skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a multi-national company that frequently flew people to the United States HQ offices for short visits or sometimes longer stays. For many of the younger developers this was their first direct exposure to the United States.

Interestingly, most of them had built up a lot of preconceived notions about the United States from social media sites like Reddit. Many of those sites project an extremely pessimistic and negative view of the United States, either directly by complaining with hyperbole ("third world country with cell phones") or by simply emphasizing every negative story about the United States.

I have to admit, one of my guilty pleasures was watching people slowly realize that the United States, while not without problems, is actually not a bad place. This comment hit home:

> I know that the US has some of the highest obesity rates in the world, but from what I’ve personally seen, it doesn’t seem that way at all. The people that I see day to day are generally extremely fit. (Or is it just students?)

We talk a lot about America's obesity problems online. So much so that people assume America must be one of the most obese countries by a wide margin. However, when you look at the numbers the United States is only a couple percentage points worse than countries like New Zealand or Canada which have no such reputation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r... ).

Don't get me wrong: Obesity is still a problem and the United States is incrementally worse than most countries. However, the way it's talked about leads a lot of people to believe that the United States is some sort of extreme outlier and nearly everyone they encounter will be obese.

Obesity is just one example of how the internet, especially sites like Reddit, tend to exaggerate the problems of the United States while downplaying the positives of the country. It was always kind of fun to watch visitors and transplants slowly realize that the country, while far from perfect, was actually nowhere near as bad as the dystopia they read about on sites like Reddit.
This sounds like an absolute ton of fun. There is no desert around me and this would never fly in any forest near here (Southern Ontario) but some years Lake Ontario freezes over completely and I’ve always thought it would be amazing to do this in the middle of the frozen lake.
> If you run the clock back 50 years+ full rights were denied to many minorities.

Are you sure on your math?

That is 1971 btw.
The web search should ideally show the relevant section of the docs as the first hit.

Actually, it often does for me.

Good search is hard, and adding search to your docs, especially with some fuzziness like synonyms and common typos, is not trivial, unless you defer it to web search.
@therealmetacompany exceeds Twitter's 15-character limit.
Alas, an anecdote is not data. But if it were — as a counterbalance — I had exposure to cats, dogs, and other farm animals and am not allergic to anything to my knowledge.
I'm having fun, resigned my last client and am surfing, cycling (road bike & Dirt) 20-40 miles daily minimum, want to see if I can do daily century rides.

Alongside Language school, in the morning Japanese, in the evening Indonesian. The Japanese is more of a fun goal now, as I'm JLPT N3 and want to see if I can get N1.

I should be focusing on Mandarin, but, eh maybe next year. It's really fun to read news in local languages then rely on translations.
> none of this was especially cheap compared to free as in beer/speech today

Of course, but I was really pleased to get my boss to shell out for quite a good (at the time) C compiler!

A couple (or something like that, maybe three) of years later, when I was working at the BBC, I got another boss to buy the Zortech C++ compiler, which really launched my career as a C++ programmer, although I had tried to use the E edition of C++ earlier, but found the installation on our Unix box too difficult.
wow its beautiful!

doesnt need to be novel imo. hope you really do go the long term lease route to help shelter folks. do yall have any newsletter? would love to follow
They really won't. 2G is going very strong, and 3G is maybe getting shut down in next couple of years. 4G will be the primary access technology for at least 10 years and probably longer.

If this is such a big security problem then surely 10+ years is an unacceptable amount of time to have potentially compromised equipment in the supply chain?
great, let's keep in touch!
I've been running Arch Linux for about a decade to avoid exactly that. I mean, I put up with some crap... GPU drivers, Alsa to Pulse to Pipewire, terrible or non existent Slack, Teams, Zoom apps, bizarre overlapping partially redundant X configuration,
Xorg to Wayland, building emacs from SRC to get it to load faster... Endless crap really.

But man, it only loads services I know about and it's sooooo fast. And best of all it shuts up when I stop working :)
> There’s no kiraana stores (i.e. small local stores) that sell grains and rice and vegetables here, it seems. (Or small stationery shops, or shops of any kind.) Almost all shopping has to be done at a big chain retail store like Lidl or Megamart or Target or any of the other big-names.

I wonder where in the D.C. area he is. Many areas around D.C. have an enormous variety of places to go grocery shopping, and there are grocery stores of varying sizes (from tiny to huge) from all sorts of countries - Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, Ethiopian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Iranian, etc. There's also an enormous number of farmers markets, as well as a decent number of boutique grocery stores (though those tend to be on the pricier side of things), independent grocery stores, delis, and seafood markets.
Interesting. Will surely download to at least skim.

My initial skim reading of this article indicates the "UPA style" is what the internet fandom informally calls the "CalArts style" (or at least a precursor to it), is this right?
This also means you don't have to use PostgreSQL, you are using its wire protocol. So ideally, this could work with Cockroach, Yugabyte, Cloud Spanner, Crate DB, immudb and tens of others that I am missing.
World Series: The sports data pioneer who spotted baseball's big fix of 1919
This is the correct link https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/us/terminology-language-p...
I mean it's published by the Cato Institute. Regulatory gatekeeping is the root cause of all problems.

Joking aside, I didn't see the prohibition on branching specifically called out, other than to say that Scotland (which did allow it) did not see banknote discounting, and that ultimately it was the 1864 National Banking act which finally ended the practice.

The most common thread it seemed to be were that banks held confederate bonds and caused massive losses after the war broke out.

Ironically I think the author makes an excellent comparison between Wilcat banking to Stablecoin. I've replaced a few key words like "notes" and "loans" and "currency" with coin and stablecoin:

> Nor did they make any loans, their profits having instead consisted entirely of fees drawn on the transactions from their stablecoins. "People needed the coins they produced at a time when money was scarce," Du says. "So the community acquiesced in their conduct."

> But, the debate continues, if the public "acquiesced," in what sense can the stablecoins be said to have bamboozled it? Would having no stablecoin at all to trade with really have been better than having to rely on suspended ones?
50 TB drives are on the roadmap for the 2025-30 time frame:

* https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/09/01/wd-improves-disk-capac...
It's actually easier than you might think: Go has most of the capabilities of C, including calling C APIs like malloc/free etc and casting them to Go data types. Of course (like C) writing code in that way won't be particularly convenient or memory safe.
Yes that's right. That's why the above parent comment looked for an app that enables parents to make sure the content and software is safe for their kids. It's also why the app store is problematic since it makes it more difficult for adults to choose software and content appropriate for their children. You two have a lot in common.
My comment was not about the driver. It was about our Gov's response to the OP's efforts to report this, or more accurately, our Gov's complete lack of one.

I'll try real hard to be clearer for you in the future.
It took me years to get used to cars stopping for pedestrians to cross. I don't think I'm completely there yet even after couple decades.
(mostly) picking at the problem of rewriting bare invocations of external commands in shell scripts to use abspaths (plus some related yak-shaves). Primary motive is making shell easier to package in the Nix ecosystem, though the behavior isn't Nix-specific. https://github.com/abathur/resholve

Currently... chasing a luxuriously-maned yak named "granular documentation single-sourcing", though...
No. The 5G part does not make any sense, but I think politicians think that 5G is some all seeing dancing future (it isn't, it's a marginal improvement over 4G) that must be secured at all costs.
Have you used it? Because its as clear as any system that I've ever used with a clear statement on each activation.

Most other systems are far less clear, IMO.
> Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

As long there is scarcity of resources, there will be wars/conflicts and humans will be collective species, even if we don't have scarcity of resources, some humans will invent a few, and even if humans will not invent one, it is debatable since I don't know of any evidence where humans can survive individually. This is without mentioning social classes over multiple generations.
If you use a sufficiently smart JS optimizer, it will optimize the object creation and destructuring away.

For example, Google Closure Compiler can take

function hello({name}) {
alert('Hello, ' + name);
}

hello({name: 'World'});

and compile it into

alert("Hello, World");
location: DC metro area Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: link analysis tools, remote sensing, data visualization and GIS (tableau, SIG-IMINT analysis) Résumé/CV: Not a software dev, but I do have a track record of managing the integration of the tools, people and processes necessary for the deployment of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of complex hardware/sensor based engineering projects. Extra interested in AMZN positions at the new Arlington HQ if anyone has any info. Knowledge/Skills:
- Navigated and managed the US government contracting process from both sides of the table as both a federal manager and a government contractor - Experience and insight into working with the US National Lab complex - Managed globally distributed teams that bring multi million-dollar projects in on time and on budget with a high degree of quality - Negotiated agreements and contracts with dozens of foreign governments - Built diverse, deeply integrated teams, with diverse skill sets (security, intelligence, science, logistics, engineering, IT, and communications) to design solutions to complex problems in very challenging environments - Subject matter expert on multiple National Security Council working groups, consultant to INTERPOL, office interlocutor with IC, DOJ, and DOD elements - Familiar with both executive branch/department level/OMB and congressional authorization and appropriation process

What I do now:

- Program Director working in a National Security field holding an active Q/TS/SCI w/ poly - Manage a ~$180M+ annual budget w/ oversight of 150+ FTEs organized into distributed teams working on complex projects in 30+ foreign countries across the globe - GS15 equivalent with both a policy and program implementation background at senior USG leadership level

Previous work includes: physical and political risk assessments for clients operating in potentially dangerous environments, sub-contractor as a national security subject matter expert for multiple US National Laboratories, sub-contractor for Palantir sub (back when they used to use other companies for forward deployed), research analyst at a policy institute on defense and intelligence topics, other interesting stuff

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This pattern is basically like the functional programming pattern of converting functions to unary ones that accept algebraic data types. I think the benefits go beyond just named argument readability. You can easily see and construct an argument object that conforms to what the function needs, especially if you add Typescript in to statically check it.
> World Bank estimates 31 percent of people globally do not have a bank account. Decentralisation helps these people.

Banking helps these people. Remember a fully-realized BTC transaction fee (pricing in electricity and mining hardware) is right around $250 each. That's a non-trivial amount of the GDP per capita of a lot of these countries you're alluding to.

Poor folks are also the most vulnerable to the massive volatilities of this so-called currency.

Real, centralized solutions help these people. Solutions like M-Pesa [1]. And Postal Banking, which a hundred years of legacy solving exactly these problems. [2]

> There are financial tools that only people with net worths of over $100 million have access to, such as market making, arbitrage, liquidations, insurance lending etc. Crypto solves this.

It certainly does not haha. It makes them less efficient, which is why not a single crypto-powered business in the last 14 years is competitive with any centralized solutions except in the areas of regulatory arbitrage or by throwing risk models out the window.

> If centralised finance had the potential to be more efficient, there should have been more innovation decades ago. Centralised finance needs to catch up.

It's obviously more efficient, and pretending otherwise doesn't change that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
I don't think this [name redacted] guy is actually taking this seriously. His FB profile is almost entirely empty, with only a link to his website at the same time he posted to HN (and liked by only one person, whose FB profile is equally empty), and a profile pic that combines The Rock and Doge.

Edit: I commented on the meta.company website link on his FB profile asking for more info/insight, and my comment was deleted and comments are now disabled.

It also says a lot that they used a throwaway account to post this only on HN, and haven't bothered responding to anyone in this thread.

Edit 2: The public post on their profile linking to their website is now at least made private.
“[Cisco executive] Charles Giancarlo fielded a call directly from Steve Jobs. “Steve called in and said that he wanted it,” Giancarlo recalled. “He didn’t offer us anything for it. It was just like a promise he’d be our best friend. And we said, ‘No, we’re planning on using it.’ “Shortly after that, Apple’s legal department called to say they thought Cisco had “abandoned the brand,” meaning that in Apple’s legal opinion Cisco hadn’t adequately defended its intellectual property rights by promoting the name. To Apple’s way of thinking this meant the name iPhone was available for Apple’s use. Giancarlo, who subsequently joined the prominent Silicon Valley private-equity firm Silver Lake partners, said Cisco threatened litigation before the launch. Then, the day after Apple announced its iPhone, Cisco filed suit.

The negotiation displayed some classic Steve Jobs negotiating tactics. Giancarlo said Jobs called him at home at dinnertime on Valentine’s Day, as the two sides were haggling. Jobs talked for a while, Giancarlo related. “And then he said to me, ‘Can you get email at home?'” Giancarlo was taken aback. This was 2007, after all, when broadband Internet was ubiquitous in homes in the US, let alone that of a Silicon Valley executive who had worked for years on advanced Internet technology. “And he’s asking me if I’m able to get email at home. You know he’s just trying to press my buttons—in the nicest possible way.” Cisco gave up the fight shortly after that. The two sides reached a vague agreement to cooperate on areas of mutual interest.”

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/01/27/apple-cisco-iphone-...
Beautiful product.
This is older generation sexism, it will run wide and deep with him if he does this shit. Types like him are incorrigible - insist it is 'all in good fun' Bull. It is incremental sexism, he will push and persist until he gets slapped down, maybe hard.
Still, dealing with him and the bureaucracy is a little like mud wrestling with a pig, you will both get dirty and the pig likes the action, and silent sexists in the admin under the radar will remember your role, so you will get praise as well as dirt - good luck, keep up that GPA.
I had a prof who was accused of taking underwater photos of women swimming in the Hart House pool - guilty as charged, but he whined, wiggled and denied and finally lost his case at a hearing. He has passed on now, but it resembles your case. This was 30+ years ago. His ilk have been cleaned out of responsible universities, but I see they persist in places.
> I could be wrong but it looks like they can testify as citizens, but not paid experts.

Everything I have read from the University and the professors so far indicates they are being denied under any circumstance. Including doing it pro bono at least according to one of the professors:
https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1454526638578880516
it is being denied by Gray Wimsett, Assistant Vice President of Conflicts of Interest.
Another thing is india tends to be one of the fatter poor states due to its diet. If you came from east or south east asia, americans would seem fatter to you even if your in a fitter place. Same with many europeans.
love the idea of doing something without writing code!
I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready.

OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant.

Most of the code is in C#, .NET 5. Only 25% of code in C++, either SIMD heavy math like vector spline tessellation, or to consume libraries like FreeType designed to only be usable from C.

Got 2 devices to test, ARM64 Pinephone, and ARMv7 LG Hammerhead.

Graphics stack is good by now, works on both. The only large missing piece is accelerated video decoding. The highest level was inspired by MS WPF, with XML instead of XAML, and a variant of CSS for styling. Performance is OK, uses couple percepts CPU while rendering animations at 60Hz, because GPU-centric architecture all the way down. Found a freelancer to help with GUI design, so far so good.

Audio is in progress: mp3 playback works, capture and high-level mixer controls missing. Too bad the LG lacks Linux kernel drivers so I'm only testing these pieces on Pinephone.

After the audio, gonna start integrating GSM modem: being able to call people is one of the use cases I care about.
> No toilet jet sprays too, because Americans famously use toilet paper for poop stuff. But my roommate installed one even though it’s not allowed. Don’t tell our landlord.

The infamous "bum gun" in SE Asia.

That's because USA people believe that if they got poop on their hands, wiping it with only paper would clean it off.

Why do you bring up hands?! Well, that is what is left on your ass when you wipe it with paper. I guess you can't see (or smell) it unless you're super flexible, so that makes it ok.

FYI, you can buy and install a simple bum gun in 10 minutes for about $15-20 off Amazon. They are great, I don't even buy TP anymore. Still wet? Use a small towel to dry off.
100% agree in the SF Bay Area as well. Small stores centered around many cultures from around the world.
Nice! An ex colleague of mine from my GS days and his fiancé (now wife... spoilers) just got married at this adorable little church our in Coral Gables, I love it down there. The little roofs are adorable haha. Haven't spent too much time there but I really think it's quaint and I love the 'low to the ground' architecture, not sure the right term, that seems prevalent.

Appreciate the kind words, and yeah, I dart out of my apartment at every available moment. Today spent some time in the design district which was fun. I usually end up lost in some bar or another rehydrating after a few hours kicking around aimlessly haha.

'Winters' with 80 degree weather.... Hmm sign me up
> But if the 4G equipment doing the encrypting tunneling at both ends is potentially compromised how does that encryption help?

The major attack vector for the compromised 4G equipment is the remote deactivation (or a wipeout or both) of it by an adversary. Breaking the encryption on the fly for volumes of traffic traversing mobile core networks is still technologically challenging. Hence the plain text communication can still be considered somewhat protected.
> Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

> Do you ever think a human being can be a sovereign individual in his own right, without owing fealty, taxes and morality to a government in some future?

Without governments, how are social strictures enforced? How are externalities, positive or negative, accounted for? How does a government-less world not look like Somalia? (Or are you suggesting that you really would like to live in a place like Somalia?)

This isn't to suggest that existing governments are perfect (far from it), but it seems to me that the anarchic counterpart is infinitely worse.
You're saying it's best to avoid a gathering of the jugalone?
Typescript doesn't have great syntax for object parameters. To define the type inline you have to repeat the property names.

{a, b}: {a: string, b: string}
I didn't realize this was an American thing until I visited another country (Hong Kong, which is very first world) and the truck actually sped up as I was about to cross instead of slowing down. It was like playing a game of chicken.
The strands I just purchased are WS2811 bullet pixels , with regulators to run on 12v. For the arches I used 2812Bs. In retrospect I wish I would’ve gone with 2815s - again for 12v. I have to deal with multiple voltages in my setup.
I run my shows off of a Raspberry Pi - though I’m planning on integrating a teensy 4.1 to handle the tree.
I don't understand why there's so much significance attached to the label. I've seen a non-beta try to run off the road in the same scenario that the beta handles just fine. Its not an isolated example.

To me, that'd just mean one company, the one with the beta label, has higher standards.
Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there machine learning algorithms which learn from the nutrient and water inputs and quality of the batch (by lb, shape, taste, etc) adjust and try to get higher quality with each batch?

Also really well documented.
But also, SHRDLU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
You can achieve a similar effect in "standard" containers by running systemd as the entrypoint. This is how kind runs containers as k8s nodes. I agree it's a very handy scenario for many workloads.

This does makes me want to build "kilx" k8s inside lxd heh
What's infuriating about this? If you give those variables good, descriptive names, and provide a default argument for the optional variable (which is just basic good programming practice), then what's the problem?