skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this will remove the need for adjudicating between the companies currently involved - from the White Paper:

"Previous adjudications include, among other things, who was responsible for a train being so crowded that a passenger fainted, causing delays while they were taken off; and whether a pheasant is a small bird (in which case, according to the principles at the time, the train operator was to blame for a delay caused by hitting one) or a large bird (Network Rail's problem)."
The oil and gas sector are not going to be using 2-year old software to develop safety critical systems. Can you honestly imagine using Ruby on Rails for monitoring an oil rig?

The timescale for a supplier to be in-business in order to prove their safety-critical credentials, the time it takes experienced developers to learn a language or framework and prove that it works, the time it takes to find, specify, build and deliver a project in these circles means you would be hard pushed to find anything that is less than 10 years old being used outside of startups.
They all offer a Salary, so what makes me stick around (and want _this_ company to do better)?
I've contacted Google's customer support for Stadia recently (by chat) and they were good and reactive.
"we have taken action with that particular employee". Well and truly thrown under the bus then?
Haha, yeah, don't really get any support anyway except those forums where they tell you to reinstall Windows if it is still not working :-)
I could never get why Ansible was popular - to me it felt like a real step backwards from Puppet. Running a bunch of commands once is rarely what you want (except perhaps for deployments, but there are dedicated tools for that).
I live in a country with public and private healthcare. One thing that people don't realize is that the public healthcare system has better equipment because they have a much larger budget than private hospitals. So for MRI or PET scans, it's better to go through the public healthcare system.

Now you don't get 5 star service that the private healthcare has like luxury rooms and better food, but that's not the core focus when your life is on the line.
Yeah. There's an implicit assumption that some restrictions and capabilities do need to be inherited or passed. /bin/cat can't read /etc/shadow unless it inherits the root UID or is passed a descriptor to the opened file. While the traditional Unix programming environment falls short of an ideal object capabilities model, it doesn't fall that short--the Capsicum API extension is quite simple. Other programming environments, like Android as you point out, have their own intrinsic security model. Discussions about the efficacy of interfaces like pledge, landlock, seccomp, etc, are set against these background models and the existing software ecosystems they support.

The argument for pledge and unveil isn't that it's conceptually superior to, e.g., a pure object capabilities system; it's that in practice it's the interface most likely to be used effectively by software in the Unix programming environment to augment the existing model.
Yes, the world needs a system for microtransactions.

The thing is that your use case can be likened to you and your friends coming together to play poker, so we need a system for allowing anyone to create a casino of any size.

As for what I meant by "bootstrapping":

Why do we have money, society, or any other social construct? It's because we as humans believe in some form of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".

Different cultures have different tradeoffs between these. And they may not recognize these things in people who don't look like them, or don't have the same gender, but the point is that this is the foundation of why we build social constructs such as government, police, and money.

The issues are complex, and sometimes contradictory, but this is what we bootstrap on.

Math is not that.

> for example, ownership of things like money accounts or even shares in group projects both come from and exist within our imagination, and crypto allows us to create rules and boundaries for those things

It does allow us to create those rules. But they are useless rules. Unless you think you can math-codify not only morality itself, but also exceptions and overrides.

And we don't know the exceptions until we encounter them.

Before we had DNA evidence we did not need to know what is "right" thing to do is, for someone who's just been proven innocent after 40 years. Not that we know now, either, but we have the mechanisms for trying, at least.

Blockchain enthusiasts want to make this impossible.

And that's why nobody will accept it. You think people are upset about the 1% now, imagine if it were literally impossible to change rules (laws, taxes, or anything else) that are clearly being exploited through a loophole.

It's the difference between mass surveillance and a proper legal court-approved search warrant.

This should not surprise you: People actually want search warrants to be a thing.

> I can't trust myself to know of or approve or appreciate the value of all of them.

Similarly you can't know the existence or value of all the things that a blockchain-based economy would make impossible.

Whereas the alternative (fiat currency) makes nothing impossible, as long as we can want it.
taking his statements at face value, it looks like basecamp's business was completely unaffected and perhaps even positively affected by the changes made.

i'll be the first to say that they royally screwed up the way they rolled this out and they should suffer the consequences for that. but they now run a business that is exactly the way they want and is financially no worse off. the contract with the employees who stayed is clear. this is absolutely the lifestyle business ideal, despite a million and one strangers' opinions online about how they should run their business: as long as they do not break any laws, they do not have to give a crap.

(although yes, morality/business ethics transcends the merely legal, and i would not personally work for them)

if you do not fight for the freedom of people you disagree with, you do not stand for freedom.
Freenode staffers were lied to by the person who made the sale. Read their resignation letters, some are very detailed.
not to mention human exploitation and harsh working conditions, particularly on illegal gold mines
Matters how? If someone has the best of intentions but ends up creating a bad outcome, it’s still more important to fix that than to change the opinion of, say, a closeted bigot who has no effect on anyone else. (Yes, real life has more shades of gray than that, and both things are important in practice, because bad intentions don’t tend to lead to good outcomes while good intentions definitely can lead to bad outcomes.)

As an aside, “I think plenty of people would say X” is not a very good way to phrase an opinion. It’s ok to say you would say X and argue for it, rather than ascribe the opinion to some undefined group of other people.
The language model answers “what are the health risks of wine” with “it may stain your teeth”.

This paper suggests the ‘improvement’ “webmd [1] says it may stain your teeth”.

That’s not their buggy first implementation, that’s the goal.

I feel bad.
Bryan Cantrill on Illumos, Sun, and Oracle (2011) [video]
Seriously, youtube is absolutely unusable for me with ads, they completely destroy the experience and I'd just do something else if forced to see them.

In the UK, for TV we have limits on the number and total minutes of ads per hour, youtube needs to look at these.
> "I'm not a regular passenger but my understanding is that reliability of current service is generally poor with little to no recourse."

In my experience, the UK rail system has been running fantastically since Covid began! I don't think I can remember even a single delayed train since March 2020 and certainly no overcrowded ones. So it seems like the real problem with the trains was always the passengers ;)
I do think getting it in the hand of more people, more people will run it and say "yes, works" and then take it into consideration when making architecture/purchasing decisions.

I've been a CTO for a decade+ and did try to get one the last time they made a splash.
rasengan was very adamant that the conference takes place. It was a contractual obligation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207404#27218897
> No new code should be using select(). Using it assumes the execution environment keeps all file descriptor values within FD_SETSIZE.

That's what most of the article is about.
Apple announces a slew of accessibility updates
Crash a Ryzen system in single line of tweetable PowerShell
tomaw did no such thing, staffers tried to operate the network as normal. But after publishing a blog post about how freenode developers will start to collaborate with oftc developers, tomaw started receiving threats.
> modern attention spans and ability to focus

It's not a problem with attention spam of focus ability: internet gave us a HUGE choice of information, and we literally like the time to enjoy it all. Thus prioritising is fundamental.

Long read are perfectly fine and can be wonderful, provided I know fast enough whether it will be worth my time.
I can't participate in good faith in a discussion with someone who doesn't have the ability to be respectful to opinions different from his own. Have a good day.
U.S. has almost 500k job openings in cybersecurity
I too live in europe but I'm not so optimistic about it, given the societal trends it's likely my retirement age will be increased once or twice again before I reach it.
this combined with inflation and the raise in price of specific things will probably means that the received amount won't be enough to live with.
I already said the law isn't perfect. And to be explicit: It's not immoral to break bad law. But you should be honest about it. It's not "fixing the problem in a clever way", just like how if you think taxation is theft, to you it's moral to not pay taxes.

You seemed to have understood my "Bad law X" vs "No law X". No, I mean "Bad law X" vs "No laws what-so-ever", which is the actual tradeoff being done here.
The undiscussed upside of this "privatisation pantomime" is that government's are committed to making it work. That means it gets investments and bailouts. Compare that to publicly owned services who get nothing.

The real question here isn't who owns X, it's will the government invest in X...
Buy Genuine Driving Licence UK
They are high.

I had to get from the West, to London, and then to the north last week.

Wiltshire to London: ~100miles, £24
London to Derbyshire: ~120miles, £158

I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt about peak times, but I started my journey at 10:30am. The prices make no sense; unless viewed through the private entities ability to gouge.

Whenever I'm in Europe and buy a ticket I spend an extra 20secs at the ticket machine thinking I've made a currency conversion badly before realising, no, European trains are great value and UK trains are an exercise in exploiting a captive market.
Not the person you asked, but in my view:

1. There's a lot of products and teams out there, and your purchasing decisions help ensure some products and teams stick around and have more resources to keep doing what they're doing, and that other's don't. Imagine you want to buy a custom gizmo, and three vendors all seem equally good, but you notice one of them is also a contributor to an open source package you love. Why wouldn't you buy the gizmo from that guy? But the flip side of that is, if a vendor seems to be a jerk, and there's other equally good options...

2. Even beyond that, investing in a product, tool, platform, workflow, whatever has costs. If there's any signs that the people behind it are about to get acqui-hired and shut the product down, or are idiots who are running the product into the ground, or are terrible at security and are likely going to have a major breach...again, why wouldn't you jump ship? And here, we have a small company who just ran face first into a brick wall, picked themselves up, and then did it three more times, parleying a PR disaster into a bigger PR disaster, 1/3 of the company including tons of senior staff jumping ship, and then a another PR disaster as they got tarred in the court of public opinion as soft on white supremacists. They say that there's no such thing as bad PR, but I'd rather not watch a company who makes a tool I rely on test that theory. And certainly my estimate of Hey being around - or getting the resources it needs to keep improving - is a bit lower now than it was six months ago.

3. Also, the HR failures you are discussing in your linked comment are, I think, extremely clear. Is it actually wrong for the CEO to dig through archives to play gotcha games with staff members in order to publicly humiliate them in front of the whole company? ...yes. Yes it was. What was he supposed to do? ANYTHING BUT THAT. I don't think this is really a complicated question.
I'll take logical reasoning over "stories" any day.

And calling language model "parrots" is flouting. Many people worked for decades to reach that accomplishment, here come the critics to shit all over it.

> But how do you update a culture's shared set of beliefs?

It's not the place of AI models to do activism, and it's a slippery slope leading to AI based inquisition. Take a look at how China uses AI to oppress their own people.
I don't know if this is actually true or not but I suspect that a big part of their thinking is that "we are just presenting 'facts' and facts are not subject to copyright laws".
That £300 return subsidizes train services in rural parts of cornwall. That's a political decision. Other options are to have more taxpayer subsidy, higher prices in Cornwall, close services in cornwall, or reduce operating costs (which are heavily staff and rolling stock based -- something that HS2 will slash)

P.S. I just looked up an equivalent London-New York economy flight (flexible flight leaving this evening and returning tomorrow), and it's £2,481.02
Yeah. I am practicing old skool trend following, yet would be interested in the same topic.

Sadly, I believe there is no silver bullet for that, the blow-ups seem to be rather chaotic, at least on the short to midterm basis.

Whereas for mid- to longterm trends, this usually correlates somehow with the technical „backup“ or substance that is provided for a given project:
- does the project have a clear vision?
- does the project have its own technical platform (its own blockchain for instance)?
- how innovative is the project?

Projects like Ethereum, Cardano and Polkadot for instance do have a higher probability (!) to grow in my opinion, as they have significant technical knowledge and expertise under their belt.
Breaking a law is not by definition immoral.

That doesn't conflict with saying "A system that prevents laws is absolutely horrible and immoral".
Google/Zx vs. God
Bash Line Editor with syntax highlight and autocompletion
Ask HN: Looking for a Co-founder, to build something awesome in consumer social
Hey everyone this is Govind 26, I am a Designer, Electrical Engineering Grad, worked as a Researcher for a Couple of years. Over the past few weeks I have been networking aggressively to find the right Co-founder. I've met with few people, either by phone or in-person and despite some close calls that person never turned out to be the one. I'm well aware that the odds aren't good for single founders moreover I would rather work along with someone who likes to see people using something he/she built.
So what’s the idea?
A Social-First Messaging application that enables its users to share only once a day.
The app allows its users to share only once a day thus increasing significance of every post, creating an even playing field for all users and a unique content consumption pattern.
"This is the single thing I can share with you today" defines the relationship that exists between the creator and audience.
Why Now ?
1. Crazy consumer demand for a new medium
2. Many existing social apps are getting stale
Here is the link to the Mock-Up (Play Around, Click outside the device to highlight the tappable components,you may drag too to navigate between some screens) :
https://www.figma.com/proto/DffotzqKNcMiSeuQvvyBNv/Snapshots_0.1.0?node-id=384%3A1984&scaling=scale-down&page-id=0%3A1
Here are Some Screenshots :
https://imgur.com/a/TmCj6gv
Who do I want to meet?
You must be technical , have prior experience in building mobile apps, have a passion for this space, and have insane work ethic. This is going to be hard to pull off, but there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel.
If you are interested please send an email to govindnit94@gmail.com and include (1) something awesome you've built and (2) why you would be right for this. Let’s build something awesome.
Even if you aren't the right person, please upvote this or suggest someone who you think would be best suited. Thank You for your time. Stay Safe.
DARPA Hypersonics – X-51A and HTV-2 [pdf]
Without re-litigating the events at Basecamp, surely you're fully aware that other people have a different view to you (i.e. that in their opinion DHH did do something wrong), and surely from that starting point it's hardly mysterious why people would choose not to use the service.

I think the question becomes not 'is the conduct bad enough to stop using the service, despite how good it is?', but 'is the service so good that I should continue using it, despite the conduct?'
That could be remedied by giving affordable or even free evalution accesss in 'the cloud'.
https://www.seat61.com/uk-europe-train-fares-comparison.html

> the next time someone says (or you read) "Britain has the highest rail fares in Europe", you'll know this is only 15% of the story. The other 85% is that we have similar or even cheaper fares, too. The big picture is that Britain has the most commercially aggressive fares in Europe, with the highest fares designed to get maximum revenue from business travel, and some of the lowest fares designed to get more revenue by filling more seats.
Nice. What's your uplink speed?
I'm sure there are challenges in a wall of death / globe of death situation, but I'd think that negative-g would not be one of them? Quite the reverse, I'd have thought...
Maybe I've been watching too much scam fighting on YouTube ala coffeezilla and a few other people. But the term "masterclass" alone on a product is a huge red flag immediately to me.

Does anyone sell a product as a masterclass that is legitimate?
Some clever customers of my email productivity tool (mentioned above) had a similar sentiment. They figured out a way to forward their emails to my service thereby keeping both separate and still benefitting from my tool. It prompted me to write up a how-to for Gmail which could be tweaked for any provider in theory: https://www.paced.email/articles/how-to-auto-forward-specifi...
If X86 still competes I see no reason why RISC-V can't also
Necessity of thermal power plants in Kenya
There's also this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ergomechkeyboards/
But it does do something and network effects have a tremendous positive impact on that utility: cryptocurrencies provide us platforms for decentralized finance. Make of that what you will; payments, providing liquidity, lending, storing value, whatever ... These trustless systems are what give cryptocurrency some intrinsic value which increases logarithmically with the number of participants in the network. I don't think this will disappear any time soon, on the contrary. Usage will increase as the technology develops and the world becomes ever more interconnected.
I'm unsure of what you're trying to say here. Are you implying that you're not able to buy the same # of shares of an index fund as you were last year?

WRT the market doubling, there has been a lot of different reasons for it, QE increasing money supply that has been plowed into the stock market inflating values, top performers generally doing better relatively to society, and higher income individuals and families generally weathering the pandemic much better than low-income individuals and families.

This is all to say that market performance is not tied to the pandemic in any particular way (in this case). Back to your other statement of not being able to purchase the same # of shares (if that was your point), it doesn't matter the # of shares you can buy per year, only the value of shares purchasable. The thread above you isn't calculating the # of shares increasing by 5% year, just the value of total shares . I care that the total value of my investments increases because that's what eventually matters when I start withdrawing, the # of shares I have could increase, but that wouldn't matter if the total value stays the same or decreases.
>You can expect it to take 5-10 years to get as good or better than most of the kids who did something growing up.

But they didn't skip those 5-10 years, they just started 5-10 years earlier. I spent 30 min a day on learning a new language for the last 4 years and I feel like fluency is inevitable, before I started I thought it was impossible throughout my entire childhood.
Yes you can.

I don't think you can patent trivial details of "API" but you can absolutely patent a given function of an ISA.

You probably shouldn't be able to (Alpha vs. MIPS, x86 etc.) but currently you can.
Actually the Oxford to London bus services have been shutting down because of falling passenger numbers and traffic congestion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-50992888
It's even worse in the other direction; I used to go from Oxford to Aberystwyth quite often and Arriva Wales were truly appalling. They only ever ran two carriages for part of the route despite Aberystwyth being a university town so even when the Biblical unreliability of the trains wasn't a factor you were inevitably crammed in like cattle for the slaughterhouse. I've heard things are a bit better now Transport for Wales has taken over.

Beeching's axe really did a number on Wales, the country is effectively cut in half by rail and travel between North Wales and Cardiff takes a massive 3+ hour detour across the border to Shrewsbury. Reversing some of his cuts and reopening the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen line has been seriously talked about in recent years and I think it would be a very good idea. Beeching's cuts were extraordinarily myopic and allegedly the government of the day was in bed with road haulage companies who had an interest in hurting the railways. At any rate I hope his route to the afterlife involved a tediously indirect detour via limbo and purgatory!
The problem with Free Software is capitalism
They did privitise the risk too. After the failure of the east coast franchise recently, the government bailled out virgin, but that's not the fault of the system.

If I want to travel from Birmingham to London I have a choice of 3 different train companies, as well as a coach company and driving (either hiring a car with or without driver, or using my own car). That's tons of competition, and it shows given the choice.
Target no(technically yes depending on what features it implements etc.), set of tuning parameters yes.