skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They also said that air traffic control had a massive walkout because of the vaccine mandate

This doesn't make any sense at all. If a vaccine-mandate induced ATC walkout was the cause, all air carriers would be disrupted, not just Southwest.

I suspect this is someone pitching his own views about a situation he doesn't know the true cause of.
Good catch. I posted an issue: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/issues/16
According to what average? In the US, it’s harder than ever to afford a family if you live in a big city. And the best jobs are in big cities.

Edit: Growing up lots of kids had a stay at home parent. That doesn’t seem to exist anymore, which isn’t just bad for kids but for communities.
Stolen money, eh? Wait until they find out about colonialism.
They happen at a lower level than an AST, but you're right that any front end can in theory generate the same IR and therefore get the same optimizations. The trick is if the language semantics allow for it; this bites both ways.
Nobody tried to deceive anyone, Steve threw a temper tantrum when someone wouldn't give him their lifelong work for free, so he responded by playing "good cop bad cop" during their negotiations and making the CEO feel bad enough to admit liability. Frame it however you want, but that kind of mental gymnastics doesn't work on a forum of jaded tech enthusiasts who watched Woz get berated for building a better product.
YAML. Of course implementations of this go all over the place too, but you could say the same of XML parsers to a certain extent.

I still pine for binary-only data formats. They're easier to program, and nobody makes the mistake of trying to edit them manually or compose them in a shell script. Parsing data shouldn't be hard, but it also shouldn't be so easy that people hang themselves by accident.

Of course, the reason why we largely have text data formats is because it's insanely simpler to troubleshoot systems that use them. Some things should just be easier to manipulate. But for general purpose work, I miss binary data formats.

Zip is probably my favorite general-purpose binary data format. It's old, well defined, works with any kind of data, and you can immediately seek to data in very large archives rather than having to parse the entire thing first. And then there's that whole compression thing. If you wanted to distribute a thousand tiny blobs of CSV, JSON, YAML, and XML, all in one container, you could do much worse than Zip.
Exactly -- most generations have had good reasons to think their generation was having it worse than all previous generations. Imagine growing up and doing duck and cover drills under your school desks as a child because of the threat of Cold War nukes. Imagine the Spanish Flu. Imagine what Americans experienced in the Civil War. And these are only relatively recent examples. Plenty more going back centuries. There are always reasons to be scared.
> If you want good performance but don't care about precise control over the machine, write Java or C# or something high level like that. You'll be just as safe

No, you aren't.

None of these languages catch data-races, so writing multi-threaded code is pretty much as hard and error prone as in C. Other higher-level languages like Python fix this by holding a global mutex, so that using multiple threads doesn't really buy you that much there since threads always execute sequentially to avoid data-races.

This is in contrast to Rust, which allows anybody, even people without experience in low-level programming to accelerate their applications using multiple threads, without introducing bugs.

Actually, Mozilla tried to multi-thread Firefox multiple times using C++, and failed, over and over again, because every attempt would introduce subtle bugs. Rust was created to address this issue.
actually been working on it for a couple years, first with StyleGAN then StyleGAN2 then StyleGAN2-Ada now StyleCLIP which I haven't dropped yet.
In the MoviePass (and lesser so, WeWork) era, I'm not sure those are rational expectations anymore either.
Just to clarify this YouTube link: HEK293 cells are used in TONS of research, yes they are derived from fetal cell lines in the 70s. When I say tons, I mean if you say "HEK cells" to someone who does any cell culture they know what you're talking about. It is completely noncontroversial, and cancer/bioenergetic research utilizes them.

I don't appreciate this YouTube channel doing what they are doing, it is pouring fuel on a giant nothingburger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEK_293_cells
I recognise his name as something that flitted by on copyright pages, for tools that made my life easier, better, and for free.

And sad though his passing is, it marks something else for me - that a person committed to "improving the world a little" is recognised without having made billions in an IPO or become a media celebrity. Maybe we can all aim a little lower (or higher depending on how you see it) now.

Thank you Jorg.

Our condolences to your loved ones.
Yes.

In fact, I once read a story about pygmy tribes in Africa, and their hunters would sit around smoking pot, waiting for prey.

Not sure that helps the aim, when it shows up, but hey, I guess they know how to handle their pot.

That's different from "free time," though. Veterans will tell you that combat assignments also have a lot of waiting around.
You're making a good point while still, I think, missing mine. You, the author, I probably all tell ourselves and others things that we "know" that we mostly hope for. "I know I'm going to lose ten pounds before Christmas." Do you really "know"? Do you have a time machine? And maybe one friend expressed support, so, "...and other people agree with me!" Well, you're implying more than one person, probably without feeling bad about it unless someone challenges you. "How many people? What are their names?" Oops. Now, we're in trouble.

My point is the irony of feeling bad and learning a lesson about being completely honest when caught by a master famed for "reality distortion". Reality distortion is almost literally truth stretching. No doubt the master of doing it was a master at detecting it, but that didn't mean he was deeply committed to the truth himself. He was deeply committed to and famously skilled at manipulating but not being manipulated, which is not at all the same thing.
There's not really anything at all wrong with whitelabelling. This article only exists because malwarebytes is doing it poorly.
The so-called Great Stagnation, the lack of big technology breakthroughs since 1970, the stagnation in physics, the stagnation of wages, the slower rate of growth of productivity, the lack of automation, the political paralysis that has lead to 50 years of under-funded infrastructure, all of these things combine to make a pretty good case against techno-optimism. Many people found it natural to be techno-optimists in 1930, for obvious reasons, given what they had just lived through. But nowadays techno-optimism is a matter of pure faith, like a religion.

The best book on this subject is "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War" by Robert J. Gordon.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/d...
What was the drama?
Why Don't VCs Do Research?
Margin collapse is like social distance
> Humanity as a whole very much behaves like a cancer, and that makes it hard to love ourselves.

I guess I see that kind of attitude as the primary thing and then arguments like climate change etc as post-fact justification.

Humanity has been and always will be a mix of beautiful and terrible. In the same time window you're talking about, we made huge strides in equality, science, reached for the starts, explored the depth, etc.

Go back decades, centuries and millennia and you will find something to be depressed about. Crusades? Slavery? Pandemics? Wars? Those things have existed for ever, and yet humanity has always found a way to move forward, trending towards better/safer/more equal. If you believe that "humans are as cancer", you are as justified today as you had ever been, but as a human, forgive me for not being interested when someone who loathes my species suggests it'd be better if we died out.
I think his last posts on Heise.de Forums were from around Sep 18 2021. On heise.de he commented almost daily, on all sorts of topics.
Rescuing a Frozen Linux System with Some Magic
He also has a nice table about all kinds of personal carbon costs (like having children):

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/carbon-costs-quantifie...
>Microsoft wouldn't ever open-source NT

I wouldn't say never. I think the chance of that happening is ever so slightly increasing every year. The benefits of open source NT kernel will some day outweigh Microsoft keeping it close. Its strategic value is decreasing. ( The whole OS on the other hand is a different question though. )
> If you go the dynamic linking route no source distribution is required.

For your code. The LGPL code still requires source distribution. (Plus, the BSD clause requires attribution.)
Not OP, but I'm guessing because they wouldn't want to subject the people they are likely to love most in the world, and have pinned all their hopes and dreams on, to the imagined horrors of the future.
> People were using things akin to toothbrushes as far back as 3000BCE

So? They were using clothing as well, doesn't mean they weren't transmitting infections to one another willy-nilly.

> as I understand it, a lot of modern man's issues with dental health are due to our grain righ diets anyway.

Maybe. I never heard of that theory myself. Bu regardless of diet, foragers still eat a lot of fruit with sugar. That's bad for teeth regardless of how well the tribe's toothbrush is passed down.
Disparity, non sustainable economic model, fierce professional competition, capitalist lifestyle, way different values than mine for new generations (maybe I don't understand them but in my opinion worst values).
Bright light of the sun can trigger a migraine, at least in me and some other people I know. It's not dehydration, it's the bright light itself.

I found shade 5 sunglasses that are essentially lightweight welding glasses they have been amazing. Unlike most sunglasses they are actually dark.
Interestingly, this is a case of natural selection making things worse:

The people not worried about an incoming disaster keep reproducing, while the people worried stop reproducing.
> I am grateful for my parents’ decisions here and so I conclude that having children in a world with a 1% risk of apocalypse is fine.

That's the is-ought fallacy. That people did it before doesn't make it fine. Or survivorship bias - you were lucky, but that doesn't negate the risk.

> If you’re not one of [antinatalists], I think the quality-of-life argument for not having kids now is pretty weak.

Again, what about those who think now, as well as under some, not even all conditions?

> that’s not really the relevant timeframe for actually stabilizing the climate, given that we have this decade to cut emissions in half.

That actually makes sense until you ask the question: what if we faill or struggle? Then the lowered population could really come in handy.

This same argument also neutralizes the voting problem: your child won't have the right to vote in the next decade. Even in the longer term, who is going to guarantee that the child will vote for reduced emissions?

I'm a fan of astral codex ten, but I had the impression that the usual writing has less blind spots.
I think the team unwillingness to discuss pricing with Eddy was a dick move to Eddy.
man, modern sneakers are ugly
Well, for sure it depends on where you live. In my country, young people can't ever own a home and rent eats up half their income.

At age 30-35, they still don't have their basics in place, and the choice for kids is postponed until an ever higher age.

But I'm sure it's all fine, because they have a phone.
Finances are not private. They're created and protected by the state.
if you remove all checks and balances, all forms of redundancy and run the system at 99% capacity.. even a simple unforeseen event can disrupt everything and grind it to halt.

Just imagine that most businesses are equivalent to running your whole stack on a single, self hosted at home, RPI. Including the git repository, and no backups.
People are so soft. OP was a bad negotiator and he's acknowledging it. That's what this comes down to. Jobs didn't want to waste his own time by extending the meeting further and did OP a favor by being transparent at all.

Would you rather Jobs had NOT been transparent, and obscured his his thoughts behind niceties? Or perhaps he should have given a 30 minute negotiation coaching session to OP for free? He could do either of these, and others might, but this is business first and not necessary.
If a judge hands down a National Security Letter (NSL) to a CA to turn over its private keys, can the private keys be used to decrypt the communications of all traffic that depends on that CA?
That doesn't look common to me. I see a few small countries, and France and Spain (which only gets through union negotiations, not law)
> I'm really tired of this motte and bailey stuff. Rust proponents say Rust gives you fine grained machine control and safety with no performance compromises, and then when you point out that the language doesn't quite live up to that promise, Rust proponents start telling you that you didn't really need that performance anyway.

Citation needed: which part of my comment says this?
> a mistake in either direction would incur penalties.

It seems reasonable to just make the fines small, and the bank can try to minimize them by having their policies match what a court will find for those which are taken to court.
It's good to have both perspectives. Ideally you learn the layers-of-transforms version alongside the styled graph-of-neurons version. If you had to only pick one, which one you learn would depend a lot on what kind of student you are and what your goals are. I think the layers-of-transforms version is "less wrong" in general, but probably harder to understand, so it's maybe better if you had to learn just one.
It's always great to get positive results, but this is very much old news. The two drugs from this particular study, ipilimumab and nivolumab, have been around for a decade, and they've been used in combination to treat various other solid tumors. They really are breakthroughs, which is why James Allison won the 2018 Nobel for discovering ipi and why nivolumab (marketed as Opdivo) is among the top ten selling drugs in the world.

Note that the actual trial referenced by this article, CheckMate-651, failed its primary endpoint [1]. The positive result is only for a subpopulation of patients with high expression of one of the targeted proteins.

Anyway, if you haven't heard about immunooncology, it really is an amazing field with lots of great results. But this particular article about very incremental work.

[1]: https://www.onclive.com/view/nivolumab-ipilimumab-misses-os-...
One thing which brought together a lot of people in varied European or international bodies, who otherwise didn't see eye to eye on much was the opinion that The City is probably the most corrupt place in the Western hemisphere, at least by volume of "shady money". Plenty on interests to keep that in the shade, although I wouldn't go so far as to say Brexit was solely about this.
Awesome. I hope Germany fixes the legislation around solar too.
It is a good thing that employers are rejecting made-up religious objections that have no basis in consistent and longstanding practice. If they don't, it will come back to bite them over and over and result in endless litigation.
Some of this fear may depend on the environment one lives in. Where I live we’re breathing in wildfire smoke, which most likely will be shown to be bad for kids. Even on a good day, the zip code I can afford to live in (as a well paid software engineer) has some of the highest rates of childhood asthma from highway and port pollution.
Don't have comprehensive enough data to know, but part of the standard library was proven via the Rustbelt project, and it found some places where there were bugs, as well as some places where things could safely be loosened up.
Reading this comment made me extremely sad, thinking about all the young geniuses who will be pitching their product to $NEXT_CORP but getting rejected because they didn't copy enough pages out of the Steve Jobs playbook. I weep for the future.
If it works and is maintainable then it's good code.
Using AWS IoT to provision an IAM role for home lab devices
As much as we celebrate success on HN, it's always worth remembering that it's a lot easier to lose in business. You can have year after year after year of wins, but one big loss will sink your company.

Most investors get into a company expecting a high probability of losing their money. They invest on the basis that they'll get it right and make a significant profit every few deals, not that they'll win every time. Coming to a deal to sell to Apple (in the face of losing everything by having Apple and FB eat your lunch) at the same valuation as 2 years prior is absolutely not a failure event. It's a huge win. Practically every investor would invest again.
Monumental Portrait of NASA Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Crops Up in Atlanta
It looks like anchoring - since he mentioned a $50M valuation, this number stuck in Steve's mind. In this way, negotiating upwards (by a factor of 3) is an uphill battle.
Assisted GPS refers solely to receiving the info the device needs to locate the satellites (i.e. the almanac) via another source, rather than directly from the satellites.

Receiving it from the satellites directly takes ages because the bandwidth of the communication channel is very low.

It has nothing to do with WiFi - the transport of the data can be anything (e.g. mobile network).

You are right that devices also use available wifi signals for location, but it's not AGPS.

What seems novel about this is the ability to learn more precise room-level locations.
Chrome and VS Code Extensions for Back End Developers
Degrowth is the only way forward if human civilization is to resemble anything we see today. We are far too behind in technology to make any dent on climate change without first reducing economic activity enough to be near 0 emissions, and even then all proposed solutions are extremely risky.

I have no opinion on whether this will require human population reduction (and I hope not) but definitely economic reduction is in our future. Whether that will be through catastrophic climate change + large-scale migration + war, or whether it will be through conscious effort to avoid such worse case scenarios is still up to us. For now, it seems we are chosing the former.
The counter perspective is that some amount of degrowth will happen eventually. And in the west, decades of austerity have led to oppressive working conditions to the point people aren’t having children. We’re already seeing this effect on the workforce; my hypothesis is that much of the worker shortage is due to older workers dying from Covid or simply retiring and there aren’t enough millennials and Gen Z to fill the jobs at the bottom of the hierarchy after everyone shifts up.

We cannot continue increasing productivity exponentially forever, and likely not for a whole lot longer. We’re already seeing the system collapsing in on itself — the supply chain woes we’re seeing right now are IMO the result of over-optimization over the last 3 decades. Infinite growth assumes there’s an ample workforce. When birth rates are below replacement levels, that’s not a good assumption.

We need to take a mindset of “what is the most productive way to optimize the limited and shrinking resources we have” rather than “how do we keep productivity growing forever”. Otherwise unrest will grow, and it’s a lot easier to smash a broken system than it is to maintain one.
In fact, companies like BlackRock et al specifically target areas where new construction is unlikely, because of NIMBYs and zoning. Why didn't investors buy up single-family homes in the 70s or 80s or 90s? Did they just decide to get greedier in 2021? No, it's precisely the high prices and lack of new construction that attracts them to these assets now, where historically it wasn't profitable.

This is from the SEC filing of one such investor (Invitation Homes) [0]:

> We have selected locations with strong demand drivers, high barriers to entry and high rent-growth potential.

And:

> We have selected markets that we believe will experience strong population, household formation and employment growth and exhibit constrained levels of new home construction.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687229/000119312517...
Corruption, inability of Federal government to move the needle in the right direction anymore, disinformation, environmental destruction, everything is going in the wrong direction.
For years there was nothing else as dependable as cdrecord for me -- a true gift from a gifted.
Sad news.
> the best jobs are in big cities.

Will that still be true in 5 years after work from home is even more commonplace?
Blue Origin: Toxic, dysfunctional ‘bro culture’, low morale and delays
I sometimes feel there's more non-tech + manager types here than there are tech types.
New species of sea slug can regenerate entire body – even after losing its head
One of the main reasons I started using Linux was to reliably burn CDs, and cdrecord was part of that.

The same hardware on Windows was very hard to dedicate enough power to the recording software in the 95/98 era.
Financial is definitely the top one. I often wonder if our child will ever be able to afford a home. Are we saving enough for college considering how fast tuition is going up. Between my wife and I we definitely have good incomes but as we look for homes even we struggle to find something in our range. This also leads me to wondering if we will have some sort of great unraveling at some point and how this would affect ours.

Another big one and I'm not sure how to put it but the general state of media. We see other family with their kids on various platforms and it just seems so much to keep up with and we're dealing with just Youtube at this point. Every few days we're getting told about something what was watched which brings up the inevitable discussion of everything that is online is not true and the follow on of "what are you watching".

I do constantly remind myself that my fears are most likely what many parents experience in some form or another and that this is just another generation. But many times I do wonder if we would have chosen to have kids today if we waited.
Yep, it's not fear of climate change, its fear of giving up on Tinder.
20M Queries per Hour – Story of a performance issue
But we know who he was, in the nerd-sphere.
They can pump water but it's noisy and when they don't move all the warm water they generate stay above them and they become easy to spot from the surface. Meanwhile a diesel-electric sub can just stay on batteries and is then close to entierely silent.
Baba Ijebu Past Result – Baba Ijebu Winning Numbers
As far as I’m aware no, but it would allow the holder to resign a new keypair and Person in the middle traffic, provided they’re able to intercept and modify traffic
Something to that. OTOH I can think of businesses that earned customer loyalty by better planning for availability, e.g. H-E-B supermarkets early in the pandemic. Transcending blame-oriented thinking can get rewarded.
Boarding an SWA flight at DAL now. It’s on time. Airport feels a little busy for a Monday morning, but no pandemonium, no huge lines anywhere. I’m in no way denying the issue, but this isn’t what I expected.

I also changed to this flight yesterday at 3 pm. Had to check several times over a few hours before I could find a suitable flight.

This flight is full.