skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be a balance between readability, findability and integrity.

I would not bet on the btc blockchain for it. Its relativly complex to use, its very niche, it is already 360gb big and there might be a time were it either disappears or gets optimized and your information will be gone.
I don't think it's necessary to stay with the same company a very long time to develop "deep knowledge". on my last team there were two engineers with about 20 years of experience. one had spent all of it at that company, and the other had worked at five different companies in the same space. the former knew more about the company's code and was an invaluable resource for "why are things the way they are?" type questions. but the latter often proposed more novel (to us) solutions, drawing on his experience from previous roles. both were extremely effective engineers.
Passion for technology and compassion for people are probably Pat's greatest strengths as a leader, but I'm not convinced that those alone are enough to shift an enterprise towards success when it's facing an existential crisis.
If this century sees large-scale DDoS attacks, information breaches, power plant / pipeline shutdowns, etc., I strongly prefer that to the trench warfare and carpet/nuclear bombings of the last century.

Hacking wars are lukewarm. A hot war seems like it will involve a lot more drone strikes -- which might not be significantly better than the last century, but terrifying nonetheless. And until it comes home, I don't think Americans will fully appreciate how our government (hence, our nation) is perceived a terrorist organization abroad.
Sorry, yes, RDUs :)
You might be better off with some kind of ceramic, to ensure that the storage medium isn't more valuable as a recycled material than for its information content. Ancient Sumerians had the right idea.
You did find it:

M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868296

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/92286-m-disc-is-a-dvd-...
whataboutism at play.

Twitter doesn't have a real-name policy.
One of my friends stays at his current company where he has stayed for years, despite only getting low single-digit pay increases each year.
Ctrl+f "IPFS". Thank you. Considering the increasing capabilities of our tech, even if the internet, blockchain, or IPFS aren't live 500 years from now, they could easily be preserved in some form for posterity, just like an insect in amber.
Apples PC market share is pretty minuscule.
So did the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa back when Nixon debased the gold standard and unions needed a workaround for the Federal monopoly on violence. (see "I Heard You Paint Houses")
Because zero thought went into the account signup form. It just asked for whatever the coder who wrote it thought it needed. Shit, it might even have been me who wrote the signup. I don't remember. This was back in 1999. Now I try to ask for the absolute bare minimum of information to onboard someone. No information at all if I can! Times have changed. Damn, I don't even identify as a binary gender myself anymore and hate forms that ask me.
This trick does not work anymore since I visited netflix :(
Yes, I am intentionally ignoring your slander. There's not even measured statistical analysis here let alone causality, and even then, such analyses are often used to try to rationalize bigotry on the basis of some artifact. This is merely boring slander desperately trying to justify prejudice. Tiresome at best, but moreover used to rationalize truly horrific reality like genocide. Totally grotesque. "Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Etch it onto a metal disk like this[1] inside a capsule that can survive reentry, pay to have it shot into space with a slowly decaying orbit. Then perhaps arrange to have the reentry hit a pond near your ancestral home in about 500 years time.

1. https://longnow.org/artifacts/rosetta-wearable-disk
I love the spirit, but is there any *successful* precedence?

Sure, everything is now open-sourced, but setting up the kind of infrastructure that is necessitated to keep the thing up and running seems non-trivial.
Yep, REvils website is down :(

dnpscnbaix6nkwvystl3yxglz7nteicqrou3t75tpcc5532cztc46qyd.onion

"nginx error!"

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There's a lot of evidence REvils was sent from the future to stop a coming cyber-war that wipes out much of humanity due to systematic unpatched issues across the world that multiple nation states collected and used at once wiping out supply chains killing billions.

It all fits, imagine if REvil's "Colonial Pipeline that led to widespread gas shortages" was in the hands of North Koreans or from a solar storm.

Which does beg the question who really is currently attacking REvil. It stands to reason future nation states also might send people back in time to keep things unpatched and they would already know Biden has Alzheimers.
Source circa 2015: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dock-workers-u...

"In fact, according to the union's own material, the average dockworker makes $147,000 in annual salary and pulls in $35,000 a year in employer-paid health care benefits. Pensions pay $80,000 a year."

Also,

"The ILWU is demanding 3% annual raises over five years well beyond the average American's personal income — which the shippers have agreed to — and some changes in the arbitration system."

I can't find 2021 data but if they did indeed get their 3% raises then the average total compensation by now is 182*(1.03^5)=211k.

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Another source, also circa 2015: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dockworker-pay-201503...

"About half of West Coast union longshoremen make more than $100,000 a year — some much more, according to shipping industry data. More than half of foremen and managers earn more than $200,000 each year. A few bosses make more than $300,000. All get free healthcare."
Does anyone have an update of the "Digital Vellum" Vint Cerf was working on.

I think it could be relevant here.
While I can imagine that making Nvidia cooperate with another GPU is difficult under Linux, it is not just "plug a second monitor".

It is running two GPUs, one of them Nvidia. That's an entirely different league, than plugging a second monitor into a Linux system.
> Why don't you have enough trucks?

This is addressed later in the thread. Normally, many trucks haul containers to their destination, unload the container, then return it empty to the port, pull it off the trailer, and haul away another loaded container. But the port is too full to accept empty containers, and zoning laws mean truck companies have already maxed out their own container holding areas. This leaves enormous numbers of truck trailers sitting idle, waiting for somewhere to put the empties they're holding before they can pick up more goods to haul.
Last time I used NHS, it was free. Is everything free in the UK?
Thank you! We're releasing a fix for this right now.
> "There is one basic color tint that is extremely difficult to get"

Any idea of the possible tint which is being referred to? Wondering if it's a mineral source requiring mining, heavy-metal processing, or what?
That’s because right now, it’s significantly more expensive. But given more equal pricing, most people would of course buy USA-made goods.

Right now the system is destroyed so of course made in the USA is going to be significantly more expensive until the system can be resurrected.

But I assure you a supply chain disruption will be significantly more costly to society and not just financially.
The higher the org the lower the chances they would accept such an arrangement. Some allow remote work but expect you to be an employee which becomes impossible if you are from a country where they have no base so they can't legally hire you.
I just configure the New Tab to go directly here, Ctrl+N for News
One past thread:

The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209719 - Sept 2017 (29 comments)

Related:

'Bartleby the Scrivener' – Herman Melville (1853) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28671613 - Sept 2021 (3 comments)

The Man Who Edited Melville (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24736842 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)

Herman Melville at Home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20547911 - July 2019 (2 comments)

What Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983571 - May 2018 (16 comments)

Why Does Moby-Dick Sometimes Have a Hyphen? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12939407 - Nov 2016 (19 comments)

I Used Google BigQuery to Map the Locations Mentioned in Herman Melville's Books - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573730 - April 2016 (2 comments)

White whale in the big smoke: How the geography of London inspired Moby-Dick - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728471 - Dec 2015 (2 comments)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: An interactive, annotated story of Wall Street - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449293 - Oct 2015 (9 comments)

Before Moby-Dick, There Was “Two Years Before the Mast” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877987 - July 2015 (12 comments)
It's because the UX for them is awful and takes up valuable real-estate unless you put them in a folder that's nowhere near your toolbar in which case you will never see them again, especially after a Mozilla update corrupts them, leaving you without the URLs you so carefully curated and with a vague sense of regret that you trusted one of the most important things (your memory) to a company that gets the largest majority of its revenue from search engine deals and the other tenth for a half-thought out proprietary bookmarks replacement they force you to waste hard drive space with.
That's why we print the book copies of the book. Once people stop caring to fix the machine, eventually they can still find the books.
Good argument in general, but doesn't apply here. There's no keep rate, in the same way there's no "keep rate" when you buy a hamburger. It's just a fee to serve adds, and this article says that the fee is 2-4x with Google. There's nothing to "keep" in this sense.
Never underestimate the power of basic human needs over layers of abstractions.

Software's intangibility will be its downfall when our modern society eventually collapses.
Do you mean locked-down software?

Do you have examples of hardware that the next generation might not be able to boot 30 years later?

I'm curious and ignorant :D
Muscle memory is big with this one. But Chrome now has an icon right at the start page to go here.
There was a New York Times series about rare diseases. It might have been called "Diagnosis". Maybe reaching out to them would be an option. It seems odd that a cancer center can't tell you what type of cancer it is other than malignant cystic cancer, even when consulting with other specialists/ centers.

If you have more info about it, maybe try searching PubMed for articles/cases that match similar descriptions and lab values.

If you can't get any answers then look around for various regimens and suppliments that could help with general cancers, but verify them by finding studies supporting them. Check with the doctors to make sure it won't make things worse or interfere with other treatment.
If you want it to stand the test of time, use other methods that have provably stood the test of time, like a book. You know that will work. You do not know anything currently digital will work. If this is important to you, I wouldn't mess around with "high tech" solutions. It's a complete gamble and relies on too many different components to work, whereas a book you just have to know how to read. The world can be in another dark age and it will still work. At least while there is light out.
What does this have to do with violating AGPL?
Even if you did, what would prevent all the workers from joining the exact same ILWU union you were fleeing in the first place?
"- OpenAI runs Pytorch on Kubernetes with handrolled MPI+SSH"

Is that published somewhere?
Everyone understands privacy at a superficial level, but developers (sure... and lawyers) especially need to understand it at a deeper level and the why behind it. Shifting privacy left is huge for moving the needle towards building systems that actually respect privacy. It'll also help with improving observability in PrivacyOps.
Senior Developer/Analyst (PHP/Vue)
The answers are very interesting!
You all are Cathedral Thinkers.
> 1) Arc GPUs. Looks like they will be seriously disruptive.

I'm curious to read more about this. Everything I've seen about Intel's new discrete GPUs makes it sound like it'll be more of the same when compared to AMD and nvidia, and potentially not even as powerful.
Would the world respond extremely negatively to a Taiwan scenario? Or much more negatively than a Hong Kong scenario? (Which literally just happened, and not much seems to have changed as far as I can tell)

We know the USA would respond militarily. But how many other countries would be pulled into the conflict? Germany still trades with Russia despite the Crimea annexation, right? Clearly USA / UK / Australia are making plans but is there anyone else who'd join in the fight?

Like, realistically, what would happen under a Taiwan scenario? Do you think McDonalds and Apple will just leave China? Will Tencent games be banned in the USA? Will USA really make League of Legends and Genshin Impact illegal during the war?

Or, would the world continue as usual? Would US Video Gamers continue playing their games, McDonalds continue China operations / Apple continue making their iPhones while the whole military stuff happens? Frankly, I see this as the more realistic scenario.

We can already see how video gamers reacted to Hong Kong: with a bunch of companies capitulating to Chinese demands.
It could be perpetually licensed. Sure.

But there's a business case to be made for patching out DRM very early in the product lifetime. The longer a product is protected by DRM, the more likely the DRM is to be cracked, and that this crack could be applied to a new releases. It doesn't make sense to put a new game release at risk just to keep protecting some five year old game from piracy.

If you're selling DRM, you want to disincentive publishers for using your protection for too long. And if the DRM is built in-house, you want it to keep functioning for a number of titles to amortize the cost of development.
You can work for Disney's DMED, which is a very large IT/software organization. You would have to become a contractor through one of the agencies they work with - "Happiest Minds" or "Globant" were the two I saw used when I was there.

My current employer, Rigetti Computing, has I think 100-200 employees and has a few that are working from the UK, Australia, or Canada. But I think they would have to be especially interested in you to let you work from abroad as a new hire.
Yes, I think perpetual trusts are illegal. Whether 500 years counts as perpetual, I don't know.
Could be Titanium Dioxide that is involved in whitening. Have seen enough from my view that this would be my guess. And what could be more basic than that. :)
If that's the case it is blatantly unfair. I don't think it is any longer though.
You can try Reddit r/AskDocs/. Usually actual (confirmed) physicians respond. It's worth a shot.
when you search for a company, and google plots the company/thing on a map, it often has a histogram showing how busy the place is over time.
Compromised NPM packages of ua-parser-JS (0.7.29, 0.8.0, 1.0.0)
If there is something I learned from politicians is that you should never respond to what was asked, but to what you wish was asked instead.

If you know what you are talking about you can still respond to "How would you prioritize technical debt" and offer way more than a direct technical answer. You have to take opportunity to "enhance" every question you are asked with information that portray you in a good light and directs the conversation towards where you think you can generate most value.
This its also dependendant of the country/region which ones perform better.
Surely someone is archiving apks, just for the fun of it? I can imagine that someday we'd have a webarchive that embeds a simulation of the device where you can run that apk in your browser. Of course, if it's just an application shell dependent on a running backend, then yes it's not really an application so much as an "application shell" at this point, and you ALSO need to be able to move around the data corpus to systematically capture all reachable application state. This is a hard problem in general, but pretty easy I think when applied to specific cases.
Not with a 3DOF headset
Eastward just came out and has amazing SDV like graphics, I've not played it yet though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/977880/Eastward/
I would say I'm relatively pragmatic. My main use case would involve DifferentialEquations.jl modelling either certain quantum processes or model equations of biological neurons. I have a rough idea how that would work and what kind of abstractions I would like to implement. I mainly have not been able to get a good developer experience with it, so far. Things tend to either work or fail rather drastically (spectacular long back traces). But it clearly is very useful, so I will probably bite the bullet and try to use it again.
Encode the personal page into a best-selling novel that becomes a classic across the world. The rest of civilization will deal with the redundant storage for you.

If it's small enough, encode it into a catchy children's song or rhyme.
The claims I was responding to were

>not super effective for other reasons (QI; courts - an agent of the state - being overly deferential and siding with the state; etc.).

and

>The problem with expecting accountability is that system will fail you at the next step: the courts. You have to survive that process too, where the judge and prosecutor will believe the cop nine times out of ten. As a sitting federal judge once said, “truth and justice have no relevance; it is a court of law.” The law will take the side of the system.

The claims here are that cop malfeasance against US citizens will go unpunished because courts will pardon the cop under any circumstances, specifically because the "judge and prosecutor" will pardon the cop.

However, judges/prosecutors don't actually find citizens guilty - juries do. Furthermore, the defendant has a direct stake in how the jury is selected via their own attorney during voir dire. Therefore, the claim that judges/prosecutors will specifically pardon the cop doesn't hold water.

Furthermore, the claim that intimidation are coercion are viable strategies for the cops is bold in the face of bodycams during arrest and security cams during interrogation. Those two combined eliminate 99% of a cop's ability to harass or harm a suspect and not face repercussions.

So, the individual made two claims that don't stand up to scrutiny and did not offer an alternative that would solve their claims.

As for your claims of a preponderance of evidence, I've seen only anecdotal evidence over the past few years. The most evidence I've seen of system violence are the BLM riots and the crime statistics showing that African-Americans commit 52% of murders in the US[0].

[0]https://www.informernet.com/opinion/how-to-respond-to-africa...
“I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful software.”
> Why is this not a major talking point?

because we live in a globalised world. your phone would cost 10x what it costs now if you moved production to the US. that would mean lots of people without phones, so a much smaller economy. no one wants that.

> Americans have been polled

ah, polls :)

> across the aisle people prefer made in the USA

as a European, i have always associated American made with low quality, cheaply made, bad taste and expensive. American products are to be avoided at all times. this has been the case for decades and decades, before the move to China. at least now even American companies realised this and moved production to far superior Chinese manufacturers.
Internet Explorer did not quite “hold the web back for everyone,” at least not initially: in fact it was full of proprietary features that were non-existent or incompatible with the rest of the world which caused problems.
It took many years before dating platforms became viable. I remember trying some dating websites early on, and there just weren't any people in my area at all. It was fun looking at the profiles, but it wasn't actually useful for meeting people yet.

I would assume that a cofounder matching platform with 16000 profiles has a similar problem, it's just too few people to bother looking for local matches.
That’s a good question. In my experience: most companies want to hire full time resources most of the time. Some tasks really are not compatible with part time work, e.g. anything with site-ops responsibilities.

Find a client that wants you bad enough to forgo their preference for full time, and make sure the work you’re doing allows for it.

It helps to be more senior and have a longer proven track record.

In one case I had a 6 month contract building internal tools for a large company. It was a very unpleasant job, but they really liked me. After the 6 months were up, they offered me a FTE position. I politely said I had other goals I wanted to pursue. I had no intention of continuing with them, but they were persistent and we were able to negotiate to two days a week.

In two other cases startups approached me and I was honest and said I liked them but I didn’t have 40 hours a week to devote to their project, and they were cool with part time.

Earlier in my career I also worked freelance gigs with variable hours, little projects or on-call. That wasn’t so great, haggling with clients, more overhead (billing, unpaid travel, etc.) —- a lot less money and more headaches.
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Up until the kaboom, microprocessors have become a commodity. Granted one with huge startup costs, but a commodity nonetheless. (There's a reason why Intel used to be top forbes company, and why today it is still stuck in the $100-200B market cap range compared to $2T amazons & apples.)
> Why would you try to build a proprietary application when one already exists if your stated goal is free expression?

If I could hazard a guess... because that goal is a smoke screen to hide the real intent, exploiting the people on that network. (See any large "free" social network for examples.)
That would be true if it was possible for any company to have perfect processes, but that’s not the case. Companies are run by real people with real flaws and a perfect system doesn’t exist.
Unfortunately, that doesn't fix the problem.
Please don't take HN into ideological or (especially not) nationalistic flamewar.

Usually when people post like this, they have some personal connection to the country they're flaming. That's a different context than outright prejudice but it still doesn't make it ok to post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then I must be the worst person in the world because I still Google HN to get here.
Right, that would be the "copy stamped at a later date which includes all the patches" version I was mentioning that you'd want to pick up if you own a new release copy.
Humanity managed to create an abundance but thus far has failed to distribute the abundance. This is not surprising and I'm very hopeful we will solve the distribution problem over the next two hundreds years. In the last hundred years we have made enormous progress to solving the distribution problem and expanding the abundance.

Solving the abundance problem was the high priority as distribution was purely theoretical concern until we achieved abundance. It took us about 200,000 years develop the ideas, technology and to put the infrastructure in place to achieve post-scarcity for food and water.
I use the bookmark bar in Chrome but edit all bookmarks to remove their title… so I have a bar full of favicons, which is enough to have one click access to most sites I use.
Nothing. It's whataboutism.