skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a fun little site I made while waiting and checking the status of corona in Japan. I hope to keep it updated since I am checking the news and looking at the numbers daily anyway! Thanks for checking it out!
Allow me to highlight one of the funniest parts:

> Specialties that had the largest proportion of names specifically relevant to that specialty were those in which the English language has provided a wide range of alternative terms for the same anatomical parts (or functions thereof).

> Specifically, these were genitourinary medicine (eg Hardwick, Kinghorn, Woodcock, Bell) and urology (eg Burns, Cox, Dick, Koch, Cox, Balluch, Ball, Waterfall). Some terms for bodily functions have been included in the frequency counts but are not mentioned because they are colloquial terms that may lower the tone of this publication.
The root ca installation is the boring part, installing a local Let’s Encrypt instance is much more fun
I made 65 Angel investments in 2021
Why should Apple be forced to include an app store on THEIR operating system? If they want to be the gatekeeper of all their software, it is on them as a private company to do so.

It is likely beneficial for society as a whole for iOS to allow alternative app stores, but that doesn't make it right for the government to force them to do so.
That's not what zero-day means. Zero-day means that every affected system is vulnerable the day the vulnerability is publicly disclosed. That was not the case here as the vulnerability was addressed nearly four months before today's announcement.
At least I can get the data out of web apps, for the most part, since they tend to run in a scriptable environment with built-in dev tools.

There are native apps on my phone where I can't even select the text because they didn't use the right control.
+1 for Alpine.

One of my favorite distro's.
There is a english.stackexchange.com question on this:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55672/is-it-what...
> Other issues include no support for file systems such as ZFS and btrfs in macOS

It's no thanks to Apple, but there actually is a very good ZFS driver for macOS. I've been using it for several years. https://openzfsonosx.org/

(You can't use ZFS as your root filesystem though, which may be what you meant.)
There isn't one - it's an axiom that I simply accept for granted. I don't know what it actually means, or whether it really means anything at all; my strong suspicion is that it all ultimately boils down to "I feel being me", which is rather useless.
Voice Cloning for Video Games: How Game Developers Benefit from Synthetic Voices
Every deadline can be met if employees are "eager to please" and will work unlimited overtime hours for free. What estimation theory you use doesn't really change that. The true challenge of project management is – can you set realistic deadlines and meet them assuming a normal workforce with normal priorities putting in the standard amount of effort towards the job.
Yes, that’s true. But how much more valuable? Would you trade 0.1 expected greens for 0.2 expected yellows? Computing the Pareto optimal frontier shows you all your options.
That's absolutely correct. It's far from the only way they profit from their offices, but it's certainly one way. It's shameful that you were downvoted for making the point.
Put it on YouTube, not LinkedIn.
Awesome, thank you for tracking this down!
No. All learned to write by sitting down by themselves and writing.
> I used to be very dissociative/escapist like the author and now I'm not

I would love to hear more about how that change happened. I'd like to make a similar transition myself.
Is anyone still waiting to hear back after interviews for YC W22?
Been waiting a few weeks for a response from the admissions team. Gotten a few emails that the team is looking into it.
Regarding the Gallup poll anecdote. Couldn't it be explained by scope rather than optimism and pessimism about myself and others?

If you ask me how things are going in the US, I could say bad for any number of reasons in a large, complex country. If you ask me how things are going in my personal life, I have a much smaller scope of what could be going bad.
Unfortunately a lot of this is because many faculty of 'liberal arts' colleges/universities believe "we are here to give an education and open student's minds and broaden their horizons" but even more often I have heard "liberal arts are not intended to be job training institutions"

so it is a much easier sell a creative writing major in a faculty senate or something similar than Aircraft Maintenance. And when you do get Aircraft Maintenance it usually gets tucked into the engineering or business schools in order to survive.

also:
https://thedispatch.com/p/we-are-less-educated-than-we-think
Also, you're more likely to get a smaller lecture for Calculus and maybe some of the Physics or Chemistry at a junior college because they're higher level courses there. At a university, those are lower level courses and may be in giant lecture halls, which is not great for Calculus anyway. For science, lab sections are usually small because you can't fit that many students in a lab, so you get some smaller class size stuff there at least.

But certainly, not all community colleges are alike. If you want to transfer to a bachelor's program, you want to find a community college with a competent transfer program that is hopefully aligned with your destination and at least has a track record of transfering students who go on to get their bachelors. Some community colleges aren't great at that.

Also, California community colleges are very affordable, but some states don't have that. If community college has costs in line with 4 year schools, then it might not be a great choice.
This seems, to my layperson eyes, like a pretty exciting result. Would love to hear someone familiar with the literature pipe in.
The moment you think this thought, you gotta instantly just put the phone down and do something else. It hurts for like 2 mins and then it doesn't.
While I wholeheartedly agree I can't imagine why the author left out a key pillar of the problem: Apple's documentation has become useless and/or non-existent.

- All of the good stuff is in the Documentation Archive.

- New documentation is barely more than the function/method signatures from the API.

- Apple has the resources to do better and did so when they were significantly smaller (both in terms of employees and market cap).

They don't care.
But they get music for free either way - Youtube and others are broadcasting it. And now they want the legal right to restrict us from recording those broadcasts, no different than stopping us from recording radio.

They broadcast free of charge, and when we don't consume that broadcast in the manner they hoped, they use it to justify taking away our right to run software of our choosing. It's obscene.
An interesting piece from 2003 about changing the fundamental object of computation from points to surfaces by Jaron Lanier. IMO what deep learning is semi-blindly doing, but 18 years later we could still be more purposeful.
You can make cross platform native apps with Delphi https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

It has screen painters, drag and drop components, database access, everything you could want and is fast, it has a community edition and free trials. Catch up with the 21st century :-D
Please understand that a 'science prank' can be dangerous to someone not educated in that field. In this case the prank is only intended to 'work' on someone who didn't know it was water. So where does that leave the viewer; hopefully they do not take this new knowledge as advice to drink other acids.
This is the best idea yet in my opinion.
e) young people are judgemental because they all think they're going to get rich in tech, so an older person needing a job must be a loser

This one is prevalent. If you're old, why aren't you either rich, or a senior manager, since you had the benefit of living through the tech revolution.
I have to ask, have your bad employees not resulted in issues for others?

People seem to be misunderstanding, this isn't about being scared to tattle or something. No one is saying keep quiet while someone harms the team...

What they're saying is: Your feedback should be based on harm, not just a gut feeling. I've never seen a team where someone could do 0 work and not create actionable blockages of work that you'd be able to bring up.

-

And honestly, part of me is starting to wonder if that's the issue... if you're on a team where someone also on that team (not an individual contributor) can do 0 work and not block anyone and not affect any deliverables, then that sounds like a fundamentally dysfunctional org.

The problem isn't even your manager tolerating them, the role shouldn't exist. That kind of org tends to bleed talent as people realize it's not rarely an isolated issue and they're part of a pretty dysfunctional system.
> Get out of the house.

This is a tactic I use. Weather permitting, spending an hour out on the bicycle often pays large dividends.
In the end Crimea people did voted to rejoin Russia. Though not really legal, the people there have spoken their will. I would let that to rest. Invading Ukraine on the other hand is a big no. But, given we are now administer by old forgetful Biden, and Xi on the other side determine to get Taiwan, can we manage a 2-front war by 2 of the world superpower? EU is mostly headed by weak leadership (see Germany, Macron, and recent Boris debacle). Coming spring we might even enter a property crash with high inflation. American got the appetite to save Ukraine? Taiwan maybe given we addicted to chips and general Sino-phobia.
The DS/A stuff that's taught in schools as well as math aids a lot in leetcode style interviews. Consider that material to be a very large hill to climb to understand solving these problems in a time-boxed manner. Additionally, most of the time these problems have nothing to do with your day to day work - which begs the question: why do they exist in the first place?
> FOSS has always and only ever asked for giving back code, not money.

Which is one of the reasons of disillusionment from them. On one hand, FOSS licenses only benefits developers who can fix the software to their liking – a non-developer user would likely just pay for it to make sure that they can get reliable, professional support. On the other hand, it assumes that the labour of developers is worthless (or at the very least, it's value is completely dissociated from its real-world impact).

> There are many, many conversations going on about additional ways to fund FOSS development.

Are any of them non-reliant on either the altruism of their users (donations, patronage, etc.), or selling value-added services that can easily be undercut by a party with deeper pockets (e.g., MongoDB vs AWS)?
At the same time, "music industry" has the worst behavior in total impunity:

Like, for example, how at the beginning of January 2022, Sony Music Entertainment had got ALL the legitimate Youtube videos of the Vienna New Year's Concert forbidden to stream in Japan...

This is yet another example of abuse of the fact that Youtube, confronted with a copyright infringement report, will first just block the reported video, and only after that will consider appeals...

So now all these videos are allowed again. (took several weeks)
Thank you, I am really glad this old bug is gone. I haven't had the chance to check the fix yet (and the bug is pretty difficult to reproduce). I'll let my friends know about this conversation & fix :) In the long run I really hope to bring people back to Matrix. Thank you and the team for your work !
You can't really count Opera as "significant".

Handshake domains are only accessible by a tiny percent of people, make stuff like HTTPS very difficult[1], and no matter how devices eventually use Handshake, you'll always need to have a domain on a normal TLD because there will always be devices (like TVs and old phones) that will not support it.

And what benefit do you get anyways? A custom TLD? There's already so many new TLDs but most domains are on gTLDs or ccTLDs because thats what people recognize. Even Google and Apple barely use theirs. Ownership? Not really. Handshake only manages TLDs. Buying a subdomain (like you can on Namecheap) doesn't happen on the blockchain, the owner of the TLD can take it away anytime. Say what you want to say about ICANN, but they do have rules (such as contingency plans) that new TLD owners have to follow. In what world is buying a handshake subdomain from an unknown person beholden to nobody better in any way?

[1] https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
a bit related - modern turbofan engines are running extremely hot and to avoid damage/melting to the turbine blades the blades are cooled from inside and with the boundary layer by the cooling air flowing out of the holes in the blade

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-turbine-ent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqMLyo7fyU
> once deleted not even the artist/song name showed up in my playlist so I didn't know what to look for.

This is the worst part of all. It’s a memory hole, and feels like gaslighting to the end user.
Serious question: why is it bad to run your rocket engine-rich? If you know you're not going to use the engine and it's nearing its end of life why not get more power out of your fuel/oxidizer by hitting the stoichiometric point? Also, if engine is melting maybe allow it to continue to melt, but at a lower rate and rebuild it later.
And if you don't mind my asking, what's the most practical/useful way to download videos from YT without using spammy 3d party websites?
Oh and yes obviously I'm familiar with Zooko's triangle.
I owned the Microsoft ASN1 library for a while around 2005. It was a maintenance nightmare and I spent a lot of time fixing static analysis derived issues.

That said, I always found the standard quite interesting with different encodings based on the degree of prior shared info or format. My assumption is that not-invented-here is part of the why it’s not used.
I like to work to classic video game soundtracks. Streaming services are garbage for those, but YT is pretty good. You have to play whack a mole with copyright strikes, but somebody will upload most things. It's also the best way to listen to actual game music (the music designed to help you focus) as opposed to orchestral remasters, remixes, homages, etc.

RIP my most recent favorite Zelda background music vid.
Is it affecting you? Do you have to pick up slack for this person, or are your departmental goals being hindered? If not, why do you care?

I got someone fired once. He didn't do anything, the few things he would do he would mangle up, and he was seriously holding back departmental goals. The boss wanted to fire him but didn't have the nerve, so I helped him find the nerve. Immediately after, I took up a project he was in charge of and turned it into a real boon for the team, it built out the department basically and took it from being a liability to helping improve products substantially.

It's a delicate thing though. Are you ruining someone's life? If they don't care enough should you care? Will coworkers stop trusting you? Does your boss care about it, and if not, will saying something blow up in your face? Is your product bullshit? Does your org have a culture of performing well, taking pride in it, encouragement and adequate compensation?

Again, to reiterate, if it's got nothing to do with you, mind your own business, but if it affects you directly, then weigh the potential outcomes.
>I suggest that you spend some time at certain popular bars inside the beltway where you can hear drunk staffers flapping their lips. You will quickly learn that our elected representatives have virtually no responsibility whatsoever beyond maintaining the charade that the USA is in any way a democracy.

As you seem to be a beltway insider with connections, and not just making up bullshit to sound cool, which bars specifically would you suggest?
I work every day on DNS stuff (I own our firm's DNS server, and we're in an environment where it's truly "always DNS") and land naturally on any thread about DNS here. This particular thread isn't about Handshake; it's about setting up an alternate root hierarchy with standard DNS. Regardless of that fact: the guidelines demand that we not make insinuations about other commenters here, and this is the second weird interaction we've had in a row where you've done that. Please stop.

My understanding is that you're a strong supporter of Handshake. I think Handshake is a crock. It is fine for us to disagree. But you will disagree with me civilly.
I look forward to the class action against Google for this.
An example of a well documented "here's roughly how I do it" post with some rational on how they documented and why they have a preference.

Having something like this is useful for a team as it helps communicate where you are, what you're working on, and avoids butting heads over process differences being surprises. It can also help with onboarding as the steps are written out and can reduce back-and-forth and help focus on the issue (whether it's an enhancement or a problem).
Here is one of many. Several are also shown in this thread: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
The pandemic has been bad in many ways but during the first lockdown i got into the habit of a nightly hour long walk. It's been a really great thing for my mind space after work each day.
A fairer framing would be, “Does increasing salaries of politicians decrease corruption, increase it, or make no difference whatsoever due to other factors?”

I suspect it helps more than it hurts since it seems to be a successful policy in Singapore. I’m skeptical decreasing the salaries would help because competent people would work elsewhere.
So he went to collect and debt payment, and instead married the guys daughter.

How does that happen?
My dad has run a skylight installation business since 1979, and at least over the past 30 years, has kept a payroll of about 10 employees.

His business grosses about $2M per year, apparently after payroll and supplies he nets $500k. He was claiming something like $300k back when my mom stopped working in the late 90s.

For some odd reason, my folks have next to nothing to show for it, at least not to retire comfortably as he's about to turn 75. They dson't live extravagantly aside from going on a few nice vacations a year that might total $30k. The condo they rent is $3500 month. They mostly eat at home or family style restaurants. They have a couple used Audi A4s w/ lease/insurance/gas maybe $2k total per month. You'd break even making maybe $180k

Even being extraordinarily bad w/ money, there is no conceivable way my father makes more than half what he claims.
I would say I've found myself abutting roles that I was uncomfortable to take due to risk aversion. I don't have debts to pay either. Sometimes you want a motivated person, sometimes you want a you-name-it.
I think you're thinking too large scale. Think of replacing a peaker plant that might only be in operation for an hour by having a city full of cars each supply 100w for that hour. It's 1/800th of a tesla battery, but it replaces $500 worth of peaking plant usage.
One bit of justice or karma in this situation is that the young will become old and experience the system they helped perpetuate.
Which country? I don't know of any that get close to "advanced education for all".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...
To date, Cloverfield remains the only movie I've walked out of
https://archive.is/RBg8E
No. Full-text indexes exist.
>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.

Who says it doesn’t for me? I’m not against kids. I want kids, I’m going to have kids. But I’m going to finish getting some bucket list items out of the way first, when they’re possible and practical to do.

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

Some things are either not possible or not responsible to do once you have kids. And once they’re adults, you’re too old.

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

Not at all! I’m okay with that. Everyone’s living their own life and others can have an opinion on it if they want to.

>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.

Again, I started a more involved discussion, but the original comment strongly implied that earlier is better and I disagree. Sorry you’re taking it so personally.
Assuming the Signal protocol itself wasn't compromised, this illustrates why it is important to use expiring messages if your goal is privacy.

Any device involved in the conversation could have been compromised. In that case the entire message history would be intact.

Expiring messages don't completely solve the problem but it can drastically reduce the amount of information available.
Thanks for the link, although that is the stuff of nightmares. I had no idea such atrocities happened to anyone, men or women, even in times of war.
This post should be retitled to "11 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds", the blog post has been renamed to that as per this update:

"...So the 5.5 mm actually only takes 0.625 nanoseconds each way, the signal actually goes 11 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds, so the original title of this blog post is a lie. Sorry!"
Your perspective requires a lot of tenuous assumptions though. You do not define 'consciousness' nor 'physical processes' (what underlies each and every process as you recursively examine them?). To claim that consciousness is emergent out of physical processes rather than the other way around (consciousness defining the physical world) requires axioms like that of 'cause and effect' to hold 'true', whatever 'truth' is actually supposed to signify when the physical world itself is not defined. As far as I know, the only things we can possibly 'know' are those things which we perceive, and the only thing which we can know from them for certain is the fact that they are perceived in the first place, whatever that means.

There may be 'science', yet even that is at the very best a hopeful idea that we will continue to perceive the world in some consistent, regular manner as we nudge at it with our imagined limbs. The way we conceive of cause and effect is entirely arbitrary- to consider it 'true' as you seem to, strikes me as almost religious. ;)
Denmark and New Zealand are perceived as some of the least corrupt nations, at least in perception, and politicians do not earn anything close to US politicians.
They’ll never stop people from doing this unless they make it impossible to hijack audio, which doesn’t seem realistic, assuming we always have pure hardware interfaces for audio.

If these interfaces go away, the future of music won’t be nearly as much fun as it is now.
I'd like to see a AGPL+linking exception (LGPL) license personally. Though I think license proliferation is generally good and people are free to choose the license they want for their particular works.
> There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to ...

Or we didn't hear about them, or the candidate was chosen via networking rather than advertising. There are a million reasons that this is not a perfect market.

My experience in fintech has taught me that people working for more money are not necessarily any better at their jobs, in fact a lot of them are worse, they just happen to know the right people.
How about public housing in DC for congress critters and senators? Windowless dorm rooms so they're tempted to go outside and do stuff instead of sitting inside watching tweets or whatever.