skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Software doesn’t make or break an organization.

As someone who works for an organization that is on the receiving end of bad software, I can assure you this is not the case. There is lost opportunity, due to decreased productivity and outright lost clients. There is a souring of the work environment, an environment where people are constantly putting out fires and there is constant churn in staff because of that.

Perhaps the organization I work for is unique in that it is public sector and cannot go out of business (which appears to be the author's definition of broken). Perhaps the author has never dealt with software where edge cases involving lost and phantom data is a daily norm. Clients, real people with real lives, are literally lost by the system.

Things are so bad that losing several years of business records (or, more likely, paying to have them maintained by a retired system for some legally defined period) is considered as a viable option.

So yes, buggy software does break organizations.
The mandate part seems insane to me, an American. If the country wants 42 holidays that's fine - just don't attempt to stop me from getting ahead.
I'm not worried about Earth, I'm worried about someone else
reminder that fdroid offers apps that will monopolize the microphone so it cannot be used by other programs (pilfershush for example.)

electrical tape on your camera should take care of the rest, and developer mode lets you feed the system bogus GPS data at will.
I saw your design and it's fascinating. The whole concept of writing without distractions is really awesome. Good luck!
I think it's more that forums weren't really made for boosting engagement. It's like email, just a tool to do something not to keep people addicted. GenZ look at forums and they go eeewww.
It’s very odd you can’t sort forks by the number of stars in the UI
Meanwhile China is bad.
I don't think there is much point to using the big 3 cloud providers. In fact I would think it is a fools errand to use AWS for startups or even big companies given the sheer cost of bandwidth, storage and compute compared to Digital Ocean, Vultr etc.

I shake my head every time when I read startups using AWS and racking up expensive and unpredictable bills to use the same compute that can be had at a fraction of the cost when using Tier 1.5 cloud providers.

As for this acquisition, I think it was a matter of time before GPUs were added to the service offering for Digital Ocean and this would be the best way forward rather than implementing this infrastructure from scratch.
It's essentially impossible to create a SaaS app that's fully FOSS. And what good would it do?

Furthermore, FOSS is orthogonal to support and usability. It's a meaningless property on its own.
For me, he's saying you don't need to TRY to make them succeed - they will succeed or not on their own merits, and for their own niches.
Startups should consider starting their own podcasts
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/adp-jobs-report-private-sect... ("Private sector companies added 497,000 jobs in June, more than double expectations, ADP says"

Quits may be down, but the economy is firing on all cylinders.
Ok, so let's remove the ban and the exceptions and make it legal to record anyone.

Then you record a cop who doesn't want to be recorded. The cop beats you up, breaks your phone, and busts your lip. He and his five buddies say you provoked him, and you never see justice.

Problem solved?
My experience with the police has been universally terrible. They think they are above the law and trusting them to do the right thing or “tell the truth and you’ll be fine” is extremely bad advice. Get a lawyer and be very careful around these people is my more nuanced take on them.

Edit: I commented before you made your answer more nuanced so I’ve changed mine too.
June 19. Or Juneteenth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Then let's handle it like we do race: the average cop is a bastard. This is not necessarily true of all individuals, but it's statistically predictive.
That is an evolution I perceive coming at some point. It will be essentially the end of all middleware.

Leveraging AI to make your business more productive is a short term temporary evolution. Longer term most businesses will have no purpose.
The funny thing about Joplin sync being too slow... years ago, I complained to the author that his markdown files weren't true markdown, and his rebuttal was that it was necessary to pollute those to get sync to perform well on Nextcloud/webdav. I pointed out how he might have just written a small NC plugin to achieve the same effect, at which point the thread was closed and I was no longer welcome to comment.

Maybe that's changed since though.
LEGO Building Instructions
> You probably don’t have much experience with the police, would be my guess

It's a bad guess.

EDIT: Police in America have a "thin blue line" problem of reflexively defending peers' mistakes. Their cultures look disturbingly similar to gangs, though I don't think that's intentional--they're better described as fraternities with guns. (Which also describes gangs. Convergence.)

That said, new recruits aren't corrupt. And most cops are trying to do the right thing. More fundamentally: most Americans want a police force, and when the police stop working, the most proximate token is torched.

So yes, I get the drive behind the slogan. But it's counterproductive to a ridiculous degree. And it's nowhere proximate to a solution. On HN, I figure we can do better.
No, what for? Better to relax a bit
By now, I think it's safe to say the flat earth thing is nuts, but I'm careful about assuming that conspiracies will get exposed quickly or that people can't keep secrets.

Tuskegee was kept quiet from 1932 to 1972. The guy who eventually leaked it was hired in 1965, learned about it from co-workers, reported it one year later, then again two years after that, and then after four more years finally leaked information to the press. Tons of people knew, others had previously protested it as well. Operation Sea-Spray was hidden for 27 years. It was ~25 before the Pentagon Papers leaked.

Even large numbers of people can keep a secret long enough to do a lot of damage. What bothers me more, is that there's not a whole lot of accountability when the truth comes out, and those who were hurt by those secrets don't seem to ever get anything close to justice.

I think that as long there isn't enough morality and backbone in my country to hold people meaningfully accountable and help victims when atrocities are exposed, asking for there to always be a whistleblower ready to sacrifice everything might be asking too much. Especially since we seem to be cracking down harder and harder on whistleblowers.
VW will test its autonomous ID Buzz in the US starting this month
> anyone can feel comfortable demanding anything, what matters is what they get

Try demanding that a lady give you her purse and see how far that takes you.

Attempting a crime is often a crime regardless if you succeed.
> How long did it ACTUALLY take

Haha, I came to that same conclusion decades ago - I don't know if it would actually produce meaningful estimates or not, though, because every time I try to estimate that way, somebody more "important" than me comes along and throws out that estimate for one that fits the timeline he already had in mind.
The backdoor is already there as zero day exploits.
Mandatory holidays are a no-go in the US.
Who knows if Framework[0] survive long enough, they might create a phone with choices like GrapheneOS[1] etc. Their 16" laptop reminds me of Project Ara[2].

[0]: https://frame.work/

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
This might be quibbling but true democratic process could be interpreted as direct democracy where the law is directly voted for and people give a specific assent to the law (which ancient Athens did do). This is more of a democratic republic where officials elected through democratic process then make decisions, which usually works more smoothly than a pure democracy, but it does mean that the population at large does not necessarily support this specific law (though they might).
POSIX also hardly matters on Windows, mobile OSes, legacy mainframes/micros or game consoles.

What is needed is to have a product that makes the OS relevant enough for devs to consider targeting the platform.
I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.

I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.

Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.

When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.

I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.
Iirc, that was also the reason Earth plunged into a new ice age in Snowpiercer.
I mean, the French Revolution was very-shortly-followed by the Terror, so we can hardly present this as a simple slow decline from a golden age.
I think it's a fascinating case study that LLMs are bad with numbers. It could have something to do with how these models are trained. Humans do a lot of rote memorization and learning in young life to cement numbers and basic math, but an LLM doesn't have this advantage—it's like a person that has just read a lot. If a human was never taught math, but read thousands of books, I wonder if their number skills would be in any way analogous to an LLM.

Then again, I think there could be an argument that the human would pick up and internalize counting without any instruction, just based on the embodied fact of having (on average) ten fingers. I'm guessing there's a cog-sci or anthropological study that looks into this…
Better phrasing would have been "the important tokens are roughly evenly distributed throughout the text", that was the intended reading.
I've thought the same thing, haha. I was thinking about going the other way though, with dor for and/or and or for xor. We already have doff and don, which for some reason seem like similar constructions.
Do blanket bans on speech usually have a large group of exceptions? Not to mention the government can use their official accounts to communicate whatever they want, they just need to refrain from asking companies to take down things (that aren't a threat to national security, etc) until this case in adjudicated.
For me, I think the big mind-shift was the dot.com explosion/implosion.

VC driven growth at all costs ("GaaC"), monetize later. That's when I first saw it.

Prior to that what I remember was mostly building a small business.

On one you grow and grow fast, needing multiple rounds, to exit.

The other was build a business with one or two rounds, then have a product that generates profit.

The GaaC method also means spreading the company into all kinds of things - maybe away from the core - which I think causes loss in the original value prop.
Different location, different economy and different currency, but yeah buying coffee out is crazy and I can't believe I was stupid enough to do it for so long.

I convinced myself I "needed the time out of the office" yeah cool, go for a walk you dork and make coffee in the kitchen like the person with bills that you are (is what I now tell myself)
And easily physically removable batteries, which used to be the norm and are still available for some devices (like the Nokia C30).

It isn't mere coincidence that device manufacturers have made it impossible to power off mobile phones (short of refusing to charge a device) and impossible to positively disconnect ripe-for-abuse subsystems like the microphone(s) or cameras at the same time that governments and other entities are using them as tracking devices.
every single piece of software ever built is either already hacked, or waiting to be hacked by future hackers

...or it's not worth hacking -- this is what your statement leaves out.

Nobody is going to be searching for bugs in cat(1) when there are bigger prizes out there.
I used cloudhq to migrate out many years ago. Looks like they're still in business.
in the US yes, at least from what I have heard

but not all countries have as absurd little police accountability and oversight as the US
Yet another reason to dislike JSX apparently: its parser deviates from the HTML5 spec. And at this point JSX is so well established (ossified?), fixing it would break countless sites when upgrading.
Naw, just redefined to something which allows complete freedom of speech... so long as it's the right speech.
Let’s not forget that the Pax Americana is very beneficial to USA economically speaking. Yall ain’t doing this out of the goodness of your hearts.
There's always the faraday bag or simply not taking it to your meeting/activity that have been the recommended options for opsec even when phones had removable batteries.
Technically speaking, all cops can’t be bad, so the phrase is pretty dumb anyways even if one has issues with their country’s policing system.
Kremlin lacks ‘the means and the will’ for tracking Wagner boss’s location
I like the engine, but the name is essentially one that has no consensus on how it should be pronounced (emphasis on the first syllable, emphasis on the second, or equal emphasis on both).

Some background here in the context of the original play from which the name is derived - sorry about the paywall:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/theater/the-right-way-to-...
That sounds very reasonable, similar to installing a bugging device in the house of a suspect, to gather more evidence.

The neat thing about mobile phones is that such a bugging capability comes built-in. The police should certainly be allowed to use this in the course of investigative duties.
Man, I've been WAITING for this!

(What, nothing? I'll show myself out.)
It would be insane to even try to compete with Unreal, an engine focused on AAA games that's been around for decades, with a large full-time staff. No open-source project will ever match them, because it's a moving target.

Fortunately Unreal Engine is a poor choice for many types of games, and Godot is doing a great job carving out its niche with 2D games and simpler 3D games. There's still a big market for 2D games, and surprisingly there aren't a ton of engines which do a good job supporting them. Godot is easily among the best.
Some are in my fridge, under a Costco rotisserie label.
> The other categories are associations made by accident of birth.

Just because someone says you are a Christian because you were baptized or whatever doesn't make it so. Religion is just as much a choice as an occupation.
>your misinformation isn't even internally consistent, you talk about charts hundreds of years back and then ice ages.

That was the point if I am reading correctly, to show that a trend on the order of a couple hundred years is not expected to be internally consistent with the longer term trend on thousands or tens of thousands of years
> A lot of

Isn't that the issue? How is "a lot", and is that number representative for everyone who publishes text, video, pictures,... on the Internet or, more limited, the Web, or, even more limited, a handful of online platforms?

> making quality content

I'd argue that quality is in the eye of the beholder. Online, both trash and treasure co-exist. Moreover, one man's trash is another's treasure as quality is, always, subjective value attribution.

The big challenge has always been discovery. The so-called "big" social networks got big because the introduction of a "wall" or a "feed" changed how we, denizens of the internet, interact with the Web: from "pull" to "push". The vast majority of internet users don't collect and curate links: they just consume a feed that pushes updates from their "network". Or "subreddits", or "channels".

Incidentally, how's consuming feeds of pushed content all that different from flipping television channels? Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent does echo eerily in this digital future.
Don't think of it as the hottest summer of your life, it's the coldest summer of the rest of your life!
As a fan of tools like this and Eternal Jukebox, I cannot wait for the ones that have an option to request a cut specifically, like "from approximately this point, jump back to around this other point", while using the 'smart' features to line up the audio cuts (I'm sure stuff like that is built into the CC suite but I'm not springing that kind of money to recut a few of my tunes for personal listening ).

With Eternal Jukebox I was able to emulate it by setting the jump percent very high manually at the right time (but had to be paying attention + had to get lucky with which branch it took), whereas here I'll see if I can get it going by calculating what the cut I want would set the song length to, and requesting that length and fewest cuts. (Edit: didn't work)

Sometimes the simplest features are the easiest to overlook but most useful
> It's a profession, every cop out there can just... not be a cop.

Yeah, and every coal miner can just stop complaining about tough working conditions and decreasing number of jobs in their field, and instead learn how to code. It is that simple[0].

0. https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...
There's definitely a growing social media fatigue, a feeling of saturation or boredom. That feeling will only accelerate as social media further fractures. The increasingly attractive option is not to switch, instead to quit.

The type of social media figures that are broadcasters will face a particularly challenging situation. I recently heard a Chrome Devrel person complain about it. They used to just post announcements on Twitter and take some feedback there as well. Now they have to go and try to reach this audience across Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Bluesky, Threads...a growing list. And there's no network effect where you get a mass following for free, you have to painstakingly build it up on each network independently.
> anyone who has seen a temperature record going back more than a couple hundred years will tell you that this is hardly uncharted, there is strong evidence that it’s been way way hotter and way way colder before, and that at scale the global climate is oscillating back and forth between ice ages

Share the charts, you can't expect "anyone who has seen" those mythical charts to just happen to be the same ones reading your comment. Supporting your claims is always a good start instead of "as it's already known" when it's definitely not the scientific consensus, hence the article talking about uncharted territory.

Just show, don't tell...
It will be worse. People already let cellphones and social media become toys/babysitters for children.

Next, AI will become your child's closest companion and they will bond with it greater than to their own parents.
Their first album also includes guest vocals from hardcore punk musicians.

The general EM argument is that they are adding black metal elements to music that is fundamentally hard rock and/or punk.

It ends up being arbitrary, but I think the underlying desire makes sense - at some point, things go from being metal to being something else with metal elements. They aren't an encyclopaedia for music with metal elements, they're an encyclopaedia for metal music.
there are some who say that the following and other work is superior to cicada which eg requires timelocks

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/543
I'm going to be honest, this analogy is just not that good. You can draw some parallels to cancer and bad workplace culture, but it's a very skin-deep/awkward comparison in my opinion.
Can we get the European Union to mandate physical toggles and shutters for mic and camera, now that they're also pushing for user-replaceable batteries?
Those are some pretty famous last words, speaking as someone with over 35 years of hardware and software experience.
Are you Earth? Or are you a monkey that developed into salience during the ice age, and expects a certain amount of temperature variation and CO2 levels to survive?
Python is just the web server. All the truly performance-sensitive components--edge proxy, load balancers, backend services, databases, caches, and storage services--are mostly C++.
If you have been around a while, you will recognize ACAB from the tattoos of nazi skinheads or hells angels. I guess the enemy of your enemy is your friend even when they are fascist dickheads. Can we pick a new slogan or is there a reason we are attached to this one?

There is a reason racist extremists don’t like the cops. They want to carry out their agenda with impunity, and people use the power of the police to manage their presence in public spaces.
I don't know what this is, but it appears to be shared-kernel.
I haven't seen "reeducation camps" in the west in a few decades
They don't have to install the backdoor themselves since that is clearly beyond the French police's reach. But if backdoors are already there they (France) only have to get access.
It's okay to dislike people for the bad things that they do. It's not okay to dislike people for the circumstances they were born into.

Every cop, at least in the US, made the conscious decision to join a broken system where they would be rewarded for greed and corruption, and be allowed to dehumanize any group they decide they don't like. People who sign up to be cops who try to change any of this end up not being cops anymore, so the tautology holds true.

Bring up the FOP under RICO charges and prevent people with a history of violence and drug abuse from being put into positions of authority, and then we can re-evaluate the situation, but until then, police can not and should not be trusted.
Yes, it's mildly infuriating if you have muscle memory.
in your car more likely, and liquified at that.
Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is only much you can do with the scope the application has and the amount of coworkers. So when things really piss me off, I reserve some time and send a MR to fix that.

That's what I've done before joining the company, so it works ;)
From an opsec standpoint, would leaving the phone in airplane mode and turning off location services effectively block access to the phone?

From my understanding airplane mode disables the sim, wifi, gps, and bluetooth entirely, but it's possible to re-enable wifi, gps, and bluetooth. It's something I got into the habit of doing because my phone searching for 4g cellular data ate into my battery.
once I am not on mobile I can do better than Wikipedia but at first glance this might be a good place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Pl...
Yes, when reading the headline, I thought "the moral is: pick (inclusive) OR!".

Which in this article is called "AND" (which logically requires both, rather than allows both).
Tension in the Economics of Permaculture
Both countries can be bad at the same time.