skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Not for military use” is a perfectly fine condition for an ISP to impose on their services. There is a tendency recently to view Ukrainian victory over Russia as some kind of overriding moral imperative, so much so that other morals are being suspended e.g. I see otherwise sensible people celebrating and retweeting gruesome videos of Russian soldiers being blown up. It’s probably a good thing for a corporation to insist on their boundaries in the face of a moral imperative like that.
Clickable link to screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/dh7Gcfk
Not sure if I agree. My first job out of university was on a team maintaining a legacy Perl application with 400 KLOC. I believe those were two of the most impactful years of my career in what habits they formed wrt. clean coding and building maintainable stuff.
Are you being paid to do this?
I think this is ultimately what won over our users and why they championed our product so hard. A manager at a factory would use their budget to buy our software off their approved vendors list, get it going in a couple of weeks, and within months they were among the top performing factories. As word spread and other sites adopted our product the same trend happened.

And we cared deeply about the end users. One of the best things I did was get our development teams on-site with users. We had lunch with them, saw how they used our software, and took back tons of ideas for improvements and features that we released frequently and often. I got to know a number of our users on a first name basis and would use some of them to try out new features before we released them to the rest of our customers. It was awesome.

SAP is still the 800lb gorilla and probably always will be. It was neat to work in an environment where we cared this deeply about our users that they fought to be able to use our software.
Ironically amusing that Wilson chooses to announce her impending resignation from behind the WSJ's paywall rather than doing so on the public record first and writing op-eds afterward.

Anyway, it's possible this is a strategic response to the Biden administration's re-nomination of (Democratic) Cmmr. Rebecca Slaughter yesterday.

Here is some reasonably even-handed context on the opposing philosophical views at the FTC: https://prospect.org/economy/dont-say-new-brandeisians-reply...

This extremely opinionated thread is nevertheless a useful collection of contested issues during Wilson's tenure (but I would not advise relying on the twitter user's summaries of those issues): https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/162555187509223014...

Meta has been seeking the recusal of Lina Khan since summer 2021, arguing that her prior advocacy of antitrust action against Meta (as opinion, rather than in service of a competitor) disqualifies her from overseeing the case. Wilson also argues in this op-ed that Khan cannot be an objective judge of the case, but given that the FTC is suing Meta in federal court, it's not clear whether jurisprudential standards should apply here.
> Why is it ~twice as expensive as a per-user license?

Because enterprises are willing to pay a lot more. It’s the same reason the pro version of GitHub is $4/user/month while the enterprise version is $21/user/month. It doesn’t cost $17 to maintain the SSO features that enterprises can’t do without. But GitHub charges that because they know enterprises will pay.
Thing is this is also still the really basic stuff. It's only going to get worse as they attempt to shift more complicated things.

People tend to drastically underestimate the both the scale and sophistication of manufacturing in China.

For certain products the only reasonable alternatives to China are going to be South Korea and Japan in the medium term as they are the only other hubs with the required sophistication in electronics, batteries, etc.

However you will need to pay a significant premium over China and probably still face lower yields and end up sending said parts somewhere else for final assembly etc.
I think the comment means coet in terms of time not money
"It's not lying, that's how your comment came across to me" - altering a quotation in order to change it's meaning is lying. The fact that you interpreted what I said in your own way does not change that.

The OP's argument is invalid because there is no evidence. It seems silly to discuss that point further.

"proceeded to commit the same fallacy so as to prove a point" - what fallacy is that? I never made any broad assertions and stated them as fact. I even stated that I was providing my own anecdote. The OP did the opposite. That is, they stated their anecdotal experience as fact. How any of this could be misinterpreted is beyond understanding, and is a you problem.

In my opinion, it seems like you are having a reading comprehension issue here.
Ah I see, thank you! I figured someone would know better than me on this.
The point isn't "the US also bad". The point is "the US is also bad and people/countries allow them to". Big distinction.

Yes the west is far bigger than the US. However the west is also broadly aligned with the US. Whereas e.g. western Europe condemns and even sanctions China for what it sees as human rights abuses, they look the other way when it comes to US abuses, giving no more than a "tssk". There has been no diplomatic sanctions against the US for its illegal Iraq invasion (amongst others). Worse, some of them even join the US, such as Australia who went to Afghanistan and then killed a bunch of children. The west is bigger but many are complicit.

Of course US crimes don't excuse Chinese crimes. But when double standards are so widespread, it's simply impossible to have any kind of honest or constructive discussion. The double standard must be destroyed first.
Cool, but my heart belongs to the NS Savannah.

https://marine-digital.com/article_nssavannah
> He also suggested that Apple, too, will need to adapt – especially when it comes to dealing with the bureaucratic government.

I can't imagine how a bureaucratic government could be the cause of a 50% failure rate for these components. More likely apathetic attitudes is the cause of both.
2008 everyone thought they were some sort of property wunderkind. Just using cheap loans from banks who were investing employee pension funds into complex derivatives. 2023 government put the brakes on cheap loans. Mortgages are highly regulated and aren't the money pump they used to be up to 2008. And private equity is no longer throwing money at dumpster fires hoping to turn it into unicorns. There is money to be made if you aren't completely dependent on ad revenue.

There are jobs out there, just not in the 100x P/E companies. Infrastructure, green energy, construction, and labor are still hiring like crazy.
Can you not? They're right.
Snipping tool + recompression + conversion is usually enough to get the job done. That's what I do when I put public screenshots up that I care about redacting or protecting.
A lot of ChatGPT responses are presented as factual, with confidence. And it's ChatGPT, not "search random results GPT". And it's AI, which has the word "intelligence" in it.

When you deploy a tool as such, you're asking for it.
Living this way sounds exhausting. Using fake names, putting on facial recognition-defeating face paint, using burner phones to go to a theme park...

Once these kids move out on their own they're going to have a hard time adjusting to the rest of society's social norms in the same way that homeschooled, extremely religious, or children raised in other socially or technologically isolated ways have to adjust as the real world suddenly hits them outside of the influence of their parents.

A mild example of this is the disparity between 90s kids who grew up with and without cable. The ones who grew up without it have an entire set of pop culture references that are completely unheard of to them. It's not really a big deal or anything, but it's a good analogy.

Disney just wants to sell you shit and manage the flow of traffic in the busiest theme parks in the world.

They're not trying to generate your social credit score to forward to the draconian authoritarian governments of the world.

Plus, you can do everything right and your bank or credit agency might still leak your personal info in a breach like Equifax and Capital One.
That's misleading, increased efficacy as opposed to what? A control? It's not more than 254nm, which has been long proven, in repeated studies, to be the most efficient germicidal wavelength, decreasing in near wavelengths depending on how close they are to 254nm. 222nm is only 32nm of wavelength difference to 254nm, and I'll wager that even 238nm is more efficient than 222nm, but maybe 238nm burns skin. 222nm is nearly half way between 185nm and 254nm, so it will have some of the germicidal effects of both wavelengths, but it won't be more than either 185nm or 254nm. But it may be enough, and if it doesn't hurt people, then kudoes.
I mean if one's time is worth approximately $0/hour then I stand corrected and indeed Copilot is more expensive than chatGPT.
Much easier to take screenshots now, without users getting notified that a screenshot took place.
Nice to see Fabien here presenting, a nice change to the usual suspects :-) with his down-to-earth embedded personal angle. More people taking time to explain and evangelize amazing tech makes me happy. Go Fabien!

By the way, if you want to know more and dive in, we just completed a 3-days training sessions with AdaCore's Yannick Moy and all the colleagues (some not even Ada practitioners) are itching to put some SPARK everywhere, and were surprised the tech is so accessible, mature, for non-formal-praxis people. We're probably going to book a second session for mostly C dev people.

Give it a try!

(I have no stakes there, but wanting devs to focus on safety, security and better software - more direct value in our daily work)
Drag & drop not working on Brave.
The security sandbox is a fair point. Although, embedding a web browser brings in a whole lot of extra surface area so you need to update regularly to stay secure. Electron's defaults have historically favored developer-friendliness over security and require a level of diligence from the app developer, as well. It's gotten better, for sure.

The Linux point is interesting. I have a Linux workstation I use regularly (in addition to a macOS laptop) and sometimes the desktop integration is nice to have. I just also struggle to believe a company worth 10s of billions building tools for software developers couldn't solve the problem in any other way. It feels a bit like we let companies off the hook. Whatever misgivings people have about the UI consistency, we have plenty of Linux desktop software that runs well and developed on far smaller budgets. I could live with resource-hogging vendor software if there were open protocols or APIs in place to supplant with something of my own.
So instead of a side-topic complaint about “written in Rust”, you’re requesting an off-topic discussion about whatever other tooling than this which is both written in Rust and that is bad?
How to deal and handle things that are out of my control?
That money was granted to them as a reward for contributing to society. Society has a say in how it can be spent.
If only there was a company with experience in electric cars..
Normally I hate TikTok but this time the challenge did good: auto makers should take software and security much more seriously.
The red tape people are asking to be cut isn't basic safety regulations, generally speaking.

Japan is the reference Turkey was supposed to follow for dealing with earthquakes, and Japan is known for both building being fairly easy ("as of right"), and also for being relatively strict for earthquake resistance. You can have both.
// and how much is attributable simply to accumulated bloat or other things that might fall under the vague label "technical debt."

(I am the person you're responding to) - I do think that very often it indeed falls into the vague label of "tech debt" but not all debt needs to be repaid.

For example - let's say I am writing a new Turbo Tax feature and I can do it quickly by leveraging 4 existing APIs. My feature is "slow" because each API does its own complex IO operations, many of which are redundant across the 4 calls.

Is that technical debt? I have the opportunity to create a new API that optimizes the IO for my use case, and it would be 4x faster. But, it may never be "worth it" to do that because my feature is seldomly used and is still fast enough for the user to not lose productivity. So I would say that's not really a tech debt, just a technical tradeoff that was made.

In general, I find that a lot of latency comes from (a) reuse of suboptimal pieces/frameworks that accelerate development and (b) not taking the time to optimize. There are times when these are tech debt, and there are times when these are fine.
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> Todo app 15 years ago was a simple CRUD app. Today todo app has to do CRUD, sync, offline mode, public API, integrations with popular services, collaborative projects and support 6 platforms.

Sync was done in many ways, thanks to the app using actual files to store information. It wasn't a concern of the app itself - nor it should be. Off-line mode was the default. Public API wasn't needed. Collaborative projects is something nobody asks for in a Todo app, and of course, portability gets much easier when you have much less code to port.

Still, I could imagine apps back then having all those online and multiplayer features[0]. But even then, this doesn't add up to modern bloat. APIs, collaborative editing, sync, integrations - these aren't compute-heavy or real-time features, they shouldn't cause a big performance impact. That is, unless you're doing something stupid, like blocking on network requests, keeping state on a server, or just constantly parsing and serializing JSON (or XML).

> Are 2000 winamp and 2022 spotify app comparable?

Yes. WinAMP reigns supreme. Spotify app is hot, bloated garbage and has only a small fraction of features WinAMP offered. The entire value of Spotify is in their service part - but music streaming existed in 2000. You probably could make WinAMP stream from Spotify if you tried hard enough. I hope someone does and uses this to demonstrate what should be obvious: there's no technial justification for Spotify being so heavy, so feature-less and so bad UI/UX-wise.

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[0] - They didn't have them, because most of those features only became useful once smartphones and mobile connectivity took off in the earnest.
> All cars sold today are able to run on biofuels: ethanol for gas cars, vegetable oil for diesel.

Cars adapted to E10 or E15 won't run on pure ethanol. You can probably run diesel cars on vegoil but I expect problems cause it's more viscous. Talking about Europe here, not LatAm or Brazil.
Didn't expect to see this here but I'll take this opportunity to say thank you to all the contributors and to anyone that's given Ruff a try.

I'm around if anyone has questions.
Probably the same machines, but not the same attention to detail from the workers and management.
Nearly started making these sounds before I realised I'm on a busy train and caught myself. Oops.

If it helps at all, in my experience of learning to do alveolar trills, the key was finding the precise amount of resistance to apply with my tongue. That is, the muscles hold still and the flow of air is what moves it. I think that means that the base position for the tongue is forming a light seal against the alveolar ridge and upper gums. If you get the pressure right, when you vocalise, the flow of air will briefly push your tongue out of the way then allow it to snap back, and if you get the pressure exactly right, you'll get a pleasing trill sound.
Imagine Henry Ford limiting the availability of autos in pre-Vichy France "to prevent a second Great War" after taking a call from Berlin, and you'll get a sense of the moral quality of this decision.
Both parties would feel like they're dodging a bullet.

People still griping about $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK are clearly out of touch in 2023. It was funny commentary in 2013. It still rang a little true until around 2016. Now it's just an indicator you are the one not to be taken seriously.

It's React, Vue, or Angular and it's been that way for many years now.
I keep seeing people post three asterisks. What does it mean or why are people doing it?
> it's very difficult to luck yourself into top tech jobs.

Not true. There are many avenues to it. The most important is deliberate training to be a top engineer. I know several who got into top tech jobs. All of them were no-brainers to hire, because of their track records.
> This 50 per cent “yield” fares badly compared with Apple’s goal for zero defects

Q1: Is Apple QCing everything before shipping to assembly?

Q2: Surely quality issues should be the supplier's problem, not [just] Apple's, and hence a zero defects target should be the supplier's goal, not [just] Apple's?
why stock markets melt up even on hot inflation reports
Some pros and cons of dividend investing
DoD artificial intelligence agents successfully pilot fighter jet
That's insanely impressive.
Cool, yes, you should be afraid when you go around making autonomous weapons. The rest of the world is. Not sure why anyone working on weapons of mass destruction would feel the right to be immune from fear.
My main issue with shadows are that they are so hard to color right. You need the exact same color but you then need to add black, but I can’t get that right. Reflections and such usually is given away from the scenery.
This is fun, but applications requiring L2 adjacency do it to limit latency/distance. Creating a L2 domain between here and the moon, what are you gonna use it for? Certainly not anything other than fun.
Wow, karma came back real fast!

Hilarious if it weren't so serious.

At least maybe he'll learn the lesson and replant bigger and soon...?
If you give me access to your email - and just your email, not your bank or anything like that - I will give you $10. It has to be your real, primary email, not a random unused second account or a bot account.

I promise I'll only read your emails, keep a copy, and sell your data as I find it profitable. I won't reset your passwords or anything.

$10 is more than what most other brokers will pay you for the same access, so this is a very good deal. If you really don't think your privacy is worth preserving, take me up on my offer.
Russian guy traded based on insider information stolen from US computer networks
I would not describe not being able to sell goods due to lack of expertise/infrastructure as “holding all the cards”.
If previous world wars are anything to go by, a war with China would come with a shift into a wartime economy. Luxury consumer goods like iphones and cars would be an afterthought at best.
> Also, how can someone see this catastrophe and still want to go with trains

Perhaps because most of the industrialised world run tens of thousands of freight and passenger trains every day.

What happened in Ohio is not an inherent issue with trains.
Hi HN, Ari & Eden, founders of Odigos here.
Super excited to introduce version v0.1.4 of Odigos, our open source project. We have been hard at work adding new features that include support for ARM processors (latest Macbooks/AWS Graviton), new destinations as well as major stability improvements

Read more about this release in our blog: https://keyval.dev/version-v0-1-4/

Interested in contributing to Odigos? Check out our open Github Issues: https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

Let us know what you think!
People in Russia receive a constant stream of propaganda about their opponents. And it is not safe to make public statements that oppose the war.
You'd be surprised. The older Tek <100MHz scopes I'm familiar with (like the 465) are pretty easy to work on and most of the parts are commodity. CRTs are starting to get harder to find, tho. Newer stuff is full of custom components and/or ASICs and you'll prolly have to cannibalize one to repair another these days. But I agree that the way to go now is to just get a $25 disposable scope from China off Amazon.
This problem is actually somewhat similar to (or a result of) the inflation problem.

Normally the market distributes demand in a continuous and predictable fashion so it's easier to plan for the future. This includes demand for toilet paper, eggs, and tech jobs.

When the market is manipulated excessively, the results are hard to predict as the feedback is delayed and noisy. Like steering a huge ship with siri voice commands and an antagonistic crew.

So when averaged over a long period of time, the steering does kinda-sorta align to a desired path, but like a fishtailing car, it causes a lot of collateral damage and is never really in control.

E.g. demand for tech jobs was pulled forward causing long term planning (multi year degrees) to fail since supply is now being dumped onto a market with no demand. (and the previous excess demand just creating bloated orgs and salaries).

This disrupts career paths b/c it delays the the ability to compound wealth/network/skills/etc...

This has further negative effects b/c the difference between two individuals compounding at the same rate but with a different X axis start time is also an exponential function. (https://www.desmos.com/calculator/88s8c2uus2)

This increasing inequality drives up the prices of assets that are used to absorb excess wealth like stocks and real estate (considered a 'necessity' for life scripts like starting-a-family)

Newcomers are forced into either starting over in some overlooked blue ocean leveraging new innovation, forced into negative expected return but high volatility strategies like robinhood/wallstreetbets, or forced into new life scripts that don't rely on clinging to a wealth sponge. *

* Crypto has elements of all of these including new kinds of wealth sponges that are completely useless (unlike a house) so for many it seems like the only path to an acceptable future.
> and then was forced to

There is no contradiction in your two understandings, but a possible small misunderstanding in your second one.

What seems to have happened was, media was slow on the uptake (there were some stories last week, but nothing like there is now), and also it is/was getting suppressed or the severity downplayed due to external factors (for example that reporter who was arrested).
This group's notorious for shining UV at fashionable pathogens. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2
Legacy software requires much more x10 efforts to new ones. Because you must at the same time support bug fix, refactor, new features implementation, and also migrate to new systems for the same functionalities.
The first dip in tech that I saw was around 1996 I believe, definitely remember another blip in 1998... then after 2000 it was a real shit show.
This is exactly where I am at right now. I have a million dollar mortgage and interest rates are going up. I'm keeping my head down and perpetuating technical debt until I can hop jobs for a higher salary.

Criticising the status quo is not a winning move for me, especially when it's lead to the company's engineering team tripling in size. If I'm asked, I'll pick some low hanging fruit– remove reliance on legacy/redundant JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, and spent time writing better unit tests. But so far I haven't been asked.
Pretty much everything. The practice of engineering is as much an exercise in knowing what problems to solve as it is a practice in knowing which problems you can get away with not solving.
I don't know what you are referring to. If you're talking about the ellipses ('...') at the end of the URLs, HN truncates long URLs for display automatically, but doesn't alter the destination.
unless you are very, very lucky - dream on