skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1000x this. It's so unusual to talk plainly about power, but that's really what it's all about.
> I thought it was a great story about the human spirit

The character literally named MANN destroys himself due to shortsighted selfishness.
thttpd has one cool cat badge icon but have you seen its critical path http parsing code?

/* Read the MIME headers. */
while ( ( buf = bufgets( hc ) ) != (char*) 0 )
{
if ( buf[0] == '\0' )
break;
if ( strncasecmp( buf, "Referer:", 8 ) == 0 )
{
cp = &buf[8];
cp += strspn( cp, " \t" );
hc->referrer = cp;
}
else if ( strncasecmp( buf, "Referrer:", 9 ) == 0 )
{
cp = &buf[9];
cp += strspn( cp, " \t" );
hc->referrer = cp;
}
else if ( strncasecmp( buf, "User-Agent:", 11 ) == 0 )
{
cp = &buf[11];
cp += strspn( cp, " \t" );
hc->useragent = cp;
}
else if ( strncasecmp( buf, "Host:", 5 ) == 0 )
{
cp = &buf[5];
cp += strspn( cp, " \t" );
hc->hdrhost = cp;

Use perfect hash tables for known http headers, because they're perfect.
It's a good, hilariously ironic, and slightly sad idea. People are afraid of taking a vaccine because they don't understand the statistically minuscule possibility of serious side-effects? Give them a statistically minuscule positive incentive to balance it out!
We need researchers who will follow their moral instincts far more than we need researchers who care about conforming to the sociocultural norm. So, thank you.

I guess I shouldn’t just say “researchers” —- it’s what we need in our citizens of humanity.
It feels somewhat disingenuous to rephrase "is downloading" as "downloaded" as though they mean the same thing.
People with autism do not generally have lower social needs than neurotypical people. They just have poorer ability to reason socially.

It's like being deaf in one ear. That doesn't mean you don't like music any less, it's just harder for you to hear it.
Interview with Alishba Imran, Co-Founder of Voltx and ML Dev at Hanson Robotics
Absolutely. Especially once you factor in the fact that sometimes things are simply written poorly or don’t make sense, even if it was a real human being at the keyboard.

A lot of the communication I have with folks is subtly flawed in logic or grammar, but that doesn’t make me think I’m working with a bunch of androids.

It’s natural and often even necessary to try to figure out an author’s intent when their writing doesn’t fully make sense.
I didn't watch your link (I rarely follow stray YouTube links). However regarding Ron Paul, I don't envy what he has endured in his lifetime from moronic opponents on both sides of the political aisle. The YouTube video of him being harangued & attacked by zombie anti-drug zealots on the Morton Downey Jr show is enough to feel sorry for him for a lifetime.

Persevere, though? Anyone that dares to tell the truth today is begging for a blacklisting. That's what building the big tech censorship systems is all about (which will be America's version of the great firewall), being able to dictate what the supposed truth is for any given topic at any given moment in time. It's a martyrs game, telling the truth, I assume Ron Paul has known that for a long time.
> You don't back up virtual machines or image disks

> If those are actually shadow IT, they won't be in the backups anyway.

Okay whatever then. I really don't have the energy. I'm just depressed people might believe you.
Best idea so far. Make a calculation how much they would cost to take care of in case they got Covid, give 80% of that directly to them if they get vaccinated. It's almost like investing in your own people.
This was a hard-mode fake I just got:

> A new era of hyperaridididididemia revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

So some are better than others. :-)
AFAIU their model is successful because incentivising people to make healthy life choices really does reduce their actuarial predicted health costs - so on aggregate the cheaters can't be that significant.
It's way worse now.
Privateers are a type of pirate, and pirates would sometimes alternate between privateering and freelance piracy based on what was more lucrative at the time.
Still pretty close in the German pronounciation.
Of course, the deaths of innocents will dissolve in the calculus of responsibility this way, as each slice tends toward the infinitesimal. The spec was wrong for those conditions, the optics company we hired sold us something defective, the training set was bad, the review wasn't thorough, we got underpowered CPUs, the targeting system on those pinhead missiles has a known flaw, on and on, until absolutely nobody is at fault. Nobody will court martial a neural net and that'll be the end of it.
The article doesn't seem to address the problem of how you stop your new atmosphere from also dissipating into space. Surely that's a slightly more important problem?
I recently discovered the TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL SSL ciphersuite (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5246/) - it makes analyzing network traffic so much simpler, and you don't even have to deal with certificates any more!
Sustainable Content Creation
Would you have rather waited until hospital capacity was overwhelmed? Spikes in hospitalizations follow - like clockwork - spikes in contagion. By the time hospitals were overrun, that'd mean you'd be looking at another two or three weeks of ever-growing number of people who'd need to be hospitalized in a system that is already at capacity.
Is there a popular language without investment from tech giants?
Do you realize the irony in your comment? You are saying we should be building more hospital capacity instead of incentivizing people to get vaccinated. If people don't get vaccinated we will definitely be needing that capacity!
Why would they get a prison sentence for legally buying information that the private sector can also buy?
Yeah gamedev/simulation is the use-case where I think operator overloading is really a value-add. It's really nice to be able to write linear algebra code which reads like math.
That's difficult to answer without knowing what you want from a programming language/stack.
> You do the reader a favor if you get to the 'why do you care' part immediately, because in fact it may turn out that they don't.

Here's why the web is a mess:

We've turned it over to Google, through search, and Google penalizes sites' rankings in search results for having Chrome users leave if they read the first line and realize the site or service isn't for them.

After all — your site is less engaging than the site that most users ended up on — right?!
Fully vaccinated people can ditch masks indoors, physical distancing: CDC
How long until he figures out that DOGE also wastes energy?
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I just had to ask you this a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27072129. Could you please review the guidelines and take the intended spirit of this site more to heart? You've unfortunately been posting a lot of comments that are not in the intended spirit, and we ban such accounts.
Retailer frenzy on top of a new technology alien enough that people don't understand it. If you think these coins are all there is, just wait until you see the thousands of meme coins that never took off.

Also keep in mind that these coins crash with very small amounts of money. The liquidity just isn't there.
Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All depends on money management IMO.

For me its hilarious how come some companies are able to burn 100M$ and not deliver anything.

Small surgical teams with strict money management will never burn such amount of money - so they survive and deliver the product.

IMO 90% of startups fail because of irresponsible money management and bad contracts(delayed payments, extreme penalties for being late etc.)
Disclaimer: this is just my speculation

My guess is that he just isn't very savvy about cryptocurrencies in terms of implementation mechanics and legitimately didn't understand the extent of bitcoin energy consumption until the drop in April brought up that correlation front and center in the news when the price drop was attributed to a disruption in mining due a blackout in China.

It wouldn't be the first time where he jumped into some topic outside his immediate area of expertise and proceed to get criticized for missing some critical nuances (e.g. the ventilator donation thing, the submarine rescue in Thailand thing)
Special shout-out and thanks regarding:

> To maximize eye comfort, we use a DC mode backlight controller instead of a PWM one that can cause visible flickering

I hope this still stands, and it uses true DC dimming. If so, thank you so much!

These days it is hard to find non-PWM laptops even in premium segment.

Even high-frequency PWM is not great for eyestrain, so DC dimming is really appreciated! Some manufacturers go as low as 250HZ.

p.s.

If anyone wants to check if your display has PWM:

0. All OLED screens utilize PWM. They are terrible to view in low light environment. This means that all new phones and OLED laptops are terrible for night reading, don't do it! If you are curious about headaches after extensive screen time, guess no more.

1. For LCD laptops, however, set display brightness at 10% (can try different settings in low range, too)

2. Open some bright content (e.g. blank white page) and go to some completely dark room.

3. Using phone camera's preview screen, set it to photo mode and play with different settings of exposure (in pro/advanced settings) while pointing at the screen: try 1/8000, 1/250, etc. Also try slow-motion capture of the screen. High-frequency PWM (new Mac laptops) is quite bad, but hard to detect without special equipment, but still can easily put eyestrain. Low frequency PWM is much easier to detect with just a phone camera.
The side-by-side display makes it pretty easy to distinguish the one from the other, simply compare them at a level where the one that makes the least sense is the one that is nonsense. Like that I score 10/11. But when looking at just the left side one suddenly the problem is much harder, and I'm happy to get better than even. Bits that don't help: not an English native writer. Seen too many real life papers with crappy writing that quite a few of these look plausible, especially when they are about fields that I know very little of.

Presumably when you're a native English speaker and have a broader interest the difficulty goes down a bit.

I like this project very much and would like to see some overall scores, and it might not hurt to allow for a verified result link to detect bragging rather than actual results (not that anybody on HN would ever brag about their score ;) ).

Overall: I'm not worried that generated papers will swamp the publications any day soon but for spam/click farms this must be a godsend and for sure it will cause trouble for search engines to classify real content from generated content.
TFA?

https://blog.mitchjlee.com/2020/your-writing-style-is-costly
Why would we be past that point?
...Or no one is prepared to stick his neck out [yet].
Yep. We saw it with Andrew Yang as well. Either being left out completely, or media outlets taking about 'him' without actually saying his name.
I'd suggest checking out FusionAuth, but I'm a bit biased :) .

I have heard good and bad things about Keycloak, but I know one thing for sure: it's far better than rolling your own auth.

Good luck with your startup!
There is a whole line of thought that accounts should be passwordless and accessed via an email reset link as part of normal login procedure.
> better to figure out how to establish self sufficient colonies capable of growth and replication without assistance

Before we do that on planets and moons, what if we do it right here on Earth? Still large parts of the world are reliant on assistance from other "colonies", and there seems to be a human problem as the cause rather than technological or logistical problem.
So what is an appropriate amount of cases to go back to normal?
> Do you believe that it's alright for the NSA to conduct surveillance on foreign threats?

I like this question, but I think there's a better one: "do you believe it's alright for the NSA to exist?"
It's not all just about travel. Keyfeel is important too. If I had a mushy keyboard, I'd certainly trade some travel for more snappy hysteresis.
You're not in favor of terraforming, full stop? Elon's nukes and ground CO2 idea seems dubious, and like his dome habitats idea (turns out they're very limited in lower gravity and pressure: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/domes-are-very...) I think it will be dropped quickly once SpaceX gets to Mars and starts working on habitation seriously. He talks big but he acknowledges reality eventually.

However, I struggle to see a reason to oppose the concept of terraforming Mars. I don't study the planet for a living so I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
> While linguists specify a matrix of vowel sounds, a lot of people use vowel sounds that land in between them

Definitely, but this is equally true of mat, met, and mate.

As for marry/merry/Mary, there are speakers with a partial merger. Usually they maintain a distinction between "marry" and the other two. That does not discount the fact that there are English speakers who feel (rightly) that the strength of the difference between these three in their own dialect is equal to the strength of the difference between mat, met, and mate in most dialects.

When it comes to mergers more broadly, many speakers who grow up with distinctions that some of their neighbors don't make will wind up falling into the nebulous middle ground you're describing. There's a cognitive burden placed on someone who consistently distinguishes sounds that others in their community do not, because the speaker who makes the distinction will regularly misinterpret what they hear out of the mouths of others. ("Wait, did they just say 'Mary'? Oh, no, it must have been 'marry.'") This is true even when there can be no confusion over homophones: "What does 'fahl' mean? Oh, they must have meant 'fall.'" This is one mechanism that makes it quite easy for a vowel merger to spread. Speakers are conditioned not to pay too much attention to phonological differences that are not a part of the grammar of others in their social circle.
>and I am not in favor of terraforming.

Why not? It would seem that's something we're going to have to master in order to populate the galaxy. Seems like it would make sense to figure it out somewhere close to home so we can have all the appropriate gear onboard a flight out into the cosmos.
High risk strategy? Deterrence via MAD is overwhelmingly what keeps the relative peace between the major nuclear powers.

It’s not a great situation overall, but you couldn’t uninvent nukes at that point, so it has proven remarkably effective thus far.

Same dynamic with AI/ML —- can’t uninvent. If one aggression-minded power has it, balance will be required for stability.
IE11 is basically the last browser that has a sane non-infantilising UI and per-site configuration by default. It works great for the non-JS sites, better than Dillo and Netsurf at least.

I use it as a way to say "Fuck the Google monopoly." Firefox is slowly going down that path too, because they haven't a chance at opposing the giant.
Yes, this mirrors my experience. Fields that have my interest are pretty easy in isolation (just looking at one subject), but fields that are remote can be a challenge.
I bet you have lots of fun challenges!

I hope I didn’t come off as too critical. I do love Notion as a product and my org is a paid member. I just wish there were more options around data hosting.

None of these problems are the mark of bad engineers, either. It’s just what happens when you ship fast and grow fast. Like I said, good problem to have :)
or that electric cars do not actually have zero carbon footprint

while we're at it, don't rockets pollute too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145275
I know there is a CURRENT Microsoft product (for administration) that requires IE11. I do not remember what it is but I was really surprised when our Microsoft guru (he is really good) showed it to me and was not happy either.

I will try to get the name tomorrow.
Link without tracking tokens:

https://www.theinsight.org/p/battlestar-galactica-lessons-fr...
what's more likely - you being able to talk to Facebook, Google, or Apple to let your app/site use their authorization solution once their algorithm has decided to ban you, or you fixing your bug.
Thank you for sharing that experience. It was a very interesting read.

However, lest anyone get the wrong opinion, password hashing is a very simple, straightforward, solved problem and has been for years.

One person doing something monumentally stupid doesn't make Auth some kind of cryptic minefield.
This result of this will be the litmus test to whether we are past that point or not.
I think you're underestimating how desperate of a situation some people are in. Offering people money during a historic economic downturn is likely quite effective. It's also completely unethical. Add this to the list of things done in the name of "public health" in the past year that will be seen as barbaric by future generations.
No amount of money will change what happened in the past. The #1 problem we face today is vaccine hesitancy.
A 25 year old working at a tech company in a large city is making in the ballpark of $150k per year just in salary. (Some more, some less)

Let's say they're only taking home $100k of that after taxes. That means you have $8000 to spend on your life.

They might spend spend $3000 per month on rent (which gets you a pretty decent apartment anywhere and an amazing one in lots of places.)

Let's say they put $2000 of that into savings.

That leaves them with $3000 to spend each month.

$900 a month on a car payment isn't such a big deal at that point.
100% disagree. We have treaties that prevent use of gas weapons. We need governments to coordinate and cooperate rather than race each other to murderous death.

https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
The problem is that MAD is only reliable in the absence of proliferation, but we go to such lengths to prevent proliferation that it causes other problems. When you get down to it a nuke is not that that hard to build with the resources available to almost any state, so the fragility of deterrence has a distorting effect on international relations.
I dunno - I was at an organization that got booted off of the Internet for various reasons - and while it was a pain for some tasks, it didn't have quite the impact I expected it would have.

So yes, we have WAY too much shit on the Internet that has zero reason to be there - and we have way to many connections and content flowing between orgs without any kind of assessment as to what the content is, it's authenticity, etc.

The vast majority of ransomware incidents happen via spearfishing over email - pretty nuts that literally one erroneous click by a user can take down an entire network.

Think about that. Talk about inherent fragility!
Why would Musk fuck around with a personal trading account? He probably owns some coins personally, but it would be an insignificant fraction of his networth (which is tied to Tesla).

There's no conspiracy here.
Awesome thanks for that! I wasn’t aware of Beta Marine’s hybrid engine. Looks awesome but definitely pricey.
You sure it wasn't phishing. SCNR
No, space pens
Ha! Once you're used to instant search-as-you-type experiences, it's pretty addictive. From a UX perspective, it actually helps increase engagement as people tend to search for more queries, since there's no cognitive overhead in typing something and waiting for a result.

The commits data is ~950MB on disk, with ~1 million records. It takes up about ~3GB in RAM when indexed in Typesense.
A new era of spaceflight? Promising advances in rocket propulsion
All batteries are non-sustainable. They burn out eventually.
Imagine living in India right now and reading this headline.
You're missing the original point. rgbrenner is talking about auth solutions like Auth0 where users can use username + password to sign up/login, and when you eventually are gonna have to leave (which, if your business is successful, you eventually will), you'll need to reset passwords one way or another.

Of course, if you only use third-party authentication for your service, it doesn't really matter what's in-between there, you can work around it.
Ha. I would think this would work a lot better to give 500 people $10K each. Not life-changing money individually, but it will serve to get a lot more people moving.
I've built auth systems from scratch and used third party auth services. Doing it from scratch always feels reasonable at first when it's just basic username and password, But I start to regret it once a client starts asking for more features. MFA, federation, auditing seem to inevitably become requirements at some point.

If going with a third-party service, my advice would be to make sure you understand how to export the data out of the system, including hashed passwords using a non-proprietary algorithm.
Martian soil is a fine, toxic dust. The planet is far from the sun. It is also too light to generate the gravity we evolved in.

We should be living in spinning space stations in warm-and-toasty solar orbits
Tesla made $101M in Bitcoin profits in Q1, which was 1/6th of their operating profit.
https://frame.work/
The way to get out of the cycle is to push back with great force. Unfortunately people are too easily swayed by propaganda.
I'm not, I'm suggesting that an inclusive, permissive economy is the best way to fight scarcity. Scarcity, though you may not recall, was a big deal. Its opposite is "cheap shit" which is exactly what I'm advocating for as top priority. In this case, cheap (free) access to high quality internet services for everyone with an unfiltered connection.

Less permissive economic systems continue to fail spectacularly. No one is "handing" any control of anything, control is precariously maintained by staying ahead of competition.

Comparing Google to a dictator is ridiculous - who is Google murdering by deprioritizing someone's service on its platform?
you are directly contradicting the code of military command, prepare for social credit demotion! </snark>
They totally care about their data though.
> We had to lock down because of a shortage of hospital capacity

If we alleviated that bottleneck another would pop up at the crematorium.
That wouldn't work, as the vast majority of people cost $0 to care for if they get COVID.
That's an entirely different problem (one I sympathize with, but am not bothered by due to exportability) than spreading misinformation about how it works. Your post was false in one way and misleading in another. Saying a place where your files can be exported in a standardized format "holds your notes hostage" is hyperbolic and inflammatory.
Sure, his net-worth might be higher if this "tesla dabbling with bitcoin" never happened... but he made those tweets anyway, and any effects on tesla stock happened.

Maybe there was no master plan, but it would be a lot better for his personal net-worth if he went long/short on bitcoin before each tweet.
Guido's slides in the repo mention speedup targets, but there is no mention of benchmarks. What is measured gets optimized, but which benchmarks are important for Python users? I'm sure Django users and Numpy users have very different performance bottlenecks.