skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incompetence runs through every facet of American government, corporations and even private businesses. There's an insane amount of bureaucracy and people doing IT who have no business doing IT. As for the corporations, the established ones get taken over by the MBA types who have no clue about software or security nor do they care as long as the numbers look good for the next quarter.
Mate, it’s a website. You come, you read it, you leave. Next you’ll want a GDPR policy for your library book.

If that privacy policy doesn’t make it screamingly obvious that I’m not tracking you in any way then holy moly I don’t know what to do.
Please stop using multiple accounts to game HN. We ban users for that kind of thing.
This depends on the circumstances. If your personal photos are unaccessible then maybe it doesn't matter, but if it's your documentation for a mission critical bit of infrastructure then a few hours could be very significant. Somebody in that situation probably wouldn't agree with your assertion that "availability != reliability". If I can't access it when I need it then I wouldn't consider it reliable.
I think the 12" MacBook is going to make a comeback.
Yes, the pointer issues Ralf raises has implications about what operations Rust can make safe. An example Ralf posed to the safe transmute working group: a transmutation from a reference (i.e., a pointer with provenance) to one without (e.g., a "raw" pointer) or to a `usize` number cannot be safe. (Rust can safely provide these conversions via the `as` keyword, just not via the more general framework of transmutations).

More broadly: Rust is very sensitive to LLVM bugs that inadvertently generate UB. The longstanding issues with `noalias` optimizations is the prime example of this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57259339/7501301
Thing is, it's almost always close to 100 % humidity when it's cold, since the air can hold so little vapor.
A flat farm, everything else being equal, will take less humans. There's nothing about being indoors and vertical that is a magical advantage for mechanization. There's also a lot more mechanization necessary in dealing with vertical farms. All of a sudden you have to transport soil, fertilizer, and harverst vertically in addition to horizontally.

Already, wheat fields can be tilled and harvested by autonomous combines. Direct human labor is basically down to picking fruits and vegetables. Most of the time, it's going to be cheaper growing something outside, in the sun and dirt that's already there.
I've heard a lot about KeePass, but never really tried it. My main goal with a password manager was that it should just work and be realiable, and Bitwarden seems to fill in the need at the moment.
The i9 from the article is a 14nm "tweaked Skylake" part, i.e. the uarch has been on the market for ~five years.
Really really high quality cigars can actually smell quite nice.
Wait, so we went from every third post on HN is a negative post about apple to here is one post from 7 days ago? Talk about "bias blind spot".
That's not an useful response to constructive criticism, and neither is it a good way to deal with user feedback when in a position in a standardization entity.
Home Automation Shift – Machine Generated Report
When I did a summer eurailing it across Europe a million years ago, the overnight trains were a handy budget saver. Every few days take a train to whatever city was an overnight journey away and save on lodging costs. Not the most organized way to travel, but it was fine when I was 20.
NIST no longer suggests such a rotation policy. They have accepted that it weakens security.

Anecdotally, colleagues have successfully lobbied to drop (or not enforce) password expiration policies from other government bodies on the strength of this recommendation from NIST.
I wonder how long until we see the first lawsuits for stock price manipulation using this feedback loop?

If an unscrupulous executive were to make factually true statements that were engineered to mislead automated assessment algorithms so that they or their associates could buy the dip.

Would it even technically be against the law?
Coldest winter of my life was near London. Heater was wired to cheap middle of the night electricity so you had to plan a day ahead to have hot water or heat. Friends had to go to hardware store to get tokens to feed their rental heaters. Ran out at night? Put on a extra blanket and get there early the next day.
> In reality it makes no difference if the uploader is 18 or not

Are you for real?
Does anyone believe the US isn’t doing similar shit themselves ? In that light it seems pretty disingenuous to call out others for the same act.
Yeah fair. I wonder how difficult it is to get the power infrastructure in place to build a supercharger at the average rest stop.
Organizations and Layers of Abstraction
Porting Extensions to PHP 8
100%, it’s what I do.

Also on my to-do list: get a few example structures up there. But drop me a mail and I’ll send you my home structure for inspiration. hello <at> the domain.
If you travel longer routes sure, but to neighbouring cities and countries? Here in Vienna I can get to all larger nearby cities and capitals for 30-50€ in a cheap seat that easily beats anything economy class on a plane has to offer. The journey takes longer of course (sometimes), which may not be for everyone but I take a longer ride vs all the airport hassle any day. Plus on a train first class is something you can actually afford if you want more space and quiet (another 30 to 50€ extra here).
"Explicit" in language design is catch-all term for several different things: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit... (I highly recommend this article.) Defer is still manual and local, just less noisy and burdensome.

Just like every C feature: if you know how it's implemented (and optimized), you will know what is going to happen. All big C compilers already support stack frames and unwinding, so it's not even entirely novel functionality.

While you may object it's not entirely obvious how unwinding is going to be implemented, OTOH in functions with complex control flow it can be easier to understand which `defer`s are going to be run, as opposed to following nested `else` statements, or reasoning about the program state from all `goto cleanup` locations.
Imo, bootstrapped startups can only exist feasibly in the B2B space. And definitely not in the B2C space. Would Uber have succeeded if it were bootstrapped (with higher pricing), or would it have spawned enough copycats during its slow growth phase who would soon make it infeasible to scale up and hire the kind of engineers that a venture like ridesharing would need?
Where does the low-latency claim come from? Benchmarks do not validate it, giving main memory latency of around 100 ns.
I took night trains a handful of times in China, and loved it. China is big enough that you can get a nice long journey in. I found that people were respectful and quiet for the most part, so I didn't have any trouble sleeping.
Consider:

- Most popular social media websites allow adult content in some forms.

- It is no easier to tell illicit content from legal content on one site versus another.

- There is likely not just far more content, but far more adult content on Twitter and Facebook than dedicated porn websites.

- Sites like Twitter and Facebook better facilitate private conversation (presumably.)

I don’t think you can make money on Pornhub without verification, so there’s probably not a money incentive to intentionally post illicit content. In fact I’m not entirely sure why you would at all, but my best guess is in hopes of trading with others. In that case, social media is actually perfect: draw people in with carefully constructed fronts, do dealings in private groups and try to fly as much under the radar as possible.

It’s hard to say and probably silly to speculate but I just don’t see the point of using a pornography website for this.
> Research indicates that "low desirability" /is/ a pretty low threshold.

No. First, okcupid is hardly a legitimate and reliable source.

Second, their research provides no justification for your claim around a "low desirability" threshold.
It only show a strong skew in how women pick a number between 1 and 5.
TensorFlow 2.4
> Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they're in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. One think you'll notice is that not just corporate sponsored content is region-locked; sometimes "anonymous" user videos get region locked. That is not a coincidence.

This is all much less nefarious than you make it sound.

When a rights-holder finds their IP in a video, they have the option of how to proceed. They can choose to take the video down completely, run ads and receive all or a share of the revenue, etc.

If they choose to leave it up, it's almost always because they are receiving all of the revenue from the video now so they have no reason to take it down. There's no smokey back room deals going on here, this is just the rights enforcement tools provided by YouTube.

Rights-holders do not always hold global rights to content and if the video contains content from multiple rights-holders, there are several competing claims that all need to be resolved.

The reason the videos uploaded by users eventually end up resembling the videos uploaded by the rights-holder is because YouTube provides a mechanism for rights-holders to enforce the same restrictions they operate under on their content even when they weren't the ones to upload it.

Source: I work in a company that does this, though not directly on that side of the business.
Yes, if you can afford it.
Possibly - although if your suppliers have operating margins that are as wide as yours, or wider, it might actually make sense to just buy them and take those earnings for yourself. I wonder how many of Ford's suppliers have an operating margin as wide as Ford's 5%?
I don't think you understand. You claimed 370 people were PCR positive at the start of the test. Then you quoted from the paper results for seropositivity. That quote is clearly the source for your claim, since the numbers add up to 371. But seropositivity is not the same thing as PCR positivity.

And I don't understand why you're pulling in the NAAT test from that quote. It is how the three people tested positive later, after being infected. It is not about the 370 people who were seropositive at the baseline.
I guess you are getting at the whole Marxist false consciousness idea?

Because while false consciousness is one of those convenient thought-ending "explanations" that seem to explain everything and nothing, we actually do have evidence that people can't do rational very well. So how do we square that circle?

> If we want to recommend more positive government intervention

My instinct is normally against intervention, so I do feel a bit quesy about finding problems all over the place that need fixes that are potentially themselves wrong.

It's an issue for sure. I don't know how to resolve it either, just looking for people's perspectives.
you can
a)leave your luggage at the hotel early
b) use a locker at the train station to store your luggage
c) avoid bringing a lot of luggage for this trip
That's what all the SolarWinds people are saying!
Amazon already has Graviton 2, and considering the rapid pace they are switching over their infrastructure suggest to me they are going All In.

Microsoft and Oracle is partnering with Ampere. And Google is all over the map as usual, OpenPOWER, ARM, RISC-V. And I would not be surprised if they roll their own just like AWS. Marvell has ARM offering as well. ( They really should consider buying Ampere ) So it does seems like Server ARM CPU are consolidating to a few players anyway. And Despite what they claim, Ampere and Graviton 2 are pretty much customised from ARM's Server SoC reference design.

Apple will have a super large M1 like design for future Mac Pro. What I am interested in is if Apple would use this, assuming rack mountable Mac Pro for their own DataCenter usage? ( i.e Installing Linux ) Or Bring back Xserve?
Yes, unfortunately reddit pays engineers to obfuscate use cases so they can push notifications and steal your attention. The mobile app didn't even have (lasi I checked) a (n intuitive) way to get to r/friends short of actually clicking on a link to that feed a user has posted. The lights are on but it seems no one is home
> Many species, including higher mammals, frequently engage in infanticide as part of their quest to perpetuate their genes, so maybe let's all try to do a bit better than the default of the natural world

Infanticide is conducted routinely in human societies in the form of abortion. Even though, abortion IS the right choice.
Not in the beginning. You could find whole seasons of various copyrighted shows no problem.
I think HN and Reddit are closer to blogging/microblogging/RSS. Seeing what other people are saying about a topic. Maybe asking a question, maybe getting a response etc.

> Hacker News has done a good job of formalizing certain things and that keeps the signal-to-noise ratio high here even though the sense of community it once had when it was smaller is no longer something it seems to have.

Yeah, I think that this is essential to a successful forum but also brings up exactly what the issue is, I think. If you're optimizing for signal to noise, you're already beyond the scope of "community", in that you've already got too many people and too much content to ingest. Optimizing signal to noise on a forum is great with the microblog/RSS lens I apply, because it means I'm not seeing offtopic or irrelevant content in my feeds.

I also kinda think that a part of community (when thinking about community being defined as a group of people that are connected and feel involved in eachother's lives to varying extents) _is_ offtopic conversation. "How are you doing?" "How's your grandpa", etc. You can't allow this type of post/behavior on HN, because if you open those floodgates you're getting way too much noise to handle, but I also think that's why the shift has gone the way it's gone. You can't learn about eachother beyond subject matter that's attached to the topic of an individual post.
I just tried loading both websites in private windows on firefox and ublock origin:

old reddit loads in 1.75 seconds, 77 requests, and 10 things blocked by uOrigin, and I can see 8 pieces of news on the page which take most (75+%) of the visual real estate

new reddit loads in 4.75 seconds, 177 requests(!), 13 things blocked by uOrigin, and I can see one(!) actual item, which takes roughly 20% of the visual real estate

The new design also leads to one error in the console as my browser blocked a font ("downloadable font: rejected by sanitizer"). I can't imagine using their new design at all, and I'm not sure how they can justify the gap in these metrics for a company worth billions, unless a complete lack of useful information taking 3 times longer to load is what's trending.

edit: and it's not just me, pretty much any online tool I found gives similar outcomes.

https://www.dareboost.com/en/comparison?reportIds=a_25fd7b3a...
I thought the m1 has dedicated js instructions.
I've diligently tracked my actual time worked every day. That's time spent on productive tasks directly tied to my projects, not time spent in meetings, commute, and other wasted desk time.

I usually manage 5-6 hours of productive time each day. 7 hours on a good day. 8 hours if the problem is interesting enough.

I used to feel inadequate when I would hear stories of founders and geniuses working 16 hours/day. But now I'm convinced that outside of prodigies, specific mindless tasks, and "outside help" (like amphetamines), it's impossible to get more than 8-10 hours of real work done in a day over an extended period.
I believe the idea that females cannot mate with multiple males has been disproven in bonobos, where females often have many male partners. The story that gets told is this confuses paternity, which creates a broader safety net for resources for the baby.

So it might not be quite so simple as initially thought. Be wary of much of the evolutionary bio's attempts to explain why things are -- often, the proposed theories are one of many ways to explain the evidence. Little thought is given to the other options.
> If Tether were to get the Liberty Reserve treatment, the price of bitcoin is unlikely to ever recover.

It would probably usher in a protracted bear market, but I think bitcoin has proven its raison d'être. There will always a be a market (and a non-zero price) for it, and given current trends in fiat money management the price would recover eventually.

> The $100 million cash injection into bitcoin sounds like a lot, but it’s small potatoes. That money will cover the network’s operators—the bitcoin miners—for only six days.

Missing context. The average economic cost of production for an ounce of gold is in the ballpark of $1000, and with annual new supply of about 3500 tonnes that adds up to about $112B spent digging an inert shiny metal out of the ground. I'm not going to attempt to quantify the costs of storing and transacting gold; suffice to say that it's inefficient and expensive.
20% projects (and the policy supporting them) are very much still a thing at Google. Not sure how many people actually participate in one but my perception is that it is a relatively low percentage of employees.
Apparently you are right, but because of the lower clock, main memory is still closer in cycles. It would also be interesting to know the amount of outstanding main memory references.
Ask HN: What IRC channels do you visit regularly?
Share your favorite IRC channels. Do tell us why you like them.
> So all too often with these types of searches, I'll just reflexively append "Fluentd vs. Logstash Reddit" or "Fluentd vs. Logstash HackerNews" because at least I feel like you're likely to get an honest discussion.

To search HN I often use https://hn.algolia.com. Compared to a Google search it is clearer how old are the submissions and the order of the result is more predictable (it's the score of the submission)
Obligatory comic on supernormal stimuli: https://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/
This gets frequently undercut when fair use content is claimed by a corporation, redirecting the ad revenue away from the creator.
I'm pretty sure the OC means "don't heat your home to a comfortable habitation level when you aren't there." Obviously turning the heat off entirely with a risk of pipes breaking is a bad idea. However, setting your thermostat to 50ºF is sufficient for that.
> What if you could have done something more productive or rewarding with your life instead, like developed new friendships or deepened existing ones, learned new skills, or read something that opened your eyes or changed your life

So the couple years I spent playing WoW back in university did these some of these things for me.

The friends that I played with are some of my best friends 15+ years later with the time we spent playing being a formative part of building those relationships and us still occasionally referencing stories from that time-period. Mind you real-world friends that I later did things like play D&D and other TTRPGs with so I'm not making the argument video games would have been enough on their own.

Getting bored of the time-sink in Wow lead to me investigating game hacking, lead to me learning memory modification and reverse engineering skills, and was my first try at process exploitation techniques all contributing to my eventual career in computer security. That said, I was already interested in the field and if I hadn't been I probably wouldn't have tried those things.

I don't play games very often nowadays but last year, while I was going through a divorce and dealing with depression and some amount of substance abuse in response, playing Disco Elysium was very relevant and contributed a ton to working through the thoughts and emotions around what I was going through. It helped me pull myself out of destructive patterns and I consider it one of the more important pieces of fiction I've experienced personally. That said, it is more or less a really complex illustrated choose your own adventure book so its not quite what most people think of when they think about "video games".

If my qualifications don't make it clear I don't think my anecdotes count as data nor am I discounting your personal experience, but I do feel the time I spent playing video games have been a net positive for my life.
How did this guy make his $1.8B?
Boeing Widens 787 Dreamliner Inspections
So...did Omuamua follow a path like this, or...
NASA studies of common houseplants show that they do a great deal of air cleaning, removing noxious industrial chemicals and pollutants from the air. Spider plants, for example, excel at this. So, it isn't your imagination. Science has measured differences in indoor air quality caused by houseplants.
Not to mention, that likely it has an overall positive effect on the old school "content industry".

After all, if there are old songs on YT then people can send them to others (see RickRoll), listen to them (playlists), keep them in the collective zeitgeist. So copyright holders have avenues to profit from these activities. If YT purges content likely those tracks would just disappear fast from the minds of folks who mostly listen music on YT.
What's the best way to be involved in a community? For me, it's really a lack of time and/or focus.

Generally speaking, I spend the majority of my time actually working on my project. It's hard to get involved.

Even then, I'm on Hacker News (obviously) but don't take time to write out really great comments like patio11, etc. I'm also on Indie Hackers, but really only reply to threads based on suggestions I get from curated emails. Otherwise, I'm on quite a few subreddits, as well as a ton of discord and slack channels. I'm also on Twitter, but don't know how to really contribute there either.

I'm quite the generalist, and I'm really into Rails, Svelte, Flutter, Godot, and bootstrapping/indie projects.

How do you all find the time to be involved anywhere?
Im surprised Seat61[1] has not been shared yet.
All you need to know about Train travel in the world including night trains

[1] https://www.seat61.com/
this entire thread is about the 'semantics' of work effort - what constitutes 'heroics' and if they are needed / not needed, and what that indicates/does not indicate about the goals/motivation of the person involved -

Irrespective of whether one is building a potentially billion dollar business or 'only' a 10m lifestyle company, the goal and focus should still be on the usefulness of the product and fitting market need, and not 'disrupting an industry' with the product as a side goal - if it's the latter, it indicates the priorities are skewed; from experience, usually when 'heroics' are involved or priorities are skewed, it's ego to blame and not some external requirement.

Further, 'heroics' are context-dependent - if the external requirement actually requires what would be 'heroics' in a normal situation, 'heroics' are simply 'duty' in that case, and there exists a 'that case heroics' that would still be 'heroics' (and therefore indicative of likely-ego-driven skewed priorities)
I think this is something people commonly conflate.

These two things are true: 1. screens cause eye strain, 2. screens make it harder to sleep because of blue light. People then mistakenly interpret this as "screens cause eye strain because of blue light".

It's a bit frustrating how many blue light filters advertise themselves as reducing eye strain, exploiting this misconception.