skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met Zach when he first started uBiome and moved to Chile. He was pationate about what he was building, and about the opportunity and impact it could have on the world. This was 2011, so he was in the very early stages. If I recall correctly, he was calling uBiome the 23&Me of your gut biome instead of DNA.

He was absolutely the last person I would expect to be caught up in something like this, and when the news first broke a few years ago, I reached out as an act of support, not looking to find out what happened, or anything, just thinking to myself....how did this happen, this isn't the Zach I know, maybe he needs someone to talk to.

The lesson in this I think isn't to just pile on about how SV is full of frauds, and pile on with a bunch of hate, but rather to understand that there is a slippery slope, and people get caught on the wrong side of it. Make sure that doesn't happen to you.

It further strikes close to home because I'm the founder of a sleep-tech company (https://soundmind.co), an industry full of snake-oil and BS. We're extremely conscious of this view of the industry, and call it out where we can.

I've also seen many start-up pitches where the numbers thrown around are absolute BS, companies that I know aren't doing well, and the founders yell about the million dollar deals they have.

It's the one thing I hate about this industry, but the gong continues to bang on about growth, growth, growth and the numbers you need to hit.

Many, many founders take the easy way out, but, to quote Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Way.

Any suggestions on how we fight this general rah-rah-BS attitude in the industry?
my school district couldn’t even promise every classroom has windows that open, so i’m not sure what magical planet teachers are getting respirators on
We tolerate cars, fast food, alcohol, and tobacco. It’s a fair bet that we tolerate those things, despite knowing the health harms that come inextricably linked to them. Our representatives presumably trust the experts there as well.
The UN Climate Panel finds that if we do nothing, the total impact of climate in the 2070s will be equivalent to reducing incomes by 0.2-2 percent. Given that by then, each person is expected to be 363 percent as rich as today, climate change means we will “only” be 356 percent as rich.

Meanwhile, the US wants to spend $500 billion per year and the EU 25% of all government revenue on fighting it, annually. You sure that's orders of magnitude difference?
Much of the Golang toolchain came from Plan 9:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990

EDIT: and the Gopher mascot was designed by Reneé French who also designed Glenda the Plan 9 bunny:

https://golang.org/doc/faq#gopher
Fimally!
I am baffled by the first paragraph, which begins "Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be."

Can he possibly be saying that cheating in a class to get a high grade is "getting a good education"?

Or is this just an attempt at sarcasm?

Or was it simply a typo, and he meant to write something like "getting through college" instead?

In the current anti-intellectual period in my country (US), it can hard to figure out who is kidding and who isn't.
If you want to keep this job, but looking for some motivation: Maybe try to focus on developing good (expert level) craftmanship?

If overall quality of project is poor, it maybe even be possible to find some narrow aspect which is possible to polish. Expertise gained that way may be used later, when you finally start working on something meaningful in the future.
" Grothendieck's mathematical education changed radically by his arrival, in 1949, to the Cartan seminar hosted at the *Ecole Normale Superieure". As Grothendieck himself confessed(reference), he had not heard by then about topological spaces, groups, rings,modules, homology!!. The astounding capacity of Grothendieck is revealed in the giant mathematical leap achieved between his naive ignorance in 1949(in Paris) and his spectacular technical nous in 1953(in Nancy). At that year he finished his doctoral thesis about "nuclear spaces" and had become according to Schwartz in "the number one worldwide specialist" in the theory topological vector spaces.According to Dieudonne, Grothendieck was author by then of a life work "only comparable to Banach's"

A rough translation from https://www.pesmm.org.mx/Serie%20Cursos_archivos/smm2018Curs...

Either you believe there is no such thing as mathematical talent and you and me are in the same caliber of Grothendieck or you have to accept there are people with inborn qualities to excel way above the average human in that area. Same for Kasparov in chess, Mozart in Music, Jordan in BB. Blank-slatism will be the death of western societies.
You can program a completely deterministic parallel system using a simple fork-join model, can't you? No physical or timing factors interfere with that, can they?
Please stop. He argued that pedophilia was okay.
You won't need to force them on people... people will beg for them. Their use by the privileged few will in short time massively widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Humans in capitalist societies will be split into two "species", plain vanilla lame brains like you and me, and the augmented super-geniuses who've augmented their brains with the sum total of all recorded human knowledge.
> "I Can Haz Sign"

?? I don't know what that refers to.

Regarding the references from Wikipedia--I apologize for my enthusiasm in a post about memetics, if I gave you the impression I was just shooting off in the forum. I should have worded it better. I'm sure the reference to Wikipedia was an honest gesture at being informative.

"Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Kull)

Yes. Tartu is the holdout for semiotics in academia. My guess is Professor Kull has to have an opinion about memetics teaching at Tartu.

> "Terrence William Deacon ... is an American neuroanthropologist ... is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Deacon)

Anthropologist would certainly have an opinion about memetics. Blackmore (2000) essentially spends her whole book making the case for memetics in this field.

I was excited by the prospect someone in the _semiotic_ community would take memetics seriously (other than the subfield of bio-semiotics).

Noth (1995) is not a recent publication, but it is a serious survey of semiotic theories. He devotes only 5 paragraphs of 575 pages to memes. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handbook_of_Semiotics/r...)
(you only get to see the beginning in this link, but I have the book and there is only one more paragraphs on the next page).

Quoting the rest of the paragraph from Wikipedia, "Another critique comes from semiotic theorists such as Terrence Deacon[41] and Kalevi Kull.[42] This view regards the concept of "meme" as a primitivized concept of "sign". The meme is thus described in memetics as a sign lacking a triadic nature. Semioticians can regard a meme as a "degenerate" sign, which includes only its ability of being copied. Accordingly, in the broadest sense, the objects of copying are memes, whereas the objects of translation and interpretation are signs.[clarification needed]"

It's a radical notion, even for semiotics, there could be anything more primitive than the sign itself. And a sign lacking a triadic nature is incomplete critique, since semiotic community is divided between bipartite and tripartite sign theory. Nevertheless, intellectually I'm very curious about the possible connections. Semiotics is so terribly 'static', and suffers to make sense of change. While memetics is incessantly dynamic, but where's the beef?

Alas, the search continues...
CataRT has moved here https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/catart-standalone/
Then show them, and we will judge for ourselves. You can find studies showing nearly anything.
You've reached that intermediate goal: I'm your fiftieth subscriber.
it's true, but that's a problem every other implementation suffer from.

synchronization is a basic requirement in concurrency.

in my experience the actor model implemented in Erlang provides simpler solutions to the problem as highlighted in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535230

for example if B sends a message to C in response to a message from A, it could send back a specific response to A that will contact C on its behalf and avoid the non determinism

the fact that the actor model provides strong guarantees about messaging order between two actors, makes it easier to reason about it and avoid the pitfalls associated with it

it is also a well known problem

citing the Pony lang FAQ

So for example, if actors X and Y send to actor Z, there is no guarantee what order the messages will be processed by Z except that we can say, all messages sent by X will be processed in the order they were sent, as will all messages sent by Y. However, messages from X and Y can arrive at Z interleaved in any order that maintains the causal ordering of X to Z and Y to Z.
When you hire a contractor, you pay for the work done and that's it. The state has allowed NTTA to have a lifetime contract of earning tolls on the roads even past the cost of building those roads. The contractor does not keep sending you bills after the fees have been paid for effectively creating mailbox money for the contractor at your expense.
> The success is part of the art

Not necessarily. Creators who toil in obscurity during life but receive posthumous recognition do happen.
less fragmentation, i think Unity 8 could have been the answer, sadly it died way to early..
Yes, but it won't drive you into a wall.
>I don't believe (hardly) anyone in academia uses the term meme. Perhaps there's a good reason for that?

First, "What the academy uses" is a pretty low bar for clarity, thinking, relevance, and all that...

That said, meme was popularized by Richard Dawkins, an academic.

Mimetic theory (conceptually related) was formed by Rene Girard, a Harvard scholar (and has tons of citations).

Plus, "meme" gives 717,342 results back on JSTOR, 2 million+ on Google Scholar, and 219,789 on ScienceDirect.

So, there's that.

>It's not clear any clarity is added to the world by replacing the term for culture or thoughts with whatever the term meme is trying to accomplis

It is perfectly clear what is added, if one bothers to read a description of the term "meme". Neither culture nor thoughts mean the same thing. So much so, that your complain isn't even wrong.
I dont believe virus ever increase in lethality as pressures increase, I thought the opposite happens, they naturally becomes less lethal to be able to spread more effectively.

Also when you said " stupid to do so" what are you referring to?

thx
NASA did great work in its first decade. Then it slowly grew into the bureaucratic pork delivery organization we know now.

I think all organizations go that route over some decades. Private companies get replaced by new spry ones, but government agencies just keep going.

Maybe government agencies should be closed down every 50 years, and replaced by a brand new organization with the same responsibilities?
Using C++17 to Create Composable, Recursive Data Types
You fight the BS by being able to see it, and see it early. Whenever there is opportunity, there will be fraud, particularly when you’re selling people hole in some form.
This isn't really convincing. If NFTs are only valuable when celebrities sell them as part of a fad, then they have absolutely failed to meet the "correspondence to ground" point.
I had the same feeling. A lot of the things that NASA develops internally are mindblowing (e.g. the Mars rovers or the Casini probe, both developed by JPL), but everything subcontracted to Boeing or Lookeed endup uber delayed and hyper expensive.
Unfortunately most roads lead to management in tech. Tech knowledge is a decaying asset with a half life of 5-7 years. Eventually, you have 10-15 years of experience and your skills are decaying as fast as you can learn new ones. You look up and realize you are the oldest person on your team still writing code. Suddenly you fit in more with the other managers than with the developers. Such is life at most companies.
I daydream about starting a vegan coop of software developers to sell vegan software to those kind of companies.
Just because you accept someone's differences doesn't change that they may, to you, be difficult to interact with. It's saying this is potentially more difficult but because they're a human being deserving of treatment just like you want to be treated, you try to overcome the difficulty. Co-existing with people is difficult in the best of circumstances, pretending like our differences don't exist won't make that any easier.

I also don't really know all that much about Richard Stallman I just don't like the idea that if you accept someone for themselves all the difficulties of social cohesion magically disappear because it's untrue.
That's just the standalone. CataRT has many incarnations and that is just one.
Thats not true when it comes to public health, often it is better policy to act as though the worst case scenario is true, because the consequences of overreacting are far less bad than the consequences of underreacting
The hacker leaked their source code onto github and said that only 2 out of 3 of the CVEs he was using was patched: https://github.com/holo-gfx/mangadex/issues

Other people who are now looking at their code said there are numerous other vulnerabilities. I guess that's why they decided to burn it to the ground and rewrite instead of trying to fix everything.
This is just the same excuse as the age old "Boys will be boys" excuse. Just because somebody is different doesn't mean they can be a creep and general unpleasant person to work with, without there eventually being repercussions.
plenty of autistic people manage to be decent. making excuses like this simply dodges responsibility and assigns bad credit to millions of autistic people who don't deserve it, and amounts to concern trolling.
I met someone I care about very much :')
xharbour?
The guy you just responded to invented the Actor model.

I'd guess he knows...

Besides, such a fork join model might be theoretically free of timing and coordination in a system with infinite resources (bus widths, no cache coherence, an infinitely fast coordinator e.t.c.) but that's not what silicon looks like.

The nice thing about the Actor model is exactly that it immediately exposes you to non-determinism, distributed state, and in Erlangs case, failure.

It's what allows Erlang systems to "effortlessly" (you had to put the effort upfront) span many node clusters with arbitrary reliability in the face of failures.

Somewhere else you write:

> The problem is this corner case opens up all the fundamental issues I mention. When we include it we've got a big non-deterministic, racey, stateful, problem.

That's not caused by the Actor model, but by the fundamental laws governing distributed systems. Distributed systems are inherently, non-deterministic, racey and statefull.

Two generals dictates that you can't solve these issues, unless you're on a single writer system (which your scatter-gather algorithm is an example of, in which you will always be limited by the throughput of the process that organises your scatter-gather operations / your control plane). In which case, you might as well ignore all forms of concurrency and do one thing at a time, which will be faster anyways.
Exactly this.

I love and support open source[1], but I don’t support all software being “free of cost”.

[1] Not the OSI definition of it.
Erm ... then the "standby time" would be forever.
Your statement is analogous to saying “all autistic people are the same” which is itself very offensive.
The original Zen architecture released in 2017 was not the best performing CPU on the market by any metric. It wasn't until Zen 2 and Zen 3 that AMD fully caught up.
You're making a huge assumption that the discussion is one person disagreeing with the rest of the team.

What if everyone but one says it fits in their head?

What if you're just talking one on one, and have no idea how many team members it fits in the head of?

What if the person who is criticizing the code will begrudgingly admit that it fits in their head, but still thinks it's too messy?
I'm sorry to go completely off-topic here, but I just wanted to say thank you! Your discussion[0] with Meijer and Szyperski was mind-blowing and taught me a lot about the actor model. This was, hands down, one of the best classes I've ever had. Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo
Similar effects of a Veblen good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
It's about whether you can use a DRL model to click at the random app interfaces in a more directed way, and then see its effects in the network traffic via Solitude. You could then download apps and their updates en masse and get automatic privacy profiles of how they actually behave instead of their bullshit policy statements and broad permissions.

App security companies likely do variations on this today, but Solitude in-effect instruments a network sandbox for dynamic analysis of app data handling. I'm saying blackboxing the app with more sophisticated tools like Solitude on the exercising and collection points could be more effective in determining its real behavior than trying to exercise these privacy related code paths directly.

I'm sure someone on this thread has a company that does this by now. The difference is the model clicking on the front end, and the sophistication of Solitude on the network output.
Because otherwise you have race to bottom in no time at all. There are low paid jobs,but limited options to go for cheap options forces companies to think how to increase productivity.
Why pick me then? Go few levels up. I do not consider tu quoque being fallacy either. "Do as I say, not as I do" I think describes the situation much better.
Exactly this. Free software has helped shift the economic power from programming experts to business people. Who cares if you are a top-class compiler expert. Compilers are a commodity anyway. You are better off if you are young, and photogenic and can start a social media app that monetizes people privacy.

In addition, things have shifted to cloud, which favors bin corporations even more, and data and code is not even accessible, even theoretically, for the user.

Of course big business is a fan of free software, it enables them to get for basically free, a lot of infrastructure code.

Lawyers and Doctors must absolutely hold programmers in derision for undermining their own economic power.
I actually prefer it this way. I use Twitter to follow bleeding edge crypto accounts. I have many other interests but if Twitter started diversifying my feed with mainstream viewpoints I would stop using the service.

They have a hard game to play where they can't make everyone happy, so I sympathize. I don't spend a penny on Twitter so I can't complain.
One of my favorite non-fiction books. It reads like a thriller. I blasted through it in two sittings.
That would be a level 3 system (ie one where the driver can disengage but be ready to react immediately when the car tells them to). This is a level 2 system; ie you must be alert at all times in case the car tries to kill you. You can’t watch a movie in a car like this.
Smallpox and Rinderpest.

Polio and Measles are doable, and at this point more logistical and political problems than biological ones.
Meh, people generally get confused by California's municipalities.

"Los Angeles is so sprawling"....I mean yeah, it definitely is; but it's especially so when you erroneously believe Pasadena and Santa Monica to be part of LA. Or worse so, parts of OC, Ventura and the IE.
People love the stupid make it a million dollars argument, thanks for throwing that garbage in here.

You can absolutely set a floor for labor. Go back and study some history, then maybe you'll be able to understand.
>virality is a property of ideas

It's only a property of some ideas. People have self-contained ideas all the time, including ideas they're inclined to absolutely keep to themselves.
Angry astronaut just had an episode talking about the, really expensive, RS-25s getting dumped in the ocean after use.
You’re saying that China doesn’t have bureaucracy or taxes? Their income tax seems to go up to 45% so it seems unlikely that nobody else in the world can match it. South Korea is 42%, so how does Samsung manage?
> ... or simply pirate Solidworks.

Solidworks has a Community Edition now, that's free for Hobbyists:

https://www.solidworks.com/support/community-download#no-bac...

That edition seems to have the stuff that most Hobbyists would be after. :)
The reason COVID=19 hit the way it did was because it was novel; there were not similar diseases from an immunological standpoint being spread widely. Right now, exposure to one COVID strain (or a vaccination against a COVID strain) seems to confer some benefits against infection and/or serious disease from another COVID strain. In other words, as COVID becomes less novel, we become more prepared for new variants. We may end up having to have annual COVID vaccines the way we do flu vaccines, but even people who are unvaccinated against a particular flu strain have antibodies from previous flu strains that offer some measure of protection. That's going to drive down the reproduction rate and the lethality of future COVID strains.

That said, there may not be a clear "end point" in the sense of we go back to how things were before. We may simply be heading towards a new steady state with periodic vaccination efforts and some risk of COVID variants all the time.
Are they.... here is a direct quote from him on a pro-pedophilia political party in 2006 that many that people took offence with:

“I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-rich...
This is a common critique I've gotten!

It was definitely something I considered heavily when buying - and is actually the reason I chose to eat the cost of staying close to the city, rather than move to some far-flung place where the cost of living is three or four times cheaper. Yes, I got less space. Yes, my mortgage is larger than it could have been. But my quality of life will _continue_ to be much higher next year - it's not a short-term personal gain for a long-term social loss.

I did spend some time time making myself a map of the surrounding area, and choosing to buy within some geographic criteria: 1-mile radius of public transit (that doesn't end at 8pm, which some lines here do); 1-mile radius of a grocery store; sub-1hr commute to work. By sheer luck, I'm now closer to my gym than I was before. And while I'm now on the opposite side of the city from many social opportunities, getting home at 11 versus 10 afterwards doesn't faze me much.
Are we assuming that no energy will be used to acquire coins in order to stake?
Mask rules will change as active cases fall. There is a 10-30% of the population that refuse vaccines for political reasons. All we can hope for is everyone else getting the vaccine, and most of the anti-science people getting immunities via an infection.
Yeah thats me, I don't care about 'intent' as much as 'outcome'

All the well meaning in the world doesn't mean shit if you're creating hostility or demeaning others (that is not commentary on RMS, just in general)
Majority of gas price spike comes from uniswap. Opensea which like one of the biggest nft marketplace is only responsible for 2% of the gas fees.

You can see the gas guzzlers at https://etherscan.io/gastracker.
While true, it's pretty likely their IP was sold to still-in-business companies. ;)