skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video game Pong changed the world
There are horror stories like this with all of Big Tech, but Google is hands down the worst offender. I do my best to avoid Google in every corner of my life: the only services I still use are Gmail (slowly migrating to my own domain with another provider though) and Search. But I’ll never use a new Google product anymore because of their unreliability on the long term.
We don't call 911.
I might try and order these from my local VW garage spares counter to see what they say when the description comes up on the computer.

It's probably a standard replacement part for the fridge in a California campervan.

It's probably used if (...wait for it...) you go banger racing! Sorry, that joke is the wurst I could come up with.
Oftentimes users of the GPU have to sanitize the data and commands sent to the GPU driver because it makes harsh assumptions about the inputs being legal. In that case the bug is on the application side because an unsafe API was used with arbitrary user input.
It's highly unlikely they steamed the sausages at 350 °F. Much more likely they steamed them at 175 °C, which gives the sausages that little bit more zest.
Exactly. I am a software engineer and I have absolutely no idea what it's about by just reading the description of the project!

> "Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity."

That's just a group of random buzzwords to me. They might as well also add "blockchain" and "metaverse" to it...
Nightshades contain toxic alkaloids, and a number of them are considered edible (potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, ...)
Pretty much soft drinks come in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, aluminium cans, or Tetrapack style cartons here in Norway. The cans and bottles have a deposit on them and every supermarket has a reverse vending machine which prints a voucher you redeem at the till. The cartons are collected along with cardboard and paper for recycling

It's pretty rare to see any of these things discarded in the street.

PET bottles and aluminium cans are much better than glass because they can be compacted for transport and subsequent recycling.
"Was"? We're still talking about him. Love him or hate him, if he's in the headlines he's getting what he wants.
Oh, you know the ones.
Spoiler alert: wage theft is just as big as regular theft, if not more. https://prospect.org/economy/wage-theft-shoplifting-cost-dif...

Think of shoplifting as "inefficient redistribution".
I'm honestly a bit disappointed Brazil is getting in Apple's way. Sure, I do agree with the overall intent of this initiative. Still, it's going to be counter-productive in the long-run by making Apple and resellers either leave the country or make their products more expensive to cover the cost of doing business here.
LA, Chicago, Houston
And why give all that wealth away to current holders? Nothing actually make bitcoin inherently valuable on nation-state level.

Gold is fine for now and maybe in future some new agreed upon commodity-current basket currency.
IMO, overemployment discussion in IT is related to what is the expectations for a software engineer vs a programmer; and full time vs freelancing.

I expected for a senior software engineer to not only know the tech stack, but to have initiative, ownership, mentoring, and be able to understand and translate business requirements to tech solutions. Coding is just a small part of the role.

However, many software engineers behave as a 'programmer' only, the senior title is just to show that they have a bit more experience with the tech. They only do something if a Jira is assign to them, and many time they don't understand or question the jira. So it's obvious that they will have a lot of free time.

For me, if someone wants to do many jobs, they should be looking into freelancing. Where the client don't care on how you work, just that the agreed work is delivered.
Neoliberalism is super entrenched here. It is almost impossible to create a state/county/municipal IT department that would actually have enough sysadmins. All such departments rely almost entirely on external suppliers. One way this happens are salary controls. It is impossible to hire someone and give him the market rate, but it is trivial to tender the work associated with such position to a random external company for thrice the market wage.

This effectively means that the critical advantage of FLOSS - just install it and see if it works for the users - is effectively killed by the red tape. Only software that someone actively sells can ever make it through.

EDIT:

And to be clear, this is not about customer support and whatnot. Number one complaint from most of the public servants who contract out IT services have been that the suppliers are not helping them, are overcharging them and in some instances they even threaten and withhold documentation and read access to their software databases.
On a similar note, temperatures in ºC would also be useful. Great website though!
True. However, the situation is not limited to Hesse, but also data protection officers in Rhineland Palladia made the same call: https://www.heise.de/news/Rheinland-Pfalz-Schulen-duerfen-Mi...
> possibly even increasing their chances of encountering cougars and exposing more members to infection

(I'll get my coat.)
> the best conferencing tool for recurring cadence

What does this mean?
It's more like "a group of people who absolutely hate to be told what to do by people they completely disagree with/have nothing in common with*". It's not a pyschological disorder, as it has to do with survival. Lack of defiance is probably a psychological disorder.
Historically, those tensions were resolved with wars/civil wars/insurgents/civil unrest.
That's 6.5 % of available memory of a computer with 8 GB of RAM.
I'm curious how you loaded this in the terminal, because for me, curl spit out a ton of HTML and very little plain text. I suppose with curl only asking for `/`, I should be happy with what I got, but even when asking for plain text, I got HTML. I didn't mean to go all "no true Scotsman" on this reply, but I wish something called Plain Text Sports had actually returned plain text to me in a terminal.
It's very popular in Germany - the Currywurst is a German classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst
It's the basis for the world famous Berliner Currywurst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst
That's because you assume that electronics cost the same everywhere outside the U.S but that is certainly not the case. In fact, Brazil is notorious for being protective of their own localindustry and as a result iPhones and other gadgets are more expensive there than anywhere else on earth. As a consumer the least I can expect for these crazy markups is to not have to spend additional money for a charger or a lightning cable.
https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/15/yet-again-brazil-has-the-most...
very impressive. I like how github even says language: jq 100%.
Thanks for reinforcing my point.

Indeed, the phone has a life-threatening defect and I would never own one. "Failure to dial 911" is a scary defect for a phone.

Where the title makes a logical mistake and is misleading in order to be sensational is that, assuming "dialing 911" as given context, "phone doesn't ring sometimes" is probably the least scary issue possible. In fact, it's the most common way dialing a number can go wrong. It's easy to imagine countless worse things that will radically worsen your outcomes in a life or death situation (such as: phone bricking itself, phone exploding in your hands, phone becoming subsequently unable to make any call, phone making loud noise that alerts the attacker that you are making a 911 call, so on so forth).

Perhaps for a native speaker it's not as obvious that "'very scary' issue dialing 911" here is a semantically illogical construct, but I assure you it is. Example of one that isn't: "'very scary' issue with a Pixel phone involving 911 calls".
Tips on how to reach all-time high PR count during Hacktoberfest
It is super slow. Just a basic thing like switching between different chats or teams takes ages.
FYI memorizing 112 is probably a better idea. It's baked into GSM spec and gets redirected to the right country end-point (like 999 for UK) in most of the world.

Same difference while in UK, but good habit for travelling.
But he's still advocating vendor lock in on batteries. So still a bad idea.
We have alot iphones in favelas. People buy in up to 24 installments.
An official Apple charger costs R$ 220 (reais) in the official store, that's 20% of the monthly minimum wage.
TDD in theory sounds great. What I've seen is thousands and thousands of tests, inconsistently written by dozens of different developers over the years. Testing silly little trivial things that makes the CI pipeline 10+ minutes. A least if you have lots of obsolete difficult to read docs you can easily ignore them, tests however are particularly toxic as it makes refactoring and cleanup very difficult.
I can already hear the screams of Socialism/Communism and the slippery slope on how we're all going to be enslaved by the Guv' if we 'let this happen'.

EU has been pushing for standardization for things like chargers, let's hope they keep it up and force more and more companies/industries to abandon vendor lock-in (for physical products).
> Only software that someone actively sells can ever make it through.

Only software that someone actively supports*
Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
AP is ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon.
But what is SNS? What is DID?
Classic Plastic recycling, as many here have explained why, is not the solution. We should do it the best we can, but let's just stop using it as an excuse.

Nobody talked about organic-plastic/bioplastic. They are definitely better. What do you think?

Also, I'm amazed how we created this wonderful urban water infrastructure, but more and more people are buying bottled water to drink at home. Why aren't water filtering systems more widespread?
> Why the teams hate. I personally find it the best conferencing tool for recurring cadence

Ha!

Even though I know this was addressed to me, you clearly opened the floodgate on the very vocal customer complaints section on HN that has clearly struck a nerve with many more than you anticipated chiming in.

With that said, yes it's full bloat and sounds like utter crap even with audio only on every time I've ever used it; I typically use Signal and only revert to conventional apps for work purposes and it always struggles worse than the other.
Now I understand the purpose of trigger warnings...
Wow! Thanks!

For some reason I wasn’t getting automatic updates but after a manual update I can now see and set this option.

I retract my earlier statements, thank you Apple devs!
At first I thought this was click bait, too. But actually..

TL;DR take: Hospitals and labs contain deadly pathogens in regions of lowered air pressure. Sophisticated electronics monitor pressure and control the evacuation system accordingly. Many such spaces have resonant frequencies in the audio range. Ergo, it's possible to play specific tones through an entertainment system to establish significant deviation from the average pressure to fool the sensors, and disrupt the containment. Such tones could be embedded in pop music.

Wow.
Obituary for Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The last sentence describes the band Rush for me. Three such incredible musicians coming together to make meh music.
Ohai, who should deploy what via Constellation? :)
Who are "they"? Microsoft?

The issue is not a technological one but a matter of legislation.
Urge to travel with corona intensifies.
That's not a lot. No one bats an eye when Firefox uses triple that amount sitting idle with 5 tabs open, because Firefox is Not Evil.
> It seems like they could manufacture clean devices to send to a test centre and then back door ones they release in the wild.

Glenn Greenwald already went over how the US did this, which is to intercept the devices in transit. That way the backdoors wouldn't be there for general IT personnel or reviewers or state security agents, but they would be there for the targets.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...
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Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests?
Linux is present in a big percent of the devices on the planet, from smart phones to servers to IoT devices to (...). It's fair enough to assume that bugs and/or regressions in it can (and will) affect big portions of these devices. This makes me wonder why aren't there any unit tests in the kernel (and the different drivers in it; especially file system related). Or maybe there are and I just haven't found them?
To me it's still unclear if having a message traverse the entire graph is good or bad. Something like this is required otherwise this will really just be a chat app, and probably not a very good one at that. What I mean is that if you can see only messages directly addressed or shared with you, well that's just Signal.

The current implementation traverses the graph of follows, which has some nice properties. Even if you had 10x as many bots as users on a platform, they can all post and share and like etc. But if no one from your social graph is following those bots, you won't see any of their content. Of course all it takes is one person in your network to follow a bot, and now you're exposed to all that spam. In that case you might want to unfollow this non-discerning friend. And the threat of being unfollowed will create incentives for people to make meaningful follows in the first place.

Some more granular tools will need to be built to help refine this. For example, you might not want to see things more than 3 steps away in your graph. There is also the concept of flagging messages which is not currently implemented, but will allow one user to stop a message from spreading to their followers.

As for the echo chambers, I'm not sure yet what this will look like. In the physical world there are soft echo chambers. People make like-minded friends and join like-minded organizations. To some extent this is good, when comparing to the alternative where everyone has to listen to anyone which would create a lot of conflict. Taken to the extreme though it does seem to make people intolerant to differing ideas.

The question I am asking myself (and for which I do not have an answer) is: will a platform like Chatter Net encourage people to progressively discover new ideas (the more people you follow, the more variety of content you will receive), or will it give the tools for people to lock out any competing views.
All options and all costing you more money on top of the 'only $1'.
Doesn't the reflective tape weight just about same? :)
>Typically, I will fall out with someone senior, like my line manager. It's normally over something mundane but definitely technical.

This happened 1 time for me. Worked at a place and things were great for years, tons of growth. We had an insider at our competitor who leaked infos my boss took advantage of. She got 'laid off' and then hired by us. She was inside sales, but she acted like she was our manager.

Except imagine the worst tech manager you've ever had and she was worse. She knew less than nothing about tech, she was at best a sales person who took other people's orders and attached a price tag. but this wasnt the big problem. She was constantly talking to my team, getting them to say something stupid and the going to the boss to get them in trouble. It got to the point 2 people on my team refused to speak to her. Would never even say hello to her because they learnt 9/10 times she was intending to snitch on them.

One day the team just realized the pattern and after she talked to them, they set an alarm on their phone. Right as the alarm went off, our boss came walking in. This was the day they turned to maliciously harming her. I decided to simply be uninvolved. I made it clear to my boss she's not my manager and i dont answer to her. That if he wants me to report to her, make it clear now as I was planning to quit on the spot.

Her toxicity mainly toward the junior techs really wrecked that place. demotivated everyone. This was the downfall of that job.

The story continues. Many months later she came one day to come after me. I was standing up talking to the junior most guy. He had a pretty severe issue and I was helping him.

She straight up went to the boss and said I was looking out the window while my coworker was sinking. Which she never came to talk to us, perhaps there was many points it would look this way from a distance.

My boss then demands monday morning I come in, there will be a company meeting with everyone and I had to beg to keep my job. I explain I was working on my own project while helping $junior. The junior guy interjects immediately, confirms I was helping him. That the claim I was looking out the window was a lie.

So I end up fired, begging for my job wasnt good enough. 1 other junior guy, the one most often targetted by her quit as well. I got a new job and I met someone who had worked with her at the job she was leaking infos on. He had completely forgotten about her but she did exactly the same snitch shit at that place.

about a year later. I get sued for 1.1 million $. I never had a non-compete. I had learnt about those the job before that job. His assertion a barely above minimum wage worker with no ownership in the business was a 'fiduciary employee' and so I'm not allowed to steal his clients. He lost something like 50% of his clients and none of them were at my new employer. Obviously he didnt get beyond discovery.
The most superficial and literal reading of Moore's Law is "the number of transistors on the most economical package doubles every X months" where X changed a bit over the decades.

Not only has the number of transistors on the largest package not followed an exponential for a decade (a good hint is that people denying it repeats the law with X changed on every single iteration), but as fabs adopt more and more complex processes, the number of transistors on the most economical package has been growing very slowly, with no perspective of a doubling any soon.

On a deeper reading, the Moore's paper is all about the economics of semiconductor fabrication. And not only companies that aren't on the most advanced process are not failing as they used to, but nobody is using the law anymore to size investments.

There is just no way to read Moore's Law and interpret it into something that still exists.

> People were saying it was going to end, not that it already ended.

Oh, so you meant to say that they were correct?
Jq is ok, but the language is awfully unintuitive. It's also not very user-friendly. I've been using gojq with better success
Agreed. If anything, he's proving he can do it.
In seattle Greenlake and Safeway had deodorant at $9+ around me. Pretty annoying. I guess i need to buy it stolen on Amazon for a decent price?

And if all this thieving is going on why aren’t grocery stores just doing what Costco does and have membership cards and employees checking entrance and then receipt checkers as well?

The target at northgate has laundry soap locked up. I get Seattle has a terrible fentanyl addiction, weak politicians and poor policing but why can’t the corps make some changes? I guess they’re still making money and I’m still spending
Musk changes Twitter suspension policy
So you use one special thing, the Laplacian, to connote the specialty of another? I can go ahead and do the same duality for those other transforms and their respective basis functions. Specialness in mathematics is a fruitless and fealty affair - G.H. Hardy
What a ridiculous argument. Chargers from the same company that brings you the phone tend to be the highest quality due to rigorous testing. If first party chargers aren't very good then third party ones are unusuable.

Remember news of all those "exploding" devices? You guessed it, third party chargers.
And termites. Nature's amazing
My simple mind thinks:-

Why would you want someone who does not want to do a job do that job?

If you are interviewing someone and that person said “I don’t want to do this job” would you hire that person?
> That ela/apply function is actually reduce.

I feel it is fair to call out ELisp as the problem here; there are a lot of operations (reduce is a good example) where it is unclear how the programmer is meant to discover the name they want. It is unusual to see a good resource that explains how programmers are meant to use lists, and if someone comes in from an imperative language then the need to find a resource on transforming lists is unclear.

Emacs is particularly bad because they have that weird dialect of lisp that didn't catch on anywhere, so you can't use generic tutorials and nobody teaches it. And as I recall there is no neat introductory resource explaining "how to manipulate lists in Elisp".

So it is true that he has reinvented a bad reduce, but also true that this is a celebration of a programmer stumbling over an important concept despite a so-so learning experience.
https://humanstxt.org/humans.txt

/* SITE */
Last update:2012/02/04
>Meanwhile, Polish gov't uses Microsoft Teams [1] as one of ways of verifying citizens who are applying for trusted profile service.

What's wrong with that?

Microsoft is trusted vendor
This is genius and horrifying at the same time, I love it!
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Both.

Most other companies here offer the charging box that is USB-A. While the phone end is USB-C.

So when you buy an iPhone, you get a lightining-USBC cable, while you have a USB-A brick... thus you can't use the iPhone.

In an older thread I gave a more detailed explanation on how this situation happened. But long story short: phones in Brazil are ridiculously expensive, so are chargers, people don't change them often and someone buying an iPhone often is someone that was using a very old phone, sometimes a dumbphone even. And when they don't find a charger in the box, they go to black market to buy some crappy chinese ones that can set themselves on fire.
Good call, I'm using a software firewall on Windows and the number of unnecessary requests it makes for gaming services, widgets I haven't used once and telemetry is surreal
It's using Activity Stream (https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams/v1) which can be represented in RDF or JSON-LD formats. In this case, JSON-LD is used, but this can be easily converted to RDF.
Can any of it be recycled/reused, or is it destined to be incinerated or chemically stripped?

I agree, to a point. My initial comment was related to the "100% recyclable" bit. The aluminium certainly is, the can itself isn't just aluminium though. This wasn't to say that cans aren't better, merely to draw attention to the fact that it's never as simple as we might like (and bisphenol-A, one of the common ingredients in the epoxy lining, is pretty awful stuff).
You make it sound like it's fine for an application that has network i/o in the few KB and miniscule UI refreshes when idle to consume that amount?
But again that's just what we collectively agreed on, not a God given law that we have to keep forever, we could come up with other mechanisms

If you can't see the difference between early capitalism and the monster it became that's another problem
I use this + GitLens (which also appears in the demo gif you link, but collapsed).
Breaking complexity, and ensuring it stays broken. "This data is read only, you shall not corrupt our state, deal with it" is an even more important design pattern than a shared domain vocabulary.