skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MVPMs = minimum viable prime ministers
1500+ words, and the word "customer" appears only twice, and counting users as "customers". The word "trust" appears nowhere in the article.

Sure, cut headcount, cut spend, whatever. But FB's long history of fucking its "customers" out of their privacy, autonomy, etc... is surely a component of why that growth hit the wall, and why some people will never don metaverse goggles.

Cynical me thinks this advice to Mr. Z is not about the customer, their happiness or enjoyment. The subtext here, to me, is just about Mr. Gerstner being pissed that Meta is losing him money. So. Whatever.
I haven't read their TOS, but there's almost certainly a clause about how the service comes with no warranty and you're storing your data at your own risk. So they're not obligated to do anything really. They could decide to replace all your files with RickRoll videos and I doubt you'd have grounds to sue.
I guess Sunak's father-in-law is the founder of Infosys, truly one of the most difficult-to-work-with and inept software consultancies I've ever run into
"data gravity" is itself a useful term but I maintain irritation at the person I believe coined it because they presided over the death of the basho era.

Is there another pithy term that means this that I can use?
It's not entirely the case because there are still some commodities that are connected to actual productivity in the real world but by and large you're correct, it's mostly a game with monopoly money and mostly destructive consequences. It's again another reason we are collectively in this current mess. People have been chasing fake tokens in an economic game without paying any attention to real world consequences of their actions.
I don’t think it’s a mistranslation, the manuscripts themselves differ.
Regardless of which is ‘correct,’ it’s likely an error in the retelling or copying.

This person points out that either 616 or 666 could refer to Nero and some other possible evidence that was the case: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-number-of-beas...
Sure I would. My doctor told me she was setting up an appointment for the "tetanus booster" a few weeks ago, and I wasn't super concerned when I discovered that the proper name for the booster is "Tdap" because it immunizes against diptheria and whooping cough as well.
I just recently made my github activities private, also blocked part of the github UI (for example achievements, profile avatars), and removed all my stars from repositories and instead made a 'repos' bookmarks folder to put interesting projects in. (I do the same for many platforms, in the sense of bookmarking stuff instead of using platform-built-in features to 'save' something - what an illusionary save as well...).

I don't want to be locked in, I also don't want to be manipulated by shiny virtual crap. Activities also is such a poor metric. On many days I have simply one commit, because it's a night of programming followed by one push to the repo... friend of mine wrote a script that makes one-line changes to a file and pushes regularly, so his activity chart looks great... (his first idea was to have it spell something out)

The trend with github seems obvious, it'll be a linkedin dev-hiring social media crap-platform people stay on for visibility and many developers eventually won't know how to use git outside of it... (and we hear the cries of "I'd like to contribute but it's not on github..." and some projects will see it as a feature of being not on github to keep those kind of people away).

So many things are going to sh*t... and people like it, which is the worst. sourcehut.org is a nice alternative (I have an account). I also wish more people would just host their own gitea instances.
I hosted web sites at my house on the cheapest Comcast service from about 2002 to 2016 and never once had a problem. It's possible things have changed, but a ddos attack does cost money and I think it's mostly the large or controversial sites that get targeted.

I would still be hosting at home but where I live it's nearly impossible to get a static, routable IP.
Schools were open in most of the world, even during the pandemic. So that's not shielding their children from the effects of a deadly pandemic; it's shielding them from a uniquely bad policy that was completely self-inflicted and unjustified.

My province had a curfew (another bad idea, to be fair), and even then we still kept schools open (after the first 2 months of the pandemic, and that was longer than a lot of other places). Keeping them closed for more than a year had nothing to do with keeping people alive, or we would have seen massive differences between children death rates in the US vs. the rest of the world.
I would guess No-Low-Code
Fantastic 54 minutes video by a fantastic guy to get started with Excel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
>I have given TikTok several tries, spent hours

Why would you do that lol? Do you really have FOMO for the next garbage social media dopamine machine that simply wants to hijack your attention to sell ads and get you addicted to zombie scrolling like every other instance before it? Why does it have to work for you? I think you have your answer at this point.

It's just another garbage lowest common denominator mass content farm and memes. It doesn't have to be nor isn't something more profound than that, and in fact with it's short content length and more sophisticated AI it's just like everything before but worse.

You can certainly just dismiss it and occupy your limited time doing something else more productive or fulfilling.
That view goes back much farther than apocalyptic movies. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote:

>the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Hobbes, like many philosophers, did not have much faith in human nature.
Odd accusation since Sunak is Hindu.
Not Wikipedia though:

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain"[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
I've heard it used to refer to the country/nation of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, but never to refer to both main islands as a whole (The British Isles is what I would usually see for that).
Not similar to HN, if you mean a replica like Lobste.rs.

Then again, the following communities have reached some critical user count:

- https://mathoverflow.net/

- https://biology.stackexchange.com/

- https://physics.stackexchange.com/

- https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/

There are lots of scientists on HN, though.
The topic of seniors and tech is something I despair over quite frequently. My own dad is 75. He’s by no means a genius, but he isn’t a stupid man (though he has seen significant cognitive decline in recent years). He worked in finance most of his career so he was working with computers fairly early on and throughout most of his career. We had a home PC by 1989, and he spent a lot of time in the 90s messing with DOS and Windows 95 and programming with C as a hobby.

These days he has an iPhone and iPad that I got him because of accessibility and ease of use, a Windows PC, and a Roku (he used the Hulu local tv service instead of cable). On all of those devices he can only do the basics and is completely helpless if something unexpected happens. Just a few days ago he was watching a show on Prime Video, accidentally skipped to the next episode, and couldn’t figure out how to navigate back. On his iDevices he routinely gets confused trying trying to look at messages, i think because he’s used to seeing/answering them through notifications and doesn’t understand the layout of the messages app. He also has a lot of frustration with the iDevices due to arthritis in his hands. On his PC he’s been using Quicken to track his finances for probably two decades, and last year he ask me to help set up online download of his accounts to make the reconciliation easier. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but every month or two now I have to sit down with him and spend an hour unravelling a mess he created due to getting confused about Quicken’s process for matching downloaded transactions with those he manually entered in the register.

I could go on and on with examples, but the question I ponder over is whether or not there’s a fundamental difference between his generation that didn’t grow up with technology and the younger generations that did. Will technology move on and change so that even those of us who a tech savvy today are hopelessly outclassed in 30-40 years? Or are have our brains been wired differently to make us more adaptable? I don’t have answers and I’m rambling at this point, but I feel like something has to give. For seniors today technology is mostly a convenience (they can choose to largely ignore it if they want to) but by the time we reach their age I don’t think that will be the case.
Because the party membership voted for Truss instead of him - they get to choose between the top two candidates the MPs select. Party membership is a lot smaller group than primary voters in the U.S. Why did the party pick Truss? Maybe they were uncomfortable with having someone non-white. Maybe they thought Truss could connect better to the electorate. Maybe they preferred her policy ideas.
I totally agree with you. But there is also the danger that you end up in a dead end.

Let’s say you are a beginner programmer and good with excel. If you are now doing a lot of excel jobs (and your manager agrees that you should do it) then you progress at excel and less at programming. So your buddies might get promoted to senior programmers while you stay the underpaid excel guy.

You should make sure that you get extra education to catch-up if people ask you to spend time on dead ends.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that article doesn't mention China?
It’s pretty historic.
I don't know about the relationship to Covid, but it sounds like the person's credit card wasn't charged, thus the domain wasn't renewed. After the missed renewal, a squatter bought the domain in hopes of selling back to the original owner (renter) at a premium.

I think the lesson here is prepay for a domain for several years ahead if you plan to keep the domain long-term.
How would a lowly software engineer even take a position on a board? I always thought being a corporate board member was an elite club that only rich, well-connected people invited each other to over $5,000 martinis. Do you just go to a job website and apply to be an Apple board member?
China's Xi is more powerful than ever. What does it mean for the world?
The real problem with spreadsheets in general is that they can become incredibly opaque.

Mysterious constants in formulae, unexpected quick side calculations left over, and poor structure.

The only use I have for Excel these days is as a fancy CSV editor: the heavy lifting is best done in Python.
> I have 2 kids under 6 and I feel like I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more

I remember feeling like this when I had 2 kids under 6. Now they are both slightly past 6 and I feel everything the parent comment said about how brief that time was - they are in school most of the day, when they are home they spend at least some time playing Legos, watching shows, playing Minecraft, reading books. I have more time for hobbies than I've had in years. They are even starting to be old enough to accompany me on some of my hobbies. The reversal is so stark it's hard for me to comprehend how long it felt at the time and how short it looks now.
Linux. Linux Linux Linux.

Free and Open Source Software.

This is the baseline. I get that it's hard and there are issues. But if this isn't the baseline, there's no chance elsewhere.
Yeah, I agree that they're common and that the companies that use them are probably "otherwise ethical" (although I think our ethical standards for businesses are tragically low).
https://www.weforum.org/people/boris-johnson - they have profiles for everyone who attends an event (which most previous chancellors have - https://www.weforum.org/people/sajid-javid - https://www.weforum.org/people/philip-hammond - https://www.weforum.org/people/george-osborne), he wasn't a WEF Young Leader though, his views are totally abhorrent to the WEF crowd.

Strange how electing someone wealthy has caused the right to shit itself as hard as the left.
A relatively small percentage of people can post a lot of horrible stuff; TikTok has about 1 billion – BILLION – users who are active once a month. If only 1% of those people are fucked up, and they all post one fucked up thing a month then we'd be talking about 10 million videos/month.

I don't know how accurate that 1 billion number of users is exactly, but it's probably in the right ballpark. In reality there are probably a few million "serial posters" of horrible stuff. Either way, with numbers like that it's very easy to get millions of undisputedly horrible videos.
Tesla's stock sinks after cutting prices on cars in China
I am not convinced that Brexit or anti-EU sentiment is primarily driven by spam.
Petabit-per-second data transmission using a microcomb ring resonator source
They divide the task into two parts: (1) generating a set of features, and (2) classifying based on the features.

For (1) they find the word vectors and LSTM do not outperform bag-of-words which does not surprise me (bow works very well, new models seem to model the superficial aspects of text but don't capture semantics... they are a big pile of biases on top of biases), but they think the hyperparameter tuning to get there is easier with the newer models. For (2) they find extreme gradient boosting greatly outperforms the alternatives in terms of accuracy although performance in terms of speed is a lot worse. That was new to me.

I would have liked to see some testing of dimensional reduction w/ bow. Also it irks me that it is widespread to compare a bunch of AUC and accuracy numbers but nobody puts error bars or statistical significance on them, but it's certainly true that if you repeated the experiment multiple times with different test/train splits you would get slightly different results.
This is anecdotal, but I learned a lot of history and geography by playing the Total War games - Shogun: Total War, Rome: Total War, Medieval: Total War.

I'm not sure how to go about proving the benefit that the OP mentioned, but I am willing to put my money where my mouth is at least when it comes to the education of my own children.
I believe that point isn't accurate, because again, Scientology & friends existed before social media. For all I care, they're loonies, yet the found together and they have a voice. The Catholic Church is a bunch of loonies too, yet they found each other and they had a voice and so much power, there's just nothing like it today in the age of social media.

> When in the history of the US has there been a massively mainstream movement predicated on the fact that Democrats are literally agents of the devil, that wealthy elites harvest chemicals from tortured children, and that a shady New York businessman might be God's representative on earth?

Never. Mostly because Trump hasn't been around a hundred years prior, and harvesting chemicals from tortured children wasn't a thing anybody cared about. Or did you mean crazy antisemitic stuff and literally burning people because they figured they're witches? I don't know, sounds crazy, I'm sure that never happened.
In the previous contest, there were many viable candidates, of which two went through to the final stage. This resulted in a ballot of all registered members of the Conservative party. This process took weeks and was criticised as a waste of time by many, leaving a power vacuum during the recent cost of living crisis.

What the members of the party want does not always align with what elected MPs think is best, nor what the public as a whole believes.

This time around, the requirements to be eligible to proceed in the contest were tightened - candidates needed 100 MPs supporting them. This was designed to speed up the process considerably.

At the deadline, Rishi was the only candidate that met the requirements, so he won by default, and there was no need to have a ballot of the members.
I'd 100% find a new remote position, not quit the now-joke-of-a-job, and collect two salaries for as long as possible. This sounds like a perfect setup tbh. They're trying to freeze someone out by giving them the Milton-in-the-basement treatment, except Milton doesn't have to physically sit in the basement anymore.
hard code the random variables so that outcome is predictable.
I only boot windows to play Counter-strike. I just got a new video card and wanted to get into task manager but I forgot what it was called. I searched "activity monitor" in the little search box, and the top most result was definitely a program to install from the microsoft store. If I was a novice, I might click that and find myself frustrated that my computer is trying to get me to buy something...
In 2022, the 'working class', are in offices, working. Which I suspect the PM, and government ministers all do. And often for longer hours, and over weekends.

> Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton[10][11] to African-born Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent,[12][13] Yashvir and Usha Sunak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak

Apparently coming from an immigrant family, modest background, becoming wealthy though hard work, and becoming PM is something to be despised?

As much as I despise this current bunch of MPs, I don't see anything wrong there. I doubt he would have achieved so much had his family stayed in Kenya.
These are just backup generators. Cheap to buy and own but not cheap to run. A sufficiently large pv/battery array would probably be huge.
Of all the things to be terrified by, why water being sequestered in bottles?
I'd always start with some UI mock ups and a powerpoint going around. Too many people think they need a MVP/product to sell (in the B2B space).
Then I'd still be peeved? I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here. I agree that schools should retain good teachers rather than firing them or freezing them out.
Searching https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20... for "Stable channel update for desktop" shows 4 updates in the last 30 days.
Home school families organize frequent socialization opportunities, and they are likely far better than school-based.

And anyway, unless you live in some sort of jerk-run school district, the public school system welcomes home school kids for band, athletics or any other after-school program.
Agreed, they do a good job of hedging it. I think OP was probably pre-empting the usual comments along the lines of "yep, $tool is super bloated, $smallerTool proves that those other guys building $tool are bad engineers."
@ChuckNorris89 wrote:

> huge solar array

> Ireland

Yeah, I figured there could be land mass availability issue.. maybe better to beam it from outer space or across the ocean from a different *-land?

I love the idea of a self-sustaining data center, hopefully someday we'll crack it in real life.
Texas officials seek to reassure anxious parents over DNA and child ID kits
Are you saying the current problems with inflation are caused by resource depletion, or that this is possible in theory?

I'd be interested in any evidence of the former claim.
> The public square is the internet these days.

That's a nice idea, but it simply isn't reality.
This looks super interesting!
I can already think of a few interesting use cases for it
Discovered via https://reasonstobecheerful.world/open-source-seeds-offer-a-...
Want Power? Stop Saying ‘Sorry’ So Much
I think there’s room to have this discussion while simultaneously applauding the one major computer company that avoids these problems.
If you do it also removes all the repos links from your homepage. Including pinned repos.
If you end up watching traumatizing content for a low salary it does mean that the cards you were dealt at birth weren't so great. Perhaps they could have been in a better place if they pulled up their bootstraps but I'd challenge any SWE here to do well with the same starting circumstances
I resolved a while ago that I would apologize exactly once for my mistakes.
I see that it now runs in the background...and would like to ask for another feature...being able to pause it would be great...I like to have it running in the background while I work, but don't want it running all weekend haha. Maybe if I close the tab it'll stop though, but just having a "pause" button somewhere could be useful.
Strangers have extreme reactions to my name, Karen
Given the amount of disinformation Greenpeace puts out about nuclear energy, I would be very cautious about whatever else they put their eyes on.
Maybe in the same sense that meth or krokodil are "disliked".
I'm Irish and lived in the States for years and never once heard this use of the term British. It would not have been received well.
seriously, who are these people who are grossed out by the smell of mulch? Did they grow up in a laboratory?
I am sure it stands for Magic Money Tree :p
Right, indeed, I'm not a psychologist by any means, but I also think that removing the problem altogether without solving it could be damaging too, maybe in other, more subtle ways later on. To be honest, I don't think there's a solution to bullying that wouldn't be damaging in some way, for all involved - once it starts, it's already too late to go back to normal; you can only do damage control and hope for time (and/or professionals) to help heal the wounds.

I'm glad you've made it out of that situation without major harm (and even some constructive conclusions), but you're an outlier, I think. Normally it doesn't go that well. It really shouldn't happen in the first place...
The entire island of Ireland? Of course it's not Britain, that's absurd. But the part of that island which belongs to the UK? Wikipedia says it's called "Britain".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
One step up from China and North Korea's prisoners forced to "mine gold" online

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoner...
Show HN: Topaz: open-source authorization combining the best of OPA and Zanzibar
Rather, tell everyone you're good and start a consultancy.

The article is hilarious and well worth the read.
Symbian had installable apps. For my Nokia 3650, I installed an updated video recorder from Nokia to record video and audio. And some games that were meh, and RealPlayer.

You're right that battery power with internet was trash. I recall the battery draining in 30-60 minutes if I was actively (WAP) browsing or streaming music.

Later versions of Symbian worked better, but I didn't run them. WhatsApp ran on Symbian and there was no platform push, so it had to stay connected to the servers; when I was there, we would routinely see Symbian users who had been connected for 30+ days.
(oops; Dead Link, see archive.org "No WWW Considered Harmful" above)