skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HNers: Are you anticipating any sort of 'pendulum effect' where we over-correct for our present situation in the new Democratic executive and legislature, specifically in the area of surveillance and privacy?

What changes do you expect to have happen in the next year or two in this area? Are you taking any steps regarding your own privacy based on your predictions?
> Once you choose the technology that runs your blog, use it. Don’t replace it, ever. Never ever rewrite it.[1]

[1] https://macwright.com/2019/02/06/how-to-blog.html
You said the first amendment applies to the press.

What does that mean? Is a news outlet obligated to run the words of a President?

I’m against the ban, but I don’t understand your reasoning.
As a word of warning, mmap is fine if the semantics match the application.

mmap is not a good idea for a general purpose read()/write() replacement, e.g. as advocated in the 1994 "alloc stream facility" paper by Krieger et al. I worked with an I/O library that followed this strategy, and we had no end of trouble how to robustly deal with resizing files, and also how to do the windowing in a good way (this was in the time where we needed to care about systems with 32-bit pointers, VM space getting tight, but still needed to care about files larger than 2 GB). And then we needed the traditional read/write fallback path anyway, in order to deal with special files like tty's, pipes etc. In the end I ripped out the mmap path, and we saw a perf improvement in some benchmark by x300.
The second one can be read as a tacit nod that the inauguration is a “safe” target.

I know many will see that as a stretch, but given the context and recent events, I do not.
There is more high quality investigative journalism than in any other time in history. There is also a more rapid and sensationalistic news cycle, with non-stop coverage of “breaking news” and talking heads who contribute nothing.

By analogy, the bigger the library the harder it is to find really great books.
Funny comment from somebody named turing_complete, innit? The fact that they "shouldn't" is what makes this abomination fun.
I don't know if private corporations should have to allow the president unfettered access to their platforms. I would be opposed if every newspaper was required to post whatever the president wanted.

The necessity of communication to the the people should be filled with an official government website that isp's have to allow access too or something. And the president should only be able to use that when acting as the president not campaigning etc.

Two issues that make this look worse are the idea that the president needs Twitter or even Facebook to communicate to people. And that the president acts solely as the president on the platform. Neither of these are really true.
Only 21M Bitcoin, what happens when 7.6B people realize that
Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)
This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a section on my own site.
Re: images, what have you tried so far? I’ve been using guetzli to get them nice and small.
Yellow fever days? You mean before international travel mostly stopped?

I have to show my yellow piece of paper with the stamp from my jab when I travel to several countries, most recently Nigeria
This was explicitly gone over in the announcement. The short of it is that they validate further attacks by promising Trump's allegiance, assistance, and a target.
So, instead of using semantic html and css like 'white-space: pre-line' and 'max-width: 40ch' author wrapped content of his blog post into 'code' tag and called it 'next-gen'. What is 'next-gen' about it? Either I am missing something or I'm not drunk enough. Worst thing it has 100 upvotes :/

>Simplicity is key

This isn't simplicity...

I need a beer.
> a family with a genetic mutation which means they have no fingerprints

I had to give ink fingerprints a few
years back and the ah, Print Taker Person expressed some concern that my prints were on the border of not being visible enough (I have a heck of a time with the fingerprint doodad on my Mac). When I was recounting the incident to my grandmother, she said the same thing happened to her mother when they immigrated. It's not that I have no fingerprints, but they are very faint and partial.
Are you sure the government cares about your health?
Using a decentralized social network is currently like using email without a spam filter.

I have an idea of creating a plugin to a decentralized social network that acts as a moderator. The plugin will work on behalf of the user, compared to current moderation which acts on behalf of the platform. Different users can select either different moderators or different settings for the same moderators. Moderating could be a mix of AI and human flagging. Moderating could also include more editorial work such as suggesting people to follow.
I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU: https://github.com/jes/jescpu

> An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are only 256 bytes of memory available.

> There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In particular this means that to use pointers you need self-modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instruction to match the address that your pointer points to).

It works right now, but only if I run the CPU at 1/8th of the clock speed of the memory (see slowclock.v). I understand that it takes an extra cycle for reads from memory to get the signals back to the CPU, but don't yet understand why it takes 8 cycles.

Eventually I would like to expand it to support 16 bit addresses, put it in a fancy box with some actual IO devices, and possibly even implement it with logic gates instead of an FPGA.
new-hacker-tab.com

Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information.

So I built a website, which lets you edit its own code https://new-hacker-tab.com

How-To: In the bottom-right side is a button which opens an editor, to edit the page. The result is stored in the localStorage of the browser. I use that page every day and have different versions for work and spare time. If you messed up, just delete the localStorage of that domain.

Half-Baked: I would like to add sharing features, so when I have built a very nice widget/page, others can use it too, but so far the import/export functionality is all there is.
You took my pithy hot take as a literal statement. So I took your statement quite literal
Thank you, completely missed this.
> Biometrics are, at best, usernames.

He probably needs to add this to the list of falsehoods because a lot of programmers (including the author) believe this falsehood. Biometrics are different to usernames.

If you are under the impression that they are equivalent please include a copy of your fingerprint in your reply, to go with your username!

Repeat after me: Biometrics are not passwords. Biometrics are not usernames.
la-gb? (Latin, Gibberish?)
I have an encryption utility that can work across IMs but I need another android developer to finish the project
The Lazard study includes carbon pricing which is exactly what I said: “[All studies] provided account for an additional theoretical externality cost on our well being for coal”.

Like every industry in the last decade, coal generators have also become more efficient.

I’d be shocked (heh) if solar power becomes more efficient given the Shockley-Quessier limit of PV cells which have a maximum efficiency in the best theoretical case with an infinite stacking of panels of 30%. Large synchronous machines on the other hand, in practice, can have a 95% efficiency.

Here’s a study without the “carbon pricing”: https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MITEI-WP-2...

Again coal is much cheaper.

I’m sympathetic to your agenda but it’s deceitful and unfair to presume agreement given the unique circumstances theses results affect conclusions. A place like Nigeria has to worry about what’s happening to their people in the next month rather than in the next 50 years, thus they’ll have different trade offs to make.
Sasha is derived from Alexander via its dimunitive, but obsolete form - Aleksashka - shortned to Sashka, further simplified to Sasha as per established name format of Masha (Maria), Dasha (Daria), Pasha (Pavel, Paul), Glasha (Glafira), Natasha (Natalia), etc.
Is it still the case in 64-bit systems?
There were also magazines--lots and lots of magazines. Those could get pretty wild, with many a lot less journalistic than the major newspapers or the national news networks.

I think that a big difference back then was that it was very expensive to get your message available to a large national or even statewide audience, and even if you did it was harder to keep that audience if your message was too untruthful.

Now it is much cheaper on the distribution end, and once you get someone's attention the social media newsfeed algorithms note that and prioritize giving them more of your content or similar content, and deprioritize content that disagrees with yours. And because social media optimizes for engagement those people spend more time there and less reading/watching other source further reducing the chances they will see counterarguments to your content.
> They decided what Trump meant by those tweets for you

No, they decided it for themselves.

Other people in a position to relay, or not, the President's words get to make their own decision, too.
"(Nasa's Law) Work flows to the most competent man until he sinks."

Yes, sexist, I know. I recall this from many years ago but have not been able to find an official source. Anyone know?
We can quibble over the definition of social media, but HN is more like forums and usenet dating back to the 80s than it is like Twitter or Facebook. Aside from temporal ranking of submissions, which is both universal and transparent, it's the same.

The big problem with Facebook and Twitter is a potent mix of incentive for controversy, algorithmic amplification, and groupthink bubbles. These problems exist elsewhere as well, so it's not like it's all social media (eg. television news networks in an age of unlimited media choice), but I don't think HN is a useful example to understand any of the macro-dynamics of todays information culture and political landscape.
Mato's translation comparison doesn't cover this line, so I can't easily link to the full context, but this is a young girl (Rydia) scolding an older man (Edward/Gilbert) for being too overcome with grief to take action. In the original US translation, the dialogue is "Crybaby! You are a man! You are a grown-up! You are not the only one who has lost loved ones!" The more literal translation would be "Aren't you a man?" but the meaning is the same.

"Brother" seems to be coming into it because Rydia is addressing Edward as "o-nii-chan". Pretty classic example of something that you couldn't translate accurately without knowing who the characters are.
Squares Made for Marching: Building levels of a tile-based game
Reddit is awesome and houses some of the best content I've read, but there's a problem.

In some subreddits like Writing prompts, ELI5, etc... we care more about the upvotes/score of comments than the comment's parent post.

This is a problem because the best comments (explanations, stories, jokes, etc...) are not always in the highest-rated post. Sometimes comments are higher rated than the parent post. This extremely challenging when the Top filter in Reddit is sorting by post's upvotes and not the comment's upvotes.

Here top posts from Reddit are ranked by the comment's upvotes/score (5th column), using data before 2019 (Forgotten content and also avoiding up-vote gamification.)

https://topredditcomments.com/
Facebook and YouTube don't target me with political disinformation, but their ads are often for malware like MacKeeper, or Bitcoin scams using fake celebrity endorsements. Even when they're for seemingly harmless merchandise like clothes, they're for Chinese online stores that will keep your money and disappear (wife fell for it once). Maybe my ad situation is so dire because I'm avoiding trackers at all cost, but man it's bad.

I'm amazed that people still act surprised that these platforms are used for hostile disinformation when that's basically their business model. (At least YouTube lets you pay to get rid of ads, although you lose even more privacy on the way.)

Edit: And to add something constructive, I think the only way out is for the EU (where I'm based) to fund a free, public, encrypted messenger service to free its citizens from WhatsApp, and maybe more services later. Social media has become the public space, for better or for worse, and at the very least it needs to be regulated like a utility.
A spaced repetition flashcard app with the main focus on creating flashcards together. Sharing is still missing, but we are starting to work on it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.space.spac... or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-spaced-repetition/id1546....

I'm still a student and started programming the app with a friend because I wanted to learn physics with my classmates. But the other apps Anki, Brainscape and Quizlet have a pretty bad UX to create flashcards collaboratively, so I started working on it.
Well this was an interesting thread to see pop up.

Hi, I'm Zack, I was a Sr. Unix Administrator at AMZN in 1999 and worked alongside very talented folks like snovotny, lamont, yvette, grabatin, gborle, jamison, craig, and so many others. The responses from Benjamin Black and Peter Voshall are correct.

We definitely were on DEC Tru64 at this time. Sun was running the big databases like ACB. I recall worries that obidos might not be able to build in a few months time so the engineer with the little corgi (Erik?) spiked out a linux build and then it was linux pizza boxes as quickly as we could build them.

We built CMF and other things to handle mass provisioning but it was chaotic for quite a while. I don't recall anyone talking about what would later become AWS in those days.
lists of advice like this from experienced practicioners are always great, but does anyone have any good methods for actually incorporating just pieces of wisdom into their own work? I find myself bookmarking stuff like this but never coming back to it or unsure how to fully utilize them
There seems to be a kind of “network effect” here with CMake, considering how popular it is among C/C++ projects.

Meson is more or less equivalent in the functionality it provides. There is also Gradle, but it doesn’t seem to have gained much traction outside of Android development.

My personal favorite is Bazel (and others from the Blaze family of build systems). It uses a python-based language for describing build rules, an extensive documentation and developers that respond to issues. Among the downsides is the lack of proper dependency management which is critical for public, open source projects.

There is also Nix which takes it even further, but it requires much more involvement from the developer.
I often wonder if it work for some personalities vs others. For lack of better terms, I see the two personalities as community-minded and leadership-minded.

I've got this idea in my head where community-minded are people who like forums, facebook groups, etc. The leadership-minded like thought leaders. This might be a pro athlete, it might be a cutting-edge researcher, it might be the president. You might be a follower of many leaders, or you might be a leader yourself (or both). On Twitter, people can gain celebrity by actual thought leadership, or just applying their "street" popularity to the online world. Or by loudly shouting the most outrageous things you can, for clicks. Think of how people try to be "influencers" on Instagram or YouTube, for the dollars or for the attention.

When I've tried to make Twitter work for me, I've worked to curate my feed with thought leaders (and a few F1 drivers). But I find that I often just don't care about what they have to say except on a very very narrow set of topics. I don't care about celebrity, and the thought leaders don't post often enough about the topic they lead on, for the signal to be worth the noise. And I'm not interested in trying to be a "leader" for leadership's sake, but then, on the rare occasion when you have something to say, your voice is unimportant, because you don't have followers.

I've always been somewhat allergic to celebrity, and I'm not saying people who find value from Twitter are celebrity-seekers, but it does feel like the mindset is orthogonal to mine, and the value I derive from social networks, I have a very hard time deriving from Twitter.
Oh yeah ? And all happens on the same day ? How peculiar.
Yes. Video conferencing now is seemless, it wasn't back in 2010.
A Trump Mob in Los Angeles Attacked a Black Woman on Same Day as U.S. Capitol
The Deflationary Bloc
The really crazy part is that they never did a full up integrated test of all those systems together and in sequence before arriving at Mars.
I am making an India based news aggregator like Google News.

Development is slow as I work on it only on Sundays.

Lots of bugs and broken links.

And the let's encrypt certificate also just expired. Need to get it on auto-renew.

It's Python and Go based.

https://www.huakya.com

Edit: Any suggestions/feedback most welcome. Thanks
These lists can be fun because they’re a list of inside jokes, but there’s nothing useful or actionable here. I’m not a fan of this type of self-congratulating stuff about budgets and schedules never being right and launch vehicles being too hard. This type of mentality is why most of the industry is stuck in the 60s. Honestly it sounds analogous to wondering why anyone would want a personal computer 40 years ago.
Interesting! Why for ROTT and not use an engine like Doom if you're replacing all assets anyway?
selective media outrage

BLM/Antifa marches, and violence were celebrated, boosted, and amplified, though they were overall much more violent than Trump marches. Law Enforcement in blue areas held back using deadly force even when deadly force was being actively used against them.

Trump/The Right is being held to a completely different standard, and they are now being censored.

This will merely lead to the bifurcation of tech platforms. Rumble, MeWe, Parler - this will grow.
Curious now - were you running an unconventional workload that stressed LevelDB, or do you think some version of this advice could be applicable to typical workloads?
Vitamin D is key to T-cell function. T-cell immunity is involved in mild / asymptomatic covid cases (vs antibody immunity).
It's probably a bit of both. I'm not sure if the best print newspapers and magazines with global brands (NYT and WSJ in the US, The Economist in the UK) are obviously worse than they were a decade or decades back. But TV journalism is mostly a shadow its former self, the US weekly news magazines are basically gone, the local newspaper scene is mostly a shambles, etc. And, as you say, there are lots of other information sources that are far deeper on specific topics than mainstream journalism ever was.
>Twitter/FB/Apple/Google are not entities I would ever want choosing what I see and don't see.

Isn't that exactly what they do to keep engagement up?
https://github.com/hundredeir/NoSQL

It's a work in progress DBMS implementation inspired from Google's LevelDB written in Rust.

End goal is to create a distributed DBMS.
Dud[1] is a tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large files alongside source code. Planning a more "formal" release in Q1.

Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django

[1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/
10k IU/day exceeds the Tolerable Upper Intake as determined by the US's National Academy of Medicine, the European Food Safety Authority, and similar organizations. Medical doctor Deva Boone posted a report of toxicity at half that dose:

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

This post and related posts about vitamin D were discussed on HN. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=devaboone.com
I've been building a small relational database (https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant.

What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!
I think there needs to be a way of filtering out posts by certain users. Allow people to make lists to filter out the crazies, so other users if they want can use them.

And/or use an algorithm to classify posts, and allow users to pick and choose what kinds of stuff they want filtered.

Then by default have most of these filters on, but you can disable some of them if they go too far.
It's weird that as a featured media on Commons, no one has bothered to add subtitles (YouTube do have them, and the source site has transcript too).
By that logic, Trump commenting on any of his attendance plans is "inciting violence".

This goes far beyond a stretch.
it's a private platform, I would be more worried if they were forced to host any government figurehead
> especially from the press who’s supposed to speak for the left

I have no idea what this quote means, but left leaning press have explained the concept of defunding the press just fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/defunding-th...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/defund-po...
I'm looking for educators and people with experience in the business side of education to help me with my new Logo interpreter, https://turtlespaces.org

It's fairly fully featured but currently only works via a desktop application. We're working on getting some version of it working on web, raspi and mobile. I need help building curriculum and selling to schools / school districts.

You can contact me at yewsiedu at gmail
You keep introducing more variables and more arbitrary numbers, we won't get to agree on anything this way.

It's well known that harmless viruses exist, they infect a lot of people and kill nobody (or almost nobody). Claiming that more infectious = generally more lethal is just not based on facts. If Covid-19 mutates into a mostly harmless variant, we will easily treat the few more severe infections and nobody will die.
What's the point of that illustration on the right? What purpose does it serve?
> Why can’t the kernel implementation use AVX? Well, if it did, then it would have to save and restore those registers on each system call, and that would make domain crossing even more expensive. So this was a conscious decision in the Linux kernel.

I don't follow. So a syscall that could profit from AVX can't use it because then all syscalls would have to restore AVX registers? Why can't the restoring just happen specifically in those syscalls that make use of AVX?
That's because the mainstream press doesn't speak for the left, it speaks to make money... and outrage sells clicks.
Interesting how you cherry picked political speech out.
There’s a base assertion in your comment that all Presidents should be treated equally. If one President lies by an order of magnitude more than other Presidents, shouldn’t they be treated differently?
San Francisco rents are plummeting – but its housing crisis could get worse
Bathroom privacy device: https://Loodio.com

Still prototyping and will launch Kickstarter soon.

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg
I'm always amazed that so much, let alone any, music comes from young people in Europe. It's hard enough to find spots to practise loudly in America. There can't be many places (affordable places, at least) in English cities where you could bang on a drum set without driving the neighbors around the bend.