skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before they passed, I (skeptic) made a deal with my grandfather (skeptic) and my mother (believer) that they'd do their best to try to communicate with me after they passed. My mom and I reiterated the pact the day before she passed. So far, nothing obvious, except for one strange incident.

Shortly after my mom passed, I was making dinner in the kitchen when I heard, clear as day, what sounded like my mother's voice yell out my name (it sounded like the type of yell she used to get my attention). When I looked over toward the direction I thought I heard the voice, our dog (that my mother found in a shelter for us), was sitting in front of me, intensely staring at me and acting super excited, which was unusual.

Skeptical me just thinks it was some random event. My wife (believer) was hugely annoyed at me for ignoring such an obvious sign. If so, my mom's up in the sky cursing my intelligence, or lack thereof.

That event still trips me out and I think about it a lot, but my brain won't allow me to believe it was anything supernatural.
Politics had a large part in creating this situation. Women have made up the majority of college graduates for about half a century now. And yet we still hear that we need more women in college, and in fact there are far more times as many college scholarships for women as for men.

Not to mention that women make up the majority of government benefit recipients, and piles of other examples. This entire time, politicians have made lots of gains from supporting women. Where is the support for men?
Thank you very much, I've been browsing a bit since your thorough reply, looking forward to having more of an investigation one of these days when I get a few hours free in a row to have a good go.
The fall of Xbox started with the Xbox One, which was developed and released while Ballmer was CEO. They put an enormous amount of investment into that console, but made some bad calls in both its development and marketing that put them in a deep hole that they've been unable to get out of since. The increasing backwards compatibility of modern consoles means that the current 4th generation Xbox is paying for the sins of the 3rd generation in addition to dealing with its own struggles. Really the only thing that can fix the situation is money, but the business is probably under pressure to show profits after two decades of heavy investment with minimal return.

I don't necessarily think you can blame Ballmer for the missteps the Xbox team made, but I definitely think you can't blame Nadella.
That was my initial thought too. For some important authors, there are a few high quality scans of their manuscripts, so with a tool like this you could create fake manuscripts -- and in a few years, after they are dead, say that you find them, create provenance, and boom, unpublished novel by JK Rowl- any author.
Probably, but it is healthier.
“Care Doesn’t Scale” is a fractal type of truth which essentially describes life but also is a steadfast warning of the underlying state of healthcare in general.

Holistic 100% care doesn’t exist - even for the rich.

The only way to get optimal care is to pay for it with study. Even the richest in the world don’t necessarily get the best care because care is a function of the present life situation of the practitioner - something no one can control 100% of the time.

What is reassuring is that through a little study - you can refine the care provided by most nurses and doctors using your own curiosity at the point of interaction.

Surprisingly the mistakes committed by nurses and doctors on somewhat healthy patients are easily fixed with some sembalance of attention.

Study the first 2 years of med school. It’s not hard but does take time. And then ask the pertinent quesitons during your time with the doctor. Understand the diagnosis and how they came to it - it’s mostly simple and straight forward.

80% of the massive mistakes by doctors and nurses are fixable this way. Thats $800B … 800 billion dollars - with a little study.
I think the problem is that it's not anywhere close to 99.99% -- I might be wrong but my understanding is that it's closer to 70%. So even if you can predict with perfect accuracy the cases that it gets wrong, you would still only cut down the validation cost by less than one OoM.
My understanding is that businesses cannot deny service based on protected class. E.g. Reddit couldn't put "Catholics are barred from using Reddit" in their TOS.

But subreddit bans are done by users of Reddit, not by Reddit itself. If someone on Xbox Live mutes the chat of Catholics and kicks them from the lobbies they're hosting, you can't go complain to Microsoft because these are the actions of a user not the company.
World population is 8.2 billion. Assume that 1/3 are asleep at any given time, leaving 5.5 billion awake. It’s not a huge stretch to imagine 20% of them (1.1 billion) using core Google services during peak times.
I would argue that it is better; it works regardless of this fix and on all compositors.
> Investment in R&D means nothing if you can't deliver. Intel has enormous R&D budget. Boeing too. Did it help them? No.

The most profitable current divisions at Microsoft were started under Ballmer. That’s literally stated in the original comment in the thread you are replying to.
Don't forget gaming. Gaming on Linux is possible but Windows still has the advantage in both software and hardware support.

I particularly like the video series from LinusTechTips where they try to use Linux as their daily driver because it is very telling. They manage to do stuff, but it isn't great. I find it interesting because it is done from the point of view of computer enthusiasts but not IT professionals or programmers. The kind who know about the command line, but are not very comfortable with it and would rather do without.
Their position is "since it is possible to write Chinese phonetically and yet characters didn't go away, there might be more to the story" (than self-proclaimed language experts on HN think)
The two things that stick out the most to me are navigation behavior and text fields. Cross platform frameworks seldom get either right, with react native being particularly bad on the navigation front.

There are variances between Apple’s apps but they’re all using some combination of UIKit and SwiftUI regardless which limits how “wrong” they can be.
Yes! I forgot that the NVMe controller is on-die. I want some way to swap the NAND chips. Reminds me of this video:

https://youtu.be/KRRNR4HyYaw

For an iMac, though, they have a bigger thermal envelope and no battery. It seems more reasonable. Apple even did the software engineering necessary to support the Mac Pro.

That would be Apple’s counter-argument right there. Want Linux on your M1? Get a Mac, not an iPad. Want swappable storage? Get a Mac Pro, not an iMac.
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That's a fun tangent, but doesn't answer the question. What in particular about this podcast has indicated that it is not "tabloid journalism"? You clearly recognize that tabloid journalism exists, so you know that this podcast could theoretically intend to be. But what, specifically, has indicated that it normally isn't?

The background of the people involved is irrelevant to the nature of the product. Someone who works on developing a cure for cancer by day can very well go home and build a fart app at night. There is no reason why you have to constrain yourself to just one thing.
Since you believe in checks and balances, do you believe Trump should be disqualified for running for office, for using violence, intimidation and lies to attempt to change the results of the last election? As a principled libertarian I'm sure the peaceful transfer of power is at the height of your concerns.
Balmer launched Get the facts smearing campaign. It says all about who Balmer is.
I’ve come to simply realize the problem isn’t AIs, it’s humans.

More specifically, humans who feel the need to make a quick buck.

Actually, the problem isn’t those humans, it’s the societal structure creating incentives and pressures that lead to a large percentage of humans feeling like they need to make a quick buck. Whether that quick buck be for cost of living or for social status gain.
Machines have already supplanted male strength in most of the ways it used to be indispensable. Do you see that trend reversing any time soon? Any serious observer can only see that trend accelerating, rapidly.

And no one is calling for an end to men. Are you kidding me?? But pretending that men's size and strength is some irreplaceable virtue is laughable.
I haven't run the data, but anecdotally I can tell you that those things probably don't affect hitting the front page. They do affect the total score, but that is not what is being optimized here.

It's counterintuitive, but if you post at a really popular time, you're competing with a lot of other submissions. If you post at a really slow time, you'll get fewer votes, but it will take fewer to reach the front page and you'll have less competition.

In the end, it kinda evens out. The number of votes it takes to get to the front page and the number of competing submissions are both correlated to your fields above.
I had another enlightened professor that also founded a startup that talked about how much is it frowned upon to admit to be wrong at work. Bear in mind in his opinion this is especially true for Italian workplaces, but I can imagine it can be somewhat true for other places as well. Knowing why things went wrong is much more useful than knowing who did it and pointing fingers to him/her
Yeah I'm going to try and get it now. That sucks though, because that laptop was the last device I had that had a cd drive! Maybe an excuse to finally get one of those modded vintage Thinkpads with modern mobo/cpu.
Thanks for the offer! I’ll give Mill another shot the next time Gradle drives me crazy. :-)
Chiming in with a few of my favorite "Levine-likes":

- For aviation disasters and safety, can't beat Admiral Cloudberg: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/

- For more about the financial sector, Patrick McKenzie is solid gold every time: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/ (and I believe an HN regular as well!)
Yeah. It's been a while. This is interesting
Could this be used to log IoT object events? or is it more for app analytics?
There are three reasonably obvious possibilities: (1) Bezos is afraid of the consequences for his businesses if WaPo endorses Harris and Trump goes on to win; (2) Bezos disagrees with Harris' policies; (3) Bezos dislikes Harris at a personal level.

You are assuming the explanation must be (1), but how can you know that it isn't (2) or (3) or both instead?
Are you aware of the difference between the reporting and editorial sections of a newspaper?
Lots of metrics to analyze and statistics to crunch. Knowing where to focus the schmoozing is as important as the schmoozing itself.
Maybe the person who infringed on my rights can know. In some cases, as long as my right to privacy is guaranteed to be respected. That doesn't mean that the entire world is entitled to know my real name via Github's issue tracker.

The perpetrator remains anonymous while the victim will be doxxed, what a great sense of fairness you have.
> Ballmer's attempt to buy Yahoo and disregard for touch screen phones is what defined his legacy.

You are weirdly obsessed with that but Ballmer actually started Bing and bought Nokia to make touchscreen phones. I think you are extremely biased to the point of being entirely disconnected from the facts at hand.

> Ability to buy right things is important too.

Ballmer bought Skype and launched the foundation of what would become Teams - you know - arguably the most important corporate piece of software after Covid.
> Doesn't it mean that you can target _either_ and be considered native?

Well, no because I was agreeing with you, if you're going to grudgingly accept your definition for native, the toolkit the desktop environment uses, that means you would have to target both Qt and GTK unless you want to draw a line in the sand and say fuck it to one of GNOME or KDE as assume they don't exist. Sorry GNUStep. And this is nothing to say of GTK 2-4.

I agree that just saying GTK or Qt are native in a vacuum outside of DE is a completely useless definition, and even taking DE into account is a tenuous one.

As for Windows, what GUI toolkit does the desktop environment there use? That's a trick question.
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The insurance company sets the appointment times, not the doctor. They didn't decide on 15 minutes themselves.
Another tangible example is renting a tractor to a farmer that couldn’t otherwise afford one. Their income from crop production goes up (even after tractor rental expenses) and society also gets more food.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that the pops are a necessary consequence of buffer overruns. But as you say, gracefully mitigating the symptom requires non-negligible engineering effort (and potentially resources), when the actual problem, namely buffer overruns occurring because the consumer is too slow, shouldn’t exist in this particular system in the first place.
What is the advantage of this rather than using a postgres plugin for clickhouse and S3 storage of the data to build a kind of data-warehouse, which wouldn't require the bloat of Kafka?
If you have nothing to hide what are you worried about? Or if you are not planning to be a criminal what are you worried about?

I am 100% not serious and do not believe either statement above. I sadly am in the same boat as you and had a blacksheep of a brother who did some sort of crime and as a condition had his DNA taken so I by default am in the system as well.

I never could understand why people would willingly offer their DNA to companies that even if they are not selling that data sooner or later could have that data leak and the consequences could mean being able to afford life and medical insurance or not.
Hard to make boxes and arrows out of helvetica, and basically impossible to do it quickly
I solved this with a ~$200 driver board from AliExpress. I love the result because it's thinner than any other monitor that I own and I can swap between my MacBook Pro and my desktop machine (running either Windows or Linux).

Obviously this requires a little bit of tinkering and the end result isn't nicely packaged like a factory Apple product would be, but it only took about half an hour to put together and I haven't had any issues with the driver board yet. And it was way cheaper than a "Retina" display from Apple or LG.
If you hate Marmite, try putting it on cheddar
Not all non-native-looking apps are badly implemented, but a huge number of apps that use cross-platform frameworks do so primarily as a means to cut costs because the goal is to make development as cheap as possible, and that shows in other aspects of these apps too. This creates an association between cheap/lazy apps and cross platform UI frameworks.

It’s kind of like the difference between VS Code and MS Teams. Same company, same underlying technology (Electron), but Code is good while Teams is awful because MS invests so much more in Code. Even so, Teams-type apps are what tends to come to mind when people think of Electron apps because those are so much more common.
How about comparing it to a teardown of a Rivian? Rivian uses 2-wire ethernet but 12V, so it seems like a more interesting comparison.

That said, it all seems like inside baseball to me. The BMW 850i pioneered the CAN bus, but that car was forgettable and although CAN bus took over the car industry that did not seem to create any durable advantages for BMW.

Ethernet seems like the inevitable replacement for CAN, in light of VW's investment in Rivian, and 48V vs. 12V for the low-voltage systems seems like a wash.
The journalists obviously favour Kamala but were reined in by their capitalist master.
> What does "one side" even mean in this context?

Now you're arguing the definitions of words, pretending to not understand. No thanks.
Sure, and you can set that directly in your mpv config:

ytdl-format=bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestaudio[ext=webm]/bestaudio
vo=null

The advantage is that you're setting this for a utility which can play media directly (e.g., you don't have to separately download and then play content), and that you can set preferences independently for mpv vs. other tools.

You can also of course configure your own aliases, shell functions, shell scripts, or config files for various preferred configurations, whether using mpv, ytdl, or other tools.
(... just silently, with a shy look: perhaps could make and distribute much much less fast obsoleting electronic devices then?... just an idea...)
Right before an election when your billionaire owner has secret meetings with a presidential candidate is too late to pretend to do this on principle.
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I think you might be surprised how rare explicit lifetime annotations actually are in Rust code.

But, to the point: It precisely isn’t “noise”. It’s important information that any competent C++ developer will immediately look for in documentation, or worse, by analyzing the code. It’s not distracting - it’s essential.

Aside: I’m very confused by your assertion that C++ has been reducing boilerplate. It feels like every couple of years there’s another decoration that you need to care about. The only reduction I can think of is defaulted/deleted constructors and assignment ops? But that feels self-inflicted, from a language design perspective.
I've been using it for a few years and it never required any kernel patches. If it doesn't work in some distro, it's because of its kernel config.
The theory of comparative advantage is that both countries will benefit, and I think these people put a lot of stock in their own theories. As I understand it, what they wanted was a situation where high skill US workers focus on design and innovation, meanwhile China does the manufacturing for all of it. Not a bad setup really, if you ignore the fact that China probably wants to cut the US out of that equation.
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Because C++ doesn't restrict aliasing there are a bunch of cases where it's just unavoidably worse. The compiler is obliged to assume that if there are potentially aliasing objects of type T: T1 and T2 then mutating T1 might also mutate T2 (because it may be an alias), so therefore we must re-fetch T2.
> Does no one understand what "affiliation" means anymore?

I have neither a WordPress.com account (I mean, that I know of, anyway) nor an affiliation with WP Engine. However, can we back up for a minute? If a website is asking me to make an assertion that may have legal consequences, it should absolutely be spelling out the intention and meaning of the language it uses. If you ask me what "affiliation" means, I'll give you my best answer as to what I understand it means. If you ask me to sign a document that says I do or do not have affiliation with some entity, I will tell you to clarify what an affiliation is and refuse to sign without it.
I just started watching some of his videos, but the 3Blue1Brown guy seems to fit in this bucket, and he's got a ton of HN fans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818779
Musk Sued in Pennsylvania over $1M Election Lottery
I'm suspicious of those because it shows an ebay logo but then shows an app I've never heard of or used...is this the same for all the other logos? Where does NYT use flutter?
>working on this experimental Google Tech

while I'd agree with you that 1 million is too high, Flutter certainly is not experimental Google tech. It's widely used in particular internationally. I talked to a ByteDance guy two or three years ago and I think they alone had about 1k Flutter engineers. Nubank, Alibaba, BMW, Ebay use it extensively.

Flawed metric but eyeballing VScode Extension installs, Python 140m, c# 30 mil, Go 15 mil, Flutter 10 mil. It is very, very popular.
> I proposed the nomination of an award to this commentator! That's hardly derision.

Awards can definitely be derisive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards
I think it's like any existing vs new tradeoff.

Tesla didn't have any existing, so their clean-slate math was clearly in favor of 100% new technology.

(Well, they did have 12v existing in their other cars, but they were clean-slate in the truck.)
Abstract: License “incompatibility” in free and open source software licensing means that, when two differently licensed pieces of software are combined, one cannot comply with both licenses at the same time. It is commonly accepted that the GNU General Public License version 2 is incompatible with the Apache License, version 2 because certain provisions of the Apache License would be considered “further restrictions” not permitted by the GPLv2. However, this article will explain why there is no legally cognizable claim for combining the two, either under a copyright infringement theory or a breach of contract theory.
I disagree with both points. I would say he is indeed a Matt Levine of his field. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the author's argument though.

1. His posts are inside-baseball - this is true for some posts, but many are written to be approachable to all audiences, especially during the coronavirus. This is similar for Matt Levine's posts, but as a finance nerd, not a drug discovery one, the author does not see this.

2. [His posts] do not repeat themes - he has many examples of repeated themes, including the whole science-over-money aspect of the Aducanumab saga, various times he has touched on "AI" drug discovery, and the whole Things I Won't Work With series.