skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well can you elaborate why you think it is? Because the way I see it, it gives unwavering and constitutionally guaranteed way for billionaires to control the narratives - in addition to the power they already have been wielding through owning politicians using lobbyists and having protection through section 230 in all the stakes they own in the social media companies.

That’s what has been happening in the media space - Murdochs, Turners and Bezos now own vast sum of media sphere. And social medias just use them as proxy for “fact checks”.
This is in micro scale, so perhaps this is why the power imbalance is so painfully clear. This is one guy against the whole might of the US.

Of course events like this have been happening for centuries, recent decades included. The people in various countries caught up in wars had their lives ruined or lost. At best, this was despite all efforts to safeguard them and a price to pay for some greater good, at worst footnote to some uncaring Grand Plan. The end result is the same though.

The machine of Western Democracy devours those who cross it hard enough. Maybe to protect those inside the bubble, or maybe because it's still floating in the same Big Bad World as the less democratic counterparts around the world.
I think the first part with Long Haired Keanu is all filmed. He has all the details on his face and his face wobbles the way it does in real life. Same goes for the wrinkles on his shirt when he is touching the sofa.

The neo that wakes up in front of computer didn't look real. Also when he transformed to his young self, that immediately looked bad and definitely CGI.

The statement at start of video is not fair (a lie).
long covid has very similar demographics to chronic fatigue syndrome.

issues like these are very politicized, but it's likely that most of long covid is a combination of people who are having post-illness long-term sequelae and then also people with CFS-like symptoms, perhaps exacerbated by negative media coverage around covid and long covid.
The Vermont Inn Syndrome for Programmers (1981)
Hearings? lol, he’d have vanished in the middle of the night and that’s it
A Simple Exploit Is Exposing the Biggest Apps on the Internet
Not sure which "media" you got this from, myocarditis cases were first reported in young athletes with Covid, then army personnel that was vaccinated, if I remember correctly.

The absolute risk is very small though, a lot smaller than e.g. driving a car.
Wonder if they will get some kind of bonus points in heaven for the streak of daily prayers for more than a thousand years uninterrupted. Don't lose the streak! ;)
The major problem I have with that is performance is atrocious [1] if the iterator isn't doing something very nontrivial. Since the vast majority of iterators amount to incrementing at most a handful of things and then returning something indexed by those things, you're paying the cost of channel communication per item but not getting that channel cost amortized over any significant costs in the iteration itself. If the thing using the iterator is also not doing anything significant (i.e., adding integers together), this has very bad performance implications.

As a rule of thumb, the amount of work transferred by any concurrency primitive should significantly exceed the cost of the concurrency primitive itself. I do have a couple of uses of this pattern where what is on the other side of the channel is something reading off a network and parsing lines of JSON into internal structs, in which case the overhead of the channel isn't necessarily too bad. (In one case, it even chunks the lines of JSON into a slice of several parsed structs, reducing channel overhead even more.) But it's a terrible solution in general; iterating over an array and doing any sort of very fast "thing" to each element that only costs a handful of assembler instructions, a very common use case, has terrible overhead.

It's a real pity, because the semantics of that solution are pretty close to the right answer. But it's a huge performance trap. Something as basic as iteration needs to not be a huge performance trap.

[1]: Relative to Go, anyhow. I haven't timed it directly but I wouldn't be surprised that a channel-based iterator like that would be comparable to Python's general iteration speed, or at least not off by a very large factor. It's just that "Python's normal level of performance" is "atrocious Go performance".
I'm not sure I agree with that. Misses on short-term plans are a different concern to progress on a multi-century plan. Pig iron production might've missed its forecast for 2020, but it'd undeniable that China is building tremendous expertise in advanced manufacturing - and at a similar rate to that at which the west is shedding it.
DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size
I am sorry but you are confused here. The irresponsible leak of all the unredacted cables was not done by Wikileaks but by a Guardian journalist.
https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html
When the option was between VB 6 or doing COM in raw C++....

Granted we still had MFC, but then the COM lovers at Microsoft started pushing for ATL, and everything that followed from there.

On the other side we had (and still have) Delphi and C++ Builder, but Borland's management killed the indie culture around them.
This conflates two very different things: cut-throat KPI-driven development practices at companies like Amazon, and the entire current generation of software developers. You're taking problems caused by the environment and attributing them to a moral deficiency in the people, which is neither fair nor helpful.
Maybe at levels of obesity where it affects mortality, the gender difference in fat composition is negligible?
Don’t worry guys, it’s only the other tribe that’s affected by this. We follow facts.
I don't use my touchscreen heavily, but I do use it regularly for scrolling.

If I was into virtual desktops, I'd probably use it to swipe between them.

When using non-touchscreen laptops, my wife and I do often have the urge to touch the screens, so there is definitely some muscle memory built up from using touchscreen laptops.
Glad you got the settings to work to improve your experience, now also imagine waiting 5 years for developers to really optimize and innovate how they use this engine and the PS5's resources.

Going to be funny listening to elitist PC gamers talk about how inferior everything still looks by then, even though they just play nostalgic pixel art games on Steam all day.
A lot of people in car forums are super upset about this and angry with their specific automaker. But of course, it is happening to all of them that haven't moved off of 3G.

https://www.toyota.com/audio-multimedia/support/3g-faq/

https://lexus2.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10537/~/...

https://www.subaru.com/3g-network-retirement.html?SIE=9ad00c...

Etc.
https://autobala.com/how-3g-shutdown-in-2022-will-ruin-your-...

Amazing that Honda have current cars affected.
Japan has very low quality iron ores. Yet they turned out (arguably) the best steel swords in the world.

Constraints don't always lead to bad outcomes.
It was apparent from the start that the pandemic kills fat old men. I control only one of those parameters. I spent the time I saved not commuting on a bike. Many benefits. Could still do better. And, yes, vaxxed and boosted.
I knew him as the founder and director of Wikileaks, and that Wikileaks collaborates with a number of publications to get the content of some classified information known to the general public. I didn't know that Julian Assange wrote much himself and in similar fashion worked directly as a journalist. So I'd say that at least one person (me) knew about him without knowing him as a journalist.

Your last sentence make it sound like understood the complete opposite of what I said.

Anyway, I'm not interested in having a discussion about Julian Assange, where I think we probably are on the same side. I just wanted to make a the small side remark about the fault in the logic.
It's not "weasels" scampering out of the wood work.

This is a community of highly technical users expressing legitimate frustration and concern that the biggest player in cloud hosting is

a) having a service impacting event, and
b) the status page says everything is up

That's why people talk about the beneits of alternate hosting arrangements. If the status page said what was happening, there would be no need to ask "is AWS down?" the status would be clear.
How do you differentiate between "actually abandoned and probably dangerous" and "actively maintained, but updated only very rarely, because there's nothing left to do"?
No, I used a CO2 laser. I don't imagine a diode laser would cut it.
likely much more to do with

1. poor testing

2. much younger skewing population compared to any other continent.
Aging researchers should try reversing graying first
Universities are not political prizes
no women and no computers. do they have a sign up list?
I doubt the US intends to murder him.
Thankfully I never had to navigate (much) the UK process. Sorry to hear about your torments...
You touch on an important difference between languages. A lot of existing tooling in this space focuses on static languages, exactly because there are existing tools that you can build on to get something implemented more quickly. But, very few of those existing tools work for multiple static languages. LSP does, in that it provides a standard data API that all of the language-specific tools can implement — but you still have to implement the concepts once for each language that you want to support.

There are relatively fewer existing tools in this space for dynamic languages. (Sorbet etc for Ruby are good examples of ones that do exist.) The ones that do require a fair bit of effort to implement, because you can't piggy-back on existing bits of a compiler, since there isn't one! (The analogous parts of a runtime interpreter tend to be much harder to piggy-back on for analysis purposes, since they all have a deeply ingrained assumption that you're in the middle of trying to execute the code.)

So, the end result is that the “delta” between existing tools and what stack graphs provide is a bit bigger for a language like Python than (for instance) Go or Java. And that's a roundabout description of one of the reasons we had for targeting Python first!
The problem is not that he's an enemy of US government interests. Sure he is. The problem is the hypocrisy. The US claims moral superiority, advocates for the non-persecution of journalists, free speech, rule of law and judicial due process, "democracy" etc. in other countries, but it's all lies and hypocrisy. The US criticizes "authoritarian regimes" like Russia in cases like Navalny, whereas the US is no different in treating those it deems to be enemies of the state.
A Brief Hello to Hotwire and Turbo (2020)
>> GPT-3 yields almost human-level generalization ability for some tasks.

That's an extravagant claim. There's no machine learning or other system, or algorithm, or technique, that can approach the ability of humans to "generalise" in any task, no matter how you want to define "generalisation". The models built by ANNs in particular are shallow and over-specialised and have none of the depth or complexity of whatever "models" of the world and the entities in the world that humans build in our heads.

Evaluations that show "superhuman" ability are poorly designed. Machine learning research is following benchmarks and metrics that mean nothing and show nothing, beyond the ability to beat said benchmarks with said metrics, which is then blithely taken to mean "progress" towards the approximation of human intelligence. This then leads to hyperbole like in your comment.
I hope this doesn't come off sounding the wrong way, but there is a difference between being religious (doctrine) and belief (faith) in something. I hope you consider what that might mean.

I've been warned by moderators on here for being "too preachy" before, so I will leave it at that, but if you wish to talk more about it in a different venue, let me know. Cheers.
Reasonable advice but it comes off as an arrogant comment. How are you so sure what you believe is correct?
I use Daygram, which has a one time fee for pro version. It checks most boxes, very minimal and frictionless to log anything.
I know it is not recommended, but for small (-to-medium) websites you can use DNS failover. I run non-critical services but still I like to have above-average uptime, so I have them configured in two separate physical locations by two different providers. From the point of view of visitors, they had zero downtime in the last 7 years, in spite of several hardware failures (disks, motherboard, power supply - all resolved within an hour). I know it because I tested it multiple times from various location checking what happens if one of them dies.

Of course if you have millions of visitors a day, you'll do better with a more robust setup, but mine costs me €80/month.
Not wanting what’s coming, and regretting his choices are not the same thing. He fought the good fight, I hope that’s worth something to him.
Emotional management
I think that may be a reference to Cyberpunk 2077, which Keanu also starred in, being a disappointment based on the marketing.
There's no way to draw this line. The vast majority of commercial journalism is propaganda, unsubstantiated by tangible facts and portrayed in directions strictly favorable to power and pleasing to the audience. Far from jesters speaking truth to power, commercial media are largely courtesans.
Half-assed document dumps aren't journalism. He's a leaker, he didn't put any of the documents in context.
I must +1 this, Django ninja is outstanding.
The HashiCorp Story in 90 Minutes with Mitchell Hashimoto
The European institutions run the Atlassian suite internally so if they self-host anything, which they most likely will, it will be Bitbucket because that's what their IT is experienced with.
You can roll your own with call/cc, but I'm not aware of any out-of-the-box implementation in Schemes. Racket has an exception-handling mechanism, but it's similar to ones from other languages and it doesn't offer restarts. It does also have a more powerful notion of delimited continuations and continuation marks, which would make rolling your own condition system a bit easier (well, discounting the initial research as to what the heck they are in the first place :))
In the book "Wanting", the author has a bit explaining silent retreats, which are basically vacations where no one is allowed to talk and everyone reads. I thought they were an interesting idea to kind of test out monkhood. Similarly, I have always wanted to try John Carmack's idea of taking a computer away to a hotel for a week and working on a project and ordering room service
Hm, my understanding/memory of the history of internet technologies has a lot more "let's try this and see if it works" than your comment about the role of specing it out and up-front design in the internet would suggest. I think there was actually quite a bit of people in labs just doing things, coordinating informally with people they knew personally in other labs.

Yes, there was also, at various points and times, specs and big-picture thinking, sure.
You're correct that the knee jerk reactions are a bit over the top, but what is so interesting is how little the benefits of cloud are discussed here on HN. People who haven't used cloud native services think it's just EC2 and someone else's computer. But the idea of compute and data all being controlled through a single set of APIs, controlled by the same security syntaxes, is pretty incredible. Of course I'm a fan of the idea of on-prem alternatives, but the unified architecture is nice.
How do the attackers ddos an inhouse deployment that cannot be accessed from the internet without joining a VPN?

They can try to saturate the VPN host maybe, but that's going to be challenging considering that it's going to be limited to connection requests without valid credentials.

and these are likely set to be ignored on multiple failed attempts through fail2ban or similar tooling
When I read Neal Stephenson's "Anathem", the thing that called out to me the most in that novel was the "mathic" life of the main protagonist and his contemporaries. A life of contemplation, study, and garden husbandry is very appealing.
> yes, of course `caddddr` will be unreadable, probably, so just don't

I've found in general, while cute that they exist, the ca*d*r family of functions are certainly a code-smell in any lisp/scheme. They're typically a sign you really want a rather different data structure than a list, and if not they can almost always be replaced with `drop`/`take`.
"sobering view of how the world really works" for whom this is unexpected, which is to say, the most naive.

Laws don't go beyond who enforces them. And this is as expected, they're not an omnipotent/divine construct.

The general public view of Assange is not so great and it went down with time. Manning is probably viewed more favourably.

States that were too tolerant with those who "skirt the rules" (or just do very serious crimes) usually end up regretting it (or not living to regret it, which is worse). I would be very happy if those involved in some January events at D.C. got a similar treatment.
I have no problem with the 6% number for URA. The problem I have is that the 6% never seems to include managers. So when your manager bad hire bungles the OP1, constantly randomizes the team, and then jets to another team in 18 months the manager keeps their stock grant and the poor pleb dev that worked under those conditions gets the axe for their 'poor performance'.
Having observed my child want to break things since he was only a few months old, I've come to believe it might just be part of human nature to destroy things.

That sounds cynical, but I don't mean it that way. If we didn't continually strive to challenge the limits of our might and power, we probably wouldn't be where we are today.

Part of challenging our limits is precisely empirically evaluating the question "is it within my physical power to break this thing?"

And nature gives us a little kick out of it, to make sure we try.
Watching how poorly some professional athletes perform during long Covid recovery makes me highly doubt CFS as the root cause. Also, people have reported long-term loss of smell which also isn’t a typical post-illness or CFS thing.
Duplicate. Is HN automated dupe detection broken? I'm seeing a lot of those lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29493444
In assange’e case, the opposite is true. They were avoiding paying the cost before his leaks. Now the reputational damage is done and so there is less for them to avoid.
Talk is cheap. Did they carry it out?
Extrapyramidal Side Effects
As far as I know monastic life is not really work-free or worry-free. It's still a society with a lot of baggage. You are even expected to work for free and don't question the authority of the "upper-class".

The only chance to be "free" would be to live in a very remote area, alone. That's a tough life but at least you don't have any answer to anyone.
I think that's gp's point: rather than saying "An ancient computer that we don't understand is making us realise how little we know about the ancient world and challenging our assumptions about ancient technology" the headline is "An ancient computer that shouldn't exist".
I agree but there is one thing -- if enough of the crypto-rich convert enough of their crypto-money to "fiat" then eventually, we may have a class of billionaires even more disconnected from the traditions of society than the Silicon Valley crop has been.[0][1]

And these people may found universities, buy politicians, sit on the boards of art museums.

So, while I personally don't think it'd be a good thing, I think there's a decent possibility the "crypto people" will someday use the spoils of their business to dabble in large-scale social engineering, and in a roundabout way that's how the dudes with the bitcoins will leave their mark.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/elon-musk-philan...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_General_Hospital

...I could go on and on...
> The experience hasn't been great. It may simply be sour 'grapes' because, after all the expertise a whole generation has built up learning UNIX, and all the internet protocols (DNS, ARP, Email, reading RFCs, networking, routing) we get told that all that old stuff is just 'legacy,' and that we should retool around amazon's proprietary services instead.

Losing skills you worked on for years is just part of this space. We are continually building on new abstractions so that we can focus on building solutions.

This really feels like a rant of kids these days. SCRUM doesn’t mean you can’t do upfront design.
Largest SaaS companies in SF by amount raised
I had no idea what Xsnow was and I still do not
&action=purge clears their cache, not mine. Instead of rending the page every visit, they cache them for obvious performance gains. But that can cause issues for things involving dates. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache
I'm not moving anything, just augmenting my point. Reread my comment and do s/serverless/cloud/ if you want, I still stand behind it either way.
Landing page is not on the aws status page.
Great writeup. Some of the points are moot now that generics are being released, but some very valid concerns.

I would also add that Enums + Exhaustive Switch is a very very weak area in Go that would really benefit the language a ton. I've used those features in other languages and that's one of the things I miss the most, especially when dealing with a ton of web API's that have a defined set of values for properties.

Able to have the confidence that we're checking for every situation that could occur on an enum type across the codebase is one less thing I need to worry about.
> it's running completely on smart contracts

The human judges/arbitrators aren’t, and they’re what’s critical. The contract cannot be sensibly completed without their input.

So you have an escrow system where human judges need to supply critical information. I’m left having to trust the human judges, unsurprisingly. Running this basic escrow code on the blockchain means that I no longer have to trust the kind of basic escrow code that’s used in centralised escrows. My question now is whether the escrow code of centralised providers (if condition then funds.release()) is really so unreliable that I’ll get get tonnes of benefit using blockchain escrows. Whenever there’s controversy over escrows, it comes down to the arbitration, which as you admitted would still be performed by humans.
You are still much better of with the vaccine than with covid.

While mRNA vaccines increase the risk by a factor of 3.2, covid increases the risk by a factor of 18.3. But there are many other averse things that may happen during an infection with sars-cov-2

https://smw.ch/article/doi/SMW.2021.w30087
Ask HN: Favorite Thing Built to Last?
What is your favorite thing that was built to last? This is, perhaps, a cheesy country song that speaks to the idea https://youtu.be/E4i2fC1U38s . Is "built to last" an obsolete notion? As for me, I still have my father's old original Vise Grip https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/machines_12.html .
The Second Demographic Transition theory holds that low fertility rates are a feature of developed economies, just as high fertility rates are a feature of agrarian economies. I don’t see how any government can do anything to halt this.

It will be interesting anyway to see what the Chinese government resorts to once these relatively mild policies fail to halt the decline in fertility rates.
why. just why live in the same place for ever not knowing anything over the walls
Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions [pdf]
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