skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again this is descending into nitpicking at the extremes. PG is not saying everything we understand will be in common with aliens, or that our cognitive match with them will be 1 to 1, just that there is likely to be overlap. That given the universality of human cognition, there is likely to be thoughts we can mutually appreciate. I am not claiming that human brains are capable of all thought possible to aliens, only that there will be common ground. That’s all. It’s a very minimal claim.

Pointing out possible edge cases is a non sequitur. Of course there will be things we don’t have in common. Yes, we know that. The fact we’re explicitly looking at common ground from first principles implicitly acknowledges there will be ground not in common. That’s given.
For those interested, the Elixir part is the "Push Service", which is a simple Phoenix API: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/tree/2d0ac2727e17a72b...
Meanwhile in the US we have a huge rash of thefts of Hyundais and Kias and neither the police nor the manufacturers are interested in doing anything about it.
None of the iPads that support Gen2 have ever supported Gen1 (and vice-versa).

I've never found any public details as to why. Obviously the charging and pairing mechanism is entirely different, but Gen1 can be charged with any USB charger, and Apple now sells a USB-C <-> Lightning adapter for pairing as well.

I have no idea if there's anything about how the pencil interfaces with the screen that has changed between them. It almost makes me suspect there might be, for example since the new iPad Pro supports a new "hover" feature for Gen2.
Around 7-8 months ago I was interviewing with many startups and no one asked me for a NDA.

The only exception was a company that asked me to sign a NDA just for an informal chat. Normally I don't mind a simple NDA, but this company NDA was VERY draconic, it was pretty much full non compete rather than the typical "dont leak your interview questions, dont spy on us". Obviously I refused to sign the NDA and stopped my conversations with this company.
Sounds like they are trying to embed the search semantics in the data storage. Why not treat search as a distinct problem?
Imagine how your brain is atrophying.

1. (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.

"without exercise, the muscles will atrophy"
So just like the current financial system where the real transactions are between the fed and the banks while everyone else you me and him are just fiddling with numbers in a mainframe table.
> Maybe we don't need 18 different 24/7 "news" channels? That's why we have these "filler" programs.

Note in this context, "there's a finite number of news you can report", means the constraint is you (the reporter), not the news. The news is effectively infinite, it's the organization doing the reporting the one which has a finite "bandwidth" and must pick and choose, introducing unavoidable subjectivity in the process.

So there may be "filler programs", but the reason for them is not that there are not enough actual news to report.
Don't forget Amazon Chime (though I doubt any other company was foolish enough to adopt it)!
"Spend all the evenings you can with the people who raised you
'Cause all the times they will change, it'll all come around"
-Lorde
The little touches like being able to switch the entire article to metric (or imperial) are incredibly nice and make it more approachable as a result
Many of his books carry a subtext of small and big personal betrayals. I wonder if he projected his own desires into the narrative.

Smiley is deceived. Anne and Haydon's relationship is written down to Haydon doing what his paymasters ordered but Anne's role is unclear. Willing participation is implied.

The perfect spy is a super book.
I believe when Australia introduced mandatory helmets, bicycle use indeed dropped dramatically. That's definitely a big part of why many Dutch are opposed to mandatory helmet laws.

Helmets should probably be mandatory for e-bikes, though. They go a lot faster, and more importantly: faster than people realise.
Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog
I'm with you. I recognize that "fail hard and restart" can be a valid design, but if you aren't careful you're going to hit some form of thundering herd problem at some point.

> If your service can’t load the config on startup for any reason, it should just crash

Not always the case. You don't want to carry on as usual as if everything is normal, but running in a degraded state or dedicated failure mode that you can coax information out of is often quite useful.

It almost seems like the author err's on the side of KISS to a fault. Writing off or failing to recognize things like retry-logic, metrics, logging, failure modes, etc.

It strikes me that the author may have dealt with a lot of projects that are far from feature complete and may not have seen one taken one all the way to rock-solid. And by rock-solid I mean a system that auto-remediates to a certain extent and lets you ask questions of when the sky is starting to fall.

That said most of the advice is alright, especially for a relatively young project. Rome wasn't built in a day and much of the failure behavior I tend to plumb into projects gets added only after a problem is encountered.

Edit: grammar
800k Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play Pong in Just Five Minutes
That's great — China issued over 900 "Final Warnings" about US military presence in the Taiwan Straits, and zero of them had any follow-through.

That gives us good reason to hope that China will keep behaving that way. We can keep up the deterrence, China can keep on blustering, and nothing bad actually happens. That would indeed be a great result.

Indeed, seems like a most likely scenario.
The presentation is great. Jack Rusher has a lot of energy. I recommend the video if you have time. The notes in the transcript are useful, too; both expansion of what he said as well as references to material.
Stop groaning and get back to work!!!
It's the school drop-off paradox: https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/120/files/2022/01/Pic...
I know they’re ostensibly an ally of the US but I find this hella suspect and not at all cool on their part. Sure they’re likely doing it for the money. But MBS is a bad dude, he killed an American journalist, and the Saudis would sell us out to the highest bidder if they could.
> That kinda feels like saying Linux is too crazy because new apps get made for Linux frequently.

Apps are okay, but other parts of userland that roll out breaking changes on a regular basis are definitely a problem [1] [2] [3]. Even if they aren't technically part of the kernel, they are usually used with it to provide a complete working system, and they break stuff all the time.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/904892/

[2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/840430/

[3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
Except, PRC "Final Warnings" has preluded actual war or near actual war with every NPT nuclear state, a few times when PRC wasn't (or not meaningfully) a nuclear power herself, on issues much less important than TW, when PRC was much more militarily weak than it is now. This includes USSR skirmishes (hence why the Soviet meme is stupid), US+UN in Korea, threatening UK over HK handover, secretly shelling French in Vietnam, multiple TW strait crisis. To add insult to injury, with respect to source of this meme, PRC "final warnings" throughout this period shot down 5 U2s, that's 3 more than USSR. So not only was PRC following up with warnings, but they managed to do so more successfully than USSR.
What if PowerShell itself is the backdoor? You can remove PowerShell from Windows as a hardening/mitigation strategy. I do it on all my systems. I regularly see threat hunters disclosing how 99% of malware leverages the shit out of PowerShell to drop payloads.
Honestly that's a very real concern. From what I hear, the Android team does not speak glowingly of the Flutter team at IO. Also there appears to be a power struggle between the Flutter and Jetpack Compose teams to become the next 'official' way of developing Android apps, in parallel to Apple bringing out SwiftUI. Time will tell.

Given what we've all been reading lately about Google's LPA cycle (launch, get promoted, abandon) it seems likely that flutter will end up like React Native: kinda usable, but never really polished enough, it seems they just stopped most work on it before the finish line.
I'm sure there are a lot of things Russia does that we shouldn't do the opposite of.
Looks like search is down, but browsing still functions.
Wow you just summed up my current situation except i didn't do any of the coaching and went quiet and stopped interacting much. It sucks that management has such an impact on their devs and there is no one to check this.
Imo senior engineers should push for change but they wont as its easy to fool/manage an ignorant manager.
Is Android even still the competition? The android tablet market has been dead for a while. Arguably makes more sense to compare to Windows tablets at this point.
I cannot stand the idea of this. I know it's coming, I know I can't stop it, but it will be a catastrophic loss.

Most people are bad at writing. This will make them "better" at writing, but only in a certain way. I love reading things people write, because it gives me a window into their mind, how they think, who they are at a deep level. That is the joy of reading, and the structure of writing is a big part of that.

Now, a lot of people's writing has become homogenized by the computerization of our world already, but only at a low level: spelling, basic grammar, and so on.

When people have the ability to inpaint whole paragraphs, dreamed from the blob of internet text (which is mostly corporatized, computerized, email-ized, sterile in the way described above) we will lose something essential.

And another problem arises. I send an email asking something, to a coworker or to a friend. They inpainted their response. Did they really understand what I was asking? Did we really communicate at all?

Images, I guess, suffer from the same problem. But images are less interpersonal. They are communication, but not communication like writing is communication. In nearly all circumstances, images are less subtle than words are (the subtlety of visual communication happens irl, where such machines have yet to insert themselves).
https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images
One of the things I have a hard time conveying to non-parents is that the most time-intensive parts of parenting don't last forever.

I've talked to a lot of young people who say they don't want kids because they think their personal lives will permanently halt the moment they have kids. I spend a lot of time trying to explain that:

1) I still spend a lot of time with friends and can do most of my personal hobbies/activities on weekends. My wife and I are good at sharing the load. You don't need 2 parents watching kids 100% of the time.

2) The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids. You deal with it, then the kids grow up quicker than you think. Don't let the idea of the first few months/years define your entire decision for how you want to structure your family for the rest of your life.

3) You actually like hanging out with your own kids. I talk to a lot of people who are anchored to some negative experience they had 10 years ago babysitting for someone else's kids, as if that was representative of parenting life. It's not at all. At the end of the day, I actually rush to finish up my work so I can have more kid time. It's fun.
Ran a similar play recently and found a similar result.

Can’t understate how much people want the nice/fancy/pro device too. It’s hard to lure people off MBPs to generic PC laptops or chromebooks but an iPad Pro + magic keyboard is shiny enough.

Not just lower support cost, but much higher security bar at a lower cost too. Having been at the same fund, and other big banks, that’s an important consideration. Strong MDM, yubikey support if you want it, decent app sandboxing, etc. gives a lot of security control in a nicer manner than on a desktop OS.

Finally, I think the Office/GSuite issue depends so much on usecase and who’s using which bits of each suite. Gmail is so much nicer than Outlook, but GDrive horrible organizationally compared to OneDrive, while GDocs collab beats O365, etc.
Tend to agree. It could very well be a loss leader. They will likely do this for drugs that serve a tiny patient population like this one. They get the goodwill of helping cancer patients save money as well.
I was referring to the Surface Pro. Forgot that the laptop even existed. A better keyboard for the Pro would be welcome but not a deal breaker.

The cantilever design iPad keyboards are indeed very heavy to counter the tablet weight. Which brings the total weight of an iPad with the keyboard to almost MB Air weights.

The iPad is really crippled by software. Undoubtedly they cannibalise their own sales by allowing MacOS to run on iPads. But they have purposely killed off their own product categories before. Having that dual mode device is great.
Five great React UI libraries you didn't know existed
For some numbers:

First gen AirPods Pro have around 130ms latency. Headphone jack has around 50ms. [1]

I can't find any measurements for second gen AirPods Pro.

1. https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-airpods-pro-latenc...
This list really limits itself in terms of Xilinx price-to-performance by disallowing anything with a SOM. You can get a combined SOM + Carrier board with https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria/kr260-robotics-star... that's going to crush most things there despite being relatively affordable.
While that is obviously rorting the system, isn't it kind of ideal from a carbon capture perspective? One of the big problems with planting forests for carbon capture is that they often burn down, and even when they don't, the natural cycle of the forest trees dying or falling and breaking down releases the captured carbon too. Harvesting the trees and using them as a building material seems like a better way to ensure that the captured carbon stays stored for longer. As long as they aren't used for firewood...
In my opinion you are incorrect that streaming tech is a commodity.

Nobody comes close to Netflix in video delivery and client robustness.

I’d say Netflix is many years ahead of its competitors in terms of technology.
The spike protein was selected because the virus was already well-adapted to humans and they assumed changes to the spike protein would make it less-fit and not able to infect as readily. They were wrong.

> If vaccine manufacturers had targeted proteins that have high rates of mutation, it would allow the virus to evade vaccine immunity faster, potentially making vaccines useless by the time they were actually rolled out.

This is what happened - the variant later named Delta was first identified in Oct 2020, long before the vaccines were released. If anything the vaccines helped it become the dominant one.
They are not getting rid of the 'classic' access tokens (at least not yet). I think this new feature is geared more towards organizations where credential rotation has to happen for audit/policy/regulatory reasons anyway; it's probably nice to have GitHub ensuring that you can't have a policy violation while also nagging a credential owner if a credential is about to expire.
Even PBS News hour which had always been pretty boring and unbiased(in a good way) has quite a bit of partisan nonsense on it these days
"Relativity has a strong safety record relative to others in the industry, with just one OSHA safety inspection since it was founded in 2015. The inspection, spurred by an accident, did not result in a violation."

Yeah sure, let's called Relativity safe while totally ignoring the fact that they have a team of 700 (compared to 12,000 at SpaceX), spent bulk of the last seven years working on 3D printing rocket parts taking VC money (unlike SpaceX, which rose to the leading and in some cases only launch provider in US), and never launched a rocket as of today.

Oh and Relativity still had one OSHA inspection, where as SpaceX had a total of 5 health and safety violations since 2014.

Perhaps the author needs to calibrate his mental picture of safety before calling Relativity relatively safe.
Long, but at the end he does the stats about approximate time left with his parents:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html
Netflix will 100% lose long term.

The ones that will win are the ones that are supported by other businesses.

Amazon PrimeVideo can lose 100M viewers in a quarter, it doesn't matter, the money is still here, and it won't even make the stock price move by a tenth of a percent.

Netflix loses 10M subscribers in a quarter and its stock will be worth 0.

Netflix has literally no way to compete against the other giants. It's a one trick poney with a single revenue stream competing against companies that have virtually infinite money compared to it.

The ones that will remain are Amazon, Google and Apple. See you in 10 years.
You can use AD on Linux as well though, either joining a windows domain or running one from linux with LDAP afaik.
a perf change without perf numbers is a bug
As someone who enjoys eating Asian-style jellyfish, this article was quite weird to read, as the author made it a big deal of his personal experience being disgusted by it as a food. While I'm glad that the author eventually ended the article on a positive note having enjoyed the jellyfish (and relating it to the introduction of tomatoes to Italy!), describing his disgust in such detail was quite offputting. It's very normal for many cultures around the world for jellyfish to be a part of the standard diet. It reminds me of the stereotypes surrounding normal food of other cultures (especially Asian cuisines) that we see so often here in the US.

On that note, the fact that jellyfish was banned for consumption in the EU was mindblowing.
The problem is that most people love their tools more than they love to build things.

“You’ll have to pry vim from my cold, dead hands!”
Uh, vaguely? [Someone who isn't me] is aware of this happening at an american retailer.

It basically happens like this:

"Oh this code solves our problems and has a nice community around it for network effects!"

**developers proceed to adopt codebase without checking the license**

**months later**

"Oh, huh this license has some interesting language in it..."

Then the employee doesn't mention it; because the risk of having to re-do a bunch of work feels higher than the risk of getting in trouble for violating a license. Basically, unless it's Oracle; people just kinda shrug it off as a "wontfix".

My whole thing is that any system depending on people to read and follow a license is quite flawed in terms of enforcement, and is largely designed specifically so that powerful encumbents can make claims, not individual developers.

Laws have to be enforced or people will ignore them. If there's no practical way to enforce a law that doesn't involve violating freedoms - you're kinda fucked.
NYC Salary Transparency Law Is Effective Nov. 1, 2022
What's the difference between USB 3.0, 3.1 Gen 1 and 3.2 Gen 1x1? Just the name
Professional software shipped static builds for the user.
Yeah these people have not worked these jobs and the type of thing workers already have to do on the regular like cleaning pee on the shop floor.
I agree cleaning that parking lot was a power control move and things just would have gotten worse as they were probably going to use you to make an example of.
Last I checked (admittedly about a year ago) there was very poor Linux support for Surface tablets. Basic things like the camera and wifi, on some devices, simply don't work in Linux.

My Surface Go can't upgrade to Windows 11 but is still getting Windows 10 updates. By the tine those stop, it will pretty much be trash. As it stands today, using it is painfully slow and it's portability is really about the only thing going for it. 4GB of RAM and a grossly underclocked CPU will do that.
All sorts of people have called getting a vaccine "getting the jab" for decades. It isn't some secret code for "I don't believe that vaccines are safe"
Which MacBook?

According to Wikipedia, macOS Monterey has support for everything that dates back to 2016. The only exception I see would be if you bought the 2015 model of MacBook in 2016?

In any case, it still runs Big Sur. What apps don't run on Big Sur...? Desktop software often (usually?) supports a few years' worth of previous macOS versions.

If you're just running into an installation bug for Big Sur, you can always just install it clean rather than upgrading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Monterey#Supported_hardw...
IMO this was introduced so UK security architecture is more in line with US/AU when it come to PRC as pre-req for getting piece of multibillion AUKUS nuclear sub deal.
Seriously you must be so fun to work with.It's a person's choice and there is no pride in being a low paid worker, get over yourself.
For what it's worth, cucumbers are 96% water.
That's what I expected as well.
OT: an experiment

Disqus = democracy, reflects the current society, whether you like it or not, if someone have a bad take, there is still an opportunity for whoever wants to respond to it to correct him, then the reader can read the bad take and the correction

HN = totalitarian, if you have lot of karma, you can silence someone, for what ever reason, hence you only see people who think the same and opposition is always marginal
My son had a springsuit at 1. We would just sit in the sand at Manresa. It was some of the most peaceful, most content, most important time in my life. I don't really remember any discussions from a holiday dinner. But I remember sitting on that beach, and the very important rocks that we examined so seriously. The texture of them. The smell of the salt air. Exploring the bucket with sandcrabs I had gathered.

Maybe you are referring to something specific about you as a person and what you value and not a general rule.
My guess would be that HTTPS checks the certificate, but SSH does not (does it?). First time you connect to a server with SSH, you have to accept a fingerprint. And once in a while it complains for some reason, and the typical move is to erase the file that stores those fingerprints, right?

Well this is not the right way to do it (vulnerable to MITM), but that's how I see most people use it.

Your hardware key mostly ensures that nobody steals your private key, but it cannot magically authenticate the remote server (which is what you need against MITM).
Did anyone notice that __no one__ is wearing a helmet in any of those pictures?

In California it is a law that anyone under 18 years old must wear a helmet. And those above 18 not wearing a helmet get ridiculed by the sanctimonious helmet wearing crowd.
> Unfortunately it defaults to parsing a git tree's gitignore file and skipping over files listed in it.

That's a feature.

Like, it's the entire point of ripgrep. It's designed to search through the things a developer actually cares about searching through.

If you actually want to search everything, just use grep.
But no USB-C on the actual Apple TV. Really frustrating as a developer.
Yes. Clicking a tag is like searching for a single word. The crux is that tags add useful metadata that may not be in the content it is supposed to tag. Maybe instead of modeling tags separately from content, metadata should simply be joined into the content itself at the end, and then searched using the same text search tools used for content?
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