skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all industries and companies in the world that have any online presence are AI mapped to a vector space representing their alignment with Google's preferred political goals/allies.

They internally call it AI fairness or whatever.

It probably is the case that in this representation entertainment such as WWE and MMA ends up being viewed unfavourably by Google since they are vaguely associated with political powers that want to limit tech censorship, etc.

I think this is happening and it is bad.

Since results are highly personalized one way to fight this would be to install search bias monitoring extensions and statistically proving that results are intentionally biased for censoring porposes(which I think amounts to abuse of market dominance)

To avoid such monitoring Google is going to roll out strong restrictions on allowed browser extensions(linke manifest v3 in the name of privacy) at the same time meta/fb is just banning accounts in order to stop statistocal monitoring of their bias. [1]

Expect more of this unchecked soft censorship as user rights and tech accountability slowly diminish.

1:https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-attack-re...
Fond memories of being in high school and wiping the family computer trying to install Slackware. Fall ‘96 so probably 3.1 or something.

Very cool it’s still around.
> I am talking about experiences, relationships, and outlook-defining memories.

And "pumping out kids" as you put it does this for many people. Sorry it doesn't for you, but saying that it isn't a "win" for some people is short sighted.

> You can do more. You can be more. You can experience more.

Many would say the same of those in their 30s and 40s with kids.

> Sad.

Again, many would say the same about your aspirations. Insulting, isn't it?

My point being, what makes you happy, doesn't make others, so don't cast someone who has kids at 21 with a home and ability to provide for them into a bucket of not "winning" at life.
Agree; I find that such a frustrating part of trauma myself. I'm well aware it wasn't my fault, and I don't blame myself. It doesn't absolve me of the physical effects of all those stress hormones though...
Insider trading for EVERYONE! The market is already part scam part gambling. Let's give private business a shot by making publicly traded ones little more than a pyramid scheme.
It is expensive to constantly hire new employees and waiting for them to get up to speed. Having a stable group of expert employees who know the systems inside out, and know how to work well together, is a huge competitive advantage. Pushing employees beyond steady state is a clear sign of incompetent management.
Loudness War
So how was it working before all these SUV? We had a “Fiat Panda” as kids
and we were five people and never had problems carrying stuff.
Yes, I 100% agree. I've mainly been in tech throughout my career with a few times working in gov here and abroad but have above average familiarity with how the current system works in Congress. Unfortunately, there is no constituency that is ready to vote for higher congressional salaries now. However, while there salaries are one thing, I think the caps they get on # of workers, square feet of office space, and total budget they get in both the House and the Senate is far more dangerous. These offices are criminally understaffed, you've got kids with 1-2 years of work experience, most of it probably in opening letters for the same person they're working for now, managing portfolios for freshman Congresspeople that have serious potential impacts for the nation. There are some fellowships that have sprung up to assist and some federal agencies lend people out to committees but it is nowhere near enough and the repercussions are going to be serious, esp for tech which is now truly on the radar for regulation but which very few congresspeople or their staffers understand.
Any word on pricing ?

I would love a low powered device mainly for writing.

1k is my impulse buy limit

If you can build this for that I'll be your first customer.
Is finer grained control over TCP forwarding possible? e.g. allow forwarding only to certain TCP ports?
Waypoint 0.7 Reimagines UI and Extends Deployment Workflows
This meta-analysis provides a reason to believe that, in at least some circumstances, ivermectin is useful for treatment, specifically reducing deaths amongst those already doing very not well, but not for prevention. It also does not look at "long covid" or other long-term outcomes besides immediate death, nor at contagiousness.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t... looks at a bunch of ivermectin studies, and reaches the weird but entirely believable conclusion that ivermectin improves outcomes in parts of the world that are heavily affected by parasitic worms - the sort of thing that ivermectin is actually well-documented as treating!

Perhaps the phrasing that many present-day pundits would find recognizable would be - the people whose lives were saved by ivermectin weren't dying of covid. They were dying with covid, of worms.

This is an excellent reason to fight hard for increased ivermectin access to anyone who might be at risk of parasitic worms, covid or no covid, and to look to other countermeasures (pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical) against covid.
I would hope that it would have improved over the last 80 years :-/

The V2 had other foundational inventions - the ballistic missile shape, and the gyroscopic guidance system.
Handshake has no meaningful adoption. It's a pre-mined cryptotoken, traded on exchanges; essentially, the Handshake founders decided to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, which is something that blockchains make feasible. No mainstream browser will ever support Handshake.

More's the pity! If the Handshake DNS root heist works, it'd open up new business models for all of us. I had been looking forward to minting ARPCoin and charging everyone to join their WiFi networks.
I was once treated by a Dr. Crummy.

And when I was helping run a pharmacology practical class for medical students, one of the names on the register was "A. Butcher". I am not sure if he went on to become a surgeon.
macOS has not abandoned its Unix layer, and in fact is still a certified Unix (https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/). However, there is a growing gap between certified Unix and the innovations that *nix-like systems have included in the past decade. macOS has not kept up with Linux and the BSDs in terms of feature parity, resulting in a growing gap between the features that come with modern Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD versus macOS. A minor issue is macOS's BSD-derived utilities being based on late 1990s-early 2000s versions and thus not taking advantage of functionality added in later versions of these BSDs. Other issues include no support for file systems such as ZFS and btrfs in macOS (though I remember when ZFS support was proposed for Mac OS X Leopard), and macOS not supporting FreeBSD jails (https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/).
Every person using their calendar is solving one simple problem in a simple way.

But the real magic of the calendar is that billions of individuals use the same calendar for the same problem and thus we can all agree what day it is, every single day.

So if there's an issue with the existing calendar, then simply adjusting our calendar by an amount really no-one will notice is by far the most practical solution. Almost every industry cycles with the season; we need the calendar to track it accurately.
I think the problem with this act is AFAIK it states they have to report the trades 45 days AFTER they make them. Not before they make them. So they all just wait until 45 days later when it’s not relevant anymore. New news cycle, people forget
What do you want to know? It's quite easy to set up a new CA, and all mainstream browsers have (albeit crappy) user interface for adding them.
> It's possible to make buggy, slow, crappy software in any language.

Technically it's possible, but you have to try a lot harder to do it in Rust than most other systems languages.
> Your thoughts welcome!

BSD || MIT || FOAD
> I worry that the more you lower the false positive (accepted to college but uncapable), the greater you raise the false negative (denied college path but capable).

Sure, but if you're trying to avoid false negatives the German system is already poor. In the US work is the goal and there's a lot of talk about finding a job you love. The German system is mainly focused on minimizing the number of people who can't find work. In Germany there's also less of an income gap between professions than in the US (a German doctor or highly paid computer scientist only makes 2x what a tradesperson or retail worker makes https://www.iamexpat.de/career/working-in-germany/salary-pay...).

> My experience, as well as most my peers, was that engineering was about 60% raw mathematics.

Was the mathematics mainly proofs? My US university required a minimum of 2 classes with a significant programming project for a Computer Science degree, and many students took 6 or more courses with significant programming projects. My semester studying abroad in Germany, there was only 1 course offered that even had a serious project component. There was a heavy focus on proofs, and all the hardware architecture courses offered were entirely structured around formal verification of hardware.
That actually sounds super cool. I don't know anything about GCP and its components or what google uses now for their infrastructure (I do remember the "I just want to host 5 TB" video though which doesn't paint a great picture).

But as an analogy, if this is like taking some complex existing system and migrating it to use a combination of AWS services, I can see that being a lot of fun!
Also, a degree may have a negative contribution. Is the ideological bend of some college degrees potentially harming mental acuity through confusions and bad mental habits?

E.g. if you take a math degree that teach "2+2 != 5" this degree is likely to reduce mental acuity. You'll be a great activist, but not a great mathematician or teacher.
I'm pretty sure CHAOS just gets used because all the names in class IN have potential meaning to other systems --- you can't just make up random IN names, because you could be screwing up someone else's domain (unless you tediously nest your made-up names under your own domain). But there's no risk of that with CHAOS, so it's a free-for-all for random DNS features.

You'd use a new class, like "RANDOM" or something, except that no deployed DNS software knows about that class.
Ask HN: Ghosted contact who I met a conference. Now need their help
First off, I want to acknowledge my mistake. I know the industry is a small place and I generally try not to be unprofessional or a bad person. However, I made a mistake and would like some opinions on how to move forward.

I met a senior person at a conference. They got very excited to meet me and wanted to hire me into a role. Now for various personal reasons, I was not in a good place at that time (it was the start of Covid plus other crap was going on in my life that made me just hang on to things as best as I could). Long story short, I ghosted this person (they tried contacting me through email, linkedin and I just ignored this person). Again, this is my bad. Now, 2 years later, this person posted a job ad and I think I'm a great fit.

I first thought, I'll just apply blindly or send the person an email ignoring the past.

My inner self is very uncomfortable with this. I govern myself with very strong ethics and try to live a no-bs life. My inner self says I should either apologize for the previous ghosting or just not apply. Thoughts?
Money won’t give land back, sadly.
Binary code static analyser, with IDA integration
Sorry, I'd never heard of Wuxia, but the use of wires was common in the movies. The reviews of the movie at the time were all about the flying around, which just didn't look like much to me.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/regulating-hydric-acid-art-po...
I actually learned a lot from your reports when I geeked out on flashlights and battery formats that were new to me, the 27xxx size.

Thanks very much!

(It was sometime in the past 18 months, in which all time sequences have been shredded in a lockdown blur.)
Not really. You can trivially encode or decode protobuf or thrift at runtime, given a message specification, and this isn't uncommon in the wild. It's just that you usually expect messages which are well-defined at build time, so why not generate code?
If you're going to this extreme why not keep the system as is with the only change being that we no longer have elected officials but rather citizens of voting age chosen at random in much the same way a jury is selected to serve for a term? No competitions, no prestige, just a duty that people are randomly asked to do to serve their countries.
What benefit would that serve? We already know this is happening. So we would know it... more?
> If they cant make ends meet with their basic salary, they dont know sacrifice. If they dont know sacrifice shouldn't be running for office.

This is how you get bad candidates.

> If they dont know sacrifice shouldn't be running for office.

The poster might like AOC then. But something tells me they're not a supporter.

> Stop paying for busy bodies and start electing hardworking, everyday americans

TBH not sure i trust the "everyday american" to make really big complex decisions for a job. People who are familiar with such decision making process make a lot more and may not be "hardworking, everyday americans" to this poster.
This, I think, is a general result of trials/evidence-based medicine in combination with the combinatorics of the human body in combination with decentralized, unsearchable, overly-privatized health data.

I don’t think the medical community is where the disappointment should lie, in the sense that I would find it difficult to fault any average individual practitioner.
There are a lot of things wrong with doing manual work:

Pay sucks dick.

Unless you bust ass and work overtime/meet management's obscene expectations (you won't unless you're on meth), your pay is going to suck.

If you want a more relaxed environment (residential stuff, "small," few employees, lifestyle biz) your pay is going to be even lower.

Commercial pays better, but it's more soul-sucking and kills your body quicker.

If you're not in a skilled trade (big 3: plumber/pipefitter, electrician, or HVAC; physical IT/wire-pulling) it's even worse.

If you don't have a family/friend connection, good luck breaking in to anything worth anything (that includes a union. If you're non-union, you're basically screwed, unless you're high-skilled/massive amount of certs and can negotiate for yourself).

LUNA (or whatever the labor union goes by nowadays) is pretty decent if you've got a lot of problems in your life, but can come to work sober (and on time), do the work without bitching, and be productive. All the other unions worth anything are, once again, almost impossible to get into (unless you wait years, have a connection, or have a track record). Everyone wants to be an electrician (so much so, that even non-union shops aren't accepting any "apprentices,"---cheap labor---that don't already have experience; this is no different from the unions).

If you get in, it's a golden meal ticket for the uneducated; but pay caps out quickly (and any white collar professional with a shred of ambition will surpass you in pay in their 30s).

Hours are uncertain.

You can sometimes be working 2 hours a day, and sometimes 12. Overtime is cool, but it doesn't beat getting home and having a few hours to do anything at all, instead of passing out on the couch and waking up at 5am to go back to work.

Past that, any other jobs that pay better (tow truck operator, lineman, etc.) have even worse/more dangerous conditions. Your body will start hurting in your twenties, and you'll feel like you're 60. This won't go away unless you stop doing any physical labor for a while, but if you do that, you won't make money, nor gain "hours" (for those sweet union pay bumps after you pass a certain amount of hours -- regardless if you're the most efficient and most experienced apprentice, you'll still be getting paid the same as the bumfuck nephew of the owner who's only there because family takes care of family).

If you're a citizen of the U.S., there's no real reason to do manual labor, unless you really don't care that much about money or starting a family (most people in manual labor). For illegal immigrants, the pay is fucking amazing compared to what they get paid back home. They can work for a few seasons, save up their cash, then go back home where American dollars let you live like royalty.

I work in tech now. I get paid more than 2,000x what I did being a tradesmen, my body feels amazing now, I can fuck around all day doing whatever I want because I'm remote, and---in comparison---I barely do any work. These are my anecdotes.
Couple hundred thousand a year for the right board! Edit to add a link

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/wealth-management/0404...
> Middle click doesn't work but I think that's system wide

At all? Applications don't receive middle click events?
How would you actually accomplish a DNS blockchain? To run DNS-style Internet naming on a blockchain, you have to take control of the DNS roots. The DNS roots are community property. Unless ICANN came up with some process for starting a blockchain-based DNS, any new blockchain-based DNS would essentially be seizing community property by fiat. Nobody is going to let any private organization do that.
I tend to think this is a lot of what people consider 'ageism' - more like 'wageism'..

I've gotten multiple offers/jobs after turning 50, and still continue to get them. No one ever seems to bat an eye about my age. But if you're doing something someone less experienced can do, they're not gonna want to pay a premium..
Everything you said is true but for absolute noobs who want to get started with Linux, this is useful
This is a compelling argument, but it does make the assumption that the experiential system need necessarily wholly contain the experience of the component parts, rather than merely overlap with it.

Yes, the color-sighted person can experience colors on their own, but their ability to see color is what is part of the experiential system the same way the computer's ability to see color was.
It depends how’s your relation with your manager. If you are on the friendly side then you can pretty much say anything.
> the existing engineering talent here

Oops! That should read

> the existing engineering talent there

apologies. Missed the edit window on the comment, and only saw the error now.

I'm not at System76 and never have been
You did, and you are based for writing this comment. As usual, HN has pretty bad taste with downvotes. One day I am going to write a script to allow a user to automatically upvote all downvoted posts for this reason.
Programming Evolves, Privilege Reigns
Couldn't add my score because twitter doesn't like what I have to say.
That's a good point. Another way to ask the question, if your in a nation cut off from the internet for whatever reason could you bootstrap an intarnet ?

Assume you have full support of the local authorities.

My internet went down the other day, making me think of this.
More likely (though malware can contribute to this) they just can't justify the cost. There's always going to be a terse response that someone could build one in an afternoon and a $5 Digital Ocean VM, but bandwidth costs can be significant at scale.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. (And I'm not offended.)

I'm both homosexual and visually impaired (I was legally blind until I was four years old), which overrode a lot of female/sex-specific messages. Women who are attracted to men may have received that message, but that's not the message as I interpreted it. As a young, conventionally-attractive (at the time, I'm old now) lesbian woman, sex was framed to me as something that men were always going to want from me and that I:

a.) could do nothing about this and

b.) got nothing from it; the most I could hope for was that it would be limited to comments

On the other hand, I was online as a kid and both age and sex/gender presentation were pretty fluid and what you're suggesting does track with how people approached sexual topics with me when they knew I was female versus when I was assumed to be a young male person (there are no girls on the Internet, remember).

One thing I find interesting in how male versus female victims discuss their assaults is that both focus on how traumatizing it is to be helpless, but the women who are traumatized usually focus more on the physical helplessness, while men who are traumatized usually focus more on the social helplessness. Neither is to be dismissed.
There is a difference between a bad employee who is harmful to the team and one who is not doing anything and is harmless, albeit not adding any value. Good managers get rid of bad employees and try to work out with potentially good employees that happen to have a rough time. Sometimes it doesn't work out and you need to part ways, but sometimes it does. I've seen it more than once a great employee having depression and really struggling. That's when they need the support of their manager the most.
We are in the early stages of figuring out the price; price depends on many factors. We are aiming for less than 1k.
A few days ago I got 4 of 5 letters then lost with 3 wrong guesses at the last letter. I should have spent one turn getting 5 guesses at the last letter instead of spending 3 turns guessing 3 letters.

It's not cheating, it's the better way. If you don't like it, you can turn on hard mode!
Congrats Patrick and Slackware.

I started with Slackware 9.0, which I think was the last release to fit on a single CD-ROM. Like others I learned a lot about Linux, I wrote lots of simple shell scripts and did a lot of ./configure; make; make install.

Slackware lets you do things your way.
Basically don't police your coworkers for the sake of your company.

The only time you should step in is to literally save someone from being actively harmed.

E.g. Hateful comments by some coworker, etc.
Open Source and Sustainability
According to IQ tests I am literally mentally “retarded” and my SAT scores were in the lowest percentiles. I honestly have no idea how I got a BS degree and have worked in tech for over a decade. But if my dumb ass can do it, so can others.
> Look at VHS

Pfft, people bought 5-in-1 DVDs. People bought 10-in-1 DVDs. Average Joe doesn't care about "quality", he wants the content.
The ios youtube app seems to bypass the ad blockers, I stream on ios using brave it blocks youtube ads for me.
Wait for response (1 week?), then reach out to them in person, explaining all that ^
That's a great way to get corruption. Relying on independently wealthy people to sacrificially serve their country is not a reliable way of getting good quality talent.

My father spent some time in Bolivia some decades ago, and people in government were paid practically nothing. So there were a lot of bribes expected. And government officials got a fantastic exchange rate on Bolivios -> USD, which after you go through the cycle a few times, ended up with the government transferring the rate subsidy to the official.

China also doesn't pay its government officials much, and similarly, there is lots of corruption, which Xi Jinping spent several years cracking down on.

At the very least, it will be independently wealthy people (aka "elites") running the country, which brings its own set of problems.
Welcome to the “Future”
That is correct. By default HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 requests are streamed and can have an "infinite" length. The presence of a content-length header will limit limit that length, and inform the peer upfront on how much data will be sent.

For HTTP/1.1, a stream where the length is not known upfront required the usage of chunked encoding. With HTTP/2 and /3 that encoding is no longer required since the underlying protocol already support framing and contains and end-of-stream information.