skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest driver, besides the whole "it's aliens!?" thing, is the fact that one of the most advanced - if not the most advanced - navy/military are completely clueless of some phenomena and can't come up with proper justifications for such events.

You have pilots reports, supposedly the best trained observers, that:

- saw some tech they've never seen before that impressed beyond belief;

- or after all the best squadrons can be easily fooled/deceived/ by something, or even on their own with optical illusions and group pressure.

- or that are willing to lie about some event to have some fame and spotlight.

Then you have the best radar systems, jets, and overall military tech that:

- are properly tracking unidentified tech;

- have flaws and glitches, way more then we would have expected - even arrays of systems are failing/glitching all together;

- are not properly tested and fail to filter stuff that shouldn't appear;

- can be manipulated by foreign entities;

- are operated by individuals who are not properly trained to operate and interpret the information output.

What ever the scenario is, it's not good.
Yup. I was moved professionally once and I was amazed at how fast and efficient they were. They damaged a lamp and about 100 lbs in free weights were misplaced for a few weeks (they compensated me then found them later), but that was the extent of any problems I had.
Andreas is the best part about this project. He's just _nice_. He's a good person. It makes me want to contribute and work with him because I feel like I'll learn from him.

Too many elite programmers are total jerks!
> This is ignoring that if you own 51% of the network, you are free to just rewind the chain back to whatever you think is suitable, and rebuild it from that point on.

Not exactly, for every block you rewind there is extra work you have to do, to the point where it may take you close to 2 years to rewind 1 year's worth of blocks (because while you're doing that the rest of the network is still creating new blocks).

It gets exponentially harder/more expensive the further back you want to go.
My shower pays for itself :)
Is Redact affiliated with the EFF? The prominent “Support the EFF” banner suggests so, but the FAQ makes no mention.
I recently started to use Facebook to stay/get in touch with friends and family from previous lives.

My rule when using it is that I only interract with personal photos/stories, or stuff posted publicly.

I completely ignore postings that are not personal and to friend only (not public). Facebook has (or had?) huge potential for people to keep in touch but its bigger issue are private gardens where people can spin up opinions into silliness with no opportunity for anybody from outside their echo chamber to criticize and debunk.
But what about just dialing down the personal attacks? I mean, it's hard to engage with twitter as part of general population when folks are immediately in destroyer mode.

Couldn't twitter just have a flag for personnel attacks. Or is it considered good that these attacks happen there - plenty I'm sure are potentially supported by a bit more than the one linked from HN. But either way hard to engage with from the outside.
I think the major ingredient for HN is focus on topics that are interesting to "techinical" people. When you focus on particular set of activities it becomes easier to just say no to a lot of other contents.

I don't have twitter but i check some users(like the pico8 dev) once a week for interesting content. I don't see anything offtopic there and it's very nice and sometimes i learn something even in the replies. Same with certain subreddits. Just consuming in polling mode, helps a lot.
Serenity now!

(Sorry, had to)
It seems to only target very commonly ported and generally understood hardware, and not many things. 32bit Intel, no arm. Bochs VBE and Intel graphics, e1000 and rtl8192 nics. They're very sensible targets as they'll let you run with event performance on most virtual machine platforms as they're commonly emulated and mature.
Yep. We have a complex tax situation this year (a first for us), and our accountant has saved us an amount equal to 10x what we're paying him.
I've always had serious trouble understanding why FTL travel will break causality.

Do you know of any good layman-level explanations?

Like, if I FTL from point a to point b, 10 light years apart, in my super duper warp vessel. It takes me, for the sake of argument, 10 minutes to make that journey. Now say I set off a big comms laser at point a, sending a message to point b, before I left. I don't see that laser until 10 years later.

What am I missing? I know I'm missing something, but that seems straightforward to me. It's weird to butt up against that seemingly incomprehensible.
What I really dislike about Twitter it’s how different users play by different rules.

Take the name for example. Any other platform has a clear written or unwritten rule.

- HN: usernames

- LinkedIn: real names

- Twitter: a mix

On Twitter, you clearly lose out if you put your real name out there. You suddenly get trolled by strange avatars hiding their identity and very little community control.
I didn't read the article because if I ever have to read another article about "digital nomads" I'll kill myself. But I saw your comment and just wanted to note I've used Greenback for years and they're pretty fantastic. YMMV as it surely depends which accountant you get. Jeremiah is mine.
You're missing tags for science and space, among others.
Yup. God help us all if they prove to be real. We aren’t ready as a species to comprehend it.
My hope was that it would cause self reflection on what types of interruptions are causing us the most grief. For example, in tip 3, I realized I obsessively check my business metrics to the point where I could never lay the foundation of a focus tower. So I decided to put it in a red tab group in chrome to remind myself not to go there.
The overall point I took was the expanding space and thus transmission infrastructure which is therefor required is a huge expense and hidden overhead.

>And in some cases it means there is now shaded area in which plants can thrive,

This would be fantastic if it were the case but I don't believe I have ever seen a single plant at a solar farm. They are typically extremely sterile environments. I live in the desert and thus near many extremely large solar farms.

Nuclear will be the answer in the long run. I am pretty certain of this. It is generally reliable, not effected by the weather, can be placed nearly anywhere it is needed reducing infrastructure requirements. Obviously, there is a containment problem that needs to be solved which seems to be helped by smaller plants. ( not to mention Bill Gates made a huge investment in nuclear[0]. This should provide some indicator where wealth thinks the future is leading.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/bill-gates-terrapower-is-bui...
Just like yhe midwit meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2054904-iq-bell-curve-midwit
I feel more and more that it is necessary to add [In the US] for many of my internet readings.
> this is a textbook real-time scheduling problem

Drive by question: do you have recommendations on good literature for real time systems?
Careful with that! I once called up to do that retention routine and got a surprise. “Hi, I want to cancel because the regular rate is too expensive.” “Ok, sir hang on, I will put you in touch with someone.” So then I’m thinking yesss, retention team is going to get me the discount... Then I hear: “Ok, sir, we have canceled your service as of today, your final bill will come in a few days.” Me: “uhhhh wait...”
I think that's the part most people overlook.

I have many wordpress sites, some large, some small, and only 1 was ever hacked and it was on a shared host 10+ years ago. Today I have sites that I haven't updated in 5+ years, no hacks no problems. Good wp depends on good server config and good wp setup.
Covid rates soar in Scotland as Indian variant surges
Glad you brought this up, it really shows that working/visas need to be rethought. Most countries should have no problem if I show up on a tourist visa to stay for a few months but continue to work for a foreign company remotely - and defacto, they don't, as your experience demonstrates - but it's technically not allowed (or even legal?).

I'm not entirely sure what kind of loopholes allowing remote work on what would normally be a tourist visa/stay open up, but surely it's preferable for all parties in the "average" case for it to be allowed.
It's because of app notarisation. Here's one of the writeups on it: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...
What is the first trigger, the first "friend" who change his mind, triggering the chain ?

Someone must have dug and learned something, for everyone else to blindly follow.
When you see a magician do a card trick, and a professional poker player says ‘I’ve never seen a deck of cards do that before’, does her thousands of hours of poker playing bear on whether or not the magician is actually a wizard?
It didn't die, it changed name.
I think the implicit difference between you and the other guy there is:

He is implicitly trying to say (just my hunch) that a lot of those leetcode interviews don't land jobs that actually need a lot of algos and data sturcutres but are just glorified CRUD boys.

What you are saying is that some jobs are indeed very hard and need some screening during interview to weed out inadequately educated candidates.

I, as a hobbyist, actually agree with you. Hobbyists like us can learn whatever we want to learn, and usually we pick tough topics (for God's sake why would I learn to make a button?) such as compilers, algorithms, operating systems, database systems and such over web development and CRUD, because the formal topics have more FUN, and we don't care about real usage (this is different from you guys -- we don't care if our toy OS get used by anyone else :D).

Damn I'd die for such jobs if they can withstand my stupidity and teach me :D
I keep using the word "right", because you said:

Why would you want to deny those individuals their right to wealth and a more comfortable life?

So now, it is not a right, but merely a beneficial arrangement so obvious as to be axiomatic?

Yes, institutions and environments matter...so much so, that one should be very, very careful about how they might be changed or altered, and how the benefits are calculated, and by whom...
In the US legal system, that refers to whether you can be punished for a crime, not investigated for one.
How to make GPT-3 reason better: ask it to show its work
But if you enable bitcode, that does involve the server recompiling your code for you.
Usually hobby OS developers only write drivers for well documented hardware like the e2k
checks out. I am a digital nomad. I pay about $300/month to bench to take care of it all for me. They handle day by day accounting and file at the end of the year for me. 100% worth the money.
It’s disturbing how fast they went for the “sacrifice a few for the many” option even when it made little sense.
Yes, because if an article is particularly good, it's not fair for disgruntled users to be able to sink it by posting shitty comments. That would be a big loophole.

If the article were garden-variety flamebait then it would be a different story (no pun intended) – but this was such a clear case of the opposite.

The best thing is to give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. That could be either "hey, there's a really good article getting unfairly flagged" (a user did that last night and it was extremely helpful) or it could be "hey, there's a really good article getting a lot of flamewar comments". Actually it could also simply be "hey, there's a really good article that hasn't gotten any attention yet". (People often send those for their own articles, but that's a little less noble and not what I'm talking about here.)

You can see the common denominator there: "a really good article". There aren't very many of those. Just as the most important thing for startup investors is not to miss the best startups, the most important thing for HN is not to miss the best articles.
> Also I don't think most developing countries would support this.

Honduras is betting big on it. Called a ZEDE ('Zona de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico'). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_for_Employment_and_Econom...
Turning User Stories into Enabling Specifications
I have personally dealt with GDPR compliance.
Brilliant, hopefully Rust can come to SerenityOS quicker than we thought.

Huzzah!
Use debate to learn, not to change somebody's mind. Then it's not fruitless, even if it's endless or with a bot. If you're using it to change somebody's mind, you'll be incapable of allowing yourself to think critically since that can only cause you to fail at your purpose.
Grass is always greener... Beside they can easily walk on a beach with the Valve Index 3000.
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If were talking about libs and APIs then game on, but otherwise, I actually don't care what language a tool is written in. I care how good the tool is.

No, I don't think you will find a high correlation between language and tool quality.
Yeah, I actually took part in setting it up with them. It was CloudStack. API layer in front of hypervisors.

Such is the cloud software... :)
Cloud, besides APIs, i.e managing hardware at scale was not really what they did.

They did roll 1000s of vms per week through it in ci/cd flows though.

As such it did what it was supposed to do - docker/containers was not a thing at that point in time, and I remember thinking it was pretty awesome.

To many nifty engineers, with long fingers, for their own good though. You need to be strict with automations if you want to keep something like that running reliably over time.
Perhaps a HN comment circa year 04000 CE will read: “Circumnavigating the moon is actually quite easy to do. If you’re a qualified astronaut and have enough supplies, you can even do it solo in a simple 20 ft spacecraft — no navigation equipment needed.”
counterpoint:
1) the difference is on hn, shitposting, trolling and straight up being offensive is strongly discouraged.
2) I have experienced joy, whimsicality and humor in here. We are people not machines.
3) i have learned about more new things than in any other place. I have frequently changed my mind because of the quality of the arguments
4) no matter what the subject is people with deep expertise seem to show up and it’s a joy to actually hear from them
Can you cite a source here?
It would be cool to have something similar but specifically targeting Raspberry Pi these days. There you don't have a lot of variability either, and it might even turn out useful relative to its "bigger" (or "bloated"?) competitors.
Google Photos’ unlimited uploads end next week
Yes, that's absolutely right.

Also, I noticed how most underdog / less socially-acceptable lifestyle/interest forums tend to be pleasant, humorous, and reasonable. The other aspect maybe that marginalized people (without chips on their shoulders resentment) know what it feels like to be othered / not treated well and go out-of-their-way to be friendlier. For example, I can't remember any LGBT+ people who aren't cool, decent, and sociable... and I'm the goofy, straight, ally interloper stealing all the pretty cis girls (or they're stealing me, IDK).

On niche interests-side where it's a small world, I think the cosiness reduced sized and inherent common interests also reinforce, promote better behavior, and friendliness.

Twitter and such definitely throw unbounded numbers of random people at each other, and so the odds of clashing are astronomically-higher. In this alternate (mainstream) universe, the sad part is that social and online ideological Balkanization has cemented echo chambers of memetic civil war; a people divided-and-conquered.
Not every user has a password manager, and if they do, it makes the second typing trivial.

The recovery screen is a hassle, and not something you want to subject users to when they're just starting to use your site.

Users who copypaste passwords like that deserve what they get. It's a bad practice. Use a password manager, or learn to type.

Show Passwords is good, but they're hidden for a reason. Maybe not a good reason in these days of private devices, but as long as you're not showing passwords by default, confirmation is a good idea.

I'm all for social sign-on, but some users don't/can't use it. (I just lost a Facebook account for utterly idiotic reasons. I was glad nothing important was tied to it.)
IIRC the US Supreme Court declared the Civil War era income tax unconstitutional, which is why it required a constitutional amendment.
Oh for sure. I'm happy to keep it as a daydream. Cloud providers are better at high-availability than I am.
> How are you going to compete with people who are more driven than you

Stop looking at it as competing with others and compete with yourself instead?
Thank you for bringing up humility. Can't believe he got through this entire post without once mentioning it. Says as much about the author as it does about the world in which fierce nerds operate.
"Arguement is flawed" is still in the eyes of the poster. I certainly wouldn't just unthinkingly accept this sort of feedback, and the simple truth is that internet "sources" are rarely trustworthy beyond the writer opinion.

It is still a matter of trust. Approach me with respect and I'll consider your POF. Approach me with "Your reasoning process is flawed beyond your understanding" and really - who the heck are you? In the anonymity of the internet you could be anyone.
I came into software as a dropout. I'll spare you the back story, but it was for good reason. I dropped out junior year.

1. I think professionally testing algorithm knowledge is fine, but it needs to be one and done. I want a certification and I don't want to have to do it again.

2. This knowledge is largely useless in actual programming. It does teach me how to interrogate data structures and how algorithms work well with certain data structures. This kind of knowledge will only be relevant later in your career and at a certain type of company though.

So, am I better? Yes, I think I am, but I don't think I'd thank algorithms for that. I thank an innate desire to learn that happened to be briefly applied to algorithms and data structures. The hyperfocus on algorithms misses the forest for the trees.
The potential of a large gap between lunar expeditions is an interesting thought experiment. What course of future events could make it so we don’t return to the Moon for another 1,000+ years?
Spending money in a local economy is a "negative externality" now?
Most Europeans Would Prefer Government by AI
> but I suspect the real reason people built high quality software in Rust is because cargo is good

Do we actually have factual evidence that people do write high quality software in Rust.

Something showing the average rust program is "higher quality" than the average C++ program?
That was extremely fun -- Go Team Blue!
> You're also somewhat selecting for users who have disposable income, which can't be great for ad value.

Many years ago I worked for a company that had tens of millions of US subscribers, my job involved modeling their behavior in order to allocate resources at least a week in advance. The law of large numbers is pretty amazing to see play out in front of you like that, where you can clearly see the bright lines between your market segments - fundamentally different kinds of people. I have a feeling that there is only one kind of person who would pay for twitter, which will very likely end up as a flag in a marketing dataset that certain companies would find well worth whatever twitter charges them (or their data-broker). Not unlike Volkswagen, on the eve of a big sales push for beetles, wanting a list of everyone who regularly buys peanut butter and cat litter.
Like you said, "major publishers" will have those problems due to custom code. Not the sort of websites where Wix or Squarespace would have ever even entered the conversation. You need to keep context in mind.
Bosses are acting like the pandemic never happened
> Ideally there should be absolutely no way to detect which browser the user is running.

I agree with your ideal, but I'm also trying to acknowledge what I see as reality. I think this would be seen as an excuse to view Firefox as hostile, and sites would discriminate against it. And it's trivial to actually detect a browser with a different JS and DOM rendering engine.

> The fact they want to block it is evidence that it's working.

I think that's a naive sentiment at best, which people use as an excuse to pursue their own agendas and proclivities at the expense of the agenda they purport to support.

Who did more for civil rights and increasing the standing of black Americans, MLK Jr., the Black Panthers, or the Black Liberation Army?

Progress is often best achieved through measured steps, not extreme changes. You don't train for a marathon when not already a runner by just running the length of a marathon one day, as that would most likely cause damage to to yourself and be counter productive by setting you back. Instead, you make measured steps towards a goal and eventually you get there.
Wow, that must be a really big milestone for SerenityOS. Not many hobby OSs end up making enough money for the developer to sustain himself.
Not necessarily, with PAE you were limited to 4gb per application while having more systemwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
The majority of the human population is religious. Software is generally created by humans so it doesn’t seem unlikely that some of that influence would rub off on their work (same as any other work of art really).
Social media just needs the possibility to share media with other people to be called social media.
So HN is social media.
HN has an interesting business model relative to other social sites. Instead of serving targeted ads, the site itself is essentially one giant ad for Y Combinator. That creates better incentives to promote high quality discussion because low quality discussion more directly harms the YC brand. But it's still gotten a lot worse over the years.
Yeah but now StackOverflow we pay for it in my company. Their value is in the whole info sharing model of the tool, the public one becomes more useless as you grow and the private one is invaluable to ask crazy questions about ultra specific internal idiocy people lost the source code of.

I only go to the public one a few times a day now, compared to being wired to it as a beginner :D
I used this explanation back in the day when I had to explain it to moderately-technically proficient people:

Diffie-Hellman and a lot of the asymmetric crypto ecosystem can be done on /any/ multiplicative cyclic groups (special sets associated by an operation that have certain properties, namely commutativity)

obviously not all cyclic groups are equal, some happen to have one-way-ness backed by some fundamental cryptographic conjecture that it is hard to solve but easy to prove.

the OG diffie-hellman used prime number modulo cyclic groups, but you can do that in any other cyclic group provided that it is secure.

turns out when you make a cyclic group using ECC very carefully and using a crazy roundabout procedure (shown in the article), it has cryptographic security.
Thank you, this saved my day!!! I had very similar problems with MiniHack app on my older iPhone, that it stopped working after iOS 14.5 upgrade, but which still worked on a newer iPhone.

Offloading and reinstalling the app fixed the problem!
Half of them believe he's actually still President and he'll be using a secret army to re-install himself when the time is right.
Only a factor of 2.3 lower. Sunlight is extremely bright. Full sunlight on Mars is much brighter than a cloudy day on Earth and an order of magnitude brighter than, say, an office or bedroom on Earth