skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not have to be true. You can certainly pursue interesting biology research questions informed by a software engineering POV.
You complain about sources and then post some no-name youtuber as your source?
The price of obliterating Russia's army is $1 more for gas. Pretty good.
(me before opening the link) "... on Linux."

click

"Hm, yes."
You give consent to be served search results that match best fit with some content filtering based on best intentions.

Implied is an understanding that despite best intentions of the search provider, stuff may slip through.

This is vastly different than being flashed.
Still it's a lot different from yelling "I'm leaving!" and then do nothing.
They now are exposed to the "competition", which is dangerous from Twitter's point of view, because now all it needs to lose those users is a bigger enough users base that attracts them into Mastodon, and the more users migrate, the faster the migration becomes. In electronics that would be called an avalanche effect.
Yeah if it wasn’t comped before, it sure was after that.
Whoogle
It's self hosted, and just forwards to Google. But, it's HTML only, with tons of options, and minimizes tracking. It even has an option to route through Tor!
Apparently when another VC firm (Social Capital) suggested to create a board before going through with their investment, they received a plain&clear "f*k you".

Corporate governance, accounting, and all the other boring stuff should literally be the first things which you should look at when assessing whether to fuel or not an exchange.
I think Wire also moved to enterprise only, sadly. At least it appeared that way last time I visited.
> eroded my trust for Windows' updates

Remember that security vulnerabilities in Windows are discovered all the time, so it's dangerous to use Windows without installing the updates. If you (rightfully) don't want to install the updates, then you should switch to an OS that actually respects your freedom instead, like Linux.
I was up to a 50 day streak but decided to stop after this update. It feels like it's removed all agency from me to choose what I learn, or what type of lesson I do (although the new UI also got rid of some types of lessons that apparently won't be restored for another year). The amount of wasted space and scrolling in the UI make lessons feel so sisyphean. I literally spent 30 seconds scrolling and couldn't find the end of the path. I'm not going to give myself carpal tunnel trying to review a lesson I need a refresh on.

The CEO did a damage control AMA on reddit saying that the update is a boon for whatever metrics they measure, so the only feedback that matters is if people vote with their feet. I've ended my Super subscription and am trying out LingoDeer.
Saying that the mess is good for him to write about now is completely different than insinuating he was promoting FTX this spring, especially while simultaneously taking the position that he exposed it (which is mostly hindsight).

He's always talked about criminal and unethical behavior in an understated and humorous way in his column, and as a private individual, should be exempt from the slimy methods of character assassination used on politicians.
are people really interested in elon's buyout? would be interesting to see if those stories are really popular. but journalists are on twitter all day, so naturally they write about it more

https://www.nytimes.com/trending/
The NCLA is absolutely a partisan organization. They're funded by republicans, they're run by republicans, they hire republicans (Jeffrey Clark couldn't get a job anywhere post-insurrection, so they picked him up) they file suits only against democratic states or the Biden-administered federal government.

Frankly I think tagging them as a partisan group adds important context, though I agree that should be exposed in the article rather just left as code in the headline.
Not always true - but finding a very good programmer who knows the domain well enough to make a significant impact is challenging.
Hah, maybe you win.

I found it here (I have nothing to do with the site, was just browsing thru this guy’s website):
https://returntothesource.nl/en/
And that's why I used that example. The others you can kinda predict from following news. If I used another example the argument would make no sense.
> As with most other kinds of software, the biologists should be treated as customers (or trained up to be skilled-enough engineers), as it is done in other disciplines. To create good accounting software you also wouldn't propose to have the accountant write the initial version of the software, would you?

Accounting is a bit different, because it has already been invented. There are standards and best practices for it. In bioinformatics, writing software is often a research activity. You write software to determine what the software should do, and then you adjust your ideas and rewrite it. The person writing the first version(s) of the software is a researcher – at least in practice if not by job title.
How horribly cynical. Ukrainian lives are not worth "peanuts".

The real "defeat" would have been enough credible deterrence by western forces that Russia would never have attempted this, with enough diplomacy they would not have felt the need to.

It's a travesty that this war ever happened, no one should feel like a winner.
The government, arms companies, watching how the weapons are being used in near real time, in HD, with drone footage, and sometimes annoying music overlaid is probably priceless.
So now it’s a broad conspiracy involving them all?

This is growing in the telling.
I use 2FA and haven't been locked out once. I haven't seen the 5-10 second reloads or "vague error messages" you're claiming either. Can you share a link to a specific route where there's something broken?
I suspect the 4th amendment would have been worded somewhat differently if the royal tax collectors in Boston had been clever enough to train tea-sniffing dogs to search cargo for tea smuggling without physically searching inside.
Have been using Daily Rotation for years which allows choices of sites to be regularly presented, no comments. https://www.dailyrotation.com/
Related:

Introducing the Open Library Explorer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497766 - Dec 2020 (37 comments)

Importing Your Goodreads and Accessing Them with Open Library’s APIs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25423979 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

Open Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24457546 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)

Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34576 - July 2007 (25 comments)

Others?
Been using Go since the early days, and 'make/append' always felt clunky and out of place. Especially when you could just use literals for a map/slice...
In school I came across `The World as I See It` by Albert Einstein.

It resonated with me on many levels and even made me actually think about things which I was somehow not thinking through just because no one questions them in general, especially in a country where patriotism is celebrated as a virtue. It is full of wonderful ideas and parts of it have been thought through in great depth.

Some excerpts which I really liked and have sort of stayed imprinted in my brain since:

> This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military
system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation
to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been
given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

> I am convinced that the great men--those whose achievements,
even though in a restricted sphere, set them above their
fellows--are animated to an overwhelming extent by the same
ideals. But they have little influence on the course of political
events. It almost looks as if this domain, on which the fate of
nations depends, had inevitably to be given over to violence and
irresponsibility.

> What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he
feels it. But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men--in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_as_I_See_It_(book)

- https://archive.org/details/worldasiseeit00eins
> Godel showed that there is no such thing as a universal logic in our current approach to formal systems, but that didn't suddenly make logic non-objective. It simply means that there is no Ur-logic that can subsume all other logics (which is why most assert that Godel ended Hilbert's program).

Could you elaborate on that? Any references?
You do know what the word casualty means? The US 100k estimate includes the wounded, captured and MIA besides those who died.
> 2. The lawsuit alleges that there was no legal requirement or court order. Even if there had been, the lawsuit argues that the conduct would still have violated federal and state law and constitutions.

I would think the lack of a legal requirement or court order would actually absolve Massachusetts, as it would leave the responsibility resting on Google. Surely within the terms of Play store etc, Google has the power to do anything they'd like to your device and personal information. And that power extends to Google's actions when working with other parties.

I'm most definitely not a fan of mass surveillance or centralized control. But running an operating system developed by a surveillance company, to which they have multiple backdoors and frontdoors, is fundamentally a surrender to these terrible things.

The main thing that makes this different than every other Google update is that the government of Massachusetts was also involved, for a "greater good" public health purpose rather than the usual lucre.

Now, if we had real privacy protection (either legislative or common law) to the point that processing individuals' private information were illegal, even regardless of any contracts purporting the opposite, then there could be a claim. But something tells me this suit isn't looking to go that far.
This person is getting downvoted, but he's 1000% not wrong. It's bad.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of what this author has written in the past but honestly I can’t even understand half of this blog post.
From the go FAQ:

> Why is len a function and not a method?

> We debated this issue but decided implementing len and friends as functions was fine in practice and didn't complicate questions about the interface (in the Go type sense) of basic types.

I imagine similar reasoning applies to "clear" here.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#methods_on_basics
You keep doubling down on your current "sense of humor" rather than trying something, literally anything, different. Here is a word of advice - if you are trying to be funny with a joke, but it doesn't have a punchline, it is likely not funny.
So is he ending an incredible journey or starting one?
If you need to call into user-generated Javascript synchronously or have greater control over the sandbox environment, you can use WebAssembly to run a Javascript interpreter: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#quickjs-emscr...

QuickJS in WebAssembly is much slower than your browser's native Javascript runtime, but possibly faster than async calls using postMessage. As an added bonus, it can make async functions in the host appear to be synchronous inside the sandbox using asyncify: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#async-on-host...
Been there, done that, literally got all the t-shirts.

One challenge I’ve seen though, in the situations where that’s what happened, is that I didn’t see at the time (and still, looking back, don’t see) any alternative that was likely to work either.

But no one likes that answer, especially not the folks paying for it.

Most of the difficulty was just figuring out what needed to be done, not sitting down and actually doing it.

And software is so incredibly picky, it was always in doubt for many projects if it was actually going to work well enough until the hard parts were all almost done anyway.

CRUD apps? Sure, not as hard - but even there it’s common to run across issues like ‘that doesn’t actually make sense to do’ once you go to actually do it. The new checkbox makes everything really confusing, or it tips the whole CRUd page into ‘too many things’ without a rethink, or if the bit of data that logically is associated with everything else is actually stored in a different backend, and the semantics of clicking ‘Save’ get too scary if you combine them all.

Waterfall, while pushing forward some of the planning, can help compared to what Agile has devolved to sometimes - like people literally not trying to figure out what they even want to do this week.

Waterfall was always an issue because the plans just get more unrealistic because the time to discovery of issues gets bigger, and everyone spends tons of time churning in their GANTT charts instead of just trying it, or realizing you can’t plan something accurately if you don’t know if it will work and being honest about it.

And then tighten the screws when the people doing the work are late.

It’s a story about overwhelm, in my experience. Most business problems are always in need of more decision making ability, and process tends to be used as a crutch instead of solving that problem.
Would anything actually break if NaN == NaN equalled true?
"bwok bwok, pukaak!" to you, too!
Pretty much any mathematical model of a real phenomenon can have some sort of singularity or discontinuity in it.

If you model atoms as dimensionless points (1), then any kind of force law with the distance between atoms in the denominator can lead to a singularity when that distance is zero. In practice, you write the simulator to disallow this, but it's still there in the equations, you're just ignoring it.

If you model your atoms as finite-sized but incompressible billiard balls, then when they hit each other it's a discontinuity, since they instantly change direction when they collide. These collisions conserve total momentum and energy, but they're unphysical because real physical quantities can't jump from one value to another (in classical physics).

Even if you model your atoms as little rubber balls, the model can still be singular. Linear elasticity (the most common choice) allows you to compress a finite-sized object down to zero size with finite energy, which yields infinite energy density. Again, you'd have to disallow that in the simulator, which is very practical, but not theoretically satisfying.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_dynamics is the typical method of atomistic simulation.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_elasticity
Go has no built-in set data structure, you use map if you don’t want to bring in a third party. Maybe this is why?
Do you think that's true of pharmaceuticals/biotechs as well? Or just academia?
Why, what's so good about it?
It’s a better analogy than you think. “Petroleum” is very much a hydrocarbon “pond water”.

How confident can you be that the end result is filtered appropriately, every time?
I just closed my eleven accounts this morning after seeing Musk's "should I let Trump back on" poll. I had to try twice for a couple but they all seem to be marked for deletion in thirty days, as promised.

Whether the processes in charge of actually deleting them will still be running in thirty days, or whether anything from Twitter will still be running in thirty days, is anybody's guess.

(yes, 11: main, locked, horny art, daily draw from my Tarot deck, and various side projects.)
The chicken assembly language is great.
I mean I do wonder if the 80b could have at least purchased a used RV for every homeless person in California
It would mean they know who you are, so anything sufficiently bad could be followed up by the police.
Based on the charts and the video, I don't think these rescue trucks needed to cross a taxiway before crossing the runway. I listened to the recordings on liveatc and nothing jumps out. In the interests of open mindedness I should consider that it's not impossible that the ground vehicles had clearance and the aircraft did not. But it would be pretty shocking for a commercial air crew to take off without clearance.
How did the attackers get your origin ip to begin with? I thought cloudflare was supposed to shield it at the DNS level, and in theory your origin should be dropping all connections not coming from an authenticated Cloudflare proxy?
The bulk of the software you literally just used to post that comment and get it to my eyeballs was open source. What on earth are you on about? The idea that all software is immediately-visible UX should have died in the 80's. It wasn't even true then, but it was closer to true. Now, it's basically laughable.

Open source will do just fine whether you know it's there or not. It's been a "mainstream thing" for decades. The war you imagine was won, long ago.
It’s obviously talking about the cost of the US’s support, if you read the first sentence

> The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible
> Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention? Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs? If not, why was it not properly engineered, and who needs to be fired for that?

I can write software that runs today. I don't know about tomorrow. Disks crash, other services crash, networks go down. No matter how competent your Byzantine Generals are, sometimes you have to recover data that was in-flight during a crash because disks and networks don't just crash, they slow down and they lose packets and sectors.

Add on security patches and changes in architecture (I'm looking at some Java 1.3 code that runs INSIDE an Oracle DB right now, ask me how I feel about not updating your architecture). You may say that architecture doesn't change that fast. If the business is successful, it will happen eventually.
side note:
Biological sciences tend to have way to many applicants for available positions.
Typically not enough software engineers for available positions.

Treating a position with limited available applicants as if there were to many available applicants is always a receipt for issues.
I'm surprised "in-home router-level network caching" hasn't become a thing, really. Lets say you have a family of 4, all with iphones that need updating, windows updates, downloading same games from steam, app store, etc. It could be significantly sped up for whole house to download file 1 time instead of 4.
Doesn't Sharepoint already include Wikis?
Similar things have been said for people who pay with cash.

Used by "people with something to hide", and by people with dignity - people who deem it inappropriate to allow being tracked: "people with everything to hide".
Thanks! also this one I guess:

HelenOS GUI – experimental demonstration (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784350 - Oct 2016 (12 comments)

p.s. nice formatting. (I want to add software to offer to inline HN links in this format when people include links to past threads in their comments.)
Interesting point of view.

I'd venture an alternative answer.

> Why does Musk get so much attention?

Musk is considered the wealthiest person in the world. Watching someone wealthy fail or perhaps pull it off against all odds is a pastime usually reserved to TV dramas.

He's also an eccentric, with a considerable ego and a well-known internet troll. He's easy to make fun of. Given how freely he distributes insults and snipish takedowns, he's someone many people want to make fun of, for better or for worse. Oh, and his communication style, which could be described as straight to the point or impressively naive, has as many fans as haters.

> Why is Twitter so important?

Because a non-negligible fraction of the world gets their news from Twitter, directly or indirectly. Also, because Twitter has become a vector for propagandists of all sides and that this propaganda, by all signs, works very well.

> Perhaps this is incredibly ignorant to say, but why not let people who want to use Twitter use it, and those that don’t, don’t use it?

I don't think anybody disagrees with that.

> I feel the loudest voices are anti Twitter. Or they hate Musk. And Elon Musk seems to rather enjoy trolling these people.
> [...]
> I saw a Twitter conversation between Democrat and Republican House members. Absolutely shameful how these people hurl insults at each other, try to respond with sly, “witty” insults. Maybe I’m the one being the drama queen, but it feels like Rome is starting to burn and we have no one to blame this time but ourselves.

I don't know about other people. The reason I loathe Twitter is exactly because of that. The medium itself is not the problem but the algorithms employed by the former direction of Twitter increased engagement by encouraging flamewars and access to addictive content.

Could Musk do something good about that? Anything is possible, but none of the signs are encouraging at this early stage.
They do both. Ddos mitigation happens at the network level, while bot protection uses a combination of whitelists, blacklists, behavioral heuristics like mouse movements, login state, and captchas.
Russia defeated itself.

They gave Putin all the power, Putin surrounded himself with yes-men, then corruption made sure nothing gets done to specifications.

In paper, Russia was a military superpower, in practice, all the resources got stolen along the way.
Let's kill the universe
In the 2000s, many younger people (sub-30s) moved to the bay area to participate in the boom.

When things went sideways, many returned to their home state and/or moved back in with their parents. The local San Francisco rental market subsequently crashed.
I mean, would it solve the homeless problem in california? I dont think so to be honest, its a much more systematic problem
I'm going to suggest that polyglot literate programming would be the most metamodern (another term for post-postmodern) take, with humor and self criticizing progress journaling thrown in.
Thanks for this, I wasn’t expecting to learn anything about Greek today!
Yes. For locomotives, the big problem is 0 to 0.1mph time. It's like 13 speed tractor-trailer transmissions, only worse. The fun version of this.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1EZ6K7bpQ
decibel is a bit of a special case, as that is essentially the only form anyone uses (I operate in a world that is decibel-heavy and I can't remember ever having seen a bel in the wild).
Yes, in surprising places. But the most obvious thing is that comparing float values would become significantly more expensive.
So, we just have to entirely ignore the human cost of war. Someone has to take that weapon system into the field and fire it at someone else. You can distract yourself with the small price tag of the munitions if you like, but you are essentially discussing the act of killing.

Wouldn't it also "cost us peanuts" to pursue peace?

This is a bizarre calculus to apply from the sidelines.
Evernote, once the king of note-taking apps, has been bought by Bending Spoons