skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there's no value for a community for a newspaper to publish a letter to the editor saying that the municipality should do a better job removing garbage from a commercial district?

Because that's what the absolute position you are taking is. The editorial board of a newspaper isn't different in that sense than a letter to the editor.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
We did get the Developers music video:

https://youtu.be/rRm0NDo1CiY

and for that I'm thankful.
This is the actual reason for s230 existing; without 230, applying editorial discretion could potentially make you liable (e.g. if a periodical uncritically published a libelous claim in its "letters to the editor"), so the idea was to allow some amount of curation/editorial discretion without also making them liable, lest all online forums become cesspools. Aiding monetization through advertising was definitely one reason for doing this.

We can certainly decide that we drew the line in the wrong place (it would be rather surprising if we got it perfectly right that early on), but the line was not drawn blindly.
I've not sure I've ever had so much product lust for something I had so little use for as the Apple Silicon iMacs. Gorgeous objects, but I've already got a MacBook Pro and a bigger monitor
Reporting the news should be dispassionate, not advocacy.
I really appreciate your perspectives on this. This is possibly the most important conversation of the current era and, like you've expressed, we've barely begun to have it.

The part that strikes me the most is the idea that women aren't ready to accept new gender norms among men. We're definitely in a transition era where expectations are out of whack. I do think a lot of women want an unrealistic blend of traditional masculinity with just the right types and amounts of femininity. And they are not finding it very often.

This is one of several recent surveys that show a sharp and rapid turn away from traditional gender and sexuality:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.asp...

The trend is obvious in Millennials and then it absolutely skyrockets among Gen Z. More than a quarter of Gen Z women are rejecting traditional straightness in one capacity or another. I imagine many more have perspectives that are far more open than the traditional norm, even if doesn't change how they identify. I think that these women are capable of accepting a new form of masculinity in their partners. I think they are 10 steps ahead and they create a huge opportunity for men to embrace their gender in different ways without being ostracized. In fact, I think men will be rewarded, and the allure of those rewards will accelerate male rejection of traditional masculinity.

Not to get too personal, but in my hyper-progressive bubble of NYC, I see this exact dynamic playing out amongst my younger friends in their late 20's to late 30's. And they aren't even Gen Z. I like to think it's a preview of the large trends to come.
Over 3 decades :-)
I use my Q900R the same, it’s awesome. It’s so flexible:

For couch gaming, 4k, 120Hz, VVR, 10bit and like, 1500 nit HDR. The downside is pretty clear blooming though.

8K 60Hz for sitting close and using for photo editing & programming.

It does get hot though.
I turned $0 into $100k this year. Infinite return if you exclude personal effort.
I’d say Matt O’Dowd of PBS Space Time is the closest to Levine’s role?
Ask HN: What contact lenses do you wear as a tech professional?
I'm in the market to get some new contact lenses. Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will be asking for samples.

I prefer daily contact lenses and I need toric lenses.

Currently using Cooper Vision and they aren't great. I can't wear them all the time for work.

Looking for recommendations are there any advancements in contact lenses in recent years?
True. In our example we didn’t have to generate online help and pdf manuals from the same asciidoctor sources. But when we chose to, we really needed the customization that cradle offered.
There's not 2 easy, equal sides to every issue.

I'm not sure how to politely say more.
> I don't think anyone today would seriously argue that Hanja is preferable

It's necessary to use Hanja today in educated contexts because Hangul has too many homophones, and most educated (technical, literary, scientific) vocabulary has a Sinitic origin and therefore are more homophonic than typical Korean words.
So, two possibilities:

1. If you have a relatively small number of users whom you want to permit to deploy stuff on parts of a Cloudflare account, you may need to wait for finer-grained RBAC controls to be fleshed out more. It's being worked on. I really hope it doesn't end up as hopelessly confusing as it is on every other cloud provider.

2. If you have a HUGE number of users who should be able to deploy stuff (like, all the students at a university), you probably want to build something on Workers for Platforms. You can offer your own completely separate UI/API for deploying things such that your users never have to know Cloudflare is involved (other than that their code is written in the style of a Cloudflare Worker).
Guess you're right. Establishing a "Flutter org" counts. Though, I've never seen folks in this space (Bjarne Stroustrup or Anders Heljsberg for example) say they're the "Founder" of XYZ language / framework.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/founder (n)

someone who establishes an organization
Good point.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/4/personable-ballm...

> In high school, Ballmer scored a 1600 on his SATs and was a National Merit Scholar.

Would the Crimson verify this or just trust the claim?
YARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!!
The thing I don't get about regression-to-the-mean is whether there is an implication that your baseline is fixed.

That is, can a fighter pilot move up from being a level 4 in a dogfight to a level 7 with training, or will they forever be a level 4 because it's their baseline? Did Michael Jordan have the same ability as a basketball player after 2 seasons as he did after 8?
yah, absolutely; like I said in another post, small towns near where I grew up are frequently that way. You enjoy the city vibe you live in the apartments or houses right off the square. You don't, you live on one of the outlying farms (and even those in one case that I can think of have small neighborhood establishments; they all use the same farmers machine shop to fix stuff in one case, or there's a random coffee shop/pub way out that the surrounding places frequent, etc.) and when you go into town to go to the hardware store or the grocery or whatever you still have lots of opportunities for chance encounters because of the mixed zoning and way everything is built fairly close (so sure you have to drive to get to town, but then once you're there you walk around, do errands, stop in for a coffee, etc. without having to think about how you're going to get around as much).

As opposed to the actual town that I grew up in nearby where everything is spread way the hell out and you have to go on a giant 5 lane highway to get to walmart on one side of town and the hardware store on the other and 30 minutes in another direction to get to a coffee shop, etc.
Maybe it would help to use a box cox transform on the score distribution?
And Domokun Developers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZDH45OAt8
It also means that there's no control group. I think it was in the New Yorker, an article about the chemist who was asked by 3M to investigate the health effects of PFAS after workers in their factories were getting sick. She tried to find blood samples that were PFAS-free in order to test the detection limits of her equipment, and there was PFAS in virtually every sample.
That’s narrowly concerned with copyright infringement, no?
I’m not sure about anybody else, but I didn’t have a ton of friends in my area. I also didn’t have a lot of time to do anything about it.

Between removing the commute and finally being forced to stop racing around with the kids, it gave me time to meet some good people right in the neighbourhood and make friends.

I could see finally having time to spend sitting around gaming with friends having the same approximate effect.
> Feeding an orphan creates no "value" because they have no money to pay you with

Only because it’s illegal to make them work? I imagine it could be quite lucrative.
> capacity out of the vileness of their hearts or something.

No, it's obviously because they can upcharge on upgrades? That's just market segmentation. I doubt it can have much to do with technical limitations or actual costs (the the difference the wholesale price between 8GB and 16GB is relatively marginal).

> I think it might not be possible to put together a system

No, but you can get a Lunar Lake laptop with comparable bandwidth. Dell is also "only" half as "greedy" as Apple or MS, e.g. 16 GB -> 32 GB is only $200 instead of $400.
A belt like shown in many movies would become a damn black hole with how dense and large they are. They're not just unlike Sol's, they're completely ridiculous.
With respect, then, why do you think iPhone or iPad batteries can’t be replaced by the average user after a decade and a half?
Effective sales and marketing is more dependent on math than most people realize.
VS code compared to studio for dotnet dev is comparing a tractor to a trike.
Shelling out to a CLI is quite an interesting path because often that functionality could be useful handed out as a separate utility to power users or non-automation tasks. Rust makes cross-platform distribution easy.
I remember when he retired and the MSFT jumped. Satya is underrated.
Caveman approach has several nice features - I think I'd be tempted even if it didn't have better performance.
I don’t subscribe to the right wing’s “you can’t interpret the obvious unless I openly state my bad positions” thing.
That's actually a pretty deep question considering there are a lot of financial products that are already basically gambling - single stock, triple-leveraged ETFs probably being the most egregious.

It's not gambling in the sense that you are walking into a casino and placing a bet on purely random outcome. Average people can have enough information to accurately predict risk in election outcomes. In that sense it may be more akin to something like poker or a sportsbook.

But unlike a sportsbook, I don't think you have the same risk of abuse. You are not being pressured to parlay your bets, you are betting on more limited events, you can sell your position at any time.

So on a spectrum from degenerate gambling to rational investing, I would say it errs towards the middle.
I think that a lot of people are commenting here without actually reading the article. The article lays out a concrete (and imo pretty persuasive) argument as to why the author thinks that Ballmer was a decent CEO. You should really read it, but the TLDR is:

* Some of the big feathers in Microsoft's cap today (O365 and Azure) started during Ballmer's tenure

* While the company had plenty of failed initiatives during his time, what matters in the end is that the hits made up for the misses in terms of profit, and they did

* Metrics like revenue and so on were all positive during his tenure

Frankly, unless the author is factually incorrect on these points (which I don't have the knowledge to assert either way), I think it's a good argument.
I wonder if Windows is even their flagship app any more. I think people will give up Windows before they give up Excel. And they might not even notice a different OS, so long as it had the same file manager. In fact Excel is the last non-FOSS app that I still use, even if sporadically.
What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
Pyramids and get rich quick courses beat Ponzis in that you can blame the sucker. "You didn't work hard enough, what can I say?"
Def: a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation)

Favorites include

- Alexander Graham Bell, developer of the telephone

- Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, neurologist

- Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America (Bowser is a character from a flagship Nintendo franchise, Super Mario

Just found it interesting
Sure. But adding ability to self-modify the build drastically increases the complexity of a build tool. Maven developers decided that they want to avoid that.
Marc Rubinstein also has great educational articles on history and inner workings of the finance industry: https://www.netinterest.co/
The article is about the desktop iMac model. Regardless, I think many would upgrade because ssds are cheap... RAM would lead to customers getting another year or two out of their computer...
> We present a model to convert photos of handwriting into a digital format that reproduces component pen strokes, without the need for specialized equipment.

Call my a cynic but this feels like a free way for Google to pull more data for training.
I read the entire article, and I love how virtually every comment here is what Dan wrote about.
If Microsoft had just tracked the market while he was CEO: what is the delta in market cap? His vision destroyed multiple Enrons of shareholder value.
Providing a soapbox for the public to respond in is not at all the same thing as political advocacy.
I miss the days when applications had their own look and feel. If your idea of great design is identical rectangles to all the other apps, I guess Winforms solved that use case 20 years go.
I’m reading “he shouldn't get to ask” [1] as distinct from he shouldn’t ask in a hard legal sense.

> with a subtext or next-step of "now go fix the text to correctly capture what you really meant"

That’s unreasonable. An e-mailed clarification is a reasonable ask. (Adding a clarification is nice. But not a reasonable expectation. Especially from a proven nutjob.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975496
> Even Bing, widely considered a failure, on last reported revenue and current P/E ratio, would be 12th most valuable tech company in the world, between Tencent and ASML.

A tiny slice of the search market (4% IIRC) is worth this much? Incredible. Everyone knows Google is swimming in money, but I guess it never really computed for me that managing to grab a tiny slice of the search market would be so valuable. If I was making a guess prior to reading this, my intuition would have been that Bing was some kind of loss leader. Shows what I know! Hah
Satya's tenure has seen the fall of Xbox, the lost relevance of Windows. While moving to a services model is going to be very lucrative for them, they risk competitors offering swap-out models.
there was no windows outage
no that's fair, it's been a problem for a long time.
Nice results. It's kind of wild that the "before" behavior would be considered acceptable/shippable by anyone. That kind of jank should be a show stopper.
I don't know how to fix the showcase problem. With web apps, it's easy – just scan HTML, deduce what framework is used, and add it to your showcase list. With Flutter mobile/desktop apps it's not possible. And there are zero incentives for developers to send their apps for screenshots. You just ship the release and move on to the next tasks.

I also discovered Flutter in 2018, and it kind brought joy into UI programming for me. I rewrote all web apps I had with Flutter and published a bunch of mobile apps, but the coolest thing is that I routinely make apps for my own (or my team's) use.

For me, Flutter lowered the costs of UI app development so much that I could just spend a weekend making some neat, small, practical tool for my own needs. I really love making these "private" apps – no need to care about all corner cases for all users, no need to polish design for all screen sizes/font sizes. Don't even need to be released (TestFlight at max, if doing it for a team). It's just fun, and I wish more developers could have the same experience.
Yeah 100% agree on the last season. Maybe you know already; I heard it was canceled somewhat abruptly and they only got 6 episodes to wrap up the plot. With the conspiracy being that the ani-corporate message was getting too radical haha.

I think the apple watch is somewhat halo like! Especially if they manage to add blood pressure and continuous glucose monitoring. Though hopefully with less panopticon/police state vibes.
V8 is a matter of investment of billions in expertise and time.
> I wrote an open letter to Matt Mullenweg complaining about the requirement and stating that I believe it violates the Sherman Act and Section 3 of the Clayton Act

Send a copy to your state AG [1]. Copy your governor’s office [2] and state representatives if you have the time.

[1] https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/

[2] https://www.usa.gov/state-governor
Perhaps selecting for posts with the highest quality reply engagement? If many different people were drawn to lengthy discussions, that suggests the content sparks thoughts that others then feel compelled to engage with. Or select for the emotional content of replies, awe/empathy/anger, depending on what one wants from HN?
People keep saying in this thread, there are better alternatives but i do not see any listed. i know of
- Statamic (php, Laravel)- https://statamic.com/
- Strapi (js) - https://strapi.io/

and then a bunch of SaaS platforms. what are the market leading open source CMS's?
Is there a name for this phenomenon when past leaders are viewed in a better light than they objectively deserved? I see this in politics a lot (eg Dubya) but in business too.
> There's not 2 easy, equal sides to every issue.

True, but there's value in making an effort. And in this particular case, there are only 2 candidates that matter.

> I'm not sure how to politely say more.

Feel free to be as rude as you like.
It’s so well documented you can’t even come with an actual one while writing your comment.
Also, I agree with the gist of the article, in that a lot of Nadella's success is stuff that takes more than 3-4 years to execute.

Ballmer, or Microsoft under Ballmer, had to have been laying the groundwork for Azure, TypeScript and VS code before they took off under Nadella.
I am trying to post on https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplay/comments/1gdxwsh/the_app... and I get server errors right now.

The post says:

The app installed on your device didn't come from Google Play error
Apps
samsung phone

i removed 1 google account and reinstalled another one.

now im getting this for all the apps:

The app installed on your device didn't come from Google Play and may have a different app experience. You can update the app from the original source or re-install from Google Play.

how do i fix this?

i dont wanna reinstall all apps because i lose my settings :((((

It is interesting that the user here removed 1 google account and reinstalled another one and that created the problem. It looks that Play installs different version of apps for different users.

Maybe some users are more interesting that other.
He's listed on their page:

https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&...
Steve Ballmer has not been CEO for a decade. At 10 years later it is very much Nadella's ship.
If it's bad and we avoid it = win

If it's bad and we don't avoid it = potential disaster

If it's no problem and we avoid it = Some unnecessary losses

If it's no problem and we avoid it = No problem

Currently, considering past patterns, it looks like PFAS are problematic and the potential cost of failing to mitigate could be very high. So being more cautious is the rational solution, even in the face of uncertainty.
I should reread them. They are so much fun. I’m the only person I know who has ever read them. Although that’s not saying much I suppose haha.
Curiously, I can't find this message in recent kernels, it was patched out in 2018: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9d7c249a1ef9bf0d569... . Is it being re-added by distros or something?

In terms of how it causes the issue, I think it's more that the serial driver will monopolise the (virtual) CPU for as long as it is receiving or sending text. If there's a large buffer being dumped all at once (a common default for non-interactive streams), it could stall for long enough to cause an underrun, which doesn't need to be very long, even if the average data rate isn't very high. Consider that the virtual 8250 serial port interface isn't exactly the most efficient interface to begin with, since it's at most copying 16 bytes from host to guest at a time
It really makes me wonder how and why Microsoft and Google can't create a cross-platform GUI ecosystem that lasts. Like, they both will have multiple operating systems and platforms such as web and mobile in use at their company and no doubt build a huge amount of bespoke tools. Wouldn't it behoove themselves to create a cross-platform GUI solution that actually works, is maintained, etc.?

I have been looking into building one myself, and for a company the size of Google or Microsoft, the task almost looks trivial. But somehow, they create these huge monstrosities like Flutter and .NET MAUI that crumble under their own weight.

This is especially true for Microsoft who sits upon two of the best languages around in C# and F#. Flutter often has a tough sell because it comes with Dart and vice versa. For Microsoft, is it really that hard to have a three-tiered approach to cross-platform development in that there is a separate, dedicated platform for each of web, mobile, and desktop that share common components (like drawing and animation APIs), architectures, paradigms, and of course languages?

GUI development on desktops is just a complete mess right now. Qt Quick with QML is okay, but it has a huge amount of strange limitations and has a surprising lack of just plug and plug UI components, like charts. Plus, you have to use either C++ or Python. Flutter seems better but also suffers from the lack of professional plug and plug widgets and requires the use of Dart, which is even less ideal. Plus, it requires the support (or lack thereof) from Google. For Microsoft, I could list at least half a dozen cross-platform approaches in a single blink of the eye.
Bias in Forensic DNA Analysis: A Diversity Issue
Let's be honest here, there was a long period of negotiation that spanned the Reagan - Clinton admins as well as approval from congress required. Everyone said it was a golden opportunity to open up a huge new market for US goods. I was doing a concentration in Chinese History in the late 90s and was flabbergasted at the very mainstream idea that this was going to be a win-win. I guess at the time they thought Russia was going to be a liberal democracy, too.

I suspect a lot of powerful people knew that it would hurt US workers, US industrial strength, were neutral on the latter, positive on the former, and very positive about profits (during their lifetime).
Oh god, I have one of those laptops on my shelf. Such a wild feature.
It's exactly the same thing. It's not like they publish every letter they get, at which point they are already engaging in your political advocacy.
QuantLib is an bloated library built in C++ and ported over to Python. The design is unintuitive, lacks modularity, and employs a number of hacks, such as locks. My goal is to build an intuitive, simple, and modular alternative for users that care more about the coding experience.
In some ways Office is actually superior on macOS. The fact that it still has a menu bar being my favorite thing it does better.
>In the PEP, Larson argues that providing PGP and sigstore signatures fails to give downstream projects any incentive to adopt sigstore. So long as CPython continues to provide PGP signatures, there is little motivation to adopt sigstore.

No better way to convince people to use a standard than forcing them. Taking away choice by force sounds a bit contradictory to the idea of Open Source. I mean, maybe sigstore is a better idea, but why not let people make their choice.
Thanks for the note! I removed this for now... will fix later.
What if (and just hear me out here), the mouse was attached to a cord? This would have several benefits. No need to charge or have a battery. The mouse would stay near the computer and not get lost.
Give them LibreOffice - Calc and most won't care.