skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netware was awesome, so much well thought out functionality. Their TUIs were well thought out for large scale admin. Had things like salvage of deleted files I haven’t seen so easy to use since.

Eventually lost out to more general purpose OSs, first NT then Linux and the internet.

At some point they ported IP, then X Window and Java to it, which blew my mind, but it was unfortunately too little too late.
I may just do that. If anything this thread has given me the push to go and do something about it because the irritation is definitely there.
Dear God, when is pressing charges not ill will? You clearly wish the government its force to punish them!
If incremental compiles aren't part of your development cycle, I guess you aren't in the target audience.
> People who had reasonable questions--like "why do some countries consider recovery from COVID as being equivalent to being vaccinated while the US doesn't" or people who were skeptical that loose-fitting cloth masks that most people wore below their nose did more good than harm--were de-platformed along with the true quacks. Experienced doctors with specific expertise in infectious disease were deplatformed for questioning if it was necessary for healthy young people to be vaccinted.

Do you have any non-vague examples? I saw those questions debated heavily throughout the pandemic and nobody was “deplatformed” for it.

This makes me curious whether there’s other context important to understanding what happened — and why the complaints about moderation didn’t feature such sympathetic cases rather than the usual suspects.
That's news to this Washington state resident, who couldn't eat indoors at restaurants or send my kids to in-person school through most of 2020.
I am referring to these tweets in the two tweets from Matt Taibbi.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

This shows that they were pornography:

https://twitter.com/Schneider_CM/status/1598832424754073601

Yet Matt Taibbi used those to spread baseless propaganda without giving the context behind the removal of those tweets. That clouds the rest of the claims too. Matt isn't interested in the truth. He's being a political hack serving partisan interests.

And even he was forced to concede that he couldn't find anything from the govt about the laptop.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744
I never had kids but few times while I was on vacation, I have seen families with kids around toddler age or a little older, trying to control them frantically, even I wanted to get away from that environment. I am quite sure their parents would love to be at work instead feeling everyone's hateful stares upon them. Really, families with kids under their teens, should not vacation on resorts or anywhere there are substantial amount of people. Going to grandparents' beach home etc. is fine but you do nit have right to spoil everyone's paid thru the nose vacation.
Funny enough - reboots are becoming a thing with Windows 10/11. I really dislike the way my Windows box now patches and reboots when it feels like it. Without fail, I'll have wherever I had my workflow paused for the night... just wrecked. It was so close to right with Windows 7.
What other minorities do you believe should be marginalized?
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All sorts of sentiments are around in all sorts of threads. What you can't do is write sweeping generalizations about entire massive categories of people. It's a totally basic rule of any vaguely sane forum beside being simply common decency.
They are a thing in my city. They even leave the billboard parked in some strategic place and drive away.
We had one of those at the old AMD campus in Austin!

I was one of the lackeys that had to go out and put hands on a list of machines we couldn't physically locate (engineers had moved them around the office for various reasons and we'd lost track of their current home). After several days, the list of ~100 machines was whittled down to just one. We knew which network port it was on but couldn't physically locate it. We had the speaker playing row row row your boat and walked around listening closely for it (even after hours) but never found it. We knew it was __ft down the network cable, but that was it - no idea where that cable actually went.

Finally we lifted ceiling tiles and traced that little cable to the top of a partition/wall... the cable dropped down into the wall with an extension cord. In the darkness we heard it dutifully still playing row row row your boat. We peeked over the wall with a flashlight and there it sat.

shutdown was issued, the extension cable was pulled but it pulled free and the poor, retired, powered down workstation clunked into the bottom of its void. We noted its odd location in the wiki and called the whole project complete.

It may well still be there even though AMD has moved away across town.
Both are allowed for the SAT and AP Calc:

- https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/what-to-bring-do/calcu...

- https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/exam-policies-guidelines...
According to the government of SF, you are a liar. A good garbage can should cost 1.4 million, not $140.
I find it fascinating that not only are there still public telephones in Sydney, they are actively being deployed.
Yea I don’t get why people don’t just use != which is used in most programming languages…
The best way to achieve more space in a walkable urban area is to densify. Today Manhattan has fewer residents than it did a century ago, but more and larger buildings. This is partly because people are living and working in more spacious accommodations.
Related: there isn’t enough discussion on actual executive decision making. The experts are supposed to give their inputs, but the buck stops with the executives who are tasked with balancing various trade-offs(including the inherent uncertainty in faulty/noisy scientific models).

https://www.slowboring.com/p/fda-cost-benefit

There never is one single “right” decision, the balancing of trade-offs is inherently political.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier

The CDC is just one such expert. Then there are legal experts, economic experts, public opinion experts, foreign policy experts.. in the private sector a CEO(or wall st trader or tech PM) is expected to weigh all of these, decide, and live or die by the consequences of their decisions . Tough job, which is why they get paid so much.

An executive has the authority to completely override the experts after consulting an astrologer, tossing a coin, or washing his hands.

This fetishization of the Science or villainization of CDC/Fauci is completely misguided.
The shader characters (B0-B2) on the DOS font page don’t match up between the ASCII table and the example section below. B1 is supposed to be a checkerboard, and B0 and B2 are supposed to be inversions of each other.
- Wahoo Elemnt Bolt (onboard GPS device) for [gravel] cycling, Strava heatmaps to sync. Makes a huge difference when you're trying to plan an outdoor ride.

- Peak Design outfront mount / case for the iphone 13 for my commuter bike

- Remarkable 2, for sketching UX
Redfin, and everyone involved in selling houses, has an incentive to NOT portray the current housing market as one in free-fall, but one that is relatively stable, perhaps down a few percent, but no more. (I'm not claiming it is in free fall, but a $400k estimate in Feb to $310 today would imply that, while $320 then, $310 now does not)

What is the difference between the (displayed) past peak estimate and the current estimate?
Yea maybe. Interesting to think about. Pros/cons.
I have similar story. I have interfered and made my wife buy other brands like shark and eventually we got Dyson and very satisfied
the onyx boox tablets let you install the play store and have a few colour models as well
tldr;

> We ask the question, can pre-trained diffusion models’ un-
derstanding of separate visual concepts be leveraged to as-
sociate natural language to relevant spatial regions of an
image?

> An alpha-channel compositing process is used to iteratively
generate segmentations for the regions of interest in a given
image. The zero-shot functionality is endowed by our score
distillation mechanism operating in latent space, that con-
nects the language and vision modalities.

I mean, this is basically pretty cool.

They're masking out region in the image, then varying the background and running it through to find the best text classification for the region of the image.

Overall, using off the shelf stable diffusion they can generate reasonably good automatic image segmentation (ie. this bit is a 'teddy bear', this bit is a 'hand', etc.) on images.

I totally did not understand the bit about magically generating the alpha masks honestly (anyone care to explain how the MLP magically turns into a mask of a cat?) but over all, very very cool being able to use the existing model to segment images like this without having to use a massive dataset of labelled images!
When were you a kid? I was born in the 90s and I've only heard of it as a British thing. Not quite sure if it's mince meat or chopped fruit?

I wonder when the change happened - and what food trends would have been involved.
> Nobody is unaware that the vaccines are not perfectly safe

Are you so sure? "Safe and effective" and similar slogans in other languages were repeated like almost like a mantra, especially in lower-income, immigrant areas of less-fluent English proficiency. And it took me personally meeting someone who developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after COVID vaccination to even begin to question the narrative.

I get that the HN viewership tends to be well-educated and English fluent but there are a lot of people who wouldn't be able to parse the results of a clinical trial or waiver form.
I just request closure of my Standard Chartered Priority account because they won’t let me proceed to dashboard after login unless I gave in provided them with system notification permission on iOS. Customer support said they talked to the IT team and they were it is for “customer’s safety” and then they also added - by that permission they get “the device” and that is also for safety. They also said no customer had raised this issue before.

If only Apple had made reporting of such problems transparent I would have reported this.
> people who self-medicated instead of getting the vaccine, putting those around them at risk

How do you come to this conclusion when the vaccine's effectiveness against transmission was never demonstrated in controlled trials, and very highly vaxxed jurisdictions like the Bay Area saw huge and persistent waves of cases?
>Their answer to this criticism is that siding with the buyer by default creates trust, which encourages more buyers to use the platform and therefore increases sales volume for their seller. I'm honestly inclined to agree.

I'm not: it depends on the seller.

If you're a high-volume seller, then sure: a few bad transactions like this overall is the "price of doing business" because the popularity of the platform means you'll do much more sales volume, which more than makes up for a few shitty buyers.

However, if you're a low-volume seller who's just using Ebay to sell your old stuff, with only a very small number of higher-value items sold per year, then even a single bad transaction like this can ruin your profit and make it not worth it to sell on this platform. Personally, I'm much more inclined to sell high-value stuff via Facebook Marketplace, in-person only, because of this possibility. Add in Ebay's high fees and FBM is really attractive, but the problem is you're limited to people in your local area.

However, Ebay years ago decided they cared much more about the high-volume sellers than the regular Joes using it as a virtual garage sale venue, so this makes sense for Ebay and increasing their stock price. To be fair though, in my years of using Ebay as a low-volume individual, I haven't had many bad transactions, and have been able to sell off a lot of stuff.
It seems from these guides, and the comments here, that hooks are pretty confusing. For my part I learned several new things from the "you might not need an effect" doc linked elsewhere, and I consider myself to be an expert-level React developer.

There is obviously something to be said against hooks being "functions, but with special requirements", and things like React safe mode actually exacerbate the problem (it used to disable console.log on the double render, leading to variables literally changing under your feet; now you just get double console logs for unexplained reasons).

I'm curious if the React team experimented with an alternative set of lifecycle methods for class-based components. Like, add a new base Component class, but have the constructor freeze itself to outlaw instance variables, and require going through a useState-like API to get that functionality. What would it look like?
I don't really see the issue. The page is just pointing out several anti-patterns with useEffect.

The one talking about fetching data recommends a 3rd party library to make it simple but tells you how to avoid certain issues if you want to go the route of implementing your own fetching.

The POST example talks about how some people will modify a state variable to tell useEffect to send a POST request when you can just do it directly.

Maybe it's not to the depth of your liking but I wouldn't call them rubbish.
I did not know revenge porn counts as criticism now.
> the precursor to a future of AI ruling over us all

but then i would have to question why the AI would choose to rule over humans at all? Presumably, humans' are entirely inferior, and the AI do not need slave labour, nor do they need humans to think or be creative for the AIs (to what end?).

Therefore, it's far more likely that AIs would just exterminate all humans, in their quest to achieve some end goal (such as making paper clips).
Is there any evidence that 1Password is just as bad as Lastpass or is there a chance that they do things right? Anyone with insight here?

I'm not only thinking of myself but also my family. KeePass is not user friendly the way 1Pass is and that's very important.
How are you supposed to communicate 1 in 10^7 chance of anything happening versus communicating it's risk-free. The public isn't educated well enough to ascertain the difference. College-educated members of society sure, but what about the rest? Health messaging has to be broadly applicable. Most people won't have an issue, so it's simplest to convey this idea.
Does it really do that? Or is it just a distraction? All the noise from the Twitter didn’t stop Trump from giving his speech on Jan 6th. Biden didn’t backtrack on the pull out from Afghanistan because of Twitter. No gun bans. No end of drag show book time.

I’d say it’s just a reflection of us, not our compass.
The original scene showed what did happen: the drink being handed rather than picked up. You can see it right before the 59’ mark. The drink being picked up was only shown in the later “memory” and was immediately pointed out to be a false memory.
>The platforms also face the problem of banning someone only to have them open a new shop an hour later as someone new.

I think Ebay lets you screen buyers based on feedback, i.e. refusing bids from 0-feedback accounts. I could be wrong though. But this is one way to avoid this problem.
I've used Roam Research for note taking for the last year. Before that, I spent two months trying out a dozen competitors. Using it the last year has been amazing for me. I definitely can't go without it now.
I have experience with these schemes. Usually ends up as “we were required to ask and document the answer, not to conduct thorough investigations of veracity.”
Gallup would do well to poll in Europe as well for such 'jokes'.

Seriously: the US is a great country in many ways. But this sort of thing does enormous damage to its international reputation, much more than you might think. That joke became world news at the time and put the US in a very bad light. The person who made it happen (Walter Jones) eventually recanted and wished he had never done it (props to him), but the damage is real and lasting, and unfortunately reflects some aspect of American society that isn't all that nice. Just look at your own comment: if 66% of Americans polled see/saw it as a joke ('har har, those cowardly French, upset at a joke') that implies that 33% see it as reflecting reality. That's the thing you should be amazed at, rather than to trot it out as proof that it isn't a problem.
I use home-manager, yeah.

I think the trouble is this:

Nix (or NixOS, really), on the surface, looks like a configuration management system and a packaging specification had a functional programming baby.

Now, I'm a systems engineer who generally writes in easy-to-use languages. I've used Arch the past decade and have used a variety of tools to automate my personal systems. My team is composed of systems administrators and network engineers who transitioned into devops-esque roles. Part of the purview of our jobs is to use configuration management systems to codify OS state. This could either result in an immutable image or mutable state on a long-running piece of field hardware.

Nix looks like a potential replacement for something like Ansible/Packer and there are a variety of projects hitting the front page of Hacker News that semi-presents it as a replacement (stuff like nix-ops or image to cloud pipelines).

So as someone who codifies system state as part of their day-to-day job, I'm looking at NixOS as a potential alternative. And there seems to be ABSOLUTELY no community support or documentation for learning Nix from a systems administrator point of view. Which is absolutely maddening because I'm an individual contributor that decides how packaging is done within a organization. Everybody in my team looked at Nix and said "this is absolutely impossible to use - we are literally never going to use this to support our organization."

And that's mostly because there is no guiding principle for how to adapt your mental model to think about the new paradigm if you're coming from something like Ansible... and there is no structured documentation for how to produce an OS state when what you know is YAML blocks or a Ruby based DSL.

I mean, it feels like the bones are there: you use Nix to install packages, start services, configure network interfaces, manage the kernel, etc.

But it also feels like Nix was built by functional programmers for functional programmers - with no UX for the people who would actually manage operating systems within a technical organization. Your syseng team isn't going to be functional programming whizzes. They're going to know Go or Python and be able to do medium-difficulty leetcode problems.

Honestly, there needs to be a "NixOS for Ansible Programmers." And if it's absolutely apples to oranges, then that needs to be communicated upfront somewhere.
If that's the only thing you got from the article you should read it again.

Either you're deliberately being dishonest or didn't read the article.
Iron skillet and Bitwarden
It would be great in theory but refusal to address the homeless/mental-illness issues makes it impractical in a lot of places.
Digital photos are easy to organize... I store everything in d:\masterarchive\yyyy\yyyymmdd\ folders, and have since 1997

Tagging them with embedded IPTC tags is the way to go. DigiKam works (mostly) as a substitute for the late Picassa. (I'd use that, but the last version has a nasty bug in that it sometimes swaps faces in the recognition database, which then tends to corrupt it all).

The major problem I've had is that in the beginning I didn't really have enough free disk space to keep up. That is no longer an issue, nor is it likely to be again.
Appreciate the warning
All that and the Statue of Liberty too! We owe the French a lot.
The original scene shows exactly what ended up being important. Only later false memories being recalled show the scene incorrectly.
> because the natives take these land rights very very seriously.

This is likely because if they stop enforcing them, they can lose it. If they allow people access as a matter of course, after some time in many places this will create a public right to access, which they can no longer restrict. This creates a real, material loss to landowners.
We've done all sorts of stuff to durably damage our international reputation (invading Iraq seems like it ought to be pretty high on the list). "Freedom Fries" isn't one of them. At any rate, I'm only here because you suggested that the stunt had "broad support". It had the opposite of that. Virtually nobody supported it. Most people couldn't even believe the GOP was serious (and, I mean, they weren't.)
It doesn't seem like you've said anything backed by facts.

The number of employees in hospitals dropping at the start of the pandemic supports that hospitals were under extra stress.

Also, it's logical to assume that a crowded and understaffed hospital is a bad place to be when there's an airborne disease spreading. Hard to argue against suggesting people do everything can to stay home for two weeks to not get a new under-researched disease in those conditions.
> Of course but that's not what authorities and all kinds of pro-vaccination people were saying at the time.

It most certainly was in the United States, starting with the initial vaccine availability notices and the information sheet you were given at the time.
I don't love the way Glider displays the favicon for the website of each post. I find it makes the UI really noisy. Other than that, it's a great client. I also like Hews.
It sounds a lot less nefarious when you consider that the "suppressed" views were believed at the time - and not without reason - to be both incorrect and harmful. The passage of time and 20/20 hindsight has revealed that some of the mainstream views were themselves incorrect, but if we're counting the hits for alternatives then we have to count the misses as well. Many claims about methods of transmission, dangers of vaccines, or efficacy of alternative treatments do not look any better in hindsight, and should not be forgotten. Being a "contrarian" or "devil's advocate" or whatever has still meant being wrong - and harmfully wrong - most of the time.

I'm not at all excusing anything that happened at Twitter or elsewhere. There's plenty to criticize, but these breathless accusations of ultimate evil are not only silly but hypocritical. If we're going to be harsh judges, let's not be one-sided about it. Plenty of the "opposition" deserve some pretty strong condemnation too, having made their own contributions to the death toll. I see way too many people here refusing even to talk about those failures, because of their own political leanings. Is this a site for curious inquiry, or pure political piling-on?
We should unironically start our own hacker news.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist either but I do have considerably less respect for the WHO than I did before the pandemic. They seem more interested in playing politics and appeasing authoritarian regimes than putting out concrete policy on things which might actually help. Their back and forth on masking was an utter shambles, their stance on Taiwan a disgrace, their "fact finding" missions to China pointless and their Secretary General would often behave like an unhinged lunatic during press conferences.

I don't much care for his politics but David Cameron has some interesting ideas on how we can do better: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-shows-new-global-virus-... .