skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the 2 sides.. the rational side, and the conspiracy-riddled side.

Of course both sides believe they're the rational one, and the other side is the nutjob wacko one.. and both believe they're right.
GrandPad
Code reviews are useful, but I've never seen them used as an argument against writing tests.
...by my 4yo
And smoking crack
One of the benefits of being old is you get to indulge yourself and buy your presents early, so I got an N scale train set. Now I'm figuring how to fit a layout table into my room somehow and planning an arduino based control panel for 2 or 3 simultaneous running lines.

The cats find it far more entertaining than Factorio.
Wonder how many classifiers you have to stack to identify clickbait titles on arxiv or if you should rather use attention
Decentralized Identity for individuals and devices.

I've found the images here to be a good quick and dirty summary: https://www.gsma.com/identity/decentralised-identity
Yes, one of the CPUID arguments returns a string. Normally, the values are either "GenuineIntel" or "AuthenticAMD" in ASCII, marshalled as 3 32-bit registers so 12 bytes in total.
Is it even worth reading news?

corrected the title for you.

News those days is nothing more than "socially acceptable entetainment for grownups". There’s a reason why lot of industry call the whole package "infotainment".

What’s worth reading? What has an impact on your life. What will change some of your decisions. In that regard, Proust told it a long time ago: what’s important is in the books (probably already around you). News is just a distraction except for your very professional niche (and even in that case, if an information is important for you, the world will manage to pass the memo).

So : is it even worth reading news? No, for most people. (in fact, the world would probably be better if less people were reading the news).

If news in entertainment, then the answer is clear: read what is fun for you
RadioShack devolved in such a way, with a long dying death, that all of my memories of early radioshack have been replaced with later-year memories of their store, when they became a total joke. I have no nostalgia for the brand. I'm sure it would be different if they went out of business with dignity in like 2001.

The last time I went into Radioshack to 'get something' in 2011, i needed to get a couple of cables to connect a mini HDMI cable to a full size connector. They didn't have the exact cable so I had to get several different ones to make the connection work. The price for the cables was literally $91, so I didn't get it, and ordered it online instead. Sad
Luckily, they all signed the class action waiver and didn't mail in their opt out with the address in green ink like the terms and conditions said.
Except the orthodoxy of COVID-19 vaccine efficiency happens to be scientifically accurate and evolutionary advantageous as well, which is the article's argument promoting Kolmogorov complicity. So let's retire this tired retread without the dignity of yet another thread.
…by the Hydraulic Press Channel.
I think you're referring to a different Google Scholar feature than what I was referring to.

Google Scholar will periodically email me a researcher their AI thinks does work similar to me. For the most part this is close but not quite right. It sounds to me like this is what you're referring to.

I set up manual Google Scholar alerts for citations to papers of interest to me and some particular search queries. Many of these are unrelated to anything I have published, and they don't depend at all on my publications. I've heard of many interesting papers through these alerts.
Yeah; that’s a hard UX problem. Obviously my code editor needs access to my source code files. I as a user should decide which files I’m editing and when. But we have plenty of good precedents for this sort of stuff with mobile apps and browser extensions. “This app wants permission to access X because (developer provided reason). Allow?”. As a user I should be able to authorise whatever I want.

The goal is that when some random package inevitably goes rogue, the result shouldn’t be a full and complete compromise of my system. My partner’s work laptop recently was sitting at 100% cpu for no reason sometimes. We traced it back to a dodgy chrome extension which was probably mining cryptocurrency. Because the malicious extension didn’t have filesystem permissions, it couldn’t do much more harm than that.

I want wasi to help us do the same thing with desktop apps. To me it which fits in the same bucket as openbsd’s pledge (and the Linux equivalents). Wasi could ideally allow fine grained control at a per library level. Eg, I pull a video encoding library into my project but when I load the library I specify which system APIs the module has access to. In this case, it has filesystem access but no internet access. So even if there’s memory bugs in the library or malicious code, it can’t connect to command & control servers or anything like that. And this is exactly what Firefox is starting to do with some of the libraries they use.
Here you wonder what the programmers implementing this were thinking
Typical modern tech approach to user problems. Sorry we tried, most customers are happy though so we're winning, move fast and break things etc
> The great powers no longer need them, they decry them as inhumane, they sign bans, and then (almost) everyone stops using them.

See for example Bret Devereux: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes
I thought chargebacks also result in bans typically? If anything, I'd expect CFPB arbitration to be less likely to result in a megacorp ban than a chargeback. But I don't have any first or second-hand experience.
This sort of thing is why I still use cash as much as possible.

That way you have an atomic transfer. I get food, you get money.

It could easily work with card, just pay on arrival and show the driver the payment confirmation.

But that would mean Uber taking a small risk of fraud (e.g. people ordering food they didn't want before their account gets banned).

So it won't happen unless people force it. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish that everyone else just, well, had a backbone. There are so many minor examples of bad systems all over the place that continue to exist because most people just put up with bad practice.

Not an advert, but I predominantly use Just Eat in the UK for this reason, or just go directly to restaurants. Their fees are lower too.
Pitch your investors the VPN business. That's what web scraping is at scale - a series of networking techniques that allow users to do what they want without being blocked.
Australian hardwoods are a bit like this. Jarrah looks amazing, is crazy heavy and sinks. New Zealand power poles are still sometimes Jarrah.

Another odd one is old olive. I’ve had sections that when hit with an axe won’t split and bounce the axe. And seemingly remain unmarked. Splitting gnarled olive is miserable.
A lot. Semantics that can be made fast (e.g. C vs Python) with little effort.

(Some languages with bad semantics for that might still get fast, but the language itself isn't designed to help that. JS for example was made fast, but with tons of effort but with tons of money and man-centuries thrown in by Google, Apple, Mozilla, MS, not the kind of recources available to most languages. So, I'd call a language whose semantics afford optimization a fast language).

Runtime complexity (e.g. "zero overhead" vs "lotsa overhead" features).

Also, I find the "language vs compiler" dicthotomy pedantic and tedious. For most languages and most use cases, there's a single dominant canonical version, e.g. CPython, Matz's Ruby, Oracle's Java.

Just because there are niche other implementations all 10 people use doesn't change the fact that 90% of users will be on the canonical implementation, and for them, THAT's synonymous with the language, not just some abstract spec.
Nice thank you. TIL
You know its funny I recently visited LA for the very first time for two weeks. (Im from the east coast). I was expecting a barren waste land because of all the talk from Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro about how terrible LA is. Instead what I found was a busting city with a lot of nice and interesting people from all walks of life. Did I see homeless? Yes, it was uncomfortable but after visiting many neighborhoods I came to realize that this right wing bashing of liberal places is exaggerated. California has a lot of problems and looking at the stats, it is actively losing population of people who make less than 100k. This is not good long term but honestly Texas or wherever else would have these same problems if they had this kind of economic gold rush in such a short amount of time. At the same time though it is not as bad as the right wingers seem to make it out to be.

If the Liberals are to be blamed for losing people, its because of decades of promises and not ever delivering.
Other good senior people in the team see your performance. In big companies this is normal as nobody will want to upset other people feeling. Managers will also refrain from firing because it reflects on them badly, stop them from building an empire, and hiring is hard.

I am finding that Price's law[1] is very true in programming. You have two pizza teams that have 1-3 top performers carry the rest of the team/project. As long, you are not annoying, team would keep you. There is a very thin line when top performers can become unhappy with a company, project, or team and leave. People that were previously coasting might get more involved or the team implodes.

[1] https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
Six? Don't you mean eight?

No, I don't believe all humans were killed by the flood. There are no reasons to think it was. There are at least 5 other copies of Noah's flood story: Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Ziusudra, Berossus, and Moses of Khoren, some of which are older than Genesis and were direct or indirect sources for Genesis, and none of them are global floods. I'd suggest reading the other sources. They are obviously the same story but the differences are interesting.

Regardless, eretz definitely doesn't mean planet.

If you are interested, I'd recommend Robert M. Best's book Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic.
Building a Neural Network in Go
Monads got a facelift in Scala 3 with braceless syntax, aka significant indentation

https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/inde...
This site, while great, is incredibly US centric so most of what is posted barely makes sense to me. I find myself hitting that "hide" button often enough that I started thinking about writing a Firefox extension that would hide anything that has China in the title and everything from a popular US newspaper. The amount of manufactured concent that ends up being posted here is just overwhelming. No wonder I find myself baffled reading the usual takes on matters outside tech
I've written a bit of Perl and have read quite a few Perl books (I legit probably own 10+), but generally prefer Python. I can't understand how someone open minded enough to be cool with Perl and it's strangeness, would be upset by something as trivial as whitespace. It obviously isn't that much of a problem as it's one of the most popular languages ever and used in so many domains with users ranging from children to Google's chief scientist and with it being a critical backbone of many companies and the defacto language to build an API for. It's fine to find it aesthetically displeasing if that is what you want.
Nouveau actually doesn't count as a good reference, because NVIDIA actually locked-out reclocking support from any firmware that is not NVIDIA-signed starting with the GTX 900 series.

This means that if you are running any form of unsigned driver (which would be any open-source driver such as Nouveau) on those cards, the chip will run at the slowest possible performance tier, and won't allow the firmware to crank the speed up. Only the signed NVIDIA driver can change the GPU speed, which is basically mandatory for a driver to be useful.

So - don't blame Nouveau for being behind, NVIDIA has made it so that open-source drivers are almost useless. In which case, why bother with improving Nouveau when the performance is going to be just terrible?
U.S. builds new software tool to predict actions that could draw China's ire
I would rather not have an dedicated extension for every encroaching participant on the internet.
I prefer, to have one tool for the same task in various situations (GA, FB, you name it).
For weight constrained beam applications, both bending and compression failures are bending related (tension isn't).

Since bending strength is proportional to the cube of thickness of a beam, wouldn't less dense materials in practice always win out since you can make the beam thicker?

Ie the characteristic metric for beams would be stiffness / density^3
Yes! Everybody scrapes everybody. The difference lies on what they do with the data afterwards.
One thing that saddens me in the region I live is the lack of diversity in forests and therefore also in lumber selection. Quickly googling up some stats, 65% of forests are pine and 24% spruce. Only major hardwood would be birch (9% of forests), and its usually not available as lumber afaik.

One of my dreams (in the category "if I were a billionaire") would be to buy some large piece of land and plant all sort of interesting trees to create a sort of fantasy forest.
Large parts of America seem to still see bikes as "toys" rather than somewhat expensive vehicles that people depend on. Imagine if this approach was taken with recovered stolen cars too.
I’ve yet to meet a single person that wasn’t into some weird pseudoscience or just full of hubris that likes to categorize a philosophy of “listen to the experts, look at the literature not isolated studies” as “don’t question science.”
> When humans cull all the wolves in an area because they killed a child

Wolves normally don't do that. Not unless they have rabies. We should stop seeing the nature as if we were still in the XVII century.

The logical answer would be to direct the revenge against the real culprit, the rabies virus. Kill the rabid wolf and vaccinate other local wolves against rabies. Wolves learn quickly that must keep their distance with humans. Culling all the wolves in the area leads to more humans killed, by herbivores.
lol. Get rid of GA by installing GA. Quite my humour.
But I've ruminating on how to start a political and economic movement committed to dismantling the bureaucratic state by empowering individuals to be ever more autonomous.

Trouble is, one of the things that empowered, autonomous individuals always seem to do is organize themselves into corporate, governmental, religious, academic, or other institutional bodies that then proceed to behave indistinguishably from the targets they were reacting against in the first place. At each iteration, only the in-group beneficiaries and out-group victims are different.

The larger problem is the nature and regulation of human organization, which isn't so easily tackled.
Relevant tweet with Tai Lopez explaining: https://twitter.com/tailopez/status/1333228688456904707?s=21
I bailed on ubereats a long time ago due to abysmal service and zero support. Switched to DoorDash, who has had phenomenal support and even automates refund requests while giving you the option to talk to a human if the proposed credit/refund isn’t satisfactory (I’ve done that only a few times and they always hooked me up, sometimes beyond what I asked for). I highly recommend them over UE.
Oh yes this is great.

I've found that emphasizing the next action for the receiver in emails has been hugely beneficial. And sending summary emails after meetings that simply details the next actions, and who is responsible, is s simple thing but oh so effective.
In my experience (having worked as a peon then a manager, then a senior manager) at one of the companies talked about here in the past?

These techniques aren’t effective because they’re clearly sabotage. They’re effective because they kill an organizations effectiveness AND often happen naturally, so by turning it up a notch you’ll throw even more wrenches into the works than normal - but fly under the radar.

The whole strict hierarchy and breaking ties thing you’re talking about exists because all the things in this manual happen all the time ANYWAY, just not as often.

And there are a number of ways to point fingers and hide/diffuse blame that happen all day everywhere anyway too, and work.
> Rust is not the language for prototyping and iterating quickly.

You might think so, but that would be overlooking one key advantage of using Rust for iterative prototyping: you don't have to worry about a hacked-together prototype being used in production! Stuff like that happens all the time, and relying on a language like Rust with its focus on safe refactoring can be a life-saver.
That was the first one I thought of as well.
I really like Drudge Report because the layout is so basic and similar to websites from the early days of the web. I figure it's also worth noting that despite the conservative lean, I do find it is a good source for lots of various world news.
"Instead, early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible otherwise — is playing a big role in America's evolving labor market.

"Nearly 70% of the 5 million people who left the labor force during the pandemic are older than 55, according to researchers from Goldman Sachs, and many of them aren't looking to return."
I think you have the problem right but the answer wrong.

You're overexposed to the firehose of noise and want to get away from that but still be reasonably informed. This is a good idea.

If you can pick one or two high quality publications (one local, one national/global) to check once per day (many have really good newsletters), you'll probably be pretty happy with that balance.

HN is not the right tool for this because it is a tech forum that sometimes discusses news.
Modding the $35 Redragon K552 TKL (80%) keyboard
Zapier vs. Canonic vs. Integromat: Which connector to use and when
Yes, but society needs to do everything it can to get them to make good decisions.
Is Raft more modular than MultiPaxos?
This feels like the era of webvan and pets.com, except those things were simply premature.

A token defi swap of croins and crokens (crypto coins and tokens) brings zero value to the world.
I believe "slaughterbots" may be able to better evade certain types of air defense (e.g. CIWS), in exchange for maybe being more susceptible to other types of air defense (EMP?).

Additionally, hypothetical slaughterbots would have much lower civilian casualties.
Since 1993 SAT no longer stands for 'scholastic aptitude test'. It had its roots as a sort of IQ proxy but that has fallen out of favor because it doesn't reflect the full purpose of schooling (e.g. advancement from given means, value-add of schooling for a given student) nor range of things that cause students to achieve (e.g. hard work, conscientiousness, etc).

One could make a test called 'big brain test' and sell it to schools to say it measures big brains, and it might be only somewhat correlated but still get widespread adoption because it fulfills a need schools have to have some sort of quantitative sorting of students, but it still wouldn't necessarily be a measure of big brains. This is sort of what the history of the SAT is.
I'll share my less dramatic experience, on the off chance others have seen the same:

Every few weeks I get an email from Uber Eats with a generous-looking promotional code, to the tune of 25% off. If I line up an order on the website and enter the promotional code, no discount appears on the order. If I refresh the page and re-enter the code, it tells me That code has already been used.

This has happened to me 3 times now, if I recall correctly.

It's not as if this can be blamed on my using a peculiar browser. Last time this happened I was using Edge, with no plugins or funky configuration changes.
Curious, looks like you're assuming that most scientists are using laptops rather than desktops ? Or are the researchers that I know atypical ?

Such a great and condensed write up... and then at the last moment it looks like one is finally going to learn about (dedicated) GPU programming, and... nope ! :P
And of course it's Jordan Peterson...
If I got the same (I have not seen the same for my AWS accounts), I would start capturing DNS traffic ASAP. Either at the VPC or host level. Cheap and easy to do most of the time

If not running Java (including agents), it may indicate some other type of compromise. Not something you should really ignore. Look at logs, cpu, disk, port usage just to start
Mexico with a population of 130 Million only had 641 cases of Malaria in 2019, it’s not at great risk from mosquito-born illness. Central American countries are at a significantly higher risk, Panama for example has 4.4 million people and had 1,597 cases of malaria in 2019. Other diseases show similar trends.

Still in terms of total deaths from Mosquito born illness it’s likely lower than most assume.
Introduction to OpenBSD Sound System
Using an article critical of the pfizer trials in a well balanced truthful way is one thing.
Using that same article to argue that e.g. the government is trying to poison us (or microchip us) is another thing entirely.

I think we need to work against the latter. I don't think censoring good-faith articles that are often abused is the way to do that.
Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake. It's one of those books I wish existed when I was a teenager. He is someone who is so willing to push himself to excel at whatever takes his interest, and demonstrates that you don't need to be academic to be the best.
At least Gmail has a reputation for silently discarding mail that it thinks is spam
Dealing with the current vulnerabilities is very likely cheaper than auditing each and every dependency with the thoroughness needed to actually catch those vulnerabilities. Also, nobody within the by affected enterprises gets blamed for those external vulnerabilities, nor are the enterprises liable for preventing them, so there is little incentive to prevent them proactively.
Maybe I'm just dense, but this seems more like a centralized identity more than a decentralized identity. Which, if you lose, like I have with various wallets I've had over the years, seems extremely sketchy.
You know how many right the average windows/linux/macos desktop application has?
I didn't meant to say that YouTube comments are bad, I meant to say that some websites breaking is still better than having Ads.
Since they stole web3 and crypto as nomenclature, I've started calling them croins and crokens.
And it does! That’s the guide.

And people do these things naturally all the time in large orgs and small. Visit a local PTA or a city council meeting with a copy and play bingo if you don’t believe me.

It only reads like a hoax because it’s all in one place.
Facebook has all the information any willing police officer/DA would need to capture the thieves. All they would need to do is go to a judge and ask.

Also the legislature could make laws to make it easier to send bike thieves to jail.

The government != Facebook and it's better that way since we can vote to change things that we find wrong with the government, but lack that ability with FB
One man's i is another man's j.
Are private prosecutions a thing in the States? Sounds like an ACLU style organisation but focused on private prosecution of cops doing illegal things is needed.
C++ as of '98 is ok. The rest is garbage.
Sounds like we should all e-mail him to opt out of his future studies. Maybe he’ll get why a massive e-mail campaign is a bad way to do this “study”.
Not positively, no. It's anecdotal. Both him and I must have been around the 3-5 years old. I remember the experience just not if it's 100% what triggered the stuttering. My uncle and aunt are sure it was the trigger for my cousin.

I can see it being both a genetic component but it needed a trigger too to start happening.
I am thinking about it. Thanks for the suggestion.