skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a small world; I read this comment while sitting in the UMD CS department machine room.

Glad bad login programs aren't something I have to deal with anymore (knock on wood).
I commit to doing at least one commit to my project every day, and make it a point to not skip a day.

It can be a one-line change to a text file, but I have to do it.
Fast left-right movement in Vim
Interesting use cases for IA is to go back to early days of when a startup first launched to see their pitch before they raised real money and added tons of nonsensical bs to their homepage.

eg.

http://web.archive.org/web/20180901110658/https://www.snowfl...

http://web.archive.org/web/20140701061721/https://databricks...
No there's a Pfizer pill now, they are in phase 2/3.
what happened in the past few years to get so many people, especially ostensibly smart people in tech circles, to buy into this death cult nonsense? I genuinely do not understand what can lead to such a mindset.
True, but irrelevant to the conversation at hand. And also ironic, given that most HNers decry smart TVs and yearn for a return to "just a screen", without apps (including file managers).
I don't understand why Carmack thinks blockchain should be a component of this. Anyone care to elaborate on how that would make this easier/better?
Razib is a bit of an edge lord, but I think he gets an unfair amount of flak for challenging white American notions of race and culture. I haven’t read that website, but I assume @Culi brought forth his best evidence, and there’s just nothing damning in the quoted material. East Asians think white people are thick and age poorly? Men find blondes and Asian women especially attractive? This isn’t even the top half of controversial things my Taiwanese and Chinese friends would say.
I think some people are underestimating their reaction time.

Agreed; the human brain has special chemicals which significantly amplify our processing capabilities during moments of acute danger. I was once going up freeway, in the dead of night, and spotted a (darkly painted) car fully flipped over, about 2 seconds ahead of me. Managed to both decelerate (just enough) and bear gently to the right (not swerve), with room to spare.

Granted I was going 60, not 75. But I'm not the one telling people to drive on AP at 75, in the dead of night, no less
> Of course it needs to work for its intended purpose. But that alone does not make great software. That is merely table stakes.

I disagree and it's probably illustrative to explain why.

The worst engineers I've ever worked with have all been obsessed with the idea of software rather than what it accomplishes. Modular code, readability, efficiency: all are means to an end. Good engineers will do these things in proportion to their utility to the end goal.

In contrast, there's a legion of engineers who right this very instant are more concerned with onboarding processes, whether their code has the right subjective shape, what the linter rules are, and whether there is enough content on the company blog. Don't be one of them. Build useful things and don't "play software engineer." People who do work on building software will be too busy to care about ephemera and they'll achieve excellence because that is what is required of them.

Put another way: if working software is just "table stakes", raise the stakes. There is no better way to improve the objective quality of your software than to make it do more for the user or have it do it better. It is the reason for code to increase in quality.
Why not tor over tor then?
They won’t care. Their job isn’t to worry about employee satisfaction. They’re more worried about going public or getting acquired.
This reminds me of the time when I execuded `rm -rf ~` in hopes of deleting an erroneously created directory.

Or when my "wrongly" expanded `mv` command moved all the files and directories in home into the last directory of the home directory. Which was a NTFS mount, leading to a loss of all the file permissions.
LibreELEC, off the top of my head - though (ironically, given the conversation being about the constant need for tinkering and fixing in solutions that should be robust) I'm away from my home right now, and my VPN is down so I can't ssh in to check :P
Okay, and he killed it because it was annoying to users and provided little value.
I don't need that. I rsync my watch with nist.gov
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Unfortunate that the truck was at an angle — much of radar likely bounced off to the right rather than returning back. The color of the truck provided little contrast, probably wasn’t resolved by the sensor, which has a dynamic range of 115dB, low compared to ~160dB of human eye, and 1MP (before debayering), again low compared to human eye at the center of vision.
Banks hand out loans to mitigate localized shocks all the time, which is one thing that prevents them from turning into more macro shocks.
It can be. The reason libraries and other archives have special rights is because they fought for them against the express wishes of people who sold paper. There are no arguments made against archive.org that weren't also made against libraries.
Given past behavior, Apple is likely to clone it.

And hopefully the OP makes $$$$ enough to cover that frustrating future moment.
The displayed width alone is not enough information to tell a ligature from a single character.
Amazon ratings never match the reviews--the problem is you can have ratings without reviews. I dislike it but it's common with most places that allow reviews.

Generally I don't care too much about the rating, I look at the negative reviews and see what they are complaining about. If there is a pattern of apparently legitimate gripes avoid. If it's a bunch of garbage ignore them. (I've seen many, many a one-star review because the buyer didn't understand what they were getting and the "fault" with product is that it won't do something it was never intended to do and in no way implies that it will do.)
That's not necessarily the case. In Europe after Chernobyl, radioactivity accumulated in cow's milk via grass contaminated with strontium. Children were particularly at risk because strontium is absorbed into growing bones in a similar manner to calcium. Even a low-level of radioactivity in that context can be harmful.

https://hidex.com/ebooks/liquid-scintillation-measuring-proc...

https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(96)....
Your comment hits a nerve. I've been wondering about how to distinguish between something I am genuinely interested in, and something I think I should be interested in. I feel sometimes things get lost in a fog and I can't tell them apart.

Perhaps the real question is not so much how I can stick to things, but what I am _actually_ interested in. Thank you.
In case anyone is curious, the following disturbing video provides some data on how human drivers would do in the same situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9yqXzZ16ns

In this video, the reporter attempts to illuminate the car so that it is more visible.
Keep everything distributed thru Amazon bc it will make it easier to incrementally swap out the producers with new ones setting up in Mojave/Sonora, Ohio Valley, etc. Next 3T biz is recreating the Chinese supply chain in America bc there is no cure for what China has.
Having been a wine collector and sometime winemaker I found this fascinating. Claret is truly a cultural force of its own but I'm pleased its power is waning as a tastemaker. (Although less so in the states).

If anyone cares for wine advice AMA even though it is all bullshit there still is good and bad wine which is a strange combination.
Yes, over time humans form larger and larger social groups as we are able to use technology and trade to form a more abstract and inclusive idea of the 'us' and reduce the 'them' outgroup. That's how it works. If you asked a bronze age libertarian your current idea of a 'nation' would be wildly antithetical to his idea of a free and sovereign tribe. As social groups get larger and larger we also get, on average, more and more peaceful and prosperous.

It's a good thing.
I’m bullish on life.
Piece work is not new either. That’s all these apps do.
I have a license because I have a thing for speed and feel of Sublime. There is nothing like it.

I write my Ruby and Elixir code with it, even if I know I get better experience with other tools.

I wrote my book Deployment from Scratch with Sublime as well.

I sometimes evaluate other editors but so far always returned :).
Tell HN: Google deleted my developer account
Google deleted my developer account, just because my game has 'new' in the game title. I think it's an atrocity.
I didn't know this existed! But I get why you are saying this. Thank you.
I thought most of that was in the union contracts.
Very cool, is it using arweave?
Similarly how github is a blockchain. I think he means the ease of version control by this.
Creating a Fantasy CPU emulator part 2
Tofu is the best and only choice for an authenticator app on iOS.
That's a good point and some basic searches seem to confirm your assertions.
I (believe I) appreciate the physics of that claim ... but why do we bother collecting it and handling it separately?
For a few years now I have been trying to resist filling my room/house with old VHS tapes for this purpose. This missing piece of the puzzle is not making it any easier.
I believe DVB-T still supported "analogue" teletext, but DVBs-own-telext is known as MHEG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHEG-5

...and I've no idea :)
Syncthing seems provide all the features of Silk and has been around for many years.

The main difference is that it uses your devices for storage and never touches somebody's else storage space.

And you don't have to pay or use cryptocurrencies.
Once again, I am speaking generally and not about this specific accident. We have no idea how any other person or car would perform in this exact situation and I don't see much value in speculating.

I care much less about a singular accident than I do about trying to help prevent future accidents by clearing up the confusion. You are continuing to add to that confusion, seemingly intentionally by continuing to blur the lines that I have already clarified in previous comments.

You already admitted that a product being on the market for years would lead to a consumer being more confident in it. By telling people that FSD has been tested for years on public roads rather than months your criticism is counterintuitively also contributing to a false confidence in the technology.
I've searched a bit for this and haven't been able to find a good answer. Let's say that I have m tasks that I want to run concurrently on n cores, for example handling HTTP requests or searching for something in files. I'd also like to not have to manage manually how the tasks are going to be distributed. Basically, have the same experience as when writing Go code. Is there a way to do this in multicore OCaml? I've found the task pool in domainslib [1] but I'm not sure if it's what I'm looking for.

[1]: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/domainslib/blob/master/li...
I'm intrigued. What problem would you say is out of reach of an AGI (beyond what is understood to be physically impossible)?
Why? What's the point of trying to come up with a single optimal order? Every movie does it differently and probably has reasons for doing so. This seems like investing a huge amount of work to solve a problem that no one really needs the solution to.
The traditional controls on the Apple ][ in the 1980s was IJKM because the early models didn't have up and down arrow keys (they were introduced in the //e)
If there was a good argument, it should make sense in plain text:

> and you can think of this like the google search that's provided
> google search is a centralized search system yet the the actual computation for that search is actually distributed across the entire planet
> so uh that provides a perfect analogy for how uh bitcoin and uh litecoin and dogecoin how all of these different coins work they're actually centralized systems providing a centralized service while at the same time having the computation spread out across the entire planet

Totally missing the point that centralization is about who has control, not where things happen. Distributing operation but not control of those operations isn't meaningful here, which is what makes Google search not a good analogy for blockchains. I'm not pro-blockchain (until we find effective use/implementation), but I'm definitely anti-misinformation.
My favorite answer to this question: https://youtu.be/-UKEPd2ipEk

Good code follows some base set of standards, works, and can be updated/replaced/rewriten easily (simple to understand scope).
I’m intrigued with Funny. What makes these frameworks funny?
> Lost me at "lack of shock absorbers such as banks" - DeFi has lots of flaws, but it takes truly a sheltered economists to think that banks absorb shocks!

My car has a bumper. It's not valid to claim it doesn't absorb shocks because it can't absorb all the shock of a 20mph collision. A similar situation might be the case here. It's quite plausible that banks absorb all kinds of shocks all the time, but we have a distorted view because the shocks we tend to hear about are the ones they didn't absorb (or didn't absorb as smoothly as usual).

> I will pay attention when Goldman Sachs starts to hand out stimulus money or even loans in a crisis to absorb the shock

Isn't the fed a bank and hasn't it done things similar to "hand[ing] out stimulus money or even loans"?
Someone who tried ST3 and sure, it feels a bit better than Notepad++. But it's not $100 worth of better
Last I read, that was one time [1]. Of course if you have the means, consider a bit more per GB.

[1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...
One detail that usually is left out of the fearless concurrency story is that it only works in-process across threads, it does very little to help in distributed concurrency across multiple processes accessing shared data, eventually written in various languages.

Which in the age of micro-services is quite relevant as well.

Definitely better than other languages, still doesn't prevent one to actually think about end-to-end overall system design.
Wikipedia opinion essay: Deny recognition to vandals
Yes, 3 categories:

--Cloud free

--Cloud required

--Cloud supplemented

The last one would need to be accompanied by a list of features that depend on the cloud.

Expiration dates should also be required. "Guaranteed support for X years from original release date; Y Years from date of final official sale."

I'm not inherently against products that use or require cloud infrastructure to function, but I think consumers should have the information needed to make an informed decision.
I do something similar but to test that my pc hasn't been compromised.

I have an unencrypted btc wallet with a few hundred usd worth of btc as a canary.

It's not perfect of course.
The biggest change I’ve made over 35 years of driving is slowing more and sooner when things are unclear. At 75, just taking your foot off the accelerator will shed 10-20% of stopping distance in a few seconds. Waiting until you are sure it is bad news is the difference between defensive driving and avoidable crashes.
Can anyone with a scientific background chime in on why this is nonsense that will never come to viability?
> Especially not the government which lets the food industry get away with giving people food that is engineered to be a health hazard.

Not just lets them get away with it, actively encourages them to use practically toxic amounts of high fructose corn syrup by subsidizing the grain.

https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
It comes down to statistics. Using a VPN you are using 1 entity, so all a state actor needs to do is view that one entity's traffic. This may be time consuming and legally challenging if the entity is trustworthy and has servers spread across the globe, but there is still only 1 point that they need to monitor - I suspect many VPN service users are not randomly switching servers. You said "self hosted" VPN which if you are doing that at home it provides no anonymity (which i'm assuming is the point of the comment since the context is Tor). If you host it at a server you are anonymously renting (good luck doing that without opsec failure), it is still only your traffic there, you have no benefit of blending in with others.

With Tor, you can be assured that your attacker needs to monitor more than some % of the network (which can be done either by running nodes themselves or having a wide view of netflow data). Alphabet soup agencies are capable of this, but these attacks are expensive and non-trivial which is why historically the FBI and such use browser exploits the most. You shouldn't rely on Tor alone to protect your life if your adversary is highly skilled or funded, but chalking it up to a VPN is completely discounting the benefit gained from a larger anonymity set in the world's biggest onion routing network.
It's not going to be reliable with just cameras.

You can use where the headlights disappear and reappear to draw an arc of occluded space. You should be able to measure how quickly that arc changes to estimate the distance

If you're 1000 feet from an object and move a foot closer, it barely blocks anything else from view. If you're 5 feet away, moving a foot closer blocks a lot more of your view.

The problem is that relies on nearly constant backlighting on the object.

The real solution here is LIDAR, which makes this trivial. Tesla won't use it though, so they have stupid problems like trying to hack a way to determine how far away dark objects are.
I don't think there is a fundamental difference. ECS is the application of relational databases in a dynamic real-time context with relatively modest amounts of data, but lots of sequential processing. Sparse sets work well in this context, but they are ultimately an implementation detail. There are other ECS implementations that don't make use of it but can still deal with large throughput.
One thing we need to remember is we are seeing the scene from a recorded video.

Our eyes have much better dynamic range so a person would have much better grasp on what the road is like behind the wheels than what they can see from the recorded video.
Disbursed: 3,500,000,000,000
Stolen: 100,000,000,000 or 2.8% of disbursed
Recovered: 2,500,000,000 or 2.5% of stolen
Arrested: 100 or $1B per arrestee

Criminals have stolen close to $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.

The stolen funds were diverted by fraudsters from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and a another program set up to dole out unemployment assistance funds nationwide.

More than $2.3 billion in stolen funds have been recovered so far, resulting in the arrest of more than 100 suspects who span the spectrum from individuals to organized groups, according to the agency. The government has shelled out about $3.5 trillion in Covid relief money since early 2020, when the pandemic began.
The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
I thought this article was interesting and in keeping with what I've seen posted on Hacker News. Do we know why it was flagged without comment after being upvoted?
As a react native developer I can confirm SwiftUI is more fun. Mostly because of the relative simplicity. You just need Xcode or these days an iPad with Playgrounds on it and you can build stuff.
What were your sources?

CIA world factbook measure Indias obesity rate to be lower than japan’s, though the data is from 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
How to Charge for your Open Source (2015)
I should have posted this earlier, but it's probably still worth saying: this comment broke the site guidelines egregiously, and you started a wretched flamewar with it. That's seriously not ok.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note these ones—you broke all of them here:

"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
As are the US Americans of today having a Senat, a Capitol, ...
How is ISIS different from Americans droning random civilians?
I think you're presuming an argument that's actually not in the piece. The author obviously is bemused with the movement to unplug, but I don't think the author actually says it's bad - just that it's better to search for a healthy relationship with civilization and by extension the Internet. The piece is not about why you shouldn't unplug, it's an exploration of how we people can get the same benefits of unplugging without actually unplugging.

If you come at it looking for an argument that has a beginning, middle, and an end, you're going to be frustrated but the piece is not making an argument, it is talking about a variety of ways that people can have a more healthy relationship with the Internet.

I know for me the piece crystallized a lot of thoughts about how I do and don't choose to unplug. There isn't one single answer, it's a thousand little things about when I choose to leave the phone on my desk and go for a walk, or sitting on the train I leave the phone in my pocket and daydream.
I think he's referring to something like IPFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

http://ipfs.io

You can put the storage costs on the nodes because storage at archive.org's scale adds up, especially when it's run by volunteers.
My point is, US security is irrelevant here. It's about Taiwan and Japan.
What job hunting has been like as a 2020 graduate so far
Tor+VPN has various trade offs and is not good for everyone. Generally i would say most people would not benefit from it.

https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/vpn-tor-not-mRikAa4h/
There are couple of them that share this kind of opinions, https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65
I suspected this would be brought up, which is why I tried to pre-empt it by specifying that a home mortgage has special conditions that make it not 1 to 1 comparable to other leveraged investments, such as non callability, non recourse (in California), you get to live in it, and you get to live in that specific location (assuming you value it).
It is useful as a free-for-all outside of censorship.

You probably don't want an area free from censorship most people don't. I browse with safe images enabled when searching google images. Once in awhile I'll open it up and see a world that didn't exist before. I don't think that world should be removed even if I rarely visit.
Many members of my family run our own small businesses, and have given similar advice. Always either do your own bookkeeping (or heavily review and understand the work you have done) but then pay for the for not only the processing of tax by CPAs, but also their advice. There are plenty of ways to optimize a business to not just be more tax efficient, but also financially structure operations, especially with the way one approaches debt.
Great Software is like a well made power tool

1> easy to understand
2> reliably does what you expect
3> works well with the compute power you have available, doesn't waste it
4> works well with accessories, in a predictable manner
5> can be applied in a wide range of situations, without breaking above

Great operating systems are like using an electrical outlet

1> Easy to understand
2> Supplies only the resource you expect, and nothing else
3> Stops the load if it tries to gobble up resources
4> Doesn't let the load send things elsewhere(like a ground fault detector)
The law being discussed regulates import and export of commercial appliances. It doesn't apply to free software.