skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
O very true... you might start trying out one book as an XOR key to another. Of course, the result of decryption will already be sitting on the next shelf over :-)
Even family members trust social media, google search, and news outlets more than their own family members now.

This is why disinformation has taken a firm hold on our society. Many people don't understand the concept that anyone can generate fake buzz and information, and publish or delete it on a web site and even edit that content any way they see fit without any sort of paper trail... Including "trusted" corporations.

Some books can and have been proven over time to be wrong too, but people had to confiscate, shred, or burn them to hide trails of lies. Maybe that's why this is a fairly new trend.

The saying "actions speak louder than words" always holds true despite all the deception and manipulation we are being inundated with. We need to hold people individually accountable for their actions just as much as to their words.

I don't need people to understand me so much these days as much as I just want them to not stand in my way as I work towards my own personal success, and I'm sure as hell not posting my best ideas and thoughts on social media for anyone to pick apart or mimic.
> Does this rule apply to surgery or financial security systems?

There are, in fact, places in the world where people die of relatively simple diseases and infections. I should think that a person with just 1-2 year of elementary medical knowledge armed with WHO's Essential Medications would undoubtedly save more than 80% of lives in those areas.
The same is true if you look at Somali refugee families which spilt up and go to both Sweden and the US. The US branch of the families integrate faster, earn more, attain higher levels of education, and have fewer encounters with law enforcement. The last point should really surprise many Americans.

Interestingly, Minneapolis, where virtually all Somali-Americans live has strong Scandinavian roots.
Precisely. Five years on, Waymo is still working on the project and the company Levandowski left to go work for has pulled out of the market after an extremely high-profile fatality.
It's for the best. New reddit is awful.
If you linked a Amazon account they will have some basic user details but they wouldn't of been stupid enough to store your hashed password, login likely happened via a encrypted token (JWT) of some kind.
That is a serious gotcha of SQL Server. It (and Oracle) has some serious problems with unique constraints because of that kind of stuff.
Another +1 from me.

Also used Hatchbox in another project (startup w customers), it definitely was worth the money.

For fun and giggles: this is what happened when I wanted to quickly build a side project after not coding for a while (using jumpstart to go faster) https://twitter.com/ddccffvv/status/1430967157404340228
It’s funny, because I’ve been meaning to write something up like this for a while. Now when I want to explain this concept to my friends, I’ll show them this post, but again, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t get it until they experience the emotion/feeling for themselves.
Dynamic shared object, or what's usually understood generically (in non-language specific terms) as a [binary] module or in GUI apps a plugin--something loaded and linked dynamically by the program, not by the linker at compile time or at program startup. In the Unix/C ecosystem "DSO" is a common term to describe binary modules, without reference to specific binary formats like ELF or mach-O.

Especially in the land of Unix where dynamic linking has become very sophisticated and automated, many of these terms are losing their distinctive meanings as the various ways to link and load converge on the same underlying mechanisms which you can mix-and-match independently. But normally the difference between a DSO and a shared library is that shared library symbols (functions, global variables) are by default visible globally (at least on ELF; mach-O story is more complex), making them implicitly visible to subsequently loaded code, whether a shared library or DSO. On the other hand, you usually want all DSO symbols to remain private to the DSO by default, requiring the application at runtime to explicitly request a pointer to specific symbols as different DSOs might have symbols of the same name (especially true for plugins), leaving the application logic to decide which to use and when. Also, especially pertinent to Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, and similar languages, a DSO usually implicitly relies on the main program to have loaded and exported certain core APIs, rather than the DSO explicitly linking to a shared library to provide them. (This still often requires special compile-time flags when building the DSO, and possibly also special flags to the main binary.) That ensures the VM/interpreter/engine and all DSOs are always calling into the same core runtime implementation, and ensures the main binary controls which that is. DSOs do often dynamically link to other shared libraries, but because of default symbol visibility semantics this can cause problems, such as two DSOs or a DSO and the main program compiled against different releases of OpenSSL with incompatible ABIs. (If you can manage to load two different version of OpenSSL, you have the reverse issue of accidentally passing objects between the two implementations.) Mitigations and resolutions for that problem differ between ELF-based and mach-O-based systems. (AIX is an outlier, which like Windows uses a PE-derived binary format that is significantly different than ELF or mach-O. Many of the semantic distinctions and jargon that developed around ELF don't make much sense in the context of PE.)
> And yet people continue to use it.

In my experience the people complaining about the junk content on facebook have checked out from using facebook very much years ago. Among my millenial peers at least engagement across all social networks has dropped like a stone. FB just exists to dump wedding photos now.
Google to Anthony Levandowski: your ethics are too broken, even for us.
A good portion of the United States is against any sort of identification system in general. It’s why voting is so complicated. Some kind open income system in unfathomable to the vast majority of Americans.
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I know this isn't part of the Bill of Rights, but the idea that humans have a right to life isn't very controversial. If there were a situation where the water ran out in an isolated town, and the local government had a big water tower with enough clean drinking water for everyone, we'd absolutely say the people have a "right" to that water.

There are fringe cases, sure, but if people are going to literally die without a thing, and the government has the capacity to provide it, and the government is actually "by the people, of the, people for the people," I think the people have a right to that thing by extension.
There's a very strong argument that the best way to save lives is whatever strategy advances self-driving technology the fastest.

30,000 Americans (and vastly more people worldwide) die each year from human-driving mistakes... let's not ignore the ongoing human cost of the status quo. Self-driving has the potential to cut that human toll to almost zero. We should not trap ourselves in a future where 1 self-driving mistake death is considered worse than a hundred thousand deaths from normal human mistakes.
It's just a giant ipod touch? https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/334152/early_ipad_rea...
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They don't need the coin to raise the debt limit. They need the coin to get around the failure to raise the debt limit.

The coin goes to the Federal Reserve, the government's bank. Then the government has money on deposit at the bank, and can write checks for the things that the Congress has already budgeted.

Ordinarily they would just sell bonds to the Federal Reserve, which is exactly the same thing. There's a law preventing them from doing that above the authorized debt limit. But there's another law allowing them to mint coins -- which are the same thing, except made out of metal.

It would be much easier if Congress would just allow them to borrow the money to spend on the things Congress already ordered them to do. But as a matter of political grandstanding, parts of Congress are standing on the rules... so the President will stand on different rules.
Did you just silently edit out that part and not put some text noting your previous mistake?

You even have a section of the article called "Hacker News Comment Responses"! Then you failed to mention the OP comment you're replying to:

That is very bad form and untrustworthy behaviour.
Thats a great point about actually respecting that its theirs and letting them make mistakes.

This is also the most common leadership mistake I see. You have a talented leader who can't grow past a certain point because they can't let others make mistakes in order to grow and lead themselves.
My web thoughts lately are: OpenBSD + Rust + sqlx crate + httpd (the one that comes with OpenBSD) + sqlite (or postgresql if there is significant known write contention) + slowCGI/fastCGI.

Maybe not as quick-starty as you want: some learning up front, but might pay for itself over time, depending on how often you want to re-do things for security or performance problems or frequent technology replacement needs. OpenBSD and associated tools seem to have far fewer zero-day or other security exploits than others, the CGI stuff I noted will probalby give great performance, and the Rust language has been written about elsewhere. Admittedly most of my experience is with OpenBSD as a desktop, and other web dev tools, but I'm learning in this direction.

Some possible resources:

https://learnbchs.org/

https://www.openbsd.org/

https://www.rust-lang.org/

I.e., I tend like things that will work well in the long run and relieve me from stack churn or dependency churn & related high maintenance or security headaches, with few or no technical limitations on what is possible.

Edits: for clarity.
Seriously more than 6 cards? More than 8 if that includes apple? Either some flyertalk point collector or someone heading for troubling times when the credit runs dry
Pretty much solidifies my opinion of this guy. Someone who did clearly illegal and unethical things? This is the icing on the cake.
Libet Experiment
8 months ago I was evaluating Wasmer vs. wasmtime for my personal use and for a team I was working with at my work (Sourcegraph)

Ultimately I went with wasmtime (we ended up using neither at work, too premature) because I just found a frankly disturbing amount of controversy surrounding Wasmer vs. wasmtime, and Wasmer hyping itself up far too much and trying to put down wasmtime.

I'll say as I did 3 months ago[0]. I don't know what's wrong with Wasmer, but there's something _weird_ going on there. I'm not surprised to see this thread.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/o1838v/the_web...
15% of the FISA applications reviewed by the Obama-appointed IG contained what were deemed "material errors."
I'm disagreeing with the "just a college kid" portrayal. There are of course a few circumstances greatly helped the trajectory, as did many other smart people help it along. What I'm trying to imprint is that without Zuck being very intelligent, the level of success Facebook would've had would be far far smaller.
Here's a recent MIT Technology Review article detailing some of the concerns:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/24/1032308/is-ginkg...

Looks clear that Ginkgo has been misrepresenting the business and potential for quite some time.
After school, my son Carter and I explored engineering, science, and math, with our first experiment:

Attaching a Bilge Pump to a 100 watt solar panel. The Setup Could move Thousands Gallons of Water Off Grid!

Reference: https://youtu.be/E9Ea2n1vryo
The spectrum it generates is based on your test result, so if you get a "passing" score the two images are identical (I verified in an image editor that they're functionally identical)

For comparison here's what an "almost passing" image looks like: https://www.colorlitelens.com/images/test/T1.jpg -- the blue section should look a bit darker on the bottom spectrum, and it's a bit more "pastel" in general (but yeah, monitors can confound this a lot).
I don't think that goes far enough. So I made this

https://object-storage-name-generator.com
https://www.lujam.com/

LuJam. Disclaimer: I worked there.
+1. "Don't write bugs" is pretty much the 4Head response to a programmer asking "How do I not write buggy code?"

> if you're aware of ways that your code will fail in edge cases, handle those edge cases.

Another key point I want to add is that for every method you write, you should carefully audit the domain of your input and only accept information necessary for your method to work. That way you don't handle edge cases not relevant to your method. The exception probably here is critical edge cases that will SIGSEV, SIGILL, etc and kill your whole process. You usually want to check those - and if you are having to do that frequently that's code smell.
> So your engineers probably all have access to all your repos until you reach a very large size anyway.

Happens at my company. We have rudimentary ACL but not sure how its implemented because you can find things via explicit searching, or via "organic finding" via links from repo->repo but it won't be surfaced if you just search for code.
It reminds me of what Baudrillard writes about "The Secret" in his book "On Seduction".

For a "secret" to be significant there has to be some awareness that a "secret" exists. As Don Rumsfeld would put it, it is a "known unknown".
Anybody took a peek?

What language, and framework if they use one, do they use?
I feel like the author just re-invented the XP concept of Velocity[1], but gave it a mathematical form.

1. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/XpVelocity.html "You should usually determine velocity by measuring how much got done in past periods, following the principle of YesterdaysWeather. A typical approach is to average the velocity the past three time periods to determine velocity for future time periods."
Pink and orange are not basic color words. They're the names of physical objects co-opted as a general color. It's the same for all the cultures that don't have a word for blue. Their users just refer to blue as the "color of the sky" or the "color of bird X". Same as English using the "color of this citrus".
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> And Scandinavians in the US are far richer than Scandinavians in Scandinavia, at both the median and average.

The Scandinavians immigrating to the US are not a random sampling of Scandinavians. Getting a visa to live in the US usually requires a high-paying job. Usually of high skill or of exceptional talent. Basically the US work visa system selects for the cream of the crop.
More likely, I would wager that they were just overwriting the instructions to draw with new instructions that just inline everything so it didn't need to fetch out to anything.
I think they mean the cost for access would be completely free (if not accessed much) but not the storage as those are separate fees.
Lockwashers Don't Work
This is in a reply to the dead child comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28776005

>> So her kid accidentally eats some magnets and dies and this makes her a valid source of mockery?

> Her kid was given magnets and almost died, that makes it a valid source of mockery

No, but thinking that reveals certain repulsive personality traits.

It also sounds like Rebecca's mom didn't "give" her magnets:

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-10-06/mum-calls-for-new...

> "I said do whatever you need to do, just save my baby, save her. All I did was buy a toy, that is all I did, I didn't feed my baby magnets, I didn't leave her unattended with them." ...

> The magnets Sam bought online for her son last Christmas.
On an httpd released last month. I imagine very few are running something so new...

EL8 seems to be on 2.4.37, EL7 on 2.4.6
"almost dies". Still kinda crass to make fun, but the child recovered.
There was a fad for tools that accomplished this in enterprise networks, with much clearer rules for who needs to access what (it was called "data loss prevention", or DLP) and those tools for the most part don't work. This is a harder problem than it looks like.
Excessive caution also costs lives when it comes to self driving because it pushes adoption further into the future. Tesla is overall near parity with human drivers in terms of casualty rates, though with different people at risk. Assuming Waymo’s system is significantly better than that it’s therefore safer than human drivers and thus should be deployed to save lives.

Of course that’s valuing everyone’s lives equally, there are some arguments to be made that slight improvements aren’t enough.
Maybe, however the author has over 20 years of professional Lisp experience, there are interesting points made for anyone in that category. To be fair though, did you read the post ?
The intended audience is much wider than you're assuming.
Is this part of the postgres controller or is this an own controller that you wrote?
Instead, let's disrupt the industry with storageless personal data. It's like serverless, but for PII.
I suspect lots of junior devs will clone fresh, push changes, nuke repo and repeat. I did when i was young instead of syncing state and rebasing.
Bad title, email was about Google making custom cars.
This sounds like an ad :)
In a perfect world, no, but lazily someone could skip salting and/or use common hashing functions. IIRC this was a problem at Sony not too long ago.
Sorry, I never received this suggestion on Plan9 because I can't read Hacker News without a browser... ;)

(... and so on and so on. HTTP, as a protocol, has eaten the world. A "desktop" anything without a native browser in it really sticks out.)
Hoped this was going to simplify the CSS on websites, down to just the basics, without fully disabling it :D
I know image captioning is already a huge field and probably someone has worked on the reverse (though that's harder as the output isn't well constrained). Combining the two you will have a semantic image compressor.
Yes, the hashes are (usually) different due to different algorithms and/or salts. But, if you've brute forced one by using good guesses, and know the email/userid for other sites, and the user used the same or a similar password...that doesn't matter.
This is quite fascinating, if true. Having studied solar photovoltaics fairly extensively in both undergrad and grad school, I'm a bit skeptical that he achieved such efficiency with such a simple design, but it's not completely impossible.

It's important to note, though, that most of the cost of present day polysilicon solar cells comes not from the semiconductor device and contacts, but from the module and supporting electronics. So trading cell efficiency for cost will actually degrade overall installation cost per watt (since you'll need more of the more expensive parts), AND increase the amount of land required.
I do wonder if manually deleting everything: every post, every photo, every comment, every interaction, will actually delete things behind the scenes, or if FB keeps everything regardless.
> Tesla is overall near parity with human drivers in terms of casualty rates, though with different people at risk.

Unproven claim.
The source code details how to access the payment data, probably, for dashboards, etc.
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If you have a seedbox, you're probably safe.
Here is what I thought after reading an article: Linux should provide an API for drivers. So that the drivers can be reused by other OS like FreeBSD or Plan9. If you are making a new OS, it is prohibitively expensive to reinvent the USB stack, write your own ACPI interpreter or port millions of lines of code. There should be an API, otherwise these drivers don't differ much from proprietary drivers.

Other OS like Windows, Android or MacOS implement such an API. Therefore it is possible. I think that truly open source drivers should be available for everyone, not only to the users of one specific kernel.
A lot of it is probably hacked together -- like, embarrassingly hacked together lol
> I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date."

I gotta tell you, you've never worked with a business stakeholder, the government (see financial penalties for missing deadlines) or with an absolute deadline (ie Christmas) if you think that's true.

> Many commenters on this story believe the main purpose of estimation is to assert when something will be done

We know our estimates can never be guarantees, but that is irrelevant to stakeholders whose career advancement depends on project X being done in day Y. Guess who's opinion carries more weight in literally every profit making enterprise.
Imagine not trusting your family with knowing how much you earn.
Self-Healing for the Web
But they are bozos if they give you a task they want done for Christmas, you tell them that it will likely not complete until February, and they say, "well, just work harder/extra hours/hire more people", which is pretty common.

The way to avoid bozo-land is for the person asking to come back with "well, what can you confidently complete in time for Christmas?", and plan for that.
Exactly. Perfection is the enemy of progress.

If one death is caused by Tesla's FSD should we ignore the fact that statistically it would have already saved x lives?
Yeah, the bootloader is responsible for the hardware stuff up to this point. It doesn't take that much more assembly code to bootstrap C in the Linux kernel on x86: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/...

There are a bunch of other headers in that file, but the "start_of_setup:" label is what's invoked by the bootloader, and "calll main" transitions to C. So 32 lines of code, by my count.
> And it might be disguised as a video stream coming out of the video streaming servers.

Just log in to FB messenger or Discord and egress it as small data chunks that way. Lots of people have private chats on work computer for practical purposes.

Discord allows for bots, so you could easily write a script to chunk data and egress, and another to re-assemble.
Then why not store it on Cloudflare itself and save on half the storage, plus less latency?

Makes zero sense to keep public assets on S3 in this case. Only when you need ACL integration or glacier would S3 make sense.
Twitch has not been known to be transparent about anything.
Just like sending a compressed jpeg only works because it assumes the recipient knows the decompression algorithm.
Test video: https://www.boltscience.com/pages/junkertestvideo.htm
Recent???

The tetragrammaton is thousands of years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton
You don't need a genius. You need a few good people, and a lot of hands. I think the best way to look at things like Twitch is to compare them to cathedrals, bridges, things like that. You might be able to have the idea and sketch the plans by yourself, but it's physically impossible to build it yourself.
Borges is the best author most people have never heard of. His stories are mind bending and he's an amazing human being. You can listen to him giving lectures on verse here, his voice is hypnotic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8
Actually the European Commission called for it, the parliament (which cannot propose legislation) just rubber stamped it.
They = you. It's fine to be honest, you're not exactly making it unobvious.