skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article and every other comment seems to miss the real issue: the lack of testing.

Software differs from all other means of production in that we can in fact test any change we make before realizing it in the world.

With good tests, I don't care what the intent was, or whether this feature has grown new uses or or new users. I "fix" it and run the tests, and they indicate whether the fix is good.

With good tests, there's no need for software archeology, the grizzled old veteran who knows every crack, the new wunderkind who can model complex systems in her brain, the comprehensive requirements documentation, or the tentative deploy systems that force user sub-populations to act as lab rats.

Indeed, with good tests, I could randomly change the system and stop when I get improvements (exactly how Google reports AI "developed" improvements to sorting).

And yet, test developers are paid half or less, test departments are relatively small, QA is put on a fixed and limited schedule, and no tech hero ever rose up through QA. Because it's derivative and reactive?
Bell used to actually have this feature which The Phone Losers of America exploited. The hack was directly inspired by the movie. PLA showcased this in one of their podcast episodes

https://phonelosers.com/2008/05/pla-radio-episode-17-voice-a...
Go apple!
> I checked a few random job descriptions and none of them mentioned hourly wage/salary, which is usually a bad sign.

It's simply not a legal requirement in Arizona to disclose wage/salary range on job listings.

You need to look at TSMC listings in states like California[1] or Washington[2].

[1] https://ro.careers.tsmc.com/search/?locationsearch=CA

[2] https://ro.careers.tsmc.com/search/?locationsearch=WA
I have some notes on the problem of making a factory that builds a solar sail factory on a carbonaceous asteroid and then the sails fly back on their own power to the Earth-Sun L1 point and get commissioned as sunshades to fight global warming. I gotta turn it into a serious write-up or presentation.

I think this solves the transport problem for space manufacturing. I know the math can sorta work if you use volatiles for transportation (e.g. rocket) but it seems so wasteful to me. Two problems that bug me are: (1) How do you capture volatiles that will be released when you disturb the surface? (Have to do this early before you have a storage tank factory running) and (2] How do you debug problems in the system with 10 min+ latency. Is it good enough to have a manned replica factory in cislunar space? Do you send people? If so do you just go “all in” in building a large habitat in the long term?
I dont know about practicality but Ive read a good amount of SICP and find it very entertaining
> I'm just as nervous about private companies doing it as I am about the government doing it.

Yes, me too. Actually, I'm more nervous about private companies doing it than the government doing it, but it's a close thing.
They still track it a fair bit. For example. Put a card in the walmart app and after a bit of time all your past purchases will show up in your history.
I'll push back on this. I think that Right to Modify[0] is a human right. I think that software freedom and user agency (especially where it relates to vendor lock-in) is closely related to human rights, in the sense that it can directly impact people's ability to express those rights.

To say that right to repair in specific isn't a human right because the actual human right is agency/ownership/modification/whatever, is a bit like saying that encryption isn't a human right because the actual right is privacy and encryption is just a way to maintain privacy.

The end result is still that people aren't able to exercise rights. I would argue very strongly that having a degree of autonomy over the devices/objects that you own is an intrinsic right.

And if you look back at the history of Open Source software, you'll find that conversations about Libre/Free software have been regularly grounded in discussions of human rights from the start; from rights to ownership, to modification, to communication.

[0]: https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-modify
Ask HN: Why did HN add a black strip on top?
Is this in acknowledgement of Kevin Mitnick's untimely passing?
Which crazy conspiracy theories are you referring to? I am applying some critical thinking here.
It's basically (depending on seniority) like an analyst in PE/IB: Research the market for your companies, do most of gruntwork on startup DD, excel valuations/forecasts, make presentations,etc.

I would say that yeah "Principal told me to do this so I need to get it done" is a good starting point, although for funds I'm familiar with (in Europe) it's a bit more structured than that.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicRelations/comments/y7i7ar/for...
The problem with relying on a written consititution is that it can easily be changed.

The USA is in a position where it seems to be perpetually stuck in a 50/50 split of the elected government, so it's not possible for major constitutional reform to be passed by one party.

On the other hand, the current government in the UK has a majority of 80 MPs - if there was a written constitution, it's likely they could simply pass a law to re-write it.
> Plus, they can always offer other licenses in addition to the GPL

Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking. They're clearly offering alternative licenses to the one in the public repository. There is no reason the same tactic couldn't be applied with the GPL.
This: these products are all community products, the value of them is in the community, and therefore almost all of the hard work is in building a community. If you don't like working with people... better to build a utility product, or a B2B, or something that doesn't require mass adoption and therefore large amounts of community building work.
Vinho d'Alho is actually more broad than just that dish; it can refer to anything marinaded in wine and garlic (which is literally what the name refers to, as stated in the wikipedia article).

I grew up in an Azorean household, and a lot of stuff besides pork gets prepped that way (or a permutation thereof)
You can have multiple 1-on-1 chats, and CP collectors are pretty good at finding each other online. While I'm very much against this UK legislation, people in the tech sector do themselves no favors b¥ minimizing/handwaving the CP problem.
Could have been a really good opportunity for Valve to take a stance here. Shame.
It's not happenstance. They planned this action. But, "A broken clock is right twice a day" applies here.
if they ignore them, then they clearly never happened!
I posit that you can’t tell the difference between a mid level developer with 3-4 years of experience whether they learned on the job or from college or through a boot camp. If their company has a good mentorship program.

And on the other hand if they did go to a good college and ended up at a company without good practices, they will probably end up being “expert beginners”.

Also, I would be very hesitant to hire a software developer who only got experience at BigTech at a startup. They usually don’t have the breadth of experience that you need at an early startup.
The lithium batteries are the most dangerous part.
> The military? When was the last time they turned on the citizens?

1970, though I hope we aren't at risk of that happening again anytime soon. The modern military has been pretty good at staying apolitical.
I knew this was from the author of honk...
Show HN: Playback – Interactive Programming and Print Debugging Reimagined
Ladies and gentlemen of a Lisp persuasion, Clojurians and Clojuristas, followers of the paren and everyone else covetously eyeing the greener grass,

I made an open-source thing that I would like to share with you. My elevator pitch is that it'll make you forget all about regular print debugging in 10 minutes straight. The slightly longer pitch is this:

#>(tag'n'trace any Clojure(-Script) form to `tap>` and Portal with automatic last-input function replay on eval, instant re-render and hassle-free insertion of traced data into the REPL)

And before I end up pasting half the README here in bits and pieces, just go and check out the damn thing, will ya. There's a screencast and everything.

https://github.com/gnl/playback
> Occasionally, there will be a thin black bar at the top of the top bar, in memoriam of a significant figure in the tech/science community dying. A Hacker News submission about the death will usually be on the front page at that time.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Don't bother to download if you are unwilling to create an account with their service.
Yes. It gets added when someone in the computing world passes.
Okay? My point was that

> one of the dirty secrets about how Chromebooks manage to get so cheap is they use the cheapest ARM processors with ridiculous amounts of binary blobs patched in that will never go upstream, so kernel updates are almost nonexistent

doesn't seem to be true. Google doing its own thing in userspace is separately annoying to me but actually an advantage in terms of keeping the machine's kernel up to date.
It's not lying.

Am I lying to my kid when I say I "work with computers"? No, it's an abstraction. My 8 year old doesn't need to understand what a datacenter is, but just because I elide details doesn't mean I'm lying to them.
Crimes are often differentiated based on the perpetrators motivation, thought process, and reasoning. They do this for two reasons; the severity of the crime can be informed by them and the likelihood of recidivism and path to rehabilitation. Take first degree and second degree murder. Both are the intentional taking of someone’s life, but are differentiated based of intent. Someone that decides to murder their spouse, plans it out, and carries it out is first degree murder. Someone that walks in on their spouse with another person, grabs a gun and fires is second degree. The second degree murderer can learn to control their anger and impulse control, the first degree murderer can just learn how to plan better to not get caught. The first degree murderer had time to think about the crime and decided it was an acceptable way to solve their problem.

Hate crimes are crimes where the motivation and thought process are against a class of people. They didn’t commit the crime because they were mad at their wife for cheating or mad at the person that the person that cut them off and then swore at them. They were motivated to commit the crime because the victim existed.

Finally, hate crimes are typically put in place because the justice system itself fails to provide equal protection, and because hate crime perpetrators are often protected from justice. There is a reason anti-lynching laws are named after Emmett Till. I can't believe that you could look at the history of any group now protected under hate crime laws and say "yes, these are definitely laws to target the poor marginalized perpetrators".
And University of Nebraska, and University of Wisconsin Maddison, and Texas A&M, and Ohio State, and many others.

It seems like you based what you said on some vague notion of prestige, but if you look at the courses offered/required, the topics covered, and the books used of any of the schools I listed, you’ll see it’s effectively the same education as Harvard and the rest.

Unless you think there’s something magical about the professors at Harvard that enables them to teach undergraduate classes far better than professors at state schools, there’s no reason to assume the classes are any higher quality.
I mean to say, at the point where the I2C library user has to seriously think about patching their kernel, the strengths of the RPi as an out-of-the-box embedded computer are pretty much negated. If you have to do actual embedded engineering things, then the RPi becomes just another SoC dev board.
IT was more likely because the heavy nasal/adenoidal vowels in Portuguese were extremely difficult for Japanese speakers.
Do they have a simpler use id like india's upi?(userHandle@bankHandle)

In the demos I watched, There is account number and routing number
I’ve come to the conclusion that people have a really really poor understanding of copyright and the DMCA, which probably stems from a history of normalized abuse by recording industry and motion picture associations. I bet most people don't even know that they’re legally allowed to circumvent DRM in order to maintain archival copies of any media they own.

Like people, Nintendo CANNOT restrict your right to obtain and use the Wii common key for any purpose other than you intentionally and solely helping others circumvent copyright law to steal games. It’s Nintendo’s problem, not yours, if they don’t like emulators. It’s refreshing to see such a thorough understanding by Dolphin and their lawyers.
Words like "good", "better" and "should" always carry freight that's often worth unpacking. Here, "better" really needs a definition.

A CCD is better than human eyes inasmuch as it captures a field rather than a narrow focus, with fuzzy periphery, that must be pointed at an object to resolve it.

I'm sure we could find metrics where a 360-degree lidar is better than human eyes.

It's disingenuous to pretend that sensor quality is the whole story, of course.

Human drivers have notoriously variable reflexes. I once rear-ended someone because I was inattentive. I assert that the current gen has better reflexes than some percentile of real-world meat-drivers, and I suspect that the percentile is higher than 90. Human reflexes simply aren't that quick without significant priming.
Yea the extent to which you can make custom terminal shaders for the Windows Terminal is pretty unbelievable. This repo has a huge collection of crazy stuff (including a better CRT one):

https://github.com/Hammster/windows-terminal-shaders
You might be right. Earth has plenty of water but not enough in some places.

Perhaps an icy asteroid could help, if it was parked in orbit and slowly dropped rain on the deserts.

But then the sea levels would rise, and the water vapor would act as a greenhouse gas.
The one in AMO is v4 though... I install the rc from GitHub and it's miles ahead
[Lightly] amusing is thinking there is a singular attitude in the US towards national IDs. And we already have several forms of national ID anyway.
The right you are granted is more specific, so you can redistribute, but the next hop cannot. (I'm only reading what is quoted here in the thread, but I think the important parts are included.)
Afaik WebKit added support in iOS 17 so it’s just a transitive win
What's this github subdomain format? Is this a real url you're matching or syntax for something else like your username / org name?
> All sequences within the Aria Digital Twin Dataset have been captured using fully consented researchers in controlled environments in Meta offices.

The requirement and boastful nature of this heading is a frightening tell against the company/industry's perceived practices.
People miss the forest for the trees here. Democratic society needs a way for people to communicate freely. Those ways are dying out fast.

In modern life, people don't discuss politics in townhalls, pubs, or whatever anymore. Online communication is by now far too siloed and supervised to the point of being unusable. Media are one-way streets, pushing the agenda of billionaires.

But you need to be able to have controversial discussions about "heavy" topics without fear of being ostracised. You need to have a back-channel to give feedback to "higher ups". Etc.pp.

A society where the individual is degraded to a mere drone (even if only loosely via framing) controlled by the "hive mind", without any recourse to voice constructive criticism is a lot of things, but certainly no democracy. There looms a dystopia on our doorstep.
It would have an impact. None of us would find anything of value at all.
> The evidence is an informal thought experiment: if the salary was $100 million for each position, they would have every role filled.

If the salary was $100 million for each position they might fill every position--but could they keep them filled? If I were getting paid $100 million a year a single month's salary after taxes is enough to retire on at well above my current standard of living. I suspect it would be hard to retain people if they have the option to at any time quit and will never need to work again.
Depending on how quickly it "arrives", it might not just be the markets that are crashing.
I agree with your statement in the theoretical. However I disagree in practice because of this:

> If others don't like those biases they are free to create their own systems that reflect their biases.

Those who create alternatives are attacked, chased, banned, deplatformed. Even if a webhost is happy to work with you, the credit card network may not be or their bank may ban them.

Not that the signal doesn't find a way - the good work of Anna's archive and all that - but it's not just "go build your own platform". It becomes "fight at every turn for your basic existence".
anyone who likes this will probably also enjoy Blinky - a retro-CRT text editor for osx.
https://blinky.en.softonic.com/mac
Everyone is not among the worst people you (or I) have ever met.

Not needing to be told that they caused harm is one of the things that makes them not among the worst people you (or I) have ever met.

Sivers' parable is about his (and our) interpretations of the past -- Sive.rs publishes parables not facts. Context is relevant, here.

Yes, worst people gonna' worst people. Sociopaths are not Sive.rs audience. His point is that we can't change the past and only act in the present. What the worst people you (or I) ever met did can't be changed. How it affects are behavior can.

Particularly when the worst person you (or I) have ever met is you (or I). Biss-ninny 101 stuff. Which Sive.rs (and I) study.
Better aesthetics and even 18% reduction in file sizes refuses to move the sleepy elephant (h265 is likely still fringe stage). Even a trivial codec licensing fee of $2.50 for Pi users was not very successful for many media formats (i.e. 10% of retail price kills most of the market). However, h264 support was important enough to wrap into the pi4 retail price, and even at 11m/pcs a month there is still no stock available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygU2bCx2Z3g
The idea that the USD you earn in a wage is "yours" and the government has no right to tax it makes no sense to me. They printed the money. Your wage wouldn't exist without the government making the modern economy possible (in more ways than just printing it). Many of our jobs wouldn't even exist without the government's participation in the economy.
Just save us both the time and call me a hypocrite/inconsistent based on whatever figment you have in your mind.
The future of eCommerce are AI characters
I've got a (bash) build script that that uses perl (with lots of regular expressions), python (apparently for no other reason than that the version of perl it started with didn't have `say`), dc (to calculate absolute memory addresses, because python and perl don't have a convenient equivalent of `P`), and runs a windows batch file under wine to build the .exe version with MinGW (although that will print a warning and continue if wine or MinGW is missing or out-of-PATH).
Product hasn't improved, but the price increases.

Enshitification intensifies. Think I'll keep stealing from Google.
There are versions of SICP adapted for Python like this one: https://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/ and https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/.

I can't compare them to SICP, but if your only concern is the relevance of the examples then these may be worth looking into as a supplement or replacement for the original.
Leveraging Service Mesh for Dynamic Traffic Routing in Shared Kubernetes Environ
Is "the reality anyone knows" not also part of greater aggregate reality though (conflicting with reality is true), or is it an ontological component of something else?
"take the risk"

This is the important part you're ignoring. Yes, verbal contracts between businesses are binding, but only to the extent you can actually prove the terms in a court of law.

Using DocuSign (or similar) is about risk mitigation, specifically about being able to prove the the contents of the contract in legal proceedings.

The risk with being a business that allows for verbal contracts is that one of your vendors may be unscrupulous and truly screw you over. And that's a matter of when, not if.
It might not be cited on any given NSL, but saying they've never heard of it when it's received ample news coverage is disingenuous.
I just assumed that all of them had it... my local has had it for a year at least... zero chance I'm doing that.
Nice! I love the frontend design, it’s simple and feels like a newspaper. Also, I made something similar but just for cybersecurity news. You can check it out here: https://notifycyber.com/
yeah i hate the slow perf too, but their success in the market unfortunately i think validates the "features over perf" strategy

(also, as slow as it is now, it's MUCH faster than it used to be, if you can imagine that!)
"My favorite multinational trillion dollar worth conglomerate that has a history of not caring about human rights when it comes to the production of their devices surely would never do that!"

You're naïve. Less than 100 years ago the Pinkertons were still murdering workers and nothing happened to them.
I choose not to participate in this aspect of our dystopian future.
I can speak only from my experience. I was in a team doing ads evaluations, and we had multiple other teams specializing in various bits & pieces of the Ads infrastructure - for example one team would keep what new amenities were on a hotel/motel, etc. - so in order to fill all these mundane, but intricate details - e.g. "bool has_pool" of sorts, it'll keep adding fields, or introducing new proto messages to fully explain capture that data. And then each team would own several if not hundreths of these protos, these protos would be bundled as `oneof` (e.g. "union") or something like this in a bigger encapsulating structure - so in your

row database (bigtable), each team would have a column that stores their proto (or empty). So we'll run a batch process to read each such column, and then treat all the fields in the proto stored there as data, and expand all these fields as individual columns over the the columnar (read-only) db.

Later an analysts/statistician/linguist/etc. can query that columnar db with data they are interrested about. So that's what I remember (I left several years ago, so things might've changed), but pretty much instead of typical for row-databases have a column for everything - you just have a column for your protobuf (a bit like storing HSON/JSON in postgres), but then have the ETL process mow down through each field in that "column" and create "columns" for each such field.

We had to do some workarounds though as it was exporting too much, and it was not clear how we can know which fields would be asked about (actually there was a way probably, but it'll taken time to coordinate with some other team, so it was more (I think) on coordination with internal "customers" to disallow exporting these).

But the cool thing, is that if customer team added new field to their proto, our process would see it, and it'll get expanded. If they deprecate a proto, there could be (not sure if there was, but could be added) - no longer export it. But for this to work you need the "protodb" e.g. to introspect, able to reflect actual names in order to generate the column.
Not if you're a cannibal. :)
Comically, the primary national ID we use is one specifically designed not to be a national ID.

The secondary "national" IDs most of us use are simply state IDs or driver's licenses. They're not in a federal database, but I don't understand how that's meaningfully different. It's still a big government tracking system.