skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like things are a bit primed for something like that, in a way. Although it could easily not and just continue indefinitely if the public is pacified completely. Still, I think if this drip drip drip of a decline continues, then I think we might start seeing some weird fascination with war as an “outlet." A lot of fine de siecle 20th century writers talked about this same thing with regards to mass industrial society, as if they wanted WWI. When Wittgenstein was sent to the front, his response was basically, “I really needed that,” as if it was some kind of cleanse. People are built for narratives, they derive meaning from them, and a drift cannot persist indefinitely. Amid the collapse of traditional meta-narratives that once gave meaning, there are today many competing ones, none of which are truly for the now. It feels like we need a new way to live otherwise we will exhaust ourselves.
i see "no third party dependencies" often as a feature with C++ libs, and I doubt that's the only place.
Deepfake(?) Phishing
Thirty-two Rats From Casablanca (1944)
Great, something for management to do.
It's chill when you drive into the water, I wish they added some bubble sounds to complete the effect.
So which companies care about “users freedoms”?

And most of the Linux contributors are large tech companies…
yes that's one way of looking at globalization, advanced economies export expensive and stable currencies to less advanced parts of the world in exchange for labor.

That's the early 20s century model perfected by the Brits.

Obviously it didn't last long but at least it made sense.
Stopping public funding of that would reduce risk.
Wow 3 whole years

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
AOSP-derived Android distributions running on well-supported hardware, the same route taken by those who want to escape Google. Get your software from places like F-Droid, don't install spyware from the likes of Google/Metafacebook/Microsoft/Apple/etc, run your own services on your own hardware where possible or hitch a ride on some friend or family member's services. This works, it offers all the useable bells and whistles you might want without having your data mined by parasites.

No ads.
That's the funny thing: we're running mainframes to access a centralized mainframe – terminal model.
I'm not sure what you mean by "coverage" - the article is advocating deleting (or not writing) tests if you can move the corresponding check into the type system, and the end result is that you will naturally end up with codepaths that aren't covered by tests (because those codepaths essentially "can't go wrong"). That makes the things that I've normally heard called "coverage" pretty useless.
Given the title "Mechanical Neural Network", the presence of a conventional digital computer is really disappointing. I went in to this article hoping for steampunk AI.
I do scuba diving as a hobby and I have touched a few sharks. Every one of them had rough skin, just like sandpaper actually.
You can, in the same way as we regulate murder.

It will not be 100% efficient, but reduction can be achieved.
> For a typical child, there is no benefit to a yearly Covid shot

What makes you come to that conclusion?
A Russian invasion of a NATO country would be suicidal. Russia may "covet land" but it is not suicidal. That said I share your concern about Russian attacks on infrastructure.
LinkedIn experiment changed job prospects for millions – and it raises red flag
It's also pretty frequent at larger companies that new hires (even those at a level lower) will get higher comp than tenured employees.

Many of these same companies also have very difficult promo processes, requiring you to effectively "got to trial" and defend why you should be promoted.

This exact scenario has occurred with multiple co-workers of mine (most have now left, the rest are actively interviewing:

If, after the months of preparation for promo you "got to trial" and do so successfully, you may find a newly hired, less experienced, lower leveled co-worker with no experience with any of the internal processes or tooling makes 25% more than you.

When companies behave this way, what's the incentive to stick around?
The article discusses gamification, but really a lot of the general incentives for open source are to bolster the resume of the developer by showing they work on important, credible things.

Gamification transforms that generally open-ended benefit into KPIs of various sorts -- rather than present overall value as a contributor, you get badges for _how_ you develop.

Dark times.
I agree. There's a popular roguelike which is hosted on GitLab (called Infra Arcana) and it's not always easy for people to find it, nor to find the equivalent of GitHub's Releases page.
Ketamine is a prescription medicine that can be taken oral, intranasal or IV drip.

ECT is an inpatient procedure that need one anesthesiologist and one psychiatrist plus nurses to administer, two to three times weekly for three to four weeks.

Who pays for the healthcare, definitely want to try the former and use the latter only if the former works poorly.
I love the cruise control and auto drive options. I don't find the default cruise speed very relaxing and appriciate being able to bump it down.

A feature request that, if I were you, I would probably say no to:

It would be cool to have URL flags to load with auto-drive on and cruise control at a certain level.

I think it would be fun to easily share what I find relaxing about this. Also it would be a kinda cool default new page.
I'm 69, about to turn 70. I'm in a senior technical consulting role which often requires me to go on the tools. I work for a big, successful software firm that can afford to pay well. Most of my peers are 20+ years younger than me and quite smart, so I have to work hard to keep up. But I manage. Next year I will quit my job and 'retire'. In fact I'll be using my financial security to start up a SaaS. business. I have a bunch of ideas I've been wanting to work on. Working keeps me focused and connected. My rule is: stay interested, stay connected.
If I were to compare Chinese elections, I would maybe compare them to UK House of Lords.

… the UK House of Lords which is famously unelected?
I think you’d find that young or old, dumb or smart, we all respond fairly attentively to gamification whether we like it or not
Sure, there are many different people on HN.

But my point was that like or not, HN is also a bubble.

If you hang out on HN, you most likely think that technology is fantastic. The only reason we don't think we're in a bubble is because, we're so stuck in the bubble that we can't believe someone wouldn't think that technology is amazing.

(okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but HN is still a bubble)
In my experience ketamine makes early memories very vivid and makes things easier to recall.

I definitely prefer that over losing memories but I have not tried ECT.
I would really like to understand your comment but I am not sure what you mean with "orthogonal" in this context. Could you please explain more?

Our customer which was the school having this problem we tried to fix pulled us in and then along and we had constant interaction with them until our Product fit that Market (the school).
And in between checking maintenance log book and tire pressures:-

Replace the Espresso Machine Frother P/N: 227431250 as per DEV 338A Part III
> We were making so much money that we covered our eyes at the destitution around us as it got worse and worse

I experienced SF leadership protecting them and giving them more rights to live outside and do anything without consequences. It seems they tried really hard to solve the problem for at least a decade, and it only got worse with every policy and decision they made. The solution to the problem has to factor in incentives that may lead to worse outcomes for the city, and I don't think that has been done properly.
There's a fundamental difference between being spoken to and being spoken about. You have a right to prevent others from speaking to you but not about you (at least in the USA).
Young? I'm pretty sure he was racing when I was a child 30 years ago.
I want to code every single day for the rest of my life. I have no interest in vacations, traveling or any of that nonsense.
It's also a lousy user experience since the bogus ad app shows up at the top of the page and eats up screen space, especially on a phone.

> People are lazy and download the first result a lot of the time.

If people need something right away, they're unlikely to want to spend time evaluating a bunch of alternatives.
Perhaps you're choosing the wrong jobs, as suggested by the article?
... in its own devices

it would also be schizophrenic if apple didn't have to abide by the rules it proudly imposes on others
Russia's Shoigu holds 2nd call with US defense secretary in 3 days
A 12 year old requesting orange juice does not require a legislative act. Thus it clearly falls into practical capacity for decisions.

To argue otherwise would be odd. Perhaps you have misparsed my comment.
I wouldn't say it's disrespectful, but I'd bring it up with him, and explain: "You've been helpful, but the CEO role will be mine." If he balks, move on. Simple as that. You don't have to be assume this is a huge issue until a conversation is had, and even then, if he tries to make it into a big issue you can choose to move on from him.
> 'Just do everything different from what tons of other folks are doing day in and day out' is not the best answer.

Following the herd is definitely the wrong answer.
Does it? How much karma do I need before I can see it?
There are embedded ads in Xcode now:

https://twitter.com/niw/status/1577955010167508992

Now granted, it’s to upsell a service that’s integrated with the product you’re using, but it goes to show Apple products no longer simply sell themselves without intrusive ads.
> Both WebM [1] and WebP [2] have been supported by Safari for nearly two years now.

Which was incredibly late. For example, Firefox had it since v28 [1], which was 8 years ago. Firefox has also supported AV1 for 3 years already. And obviously Chrome supported both for longer

[1]: https://caniuse.com/webm

[2]: https://caniuse.com/av1
Anyone wanna create the open source version of this ?
If you have only one short stint job, just leave it off. If anyone even notices and asks, you can say, "yeah, seemed like a good idea to take some time off and not get burned out." Maybe not your idea to take the time off, but in ay case...
How many stars were you at when this began to happen? I maintain a repo with 8k stars and so far we've not gotten a single PR that felt like it was in bad faith - even with the hacktober fest tag.
That's the not-young one. This year's Mick Schumacher is Michael's son. In fact, he's thirty years younger.
I think at least in part because it’s really difficult and expensive to control the stack from hardware, languages, compilers, OS, App Store etc. the way Apple does.

That and the idea that lacking a feature is much better than having an early but not yet great version of a feature. Apple are very good at pointing at their great features and getting away with lacking some others without that being a problem.
This exists. It's called humaneure

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Humanure_Handbook.h...
If you take away my creativity and ability to learn, you may as well just kill me. That sounds like a recipe for depression in itself.
A tuna is a seriously fast fish. Note that they rub at the back end of the shark, which is the obvious place to go. If the shark gets annoyed the tuna can get away rapidly and get a very decent head start before the shark has turned and got going.

The sharks are probably not bothered about being used for grooming because it is reassuring to have your lunch check in and say hi occasionally.

6,000 camera deployments of two to three hours each. 117,000 individuals seen from 261 species. 106 rubbing behaviour samples spotted. The article doesn't quite get the rest of the stats sorted out, giving two percentages. Let's say there were roughly 50 tuna on shark rubbing sessions.

Some tuna are nails and probably impressing the girly tuna!
In my opinion, code I add to Github is still mine. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Self-hosting would be awesome indeed, but I think doing it would be quite complicated because of the authentication part, which is needed to push changes to a git provider.
You (and most Americans... maybe most humans), have PFOA's (forever chemicals) in your blood that came from 3M.

https://www.healthvermont.gov/sites/default/files/documents/...

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-p...
The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel I486 CPU Support
Afaik access to main storage can only be granted if the app declares the "all files" permission. I'm not sure what's the deal with the downloads folder though
My sarcasm detector is not sure about this one.
One major difference you'll run into here is support for encoding protocols. Jason, Poison, and Jsonrs (by default) will have protocol impls for Elixir structs that define special logic for how to serialize those structs into JSON strings. ie, you probably want a DateTime struct to serialize as a date string rather than a map containing the year, month, etc. Jiffy doesn't support any of that, so you end up with differing behavior between it and other libraries as soon as you start encoding structs that aren't meant to serialize as maps.

Jsonrs supports encoding protocols by default, but lets you turn it off for a speed boost if you're okay with more Jiffy-like behavior. Plugging it in as Phoenix's JSON library won't turn off that protocol handling, so you're getting the slower operational mode of Jsonrs (which is fine and probably what you want in most cases for correctness, but will definitely eat a few ops/sec in a benchmark)
For decades, we've had a pretty consistent notion of what constitutes "network abuse". It's traffic that threatens the stability of the network itself (such as spam and worm traffic). Obviously illegal stuff can be taken down by law enforcement. But stuff that's simply "bad for society" is generally given a free pass. If you don't like it, your options should be:

1. Don't visit them.
2. Sue them.
3. Get law enforcement involved.

Note that there is no #4 that says "harass everyone they depend on in an attempt to get them taken offline".
It's disturbing how much I love this. Also Licensed under a MIT license. Very Nice.
Honestly full-assed implementation. Font hinting is a bit odd with a green sheen on Firefox Win 10...
That stupid smooth sharks meme has been taking up space in my brain all these years that could be used for remembering my wedding anniversary, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yet everyone undestands why apps that help develop routines exist
> a series of special incantations

These are the words people use to describe something they don't like but which they don't understand. Really, just read the man page. It's a low level OS facility; these aren't simple APIs (neither is kqueue, FWIW). If you can figure out file descriptor passing or socket options, you can figure out epoll. If you really can't figure out epoll, you probably want to be working at a different layer of the abstraction stack.
It depends if you do it just one time like a tourist or you are being there all day.
I would guess that there's too much work being done at runtime. I would expect all of the data to be cached in such a way that it is a read operation without any transformation. It's doing multiple lookups and unnecessary maps when the data should just be formatted a single time and cached. You could even skip the JSON transformation by just doing it once if you want to get super fast.
You're the first person to mention it! I love Wordpress, that's where a lot of the ideas for Outstatic came from.
Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough
I got really weird results when I set the seed to 0099FF - not the decimal value of 0x99FF, I mean the literal string "0099FF". I got all kinds of terrain generation glitches including one where the surface on which my wheels rested was a good 50 feet above what the texture was applied to.
It’s just made the App Store unusable. Even exact name search is fraught with peril.

I just Google things instead now.

I feel like this is what is going to happen for every product Apple will infest with ads.
Bono Again Apologizes for U2’s iTunes Stunt: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’
San Fraction is such an interesting place and could be so much better if real estate and housing was significantly cheaper
> more Go and less Rust

Not at all, it does not have a runtime with a built-in thread pool and channels like Go.
The fact that you haven't mentioned standard deviation shows that you don't know how a normal distribution works.

Moreover, you are talking about "admission rate" which you haven't clearly defined.

Also, the normal distribution is a law of averages - that does not apply here. You have to use the actual distribution of data, not the normal distribution of averages.

If you want to make a proper statistical argument you must have the acceptance ratio at a given college for every race for a particular SAT score (say a SAT score of 1250) Any other data is just muddling signal with noise.

In fact, the paper that you linked does just that

https://www.ednc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screenshot-2...

The darker bar graph us what needs to be used.

Asians most discriminated.
Whites and Pacific islanders a distant second. Hispanics and multiracial follow closely at 3rd position. Blacks benefit the most, but given that the number of students in each ethnicity is not specified then the discrimination level is unclear.

If there are very few Asian students and plenty of black students, whites can be experiencing discrimination. However, if there are lots of Asians and very few black students, then whites are beneficiaries!

They could have used the average as a zero control, but they used whites, which means that definitive statements can only be made about black and Asian students!
> maybe you can add a self learning component

Basic physics is also pretty applicable here. ;)

acceleration = velocity^2 /radius

with a simplified

max friction force = coefficient of friction * car weight

And to tie them together

force = mass * acceleration
If you were told that a certain type of food was not going to be available in a few years, wouldn't you go out of your way to enjoy it while you could?

It is human nature. I'm not defending it, just observing.
Just make a list of things that actualy work on Safari IOS, it will be faster
> But that's maybe a bad example

Gee, ya think?

> So let's consider instead models of Robinson arithmetic.

OK.

> There are models of Robinson arithmetic, for which the sentence "for all x, Sx != x" is false

OK. So?

> even though we clearly want it to be true in the natural numbers.

Who is "we"?

> if we add the axiom "there is an x for which Sx = x" to Robinson arithmetic, we get a theory which is arithmetically unsound

OK. So?

> whatever we derive from it, does not readily apply to Turing machines

Why do you think that this does not "readily apply to Turing machines"? Turing machines do not natively do arithmetic. They just write symbols to a tape according to a state transition table.

Do you really believe that writing a proof checker for Robinson arithmetic, with or without your new axiom, is different in any salient way than writing a proof checker for PA?

(And would you please consider the possibility that I might not be a complete idiot?)
Was looking for this exact comment, or to add it otherwise. Props to the Ship It show from The Changelog!
I can sort-of see a business model where they host SSH-based applications -- ideally with a Mosh option. As a user, I log in and get a menu of the different applications I am subscribed to that they host, or I can ssh-exec a particular application, perhaps with the option to reconnect to an application that I had open a moment ago. Perhaps being able to text-screen-share so that I can train someone else up would be good (for customer support).

I would expect that this kind of infrastructure would be cheap to support and cheap to run. All the infrastructure is already there in the Linux kernel (or any other Unix-like): just charge me based on my customer's pacct (process accounting) records.

There are a lot of CRUD apps that would be just as good in a TUI as a GUI, and there are a lot of businesses built on CRUD apps.
The gun laws were written incredibly poorly, listing at one point "all dangerous weapons" then for minors, citing an anti short barreled shotgun and rifle law.

The defense successfully argued that the phrasing meant rifles and shotguns with a barrel length of sixteen inches or more were exempted.
I think the point the OPs was making is you cannot store up miles on Monday that you can then release Wednesday. You can with commits / stashes.

And that distorts behaviour
Wow that's a tangent.
> I think it could probably be done by using public GPG keys as identities, then keeping changes in a torrent-distributed git repo where user-generated data is saved in GPG signed git commits.

Congratulations, you won some HN bingo squares by introducing both PKI and blockchain to the discussion :-D

But, in all seriousness: moderation against what?
lets remember that shkreli character was assasinated because he did a similar feat (while making it free for uninsured people) and that helped making his jail sentence worse while also being harassed by the media and people on social networks.
Yowza. 2.25" roll, 60 yards long is $280 on $bigsite. 33.75 sq ft. I guess $1.55/linear-foot of pretty wide (2.25") very awesome tape aint that bad but this is definitely a bit more than I was expecting. Sounds rad though, keeps planes flying, so I get it.

Comments also mention 425 aluminum "speed tape", which seems to be between half to third the price.
How did you arrive at the conclusion that his work is important? I ask because you say that you were hitherto unfamiliar with his works and to me the present article gives no indication of so much as an interesting idea.