skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember the first time I heard about the iPhone. I was like "this is incredible". My friend in Romania asked me to buy him an iPhone - when I told him he would not be able to use it in Romania [1] he said it does not matter, he wants it it looks super cool. When I first saw the Apple Watch my reaction was between huh and meh.

[1] As far as I remember there was only one telecom in US that was working with the iPhone. My memory on this is fuzzy, but I clearly remember telling that to my friend and his answer.
They must be loving HN right about now.
> How many of these will be in decent condition after 14 years of use?

With cars, more expensive doesn't necessarily mean that it will last longer. In fact, the opposite is often true. I would be willing to bet that a typical Corolla is capable of getting more miles than a $100k Mercedes.
One of my principles is to be really suspicious of tribalism, especially the kind where they're putting words in the other tribe's mouth.

Consider: https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
You don't need to filter for education or other factors to get 1% here, nor did we have a larger black population previously that was then economically displaced.
Then I'm not even a fool, because I didn't get that "not compiling counts as a failed test." It feels like the goal posts get shifted all the time.

Yes, I've gotten failed compilations, and every time it's because of a typo (wrong or missing character) that is trivial to fix, no test needed (unless you count the compiler as a "testing facility"). That is different from compiles that had warnings, which are a different thing in my mind (I still fix the majority of them [1]).

But I'm still interested in how you would write test cases for that function.

[1] Except for warnings like "ISO C forbids assignment between function pointer and `void *'", which is true for C, but POSIX allows that, and I'm on a POSIX system.
This was a fun short read!
The other side of that is that there are sometimes opportunities to innovate within the existing rules that no one else is exploiting. For example, Boyd Epley revolutionized the whole game of gridiron football when he introduced a rigorous strength training program to the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/13175331/ho...
Seems to me there's a lot more leaks about Apple than about Google. Where's the Bloomberg reporter dedicated to writing about new PRs on their search engine?
The PCWorld video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxTnGEAx3E) discusses how a vapor chamber should be used between the heat source and the cooler to distribute heat evenly to the device. And that performance laptops are targeted for future generations of device, requiring upwards of 100 watts of cooling.
Is this not so microaggression really necessary at the top of every post?
it sounds rude and it is not an efficient way of communicating the relevant
information.

>Hello. Before commenting about the author, please read this page that explains >the >pronouns that you should be using. tl;dr: the author of this website is NOT >male. >Please do not use "he" or "him" when referring to the author.

How about

> Hi. I am nonbinary.
> I prefer the following gender identity pronoun pairs
>(xe/xer),(they/them),(she/her)
>If you would like to know more here is a link.

(based on blog post and
https://www.reddit.com/r/transprogrammer/comments/ox7aef/chr...)

I am autistic and all I want is an efficient way to address this issue
I dont care about the politics.
Just give me a universal, drama free, efficient way of addressing you and
I will do so.

We should just make that a HTML Meta tag
<gender identity pronoun pairs>
or microschema

Given that there are over 72 different genders now listed here:
(https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_72_other_genders/ar...)

Plus:
There is no fixed number of gender identities. They occur on a spectrum, which really means that the possibilities are infinite.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/types-of-gender-id...

HTML will need ways to convey such information in an orderly and efficient manner.

Or we could just reduce infinite to 1
One pronoun pair to bind then all.
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Hu? (For HuMAN) (so only Hu)

In some languages you address people in different a different manner
depending on age. and some based on age and perceived status.
(and in most some variant if married or not).

All of that can be removed.

Age,Married Status and so on is not required knowledge.
Gender identify is also not required knowledge.

Hu / Hua ?
> This past week, Microsoft revealed its joining Amazon, Google, and others in laying off thousands of employees.

"its"?
> Canada has a strict requirement for engineers (electrical, civil, etc) to pass a qualification test of some sort, and I was told (by ex-pat Canadians) that it's not legal to do engineering work without that. Plus they get a special ring to wear to show their status (not kidding, I've seen them).

Quick couple of notes:

- The ring isn’t really evidence of qualification, it’s evidence that you’ve taken an oath to your peers. Most people do the oath in their final year of their bachelors (The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer)

- The definition of “engineering” in Canada is complicated. I have my ring. I have an EE BSc and a Comp Sci masters. I don’t have my P.Eng at all, and can therefore not call myself an Engineer. But I write software and design electronics all day long, for money, legally. Some of the stuff I work on is safety-critical and could kill someone, but nothing I work on legally needs stamped drawings. So I carry on without a stamp and without my P.Eng designation.

- There is an ethics exam when you go to get your P.Eng but I don’t believe there’s actually a practical knowledge exam. The biggest thing is that you need to have other licensed engineers (and potentially non-engineer managers) attest to your competence in a number of different topics related to the practice of engineering. Not just Engineering skills, but project management, communication, etc. All of the things that are needed to do the job well on your own.

If you really want to have fun with it in Canada, though, consider that you’re generally only allowed to be licensed in the discipline you did your undergrad in (with a few exceptions). So I could get my electrical P.Eng, but not a civil one. So here’s the fun part: there are only a very small number of accredited software engineering programs in Canada. All of the people running around with a comp sci degree calling themselves Software Engineers… well, there’s drama sometimes :D
The book "The Doomsday Machine" by Daniel Ellsberg. He had access to basically everything. I have read it and highly recommend it. I haven't read the others below but have them all on my shelves, waiting to be read.

"Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser, "Raven Rock:
the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself" by Garrett Graff for a historical, US-centric overview.

"On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn for a more technical, if somewhat outdated, analysis.

"The Bomb" by Fred Kaplan, "The 300" by Daniel Wasserbly, and "The Dead Hand" by David Hoffman.
Worth investigating
Argentina only. I worked in super multi congloromerates HR. USD is near 100%. We avoided South America because unstability and persistent high inflation. We do have other South American working in different regions (yes, including those from IT/AI you name it). They all being paid with USD or their residence currency. When I was in another company, small one, we did paid with baseball cards too (I doubt anyone willing to consider that as usual payments)
Ahh yes, and that letter is worth taking very seriously because Josh Hawley definitely has no possible ulterior motives regarding limiting aid to Ukraine as a way to help a certain group of people he runs with.
If someone wanted to cause as much chaos for whatever reason, that sounds like the way to do it as a single person or small group of people.
I’ve gotten to a point where Windows is now my least favorite OS, but the fact of the matter is that modern Windows has the widest gaming compatibility of all operating systems.

Proton/Steam seem like the only ones who could possibly challenge that at this point.
It came from the fact that the author is at the age where that WAS the price of a new basic car when he was growing up.
I guess I’ll just continue this conversation. I’m not sure why you seem to think deleting your posts makes this not a public conversation.

>I'm just a coder who posts occasionally. Small identity and definitely not attached to any movement.

You’re just an individual without any ideological affiliation or movement, but you have such an acute sense of who is in what movement that you’re comfortable accusing strangers of being paid shills for posting jokes online?
I assume that the author meant "you will use it until it breaks beyond the point at which it is worth fixing"
What if an auto update adds something similar new, and defaulted on like this one was?
I just want to pipe in with a personal standout from when I used to play more IF, which is _King of Shreds and Patches_, Lovecraft in the London of Shakespeare, and worth a playthrough.
China and Taiwan is technically still at war like North and South Korea.
How is it an aggression if they didn't actually violate anything? Flying close to the edge of a border isn't aggression, it's almost common practice. Going by your standard, the US has violated pretty much every single country on earth. And no, that's not whataboutism. Precedent is extremely important in international relations and laws.
Fake for a different reason, but I came across this a while back, where the local fishermen were having a laugh.

Lake O'Hare
https://maps.app.goo.gl/P66Y8QQfbu2aWjwMA
If you could fork this and rename to "How Long You've Been Talking Non-stop in this Meeting..." and keep the timeline, I would use it daily.
People speculated correctly that an iPhone would be released under that name. But there was no confirmation until the release.

People are now speculating that Apple will release VR gear. We won't know for sure until release.
Great list, thanks.

Besides books, is there a writer/blogger that shares the latest? I am of course particularly interested in the risk associated with the Ukraine/Russia war, besides the general risks.
> While it made refactoring feel 'safe' to do, it also slowed me down quite a bit.

I find that unit tests actually make refactoring harder.

The problem is, unit tests need to be rewritten, or at least substantially shuffled around, every time you refactor. If you're making a "big bang" change for a major new feature, and that requires refactoring, then it's possible to justify that cost. But that's not how it normally happens.

Instead, a bunch of small changes over time usually make it apparent that the code would be a lot clearer and easier to maintain of the arrangement of responsibilities were different. It's already hard to ever justify the cost of that refactoring under any one small change. But add in the cost of updating all the unit tests and it becomes even more unlikely. Those updates also feels like demoralising busy work, whereas the actual change feels productive, so it also adds a human factor.

Overall, the net effect is that code with a lot unit tests ends up with a stagnant and confusing design.

As you say, a lot of the practical benefits can still be gained by end to end tests, while avoiding both the cost of writing so many tiny tests and the impact on long term design.
Enjoy life to its fullest, it is short. (And money isn’t everything, but it sure helps.)
I see this written a lot but I'm curious to know if anyone actually has data on money spent on new cars vs alternatives when it comes to QALYs saved.

Intuitively it seems to me like there would be much better ways to spend the hundreds of thousands spent over a life time to always be driving relatively new cars. Or just not earning the hundreds of thousands in the first place.
Don't worry, there's a lot more where that came from.
I wouldn't have assumed that a cheater's ability to effect things on a game server would mean they could execute whatever code they wanted on my personal computer unless that server was running on my system.

Spawning money and vehicles sound like pretty harmless cheats you'd expect in a game like grand theft auto.
In my experience cloth seats age best. Fake leather gets tears and the like too easily, and are hard to repair.
Not only a significant cost, but they're not even very happy about you trying to buy it, because you might leak it.
A false dichotomy from an insurrectionist (and the only Senator to oppose 95-1 both Sweden and Finland's entry into NATO). The American military-industrial complex is entirely capable of ramping up to meet production needs for both, especially in the time China would need to build up a D-Day style amphibious invasion capacity.
I’ve heard something similar from a contact who works in those departments. The VR space was hit hard, but the AR groups are still around.
If argentinian developers are reading this, you are probably better off making a bank account in the US than using crypto. Please refrain from transferring large amounts to local crypto companies, as those transfers are tracked and can be used against you in the future.
Windows has a memory test tool built in called the Windows Memory Diagnostic. It runs on the next reboot to fully test system memory.

Apple Diagnostics check memory as well, though maybe not as thoroughly as the Microsoft or memtest86 do (multiple passes).

I've had memory errors that only appeared on two of eight passes through the whole memory test overnight. They certainly caused occasional issues with games though.
I recently ran into fake business on doordash of all places. I was in a hurry and ordered without reading too much. An hour and a half later canceled with a full refund from DD. Got curious and drove to the listed restaurant in person, it turned out to be some bank building. So it wasn't even a duplicate or impostor, it never existed. Since I got my money back, I'm assuming they are trying to scam doordash itself...
we are beset with tiny Hitlers wielding small amounts of power in every organization.
I think it's more an issue with Bluetooth as a protocol. Even Xbox controllers don't do audio over Bluetooth; you need their custom 2.4ghz adapter for audio. Bluetooth hand-free profile, the one for both input and output audio, is extremely outdated and still downgrades audio to something like mono 16Khz. Even modern Apple Airpods will have this issue. It's fine for voice calls, but with music and all, it's not a good experience.
Iirc there was some face-punching resistance to people recording discreetly. I suspect that may have subsided some in many areas due to the longer them of high-res-video-recorder ubiquity.
That's a matter of adoption. These things move very slowly. If you look at the adoption of debit cards, it looks similar. They were first released in the 1960s, and most retailers fought against them and said they would never accept them.

A few years ago there were valid technical reasons for why crypto is not being adopted by retailers in the form of slow transactions throughput and high fees. Nobody wants to wait a minute and spend $10 for their transaction to go through. These technical reasons no longer exist. L2s are extremely fast, secured by L1, and fees are small. And with the upcoming sharding upgrade Ethereum is going to be even more efficient. From a technical perspective, you could now accept USDT (or any other token) and have verification be about as fast as most card payments, with lower fees. But all of these are relatively recent developments (~1-2 years), and it will likely take a few years before all this technology trickles down into real-world adoption.
Or don't eat fast food and drink soda or wine or coffee in the car.
Oh man drives me insane towing companies

I will keep that yelp idea in mind next time
So like, would accusing me of being a paid shill violate that principal?

Out of curiosity, since you’re not in a movement or part of a group, who did you mean by “we” and “us” in the sentence “It's a jobs program for humanities majors where we pay them to tell us how awful we are”

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It makes some kinds of research easier. Imagine you were a blogger or youtuber making a piece on Ukraine, this would allow you to check how previously mothballed Russian tank stockpiles look like this month, or get reasonably up-to-date images on flood events. Anything where recency is more valuable than super high resolution.
KZG via ECG – A Source of Entropy for KZG Ceremonies
Your problem is failing to understand that the Argentinian government can regulate crypto just as it regulates USD.
Piracy. This is why piracy is great. Its a tiny digital collection of all the things I care about.

Story time: I was watching Star Trek Voyager. That show is obviously a lot of episodes. So sometime around season 5 it was removed from Netflix. Got pissed, downloaded it, kept watching.

Was recently watching benjamin buttons first time on amazon. Didn't get to finish it that day. Turns out the next day it goes for cash only.

Piracy is honestly the simplest and most consistent way to do this. And if a friend wants it? Bring a USB and it is yours. Sure teeeeechnically we can both watch it, but how often do I re-watch a movie that my friend is currently also watching at home.

Point is that I really hate the current distribution models.

Down side of DVDs is that they degrade.

And to be completely truthful, if everything older than say... 15 years was available in the public domain, we can stop all this wasteful redundant storage everywhere. But due to copyright laws, things so so so old, that they shouldn't be making money anymore continue to be behind "pay walls" of sorts and only because they are protecting a distribution model that hasn't been necessary in over a decade.
That’s not a good thing actually
You can say the same about fiat too.
> many posters are literally calling diversity hiring practices a cancer in this thread

Ho now, it's a single person. And no, I don't like that sort of language either; I downvoted that comment. But it's just one comment, not "many posters".

> Can anybody point out some empirical study that says “Diversity programs are literally the same thing as glioblastoma”

Do we need empirical studies to demonstrate that X is literally the same as excrement if someone says "X is shit"? This is a little bit silly...

It's just a generic insult. In Dutch, cancer (kanker) can serve roughly the same meaning as "shit". It's a bit less common in English, but I've seen it used before.
Has anyone other than Tesla replaced radar with optics+AI for collision avoidance?
Xi has sold that Taiwan is part of china, and that it's weird that Chinese people can't visit without a passport

China is continuing to hold tibet as an invader of course, same with Xinjiang. America and western powers doesn't guarantee failure.

Eg. Afghanistan has never been held by westerners, but has been by the persians many times
Depends. If the cops involved do have intention to kill, and using the raid/protest to shoot a guaranteed fatal bullets, that is assassination. But proving it is near zero. At best it is just manslaughter at worst (which is bulk of infamous American police brutality), paid leaves. In this case, if the protestors are the usual well-known activist in that region (which sound is), then having him killed off with the cover of protests can happen based on past histories.
How two antagonists from Tudor England faced each other on Fifth Ave (2022)
> But, you know, people like narratives which match their ideology a whole lot.

We can see that.
Here is a Chat GPT generated sincere apology coming soon in the next press release

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10hg7yn/microso...
The coolest use-case I saw was controlling a humanoid robot to repair a pipeline in a hostile environment. Now we just have to wait till humanoid robot tech catches up.
If an invasion is to happen it probably has to happen the next decade. Xi is getting older and China's population has now officially started to decline.

I can't see an invasion happening without massive loss of life on both sides and destroying Taiwan's value. Perhaps their plan is to conduct a massive long-term blockade. This would be more in-line China's typical actions of being aggressive in diplomacy and in stretching the boundaries of international law. If they outnumber the US in the Pacific what can the US do but watch? The US almost certainly would be unwilling to fire the first shot.
What's the economic value of returning the world to normalcy? It's in the trillions.
Well he didn’t really get that money. Sam Altman on his own couldn’t have raised 1 billion for OpenAI. He was the CEO but the money was there already. He was largely parachuted in.

I could understand why someone would buy into Musk’s vision even Gates/Jobs etc. Sam Altman seems like a very ordinary guy without any remarkable attributes.
Imagine a world where billionaires are immortal.
Parakaryon Myojinensis
No, it doesn't. The case here is "buy a consumer device, get consumer results". If you were to expect different results, that doesn't mean that the world is wrong, it means that you bought something you didn't want.
The founder of this company claims that the air speed is 120km/h in a PC-World video interview. It is surprising with such high airspeed that this device is "quiet". Is it possible that most of the sound energy is ultrasonic which is why they state their noise level as 21dBA and not 21dB ? From my understanding dbA is weighted according to human hearing. Your dog might hate this invention.
Process is not the problem.

People are the problem.

What I mostly see it is people doing it to themselves. Someone thinks he has to be guardian of the process and refuses to let the experiment run.
From its streaming service when it premiered. A LOT of TV has come out on streaming but has never been physically published. A majority of it, I'd guess.
I don't think you even implicitly touched upon what downside might mean in this context, aside from loss of income. Re-reading your comments, I still have no idea what downside you're describing. And certainly nothing explicitly addresses my comment.
Agree, learned about a part of the world I was completely ignorant of. Must have been a crazy time filming.
How are you liking Flutter? And any reasons for using Provider and RxDart? I'm looking into using Riverpod, personally.
MRTK - the Azure one is still alive
Googlers scramble for answers after layoffs hit long-tenured, recently promoted
Impossible to even create an account from within Germany as a consumer. This is what their registration form says: (Only for business people and companies - section 14 of the German Civil Code - with location in Germany - not for consumers)