skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for engaging with me. I had heard of Gilgamesh, but not the others. And I suppose you're right about the six vs eight -- I don't have a Bible with me.

I realize that my views could be viewed as fideist and anti-intellectual. On the other hand, it would be a shame if great learning were to keep someone from accepting the simple truth of the Gospel. Or am I extrapolating too far to think that someone who rejects a world-wide Noahic flood also rejects the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Scroll around among the MANY leaks and you'll stumble across this one:

Public searchable db of pregnant women with addresses, due date and CASTE!

In a society where people are targeted and killed for their caste this is terrifying.
Hey I'm open for new friendships! We just need to get to know eachother!

What are your hobbies?
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft ‘Hears’ Jupiter’s Moon
Neither. I'm arguing that Hacker News is not a good example to use when discussing web development. It's easy to make a site simple when you refuse to implement any features, but that refusal is a luxury most businesses do not have.
My dad had a similar dilemma I think, though he'd never admit it. He even named and spoke with every single one.

He enjoyed raising animals, but in the end just sold them off at auction rather than slaughter them himself. We'd still eat meat, but presumably not what was raised. He claimed there was more money in it, but I strongly assume he just couldn't bring himself to kill the creatures he'd raised.
And to continue on that story, even though I gave them the location: "lack of ressources, we can't dispatch anyone at the moment". They never did anything afterwards.
A language that always segfaults on buffer overruns is memory safe.
Yes, I deleted it because I was being an idiot :)

I was momentarily thinking pow(a,-1,n) would need to calculate phi(n) internally (a hard thing to do in general) but the EEA will of course do it very cheaply without needing to know phi(n).
Sure! If you're dumping a bunch of capital into something, you want to see that capital put to work immediately growing something to scale-- not for founders to be worried about stretching the capital by picking up nickels off the street.

That is, being capital efficient is good, but being distracted by other non-core things excessively to try and conserve capital is bad.

But that doesn't mean that bootstrapping with a consultancy isn't a viable path. It's only when you do it when you have capital sitting around that's not put to good use that it's a problem.
Well, we're moving, so. At one stage it was cleaner!
I don't think that "government mass surveillance project" is a particularly fair characterization of Aadhaar[0], particularly in the context of Viral B. Shah's involvement in it back in 2010.

A national ID program with a per-person unique identifier has clear societal benefits, and while it can certainly be abused to enable "government mass surveillance", it is not such a project itself.

Data can be cross-referenced for both good and ill: the existence of a unique identifier akin to an SSN is not an inherently terrible thing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar
The scientist is Michael Levin and his work, while absolutely legit, is so far from current mainstream that I am a bit afraid it might not be adapted for medical use in our lifetimes. Or possibly only after a major upheaval, much like mRNA deployment was accelerated by Covid. (mRNA co-pioneer Dr. Katalin Karikó ran into similar problems - the concept of mRNA was too revolutionary to be fully grasped by the PennU administration.)

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/mike-levin-on-electrifying-ins...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/persuading-the...
Lead Stories' Response to BMJ Open Letter Objecting to a Lead Stories Fact Check
Data leak reveals FB is unable to control hate speech in minority languages
You could also think of it as their job to ensure the possibility of obtaining well maintained and affordable housing for the majority of citizens who are willing and able to pay rent on time. Because if there were no eviction officers or we moved marginally towards that by having less consequential eviction there are second order effects on the market that affect all. Note I'm not saying nor am I personally convinced that that means we should have maximally punishing eviction laws or even that the ones we have are right. But you're way off the mark by not acknowledging the good they can do and calling it the most inhumance occupation you can think of when they potentially do a lot of good.
Hackers Exploit Log4j Flaw at Belgian Defense Ministry
>> patient zero for a generation of kid’s films whose humor is more directed at their parents than them.

>This. There are just so many "kids" movies which Nixon impersonations, or 80s trivia, or 70s nostalgia in place of actual content or humour.

Isn't the reasoning obvious? Rugrats cannot go to the movies on their own. In order to entice the parental units to take the rugrats to the movies, then the producers attempt to make their movie tolerable for the parental units.
Maybe I'm biased but this seem common with all the "retro computer" enthusiasts I have met.
There's a few aspects to this. The first is that Google Analytics is a great example, because while an individual company may not have the competency they may hire another one that does. And while previously some of these companies may have simply added analytics plugins to their site because there was no reason not to, being liable for that processing is a great deterrent.

The second aspect is that this idea of "small businesses" that you are portraying does not really reflec reality. In the anti-regulation lobbyist mythology, small business are all friendly mom and pop stores that are just trying their best. But for example Whatsapp, before it's sale to Facebook, had 55 Employees and half a billion active users. Many hedge funds count as small businesses, as do franchises. Even beyond that, there are plenty of 100-1000 employee businesses here that have more than enough data on hand to cause serious privacy violations.

The third is that violating people's privacy does not have to be for profit as it is in advertising. As the case of a local pharmacy using insurance data to send their customers Christmas cards reminds me, even the smallest business is very capable of violating privacy by treating customer data sloppily.

edit: Oh, also, we might see how big tech really feels when ad exchanges hopefully get declared illegal ;) (see https://www.iccl.ie/news/online-consent-pop-ups-used-by-goog...)
I was infected with Delta 9 months after one of the initial strains. I was more or less as sick as I was the first time for a full two weeks.

That said, when I looked up studies on that the chances were about 1% for that to happen to me (at that time).
A unique ID can act as a common "foreign key" in multiple databases. All IDs earlier to this were purpose-specific (Driving License, PAN etc). But with UID, state governments as well as central governments are building 360 degree views of each citizen - without being subjected to any laws or regulations. Look up how SRDH were build using something called "non-organic seeding" and have continued despite Supreme court coming down on them heavily.
> I always wonder about how the hell DOOM ran at 30 fps on a 33 Mhz system.

It didn't. It ran at ~25 FPS on a 66 Mhz 486 and only ~15 FPS on a 33 Mhz system. It needed a Pentium to reach half the refresh rate, which was 35 FPS at the time.

https://youtu.be/HNlcZetLzY8?t=209
Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies is a modern classic in the genre.
Good sir, if you are required to add an Aadhaar number to an account everywhere, how is it not tracking?

There are now serious proposals to require Aadhaar for social media accounts too.
Spot on. Some of us are working on it. IMO the best solution currently (ie until ipv6 takes over and assuming we get rid of NATs when that happens) is tunneling. I maintain a list of options here:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

If you wanted to self-host a website from your home computer today I would recommend buying a domain from Cloudflare, and using Cloudflare Tunnel.

6 months from now I hope to be suggesting some variation of my open source alternative, https://boringproxy.io. It's not quite ready yet.
I only took a quick glance at the OP's https://asciinema.org stuff. Exa seemed way slower in comparison to ls. Again, I would have to test it myself and see how much it affects me if at all. That said, I do not see a reason to switch to it because ls supports colors as well, and I do not need the added extra information. Welp.
Consulting is a great way to make money, period. A decently talented software developer can amass enough projects to overtake their salary at any desk job. However, I would not recommend using consulting income to supplement entrepreneurship nor to expose yourself to product ideas. The best product ideas come from experiencing some pain point yourself (as the "buyer") and meeting other buyers who, like you, know exactly what is painful and why. This is something that you cannot really experience as an outsider.
They don't see it unless they choose to go look at it. I can stand on a step ladder and look over my neighbor's fence. But if I do that then start complaining that the grass in his back yard is too dry and ugly, then who's the asshole? My neighbor for having ugly grass, or me, who went out of my way to look at it?
Yeah but that's because they keep making incremental discoveries. This is just the next one.
It's like someone else has inhabited my brain and written precisely what I'm feeling now...
Just because you've written a blog post or some code doesn't make you an "entrepreneur". Pretty sure AirBnB founders haven't written a line of code for example.

Creating a business is largely about sales: selling your idea to investors, customers, and employees.
Video: What It's Like to Be a Computer: An Interview with GPT-3 (2020)
How much energy is there in plastics to be released? More than in wood?

If there is a decent amount, it's almost inevitable that life will find a way.
In that same time period I made over 1 million in take home pay from my developer job which i turned around into residential and commercial rentals which now bring in waaaaay more than my salary. I have the advantage of being on the west coast with rising property values, but still, sometimes there are better ways than just chasing the latest startup fad.
The most fun programming I ever had was Turbo Pascal in the days of MS-DOS, it was possible to do pretty much anything, and it compiled almost instantly.

When Delphi came along, it was easy to use, but the layers of code made knowing what was going on effectively impossible.

Now we're in the age of trying to force a GUI to appear on the other end of the tech stack that includes hardware not owned by the people who should be their owners, but rather companies driven by profit motives. Connected by a series of privately driven networks, snooped upon by hundreds of competing national agencies and companies from everywhere, and it all sits on top of something that doesn't have capability based security at its core.

I'm used to a GUI, so Delphi would be it, except it's now insanely expensive, and I can't afford it. Lazarus is an open source alternative that works well enough... so that's my choice for fun these days.

As for working a job, which I'll have to do, soon enough... I expect that I'll be stuck using some form of case sensitive, macro encrusted C derivative, or perhaps something "memory safe" and unintuitive like Rust, or "functional" that forbids useful things like goto and global variables like Haskell.

The tech stack that I love the most, however.. is the tech stack we all use, that starts with raw inputs pulled out of the ground, and refined in many ways, until we get laptops and smartphones. It's an amazing technology stack, capable of producing wondrous things that even Absolute Monarchs of the past couldn't have dreamed of wishing for, in quantity and quality that even working class folks can afford.

We live in amazing times, thanks to our shared tech stack.
We had a big hullabaloo about this in 2005 when Sony put a rootkit on audio CDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
> Wonder if FB tried to buy them already...

FB either buys or clones/kills. Hence Horizon.
The economy as a whole isn't centralized but the commercial banking system is centralized by each nation's respective "central bank" [1]. It would be kind of awkward to claim that economists are unaware that a central bank isn't a form of centralization, specifically of a nation's monetary system.

That said, most people can pick up the meaning of centralization based on the context without every discussion having to spend a paragraph defining it. A discussion about a centralized Internet isn't too hard to understand, nor are discussions about finance, media, markets, governments, etc etc... The idea that people can't figure out what decentralization means in the context of a discussion about the Internet or finance unless someone spells it out in precise detail is kind of obtuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank
Right, and that is totally okay. Maybe try going in with someone else for your next project. OP has the technical chops to deliver, doesn't mean they are good at solving problems that people want to pay money for.

Or maybe the products are indeed great, but your marketing is weak.

Either way, get help.
When the government takes your land that’s generally called communism, not capitalism.
https://micro.blog for example does exactly this, sort of RSS based Twitter (i.e the idea is that your feed contains mostly shorter posts, but that’s not a hard restriction) . Give it the RSS of your website (they can also host one for you), "follow" other people (=subscribe to their rss feed) and boom there is your "social media"
I often listen at 2x speed, not to increase the speed of comprehension, but because the information density is too low. Like forwarding through ads to get to content. Then when you get to the interesting part you slow down and repeat a few times (especially fix-it mechanical assembly youtubes) sometimes at fractional speed... it takes concentration.

Then you use it (or you'll forget it all anyway).

Alternately, I have a friend who listens to novels at 2x, which I don't understand...versus my partner who reads 100 books a year and she's frustrated she can't find new ones fast enough.
Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.
While I don't see a connection between homeless people and street musicians, I am intrigued by your complaint of the street musicians?

My kids are fascinated by them, and as long as they are not taking up too much space to make it impossible to pass through the street (and if they do, I'll happily pass through their "stage"), I am quite happy to have the streets livened up by some music too. Not all of it is good or to my taste, but it certainly beats empty streets, especially so during cold winter months.
Product Owner: Hey guys, I came up with this really great feature. Our competitors are already doing it so we gotta do it quickly. Is it possible to do it in 2 weeks?
Team: No, we need 10 weeks because scale
* Product Owner jumps out of the window (obviously realizing product is doomed and company never get another client without this feature)

Is this real life?
The engine is limited such that it fundamentally can't do up/down rotation of the camera.
Welcome to mid-life. It’s not that the younger are smarter: It’s that the older don’t have a disposable amount of time! More responsibilities both in and out of work.

Compounding that is a new child, being stuck at home perpetually, and so of course you’re at your wits-end.

So with good advice already dispensed, I’ll just ask questions.

Is there any way for you to keep work and home separate? Can you work outside? A temp office, a friend’s home, etc.?

Anywhere that’s not home and wouldn’t get you in trouble (no ex girlfriends!).

Second, is your job stable? Are you allowed to take leave? Are you really unhappy about your job or is it “everything”?

In the more quiet moments, does your partner understand the position you’re in and want to help?

What can you and your partner do to make home a slice of heaven/bliss? How can you make home-life a
positive-reinforcement experience, and make all the negative experiences be part of “not-at-home”? Or a mutual, shared struggle (crying baby isn’t exactly a joy).

Would personal time help you to get some insights?
If you are going to be that picky then your original complaint was imprecise. Bug != insect. True bugs are hemiptera or possibly only heteroptera [1], bugs generally are any arthropods [2].

It's surely not useful word if you wanted to be precise. The word bug is taxonomically vague.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug
I dont wanna sound negative but for some people giving up makes sense. Entrepreneurship could be extremely isolating and depressig, especially when its not working out, and not everyone wants a decade of failure after failure and missing out on other financial and social opportunities.
I have some reservations about Tailwind. Seems to me that the only use case that makes easier is to directly copy and paste HTML code that works, but in general I think you are right.

One missing piece of the puzzle in these kind of articles is the lack of references to the fourth leg of web development, template systems (the other 3 being HTML/CSS/JS). There has not been many improvements on that front for years. Main reason why we built https://stack55.com.
An Annotated Compendium of Stumpers
Do you mean it was the processing by Akamai, not Cookiebot that was problematic?

If so, that's my point. As far as I understand what Akamai does, they where probably just the conduit for establishing a TCP/IP connection to the Cookiebot service. The court neither felt the need to establish that Akamai stored the data, nor that it left the EU. The mere fact a non-EU company was involved in the connection was enough. I'm probably wrong, and I would like to know how, to maintain my sanity.
It's not about Switzerland's size. It's about its bottom-up political structure. The cantons hold more political and economical power than the federation. It's so local-first that there are stories of people who were denied Swiss citizenship basically because their neighbors considered the person to be not aligned with the community values. Policies are defined almost at a district level. Comparing with the other "big" countries in Europe, there is no distant bureaucracy enacting laws affecting subjects that are not on the same sphere.

The USA was built on the same idea, where states have a lot more direct power than the federal government, but that idea is basically lost because people on both sides of the political spectrum have been pushing for more centralization and federal control.
MIT Engineers Produce the World’s Longest Flexible Fiber Battery
Looks very slick. As the author is active in this thread - why would I prefer this to mitmproxy? It seems to be missing from: https://httptoolkit.tech/alternatives/

I'd be interested both in why I'd prefer the open source httptoolkit and pro?
an on/off switch?
By "library" I assumed you were just concerned with "local". I put it in quotes as it isn't a literal library that you would embed in your build system and link into your program. I honestly don't see how it being a literal library would make it easier... that frankly sounds more complex to integrate and maintain and ensure correct operation of than a separate daemon that you interact with over HTTP instead of some presumably-C-compatible ABI.
Every body says this but how many of us are going to want randos treating our vehicles like shit because its a rental?
It did have a fixed point vector coprocessor instead though.
It can only draw horizontal floors and vertical walls (so the map is essentially 2D even though it is drawn in 3D). The player also cannot tilt their head sideways.
On further googling, it looks like their problem is that Viral B Shah contributed to the Aadhar project (universal ID) for India.

I don't get what's the problem here. Its a government project for a federal ID to streamline benefits and ID, like a driver's license or a passport. Its pretty widely used now and IMO very useful for a developing country like India.

This is akin to getting mad at someone for doing a stint at USDS.
I understood it to mean insects, and was confused that the article's body talked about bacteria. Like, is this a usage of "bug" I'm not familiar with? Dictionary results talk specifically about insects (and about surveillance electronics)... Ok, Merriam-Webster's 3a here says it can refer to a microorganism of indeterminate nature: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bug

I still think an editor choosing the title should have realized that "insect" is the more common interpretation, and should have chosen a less misleading word.
a 202?

1935 is late for a phone with a subset.
Because they don't want you helping near-domain competition with the application of the special sauce they just paid for. They didn't buy your app, they bought your time.
Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals
The memory optimization at the end is neat

I assume there are generally only a few channel ids being used, since otherwise the code could've still been optimized to use a bitset instead of an array of numbers. That'd only require 8192 bytes, a sixteenth of previous code, but still quite a bit more than the 64 bytes an empty array uses
Looks cool, Here's mine! :) https://www.splice.ie/hn-tree.mp4

Did you write the pattern yourself?
I don't understand the upsides of having your queries in separate sql files. May I ask you to elaborate a bit on this point? Thank you very much.
Speed cameras do that, and without my own car spying on me.
It's the same crap preached by the cloud infrastructure folks trying to get everyone on a rental/sharecropping model. Ah those sweet rents
Biodegrade does not mean "chew up into tiny pieces" it means chemically break down. Biodegraded plastic would end up being much simpler molecules, probably CO2 and methane mostly.
Should we expect evolution to explain evolution, though?
It reminds me a bit of the "falsifiability is not falsifiable" kind of argument - just like falsifiability doesn't apply to itself (it applies to science and falsifiability is a metascientific term), evolution is a biological term and doesn't apply to cosmogony.
Those wood decomposing bacteria are the evolutionary slackers of the Carboniferous Era. Our new plastic decomposing bacteria evolved in only 60 years. In 60 million years of evolution they'll have their own space program.
I haven’t read the whole article but I’m deeply opinionated about this topic.

I was a good but not great student in college. The computer science classes bored me to death.

Years later, post college, I wanted to learn iOS mobile app development. I used the Stanford lecture series but couldn’t stay focused until … I tried 2x speed. All of a sudden it started making sense. When I got lost I hit pause, rewound, watched a few min at 1x.

My feeling is that teaching and learning are gears in a machine. If they are mismatched in speed the student either gets lost, or purposefully gets themselves lost by daydreaming.

10 years later I still listen to podcasts and watch most of YouTube at 2x. It’s a sweet spot for me.

When listening to a very interesting podcast (shout out to How I Built This w Guy Raz) I’ll often pause to write down notes, but I’m almost never feeling like it’s too fast to ingest.

Sometimes I’m self conscious that I talk too fast around other people - giving them information overload. Too bad my brain and mouth don’t have a 1/2x button. Ha!
looks interesting, I'm going to take a look.
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