skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Junior dev: Let's use this amazing algo I learned in school!

Senior dev: This won't work but it's no use explaning why since they've made
up their minds (as have I).
1: Yes. That's exactly what we've tried to do with nuclear weapons and it's still pretty controlled.

2: Everyone. It's sort of a planetary wide, group decision.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending them. I'm just giving the reasons I think there's so much crap in that industry.
I used 23&Me. They’re simple and cheap. And I’m not concerned about protection from legal searches here. We shed DNA everywhere we go. Law enforcement can go as far as picking up things like discarded cigarette butts a suspect tosses out their car to get a DNA match.
I am not so sure of the "everyday users": we are all conditioned to click through a bunch of "warnings" (cookie consent anyone?), that you'd really have to make it bordering on unusable for people to not simply click-through.

Even with mobile devices, I imagine another cycle is coming where people care more about what their seemigly-general-purpose computers restrict them from doing.

But I'd still wager that it ain't happening in the next 3 years.
State of Digital Nomads
For several month we have been facing continuous phishing attacks. The attackers are using cloudflare + Russian registrars + Russian hosting.

Can you guess who never cut the service (but other two react very quickly)?
Indemedia Reboot (2020) [video]
Did you cash out early or were you fired?
So Michelle Obama should have tried to position the push for improved nutrition in school lunches as a pro-military effort to get conservative support?
Are terminals better sandboxed when run outside of a browser?
This is mind boggling. Bored? You have all your free time to literally do anything you want. You can explore the outdoors. You can learn ANYTHING you want. You could get to know more of the worlds 6 billion people and their cultures. Volunteer, start a new hobby, spend more time with family and friends, work on personal growth, exercise... you have Stockholm syndrome, snap out of it.
> it's 10x context, background understanding, and experience.

A person who is able to build 10x context, background and understanding is a 10x developer. Most people lack the ability to do that. Your post makes it seem like you could give those traits to anyone easily, but it doesn't work that way building the right mental models and being able to generalize your knowledge are key factors in talent.
It’s fantastic. I have never struggled to fill my time, so a world without a formal job just allows me to spend time on what I care about. At the moment about a third of my time is spent working on mechanical projects and cars. Whatever I imagine I can actually work on and build, and whatever skills I lack I have time to learn!

Another third of my time is spent pursuing paragliding. It’s something I found interesting before, but I just never had the flexibility in my life to take more than a week off work. Now I can live in Colombia for a month at a time, both a great environment and change of pace, and a fantastic way to learn.

The rest of my time I work on a little mini startup. It’s different than what I was doing before because it’s decidedly ‘lifestyle’. No VC money. Just building something I find interesting with people I like. If I don’t want to do something, or I don’t have the time, I simply say that! It’s all the fun of building a product and bringing it to the market with a world less stress.

The most important thing to know is: I didn’t plan any of this. I was so burnt out that thinking of anything I wanted to do was challenging. But after six months of cranking on cars and other mundane projects the world opened in front of me, and I realized all those things I loved doing as a child are still with me.
> Agreed, I don't know why the industry (or people?) in general have a problem with accepting this abilities gap.

Bias and poor processes. When people become reliant upon a technique or process to attain viability that means of execution becomes more important than the thing you are producing. As a result people will defend slow unproductive means of execution to the death. This is also a socially reinforced phenomenon.

It is completely realistic to achieve 10x (or even much greater) productivity and it isn’t challenging, but it requires abandonment of closely held ideas that are socially reinforced.
So let's just give everyone nuclear weapons and hope for the best.
>Subscription/gig services like this want people to shift all their responsibilities to an app instead of being somewhat self-reliant, and waste a ton of money in the process.

If highly paid knowledge workers wants to spread the wealth around by paying people to do stuff, why stop them?

>Or, possibly even worse, they want to take advantage of people who don't have enough money to buy backups and get ahead of things, or tolerate knowing that this will happen with some of their customers.

Doesn't this already happen? I'm not sure how 15 minute changes this, other than that you can pay $$$ to get it delivered to you rather than going to a store. If you're cash strapped, I doubt you'll be paying the delivery fee, so it won't even affect you.
Right, and can you not just get another job if you want to continue working?
Domiciled is probably a better term than "regulated" for USDC. To quote their homepage disclosures box:

> Digital asset markets and exchanges are not regulated with the same controls or customer protections available with other forms of financial products and are subject to an evolving regulatory environment. Digital assets do not typically have legal tender status and are not covered by deposit protection insurance.

They're regulated as money transmitters like Venmo, and depending on the state, that can mean as little as "pay us a few thousand dollars and we'll ignore you." This regulatory framework was created as a way of side-stepping the more onerous regulations that apply to real depository institutions. Thats why they were able to invest the backing in ... whatever before the SEC came knocking.
Which is another argument against using the term "stealing". At no point does the user deprive Apple of the ownership of macOS.
Does that LLVM comparison make sense? It seems to target the native platform, which doesn't seem like it would make for a valid comparison between x86 and arm.
What does this solve that isn't already solved by Vagrant?
Smart rich kids can continue to go to academically rigorous private schools. Smart poor kids can go pound sand.

Of course, to really strike a blow for equality, they should also ban the private schools.

Reminds me of the Vonnegut story. "The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal..."
I enjoy coding quite a lot, but I have enough other hobbies and interests, so if I didn't code ever again, I'd just focus more on other things that I enjoy.
Brought to you by the people who all parroted "stop Asian hate" for like 3 weeks last March until it fell off their social media feeds.

Kindergarten does seem a bit early to be permanently binning children into "gifted" or "not" but I am so sick of seeing people unhappy with Asians doing well.
The decentralized web needs to happen but it likely won't for a long time given the current trends, which are towards centralization. It's possible that the only truly useful information will one day be found on an "alternet" of decentralized sites. Maybe people will use the traditional web for services like shopping but use the "alternet" for getting real news and maintaining uncontrolled communities. We're seeing this already with the recent public/private censorship regime driving people into alternate, less controlled, forums. At some point it could just be like two separate internets for two separate purposes. Those who know how to access both will have an advantage.
Different people are different.
Dad retired in his mid 30s.

It went really well for him for about 30 years, and then he started to decline into depression. I don't think it was directly related to being retired.

He built a barbecue out of cinder blocks, then rebuilt it out of bricks. He learned to knot in order to make hammocks. He took up painting with acrylics -- I wouldn't say he ever became good at it, but he liked it and that's the point. The same for charcoal -- but he didn't like the mess, so he dropped it quickly.

He took up teaching advanced math to the local elementary school kids. He taught himself programming in BASIC and wrote math games and text adventures about our neighborhood.

He watched a lot of movies, read a lot of books, and kept the house on a schedule. He went from being an adequate cook to a reasonably good one.

He built relationships with the neighbors and went for a walk twice a day when the weather was adequate.
Is it possible that anything which @dnfadmin is an owner of is automatically migrated by GitHub the moment it becomes an owner? Maybe they never realized that what happens?
Interesting. There was a film in the 80's called "Fame" that was set in a NYC gifted/talented high school. The theme song was fairly popular and one line that stood out was "I'm going to live forever". Guess not.
Multitasking Doesn't Work
IF 10x exist, some will be popular and most won’t. Obviously he won’t know the obscure ones or pick examples you can’t relate to. So while he didn’t prove his point perhaps, perhaps you didn’t disprove his either. :)
What's the difference between this, and Datasette which has been in development multiple years by the Django co-creator?

Sorry if it's a dumb question but I skimmed the docs and sample and it looks similar + didn't see any mention:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette
Deploy without credentials with GitHub Actions and OIDC
From the intro, I thought they used lasers to replace the 'slicing' step. I'm fairly sure that strength laser falls into military grade though.
You’re writing software for all of your future selves.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
For silicon n00bs like myself, listen to Acquired's recent episode for some context on how hard this area of innovation is https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc.

Off the back of this episode, I can't help but feel TSMC's monopoly needs disrupting with players like Samsung to contend with Taiwan & China's geopolitical tension.
There is no limited time window on governments banning crypto.
Yes, schnapps.

"Apfelkorn" isn't actually schnapps, by my lexicon. I thought schnapps was basically synonymous with "obstler" - a clear, white spirit distilled from fermented fruit. I think of Himbeergeist, or Poire Willem. In Germany, it is legal to set-up a garden still, and make your own fruit spirits, without a licence; and that stuff can be very strong - much stronger than say a whisky at the bar. I've had this stuff served to me from a plastic watering can.

I believe apfelkorn is basically apple juice fortified with grain spirit (vodka, essentially). I think in some parts of Germany, it's customary to drop a shot-glass of apfelkorn into a litre-glass of pilsner (people do this with Jagermeister, for reasons I don't understand at all - why mix nice pilsner with nasty cough-mixture?)

There are sweet alcoholic products that are labelled "schnapps" that are more like fortified wine than spirits.
I'm time wealthy more so than cash wealthy.

Strangely, I get up earlier as there's no dread of the corporate environment.

I have standing time with friends and family: Depending on the season, Weekly golf, lunch, tennis. Daily walks with my spouse.

Volunteer efforts provide some opportunities to give, feel internal and external appreciation and a sense of adding value to others.

Plenty of time for reading, learning, experimenting and puzzle solving. There are so many resources to learn about new topics and try things.

When I hear people express fear of being bored after their career, I have to pick my jaw off the floor. I can't imagine there has been a time with more information freely available.
That's the obvious solution. But we A/B test QoE metrics to death. Touching something so fundamental about TCP would surely hurt QoE.

The last time we tried to coerce TCP into helping with a problem like this, we were dealing with a NIC that could not save state in the middle of TLS records. Eg, if TCP sent 2800 bytes, then tried to send another 2800 bytes, the NIC would need to re-DMA those first 2800 bytes so as to be able to encrypt the 2800 bytes that it was asked to send.

So we made the TLS record size variable from 16k down to 4K, and forced TCP to always send a complete TLS record at a TLS record boundary so as to avoid having the NIC have to re-DMA the start of a TLS record. This was *MISERABLE* for QoE. It wasn't the NIC itself; enforcing those restrictions led to horrible QoE with any NIC.

So no, I'm not gonna touch anything having to do with TCP :(
I'm in two minds whether this goes into HN or Show HN as it's involved writing a lot of code and exploring an undocumented system. I wouldn't exactly call it reverse engineering as I don't want to attract that kind of attention.

The magic is: federating / trusting GitHub Actions for deploying to various clouds or REST APIs. Hope you enjoy this and it may help you to build an integration for your own project or product.
I would be willing to bet it is just a "feature" of GitHub Enterprise. Automatic migration of anything an enterprise user owns.
A well made library, we use it as part of the REPL demos for CheerpX, our WebAssembly-powered X86 virtual machine.

https://nextrepl.leaningtech.com/?python3
This is exactly how I feel about it.

Humans were wired to be told stories and videogames just don't do that.

It's active participation, it makes sense because videogames are essentially the evolution of board games.

The most successful videogames as a category are the ones which are competitive, without any storytelling (again the modern evolution of boardgames).

If we want to name names of course Fortnite comes to mind but also the FIFA saga, Madden NFL, 2KSports. We are talking about the same game being sold every year over and over again and they post records for sales every single year.

I think everybody is aching to try and guess what's beyond movies for passive storytelling.

They have been around forever and are still unrivaled as a passive form of entertainment.
It's long been a fallacy that you can sort young kids into high or low performers. Its a self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing. By starting so young (kindergarten!) in NYC they were creating the division out of essentially nothing.

Long ago somebody tried dividing an elementary school class into regular and advanced students. At the end of the year, the advanced students had done better. The selection was a random lottery. The difference in performance, was entirely based on expectation.
55 years programming. Much more interesting than retirement. I hope I'm writing code the week I die.
“I just don’t buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools.” - Richard Carranza, former NYC school chancellor

The bigotry from certain "progressives" is just staggering.
It sounds like you think that I think that they’re showing people content with the intent of sewing unrest. I don’t; I believe their intent in all cases is to make money and expand their empire. That’s their intent when they’re boosting inflammatory content, suppressing content that might challenge people’s biases, and that’s also their intent when they ban users whose content is so inflammatory that it actually invites real-world violence.

It also sounds like the most important aspect to you is their intent? Like, did they mean to censor something, or were they just trying to increase engagement?

So let’s say an engineer comes up one day and says, hey boss, I did some A/B testing with three different algorithms: “A” is just a chronological timeline, but B and C each use a different method of boosting and suppressing content. B increases engagement with some users but also drives away some users altogether. C shows content that generates fewer engagement “hot spots” but shows higher user retention. And the boss says, we’re in it for the long haul; let’s go with C! By the way, what’s it do? And the engineer says, well, an AI is trained to look for posts containing political opinions outside the mainstream and shows a cat picture in the timeline instead. Guess it turns out people really like cats.

So would that be ok? After all, in this hypothetical situation their intent isn’t to harm anyone; it’s just to increase their user base and make more money.
Show HN: WASM-4 is a virtual game console with a WebAssembly CPU
I find this true to an extent, but this also where a lot of unnecessary complexity, risk aversion and process live.
I fail to see how the article supports the title.
Important note[0] from author:

> With the help of my script, You get a way to install Solidworks on your Linux system.

> Certain packages and programs that are required will be set up for You, but it's important to know, that my script only helps You to get the program to run and nothing more!

Personally I may recommend try & use SolveSpace[1,2] and FreeCAD[3] — free & open-source 2D/3D CAD apps for Linux/Mac/Win for solid modeling, creating assembly and other CAx work (+ LibreCAD[4] or QCAD[5] for 2D drawing only).

BTW, Also there are scripts for Linux to install DesignSpark Mechanical[6], Rhino 3D[7], Autodesk Fusion 360[8].

[0] https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-Linux-Wine-Version-#...

[1] https://solvespace.com

[2] https://git.io/DailySolveSpace

[3] https://freecadweb.org

[4] https://librecad.org

[5] https://qcad.org

[6] https://github.com/cryinkfly/DesignSpark-Mechanical---Linux-...

[7] https://github.com/cryinkfly/Rhino-3D---Linux-Wine-Version-

[8] https://github.com/cryinkfly/Fusion-360---Linux-Wine-Version...
Bad decision, went to these schools
Shannon's entropy is also used for calculating one of the measure of alpha-diversity in ecological and microbiome studies.
I dont think that one can judge if a kod is gifted or not at the age of 4, but stupid people dragging smart people down with "equality" is a big problem with current system.

I was a part of a gifted program and I dont understand why there arent more of them.
Love stuff like this. Always reminds me of the classic film Microcosmos.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmos_(film)
That's about as biased as you can get? It was clearly about providing for all. Nothing said about treating Asians and differently.
From where? USDT will be worth exactly $0 so some 80% of all trading volume in crypto will evaporate instantly, and so will probably 80% of its dollar equivalents.
This is fair. I cannot discern any justifiable reason to arbitrarily exempt a subset of prisoners from general population.
My 3 year old 65” LG OLED is having the red pixels burn out already and it looks horrible. My 85” Samsung looks just as good to me (even better some times because it gets brighter).
Looks cool and useful. One note:

"ROAPI is made up of 4K lines of Rust. This line count is low due to the intense use of 3rd party libraries."

This actually seems like a high line count, and that's not counting all the 3rd party libraries.

While not sexy, this is the sort of thing that PHP can do fairly easily in a much smaller # of lines of code and operate with lower resource requirements. I venture that this could be done using CSV parse, json decode, and other built-in PHP functions and use small infrastructure to make it work. I know PHP doesn't have a lot of love, but isn't this the sort of thing PHP is made for? Simple processing and hosting for API-based access to static file information? Is there a reason why Rust is needed with all the baggage?
It's a test. The test, as far as I know, doesn't include the question "are you asian".
This is a project I'm working on to try to make WebAssembly game development more accessible and fun. Here are the key features:

* No Glue Code: If you've ever tried to write even a simple "Hello World" with WebAssembly before, you'll know it usually involves writing a bunch of JS and HTML glue. WASM-4 removes all of that, games interface directly with the system through a small API.

* Minimalist: Fantasy consoles force developers to work with limited resources. This makes them simple to learn, and easier to focus on finishing your game.

* Language Agnostic: Use any programming language, as long as it can compile to WebAssembly. Out of the box we currently support: AssemblyScript, C/C++, Rust, Go.

* Portable: WASM-4 is designed to run on any device that can execute WebAssembly, even outside of the web! We're planning a lightweight implementation written in C that will run even on a potato.
I'm not retired, but I am shift worker in Healthcare, which means I have 3-4 days off per week. A question I often get from people when they hear that is "Wow! What do you do with all your time off?" The answer is always, "I live my life."

On my days off I catch up on chores. I take care of my body by going to the gym, yoga studio, boxing gym, or ride my bike. I spend time with friends if they are available, which is tricky because I'm only off every other weekend. I bake sourdough bread and seek perfection in extracting the perfect cup of espresso. I read HN.

I often think what I would be doing if I met your criteria for answering this questions and didn't have to work the other 3-4 days of my week, and I think the answer would be to look for meaningful work. There is a fulfillment or sense of purpose in work that doesn't come to me in the prolonged absence of it, I don't define myself by it, but as Marcus Aurelius said in his Meditations:

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
A principal I worked with for a couple years, actually has that quote up on the wall of his office. It is specially true with projects where you have multiple teams or distributed systems.
More than that, there may be a whole stack of software components between your API and your users. In this sense, quite a lot of software is written for computers and not other humans (or, your users are other software devs).

This is to say, "all software is written for humans" is too general to be useful - the important issues are all in the details.
> It is broken from the inside.

Mind elaborating on that one? A postal service that delivers 47% of all mail on the planet and serves millions of Americans that are unserved or underserved by other services. They did this for decades as a self-sufficient service that funded itself, and its current deficit 100% caused by Congress forcing them to pre-fund the health and retirement benefits of all of its employees for at least a half century in the future, something literally no other company or business has to do. Of course it was actually a plan to use that money to reduce the federal deficit.
> But the highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students.

Wow, using a word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design' sure lays bare their hand.

Just to be clear, there is no segregation(of any kind) amongst the students in the program.

In fact, there is no segregation at all. There's just not equal representation of the makey-uppy USA racial classifications.

But why let facts and clarity rule over emotional clickbaity sub-headlines?