skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I've been interested in reviving something that might be called slow news. Its more like the weekly news digest. Lots of times first reports are inaccurate, or woefully incomplete, and the corrections never get noticed; also, sometimes we need to slow down to cogitate on the news instead of just reacting to it.
> Thermonuclear Orion could reach as much as 10% the speed of light

I wonder how much such a mission would cost in terms of total Earth resources. I've read Dyson's book on the project some years back and I don't remember that being mentioned.

Wikipedia states the cost in percentage of U.S. GDP (0.1 - 1% of yearly GDP), but I feel like the millions of tons of copper and fissile material required would be significant hit on remaining mineral reserves. It's kind of hard to justify sending out a few missions if it means that the planet left behind is out of easily mined copper and uranium deposits.
“When hiring in secondary markets, choose employees with the assumption that you’ll work together for at least 10 years.”

A nice idea, but I haaaaaated lying to interviewers about my intentions when they asked me, “where do you see yourself in five or ten years?” Is it really not ok if I put in two solid years solving your interesting problems?
Swine flu didn't kill 1.5M. Swine flu wasn't covered up at source with doctors arrested and sanctioned. Swine flu didn't come after a very similar outbreak in 2003 where worldwide experts told america 'this particular kind of market is a huge pandemic risk, you should stop that' which america adhered to for a brief period then reopened and promoted. America didn't stop flights internally after the outbreak while permitting international ones. There wasn't indication of the WHO being overtly influenced by the US to cover up the seriousness of swine flu.

America acted to address the issue and prevent future outbreaks. China is doing precisely the opposite, and looking to save face rather than save lives.

Anybody with half a brain should be aghast at what's going on very blatantly right in front of their eyes. The next pandemic might not have a 0.4% case mortality rate mostly affecting those at the end of their lives/with comorbidities.

Taking the point separately about disease prevalence in Asia - absolutely, and there are many reasons as to why - the wide biosphere, the broad consumption of many species not consumed abroad, the prevalence of high risk animals with similar biology to ours but higher tolerance for e.g. fever/respiratory disease (bats are unfortunately extremely good at this) - this is precisely why we have to be extremely vigilent there.

This is also what makes the Chinese refusing to allow serious investigation into the outbreak (now only permitted via the highly questionable WHO) along with them opening wet markets shortly after the initial outbreak and worse of all the undenaible cover up particularly egregious.

Perhaps the next pandemic would be unavoidable even with China doing all they could to prevent it - but for them to play dice with the future of civilisation with what control they have is unforgiveable.
Offtopic but related question: is there any TLD for which a first-level wildcard is allowed in SSL certs? (I mean "* .tld" instead of second-level such as "* .foo.tld").

TLDR; I feel like there should be a special dev-only TLD for certs that go on example code, which skipped all the certificate management limitations. Suggestions are welcome!

It is so cumbersome to provide WebRTC sample apps and tutorials that can be universally run for testing purposes. WebRTC requires HTTPS, and thankfully an untrusted self-signed cert will do for Firefox and Chrome (they will show a warning page that the user can accept); iOS further requires that the certificate is trusted (so no warning page is shown and the load silently hangs on an infinite reload loop, which is nasty if you ask me; to avoid this, you can manually install custom Root CAs to the device).

So, my WebRTC tutorials and demos need to include a self-signed cert that allows users to deploy in their LAN and do a quick test [0]. Browsers tend to accept "localhost" as a safe origin, but what happens with testing on LAN? I feel there should be some convention there, it's not very helpful to test a WebRTC application just on localhost.

To not assume any given LAN subnet, I create my self-signed certs for these domains [1]:

127.0.0.1
::1
localhost
*.test.local

That way, users can create a quick DNS redirection from some .test.local domain to their server (e.g. using avahi-publish command), install the root cert in iOS, and test from an Apple device.

But I'd love if it was possible to just define a first level wildcard:

*.test
*.local

or similar.

Actually the .local domain would be perfect! Thanks to mDNS, when available, all hostnames automatically get their <hostname>.local address, which would be great for an easier than ever setup. Alas, MacOS seems to reject first-level wildcards.

To add to the problem, these demo self-signed certs were created for 10 years, which is fine because I want to drop then on the Git repo and forget about them. But now the maximum allowed longevity for newly created certs is enforced to be a measly 398 days.

Why does all this need to be so needlessly complicated? I guess people will tell me to put in place a cert-renewal scheme, using some CI for all repos that contain demo code or tutorials, but that's highly undesired... There are even people suggesting that certs should live for just days or hours, I guess they are not thinking on this simple use case, for which I don't know if there is an escape hatch.

As mentioned in the TLDR; suggestions are welcome!

[0]: https://github.com/Kurento/mediasoup-demos

[1]: https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/securi...
Unlike CVS and Subversion, git is big enough that it won't just be replaced. What comes next needs to be incredible to even have a chance.

Personally, I think the next big VCS will have the ability to handle all files, including binary ones. (See https://gavinhoward.com/2020/07/decentralizing-the-internet-... .) As a bonus side effect, this would probably give that VCS the ability to handle source code by semantics.
I can't speak for him, but I understood him to be sardonically answering my question. If he was genuinely afraid to say anything bad about the place I imagine he'd have said "it was okay" or the like.
small differences between BSDs' userland and GNU's.
For clarity: The bias is in the training data, not the algorithm per se. The training data reflects the culture which produced it. The bias in the culture might be artificially countered in the algorithm’s implementation but that probably won’t work without unforeseen consequences. To fix the bias in the data one has to fix the originating culture. And that takes generations.
Laziness, impatience, and hubris are Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer. I think you just hit on all three.
Taiwan didn’t weld anyone’s doors shut, though, or even have lockdowns. The “us” culture here is just that people don’t come up with insane, I’m-smarter-than-the-experts conspiracy beliefs. The government says wear masks in public and people do it, because the simplest interpretation is that the government is trying to prevent an epidemic. The guy who recently caused the only local transmission in over 250 days is probably the most hated man in Taiwan right now because he selfishly disregarded the health of others in order to enjoy himself. In the US, he’d just be behaving like the average person.

I also believe that most of the Taiwan model’s success is thanks to smart policies and responsible governance, but there is something to be said for the cultural aspect, and it’s not a totalitarian hellhole sacrificing a few by welding them in their homes to save the many.
Great. Look forward to having the worst year in modern memory to be voxsplained to me.
Rock stable?
This is a good post and I have been Nick a few times. I have felt the anger and shock that Nick faces.

My gripe was that if management wants me to handle all aspects of a project, why can't they just spell it out? What about communicating this to other stakeholders? Do I barge into meetings and tell people in sister teams to drop their other work and start listening to me because Gloria asked me to change my shape to a full circle?

The hand off from regular shape to wholesome shape is not obvious to Nick. And even if it was, they have no authority or power or resources to drive "others" until Gloria spells it out at least one time.
I think the definition of 'progress' is nuanced, since it is is inherently unsustainable. I think our existence in general is destructive to the environment around us.
In today's social media world where people are willing to post any gossip on the internet for some meaningless likes / points, I think its actually prudent to measure your words carefully before you voice them. Especially if the law is involved.
For a spy agency that is exactly how it should be. If any rando on the internet could detect what they were doing then it wouldn't be very secret.
Do you not see how the two go hand-in-hand, your "gay man married to a woman because it's illegal to be gay in his country" and "it's common to assume opposite gender"?

I don't know what malice means to you, but I can tell you on my behalf and on behalf of many queer people (I won't claim to speak for all, but I know I speak for many), you should not assume the opposite gender for the partner, and it is unnecessary to defend someone who makes the mistake. Ultimately, it _is_ a factual error, and it is invalidating.
That’s what I’m saying. There is no performance drop compared to x86 macs, the M1 is _that_ fast.
For mental health and spirituality the Bhagvad Gita. Definitely not what I expected originally and had put it off for years/decades. After reading it, I felt a bit blissed out, what actually led me to read it was another book on taming our mind called The Yogasutras of Patanjali. I feel like it hasn’t been ‘discovered’ yet by the west but it had life changing consequences for me (for the better).
Did you miss the part where the author contrasts the subtractive work mentality in a creative process from the additive work mentality on an assembly line? Your thoughts are addressed by the piece.

Designing a car: iterative, convergent process that can be modeled as subtractive

Building a car in a factory assembly line from a static design: additive work
Difficult from a moving camera. The perspective on the target changes too rapidly for each subsiquent frame to contribute much to the last.
Red Alert called it! https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Rocketeer
I was looking at getting a short gTLD for a website I'm starting, but I'm wondering how well they're supported (meaning will DNS resolve, can people send me email, will I get rejected for using the address for account creation on sites, etc). The com/net/org/etc and ccTLD's I know are almost universally supported, but if I had example.whatever, how likely am I to run into issues?
If we, here on Earth, want to survive the next couple of centuries we need to find a way to keep our population growth under control. Either we succeed or we most likely will destroy ourselves and/or the Earth. But if we succeed, we also don't have much need to leave Earth anymore.

I'd say that this is also the case for other civilisations, which might be another reason why we don't see them.
I think it's about time we started sending probes to other systems. Sure it could take 50-100 years before the probe sent back any meaningful data - but imagine how extraordinary that would be for future generations. Seems like we have the technology for it.
Apple has 7.7% of PC market in the latest Gartner report. As the prior poster noted, that is far from a monopoly. Per Net Applications in October, Windows was on 88.8% of all PCs worldwide. Microsoft trying to lock their OS into their own CPU/SoC would be monopolistic.
I have bet my startup on the future of git, as a decentralised store for personal data. My view is that git hasn’t peaked at all in terms of usage, and currently only serves the developer niche - while its future might be as a store of personal data for the general public. Sort of how computers were niche products compared to now when everyone has one in their pockets.
What kind of person haunts 4-day-old articles to post long, off-topic comments like this? And that cites Jesse Singal of all people as some sort of authority?

What I said is that it was helpful to me personally. Which it was, in that it helped me recognize my own implicit anti-black bias. Unless you'd like to prove that the whole concept of unexamined biases is 100% unreal, please move along and let people have a discussion untainted with irrelevant interruptions.
Russian hackers compromised Microsoft cloud customers through third party
Yeah it has a few mildly interesting points, and then starts going on about lab grown meat as if that's a thing anyone wants. Proper food please for me.
The abusive relationship trickles down no matter which platform you choice. Even on Linux you don’t have full control of all the driver binaries, control of the silicon of everything running on your rig. Even if you were to go RISC V chances are you are going to have to rely on some binary blob for things like your WiFi card.

And even if we over come all those hurdles we still have to convince the avg joe to adopt them too otherwise it will just live in a small costly niche that the wider community just don’t bother supporting.

All we can do is try and pick the least abusive relationship we can afford and is practical to run.

My point is, I don’t it against people for using platforms others may find abusive. Sure us on HN are more likely to be in the position where we can switch platforms for fun just to see how they work out. But for most they simply don’t have the time or patience to swap and learn a new platform (let alone the cash).

Maybe this is a bad example because of what exactly happened with one manufacturer, but it’s why airlines like plane manufacturers to not go too far with design changes because it requires them to retrain their polits on the new aircraft.

If every time you purchased a new car you had to take into consideration that the control system was different between each manufacturer which may even require you to retrain in order to drive it you may very well consider with sticking with what you already know.

So I don’t hold it against anyone who simply wants to keep with what they know. They just want to fire up the platform at get to using it.

Anyways sorry for the rant, just my thoughts on the matter.
To a large extent this is mitigated by having removable batteries. From what I've heard the Nexus 10 perhaps is a notable exception where the available alternate batteries aren't very good; mine needs a new battery but I don't really use it enough to justify one plus it's a somewhat more involved process than just popping it out.

I'm still using a Note 3 from 2013, it's on its third battery (though the second probably could have been fine another year or more). I also recently upgraded it to Android 10 (LineageOS) -- the last supported Android OS was 5. It's a small pain to backup and restore, it's nicer to have a simple OS upgrade that preserves apps/data, but it's a viable option for many old devices. It's enough choice for me to decide between trying to limp along with outdated software (many random app crashes went away after upgrading), upgrading the OS yourself, and buying a new device.
https://archive.vn/qVwXu
If you want a GUI tool, I like GrepWin[0] - you can have it install an Explorer context menu item, right click, hit GrepWin, then you can search. Supports simple text searches as well as regex. You can filter by filesize too. Been using this for years, really useful tool.

On the command line, I just use grep (a cygwin version of it, installed with Git for Windows, I think).

[0] https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html
"This blog requires JavaScript for anything besides reading."

I knew I was in good hands ;)
I'm reading between your lines, but by "totalitarian measures" do you mean asking people to temporarily wear masks, wash their hands, stay home, and restricting the density of people at gathering spots?

If so, that is as totalitarian as requiring people to stop at red stoplights.
I’ve always hated these odd software reseller relationships. Almost all of them exist to pad a pocket or pay via a “purchase order”, or both.
> The math eventually must catch up with us.

[citation needed]

Specifically what "math" are you referring to? Can you provide a link to a Wikipedia article or some published paper which explains this "math"?
Exactly. To your point, I'm thinking of 'Swingin' Party,' 'Here Comes a Regular,' even the lovely 'Skyway' is melancholy at heart. Read 'Trouble Boys' by Bob Mehr to find out why.
All of these pieces of 'news' are just outright opinion pieces on issues that have been covered in the news...
I think part of the reason it gets less attention these days is because so much of it is considered common sense now, back then many coders didn't get it yet from my experience.

Of course now we've come more or less full circle and gone all into institutionalizing the methods used to break the status quo.
Actually it was _why the lucky stiff who originally brought the world shoes [1]. :-)

[1] http://shoesrb.com/
Evidence points to us having missed all the good parties:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902
I think we currently have the opposite problem: fertility rates are down, and the world's population is aging. Population growth is slowing and projected to stop.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
English spelling is inconsistent. English phonology is complex. These are different things.
And that's why many of these tech giants (Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay) have illegal agreements not to poach or hire each others top employees for a certain period of time.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
I'd like to see something that detects trends, not fads. Basically "slow news" that detects news that continues to be news long after the story has broken.

Google actually had this c. 2012 - there was a portion of the SRP that was devoted to "long form" articles, long articles that continued to get searched for months after they came out. It surfaced some really good content, but the SRP was probably was the wrong format to put this on. I think it was unlaunched after a few years, unfortunately.
The CIA is very quick to 'leak' of its successes to the national press via 'anonymous government officials'. It's just I don't consider staging coups and arming extremist 'rebels' to be part of protecting national security[1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
The article claims since the galaxy is over 13 billion years old there has been that much time for civilisations to emerge and spread. We know that’s not the case. The Universe is only a billion years older than that, and started off as a near homogenous field of hydrogen and helium. All the heavier elements we know today were forged in stars, and distributed when those stars aged and exploded, spewing heavier elements into space. This went through several cycles before reaching the element rich environment we evolved in. It may well be that heavy element densities only reached a viable level in the last generation of stars, maybe the last 1/3 of the history of the universe, or the last 4 to 5 billion years or so. That changes the playing field considerably. Our system might be one of the first capable of supporting life.
Yes it is astonishing - I think the fact the context ends criticism of measures that would be considered laughable at ordinary times goes a long way to explaining similarly extreme measures we find difficult to understand from the past.

History tells us govts that gain powers during emergencies are extremely reticent to give them up once the ostensible emergency is over.
I went to http://www.join.coulf.com It has some information.

> What you do in Coulf stays in Coulf.

That's a noble goal, but it is very difficult to enforce.

> Get up to $1000 to fund your projects.

How do you prevent scammers to get the money and run away?

In https://www.coulf.com/

it is very weird that "Start here" is a paid feature. I think you should copy there the info in the join page (at least for logged out users).
Is TortoiseDiff available standalone, or does it only come with/as part of TortoiseSVN?
Does Mac have a built-in low latency system? The Windows ones are terrible but I don't think anyone would use them anyway when there is ASIO.
macOS does not come with llvm/clang, you have to download Xcode, which you can't do anonymously, you need to create an account with Apple. Ages ago, macOS did actually come with gcc.
I don't mind the price increases if it helps to deter squatters (i.e. GoDaddy).

It was hell trying to find a reasonable domain for our new company (i.e. one that we would like to have in our email addresses forever). Only 5-10% of the domains we attempted were legitimately in use by some other business or individual. Everything else is a fucking godaddy parking page offering their domain realtor scam experience.
I haven't heard AC's speech, but the description sounds a bit like the way Donald the Duck talks.
You can’t claim to be a neutral conveyance not responsible for content and also censor content- which includes attaching labels and disclaimers to said content. This is how platforms decay.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529584
> Passing pointers to shared memory is highly unsafe in Go. While the Rust borrow checker will prevent all data races, there's nothing like that wrt. Go

Passing pointers to shared memory is the foundation of a huge number of idiomatic, performant, and productive design patterns and architectures. There exist a number of conventions and tools, like the race detector, which reduce the risks of data races to entirely reasonable levels.
I use .tf

Apart from a few sites like ticketmaster (not resolved) and discord (now resolved) not recognizing the TD I've had no major issues.

Your email reputation will likely be lower rated and likely be thrown in spam with major providers(Microsoft/Google) but that may also be because I am hosting my own email server.
It’s the software.

With consumer and professional software, it’s never as simple as switching to Windows or Linux to get the job done when your entire back catalog of work and the training for the entire team is invested in a specific software package.
Alan Watts' Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts' The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
MIT's NDAs never expire.

#krueger #epstein #...
There is this meme that Electron is so bad but as an end user I have much better experiences with Electron apps like Slack and Discord then I do with Microsoft Teams or other competitor apps that don’t use Electron.

Is Microsoft Teams supposed to be the fast, efficient alternative because I don’t think so...
Leadership Solves 3 Problems: Trust, Meaning-Making, and Mentorship
The software is the issue. If the entire team has been trained on and built their back catalog of work in a specific software package, switching to a different platform may not be an option.
Outside of macOS, commercial Unix is basically dead. In the old days I used to see all sorts of systems. One company had Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x, Digital Unix, HPUX, AIX. Now you rarely see anything other than Linux, though I still know a couple of AIX shops that went all in on IBM hardware and still swear by it.

Like it or not, right or wrong, when people say "Unix" today, they mean Linux with GNU userland.
What does he want to do?