skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other researchers claim autism is an emotional evolution.

I’m disinclined to trust our contemporary society with deciding whether autism is good or bad.

A difficult scenario for parents, perhaps, but I feel that’s better handled by society pulling its head out of its ass and providing a system that supports such situations.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is going to be the outcome. We're more likely to end up with "Here is the list of filenames, subcomponents, and associated hashes" as opposed to requiring NixOS style environments. Vendors to the subcontractors will likely be required to provide the same list of filename/subcomponent/hashes, a far cry from repeatable builds.
I have had Whatsapp Web for months on my iPad. Doesn’t work that well, but I can reply to someone if I do not have my phone nearby.
It doesn’t delete my data though, that’s for sure.,
> Someone like you was probably saying the same thing about ABS on a BBS back in 1996.

Someone like me said ABS is purely a competitive advantage feature despite the fact that its adoption in mainstream cars struggled? That person must be rather incoherent.

> ABS is even more useful than that and its adoption plateaued before the feds mandated it.

Let's not overgeneralize the competitive advantage angle to all safety features, that would be strawmanning. Stuff like lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control are very different beasts than ABS. They have been popular features in no small part because they also offer comfort, and have luxurious connotations e.g. like Tesla's autopilot. Besides they've been cheaper to add at lower trims as defaults because like I said they are mainly software driven features and therefore the costs scale well, especially considering the vertical integration between luxury and mainstream car brands. E.g. it only costs the windshield camera and the 2 sensors to add the auto breaking feature to a Honda, when you already have the software of an Acura.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27575872

were you quoted?

google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22We+should+have+policies+t...]
It is an open secret that people who are productive only 2/3 of the time in 40 hours/week would be productive only 2/3 of the time in 32 hours/week as well.
SF public transit is de facto free. I don’t think it’s led to any particular surge of commercial activity.
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

> Although the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1.6 AU (240 million km; 150 million mi) from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred.

We’re getting better at this stuff!
The list price was $200 at launch but they’ve run sales quite a bit. I got one for $120 (and returned it 2 weeks later because the buttons were hard to trigger and the UI wasn’t intuitive for me).

Good thing my Pebble is still ticking!
The idea is that multiple independent builders build the same distro. You expect all of them to have the same final hash.

This doesn't help against the sources being owned, but it helps about build machines being owned.

Accountability for source integrity is in theory provided by the source control system. Accountability for the build machine integrity can be provided by reproducible builds.

To answer your specific questions: The attacker has access to the distro's build servers and is packaging and shipping altered binaries that do not correspond to the sources but instead contain added malware.

Reproducible builds allow third parties to also build binaries from the same sources and once multiple third parties achieve consensus about the build output, it becomes apparent that the distro's build infrastructure could be compromised.
It sounds like the time to reinsurance.
> It is extremely flexible, while also trying to remain true to standards such as GEDCOM.

I'm not overly familiar with gramps, but with GEDCOM, in my experience, it's sort of pick flexible or use the standard, not both.

For example, the GEDCOM has no way of interlinking relationships across generations. That is, someone cannot be both daughter and spouse, at the same time, which unfortunately isn't that rare an occurrence if you go back a few generations. (You can theoretically construct an XREF:INDI: that points to the one individual, but it breaks every parser when the pointer appears in both the descendants, and other relationships).
Unfortunately I don't think it's a case of "stupid" or "clever". Human beings are inherently susceptible to being influenced, and the levers are well-known in some circles already (see marketing, media orgs, and spy agencies).

We're all programmable, "moist robots" as Scott Adams calls it, and even if we think we're too smart to fall for it, we can still be manipulated by motivated actors.

The first defence is of course to be aware of it, but others include firewalling ourselves from information we consume. Being super judicious with consuming in the first place is the best defense.
But again, the parent comment was it was ironic because it was posted on leetcode. If they're using some other platform there's no irony there, notwithstanding any alanis morissette-directed conversation.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27573799
Right now, I think I would go for that classical approach, simply because there is more supporting material for that in the library, and there are more people who understand that approach and can help contributing. (I'm talking specifically about functional analysis and PDEs here.)

On the other hand, it should be a lot of fun to see if we can formalize the new proof by Clausen--Scholze of Serre duality. Using their machinery, the proof should simplify a lot. But this requires building complex analytic manifolds on top of condensed mathematics. So we would first need to set up those foundations.
Indeed. The summary talks about what you need to do to saturate a SSDs read and write bandwidth. I guess the post would find its audience better if the title was "What a programmer should about SSDs when optimizing IO".

I'd be more interested in the trends in SSD behaviour are. It seems SSDs have bigger and bigger DRAM caches and wear ceased to be an issue many years ago, so there's not much payoff in the write side advice of the article.
Because if it is profotable whilst being free then its a much easier sell.

No need to get all righteous, I'm not saying all public services need to be profitable, I'm saying we need to stop evaluating public services on strictly on their cashflow as many often are, and instead look at them in terms of the greater economic system they operate in.
wouldn't that require a solution to the three body problem to make such precise gravity assists?
How far does this principle scale? I've heard of this strategy and thought "that's kinda cool." Amazon is obviously successful in its domain, so it would be easy to assume some causality.

And yet, there's another big tech company, fruit symbol I think, that has played the long game of continually fine tuning the interaction points to make the integration of their parts more than the whole. They get credit for attention to detail, leveraging their integration and their ability to move in ways they do because of their thorough integration across their whole hardware/software stack. They've recently been in the press because of just how much they were able to tune their integration to the problem with their first desktop computing chip. Again, we credit their success with some causality due to this strategy, which (to me) is very different than the Amazon strategy.

Is it because Amazon is a cloud company and Apple is a hardware company that they have these different approaches to product development and each enjoy success? Or at the end of the day, are these "do it this way" less responsible than we'd like to believe?
https://archive.is/sanK7
thanks for noticing!
> He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books[.] If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady

You should double check your ethics algorithms. It is absolutely “shady” to advertise child rape for profit, regardless of whether or not you intend to ultimately make good on that advertisement.
I mean, this is Hacker News, most people here are in a privileged place compared to the rest of the world. That's kind of the audience.

I'm fully aware not everyone is in this position to request or push for work/life balance. I've worked a decent amount of shitty jobs in my day, in fast food, retail, shipping/receiving, warehouse work. I've gone through periods where I was so physically exhausted after work I didn't do much more than go home and pass out and wake up and go back to work again. It sucks. And I don't know what they can do exactly, I'm too far removed from that now.

I believe I did say that shutting down and working remotely brought our emissions down only 13%, not "solving the global emissions crisis". I said it was a painful wake-up call that even with all that happened last year, it wasn't anywhere near enough. So we need to try to do as much of that as possible and a lot, lot more if we are to get anywhere close.

I don't know what that might be. I was listening to Bill Gates' 'How to Avoid a Climate Catastrophe' and he thinks there's several technologies that can possibly get our emissions to zero in the next decade or two. But after listening to that book I'm more dubious than he is. It sounded like even with his optimism he just inadvertently kept making a case for how fucking hard it is, how every piece of the solution has downsides and problems to overcome to work at scale, and how there's no way we're going to change enough hearts and minds or provide enough incentives to do enough to get us to 50% reduction in the next decade, or all the way down to zero by 2050.

I don't think just staying home means we solved it, not by a long shot. We (and I mean corporations in this too, they're the bigger culprits than individuals) need to be doing all the things and a whole lot more, if possible, and even then I don't see it being enough totally avert catastrophe. I'm just hoping instead of like, 4-8 degrees warming (and likely human extinction or near extinction), maybe we'll somehow bring it down to only 2-3 degrees of warming. And that will still lead to terrible things.

And it'll be hard to give up creature comforts. I'm failing pretty hard at this more than I'd like to myself right now. I'm trying to get better, though, but even if I do, it's going to make such a tiny, unnoticeable difference by itself.

We can expect things to get fucking bad regardless, I think, I'm just hoping we can make things slightly less bad instead of everyone just shrugging our shoulders and accelerating and steering directly into the iceberg.
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The conspiracy theory is that it's to deliberately keep people poor and suffering. Hanlon's razor and all, but it's hard to come up with another justification.

Anyone work in government or know a lot about the relevant history? Is there a good reason why it works like this?
It is time to listen to Telemedicine
meanwhile, China is doing 996 - 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.

Obviously people hated it. But it is happening and no wonder China tech is catching up fast / winning in some areas already.
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> Look what WSB has done to Wall Street with GME.

.. nothing? Well, it's generated a lot of press, but there's no evidence of structural changes. At worst they've managed to make one firm lose money on a trade. We're a long way off a final accounting of how much GME meme investors gained and lost.
Yeah if a boss said I couldn't have 4 weeks off per year I'd probably tell them they're functionally incompetant.

Its always interesting to see how other people live.
I really liked how easy it was to create a custom ISO when I installed Nix. For once I had Dvorak as the default keyboard from the outset, neovim for editing, and the proprietary WiFi drivers I needed all from a minimal config file and `nix build`.
Abstract from your link suggests that the study was pretty inconclusive.

> Findings suggest certain flaws limit the program’s potential success since the program design is misaligned with its primary stated goals, and several program goals relating to external effects of fare reform cannot be evaluated. Although it would be valuable for transport managers in other cities to learn about this experience, the Tallinn fare-free public transport program provides scant transferable evidence about how such a program can operate outside of a politicized context,
glad you like it max. Thanks
In most countries that I know of (throughout Europe, the US, Japan), if you're on the road as a pedestrian, there's no law that protects you in case you get hit by a vehicle, it's considered your fault as a pedestrian.

The exceptions are street crossings or purely pedestrian streets, which have to be marked as such.

I don't expect this to be different anywhere in the world, since most paved roads are paved for vehicles, you don't really need pavement that much for pedestrians (well, you kind of need it for pedestrian with baby strollers or wheeled luggage & co).
Survive. Not thrive. If someone is inclined to make it work on so minimal an amount even when able to make more, they won't be useful at a job anyway.
Senior engineers are sometimes harder to manage than junior engineers.
Well isn't the point of ubi that people less people could work. Productivity with automation has never been higher and we still work ourselves to death for less pay. We need to take the path of increased automation anyway since we've got some sort of ubi for the elderly population already. Now it's a burden for the young people. If we could automate a lot of basic needs like food production and processing, construction, transport etc you would have unlimited near costless basic needs met and provide for the elderly. Then it would just be panem et circenses but a bit more advanced and without the slavery and the need for empire building like the romans but just technological advancement and automation.
> too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely

So? We should have make-work jobs and force people to do them as punishment for being poor? Forcing people to go and do a menial job that doesn't really need doing just because you think it's character building is not a good way to run a healthy society.
Isn’t a cliff simply a ramp with infinite slope? I would suspect the problem is that if we can’t tune something as simple as a step function correctly (which is just an x intercept), it seems even less likely we would be able to tune a ramp (more variables - x intercept and a slope, and that’s assuming it should even be linear instead of e.g. quadratic).
> All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

> Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

I read that as interfaces to the team, instead of interfaces to software the team is responsible for.
Something like Mechanical Turk(https://www.mturk.com/) but for internal team communication. I'm not sure if that was what was meant but that sounds interesting.
It's been a few years, but every time I learn a new language, I like to try and make an IRC client or IRC bot in that language.

It gives you an idea of what the language can do and how to handle network connections with it.
As someone that tends to work this way, I can tell you that every API adds overhead. This is because they need to be documented, tested, and release-managed.

Each of my APIs is a self-contained project, with its own lifecycle.

That can, potentially, add a lot of overhead, and “concrete galosh”[0] to the project.

And I am not a fan of dogma, in general. I like flexibility, and dogma is anathema to flexibility.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/
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I'll say more about this system. As such "opposition", however small it is (no reason to talk about how much energy is lost in system), creates a "paradox" between consuming and generating, the "physics" as a system of laws experiences "stress" and tries to solve the problem by expending energy. Same happens with a human when in tries to solve an untackable, but utterly important, problem-he experiences a mental breakdown. The space may have infinite energy at its base. It just strives to keep it in balance, hence "unbreakable" law of conservation of energy exists. I do not argue with "newtonian age" laws of physics, I just propose a way to put them out of balance. I succeeded at that in my opinion. Videos can be faked, so absolutely no reason to record it. You can see a similar speaker arrangement in any "surround" consumer sound system. Nothing new, except the way to arrange and operate the sound system.
It isn't. What gives her the right to have 3 kids without being able to take care of them and then expect others to pay for it? By that logic people will just have tons of kids and not bother anymore.
Why? It'd be helpful to get some idea what workplace factors led to such a negative outcome.
do employees get equity?
Yet public school teachers do this all the time. They take low pay and a bad work environment, and keep teaching anyway. Why? Because they are passionate about teaching.

I had several high-school teachers who weren't financially comfortable, yet still chose to spend hundreds or even thousands on their students during a school year.

Of course, those teachers would have been much more effective if they were in a financially stable position. I also would have had fewer quality teachers leave.
how would we aerobreak it in mars's atmosphere into a decaying orbit, so instead of slamming into mars, it breaks up and rains down on mars? What can we tell about the composition - a solid rock or icy rubble?
I commute on transit and in my experience, those that can't afford transit simply don't pay the fare, so I'd guess impact would be pretty limited for those that might benefit the most from free transit. They either hop on via the back of the bus on the second set of doors away from the driver, walk directly onto the train platform without tapping up a fare card, or for the few stations that do have turnstyles, they use the emergency exit gate which says is alarmed, but in fact is not and swings open freely.
A big improvement, but i'm not sure if indexing with None is very intuitive.
“A fair bit of support and free services” != a home, so it should be unsurprising that the homeless remain. Getting a job that can afford a home is hard enough if you already have a home. Without a home at all, getting a job is just unrealistic.

You can say all you want about Castro, but he did in fact eliminate homelessness in Cuba.
So you touch on something - work friends are really important only because they're lacking social connection elsewhere.

But...work friends aren't friends. It's very rare to stay in touch if you change jobs. In fact, that normalized relationship is a tie keeping you at a job that may otherwise be bad.

As a reason for why to be in the office, I feel like it's a coping mechanism, rather than real fulfillment of the need. I can't say "better to rip the bandaid off" or similar, but I can say that the 'right' solution is to find connection outside of work. Even if you're in the office, you have to do that for the friendship to persist should you ever leave.
> If you give people the opportunity to work on things they like working on, and don’t make work about anything other than work, you get amazing results.

That line started off well, but ended off terrible. I really don't want to be working in a place where I'm treated like a replaceable machine. You do you, man.
Yes, if we could automate away all of our low-skill jobs, then UBI would make more sense. But we haven't done that yet, so it doesn't yet.
The danger of unmooring treatment from merit is that it inculcates an entitlement, low-confidence, fragile superiority mentality instead of a performance, accomplishment one. Plus, no one with self-respect would want to be advanced over more qualified people solely because of their attributes. And, it doesn't help advance equity for all and collectively-punishes those who don't happen to be micro-minority enough. Affirmative action, diversity, and other such biases policies are the factual definition of -ist/-isms with a pendulum the other way by exhaustive exclusion of all but one or two groups.

Want a just society? Stick to merit, shun hate, and minimize bias.
While tmpfs can be very useful even as it is, users must beware that copying a file from another Linux file system to tmpfs can lose a part of the file metadata, without giving any warnings or errors.

The main problem is that copying a file to tmpfs will drop extended attributes. Old versions of tmpfs dropped all extended attributes, modern versions of tmpfs keep some security-related extended attributes, but they still drop any user-defined extended attributes.

Old versions of tmpfs truncated some high-resolution timestamps, e.g. those coming from xfs, but I do not know if this still happens on modern versions of tmpfs.

Before learning these facts, I could not understand while some file copies lost parts of their metadata, after being copied via /tmp between 2 different users, on a multi-user computer where /tmp was mounted on tmpfs.

Now that I know, when I have to copy a file via tmpfs, I have to make a pax archive, which preserves file metadata. Older tar archive formats may have the same problems like tmpfs.
Except that it increases employees morale and motivation and thus productivity, and reduces chances of burnout. There are benefits for the company too.
Yeah, I'm a law student and I like to read treatises and practice guides cause I have free Westlaw and Lexis.
Most unskilled jobs today are not "make-work" and do need doing.
Heartened to see Taleb taking a skeptical stance on Bitcoin and crypto - last time I looked into it he was a proponent due to its decentralization and existence outside the monoculture of mainstream finance.

The sooner we can move past these staggeringly inefficient environment-destroying pump-and-dump schemes the better off we'll all be.
All aside, thanks for giving me big laugh :D
The author used to work on Eve.
I bet you're envious of the typical US 2 weeks vacation allowance.
In LA a majority of voters elected to raise sales taxes several times to improve transit, despite only like 20% of commuters using it city wide (transit use is extremely high in certain neighborhoods like Westlake, though). LA metro is considering slashing fares because they make up something like 5% of the operating budget, thanks to these sales tax measures and federal grants. It's not just LA metro that is funded like this, cleveland RTA is also funded by a portion of sales tax revenues.
That’s better, but still inefficient. One example is a minimum guaranteed income. There is no cliff, but it removes the financial incentive to work more or find a better job for people earning below the threshold.
There is also https://free-for.dev/
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Court is meant to be an authoritative process. The prosecution and defence are meant to present "the relevant facts".

Outside that, too many jurors might be influenced by what a Kardashian thinks...
Depends on how often they’re hired versus not.
Deleted as I misread the year in the article.
I think zig just blew a big gaping hole in the argument that the language needs to be tied to legacy code.

Because zig can compile old C code and Zig into the same binary. Which means there is no reason you couldn't compile old legacy C code and new better C code into the same binary as well.

The C standards committee need to be fired and replaced with people who aren't willfully holding the language back.