skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any idea about what exactly constitutes the "Other" column ? I don't know how to read the table for a foundation, so it's not clear if it's just "bonuses", taken from the general budget, or if it might be something else (say, "speaker fees" or "consulting" gigs that are done in his name, but channel through the foundation, etc... No idea what I'm taking about, here, so just curious !)
> Raising children is a lot of work and a secular worldview doesn't really provide a strong incentive.

Sure it does. But, secular (and open-minded religious) worldviews are more adaptable to present circumstances, adapting high-investment-per-offspring low-cardinality reproductive strategy in a stable environment near comfortable carrying capacity; whereas blind tradition-bound approaches to religion and culture more generally continue to apply low-investment-per-offspring high-cardinality strategies adapted to either sparsely populated or highly-insecure environments when not in such environments.
If someone has remotely compromised my home network how do I know they haven't just installed a keylogger, and are capturing the passwords that I type in via a sticky note?

I'm just a person on the internet, so my threat model may be different to yours, but my threat model is for the most part phishing, social engineering, data breaches, and the likes. The majority of these are fixed by password autofill (for the most part)
I think both are true. If no technological progress happens, but the productive workforce is 1% bigger each year, cet par you expect a 1% GDP growth - 1% more stuff being made etc.

But sure, we can move on from that. At one point, the strength of a nation was counted in coal and sulphuric acid output, and investing in factories was all the rage.
Oreo is actually an imitation (a successful one) . The original product was called Hydrox [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox

(Hydrox is really a not a good name for a snack)
As a complete tangent, I recently heard a podcast [1] with Frank Wilczek, inventor of so called time-crystals, where he discussed materials where waves can propagate according to a rich enough set of rules to essentially "simulate" another world with its own set of physics. Fascinating.

[1]: https://youtu.be/0zAlEjFU7xo?t=3000
If all those are developers it might, although I don't recommend it. If not, I would search for alternatives. I was talking about Jira here, don't know too much about other products.
Try not to think about hospitals, but more about all the individual doctors offices that also need to be connect to this environment and don't have to to go through a EU wide bidding process.

E.g. there are more than thousand software solutions that are registered with the health insurance companies to manage patient data and billing processes.
He is incorporated, but as a foundation, not as a company.
Even in confines of C there are coding conventions with lower bullrun compatibility and there are some projects that use them: putty and s2n use them with C, grpc library uses it with C++. Fat pointers are in talks since 80s and are cheaply implementable, meanwhile Fuchsia, an allegedly new codebase, is written in old good 70s vanilla C as if PDP-7 is still hot.

As for the article, the dream to get all UBs right without a systematic approach is idealism.
> Bah… never expected such a comment here

Honestly, why? The religion cures social problems, traditional family with one income and homeschooling are pretty prevalent on HN.
> We cannot strive for a continuous grow of the population since the earth's resources are finite.

True, but the US is in the enviable position where it has enough resources to support a substantially higher population. The US has the second highest amount of arable (cultivated land) in the world, second only to India. However, its population is only one quarter of India's.

I'm not arguing that the US should increase its population to that extent, and I'm not arguing that having 1.3B people living in a country the size of India is a good thing. However, the US could maintain population growth for significantly longer than other countries.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210704202756.29107-1-ojeda@ke... - A patch to include experimental rust support, with support from Linus; I believe it's in the latest mainline HEAD.
Anyone remember mobile safari's CSS 100vh 'feature'?

https://medium.com/rbi-tech/safaris-100vh-problem-3412e6f137...
> All the Europeans did with them was to rotate the "4" by 90°

To be honest, from the second picture you've linked, it would seem that North Africans didn't do almost anything with at least 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 either. So what Dürer printed in the 1500s has 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9 from the Indians, 6, 8 from the West Africans, and 4 and 5 seem to be European developments. I have no idea how you get European "4" from the Ghobar numerals by rotating the respective Ghobar numeral. In fact topologically European "4" is more similar to the earlier Gwalior numeral, and the early European "4" in your picture is the Gwalior "4" upside down.

> he would have had to coincidentally adapt them back to more nearly resemble the forms in the inscription in Chaturbhuj Temple at Gwalior from three centuries earlier

...but why are you contradicting yourself now? First you say that numeral shapes used in Europe were developed by North Africans and then you say that the forms come actually from India. Which one is it, then?
Opsss, imagine a war between USA and Spain in 1989!
It has nothing to do with religion. It just so happens that population is self regulated. If infant mortality is high and the world is more dangerous people have more children.

This is also true for almost any species.
How to reduce the bussines of war without banning dollar
> Another alternative is a GPG-encrypted file, though keeping that synchronised between multiple locations might prove a challenge.

What's the difference between what you're suggesting here and a password manager? Enxrypted local file, with an optional sync service. I know that if I was setting up my own password manager for security reasons, the sync part is likely the most vulnerable, hence why I would like to offload that to a third party that I trust.

[0] https://bitwarden.com/help/article/what-encryption-is-used/
> the team had considered the identity switch theory while Jeanne was still alive because she looked younger than her daughter in photographs, but similar discrepancies in the rates of aging are commonly found in families with centenarian members.

That doesn't sound too convincing - what if those similar discrepancies are also caused by fraud? It's one of the rare cases where Occam's razor would support foul play over the "simpler" claim.
You could just disable the notifications? You can do this in pretty much any browser.

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/customize-website-not...
That was not the case when Windows 10 shipped. It shared with the entire internet by default and many people got hit with surprise bills.
Causation typically goes forward in time
> I’m sure I would have had a better life as a hunter-gatherer[1]. [1] Not even joking, this is an actual reply.

No, you just seem to be unwilling accept that reply that argued that we worked less than today - which is true. So your suggestion that the "natural state of nature" is struggle and hardship fell flat.
Fluffychat [1] is probably the best alternative client, written in Flutter. But it is also missing a lot of features and is not exactly polished.

[1] https://fluffychat.im/
Element raises $30M as Matrix explodes
Not exactly a bot misinformation campaign, but interesting, thanks.

I think of QAnon types as being a bit muddle-headed. I doubt they're capable of creating a bot campaign. Russia could, but they don't need to: we do it to ourselves.

An Occam/Hanlon's Razor corollary: don't attribute to bots or shills that which idiocy can fully explain.
Putting on 6kg in a year is not that fast, people do sometimes gain weight faster than that in adulthood.
This reads like the pilot episode of a quirky netflix show.
While the argument is not implausible, the secularisation is part of such a huge societal change that it imho difficult to argue causation. A ton of things are changing about our societies, among them secularisation and drops in childbirth rates, is a more conservative view.

For example, increasing female access to career development probably drops child birth rates. Is that in itself driven by secularisation? I don’t think directly. And indirectly, everything is related.
> The police are a government entity - banks are unelected private companies.

My point was to do with charter. The difference between the two situations is one is legal and one is illegal because it's an activity carved out for a specific group. Private or government is not a meaningful distinction. For instance, doctors are private-sector individuals but performing medicine is their exclusive charter. If you offer back-room plastic surgery you're going to prison.

Fractional reserve banking is how money is created and destroyed. It's created by retail banks (when loans are originated) on behalf of the federal reserve which is chartered to do so by congress. The federal reserve manages the money supply in part through these private banks, under their supervision and charter, to maintain low, consistent inflation and maximum employment. While protecting the deposited assets via the FDIC.

When a private individual hits print and synthesizes 60 billion ersatz dollars for their own benefit or the benefit of a small group of entities, it's quite likely to be a crime of one sort or another. Seems like we'll know for sure sooner rather than later.

> The fine was tiny, it's a nominal slap on the wrist.

It was IMO a trial balloon for a federal suit - the one their executive team got target letters for, announced today. I've maintained this the whole time, and it was also the consensus among attorneys on crypto twitter. This is how the justice system operates under these circumstances. The wheels of justice turn slow.

The NYAG settlement is a scathing indictment of fraud and garbage business practices. Honestly there's not a single thing redeeming Tether or its leadership team.

It's pretty clear at this point you're trying to defend the indefensible and it's time to ask yourself why.

Would you react the same way if this settlement was between Wells Fargo and the NYAG? If not, why are you holding Tether to a different standard?
I have mixed feelings about threads. In Slack, it is not obvious whether one should continue discussion in a thread or a new post since the former would hurt the visibility of chat.

Is "spaces" similar to Discord channels? (#)
In 1950, the birth control was not all that much accessible and even illegal in plenty of places. Whole lot of women and men were in less of position to control when and how many kids they have.

Also, USA had post WWII massive economic boom.
Too many JavaScript developers.
Wars are won with absolute resources, not per capita resources
"If you want to see change, you need to incentivize change. For example, if you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about the idea of defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product. If you want to give Facebook nightmares, talk about the idea of making it legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected. Imagine how quickly Mark Zuckerberg would start smashing the delete key.

Where there is no liability, there is no accountability... and this brings us to the State. "

Yep, this definitly needs to eventually happen.
I agree. That'd be fun! They could introduce a limit and if the product doesn't pass the limit, is outdated or anything, then it gets an ugly Unsafe sticker on the product box. Stickers could be mandated regarding the cloud usage of the device too: This one phones home to China, this one to Russia, this one to the USA. Let the people know.
> It is probably a sophisticated cyberattacker looking for credentials

It is probably the script of a sophisticated cyberattacker leveraging some vulnerability for looking for credentials of thousands of people at once. Yes, the burglar is a total non-threat by comparison (unless they happen to be working for your very personal enemy intelligence agency)

Good security practice would add a memorized element to the stored passwords as an informal second factor. Are there password managers that have good support for that when auto-filling and updating?
even on programming forums it's hard to avoid it.

there's always some politics or stuff like covid
>No matter how much I try to still my mind, it always circles back to the problems that have been left unsolved.

The main idea behind meditation is "becoming the observer", it has helped me when I detach from myself and just try to observe, feeling things is ok.

The best analogy is you standing on beach, waves will come and go, idea is not to eliminate your environment and be blank, the idea is to be OK with your surrounding.
Others have mentioned Discord and Slack being closed source, but I'm interested in Zulip as an alternative. I really like the "branch off a topic at any time" that leads to proper distinct threads of conversation that get much easier to follow. And the interface so far seems pretty polished and seamlessly responsive, with rich keyboard shortcut interface too (which I'm yet to learn tbh). I hope it too continues to grow as a good FOSS option.
Underpaid TBH.
Discord just got threads.
Wages for men under the age of 25 peaked in 1958. Afterwards, the loss of good paying low-skill agricultural and industrial jobs lowered wages for the young. Wages went up on average but only because wages for skilled jobs went up dramatically after 1958. Strong labor unions helped with that.

1958 was the all time peak year for the ratio of average wage to average rent, people were paying just 22% of the average wage on the average rent. This was also the peak year of the Baby Boom, partly because the rents were so cheap and it was so very easy for an 18 year old male to graduate from high school, get married and get his own place.

In economic ways 1958 might have been the best year ever to be a young male, at least for whites.

My oldest brother was born in 1957. My parents didn’t have health insurance so my dad had to pay cash. The bill was $40. Health insurance was less important when hospital prices were so cheap.
W3C hasn't been involved in HTML "standards" for over ten years now (they're hosting the CSS WG, though).

Don't get me wrong. I think WHATWG (Domenic et al, and Hixie before) worked very hard to bring HTML forward. And the idea to have a loose workshop of "browser vendors" agree on how to evolve browsers might've looked like a good one at the time. But is nevertheless not what standards are about, especially when it drives "browser vendors" out of business or out of producing browsers alltogether (such as Opera, Hixie's original employer, and even Microsoft).

Also, Mozilla lending credibility to such an effort hasn't helped Mozilla either when Firefox has fallen from its position as dominant and innovative browser to low 1-figure usage.

At a certain point years ago, work done on "web standards" has become a Google stealth ops to own the Web even more than they already do. As it stands, WHATWG will be remembered as the ones to have killed the Web, and oddly enough, Apple as the last ones standing in opposition to a web owned by Google. Certainly not webdevs caring about fscking PWAs and push notifications that absolutely nobody wants.
According to https://lwn.net/Articles/391226/ I'd say about twelve years :-)
I really hope they'll use the money to fix the confusing account creation and maintenance because I cannot use Element anymore for some reason.

My main gripes are that you cannot reset a password by username, and you cannot add a phone number that belonged to a deactivated account.
The difference is that upper brands Mercedes/BMW/Porsche are exist in car market but not in smartphone market. I wonder Tesla just join the club, replace the club, or replace Toyota/Honda/Hyundai club.
Only if we had better methods of allowing social mobility and selecting the best among us that wouldnt involve which family you came from. /s

On a more serious note I really believe that only the "poor hustlers" strata of society is not having kids, i.e couples that have good jobs but would be poor if any of them stopped working, so they have a dog for now and pretend they will have kids after they're 40.

If you go up on the ladder you probably don't have the same growth problem, take N=1 Ellon Musk with 7 kids as example.

Reminds me of how having real animals on Blade Runner was a privilege of the ultra rich :).
> ICBM's are expensive to build and maintain.

Not a problem for China with its industrial capacity larger than both USA, and Russia together.

The biggest gun you can afford is almost always the most efficient spend of your money.

> they don't need significantly more silo-based warheads for credible deterrence

Who said they need it for deterrence? If their goal would be just deterrence, they wouldn't be trying so hard to undermine it.

It's very clear they want to have enough missiles to perform a first strike on the two likeliest (now possibly three) enemies.

It's the most clear, and logical explanation standing any military theory test.
Definitly, liability needs to happen, sledgle with lawsuits hammer any company that doesn't take security seriously.
And so is GitHub.
If you read the post, the very first work item they mention is

> finish building out P2P Matrix and get it live

ps: p2p is nice to have, but also comes with a lot of problems and and probably shouldn't be a first choice for many users.
Arguably, most of such information would also be easy to recover in the second half of the 20th century, and conversely, it would be hard for contemporary investigators to verify the veracity of the answers. You could be telling things as you remember, or you could be telling them as you've learned about them later, or you could be making them up (and relying on the truth to be lost to history).
Why would that description not apply in America?

It seems to have huge wealth inequality ?
> demographic expansion has been a side effect of technological development

There was also a cultural side to it. Instead of being a linear relationships, it's more that technological development removed a population bottleneck and antiquated old family planning practices.

Population growth is iirc highest in agricultural areas that experience significant increases in health care access and overall life expectancy. Instead of having to have 6-8+ children to ensure that 1-2 male heirs live to adulthood, suddenly you're faced with the burden of having to care and feed for every single child until they become self sufficient. This eventually drives the birth rate down to an economically sustainable level.
Can you combine ccache with a sccache to make the C/C++ parts fast too?
What I don't get in these conversations is why no one mentions the role of the editorial team?

Expecting even a great journalist to write consistently interesting and clear pieces on their own is like letting a musician record without a producer. It might be good for a while but the chances are a great producer is going to even out the output and make a tremendous difference in depth, quality and accessibility. To say nothing of checking the wilder excesses.

These discussions which focus on the stars ignore the team so necessary for consistent and readable articles. I suppose the lone genius idea has an inexorable fascination.
When I open PDFs I often want to edit the filename to adjust it to the content. SumatraPDF is awesome and opposed to Adobe Reader and other PDF readers it does not take an exclusive lock on the PDF file so you can edit its filename.
The fact that it is extremely fast is another big benefit.
Columbo: an origin story (2018)
Resources availability is only one factor in the bigger picture - sustainability.

Without sustainable politics/culture, the population will need endlessly to new locations. Space colonization would just postpone the need.
You don’t need React for building websites
> Allow people to install apps within the sandbox with minimal static scanning and perhaps a DB of hashes for security notifications later, and let that be it.

We know exactly what happens when you do this. Less savvy users will be tricked into installing malware.

For instance, a couple of months ago:

>FlixOnline App Spreads Android Malware by Promising Free Netflix

https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/flixonline-app-spread...
Actually that is what Oracle did with SPARC ADI, Google/ARM are pushing for with MTE, Apple is trying to do with PAC, Microsoft with Phonon.

When everything else fails, kill the bug with hardware memory tagging spray.
Look at Africa.

Lower economic and social stability. Higher fertility rates.

I'm not sure if this is as another commenter points out due to "private old folks care" or due to the sheer survivability. Any species in dangerous environments has more offsprings than in less dangerous environments.
Matrix people like to claim that it is a protocol, because it is 'governed by the foundation'. Make no mistake, it is not. It is a product.

True foundation directs the development of a standard, and considers the interests of all parties. But in this case, there is just one party that means anything - the company that creates the actual product - and it is obvious that the foundation is powerless to resist any of its initiatives. Which makes the Matrix foundation just a facade, to better appeal to some people.
There are some useful idiots in the mix but some of the individuals do it obviously as a full time job. They are also more skilled at it than the average nutcase. It seems to be their job to put the words into the mouths of these conspiracy nuts.

I'm have a suspicion that some of them are funded by an entity backed by a nation state actor. These individuals have connections to some earlier ops whose backing has been revealed.
Is there nothing 'new' that this cutting edge technology can be used for that allows fast iterations given the limitless folds or whatever is available. Ie. Not homosapien medicine.

Look for your keys where the light is shinning, not in the dark.
>The overwhelming majority don't know, or really care, that they're using it.

Which is why as devs we have a responsibility to save them from bad tech.

That said: "PWA: because people don't care about tech" would be an apt marketing slogan.
It’s really cool to see how people can foresee how to monetize these kind of startups whereas myself as a developer have been struggling to think the potential in the business side.
Could, should, might, shouldn’t – A taxonomy of futurists
Apple will generally not award you a bounty unless you send them a full chain.
It is definitely not that surprising, even at the end of the tail of a Gaussian distribution. Below some R-code to generate a sample of 100 million normals, distributed with a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 8. I don't know if there is a way to calculate the extremes of a sample of normals, but it is definitely not evidence of fraud on its own.

x=rnorm(1e8,mean=70,sd=8);
x=sort(x);
print(tail(x))
[1] 112.9213 112.9481 113.3819 113.7021 113.9032 116.7363
I mean what else are people going to talk about? The IDF is best known for bombing civilians. That's their shtick. It's hard to have a balanced conversation about them without at least bringing that up, especially when the topic is "collapsed building".
It makes zero business sense for small-medium companies to make separate android and IOS apps. That's man hours that will be spent on a specific platform and its app store, instead of on improving the core product.

PWAs are here to stay.