skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but read your comment and felt inspired to respond.

I understand your mindset - in a sense, the absence of growth implies death, all life needs growth, etc.

However, growth is not a purely-quantitative, 1-dimensional value. There are an infinite number of possible futures that all constitute growth relative to here and now. Which aspects will do most of the growth? Will there be more humans? more relationships? more industry? more data? more meaning? There are an infinite number of things that can grow, and even within a single vertical, multiple ways to grow.

Therefore, any specific growth we undergo has an "opportunity cost" of whatever other ways we could have grown. Not to mention, most kinds of growth require some destruction, so in addition to potential value, you lose the immediate value of whatever you destroy.

Therefore, in my view, the 2 ways we need to grow the most are:

- Get smarter in the ways that would enable us to accurately predict good ways to grow. This helps us do the following better:

- Build up the -potential- to grow, or at least remain alive, in dimensions that, right now, to us, seem good or necessary.

- Learn how to know when, and how, to unleash that -potential-.

Does that make sense? And does it relate?
The point is mice are life forms. Who are we as humans to decide what that means for them?
I suspect just about every president's before-and-after is less than flattering. Wonder if anyone made a compilation?
It could be argued that we've been making collective decisions for progressively larger groups as time goes by.

We have the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty[1], and the Montreal Protocol[2], for example.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
My friend got her cats registered as emotional support animals to avoid the pet fee at her apartment. Turns out they can't charge you if it's 'medically necessary'.
Depends on what time period you look at.[1]

Housing in SF was pretty much flat from 1990-1998. It went down by ~30% in 2008 and took 10 years to match the peak in 2006.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA
.gg has seen decent adoption in newer gaming related sites. But that's the only one I can think of right now.
Pollution already comes from production alone, whether you are using it or not.
We just made this decision recently at our startup and after a relatively thorough review of many options, we went with Postmark. So far so good, emails seem to land in inboxes very quickly.
But C3 linearization is pretty mainstream after it was implemented in Python
There are reasonable solutions to that problem such as extending the FCCs fairness doctrine to print media, etc.
From the article in the first paragraph: "To comply with today’s stringent crash regulations – by passing offset, side and roof impact tests, as well as those evaluating pedestrian protection performance – cars require considerable cubic metres of controllably crushable bodywork."
That article looks like it contains better and more information, so let's go with that thread instead.

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122779.
>My objection is that all this talk about STEM is just the latest way to keep our schools focused exclusively on vocational training, to prepare our children for those mythological "jobs of tomorrow," jobs that may exist today, but are unlikely to exist two decades from now when our preschoolers are seeking to enter the job market... Anyone who claims to know the specific skills required for the jobs of tomorrow is just blowing smoke. They are wrong and they have always been wrong.

It seems that Teacher Tom is missing the point about early STEM education (this seems particularly worrying given that he is a teacher). The point is not to teach preschoolers how to use, for example, TensorFlow so that they can develop deep learning models (who are predict if this would have any relevance for the future?).

Instead, the point is to help kids to develop a background in math, physics, chemistry, etc. whose basic foundations haven't changed in the fundamental way in the past 50 years. In particular, developing an understanding of math takes time, and seems likely to required for many jobs for tomorrow. Would Teacher Tom contest the point that math will be necessary for jobs of the future? Perhaps Teacher Tom's object was just to write a provocative article to generate blog traffic, (fair enough) but the argument presented in the blog does not seem very well reasoned.
Check out OpenBSD. It gives me that old Linux feeling before it became corporate infrastructure. The code is not bloated like Linux so you can actually contribute as an individual.
Yep, once you get the lower-level bits in place (which is still pretty tricky) you can iterate with confidence and surprisingly quickly. I created this project mostly to get people over the hump and into smoother sailing.
Worth pointing out that the Reliant Robins on Top Gear were modified so that they flip (more) easily [0].

[0]: https://jalopnik.com/clarkson-reveals-bombshell-top-gear-mod...
> Case in point: The Linux Kernel (written in C)...

> You make a change, even a small one, and you're probably going to wait for HOURS for it to compile...

I've done this before. For a small change in a .c file, it takes less than a couple of minutes in a not-so-fast computer. It only has to recompile that .c file, do a partial link of the subsystem, do a final link of the whole kernel, and a few other auxiliary processing steps. It takes more time to reboot the machine or VM with the new kernel.

Even compiling the kernel from scratch is fast. Looking at a Phoronix benchmark (https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/build-linux-kernel), it takes less than 15 minutes on all systems tested. Some systems can compile the whole kernel from scratch in less than half a minute.
Those classes at my uni you could get an a by signing your name. They were historically diluted to make them easy for people with difficult majors, and in the process lost most of their teaching value.
https://blog.autocoder.ai/2017/07/the-tale-of-two-abstractio...
I hope not. Much too late, I recently realised that I probably would not survive my WhatsApp history getting out.
>Now that I have my own kids in school, I understand why my mom, moving to the US from an Asian country 30 years ago, was so befuddled by the education I was receiving.)

Schools in East Asia, alongside pushing STEM topics are still also vehicles for pushing the philosophical and cultural views of the state through the teachers and curriculum, so I'm not sure why this is befuddling as such.

For a concrete example see Chinese medium schools in Malaysia, where it's not just about them being ostensibly better at teaching math or other STEM topics, but about Chinese language as a proxy for Chinese culture and values.
I don’t know anyone in tech who has a liberal arts degree, and I graduated 25 years ago. The authors wife probably doesn’t actually develop the tech, rather management.
Because MS would sell exactly zero copies of windows to larger enterprises without it.
”League of Nations, later becoming the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights ... hopefully you will have heard of those.”

These organizations are/were a good thing but they haven’t been able to stop violence so far. The League of Nations couldn’t prevent WW2 and the UN couldn’t prevent a lot of atrocities and war since its creation. I wish they could. I also don’t think international collaboration will work once we have tens of millions of people having to move due to climate change or if overpopulation causes severe resource shortages.
It summarises the informational value of the linked article, which adds value by saving me the time it would take to read the low-value article.
still too hard (due to the !)
Yes, sorry didn't mean to make that sound like the high encryption pack was available internationally I meant to point out that was the only component of the built in encryption stack export blocked. Updated the comment to clarify.
Thanks, it seems like the natural route after so many TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node projects. As I and another HN member said, Node is only deployed as niche microservice within larger architectures.

The addition of multithreading in 12.. didn't seem to change much.
>There are zero consequences

Maybe more thought could be put into why this is, rather than normalizing it? How many people on this here web site pay their bills with the fruits of these breaches?
Why would they spend time implementing e2e encryption to go Enterprise? Slack is not e2e encrypted.

Enterprises don't want that anyway. How could they snoop on their employees otherwise.
IE is still the best way to copy files in/out of SharePoint. Not to be rude, I have no idea why I would want to try Edge on Chromium or Edge for any reason. Chromium needs more competition than Firefox.
In a purely socialist system, all power lies in the government itself. All decisions for resource distribution lies with the government itself.

In a capitalist system, power is more distributed between the government and private organizations. The government alone doesn’t get to decide who gets what resources. while these private organizations will collaborate with the gov and vice versa at times, there will always be some tension between the groups since they are constantly competing for power, which results in an adhoc system of checks and balances vs a system of near absolute power

IMO we’ve already tried that experiment. It doesn’t work. Pure socialism and pure capitalism only work in ivory towers
https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
So do something like what they did with .NET 2.0/3.0 where it’s a feature that has to be installed? But if it detects it’s needed, asks the user to install it right then? That’s actually a good idea. Why isn’t it like this?
I bet the threat of prison would tune up their attitude. There's no reason that these "misconfigurations" shouldn't be felonies.
I've found the [I2CDriver](https://www.adafruit.com/product/4267) device to be really useful with debugging, poking, and otherwise prodding I2C devices.
I don't see how Rust is low-level. It allows easy access to low-level stuff, but it has quite powerful high-level features.
I agree that 10 year olds probably don't need to learn javascript and the camps teaching that are probably not a great choice for parents. But the authors views on STEM are awfully pessimistic. There are a lot of creative aspects to what I do, and I don't want people thinking that it's drudgery working in STEM.
Better start coffin shopping, because it's going to happen...some day.
How else are you meant to download Firefox or Chrome? :P
It's just that accounting firms don't achieve the brand recognition the other companies you mentioned have, until they've been implicated in corruption scandals. Thats also usually about the time they change their name to something like Accenture.
Well yes, that is why there are laws for minimum wage and slumlords.
Housing asset management only scales linearly because you need several people to physically inspect/validate each property before purchase to make sure there are no serious issues.

Also you need to assess the rental conditions for each property on a case by case basis, and contract everything out to property management.

A lot of REITs invest in medium-large sized complexes to avoid the potential headaches. I’ve lived in a few of these and found them to be quite well managed.
>It's asking what it says about the so-called life sciences that they are based on torturing living beings.

I think it says more about the observer than life sciences.

Morality in the real world is complex and most of the heuristics we use in our daily lives rapidly break down when examining most anything in detail.

While life sciences have a tremendous potential to help humans and the world at large, but there are also hidden costs that laypeople may not be aware of.
The Dream Home of Sierra Online Founders, Ken and Roberta Williams, is for Sale
I worked on a Laravel/React native app a few years ago. The Laravel community is great especially Taylor Otwell and Jeff Way.

Personally it comes down to staying power and community. I really loved being a part of Node's and contributing where I could whether it be forums or open source projects.
If there are 150M homes in the US and suddenly only 5M have the cash to buy them, what do you think would happen to prices?

The inverse has already happened - the US gov't backs mortgages, allows 30 year terms, etc. All that does is drive up prices because everyone's purchasing power increases.
I have a Britax Pathway stroller (https://www.target.com/p/britax-pathway-b-safe-35-travel-sys...), which looks like a monster, but literally push one button and the thing deploys; I did it several times today with the baby in the arms.
Always enjoy your posts on OzBargain!
I must say, supporting HTA can't be that big of a task, assuming the majority of those do not rely on any ActiveX controls. I guess MS could also probably write some replacements for the most popular ActiveX controls, and license them to their customers.
> Do not grow complacent in school, ye numerical methods researchers! Write your stuff in C++. The job market awaits.

Could you elaborate a bit on this? I think I know what you mean, but I'd like to hear more if you don't mind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116696
I think you will always have a job if you write PHP/Laravel. There it seems to be at least 2-3 shops in every city world wide that has a product built with that stack.
The natural conclusion to this argument is that everyone on earth is speaking the same language, because they all descended from the Mitochondrial Eve’s utterances 150000 years ago.
>Nothing can be done.

Please don't do this. Something can be done, we all know it, but for some reason don't think it's possible? Prison sentences should have started with the Target CTO in 2013 (at the very latest), but the more the public is cowed by shrug emojis, the less likely companies will protect your data for anything other than commercial advantage.
Moving Embedded Projects to CMake
> By 2025 at the latest, there will effectively be no such thing as privacy anymore. All personal data belonging to everyone will have been exfiltrated and will be available for sale.

Does your 2025 prediction apply to black market sale or legal market sale?
Eight Flaws in MSP Software Highlight Potential Ransomware Vector
Remove all the housing regulation in California and allow builders to build. You'll smoothly see rents going down to $500/month.
Start having integrity and finally do what's best for your country, not best for just yourself. Otherwise... All other countries are quickly catching up (esp. Europe and Asia) and soon, it will be irrelevant.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That technique on page 3 of splitting off one of the powers and taking the result to be equal to the original reminds me of the proof that 0.999...=1

https://i.imgur.com/ECYa380.png
Good time to reference Elon Musk's "Acronyms Seriously Suck" memo.
XIX (YC W17) Is Hiring an Operations Manager in San Francisco
FreeBSD you mean. OpenBSD and NetBSD are still simple.

You can realistically read the entire source code of OpenBSD, compile it, and know exactly what's on your computer front to back. To do the same with Linux is a research project.
Why accept the liability contained in "we investigated?" Most companies just spit the second half out and leave it at that. Nobody ever follows up.
King County in Washington experiments with online and mobile voting
to future readers: namecheap will let you do 9 years.
This is the second time it's been on the front page, and the last time was years ago. Doesn't seem to be decaying. Actually, it seems to be improving.
> The data may lead to the betterment of human lives, so you weigh the potential human benefit against the lives of the mice.

> Most animal researchers believe it would be unethical to not conduct the testing.

but this is what's so bothersome. why is human experience put above that of the mouse? in this specific example, it's even worse. stress in modern day society is almost entirely self-induced from a civilization/societal point of view. humans are very good at building overly complex meta structures in our lives, all of which contribute heavily to stress because it's unbelievably hard to navigate these unnatural systems. so now, mice have to suffer because of our own inability to control
ourselves?

i think the ethical argument you mentioned is quite a stretch when view in this real light.
It seems like that number counts "paying a mortgage" as ownership. It would be interesting to see the figure for "fully paid off homeownership percentage". I'm betting a huge portion of that those homes are actually owned by banks.
I've been long arguing that there should be severe legal consequences for companies who leak data. Right now there's almost no legal repercussions for this sort of thing. I expect better from Microsoft, but I really don't expect any better from the thousands of tiny startups out there. Unless the people involved suffer any serious consequences for leaking their customer's data, they won't bother spending the time and money to do a good job and these breaches will continue to be commonplace.

As much as I love the free market, we're completely failing to protect consumers. I think we need the government to step in and align incentives. I don't know if we need engineers to be personally liable in the case of data breaches, but I'm serious enough about this that I wouldn't take it off the table. Medicine has malpractice suits. Engineers have a professional duty of care. Builders have building codes. We need an equivalent for software engineering.

Its not the wild west anymore when we didn't know how to do this right. For almost all modern software, best practices are out there and well known. The way you secure a password database hasn't changed much in the last decade. Apparently people just don't care enough to learn and apply those techniques. Bootcamps don't even bother to teach any security practices. Given how much the world relies on our industry's ability and knowledge, that needs to change in a hurry.
As far as I know most of the companies (and certainly the core one) are called "PricewaterhouseCoopers $something", even if they use the "PwC" brand as much as possible.
Multiply that return by the leverage however.
Because WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol design nobody ends up able to prove anything useful about the message history. To any outsider, including the WhatsApp server operators, the messages are opaque. To a participant, including you, the system delivers authenticated messages but deliberately doesn't sign them. So:

Alice knows she didn't send this message, so it's from Bob, but she can't prove to anyone else that she didn't just fake it.

Bob knows he sent the message but he can deny it and there's no proof.

Eve has no idea what the message was, even if Alice or Bob show her the real message she can't verify they aren't lying.
Oh absolutely. I don't necessarily agree with the top level comment (or at least I think it's incomplete, as you've described).
How come? The amount of 3D space grows as r³ if r is the expansion radius. Even though planet surfaces are 2D, the number of planets grows as r³, too, given a reasonably isotropic universe.
Which housing regulation? Building codes for earthquakes? Or zoning which prevents apartment buildings in the middle of single-family housing neighborhoods? I assume you mean the second, and not the first.
> We should be minimizing harm and refusing to cross certain lines.

Do you think the researchers in this paper failed or minimize harm or crossed certain lines? If so, where would you draw them?

If conducted or published in the US, they almost certainly went through an independent animal use review.
> that spending is not creating something useful.

operators of a domain are essentially stewards of that domain and ensure that it's operated correctly, that there are no duplicates, and that it can be trusted. They do create value in the same way the American bar association does, by establishing and maintaining trust between end-users and providers of a service.
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Voice? Really? In the communities I've hung around in (gamer & tech) it sits idle, unused. Curious why it keeps being placed front and center as a major feature, when people don't seem to actually want it.
Washington state just changed their law. Now kids under 4'9" must use a booster up to the age of 16. Realistically, they have stated that 13 year olds will not be required to use a booster since, at that age, they are allowed to sit in the front seat anyway.
"[laugh] Oh no, I took care of that in 19xx"

I probably caught him by surprise, and to be fair, I'm sure Terry was asked that in the past[1], not John.

I was tempted to not answer you, so you'd imagine that he had a super witty comeback... oh well, it is what it is.

[1] while I still hope I was the first to ask that question of anyone in their crew, I very must doubt that.
same with NZ, which has pretty strict codes as we are sitting at the junction of 3 tectonic plates. Regulation including inspection is great, and generally works great, but until you get an earthquake, you really don't know if all the checks and ticking of boxes actually did its job. Microsoft and others likely catch multiple problems through checks, but occassionally a perfect storm happens and things break down. You then adjust your "regulations" to cover any short comings (hopefully). The entire planet you are missing through the forest is that all buildings aren't constantly "penetration" tested to find where they have problems. A quick search shows that USA suffers from many live deployed buildings that have been shown that they don't meet compliance. By Engineers that should've known better....
Is there a public list of all known Kaggle cheats?
Have you tried Arch? It has binary packages; GNOME, Avahi, Samba and similar basic but non-essential packages must be explicitly installed; the package manager is ridiculously fast; and it’s usually easy to install proprietary blobs and other unsupported stuff using the huge user package repository, if you’re comfortable with the associated risks.
Fifth Third Bank in the USA has check deposit software for business users which requires IE with ActiveX, .NET activation, and several security settings laxed in order to work. I've heard no mumblings of it being updated any time soon.
Start with Prop 13
Productive Roles in an Older Society
Crypto Voting and US Elections: Reality
AS a parent with 2 young kids, the huge car seats fit fine in a generation 2 toyota prius. While not a tiny car it isn't wide.
People treat privacy as a human right, not a good to be traded
At least in South Korea some (but not all) rootkits actively check for the presence of VM.
Crypto Voting and US Elections: (Sci-Fi) Short Stories from Potential Futures
I don't know if it would complicate the UI too much, yet having a toggle for them would be amazing. There are solid arguments each for having them and not, for example they're perfect for trail systems, yet horrible when it comes to sidewalks which turn each road into a triple line.
You can ask for all the data associated with your account, so clearly not.

I did it about a year ago and got a huge trove of messages back as JSON.
Bend's layout also has some constraints as well with National Forest and BLM land surrounding it :-/ That and every Californian wants to pack into the West-side of town so prices get super wonky.
> inflated and full of jargon to make themselves seem important or worthy

It's simply a lot harder to explain things in simple language, so I'd hesitate to ascribe such intent.
Never understood Kaggle. The Netflix Prize was great. Now it’s just people gaming Kaggle to get a job.
How did they narrow it down to the gallbladder back then?