skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I remember when the Xing MP3 encoder was the only one that could encode in near-realtime on my 100 MHz Pentium back in the day.
I am trans and I do feel that this is the most accurate take.
Watercolor is great! I used it too "back in the day". That crisp Tahoma font, those refined little squares where the 2 colors in the title bar meet... So elegant.
> It will also massively hurt global drug and medical research.

I doubt it would. Private drug companies would still exist and charge the same money regardless of whether the insurance is paying for it or "the single payer system".
Yes they’d stopped. The narrative they hadn’t is peddled by the same people who don’t realize that Bush era torture was also shutdown by congressional oversight. America isn’t perfect but it’s damn sure answerable to its citizens when they decide something is worth having answers for
Still, if I'm asking and you know--why not just reply, with that information? Rather than some elitist snobbery, like "If you even ask that you wouldn't be good enough" or pretend you're somehow better or some bs that you made up. That's not very nice, not to mention not in the spirit of HN, to respond to curiosity with a low-effort, low-info response. Disappointed in you! :) but you can still do better
For anyone else who isn't familiar with what CIFAR-10[0] is about.

I imagine this means that the entire training set was ingested in 12.4 sec.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFAR-10
Is there anything that isn’t immediately turned into a pointless culture war argument these days?

This is an article about the design of Windows 98 icons. You’re complaining about two emojis in 2023.

I really have to wonder about the thought process that sees “iconography” and immediately goes to “can you believe Apple made a pregnant man emoji?!?”. It’s exhausting.
Those people have their own governments
>> We need better way of paying funding/paying for healthcare.

Vouchers?

https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-comprehensive-cure-univ...

Ban for-profit health insurance companies?

https://firstquotehealth.com/health-insurance/news/non-profi...

But I honestly believe there is no simple answer. Healthcare systems are built over time and are continually changing, which needs incremental changes and continual tweaks.
Opportunistic depredation of songbird nestlings by female praying mantids
> …had they stopped?

They claimed they had.

Of course, they claimed that they weren’t doing it before concrete details leaked which made that impossible to get away with anymore.

But they’d probably like to stop risking embarrassment if they got caught again.
Thanks for the plug (I'm the author of GoAWK). Yeah, I'm hoping the CSV feature will really be useful for data science and the like. There are so many CSVs pushed around these days. See more here: https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-csv/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62482141

https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/P000197

Or you could trust the person profiting from the act.
There are open source LTE stacks, they just suffer from lack of power efficiency. Not too bad in a gaming laptop form factor, but quite bad in a smartphone.
I think this is highly underrated.

The ideal is when a team's experience actually matches the project they're assigned. They need to be up to the task.

This requires management to be at least more experienced than the teams they manage and to make good hiring and placement decisions. This is not just number of years in the industry, but the average number of years spent at any single company. They need to have seen the long tail of maintenance in the development lifecycle on projects they were wholly responsible for.
I'm guessing you've never worked in system-critical infrastructure? Airplanes are another level up from that. I'm not the one saying this, the FAA and NTSB are. Nothing is allowed to go wrong, ever.
Those transgressions were revealed by PBS a couple of years before.
https://www.metafilter.com/ way less tech focused though
Idk the details of your situation at all, but if you haven't heard of it I would suggest looking up "the two kitten rule." Kittens are happier in pairs :) They're more social and teach each other how to be. Could be worth considering.
the thing that worries me about this approach is that you pepper your suburbs with these things, and terrorism or large scale war could make these really juicy and hard to defend targets that would make the immediate areas "dirty" with unusable land for centuries or longer.
> Arguing over future cases (premature planning) is the most common sin..

There's definitely a scale between "unmaintainable mess" and "architecture astronomy" where both extremes are pathological.

I've seen plenty of unmaintainable messes in my time - particularly from average teams who are lacking in good technical leadership. You see this sort of thing all the time in consulting, and in software teams at non-software companies. (Eg, in the airline industry). There's a reason why Martin Fowler talks a lot about software craftsmanship - because at places like Thoughtworks they could often use more of that sort of thinking.

I've also seen plenty of overengineered messes too. Most smart college students (myself included) seem to need to go through this at some early point in our careers, where we really spread our wings and discover first hand why writing thousands of java classes is a terrible idea. (Or whatever the poison of the day is). If all your abstraction does is move your food (business logic / algorithms) around the plate, or -worse- hide it, then your abstraction is making the code worse.

I have no idea which sin is more common. I think it really depends on what sort of engineers you spend time with. Google definitely suffers from the second kind of problem much more than the first - to the point where google (hilariously) often outsources making actual websites to external consulting companies, because their own software practices are too expensive to implement.

Does your team need more long term thinking or more short term thinking? Its impossible to answer without reference to your actual team, your existing practices, and what you're trying to deliver. A weekend game jam should be scrappy, and the code for the space shuttle should be written carefully. Neither approach is objectively good or bad; there's just different tradeoffs appropriate for different kinds of project. The best senior programmers can switch style & philosophy based on whats needed for the task sitting right in front of them.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AWK
pKVM (theoretically) works on Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6a as well.
The fun 2001 movie "Antitrust" had a bit of the garage lore in it as well. For those of you that have seen the movie, you'll remember.

The "garage myth" isn't a bad one. I believe it's quite inspirational.
How deep do you want to go?

Sand is silicon plus other stuff.

Silicon is silicon plus other stuff.

Silicon used for chips comes in different grades for different purposes, with different levels of impurities and refinement.
Twitter had so much potential under new leadership. There are so many ways he could have made the platform a richer experience. YouTube could have been a competitor. But he squandered it in a truly epic fashion.
Every strip of BS red adhesive has some flimsy pretext to justify it.

Nobody is saying you can't pour theoretically meaningful pork into a traffic light in the form of QA and whatnot and get an indestructible traffic light that operates for a century without being touched in return. People are questioning whether that's actually necessary for a system that's already the Nth layer of redundancy.
Mobile devices support extensions to some degree now, too! iOS Safari fully supports them, so that’s millions upon millions of potential users.

Unfortunately, the UI for initiating them isn’t quite as nice as the desktop, which is a big reason why we haven’t implemented our extension for iOS yet. Once Apple figures out a better install and activation workflow, then we’ll probably do it.
afaik stadia used custom built hardware from amd's instinct line. Almost all of their cloud offerings are nvidia based or utilize their own TPU's.

I can't say for certain that derefr's explanation is wrong, but from what it looks like they did create bespoke hardware for stadia instead of reusing their existing infrastructure.
NSA still refuses to answer the question of how many American citizens were "incidentally" surveilled under Section 702. If that number was zero, I don't think stating that would be quite so difficult.
And what about a state that integrates all religions, instead? Has that been tried?
China has quite a bit of oil. It's the 7th largest producer of oil in the world. The problem is that it's also the 2nd largest consumer and imports more than it produces.
It's not for the per-hour, it's for the group-based health insurance, even for part-time employees. If that's what a parent needs to do, then that's the most efficient path.

Even a sliver of insurance allows delays in payments while allowing the hospital to perform service up front. It's lousy to claim bankruptcy over medical bills, but if it gets your child the help they need, this is IMO a viable path.
I wish Ruby had stable sort By default.
Another viral iPod app was pulled from Apple’s App Store
Yes: dialup modem latency was on the order of 100-250ms, DSL 10-70ms, and cable modems 5-40ms.

Sitting on my couch using Wi-Fi over cable, I have 18ms to Google.com – call it a full order of magnitude better than a disk up user despite Wi-Fi adding 7ms.
Space Karen is more than generous.
In case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759 is in fact interesting reading.

Although there were certainly many "systems factors" that contributed to the incident, the followup treatment of the pilots is in fact remarkable. The Wikipedia summary of the incident is "near miss attributed to pilot error". This pilot error nearly killed a thousand people. The pilots failed to report the incident (even flying the return flight the next day) and thus overwrote the cockpit voice recorder for the flight.

And despite all that, the names of the pilots are not included in the NTSB's report and Wikipedia editors/moderators think they shouldn't be included in that article. Impressive job security.
Writing a Book on Substack
Is there a good book about the all that stuff? HMB-1, Project Azorian, and Sea Shadow?
> wanted an annual physical (a reasonable thing that the medical system largely recommends to everyone)

Which medical system recommends that? And why?

My jurisdiction stopped paying for those because they don't have any evidence of net benefit. It makes more sense to target exams based on your risk of having issues.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82767/

https://time.com/5095920/annual-physical-exam/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82767/
I was going to mention how nice the old Black-White-Orange-Blue icons from the 80's Amiga era were, but it turns out I've completely misremembered and they really are quite horrible.
but if a loan is collateralized, the bank can consider the loan an asset, since the collateral will make the loan whole if the borrower defaults.

But for credit cards, which usually is not collateralized, you cannot do that. Therefore, it makes sense to recognize the cost of loan-loss provisions as a cost.
> With concierge medicine, a doctor can make house calls with a nurse and solve most medical issues. T

Concierge medicine is, cost efficiency aside, more of a replacement for office-based visits (probably doesn’t eliminate the actual office, but lets it downsize) and maybe urgent care and some other outpatient clinics. it’s not a replacement for inpatient hospitalization. I suppose if you include upgrading EMS to include medical flying squads with doctors and nurses as kind of “second responders” in your definition of “concierge medicine” (its not the same thing, but I guess conceptually related enough not to be totally unreasonable to include them together), it might replace some ER use, too, but it would probably be ridiculously inefficient in doing that, even more than concierge medicine generaly.
I'm not in the US so rules are different here, but that's somewhat the situation for me as my mother's "landlord". My mum also insists on paying so she can feel at least some ownership in the property.

There are other factors. I make a loss on renting this property, which has to be reported for tax reasons. If I was charging below market rates it could raise flags. Because my mum also receives an allowance as full time carer for my aunt, it additionally allows them to also claim a bit in rent assistance.

This felt a bit off at first but I have confirmed it's all above board. Better than paying off someone else's mortgage. Most importantly, a few years ago my mum was homeless and my aunt had nobody willing to care for her. This way they have a secure roof over their heads so I have no regrets.

Then there's my brothers who have moved in rent-free while they get back on their feet after a rough patch. It's tough for a lot of people out there, so we have to do what works.
I just bought a NUC 8! Do you have an STL anywhere that I could use?
> They're describing the worst-case thing someone could do with the privilege

I understand that - I wrote just that in my comment above. But it's a lot scarier to see a pop-up saying "This extension in the worst case does this", versus the worst-case scenario and a longer explanation. I see from your profile that you're at a web3 analytics company. I'll just say that I think metamask would be a lot less popular if at install-time, the chrome store alerted that it can "make you lose all your crypto savings". Yes this is possible, but there's more to the situation than just a few words, and you can't express that all in an alert() window.

> if there aren't any fine-grained permissions suited to doing your task — then propose some
I think that is easy to say, but being subscribed to and reading updates to the extension feedback threads that I've been on for the last few years, I'm not super confident in Google acting on community feedback.
That's a good point; if pilots come to expect the lights, I can see how it could be dangerous for them to fail, even if they're not supposed to be the primary mechanism.
Yeah, see, disagreeing with you and trolling are different things. Trolling would be more like creating an account just to make personal attacks and defend RH. Anyways. This is a pain to get hard numbers for but https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnom... seems decent enough; based on that, @redhat.com represents ~13,000 commits out of ~50,000 commits with all other groups combined not even coming close, which means that even as a technical minority overall RH has a massive amount of influence. Or as the author puts it,

> Top 15 affiliations again, but now ordered by commit counts. It's safe to say that GNOME is dependent on paid developers in a big way. Specifically, and to no one's surprise, it leans heavily on Red Hat.

So yes, it is true.

> what makes you think Red Hat wants to start paying those costs?

Well no, I'm sure they don't want to. And hey, it's Red Hat's devs, so at some level I can't blame them for serving RH's interests above the user. Just as they can't blame me for abandoning their function-poor toy desktop environment.
USSR, perhaps. Really rich with nations and religions.
Not true, I've had pages of x-rated results with SafeSearch on, with DDG and Bing, a couple of times. The search only needs to be sufficiently weird.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670
Law is a high IQ version of a service trade, like being a Disney vacation agent.
Are there sectors immune? Yeah.

It seems the exciting industries are falling apart, but the “old boring” industries are doing just fine.

Insurance, medical tech, government, and defense are hiring.

Come to think of it, insurance, medicine, and defense are probably the oldest industries around.
Isn't a (non-Android) Linux phone a security downgrade unless you get Qubes running on it or something? (And secure boot, and an HSM of some sort, and...)
Separation of church and state is about the government not enforcing or favoring one religion over others. I'm having trouble seeing the analogy applied to separation of big tech and big government. The separation of big tech and big government is a different categorical issue. But does this issue actually exist? At the end of the day, the government holds all the power over big tech as it should. And you do have a chance to say how your government should operate.
It might be changing, at least to a degree. It's now possible to buy at least two third-party cross-platform controllers that use Hall effect sticks (that I can think of). I don't know when we'll see them again in first-party controllers, though.
Bold of you to assume a regular reboot will also reboot the BMC (it won't although I guess there might be BMCs which do). Some things you really need a full cold boot. I've seen a test cluster of storage servers where after rebooting the whole cluster all in one go enough failed to boot that data was unavailable until a few servers were fixed due to flaky RAM that failed to make it past memory training on boot but was "fine" as far as we could tell until we rebooted.

I'd mostly agree with you, but this isn't always as simple as it may seem to "just reboot it" and there can be subtle differences between what you're exercising with your rolling reboots and what actually happens in a real complete power loss scenario. Plenty of stuff can break and you'll have no idea until you're trying to get stuff back up after a power loss event and you're up a creek.
Does SMART work over usb? If not how are you alerted of drive problem?
It's surprising how 2019 feels just like yesterday to me, yet that was already 4 years ago.

In comparison, 1998 was 25 years ago, and that did feel like it was a long time.
Show HN: Projectsveltos: managing Kubernetes add-ons in tens of clusters
Sveltos is a lightweight application designed to manage Kubernetes add-ons hundreds of clusters.

Features List includes:
- Kubernetes add-on distribution across multiple clusters;
- configuration drift detection: when sveltos detects a configuration drift, it re-syncs the cluster state back to the state described in the management cluster;
- Templates instantiated reading values from management cluster;
- Dry run to preview effect of a change;
- Kubernetes cluster classification and automatic label management based on cluster runtime states;
- Snapshot and Rollback.

I would love to get feedbacks (positive or negative both will help me improve).
If you try it out and see any issue or would like to suggest a new feature, I would love to hear.
True; but you're going to get much better testing if your team collectively cares about it than if it feels externally mandated by that one annoying guy who set up your commit rules.

Technical solutions are the best solutions when they work. But being technologists will bias us towards looking for technological ways to solve problems. Its not always the best approach. A few hours chatting over lunch is usually a much more effective way to change how your team works.
The former, if the latter fails to satisfy some design constraint.
That is a tutorial on how to switch from the For You algorithmic view that was the default view on Twitter to the chronological view.

> vs hate/AI based tweet ordering

The For You tab is an algorithmically generated list of tweets that is assembled by an AI based on your viewing habits, location, and other engagement metrics. That algorithm may have been adjusted in some ways since Musk took over but those are algorithmic tweaks, they're not a new method of displaying tweets.
I believe this kind of situation is known in pilot parlance as a “code brown.”
Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
Wow, that's mindblowing. I haven't considered using pots for anything in almost 15 years. Sliding contacts? No thank you.

Just today I diagnosed my truck's failed climate control to be due to a failed potentiometer in the temperature control mix damper actuator. Curse on whoever screwed up and didn't use a magnetic sensor for this application.
Good article.

PA-RISC is a little weirder than the article lets on. The stack and heap are reversed - heap starts high and grows lows, while the stack starts low and grows up. This probably prevents a lot of casual buffer overflows.

It also has a 4-bit segment register. It's not the ugly overlapping segmentation of the x86, more like a register that selects completely different, non-overlapping, address spaces.
Spider Legs and How They Work (2014)
I dunno, I think a lot of early windows icons were kind of hard to differentiate at a glance. A lot of them are just computers or windows with different smaller icons on them. You can see this even in the examples shown from the collection.

I generally agree that modern attempts to "unify" the design of icons usually go to far, but if you think Windows 98 icons are strictly better than say Windows 11 icons, that seems like rose coloured glasses to me.

The good ones are good, but the bad ones are worse. Although I do understand the appeal, and subjectively I do like them better.
It would be ideologically convenient for you if people died but statistically it's just gonna be another close call since close calls outnumber accidents in this field by a ton to one.

If/when it happens the professionals who deal in this stuff will say something mundane like "this system prevented ten close calls before we actually had one slip through, that's pretty great". And they'll replace the $5 lightbulb and move the "check the bulbs" from the monthly maintenance checklist to the weekly checklist. And you'll complain much like you're complaining now.
Heh, I agree with this viewpoint, but "software that doesn't break, like Emacs" sounds extremely generous to me.
I have to add "beej" to the search, and then it hits my C Library Reference Guide. But the C Tutorial Guide is nowhere to be found. :(
Imagine you changed it from an array of approvals to a single one like in the original example - you'd need to make a change in every method of that type (replacing the map). That's code duplication, it's just not really obvious yet because there's only two layers to pass through. Per layer you need a constructor call (or map to copy & modify the array).

As a more obvious example, if you want to modify a.b.c.d.e (which isn't unrealistic), you'll need to call the constructors of A, B, C and D. If you don't use lenses, this is the code that will be duplicated. You can spread it between the classes or do all that in a method of A, but if you want to also modify a.b.c.d.f, you'll need to duplicate all that code (add another method to A, B, C, D that each calls the constructor).

With lenses, you define once how to access d from a and then any modification of d can happen through that. If the structure changes, you only need to do the changes once by modifying the lens.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/apple-and-meta-dropped-off-g...
After several delays due to Covid, Apple hammered down on their return to office plans, requiring employees to be in the office three days a week effective Sept. 5, 2022.
I'm pretty sure you were downvoted by someone who walks into MoMA and whispers to their partner that a three year old could have drawn that...
I'd probably be ok using an upscaler like the ones used for retrogaming. Probably not a very professional image for a mainstream OS though.
California: the land that forgot how. Seems like we've become incapable or unwilling to build new infrastructure, housing, or even essentials for life like water reservoirs. How can a state with the wealth/income of one of the top 10 countries in the world be managed so incompetently? Is it purely corruption or is it that voters simply don't demand accountability and thus get what they vote for? Really wish I could understand how California can be so high achieving and yet totally dysfunctional in so many other ways.
I was interested in building a board from scratch with a BMC on it