skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is now fairly common where I live (Amsterdam) and since COVID I notice it a lot more. Many restaurants have a reservation fee of €10 or €20, sometimes even more. It's flexible enough that you can reschedule till 8 or 12 hours before the reservation and it's deducted as part of the bill. If you are a no show, you forfeit the deposit. Definitely creates a barrier for scalpers because they would have to buy seats and swallow the loss if they can't sell it but if the restaurant is popular enough, then it can still work in the scalper's favour.
Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
Right on all accounts. I've serviced MS shops for 3 decades. Presently, I approach Windows (and most MS offerings) as a hostile product.
It depends on your use case, SLA's and configuration management role/structure discipline. There are different schools of thought on diskless boot which is not truly diskless as the images have to be shared from somewhere meaning that disk availability goes from 1:1 to many to one increasing the blast radius of outages when the NAS fails or network re-convergence occurs. They all fail regardless of how many millions one spends and in my experience the more millions the more glorious the failure that should never happen. For some companies this is fine if they have the discipline to balance their servers across many NAS servers in a strict hierarchy that facilitates a smaller predictable POD structure blast radius. But that's a bigger topic than I could possibly cover in a HN comment. It also depends on how the OS is being used and how writable spaces tmpfs vs disk are being used. This will all vary wildly across different business models.
> incorrect even in the face of the simplest examples

I haven't found this in my experience. Most issues arise from a lack of typespeccing. If one were to rely on type inference, then, yes, it's not going to catch much. Specifying types is a requirement of a strictly-typed language, so to make a claim of deficiency with Dialyzer's type checking, you'd be comparing code that's fully specced with that of a strictly typed language.

The unavoidable problem is when using libraries that aren't properly typespecced, but that the same story as any gradually typed language (e.g., Typescript). The only solution here is to make a PR or a feature request to the product owners.
Yeah, though it's also fine to start as a wrapper and iterate your way into differentiation. That's something people seem to often be missing when disparaging these wrapper products. Like yeah, perhaps the initial version of the business will be disrupted and they'll need to pivot, but if they got a million users in the meantime, they are a lot more likely to iterate toward PMF than someone starting from scratch.
Or a question eliding “did”/“have” (and the question mark). But yeah, fair point, it’s more a fragment implying a question than a question.
Never seen a guy save a company so many times. Begs the question why it needed saving so often...
It's been a thing for a while and as I recall it's intended to de-clickbait a certain category of title. Mostly one doesn't notice because e.g.

How John Smith Bought Foo Corp -> John Smith Bought Foo Corp

Why John Smith Bought Foo Corp -> John Smith Bought Foo Corp

Within some time window the OP can edit back in the missing word if it makes a difference (as it did here), and you can always email hn@ycombinator.com when one gets missed (as I shall do now).
Just checked, don't show-up in under fixed, monaspace 1.000 macos 13.6.1
Yeah, it's a little weird that it's a throwaway account. Astroturfing or not, it's IMO off-topic and an annoying distraction; flagged it out of existence.
This animal would be so much more obscure if it weren't for Sega's publicity campaign [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckles_the_Echidna
It's available on Netflix with English subtitles.
There's different ways to count it, but I'd estimate it was maybe a low % of posts but it was 30-40% of the user interest and traffic.
The last line of the article is just a stunningly good summary:

"But it's just one more annoying default you need to change to make sure that modern Windows stays out of your way."

Microsoft is constantly pushing the limit of what users will tolerate. I switched non-technical people to Linux OSes after hearing about this, and heard no complaints from them. It's almost like Microsoft wants to lose whatever footholds they have left.
HN's title limit is 80 chars, so the submitter had to shorten it. If there's a better way to do that, we can change it again.
Precisely. Which is why it will end up being decided by the courts. Because the legislative branch hasn't passed a law. The unelected, unaccountable committee that changes at the whim of the president is not the place to legislate. If you want to pass a law, pass a law.
I think we can agree to disagree at this point. This is why I think so:

The argument that I originally objected to was that it is in "our nature" to develop ever more lethal means of warfare. Your objection to this is that (according to game theory) there is no way to stop this, so although it might not be in our genetic nature then it is in the "nature" of game theory (with rational players that might as well be robots). My objection to this stands: you can't know all the parameters of the game even if it probably is possible to retrofit the theory to past events so that it looks all encompassing. In systems as complex as total world history you simply can not pin down all the parameters sufficiently so that you can foresee all possible outcomes - no matter how much one might wish for such powers. It is a temptation that many, perhaps mostly mathematicians, have succumbed to: replacing the world with the model, or the terrain with the map if you will.

So, even this kind of "nature" is false, even if less obviously so. I don't expect you to agree, but I think we can agree that this is the point of contention, and since our beliefs are simply different (and I don't expect you to be swayed as a consequence of our little exchange here) there is no use arguing further.
This is an unforced error on Microsoft's part. The latest in a long line. But I'm not even surprised these days, just disappointed.

I must have just had rose-tinted glasses when I was young, but I totally believed the 'force augmentation' PR Microsoft offered with their Windows XP tour and their SkyDrive initial offering and their Office 2010 ribbon. I was young enough to not get why people complained so much about those switches. Grow up, toolbars are old and boring, this is cool, life is change, yada yada.

Now? After the confusing Windows 8, the killing of WP7, the spyware of W10, the forced updates of W10, the loss of fundamental human interface guideline compliance and look & feel by new-age UX designers who have forgotten the lessons of the past searching to be the next not-Apple of W11, (I could go on) I've grown so sick of Microsoft's current direction that I've apparently clipped over to the other side of the screen.

Now, I don't care. I miss what I see and saw as good. I let my inertia keeping me using Onenote and familiar tools. But I'm not in love with MS like I used to be, I had to let go of MS fanboyism to hang on to "fight for the users" fanboyism.

Luckily the Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive shortly, any second now, and we will be fine (EDIT: /s). In the meantime, I've had to treat my computers as tools, not hobby projects...it's too depressing otherwise.
When a company controls a large part of a market, regulators give extra scrutiny to any efforts that company may make that harms competition.
The Computer as a Communication Device (1968) [pdf]
The final few pages on about what internet communities will look like is very interesting. They discuss the idea of an OLIVER, that is an "“on-line interactive vicarious expediter and responder”, which seems not terribly far from ChatGPT + your google data.
MANPADS do not use radar, they are all infrared or beam riders. You would not expect a B-21 to ever be within range of those weapons, which are really only designed to be used against helicopters and close air support aircraft.
Oh I see. I installed awscliv2 after discovering that awscli did not have the ec2-instance-connect command, so I could not follow the documentation and went searching to see if there was an updated package and discovered that one. So I guess you are not supposed to install it using pip anymore. Good to know.

Update: and now I've read through the github issue, oh my I've missed quite some drama.
Wow, pretty impressive project!
I’m still predicting that Wayland will become an implementation detail of web browsers and some games. It doesn’t make sense for every app to render pixels in software and stream them from a datacenter, not for every desktop to have its own copy of every app.
I’m happy for these researchers on finding happiness. To the first example, in all seriousness - of course industry does DEI better than academia!

Academia is 1. costly, 2. long, and 3. weighted to favor people from backgrounds that can afford tutors or finishing schools. You want Ph.D.s from non-elite backgrounds with the financial means to handle 10 years of college at a poverty wage (or for the first 4 years, who can pay large sums rather than earn anything.) Plus, when they finish, they’ll be expected to have picked up the habits that will impress other faculty, who are disproportionately likely to come from families where Ivy League colleges are realistic options. How big can that pool possibly be? And the timeline to increase the pool is decades long.

Industry can be similar, but at least there you have the option for a smart kid to go through a bootcamp and move their way up on merit, while making a competitive wage. The pool of DEI candidates is just bigger for companies, and it’ obvious that it would be.
> Russia is still a democracy and they elect their government

You are so drastically misinformed about this matter that the mere fact that you hold an opinion should serve as a signal that its likely wrong.
> In Apple’s case, you have no choice. You can’t upgrade later. You can’t pay anyone else’s price. You have to pay Apple’s exorbitant $200-for-8GB upgrade cost.

Of course you have a choice. If the price isn't right then don't buy it.

> This is pure corporate greed from the world’s biggest and richest technology company, and as Apple customers, we shouldn’t stand for it.

A company is only useful to you if its interests align with yours and if it is producing something worth the money. If a company is not worth your time or money then put your time and money toward something else.
Old games have a pre-established fanbase, so releasing some kind of fix/patch/remake for one is almost guaranteed to make at-least some people very happy. The reception for an entirely new game is somewhat less guaranteed.
It depicts a fictionalized story. The premise doesn't need to be 100% fleshed out in terms of geopolitical realities.
Stealth reduces detection range, it does not eliminate it. If an adversary has information on the path the target is likely to take it makes things much easier. This is how a F-117 got shot down over the Balkans. They kept using the same route and someone figured it out. At the ranges MANPADs operate, a couple km at most, thermal stealth is effectively impossible.
This is the economy of pulling info out of humans. One of the worst examples of this is Quora. You answer a question... and days later... you get emails from Quora asking about related, but not entirely related questions about the same topic... I was baffled, how come I answered a very niche like question and someone already asks about more details. I checked the question and there was no author displayed. So, in essence a bot created more questions about the same topic. So you are feeding a bot, as it tries to wrestle more and more information out from you. What an ugly scheme.
I tend not to take seriously the opinions of people who call others who use open source software according to the terms of its license "freeloaders".

(And I say this as an open source developer myself, who has spent thousands of hours writing code for free.)

If you want to side with Red Hat on this, fine, but it's not necessary to exaggerate the actions of those with an opposing view to the point that you're trying to make them look bad.

I also in general think it's silly and unnecessary to defend a giant corporation (remember, IBM owns Red Hat now, and it's not like RH had been a scrappy little Linux company for a long while before the acquisition, even) over regular ol' community members and IT sysadmins who have a beef.
Amazon makes money from those garbage companies having an ad war over who gets to deceive the eyeballs of Amazon's customers first, and then takes a cut when it gets sold.

Customer Obsession and Earns Trust might be two of Amazon's Leadership Principles, but no principles stand in the way of cold hard cash.
Well, that's how I feel about some of my coworkers. I know it is a strong word, and I think it is appropriate. For the most part, they're not bad people, but they just have an extremely limited outlook on life(from my perspective).
Live view has immensely less magic than react or nextjs.

In fact it's kind of crazy how much of it I understand given I haven't tried. The community is just all about simple tools and understanding them.
Google does stock buybacks instead. The last yearly buyback authorisation was for $70b, so the "yield" is around 4-5%. It's very much in the blue-chip, return-cash-to-investors phase of its corporate life.
Gas jockeys served the public. We don't grow/kill our own food, we buy from vendors who sell to the public.

It's poor form to invite someone to dinner at your house, then make them cook it when they arrive.

That's where the line is drawn. Not having a personal valet-silent-t isn't doing someone else's job. It was never a position to begin with.

I'm trying, but I can't fathom what point you think you're making comparing the living standards of plebes to the Queen of England's unless you were born to landowners during apartheid or are a current member of the Saudi royal family.
Well headlines don't have feelings, and certainly someone has to suffer for distasteful prompts. Unfortunately, it looks like you are the next best thing.

/s
Protesting Chase doesn’t stop investments. It just pushes them elsewhere. Those activists are morons and stopping their flights would do far more to help than to protest a single bank.

If they were protesting the government to massively increase oil taxes then you might have a point. Alas, they don’t have any economic intuition.
Step 1: Announce water rights will soon be eminent-domained

Step 2: Let market for these properties crash

Step 3: Buy at FMV
Something something John Sculley?
oh cool it happens in November and my friend I met during my visit just sent me Northern Light pics last night. Makes me to go hop on a plane for a visit and hopefully finally catch the lights.
> A child spends more hours of day in school, and under the influence of media (legacy, social and all kinds) and society in general, than with their parents. Unless probably those parents are unemployed and homeschooling the child. Which is its own type of trauma.

Okay, but I'd still call the parent the most important pillar in a child's life. Not the only one, but they have the most influence on a child. Every child is different, but most children will take a parents' action and words to heart and use those to form a world view. which can end with an accaptance or rejection of the parents'.

>The problem isn't Omegle in particular, but rather how unstructured the Internet is. Anything goes, you can therefore not shape and mold a child's environment to be nurturing and educational

sure you can. plenty of filters and blocks.

The key to elevate this from controlling your kid to parenting is to then explain why those blocks exist. We shouldn't be coy to tell kids that there is danger, that they should know how their body and feelings work, and that there is content they are not ready to view. They may still find workarounds anyway, but hard locks under "because I said so" or "I'll tell you when you're older" caused me to rebel way more than "because there are bad people out there" (as an oversimplified explanation).

And that's the crux that no one seems interested in solving. Why are we so afraid to educate our kids on this stuff?
What's the breakdown in memory usage?
This post seems pretty focused on the How of building AI products, but personally I think that whether or not an "AI product" succeeds or fails mostly wont come down to differentiation / cost / speed / model customization, but rather whether it is genuinely useful.

Unfortunately, most products I've seen so far feel like solutions in search of problems. I personally think the path companies should be taking right now is to identify the most tedious and repetitive parts of using the product and looking for ways that can be reliably simplified with AI.
> I know at UniMelb (the more "woke" major University in the most "woke" city in Australia), they refuse to do anything about a particular Chemistry professor

But they did kick out the powerlifting coach, for a similar episode of sexual abuse.
This might interest you, if you haven't already seen it: Unix timestamp clock, in hex! https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/
Wait, is this even legal? I made a bot one time for a group of people I know to go to Noma. They invited me to come with them out of gratitude. They told me I could resell that. Other than personally finding it unethical, I also thought it'd be illegal to do so.

In any case, writing such a bot for a one time use-case (and just one reservation of which I was a part of) was fun!
The narrative the NFL wants to push is that CTE is related by concussions; because concussions are something they can attempt to address. Unfortunately, more and more studies establish that repetitive smaller sub-concussive forces are the cause of CTE and that there is no correlation with concussions.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/22/football-cte-brain-injury-c...

This article, while questioning the success in addressing concussions, nevertheless pushes the NFL's misleading narrative that concussions are the problem.
> 99% of people […]

Sure, McDonalds has sold like, a trillion hamburgers and a local started restaurant does like 100 covers a night. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t packed and that the reservations don’t go instantly, as soon as they’re available.
You get it wrong, If changing option makes some query go faster it means PostgreSQL is not doing very good job picking when these optimizations should be applied.

Better queries always help too of course.
Are we talking about IPv4 addresses or are we talking about the internet as a whole? Because that quote seems to be about the latter and I was referring to the former above. I read the Licklider paper that they link and it's much more on the abstract side rather than discussing actual implementation details.

Licklider and Taylor did have some very interesting predictions about how the internet would shape up though. Probably my favorite quote from the article:

"Unemployment would disappear from the face of the earth forever, for
consider the magnitude of the task of adapting the network’s software to all
the new generations of computer, coming closer and closer upon the heels
of their predecessors until the entire population of the world is caught up in
an infinite crescendo of on-line interactive debugging."
Google has a large charitable arm called google.org, but your point is mostly correct, although the money they pay to employees (and to the government in the form of payroll taxes) isn't being destroyed. It's just cycling around the economy, and many employees donate decent amounts of their paychecks to charity (Google does 1:1 matching and encourages this)
Honestly if you want to generate less technical debt then writing a function https on top of an url parser is probably the wrong thing to do.

I mean `urlparse(url).scheme = 'https'` is so literal and straightforward that it really ought not be it's own separate function. Adding a wrapper that does nothing but add more code and rethrow the same error is just generating technical debt by writing a function that ought not be.

Arguably all code is technical debt, but so far the world isn't kind enough to bend to our will without any code.
>Testing the waters outside your specialty when you're in your second postdoc is not a bad idea. Presumably that means you've not been able to get a permanent job at least a couple times.

So while this might seem logical from an outside perspective, two postdocs are common if not pretty much the norm for people hired as Tenure Track faculty at high ranking institutions in many fields nowadays. The name of the game is derisking - how much of a track record can you build before they hire you to confirm you will succeed.
The simple hack is a softlink to the actual SDK.

On the other hand, checking in the whole SDK as part of a project gives an impressive LoC tally ;)

Link issue was possibly macro craziness? The scars of sdk_config.h etc.
This makes sense because the figma -> code conversion is very programmatic. For anything more semantic or more vague in approach, a heavier dependence on LLM's might be needed until the infrastructures mature.
As long as I can disable that in the MDM
It's from Protonmail's website https://web.archive.org/web/20190425155330/https://protonmai...
Iceland declares state of emergency over volcanic eruption threat
To be fair, Jobs-interregnum Apple was such a hilariously mismanaged mess that it did actually need saving multiple times over. Michael Dell's quip about "shutting Apple down and giving the money back to the shareholders" was not entirely as misguided as it sounds today.
It’s so crazy that he’s lived long enough to watch his invention go mainstream and now reach the point where it is basically about to be obsoleted.

I, like so many, am at the point where the “cell phone” part of my cell phone needs to go away — the signal to noise for voice isn’t worth it. It’s basically just junk mail at this point.

Of course I want voice, but it’s stepped back to a distant fifth or sixth for utility on my mobile devices, and no longer the reason I carry cell phones.

Of course the invention is intrinsically far more than voice, but it’s interesting that the inventor has lived long enough to watch the utility of his original vision and invention decline (as voice calls specifically).

I wonder if there is an enshitification phase for all technologies that become profoundly commercially successful.
> plenty of smarter people than me came out against you to correct your crusade.

Doesn't mean they were right.
Bureaucracies need not necessarily reduce the average.

If they only truncated the tails - equally removing the top performers and the worst performers - then we'd expect the average stays the same.

If the distribution is right-tailed, with some absolutely stellar performers, then we'd lower the average by removing them.

If left-tailed, with some horrendous performers (even legal liabilities), then we'd improve the average by removing them.

Bureaucracies at the end of the day are just institutionalized process, and while process by definition reduces variance, it can both raise and lower the average.
http://web.archive.org/web/20231110163049/https://www.sfchro...
> What have you done to ensure "humans exist 200 years from now?"

Drive by comment. The only way humans cease to exist in 200 years is if something horribly catastrophic happens. Which is much more like to happen if the population grows exponentially. And much less likely if the population declines steadily over the next 200 years.
Chronic stress, when cortisol levels are consistently high, can lead to chronic inflammation.