skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, did you personally prove that the earth is round?

I suspect that most of round-earthers didn't prove it themselves as well.

The problem is infeasiblity; it's infeasible for a regular person to confirm most of the scientific findings.

For example, ~75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. They already have a hard time putting food on the table.

This kind of arguments against flat-earthers needs to be retired. It doesn't make sense to dare a person to confirm any scientific finding.

Let's just call spade a spade: Round-earthers believe the earth is round because they listen to the right experts. Flat-earthers believe the earth is flat because they listen to the wrong experts.

We are just listeners. Let's stop acting like we prove these scientific findings ourselves.
Do older developers often go around the recruiters? What's in it for you to do that?
The trouble is, it can have a snowball effect.

Say I'm multiplexing my available hours among three things, but I get blocked sometimes. So in an effort to avoid ever having time wasted because I'm idle, I switch to having five active things instead.

Now it takes longer for me to cycle around among those things. So the people who are waiting on me for code reviews have to wait longer. They also decide to switch from having three things on their plate to five things on their plate.

Now I'm waiting even longer for their code reviews because it also takes them longer to cycle back around. I start thinking about switching from five things on my plate to seven things on my plate.

It may not really spiral out of control this bad, but it does have a bit of a tendency to self reinforce.

Sometimes it really is a good idea, but the point is there is a trade-off. In some cases, a little idle time can cost less than the problems caused by everybody juggling more stuff.

In real life, things are complicated. Not everything I'm blocked on is another person. Some tasks I need to get done don't block someone else. If I submit my travel expense report a week later, I'll just get reimbursed in a different pay period, so turnaround time doesn't matter there like it does when someone else is depending on me to unblock them.
Since it has an ssd I could see mine working in 24 years when it is 30 years old.
p.s. I was kidding, but I was completely serious. If they can train a machine to write good copy, they can train the best Russian bots to troll people on Facebook, write New York Times pieces, and fake and influence pretty much anything done through a written text. Heck, they could write a business book and get it into the top-10 that year. Actually, that last part, they should, it would be amazing!
>The primary failure mode of a TV in the 70s was a tube that went bad. Easy fix: open TV, pop out old tube, pop in old tube, done.

I'm not sure reseating a broken component would help, I think you might mean "new" :)
This seems very reasonable to me. All the outcry seems... disproportionate.

That said, withholding the pretrained models probably won't make much difference, because bad actors with resources (e.g., certain governments) will be able to produce similar or better results relatively quickly.

All it will take is (1) one or two knowledgeable people with the willingness to tinker, (2) a budget in the hundreds of thousands to a few millions of dollars at most, and (3) a few months to a year. Nowadays a lot of people are familiar with Transformers and constructing and training models across multiple GPUs.
> do my laptop will continue working in 30 years without maintenance?

Probably not, but same is often true for old computers.

Old hardware is easier to maintain. You can recap them, replace the failed memory chips and even fix cracks in the PCB by just running some extra wires.

You can do same to current modern computers as well, but it's nowhere near as easy.
One thing that should give athletes pause (though probably won't dissuade them entirely) is that drug testing is getting better. You might test clean now but have your sample retested years later with better tech and be stripped of your medals.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, billionaires and mammoth corporate entities in general, are not some inert goo. They actively shape the system to work to their own benefit, and they have massively more power and influence than the average citizen and even the average elected official.
As a non-American, I have a question about two things that stand out for me (and do correct me if I'm wrong): the first is that Amazon pays no federal taxes. The second is that corporations seem to expect locals to pay for things that they can then make money off — Amazon's installation in this instance but also American football stadiums stand out as an egregious example.

What responsibility (if any) do American companies have towards the communities/societies they exist in (beyond delivering value to shareholders -- wherever they may be)?
> I doubt that Amazon are the only ones with any likelihood of bringing new jobs to New York in the near future.

Not anymore. Why would a company want the hassle? Go to New York and have an idiot bartender trash our goodwill or go somewhere else where they roll out the red carpet for us.
You know how when we broke the Enigma we couldn't really let Germans catch onto it, so we had to mask our knowledge of their positions by maintaining statistically insignificant number of accidental wins? Much the same, a good AI should make deliberate typos.
I know that the linker will ignore LD_PRELOAD for suid binaries, what other kinds of issues are there?
SIP is useful though. It would be better that we could have SIP enabled and still be able to install whatever we want without going through App Store.
Do you have any particular reason to believe so? I think spinning rust is more likely to survive than electrical charges in tiny cells.

SSDs require power at least once per 1-3 years or otherwise they can lose the stored data.

If SSD loses critical housekeeping data, it might never work again.
Put the clothes in a garbage bag, tie it. Use suitcase for structure.
Transferwise just hiked fees the other day.
Exactly. Realistically, most large-scale businesses will amorally fill whatever set of incentives exist around them, and the most effective way to keep them from being destructive is to regulate. However, businesses are made of people, and those people still have a moral obligation to society, even if most of the ones at the top ignore it. Actions beyond moral shaming need to be taken, but one doesn't preclude the other.
I'd say we got good content out of it so it was a bigger win than getting a tv.
If posting the truth will get me banned, it's an honour. Nobody likes pretenders or wifes who clearly abuse their significant others, and enabling narcisstist behaviour like that in any way is pretty despicable.
Taxes need to raise on the rich. That is all.
It's surprising there aren't special guns or shot being developed for shooting them.
I can't imagine Ads are served up primarily via HTTP, especially with the push to HTTPS everywhere.
The trick in my observation seems to be that, on the manager track, it's possible to get move up by being on a successful project and simply not getting in the way, which plausibly may be what was needed ("the team had gelled and was cranking away and I felt the best way to support them was to free them to do what they needed to do"). This can be repeated pretty far up. As an aside, I'd estimate that the less a manager ends up needing to do, the more likely success ends up being on a project.

Meanwhile, hanging back, chilling, reacting, and taking credit for the work of others tends to not get it done on the technical track and even doing great work doesn't mean much without you or someone else doing a bunch of selling for it.
How to find which Salt release will contain a fix you need
I'm not a lawyer, or involved in hiring, but I do work on an export controlled product. The training I recieved says that one form of "exporting" is conveying technical information to a non-citizen. The only reason export controls prevented us from from showing the material to an arbitrary citizen was our liability if they exported it.
+1. Just have a look at the retrocomputing community.
> No one forced any of these states/cities to join this bidding contest. They willingly participated.

This lacks context. Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo participated in the bidding context, basically by themselves. They didn't have a mandate to do this from anybody, since no one ever mentioned groveling on their feet to shovel tax breaks at a corporation. (In fact, Bill de Blasio was pretty much elected on a 'soak the rich' platform, which is a line he is more than happy to push when he knows there is no realistic chance of it actually happening.) They then conspired to do an end run around the legislative branches of their respective jurisdictions, and almost succeeded.

American states and cities are not authoritarian or run by a single emperor. There are built in checks and balances, and quite frankly everyone involved misjudged the pushback they would get by openly trying to ignore all of that.
Europe (and Australia) have much higher food standards than the US.
Right. The State Government is running a huge surplus:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-shortfalls-widen-new-yorks-...
Probably during the government shutdown.
> also working on projects that matter to the bottom line of the business

this is my problem with this sort of assessment : as an engineer, you don't get to pick which projec to work on. The politics of the company may end up making you look like you're worthless even though you could've provided so much more value working on something else.
Oops: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=922478#72

The problem patch is in http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux_4.9.144... (I think)

"Commit 901e325f772f "ARM: bugs: add support for per-processor bug
checking" added a new member to struct processor. This structure
is always instantiated in built-in code and the new member is only
used in built-in code. Therefore we can safely add the new member
at the end instead.

Move it to the end and hide it from genksyms. Also hide it when
building modules, to make sure they really don't use it."
Clustered stem cells become insulin producers in potential cure for diabetes
Pakistan warns gov domains under attack by “[a]nti-state" and "Indian hackers”
Because OCSP is not reliable. Yeah, SSL/TLS is still broken at large, can you believe it, by default, there is NO reliable way to revoke a certificate... If OCSP times out, it just times out, the browser simply ignores it and loads the page without warnings. Active attackers can just block the OCSP server before they can use a revoked certificate with leaked private key to launch a MITM attack.

This is why we need OCSP pinning and OCSP Must Staple. OCSP pinning makes the web server itself to delegate OCSP responses in-band, thus eliminates the need for clients to make an unreliable connection to a 3rd-party, improves both security and performance. OCSP Must Staple is a certificate attribute that forces the browser to enforce pinned OCSP checkings. This is also the reason that Let's Encrypt limits the certificate lifetime to 90 days.
Interesting. Thanks for those suggestions and recommendations.

I like your comment about the strange sense of urgency. I remember feeling that reading the part in 2666 that took place in Mexico near the US border. It felt like the apocalypse was coming, but no one really knew it, but they could sense something.

BTW, you mentioned that you're from Brazil. I have a Clarice Lispector work on my immediate reading list, Agua Viva. Looking forward to it. I've never read any of her works.
A friend of mine (Seattle/US) was blown away by the quality of beef here in Australia compared with the US. That is what higher food standards give you.
"my 30 minutes is more valuable than a tshirt's cost"

Of course, I know what you mean. But consider, at least for a moment, that the cost of that t-shirt to you includes the wages paid to the cotton pickers, thread makers, cloth makers, cutters, stitchers, packers, transport and warehouse workers, and the amazon delivery driver, who will contribute to making that t-shirt and getting it to your door. So in a way, you're saying your 30 minutes is more valuable than however many minutes of all those people's lives that would have to be spent to get you a new t-shirt.

There's some profound insight into how economics works to be had when you truly consider what it means to trade off your time and the value of your labor output, against the time and labor of countless people, all put into supplying you with stuff.
Zero Days is a good one to check out. I don't know where you can watch it for free but it is on Netflix.

http://www.zerodaysfilm.com/
Only if you believe there is no difference between whats legal and whats moral.
What security issues are those? Is there anything you can do with LD_PRELOAD that you cannot do in other ways such as modifying binaries before executing them?
It's no surprise that we have a spying problem. That law is exactly backwards of what is required to reduce espionage.
This line that "any company" could get these incentives from the city is being parroted and its simply not true. Of the 4 sources of incentives only two were city programs:

City:
Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP) and the Industrial Commercial Abatement Program (ICAP) programs. REAP credits for instance are not available to retail or hotels. Retail is particularly sensitive subject in NYC as it has been visibly blighted. Also it only applies to business relocating to either above 96th street or the outer boroughs.

State:
The $505 million capital grant and $1.2 billion in “Excelsior” credits are most certainly not available to "pretty much any company." The eligibility guidelines are actually very specific[1]

[1] https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program
Google privacy scandals, meanwhile ... don't happen because look where our expectations went, huh.
It is broken as of changes in recent months. Want to know how to remove it and keep it from appearing? Go to the store, install it and then once it's truly installed you can truly remove it. If you don't do this the 'stub' will never disappear. Yes, this is the junk a 100k+ staff company implements now. It's baffling.
Built at a hackathon: keep track of your progress as you learn how to program
If any performance gains from Moore's Law get canceled out by inefficient software due to Wirth's Law, then what's the point of all the work that we technologists are doing?

You can call it a business decision, but that basically means the tech people are doing the work and making our execs rich without actually creating anything that's more beneficial to humanity compared to the computer systems of 10 or 20 years ago.
> exploitative

That isn't an appropriate word. Clearly, the City of NY, or whoever is negotiating with Amazon, is big enough not to be pushed around if they don't want to be. It is a negotiation.

It the political system is screwing over tax payers, that flat out isn't Amazon's problem. It is the voters' problem.

> When their success is built on that foundation, they owe it to the government (& taxpayers) to return the favor and show some goodwill.

The philosophical point of a corporation in a capitalist system is to create goods and services as cheaply as possible. In theory, it would be nice not to charge corporations any tax, to keep prices low, and only tax the income and capital gains of the owner as money flows out to them from the company.

I doubt that absolutist approach works in practice; the situation isn't simple enough and the capitalists would figure out some sort of creative accounting scheme to avoid the money ever making it to them (actually, pretty sure they already do that in America, since American corps usually don't pay dividends). But in theory corporate tax is just bad for everyone.
The Significance of a Defect Management Tool in the IoT Industry
So, in the base amp solution where anyone is allowed to go in anywhere and implant whatever they need in order to be unblocked, how does the company actually function?

If you’re a backend API developer, how do you keep anything actually running and working, when you’ve got every other moron in the company who thinks they should be able to dig into your codebase and do whatever they want?

I get the concept of empowering your people to do their jobs, but there have to be some sort of controls and limitations.
No sushi for you!
Read “basecamp”, not “base amp”.

DYAC!
You received six answers along the lines of "drugs do long term damage."

That may be part of the answer, but it feels incomplete. Elite training itself is often unhealthy. And doping techniques vary wildly. There are risks to HGH, EPO, anabolic steroids, and blood doping, but they have radically different risk profiles.

I think it's more that people have an idealized notion of athletes accomplishing something through sheer force of will. So... a scientifically designed training regimen seems fine, chemical alterations to your blood chemistry do not. Training at high altitudes is fine, replacing your blood with blood from when you were at high altitudes is not. Overtraining, eating disorders, destroyed tendons, encephalopathy -- none are ideal, but we seem to tolerate them.

Questions about what to tolerate are fuzzy and pervasive. Testosterone levels are monitored in women's competitions and someone has to decide the cutoff. Progressively sleeker swimsuits were fine, until they weren't. Equipment manufacturers generally advertise increased performance, but if they deliver too much too soon, they get banned.

These are all versions of the question, "What is this sport?" It's deceptive. Seems simple, but after examining all the edge cases, it becomes impossible to deduce from pure reason. Ruling bodies just pile on conventions.

A Supreme Court dissent once argued:

"[S]ince it is the very nature of a game to have no object except amusement (that is what distinguishes games from productive activity), it is quite impossible to say that any of a game’s arbitrary rules is ‘essential.’ Eighteen-hole golf courses, 10-foot-high basketball hoops, 90-foot baselines, 100-yard football fields – all are arbitrary and none is essential. The only support for any of them is tradition and (in more modern times) insistence by what has come to be regarded as the ruling body of the sport[.]"

Banning some supplements but not others is perfectly reasonable, but the fine lines are going to be somewhat arbitrary.
Well, what does your API actually do? If you're e.g. Heroku, your front end does almost nothing in comparison to the rest of your product. Why would running the backend of a globally distributed infrastructure-as-a-service company be easier than maintaining the front end?
All the extra padding, whitespace and giant box like elements of design (compare new calc app to old calc app) show that touch is still being pushed. Same with the toggle on/off options for 99% of newer UI windows. Those are aimed purely at one press touch users.
Why is this even news? Youtube is literally full of hundreds of thousands of similar videos. 30 years old personal machine is not even old. I can't even understand the importance of this story.
You should still be within the edit window for your comment above.
The only information theoretically secure encryption algorithm is a one-time pad seeded with true randomness. In fact, you cannot achieve information theoretic security using a pseudorandom generator of any kind.
In North America ADS-B is pretty rare except on the coasts where international flights pass through more frequently. If you are not on the coast and look at the logs of your flightradar24 receiver you will see that 99% of the traffic are MLAT rf direction finding logs from mode-S transmissions with no GPS data used. But it's still easier to call it an "ADS-B" receiver because no one knows that MLAT is.
Well, it's cliched, but since nobody has mentioned it:

"But old clothes are beastly," continued the untiring whisper. "We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better …"

"Government's an affair of sitting, not hitting. You rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with the fists. For example, there was the conscription of consumption."

"There, I'm ready," said Lenina, but Fanny remained speechless and averted. "Let's make peace, Fanny darling."

"Every man, woman and child compelled to consume so much a year. In the interests of industry. The sole result …"

"Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches; the more stitches …"
But it requires discipline, while attaching wires to yourself does not.
> to have regular access to safe and intimate sex

lol, you've never been married have you
Right after college I had a motorcycle that I smoked the rings on because the guy who sold it to me lied about it's condition. "I've totally started it every month". When it broke down I was pissed for a bit and then was like "welp now I get to take apart a whole vtwin. Worst case I know how to take apart a vtwin. It cost about $300 and 10 hours but we fixed it, it was a great learning experience esp when you've got time and money like a software dev does.

Now a day it's even easier cause Youtube.
Make Sodium Metal with Menthol (NurdRage)
Typo in the first sentence: that’d be pole position
Thank you for being wrong--I learned things that I would not have learned otherwise.
ARM has done an incredible job legitimizing RISC-V.
then it's not a debian stable kernel now is it
Based on personal experience, the older the hardware, the more resilient it is.

A lot of that is probably down to simplicity, but the fact that it's from a time when electronics were expected to be repairable and maintained is probably a big part of it as well. My Apple II Plus from grade school still works perfectly, and I've done nothing more than simply keep using it.

I recently acquired an IMSAI 8080 that had been sitting in someone's storage unit for the past decade. I used a variac at first to make sure I wouldn't fry any circuits, but it turned out to be in perfect condition, and went right back into action as if it were still 1975.

Meanwhile, my 2009 MacBook has long since given up the ghost—and of course, Apple has no interest whatsoever in supporting me to repair it myself. I wish our technology was still built to last, rather than built to replace every two years when the payment plan ends.
You can lead without being a manager, eg lead by example, lead without force, lead by halping when asked, or providing guidance when asked. That's all mentoring. That's all pure technical. We may be agreeing.

But I wouldn't want to be in a place where there was just good at coding was the end of my growth.
Apparantly apple's A12 costs around $72. It wouldn't be entirely ridiculous to include one of these in macs (it would be awesome for ios app dev if nothing else).
Read “implement“, not “implant”.

Sigh....
I've been running a VPN (currently WireGuard, previously StrongSwan) on a VPS through https://www.vultr.com/ for a little over a year now and have had no issues with the App Store. Signed-out Google Search, however, is a different story...
Reddit still can't figure it out. "Best" sorting is clearly curated by mods, at least in the top 4-5 comments on real popular posts...the only valuable sorting on sites like this is "Top," "Bottom," and most "Controversial" (most down votes/up votes).
Sadly, the Octal app which is so wonderful about most everything else, does not provide an “edit function that I can find.
Using Google sheet as the password manager
But will they actually fix the keyboard this time?
Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)