skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unemployed for a good stretch last summer/fall and would go hiking, backpacking or camping in the Sierra Nevadas almost every week.

After the third trip in a month, walking among granite cliffs and alpine lakes I realized that I wasn't feeling much awe. To have those profound breathtaking moments in nature you need the contrast of months in civilization sitting on a computer. Same thing with special moments with loved ones, or anything that seems profound and makes you think "I should be doing this all the time".
It took me a minute to find it, for some reason hidden in Contacts...
KF are literal Nazis too.
Phew, what a post.

I am at University of Toronto right now. I have only been here for some months but I have seen enough things to get a sense of the "politics" of the place. Also, I've been in many of the world's top universities (Caltech, Cornell, KAUST, Oxford, Stanford, UNAM, and some others with less pompous names); either studying, visiting, working, w/e. I've been doing this for close to 20 years now. I know a lot about what academia is and how it works behind the scenes.

With that said ... University of Toronto is, by far, the most amicable, egalitarian and open academic environment I've ever had the chance to be in. I have several Indian friends I've made during my stay, and not a single time has the issue of caste come up to relevance. Caste doesn't have anything to do, at all, with how this particular University chooses their faculty members.

I know OP is not directly (or is he?) accusing UofT of taking part on this, but someone reading this could easily get that impression since 1) he's using his academic page to publish this "opinion" and 2) he states:

>I had begun to mention references to my caste in Facebook/Twitter threads in the past two years. I was, however, not ready to publicly declare it until <I received tenure (in bold letters)> as it seemed too risky.

So, to all other readers, I can assure you that caste had absolutely nothing to do with OPs election/non-election as a faculty member and I really wanted to set the record straight on what actually is a really nice place that treats all of its members with dignity and respect.
They do have backups if versioning is enabled on S3.
I’ve never seen a woman drive these (in The Netherlands). It’s always middle aged men.
Nothing relative to God in OP's post. Contrarily,it is materialistic in nature.
E-commerce?
i absolutely agree. but... people were essentially unmanageable, borderline impossible to fire and there were no backfills at this period of time.

not in usa

PS. amusingly enough their direct manager didn't see this kind of management as part of his job
Ive long since cancelled all my streaming tv/movie streaming services. But one of the things that really helped me decide if a service was important is when you cancel a service- delete the app a few days before the subscription is set to expire. If you need the app before the expiration, then it's probably a service you want. If not then it's out of view and it could be a month or more before you even want to use it.
But really it comes down to having a budget and keeping track of your expenses. Subscription can be easy to forget but if you don't keep track, larger more damaging charges can slip through.
>"Hard to find" is not the same as "vanished".

Which is strange for a virus as you stated. "found to have jumped to quite a few other animals; cats, dogs, hippos, anteaters, manatees; it's clearly not picky". So why is it so hard to find the virus that spilled over into humans, this virus would have been better adapted towards their own species and would have not been replaced by the human variants. We find SARS circulating in animals all the time, but they all descend from the human variant.

It is the Immaculate Infection!
We can look at precedent to see how things might turn out in this situation.

A police K9 is property in the same sense. i.e. the dog is not a person, and lethal force can't be used to defend it.

In practice, it doesn't work out that way. Cops are taught to defend K9 units as if they were human officers. Courts and juries side with the arguments of the police on this.
No no, didn't you read the article?

> Real-world applications include environmental monitoring or disaster response.

Disaster response. There's absolutely no way this would be used for any form of military application ok?
I agree with you. Thank you for raising the topic.
The original wording seems more accurate to me. You get your phone upgraded every two years (plus all the other crap), just like with iPhone Upgrade Programme.
Hey HN! I'm sami, the creator of echo chess. This is the true story of diving way too deep into a rabbit hole of chess, ML, and puzzle design. Hope you enjoy the read.

Originally built this chess variant as a fun hack but it really escalated since then. It's a single-player puzzle game. You're playing white, there's no opponent, and you need to clear the board to win. Every time you capture a piece, you become the 'echo' of that piece.

There's also an 'endless' mode with infinite levels generated in real time and validated by ML to ensure solvability. Took forever to make it work but it now has 99% accuracy. You can play the 'classic' mode here: https://echochess.com/ and endless here: https://echochess.com/?endless

Happy to answer any questions.
The people writing these articles are usually not the most skilled. They're typically just filling their blogs. I swear I've seen this same exact subject at least 5 times before HN. They're al rehashing from each other.
> I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.

Same here, I end up doing `h | grep "(something about the command)` a lot to get commands with specific options, etc. and think "damn i should really make an alias for this" every single time, but never get around to it
That raises an interesting question: Is modification of the source that is used to produce the executable software necessarily modification of software from a DMCA perspective? Or does the circumvention have to involve influencing an extant binary in some way? The legal answer, in either direction, isn't obvious to me.

Especially since the GPL license does explicitly allow you to modify the source.
Windows will try to use the VendorID/ProductID pair on the device to look up which driver to load, but if there isn't any then a regular USB-HID device will default to using the generic HID driver.

You'd get assigned a VendorID if you have a USB license: That is a USB-IF thing, not a Microsoft thing. Then each licensee gets to assign its own ProductIDs.

There is no authentication in the core USB protocol: A device can declare any VendorID.
Major microcontroller board manufacturers such as Sparkfun and PJRC provide specific VendorID/ProductIDs to be used by DIY projects using their boards ... but I've seen some of those being reused by other boards. I have also seen the VendorID 0xf055 used by free open source firmware.
Someone is going to come along and tell you this has nothing to do with the article but I see you and I’m giving you a quiet nod while sipping ma drink.
Consider that despite grenades being dropped from drones onto Russian soldiers in Ukraine on a daily basis, it happens to American civilians never despite America's extremely high homicide rate. This is due to a lack of grenades, not a lack of drones.

The main thing gating slaughterbots from reality is the proliferation of the shaped explosive, not of the delivery mechanism.
Georgia has ranked #2 in US film production by some metrics, and it continues to steal hundreds of productions from California every year [1].

Last year Georgia was host to nearly 500 movies and TV shows [2], and has been extensively used for some of the biggest hits and blockbusters: Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Black Panther, Stranger Things, The Waking Dead, Ozark, Halt and Catch Fire, etc.

Disney, Marvel, and Netflix have major productions here. Winona Ryder was even my downstairs neighbor for a bit during the Stranger Things shoot.

Last year they built a fake White Castle a few blocks from me and then tore it down about a month later [3]. It was so disappointing as everyone was hoping for a real White Castle.

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/can...

[2] https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/08/01/georgia-film-industry-se...

[3] https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/white-castle-edgewood-ave...
Thank you for the heads up. I'll do so.
I get the same…
Yeh I built a dual 3090 machine and just to have those 2 cards run well cost a lot for all the other stuff. Workstation spec mobo, top tier PSU, CPU and memory with headroom for the system, not to mention storage and case and cooling. And this is just a hobbyist build. Cost would have easily doubled if I actually got server grade CPU and memory etc.
I disagree. At least in The Netherlands, these vehicles are a classic “mid life crisis mobile”. People compensating for something by buying an outrageous vehicle. So the “compensating joke” I’m making is in my opinion at least 50% truth.
DOJ, SEC Investigate Tesla over Secret Glass House Project
Seeing a 20% margin of error for some of their tests (due to VMs, noisy neighbors), makes me curious how others solve this problem. Dedicated hardware seems like a good investment, otherwise you need to constantly overcompensate with multiple runs.
It wasn't really an issue, They'd go in between sunset and one of the twilight light levels, and that was that. When we did it without the automatic door, there was a lot more chasing type manual labor just getting them in if it was early, or we'd forget and it would be super late.

Didn't ever lose one at night, but there were definitely daytime predators that were an issue. (mainly raptors)
> Is it that we want to maintain our standard of living more than people did in the past? Plenty of poor people have plenty of kids in 1 bedroom apartments. Do we just demand more comfort today? Are we just more picky? Are kids just not worth what they used to be?

I find it interesting that this is almost the only post in the entire thread that arrives at the need to do a little introspection.

Apparently, the ability to do that is much rarer these days than I thought.
Yes. The only way I know to charge my ioniq5 is by doing it via the app to get the free charging. I didn't know I could make it my promo plan the default plan for tap to paly.
Im worried that one day kernel developers might try to force all of userspace to be GPL or otherwise oper source.

Just because your project is open source is no reason to try to force everyone else to be open source.
It would not.

1. Wasm based UI libraries exist already, checkout makepad [0] for example.

2. Web app standards are way higher than when flash was around. I highly doubt there would be any serious discussion that would also involve vue/react as alternatives. Almost as ridiculous as asking about using unity ui vs react.

3. Flash was world class media design tool for animation and production design. People were using it to create tv shows. Figma is nowhere close in terms of alternatives like illustrator, adobe ae, etc. So it's value as a runtime for 'cool' effects would be very limited. Which is the only reason to not use html/js because otherwise there's all kinds of small usability issues (like things not scrolling right, or not working with mobile). Figma's biggest value is it's collaborative features which is really important for ui design. I think devs (and other non-designers) overvalue Figma's importance because of lack of famliarity. It's kind of like if people thought you could use google docs or notion as an ide. After all they're both text editors right, even if jetbrains or vscode is better, it's maybe 10-20% better? But of course devs know that they're world's apart, like comparing apples to oranges.

[0] https://makepad.nl/makepad/examples/ironfish/src/index.html
I believe that the rules are that if you list something as a fee, all of that money has to go towards that fee or else you get in trouble.

The FTC suggests though that ISPs just raise prices and internalize the fees. But then your price is always going to look worse than the next guy, and you may just encourage local governments to give you more fees for you to bury for them.
https://archive.is/wYXKL
> Ah yes, rituximab, the R in R-CHOP. Welcome to the club!

DA-EPOCH-R in my case, but if you're good with anagrams EPOCH is CHOP + E, and it is indeed a derivative regimen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOCH_(chemotherapy)

(For everyone else: This Wikipedia page contains a list of all the drugs involved and information about how long it takes to infuse them. Note the multiple 24-hour bags, which isn't a feature of every regimen but required me to be admitted to a hospital room for each round and explains why I was a bit skeptical that getting one drug down to a few minutes instead of a half-hour was so big.)

> The very first infusion in my case triggered such a nasty allergic reaction that they settled on a 24h infusion duration, thank god I had a port. Fun times

Yep, chemotherapy is a whole mass of weird side-effects. Vincristine gave me a droopy left eye and the oxaliplatin in the R-GemOx I got as second-line therapy made cold things feel like they were covered in sharp spikes. I'm glad I never had a serious allergic reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemOx
The worst are the ones that I remember when they bill me, then when I go to look into cancelling they are somehow unable to manage a cancellation process which does not require either calling, faxing, or mailing a certified letter somewhere.

Meanwhile their signup process takes 5 seconds online.

The FTC has proposed a rule to require "Click to Cancel" for services that have "Click to signup". I hope it or something like it gets applied.
Pretty cool and very useful, as long as you can remember all of the shortcuts (I guess it comes with time!)

It kind of reminds me of stenography in a way
Well, they do, I don't understand why they wouldn't be allowed to. Same thing with my cell phone bill through Mint, other than regular sales tax all the other telecom fees are all rolled into their price.

They just mess around with their actual price until the final price lines up with their marketing. Its not exactly challenging math.
Maybe part of the reason they vote along party lines is that the party line was specifically designed to be appeal to them though.
Or they are new to the industry and thought that they might share their learning journey. Why be so cynical?
It reminds me of the way the Mario Brothers game changed overnight: for the longest time it was considered impossible and then suddenly it was unbeatable. But both benefit from the static course, if it generalizes it will be a game changer, otherwise, I'm not that impressed. But there may well be some gold to be found here and I applaud them for making it work this far. Maybe they could purposefully improve their performance in real world situations by making this one harder, for instance by changing the lighting from one run to another, introducing or removing obstacles or moving goals around. That might force the model to come out more general. We've seen similar strategies used with good results in image classification problems. In fact I used them myself when building the lego sorter, as long as everything was always lined up perfect it worked a lot worse then when introducing various complications. During the real world runs those would show up all by themselves anyway and where before they were classified wrong or ended up in the recycling bin for another shot they were suddenly classified right.

Of course a setup where you can gather your training data with thousands of images per hour has some advantages over one where if you get it wrong you have to rebuild your drone...
The biggest difference in the US is the integrated cord. It's about half the total cost and the primary wear item. If we had a spec similar to the UK where the charger had a female J1772 plug and the user supplied the cord we'd be able to roll out a lot more chargers for less money, they'd more consistently work, etc.
I’ve only seen Mac users doing C# with vscode, these days omnisharp (or the new C# dev kit? I’m not familiar with this one) is fairly good (though not VS good IMHO).
No, $Country just needs a real government, with a "treating our citizens like sh*t gets expensive fast" attitude. Subscription traps? Not a problem! BTW, $Amazon, you owe our Revenue Dept. 200% of your gross subscription-trap take (from our citizens) as taxes. Paid in full weekly, and don't forget to include your completed Form 666J3-ST with your payments. Thank you for doing business in $Country, $Amazon!
I read the book years ago. (I literally lost a bet.)

At first, I really found the characters to be hollow caricatures, and hated every minute reading it.

As the book went on, it grew on me. It's not about "rich beautiful people" at all, but more about something that resonates with people who build things (coders like us) and that feeling we get when we are dragged into a meeting filled with people who you sense do nothing but talk about talking about meeting about work.

Like many books of this nature, it has pieces that resonate and parts that fall flat. However, I found the parts that resonated to be powerful and useful.

Question:

Did you ever read the book?
My gut says it's a resource issue. Oracle has the time and money to optimize a gajillion scenarios that increase performance without making developers think things through. Which makes the product easier to use and seem faster. It's very simple to code this one, but then there are 10,000 other cases you need to code too to make it cover a large percentage of potential optimizations.
Yep, as much as we want hardware and software to be conformant to whatever standards exist, in practice an important part of the job of a production OS is to work around the myriad quirks of hw/sw users will likely encounter. Standards are the input, experience is the output, and users judge on output. Related is yesterday's post about ensuring DOS app compatibility in Win95 [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311508
> What are you doing that it could ever take _half_ of total work time and how will you convince management that you aren't completely fucking up scrum?

Oh, that's very easy. So much so, I wonder exactly how you managed to perform everything required for a planning or review in the time you give. Business meetings can take more than expected in the best of cases, and the various dysfunctions inherent in scrum only add to that.

Here's a fairly obvious example - scrum encourages you to have a lot of management. At minimum a team needs a product owner, a team lead and a scrum master (and if you merge those positions you aren't "doing scrum properly"). Because there are so many managers, each is under pressure to prove they add value. How do they prove that? By providing valuable input in the various ceremonies scrum requires. Hours of it.

And sometimes they add so much value it can't be contained in the normal flow of scrum meetings (or rather, the meetings can't be contained in the course of a work day), so more meetings have to be created.
Exactly my thoughts. Participating in the rat race is a choice. All these things described can be experience in our world today. If you choose to do so. I would recommend it.
I think they are going to. But In Apple fashion, it will probably be pretty limited ability to start with. Maybe will only allow certain strict actions to be performed on the phone.

I don’t think you’d want more anyway. It’s not like you’ll want it to output Python code. For that you can use an app that specializes and has the UI for that task.

I have a hard time believing chatGPT would x10 your phone unless the UI of Siri would also change
I think you’re missing the point here. Operating a powerful computing device doesn’t negatively impact other people.

On the other hand, SUV drivers directly make my life less safe every single day.

This shouldn’t even be thought of primarily as a climate issue - pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are up simply because of the size of cars on the road today.

It’s simply not worth it, and cities should tax SUV drivers accordingly.
Coming from storage, I really hate it when people (unknowingly or deliberately) misuse terminology in this field.

Whoever Xata is, they aren't storing files in their database. They are storing blobs, or objects... depends on how you look at it, but definitely not files.

Simple way to see that that's not true: can they store write-only files in their database (eg. /dev/null?) Or can they store UNIX socket files? What about device files? Can they recognize that the file has setuid bit? And so on... practically no useful attributes of files are stored in their database.

They obviously didn't even want to store files... It just feels like some kind of marketing trick (especially since the article is excessively peppered with self-congratulatory quotes from people who have allegedly found the product useful). Just say it as it is: Blob attachments.
maybe I exaggerated - but there are certainly networks out there that do not allow swiping a card. But it's still really annoying that I have a 5-10 charging apps on my phone. why?
My company provided a macbook pro but I stopped using it shortly after starting and do all development on my windows laptop
Prices do change in different municipalities. I've paid different sticker prices in different towns that are within an hour of each other for the same service.
No need to write to eeprom. On Linux, just load your custom EDID.

I returned OP's model display for a similar reason - except there was no HDR possible on Windows, even with the LG custom drivers. I also can't unsee the parallax on those models. It's pretty atrocious for the price.
What’s funny about those kind of deals is if people actually maximize the benefit, those deals get adjusted way upward, or eliminated entirely.

4-5 years ago, Smashburger did their first, “Smash Pass.” Daily (excluding national holidays) free entree burger — via a daily one-day-only expiring coupon - with no additional purchase required, for 100 out of 102 calendar days, for $100 including sales tax. So the theoretical benefit was $800ish worth of food for $100, plus not paying sales/service taxes. Best part of a 90% discount depending on where you lived. I couldn’t make a comparable burger on my own for anywhere near that price.

I lived right near a Smashburger at the time, and it was literally on my walk back from a subway station I would exit on my commute back home. I got 100 of the 100 burgers. Only twice did I ever order something with it, because I was only a 7-minute walk from home and could have something else or a drink at home for much less.

Next year? 30 one-day-only-expiring-coupon burgers for $50. I was apparently far from the only person willing to structure part of their day around a free burger. I guess some of their stores were eaten alive by the promotion.
Honestly, it sounds like he's trying to (rather weakly) backpedal from releasing private information about some of the most powerful people in the U.S.

It's an interesting question whether this is ethical. On the one hand, representative democracy requires competent representatives, and knowing they have cognitive impairment is really important information for the whole country. On the other hand, I absolutely don't trust a random pharmacist to decide which personal, extremely sensitive information is important enough that they should be able to non-consensually share it.
Or, more mundanely, whatever mutation allowed it to be not-very-picky might be recent. The Black Death likely came about when Yersinia pestis went aerosolized, for example, despite the bacteria probably being around at least back to Roman times.
Such disputes should be resolved in an octagon cage: a heavy-weight theologian vs a logician.