skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineering degrees include one, perhaps two courses on those topics. You can scrape a bare pass on the second try without taking in the material and graduate in 3.5 years instead of 3.

In a well-run humanities degree you would never pass the first year without being able to critically engage with difficult ideas, although I would have no trouble believing there are institutions that offer poorly-run ones.
> PyDisAss? A booty meme pic to finish out the article? Great example of why women don't feel welcome in tech and why there are so few women on HN.

Women don't feel welcome because of a play on words regarding a body part that _everyone_ has?

How does a person become so fragile?

Is the joke a bit juvenile? Yes. But if someone is so utterly offended that they crumple on hearing it, I am not sure any company is well served to have someone like that on staff. If you can't handle a stupid joke, how are you supposed to handle someone critiquing a project you've worked hard on?

Please don't perpetuate this sort of nonsense on womens' behalf. Women do have legitimate workplace grievances, but this isn't one of them. All you are accomplishing is sabotage of their legitimate frustrations.
Are there some truly objective benchmarks to compare this to GPT 2/3?
> we need to enforce global software supply chain management now.

Well, we can't. We don't have the infrastructure for it. It will probably take every industry in the world between 4 and 10 years to have a fully secure supply chain.

> The world runs on software.

Close: it runs on hardware, and that hardware isn't secure either. It also runs on networks, and authenticated, authorized communications, and those aren't secure either.

> However, there is an even more worrying effect: if attacks are possible at such a scale that their effect is felt across whole sectors, countries or even globally, as is the case with the “SolarWinds” attack, they have the potential to fundamentally undermine our trust in information technology.

Holy shit. Nobody tell this guy about the NSA hacking Cisco, he might get really upset.

> an attack on a low system level may be able to corrupt or circumvent protective measures on higher levels.

..... Unless you design it not to.

> Equifax’s 2017 leakage of hundreds of millions of customer records, was possible because the organization failed to update a vulnerability in a low-level web server module

No. It was possible because Equifax had no accountability. It was also possible because their network and data access policies were Swiss cheese, and only after that was it the fault of somebody not patching a shitty app.

The rest of his argent is that the biggest problem we have is patching and malicious code in our stacks. But even without supply chain attacks you still have 0days which are the same problem: shitty code gets exploited.

You can't avoid shitty code. All you can do is mitigate risk. What stops big attacks is not one single fancy idea, but putting enough hoops in place to make big attacks extremely rare and difficult. That, and educating developers on how to not write shitty code and build shitty systems.

Most developers I know literally don't even know how to avoid SQLi, or if they do know how, they're too lazy or overworked to do it. They pick random shitty tech and clumsily paste it together to get some MVP working, and then that becomes production.

Nobody wants to pay for real components and solutions that were designed the right way and certified. Everybody just wants to write brand new shit code from scratch in fucking JavaScript using a randomly assembled bunch of modules a retarded hamster could write, and then make it so they can't be extended and improved over time, because they're owned by some jackass worse password is Welcome123!

Supply chain is just what's trendy. The real fix is to get people to stop trusting morons to make shitty products, and stop paying people to write custom applications that all suck.
I was briefly a pandemic student last fall, and am closely connected with a relatively large network of current students who I communicate with regularly (aka my friends).

This is incredibly frustrating to read. Among students, the relevance of this topic - mental health issues spiking do to online curriculum - is painfully obvious. And yes, we are balancing this against the realized danger/negative health consequences of the pandemic.

I understand that this is anecdotal, but it seems that large, robust data sets are not convincing for you.

From what perspective are you writing? Do you have children in school? Do you feel that rising suicidality correlates with a broader issue that suggests some amount of increased suffering in the larger population?

> compared to what children had to deal with during previous social upheavals

Are you saying that we can't aspire to manage crises better than some historical bar? Why does this comparison appear here?

I am genuinely curious, and I hope you understand that my questions are genuine. I just rarely come across a comment that so confidently disagrees with things that are extremely obvious to me. Cheers
This is the most profoundly underrated comment on this thread.
That's very fascinating.

I look at quicksort and that was revolutionary at the time.

Do we have ways to better conceptualize the world around us? Or are our brains evolving outside of some normal evolutionary process?

Fascinating to me.
You see the same problem in aviation. Other than the largest commercial airliners that are used in the most developed countries to fly passengers, most aircraft (cargo, general aviation, etc) are all using 50 year old designs. Why? Liability. Despite instruments having become much lighter, heartier (to weather conditions such as icing, etc), and more accurate than in the past, aircraft continue to rely on old designs. Because nowadays, creating a new aircraft and certifying it costs a _lot_ of money. So Piper, Cessna, Boeing, and others continue to use old designs that have already been certified, despite there being cheaper ways to achieve just as reliable or more reliable aircraft due to newer technology.
Deep science: AI is in the air, water, soil and steel
Is this really surprising? People who can pay for cheating schemes are so likely to be paying the university full price.

The university will only crack down when it affects their prestige.
Frothing covid deniers/lockdown protestors will cling on to anything that lets them win arguments with people on the internet. Assuming these people and the news outlets they frequent are communicating in good faith is a fools errand.
Was supposed to be unix 2.0 but all the licensing horseshit from unix left them to shove it right up their butt. Now it's open source. 30 years late, pal. Maybe they can use it in india so they can all put it on their resumes just to say they're all experts in plan 9.
They would probably be better off just giving the inmates 250k a pop and asking them to stay out of trouble.
9front is the fork you're looking for.
Sometimes I worry that we truly are devolving and things are getting worse. I think “eventually people will wise up and focus on what’s important” but then even crazier stuff keeps happening.

This is a positive sign that maybe we can figure out how to eventually get it right and it won’t just be a circular firing squad getting smaller and smaller over time.
This might give you some insights about the potential of tree planting: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76.full?ijke...

The study is done by https://www.crowtherlab.com/ a lab of ETH Zürich.
Well he stinks. I met him. He does stink.
Stabbing, crucifixion, eaten by eels: learn all about murder the Roman way
> And I don't think erlang has a shared mutable states.

Arguably (well, of you ignore the process dictionary, which everyone seems to) Erlang lacks local mutable state, but has shared mutable state through actors.
Vaccine Battle Heats Up with EU Ready to Halt U.K. Shipments
Congress gets a lot of info first. For example, some got caught making trades after they got briefed on covid, before the info was public.

They know who's about to win big contacts in their district. They know who is about to be affected be legislation that was snuck into the budget last minute without debate.
Per entertained / occupied (whatever) person, crypto has an orders-of-magnitude bigger footprint.
“SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, here again compared to Theranos”
THANKS! very cool talk and video!
The same is true for basically all NFTs. You own the token, not the original object. The purchaser of a tweet not does not have power to delete or modify it. Similarly, the purchaser of Beeples NFT did not get exclusive rights to the original works.
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf
You don't start working with a company if you suspect fraud. The point is secrets and a need to know basis like this is not uncommon in legit businesses. It's not a sign of a company being fraudelant.
No I agree, there's ways of getting a global shared mutable state, but they are explicit and not a structure of the language itself IMO.
You can sign up for Premium under a VPN and get it for cheap, even in the US. I pay $3/mo for it.
Is GPT-2's architecture any different?
> You'd think if someone scored low on TOEFL and SAT English, but their essays were a literature work of art..it would raise red flags.

Nah - university is full of people who desperately want standardized tests to be worthless.
Depends on your threat model. If you're worried about old people dying from COVID directly, then yes, it makes sense. If you're worried about the hospitals being overwhelmed and then people dying from car crashes and heart attacks, then targeted self-isolation of vulnerable people isn't going to help as much.

As a healthy 30-something, my chance of dying from COVID is about 1:3000, about 300x better than an 80-year-old. However, my chance of being hospitalized from COVID is about 3%, which is only about 7x better than the 80-year-old. The hospitals were overwhelmed, here (Bay Area) and in many other cities. Even now (2 months after the Christmas/January surge) Santa Clara County still has 21% of its ICU beds taken up by COVID patients.

U.S. life expectancy dropped by a full year during COVID. We were concerned about the 0.1 year declines in 2016-2018 from the opioid epidemic (which did affect young people), and this was 10x that. It'll be interesting to see how all-cause mortality has varied among different states in 2020-2021.
Indeed. Unfortunately, in some languages – like Java or C#, it is harder to do without incurring a significant cost (boxing/unboxing) than in languages that allow type aliases/typedefs.
Much of humanities these days is indoctrination into 'official' critical thinking blindspots, so I'm not sure if I'd agree.
> You’ll never be able to buy land in a city without any restrictions and that’s perfectly fine.

I'm having trouble in the article finding the place where, when they bought it, they were required to maintain it as a pub. Can you help me find that?

Because if that wasn't part of the deal, then this is a bait-and-switch and an obscene abuse of power by the local government.

EDIT: I'll take the downvotes as an admission that the claim is a lie. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
> For whatever reason, the types of people who shared such news in 2020 were not the kind of people who gave two shits about addiction and its effects on others before the pandemic.

You’ll find this is common with a lot of political subjects, I could name a few that come up HN seemingly weekly now. Pick up a cause when it's politically convenient, drop it afterwards. I don’t trust anyone or their intentions when it comes to these sort of things.
This should be the poster child for making non-competes illegal nationwide. It's great that in California, people are able to use their hard earned technical expertise to strike out on their own, create competition and be compensated appropriately for their innovations.

Now tech companies will have to ensure their innovators are adequately rewarded or they leave to create a competitor. This ensures more equitable compensation for creating value.

This simply wouldnt be possible in a state where non-competes are enforced. They either have to change industries or keep working for below market wages accepting whatever the company decides is their compensation.
Creating jobs by employing people to create an overpriced and inferior product at the expense of the taxpayer doesn't work in a capitalistic economy. It's just throwing away talent and stifles any competition that doesn't have MASSIVE financial backing, which is why it's taken so long to have any kind of commercial competition.
Sounds to me they likely don't have children. Even one week at home for my kid is damaging let alone a year. The kids weren't spreading covid to teachers. Teachers could have worn respirators and been fine.

Governments should have kept covid out but harming children in this way to make up for disastrous decisions and behaviours of adults is unacceptable.
Not sure where you’re getting that, it’s saying there is more than $600 billion in income going unreported (untaxed).
The US is being pushed by two reinforcing doctrines, the Thucydides Trap and the Wolfowitz Doctrine, to forcibly prevent any other entity from becoming equal to, or stronger than, the US. In other words to prevent the loss of remaining the 'Exceptional and Indispensible Nation'.

Other entities include Europe, Russia,and China. Of those three entities, only China has any chance at present of overtaking the US. Russia has less power than the USSR had, and Europe is subservient to the US even though they have the potential of being intrinsically greater.

China, with greater population and manufacturing power than the US, merely has to keep developing at its current rate to overtake the US within very few years. In other words, any war would actually slow them down so in the meantime they speak softly while they continually grow their big stick.

The US, if it does nothing, has only the inevitable prospect of being relegated to number two in the very near future unless they actively initiate a war with China. In fact for the US, which is declining rapidly in relative terms, the sooner the war starts the more likely it is that the US will be victorious.

With the above in mind, it's been almost fascinating to see the scenario playing out in the real world over the five years or so since I realised what's going to happen.

The US has missed its chance. It should have started that war at least a year ago. It will initiate that war quite soon, but China has now too much industrial power and military to be beaten.

I don't see the nuclear part of the war to happen immediately, but after a couple of years, when the US realises that it finally has no chance of overcoming China it will resort to nukes. There will be MAD, even if the Russians stay out of it. China has sufficient nukes, even at a lowly 3-400, to destroy the US.

For History buffs, I see the next big war being similar in appearance to WW2, in that the seemingly invincible armed forces of the initiating country (Germany in WW2, US in WW3) after a year or two of running rampant will gradually be ground down by the greater man-power and industrial capacity of the attacked country (USSR in WW2, China in WW3).

To most Americans under the age of about 50, and who have never personally experienced a time when American was not Number One, the above will seem like fantasy. Just like the population of the previous Superpower, Great Britain, could not imagine anything sweeping away Britain and its Royal Navy in 1910, just before WW1.
Is D's value proposition that it's a better successor of C than C++? Because that's what it seems like to me from a quick read of the website.

But it also seems like D is not suitable for a lot of things that C++ is, like embedded applications. Also, it doesn't seem like support for Android and iOS is very good at the moment. So for portability, C++ is still the only choice.

D does seem really nice though, like a modern high level language, but with support for custom memory management, low-level system APIs, and even ABI compatibility with C. But I'm hesitant to build anything with it because as much as I loathe working in C++, it's still the safest bet by far.

Also, Swift seems like it has similar goals, but with Apple's full support behind it.
Down here in Victoria, Australia: despite over 20k infections, a prolonged lockdown let us eliminate COVID entirely.
Does macOS need virtualization on Apple Silicon to succeed in the enterprise?
Ever heard about the cobra effect?
It isn't kidnapping - operating under physical assumptions betrays a lack of understanding of the digital. It is the same fallacy as the airforce roots in thinking that the best defense is a good offense for cybersecurity.

We don't have wars where engineers do some work and render soldiers intrinsically immune to grenades but we can prevent buffer overflow attacks by not using bad functions. We don't need to develop new police practice to deal with every new house design or modification.

Especially given that computers themselves are hijackable you cannot rely upon ad bacculum cybersecurity.
Eh... SQL is like the steering wheel in your first analogy. I'm not compiling or writing SQLite from scratch, simply operating it.
If you mean "isn't a large part of it about shoveling pork barrel money to selected constituencies", then absolutely. For actual skills, SpaceX, Blue Origin etc seem to be keeping rocket scientists employed just fine.
Unfortunately, current high gas prices make anything less than large defi transactions not worth it. Just transferring some ERC20 tokens cost like 15-20$, etc.

EIP 1559 was supposed to make it more predictable, but with the eth2 speed-up to counter miners, I'm not sure if it's still on the table.

Once the gas fees are solved, I suspect the adoption for defi/NFTs/etc on eth will go through the roof.
> They are just transferring money from one person to another, essentially.

That's what "reallocating resources" usually means.
Actually thought the article was about viome at first lol
Indeterminacy (using arbiters) is crucial to the performance of digital computation. (Arbiters are used in the interconnect of many-core chips.)

See the following for an explanation:

"Physical Indeterminacy in Digital Computation"
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566
It'd certainly be a good experiment
In my country universities get money for foreign students. In fact more than they get for local students from the government. This is also the reason why universities switched to English in the 1990s.

Yes long term this can damage your reputation but in capitalism nobody cares.
Hey you worked with me and know I am neither experience nor savvy :)
NFTs make sense if you have a pile of volatile currency and you want to hedge that volatility by putting it into an asset with a different volatility profile, without having to convert it into a transaction that triggers income or capital gains tax.

I'd posit the NFT craze is an unintended consequence of cryptocurrency tax policy. The reason people are burning bubble money in NFTs is because it's more fun setting it on fire than taking on the massive accounting risk of reporting their gains.

While I don't hold cryptocurrencies for related reasons, if you're guaranteed to lose 35%+ of your chips when you cash them in, it makes no difference if you do something stupid and fun with it. If you have undeclared crypto gains, making it disappear into a hard to value joke NFT is even lower risk.

Just like real art.
It’s very hard to make a person realize something when their paycheck depends on them not realizing it.
the source of true is always concensous. the best example i can give you es bitcoin. nevertheless seeing NFTs as non-physical is also not true, every thing that operates in the blockchain is sustend onto de nodes thoso nodes are sustend by computers, and those computers are physical. it doesnt matter wheather fot the computers are 1s and 0s and the end of the day they are link to the reality
Creating engineering jobs at NASA would be one thing, but creating jobs at a private contractor is vastly more expensive. That overhead is all about lining well connected people’s pockets.

It’s almost silly how much effort is put into making things as inefficient as possible. The federal government is intentionally given a bad reputation here, but it’s shocking how much more efficient they are internally vs outsourcing stuff.
Clock Synchronization
Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018)
This sounds like fun. Kind of a “how to use Kubernetes simply without drowning”. Though would it just get downvoted for not following the hacker news meme train?
> Why people cannot directly buy shares in European semiconductor companies

Because this way the companies can be directed towards a specific desired outcome that benefits society instead of the shareholders.
I had. British India payed people to hunt & turn in Cobras & people of course started breeding Cobras[1] to collect money on them.

None the less, it sucks a lot that society is basically punching itself in the face to punish & scar people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
That's only true when excluding international trade and specialization.

In the world we live in, it's more often done to ensure some sort of domestic sourcing for national security critical components.

With the alternative not being that competition would spring up here, but that it would spring up there. (For values of there that are not here)
ETS is isomorphic with a data table process that processes get and set (and etc) messages, but happens to be quite a bit faster.

If ETS is shared mutable state, so is a process with state that accepts changes, as chrisseaton posits. Of course, shared mutable state with clear boundaries between mutations is a lot better than shared memory where everyone can write and read things in bits and pieces.
There also needs to be a process to validate the SBOM matches the compiled software with an air gapped digital twin. ( you have to bypass a few things in the header - like time stamp and a unique I’d) so both versions of your compiled software have the same hash. Then you need to protect that file from interception and still validate every line change in every file. This patent addresses many of these issues with a self-referencing SBOM on the blockchain. https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3687107A1
Yeah, I really doubt that reading any given book has an impact morality other than inducing a sort of selection effect (i.e. people who are not interested in the environment won't read The Silent Spring unless compelled to do so in high school).

I'm assuming by your concurrence with the comment above you and your association of that comment with "blindspots of morality" that you believe advertising is immoral. Forgive me if this is mistaken, but hopefully it's clear at least how I came by this impression. I am here to tell you that a person can be a reader of Orwell, or Mieville, or whoever, and still not agree with you on a position like the one you've implicitly espoused. You can have similar base principles as someone and come to very different moral conclusions based on a number of things, like access to different data or relatively subtle nuances in you take on some of those principles.
You aren't the only one to suggest in this thread that "think of the children" is usually disingenuous. It is definitely an end goal for a lot of people (otherwise the argument would have no power to manipulate people).

I think people make many choices that are harmful to children because they are trying to protect them and/or work to ensure their children's success.
The nice thing about TG, you can make your own custom client (without getting sued) and implement PGP over it; or whatever you want