skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing that academics have a terrible time writing code and I help one that I know on occasion. Maybe volunteer that skill?

Mostly automating trivial stuff that you will scratch your head at them doing by hand.
Tripwire CEO out after tweeting support of Texas abortion law
You say stolen, I say conquered.
Is that working? Anywhere?
100% agree. It's almost like Wall-E was written about Australia in 50 years time.

The irony being that 30% of the population was born outside of Australia with a decent part of that in countries which have experienced recent hard times.

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/30-austra...
Every time Australia is mentioned on hn the same two whiners appear to spray about how it's so horrible here because "nobody has any problems" and everything is "too easy and good", which makes them feel some kind of doomsday prepper type indignation. It seems pathological:
"These FOOLS are happy as long as they have extreme happiness, wealth, health, peace and general ease. Little do they know their sacred right to convenient encrypted communication is under grave threat".
Do you live to work or work to live? The former might get depressed if they can’t work as much, eg a researcher who is really interested in their topic.
Large language model are the rage, it seems.

Can someone a successful (not necessarily profitable) concrete application of these things, other than "gpt-3 wrote an article in Guardian and said it wouldn't kill us".
If it's a C# developer you want, it's a C# developer you'll get
This recommendation is for people who are willing to use the free trial on Frappe Cloud to gauge how much their usage would cost before switching to ERPNext, or for people who are comfortable with running ERPNext on Docker on their own server or local computer. Sure, the latter group isn't everyone on HN, but I know there are many people on HN who would appreciate a free and open source accounting solution with plenty of features to replace QuickBooks.

The developers of ERPNext also released Frappe Books, a desktop application with only the accounting-related features of ERPNext. It's also FOSS and does not need to be self-hosted, but unlike ERPNext, it's no longer being updated:

https://frappebooks.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23091005
“A trajectory can be fashioned so that JWST ‘falls into orbit’ about L2 rather than having to forcibly inject itself into a set orbit using its propulsion subsystem; this saves propellant and makes for simpler orbit maintenance.”

Quote from the JWST’s user documentation: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-hardware/jwst-o...

So no significant acceleration event is expected as they enter an orbit around L2.

Furthermore they will have to keep doing orbit maintenance burns every 21 day while there, so they must have designed the structure with that in mind.
Whether or not they're siphoning information some other way is not the point here. The accusations here are directed at how reporting content sends the decrypted messages to Facebook. The ridiculousness is that people are treating that reporting functionality as a secret data leakage channel.

If you think that they have backdoor access to messages, please investigate that, submit your findings as a different HN post, and then we can discuss it.
I see the downvotes, but I still don't see how some guy self-publishing and printing his own book at Kinkos is proof for a conspiracy in which publishers collude with professors to force students to buy books from that publisher. If anything, it's an example for the exact opposite.
Colloquially, hustle isn't rigorously defined. The things you say are reprehensible, are (imo). However, where a person's primary job doesn't pay well enough, and won't provide future financial security, hustle (defined here as having any second job) is entirely necessary for many Americans, not just for a hypothetical future passive income stream, but also in order to make rent and other basic necessities.
1. Antarctica

2. The moon

3. Mars
No easy answer. It is called politics.

The culture helps too. In Australia the "democracy is majority rules" meme (which is a lie) is very strong. Just ask the Australian Indians.

Fun fact: Māori people had the right to vote in Australia from the start, Aboriginal Australians (just how racist are they when there is no word in Australia for the first people?) did not get that right until 1967.

It is a tough fight for the Australians.
Yes. In a lot of places.
This is news to me. As recently as 2020 they seemed to be investing in geo. Not desktop projects but they are more of a cloud company.

“GEO and Google Earth Engine announce funding for 32 projects to improve our planet” (July 2020)
https://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=447
That’s called indentured servitude.
The entirely bit from the title was unfortunately auto-removed, but that's the key to the article's removal of libc.
In the narrow access window I was allowed to Philosopher AI, I found it incredibly helpful in brainstorming and bouncing ideas off. It helped me organize my project, and I even included the conversations in the repo.
Men also means people, humans
Those are hustles, yes, but "hustle culture" means something else more towards the glorifying overwork end of the scale.
Enumeration of all IPv4 is easy. Enumeration of all DNS entries is hard to impossible. Enumeration of all IPv6 is impossible.
There's also the stimulus that injected demand into the system, so more goods may purchased than if COVID never happpened.
I never understood why they didn't take this approach -- converting under-the-hood "automatically" to their ECS paradigm. The existing data-structures were/are already very similar to their ECS counterparts (though with substantially less boilerplate code); the main "issue" in trying to do an 'automatic conversion', at least that I could foresee, was related to references & non-blittable types. Even then, it seems like you could automatically convert all the data that is a blittable type, and then let the rest work "the old way" (read: sub-optimally, at least insofar as memory access goes -- and ideally/likely with some developer feedback via profiler improvements to demonstrate where [and by roughly how much] any non-blittable type access was actually costing you in performance).

Just my 2c.

I do concur with the above poster, though -- their ECS/DOTS has been basically ignored. At this point there's so, so, so much of the Unity ecosystem that just flat out fails to work beyond some very, very, very small scale that it's just mind-blowing. Want to use their physics, or nav-mesh agents, or even their sprite-rendering systems? Once you get 500-1k of any of those objects into a scene (ie, sprites!!), you've already blown way past your CPU/framerate budget. It's mind-boggling; especially when you can, for example with sprite rendering, run your own mesh with a bunch of quads and absolutely obliterate the performance you get from SpriteRenderers.

Very frustrating & somewhat mind boggling TBH. I'd personally guess the vast majority of indie devs that use Unity are simply using it as a [mesh] rendering pipeline & practicing a "roll our own" approach for almost everything else.
All these "X requests per unit time" posts are starting to make me want to break out some of my experimental code... I have some services that can process several million events per second. This includes: compressing the event batch, persisting to disk, validation of business logic, execution of all view updates (state tracked server-side), aggregation and distribution of client update events, etc. These implementations are easily capable of saturating NVMe flash.

If you want to see where the theoretical limits lie, check out some of the fringe work around the LMAX Disruptor and .NET/C#:

https://medium.com/@ocoanet/improving-net-disruptor-performa...

You will find the upper bound of serialized processing to be somewhere around 500 million events per second.

Personally, I have not pushed much beyond 7 million per second, but I also use reference types, non-ideal allocation strategies, etc.

For making this a web-friendly thing: The trick I have found is to establish a websocket with your clients, and then pipe all of their events down with DOM updates coming up the other way. These 2 streams are entirely decoupled by way of the ringbuffer and a novel update/event strategy. This is how you can chew through insane numbers of events per unit time. All client events get thrown into a gigantic bucket which gets dumped into the CPU furnace in perfectly-sized chunks. The latency added by this approach is measured in hundreds of microseconds to maybe a millisecond. The more complex the client interactions (i.e. more events per unit time), the better this works. Blazor was the original inspiration for this. I may share my implementation at some point in the near future.
I thought archetype-based ECS was the standard way to implement an ECS. Typically using bitsets or something to define an archetype.

But I may just not be understanding what an archetype represents exactly. My only real experience with ECS, besides implementing a crude one around 2011 for fun, is EnTT, which specifically advertises itself as not being archetype-based as one of its key differentiators.

Its likely I just don't quite understand archetypes though.
It’s become clear that almost every advocacy organization of any kind is no longer principles based and have taken a political approach because it brings in more money.

Standing up for unpopular views doesn’t excite the wallets (so ACLU, NRA, etc.)
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I've lived here for 6 years and you got it 100%. I feel you mate, feels like their focus has been wrong year after year and it doesn't look like it's getting better at all.
This is brilliance in a sentence - best of luck in your pursuits.
One word: bitcoin.
https://youtu.be/pGuSpEt13Ac

This is a good start.

Dudes strongmen literally attempt to kill the (15 year old) kid which can be seen in another video, so you know the act cuts deep as a form of protest...
Yeah but Windows itself has two control panels for its own settings, no 3P installed at all.

Left over from the half-hearted touch Renaissance.
Compulsory voting in an unengaged populace can only serve to lower signal-to-noise ratio. How many times do we need to relearn "garbage in, garbage out"? The responsible ballot choice when uninformed is "abstain". AFAIA, Australia doesn't provide that option.

Also, the intransigent moderates you mentioned create inertia biased toward status quo and inhibits appropriate policy action and change (see e.g. the slow-moving trainwreck of climate destabilization).
I agree that a more practical future is likely if the government backs off its subsidies of "normal" college experiences. What we have in the U.S. is essentially collusion between higher ed and government to place excess value on such a normal college experience. This might not be such a bad thing, given the research outputs of many universities that benefit both from outright government grants, and implicit sponsorships in the form of student debt that carries interest rates lower than any private competitor could carry.
I really wish people would stop using the word "modern" in marketing rhetoric as if it was a good thing, because more often than not they're using it and other buzzwords because they don't have any better compelling reasons to convince you to use their product.

No, I do not care that the newer version is more "modern", "stylish", "sleek", "clean", or any other number of useless buzzwordy adjectives. Tell me concretely what's actually better about it and how it will improve my (my, not your!) "experience". An OS should not be a fashion statement nor an advertising platform. It's a tool people use to get real work done.
Like synergize, but with 20% more righteous and warm fuzzy.
I'm pretty sure anyone could do that.
What really happened is the kid dropped out of school about a year and a half ago but the school administration kept defrauding the tax payer for an extra 1.5 years of funding.
This is an important point.

How do we vote for and elect representatives in sufficient quantities that will throw out privacy and security overreaches like this?

Very few of the representatives in both houses will understand the technical means, underpinnings, and exploit and overreach potential of these bills because they simply don't understand the technology in the middle.

All a party/member needs to do is draft the bill and then cause enuf fear and panic in a sitting parliament for the large majority of representatives to pass it. Are these things even being challenged in parliament? Who objects to this who understands it?
Not getting https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html (with the low pass filter) to play. Is that supposed to play like https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html?
Why give any money to corrupt political machines
There's a difference between "country founded by", and "land occupied by". Yes, the aboriginals, like native tribes all over the world, were displaced by modernity. One can debate the good vs. bad of it all, but the country of Australia was founded as a penal colony (after displacing the aboriginals).
The Australians who voted for these parties largely do not give two shits about the bills, because a) unlike HN, they don't understand them, why they're bad or any of the consequences, and b) because the media monopoly here ensures they don't get adequate explanation or coverage, which in turn feeds a).

I agree with GP that this is less about the Australian population being extremist or facilitating extremism as much is it is about voter apathy and a lack of proper coverage or education on these bills.
How much bandwidth did this use daily/monthly?
ACLU's 2008 stance on pandemics (now reversed)
The thing that’s a bit surprising to me is that this didn’t include FreeBSD’s Linux emulation
If backwards compatibility is broken in 3.0 (it is), I would rather have a migration to openbsd's libressl.
The only place windows is competitive is desktop - a small and shrinking piece of the market.
Fractran is a wild ride as far as esolangs go. At first it seems impossible to build any programs in it, then you learn a few tricks like special primes for control flow and abstracting up to an imperative language. Being able to capture these abstractions in Lisp shows how powerful features like macros and homoiconicity are.

It carries over to statically typed languages too. I translated the blog post to Haskell (using the tagless-final design pattern), allowing one to represent Fractran programs as values, pretty print them and pass them through an optimizer[0]

[0] https://siraben.github.io/2020/02/26/translating_cl.html
One could argue that Australia has always been this way. The full quote is:

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck."

written by Donald Horne in 1964. These words were true prior to 1964 and are still true in 2021.

What saves Australia is the word "mainly".

There are some first rate people in Australia, mostly not in positions of authority, who stop the ship from sinking. Examples are solar power, quantum information and medical researchers, pockets of the Public Service but less so in 2021, people like Donald Horne, ... Mostly things are second rate, but sometimes something first rate breaks though.

(I've lived in Australia since birth.)
Because you have to adjust your mental model to explain IQ differences in ethnic groups. That really shouldn't be a problem, but it's my best guess as to why.
I'm still missing the part where I get rich! Please tell me!

Truth be told, in my field the intro level textbooks are essentially indistinguishable, down to graphics and specific examples, and every publisher has one. Even if I got free samples for all of them (I don't), there is zero difference for the student. You look at the classics, maybe check out a new book, but in the end pick the one you're already familiar with because you don't have any time to waste.
I think that's a point that the authors of the paper are eager to test. If you believed you could escape a personally forecasted career trajectory by accepting an education instrument that was available as equity but not as debt, would you?

I'm also not sure that a world that honors personal bankruptcy can be so simply associated with indenture.
I too remember when days when $4.5T was a lot of money.
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Maybe it isn't ironic at all. This is the conclusion by Waleed Aly (quite a prominent journalist in Aus) that I read a while ago:

> The British arrived with Governors, ready to assume the role of governing. [...] Then, these governments set about building infrastructure in a way they never did in Britain. They were not managing a society that existed. They simply crushed the Indigenous ones that did, then proceeded as though no society was here in the first place. That set in motion a peculiarly Australian logic that government created society, not the other way around.

> All these traits are invaluable weapons against COVID. They’re also what makes it possible for us to legislate gun control after an isolated massacre, pass expansive counter-terrorism legislation without anything like the scrutiny of a serious public debate, and maintain a brutal policy on asylum seekers. [...]

> Perhaps America cannot control its guns for the same reason it can have a spectacular civil rights movement. And if that’s true, perhaps we stopped COVID for the same reason we stopped the boats.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/carefree-larrikin-is-a-myth-...
Not Australian and never been to the continent, but... are bike helmet laws an actual example of authoritarianism? Like, I don't hear about the existence motorcyle helmet laws or seatbelt laws as proof of authoritarianism, aside from fringe groups of protestors (with several of them ironically dying from accidents that would've been survivable with proper safety measures).
There's no KYC for holding fiat, and transactions above 10k are on the honor system for cash purchases. Cash "welcomes them with open arms." There's also minimal checking of those that leave our borders; someone could easily cross into Mexico with 100k in a breifcase of Swiss Francs and no one would be the wiser. Virtually anyone that lives near the border understands this.

> Whatever is built upon it is fruit of the poison tree

To you; to me it's built on the tree of liberty.

>building a darknet marketplace - which solves zero existing problems

The existing problem was that people would show up in cash in person, and often without either parties being vetted. The darkmarket did not totally solve this problem but it did help it, by creating a rating system and allowing people to buy items without needing to put themselves in the vicinity of a potentially dangerous drug den.

Sometimes direct action is more empowering to the common man than legislation. As Cody Wilson said when he made the 3d gun popular, it was a political act that the world just has to deal with. Bringing crypto into this world "legislated" into reality a way to move funds in a way the legislature failed to by blocking the path of those who are conventionally blocked by KYC and AML. I don't know that every El Salvadoran can just wait indefinitely for legislation to pass for their money to come in from their family members working in the US. Every dollar taken away from them from the likes of Western Union et al is money straight out of the mouth of possibly impoverished family members, and we shouldn't begrudge these people the tools to fund their unbanked families at a fair rate.
I was attracted by the specs of the previous version of this board, but the software side was a real mess. I screwed around with it quite a bit, but ended up giving up on them.

The company didn't have a reasonable, up to date kernel. Everything was out of date, and they were seemingly incapable of doing it. MediaTek people stepped in, because the board was getting press as a reference for how people could use their SOC. It was still not usable as a router. For example, while there is WiFi on the board, there is no Linux WiFi driver, only an Android driver. And other weird things that I forget right now.

Maybe things have improved, but definitely take care on this.
Today's stance is different:

https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1433433737304449024
If you want to describe how to get the bit pattern, that's the calculation based on the known exponent. So because 127 - 127 = 0, the bit pattern is zeros. Not the other way around ;)
It’s a quote. One doesn’t typically alter a quote unless it’s unintelligible if not altered in some way.
so it was caught by an additional layer of testing, a little later down the pipeline than desired, but caught nonetheless
The best example of how perception matters was how the careful introduction of the Brazilian real ended hyperinflation merely by creating a perception that it wouldn't inflate. (It was pegged to the old currency at a rate that inflated at the same rate that the old currency did. All stores had to post prices in both old and real. After people were used to seeing real standing still, Brazil started printing them and continued indexing them at inflating rates to the old. And the price stayed constant as the old currency was replaced by the new.
What do you mean by "country erode"?
Just for you, OneEyedRobot!: https://locserendipity.com/PushPlayRadio.html
A Ferengi family, then?
Why do you think that people keep voting for the blatantly corrupt LNP? and why are the other parties above becoming corrupt?

Is it possible that the LNP are constantly in power because they are corrupt?
You’re probably romanticising a past that never existed.

What was happening 50 years ago?

The Vietnam War springs to mind.

Australians were being conscripted in to that war by our government.

So I wouldn’t hold that time up as a paragon of responsibilities government.
Without that word it sounds like it’s going to be a satire piece

I wish HN would chill out with the auto-editorializing
Well, choice doesn't bless the act. Consent doesn't magically make something okay. There's the issue of neglect, both of other duties and your own health. This would be the line between work ethic and workaholism. Work ethic is healthy, motivated by the right desires and motives. Workaholism is excessive, possibly escapist.

Leisure, in the original sense (see Josef Pieper), is also necessary and increasing drowned out by work and recreation. All of these are good things, but they have their place.
> They were never going to sit in space with magnifying glasses and do actual image analysis, a process that takes hours and many different people. They would evaluate a target for the most interesting details and ensure those details made it into frame.

So does this imply that they'd still be packing film into some sort of reentry vehicle and booting it out the hatch periodically?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

> Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. The Court's decision articulated the view that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the police power of the state.

> "[r]eal liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own [liberty], whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others."