skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious answer: Come up with a concrete logical proposal and reach out to academics with expertise in the area you're trying to show results for. They'll either tear you to shreds or consider the experiment.
Trying to understand how something like this could happen. Is there an incentive for Airbnb hosts to flag people as property destroyers? Does Airbnb compensate for this in some way that could lead unscrupulous hosts to do this?
>Cryptocurrencies must be stopped, there is absolutely NO benefit to having them.

Do you truly believe this? Or is it tongue in cheek?

Crypto ain't going away. And nothing will stop it. It'll encroach on all industries long term. It's global open competitive darwinism playing out before our eyes.

No domain on earth is as open & competitive as crypto.
How long did it take you to go through the program? Any advice / regrets?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/MUD.html
Yeah, I tend to update regularly, usually within a few days unless i am super busy for some reason. But since these are meant to be held for a minimum of three years, so a few day difference doesn't matter much.

The last one is actually from June, not April.
How to create a game like Townscaper?
Really curious about how to create such a fabulous game, what techs I need to checkout. Especially about the procedural generative algorithm.
I've heard repeatedly this last year that mRNA vaccines can't interact with DNA. Does this new discovery have any implications for the current Covid19 vaccines?
The very temporary distinction of having the most active users connected to the network.
Agreed, dang. I'll abstain from doing that in the future.
> “missing guidance that could enhance our own civilization’s sustainability.”

I think its amazing how many highly-visible technology leaders look for solutions to the climate crisis outside of earth. Mars, benevolent aliens, only these extraterrestrial things can help us. Concrete climate policy - not so much.
Sure, quantum computing may break BTC encryption. Accepting that premise, it will also break every other secure form of encryption we currently have. In that scenario, there are much, much more important things to worry about than your little Bitcoin wallet.
That's awesome. That would have been the only thing stopping me from trying it out.
Over the last couple of years, I've seen you post these stickies far more often than you used to; either that or I'm just noticing them more than I did when I joined here.

Out of curiosity, is that accurate? Do you need to prewarn of flamewars and clickbait more often than previously?
WFH doesn't seem worth all this anger. It emphasizes to me that Internet rage/outrage is a social activity, to a degree, an exciting opportunity to join with others, share emotions with them, and have some power.
That was my first though on reading the headline as well. The article does not explore this possibility. It neither confirms nor denies.
Secret gag orders and secret courts shouldn't be a thing in countries that call themselves free. It's a violation of due process. For all I know, the worst conspiracy theories I can imagine could all be true just because secret gag orders exist. It's impossible to prove that they're not true when policy like that is acceptable.

It's an affront to democracy.
> It's not like a broken up Google or Facebook would cease showing ads or show fewer ads.

If there was a real competitor to Google, I would imagine they would try showing less ads.

If there was a real competitor to Facebook, who knows what changes they would make to the newsfeed.

I would hope we could get some competitors that make things better for the end user, worse for the ad buyer, but can still be profitable.
> then you should be able to choose a company that has an office for you to work in

This is the key part though, this isn't an individual choice, it's a company (or at least team) one.

If the rest of your team is in the office, and you aren't, then you aren't going to be "in the loop" and you aren't going to be an effective engineer.

If the rest of your team is not in the office, and you are, well, at that point it's not really different from a coworking space. The advantages of in person communication simply don't exist.

So... expect teams changing from/to in office to be painful, people who disagree are going to have to choose over leaving or sucking it up, and that's not a nice choice to be making. Unfortunately this is somewhat viral between teams too, because your manager is effectively on the "manager team" as well as the local team, and people do move around between team...

Moreover there will be plenty of times were you want to work for company X for reasons unrelated to whether or not they work from an office, you like the company mission, the technology, etc. As a result even once things settle down you can't expect everyone to be happy with the office/no-office/partial-office choice that is made...
If that's the case, why would he fear the Internet so much? Your argument doesn't really hold.
I attended a community college and learned Java, C#, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript... the classes were more or less an introduction to full stack web development. I remember when I transferred to a four-year school for my Bachelor's the other students in the CS program (we were all Juniors) struggled to put together a year-end project requiring a GUI- like a text input and some buttons, simple HTML/CSS, or Swing (popular at the time). They didn't even know where to start with GUI development. Is this kind of thing still not being taught?
> I actually kind of enjoy "going somewhere" for the day, seeing the sun rise, smelling the fresh bread and coffee as I pass the bakery, seeing restaurants setting up for the day, and the world waking up together with me as I step outside. Somehow that sensual experience gives me a sort of motivation to get stuff done.

This sounds rather idyllic and I'm sort of picturing you as Belle in Beauty in the Beast as she walks around her provincial town singing to the shopkeepers as she walks to the library.
> Maybe the auto industry at the turn of the 20th century also spent decades re-learning the same lessons over and over, as the novelty of mass-producing complex systems continued to elude us. Hell, the new auto companies still don't get it right.

I think you have a misconception about what manufacturing is like. Waterfall development is just as unrealistic in manufacturing as it is in software, the scales are just different. People create CAD models of the machines in a factory all the time but those are architectural diagrams - when it comes time to build, the people on the ground (the equivalent of the software engineers) have to figure out all of the details, often using no more than trial and error guided by a little intuition. Experienced individuals know more about the pitfalls and gotchas but they're still creating something new even if they're going off some grand design. Becoming a competitive manufacturer in something simple like ball point pen balls is a years long process of mastering the "craft," gathering real world data, and incrementally improving. Factors like a single critical employee's physical disability can decide the layouts of entire factories so there are no cookie cutter factories for them to build.

The real world is a lot messier than software. Just like we spend most of our time chasing bugs and implementing features, they spend most of their time building or troubleshooting interfaces between machines and processes, optimizing, and so on.
But this is a problem at large scale. Each language and stack carries a variety of overhead. The more of them you have, the higher the overhead is.

Say you run a factory, and everyone needs a hammer. When there's only two teams, two kinds of hammer is fine. But fast forward to 10 teams. Can you always get all of those hammers when you need them? What if team #3 needs extra support? You need to find a new engineer who knows hammer #3, or take an engineer off of team #6 and train them on how to use hammer #3. And if all the hammers need a slight modification specific to that company, you need to make 10 different modifications. And how will all the teams benefit from shared hammer tips-n-tricks if they all use different hammers? There's a lot more overhead than you think at first.
This was my first thought too -- they also lost lots of records of human languages, many now extinct.
Bitcoin is like gold, so in many ways I agree with you. I don’t think spending BTC is wise, for the exact reasons you’ve pointed out. I say this as someone who has been into crypto since 2013. I have Bitcoin, and I will likely never sell it.

This has nothing to do with Solana or other similar technologies like Ethereum though. It’s like comparing gold to the internet. It just doesn’t make sense. It’s not even apples and oranges, it’s like apples and farari’s.

Staking SOL or ETH can yield money because you’re validating transactions, similar to mining, but without the high energy costs. These technologies are platforms.

So why buy SOL? Well, so you can stake, but also because it’s volatile like many crypto assets. You can make money trading it.

However, this is a different side to the market than the tech. The people actually building software on top of Solana that ideally helps drive the price of the token in the market. It’s not intended to be money. Most crypto currency’s aren’t.
I don't know of an official source, but if you can just drive by a mill. I've been by two and witness first hand the pile up. I've driven by one mill two times a year for like 17 years and they have at least 10x the milled lumber stacked up. I've never seen it even remotely that full. I say 10x but it could be even much more. The other mill had probably 3-4x what they normally had.
Oh, I want to be first in line to become the first official General Grievous
To be fair to “Clean Code”, although it’s stance is clearly towards less (superfluous) comments, it recommends using doc strings to document intent.

What it recommends to just delete are comments like

var speed # the speed
You cannot setup DKIM on Microsoft 365 without PowerShell
In the age of ML era, we are going to see more and more cases like this. Few people will be able to successfully get the attention of our AI overlord. There needs a way for customers/users to have a voice.
I can't find what you're referring to in the source document.

I believe you it's there, but I'm not sure your accusation + lack of content were a net contribution to the discussion
During my B.CS, most power I needed was whilst doing Android and iOS development, and even then that's just for the VMs. Otherwise did it all on a beat-up 2014 MacBook Air. Specific programs we used like SPIM, the pan/spin verification thingo, gcc/g++/etc, you can run wherever you like.

EDIT: Uni provided computers with VM stuff installed, and let us remote into them during COVID.
Ask HN: How do neurons not end up in an infinite loop?
A neuron triggers other neurons, those in turn trigger more neurons, given each neuron connects to 1000s of other neurons then it's reasonable to think some of them connect to neurons that trigger the parent neurons. In programming this would be akin to cyclical dependency causing infinite loop.

So how come brain just doesn't completely lights up, with each neuron stuck infinite loop?
The sticky stuff on the bat shouldn't cover more than 16" from the handle. It may be 14", but I'm pretty sure it's 16".

So, while some could get on the ball, it's not very likely and it'd not be in very high quantity.

Wait, no... I decided to check before hitting the button and I'm too lazy to edit the above. I misremembered. It's 18". (Section 3.02)

https://content.mlb.com/documents/2/2/4/305750224/2019_Offic... (That's actually 2019, but I doubt it has changed. The rule has been there forever.)

The point remains the same. Ideally, you'd be contacting the ball much further up the bat. There still might be some transfer, but probably not a whole lot.
Its true, drive by a mill and compare with Google maps. I don't know what better source, you can see this first hand by going to a mill. I have.
Long dated lumber futures are cheaper than short dated lumber futures. This means the market is betting on lumber prices decreasing. The market is not always correct though.
An alternative of that is as Oppenheimer once said, sometimes things are secret because a man doesn't like to know what he's up to if he can avoid it
Files takes an extension (plugin) approach to files, and is decidedly non-Posix since it was focused on supporting remote/slow file sources first.

iCloud, WebDAV and CIFS (as well as On Your <device>) are examples of support that Apple ships first party, while third party extensions include Dropbox and OneDrive as well as more exotic things like emulator file systems (iSH) and SSHFS.

Before Files came out, every app that wanted to integrate with DropBox had to ship a dropbox SDK which included people logging into dropbox through each app, individual developer API tokens, etc.

Now the user just installs Dropbox and it works.

The challenge for Dropbox has and continues to be being a product and not a feature (with a nod to Steve jobs).
Since I haven't gotten any information on where that flag came from, one can only speculate. I certainly find it imaginable that malicious hosts could make up some fake damages to get compensation. But in that case, why wouldn't Airbnb have tried to recoup the cost from me whenever that happened? Instead, I got suddenly banned when making a new booking after not using the platform for a while. No questions asked or information given
This is something great about video conferencing. Forced to attend a meeting that has no bearing on your work. If you are there in person, banging away on your keyboard the whole time in the corner is considered rude. On video conferencing you can just mute yourself, turn down the volume and just keep your ears perked for your name and keep working.
> A Solana cluster is a set of independently owned computers working together (and sometimes against each other)

quite the assertion. how does the network guarantee its "cluster" nodes are "independently owned?"

the unsubstantiated assumption that the network will not centralize around one or two obfuscated influence cartels (assuming this isn't already the case from day 1) is _the_ fundamental genetic flaw in every blockchain premise.
Yes, quite possibly. As the article notes though, it's more of an engineering and social challenge than a fatal flaw. As soon as it is clear it will be actually practical in the near future to attack ECDSA, then the protocol will move to a quantum-resistant cryptosystem and you'll have to sign a transaction with your old ECDSA key to transfer it to the new one. Your paper wallet might become a rather thick paper listing, though.

As long as most of us do this before the attacks are practical and widespread, no problem. But when do we stop accepting transactions with ECDSA keys? I suppose at some point someone will try move 500,000 BTC from addresses that have been dead since 2010. Hopefully we'll have a consensus by then.

As to the surprise attack scenario, I find it uncompelling. The only ones who could fund that in the near future are nations, and one thinks they'd have better things to do with a top secret trump card like that, than to attempt to very publicly steal money with it.
any particular link you wanted to refer to?
> It feels like the industry mostly just re-learns the same mistakes over and over like we're in Groundhog's Day

This is true, but also in life. I'm so sad I can't just pass my knowledge to my daughter to give her a 30 year head start. I remember telling her 'dont touch that stove it's hot', she nods, and soon after is crying she burnt her hand. I wanted to be mad but it made me realize the one universal truth: advice and information is great, but humans just seem to learn most from mistakes. Made me realize how much time and energy and knowledge is lost, as every human learns a lot of the same things over and over. I'm sure there was a caveman telling his kid not to touch the fire thousands of years ago, too. And here we are. So don't be too cynical and depressed about this cycle, it's pretty natural.
Sometimes I think everyone has a set average level of happiness and as we get better at avoiding being unhappy we lose the highs as well. The only adults I know who scream in joy at Christmas presents also all have chronic depression.
Extremely impressive. I had a ZX81 when I was around his age, and was dimly aware of 'machine code', but couldn't quite get my head around doing anything substantial with it - BASIC was where I mostly stayed. Moved to a 128, then later the PC world (a Sanyo 550 - almost PC compatible!), and mostly stuck with BASIC in those in the 80s. I did get in to some assembly stuff on the C128 side of things, as it came with a built-in assembler.

I understood assembly basics, but didn't do much productive with it. I could move some boxes around the screen via keys, and I did do a bit with the '80 col' monochrome mode trying to do some custom sprite stuff (learned a lot about XOR) - but that's about as far as I got by my mid teens.

Reading stories like the OP make me feel inadequate...
QC would break secp256k1, but you don't get the public key to target on chain, you get the hash of it. QC doesn't help there. You could attack TX in the mempool as the spender reveals his public key(s), but you have very limited time to crack them.

If QC are ever built - and that is a big if, not a foregone conclusion - then these networks will react long before the quantum computers are powerful enough to attack.
My wife uses something like sendmestuff44@<major provider>.com for her junk mail which gets a lot of funny looks from cashiers but works great.
definitely, i always watch youtubers first video and last and it's like 10x difference.
Most are unaware that cancer treatments have a similar result to pesticide application on food crops - - - you select for the resistant cells or organisms which then survive and multiply to become the new threat.
I have not used Adobe’s offering.

Running on my local machine or being able to deploy tabula as a service behind a vpc was a very nice thing. The recognition has been good enough. Sometimes I’ve had to scan things multiple times to deal with weird formatting, but in general, tabula has saved me many hours of work.
> it felt a bit like servitude

A feudalistic remnant in the nature of corporate hierarchy is that people higher up in the hierarchy feel that this gives them inherent superiority over people lower in the hierarchy. In reality, there's no reason that someone in a corporate hierarchy needs to have their status (including compensation, etc.) determined by their place in the hierarchy. A hierarchy should just be an efficient means to organize a group effort, and not a social order.
I can only speak for my own experience (large, top 25 state school in the US) - this sort of thing is still not taught. There was maybe one or two optional courses that taught software engineering related material, the rest of it was just a lot of computer science theory. Definitely struggled the first couple of months at my first job out of college due to this.
> I also think there are injustices in palestine and the with Uyghurs etc, but we are going to end up with most of our Readme filed with political statements at that rate.

I brought this same point up in a discussion once, but the response was that BLM is the number-one pressing sociopolitical issue in the world today, and it was offensive that I would even suggest that other examples of oppression in the world are comparable to the greater oppression that African-Americans face.
For those who want to dive deeper, the NIH has a great fact sheet:

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthPro...
Not enough people agree with you for that principle to be controlling.
> These articles with hyperbolic headlines

WFH also appeals to American conservatives who want to target cities, which are democratic strongholds, and reduce their power and reputation. The WSJ is the leading news source of U.S. conservative elite.
The release of the source code is actually more of a symbolic signal that the competitive value of the source code has reached a certain level. And that is within n orders of magnitude of the level where there is enough energy and money to pay lawyers to pursue, say, trademark violation or copyright infringement against anyone conducting such research.

So to be perfectly safe, one would be ultra-paranoid and stick to games released in the 20th century and then frame it as a kind of historical landmark in the video game market: what do video games in the 20th century say about what we knew about operant conditioning up to that point?

Example: suppose a behaviorist foundation and ask questions about really minute details related to visual and motor processing. Another: observe the expected and actual effects on behavior.

Would you conduct a Stanford Prison Experiment style of experiment if it were done with video games? That is, the players are associated with guards and prisoners, and they play out similar roles that the original experiment outlined, but in a virtual world?
How healthy the Baltic Sea and its fish are
Back in grad school I had an orthodox roomate who showed me some of their faith, and I discovered Orthodox churches have beautiful liturgies. Here is a recording of Rachmaninoff's liturgy of St. John Chrysostomus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K94ePzs14Nc

Also a lot of the orthodox church fathers are pretty amazing and I enjoy reading their writings. Here is Symeon the New Theologian, one of the three Great Hierarchs of the Eastern Church (along with Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom), from his Ethical Discourses:

"I learned from Scripture and from experience itself that the cross comes at the end for no other reason than that we must endure trials and tribulations and finally voluntary death itself. In times past, when heresies prevailed, many chose death through martyrdom and various tortures. Now, when we through the grace of Christ live in a time of profound and perfect peace, we learn for sure that cross and death consist in nothing else than the complete putting to death of self-will. He who pursues his own will, however slightly, will never be able to observe the law of Christ the Savior."

There is both a rich liturgical tradition and a rich literary tradition in Orthodox Christianity.
Whenever a service becomes so large that it is not realistic to chose an alternative, the government should take action and either regulate it like a utility or set up a complaints regulator and fine the company for unhandled legitimate complaints.
I have always wanted a laptop I could easily work on. I remember working on my Toshiba, and it was petty straight forward, even though the internet was in its infancy. Hell--I had a Panasonic I kept running for a decade, and loved that machine.

I don't mind a heavy big laptop either. I've never understood people whom complain about the weight of their laptop, but I know most customers want light weight devices.

That said, I've been told here repairability, upgrading an existing laptops is the last thing on their mind when forking out money for a computer.

I don't get it, but they are right.
I think you might be confusing audio and video surveillance with computer system logging. We can log anything we want it’s in their employee contract that they have no expectation of privacy on company computer systems and it should not be used for any personal business, which again WFH is great because clearly they have their own personal computer they use to access remote access and all our logging is on the server side. If I have timestamps of every key stroke and every mouse move and screenshots of their desktop every 1 minute there is nothing illegal about that. Even if it was remotely grey area it would be covered by their employee agreements, confidential agreements and proprietary information agreements. Your fake outrage is a joke.