skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this feels like groundhog day here. I could swear I read this same headline a few months ago already...

Edit: ah, that was the "pingdemic" news cycle. Oh well...
What I've read is that reliable electricity is a much bigger problem, Taiwan's leaders are failing hard on this.
Literally everyone? Not even just power users, but literally everyone.

I don't understand your position.

Are you claiming that no web pages link to download files on FTP servers?

Or are you saying that the right thing to do in that situation is to refuse to download the file?

Because both of those positions are self-evidently wrong.
How do you make a living as an activist?
Create nuclear blasts that encode the information in short microbursts. Info will be available in the carbon record and in tree rings around the world .... profit?
They should really start selling CDs in 30×30cm cardboard cases. The best of both.

Or even, a 30×30cm print on thick canvas, with a download code on the back.
Well, that's not true. Death threats are. And my point was that, even though it may not be a crime, there's still someone who would be a victim.
Ya, this article did an okay job, I was talking more generally, though I still think there is a few places where he's making bets in that article.

> Saying we shouldn’t discuss low accuracy predictions at all seems odd

I don't think we're even talking low accuracy here, low accuracy still implies some accuracy, what I'm seeing here is random or potentially even worse than random prediction. The data points to things that are way to broad and general to reason about the cause.

I think knowing that is valuable, don't get me wrong, but my conclusion would be, don't bet on this, unless you like playing roulette.
The law says we can't ban or enjoin gab or 4chan over what they allow on their platform. It doesn't say platforms are obligated to host it.
...and there was much rejoicing!
Bookmarks is where interesting links go to die and resolve to dead sites when you try and visit one 5 years later.
What's a quota?
> That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.

I’m all for people being confident and ambitious, and getting paid what they deserve. But just say “I work hard and have a lot of value in my organization”. Don’t try to evoke sympathy for your family. Do a good job, get paid your worth, end of story.
The AutoplayStopper extension works well for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...
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Turn the website into historical curiosity.

For example:

Encode the text in QR codes. Use laser to etch the QR codes into thin and light metal plates. Wait until access to space becomes cheaper, then pay $ so that someone places those plates on the surface of the Moon.

Every 30, 50, 100 years some space tourist discovers those plates, reads them and posts them into internet as a curiosity. Their content is probably in Wikipedia, Wikimedia and web archives too.
Posting spoilers without a warning is extremely rude.
One thing to note is that I think a website is different than a software product that you install on your local machine (in terms of privacy).

When you access a website you access resources on a remote server, this means that is almost impossible to not leave any trace of you visiting that website (access logs, ISP logs, DNS logs, etc).

I do think there should be explicit consent for a locally installed software to send logs or analytics to an external server, but I don't think explicit consent must be given when the user is the one accessing the server.

Also, there is a big difference between technical logs (app crashes, 404 pages, resources that fail to load) and storing user-specific information or actions (exact location, products purchased, items viewed) most importantly when this information is used for marketing purposes, not for improving the user experience (by making the website faster/easier to use/more secure, etc.).
I'm surprised no one is saying this: Write a worm/virus that continues to propagate the data.
This sounds like a cool service. I wish I had more time and skills to make a profile.
I like this passage: In this and the next two chapters of this introduction we will present the key ideas of probabilistic programming using a carefully designed first-order probabilistic programming language (FOPPL). The FOPPL includes most common features of programming languages, such as conditional statements (e.g. if), primitive operations (e.g. +,-, etc.), and user-defined functions. The restrictions that we impose are that functions must be first order, which is to say that functions cannot accept other functions as arguments, and that they cannot be recursive. These two restrictions result in a language where models describe distributions over a finite number of random variables. In terms of expressivity, this places the FOPPL on even footing with many existing languages and libraries for automating inference in graphical models with finite graphs.

This gives a nice picture of what's happening. At the same time, does this mean that in the end, you're basically operating on a single distribution with only a few canned global transformations?
Wow, never heard of that website before! Now spending an hour every day, because it's so cool!
> Design is cheap, and outsourced

I think the concept we need here is “taste” - that ability to recognise something is great, and ideally the ability to know what will work and be able to make it happen.

Often you want to have a designer because you are paying them for their taste, and perhaps not so much for their technical skills. Perhaps you personally are the opposite, where you have the taste and ability to spec, and you just want to have someone do what you ask.

There is a stereotype of founders with no taste, who drive the production of hideous products.

A sensible founder that doesn’t have great taste needs a cofounder or employee that does have great taste, and the founder needs to give that person the authority to drive the aesthetic of the product. That role is usually given to a designer - and I suspect that you are misunderstanding what waprin (the person you are replying to) meant.
> The reason so much telecom infrastructure terminated in that region was due to proximity to the government center of gravity

Yeah, that’s what I said. You could have just upvoted the comment ;)
> Non-Americans, yes, but Americans pay taxes to use it.

Yes, but non-Americans also pay, by living in a world with America, in particular the US military, in it. So the cost is spread fairly evenly, I’d say.
Fun fact: my local vaccination centre used Nepal time clock as the “minutes” part for a clock that was 15 minutes slow. Why?

That clock showed you the vaccination time that was now safe to leave, having been observed for 15 minutes.
> On postgres at least, prepared statements only last for a session, so the benefits you state is dubious. Even for databases that support persistent prepared statements, the fact that they're part of the database makes it a nightmare to deploy. Every time you update a query, you'll need a mechanism to update the corresponding prepared statement.

sessions should live for the lifetime of the processes of the backend application server, so they would get updated every time you deploy. if you don't have a long living backend, then usually a long living proxy is used.

if you're setting up a new session on every request, it seems there's not really much point to worrying about performance!

anyway, every application is different and it's worth benchmarking. if i were building something today that used a sql backend, i would err on the side of using prepared statements as much as possible, both for security and performance reasons. maybe string queries could make sense, but they're both more expensive to run and more likely to result in a vulnerability, even if they were coded carefully at first implementation.
To be clear, I'm not arguing vinyl is a superior format, personally I strongly believe a humble (and typical) 16bit 44.1 KHz "consumer cd" type ready for delivery digital file is for 99.9% of listener use cases completely fine, and in any case far superior over any practical analog medium including vinyl. This is why I added "perceived" to the supposed technical advantages of vinyl. From the audio quality point of view, to me there is no point to using vinyl even if the chain is fully analog. It's just a funny thought to me that whatever claims of analog superiority (however fake or misguided they may be) are undone anyway by the digital part of the chain.
Nope just an online leftist who also works for startups :)
oh wow. Never tried this. Lots of very very weird things, like this (do not click): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB910KU0myQ
> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it worth the effort to give Linux a try.

System updates don't break things on Linux?

The only reason malware is not more popular is because Linux is less attractive platform to target due to low market share for desktop users, not because it's actually more secure. Same goes for macOS.
Vinyl is analog, this means it has infinity SNR, the audio store salesman assured me this before I purchased a $20,000+ pickup. You do not understand music, my hdmi cables cost $1,000, so as you can see, I understand music.
Everything except my passport was taken either from my person or from my house. My passport had to be handed over in order to get out of jail. Actually my passport was handed over to the prosecutor years before I was released. The judge wanted the prosecutor to have it because it normally is held by the court, but they had sold R. Kelly's passport when they had it. I ended up spending three extra weeks in custody because the passport needed to go to the jail and the prosecutor's office refused to walk it the 100ft from their office to the jail and made my family come and get it and walk it over themselves.
Not fun getting cancelled is it?

This is the reason why companies like Coinbase and Basecamp stay away from politics in the workplace and focus on being a mission-focused company.

Companies like Netflix are not on your side and are on the side of profit. They will remove anyone to save themselves from compromising the company.
I don't know the answer but I'll share a short real story.

We made (me and others) the ENS+IPFS website almonit.eth in 2019. You can access it with a web3 browser or a gateway (almonit.eth.limo).

For a long while I was pinning it in IPFS with my server, but in March this year the project stopped so I killed my daemon.

However(!) -- since the website is so popular, it actually still now, 7 months later, though there is no one pinning it really. It just lives on the fumes of its popularity.

I honestly wonder how long it will continue.
"Basic questions" sounds nice :-) more nice than "stupid questions" I think.

(Probably the questions aren't literally stupid, or the person maybe would never have been hired in the first place)
Agreed, the obsession pretty much true, but without really practical reason behind it.
Effective Altruism in a Nutshell
As The Offspring say, "the world needs wannabes" (Pretty Fly For A White Guy).

I want to be a successful and well compensated software engineer. Thus I try. Maybe one day I will succeed.
This headline should be appreciated.
Don't count on websites, count on real things. I know books, buildings, places, art, monuments, ornaments have all lasted hundreds of years
not possible with the way things are currently being run.

go bury a time capsule instead.
Re: [1] assuming it's possible, you'd still want to probably have 2 or 3 satellites for redundancy...
When exactly did I insult you? As far as I know I didn’t. Pointing out that you don’t have the experience to know what you are talking about is not an insult. It’s just a fact. You can choose to make all the mistakes yourself, or be smart and skip years of wasted time by listening to people who have already been there done that. Your choice.
> The Nazis and Imperial Japanese lost the war the minute they made strategic blunders like... pissing off USA + Soviets __simultaneously__.

This is an important point and why I believe Wolf warrior diplomacy runs contrary to China's national interests. It has caused countries who previously viewed China as merely a competitor to view it as a direct threat and to take appropriate action. You know you've gone too far when your actions have resulted in Korea and Japan aligning with each other about the need for closer ties and to align with the U.S. on regional security.
So this thread is a bit of a segue.
Even if u rent/buy your machines...my question was "which framework"

I definitely don't want to dispute your calculations.. However, I'm still puzzled what to use.
My local Sainsbury’s supermarket used to have a cardboard cutout police officer in the window as a crime prevention tool.

I seem to recall it being fairly common at the time. Clearly we humans are easily nudged with these visual cues.
Everything succumbs to entropic loss. May as well accept the fact and let things die with you the natural way.
> 74+ million did which worked out to 46.9%.

Not of the country it didn't.
No http, no ftp, sends browsing data to google by default (safe browsing), DoH trown down the throat. I'm tired. Pale moon is better.
It is a common suggestion but I think it would be a mistake to require people to post reasons for their downvotes. It would produce a ton of noise (because people would just make shit up) and dramatically increase meta-bickering about downvotes, which we already have too much of.

Edit: here's a partial list of past explanations about this, in case anyone is interested in seeing how it has come up over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/downvote-reasons
Things like Calendly make this a non issue.
NIH scrubs Gain of Function definition after expose
Apple allows other browsers in the App Store. I have Chrome on my iPad.

Or do you mean the underlying rendering engine?
> They could have cooperated and made a common compositor, but everyone had to build their own.

I don't think it's bad to have different projects with different goals.

One thing that's also with pointing out is wlroots which is a library that can be used by lots of different compositors to help share code, which kind of is "everyone coming together to make a common compositor".
That's an interesting use case! :)
You see the same stupid "analog is better" shit among photographers, even today.

Digital SLRs (even APS-frame-size ones) surpassed the best 35mm film money could buy (retail or even "professional") in the mid 2000's in terms of resolution at a given ISO, dynamic range, and even focus (a digital sensor can be flatter than a piece of film ever could be, thus ensuring consistent focus across the entire film plane.) I'm sure the boys at the CIA and whatnot had much fancier film for their cameras, but even they went digital a long, long time ago.

Even back in the mid 2000's retail-available sensors were starting to approach theoretical quantum limits in efficiency of turning photons into a state change on the sensor well they strike. These days some cameras are just stunning with what they can do with the tiniest amount of available light.

Digital is cheaper past a fairly low number of photos, has no per-shot expenditure, you can store tens of thousands of photos on something the size of a thumbnail, you get instant review of things like exposure and "did anyone blink", you can instantly back up the photo to multiple sources (most mid to high level digital SLRs have provisions for mirroring photos to a second card), you can do focus stacking and HDR and panoramas so easily many cameras can do it internally, you can instantly transmit the photos around the world as many cameras have wifi built-in and apps for smartphones that work with it, film and print development is slow, cumbersome, very difficult to do consistently and usually involves pretty toxic chemicals and fair amount of dedicated space.

And yet there are still assholes, fifteen years after film was eclipsed, who will stroke their goatee and tell you why their Pentax K1000 with insert film you've never heard of is "better." I can make the stuff coming out of my digital camera look just like the shit coming out of their camera, only in a fraction of the time, for less cost.
Please don't be an asshole in HN comments, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You've done this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28673020), and that's not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The person who helped me, despite being very polite, also clearly thought I was a bozo and kept explaining things like "the size of the box and the size of the computer aren't the same". Of course I knew that, but I didn't want to say something like "I design CPUs. I understand the difference between the size of the box the computer comes and in the size of the computer and I know it's very unusual to care about the size of the box, but I really want the one that comes in the smallest box". Just saying the last bit without establishing any kind of authority didn't convince the person

This is not "willingness to look stupid", it's obviously the will/need/want to look mysterious to stroke one's ego.

He could have chosen to behave like a good human and say why he wanted a smaller box so no one looks stupid (he to the the employee and the employee to him) and even give some new insights to the employee to help another customer with the same needs.
> Half of the country voted for this guy.

Significantly less than half of the significantly less than half of the the country that voted at all voted for this guy.

Or, an alternate phrasing, significantly less than half the slightly more than half of eligible voters that actually voted at all voted for this guy.

But, in any case, nowhere near half of the country voted for him.
I can appreciate this desire. Printing my website is basically out of the question at this point. I rely upon people thinking it worthwhile to keep a copy, and I make it fairly easy for people to do so. I distribute on a number of networks, I offer a number of snapshot archives (e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/*/philosopher.life), and I make it easy to download a complete copy of the entire site (https://philosopher.life/#Readme), as it's just a single html file. I do ask family and friends to see it as a book they will keep in their libraries, and I keep it very small, almost pure text (I don't want it to be any further a burden than it already is). Some store it on a thumbdrive or even keep it as an e-mail attachment. And, that it is nearly pure text is something that I think is exceptionally useful for this problem, as even if there aren't browsers that will be able to render it (that would be sad), there may be tools that can at least read the source (and, in a way, the site is meant to be somewhat readable from source, though it requires some motivation). I also enjoy the knowledge that there are random copies out there sitting on hard drives. I think it's gonna take some luck too.
Oh wow they obtained the hackernews.com domain?

There's another website named hacker news ( https://thehackernews.com ), more focused on the security realm. Every time I mention this site, my colleagues in security think I mean that other one. That one's nothing special though.

I think the new domain will help recognition of this site. I hope the old one will remain the primary though! Though I'm kinda happy if HN doesn't grow too huge. If it becomes the new reddit I won't want to be here anymore.
I'd say work on whatever you can be both passionate about and realistically successful at. I think many managers should be able to see the passion, your skill, and results that way. Just my thoughts on it.
> I'd say they can just distribute their changes to remedy the situation and issue is resolved, or they can do the litigating you are asking for, and then be mindful that as a pariah organization they are the canary in the coalmine for FOSS license lawfare.

I'm not asking for litigation, nor has the SFC threatened any. They've told TRUTH to comply with the licensing terms of the software that they're using, and they've given them a month to demonstrate compliance before taking any further steps. They can do precisely what you just said ("distribute their changes"), and everybody would walk away satisfied.
Yeah, that was a weird leap of logic. How dare that guy show up at his friends house, and tell Keira's character "sorry things got weird there, I'm in love with you but I'm moving on with my life"
> Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't make any sense at all.

I am struggling to find examples where that might be true. Can you give an example?
Well done! I love this idea! Really look forward to giving it a try in a react app.
Nobody else is going to ask the parent what was that?
Yep I appreciated the “geek” that hacked that up. I hope there was some humour behind it. The “normal” thing would be to get a wall clock and wind it back 15!
Maybe also start a traditoin in your family to have many children and to memorise the website up to a single character, like a sacred text.

Some texts survived long time in oral form, I heard.

Forming the sources as a verse could help here.

Mostly oriented to texts, altough images can be memorized in their hex encoding, for example.
I wonder as we (slowly) march towards "greener" laws and more climate-conscious ways, if some of this will tie into that?

I feel like you could get good traction on right-to-repair if it was framed around waste reduction and a cleaner future.

Which means we might not get there for a generation still, but these things feel related to me.
Cancelling is an online-driven social phenomenon that has existed for- a decade, maybe? Rather odd to view all of human civilizational progress through the lens of one overexposed, extremely online trend.
This is not the point of the article, and maybe I'm just tired, but I'm confused; multiple paragraphs mention increased stack size with inlining:

> When a C compiler decides to not inline, there is likely a good reason. For example, inlining would reuse a register which require to save/restore the register value on the stack and so increase the stack memory usage or be less efficient.

> On the other side, the Py_NO_INLINE macro can be used to disable inlining. It is useful to reduce the stack memory usage.

This seems completely backwards, what are they talking about?
without context would it's pretty meaningless imho
hi dang, i see you’re replying to some of these comments. would hn ever consider releasing vague stats about viewership, submissions, etc.

i, and i think others, would be super interested to see how the community has grown over the last.. however many years i’ve been here!
Good grief - and I thought Java had bad boilerplate. I feel that if these are the features you require of a language, maybe Rust is not what you should be using? There is a reason the language keeps it simple and writing stuff like this, though convenient once or twice (when coding), goes against why I'd pick Rust (hard to beat performance).