skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why… why would you want to lock up capital in such a way that it could be taken from you due to external conditions like block propagation. At least with mining, you are getting paid per hash, and nobody can take it from you.
The slashing model is insane.

The eth2 scheme is complex for complexities sake to hide the fact the emperor has no clothes.
Acknowledging a possible privileged position is not being called "the root of all problems in society and the world".
What benefit does the reader draw from being informed “this quoted phrase is a complete sentence”?

It’s not futile to reconsider conventions, no matter that demands may go ignored.
What if a person owns a gas-powered car and another person wants it. It is going to be illegal for them to strike a deal?
Assuming this to be true, how can GDP possibly be the best metric here?

Maybe we should consider that you can't buy back the things we'll lose, barring some unexpected developments in large scale geoengineering. How much "GDP" would you trade to live in a world that isn't racked by increasingly powerful storms, unprecedented droughts, loss of unique habitats, mass extinction of various species, and the other dramatic effects of rapid climate shift?
Thanks for linking this - reading through the thread made me discover a cool related project! -> https://github.com/tweag/nickel/

See esp.: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/#related-projects-and-inspir...
The article touches on a lot of issues but one I find interesting is: why does it matter?

It provides the following answers, which seem weak to me:

1. "[historian and economics professor at Harvard]: 'I worry they’ll come to severely regret their choice if they realize the best jobs require a degree they never got.'"
2. "...further delays in marriage and childbirth may ensue. That would further reduce U.S. fertility rates, which worries some commentators, albeit not all."
3. "The most severe implications, I suspect, will be cultural and political. The U.S. electorate is already polarized .... Those divisions seem likely to worsen"

I'm not sure this is convincing. It seems to boil down to a historian worrying, fertility rate changes that some people may view badly, and a possibility of increased political polarization... meh?
Try to organize a day for white heterosexual men and see what happens.
It's not a popular take, because you are ignoring the history of the situation that has been mentioned a large number of times on this page and in the article.
To read this on a phone, you have to trick the content into loading by scrolling past it, then scrolling back up.
Yeah, the verbiage used here is kind of weird. Like ... you can abandon a kitten on the side of the road. But if you're not going to college, you're not abandoning something that needs you as a steward to watch over it and keep it safe. Why are men electing to not go to college? That's better.

Of course your statement is interesting because I have a story to go with it. I went to a publicly funded university starting back in 2003. I had zero problem getting in. Meanwhile, I know a family friend who went to the same university after I had graduated. I want to say around 2011. He had some problems getting it. It wasn't grades or ability to pay. They wanted to try and get more out of state students because they could charge them more. So they sat on their hands until they got as many out of state students as they were going to get for that year. And after that when they still had some spots open they gave the green flag for the family friend. Kind of feels like college was threatening to do the abandoning in this particular instance.
I recently talked with founders who went through acquisitions, inculding ones by megacorps. They might have insight into how to navigate through this.

Can you send me an email (my email is in my profile) and I'll try to connect you if they're open to this?

I must talk with one of them in a moment, would you like me to mention this?

I can also try to connect you with people from the puchasing side (people who operated, and executed, multi-billion dollar acquisitions and companies)
Every educational system that's worth it's salt here where I live in Canada is going full-bore on the whole "critical race theory" and how "white people have oppressed every other culture for centuries"

Trust me, it's happening.
Music and Sound Synthesis in Haskell
To me it just sounds like a dystopia. Like: "market forces are so fun, let's have more of that!" It is wishing for a giant system that has a mind of its own and can't be reasoned about or controlled but affects everyone's life.

I suppose I already think that most of wall street is not, in fact, making anything much more efficient at all, and is instead a massive state-run casino. So maybe I am not the target audience.
Sounds clever, until you realize you want to predict stuff before it happens
But that's a black-and-white view. The 'gray' version is that it is perfectly possible for a politician to be of good intentions, but presented with a choice of 99 parties funded by special interests with megaphones and one lonely voter you can't fault them for having more - and usually better argued - input from special interests.

That's why many countries forbid lobbying entirely (not that that's 100% effective, but it's a start).
Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, care about the environment, or are minorities...
I feel conflicted when I see headlines like this. On the one hand, this is better than not having passed said law. On the other hand, 14 years is quite a while, and the current members of the legislature will likely have long since moved on. So this feels like a way to earn brownie points with their constituents who really care about this, without actually undertaking the hard work of making this a reality.

> under the new law, several state agencies are required to work together to conjure a zero-emissions vehicle market development strategy by the end of next year

I guess that's nice that the timeframe for coming up with a plan is shorter... but again, don't we need more action now, and not in a decade and a half?
No, there are not only more people attending college, but also a higher percentage of people - different source so the date range differs, but per NCES [0] in the year 2000 the percent males/females in college was 33/38, and in 2018 it was 38/44

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cpb.pdf
Next to your comment there's a timestamp for when it was posted, with the title "2021-09-15T14:18:16". This is available for all comments as far as I can see. In what way is this inaccurate?
Linters can help a ton with stuff like this, I think pylint warns against this footgun.

Also is there a reason for not using the shorter:

var = var or []

Instead of:

var = [] if var is None else var
I don't know if this has changed, but when I was an undergrad in math, all the summer REUs were for women and minorities. I applied to many all the same but never got to do any summer research, which definitely worked against me when applying for grad school. This wouldn't have pushed me out of college I suppose, but it made continuing beyond more difficult.
Curious, how much time have you spent with Ruby on Rails? (Which GitLab is based on)

Rails has a special track record for convenient magic implicated in security vulnerabilities.

Another commenter gave a good example theory implicating a convenient-but-questionable out of the box behavior of Rails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537562

The good news is Rails has been slowly moving away from the magic over the years - it used to be a lot worse.
Not sure if "ComSci" refers to "Computer Science" or "Communication Science".
I would be more considered about remaining petroleum infrastructure entering a death spiral as demand drops rapidly. The cost per mile to drive an EV is about half that of a combustion vehicle, so the heaviest consumers will move to EVs rapidly, leaving the stragglers to shoulder petroleum supply costs.
Can you please tell us more about your career trajectory?

I wouldn’t normally expect someone who went to trade school from 15-18 to be so proficient in a foreign language(English) like you.
Not sure why the downvotes here. This is an objectively true fact. And worse is that it’s not limited to white males. Nobody cares about our young black men either. 1/5 die of homicide while we reduce our police presence as if they are the most pressing problem.

At least a white male stands a good chance of not being born into a high crime area they have virtually no chance of escaping.

We suck at diagnosing and solving the real problems.
> as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet

Someone tell the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Jumping on the bandwagon here, SSH also now supports FIDO/U2F. This allows for hardware security keys like Yubikeys to be used directly for auth, rather than via TOTP/HOTP codes.

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.2
That’s a great answer, thank you. And that’s actually a lot more link capacity than I expected.

For anyone reading, Google states that the aka band is between 26.5 GHz and 40 GHz.
It's new car sales.
You're right, it's not a good example. I either forgot the context or didn't read it thoroughly enough when it was first written.

I should get more familiar with the current state of AI, I've never been a long-run skeptic but my projects are unrelated so I probably have a poor idea of how close we are.
Shaming people who had no hand in being brought into that privileged position is what's actually going on even though the institutions don't acknowledge it.
To the best of my current knowledge, it's at most possible that the NSA backdoored the NIST curves. I'm unaware of anyone in academia positively proving the existence thereof.

If your threat model doesn't include the NSA or other intelligence agency level state actors, ECDSA with NIST P-521 will serve you just fine.

(ECDSA is per se a questionable abuse of elliptic curves born from patent issues now long past, but it's not a real, exploitable security problem, either, if implemented correctly.)
Ha, first I'd heard of that. Apparently it didn't work out for him, which I guess is good for market integrity.

https://www.insider.com/super-bowl-streaker-bet-on-himself-p...
> I'm not sure which is the correct word in English.

"Flutter", perhaps?
Median income: Poverty, and income fell amid Covid-19
It really shouldn't be that hard. Where I grew up there were four same-sex only schools. Two for boys, two for girls.
Oh yes. It's literally to the point that even saying "it's okay to be white" is considered alt-right and white supremacist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white
It is saying "due to your race, you are a bad person". It's naked racism, insultingly labeled as "justice".
I’m torn on CS degrees, because while a vast majority of what makes up the curriculum is made accessible to anyone with access to modern technology, but there are some bits of field that seem to require either a real world scenario or academic setting to learn.

But yeah, I don’t think most degrees don’t provide much value in terms of employment. Even a large chunk of the oh so coveted STEM (notably the S) are probably a crapshoot.
We've been asking for this for years.

> There was a 43.6% decrease in users copying from the accepted answer when the highest-scored answer was shown first.

Good. As much as I hate that people copy and paste without reading through code and understanding it, if they're going to it, I'd rather them not copy potentially insecure stuff.

For those who don't fully understand - the "accepted" answer (the one that helped the poster of the question, the OP) used to be shown even before an answer that was upvoted more than it - even in cases where the spread is hundreds or even thousands of rep.

The problem with this is that a single person (the OP) got to dictate which answer on a potentially frequently viewed question got the most attention, and by proxy, which code got copy/pasted the most.

This, despite another answer probably having better, more secure, more thoughtful, or more performant code as reflected by the hundreds of people that upvoted it.
If you do not see it, you are blind.

The food you ate this week--where did it come from? Which pesticides were used in it's production? Was the product adulterated (see: honey)? Do you know the list of food additives the FDA has banned, and do you look for their inclusion on labels? Because someone in the government does, for your protection. So you don't have to. But you would!

Where was the "and then they'll be ruined and they'll never make another red cent," attitude when we received toys with lead paint? Never mind obvious malintent, what about products that have been unintentionally but irresponsibly handled--a e. coli or listeria outbreak? Lots of people who have perfectly good intentions can still kill people.

My question is, why are you so against a government agency (i.e. the people) from taking care of this matter? You get a lot of services at cost. It's cheaper, and there is no weird incentive structure where "well, we could let this product that doesn't make standard, because the ratings company stands to make a lot of money if goes through." Remember fannie mae AAA rating junk mortgage bonds because if they didn't, their competitors would? At least their industry was financial instruments and not food.

We've strayed too far from the topic, though. Calling taxation theft while reaping the benefits is hypocritical at best. And saying "well, some taxation is ok, but partially removing the QSBS break is theft," comes across as disingenuous. Who's to say your QSBS break didn't fund a school or the FDA or a sidewalk?
some rent seeking is useful. I don't want to buy my hotel room on vacation.

too much environmental exploitation with out some kind of mitigation and regulation is a problem as well.

but at the heart of it all is:

1. statistics and expert opinions should count for more than uneducated opinions

2. but experts(and agents think politicians ) can be corrupted.

3. most people are swayed by narratives and not statistics.

4. but, individual points of view and outliers are important as well because they provide new protectives and directions of inquiry.
Here is your chance to talk about it, these discussions are permitted on HN. How do we know it's really happening and what can we do about it? Let me throw out a few takes to stir things up.

- Maybe girls are naturally better at sitting still, and have always had an advantage in learning spelling and times tables that was not revealed until recently because the system was biased against them.

- Maybe a change in amounts of permitted physical activity has negatively impacted the ability to focus in anyone with a natural propensity to exercise, showing up in hyperactive kids and of course anyone with a lot of testosterone... or prenatal testosterone exposure, or whatever makes boys more likely to run around the playground hitting each other with sticks (I'm not an endocrinologist if you can't tell), in their systems.

- Maybe all we accomplished in the 1980s was replacing sexism type A with sexism type B.

- Maybe the performance gap is due to some kind of measurement error, like not comparing the performance of boys and girls at the same task. Maybe boys, due to (I'm just making stuff up here) being pushed towards math and science even if they don't want to do it, end up in more difficult classes and get lower grades in spite of equal ability.

The only thing I really know is that there's not an IQ difference between genders and the innate capacity of both groups, preferences, attention span, etc. notwithstanding, is about equal.
I tried out the tool, and all I got was a “Timeout exceeded while waiting for welcome message.”

For every public SSH server I put up, I always configure a rate limiter in front of it to help thwart SSH attacks. Evidently, it thwarts this as well.
Hi! Creater of Refined Hacker New here :).

You mentioned that the "toggle all comments" button is broken, could you elaborate a bit more on that, and if possible open a GitHub issue for it? Thanks a lot :D.

Apart from that, with RHN you can navigate through the comments using the "J" and "K" keyboard keys and Press "Enter" on the highlighted comment to toggle it. Hope that helps too, cheers :)
These efforts really need to be accompanied by language or sibling bills that encourage installation of new community charging stations, force existing apartments to install X number of charging stations per resident, and requires all new residential buildings install them. The biggest hurdle I'm seeing among my friends and coworkers is simply that they would have to charge their vehicle 1-2x a week and have no way to charge at their apartment, while waiting 30 minutes at a public station is too inconvenient. Is this possibly something included in the Biden infrastructure bill (which I haven't really read or read into yet)?
Right. Always thought I was Gen X, now I'm a Boomer apparently!

Ah well, we're used to being ignored ;)
Why would you go to a place that is increasingly expensive, people are increasingly open about how there are alternatives to college, and your professors and other students look down on you for being white and successful?
Software is not different from hardware. Digital parts aren't magic, bring no magic rights, it's still just boring old parts someone invested in engineering into a product.

Even in digital, beige box server, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, applications, devices, apps, screens... different waterlines, none of them magic. Which waterline do you have the right to "run whatever you want"? Which waterline is a business ok to say, from here down, it's my product?

Anti-circumvention laws saying DRM means hands off altogether are different from saying a maker must take extra steps to make it easier for you to mod the device they invested R&D in, must allow your mod at potential harm to other mods on the device, or a maker must change their business model to facilitate malware and benevolent app devs alike.

There's a market segment for beige boxes and Raspberry PIs. Not every device with digital parts supporting digital mods, plug-ins, add-ons, cartridges, apps, whatever you call them, has to be forced to be a Raspberry Pi.

You have a right to remove the warning label from your mattress, or root your phone, but Sealy doesn't have to perforate the tag and Samsung doesn't have to give you a toggle.
Pilots/crew are part of the system, the manufacturer provides specific guidance and training on handling emergencies. In this case the passenger is the equivalent of the user.

The buffer overflow equivalent would be an app written in a managed language like C#, where buffer overflows are basically impossible.
And why would you expect that this new elected body would be any more effective at advancing it's electorates interest instead of just its own?
Engadget left out that crucial detail, but no. It’s for new vehicle sales.
Nim has had some success in genomics mainly thanks to the work of https://github.com/brentp

Nim can be sold as a "A strongly-typed and statically-compiled high-performance Pythonic language" as Seq (although it is more than that and does not actually have as a goal to be Pythonic, see https://nim-lang.org/ or https://github.com/Araq/nimconf2021/blob/main/zennim.rst).

Still, given the small size of Nim community and even smaller size of the genomics nim subcommunity, I would say it is not that odd that is not included in the benchmark. The existing nim genomics library might not even cover the functionalities required by the benchmark.
I use a FireFox plugin that applies CSS for colorizing visited links on HN:

a:link{
color: orange !important;
}

/* visited link */
a:visited {
color: green !important;
}

https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-style-script.html
We have days for LGBTQ, women, and minorities because they are historically disenfranchised groups still dealing with societally systemic problems oriented against them. That is not true of white heterosexual men.

It'd be like trying to organize a day for people from multimillionaire families. It doesn't make any sense.
yeah I'm very thankful I got to be in college for CS. I can't imagine learning all the deep weeds in algo, network and security in a bootcamp or youtube - way too shallow and unstructured. like how could you possibly learn all the things I learned but in 10% of the time
Yes. Having your answer marked as the accepted answer gives you rep. Rep is the lifeblood of the platform.

If you take away accepted answers, then the 10 rep reward (might be more now) goes away, which means incentive to answer potentially low-popularity question (note, not low-quality, just those that will not be seen often) will diminish and thus it'll lead to people writing highly senationalized/clickbait-ey questions, even further ruining the content quality of the site (something SO has been struggling with the last several years).
As I recall, this historically was the standard. In handwriting, the ligature could be and was placed naturally. In professional printing with moveable type, the ligature could be included in the typeset. Only once typewriters were invented and couldn't spare a key for every ligature did the sequential style appear and the British and American styles diverge.
My take here is that it is too easy to look back on what was learned in college and what you use today in comparison to it's source and conclude you've picked up way more on the job and use comparatively little from the formal education. Therefore the value is low.

Could you likely have learned everything that you got from your degree on your own while cutting out some of the less practical parts? Almost definitely. Would the person who isn't looking back with 20/20 hindsight know what to cut? I think that is less likely. Would a person without the formal structure of a degree actually gone out and learned all those same things with the same commitment? Some might be able to, but I suspect most would lose interest.

Sure your career might have ended up never touching a single networking component that you learned about in school. But maybe you loved that part and if left to your own devices would have forsaken other parts of the education to just deep dive on it. Would that be fine? Maybe. Or maybe you quite like working in the role that you find yourself in. A role that you might have shut the door to very early on without some structure.

So I think a mix of hindsight and overestimating a person's ability to just stick with a rigorous learning process that can take months and months (or years) without the benefits of peers, teachers, structure, and accountability leads to this belief.

I should mention though that as we are speaking about "value", the ROI on college in America is pretty rough. Even with all those benefits laid out, it is hard to make it too rosey in the face of a hundred thousand dollars of potential debt. Extra so due to the fact that you can acquire a portion of that debt and not even come out the other side with a degree.
It seems there might have been a personal problem between a founder and an ex-founder - now Exec. They're from a different generation but the same domain.

We don't know why Apple's offer was rejected. But in a case like this, it is conceivable that it was felt the Swype founder had demeaned his successor's achievements.

That this exec alone was singled out by name suggests that the negotiation's breakdown might have been triggered by a clash of personalities.

If so - despite having already delivered their fait accompli - in the interest of fairness Apple should remake its previous offer. This time with heightened sensitivity to the pair of egos.
NYC has a plan to install the largest EV charging network in the US. Federal incentives encourage local communities to adopt EV readiness plans to obtain federal grants (I contribute to and help develop EV readiness plans in my spare time).

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/electrifying-new...