skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised silverback gorillas were not capable of protecting their clan.. A full grown gorilla has a 1,300 PSI bite force.
I don't follow your reasoning. Worse at what precisely?
Bitwarden is free, so zero? I would be happy to make a recurring small donation though like I do for various projects on GitHub.
> "Everything is a file" went too far with Linux

Having had a play with a few variants on this theme, I think kernel based abstractions are the mistake here. It's too low level and too constrained by the low-level details of the API, as you've said yourself.

If you look at something like PowerShell, it has a variant of this abstraction that is implemented in user mode. Within the PowerShell process, there are provider plugins (DLLs) that implement various logical filesystems like "environment variables", "certificates", "IIS sites", etc...

These don't all implement the full filesystem APIs! Instead they have various subsets. E.g.: for some providers only implement atomic reads and writes, which is what you want for something like kernel parameters, but not generic data files.
First and second implies a hierarchy and uneven power balance. Both players should have their turns simultaneously.
In my opinion, that might be a sign that the idea of drawing abstract connections between words and concepts, that are several layers of indirection apart, may be going too far.

Yeah using language that upsets people is bad, but if you allow enough layers between words and concepts, _everything_ can be argued to be offensive for one reason or another. Or will be soon once something else becomes a hot button issue.
I'm sure chess board manufacturers would love this. Think of how many new sets they could sell if everybody decided they had to replace their old black and white sets.
Can you point to some examples in history of things going this way? There are relatively few advances that were done purely by governments. Usually progress starts in the government and is then superseded by private industry, or the reverse.

There's a reason capitalist-America has led technological progress for 100+ years. The USSR had almost purely governmental funding and their administrators were almost universally terrible at genuine innovation.
Yes, this is a core part of the design issue and argument I'm making.

The new concepts are leaky abstractions -- they wrap the old ones badly. You still have to understand both to understand the system. Networking in k8s seems to really suffer from this.

And the new concepts and old concepts don't compose. They create combinatorial problems, i.e. O(M*N) amounts of glue code.
The thing is, most of the net worth of these people isn't just sitting around in a big bucket of cash; the wealth of these people is overwhelmingly due to their ownership of their businesses.

If I own a mom-and-pop sandwich shop worth $1 million, and I take a $50k salary, I imagine most people would be fine with that.

If I grow this sandwich shop into a national franchise worth $1 billion and still take a $50k salary, I still am in possession of just as much spendable cash, but suddenly I'm a billionaire on paper. It seems incredibly immoral to strip my own business from me because it's been too successful, and that type of ownership expropriation seems extremely likely to stifle entrepreneurship.

Tax people when they sell stock. Tax people's income. Tax collateralized assets. Tax the hell out of them if they're making boatloads of cash. But to wrest ownership of someone's creation from their hands because they've done too good a job creating it seems like a recipe for disaster.
I'm utterly unrestrained with it because I don't even use NP++ as a text editor for anything else— my actual projects are in VSCode or just terminal vim instances.
No, as was the entire point of my comment, I cannot talk with anyone I respect about these beliefs. And I do see myself becoming more of an asshole, that is also the entire point of my comment. I think it must have gotten past you.
There was a star trek channel on youtube which got suspended because he called the fictional race Ferengi “greedy”, which they actually are. Got reinstated after a few days. But it’s getting ridiculous now.
This happened last year. The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) hosted a discussion about this[1]

[1] https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/john-adams-slams-a...
let’s unpack this for a while.

what is python:3.8? is this reproducible?

what is apt? where is the install coming from?

What about poetry?

Yeah it’s cool for shits and giggles but when this thing breaks you’re going to be in a world of pain

for the rpm equivalent:

python setup.py bdist_rpm

wat?
literally lol, thanks
Have you heard of Grenfell Tower?
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No, it fell apart earlier. Saudi Arabia does not get to be in the "democracy" club. It may get to be in the "our allies" club, but nobody confuses Saudi Arabia with a democracy.

Also: Syria may have elections. That doesn't make it a democracy.
Or cooler heads prevail like at the Académie Française who recognize that sexual genders are completely unrelated to grammatical genders despite what activists try to say.

So we may just get some people who push back and tell people that chess isn’t racist and it’s people who are injecting race where it doesn’t exist (such as here in chess) who are the problem.
I wrote a rather lengthy thesis on Russian data localization and how it plays a role in the country's information security doctrine.[1]

The push for data localization in Russia was a response to the domination of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (the latter is blocked). The ideology here is state sovereignty; he who holds the data, has control. Pomerantsev is correct to say that Russia just doesn't want to play by foreign rules.

Data localization has the added effect of bolstering the IT industry as a whole in Russia and spurring data center construction, even in Siberia, where cooling isn't much of a concern. The legal effect is to maintain a database of Russian citizens' online activity on these western platforms in case the FSB wants to build a case against a dissident or suspected criminal.

Meanwhile you see since roughly 2008 a more ideologically hostile and "civilizational" discourse in Putin's speeches, those of his ultra-nationalist wing, and in some of their publications (look into Izborsky Club, and the writings of Alexander Prokhanov and Dugin). The Russian military doctrine and information security doctrines were later updated to prioritize shielding or protecting its populace from certain discourse and ideas (pro-LGBTQ, pro-democracy NGOs) and favoring a "patriotic" information sphere to uphold "spiritual and religious values".

So the ideological basis for this information security policy is to bolster the "Russian world/Russkiy Mir," an imagined community of individuals beyond Russia's borders, including former Soviet sphere citizens and ethnic Russians abroad.

And of course the utility in silencing the propagation of certain ideas and viewpoints is to minimize protests (the most destabilizing of which was likely Bolotnaya in 2011). So this ideology doesn't stop them from prohibiting or banning groups and discussion about Russia's biggest problem: corruption.

The concerning point for me as an American is that in the past two-ish years we've seen our social media companies turn more draconian with the censorship and cooperation with our intelligence agencies, especially since Jan 6th and what the Biden administration is calling "misinformation". The U.S. was the survivor of the Cold War for many reasons, but the most compelling of which was that America represented a far more moral, humanitarian, and tolerant society, especially compared to the unfree, amoral, and atheist superpower. I'm getting off topic here, but I think you can see what I'm getting at. Ideology matters, just as much as ideological consistency does.

[1]: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773...
https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-game...

https://www.wired.com/story/riot-games-ceo-culture-complaint...
What you propose wouldn’t do anything but cause unforeseen problems. Blackrock has bought a few thousand homes; it has no significant impact. But - big companies build housing and sell it; you’d probably screw major homebuilders and limit new supply, making the problem worse.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Google moderator AI becomes the source of truth on what is offensive. If google doesn't delete it than clearly it is ok. If google does delete it then it is offensive regardless of anything else.
+1 for Emacs autosave. Note that an autosave file is not the original file you were working on but a copy saved at the interval you specify. The original file is left untouched until you explicitly save it.

In case Emacs aborts for some reason, at restart Emacs will alert you that the newer copy exists and ask if you want to use the copy instead, which you usually (but not always) do.

If you want Emacs to automatically save the original file after a configurable interval, use auto-save-visited-mode.
You can already do this with the IRS and receive 15% to 30% of what is owed[1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office
I still have to explain it properly, but there is a pretty good sketch on a recent blog post, linked from this comment. (You will probably end up chasing a lot of comment threads, but it's mostly there.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914632

It's an argument about avoiding O(M*N) glue code. O(M*N) amounts of code are expensive to write, and contain O(M*N) numbers of bugs.
Because we let people tell their neighbors they can’t build more housing, an action that used to be unconstitutional. Now it is, based on one openly racist court case from a hundred years ago.
Nobody cares about your 10 million lines of code, so good luck.
He believed in his procedure so strongly that he “thrice reactivated himself.” It isn’t clear what he meant by “thrice,” because once the duct is tied off, it’s tied off.

Maybe he had three of them...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism
Reddit is alive and well. If Reddit is a failure, I want such failures.
I don't think people particularly care about high speed rail in Britain since the vast majority of the population live within 200 miles of London and our existing trains go up to 125mph on the mainlines so get you to London in a couple of hours or so.

Edinburgh or Glasgow to London is a similar distance as LA to SF. Those trains take about 4 hours right now versus 8 hours on Amtrak, about the same as the 8 1/2 hours the Flying Scotsman took from Edinburgh to London in 1888.
A lot of charities secretly loathe big donations from the super-wealthy, because they come with all kinds of strings. The charities can't say no, generally. But people who run charities are rightfully put out when a rich person likes a charity enough to give it a lot of money but not enough to let the people running the charity use their expertise to decide how to spend it.
Eh, many wooden sets are light and dark woods. Also many checkers boards are red and black.

It’s still ridiculous -like cultural revolution level ridiculous.

At least nature will never change and nights will be black and days will be light.
For reference, orbital flight requires 17,400 mph (28,000 km/h)

Suborbital flight only requires 3,700 mph (6,000 km/h)

Highly recommend playing kerbal space program if you'd like to get a better intuitive understanding of the difference: suborbital flights are your second or third attempt - pretty easy, orbital flight will probably take you a dozen flights or so to figure out.
> Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?

Make opening their products accessible so that people can do it without damaging what they own. PCs are like that. Car parts have no such warranty stickers (that I am aware of).

Stickers are much more cultural than actually preventing damage. Furthermore, you can have stickers that decay over time and void your warranty without you even touching them (those nefarious apple humidity stickers for instance). It is entertaining to see Steve from gamer's nexus bashing warranty stickers at every opportunity.
"Great men" create Focal Points[0] (or, if you believe in great men, Schelling Points) around which societies and lines of history converge. It's probably equally true, though, to say that societal dynamics have within them focal points which allow certain men (and women) to become great.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_%28game_theory%29
Fogbugz really was (is!) an underappreciated product. Jira’s become a necessary evil, but I really wish FB had managed to make a bigger dent in the market.
Every single upvote/downvote mechanism on the internet (including on HN) is an opinion meter, regardless of what rules/etiquette the site tries to push. And I'm pretty sure that's what Twitter wants, because it means that all the safe, popular replies to a Tweet will automatically bubble up on top and they won't have to deal with the controversial ones because the community will take care of them.
I don't think anyone here would dispute the importance of always reaching beyond as a species.

Ultimately, however, these billionaires are not contributing to reaching beyond. We've been to space before -- in fact, the first space pioneers went further into space than any of these billionaires. Over half a century ago.

Their money would have been better spent on putting together new space telescopes or probes to look further afield, actually reaching for what's next, rather than reaching for familiar ground and taking themselves to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere -- to say nothing of the fact that it was largely for the sake of PR/spectacle.

Musk less so -- as another poster has said, SpaceX seems well-intended and useful.
Idk I imagined an excel spreadsheet, which hits the middle ground between paper and some complex govtech application. If it is successful and fines/funding rolls in then maybe upgrade
Ask HN: Recommendations for Home Solar Install?
Hi HN! I’ve been considering adding solar to my home but I really have no idea where to begin. Purchase or lease? What are my giant battery options and which seems best? What kind of requirements are there for the home electrical infra (200 amp, 300 amp, doesn’t matter)? What sort of total cost of installation am I looking at for an average size house on the East Coast (MA, 2000 sqft)

Any wisdom or resources would be greatly appreciated.
Bezos is probably hoping to convince Wally Funk to go on a motivational speaking tour of Amazon warehouses.
Sorry. Yes, you are correct.

I over-edited my comment to fit a narrow screen, breaking the example.
Consumer protection is not really concerned with B2B power struggles.
This is a small step in a generally right direction. Should be celebrated!
We need a word or phrase for this phenomenon, where we attempt to substitute human pattern recognition with algorithms that just aren't up to the job. Facebook moderation, Tesla Full Self Driving, the War Games movie, arrests for mistaken facial identification. It's becoming an increasingly dystopic force in our lives and will likely get much worse before getting even worse. So it needs a label. Maybe there's a ten syllable German word that expresses it perfectly?
Most of the water usage in the US west is farming not from residential use and a lot of residential use isn't destructive since it's treated and released.
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When making long-term investments, it's often a bad idea to optimize for efficiency (if we want to measure efficiency as return on investment), because it's difficult to predict ahead of time which projects will work out the best in 10 or 30 years. Sometimes the best bets are the ones no one thinks will work out, and therefore no one wants to make.

I think PG has spilled a lot of ink about this in the context of VC investment, but the same idea doubly applies to government funding because their time horizons are even longer term. If all you do is optimize for next quarter, next year, or even the next 5 years, you're going to miss the things that at first seem innocuous or useless, but then in 30 years blow up into something huge.
I thought of this and realized it'd actually be a fun game. Both players write down their next move and then move simultaneously once both are ready. To avoid race conditions, if a player moves a piece that is to be taken by the opponent's move, then that player has saved that piece with that move. That creates an interesting dynamic where you may not wish to take the most valuable piece if you predict the other player will move out of the way.
> The property is listed on AirBnB.com, where you get the address and the name of the person operating the AirBnB.

Owners play a shell game and will have property managers list their properties under their names or their employees' names, along with fake addresses that are only revealed via messages after booking.
That’s why I’m happy about the move to electric cars. Remove the externalities and democratize access to transportation. Why should just rich people have access to cars?
This reads like it was generated in some sort of Communist dystopia.

How about we not force people into a one size fits all API?

Let’s trust grown-ups to be grown-ups and communicate the things that are important to them in the way that they deem important.

If you want to code at night, then fine.

If you want to take DEEP BREAKS in the middle of the day, then fine.

If you and your team prefer to communicate intent and expectation via email, pigeon or certified letter, that’s fine as well.

Let’s measure success by results and trust people as adults to select their tools and manner in which they use those tools.
TIL I'm an extremist.
Your question here seems genuine so I really hate that people use downvotes as "I don't agree with this person" rather than a comment simply being disingenuous, trolling, full of unsubstantiated claims or otherwise low-quality.

So here's an example of what I mean when I say "reduces housing supply" [1]:

> However, since the onset of the coronavirus crisis the tourist leasing market has dried up, and landlords in the sector have reverted to advertising their properties on sites like Daft.ie

> ...

> In contrast, availability in the rental market has bounced, with 41 per cent more properties for rent nationally and 92 per cent more in Dublin.

So by "reducing housing supply" I mean there are less units to rent or buy because existing supply has been taken off those markets to become illegal hotels.

[1]: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/pandemic-reveals...
newer engineers are less used to lower level abstraction. anecdotal, but that’s what I observed
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> They don't hoard any cash.

Instead they spend it on lobbying politicians (or becoming politicians) to pass laws that make it easier for them to make money at the expense of everyone else.
Absolutely. (...checking preferences to make sure I am not lying) Yes! Absolutely. :) You can turn the feature off completely, and if it's enabled, you can set a time limit for "rescued" items before they're completely discarded, e.g., yo could set it so you have a day to rescue them, then they get truly deleted.
A friend of mine was banned for sending a chat message that said “this is a Mexican standoff” — the people in the room were both Mexican, if it matters.. we were all confused on why he was permanently banned.
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I fully agree with you that slashdot has/had a better model. Both the awarding of karma points to spend and the max cap on the number of points a comment could accumulate were positive things.

I don't know if r/popular is going to kill reddit but it's at least no longer interesting to me at all. It's similar to twitter in that it's mostly "outrage" with the addition of some random tiktok videos or current events like sporting sprinkled in.
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I don't agree. I worked at Google for over 10 years, during the time when SREs started to make as much or more money than SWEs. There's a reason for that.

I also disagree that the systems are reliable. From the outside most the stateless services are fast and reliable; the stateful ones less so. From the inside, no: Internal services were unreliable and slow. (This could have changed in the last 5 years, but there was a clear trend in one direction in my time there.) There were many more internal services on Borg than external ones.
To get started with clj, you need 0 files. From a project directory, you can just type `clj` and get a REPL that includes Clojure and source files in src/. You can add new source files and immediately invoke them with `clj -X`. You can push that project to github and others can immediately use it from another project using a github url/sha. This is far "easier" than leiningen for getting started. The comparative experience there requires creating a project.clj with a bunch of keys, building a jar, getting an account and keys on clojars to deploy it, etc.

There's lots of other things you can do with clj - these are all additive. At some point, you might (possibly) need a build script. When you do, it's written in Clojure using a pretty straightforward set of functions and you can copy/paste in a starting point. You can grow that build file forever.
The responsibility for the totally-warped tax law falls entirely on our elected officials.

I expect people to try to bend rules to their advantage, and I expect rule-makers to not concede. I don't blame soccer players for taking a dive when it helps improve the odds of pulling a card; I blame FIFA for not putting in rules to disincentivize this behavior (though in soccer in particular, this is changing).
modern 'woke' mob outrage

I can't help noticing that the media figures who are most upset about this alleged issue are the exact same people that spent years complaining there was a 'war on Christmas', setting fire to football jerseys, asserting he criminality of public figures with no evidence etc. etc.

Perhaps these physicians of society's ills should heal themselves first.
> using language that upsets people is bad

Shouldn't be. Intent should be the grounds for upset, intent only. Otherwise you get a Euphemism Treadmill, and that's a goddamn fucking waste of time.
Diplomacy works like this.
Technology is a good business because a small labor input can scale to a very large impact. I'm sure there is a place for consultancy but I don't see it winning against "scale" in the long term.
Humans first arrived in east Asia 2.1 million years ago, and modern humans arrived there at least 80,000 years ago. The fertile crescent civilization formed about 11,000 years ago, and some flood accounts, as well as some geological evidence, date the floods at about 12,000 years ago.
Thanks. We're going to start small with just nomad, then vault, and as our needs grow we will probably adopt consul (we already use terraform so hopefully not a huge stretch) and maybe boundary.

This is thing I like about the HashiCorp tools. You don't have to eat the whole cake in a single sitting.
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This good samaritan compensation model works well in New York to catch illicitly idling commercial vehicles. How are illicit short term rentals significantly different?
What a fine mess we've created.

- Popular experiences tend to be better experiences, so we all congregate to the same services

- Homogenous user behavior leads to monopolistic situations, increasing outrage when anything goes wrong

- Even if the government doesn't try to enforce moderation, the company attempts to self-moderate to maintain its image

- The popularity of the service makes human moderation impossible, creating a need for inevitably-flawed robots

I see no solution. The only way to win is not to play.
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