skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lead poisoning cases tied to traditional ceramic ware, NYC health officials warn
Permanent solution: Move to the EU and enforce your rights under GDPR. :)
I tried this when I switched to a privacy ROM but ultimately I can't cough up my 1 VPN slot, I need to be always on my home network to use the various self hosted services I rely on. I heard on matrix that at some point Datura Firewall may allow more fine grained host level blocking, fingers crossed.
> For one thing, the January 6th event was no "coup". It could maybe, very ambiguously, very generously speaking be called a coup attempt

Firstly, we should understand that while "attempted murder" is a thing when the intended victim lives, this is an unusual situation. If I attempt to rob a bank, but I am arrested when I trip and fall running for a door with a sack of cash, the charge would be "bank robbery", not "attempted bank robbery", as that's not a thing. There is no distinction (1). No court is going to say "well the cash never left the building so hey, no crime!"

> (a truly idiotic, inept one if so)

If I attempt to rob a bank, with a water pistol, the charge would be "bank robbery", not "idiotic bank robbery", as that's not a thing. I'd be an "idiot criminal" but it's a regular crime, not a separate one. There is no distinction.

> plausibly you could call it a sort of protest of its own

It was protest, a protest about the election result, and also part of a larger plan concerning that election result, which cannot in any way be said about BLM. Other parts of the plan were to delay certification of the regular electors, pick alternate electors, change key states votes ... you know, coup stuff. They had a PowerPoint for it. The fact that the coup attempt did not succeed make no difference. The supposition (which we cannot be sure of) that it was not close to succeeding makes no difference.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery

"Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take ..."
I don’t think that I am. My flagged reply was to a comment about the difference between the “liberal” and the “authoritarian” mindset. Some university has not invaded any country. In fact it hasn’t even done anything wrong—it has just condemned political persecution, which is just admirable if anything.

Could a reply to some statement like “the X mindset” be about ideologies in general and not directly about what we just read in the linked article? Several replies from the top of the thread? No. Surely not.
Ultimately I believe what books help is to create a shared perspective of the world. If everyone has read a book, you can quote a passage and everyone gets what you’re trying to communicate. You may use it in clever ways in your daily interactions. In premodern times, books literally shaped language by introducing new words, terms and phrases.

Today, the closest thing I can think of is popular TV shows and movies; but also, video games, social media etc. What was once the exclusive domain of books is now accessible via other media. Of course the book people are mad at this but I agree with you that it’s kinda antiquated to lament that books have lost that place in society.
Webpack clean: 3 minutes

Incremental: 700ms

Esbuild clean: 100ms
It's certainly an amusing rabbit trail, though :)
The reason why it's so hard to make forks of Firefox is that it's available under a copyleft license. But that copyleft license is the only thing stopping it from being commercialized and turning into Chrome.
The answer to your concern is even in the headline of the article you link!
oh, context is important then. those agencies are bullies. many times they operate under broad and ambiguous fraud/compliance statutes that don't specifically codify the infraction they disagree with. this puts all market participants in a constant guessing game with them, some more than others. so its Christmas and they want a kickback before the end of the year, whatsapp bro? send the money to our Miami field office, kthxbai.
It has nothing to do with clock cycles, it's about how the number of additions and multiplications scale for large matrices.
The _Autobiography of Malcom X_ was co-written by Alex Haley, the author of _Roots_. _Autobiography_ was required reading in a "Black Political Thought" course I took years ago. But it was inspirational for me too.
Parker Solar Probe encounters streamers on its way to the sun
I count a lot of Apple chips, not ARM. Some of them might still run a mostly ARMv8 compatible instruction set, but I'm sure that is going to change (as it already is). You will all want your x64 back soon enough..
I could see a potential for usefulness if you wanted to categorize all of the images you had of clocks with what times are listed to be able to put them in [quasi] chronological order
Tech Books for the Holidays
"Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel P. Huntington

It's remarkable how universal this book is, despite being written long ago. It changed my perspective on the West-centric world.
I’m from the UK and Hershey’s has always tasted like vomit to me. (I mean this completely literally.)

I just learned why from the tech dirt comments - apparently (and unlike European chocolate) Hershey’s contains butyric acid, the same acid found in vomit.
Yes, although I would encourage you to think about something higher on the value chain than raw data feeds. Those exist and have become an increasingly difficult market to compete in. You can buy a custom feed for like $250/mo.

Instead, think about what people want to do with the data. For example, if you are going to scrape diamond prices, don’t try to sell that feed. Set up a website with a UI so people can research diamond prices, and get alerts when specific thresholds are met or items come in stock. Monetize with ads.
>I think it's far more likely that he is a better computer scientist, and a better programmer, than the vast majority of people you or I know.

There's a lot of information about Jon McLoone available online (personal website, linkedin, etc.), but aside from his degree in Mathematics and a long association with Wolfram (in what appear to be primarily non-technical roles), I couldn't find anything that supports your statement. I'm not saying it's not out there, just that I couldn't find it.
And then - maybe - auto-select a clock image that matched the publish time, for example, of a blog post?
If you're interested in fiction I'm going to say,

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

It's not even my favourite Stephenson book (that would be Seveneves) but it's the one that made me reflect the most on philosophy and meaning.
Fiction.

http://www.hpmor.com/
Only relevant sentence: "Salaries are a good motivation."

I feel sorry for the schlubs who have to write these corporate blogs.

Also, everyone here over 40 would prefer going back in time to closed-source.
Yes, M$ would still reign supreme, but at least the buck you made was an
honest quid pro quo, and not accessory to the surveillance economy.
this article isn’t at all about doing it faster on actual hardware, and everyone has worried a lot about cache for decades now.
It seems to depend on how specialized you are. I bet it would be very difficult for any automated tool to understand how good a paper is. Until then, you have to rely on other people who understand the paper, to get good paper recommendations. Most papers are incredibly specialized and I bet can only be totally understood by a few dozen/hundred/thousand people (depending on field?). In other words, if you are a student, ask your advisor/professor. If you are looking for general papers to read about systems, someone's probably written a blog post about it. Or popular science magazines (e.g. Quanta) might be nice.

Oh, or you can browse conference proceedings of the top conferences (in CS, at least.) (Though those are also, gigantic, and you probably want to filter even further...)

I feel that Google Scholar Alerts are only useful once you can filter paper titles / taglines by yourself, which requires tremendous expertise. I would be very surprised if any automated tool could replace other people and their technical expertise (which took years of training to develop) as a paper filtering tool. Otherwise you might as well automate peer review.
Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?
Hi everyone. I'm a random guy based in Munich who got accidentally wealthy and thus lost my drive for pretty much everything.

After my Bachelor in CS I launched three startup, which all failed. So a year ago I decided to enroll in a Masters program at LMU at the age of 26. Back then I was living quite on the edge and thus was very motivated to ace my studies to get into a FAANG company.

Around the same time I also invested all of the ETH I had at the time into an ICO, which turned out quite well for me. In early November I sold everything and after taxes I now own 7.5 million euros. A sum I would have never imagined.

I have no idea what to do with the money. And I also have no idea what to do with my life now. I have not talked to anyone about it but I start to feel fatigued, even though I am not doing much. My motivation for my study is gone, I stopped working out, stopped reading books and am basically becoming insanely depressed in the process. The covid situation is not helping much either.

I am posting this here because I think there might be founders out there who sold their company and experienced similar issues afterwards. How did you get out of this? What can I do?

I am still doing my Master studies and will finish it within the next three semesters but I worry to fall into a void afterwards.
First sentence of that WP article:

> "Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" ("Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity" in Leila Vennewitz' translation) is a short story by Heinrich Böll about an encounter between an enterprising tourist and a small fisherman, in which the tourist suggests how the fisherman can improve his life.

I don't know Leila Vennewitz, but her translation of at least the title isn't all that great: "Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" means not "Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity", but "Anecdote for the Lowering of Productivity".
Why does the license make it hard to fork Firefox?
Respectfully, your post is very wrong :) JIT compilers are very fast and run once to prep the code that will run many times. If you had flat code that was always run exactly once the games would be lesser, yes
"Hey, text me your private medical data and bank info, and I'll handle it for you!"

Sounds legit.

I mean, you probably are legit, but you are asking people to blindly trust a random web site with some of the most private data we have. There needs to be far more effort put into building trust before I'd consider this anything but a potential security nightmare.
I imagine that when your career is arts based, you've likely assimilated that society's labels are arbitrary and determined in large part by competitive interests, because there is less of a fundamental truth than they would imply once established. Since this is a software engineering forum, we tend to expect more objectivity in our labels. Ironically when you think about it because software labels are so obviously artificial.
He understands perfectly well.
What's relevant is whether the response is a property of the individual or the organization, and it's arguable, and controversial, but you'll find a lot of studies performed using this technique that were not considered human subjects research.

As to whether it's deceptive and threatening (the latter of which I find pretty hyperbolic, this is a pretty boilerplate request), that has no relevance as to whether it's human subjects research.

Maybe they should have limited the scope to larger organizations.
No. ManifestV3 removes the webRequest API, which is used to modify/block in-flight requests. Injecting a script into every page, as this does, is still possible. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-o...
"... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."

- Andrew Tanenbaum arguing with Linus Torvalds in 1992 that Linux was obsolete because it was (at the time) built only for x86, and that x86 was dead.
This is going to be an unusual answer for this forum, but... the Harry Potter series

Firstly, I read it as a kid, in my formative years, when it was most likely to have an impression on me.

But I remember reading the books and feeling completely enraptured by this magical world. I also remember feeling a a bit annoyed at what I perceived as Harry's laziness and ingratitude! I would think "if I was him, I would spend all my days in the library, learning all the coolest spells, potions etc., and make the most of all this magical power"

As an adult, this has unintentionally become the frame through which I view my job as a programmer. You can call me a romantic, but I've been doing this for years and I still think it's wonderful. At any time I can open a book or a man page and learn some amazing new spells.

With our computers, we _all_ have access to magic, it's just about learning to use it.
> you can generally understand it at a glance

You're probably right about the availability of documentation, but I also think Python is much easier to generally understand at a glance. Less features, less quirks means the language is easier to learn.
Log4J is bigger than all of V7 Unix. What do you need all that for?
Having worked with security-minded institutions in the past, I've endured and participated in year(s)-long audits of three different open source software projects. The thing that amazes me is that nobody using this software ever did their due diligence. You literally get what you pay for. Kindly step on your own legos and be happy this didn't happen in early April.
> Also the deadliest North American wildlife is the deer

Actually, the deadliest North American wildlife is the mosquito.
I think what he has in mind is not "open source" per se, but the way open source projects tend to organize development—distributed development, unpaid volunteers, open communities, etc. He wants the Cathedral, not the Bazaar—and that's fine; there's no reason everything should be developed by a community of volunteers. But, as you say, there's nothing to stop them centralizing development but releasing source code.

(Plus, I think putting Stephen Wolfram at the top of a Linux kernel-type project is unlikely to work well at all.)
This book changed my life. Throughout high-school I hated math because I thought it was just memory work. I ended up going into computer science and then higher maths because of reading this.
Sure, but at every level of the hierarchy, there is a boss to break the sabotage induced deadlock, and anyone acting up too much can always be fired/demoted by that same boss.

In looser structures like social movements or nascent labor organizations, it's hard for any individual/subset to wield enough authority to do either of those things.

There are parallels with any organization (even families), but I think it's rather weak when applied to modern corporations.
Where Elixir makes everything work is the runtime that allows millions of concurrent processes to coexist without taking over the processor.

I can’t think of another language, even Rust, where you could run a full database inside your codebase without negatively impacting everything else.

That BEAM runtime just makes things possible that aren’t in other languages.
Colbert's Lord of the Rings Rap Celebrates 20 Years
This isn’t about running stuff on hardware. The point is that for a large matrix the number of additions grows much more slowly, such that the represent an increasingly small percentage of operations. So they don’t matter much no matter the hardware at some sufficiently large matrix
Probably because it’s the biggest number. If someone wants to make an argument that a company can afford to do thing X, it’s common to just point to the revenue and say, “X has a revenue of $200M a year! Why couldn’t they do it?”
I Have Been Appointed as E-Governance Minister of Bulgaria
I am similar age as you and I finished almost 25 books this year, and similar number for the past few years. It's had an amazing impact so far. Hopefully this can motivate you.

What you need is a habit change, which begins with an identity change (becoming a reader, or book club member). That will have long lasting effect, but identity change is not easy to begin with. So you setup systems and structures in place to encourage reading. The easiest way I think of is to download audio books that you would like and go for a walk. Other examples: You can uninstall distracting apps. You can publicly announce how much you want to read, or commit to writing some article that requires you to read something.

These ideas are outlined in Atomic Habits. So the solution to your problem of not reading lies in reading this book :)
Did it back in the old days, scraping stock quotes to build a database for display by our Java app and web services. Called NetProphet, it would do a score of trend lines etc as overlays.

I wrote the scraping code. Had a list of sites and macros for extracting quotes, updated every day to every customer. If one quit working (the site attempted to prevent scraping) the app would use another and give a notice back to me. I'd tweak the macro for that site, and we'd be back scraping it the next day.

We eventually hired a finance student (Josh Hatwich, now a fellow at Adobe) to parse a Comstock satellite feed we put on the roof. That ended the era of scraping at StockPoint.
Foreign cities that are clean and nice tend to be both very homogenous and high median intelligence. In the absence of homogeneity there will always be defectors who are willing to externalize costs like litter disposal. In an excessively downshifted intelligence distribution there will be insufficient productivity and developmental capacity for a high standard of living. There are few/no large cities in the US which meet these criteria.
What you are intended to do is not the same as what people do. Strategic voting happens, arrow's impossibility theorem says there is no one way that solves all the problems.
“When we track the hours, we become shocked—not at the numbers per see—at what could have been learned, grasped, or done during these wasted hours.“

This is the big thing for me. I easily waste an exercise habit, a social life, and a hobby most days. None of it spent on anything fulfilling. Then it often seems like I’m bored or there’s nothing else to do and I distract myself from the reason why with the reason why.
The Americans showing up probably refers to the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Kanagawa which forced the opening of Japanese ports to American ships.

The most recent battles in Japan prior to that that I'm aware of are the rebellions that broke out in 1837 due to famine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenp%C5%8D#Rebellion
Are there other people who think Naval Ravikant has zero original ideas and his real competence is speech?
> I think they’re confusing source licensing with a development methodology.

I'm a suspicious, cynical person, so I think that's deliberate.

Conflation is a very useful rhetorical trick.
Is this a joke? This article continues with the fully absurd “carbon narrative” that’s been imposed onto blockchain even though huge amounts of NFTs are being minted on the Tezos chain, which used orders of magnitude below Ethereum’s energy usage.

Minting an NFT on Tezos is something like turning your phone on in terms of energy usage. Please, let’s stop with the wild misinformation - not all NFTs are made the same way.

The ETH NFT scene is what it is I know a huge number of artists who don’t participate in it because it’s dumb af.
Firefox disables Google Analytics even without any add-ons if you have the anti-tracking options on. This also works on "special" pages. Go to addons.mozilla.org and have a gander at dev tools:

[GA] Do Not Track Enabled; Google Analytics not loaded and tracking disabled

Edit: actually, this is them simply respecting your DNT policy, but Firefox also has a special blocker for these things. It also ships with some shims that unbreak badly developed sites which break without Analytics scripts present.
More or extended features are not automatically a good thing for the users. Microsoft extended Kerberos with incompatible changes, re-published it under a diffeerent name, users lost open source benefits and became locked in to the Microsoft version, and the original developers were not provided with the changes. Microsoft did almost the same thing with Sun's Java when Microsoft made its incompatible version, despite Java being available in a free as in freedom version and at no cost.

The four essential freedoms[1] might not make you rich, but they will keep providing you with true freedom.

Wolfram Mathematica would be a more valuable contribution to the future of humankind, if the essential freedoms were guaranteed.

[1] gnu.org The Free Software Definition: The four essential freedoms.
Yes, to be precise the year refers to the original date the text was written. Hopefully it has not totally changed its meaning since then.
Yes, always reminds me of Louis CK's "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy" clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U
Doesn't public domain mean that anyone in the public can use them. Last I checked, CNN is part of the public.

If people want to spend money on them, that's their decision.
Not sure if this company survived the pandemic but check out Applaudience it was crawling seat level data from event websites.

https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-uk-data-company-app...

Applaudience’s algorithms trawl through every exhibitor website, looking at every showtime of every film, and tracks the auditorium layout as each seat flips from available (unsold) to unavailable (sold).
Congratulations, you are a rich man. Set new goals and build projects to try to help other people now. You'll find that it is very satisfying and will help you to keep your drive.
That is true, although I think it would still be a poor choice of words to say "overwhelmingly" without tempering that with a note about assuaging the fears of some few that misunderstood the nature of the communication. Assuming he was aware that some were stressed and involving legal council.

The "secret shopper" justification for not informing participants ahead of time about the study can only take him so far, and I don't think it was necessary here to begin with. His research is to determine the policies in place at target recipients' organizations, and that doesn't require secrecy. In fact that justification undermines the exemption status of the study: he expected that people may react differently if they thought it was a user vs. a research study.
Past threads:

Simple Sabotage Field Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293804 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

CIA's Declassified 1941 Simple Sabotage Field Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316292 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322041 - Feb 2020 (89 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771 - Aug 2017 (32 comments)

The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276 - Aug 2016 (64 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881 - Nov 2015 (68 comments)

How to make sure nothing gets done at work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10393485 - Oct 2015 (3 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363 - Nov 2012 (67 comments)

From CIA: Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4243649 - July 2012 (3 comments)

WW2 "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" declassified [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905750 - Oct 2009 (6 comments)

OSS (pre-CIA) Simple Sabotage Field Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443 - Sept 2009 (29 comments)
Why is using Firefox less secure?