jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fact that I got downvoted 5 times in less than a minute for saying that in MY "universe" (technically that part of the universe that I'm perceiving directly) there is far less abuse and psychopaths than in other's "universes" says a lot about the quality and usefulness of this conversation. Having a dissonant feeling, opinion or view is penalized like you penalize bad behavior in a trained dog. I clearly don't belong to the HN herd and you can shove karma up your a$$. This is just a hypocritical herd praising diversity and political correctness while (self?)governed by some opinion Nazis. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Not much fantasy here yet, so Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun tetralogy, republished as two books: Shadow & Claw and Sword & Citadel.
Keep it simple :-)
> I remember how Node when it was just rising in popularity was usually demonstrated by writing a primitive HTTP server that served a "hello world" HTTP page.

That is still possible in the exact same way.

But a toy is just a toy. All websites should encrypt their content with TLS. In fact, all protocols should encrypt their communications. The result? Sure, it is a binary stream of random-looking bits.

Yet to me, what matters about text protocols is not the ASCII encoding. It is the ability to read and edit the raw representation.

As long as your protocol has an unambiguous one-to-one textual representation with two-way conversion, I can inspect it and modify it with no headache.

An outstanding example of that is WASM, which converts to and from WAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly#Code_representatio...
Awesome!

Best of luck and please let me know if you want someone to dogfood things as an outsider. My email is my HN username
> All distributed databases shard data. If you hammer at only a specific shard area, performance will be limited to the speed of that shard.

Agreed. And what I'm saying is that it appears that ActorDB's per-shard area concurrency is limited to one writer. And that means that SQLite's concurrency support is (contrary to your earlier post) extremely relevant: not just in terms of pure performance, but also ability to perform concurrent operations. If you need more concurrency, your only choice is to shard extremely heavily (which might mean you require more cross-shard operations, which are apparently slow).

As you say, some data models fit the actor model well, but this is still a far cry from the capabilities that were promised by FoundationDB.
Times definitely have changed in the past few decades. There was widespread looting going on during the 1977 blackout in NYC [1]. I hope that you're right and everything is being blown out of proportion, but lets not forget that:

* everything is possible
* looting and pillaging has happened before in lesser times
* it doesn't help to be unprepared

I honestly think that if we had a firmer, more coordinated, and less fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants government response and action plan, anarchy would definitely be reigned in and less of a concern in people's minds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
Others have said it's open-source. Build it yourself, inspect what your browser downloads, hash and compare like normal.
> There are far fewer job opportunities for the folks working in the Art, Design and Audio departments.

Looking at the app store shovelware using cookie cutter Unity engines, I'm not sure about this. I think scripting a level using an existing engine would qualify as game design, not as programming.
#2 is under NDA. I'm damn serious here. Be wide minded when you attend those events, and large converging interests will meet.
I'm using KeePass too.

Mind to not accidentally go to .com instead of .info.
Right, but according to one commenter "This works once you boot. But only until the computer goes to sleep. Waking it back up turns the built-in display back on." and according to another one there is a three step process which must be implemented on every single boot.

So, wouldn't you agree when I say that Apple just doesn't give you the option?
Are you planning to name this person? You should, to help protect others.

I remember early FB employees talking to me about how they were spying on people's private activity (who was looking at who's page for instance). I have no doubt there were and are many unethical things going on there. It is indeed a joke to suggest they have a "good" culture.
Lets also add Opaque HR processes like Performance Reviews / Stack ranking to the List.

I swear when I worked for BT it took 6 months for people to get over those ghastly pdp 121's - The system was fiddled to give everyone as low a pay rise as possible.
It's never too late. Overturning old trends is uncomfortable for sure, but definitely not impossible.
This is one of those books I’ve always meant to read but never have. I guess the time is now. Thanks for the suggestion.
I feel like I wouldn't be able to find good contracts but it might be imposter syndrome?

MSFT employee, most of what I need saved up but could use a bit more. I'd love to quit and just do some seasonal work but I imagine competition for the contracts you're talking about is pretty stiff and I don't have a huge professional network
Mobilecoin (Foundation) is a technological, ethical, and legal tour de force. I recommend you read their FAQ, but, to me anyway, it is obvious why Signal/Moxie needed to create a new coin (tl;dr: It needed to be a private venmo-like experience). To prevent conflicts of interest, a new org was created. Hence Mobilecoin, not SignalCoin. A few highlights:

Technological:
* First Oblivious RAM implementation, "fog", so that transacting parties cannot be revealed
* Their Rust codebase is really nice
* Instant transfers with little computing power (CO2 emissions)

Ethical:
* Moxie and Josh Goldbard hold no MOB, along with the employees. The Mobilecoin foundation has some awesome partners, e.g. the Long Now Foundation.
* Mining is not ethical, it pollutes the planet and is just bad. The only alternative is a "pre-mine" given to an independent org, ie Mobilecoin Foundation

Legal:
* The US's laws are not clear on what is allowable with privacy coins, so Mobilecoin has played it conservatively by saying US residents can't own the coins.

In summary, the critiques of Mobilecoin (in any of its incarnations, foundation, moxie, etc.) are assuming the agents involved have a financial interest in MOB being expensive -- I contend that is not the case. Please show your evidence.

PS. I am assuming good faith and honesty in statements, eg "Marlinspike notes, however, that neither he nor Signal own any MobileCoins." https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...

PPS. Some direct responses:

>Let's assume that they integrated with Bitcoin or Litecoin or some "mainstream" CC, would it still be a good idea?

No, not private. Also slow. Also pollutes planet. Monero is close on the privacy front, but takes 3 minutes to send (very stressful). It's possible a coin with the proper attributes could be made on stellar, but that raises questions towards ownership of Lumens (and pumping them) and their stellar reimplementation in Rust is likely more secure.

>Niche coin

nit: MOB has a top 15 market cap with 250m coins in distribution. Though I would hesitate to compare to other cryptocurrencies which are almost entirely scammy, polluting garbage.
They have Modules in the table of contents and when you read that section it talks about the downsides of #include. Is that what you mean?

https://oleksandrkvl.github.io/2021/04/02/cpp-20-overview.ht...
Scooping the cream off every monetary transaction between some friends is a more appealing proposition than hoping some people will pay for your software.
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I agree with your last sentence, as long as the black-letter law that is being violated is itself moral. I question the morality of many drug laws, however.
I like this idea, and it's entirely possible with the CSS `filter: blur(10px)`.
Because thats less monetizable.
Why doesn't sshd let you do that in a ~/.ssh/ file?
The number of people in the original thread who didn’t appear to be version pinning and then getting upset that a package that they directly relied upon automatically upgraded is eye-watering.
You implement it by using unsigned arithmetic, then checking that the sign bit flipped. See https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/include/yc/... .

It's a bit more subtle than that, but that is completely devoid of Undefined, Unspecified, and Implementation-Defined Behavior.
I found that gifski makes great quality animated gifs. ffmpeg is a mess to use for that. You still need ffmpeg to generate individual frames from a video, but that's a relatively easy step in comparison to that cumbersome set up of dithering for gif generation.

https://gif.ski
Just as a quick note for you. Be aware that certain directives in rst can be security risks if you allow them to be run arbitrarily by users. If you haven't already done so, you should probably look into that.

This seems like an interesting service, I will need to take a look at it, thanks!
We have the same policy. Mandatory hours so there is common time where everyone is at work, but if you do your other hours after or before mandatory hours is up to you. Works really well. There is plenty of time when everyone is at work and can communicate but late and early people can set they schedule as they like. Plenty of tasks to do when you don't need other people.
Organifi Green Juice is a very efficient way to get your daily nutrients. It literally takes 30 seconds to scoop some powder, add 8-16 oz. of water, shake, and drink it. So it’s obviously a time-saver, but what are the purported health-related benefits of a daily dietary superfood supplement like Green Juice?
Personally I find unix or whatever OS chose / as the bad choice. / is a commonly used character, at least in the USA as dates. It would completely normal for someone to want to name a file "Meeting 12/20/1980.txt" or "Budget Sep/12/1985.doc"

Backslash has no common use I know of outside of computer related stuff like regular expressions and escaping things.

Some of you might also have forgotten but on Mac pre OS-X, at least in standard Mac devtools provided by Apple the separator was colon :
There's a company that recently went public. They specialize is verifying stuff like suppliers, products, etc. I don't remember the name.

If you verify the components and construction, then keep the machine in a secure location, that should be good. I know there are some bios-level protections that will not allow a boot if the hardware config changed too.
I wonder if these techno-governments will have similar reproducibility issues.
While it's true that most of Nevada is uninhabited, a lot of it is almost certainly uninhabitable (at scale) because of lack of water and other reasons. The example in this article in hardly an uninhabited area; it's an industrial park right off the highway on the outskirts of Reno. It's a lot different from creating even a small city in the middle of nowhere, Nevada.
Is that not the case in the US as well?
I'm a bit scared of this. There are so many horror stories out there to the tune of, "Google banned my account, now I can't get into anything, and there's zero ways for me to get in touch with a human to talk about any avenues to fix it." and then extrapolating that to government.
Ah yes. Innovation Zones. Innovate local government by removing *checks notes* democracy.
From the tweet's Author it's disabled via:

about:config

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

there is also:

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored

services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites
This one had quite a lot of background, but also the needed commands: https://www.stavros.io/posts/u2f-fido2-with-ssh/

With a properly set-up token, basically you only need 2 commands:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk -O resident -f ~/.ssh/id_mykey_sk
ssh-add -K

I used a Yubikey and needed also to install 'ykman' to set a PIN for my token, otherwise ssh-add kept failing. Dunno if I omitted something for a proper setup for my token initially, but I don't think that was a problem with OpenSSH in particular.

Apart from the small headache with the PIN, the whole thing was almost magical in its simplicity.
I used to be on reddit all the time, but I got banned and several of the subs I followed were either quarantined or banned.

Reddit used to be all about free speech and grass root movements but now its all about chineese money and mainstream opinions. Most subs are controlled by the same users and any controversial opinion will get you banned.

They even implemented thought crimes, that is upvoting the wrong thing can give you a ban. Reddit has become a really shitty website with spam ads for their mobile app.
Author here. That error happens if you have binfmt_misc enabled. The solution is simple:

sudo sh -c "echo ':APE:M::MZqFpD::/bin/sh:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"

I intend to upstream a patch with the Linux kernel so it can do this automatically. If any kernel devs are reading, please email me!
Something to note about the JS examples, if you throw them into TypeScript you'll get similar error messages to go vet and rustc.

The first example: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABMO...

Unreachable code detected

Along with some typos since `i` isn't declared.
> While prosecutors have not provided specifics, tools designed to make women appear nude in images with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) do exist.

They may be able to generate a "plausible" nude, suitable for rubbing one out. But it's not a real nude. Moles and scars wont match. The data is just not there, so the manipulator has to make something up. Thus I think the nudes are actually the most promising for conclusively proving or disproving a manipulation.
Large pets and drug use in multi-family houses built from cardboard (OSB) ? That's one sure way to increase number of mental health issues among those occupying said multi-family houses
https://contrastrebellion.com/#page2

Cough cough HackerNews!
Build and maintain public housing. We should be making sure that housing is available for everyone. If you don't have housing it can be significantly more expensive and challenging to live (beyond the obviously visible challenges.)
Israel is experiencing very high excess deaths with respect to its elderly in 2021 (see euroMOMO https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/)

This is despite over 80% of its 70+ age group having both doses of the vaccine. At least half of the 70+ were fully vaccinated by January 23rd.

It is the elderly all cause mortality that ultimately matters to me. If elderly are dying of other causes, then there are problems.

Regardless, 2021 elderly mortality in Israel will serve as a good test for the vaccine as the vast majority of 70+ will be fully vaccinated for nearly the entire year.
CI systems (or surrounding community) typically give a mechanism for “last successful commit”. Executing a diff of changes and detecting from that which projects should be built from is something you can build using that data. If you have a lot of interconnected project dependencies in a mono repo, this logic might be more challenging to write, but there it is.
Sigh. SIGH.

How dare our charity be used for practicalities! We must over-engineer harder! Only our brilliance can save poor, poor Africa!

Same nonsense I've been reading about since the 1800s. The Africans figured out how to deal with public health a long, long time ago: spread your villages and use air and time to isolate outbreaks. This has worked for longer than human history has been recorded. And this technique has survived countless imperial collapses as well.

We simply wish to mold Africa into an urban scheme because we don't know how to bring "progress" without packing millions of people into city blocks. That causes disease spreading, which puts diminishing returns on the urban scheme. There's one city in Africa who loses about 1% GDP from city-based malaria alone.

If you want to over architect something, the net isn't the problem. Learn to engage in feel-good progressivism without the dependency of industrial organization models. Billions of dollars to whoever figures it out first.
Open Food Facts is free as in speech as well as free as in Beer (The Open Food Facts database is available under the Open Database License.
The individual contents of the database are available under the Database Contents License.
Products images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence).

But you're right, we still haven't got a Free as in Beer, Beers category :-P
Really nice write up. I'm curious if you guys have done any extensive throughput and latency benchmarking? I saw the note saying "ballpark figures."

FWIW, I've been working on a framework for empirically testing queue performance for scaled-up, distributed deployments (https://github.com/tylertreat/Flotilla). Haven't gotten around to adding support for AWS services yet, but would be interesting to see how they compare.
I'm generally in favor of making information public. I work for a public university, and my salary is public info, so is everyone else's. The sky hasn't fallen.

Real estate transactions tend to be public as well. I can look up how much the house down the street sold for. Imagine if this information were not public, but a few insiders were able to get at it. They'd have a monumental advantage over everyone else. That's kind of the position employers are in relative to employees.

One angle on this - I think that any employer that uses the H1B or other worker visas should be obligated to share compensation information for all workers (not just the visa recipients), the same way public universities and government organizations are required to. That means name, job title, and total yearly compensation.
Hah. Okay didn't see that obvious mistake there. I meant 'envision'.
Sorta related side note, my experience has shown that dentists don't accept cash discounts for higher ticket procedures.
Xamuel doesn't get much traction on HN but here he is spot on:

http://www.xamuel.com/a-message-of-regret/

He also has many interesting very non conventional posts beside the purely "math nerd/tech nerd" ones.
There are some things I'd want to see in Rackspace Cloud (being able to add subordinate accounts for billing and systems management), but yeah, all my new stuff has been on Rackspace.
What is your name?

i won't be suckered into this, i'll be the one asking the questions

What's your damn name.

are you ordinarily that abrasive toward total strangers

Yes I am.

I'm only doing Turing tests with polite robots from now on.
Looks like their earlier than scheduled:

http://www.mcintoshmarketing.com/ppc/yahoo-starting-migratio...

This is from Aug 31. Not sure what the state of it is now. Whenever this transition is complete.. .I'd add a quarter or two before we start seeing some respectable (relatively) earnings from Bing.
Supplemented with Reddit.

Search engines are great for answers. Reddit and HN are great for questions I didn't think of.
I got started with Turtle programming when I was 11 or 12 when my Dad introduced me to it. Had the most fun making a turtle script that wrote "Happy Birthday Dad" for his birthday that year. Fun times!
I suppose you're not allowed to express your opinion here without being penalized. Personally, I find this comic to be completely awful, and the drawings absolutely hideous - offensively stupid in a way that could not be exceeded even intentionally. But then, people defend Justin Bieber, too. We're not here to discuss that though.

The focus of the HN crowd is going to be on how he obtained his high level of (financial!) success. To me, it's yet another lesson that mediocrity and lack of talent are no barriers to success. Other factors such as persistence, marketing savvy, funding, connections and lack of any shame about self promotion (this guy practically spammed the hell out of Reddit and Digg 2008-2009) can take you very far.
> After admitting to not understanding Haskell that well he now writes a second post doing the same thing.

Are you admitting you didn't read either posts?
In addition you also should be informed about the food you are eating - how many carbs, fat, protein etc. The same with news sources.
Wow, not sure if I'm being unclear, but I'll try again. This specific animation is issued at a speed that I think is faster than is useful. I think it is more useful and interesting to see the detailed interaction between the whale and an individual boat at a granular level. As played, you see the whale ping pong around between ships, but it's hard to get much of a sense for what is going on. I can't think of another reason for the video being that speed except that they want to imply that the whale is panicked (also the subtext of the study, so not exactly a complete stretch), or that it was an actual oversight that just so happened to make a covert emotional argument that favors their conclusion, which I consider a scientific faux pas.
More and more "news" is just meant to fit an agenda. Trump just called it out and gave it a term.
That's fair. I wish we had more properly selective COX-2-only inhibitors, despite the scare about heart issues. I may misunderstand how inhibiting COX 1 would balance that out, but I'd be surprised if it does. Many herbs are selective to COX-2, it's like every polyphenol and its mother seems to inhibit it.

I looked and you are correct, I did not realize that acetaminophen was not considered an anti-inflammatory. It certainly is antipyretic, and it appears to have some selective COX-2 activity and some potentially mysterious endocannabinoid activity, which I'd personally consider to be anti-inflammatory in one way. That's truly puzzling, I felt I knew that space decently well due to looking into the inflammatory pathways due to MCAS, I stand corrected on the generally public perception of acetaminophen.

Hopefully endocannabinoid-class drugs and supplements will enter the mainstream/be developed in a generic, OTC fashion with the easing of perception and laws in cannabinoids. I legitimately wonder how much OTC medication has been held back by analog similarities to the (currently and previously) federally illicit substances in those plants.

All good stuff around, I stand corrected and my apologies for any curtness. Have a good one!
Yes, and yes! Imagine the progress and creativity that would be unleashed if people were free to do their hobbies full-time, instead of working BS jobs.