skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(not the person you're replying to) I can't deny there are ethical problems, but on a very personal level I strongly agree with GP's premise: if I was sentenced to life imprisonment, I would consider it so intolerable I would want to kill myself (especially true in specific countries with notoriously unpleasant or corrupt prison systems). I'm honestly not sure how that should square with potential ethical problems of prison euthanasia but I feel compelled to point out that it's a real desire that deserves consideration, just like normal euthanasia. Similar problems exist with regular euthanasia and they tend to be mitigated with policies like waiting periods, redundant consent, and minimum requirements.
Toe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
How “the king of the world’s booksellers” produced manuscripts
A unicorn solo founder making $500k ARR
I'm probably just agreeing with your agreement but being pedantic but.

Isn't effectively the entire problem with university/college in the current age that instead of its original purpose it's treated as a hiring filter for companies. Shouldn't we do anything we can to disincentivize use of college degrees as a signal for hiring?

Like, doing the job of software development a degree is completely irrelevant. Computer science degrees shouldn't be 4(?) year long coding bootcamps, they should be about computer science for people who are interested in computer science. (disclaimer I never did a computer science degree, I did chemistry but I felt the quality of the degree was similarly afflicted). Anything we can do to make college as a hiring signal worse for companies is better for the quality of education, better for people's financial health and better for equality.

The entire system is rotten and we need to bring the edifice crashing down, not make life easier for companies who are about the only entities with money. You know what costs a lot more than hiring relative to the entity's financial means? A student loan [citation needed I guess].
And these are their stories. Dun dun.
In this particular instance, that seems to be the case. I imagine there are probably legal hurdles that needed to be overcome to even make that happen, but I’m glad it did.

I just sent an email to the International Maritime Organization, who manages the database I linked in the GP, to ask if there are any extant organizations dedicated to providing relief to people in similar situations. I’ll update here when and if I hear back from them, or as I make progress toward figuring out the scope of this issue in other ways.
The point everyone is trying to make is that because the bitcoins are technically not fungible they will, over time, also become practically not fungible due to, eg government intervention (AML, CO2, whatever). That is pretty much set in stone.
It seems like the Unicode Symposium has engaged in a massive employment program for itself with a mission that will continue into perpetuity.

Obviously ASCII was insufficient as it only really had Latin characters. Providing a standard interchange for the world's languages is a noble goal.

But then (IMHO) Unicode went completely off the rails by trying to create a code point for every imagine symbol, including emoji. And now I guess textile care symbols.

All the while, it's missing (at least as of 2015) key characters in living languages [1], engaged in the highly controversial Han Unification [2] (interestingly, there are Latin/Cyrilic and other duplicates that there is no attempt to "unify" [3]) and implemented Unicode code point modifiers.

Emoji, in particular, seems to be a huge mistake (IMHO). Like... it's going to be constantly changing. What's wrong with hierarchical approaches that we've used for things like DNS? Create a Unicode code point for "emoji" and then the next code point is a completely different standard.

The goal of creating a code point for everything just seems... wrong. We already have >1M code points. In 100 years at this rate we're going to have 1B+ code points where 99.99% of them are never used.

Why can't we just solve the problem of expressing written languages and keep the rest to a different space?

[1]: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#:~:text=Han%20....

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unicod...
You got me thinking, it is somewhat surprising that languages actually didn't get that much better.

Most of the languages on the list are from the early 90s, and while there are some newcomers, it is not like they are winning by a landslide. And it interesting that you put Python after VBA even though Python came first. And in the article Haskell is "green" even though it dates back from 1990.

One would think that modern languages, designed for modern computers, with decades of accumulated knowledge would completely obsolete older languages, but no, new projects, made by people fresh out of school, are still made using languages from the early 90s. In fact, SQL and C, both from the 70s are still strong.

In fact, the only languages that have been obsoleted are from the 60s (COBOL, Fortran, BASIC, ...). They are still in use, but it has been decades since no one started a project with these.

EDIT: and I don't consider assembly to be a programming languages like the others. It is a 1:1 representation of machine code and is tied to the machine. In fact, just saying "I write assembly code" is meaningless if you don't specify the architecture.
It's very surprising what people with downvote power do but it's *** to downvote anyone that disagrees. Anyway expert systems were a precursor to the technology and they got replaced much like new physics replace old physics.
Sanctions are now a central tool of governments’ foreign policy
I wonder if academical papers of today won't be taken seriously in the future because some of the symbols we use will have turned into a cultural faux pas? I hope not.
Succinctly: When people defend meat eating as part of their cultural heritage, they're defending a marketing campaign from the last 80 years.
I don’t think it’s straightforward to do a head to head comparison.

from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yso2S2Svdlg

@ 25:14

James Wang: "If a model doesn’t fit into a GPU’s HBM, is it smaller when it’s laid out in the Cerebras way relative to your 18 gigabytes?"

Andrew Feldman: "It is — it’s smaller in that we hold different things in memory than they do. One can imagine a model that has more parameters than we can hold — one can posit one, but remember our memory is doing different things. Our memory is basically holding parameters. That’s not what their memory is doing. Their memory is holding the shape of the model, their model is holding the results of the batches. We use memory rather differently. We haven’t found models that we can’t place and train on a chip. We expect them to emerge, that’s why we support clustering of chips and systems, that’s why we do that in whats called a “model parallel” way, where If you put two chips together you get twice the memory capacity. That’s not what you get when you put multiple GPUs together. When you put multiple GPUs together you get two versions of the same amount of memory, you actually don’t get twice the memory. I see you smiling here because you know that’s a problem… …With us if we support 4 billion parameters and you add a second wafer scale engine, now you support 8 billion parameters ,and if you add a third you can support 12 billion. That’s not the way it works with GPUs. With GPUs you just support two chips, each with a few million - tens of millions of parameters."
Simone Weil and the Need for Roots
One should be careful around lesspipe -- many of the tools it invokes by default have less than stellar record of handling untrusted input. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650952
That is demonstrably wrong. Google is not a printing press provider, they are a bookstore.

Printing press manufacturers do not provide book recommendations. Youtube does, 24/7, for every single customer walking through its doors.
Bombs in packages isn't the only thing that threatens postal workers that USPS is trying to protect.

For example, look at this[0]. Two people physically attacked a postal worker after accusing her of "stealing their stimulus checks"[1].

Sure, you can say that this case had nothing to do with USPS surveillance. But it just goes to show that there are plenty of serious dangers to postal workers other than just nigh-non-existent "bomb in the mail" scenarios that you seem to be fixating on.

0. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/police-make-arrest-after...

1. https://news.yahoo.com/usps-worker-beaten-michigan-alleged-1...
No, it hasn't. Not even close.

AI has "crossed human expert performance" on extremely narrow NLP/CV tasks.

AI is still light years away from human-level performance.
The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

Of course it is. Why wouldn't it? Crazy people put all kinds of crazy things in the mail. Have we so quickly forgotten the Unabomber? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

The next time anthrax or ricin shows up in a politician's mailbox, the same people gritting their teeth about this will bark about why more wasn't done to detect and prevent it.
One example, at a large party during college, my wife's coat was stolen. The thieves took her credit cards, left the rest of the wallet, and dumped the coat on an unrelated house's front lawn. Unbenownst to the thieves, this house was owned by a professor who she was close with. He had searched the coat and found the cash in another pocket. When he was unable to reach her via cellphone, he took the coat to the police, ultimately concerned about my wife's physical safety who then confiscated the coat, the cash, and the wallet. He then came directly to our house from the police (for the second time, he tried our house before we arrived back home and before he went to the police), and after being extremely relieved that she wasn't dead in a ditch or something, informed us of both the coat's location (with the police, and the specific station and officer he talked with) and the contents he had discovered including the cash that my wife had not stored in her wallet but instead an inner pocket. When we went to the police they informed us that both the intake form for the property detailing what had been dropped off had gone missing, and that no cash was present nor had been turned in.
Agreed. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer so who knows. But it seems ridiculous that you could break into someone else's device and run all of their files and then come after them legally because a file you effectively stole didn't run properly on your computer.

At some point if someone breaks through multiple levels of advanced security to, say, steal your gun and then shoot themselves in the face with it, whose fault is that really...
How would that be any better than "point to a spot on the number line"?
Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir (1965)
> “Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers. “Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”

> A number of groups were expected to gather in cities around the globe on March 20 as part of a World Wide Rally for Freedom and Democracy, to protest everything from lockdown measures to 5G. “Parler users have commented about their intent to use the rallies to engage in violence. Image 3 on the right is a screenshot from Parler indicating two users discussing the event as an opportunity to engage in a ‘fight’ and to ‘do serious damage,’” says the bulletin.

> “No intelligence is available to suggest the legitimacy of these threats,” it adds.

Oh, that doesn't seem like an asymmetric allocation of resources at all. It's totally not trivially exploitable like the ticket presales in Tulsa or anything.

This "we have to respond to all potential threats, no matter how trivial" doctrine is a ridiculous waste of time and resources even in the best case. In the worst case, it overcommits to an impossible task.

I think it's reasonable to rate their competence level at "the cybers" around the same level as their ability to keep a "covert" operation off of Yahoo News.
Ask HN: Should I Go to Gradschool?
During the summer of 2019, I did a coding Bootcamp which helped me land a job in a new startup as a full-stack developer. I worked there for a year, part-time (I was studying undergraduate economics too). It made me understand that I want to build products with other people.
At the end of May, I'll have finished my bachelor of economics. I applied for a couple of Master's degree (business school) but I'm not sure I should go. A bit of context, I live in France, school is free and my parents (from whom I'm financially dependent) believe that graduate school is the only way to get a job. I applied to competitive graduate programs that I find interesting but nothing like working at a startup.
I fell in love with building software and constantly improving my skills. I found it so much more fulfilling than academics. After working at a startup and acquiring coding skills, I gained confidence in my problem-solving capabilities.
I'm hesitating between going to graduate school in Paris, like my parents want me to, or work at a startup abroad.
I believe that a lot the stuff you like from oh-my-zsh is in fish natively. You might check it out sometime.
BitClout: Dissecting the Ultimate FOMO Machine
While I definitely understand your concern, I also think we can see this as a fascinating opportunity to improve the nutritional value of meat. These muscle cells in culture will generally speaking continue to produce the proteins, ECM components, etc. that they normally do, but we can also take advantage of genetic manipulation, metabolic engineering, and nutrition engineering to make them achieve more. A paper came out last year (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671762...) in which mammalian cells (bovine primary and immortalized murine muscle cells) were modified to produce plant proteins without loss of phenotype. From the abstract:

"... to endogenously produce the antioxidant carotenoids phytoene, lycopene and β-carotene. These phytonutrients offer general nutritive value and protective effects against diseases associated with red and processed meat consumption, and so offer a promising proof-of-concept for nutritional engineering in cultured meat."

It may also be worth mentioning that cultured meat offers other potential gains in the arena of human health -- no need for antibiotics in a sterile manufacturing setting (so not contributing to antibiotic resistance), vanishingly low risk of foodborne illnesses and novel viruses like covid-19, etc..
I don't think it's accurate to call salmon a "garbage fish" (though I've known salmon sushi all my life). It's been the classic protein of choice for traditional Japanese breakfasts (akin to having eggs for breakfast in the West) and a very common rice ball filling.
Just create a blog and submit your sitemap to google - if your solution really is the only one online, google will index it and link people there. Getting a site indexed by google isn't the challenge, it is getting above all the other results, so in such a scenario as you describe where the are no results, the answer of where to post it is literally "anywhere."
And it was forced to slavery by the same people who took that job out of seas. Greed has no bottom.
That's supposed to be a bad thing? They were in a public place, so it's not spying so much as it is a mobile security camera.
Pantsir is basically a truck mounted Tunguska. It is not the real threat, the real threat is S-300 and S-400 with interceptor cover. Turkey has had no luck against that at all.

Pantsir is not even an IADS. It is at its core 50 year old technology. S300 and S400 are fundamentally different and an order of magnitude more dangerous, they are real air defence systems.

The F-16 would have no situational awareness advantage. It would be without any AWACS and the Russian jets would be networked into the S400 system and sharing data. They would have the clear and obvious situational awareness advantage.

And this is only if Turkey is willing to fight the Russian airforce. So far even in Syria Turkey has not dated to do so, there is no chance Turkey will dare to do so that close to Russia.
The actual number is irrelevant; If you make <roughly average amount> in SF, and pay <way over the odds> for rent, post tax and rent, your leftover money is still more than a mid level engineer in Europe, even in London where the costs of living are proportional. If you make 2/3/500k it only skews in the balance of the bay area.
One small recent thread:

Lambda: The ultimate Excel worksheet function - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923628 - Jan 2021 (4 comments)
Great article, I loved the interactive examples
Sounds like a joke but turning them into airbnb would probably end up being pretty popular. Who wouldn't want an entire ship to themself for a night?
when will the USPS do something about the 0 postal workers killed from letter bombs this year

And how do you think that number became zero? Magic bomb-negating fairies?
I'm pro right to die and not sure how I feel about the death penalty, but the minute you say "We are going to sentence you to decades of torture and kindly help you escape that by offering some version of euthanasia" you are really doing some major head fuckery that actively encourages people to commit suicide.

People in prison sometimes already commit suicide, in spite of it being hard to do.
Ask HN: What is the reason for the recent drop in crypto prices?
The $50k Iron Ring – in high magnification
As a C# zealot, I would have a hard time providing an unbiased take, but its probably the "whole picture" ideal that makes developers take to it so strongly. When working with C# (aka some specific flavor of .NET), you are embraced with the following:

- Visual Studio, probably the best IDE ever created.
- With .NET (Core 3.1~6), code that usually "just works" x-platform.
- Mostly-workable application development ecosystem as of .NET 5.
- Ecosystem of first-class CI/CD/Cloud/et. al. products & features.
- World-class debugging experience, even across the network.
- Stable versioning scheme with dependable LTS options.
- Confidently run mission-critical loads on latest Windows Server platforms.
- Very large library of high quality 3rd party dependencies (nugets).
- Trivial to configure own nuget server for internal/private use.
- Virtually everything you need is a first class dependency.
- LINQ
- Very good GC, especially when configured and used correctly.
- Strongly-typed with very expressive language features as of C#8.
- Fast compilation times, even on monster projects.
- Principally maintained by largest software company on earth
- Maintained by the open source community as well
- Extreme performance (.NET Core optimizations, Kestrel, Disruptor, et. al.)
- Extreme productivity (VS tooling, Self-Contained Deployments, Blazor, etc.)
I use xdg-open (alias xo) and it works for me. If file associations are not right, I can set them in the file manager (or in the launcher I use).
Were the 2001 "Amerithrax" letters the justification for this program? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
You could post on a blog of your own. If it is a very specific question and answer, it shouldn't be too hard to rank it. And you may get search ranking benefit for future opportunities of your own.
https://archive.is/7nkiR
New Google Fi Cell plans – unlimited data for $30
Can you boot off a USB-C external drive plugged into the hub?

I have an XPS, a Sitecom USB-C hub, and a Samsung T5 drive. Booted off its internal drive, the laptop can see the drive through the hub. But it can't boot off it. I don't know why; i imagine that a USB-C hub is not transparent, and the host needs to explicitly reach through it, but the XPS firmware doesn't know how.
Filecoin got a lot of funding from prominent investors before they even started. I don't think there's much actual adoption in there.
i'm consistently amazed it was available.
Interesting--the placement of code-to-processor so that things will be done roughly at the same time sounds a lot like the VLIW compiler problem of scheduling execution units so things are available at exactly the right time, without hardware interlocks.
Fascinating story. It led me into a short Wikipedia bout reading about Japan's period of isolation.
Ah, here’s the IMO database entry on the MV Aman. It provides much additional context. https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersbrowse.details?p_...

In particular, here’s a recent update that sheds some light on why Mr. Aisha remained aboard - in short, he refused to leave unless and until he was paid the wages due to him:

Govt. of Bahrain (7 March 2021)
From Registration of Ships & Seamen Affairs
I would like to highlight few facts as below:
1) Vessel is not abandoned, but under court arrest due to ongoing cases.
2) Seafarer by the name Mohamed Aisha had accepted a court appointment to act as court representative onboard. As such, when the owner repatriated all other crew members he was not allowed to be repatriated by the courts.
3) We had intervened with owner several time and also arranged for the courts to allow his repatriation by appointing another representative, but he decided not to disembark due to outstanding wages.
4) The owners have tried with all resources available to repatriate him but he was not willing to cooperate.

If he is now ready to be repatriated, then the owners are willing to cover such costs of air passage and local charges as a show of our commitment towards him.
I'm not very certain that a nation of 350 million people can be kept stable without some amount of internal espionage.

Most human constructs of that size have espionage going on between them (for example, that's more than the population of Germany and Russia combined, and those nations are definitely spying on each other). The fact that they have a thick border drawn on the map between them and the US has thin borders drawn on its map probably implies the US should spy on itself less... But how much less?

Internal espionage has been key at several points in the history of the US for preventing internal power structures from overriding law and order (the Chicago mafia, for example). It has, obviously, also been leveraged against the rights of law-abiding citizens.
> I mean it's just so far off. Check levels.fyi, Google/Airbnb/Coinbase will be paying $300k+ for software engineers with 4+ years of experience.

Don't know why people here like quoting those companies as if they're representatives of the industry in general. Even in 'SV' most startups are not paying 300k. Most likely 150k~ for a senior.

Median dev job earnings in the US are around 90k. Last time I remember from bls
some kind of economic version of gravity