skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell people what you want and turn it into a system
I tend to think that most of us are not good at telepathy. From here it follows that if you want something, then you should speak about it out loud and if you REALLY WANT then speak out loud and in general to everyone. This increases the chances of getting what you want.

This idea is so simple that it seems banal. In the meantime, each of us has people around us who want to get something from you but forgot to tell you about it, so you don’t do this, so they’re pouting themselves and maybe you are pouting at someone because you think that "It’s clear and understandable that I want this! Does he not understand? It’s obvious." So it happens in relationships and business. Today is about the last one.

Joe regularly records episodes for his The Hustle and Flowchart Podcast, so he is looking for interesting conversations. He collected his Dream 100 sheet. A regular google sheet in which he wrote down 100 names of people with whom he wants to meet and invite to his show in one column. There, among the names, for example, Bezos and Buffett. To increase his chances, Joe adds a link to the sheet at the end of all his emails with the text "My Dream Sheet 100. Do you know anyone?"

In this case, I love that Joe turned it into a system that does not depend on his condition and mood. I've been writing 3-5 letters every day. About a hundred letters to people from different parts of the world and fields of activity per month. The chance that someone knows someone on the list is increasing every day. Mindblowing!

What other requests can be made like this? Are you doing something similar for your startup or business? Let us know in the comments!
Vitalik’s blog posts are probably best. [0]

There are also some decent selections here: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/

[0]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/09/26/limits.html
Im always shocked by the questionable ads I see on American TV when I visit. I find it endlessly annoying to even watch.
This is the check on the primary. It moots the concern of whether or not the primary is working. You could turn them off, but then the system is open to all the vulnerabilities known and unknown this mitigates.
Yep - I, like many of my friends and people who are naturally curious and work today in "Cybersecurity" had fun, poked around - but once you found little data troves - it reveals how inept alot of people can be.

And you just volunteer to be thrown under the bus as that "hacker."

Anonymous, maybe. As a student, under 18 - you're "immune" from many things - but it can be a stain.
Thanks for your input! I'll be trying to implement hardly-scrapeable data as a learning opportunity (as I'm working towards coding + GIS career), but settling for a subset of data + demonstrative video would be a satisfactory compromise if the former turns out to be unachievable or overkill.
I didn’t say power over people is good. I said it is natural. Of nature. Good is not of nature.

Power over people can be used for good, and can be used for evil.

I would give all my money to that which is good.

Where do you think goodness comes from? You said it is not from nature? So you believe things exist outside of the material world?
Yep quite rightly!
I would imagine that it helps by saving computational resources, making the results cheaper to obtain.
> Better math and even computation doesn't necessarily help in some cases.

> We don't necessarily understand how batteries degrade or why adding a certain component or using a certain process makes batteries degrade less.

It sounds like you're saying that better mathematical models can't possibly help because our current mathematical models aren't good enough. Huh? Isn't better theory exactly the answer to "how" and "why" questions? Why would you not want to improve the theory because the theory isn't good enough? Better theory is how you explain and guide real-world experimentation. Plenty of completely intractable problems have suddenly become quite tractable with better math.
But getting in, getting rid of the mines, and getting the fuel out might just take a tad bit longer than the other party needs to blow the tanker.
Only because profits are privatized while costs and tail risks are largely socialized, for the fossil fuel industry. If they paid their environmental impact costs, no driller or coal miner could operate profitably.
The average politician at least has reports prepared for them by government scientists and engineers, while the average citizen only hears about things after they've gone through the telephone game of the media.
Yup! I'd told them last year as the divorce was starting that I'd need to be promoted within 18 months, or I'd start to become bitter and perform less well... and I'd leave before that happened.

Just put in for a GDC talk, hopefully that gets approved. Otherwise I'll stick around to give a talk at the Game Analytics Summit (big networking event for my niche of a field), and spin up some conversations. Also have contacts in most major studios... or I may just strike out and start doing consulting work. It was always a dream of mine to get back into global consulting work once the kids were grown up. They have been, but the ex was wanting to stick around for the grandkids.

Me, I'll be a free woman to make her mark on the world (once I can extract myself from the leech).
Thanks for that suggestion!
You but your claim was that it was only possible to provide reliable supply by combining _reliable_ sources. This is not the case.

Wind and solar are largely anti-correlated in most regions. Depending on the geography, differences in wind output can vary significantly over distances in as little 100km and offshore and on-shore capacity factors also tend to show divergence. At distances above 1,500km wind is uncorrelated in Europe.

The stochastic failures of nuclear reactors are largely independent but not always - a natural catastrophe like Fukushima can take out a bunch of reactors. Or extreme weather (heat), like last summer's drought took out a bunch of reactors in a few northern European countries.

It's not rhetorical labor to point out that it's simplistic to present nuclear as completely reliable (it's not) and that unreliable sources can contribute to a reliable grid. It's pointing out that the problem is more subtle.

Unlike 10 years ago, we have now concrete examples of grids which operate with very high shares of wind and solar without any decrease in reliability and have developed practical techniques for incorporating such sources into grids.
When I was in high school (early-mid 90s) we would use a list of ECHELON keywords as our email signatures.
TV is pretty tame compared to the internet.
I am not sure of anyone who was on the mask bandwagon but then got off when the government approved them. Not saying that they don't exist.

The problem is it is not just the health officials, you have the media and politicians also all trying to play doctor but also not following their own advice.

And it does not matter that it is only a couple people that have done so, due to the way people group those couple are all it takes.

To look at an older example of this: Look at how the religious right community is treated when it comes to morals. You probably don't believe them. Why? Not because Sally and John in Minnesota or even the most of the people in the leadership. No, you don't believe them because that one guy who was caught solicitating gay sex in the airport. Or the one guy who was cheating on his wife.
The company I interned at did timer and wall din switches which were pretty interesting. They were timid letting me do much programming because it was freshman -> sophomore summer so I basically tackled a counter on one of their wall outlet timers that adjusted with a knob on the front and realized the embedded world was not for me haha. It is REALLY cool to hold your code in your hands, though.
when I lived in france i had a second french phone#. amazon worked great. then I was in kiev for a year, and it worked alright with their local number too.

but amazon i never had an issue with, maybe because i've had an account with them from the days when they only sold books. but i actually completely stopped using amazon years ago - the fake crap and fake reviews make the experience not worth my time.
Rendering 100K-10M lines quickly is interesting!

Now that WebGL2 is (almost) universal, any sense of which techniques make more sense now? Still no geometry shaders afaict, but maybe there is something else in there. We currently tessellate ahead of time - even streaming in from GPUs on our server - but that's not how we'd do it with say raw OpenGL. Maybe there's something else close enough now?

(If you're into that kind of thing, plz email build@graphistry :D )
Yep. What they did was wrong. And by doing so they threw themselves at the mercy of the entity they hacked. The refreshing part is that the entity did the morally right thing and showed mercy.
Projects taking significantly longer and costing significantly more seems to be a common theme these days. See any U.S. military project…
I wrote an infinite loop in postscript and sent it to all the printers. This was when postscript printers cost a fortune so there were not many of them. Fun days were those.
I didn't make the cut. That's sad.
Are we proposing to force private companies to serve content they consider false and/or harmful?
This blog post is pure nonsense. Nobody can alter an Ethereum smart contract unless they control all full nodes, or can convince all full node operators to install a fork of the software that reaches into the database and modifies that contract.

It is possible for smart contracts to contain code that allows them to update themselves when receiving a message signed by a certain key, but if this is the case, then it is obvious to anyone inspecting the contract.

Most heavily used Ethereum contracts such as Uniswap and Compound for example do not contain any updating code because users do not trust it.
"Hey Siri, is my phone still charging?" - "The current volume is 43%".
I definitely don’t want to see those then…
The next technological revolution will be biotech. The mRNA vaccines are the vanguard of that. The key technology is now in place - being able to design a gene letter by letter, and inserting that into the genome.

We don't know how that will play out, just like we didn't know how the microprocessor would play out (scifi fell flat on its face there). But it will change everything.
Announcing the Framework [laptop] Marketplace
If we had any sense we would establish similar perimeters around coal plants. There are also thousands of nuclear power plants around the world and I can't think of any that have suffered from terrorist attacks.
IIRC, people did think we were going to run out of coal back then. A minority, but yes, I do recall some quotes from the 1800s about the exponential growth of coal usage and that people were using too much coal.

But by the time ICE engines were getting invented, it was a done debate IIRC. Horses used to pull trains after all, the steam engine replaced horses in train-usage decades earlier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway, for the animal-based predecessor to trains)
I think we should also include long term disposal and reprocessing requirements in there too.
True, or in the same vein limiting free access to clustered data. Thanks!
Yes, for sure. Which small city you pick matters. But given the nature of remote work, you can just pick and choose which city is right for you.
Old but good:
https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/

https://decrypt.co/ is also pretty decent.
How many miners control 51% of the Etherium hash rate? That's the key issue.

For Bitcoin, it was at one time 5, all in China, and there's a group photo.
Well at least it's a racing horse and not a turtle.
> there was never data that said "masks don't work for the public"

Actually there was plenty of data saying that masks don't work for the public.

For example, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

And there are many others - that was just an easy one I found today. Some similar studies even showed an increase in flu transmission among the subject population wearing masks.

There were plenty of articles (such as the Tufekci one you cite) at the time explaining that normal folks don't know proper mask discipline, such as how to fit masks and avoid fomite transmission.

In this situation with limited supply it makes sense to preserve masks for skilled people who are facing numerous likely transmission sources, especially on the front line of providing health care.

The new data was that fomite transmission is not a strong vector for COVID19, that even modest mask technology is a good source transmission interrupter, and that the contagion window is well in advance of active symptoms.

This new data meant that the flu based studies were not representative.
Count the socialized cost of environmental remediation please. It will run into the quadrillion zone
For most things related to looking into space nowadays, we need a distributed team so we can cover the sky around the clock. It would be bad if we miss a 1 minute event "because it's daylight on our side".
> Provisioned concurreny does decrease cold starts.

Indeed it does.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-provisioned-concurrency...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/provisioned-con...
AR -- headsets are too expensive but nowhere near good enough. See

https://kguttag.com/

VR -- the hardware is fine for sedentary activities. if you want to get up and walk around the problems get big. tracking is one thing, but you have to make the whole environment safe (no tripping on couches, pets, etc.)

I would love to rent out an old big box store and turn it into a "VR park" where people would play physically intense games like laser tag. You have to worry about people crashing into structural supports, taking hard falls wearing $3000 worth of gear, running past barriers you enforce with the VR system, etc.

What holds up VR now is that the software is not that compelling. VR games aren't really better than regular video games. The best applications so far are "watch a movie in an imaginary movie theater", "use your computer in an environment with many virtual screens".
ICC climate crimes suit filed against Brazil's Bolsonaro
Might as well throw the Eurion into all your pictures while you're at it just to cause shenanigans with the parts of their stack that support that DRM.
In a similar vein you may like "WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets":

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097732 (163 comments)

PS: found with a site I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?q=Understanding+Python+through...
The compression joke evokes a misconception (as STEM jokes often do) which, in this case, is that breaking a hash means finding a way to recover the full text of a multi-megabyte document, from a 100-something byte hash.

Whereas all it means is that it's become feasible for someone to produce a fake document with the same hash as the genuine one; the attack depends on the existence of collisions, which depend on the hash being one-way, such that an infinite set of documents could be "recovered" from the hash.

Most of the documents you could "decompress" from a hash are going to be gibberish, but some of them are going to be legit. If a hash is "broken", that means it's somehow unduly easy to search that ocean of gibberish collisions to find a chosen text which goes to a certain desired hash.

Nothing quantum can redefine a function that isn't one-to-one and onto into one that is. The hashing function remains ever the mathematical object that it is: a one-way function. But calculations of or searches through that function can be faster.

In a post-quantum world, pre-quantum crypto and hashing could well turn out to be "for shit" as such, but not due to ruses like suddenly reversing irreversible functions.

Not saying that the joke isn't funny! We can imagine some hard-core computer science or math sitcom in which the fall characters say things like this, and only the very narrow target audience gets it.
Also it misprices tail risk, marking it to zero
You misunderstand what’s happening in Flint. The water coming from the water treatment plant is perfectly safe, the issue is that it is then delivered to customers in lead pipes. This means cleaning up the water doesn’t involve removing lead at the treatment plant, which is normal, but rather replacing all of the water pipes in the city, which is very very hard. In fact removing various heavy metals from water is a regular thing that water treatment plants do, including metals like uranium and chromium.

The takeaway from Flint is not “we can’t remove uranium from ground water”, but rather “don’t build your water distribution network out of toxic heavy metals like lead”.
Disagree with "completely opposed". Cloud providers want to make money, sure, but in general everyone in the ecosystem benefits if every CPU cycle is used efficiently. Any overhead goes out of both AWS's and your pockets and instead to the electricity provider, server manufacturer, cooling service.
Wonder if it will work with DRM content (Netflix etc)
Is there a stated goal for this list?

There's around 1k names in the list but over 400k homicides worldwide every year. I assume there's lots more hate and misc. crimes every year, so what's the usefulness of having only 1k users flagged?
That's bad but it's even worse to blow up their server and it's your fault.
I've been part of an implementation of a global map done in SVG. Only path data that was sent down was national borders. We had to do many multiple levels because the volume of data to get the paths drawn accurately was both too big and too slow until you zoomed in a bit and could start loading individual countries, then individual regions.

Rendering rasterized tiles from a tile server onto a canvas means that, on the client, performance is identical regardless of zoom level.

Basically, we went with SVG because only drawing the borders looked cool, and we could fake some clever zoom animations, and we couldn't afford to purchase custom tile data and run a tile server.

As for interactive bits, those are frequently done with DOM nodes positioned over the map. Maps make for a pretty crap user experience for screen readers, so if you really wanted to make the information accessible, you're better off putting it in a separate interface. That, and I can honestly say I have yet to see a map that would make sense to have a crawler attempt to index.
It is easier to design perfect reactors and then it is to build perfect reactors.
> Isn't it the opposite?

No. While “Trust in governments is at all time low” is probably unsupportable hyperbole, the opposite isn't true either.

> The progressives are in power

No, they aren't, in the US at least. A liberal/progressive coalition holds effective legislative power in the House, a majority capable of only exceptional legislation in the Senate (because of the filibuster rule, and because a couple moderates that make up the balance of a majority vote with the coalition on most things but oppose any movement in the rules which prevent it from exercising general legislative power in the Senate), with a liberal holding the Presidency.

> and they believe every problem has a government solution.

No, that's not what either progressives or the liberals they are in a working coalition with believe. (They tend to believe that government has solutions to some things that the Right doesn't trust government to do, at the same time they’d generally exclude government from some functions the Right loves to interpose it into.)
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/) mostly just a client side library for the displaying of maps, much like Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/)?

To have your own tile server, you'd probably want something like OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org/) or another alternative like Tilemaker (https://tilemaker.org/).
While I normally argue in the favour of privacy, in this particular case I'm leaning towards thinking that web content accountability is a step in the right direction.
New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner
Fusion is not going to be commercially viable anytime soon but that's not the point. Whether how and to what we transition is a political choice, if fossil fuels are too cheap for renewable to compete, you tax carbon fuels more. Renewables mostly everybody is ok with however have the problem that don't produce power consistently and on demand, that's where nuclear power comes in to fill that gap and hopefully in the future fusion. If we dislike the nuclear waste problem enough, we'll have to pay up to make fusion a financially viable alternative.
One area that iOS can improve on is the linking of app downloads to Apple IDs. I don't want every app I've ever downloaded on iOS to be permanently recorded in my Apple ID. With Android, I can use Aurora Store or sideload apps that were originally published on the Play Store without needing a Google account at all. Apple should implement a way to anonymously download free apps, whether from the App Store or from elsewhere.
About two years ago, I was in high school and decided to, as a joke, “hack” the computer. By logging in as admn:password. I was incredibly surprised when it actually ended up working as a domain admin account. After checking this, I immediately signed out.

When my CS teacher filed a ticket asking “who has the user account ‘admin’ and why is the password ‘password?’” IT wanted to revoke my network login and probably put me in ISS for a few days. Fortunately, my CS teacher didn’t reveal who I was.

Very glad IT at this person’s school took it in stride, unfortunately this was just the MO of IT in my district.
Not so simple. A hash corresponds to infinitely many messages, but how many of them are in ASCII charset under 1KB long? It may happen that each hash has a unique message within these constraints.
The wheel of typing.
Argi: Argument Parsing for the Future – Rust
If 16-bit floating-point numbers are used, it can presumably encode all tokens. In theory. It would not be very easy to work with.
I'm impressed with how much foresight this high schooler had in preparing for the prank. My impression is that most high school age kids would out themselves within the first few weeks of planning due to wanting to boast, here they instead took to testing covertly, overnight.
> I mean they won't lose anything either by doing that, right?

Not directly, but if someone were to use some of that code that a company put significant resources into developing, in a product that made someone else money, most companies would probably have a hard time mentally justifying that.
There hasn't been a nuclear detonation on the planet in almost 29 years. At this point that argument is out the window.
I wrote similar onfailure script[0] for failing systemd services that could be invoked by the `Onfailure` unit option[1].

[0] https://github.com/kylemanna/systemd-utils/tree/master/onfai...

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.uni...
What makes us humans as opposed to mere animals, is that we are not ruled by nature. Power exists naturally, the lion will tear apart the gazelle, chimpanzees will engage in cannibalism, it’s our humanness that allows what is natural to also be good. We should not devolve into nihilism, we should reach for what is good.

Those stories are the way we describe what some material thing is doing. They most certainly exist and not just in my head, they’re just not material.