skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone that has ever that has done terrible things has likely asked themselves the same question. And that is a problem.
Yeah, i would prefer a pile of random clothing on the ground to a fucking box i could fall from anytime i sneeze
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. As such, they are complained about by thousands of people, for years.

Less ironically, one can expect widely used features of widely used software to have been tested in realistic conditions so whatever bugs there might be are at least known. But it takes an insane amount of testing to cover the phase space even of a moderately complex piece of software: look how large is the test suite of SQLite.

Apparently the only working approach to less buggy software is to compose software from small, self-contained,isolated, well-understood parts, so that you can reason about the whole more easily. This is the philosophy behind the original Unix. This is the philosophy behind functional programming. This is partly the philosophy behind actor systems (even though reasoning about async interactions is harder). I expect to see more and more of these in practice.
Eve by Cat Bohannon review – 200M years of the female body
"For too long, women have been an afterthought in scientific studies. This epic history of female evolution finally puts them centre stage"

https://archive.ph/MkDSq
Im australian, and a "couple of things" is some small number, like 2-4. Using it for exactly 2 seems like people are confusing it with 2 things that are coupled. Why not just say 2 if thats what you mean.
Fortunately you’re a descriptivist, unfortunately you’re stubborn about it ;)
You’ve clearly not read anything I wrote.
Leaked Email to Craig Wright
Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?
Couple in that case refers to the, erm, act.
Some manufacturers also offer replacement plans/incentives.
Yeah, i think businesses makes bad decisions for the public interest because the business does care about it's profits and not the public interest , that seems about right.
Not sure if it was one of those, but we had a Citroën 2CV with a funny clutch mod. It still had a stick, but you could release the clutch careless or even just stop using it.

One night I took a shortcut through a neighboring field. When I realized the rain had swamped it completely it was too late to stop. I was sure that the car would stall in a few meters, so it was a huge surprise that it just skated over 100 m of mud.

Somehow the device drifted internally instead of letting the wheels spin on the mud.

People was very happy with Land Rovers for the difficult country paths, but 2CV were superior and that one was superb.
The losers in the past died of diarrhea aged three.

If you made it as far as wife and kids, you were a winner.

If wife made it as far as the third kid without dying of sepsis, she was an ultra winner.
Until age 17 I thought of "a couple" as being an imprecise amount more than "one" but less than "a few". So around 2-3. Though when referring to people I always thought of it as =2.

It wasn't until 17 that someone (my girlfriend at the time) pointed out that by definition it should always be 2.

I'm not sure why I thought there was some fuzz in there. I also don't know why nobody had corrected me until then. I can only speculate that I and the people around me usually said "two" when we wanted two of something. The rest of the time I suppose I had a 50/50 shot at the right answer.
> As a programmer, it's my experience that the computer itself usually works correctly. It's almost never a hardware bug.

Wow there are some patronising people responding to your comment.

I think this is mostly true for 95% of software and the experience of software developers. But CPUs are full of bugs that only manifest when certain code is run - perhaps the order of instructions or when in certain states. Often these are hidden/fixed in software - compilers/drivers/microcode etc.
Why companies make firing more painful than it should be?
Until recently, I worked to a “pre-ipo” tech company. My manager consistently praised the substance of my work and only feedback given was that I was “not an alpha” like her, and how she “doesn’t let anyone talk in the meetings”, make every meeting “my” meeting, and telling me that “these people don’t listen unless you talk loud”.
What truly shocked me on how I was fired. My manager crafted a deceptive meeting invitation, detailing a visit from the CFO and the supposed review of an upcoming conference, only to tell me that sole purpose of the meeting was to fire me. I am still processing that PTSD this sudden surprise caused me.
I am aware of at-will employment but I just can't wrap my head around why companies feel the need to go at great lengths to blindside their employees when firing them
"A couple of beers" is a quintessentially aussie expression .. and it is never just two beers.
They are still talking about it on their website 53 years later.
It's not a completely different usage, it's literally the same usage, because couple means two. Thus, a couple (of people) means two people, just as a couple of apples means two apples. Being coupled also derives from the original meaning, two being bonded as one object (see also: coupling). These are all variations of the same word, etymologically. In contrast, nut from a car versus nut from a tree are wholly different both in meaning.
> Trying to squeeze into a few major metros is a terrible choice for young people who want a decent life.

If remote work is a possibility, or big cities decentralize a bit, that makes sense.

We've seen during COVID, if people can move from San Francisco and keep their jobs, they will do it.
GitHub, a16z, Stability, Nat Friedman.
Meta requires you to link a personal account to your work identity. Similar to Apple, they don't check to see if it was created just for the purpose.
If the population stops growing wont that crash the economy
and fabric of society as well?
(as long as we define an economy to be healthy as long as it grows,
something that will eventually stop)

States with social welfare and universal education and healthcare,
require there to be X number of people working for every person that
needs resources from the state, or who work for the state.

Plus all the regular spending police, firefighteres, military, courts,
the state itself (politicians, bureaucrats, tax collectors), garbage collection, and so on and so on.
If that pyramid becomes two parallel lines that is not going to work well.
If the pyramid starts inverting, we would be in deep trouble.
I did a cursory study of Chinese history, and that made the crimes of the current Chinese regime look even more horrible, as I learned details about how many people were killed, starved, displaced, lives ruined, culture destroyed and opportunity wasted. But maybe I didn't learn enough. I love learning history. Please do tell us which facts from the Chinese history make it all look good. I'll wait.
How so? You'd be the descriptivist in this scenario, no?
By that standard, most people conceived in the present don't even survive the womb
Mandarin was actually the name of the language that were spoken among the Chinese officials

quoted from wikipedia: The English word "mandarin" (from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantrī, mantrin, meaning 'minister or counsellor') originally meant an official of the Ming and Qing empires.

(end quote)

The confusion here is that traditionally the educated Chinese write and speak in different “languages”. Classical Chinese was the standard and proper form of formal writing, whereas Mandarin was the lingua franca of the imperial court and among officials. (People had their own native dialect as well. )

This only changed in the early 20 century with the May Fourth Movements where intellectuals sought to write the spoken language verbatim.

The relationship between Classical Chinese in writing and the spoken forms of Chinese is not unlike the relationship between classical Latin and the spoken romance languages in Europe.

That said, a proper education in the Chinese language should include both modern Mandarin and classical Chinese, but the classical Chinese part could well be skipped if one is just learning Chinese for basic communication in a modern non academic context.

—

PS: the line between classical Chinese and spoken Mandarin can be a bit blurry during the Qing period, apparently it was acceptable to incorporate elements of spoken Mandarin into these court communications documents. So called “classical Chinese” lasted more than 2000 years so the language itself has varying styles and forms too in different context and era
Apple probably would've gone out of business. Be didn't have Steve Jobs.

Although I have a fondness for BeOS, and used it as a daily driver, it was more of a tech demo. It was missing key things (like printing), and security.
One should trust science, just dont trust scientists.

I was "around" science for a good chunk of my life (both mom and that used to be academics, and I spent 8 years in academia myself doing a phd and postdoc).

The amount of crap studies, politics and bullshit that happens in those circles will make you realise how sad the state of the "advancement of science" is. And my experience was in 3 very different countries.
We desperately need something like AI to be able to synthesize and filter scientific publications
Sounds like a reference to the "Google People" parody: https://qntm.org/person
And so it was. But even back then, not every country ought to have been one. The US should have been. It has the cash and the ability to continuously invest and upgrade. Papua New Guinea, maybe not. They have other things to invest in that are more pressing than bootstrapping nascent technology. That’s my point.
I think there is a difference between structured immigration programs to let skilled workers in, and giving people asylum. The outcome of letting in refugees who have the trauma of suffering (and maybe participating in) violence all their lives, living in countries that have had educational systems break down, etc will differ from letting in a few skilled workers.
Even if it had a more "family guy" type of humor (like it or hate it) big mouth is good in that sense too

It talks about puberty, sexuality (straight, gay and everything in between and outside) depression, anxiety, obsessions and a lot of other stuff.

All while being funny and entertaining.
I met my wife at church. We have been married 28 years. Neither of us had a mobile phone or the Internet back then. I have taught my kids that relationships tend to follow on from friendships. So get yourself into a friend making place and see what happens.
The lie anyone can contribute to open source [audio]
> I learn new things every day, constantly move my horizons. I couldn't do that if I were tied down with a family.

Try explaining these concepts to children. Now that’s a challenge!

> And once people become parents their sex life becomes pretty much null and void too.

I can guarantee that’s not true for everyone. Of course, maybe even some single couples get bored of having sex, and maybe even single men see their libido drop with age!

> For environmental reasons our population should be stable, not growing rapidly.

That’s a common trope pushed by degrowth activists like Greenpeace, but not actually true. Technology gives us means to so more with less, so we are far from the limits of even what Earth can support, let alone our solar system.
Even if granting you are correct in your identification of the problem, you offer no explanation of how an alternative system would work any differently.

I guess feudalism would increase fertility given that feudal lords need more serfs to tend their land.
Why would you run a desktop OS on an open frame computer?

And before I get downvoted (and lose the precious karma points) into oblivion, I answer the 'question' myself:

- availability of the software

- ease of use

- familiarity

- performance (throughput, not latency)

- popularity (with the advantages that this brings: availability of help, applications, thoroughly tested, etc.)

Many use RPi as a low power, somewhat feeble desktop computer but that doesn't make a desktop OS an ideal or obvious choice for embedded applications where open frame computers are (arguably more sensibly) used.
> This article itself is a really great example of what they explained at the beginning - about writing. It's not a paid ad, but it got me interested in potentially using their analytics product from having previously not heard of them.

FWIW This article reminds me of the regular content on the HN front page 10+ years ago, the stuff that a lot of well known saas wrote to gain traction
no other reason to have kids? we're biologically programmed to have kids. i don't have kids myself, but I'm shocked at how intellectual you're coloring is of the situation.

Procreating is our only purpose, as a life form.
How so? A couple (of people) derives from the same meaning of the word couple, meaning two. It's the exact same context as comparing a couple of anything else.
I am/was not aware of GNU Stow. That being said, I don't see why I'd need a tool to create symlinks.
Sure, but most explanations of id's success (including in this article) hinge on (John Carmack's) technological prowess (and DOOM melting your face off).

I'm not entirely sure what your point about Braid is. An individual or a small team could not compete with triple-A studios in 2008. Anyone thinking that then was right.
Ok, you are right too and you have a valid point but we are BOTH right.

Now think about what decision would make the world better.

3 significant people who have a meaningful title or 1000 meaningless ones?

I get that it feels like the ""right"" decision to give everyone credit but what does that mean in the gran scheme of things?
The quandary is that powers that "invade the privacy of law abiding citizens" are also powers "to stop evil."

Pretending they aren't is part of the problem, as it empowers those who would push them to publicly advertise the latter good in a vacuum of silence from the tech side.

Something like 'Personal privacy is more important than maximizing law enforcement efficiency, including of CSAM' is a more honest, complete position.
Unbelievable. The creator of leaded gas knew it was extremely toxic before it was even released.

I'm guessing you are also a supporter of sarin gas, depleted uranium munitions, white phosphorus, zyklon b, and agent orange.
All fun and games, till some day Microsoft acquires Cloudflare and the internet effectively becomes one big corporate intranet.
Seems like a silly, unnecessary risk but it seems like more and more people don’t even have their own laptop.
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. Their growth rate is more than Christianity and Hinduism combined.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/04/06/why-musli...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_population_growth
Having children is a horrible deal for women though. Given the effect on their careers, health, and social life, I can understand why fewer would willingly choose to have them. This explains why whenever civil protection and economic freedom gives them any semblance of a choice, the number of children they get goes way down.
Facial recognition vendors: Our systems have 99.97% accuracy! Actual meaning of this: In a nation of 300M, there are 90,000 false positives for every true match.
That's true, but you can't just dismiss the fact that modern life (primarily the fact that both parents work) makes having children extremely difficult.

It's getting better - especially since the pandemic - but most jobs are not remotely flexible enough to deal with school hours or sick children. Nursery is insanely expensive in most countries. I really think a mortgage style option would make a lot of sense here because it's a ton of money for a short time. Or, just make it free like some countries do (and the Tories pretended to do in the UK).

Life still assumes only one parent will work. Our school regularly schedules meetings and events in the middle of the day at short notice and expects that will be fine.
It's very easy. There is no valid defense of cigarettes. The industry new they caused disease and lied about them. They hired Edward Bernays to market them to women. They paid doctors to sell them as health products. It's an unbelievable stretch just for the sake of argument and inability to admit being wrong on the internet to say that cigarettes are a positive advancement for humanity. WTF.
I have a “work personal” Google account for Chrome for similar reasons.
The problem with English/British food is that some/a lot of restaurants care very little about the food, and more about maximising profits. These restaurants tend to be in the most highly trafficked areas, and in tourist spots.

So you need to research where to go. But English food at its best is as good as anywhere and pulls influence from a variety of cultures.

But I would rather shop in a general UK supermarket than a general American one any day. The food is not as processed and not full of crazy ingredients ( but is getting worse ), and you can often buy local.
It's named so because you have "0 days" to patch it; it's not referring to the age of the vuln.
> By all human rights measures, it is worse. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion … you name it.

I don't think anyone is saying China has "more freedom". But that does not seem to automatically imply that's "worse", which seems to be your ground assumption!

If you believe more freedom is always better, do you agree that social media should have absolutely no moderation? If you don't, then it seems to me you concede that freedom is good, but up to a limit. Then the question become, does China have the right amount of freedom or the USA does? How about the EU, which is quite noticeably less free than the USA? I don't think the answer to these questions are nearly as obvious as you seem to believe by making such blank statements, which leads me to agree with the other person that this is something someone helplessly affected by good old propaganda would do without realizing it (good propaganda is like that, you have no idea you're affected, trying to recognize that is very important).
Can I ask where in the world you are? How long have you worked there?
These are the ones to watch.

I can't help but feel wistful about what could have been if these had become mainstream then.
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> You can't fall onto your arms either, because your inertial speed is faster than your autonomous reflexes.

I don't understand this. Your initial spped along y axis is zero. Falling from a skateboard should be no different from falling from a standing position in terms of the time it takes for your head to hit the ground.
Say I've decided in my project that shadowing is evil. Why wouldn't I turn on -Werror=shadow? Where is the bad idea?

Including downstream. I don't want people writing me patches that trigger my pet warnings.

This is entirely compatible with the idea of locally only turning on -Werror, and then disabling certain warnings that you don't intend to fix, without foisting -Werror onto downstream.

You can still have non-negotiable warnings that you turn on rather than off, and those do go downstream too.
Would you say that invading Irak in 2003 was a good thing and showed how the US system was perfect?
I’m pretty sure you can.

Someone is unconscious and dying, you can save them with surgery, surely it’s highly unethical to wait for their explicit consent?!
now stretch that analogy and substitute the valuable service (lodging) for something benign, like astrology or pet barber.
So you pay them a little more but less than the cost of training. Win-win (previous employer loses).

The same issue comes up any time a company makes an "investment" in their staff. The bigger the investment, the bigger the incentive to jump ship.
I think the future of religion in the West – and eventually probably much of the rest of the world as well – is countercultural (ultra-)conservatives such as ultra-Orthodox Jews (Hasidim and Haredim), the Amish, conservative Roman Catholic groups such as traditionalists (SSPX/etc) and Opus Dei, Quiverfull Protestants, Salafist Muslims, etc.

Many of those groups (1) have high birth rates (large families starting at a young age), (2) have high retention rates (>80%, sometimes even >90%) generation after generation. There is no good reason to suppose that (1) or (2) are going to stop any time soon, and even they do for some of them, they are unlikely to do so for all.

I don't think we should expect these groups to follow the same secularising trajectory as mainstream religion. These groups have evolved a cultural immunity to the temptation of defecting to secular modernity which the religious mainstream failed to evolve.
> "The project's goal is to create an ideal computer architecture and network, to provide for all of society's needs." Who writes shit like that?

Quacks do. That's a good way to know a quack - they are often too greedy for their own good. If you see a remedy which cures common cold, cancer, rheumatism and autism, all with no side effects whatsoever - you know it's bullshit. If you have somebody who can do anything, and be excellent at it - you have a con man. If you have a software system that is ideal for any use - it's a scam. Real good things always have requirements and limitations, and the more complex the goal is, the more requirements and limitations there are. If my career in software taught me something is that one of the basic principles is "the right tool for the right job", and there's no tool that is perfect for every job, and can't be.
I'm a voracious reader (sci-fi) and I would also put it best as processing what I read as facts.

I've never been able to daydream or create worlds in my minds eye such that I get lost in them (which is something I hear people who daydream are able to do).

I think part of this is why I've always found creative writing to be difficult. For example in grade school I was certain I was among the few that read the most, yet for in class creative writing assignments I am often among the last to finish. I've always had the suspicion I'm not as creative as others for this reason.

That said I do believe that I'm very analytical, and so I found no untoward difficulty in persuasive essays, technical write-ups, etc.
VVVV reminds me of a 2D TOOLL3
Well, ditto the past - not only were diet and other conditions harsher, the Church was happy to prescribe, mix, prepare and administer abortifacients.

eg: https://daily.jstor.org/abortion-remedies-medieval-catholic-...

and that's Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess and founder of two monasteries handing out the Ye Olde abortion pills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9K9PfjRjxM
Do we even have enough copper to pull that off?
It’s technically possible to raise kids on almost nothing, but whether or not doing that is a good idea or desirable is another matter.

Certainly having children on a shoestring budget involves a lot more struggle than most care to risk, and if someone is thoughtful enough to hold off on having kids until they feel they’re financially ready they probably want their kids to have a rich childhood.

So more accurately, what’s unaffordable is the ability to eliminate economical risk while providing for children to the desired degree. People don’t want to be one disaster away from being out on the street and/or to be giving their kids a barebones childhood.
Heeding Huang's Law
For most users I suspect that it's probably better to disable the notifications so that they only see them when they actualy open the authenticator app.

It means that they lose some visibility into whether their password has been compromised - but as the article says, a lot of users aren't going to understand or react sensibly to that anyway. And it largely solves the issue of they accepting a notification to stop them being spammed, or just accepting one they receive our of the blue.
Enjoy living in a country with poorly-trained workers then, I guess.