skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2c: your value may be a net positive. Maybe not the largest positive, but remember: a lot of people actually are of negative value. You don’t distract coworkers. You don’t schedule meetings. You don’t overengineer or start crazy projects.

You’re just a living sign that we could work 3 hours a day and still create good value, and that our attempts at maximum efficiency isn’t actually working.
And I disagree strongly that the sole value of education, or a human being, is economic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/is-education-a-waste-...

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning...
Just couldn't resist nerding out about probabilities. Summing failure rates would potentially get you above 100% chance of failure. What you'd really want is the product of success rates. So, if you have a 1% failure rate on a module, and you have 50 modules, that'd be 0.99^50, which brings you to about 60% success rate, or 40% failure rate overall. For 500 modules that drops to less than 1% success rate.

But yeah, agree that the odds of failure are probably lower pulling in a handful of monoliths that are well exercised than hundreds of miscellanea of varying robustness.
Its centralized and run by the people around this fraud. It doesn't matter if the tech is good since no one will use it for anything beside speculation or abuse it as storage which just wont be sustainable in the long run with no limits in place.
Ah, I see what you mean now.

Yes, object/gimli are also this kind of low-level. Basically, when you parse the file, you're not actually parsing the file, but you're parsing each element of the structure one bit of a time.

So parsing FileHeader will make sure a) the data is correctly aligned [since it's UB in Rust to have underaligned data] and b) that the e_ident bits are actually the magic number for an ELF file. Want to list all the sections? That's when it's actually going to check that a) the section header offset actually points to valid data and b) the number of section headers exist and is sane, but again, it doesn't actually verify that the section headers themselves make any sense whatsoever.
I'll stress with you. Even if you hate Emacs, magit alone is a valid single use-case to start up emacs.
That was not my point. Furthermore attractiveness is subjective. Point is if that dude hit on you and you wanted that outcome, then it’s not problematic. If he hit on you and you didn't want it, then, these days, that’s all it takes for it to be problematic at least in the opinion of a few twitter users.

This mode of operation is not realistic if you acknowledge humans get attracted to each other. If we approach society by making trying to hook up with someone a social crime, what does society look like?
You're right eating more plants is generally better for your health than the average western diet.

But not all seeds are good for you. Please don't eat apple seeds.
I believe non mainstream media is easier to recognize as propaganda or at least heavily biased, while mainstream media is oftentimes considered "unbiased" and "objective".
> For fear of losing a job, or of losing an admission to school, or of losing the right to live in the country of your birth, or merely of social ostracism, many of today's best minds in so-called free, democratic states have stopped trying to say what they think and feel and have fallen silent.

There are a lot of topics I won’t touch any more, more every year. Accounts - can’t stay anonymous, ml systems working around the clock to identify posters. My social justice focused friends have it worse, their online “friends” attack them publicly over every single little thing. They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans. They have panic attacks over the guilt and stress
and regarding ceramic : i tried finding out what the heck that was and had the same amount of luck as with did. is this written for a different species of developers? they seem to try solving the same problems of ipfs pubsub and ipns but without any hint how they solved it.
When comparing to twitter you fail to mention two large differences:

1. You don't donate to people via twitter.

2. The people on twitter actually signed up for twitter.

If you actually think it was a mistake then perhaps stop defending it. If you don't think it was a mistake then stop explaining away to controversy by saying it was "naive UI/UX".
ModernCloud is a browser-based, open-source serverless platform. The UI is super fast and user-friendly. The platform lets you build your endpoints and functions in minutes. We support inline editor with auto-complete support for Python and NodeJS. We use terraform to keep configuration, there's no custom layer of our own. Github support is coming soon which will allow you to sync Terraform config and code to your own repo. As opposed to other serverless solutions, ModernCloud does not abstract away functions, instead it makes it easier to build them which can be seamlessly integrated with your existing cloud backend. We'll soon add more support for other AWS products solutions like SNS queues.
In some cases, yes. Hence why trade deals contain IDS provisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlem...
DARPA funding is actually supposed to fail at a reasonably high rate. If they succeed a lot it means they are not taking big enough bets.
> said Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and CTO of IP engineering group at Intel.

Hope intel doesn't infect it with IME.
> Also, that line ("The author's primary allegiance seems to be to her family and friends") is unequivocally ironic. "Seems to be"? As though it's a surprise? DFW knew what he was doing. If anything the line is an indictment of his (and our) indignation at not getting access to Austin's consciousness and lived experience for the cost of a paperback.

I'm sure that there is some of the subtext you mention in it—this being DFW, I'm sure there's every kind of subtext imaginable in it—but I'd be more inclined to buy that it wasn't also a fully meant indictment of the author if it weren't part of a pages-long attack that, though it could surely be profitably directed at the genre, is also, to my mind excessively, personal. You can be ironic all you want, but "there's little sign in this narrator of the frontal-lobe activity required for outright deception" is just mean.
I think "grift" is a bit cynical. I agree the 'biobucks' concept largely exits, but it also good deal-making. A huge upfront is 100% risk on the buyer. Paying out incrementally for accomplishments is common and good business sense risk-sharing and should happen in almost any industry.

The larger point is that Moderna was flush with cash for years before COVID, and the DARPA money wasn't that 'crazy' of an investment, or essential to Moderna's progress.
Physics might be simple, but it's not easy. Especially if you want to make predictions for complex systems.
I'm reminded of this (rather well done) comic about social credit systems, and your concerns are reflected in it: https://www.hummingfluff.com/lovelypeoplecomic.html

I don't mind the occasional online Bible app, but in general, I'd far rather read offline with something that doesn't track my reading/information/etc. I understand that the gamification can be useful, but it also is a wealth of "big data" that can be aggregated and I'm not sure that's healthy for anyone.
Showing people only a small view of a bigger complex issue is def not the way to go - especially when things like human rights are involved.
> Personally I'm not that keen on type-heavy programming.

They all have types. Some are just much better-documented than others.
> This is irrelevant, as it's extremely difficult to find any two pieces of software that are "functionally the same"

Yes, indeed. You're illustrating is why the post I replied to is a straw man argument. Most software, as you say, is not functionally the same anymore.

> string localization should have no perceptible performance impact

Yes, my argument was that we got localization without a noticeable perf impact. But it does consume memory, bandwidth and code size, and as you correctly point out, a small amount of compute. I would venture to suggest that rendering Asian fonts is a tad more involved than an O(1) hash table lookup. Localization is just one of hundreds of features we have standard now that we didn't have 20 years ago.
Would you include environmental impact as a solved problem? My understanding is that Proof of Stake is the best serious option and that it's very controversial if it'll work.
Saffron as an Antidepressant (2018)
These experiences are relatively common, we just don't see writeups that often. Kudos to the author for writing this up. I do disagree with some of the lessons here.

You want to switch operating systems on your server?

1. Set up monitoring. If you don't have monitoring already, hack something together with simple scripts.

2. Start up a new server.

3. Migrate services and data from your existing server to your new server. Do this at whatever pace you feel is appropriate. Point the monitoring scripts at your new server.

4. Switch DNS records.

5. Wait. You are not in a hurry to turn off the previous server. Why not wait one or two months?

6. Turn off the old server.

7. Wait some more, and then delete the old server.

The idea here is that steps which might take your site offline are easily reversible. For example, switching DNS records. It's trivial to switch the DNS records back if your migration unexpectedly failed. As much as reasonable, you want the ability to go backwards and undo the steps that you've done to get back to a known good setup.

In particular, I would say that backups are usually not the right tool for migration. This is missing from the lessons at the bottom of the article. The way you get more confidence in your backups is by doing restore tests into a sandbox environment, by adding automated monitoring to your backups, etc. Trying to address a lack of confidence by increasing the backup frequency doesn't make sense. The backup frequency is the most trivial thing to adjust and doesn't address deeper issues, like the fact that you need to dump/restore databases properly and shouldn't copy files from a live database. These issues are discovered through restore testing.

The saying goes, "Nobody wants a backup system, everyone wants a restore system." If you are making backups but not testing restores, you're gonna get bitten. Test the part of backups that you care about--the ability to restore data--and don't test it live. Test it in a sandbox.
Nobody can work 100% of the time, everyone needs breaks. But some engineers take breaks from their regular work by doing other "work". I find it bizarre that there are so many comments making this out to be some kind of dire situation where he's working on other things because Tesla is sinking or something. Is working on hobby projects as a way to relax really that uncommon?

For reference, I started a small Bitcoin mining hardware business back in the day, while still holding a 200/hr week/8 days a week/400 days a year full-time job. Working on Bitcoin stuff was my "break" from regular work.
Our houses usually being tiny and connected to two other ones helps on the heating bills; its a shared effort.

Cooling is opening the window; turning on a fan and sweating your nads off.
But only for a few weeks a year.

The rest of the year the incessant drizzle and grey sky helps cool the building.
as backup incase Nvidia manage to buy ARM and squeeze all the fabless companies
i think project based billing is more fair so the last sentence doesn’t have to happen.
Of course. It's not 90% owned by 6 companies.
Which is fine because what would normally be handled by the SIMD will be custom silicon for most customers and have a 4-100x speedup over what SIMD could provide.
The legislation that made Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador does not legislate the use of Strike. Businesses can use whatever system they want, as long as they can accept payment in Bitcoin. Strike is providing a service that allows any business to take Bitcoin lightning payments and have them automatically converted to dollars, for businesses that do not want to hold Bitcoin. It's not fair to just call this a "sql database" because it's connected to an open payment network and the customer can use whatever means they want to pay the business, even if the business decides to just uses Strike.
> ...have power in the form of a labor shortage...

It can be much more than this. A short order cook might prepare $1,500 worth of food in a shift. $30,000 in a month. It's hard work in a busy diner.

As an extreme example, at one point, WhatsApp had 40 software engineers and 400,000,000 users. That's 10,000,000 users per engineer. If a user was worth $1/month, they were each responsible for $10,000,000 per month in revenue.

That's an extreme, but even at my company, for example, one engineer is responsible for about $200,000/month in revenue.
I think you are taking a wide view of "honesty".
> One idea I have is to use a ML recommendation model that would use theological preferences as inputs.

Please don't.

If I want machine learning based AI augmented recommendations, that's literally the entire internet at this point outside a few niche circles.

A Bible app does not need to go down that path.
Someone tell me if I'm missing something, but isn't the whole point of hosting things in a virtual environment so that when you want to switch/upgrade OSes, you stand up a second server and start migrating apps over one at a time?

I can't understand why that doesn't done here.
>All states essentially sell their Civil Religion (ours being one of liberty, equality, and capitalism in a two party system). This is normal.

pretty painful trying to read the rest of the article after this as the author clearly sees certain kinds of propaganda as objective good.
I majored in Media Studies in college...it's literally all bullshit propaganda. Even if the underlying story is true, they twist and warp the facts and selectively cover events based on the agenda they are pushing.

All media is owned by probably 5 people....but the general population eats that shit up and seems to get offended if you inform them of that.
If there was a broadly enforced requirement to pay users for their data, businesses would adapt.
I don't think you realize just how much better Apple's solutions are compared to what you're talking about. I could go through and list how, but I don't think that would do it justice.

It's the details, integration and quality that you can't capture in words that make all the difference.

It's easy to downplay the features like you're doing, but the magic is all of them together working together in one ecosystem. Even the tiny tiny features like being able to ping my phone from my Watch - I use that feature every single day to find my phone in my house (if I left it in a jacket pocket for example).

Sure if price is an issue, Apple's ecosystem is not cheap.
> DIDs are fundamentally antithetical to privacy and will only enable a deeper and more obscure level of tracking to all applications that use them. They were originally inspired for mapping public blockchain use-cases, but IMO personal identity and related keys should _never_ be put on a public chain, who thinks this could ever be a good idea or architecture?

Functionally, how different would this be from the status quo? Between the FAANGs basically already having near-universal identifiers for all of us and everyone's information being leaked in a variety of breaches to where it's essentially public knowledge to any black hats or state actors I'm not sure how down the downsides are?
Powerful comment on how we cancel ourselves, before we let others do it to us

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Just observing today my favourited and most impactful (to me) articles on HN were all flagged

Why do we do this to ourselves?
> This is exactly why I've concluded trying to go my own way is the best long-term plan for me. Before learning about YC and HN and such, the thought never really occurred to me.

Interesting. It also didn't really occur to me that being an employee might just not be for me, until I read this comment on HN over a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22520709. Although the reasoning is a somewhat different from yours. Excerpt:

> The reality is that if you care about your craft a tiny bit more than average, you will most likely end up feeling that you are overpaid for trivial work, that you could do so much more for the company, that your coworkers and hierarchy are apathetic to things that do not directly affect them (and will seek to avoid any change as much as possible). The more you stay in this situation, the likelier you are to burn out.

> If you are that kind of person, then you need to GTFO and start your own thing - have your own skin in the game
Valid points. It makes sense though that "poor countries" are going more religious as generally life is difficult there and religion provides inner peace, useful in those times. Along with services and community support.

Also, note that those same countries are growing in population %age and are skyrocketing economically (and joining us online, on HN) while also being religious.

People tend to selfishly forget religion (and their loved ones) in good times, but good times don't stay forever :)
It's not like he had a huge amount of choice in where he ended up. Putin allows it because he can point to Snowden and say "see, he uncovered programs in the American system that are doing things they accuse me of". And likely also because Putin sees Snowden as a potentially valuable bargaining chip.
This is naive. Web sites have various terms of service.
> Compiled (native) vs. interpreted (bytecode/VMs)

The debate today is mostly AoT vs JIT compilers, I don't see anyone bring up VMs unless they're talking about how slow Python is.

I also don't see anyone bringing up "portability" anymore - compilers support all the architectures people care about, while libraries and APIs are designed to be platform agnostic as far as they can be while developers recognize there is no such thing as portable software (and where portable software is absolutely required, it shall run in the browser).
Evolving the Best Sort for Reddit’s Home Feed
It would've been even better if I didn't butcher the formatting, but oh well
Most "non mainstream" media companies are actually owned by the big mainstream media companies. For example, look at everything Disney owns.
Houses are larger because we don't have a choice or the public policy to promote building modest, affordable housing anymore.
> Most importantly, I think, is that his job is to be those things. Anyone hiring Wallace _is_ paying for that work. He is entirely himself and delivers on that product. His disappointment in this autobiography is that it fails to deliver.

This, I think, is the point. I could not dream of accusing Wallace of not understanding his job. However, what he wrote was still for him; it was his vision of himself and the world around him, and if someone were to complain that it did not live up to their vision of him, then he—while doubtlessly adding that criticism to his inner monologue—would surely not have thought he should adjust his writing one whit because of it.

Here, though, he seems to be complaining that Austin isn't who Wallace expected her to be, not that she's not authentically herself. He seems to be complaining that she's shallow, while fully acknowledging that he's partaking of a genre that he knows does not demand or reward deep soul searching.
I mean in favour of the other countries with Black Sea coastline, including Georgia. And yes in the US' favour, because US companies like Exxon would benefit from oil extraction rights in the Black Sea, which they are quite happy to grant in exchange for keeping Russia at bay.
Interesting. It's definitely good writing, but a bit florid for my taste.

"Freezing as an icehouse" doesn't really add anything; cold is all that icehouses are (and who has an ice house any more?)

"His stomach was swollen, like an anthill in a field" doesn't really connect for me. To me, anthouses are small affairs, and the big ones I've heard of are uneven, ragged things totally unlike a swollen stomach.

In "questioning, opened eyes", the word "questioning" is too on-the-nose. It's assigning an action to a dead body. It opens an image (that the dead person is doing something) and then immediately drops it.

All of this is English-major/editor stuff -- me explaining why I didn't care for it after the fact. All I knew when reading it was that 1Q84 was an enormous object, and seeing too many adjectives in it makes it feel padded rather than rich.

The sample you give gets significantly better after that, though the meandering paragraph about "Once time has passed, it can't be taken back" is trite. I feel like this has a lot of potential, but also needed an editor.

(To my taste, that is. Sometimes, editors make good books great. Sometimes, they squeeze the life and character out of them. Which is which depends on the editor, the author, and the reader.)
Just a tangent, but I wonder if your lackluster sense of smell is actually genetic or if it is something that could be developed with effort.

Because there are a lot of foods or smells that are "acquired". So I wonder if you took conscious effort to smell and "savor" (for lack of a better term) different types of flowers, if you would actually start to notice the differences and subtleties.
What is doing if the man does not want it?
but median measurements exist
Anything RYF certified. Nevermind the manufacturer.
I'll copy another comment I made for convenience.

Please tell me where I expressed any glee at other people's misfortunes. What I said was the following which is a statement, not an expression of emotion:

> Those of you who have found the slightly over a year duration of the pandemic difficult have gotten a sample of how miserable pre-pandemic life was for those of us who are more introverted or misanthropic.

How other people feel doesn't impact me, but I do hope that people who have not enjoyed lockdown can gain some empathy for the people who have enjoyed lockdown. Pre-pandemic life was as uncaring and dismissive of people who thrive during the pandemic as pandemic life is towards people who thrived before the pandemic.
Church name doesn't tell you the denomination. Do you know how many presbyterian denominations there are in the US alone? Most of them are probably completely the opposite of the PC(USA) on those particular issues the HRC cares to discuss at all.
Zephyr OS Bluetooth vulnerabilities left smart devices open to attack
this sounds a bit too much like humble bragging. I mean, you're considered "responsible" for rollouts and you want to tell me you're a relative of George Costanza? get outa here ...
I don't know about the US but in the UK a lot of corporate development (Java type stuff) has been outsourced, often to India.
I consider media outlets mainstream when they are all owned and controlled by one of the big groups like Sinclair. E.g., if they've ever made it into one of those montages where all the anchors from all over the country say the same catch phrases. I think they're different, because they anchors cannot say what they know to be true, but must stick to the script even when they know it's wrong, or they get fired. The smaller independent outlets can push propaganda as well, but they're not forced to, and their outreach is a small fraction of the conglomerates.
I am afraid we are often expected to work crazy hours here as well.

The contract (we have employment contracts) may say 37.5 hours but it also says "and any other necessary to complete your work"