skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh I just ran into an issue the other day with a coworker where Ubuntu had a patched kernel auto update and break everything. Yep, it’s a sand castle
Obviously this is true of any encrypted chat system. Anyone could be recording your encrypted network traffic as we speak, your conversations will be busted wide open! It's nothing to do with Matrix.

If you're talking about the fact that Matrix stores your encrypted conversation history by default on the server: a) you can set history retention per room, b) if we saw a vulnerability in the encryption we could always go and re-encrypt the history (although it's a bit of a lost cause by that point :)
Agree. I realized too late about this. Nowadays I give at most 30% of my mental energy to the company I work for. I thought people would notice, but it turned out they were already doing the same! When looking for a job, I usually discard job offers that include things like “up for a challenge?”, “... we move fast and break things!”, etc., the kind of companies that publish jobs with such wordings are usually too noisy for my well-being.
Release v0.1.5 of CXXGraph Library
>I do think that civilization will collapse. We are too optimistic, we don’t see ourselves failing; we have watched too many Hollywood movies and we think we will save ourselves no matter what.

I agree. I was already on this line of thinking and watching our collective response to COVID really solidified just how little work we're ever going to do on climate change. We badly misunderstand history as a linear function of progress, so we believe things always get better. We rely too much on the hope of a technological breakthrough that would mean we don't have to do any real work, because we got used to that in the 20th century. Living standards and health outcomes are already worse for this generation compared to the previous generation and we soothe ourselves with cheap consumer goods because they're the only things we can afford. We're not going to leave Earth, we're going to stay here and ruin it out of selfishness.
Bravo. As usual, Ciechanowski makes extremely easy to understand, graphical expressions of complex ideas. Highly recommend this site and his other topics.
Not everyone can move from wherever they are to the Bay area though.
A perverse incentive :(
> But no one says the car manufacturers are required to make a car where you can flash the ECU. There’s just no reason for them to block it.

Sure there is… if they are providing warranty on the vehicle then they should definitely block ECU mods, as a customer could flash original firmware back after causing damage.

And I imagine you can easily make an engine over-rev or overheat with a modded ECU, perhaps to the point of causing a fire or other catastrophe.
Why Do Programming Languages Have Types?
> Ultimately, it's very hard for me to see a case against thinking something like this is at least reasonably likely: "We will eventually create robust, stable settlements throughout our galaxy and beyond." It seems like saying "no way" to that statement would itself require "wild" confidence in something about the limits of technology, and/or long-run choices people will make, and/or the inevitability of human extinction, and/or something about aliens or simulations.

Human extinction bit seems pretty probable, not particularly wild. It will be wild if we can stick around long enough to get our technology to the point where it can continue advancing indefinitely without us.
I love this. I'm in the ultrarunning community and I LOVE reading everyone's blog posts/trip reports/race reports/adventures. But everyone stopped updating them over the past 5 years or so. Now that sort of thing is just an Instagram photo with a paragraph or two. The depth and character of those old blog posts have been lost. I wish in depth blog posts would come back, but in reality, I don't think they are.

Side note: My other favorite types of websites are very specific human-curated lists... which also seem to have died out.
That's something you'll need to ask Nvidia.

But, considering what you paid for the mainframe, you probably have the budget to commission them to write drivers just for you (or to license their source and compile it yourself).
Looks about right. Just make it look pretty.
$3.1B Valuation and No Product. Welcome to Quantum Computing
I guess violations of the Constitution don't matter if the victim is someone you disagree with. When they come for you, who will be left to speak up for you?
According to the paper you linked, right around 20% of people in IT, materials engineers, and even people in the natural sciences have an IQ in the 80s or lower. (under 90).

Wouldn't you believe that, that's only slightly less than the general population which is at 25%, or right around what I predicted above :)

The median IQ difference between college professors and service workers is not even a full standard deviation.

Beyond that, I said average IQ100 programmer, of which there are many that can do a perfectly serviceable job in many sectors.

Individual differences in cognitive ability are great, yes, but they are not even close to being perfectly represented in IQ.

I don't know many Trump voters or young earth creationists because of where I live, but I know quite a bit of their relative equivalent where I am right now. Yes, there are a lot of differences, but I know enough young-earth-creationist and far-right engineers/stem people to know that it's not that simple.

Anyways, I think I made my point clear, IQ is not a very good predictor of job performance, you can definitely be a programmer with IQ85, and a great many are.
My favorite blog type is along the lines of "old man yells at clouds". Preferably with said cloud often being "The Cloud". Is there a category for that, or perhaps a Curmudgeons Web Ring?
The social shaming effect seems quite colourful and loud in Australia, compared with some other countries.

(Perhaps it's more "working class", or rather it's much less about class?)
I believe that the rhetoric around defunding the police causes crime.

If you accuse your own society of being evil, then it should come as no surprise that some take that as license to stop following its precepts.

It's like how many left the church after the truth about the child abuse coverups came out.

You cannot simultaneously say the justice system is biased and unfair, and then expect people to act justly. Doesn't matter how much you fund or don't fund your police. The most important kind of policing is that which every individual exercises over himself, based on his/her internalization of society's norms.

If you undercut the internalized voice of society by calling people to question it unnecessarily, then you ought to expect poor behavior.

So I'll say it again, the rhetoric around defunding the police/ACAB/etc is terrible. This has been studied over and over again, and shown to be correlated with a crime increase.

As an aside, I think this is just another form of gaslighting. Take my city of Portland, for example. Although technically police funding hasn't been reduced very drastically, the city disbanded the gun violence reduction team, which was doing the on the ground work necessary to keep people safe. While the force wasn't defunded, they were castrated essentially. This team was formed to combat exactly the kinds of crimes we're seeing now, by charging the would-be perpetrators with the lesser crimes they commit before they kill people.
A friend that worked at an antivirus company told me they had a whole division whose task was to write viruses. This helped then to gain on competitors in the benchmarks "which antivirus detects more viruses"
I Photoshopped Your Drawings into Reality
In America individuals optimize for individual outcomes. Collective benefits are not in favor
The 2014 paper "Pounds that Kill" by Michael L. Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer looked briefly at pedestrian deaths from vehicles, but focused more on multi vehicle collisions and estimated driver and passenger deaths in relation to vehicle weight.

The OP estimates $100/yr external cost of light trucks to account for the increase in pedestrian deaths. This paper estimates a cost several times higher to additionally account for driver and passenger deaths.

Summary article: https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2014/pounds-kill/

Full paper: http://are.berkeley.edu/~mlanderson/pdf/anderson_auffhammer....
These look like a weird mix of Slack threads (temporary (though not enforced in Slack), written in sidebar) and Zulip threads/topics (named, available in the channel list), though... with downsides compared to both (for example, you can't forward messages to original channel like you could on Slack). Feels a bit awkward, but time will tell.

My main concern right now is with discoverability and moderation - it seems a bit difficult for moderators to see recent activity across all threads, unless I missed something.

Other than that, I'm cautiously neutral.
> We've clearly exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth

I’m curious to hear what leads you to this idea. Global warming is really the only major threat (well, covid too) our entire species faces but that is just a cultural/political issue and is largely technologically solved. All other issues that would stop our species from expanding are solved to a large degree (at a level where they don’t threaten our species growth).
If you're not going to win a prize, why would you need to be kept in the loop about an internal vulnerability that is being worked on?

As for getting a prize, it goes back to the dupe issue which is the source of a lot of abuse. There's no way to prove you also worked on it or if you just got the info from your friend and want to double your winnings.
Is your entire point that GPL implements copyleft?
> I don't think being wrong on one subject damns a whole paper.

I would agree in general. A paper that was consistently wrong about sports might still be trustworthy about science.

But almost every story touches on US politics, so misleading the public about US politics casts doubt on all of the stories. They're probably still trustworthy on sports and celebrity gossip, but politics influences science, medicine, business, economics, international news, etc, so their bias in politics is likely to infect all those other topics.
Outside for me happens to be full of climate change induced wildfire smoke.
That's true today. But within 2 years, almost all mainstream EVs will charge quickly. I base this on the experience Tesla, Ford and VW customers are rapidly gaining with HVDC charging and the speed at which Electrify America is getting built out. In two years the only market for EVs that don't have a fast-charge option will be ultra low-cost urban commuter cars. And even then I'm doubtful; cars that can only charge with HVDC might even be cheaper since they don't need an onboard AC/DC converter. Couple that with economies of scale and the car companies might just decide slow-charging cars don't make sense to build.
Developers Share Insights on Application Performance at P99 Conf
This year, I have seen those issues popping up in statefulsets alot. I realised somebody in the team was force deleting it. It is actually well documented.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/force-delet...

I have seen few scenarios where people patching a statefulset actually screws up the volume mount. It is sometimes not evident where the error is for instance if it is the CSI or in the scheduler unless you deepdive into the issue.
I agree. The Slack thread UX is not ideal, but the flow of conversation is so much better than it was pre-threads. I always end up closing the side bar and navigating to the thread in the "Threads" view. They should make it easier to maximize a thread.
My point was in my post. No, helicopters are not "already approved for general use"; certainly not for use by me, and I bet not by you either.

>> to make helicopters require only an ordinary driving license

[^Emphasis added]
Nice gesture. It’s reassuring to remember many people have screwed massively at work, and it’s almost always because of a broken process rather than a failure of their abilities
'Pinning your data on a server' basically means having a backup so that if you lose your phone or other logged in clients, you can still get at your account. Lots of people are happy to run without a cloud backup of their data - and in fact many orgs mandate that you don't back up data from your clients onto a server somewhere, given it makes it easier to steal.
Maybe I'm not rich enough to get it, but let's say I do only care about me, and no one else. In the event of catastrophic climate collapse, sure, I could hypothetically escape on my evil villian billionaire yacht to Oceania, but even if I'm personally fine, my estate (as rich people call their houses) is going to be destroyed. My Miami beachfront condo is literally underwater, as is my Venice summer home, and NYC condo.

Let's say I'm rich and selfish and care only about things and not people. If I bother to look into the future, don't I have more real estate to lose than the poors, who might have one (or fewer!) homes to lose?

Your second point, that long term thinking is hard seems to be a bigger issue, even more so for anybody who is living paycheck-to-paycheck. It's too difficult to get rid of, eg, single use plastic in my life as an ordinary consumer. How do we set things up so the system is incentivized to change itself? Especially when the culture is opposed to any change in the first place.
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable?
I still disagree that there's a regulatory need here. Are there not consequences for the drivers in these situations? Are pedestrians not somewhat liable for their own situational awareness?

Even if regulation is the only solution (I do not believe it is) there's ways with better locality like limiting access to the roads, providing better pathways for pedestrians, better guard rails, lighting, etc. Regulating the vehicle is a sweeping change that assumes that people who own these vehicles have absolutely no need for them in the first place.

I live in an area where a high clearance SUV or other large vehicle is a necessity for navigating many of the roads. Why should I, and others like me, suffer for the externalities occurring in cities (this seems to pertain to) where I will never drive?
Or you can be some random Mexican guy fired for making an OK sign with your hand, by accident.

Because that is now the white power sign. That's reality now.
Or for people like me, wfh will be a perk that actually attracts us, whereas lunches and nap rooms are worthless at best (I prefer making my own food and having a healthy sleep routine) or red flags at worst (too much time in office).

My ideal office is how my favorite job was: deserted around 4:55pm, managers and directors included. 2 hour lunches not uncommon. Work-life balance always the primary focus. Unfortunately my ideal job includes never going into an office, so I'll have to continue looking elsewhere.
No, read the other answers.
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In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
One your comment on a "strong domestic arts industry", I would recommend this video.

"The Curious Story of China's Indie Gaming Scene"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrTZ_UeUxM
What’s Exported Fragment in Web Development (Svelte, Malina.js)
>The only metric the public should be concerned about is whether they have or have not been vaccinated.

That would be quite stupid. Because if the risk of the disease is low, vaccines does not make sense when you do risk/benefit calculation.

Hence the people should know about the cases.

Of course, instead, if you are looking to push vaccines no matter what, you would say something like

>The only metric the public should be concerned about is whether they have or have not been vaccinated.
Indieweb uses Slack? That's... confusing.
Most open-source licenses explicitly say that there's no guarantees.
Looks v interesting but could do with a mobile friendly website!
Also, Cisco IOS scripting.
haha. DOA
I remember looking at the same data some time ago and reaching the same conclusion about accidents at night. Another factor was that the pedestrians themselves are very likely to be intoxicated.
By becoming a broker, Zillow accidentally nerfed its FSBO business
A very similar argument could have been applied to travel agents a generation+ ago. There was a single bill to pay instead of booking your own hotel, flights, cruise, rental car, etc, etc.

It turns out that many (not all) people are willing, able, and actively want to make the choices to curate their experience and see what happens. Yes, it's more work but it's probably closer to what they want.. OR if they miss, it's on them with few others to blame.

We've reached the point where there is SO much noise and the algorithms are optimized to feed you more noise that people suffer. In some cases, it manifests as the constant anxiety and stress of "omg this thing happened!" while in others, it's just the constant interruptions.

Regardless, I suspect we're going to see the pendulum swing back and we'll see strategic disconnection to filter out the noise, chaos, and BS. If that's correct, Substack nailed the timing and should do well for quite a while to come.
50 thousand people are born in China every day.

It's not like the world is static.
Radiative cooling: nanoscience to make ACs more efficient
Liberal democracies should not cede ethically troubling neuroscience to China
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

And not directly related, but relevant overall:

https://odysee.com/@AlisonMorrow:6/death-of-journalism-by-mo...
Why's it any more wasteful than any other kind of used car?
> We got 1,200 downloads in the first 24 hours.

that's impressive!
Something that might interest you even more is the related questions by Jason Hise that I linked to. They explored using 8x8 bit-element matrices as an associative hash of a string and apparently it works pretty good as a hash for string keys in a hashmap. Both questions, answers, and comments all have some interesting context, and Jason answers some questions I had about their usage in comments on the second question.

Using 8x8 Binary Matrices as a hash - https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1902462/using-8x8-b...

Finding Prime Binary Matrices - https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1914853/finding-pri...
I have two kids and we just went with 3 kids and 2 adults on a short weekend trip in a peugeut 308, so I don't buy your argument.

Moreover, if people would actually use station wagons or vans we wouldn't have the problem. It's the SUVs that have the weight.

One example Volvo XC 60 SUV weights 1,869 to 2,225 kg, the equivalent class station wagon V60 is 1,761 to 2,091 kg and the trunk volume (not sure what the correct term for this is) is 483 L (XC60) vs 529L (V60). So the SUV is heavier and smaller inside (I have driven both and the XC60 is also smaller for passengers). The we need larger insides argument really does not stand a serious test.
Maybe we're just talking passed each other? I agree with everything in your comment.
> Other places I've seen offer a "fully stocked" kitchen (read, junk food) as a perk. Why the hell would I want a constant supply of crap I can easily afford to buy but don't because it's unhealthy? I consider myself to have pretty decent self control, but some people don't and it's like offering crack to an addict.

I agree completely. I've never understood why people making $200-300k are so impressed by food, as if they're living on a remote island. I could understand if it was some kind of chef service where you can request any recipe, but as it is I'd rather work in an office that has no food or private offices so I can keep the noises, smells, and sights out.
I think that instead of framing it as fairness--which seems to agitate those who were born with monetary advantages, this conversation should be re-framed to focus on societal efficiency.

It is inefficient to shoehorn people to the top because their parents were at the top. The people at the top should be our highest achievers and not our decent achievers who were born with rich parents.

The way our society is structured we will find ourselves much better off in a few generations if we can devise a system where each persons potential is given a proper environment to flourish and where each high potential person is given a carrot to chase that isn't unachievable.

Edit:

Speaking of carrots to chase. It's looking more and more like the wealth of millennials(and I suppose zoomers?) long term will be very very determined by their inheritance(if they are so lucky to have one lol) and less so by their hard work in life.

This is likely the cause of the number of people under 40 who seem to be "opting out". It's very difficult to get to the supposed goal unless you are a high achiever. The carrot is very much too far away and this is another societal inefficiency. We would have a much more dedicated workforce if we made it possible to get "carrots".
I don't think that's reasonable and it's very unlikely that "chats" are going away. I've been using chat apps since that person was in their mid-to-late 30s. Newsgroups were around a decade before that. The relatives I have in their 90s know how to use Hangouts. Being 60 isn't an excuse in my opinion
we're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any external funding yet. we aren't sponsored by any church etc. and have no religious affiliation.

restriction might help all addictions. But, we need to start somewhere, and we have chosen this specific problem. we plan to launch solutions for compulsive usage of technology products in the coming months and years.
When will one of these chat services finally allow me to open a thread in a new tab? Sure it won't solve every problem but I'd sure find it more useful than the mess we have now.
The west industrialized without gulags.
Matrix is a protocol. Element is a reference app built on top of that protocol, and Element looks like Slack/Discord.

Other apps built on Matrix do not look like Slack, e.g. Fluffychat, which looks very similar to Signal.
There are elections coming in 2023 (as scheduled) and possibly earlier if the opposition manages to force it due to current low confidence in the government. All prior ‘this is critical’ moments were either local elections (cannot affect the national gov’t) or sort of wishful thinking on the opposition’s part. This one is different, because Erdogan is not only not polling first in a very long time, he is polling fourth and the last.

It also is significant because the collapse of TRY to half its prior value was both swift and for the first time ever, visibly caused by bad leadership.
Zulip is the only decent implementations of threaded chat I could find, although it’s solution to “aside” conversations is that all conversations are “aside” (or none are), since you are using channels. It does wonders for discoverability though
Network effects. John Ousterhout invented tcl in part to script/implement the Magic VLSI layout tool. So it's not surprising it's spread to other EDA applications.
Ask HN: What is going on in the Reddit dev team?
Every week the experience of the mobile website is degraded further. Threads take seconds to collapse, videos don’t play, opening a post and going back crashes Safari. It’s seriously hard to believe this “$6Bn company” can’t afford to hire an acceptable dev team.

Please someone from the inside must explain why the experience is so poor.
What's the general story about Merkel's rise?