skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No google took your (and your mum's) gmail sign in from the gmail website, intercepted it in their browser to log your /browser/ into their servers that have /nothing/ to do with email so they could better spy on you and build a better database about your online activity. Without your consent. Without your mum's consent. Knowing they didn't have it. Knowing exactly what they were doing when they did it and making shitty excuses pretending it was something anyone wanted.

They did it dishonestly, covertly and knowingly for profit. People should have gone to jail the same as if they broke into sergey and larry's houses and photographed everything and sold the pictures to the highest bidder while claiming "consent" because they typed the question into chrome which larry and sergey have decided to monitor.

The idea that Google is better than Microsoft is like arguing whether fresh horse manure is worse to eat than fresh cow manure.

Take each crook entirely individually.

Google is horrible, market abusing, foul, dishonest and needs to be broken up into tiny pieces.

Completely separately to that and in no way is it related:

Microsoft is horrible, market abusing, foul, dishonest and needs to be broken up into tiny pieces.

In the race to the bottom everyone who passes the threshold of acceptable behaviour in civilized, democratic society that upholds the rule of law and equality before it needs to dealt with separately in the strongest terms. "But s/he does worse!" is as ridiculous a defence as it sounds.

And when you look at what Apple are doing, google are not interesting.

And when you look at what facebook does, microsoft are not interesting.

And so on.

Break them up.

/me waves to the cia/fbi/nsa aplogists who clearly want them all big and controlled.

edit: pretty sure the thing I was responding to has been stealth edited away. @dang any news when you'll get a release showing a parent has been edited after being responded to in some way? Then at least we'll know they should have stuck an "edit: " description or something.
as someone who uses neovim because all my pure rice vim plugins run soooo much smoother on neovim, i'm going to go out on a limb and say that he is dramatically overestimating the representation of his demographic among neovim and maybe even vim users.

i think i read the phrase "emacs envy" more than once, i just feel like OP has a very specific audience for this post in mind
"Samuel Lu, a sophomore, told the student paper: 'It’s hard to take a message seriously when I know that the sender didn’t even take the time to put their genuine thoughts and feelings into word. In times of tragedies such as this, we need more, not less humanity.' "

Those Deans should be fired.
This exactly. SO is not really a resource to get your personal questions answered.

If you are a reasonably senior developer there are close to zero questions that you have that should be asked on stack overflow. You already have enough ability to figure out most problems on your own. Or if you can't, it's most likely too niche for SO and you need to hunt out a friendly subject matter expert instead.

Alternatively, if you're a beginner, it's likely all the questions you have have already been asked, and you are SOs target audience. But not for asking questions, just for looking up the answers. Use SO like a differently organised Wikipedia instead.

Blocking SO is a really odd response, it's one of the best and most comprehensive well organised data sets of beginner to mid level programming information. Don't contribute, fine, but why stop using what's there. Similar to how only 0.1% of people contribute to Wikipedia, doesn't mean it's not still a valuable resource for the other 99.9%
Off the top of my head, some companies that successfully use Bazel: SpaceX [1], Datadog [2], Databricks [3], Stripe [4], Uber [5], etc. That's a good 10k+ engineers using Bazel successfully in the wild. There's more, of course.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_3bckhV_YI

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67uuwVO1tc

[3]: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2019/02/27/speedy-scala-buil...

[4]: https://stripe.com/blog/fast-secure-builds-choose-two

[5]: https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/go-monorepo-bazel/
IANABBP

I am not a basketball... player? person?

IANA NBPA M(ember)
I feel like we're in the early days of photography. How can there be skill when the camera mechanically captures the scene perfectly?
Illustrated icebergs often not stable
See also https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html for a simulator
Oh God I could literally punch this title in the face.
You'd have to be insane to trust GPT that much. I wouldn't want anything hallucinated in my data.
If AI is real success, it will grow exponentially there would not be time to worry about art.

Scenario 1: AI is superior to humans in all respect and will superseed humans.

Scenario 2: AI sees some value in humans, so will preserve or merge with humans.

Scenario 3: Humans are still in control of AI but see no value in other humans.
3a: Get rid of excess humans
3b: Create hybrid humans, for the sake of preservation

Scenario 4: Humans are still in control of AI and see value in other humans that simply can not be replicated. This might lead to an emphasis on non material aspects of life, of which I know not. But I can at least agree that our material experience can not even fathom an infinite space.
Return to the status quo like the last three years didn’t happen.
You are ridiculous. Taking a dvd out of a case is absolutely not on the same order as acquiring and maintaining (ongoing as purchases are made) a digital backup strategy. And there's an entire graveyard of file formats from the 90s you'd have to write software from scratch to decode these days so let's dispense with the notion that digital media formats are a settled matter.
Yes. We're pretty good with large volumes of data.

Eventually all local drives fill up though.

When ingesting data we partition data by time. By default we partition by day. This give you the flexibility to detach partitions, store them somewhere slower and cheaper with more capacity for longer term storage and reattach them later if need be.

Built on top of our open source primary product, we also have a cloud variant of QuestDB which runs on AWS. One of the things that we're building there is cold storage. It will automate this process onto S3 such that if a query ever needs to access this older data it will re-enstate it automatically for you with no admin overhead.
If a different model existed where users could pay for sites...

The devil is in the details.

"If a different model existed where users could pay for tv shows..." and then Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, etc. came.

I subscribed a bunch, the cancelled. Why? Different reasons, but in general: I wasn't able to really vote with my wallet. Shows that I liked very much got cancelled or, more often, degenerated horribly in subsequent seasons.

So any kind of fine-grained payment would be greatly appreciated. Not only for web content, but also for any kind of media.

I guess it would come with its own set of problems, trying too hard to content the public. But I feel that's better than the current situation, more on the top-down educating the unwashed masses.
Legacy code is the future.
This is cool to hear (as another member of the CFM team!)

We have admittedly less insight in this type of 'success' (we talk to all of the teams that end up in a YC batch) but if you stopped actively using the platform and paused your account, you would have told us you met someone you were working with.
Location-aware search is one area where it's very tricky to compete with Google. Google Maps/reviews is a phenomenal product. Happy to hear that Phind worked for you here, but we're more focused on the developer/technical search use case for now.
> I'd prefer term limits too

Fwiw, I used to think this until someone pointed me to a study about how short term limits increase reliance on outside sources like lobbyists. I don't remember the study so I can't link it, but it seems intuitively obvious. Can't become a subject matter expert in 4 years, and for sufficiently complicated jobs you're barely competent by then.
It seems curation and critique will be in greater demand with this oncoming tsunami of AI art. We need people to sift through it all and pick out the good stuff.
Still brave.
You can disable "crypto garbage" and still use the good stuff.
Sounds like you just did your own research, no? And you sort of cited your source.

Now someone can look at what you said and decide how confident they are with what you claim. From my perspective, I can take what you wrote as someone's honest opinion based on stuff that comes across their social feeds. I wouldn't treat it as ground truth, but I can feel confident that at least one person in the world has had that experience.

If someone makes a claim and points to a few studies that I can cross check, even if I'm not qualified to evaluate the studies, I can have some confidence that some domain experts have given evidence for the claim. I can also look for studies that contradict the claim, and in their absence, I can know that some experts believe xyz and I can't find any experts that disagree.

That's about the best I can do as a layman, and I think it's a lot better than nothing.
Indeed, it's ridiculous to think that Edge does anything to keep Google in check. It's a sign of how thoroughly MS was defeated on this front that they now reskin the browser developed by their competition.

Edge may be good for Microsoft, because it allows them to siphon off even more user data and (apparently) inject more ads, but it surely doesn't do anything to help the browser ecosystem.
A Gateway to the Latest AI Models Using Intelligent Java
Leveraging Intelligent Java to Build a Climate Awareness App
Boston Dynamics Spot used to help with maintenance at National Grid
What ticks me off on StackOverflow is changing my posts and attributing it to me.

For instance, I ended a post with "Thank you for any help, I appreciate your time". A overzealous moderator on a mission edited that and removed it. I added it back and told him that I'm polite in person and on the internet, and it's my desire to reflect that. That feedback was of course discarded and they locked the post.

So yeah, despite being top 5% in the world, I stopped answering questions on the stupid site.
Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch
> You get healthcare 7 days a week but only work for 4. Salary is only one component of compensation

Thinking of healthcare as compensation is what got America into the healthcare mess it's in today.
That may be true, but the problem is real. It's not their question (nor mine), but here's an example I came across a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182

Unfortunately, there's no way to vote against closing a question. All you can do is vote to reopen it after it's closed.
Putin isn't a chessplayer. He's a poker player
I don't see the rationale for closing questions. If they're bad questions, downvote. If it's a duplicate, put an answer linking to an answer to the other question. Closing cuts off the possibility that someone might actually provide a useful answer.
Not to discount the photographer's eye, but painting a scene does take a lot more skill than taking a photograph. And photography is largely dying thanks to the smartphone. I like your point that we're entering a new age we don't quite understand yet, but some things will probably be lost as well.
There is something satisfying about the thought that some percentage on an analytics dashboard at microsoft just went down by 0.00001%. However small it is, at least with modern windows, your malfeasance is measured and logged! :)
The website is nice and original. but i don't get the concept or the idea.the menu items don't really tell much? or am i missing something ?
yep, we're working on automatically scrolling you down to the followup as well.
No, for that search what you need to understand is "in <location>" vs "<location> style". Which you could get with supporting n-grams, frankly.
I agree with your first statement, and disagree with the second one. Training a new, non-trivial model is 1/3 craft, 1/3 science, and 1/3 art. There are not very many people in the world capable of training GPT-4 level models or beating state of the art in image generation.
I think you misunderstand what's happening. Microsoft commits to keep porting their games (mainly CoD) to Nintendo's platform as is, to appease the authorities. Basically MS is saying that they won't change the status quo for 10 years. It's not something like bringing the Xbox streaming/game pass to Nintendo Switch.
I think a big part of it is inertia. They have a certain number of ICBMs and SLBMs. I think they are going to replace with same numbers of Sentinel ICBMs and Columbia SSBNs. I wouldn't be surprised if they want to keep enough warheads in storage to fully MIRV them.

They are also keeping a lot of gravity bombs and cruise missiles, both active and in storage, when don't need that many.

I wonder if the expense of maintaining them will cause the stockpile to shrink. There is big program to refurbish nukes and they should retire many of them instead.

My understanding is that the retired weapons are being dismantled and probably can't be reactivated. Also, the US has the 50 tons of plutonium, much of it in pits, from retired weapons. It sounded like storing the plutonium is a blockage in dismantling old ones.

I agree with you about the number of warheads. I think the main danger is someone trying for enough for first strike and thinking it is possible. Also, China has been cautious about nukes, I don't see them going for a lot. Russia has other problems right now.
This reminds me of my first visit to the US (I'm from Europe, and was about 17-18 so this was a long time ago).

Folks (very very good people) I'm staying at : you'll let us know what snacks you eat, and what beverages you like.

Me (surprised) : I don't snack, and I drink water.

Them (genuinely surprised) : then when do you eat?

Me : well, three meals a day.

I remember wondering (and I still do) what the US would look like without snacks and sodas. I had been brought up the exact opposite way.

Edit: I had been brought up the opposite way, and been told that snacking and sodas would be bad for my health, and were a major cause of obesity, and it was quite a bit before 2003.
Google does not have clean hands here, they paid to have chrome bundled with all kinds of scummy (and not so scummy) software and made it really difficult not to accidentally install.
I don’t think anyone’s asking you to care. It’s more about explaining the real reasons why Jassy and others are pushing for it.
My wife has long said, "we have term limits — they're called elections."
We're going to have so much fun migrating Wordpress websites while everybody is already on Solid React Angular that still forces you to implement all loading / error / done states per request.
Jeff's announcement can be seen at https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/

> Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.

Some formatting that isn't quite clear there. First sentence is bold. "good" is italicized in the original too.
How the Nazi Years Influenced the Nobel Prize in Literature
I really like this book (and have recommended it before on hn) http://debuggingrules.com/?page_id=31 - it helps to have a shared team vocab for some of the concepts.

There's a summary set of slides here that gives a great overview: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse474/18wi/pdfs/l...
Same. I do like the flexibility but miss the "bustling office culture" as you call it.

Seems like the idea for me would be some kind of hybrid where 2-3 days a week at least most co-workers are together in-office and the other days people are where they are personally most productive.

Wouldn't have to be draconian, leaders could say "I highly encourage" and provide things like lunches and expectations that that's when collaboration, meetings, etc would happen and then also have expectation that there would be "get shit done" days on those non-collaboration-focused days
Nix's main innovation with regard to reproducibility is that it actually fully specifies the dependency graph. I'm not going to say anything about bit reproducibility as that's another thing entirely, but virtually every other package manager and build system has holes in its dependency graph, coming in 2 main forms:

1. Implicit dependencies that are needed to build the software but not managed by the package manager or build system itself. For example, if your language package manager depends on a C library that it can't build itself. Or Linux distribution package managers that implicitly assume the presence of a "base system".

2. SAT solvers for version selection. Using one of these usually introduces an implicit dependency on the clock time, because your dependencies will resolve to different versions at different times.

The reason your script wouldn't classify as reproducible is simply that you would probably fail to fully specify your dependencies. It's harder than you'd expect once you start moving up the software stack to complicated high-level applications.
I don't understand your response. I asked a single very specific question. Everything else was context and to prove that I did some work on my end before asking for help.

I would have to look again, but I believe that SO explicitly asks you to post what you tried. And now you're saying that posting what I tried muddies up the value of my question. Can you see how this seems like a no-win situation?

Edit: Also, my question was marked as a duplicate. It doesn't seem to have been rejected for reasons related to asking too many questions or requiring a tutorial answer.
In case parent comment context is not clear, since it is UK-specific: the Daily Mail has a bit of a reputation in the Uk among some for being low quality and inflammatory.
Even though I could change it, I never bothered to remove the default signature. It works pretty well as a disclaimer because most people don’t bother to remove it. Therefore, you’re able to signal you’re not replying in an optimal manner without the other person feeling slighted.
One of the big problems with this is that many newer answers are not good, and merely rehash the existing answers, just stated in a different (often worse) way. For example in [1] some of the newer answers just seem to repeat the top answer.

Another problem is that newer answers merely provide an alternative, that's neither better or worse. For example [2] is much newer than the existing answers, but not "better" than any of them. It merely provides an additional possible solution that's appropriate in some uses cases, but not in others.

The problem of older/outdated answers is real, but also much harder to solve than people think it is.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/35533803/660921

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55096093/660921
I mean I think it's quite clear that the family plan meant a co-located nuclear family.

This was clear to me even though I share my girls 50/50 with my ex-husband so I really don't benefit from this at all because whose account should they use on their iPads, mine or his?
Plus less (no?) Magnus effect.
Fuck, why have browsers display the pages at all? They should all redirect to Bing and Chrome, unless its a page their companies approve of.
That sentence is redundant noise on the page. Show your appreciation by upvoting answers instead.
Ah, I see you just want to get into a fight.

You've got the wrong guy, ace. Have a good day.
U.S. Supreme Court torn over challenge to internet firms' legal shield
I wonder if this could be made on at least one of the larger domestic filament printers out of TPU. I imagine a design around TPU 95 might work well. Certainly gives me the idea to try and make a ball that is hollow and pliant enough to bounce well.

Certainly looks like some people have tried it and got reasonable results for solid balls (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4358673)
Or you could just call it what it is: A toy using a misleading description ("With real atmospheric data") that doesn't tell people its a toy. Perhaps its to be expected considering the fact that its a simple website, but still.

EDIT: I just realized the author made an account to clarify in this thread that its a toy application.
They're just going to improve Chrome dominance when they fuck around with website content like this.

You can't trust Edge not to edit what you see. That's hard trust to win back.
> As I was preparing that, and within 24h of the original post, it was closed.

> Of course I deleted it.

It was closed to prevent guesses from being posted as answers while you worked on the minimal example, if you'd just edited it in the question would've been put into the reopen queue.
I'd be more worried about eating that many carbs.
I was wondering the same...does it shoot the same or will it curve like a wiffle ball?

Regardless it'd be great to not have to pump... especially on cold days.
Honestly if this is really injected into the DOM being rendered by the web view... I'm sure someone at google with an insider's windows license has a branch somewhere that silently waits for it to be added, then removes it.
It's bad for privacy. Worse than chrome IMHO.
For me it's either firefox or brave.
Actually, disregard my question - I decided to just do the Apollo Basic trial and view the Technologies in the Advanced Search.

It's limited to cloud providers, as you mentioned, and just a few other tools (only one or two being tangentially related to the tech stack data needed for the idea presented it my post).

It's a bummer, because I would like this product to already exist!
Heh... as someone with prosopagnosia, this wouldn't help too much. But I agree it'd help most people!!
https://archive.is/6T9uW
The last time there was an attempt to make a major change to the NBA regulation basketball, in 2006, it went poorly because the ball they came up with was too hard, and left players with chafed, scratched-up fingers by the end of the game. (Some reported it softened up with use, but the reputation was set by that first impression.)

I don't think basketball needs to be very high tech, but I guess manufacturers aren't going to sit still either.
The YouTube app on iOS does the same thing, putting "Chrome" first in the list of browsers to open links in, even though I don't have Chrome installed.
And the grip. It might have the same dimensions, weight and bounce, but for sure the handling and the aerodynamics are going to be different.
Awesome! I'm curious how you can provide this for free? The biggest challenge for me has been trying to figure out a business model + need that make sense when an API call costs $x > 0.
I don’t think it’s far fetched to assume that this sort of research is backed by years (decades?) of evidence showing we know how to identify schizophrenia in mice. Whether or not this particular study actually matters (or it’s just a flashy headline) is a totally different discussion, but the same patterns human schizophrenics exhibit can’t be that hard to identify without language. Hell, the first picture in the article makes sense to me. Amphetamine salts make humans with this disease draw irrational conclusions. Perhaps that’s an oversimplification, but I don’t think so.
We should also restrict food and housing access to the days you work.