skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of the morale reasons that lots of people mentioned, the opportunity cost isn't necessarily as bad as it sounds. Pilots need a certain # of hours every year. If the option is "spend 40 hours this month doing training exercises" vs "spend 40 hours saving a pilot", the utilitarian argument becomes a bit weaker. Especially if search & rescue is part of their regular duties.

Similar for sailors. They get paid the same whether they're rescuing someone or drawing figure-8s in the middle of the ocean.
Your life is pretty damn good then, all things considered.
There has to be a balance though. I remember hearing (probably a HN comment) that all the UI designers in the Windows team at MS use Macs, which blew my mind, but also explained so much.

If you have people working on designing and improving a product who are ultimately not even willing to use it as a their daily driver, you get the kinda of disconnected mess that is that UI in Windows and the sometimes baffling decisions made.
I don't think the sentiment that "typing a password is easier to use than FaceID or TouchID" is very common.
META share buybacks last four quarters

June 30, 2022: $5.233B

March 31, 2022: $9.506B

December 31, 2021: $20.06B

September 30, 2021: $13.46B
If I was his boss, I would be watching him regularly.
Yeah, it's on the todo list.
> Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now.

You didn't read TFA, the earnings report explicitly saying the significant amount of buybacks they did.
Data chimp – an attempt to move beyond the data notebook
> It says practically nothing.

Is that not the whole point? "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Self-driving vehicle company Argo AI loses investors, will fold
Yeesh, maybe you should try and avoid featureless asphalt in the future.
It's interesting that a platform of pro-worker, anti-war, anti-censorship, which used to be central tenants of the left (and I would say the best of the left), now make up the core of Trumpism.
Curious, what near missed?
Back-of-envelope math on an educational website says terminal velocity for a human in a horizontal position (that is, someone with some control over themselves trying to not go fast) is approximately 120 mph, achieved after falling about 1490 ft.

https://owlcation.com/stem/Drag-Force-and-the-Terminal-Veloc...
That's why I never use the onboard Ethernet chipset, ever.

Even if it's BIOS-disable.

Just buy a decent Intel (or even RTL) Ethernet NIC PCI card, or two.
> What will they do on the job if an opportunity presents itself?

What kind of opportunity are we talking?

I think it highly depends on the circumstances. Job performance and lying to gain entry don't necessarily correlate. The "dishonest for personal gain" argument goes out the window in this profit-driven world. If anything, it's encouraged with the precedence already being set by the employer market itself. Employers will cheat candidates out of whatever they can get away with; that's the norm not the exception.

If a candidate has more work experience than their would-be college educated peers, you've effectively shut out a valuable asset for no good reason. Maybe they've assessed the position and determined it's an arbitrary barrier for getting hired, but honesty would be far too risky. If they passed your interview, then either your education requirement is unnecessary or your interview process sucks and you're allowing bad candidates in regardless. Maybe this trait of fabricating education credentials means they're actually resourceful and understand risk assessment?

FWIW I'm a high school drop out, no degree. I work in FAANG and I'm going on 17+ years of work experience in tech. Lack of degree has never been an issue for me. If I see the requirement there, I still apply and each time the employer has waived it. I'm just playing devils advocate here.
Because they serve the role of what used to often times filled by PCs. Turns out not everyone needs a PC and they also don’t want have to do everything on a tiny touchscreen. If they didn’t exist I think the alternative for many would be the Air.

This shouldn’t be hard to understand.
> But when it comes to complete-and-correct documentation, I hear voices saying "are we sure we need this?", and "we're no worse than C was in 1985", and "we shouldn't let writing documentation slow down releasing new features".

Topic matters. Take the Guaranteed Niche Optimisation. Many users rely on Rust's promise that Option<&T> is the same size as &T for example, that's the "Guaranteed Niche Optimisation" (the niche in &T is that it can't be a NULL pointer) If the specification didn't mention this at all, or said eh, we can't promise anything, that would be a problem. I've no doubt serious Rust users would demand this get written down properly.

But the exact details of the Guarantee aren't so important. Far more people care that Option<&T> is the same size as &T, than care about, say, Option<NonZeroU32> let alone more obscure types that are in practice optimised. If it turned out the guarantee was narrower than you expected, but only for some type you never use, is that important?

What if Option<Infallible> wasn't a ZST due to a compiler bug? I'd guess Rust internal tests would notice, but if not I'm not sure how much real software would care.

If somebody can spend next week either carefully documenting exactly what the Guaranteed Niche Optimisation is, all the fine details, or implementing a cute niche optimiser trick which turns out to make the most popular JSON parser use 1% less RAM and 5% less CPU, the latter is just clearly the better deal.
I don't know about other people, but it's the 2nd most useful device I own (after my laptop), and it is the device I use the most by far (if you look at the time I'm using it).

To me, an iPad is a notebook that's always with me, where I write down all my thoughts in my journal, practice writing and screenwriting, do task management and planning (most of that in Obsidian). I also watch video courses, listen to music, browse the internet, all the stuff everyone uses their mobile devices for.

Smartphone is too small for typing, and not as convenient, no other tablet is anywhere near as convenient to use. iPad mini is the perfect form factor for me.
Same here. Even that simple task (setting a timer) only has about a 75% success rate for me. The other 25% it spins for 30 seconds then says "hmm something went wrong". Trying for anything more complex, even playing a song or album, is just asking for trouble. I honestly can't believe how bad Siri is despite years of development.

I do have an older iPhone 10 and maybe it's just not up to the task of running Siri? But if so they should disable it rather than put on this extremely amateur feeling show.

For what it's worth we have an Echo Dot in the house and I find it to be both orders of magnitude more responsive and more likely to actually do what I asked for. No unwanted refrigerators have arrived as of yet.
That started with BF3, and worked pretty OK there.
I guess that's the original article where this meme was born.

Edit: actually it mentions a book that was published one year before.

I had never known where the expression originated, but surely I heard about the economy of attention.
I've worked at places where both your comparisons absolutely matter. 55ms vs 15ms for a domain specific search engine breaks the budget of 20ms. 110 vs 75 broke the budget of a ML API. Not everyone has the luxury of not caring about speed
He explicitly mentioned some of the troubles you might have implementing and maintaining that yourself via FFI.

He very much did not explicitly mention that its already done, with established results, and that the described “pain” isn’t something you have to take on at all.
> I could afford 3 of my current mortgages currently,

The key word being: currently. I wouldn't begin to speak to individual situations, but: what the World is and will continue to go through in order to correct some of the imbalance that happened over the past ten years will decimate a lot of people. Maybe ironically, the people it may least impact are the people who were already decimated. As they say, when a tornado hits, homeowners lose their home, but the homeless lose nothing.

And, I'm sure, Bezos will be fine. Its the people in the middle that always get screwed.
Interesting - we have it on our first car, love it, and just paid for it a second time on our second car. We regularly make 3-5hr trips with it driving. Maybe something is wrong with yours?
It's usually a bit easier to shift a Wind Mill than to shift a coal mine.
Come on, Argentina has rampant inflation, and an individual plan is tripling to $2.53. Not a great example.
Have you taken a look at the v6.2.0 and onward 'python' client? It uses type hints, and model new instantiation includes required and optional property signatures. I am the author of that newer python generator.
>They don't explain this here, but they did in Tesla earnings

It's in the first bullet point on page 2:

Revenue was $27.71 billion, a decrease of 4% year-over-year, and an increase of 2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis. Had foreign exchange rates remained constant with the third quarter of 2021, revenue would have been $1.79 billion higher.

EDIT: who thinks there would still be explanatory wording added here if forex rates had moved the other way and revenues had gone up ... ?
Anecdotally, my whole family has them for digital reading/browsing without the clunkiness of a laptop or the small screen of a phone. Mind you, iPad power users in my family are children or elderly folks who otherwise wouldn't be using a computer.
It’s never too early to sign up for AARP
number of ads shown up 17%, price per ad down 18%. Seems to me that advertising is being cut and meta is making up for it by showing more ads per user per time.
Some constitutions, like that of the US, are designed to prevent any individual from amassing such power. The Russian and Chinese constitutions aren't in that same school.
Is there an example of a JVM that has been proven correct in this sense?

I haven't heard of one.
“Am I out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.”
> date -s @$[2*31 - 10]

A digression: The documented bash syntax for arithmetic expansion is $(( EXPRESSION )) . I see that $[ EXPRESSION ] also works, but I don't see it documented anywhere. (Both syntaxes also work in zsh.)
If every decade we say "Welp, we can't start building nuclear plants now because they won't be done for a decade" then it'll never happen. That long startup time has been the ongoing boogieman against nuclear since the 90's and it is certainly a real cost - but we can't stop-gap our way to a solution forever. Building out more coal power today while investing in nuclear is fine - it's not fine to just accept that if we can't do it in five years it's not worth doing.
"On-grid/off-grid" seems here to mean on-grid when it is not producing enough.
> The tight coupling, the non-portability, all of that are technical choices, that can be debated on their own merit

They can't. GNU was a political project from day 1, with explicitly political goals; the unix-like design is for political, not technical, reasons.

> Projects merged changes because they wanted them, not because their goodwill was abused to make them merge anything.

Citation needed. If you maintain a widely-used open-source project there's a pretty strong social norm/pressure to merge contributions that don't have anything obviously wrong with them, even if the functionality they implement is something you don't actually want or need.

> People got systemd on their OSes because they chose OSes whose developers chose to move to systemd.

Because they chose OSes whose non-technical leadership chose to move to systemd, in violation of the project constitution, and then had the rump technical committee rubber-stamp it once the principled technical leadership had resigned in disgust and the decision was already a fait accompli, the way I remember it.

> It's not like Lennart comes to your home with a gun if you install OpenBSD.

Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen. No, Lennart won't hack into your computer with an SSH exploit, but he'll get the software you're using (like Gnome) to push updates that stop it working on your computer, and so the end result ends up much the same.
LEGO kits used to be composed of fully interchangeable parts. While that is still true of the core build, there are now unique parts in every kit. This is driven by sales.
oh I see its about the use of the % sign/word instead of just number of points, I missed that’s what people were “aha!”-ing about

> whether it's wrong mathematically or verbally is philosophical.

got it. yeah I don't care that much as I think what was being conveyed was obvious, and everyone else understood that too
"WILMINGTON, Del., Oct 13 (Reuters) - Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday.

While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the probes was and which federal authorities are conducting them."

They are reporting what the court filing said, what are they supposed to do?
I'm in no way conflating the impact of the two, I'm pointing out that the implication of the original comment "It's just too old for people to be outraged about still", is that people shouldn't be outraged at evil things solely because those evil things happened a long time ago.

The implication itself is ridiculous. Time does not make evil things less evil.

To suggest that I'm contrasting the impact of ME (not the same as vPro) with the holocaust is either blatantly missing the point or a deliberate, bad faith strawman.
FCF isn't a great metric for tech companies due to how many shares they issue through employee comp. FCF calculation typically doesn't include this cost.

But yeah, it's down bigly. So is their net income.
One complaint about Flash was inefficiency, but are the alternatives faster? Complex Flash media could run on early 2000s PCs. Modern webpages cannot.
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for your comment. A project you may find interesting is soft-serve from charm.sh https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve it's a "TUI" (terminal user interface).
Currently 3D printinga lot of Lego rail on my FDM printer. Although not perfect, it does snap onto original rail and to its 3D printed peers. Lego pieces do snap to the dimples as well, although too tight.

Main use case for me is to lay some track between rooms for kid's trains.
Bummer, I feel like Mindstorms landed right in that gap for me where I was a bit too old for them when they first came out (in high school, already having a blast with web programming), and now I have a two year old who builds giant Duplo castles, has conversations with our household robots, wears robot pajamas, and I'm super excited for them to age into robotics toys.

This SPIKE Prime thing seems neat, but as others have mentioned, a bit bland. Hopefully LEGO comes out with some rad space robot themed sets at some point.

Does anyone know if LEGO has or is working on some sort of Minecraft style environment where you can build cool stuff, and then develop the programs and run them in the simulated environment? Then maybe you can build the machines IRL and run the same code to get the same behavior? Even a single player simulator would be pretty neat, though multiplayer would be ideal. Maybe what I'm hoping for is something like a MuJoCo for kids, and it seems like LEGO would be a perfect match to have a product like that.
I second this. The ipad has become the computer for several in my family as well.
The stock's price in the past is irrelevant.

The question you should be asking is what are the company's earnings growth prospects going forwards, and how does that compare to the stock's current valuation.
After 23 years now I pretty much use it as it is out of the box and still only know a small subset of commands. It has been my primary editor that entire time other than when I had to work on C# projects. I have never encountered a bug or crash in that period.
EV3 was largely compatible with NXT, and while NXT wasn't directly compatible with RIS they sold separate adapter modules. 51515 was a huge regression compared to the rest of the series.

The general LEGO system has also had decades of compatibility at this point...
smolder has a comment in this thread expressing viability for some boards doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347065
Except that writing a windowed DOS terminal emulator involves writing an entire VGA card emulator, likely a VGA BIOS, hooking a bunch of DOS routines.... probably a DOS extender too.
Not sure who you are criticizing here.
Why the headline change? A population decline is not the same thing as a biodiversity decline.
it got at least "detected" and provided as an API for people who query these things, and it does get filtered out as a kind of data center/low reputation IP class. But as with anything of this type, it's up to the client what to do with it. Most disposable infrastructure is not trustworthy for the exact reason that they don't associate an individual with a high-cost profile, i.e. at least a credible/high rep email, or an SMS-authed phone number, and so on.

Of course there's always the argument that, if your revenue relies on defending against free-trial abuse, then maybe your product is not fit for a freemium model in the first place.
Write to your state's Attorney's General office, they usually have consumer affairs divisions. The FTC also has a Bureau of Consumer Protection.
> unless they are somehow involved in a secondary market

LEGO owns BrickLink, as of a few years ago.
The v6.2.0 python client uses type hints everywhere so model property access gives typed results
Endpoint inputs are typed. Endpoint responses are typed so you know what deserialized body models you are getting back. Have you tried it?
A Brief History of Authentication [video]
Why did you pick 'Sarah'
Which of course explains why the rest of the Americas have also been so peaceful and prosperous.
Far out, thanks
Some interesting anomalies that look like errors in the tables. E.g. setjmp() present in 32V, BSD3 and BSD 4.2, but longjmp() not present. That doesn't make sense and doesn't match their man pages.
One previous employer said (to the reference/background checker) "our corporate policy is to never rehire anyone, no matter what". This quote was typed into the background check.

Another said "all our records are in a storage shed in another state, so we have no records of anybody". This stopped the background check dead. Until I called that employer "but I still have money in the 401k system!" HR_drone says "why yes you certainly do, have them call me back". The results of which also appeared typed into the background check results.
If you can't hold it in your hot little hand, or touch it, you don't own it. It can be taken away from you with a drop of ink. (Or a movement of electrons.)

"Wealth is an illusion, wealth in a computer is doubly so." (Apologies to Douglas Adams)
furiously takes notes

I think the first time was because the asphalt was very very fresh. It was still sticky, and it was a hot sunny day in Oregon. My theory is that my shoe stuck to it.

The second time was on my nightly constitutional around my own neighborhood. I'm hoping it's because there was a buckled portion near the curb. But a couple years later I would have foot surgery, and it turns out my bones are spongy. The screws just kind of slipped out because the bone wouldn't hold them. So now I take thousands of milligrams of calcium per day on order of the foot doctor. That in turn has left me with giant kidney stones. :O

Long story short I just don't think I have the kind of luck Cliff Judkins had that fateful day.
I have an iPhone 13 Pro. I found that Android is almost a brick the moment you lose an Internet connection where as the iPhone is still productive and I can do stuff offline and it'll sync everything later no problems.

That is a complete dealbreaker for me for Android. Also, Google.
My sister never watched Netflix. Rather, she traded her password with friends and family in exchange for access to their streaming accounts. Now it's going to become worthless as barter for her, so she cancelled it outright.
I'm in no way conflating the impact of the two, I'm pointing out that the implication of the original comment "It's just too old for people to be outraged about still", is that people shouldn't be outraged at evil things solely because those evil things happened a long time ago.
The implication itself is ridiculous. Time does not make evil things less evil.

To suggest that I'm contrasting the impact of ME (not the same as vPro) with the holocaust is either blatantly missing my point (that the implication of the original comment is obviously completely false) or a deliberate, bad faith strawman.
They have acquired quite a number of VR studios. And they were pretty far down the road in building their own SOCs before deciding to double down on their partnership with Qualcomm.

I don't think it's fair to compare Meta against companies like Apple when they have up until now been almost entirely a software company.
Shame on Lego!
singleplayer fps, there's no arena fps with a particularly vibrant community, and if i'm wrong about that please please tell me which game i should be playing
Why would you reject something based on the age? Either the idea has value or it does not without regard for the age.
Best kind of comment/100
> Do you get a lot of scam calls? In the US this is a problem

The US is also a large and attractive target, because the population is large and the setup costs of a phone scam can be amortized across a massive group. Remember that scamming is a numbers game - they have to hit massive numbers of targets in order for it to pay off, because the probability of success is so low at each stage.

Phone numbers within the US are compatible - there's no longer any meaningful difference between calling someone in Maine or Alaska - and it's easy to spoof area codes across state lines. So a scam that works in one state in the US can effectively be run in all 50 states with ~no change.

Sweden is a country only slightly larger than New York City, and an effective scam would likely have to be run in Swedish (a language not spoken widely outside Sweden, and therefore not transposable to another scam) and it's trickier to spoof numbers across country lines convincingly (even within the EU) than it is across state lines in the US.

This pattern plays out in a lot of ways, not just for Sweden. In general, smaller countries that speak languages not widely popular outside their home country will be less attractive targets (both for scams and for legitimate business) than countries which have a large potential market (target) size.
> but if you never intend to sell, what possible harm could that do to you?

Operative word being if

> So what harm could this do to me?

It will harm those around you. I advise you look at yourself as a part of the American society you participate in - acting like we are separate is the source of many of our problems.
The decision to create such an engine is so unwise, it's evil.
I get

Uncaught 72428808 - Exception catching is disabled, this exception cannot be caught. Compile with -s DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING=0 or DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING=2 to catch

when starting a game, anyone have an idea why? On both chrome and edge.
Galactic settlement of low-mass stars as a resolution to the Fermi paradox