skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah wasn't expecting this old thing to pop up again. By far the most contentious article I've written; people ranging from "hey if that's you and you're happy then great" to people feeling like it's a personal attack on them. I'd encourage an open mind.

Anywho-it's closer to 3.5 years now that I've done this, maybe I'll do an update at 4 years.

The 2.5 year initial duration (when I posted that article) was like working two full-time jobs, 100h/week, almost solely writing code.

Past year has been more like 85h/week, my dayjob has required more time (48h -> ~60h week), with much less of that time at work being /writing code/; and ~25h/week going to my gamedev passion projects, of which a good chunk has also gone to helping others with their code/issues.

The -15h/week 'loss' has gone to caring for pets, and a gentle touch more travel/sleep/gardening. Doing well and enjoying my life, still.
Definitely under the new management team
Britain shoots down Microsoft’s $69B Activision deal
Are there reliable estimates of Clubhouse's runway?
Non paywall link: https://archive.is/iefuV
https://archive.is/S8XVm
> the iOS store is the only one that's even remotely close to being over that

What iOS store? They're all one and the same. You can install iOS apps on iPadOS right?

It doesn't matter that they "voluntarily comply". They just shouldn't have the nerve to split them.
This is a problem that can be addressed by dedicated bus lanes. But if you're going to have dedicated lanes, then it may make sense to go all of the way to light rail. Also dedicated lanes get push-back from unhappy car commuters. Who tend to have an outsized influence.

Many cities worldwide have had luck combining dedicated bus lanes, with "park and ride" lots, and congestion parking in downtown. Now you're providing both carrots and sticks to push people towards a hybrid trip that starts with a car, and then switches to bus in the high density areas. But it is a combination that tends to be politically unpopular in the USA.
Ok.

That's very different from "This time BMW wants infotainment and a third party wins the contract [...] For the next BMW car another company wins the contract. Everything is rebuilt from scratch."

(And "code being rewritten" is very different from "no chance to iterate and improve on the previous version" when it comes to perfecting the UI - but it wasn't you who introduced that confusion. Rewriting the code could actually facilitate incremental improvements to the interface - and arguably that's what BMW tries to do.)
> Forza is doing good-ish I guess.

That's a good counter-example. Forza Horizon 5 was released to much acclaim in terms of the actual game, but the release was plagued with terrible microtransaction problems that overshadowed it and caused the player base to revolt.
I'd guess someone who wants to be seen as a trustworthy expert wouldn't want modern browsers to show a big "This website is insecure" landing page before people see their website.

I guess this would filter non-technical people, but Let's Encrypt existence has made any argument against web certificates moot. There's no sensible reason not to.
You're correct but Ill add some nuance: higher frequencies = higher speeds, but lower propagation out in the real world. So you solve the propagation issue by putting the radio closer to users, eg on street poles. But you also take care to propagate the signal optimally, eg instead of blasting it out in a wide cone of coverage, maybe you use beamforming and MIMO to focus on where the users actually are. Additionally 5G tech also provides some energy efficiency benefits on the radio.

The other things that cellular has over wifi are much better handover between radio access points (almost seamless on cellular, less so on wifi) and better behavior in environments where multiple users are transmitting at once (wifi is similar to csma/cd, like in the old days of ethernet). This is going to change with wifi 6E, but that isnt mainstream yet.
I wonder why they sell these things at a loss. Wouldn't they sell at cost?
Brave search also failed the old "office -microsoft" search by returning a ton of microsoft pages. Just to be safe I tried "office NOT microsoft" too but it was even worse.

DDG and Bing (no surprise there) fails at it too, but Google actually works.
And you never know if package Y required by package X will break the security of your app.
Interesting, any links to info about that?
Key quotes:

> “How does a UK court block one American company from buying another American company?” asks a gamer in an online forum, where the chat is more often about high scores than competition law. “We had a war about this, and being independent, can do as we damn well please.”

> The CMA ruled that in cloud gaming, an emerging technology in which games are streamed Netflix-style, Microsoft plus Activision might become excessively dominant.

> The cloud-gaming market is indeed new and fast-changing, which makes it an odd place to wield the regulatory sledgehammer. Cloud-streaming subscriptions accounted for less than 1% of games spending last year, and it is far from certain that the technology will take off. Google shut down its Stadia cloud service in January and Amazon’s similar Luna platform is unpopular.

> Yet Britain’s new global clout may backfire. WhatsApp and others have threatened to leave the country rather than apply its encryption rules worldwide. Activision, whose share price fell by a tenth on the ruling, says it will reassess British plans, adding: “Global innovators large and small will take note that—despite all its rhetoric—the UK is clearly closed for business.”
One of my favorite graphs is this one on smoking rates in the US.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/07/Smoking-and-lung-...

It peeks in 1960. After that there's a plateau and then a long decline.

The thing that gets me is- why 1960? I mean there were lots of things done after that but if you look at it I can't help but imagine that the causality is backwards. That all the things done to make smoking cigarettes harder were just put there because people didn't want to smoke whatever the reason was.
At that time, I don't think so. It was an incredibly small team back then, and the CEO of Twitter at the time was Jack. It likely would have remained (somewhat) independent, at least in the short term, similar to Vine and Instagram. And given equity, I assume almost all employees would have become millionaires.
Fed’s Jerome Powell Tricked by Russian Pranksters Posing as Zelenskiy [video]
https://t.me/Russiacalling/1015

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-27/fed-s-pow...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/fed-chair-powell-duped-fooled-...
The counterexample is that some of us (including myself) are digital archivists.

I think it's worse in institutionally 'forgetting' via censorship, than to having that media.

I also think it would be improper to sell that content, as it'd be profiting on racism and sexism.

To the point, this set of files also included Fantasia, Songs of the South, WWII propaganda by Disney and Looney Tunes, and more.

Just because parts of history are horrific, does not mean we should self-censor and remove the uncomfortable parts from our collective memories. Frankly, these videos belong in a museum, or archive.org .
> and I think the evidence strongly leans against you.

What evidence, exactly? In the case of Kavanaugh there was literally none beyond mere accusations (including some that were entertained on mainstream news that ended up being exposed as fraudulent).

> If you don't want to face the possible heat of a hearing, you don't accept the nomination.

You are right that politics is always going to require a thick skin. But platforming baseless, sensationalized accusations of criminal conduct (the kind that would never turn into actual charges) is the kind of thing that is going to prevent anyone with any kind of reputation worth protecting from seeking office. This seems like a bad equilibrium state.

> It has not been forgotten, and it will get paid back, with interest.

I'm sure Democratic politicians will use any excuse they can to capture more power, just as most all politicians do. But you are in no position to make such threats, and I am in no position to respond to them. We are just two people with different beliefs arguing on the internet. Let's focus on the arguments.
Why not just use booking.com search then?
Bamboo as a countertop material would have me more anxious than granite.
Siri is tremendously frustrating to me, but helpful to my parents whose eyes are going bad.

For all Google's faults, the Google assistant is years ahead of Siri and Alexa at natural language comprehension. It's not perfect, but it clears my bar, and it comes in handy a few times per day.
What's becoming clear is that we're never going to have a single central, immediacy-focused social networking point again like Twitter was before Musk. Twitter was _it_ for better or worse and it's unsalvageable now.
I tried it, and honestly it sucks, all the rankings are terrible, I searched stackoverflow and I got seo spam as one of the top results, the title or meta didn't even include "stackoverflow".

I also hate how it's not full width.
SilverBirch doesn't respond once you bring logic in because they don't actually know what they're talking about. Look at their other comments on crypto and some of the responses. They're just a bandwagoner
"The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill.
In Denmark you have to be a man who has sex with men (MSM) to get it as a male.

Don't see why there is a need for discrimination.
Anything related to Collision Detection and physics at large. That part of graphics is still at very early stages in realtime context.
I think in the relatively near future, video of the artist creating a piece of art will be part of what makes a given piece of art valuable. The provenance will be just as important as the art itself.
My dislike for Mozilla the non profit is rather intense but I still agree with you: nothing good comes out of playing into Googles hand here and shortening and simplifying the path they have to try to go to corner the browser market and become really problematic.

I still hope we can manage to break up Google before that happens so anything that delays Googles cornering of the browser market is a win in my eyes.
Well you can and some kinds of high-end audio equipment are actually built to do this by putting servo motors on the pots so that settings can be stored and retrieved automatically. But that's probably too expensive for a car company to consider.
Wouldn’t you be in a shareholder meeting instead of a HN post? I mean, if you are a substantial shareholder, or this are only for private equity? Honest question.
That's what I learned when I had to do front-end development using Angular: never upgrade packages.
The issue isn't the storage... but rather the difficulty of using a search to find a good question that has been answered.

Do we need 10,000 questions about how to handle a NullPointerException in Java? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/218384?lq=1

If not, then it is probably appropriate to delete more of them and that may be seen as rude by people who have asked a question about a null pointer exception which gets deleted.

We complain about how Google has gotten worse with search because its harder to find the content that we're after... and at the same time say that we want to keep all that content around on Stack Overflow which in turn makes it harder for people to use it as a "this is where you look to find an already answered question."
"Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice."

- make it stick: Brown, Roediger, McDaniel
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I do. One bad review doesn't make much difference to me but if I see a few mentioning the same issue I usually trust them.
> Either branch name is a fine choice. It just completely doesn't matter and pretending that it has any positive impact or meaningful change on the racism and discrimination faced by Black people in America is insulting. It's purely driven by self-indulgent white people who don't want to make material changes to their own extremely comfortable lives while pretending they're fighting the good fight.

Exactly, and I agree with this completely as a Slavic person (from which the word slave is derived). I frankly consider this insulting as well as having a great grandparent used for forced labour in the Ukrainian Canadian interment camps during WWI, and a grandparent in the German forced labour camps during WWII.
That’s a very small active count
It's even more infuriating because it usually does know but it won't tell you.
Honestly everything should do this. If it's saved in a password manager, it ensures you still have access to it, and if it's memory, it serves as a kind of spaced repetition to keep those neural pathways strengthened.
> > you need off site backups

> Yes, but that's not technically difficult or time-consuming.

Yes, you just pay for some server space on a cloud service... oh wait...

The point is all this trivial to do stuff just adds up, and sometimes it does make sense to use a 3rd party.

Your pain threshold may just be larger than mine.
Ironically, T-mobile is sitting pretty for 5G spectrum because the acquisition of Sprint gave them a boatload of spectrum that Sprint in turn got when they acquired Clearwire...who acquired the spectrum for WiMax. Funny how life turns out.
Oof, that is… disturbing.
Same with Google Home! One too many times, I asked it what temperature it was outside, and it went on some monologue about how I should try asking it to give me a summary of my day or something.

The optimal amount of times a product should interrupt your workflow to tell you about a new feature is 1 or fewer.
The convenience of hitting the back button and looking at other pages about them. Booking is the first page I want to check but not the only one. Sometimes I won't hit back, but my browsing habits are informed by being able to hit back.
When was the last decade someone cared about performance?
https://brave.com/brave-search/

"Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search..."
I agree; I’ve had multiple instances recently of booking through a third party where getting changes or refunds is very slow and clunky, if they will even do it at all. Contrast that to my experience with booking a hotel directly through their website, where I mistakenly booked the wrong dates. One phone call to the hotel and 2 minutes later they changed it with no hassle.
Stellar could be this open-network/protocol for transferring value. I don't see a lot of developers talking about it, but it's really really a good tool for this use case and i think it will be :)
At this point, I think I need to mention Frederick Crews's book The Pooh Perplex, with Freudian, Marxian, Anglo-Catholic, Leavisite, etc. readings of A.A. Milne. He updated this with Post-Modern Pooh a few years back, which undoubtedly deconstructs it, but I haven't caught up with that one.
Unexpected Auden.

If I died of oral sex related throat cancer, when I'm gone I hope they will say of me, 'tta boy.
Salary through the end of August is a pretty nice severance. Still unfortunate for those laid off, but this might be the most generous package I've seen so far.
Why would there be a demand of evidence for my response when there isn't one for the previous question I was responding to? It appeared to me the question asked was ideological, given that it was an informal question of a few sentences and not giving plenty of evidence to the idea that another competitor would have solved the issue?
To give you an example of the typical response quality we encountered:

@copilot can you design a low pass filter for me with 3db point of 300khz?

copilot: Sure, I can help you design a low-pass filter with a 3dB point of 300 kHz. A simple passive RC (resistor-capacitor) low-pass filter can be used for this purpose. To calculate the values of the resistor (R) and capacitor (C), you can use the following formula:

f_c = 1 / (2 pi R * C)

Where f_c is the 3dB cutoff frequency (300 kHz), R is the resistor value, and C is the capacitor value. Let's choose a standard resistor value, for example, 1 kΩ. Then, you can calculate the capacitor value as follows:

C = 1 / (2 pi R f_c) = 1 / (2 pi 1000 300000) ≈ 530.5 pF

Since 530.5 pF is not a standard capacitor value, you can use the closest standard value, which is 560 pF. With these values, the actual 3dB cutoff frequency will be approximately:

f_c = 1 / (2 pi 1000 * 560e-12) ≈ 283.5 kHz

The low-pass filter can be assembled by connecting the 1 kΩ resistor in series with the input signal, followed by the 560 pF capacitor connected to the ground. The filtered output can be taken across the capacitor. This design will give you a first-order RC low-pass filter with an actual 3dB point of approximately 283.5 kHz.
Very cool technology project, but this all seems like a lot of work and infrastructure attention for a vanishingly small constituency- 113 bikes in this analysis versus over 14000 cars.
The submarine article I came across earlier, but it's so good, so on point, that I had to read it again.

"If you really want to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all."

Fantastic way to understand a lot more of the world. Not just critical thinking, I have been making good progress in my interpersonal relationships too.
Out of curiosity, I noticed in the video that it recommended for a voltage regulator either an LM7805 or an LM1117 - either a super inefficient 5V regulator that has no business in new designs, or a 1.2V low-dropout 800mA regulator that is probably not appropriate to the other components it recommended (i.e. an LM7805 -> LM1117 would be 36% efficient at best).

It then also recommends a LiPo battery with a nominal 3.7V which obviously wouldn't be compatible with its LM7805 recommendation.

It also recommends an ESP8266 which is a 3.3V part so neither of the recommended regulators, nor the battery alone, would be appropriate.

Also, it recommends a 168MHz STM ARM micro - but it already has an ESP8266 with GPIO.

I'm not sure what it's suggesting I build but it doesn't really sound like a working environmental radiation logger ;)

How should I think about this?
Azure Workshop with Quarkus, Spring Boot and Micronaut
> Also, yes, sex practices have changed widely in regard to oral sex, many men considered it to be emasculating to go down on a woman and sex was pretty much just PIV until the man finishes and then done.

It's always felt normal to me. I learned that it might not had always been like that from the Sopranos.
Not sure I understand what you mean. I am saying it is good to acknowledge the privileges you have, and/or the fact that you are privileged. Not everybody has privileges, or is privileged, or however you’d like to describe it.
I've been thinking about an ActivityPub site that was specifically tailored for Twitter refugees by making it easy for them to connect to people they were following on Twitter, and making it easy for them to be found by the people who followed them. I can imagine that would be a killer feature for some people.
Yes, but you end up rewriting Datomic!
Fun fact: I was investigated by literal Pinkertons before I got hired at MSFT.

I forget what they're calling themselves these days -- some corporate mouthful or another -- but I was able to trace ownership back. It was the name-brand brand.

I suppose I passed the investigation, but jeez.
It isn't just conservatives. There are a lot of "liberal mom groups" that don't care about their kids having sex, but have become convinced that vaccines are evil.
>A good sales team

It quite angers me that people (on HN) will consider the following to be benefits worth mentioning as pros to the consumer:

>Sleek/shiny finish

>Marketing/Branding

>Ability to Monetize

We arent shareholders, all 3 of these are bad for the customer.
I'm not sure this would hold up to scrutiny, as the office of Supreme Court Justice and federal judge are different offices. The extreme version of this is that we'd obviously not get away with interpreting their office to be "civil servant"and shuffling them off to the DMV.
I love Siri with Apple Maps in New Zealand /s

Me: "Siri, give me directions to vaguely ethnic sounding café" where café is about 2km away.

Siri: "Getting directions to other cafe in London/Europe/Tajikistan".

So theres no line of code that says "If found location if >2000kms away with no direct land route and/or crosses multiple continents, it might not be the right one"

Google Maps and voice works pretty flawlessly.
That's weird, because we do have extremely standard language to take care of that. That's just "warranty disclaimers"
We'll have. The concept is very old. Keeps re-emerging.
AI-assisted coding: Experiments with GPT-4
> The most reviled languages are often previously loved languages that made writing code easier at the cost of reading and understanding it.

You claim someone actually loved Objective C or Perl? Or even Scala?
Did you just quote the entire book (600 pages or so) as an example? That’s pretty funny and you may as well just as GP to google it.

I’m currently halfway through the book and don’t remember any particularly egregious (any more than I expect all 19th century European aristocrats were regularly racist) and am interested in what passages are most of interest to understand the argument.
The most painful part of getting Kerberos logins working on web apps in one of my jobs was getting Firefox to accept Negotiate headers from our domains and actually perform GSSAPI exchange using users keytab.

Windows has it somewhat centralized and well supported across many applications (especially those that simply use system-provided HTML widget), and at least Chrome automatically picks up system-wide config.
Funnily enough floods (GCP) and fires (OVH) are two of the 3 things AWS explicitly mentions in the Well Architected docs. For a lot of companies an AZ going down is an annoyance or bad day but a whole region going down could be a real continuity risk.

> Each Availability Zone is separated by a meaningful physical distance from other zones to avoid correlated failure scenarios due to environmental hazards like fires, floods, and tornadoes.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliabili...
> I'm talking about perfectly healthy adults who seem to have no sense of awareness around them.

There's also a few DSM5[1] diagnostic categories that could cover that behaviour.

However, it is a somewhat cultural behaviour - you see it more in some countries or places within a country - some people are just jerks.

Perhaps they could just add "arsehole" as a new diagnostic category to cover highly inconsiderate people. Just needs better wording.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dsm5
Maybe this will finally be the boondoggle that closes the base that for the past 20yr has done nothing other than get used as a bargaining chip to get the vote of MA legislators in budget negotiations.