skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the linked article [1]:

> In court filings and elsewhere, Parler has said that it had been developing an artificial intelligence-based content moderation system when the larger platforms' crackdown took place.

I can't see this ending well...

...Also, did they finalize a deal for hosting? I recall seeing their absurd hosting spec [2] that would have cost >$250K/mo, and I don't see that working anywhere other than AWS/GCP/Azure or a dedicated datacenter.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/19/tech/apple-parler-app-sto...

[2] https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1350612426115452935
Bret Victor ought to be cheering here.
I don't think proteins will live forever in the wild. Between bacteria, fungi, and just oxidation, I'm pretty sure a protein just sitting out there on its own is going to have a finite half-life.
I don’t think it was a hack, rather it was a real test. The dev mentions it in this tweet https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1377687358095654914?s=20
I wish you the best of luck. I can relate to where you're at.

One thing that I have been doing, my entire adult life, is shipping product. A lot of "ship" is not fun. There's all kinds of boring stuff, like good design (as opposed to "just enough design to get started"), good coding (as in "code I'll understand when I come back to refactor in three months"), good quality (as opposed to "Who cares? I'll be out of here, before they run out of integer space"), good testing (as opposed to "I'll write a few unit tests that show it handles low-hanging-fruit problems"), accessibility, localization, aesthetic design, supporting documentation for users, administrators and developers, etc. You get the drift. Lots of "not-fun" stuff, there.

For me, I've always enjoyed "finishing" projects, and that means shipping them, so users get their grubby little paws on my work, and start abusing it (and, sometimes, me).

I'm taking on a CTO role (I've actually been doing it for months, but we're formalizing it). I was asked to write my own job description. I used words like "Accountable" and "Responsible" a lot. I got used to that, working for a Japanese corporation for 27 years.

Not fun. But I get to run the whole show, and ship. That's my idea of fun.

Oh, and I totally relate to the thing about LeetCode interviews and whatnot. I have tens of thousands of lines of code, ship-ready projects that people can clone, build, and run, dozens of articles, etc. It has been my experience that these are totally ignored; which I consider...not sane.

I have found the greatest pleasure in writing software that helps people help people. These organizations don't usually get "top-shelf" talent, so they tend to have a great need.

Again, good luck.
Haha, I thought of the same thing. Otherwise OP could get paid in fiat and exchange for cryptocurrencies himself.
"implicitly allocate" is slightly misleading, imho. It's promoted to a static. There's no malloc involved.
Yikes; alternate uses for _two_ already-overloaded terms ("flow" and "node") in the tagline? Naming things isn't _that_ hard. Less of a nitpick and more of a red flag wrt wisdom and experience of the lib's authors.
I've been doing a bit more elm (some at work) and I've tried to get into Reason from time. I always aborted on the first day. Last time I tried to learn ReactReason in december, I think their VSCode tooling wasn't working at all.
I've dug around into this, and I'm certainly no more than an armchair biologist, but it seems highly unlikely to be a real risk. If spike proteins could mis-fold and become self-reproducing prions, this would have happened by now "in the wild" and it wouldn't depend on an mRNA vaccine to trigger the problem.
Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422...

Better link: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/13/solar-may-cover-75-of...
Tech blogs are about as independent as news sources get, so no, they are very much expected to act that way.
Just to clarify that both the fat-tailed distribution of R (most people don't infect anybody) and the low secondary attack rate (low infection in house holds) are also shared by Covid, and were one of the surprises early on.
This is certainly true. Being bored to a large extent is a personal choice. Things can be as interesting as you make them, but it requires looking at things from different perspectives sometimes.
> patent law was incredibly counterproductive in the case of 3D printing.

I don't work in the 3d printing industry so I don't have enough knowledge to know that with any level of confidence. It sounds plausible but not sure if it is true. That's why, I am curious whether you do, ie: do you work in the 3d printing industry? How confident are you that the recent proliferation was due to an expiration of a counterproductive patent (which one?) rather than just technologies, volume, demand, industrial production finally coming together and becoming mass market? Has there been any actual detailed analysis or study proving this? The reason I ask is not because I am opposed to the claim, rather I often see unsubstantiated claims like this go unchallenged for a long time. In the case of E Ink, I even saw someone blog that statement and they cited an HN comment about E Ink patents that I had challenged and the poster never responded, and then someone cited that very blog post in another HN comments so it became a circle of references where all the dots on the circle are unsubstantiated.
This got me wondering: what is the advantage of genetic information (DNA / RNA) over a self-replicating entity without those convenient molecules?

My impression is that DNA / RNA-based organisms have a high tolerance for changes to their DNA / RNA, such that many genetic changes won't cause them to lose their self-replicating ability. This is great for evolution.

Prions, on the other hand, seem like they would have a low reproductive tolerance for changes to their structure.
> The MoviePass bit is a fun story to suck you in, not the meat of the piece.

Seems like the author damaged their own credibility with this ruse.
Anybody know of a good news source that doesn’t fall into this trap? I hear the economist is pretty good.
Perhaps all of that negative association was well deserved. I also feel the data dump of Parler messages was worse than getting delisted.
I wonder how their energy consumption actually compares. Electric motors moving relatively heavy physical cards is far from free. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that an eink display beats the pants of of a split flap display in terms of energy consumption, but I don't have the necessary equipment to test it.
if you don't care about pay and you want to work on interesting projects, why not start your own?

people typically get jobs because they have bills to pay, not because it's fun. If you are in a position where you don't need to pay the bills with work, then you're in a great position and can have fun all day long - so why not just do that?

If you work on something that also turns out to be marketable then you might even end up with a viable business that you love working on.
> Of course both Python and JS are high-level interpreted languages where high-performance use cases aren't the foremost priority.

Modern JS engines are all primarily JIT-based, generally only interpreting code when it's faster than waiting on the JIT. JS JITs are quite good now, and in many cases will produce optimized C-equivalent compiled code from fairly naive JS.
In some parts of the world, it's A H C D E F G, with B being what you'd call B flat.

Because of that, it took me way too long to figure out that there was any sense in the note names.
I think that mandatory password changing only weakens security because it incentivises users to rotate a single fragment at the end of an otherwise static password.

Example:

MyStaticPassword-2019

MyStaticPassword-2020

MyStaticPassword-2021

If an attacker knows that the last 4 characters of a password are "2021" then it is additional information which can help to possibly crack a cryptographic algorithm.
>The anti-globalist movement of the 90s is long dead. The far-left which fueled it has been co-opted, down to the level of its language and internalized identities, by global business interests. Coordinators of anarchist riots appear in Forbes; there are anarchist professors and journalists.

No citations

Lots of fear

Thinly veiled far right rhetoric
Why is that mess necessary? Cant a semantically rich notation be devised to avoid that mess?.
Asking naively: is anybody doing research on good prions: proteins that get other proteins to fold correctly/helpfully, beating out bad prions in the process?
My full story on launching a side project to Hacker News
>7x more murders per capita

Source?

> Official misconduct is more common in murder convictions that lead to exonerations of African American defendants

> 87% of black exonerees that were sentenced to death were victims of official misconduct

You should read the rest of the report because they make it clear institutional foulplay is a key component of the overcriminalization.
The creator posted on reddit [0] that they are exploring making these commercially available (in small quantities). Maybe you could reach out and get one?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/mtf3hf/thinkpad_m...
PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
What reputable journalist or media organization claims that the secret jewish new world order is using vaccines to inject people with prion diseases like this guy does?
> Assume you have two pathogens A and B that are transmissible. A with a reproductive number of 3 and B with an R of 1.5. Now the pool of susceptibles behaves in such a way that only, say, half of transmissions occur. Then pathogen A will die out while B grows exponentially.

Indeed this is a good scenario for consideration.

Next, to advance the theory in places where horizontal measures were taken, we'd need evidence that R of SARS-CoV-2 is sufficiently higher than other respiratory pathogens. Even if this is true for influenza (and sure, it might be), it seems unlikely to be true for the other four endemic coronaviruses.

> From speaking to an ENT doctor there were indeed very little respiratory infections (apart from Covid of course).

Right. And you don't need the anecdote; we know this from ILInet.

> Not sure what you mean by interdiction - lockdowns are only a proxy for human behaviour. If you have data that indeed influenza was suppressed with no behaviour change and/or seasonality that would be appreciated.

How do you explain the similar suppression in Sweden, Florida, Haiti, etc.? Places that had:

1) No serious interdiction to speak of, and
2) Fairly rapid achievement of endemic equilibrium in SARS-CoV-2

...also experienced suppression not only of influenza but of the other four endemic coronaviruses and both rhinoviruses.

The unambiguous Occam's Razor - and the explanation most established by historical study on these matters - is that we're seeing a case of viral interference.
So if all goes well, it will become an "open federated protocol", according to your definition, in a few years when it is more stable, mature and multiple interests (companies) are governing its direction?

Sounds like a fair position to have.
Serial experiments lain is my favorite anime of all time. I'm shocked at hoe obscure it continues to be, even in hacker circles.

I figured that coding in lisp is all she needed for the show to become a cult classic - but here we are...
> Basic stuff like minimizing a window does not work (with Firefox)

Works fine for me on GNOME 40. Couldnt say why it didnt work for the blog author.
Seems likely, with how many other Apple-adjacent references are in the series (including Copland among another things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
Appealing to hypocrisy is an attempt to shift the blame to evade an argument.

Obama's decisions in Africa do not justify anyone hacking SolarWinds.

Most parents won't allow their children to get away with passing the blame like this, let alone a court of law.
My company adopted 'passphrases' and we no longer have to change it much at all anymore and my life is that much better for it. Thanks Microsoft!
I agree but for many the freedom of choice falls short when facing bills. Then one has to work on whatever pays their bills and it's exhausting enough to make the dream even harder.

I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be able to work mostly in greenfield projects. I worked really hard to get here and keep working hard to stay here.
Could it be that geopolitics has changed their position since then?
Government run digital money is the second best thing after decentralised digital money. Since the latter has not panned out as originally hoped, I support this second best approach.
If they’re Apple devices, why don’t you just use iMessage?
I am an immigrant in the UK. My source of information is the people I speak to in person, and on online forums. They are anecdotal, of course, but there is no shortage of horrible stories, mine own included.

Examples from the top of my mind include the anxiety of uncertainty on whether you'll be able to extend your visa, not being able to leave country while your extension applications are in review (I've been stuck in the country for slightly over 2 years over a period of 5 and I've heard no less than 5 people unable to attend their parents' funerals), not being able to switch between employment and self-employment (as opposed to people like you enjoying any opportunity), only being limited to companies that can sponsor visas (as opposed to your colleagues freely jumping between any jobs they like), higher mortgage and interest rates on loans due to banks knowing well about your uncertain future, having to deal with racist job center employees to obtain an NI number and having to pass the "life in the uk" test consisting of detailed trivia.
Wait! Who said that there's no consensus. The only thing that you presented, so far, is that 93% of economists oppose rent controls.

And from what I read is that there's a debate into how much rent control is OK for the overall economy. Not really a change about its negative impact on the rental market.
What Does Agora Do?
x230 non Tablets also came with IPS https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=127949 I know because I have a few, all have blemishes on panels at this point.
I really loved my Dell Axim long, long ago. Specifically because of the transflective display. The Ipaqs were only reflective, great in sunlight but needed a front light panel over the screen for use indoors, not always evenly lit. The transflective seemed to be the best of both worlds, reflective in sunlight and backlit for a more even light.
There have been quite a few startups based on the same idea (Waterseer etc.) and I think the common consensus is that these devices (which are basically dehumidifiers) are not viable. Thunderf00t has some youtube videos about the Waterseer in which he breaks down the physics behind it.
Yes, if f() returns the type T then you can write

&(T[]){ f() }

The type in brackets needs to be an array so that if f() returns a struct then the initializer list has the right shape. If T is a simple type then you can drop the [].
I’m well aware it would create an economic depression, hence my acknowledging that politically, a real solution is not possible to enact.

Our economy and expectations of life are based on consuming as much as we can, and so we shall. The optimal move for each individual is to enjoy life as much as they can, regardless of the effects of their consumption.

Whether or not it’s a good thing (for descendants) depends on how true predictions like these are:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
This is an underrated solution. As everyone mentions in this thread, plastic reuse furthers the problem due to microplastic breakdown. Ideally, you're gasifying with plasma [1] [2] [3], with the slag going into road aggregate or other construction processes as feedstock. This doesn't work (yet) at hobbyist/small scale, but is entirely possible at municipal waste stream scale. Plastics (anything really, except metals, soil, and rock) go in, clean burning syngas and slag come out. Could even do carbon capture off the syngas to sequester the CO2 if you colocate somewhere where you can mineralize below ground, and use renewables to provide whatever power you can't recover from generation off the syngas.

This assumes you also outlaw single use plastics/disposable plastics to solve for the other side of the equation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

[2] https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (Treatment of Plastic Wastes Using Plasma Gasification Technology)

[3] https://netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasificati...
Not down for me. I see the page I expected, with download links, news, etc...
>Atmospheric humidity is a huge source of freshwater but it has remained relatively unexplored.

Yes, mainly because it's not a "huge" source.
Consider academia. I have a very similar opinion to you about interesting work (less so about meaningful). I was working at Google doing web development even though I have a security specialty, everyday was like pulling teeth. It is just not worth it and I'm not sure it is sustainable for me. Academia has always been appealing because you dictate research direction. I ended up going from part time, to 80% time, to full time over a year and a half for a small company. My work here is mostly interesting and I'm happier than I've been anywhere else.
There are reputational benefits that are hard to quantify. Getting interviews with big names legitimizes you, which probably increases views on other articles
I recommend you subscribe to prof Guy Michelmores YouTube channel then.

He is pretty good at explaining music theory without boring you to death. He even has a video on 1-4-5
Exactly and it would be much easier than finding a company willing to pay you that way. Also considering that currency exchange rates are pretty low these days too.
So, is it because prions managed to attain a lower energy configuration than similar proteins, forcing them to reconfigure themselves upon contact with a prion, causing a cascade of protein deformation that is super stable and can't be reversed? Like protein configuration = local minimum, prion configuration = global minimum?
There is an ebay link with 7 available right in the YT description
It would not be legal for them to do that.
What about refusing service to marijuana businesses? There's both a real and perceived regulatory and reputational risk in giving money to these types of companies.
Blurring doesn't protect information. Next time, just open a wikipedia page full-screen and take your photo.
> Nobody bloody cares about integrity of journalism.
>> People do with the NYT and WaPo,

For me neither of those newspapers have integrity at all.

Edit: there is ample evidence of both "newspapers" flat out lying; what I would call straight out propaganda as if they are part of an agenda. I doubt downvoters will want to debate me but if any of you have the guts please reach out. It'll be an easy win for me.
> No PHP, Java or maintenance work.

Sooner or later, everyone does maintenance work or fixes bugs. It comes with the job.
Facebook would have to be stupid to not be bribing everyone in sight, it's not like anyone is going punish them. Anyone who still uses the site must think it's a good deal and additional information clearly won't change their mind at this point. The US government can't regulate any corporation without 50% of the population losing their shit at "big government overreach". There's no mechanism beyond those two to affect change in a corporation.
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> Thats fine as long as you're in C Major.

C major, yes, but also A minor - where it actually starts from A :)
tl:dr; "I want to be a postdoc"
Doesn't work that way.

They want legal control over you.
Terse technical prose, for example, is useful for rapidly communicating concepts to readers with requisite comprehension skills. Nobody talks like that though because even if you could pick the right words quickly enough as a speaker, whoever is listening to you is going to have a hell of a time keeping up. Both modes of communication are useful in their respective setting, but the last thing I want is a textbook that uses only small words or a tutor that uses too many big ones.
Arguably, we did. Our scalp is protected by hair, our flesh is covered by a skin, and the skin can tan. Then there are dna repair mechanisms, and apoptosis as the final line of defence.

Cancer mainly takes the old, and is certainly no threat to the survival of mankind.
I think the Indians are being smart by teaching their kids English. It's the language of the world and it enables them to get jobs in the global market.

Also, your assertion that Indians don't actually understand English is stupid to say the least and justifies your creation of an anonymous account.
Caro Francesco,

What you propose sounds great but I think your article works better to find like minded people who share your thoughts (definitely count me in on that) than to find some work offers.

Maybe with HN's reach you would find something, but I think a normal contractor's pitch + vetting for interesting jobs would work best.

I would also recommend looking into building your own project

My way of dealing with this problem has been:
- Do contract work and vet the work; worst case scenario, you can drop off with some notice and not much will change. I did some employee time but that was mainly to get benefits (eg. paternity leave) and some fixed money for a period of my life I knew I wouldn't be very productive in
- Raise the price of my services; this tends to filter out the worst jobs, albeit VC funded startup and rich tech companies have plenty of money to waste on chair warmers. Established mid companies without funding doing something you care about and with a remote first culture (pre-COVID and post-COVID) work best.
- Build your own project, add almost-passive revenue streams; outsource the boring bits you don't want to do
- Save money and try to reduce your expenses so that your passive revenue streams need to cover less money (making it easier to survive on passive revenue)

Not a recipe for optimising for wealth, but for freedom.
Makes sense in a time where you know if a log-in behavior is unusual or not (smart/adaptive auth) and have policies which act accordingly.

The big obstacle to reason is baked-in policies encouraged or enforced by regulation which demand rotation.
We have evolved UV ray resistance, it's called being black.
There's a movie (1956) based on the book. The movie is available on Youtube with English subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqXBTBzilY
Or perhaps doesn’t have backdoors, and would prefer it stays that way, which could be jeopardized by US owners - see the Intel Management Engine.
I was going to add a flow up edit to add more clarity to my answer; the point is if 50% of people are dying from an airborne disease, getting to zero is going to be treated with much more importance than COVID with a ~2% (? maybe) fatality rate. People who think masks are a political tool to control us suddenly are less paranoid about that (and vaccines, and social distancing) when the bodies are bing piled up in the streets.

I think we'd probably handle a more severe disease with much less flippancy than we did COVID and we'd have to treat lockdown and other tools with much more reverence in such a situation.

This does happen with Ebola outbreaks being managed in Africa now so if they can do it there I think we can do it here.
This article is coming from the far left, not right. I think he is bemoaning the lack of real anarchists.

But perhaps horseshoe theory strikes again.
Huawei ‘may have eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network’s calls’
It's like the protein version of vacuum collapse.