skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me that would be exactly opposite of the direction I want things to go. I want more files and more editability. I want to be able to track down the audio file for that godawfully loud "CLANG!" sound Google Assistant makes and tear it out by the roots, then print it out and burn it for good measure.
PG"s essays are not exactly known for the latter.
I understand that Rosetta 2 uses static recompilation "where possible" and only falls back to dynamic when necessary.

This is purely speculative but I would assume that it statically recompiles the __TEXT segment of binaries or maybe whatever it can easily figure out is code by following all possible jumps, etc.

Then, whenever a page is mapped as executable they could then check if this is part of a memory mapped binary which is statically recompiled or otherwise recompile the code in the page and jump to the now native version.

That way JITs should work without fully falling back to interpreting instructions. Things would get tricky when you map some memory both writable and executable, but maybe they're pushing the limits on what the spec allows for instruction caches? I'd have to check my x86 reference manual. Or maybe this is another area where they have some hardware primitive to facilitate a partial recompilation.
But reddit is a proprietary platform, not a protocol.

What I was getting at is that NNTP and SMTP (and the infrastructure surrounding the protocols) is all standard and non-proprietary, nobody owns them and anyone can run them so there can be as many communities as may be interested.
I really like this. Might be the thing that finally actually gets me to write/blog.
I don't get the Amazon hype at all. Never ordered anything from them.

The last time I checked, their website looked very counter intuitive and also down right ugly. Many products are seemingly garbage or counterfeit, the review system is bad and the workers and sellers are not treated well or properly respected... and I could go on.

I don't want to lecture anyone about ethics, but it's astonishing how little personal responsibility anyone takes when it comes to using services from such a company. Doing business with them is just completely off-putting to me.
It was developed by a Danish startup named Financys, which was acquired by Schantz (another Danish company) and this was later acquired by Keylane from the Netherlands. Unfortunately I don’t think there are any good, detailed information about the technology available any more.
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I'm from NL, so it's at best 50K. Though with the current USD/EUR, I guess that's not bad at all.
>Body of human knowledge is much bigger now-a-days

that's what Einstein' contemporaries could have said as well.

The growing body of human knowledge is increasingly noise, bad or redundant theories, with entire gigantic fields based on wrong assumptions and fueled by groupthink and premature optimization, just like 100 or 500 years ago. Deep specialization is not always helpful and often detrimental for fundamental research as it assumes deep indoctrination into consensus theory of the day.

Thinking about fundamental research can start once one learns the fundamentals which doesn't take more than a few years in a breadth-first search manner. You don't have to cover all the branches of that giant tree, some of the branches don't have a right to exist in the first place and some are incredibly redundant or marginal improvements of the core parent idea.

I think redundancy and noise have definitely increased because more people are involved in research. So the only think that might be harder now vs. 100 years ago is filtering signal from noise. But the internet, and the rise of search engines is actually pretty helpful with that.
We call working long hours “heroics” at my company, it’s possibly a common term? I’m unsure. In any event, Heroics are strongly discouraged. There are people who do it, of course, but they get no special accolades for it and in turn they don’t do any kind of boasting about it.
Counterpoint: exceedingly few tech entrepreneurship companies are doing anything at all that is really new and "radically different". Most are doing rather small and unimaginative things that make money by doing some equivalent of selling more ads.

If the GP commenter was working at, for example, SpaceX (a large aerospace company), I can 100% guarantee their work would be more meaningful and rewarding than at basically any startup I've ever encountered. It often seems like it's a unique conceit of the HN community to think that most of the tech startups floating around here are really doing much more than established companies.
Why is this trending #1 on HN? Granted, it's a cool tool and would likely save some people alot of time as they wouldn't have to invest necessary time and effort into setting up a virtual machine with an older version of Mac OS. What concerns me about this Saas is that Encoding/Decoding as a service is about a silly as Encryption/Decryption as a service. The project may as well say: "Give us your valuable information and intellectual property, we promise not to look at it and we promise that it will actually be immediately deleted."

I don't mean to be altogether negative or pessimistic here. I have no beef with Joshua Stein and absolutely no evidence to suggest he isn't anything but a super honest and chill dude. I'm sure he is totally trustworthy and I think this is a really cool addition to his portfolio. I absolutely do not have anything negative to say with regard to him or his fantastic decision to host this Saas tool.

My negativity and critique is solely focused toward the HN community that upvoted this Saas tool when it (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be either paid for as a commercial saas under a contract guaranteeing security considerations and custody of information or alternatively self hosted in either a distributed binary or source form. To be absolutely clear, I am absolutely not suggesting that security sensitive Saas tools should be open source of offer self hosted variants to merit upvotes on HN. I think it's great when creators are able to monetize their fantastic software.

At the end of the day consider this meta comment to represent nothing more than my personal opinion on what any individual or organization should consider safe to outsource. A free Saas tool that decodes a deprecated archive format should never be used with anything sensitive regardless of who is offering the service.

Astute readers should note that my game theoretic motivations with regard to sharing my contrarian views on the top trending link are clearly nothing more than a pathetic effort to seek attention and shouldn't be taken seriously. :)
> I do not like the automatic gear shifting in Vanmoof one bit.

unfortunately i agree with you. the electronic automatic gear shifting in the new vanmoof is a regression :(
pg boosters all seem to be forgetting that the opposite of an ad hominem is an appeal to authority.
I found out recently that pandoc can take text markdown-ish files and turn them into

* Beamer presentations

* Powerpoint presentations

* Reveal.js presentations

Kind of crazy and interesting. I made a nuclear power deck with it and it worked ok.

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic
How about a new type of licence. If you contribute to FOSS its copyleft, otherwise if you want to use it closed source its a copyright 10% revenue based commercial licence.
Solutions are dictated by problem itself to a large extent, so when someone is right when others are wrong he may be just understanding the nature of the problem better. So he is conventionaly minded, but sees deeper into the chain (web) of implications, because has more powerful brain or spent more attention on the topic out of interest, etc.

Same conventional thinking, only carried further.
High quality UX controls rarely are. I love slides.com and pay for the premium option to support the efforts. It’s awesome that they let you take a zip extract of the html/js version and run your whole presentation offline, which is handy at conferences. You can also export to PowerPoint and pdf too, which is was useful a few times.
> Btw, 2014 Gaza war killed 5 Israeli civilians vs around 1500 Palestinian civilians (UN). It amazes me how Israel still manages to play the victim card in the western world.

Of course there were fewer Israeli casualties. Israel took the fight to Hamas for the express purpose of protecting Israeli lives. Safeguarding their own citizenry is the primary objective of any nation’s military, and Israel did that by fighting Hamas on their home turf (as opposed to inviting Hamas to fight inside Israel).
That's why the number one tip for startups is to talk to users, including demoing your product. Turns out, it's not just a good idea for only startups but also any product at all.
OpenBCI Announces Brain-Computer Interface Designed for VR/AR Headsets
> My issue is that I don't like it here and I don't feel good.

At this point, your top priority should be getting your lifestyle back on track. Relocating to another location without thoroughly vetting it could just make your problems worse.

If you're processing billions of dollars in volume and you're worried about taxes on the order of $500K per month, you should have plenty of budget to use for travel. Spend some time traveling and trying different locations. You don't have to move the entire company just to visit some place.

Never move to a different country unless you've spent significant time there and you know you enjoy it. People always talk about moving to foreign countries as a panacea, or describe the "ex-pat" lifestyle in glamorous ways, but the reality is that most of us are happiest being around friends and family and operating in places that we know best.
Your github link for cuelang gives a 404.

I've been interested in cuelang for a while but just haven't found a real use case for it. For validating incoming data, JSON Schemas tend to do the trick and are widely distributed, and for things like Kubernetes YAMLs I usually just edit the YAML itself. Keeps it simple. Any cool use cases I should check out?
Between the gdpr privacy pop ups and this captcha think, the web is becoming very annoying and frustrating these days.
This appears to be high temperature catalytic process that was developed. Not just a matter of plugging anode and cathode into regolith.
These two have been an inspiration for me and helped revive my interest in software after getting burnt out in industry.

You can work on small, personally interesting things and just live minimally.
Gravity is the bending of spacetime though.
Ask HN: How do I learn mathematics starting from almost no knowledge?
Hi all -

In high school, I pretty much ignored math. I memorized everything without understanding anything. I got through AP calculus (and got a 5 on the exam but I honestly didn't really understand any of it). I didn't take any math in college. I can't help but feel like I missed out on great beauty. I was looking at an explanation of one of Euclid's proofs and this made me want to take action.

I have almost none of the building blocks. Can anyone refer me to a book that starts from the very building blocks of math (I assume things like prime numbers) and the simplest logic and builds off these first principles to create understanding?

I understand this probably doesn't exist, but is there anything close?
Perhaps some people are simply happy to learn more about computer history and the existence of emulators which make such projects possible even if they don't intend to use the service.
What’s in a Name? A Lot
I’m speaking from the perspective of the customer. They might be top knotch but if it’s understaffed and underesourced then no one can be set up for success when they have to face the wrath of a million customers when the site goes down on the slightest uptick in volume due to a large move.
This is really stupid. They've managed to take stuff that's so difficult to find that you literally have to go to the freaking moon to get it, and turn it into something that is literally everywhere all over earth. What a bunch of idiots.

On a more serious note, is the high energy demands of this process a blocker at all? Or can we just assume that energy (solar) is abundant on the moon?
Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages
It wasn’t covered by insurance, but the Freestyle Libre CGM was $37 at CVS & lasts for 2 weeks. The major cost factor (for most people) is getting a doctor to write you an Rx.

Levels is around $400, but all you have to do is fill out a form online & wait. They get a doctor to evaluate your profile & write an Rx, and then they fill the prescription & send it to you with patches & everything. Their app also does more data analysis than the default Libre app, and it puts the food-log directly on the glucose graph, which is surprisingly useful.
The cynical view is that you can either kick out your racists or those who complains about racists. And given how "diverse" tech is I wouldn't be surprised if the company would have a bigger problem if the racists left instead of the black people.
The comments here at HN are quite harsh imho and I feel bad for possibly ruining someone's day. Is there a way for me to delete the submission?

I posted it on HN as I liked the points in the article. The points in the post are reasonable provided there's fair equity for the employees (which I believe is disclosed prior to joining - I have no knowledge about dilution, preference etc). I also agree with the commenters on HN that it doesn't make much sense when there's no equity.

But there are too many comments making the same/similar point.

I personally find what Alex is doing is inspiring, running a 200 person company (ref: article) at 23 is remarkable. I also applaud his courage to publicly share what he thought was best advice.

I might get downvoted for this but I couldn't not say this.
You have not actually demonstrated this though. No evidence you provide won't be just as good of evidence for alternative causes of sending work overseas, like cost of living.
That's not really FOSS, if I get it from someone else who did contribute to the project, which they can share with me under their FOSS license, then I just bypassed your commercial license legally.
This is such a horrible article.

First off, "Google Maps rival" isn't some small unknown company, but Baidu. Next up, unlike what's heavily implied, they aren't stealing the data from Google Maps, but from some other chinese company, NavInfo. Lastly, according to the article, they actually had a deal with NavInfo, but their contract expired, which is quite a bit different from what people imagine when they see "stealing data".

This is the definition of a misleading headline.
This makes sense from a financial point of view, but that's not the only factor people care about.

I'd state it more like: Go to an early stage startup only if you'll still be happy with the experience if the equity evaporates.
Whether you can renew a passport from outside of the country differs between countries.
They are aware. That's why you get 20Mbit/s, maybe 50 if you're lucky. Cheaper in the short term and it's not like you have a choice.

AFAIU, GP is talking about FTTC (or VDSL), which is moderately faster than typical ADSL via existing phone exchanges or (far away) cabinets, while being much more expensive. FTTC can be cheaper than FTTH, but silly IMO - any increase in bandwidth will be expensive.
They already have that choice though. Raising the minimum wage doesn't change how clean your restaurant needs to be
The problem with this thinking is that these drugs are not medically gated today.

In fact, the "gating" of heroin through law enforcement is so poor that the difficulty and cost in scoring oxy once people face medical gating due to drug seeking behaviour is now one of the larger recruiting avenues to heroin use.

It's easier and cheaper for people to get heroin as a substitute than it is to continue to use a safer, cleaner supply of oxy.

If you want to medically gate these in a manner that does not increase harm it needs to be at the kind of level that e.g. paracetamol/acetaminophen is restricted in places like the UK (limits on quantity in a single purchase, but nothing that stops you popping to the next pharmacy over and buying more, or coming back the following day) or that e.g. some non-prescription drugs are sold (under the counter, pre-requisite information given out by a pharmacist and possibly some basic questions).

You can maybe push it to a non-aggressive push towards treatment, but if you start denying access you're right back to creating a black market you'll have no control over.

The exact threshold probably needs to differ per drug, but it the level of gating we're currently at even for legal prescription drugs like oxy is actively harmful.
It's an old well-known proposal to electrolyze molten oxides, isn't it? There is even hope for wide industrial applications on Earth of such technology for coal-free metal production. Though I don't see a particular novelty here and it will be quite hard to pull-off on a moon base (after all, you have to work with high-temperatures and the process is quite power hungry), I am happy to see that work continues in this field.
Guarding Your Privacy with E2EE: Primer
I am afraid we will still need humans actually going through papers to get nuances, original contributions, if any, and wider narratives? (plug: the content project in my profile)
I have the visual noise as well, seems to be by far the most common HPPD symptom. I sometimes get burned-in impressions of things I look at, but thankly not with text. However, I can sometimes see faint but complex patterns on walls that are not there.

The intensity oscillates, and I definitely have the thoughts that I am stuck in an endless trip and have definitely considered the possibility of having caused irreparable harm to myself to the tune of being 'permanently broken'.

The cheerier side of this is that the anxiety caused by most of these effects improved considerably simply by improving my diet. One important thing to keep in mind is that the perceptive changes themselves are absolutely harmless and only serve to exacerbate existing anxieties, if allowed to do so. If I am feeling good, they only serve as additional spice to my daily experience.
The guy on YouTube called high intensity health is a keto diet evangelist who wears a real time glucose monitor to study more closely what’s going on biologically with ketosis and blood sugar. He’s reported that being in stressful situations, like being late at the airport, can spike your glucose even when you’re in ketosis and kick you out of ketosis. I’ve experienced this too with the resurgence of inflammatory symptoms that are usually gotten rid of by ketosis.
Well, any patents would have expired by now, right?
So how could they stop a clean-room re-implementation? (That is, one person/team describes the format, another person/team implements a decoder from the description).
> "Mars is the only planet in the solar system which is entirely populated by robots from Planet Earth."

I guess this is really saying that there are no active probes on the surface of any of the other (inner/rocky) planets.

This strikes me as a very roundabout way of saying this; as though the population of the other planets (besides Earth) included humans or alien robots...
It can go two ways:

1. Coinbase has real problems of discrimination

2. Coinbase is being targeted at a smearing campaign, for not playing ball with the ideology of de-jure of some circles. It is kinda like a repeat of 2003: "if you are not with us (for the Iraqi war), then you are with the terrorist" mantra of conservative circles to justify their war.

The truth, is probably somewhere in between. Also, NYT has become heavily biased/activist type of journal. While they don't straight up lie, they often omit many important details in their story, in order to justify their conclusion.
Causality violation is an observation of physics.. not a law !
This seems relatively unexciting; we've known that the moon has abundant oxygen for decades. The hard part is finding stuff (food, hydrogen, hydrocarbons, etc.) to burn with it.
You can't separate work from politics. The fact that you have a job in the first place is political.
A good portion of this is manufacturing, isn't it?

A first start would be to stop subsidizing the transportation costs through the US Navy and oil subsidies/tax breaks
An alternative of "I work hard enough so my boss can buy another Ferrari".

Sad to see this kind of shit from a YC funded CEO.
I remember having to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys files in a text editor to install a mouse driver. I also remember having to set IRQs using actual jumpers on my soundcard. I actually loved all of that but it wasn't really easy.
Not sure about courage. Self serving blog posts are not courageous, he's trying to attract people who are vulnerable to being paid in self esteem instead of stock options
Large problems reveal an interconnected web of dependant problems, solve each of these and the large problem might be solved.

> "what is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100"

Start by solving sub problems in the situation, e.g; best way to manage property, and then determine effects this solution will have on other sub problems.

This iterative approach will you arrive at an optimal solution much like gradient descent.
> I don't know, but I rather hear sporting/fitness advice from someone that won NBA finals, or the soccer World Cup, then just some random loser. The winner at least can tell you how they did succeed personally, even if they have no comprehensive studies with data.

> On the other hand, you are just a random guy from the internet, and offering advice with no data at all.

So do you listen to Sam Altman?
Right this moment I am asking myself how to shift more traffic from paid to organic. I created a list of about 10 ideas, the one at the top of that list being so out there that I had to immediately share it with the team. About half of the team members loved it and thought it will be the best thing ever, and the other half thought it's too expensive and we shouldn't risk so much money on an unproven concept that could fail completely. So the takeaway is quite clear - there might be something there, but I need to come up with an MVP that can be tested quickly (eg: 2 weeks) and cost-efficiently (eg: two weeks of one person's time).

Let me contrast that with my career from 20 years ago. My Master's thesis was to calculate the flight performance of an aircraft that ended up having its maiden flight 5 years later. Essentially, an entirely mathematically-driven exercise where you apply a well-known methodology to calculate a deterministic problem. I got bored of that pretty quickly and went into flight testing, thinking that I could keep my mind active by being more hands-on in my work. I quickly learned that flight testing is all about reading regulations and checking the aircraft for compliance. Sure, there is some flying involved, but nowhere enough to keep you stimulated every day.

If you're reading those two paragraphs above, one will appeal to you more than the other. It doesn't mean that one career path is fundamentally better or worse, it's more about what does YOUR mind need to be stimulated? Do you prefer nondeterministic challenges or would you rather apply existing processes and be super precise and accurate? Do you prefer quick turnaround times, or would you be happier knowing that there is 5 years' worth of budget for you and your team of hundreds of people to complete a project? Whatever your conclusion, you're not wrong - it just has to be right for you. I think PG's essay helped explain this.
This reminded me of the time Genius tried suing Google: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20993621/genius-google-la...
Their original blog post ("Coinbase is a mission focused company") was an obvious dog whistle. How is this unexpected or surprising?