skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not without destruction or suffering

Imagine a world without humans. Every day, millions of animals that are able to feel pain die in horrible agony as they're eaten alive; die of hunger or disease; are afflicted by horrific parasitism, or birth defects, or any of a hundred different horrors.

Earth is a giant ball of suffering, and has been since the first animal with a nervous system sufficient to feel pain evolved. It seems pretty hubristic to lay that at the feet of humanity.

Yeah, if we don't coordinate we might wipe out some species, collapse some ecosystems. So? Those ecosystems have beautiful parts in them, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder; and in any case, their beauty is built on the ongoing torture of (presumably) sentient animals. In that case, bring on the mass extinctions, I say; in fact, we should probably speed them up. Shoot or nuke animals instead of letting them starve to death or be eaten alive.

Maybe we can re-introduce animals once we've made them immortal and immune to pain.

(I don't actually want this, I like nature and forests. But I like them because I find them beautiful, and I perceive their value as originating from humans (and to a lesser extent sentient animals) finding them beautiful. I don't care about them for some other metaphysical reason, and nature is beautiful <=> humanity is evil isn't a viewpoint I've ended up with. )
No, we really don't. You do.

You're falling for the pretext that it's all just a joke. And it is, for a while. And then it's not any more.
Really? What makes you think that?
This just isn't true. Duolingo's mission is 'to make education free, fun, and accessible to all'. And for the most part they have succeeded at(or are striving towards) doing those things and have left the learning part to you. Maybe it is not working out for you, and that is likely the case for many people, but to say that their model is to create an unsuccessful learning environment sounds a little bitter.
That ‘if necessary’ probably proves to be true most of the time, but I think the use case they mention (levees built on compressible alluvial soils) can easily make it the better choice.

For levees, there’s also the even lighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_rubber_dam (but those do have to be grounded)
Thanks for taking a look and great questions. The premise of Genuity is smaller customers can get better pricing together by bundling lower demand into a single delivery system. Typically, smaller companies are harder to reach and service with a direct salesforce and are typically services by resellers and VARs like CDW. We believe our model lowers costs for customers but also the vendors by cutting the fat out of the system using software. As an example, we are running a promotion on MSFT and save customers 15% versus what is on their site. In the future we are also thinking of allowing customers to share what they are paying as well.

Also, today in our marketplace we integrate these apps directly for billing, provision, etc. so we handle all the support elements.
Beware the eternal enginedev... many a brave soul have fallen to this trap.
How is this any different from what Elon Musk told his investors for the past decade?
Slightly unrelated but MBR (Master Boot Record, @masterbootrec on Twitter) made 42 covers of classic game songs in heavy-metal chiptune style.

Among the many fantastic pieces covered you’ll also find the Monkey Island theme.

The whole pack is available for free:

http://mbrserver.com/warez.zip

Please also appreciate the retro-ansi-gfx style of his productions!
I don't even need to click the link and I'm laughing already. Stackexchange, don't ever change.
Can Lidar (3D scanning) combine the residential RE and furniture industries?
That is clearly illegal and probably an open-and-shut legal case (at least as described).
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> The old license is not effectively invalidated in any way. Almost nobody you presented the license to would know that another one has been issued

That’s strange. Where I live, if you get a new ID you have to turn in your old one. You can keep a passport if you want (some people like to if they have a ot of stamps from their travels) but in that case they punch a couple of big holes through the entire booklet before returning it to you (basically, it removes the chip and some other security measures).
For a moment, I thought all these things were from 1 company that specializes in providing benefits to workforce... until I noticed it's "Launch HN", not "Show HN" :)
Is there a website for experimenting with waves and duty cycles and observing how the sound changes?
I don't think 'man' is that commonly used in scripts or as part of other automated processes that could go wrong. Most other unix utilities are fairly commonly used that way and a small behavioural change could be expected to break something somewhere just due to the sheer volume of use.

I'm not actually that surprised the easter egg broke something for someone even in 'man', for the exact same reason, but it's probably less expected than with grep and lots of other unix utilities.
This Nikola thing looks pretty weird indeed, but to be fair, Musk's name for his company is also not very original, since he (or whoever) also just took the dude's name even though he had absolutely nothing to do with him.
No, but you do have internal links on your site as well, and they work just like external links, passing on "link juice". If you have a million important links pointing to / and zero external links pointing to /baz.html and you link from / to /baz.html, you'll still see /baz.html hike up the SERPs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27991322 this submission from today is exactly the same. Expired domains are the big business these days, and they can absolutely catapult you into the top 3 without any change in content, performance or layout.
And the pdf is probably not named "For-R-Tinfoilers.pdf"
That makes it look like you would have lost money if you’d put it into those indices. Looking more closely (I only bothered with Nikkei), that seems unlikely. Compared to the full year average for 1989, it’s only down 15 percent. Or zooming even further out, it’s nearly double the eighties average today. If a peak is short lived enough, it’s unlikely to strongly affect people investing steadily.

It would be interesting looking at the peaks of 1/5/10 year averages that contain the actual peaks.
Well if we wanna be grumpy this morning... I don't understand why people don't learn how to use `find` properly. And just doing simple things correctly like the `-print0` integration with `xargs -0` to be able to safely send a list of files into rm even if they've got spaces or whatever. I never have much use for `tree` unless I'm trying to take a screenshot and make it look kind of nice.
And yet I think the probing XY questions are still important.

The answer could have been simply: "It's an easter egg. It's from an Abba song." Done. End of discussion, it answered the question.

But by probing how the user wanted the thing to work, and why it was breaking his tests, and that it was actually happening when he used `man -w`, the maintainer actually understood that it was not a harmless easter egg, and fixed it so it didn't happen when called with -w.
I didn't choose to bring up the holocaust, but I was thinking more about the other side of it. Many did feel that all Germans were guilty, even those who weren't specifically employed in the military.
But it was recognized that actually holding many parties responsible was infeasible, so the trials at Nuremberg were only for the very most prominent. For some time the US tried to make German civilians in their zones watch films showing the atrocities, but many people refused to even look at the screen.
Apple Says Leaks Cause Companies to Make iPhone Cases at the Wrong Size
The Google search results for wild turkey seem extremely reasonable to me. Did you try this example before using it?
I hope so as well ;)
It’s more that many people who don’t want to build more housing use “affordable housing” as a way to do so.

If they build a few “affordable” units, it’s a way to still seem like you’re pro-housing.

To be clear, I think most pro-affordable housing folks genuinely would like to build lots of affordable housing.
People seem to want to believe big government and lockdowns can be beneficial, but flareups and death numbers show otherwise. Somehow many people are OK living in fear, and seem to want the fear excitement to continue.

In practical terms, those who think they are at risk should stay home and isolate themselves. Cuomo in New York shoved positive cases into nursing homes, so big government policies killed vulnerable people. Take care of yourself and your diet.
Yes, literally thousands of times on a wide range of issues.

* Predictions that increased carbon in atmosphere would lead to higher average temperatures -> has happened.
* Predictions that extreme weather events like "once in a hundred years" floods would become more common -> has happened.
* Predictions that wildfire season would start earlier in the spring and end later in the fall -> has happened.
* Predictions that we'd see reductions in glaciers and arctic ice -> has happened.
* Predictions that we'd see a collapse in biodiversity and mass extinctions -> has happened.

Scientists can't tell you exactly where an electron is and how fast it's moving, but they can still predict how it interacts with things around it.
Thanks, that code does indeed work! And it is significantly faster than PyTorch (15 vs 60 milliseconds). Maybe I will use it in the future if AVX512 should become more widespread.
This doesn’t really work when power dynamics are in play. If you’re a junior or just have less experience than the person calling the meeting I can guarantee it’s causing some type of negative view of you by someone. You do that enough times and you’ll find yourself on a PIP, and eventually on the job market.

This is why meetings in general are net negative. There’s little need for scheduled meetings. Just do one stand up per week, ad hoc calls when needed, but mostly just let people work.
Conversely why does your determination that an open source project is 'mission critical' to your use case obligate the author to make any changes at all for you?
This is sad.

Estonia's government is exceptionally forward-thinking when it comes to embracing technology (they've had internet voting since 2005, for example), but ultimately they're still a smaller nation and it sucks to see them get burned.

Some more info: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/estonia-the-di...
> We're all grown-ups at work

I want to work where you work.
I thought Musk joined after it had been founded? Did he change the name?
Because search is hard. Most domain sites search titles and descriptions of articles for keywords. Google will index the entire page and be able to provide more and better ordered results.

Or use to. Now the quality and quantity of results forces site owners to implement their own search or use third parties.
I used to keep iterm windows and tabs open but shifted to using pycharm’s integrated terminal.

I use multiple spaces in macOS, with entirely different project contexts. It helped having the labeled terminal tabs coupled to a Pycharm project window.

However, this also let me to realize that the gate commands I was using could be accomplished through pycharms interactive source code management tools.

This helped me realize that there were more powerful things I could do there than in a terminal.

I still find myself using terminal to debug remote environments. But for building, the IDE has taken over over for a lot of my past terminal use.
If you really want to geek out on the music, the Super Marcato Brothers podcast has done episodes on MI2 - MI4.[1]

(And fwiw, my brother plays marimba and other percussion in MI4. To this day, one of the weirdest gigs he's ever had.)

1. http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/tag/monkey+island
These employees are salaried. They are not paid in 500ms increments.
For a mid twenties healthy male, the risk of death from covid is 1 in 500,000. That is what you're missing.
Thanks for writing about your process! I enjoyed it almost as much as Crafting Interpreters, which is to say, quite a lot.

And you absolutely should be proud of your PDF->PNG->Highlight diffs script. As someone who has kept excel files and PDFs in version control I knew exactly the feeling you were talking about. I got to that part and exclaimed out loud, "Damn cool!"
Crazy idea for lispers: Bake your data into the image, preferably with something like :PURIFY T if it helps.
I have seen many different factories, running many processes. The main thought I always have is, how much power is being consumed here? They have 100s of 500w to 1000w lights alone.

It is not the end consumer running consumer grade PCs who is killing the planet. How much energy, toxic byproducts, and external third party impacts are being produced to make any electronics?

Micro$oft preeches about the planet, yet just made so much hardware obsolete with the Draconian Win11 plan.

List goes on and on..
Congrats on launch! Super cool product and I feel like trying it out in the SaaS i'm building. Few initial questions:

`Our multiplayer WebSocket servers live on the edge` -> from your Jobs page I realised that you use AWS. Does that mean that it's AWS cloud that you're using? Have you considered using Cloudflare Durable Objects(DO) for infrastructure - what are the thoughts for DO suitability for your use case (besides it currently being in beta phase)?

Congrats once again on shipping something world needed badly!

Upd: removed the question which was a bit illogical :)
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The antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) is what scares me the most.

While our vaccines were in development, Dr. Fauci described causing ADE as "the worst possible thing you could do" [1] and that you could get a feel for it with animal models, which would be interspersed with human trials. Interspersing the animal models seems incredibly risky to me, and to my knowledge we haven't seen those studies with the vaccines currently in production.

So far, the data does not seem to indicate that we're in big trouble yet -- the vaccines are still effectively preventing death -- but seeing the breakthrough cases gives me pause. I would appreciate if the "establishment" would circle back and address the risk of ADE. Even if it is very unlikely, what is the game plan if new breakthrough strains do start causing this type of response?

Because right now, it seems to me that if humanity puts all its eggs in the vaccine basket, and then ADE occurs with a breakthrough strain, then there is potential for an enormous catastrophe.

[1] https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sitroom/date/2020-03-26/seg...
> Assuming you're not a short-sighted person, how would a poor country like Brazil protect, without make any money out of it, an area bigger than Europe?

Auction it off (sell it) to private individuals.

No private owner would willingly destroy what they paid for.

It doesn't take a genius to know how much wood can be cut every year without destroying the value of your property.

But you don't need a lot of skill or smarts to destroy what's not yours, or accept a bribe to allow plunder of government property.
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Yes, of course, some speculation can lead to improved market efficiency. I suppose we should define at what level of speculation deems a speculative market.

"I think most research shows that a moderate amount of speculation actually decreases volatility and makes market manipulation more difficult."

I'd be interested to read such research.

To me, this current craze (Stocks, housing, crypto, etc) just doesn't pass the sniff test. It just seems off. Has for a long time. Something has to give. It doesn't make sense. I tell my friends, either things correct in a large way or we're going to be eating $50 cheeseburgers. Again, who knows!? If you did, you could make a killing.
It’s a game even without human psychology. The human psychology just adds elements to the game.

Whether it ends badly depends on how and for whom you score the game.
I snuck in the OT question in there as an edit, but curious, is there an option to buy pdf + print or do those need to go separately?
What do you mean by process ID? A PID seems like a useless bit of information. Now an app bundle or process executable checksum... Seems more useful. But couldn't you build the app from source and add a but of random data into the executable?
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The most aggressively right-wing person I know personally (and of significant notoriety in public as well), was also the best-prepared and most aggressive proponent of lockdown, doing mask drives etc, at the very beginning of this from November 2019.

But then seemingly everybody in any position of official authority globally seemed to align to a set of massively duplicitous and contradictory positions. And now what would you expect he thinks? Nobody fights harder than one who feels they’ve been duped.

Masks and lockdowns and vaccination are not the issue here. The issue is that COVID-19 is being used as a weapon to achieve all sorts of unrelated social agenda, and that makes everything suspect. Everything actually related to disease prevention could have happened with zero resistance if officials just stuck to the original script and focused on that one problem.

Another point: it doesn’t take a lot of skepticism to see how this can be a rational viewpoint. On one hand, if we’re shifting focus to unrelated agenda, then it’s not a crisis. On the other, if you needed a crisis to enable the agenda, then it’s an abusive agenda. What I’ve seen from the silent majority is that they mostly believe the maximally-pessimistic view, which is that we are dealing with both a real crisis and an abusive agenda. This viewpoint is ignored entirely by the media because it’s so ordinary, rational, and non-polar. The other consistent viewpoint is that the crisis is intentionally overblown because the agenda is abusive. That, by my observation, is probably the second most popular viewpoint, with most adherents actually in agreement with the agenda. Like, for example, it’s important to lock down your house, but not bad enough to lock down the border, and it’s the perfect time to focus on defining gender categories for women’s sports.
Its all centrally forced, the security, the implementation. They are printed the same place, same way, a lot of directives straight from Brussels.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/03/musk-tesla-was-about-a-month...

Tesla almost went bankrupt. They started shutting stores that were tied into commercial leases that hadn't expired and all kinds of stuff. At one point they said they would never need to capital raise again and then did one 3 days later or something. They made wild statements of autonomous taxis by the end of 2020 in a desperate bid to build hype before the capital raise.

They survived and raised a lot of capital from shareholders and now seem in no danger of bankruptcy, but it was either a real threat or the CEO is lying about it to be theatrical.
> I decided to rewrite the whole build system for the book in Dart. The build script I wrote for my first book was dead simple. Literally a single Python script that took a Markdown file for each book chapter and rendered it to HTML while weaving in the code snippets. The world’s dumbest static site generator. [...] Useful, but really straining the limits of how much code I want to maintain in a dynamically typed language like Python [...] it was, frankly, really slow

This is great to hear. When I read about your build system in Crafting "Crafting Interpreters" <https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft...>, I had hopes that your next bugbite would be fleshing out half of a quasi-literate programming tool. For a compiler writer, who also happens to be writing a book, the circumstances and fit seem just too natural to avoid it.

I'm looking forward to diving into your Markdown package, too, and expect that it will be easy to port to JS. Nowadays, whenever I need a library for a JS project, my first choice is to check for a clean Dart, Haxe, or Java implementation that does what I want, with the intent of porting it, rather than disadvantaging myself by relying on whatever the NodeJS community has cobbled together and put on NPM. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>

EDIT: There is a typo "CCS" in the blog post. Highlighted: <https://hyp.is/d2cCEPCLEeu7jSft-ex2Ug/journal.stuffwithstuff...>
This would be so welcomed - it almost seems like the idea of paying for standards goes against the spirit of standardization and also prevent wider adoption. Imagine if we had to pay to pay to read the precise definition of kg.
They could punish the rankings of review pages using affiliate links.

Clearly the use of these links creates a worse experience for users.

Not sure why you're carrying water for Google but I'm confident in their ability to filter obvious spam from their search results.
I hope you can avoid becoming bitter. I've struggled with this myself. I appreciate your other response in this thread too. There is some real wisdom to avoiding politics in certain situations. However, if we never talk about things, how does anything get resolved? How divided will we become?

I'm not too surprised that you find conservative arguments unconvincing. In general, purely based on reasoning, I find liberal arguments to be a bit better (on average). Sometimes, they are a lot better. The question for me, is how much weight to put on reasoning. How much value does reasoning have? My personal experience is that reasoning works well for writing software or fixing a bug. It doesn't work as well when I try to use it to decide how I should run my life. In fact, my own reasoning has led me into the pits of hell. That changed my perspective, quite a bit!

I truly hope that you and your friends and coworkers can keep peace and good will towards each other.
I deploy AI to prod. Low data gravity in high performant envs (SSD relevant here) is a common component.

~4.1TB raid0 on a bunch of ssds xN distributed nodes we depoly, leveldb shards & client in the app.

Daily updates, blue/green needed
You know, that was the original idea with indian "Aadhar". I am talking about keeping up with its news on tech magazines back in 2007 when it was lauded as a FOSS achievement.
The idea from what I can recall now was "yinput your id, you put your finger on.the reader and the backend sends a "yes/no" with a hash of the authentication. Thats it"

Over subsequent years, politics fucked it up bad. They made it "compulsory". Then people started asking for photocopies. Then scans. Then people would keep and then buy and sell these scans in bulk.
Then people started putting phones with multiple cards, like entire villages would be one computer operator who would keep his own phone for "otp". That operator would then sell access which would be bought for buying Sim cards, shit and frauds.

Then you have the political appiontees who run this Aadhar system, those pompous assholes claim they are unhackable. Come on.

Sadly they built a Pandoras box now with 1.3 billion almost demographic data, biometric data and that is scary.
Star Control 2 famously used music composed in MOD trackers, they even had part of the UI show a waveform of the music during dialog with the aliens.

It was seeing a bunch of .MOD files on the floppy that first prompted me to download a mod tracker back in the BBS days.
Everything you say is true, which is why when I talk about language learning, I discourage people from setting fluency as their goal. Just knowledge of another language is good for the brain, and the fact that you can't become a native speaker should not deter anyone from trying it for fun.