skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be upset about this. If they chose to work for a "startup" which didn't offer incentive equity, they don't have equity. Presumably they had good salaries to compensate.
>Feeding animals for slaughter requires

It doesn't require it at all.
Not quite - many of their customers are paying $$ a month for medium to large marketing sends. Their biggest customers probably count for 30% of the overall revenue.

It's unusual seeing a company that sells goods and services for money be valued highly in silicon valley ;)
Agree 100%, next few years of webapps are going to be revolutionary. WebAssembly gaming in particular is going to disrupt Steam on PC, and the App Stores on mobile. Our startup is working on this btw
I miss the days when iOS exploits were merely used for jailbreaks and allowing alternative app stores, instead of being weaponized/monetized as they are now.
> GCC can use whole program optimization to replace virtual dispatch with a series of if statements.

Would you happen to have a sharable example of this occurring? I'd be curious to see what heuristics GCC is using. Also, what the conditional is on...is it still on the vtable, but just avoiding the indirect call?
>I still sometimes kick myself over stupid decisions I made as a freshman and sophomore.

You and every other single human on the planet ;-)
I remember somebody who always claims his own videos with a secondary account. So if nobody else claims it, he still gets the money. And otherwise nobody does.

Well except youtube keeps it in all this cases. Sad sad google now has to keep all the money for them self in a system they designed. What a unlucky coincident. Nothing they could do against that.
My parents don’t understand why I believe this actually, they’re pretty smart and went to selective institutions. I, on the other hand, am an example of generational decline with nothing to live for because people like GP think state schoolers that didn’t skip multiple grades are subhuman.
They're only opposite goals in as much as you see copyright and open source licenses as synonymous. I'm not a lawyer, but there are other forms of IP protections that are not copyright (patents, trademarks, etc). Seems like a new form of IP protection could be created to protect open source - i.e. "if someone says you can only modify this code if you re-share it, it is illegal to modify the code without re-sharing".
Broadly, I think the mistake is thinking that "what is taught in school" is somehow objectively good or necessary.

I've come to think of it more in terms of "School helps people navigate a world in which you are generally expected to go to school."

Some people will get a great deal of value from it, and really need it, whatever "it" is -- it could be what's in the books or it could be what's in the people around you.

Some people may not need it much at all.

Furthermore, of course what makes this especially complex is the variance in "schools."
Travis CI secrets were leaking to forks via pull request builds
> .. because they lobby to keep taxes complicated?

No, because they lobby to keep filing taxes complicated. Yes, taxes most likely will always be complicated, but if there's no artificial barriers to filing (like in most of the rest of the developed world), there can be real competition in the tax-solutions-software space and most likely there'll also be acceptable open-source solutions that can be used for free.
It is increasingly bizarre in my opinion how this company (and others like Toka) can run active terrorist operations, that if anyone else smaller was doing some of the same hacks they would be in prison for a very long time.

People have lost their lives due to these pariahs!

Israel already has a massive PR issue with other countries, it would do them well to reign in these offensive front arms of their government/'companies.'

Citizen Labs is really a great thing for civilization. There are not enough altruistic organizations.
We've banned this account for repeatedly abusing HN. Attacking other users like this is totally not cool.

We can all empathize with the difficult experiences you've been through, but translating that into hundreds of off-topic HN comments is not a good use of energy. You've been doing this for a long time, with multiple accounts, and we've asked you to stop many times. Many other HN users have had difficult experiences too, and they're not behaving this way. It's time to stop doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28517375.
Gitlab.com pipelines has issues uploading artifacts for last 8 hours
Technically I think this is the greatest mashup of all time, although it is mashing up preacher and famous tune rather than two separate tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXek5d2ocw
Your English is excellent - as a native speaker I wouldn’t have guessed you had a different mother tongue. ‘Fait accompli’ is used in English with the same meaning. I was trying to make a stupid joke referring to fiat currency… HN is a tough audience, and I’m more of a droll engineer type.
I'm pretty sure you can't tell without a trial. This is one of the uglier aspects of the US copyright regime.
I'm gonna invoke Poe's law here, but respond genuinely.

The only reason beef is so popular is because it's available. It's pretty inefficient in terms of energy input to calorie output and produces even more carbon as a byproduct of it's production. Carbon-cost wise, it should be seen as a luxury.

I also really don't think it would be an issue health-wise and diverting the market to other forms of food wouldn't really put too much strain on people's ability to provide enough food, calories- and protein-wise
What is the oldest-known archaeological site in the world?
I'm a highschool dropout, but I did a decent job of attending most of the way through anyway cause all my friends weren't fuckups. I have a hard time imagining what sort of person I'd be if I didn't have that growth with a cohort of friends.

In terms of my success as a human who is part of society I don't think anything has been as helpful as the social skills that I learned in high school. I don't think it's the only way to learn these skills, but I certainly feel like my social-learning velocity was by far the highest in high school.

Ultimately how other people perceive me influences my quality of life more than any other thing. I don't think as a "smart kid" skipping high school would have helped me, I think it would have hurt me a lot. I feel like my life opened up immensely when I accepted that being smart and correct and having a deep understanding of the problem at hand matters so much less than being able to get along with people.
For now I just rclone (https://rclone.org/) a few directories to B2 or S3. I created an application key with write only permission to the cloud storage.
If it helps, you probably would fuck up your freshman and/or sophmore year anyway. Growing like that is an important part of the college experience.
> They intentionally staff people with erratic weekly hours, keeping shifts to 4 hours

I literally have family members who work full shifts. You're taking anecdotal examples and extrapolating that to the entire retail force. dumb opinion.
I skipped a year in elementary school and had a gap year (because I was in Israel I couldn't start university because I was supposed to do mandatory military service, and had a year to wait). Man oh man, did this year suck. I had no skills to manage myself with no routine, all my friends were a year older than me and started their military service. I worked for a few months, but then I just did nothing for what seemed like an eternity: I slept during the day, I was alone most of the time, internet was a couple years away so I didn't even have that, I honestly can't remember what I did but it was terrible.
Anything can 'potentially be net positive in ways you might not immediately recognize'. There is literally no event that description does not apply to.

In many cases the 'negative experiences' are daily abuse.

I myself had a horrible and painful time in high school, but listening to people of various backgrounds I concluded it's pretty much hit or miss. I can't generalize from my negative experience, but you can't generalize from your positive one either.
DOS was a thing because computers were so expensive in the early 80s. Like incredibly expensive for paltry specs and performance that you wouldn't even take for free today. Thousands of 1980 dollars.

In order for personal computers to be feasible they had to be cheap enough for people to afford, which meant they had to be downright primitive by today's standards. The OS as well, by extension. As mentioned in the video, early DOS is basically a boot loader, a few utilities, and a program loader written in assembler. That's it. Everything else is done by applications that have full access to the hardware. It even dumped the shell out of RAM while a large application ran, which is why it would run the floppy on exit looking for it.

More substantial OSs already existed of course, Unix and VMS for example, but they came with million dollar price tags. Xenix was ported to the PC with the 286 I believe, but it wasn't cheap or practical for a while, and worse is better as the saying goes.

The 386, Windows, and Linux weren't feasible until a decade later.
In order to make a convincing argument, the author needs to elaborate more on how the time should be spent instead

While I can agree with him high school is a lot of tedium and busy work, I'm skeptical sitting around at home doing whatever you want will result in a more enriching use of time

There will be the natural tendency to avoid learning about things you don't like, which can result in a biased worldview. There is the natural tendency to procrastinate. There is the need to interact with people with different perspectives who will challenge your ideas. I don't see this will be an environment that helps budding minds flourish.

I might have been more inclined to agree with him pre-pandemic, but the experience has taught me I (and probably most other people too) actually suck at using time well when there is no structure
Dino: Self Supervised Video Segmentation
I think high school education was very good for me. Then again we had proper educational system here. Much more so than university, which I think had much less effect.
I’ve had customers for a bit — couple K to setup with some monthly recurring revenue (#00/month) and have really struggled to raise.

Just a weird looking TAM (small as all get out and competitive market) is all I can chalk it up to - or I’m a crappy story teller
Epic, while huge, is 100 times smaller than Apple. Apple could buy 3 Epics from one quarterly iPhone revenue.
The only existing implementation of Julia in case that I know of is fully open source and MIT licensed.

It is well maintained and high performance :)
it's actually one of those things that translates to vertical farming really well because it uses the entire water column, so you could farm it in a warehouse at mass scale
Looks really awesome! Very quick responses.

I would be interested in seeing the implementation of the service, interesting choice going with Swift. I'm guessing your using something like Vapor for hosting the API?

How are the files designed? I'm guessing you have some cheap way of mapping (lat, long) into a file location? Maybe just by truncating the coordinates to your precision and mapping them onto the file? Using some fancy-pants Uber Hexagons[0]. How is the forecast delivered?

Hmm! Many questions :-). I've been thinking lately of similar (but not for weather) "geographical" API's, and how to store/query data cheaply, so this interested me :-)

[0]: https://github.com/uber/h3
I’m wondering if there is a way to create some sort of less structured alternative to the government education system. I think socializing with people of different classes, beliefs and abilities is necessary, and I would probably not send my kind to some kind of system where he would only meet other high IQ peers, but the gov education is >95% wasted time. Perhaps a combination of homeschooling + mandatory sports team participation + some artsy stuff?
+1 for Joplin - works much faster vs Evernote, and also got awesome plugins (including backlinks like obsidian)
I think DoNotTrack shows how well webdevs will respect flag/switch/honor system type of ideas. They won't.
You need to learn to be happy being who you are, not who you "should" be. If your parents are toxic, then take a break from them. Surround yourself with people that make you happy and forget about your past. You should really see a therapist because this anger and resentment is not the way to live your life. You're still young and you can have an incredibly happy life. Please consider it strongly.
I don't think you understand the scale and flexibility of seaweed farming. But the feed itself is already poised to be adopted by large producers - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-09/world-s-t....

> it is not unrealistic for people to stop eating them

It's unrealistic to force them unless necessary.

Beef industry in some places is subsidized, demand can easily be curbed by removing subsidies or taxing. That isn't even on the table yet.
It seems like incomplete deletion of data is an error. If you are an exploit developer looking to throw investigators off your trail, it is one thing to name your processes with Pegasus names. It is another to deliberately introduce errors in your exploit to appear like Pegasus.

Your proposal is possible. It is just less likely than that this exploit was developed by NSO Group.
Not the parent, but I really couldn’t say.

I personally spent most high school classes either sleeping or playing on my laptop, and often literally learning about what we had been seeing in class when reading the exam's title. Often doing things like completing the math exams based on recollections from middle school. And yet got by, year after year, as well as anyone else.

I then spent over a decade having a hard time figuring out how to actually take and keep any kind of notes, study and how to learn things that didn’t just "come to me" on their own.

Quite a weird experience.

Looking back, I can only wish it had been different. But that’s pointless.
I constantly hear about how hellish is high school in the US. Do other countries experience the same? I enjoyed the high school equivalent of my country, met some of my best friends there. My peers don’t seem to ever mention bad experiences during that period. Is it really as bad as in the movies? Stereotypical bullies, popular guys vs nerds and all that?
And if you don't do one before college, ABSOLUTELY do one after if you're doing grad school, no matter what anyone tells you.

I'm going to guess that many (probably not most, but many) of us here come from a tradition where education is paramount and deviating from that without a clear plan is like deadly frightening to the parents et al.
Agreed. Amazon might start off with good intentions, but it won't end nicely.
You are totally right. I have seen some posts on some networks that brand themselves as the guardian of free speech. Well if we took them to a Facebook Twitter proportion the same problems will arise very soon. So just may be the problem is with the people too.

If those current big techs were to disappear, would people stop their nonsense and sometimes hated behavior?

I am starting to believe that is not just bad company management or moderation, we definitely have bad actors on those networks too.

The problem is complex
You can't schedule a social for 8h/day though. The trick is the informal interactions, e.g. over lunch, or between tasks, or when you overhear something interesting.

Compare e.g. a language course that you go to once per week or day for an hour vs. in-country immersion. similar thing.
The way I describe it to friends and family is that there are basically two levels of protection:

- Protecting yourself from rub of the mill malware that is looking to make money off of you. You can do this pretty effectively by always updating your software as soon as you can and avoiding sketchy and unnecessary apps and websites

- Protecting yourself from an attack by a nation state level agency. I don't think there is any way to be safe from this, and people who are targeted like this need to use protection that go well beyond the choice of cell phone or chat app
That's cool! Honestly right now mine is too :)
But I'm getting the parts together now to build the first box, the plan is for it to be outside in the garden so it needs to be pretty weather proof.

I went with temperature + moisture sensors [0]. I was seriously considering NPK, but I didn't like most of the sensor options I saw. I can't find the original white paper I was reading, but this is a good one on the subject too [1]. Basically it seems like all the NPK sensors you can easily find are three-pronged and based on electrical-conductivity. These sensors don't have a super long lifespan, and can be pretty inaccurate (when soil moisture changes for example). There may be some good options out there, but I haven't found it yet. I might be overestimating how inaccuract the electrical-conductivity sensors are too, need to do more research.

I also want to log temperature and sun exposure; as well as place a rainfall sensor somewhere. I'm really looking forward to a Grafana dashboard of my garden

As for your "black box that makes lettuce," I'd highly recommend you look into hydroponics (specifically NFT). That's what I'm most interested in, I keep looking at this blog post[2] as inspiration.

[0]: https://www.tindie.com/products/miceuz/modbus-rs485-soil-moi...
[1]: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
[2]: https://kylegabriel.com/projects/2020/06/automated-hydroponi...
I wished I had a Blackberry when I was a much younger, but personally I miss Windows Phones a lot more.
I don't at all doubt it. Can you provide some evidence so we can point a mod over here and have him deadded?
> Yes, it's called a commission. Many jobs pay that way.

Well in the case of commissions for employees in Europe you still have to guarantee a minimum wage and fill any gap between commission payments and the minimum wage.

> Making a comparison between a security guard and an Uber driver is like making a comparaison between a limo chauffer and a bounty hunter.

Well, the bounty hunter comparison depends on if you are an employee or if you are self-employed. Let's remember the precedent for uber drivers being employees has already been established in European/Dutch courts.

If a bounty hunter is an employee in Europe (i.e. working for a bounty hunting firm rather than owning one), if any commissions don't make their wage up to the minimum wage they will have to be paid the difference by the employer. The worked hours for bounty hunting include any waiting time on the job. I don't see why Uber should be exempt from this rule when every other industry, including the traditional taxi industry, has to follow it.
> How do you effectively create investor FOMO?

By succeeding.

That sounds either snarky or obvious, however, I mean it quite literally. The absolute single best way to create investor fear of missing out, is to actually succeed at what you're doing. There's nothing close to that. Succeed at whatever stage you're at and be able to demonstrate that to the potential investors. If you're the real deal, you can build, execute and deliver on what you're attempting and claiming. Nothing prompts FOMO from investors like actually delivering and building up a demonstrated chain of success as you go; they see it, and they want to be part of it.

All the other methods are shady, deceitful, disingenuous, fake it until you make it types of bullshit cons. Akin to attempting to trick someone into funding you (ha! look at that! I made myself look more successful than I am, I really pulled one over on them; Theranos).
The effect is the same. If someone touch the cache line, it's evicted from all other caches that has it, triggering a cache miss when other cores touch it. Everyone knows this. I just think it's a bit depressing if you try to optimize message passing on many-core CPUs you'll realize you can't make it fast. No-one has been able to make it fast (I've checked Intel message passing code as well). If you get more than 20 Mevents through some kind of shared queue, you are lucky. That is slow if you compare to how many instructions a CPU can retire.

So all these event loop frameworks try to implement an async behaviour ontop of a hardware mechanism that is synchronous in it's core. The main issue is that the lowest software construct, the queue used to communicate is built on this cache line ping pong match. What the software want it still a queue, you could still send pointers if the memory they point to has been committed to memory when the receiving core see them. Just remove the inefficient atomic operations way of synchronizing the data between CPUs. Send them using some kind of network pipe instead :-) As you say the memory subsystem is really asynchronous.

I'm convinces this is coming, it should just have arrived 10 years ago...
I think it’s a matter of judicious use. I use a lot of tamari/soy sauce when I cook, but not enough that the food tastes overly of it. It’s the savoriness I want, not the actual flavor. Same with tomato paste - roast it in the oven so it has some color and then mix it in with things like soups. They won’t taste like tomato paste (unless you go overboard with it) but they will have a fuller mouthfeel and feel more satisfying.

When I make stock at home from vegetable trimmings, I put mushrooms and kombu in. In Japanese cooking those two things make a dashi, which is a base stock for a lot of dishes, but even adding them to regular stocks (or if I’m cooking rice or quinoa or something) by tying a sheet of seaweed around some mushrooms and then pulling it out when the cooking is done, it imparts a lot of glutamate but not an overly seaweed-y flavor. I don’t eat the seaweed or the mushrooms usually (dried shiitakes have a texture I don’t like), I use them only to infuse things.
Jail is 100% like high school, from the experiences of the people I know who spent time in the can at least.
Another option, for Mac users: Direct Mail (https://directmailmac.com). Disclosure: I work there.
links actually does have a graphic mode... see http://links.twibright.com/features.php screenshots section.

It really isn't too bad.