skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only do some web stuff very casually, so I’m definitely not the target demographic. Having said that, the most glaring WebKit omission for me is lack of SVG favicon support. Really baffling. All those Apple-specific icons with the different dimensions- really a pain for a casual web dev like me.
Are there finally some affordable metal 3D printers?
Pretty good. Expected to be out of a job by now. But surprisingly I’m not. Otherwise making great life experiences and enjoying life. It’s been all uphill since 2021.
I'd say that Wayfair is a retail sales company that uses tech, because retail sales are their line of business.
That's a very good question. I'm sure of what I've seen, many times over years:

I can tell you that they look like stars - so much that I need a reference point, an actual star or planet, to verify they are moving and not a 'stationary' star (judging movement being otherwise very difficult at that distance). They move very steadily, horizon to horizon, or as far as I can track them. A wild guess, based on memory, is one might take 5 or 10 minutes to cross between my horizons (usually I'm not on a plain - trees, hills, mountains may elevate my 'horizons' and reduce the distance).

Natural celestial object? No way a star is moving that fast relative to other stars and Earth's horizons. Asteroid? That seems hard to believe, due to size and illumination. Comet? Are there lots of tiny ones? I never see tails. Maybe a meteorite entering the atmosphere that doesn't yet have a tail?

Other human-made objects? Airplanes would look bigger and have colored, blinking lights - I've seen plenty of airplanes at night. Maybe there are higher flying airplanes without the colored and blinking lights? Are they illuminated whitish, and so far away they'd look like stars?

I've seen them so many times, I'm confident that I could take anyone to a wilderness area on a clear night and find one within 15-20 minutes, probably less.
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My guess is it's not the battery but the charging system that is the issue. If it's over charging, or not discharging to storage voltage properly then the batteries will puff up and can get punctured and catch fire.
I would also recommend 'Patterns of Software' by Richard Gabriel. In one of the chapters he discusses how Christopher Alexander's work can be applied to software and argues that GoF interpretation of 'pattern language' totally misses the point.
Yes, that's not bad.
If raw ease of use dictates your tech decisions, you're eventually gonna have a bad time.
More tersely, returning errors is not the problem. Returning errors and results simultaneously (and relying on context to distinguish them) is the problem. Sums are not well modelled by products.
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Yeah, that's a good point. As a further experiment, I tried with various "hardware" combinations (from 486's to Pentium II's) in 86Box, which actually performs such emulation, but unfortunately I haven't been able to get it to boot properly (kernel panics during initialization, if it gets that far at all).
>In that regard, he doesn’t just share his surname with Mario’s reptilian foe; he also, improbably, shares it with Nintendo of America’s current president, Doug Bowser. Gary is certain that the executive can be found somewhere in his family tree, perhaps in a distant branch.

Nominative determinism!
Nah, I once did a job for a guy and they did LEO-GEO distances alright iirc and LEO-Earth in the mid-end 2000s, which has to deal with some pretty high angular velocities, if not as potentially high as LEO-LEO when they don't happen to be relatively nicely aligned. (In case that sounds strange, the guy was one of the two owners of a small, very specialized company that in turn was subcontracted by a rather bigger company. These laser terminals were quite the beasts and not really cheap.)
What can be terrible for everyone else is seeing a manager force through a promotion of a bad or weak employee, who now makes even bigger messes that everyone else gets to deal with.

This appears at times to be a perverse status game - “I have so much pull I even got Joe promoted.”
> Twenty minutes later, he called back reaffirming they are not running their cannons at night. He also assured me that their air cannons could not be heard more than a mile away.

This is the point at which I would have changed my attitude to the situation quite dramatically. Given the opportunity to own up and simply apologize and fix the issue, the fellow just went full lie-to-your-face mode. What in the everloving heck is wrong with people?
It's naturally scarce. Even if it was easy to print dollar bills, they would not be infinite. You actually need physical material to make them. That puts hard limits to the scale of any counterfeiting operation. They could make it legal and it wouldn't have a fraction of the impact of fractional reserve banking which literally creates mountains of money out nowhere via the power of debt.
There is a big difference between deleting when disk storage is low, and deleting if you haven't opened the app in 14 days.
There may have been reservations…right up until Steve announced and demoed it.
Idk what happened to it but there was momentum at one point to ship internal modules for browsers like node now has, where you would write the import as “std:lib” (much like the recent “node:fs” etc) which would completely side step these issues
I never said we should defund pure math.

How many pure mathematicians have gotten tenure in math departments and were subsequently forced to work on "applications"? Do you have any actual examples?

How many superstar researchers have been forced to teach against their will? If they're working as a regular, tenure-track professor, then teaching is part of their job. The word doctor comes from the Latin word for teacher!
I want the opposite... enter decoded text and it shows me different ways it could be encoded/encrypted and what they look like.
Higher transmissibility of certain viruses could be one reason. If more people are catching it, it's not hard to imagine that more people are getting sick from it, and infecting others. From one study:

> Our study shows an important dependency of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to weather/climate, with each 1°C reduction in mean regional temperature below 10°C leading to a 0.16-unit increase in R0 , or each 1 g/m3 reduction in AH leading to a 0.15-unit increase in R0. Northern hemisphere countries experienced a new wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections during autumnal transition from summer to winter (colder temperatures and lower absolute humidity levels), while still actively maintaining control strategies. When planning to adjust the level of restrictions on social activities, public health strategies need to account for the increased transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 when/where cold and dry winter conditions are prevalent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8211690/
Thing about a data breach is once the data is out there - source code in this case - it’s out there for good and you have absolutely no control over who gets it. You can do as much post incident hardening as you want, and talk about it as much as you want, but the thing you’re trying to protect against, and blogging about how good you’re getting at preventing, has already happened. Can’t unscramble those eggs.
> But literally every dev that I personally know

Your bubble is absurdly tiny. I assure you this is not the norm across software engineering as a whole.
It can still be blameless though? The 'because' makes it sound like that's a correct reason to leave it; that the only error was thinking they were unused. (i.e. that it's fine to leave them if unused, only a problem if they're used)

i.e. instead of 'because they were mistakenly thought to be unused' you can say 'because they were mistakenly thought to be ok to leave as unused' (or something less awkward depending on exactly what the scenario was) and there's no more blame there? And if you really want to emphasise blamelessness you can say how your processes and training failed to sufficiently encourage least privilege, etc.
When it suits them (i.e. when there is data to be gained). But it's more often done through the courts, and when it needs to be a covert op, I'm guessing they'd get their buddies in friendly countries to do the dirty work.
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I mean there's not that much I can do when you just write unrelated stuff? "None of those people were connected to the Internet before" .. so therefore it's somehow good that those people's Internet access is controlled by one ass? "Businesses still need trucks" .. so therefore it's good to sell in slightly more efficient cars as the solution to the personal transport part of the climate crisis? Or to derail high speed rail projects with vapourware promises?

The things I wrote and the things you responded with aren't connected, so there's not much intelligent commentary to give.
> “The first time we hooked it up [with the base game] was kind of magical,” Jeff Gates said, “It demolished me over and over again. I’ve been playing Dominion casually, in person, for years. I’ve probably played 100, 200, maybe more games. And this AI just consistently demolished me on the base set of cards.”

Maybe I don't understand why I am supposed to be so impressed with this. A computer already has all of the math and probabilities right there in the code - I've been losing to computer players all of my life, so a CPU's ability to just stomp me to death with the most optimal moves isn't exactly a new experience for me no matter how you cook it up.

For me the hallmark of a good CPU player is how badly it can play. Does it make interesting choices? Does it respond to my choices? Do I feel sufficiently challenged?

I actually have been playing the Dominion app for a few years now. The AI does occasionally exhibit some interesting and novel combos! But for the most part it still just latches onto the most optimal set of moves it can find and goes for the kill.

Even at lower difficulty settings the CPU has no personality and can just be brutal. The AI also still exhibits some of the same old-school bugs where it latches onto a losing strategy and doesn't really make any attempt to adjust (especially when you introduce mechanics with debt).

So maybe it saves coding, but in my experience it's not much different than traditional CPU opponents - with the exception that it absolutely obliterates my phone's batter life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38895342

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/can-brain-scie...
I don’t think there are many birds, aeroplanes, nor hot air balloons in LEO? Are there?! (I doubt clouds too, but meteorological phenomena perhaps?)
I hate that PCMag ignores browser preferred language lists. It switches the language on my geo IP address which is a language I cannot read.
Again, inaccurate. There is a self-selection process at work here in certain roles and domains, maybe, but to boldly claim that your bubble is a representative sample of the entire industry is naive.
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well no, you burn more gas sitting in rush hour than driving on an empty road, thus you pay more taxes.

it was mainly a side point though that it's not free, every legal driver has prepaid via vehicle registration AND pays on usage basis via a gas tax.

my main refute was toll roads get just as congested.
At every company I've worked for, past 12+ years, this has been the rule, not the exception. They invite your personal github to corporate repos.
I mean, I'd love those things in greater quantities than we have now, so I agree with you, but until that happens, we gotta do the best we can in the system we got.
No, I’m saying that if they’d found out after the fact that it had, it could have been bad for me.

What I’d expect is a note on the 24th that they’d kicked a threat actor of their Jira system, and that they had no reason to believe the rest of their systems were compromised, but that they were taking action to prevent it from happening again and starting a full investigation.

I get that the business might not want to do that if they are not certain there is any cause for alarm. Uncertainty might be even worse for some.
I wrote up this comparison: https://community.temporal.io/t/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-o...
What, you mean just like how Tesla and Musk can be imperfect? Maybe that's why they lost this court case.

Maybe it's why there was a court case in the first place.
So tell us more about your management style!
Don’t get me wrong I appreciate all of this, but this is Interop, not just shipping standards and I want them to focus on the thorniest problems possible
>In the other hand, I am not fond of the ABI register names

Why? They're simple substitution, and very helpful with following ABI.

>and the pseudo-instructions involving mini-compilation.

Again, why? These aren't specific to the assembler used, but rather, defined in the specification itself. This means they are reliable, and will always be there for as long as you use a RISC-V compliant assembler.

They are thus also the register names you will see in disassembler output, debuggers and other tools.

Also, you might be interested in this new RVA22+V board[0].

0. https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/leading-the-future-of-computin...
Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history
Most of them don't claim it's driven by security.... but they still do it.
Now you responded to each item, good. That's how a conversation works.

But going into each individual political talking point for the various subjects you brought up would be tiring.

I'm not going to dive into your misguided views when we can't even talk about the initial topic that giving internet to disconnected people is a good thing and not garbage.
I would assume that "believed" is not meant to be interpreted in an active personal sense but in a passive configuration sense.

That is, I'd expect there was a flag in a database somewhere saying that those service accounts were "abandoned" or "cleaned up" or some other non-active status, but that this assertion was incorrect. Then they probably rotated all the passwords for active accounts, but skipped the inactive ones.

Speaking purely about PKI and certificate revocation, because that's the only similar context that I really know about, there is generally a difference between allowing certificates to expire, vs allowing them to be marked as "no longer used", vs fully revoking them: a certificate authority needs to do absolutely nothing in the first case, can choose to either do nothing or revoke in the second case, and must actively maintain and broadcast that revocation list for the third case. When someone says "hey I accidentally clobbered that private key can I please have a new cert for this new key," you generally don't add the old cert to the revocation list because why would you.
This wasn't really an additional failure at Okta. This was credentials lost during the original Okta compromise that CloudFlare failed to rotate out.

Okta deserves criticism for their failure, but this feels like CloudFlare punching down to shift blame for a miss on their part.
Apple did the right thing by blocking this.

Because for every one PWA app there are dozens of websites who would use the local storage to store re-targeting metadata for advertising.

It has nothing to do with the App Store and everything to do with basic tracking prevention. You can't block cookies and then allow local storage. Developers aren't stupid.
Sure but saying they were "fired without being fired" implies that the company did some kind of covert layoff through underhanded means, e.g. giving people low performance reviews in order to get them to quit, or forcing designated WFH employees to come back to the office or be fired, etc.
Interesting question. Good memory seems certainly beneficial. To me an even more interesting question is "memory of what?". What things are worth remembering? Is it worth to remember all 300 local plant species?

Maybe biology had good reasons to not evolve us with perfect memory. I found that over time I only remember the big picture and forget the details that make it up. And mostly that's fine! Usually, I only need the big picture. Like a math theorem, where once you understood it it's fine to forget the details of the proof since going forward you'll only need the big picture of the theorem.

Of course, sometimes life is not a simple straight line and might circle back to ask again for previous details. But then, how many details, how often does it happen? Maybe it's fine to forget and look it up again in those few cases?

Personally, I found little need for active memorization in real life. If something is worth remembering, it usually comes up multiple times, and after looking it up repeatedly, it tends to get remembered automatically.

Sure, sometimes real life poses constraints in time or exposure that hinder natural memorization (e.g. educational exams, remembering names, etc.) in which case active memorization may be useful. But these occasions seem to happen rather rarely over the whole course of a life.

For these reasons, I don't use Anki personally. Instead, I try to accept having to look things up again when it happens, if necessary repeatedly. No, it's not easy to not be disappointed at myself that I forgot again. But we can't avoid the pain - it's always there in some form. Either in the forgetting, or in the work to not forget.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172246
Wouldn't that just be while developing using the repl? I would think compile-file would compile the whole file, not just 1 function at a time ...?
Whilst I'm not proposing a salary cap on companies. I also certainly wouldn't want all the world's best talent operating under the same company. There'd be no competition.

You'd also be restricting the capabilities of the talent themselves, since they're naturally going to have conflicting ideas and in a company with no competition, there's little incentive to try multiple approaches.
I don't agree. You're basically sticking your head in the sand saying that because there have been unanticipated benefits sometimes hundreds of years later, we can't even attempt to decide what research is valuable.

If the public is paying for research, it is both fair and reasonable to ask questions about its utility. It's as simple as that.
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Jim Cramer recommended getting in on Meta around 220 IIRC and then it dropped over 50% and he cried because on his recommendation people lost half their investment.

Exiting at a loss is often the 'smart' call.

Bill Ackman did basically the same with Netlfix for a 400 million dollar loss: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/bill-ackman-sells-netf...

He'd be up huge if he held, but he 'paper handed'. Is he a dumb guy?
I mean if you want to be 1:1 with machine code, then don't look at the "J" Jump or "B" Branch instruction formats where the constant value is split into pieces and packed in around the registers.

With a '=' all OP is asking for is the wee-est bit of grammar (no more than in some addressing modes in CISC assemblers) and to change the order of the registers, which isn't crazy since immediates are already split.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Design

PS- while the instruction formats look crazy in isolation, there is a nice symmetry between them and if you start thinking about instruction decoding in discrete logic, they are actually quite an elegant design.

PPS- there is also “High Level Assembly” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly
“Techies aren’t as smart as they think they are” is always something that I’ll happily get behind.
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Between when the sun first disappears below the horizon and when (nearly) all its light disappears, i.e., the end of astronomical twilight when the Sun's center is 18 deg below the horizon, seems to be about 90 minutes.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilig...

It's been awhile, but I'm pretty sure I've seen these much later than that. I'm talking about lying in a sleeping bag, looking up at the amazing starfields of pitch-black wilderness nights (tip: never use a tent except in extremis - look what you're missing!).
You have no clue how large or small my professional circle is.

Since you claim to have knowledge about what is the norm across the entire field of software engineering rather than just the people in your own bubble, I assume that you have a study that informs your belief?
> * Seen lots of previous attempts to make testable predictions that didn't pan out (says nothing about this attempt).

Not at all. He quotes two string theorists who say they think this proposal is unlikely.
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Is there a lot of random statistical noise in these esimates of 'normal background mortality'? Prior to Covid you mostly saw these 'excess death' figures in relation to heat waves IIRC, e.g. if 3,000 people were estimated to have died from a heat wave, that figure was obtained by subtracting the actual mortality from the expected mortality over a time period of the heat wave, then reporting that as the death count.

The attribution seems a bit challenging in retrospect. Do people make death forecasts, like with weather forecasts, and use that as a test of forecasting skill and the assumption of relatively non-random average outcomes under normal conditions?

P.S. check out the CDC mortality dashboard:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/mortality-dashboard.htm
If you live in any modern day melting pot big city, and somehow there existed a Neanderthal that was raised by modern day Sapiens, you might have walked past them earlier today without noticing.

Differences within Sapiens are a thing too and we don't really notice them most of the time: https://www.boredpanda.com/tall-people-problems-japan/