skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google gave the world a fantastic search engine (is there anything comparable to Google Books when it comes to full-text search across all books?), a web browser with fantastic dev tools, a great space for hosting videos online, and it has been driving innovations in the web development space (web components, browser APIs) for a number of years. I think it's been great.
Weak references are possible with the .cursor pragma applied on local variables and object fields. This release introduces cursor inference too, enabled by default with --gc:arc|orc, but only for local variables.
Animats is John Nagle?! I've seen good comments from him to the level where I think "oh, a comment from Animats" but never realized.
also has anyone independently reproduced the results?
For those industries you listed the same would have been true in the 1930s when the prediction was made so I don’t think Keynes was referring to those. In all likelihood he was talking about manufacturing and professional jobs. The divergence seems to be that the blue collar workers were fired and/or their jobs offshored while not much has changed for the white collar workers except for the digitization of paperwork and the elimination of support roles with accompanying responsibilities now transferred to the professional. I think we screwed the pooch on this one and we should own up to it.
Brain-inspired intelligent system can drive a car using only 19 control neurons
New feature found in energy spectrum of universe's most powerful particles
> people decided to keep working lots and buy more stuff instead of chillin

That's not why people don't work 15 hour work weeks, it's because we're forced to due to artificially induced scarcity of essentials like housing, along with a competitive labor market where employers generally demand 40+ hour work weeks and can get away with it because they have the leverage.
Use popular media to normalize inviting your neighbors round for a bbq, asking your handy neighbor for help when you have a plumbing problem, regularly say hello and sometimes have a chat/catch up with neighbors to maintain lines of communication to make the above possible.
You can modify or add extra terms to the GPL, they even have templates: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLIncompatible...

Totem has an example https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/-/blob/b4050524d6cd961b...
Moloch is ferociously competent!

This is Moloch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
Phone Audio okay for uploading online?
A’ Design Award Winners for Graphic Design and Visual Communication
All I can say is that Wim Hof breathing makes me feel real good. It wakes me up and calms me down at the same time, its very pleasant. This effect is both physical (you feel energized) and psychological (your thought quiet down and you become more present).
A deep dive into the Golang generics proposal
Personally I actually get value from HN, there's plenty that is informative and useful here and I consider HN a discussion forum. Social media is more what I would term fb where the main point is about the social connections, instead of the discussion and learning the discussion implies, in my opinion.

As for concrete proposals .. it's a massive topic, and full of interdependent systems and feedback loops and it might be hubris if anyone says 'heres a single concrete proposal to address it all'.. but here's some thoughts more on identifying issues to address in the context of schools, and aligning the results of schooling to learning.

A natural process of learning, especially for children, is to copy an image/role model/idol and learn through imagining themselves as that role model.

What are the social aspirations, or role models, that children usually idolise in our current schools and society? Film stars, sports stars, super models, instagram 'influences' which are usually just models ..

Common themes amongst these: glamourous lives, big money, social capital.

Another common theme is accomplishment in those fields does not have a linear relationship to hard work, to learning, and to the cultivation of knowledge.

Instead it's about coolness, social gaming, and largely about genetic lottery of beauty or sporting ability - yes some hard work but that's not going to get you far without these other pre-requisites.

It's also about luck, so rewards are not linearly related to effort, thus the payoff for effort is very uncertain.

Actually accomplishment in those fields is mostly a winner takes all market environment, so most people can never find success, and the majority of people who realise that they can't ever succeed to their aspirations give up putting in effort, it's a cause of apathy.

So the mainstream kids who idolise mainstream 'stars' aren't incentivised to learn and apply themselves mentally, they are incentivised to try to be cool, play social games, preen themselves for physical beauty, and hope to heck they are lucky .. and the vast majority has to face the unhappy reality they will never be stars.

That's a problem. What if their role models were Einstein who had a talent for imagining and discovering interesting things about the world, even as he worked a mundane job as a clerk (in the patent office). What if social capital for the mainstream classes was accrued to people who worked hard and made sensible decisions and created useful things, instead of to playing social gaming and trying to look beautiful/rich/make other people jealous and 'influence'.

So I don't have a concrete proposal, or the 'answers', but (I think) at least this is asking some of the right questions!
Correct, this was my (apparently very widespread) misconception that I just corrected with a bit o' googlin'
Katana were never the best swords, nor the best sword design
This marks the end for reddit. Now, more than ever in an era of "unbundling" we may see different sites for the different niches (movies, books, politics, etc.)
wtf is irc
It’s as if we made a mistake when we gave government control over education. It devolves into a lowest common denominator “one size fits all” approach that disadvantages heaps of people and prevents them from reaching their full potential
Sorry, I had to editorialize the title to fit into the limit.
> So you're saying the only courtesies we should render to others in life are ones that we're duty-bound by license agreements or other contracts to give?

Nothing you do for your employer as part of work should be considered "courtesy" or a "social nicety".
A quote from the QualityLand 2.0 audiobook by Marc-Uwe Kling:

> The Singularity is always one Kurzweil in the future.

(That is a pun on Kurzweil's name. It consists of two german words that can be roughly translated to "a short amount of time").

Another quote that this may be based on: "The semantic web is the future of the web, and always will be." (Peter Norvig) Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510953
Have I noticed all these things? You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want.

Our space program is finally running at a more reasonable cost thanks to some private competition. What services are costing more now outside of healthcare? Most things are getting commoditized/cheaper. What enormous investments in infrastructure education etc? The problem right now is a lack of investment into fixing bridges- not that the money we're pouring in is wasted. And - the new laguardia terminal seems pretty great. Isn't that an example of an infra success? Are all the highly paid academics clueless and delusional? In the past few years we got CRISPR, an explosion in AI, the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, etc etc etc. All from academics. If every decision is made to maximize self interest - what about the near eradication of polio and Guinea worm disease by the gates and Carter foundations?

Personally, I'm not that compelled by the "everything sucks because you know it just feels that way" arguments. You can make someone feel whatever way you want by picking your examples properly. Isnt America doing so great now? Spacex and CRISPR and a booming tech sector so on? And this is pretty clearly just meant to get you into the mood the author things will make you most likely to buy his book at the end.
Is Pomodoro Technique is helpful to improve productivity or is overrated?
I didn’t read the inventory part but the part about rising cost of infrastructure like bridges is extremely accurate. Also, the part about how culturally we’ve shifted to only looking out for ourselves is the zeitgeist of our younger generations which I postulate is due to TV and popular culture romanticizing machiavellianism.
>“The recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate or reproduce any portion of this produce, including ‘but not limited to’ seeds, stems, tissue, and fruit."

Food, crop and patents on life in general are pure evil. That'a the ultimate in consumer culture right there.

'You have the right to consume the food we produce for you, but we are the only ones who may produce it.'

That's legislating control over life itself to companies and corporations.

How can anyone possibly believe it's reasonable that someone could be punished because they popped some seeds into the ground and tried to grow some fruit?

Agriculture has been the cornerstone of human society for thousands of years. What gives somw corporation the right to tell people they canmt practice one of the oldest human trades in existence?
Yes things have. For instance, potato chip bags have shrunk since the 2008 financial crisis while pricing has increased. Mass market textiles are also no longer durable like they were even twenty years ago (has anyone purchased Marc Jacobs apparel recently?).

I was just reflecting on The Organization Man last night and received from the get-go a nice little gem from a man giving a Yale commencement address in 1908:

"Here merit is the sole test. Birth is nothing...Here only a natural order of nobility is recognized, and its motto, without a coat of arms or boat of heraldry, is 'Intelligence and integrity'." (p16 2002 UofPenn Press)

And then the author, Walter H. Whyte, remarks:

"But the very industrial revolution which this highly serviceable ethic begot in time began to confound it...by the 1880's the corporation had already shown the eventual bureaucratic direction it was going to take...the big organization became a standing taunt to this dream of individual success. Quite obvious to anyone who worked in a big organization, those who survived best were not necessarily the fittest but, in more cases than not, those who by birth and personal connections had the breaks." (pp16-17 ibid)

The argument being, America escaped the moral inefficacies of the old world, yet it slowly crept back in once it became more profitable - and above all convenient - to be ambitious on a career ladder than ambitious before the nakedness of the sun and stars. Which means it is common to have to lie and conspire in order to get ahead - and how many people are willing to for a nicer car to drive around the neighborhood!

The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. is a great read corroborating the growth of agglomerated industry, and Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy also has some good passages relating to this phenomenon of the homestead getting saturated.

But I'm an eternal optimist and see this as the price of progress :)
Baroque Art in 9 Pictures, the Extravagance and Drama and Colors
I really want to see GLSchool on this. The extra dimension would make it feel more like a real aquarium!
I honestly think there's room for more than gratitude with, as you said, a trillion dollar company. I know its hard to find a balance when we want free and open tools, developed in a spirit of sharing and enabling innovation. But something feels slimy about an enormous company deriving a huge amount of revenue from a FOSS project, when they could easily compensate developer(s) with barely an impact to their bottom line.

I know its not required by licensing - but "legal" doesn't always mean "right".
The answer seems to be :shrug: which is what I would think the answer would be right now.

From the middle of the article:

"Should reinfection prove commonplace, and barring a highly effective vaccine delivered to most of the world’s population, SARS-CoV-2 will likely become endemic"

And the closing sentence:

"A duration of immunity similar to that of the other betacoronaviruses (~40 weeks) could lead to yearly outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, whereas a longer immunity profile, coupled with a small degree of protective cross-immunity from other betacoronaviruses, could lead to apparent elimination of the virus followed by resurgence after a few years. Other scenarios are, of course, possible, because there are many processes at play and much that remains unresolved."
The answer seems to be “maybe”.
I've been to a week long expedition in Poland to study with Wim a few years ago. I wouldn't go as far to say that it feels or is cult like at any point. I think the Internet, and some perspectives of those who have written about him, may give that impression. But Wim is about sharing, not bringing you into his fold and sucking resources out of you. Wim has a large personality which can work against him in some regard. I learned a lot from Wim and his instructors and I have better understanding of myself. I would highly recommend his excursions to anyone that has an open mind that's interested in learning about themselves and meeting like-minded people in the process.

A couple good resources for you to check out if you're interested. Scott Carney does the best job of dispelling Wim as his original intent was to basically shine the light on Wim's snake oil in "What Doesn't Kill Us" [0] (spoiler: that is not the end result). Scott recently released a new book called "The Wedge" [1] that incorporates some of Wim but a lot of other practices and people that fit into the idea that we have more control than we realize and getting out of our comfort zone has healthful benefits. Being in 100% climate controlled perfect environments doesn't always help us. The other one I'd recommend is James Nestor's new book called "Breath" [2].

[0] https://www.scottcarney.com/what-doesnt-kill-us
[1] https://www.scottcarney.com/the-wedge
[2] https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath/
The Abundance of Silicon Valley
My thoughts are that most people's political views are shaped by the media they consume. For a large portion of the social elite, these views are shaped by their education and by the class views espoused in publications like the New Yorker, NYT, etc.

These prestige publications no longer have the influence they once had on other social classes because these social classes have access to a wide variety of new media enabled by the internet, and this loss of control is what's shocking to the political/social elite.

I think something along these lines must be what's happening because in terms of actual policy, Trump isn't that different from someone like Pat Buchanan.
One thing I noticed is that a lot of managers create an environment they would not want to work in themselves. A good manager should not just pass on orders from above and report back but try to shape the work environment so their reports can work well.

A lot of managers in my company only ask “when” but never “how” or “why”. It doesn’t help to constantly remind people of deadlines without listening to and implementing suggestions for improving the work environment.
The mainstream denominations of Christianity have always said very clearly that the history of salvation isn't the history of the world. We aren't here to build heaven on Earth, the Kingdom of God works on its own without us.
You should be charging a % of revenue as people scale. That way you align with taking value as more value is driven. If you look at companies like Shopify over half of their revenue comes from processing fees. Maybe price is a good place to start to get people in but probably not best model long run.
ADHD wouldn’t be such an issue if there was a sliver of society that was structured in a more friendly way to our minds. The entirety of society is ADHD-hostile. Not just unfriendly, but actively hostile. Neurotypical privilege run amok
And if your ticket system gets compromised?

I get it from the perspective of slack is a disorganized mess in terms of long term history, but moving sensitive data from one system to another with similar security doesnt seem like a win (or loss) for security to me.
> We are currently investigating, and apologise for the inconvenience caused.

I just want to say, this is much better than when people say "we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

It's really inconvenient, thanks for just acknowledging that up front.
I've been using the mobile device made by Heartmath lately — https://store.heartmath.com/tech/. It looks at HRV (heart rate variability) and gives you a realtime plot, thereby offering visual feedback about how my breathing is affecting how steady the time between heartbeats is. Hearthmath calls low HRV "coherence" and getting into a lower HRV state (i.e. via regular, smooth breathing; maybe 1 in/out breath each ~10 seconds) is strongly associated with enhanced levels of calm and clarity — and I would strongly suspect (though can't know for sure) that similar effects would be seen as in the paper w.r.t. the immune system. I've found it exceptionally helpful.

I am on and off a long-term meditator (for about a year I was meditating as much as 2 hours a day). Some people don't achieve deeper states of calm and contentedness, in spite of meditating often (I've encountered this among serious practitioners of zen, for example; this happens to me sometimes, too) and I strongly suspect that lowering HRV would help.
Its typically an ethical decision. In the event of a deadly disease ( cancer, covid, hiv etc ) its considered harmful to continue giving a less effective treatment once you have shown some superiority/inferiority.
Consider the Asian countries' successes against the coronaplague. Meanwhile, the West is failing and the United States worst of all.
Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago
Yes - CS Lewis pointed out the value of going to church in your local parish rather than shopping around for a church that suits you. Instead of having your beliefs reinforced by people who are like you, they are influenced by the people who happen to live near you. Those people may be more diverse in age, wealth and nationality than your other friends, but they are linked to you by a shared interest in your neighbourhood. This builds community and helps open minds.
Hey, that is the usual answer to "it's really hard to learn how to do something" here: music, programming, occasionally medicine.

It's true, getting very good is a great deal of work. But, you don't have to be a virtuoso to get some benefits. An app won't teach you to play well enough to give a concert at Carnegie Hall. But, statistically speaking, you aren't going to play Carnegie Hall at all.
The reasoning is that as you gain information, you also have a duty to the people in the control group to use the best available information to take care of their health. Once you gain "enough" information ("enough" being statistically defined) that the drug helps, each additional person you let languish in the control group (who is denied access to the drug) is a cost that must be weighed against the benefit of getting additional information. When the data is clear enough, the cost can exceed the benefit, and you stop early.

Typically you'd register a "stopping rule" before you start your trial: a good drug often will trigger the stopping rule, as it helped so much that we learned about its efficacy on a smaller N than originally planned.

There are many different stopping criteria, depending on the trial (in safety trials you'd typically stop because you've found evidence that the drug is unsafe and continuing would be unfair to the folks in the treatment group, whereas in efficacy trials after safety has been established, you'd stop because you've found evidence that the drug is effective and continuing would be unfair to the folks in the control group).
It's not the first full-flow staged combustion engine ever built, but it is the first to get off the test stand and fly.

Looks a lot more complicated in real life compared to the block diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor#/media/File:Spac...

And the Super Heavy booster is supposed to have at least 28 of those. At one point it was 37.
In my opinion a simple regulations would target notifications and feeds:

1. You can't enable content notifications by default. (unless it's system or performance related one) users have to manually turn them on

2. You can't nudge users to enable notifications.

3. You have to enable switching off notifications easily

4. By default feeds have to be strictly time-based. No 'recommendation engines' by default. No exceptions.

5. Related to 4. No paid posts. Advertiser can buy banner ads, interstitial, but those should not be presented as posts. Should be clearly marked and displayed distinctively from feed content (content I get because it specifically looked for and followed)

I think the points above will take us back to social media of 10 years or so ago. But if it not suficien, here's another one:

6. Platform cannot recommend accounts to be followed. Follows need to be discovered actively by user
Software licensing already breaks many tacit rules that people normally take for granted. It's rude to copy someone else's creation without asking first - but if they license their code in a way that allows for copies to be created, it is no longer rude to copy that code without permission.

It is also rude to sell someone else's work without permission. But if they choose a software license without a non-commercial clause, it is no longer rude: and this implies that the absence of a feature in a license is a kind of approval of its opposite.

If you choose a license without an attribution clause in it, you are admitting, publicly, that you do not care about attribution - not that you require, nor that you forbid it, just that you are ambivalent. If somebody goes on to use your code without attribution, you are wrong to then point out that they have been "rude" to you, because you have already declared your indifference.

I'm not suggesting that unwritten rules are bad. I'm suggesting that trying to introduce unwritten rules to a system where written rules (i.e. licenses) already exist is a bad thing. Software licensing already sits at the intersection of legal and social obligations, because attribution is a feature with essentially no legal impact; treating a software license as a social contract is not a mistake.
Please explain why you're downvoting, this is a fact, only wild polio is "eradicated" from africa, not vaccine-induced polio (type 1 and type 2 are often milder than wild polio however). And i think there was a polio outbreak in Soudan this year, so...
tl;dr for anyone ever needing to use S3 as a website:

- S3 bucket w/ same name as domain.

- CNAME to bucket

- OR enable static website hosting, CNAME to your bucket's website dns name provided by AWS.

- Done, just make sure CF is proxying not doing pass-thru.

- PS, permissions need to allow public read of your data, of course.
Ransom Denial of Service Attacks from “Fancy Bear” [pdf]