skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm dying for this. My team builds ML models on text corpora. Most of this data is sensitive. My company has very strict data privacy policies and it's a pain to even share the data with other teams in the department. I've made it part of my long-term goals to facilitate secure sharing of sensitive data across the organization. Numerical data seems to be the easiest to anonymize (randomized response, etc), but I have yet to find any techniques for text other than generating synthetic data.
I did one day put a 5 1/4 floppy in the small gap between 2 drive bays. Plonk! Oh well, time to get the screwdriver. I heard it happened a lot at the time.
And Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual, and Deutsche Bank, and AIG, etc., etc.

"It is safe to assume they know what they are doing" because they're managing a ton of money has been proven wrong over and over again.
As far as apps go, I would say Workflowy.

But I don't use it for that; I prefer 3x5 cards for todos.

But Workflowy REALLY shines as a way of hierarchically storing bookmarks
yeah, and they dry up Mexico in the process... thanks democrats
I don't know much about compilers, but basically the ones don't have anywhere else to put the context of a closure.
Great work !!
I'm really curious why a book (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-w-chesnutt/the-con...) originally published in the US would need to include this:

"This ebook is only thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that the contents of this ebook are free of copyright restrictions in the country you’re located in before downloading or using this ebook."

Can anyone speak to this?
I'm going to disagree. For every year I've spend doing something, I've got better at it. While there are definitely people with "1 year of experience repeated 30 times", I can't believe that you hit a point in software engineering where there is nothing material left to learn and/or where everything left to learn has marginal benefit.
So any unit of work in the FHE scenario is necessarily a basic block with no branching ?
I dunno, in both scenarios I would choose flight for 330$, since 1.5hr extra for saved 70$ seem like pretty good deal in any case (and I earn more per hour than that saving, but usually not working when traveling anyway).

Also thanks top EU and mandatory display of price per unit I pretty much ignore end prices in supermarkets and check prices if I am not already familiar how does end price translate to price per unit. But I also don't but things I don't need just because they are cheap, it would have to be extremely good deal to spend money on wasted space in my apartment for something I don't need in upcoming days/weeks.

Paul Graham had very enlightening essay Stuff on this topic which should be mandatory reading especially for growing teenagers to form their attitude towards useless stuff.
I think it's well known by most developers using PHP. You can do the same to call a function on a newly created object.
So you don't minify any of your JS?
Copyright laws differ between countries.

https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ#C.2._...

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html
Have you considered the impact of superconducting circuitry? They're very niche and few people have heard of them, but they're not science fiction[1] and have a significant speed advantage.

[1] https://www.hypres.com/ seems to sell them
Not really an expert, but here goes: JS is for talking to computers, text is for talking to people. Accessibility, practically speaking, often means text-to-speech. At that point, JS is just gobbledygook in the way.
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This is nearly identical attitude of the younger generation, no matter how far we go back. :D
I _do_ agree that the US Congress could use term limits.
tldr version: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_calculus
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It might be done quite quickly with a proper carbon pricing regime. The UK carbon price is about £35/ton. Times 104 tons/acre is about £3500/acre which is probably enough to make a profit. Then just get VC funding for your carbon startup and off it goes.

There are political and practical difficulties doing that but there are also difficulties with wrecking the climate that might outweigh those.
It's still so interesting to me that this never caught on, particularly in the "distributed age." This feels like a hidden gem in the research that has been covered up by the sands of time.
Definitely. We’d have to do something with all the trees every few years or whatever.
CSA survivor here. Can you fucking not?

Maybe you're even right, and there's no reason they should be reviled. But there's no reason they should be normalized, either. Not to themselves, not to anyone else.

Your comparison with homosexuality is false and invidious, because homosexuality exists among consenting adults and can therefore be expressed without harm. This is not true of pedophilia. Nor will it ever be. So your efforts at normalization cannot lead to anything other than an increased likelihood of harm. Having experienced that harm firsthand on multiple occasions, I have no problem whatsoever in saying that it is heinous to act in ways which make it more likely that others will suffer the same.
Just because it was first offered for sale in the US doesn't mean the owner cannot apply for copyright in other countries.
AfD = Actual floppy Disks. I like that.
Quoting the website:

>Is the tree invasive?

>The short answer is: No, the Empress Splendor tree is not invasive.

>The Empress Splendor tree belongs to the genus Paulownia. There are many different species of Paulownia and only one is classified as invasive, the Paulownia tomentosa (http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/printree.shtml). We do not use this variety, choosing instead non-invasive species such as the Paulownia fortuneii.

>The Rainforest Alliance has chosen Paulownia as an ecologically sound tree for the purposes of reforestation and carbon sequestration (View the Rainforest Alliance Report).

>The Rainforest Alliance is internationally recognized as a certification program for sustainable forestry and best practices for tree planting and agroforestry.
Agree here. In terms of cognitive dissonance, it cuts both ways, think about the systematic elimination of native american tribal lands, slavery, Jim Crow, the internment of Japanese citizens during WWII, etc.

Everyone has their starting point, usually strongly associated with their cultural or familial identity. It takes a while for other info to filter through.
Counterpoint: Old mailing list conversations are difficult to parse and encourage a "ignore it until the issue goes away" mentality if no one is enforcing a reply rate.

Mailing lists only really work for corporations imo
so they probably could have used /vehicle/, to be more specific
Given they had 350,000 SIM cards, it seems like you at least need a real cellular modem. It's probably cheaper and easier to just buy cheap Android phones.
Software engineers don't depreciate as they get older. Software engineers who stop learning depreciate whenever, at any age. I'm 58 and I've seen it over and over again: the people who find it hardest to stay employed are the ones who are least eager to grapple with new ideas and approaches. It's so easy to grow comfortable with that thing you're already good at (I'm a Powerbuilder developer and everyone needs Powerbuilder developers!). I don't know, do people think engineers in other disciplines just get to stop learning and cruise through the last twenty years of their careers? I'm not one, so I can't say, but I would guess civil engineers and mechanical engineers and aeronautical engineers and chemical engineers all have, like, disciplines they have to keep up with :). I know our family doctor isn't working with 20 year-old ideas and tools either.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut the cruft to focus the energy on what’s critical.

If you have an old floppy that you want to read you could also just install an old version of Linux.
> elect sane leaders in the US and elsewhere.

honest question: can you point me to any US politician that has stood up to a corporation or corporate interest with laws that effectively say, "No, you can't have what you want, the people need <this> instead." and - most importantly - got those laws passed? I can't think of one. I think obamacare came close (which became one of the most hardfought wins ever), and yet the health insurance lobby still came out ahead. I dare say that no congress shall ever pass a law that harms a corporation (a de facto constitutional amendment).

What does that have to do with carbon control ? ICE auto industry, coal industry, oil and gas, etc, would all be "harmed" if US lawmakers passed anything that had a material impact on CO2 emissions. It would require multiple layers of alternative realities for that to ever happen, in my (admittedly cynical) opinion. I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm saying we should give up/not try. I _want_ us to solve global warming. I just can't picture it happening (at least for the redress method I listed above).
Do all the news you listed provided any concrete evidence? Having the same opinion with the government on some topics does not mean they are controlled by the government or share all beliefs with the government.

Like I support Trump's government policy on making the health bills more transparent, but I do not agree with him on his 'racist' tweets.
We're talking open source/free/non-profits here. No reply rate should be enforced unless by project owners (their time, their project, their rules). Some issues should be ignored until they go away. I myself ignore issues from some folks who engage me in my role as an open source tooling maintainer, after I have exhausted my patience working with them and they are not receptive to polite discussion.

> Mailing lists only really work for corporations imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_mailing_list

We've steered off topic though. Feel free to email me if you want to chat further on the topic.
May not be a great idea: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15189#p204...

```just a word of warning, copy everything off them [commercially-available flippable 5.25" BBC Micro disks] quick, as the 'side2' goes backwards to the cotton cloth cleaner inside the 5 1/4" case, so basically all the crap caught in it then end up coming out when playing other flip side :('''

(No idea how common this phenomenon might have been! - I've always had double-sided drives, so I've always used the other side of the disk in the normal fashion.)
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I don't think so. The 25-year-old needs the money starting in 20 years; so does the 40-year-old. The 25-year-old needs the money to last 45 years after retirement; the 40-year-old needs it to last 30 years. Those aren't significantly different time horizons. The 40-year-old can therefore invest with a very similar risk profile, and get very similar returns.
Guess "printing by demand" will be a good source for funding such projects.
Try to update a one year old npm project and you will find that literally 75% of the code in node_modules changes, and also that the app no longer works.
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"But, before you pounce on this feature and start porting all your existing model classes to use this feature, you should definitely read this."

https://dev.to/mindplay/php-typed-properties-think-twice-382...
> But now, I can barely install a new software stack without this primal sense of exhaustion. I can't explain it, but it feels like everything is just.. wrong somehow. Or a little off. Like maybe the profit motive and disruption became the primary motivators instead of progress and scientific discovery.

The world hasn’t changed, only your knowledge of it. You started fresh at a given level, call it “software”, and you implicitly assumed that the hardware was a given, existing property of the world. Now you know that most software is flaky and bad, and you feel disillusioned about the software you were imagining to have by now, and you feel that the world is worse with all this bad software in it. But the world was always bad, you just couldn’t see it before, because all the badness was in hardware, and that wasn’t your “level”, so to speak. The hardware you were imagining to write all this beautiful software on, that very hardware was, and still is, ugly and full of cruft, just as the software you now decry. This fundamental property will always be true.

To not be exhausted by the world, you must learn to accept it the way it is, the way it was and the way it will always be. You must accept the existence of badness, and build your creations with badness in mind.
I think you miss the point about 'shelf life'

The shelf life is due to a business decision, where the knowledge the older person has is deemed insufficient to justify the compensation they've grown used to.

Sure, you love working with them and it's better for engineering, but the business wants college grads they can pay less, even if they don't do the same quality work.

Importantly, this doesn't have to be logical or good for the business. It just has to make sense in the context of quarterly targets.
My time in China doesn't go back that far, but it certainly feels different from when I first went there. Guangdong used to feel pretty chill about that stuff, probably a combination of HK-Proximity and the Emperor-is-Far/Mountains-are-high attitude. Nowadays, you can't drive anywhere without seeing Xi's 12 fucking thoughts plastered everywhere. Even Hua Qiang Bei has speakers blasting out propaganda.
Absolutely! I don't know the exact history and why it hasn't been applied much, and I'd be very curious to learn, but it's definitely a gem.
We removed it a little while ago, in fact. Thanks for the heads up! (Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is quicker and more reliable for next time.)
You can do this with a TFHE implementation, if I understand your use case correcltly. You encrypt bits and then you can operate/manipulate on those individual encrypted bits.

I referenced NuFHE in a comment, but you should give it a try and see if it will do what you're wanting. See https://github.com/nucypher/nufhe/. We also have a discord channel where you can ask questions on using it in the #nufhe channel -- https://discord.gg/rmSafk
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But its harder than Balsa which is a hardwood...
No, it's one of the only nitrogen fixing trees in the world. That's part of the reason it can grow as fast as it can.
In the US, nuclear support is correlated with voting Republican, so yes I do think that.
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Looks to be about 108 tons/year with 2 harvests.

www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=ae6e9b56-1d34-4ed3-9851-2b3bf0b6eb4f
Trade publications like Greentech Media and PV Magazine are currently the best option if you want to keep up with electricity storage news. As the storage market matures somebody will probably launch storage-specific publications, just like solar and wind already have their own specific trade publications. Here are some stories from the past few months:

"Georgia Power Boosts Plan for Renewables and Storage After Local Stakeholder Push" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/georgia-power-u...

"What Oakland’s Pioneering Peaker Replacement Says About the Storage Market" https://www.greentechmedia.com/squared/storage-plus/what-oak...

"Stem Steps Into Grid-Scale Storage With Partnership in Massachusetts" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/stem-steps-into...

"L.A. Looks to Break Price Records With Massive Solar-Battery Project" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ladwp-plans-to-...

"NV Energy Announces ‘Hulkingly Big’ Solar-Plus-Storage Procurement" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/nv-energy-signs...

"GlidePath Builds Merchant Battery Plant in ERCOT, Bucking Industry Wisdom" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/glidepath-bucke...

"Puerto Rico’s Latest IRP Increases Solar and Storage Targets" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/puerto-ricos-la...

"Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/eversource-want...

"‘Cheaper Than a Peaker’: NextEra Inks Massive Wind+Solar+Storage Deal in Oklahoma" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/nextera-inks-ev...

"Another California City Drops Gas Peaker in Favor of Clean Portfolio" https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/glendale-drops-...

"Storage Is Breaking Through in Diverse Markets Across the US" https://www.greentechmedia.com/squared/storage-plus/storage-...

"Solar + batteries help the grid recover in Kaua’i" https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/07/25/solar-batteries-help-...

"Cryogenic energy storage firm teams with Tenaska to develop U.S. projects" https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/07/18/cryogenic-energy-stor...

"Enormous Montana pumped hydro project gets Danish investment" https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/07/10/massive-montana-pumpe...

"Sunrun gets a second contract to supply capacity from rooftop solar + batteries" https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/07/18/sunrun-gets-a-second-...

"South Australia gives 500 MW solar farm plus 250 MW battery plan the go-ahead" https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/07/04/south-australia-gives...
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If you don't control for IQ, the observation is useless.
So that neighbor of mine who has a sign in her yard that says "SCIENCE IS REAL" is probably a Democrat?
Father worked at DEC; picked up a PDT-11/150 on discount as a home system. Intended by DEC as an industrial controller.

Low-level LSI-11 processor variant, 128k RAM, (2) 8" floppy drives. The case was 75% floppy drive, 25 % processor boards on top.

Came with RT-11 build floppies, I had to run the OS build in order to generate a boot disk and three language/utility disks. Took about 8 hours to do the full optioning and build from the 13 source floppies.

Ahh, the old days. Wrote my first D&D game, ballistic path analysis, mandelbrot drawn to 80x24 greenscreen VT01...
Absolutely. I admire the idealism in Silicon Valley 100%, and personally enjoy working here. But it’s important to point out that a) Most people who come here don’t become millionaires and b) You don’t need to be a millionaire to have an amazing quality of life in other parts of the US.
It's not just quality, it's capability.

As I'm fond of saying, I may cost twice as much as an entry level engineer, but I can do things that two entry level engineers can't do.
Interesting that the semicolon was born out of a need for a longer pause in spoken language, rather than as a means to connect two independent clauses as is taught today
Were they able to read those sectors correctly? (Can you tell?)
No not a small minority.
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In most situations, yes. Like I said there are methods and exceptions, but it's complex to get into.
Mailing lists was superior in 90's-00's, now when discourse/slack/discord/etc exists there's no reason to use ML except nostalgia. Parsing tons of new emails isn't easy.

Also I'm prefer to avoid Google services 'cause privacy issues.
Frankly, I think this is a bunch of complete nonsense. Skilled, intelligent greybeards are worth a lot because those decades worth of knowledge transform directly into superior architecture, tooling and code cleanliness. I think the problem is that the enthusiasm of most devs that are 40+ is dead and they're unwilling to learn new things. Obviously such an employee is worthless. But it has nothing to do with age, it has to do with will to learn. The two seem to be correlated but if you hire a 50 year old guy with the drive and the will to learn, you lucked out big time.
Actual study:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
I'm a 56 year old programmer from New Zealand. I moved to the US to join a hot Silicon Valley RISC-V startup earlier this year. I think the average age of our software team is probably over 50. Certainly the median is.

My previous job (and my first ever outside NZ) was working for a multinational electronics company in their Moscow Russia R&D lab, a job I got when I was 52.
> Welp, they aren’t making the greatest case against ageism here, are they.

Huh? Are you assuming that less exhausted implies less productive? Would you assume the same thing if the results were the other way around?
There is a very obvious correlation vs. causation counterargument that you need to address.
I don't understand why people say PHP is like Java. There's very little in common between the two. Because PHP has types? Lots of languages have types.

Why in the world are people comparing PHP and Java?
They would have to change URL to those pages
you misunderstood, the standup happens 30-45 minutes into the workday.
Phishing will always be a threat. Infrastructure will always be a target. I am surprised that we don't hear more about events like this.
Personally, I find it slightly weird that I've been in the industry longer than some of my co-workers have been alive.
Nothing about today's web precludes doing the exact same thing now, except maybe that the editor you used doesn't run on today's OSes. In fact, the exact websites you made back then probably still work as intended.
Well it sure suggests that younger people work harder. I can assure you I am more exhausted when I am more productive.
And the carbon cost of the energy it takes to convert it all to biochar?
As part of Edward Snowden's explanation of his radicalization he relates an anecdote of his work for the CIA in Switzerland.

From the wiki page:

Snowden described his CIA experience in Geneva as formative, stating that the CIA deliberately got a Swiss banker drunk and encouraged him to drive home. Snowden said that when the latter was arrested, a CIA operative offered to help in exchange for the banker becoming an informant.

Ueli Maurer, President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2013, in June of that year publicly disputed Snowden's claims. "This would mean that the CIA successfully bribed the Geneva police and judiciary. With all due respect, I just can't imagine it

Everyone should feel free to apply their own judgement about the value of this anecdote.

Edit: I would regard kidnapping, rendition, and waterboarding as a "negative inducement", myself.
I had an old Model II 8" drive I had pulled out of old machine that I used in the Intro to Computing class I taught in the 90's. It made a great prop to show how drives work. The read/write head was about the size of a matchbox.
You don’t seem to understand how ageism works. The limit is “you look old,” whether that’s in person, or because you have 20 years of work experience on your resume. Think “overqualified,” or “not a culture fit.”

It isn’t rational like you seem to think. If I were 40 and thought I could have a 15 year career in software, I wouldn’t be worried, either.
Hi, I've been replying to other people in this thread. I work at NuCypher doing some research and cryptography engineering. I work on Proxy Re-Encryption and Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

Do you mind sending me an email with your use case and needs? I'd love to have a chat with you.

john@nucypher.com