skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When most people say Pol Pot was evil, they're not talking about demonic possession or some silly nonsense like that; they mean he was a mass murderer, which is evil.

Well, no. Most people I've heard say something like that would mean that he was innately evil as a person. They wouldn't spell it out like that but the underlying assumption is that a "normal human being" couldn't do what he did and therefore he was a freak mutation in some way. Most people even struggle with the idea that there was a time in such a person's life where they weren't "evil" yet. Even when talking about Antisocial Personality Disorder ("psychopathy") they rarely know that this is often in part caused by severe early childhood trauma, e.g. sexual abuse or parental abuse and emotional neglect - most seem to believe these people are "just born evil" and any prior period where they didn't do anything sufficiently evil were just a mask.

This is easiest to see when talking about the Nazis. Instead of trying to gain a systemic understanding of how the Nazis came to power or how "ordinary citizens" could be made to commit massacres and genocides we single out the big names as uniquely evil and make up excuses for the rest. For the longest time I had been told that soldiers who participated in massacres were implicitly threatened with death or at least physical punishment but we know that this was not the case and the mere threat of social ostracization by the other members of their unit was enough. The majority of those involved in the massacres saw themselves as victims for having to carry out those commands and deal with the trauma because denying their own agency helped them cope with what they had done.

So no, they don't mean "a person who has done something evil" when they say a person is evil. They usually mean something more transcendental than that. When most people say Pol Pot or Hitler or Milosevic was evil they mean he wasn't human the same way "normal humans" are human. They may not think he was literally possessed by a demon or the physical manifestation of a demon but they will think there was some essence of evilness inside him that would inevitably manifest. He wasn't evil as a result of doing evil things, he did evil things because he was an evil person. This is called essentialism and it's extremely widespread and antithetical to a systems theory based understanding of social dynamics and behaviors.
$270k in the Bay Area is not retirement at 25 money unless you’re that Googler living in a van in the parking lot, or your retirement plan is living simply in a poor country. It’s a fine living, to be clear, but in a high cost of living area you’re paying high rent until you can buy an expensive house, etc. and the American healthcare system alone means you need to have millions saved as a buffer against illness over that kind of timeframe (kinda hard to re-enter the workforce at 40 with cancer when you realize your cost projections were optimistic).
I thought the non-evil phase of Google is commonly viewed to be considerably earlier, sometime before Gmail (2004). While the article mentions 2010 as still being in it. I wonder whether by 2040 somebody will lament the good old Google of 2024.
Except none of the stuff you antropomorphize possess human intelligence.
Did this friend also do it exactly when the murdered wife and mother of his children went missing?
"psychotic" is being thrown around as the new "narcissist".

Basically anyone with some personality trait that I don't agree with is now a "psychotic".
> Just pick any set of well-established best practices such as Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules

Excellent, we have something objective to look at. Now, where's the studies, reports, etc. that this has declined in the past decade? I'm not asking for a double-blind, peer reviewed study, just something a bit more concrete than "stop the world, I want to get off."

> Was JavaScript ever actually designed to do the things it's being used for today?

Was anything?
Yea, for sure. These old linux isos are heavily mirrored, and many also has bittorrent mirrors.

Here's another one, funded by Swedish government, run by Stockholm University): https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/
?? All I've seen when it comes to 2A is a strengthening thereof, espcially downstream of Bruen
My Grandpa Was a Nazi
trivia: you just made me wonder what's the etymology of dinosaur, https://www.etymonline.com/word/dinosaur#etymonline_v_8600 says it's from "deinos "terrible" (see dire)". seems that from start, people in the field had this view of crippled genus
They were inevitable even my granny would have made those decisions.
> much more standardized and rational than markdown

Can you explain? I mean, I imagine there aren't really various flavors of Org Mode, but that doesn't make it standardized.
Kinda feels like DRM did it's main job of preventing interoperability. Funny how much bad tech is still "good enough"
"The only thing that works to get people permanently migrated away is complete enshitification of the existing platform (i.e. Digg effect). Partial enshitification isn't enough."

The Digg effect only worked because the majority of users were tech savvy and hated advertisements. The average user just accepts ads for the most part.

Most people don't care about the freedom of the platform, who's running the platform, or the technology behind it. They only care about: Can I easily create an account? Are all my friends, family, people I want to talk to there?
> Stop actively breaking things that already work.

The old versions will continue to work.
Ah, you can test the implementation but not the algorithm itself. Got it. I see now I said "roll your own crypto" and I should have said something like "reimplement a crypto"

To prevent side channel, can't you do something as stupid as add a randomized [0-0.1) second sleep to your crytpographic operations? That would make any difference in your algorithms performance negligible.
Not in Safari you can't.

Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Opera only.

Either Google only built it to use Widevine (which Safari doesn't support) or Safari's limitations on the amount of data that can be stored make it too unreliable to roll out to customers.
WisprNote on the App Store – offline Whisperr transcription
His take on Google's search is spot-on. It's not totally useless but it no longer stands apart from everything else. Who in 2010 would have predicted that?
> To say nothing of the appropriateness or applicability of bringing up the 767

By which I mean the 737 and now we’ve come full circle - goddamn it all to /dev/null
I remember the day I decided to switch from Yahoo to Google, finally I could find relevant things on the internet. It was in 2001 iirc. At the time I really thought Google will never become the corporate mess it is now, it felt like a cool company.
Openai's entire business model and product offerings are based on theft. Google's no saint, but the scale and scope are rather different. Furthermore, openai's shills spamming forums to defend the practice is unseen in intensity.
BSDs are complete operating systems, Linux is just a kernel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044932
The purpose of a tool is to simplify the work. Otherwise it's a useless tool

Using it wrong is a result, not indication of intent
I guess we are talking about the time before they literally scraped it from their mission statement?
> Darn... I threw a lot of these away recently (old CDs with early Linux ISOs). Even much older stuff. Are these really gone forever?

No, that quote is just false.
Also developers would just put their own application logic to detect portal size etc and disable it that way.
The author must have wrote that book when he was high on shrooms.
What happened with Google has nothing to do with “late stage capitalism” and everything to do with horrible management. You only have to compare Sundar to Satya to see what could have been possible for Google with better leadership and vision. Particularly given the legacy Google had to work with and the early focus on AI which was thoroughly squandered.

Capitalism will start to really work its magic when Google’s operating profit and stock price start falling and all their best developers jump ship to better companies (this part has already started). Then they will fully follow the model trailblazed by such erstwhile innovators as Polaroid, Kodak, and Xerox.
月 and 肉 initials are much closer in Cantonese which is why Cantonese speakers often fail to differentiate these sounds in mandarin. I don’t think it’s directly linked to the pinyin, which has a different evolutionary path.

You see the same in Nanjing dialect, where speakers fail to differentiate l/n initials and n/ng finals. The pinyin is different, but their home dialect doesn’t distinguish so they fail to distinguish the sounds. Presumably if Nanjing speakers had been writing the pinyin standards there would be more chance that lan/rang would have ended up written the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_dialect

I think what you’re after probably is a historical analysis of romanisations including pinyin. Such an analysis might also cover other no-obvious features of pinyin, like why jiao and yao have similar vowel sounds but different spellings and the nv/yu and nu/wu similarities and differences.

For your historical English example, I think in some dialects and in some historical times there would have been people that fail to distinguish some of your examples and others but all of this is a bit beyond my expertise.
>limited supply is an unintended outcome.

I have been to many city council meetings. Stymieing population growth is an explicit goal. The speakers tend to perceive harms from more people as opposed to pure misanthropes.

e.g. "More people creates more traffic so we should prevent housing to prevent people"

Although, I cannot see their true intents. It is possible the speakers do dislike people, which is not politically popular. Expressing their desire requires making up other tangential causes. Hidden agendas creates engineering confusion. If the goal was truly to manage traffic, an engineer would suggest better bus routes.
because a company asking for a takedown would never file a takedown request afterwards?
Some context here left out that may matter is that it looks like Bray left Google a decade ago: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timbraysoftwareguy/

Reading this it wasn't clear if this was a recent inside view, at outside view, or a historical inside view.
I was excited initially about these but I am loathe to admit I have kind of lost interest. Perhaps I am getting old.
Been using Linux as my daily driver for 5 years and have never seen a Kernel panic, so there's probably no drive to do it :P
The Bel Language (2019)
You will live in the pod. You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing and be happy.
> Well, It seems I am unlucky: hardly anything works, when it works it is often shabby, and something properly working does not last long.

For me, it's amazing. I'm running a windows app on a arm64, non-windows machine.

> I am already dealing with the hell of ABI compatibility of ELF because of glibc and gcc devs, dunno if I want to add this hell.

ABI of glibc is pretty good, you sure don't do something very wrong?
Same as Bell Labs.

Having great technical talents is not enough to have a great business.
>Facebook broke the old SV salary cap agreement

And 1000's of non Google and Meta employees have benefitted from this, so I say this is good.

The argument may be that this invited the wrong type of people to VC. I would say, They were already there, just not as obvious.
> I don't understand why we can't at least outbid the advertisers for our own attention

Pessimism of whether the content would be worth real money, mostly.
However, setting the highlight color to pure white in the CSS isn't very nice for people who load the page with JavaScript disabled.
Funnily enough my experience of politics was far worse in a larger, more established company than a smaller one.

Maybe a different kind of politics, but it was toxic as fuck and my career was basically at the mercy of heads and directors that I would never have reason to interact with. Hit a bump on a project that causes a delay? Expect some higher up to threaten the prospects of the entire team unless we got it done on time.

Most of the people engaging and benefitting from such cut-throat politics and gossip had no right to be in such management positions. Non-existent leadership skills.

Tiny startups can be equally rough but at least it's more direct.
Joined Google relatively recently and have also worked in/with the payments infrastructure. Couldn’t agree more - absolute nightmare to work in and it’s a small miracle when anything gets delivered at all.

As far as I can tell, seems to be a lack of a cohesive vision from leadership and an absolute willing ignorance of existing challenges, as you’ve mentioned.
I know I'm going to get a lot of pushback for raising this point, but I'm somewhat incredulous to see people bring up safety as the reason for these restrictions, when this country simultaneously (in many places) allows young adults to buy a gun (or lots of guns!) simply by walking into a store and asking for one. But heaven help you if you want to build a three story building with one stairway.
Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce weeks after telling employees: work harder
Indeed, it's a reasonable argument that fungi evolved these molecules specifically to affect animal's brains. After all, we can see specific behaviors that help spores spread, like the zombie ants.

I think marijuana or poppies have less plausible explanations for how they would have evolved specifically to mess with animal's minds.
Apple initially licensed data primarily from TomTom and also from others.

They've been replacing licensed map data with data they gather themselves for over half a decade now. So far, their own data covers North America, Europe, Australia as well as a few countries elsewhere. 35 countries so far.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-expansions-curr...
Open Source Routing Machine: OpenStreetMap Data Routing Engine Hosted on Azure
To be fair, it usually starts out that easy, until you require multiple fetch requests and conditional logic for separate CRUD operations.
> Genuinely interested: what environmental problem did you solve there?

Soil erosion.

> Are "fishing families" really the problem with fishing? I would have thought that the industrial fishing boats are not "family businesses"...

They fish different zones. Big trawlers offshore/deep sea. Artisanal fishers inshore. The inshore fisheries catch has declined 75% in 30 years in some areas.
What are all video games if not mental gyms?
Obviously lower demand than a new iPhone, because the store didn't stutter once, even with the new steps of scanning your face and uploading a prescription. When new iPhones are released usually you can feel the cogs turning in the backend.
“Child raiser” is perfectly adequate to the context of a conversation about people who are raising children.
This wins the award for most elaborate boot loader.
Delta Lake vs. Parquet: A Comparison
Data Lakes (i.e. Parquet files in storage without a metadata layer) don't support transactions, require expensive file listing operations, and don't support basic DML operations like deleting rows.

Delta Lake stores data in Parquet files and adds a metadata layer to provide support for ACID transactions, schema enforcement, versioned data, and full DML support. Delta Lake also offers concurrency protection.

This post explains all the features offered by Delta Lake in comparison to a plain vanilla Parquet data lake.
Life After Devopsish (2023)
Sure, but how useful is that when you can’t install any packages, since the package repositories only host packages for supported versions.

When a distro goes EOL, the package repositories typically move to the next supported version and delete all of the old packages.
Just curious: Do you consider killing animals ethically justifiable right now because their flesh tastes good and is hard to replace in cooking?
About 3.5 times less interest at least :)
Show HN: I made a Wordle Game suitable for my children to play – Wordle Junior
Wordle Junior is a Wordle game version specifically designed for kids, aiming to provide an educational and entertaining experience for young players. Here are the key features of our product:
1.More Guesses: Unlike the traditional Wordle game, Wordle Junior offers 8 chances to guess, allowing kids more time and opportunities to explore and learn.
2.4-Letter Words: We carefully select four-letter words that are both interesting and appealing to children, making it a fun way for them to learn new vocabulary.
3.Fun Hints: After several attempts, the game provides fun hints to help young players find the correct answer, enhancing the game's interactivity and enjoyment.
4.Unrestricted Play: You can play Wordle Junior multiple times a day with no limitations, ensuring they can enjoy the game anytime they want.
There was also much more O2 in the atmosphere. Doubtful that's coming back.
why is this seen as a problem? 20 years ago if someone in iraq/yemen/afghanistan/syria had said that USA and "allies" would be decimating their country, they would laugh at the thought or maybe they would have done something about it. sure but yeah'
Medical AI could be 'dangerous' for poorer nations, WHO warns
> Can you explain how you would know the data is right if you don't have actual data from a site popular with non-techies?

I didn't say it was absolutely right. Re-read my comment above.

> So how can it possibly be even close the correct?

I suggested in my previous comment that when the numbers are close to extremes they are more accurate. Basically as the survey approaches either 0% or 100% (look at iOS support for WebGPU above), it is indicative that the stddev of the distribution is small and thus any sampling bias is likely to not really have much of an effect. The more problematic numbers are those that are near the middle, like 50%, as the stddev is likely much higher and thus sampling bias can introduce more skew.

But generally this survey started out last year when I made the website as <1% for WebGPU support and it has climbed above 50%. That is real movement and is indicative as a whole that WebGPU support is climbing.

For the most part, you want to have WebGPU support to be >> 80% on this type of survey if you want to introduce a website that uses it exclusively without some type of fallback available.
Why did words that end in "tron" once sound so futuristic? (2017)
Labels vs folders.

This is product design.
Nice another uneducated take that shows no understanding of the firearms buying process.
You're right that big dinosaurs only lost because they were big, not because they were an evolutionary dead end of some sort.

From an anthropocentric point of view, though, they seem very dead end. Despite bipedalism and possible warm bloodedness sometimes, they would never use tools. Down so many taxonomic branches, their arms would shrink away and their jaws become enormous. Nothing to motivate any of those lizards to get big brains -- something anthropos value highly :)
Hi smallerfish

update: formatted the json better

Thank you for expressing interest and, potentially, an approach to suggest ideas.

On my original attempt, I just couldn't get the POST request to work. I cannot remember the details but, due to time constraints, had to resort to something.

I will admit that this is an area I would like to revisit, but the current approach does work well... for now.

My json is larger than below, but provides examples of the inputs they represent on screen:-

{
"catA": {
"capacity": 90, // value from slider control
"memberType": 4, // value from single drop down
"members": [1, 2, 10, 100], // values from multi select drop down
},
"catB": {
"dateRange": { // both individual text fields
"from": "2024-01-03 10:00:00",
"to": "2024-01-04 10:00:00"
}
}
}
https://archive.is/BcklA
Agreed. Relationships in 'init' are principle

Back on point though: don't expect the 11th restart to work when the last 10 didn't.

Contrived examples are contrived, it's solved. Declaring dependencies.
They should have a debug mode that is user-activated for stuff like this.

I also have burned too many hours trying to get various OAuth flows working.
You are. Maybe you just need some additional time to get used to it. After all, even webdev monk... I mean people are used to {} in JS.
2009 was the year I bought my first iPhone and sported a white MacBook. Sure seems like aeons ago.
Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
Because it doesn't emulate linux? It emulates risc-v.

A game boy emulator doesn't emulate what ever game you play. It emulates the hardware.
Database migrations are always "fail forward" if there's an error you figure out what it was and fix it.
Could herbalists just be God's AlphaFold?
> Large companies do not have the CEO getting involved in Product decisions like which platforms to develop for

My sweet summer child, the relationship between Apple and Netflix/Google is entirely determined by their respective platform Bizdev teams + executive relationships. Product happens after the business terms are hashed out.
I hate to break it to you but if you don't grow grass then weeds and mud will take over. The weeds bring insects and mosquitos and the mud is well...mud.

Letting leaves kill my grass was a terrible mistake, I'll never make it again.
A safe bet! Plus of course, not available outside the US.
Most footage pulled from security cameras is only so-so anyway. Faces aren’t always perfect. Maybe this changes when they’re all 4kHDR.
High-performance Java websites with functional WebFlux
Did we read the same article?

> The Second Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the District Court's summary judgement in October 2015, ruling Google's "project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law." The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently denied a petition to hear the case.
Astronaut accused of eating first 'space tomato' is exonerated
You sound like you have an axe to grind. Can you cite a past real-world example of what you’re saying?
Timegen: Time-Based Procedural Animation
I agree about the Sundar and Satya comparison, but I also feel Microsoft has always been in more stable position in terms of diversified revenue sources and its stronghold in business / enterprise market that served as platform for growing other lines of their business.
tl;dr on costs:

256GB - $3499 | 512GB - $3699 | 1TB - $3899
AppleCare+ - $499 | Battery - $199 | Travel Case - 199
>One thing that surprised me is the two stroke engine was invented after the four stroke (Ottoman cycle) engine. It does have advantages like being able to run completely upside down since it doesn't have a sump where the oil needs to drain. They also have a higher power to weight ratio.

Its major disadvantage is due to lack of valves is that for a short period of time the intake port and exhaust port are both open allowing up to 30% of the unburned air-fuel mixture to pass right through the engine as pollution. This also makes it nearly impossible to add further emissions controls in the exhaust system such as a catalytic converter, not that its really feasible to due to in such a small engine.

Because of this small two-stoke engine like those in a leaf blower can put out much more pollution that a large automobile with a 4-stroke engine with modern emissions controls.

There are more advanced two-stroke designs (BRP E-TEC) that use direct fuel injection to avoid this, but they are far too complicated to use in a small lawn tool.
SICMutils: Computer Algebra, Physics and Differential Geometry in Clojure
Investigation Reveals Bias in Arabic Wikipedia's Coverage of Israel-Hamas War
It was certainly executive-level pricing :) To answer your question, I don't know. The wait list was well over a year, and it was many many times more expensive than other childcare options in the Mountain View area, and utterly unaffordable for me on a senior SRE salary.