skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote: I use Manjaro on my home server and on a laptop and it's rock-solid. Not sure why people look down on Arch, I only had good experiences and I'm very far from a seasoned sysadmin.
>In such an unregulated capitalism system the producer would only obtain wealth by freely trading. It is the state intervention which creates the conditions for the centralization of wealth.

No. You can concentrate massive amounts of wealth simply by freely trading. As you get wealthier, it gets easier to accumulate additional wealth. This is the essential feedback loop of capitalism. It's a feature, not a bug, and it is readily modeled (see, eg, https://www.wealthinequality.info/). But it causes significant social problems if left unchecked, as we are seeing today.
Yes, Rutland is the smallest county, I expect they'd have to ask for help from the Leicestershire or Cambridgeshire dinosaur departments
I don’t think that completely fair. You have a point, but it’s also the only newspaper right now that will point out holes in policies, and explanation from the government.

Ekstra Bladet certainly attracks nutters, but they also hire some really smart journalist.
You are not overreacting, I think you should listen to the signals. BUT I communicate to your boss and your team on boundaries and anything else you feel.

I was in a similar situation where I was pulled into calls right away, but I was dealing with fires and clients. I communicated to my boss and it helped. I had the most growth at that company, but a lot of the major red flags that showed up during my first week were the same problems I was dealing with when I left.
The tool in question is just what you probably thought: Ghidra, also thought of as a FOSS alternative to the popular decompiler/disassembler IDA Pro. Interesting story either way.
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Ask HN: AI/ML Applications on the Blockchain
Hey HN, I am a Machine Learning researcher with a deep interest in blockchain technology. I am looking to study a topic at the intersection of the two technologies, but am coming up empty handed as the two seem so disjoint (AI being extremely centralized with large datasets, blockchain obviously being decentralized). Has anyone run into any interesting topics or projects that incorporate the two technologies?
Indeed, over-regulation is cronyism
See, this is why comments are often so bad. They get ignored (and then forgotten) most of the time anyway. Like you did with my comment, where I explicitely stated, that I do write comments. Just less, than I used to.

To which you just made a strawman argument of

"Those two statements combined is your justification (excuse) for never writing comments and why the code you and people like you write is unmaintainable."

You do not know me, nor my code - yet you judge about it, claiming it unmaintainable. Well, what more is there to comment on? Probably nothing.
Just curious, what's the issue with Nokogiri for some people? It always installs just fine for me...
In the US far more people have died of COVID-19 than we’ve ever seen of dead bike riders. The bar for the US to change policies because of a “dark moment” is going to be in the millions of deaths, which just isn’t going to happen when bike riding has such a small mode share here.
There's two angles here which might make a difference in the legality of it:

a) Apple turns it off on behalf of the carrier
-> Apple is free not to offer this feature to you

b) The carrier is blocking it without help from Apple
-> The carrier is limiting what you can connect to

The latter might be a breach of contract / telco laws (e.g. net neutrality) - depending on your jurisdiction / local laws.
Well, on the flip side, unions had a not so secret project to convince employees that Google sucks.
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Please link to the comment where you were accused of being an agent. To be blunt, your comment [1] was the start of any personal attacks in that thread and derailed a conversation that reads as very reasonable technical clarification/critique. The parent comment [2] is in no way "nuclear" and describes important features that should be considered when making an informed decision around security/privacy-oriented OSes.

IMO, the fact that your original comment here was flagged while RedDragon's was not should suggest what constitutes good-faith and healthy discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098495
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095033
Crystal was overall a pleasant experience, which I cannot say for Rust. Although it was probably my fault: 1) for being "rusty" as a programmer myself, and 2) having zero experience with Rust. I want to believe that once you get over the learning curve in Rust development speed becomes much higher.

Surprisingly, Crystal seems to be much leaner in runtime size than Rust, with similar performance (although the use case is so simple that even good old Ruby is fast enough).

But then again, I feel you cannot beat Ruby in terms of dev productivity.
You nailed something that I've noticed. Highly competent and intelligent people tend to lean libertarian in my experience. It's only when they get cancer, or finally meet some form of humility that they see the inherent advantages they had over others for what it is. Simply a roll of the dice.

Competent, capable, hardworking people often fail to see the bigger picture, and dismiss others that aren't like them. If you have all 3 of those traits, which are both from your discipline and genetic predisposition, the world looks like a meritocracy, and it isn't.
Not really true - v0.20 of PicoTorrent [1] was released with BitTorrent v2 support on the same day as libtorrent released support for v2 torrents. I think this predates BiglyBT 2.5 with v2 [2] support with about two weeks.

[1] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...

[2] https://biglybt.tumblr.com/post/629947579144290304/2500-rele...
Until it's there it's 100% sci-fi. We've been through a few AI hype cycles already and the most advanced AI is still dumb as fuck compared to a 3yo kid.

We might be on a completely wrong path with our current approach too, difference of degree vs difference of kind, we don't know much about the brain and so far our binary way of computing isn't really promising, especially not in term of mimicking or surpassing the human brain, it might just not be the right tool.
And the dynamic keyword: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
Out of curiosity, what's your media center setup?
Udemy can sign a receipt with a simple cryptographic key. But what's the benefit of blockchain here?
Uhm, don't the Dutch separate cyclists and motorists only where the speed limit is >30km/h? At ≤30km/h there's no separation at all IIRC.

Good news about Milan, though. That'll be such an improvement.
I'm a Rails dev at $JOB, currently flirting with Phoenix, and while I think that both Elixir and Phoenix are really solid and even quite enchanting, I don't think they're the best choice for someone's first contact with webdev. Most people are more comfortable with imperative languages and Elixir only adds to the initial friction of not knowing the proper webdev lingo and concepts.
I slightly fear how much of my own thinking is there just because some corporation or another big entity wanted me to think like that and spent considerable resources to make it happen.
Not really. Can have all cause mortality data from every year that tells us excess deaths. If we see a spike of 400k excess deaths for 2020 and 2021, then it’s pretty obvious how many to attribute to the virus.

Additionally, if someone is pCR positive, symptom positive, and dies from a cytokine storm, that’s pretty strong evidence.

But we don’t even need the latter. Excess deaths tell us approximately how many the virus killed, period, QED. There’s no denying COVID killed 10x more than the worst flu since 1918.
To be fair , YouTube at the time was not profitable when it was bought . Zynga is not only profitable but it’s a public company .
I found a paper on this 'Coping with the Complexity of Microprocessor
Design at Intel – A CAD History' https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22... There was another one dedicated to 386, but I dont remember the title :(

on the other hand there are insane people able to RE Playstation CPU/GTE back from standard cell array chip http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=551&start=60
Not what I said at all lol
In OS X it was usual to have your bundle explode when compiling Nokogori due to som libXml dependency, circa 2010.
They may certainly claim that he wasn't a employee, however he would be working under their explicit direction to accomplish a task they asked him to complete. It doesn't matter one whit how the company classified him, he is a employee from the second he dials into that call. I can't tell you to put a paper hat on and flip burgers then not pay you since "you don't really work here until next week, just thought you might want to get ahead on the burger project."

Consider this, I don't know what this software does but a lot of the conversations around software are confidential. Did they just invite a random stranger into a call with potentially privileged information?
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What's next after this? There are a lot of different projects ongoing for OCaml (typed effects, modular explicits/implicits, all of the RFCs, flambda and flambda 2, and I'm probably forgetting a lot of them). However, while following the progress of OCaml Multicore was easy thanks to the monthly posts, it's a bit harder to know where the focus will be next. Is there something like a "state of OCaml" that's planned, or a roadmap?

Congratulations on the merge, and thank you for all the work that went into it!
You could read the article.
One day I probably shift into TDD as well, as .. yes, I am not big on systematic testing. And that often hurt a lot.
> In Milan, I don't get it

Italian from Rome living in Milan for 8 years now.

The explanation is simple: transport of goods _and_ a lot of people coming from Monza/Brianza area to work in Milan and back home in the evening.

Crazy at it seems, they prefer to use their cars over the (frankly terrible) regional trains, that in theory can do Monza-Milan in 10 minutes, but in practice most of the times are late, overcrowded or canceled, with no warnings.

There's also a lot of traffic between Milan and San Donato Milanese where a lot of large companies have their own old school giant offices with thousands of employees (Eni, for example) .
> A whole DB as a json file

More like a whole database table as a JSON file - I split the whole database export into tables using `jq` (an export from Firebase Realtime Database). I generally use sublime text to open them, it's quite happy with anything that will fit in RAM. For very large file it just shows a load bar while it loads it.

It was vital for exploring the shape of our data during a data migration to Postgres as our data was not very regular in shape and firebase's querying capabilities are pretty limited.
What if I disagree with the union's position on ethics? For example, I do not agree with Google's decision to avoid some DoD contracts (I worked in Google at the time). I'd only want a union to handle my work aspects (and even then... it's not clear they would provide me with all the wonderful things I have received over the years from Google and other tech employers).
lack of sleep cause tiredness, tiredness causes you to reach for a cup of coffee, this makes you wired, being tired and wired almost causes me a sort of depressed excitation, where as if i drink coffee when i'm well rested i have an optimistic excitation. Optimistic excitation causes me to focus on the mental world to derive pleasure and pass time, like studying, depressed excitation causes me to want to get material pleasure like eating sugar, or fast food or drinking alcohol to pass time. I ultimately understand that coffee works best in conjunction with good rest, if you caffeinate to power through sleep depravation, you will notice that your ROI is severely diminished and worst of all you will most likely disrupt your sleep the next day. We in the modern world hate listening to our bodies, we try to do all sorts of things to get more out of our day, in the long term this might be the wrong way of looking at things.
If the sensor surface ends up with visible scorch marks then I don't think it would matter much if it was sensitive or not
I'm all for poking fun but this just seems excessive as Godot isn't even 10 years old.
Ask HN: Why does the blockchain need to be a single chain?
One of the big issues plaguing the blockchain is throughput - since all the transactions go into a single ledger AFAIK, the transactions need to be serialized.

But why does this need to be the case?

Imagine you had a blockchain you could fork at arbitrary points, let's limit ourselves to 2 levels - a core level and a sub level.

On the core level the only thing you can do is create sub-chains, let's say through a PoW algorithm.

On the sub-level, it would work like a regular blockchain, so you could write transactions into each chain with a PoW algorithm.

Let's identify each user with, a letter, and each subchain with a number.

Now, the problem would be that wallets could be distributed between chains, so for A, you'd need to add up the balance of A0 and A3 if we presume that A has coins on these chains.

Now, if A wants to transfer money to B, let's say she transfers from wallet A0 to B1, she just writes a transaction into subchain 0's ledger to transfer coins from A0 to B1, with the usual PoW algorithm. Then let's say the miners who manage chain 1 record this transaction into it out of charity - since A has PoW already invested, these sort of cross-chain transactions can't be spammed.

Now I described the algorithm with 2 layers, but it could scale to an arbitrary number, to minimize the chain lengths, as long as the chain id's are unique.

Now I'm pretty sure I missed something dumb, but I can't see it :)
> By speaking up you might be able to save someone else from what you're going through.

Exactly how? By not getting vaccinated? By making sure the risk of side-effects from the vaccine is lower than the risk of getting the disease? How can you weigh these risks? You can say, by doing statistics. You need to be able do estimate conditional expectations, the more granular the conditions, the better. For example you start with the unconditional expectation of having a severe outcome from Covid vs from the vaccine. The vaccine wins hands down. Then you do expectation conditional on age. The FDA and CDC did that when issuing their approval, and making the recommendations for various age groups. For more granular conditions, the CDC maintains the VAERS database [1], where every adverse event linked to a vaccine is tabulated. For example, let's say the CDC analyses this data set and concludes that for people with kidney stones the vaccine's side-effects outweigh the benefits. The CDC will issue the appropriate recommendation.

How exactly do you think someone's "voice on the internet" will result in people making better informed decisions, vs people actually listening to the CDC recommendations?

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/
Seconded! Marijn has thought about this stuff a _lot_.
Any time you start having negative sentiment, anywhere in life, directed at the creations of other humans or the humans themselves I have two phrases I use. Four words. Be humble. Be curious. It’s saved me a lot of angst. I think as a developer this is a great mindset, it has helped me a lot, at least.
Ruby has the ability to automatically download required gems in single-file scripts via bundler. I don't know of any equally convenient alternative for my python scripts.

e.g.
https://gist.github.com/destiny-index/2a2e7e586bb9cd6e5c3000...
> NFTs have nothing to do with URLs

This is untrue in practice. In theory an NFT could have no url associated with it. In reality that’s how NFTs were envisioned and how they are actually implemented.

> the entire thing is based around uniqueness within blockchains, so important to highlight when you try to explain what NFTs are.

That’s right. You have to mention the blockchain so that people turn off their critical thinking. Because if you describe an NFT without techy-sounding buzzwords, people will rightly say “that sounds stupid”.
I agree that the Thinkpad keyboard is pretty much unbeatable in terms of laptop keyboards. But the ergonomics of laptops are inherently terrible no matter how good the keyboard is. It is simply impossible to have both keyboard and screen at the correct heights when they are physically connected together in notebook form.

For prolonged use, you really should have a separate keyboard and monitor, properly adjusted to your individual height and posture. Your back and neck will thank you for it.
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If you're curious about looking at something novel and ambitious, Zed has a really interesting writeup of their… unusual architecture involving a GPU-powered UI framework and CRDTs written in Rust: https://zed.dev/
"Do no evil." indeed.
Hypergraphy
Yes agreed, frostbite is one of the things that's not fine.
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> It's an application you install to your internal network and most probably do not make it accessible publicly.

If people don't make it accessible publicly, then the AGPL isn't really imposing any obligations on them, even if they modify the code. It's unclear to me exactly when what you did would lead to someone paying when they otherwise wouldn't.
My biggest issues with Common Lisp were:

* Absolutely nothing is consistent. When you mutate something, is the place it goes the first or last argument? No consistency here.
* When you pass a value to a function, is it by value or by reference? Who knows? Rules are non obvious, do not follow the principle of least surprise.
* Lisp-2 just makes working with higher order functions obnoxious.

One thing it has going for it though is the loop macro, that's admittedly pretty neat.
Different issue were Google is being sued. This is related to NLRB rulings on the four union organizers Google fired back in 2019- they sued for illegally being fired for union organizing work. Under the previous administration the behavior was ignored, but the current administration is much more charitable towards union work, so the lawsuit is back and Google is desperately trying to hide everything it can.

Google can settle this by re-employing the organizers and ceasing to retaliate against union organizing work, as they are legally required to do in the US. However, they have decided on a different path.
The X230 and X220 keyboards are compatible. You could get a new X220 keyboard to solve your immediate problem, and then after you find a suitable X230, swap in the keyboard.
Also don’t forget that road infrastructure actually is a HUGE maintenance burden and thats where most of its cost problems arise.
I know of at least 1 drive-through testing center, at the San Jose Fairgrounds. There may be more, but not sure.

Though there the testers/nurse puts the swab in the nose.
> Simply a roll of the dice.

In that case, so is this very conversation, the fact that we're both on this website, and even the fact that we are both interested in tech.

If it's simply a roll of the dice, then nearly all aspects to existence are pointless, there's no point in trying to think for oneself, etc. Perhaps this is what you truly intend to convey, but until you explicitly state this, this is an incoherent perspective.
Nothing you couldn't glean with a common sense approach to material interests at play in a workplace. Of course a corporation wants to extract as much wealth with as little overhead as possible. Outside of ineffectual executives, there are few that orient companies towards making less money intentionally. Analyzing every choice made in a work place through this lens is both dead simple and continually enlightening.

Some commentator once noted that those elite with the highest levels of wealth (say top 1%) don't disbelieve Marx's analysis of the world and capital distribution. They understand it quite well, they're just on the opposite side of the field from the proles and they leverage that analysis to keep it that way. The commentator continued that when you think about it this way, business papers and similar sources of info are actually quite useful for a Marxian lens. Those with capital know that capital is biggest driving force, so that's of course what they're going to focus on.
There is also a nice tutorial that guides you through building the kilo editor:
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupt...
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India desperately needs a public institution like the NHS of the UK!

Few years ago my father died of ILD(Interstitial Lung Disease), as per the doctors. I had my doubts about the diagnosis, but I had no where to go to for second opinion. There is a private hospital syndicate in every city of India; no hospital goes against other hospitals in the same city; they will cover each others back because most of the hospitals have the same "consulting doctors". They just loot the patient's relatives by prescribing same drug but from different manufacturer. And if they realise that the patient is going to die, then the family members are pressured to take the patient home or elsewhere, this is to avoid "death count" on their register. I was literally asked to take my father home the day he died suggesting that "take him home, we will provide the ambulance and he will die on the way home so it won't be on anyone of us!"

The medicine profession in India is not just joke, it is inhumane and lacks any value for humanity.

India should have looked at some of the European countries when setting up it's healthcare, education and news media policy. Unfortunately the country has copied verbatim everything in this regard from the US!
>> Kara Silverstein, Google’s human resources director said that she “like[d] the idea” of the op-ed, but that it should be executed so that “there would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.”

> So, she knew how uncool/illegal that looks. Schwifty.

Guess who's currently the "Director of Integrity" at Google. I sure hope it's someone with integrity who would never want their actions hidden.
The screencast by antirez is a joy to watch.
Capitalism is at heart about none of those things. The most important component of it is the idea that the return to capital should be larger than the return to labor or ideas. That is, given that all human enterprise of any type generally requires capital, labor and ideas, capitalism is the name we give to a system in which the profits from that enterprise go primarily to whoever provided the capital.

There is always a justification offered for this, which is that the losses go to capital also (i.e. investing capital in some enterprise is more risky than investing labor or ideas). There are numerous, excellent refutations to this claim.