skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So - let's say that a business owner in Texas thinks BDS is at best misguided, and at worst anti-semitic, and does not want to align themselves with them. However, they also believe that the Israeli government is creating a humanitarian crisis and wants to protest, however symbolically, so they decide they're not going to do business with any Israeli company who directly does business with the Israeli government. In this case, they're not part of BDS, they are boycotting based on their sincere beliefs, and this law constrains their speech regardless.

It's clear that BDS is the precipitating cause of this law, and so it's reasonable to look at BDS as the way that this was put into place, but the law itself doesn't have anything to do with BDS, and so it's not relevant to talk about BDS in the context of its effects on people today.
> As far as I understand the main problem of string theory is that it has been carefully constructed to fit all the physics we know about.

Doesn't string theory have a lot fewer tunable parameters than the standard model?

> and has not actually predicted anything we didn't already know about that we could experimentally verify

I don't like that argument for a couple of reasons.

First, it depends on the timing of when we discover things. If the experimentalists had taken longer to discover some things a theory that we would criticize today as not predicting anything we don't already know about would be a theory that would be celebrated for its predictions if it had just been posed earlier.

I think a better thing to look at is if a theory can correctly calculate things that weren't built into the theory. I remember reading [1] that string theory correctly calculated some things concerning black holes that none of the people who had developed string theory to that point knew about.

Second, I don't like it from a philosophical point of view. It suggests that if say some pre-Newton gravity theorist had just included enough epicycles, science should have rejected Newtonian gravity because it would not have explained anything that the epicycle theory didn't.

[1] Probably either in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" or Lawrence Krauss' "The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far". Possibly Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", but that seems unlikely. I distinctly remember reading it, and my copy of "The Fabric of the Cosmos" is an audiobook. The other two are Kindle books.
Ask HN: Bootstrapping a SaaS – Have the idea, validated the market, what next?
I’ve encountered a specific problem in a market (product managers at startups and SMBs) that hasn’t been sufficiently solved. I have validated some demand for it, as well as basic requirements, although nothing formally documented.

Right now I just have pages and pages of notes (competitor research, ideas, prospective user feedback, etc.). I don’t have any formal specs written.

Goal: build a functional prototype and get my first actual users.

I’m a product manager, so while I can fumble my way around a command line, I don’t think I myself can build this thing. There are lots of options — no code, prototype in InVision, hire a freelancer, approach a trusted engineer colleague who could maybe moonlight with me for pay.

What’s my next step for getting this built? Assuming I have basically zero funds and will be bootstrapping it myself.

Few other things to note: app will leverage several APIs, require basic auth, a few integrations (though doesn’t have to be MVP).

I have the confidence and some validation, but now what?
> For instance, I got hammered by COVID, and was almost useless for about 4 weeks. My boss was only concerned that I get better, and wasn't concerned that I go on some sort of short-term disability or FLMA. The person who wrote that article would have simply not paid me for that month, and not guaranteed work after I got better, which would have made the situation much more stressful, removed income at a time I needed it most to cover medical expenses, and added insult to injury.

Yup, and now add on family or other responsibilities. It's also a way to keep hiring 22-year olds right out of school who won't stand up for themselves and don't have the experience to ask to be treated better. Likewise, a great way to keep anyone with a family out of the workforce/desperate.

> My company is very "woke," and I know a lot of people have problems with such things, but one very welcome outcome of this is that they really do put people first, and the bottom line second.

Be careful with this; it can go either way: Either they're great OR the wokeness is a great cover for complete exploitation. One good way to figure out is to ask how they address disability; it's the one identity that can impact somebody's ability to produce, and it will tell you if they see their workers as people or if they're more interested in diversity check-boxes for the sake of funding/PR.
Aren't basic operational rules laws? How are there rules that aren't laws?
> Did this quote annoy / offend you because it is true?

No, it annoys me because this is how Trump speaks.
I used that and this one recently too: https://transfonter.org/

The good thing about transfonter is it writes all the horrible @font-face css for you, and also converts uploaded fonts into WOFF2 for example.
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I much prefer it this way. I want to solve a small puzzle before work, not grind goblin combat details (2018-15 ugh) for the whole evening. No shortage of tougher puzzles out there for people who want flex their CS PhD
So the purpose of this is basically to design an ASIC in code? I’m skeptical about “extreme silicon specialization” being the “most viable” replacement to Moore’s law. Has that not already been the case since forever? The compute intensive things has already been moved onto specialized chips ala GPUs, TPUs, etc.
Which is likely his best series yet
"Seilbahn" in german. Literally translated as rope track.

The material that a rope is made out of, doesn't really matter. What matters is it being built up of smaller fibers.
get a puppy
Who said anything about propaganda? Not all ideas are classified that way, and I was talking about writing a book, not dropping leaflets.
As far as I can tell this project is not about compiling Python into hardware. It's a build tool for Verilog written in Python.
> she said “a lot of really awful racist things” [..] a link to a white supremacist video [..] his parents could not comprehend the reality of people being victimised because of their background, especially given his own [Jewish] family history.

Tangential, but it is interesting, and typical, how not even a single specific thing the parents said is relayed to us. Only the son's broad characterization. Does he really believe his Jewish-with-family-killed-in-Holocaust parents are unable to comprehend prejudice? Or do they merely disagree on the extent to which prejudice is to blame?

Reminds me of an article about estranged parents - how when they talked about their children, they never described the reasons their children gave for cutting them out of their lives:

What was in the "prepared speech"? Why did her father expect her to move out at 18? The mother has two different sources of explanations at her fingertips, and she turns to neither. Nor does she repeat so much as a scrap of her daughter's allegations. - https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-mis...
It's a bit paradoxical. I have a tech company and most staff want to come to the office 1 day a week. Getting them to come is very tough. Many of my staff and friends don't want to have kids, make no effort to find a partner and find all sorts of excuses. Netflix, the internet and these things are part of the problem, but I have no clue what the solution is. There is only one way to not be lonely - be with people who care about you. That requires an investment of time and of your emotions - something many people seem unable or unwilling to do. You have to get out into the world and invest in others.
Can't imagine how this could possibly go wrong. Definitely not false results due to changes in skin colour, hair colour, etc.

I'm really really not in favour of the trend to biometricize everything because I just do not think our current methods are accurate enough.
Lookup pyroclastic flow.
I'm speaking about me personally. I am a member of the HN community and I find the article interesting. I believe that is the standard for the site. Simply what we as a community find interesting, so I shared my opinion. You are entitled to yours, but that doesn't mean the article should be removed. You are free to skip it.
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Turning off adblocker is required. Red flag.
people are married to work, get their gratification from porn and buying things

downside: no one to talk to
William Friedman believed that to be the case, with the US having broken PURPLE just before the attack.

I’m not sure William ever fully recovered from the combined strain of breaking PURPLE and Pearl Harbor being attacked.

According to his wife’s papers, one of the things Mr Friedman said during his mental break at that time was “they knew!”

How well informed people actually were is a matter of debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Friedman
Theoretically yes, but: typically with neural networks, and esp. deep networks with millions or billions of parameters, 2nd order methods which require calculating and factoring the matrix of 2nd derivatives are prohibitively expensive. 1st order methods such as gradient descent skip this, albeit with a tradeoff in convergence. The method proposed in this paper is impractical for large systems such as computer vision or language models.
In worms. A neuron was identified as playing a role in turning and, by eliminating that neuron, a worm was prevented from turning.

The headline and intro to the article gives the intentionally misleading impression that this is a human finding. It is not.
When I’ve inquired about this in the past I was told that relatively few programs compiled to silicon would outperform the same program running on a generalized chip (e.g., x86). Is this not the case?
They don't need correlation. Operating large numbers of nodes gives them a high enough probability that all three hops may be under their control thus they can observe the entire route.
Wind turbine makes me think of turbines used to generate wind, rather than turbines powered by wind.
yeah, someone discovered the typesystem is touring complete and decided to show off, don't do that.
Exactly. I am pro vaccine and am vaccinated, but I still don't trust a lot of the messaging that comes through the media pipeline. I feel as though I have no idea what's going on with myocarditis and with the 'athletes are collapsing' stuff. The "Joe Rogan takes horse dewormer" was ridiculous and really made me distrust the institutions. The Dazsak Lancet letter saying the virus was zoonotic with no conflicts of interest declared. As a parent it feels impossible to really understand the risk profile of vaccinating your child. The _real_ data is so hard to find. When the medical community says "these side effects are rare", that is a meaningless subjective statement. How rare!?

I think the 'medical community' is not getting uptake on their scientific credentials because they've destroyed their own credibility. The absolute refusal to acknowledge responsibility for the destruction of their own credibility is abhorrent. It's very similar to how Democratic political strategists are resorting to blaming the voters for Dem's losing.

There's a couple vaccine scientists in my own city who have become active on Twitter during the pandemic, and every once in a while they say something inaccurate or in my opinion unethical. I dont comment, as they have an army of people who praise everything they say. I just silently file it into 'more BS said by person X', which then influences my opinion of everything they say, forever.

When you are in a position of power, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard of communication. One drop of deception in a sea of science will ruin the whole batch.

It is baffling that these people pretend to not know why people don't trust them. It shows a complete lack of empathy, understanding and a refusal to take ownership over something that is their responsibility.
Exactly.

If people want to use vim and to use git only by cli, by all means, but if we could stop the cult like part of it that would be nice.

Same goes for telling students who are learning Java for the first time that it is smart to start with plain Notepad and javac.

Starting to program should be encouraging, not a hazing ritual.
Before Django there was Zope in python-land.

I don't think I overstate the relevance of what Django did by saying that Django almost single handledy advanced the state-of-the-art of web deployment in Python forward a decade.
> However, once again, politics and dismissal of “unfair” tactics led to a lack of bolstered defense at Pearl Habor and an unwillingness to restructure the U.S. Navy.

We still haven't learned from this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

"After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and during a combined parachute assault by the 82nd Airborne Division and Marines air assaulting on the then new and still controversial CV-22, Van Riper's forces were ordered not to shoot down any of the approaching aircraft. Van Riper also claimed that exercise officials denied him the opportunity to use his own tactics and ideas against Blue Force, and that they also ordered Red Force not to use certain weapons systems against Blue Force and even ordered the location of Red Force units to be revealed."
> Imagine if personal bank accounts were this rife with fraud!

They are. Nobody is prosecuted. The user experience is nice because the depositor is typically reimbursed quickly. Banks often do lose the actual money though. Insurance and other redundancies were added retroactively by banks who didn't want to pay for insurance, and got the state to do it, simultaneously adding enough confidence to stuff their coffers under any circumstance.

There is insurance in the DeFi space too. People that open policies are reimbursed in hacks. It is interesting that these thought pieces seem to lack any use of the products or integration in the community as the language would be pretty different, but the irony is that nobody in the community is interested in writing these thought pieces.

It eludes most people that are disillusioned or were already chronically skeptical, but the most productive approach is to talk about the future state of these systems and how they can be improved. For example, I think it is absurd that people have to manually understand that there are competing third party insurance platforms they have to use for every DeFi operation they make, so it could instead be automatic to craft the best policy alongside their transaction into another DeFi platform.

It is incredibly lucrative to make ever-so-slight improvements to this space. The people that do build here do that, the activist investors in the space push teams towards roadmaps the teams didn't originally consider. I think many people miss that they can have outsized influence, its not going away so make it better.
Why not talk both nuclear genocides against Japan?
Indeed, it is a common word in the subject areas you mentioned. Strange they didn't have an inflammatory or hostile reply when given a legitimate example of correct usage of language.
Threat Modeling as Code
Perhaps it is consistent with the system, but it seems inconsistent with the rhetoric used to justify crypto's actual existence.
The other 69% of adults learned how to play early in their life.
Federal contracts require you to bend over backwards for disabled people (now that I phrase it like that, it does sound bad, but replace disabled with Israelis and it's the same thing): https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/faqs/section-503

They go against the market to bend over backwards for certain other groups of people: https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/grow-your-business/become...

This is not really bending over backwards, but they do need you to spend additional resources on other shit as well: https://www.employer.gov/EmploymentIssues/Federal-contractor...

Don't be surprised to find out that the federal government doesn't believe in the free market.
I'm not arguing that people should be able to piss in the street or dump toxic waste. Restrictions on freedom are often justified. My point is that they are restrictions; the fact that a restriction may be good does not magically make it something other than a restriction.

I'm aware that most places in the world are not liberal. Fine with me. There's no need for every country or culture to share the same values. But in countries where libertarian freedom is a value, e.g. the US and UK, it should be defended.
The proof is mathematical, the physical thing is a validator.
To clarify, "global" in this context refers to global convergence (as in, it won't diverge no matter the starting point), not global optima. They assume a convex function, i.e. only a single minimum. The paper is unrelated to avoiding local minima.
My favourite approach for this is "compiling to categories" http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories

Essentially: lambda calculus (and hence functional programming) can be given many different interpretations; whilst we usually interpret it as a computer program describing some result value, we can also interpret it as a circuit description, and turn it directly into hardware.
What an epic podcast. And rather than being a straightforward recitation of events, it cleverly focuses on everything else: politics, the brutality of combat, personalities, why soldiers and commanders act as they do, and so on. It really drives home the feeling of the war as a slow-motion car accident, long in the making, impossible to stop, and horrific in its human impact. I’ve read a lot of military history, and this still felt so fresh, original, and dramatic.
Over here, chair lifts often have a cupola you can use to shield you from most of the wind and that keeps you decently warm (After about 2 minutes when your body heat warms it up enough)
You could replace Crypto with Gold to see your arguments make no sense. Including the energy required to mine. Also many cryptos aren't unlimited (like Ethereum).
I had a hunch going in that the authors would fail to break down how much more lonely the poor have been compared to the wealthy.

Sadly, I was correct. They really didn't mention wealth or inequality once.

Class pervades every aspect of America's problems so deeply that it's almost invisible, but that is no excuse to ignore it. Especially when we're talking about Harvard research, and especially when we're talking about a pandemic that has dramatically exacerbated wealth inequality while extremely disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities.
A lot of the M1 macbooks had similar issues where displays would crack seemingly without any abuse. All in the name of thinness. I wouldn't suppose that it's the users or horrible design at fault, but rather an issue where some tolerances were not met, so some of the parts in production are less durable than what is needed to execute the design.
Sure, or Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent or something. I'm just not sure what the authors mean by "cheap iterations".

Update: your other comment clarified this for me. It's cheap relative to other methods that work with non-self-concordant objectives.
Ever heard of the Bush family?
I haven't, to be honest I'm not much of a writer.

I have a good friend however who is a great writer, and who has written a lot about her experiences, and who is working there again: https://www.jamiezvirzdin.com/

She didn't work much on the software/hardware side of things, however.

Maybe one day I'll sit down and put some of it to paper, I definitely have a lot of stories to tell.
Yeah. Biggest wrong take in crypto is - we can solve societal problem with fancy algorithm.
I feel your pain (literally since I am currently in the same boat with). Yes Rails would be a perfect solution for the CRUD work you have. Hell Django probably would be a good solution too.

Unfortunately it was “clear” 8 years ago that JavaScript is the “future” and I think at latest 5 years ago everybody got the memo.

Right now I think it is “clear” that the “future” we build with JavaScript has gone horribly wrong and I see some of us reevaluating the tech stacks we came from (Ruby on Rails, Django…) and some doubling down on JavaScript with SSR (server side rendering) and static pages in JavaScript Frameworks.

I’m afraid “the ride” will continue for a while.
It depends on your definition of performance. ASICs can have much lower power requirements (which is why they're used for mining Bitcoin)
The loneliness crisis is what I have been wondering about lately amongst the greater push (especially within tech circles) to 100% work-from-home arrangements. Personally, although I enjoy WFH once or twice a week, I know that for me I must go in the other three days or else I do start feeling chronically lonely - even though I live with my wife and another flatmate.

One thing that I worry about is that one side effect of being lonely, as noted in this report, can be depression: and this depression can lead you to isolate yourself further, only increasing the loneliness.

That said, I have another friend working for a web developer who only began full WFH during the pandemic, and now says they'll never go back. They've told me that they don't feel lonely at all. Different strokes for different folks.
Is it possible to disguise a CNAME/TXT record?
I need to provide my clients with a CNAME record which they add to a subdomain, and a domain key TXT record for their primary domain.

However, the record includes the company name of the software I am using. I want to be able to provide my clients with records to add, which include my companies name.

Is it even possible to disguise a record like this? With some kind of redirect maybe?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Bare “xargs” should work here, I would think?
I agree with this statement; it's one of their business models, after all.
>just electron and chrome holding things up

There are flags you can pass on the commandline to tell Chrome to bypass XWayand. I have been running Chrome (stable channel) that way for many months -- on Gnome 40 set to a fractional scaling factor. No blurriness.
I can see that happening on a large codebase with a lot of devs.
Being a Java guy, I organized all the business logic and db access into a service layer, added type info and wrote a decent amount of unit tests.
I can't deny however that I am 2x faster cranking out crud screens in Django than in Java and the combination of ORM, migrations, templates, and access to the 3rd party app ecosystem is a real productivity booster.
Just don't be poor and have sex.
Do you have any recommended readings/resources to help with data modelling? Especially regarding reservation/scheduling and inventory management?