skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The categories was a hoot, with some racing game being placed in the "Action / Adventure" category and more fun stuff. I wonder if we'll look back on today's video game genres and how we put some games into some of them in the same way.

For posterity, here was the categories and their winners, interesting enough (and maybe because it was related to the academy), they had best actress/actor categories (where the winner seems to have been a almost softcore "game"):

Best Action/ Adventure: Doom;

Best CD-ROM: The 7th Guest;

Best Portable Game: Aladdin;

Best Art or Graphics: Myst;

Best Musical: Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel’s Secret World;

Best Sports: Caesars World of Boxing;

Best Actress: Grace Zabriskie, Voyeur;

Best Actor: Robert Culp, Voyeur;

Best Overall Game (determined by a call-in vote): Mortal Kombat.
Physics PhD from about 7 years ago. My impressions are the same as yours.
They need CS lecturers all the way down to the worst college in the country. Hundreds and hundreds of departments. Everyone applies to the top, but they filter down, and if you look at who’s teaching at the lowest they clearly aren’t superstars and it wouldn’t take much to compete with them.
> Pointer authentication isn’t in 3rd party processes though

Still isn’t, because the arm64e ABI isn’t stable. As such, any binaries not bundled with the OS, including Apple applications, use the arm64 ABI without pointer authentication.

You can use -arm64e_preview_abi as a boot argument to enable arm64e support for non-OS bundled processes.

Note that however the arm64e binaries that you compile might not work on future macOS releases.
Show HN: Daily Wisdom Texts: Daily text messages from a selection of wisdom
Yeah, dismissing people who believe dumb things as dumb is a horrible thought-terminating cliche. Even the dumbest functioning human is really smart.

We're just much better at creating stories ("convoluted logic") than we are understanding our belief-making process.
I assume the suggestion is that the co-working space will be used when the rules/conditions allow; which is no different to the prospective employer's own office OP presumes to look for anyway.
Corollary: Why are contributions to OpenStreetMap systematically undervalued?

I think it's a much more interesting question WHY we are being asked to contribute to OSM for free. Why isn't it possible/feasible to gain compensation relative to the amount of value contributed? And what does that mean for our "free market" in general. If you can't compensate this kind of project, are they being repressed by the inherent incentive structures?

I don't think that's a failure of the OSM project, but rather a failure of our economic system.
rest in peace, Mitch
I'll only comment on this,

> Do you have examples of how hiring PhDs can go wrong?

Not so much wrong, but there's a curve IMO. This is biased and based on my limited experience.

Writing code or working on production systems sometimes they have trouble working the code bases. They can code, but don't necessarily have developed yet the skills to dig into code. I think everyone has this issue starting. There's also a big difference in code from academia to industry.

Same with problems. We need a solution and a usable one. It doesn't have to be THE theoretical best thing always. It has to work. For example, you can't just not consider constants in complexities in production. Those constants take time.

An example can be Netflix's challenge,
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120409/03412518422/why-n...

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I don't necessarily agree with the generalists part. I think we all specialize over time and have some of the same issues changing language or even frameworks. We just don't have or know the best way of doing things within it yet.
To clarify: they maintain(ed) own reviewed replica of OSM data and asked about suspicious edits.

Any edits in OSM go live immediately without review.

And Poland has no government database of hydrants or AED.

In fact Polish community is right now working on making decent AED database - with https://aed.openstreetmap.org.pl/ created recently that shows already collected data
Thank you, but I don't feel like I've put any special effort into this. It began as a way to calm myself down, then became a habit, and then it simply turned into this "don't break the chain" effect because the chain seemed to have actual value.

I wish I could form some actually positive habits this way!
i made a [free] thing that texts you readings from Epictetus, St Benedict, sayings of Gautama Buddha (Dhammapada), Epicurus, Evagrius Ponticus, Omar Khayyam, Ecclesiastes, poems, or the Tao Te Ching

http://dailywisdomtexts.com
See Lilypond, the music typesetting project, if you want to see how Scheme embedded in a TeX-like language looks. From my experience, you're generally evaluating to actual AST-like objects instead of sprintf-ing something TeX-like – I suppose this has pros & cons.
Labor was a lot cheaper and old cars were a lot easier to fix. Furthermore, all of this was made cheaper by lower standards of safety in the day. You could just bend an axle or a rim back into shape, dump oil on the ground, paint without a respirator, etc, etc, and nobody would screech about it on Reddit. (Cost of compliance is a huge driver of overhead in the automotive business in case anyone was unaware)
Is there a particular place you recommend moving to for being in-office? Or you just mean your options open up a lot in general when you're willing to move?
1) seems like a fuckin “duh”
2) obvious conflict of interest, PhD’s writing about how useful PhD’s are?
This. I hate open plan offices, I hate commuting, I don't feel the need to socialize in my job.

If an extrovert gets energized and inspired by working in an office, great. But don't expect me to do it just because they want company to talk at. There are plenty of extroverts that can share the office with you.

IMO, all the extroverts can drive over an hour a day to yak at each other in open plan petri dishes, but count me out.
> Grant Applications: Very specific academic "skill" which is intimately tied to the bureaucracy of the university system of your particular country or region. It also has a lot to do with things that aren't even in the application: who you know and what they think of you.

Honest question: how many grant applications have you written, and to which funding agencies? Your experience does not resemble mine at all.
> From a server point of view, I think a raspberry pi build that scripted most of the setup, is an achievable goal. Not an easy one, but doable.

Yes! I'm thinking something like standardizing Docker deployments with nginx-proxy[0] (which takes care of automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, it Just Works™[1]). If everyone shipped a docker-compose.yml tailored to nginx-proxy this would make it very easy for anyone to deploy stuff on their home server.

Then you'd need a standardized interactive install script that asks for things like hostname, email details, whatever else needed in .env (or whatever config). Perhaps a good ol' Makefile?

make setup # interactive install
make up # run docker-compose up -d
make down # run docker-compose down
make uninstall # uninstall, plus clean up volumes and images

People would just need to learn how to (after installing Docker, which is trivial) git clone a repo and then run those commands and go to the URL and finish the setup (if relevant).

[0] https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

[1] This is how I deploy all my Docker stuff, it usually takes from 1-5 minutes to modify docker-compose.yml to fit
But if your master passphrase is only used for LastPass (as is exactly my case -- I've never used it elsewhere), how can it can be credential stuffing? Or was the password breached from LastPass itself in the past? That's possible, but then it doesn't jell with people having this same issue with accounts created in November 2021.

As far as I can tell, the "Someone just used your master password to try to log in to your account from a device or location we didn't recognize" email we all received was only sent when a correct password was used. Incorrect passwords did not trigger that email.

But yes, it would be great to learn that those emails were sent incorrectly i.e. it was a false positive (i.e. someone tried to login with a wrong password, but the email above was sent anyway). It's still not great that the wrong kind of email was sent, but that would be a low level bug.
My experience too (in a completely different field to finance).
Well, I tracked the previous UIDs and saw a lot of names that weren't squatted getting released and shortly after ending up with Instagram employees.

E: Oh yeah, there was also the whole "trademarking" thing that was used to steal generic names from active accounts using obviously invalid trademarks. https://www.vice.com/en/article/zma3w4/scammers-fake-tradema...
I disagree, mailing lists suffer from many issues. Editing or deleting messages is impossible, which means moderation is also impossible unless you force pre-approval for every post. There is no reasonable way to categorize discussions after the fact, only creating separate lists and hoping people post in the correct place. Trying to share code is the worst, you have a few options here:

* Attach it and hope everyone's clients handle attachments properly (especially the online archive will likely not include them).

* Include it inline and hope people aren't using a proportional font and it's formatted correctly in the archive. (I've recently had the displeasure of the python-ideas mailing list archive "helpfully" formatting >>> [which is the Python REPL prompt, so you'd think they would have thought of this] into a 3 levels deep blockquote. Thank god we're using such ancient technology in 2021 which makes it impossible to edit the message to correct it!)

* Post it on a pastebin, and hope the link isn't dead in a few years when someone is trying to find a solution to their problem in the mailing list archives a few years later.
Nuclear fusion isn't near until they actually start generating electric power. If they can generate power, even if it costs $1,000+ per watt, then I'll be like "Sure, maybe in a couple decades we'll see it in military or specialist applications where cost isn't a factor." But if you can't even generate a single watt of power with a couple hundred billion dollars, it is nowhere close.
IIRC context is "just" a macro package on top of luatex (and pdftex before). so whatever luatex has, context has.
>But I have got a coin in my pocket, and from now on, I intend each round to flip the coin, sending the red message on heads and the blue message on tails. If you do likewise, then we are very likely in a few rounds to hit upon the same message, and then we shall win on the next round by following through, announcing the agreed-upon color.

What if the other person says "But I have got a coin in my pocket, and from now on, I intend each round to flip the coin, sending the green message on heads and the orange message on tails. If you do likewise, then we are very likely in a few rounds to hit upon the same message, and then we shall win on the next round by following through, announcing the agreed-upon color."

How do you choose the strategy? If both stick to theirs, then you have a deadlock
> Does it increase blood pressure?

Yes. [1][2] Most studies are on electronic cigarettes and gum but they show the effects are dose/absorption dependent with pure nicotine, so pills are extremely unlikely to behave differently.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40138-020-00219-0

[2] https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/clpt.1...
It’s mostly about using the right tool for the right job. The Nix language is used for large scale configuration, not scripting. Anything that requires scripting is offloaded to Bash. As a result of that, Nix resembles JSON but with variables and lambdas to make writing complex configurations easier. The competitor of the Nix language is not Bash or Python, it’s JSON and YAML.
Not in the early 20th century, not to mention the fact Oprah is a woman.
I thought Gobo came first. I remember installing it ~2003. Didn't hear about Nix until years later and when I did it reminded of that old Gobo install.
My experience has been the opposite at least for things like font size, bold/italic. I’m curious to hear what problems you’ve encountered.
I think the parent means that they work in the service industry?
Someone at Facebook stealing your domain is quite an accusation. Assuming your domain was similar to your username/IG handle, wouldn't it be more likely to be people wanting your "china" domain for spam/malware/propaganda/etc?
Meh, it's their site. It's just weird that they don't seem to have any controls around this.
For Rosetta (1), QuickTransit was bought up by IBM. Rosetta disappeared not very long after that.
Ask HN: What's the chance that Google is detuning their email spam algorithm?
Many people have noticed that extremely obvious spam emails have getting past gmail's spam filters [1].

I honestly can't help but suspect that there's been a deliberate detuning of the spam algorithm, possibly limited to the free tier. Perhaps this is part of a plan to eventually promote a new service or strongly push for paid accounts in 2022 or 2023.

I suppose there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that. They are a business after all. (Though sometimes we are the product.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28635313
Well, it does raise BP, and I am on BP medication and I only use them sparingly and I chart my BP and am fairly fit. They also have 2 mg, so get a Walmart BP tester -$40 or so. They have a wrist one, which I tried and found it a battery eater as it powers a small air pump that is the main power drain = eats a set a week and the NiMh have too low a voltage as well as need recharging after 2-3 days.
Yeah, I've heard of matching monetary charitable donations before but this is the first time I've heard of matching volunteer time with money.

Thanks!
Do you have a paper / article with more details?
Security is more than just the software and hardware you are running. It also the strategies you employ, which you've hinted at. You can minimize your risk exposure by taking certain key steps:

1. hardware switches for microphones, cameras

2. restrict when and what you connect to on your devices

3. using air gapped devices when necessary

4. use different devices for different activities

the list of course goes on and on. it depends on what your security needs are. Security does not end with software and hardware mitigation, it only begins there.
> Many of the migrants are in fact legitimate refugees from conflicts that the UK was intimately involved in the last 20 years (Afghanistan, Syria).

We were involved in Afghanistan, yes. Which brought about education for girls... Something not seen in that country for decades? We ultimately failed but not without trying to bring about a better world for those people. It's not like we were there to take the resources.

It's news to be that we were involved in the recent conflict in Syria?

> In any case, Brexit has made the problem worse because now not only does the UK have a problem with boat crossings, but we have strained our relations with the country that the boats are coming from (France). The boats are indeed leaving the EU.

Agreed. But we know who exactly we can name and blame for these failings (British MPs), and vote against them going forward.
Zap: The delightful package manager for AppImages
Agree. It had an unusually clear explanation of how different types of bubbles are tied to Fed policies. Pointing out the effect of shifting of assets from poorer to richer segments of society was another interesting point in the article.

Hoenig's arguments are quite different from the "deficits don't matter" spiel of Krugman and others. Krugman's argument that we don't see ill effects of current policies could be just as much a failure of imagination as lack of data.
Narrow thinking. There is currently no evidence supporting “crackpot” theories like consciousness persisting our understanding of the physical realm. Of COURSE we’ve not witnessed any scientific evidence of life after death — that would be a scientific discovery!

To assert that atomic activity dictates the bounds of consciousness sounds a lot more like asserting the moon is made of cheese than entertaining the possibility that it isn’t. We didn’t even understand basic atomic principles until Rutherford et al around 100 years ago, and our knowledge regarding neutrinos and particle acceleration is still rapidly evolving.

To claim that because we have not directly witnessed or extra-physical consciousness is a bit like saying a grain of sand is the smallest unit because we haven’t witnessed anything smaller.
Is there a pill that makes me wait for hunger before I eat? That's what I need :P
> you could quickly use a lower gear freewheel on the other side -(if you rotated to drive the other axle)

Wait, what? You had a sprocket on each side of your rear wheel and you flipped the wheel around to change gears?

Or did you exchange front/rear wheel, each having a different sprocket?
I recently found this paper (2015) on optimizers, focusing on postgresql.

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p204-leis.pdf
Screwed on ply sheets look better, perform better and meet your requirements I think?
Don't look Up looks like a parody of how the COVID pandemic was/is being handled in Brazil.
Near-totaled suggests the costs to repair are near the value of the car. I can’t see how $2200 is near $43000 in any reasonable definition.
I have heard some version of this argument frequently over the years: there is this "hard" skill in engineering or physics or computer science that has real lasting value, and there there are these other disciplines that don't really have much of value.

Now, let's unpack what people mean by "hard" skills. Do you mean they are difficult to learn? Do you mean they are useful in today and tomorrow's economy? What exactly does the hard in hard skill mean.

I think you can see how the deconstruction of the argument works here. If by hard you mean difficult to learn, then I can list a bunch of hard skills that are not directly useful. If someone can rattle of all the major proofs in quantum mechanics on a blackboard, they may be a genius, have worked hard, and can do amazing things with their brain but that effort may not directly make them more employable.

If by hard skills you mean things that are useful to the economy, then that changes. I could have spent 4 years learning WAMP and then when I come out the economy has moved on to some other framework.

Maybe by hard skills you mean some skills that make it easy to pick up the other computer skills. So I may have learned a particular computer language, but along the way I know conditionals, loops, computational expense and so on. Are these harder to learn than presentation skills? Are they more useful than financial statements?

The example here of a slide that says "profit = revenue - cost" is hardly fair. That's like saying I once saw a piece of code on github that was very poor. Picking individual examples of something you don't find challenging is easy in any field.

Explain what you mean by hard skills, and then we can talk about whether a particular discipline has them or not.
Not denying this but 0.02: after working for Google and another "big" company (>5k employees) and two small (<50) companies, I was much happier at the big companies.
I’d work through the Practical TLA+ book.
If your IG handle is the same as your HN handle, could it be some very motivated people from that country's bureaucracy looking to take that handle for the state?
4 years ago I quit smoking. While the first week was hell because of the nikotin withdrawal. Getting rid of the habit itself took longer. Waiting outiside, after a meal etc. it is all habit.
What I did was buying a vape with nikotin free filling just to have something if my.mind craves the habit. This went on for 3 months reducing the amount I vaped linearly. By month 4 I stopped touching the vape and the only times I had a craving was while waiting for the bus with tons of smokers around. FYI location Berlin Germany.

But even this craving in such an environment stopped after a few more months.
It’s not based on LLVM, that’s way too heavy for the use case.

The same backend is used for AoT and JIT compilation. It uses a custom lightweight IR that’s really close to x86 itself, with a big focus towards reducing translation times.

Rosetta 2/Cambria was fully written in-house.
He mentions that asset prices (primarily stocks, but also housing) was rising during the earlier portion of the last decade, but I'm curious to know what is take would be on why we didn't see a lot of inflation outside of those assets until the supply chain issues due to covid popped up. Perhaps the supply chain issues were the match that lit the inflation fire?
Yes, and don't forget: Anyone who wants to steal your password can covertly look over your shoulder. They can also physically break into your house by smashing a window, or running a bulldozer through your wall.

Security always requires a certain amount of trust. If you can't get that trust, meet in person and keep your electronic communication vague.
>And I can run 2x eSIMs at the same time

Dual SIM devices were available for a long time.

Yes, most of them were dual standy sim, which meant that you wouldn't get calls from one while talking on another.
Thank you, I am leaning hard on this choice.
Coming from a Java background, I've found Kotlin to be everything I've ever wanted. Taking cues from Effective Java and functional programming language paradigms, it strikes a balance between succinct and expressive. I wouldn't be upset with doing primarily Kotlin for the rest of my career.
It still uses better encryption than Telegram, Threema, and several other products that market themselves as "private messaging" apps.
Let me ask the opposite question. Why did operating systems make any sounds? Is the rationale for them making sounds still valid? What information does it provide you that isn't otherwise obvious?
I'd recommend looking around locally in your city/region. Lots of cities have small, well-established companies that do a grab-bag of MSP, IT, Microsoft hosting, and offer some VPS or colo. They're usually on the expensive end but they come with the benefit that they've usually had their IP space for a long time and manage it carefully (unlike basically any "modern" provider), and since they're in town it's usually easier to get someone on the phone if there's a problem. Make friends with the people who run these kinds of businesses anyway, in a lot of smaller markets especially there's a bit of an informal club of IT service providers and if you chat with them regularly you'll end up getting good advice and business leads. I've had a colo inquiry to a local company turn into them sending me one of their clients before just by being chatty with the network guy.
why does the west feel its their job alone to write the history of African countries instead of letting them research and write their own history instead?

(write as in write down, not write as invent)