skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite possibly a hoax (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Zero_stroke), but if so, it survived for 10 years, and might gain it a place on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi....
take this, bret victor!
Any idea why .info is blocked? I always considered it to be ok since it’s an ogTLD.
I agree. The issue comes when you get a feedback loop: the other neighbourhood has zero crime because there are no arrests because there are no police there. Or if the high crime neighbourhood is actually only high crime at night so the police sent there during the day have no "real" crime to prevent and spent the whole time giving out tickets. Then residents get upset.

I don't see why it's so hard to vary policing levels based on local demand as well as need. If neighbourhood Xs representatives say they want fewer police, let them have it.

The point is to be transparent and precise with your models and then override them when that's what residents want.

Of course, there is also the issue of towns raising money from ticketing, but that's another point...
Apple’s culture of secrecy is partly self-imposed rather than fear of litigation or Global Security tac squads rappelling through your window or any fantasy fear like that. It’s nothing cult-like, just simple conformity in following social convention. People get used to not broadcasting what they work on, and an over-imaginative public does the rest.

I do think that the overall organization’s relative lack of participation in industry conventions and conferences (unlike the rest of FAMNG) seems to percolate to the rank and file as well, though you do see occasional tech talks from Apple engineers[0]. There’s also a sense that Apple is a world unto itself, there’s certainly enough decades worth of technology to work on and to study, that perhaps there’s relatively less interest in the outside.

[0] https://youtu.be/7UC7OUdtY_Q
I'm going to humbly put my kubecon talk here because it's unlike any conference talk you've ever seen and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
https://youtu.be/VtedIghTPzI
I think Fossil adds things beyond Git, because it also supports "bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes." https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

I think it's odd that so many people use a DVCS as part of a development system so dependent on a centralized server for everything else.
that would actually be cool. I could see it boosting productivity.
The average person has a really poor idea of what profit means because they analogize between their personal finances and a company's finances.

What profit means for a company is essentially: "Across my entire company, of all the things I could be doing, I couldn't find a single initiative that I believe will yield me a risk adjusted ROI that is greater than just leaving the money in a bank account."

Growing companies shouldn't be making a profit because they should be limited by their ability to execute on attractive growth opportunities fast enough. Mature companies can make profits because they've reached the limits of their attractive growth and now can be focused on harvesting the rewards.
This is this year's CCC.
This is working much better than it was last time I saw it on the front page. Nice work.
I disagree with one aspect.

Rotation doesn’t work the way it does in every other iOS UI, and so it took me forever to figure out how to rotate. On a related note, it kept inexplicably rotating whenever I would zoom in and out.

Still impressive and smooth, though. And might just be part of the library chosen.
It would be like expecting a woodworker to come up with new techniques for each project. You develop a style, a way of doing things, and your employer is buying that from you.
Some of these are a bit of a reach, but maybe some reaching optimism is just what we need right now.
- Build a source of income without having to return to being an employee or doing things that bore me to death.
Not better, but people move laterally then get promoted. FAANG game is about doing what you need to get that cushy 300k a year senior sde salary in any of the companies, and after that you do whatever.
Turn the newsletter into RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Mental challenged? That went from 0 to 100 quickly. It's isn't a DSM diagnosis to decline to be co-opted by feel-good but ultimately vapid, cloy gestures.
Finally 3.0 is here! So now we're at this point what's next?
sure, I'll be releasing first 1st week of Jan so you can check that webpage again. Here is a talk I gave if you like to know what one of the topics that will be covered extensively - storytelling for technical speakers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNDJ32JqMw
Apparently my setup was on the GPU blocklist in chrome so I had to enable #ignore-gpu-blocklist in chrome://flags

This demo did not want to run on CPU only :)
I still largely blame Adobe here -- they were the ones who should have been responsible for fixing Flash's performance. The complaints about it being a CPU hog weren't limited to mobile; even in the early 2000s, Mac users, at least, generally hated being forced to deal with Flash-based UIs. Adobe never seemed real concerned with optimization, I suspect precisely because of the advantages you listed, e.g., things that were hard-to-impossible to do without Flash.

At this point, at least, I'm pretty sure WebGL can do most or all of what you could do in Flash. It's possible that the tools have never caught up, but it also seems possible to me that the space that used to be occupied by Flash games has largely been filled, ironically, by mobile gaming.
No, absolutely not. I was not clear enough.

People are dying constantly because not enough people are helping.

Relative to the number of people trying to help, the size of the problem is nearly infinite.

If someone who could help, doesn't, the people they would have saved just die. No one else will save them.

This is the unreasonable burden. This is why I don't suggest it lightly. I'm telling a person who is already suffering enough to want to opt out, that people will die unless they choose to stay and do a truly unacceptable amount of work.

I'd certainly like to see people in better circumstances help, but there seems to be a problem of perspective. The full scope and seriousness of the problem tends to slide off and not stick for 'healthy' people. Not always, and I appreciate everyone who does even the smallest bit, but... apparently it's ignored often enough that it continues.

(To be clear, I don't really blame people who never think about it or shy away from actually engaging with it. No one can be expected to tolerate it or to carry the burden of doing something about atrocity. That the world contains these evils is not really their fault, they're just people that happen to be in slightly different circumstances than the ones currently dying.)
> can't tell if that is an actual project or the programming version of Time Cube

you and me both! you and me both!

no but seriously, lots of PL research is going on for small gains, while 2 and 3 dimensional languages are a complete blue ocean of opportunity. mostly right now it's me and a few others splashing around. but the crowds will figure it out eventually.
I'm interested in your feedback when you test it, I think you'll like it.
I've read about this before when Toronto was implementing a system like this. The City of Toronto cools a large portion of it's downtown office towers using this method. They draw cold water from deep in Lake Ontario to be pumped into chillers to cool the office buildings. Seems to be environmentally friendly and cost efficient.

A couple of links:

https://www.acciona.ca/projects/construction/port-and-hydrau...

https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/public-...
What’s Breakfast Cereal Got to Do with the Future?
It’s a multifactorial process. Low crime, strong policing, and high average income are all correlated; I can’t claim I know exactly how the causation goes. (Gentrification seems like an unlikely explanation for Austin, though, since cost of living is pretty close to New Orleans.)
My Mom was a HS English teacher.
Your quotations are actually in violent agreement with the poster you're responding to.

The accelerationist Phillips curve and various types of rational expectations based microfounded models you reference are, for better and for worse, the newer 'other models'.

Arguments advanced upthread that Keynes (and recent events) implies that the government could eliminate all poverty and unemployment through continuous money printing without consequence, or 1960s Keynesian arguments the government could at any point trade slightly higher inflation for lower unemployment (which were influenced by but not made by Keynes) were the casualty.

One thing both the original Keynes and modern mainstream interpretations have in common is they viewed large deficits as a tool for fixing the imbalances of a recession rather than the natural way of paying for things.
Do you have a casualty estimate for not doing the lockdowns?
This is pretty much the only advice I’d ever give to a designer. Knowing what’s possible technically, and knowing which of those possible things is a worthwhile ask makes you a more well-rounded technical product designer. That type of designer is much more valuable than the ‘well this is the design’ sticklers.
I think this is for music “streaming” applications described here:

https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/audio-networking-explained...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_(networking)

versus the streaming associated with Spotify et al

IOW a legitimate (non—audiophile) piece of gear
I don't believe it. Embrace, extend, and extinguish is dead. /s
Off Topic:

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The above is shown as Banner that does not require any user interaction before you indicate your consent. This may have been OK if it was in US, but I was under the impression with GDPR, or pretty much everything else in Europe, UK or most other CommonWealth countries, active user consent are required, such as clicking an OK button, rather than passive user consent, which is just showing you a banner.

Correct me if I am wrong.
One benefit of that is that you can't take work home, although I think Covid is forcing them to make some changes.
I think it would be accurate to say web developers are a part of their market more than a part of their brand. I don't know if I'd say "huge," but I suspect a financially significant chunk of MacBook Pro sales, specifically, go to design and engineering groups in tech companies.
Of the ways for a species to go extinct few of them have to do with aging. So on an individual level, yes it would be a strong selector, but on a species level, it could be neutral or negative.

So agelessness isn’t a 100% win by any means.

We definitely have not seen every combination of possible genetic traits yet. To my knowledge the griffin has not yet evolved, for example.
Cornell University has a similar cooling system using cold water from Cayuga Lake.

https://fcs.cornell.edu/departments/energy-sustainability/ut...
well, sci-fi and everybody else was warning humans about that since like mid-20th century, and yet the human race is as unprepared as one can be (similarly to the climate change situation), and still puts the major hope into the "putting the genie back into the bottle" strategy which is obviously not going to work... Kind or reminds of the lockdowns as a strategy to fight the covid :)
I’ve been trying to find an example of someone having a domain reclassified to premium while it’s registered and haven’t been able to. I think that would signal the end of that TLD. I know I’d never buy one after hearing about that.
I had both, Amazon and as a defense contractor. Nothing ever would have prohibited me from talking about how work was, what I worked on was for obvious reasons easier at Amazon. But even in the contractor job it was no problem saying I worked on Integrated Logistics Support on aircraft. This was a far cry from being CIA, so.

That being said, I told people the comment thing more than once. Always to people I know and people that know me well enough to get the meaning. In other cases I just said I won't answer certain questions. Much different than the bo comment trope.
These kinds of questions are why the post you're replying to asked if it was personal experience or speculation.

You responded with some technically-detailed speculation, which, fair enough. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Paul Stamets, a legendagry mycologist and founder (A Scientist and entrepreneur that successfully founded a mushroom company that grew and grew and grew ). This talk is on psychedelic use, but there are multiple other sub-topic talks by him. Always a joy to hear about his new discoveries in mushrooms and an inspiration regardless of what you do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-qQWOf98Y

You should check out all his talks if you like this one.

If you are pressed for time, check out his shorter TED prsentations (not necessarily 2020)
I had a six letter dotcom name back in the mid-2000s I sold for $10k to an Irish company. At the time it was a lot of money and I paid off what was left of my student loans. I then dumped what was left and my savings into my car loan and was totally debt free ... then I lost my job

The website on it had a ton of content too, which I never re-hosted anywhere else. Part of me wishes I had just hung on to it. milk.com is another one of those old holdouts where they guy is unwilling to sell it for less than 7 figures.
2020 in Review: 10 Nonfiction Books AI Experts Enjoyed Reading
Heh heh. That’s why they call this “Hacker News.”
Ask HN: What did you get for generic winter holidays?
Does it have to be a goal for Git? Most of the development is not game development
You can buy that warranty coverage as an individual for very little money.

I recommend Dell to my friends because the warranty coverage is so exceptional.
That is true. Money gets weird at huge scales. For something like an interstellar mission a more significant limiting factor may be the number of engineers and skilled workers with the right skills to work on such a thing and the rate at which they can be mobilized and managed. Most such people are currently employed, so they would basically have to be poached at huge scale. It takes a long time to train people like that, so the supply is inelastic on short time scales.
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Not everyone in Canada would be "several shades richer" if Canada were to join the USA. Most farmers would end up destitute.
An excellent presentation.
I find his other presentation, the Cost of Code, more important but less entertaining. "Fix it in software" is going to be growing in magnitude and impact, as software eats the world. (Boeing Max crashes, Uber pedestrian accident, Volkswagen emissions cheating)

The presentation from 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001SxQCEuv8
There is some value in standards such as UNIX and POSIX compared to whatever the maintainers of a GNU project decided this morning.

As for your second point, it just means that package management is irrelevant to UNIX (or POSIX) compliance. It did not prevent different package managers to appear over the years, because all the expected infrastructure was in place.
Very interesting, I have been looking for such a tool
Strongly agree with you regarding IP. Especially when we live in a world where many of the biggest corporate IPs are shared fiction myths that incorporate public domain material, or where a lot of new IP is inspired by existing IP to the point where it could be part of that property.
Ask on the infosec.exchange mastodon. There are plenty folks there contracting.
A few of us at the Sudoroom hackerspace in Oakland created a mesh-network protocol and hardware for Lora:

https://disaster.radio/
People normally think of probability as a way of understanding games of chance. But historically, games of chance evolved to make probability work, once people cared about that. Roman dice were lopsided. [1]

When probability works, it's because people made it work by removing influences that would throw off the calculations.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dice-evolution-fate-fa...
In what world does plan9 inspire "everything is a url"?

Just in the sense that there's an "everything is a $foo" opinion, in the spirit of "everything is a file"?

Because at a glance, "everything is a url" seems antithetical to unix or plan9, where how a resource is accessed has deliberately been a transparent feature of the VFS switch, not something encoded into its path.
This is an excellent summary of rationale for

Erlang with the goals stated at the beginning of the article!

However, the Erlang language itself is now rather dated :-(

In order to implement next generation Universal

Intelligent Systems [Hewitt 2019], the following extensions

to Erlang are needed:

• Automatic reclamation of processes. For example,

Erlang uses Process Identifiers (PIDs) to communicate between

processes. However, a process that has a process identifier

(say ProcessIdentifier) of a process with which it

communicates can launch a denial of service attack to kill

that process using exit(ProcessIdentifier, kill). An Erlang

process can be orphaned if its Process Identifier (PID)

becomes inaccessible. By default, the send operation in

Erlang always succeeds (even if the target is a non-existing
process).

• Strong parameterized types with no type Any.

• Region of mutual exclusion for an Erlang process.

An Erlang process does not have a region of mutual exclusion,

which can lead to internal conflicts within processes.

• Behavior change using variables in a region of mutual

exclusion instead of having to create auxiliary processes to

hold state with callbacks. [Swain 2014] In particular,

o Better support for holes in the region of mutual exclusion

of an Actor implementation. For example, in Erlang it is

necessary for application programmers to explicitly code a

request handler for each re-entry into the region of mutual

exclusion potentially enabling cyberattacks from outside the

process.

o Better ways to upgrade Actors in place without losing work in progress.
How do you determine that the domain is being used for something productive? Is my personal email domain up for grabs because I don't have an http presence?
>and whose costs are entirely ignored.

The costs are not being ignored. Government frequently talks about the need to keep schools open to avoid some of those costs; we've recently had rapid release of suicide stats (no rise so far, but lots of caution needed); we're v worried about access to other forms of healthcare (London has today said they can't guarantee ambo service to home birth delivery that goes wrong) etc etc.

People are constantly checking we've got the balance right.

But the fact remains: covid kills lots of people and it seriously harms very many others. Those people who are harmed take time to recover and that has long term financial and health implications for them and their families.

https://twitter.com/rupert_pearse/status/1342020644247130113
Thanks for the explanation.

This makes sense. In Haskell, strict ByteStrings are a pointer, plus an offset, plus a length. You can call the unpack function on them, which provides a lazy list (it reads from the pointer in blocks) of the characters pointed to. There is also a library that provides lazy ByteStrings from mmapped files.

The Prolog stuff sounds quite interesting. I suppose you haven't published anything about the cross-border stuff? Quite a while ago I was using linear programming to build a home energy optimisation system, modelling the workings of a battery, solar panel, energy usage and energy tariffs. The whole thing was a big min-cost flow network. The output was a series of commands to hopefully optimise energy usage.

I defined the programme with glpk-hs (a Haskell library which can output in the CPLEX format) and then ran the programmes with cbc. It was very complex, and I later realised that what I really needed was a more general system which combined linear and logic.

Someone on HN mentioned ECLiPSe, but I see that you mention SWI quite a bit on your website. What can you recommend for the sort of thing I was doing? I am not an expert in linear programming, and I also found all the options of CBC a bit overwhelming.
Ask HN: Best Slow News Sources?
The slower news thread earlier today got me thinking: what are some great news sources to digest on a weekly,monthly, or even yearly basis?
> It's as bad as it is, but unfortunately wet markets also seem to play a massive economic role in some parts over there, where many people depend on it.

Ok, so what? Adapt.

Like the rest of the planet did. As an example, Restaurants also play a massive economic role in the western world and pretty much everything involving gatherings of people. Or my grandparents doing their groceries without risking their lives. So we managed to more or less adapt to the new reality.

Wet market importance pales in comparison to the changes to the rest of the planet, honestly.
The physics working on paper is enough for an argument for basic feasibility. It may indeed not be as easy as they thought. Maybe replace 1960s tech with 2060s tech and much more exotic materials.

They did do some survivability experiments at ground zero at atomic tests and found that some materials could stay intact. I recall reading that the biggest problem on paper for Orion was cooling the plate in space so it wouldn’t melt after a few pulses. I think they posited various ablative shielding materials plus some kind of active cooling. Of course also remember that once you are in space you don’t need to fire rapidly. One boom every hour or two or even longer would be fine. It could take quite a while to build up to cruising speed, and to decelerate.

Acceleration would require several times more charges since you have to accelerate all the deceleration fuel. With interstellar flight you have two massive problems: going fast enough, and then slowing down at the other end.

100 more years of R&D is not very long on geological or cosmic time scales. My point is that the math working for something as brute force as Orion makes the difficulty of interstellar flight a problematic answer to the Fermi paradox.
Which Browsers Protect Your Privacy?
Officials covered up covid because China takes pandemic response seriously. A mayor of an American city would have no incentive to hide an emerging disease because they know that report would have no impact on its own. In both cases, nothing is done until shit hits the fan. The difference is that China actually managed to control the pandemic, as evident in how you're allowed to be mask-free in many cities.

As far as sanctions go, they only make sense if you're goals are strictly economically related. Punishing China with sanctions for the pandemic largely ineffective strategy because you're hurting your own side just as much.
Which jetpack gets 20min of flight time? Modern jetpacks get 30 seconds of flight time. The 20min flight sequences are actually lots of extremely short flights edited together to look like a single extended flight.