skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting story. Liked reading it.

Parts of it remind me of both movies "Now You See Me" and "Now You Don't". They are quite goofy and unrealistic but have a really good spirit and message.
Sounds like a good setup to me. I think I’ll follow your lead. Congrats on the success so far!
Really good presentation. Even in this form. These are the best arguments for choosing Boring Tech that I’ve seen yet.

Almost gave me a sinking feeling:

> If you behave that way you miss out on the part of the curve that we call “mastery.” That’s a state to the right on this curve, where there are still problems. Everything still sucks but it feels manageable.

> The grim paradox of this law of software is that you should probably be using the tool that you hate the most. You hate it because you know the most about it.
I think I knew about it, because I think it was in the Time-Life book(s) about space exploration I read as a kid.

So maybe it's a myth that it was ignored or suppressed?
It seems like the unlikely alternative. What would motivate everyone to keep money in assets that aren’t moving, or barely moving? Perhaps if there are zero alternatives — nothing is growing faster — then yeah... That’s hard to imagine.
I noticed that :)

I wonder ...
> I noticed companies moving into the space, like 23andme

23andme is not doing sequencing, they're doing genotyping. And they are doing so using relatively old and well-established method; so I highly doubt they will be a force of innovation in the sector for the coming times.
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This is true in situations where there is no social contract for the event at hand, like emergencies and other one-off situations. It doesn't apply where there is a social contract. Everybody is responsible for obeying the traffic laws, for example. And everybody can be responsible for maintaining conceptual integrity.
> Essentially somebody at the school either knows the inspector or somebody very close to them, and gets a tip off about when it will occur.

That's impressive corruption. My mother works in one of the local secondary schools, and they absolutely do not get know when inspections will occur, I guess that really depends on the school.
I attended high school with a person whose mother pretended to be a guidance counselor, and was able to obtain a copy of the SAT test weeks before her daughter took the test.

She graduated from Harvard.

The mom got 24 months probation, 200 hours of community service, and had to pay $15k in restitution.

Also “Operation Varsity Blues” revealed it is indeed possible to bypass ‘well-proctored’ protections.
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and Java?
Dvd and blue ray are both fragile and highly temporary. VHS is too, but if it starts breaking you still get a grainy film instead of nothing. I own neither but i get the appeal
It means that as time passes by, the things that need to be done accumulate and hence the pain of doing them. You don't need evidence for that. Its a common sense.

I couldn't disagree more. It is not self-evident either that updates will inevitably need to be done or that the pain of doing them if they are needed will increase (never mind increase exponentially, as the article arbitrarily claimed) with time.

You should introduce an external dependency into your program if and only if it provides useful extra functionality and the benefits of using it outweigh the costs. You should update an existing dependency to a new version under exactly the same conditions.

Otherwise, give one example when waiting for action (and in absence of divine/external intervention) makes it easier.

When you never need to take that action at all, for example if you include a library in your program and the library does what you need and that's that.
One of my favorite games. I play it quite often since years now. Thank you for this new release. I normally see it being compared with AoE 2, but 0 A.D is much more dynamic, than AoE 2. I just wish there were more online games going on.
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I'm really surprised to see you're being downvoted for this statement.

You don't even need to have anything valuable in your company for security to matter because your customers' personal data is valuable to them, and by law you have to protect it in many places now.

A security breach must be publicized, and that's a black mark on your company whenever anyone is considering using it in the future. It doesn't even really matter how big that breach is, or what data was stolen.

But even worse, an unethical competitor might hack your data and erase it, leading to lengthy downtime or even permanently lost data.

That's most a server-side focus on security, but even client-side there could be things that allow hackers to mislead or damage your customers.

Libraries are updated constantly as old vulnerabilities are discovered and new methods of attack are invented. Leaving your OS or libraries un-updated is virtually guaranteeing that you end up vulnerable somehow.

The idea that if you don't know about a security problem, you don't need to fix it... Wow, it's just mind-boggling to me.
One of the most relatable posts I've ever seen on HN. Same reason I'm working towards getting out.
By that definition, the OEM versions of Windows would be walled gardens too.
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The wrong bank story is at 18:20 onwards in the podcast.

In the transcript, search for "A few years pass. Jason gets another call for another security awareness engagement" and read from there.
It's quite tricky with Germany - they only allow citizenships acquired by birth in all cases. It is easier with EU and Swiss citizenships or if they deem it to be unreasonably complicated or expensive to relinquish the other citizenship, e.g. the US one.
Very different situation though. A school can't game its stats year after year using measures like this, because they will be caught. From your references, it seems even in isolated cases there's punishment. In larger scales, like that of a whole classroom, subversion of the system is near impossible.
> What I think is a major issue is that the UN "human rights" document says that schooling is mandatory and must teach about the UN (yep! it is a "human right" to be indoctrinated)

Can you post a link to this human rights document please?
Maybe I misunderstood your first comment. But it was expressed much worse than your second one. That I completely agree with.
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I enjoy reading this each time it gets posted but can we please get TLS enabled? It's so easy these days.
Something I've always loved about the ancient Greeks is how they'd hear a foreign name, go "yeah, I can't even pronounce that, never mind decline it" and come up with their own totally and shamelessly mangled variant. See also: their names for the Egyptian gods.
Please explain Nikola in this context?
'Course not! I'm Gen X. We are the slackers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacker_(film) .

> In the early 1990s, Slacker was widely considered an accurate depiction of Generation X because the film's young adult characters are more interested in quasi-intellectual pastimes and socializing than career advancement.

Millennials and later were brought up in the brainwashing "No Kids Left Behind" era[1] where they were told they had to excel in order to meet artificial standards, and were told they had to go into debt through college education in order to have a decent career, while the old people jacked up college tuition and refused to keep minimum wage up to where it effectively was when they were young.

Of course Millennials are more focused then we were - we had it easy by comparison.

([1] This is an Australian publication, while I speak from the US experience. Thatcherism, Reaganism, "economic rationalism", Rogernomics, whatever - it's all part of the neo-liberalism philosophy that benefits old and rich people and cuts the legs off young people while laughing at them.)

But since I'm Gen X, I'm used to people ignoring us so, like, whatever.
How do we make progress if everyone just chooses to use boring technology which is already established? There would be no Rust, no Ruby or other great pieces of technology as they cannot thrive without communities. Communities cannot thrive if everyone neglects everything that’s new and exciting.
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Not Covid. This was a freighter that was flying back and forth between Maastricht and New York. It did 3 flights on the day before. So it was in active service and being maintained normally.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vq-bwt
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-747-400-vq-bwt...
In terms of the effect of reduced flights from the pandemic, it should be noted that this was a freight aircraft (the vast majority of traffic from Maastricht Aachen Airport is freight, even pre-pandemic there were only a few seasonal/charter passenger flights).

Living under the flightpath, I haven't noticed a huge change in traffic. In fact, it seems that the airport handled more freight in 2020 than it did in 2019:

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/31/air-travel-at-less-tha...

Probably because of freight that would normally be transported in the hold of passenger flights from Schiphol, Brussels or Dusseldorf.
I am not familiar with that - do you mind opening a GH issue with the details? Thanks!
If this ever happens to you and it seems like the falling object is not moving in your field of view: run away at a 90 degree angle.
Developed countries outsource plasti garbage handling to other less developed nations that are happy to take care of it for a fee.
Well actually, Bateman only rented them.
Because you may not be able to get out of your turn that way. The aircraft 'wants' to turn over the bad engine so you could easily get caught in a feed-forward situation.
And what's there?
The ledger can be public and people can choose what code to run, but someone started it. Do does anyone know how distributed (as a running system, not as a protocol) BTC actually began vs. is? And someone early likely has a giant pool of BTC. Does anyone suspect BTC is a long con?

I'm not talking about who is holding money at present time, but running away with the value from piles of BTCs (either historic wallets, customer wallets, or modern investment), cashing-out, and dumping BTC's value.
My internal devops group has this issue. We had a working system on teamcity and the hashicorp stack and linkerd. Now we are working on a brand new system using gitlab and openshift and istio. Highly redundant with, from my perspective, only incremental advantage. At the beginning I spoke out against this, but failed to convince anyone. Progress has been alright because of our new 10x hire who hated the old tech and loves the new stuff. But once he is out of the picture, we will be maintaining two highly redundant stacks both requiring deep technical knowledge to maintain effectively. I guess bailing is always an option, but I would prefer to be a force for good somehow. Any suggestions?
Sounds interesting. Do you have direct links?
Well, from a practical perspective, with advanced space travel and space mining and manufacturing abilities we can produce solar shades to counter global warming.

I think there are a few reasons you're getting downvotes, but they're involved enough that few are going to spare the effort to explain.

For example, all three of your last sentences are going to be strongly disagreed with and some people are going to read both a lack of thought on your part and a flawed way of thinking (ie. In terms of narrative, memes, drama) into those sentences and will decide it's not worth trying to engage and instead will just try and get rid of your message/you.
Is there any flexibility on the public sector requirement? And is there a possibility that work experience counts as a credential of sorts? Perhaps you could work in the private sector for two years or so and come back to the public sector.
Context: I grew up attending Cupertino schools.

Cupertino schools are fairly well funded, but not as well funded as schools in say Palo Alto. It was my experience that in our school the best students did most of their learning outside of class as very few public school teachers could keep up with them. From what I hear, some parents would send their children to private schools because they would do this and the schools would have somewhat better mentoring, but overall I didn't see much difference in the quality of top students from either.
This is why we need open source drivers. Now they are crippling cards for crypto mining, in the future there might be a whole list of other software features that require a paid unlock or even monthly subscription to use the full potential of your own hardware.
> No reason. I must.

You're a conscious being that has free will. Technically, the only thing you "must" obey is physics. Our ability to override these animalistic instincts is one of the things that makes us distinct from animals.

Besides, making life-changing decisions with "no reason" is... I don't know... irresponsible with regard to yourself?

> That still doesn't change my design to want them because of feromones, reproductive system etc.

This doesn't make you want to have kids. This makes you want to have sex.

> Like I said, health span. That is achievable nowdays.

I don't think lifespan and healthspan are separable like you suggest. How do you even imagine that? A 30-year-old-looking person in perfect health just suddenly dying (of what?) at the chronological age of 90? That's not how this works. People die "of old age" because, well, they age, and their health declines as they age. If you don't age, your risk of death doesn't increase. That simple.
I'm probably going to be downvoted into oblivion but I'm genuinely curious: Does anybody else think that the "mining is bad for the environment and gamers can't buy the cards" argument is a bit weird? After all, if all these cards weren't used for mining but for gaming, wouldn't the environmental outcome be the same?

I mean, is there any inherent upside to burning tons of energy for games vs burning it for a cryptocurrency? How much electricity do all the gaming PCs and gaming consoles in the world consume vs Argentina? To me, it feels a lot like Nascar or Formula one burning tons of fuel.

I don't think that it is somehow bad to play games, but I wonder why the one (crypto) is always criticized into oblivion for the energy consumption, while the other isn't.
>Given how Bezos is willing to keep investing into Blue, someday that tomorrow will come.

I hope Blue Origin succeeds, but Jeff’s investment and attention by no means guarantees success. The Fire Phone was a similarly enormous, exorbitantly-expensive, and secretive project that ultimately failed utterly. In that case, from my perspective as someone who was there, it was Bezos’s fixation on a particular solution (3D display, hand tracking) and refusal to consider or solicit contrary feedback that doomed the product. I worry about a similar outcome for Blue Origin. I hope I’m wrong.
A minor point, it's not based on miles, but cycles (takeoffs/landings) for structural parts or hours for engines.
Well, no. Companies would pick another OS or cook up their own stack.
I have no sympathy for miners, but purely from software freedom perspective this is maximally evil: closed-source software that decides what you can use your hardware for.

The CMP version is a straight-to-landfill product. As soon as it stops being profitable for mining it will have zero resale value, and become e-waste.
There are a few people making java videos on youtube, but one thing that frustrates me is that the technical details are often inaccurate, or if they are accurate, the examples used don't follow best practices.

For instance, it's muscle memory for me (as a full time java dev) to define my instance fields as `private final` but most tutorials have theirs with default access. Similarly, it's typical for examples to use classes like `NumberFns`, which I wouldn't like to see in real java code. Tests are nowhere to be seen (although to be fair, they're not in this video either).

The tutorials that are accurate tend to have such low production value (e.g. not scripted, too long, constant buzzing sound) that youtube either buries the videos, or they are not worth watching.

With these videos, I'm hoping to create a set of resources that people can use to learn java concepts, without teaching them bad habits.
Fanned by a couple of 100 mile/hour winds. It would take a small miracle for the fire to go out by itself under those conditions, they may have tried to flood it with CO2 but it's so open to the elements even that may no longer work.
Does using Java but with native image (compiled to binary) count as using an innovation token due to new packaging or no (due to Java?)
How much use does a GPU get in a gaming PC? A few hours per day? In crypto farms these things are running 24/7. Anyway, i still think its a bad move to tell people what they can and can not do with their hardware.
Space solar is pointless given there are plenty of deserts with lots of sunshine all around the world that can be tiled with solar panels. Just need a little bit of energy storage.
You don’t play 24/7.
Actually, also as an engineer much happiness comes from shipping products. Also, happiness comes from programming as opposed to configure and/or repearing a baroque tech stack with technologies that are not needed anyway but still break every other week. The latter thing comes with anger and the desire to scold (if not worse) the persons who needlessly brought in the complexity. If you want to learn new things there is your spare time where you are welcome to experiment with whatever.
Blue collar is not a synonym for subordinate.
Discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260

Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half (nvidia.com) 454 points by bcatanzaro 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 731 comments

There are 30-ish more submissions here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=1&prefix=tru...
I guess it goes like this: Is there much at stake? Choose a boring technology. Is it a experiment or a toy project? Choose whatever floats your boat, knock yourself out, have fun and learn on the way.

Trying out new things makes a ton of sense. But trying them out in a domain where unforeseen consequences could potentially destroy you is not a smart move.
That's a particularly sniffy approach to FOSS.

FOSS is great. A lot of people have contributed a lot of value to society through making code they wrote freely available. The world is a better place for it, and I appreciate their efforts when something they've made helps me.

None of that means it's a smart decision to build something important on a foundation that is likely to shift under you later.

If people don't contribute to the things they are dependent on, there is no reason to expect them to still be around when they do want more from them.

If you're relying on something where the developers' incentives are primarily about personal satisfaction and it's only a small team or solo developer then you have little reason to assume they will still be around anyway.

Unless some software has become big enough to be an established community project or someone is developing it professionally, relying on it as a long-term dependency might be unwise. More specifically, either it already does what you need (or you're confident you can patch it to do so yourself), or it might need ongoing development but you have confidence in the support/maintenance model behind it, or you're taking a risk by relying on it.
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What percentage of fossil fuel consumption do you think is related to keeping people from freezing vs maintaining materialistic lifestyles at the expense of the planet and sustainability?

> necessary to sustain society

We as a society have abdicated nearly all critical judgement about this and instead worship the market as the arbiter of truth, the "one true algorithm" that decides what everything and everyone is worth and what everyone must do. We've been doing this so long that we don't realize that the algorithm has transformed our world in its image, so deeply that what is now needed to sustain society in indistinguishable from what is needed to maintain the functioning of the algorithm.
I'll put it like this: Debian bureaucracy makes your usual governmental bureaucracy seems sane and sensible in comparison

No accountability, tightly knit cabal with high barrier to entry, refractory to external opinions, etc
I would guess that computers used for gaming are turned off most of the time, whereas mining rigs are likely turned on and using much of the GPU at all times?
Curious to see how ethereum participants react to this. Will it just become a race to defeat nvidia’s mining-detection logic in order to up the available supply of cards?

(caveat: don’t know enough about contemporary ethereum to know how this works with PoS)
Nothing, just forgot about it.
As non-Croatian can confirm most. Just you need to be aware that the Romans destroyed most of their forests near the sea, so it's pretty bleak there. Good coffee still, and excellent development culture. Would prefer over Poland and Czech with a similar excellency. But it's not Spain nor France.
The French language requirement doesn't seem too onerous in this case as French is one of the official languages of Haiti.
This was not a passenger plane and it did several flights back and forth to new york in the 48 hours before: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vq-bwt

So, your are off on the wrong track as this seems unrelated to covid, reduced flying hours, etc. The plane was basically flying back and forth pretty much non stop.

It's an old plane, stuff breaks once in a while. I'm sure there will be an investigation and it will likely point to some overlooked defect, metal fatigue, or perhaps it hit a bird or something like that.
I think it’s done through firmware.
But assuming that the internal disk data is encrypted and unavailable to the external OS, what does it matter if it has modified kernel modules? The worst it can do is scribble garbage over the cipertext, which is unfortunate but not a security risk.