skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was one of the best posts I've ever read. Thinking about printing it out and framing it. It's more inspirational than anything I've read, and it articulates the elephant-in-the-room problem we all know but aren't talking about.

No one is innovating anymore. Everyone copies each other. Even in the YC crowd, every other thing is a dumb CRUD app or AI snake oil project that has been rehashed since the 80s. Where's the thorium reactors? Why does it still take 3 days to wire money? Where's the brain-computer interface? I never imagined people would be so lazy in the future. The idea of passive investment in an index fund has analogized to every part of our culture. We have come to expect things to magically grow on their own without any effort. Just showing up is supposed to be a sufficient condition to reaping the rewards of growth. You would have thought the 2008 financial crisis would have put an end to this mentality, but it actually made it worse because now everyone who invested in anything in 2009 is now a millionaire without having lifted a finger. Faith in the System restored. Why build anything when your survival doesn't depend on it--the System will take care of you automatically.

All you have to do is "get in"--we see this in the heavy credentialism/careerist people. We are a culture that shows up to the race and starts celebrating at the start line. We are more interested in proving status with fake competition trophies (e.g. degrees, medals, CVs) than doing that which the status was meant to predict.

None of this happens when you're actually on the frontier. In the late 1800s, America was really on the frontier. Large parts of this country had untapped natural resources. There was no shortage of mystery.

Now people believe that there are no new problems to solve. "Someone else is already working on that." This is demonstrably not true--otherwise we would all be living in post-scarcity Neptune colonies--yet everyone acts as though it is true.

People by and large do not work to fulfill their curiosity; they work to survive. They do the minimum to survive. In frontier eras like the late 1800s in America, curiosity and survival happen to align. The principal problem in all this is how to inject curiosity into a jaded populace who believes there is nothing new to discover or accomplish.
And what makes you think that the current scenario is an example? You think the government likes having a near-complete cessation of tax revenue?
> The technology side is super easy if you know what you are doing.

There are some nontrivial technical aspects which will be required if you want any certificate stores (browsers, operating systems, etc) to take you seriously.

Running `openssl ca` a few times won't cut it. You'll need a honest-to-god HSM to store your root keys in, a witnessed procedure for generating those keys, and some ironclad policies on access to those keys. This isn't something you can half-ass and fix later; if there's any doubt about who might have access to the root keys, the CA will never be trusted.
This behavior all makes perfect sense when you realize these people just lack empathy. "I'm not sick, I should be able to do whatever I want"
And none of them try to lock customers, partners or decision makers from going away in any underhanded way, right? Just pure offer-the-best-and-they-will-stick-with-us. And if someone does it better than us and takes them away from us, shame on us!
Blogs aren't training material. Blogs are a story arc, and story arc TV shows tend to have problems courting new viewers in later seasons. People drop in, have absolutely no idea what's going on, and leave.
Yes and no.

I agree there's more to politics than money, but, I think it is fair to say that, whatever legitimate reasons many Democratic Party voters may have had for not voting for Sanders, there is a general media and institutional bias against the Progressive political movement Bernie Sanders represents.

And, not surprisingly, the root of much of that bias is money, in the form of industries which stand to lose (healthcare comes to mind) if the U.S. elected a politician with a Progressive agenda.
Just read an interesting article using ICU admissions as a proxy. Of course it does lag, but it may be more consistent than hospital admissions.

http://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.13.20063388
My point is that to avoid node_modules in other libraries you just install dependencies globally with JDK or like
It looks like zsh can handle updating the time in the prompt quite simply and elegantly.
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I could imagine this being really useful in live coding shader competitions.
I think this post is a call for help -- that capitalism is failing and that the people should unite.

Capitalism will never, ever, exhibit long-term thinking; it runs counter to its DNA.
This is effectively noise reduction, which bilateral and guided filters are actually used for. They take the weights of their kernels based on local pixels and statistics. You can also look up other edge preserving filters like BM3D and non-local means.

I don't know what you mean by hand made filters and I don't know why that's a conclusion you jumped to.
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Do you think we'll ever conclusively know either way? If that is the truth, China will obviously continue to do everything it can to cover it up. And circumstantial evidence doesn't seem like enough.

I'm not taking a stance either way, I really am curious on whether we'll be able to come to a pretty firm conclusion on it.
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Data in a dat, just like data in a torrent, only lives as long as there are peers interested in seeding that particular dat; it's not a blockchain-style "everybody has to replicate everything".

You can't unilaterally withdraw content somebody else is also seeding; the best you can do to my knowledge is publish a new version that replaces all the dat's content with a "please delete your history of this archive" message, but as with any distributed system you have no real way of knowing if that was respected.
Companies with network effects benefit from having literally everyone on the platform, so you don’t need to go to a competitor to communicate with any particular person. That’s why Facebook has a Tor endpoint, so that people in repressive environments can still use it and add to the network effect. The downside is that Tor support does enable harassment on the platform.
That once was a thing.

https://cdn.store-assets.com/s/217969/i/11059050.jpeg

Light enough for your shirt pocket.
I think this will solve your problem:

https://www.zerotier.com/

It should be able to up a VPN bridge between your LAN and your friend’s LAN. (Or, at least a “LAN” between two machines.)
> I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.

How about you put your money where your mouth is, Marc? Otherwise this is a useless circlejerk.
Get two routers capable of acting like an IKEv2 VPN server & client. Set yours up to act as a server and his as a client, make sure the internal IP addresses don’t overlap (if yours is at 192.168.0.x, his should be at 192.168.1.x). Once the two networks are reachable from either side you can access a shared folder by typing the computer’s IP in Windows Explorer like “\\192.168.0.1” (name discovery might not work as I believe that works via layer 2 and IKEv2 is layer 3).
Thanks -- looks like it's described in an article linked from the one submitted here.
Changed to that now from https://tuxphones.com/iphone-7-now-boots-postmarketos-linux/. Thanks!
> I had a conversation with a dean of a university about offering online courses and the reason they said they would never do it seriously is because that would greatly devalue that people admitted to that school were top tier and thus were top tier on the way out.

IMO that's pretty short-sighted. This line of reasoning is that the degree is valuable _because_ its exclusive, not because the degree is evidence of particular skills gained.

If you simply took the exact same course structure and grading from a Harvard degree and put it online for thousands, the skills gained would be identical.

Obviously being admitted to Harvard signals things besides skill. Wealth and connections, for example, though I would argue maintaining those value signals is harmful to society. It's unfortunate that this dean values those things over increased access to education.

> Is what makes Harvard special that it is doing something uniquely right or that it has the unique ability to draw the best?

'Excellence' in institutions is self-fulfilling. Harvard is seen as being the best, and therefore students choose to go there because they believe it's the best. Since the best students go there, Harvard is indeed the best. At the end of the day it's just perception that drives the cycle. Oh also being ludicrously wealthy.
> Make things illegal, and they don't happen.

Well, as you said yourself, Uber happened. Why? Because it's investors saw a chance to make a huge profit, and so they _wanted_ to invest in that army of lobbyists.

However those same investors do not seem so excited to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to employment security, healthcare, etc, otherwise they would have _wanted_ Uber to have its drivers be employees, w/all the legal responsibilities entailed.
More than once I've heard people use the term 'bondage languages' to describe languages that restrict the developer's ability to create footgun programs.
As someone who regularly uses the Ada language, I fully endorse the use of this hilarious analogy.
Sequel Pro's pros:

- Sequel Pro's UI is much simpler

- it's been around for over a decade

- Sequel Pro can import/export large DBs much quicker

- works on OSX

- less bloated by not having to support 10+ different db types

Genuine question: when did Redis become a relation db?
I’d love an example if you have one.
I’ve used assertions lots as guards or pre-condition checks on entering the function but never right before returning.
It's amazing that this call for socialism (under its best auspices!) contains neither the words "socialism" nor contains the name of the disease, "neoliberalism". If you can't see what ails you, how can you cure it?
Yes and no? Plenty of parents in the U.S. with children don't seem to care about the environment.
Huh. Maybe Chinese labs were studying SARS-CoV-like viruses because the risk of zoonotic reemergence was so damn obvious. See my comment in another thread.[0]

But in any case, doesn't ignoring that risk count as "inadvertence"?

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22912763
I have nothing against the VC industry just like I have nothing against hedge funds, PE or the banking industry. They manage capital inside a regulatory framework to generate returns for their investors. The VC industry however excels at hype and hagiography which enables them to build up entrepreneurship as a holy calling while urging on legions of founders to take more risk but I digress.....

Imagine Wynn Resorts (world's largest operator of Casinos) berating the world for living large, drinking too much and indulging in non-productive activities. The biggest hits of a16z - airbnb, lyft, pinterest - are companies that are either media assets to monetize eyeballs, or software that extracts more value from existing assets while doing an end-run around existing regulation.

Yaay for a16z for being such baller investors. But to tell the rest of us it is time to build is like Pepsico trying to scare us into healthy habits.

Immensely hypocritical article.
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The reverse is not expected.

The spirit of the GPL is to make source code available. Why? So that anyone can maintain the software. Thus there's an expectation (however naive) that the code is in a usable format because that's kind of the point of having the source. RedHat, however, provides the source in an obtuse format, a format that isn't even how it's used it internally. That is to say, they go above and beyond, in order to make their source harder to use. I'd say that pretty directly violates the spirit, if not the letter of the GPL.

The other part is that the GPL explicitly grants customers the right to redistribute the changes. That's pretty wild. Buying a DVD copy of Avengers doesn't give me the right to setup Avengersflix.com and sell subscriptions. GPL software does. RedHat then turns around and says if you actually do that, then fuck you (paraphrased a bit). They are entirely within their rights to do that, but if you're telling me the spirit of the GPL gives me a right that I'm not actually supposed to exercise, then we'll just have to disagree. (Un)forunately for me, the legal system looks at the letter of the GPL rather than the spirit, so what Redhat's doing is legal.

Why does the GPL explicitly grant that permission if it isn't meant to be exercised? Why did RedHat choose the GPL?

They didn't, is the answer. It chose them. The two fundamental pieces, GNU libc and the Linux kernel, are LGPL and GPLv2 licensed, respectively, along with many other packages, and relicensing them is not something RedHat has the rights to do.

Hence, RedHat's strong-arm tactics to force people into buying expensive support contracts.

There's nothing legally wrong with what they're doing but it's still a dick move by RedHat. Sure, RedHat's dick move is in response to Oracle's dick move, but two wrongs don't make a right. They do make a billion dollar business though.

There are other more opinionated licenses that RedHat could adopt for new software that they do own the copyright to. For the conscientious objector software developer, there's the idea of the Non-Military Open Source License which says the military is not allowed to use the software. There's the AGPL, which is a further left license that says if you use my website, I owe you the source, and all modifications to it. Hell, RedHat can afford the lawyers to write their own license that says companies started by Larry Ellison aren't allowed access to the source.
Do you know if there is a compiler switch that can insert run-time checks any time it makes assumptions which could be invalid (such as “this random pointer is aligned”) and abort with an error message (or something) when it is not true? I think this would be invaluable for tracking down odd bugs caused by things like this.
As long as it's $MY_POLITICS, I would love a one world government
I've been thinking along similar lines - in my mind it boils down to that these days we have problems that only a global government can solve. And you can see this through history - tribes, cities, states, countries, X.
I think npm is barely a package manager.

Yarn is a bit better, but it’s also my experience with most of the stuff in the JS ecosystem.
So the clause about assignment? Thanks, that was helpful.
No. That's what the law says but not how you drive.

Suppose your 4 seconds from a yellow light traveling at a high speed. You can slam on your breaks and make a very abrupt stop, or you can cruise through that light and continue on your way.

If the light is about to turn red you should probably slam on your breaks, because you risk being t-boned in the intersection.

If you have time to get through the yellow light/before the cross light turns green, you should keep going because slamming on your breaks is mildly dangerous.

The law isn't nuanced enough to understand this, with good reason. You don't want to make a bad call about the safest action made in good faith illegal.
Now I can't speak for other government systems around the world, but here in Australia a big step forward would be as simple as having open and transparent government.

Currently we have a Federal Government that loves slapping 'secret and confidential' stickers on as many of it's documents, just to keep them secret.

Add to that they spends large amounts of time, money and effort fighting to keep these details secret by vigorously challenging freedom of information request.

Then we have the problem where all layers of government love getting into bed with big business, while keeping the details of these arrangements secret using 'commercial in confidence' contracts.

Just one example of the later is how the New South Wales Government entered into a secret deal with a private toll road company, agreeing to make major road changes (i.e. closing public roads) in an effort to force traffic through the new toll road tunnel.

None of this was made public at the time and would never have been released to the public had the toll company not gone into receivership.

This brought the matter before the courts and the court forced the government to hand over these secret documents:

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

To me this is a classic example of the problems with modern governments, where they are more interested in working for big business, rather than serving their constituents.
Should we send more money through the supply chain to people who just infected the world?

--- --- ---

I saw a documentary about a chimpanzee sanctuary. There was one albino chimp getting all the crowd's attention, all the treats went his way. If you looked in the background, a couple of normal chimps were always watching ominously.

One day, the albino chimp took the gorilla's favorite toy, a simple clear water bottle he liked to squeeze to make a sound. The crowd screams! The albino chimp is being dragged screaming! The gorilla looks to the side nonchantly, just to add insult, and flings the chimp against the wall. Everyone thought it died, but a few minutes later it woke up like nothing happened. He was fine! A normal chimpanzee then walked on camera.

A few days later, the albino chimp was dead. A fall from the trees was the official cause. We can only speculate that the other chimps lured it to fatal heights and pushed.

--- --- ---

A more humane cultural conflict forces change in others with the nature of the world. The people who infected the world do not like consumption imbalance. All that's gone in just a few weeks.

Your changes are petty. Waking up. What we do. And it's all just intrigue.

For a mutual alignment, all that up there is gone. Your world, gone. Matter waves in orbit. The photoelectric effect here on the ground. All that up there is from what we do here on the ground.

There's us. Nothing else. We are far from petty and puny. Death is no escape. I keep you alive, forever.
"Then give me your banking logins and passwords."

"Then give me all of your internet logins and passwords."

"Then let me watch you and your SO every night."

"Then you won't mind if I take up residence in your bathroom."
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There's an unstated assumption in all these things, that you already know some people in the network. If not, you can see all sorts of interesting things, but nobody knows you're replying to them, and it's a very lonely experience.

If there's a way around that, I haven't figured it out, and all these tutorials aimed at people who've never heard of the network seem misplaced -- if you don't already have a personal invite, the network is useless to you, but if you already have a personal invite, the article is useless to you.
Supersonic flight is inefficient and noisy. Drones are noisy, a hazard, and significantly more limited due to lithium density than electric cars. High-speed rail is not illegal, but requires huge capital. Uber may not be economically viable, and there are serious concerns about middle-men marketplace corps socializing the liability, benefits, and wage instability costs the gig economy brings with it.
I work on a project depended upon and repeatedly promoted by Snowden (tweets) and less-than-public-figures-who-lives-depend-on-it (pastebins).

We gave up writing grant proposals. After repeatedly pouring hours into crafting proposals exactly as specified, the big one (no plural) OTF (.gov funding) has never responded. The smaller, more informal ones aren't interested as well (no clue why).

What little OTF money there is goes to the same projects, written by the same grant writers. We're told by insiders that we need connections, need to hire those writers, and we're told we need a sexier story.

We can't fund a modest income for the lead developer (approaching nearly a decade). He lives cheaply in a developing country off anonymous donations of unpredictable amount and timing.

Tor has resources we couldn't dream of, and if they're cutting staff, there's no hope for any open source security project.
I like the angle, and mostly agree with it, but I have a hard time believing our system isn't already so deadlocked that none of it will ever happen.

Like, it's not as if "the left" wouldn't love to make over institutions like the VA, but has such a thing been politically realistic in ~the last 2 decades?
I believe signed char is not legal in this case, precisely for the reason you specified.
I would expect Mr. Andreessen to have a more rounded understanding of capitalism.
I've just tried it and for me GCC 9.2.1 produced either movdqa or movdqu depending on which x64 CPU it is asked to tune for.

That seems like it's doing what it's supposed to.

I also tried a tiny change to the C code using __attribute__((packed)), and it made the compiler output movdqu on the CPU where it was previously using movdqa, admittedly also producing slightly less efficient code.

So again, seems like GCC is doing what it's supposed to.

I'm surprised the author of the article went into obscure arch-specific GCC attributes, and tried things like memcpy(), but didn't try __attribute__((packed)) on a single-element struct, which is arch-independent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaU2lpMcfGU

Listen to an expert. Start around minute 21.

And you thought cell phones were complex.
I have an iPhone and I don't think I've purposefully rebooted it in months. I think the only time i see the boot logo is if the battery completely dies, or iOS updates.

I guess an os thats not really supposed to be running might be less stable, but I would hope most OSes are stable enough to essentially never require reboots. (aside from power loss + updates)
> I doubt Marc has anywhere near enough capital to get these things done (by himself).

He probably has enough to make a good start on one of them.

> maybe this post is a call for help and the billionaires will unite?

If enough people in his position each pick a problem and start on it, that in itself would be a big help.
nice play.

Those are the numbers https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... . The whole Europe and US have the highest deaths per capita in the world. Comparing to the peers - Western Europe - Sweden is midway in the list (and just above US) pretty much evidencing the point that whatever actions have been taken in all those countries it just doesn't seem to matter much.
We know where it was first identified as a new virus, not where it started.

There are numerous reports of Italy’s search for patient zero pointing to it being there before China.

“ Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners. "They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November," he says. "This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China."”

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817974987/every-single-indivi...