skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> True, but if there's a communication bug between UX and back-end teams, that can escalate into a false sense of security and then an exploit.

How so? The backend ALWAYS validates. No communication necessary, whether or not the frontend also validates doesn't matter to the backend. Frontend validation is to improve user experience, nothing more.
Lem is highly underrated for not being published in America during sci-fi’s heyday.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951421
JavaScript in Space: SpaceX Devs Have Shared CrewDragon's Tech Stack
Ford CEO says new mid-size electric pickup will match the cost of Chinese EVs
If it's better, by tying it in with your other products, by making it compatible with the market, and by building an ecosystem moat on top of it. You can also lower the price to capture marketshare. Plenty of proprietary systems won despite being late and the open source system had become incumbent. See discord/slack, MATLAB, Spotify.

If Windows Server had a better DX, had supported everything Linux did, AND had proprietary features on top of that, it would've done well I reckon.
Here are some which, though perhaps not the best, haunt my memory through unique nostalgia.

Glory Season, David Brin. Ok, this is one of the best. A heartrending saga of epic scale.

Carve the Sky, Alexander Jablokov. Scifi feudalism.

All of an Instant, Richard Garfinkle.

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko. Though very different, it somehow reminds me of Roadside Picnic.

Spin, Robert Charles Wilson.

Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling.

Interstellar Pig, William Sleator.

The Carpet Makers, Andreas Eschbach

The Threshold series (Peter Clines) doesn't really belong in this list, but it is excellent and from what I gather, commonly overlooked by fans of Lovecraft.

I'd also throw in The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russel, if it wasn't so well known already.

In a different vein, if you seek good-old action-packed, kick-ass never-ending fun, pick anything by Larry Correia. Even if it appears fantasy, it might turn out to be scifi...
probably they mean why people started using JS in form validation, and not JS altogether, although agree that isn't the reason either.
How does pronunciation follow any rules? There are none that I know of where a given kanji can have several meanings completely independent of one another, there is no structure there.

I'd agree with you if you'd said Korean, where the makeup of the character has direct rules for pronouncing it, if you learn the simple rules then you can read any Korean character - this is the middle ground they should drop kanji for, imo
If the social program was designed to keep a roof over people’s head, then it would simply give people cash, or a roof.

The fact that the social program involves extending lines of credit means that the design was not to keep a roof over people’s head, but rather enrich existing asset owners and indebt future ones to get them chained to the treadmill. Similar to cutting funding for higher education and replacing it with student loans.
I would love to pay AT&T for fiber again but they only laid fiber in half my neighborhood (located north county San Diego)and I have no idea how to convey my interest to a decision maker. I am growing frustrated with my only viable option being cox over coaxial which has a spider web of cables in my garage and is an undated tech I don’t want to live with anymore
If that is your takeaway from this story, hooooo boy you must be in a rage every day. Places all over Seattle default their machines to tip 18% when you buy a single roll of toilet paper and nothing else. (Edit: you could also pick up a few bottles of expensive wine they sell; maybe you’re in a rush and don’t expect a tip screen ; ooooops you tipped $40 for nothing!)

There’s a place that does this less than a block from me right now. Actually probably 2-3 places if you extend a block further.
Agreed, it's just minority of users trying to defer extra $2500 upfront, and also about managing RAM capacity arms race. There is no engineering reason a laptop has to be upgraded _later_ to e.g. 8way/192GB/6TB configuration.

That said, I do think upgradable laptops are important as a resistance force against constant upgrades and planned obsolescence; if you could hypothetically add 2x32GB DDR4-2100 to a decade old ThinkPad and run stolen Apple Intelligence LLM just fine, the humanity wouldn't need $5k worth of labor wasted on one laptop per person per year.
For most stuff Azure is pretty meh, but it seems to have the best features for running Windows servers and integrates well with Active Directory (or MS Entra or whatever they currently call it). Features that I don't need as a startup founder, but that would be very interesting for many places I worked at.

Basically the cloud for everyone but the tech companies
>Frontend validation is to improve user experience, nothing more.

and to reduce server load.
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Hospital Station by James White

More recent read, you may have heard of it since it won an award - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Isn't that shifting responsibility to the customer? That is a very odd take
There is very little change from one iPhone to the next but very much marketing which underscores the true intentions. The business model is built on a revolving demand cycle that is unrelated to long term thinking, maintainability, efficiency, nor sustainability. One may argue well that Apple is better than the other players in the field but it doesn't undercut the overall impact of producing incredibly complex and rapidly obsoleting assemblies. It's not just soldering some chips to a board and snapping it together, each individual component potentially has global impact as the raw materials and finished pieces move into their final form. The magnitude of what is going on is not immediately intuitive unless you are an insider or read a well researched book like "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone"

The fundamental problem, which is out of sight out of mind from the consumer, is how much energy is required to produce and move assemblies around. See also the automotive industry, where the "green" thing to do is drive and maintain older vehicles for a long time.

And to be honest, this doesn't bother me that much, but if I'm not on the take as an engineer I have no particular qualms punching through the bullshit smokescreens as a customer of a company that takes my money. The attention and empathy fatigue of the bullshit does take away from things that do matter such as national versus international manufacturing.
Isn't that shifting responsibility to the customer?
Yeah second this. Most of Levine’s critique is well-aimed, well-reasoned, and well-directed at significant people. Menswear’s “critique” consists mostly of trying to “own” random hundred-follower anons. Same vibes as Ben Shapiro “owning libs” by “debating” random, unprepared college students.
I'd say nationalism is really the answer there.
It's worth giving Aisle a try. It's from Sam Barlow (creator of Her Story).

You only have one command, and then the story "ends". It's an interesting way to tell a narrative. You can feel the DNA of Her Story in there.
I’m not so sure. To quote Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same is likely true for products.
Hindsight works both ways.

Developing OSes and software was clearly an unsustainable business. It's obvious in hindsight that cloud infrastructure was the way to go. But at the time placing a lot of different bets to find a few successful product-market fits was the best you could ask for.
IMO, the neatest trick that the DWM does is avoiding jitter/lag between the mouse cursor and window when dragging a window.

Sadly, DXGI flip model seems to have reintroduced some issues -- it is difficult to avoid the kind of jank shown in this article when resizing a window drawn using flip mode presentation. Which is unfortunate, since it's the highest performing mode.
These are both valid takes really. I'll take neither Ballmer nor Nadella thanks.
I've repeated multiple times now that my post isn't intended to be a claim that no law ever changes in the US or that nothing bad ever happens.

I'm not sure how I can make my point more clear.
This is incorrect. Very few airports are anywhere near their limits and the ones that are have alternatives close by that it turns out people prefer airports once the options become available and they are cheaper and/or more convenient for their destination.

SFO is at the heavy capacity you are referring to, yet it still operates as a united hub and there is plenty of capacity in SJC and OAK. The area is nowhere near its ceiling.

LHR has also been at that limit for 20 years and has been shedding layovers and locals to other regionals easily. The flawed thinking is that “at max runway operations per second” implies a max capacity. It turns out a lot of that was really inefficient usage of resources.
I don't know about the US, but in my country this sort of service is rewarded by me continuing to frequent that establishment. If the shop requires money for this convenience, they will have an extra fee, which I will be happy to choose whether I want to pay or not.
Ballmer hated Linux & open source. He would've driven their cloud division to the ground trying to sell Windows servers in the cloud. It would've taken him another 20 years to accept that Linux was key to the cloud. VSCode (Visual Studio Code) - would never have taken birth. Microsoft survived and thrived once Ballmer had no option but leave.

In this era of Python development, Microsoft Windows still feels a step or two behind as far as using a Windows laptop for coding in the cloud. Python is the language of AI - not Asp.net, not C#. Ballmer would never have seen the writing on the wall. He would've pushed something wierd, like VBA .
> But as per your comments, it does sound like you're making the claim that this activity is running afoul of nondiscrimination laws.

I edited my original comment because others have pointed out it doesn't run afoul of antidiscrimination laws. You acknowledge that this behaviour is morally wrong, but don't say whether or not a platform should have a responsibility to prevent this behaviour. I believe they should

While the mechanism by which systemic discrimination occurs is different because it's individual users instead of the business, the impact is the same as businesses/public spaces discriminating against individuals.

This is because common social spaces are barred off to people of certain ethnicities and that means they can't fully engage in civic life.

Here's another question. Let's say a mall is composed entirely of pop up stores that close at the end of every month. These stores invariably ban visible minorities from using their services. Attempts to sue the stores fail, because the store no longer exists by the time you gather the information necessary to sue it. While the mall itself does not promote racial discrimination, it is impossible for visible minorities to shop at the mall.

Should the mall have an obligation to prevent discrimination by its tenants?

I would say "yes". In your bar example, it is still possible for a Catholic to get a drink at the bar. In the mall example, it is impossible for a minority to shop.

On Reddit, if it is impossible for someone to be Jewish or Israeli because they are banned on sight from most subreddits, that should be illegal.
This article doesn’t understand what was fundamentally wrong with Ballmer’s leadership and what Nadella actually changed.

The specific technologies that were successful is irrelevant. Microsoft has and continues to invest in nearly every computer related technology that may come around the corner or they got late on.

The problem with Microsoft was everything went through Windows. The entire company was designed to promote Windows.

This was the fundamental flaw with Microsoft that Nadella changed. He quickly not just made Windows just another part of Microsoft’s business, to a great extent he actively devalued it.

The fact that Ballmer invested in Azure, etc before Nadella would all be irrelevant because under Ballmer Azure would have remained a red headed step child to Windows, so it’s unlikely to have seen much success under him anyways. Same goes for pretty much everything else Microsoft is doing right now.
Amazon Leaks New Mac Mini with M4 and M4 Pro Chip
One more for the pile: Mark Brown’s Industry News Update for alcoholic beverages. It’s a little less explain-everything-easily than Levine but it’s also a less jargon-deep area.
Can Alligator Climb a Tree?
(2020) Related SpaceX Dragon ISS Docking Autopilot PID Controller in JavaScript (18 points, 2021, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27384419
>At its worst, 1999 to 2009, SP500 total annual return was only -0.2%, per dqdyj.

That might not be adjusting for inflation. According to the calculator on moneychimp, with adjusting for inflation, the cagr for the S&P 500 over that time period was -3.42%. (i.e. $1.00 shrank to 71 cents if invested in S&P 500 Jan 1, 2000 to Dec 31, 2009.

>...and it shows that the government is willing to pull out all the stops if the market is down just -0.2%.

I imagine the potential collapse of the financial markets, was maybe a more important cause of monetary and fiscal policy around that time.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm
This feels wild to me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320166
In the US tipping isn’t just a cultural expectation. There are fundamental legal differences between tipped and non-tipped employees. For example, federal minimum wages for tipped employees are close to $2 vs the $7 for non tipped employees.
> What frugality? He was paying the full price that it was being sold at.

By that logic, most reading these comments should expect to hear from their employer:

What annual bonus?
What stock options?
The company is paying full price that your time was being sold at.
contra proferentem - a rule in contract law that states any ambiguity in a contract should be interpreted against the party that drafted it
Where in Seattle does this? Maybe it’s different on the east side. Costco and the grocery store chains here certainly don’t do that.
Huge difference is: English is pretty much THE language that you can butcher and still have people perfectly understand (and hopefully politely correct) you. Even other European (stay mad) languages don't hold up to just how flexible English is in this regard.
I think those are just not great examples. There are plenty of examples of black markets for legal things, including food stuff.

Example: instead of buying meat at a formal (as in, legal business that pays taxes, has the proper sanitary reviews, etc) butcher shop, its buying from a small producer who kills their own animals, or from some shady figure who kills other producer’s animals.

Another example is alcohol and cigarettes that are bought at duty free shops by mules and then sold tax free in street markets.

The edge of the black market over lawful business ranges from small to huge depending mostly on how regulated the lawful business is and the costs of a physical location (think street sales of snacks right across from a shop that also sells snacks but also has to pay rent, utilities, taxes, etc).
Aside from Google having published open source OCR tools like Tesseract for 20 years, it's a thoughtless accusation in general. What exactly is the insinuation? "Training" is just thrown out as a bogeyman. I can't even come up with a fictional scenario in which Google does something nefarious with piles of handwritten documents they've somehow acquired.
> This is why they invented typewriters.

Historically, that didn't seem to be the main reason for the many inventions of the typewriter. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#History
5. "Since I started using Songdio, creating music has become an effortless and delightful endeavor. This AI platform takes my text prompts and transforms them into beautiful compositions that never fail to amaze me. The intuitive design and easy operation make it a perfect fit for anyone, regardless of their experience in music production. Songdio has become an invaluable resource for me, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to all music lovers and creators out there."
> What is it about Rust that makes it so appealing to people to use for web backend development? From what I can tell, one of the selling points of Rust is its borrow checker/lifetime management system.

> Again, I don't really have any experience with Rust whatsoever, but how does the borrow checker/lifetime system help you with this? It seems to me (as a naïve, outside observer) that these language features would get in the way more than they would help.

You're absolutely right that the borrow checker would get in the way. But it's mostly irrelevant in Rust web development. Backend request flow code almost never shares references or changes ownership, so you don't need to think about ownership much in Rust webdev. And since most of the time Rust can infer the lifetimes of variables, you can almost entirely ignore the system and not even annotate lifetimes in your types.

So what you are left with is a language with an incredible type system, extremely modern semantics and ergonomics, zero cost functional abstractions that have no overhead, trait-based OO instead of classes, sum types (Rust enums) and fantastic syntax around matching [1], option and result types (themselves sum types) with fantastic ergonomics, syntax and error handling designed to result in fewer defects in your code, incredible package manager, incredible build system, single binary build targets, the best compiler error messages and lints in the world currently, cross compilation for a wide variety of systems, bare metal performance with no garbage collection.

It's a phenomenal language and offers so much.

And it's insane that you get bare metal / C performance in web code without even having to think about it.

Rust never set out to be a backend web development language, but because the borrow checker disappears when doing web development, you get so many free things from the language that you don't have to pay for. This post [2] explains it pretty well.

[1] One of the best things about the language

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973845
> Microsoft under Ballmer made deep, long-term bets that set up Microsoft for success in the decades after his reign

This is no doubt true.

Under Ballmer, Nadella "led a transformation of the company's business and technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services." [0]

But the number of failed mobile (phone, small PC) initiatives and products, from long before the iPhone to multiple waves of multi-billion dollar write downs afterward, (phones, music players, ...) despite Ballmer clearly wanting Windows "everywhere", and no limit on his spending, was just as large of an opportunity, cyclically bungled for a couple decades.

I had one of the earlier generations/extinct-species of Windows phone. At the time I had given up on Palm following through on their great start, but found the Windows phone was just frustrating in other ways.

(I did have friends with Microsoft's last phone, and they really liked it. Just too late.)

Apples market cap today, approximately its iOS market cap, is a good proxy for the ball Ballmer couldn't stop dropping. Even when only his team was on the court.

So I give Ballmer a 5/10. :)

But any massive hypergrowth business, is still a massive hypergrowth business. Microsoft gets 10/10.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
Wow. Microsoft Licensing was the stuff of nightmares.

You could literally get certifications in Microsoft licensing. There were experts whose only job was Microsoft Licensing consultants.

MS’es licensing was so bad you would get different quotes from the same person within a week of asking because almost no one understood it.
Now there are quite a few. Mine was one of the first ones and it's one of the few DEXs which is fully deterministic. Meaning that it's highly secure, traceable and auditable.

The founders of the community I was associated with defamed me but they have too much money and potentially shady government associations for me to do anything about it legally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM4Lt5k24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPt6mvjr5Q

Here's a few more to add to your favorites
Wait, you guys tip now when you go to the supermarket and get and scan your own toilet paper?
Cuz quality is not equivalent to standardization, and sometimes the latter is undesirable
You’re saying that Bezos telling the editorial board to not endorse is election interference?

I’m really struggling to see how not doing something could ever qualify as interference.

The whole concept of journalists endorsing a candidate feels a lot closer to interference. Feels a bit sad that the editorial board can’t see that without being told by someone like Bezos.
Hiya, Most other competing products only offer one or two components needed for building a robotic system. You end up spending time and money building "shim" hardware and software to connect different components from different manufacturers.

Our main product is a whole, networkable system that aims to cover most of the things you need to build a high performance robot.
It is pretty straight-forward to add new components and integrating the software into your project is just including one library. Thanks very much
Show HN: Template Wizard – Slack App for Message Templates
Enables users to create message templates and send templated messages to multiple conversations at once.
I’m in lower Queen Anne. Every corner store that also sells coffee/sandwiches does this. Maybe 1-5% of customers are buying a sandwich, but 100% are prompted to tip with an 18% default.
> they said to me "Yeah, well HTML is kinda old, it's not really used anymore"...

> I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid things when I was green but I hope no one remembers them like I remember this one. It lives rent free in my head.

I'm doing gigging while my product is gaining traction. Last week, I received this verbatim rejection for a PR review at a client, who's oldest developer is 27:

"No, we don't want all the logic in the same place. You must split the logic up"

This is also one that will take up valuable space in my head till the end of time :-(

(PS. Yes, I split the logic so that it was evenly balanced in 3 different programming languages, instead of having the entire logic in C# alone)
See my sibling comment. Windows Server dominates server OS revenue share at ~70%. They get most of the money that people are willing to spend on server OSes.
On one hand, jail time. On the other hand, 10 minutes of working to pay the taxes.
I wanted to quickly check the 0.5%, and see 1.2% in Japan for instance, where iPhone have near 80% share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/japan

That's still not a lot, but above 1% is a decent threshold to decide to support a browser.
At this point you can't rule out an ocean container full of poppin-fresh muffins that was lost at sea, spawned, and washed ashore ;)
Nope! We sure don’t! Not on purpose any way. But the businesses sure want us to.

This mostly happens at smaller stores and not big chains.
I'm personally excited for the potential of MX parks or trails to be closer to urban areas if they're electric-only.

I'm also not sure on the viability of longer-range electric motorcycles, given that they can't just add a ton of extra batteries like cars. Maybe some (better than existing) hybrid motorcycles are the future.
> the richest man in the world (at the time) and he never once offered a tip.

Ballmer was never the richest man in the world, not even for a moment.

Right now is about the closest he has ever come to that marker (#8, $148 billion).
Irrelevant unless you happen to use LinkedIn, Github, or vscode, or own an xbox. Or you use openai’s products
Users of this mouse, how much of an actual inconvenience is the charge port being on the bottom? From the docs it says a month or more of usage from a single charge.