skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't seem like this idea is in any way original.

Good thing ideas aren't patentable then!
I’m not scared of space bugs. Bear in mind from its perspective, Earth life are the space bugs. There’s no reason to assume the space bug will win.

In fact it’s very unlikely. On Earth we have a planet full of the results of 4bn years of competitive evolution. Put that against one single species resulting from evolution. The chances are at least one species on Earth will eat its lunch. Furthermore Earth life is customs tuned to the Earth environment, but the space bug is most likely optimised for a different environment.
I said “he tried”. His intentions were good, but it almost got him fired.
For what it's worth, as a naive outsider who doesn't know much about the other founder, she seemed to have a good argument for why she would.

It's just a bit of a stretch to think that a VC not giving her money must be because he was thinking "oh, she is definitely more competent and knows more about this space than this other founder, but because she's a woman I'm going to cut her out and go with the other guy."
I have found that the best way to get feedback on anything code related is to draw it with a diagraming tool with as much detail is possible. Label each part of the diagram in some logical order and then include a brief description of each step. Posting a labeled diagram with a repo gets 10x engagement and feedback compared to just posting a link in my experience. My favorite diagramming tool is diagrams.net
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the other Steve was Apple's one and only customer.
What’s wrong with adjusting a model designed describe the real world when new data from the real world comes in?
The common law offence of contempt in the US, Canada, UK, etc. is an old power, vague in scope, and without much in the way of the normal process. The objection is usually not to the concept of punishing itself, but to the judge being effectively witness, prosecutor, judge and jury combined.

So create a statute that outlines such offences. Charge people if they break it. Put it through the normal trial process. At a very minimum, the judge alleging contempt should not be the judge to try the matter. It might be appropriate to leave a curtailed power of contempt, so that judges can act quickly when they hear someone has bought a paper shredder. But I really don't think it's appropriate that a single judge can decide to have someone imprisoned potentially indefinitely without a proper trial governed by the normal procedures.
I recall a story about the making of a popular TV series soundtrack (BBC's Pride and Prejudice 1995), they got all the musicians in to run through the score once, then recorded the whole lot in one go.
There are approximately 8 times the number of humans on this planet as is optimal. This is not a threat, it's a promise.
I worked at National Instruments on multisim for 4 years. It's fully spice based, whereas this looks like just a digital logic simulator.
It took me some time to learn a true thing about photography...

When I was younger, I took a camera with me to some of the places I traveled. The first time I went out west, I saw these amazing open landscapes with skies that didn't end. And getting to the rockies or sierras, I was just awestruck.

And I took pictures with my camera.

But years later I looked at them, and the images of landscapes were "fine".

However, the photos that stood the test of time were the ones with people in them. One family member, even scratching their nose was 10x a landscape. Even my motorcycle accidentally captured to the side of the image was better than a pristine landscape photo with perfect composition and lighting.

So good background images capture things on more than one level.

Another hack I found fun was to make background images in places very familiar to myself. Uniform photos of the stone walkway at my parents house, or the green grass of their backyard are abstract and non-distracting but familiar and calming backgrounds I like.

There are some exceptions I do make. I do like some city images I find on wikipedia, such as:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Toledo_%...

or the textured background of this image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Unmatina...
Thanks for the links, though I'm unsure what the second link is for.

I hope my assessment is 'fair.' I used to feel more strongly than I do now, I guess.

It's a weird situation. The rules say 'dont write your own memory pools', but new languages wouldn't have a popular library available. Seems it should be 'dont use them at all', or allow them for all. This puts any new language at an immediate disadvantage.

Anyhow, thanks for keeping it going so long. Fun little site.
I've definitely said to someone, "Right now, I want you to reassure me about this, even if you don't believe it."

I didn't call it a lie, but yes, that's what I was requesting.

In that circumstance, I believed things would ultimately work out, but my confidence was faltering. I needed to hear my own belief in an outside voice whether that person believed it or not.

I didn't actually need his belief. I already had my own. I just needed him to voice it.
I will reiterate what I said previously: You seem to be reading in a lot more hurt feelings on my part than I really have.

Certainly, I have hurt feelings. Absolutely.

But it doesn't begin to approach anything remotely resembling PTSD.

I can confidently estimate that getting healthier has averted literally millions of dollars worth of medical costs for me and my sons. I just can't talk about that here all that much because people literally call me "crazy" and a "liar" to my face about that topic.

And talking about it also makes me worry that people will use that as an excuse to continue to dismiss my complaints that my gender has proven to be a barrier to networking here and establishing an adequate income. I would like to stop being poor and I never know how to give acknowledgement to HN and the people here for their role in the downright miraculous events of my life while staying the course on saying "My gender remains a barrier to establishing an adequate income and I would like to somehow have that issue resolved."

In Star Wars, everyone focuses on Luke saying "Noooooo!!!!!!" when Darth Vader tells him "I am your father." But the stronger statement of pain in that scene is the silence with which he chooses to fall to what should be his death rather than join his father. (He doesn't die because Leia shows up to miraculously rescue him, but he takes that plunge presumably expecting to die and the statement is "Join my father or die? Give me death, thanks.")

The "loud noise" I sometimes seem to make on HN concerning sexism is the lesser pain compared to issues over which I generally remain silent here.

The whole thing is enormously complicated and there is no good means for me to adequately explain it to you here on HN while maintaining my silence on subjects that I believe other people wouldn't want me to address here.
Not sure why're you're being downvoted. The common name for this is Gell-Mann Amnesia[1], and is casually observable.

Pick any field where you would be considered by the layperson to be a subject-matter expert. Then, go and consume popular media -- news, movies, fiction -- related to that field. How accurate would you say they are?

Perhaps the downvoters would care to explain?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
> I am saying that when you assign a value to a string variable, such as during its first (and let's say 'only') initialization, it would be absolutely insane to also have to set the string's length.

You should have a constructor/factory for strings that will form/instantiate the string in a valid state, with its value matching its length. That's not the same thing as a setter that mutates the string in-place.
I don't think it's at all the case that OAuth builds baseline best practices regarding authentication into applications. OAuth makes --- in fact, essentially is --- a series of concessions to enable delegated authorization, which is a much harder problem than simple authentication or single-site authentication. When you use OAuth in simplistic scenarios, you're importing all the challenges (and, as this page, the RFC, and a zillion other sources show, vulnerabilities) that OAuth has to deal with to make delegation work... but for no reason.

I'd generally caution against using OAuth until you know you need it.
Your analogy only works for people who are cannibals.
why is this so astounding to those commenting on twitter? because git doesn't artificially limit the line length?

i've used ansi sequences in my zsh prompt for 20 years to make colors and move the cursor; it's just in-band ascii that is interpreted by the terminal emulator, no?
You are confused on concepts of inflation and bubbles.

Bubble happens when an actual value of something gets disconnected from its price. When people buy something for ever increasing prices without regard for actual value because they believe the price is going to go up.

In a bubble only the price of that one thing goes up, in relation of everything else.

In an inflation prices are representing the value of products but as value of money decreases the numbers representing prices must go up. In this case the price increase is caused not by increasing demand for the product but rather increasing supply of money.

Printing money causes value of existing money to be diluted because if tomorrow we have twice the amount of money in circulation than today but we are still buying same amount of products and services, then we will need to pay roughly twice the price to keep market equilibrium.
100% spot on. i would like to be your friend IRL
Interesting comment. Hopefully after building something with Ficus I can better appreciate Angular. The biggest issue I have is updating projects. Its fine if you only support 1 application but when you have 2 or 3, they start to end up on different versions and when you get back you have to spend a month updating to the latest versions, instead of adding tangible value to the product. Maybe I am just bitter as started on Angular 2 updated app to 3 then 4 then 5 then 6 then moved to another app for a year. Get back to app 1 and now we are 5 versions behind, and we are slowly moving forward again. Update to 7 this release and go from there, I guess.
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> But imagine that every time you have an 'off' experience with someone, you end up wondering whether your race or sex had something to do with it.

I can't pretend to have any idea what that's like. However, I do know what it's like from the other side, wondering whether the things I say will be misconstrued as prejudice and whether any bad experience I have with someone of a difference race/sex/etc will be used to label me as a bigot.

I don't think I ever thought differently of anyone for their sex or skin color as a kid. Now I'm so worried about offending people that I force myself to be hyper-aware of anyone with those kinds of traits that differ from my own. Maybe it's easy for me to say from my position, but I'm not sure how we'll ever come together so long as we keep highlighting those sorts of differences.
The legal setting doesn't matter. In these cases the damage is done reputationally, in the court of public opinion, well before any legal matters come into play.

And like many legal outcomes, just being accused is its own stigma. Someone accused of murder but then later (let's say objectively, truthfully, correctly) found not guilty will expect to face social discrimination and alienation. It's not right, but it's unfortunately how people operate.
Probably stems from the foundational misnomer of “artificial intelligence” (which glamorizes the algorithm) compared with, say “data-driven algorithms” which emphasizes both aspects suitably.

AI might have been a passable term in the era of rule-based expert systems, but both “AI” and “ML” are particularly misleading terms (when applied to modern data-heavy methods), leading to consequences like that pointed out in the article.

Further, glossing over the importance of data to emphasize the algorithms is not accidental, given the subject’s roots in CS, and the rhetoric used to promote the field. The sub fields where it plays out differently are those which have a healthy respect for the prices of data gathering.
Who decides what is truth? I'll be keeping my guns and my ability to speak truths that the ruling government has classed as lies.
I don’t really remember this, but I know what I’m watching after work tonight...
Solar Geoengineering Should Be Investigated, Scientists Say
Try pixelation.org
> However, in India, the law is completely absent at best and an active tool of your enemies at its worst.

Cries in Indian. :'(
Yes, this is extremely common and extremely frustrating.

Companies, governments, individuals come to me all the time asking how to "Do AI" without knowing anything about their product, data provenance, testing plans, state observability etc...

Sure, you can do a toy problem with some interesting vision or NLP framework and some off the shelf data that isn't ready for production or anything serious. Who cares? That doesn't do anything novel, it doesn't actually change your product function.

Chomsky said the most important thing to do as a young person is to follow the phrase "Know Thyself."

People who want to do AI need to "Know Thy-data and product architecture" first.

I did a talk last year on exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK-SBu1iiHo
Got something from Google, Story in my startup journey [video]
there is a precedent with an outbreak of anthrax caused by a faulty vent in a secret soviet military lab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak

Coincidentally, the local Communist Party also placed the blame on meat from the local farmers' market.
The whole thing reminds me more and more of subculture of Russian jails. By touching or interacting with something disgraceful, even in-directly, you'll acquire "зашквар" and will be put out-of-the-law (criminal law that is) and will be forced to do disgraceful things, provide sexual services, etc.

Example of an act. If someone uses a toilet and then doesn't wash their hands and someone shakes their hand, the person who shook the had go "зашквар" now and that's it, they are done. They'll get a whole in their metal plate they use for food, may be some special tatoos, etc, etc...
I know it's not in keeping with the definition provided, but I like to interpret hubris in that context as "Believing that they are capable of writing software that is compatible with the second virtue, and that they can write it in a manner compatible with the first."
You can find forums where pixel artists look for work. Here's one such forum: https://pixelation.org/index.php?board=8.0
Laplacian Matrix
Sexism aside I wonder what other identity spheres this kind of trepidation has corrupted valuable feedback in.

Additionally I wonder what other corruption has occurred in productive systems because of these Identity Politics that have been raging to the foreground recently. And finally are these minuses outweighed by the pluses of said politicking?
As a German I think you know the answer but can't see the woods for the trees. It is that most here are from the US and it is worse in the US than in Germany by far. I'm from Denmark and I also see this tendency online with "so and so is true in the US so that's how it is". The Americanization will slowly make this your norm soon too in Germany though, just like everything else.
You shouldn't lie in a response to an invitation.
I think the point is a little over exaggerated. You could argue that automatic headlights, such as lights which automatically switch on at night time are also an optional extra in certain models of cars, do I therefore need to pay for people to see me on the road?

How about cars where automatic braking is an option in higher models, am I therefore having to pay for my car to stop?

At the end of the day, car companies create a market where you need to pay for better features and we're moving into a world where some of these features are simply disabled on the vehicle. The writer needs to move on and remember they can also dim their headlights on their own.
> Other environmental damage was found but it likely happened after Chevron was no longer involved in the project

If you're referring to the findings in the case of Chevron vs Donziger[0], Donziger claims that Chevron and the judge colluded. The claim is likely difficult to prove, but when you consider the billions at stake, Chevron have a strong motivation here to dissuade future activist work.

> They did however pay $40 million to fix some damage in 1995 and were granted indemnity by the Ecuador government in return.

Yes, but did that remediation include the the extensive damage to surrounding forests? And the poisoning of 100s/1000s of indigenous people? Cancers, malformed children, ruined water supply, etc.? The class action of the people impacted was warranted, if you've taken the time to look at some of the video. It could be that domestically based or other companies are partly responsible though.

[0] https://casetext.com/case/chevron-corp-v-donziger-28

Edit: Attracting inexplicable downvotes on my threads here, including this one which was basically asking for a source. Not sure why someone would downvote a comment like that unless they don't want people to dig deeper.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26614959
There is some evidence that shrinking populations are bad for the global economy. To me, however, the greater tragedy would be a failure to take full advantage of the planet’s capacity to sustain human life.

But why? Is TC suffering from some sort of species-level FOMO that he doesn't want to imagine not maxing out the possibilities? To me it seems asinine, if not dangerous, to be at or near the carrying capacity of your environment all the time. Is there something bad about more space and fewer demands on natural resources?
If you put this into http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/cryptogram-solver.php

the first line is:
"Q acquitted"

This was probably just a troll
https://www.google.com/search?q=Electric+Pulp+Tester
I'm reading a whole lot of frustrated comments here and totally get where the frustration is coming from. But in a different direction, I wanted to offer a thought for how to improve:

Rule #1: Always ask people if they want feedback before you give it. Do it for men, women and non-binary folks. If you can, give hints about the topic ("hey, would you like feedback about your skills alignment with the problem?").

I've always been amazed at how much better feedback is received by anyone when they've explicitly agreed to hear it.
I think a lot of what is going on in society right now comes down to people buying into a worldview about victims and villains. When we talk about any ism, most people understand that to be a dynamic where one side of the ism is the oppressor - a villain, and the other side the oppressed - a victim.

And as this article points out, the zeitgeist of the moment is the presumption of guilt, so any accusation of being an *ist comes with tremendous consequences, and people are understandably fearful of that.

What you're observing that this creates an unfortunate vicious cycle: the fear of persecution for an accidental offense leads to disengagement which disadvantages the very people who the disengagement is meant "not to hurt."

This isn't a new observation.

MLK said: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." [1]

I think this is where the extremes of "wokeism" and "social justice" miss the mark. When the mob is rallied to punish and seek vengeance against those who have done wrong, it can become a witch hunt.

To Dr. King the path to victory over oppression was through forgiveness[2].

"Here then is the Christian weapon against social evil. We are to go out with the spirt of forgiveness, heal the hurts, right the wrongs and change society with forgiveness. Of course we don't think this is practical. This is the solution of the race problem."

In the hypermedia era I honestly don't know if calm, civil discourse is possible. It certainly isn't profitable compared to the level of engagement driven by outrage.

But I think if we wanted to take the next major step forward it would be wise to look back at how much progress happened during the Civil Rights era, and specifically to understand how and why the progress was made. Can we imagine applying Dr. King's words today, to seek to understand each other, to identify wrongs done intentionally or unintentionally, and then to forgive each other for past mistakes so we can do better going forward?

[1]: https://mlk.wsu.edu/about-dr-king/famous-quotes/
[2]: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/mea...
I feel like I understand where that sentiment is coming from, that everything must come from some hatred in someone else, because so many things in the world seem arbitrarily difficult and so many negative things happen for no reason. Ultimately it's unproductive, but I understand the appeal of it.

When my sister experienced sudden cardiac death in her twenties, 8 months pregnant, for no apparent reason at all, I desperately wanted someone or something to blame, because anger was easier to confront than the earth-shattering grief. Anger feels productive. It feels like something may come of it, and that glimmer of hope that if you just channel the anger in the right way, you might be able to affect the bad thing that you're actually powerless against is extremely appealing.

I didn't have the option of anger, but I wished for it desperately at times. Ultimately, I'm sure I grew more confronting the reality that sometimes really awful stuff happens for no reason at all, and there's nothing I can do about it, but I wouldn't wish the learning of that lesson that way on anybody.
Who called them names? It feels like you're reading far more into what I'm saying than is there