skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they hired a SEO company and said "Hey, we want to be on top of the organic front page results for any Hadoop ecosystem related searches" and paid them a bunch of money for this.
There's goes my week changing all tutorial to use flakes at https://nix.dev/
For some reason everyone likes to blame Goldman for the 2008 crash, but no one wants to blame themselves for getting over-leveraged by buying 3 houses.

Everyone likes to blame Facebook, but no one wants to blame themselves when they're one of the 2.8 billion using Facebook.

Everyone likes to blame oil companies, but they drive cars and have plastic all around them. I worked at an oil company for a few years. I sat near the environmental engineers who were doing their best to make it clean as possible. HN readers want to hate oil workers for doing their jobs but then turns around and still demands cheap oil.
Fed should make a commitment NOT to bail out crypto people under ANY circumstances!
Pfft. Those Olmec and them Maya sure were built on ceremony. Very ceremonious people, excruciatingly. All about ceremony.

Every archeological find seems to be about some type of ceremony.

I wonder where they slept, ate, exercised, hunted, cooked, stored their goods, made their trades, and schooled their young though. Ceremoniously, no doubt.
I used to work in defence. A colleague of mine said that he didn't have a moral problem because "we didn't make things that went bang".

We actually worked on training systems for soldiers. Technically, we didn't make things that went bang. But we enabled their use. So I didn't personally believe that we could escape the moral dilemma using that argument.
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It supports an ACK, but unless you have a two-way i-gate nearby you should probably consider it to be a one-way protocol. All of the ones near me just go RF -> internet so there's no way to get a response back to RF unless you're running your own.

Still useful for sending out quick status updates like "I'm doing fine but running late" but not good for full blown communication.
I think we may be talking about different PINs.

I am not talking about the PIN you would have to enter when starting Signal, to get into Signal.

I Googled a bit and found an approachable blog post from the time this all happened, here;

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...

This has refreshed my memory of events.

In short, Signal wanted to store what had been purely client-side information (contact lists, for example) on their server, but - in principle at least - in a form Signal could not access.

The PIN in question is used to provide access to that information.

> Server state comment aside, it seems your main complaint is about a pop-up PIN entry UI that can be opted out of?

The dialog to force the user to set the server-side PIN disabled the app. You either had to do it, or stop using Signal. There was no opt-out.

I had a look at the app now. I found the settings you mentioned. It's not clear to me from what I see there is this if an app-locking PIN, a SIM protection PIN, or a server-side state PIN, or all three rolled into one.

In any event, at the time it happened, the presented dialog was full-screen and could not be dimissed; even if there had been options to disable this (and there were not prior to the full-screen dialog - I looked, in an effort to dismiss the permanent partial-screen dialog) you could not get to them, because it was a full-screen dialog which you could not dismiss; you could not get to the app, and so could not get to settings.

The only option was to stop using Signal or provide a PIN so your client-side state could be stored server-side.
Yes, it is counterintuitive but lifting weights can fix lots of issues like RSI, also from my personal experience. This article does a great job at explaining why this happens:(it doesn't specifically mention "RSI" but the concepts are similar)

https://startingstrength.com/article/muscle-imbalances-and-i...
It sounds like a sophisticated fraud. They probably target clergy or others who have well known public schedules. I assume there is an equivalent of title insurance in the UK that will pay out though.
IBM just flipped some bits for some Germans in the 1940s.

No biggie!
> I have no longer felt the need to work with any other random scripting languages

Compile times are pretty bad though :) Especially with coroutines: at least clang (don't know other compilers) AFAIK works by copying the same function n times for each resumption point, and that's extremely slow.
I didn't build it, Tesla did, and I personally think the company that signed off on "touch screen controlled window wipers" is the one with the most liability in autopilot failures.
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Being able to talk to classmates or relatives is not any kind of addiction I’m concerned about.

To me, the main question is about introducing kids to a branded product in order to build affinity for the main product. Building that affinity is going to be a significant reason these kinds of products are made.

I imagine we wouldn’t feel great about feeding our kids food that was branded with Johnny Walker or Smirnoff. Curiously, I think most parents would have little problem with a kids board/card game that was co-branded with a Las Vegas casino.
There is this movie called 'Cube' that deals with this problem.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/

The short version is that a bunch of tech people are asked to design all kinds of man-traps, the buyer then combines the various traps in a shifting maze and the techies are kidnapped and dumped in the maze trying to survive their own creations.
Oh wow, I think I ran into this once as well. It was such a strange experience. In my case my Shinramyun instant noodles started tasting metallic and soapy for a few days. I thought there was soap on the cutlery or something and couldn't work it out.

I'm so glad you mentioned this as it explains a lot.
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Who said speculation is making everyone money? Some people are going to lose money, specially those who buy at the top.

And the fact that millions of people are willing to pay 60000 USD for one of these coins proves that they aren't really "worthless".

Is the dollar worthless because you can't use it to buy the same things you could buy in 1995 with the same amount?
When the land registry was digitised they got the land boundaries from the Ordnance Survey maps. The Ordnance Survey got them from tracing aerial photos. When property changes hands for the first time since the digital system was introduced the land boundaries from the OS mapping agency have to be checked against the original deeds as they are almost always slightly wrong, e.g my kitchen was shown as being partly in my neighbour’s garden according to the digital map.
Still need transportation…
Advanced versions of systems like this can report crash severity to help first responders make triage decisions. Advanced crash notification systems have clear benefits: if every vehicle/driver had an ACN system, an additional ~2,700 vehicle occupants who need a Level I or II trauma center could receive it annually in the United States, and ~162,000 annually would not be sent to a Level I or II trauma center who didn't need it [1].

1: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.03.028
WebKit improvements by appliance maker with SVG-heavy WebKit workload on vacuums
Is there evidence for "diversity is our strength"?
My interpretation is that it may or may not be what happened, and should be investigated.
> Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate.

And who/what is the benchmark for it? Because some people get offended at seeing the word "fuck", or someone they don't like looks at them (irl).

Knowingly posting false information? Uh, about that... A lot of people spreading idiotic theories are actually serious. At least everyone I've met.

Like, I thought people who think COVID is not real just have to be trolling. But no, 100% real, they think there is no such virus.

We will all be controlled because of a bunch of imbeciles. As a society, we deserve it. It's a garbage version unworthy of freedom.

Thankfully, suicide is always an option, but it ain't easy.
> They money you put in there is used to acquire assets that are used to produce goods that people will pay to consume

Is a decentralized, public ledger not a good people will pay (via cryptocurrency) to consume?
That's best if your goal is to get your car fixed and (hopefully none) medical bills paid. That's not likely to result in Tesla paying anything and certainly not in Tesla changing behavior.

If you want to go for the giant settlement from Tesla, that's a different lawsuit, much higher-risk, much more expensive and much higher reward (financially, media attention and changing behavior).
Unfortunately, that is WASM on postgres, not postgres on WASM: https://medium.com/wasmer/announcing-the-first-postgres-exte...
Isn't that what they are doing? There was a story not long ago about a lady in her 90s who was a secretary at a death camp at 18. She's being dragged to court.
Exactly. When we were adding support for non-ASCII identifiers to Rust, and thinking about homoglyphs and confusable characters, we needed to evaluate the tradeoffs between catching such characters and inconveniencing the speakers of various languages who want to write Rust in their language.
Or more directly refer to the article's own publication date: "ON MAY 14, 2014"

Grantland, the site as a whole, has been dead since 2015.
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Then don't use Tether. Plenty of more reputable companies and projects providing stabletokens with strong (USDC, GUSD) or soft (DAI, sUSD) pegs to the dollar.

Also, you are missing the point of view of the merchant and the amount of possibilities that open with crypto. E.g, you can sell digital goods with zero risk of fraud or chargebacks, to anyone in the world, at whatever price point. No credit card operator will ever be able to do that.
Context: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53666222
What constitutes good reading to you?
Personally for apps like this, I'd like to see a confidence score with the prediction. I can deal with an inaccurate prediction so long as I know to add more buffer. Without that information, it doesn't matter how often the prediction is accurate, or how accurate it typically is, I must treat all of them as if they're the worst case scenario.

Same goes for things like weather apps or delivery or traffic or really any situation where the data is statistical in nature.
Here's another headline

>The UN says $6B from the world's billionaires could solve a hunger crisis. Elon Musk says he will sell Tesla stock and donate proceeds if the UN can prove that.

From this link:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-says-6b-worlds-billionaires-03...

Are we arguing that news headlines are not the resposibility of news organizations?

Bear in mind, that headline is recent. Should we still go with Occam's razor here, or is this a clear attempt to get clicks, you know, given the fact that this headline came way after the correction but still commits the same "mistake" which is more click inducing than stating the facts ?

>By offering a broad correction that wasn't limited to the one-word CNN error, the whole of your post became non-factual.

What does that even mean?
There's a certain irony in creation dates here:

mmaunder: 2007. satellite2: 11 months ago. dexwiz: 2015. alonsonic: 2016. burnished: 8 months ago. nostrademons: 2007.

Anyway, I don't think such tone-policing is all that off-culture for HN, nor do I mind it all that much. PG explicitly said back around 2008 that posts which keep the discourse civil and intellectually honest are welcome even if they don't directly add content. I just thought that there's a certain irony about "old users trying to maintain the culture of this site" when the users in question are less than a year old and are responding to someone who's been here for 14 years.
"a computer system should maximally reward learning. (The way Emacs does.) And that this should certainly be true of a computer one uses for 8-14 hours a day, for decades."

I think this is a good take, modern interface design focuses on instant gratification/short term thinking and ease of use more so than on giving people good levers, or mind bikes. I think the truly brilliant tools enable use and creativity beyond their initial purpose. Sure, that stuff only becomes relevant when you're pushing the envelope and most people won't be trying to do that; but I believe focusing on that edge has long term benefits that are hard to quantify.

I'm not sure about any of the keyboard stuff, but that particular idea I resonate with.
> Sturgeon's law : "ninety percent of everything is crap."

Books are no exception.

I particularly dislike the common belief that nonfiction is inherently superior as a form of media. Most nonfiction reads like an NYT article that ran a little too long. Even worse are pop-nonfiction books that read like a VOX article that ran too long. A lot of fiction captures ideas around antropology, sociology, politics and philosophy better than non-fiction books explicitly abput them.

Even books with good content tend to be either too fictionalized to facilitate readability or drab to the point of becoming a text book. Infact, I'd say that on the balance a random well reviewed fiction novel can be expected to be a lot more intellectually rewarding.

That being said, every once in a while I run into a book like 'why the west rules for now' and it somehow manages to be all of informative, entertaining, relevant and academically rigorous. I wish goodreads had a filter that allowed me exclusively find such books. Talk about pipe dreams.
This is the fallback argument crypto enthusiasts use when their primary arguments fail. I'd like to learn more about the truth to this claim.
> We built it, so we're responsible for it and the consequences associated with its operation, regardless of how well it's engineered or how smart we think we are.

That's my point. The company that built the self driving technology should be held responsible. If you're not driving you're not responsible, that's how it works when somebody else is driving your car as well so why would it be any different if that somebody else is code? It seems like a good way to align the incentives to create a safe system.
You could claim that at this point in time you still have to pay attention and take control when necessary, the issue I have with that argument is that we already have research showing us that the context switch results in a delay that's too long to be really useful in practice.
The original owner is not going to be the one with title insurance though, that's usually bought by the buyer, not the seller, especially not a seller who isn't even aware that there is a transaction.
Yeah and honestly the chain of responsibility is driver first then tesla. What's important is the victim gets their payout. It's the drivers responsibility to provide that payout / get dinged on insurance. if the driver then wants to complaint to tesla for damages that's totally fair. But the victim's compensation should come first from the driver. The driver can't say "but muh autopilot" and release all blame
I'm not so sure about that.

Often, people's considered thoughts will give a better connection than their offhand comments. Many a great romance or friendship has grown and been preserved by handwritten letters sent via the post.

In thinking about my last comment, what I'd really want in a metaverse is the ability for the participants' thoughts to be scanned, textualized, and edited via thought transfer, then displayed above/beside them, so we can both read and speak about things in real-time, at the speed of thought/reading, instead of speech. It could get really interesting...

It is sooo common to feel that we can't communicate nearly as fast as we think, even when the lot of us are very fast talkers...
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This does sound like something that should be the subject of a recall investigation.
You realize vegetables have shit on them, and can cross contaminate too?
I appreciate the personal evaluation. I worked at Google for about 6 years, and left to make half as much money working on open source software. I can't find a single thing that HN would disapprove of, except maybe banning all the cryptominers that appeared all at once after our product was discussed here ;)

This is not much of a hardship for me personally, because half of a lot is still a lot. It wasn't HN that factored into my decision to leave, though, that's all I'm saying.

I'll add that the majority of my colleagues at Google actively opposed the things that HN thinks is evil, and still do. You can steer things in the right direction from the inside perhaps more effectively than from the outside. You know the tradeoffs and can suggest a reasonable compromise. That's engineering in a nutshell. No doubt, Google has tens of thousands of engineers that think just like the average HN reader, and are working hard every day to steer the company in that direction. Maybe you're not satisfied with the results, but at least they're doing something about it more impactful than typing screeds and sending them into the ether.
The probation period is pretty meaningless, except when there's a shorter notice period attached. You can be binned for any reason (or no reason) and have no right to go to tribunal until you've been there for two years, except in the case of a protected characteristic.
Asking a clarifying question is something a journalist would do.
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Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You have a long history of doing this, and I have the impression that it got better in the last few years (yay! thanks), but I also have the impression that you've been relapsing recently (boo, please don't). You can make your substantive points respectfully and without snark, and we'd be very grateful if you'd stick to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've seen some very serious discussions about it. Most of which revolve around the cost: any sort of massive space project is still hugely expensive by mass/weight (even with recent advances in private/commercial space flight bringing LEO costs down surprisingly quickly), especially when some of the best options are to try to get enough mass for a big enough Fresnel lens (or diffusion grate or some other relative proposal) to L1 (the Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun). SpaceX and Blue Origin and everyone else are helping us get costs down to at least LEO (low earth orbit), but the rocket/mass costs and construction costs to do a massive engineering project at L1 are outside of all current space corporation's and Nasa's budgets combined at current back-of-the-envelope math.

(Maybe if we saw major surprise breakthroughs in inflatables or low mass self/automated-construction systems?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

(ETA: And as the sibling comments point out, all of that is after the related serious discussions about the ethics of that sort of project to begin with and if it is a sledgehammer approach to a problem that needs a scalpel and a deft hand.)
Recently went deeep on efficient kv storage in postgres, there is an order of magnitude different in storage size between different approaches (naive skinny table, EAV, array values, mapped generic columns etc).

I wonder what approach this project takes, I’ll have to poke around!
Humans imagine math to describe physics.
This summer, China banned Bitcoin mining, which resulted in a temporary drop in the hash rate. We're almost back where we were before the ban: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

That speaks volumes about how resilient Bitcoin's ecosystem is.

Bitcoin isn't Chinese. Bitcoin doesn't belong to any country, nation, tribe, political party, institution, or person at all.
The best time to stop the fraudulent scheme was yesterday. The next best time is now.

It's better the Tether market crash now than after it's grown even more. This will suck for the folks that lose money, but it was going to hurt at some point.
an idea for startup - a flat screen mounted on the back of your car and a rear looking AI. Once it recognizes say Tesla behind you, it will display on the screen an image which is known to be successfully recognized by Tesla, so it wouldn't rear-end you. Of course it isn't limited to Tesla. Also there is very good business case for subscription as Tesla and the others update their autonomous AI, the users would need updates to that anti-rear-ending software.