skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm genuinely a bit fascinated to know how you came to buy what seems to be quite a specific vehicle, with the expectation that you would hate it?

I've always hated SUVs, but with some lifestyle changes it was clear that my current car then would not suffice and I would need an SUV. So going into this I had the expectation that the car would suit my needs but I wouldn't love the car like some of the previous sports cars I owned.

I wasn't much into offroading before I got this 4Runner and I mainly bought it because it was so popular. Much like if you walk into a new restaurant where half the folks in there order one thing off the menu, you get that because if others are raving about it, there must be something there.
Sure, but the comment was about personal storage. Fault tolerance at the edge is less important in a cloud world.
> B makes them richer

B makes the colonizing foreign investors richer. It won't do shit for the poor country.
I don't think I've said anything negative about remote working, I've cautioned against the, "just leave me alone" attitude that seems to come with the desire to be remote.

And for what it's worth, any company you can trick into just leaving you alone won't be a good company to work for in the long term, because since they're not shipping quality software on time, it's very unclear what it is they'd instead be valued for.
The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography
Ask HN: What's an interesting DIY genetic engineering project?
Given some hundreds of dollars and breaking no federal laws, what kind of gene editing can a software dev get done in their kitchen?

Glowing single cell organisms? Color changing Fungi? Flowers with any #rrggbb as petal color? albino lizards? Jurassic Park?

Serious question. Looking for a project that teaches me something and has a tangible result.
That’s exactly what they are doing. Anyone else is using proprietary controllers and ports for a server chassis
Universities producing MBA grads, still produce nothing of value. At least liberal arts challenges you to think.
The government can severely impair its appeal as a speculation vehicle and people would stop speculating with it. This is Bitcoin's primary use case. Some people who use it as a medium of exchange because they can't use real money for a variety of reasons might continue to use it, true, as well as a minority of hard-core fanatics who are attracted to bitcoin for ideological reasons regardless of practicality.
So, what is actually included? Isn’t everything electronic now?
So another class warfare propaganda article. Let's see ..

- Takes as many digs at Trump as possible .. check

- Uses outrageous language like "America’s ultrawealthy already get away with murder" .. check

- Article title which lies and states that they "don't pay inheritance taxes" yet even the article itself then explains how much they DO pay .. check

- Constantly takes digs at Republicans, because of course there's no rich Democrats that take advantage of anything, just evil Republicans .. check

- Buries deeper in the article the fact that non-billionaires can also leave literally all their money to their kids, tax free, it's not some secret loophole that only billionaires have access to, in fact billionaires are the only ones that DO pay inheritance taxes .. check

- Uses the article as clickbait to promote their book .. check
To create a document with links. Hiding the URL makes that harder for non-technical users IME.
Can also step it up a notch and use progressive relaxation. many youtube videos for that, too.
> It's also really the only thing that makes sense from an individual rights perspective, given the absence of God.

If someone's going to disagree with someone else on the existence of God, then surely they can disagree with them on the existence of rights (in general or in specifics). And so the concept of rights outside of society consensus is back to being no more use than the concept of God. (That is: it's high use if everyone agrees, but there's nothing forcing everyone to agree, so it all comes down to social negotiation.)
I'm sorry, what's the objection here? Source code is better for understanding how a program works in a big-picture sense, compared to the binary. This sentence conveys that in a way that a lay audience can understand. What's the problem?
Sure, but the doctor doesn't have to do much research in this case. This is front-page news in the NY Times. And about "every single medication": this is the only approved medication to delay clinical decline due to Alzheimer's. And there are only a few medications to treat symptoms.

I know this isn't a perfect world, but it doesn't seem to be asking a lot for a doctor to know this. (Especially for a drug that currently costs $56K/year and presumably will cost more next year.)
While we’re sharing anecdotes of what helps us sleep: I like to read ancient philosophy on an ebook reader at the lowest backlight setting. Usually within 15m I’m dropping the ebook reader on my face and wondering what I read.

I do find that I get a lot out of the reading despite having to back track constantly. It’s just interesting enough for me to open it up, and just dry enough to put me to sleep.

Last night was Seneca. He went on and on and on with tangents. The information was generally good, but it’s like you’re being sucked into a black hole of some dude ranting in the most eloquent yet benign ways.
There was interesting study [0] about typing speed on mobile devices, which they say approaches physical keyboard typing (37k participants). If you have some time to kill, I wonder what your typing speed is [1]. Mine is near the mean.

0. https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/typing37k/

1. https://typingtest.aalto.fi/
I expect you'll be downvoted for this comment, as most of HN appears also to be engrossed by "Great Men" theories.
Application whitelisting can prevent the execution of unapproved executables, that's about it. Oh, you need to run Python scripts? You're using npm? There go your whitelisting efforts...

Whitelisting also won't protect you from exploits in the software itself. If some non-technical user gets compromised and starts sending out malicious PDFs, you better make sure every single installation of Acrobat is up-to-date. If you get hit by a 0-day in Outlook - good luck.

Now perhaps in this case people were just sloppy, but again, if you want to rule out exfiltration of data - as opposed to just making it less likely - you need a completely different approach and it'll cost you.
I guess the question is does it still use floats internally or use something like BigNum and handle the precision issue (and thus more memory/cpu)
I wonder how it would compare to the floor plan my vacuum robot creates every time it is working. Or whether my Neato's floor plans are anywhere near realistic.

Or what Neato does with all these floor plans on their servers ...
All dictators despise being hold accountable.
The biggest problem with BTC is the fools turning it into gambling, making 100x leveraged trades on it.

But, looking at the fundamental properties of BTC, it does have better properties than USD. It’s just not adopted enough to be stable…but you at least gotta admit that, over time, can change
You do realise that that is driver behaviour don't you?

The arseholes that do that in Audi/BMW/Mercedes will just switch to do the same thing in another brand if these companies cease to exist.

Still I never appreciated some of Audi's marketing that seemed to encourage this sort of bad behaviour.
I've been looking into building some small/cheap storage, and this is one of the enclosures I've been looking at.

https://www.owcdigital.com/products/express-4m2
I think the metaphor only sort-of works when you represent the object as a point. The farther you are from an unstable point of equilibrium, the harder you're getting pushed away from it. So if your station gets nudged, the farther part will push the station away harder than the closer part. Overall it probably changes nothing about how much effort is required to keep the station in place.
Not OP, but would like to say : I don't think science outside of stem is useless, but it is fundamentally different and fundentally less reliable/reproducible.
In terms of reliability and rigor, it seems to go about like : Math -> computer science -> physics/chemistry -> biology -> everything else.

As you continue, you must ignore more independent variables to conduct an experiment. By the time you get to social sciences where you're doing self reported survey studies on your sensation of gender acceptance, you cant really call it science anymore.

Not saying its useless, but ir absolutely should not be treated with the same level of reverence and trust as the harder sciences. People act like the government should be making policy decisions based on psychology thesis papers, or that id you disagree with some purple haired feminism professor, you are a science "denier."

Ultimately this is a function of poor education, and hivemind thinking caused by our inundation with news and various media.

But yeah, my point is STEM (in its colloquial usage) is really all that can be considered science and people tend to mistake any academic paper or public persona for science or a scientist respectively, and that just isn't so.

Sorry for the rant.
That is perfectly a way to look at it but saying that "guns kills people is nonsensical" is making a straw-man of the argument.

The statement is essentially "guns are bad, more guns means more death, less guns means less death" which is far from nonsensical independently with how much you agree with it or not.

Bitcoin transaction use energy. The proof is that if no more transaction happened no energy would be spent in bitcoins.

saying that it is the security requirements that waste energy is like saying that bullets are the real culprits not guns: they go hand in hand. Bitcoin without security is no bitcoin at all.

It is technically feasible to have bitcoin with no security just like you can have an army with rifles and no bullets.

In both cases obviously the root cause is people, we still haven't found out neither our lucertoloid overlords nor the simulators to blame, so it is lapalissian: "people are the cause of people's action" but it is not a particularly useful rebuttal to many arguments.
Looking for something similar for a mariadb setup. Anyone knows some resources?
While I understand your perspective, I disagree with it.

That gives too much power to society and is a foundation for tyranny in my opinion. More, it means slavery without the right to contest it unless that right is provided by the State, which of course it wouldn't be.

Also fundamentally it doesn't make sense because I clearly have the right to do things if I am doing them and nobody is stopping me.
Is it "the right to cheat" you're concerned about, or "the right to take an exam without being watched" or something else? I'm not sure what right's we're worried about here in 'jimhefferon's post.
The equivalent here is your examiner rummaging through your backpack and yelling at you because you stared off into space pondering a hard question.
There is big difference between going on dates every week and finding a woman that will treat you as a potential life partner and father for her children...
Tell us more about how she explored and discovered those theorems. Sounds like you should be giving advice!
I literally have no idea what you mean by 'Messi can teach the ones who teach football' but my comment was not an invitation to discuss who is better. The rules I am talking about are the ones like 'you can't kick the ball out of bounds', 'you have to score between the goalposts', 'this is a corner kick', 'this is offsides'. Neither Messi nor Ronaldo made those rules, but they are all time greats in their competency.
You could replace Facebook with a lot of different things and the song remains the same.

intentional emotional manipulation unquestionably remains a core goal for the mainstays of [political parties|junkfood manufacturers|movie industry|religion|auto-energy-highway combine|...] - marketing, advertising, propaganda, and politics
Show HN: Let's play Connect-The-Dots on your face
That forum post advises "new drugs aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s should probably target surrogate markers rather than trying to fix the end-stage clinical problems".

Here's One Weird Trick for targeting Alzheimer's, to try at home. Grey hair is correlated with Alzheimer's. Hair dye is a treatment that targets that particular biomarker, with remarkable efficacy. How about we all use hair dye, in the hope it prevents Alzheimer's! Way cheaper than $56k/year too.
Having written software in the 90s: C++ was unusable for large-scale apps on commodity hardware. It was a neat toy. It had humongous compile times, and the runtime was suboptimal at best.

The choice was protracted language wankery with continuous (wrong) declarations of "Soon, the compiler will make it fast enough", or actually shipping software.

The balance started tipping in the early to mid-2000s. You could, if you were very careful, write decent-sized systems with good performance in C++ at that point, and the abstractions were starting to be worth it.

And I say that as somebody who enjoys C++, and has written code in it since the late 80s. Yes, on cfront. "Horses for course" always has been, and always will be, the major driver for language adoption. That particular horse wasn't ready in the 90s.
I agree you do not need a strategy if the rule is insta win/loss.

But if the rule were to reset the game until the host doesn't make any more mistakes, it matters.
I can't imagine wasting NVME storage on backup data. That's what I have my 8tb spinning hdds for.
So you only have to assume physics totally different from ours, and we can’t observe it. Isn’t that a bit of a weak point? And what would be the point of this simulation that has been running for billions of years?
nobody has ever had a laptop away at any company i’ve worked at in meetings
I'm very much in favor of taxing inheritance at much higher levels, but I think there is a debate to be had whether the marginal dollar is best spent on social science research or academia writ large.
The difference is that insurance doesn't cover herbal supplements, so their cost isn't socialized. If insurance covers this treatment, then by extension everyone who has insurance has no choice but to pay for it.
Medical conditions affecting sleep are pretty common. In elderly men, obstructive sleep apnea might actually be the rule rather than the exception [1], and that's just one condition.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27568340/
>Humans (not any specific type of worker) are bad about risk versus convenience trade offs.

This is just a fancy way of calling people stupid because they don't do what you want.

Literally every subject you can think of is inundated with people complaining that the common man doesn't care enough or isn't doing it right.

"nice boat you've got there"

-no financial planner ever
Memoize Commands or Bash Functions with Coprocs
How does making it cheap and easy to pass money to your children make them less likely to succeed?
It would be nice for this guy, Mick West to analyze this footage in congruency to the others https://youtu.be/1NH01GSOhwk?t=1507 I was initially skeptical of it but then Wired posted it as well.

As for me, I'm not 100% convinced because I have yet to see again what I myself witnessed in South Orange County, California in the mid 90's. Where is the video with a cam steady on a tripod for perspective that is showing an object zigzagging in the sky? This is what I saw and what was described by every pilot in the encounters.

Another bit that is lacking a complete explanation is the notion that these could be some kind of massless projections or plasma/particle beams. Doesn't this appear more plausible then some kind of super exotic propulsion technology?
Seems a development worth tracking given the prevalence of existing protocols such as TLS - that rely on cryptographic techniques classical computers have difficulty solving.

Relevant snippet:
"As a security researcher, Chen is particularly interested in quantum computing’s ability to solve two types of math problems: factoring large numbers and solving discrete logarithms (essentially solving the problem bx = a for x). Pretty much all internet security relies on this math to encrypt information or authenticate users in protocols such as Transport Layer Security."
Source code is also the mixing & prep. Compiling is just the heat of the oven in the metaphor.
They can put the Bitcoin mine out in the middle of nowhere next to the volcano. Building a transmission and distribution infrastructure to the rest of the country can be funded by the Bitcoin mine.
I interpret it as a Sinoist rejection of Western naming conventions.
Yeah somehow I just don't buy that. Like ymmv but I've seen exactly 2 examples of actual racist people in the midwest.

But like yeah I mean I grew up in one town, lived 1 life, and im a member of the racial majority so take my words with a grain of salt I guess.
Yes, interesting thought. On my ride in to work I was actually thinking how our situation is exactly opposite: in our environment (R&D test and measurement and production automation) data is everything and never in the cloud so we don't get to benefit from all the cool stuff the kids are doing these days. Historical data can go in the cloud (as long as we're reasonably sure it's secure) but operational data from our test and production tooling (e.g. assembly lines and end-of-line audit tools) has to be right there with super short latency.

So we're still very interested in things like hard disks, NVMe, etc.
This article is speaking of large scale multinode distributed systems. Hundreds of rack sized systems. In those systems, you often don't need explicit disk redundancy, because you have data redundancy across nodes with independent disks.

This is a good insight, but you need to be sure the disks are independent.
Yes, I meant the west of the USA. West of the 100th Meridian, you're west of the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico, and therefore you get significantly less rain.

You can see this when you're driving. If you drive west on I-70, the trees stop about 20 miles west of Salina Kansas. On I-80 you're close to the Platte River so it's not quite as stark.
I know for a fact I don’t need 40T of movies and tv, but that changes nothing
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It's marketing and sales techniques of these premium brands emphasizing on arrogance, vanity, competitivenes, jealousity. At this point I really don't care because I'm starting to have Pavlov reflexes on seeing their front grills and logos.

> The arseholes that do that in Audi/BMW/Mercedes will just
switch to do the same thing in another brand if these companies cease to exist.

If this is such a global phenomenon, maybe there exists a solution?
On January 17, 2019, The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose posted on Twitter that Facebook Portal's Amazon product listing contained five-star reviews that appeared to have been written by Facebook employees, including one who claimed to have "historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user" before purchasing Portal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Portal
Asking "what about" is not always a fallacy. If somebody says we shouldn't buy Facebook watches because they track you, asking "what about the other smart watches that track you" is relevant and sensible.
There's a lot of non-scientific papers produced from the sciences, they're just heavily laced with jargon, complexity, or intentionally limited scope to make publication viable and hide the shortcuts behind them.

When I was young I believed things outside of the sciences and math were useless. As I've grown older, I realize the tremendous value of the arts, humanities, and other studies. They're just not as obviously functional or as easily quantifiable and much of this work is difficult. These studies help us think as humans and not machines. Yes, they can be gamed by disingenuous and often do get low rewards in society, but they're not inherently useless disciplines. The other studies provide much value to what makes life worth living, IMO.

Literature, art, the human state. I love science, don't get me wrong, but I also enjoy the rest.
A bit off- topic but i want to know; is binary code (01etc) still used today in programming/coding? And for what applications?
I thought 6-8 hours was considered the "normal" range, so there is nothing wrong with your 6.5 hours.
Isn't it more or less fact that doctors are (for obvious reasons) the target of marketing campaigns by the pharma industry to encourage prescribing certain products? Yes, doctors presumably have a higher degree of informedness/resistance to bullshit, but I think you are fooling yourself if you believe that everything is fine with doctors as the thing standing between you and the obvious financial incentives of the pharma world.
> They are doing it to make money

In no scenario does "they" refer to El Salvador's poor population, especially not the indigenous peoples. The money will go to the colonizing foreign investors and circulate in things like CDOs. A few crumbs that fall off the table will go to improving the lives of the upper end of El Salvador's people, and incidentally some crumbs of the crumbs might fall down to the rest of the population. Trickle down, eh?
London is the money laundering capital of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54226107

Money laundering is what enables organized crime, brutal dictatorships and many of the incarnations of evil in this world to exist.

The world would be a better place if one day all British banking institutions involved in money laundering closed and decided to do something else.
Of course if you look at it over 30 years it looks like a no brainer but what percentage of renters ever live in a place 30 years? It's simply unrealistic and completely changes the math if you were to look at it on a more realistic scale.
What do you mean?

I mean yeah a lot of programmers fall into that catagory but no theres a plenty of people in all different professions (including blue collar professions) that fall into the catagory im describing
Having tried both, focusing on source dependencies is the only way to make sure that dependency sources are universally available and buildable, which makes a huge difference in the long run. Just look at NuGet's issues getting SourceLink adopted.

Binary caching á la Nix can work, but I can't really see that working out without Nix's commitment to environment purity.
Switzerland! That explains the price!

What is the difference between 1st class and 2nd class?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect

Women generally get less time for the same crime.
Many humanities faculty will complain that they're paid lower salaries than faculty in other areas, yet they'll say students should major in their (low paying and hard to find a job) fields because education is not about money.
Finally! I've been waiting patiently for a open source x-platform solution that ticks those boxes. edit: ah, nevermind. I just tried it and I'm sure it's great for online backups. But not so well suited for backups on a plain usb hdd.
Also, "The Selfish Gene". Super fun read. Also, there are a bunch of really interesting videos made to demonstrate concepts like the evolution of altruism on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goePYJ74Ydg
Unfortunately, it doesn't support multiple formats/versions of the same song.
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I think this is a real problem in the West.

Consider how much brain power and resources have been spent on quant finance and crypto now in the past 20 years.

Imagine if all those resources had been spent on something more productive.
Impact factor means less these days when we see how citation manipulation and stuffing skew things.

This author appears to have an interesting way of seeing the world. Did you see their other publications?

I feel bad for this guy: https://twitter.com/DonaldMoss/status/1403029842006794242