skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a hypothetical conjecture.

In any distribution, the small number of players usually controls most of the wealth, as we've seen throughout the history.

What are the odds it will not be a handful people, coordinating their interest vs everyone else? That's inevitable.
And you need to check your assumptions if you think the likely outcome of extorting five million out of a major piece of infrastructure with your buddies would be collecting dividends on a tropical beach.

If you do everything perfectly you have a target painted on your back for life, a group of friends that all want to be the first to save their skins by giving the rest of you up, and a huge chunk of that change given away trying to launder that money well enough that you don’t get caught. Not to mention the foolishness that comes with suddenly finding yourself with a big pile of money which is easy to pretend wouldn’t affect you when there’s no chance of it actually being a challenge you’ll ever have.

Your advice to high tech thieves is to hire an accountant?

Best to find a job tending bar in a country not too friendly for an extradition and keeping the money under your mattress to hire the best lawyer you could afford to avoid spending the rest of your life in prison hoping that the CIA doesn’t make you disappear.
BlueHydra – Bluetooth device discovery service
>Entire industries are nothing but marketing

Marketing is not a dirty word, it means connecting the product with its consumers. There is of course an industry revolving about that practice.
I always found pacman a little weird to use, but I think that was more a function of its UI -- its commands and options just weren't easily memorable for me, and I had to look them up almost every time. Its actual functionality was great, though.
There was an attempt, but it was archived https://github.com/linux-noah/noah
Virtaal – easy-to-use and powerful offline translation tool
I have seen a few installations of his work and they are really amazing to see in person. His work really messes with your perceptions in the best way.
It seems like the overwhelming majority of people here are positive to WFH. I can't stand it. To me, a "remote first" workplace sounds abysmal. I like to have a physical workplace where our company can gather and focus on our goals together, in person. Picking up business related discussions, small talking, sharing music, joking around. Attempting this through video meetings or voice chats feels like a bad simulacrum. I just hope there's a place for people like me in your visions of the future distributed workplace.
The problem with this angle is that, if antibodies to the spike protein cause an immune response related disorder... what do you think the virus will do? It presents many more (and likely much less stable/useful) immune response targets any number of which might cause life altering diseases, even in young people! The H1N1 disease would have almost certainly had similar effects on autoimmune disorders (as Pandemris) since it looks like this was a genetic predisposition.

There is a fundamental problem with all of the hesitancy/risk issues, which is that the risk of not being vaccinated is much higher, unless you can personally count on never getting exposed to the virus, which at this point (for people alive now) seems highly unlikely. The classic example is the blood disorders for J&J, which are about as risky as driving 20-100mi (depending on where). It's not that driving is so dangerous (it's certainly not perfectly safe), but that the issues are so rare, and the alternative is worse.
I’d put money on it being the case everywhere.
I wonder what those "100 new features" are...!?
This is from 2020. These days you can do most of this with a few API calls using Pinecone (https://www.pinecone.io).

Take your text/image/audio/timeseries/whatever embeddings and upsert(), then 2s later take a query embedding to search with and query().
I don't think good tools are necessarily easy to approach. Some of the best tools I know have quite a steep learning curve. A good tool is one that gives you power. It makes difficult and complicated tasks easy and simple. It may come with the cost of getting good with using the tool, but once you master it, you don't know how you lived without it.
Being based on Chromium IS reason enough for me to stay away from Brave!

It's not like Firefox is perfect but, at the moment, seems the only way...
is there anyone here old enough to remember Lotus Notes from the 90s? what does Zulip offer that I couldn't do then? (plus being able to then develop custome views, forms, etc)?
> ...people he has treated horrifically in the past...

That is a bit of an escalation from being an ideologue. What are you actually unhappy about here? What do you think he's done?

> This is about a awful person who should not be hired into a leadership role...

Well again, being an awful person and being unqualified for leadership are different things and need to be argued separately.

There are lots of great business leaders who were awful people. Eg, Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle by the Nazis. It isn't like the ranks of business have or ever will be made up of exclusively nice or praiseworthy people.
yes but natural immunity =/= vaccine immunity (and please don't say bUt vAcCinE aNTIBoDiEs aRe bEtTeR tHaN ThoSe pRodUCed bY nATuRaL aNtIbODiEs)
“Ransomware has gathered a critical mass of nonsense, bullshit, hype, and fuss around it. The word ‘ransomware’ has been put on a par with a number of unpleasant phenomena, such as geopolitical tensions, extortion, and government-backed hacks. This word has become dangerous and toxic.”

Imagine feeling hurt that your low-key mob activities are equalled to high-stakes mob activities, so much that your consider it "dangerous" and "toxic". Really love the irony here.
I would not buy NFT anything
Personal thoughts and NYT bestseller published thoughts are very distinct.
The other day I realized how absurd modern academics has become when thinking about an exchange with a friend, who is a named chair full professor at a large university.

For the past couple of years, they've been talking about the outcomes of a grant they've had (there's much to be said about this grant in itself). Basically, this friend thinks the whole topic is BS, a conclusion they've come to because of their experience doing analyses and trying to publish results from the grant. It's not venting because of the workload: this person can articulate a very logical explanation for why the whole topic area is BS based on results they've obtained.

Recently, however, they were talked by some colleagues into writing an extremely large grant using some preexisting resources. What's the topic? The same thing they think is BS. So they've gone to a federal agency to request permission for millions and millions of dollars to research a topic that they think is essentially empty. Why? Because it's a very "hot" research area at the moment and is likely to bring in funds to the university.

What struck me was when I was listening was now understandable it seemed to me that they would write this grant, given how active of a research area it is. Based on my own experience as a faculty member this made sense. But at some point, I realized how ridiculous it is: if a researcher really thinks that X is problematic, shouldn't they be writing that?

I am skeptical the project in the linked site will take off but hope it will anyway. So much is completely broken in contemporary academics, and it seems it gets little attention out of certain circles. When it does get attention, it's handwaved away or becomes a political device.
There's a lot of truth to this. I feel like I'm willing to really dig in and learn a tool if I can sense that the power of wielding that tool will be commensurate with the difficulty learning it.
There is a problem with programmers thinking/acting/talking like they know quite a lot more than they do. Any thread on HN not about programming is sure to be full of confident ignorance (and honestly the programming threads too).

People don’t have very broad knowledge or education, a few do, but it can be hard to pick out.
Native desktop apps running on personal PCs.

No, really. It's a cycle.
Checked this - the yellow fever IFR only appears to be about 10× that of covid-19 overall.
“Piracy” (copyright infringement) is a legal construct. It has very little to do with either morals or metaphysics.

Yes, legally, it is copyright infringement to make copies not authorized by the copyright holder.

Morally I would claim the entire concept of copyright is wrong and the cause of far more evil than any extra copy could ever match.

Metaphysically I would say the law is just silly since the legal definition of what constitutes a copy has so very little to do with physics.

Edit: This comment was also silly. Let’s not start a debate on copyright. Keep the discussion focused on quake.
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There is actually a counterexample to this that is happening right now. The Scripps hospital system in San Diego was hit with ransomware about two weeks ago and has been more or less down since then. Patients are not able to make new appointments, medical records are unavailable. My understanding is that doctors are still seeing patients if they have existing appointments, but surgeries are getting performed at other hospitals in other health systems.
I agree. But would note that scala 3 is compatible with 2.13 libraries, so long as they don't use scala 2 macros.

I think scala 3 is ready to go for production use, but it did come out yesterday. So waiting a tick would be prudent.
Seems the guy isn't really a misogynist and his account of a romance was taken out of context though. Not that I agree with what he says, but there seems to be malice in his portrayal by some journalists (https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...)

Everyone has a right to work (irrespective of position), to live freely, own property, etc..

Justifying the opposite because of someone's ideas is a very slippery slope. And the fact that politics is a game of perception makes it all the more dangerous. If the mob rules, the true rulers are the people who control the mob (an even smaller amount of people)
It would probably pass muster if framed in terms of defamation. Making it statutorily defamation (i.e. you automatically lose civil suits, regardless of your intent to defame) to distribute someone’s arrest record without also distributing their conviction record with equal prominence would probably strike the right balance.
You could check out Scala for

JavaScript Developers https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/scala-for-javascript...

Python Developers https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/scala-for-python-dev...

Java Developers https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/scala-for-java-devs....

for a quick introduction
Caps being allowed in HN handles (if mildly deprecated for cultural reasons) we must presume this to be intentional.
Zotero is exactly what you’re looking for.
> But where are you going to find a 500kW charger?

350 kW CCS chargers are deployed all over the world. A few are 400 kW:

https://insideevs.com/news/375020/repsol-most-powerful-charg...

500 kW chargers are within the CCS specification (1,000 volts, 500 amps). Longer term I imagine companies will start deploying 500 kW CCS chargers.
Noted :) I have strong monetization plans for the future, and plan to expand!
And, by extension, I'd suggest not fueling the legal drama by funding the lawyers through buying Hyperion's 3.2 or Cloanto's products.
Not related to cancer, but the general consensus in the medical community seems to be that keto is NOT a healthy diet. Though it can help with weight loss it contributes to poor heart health and just generally mucks up your cardiovascular system (that’s my medical term, not a doctor’s). I gained a few pounds during Covid and my GPs first, unprompted, advice was to avoid keto at all costs. Additional anecdote: my uncle recently lost a good amount of weight on a keto diet (5’8”, was 220 now about 168) and he promptly had a heart-attack. Doctors said he had “diabetic arteries” and that the keto diet was at least a contributing factor.
This is not someone I would hire for a leadership position. Chaos Monkeys, autobiographical in nature, is by his own admission enough insight into his character and integrity to show he is unfit to lead a diverse group of employees.

If the position he was hired for was in fact that of a low level engineer conceivably who ever hired him did not think it would present too much of an issue? Just doesn't sound like a good cultural fit and I can understand the pushback from folks who would have to work with him as part of a team.

I have always considered my professional reputation to be something that took my entire career to cultivate, but can be tarnished inadvertently with one misstep. Probably why I haven't published a book of my personal escapades, and definitely why I don't tweet every thought that pops into my mind.
There were no charges related to information, sharing, or Russians.

Sharing non-classified information is completely legal. Working for a foreign business is legal. Getting paid is legal. Almost everything is legal.

Acting as an foreign agent without disclosure is illegal, in limited scope. The FARA violation related to Ukraine.
what planet are you on? there have already been multiple studies that show the efficiacy of existing vaccines are not as effective against some of the variants. don't doubt that there will be bootsters for this
> another favourite talking point of the crypto people that it secures your money from government access

Credibly threatening repeated 51% attacks against Bitcoin is well within any G7 member’s budget.
I think Evil Corp falls under the definition of privateer:

>As noted in previous stories here, during times of conflict with Russia’s neighbors, Slavik was known to retool his crime machines to search for classified information on victim systems in regions of the world that were of strategic interest to the Russian government – particularly in Turkey and Ukraine.

>“Cybercriminals are recruited to Russia’s national cause through a mix of coercion, payments and appeals to patriotic sentiment,” reads a 2017 story from The Register on security firm Cybereason’s analysis of the Russian cybercrime scene. “Russia’s use of private contractors also has other benefits in helping to decrease overall operational costs, mitigating the risk of detection and gaining technical expertise that they cannot recruit directly into the government.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-...
I've had a similar experience. Many more meetings now than when I was in the office. Middle managers not knowing what to do with themselves, so calling useless Zoom meetings.

However, I've been super productive when I've been able to get some quiet time outside of meetings.
Corelan Cybersecurity Research[1] is a good starting point. There haven't been any new articles in ~5 years, but some of the techniques in the linked article are covered. The /r/netsec subreddit is also a suprisingly good source of security info. A big part as well is just experimenting on your own. Vulnerability research is a very "creative" field, so being able to think outside the box is just as important as having technical knowledge.

[1] https://www.corelan.be/
Let me attempt to give a defense of "first shots first" as someone who initially wrote it off as foolish, and later came round to it.

In an ideal world, you'd do a few clinical trials and figure out the optimal dose regime and timing. (I'm not really sure why they didn't run 5 parallel trials with different timings to begin with).

In the world we inhabit, alas we didn't have those studies. But that doesn't mean we have no reason to believe that the first shot is protective! You can still look at how vaccines in general work, and our basic understanding of immunology. In general, for vaccines with multiple shots, the model seems to be that the first shot gets you >50% of the protection, and the second shot mainly extends the protection over time. This might not be how the COVID vaccines work, but your priors should be fairly strong that this is what the clinical trials will ultimately show, because that's what they have shown for a bunch of different vaccines with different mechanisms.

If you're in an ideal world where inaction doesn't cost you anything, sure, do the studies.

In the world we inhabit, thousands were dying every day, and so inaction is morally horrifying. Giving a pair of doses as first shots to two >65yo results in far fewer people dead than giving that pair of doses as a full course to one 65yo. The expected value is pretty clear on this one, even though the clinical trials were not.

You should probably have started to feel tentatively confident that the first-dose-first strategy was sound circa mid-Feb, when it the UK's death rate had been falling rapidly for about two weeks: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/GGlgMxEKIoaxyuZbuHjjEBH2er... -- while it's hard to disentangle lockdown effects, EU vs. UK was mainly a difference between "locked down with vaccines" and "locked down without vaccines", at risk of oversimplifying.

If I had to summarize in a sentence: use Bayesian reasoning rather than applying unjustifiably strict error bars on your decision process.
So I actually took this class in 2018. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s good enough just yet.

CS 193 was a very low effort class (1cr), where you could follow the command by command instructions and perform all the tasks necessary to pass.

Unfortunately tools like git, vim, and shells all possess philosophies and concepts that are very hard to grasp without context, and constant use.

We were on multiple occasions told the mantra, add-commit-push, which I will say is enough for basic git usage, but since pretty much none of the subsequent classes used git to any capacity, I would assume many students lost all familiarity within the next semester (Makefiles that automatically git added and pushed code were used for submitting code).

I also think most people were hindered by vim, lacking sufficient instruction but still being presented it as the primary option.

I think if you’re going to implement a similar class / program, the tools really have to have uptake beyond a single course.

Sidenote, the different shell types weren’t covered in my semester, we just used bash / dash.
PipeWire: The new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34
> I guess sometimes you get lucky.

I'll assume in good faith that you didn't mean it this way, but this comes across as incredibly insulting to OP. OP didn't get lucky at all. He created something that would appeal to a large audience, he found that audience and he told them about it. End of story.

Frankly, it's about the idea, the size of the audience, and the sales pitch. "Tinder for movies" is a way easier sell for most people than "iPad calculator." I'm not even sure who the audience is for the latter. The subset of people who need to do calculations on their casual web-browsing device but can't use the calculator on their phone or one of the many calculators online? That has to be a very small group.

The craftsmanship and the experimentation are great, but it's easy for us devs to stay inside our heads. "This operating system doesn't have a calculator" by itself just isn't a compelling reason for most end users to want one. My washing machine doesn't have a calculator, but that doesn't bother me because the kind of work I do with it doesn't call for a calculator. If it does, I reach into my pocket for my phone. So I think we're doing a disservice to our own understanding of how marketing works if we attribute this to luck.
That totally reminds me of this story:

http://www.5z8.info/awesome-real-life-headshots_q2h6fv_linke...
Most that exist are still working.

They were well-built, and the most sold models (A500, A600, A1200) do not have the barrel batteries that leak and destroy PCBs.

A500+, A2000/3000/4000 have these batteries, but they weren't anywhere as popular as the other models.

If you own any of these, ensure you've removed the barrel battery (cutting it out with pliers is good enough, and the Amiga will still work).

I personally have 2xA500, 1xA500+, 1xA600, 1xA1200, all working.

I tend to have one running at all times. It's the A1200 right now.
In what sense are you using "Bikeshedding?" If you mean that this redesign is a prime example of a company obsessing over things that don't matter, very true. But your comment seems to suggest you mean that people taking issue with the redesign are complaining for no good reason, which is silly. Any effort like this takes time and money, and has the potential to actually make the product WORSE if it fails. Thus, companies should have a good reason for making changes like this, rather than simply doing them on a whim.

An unhealthy obsession with graphic design, as evidenced in this article, seems to be a pretty reliable canary. As soon as a company starts preening its logos and fonts and UI, not for any tangible benefit but just so their graphics people have something to do, it's a solid bet they've gone from a place of innovation to a place of wasting time (and money). There are any number of actual problems with the software and platform that Discord could attempt to improve, but instead they're fixing something that in no way needed to be fixed.

This is even worse because it's software we're talking about: if "Discord" was a hip new soda there would be a valid argument for reworking the logo every few years to keep it fresh. Many people buy soda based just on what the can looks like. But literally no sane person cares what the logo or font of a piece of software looks like, as long as it's not so horribly bad as to be unprofessional or deeply unpleasant to look at.

Also, for what it's worth, the amount of corporate Memphis on that page is both horrifying and a little nauseating. Do companies not realize how utterly people have rejected that "style?"
> should be absolutely unacceptable... Billing system going down should not take down critical infra

It’s a privately financed, constructed and operated pipeline. I don’t see why they should be obligated to operate without getting paid.
I noted that it only detected Skype and nothing else and that app is installed on all Windows machines these days.

Tried again, same deal:

> That means it is 96.35% unique
Ginkgo Bioworks S-4
> A 500k isn't all that unusual in tech I feel like..

> Like a senior engineer at a FANG

Becoming a Senior Engineer at FAANG is very unusual, across all tech workers.

It's doable with the right amount of work, dedication, and willingness to relocate to the right locations, of course. But it's nowhere near guaranteed or common.
I will continue to trust the CDC, despite problems with its early test kits (reasons still unclear). Because of a gigantic shortage of masks in the national stockpile, unlimited panic mask buying/hoarding/profiteering would have deprived a lot of health-care workers from getting PPE.

IMO, it was a calculation to maximize lives saved (at an uncertain time) which trumped the total BS spewing out of Washington.