skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe "terrible" in the sense given for 厉害 is as in "I am Oz, the great and terrible", not the ordinary sense of the word.
> What we really need is less people.

Okay, here's the thesis. Sounds like neo-Malthusianism.

> Seriously though, no matter how efficient we get with our space, eventually we'll hit a wall and the solution is going to be exactly the same as it always was and is: reproduce less quickly.

Yep, that's the Malthusian endgame. Unpacking this claim, it seems to be claiming that the Earth is a closed-system that we can't escape. Now I'm looking for evidence or supporting arguments that prove that.

> The only difference is how much nature will be left when we get to that point.

What exactly does the phrase "how much nature will be left" mean to you? This is too hand-wavy, especially for such a heavy-handed conclusion.

> I've started to look at houses with yards as miniature nature preserves.

Is a golf course a nature preserve? No. Of course not. It's an extremely controlled environment. Any wildlife foolish enough to try to inhabit it that doesn't fit in a coffee cup will almost certainly be chased off, trapped or killed.
I think law enforcement can use information provided by third parties, that they could not themselves obtain, if they had no part in obtaining that information.
IMO its the best language for absolute beginners to FP.
One of the problems with this, is that consumers are given no choice in packing material. I just bought a new TV. The TV had the protective sticky plastic, and was wrapped in plastic. Each individual component came in a plastic bag and then all in one larger bag.

All properly disposed of by local regulations.

The fault then somehow falls onto the consumer if it ends up in the ocean?

Taxing companies based on it seems like a trade dispute as most are not US companies. We've seen how easily those are won.
> I’d love it if developers would be willing to collaborate using a dedicated project management tool and leave the bug tracker for bugs, but the chances of that happening voluntarily are nil. You gotta go where everyone else already is.

What'd that look like, that's different from what they do now? Trying to imagine what developer input to that would look like. I think a lot of devs already feel like existing PM tools they use for sprint tracking and such are worse than if they pushed more planning into git or somewhere otherwise closer to the code, so getting buy-in might not be so hard if devs got to be a little less heavy in a bunch of not-actually-that-useful-to-them tools on a day to day basis.
Even though the idea kind of disgusts me, I wish companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, etc would experiment with building new campuses in the middle of nowhere as “planned cities” complete with airports connecting to regional hubs, housing, good public transportation, etc. Employees could take home more of their salaries. The only thing disgusting me more is how expensive Bay Area rent and property are, and how people who moved here long ago and didn’t contribute to the tech boom get to cannibalize our incomes by restricting housing supply.

This would also relieve housing pressure in the Bay Area, and let native kids not in the tech industry maybe one day move into their own places without waiting for their parents to die.
Xinjiang Re-Education Camps
Under the Constitution the government doesn’t have a leg to stand on to either ban crypto or ban open source software. Certainly no more than it can ban algebra, Elvish or volunteer work.
Exactly. And we have evidence of similar behavior occurring.

COINTELPRO was a thing that actually happened and should be brought up every time privacy rights and government surveillance is discussed
U.S., UK to sign deal to get data faster from tech firms in security cases
How are you going to get a pedo to setup a secure enclave on his box that you control?

This is one of those technologies that are cool in theory but almost impossible to implement in practice on current hardware.
> If public schools were so great and privatization were so bad, why would people want to send their kids to privately run schools?

A good old prisoners dilemma. If you got more resources to spend on education, you don't want to sit in the same class as someone who can only contribute little to the course. Just like worse graduates will ruin the prestige of the school and thus value of your degree. Outcome-base exclusion can be fine, unless it ends up as proxy to select for socio-economic factors and thus make society offer less equal opportunity.

Just looking at "existential threat" -> "outcompeted" only works in a highly simplified world with no market failures and other issues.

> differential performance between countries is more about who is in those countries than how it is those countries educate

I'd like a source on that. I do understand culture will have a significant influence, especially on what value people place on education. But your statement seems to go a lot further into "school doesn't matter" territory. This directly contradicts with earlier statements and e.g. many chines studying in the US.
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This is an inaccurate assessment, even in states like WA where all voting is done by mail and you have few weeks to actually do it, young people don't vote as much.
It's sad. They will force regulators to act and it will affect legitimate companies working on Self-Driving. It seems most of other companies working on self-driving understand there is a lot of responsibility in pushing half-baked product on the street.

This is why we cannot have nice things.
Indeed. The insane thing about a modern F1 or LMP1 car isn't the acceleration (or at least not as much, the hybrid systems in a modern x car change that) but the braking.

Some drivers have complained about rain because the tears have been literally pulled out of them under the deceleration
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Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax
There is a selection bias towards the videos posted and shared the most. That being, the videos showing things going wrong are spread more.

I've used mine a few times and had no issues. One of the times, a cop stopped and watched as my car made its way towards me. He then waved and moved on.

Many others have had no issues with it as well. it is "beta", and yeah, you need to have common sense when using it of course.

The headlines going around when it first came out of "Tesla smart summon gets into accident" was so misleading. It was another driver not looking when backing out and backed into the Tesla. That happens thousands of times daily in parking lots all over. Parking lots are a terrible, unsafe place to begin with.
It's good to know that our community platforms are safe in the hands of people who will throw you under the bus at the slightest hint that you might be less than perfectly enthusiastic about consistently toeing the party line. It's very inclusive of them.
We are working on lowering that number :)

It is quite a conservative estimate, we didn't want to claim something our PoC couldn't deliver. Also, it is with minimal attack runtime, as in, after you have those signatures and timings it takes a few minutes to get the private key. There is a trade-off where you can get around some of the noise and thus need less signatures if you just throw more computation resources at it.
Disagree. People rationalize. Change the motivations and you get a different sincerely held rationalization.

Look at TFA. Decades of a top US ally being a human rights disaster, noone in the media cared. Until one journalist is killed..
We could house trillions of people on the earth in skyscrapers if we needed to. We could even feed them with nuclear powered greenhouses. There are lots of reasons we don't want to do that. Room isn't one of them.
This seems like a fake outrage to me. If I were a homeless I'd be more than happy for someone to take a photo of me for $5. In fact, I'd find it pretty hypocritical if someone was spending their energy fighting against possible infringement of my rights in such scenario instead of actually providing me with money or food.
I can't confirm if northerners actually eat unseasoned steamed veggies (surely they at least add salt and pepper?)

But I can can confirm that would be considered basically inedible in the south. For example, the most common broccoli dish is typically a broccoli casserole loaded up with cheese, bread crumbs, and various seasonings, and butter and/or cream as well.
That caught me too...
The police have more than enough data to do their jobs without having sweeping surveillance powers.

Even with E2E the police can get warrants for the devices which is usually more than enough to access data.

They just want an easier job, it’s not a major roadblock. When police jobs being easy is a good sign that privacy has been completely destroyed.
Wickard v. Filburn was a new-deal-era case adjudicated when the court operated under threat of being packed by Roosevelt if it did not comply [0].

A strict constructionist reading of the constitution would suggest that Gonzales v. Raich is judicial activism, and indeed, all the judges signatory to the majority opinion tend to be the "big government" types. Note that O'Connor and Rehnquist, two famous justices who often sided with strict constructionism, dissented. O'Connor wrote that though she did not support California's actions, she respected its right to do so:

"Relying on Congress’ abstract assertions, the Court has endorsed making it a federal crime to grow small amounts of marijuana in one’s own home for one’s own medicinal use. This overreaching stifles an express choice by some States, concerned for the lives and liberties of their people, to regulate medical marijuana differently. If I were a California citizen, I would not have voted for the medical marijuana ballot initiative; if I were a California legislator I would not have supported the Compassionate Use Act. But whatever the wisdom of California’s experiment with medical marijuana, the federalism principles that have driven our Commerce Clause cases require that room for experiment be protected in this case. "

Thomas also dissented, for somewhat similar principles though with different wording. Source for this is your link.

We don't implement things like this federally because needs differ. Bozeman, Montana can probably zone and sprawl as needed; it's small and there's lots of land. San Francisco can't. Why would any one feel the need to apply the same rules to both, unless it was an attempt to force a particular ideology on another? If there is sufficient support for something, it ought to pass just as well at the state or local level.

[0]: https://www.history.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-tried-packin...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
So how is it different in case of cofounders?
A roof over your head beats no roof at all, by a long shot.

And for some people, it beats a 3 hour commute. People should be free to choose what they prefer as long as it's safe.
I could be wrong about this but it seems the way autonomous driving works is that it needs a ton of real-world failures to learn from. There seems to a mostly-lay-person that there is no way around getting it out there and having people test it out in very odd parking lots with lots of babies toddling around it.

This is the process of evolution, can it be artificially simulated in a way that makes this unnecessary? Can we evolve without people dying or having sex?
Document Number Nine
Mining and storing user data is in no way a requirement to run ads.
I'm sure you're also able to indicate the roles of tenant and landlord in Spanish. But just like in English, you're not required to.
> There's at least 20 of us out there who are in contact with each other. It's really cool to have so many siblings, and I am very happy to be alive.

That's beautiful and I'm very happy for you and your siblings.
Bird Rides[1] uses it. I tried it and it works very well.

[1] https://www.bird.co
At minimum, for asymmetric, at the time of the writing:

* ECDSA with secp-256 or ed25519 curves

* RSA >= 2048 bits. Performance takes a steep dive at 4096bits unfortunately

What people don't understand is that your implementation needs to be selected against your attack surface. If your attack surface includes hardening against side channels, your implementation selection needs to take that into account.
The missing ingredient in 99.9999% of "Agile" shops is developers having hand in the relationship.

That's it. I realized a few weeks ago that I've been lucky to almost always work under other engineers, nearly my whole career. Magically I become a thousand times more persuasive and articulate! (I didn't, I just have an audience with better priors).

One developer-stakeholder relationship to keep in mind is Google-consumer. When was the last time Google had to endure a call from you asking about "velocity?" ...never. And this is because Google has a zillion dollars and will continue on merrily if you die tomorrow. (Yes, Google has meme problems like killing own products, releasing too many things, etc. The point is that you are not an active impediment to their development cycle)

The best way to Do Agile is to have engineers hold >50% voting stock in the company, and for the company to be in a position that it can say FU to any particular client.

Actual agile is not rocket science, nor is it magic---you still have to make tradeoffs, test with users, etc. It's just that you're doing those things from an informed point of view, compared to the alternative where decisionmaking power rests with those incompetent to wield it.

There is of course more to business than engineering. You also want >50% of the voting shares to be able to read an income statement, (and, in small-enough businesses, to understand the value-add of accounting at all!) and whatever metrics keep the lights on (CAC, etc). Yes, to effectively manage complex businesses turns out to be complex!
The Second Great CryptoWar: https://reason.com/2013/03/12/the-second-great-crypto-war/

> "The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub "The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs." In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone's privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts."
"But they could have spent more time silently collecting data, comparing what the computer would do with what real drivers do."

From their Autonomy day presentation, I thought this is how most of their releases go though? They run it in shadow mode, then launch when the accuracy gets high enough?

That said, I do agree with you on the sentiment regarding Tesla's self-driving ambitions potentially putting their sustainable transit mission at risk.
How will you feel when your 2nd cousin is convicted of being a murderer based on nothing more than shed skin cells, and your whole family believes their alibi of being with their mother, but the jury doesn't because mothers lie for their children and DNA transference sounds far-fetched?

That's the nightmare scenario of familial matching and government access to / creation of DNA databases.
> without any demonstrable killer app

It seems like crypto currencies have worked pretty well for sending censorship resistant transactions.

This is demonstrated by, for whatever reason, cryptocurrency transactions have generally been censored much less often when compared to, say, bank or credit card transactions.
We're not in a large scale war. Today, this behavior is seen as desirable, without realizing what the effects are.

It's selfish behavior on both the donor and the recipient, and who ends up paying for it are the offspring and most likely society as well.
Does the summon-your-car feature use the same technology that full self-driving robotaxi mode will use when it's released in under a year?
We're the 'training data'
These sort of benchmarks are both useful and useless, depending on what you want. The architectures of the two are very different and so speed depends very much on what you are trying to do.

Access patterns in Redis are very simple and it is a well optimized single threaded event loop. It is very fast but cannot scale up to multiple cores etc. So in this case, yes, storing and retrieving data will be fast, but uses will be narrower and if you need a high degree of concurrency, Redis will pose some issues for you.

At least in my experience, Redis's key problem is that while it is well optimized it is still a single threaded event loop and therefore with complex use comes a lot of headache. For simple things however, it is really hard to beat.
Understanding HTTPS Graphically
Enough with ducktape. Just use a fucking Smalltalk already. Cuis, Squak, Pharo. If you want to ship a runtime environment with your apps you might as well ship a good one. They have good UI development tools, fast VM and have (from my experience) much better cold startup time than anything based on Electron or Java.
Oh awesome, thanks. I'll test that again and if it continues to work with my encrypted filesystems, I will probably stay a paying customer.
You're not the only one. I was wondering what FB might have done to Irn Bru to provoke the response... :)
> To my surprise, other moderators in the room said that not using (third-person singular) pronouns at all is misgendering.

cf. Jordan Peterson and his refusal to roll over and engage in "compelled speech".

Color me speechless.
Even if they did vote, a lot of the politically active young renters oppose new development since they see it as gentrification or only enriching real estate developers or only building luxury housing.
Freedom of speech. Wars are fought over freedoms as fundamental as this.

Do so many people not understand that trying to limit the freedom of others for your own personal benefit is tantamount to tyranny and oppression? The very thing they claim they are against?
Removing / banning encryption will hurt us all, including (I hope) the ignorant and authoritarian politicians responsible for eroding our privacy.

I eagerly await the publication of these politicians’ private communications.
> terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
This comment does not describe the UK. It’s great to be veggie or vegan here.
I don't know, you can do this to all sorts of scenarios. How many men are vulnerable to attractive women and will do all sorts of ridiculous things out of sheer desperation if a cute woman comes on to them? These men wouldn't do it in other situations like if they were already coming from a place of abundance, or if they had low T.

How many people in need of money do all sorts of desperate things like take a job they hate? How many HNers are working jobs they actually hate? Or they're being taken advantage of because they don't have the backbone to stand up for themselves? etc. etc.
If someone could magically build a system that allows for the communication to be eavesdropped only by the allowed government agency, my objections would be dramatically reduced. But that's not the way tech works. Building one backdoor makes the entire system, and all users, vulnerable to a whole host of other malicious actors, including hostile foreign nations and unscrupulous hackers. We live in a world today where anyone can be hacked, even major institutions and corporations like NYTimes, Yahoo and Sony. We desperately need systems that are more secure, not less.
They did go after Apple, remember the FBI vs. Apple court cases about forcing Apple to backdoor the entire OS to get to the user's data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

As for Facebook, it is more likely because Facebook is in "progress" of enabling E2E and they have more users than Apple right now. It is easier to hit Facebook now than later unlike in the case of Apple that already implemented it from the start; it would go into court litigation for several years and most likely end up in Supreme Court.

Barr is just assuming FB will cave in.

PS: No, a huge value prop for iMessages is that it's built into iOS and any iPhone user can talk to another iPhone user, not because of E2E. Most users aren't aware of what E2E is.
Not really an autoantonym, as the syntax of the sentence will only ever permit one or the other. ("Left" [remaining] is passive, while "left" [went away] is intransitive and therefore cannot be passive.)
I worry about the legacy we're leaving gen Z, and all of the people just coming online in developed countries, for whom mobile is their native computing environment. We can put our phones away and retreat to our "real computers" to scratch our tinkering itch, but that's not accessible or appealing to everyone. When I was a kid, just clicking all the things opened up new vistas of topics to explore, like clicking "view source" in Netscape Navigator leading to getting a book to learn about HTML. There's no "view source" option in Chrome or Safari for mobile.
By US law (GINA, passed in 2008), health insurance companies and employers are barred from discriminating on the basis of genetic results. Life insurance companies are allowed to, as is housing and schooling, interestingly enough.
Me too. However, everywhere I've lived previously has been awful with neighbor noise. Duplexes are less likely to sound like our giant concrete quiet buildings and more likely to sound like my old noisy as hell places.
The first thing they teach you about research, do not do it on the vulnerable population. It's not like people going to the public would matter; The Pixel 4's features and hardware all leaked way before the announcement.
There's a little easter egg if you triple press on the big top right planet during loading
I don't get the inclusion of "comprise". How are "to contain; include" and "to be composed of; consist of" opposites of one another? Consisting of or being composed of something definitionally means containing or including it, no?
I imagine so, but I'm not close to the Linux kernel community and don't know. I don't get the impression that Linus, for example, changes his mind particularly easily.
I'd say the fear is rational if its nearing only a plateau, wouldn't you? Housing prices are already many multiples higher of the median wage than they were 15-20 years ago I believe (due to wage stagnation).
This scenario already happened multiple times in the 1990's. That is why I refused to give the military my DNA. I went through proper channels, submitted the FOIA requests, got tons of paperwork which amounted to "The chief medical officer may decide what is done with your genetic information". I stalled them long enough that I was still able to get out with an honorable discharge. Several marines were not as lucky as I was.

It was funny though... the commander said, "Are you afraid we will clone you?" to which I replied, "No sir, you should be afraid you will clone me" and we both laughed because I was right. I explained everything you described and he helped me through the process.
Is having two different control center applications part of that "polish"? The last thing I'd call Windows is "polished"; instead, it looks like a great example of software built by strict evolution.
They also build—knowingly—on flood planes without concern for buyers.

They also use shitty materials. Compare a modern house with century-or-more home which are often timeless art pieces.
For people who feel strongly enough about the ethics of animal farming and the environment, meat substitutes can be "good enough." When I gave up meat years ago I just considered it to be the price of doing what was right.