skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a regular reader of Slashdot in the early 2000s. There were loads of discussions about politics, open source politics, flamewars, Microsoft EVIL, etc... Maybe not as much business and stock, perhaps because tech wasn't worth that much money yet, but it wasn't like all oooooh shiny tech news. IIRC 911 was one of the top commented posts, and US elections were probably up there as well.

These days Microsoft kinda mellowed out (at least with regards to its attitude to open source and the non-MS dev community), and new tech giants came into the fray, but at least to me, the mix of news topics don't really seem that much different.
> what Xi wants

Highest priority: to stay in power. That China is his (he get to be the dictator) for all of his life.

Possibly thereafter: Make China stronger, economically, military, land area.

Destroying independent press damages and weakens China, but that's ok because a strong China is only 2nd priority for Xi (and his closest men I suppose).
Are these ch554 family parts available in bulk? I don’t find them on mouser or Digikey for example.
If your RSUs vest when your company is still private, you’ll owe taxes but not be able to sell the shares for the money you’ll need to pay the taxes. That sounds way worse than options.
These are generic platitudes that are not very useful. Obviously you can’t consider whether some random guys data is interesting when you are capturing it in an encrypted state. You just capture everything just in case. And who knows, a way might suddenly appear to decrypt all of it and then you won’t be happy if you didn’t capture it.
Nowhere does the article define BPF.

Kids, always define all acronyms when first using them in technical writing, as in: Work toward the signing of Big Pill Foundation (BPF) programs has been finding its way into recent mainline kernel releases...
Crap, now I'm going to have to change the combination on my luggage.
I would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.
>a riot is the language of the unheard

The context of this quote is in a speech that is largely anti-riot. It's a warning to the government to not be complacent, but the woke left treats as if he was condoning rioters.
>This post, like many in this thread, misrepresents what free speech is. Free speech protects us from government retribution, nothing more

This may be the case de jure, but de facto, the spirit of the concept of free speech, and why it is important enough to enshrine in amendment, transcends the relationship between the government and the governed. A society where speech is effectively no longer free because of authoritarian-like control of discourse by non-governmental bodies requires the same protections that it would against the government to remain free from authoritarianism. Particularly when censorious or retributive measures by these ostensibly apolitical actors almost all tend to align with the machinations of one political party.

So the fact that social media platforms (and cloud hosts and credit card companies, etc) effectively collude to control the modern, digital public square to preferentially suppress the political views of about 50% of the country is just as much of a threat as government censorship, since the outcome is the same.
If their goal was good PR, I'd say they have failed quite dramatically. This kind of thing is surprising from MIT and I doubt it has a lot of support among the science/engineering types. It is common to see this behavior in social sciences nowadays, but less so in engineering.
Chrome. It's Chrome.
Nix(OS) purely with Flakes i.e. without channels is so f good that I'm not using it just as my daily driver on a PC and to package software and create development environments...

I also replaced Buildroot with it for building embedded images for SBCs. Lifechanging experience.
If you build something (non-nuclear) next to the shore, that doesn't increase my risk of dying from a tsunami. Also, if I choose to live in a certain location, the risk of a tsunami affecting that location doesn't change very much over time, whereas it's harder to predict whether a nuclear power station will be well managed and maintained decades into the future (and there's also uncertainty about where new nuclear power stations may be built).
One of SerenityOS goals I find as its most compelling USP is that it aims to be a "pure" OS free of any 3rd Party libs/binaries so that everything is in the project source tree and nothing needs to rely on or sync with any other upstream project, resulting in anyone can always fix & test any issue or add any feature immediately. A good highlight of this is in the Diablo port to SerenityOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzZ8R4gphE

Whether it's missing C++ APIs, unsupported lang features, missing SDL port impl, toggling kernel features - it all gets done in a 1hr sit down session to produce a shiny new Diablo port.

It was a characteristic Andreas experienced at Apple where all code and expertise for macOS was maintained in-house. This does mean everything inc. the OS, Kernel & all default Apps like the Browser needs to be developed from scratch for SerenityOS, but its Browser is making good progress as seems the SerenityOS project and development approach resonates with a lot of devs where it's been able to attract a vibrant community with a number of active contributors.

I see a number of benefits of this approach starting with SerenityOS has to be one of the best code-bases to study and learn about OS development where you can see how all components integrate together in a consistent code-base (as well as being able to follow it being developed in real-time with 100s of videos on youtube.com/andreaskling), it enables cohesive behavior and appearance with everything using the same singular library set, it's easier to implement OS spanning features like being able to capture full-system profiles in its profiler, the code-base is easier to improve and refactor with full static code analysis and no need to maintain legacy/frozen ABIs.
In most cases the right thing to do is to ignore the intolerant. They benefit from a divided society with lots of hate, the less hate the less power the intolerant instigators have. Sometimes you need to put them into prison to protect others, but as Popper said we should leave that option only as a last resort since ultimately intolerance breeds more intolerance so it isn't a good way to create a tolerant society.
Did you even read the second sentence of that page?
Reminds me of mobile jQuery web-UIs from 2012. Not quite right fake native look, quirky animations. At least fast, though.
Why does this sound like, MIT doesn't know how to use rhetoric? Isn't that the point of their job as administration, to be the interface between the public and the institution?
The semantics are great and necessary for Nix, but the syntax sucks. But syntax is the Afghanistan of programming languages, and all that.
yes, but with a completely separate set of features, options, defaults, revenue stream, incentives, etc.
Docker and Kubernetes are almost strictly a subset of the power within the Nix ecosystem.
Damnit. That was going to be the name of my project.
You ask for a rebuttal and you return with the laziest possible response. I'm starting to think you weren't really interested in hearing one.

It doesn't matter who the activists are. PR is not a game played between the extremist left and right wings, it's a game played with the center of the field. The center of the field is being increasingly filled with people from demographics that could very well be alienated by the professor's public views, and who could be reached, converted, and more importantly, inspired to work in the field, if handled right.

It doesn't matter if a politician gets a more-fervent pre-established base. What matters is the influx of new voters and plausible future scientists. It's hard to change the opinions of people set in their ways, but through making a good first impression you can alter the course of someone who otherwise wouldn't have been interested in the field. Making a bad impression could very well cause apathy or worse. It's absolutely critical to not mess it up, and MIT made the correct, meritocratic response.
I initially went to a friend's wedding and now I am staying longer to help start a business. I love Turkey so far :)
> I am also glad this is the top upvoted comment.

This story is only two hours old. You have to wait, at least until the U.S. west coast wakes up and enters the ring. Stories like this often swing wildly.

IIRC the top comment on the "GitHub, fuck your name change" article was reasonable from my point of view for a very long time, until eventually one telling us that using the word master somehow implies subconscious racism "won" (the saving grace is that most of its top replies vehemently disagreed with it).[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854
Reminds me of mobile jQuery web-UIs from 2012. Not quite right fake native look, quirky animations. At least fast, though.

Still not sure why you’d want it. For web view apps? I can guarantee you that I as a user would be very irritated.
You could, theoretically, yes. Ideally it should be short and low entropy and you're a bit relying on laws of big numbers and a small amount of trust.

"aes" is better than "aes is the best!" which is better than "aes123884586314745"
> Decentralisation, open collaborartion, opportunity for entirely new paradigms of entrepreneurship free from the constraints set by the rulling professional managerial class. Weren't those core hacker values?

So the solution is centralizing a currently decentralized network onto a blockchain controlled by a few major players?

Remember: honesty is also a core hacker value. Before saying that “open collaboration” hasn’t been happening for decades, you might want to consider how credible that unsupported claim sounds when your audience knows that you will personally profit every time someone buys into the system you’re pushing. Hacker culture has traditionally found that kind of sales pitch disdainful.
There's no mention of the word "backdoor" in the article.
A while back I made a quick shell script[1] to easily create a static Hugo blog hosted on S3 with a Cloudfront distribution. All you need to bring is a domain name. The AWS CLI is extremely capable.

[1] https://github.com/sa7mon/orchestra
If you're reading LWN over the last decade then BPF is implicitly understood at this point. Expanding the acronym is actually incredibly useless in this case.
No issues...get back to work...nothing to see hear, move along folks.
The Influence of Organizational Complexity on Software Quality (2008) [pdf]
Live and let live. Be nice. Above all, follow the golden rule.

Consider the situation where someone else is making their views about you known to your boss.
It is iconic that ivy league schools don't even claim to respect the notion of free speech.

When I was a student many many years ago, it was such an accepted truism, that it didn't even need to be mentioned.
I don't think so, because every single benchmark/computation would be scientifically useful, even if you run it multiple times.
Free speech is an ideal where you are judged by what you do and not by what thoughts you express. USA named one of its laws after that ideal, but the American law isn't what the ideal is. The ideal would be that the first amendment applied to everyone, so nobody could punish anyone for views they express. But that is in no way enforceable so it doesn't exist.

It means that a guy can say X. Then twitter mobs can say that guy X is an idiot and should get fired. Both of those are fine. But firing the guy because he said X is where the free speech line is crossed. As long as it all just remains speech it is fine.

> What do I do about {contrived example X}?

What does the government do? The government does a ton of stuff, like hire people, fire people, run a lot of organizations etc. If they can do it without violating the ideal of free speech then so can you.
"Storage is almost free so you can easily afford to wait just about forever."

Forever is a long time. The point made above is valid, which is that data devalues greatly over time.

Take in point the famous case of the Zodiac Killer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer. Recent work seems to suggest that his encrypted messages are close to being solved (decrypted). If in fact we do have a solution and we've learned his identity then this information is of much less value now than if it would have been available 50+ years ago. For starters, it seems the killer is now dead. Thus, being able to decrypt his messages after this lengh of time is of little practical use other than of academic interest and or offering some resolution to his victims' families.

The value of encrypted data held by the NSA and GCHQ in anticipation of finding a decryption key will rot in exactly the same way. In short, it's only worth keeping the data whilst it's potentially useful.
Art of the Cut: Werner Herzog’s High-Impact Documentary, “Fireball”
From the abstract:

In our case study, the organizational metrics when applied to data from Windows Vista were statistically significant predictors of failure-proneness. The precision and recall measures for identifying failure-prone
binaries, using the organizational metrics, was significantly higher than using traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage, dependencies, and pre-release bug measures that have been used to date to predict failure-proneness. Our results provide empirical
evidence that the organizational metrics are related to, and are effective predictors of failure-proneness.
Where is the mob though? The 2 tweets referenced by the article had a total of 138 likes between them.

Searching twitter for Dorian Abbot, I couldn't find much else.
With the naivety of someone who's never worked in _any_ large dev environment: I would guess for that to work (at this point, at least) every team would need either someone who knows Nix on the team, or at least on-demand access to someone floating?

I feel like ~proficiency with Nix has is a bit of a superpower as a developer. It's an incredible lever. But I have no delusions about how hard some "easy" things are, especially around language ecosystems with their own package managers. And learning it is a good bit of work.
Or we can assume that we have no responsibility because our internal experiences and our actions are not deterministic.

Which means there is no consistent self which can determine them.
Normally I’d agree, but in this case the meaning of the acronym tells you nothing (it stands for Berkeley Packet Filter. Make sense?) and BPF is easily googleable.

Also, it’s safe to assume that regular readers of LWN will know a little about BPF. Though obviously in this case it rose to the top of HN where it’s likely to be seen by a wider audience.
How does Google Authenticator work? (Part 2)
Nobody who's in the demographic of people who could be attending university in the next ten years is going to see some professor getting knocked from a position as anything noteworthy; there's no viral potential in somebody not doing a speech. But the speech, if it goes well, could have and has historically had great potential to inspire people to going into the field of climate science. Making the best impression is paramount, and you can't do so if the person heading the explicitly public relations-based charge is in a position to alienate a sizeable portion of the perspective candidates.

Meritocracy is paramount to science and engineering, and having someone with such great potential to alienate placed in a public relations role is the exact opposite of meritocratic. Abbot is well-respected in his field, and it could be meritocratic to offer him a reward for his work, but it wouldn't be to put him in a critical social position with the baggage he brings along.
"the company is driven to do bad things by its thirst for profit, not by a handful of mistaken ideas."

As true for most companies as it is for most people.

"If we place healthy and unhealthy desire on a spectrum, at one end we have the motivations that lead to some of the worst and most horrific things people do. But at the other end, desire expresses some of the most beautiful and noble aspects of human life." [https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/the-s...]
On that, please see my point in my second comment above about considering a realistic scenario.

Additionally, I believe that being an asshole is a negative consequence (of one's choices in life?) in and of itself. In a sense, I think it's the worse thing that can possibly happen to a person, to be an asshole.
Stop hiding and pretending you're the majority. You aren't. People know the truth.
Debate the argument, not the argumentator.
ive been using windows 11 in a vm with no internet with zero problems, i think you are mistaken
This is exactly what I meant with "there is one but it is slow and limited last time I tried", but it does seem that they made good progress (the last time I tried it was some months ago).

Time to try it again.
You can disable them. I for one love the concept and hope they just refine it a little.
Steven Spohn on Strides in Gaming Accessibility; Nintendo's Room for Improvement
Believe me, tons of people who deal with chronic health issues have seen a dozen doctors who couldn’t help a bit, wasted tons of money, and if a single comment has good anecdotes about an effective supplement or lifestyle change, you’re happy for every scrap you get. It’s like drinking non-sparkling water in the desert: could be San Pelegríno instead, but at least you’re not dying of thirst.
In the credits it mentions: https://marctenbosch.com/news/2017/06/4d-toys-a-box-of-four-...
Interesting read. Funny to see this on HN today while I’m reading up on Teleport anyway.
1. Horrible abuse from media and devs since before I was born.

2. No one ever has infinite time and I totally understand that there are devs that can currently just grab and use if they're employed.

3. I dunno and defer

4. That makes sense on a first glance but the efficiency of profit will prolly never be like that again?

5. new people are born every day

6. First time I ever experienced screen burn was this month.
Hate-Speech Laws Have Never Worked
What is this? A flying robot? No. To me, it looks more like a walking drone!
It's not my own history because I have no history, I use Chrome exclusively for things that are completely broken on Firefox, which is mostly just 1 or 2 google websites.
Please don’t look into IR light without proper protective glasses. Saves you from having to visit a ophthalmologist.
I wonder how raising the voting age might help solve this wave of online political radicalism.
Matrix doesn't even support custom emojis last I looked. There are some preloaded emoji packs and no clear way to add new ones in a server.

Server specific pepe emojis are absolutely essential.
In general, in the US, there doesn't need to be a "just cause." Someone has become a headache or embarrassment for us--for whatever unprotected reason--is sufficient.
> I setup an RPI in a field at my dad’s w/ 900MHz internet bridge and wanted 24/7 remote access but didn’t want to pay for and configure VPN.

Hah, same. Didn't really go that deep into the failed login attempts though: private key authentication + I have a static IP so iptables is sufficient. In addition I have a script that sends a text to my phone each time someone logs into any of my computers/servers(even if it's me) and if not, I have one or two kill switches at my disposal.
How do you use online whiteboards in you organization? (I've never tried)
Yeah, good points. Nix has been as-yet very pointedly a developer-centric ecosystem. And not just that, but developer-centric for people who favor functional programming in general.

There's some work especially in the last few years to make it all more approachable, but that's the background. Wait a couple more years and you will see more projects like Nix GUI here start to mature and then it will get very interesting beyond people who have backgrounds in, e.g. distributed computing and Haskell.
This word was featured prominently in the first sentence of former German foreign minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg's PhD thesis, which turned out to have been plagiarized.
Programming PIC32 Microcontroller with Rust
"Minted", not "printed". Most (>95%?) currency is now digital.

OC later writes:

> The lesson is to convert dollars to assets ASAP

Ya. Because runaway inflation. Any day now. Just like after the last bailout [2009].

"Inflation, consumer prices for the United States"
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

Not.
A high-heeled robot with a levitation spell.
ah there you go, in case you wanted to be happy but were struggling to find a reason to be so
Whoa, borderline unusable because of something Chrome has effectively been doing for a long time?

https://imgur.com/a/baXZDrN
The fact that instead of upgrading, you had to wipe and restart doesn't seem like a very compelling argument for NixOS.
Completely agree about the Richard Rhodes book being much better, and infinitely more interesting, than the 'lone genius trope that seems to feature heavily in the new von Neumann biog. Von Neumann may have been a 'genius', but he was a deeply flawed (and in many ways unsympathetic) character by all accounts.

I'm currently working on a book/photobook that’s being published in spring next year about his second wife, Klara Dán von Neumann. Klara’s a very interesting figure, but has remained very much in the shadow of her more famous husband. Despite having had little formal education, she taught herself how to programme, and wrote code for Monte Carlo simulations of various hydrogen bomb models on the ENIAC as a consultant for Los Alamos in the late 1940s and early ‘50s.

The book is also about other women programmers and the relationship between early computers, simulation tools like Monte Carlo, and the impact of hydrogen bomb testing in the Marshal Islands. For anyone interested in Klara’s story or the other inter-connected subjects, the book is currently available for pre-order via a Kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632375787/klara-and-the...
Affirmative action is explicitly NOT admitting people due to merit.
From the article you linked:

> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.

A reduction was also observed in people vaccinated with the jab made by US company Pfizer and German firm BioNTech. The risk of spreading the Delta infection soon after vaccination with that jab was 42%, but increased to 58% with time.

Wow, truly amazing protection. Better get started firing everyone who had their shots more than 3 months ago too.

> After they leave someone's system, they have no more capacity to cause harm (because they are no longer in the person's system).

Complete nonsense that flies in the face of even the manufacturers' own risk statements, not to mention their insistence on being granted continued blanket immunity against unforeseen damages -- why bother if, as you insist, they are ontologically impossible? Perhaps it's because the human body and immune system are not some computer program about which one can reason a priori as if you're just inserting a few lines of code.

Keep lecturing on "misinformation" though.