skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think practically all the problems with Windows will go away with one simple change.
Do not ever reboot a computer without a user's consent.
Any feature that requires automatic reboot should be opt-in.

However, this exposes the real challenge.
We cannot have informed consent without informed users.
I think this problem will haunt us repeatedly in the future.
We need users to know at least a little bit about their options.
Only then can they make informed choices on what option to pick.
This means people can't glaze over the details and not worry about them.
This does not mean you have to be a computer wizard.
You just need to know what you want and pick an option that is good for you.
For example, I run this on Fedora:

sudo dnf offline-upgrade download -y && time sudo dnf offline-upgrade reboot

Any update requires a reboot.
However, I am ok with it because I am positive each update comes after a lot of testing.
More importantly, I am in control of when to run this update.
I can't accidentally run it because it requires my sudo password.

I used to wonder why no corporation complains about Windows Update.
Then I learned that virtually all companies use group policy to change Windows Update behavior to suit their organization.
Therefore, this is a non-issue for them.
Welp.
> Only the very few whom persue higher education may be required to take higher math that they will also not use.

This has to be one of the of the most worn out stupid takes. The point of teaching things like math and science which people "will never use in real life" is to teach problem solving and critical thinking. NO ONE actually thinks knowing the quadratic formula is useful in and of itself.
Do you have the capability to enable automated testing of the system built with the app builder? In my experience continued success with an app builder quickly becomes dependent on some testing capability to avoid breaking things over time. This is similar to unit/integration/system tests a "regular" developer would do, but trickier since it means making that available to users at a lower technical skill level. I'm interested to hear what solution you have for this, or even just thoughts on how you might address it in the future.
> in order to have accuracy and a fully satisfactory experience, it requires some conditions, because it deals with random variables that I still don't have full control over

> I'm really afraid we can't solve a "mediocre diction" problem.

So you're not asking "How can I present my work-in-progress to potential customers so that they focus on the potential & not the missing features?".

Instead your asking "How can I present a product that has (and always will have) limitations?" and so will never have a "fully satisfactory experience". Is that right?

I think this is an important distinction (that I didn't get from reading your original post).
And it is risky, but it beats the alternative.

Whether it is worth it for a cool gadget, is another question.
TBH i'm not sure why this is needed, the CLI provides everything you can ask for and it's very easy to use, GUI for helm is basically a waste of time. Am I wrong?
You are aware that HN is moderated, right? Some might even say heavily, though I suppose that's an opinion.
My 2012 MBP that I'm using to write this piped up to disagree. It retrieves mail from a variety of sources every day, including work email, and there is never a problem. All using the stock Mail app that comes with the OS. So I'm guessing some details are being mis-remembered by the 2nd-hand information supplied by a person who doesn't sound technically-inclined enough to have gotten the story right in the first place.

IOW, if one is going to supply anecdotal data, probably best to make sure it's your anecdote, maybe?
> E.g. for woodworking, there's only so many times you can show how the basics of "10 Things you're doing wrong", or why the tape measure moves at the end.

It's playing out exactly like elsewhere on the Internet: beginner content is best to produce because they are the biggest audience, and the algorithm snowballs that advantage further because it only sees engagement, not quality.
"Trump is objectively one of the funniest men alive. But any laughter at Trump is usually drowned out by scolding and warnings about the death of democracy. Is there any doubt that the 2000s were just way funnier than the 2010s?"

How inconvenient for you.
Undefined behavior means it's not specified by the language how the code should be compiled. Just because something is weird and hard to predict doesn't mean it's UB.
Schrödinger’s Roadspace
Rust will never overtake Python's role as long as data scientists are the rank-and-file using machine learning libraries. Rust is simply too complex and too difficult to learn for non-CS types. I'm not casting aspersions at data scientists, who largely could adapt to Rust, but in my experience they wouldn't (in general!) unless they were forced to by the job market. And employers aren't going to see the need to make that change (again, in general), because a lengthy re-education process would be expensive.
I worship those parks because they're nice. I've lived in North American suburbs too. You'd have to drag me back there kicking and screaming.

If a conspiracy is so nebulous that you can't define it's motives, perhaps you're grasping at straws.
Homelander enters the chat
Not the same thing and we don't really do that.

Pacemakers are typically lithium iodide which do not have the same risk of uncontrolled burning (that's the nickel variety).

But also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside. You'd not want another surgery just to change a battery.
Apple's privacy stance is why I'll never move to Android.

And yes, I get it, they're not perfect, but they're the better of 2 bad options.
Lots of dead bugs in Texas, California, and Oregon.

A mild winter with an early spring, followed by a cold winter relapse, will also do in a lot of bugs.
“Dumb TVs” can still be found in the US, but they tend to be quite low spec, using panels with mediocre at best performance. That’s not a problem for a lot of people but anybody looking for a nicer panel is probably stuck buying a smart TV.

Current Sony TVs offer a “basic TV” mode that disables all the smart stuff though, so they’re a decent option for more discerning buyers looking for a dumb TV.
Credential Disclosure in Web Interface of Crestron Device
You are indeed free to make whatever wrong comparison you like. The people I knew who used heroin are all dead. Almost everyone else I know drinks at least a small amount every day and is not.
> Specific mmathematical, causal or superdeterministic models are always falsifiable

I request further elaboration here, please. Examples would be great.

> than the fact that logic is not falsifiable

What?
There's https://www.sigstore.dev/ - but looks like the focus is on containers mostly (rather than eg refusing to load/exec an untrusted dll or binary).

See also some related discussion here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/733431/
>because greedy Google wants to please their shareholders

I sometimes wonder, if the founder has controlling voting shares, or the shareholders on public exchange / stock market are non-voting shares. Would the company still have to please their non-voting shareholders?
Also discussed 2 days ago:

Chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33296750

(56 points, 17 comments)
> apparently bounce lights are bit of a kludge here

I actually find it really cool. Normally we treat light in rendering as having infinite speed, but this somehow models the speed of light as being one-reflection-per-frame. I wonder if this could unlock some kind of physics changes with polarization as well and work this into the game mechanics.
This matches what happened with advertising. We went from cable TV and broadcast radio with 12+ minutes of ads per hour to being able to choose what we watch/listen to "on demand" with few - if any - ads. And now we're heading back to increasing, unskippable ad load in popular audio and video formats.
Retool's an awesome tool but is very much aimed at developers so an understanding of SQL / Javascript is required to build dashboards using the platform.

Noloco in comparison is no-code first, meaning that you don't actually need to write any queries or know how to code at all to build different views. In fact, Noloco actually automatically creates the basic app for you once you connect your data (list views, record pages and forms). This reduces the learning curve and by being no-code first is accessible to non-developers as well.
what's the deal with this news? CEO did the right job
That's traditionally called a "demo."

The time-honored way to do demos, is to show a lashed-up, duct-tape-and-baling-wire abomination, in a carefully controlled setting.

I have seen companies plant shills in the audience, to generate those "random questions."

The best was when I attended the "Longhorn" demo, at Microsoft (Longhorn became Vista).

The marketing person gave this great demo of all the eye-candy UI, and kept saying "This is live code."

Then, at the end of the demo, you could actually see him, closing the Director show. The rest of the demos did not have the eye candy.

Vista turned out great!

I'm not really a fan of MVPs, but I understand why they are so attractive.

I have long "beta" periods, if I need the same thing.

In the end, I feel that we need to take risks, just like any other product manufacturer. Our product may be a hit, or it may be a flop, but I'm not a fan of officially releasing lashups.
Respectfully, I think your take on this does not work.

If before you have a frequent flyer that regularly eats meat, and next they stop eating meat, that is to be celebrated. It's still massive progress. Further, their footprint from flying may improve over time as airlines are investing in sustainability.

From flying 3 times a year to 2 times a year is big progress. From eating lots of meat to somewhat less, is progress.

By implying footprint perfection, it all becomes very reductive and people will reject it. With that mindset, you'll be able to find "dirt" on anyone. I mean, how very polluting must David Attenborough be?

As for bettering the course regarding insects, I wasn't even suggesting CO2 reduction. Just introducing some small spaces where wildflowers can grow, and they will come. It takes almost nothing.
I see no downside here.
Here in NJ we have a pretty strict plastic bag ban.

It's all gone pretty smooth except for grocery delivery services. Instead of using one time use thin plastic bags, they now have to use reusable bags. That they never reuse. So places like our company that get office foodstuffs delivered weekly, end up throwing away stacks of thick plastic bags.

Apparently though the legislature is working on a fix for this.
> And I can't say I feel guilty about that.

And you shouldn't. But it's still a problem that lots of fraud, scam etc just gets ignored.

There's so much fraud out there that looks easy to stop, because it's clear who does it, it's clear that they do it (online, with plenty of evidence) etc etc. Yet when you bring it to the attention of the authorities, they'll look at the individual case and say "okay, but it's only 50€, there's not enough public interest", which I could understand, if it wasn't a commercial-grade criminal operation that does the same thing thousands or tens of thousands of times.

I get that paperwork sucks and investigations take a lot of time and often get nowhere because something just doesn't materialize, but I get the feeling that we're more and more policing non-violent crime like Google & Co do tech support: if there's not a very public issue that the media is actively reporting on, it gets ignored.

And if it's a resource issue: get more resources, it'll pay for itself many times over. A recent example in Germany where some Clan from Turkey had been defrauding the elderly for years and ran up dozens to hundreds of millions of Euros in damages could've been stopped very quickly if there had been more interest from law enforcement. I'm sure we could've paid a person or two with that kind of money.
> or just a piece of machinery responding in a pre-programmed way?

Is a mouse responding in a pre-programmed way? I'd say you're just showing mammalian bias here.

> given the tiny size of their brains compared to higher animals I think it's fair to say the machinery for any kind of emotion just isn't there

First of all, a whale isn't necessarily smarter than a monkey just because it has a much bigger (physically) brain. Secondly, an individual ant really isn't, because genetically the ant colony is a single unit.
>objective sciences like math are clearly appearing less and less useful.

Literally could not be more wrong.

>I'd still consider the first course to have a higher roi...

Even knowing in theory how to get 1M followers, luck plays a massive role and you might as well be playing the lottery. So I'm not sure you've really "done the math" on your position here.

>Attention is easy to convert into money in today's economy. Math skills, less so.

On a website full of SWE's largely making well over 6 figures per year I find this take to be truly laughable...
Time to Get Fit – An Open Letter from Altimeter to Mark Zuckerberg
If this becomes the norm in tech, I will throw my computer into the nearest dumpster and get a plumbing certification.

Maybe I'll start an organic farm. Going broke is better than literally being a digital slave to a billionaire.
Why would I bother writing an in-depth explanation of a simple and observable fact.

Capitalism is a system that optimises for a single variable. It is self-evident how this means that any time another variable is inversely proportional to profit, it will minimise this variable. There is also many trivial examples of such cases: Preserving the environment costs money. Therefore, capitalism will do its job and optimise economies to maximise environment pollution.

If you had any worthwhile counter-argument, you would have stated it by now, instead of pretending not to understand my point.
The problem with decentralized systems that don't include a currency component is that there's no extrinsic incentive to contribute anything to the network, only to consume.

BitTorrent suffers from this problem; they even have a term for it: leeching. It's managed to survive despite this purely off of the generosity and goodwill of a community of dedicated users, but if BitTorrent were to ever have its eternal September moment I suspect the problem would quickly be felt rather acutely.

With other systems like decentralized cloud storage[1] or decentralized DNS[2] where (unlike with BitTorrent) there are no inherent practical limits on how many resources a single user can consume, the consequences of not including a currency component would be even more severe.

As for the "no recourse" problem, that's inherent to the very idea of self-sovereignty. Yes it's a weakness with decentralized systems, but it's also their greatest strength.

[1]: https://sia.tech/

[2]: https://handshake.org/
Is it important the the reading is precisely correct for my use? It doesn't seem so.

How do you know your thermometer is calibrated? Your thermostat? Your speedometer? Did you have your computer monitor calibrated by a professional?

The CO2 meter has a self-calibration function that I've used that calibrates it to the baseline known outdoor PPM. Indoors, it is clearly responsive to the environment. And the readings correlate with noticeable changes in air quality. The primary interesting part about it is that it gives a clear indication of how long it takes for the air in the house to be exchanged by the vent fan and return to the outdoor PPM. I don't see how precise calibration really matters for this use case.
I understand feeling psychologically hurt by this as a young ambitious person but as someone that has 10+ years of tech experience my ego wouldn't be hurt by this and I would gladly take a role where I send a few emails a day and keep my salary. I would be killing it with my hobbies during the day.
I find it ironic that the "real" numbers are so named because they are definitely less "real" than the integers or rational numbers since they cannot (with p=1) be individually named or specified.
You mean The Quiet Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHoYtBzdX0
Utilizing the popular cryptocurrency "Not your keys, not your coins" we can easily change it to:

> Not your disks, not your data

Trusting Google with your data and expecting it to always be there is a risky bet.
This is a very common practice at French telecom companies, and beyond. A massive lawsuit occured when a string of suicides at Orange Telecom in France happened. Managers would systematically psychologically harass workers till they quit, or die. All in order to meet "headcount reduction targets." Call that practice the good, old Roman decimation.

The French managing practice of moving someone in a spot where they will get bored out, if not killed out is called "placardisation," or "to put someone in a cupboard."

Demeaning and morally unacceptable, but something that business majors at French grandes écoles are taught is "une normalité," a given, a fact of business life.

[a] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_S.A._suicides
Australia's weird little time zone (2008)
Nah, that computer-generated voiceover is repulsing no matter where the videos are rehosted.
> If I don't buy anything, I'm out of the market system and the whole argument of "the market is best" falls down: it means the market hasn't solved my problem.

This means the vendor makes no money from you. If a lot of people decide this way, the vendor will have to adjust or go bust - this is called "market adjustment".

The fact that you did buy tells the market that what you bought is of net-positive value for you.
That is a scary concept in a world where cloud storage is becoming the default, and local storage may become extinct.
Public Toilets and Social Credit
> And that this giant act of fiat

There was no "giant act of fiat". The merge only happened because the overwhelming majority of participants were in full support of such a change. At no single point of time, the ETH developers had any way to decree that the beacon chain was the only one that had any value.

> That's simply the truth.

Thank you though for finally showing that you are just full of dishonest rhetoric.
Yup, and take advantage of it.

If there was ever a situation where it was good and useful to implement last week's employer-complaint-of-the-week, people having two full time jobs, this is it.

Illegitimati non carborundum — Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Start interviewing, then start working, do the minimum required, and keep taking their money. Much easier in a remote situation, not so much if they stick you in a windowless office 9-5... so BYOD, VPN, tethering to your phone...

But no matter what, reject the insult from your brain and move on.
> What's most disturbing is the realization that a measurable percentage of humans are just f*cked up.

I already knew that. I even know the percentage roughly. According to the Pareto principle, 80% of people are not totally fucked up, but the 20% that are cause 80% of the problems.
Compassion is what got Portland, SF, and Seattle into these situations. We are the most compassionate part of America BY FAR. We are now also reaping what we sowed.
Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture (2020)
It seems like the greatest thing lagging behind is society. What the reddit poster did was possible 20 years ago, but likely would have caused wistful maidens to faint, etc.
Can you elaborate on said features?

I migrated from typesense to Meilisearch on a project after I found it had much better search accuracy. I can't exactly explain why, but overall Meilisearch results feel more relevant by default.
Alright, sure, but you're picking nits and I'm not sure what your underlying point is.
Socialization is the main point of elementary school. Missing it is a gigantic drawback.
Had a coworker who was fired for this, though we found out about the second job after he was let go for performance issues. Especially as an engineer, this is just done out of greed and disregard for coworkers who may be counting on you. Outside of a startup environment, it may matter less. But I still find it reprehensible
My 2018 Sony X900F behaves similarly. Have never connected it to the internet, and its near-stock Android TV install doesn’t nag me about that. When I turn it on it starts on the last used input and you don’t see any “smart” UI unless you explicitly summon it with the home button on the TV remote.

I’ve been using it with an Apple TV 4K and it’s been great.
One of the features I like in ES that I haven’t seen in alternatives is “Percolate queries” (queries where you feed the service a document and it returns a list of queries that you’ve indexed that would match that document - basically inverting the whole process).

Does anyone know of any alternatives that support this use case?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/mast...
Sunak, an Oxford and Stanford educated billionaire, is perhaps the best candidate the Conservative party can unsurprisingly put forward at the current moment. Given his background as a successful investment banker at Goldman Sachs, one can only wonder about what his economic policies would look like.
Tentacle robot can gently grasp fragile objects [video]
This will be a service equifax offers soon I’m guessing.
> Sorry, but the difference between "rule" and "control" seems more like a play on words and less like a coherent argument.
'Rule' is a neutral word. I meant it in the way that a ruler generally tries to do good for their subjects because on some level they have to. 'Control' is negative and implies no concern for subjects because the subjects have no recourse.

> Also, "divide et impera" might be reasonable if you are in the business of ancient roman foreign policy but I would need to be convinced that it holds true for the inner workings of modern democracies.

If you've been awake in the past 3 years you will have seen obvious government overreach. You can justify it if you want to, but it's clearly gone way beyond public health concerns.

> I don't have the feeling that the people around me are particularly afraid all the time and if they are, it leads to them wanting change instead of being paralysed.

I'll assume you're American. What percentage of Americans do you think use psychiatric medication or drugs (including alcohol) on a regular basis?
How do you prevent people from opening a ton of accounts with different risky positions, abandoning the ones that don’t work out, and claiming to be a genius on the ones that top the leaderboard six months later?
Maybe they learned how traffic light work
in the US bad teachers get managed the in a similar way. It's very hard to fire a teacher due to the union but you they can get moved around to different schools. They call it the "turkey shuffle".
For fraud, also, there are civil remedies. If you really want it prosecuted, sue in civil court, win, and refer it for criminal prosecution. By and large prosecutors prioritize prosecuting acts for which there are no civil remedies.
I love my bamboo straws, too!
So no account for the "genetic" intelligence required to navigate such a society intelligently? You have some extremely disgusting conclusions that aren't based in facts but merely extremely prejudice and racist conjecture amplified by propoganda. I really hope you rethink them. You claim you have depression in your post history. May I make a suggestion. Stick to things you know, ideas to create, and find new constructive habits that don't feed whatever the hell this kind of output of yours is. It will cause you problems.