skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JetBrains' IDEs are great for the languages which they explicitly support, but are often hilariously bad for the languages that are supported with plugins or extensions. For example, the Clojure plugin for IntelliJ, Cursive, doesn't have great macro support, and, one day just stopped being able to run unit tests. Or rather, it'd pretend to run the tests, give a nice green bar, green checkmark and everything, but the tests wouldn't actually have been run. I found this behavior the hard way, when I almost committed a bug. I'd run the test suite, saw that it was green, and thought that the code I'd written had passed all of the checks. It was only during some happenstance manual testing that I noticed "impossible" behavior (i.e. the code behaving in a way that I'd explicitly checked for in tests). Immediately suspicious, I reran all the tests from a REPL on the command line, and saw a whole bunch of failures that Cursive hadn't reported.

Since then, I've been using CIDER on emacs to do Clojure development, and I haven't had any issues.
Even with FTL you have to know where to go. Let's say you do 100 solar systems per year (going somewhere close to the star and some local jumps to look around.) There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. It takes a billion years to sequentially scan the galaxy. Optimizations in the search algorithm to cut that number down to 100 years are left as an exercise ;-)
Who spotted the GitHub commit graph towards the end of the page? Looks like they were busy.
We still have control rooms like this (I think in use) in Tasmania Australia. They sometimes have open days for our Hydro Power Plants, and they are some of the most interesting tours around. The one I visited was like using a time machine to travel back to the age of Art Deco. Obviously some more modern control systems have been added, but the Art Deco vibe is still there!
“The U.S. propaganda network relentlessly pushed narratives against Russia, China, and other foreign countries. They accused Iran of "threatening Iraq’s water security and flooding the country with crystal meth," and of harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees.”

There is so much handwringing and unsubstantiated claims about Russian / Chinese propaganda networks operating on this site. Yet here is a story about how the US is running military psyops programs on their own populace that can’t even make it to the front page. The joke actually writes itself.
Hooters hires "performers", not waitresses.

So this is indeed how it works.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect so. He was meticulous in so many ways, including his thought, his language, and of course his handwriting, so it seems entirely in character that he would redo a draft to make it look flawless.
An outer gated area with a smart lock that delivery people could open and an inner front door that they could not would solve that.

I'm a firm believer that the burden of "not stealing" should largely be placed on thieves rather than everyone else. Society simply doesn't collect enough data to make that possible yet.
How the Soviets Landed on Venus
Why on earth would you think this? The executives don't change the system because it continues to make them money and they suffer no consequences for the company's malfeasance. Maybe this fine is enough to rebalance the equation but I doubt it.
That's not what happened here though.

> "MSG instituted a straightforward policy that precludes attorneys pursuing active litigation against the Company from attending events at our venues until that litigation has been resolved. While we understand this policy is disappointing to some, we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently adverse environment. All impacted attorneys were notified of the policy, including Davis, Saperstein and Salomon, which was notified twice," a spokesperson for MSG Entertainment said in a statement.

Seems pretty cut and dry if true. The law firm is litigating against the company, and the company notified the law firm of their policy to not allow employees to attend their venues.

If anything, lawyers deserve this treatment.
For software development, though, $55/hour doesn't seem great in 2022. I was getting $50/hr contracting back in 2002.
For clarity, you’re referring to ransomware.
I got laid off about a week after 9/11 though the writing was on the wall before that anyway. I consider myself super-lucky to land a job in about a month after a lunch discussion I had with someone I knew about 3 days after I was laid off. Nothing else, including discussions with other people I knew, was leading to anything at all.
Nice. Can you talk a little bit about what this is written in and how the development process went?
I feel that there's lot of bubbles which will burst and release plenty of programmers to the job market. It's already happening. And those programmers will not find work, not all of them. We need smartphones, but we don't necessary need all those "old moms social network" apps.

During rich years plenty of people came to the industry. Plenty of them are smart and capable, so competition will lower salaries and push some people from their levels.

And god save us if this AI thing will actually take off. It's dumb but it's progressing.
> I said "doesn't change anything there", not "doesn't change anything".

But there's a symmetry to the situations. To the extent that it helps people evade government controls, it will help people evade government controls.

> The payment itself is not where these efforts should go to. Transport, manufacturing, advertising. These are all much more fruitful places to look at stopping illegal trade.

That's pure whataboutism. Enforcing laws against bitcoin makes all kinds of illegal activity harder, without significant downsides for law abiding people. So it's a worthwhile measure, regardless of what else you do or don't do.
Everytime I'm reminded of the Chumby, I'm saddened that there isn't a modern version with an open development SDK. While Nest Hubs and Echo Shows are now available dirt cheap, they're all just e-waste waiting to happen. I wish there was a cheap, highly available device with similar specs (WiFi, Bluetooth, nice displays, microphone, maybe cameras) that it was trivially easy to put your own software onto.
I (and apparently many others) came here to knipex plier wrenches. The have a spring-loaded indent that keeps the adjustment where you need it, tighten on the fastener in one direction, and open enough to act as a ratchet in the other direction. In certain cases they are actually less likely to round off a fastener than a non-adjustable wrench. This[1] video gives a good overview.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGb4WF4e8YQ
We're commenting on an article from the gates that essentially gives a plan for how to produce more Microsoft workers.

What does a "high paying career" have to do with "the future our grandchildren deserve" unless the goal is to produce the future Bill Gates wants. The future our grandchildren deserve is one where they're not stratified by their income such that "high paying careers"(read: tech careers, which just so happen to be what bill gates company profits off an excess of) are the only path for them to be "successful".

The idea that bill gates has done a "insane amount of good" is laughable because the "insane amount of good" he does for some reason never conflicts with the goals of Microsoft. "Missing the forest for the trees" would be ignoring the pattern of his decision and instead saying "he's done an insane amount of good, why are you criticizing him?"
It is a bit sad seeing millions of users behave like that. But on the positive side it serves as an effective signal for muting.
You're looking at second order effects.

These aren't changes of heart. They're worried about their legacy. How history will view them. The same thing driving people like him to donate and found charities is the same thing that drove him to behave the ways he did with Microsoft.

I mean, good on him that he refocused his energies. But don't fool yourself into thinking he's changed.
You mean OS/2? :-)
Twitter is hit with dozens of legal complaints by ex-employees
> The great think about twitter is that it lets you direct link to messages. Which of the tweets in the twitter dumps actually show "Government agents looking to control narrative outside of calls to illegal behavior"?

"4. In 2017, a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts “we use to amplify certain messages.” The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one & “whitelist” abilities for the others."

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605294744833343488?s=20&t...

"6. The CENTCOM accounts on the list tweeted frequently about U.S. military priorities in the Middle East, including promoting anti-Iran messages, promotion of the Saudi Arabia-U.S. backed war in Yemen, and “accurate” U.S. drone strikes that claimed to only hit terrorists."

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605295735553118245?s=20&t...
Homeless shelters exist for this purpose.

There’s also HUD or similar entities if you’re not in the US. There are also private nonprofits like churches that help with homelessness
Yes, this is a big thing I struggled with when I was off meds. Me without meds felt so much more... "me-like" than me on meds. So when someone referred to medicated me as "normal me", it was extremely hurtful.

What I had to realize is that even if "me without meds" was an existentially truer version of myself, people did not like me without meds, they did not want to be my friend, nor did they want to give me a job. That's what got me on meds, and yes, it felt really shitty at the time.

Years later, I don't feel that way any more. "Me with meds" feels like me, more than ever actually. And, lots of those things I valued about "me without meds" (wit, spontaneity, high energy, creativity) came back over time as I adjusted to being medicated.

Unfortunately, not everyone is able to find a med that allows them to get to that happy point. It took good healthcare, several tries, a support network, and (I assume) luck.
Dear god, I would use Excel so much more if I could get it to stop mutating my data.
Yes, but when I'm using the machine, I prefer peak performance. And those CPUs rarely exceed 100W anyway. It's typically the GPU that pushes you into pricey territory.
How important is that?
Show HN: Protein Monster (Net Art, NSFW)
It amazes me that this place gets a reputation of being libertarian when the vast majority of comments here (and on similar subjects) are extremely authoritarian. The libertarian stance is that if someone isn't harming you then you have absolutely no justification to impinge on their freedom. This is fundamental liberal and libertarian theory common to all branches of both.
Spotify Considers Rebranding Anchor to Spotify Creator Studio
Why is the policy bad? They are preventing employees from a law firm in active litigation with them from attending their venues while the litigation takes place. It's not some draconian thing.
Well, they accept contributions, but are you sure those are predefined, and not courtesy of some system include?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34072345 has that article. We'll merge the comments thither, except for the ones that only make sense here.
Yes, I am concerned that other universities, schools, and employers will become increasingly rigid about policing language. Would you not be concerned if words like "abortion" could not be spoken?

> As paying customers, students tend to get their way, but if they don't they can transfer.

And as you can see from the comments, many people will be looking elsewhere for their children. That doesn't mean it's good that Stanford is publishing a list like this. This reaction shows how severely Stanford's action transgresses deeply held values.
This is always the case. Same as it makes more sense to improve your own product rather than to hinder competition. Creation > Discrimination is almost always true.
For example US drones launched from and remotely controlled from Germany. Rammstein is not just a music band ;)
It can be. My dad would tell me growing up about home protection something along the lines of, "if someone breaks in and just wants the TV in the living room (or other living room type items), it ain't worth it to put my body in harm's way to stop them over a $300 TV. If they start coming back to the bedroom area of the house, its a different ballgame because they aren't looking just to steal something." Now as an adult with a two story town home, I have the same line of thinking. If someone breaks in is just staying down stairs, it ain't worth it. Once they hit the stairs to come to the bedrooms, its a different ballgame.

And yea on stealing things. I remember someone locally was stealing Cadillac symbols on cars, it made big news, and my dad telling me something like, "don't assume the person is a bad person. They could just be feeding their kids." This was during the 2008-crisis and with an emphasis of, yea they are stealing, but it is rather benign in comparison to what they could be stealing.
Here is a plausible alternative scenario. As planets form, there is a certain window of opportunity where conditions are right for life to get going (among other extraordinarily unlikely accidents that must come together, the phase of planetary evolution must be just right). Almost always, this too fails. After all, every attempt to date to recreate primordial conditions in the laboratory have failed to produce any life.

I return to the key point: the number of planetary systems in our observable universe is not infinite. It is not much larger than atoms in a macroscopic chunk of matter. It is entirely possible that the probability of life forming on a given planet is much too small for it to have happened in the last 13.7 billion years. This is just like the fact that the probability of radioactive decay of an atom (even in a sizable sample) becomes unlikely if the half-life is too long compared with the time scale of observation.
Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection
I presume dropping a few cores and replacing with PCIe lanes is what’s on tap. But man, the volume for that chip will be the smallest of any silicon, and the yield won’t be great.
It was indeed fascinating to watch China adopting free market economy while maintaining an authoritarian state. It was done by suppressing and controlling the free flow information, however. Which is why, Crypto would be a good test case since it is based on decentralized flow of bits (some of which are money, some of which are art and some which can be information).
Interesting. There are some towns in Minnesota where the locals have really good relationships with the local (black) bears. They feed them, play with them, introduce their kids to them, post videos of them putting their hands in their mouths, etc. Basically all the things they tell you not to do. There's probably a big difference between black bears and Eurasian brown bears, but I wonder how much potential their is to achieve cohabitation through cultural change alone

Historically humans have hunted other predators because of simple competition. But nowadays, bears hunting elk is not a threat to our food source
Collectively crypto failures might have lost more money than the dot com crash
Can you imagine getting into an argument with a bartender and being asked to leave - and then you can't go into any other bars either? Yikes!

Reminds me of the hidden low-level-banking-employee blacklist that some would end up on for not forcing enough customers into expensive products they didn't need.

Or the opiate painkiller registry that doctors use to centrally track folks who come to them for painkillers, and which by the way counts any painkillers you might have gotten from the vet for your dog.

Fewer central registries please!
finally a somewhat sizeable fine for these turkeys.

they will continue until it is not profitable to do so. large fines are basically the only leverage that the CFPB has that can really hurt, and historically fines for this thing have been very low, to my knowledge, which has not done a lot to deter the behavior that they are trying to deter.
> I understand, the sheep farmers are getting a lot of sheep killed.

https://www.newsweek.com/wolf-kills-nine-year-critically-inj...

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/meet-the-worlds-deadliest-wolf-...

https://wolf.org/headlines/the-child-eating-wolves-of-turku-...

There are likely many more wolf attacks than ever known, because the wolves will take away their pray and devour almost all of it rather quickly. What's left will be scavenged within a day or so by vultures / what have you. Further, we used to regularly hunt wolves and keep dogs (Wolfhounds). As they make more human contact, they'll definitely be a lot more deaths.

That said, I think it's good / healthy to keep them around, but it's often not just the sheep that farmers are concerned about.
Why is it that his "admirably altruistic life" never seems to conflict with what Microsoft's goals are, if the line is that he's "changed since he started Microsoft".

If that were the case, wouldn't it make sense that his new "altruistic" ideals conflict with the "ruthless competitor" ideals that Microsoft holds?
It's harder (but more rewarding) reading certain books the umpteenth time because they are so complex or require other reading to fully grasp and appreciate. For me some examples were

J. Joyce Dubliners

Dante's Divine Comedy

several others.

The hard work makes the journey meaningful (for me) and I'm absolutely bored ticking check boxes just to brag about having speed read through 60 classics in a year.
As someone who's cared for someone with a declining mental state, dementia patients should be able to leave whenever they want.

The problem is that the rest of the world doesn't want to - not can't, but finds it inconvenient - to deal with the ramifications of supervising or caring for people in public, strangers, who can't help themselves.

It's much easier to detain inconvenient people than change the rest of the world around them such that it wants to share the burden of caring for them.
My treatment caused a complete loss of self-identity.

In another time, I would have been a shaman. My entire life, I had a deep spiritual connection with wolves. That's gone. All that's left of it is blank wall and confusion.

This hurt deeply. I can't even begin to describe how it felt to have everything I knew about myself destroyed.

I'm fortunate to have been raised Christian. That hasn't changed and it's been a welcome grounding while I work things out.
Guilty as charged. I thought nobody will notice my slight suggestions to ChatGPT in favor of a "certain brand" within category of "What is the best X software?"
BOJ jolts markets in surprise change to yield curve policy
All of the things you complained about were out of fashion before the thing you endorsed was even invented. Hardly a fair comparison.
Some times it is. It really depends on the condition, specific case and the way you treat them. To me it seems obvious that at least in some cases it is, even if not in many. May be hard to tell in advance though.

There are cases when a person is not in the mood (to put it mildly) to accept help but really needs it and will sincerely appreciate it once a relief comes.

The opposite question is also valid by the way: is it humane to leave the insane to struggle and roam the streets untreated?
Related (but we moved most comments hither):

2023's public domain is a banger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34071163
Tesla Gets Downgraded on Wall Street over Elon Musk’s Twitter Antics
Sounds similar to what we had for Spotify before they killed libspotify.

* https://github.com/lukaszgemborowski/spotifs

* https://github.com/catharsis/spotifile
Knippex "Pliers" are still far superior to this. They blew my mind when I first used them. I dont use normal wrenches at all anymore - the knippex just grip stuff so much more perfectly and with less chance of rounding and you can "ratchet" around the bolt even though they are open ended.
Film composers. Absolutely absurd track counts, plus usually working in quad or 5.1. A majority of the big ones have long since moved to using multiple Windows machines, but most of them did so begrudgingly. For a long time, the usual choice was a Mac Pro, but the Xeons were never a great choice from a processing standpoint -- they just enabled the massive amounts of RAM needed for said absurd track counts, though ECC was an unnecessary added expense. Musicians tend to prefer macOS for a variety of reasons, and the Mac Studio is a breath of fresh air, finally giving us something we actually need.

That said, the Mac Studio still doesn't quite enable everything to be loaded on one machine, so the PC farms are still in use; worse, the primary software used to utilize those PC farms, Vienna Ensemble Pro, isn't yet Apple Silicon native, so...for the time being, the Mac Studio still isn't quite ready for prime time. The Apple Silicon Mac Pro would likely enable finally moving to using a single machine running macOS with the CPU performance and amount of RAM needed, so you best believe that film composers will move to it in droves once it comes out, whatever the price, as VEP being native or not will no longer be a factor.

Source: was a fairly successful film composer myself until I developed an ear condition called Hyperacusis, now working as a programmer writing custom tools for my peers, and as a tech consultant designing their rigs.
Sorry mate but that is just wrong. I get payback of a hundred to one on most of my fiddly bits.

A single command that does the ten things needed correctly every time instead of looking up each thing, typing it wrong four times and doing it again is a godsend. Lots of time saved. More accurate and reliable as well.
> NT bringing a "modern GUI" to DOS computers

NT wasn't a GUI on DOS. NT was different, not based on DOS in any way. Dave Cutler brought his pet project NT (which was technically Digital IP) with him when he left Digital. NT was new and entirely unrelated to any other project at Microsoft.
Hard disagree, it may be pretentious but Tartt's writing is immaculate, one of few first rate contemporary authors.

The unflinching and unreliable insight into shared delusion and how being caught up in an imagined Greek tale distorts reality and perception of humanity.

It truly is a tragedy.

Compare it to the contemporaries it has spawned/influenced - all trite genre lit evoking those dire theatre kids from college (losers, not pretentious in my experience).
Software development is like cooking chicken
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> Property goes to the immediate next of kin in the absence of a will.

Not accurate. It will often go into probate court or become property of the state.

> A will is almost next to useless.

False.
Palantir’s SPAC Bets Backfire, Hitting Company’s Growth
In other words. If you buy it to put it on a desk, you are probably the equivalent of a suburban dweller buying a Ram 3500 pickup with dual rear wheels. So, it is better this stand looks good and expensive because that's the whole point of your purchase.
It's not at all, plenty of great PCIe cards out there. Most notably RME.
How in the hell is it legal to charge someone a fee for having a balance below $X?
Gatekeeping. Make it about anything other than the actual skills required
I'm glad Disney finally accepted letting Mickey Mouse go into the public domain. It means everyone can enjoy these works freely instead of in the 2030s.
That's the go-to example whenever IDEs are discussed on HN but I...almost never do that?

I don't think I can count on two hands the number of times I have to do that in a year. As for undoing it I don't think I've ever done it at all. Anyway it doesn't matter because vim + CoC can do it. And for undoing it I guess I simply rename it back to the original name. Actually I just tried and yeah, it works.

One of these day I'd like to sit with a JetBrains user and see how they work. I'm sure it's a great IDE but so far I haven't heard about anything life changing.