skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like most of the big ideas have been discovered (although physicists were saying this in the 1890s as well)

Are many people really saying that now? I'm emphatically not an expert, but my impression was that it's generally agreed that there are clear theoretical signs (quantum physics vs. general relativity) as well as experimental ones (dark energy, dark matter etc.) that our understanding of fundamental physics remains highly incomplete, and that completing it will likely require a lot of very novel physics. There are some hot takes that there may simply be no grand theory that could explain all the relevant observations, but AFAICT they're far from being the general consensus. The more common pessimism is that humanity has been stuck in roughly the same place for several decades now, and there's no clear sign of any experimental or theoretical line of attack that (still) seems likely to get us out of it. This situation doesn't really resemble the complacent belief in the near-completeness of fundamental physics that supposedly existed in the 1890s. (And I'm not sure if that complacency was actually as strong as it's often claimed to be, at least among actual research physicists of the time as opposed to onlookers and popularisers.)
This is bad news people.

1. What is 'recent' messages? That's a big grey area there. They should specify or it's ripe for abuse.

2. If someone suddenly gets 10 reports of abuse then that's a red flag. I would argue that this would require further investigation and by investigation I mean forcing a disclosure such as 1-1 messages.
Hydrogen bombs don't really work as a reliable power source, you're thinking of fission.
AT&T has banned a friend permanently so I would be careful about over-broad generalizations. Folks in my my household were torrenting and we got our service cut with the second offense until we went through some rigmarole promising we'd never do it again at which point they stopped. The cost to an ISP's lawyers to field these things isn't free and at least some really do respond with action.
Do you mean agricultural output per money or agircultural output per area? The latter one does not scale with bigger farms but shrinks.
If you can breed to turn high end low yield strains, into high end high yielding/fast finishing/naturally mold and pest resistant strains then you will be able to either license out your strain library, or compete the fold fashioned way. Get started the earlier the better to be ahead of the curve
I suspect that this person doesn't understand what neo-liberalism is, who is a neoliberal, or what their talking points are.

Neoliberals are the centrist or right leaning part of the democratic party and the moderate republicans. It is the political position of laissez-faire capitalism, reform, and reduced state influence over the economy.

Reagan and Pelosi are both neoliberal. Maybe this person meant Leftist, Socialist, Anticapitalist, or Progressive talking points?
I've never had any problems writing and debugging regular expressions after I came across this: https://regex101.com

And since regexes are usually write-once, adding this complexity on top of them serves no additional benefit. If anything, it'd probably make it harder for the next guy to understand your code.
> distributing copyrighted materials violates the IPFS Code of Conduct

Even if so, what can they (the IPFS devs) even do about it?
Anyone have any idea of how (and what) Richard Stallman is doing nowadays?
Very few.

I'm not sure how you'd measure it, but there seems to be a huge disconnect between techie privacy advocates and the rest of the world. The former keeps claiming the latter just doesn't understand, or needs to be informed, but I just don't think that's realistic.

I think it's pretty common knowledge that these companies are harvesting all imaginable data to serve users more / better advertisements and to keep them on the site, yet usage continues to grow despite all the scandals. I think advocates need to make more convincing claims to everyone else that they're being harmed.
I think you’re right. I’ve only ever needed 32 gb when I was running a local hadoop cluster for development. Those virtual images required the same amount of ram regardless of OS.
Is this software looking to duplicate the ID verification feature of Keybase? If so, what additional features should I be looking at?
I'm an engineer turned bus-dev/sales person. I found the transition very difficult and was recommended to sign up for sales coaching. It was excellent advice and I learned a lot about my inherent weaknesses when it comes to selling and how to compensate for them. I wrote a few of my lessons on my blog. A bit dated but perhaps of value to others:

https://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/134157/Sales-trainin...

https://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/135376/Secret-to-sal...
Discord ?
Discord if you still want to use someone else's service.

Rocketchat if you want full control (open source).
> I've not tried Freenet for a few years, but every time I did it was very slow

It has become a lot faster recently, try again :) When I look at its statistics during active usage it can easily show 1 MiB/s traffic.

You still can't expect HTML to load in sub-second delays, for large multi-MiB sites it may take a low single-digit amount of seconds, but there is an inherent cost to anonymity which probably induces a boundary on how fast things can be:

To achieve anonymity, data needs to be redirected across multiple people so the sender and recipient can't determine who each other of them is.

Redirecting stuff across a longer path than necessary slows things down.
For many of the kinds of things that get labeled, I'm having some trouble figuring out how you would label both viewpoints.

If X says that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are made using aborted fetal tissue and Y says that they are not, and I want to label X as false, what label should I put on Y to label the other viewpoint?
Archive link: https://archive.is/v5916
FreeBSD Hindered? – A Vocal Examination
I don’t understand why would you want an illegal handball to not be provable?
> Why, then, do policymakers and business leaders continue to focus on reskilling? Lafer thinks it gives them an easy way out by laying the blame for workers’ dim employment prospects on their failure to acquire the right skills rather than facing up to deeper structural changes in the economy. He says that a better option might be a push for better pay and conditions in other in demand industries that employ lots of people but are poorly rewarded such as construction, healthcare and education.

I subscribe to the Keynesian philosophy that the government should at the very least hire displaced workers to dig holes in the ground and fill them back up. Even better - use that effort to build roads, clean our cities, provide services, etc.
Almost 9 years have passed by and nothing has changed. The dashboards continue to remain green.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707590
Raku (Perl 6) has grammars as first-class citizens: https://docs.raku.org/language/grammars#Creating_grammars
On this topic: I recently learned that if you possess a soldering iron, you have all the tools you need to weld plastic!

Since a lot of household objects are made from plastic (or partially plastic) this is extremely useful. I had a couple bike lights where the plastic clip had broken at a stress point. Instead of having to throw them away and buy new ones, I just plastic-welded them back to functionality.

I did a rough and ready job without regard to esthetics - the results work just fine for me - but if you want to do it more thoughtfully here's a blog post on how: https://www.circuitspecialists.com/blog/welding-plastic-with...
They are specifically asking for help and guidance to break the law. Any public community has to avoid those questions like the plague.

Remember youtube-dl got taken down because it's README file referenced copyrighted material.

It doesn't matter if a tool _could_ be used distribiting copyright material. The tool (and communities) cannot promote anything related to that use case at all.

The same is true with bittorrent. Bittorrent _could_ be used to download copyrighted music and movies, but you won't find a single reference to anything like that use case on their web page because that is illegal: https://www.bittorrent.com/

In fact the bittorrent terms of service says you may not use the tool for any illegal purposes: https://www.bittorrent.com/legal/terms-of-use/
Describe a time you hacked a non-computer system

It wasn’t just a big match. Just four years after the war in the south Atlantic, it was perhaps the biggest international match in the brief history of international matches.
To quote you:

> There is a whole lot of citation needed on this reply
You could know everything there is to know about python or javascript and still not even begin realizing what can be made with them.
We use Mattermost internally, it’s pretty good. Don’t think the mobile client is quite as good as Slacks, though.
solve a problem with regex: now you have 2 problems.

well, now you have 3.
A Startup’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
Salesforce is one of those companies that I know does a bunch of stuff but I don't understand most of what it's for or how those niches combine into a gigantic company. I get the sales lead tool, but everything else goes over my head. Don't understand how a sales lead tool became a "platform" either. Reminds me of SAP in this way.
It’s two highly spaced pages, and can be read in a couple of minutes. I also think it is pretty clearly written.
I think there's certain use case for this, a moderate regex user who's not an expert and not fully comfortable with regexes but knows the basics, and who is in a project where they need to heavily use regexes for a limited amount of time and where they will need to maintain this code going forward.

If you use regexes a lot, you are better off learning regexes, if you use regexes a little, this is a lot to learn to avoid learning a little about regexes. But there is a moderate user sweet spot where I could see this useful.
> NO, YOU DID NOT GET SCAMMED BY AMAZON BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SERVICE OUTAGE.

Many people have pushed for cloud services because they are supposed to be more reliable than setting up a system in a rack in a datacenter. AWS will constantly point to their uptime guarantee, except it isn't a guarantee. It's just a sales tactic that misrepresents the historical uptime of AWS.

The larger point is that if 99.5% is the real expected uptime, it's vastly cheaper to have a solution that is not AWS, even before you factor in the cost savings of learning their security model and completely opaque billing system.

Advertising a product with features it does not have is the classic definition of a scam.
I agree with the sentiment, but would say it slightly differently: I think most big ideas about fundamental physical laws that are testable by present-day technology have likely been discovered. This spells the "end of physics" only if one defines physics narrowly (IMO as a non-physicist) as only the search for fundamental physical laws.

Edit: emphasis on "only" added
It's fun to watch well-paid insular MSM people come at Glenn Greenwald and bounce off.

Meanwhile younger leftists dislike him because he correctly identifies our current leftist and youth cultures as obsessed with the mechanics of identity categories and privilege, a perfect distraction from class and from US foreign policy. I have a fairly different political worldview than Greenwald but he is totally unique in his principles and consistency in speaking truth to power. For like a decade he has refused to call himself a liberal or leftist, letting his actions (like profiling AOC before really any other outlet noticed her) speak for themselves.

Greenwald has been carefully explaining what is wrong with Silicon Valley censorship for years[1][2]. Hopefully Snowden will convince some people.

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/918451881940344833

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1077912022187163648
No, they're aiming at training too.
Spoken like a true prodigy! Entrepreneurship is not a spectator sport. You have to participate and not cheer from side lines. You have to get onto the base plate and start swinging. The more you bat, the more you maximize your chance of hitting the ball and making that home run. You can keep reading books all day long(and there is no shortage of shovels these gold rush days) but unless you make something and put it out there you won’t learn. Launch and learn. This will be my deathbed advice to my son.
Additionally, you're penalized for doing it "right", because you're often competing against companies which rarely say that anything's wrong (ahem, Mailchimp). You look worse, because you're being transparent about service status, which creates the perception that you're generally less stable.
SwarajyaMag doesn't sound like a credible source.
It was recently black listed from Wikipedia, and isn't allowed as a source there.

plus
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swarajya/
...food, review!
This is a fantastic idea -- the kind you see and go why the heck this was not done before. Such a huge time saver.
On the margin you do get more people to live in certain places or in certain ways by providing subsidies for those places and ways.

Many other countries do just fine without a government monopoly on mail that subsidizes rural areas. Private carriers can serve just fine.
> There's no reason the meat industry couldn't divert the male chickens into a separate supply chain

Setting aside the ethics, purpose bred meat birds are much less expensive to raise and more desirable to consumers.
Well... I admire Kevin Spacey's acting career and think he is an amazing actor. That (for me) doesn't clash with the fact that I detest his alleged molestation of people.

And similarly with other Uruguayan football player who apparently is an asshole but I have to give it to him that his football playing abilities are amazing.
Maybe they bought the dogfood from the Amazon Marketplace, but it was counterfeit.
Whoa. $WORK already up +22% on the day due to this news: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WORK
Beneficial to whom? The deer certainly likes neither the wolf nor the tick.

And whether humans like wolves depends on whether eg we'd want to hunt deer for food.
Crypto Trade App – How to Build with API
I'm amused by the praise.

I've been a Linux user for the last 10 years. Last week I got an M1 Mac Mini to do some iOS development on.

It feels fast, but not substantially faster than Linux. Safari is a bit snappier than Firefox, but that's about it.

Was macOS on Intel really that much slower?
For one day of his time and probably a small part of a day of diminished service, most likely.
Well obviously people are going to hype their own product. Not sure why that deserves extra scrutiny in this case...

Also not aware of Ilya saying anything particularly outrageous
Have they fixed the flaw of sabotaging people's accounts by having their numbers reported by many people?
https://m.facebook.com/OfficialRishie/posts/4606731886034882
Sometimes, but not this one.
Edit: Below brightball pointed out they support inactive domains, so my complaint about not being able to add inactive domains wasn't accurate. I deleted it.
The true answer is we don't know what Apple's scaled-up GPUs will look like, so it's hard to tell precisely how performant they will be.

However, everything so far indicates these will be pretty powerful, as even the M1 is pretty beastly for what it is. So it's possible.
Laptops are my ergonomic savior. I make sure it's on my lap, and that my elbows are on softly padded armrests and hang down gently, and this has given me decades of work after fierce carpal tunnel inflammation.

I also use a Wacom tablet comfortably placed on a table to my right.
Reskilling is tough in a world where you have to compete with people with many year degrees for an entry level job. If you imagined people reskilling twice in their careers, that's two extra times through college. Say they can skip the general education reqs the second time through and it's just 3 years. That's still 10+ years of undergrad in a 50 year career.

I think educational specialization is going to be a massive issue going forward. In the past, one industry had to compete with another for labor. As time goes on, it's increasingly only within-industry competition that matters, because workers have sunk too much time and money into simply getting their feet in the door to switch.

If you could spend three months and $20k to switch industries, you're much more likely to move compared to the friction of spending a few years and many tens of thousands (and who knows if that specialty will be flooded a few years later when you finish?).
That's not the point, isn't it? Of course the accusations are probably true, but what about other serious accusations about mainstream media, about mainstream democratic politicians about Y-Combinator in particular and the SV culture in general? Will they be treated with the same attention?
As a hobby grower, I'd pay a premium for birds like this. We buy sex links and the idea that the dude chicks get slaughtered bothers be some.

Though my SIL has expressed a willingness to slaughter the roosters so perhaps I'll just buy straight runs from now on and eat fresh chicken.
I don't care how much someone other than me makes.

I care that you're so insensitive that when you're told that medical professionals are burning out en mass you think money makes up for it.

That's so incredibly lacking in both empathy (they're human beings) and utility (they're medical care providers) that I can't reconcile it with any good-faith viewpoint on the world. So I have to assume it's trolling and should not be amplified.
Installing renewables, as well as installing EV charging stations and upgrading electrical infrastructure is going to be a Herculean effort, lots of good jobs to provide for folks in that domain.

I believe many on Native American lands still don’t have running water, internet, or power. Should be a top priority for such a jobs corps.
even a low end laptop. i work in clojure for finance. digital nomad. thinkpad x220.
Whenever I hear of right-to-repair I'm reminded of Farenheit 451 - one of often missed points that Bradbury made was that it was the willingness of the people in society to ditch books and information ; it was about populist mandate, not fascist overreach.

With right-to-repair, these things aren't hard to take apart and put back together because of some cabal of greedy corporate overlords. Customers genuinely do not care about the repair of these products.
> There was notable involvement in the abolitionist movement among northern Protestants, and civil rights activism among catholics, Jews, and northern Protestants.

I meant those as two discrete times, civil war era abolitionists and civil rights era Jewish and catholic activists. I didn’t claim that Catholics and Jews were active against abolition. I’m fairly comfortable with the history of immigration of different ethnicities into America and the ‘whitening’ of certain immigrant populations, so I doubt I’m ignoring their timelines.

Additionally, rereading my comment you’ll see I try to distinguish between northern (mainline Protestants, but also catholic) and southern Christians, as I mostly associate (possibly incorrectly) evangelicals as tracing their lineages through southern baptist & Midwest fundamentalist denominations.

I never mentioned atheism so I’m not quite sure how you constructed a position from my comment, but that’s not really applicable to any view I hold.

My point in the comment was to disabuse readers of the revisionist idea that Christianity, in particular American evangelicals, are natural champions of oppressed people - and if we measure their net effects on minorities in America in the aggregate, I’d wager it’s mostly been a tool to justify and propagate oppression and segregation more often than not. You are correct that my argument was centered on American Christianity, as even British Christianity (particularly quakers) had a markedly different relationship to abolition than their American southern Baptist counterparts.

I wholeheartedly agree with your argument that the battle lines have been drawn through Christianity, but I don’t think that it split the population into 50/50 proportions.
Intel and AMD were really limited in how much they could innovate since they limited themselves to Windows desktop.

And windows basically only runs on the amd64 architecture.

Hopefully, they'll start being bolder now. The MS ecosystem has been an anchor for hardware (especially desktop/laptops) innovation for far too long.
It's pretty hard to imagine a circumstance in which I would be reporting a WhatsApp user. This isn't like a public forum. These are one-on-one conversations or group chats with people who were specifically invited. If someone was a problem, I would just block them. Why would you ever report someone? I haven't ever heard of this happening.
I’m with you on this. If Apple genuinely views privacy as a human right (and FWIW I believe that the right people at Apple do), then they need to learn about privacy by design.
This single bad hire myth needs to die. It's just simply not true. Organizations should have feedback loops in place to monitor and mitigate the issue. And if you don't, then the person doing the hiring should take on that responsibility. This is the cost of doing business and should be factored in.

Transactional employment exists in FAANGs and other big tech. They are called contractors.
Not to get overtly political, but one of the two major parties will do literally anything to prevent that. Their ideology interprets critical thought as a direct assault, and they respond accordingly.
Of course, why else would Google agree to store all the backup data of a competing company for free? Google would have had no interest in storing Facebook's end-to-end encrypted data unless it could read it.

The moment Google and Facebook announced this partnership together I knew it was bad news and I should stay the hell away from doing such backups. But apparently many people cheered for it without realizing the implications.
I think we need to replace that one with "Enterprise software is shit" these days.
Ask HN: Help with National Online Zoom Event?
The national "Thanksgiving is NOT canceled" online zoom party needs a web developer (and other NON-technical help).

Can you refer someone or maybe help yourself? We're connecting people looking for a party with available facilitators.

The party in the U.S. brings together actors as party game facilitators with people across the country looking for a social connection online this weekend.

Facilitators and attendees need to be able to schedule their availability. Facilitators additionally need to be able to upload their zoom link.

Our acting connections are primarily U.S.-centric, but happy to spread this around the world for the upcoming holiday and end-of-year events.
Does anyone know of a writeup with actual details of either the auction system or the loophole somewhere? For 4000 words, that transcript carried remarkably little actual information.

Edit: This looks like a good description of the process itself, and explains why the problem is difficult and requires the government to be a middleman. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/28/7202
All of those are reasons that the determination of status should be totally independent of the company technically and legally.
Nope. What you or your algorithm may find 'toxic', I might find interesting or useful.
People tire of politics when (they feel) the conversation becomes unconvincing, pedantic, or monotonus. That doesn't mean those people have the wrong attitude, it means the argument is not compelling.
They can blacklist hashes on the ipfs.io reverse proxy, but they cannot block you from accessing those through a different node like your own.