophy and education seems strong because people didn’t separate the concepts. It’s only recently that we have developed the idea that religion is the stuff people believe without evidence. Before that any concept of teaching a general education would have included religion simply because it’s part of what was believed to be true and important.

In the end many cultures developed education systems because passing on information from a single teacher to multiple students is simply efficient. The only way a lack of religion would have prevented this is if it prevented the formation of societies which seem unlikely.

Hospitals similarly developed across cultures as soon as population density made grouping large numbers of the sick together. Suggesting more than a superficial link to religion is simply not looking closely enough at the root causes. Armies treated their injured together simply due to efficiency concerns, cities doing the same is hardly surprising.
Try to find a new user of Perl that can understand this

split /=/, $_, 2;

So they don't and they look up the split function to find out.
Okay now they have most of it from https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/split

But what is that $_ thing? Hmmm... Okay now I've found that it's one of these global variable things https://perldoc.perl.org/variables

Then you look at the author hash. First it has a % in the front. But now its a $ . Okay so now you read through the docs again. https://perldoc.perl.org/perldata

Not totally there yet you have to learn about references https://perldoc.perl.org/perlref

It's just so much noise.
Another good resource: https://homediagnosis.tv

Their youtube channel/resources focus a lot on testing/verification.

If anyone near San Jose / Santa Cruz wants to borrow a blower door and some testing tools for a few days or a week I'll make you a good deal =) -- If you want a non-professional evaluation I'd probably have a day or two of availability in the next few months as well. (I don't have duct testing tools yet, but with notice would probably get them.)
I’ve been there, it’s miserable, but I hadn’t framed it exactly in these terms.

This is well articulated and certain something many of us can relate to. Thanks for writing this.
It’s pretty well known in tech. I never respond to amazon HR. Been doing that for 5 years now.

They are running out of ppl to hire. Now, to figure out how to short amazon… maybe they last another 5 years… before they just implode.
So happy this is finally here! Been waiting months for this!!
At least five years overdue; glad this finally happened.
So they can see me download Oregon Trail from this website. Mine that data, in sure there’s gold there!
100% this. Be in the moment. Enjoy. Play.

You can rest later. (When the kids are bigger and can do chores themselves. ;-))
It's actually pretty cool, and the evolution of a piece of software I barfed out about 5 years ago. It's a CI job that deterministically runs thousands of simulated flights of an autonomous airplane, across a wide variety of interesting scenarios.
I feel lucky. My 19 year old is still hanging around, socializing with his parents. I know it won’t last forever, but we’ve stretched it. And it’s lovely.
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My anecdata is similar, but rather: the little kids I know who curse a lot and openly, have terrible manners overall. Talking nasty to grownups (and other kids), etc.
I stand corrected, edited above.
People do cook instead of eating out . Analogies are not problem-solvers, and it's a false dichotomy because owning is not the only alternative to the cloud
Insurance premiums are used to cover the damages. Insurance doesn’t create free money.
If anyone is curious:

https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at/virtualarchive/public/Archive/...

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244723)
Their costs plus their profits is still cheaper than hiring your own people to rebuild what they've already done, except taking much longer and usually ending up with worse service.

Unless you're an infrastructure or network logistics company, it's a waste of resources to build your own. Cloud services are so commoditized already it's unlikely to be any sort of meaningful differentiator for your company. Especially if your field isn't even tech proper.
This is very true. I was not able to put the year, but now I have a feeling the year is, yes, indeed, 12.

I have a 13-year-old daughter, and I have felt the massive distance since she turned 13. I have been working remotely (pretty much) since the early 2000s, so I'm usually at home. So, I have spent a lot of time together with my daughter. I have gone through the usual tea parties, kitty picnics/parties, park-walks, pretend ghost/monster hunts, dances, singing/karaoke, etc. Well, I became pretty knowledgeable about K-pops, BTS, and Katty Perries, and I have even listened to Justin Bieber in the car. She also used to accompany me on several business visits to experience the "offices."

Now at 13+, she is more of "leave me alone" and "stick it on a sticky," except for the occasional burst about random pop-culture discussions. I've played Roblox, listened to a few new-age musics, and learned new jargon to keep up. She can go detailed and explain a few key topics, and then I have to spend time reading up to be able to communicate later on.

Otherwise, the talks and the discussions have become rather clinical, grown-up conversation-y. Yes, I miss when I had to wake up on quite a few mornings to prepare for the toys that have walked across the room, holiday gifts pulled in by the gang of stuffed animals.

Anyway, I have a 5-year-old now, and I'm repeating the activities.
Not only iOS. MacOS too
How many would say this normally? I.e., what's the baseline?

Meanwhile, how many are giving their teams the resources (i.e., people) necessary to do the analytics on the bill required to find & cut costs? Every cloud I've worked with has been terrible at billing in a way that could be reasonable investigated. At one point we literally pulled all the billing data into a SQLite database. (And that was a great idea, as it made queries against it much faster.)

Further, most higher ups seem to have a sense of "it won't be invented here", and so a lot of stuff ends up in vendor land; need more people then to pull those separate bills into one spot, and start attributing costs against the revenue they might help generate.

I've also worked a fair number of places where people were cagey about telling eng how much they're spending where. If you want your IT dept. to cut costs, they have to know where the money is going.

And then there's the yak shaving of it all: we've had a support ticket open w/ Azure for 9 days now asking "where did this $1k go?". Our Blob Storage "Cool" tier costs upticked, and I'm 99% sure the bill there is just wrong. Cool storage should be (price * amount stored) and the "how much are we storing" graph is not proportional to the cost graph. The only gotcha is an early delete penalty, and we are also pretty confident we're not hitting that. (We know what's being deleted when, and none of it should be subject to it.) But how does it take a over week to answer the question?
Try turning Auto-Correction off and Predictive Text on.

This is the closest approximation I've gotten to the original iPhone keyboard. I have Check Spelling off as well due to other reasons.
I always thought I’m too stupid to search correctly. I have exactly the same issue.
You’re right, edited my comment
See also: somebody else paying the bill. I've flown plenty of business class, but never paid anything close to full fare for it: it's either the company footing the bill, miles/points, or (rarely) some crazy routing/fare that gets me within 2x of regular economy.
Strange; I've been working on it for over seven years on the assumption that it does.

Would you like to expand your point?
relatedly, the back arrow on top of the contact card in imessage has been changed so that the region to the left of the arrow is just more contact card. I can't imagine that anyone would intentionally click there to open the contact card, and I also can't imagine that no one at apple tested the design and didn't accidentally click the contact card at least once and realize.

Using phones is a bad experience.
> all the benefits are intangible and all the drawbacks are tangible.

That's quite well-said. I've heard it expressed many different ways but this one I think I'll appropriate :)
Edited my comment, I stand corrected!
Yes but she said life is nicer somehow using the iPad. Maybe she can do the same on the laptop but she also has a nice garden she likes to do her work in, vs the iMac is my understanding
The problem is not the programs.

The problem is not the tools.

The problem is that the tradespeople and craftsfolk who make them are, whether intentionally or not, wage slaves.

They do not make for the joy and art of making, but constrained by monetary need.

They do not seek to grow as makers and share what it is to make because . . . no one would pay them for that.

If we want better tech and better ways of doing tech, we need to start being paid like smart people who can not only do what management can't, but also we insist on doing it in a way that's creative. In a way not managed as a commodity.

Here on HN, we see hacker (at best) as commodity. This is not the right community for the message, imo.
What difference would this make? Using the ML model's output as input would merely make the model think it is indeed correct.

The ML models would not be ruined beyond how they already are. And if their current state is insufficient to force anything, this would just be more of the same.
That you both for that suggestion.

"Seeing Like a State" seems like a fascinating book.
In my experience this isn't true at all. Having kids really is a blank slate and it's up to you to decide how you want to raise yours. I do a lot of things different than my parents did to me, including being more thoughtful about being a good friend, not just their parents.

I didn't have the best experience with my parents either. Not that I hated them but they never felt like friends to me. My kids will decide how they feel about me when they get older but I'll do everything in my power to let them know that I'm genuinely interested in being friends with them.

I'm sorry you didn't have good memories with your parents but I came here to say that this should not be an excuse to not having kids if that's something that you're considering.
Hi, didn't expect to see you here.

I have a question I always wanted to ask. Why should people trust your privacy centric services when you are famous for your previous project which was essentially a pyramid scheme for harvesting user data, which you then sold along with the data? Any rational person would expect DDG to also be a user data harvesting scheme.
They accommodated them by it not being too hard to crack using itself, which must have had a commercial impact.
Do you know those people personally? Or are they people who the media cherry picked to make it seem like there is a wave of conspiracy theories sweeping the nation in order to get clicks? There have always been cranks out there, so you can’t just pick a couple and say “point made.”

Remember the satanic panic?