skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To have a maximally creative society,
> you have to have freedom, you have to have
> liberty, and therefore you will have
> a non-violent society.

Assuming that in some years (dozens or hundreds, depending on whom you'd ask) the creative work at the frontier of science will be done by AIs, none of the above is required.

It could be the first despot who lays their hand of sufficiently powerful AI, and it's a game over - scientific progress will happen with no regard for "morality" (however defined).

As some say: it's hard speculate on alien sociology, because data is sparse on that.
Well, I don't know. It is really hard to speculate on something you don't know nothing about. There is no data to extrapolate from.

On the other hand: I was watching Foundation on A+ the other day and there humans have colonized the galaxy (and probably killed any aliens). I thought that prospect matched perfectly well with our own history!
Thanks! That's the second reasonable answer I've got until now.

It guess the distinction in "core engineering" and UX is valid and helpful.

Adapting my point to it: Even the UX may be inconsistent or even outright broken the resulting system is at least somehow usable. If the core of a system is a tire-fire nothing can work, and it makes no difference any more whether you have the nicest UX or not.

One hint regarding the awful shortcuts: You could try to switch CTRL and ALT or META. That's even a common "one click" setting supported usually OOTB by the desktops. Swapping those keys was the one truly right decision regarding usability by Apple, which I welcome even not liking the rest of the macOS UX.
I agree but Uranium has 1.000.000x the energy density of oil and 1.000.000.000x that of batteries.

If we are to stand any chance of avoiding the tail end of a net hubbert curve we need nuclear.

Fusion, thorium and 4th gen fission (France has cancelled both the super-phenix project and the modern revival of that initiative) are nowhere near realistic and/or deterministic dates, so we have to go with the 100 years of Uranium we have left.

This is the only descision where I'm against, but for, at the same time. There is no alternative except permanent crisis until civilization returns to the stone age.

Coming down from the massive bubble created by stored sunlight (coal, oil and gas) is not going to be a smooth ride any way we turn it.
I think of Steven Covey's "Begin with the End in Mind".

There really are some metrics that are strategic. But when your manager is asked to have 20 OKRs just because your manager has to have 20 OKRs and then you get asked to have 20 OKRs that is a distraction.

(In terms of strategy there might be one thing or three things you REALLY need to do.)

At one place I worked I was expected to create OKRs for my own personal and professional development and I felt offended by it because it was out of phase with my own needs.

Today I do a lot for personal and professional development and it is highly strategic, it's motivated by being better at what I do for work but also about getting the social opportunities I want and where I think technology is going over the next ten years.

Because it is strategic I am continuously finding that a project I started a year ago has given me exactly the resource I need right now for a situation I had no idea I'd be in.

Like hell I need to fill out a form in some artificial format for my boss about it.
It’s not instant, but Apple phone support/chat support is free and the wait times are usually <5 minutes in my experience.
I mean, you can turn that off. Is changing a port such a showstopper?

I’ve flip flopped for years, (I was using freebsd more than 20 years ago, genuinely ran Solaris 10 with my own build of kde4 on a hp probook, etc) but last time I tried to use Linux for work I got defeated by a conference suite projector at a client and it cost us a big contract. The happy path (for me anyway) is doing all actual dev work on Linux vms and using macOS as your browser/im/terminal client — which it’s great at.

And it works with those stupid little projector dongles at clients when you’re trying to pitch them 6 figures of consulting ;)
Non-technical degree holder here (BA English ‘05) working as a developer.

Yes and no. Some employers are going to consider a lack of a CS degree as a negative, including some really large employers with interesting projects. If you want to work directly for those employers on those projects, you will most likely need not just a CS degree but one from a prestigious program.

If it means that much to you, definitely consider doing it, but in my experience that’s already a very narrow and competitive field to pursue, so make sure you’re not just settling for any CS degree but one that has a network of graduates working in those fields already.
Centralised scams live off comparing themselves to a decentralised currency like bitcoin
> I can’t think of a year where I didn’t have $5K of crap that needed fixing/replacement/improvements

For a contrary anecdote, I've been living in my current house for well over 20 years and not once have I spent 5K in a year in maintenance. Rarely have I spent even over 1K.

I can't think how I could even spend that kind of money in maintenance every year. What's there to fix that costs you so much?
Ask HN: What kind of electronics would you stockpile for doomsday?
We are all dependent on electronics in modern life, from stuff found in our appliances and cars to entertainment. Given the ever increasing potential for disintegration of global supply chain, what would be your choices for hypothetical technological prepping? Microcontroller boards? Power electronics? RF?
I still don't understand their obsession to limiting 'likes/favorites' access to about 3200 tweets. AFAIK, a lot of people use these as bookmarks. And a lot of patterns can emerge from what people favorite. Restricting access to such metrics for developers is a self-goal especially if they are targeting ads for Twitter users
Why do you believe this would help? Have you seen the attack from the BlackHat?[1] It doesn't require being able to read any plain text and it doesn't matter how the data is stored, only that it's near. You don't even have to have any access to the target memory or even know where it is, only the ability to cause something else to read it predictably.

1. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Seaborn-...
The blog entry was from the Crashlytics team and the product was their mobile analytics service (called Answers by Crashlytics),
I wouldn’t be too worried about a bitcoin node since the whole point is to stay in consensus with the rest of the network
One Million Strong
If your water system has been doing corrosion control, you’re fairly well (but not 100% protected) against lead exposure from your old copper pipeworks.

The big risk is new lead-soldered piping and leaded (largely pre-2014 USA brass plumbing but [1]) fixtures, because even with corrosion control, it takes a while (months to years) to build up that protective layer.

What people get wrong with pasta is they think they need a strong boil. While the steam is hotter than the liquid, most pasta is in contact with the water and your energy is going into evaporating more water off. Just use a spoon to stir occasionally and use a pot cover to condense the steam back in.

[1] http://blogs.edf.org/health/2018/11/06/nsf-61-lead-from-a-ne...
<i> it is even a trade secret how data is striped across the different slots/banks </i>

If that is true, vs just the usual "you don't need to know" trash common these days, its crazy. A pretty good picture can be built up with just software timing analysis, but its hardly rocket science to hook a logic analyzer/scope up and determine bit swizzling and page/bank interleave. Plus, many of the more open BIOS vendors have tended to provide page/row/controller/socket interleave options for quite a while, partially because it can mean a 5-10% uplift for some applications to have it set one way or the other. Its been one of those how do you tune your memory system options for a couple decades now.
Yes, that is an unusual experience. Something is wrong, probably hardware, and causing this instability.
Sure if you dissect the language syntax; no circles. If I try to consider what this means to my agency, we’re saying I have to accept others are possessed by good taste or act in good taste, so I should emulate them. Conformity is good taste.

So, IMO, this self fulfilling meta-nonsense to generate self fulfilling meta-nonsense.
> Remember that the 2007 iPhone demo had showed AT&T reception at full strength?

With the help of therapy and psilocybin I got over that in 2016.
There is many good reasons to "scan" _all_ content. How about spam, illegal content, or anything that violates their TOU? These days if you do not have a litany of algorithms performing these tasks, the worst case is that you'll end up like Facebook where genocide occured (in Myanmar) because the content was not in unicode and the detection systems couldn't "read" it.

Like any other site, accounts with less "trust" are probably going to be flagged by automatic mechanisms. I've been on a few teams with various companies that have done things like fraud detection and it almost always works this way. sometimes there is of course, legitimate false positives.
I wonder if the indigenous peoples of the Americas told themselves the same thing? Or the aboriginal Australians? Or the people of pre-contact Easter Island? I think the fact that those places are now known by the names given to them by their Western European 'discoverers' is a clue to how things went for them.
I think that my definition of "good taste" still beats every other definition or argument I've heard (including this essay): if you like what I like, you have good taste.
> I believe Windows 11 is that last desktop machine UI we'll see for awhile from Microsoft as they intend to refine and improve this one and stop irritating people with changes.

Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be that?
Good. Can I suggest an exploration of the ActivityPub ecosystem?

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
As someone who has been using Twitter daily for almost 14 years now, I have witnessed what you are saying and can totally confirm it.
> - uses between 300x and 10000x less energy for the same security as Bitcoin

right, but instead of mostly electricity being poured into mining, now it's hard drive components. It's still the same amount of dollars (resources) poured into mining. The only difference is shifting it from opex to capex.

>- has the most number of farmers/validators of any blockchain

valid point, although I wouldn't really chalk it up to it being "better engineered". bitcoin supports validation at the miner level (ie. you can do the validation, rather than trusting/relying on the pool) as well via getblocktemplate. It's just not widely adopted for whatever reason.
KogeFarm – an auto-compounding utility on the Polygon Network
I must say i am often surprised by practices in other countries. I've never heard of any of this stuff. I am probably completely uninformed or situation here must be very different. Like it seems you have to know so much stuff and have so many systems in place to have water...

For example i live in appartent building with central water heater. I absolutely use hot water from it for pasta. Am is it wrong? And letting water to flow for 20s? Why?
+ I don't want my users to download to have download a native binary that has unrestricted access to filesystem and I need a Apple Device to develop even if it's the smallest thing in the world.

Web browsers are the best of both worlds, secure enclaved sandboxes, easily reachable by just a link, and powerful enough to do many basic tasks, and cross compatible.
Yeah but Briar communicates over Onion routing, good luck finding that in iOS.

The local communications are of course not onion routed, goes without saying. It's a whole little tookit of subversive communication, including some anonymous and some not.
Not sure where you are. In the US Apple stores are open and doing support. You just need to schedule a session.
Russia blows up a satellite, creating a dangerous debris cloud in space
What makes you think pre-agricultural stone-age Homo Sapiens with a sparse population would have been in any position to eradicate Neanderthals to extinction?
It's an alarming sign of political and social rot, IMO, that this has become so normal that barely-computer-literate people out in my flyover part of the US regularly launch healthcare-related GoFundMes, if their kids get seriously ill especially, and there hasn't been an overwhelming "holy shit, this is very not OK, drop everything and fix this now" reaction.
Unfortunately it doesn’t really matter who’s fault it is from the perspective of the user.

All the windows computers at the computer shop ship with bloated 3rd party crap. Except the apple computers. It’s also not Google’s fault that most android vendors don’t support old devices for long. Or Linux’s fault that hardware vendors make linux drivers an afterthought.

As a consumer, I don’t care why any of this happens. I just want the things I buy to work properly.
Yes, the article mentions it:

> What if I have ECC-capable DIMMs?

> Previous work showed that due to the large number of bit flips in current DDR4 devices, ECC cannot provide complete protection against Rowhammer but makes exploitation harder.
Are you going to vote with your money and pay for such a company to exist is the right question I would say.
It's pretty easy using LinqKit [1]. Just PredicateBuilder.Or() [2]. If you were to try and implement PredicateBuilder yourself that requires a little more knowledge around expressions, but it's worth learning and opens up a lot more possibilities.

[1] https://github.com/scottksmith95/LINQKit
[2] http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.aspx
>They violated Youtube's ToS with their conspiracy theories and got kicked out, it seems.

great sign of progress. Just mere 400 years ago they would have been tortured and burned at stake as heretics. Though who knows, the way things been moving lately ...
The tolerance against driving under influence in Sweden is extremely low. The punishments are severe and the allowed alcohol percentage to drive is lower than in most countries in the world. There is just no way that carries over from wherever that study was done, it's not Sweden for sure. If that is the main cause of reduced life expectancy (the measure you use now is something else really but sure lets roll with it) then it's not a good argument to apply to Sweden. I have tried to look for a study focused on the Swedish context but I haven't been able to find one.

750 DALY per 1 million is 0.00075 years per person by the way. That's basically negligible.
Too bad it doesn't have a -4/-6 option. I was just debugging some connectivity issues which seem to happen only to ipv6
Everything is a conspiracy theory till proven otherwise.

Tuskegee Syphillis "Study" (exposed by leak in 1972 after more than 4 decades), Iraqi WMDs, Syrian chemical attacks, Russiagate, Gulf of Tonkin, the Surveillance state (exposed by Edward Snowden), war crimes (exposed by Julian Assange), USS Maine alleged bombing, Mossadegh accused of being a communist sympathizer by US press, Evo Morales overthrown by military to "restore" alleged stolen election (retracted/corrected months later by NY Times) and so many many more
The reasoning inside your comment shows the worst kind of obsessive rationalization of truly abnormal, paranoid efforts to mitigate a number that by itself is steadily becoming practically irrelevant. For one thing, COVID will without a doubt become an endemic disease of the human species and is currently impossible to erradícate no matter the forced vaccination programs we throw at it, and secondly, who cares? So long as the virus either mutates into something no worse than seasonal flu and cold viruses, or we adapt to cause us a comparable level of immune protection, its spread and case numbers should be no more relevant than the annual spread of any normal mild flu strain or cold virus was before the absurd 2021 hysteria over raw COVID numbers (not even fatalities or anything that actually has any serious meaning anymore) took hold over millions of people and the politicians who pander to them.

It's sad to see how many otherwise presumably normal people so easily skip away from ideas of basic individual rights for such flimsy reasons now.
I've got some patches in this release. If anyone's got question that someone who contributes to git might be able to answer I'd love to help.

Are there any specific things that git does that you wish were done better? I probably won't be able to help with very generic things like "it's complex", but if there's specific drawbacks in some particular commands I might be able to fix them.

Or anything else, I'll monitor this thread while there's interest.
They attempted that in Sweden and it backfired massively.
The more you try to force people into what they don't naturally gravitate towards (eg. women in STEM and engineering, men in nursing / teaching roles) the more the difference grows.

I can vouch from personal experience that I did not enjoy my paternity leave at all and I'd much rather work.

Also, the gender gap is not a thing. There are so many variables that go into salaries that any argument around the topic is just an attempt at making a political statement.

There are tons of possible explanations to explain a delta in salary between men and women. Men generally tend to negotiate better and women tend to take more time off when a son is born.
You can also slice subsets of data, to show whatever you want.
For example, if you look at women in their 20s, they are outperforming men on both salary and education.
it's an abuse vector, and the rate limits are there to prevent abuse.
It is interesting to think about the societal changes that drive or are driven by a constitutional amendment. If the ERA was a 1920s progressivist goal [1] then maybe one could say that it was part of a broader change to formalize work effort that existed in informal household economies. If the ERA reference is to the early 1970s effort [1] then it was a lagging indicator since the economic integration of women into the formal economy was well underway and would arrive at an equilibrium by the 1990s [0].

Exploring the counterfactual numbers: If the workforce gender share remained at the 4:6 F:M ratio of 1972, then a male workforce of 85m would mean a female workforce of 34m instead of the actual 75m. This would lead to a total workforce of 119m instead of 160m, a decrease of 41m or 25%.

Would the USSR have won the cold war if the US had 25% less economic growth over the last 50 years?

0. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/lfp/civilianlfbysex

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
Is this like pro legal trick? "The state is not forcing vaccination. Being vaccinated or unvaccinated is a choice!"
How about censoring Dislikes? This is in progress now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI&t=1s
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1jm-iL...
It is in a perfect market, but Google holds the monopoly and the game is set against competition.
That sounds like a bad bet. Pharma ads are allowed to target patients directly, so people will ask their doctor for it, and pharma reps are cozy with doctors, so at least some doctors will go for it themselves.

This really requires some fix at the FDA or somewhere in the government or it's going to be a disaster.
Why use ninite instead of chocolatey ? what's the difference?
Most of the crypto is from my more general crypto library libtorsion: https://github.com/bcoin-org/libtorsion

I originally wanted to vendor my libtorsion code and link to it, but it felt clunky since libtorsion pulls in a ton of crypto that bitcoin doesn't need. Also, since I was focusing on just a few algorithms, it gave me the opportunity to optimize a lot of them (in particular, the ECC backend was optimized for secp256k1 whereas in libtorsion it supports all kinds of curves).

Because of all of this, there's probably some leftover comments. That comment isn't true anymore. rand.c is definitely used internally for libmako, just not libtorsion.

edit: fixed link.
I know some people think all scraping is bad or malicious. I'd like to point out this is a perfectly legitimate use case for it, in fact this is how Google Search operates.

Web scraping done correctly should be barely noticeable if at all to the operators. Don't send 10,000 req/s, have aggressive delays, make your retries extremely generous, try to avoid pages or actions you know are "heavy". You don't need to update data from every product page every 5 minutes.
> these smaller independent journalists and commenters go against the reality that media companies want you to believe you live in.

For an example from this specific case, compare the actual unedited testimony of Gaige Grosskreutz, who admitted on the stand that Rittenhouse did not fire until Gaige's Glock 17 was pointed directly at Kyle's head, to the coverage of his testimony by CNN, et. al.

The mainstream media lies, constantly and blatantly, not by minor omissions or bad research, but by gross, egregious violations of truth that can only be explained by extreme malice and contempt for their viewers.
It's entirely possible they were taken down in the first place because so many parallel streams of coverage on the same data tripped either a spam detector or an honest-to-God bug in the YouTube backend ("Hm... lots of parallel channels running the exact same bytes. I bet we can consolidate this if we just tee the stream sinks against a source that oops that's a hotspot...").
I recently fell and broke my right hand, and had to get screws in it, so it was out of commission for 4 months or so (it's fine now).

It was a giant pain in the butt. The best thing I found for OS X was the `half-qwerty keyboard emulation (rev 2)`[1] Karabiner plugin, that let me type with one hand by holding the space bar to mirror the keyboard layout.

I got OK at it, but I went from my normal 100ish wpm down to an error-filled 15wpm or so, which fundamentally changed the way I work. It was very unpleasant and I don't recommend it.

I bet with more practice that I could have gotten up to 30ish wpm one-handed, but thankfully I didn't have to do it for too long.

1: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/?q=qwerty
Even taking that on as a given (which, I mean, yeah pretty reasonable to tighten standards) ... that should be a step change as new standards are bought in, not a linear uptrend. Then the downwards sloping learning curve should resume.
I don't have the same experience as you, sorry I am not sure why you're facing so many issues with an OS install. What does your IT department say? Any troubleshooting steps?
Easily Running Babelfish for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
I've had a longstanding debate with a close friend on this topic. He thinks that there is such a thing as objectively good taste, and I do not.

I usually cite art as an example of my point. There is no "good" art or "bad" art. There is successful and unsuccessful art.

Art is intended to make you feel something. If it has done that, it's successful. And making you feel revulsion due to the aesthetic choices made or execution of the piece counts as "feeling something".
Other comments have linked newer language features that make it easy. But for years, the Java Way of handling discriminated unions was to use the visitor pattern [1]. It's very verbose, and is an insane amount of typing unless your IDE is doing the typing for you, but it has the compile time guarantees that forces each caller to handle every type without instanceof/Object.

[1] https://dzone.com/articles/design-patterns-visitor