skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also when you are young you don’t know how much the world can suck.

There is also the fact that when you are young the world is your oyster, so many possibilities ahead. Then you get old, you are now over the hill, your life has pass you by, and you don’t really have much to look forward to except deteriorating health and death.

But it’s not all solely age dependent IMO. I think a 90s teen would be happier - or at least more excited - than today’s. While as a stupid kid you likely won’t pay attention to politics, at least not back then when all that stuff was “hidden” in stuffy newspapers, but you probably felt the more hopeful “end of the Cold War” zeitgeist. Things were looking up. Consumer computer technology was advancing at a neck breaking speed. Video games became mainstream and midway through turned 3D. The Internet and the Information Age with all its (overly) optimistic promises were upon us - while the negative effects never crossed our minds. We were all (supposedly) headed into an amazing future.

Today … I personally can’t find anything to be excited about.
So where is the back door I wonder. In the actual payload that gets deployed to the victim's device? Or in some backend part of the ransomware software?
Ambitious project, it’s great to see people going big even if it’s a long shot.

Name is a little off putting, plane go boom is usually a bad thing.
Add in 3.11 and take away 10 and you have my (now ended) history with Windows.
What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania
>And recently I've discovered how horrible my network is at home and I doubt I can build a desktop unless I route ethernet wires through the walls. (Can't do that).

There are PCIe wifi cards or USB wifi adapters for desktops...

If you are building a new desktop there is even motherboards with wifi built in

Quick search on your fav search engine
https://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-add-wi-fi-to-a-desktop-pc-1...

You dont have to use ethernet cables for a desktop! And where did you get this notion from???

Sounds like the best for you is to build a desktop or buy one as you are using laptops and desktop replacement anyway.

Thats said, ethernet is the best experience. With covid video calls it gets pretty obvious who has bad wifi and who has crystal clear ethernet wires (◕‿◕)
You can't buy a Waymo car
These comics are mostly still in copyright. And commons doesn't really delete anything as long it's legal and minimally useful.
Imagine having to buy extra fans to use your device at full power.
Is it really rigged though? The main driver gains has always been information arbitrage. Where the successful investor knows something about the market that noone else does.
Nowadays a lot of information is out there and nothing stops you from trading like the Senators. The information out there. Well, it's on finclout at least.
I will never understand why Boom chose such a terrible name.

Of course it is a novelty to hear a sonic boom once or twice, but who wants to hear them repeatedly? I imagine they will fly mostly overwater like Concorde, but why remind people on the ground of the most annoying thing that a supersonic flight does?

Much worse, as safe and reliable as they can build and fly these airplanes, eventually there will be a flight that does not make it to a safe landing. When that happens, there will be a loud...
Cryptocurrency and the unbanked
> Because Facebook doesn’t build roads or bridges.

Bouygues and Vinci can, siphoning off billions of public money into the pockets of the already insanely rich billionaires of the ruling class.

> They can’t tax me or put me in jail.

Corporations won't collect your taxes themselves, because the State's armed hand is here for that. They have a price tag on everything, and if you don't agree with their unjust rules and prices for basic services (food, electricity), cops will come and seize your belongings.

Many prisons across the globe are operated privately, and it's not unheard of to have private police. Many multinationals employ militias to kick away local inhabitants (to steal their resources/land), and get whistleblowers/activists/journalists murdered.

> They’re can’t put migrant children in cages or drone strike weddings.

Who builds the cages for children? Who benefits from quasi-slave labor due to strong anti-immigration laws? Who profits from selling drones and missiles to the military? Corporations, usually owned by people very close to the government.

> They’re not responsible for making sure our water and air are clean.

Corporations are responsible for polluting our air and water. Facebook, in particular, has enormous data centers just to archive/surveil everyone. Also corporations are sometimes responsible for maintenance of public infrastructure, which to my knowledge they never do well (see Veolia scandals in France for example).

> Facebook can’t Brexit. If Facebook fails, life goes on.

No, but they've got a propaganda apparatus sufficient to convince millions of people to.

> If my government fails, life is going to suck. A lot.

It doesn't have to, and could in fact be a great source of hope! Your government is the reason why life sucks in the first place. They are the people and institutions supposed to represent the people (cough cough) that enabled vampires to bleed the whole population dry in the first place, all the while polluting everything so that future generations won't even have clean water. Abolishing corrupt governments and any form of centralized power, which have shown time and time again to be useless to protect the weak against the powerful, could be the start of something better and more beautiful, an actual democracy without a center and without psychopaths running the show because nobody would hold power over somebody else (the actual definition of a democracy).
If we're lucky, it will take them ages to polish this turd, so effectively you're still good "just" using pulse.
Which also broke on my laptop after the last dist-upgrade, and after half an hour of debugging and fiddling I gave up. Found "apulse" which is a small library you can LD_PRELOAD that implements the pulse api but simply translates everything to ALSA. Doesn't support the more advanced stuff from pulse obviously, but works for normal things like Firefox etc.
This assumes a contract in addition to the smart contract. I am not sure in this case whether one could be said to exist, but certainly a truly decentralised system probably ought not to create such contracts.
Nope. I have not heard of any of this. I only read this sentence in the article:

> Functional languages are composed of functions that take some input and produce some output. Every time a function is executed with a given input, it will return the same output.

It does not mention "monads".
This is a thoughtful comment.

I wonder how much central banks and treasuries could do to engage people on what they actually do. It's still ripe for disruption on some level, but still, people have no idea I think.
I'm no native English speaker but at least in my experience average is used to mean any "central tendency", and not the mean in particular.

We probably should just avoid saying "average" and use "mean", "mode", "median", or whatever we actually mean instead.
I admit that navigating a Japanese pharmacy can be complicated as a non-native, but I can tell you that I for a fact have two boxes of the following behind me:

https://www.tylenol.jp/products-tylenol

If you were hunting for paracetamol during the pandemic, it could be that it was all sold out because it has been recommended as the medicine to counter COVID-19 symptoms and if there is anything I trust people in Japan to do it is to be able to stock up on things at a time of emergencies.
Does `systemctl --user disable --now pulseaudio` help? Also you can use `enable --now` to enable and start at the same time.
I always refer myself and junior developers to Effective Go to sharpen their skills when working in our codebase.

Are there other hidden Go gems/guides that exist that I happen to not know about as well?
Right?! I also did a double take when he say he ‘crashed’ the Virgin Galactic event.
> It takes the kind of risk-taking guts that Tesla exhibits to push new, better, electronic parts into test and production.

Its not a risk if you are vertically integrated, have the software infrastructure and have everything need to do the needed testing and validation.

It would take weeks just to talk to the supplier about maybe doing a change for many other car makers.
That looks really cool!
OK then if information arbitrage is a thing of the past, is the stock market needed ?
Not a Go programmer but Dart also has something like this for a while which has been a pleasure to use, glad to see others can get the same benefits now.

https://dart.dev/guides/language/effective-dart
I really liked using Go until I tried to publish a module with a version greater than 1.

What kind of packaging system chokes on v2 of a module? What kind of language recommends[0] with a straight face that you just duplicate your entire codebase into a v2/ subdirectory?

The module system is so obtuse and the documentation so poor that I will probably avoid go and choose other languages from now on. It really feels like they came to release time and someone in the meeting said "hey guys what if someone wants to release a new major version of their library?" and everyone else in the room had an "oh shit" moment because their amateur language design didn't address that corner case.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/v2-go-modules
Ask HN: Was there a Show HN about a Reddit product reputation aggregator?
I saw but can't now find someone's project to crawl reddit for discussions of products in subreddits like hometheater and buildapc, providing some kind of naive sentiment analysis to give a score for various products. Was this a Show HN or did I see it somewhere else? My site searches have been failing me, things like reddit "reputation score" and "product aggregator" are faceplanting.

Maybe I stumbled on it on github and not HN... this sound familiar to anyone?
Elephants have 20 copies of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18534
I am scared of that industry unfortunately. Also, The Netherlands is not a good place for it I think.
It does not surprise me at all.

People did die very easily from infections, the people that survived were usually really strong.

E.g My grandpa never caught a cold, he went to his 90s basically never getting ill. His immune system was so strong.

I go to rural areas in Europe where 80 somethings climb the mountain faster than the city kids in their 20s.

Some kids from the city have really no balance or physical skills at all, like they could not step over a stone without falling down.
It's there any good reason to prevent highlighting the text of the page? Being able to highlight and search text from the post is an integral part of the web experience. I shouldn't have to use reader mode. If the author reads this - knock it off. It's user hostile, and doesn't prevent harvesting of your content by bots or people. Make the experience of your content pleasant and don't get in the way of basic browser functionality.
>objectively worse

Perhaps our metrics just don't capture the things that really matter to people very well.
TIC-80 Tiny Computer
Wonderful post! I was recently looking to at some vintage Tintin posters for my apartment.

Anyone familiar with the works by Milo Manara, although quite erotic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manara
Heh, this is sort of similar to what was thinking when I wrote my original comment.

I haven’t used my Facebook (that I made in like 2007) in a few years, and I finally got around to deactivating it a week ago.

Doing so was painless—it’s all voluntary, of course, and I have plenty of (healthier) avenues to maintain relationships with my friends and family.

But the same doesn’t apply to my country! I can’t painlessly “deactivate” my citizenship and be rid of the government whenever it does something bad.

De-Googling your life is annoying, but not impossible. De-United-States-ifying your life is… way different :)
I've noticed that I stopped being reverted as I made more edits. I have maybe 500 edits, total, so I doubt it's people actually remembering me. The two biggest contributors, as far as I can tell, is that your first <x> edits are scrutinized more extensively. That's either informal/by some of the spam rules/etc., or, on some wikipedias (dewiki, for example), a specific feature where your first <x> edits need to be signed off by more experienced users.

The second, and probably more important, mechanism is simply getting better. WP has a rather distinct style in that it allows absolutely zero jokes, for example, no matter how subtle. Compare with even the most respected publications... The Economist and it's silly captions come to mind.

It's not just humor, but any form of metaphor or irony will usually get reversed, as does any interpretation, even if obvious:

"As the judge became senile, his verdicts started to become erratic. Some defendants chose to gamble and not protest his assignment, and some of them probably got away with murder".

That needs references not just for senility and erraticisms. The causality will be challenged, as will the speculation on defendants motives, the imagery of gambling, and the conjecture about random verdicts potentially letting criminals get off.
On a side-note: How Voxatron does it's rendering purely software-based was something that impressed me the most. Tried to replicate that for a pet project, but failed along the way.
I used NICO before which is programmed in Nim:

https://github.com/ftsf/nico

Being Nim-based means the result can be compiled to C or JavaScript, so it can run at native speed or in the browser.
This is really beautiful
For me it's instead a really cool name.
I know what I am talking about, I graduated Math, I studied the Fundamentals of Math theory and all the fundamental branches.

You fail to understand that the symbols and terms are defined, the reason you don't understand an equation when you go to wikipedia is either the article is bad or you are not prepared to read that equation.

If we dumb down Math/science articles we will get a similar issue with biology, there are not many symbols in biology so any random dude (including some big ego HN-ers think they are now COVID experts just by reading wikipedia or worse some click farm article linked from social media).

Btw have you read a rigurous book on logic, sets and numbers? a university level one? Is there any ambiguity there so if you have 10 non retard readers you get 10 different Mathematics because some term or operation was not ambiguous?

Computers and software are limited, they are missing the creativity a human has, you can teach software to follow some steps but it will never create any original step so at best you might get computers to verify someone.
>>the user needs the beefy hardware for beefy actual work.

Beefy hardware or not isn't the point. My hardware is rather beefy. The delays I speak of are not delays in accomplishing the actual commuting task. I'm talking about those tiny delays in spinning up a piece of hardware. I don't car is my threadripper's 49 extra cores take a few milliseconds to wake up from a deep sleep. I can live with a microphone that takes a second to turn on as I dial a voice call. Once the actual task is going, those little delays are in the past.
But Apple doesn't tolerate little startup/wakeup delays. Apple would rather burn a little power keeping everything ready at a moment's notice.
Consider the absolute freedom of 4chan folks. They can say literally anything, and land in good discussions whenever they choose, if they're willing to tolerate the noise. Can't really get that in real life except among really close friends.
I tried one of those, it didn't make a shred of difference. MBP 16" still throttled so hard it was frequently unusable.
In concept each 16-digit chromosome would work as the nearest neighbors, and finding “a range” of the nearest neighbors would be very fast.

In a data scientist’s perspective, this may seem to be a hack. I would be very appreciated to learn more from you about this. I can tell you that the weakness on this method is the multiple writes to the database. I assume vector database can gets this implemented with less writes.

In the past, I have used this for supervised training and yielded very good results. However, I think this would be inefficient in large scale networks. I am planning to use Go + Clickhouse to improve the performance in the next project.
The problem is education won't reach everyone, and the broad, easy availability of the drug gives people the incorrect feeling that it is much safer than it actually is. ("If they let you just buy it, how dangerous can it possibly be?")

Any drug where the toxic dose is that close to the suggested dose is going to be dicey when we let people buy it OTC. Notice I'm not saying we should prevent it from being OTC -- as someone who is not a doctor I have no clue on that. Just saying that I don't think it's fair to categorize people who take took much Tylenol without realizing the potential deadliness Darwin Award candidates.

* I'm also going to make an edit to say, you suggest education, but isn't that exactly what this article is doing? If you want people to take warnings seriously, the warnings need to be serious.
Wow, that is a beautiful interface. I mean the website itself. How is it made?
Yes. It’s one of the main selling point of m1 - being faster than intel and colder than intel. M1 is just a continuation of their A line which exists for a decade, so it’s not like it was a stab in the dark.
What we might find out here is if 'smart contracts' are actually so smart.

If people can take each other to court on the basis of these auto transactions given the intent or nature of the contract, then, well, they're just regular contracts, aren't they.

And then they're regular assets, subject to the lawful rulings of courts aka 'The contract was executed unlawfully, you have to return XYZ funds'.

I suggest a lot of people are going to be cashing out, thinking they are above/outside the Judiciary, but eventually this will come home to roost, it not now, but later.

I'm wary that a few young lads will be made scapegoats.
You are welcome. There are a couple of books (editions) by Brett Slatkin titled "Effective Python: [59|90] Specific Ways to Write Better Python". 59 for the first edition, 90 for the second. There's also a video course.
For macOS at Reduced Security, kernel extensions will no longer be supported.

fuOS/CustomKC will stay in the long term, and that's what matters for other OSes.
When Coca Cola or Bolloré murder people, it's not exactly the government doing it. Sure the government are complicit and close their eyes, but you can't blame everything on the government.

To be clear, i agree it's not a binary choice and considerable amounts of bad things come out of governments too. Or if you like memes, you may enjoy: https://i.imgur.com/CkOr542.jpg
> Concorde was profitable

Only because the planes were sold to the carrier for a nominal (£1, iirc) price. If you consider the development and construction costs, the Concorde is billions in the hole.
> That this would have been an awesome opportunity for gitlab to show how OSS they are and fund a PostgreSQL developer to allow gitlab to design these boundary pushing designs.

As you can read in the article they also hired Nikolay Samokhvalov (a PostgreSQL contributor) to take a look at the problem. But as you can also read the solution wasn't with PostgreSQL. The solution was modifying their application.
Makes me curious about your recruitment process :-)

(I agree with everything you wrote btw)

For example, screening questions? Work sample? Take home? Coding interview? Whiteboard or type on computer or something else?

(Best wishes btw)
It's not a "feature" to have no limits.
Ask HN: What would you teach your younger sister/brother about finmod?
Say you have an younger sister or brother who is a first-time entrepreneur and would like to apply for a bank loan when there is a need in the future(Let us say that they are not very keen on venture capital).

They want to have as much insight as possible into their business from the financial perspective. This is for thier own sake(e.g. to make better decision) as well as to be well-prepared for future loan application(s).

What would you teach this younger sister/brother about financial modelling, forecasting and credit risk analysis so that they are able to generate their own data for analysis before making a loan application?
I regularly ask my grandmother (born 1918) about the past and how she experienced this and that.

Overall I think she had a relatively simple, but comfortable life. She remembers getting electricity in the 1940s. Before that, they had plenty other ways to provide lighting and heat, so it didn't matter much. The family wasn't rich, but never lacked anything.

Later in her life things got more busy with more travel, vacations, especially after retiring in the 1970s.

She's still very busy with activities every day, but the last couple of years with the pandemic and restrictions was tough. Now that things are getting back to normal, she's really relieved. Even a simple thing like going to the hair-salon makes her day.
breaking into systems folks became increasingly less harmless and drifted away

The criminal types were never part of the hacker community. Someone who sends spam or deploys ransomware is motivated by profit, not curiosity or playfulness.

There are still plenty of breaking into systems people in the hacker community. They work in cryptanalysis, security research, penetration testing, etc. You can find them at their traditional conferences such as Defcon, Blackhat, and Chaos Communication Congress.
>The IIsi killed its floppy-drive because the fan sucked dust through it.

Wow, thanks for solving one of my childhood mysteries, now i know why my dad had always some tape over the floppy-drive on his IIsi :)
"You have to know the language" is a pretty poor criticism IMHO. How are we to gauge time for any such project if we don't assume competency with the language first? How long would it take to make a simple blog? Depends on how long it will take you to learn HTML/CSS/Javascript...
I also had that moment where you're somehow in awe about all the reinforcing intricacies that allow cancer to persist. It's an odd form of anti-life.
Not sure I understand. Why couldn't you just escrow the private key with a mutually trusted third party, and back the whole thing with a contract. You know - with a traditional bank, that has a contract with you, knows your identity, and can report you to the authorities - and sue you - if you default or sell the collateral you've provided for the loan?
Maybe I’m easily excited, but totally normal things still throw me.

For example, I’ve flown dozens of times but it’s still flipping amazing that we figured out how to get huge tubes of metal to FLY. At 30,000 feet in the air! And at 500 mph, too! It’s absolutely bananas.

Or that I can just pick up my phone and chat with a friend in Argentina, who’s like 8,000+ miles away, no problem.

Although I probably take that for granted more than flying. If it weren’t for having to deal with TSA at 6 am, I’d probably be like a giddy kid each time I fly.
Yes, definitely dozens of pretty good online resources. Here are 3:

- Tour of Go: https://tour.golang.org/

- Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs, by Dave Cheney: https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/gophercon...

- Uber Go Style Guide: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md
I can envision a moment where non invasive intervention and monitoring can be precise enough to stop being a threat. Other than that yeah, I think it's a naturally emergent biological phenomenon that cannot be removed.
> different types of equally interesting projects

And they all have one thing in common: They hit the limits and were unable to progress.