skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you instead grade his foresight on the basis of how he predicts the development of technology over time, it's clear that a lot of what would seem to be partial hits if assessed alone should actually be graded as hard fails. Discussion about the ubiquity of computers and their use in non-traditional roles for computers is a firm example here.

Absolutely, and this blog post is being way too generous.

In part one, he gave this a RIGHT: “Computers are now largely invisible. They are embedded everywhere–in walls, tables, chairs, desks, clothing, jewelry, and bodies.”

Yes, but actually no. You know that what Kurzweil was imagining was that there would be powerful computers embedded in stuff, and each would run some sort of AI with personality, so your toaster would have a personality, and your TV would have a personality, and it could - in a Star Wars droid-y way - recommend movies to you, allowing you to have a conversation with it:

"Sir, I think this new SciFi series called The Expanse would be very interesting to you!"

Yes, my TV has a processor. Yes, my TV has WiFi. But it's primary purpose is to show me ads and spy on what I'm watching to increase ad revenues somewhere, and although I can "talk" to my TV, what actually happens is that if I say the title of a movie or a show, my audio will be transmitted to some server somewhere, wrongly transcribed, and then my TV will display all the places I can rent episodes of Friends from.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hard fail.
> George Lucas is quite the fountain of ideas, but he needs a partner to help temper his vision.

This. Many say that the Star Wars OT became the great films they were because of George Lucas’ wife, Marcia, who also served as his editor. And actually one can feel the degradation of their relationship by seeing how ROTJ was much worse than the first two movies. (They divorced after releasing ROTJ.)

So now imagine if George did have complete rein of everything... [Vietnam flashbacks while thinking of the 2nd Trilogy and unnecessary remasters]
Opening line:

> The PRC executes between five and ten thousand people per year

Anyone got a source for that claim? Amnesty estimates "1000's" but doesn't actually give a figure and claims to not know it. I'm guessing the worlds biggest human rights org would love to know Matt from substack's source?

For comparison we have the Saudis, Iraq, Egypt and Iran coming in with a few hundred executions each while certain other allied countries refuse to publish and are also hidden away behind government secrecy.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/
That's a fair take. I've seen plenty of this where I'm from, so I don't really have the stomach for more.
Could Intranasal Covid-19 Vaccine Be More Effective Than Traditional Approach?
Yeah well it wasn’t and in all the years since nothing better has been either. And the reasons for that are specifically the flaws in the commercial approach.
I found this warning clear enough.

I think it's a good thing to include these images, we've become too used to content moderation that we're desensitized to a lot of the atrocities that are still happening daily around the world.
The economy in the colonial Americas grew exponentially because thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions of new people were arriving every year and creating value.

The shitty, exploitative things those humans also did back then were not responsible for the growth. Countries in the rest of the world were doing the same things back then but not growing as fast. Only 5% of the slaves taken from Africa were brought to North America.

For a further example, the US experienced its greatest upward climb during the industrial revolution, after slavery was abolished.

If exploitation was the only reason for the US’s success, then why would the US experience explosive growth after abolishing slavery?
What are some side gigs you suggest that can help me generate passive income?
I am a self taught developer, have few apps listed in the Shopify marketplace for recurring revenue. What are other marketplaces or ideas you'd suggest a developer?
I think you've made a good point.
Let me put it bluntly. There is a closeup of a woman with only half a head. It comes as a surprise as the first images are not as bad, and the article's content draws you in. I had to stop there even though I wanted to continue reading.
The text could use some references.
I just want to make sure that by OSX, you meant macOS, right? Or is it only the older versions?
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I wonder whether that's due to any technical merit of little endianness or just because of x86's dominance in the desktop/workstation world?
Cataracts
While the methods employed by the PRC are, ahem, somewhat more pragmatic than those utilised in most other countries still having the death penalty, it is mere nuance - the state murdering its own citizens is a practice which should have been long abandoned - whether the state is Iran, the US, China, Saudi Arabia or any of the handful of others still having the statute on its books.
Ask HN: Terminal-Based Games for Kids
I don't want to make it hard but accidentally I've found that linux terminal-based games/tools are just awesome for my kids too. They now can log in to the machine themselves, start the shell and there are already two fun things they can spend a lot of time with

* ponysay
* cowsay

Are there any more games/tools for kids which are based on terminal?

To be honest, I can give them xfce/gui access, but then there are a ton of things they/I have to worry.

Thanks
The images are worse than that. A picture taken at a distance of someone being shot in the head is easier to see or scroll by than a closeup of a head blown in half.
That looks like it could result in unaligned access and hence a crash on sparc64.
> It only took me a couple of hours to port one of my old C programs, an utility to produce a hexadecimal and ASCII dump to Rust.

Writing C code with Rust is a very different experience than converting C code to idiomatic Rust. There is more to porting than doing 1:1 conversions between keywords.

And by your description your utility basically reads words and prints their value. That doesn't really venture too much beyond the hello world territory.
In my state of Australia someone has built a massive desal plant in the middle of the desert next to a salt water source, the whole thing is powered by an array of mirrors and then the water is used to grow a huge tomato plantation in what would be totally unusable land without having to pipe in water.

The pic is super cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms#/media/File:1604...
I think the majority of binary integer data sent and received today is big endian. Calling it "legacy" seems like a stretch. People are still designing plenty of brand new protocols using big endian. When I encounter a little endian one I am pleasantly surprised, but it is still a surprise.
It is fun to see criticisms of China get insta-downvoted to hell. Mine is fully referenced and went to -1 instantly... there is definitely some real denial about what the CCP actually do.
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The long term good news is that the endian wars are drawing to a close. Little Endian won. I believe all the most recent CPU's support little endian at least as an option.

From what I know from talking to IBM engineers, there are no plans to switch AIX on POWER or Linux on s390x to little-endian.

And both are important platforms in the enterprise world.
Interview with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC (2014) [video]
"In this lecture, Stanford University President John L. Hennessy leads a discussion with Stanford Engineering Hero Morris Chang, an innovator and entrepreneur who revolutionized the semiconductor industry by creating the world's first dedicated silicon foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or TSMC."
It's fun because sometimes all of your points are true at once :)
no one cares

Edit: I have come to realize my decision to post this comment comes off as rash, crude, an unwarranted. I hereby retract this off-handed comment. Best regards from Istanbul.
For me the main benefit - less time near monitor and more focus
Stuck by jetlag [4k intro; Revision 2020]
Little endian is better. Most arithmetic needs to start with the less significant bits, so it's better to have them be accessible first. (E.G. most bignum representations also use little-endian, even though they don't have to.)

Little endian also allows you to truncate integers more easily.
The fact this fully-referenced post got insta-downvoted to -1 says it all about HN.
> I'm guessing the worlds biggest human rights org would love to know Matt from substack's source?

I would guess ramblings from some dark Falun Gong blog, as clearly he has no issues quoting them elsewhere on the piece, which on my eyes for as gruesome as the topic might be takes a huge amount of credibility away of him and the piece
There might be a baby boom after Covid-19, but right now, we are expecting a baby bust. Economic uncertainty is leading people to delay having children, at least in certain countries.
Thus, it can't compile that way for sparc64.
It’s hard and cross disciplinary. A snow plow needs real horse power, a snow blower might be better but still has a whole kettle of problems. Those problems exist in the real world where you can break things that you need to pay for. There’s lots of cool projects that would be fun to do but without a source of free money or parts they aren’t going to get done. Software is easy because all you need to do to get started it type mkdir and open a text editor. The solution for robotics is physical simulation with accurate modeling of real parts and chips. Make it as easy as opening an integrated game engine like Unity, drag and drop parts that you can either download or model yourself. Write some code and run. Print a part list when you’re done.
Yeah, I noticed, CCP agents are around in force.

I upvoted, but I can only do so much.
tl,dr: CCP involves as many ordinary people as it can into the judicial and extra-judicial killing process in what could be "life insurance" for the regime: too many have blood on their hands to ever face accountability.

Personally, the dissonance around China has come to an extreme. Is most reporting incorrect, or has CCP become the most efficient and durable totalitarian regime in history? Or is it a form of social engineering that has actual mainstream support in China? Or is it a doomed experiment, just like all other previous authoritarian regimes in history?

There is something quietly unsustainable building up.
The author was physically assaulted by their iBuddy, who was later promoted to management, among other abuses

Edit: I misread this part. I thought she had slammed the door into her face: One day I went to use the woman restroom my “iBuddy” was there. She told me “die!” and slammed the door in my face.
Nothing is wrong with it. Here it is in action here powering a tomato plantation in the middle of the Australian desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms#/media/File:1604...

Interesting fact is these are not PV solar panels but simple mirrors redirecting the suns energy at one point.
Why it didn't have https? Still running in http. Do people really post or it's manually done by an author?
I'm sure this will come off different than what is intended.

I donate to charity a lot. I'm not looking for anything in return. I'm not trying to be known as someone who gives to the great cause. I do what I have to do because it should be that way -- if everyone gave a little bit, and for my case, I tend to favor charities that help terminally ill children, veterans, or shelter animals - it makes a difference to those who need it. In fact, any time my friends on Facebook or anywhere has a charity for their birthday or something, I often donate for the good of the cause. I donate at least a dozen times a year, usually around $25 each time, so we'll say that I donate around $300 a year.

In 2020, I donated nearly $2,000 to various causes... and I did want to donate and I don't have any regrets or anything for donating, but I realize that donating so much -- I went into a bit of debt not realizing it, and like I said, I'm not looking for anything in return -- however: when I've ran my own charities or asked for help, I realize that the people I expected to help me... did not lift a finger to help. Fortunately, there were others who stepped in their place and helped. But the ones I thought I could count on... weren't there for me. While I probably will return back to my normal charitable giving, I overexerted myself last year and am paying a price for it.

So I'll likely be taking a break from donating large quantities to any organization this year. And no, this isn't an invitation to ask me for charity. I just realize that one man, me, can only do so much. And while you can help others out... I suppose the lesson to learn or unlearn there is: there are some unsung heroes in this world that make things happen.. and its great to appreciate them, but realize that not everyone, who you think is close to you and has your back, is going to help you, or even have your back.
I strongly suspect it would be beneficial to require a downvote to be accompanied by a comment.

Even if it is an optional thread property depending on the nature of the link posted, and is at moderator’s discretion.
Is there a name for this behavior? Sounds like something that is categorized as a cognitive bias?

I'm confident that this does not only apply to programmers :)
Capital punishment is one thing, blowing people’s brains out for dissenting is another.
Did not expect to see an image of someone with their head half blown off.

Trying to find my thoughts on this. The Einsatzgruppen pretty much started the Holocaust via mass shootings (before all other methods). They switched to gas vans (according to this article, China uses this too? What in the fuck) for some vile cognitive gymnastics where they convinced themselves it was too demoralizing for the goons to have to shoot that many people without being drunk all the time (to carry out the deed). They sought a more efficient, less taxing method, and that’s where the gas vans came in.

The Nazis did this to anyone that they could lump into ‘a national threat’ bucket, so Jews that were also communist Russians were instant kill (as opposed to German Jews who initially got put in labor camps).

If the CCP ever decides routine shootings is taxing or inefficient (like the Nazis), things wouldn’t be so far off to having an “efficient” death camp to just handle it en masse.

I tend to always over-fit the Nazi parallels, especially with China, but China’s prime issue is scale. Whatever they do, they must always consider scale.

Crackdowns will happen at scale (Hong Kong), censorship will happen at scale (speech/internet), imprisonment will happen at scale (Uighurs), and mass executions (if we were to ever get the numbers) will happen at scale.

As hard it is to not turn away from that picture in the article, I would sincerely like to know what that woman’s crime was.
> 2. Only do one thing at a time, and log what I’m doing as I go.

Time tracking accomplishes something very similar. Its main benefit isn't necessarily the log that you're creating to review later but the fact that when you have a running timer labelled "doing x", it's much easier to focus just on x and nothing else.
Subscribing to the offended is advocating against yourself. The only reason why you don't generally see that kind of advertising is because it offends people.

The amount offended is far less than when Ronald reagan began his war on drugs - meaning that offense changes with time, and that offense changes based off of what other people believe to be acceptable. By allowing that kind of advertising you reduce negative reaction to it.

Also retail stores sell plenty of products that give all manner of nice names. Like death coffee. Or "personal massager" vibrators. Don't forget apple also hates the idea of sex, and that's plenty acceptable to market.
I always thought it's weird how minimal favoritism + leniency can improve someone's performance, and over a long time, massively improve it. This works especially well on kids (but also on colleagues), while outright favoritism destroys any intelligence benefit faster than Facebook does.
You may be also interested in the many existing teaching resources published by non-language-designers (whatever that means for a community-driven project like Rust), such as Rustlings and Rust by Example at https://www.rust-lang.org/learn if the book doesn’t satisfy whatever criterion you think disqualify it. Some of it is published via the rust-lang.org website, but it was/is maintained by different people who work on the language, compiler, std lib (etc). The project has a large number of people across many teams: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance
Calling for shock-porn rather than rationality and discourse is exactly the kind of things that receive downvotes on HN, not sure why you act so surprised
>In this article, instead of focusing on one or two concepts, I'll try to go through as many Rust snippets as I can

I really like this. One of the things I like to do when learning a new language is to go to http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code and just go through snippet examples for certain common tasks.

Just quickly going through examples to me feels much easier than trying to learn from principles.
How? We’re just reading from a byte array.
It's important to see the photos to properly absorb the content and message of the article.
This reflex to shield one's self from reality is extremely harmful for society and it's cowardly.

The fact that the images are a 'shock' to some people shows just how disconnected they are from reality. They are powerful images but they should not be shocking... The term 'killing' should already embody these emotions without the images.

The emotions that people feel when looking at these images, that's exactly what 'killing a person' means.
I tried the same thing in 2004 with the London Underground map connections. It was not entirely a disaster.

https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/rjp-hosted-files/bigneatot...

(Also the linked graphviz file has FL only linked to GA - surely it should have AL as well since AL is linked to FL?)
> see criticisms of China get insta-downvoted to hell.

Let's dissociate the country from the political apparatus. What's evil is the CCP, not China in itself - it's not like the citizens can vote the current regime out.
Roll on a republic where we can get rid of this nonsense of Monarchy
Maybe the thing is that we are so conditioned by having half assed censored media pictures and quotes like its graphic, that when someone finally delivers on it, we just get shocked. This is how it looks like when someone head gets blown off.
After that image there's only a closing paragraph anyway, so you didn't miss much.
I don't think most people who get death penalty in the West get it for being against the State or for their political opinions.
Some people, and stay with me here, have different reactions to graphic violence than you. Shocker, I know.
https://youtu.be/wgj-s46Mpyc
I honestly wonder whether it's that or just standard HNers who are in some sort of woke-led state of denial.

A totalitarian genocidal regime who has demonstrably lied consistently about everything of any importance but if you question whether, perhaps, they might have possibly done a little more about wet markets/traditional Chinese medicine given the 2003 SARS outbreak which clearly indicated this major risk area - and you get hammered for it.

Go further and suggest maybe covering up the outbreak to give the virus enough time to spread everywhere was maybe not a great thing and the next virus might have a higher case fatality rate than 0.4% and that's it you're done.

This is without even getting into the 'walked out of a lab' theory which would presumably get me banned off HN...

It seems criticising the US, UK etc. for the slightest thing is fine but criticising totalitarian genocidal sabre-rattling pandemic-unleashing states is beyond the pale.
> if old people (and therefore, old ideas, old prejudices) never die then there is no room for new

Is that because there's no room? Or because we're unwilling to accommodate the new?
So? The political boundaries between the states lie inside Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, respectively.
Little endian has one nice feature for network communication: integer fields can be expanded or shrunk without changing code of the peer so long as the actual numbers don't overflow.

Most mainstream protocols don't really take advantage of this because it is error prone, but it is used sometimes.
Ask HN: Is a masters in software engineering still relevant in today's world?
Missing from the post-1996 list: bitcoin, which solved the byzantine generals problem without trusted third parties and gave us the first permissionless digital currency, along with all the innovation in the crypto space, such as zk-SNARKs, IPFS and so on.
There are a few other well regarded resources. Programming Rust from Blandy, Orendorff, and Tindall/O'Reilly is great if you have lots of knowledge in C/C++. Rust in Action from McNamara/Manning is great if you prefer to learn by building projects.

Disclaimer: am the author of Rust in Action
That’s just not true. Arthur Andersen originally spun off its consulting arm into “Andersen Consulting” under a global holding company. AA did accounting, AC consulting.

AC paid AA 15% of its profits every year. But AC was growing far faster than AA, so AA started growing another consulting arm, which was against the contract.

AC partners claimed contractual breach, and as part of the separation settlement had to change their name and distance themselves from the brand.

This was lucky given what happened with AA’s reputation later.

(Source: I worked there in that time period)
Wishing the best for you and your fiancée. It sounds like she’s okay for now and hoping it’s just a quarantine and things will be back to “normal” for you.
>Always having some problem with a hand or a back or some family problem or whatever which demanded that they take days off

You now know that they too hated the place and did whatever they could to not be there, I hope. They were not "whiny little bitches" at all.
Here is the 6-wheeled Kamaz 4310, which gets windshield-deep in water trying to cross a raging river: http://bestride.com/news/the-kamaz-that-saved-ewan-mcgregor-...
This is generally true, however in a toxic workplace being effective might set you as a target for doomed projects or envy - even sabotage. You may see people getting promoted by threatening to leave rather than doing good work. You can't assume good intent in every situation sadly.
I see where you’re coming from, but perhaps something like “close-ups of mutilated bodies after execution by large-calibre weapons to the head” would give more of an indication. I didn’t expect the gore, just a wide shot of someone with a gun to their head, a bit like the famous one of the add-hoc execution in the street in Vietnam by Eddie Adams.
You're creating a strawman argument.

Imagine it were called heroin, and the app logo used a picture of a syringe.. is it still okay to you because there is no heroin in the app?
It's basically decided that the EU will become a socialist state by now.

That's another 145 Billion for corruption.
> imprisonment will happen at scale (Uighurs),

Not just imprisonment, mass raping of Uighurs women as well: https://www.insider.com/uighur-activists-mass-rape-chinese-m...
- Build a successful business of sustainability that is equal to or greater than my current salary at my day job

- Figure out whether I'm wasting my wife's time by staying

- Play a video game and enjoy it rather than be a workaholic

- Exercise more, eat better, and get back down to my ideal weight
Ah yea! It was Hamming! I recognize the lecture.
Does ASML belong to "the EU", though, or is it a private company?
Annex of Brexit contract suggests use of Netscape Navigator for encryption [pdf]
See page 931