skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that’s the difference between an assassin and an “assassin.” With no conviction, a guy could be Mr. Rogers on paper — still doesn’t change the fact that he’s killed 20 people.
One difference is that this is based on Wayland, whereas X410 is based on X11. The Linux desktop is currently undergoing a (very) slow transition from X11 to Wayland.
Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48f...

I really enjoyed his style and he does a good job hitting all the important points.
Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training
I don’t think so. Mostly they were offered cash for the option to buy. Do you have a source about eminent domain being used?
They are rightfully worried about old commits? Maybe it's time they switched to a more secure language which can more easily detect malicious code. To be honest C seems critically insecure without a whole lot of work. If a bunch of experts even struggle, seems like they need better tools. Especially since Linux is so important, and there are a lot more threats, Rust seems like a good solution.

Apart from some perhaps critical unsafe stuff which should have a lot of attention, requiring everything to be safe/verified to some extent surely is the answer.
I agree that the vendor is detestable, but we must decouple that sentiment from the idea that this blog post compromises Cellebrite’s product or credibility in any way.

As it stands, the vulnerability is not reproducible by anyone other than Signal. Reproducibility is key in the scientific method and in the court of law.
"They are going to make government, lawyer and bank services a lot less necessary."

Except when a third party finds bugs in the smart contract code and diverts the rent payments to themselves.
> that every Joule that is used for bitcoin mining is a Joule that wasn't used somewhere else.

This applies to so many things. Snapchat data center? YouTube using gigawatts to process and stream cat videos? On and on. It’s really hard to control what people do with energy. Much better to focus on ensuring its priced correctly and all it’s externalities are properly included in that price. Then we don’t have to involve ourselves in moral debates about what’s a valid or invalid use.
I heard that (some of the) Japanese subway used to use ultra-sonic to broadcast train information
Occasionally I'd get an escalation asking for product approval, but generally yep, it was an auto-approve if it's within the predefined range.
I am sure that Western Digital (whom the author of this patchset works for) will be very interested in your opinion. He implements whatever makes business sense for WD, and not what some random forum commenter wants. I am not at all surprised that a storage vendor would want upstream Linux support for its upcoming devices before they're actually being sold in stores.
That may be more money than people speaking to some of those ideas.

While I agree with you on that core idea being debatable, I also see a lot more support for it than not. Clearly, my experiences are anecdotal, but they do come from a wide swath of the nation.

One of my tasty pleasures on business travel is to strike up some conversations with people. I have done it with all walks of life from homeless to rando joe and jane bag of doughnuts to people of serious means.

For profit prison is growing unpopular. I think it should. And that profit motive does drive a lot of policy aimed at keeping cells full, often justified in dubious ways.

One point in your favor is our trend toward aggressive punishment. People want to see the big, sexy verdicts and game over sentencing and often equate that to a greater measure of their own safety and security.

There is also very low support for better answers to what people do when they have paid, are out again and unable to build a life for ongoing punishment as an ex con. Fewer than I would prefer to see equate that to a lesser measure of security and safety in their lives.

All that said, I am definitely on the err on the side of guilt, meaning some guilty people are not convicted.

I am also on the side of corrections. The goal should be for people to pay their debt to society for wrong doing, AND while paying it, arrive at some plan, skills, resources to try again where it makes sense.

Not doing those things means releasing people who are extremely likely to fail and our results reflect that reality. Sadly, very large numbers of people respond to those facts with even more aggressive sentences, often openly saying we just do not need those people.

Rough topic, IMHO. There is work to do here. Not sure the will exists to do it.
Is it science-based?
They're really leaning on it, too. Practically the first thing in their kickstarter pitch. Although they can't write the name correctly...

We're a YCombinator Company.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/22656

YCombinator is where Twitch, AirBnB, Doordash, and far more all got their starts! https://www.ycombinator.com/

We know MMOs cannot be built with just $10K. We've secured the majority of our funding from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley.
GDScript isn't basically Python. It uses significant whitespace, but that's about as far as the similarities go.
It's a farce to say that DRM is there to prevent piracy when it's also used for stuff like this.
This might not be on purpose. If you look at their article they're studying how to introduce bugs that are hard to detect not ones that are easy to detect.
*safe deposit boxes. just like daylight saving time.

And yes, prudence dictates that insurance is required over safe deposit box contents if they are valuable; in the US at least the banks are almost universally not liable for securing the contents. (TFA is about banks in Europe.)
The people know the difference between Filipina nurses and MS-13 gangbangers, and if there is no constitutional policy that distinguishes them, they’ll crack down on all immigration. If there’s no politically correct way to advocate for this, they will use anonymous forums: Reddit and the voting booth.
> Privacy can be hard. While i 100% defend everybody has the right to privacy, i can also see the need for the capability to break it. Maybe the answer for this is a very tight regulation around the uses of this kind of hardware/software, but that regulation would have to keep up with the pace of technology

i've always wondered if there could be a cryptographic solution to this. issuing decryption keys to governments seems rife for abuse, but some sort of multi-party situation where governmental and non-governmental entities have to cooperate (with actual multiparty key material) to perform a decryption authorized by warrants- with said non-governmental agencies acting as a check on usage of those warrants, their frequency and the eventual publication of their usage could be an interesting approach.

personally i think strong encryption should be a requirement for digital evidence, but even that can be forged.

strange times we live in.
Cellebrite's initial response[1] includes this gem

"We have strict licensing policies that govern how customers are permitted to use our technology and do not sell to countries under sanction by the US, Israel or the broader international community."

And these policies are obviously quite effective at preventing such uses.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/21/signal_cellebrite/
The thing that always gets me is when this is presented as some sort of huge commitment -- this is the bare minimum that enterprise support plans provide and have provided for decades.
Science-based dragons*
AFAIK YC invests in teams, not products, and are ok, if not expect the team to pivot once or twice. I mean, AirBnB looked equally silly in the beginning. I presume the team (not their product vision) was the reason for investment.

Small teams can bootstrap the creation of billion dollar IP (notch created Minecraft singlehandedly).

Not taking a stance on this particular case. But you can leverage the outsourcing economy quite far if all you want are generic high quality assets. Code - well, that is the thing here, isn't it.

Game industry experience? Baldurs Gate or the original Witcher teams had zero of it also in the beginning.

Hustling? Founders are expected to hustle.

I don't see anything super weird about this. All startups are a dice roll in the beginning.
> elon had zero background in rocket science before spacex.

He was also a billionaire after PayPal? Sort of different circumstances.
Let me play devil's advocate here though. This is absolutely necessary and shows the process in the kernel is vulnerable.

Sure, this is "just" a university research project this time. And sure, this is done in bad taste.

But there are legitimately malicious national actors (well, including the US govt and the various 3 letter agencies) that absolutely do this. And the national actors are likely even far more sophisticated than a couple of PhD students. They have the time, resources and energy to do this over a very long period of time.

I think on the whole, this is very net positive in that it reveals the vulnerability of open source kernel development. Despite, how shitty it feels.
It’s a great idea. It’s basically sum zero for retail.
oh, rule 30, I assumed rule 34 ..... I guess somewhere there's rule 34 of rule 30
This was epic.

and a couple of epic graphs together in the middle:

It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you’re dealing with someone who can’t.

(By the way, here’s a simple way to find out if you’re a writer. If you disagree with that statement, you’re not a writer. Because, you see, writers are also readers.)

I guess the Village Voice is back in business.
Elon used his billions of dollars to hire hundreds of the top industry professionals to get the job done.

These guys are live-streaming themselves inserting asset store objects into downloaded game templates then saying that's them developing the biggest MMO ever made. Just a bit of a difference there.
Can someone knowledgeable explain why Btrfs isn't like better than ZFS at this point in terms of stability and feature set? Is it just designed poorly, or neglected, or what? It seems like it's been many years and it's still having a ton of trouble.
I don't understand the hate. Look at what exactly DreamWorld is claiming on their Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playdreamworld/dreamwor...

* The infinite open world MMO

* Sculpt the world and create with a massive catalog of objects

* One single world, millions of players

* Explore thousands of unique biomes

* Fight and tame DreamWorld's incredible creatures

Those claims just don't seem very outlandish to me! They aren't even very unique among videogames. There is no standard for what constitutes a "biome" so it seems quite plausible that you could procedurally generate different biomes. The most questionable part is whether millions of players would really be in "one single world", but it seems quite reasonable than an actual limitation would be something like "they are all in the same world, but different areas of the same world require a loading screen", and on the backend it's just implemented with multiple servers, nothing fancy.

Everyone who's familiar with "early access" video games or Kickstarter video games should know, one cool demo video doesn't guarantee a fun game, at all. That's just how video game development works. This one is no different. They aren't a "scam", they are just trying to make a video game.
As someone who unsuccessfully applied for YC W21, and who also launched a product on Kickstarter in the last month, I'm going between "kind of funny" and "I'm so confused".

We didn't make it into YC, though I did get the "you were in the top 10%, please consider reapplying" email. I thought I had some idea of why we didn't make it, and what I'd change if and when we were to reapply. Hell, given that our business has grown a ton, I figured we'd have a strong application.

But seeing this makes me think that I might have some really fundamental misunderstanding of the application process.
Given that ICE has deported US citizens before, pretty sure it's a reasonable concern for immigrants to be concerned about ICE agents.
Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible
Let me pile on top of that and note that if Linus had listened to his elders and used a Microkernel instead of the monolith, the kernel would be small enough that this kind of thing wouldn't be happening.
I pay for YouTube Red in part due to the promise of no advertisements. Sponsorship segments reduce the value of the subscription significantly. I'm surprised YouTube does not have a policy banning such segments.
Support is the wrong avenue to track this down -- I'd recommend reaching out to your account team!
A Bachelors in Building Stuff
> Boom aerospace founders had zero aviation engineering background

"Joe (co-founder and CTO) came to Boom with significant experience in the aerospace industry. He played engineering and leadership roles on aircraft and certification programs at Hawker Beechcraft, Adam Aircraft Industries, Eclipse Aviation, and ICON Aircraft, and he has been an early employee at three aerospace startups."
Keep in mind sometimes YC is just betting on the team. Many founders have a reality distortion field that disconnects logic from the equation.

Lots of batshit has raised tons of money...like Theranos...or Star Citizen...or WeWork.

YC is betting not a large amount of money to get a piece.
I created a fake Facebook account two years ago (no photo, no friends, fake name and random profile informations) just to be able to see the events around me.
Ironically I never got banned, while I hear all those stories about legitimate users getting blocked...
Better that a woman be homeless than that she practice sexual immorality, amirite?
As part of my day job I see a ton of Unreal asset packs. Thus I recognize most of the asset packs shown. Nothing in the shown GIFs appears original.

The infinity weather asset pack is the most "impressive": https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/infinity-...

Here is their "voxel engine": https://voxelplugin.com/

Notice how none of the asset packs are shown together. The "developers" are just showing off walk throughs of the asset pack demo levels.
“When the Church of Scientology announces that they’ve been thinking about solar panels, why does everyone have to rush to mention that it’s a cult? Can’t we just give them credit for these good intentions and forget everything they’ve actually done?”

(Celebrity endorsements, non-functional technology, libertarian fantasies of escaping the tax man — L. Ron Hubbard would have loved Bitcoin.)
I agree with your second sentence. By the time the Innocence Project gets a result, the moral standard of "letting a hundred guilty people go free to avoid convicting one innocent one" is far gone in any case.
There is a lot of competing business interest here. I always look at a post like this as possibly having ulterior motives.
Doesn't this basically prove the original point that if someone or an organization wished to compromise linux, they could do so with crafted bugs in patches?
> I wonder if Belarussians have become prisoners of their geography

Prisoners of Geography is literally the name of the book determining this exact conclusion. Russia's history involves lots of invasions. (WW2 Germany, Mongols, etc.) Because of this, they want to secure the area around them geographically, whether by politically-aligned states or by controlling the territory themselves. West of Moscow is just huge plains, there's no defensible moat, so they think they need to secure all of the area until they geographically have a defensible moat for their army. That moat / natural barrier is the narrower choke-point on the left side of Poland, the Romanian mountains, Black Sea, and Baltic sea. That's also not-coincidentally what the USSR controlled. So Russia wants Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, Moldova, and even Poland. That's why you see even Poland under Russian influence operations, as another commenter pointed out.
" In countries where government agents are installed through corruption and paid in bribes"

And somehow this won't also end up artificially boosting the "reputation" of potential arbitrators?

(Or perhaps the government will make it clear that anyone who acts as an arbitrator without government authorization will spend a long time in a small cell.)
He has degree in science and was admitted in the Stanford's PHd physics program before dropping out to do business. And he has billions dollars behind his investments, not Kickstarter.
Wait, what? httpS with a raw IP address. Where does the TLS certificate come from?

Curl has the same complaint that I do:

$ curl https://192.0.32.9/domain/root.zone
curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name '192.0.32.9'
You are referring to a very specific asset market in which essentially millions of people participate in legal, open, price-fixing conspiracies. There are potentially whole armies of people whose job is to keep those prices high, and to raise them higher. Year-over-year price increases in these asset classes (housing and stocks) may be baked into our whole economic model at this point. If the graph ever flatlines, it would trigger our slumbering debt crisis to go nuclear again, because of the way things are structured.

There is an entire segment of our economy (the FIRE sector) which is based on running these operations as ponzi schemes, and they are both funded and then bailed out by massive acts of private debt-as-money creation - it is like a recurring Marshall Plan, which guarantees the major players can always outrun the ever-looming debt crisis which is engulfing we, the little people.

The point is that we never have to actually fix the debt crisis or solve the problem of stagnant wages and decreasing demand, if balance sheets can always be corrected with fresh currency injections at the highest levels. Maybe you saw the gent on here who posted the Atlantic article about private firms owning 1 in every 5 American houses.

Yet your analysis would seek to use these (home) prices as an innocent, quasi scientific marker of the purchasing power of the dollar. I get the motivation there - housing is a key basis of human experience. But there is so much market manipulation going on in these asset classes that using them as a measurement of the value of the dollar is IMO not correct. The most powerful corporations around have chosen to backstop some of these assets, and that has supported a speculative boom on the part of anyone who can get bank money to 'invest' in bidding up property prices. Price discovery does not happen in that scenario, because everyone is buying things with the Bank's money, not their own. And if they don't buy it - guess what? The Bank will. Through a shell company, basically. These are some reasons not to measure the dollar's purchasing power by looking at the price of housing in America.
Of course there is a real laptop, and the content published from it is probably real too, and the laptop may very well have belonged to Hunter. But we don't have the full context, and the initial reporting was suspicious as hell.

And none of this means the narrative it's used for is real (i.e. the claim that Joe Biden has corrupt connections to Ukraine). We saw this with previously leaked emails of DNC, Weiner, etc. where the intended meaning was twisted to "prove" some grand conspiracy. The emails were real, the conspiracy was bullshit.

That Hunter Biden is a bit of a screw-up is not controversial. That this somehow automatically reflects badly on his father is.
The "you must make something new to get promoted" was a common meme (literally) at Google, but I never saw that myself. I got promoted, and I sat on promotion committees, and it didn't seem that important. I did sort of start a new project to get from 4 to 5 (rather a prototype was handed to me by my more senior team members), but it was clear to me that the path to 6 was not starting a new project -- it was increasing the reach and value of my existing project. I left before that happened (Google Fiber got canceled, found a new team but it wasn't really my thing), so I'll never know for sure, but I didn't feel any pressure to make something new for the sake of making something new. There was, of course, pressure to make the thing that you did work on good, and nobody was really going to stop you from making something new.

Basically, that whole eng ladder thing is really important. I looked at that a lot for my own promotions and for evaluating candidates for promotions. Just dealing with churn isn't really on there, so it's probably not something you should focus too much on. I'd say that's true at any job; customers aren't going to purchase your SaaS because you upgraded from Postgres 12 to 13. They give zero fucks about things like that. You do upgrades like that because they're just something you have to do to make actual progress on your project. Maybe unfortunate, but also unavoidable. Finding a balance is the key, as with anything in engineering.

The biggest problem I found with promotions is that people wanted one because they thought they were doing their current job well. That isn't promotion, that's calibration, and doing well in calibration certainly opens up good raise / bonus options. Promotion is something different -- it's interviewing for a brand new job, by proving you're already doing that job. Whether or not that's fair is debatable, but the model does make a lot of sense to me.

Things could have changed; I haven't worked at Google for 4 years. But this was a common complaint back then, and it just wasn't my experience in actually evaluating candidates for promotion.
I've been playing an MMO called Dual Universe. It's really amazing given that you can build so many things with voxels. But it has a team with 40 people and has struggled to deliver on much of what was promised during it's kickstart.

There is no way this game will deliver on a lot of this stuff. I can tell you too, in my most recent Dual Universe experience, all those kickstarters who spend 40 bucks one time backing you five years ago will be your worst complainers and will try and sink your ship when you don't deliver.

Why would YC fund this unless they think some of the technology will be salvageable and sold a few years from now without the MMO attached anymore.
Well there's nothing wrong with considering a store of value to keep you from being under the thumb of fiat. So there's works of art, maybe some other metals, some really unusual one-off earth property. So what you have left is crypto or gold.

So invest in gold and encourage more gold mining. Or just trust your government and hold cash. Either way, you're losing a shitload of value. Hedge a small piece of your opinion for a year, then re-evaluate in 2022. Then feel free to come back on HN in 2022 and share your opinions on the subject.
In the Kickstarter video the 2nd guy said he, "left his job at Google, Facebook, and Apple to start Dreamworld." What exactly did he mean by that?
Though, to be fair, Wolfram did run a previous prize contest about a conjecture that he had thought about but not solved, and someone else successfully solved it:

https://www.wolframscience.com/prizes/tm23/
>Apple has historically been anti consumer

What? Apple has been pro-consumer to the detriment of everyone else. Developers are still screaming that they aren't allowed to install malware on my iphone.
Why download an app and create an account unless you were going to use it frequently? I've always just used the website to pay to park without an account.
Perhaps one could record this audio on something like some kind of audio device and then replay it later to a receiver. In the spirit of the old school idea, perhaps like an old cassette tape system.
Wouldn't it be easier for MS to just open-source the NT kernel instead of making the big shift to Linux? I can't think Windows' internals (if they ever get exposed) could have been inferior to Linux in any way.