skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey that's my project :)

I also wish I had more time to spend working on the site.
If half are over 82, what does that make the other half?

I'll wait for you to figure that one out.

1.2 is major, no way to slice it. Because either we've been lucky for decades with all of the slight increases or something major just happened.

Now you're trying to color the discussion by projecting things onto me. I never used the words "horrific" or "nightmarish" or even "terrible".

I used the words significant and astronomical. Because they apply. When we've been slowly gaining by 0.1 years/year, a drop of 1.2 years is a -1.3 change. That's a 1300% decrease compared to previous years. Those sorts of scales of difference are typically found in astronomy.

Why do you have a vested interest in downplaying what happened over the past year?
The one that we're trying to slip out the back door and pretend never happened?
Dang, nothing I said was to instigate a flame war about religion. I think my comment history should speak for itself, there.

I was defending my statement on Aquinas, and so I had to draw out the conclusion. I think that's fair.

I never directed any remark at anyone's beliefs, so I think this is all heavy-handed, but just the same I removed the offending opinions and tuned my comment to suit HN's mode.
Conversely, sometimes you need that outside expert perspective to help open your eyes to the real problems.
Too fitting.
It's usually a bit silly, yes i trust the author of this directory but I have no clue about the authors under node_modules.
IBM's 360 series numbers bits from 0 to 31, with bit 0 being most significant.

I know I've seen material where a CPU numbered bits from 1 to 32, with 1 being most significant, but I can't remember the manufacturer.

Let us not forget the PDP-11, whose 32-bit format is both BE (in bytes) and LE (in words).
Based on the first four comments, I see some do not appreciate this unlike me, at least. Just last-night, I was forced to download a zipped folder with source code from a site I was new to. Well, I did appreciate using this new feature because I wasn't sure what I of the 'trustworthiness' of the folder.
> I would hope the free market would prune companies without proper cybersecurity but regulatory capture

Three things.

1. Markets have a slow reaction function, and it really is a reaction function. Let's Consider Equifax. Suppose that market were competitive. Then you'd have dozens or even hundreds of firms with all of that data that Equifax leaked. It seems unlikely that having more copies of data floating around more firms would decrease the risk of a breach. By the time the market signals, the damage is already done, and Equifax going out of business does diddly squat for impacted consumers.

2. Markets also have perverse incentives. Data breaches, in particular, are not necessarily expensive. I've been affected by at least a dozen, none of which had a material impact on the company that lost my data. None of those companies except equifax is subject to any sort of monopolistic forces. Some, like dropbox, are basically commodities. This might be different in the case of Kaseya and Solar Winds, which are effectively IT security outsourcing firms. Maybe. We'll see. If both of those firms continue to exist at similar scale, then the hypothesis that markets can do literally anything about IT security is completely discredited.

3. Equifax is definitely a monopoly/triopoly, but the situation is much closer to cartel behavior than regulatory capture.
Since DOS is a single-task system, fortunately you only have to fight them one at a time.
I doubt this is the same thing, but in Jr High, I was complaining that my side hurt doing the mile run and the coach had me breathe through my nose instead of my mouth; sure enough the pain went away.
Are there any interesting OSs in the others? I know about redox, but I haven't heard of anything outside of C and rust.
Well, yes, system administration is, in general, quite broken. It is ironic to me that all those selfish weaknesses that vendors (hardware and software) include to give some sort of asymmetric advantage to them are always the cause of weakness. It's almost as if, I don't know, simple, symmetrical, fair computing systems are actually more secure by some law of nature.

But yeah. Software needs to get fewer, simpler, easier to understand, verify and build. Hardware needs to be simpler and easier to understand - and possible to verify. And there needs to be awareness this isn't some hippy-dippy sentiment of strange neckbeards, but rather its the only way to get the security we all need. "Every exploit can be turned against it's owner" needs to be drilled into engineers, executives and lawmakers at every level until they hear it in their sleep, and recoil in horror when anyone even suggests knowingly shipping an exploit.
There is already a visual programming language named Enso. Is this related to it?

https://github.com/enso-lang/enso
In general I agree with you. But I think you're committing the fallacy illustrated by the following joke:

Two economists go walking down the street. One of them looks down and says, "is that a $100 bill on the sidewalk?". The other economist says, "it can't be, someone would have picked it up already", so they ignore it and walk on by.

Hollywood is controlled by a small number of corporate conglomerates, many of which have their hands in too many pies to keep track of. Their movies are largely stagnating, which is probably creating an opportunity for better movies to capture an outsized share of the market. Some day, some of those movies are going to come out and make a lot of money. Studios will scramble to react and get stuck in a newer and more different rut.

This is the same kind of cycle that Hollywood has gone through over and over again since the beginning. We're just in the trough of the cycle.
I don't disagree with the fact that blackface is an old phenomenon, I think RDJ's prodigal-son-returns factor and headlining a tentpole summer blockbuster helped brace the impact a bit.
Perhaps. In the United States, the Federal government lacks the power or manpower to make such a decisions, and given that there are 50 states, you’ll always have exceptions.
Neither is better than the other. BSD is better for the developer. GPL is better for the user. It's not strange Carmack would tend toward BSD.

He's pretty confident BSD would have definitively given Id source code more total "use"(copy/paste/modify). That's always the pro-argument for BSD because it allows the source to be "used" in a wider licensing scenarious, but his statement is still counterfactual history.
Thank you! And of course, everything (but the Cloud management) is Open Source on our end! You can find our custom WebGL rendering engine here (https://github.com/enso-org/ide/tree/develop/src/rust/ensogl), our event FRP handling system here (https://github.com/enso-org/ide/blob/develop/src/rust/lib/fr...) , and other related libraries here (https://github.com/enso-org/ide/tree/develop/src/rust/lib). They have pretty good documentation and a lot of example demo scenes, however, in case you'd struggle with using them, join our chat (https://discord.gg/enso) and we'd love to help you getting started! <3
I'm jealous of sooo many of you. I didn't like so many mainstream hits. Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, the Bourne and Bond series, all the Marvel / DC movies probably a lot more I've forgotten to mention.
Awesome. Thanks so much.

Any considersation to expanding the Worker use case to allow for more deployment of full-blown web apps to the edge?
That's not true at all. When someone drops 200 resumes on your desk and says, "Find 10 candidates to interview by tomorrow", you need some initial sort criteria.

The truth, my criteria were: #1: university, #2: GPA, #3: keywords. Sure, I was bitten a few times (I hired an MIT master's student who was utterly helpless), but over the course of years doing this, some patterns emerge, and high-GPA absolutely correlates with good candidates.

Sure, there might be a 2.0/4.0 who is a whiz, but sorry charlie, I'm not gonna picky your resume, so apply yourself or start your own company, because a low GPA means you don't give a shit or have some other problem.
The tooling for understanding complex models is a lot better than what most people assume.

> The initial bizarre wolf behavior was simply the result of ‘absolute and unfeeling rationality’ exhibited by AI systems.

This is a bad quote. They should not say this. It's a poorly trained agent doing a decent job of a poorly defined environment. Absolute rationality conjures images of some greater thinking but its actually a really stupid model that hit a local maxima. Calling it unfeeling implies the model has some concept of "wolf" and "suicide" but it does not. Replace the visuals with single pixel dots if you want an honest depiction of the room for feelings.

> It’s hard to predict what conditions matter and what doesn’t to a neural network."

This is generally true, but it isn't true here.
I may be naïve, but I’d venture to guess that plenty of $170k developers could make a great cloud platform if given the chance.
Love the concept. I'm fresh out of college, so I'm more than happy with full time work at the moment, but I'm definitely hoping to FIRE (or more like FIPT) within 10 or so years if things go well. Working 20 hours a week sounds fantastic. Enough to give me something to do on a regular basis, but also enough to let me do whatever I want to do, whether that be freelance development, or a new hobby.
This really sucks.

They’re cancelling it because they don’t need it anymore. They need something like it, but the requirements have become archaic.

The fact that this was kept up in litigation until the technology became archaic is really, really disturbing.
Would something like cloud.gov fit the bill? That was put together by 18F and USDS and is run by GSA
Why past tense? Because it's dead as languages go. Defining "death" as "zero users" is not the definition most people use, because it's not useful; things are clearly dead before that point. Ada doesn't have a bright future. It isn't going to rise from the ashes and have everyone agree that yes, it was right all along, and everybody with 10 years of experience on their resume is suddenly in hot demand as the crowds give them ticker tape parades for having been right all along. That never happens. It may well klunk along for more decades... but it's dead.

What does happen with such languages is that someone comes along and creates some sort of new language taking the best of the old language and mixing it with more modern stuff. I personally think there's an Ada-like niche waiting to be exploited there, probably something that also takes some lessons from Haskell. (Haskell is still alive, but IMHO, headed toward this sort of dead right now, and really could use this sort of revival itself.) An example of this is Elixir... Erlang would probably be also something I'd be calling "dead" if it weren't for Elixir.

(Ironically, often the biggest partisans of the base language are the last to know about the revival language because every deviation from the base language is seen as a flaw from the One True Answer....)
What would be an acceptable percentage of global energy consumption by cryptocurrency to you?
Are you a tax lawyer?
Yeah, this makes opting out my responsibility. If a company collects the names of all the files in my home directory, it's my fault for not setting some random variable correctly. Oh, and you did remember to also set it in your crontabs, right? If not, oopsie! You're gettin' spied on!

This proposal is terrible and comes at the problem from the exact wrong direction. If someone wants to come up with a "export GO_AHEAD_AND_SPY=yes" envvar that enables telemetry, fine.
A chromebook.

People don't do "on device" anymore outside of unusual situations.
>He finds beauty in the subconscious and dreams and connects things together that don't have an immediately obvious connection.

Lynch has obsessions with domestic relationships that get predictable, and are immediately obvious. I still like twin peaks but its dumb to assume he "doesn't get it" just because he doesn't care for it. If he's watched 600+ movies he probably gets it. And the show WAS a disaster if only for the 100 loose ends it never tied up before being canceled.
Plants love carbon dioxide. That’s why it’s called “greenhouse effect” - greenhouses artificially increase the amount of carbon dioxide in order to increase plant growth. Trees and plants will grow faster and larger as CO2 ppm increases, and we have already observed this.
There is a wonderful little game based on this concept called universal paperclips. The AI eventually consumes all the matter in the universe in order to turn it into paperclips.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
There is nothing lost here.

If Twitter decides to manipulate/cancel/promote content in an unethical way it can be taken to the court.

If the government makes unreasonable take down requests, Twitter can take it to court.

That way the pros and cons of censorship by either party is transparent and available for public scrutiny.
I Joined SF's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force to Expose Corruption
He implied this definition was the consensus, when it's an alternate definition used mainly by anti-white activists.
There are productive (empowering) and unproductive (parasitic) forms of self-help. I have found the former to be useful for as long as I can remember; the latter to be strongly avoided.
Any kind of armed conflict, including war, is a tool of politics. While theoretically speaking, no armed militia will ever be able to beat the US Army, that's not the question. The question is, will an armed resistance change the politics of the conflict enough to not engage in it.

For example, let's say you want to send the army or police to (let's say) take control over some city and implement a curfew. If the populace is armed and decides to oppose you, your calculus now includes whether it's worth killing many people to get your aims. That might make it politically impossible to do, either because it's now no longer worth it, or because the army itself might resist you.

Obviously those are extreme scenarios. You can see many, many cases where a small armed populace managed to "win" against a much larger army, because unlike what some people think, war is very rarely an all-out "get your way at any cost" affair.
Maybe what we really need is some cofounder support group so that we can help each other cope while testing our own limits. If it exists, sign me up!
I don't think most self-described film buffs who are keeping track and logging 50+ movies they watch a year would disagree with you. There's a lot more to film than just the canonical big-budget American hollywood productions
Visual chat | CTO

Unusual opinion alert: We think the future of chat starts with a better GIF camera. What we’ve built so far is basically like GIPHY or TENOR but all the GIFs are you and your friends. Not to flex, but it’s really fun to use. Just wrapped building the beta.

When you’re close with a group of people, you mimic each other: use similar words, slang, gestures, opinions. What we’re trying to do is build shared visual language. Instead of sending a emoji, send a GIF of yourself or a friend doing a party dance. Instead of sending a gif of Shaq doing a shimmy dance, make your own. Instagram filters made everyday people feel like their photos were good enough to share. We’ll make people feel like their gifs are expressive enough to share. You have to try it. It feels nonobvious until you try it. It’s not quite there yet but we’re not far off.

I’m a product designer…. Up until two weeks ago I freelanced designing the first versions of things for YC teams. (Warmly S20, Virtually S20, Zaam W20, Zippi S19). In prior lives built stuff for Intel, Intuit and Intercom.

I’m working with a crazy talented engineer (built Safari for the original iPhone launch) doing it for the cause but he has a family and won’t want to do this for more than a few months.

From a technology perspective we’re doing a lot of stuff with images and video, plus generalist “let’s move fast and learn” things. Over time we’ll invest in letting people deepfake themselves to make gifs and memes based on what is trending in their interest graph and the people we’re talking to.

This is gonna be a slog. We’re going to have to do the best work of our careers to have a shadow of a chance. This is a big bet. If we do it right, we have a chance to build the way everyone talks to each other.

Email me! I’m weird, often in useful ways. What the hell: maybe we’ll change the world.

brendanDmcdonald@gmail.com
Rubicon is also a reference to the Rubicon trial, a popular 4x4 trial running from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe. The trial was named in 1840, and may itself be a reference to caesar's crossing.

https://www.edcgov.us/Government/Rubicon/pages/Rubicon_Trail...
City Journal links pretty common here

Never thought any were worth a serious thought

This article at least takes the mask fully off the ideology

Though it was probably obvious in the zillion previous articles

If any were serious
What a cool website. That article with quotes from Earle Stanley Gardner was great. But some of the other blogs are really cool too, with quotes from Gibson and so on.
We used to find sites like this with search engines, the web gave us this amazing assortment of interesting links.
As others have bemoaned on HN, web search has disappeared as search, and is instead more about advertising. Much like the news. Everything is an advertisement for a position, stance, or viewpoint. Instead of information.
There must be thousands, millions of cool sites like this, yet, how to find them?
There is definitely a growing voice there of people not happy with Israel's actions or the Biden administrations handling of the situation either but honestly, the supposed representative democracy there is mostly a farce. Most of the people with actual power and influence have been brought out.

There would need to be a real revolution within Israeli politics but decades of increasingly hardline right wing politics have pushed dissent to the margins. Israel recieves billions in USD from Uncle Sam for their military spending so that as well as the businesses looking to set up shop in the illegal settlements means there's a lot of money invested in continuing the situation.
> Once thing the lab leak theory would explain is that why the virus was so unexpectedly infective right from the start.

There's nothing unexpected about Covid being infective because spread in humans is why we took note of it and are currently discussing it. That is, we're discussing P(human infectiousness | human epidemic). If we _randomly selected_ a virus from amongst _all_ viruses, then yes, P(human infectiousness) would be expected to be low, but we're not doing that. The former is plain selection bias (by which I mean the technical error; I'm not accusing you of bias).
You don't need a blockchain to charge your users a fee.
I wonder how many of these businesses were still able to pass their SOC audit, yet have these kinds of holes.
People hate on "design by committee", but the real issue is you have a bunch orgs all trying make the design as close to their shit pile of code that is already written. (Outside of that, I think multiple designers with open minds is a good thing, but I shouldn't digress too much.)

(My coworker made an astute prediction (only semi-jokingly) that eventually all the standardized binary interfaces would eventually transitively refer to all the other standardized binary interfaces as the inevitable conclusion of that phenomenon, and few stingy large orgs properly separating their external interfaces from internals.)

The solution here is to pay a specific contractor to do the design and validate with a demo deployment. Oncely once it is proven to work, and the government can then set up their own in-house (i.e. proove it is real open source by doing the tech transfer) is the full money paid out.

This is the computer equivalent of a drug bounty, basically. It's high time publicly-funded engineering doesn't just deepen private intellectual-property motes.
CLICKBAIT
> Start with the ability of any customer to return any purchase (hardware/software) which contains software with a disclosed but unfixed CVE after 90 days without a patch. If this doesn't get rid of the Internet of Shit, I don't know what will.

Does this not also just kill tech? CVEs pop up decades after products have died. Now every tech product is just one unsupported CVE away from losing _all_ lifetime revenue. I just can't see how anyone would ever invest again...

edit: to clarify further the fact that any CVE triggers this, no matter how small, seems egregious to me. The idea of there being no lifetime on the liability seems wild given how CVEs are often the result of other developers breaking ABIs. Imagine a profitable product that was last sold 10 years ago having it's full lifetime revenue refunded because of some change in glibc.
Its weird that they are showing mouth breathing with a device. Just do nose breathing and slow down the exhale and the inhale for a total of about 5-6 breathes per minute.

Go to google and search on "breathing exercise" and you get a little app that will help you dial in this pace. This too will lower your blood pressure, help you focus and reduce anxiety!
It's really not that deep, people will always find sport in scandalising people with a stronger disgust reaction than themselves. It's more a new way of teaching a parrot to say "fuck" rather than a heartfelt statement of political belief in my opinion.
No, it's not. TBH, we were not aware about it until recently, when someone from our community mentioned this project. It looks not maintained anymore nowadays, but I think it's a good idea to reach out to its authors, tell "hi" and chat about our co-existence! I'll do it :)
It's good to stay away from this sort of dismissive language. I'm a so-called "serious engineer" that's spent most of their career working on compilers and embedded OSes, designed and implemented a production JIT compilers, and a wide array of other stuff some people might characterize as deep magic.

There is significant complexity and depth to front end tooling these days, and I consider my colleagues working in that space to be as talented and experienced as anyone else.

The issues in the frontend space seem to me to arise as an artifact of the fact that the work they produce is far more visible and directly evaluateable by non-technical people. The demands they have placed on them to deliver features quickly is far higher. They're far closer to the user-experience side of the product than most backend devs. And they have to deal with a tools ecosystem that evolves and changes far faster than others.

Trying to describe that complex issue in terms of stratification of developers into "serious engineers" and "not serious ones" does a disservice to the underlying problem, and doesn't help address it.
I've wanted to write a screenplay about an ornamental hermit ever since I came across this very article last year.
99.999% of all species ever existed are extinct today. Climate is always affecting nature, we are the first species who have a chance of not joining that statistics.
it's bad if it's running on a deprecated runtime that's no longer being patched for security
I agree with this line of argument in the sense that a choice of loss function is still a choice with implications that one cannot escape. All choices imply the expression of will and the exercise of power.

I think the essential disagreement isn’t so much about the choice of bias as it is about the exercise of power, specifically on who’s behalf do you exercise power? Do you do it for your users or for the greater good? Or for your customers? Or maybe your investors? Or maybe your ideals?