skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my naive perspective, the Bible itself has a lot of warts that are pretty indefensible. This isn’t to say the Bible has nothing of value to contribute to society; but as an authority on morality there’s a lot of amoral things god does. Easy example: Exodus and the plagues.

God wants to free His people from Egypt (why aren’t all people his people if he created them?) so he tells Moses to tell Aaron to tell Pharaoh that if he doesn’t free the Israelites God will punish the Egyptians - and eventually kill a bunch of kids.

Wouldn’t a better solution be to just teleport the Israelites to the Holy land and not kill children? Or possess Pharaoh and make him issue a decree. Put yourself in Gods shoes and see if you can’t come up with a better solution that doesn’t involve a bunch of innocents dying.

Ditto Noah’s arc, sodom and Gomorrah. Even in the New Testament he tells Joseph to hide from Herod to avoid the slaughter of the innocents but doesn’t stop the innocents being slaughtered.
Ah, yes, chatting on Napster :) It was just IRC with DC, while the GUI was mostly built around the DC.

I was sharing some music from the early times of classic heavy metal, the NWOBHM. A compilation album done by Lars Ulrich with the songs that had inspired him. One day I received a message from someone in England. He was very surprised to find a song from the band of his brother-in-law on napster. He had always thought it was a band that had amounted to nothing. A week later I chatted with the bass player or drummer (I forgot) where he talked about the band. They felt forced to either go commercial, like Def Leppard, or go thougher, like trash metal from the US. The band was divided and that is where it ended. I forgot the name of the band.

The album is now even on wikipedia :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_of_British_Heavy_Meta...

By the way I was using a console client for linux, nap.c. Does anyone remenber that? I ran it on my 486 pc on a console. Just like virtual tty's it had virtual screens built in with search, shares, chat, etcetera.
> The researchers note their findings conflict with ongoing campaigns to promote trust in science as a way to fight misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, mask-wearing and COVID-19 vaccines.

Interesting they bring up mask-wearing, because it was the scientists who were telling us in the beginning that we should not be wearing masks.
Replying to myself here to add- I think the movie Takedown is the better 'real' hacking movie as it involves the story of the legendary Kevin Mitnick, and shows real phreaking, hacking, and social engineering. Great movie of you've not seen it!
Yeah, for real, the usability of older games, when seen from a modern point of view is very bad.

You needed to be in a more focused state of mind and had much more patience.
My first exposure to working with voxels was in jMonkeyEngine (https://jmonkeyengine.org/) with a few plugins, when i wanted to display the sort of representation of a world that you see in games like Minecraft (the closest i had previously done was using particle systems for visualizing point cloud data).

Almost immediately, it became clear that any sort of a larger world needs a lot of optimizations done to work properly, so there were quite a few algorithms to be grokked.

Personally, i found quite a few posts talking about things like meshing:

- https://0fps.net/2012/06/30/meshing-in-a-minecraft-game/
- https://blackflux.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/meshing-in-voxel-engines-part-1/
- https://blackflux.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/meshing-in-voxel-engines-part-2/
- https://blackflux.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/meshing-in-voxel-engines-part-3/

And also even a few about things like real time occlusion culling, which doesn't get talked about a lot:

- https://procworld.blogspot.com/2015/08/voxel-occlusion.html

Nowadays, i'd advise that people look at the more established projects/engines out there if they just want to get something working, though it can also definitely be interesting to try getting something working all by yourself.

Also, in regards to pretty interesting voxel engines out there, i do believe that Ken Silverman's Voxlap engine deserves a mention: http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

It was written around 20 years ago, yet remains an interesting project to this day - its performance is impressive, and IIRC it achieves this in a software rendering mode, something that's surprising even today. It was actually the basis for the Ace of Spades game, the modern (free) version of which is known as OpenSpades: http://openspades.yvt.jp/ (though i think that the project now uses a different renderer maybe, it's been a while).
Yes, FaaS is a good choice for early stage products, where the traction cannot be predicted, or the user volumes would be predictably low. Combine Lambda (execution) with other free tier + subsequent low cost serverless offerings like DynamoDB for data, you can achieve a truly cost-effective solution with FaaS. Cold-start is not that big an issue, for full functionality web-apps, every now and then, the first request seems to take maybe a second longer.
Cons: Learning + debugging curves are higher.
Source: Built a SaaS product mostly based on Lambda and it was very cost effective - as in - 1/20 the costs of the traditional EC2 route.
EC2 can be a good pick if your engineers are more comfortable with leveraging what they know and speed / a quick go-to-market is of more importance.
The process would have to stop eventually, because each swap reduces the sum over all pixels of the distances to adjacent pixels, and there is no infinite descending sequence of positive whole numbers.
> Can FB sue China in court for damages for the cost of serving these forged requests?

Sure they can. They can't win, but they can waste time and money.
By 'red' I was referring to anything effectful, whether that be concurrency, IO, state, or otherwise. Composing any one effect is a solved problem (e.g. monad); composing arbitrarily many effects is a lot harder. Recent languages like Koka describe effects over the free monad; because they are described over a single monad, and this single monad composes, effects compose.

I am by no means an expert in this area, but I hope this clarifies the intent of my original comment. What transformations and/or constraints exist for composable heterogeneous effects?

Koka: http://koka-lang.org/
Perhaps controversial, but maybe that's an issue with the PL - if higher level, domain specific, more powerful abstractions were baked into the language, maybe all the boilerplate would not be necessary.

Of course, getting a new language to wide spread adoption is far from trivial, but that's a separate problem.
> > Given that languages used broadly in the industry are lacking behind research 20+ years

> This is obviously true in abstract, but the real breakthrough happens when you make those concepts ergonomic for the working developer.

That's of course correct. That's actually why we're lacking behind research by such a long distance. It's not only type-systems. The "20 year lack to research" seems to be a quite general phenomena in IT. I'm not judging. It's an observation.

> This has arguably already happened, we call them data scientists.

I think this is only a facet of what I had in mind. I guess it will become more ubiquitous to use some "coding related" tools in a lot of places! But it won't be for sure software engineering what those people will do. I was thinking more in the direction of e.g. MS PowerApps. Or something on the spectrum between such thing and Jupyter notebooks.
You're qualified to be in charge of government energy policy, sir.
Ah thanks, that's an excellent suggestion. That way, you can request avatars and send a list of already received avatar-IDs with your request to prevent getting duplicates?
100 times this. Tesla Beta testers are people driving their own cars, and are - by selection of being able to afford a Tesla - in average more qualified then the minimum wage test driver.

The word "trained test driver" is misleading. It sound like "test pilot", which are usually the best in their field. But paid test drivers are just people that applied for a low pay job. Heck, they maybe even be tired all the time because they have to have two jobs.
Out of curiosity, what book was it? I might get it as an April fool's joke for my astronomer friend of mine.
That's fascinating -- I'd never heard of it before. How does it compare in effectiveness at evading DPI and FW detection in comparison to, say, tor with the meek-azure obsproxy that reflects traffic off Microsoft's Azure service?
It's a nice article, but the realistic view is that pair-bonding in animals (and, yes, humans are animals) evolved to provide resources and stability to children. Couples are prone to a "seven year itch" which corresponds to the time at which children are able to move away from their mothers and the family unit psychologically. Pair-bonding is reinforced by a common purpose: the child or (as a proxy) some other shared goal. When these disappear, the bond weakens. It's a very natural occurrence. Romantically, we want these things to last for life, but the evolved machinery that we are born with does not provide as much reinforcement as we need to make that happen consistently without some of the problems listed by the article.
> There is no more such thing as a Huawei mobile phone, at least in western civilization.

They seem to be alive and kicking in Swedish shops though.

https://www.pricerunner.se/sp/huawei-smartphone.html
> It's also as good as Flutter.

It's not. Last time I used it, everything was super janky, the look of app from 90s also didn't impress me.

The DX is awful, compared to neat single binary of Flutter.

> React native isn't a write once run anywhere tool. As a result it has a lot of different problems which imo make it way worse than all of the above.

I only care about result, not semantics.
It's a wast of time to engage with a troll. It won't result in any curious discussion.
Herpes zoster after Covid vaccination
Going to need some sauce on those private trackers, thx.
Lincoln, Washington, and FDR was good presidents, but they where not saints.

FDR tried to manipulate the supreme court by increasing the number of judges.

Lincoln engaged in secret manipulating of the media.

Washington was a slave owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bil...

https://observer.com/2014/11/abraham-lincoln-as-media-manipu...
Pretty cool. It wouldn't hurt to publish the code!
The manufacturers do share some blame as well, they have failed to see what the spirit of the regulations are and done a goalseek on the spreadsheet to where we are now.

I do wonder if they went too far too fast with some of the regulations. If it is beyond the edge of what is possible, the incentive becomes seeking loopholes, juicing numbers. However, the gains have been incredible the last 10-20 years in just raw efficiency.

Beyond the regulations, society and virtue signaling appears to have had a strong impact, on all side of the political spectrum. Capitalism does sometimes work, and the current 'desire' is to have either an electic clean car or to roll coal and shoot your m50 at commies in their liberal prius.
Ah, the ol' "This is part of my idea of the status quo, so everything that's happened since that could roughly pertain to its stated purpose serves as evidence that this practice uniquely produced all the outcomes I like"

Classic
Isn't that the promise of self-driving? To be passenger?

Tesla could have called it "supervised self-driving", and that would be fine with me. But "full self-driving" sounded like more value when they wanted to sell the feature. So they went with that.
Programming changes at human speed because it requires programmers to learn.

Maybe in 10 more years we will all be writing in ML-family languages!
The goal of AI is not to create consciousness, it’s to help humans. And we have no ability to prove/disprove consciousness in anything anyway but we choose to believe it exists because each of us knows it inside ourselves.

If we create a box of metal, matrices, and silicone and tell ourselves it’s conscious it will be our own hubris that leads to additional competition for shared resources and further human inequality/suffering. Such lines of reasoning make me very concerned.
Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and boring systems
Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism
Given the national nature of the increase, it's unlikely that a local measure caused it, it's probably pandemic-times related.

That being said obviously a longer time scale is better for trend detection than a shorter one.... Oooor is it dundundun :D since if you pick too long a timescale then you get additional events muddying the causality, like aforementioned pandemic.

That that that being said public policy changes are chaotic things that can have one effect in the short run a different one in the medium term etc. It's kinda meaningless to declare victory or defeat, as society's interaction with laws evolves over time.
Async implementations like Python's have roughly the same speed as Bernstein's tcpserver, which forks a process for every connection and as such has perfect isolation between connections.

Progress, I guess.
When the system is registered as a level 2 system, even if it's fully autonomous, human driver is responsible.
Also nuclear power is a big taboo for the European left, often spoken of in fear-mongering/puritan language, even if most scientists support it.
> There were 3,723 deaths in California in 2020. The lifetime odds of dying in a motor-vehicle crash for a person born in 2019 were 1 in 107. These odds suck. Is that really acceptable? Can we do better? We know we can. If we can reduce that number we should.

This is the crux of the argument. However, it falls flat when you consider that many other simple "can reduce that number" measures have not been adopted – like fitting speed governors to cars limiting them to some speed limit, putting tracking beacons in cars to making them automatically stop at red lights, or putting in devices in cars to limit drunk driving.

I don't see a reason why a much more complicated technology should leapfrog these simpler ones and be put into production so quickly, potentially risking innocent lives in the process. In fact, I believe the reason why it is being rushed so quickly is arguments like yours coupled with a low understanding of the technology involved. People are viscerally more willing to accept the idea that an "artificial intelligence" is going to drive the car, rather than the idea that their car is a multi-ton hunk of metal that needs to be limited and monitored carefully.

> I honestly think the biggest issue is probably the legal a s regulatory overhead of responding to the technology rather than the technology itself, but since it’s so hard to quantify I don’t often bring this up. But the biggest passion I have seen if from those same engineering minds, who truly understand the complexity, but also want to see it happen. Their timeframes are just long. I’ve heard 2045 and 2050.

Those timeframes seem normal to me. Rollout dates should not be decided by the whims of corporate shareholders. Let's put simple speed limiters on cars first, everyone can understand that technology – and see how that goes!
Yes to all of that, I just meant that it's not a big deal if a few companies reject my emails or things like that.
It's mostly stupidity and blind faith IMO. Most of those posts are reshares and its hard to find who actually was the first to refer to a paper.

I once saw such a claim from antivaxers on Facebook and decided to try and read the paper although I'm not an epidemiologist... So first of all the paper was behind a paywall, second, it was written in Spanish (which I and the poster do not read), third, already in the abstract it said the opposite of what the Facebook poster claimed... It's all just a waste of energy really. They just search for titles that sound like they support them and do not bother considering who wrote it, where was it published, or even what does it say in the abstract. It seems that no one is even close to actually reading a paper and evaluating its merits.
This is extremely unfortunate, yet feels like it could have been prevented rather easily.

Most of the hypervisors support snapshotting of various types, many OSes out there have built in backup solutions, even some file systems support snapshots as well, that can be restored, everything from pooled file systems to even RAID could have helped them deal with the failure of a disk. And perhaps not applicable here, cloud vendors also support backups most of the time.

Though personally, even a simple software solution can help with backups, personally i use BackupPC: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/

Basically, it's just some nice logic that's built around rsync and has compression, incremental backups etc. I set it up a few years ago for all of my cloud servers and VMs (which i manually add to the list of ones that are backed up), create system users for them for SSH access and occasionally check whether the incremental/full backups are working. Then, i simply have another rsync script that copies the backup server's data over periodically to another device.

It's not the most advanced setup, but even that is better than just hoping that no data loss will happen, which is plain wrong. Then there's also software solutions like https://bvckup2.com/ for desktops etc. Of course, rsync and cron would have also been sufficient.

It's not like backups aren't essentially a solved problem in most of the simple configurations.
Referring to AI alignment and specification of an objective that does not include the prioritization of our genetics somehow.
I would say that a higher percentage of the population of any developed nation can go from "I don't know what a computer program looks like" to running print() in a REPL in far less time (the only real measure other than Money, right?) than could be done in the 1980s.

If we're talking about "people with a desktop computer readily at their disposal" then I'll agree that in that subset it may be more difficult today than it was 35 years ago (when computers booted into a BASIC prompt), but only a little bit. However, that subset went from 3% of the population to 97% of the population, greatly increasing the pool in general.
Is there anything in this article thats "anti-car" though?

The notion that everything pro-cycling/walking/liveable cities is "anti-car" is what needs to stop.
I don't know, some of that is at least starting to happen with Idris 2, though not in the exact way predicted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU (Type Driven Development with Idris 2)

Short summary of linked video: when your type system is powerful enough you can restrict the set of possible implementations to the point that the compiler can make a decent guess as to what the program should be to satisfy the type signature.
This is literally everyone, look at experts trying their hand outside of their field of expertise.

The issue isn’t that we need to take some things on trust it’s how to work out who to trust.

Even scientifically literate people find this hard, you’ll often find people arguing something quite general by linking a paper that is very specific (or actually says the opposite!).

Less honest people will outright lie and link to a source in the hopes you won’t read it and trust them to be diligent. Just the other day a user here stated some facts and linked to a wiki page that immediately and outright refuted them.

We’re not just in an environment where we need to make sure people aren’t making mistakes. It’s also highly adversarial.
> Resignation Syndrome seems to reliably and rapidly abate once the threat of deportation is removed. Is that because a massive stressor is removed and mental health can be regained? Or is it because a pretense can be lifted once the threat of deportation is removed?

I wonder why people think that there is must be a hard cutoff between these 2. You can create a very temporary OCD with "trauma" in video games. That's entirely fictional and voluntarily (literally done for fun) and yet you can clearly see the effects for a few hours after the video game session stops. It lasts longer when repeated.

So here's a theory: there's a long, very slow sloping grey zone between definite OCD and entirely faked and a million gradations between the two. The longer the faking lasts the more real it becomes.
Five years evolution of open-source distributed tracing
And most insane thing to me is that we think in net terms and not peak terms. That is if you sign up to buy wind or solar. You should not be getting any when there is no wind or solar.
LA is building quite a bit of public transit btw, just in the most ineffective way possible, building stations in the middle of loud and annoying highway medians 30+ minute walks from anything of interest.
What ends up happening is, people in cars just avoid the city centre (who are usually doing several other measures to repel cars), and end up going to the out-of-town places instead. This fuels a proliferation of sprawl, of course.
Courts in China works just as well/bad as in, say, the US. A specific name doesn't change that.
I’ve come to the conclusion 90% of HN has no experience raising children and what it entails. This is evident in the replies of people saying “just do x”. Never contains any context as to the country you live in, it’s infrastructure or the requirements of your family.
I had the same experience, trying to self-host my VPN or other evasion solutions only served to get my server and domains banned for all other purposes from inside the GFW. The symptoms were exactly the same as you described (at first, they "sort of work, but unreliably, with extremely minimal bandwidth and would suddenly stop working after some time").

In the end, I'm not going to try that anymore, I haven't been in China for 2+ years now due to COVID, but next time, I'll hope my server is out of the blacklist again and hope I can access my (self-hosted) emails and other normal services that don't try to evade it.

The student VPN of another Asian university or the employee VPN of a well established company seemed to work last time. Not sure if that can be counted on reliably though...
People get a kind of power and influence over others when they achieve to create an aura of credibility. Typically this is paired with strong, oversimplified or even false claims. People want to hear it and believe it, so abusers get to reign.

This is very typical and likely most problematic in politics. Cults are a smaller but often more extreme instance.

The root of the problem is three headed:

For one, there is simply not enough respect for education. It’s seen as a cost center and the best education is reserved for a small elite and education is too rigid overall, when it should be a flexible part of our lives through a much larger era.

Secondly, there are perverse incentives and little accountability. Abusers are rewarded with power and very rarely do they take real responsibility.

Third, there are many who feel disconnected, because they are. They get lied to, manipulated and exploited from all sides. Seen as resources instead of real human beings.
>who will win, GFW or NSA

Both. Neither. (Is there a difference for us? I doubt it.)