skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you interested starting? Dutchie currently in australia saving to start my own thing (relocating cheap country), looking for a cofounder. Would love to discuss. riekus at the proton provider.
The Relevance of Classic Fuzz Testing: Have We Solved This One?
Domain-Driven Design.
Google Maps rival caught steeling data with fake roads
They're fine if they're explicitly tagged as fables rather than facts.
Given that it's a relatively small number of employees, you're saving what, a couple cents a year by putting all these workers at minimum wage or lower and forcing them to work for tips?
Norway is extremely expensive. I would be surprised if the wage increase is not moot.
By default, QEMU uses emulation which will be slow. Qemu can also use an "accelerator" such as KVM. See https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html#hxto...

e.g. I can do this on my Raspberry Pi 4 running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS.

qemu-system-aarch64 \
-M virt,accel=kvm -cpu host -m 2G -smp 2 -nographic \
-bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd \
-cdrom alpine-virt-3.12.0-aarch64.iso
I don’t really know how to respond to this except to say I never said the cheese was authentic and neither did the video. I said “as authentic as possible”. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Great article - I agree! In fact, the author could go further IMO.

"However, more often than discovering that your ideas are wrong, you will discover something different: that you do not know what you think."

Writing and thinking (2 sides to the same coin IMO) have been illuminating to me. Hence I have moved to becoming a skeptic (ultra-skeptic in most people's opinion). Knowing what you know, and why you know is everything. 'Believing you know' is everywhere...

We live in a world of stories.
At least the submitter did a nice job of correcting that in the HN title.
That's right, it's very easy in the US to set up a company and many founders use Clerky.
Is the WYSIWYG editor on slides.com open source for those of us who would like to run it locally and not have to trust a binary?
> Carbon fibre frames are prohibitively expensive

Uh, no?
It's when you advertise that you have them or put them on your resume that they become a negative signal to a lot of teams.

Basically everyone has the experiencing how little junior devs know right out of college but don't seem to want to apply this logic to certs. "I took a class on AWS in college" is about the equivalent of a cert and if that's the best you can put on your resume it doesn't look great.
Hit piece from the now fully woke NYT. This shouldn't be on HN.
Redcode-labs/Neurax: A library for constructing self-spreading binaries
You may want to check the Activity Monitor to make sure the CPU is actually at 100% when you're doing that. Apparently it's quite easy to get the fans going on the Intel Macs even on lighter loads compared to the new M1 ones.
I'm in the first ring suburbs of Minneapolis and going back over 10 years (and for several years prior to that inside Mpls proper) my Comcast connection routinely outperforms my rated speed all hours of the day. My rated speed has also 5x'd (50 to 250) at the same price in that time.

Thankfully, however, fiber _finally_ became available on my block this year.
I thought she very clearly explained how this is different from warp drive concepts before, and why this is more interesting. Sure, you could disagree with her on that, but your post reads as if you’re not even aware she addressed those points at all.
Dutchie here (currently in australia) also into WHM and meditation. Planning to startup in February, want to discuss? Riekus at proton mail.
I'd rather hear stories from people who fucked up hard than some celebo with yet another generic advice

You know, learn from mistakes of others.
We don't know how long Gust stuck with the poor situation. Depending on the local job market, his family situation, etc, it might have been a reasonable option for him.

I stuck with a job where I was undervalued for about a year. I was more focussed on other parts of my life, and an easy job where I could coast when it was beneficial to me was useful.

(Straightforward example: Gust might have a partner in a less-flexible field. They agreed that the partner would spend 1-2 years looking for a good opportunity in a different state; once that was found Gust would quit and they'd move together.)
Hindering Threat Hunting, a tale of evasion in a restricted environment
R number for UK below 1 for first time since August
honest Q: why is it their job to fix this?

also: for companies that are global in nature, with global operations, offices, employees, etc. is it right to take on the issues of the country where they have an office? (or are HQ-ed, or have X% of employees (even if majority)?)

Why not other things? Why aren't the issues of the impoverished of India an issue w/ tech companies, especially given the large presence of "well to do" Indians or upper-casters?
This seems unlikely considering all the captcha’s are still image classification problems related to driving.
Code Security Advent Calendar 2020
Part 2 of my ransomware architecture writeup – securfreakazoid
"In God we trust, all others must bring data." (Edward Deming)

See https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2019.pdf, https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff/uebersicht..., etc.
Maybe they founded boom?
Look, you already need a bilinear form to get the Hodge star. My point is that with that same bilinear form you also get an entire Clifford algebra, and a much more natural definition of the Hodge star. That's all I'm saying. Is that mistaken?
Very well written article!

> "However, more often than discovering that your ideas are wrong, you will discover something different: that you do not know what you think. Sure, you have some vague idea, and you believe that there is a chain of reasoning that leads to a certain conclusion. But what you will discover is that this chain of reasoning is mostly not existent. At best, it has many holes and maybe leads not where you think it does. This discovery is, of course, very unpleasant and sometimes even painful."

This part does a particularly good job of explaining something that's been on the tip of my tongue for a while, but I could not have expressed it as clearly (in a rather curious, recursive way, my not being able to express it, is what is being described).

The article also dances around the idea of the Generation Effect [0], which is, in my opinion, another great reason to write - even without an audience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect
I like this point. Instead of "question everything", "question that which you are interested in".

After all, asking - let alone answering - every question would simply take too much time.
I imagine the qualities of his essays which "piss others off" are exactly those qualities that I most value.

For instance, I enjoy how each essay seems to take an abstract and detached look at something widely taken for granted. It then extracts some valuable insights that are often too hard to see without this lofty view. I personally love this.
God, I wish HN had an edit comment button right about now...

Regardless, my argument is not "you should be able to call cow's milk feta cheese", it's "labeling standards should not require a product to be made in a certain place". A strict labeling standard that said "feta has to be made from sheep or goat's milk" is perfectly defensible. One that says "it has to be made in a specific country" isn't.
>Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...
He lied about not being able to share the Biden Laptop / NYPost article. Ted Cruz tweeted the allegation with a screenshot of him trying after the first hearing.
As a data point, my 2006 (carbon frame) Ibis Mojo mountain bike has seen quite a few crashes (in the woods) without sustaining any real damage. Maybe mountain bikes are less delicate?
That will depend on a number of factors, including country of citizenship and the amount and origin of any funding. There are visas specific to certain countries and these are always the ones to look at first because they are often the easiest to obtain. Other potential visas include the E-1, E-2, and O-1. And sometimes it just makes sense to remain employed by the founder's current H-1B employer and file a concurrent part-time H-1B through the startup, which at least allows the founder to work openly and with valid work authorization for his or her company.
Pretty wild that this is necessary, but I guess that's the cost of trusting archival to proprietary software:

"The StuffIt and StuffIt X formats remain, unlike some other file compression formats, proprietary, and Smith Micro Software charge license fees for its use in other programs. Given this, few alternative programs support the format."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt#Overview
Let me be clearer: I don’t see how Iran’s intent (or speculation there about) is relevant to the quoted portion of my post:

> it plausibly deters Iran from advancing (and thus using) its nuclear weapons program

As for Iranian intentions; they’ve been quite clear and consistent that they want to wipe out Israel, and I take them at their word about their motives. It seems unrealistic to me that they want nukes for purely defensive purposes (unrelated to their broader desire to wipe Israel off the map), i.e., they think (absent a nuclear Iran) Israel would without provocation initiate a nuclear attack on Iran. It seems obvious to me that Iran wants nuclear weapons as part of its broader desire to eradicate Israel, albeit probably not to launch nukes at Israel directly but rather to derisk a nuclear counterattack. In either case, a nuclear Iran brings us considerably closer to a violent humanitarian crisis.
Hmmm... "Pier" doesn't really have any naval connotations in Uk English. Somewhere ships [naval or otherwise] tie up would be a "Jetty". A pier would usually suggest what you're describing as a 'boardwalk' -- found in a seaside town, with cafés, amusements and other entertainments on it and lots of people strolling about eating ice cream.
On a less ambitious note, technical writing is useful even if never published because it also reveals to you what you don’t know about a subject.

As soon as you start waving your hands (metaphorically) you immediately sense recognize a conceptual gap, especially if you suddenly jump to the passive tense.
That's a slow M1 machine, probably due to background tasks running shortly after setup. M1's are more like 1720-1750 single core, 7500-7600 multicore
I have to disagree a bit here. I remember at that time, 2009, nobody knew whether the market had bottomed out or not. There was still extreme nervousness with regards to asset prices. Prices actually bottomed out in around 2012, which is when my wife and I bought our first house. We didn't do it because we knew it was going to be the bottom; it just so happened to be when we had saved up some money and found a place we liked. Point being, I think the OP is correct; most people in 2009 were saying not to buy, from an investment perspective, because it was thought that prices were likely to keep dropping.
16min video.

Their web page has a blog post format (in French) with a bit more info and stills from each of the sources.

https://www.cloudylabs.fr/wp/experiences/

A quick search suggests a DIY chamber can be made pretty easily with the help of some dry ice and a fish tank. A tempting weekend project.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/how-to...
What’s a strong disagree you have with him? For if he is so non-conformist certainly you disagree with him on a few things.

What makes him weird in his thinking compared to your typical Bay Area tech person? They all seem to value non-conformity, thinking from first principles, growth, etc.

What view would you’d say is truly contrarian? One that most here would disagree with?

Most of the critique here isn’t about him saying something people just disagree with. He’s not being radical in any way whatsoever. The critiques here all have to do with the fact that he’s saying aggressively conventional things that are framed as the opposite. Banal, backwards and self-congratulatory. It’s not that he’s said anything disagreeable in content.

You’re fighting against different people with each point you make. It’s like you made a field of straw men and then shot each down. You do the same thing with critiques of HN itself: “people always have said this”, where the “this” is vague and has often been different at different times. If what they say is different then maybe some are right, maybe the “this” was right at the time, and now it’s a different this, and it’s right now. Just because a choir sounds bad doesn’t mean a few voices aren’t correct.

Paul is an aggressively conventional guy. He’s your super stereotypical “slightly nerd techie”. He excels at second order thinking (“everyone says X, but have you thought of Y”) but then he just stops there. He never contends with his own second order contrarian idea, he just builds reinforcements around it. This essay is kindergarten chalkboard aphorism “Think Outside the Box!” framed as real contrarianism, which is why he gets flak.
I seem to recall a wide variety of people objected to the patent clause during discussions on the GPLv3. Quite a few companies won't touch GPLv3 software which is unfortunate because it was gaining a lot of momentum at the time.
I think you and op are missing the point though. This is a light weight ebike! Obviously it's not as light weight as a professional bike (or like any without a battery), but this cuts weight everywhere it can and still has a 45 mile range (plus an extended battery you can add on to extend the range).

On top of that people are already spending thousands of dollars on ebikes- this really isn't that much more expensive than a much shittier version. The "best ebike" according to Wired last year is the exact same price as this one but weighs five pounds more.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/5021923?baselin...

You picked one of the odd outliers for the M1 (background activity running at the same time as the benchmark?).
>If a lot of other people make the same prediction, the stock price will already reflect it, and there's no room to make money.

TSLA disagrees.
This is how employers see the world:

- giving a shit doesn't matter

- creativity doesn't matter

- how hard you work doesn't matter

- self educating doesn't matter

- energy and enthusiasm don't matter

- having built stuff on your own doesn't matter

What matters:

- can you implement bubble sort?

- can you implement a red/black tree?

- can you do this coding test?

Look, employees don't need to be obsessed workaholics, but being really interested in your job and motivated and willing to do great work matters, and employers, for the most part, ignore these factors and focus on technical skills. And worse, in many cases their technical assessments are misguided anyway and don't really give insight into how good someone is as a software developer.
I work in a hospital where they run stats on this. 98% of covid cases are community required and not in the healthcare setting. Proper compliance with PPE is sufficient protection. If anyone shows signs/symptoms or has been in direct contact gets tested. During that test they are quarantined. That's what makes this so hard on our health care system is the drop in staffing levels due to necessary quarantine while waiting for results. Testing everyone would put undo load on the labs and provide little return outside of a sense of security. The a false sense of security being negative can lead to issues with compliance. Treat all patients and coworkers the same with PPE is the underlying principle to provide the best protection.
Optimizing Benchpress
I think it's easier to generalize the issues nowadays as people unwilling to ensure freedoms for people they despise, when that's the practical benchmark for how much you value freedom and make sure it endures.

If you can't guarantee freedoms for people you despise, it will disappear.
> Burke was certainly a child of its time, as progress through many individual actions (and their recombinations) vs. centrally planned progress is essentially the narrative of the Cold War.

I have to disagree - this theme, though reaching its greatest exposition in the 20th century, is not really a modern concept and was discussed by multiple ancient philosophers, including Laozi, Zhuangzi, and at least one Roman writer whose name escapes me at the moment
Hmmm. A 'mission focused' company that bans discusses political and societal issues also has issues with diversity and how it treats its non-white workers?

I'll go ahead and file this in the 'In other news, water is wet' category.
Hilarious... the M1 isn't innovative because AMD might ship a half-competitive chip in six months of nothing slips (and ignoring base vs turbo power consumption).

Truly the goal posts are always moving.
The US pulled out, but the other signatories (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany) did not. If Iran was unhappy with the agreement after the U.S. withdrew, the virtuous thing to do would have been to also withdraw. It is not virtuous to break their promise by remaining in the agreement yet willfully violating it.
> Make each application one file. [...] Make the operating system one file.

Yes and yes! That's actually exactly what I've been working on with Actually Portable Executable. https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/ape.html

> How could we simplify: Write a GUI bootloader

Nooo. There's the problem. GUIs have always been a shitshow w.r.t. compatibility. I've pretty much come to the conclusion at this point that, if we want simple, we have to give up on wanting it with GUIs. Vendors just aren't going to ever agree. There's too much vision and financial incentive to compete. However terminals, are boring, and operating systems no longer have any reason to engineer incompatibilities. As of last year, they've all pretty much been like, yeah, we'll implement vt100 because we don't care anymore. Even Windows CMD prompt! It's great. This new consensus is going to make so much toil go away.

For example, here's an app I wrote a few months ago. It's a single file TUI application. The binary runs on all the different operating systems and looks exactly the same. Truly build-once run-anywhere. It literally looks the same on Linux as it does in Windows command prompt and Mac too etc. It doesn't have any dependencies. It's about 200kb. https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/blinkenlights/index.h...

I've been using it lately testing tool, because I want these single file programs to boot from BIOS on bare metal too. I've got it working for stdio so far. So once I add a virtio ethernet driver it'll be golden. Especially for cloud deploys. Every program you compile is its own operating system which runs on all the other ones too. I call it the Cosmopolitan C Library (NOTE: this page is work in progress!) https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/cosmopolitan/index.ht...
Slimming Smoothie Recipes
"and to have school districts run by the people who might otherwise run Fortune 500 companies"

What bothers me with this "race for the best", is that there is a finite amount of people running fortune 500 companies.

My main problem with the school system is that even good teachers can't teach their full potential with all the outside constraints regulating their classes.
What is the point of assasinating a scientist? I'm sure he was not single handedly doing everything. It seems just an effort to provoke Iran into a conflict with the U.S.
+1 on Reveal. My last job required a fair amount of lessons with Jupyter. Reveal let me stay in the browser for both slides and code, and since it's all HTML, let me programmatically and quickly style the slides instead of WYSIWYGing in Keynote/PowerPoint.

Plus, I just ran the thing running in Docker with the actual slide HTML file in different host directories. Starting a presentation was just docker run -v.
Yes, In Defense of NIH, the stronger you become as a developer, the more of a liability other people's code becomes.
no, and neither i have found a similar layout editor that is open source.
There's very little content on the Internet that isn't available from a variety of different sources. It's very rare to find something completely original and unique to only one site.
I know he's probably significantly richer now, but did people really perceive him as an underdog after he made millions from Viaweb?
Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections
Depending on a variety of factors including whether there are spouses involved who would like to work and whether multiple founders and/or employees will need work authorization, the options are the O-1 and the L-1. (The E-1 and E-2 are unavailable to Indian citizens.) There's also hope that the Biden Administration will revive Obama's International Entrepreneur Rule (or IER). This likely would be the best option for many founders but we'll have to see.
I don't have a reference handy, but... I have read in the past that this particular issue with Teslas was reportedly caused by badly cast parts with too many inclusions. Since I've been burned by that particular issue myself, it stuck in my head.
In the US, being "marginalized" means you are part of a cultural minority group that is politically useful to political corporatists - typically of the cultural coalition party.
Carbon fibre bikes are very common in my circles, i.e. very amateur middle aged club cyclists. Nothing to do with professionals, semi or otherwise. Also see plenty of them when commuting in London.
Big Picture Trends Being Accelerated by the Pandemic
That would require paying for that remote machine... I don't see the point if I'm already paying for my local one.
You are changing the subject. My comment said nothing about whether the U.S. is a peaceful nation.
That's refreshingly honest and thoughtful. What company?
You forgot culture fit under “what matters” /s
Oberon and Maude I think make a good case for (parameterised) modules, both from being able to reason mathematically and their use at low level OS system.

I've been very slowly trying to combine the work in Maru with Composita to yield a modular and deterministic lisp (Composita uses managed memory without GC).

http://concurrency.ch/Content/publications/Blaeser_Component...

Naturally you'd want to layer something like Shen or Maude on top of this, to provide the equational proof-checking. The K language is a good example - it provides facilities to model new languages and semantics like racket.

http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/K-Maude:_A_Rewriting_Ba...
Seems reasonable to me. In the private sector, the CEO just makes 250k more for each nurse? The US has silly expensive healthcare, and the workers might as well gain some benefits
The labor shortage exists because labor doesn't pay, it's that simple.

Trades are not mass labor needed to drive costs down, and it's unlikely costs will be driven down further there because of foreign competition.
No, "culture fit" is the excuse used to reject people without reason, and it how companies ensure they don't employ people with different accents. "culture fit" is the synonym for "same as us".
While there are lots of TLDR websites out there, I want to know how this one is different from them. I get it; many scientific papers are to some extent bs, and many are just wrong. For PhDs, it's a hassle to go through all of that bs to find something that is actually true. I feel like PhDs basically have to spend hundreds of hours reading papers that don't really benefit them. Tools like this could probably help with that, but as long as scientific success is measured by how may papers you've published and/or how long your papers are, I don't see any hope of actually doing science in the coming years when the academia will be essentially "saturated" with papers.
As I responded to another comment, the other P5+1 members remained in the agreement. If Iran wishes to withdraw, it can.