skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a real reason to not care about security from day one... the competitor who doesn't care will beat you to market, and then you don't get a day 2.

Sorry, but the vast majority of people just don't care. Customers want a working product.
I'd imagine your eyelids and the sun.
What do you use for your source of light?
There's a big difference between restricting topics, and restricting viewpoints. The latter creates echo chambers, the former doesn't.
It varies. Co-founder's are "supposed" (according to YC) to have a 10% or larger original stake in the company but people will throw the title around anyway. Likewise founding engineer could be an IC there from the begging with several % in stock or it could be a meaningless puff title.
That’s exactly what I was concerned about. I reached out to the recruiter and asked him to share everyone they have reached out to.
I'm glad someone recognized the CHIM reference, but I'm surprised that the entry for AASR (Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite) hasn't caught anyone's eye as being just as out of place. :)
I think the author of the article already assumes Satoshi is a single person. The name is simply a Japanese male name. So it is obviously wrong to call him "they". This kind of stupidity only works in Woke English. Translate it to most other languages will make the readers deeply confused: what's wrong with the writer? What's going on in his mind?
There are so few sites out there where you can have a real discussion about “ anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity”. I recall posting on a space subreddit an article that talked about mining asteroids for water, and it was abundantly obvious that zero of the responders read past the title (which only mentioned mining asteroids, not the water part). Hacker News is far from perfect, but here at least you have some real hope that others will read the posted article and drive a discussion based on the specific content. I would hate for this site to be too tech focused… I mean what other site would I go to if I read, for example, a great article on theory of the mind, an obscure language, etc.
Maybe this is pure science fiction but it would be amazing to see Covid alarms, if the virus was detected in the air.
I find that wearing reading glasses helps me stay focused in an office environment. My computer is in focus, but anything farther away is a bit blurry and therefore less distracting.
I have tried f.lux and the equivalent shift programs that are now native to iOS etc. My experience has been that they have no impact, at all, when compared to simply turning down screen brightness. My uneducated guess is that most of the impact of f.lux or equivalent is due to the fact that it unintentionally "dims" the monitor, rather than actual color temperatures of light mattering.
I know flux is more limited, but you can turn it to a preset, and then select > Effects & Extra Colors > Himalayan Salt Lamp (which is my preferred option for late night.

Also, you can select Use Wider Slider Ranges in the options to go from 1200k-9300k

I have noticed that Flux on OS X is lacking some of the functionality from the Windows version too.
Doing this on aave would actually be net profitable right now with the "liquidity incentives" they offer, and you can apply leverage (deposit USDC, borrow USDT, swap for USDC, deposit again, ...). The rates aren't fixed, so you'd have to watch it, but it would be an interesting strategy.
The video contains a video showing exactly how the holes are used in manufacturing.

You seem to dislike people who create content on YouTube but this video seems well sourced.
Trash. Quite unfortunately some of the most shallow thinking I've seen.
Thank you so much! I still haven't updated and probably won't to get an untethered jailbreak but I know this will get bigger and I will use it in the future. Wonder if webassembly will help too.
"Lua is so nice, but ..."

Questions for the Lua critics. How many Python modules, e.g., in C, have you written. Which language is easier to write modules for, Lua or Python. Ever compare the startup time of the Lua interpreter to the Python one. What s the tally of applications that have embedded Lua interpreters versus those that have embdedded Python ones.

Because it is (optionally) embedded in applications I use every day and/or rely on, whether it's a DNS load balancer, a TCP/HTTP proxy server or a fast OS kernel, I always use Lua for "practical purposes".

Python seems to have development team of millions, but would I rather have a smaller interpreter with faster startup that is easier to write modules for. To me, that is an important question. Will I ever write Python modules in C for own use, or will I have to choose someone else's library and become 100% reliant on it. Does that limit the true "DIY" potential of Python vis-a-vis Lua.

At least the parent did not use the "indices start at one" justification for concluding Lua is inferior. In the early days of Lua, that was a red flag to me that this language must be good, if that s the best criticism anyone could come up with.
Is goodwill from Lebanon worth a tanker full of fuel?

Not that I don't have sympathy for the people suffering, but this is the question anyone with control over that level of wealth would ask.
I never understood why blue light is supposed to be a problem. Surely on a sunny day with blue sky there is a lot of blue light?
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here. I don't really think there's any real reason to think that 1/3 of Canada wants the American system. That's certainly never something I've seen any evidence for. My impression was always that it was a point of general pride that the Canadian system "wasn't' like the American's". Only a small fringe want otherwise from what I can tell. It's not even in the platform of any small fringe parties as far as I can tell. I would suspect if a niche issue like Albertan separatism finds political expression, this would too.

Could you be conflating talks about "privatization" (allowing private clinics to exist and take OHIP) with private healthcare payments (you don't get OHIP) by mistake? Those two are not really the same at all, but get conflated in the media often.

That last part there about Ottawa or Ontario, not sure which one, doesn't really make much sense, sorry. It's unclear what you're getting at. Nothing there really sounds related to what I'm talking about.
The brightness of blue light matters. Its like measuring how radioactive a banana is and worrying about it.
Fish tank filters are vital to the nitrogen cycle but your point still stands.
The last 80 years have taught us a few things:

- State collapse is more common than we think, but not impossible to recover from (Germany post WW2, Iraq post 2010?)

- The international community is willing to cooperate during major natural disasters (2004 earthquake, Japanese earthquake, Haiti earthquake)

- The international community is less willing to cooperate during man-made political disasters with humanitarian consequences (Somalia 1980s, Russia 1990s), though there are notable exceptions (Bosnian War, Kosovo War)

- No one really cares about genocides happening in other countries

- Successful nation building directed by a foreign power is the exception, not the norm.

- Some countries will never achieve prosperity
As an recent employee, Facebook is the future of the internet and probably all society. you can either join with the winning team or sit around with the losers.

The ad business may have it's issues but it's only temporary until the next phase beings

the leadership team cares about what's best for everyone, it's not evil.
No famine has ever been caused by the world not growing enough food for everyone.
Wow, HN started the day before my kids were born. This morning we celebrated their 15th birthdays.
> But Linux is hard to manage for corporations especially when people use different distros.

Last time I set up a startup, our developers all worked in the same environment as our servers.
I deliberately don't spend much time on this. You could spend your whole life investigating and evaluating alternatives, but then you'd never get anything done. Of the maybe one hour a day I spend skimming news, popping tabs, and then reading more deeply on the interesting bits, maybe a fifth of that is looking at evolving my "stacks".

For things that are doing a decent job, I basically don't even consider replacing them. If something in the space seems to be picking up a heap of momentum, I'll make a note of it to investigate next time a project starts. More often than not, the hype has moved on by the time I get there, and I saved myself a bunch of effort.

For things that are an active point of pain, I keep a closer eye on alternatives. Mostly just keeping a rough mental list of what's becoming popular, and what their purported advantages are. At some point, I'll usually do a little toy project using one or two of them, just to see how they really work in practice.

So, eg. I've been using PostgreSQL since the late 90's. Pretty early on I chose it over MySQL, and I've been pretty happy with that outcome. I played with Mongo a bit, but ended up sticking with Postgres' JSON datatypes when I want a document model. OTOH, I have adopted Sqlite3 for things where it makes sense, and I'm still keeping an eye on time-series / columnar database alternatives.

I picked Python very early (I first used it pre 1.0, and had production apps using 1.1) and still use it a heap today. I've played with Go a bit, and in the right projects, I'd probably use it today, although the messing with generics encourages me to wait a little longer. I moved to Python3 with v3.7.

Knowing something well, and being very productive with it, counts for a lot. Stable, well-supported, well-known things are much better components of a stack than something that looks shiny, but is obsolete in a year or two. If something is good, it'll be around long enough that you can pick up it next time.
The arguments that Facebook is evil are really dumb and I'm kind of tired of them.

The core mechanism of political polarization is that the internet inexorably pulled society out of its temporary state of mass media consolidation. For a couple decades, we had an unusual situation where a few companies ran mass media, and those companies all sort of agreed to toe the centrist consensus line politically. Now, we've reverted to something like what we had before radio, which was that socialists read the socialist newspaper, right-wing folks read the right-wing newspaper, etc., if not even worse -- some folks just got their news from the loudest partisans at the bar.

We've gone from an era where news distribution was fragmented because it was very difficult, to an era where it was consolidated because it was easy for large corporations only, to an era where it's so dead simple that anyone can do it, so it's fragmented again.

Legacy media folks hate this. They blame the biggest players helping people share fragmented media sources with one another, rather than recognizing the inevitability of this fragmentation, no matter what products people use to share news over the internet. They demand a return to elite consensus blocking extreme viewpoints. It is simply not gonna happen. That barn was always temporary, and it has collapsed around the horse.
> - Some countries will never achieve prosperity

Seems like a weirdly determinate conclusion for span of time less then one human lifetime.
When I saw that, my first question for myself was

"Is this the placebo effect in practice?"

I use Flux @3400k at night, which I then set to Himalayan Salt Lamp also, to make me ready for bed, and my perception is that I experience less eye strain, and more feeling ready to go to sleep.

I'm going to need to read more studies on this...
A court decision is literally someone else's arbitrary classification, namely the judge's. Have you agreed with every court decision ever made?

I suggest you think for yourself as to what's right and what's wrong and vote according to your own conscience, rather than relying on other people thinking for you. You know, how democracy is supposed to work.
There's a users page (https://soupault.app/users/), most come with source code links.

ocamlbook.org may be the most illustrative one: it exploits soupault's ability to pipe HTML element content through an external program to automatically type-check code examples in <code> tags with the compiler and also syntax-highlight them with an external tool. The approach would translate to any language without a need for language-specific tools.
Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution
I'm thinking of an analogy: Renting a house. If the house needs repair, I'd probably give the landlord a fair chance to fix it, but would also feel entitled to fix it myself if the problem interfered with the functioning of the house.
The individual used a male name, so it’s reasonable to make that assumption in common speech.

In terms of individual vs group, it seems unlikely that a group would have the discipline to not do anything with billions of dollars or expose the individual with control of the same.
Yet another screed from an impostor.

Many SV startup applications were written by one programmer - I've met several.

QED: those are 10x programmers.
I think one of the key things is what happened in 2016, isn't the same thing that's happening now. Then, actors were able to pay and market content directly to audiences they felt were exploitable. The current deluge of misinformation, especially regarding vaccine, is shared directly with friends or within groups that people explicitly join. If you browse the 'Herman Cain Awards' on reddit, you'll see things like,

- "I'll probably get put in facebook jail for this..."

- A misinformation label attached to the bottom of the post.

- The post completely blanked out, with a statement that this is misinformation.

This seems to indicate some moderation being done. What I don't see from the "facebook should stop' this group, is any attempt to get cable companies to do the same with "news" stations that broadcast misinformation. An attempt to have the FCC take AM radio station's licenses for broadcasting propaganda.

The underlying fact is, what we label misinformation is just what a large group of people wrongly believe, and they really like sharing it with each other.
I wonder if this game runs exclusively on the Apple processor's low power cores. Is there a way to find out? If so, this project could possibly be one of the best "watt to fun" ratios out there given how efficient the A series processors are! :)

A side project I'd like to do one day is to compile this on a raspberry Pi zero and lower the clock rate as much as I can get away with so I could try to achieve the lowest possible power consumption to run this software. Just a silly idea since I love thinking about running things in a hyper efficient manner. Does anyone think this could run on some ARM dev board? I imagine something like the ESP32 is still not powerful enough. Anything in TI's inventory that can run this?
Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (2014)
The article says one of the states the bumblebee has vanished from is Oregon, I'm not sure about that. I definitely saw something that looked very bumblebee like in downtown Portland multiple times this past summer. Bees in general are rare downtown, but if you're outside enough you'll see them in parks and along the Willamette river. A few miles out to the suburbs or undeveloped areas and bees (bumble and otherwise) appeared abundant in Oregon the last time I traveled that way (a few months ago).
Yeah, I hadn't considered that aspect. Maybe still a good place to work remotely, though?
Wear a pair of glasses or this convenient software on every device I use that adjusts it based on my location...
Ha! Internet high five :)
Bombus p. is discussed in this article, which is confusingly called American bumblebee. There are plenty other bumble bees in the PNW and elsewhere. There’s a rock in my yard I can’t move because it has a bumble bee hive under it.

Ironically I was moving it to create bumblebee habitat. But it was so heavy I only managed to move it half an inch before the bumbles freaked out.
a species is not a thing. it's a concept - a thought. a concept doesn't do anything, because it's thoughts. so a species cannot kill an animal. a species cannot spend millions to protect. because thoughts cannot perform an action, because they're not a thing.

what does happen is a group of people, which is a thing, kills animals to the point of them being rare. then another, opposing group, spends millions to protect those remaining animals.

i'd expect something like this from a reddit post, where I often see, usually on redneck antivax subs i visit for entertainment, things like: reddit is hypocritical. because the redneck is not capable of comprehending that different people, with different opinions and actions both post on the website.

it's so backwards to think that, but such is some people's life.
This is such a nonsequitur.

I can take something copyrighted, and generate an unlimited number of different things that infringe copyright. I could take Harry Potter and change where the line breaks are—countless variations. Or I could add commentary to the margins. I could put different pictures on the cover. I could translate the book into different languages. I could write new chapters and stick them in the middle.
Appreciate this response. Thanks. Totally agree now that I see your perspective.
Thanks, we plan to use lua5.4 runtime by default in the next version.
If someone chooses a male pseudonym, is it sensible for everyone to individually decide what pronouns to use? This strikes me as opposed to similar etiquette.
Yeah that article (and reading some of Yudkowsky's stuff back as a teenager) is the only reason I can claim to understand how it works.

I also may be underestimating the number of futurology / AI enthusiast types; but my intuition is that there can't be _that many_ of them outside of Silicon Valley bubbles.
The bibliography and related works sections of the Wikipedia pages on chimney sweeps and chimney sweep's carcinoma have as much more detailed information as you are likely to stomach....
Considering how diverse California's demographic composition is, as opposed to say, Vermont, they deserve credit for doing better than the country as a whole.
I picked up a great 670nm light from here: https://redlightman.com/
Lately 60% of HN's front page is indistinguishable from Ars Technica. Just common denominator techy or popsci news.

I'd rather see a post about yet another JS framework honestly.
I would not work until you got me a Mac. This poor soul.
There might be some to that, but having bottom quartile infection rates while containing an eighth of the US population seems like a strong statement from any angle.
The key idea of soupault is that it works on the HTML element tree level and can automatically call external convertors on pages (based on page file extensions, see [1]), so the input format doesn't matter to it.

You can bring your own convertors and pass any options to them. I'm not saying it's a perfect SSG for everyone, but at least uncommon input format support isn't an intractable problem for it.

[1] https://github.com/dmbaturin/soupault-website/blob/master/so...
They share a border with Russia as well.
Your reply, like the other below it, both completely ignored the article and the comment they are replying to.

Sure, media is more fragmented now. But that doesn't address any of the criticisms in question.
Most people think that they’re above average. Not that many people think they’re in the top 10%.

The “most people are average, therefor you must be average” line of reasoning is nonsense. We know that exceptional programmers exist. Why it’s even controversial is beyond me.
The intellectual curiosity rule was fine when most people in here were hackers.

Now hacker news has become the exception.
Maybe it's because you cannot separate things that neatly. I see people here complaining that it's not all about tech but what is tech without the world that we live in and our effect on that world?

Without context, tech alone is a very sterile discussion.
ever? The first entry in the wikipedia article for "list of famines" points to "4.2-kiloyear event", which was apparently global. At that scale it doesn't seem hard for the deficit to negate any meager surplus that non-affected societies can produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2-kiloyear_event
My own conscience? I don't have the facts. I don't know what Assange or US prosecutors know. I think, without evidence, that he was working with a US adversary and his entire public image will collapse under scrutiny in court. Should I follow that or wait for more information?

I'm done talking about this on this forum for awhile. Every discussion is the same.
I'm with you here, but anytime you have code changes of this magnitude you get political splits and people pushing for more than just fixing the issue to give power to their position.

I have no idea how that would end up, how quickly they could organize, and what would happen in the mean time.
Isn't that the minimum you need to evaluate how much, if anything, equity is worth?
Through the years starting from around 1998 I deployed Lua into several embedded systems: hardware debugging tools, scientific instruments, medical devices, home automation and finally robotics. Back then you couldn't beat the small footprint of the environment and the decent availability of libraries so you didn't need to start everything from scratch. In contrast, for example the Pawn language was also competent for similar applications but its ecosystem was quite lacking.

Some years ago when Squirrel started to get traction, particularly due to its adoption in a couple of IoT frameworks, I fiddled with it for some months and it almost got its way into a commercial electronics project. However by then uPython was getting more popular, had better tooling support and ARM microcontroller chips had become very fast. Being able to reuse the same code on the host with minimal or no changes, or having an interface or emulation layer that you can also program in Python is a game changer. It took me less than a week to rewrite the Squirrel code to Python, with even better features thanks to the language facilities.

I thought I was never going to touch Lua again but a couple of months ago I found myself hacking some REAPER audio processing scripts, and cursing Ierusalimschy once more for his decision on neglecting Dijkstra's advice and not starting indexes from zero...
For most people, there’s little to no exposure.

The exotic trust structures talked about here are money laundering structures, which exist because gullible voters are duped with tales of widows losing houses and farm families losing the mythical family farm. There’s a reason why the home base for this is a state with weird banking laws where there’s more cattle than people.

Mitt Romney’s (I point him out because of his fame in this regard, he’s not unique or alone) great-great-grandchildren will be living off some untaxed trust 150 years from now when we’re all dead.
They made it available for the stable build too.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install