skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you are rich enough to afford something

This is already a false assumption, you know nothing about me.

> you can freeload on the enhanced security

Great thanks I'm glad I got cancer, had to declare medical bankruptcy, and can now "freeload" off the rest of you hard workers who are doing the exact same thing I did for decades.

Please.
> There are around 700,000 police officers in the US. If one of them is caught doing something bad every day, that's 0.00014%.

I take your point, but not exactly. First, an officer that's planting evidence or attacking unarmed handcuffed civilians has been known to be a bad officer by say the other 50 officers in their department. Second, they're not caught on their first day. Third, the high profile ones are high profile because they're left on the force and continue being bad even after being caught.

So the 0.00014% of people being caught every day is _additive_ over time, this isn't a random sampling. It doesn't mean that 0.00014% of officers are bad, it means that we increase the pool of bad officers by that much every day.
I wonder why companies don't take advantage of such rivalries. Separate the wokes from the unwokes and make them compete who will deliver first
I always massively overspec flash. With wear leveling writes cycles are measured in bytes divided by the size of the drive (roughly) so if you typically have about 900gb of data and a 2-4tb drive you will have an extremely long flash life span.

You generally don’t want to run flash near full. That shortens it’s life.
I mean, the exact same things work now, a beginner don’t have to use docker, don’t have to care about responsive layouts, etc.

Similarly to how one can start writing python scripts without having to know OOP, maintainability, or even functions. It will suck, but it is a valuable learning step.
This is what industry does though. That is in the less theoretical fields. If you actually want to make something that works, then you need to base your science on provable fact. Produce oil, build a cool structure, generate electricity. Based on amazing and complex science, but it has to work.
Conclusion is that the science that is done needs to be provable, but that means practical. Which is unfortunate. Because what about all that science that may be, or one day may be, practical?
My prediction is they will soon be corrupted and sell drugs. Happens in Mexico.
I guess we're going to pretend that all those Humble Bundle users don't exist at all.
Want me to get you a job application? The stooge life is pretty sweet.
On Turning 40 Today
They generally are.
Water usage may be a larger concern than shipping. From Wikipedia:

> Coffee production use a large volume of water. On average it takes about 140 liters (37 U.S. gal) of water to grow the coffee beans needed to produce one cup of coffee, producing 1 kg (2.2 lb) of roasted coffee in Africa, South America or Asia requires 26,400 liters (7,000 U.S. gal) of water. Coffee is often grown in countries where there is a water shortage, such as Ethiopia.

So, assuming those numbers are accurate, your 10kg year of coffee required 264,000 liters of water, or just over 10% the volume of an Olympic swimming pool (2,500,000 liters).

That’s a lot of water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Ecological_effects
World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Off of Antarctica
Nah it's buzz generated out of some research from some botanists. The species itself was mostly lost in the wild and no longer cultivated as a crop because it wasn't economical at the time -- samples in labs is something else entirely.

The spin that the media is putting on it is a bit weird, but as a person who breeds grapes and is a botanical geek, I'm used to seeing strange press distortions of these kinds of things.

My understanding is that this species is not a cheaper producer at all. While it grows in hotter climates it producers lower volume and is harder to pick. Its value will be in breeding. Probably hybridizing with arabica.
By "current situation" I mean that with larger disks and the Internet in the mid 1990s it was possible to package a system like Logo with a whole book and a nice library of examples. In the case of Scratch there was a shared website where students could post their projects and look at projects from all over the world. As Alan Kay would put it, being literate is not only being able to read and write but having access to literature.

For some reason many people don't take Scratch seriously because of its visual nature. So they do a similar system where you can press a button and see your block as JavaScript text so you can know that you are doing "real programming". The real reason Scratch is limited is because it was created that way on purpose to make it easy to make simple games and animations. It could easily be expanded into a full programming language and the Snap! project at Berkeley did exactly that.

https://snap.berkeley.edu/

Logo was a full programming language from the start. Early versions didn't even have the famous turtle and focused on text applications. By the time of the 8 bit microcomputers it had become associated with the graphics (and so was used as the world's most awkward drawing program) and limited implementations. 64KB was a huge amount of memory for Basic or Forth, but only allowed the simplest Logo programs to fit and ran them very slowly. This made people think that Logo was just a toy (which was not true) like today they think Scratch is a toy (which is true, though not for the reasons they think).
"Gay people should have rights". What "rights" currently are being denied to gays? Honest question
have for the longest time, remember rock bands in the 70s, satan panic, gay panic, "gangster rap", dixie chicks after 9/11, trans bathroom thing

but they're also the best at gaslighting and projecting
I felt like I am the terrorist
Me neither, but to the extent that it is a valid poll I'll bet what it actually means is the opposite of what they claim here.
> Marxism would never ever put up with rampant delinquency

Once in control, yes, Marxists would not allow rampant delinquency. But until that day file this under "by any means necessary".
There's a constant shortage of the light roast I prefer. It's a national brand, not anything terribly fancy, and it could just be that a couple new people started buying it from my local store.
>Apple allows you to sideload those kinds of apps using the developer certificate.

A TEMPORARY developer certificate that expires and requires a MacOS system to install.

Meanwhile I can click to download an apk through the browser on my phone, click accept and install. No expiration, no self signed certificates, no other system needed.
> Anything I’m missing?

Yeah - why would the government reduce spending on anything? What's their incentive top do that?

And separately, why should the government be at all involved in science?
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> He left the firm and learned to code. He works at a big tech company now.

What kind of development does he do?
Religion is a protected class. Why not politics?

We either need to add more protected classes or do away with the whole concept and return to free association.
The same thing is happening in Seattle. For example an Asian grocery store here filed nearly 600 police reports in a 1.5 year period, in addition to all the incidents they never reported (https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/repeat-shoplifters-continue...). As the article notes, drugstores have also begun closing locations. The only grocery store in the downtown core also closed (https://thepostmillennial.com/downtown-seattle-loses-its-onl...) - the shoplifting was bad enough but that compounded with rioting and COVID was too much for them to stay in business.
Of course I can, I don't find it newsworthy.
They don't. Their hand cuffed by Prop 47 and the apt but misdirected antics of defund the police.
Hmm, that's interesting. If manufacturers have been basically locked out of making small pickup trucks due to unattainable fuel efficiency requirements [1, 2], an implication of that is that as EVs become easier to make at reasonable cost, there's a potentially huge untapped market that could be filled by whoever is the first company to make a small, simple, and cheap electric pickup truck.

A modern version of, say, a Datsun 620 [3] or an 80's Ford Ranger [4] could be pretty popular. One might even be able to circumvent the chicken tax by importing the body/frame of a foreign-made truck and building an electric drive train in the U.S. or NAFTA country.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun_Truck#/media/File:Datsu...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger#/media/File:1st-Fo...
The argument is just an array of unsigned longs, each bit of which represents one file descriptor — there's no magic in there. The add/remove macros just do the typical shift-and-mask style bit twiddling. You can pass a bigger or smaller array than the one in fd_set if you want; TTBOMK the kernel doesn't care. It just looks at the numfds argument to know how large an array you passed in.
> I just don't understand why open source software can continue with the assumption that every single contributor is honest

It's not a bare assumption of honestly, it's an established relationship of trust. If you have zero trust then you cannot have any collaboration with other humans; it would be definition take as much or more effort than any creation to verify that the creation is fully safe in an current and future potential contexts.

That trust with the university was broken, and in doing so their work has been reviewed and oft rejected.
Your Tech Interview Sucks – part 1
So this is why my papers are cited so little!
A New Report from JPMorgan Shows Just How Big Tether Has Become
Yes you cite the paper that you disagree with and yes by typical bibliometric measures that is counted as a citation.
>As long as the content on Twitch isn't sexual,

It is though and that's why ads were banned and that's why Twitch wrote this blog post. There's no nudity, but the entire point of her stream is for her to show off her body in exchange for money.

>(See also: every YouTuber who provides some professional service for a living, and films themselves doing that service as a way to make people interested in employing them, such that their channel doubles as a professional portfolio of their work.)

This is valid thing for people in many professions, but Onlyfans and patreon are used as a kind of a loophole for Twitch's policy on pornography. There are also some former/current adult film actresses that did/do actual hardcore pornography for a living and they aren't allowed to shill pornhub on their channel page because it violates terms of service. Some of them keep their clothes on because they go to twitch to make non-sexual content and don't even want anyone hinting that they are aware of their background in adult film, but some of them are indeed on twitch because its just another outlet for them to sell sexualized content.

Also a reminder that I'm not judging people that want to sell sexualized content of themselves. There are communities for that. If show HN was 90% muscley dudes in g strings writing things about their latest tech project on their inner thighs it would diminish the quality of the community as a whole. There are lots of people that are OK with porn existing that don't want the primary places they hang out on the Internet to become known as places where people go primarily to masturbate.
Asthma in toddlers linked to in-utero exposure to air pollution, study finds
Medical devices differ more in the level of design review and testing than in the designs per se - many of them are fairly straightforward. As long as 3rd party repair a) doesn't cut corners and b) knows how to do full verification testing, it should be fine.

The latter part is interesting, as public side of FDA filings doesn't have all the V&V filings. I suspect that's why FDA is less sanguine about re-manufacturing.
>All of this is available if jailbroken.

should read:

All of this is available if you use the same exploits that malware often use to compromise systems.

"Jailbreaking" is not a feature inherent to iOS so stop trying to say it's an option. It really isn't.

An option is something that continues to be available to the user regardless of system updates and without restriction. As such, sideloading apps is an option on Android.

Jailbreak is not a feature. It is the result of the LACK of features.
Aren't vehicles and their safety capabilities regulated? Just because new cars are fly-by-wire shouldn't mean the control mechanisms are suddenly exempt.

Steering wheels made of cardboard would be easier to manufacture, yet they'd fail safety inspection.
>> Do you think credible witness testimony is admissible, or do you not? Millenia of justice systems are built on this concept. Even "hard evidence" all comes down to trusting the people in the chain of custody, since things can be doctored so easily nowadays.

Except that eyewitness testimony is never uncritically accepted in any justice system. Ask a group of people who observed an event and invariably there will be a substantial portion who remembered basic facts about the event wrong. This phenomenon is well understood. Furthermore, there is a difference in asking about the phenomena a person observed and a causal event a person was a part of. An eyewitness can be confused about any number of specific details but it is much harder to be confused about an event that had a direct impact on them. In the latter case, we are not blindly trusting their recollection but rejecting alternative explanations as lacking causal power.

Accepting hard evidence doesn't involve trust at all. You don't trust a medical lab not to fabricate evidence; you rationally judge the probability that they went to the effort for no gain whatsoever and risked their reputation and career on something that would be subjected to intense scrutiny in a courtroom on the hope no one would notice something was amiss. Of course, the defense has rights to directly question and propose an alternative explanation. A court doesn't accept evidence blindly.

>> Want to claim crazy or spontaneous mass hallucination? Prove it. Show the mechanism in the brain. Reproduce in a lab. Put a name to the disease. The burden of proof is on you to describe why our justice systems are built on a complete farce.

Nonsense. It is up to the person claiming a radically new phenomena to show evidence and proactively demonstrate that there is no possible alternative explanation. This isn't unfair, if you can't examine the explanatory power of other theories your own theory should probably not be accepted. Do you declare at the end of a magic show that you have just witnessed a supernatural event unless a person can explain to your satisfaction exactly how the tricks were done? Furthermore, you are going further and asking for counter evidence that does not rationally match the standard of evidence you have actually presented. As I just pointed out above, the justice system does not uncritically accept eyewitness testimony.
I find that caffeine reduces my working memory. So sure it helps me stay focused on small repetitive tasks, but if I' trying to do something creative or open-ended, I keep my intake down. It's not a huge swing either way though - I rarely have more than three espressos in a day.
I'm not suggesting some modest, >1KB spinners should be gated like this.

Rather that renderers / apps would put a pause on downloading and processing very large (say 1MB+) or very long animations (100+ frames).
This sounds like a problem found in fancy valley tier-1 unicorns then. I keep hearing stories of people bombarded with political discussions on a daily basis and can hardly believe them. I'm not doubting anyone's sincerity but jeez... I feel like this perhaps localized to certain segments of the industry.

I've worked in this industry for over a decade and really haven't had any major political discussions with coworkers outside of a few pertaining to extremely boring local politics. and I only engaged in them because I knew my colleague wasn't sensitive to the matter and it was out of earshot of any other coworkers (it was about zoning).

(Also, as an aside, I find it painfully hypocritical anyone at a gig company like Lyft struts around the office being "woke" after what the company did with Prop 22)
The difference is that hot tub twitch isn't an actual interaction between two people, its a dopamine feedback loop that warps an un-jaded mind into thinking it's reality.
Another fun piece of PHP history: The old leaked source code for Facebook's index.php and search.php circa 2007: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
and/or they learn what not to do from San Fransisco.
Did anyone archive Clive's UO-11 website? do you have any of the zip telm files?
And on marches the steps of technology backwards. I guess the next thing is we'll be using tin cans again and diecast metal for most components?
> I'm interested to see Steam on the iphone rather than anything Epic might do

Steam isn't even an app store on Android.
Most political discussions fall apart due to people's inability to tolerate dissenting views. The inability to tolerate disagreement in a civil manner is likely just one cause.

The amygdala hijack kicks in and suddenly people are frothing at the mouth shouting and are then soon reaching for their metaphorical pitchforks. Online its all about silencing that dissention. Shut up! You can't disagree! Steps are soon taken to make such disagreeing wrongthink disappear.

It suits a child-like yet patronising view of the world but really its anti-intellectual / anti-diversity / anti-tolerance.
When will we stop fetishizing and lionizing "job creation"? The ideal business would employ zero people, have zero expenses, and make a 100% profit margin.

From a purely business perspective, every job created is an inefficiency. No one sets out to create jobs when they start a business. They set out to make money and create products or services of value - in that order. Employing people is an unfortunate side-effect of that.
I suppose we can take this further and say prop 47 attempts to address symptoms because of a failure to agree on what the problems are (what problems should we be talking about).
Ha, I can relate to that. Met a potential in the mid-2000s who lived down the road running a travel agency which was falling over due to bugs in its web app. He knew nothing about technology other than that his app needed to parse "an XML" to work properly. "Can you get the XMLs working?". As soon as he showed me a couple of files I realised it was a Classic ASP site written in VBScript running on some overpriced Windows host so I offered to rewrite it in PHP. No chance - in his mind "the XMLs" were glued to the original code.
They have a monopoly on what? Apps in the Apple App Store? I agree they shouldn’t be able to use their market dominance in the app marketplace space to stop other app marketplaces from competing with their App Store, but within their own ecosystem that is way too specific of a thing to apply anti-trust rules to. The reason the App Store is popular is because of the iron grip they keep on their apps. Telling them they can’t control their apps the way they want is like telling a chip maker they can’t use a certain architecture because it is too fast and other companies won’t be able to compete with them.
A feature of US work culture is that you invest your “whole self” into work. As in work isn’t just a thing you do for money, but a calling... Additionally, there’s a lack of basic social services. Those that do well can carry guilt, this leads to USs tipping culture, among other things.. also in the US private companies wield a lot of political power and capital.

Companies work in this context to attract talent. And people look to large powerful employers to large, important projects for social good. This could mean working at SpaceX to colonize Mars or wanting AWS to have carbon neutral data centers. I want to at least hope my company isn’t a soulless behemoth, but actually lives up to the mission or advertising.

So it’s only natural any kind of social or political issue is going to fall into this category. Including issues of racial equity...

Of course the market can decide what things here they want in companies they work at. It’s not a black and white “politics or no politics” line. Everything and anything can be political.
This was never a problem pre-pandemic. People would discuss these issues at lunch or at the watercooler. If you were bothered by politics interrupting your little heads-down work bubble? Just take lunch at your desk or pack your own water bottle. But in the WFH age, there's no getting away from it. These discussions happen in company general chat, where often important business also happens.
$70/month is definitely too cheap if it delivers what it promises. Unity3D is similar in concept but for games and charges $0/yr/seat, $400/yr/seat or $1800/yr/seat depending on how much your company makes.
The features and specs feel mediocre compared to CyberTruck. The only thing that looked perhaps better was the frunk size and access but everything else CyberTruck is clearly better even price and most definitely on the most important spec of all, range.
You are right, we are selling our labour. But the idea that that means that we are selling our _time_ is a recent development in human history. Most societies in the past would have a hard time even understanding the idea that one's time could belong to your employer, es explained by David Graeber in "bullshit jobs"
I see a lot of anti-politics-at-work commentary here. This makes me wonder what the posters would do working for companies that have an explicit social agenda. If the politics are baked into the company, does that void the "politics and work should be separate" point?
Yes, citations aren't endorsements. Some citations (rarely) are negative/explicitly critical, but this kind of difference isn't tracked. A citation is a citation.
It's awesome. Nature is the original distributed system.
The only way that wokeness will go away is if there is a monetary incentive for it to go away. Once that happens, if it ever happens, it will likely take 20+ years for these cancerous wretches to be purged from their institutional power. Just like it took about 20 years for them to weasel in and destroy everything.
I'd be leery of messing with Perlis, but then again, most popular quotes are misquotes. Carry on ...
How Processed Food Changed Our Species
https://www.macrotrends.net/2535/coffee-prices-historical-ch...
24/7 available video streams available on any internet connected device is not comparable to real life authentic chance encounters.
In Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers there is a scene or two where the human forces randomly have psychics on their team and it's largely unexplored in the novel. I always thought of it as Heinlein projecting physics to say "In the future we'll have spaceships and robot suits" and projecting psychology out to "Psychics and remote sensors".

Maybe that was reasonable given how science was advancing at the time. If so, what powers and advances have poor research systems denied us?
Hmm. The verbalization of knowledge bases to create a text corpus ought to be useful for many languages that don't have existing large corpora handy.

In fact, the technique could probably be applied to language dialects as well (eg. Elizabethan, AAVE, etc.).
Perhaps hiring should measure people's ability to tolerate opposing views? It can't be good to work with people who can't stay civil in the face of disagreements. Surely that is a sign of a lack of emotional intelligence?
They quite literally are. I would encourage you to listen to the arguments put forth by the Israelis currently settling across the internationally recognized borders in the West Bank.
Yes, we plan on supporting desktop. Right now you can actually customize the canvas size. Just click on the canvas size to modify it: https://twitter.com/flutterflow/status/1389695362714071043