skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate. I'm not black, but I was born in a third world country and can relate with that problem.

It's like, the author either already was born wealthy, or had a royal flush in his hands regarding his education, culture and family to make him successful.

If he's so smart about it, first write something that would make ordinary people wealthy. And by ordinary I don't mean a financial trader, but somebody making your coffee at Starbucks or delivering your amazon packages.

I've read quite a few of those "million books" about getting wealthy and none of them worked so far, hehe!
Sleep mode is really bad. I had a Surface Pro 3 which was the first iteration of "connected standby" and it would run the battery down while sleeping in less than a day.

I was borrowing a newer Surface Pro from work more recently and hoped with the additional years of development they would have managed to fix it. Sadly not.
> Even Wikipedia blocks people who have made legal threats.

You've misread the Wikipedia policy that you linked to; it says: "Do not post legal threats on Wikipedia. ... Users who post legal threats on Wikipedia are typically blocked from editing while the threats are outstanding." (Emphasis added.) The rest of the page goes on to emphasize that this doesn't preclude people from engaging Wikipedia about legal issues.
I got bit by its leapyear bug while I was traveling, and had to go the whole day without being able to listen to my music :(
An appropriate sound might be a rubber band twang.
The Earth is a giant ball of resources and we have only just begun to scratch the surface.
What the OS needs is a way to tell CPU-hungry applications no. One misbehaving app (looking at you, Teams) is enough to pull the CPU to max power consumption and wreck the battery life.

Just keeping the clocks low and letting banner ads rotate a little more slowly would make for much happier users. Even if I set the priority of an app to minimum, the OS still does it’s best to respond to CPU demands
> but, well, compare battery life on an ARM Mac to a related x86 Mac; it is night and day.

If I turn the screen all the way down so nothing can be seen, I can peg the processor constantly at 100% of my Intel Mac and still get 10 hours of battery life. The only caveat is that it's a 2010 Core 2 Duo, and what it does in 10 hours an M1 can probably do in 10 minutes.
> Nowadays you start an application by clicking a fixed location in the task bar or by pressing the windows key and typing the first two or three letters

Big lolz.

Typing to start apps is one of those things that separate the general population from nerds.

Nowadays "you", as in "the general population", start an app from a visual shortcut on your desktop, taskbar, or start menu. Same as before.
thank you both.. was googling this and found some stackexchange type answers and still got confused. apparently it is quite common to see the "per time" part of the definition of a Watt and get it mixed up with Watt-hours. i think i got it now thank yoyu
> Note that “high-level math” by your definition covers things that were basically understood by 1900 (a good part even by 1850) and polished by 1940. It’s an incredible failure of the education system that any of this still counts as “advanced” in any way in 2023[1].

Derivatives and matrices are high-school math.
Jumping through hops like this is a bad idea. If you disagree with their business practices don’t use them.

Beyond the moral argument, it’s easy to be in a situation where you get locked out because you no longer have access to a temporary phone number etc.
Quite rare to see, both in politics and professional environments, an "incompetent" person that admits they're struggling and they're not up for the task.

Reminds me of the very common phenomenon of managers climbing the career ladder until they reach their "peak incompetence", often with disastrous effects.
Is it just me or should the primary qualification for Defense Minister overseeing a 100 billion investment be competence rather than gender? I’m not German but this article keeps referencing the pressure Olaf is feeling to select another woman. Wouldn’t the pressure (in these times) be to pick the right person?
Credentials and experience matter. I’m sure there are qualified German women who know how the military works but she was not one of them
Ask HN: Does every software project require a refactor?
It seems every project I've ever been on required an eventual refactoring of the entire codebase. I'm wondering if that's the same for others.
DEL derives from earlier teletypewriter codes, and is based on the use of paper tape. All bits set means all holes punched, so it's the only code that can eliminate any other code.
A Guide for Running Rails in Docker
Theoretically, if power-to-gas plants can be manufactured at scale, you could make gas generation plants further away from where energy is being consumed. We already have tons of infrastructure on this planet for moving gasoline around.

You could also keep ICE engines in use without worrying about their carbon footprint. Excess renewable power turns into fuel to be used in cars, boats, trains (diesel electric freight cars), and airplanes.

Using this tech for off peak leveling on the grid might not be cost effective, but it can certainly be used to support the existing infrastructure we have to allow for a more graceful transitional period.
> I have some ideas I want to try out and it’s one thing I could get excited about in tech.

Do the minimal amount of what you need to do at work to get your job done and work on a side hustle that gets you excited at night. Limit it to 2 or 3 hours per day but stay consistent. At the same time study the job market and identify opportunities that would work for you then learn the technologies and skills required for those positions and add that as skills on your resume.

Life is too short to not be excited about what you are doing every morning you wake up. But you also have to have an action plan for the future to get out of the status quo.
Taliban Officials Introduce Sports Car with a Toyota Corolla Engine
It's not exactly a revelation that ARM chips are more efficient than x86...

It would be nice if someone other than Apple put some real effort into non-x86 laptops but here we are...

Of course, I'm still never going to be stuck in Apple's walled garden, my laptop that only lasts 6-8 hours is still "good enough".

Also shoutout to Fedora and GNOME, the "power saver" profile literally doubles battery life without any noticeable difference in performance.
What are some examples?

I’ve been using my own domain since the late 90s, and I’ve never run into this.
The time sacrifice thing doesn't work in practice because the division of labor has a very big expense called taxes.

If you do things yourself then you avoid the tax burden. But if you decide to let someone else do the work you have to pay VAT and income tax.
That explains the convention of using repeated ^H in a post to show one deleting a word (typically what they really meant) and replacing it with something more acceptable. Occasionally, I saw people use a single ^W instead for that purpose.
As I understand, that only applies to venues that serve the general public. Private venues may make up arbitrary rules and deny access to any professions.
Word. I cannot remember the last HN article that had me in tears.
Depends on the videos, I think if you want someone to watch your 1080p@60fps without stutter like they do on youtube anywhere in the world you need edge architecture designed for video no? If so, I'd like to know the service which can do that for $5.
What machine are you referring to? I can hook 3 displays up to my MBP M1.
The Economy in 2023 – With Mohamed El-Erian
I believe the quotas were agreed with partner parties during the coalition negotiations. Maybe they're even set in stone in the coalition contract.
I loathe the term "slippery slope", but I think this is one case that we really need to pay attention to for fear of one. There's a lot of little steps one can take to get to a really bad place.

Consider: a very outspoken left-wing musician says "I don't want any conservatives at my concert". The venue is hesitant, but this is big money. Well, we've got an agreement with this facial recognition company and this other people metadata company- yeah, we can probably make sure there's no one at your concert that we know has ever been to a pro-life rally or has liked more than 5 tweets by Donald Trump. They refuse the ticket sales, and they refuse the entry at the show. They claim they're concerned these people will be disruptive.

There's nothing illegal about doing that. There's nothing impossible about doing it either.

Then it's "Anyone who has ever joined a class action lawsuit against a fortune 500 company"- we're afraid if anything happens, you'll sue us!

Or how about "Anyone whose metadata indicates they'd vote in favour of politicians who vote against tax breaks for new stadiums"? Best keep your political views quiet, lest your 'corporate approval credit score' falls too low.

There's lots of great reasons why companies wouldn't want to do these things. But it's all technically feasible today, getting more accurate and more feasible over time.
Not the OP, but I think they've got plenty of precedent to fuel their caution. I'm surprised that not everyone doesn't immediately remember, when someone says "Sony", the time they silently installed a rootkit onto the PC of anyone playing one of their music CDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Some good ideas, thanks. I hadn't thought about using it for lunch and travel for stuff outside the office but that would be useful.
Igalia is doing the work, but does anyone know who is funding Igalia to work on it? (Or are they doing this without funding?)
The iPad does present itself as Mac useragent now, so I think it is deliberately targeting iOS devices and the iPad doesn't match that anymore. Even when I sized the split screen down to a narrow column it still gives me the full version.
Simulated Humanoid Robot Wrestling Competition
Program a humanoid robot to play a wrestling game online using a free and open-source software stack and win one Ethereum.
I'm currently in the middle of this, we're "moving to the cloud".

The architect who is planning all of this has so far pretended on-prem doesn't exist and hasn't thought about how the data, or the systems, are going to change _DURING_ the transition.

He's now in hyper-negativitiy mode because when I got here I realized no one was discussing or planning for it and started talking about it. As a result, many people (all the way up to the VP level) started reacting to my discussions and the arch diagrams I was using to better communicate so now he's started being super picky about everything on the non-cloud side (when previously he had no interest in it).

This person is a bit of a conundrum for me, I honestly don't know what to think of him. On the one hand he's a fellow architect and is old enough to have 20+ years under his belt. On the other hand, I find him _incredibly naive_ about how these types of projects go. I mean, almost unfathomably naive, the way you would expect a junior developer to be naive because their "width of perspective" just isn't there (and it can't be, they must grow first, as we all did).

What makes it worse is that when I got here they were actually attempting to do three things at once.

1. move to the cloud

2. rebuild the data model

3. rewrite the legacy systems

This company has over 20 years of legacy, including multiple platforms that do the same thing because they bought competitors.

It almost felt like the business side was being taken advantage of. Business was convinced to move to the cloud and the technical side threw in a laundry list of wants and claimed it was required for the cloud, which put the entire thing at risk. So much so that it became a revolving door for people on the technical side (who were not involved in that decision) as everyone realized this project would not be successful.

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Anyways, your rosy picture comment got me to thinking about that guy. These kinds of projects are messy for a lot of reasons, I've legitimately had conversations with people about their marital problems when these types of projects go sideways so I may be more sensitive to the negative possibilities than most, but I certainly don't feel as if most people on this project are truly respectful of those possibilities.
Can’t confirm - my parents still use one of my first work laptops which is over 12 years old and is powered by Linux. It’s enough for all their casual use cases.

Edit: throwing away laptops after 5 years won’t help us to live more in a more environment friendly way don’t u think?
I'm skeptical of any such top-down hierarchy surviving for generations, especially if it isn't willing to be open to some form of self-governance necessary for political stability.

If things eventually do escalate to interplanetary warfare, Mars has the significant advantage of having a much shallower gravity well. It's much cheaper for them to send missiles to Earth than vice versa, so perhaps the MAD threat will be enough to keep them safe.
I must be in the minority. I grew up poor (collected pop cans from my local Sun office as an office cleaner and sold them for deposits), so its scar will always be with me.

But when I was younger, someone once said 'money is not the thing; money is the thing you use to get to the thing.'

So now I can switch between being thrifty or being 'careless', depending what I really desire- and this requires constant self-reflection, a constant self-question of would spending this money do anything for my goals (which should include helping others.)

In other word, like that Japanese cleaner lady, I ask myself would spending this bring me joy?
The end of the reality privilege, caused by AI
Looking over the Python spec again, I can maybe see how you might consider it object oriented. In my experience using Python in practice, I am not sure it is commonly used as an object oriented language, though. Not like the other three languages are. I expect this is more like saying Go is a functional language[1] because it has some functional-inspired features.

C# didn't yield the same results. As you suggest, it even changed its name away from containing 'Object Oriented' during the project scope evolution to not confuse people about what it is. I can't find any primitives that would even allow you to write object oriented-style code.

That said, I won't completely dismiss C# as being object oriented as it is the language I have the least familiarity with and very well could have overlooked the obvious. As before, I ask where the orienting comes into play. What language features at least come close the oriented paradigm?

[1] And, indeed, many do call Go a functional programming language. They're not strictly wrong, but it can make communication hard when you're loose like that. In these sorts of discussions you do have to be a little more precise, otherwise you'll end up talking past each other.
This is actually the point of SEO.

The problem that SEO solves is not "How do I make sure that the end-user searching for information sees the best information?"

The problem that SEO solves is "How do I make sure that the end-user searching for information sees my page?"

SEO is an attempt to subvert search engines for ad revenue. Once you have the ad impression recorded, the actual page content isn't so important.
Can't they just wear a mask when entering, if they actually want to attend? I might be wrong, but it doesn't sound like they are trying to solve some larger societal problem with legal action - seems like just a petty back and forth, "Full of sound and fury / signifying nothing".
Doing something about it also has a cost.

Trying to you carve out an exception so narrow it only applies to X results in a stupidly complex legal system less narrow exceptions have unintended consequences. This is such an edge case situation doing something could be more harmful than beneficial.
cf https://bethlehemfarm.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DrumMaj...

NB for some reason the full version follows an abridged version, several pages in.

[Edit: TIL the roots of the "hype man"]
Even though it seems like a minor thing, it is pretty liberating to just close up your laptop and carry it around without also carrying a power brick. Even if you're the type who always has a bag and does not mind carrying extra cords, it still is liberating to not have to hunt around for a power outlet. Just set up in the most convenient/comfy place and get to work.
> It was far [from] obvious it would be used to provide things piecemeal to Gecko when it was started.

I don't know why you're so surprised. Creating a browser rendering engine with full feature parity is an absolutely gigantic project. Of course successful modules were merged into Gecko.

> Servo, which had a great velocity at that point, would focus on VR and AR usage.

Mozilla doesn't have the same financial clout as Google. Of course Mozilla wanted a way to monetise Servo. R&D is great but they can't spend on R&D indefinitely.
The paper begins by citing an equation that isn't explicitly in the book referenced. I wrote up some notes filling in a few missing details.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/01/16/pi-bernoulli-numbe...
It seems to be glitching somehow. The minutes needle jumps once, then gets stuck after that.
What I meant was, if the copyright holder puts it in a public place, copyright won't hinder others from viewing it, I'd hope at least... which is analogous to putting your .jpg on your web page for general consumption.
They consider it a smashing success not only because they achieved the goal they set out to achieve, but because of the "smashing" joke. I don't think they've advertised these deflections as a perfectly reliable system...they're still experiments lmao.

What other organisation is developing and testing planetary defences to such a degree? I'm personally just extremely happy that we're doing _something_ about planet killing objects, now I need only cross my fingers that we don't kill our planet ourselves, through environmental negligence or nuclear war.
They are, they are just in the wrong party.
So the fear is that when you connect the Walkman to your computer it'll do something similar, installing a "copy protection rootkit" in order to prevent you from transferring non-DRMed files to it? Seems farfetched to me I guess, especially if there is zero evidence of it happening. But happy to be proven otherwise.

Not sure what that has to do with Android either, the "rootkit scandal" you linked is about CDs.
I'm cheap and don't pay for an unlimited data plan/
The second hand is supposed to go round the clock in 58.5 seconds, and then 'wait' for a synchronisation signal before starting off for the next minute.
I'm unclear about the rationale for banning facial recognition here (other than sour grapes about the technology preventing them personally from attending a concert). Are they arguing against the concept of looking for a particular human face on a video feed? Then it's completely illogical to ban automated ways of doing so and allow the old-fashioned eyeballs-on-screens method. In other words, the very concept of trying to identify someone in a crowd at an event ought to be illegal.

Or is it merely the effectiveness, brought about by facial recognition algorithms, that they object to? In other words, go ahead and have humans do it very ineffectively, that's somehow not against my rights, it's only when it actually works that it becomes a Violation Of My Human Rights. Not a great argument either.
Yeah; that's not benign. I don't want my behavior being "correlated" by a shady group of companies whose sole purpose is learning how to better manipulate me for their own profit.
> very common phenomenon of managers climbing the career ladder until they reach their "peak incompetence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Last year we signed one of the large Indian outsourcing firms as a customer. The team we worked with ran fleets of AIX boxes for their customers, running their legacy systems.

There was a strict requirement not to change the disk image the boxes were generated from.

Our most popular integration method is a cross platform golang binary. Unfortunately, we used some key dependencies that would not compile for AIX so we had to abandon that route.

We ended up extending our shell scripting integration to use the OpenSSL http client instead of the usual curl. It meant that when sending requests we literally have to prepare and concatenate all the headers, but it works, and we are monitoring all the background jobs on the very old machines, giving the team a way to address operational problems without waiting for reports from their customer.
I don't disagree about it taking longer, but wrangling our supply chain complexity problem is something that many are motivated to do here on Earth, so it's convenient that much of the work will get done independently of the colonization effort.

I hope we'll converge on manufacturing infrastructure that depends on a somewhat constrained set of inputs. Not because we're designing for Mars, but because that's just good fault-tolerant design.

Like maybe the plans call for steel but al that we have on hand is brass, and it's ok if this one is weaker, so we'll print it in brass: improvising to avoid logistic complexity.

Turns out, that's what you'd need for mars too. You can't be ordering part numbers manufactured on earth all the time. Wherever possible you're probably better off just importing tungsten (or whatever) and machining it local, likely using the same machine that we do on Earth.

I think this sort of periodic-table-of-manufacturing approach would also be necessary to make recycling work. Whatever we call recycling today, it's nothing compared to what we'll need on Mars.
> Reminds me of the very common phenomenon of managers climbing the career ladder until they reach their "peak incompetence", often with disastrous effects.

Stop calling me out.

You're refering to the Peter principle, though combined with the common imposter syndrome, it's quite hard from the inside of yourself to figure out whether you are at the Peter stage of your career or just think that someone will figure out that you are an imposter while actually doing a good job.
Sure, but how will the MacBook hold when it's as old as your Dell?
Might as well.

Apparently, Dave Chappelle has become America’s moral authority.

He doesn’t even realize the irony of him a rich, sanctimonious celebrity coming full circle to become the living example of his famous “What does Ja Rule say?” joke.

https://youtu.be/Mo-ddYhXAZc

News has always been filled with biased entertainment and humor going back beyond the days of yellow journalism to the time of the Greeks.

Let the comedians joke and fiddle while Western Democracy burns as fascism regains its footing.
> Now ReLU is continuous itself (as well as being monotonic) so it still cooperates relatively well with gradient descent algorithms.

A function with a discontinuous derivative cannot cooperate with gradient descent algorithms. That's why you have the famous problem of "dead neurons".
Something else is going on specific to you. If this were a widespread thing for everyone it would big news, it isn't.
Is This a Quality Panel?
Why would a kid need "saving as much as possible", did you ask them? What if they need the money before your death?
Yes, we use Kubernetes / GKE and it expects it by default.

For a current project it's literally just a HTTP 200 served by the application server.
> After repeated admissions that she did not understand the army’s ranking system, Lambrecht came under fire more recently after a clumsy and technically poor new year’s address on Instagram from her rooftop in which she could barely be heard above the noise of exploding fireworks in central Berlin.

Forget about "Credentials", "experience", "qualified", etc. A 90th-percentile high school kid could do better than she did.