skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of the early work on the internet arguing that the amount of global connectivity wouldn't scale due to power laws. In a way, they were assuming a system like these global world sims. The equivalent of static routing (players that want to play together enter same server) exists, but the "dynamic routing" field is mostly a game of selecting which illusion to present the player (sometimes, it's okay to just stick people on a different instance but make sure their friend group is preferentially on the same one, etc).
A Guide to Rice Varieties (2019)
Edit: yikes—you've been repeatedly posting a bunch of these flamewar comments. That's obviously a bannable offence on HN. Also, you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's also a line at which we ban accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I'm not going to ban you right now, because you've also posted good comments in the past—but if you do anything like this again, we will have to. If you want to continue to be part of the community here, you're welcome, but we need you to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. That means thoughtful, substantive conversation—no more ideological flamebait and certainly no more vandalism like you've been doing lately.

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Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN, regardless of which country, and regardless of how right you are (or feel you are) about the underlying issues. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Strong disagree. The suggestion that they could be lying is what is under question in this comment chain. And, certainly, they could be, informed not only by general life experience but directly by the threads about Amazon management culture that pop up.

If professionals don't lie then why do doctors get popped for writing bad prescriptions? Why did scientists and executives lie about the harms of tobacco or lead? Etc.

What is being fought here is the suggestion that Amazon and its workers have some drive to tell the truth. Common sense dictates that is false.

Keep in mind an Amazon employee could have flagged my comment out of self interest.
Abdurrahman Rajab – Thinking like an engineer
Sounds like a cool youth crew band name to a 2x17 year old me.

This you? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx4kmM0tqpQ

I'm into it. Sounds a bit like Silent Majority (Long Island band), who I believe would have been your contemporaries although this is all before my time so I'm speculating.
I was going to say the same thing. In France if the speed limit is 50 km/h, you have to go 50 km/h unless there is a good reason not too.
Outside of cities, on the main roads the speed limit is usually either 80km/h or 90km/h. A few times while learning to drive with an instructor, he told I had to reach the max allowed speed limit as soon as possible as to not slow down the traffic and failing to do that will make me lose points on the driving test.
Makes sense, the game is 10/10 on all counts w.r.t art (architecture, music, character design, story, modelling), but relatively poor in terms of the 'business logic' of the game (the systems for gunplay/stealth/police/levelling etc are all average/poor).

Still fun though.
There were over a dozen of 0day exploits this year alone. Some used in water hole style attacks, so not even that targeted. And these are state of the art incidents which would have pwned even users with all the updates installed.

After the patch has been pushed out, exploits become progressively cheaper so letting users to postpone security updates is a crime.
“Open hardware” is a pretty generic term and OSHWA doesn’t have a monopoly over how people use it.
Very cool! It always makes me happy to see people develop tools that are useful without tying themselves in knots over the general case (total callgraph generation).

It's worth noting that it's impossible in the general case to generate a perfect callgraph for static languages as well. Function pointers in C are the obvious example, but more generally anything that converts control-flow into data-flow (like a dispatch table) causes the same problem.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what people are battling for or against, because it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Sounds like they always wanted your domain, and this was their attempt to get it. Their big scary letter is basically a bunch of “give up your legitimate rights for nothing”

Consult with a lawyer. Intuitively their case makes no sense, but actual law is not always intuitive
Not sure about the availability of gloves with five fingers. If you’re going to make a snowball you want to have your fingers free.
They wanted like $80,000. My company makes that in annual revenue, so it's a nonstarter.
One of my old bosses bought a Subaru, she said the night she brought it come they had a massive hailstorm and when she filed an insurance claim they ended up totaling the car.

I guess the only silver lining is there are plenty of "salvage title" cars out here that are salvage just because of hail. Great for anyone that needs a car and doesn't care about dents.
StarFive Dubhe 64-bit RISC-V core to be found in 12nm, 2 GHz processors
Sorry I can't help myself, but here are some more "easy overview" books:

The Manga Guide to ... (series) from No Starch Press (https://nostarch.com/catalog/manga)

The Cartoon Guide to ... (series) from Larry Gonick (http://www.larrygonick.com/)

Physics for Everyone (series) from Mir Publishers an old Soviet publisher (https://mirtitles.org/2011/06/03/physics-for-everyone/)

Note that one of the Mir PDF scans is a little bad, but I think someone will probably republish these soon if possible.
Also the title is a bit misleading. The functionality is lost in year on practice (actual impact), not in month.

V2 functionality for existing extensions will not work on January 2023. They stop accepting new extensions with V2 on the next January.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/
Look man that guy over there has a snow ball and is ready to use it… we don’t have time to worry about cold fingers!
I would say "no". Or ignore it.

Don't ask for money. Being seen as "domain squatting" them will work against you in a tribunal.
Excel still is used heavily in government. I wrote a VBA macro for an Excel spreadsheet that would take a payroll flat text file, import it into SQL Server using OLE DB, do some data clean up, sort and then export to separate sheets in a different spreadsheet by employee name. Before I wrote this macro (which took a couple days), the payroll department of this government organization had dedicated an entire 40 hour per week person to doing this manually. They had been doing that job for years!
A lot of words to justify that you know you’ll likely be impacting someone who did nothing against you.
Comet: A distraction-free Git commit message editor
You are assuming "easily winnable" without knowledge of all the facts and the law. The whole reason to hire an attorney is to get an informed opinion about where you stand in the first place.
Also related, there's a "tv" domain, registered after my trademark that serves porn. Same question.

For this one, I've taken the general position that as long as they don't show up in the first 3 pages of google results for "company", I don't really care, but same question.

For context, my company is a saas booking platform for outdoor recreation businesses.
Yes, I understand. I was responding to someone who was arguing that it was inaccurate to say that Go lacked a VM or interpreter. Yes, Go has a runtime, but that doesn't imply that it has a VM or interpreter (it doesn't).
> Trusting any single author is a single point of failure

This is what Linux distributions are for: all big distributions have a team of maintainers plus a dedicated security team.
In a nutshell, what I favor is automatically accepting upstream security releases when those releases can be validated by multiple identities. Probabilistically, this shortens but does not eliminate the window when you are vulnerable.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, typical primary package management systems trust the single author/uploader of a package and don't provide support for multi-authority validation, and so are vulnerable as soon as a single author's credentials get compromised. (If that's wrong, and npm, PyPI, crates.io, Maven, or anybody else supports multi-authority validation, I would love to hear about it.)

I came to these conclusions having been deeply involved with release policy at the ASF. (I redrafted the official release policy documents in 2015.) The ASF, notably, requires at least one PGP signature for every release, but some projects have a tradition of multiple signatories — including the Apache HTTPD project, which is where the tradition arose.
It's not "Open Source" (making code public and free to use and modify) that's broken. It's how people rely on it without any consideration about the sourcing of it.

It's not that it's free to pick and to use. It's that some/most people too often associate "it's free" to be equivalent to "I don't need to care about it, like, at all".

It's that some/most people don't understand that, whatever they take, they become dependent of, for the better and for the worse (insert Marie Kondo cue here).

The interesting thing here is that there's a full new line of work for Info/OpSec opening here: ensuring that your software supply chain is not only secured, but also properly funded and supported.

That's like... common sense in so many "old" industries.
Try to reply you can pay $5k...
trouble is the interface to actual money - the only coins that have any depth of dollar liquidity are BTC and ETH, both of which are proof-of-work. Even if your low-fee shitcoin just happens to have a USD pair, it's startlingly unlikely to have enough depth not to have massive slippage on trades; so functionally, buyers have to go via BTC or ETH. This is also the fallacy of non-PoW NFT chains.
I've always wondered in these cases -- are we talking about a situation where "failure" means making less money than when you were 35, but by any objective measure still bringing in a very good paycheck? ie, Perhaps you used to make $170k, and now you "only" make $130k? Or are we talking about a situation where you get to a certain age and you literally can't find any work?
If what comes out of your mouth is (eg.) a disapproval of same-sex or inter-racial relationships, maybe you should be afraid to speak.

And it's likely that Shirier would agree--I doubt she would be critical of eg. a publisher refusing to publish ku klux klan diatribes.

The problem is that this isn't a black-and-white issue. Most people agree with cancelling someone at a certain point--we just dont all agree where to draw the line.
Right - it's a bar, and some people won't meet that bar. And that said - a pretty minimal bar.

1,000 lines isn't that large, btw - but yeah, maybe 500 would be a better number.
I totally agree that the existence of these drugs make the world a better place. I also totally agree that there should be significant financial upside to developing drugs like these, after all we do want to incentivise making the world a better place.
But surely there must be a middle ground? This seems to be priced by a "what are people willing to pay for this?"(a lot, given its life saving/changing nature) vs "what do we need to charge for this, including a healthy profit for everyone involved". (much less, presumably?)
I fundamentally dislike, from the perspective of the patient, the thought that precisely /because/ the drug is desperately needed by someone through no fault of their own, it /deserves/ to be expensive.

The foundation getting a cut of the success and reinvesting in new opportunities sounds good though, thanks for pointing that out!
That goes against basic union dogma. No employee should be given worse (better) treatment or incentives than another employee of comparable standing. And luckily, once the union comes in, none of them will be, which is what the email at issue kind of says.
eu-west-1 was not impacted by this event. I’m assuming you saw 503 Slowdown responses, which are non-exceptional and happen for a multitude of reasons.
Sorry, I'm not getting it. Are you a successful streamer and are offering your own experience as evidence? Or are you a non-streamer just giving your general take?

You make my point with that screenshot. The chat isn't unrelated. The chat is primary. The streamers I talked to and the streaming I've watched is a performance for an audience. It's way more interactive than most live theater, even the stuff with audience participation. And it's leaps and bounds more socially demanding than film work.

As an example, watch this video from a streamer with 120k followers on Twitch:

https://twitter.com/negaoryx/status/1354147400160403457

While playing the game she is deeply involved a conversation with the people watching. As streamers explained it to me, that's key to the economics of being a successful streamer, in that significant audience segments are buying a feeling of being in the in-group, and that feeling has to be supported with actual interaction with the streamer.

I agree that's not the same thing as being on the same stage with people. But it's still very social. Similarly, remote work is still social. I've never met any of my colleagues, for example, but they're still people to me.
In terms of destructiveness, yes the tornados are worse. But OP is saying that in terms of frequency*destructiveness*area, high winds are more impactful to his life.
same, i was using Mozilla, then Opera till version 12, and then Firefox. I never even installed Chrome, willingly at least.

For one period google was using those very shady tactics of packaging chrome with unrelated software, literally like a malware. Do you remember?
I'm sure many more words have been written by legal nastygrammers justifying their own actions of unsolicited aggression.
Lockdown Privacy
> ... and could have zillions of equally uninteresting variations.

Which themselves could generate uninteresting theorems:

Theorem: The set of such uninteresting variations of "All natural numbers are larger than minus ten" is countably infinite.

Proof: Let the uninteresting variations of "All natural numbers are larger than minus ten" be represented as "All natural numbers are larger than minus n" where n is a natural number. Since there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the natural numbers and the natural numbers, the set of uninteresting variations of "All natural numbers are larger than minus ten" is countably infinite.∎
I don't think I'd get through my working day without tree style tabs. It is essential.
What level are you teaching?
>Anyone got a favorite obscure language they could recommend?

Icon by Ralph Griswold et al, at U of AZ. Some innovative language features.

Pike. Supposed to be fast. Roxen web server written in Pike.

ElastiC (not a typo, IIRC).

Has checked these out some years ago.

Donno current status.

For lots more, check Wikipedia list of programming languages.
> They are just trying to “ strong arm” the domain away from you with a threatening letter.

This isn't ok and making them go away isn't good enough. They need to pay for having made that long list of demands and threats, ideally by having their whole business taken away and given to OP.
I used to be able to do this thing to where if I kept perfectly still, I'd "stare" (with eyes closed) into the nothingness---by that I mean I'd be staring into the backs of my eyelids---and there'd be a point in which my mind would start to create images. For instance, the shape would take the form of a fish, and then I'd see it become a radio, etc.

If I held on and tried this for as long as possible, I'd feel my body drift off to sleep. But it was hard, because there'd be something in me that would jerk and stop the imagery (like a hypnic jerk, just nowhere near as uncomfortable).

There was a bizarre situation where one evening I felt my body convulse (or perhaps I imagined it) and I'd actually fallen asleep. However, I was so freaked out by it that I shook my body awake, in my dream, and I woke up. I must've been out for less than a minute or so.

It's been 7-8 months since I was last able to stare into the nothingness and let sleep overtake me. Maybe it's my caffeine intake or something else, but I would like to experience it again.

Edit: I'm pretty sure they were hypnagogic hallucinations. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnagogic-h...
TLDR it works as expected.

Participants who received a booster at least 5 months after a second dose of BNT162b2 had 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 than participants who did not receive a booster.
Here's a summary, quoted from the article:

> RESULTS

> A total of 843,208 participants met the eligibility criteria, of whom 758,118 (90%) received the booster during the 54-day study period. Death due to Covid-19 occurred in 65 participants in the booster group (0.16 per 100,000 persons per day) and in 137 participants in the nonbooster group (2.98 per 100,000 persons per day). The adjusted hazard ratio for death due to Covid-19 in the booster group, as compared with the nonbooster group, was 0.10 (95% confidence interval, 0.07 to 0.14; P<0.001).

> CONCLUSIONS

> Participants who received a booster at least 5 months after a second dose of BNT162b2 had 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 than participants who did not receive a booster.

This paper can't take omicron into account, but, it's definitely good news. I'll take a 90% lower mortality rate any day.
For those not getting the reference:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Off-topic: with a bunch of vintage ‘booting a computer’ stuff lately on HN and in my YT recommendations, I keep remembering what I once read about an old trick for ‘faster booting’: on bootup, the computer displayed a static screenshot taken before the shutdown (or rather to-disk suspension, apparently)—and while the user themselves tried to remember what they were doing the day before, the machine actually loaded programs into the memory. Only after that the cursor started blinking. Since after turning on the power the user received fast(er) feedback which kept them occupied, they perceived the bootup as much quicker than it actually was.

Only, I don't remember what computer that was—probably paid more attention to the UX-design side at the time. If anyone knows, I'd be grateful for the reference, so I could finally file this properly among my pile of tech trivia.
Just to be clear, domain squatting has a definition. The fact that a domain you want isn't currently available is not domain squatting.

"What is domain squatting? This is the practicing of buying a domain name for the sole purpose of preventing someone else from buying it. Typically, the buyer will then resell the domain name at a higher price to a buyer who is desperate to pay for the domain. The domain squatter takes a risk in trying to find a domain that someone else will be willing to pay at an up-charge to buy the domain in the future."

If the .com "preexists your trademark", it's harder to prove they bought it to prevent you from buying it. If you're a small business smaller than $80K per year in revenue, it's likely they don't even know you exist.
Do you use only full screen browser windows? I got the feeling that TST doesn't play nice with narrower windows as it requires a lot of horizontal space. I've got 10 browser windows on 5 different desktops now (8 Firefox, 1 Vivaldi, 1 Chrome). Only 3 of them are full screen, one per browser. The window I'm currently typing it is wide about 2/3 of the screen and it's probably twice as wide as it should be to read HN (the lines are too long to read comfortably.) My screen is 15.6", 16:9.
None of the companies I’m at paid managers more than ICs level-for-level.
How did you track down those problems to reside within TST? I've been using it for years with routinely 100's and occasionally thousands of tabs open without any issue whatsoever.
That's a plausible direction, but what I'm looking for is then a detailed analysis of what constitutes job-ness.

Another possible line of inquiry is mastery. We're a tool-using species and we definitely have some disposition to skill acquisition and skill perfection.

A third would be something related to wealth acquisition. That idle games burst through the diminishing returns curve by continually upping the game, overriding a mechanism that keeps us from over-focusing.

And I'm sure there are more possibilities. Which is why I'd love to see an analysis of the game mechanisms, as I think it would narrow the hunt.
Mods didn't touch your comment or even see it. Users flagged it, and rightly so because it was obviously flamebait.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this site more to heart? We want thoughtful, curious conversation here, not ideological bashing.
>Are you in the same industry and compete with each other? If so, there might be an issue

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> as I was using the name 7+ years before them with a similar product

Sounds like they are, but that the issue is in the reverse, they are trying to steal the authors market and product directly by using their name. This is very aggressive, not to mention wrong.
Well, I guess it's quite similar where I'm from (in EU) where it depends if you're an individual or have an LLC like form of organization.

Even if you're sole proprietorship there are a things to happen to risk being classified as employee, like not setting your own working hours, working with company tools, not being able to sell to other clients (of course you can do that) and so on.

I really doubt it's an issue with Paddle, they have lots of german customers.
Ah, I see. I was still somehow under the impression that adblockers worked by hiding HTML tags :D.
Couldn't you have used https://airmessage.org/ ?
Companies rely on their fuckups to force you to update so you get the rest of the kool-aid right along with the stuff that is a must have. You can't say 'just give me that security stuff and hold the trash'.
So much for the hippocratic oath :(

It also makes me think that quantifying the secondary health effects of medical debt induced bankruptcy and other harms might not be a bad idea for a paper. Specifically comparing that against the benefits from said healthcare in the first-place. I imagine someone has already done this?
I thought the issue happened when they launched iTunes. Perhaps it happened both times.