skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> stop hero worshipping it

I guess that's the case for software-centric platforms. It was not my experience.

I worked for hardware-centric corporations, for most of my career, and became used to having software treated as a "nice to have, but not essential" part of the product. In many cases, my work (and myself) were treated with contempt. I got used to being sneered at.

In my experience, this was a disastrous attitude, because, despite lots of folks wishing it weren't so, hardware, these days, is software.

Software pervades everything, from the compiled silicon on peripheral ASICS and FPGAs, to the firmware that drives said chips.

In my experience, firmware was treated as hardware, and the same rigid, waterfall process was applied to firmware, that was done for the hardware.

Worked great.

Until it didn't.

Software is a drastically different beast from hardware. I won't bother going into the reasons. Anyone with a smattering of knowledge in the area, can list them.

In any case, the hardware folks would treat any attempt to leverage the flexibility that software allows as "cowboy, low-quality, laziness." It was Waterfall, or you were a "bad engineer," and "lazy and undisciplined."

I'm really big on Disciplined software development. That does not make me popular with this crowd. It also does not mean Waterfall.

In my opinion, there's no way to avoid the difficult parts of engineering, but it's also important to be adaptive, responsive, and, dare I say it, "agile."
Words can evolve. Here on this forum and in large parts of culture, 'technology' is any relatively recent innovation. Of which software is one of the more prominent examples.
Why cricket and America are made for each other
What’s clickbait about it? If anything it’s anti-clickbait — it just says Knives Out has bad writing, and then the article goes on to explain why.
> intolerant views about trans people

Unfortunately, those are nowhere near universally unpopular views at this point in our human journey.
The two specific parts that made this beyond the pale are:

* this was done in complete secrecy, no one was told, not even the Ministers whose portfolios he assumed the powers of,

* this was unneccesary and a very poor "backup plan" to have one single person be the only person that was "pre approved" with multiple normally silo'd powers.

This was both a first and a last, rules are being rewritten to prevent this kind of behaviour in the future.
Also, what are the consequences to the hive of losing a bee? It's a pretty small energy investment to make a new one. The reproductive success of the bee is the reproductive success of the hive - it doesn't have any way to pass on its individual genes.
I’d be interested to hear what this would sound like if each function call weren’t converted to a nice-sounding arpeggio first… I suspect it wouldn’t sound as good, but would be happy to be proven wrong!
It’s not about being familiar. It’s that “Representational State Transfer” is as meaningless as REST to someone who doesn’t know what REST is. (And honestly, even to those who do know what it means)
Not FOSS, but the core parts are 1. free and 2. on GitHub.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.htm...

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
DC would cook itself in a couple of hours.

Closed loop system for a system this big and hungry would demand many km^2 of radiators with a forced air-flow. Look at your A/C external unit - it's barely handles 10-15C degree difference for a small room and that is for a human with a measly 300-500 BTU/h. A typical server is 2000 to 6000 BTU/h, depending on the configuration and a typical 42U rack would have at least 10-15 servers, not counting TOR switches and other shenanigans.
Among politicians, for example.
Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel.
The left very much cares about freedom of speech, they are just culturally focused on certain speech and expression right now, such as gay and trans rights. I feel like these freedoms are very related.
Still reading it, but to the first point about the starting hour.

Yo-Yo ma sets up the flashbacks, and the structure of the movie as a fugue.
A melody thats played upon and expanded.

The first reveal that the writer says 'renders the movies first hour pointless..' is an example of that. Benoits seeming fawning of Miles, 'inadvertant' needling of his intelligence (childish puzzles) are shown to be part of Blancs own deceit.

And in fact all, the flashbacks extend information you already knew, Duke, Whisky and, Miles, for example. That's the smart thing about these dumb murders, its in the composition itself, and not the characters, or the plot driving it.

I had a whale of time watching it, and loved the mundanity of the crimes and the fact it was just dumb people in this rich persons playworld.
Only economically non-sensical ventures will collapse. Tech will be always strong, but not always overvalued or able to open market with limitless VC capital.
Why isn’t that unreasonable?
Bees can sting other insects just fine. Also these Bees can’t reproduce, so that seems like an obvious difference.

From the hives perspective it’s a question of effectiveness vs the utility of individual bees remaining lifespan. Being even slightly more effective at discouraging mammals from raiding a hive for honey is presumably worth the loss of individual bees.

Wasps on the other hand lack the wealth of a bee hive so presumably different tradeoffs are worthwhile.
Your statement does not take into account related factors, e.g. you have a job you like and need, but the job changed to require social media use; you love and help a remote family member who prefers using social media to stay in touch, etc.

In some similar statements, e.g. "If you don't want to be in car accidents, then don't be in them" the logical flaw is clear: Prevention involves a number of steps and assessments, skill, and some luck. Changing it to say "If you are concerned about car accidents, stay out of cars" would be equally problematic.
This dude didn't say left or right. You need to remove your blinders my friend.
Ok but then if interest rates were artificially low, then you would expect inflation to be artificially high but it wasn’t (at least by official measures). So the parent commenter is saying anything would be extremely hot given the last decade plus of artificially low rates, which is the exactly opposite result from what one would expect.

(which begs the question: what does it mean to be artificially low? Compared to what?)
Symbols of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Chatgpt is is beta, we can safely assume the situation may change from now to 2024/2025.
Also better privacy
It seems like you're explaining something everyone's already very aware of. Nobody's under the impression these policies were made for Stanford students to abide by. That said, it's perfectly reasonable to cast judgement on an institution for the actions of one department, it'd be strange for one to suggest the two be conceptually separated. If Stanford is happy to employ language-policing for its IT department, it's not hard imagine similar policies creeping into place elsewhere in the institution. Decisions like this don't happen in a vacuum.
Why is it that colleges have had wild parties in campus housing for decades, but only now it's a "legal liability" and has to be stopped?
Which is still unrelated to your original claim.
Microsoft’s Bot Captcha Is Annoying AF
Glass Onion takes the well-worn detective genre and creates some genuinely surprising moments by "cheating" a little with what it shows the audience.

This article says it should have played it straight. I think that would have made for a more standard, boring movie. But whatever, that's just opinion.

But I think it is silly to call it bad writing. Bad implies that the writer didn't have command of their craft. It is clearly all very deliberate and designed to create something surprising in a genre where that is very difficult. Like it or hate it, at least it tried something instead of just being another remake of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Was One".
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: “A historic victory 10 years in the making”
At Amazon, always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
Ask HN: Is there a better model than flagging?
I submitted a link today that got flagged pretty quickly. My original intention was to make people aware of the fact that it seems as though a large number of scientists have signed a declaration claiming that “there is no climate emergency”.

I make no claim as to the accuracy of their declaration, and neither support nor deny their claim. I’m not a climate scientist.

It seems like a really bad idea though to immediately suppress this kind of information as opposed to being able to have a conversation about it.

In general, if any contrarian opinions arise and are immediately flagged and suppressed, does that not just turn HN into an echo chamber? Is there not a better model than flag/suppress?

EDIT: My concern with this particular question and submission is not about the content of the articles themselves. (Beyond the fact that they're being linked all over Twitter atm and, if this is a misinformation campaign, then it seems to be gaining traction now in 2022 again)

This particular question is UX-oriented and has to do with:

1. I'm concerned about how HN shapes my perspective if the flagging process could suppress meaningful conversation. (Yes, I consume a variety of other sources of information too, and I'm also concerned about how they shape my perspective) In essence, a select few users with enough karma watching for incoming content could shape the entire discourse on HN. Who are these users, and why should I trust their paradigms in shaping mine?

2. The UX involved in flagging on HN seems like it could be improved if there was a reason attached to it. Or some other automated mechanism to immediately notify the submitter as to prior conversation on the topic that isn't available via searching for the topic on HN first.
Given that 5.8GHz WiFi and 5.8GHz weather radar are both licence-exempt services within an ISM band, you literally cannot pay Ofcom to take an interest.
Do you mean rogue "worker bee" rather than "drone"? Drones don't have stingers.
Both parties are very much so the war party. If you're saying the left supports war bc Ukraine that is really tough to swallow. There was not a conflict under trump, but it is not hard to find tweets from him celebrating our military capability. Plenty of conservative politicians in the last eight years have statements of "war mongering" if you want to call it that.
How bizarre!

Any idea what the details of the deal was?
Yup. I have MS and almost got sucked in. Thank God for the pandemic: Now legit WFH is more common. :|
Regulations about aquifer management are not straightforward, and not exactly mature in the US.
The more option menu is just a joke, they really couldn't bother to just fully migrate it?

For all its failures, the linux desktop has one of the best if not the best design consistency out there
People can vouch for your submission, nobody did.
> The minerals had only been produced synthetically through lab experiments in the 1980s, according to Herd.

But the title says "new to science." :/
Few would debate that the printing press is one of the most important pieces of tech humanity ever produced. At first it was used to print Bibles, but it was eventually used to print all sorts of other things. The philosophical texts that were later printed on the printing press were not a new "tech", but we pretend new apps for a iPhone are for some reason.

When we increase the surface area of a definition like you are here it makes words meaningless.
It's a strange premise that a department should operate in complete autonomy from its parent institution. Is that your mental model of all departments at Stanford? That they can do, say, and publish arbitrarily, and any action on the institution side is a disavowment of free speech?

That's a take on academia I'm unfamiliar with.
And the conservatives aren't lead by the upper class to the same degree?

Remember, the only politicians calling for campaign finance reform in the US (I'd argue this is the problem you have?) are key liberals. No conservatives advocate for this.
https://archive.ph/wW4q0
There is down and there is cratered 80% YoY: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-vc-funding-monthl...

So the question is what happens to VC-dependent companies - do exuberant times return and they continue their addiction, do they do even deeper cuts, wash out, ...?
Ask HN: Appreciation for the best courses you took this year (2022)?
The courses shouldn't necessarily be MOOCs. They may be some public university website shared by the instructor with all the materials open to all.

Subject of the courses can be anything under the sun.

The important thing is you enjoyed doing it and got benefit out of it career wise or intellectual curiosity wise.
It could be an adaptation for stinging mammals, where the venom pump would matter more than when stinging other insects.

Though wasps don't need it and they are very effective at causing pain in mammals. The article mentions different evolutionary paths.
In my experience, a wasp's sting hurts a whole lot more. One bee sting doesn't even hurt much; many probably do. OTOH, you hardly ever find a wasp's nest as large as a typical bee hive. So maybe it makes sense for wasps to have better weapons and try to save every individual.
My grandfather was truck driver. He knew his truck as his fingers. He could reassemble drive of his car at weekends. If he wouldn't possess skills to repair his truck, he would die somewhere on the winter road when that truck breaks, so it's not even question of preference, it's question of survivability.

It's not as drastic for programmers, but I, personally, trying to keep that attitude myself and I'm trying to learn systems I'm using to some degree.
Experts debate the risks of made-to-order DNA
I'm old enough to have seen people who survived smallpox.

This should scare everyone.
It would be interesting to watch an edit played in chronological order.

A similar response was made to Passengers[1], where if it is NOT made chronologically, the director could have an opportunity to push the theme entirely close to a horror genre.

1. https://youtu.be/Gksxu-yeWcU
Not at a fundamental level. Even if you exclusively trained one on some reasonably authoritative source like Wikipedia it would still happily tell you complete nonsense.

These models have no way to differentiate that elves are fictional while Indians actually exist.
The benefit is about prestige, not only about 200 families.
Curious to know power consumption too
In Iran, the Resistance Continues
I have a large conservative circle. That isn't their stance. They do not want trans people to exist at all.
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024
Yeah it sort of works like market self regulation, bubbling up before it reaches a calm simmer.

But it’s still fueled by hype, so unless a strong enough crash comes, it’ll keep bubbling up.
Show HN: Communities to attract customers to your SaaS
How does that help if the post’s not alive for long enough for more than a handful of people to see it?
I'm not sure if you can call it biological when the worker Bee has zero individual reproductive fitness.
Would they abort(3) when an assert fails?

Isn't there a risk of having a erroneously strict assert predicate and then having the game abort unnecessarily?

If the game keeps going without aborting in the case that state has somehow been compromised, there is still the chance that the player won't actually notice.

I wonder if they are afraid that the game state will be compromised in a way that makes the player not realize the corruption, but still ruin the game.
In the UK I think that etf is called VWRP or VWRL. One is distributing and one is accumulating, no idea what that means though
Collision with “depth first search.” Which almost works — I could at least be convinced that there was some problem traversing these networks.
> Betting on index funds is like betting that our society will continue to function and continue to remain capitalist.

Agreed. My half-joke variant is "I bet long Western Capitalism. If my bet is wrong, I will have bigger problems."
Storage in general, and transactional boundaries in particular, are one of the biggest banes of distributed computing. It's still more art than science to determine where and how you slice an entity graph across datastores and services. Sadly, these decisions also bleed through API.
For me, it's helpful to think futures as attractors. We are their agents: futures pull themselves into being not only in blind compliance with physical law but also through us. Which will we welcome into our minds and, through this, into being?
It's not neglect. A tiny part of the hive dies fending off something that would be harmful to the colony, which is the true reproductive superorganism.
> ChatGPT is a synthesis engine

This is exactly what ChatGPT cannot do!
If I'm reading those results right, it seems that Ruby was getting slower between 2.6.10 and 3.1.3 with yjit, and can still outperform Ruby 3+ versions without yjit. Does anyone know why this is?
Ask the 50 spook liars, including the formers heads of the CIA and FBI, that made the effort to release a statement calling it "Russian disinformation". They seemed to think it might have an impact.
Google was not designed to provide accurate results either, and it shows. I can find results to confirm every conspiracy theory I can think of. ChatGPT at least denies conspiracy theories.
Heck, even toilet flushes are cybernetic devices in one sense, ie they work by virtue of a self regulating feedback loop.

It seems that with software we’re hell bent on verifying Arthur Clarke’s aphorism wrt sufficiently advanced tech being indistinguishable from magic.

Think language models, for a contemporary example.
My belief is that the moment rates start going down, there's going to be another massive asset bubble which will create tremendous inflationary pressure.

Historically, inflation has never come down so fast or so easily anywhere. So much of inflation is about belief and psychology. If a "good times are here again" belief takes hold, it's entirely possible that inflation will run amok, again.
For speech to be illegal, the legal standard is that it needs to incite specific lawless action and be likely to succeed.

For instance, Indiana locked up an anti-war protestor:

>The case involved an antiwar protest on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. Between 100 and 150 protesters were in the streets. The sheriff and his deputies then proceeded to clear the streets of the protestors. As the sheriff was passing Gregory Hess, one of the members of the crowd, Hess uttered, "We'll take the fucking street later" or "We'll take the fucking street again." Hess was convicted in Indiana state court of disorderly conduct.

The Supreme Court reversed Hess's conviction because Hess' statement, at worst, "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time."

In addition, Hess' speech was not directed at any particular person or group. As a result, "it cannot be said that he was advocating, in the normal sense, any action."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hess_v._Indiana
Most white people won't have experienced that, because we're not ever in a situation where we can personally see a black person be pulled over by the police.
Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives
As I change passwords and research migrating from Lastpass, what are the current HN recommendations, Linux, Firefox, IOS please..
Is this the intended link? https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190807-01.en.html
Which dictionary does one need to consult for a positive definition of headcrab?
Collaboration tools are some way from being systems of record and there is substantial difference between competitors. Generic chat apps are not yet useful enough (despite years of development) for most companies - IRC failing to win is evidence of this and so is the fact that companies aren’t switching en masse to run their infrastructure on whatever is the OSS flavour of the day. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen some day, but that day won’t be soon.

When coupled with the fact that there are still a huge number of companies which haven’t yet converted to using these tools and purchasing the market leader for a premium makes total sense.

With regards to component supply - companies that are producing unique chips are worth plenty, where as those that are making COTS components aren’t.
this is very very cool! One thing i would definitely like to see is domain name resolution.
Shopify, Dukaan, Vercel all make a big deal out of it ...going all the way to BGP.

https://twitter.com/subhashchy/status/1536769406801309696
Typescript does not support nominal typing except for enums.

It can be emulated by giving types an unique property, but this is kind of a hack.
they're too focused on compelling speech rather than protecting speech
The headline of the site and your submission is also just plain wrong. Maybe there is no manmade climate emergency but there is most certainly a climate emergency. Also there is nothing scientific on the site only an open letter... it's just really bad content. You don't know how many people have seen or voted on it you are just believing that nobody has seen it. Multiple users need to flag your post before it becomes [flagged] and even more need to flag it for it to become [dead].
But as lanrei comments, "When bees sting other insects they can sting them multiple times, like a wasp."
Putin was always willing to negotiate and there have been attempts at negotiation before and during the conflict, what matters are the pre-conditions to negotiations. If the pre-conditions are too strong then in effect it blocks negotiations and it means the overtures to negotiate are simply done for political reasons. We’re being told that only now Putin is ready to negotiate so I’m assuming that means the pre-conditions have weakened but I’m having a hard time finding out what that change is. Maybe they’ve given up their demand for a de-militarized Ukraine? The ban from entry to NATO?

We’re also being told that this willingness to negotiate is a sign of weakness and eminent failure for the Russians so Ukraine shouldn’t negotiate and should instead press their advantage.

In effect we should not negotiate with people who are not-willing to negotiate nor with people who are… which only makes sense if we never intend to negotiate - a position that’s much easier to hold when we’re not paying the price of the failure to negotiate.
Is Google afraid of ChatGPT's capabilities?
I'm not sure which side of this I am on. What are your thoughts on this?
Yes, in an apartment, more available frequencies and less ability to penetrate walls is a good thing. Otherwise there’s immense amounts of interference. And it ends up being made worse when people try to improve their own experience by turning their transmit power all the way up. It necessitates that everyone turn theirs up, which then just makes the interference return and spread further.
Looking at the numbers mentioned and thinking rationally of risk, the deaths from the reaction to AZ despite the scale of the vaccination program are negligible compared to deaths from COVID itself, to the extent that this amount of discussion over this is comparatively an overreaction.
i think the worst case of this is in the javascript ecosystem. i'm really sick of seeing open source groups arguing with each other on internet.
> As yes, CPUs, those things famously bought because of the software that runs it.

They are bought because of the software that runs on it.