skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France here. I knew some Evernote developers and PO. They were blowing money and adding features like there’s no tomorrow. When there was indeed no tomorrow at Evernote, they used their unemployment benefits from our state and worked in parallel, which was legally dodgy and ethically out of the line. They created a consultancy which almost exclusively works on state-derived funding, a bit like half of science projects in USA depend on Darpa, except it was education money which they used to invent some AI model to find at-risk pupils that every teacher could qualify anyway, but you know, AI+education makes a sexy startup. They only got public funding and customers who themselves were publicly funded.

Such people are a dead weight on our society, sucking at education funds, not weighing the cost they have, and giving lessons to everyone.

Those guys will never understand how to provide a service that customers are willing to pay for.
Though it is sad that they are not always defined. For example that weird looking "a" and "at" in the first formula of the answer to "what is the schroedinger equation?"

There are also cases of duplicated or cutted of paragraphs, but it is not very disturbing.
You mean to avoid actual understanding? I think everyone intuitively understands what ai guns leads to. Wars that the gov can do without its public caring so much, and govs that can't be toppled by civil unrest (read the military/cops switching sides)
Did anybody else know this would be a Tom Scott video before clicking it? He always finds the oddest most interesting things to show off.
Honestly, the examples you gave seem to make sense when you understand how git works and the philosophy.

It seems most (all?) interaction with the remote is via sync commands: push/pull/fetch. So why bake it into a different command. Commands like "git tag" interact with your local.

Given the abstract concept of a checkout, as it works in git, none of that is surprising (save for maybe that you could create a branch); however, that seems like a desirable feature. Why would you want to do a branch create, then checkout after, when you just want it done right away?

EDIT/P.S. Regarding the git "abstract concept of checkout" that I mentioned, but forgot to define. This is a pretty simple concept: switch working copy to on pointed to by branch reference, and new commits will go on that branch (appended to the end of the branch), create new branch if it doesn't exist (but doesn't this require a flag?)... can't you still create with branch if you really want to?
I had some contact with Wipro. It was their standard operating procedure to call us up and yell at support team members that X "Hasn't worked for months and you haven't done anything." + escalate up the chain as high as possible to put pressure on the tech support staff from some other vendor, when in fact they just opened the ticket. They would lie and reference the first old ticket they could think of and say it was the same issue (it never was, they wouldn't even lie well enough to reference the same equipment).

They would declare everything was a P1 ticket and demand it be fixed immediately. Then we would get some output from the machine or even remotely access it and find that outside of testing at the factory this was the first time it was powered on. When we would ask them for configurations ... they were evasive.

If you got their end customer on the line you would find that they had been lying to them for months. This happened a lot ...
I do not think people should be directing money to asteroid charities, no. It's their money, they can do what they want, but if their discipline demands that they do that, it's a bad discipline.
Because I said there is no evidence that MKUltra brainwashed people.

You've met people in the military, CMU students and religions of all stripes who were subject to MKUltra and had their minds controlled?
I’ve worked on a team where Github was the one who reached out about a leaked AWS secret key, not AWS. They apparently usually do this a few minutes before the key makes it into their search index. It’s not much but it’s better than nothing.
> E.g. Adjusting mirrors takes 3 menu clicks, don't even think of doing it while driving.

20 years ago I was taught that mirrors should have already been adjusted by the time you turn the key. Has this changed? Why would you ever need to adjust the mirrors while driving?

> it clears all your other settings and goes to "auto",

No it doesn't

> Seat warmer? 2+ clicks on center console

It's over click. It's still awful because you have to look at the screen, but it's still only 1 click. There is no reason to lie, it's still terrible.

> Map? You're practically looking at the passenger glove box to see it.

Unless you display is overlapping the glove box somehow, this is not the case.
I have this minset too, but I have one use case for sharing EN notes: when I write articles or short posts which needed to be approved or get an editor touch. I may use Google Docs for it, but there are too many downsides with them compared to EN.
There were actually a ton of computers that used the same video chip (or its successors) that the TI-99/4A used. The entire MSX/MSX-2 series for one.

Also, to be slightly pedantic, the X-16 doesn't have IO ports. It's using a 65C02 processor, where all I/O is memory mapped.
Putting children in a foster home is a higher legal barrier than a voluntary "Safety plan." Phrasing this as alternative is disingenuous.

It's safe to assume if that legal barrier was actually met they would have put them in a foster home as staying with the parents would be too unsafe.

The parents got bluffed by tyrants. Personally I would never open the door to, nor sign any document, nor speak with CPS outside of court proceedings. Let them gather whatever evidence they need with a warrant and enforce any order by mechanism of the judge rather than agreeing to whatever pompous authoritarian bullshit is spewed out by some 3rd-rate bureaucrat in a "voluntary safety plan."

>”no unsupervised time, but children remain with parents” agreements are one alternative that CPS sometimes gives,

IANAL but I don't think anyone but a judge can give that order, and I would certainly bet my freedom and even my life on that.
Many years ago, I did some consulting work on a project that had been "delivered" by Infosys. It was, to put it lightly, a complete and utter mess in every way. Just from a security vulnerability standpoint, it had: SQL injection, plaintext passwords for user accounts, zero protection against URL manipulation, etc. And those are just the ones that come to mind immediately.

Glad to see nothing has changed.
> FTX’s collapse was unthinkable just days earlier.

I was shocked -- SHOCKED! -- to find out there was gambling going on in there.
How would I find the modern, generally accepted understanding of hypnosis?
No, it's not practical for any application - at least none besides drones. A 737 has 150-200 seats, this would entail 17 separate 9-seater electric planes - each of which needs its own pilot - to substitute one regional jet. Ticket price would have to be extremely high just to fulfill the labor cost of operating the aircraft, because of this high staff to passenger ratio. There's also no mention of how long it took to recharge these batteries after the 30 minute flight - a plane that needs to sit for several hours to recharge between each 30 minute flight is not going to yield a return on investment.
Yep, it's the classic self-fulfilling prophecy. Even a lot of non-techies are aware that there are multiple browsers, and will just switch to whichever gets the job done. So if you're seeing less % of any specific browser than the overall web your site is probably broken on that browser. If it's not obvious by now, that means you need to do more testing in that browser, not less.
Using the bindings is only possible if the library itself is already installed (since the bindings directly make use of the library, under the hood).
I don't know how to frame this that doesn't come off very Stockholm Syndrome, but ... the environment of human beings is not the jungle or the tundra, it is other human beings. As such, being able to navigate among the majority -- whatever they are -- has some kind of utility.

I'll throw in a side of "Americans are often 'stuck' in high school on some developmental level." I couldn't necessarily say the same about people in Europe or anywhere else.
For those interested in this, there is also a quite large battery powered ferry operating in Norway.

>The Bastø Electric is 139.2-metre-long and 21-metre-wide and was built by the Turkish Sefine Shipyard and has room for 600 passengers and 200 cars or 24 trucks.

>Bastø Electric uses batteries with a capacity of 4.3 MWh. The fast-charging system has a capacity of 9 MW.

https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/02/worlds-largest-electric...
I've been working fully remotely for the past 8 years. Slack is great for sending over clear instructions for people to follow, but doesn't communicate attitude and can be slow as typing out long messages is a big time sink. I highly recommend using Huddles / Slack calls to quickly get to the bottom of things. Don't feel obligated to respond to a message immediately either. Respond when it makes the most sense for you (within reason).
Sort of off topic but the war in Ukraine has brought to my attention that we actually fire missiles with giant miles-long extension cords. Missiles. With extension cords.
Hard to say how much of this was the difference between public and private school though right? The montessori kids had parents who cared about education enough to pay the tuition.
The difference is a few lines of code
The problem is that social media as presently designed faces a choice between being an absolute cess pit of trolls and hate or being sometimes over-moderated. There is no way to do moderation right that will not get you accused of being biased or operating in bad faith by a large faction of people.

If Elon can solve that he truly is a genius. So far no Internet forum has managed to achieve anything but that trade-off.
I agree. What someone needs to invent is a good way of powering a tractor (or combine harvester) through an electric cable.
It's up 79$/year now for personal accounts.
Tell HN: Some NASA Subdomains Are Down
Working:
https://data.nasa.gov/
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/

Not Working:
https://cddis.nasa.gov/
https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://space-geodesy.nasa.gov/
That might still be preferable to coming up with theories explaining mechanisms we don't fully understand and then looking for data which might prove it. That might become especially problematic when scientists stake their entire careers on it. We might end up with situations similar the amyloid hypothesis which likely tuned out to be a dead end a huge waste time & resources.
There's a big difference between hard work- of which I have done plenty- and completely sacrificing yourself to a role. What Musk is signalling with his language is abusive and unnecessary to achieve any reasonable goal.
For what it's worth, Amazon's architecture for the core retail business has, if anything, moved even further up in abstraction. Tighter coupling is something that simple usecases can afford. Large scale but low-complexity can be closely coupled. High-complexity can't be.

The thing about Amazon's systems is that they are horrendously complex. In ~2016 I was working on the warehousing software, and it was a set of some hundreds of microservices in the space, which also communicated (via broad abstraction) to other spaces (orders, shipments, product, accounting, planning, ...) which were abstractions over 100s of other microservices.

So what I observed at the time was a broad increase in abstraction horizontally, rather than vertically. This manifesto describes splitting client-server into client-service-server; the trend two decades later was splitting <a few services, one for each domain> into <many services, one for each slice of each domain>, often with services that simply aggregated the results of their subdomains for general consumption in other domains.

I'm sure things have only gotten more complicated since then (in particular, a large challenge at the time was the general difficulty in producing maintainable asynchronous workflows, so lots of work was being done synchronously or very-slightly-asynchronously that should have been done in long-running or even lazy workflows).
> I also know that every team at Amazon is different, so please don’t take my description for what it’s like working there as a whole.

No, no, this sounds pretty much like every team I was on for the nearly-decade I was there.
I still hate that Evernote bought Skitch. Really wish the new team would revive it or sell it off to an interested dev.
You can pretty much do anything to a window in KDE Plasma: you could force it to stay behind, force some arbitrary state or geometry upon it, add a setting that hides it from the apps bar, or even from the alt-tab list - or you could do all of this, it's just a couple clicks away under the window title bar icon, other actions, configure... I'd wager to say you have much more control in KDE than in any other DE, macOS and Windows included.
GitHub Copilot CLI
The good old problem with math language - you can not copy and paste it into a search engine.
I had never before considered, but how do they melt/cast tungsten? How do you get temperatures that hot in a controlled way, when basically nothing is solid anymore.
There is some research into proto-basque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Basque_language), although I wouldn't characterize it as purer.

This is mostly a theoretical exercise, extrapolating back patterns observed in Latin loanwords changed after being absorbed and differences between modern dialects.

Brief parenthesis: There are still significant differences in the language within a couple hundred km, to the point where it can be very hard to understand each other. An effort was made during the 60s to define a Standard Basque (Euskara Batua: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Basque) for education, bureaucracy and law. It is comparable to the unification of Mandarin Chinese at a smaller scale.

Back to the topic of older basque. You have to consider that there's a clear record of the basque living under roman rule, and the region has been under larger powers (but also relatively isolated and autonomous) for its entire history. The intermixing with romance languages started all the way back with original Latin, and the discovery discussed in the article also shows heavy influence from pre-roman iberian languages in the use of their alphabet, even if the languages probably had different roots (iberian is indo-european, basque not).

Nevertheless, the language in this discovery is not really considered basque but more of an ancestor. There is a large gap in the written record, very little has been found between early Roman times and the first writings in modern Basque well into the Middle Ages, at which point heavier intermixing with the rest of Europe started during the 1500s with the pioneering of large-scale whaling and a thriving ship-building economy. It's not really clear when modern basque started, and it has been heavily influenced by other languages pretty much since the neolithic.
Can you explain why free and/or open source is important to you? What sacrifices are you willing to make to maintain free and open source?
> Until now, scholars had supposed the Vascones had no proper written language – save for words found on coins

That seems to be a pretty ridiculous supposition. Why would they only use it for coins?
> Infosys is a known "mass recruiter" in indian colleges. WITCH (Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL) companies is where talent goes to die.

This could be true but you cant really generalize and it has nothing to do with the article. Infosys is not the only company leaking keys online. pretty sure tons of Amarican companies have done that
Think that's bad? Check out what Zoom has been up to for years surrounding fingerprinting video.
Some (most) things from today won't survive, just like some (most) things from the 1950s didn't survive. I own some recent furniture and tools that could comfortably survive 70 years; they are at just as high quality, if not better. E.g. I have some metal-framed chairs that could last centuries if they were re-covered every few decades.
Considering that programming language compilers or interpreters are also written by human "software writers", where you the developer are the "user" doing dumb things, hopefully you are using a language that stops you from doing dumb things.

Dumb things like spamming others, issuing hundreds of unnecessary requests to external APIs or databases, trashing all the memory of a system, filling up the disk... A "general purpose" language which basically doesn't exist?

Anything even a bit non-trivial can be used to do dumb things. It is a responsibility for everyone in the chain not to do them, and if dumb things happen, everyone in the chain _is_ responsible.

We can debate how much blame each of them should take, but we should not ignore the blame an individual doing a dumb thing should take simply because there were people in "official" roles being even dumber.

I mean, this was already depicted in the South Park when all the parents get sent to jail by their kids.
You should have just switched teams. Amazon has amazing teams working on deep technology, they also have huge systems with technical debt and stress. People dont realize how different it can be inside the company.
that is indeed more or less the story as it was told here, Statler & Waldorf-style, laughing at and ridiculing the dumb billionaire for making every possible decision as completely and utterly incorrectly as possible, every step of the way… but built into that story is a lot of assumptions about motivations and expectations that we simply are not privy to no matter how much we pretend otherwise. also the story changed halfway through from "there's no way he's ever going to be able to buy it" to "ahahaha now he's so fucked he HAS to buy it!". all of this was very emotion-driven and sensationalized, in ways that many people, myself included, assessed as being less and less reality-based as time went on, in ways that curiously mirrored other formally similar incidents from previous years.

again, taking a step back and reflecting on things can lead to the discovery of such patterns repeated across recent history, which leads to key insights about how and why these overemotional public melodramas play out the way they do.
A PM who's been given a metric goal and has their performance staked on hitting goal with nothing to counter-balance their push to hit that goal.

I recall a presentation someone gave awhile back which said something like, "Give a PM a goal that their job depends on and they will burn the company down to hit it."

I was a PM at a FAANG in a former life, so I can understand the pressure. Thankfully, I never did anything like this, partly because my team had a strong focus on customer experience but also because I cared less about the financial/promotion incentives.
onewheels suffer from a problem known as nosediving in which the board shuts off when it can't supply enough power to support the rider, as the board is self balancing this is a problem intrinsic to the board's form factor. The board works in a similar fashion to balancing something like an umbrella on your hand, as the rider leans forward it creates an imbalance that requires the board to accelerate in order to keep the rider upright. The only possible safety feature to prevent nosedives is to inform the rider that they're approaching the board's limits, this is done with "pushback" where the board elevates the nose making the rider uncomfortable, signaling that they should slow down. Newer boards are more aggressive with pushback, it's definitely a balancing act giving the user the most power from their board while also preventing them from nosediving, future motion faced significant backlash when their new flagship board implemented extremely strong pushback at a speed lower than a prior discontinued model
Sure, but "actively shopping for a home" is different from "waiting for prices to fall so you can afford one". If you'd kept your down payment in cash since the last housing bottom a decade ago, you'd have missed out on ~3x appreciation vs. putting it in an index fund.
What Is a Rangefinder Camera?
Not a new idea...

FWIW: I wasn't claiming that.
You think that 0.1% of kids are kidnapped while walking?
It's a direct quote from Murray Rothbard. So that's one at least.
Yeah I actually think this guy was just underperforming
I think you're overthinking it and "them" here is the TSA employees. UBI by definition means everyone.

Also I have no idea what "normalize condition" means?
Does anyone know what role or title the the author might have had there? They mentioned DevOps but then also in another paragraph they mentioned front-end development.
yeap. let's say it something i made for myself. I didnt expect ppl to use it really. Going to work on it if people end up using it
How did they handle shares? I thought they just paid them out (or were going to) but it's not a public company anymore. I mean I guess you could still have shares internally if they wanted to go public again...
What Amazon were describing here is simply the division between a frontend web gateway service (or, in modernity, client-delivered SPAs); an API backend service to serve the XHRs of the web-gateway / SPA; and some kind of DBMS where user-visible query schema is separable from storage architecture via e.g. views. I don't think there's any modern system that doesn't have those things, no?
Will you endure the longer hours which will be implemented at your job also, for it will appear evident, that the tech worker is unperturbed by diminished working conditions?
> If you send a console command to move the cursor or do anything else to it, the simple answer is to make that a barrier between glyphs. If you output a combining character after doing that, the combining character goes into the next cell all by itself.

Maybe. I'd be concerned about what effects that might have on applications which need to be able to display multiple streams of output at once, like tmux.

> Being the last character on a line isn't really any different from being in the middle of a line

You might be surprised. After printing the last character on a line, the cursor goes into a weird "wrapnext" state, where the cursor stays at the end of the line, but will wrap to the next line (potentially triggering scrolling) when the next character is output. This state is highly ephemeral; it can't be entered through control sequences, even by DECSC/DECRC.
On-Chip Power Distribution Modeling Becomes Essential Below 7nm
It's a private company now, I don't believe any Twitter employees are getting any equity.
In some parts of Europe they still try to look cool behaving like if they were some hip company from Silicon Valley. Depressing stuff imho.
I think that post goes on to explain why that might be relevant.
The comments saying the lesson here is that recipients of donations like non-profits and foundations should be vetting their donors better seem unreasonable to me.

If FTX investors, customers, and watchers of the crypto space did not catch what FTX and SBF were doing until the shit hit the fan, what kind of due diligence can we reasonably expect of these recipients that would’ve alerted them to something being wrong here?

And consider that the number of donors for most institutions would be much larger than the number of companies FTX investors would’ve had to keep an eye on.