skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are being very generous by calling them an "investigatory committee". They routinely compare the anti Covid measures by the German government to the Holocaust [1]. On the same site, you can also see that they touted the weird conspiracy theory of becoming magnetic after being vaccinated.

They violated Youtube's ToS with their conspiracy theories and got kicked out, it seems.

[1] https://www.psiram.com/de/index.php/Stiftung_Corona-Ausschus...
I feel like running linux is like voting for a 3rd party candidate in the US. FWIW linux is great I just can't convert all the people who aren't developers to linux without an unnecessarily steep learning curve.
0.2% alone does not tell much. With my limited knowledge you want to know how much shares was issued and at what price, and based on that you can think what that 0.2% may (or may not) mean. If I was in your friend's shoes I would assume this 0.2% translates to 0$ right now to avoid sad surprises later.

It is also generally good to know if the company is already profitable (I'd guess if it's early startup it's not profitable), what is the runaway if, say, today they lose all customers and have to pivot, how much they earned in the last few months on month-to-month chart, how many paying customers they have.

And also remember that 4 years is a lot of time, your friend may not want to stay for such a long time so it would be good if these shares vest in portions every year. Otherwise once your friend gets closer to 4 years mark there might be a surprise waiting for him if founders decide 0.2% is too much.
My employer privately gave me tons of paid parental leave. I took a portion of it at the beginning and ended up using the rest of it to work every other day for the remaining year - and my partner used the chance to work on her stuff.

It definitely helped us economically (it's nice to have so much paid holiday) but it forced me into a nurturing role which my partner was definitely better suited for.
I ended up being quite depressed by the entire situation and had a series of mental health issues + lost most of my friends.
At the same time I am definitely better at negotiating than her and I am earning more - so without that artificial incentive we would have naturally gravitated toward the best solution.

I agree two parents households work great, but you don't really need two parents hands-on with kids all the time. I find it great in limited doses but I would go completely insane if I had to do it all the time, while I can tolerate work just fine. My partner was getting incredibly stressed at work but with kids it seems like she found her balance.

She's looking forward to go back to work once all the kids go to nursery / school in 3 years, but not in a typical employers / employee setting, more like running the family software business.
We have decades of experience about how this works in the real world. Which is that most people will blindly click whatever button is there in order to get the site to work.

For features which compromise privacy or security it’s not an acceptable approach.
> And you're bashing WebXR? Without WebXR, we couldn't even have VR/AR displays work on the Web. The lack of WebXR would be hostile to any user who owns a VR headset these days.

So, this is actually a huge part of my point, thanks for bringing it up. Nobody has a VR headset. I actually do have a very expensive VR headset, and it's sat in the box for a few years since I initially played with it. There was a craze three years back where everyone got one of those stupid Cardboards or a knockoff of it for Christmas, everyone hated it, and Google doesn't even support them anymore. I think Dell sent me one to promote one of their product lines once.

The problem here is Googlers have a completely unrealistic worldview, where stuff like having VR/AR displays work is something anyone actually cares about today. Go to a senior living complex, sit down with someone who is not in the tech industry, and see if you can help them figure out how to clean all the notifications permissions and sleezy browser extensions out of their Chrome install. Tonight I'm stopping by my parents' because my mother thinks a pinned site on her new tab page is something installed on her PC, and she wants it gone.

There are real world things Google could do to make their web browser help real human beings, but piling in new hardware APIs and then complaining other browser vendors aren't doing the same isn't what that looks like.

You should not be compromising your browser's core surface for something that at best applies to 1% of the population. Maybe these APIs have a use... as a separately installable plugin to add the functionality to the browser for the extremely niche crowd that needs them. This is true of connecting your serial device or your MIDI music interface to your browser too: It's just not something that belongs in a standard web browser toolset, and it's yet another thing I have to shut off to keep people safe on the web.
It's too bad, because it could be a set-it-and-forget-it solution if it were more reliable.

I gave up and wrote a Python script that calls Borg Backup. At least it's more customisable.
YouTube is the great digital video censorship platform. My all time favorite was when they censored an academic conference on censorship. The HN discussion on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008217
(The below is with an intent of explaining my view of Paul's essay and is written with the tone of a devil's advocate)

Sorry I prefer quoting Feynman - art theory is about as usefull for enjoying and doing art as ornithology is for birds. The original quote was "Philosophy of science is about as useful for science as ornithology is for birds."

Note! This does not denigrate the "useless" fields as such - but the point of view is that their usefulness for the field they claim to study is at most limited.

As a trained physicist and hobbyist artist I can pretty much agree with this. Doing physics and doing art is so friggin hard that while focusing on them, human cognition has no space for analysis in any other domain.

Want to analyse a classical painting? Well, there is a very good technique for this but it requires a huge amount of labour - replicate it.

I realize this is a very technical point of view, but having a hands-on experience, it's very hard to convince me any other way would offer superior understanding of the core issues at play.

I must repeat that I am not discounting analysis - but they are only secondary in importance to the ding an sich.

Sorry. This is getting a very long winded way of expressing my point of view.

I read Paul's essay from this very specifically technical point of view that acknowledges the inherent complexity in the chosen domain (classical art) and hence takes it obvious that there are some works 'better' than others. But there is no numerical metric we can use to gauge paintings - hence we must refer to an intuitive understanding of the quality of a work. Paul calls this 'intuitive understanding of quality' taste.

I think the whole point was to point out that some things can be considered rationally better than others, even though we don't have an objective numerical measure for this goodness.
In the US, legislation like this is supported by both administration and opposition, the actual danger to it passing is public notice. What you want to do it hide it in emergency legislation that passes on a voice vote in the middle of a group of quick voice votes with no debate.

According to the description by another commenter (who calls this post "pure propaganda"), this seems a lot like that sort of a messy process, and is being deemed necessary in order to enable police body cams (which seems like a wokewashing.)

edit: a sign would be if this legislation as sold as being both so important that it has to be passed now, and so trivial, procedural, and boring that there's no reason to discuss it.
My only experience with Naval is from listening to his 2 hour long Joe Rogan appearance.

This text matches up with what I learned about him then: he has clearly mastered storytelling and memorizing fact(oid)s. It was a fascinating and charming two hours.

Any kind of deep analysis of anything at all? No.
This doesn't sound likely. Bill Gates is pro nuclear so it doesn't make much sense why he would be against the plants in California?
Swift Light
I think perhaps you are in the EU and were using the "N" version of windows 10. I realized that the normal windows 10 installs a LOT of bloatware (Like I don't need candy crush), while the N version did not do that.
Sure, I was replying to this:

>I don't see why "they'd fire you in no time if you stopped providing value" is always thrown around as a negative.

It seems the whole loyalty thing is always sided heavily in favor of the employer. When both sides eschew loyalty and make cold, hard business decisions, my example is what the employee's might look like. Not very appealing I know, but neither is laying off 25% of your workforce because Zillow decided it wanted to be a real estate investor and failed miserably at it; an example of a cold, hard business decision.
Right. The question is whether one can deduce those algorithms themselves without knowing them. How long would it take someone to figure out the patterns on their own?
>> the French seem to enjoy using different standards

> How dare they use the metric system and degree Celsius?

Judgements about what they dare to do aside, isn't it fair to call those French? The metric system is based on the meter, a French unit. The International Prototype Kilogram (obsoleted only recently) was stored in France. While Celsius wasn't invented in France, a Frenchman flipped the scale (originally, freezing was 100 and boiling was 0). etc.

Not Invented Here syndrome doesn't mean that what you do invent here can't be good, that you can't sometimes get the rest of the world to agree with you, or that you abandon anything that's successful.
This premise can't be done quickly in the US, and it's bordering on comically absurd that anyone here would dare to suggest otherwise.

The US bureaucracies, federal and states, and the criss-cross between them, is extraordinarily large, complex and inefficient. The US Federal Government all by itself is a spending machine larger than Europe's biggest economy.

To pretend a system like Togo's could be implemented quickly in the US, one would have to pretend the US government system isn't presently constructed as it is. It would be necessary to invent an elaborate fantasy, where you start from a blank slate and have to deal with none of what presently exists.
> "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. You’ll have a society that values creativity as an end in itself. ...They can gather all the matter, they can create anything they want, and they can have any reality in VR space that they want."

The post turns a very narrow Whig conception of Earth history into a law of sapient development. I am not sure how to read it except that it is predicated on the galaxy being gene-seeded by a species of Francis Fukuyamas.
I disagree with Paul when he weakened his argument from perfect to good taste. There are some artists who have more control over details than others. By perfect you would be able to perfectly recreate the reality of the subject/scene.
Why put your career on hold while you go back to school? You could (possibly) do both. There are an awful lot of educational opportunities available in this day and age, including graduate degrees - including some from highly reputable schools - that are available purely online, in very flexible formats that could allow you to both work a "day job" and go back to school at the same time.
Because someone needs to able to point at Thing and say they took iniative in implementing it, for career reasons
I found it to be quite neat. The separation of compilation units alone shows the author knows what he's doing. Perhaps you have trouble with C idioms.
IMovie, GarageBand and iWork are not installed by default and you can remove them at any time.

Recent Mac OS updates are monolithic signed binaries that load into the protected disk partitions reserved for the OS. This is security feature to limit which processes can modify the OS. The downside is that it can’t do differential updates. I hope that, at some point, Apple will work out how to securely do differential updates and speed this up, but I’m satisfied with slower updates if it maintains security.
Already clickbait headline:

>"The killing of a corgi shows how government power has grown unchecked in China in the name of Covid prevention"

Editorialized on HN into:

>"Chinese police execute corgi with crowbar for zero Covid"

It's not Chinese police, they're covid prevention workers employed by local gov who has authority to put down privately owned animals due to public safety. Which is standard not overreach. The drama here is the animal wasnt' tested before being inhumanely euthenized. Of course would be better if pets can be brought to quarantine like Shanghai or at least have trained vets on staff to euthenize. Overall it's a pretty minor administrative mess up.

> The so-called debate around 'animal rights' is merely a camouflage -- the issue at heart here has always been the wanton infringement of individual (rights) by the endlessly expanding state power," a comment on Chinese social media site Douban said.

Western MSM picking juicy quotes from ignorant netizens to show somehow Chinese statepower is expanding by... being in alignment with western statepower. Not to mention killing personal pets is so low on priority of "state power", a dogwhistle fo centrlized power / CCP, that such duties are typically delegated to lower levels like municiple govs around the world.
I’m loving the well commented and standalone inplementations of crypto-primatives, will definitely be studying these.

One question, in src/crypto/rand.c:25 you have a standalone RNG but comments say it is not used internally? what is it used for?
Yea. That was very confusing.
the conflict you ond i have is you believe investors are benevolent and are helping poor folk who can't buy.

i don't believe anything of what youre arguing simply because more supply will continue to be purchased by investors to further drive up prices.
A red hearing.
You can get dedicated tenancy instances in AWS, for an upfront monthly cost of ~$1.2k (per account) and about +10% on top of your normal EC2 instance costs.

I ran the numbers back in 2015 and persuaded the previous employer to go for dedicated tenancy with all performance-critical and privacy-sensitive workloads. I was effectively hedging against unknown but practically guaranteed cross-VM attacks to pacify a paranoid regulator.

Then Rowhammer happened. Less than a day later, our contact with the regulator comes to me asking how it affects us. Being able to answer - with absolute confidence - that it did not, was one of the proudest moments of my career. And the turnaround from "regulator comes asking awkward questions" to "regulator is happy and sees no reason to ask again" of less than 48 hours must be some kind of record too.
I am aligned with this and it pushes me towards vigilantism. In the words of big Sean "if you want the crown bitch you gotta take it", although here the crown is more the abolishment of the new aristocracy.
Note that Windows now has an official package manager called WinGet (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli), which worked very well when I tried it a few months ago; Skype and OneDrive can now be uninstalled without an external tool; and disabling all telemetry also seems to weaken antivirus protection.
Someone who grew up living in a tiny case might say those same things about a mythical race of beings who live in a city and drive cars. Assumptions are just that, assumptions.
No one who writes Python has ever said to themselves, "I wish I had Spring."
It's not necessary, and it wouldn't even be beneficial. The kind of dynamism that Spring brings to Java, Python already has.

Also Hibernate is terrible and should be erased from the Earth.
Very well put, but Whig historiography seems popular on HN.
> I obsess over clean code

Yep, it shows.

I got curious over the GP's comment, and I spot checked json.c[1] and json.h[2].

They're cleanly written, your data structures reflect your use and I can get an idea of what does what through the code alone.

Trying to figure out what could be considered obscure. For example would

if (!btc_amount_import(&x, obj->u.string.ptr))
return 0;

be considered obscure? Cause if you know the structure of a json_value, then you get what the phrase says.

Well thought out and cleanly written code, I'd say.

[1] https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/src/json.c

[2] https://github.com/chjj/mako/blob/master/include/mako/json.h
Did you use the wrong charging block? My MBP did that when I used the charging block meant for a macbook. It took a lot longer to get a charge to start the computer. Sounds a lot like my experience. I now make sure I only use the appropriate block
Net promoter score: what it is and how to calculate
Psychedelics can also be harmful for mental health. They tend to create flexibility in terms of thinking about things in new ways - and that can include self harm as well. As in, making it seem easier or more enticing or less of a big deal to end one's life.
I've seen enough of Naval's tweets to know it's not a problem if I don't click further.
Does Earth even have any resources that are particularly unique? No point in traveling light years (and spending enormous amounts of energy to do so) to pick up stuff you can already get from the closest asteroid belt.
Uhh, it's 3 years where I live (though the welfare money for the last one and half year is very low and lots of mother go back to work before that)

I would say 3 year is pretty good as kids starts to gain a lot from socializing after that age.

Why would this be absurd? It's perfectly normal. Looking after a toddler is hard 7/24 work with little time to spare. Of course you can go to work and instead pay for a house cleaner and a baby sitter to look after your house and your kid because.. work is more important? Or what is your argument here?
I keep telling everyone: those aliens will be looking for fresh jokes. We need to broadcast some memes into the outer space to draw their attention. Broadcast that “Where banana” meme and they will come in flocks
Then what does "pulling over 1000+% gains for a number of years" mean _exactly_?
I think you're making a derisive judgement on his fashion choices, from the distance of a couple decades. This is always an error, but you should see his "vest" years!

As it happens, there's a story behind the choices of black turtleneck (very specific maker), Levi's (5xx?), and New Balance (993s). They are the results of deliberate application and prioritization of optimizations -- evaluated by his personal criteria only, of course. You might think I'm kidding, but I am not.
What do these LN dynamics (which seem to have existed for a little while already now) have to do with Taproot?

OP was describing something in the context of Taproot and now you and others are talking about Lightning. What is the new development here?
FWIW I work at Google (speaking only for myself) and think https://infrequently.org/2021/07/hobsons-browser/ was a good post. It points out problems with Google's approach that I am happy to see more discussion of, and in most cases I agree with him.
My work Linux laptop frequently (several times daily) breaks Bluetooth, breaks audio, does not wake from sleep, wakes from sleep but only shows the mouse pointer on a black screen, stops throttling the CPU down, resets the DHCP-specified DNS server to 0.0.0.0, sends stuff to printers that cause them to just spit out endless blank sheets of paper. The "solutions" to all of these are multi-step manual disasters... uninstall pulse audio, restart cinnamon, reinstall blueman, upgrade Jack, manually create config files from copying some file on a GitHub repo, downgrade to some specific version of CUPS, mess about with apt-get repos to not get the latest version of whatever...wtf?! That is not user friendly.

My personal Windows laptop has never had a single one of those problems. It has been faultless from day 1 without a single issue.
Twitter's just openly hostile to everyone now, not just developers.

Come stop by /r/Twitter one of these days for a whiff of sentiment surrounding the company. I'm not saying this to be surly, just echoing my observations over the years.
Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
> For example, I note that Saudi Arabia's role in the global oil market - which was due to the USA's investment in Saudi Arabia - has done far more to drive local development than the French 'partnership' with Niger's uranium mines has done to drive the development of that country. Niger supplies about a third of France's uranium, but get basically nothing in return:

Every country in the world needs oil. You can buy refined oil products at every corner store of the planet. SA's oil is also easy to extract, so it's a rather low tech operation.

It's not the case with uranium. There are very few buyers and the tech required to mine and handle it as well as to use it isn't widespread. Without France buying and funding the mine it it's questionable whether there would be a mine at all.

For a solar farm, every country with a coastline and useable land will be offered a chance to bid and the lowest bidder will get the contract.
Not sure that power is a sufficiently discriminating term for what you are describing. I agree with you but think that purposiveness may be a better fit.
It is pretty amazing isn't it?

Fun to work at Google these days? Get to manipulate the crowds big time?

Edit: at least you have now gotten me to watch it. Seriously interesting. Good thing the kid has gotten a good lawyer.
This seems to largely be because we build new designs for almost every reactor, and change the regulation faster than projects get finished, so they have to get refitted part way through. The regulatory framework also makes it infeasible to finance small reactors.
If we could build the same design over and over in a bunch of locations, with a common regulatory regime it would be much cheaper and much faster.

That nuclear is slow and expensive to build is an artifact of infrequency and bad regulation.
> We were not able to stratify the risk of PASC [Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19] by severity of initial illness (for example, community-based vs hospitalized vs required care in an intensive care unit vs required invasive life-sustaining measures) or by preexisting comorbidities, patient age, or other factors that may affect an individual patient’s risk of PASC

Sounds good!
The core of the argument seems to be that any aliens that have advanced so much in their scientific/technological knowledge that they can travel to visit us will necessarily have also advanced in their moral knowledge such that they will consider it immoral to harm us (and not just consider it immoral, but be able to prevent all parties from doing the immoral things).

It’s an appealing idea, but I don’t see any reason to believe it. The actual conquistadors had more advanced technology (at least military technology) than the people they massacred and conquered. Some Spanish people even wrote at the time that what the conquistadors were doing was immoral, so the lack of moral knowledge didn’t seem to be a problem. What’s special about space travel that requires a civilization to have also acquired the knowledge to both consider genocide bad and prevent all capable parties from committing it?
Do they support Google Analytics? Nothing on their website or release notes indicates this, as far as I could find.