skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience, being kind results in self-interested people taking advantage of you.

That's okay. Sometimes you are taken advantage of. Sometimes your kindness truly helps improve another person's life. Sometimes your kindness returns to you amplified.

Risk minimization isn't always the best strategy. It can be okay for things to not work every time.
Right now, yeah. But if this tech trend (miniature, low power, cheap, commodity) continues and we can run our apps on them ... it might be a game changer. No?
"All problems"? I suppose you could argue if everyone suddenly became aware of the causes of problems (such as world hunger, climate change, wealth inequality, wars, propaganda, etc.) then we could just easily solve them, by just not doing the thing. But this is such a naive and childish concept, the world is doomed in a much more permanent, irreversible way. If everyone were to think hard about the world, they would still come to vastly different, diametrically opposed conclusions. Pascal believed that everyone would believe in (his particular version of) god if people only sat alone in a room for once and thought about it.

He also thought that we ought to believe in (his particular version of) god since we have everything to gain and nothing to loose. The logical counter argument of which particular god we are supposed to chose to worship on the off chance they are the real thing, is not something Pascal even could contemplate rationally about:

> As far as Pascal is concerned, the demise of the pagan religions of antiquity speaks for itself. Those pagan religions which still exist in the New World, in India, and in Africa are not even worth a second glance. They are obviously the work of superstition and ignorance and have nothing in them which might interest 'les gens habiles' ('clever men')

So yes, indeed you could solve all problems if you just label everyone opposed to your views as subhumans, conquered and culturally/religiously cleansed them from the earth.

Just so people understand where this guy is coming from.
That's a good point and probably worth trying out, nonetheless it is a shame that one would need to apply such trickery for something which was pretty straightforward a few years ago.

Also, the question would still be where to use that ruse. I am not sure it would provide for more correct answers on the Usenet or Stackoverflow.

The common consensus here seems to be that traditional chat platforms are the right tool right now.
“ Investors need to start asking more probing questions about how organizations develop and deploy applications. Perhaps if the money becomes contingent, people will start to give a shit about the engineering quality”

Why? Most companies fail due to a lack of product market fit not because they picked the wrong software stack. Hence investors time is better spent on company outcomes and not micromanaging whether the backend team is building using Java or Rust or whatever’s trendy.
I'm pretty sure it's deliberate. not as in intentionally punishing users, but intentionally not bothering to test their stuff with any third party equipment (excluding the blessed belkin maybe). if I had to distill the apple brand into a single phrase, it would be "my way or the highway". their way might be pretty good if you buy all the way in, but if not, you can go fuck yourself.
Sorry to go off-topic, but I had not come across the concept of Indian city tiers before, and found it interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Indian_citie...
I guess they do deserve some credit for prioritizing food service workers and such who are in high-contact situations, not just medical workers!

In addition to having a bug for residents without designated units (which again, how did they not test it on a sample set including residents?), it sounds like they maybe weighted age (or department?) too much compared to job description. It doesn't seem like an older physician that is working from home should be weighted higher than nearly anyone working every day in the hospital, regardless of age or if other people in their department working in the hospital got sick already.

It seems like amount of contact with patients should have been weighted far higher than anything else (patients for elective procedures are required to get a virus test first, so amount of contact with untested patients like in ER, or covid+ patients like those who need to care for them, even higher). But I'm not a doctor or medical ethicist. If Stanford has a reason for not doing that, they can, well, explain it, if they want to look better. It makes me figure it was just not done very carefully.

It seems to me that formula was just not very good. While it's technically an "algorithm", sure, I think most of us in the field would just call that a "formula" not an algorithm. I think they use the phrase "algorithm" precisely because to the layperson it seems more mysterious, more sophisticated, more complicated, harder to question, less obvious that was just something humans did, possibly not very carefully.
> Now it seems the _ground is saturated_.

When SwiftUI came out I learnt it by trying out each question about it. This way it was easy to get an introduction, because all were new to the technology and so were interested in figuring the questions out. And the questions were simple enough because no one had much of a grasp.

With old technology you do not necessarily have enthusiasts who try to "figure it out too" at the moment and so it gets more difficult.
I still find the web to be so beautiful.

I can talk and meet people all around the world.

I can stream hundreds of videos around every conceivable topic, in 4K60 resolution, on-demand.

I can make a livelihood without ever stepping feet out of my home; and conversely, work from almost anywhere that'll give me a visa.

The digitized information of our civilization is just one search away.
Personality trait that keeps people most strongly from infidelity: dutifulness
Problem is, the proponents of meritocracy defend you shouldn't care for those less performant because, well, they don't deserve it.
> search for keywords in the open AND THE CLOSED issues of that repo

Yep, every time I visit the github issues page I immediately remove `is:open` when searching.
We're going to be remembered as the last generation before the internet.
Is it though? It may be lossy to you because you are better and absorbing information through other means, however my point is that the social aspect is important for many to absorb information, even though it looks inefficient.

For example, many people are sheep who follow consensus —- meetings give an opportunity for them to establish consensus and hence accept and absorb it.

Note I am playing devils advocate here, I hate meetings but I think I get their role now
There's still value in knowing the scores though. When it works, it encourages better conversation, and this effect might be weakened if you couldn't see your comments' scores.

Slashdot's approach is to have different kinds of upvote (Insightful, Funny, etc) and different kinds of downvote (Off-topic, Flamebait, etc), and scores are clamped, iirc the lowest value is -1 and the highest is +5.

https://slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml
Yeah it's such a dumb argument. The obvious explanation is that all of those companies are ad supported, and advertisers don't want to advertise next to porn. If advertisers suddenly wanted to advertise on porn pages, how many seconds do you think it would take for FB to change that policy? But let's pretend it's because they're men.
There was recently an interesting interview with a content producer on OnlyFans by UnHerd, talking about the money, ethics, and how it differs from "traditional" (well, traditional in the age of PornHub) porn producers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlW2QdzZuZ8.
You are totally correct. Beyond a certain level of due diligence it doesn’t matter.
The web became popular to mainstream culture a few years later. Although I'd been using arpnet for over a decade due to university access, I first encountered a "web browser" while working at Electronic Arts on the yet to be released 3D0 in '93 -'94.

However, nobody cared diddly squat about "the web", it was empty or nonsense like usenet forums. We only cared about was DOWNLOADING DOOM! Id software released Doom, it it was available as an "web download link". That was the initial reason everyone at E.A. got exposure to the web, to download Doom.
Makes more sense now. Without context it just sounds click-baity.
Basic healthy food, shelter and education isn't as costly

The question is - providing for whom?

If you are the first country in the world that declares "basic healthy food, shelter and education is free for everyone who is present here, no strings attached", you incentivize other countries to send their needy your way instead of doing the same.

And that means a lot of people to provide for. Maybe Americans feel reasonably isolated by their oceans, but the distance between Germany and Subsaharan Africa is shorter than between New York and San Francisco.
>Windows 10 [...] DESTROYING my Linux boot loader that was placed on a separate hard drive.

Would it be fair to say that Windows extinguished your Linux install? :D
U of Texas will stop using controversial algorithm to evaluate PhD applicants
Very happy to see vlang make steady progress. Been following this language since it was initially posted on HN.

What is the trade off here with auto free ? Is it still possible to have memory leaks in some scenarios ?

What about concurrency or multi threaded situations ?
Shot:

"Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus."--LT Nicholson

Chaser:

". . .general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."--Jon Postel

This is how the individual meritocracy helps all: keep the expectations low, and the outputs high. Fairness you locate under the sun has a metaphysical component. People are carnivores by nature. Let your merit, if it be real, build others.
Those same mothers would likely be very glad if their daughter got a man with a well paying job, lots of money, and a big house. They think more in terms of their generation, how women's access to status worked back when they were young. Onlyfans opens a different way for attractive women to attain wealth. Much safer, and with way less pain involved than going through a marriage that was done for the money instead of for love, plus a painful divorce afterwards.
Waitrose yesterday everyone had a mask, a couple of people in the queue outside didn’t but hoping they were going to put them on.

I don’t think there should be any reason someone is allowed not to wear a mask - if there is a genuine reason why they can’t wear one then they shouldn’t be allowed in the shops
HN is for me in a sense the "front page" of the internet. I'll call it the thinking persons social media. Social? Check. We are here interacting. Media? Check. It's HN's raison d'être. Additive? Check. I check my up-vote score several times a day.
It's unfortunately true with a ton of things: hotels, rental cars, etc. Taxes, franchise fees, other taxes, facilities charges, etc. can all add on 20% or more. Especially if you're comparison shopping, you really need to verify whether you're looking at a base fee or the final tally.
This article gives me the same vibes of that comic strip set in a post apocalyptic wasteland: "But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders". It reads like a parody of SV culture. Can some woke capitalist please tell me what's so empowering about women who are forced to sell body pics for a living? Should we thank OnlyFans for exploiting the lack of safety net in our society?
Can you provide an opposing source?
people in sibiria used to do a similar thing called "lotska" although they wouldnt sleep completely through it because a fire was maintained afaik and once per day food and water was consumed. I always wondered what that does to your dreams and sense of reality, i know mine gets scewed easily.
Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning
And there's chess boxing, which combines chess and the sport of boxing. Robots in theory could be designed to play it well, but humans definitely have the chess boxing edge over server racks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
How do we know there even is a North Korea? Maybe it's completely fictional and one large propaganda operation?
>if my own daughter decided this was the industry she wanted to enter I would help jumpstart her career

Luckily for you, engaging in porn is strongly correlated with the absence of a loving father. Hopefully she rebels and comes to value her dignity and virtue, even if you don't.
We do live in a meritocracy, which favor those white, middle class, mediocre males you complained about, because they got all the advantage and thus became good about it.

But selecting the best had nothing with fairness or ensuring that everyone is educated.
BBC Radio, Lovecraft, the Shadow over Innsmouth
BBC Radio, Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

BBC have just released the 3rd season of their Lovecraftian radio play series.
The link points back to the very first episode of season 1.

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward [S01]

The Whisperer in Darkness [S02]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth [S03]
I agree it isn't about the language features, but designs have changed a lot. 2nd ed could be great - thanks, I'll try to get a copy when the price settles down a bit.
Oof, yeah, without a proper configuration, they can be a pain in the ass. Out of the box, brand new, they overheat already. HP software is absolute trash.

I literally use drivers from Lenovo because the ones HP provides are like 5 years old and they don't plan on updating them.

Updating the BIOS is like playing Russian roulette, they seem to introduce more bugs than they fix.

But the hardware itself is nice, I've been using HP workstations for more than a decade. Quality has gone down somewhat (less metal, more plastic, less durable compared to early Elitebooks imo), but they're still nice machines.
I am failing to see how this work is significantly different or its contribution compared to Lamport's original work.
Not when you factor in performance per watt.
So as long as the government does it it’s ok as long as the government doesn’t do it incorrectly? Therein lies the problem, governmental failure is always a possibility as Milton Friedman observed, and if they fail there’s no penalty to failing other than the size of government increasing :) Even in America the issue is that we’ve over-regulated the internet industry to the point where even a company like Google has issues, although one could argue they did it for different reasons i.e. to force the existing companies to lay down fiber faster. Regulatory capture is the real issue.
The project HydrOS aimed to build an Erlang operating system that way: one core for the OS, one scheduler per core other than the OS one.

Unfortunately it looks the project is now abandoned
I remember transitioning from Prestel, where in the mid-80s I played the MMO Shades [1], to the web and then getting more and more despondent as year after year the experience seemed to degrade as everyone and their dog went online.

[1] https://www.prestel.org.uk/download.php?cat=15_Prestel&file=...

Edit to add: Prestel was an interactive service run by the UK Post Office. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel
I can't even imagine a life without New World domesticated cultivars.
I suggest that New Zealand is the most comparable country to the UK in its challenges - being islands dependent on outside trade and with an economy heavy on services and tourism. (plus, NZ's primary trading partner is China).

They haven't faced challenges of the same magnitude only because they took action to stop an outbreak from starting, at the earliest opportunity. That's the only meaningful difference in how things have played out.

They passed the same challenges that the UK failed.
Yes in some ideal environment a sex worker and a pimp could have a mutually beneficial relationship. But that is not why pimping is looked down upon. And you made no honest attempt to address the issues that exist in practice.
>Hiring people who are “good enough” is simply not good enough. There has never been, and never will be, a team that won the world cup by selecting players who are “good enough.”

This isn't actually true. You can have a team full of good enough players that can win championships.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/how-david-beat...
Communism is real.
In the context of

> doesn't help their future career aspirations

it fits perfectly (unfortunately).
Agreed and overall the article is very good. It is worth emphasising though that it is unfair and that environment plays a huge role in many people's success. At least some of the aristocrats knew that they were lucky and as a result had some kind of noblesse oblige. Some people at the top of the meritocracy think that because they got there on merit then they deserve as much as they can get.
He didn’t. It’s a very slow command. He started it in parallel on several.

He only found that there was a problem when the ones started earlier finished and rebooted.

By then it was too late for 7 machines but he was able to stop it on the rest.
Improving Haskell (GHC) Error Messages
Ask HN: Best recent sources on the history of the Knights Templar?
I'm trying to understand the intricacies of the history of the crusades and the Knights Templar. Are there any recent books that incorporate newly accessible primary sources (as opposed to re-hashing existing ones from a revisionist POV)?
In my opinion, all talk of meritocracy, when applied, is irrelevant. I mean, it sounds good in principle, but in most applications, there is no simple way of determining the "best" candidate in any given situation.

Yeah, sure, we have some highly specialized environments, such as sports, where we have parameters to select from, but as much as no team has won by selecting players who are good enough, few teams if any have won by just selecting players who are the best in a narrow metric. You need leaders, you need players with specific skill, you need role players, you need people who can inspire etc.

Same when hiring for a job position - Determining who is the "best" candidate is near impossible. The best, according to which metric? Most years spent at uni? In the business? How do you control for biases that have given one candidate undeserved praise and another that has gone unrecognized? How tdo you value social factors, etc?
All innovations stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Just goes to show how easily the public is swayed by a media blitz.
Except I can now pirate.

RIP Aaron Swartz
Ironically this is not meritocracy.
basically!
Jesus, you've got to be kidding me. Are you going to tell me that the "Birth of Venus" is also "pornographic"? Besides, whatever porn may have existed 1000 years ago, internet porn is a completely different thing, and should not even be compared.
I can't recommend this channel enough, it's an absolute delight.
Well, the plots are really bad, even by Shakespeare's standards. Cymbelline is a mess of mistaken identities and increasingly arbitrary subplots that require a literal deus ex machina to resolve: Jupiter himself shows up and just tells everybody how to end the play. Pericles started life as a collection of unrelated short stories, crammed together haphazardly. The Winter's Tale has a terrible main character, so the plot just goes completely elsewhere for 17 years, followed by a completely unmotivated and really bizarre quickie "redemption". In each case you leave the theater having no idea how to feel about anything. They weren't funny, but neither have they resolved dramatically. They just kinda stop.

That said... two of the films I mentioned are of plays considered barely better than these. Titus is literally a horror play, but Julie Taymor was the director of the Broadway Lion King, and turned it into achingly beautiful and horribly tragic art. The Coriolanus is less of an artistic achievement, but they resolved the play's terrible pacing problems to make it a thrilling political action movie.

The real reason the plays I listed are rarely performed isn't the plot, but the fact that there isn't anything else great to recommend them. They don't have great poetry or engaging characters. They're just kinda limp.

But who knows? Maybe they just need somebody to find the magic in them. A couple of years ago I had a wild success with a production of Timon of Athens, a kind of reverse Chrismas Carol where the Scrooge starts off as a good, generous man who spends the whole second half of the play complaining about how badly he got screwed over. Then he kills himself. I edited it to keep the pace up, found the dark comedy in it, and people said that they didn't know why it's not performed more often.

So any of these plays could have a great rediscovery at some point and change how people think about them. But we're also very aware that even the best of Shakespeare's plays have deep flaws, both intrinsically and in the way expectations have changed in 400 years. We find that they mean something to us, and even the terrible ones contain something that adds to the work as a whole. I can report what most people think, but the real wins come when somebody takes a fresh look.
I am not sure what is ironic about the last paragraph. The point is that growth and distributioin are orthogonal concerns.
Reducing illegitimate traffic stops is one of the side-benefits I see as more cars become self driving.
> I don't know what the equivalent of building a 'mobile-first' website is in game development or if it's possible [...]

Sounds like the old 'progressive enhancement' (at least I think that phrase was 'replaced' by mobile-first, based upon personal experience).

While I first heard it used for web development, where you would build up your content and then add JavaScript and (enhanced) styling, there's no reason that can't be applied to game development as well.

In fact, I think you can look at PS4 Pro Enhanced games for how it was done well.
> Without context

The song from the musical is embedded as a video in the article.
NSA releases a preview debugger for the Ghidra reverse engineering suite
Thanks! Completely forgot that this was there too
Wow, I'm surprised they have enough customers to stay in business. What is it used for today?
That the country exists is not a controversial proposition.

But when you hear bizarre claims, backed by no evidence but tenuous hearsay and no means of independent confirmation... I mean, surely some of it is true, but each single bizarre assertion must be considered with your skeptic hat firmly on.
The problem is that these are American companies. And unlike the credit card companies who've been around for decades, they haven't yet had much international experience, so they're still in the American habit of enforcing their moral code as part of their product. Once they've had a decade or so to mellow out, we'll see a lot less punishment of people who don't match their moral ideals.
But... favoring a certain class of people _by definition_ means that those people arent necessarily the best equipped. Being favored doesn't just mean reaching the best results due to the best circumstances, it also means being given unfair credit etc.
Old generation telling the new generation they’re wrong... what’s new
At least we can enjoy Libgen and Sci-Hub's effort to make those knowledge available for free to us, the motivated. We owe them a big thanks.
> binaries that run on all of them

Universal binaries. Apple calls those binaries “Universal binaries”. Rosetta is more like running different arch binaries through qemu. A brief look through Google says that there was a FatELF specification created years back, but never really went anywhere. Presumably because Linux users tend to know what arch they are using.

Fat binaries would make distribution easier, but would double (or triple) the size of a binary. I doubt it would be worth the size trade off.