skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of which have implications independent of the motivation. Implications which are really intransparent. Which might very well have more downsides then the initial problem, even before you look at the reaction you create.

Regulating communication is one of the most dangerous kinds of regulation, as it regulates what people think. And once you limit on your ability to think its very likely that you are about to crash into something, seeing as stupidity boils down to being unaware of another perspective. Its akin to blindfolding drivers of cars so they dont get distracted to reduce crashs.
When your job is making sure the company operates in a squeaky clean manner, above reproach from all comers, you divest yourself of giving a hoot what your bosses think. This is a crucial part of being a professional. As a free agent in the workforce, you must take ultimate responsibility for what you enable. Your boss delegates and trusts you to handle operational concerns in their stead because no one can be everywhere.

>If you don't want to keep your job, you can just quit, you know?

Nope. I want to work in an ethical marketplace where the biggest scumbags don't set the rules for everyone else. I can also only be in one place at a time; so as a manager and delegator of work, I'm doing my part to be as shining an example to my employees of the level of professionalism I expect them to aspire to in the doing of the work I delegate to them, as I can expect no more from them than I live up to myself. The important part is holding the bar high. If my boss doesn't like the way I do things, that's cool. I regularly loop them in on roadmap, and let them know what I'm up to so they can leverage their right to modify, halt, or start a discussion on an exit; but they have no right to be left unburdened with the eventual consequences and legal compliance risks of their own decision making as allocators of capital. Heavy is the head, as it were, and when it isn't is when things start going to hell real quick.

This is called managing/delegating up, and maintaining your own integrity. Part of this is also being open and plain with superiors about what you're going to do up front, and following through with it to the letter.
Right !! :/
What's exactly wrong with reworking old things? I find that it is your kind of thinking is what leads to bad software, bad reinventions of the wheel and security issues.

People in our industry need to know how to make the fundamentals from almost-scratch. In electronic engineering I learned how to bias transistors and build RC-filters. Heck, in chemistry class we even learned how diodes and resistors are made. When I studied music I learned scales, chords and rhythm... why should I, if I could just download some WAV loop off the internet, or sample some old song?

I don't see why software has to be special. Haven't we commoditised the profession enough?
> This repo directly correlates with a report I will be releasing Jan 24th, 2022.

Does anyone have the link?

I checked their twitter and couldn't see it. Though their (current) latest tweet is "After reverse engineering all of the #Beijing2022 #spyware app for @Apple #ios and @Google #Android I can definitively say all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers using tech from USA blacklisted AI firm @iflytek1999".
There are no techbro startups to invest into curating datasets like this.
That's very kind of you. No Patreon and Western sponsors are understandably reluctant to work with a Chinese national- even those that are ok with my appearance. Chinese businesses can't figure out how I am still online, most don't want to risk the association but a few do and sponsor just enough to keep the lights on. It's tight some months though.
Reminder that US patents don't require a working product to be granted. The USPO just takes the money and leaves it to lawyers to defend them. It's common in certain fields to blanket patent inventions before even having looked at their feasibility.

Also all of those are result of the research directed by Felgner, granted to Vical (his own company), and highly hypothetical at the time. Unsurprisingly, most of those, if not all, have expired without putting a product in the market.

mRNA vaccine development has been incredibly incremental and spanning decades. Anyone claiming they're the inventor because they put a few pieces of the puzzle together is incredibly disingenuous.
yup, stuff like cars, or, god forbid, houses, are not only expensive AF, but the buying requires skills most people never had a chance to practice.
fuck it, I'm cycling to save the planet and my nerves
Staying away from the tribalism this seems to be devolving into, I think this is quite telling. Neil Young’s music is some of the most important of the last century. He might not be getting K-Pop levels of streams but his music is incredibly important regardless. Spotify has chosen a podcast over this (for obvious financial reasons). This tells you a lot about the importance Spotify puts on music (in case it wasn’t already obvious with how aggressively they shove podcasts in your face). If you care about music, it might be time to move elsewhere.
Designing tables in Solidworks is a great idea if you're trying to learn CAD.
I think they mean anyone/everyone in general terms, not someone specific.
Yes, I was expecting to see it in frontpage before I shared. Apparently majority of hackers see this off-topic like you mentioned.
Postgres also supports Javascript
No entries since Sep 2021. Is he alright?

Edit: heldtec@ just posted a link to what appears to be his boat for sale: https://www.sailboatlistings.com/photographs/60853
Not an expert, but it is a physical chance. H-Bonds are considered as a weak interaction, and making or breaking them (via phase transitions, or in this case breaking H-Bonds) do not change the chemical structure of the compounds or molecules, making them "weak" and "physical," because it is not that hard to do so.
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Budget for big projects like these is not an easy concept. 14 years behind schedule means 14 more years developing the science and technology, 14 more years of research grants that probably funded project-specific but also tons of side research, new labs, new knowledge and experience that will be useful and be used way beyond the single project that funded its advancement.

Sometimes it's good to overspend if it's an excuse to fund research that would otherwise struggle to find money to stay alive.
Infowars comes to mind as a "successful" deplatforming (ignoring the fact that they still have a platform - so the label itself is bullshit)
Their videos are brilliant though. Can’t wait for the next episode of Inside Man.
Yes, and for this, the content need to be triaged. Here the content is rated as containing depiction/drawings of nudity, and this is just a fact, advertisers are then free to buy or not.
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The “something” in question was not referring to the increase in stability, though it might lead to it. Also, and most crucially, I did not say, or intend to suggest, that “censorship improves stability”.

Free speech and stability are not in competition with each other. They’re different categories of things.

Please help me out a little and try really hard to not interpret what I said in the worst possible way.
Not only that, but we're now creating devices that depend on remote servers. It's completely obvious what the downsides to this are, yet we embrace it without question.

And why are moving to apps that only work online? Networks are slow compared to desktops. Programming seems to be the art of doing the worst thing possible. Our computers are getting faster and faster, but we're relying on communications that are vastly slower.

And another thing: Windows updates, or even Firefox for that matter. Software shouldn't be so full of problems that you need to constantly update it. Just update it every 2 years. Sure, you get the supposed latest and greatest, but updates are a messy process.

Perhaps the difference between programming and "real" engineering is this: parsimony. In engineering, you have to do more with less. In programming, the attitude seems to be to shovel more spaghetti onto the plate.

Update: I'll add a further point. It's not just parsimony, it's also cost of errors. In physical products, a flawed design that makes it into production is costly. So you have to get it right. With software, you can afford a slap-dash approach. And that's what we see.
'tis a tranquilizing prospect.
Aaah, musicians wishing to be politicians.
quoting Wikipedia:

> The Roadster is in a heliocentric orbit that crosses the orbit of Mars and reaches a distance of 1.66 au from the Sun.[6] With an inclination of roughly 1 degree to the ecliptic plane, compared to Mars' 1.85° inclination, this trajectory by design cannot intercept Mars, so the car will neither fly by Mars nor enter an orbit around Mars.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster)
> cherish, value and respect each other

Nothing says "we value you" like demonetization. /s
I feel engineers tend to convolute the codebase by adding tons of unnecessary code instead of just modifying the existing code to work.

Another thing that has been plaguing our industry is tons of if statements to cover edge cases instead of thinking about the ways you can avoid them by writing proper logic and general equations.
That I agree with, but that wasn't what I meant, and judging from anecdata, not everyone can make that distinction. It's easy to be convinced by presentation rather than content.
"morning"
Right, and I would assume that a good fraction of those were products that didn't qualify as "good enough" at the factory ?
I found the same about moving to GIMP from Photoshop. Granted, Photoshop has more conveniences and fancy features. But a good deal of the frustration is not GIMP's so-called confusing interface, just the habits I formed while using Photoshop. Now that I'm a GIMP user for a time, every time I go back to Photoshop, I find myself annoyed in the same way. I think this just boils down to people's natural resistance to change.
Instead I believe JWST will be the last telescope with reflective optics we will launch. The new thing will most likely be based on diffraction based optics (Aragoscope). It is much easier to launch in space a disc of some light and bendy material of some lightweight material than a set of hyperdelicate and precise mirrors.

According to the simulations performed in [1], an aragoscope of 1km would be able to directly image objects the size of Jupiter's moons (so basically exoplanets even on the small side) 23 light-years away.

EDIT: Took the time to scavenge the numbers: JWST has 0.1 arcseconds angular resolution, a 100m aragoscope would have a 1 milli-arcsecond angular resoulution, a 1km aragoscope 0.1 milli-arcsecond which translates to be able to alpha centauri in a 70x70 pixels patch (and so see its sunspots) or as I mentioned above exoplanets on the smaller scale at 23 light years away (Europa is 1560 km in diameter).

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2014_ph...
It's a platform the idea that I would request you not being allowed on the internet because we have different opinions is ludicrous even if in this case rogan isn't my cup of tea.
We are not talking here about laptops or cameras. The usual targets for counterfeiting are things like USB cables or headphones.

They might come without packaging, but then so do the geniune ones sometimes.
They look normal to non-expert eye, but then when you use them they either break quickly, or whilst functiontal are not as effective as a genuine item(worse sound quality, slower charging, slower transfer speed etc.).
it does fit a specific definition. it manipulates to get information. hacking manipulates software to get information they would not otherwise have access too as well.
Yeah, it’s two academics who primarily talk critically about content from the so-called “intellectual dark web”. They’re quite entertainingly scathing about some of these figures, especially the Weinstein brothers.
> very first amendment

So, it's not, it's just the first change to an already existing document. The first article of your constitution describes the legislatives institutions. I (vaguely) know that, I'm not even American.
This reminds me of someone else, dude's name was something like Job, Joby or Jobeys? Can't recall.
Nothing. The statement reeks of capitalist/american fragility. People can't tolerate the idea that capitalism isn't the absolute best choice in completely every aspect of our lives.
The mod team which she could remove anyone from at any time, since she is the most senior moderator.
Good point. So perhaps she is a genius at social-engineering and managed to "play" the journalist by appealing to the journalist's pre-conceived notions about her.
> That's kind of funny, because throughout history the people who were very critical of the scientific consensus (especially those who maintained this position even after lifting themselves up from a lower social status) are the ones who, on average, turned out to be right and either revolutionized that field or had an amazing insight that was a missing puzzle piece.

You are saying that on average, those going against scientific consensus are more often right than they are wrong? That sound like a load of bullshit.
I was wondering the same thing. Hope he's well.
>One thought experiment that has helped me get my mind around the problem is "why is it necessary that parents shield children from some information?"

I'd argue that paternalism is particularly justified in relationships that are literally paternalistic.

The issue is that the justification for my neighbor paternalistically dictating how I should live my life is much weaker a parent dictating to their child. We shouldn't deeply have to delve into why this is the case.
>Not sure the analogy holds when Visa and Mastercard repeatedly warn the hotel they’re violating their ToS, but the hotel dgaf

If the complaint is "your hotel is made of brick" and it's not in the ToS that's a problem.
YouTube can't actually cite which of their rules I'm violating- in fact according to their rules I'm fine, and the thing they do have a problem with- my physical shape, would require surgery to bring into compliance with their demands. I'm not doing that.
> Have you not heard of Hello Fresh/Blue Apron/all their competitors?

Bored of the limited number of things I know how to cook well, I tried one called Dinnerly for a few months. I eventually gave up on it because even at their smallest plan, they sometimes sent more food than I, living by myself, could eat for dinner, and a few times even sent a new box before I even started cooking anything they had sent from last month's box. (Fortunately you can skip a box any week and not have to pay, but you have to remember to go into the site and do that…) Also, sometimes the recipes still required some ingredient I rarely had on had otherwise, like ketchup or milk, so I still had to go to the grocery store to get those - plus the things I still had to get to make breakfasts anyway. And yes, it wasn't very cost-efficient. In the end I decided it wasn't a good fit for me and gave up on it and went back to cooking my things, though I did learn a few things along the way (couscous is great, who knew?).

I'm sure they work great for others, though.
Can you recommend an entry point to learn who he is, how he started, etc.? How did you learn about him?
It is already the way you do it for parts like QFN (at least the way I do it): if it works then all good! If it does not, then heat it up again. I heard BGA is actually pretty simple as you cannot apply too much paste, but I don't have so experience with it.
>My experience is that the web is 1) broken beyond repair 2) building a new browser is virtually impossible 3) for all the effort, building a good browser [such as one that pleases Gemini users] is literally impossible because the web standards themselves require you to implement hostile functionality without which your browser is broken and not actually a web browser, and with which you lose control and enable all kinds of malicious and user-hostile behavior.

Your first item has nothing to do with browsers, it's a purely subjective opinion (albeit one so strongly held by so many here I'm not going to bother trying to disabuse anyone of it anymore.)

Your second item implies that it's too difficult for a hobbyist to build a modern browser in their free time, but the unstated assumption that any new browser must be simple enough to be built by a single person, entirely from scratch, is an arbitrary technical limit based on political ideals. Obviously it isn't actually impossible and, given the number of Firefox forks in the wild, doesn't even require billions of dollars in resources.

And your final item dismisses the entire premise of modern browsers as user-hostile and "not actually web browsers." Which again, has nothing at all to do with the actual technical difficulty of browser implementation but is essentially a declaration that "it sucks any way so why bother?"

You're proving my point, as are the other commenters. This is obviously an argument driven primarily by emotion (disgust with the modern web and complexity) and politics (anti-capitalist and anti-corporatist sentiment) rather than fundamental technical limitations.
Past achievements should be considered within their timescale. If I build a water clock now, it would be cool. But Ctesibius building a water clock in 250 BC, now that's fucking impressive.

3D printing a human bust is cool. Sculpting a human bust three thousand years ago? That's incredible.

Will those videos or that dressmaker's dummy have any artistic value in the future ?

Please.
As a side effect this will make you also super reliable in front of the management, always delivering when promised. SO if you don't exaggerate with your requests, it might be even a win-win situation.
You don't believe they're real, right?
Random fact about the Yellow Pages:

Sun Microsystems developed a directory service now called "Network Information Services" (or NIS), however it was originally called "Yellow Pages".

They obviously didn't realise that the "Yellow Pages" were already a thing, so they renamed. All of their commands still begin with yp (ypbind, ypcat and others from what memory serves)

Just thought it was interesting. Also source[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service
The article is only a few hours old, so K8s devs would have to be very quick on the uptake to have it incorporated.

But agree that it provides a great mental mode for K8s
I hope he doesn't do large distances in such a small boat O.O
Disagree. I think Neil Young's music is vague ambiguous pretty lacking in substance and borderline unlistenable.

Dana Carvey does a great bit about 'Every Neil Young song you've ever heard'

https://youtu.be/mPpgB3OA5mM
He (Malone) said it himself on the JRE show.
Not exactly what you're talking about, but I wanted an InstantPot badly here in Kyiv and the models available in Europe on 220V did not include the model I wanted, and cost alot more. So I imported into Ukraine a US InstantPot, and a transformer to convert to 120V (although it doesn't convert the frequency from 50 to 60Hz). Works fine; I've been using it daily for at least a year. I thought the timer might run slow if it's using the mains power frequency as a clock, but that doesn't seem to be the case so it must have an internal oscillator.
Fairly sure she's already reported being visited by the police over the contents of her Twitter and youtube. In addition to being "outed". While you're suggesting that she do things that will result in her being silenced, for your own laughs.
The devil is as usual in (execution) details. One man's brainstorming is another man's committee.
I did a switch just 2 or 3 months that sounds simliar to your before and after. New prices look adjusted already, I wonder how much legacy hardware they are going to be able to clean out of the datacentre when the dust settles on all this.
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Extremely well said. Thank you.
I always feel like this: https://youtu.be/YspAGRCeXc4?t=45
I love this!

I'm actually planning to move full-time into a sailing yacht either this year or next, though the fact I'm doing this while working a full time job (remotely of course) will mean it's a rather slow rate of travel! I'm hoping to buy a forty footer of some description (probably a ketch but that could change between now and then) and do a lot of the work making it a comfortable place to live and work myself.
I'm aware it's incongruous. The whole thing makes very sensible people uncomfortable because it seems vulgar and unnecessary. And that's going to be the case until I butch up and use my words. Probably won't help much, but it might at least make some sense then.
A big part of a software engineer’s job is to organize data. Notes are data. Usually very personal data that we understand completely. If we can’t even organize that right, then what hope do we have?

It’s professional pride.
"sorry, I was on mute."
This is a great summary, thanks!
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>Didnt this happen before?

Regularly, not sure why this time made HN.
I had been reading RPS (Rock Paper Shotgun) a video-games review website until 2015 or so, then it all... changed.
It's a lot less lively there now.

I fear that HN has been on that road since about 2017, the Zeitgeist has changed, or maybe I was just always a strange man with strange principles :p
>There is no such thing as work that's absolutely crucial and not customer facing, so it makes perfect sense to disincentivize work that's shaped as you describe

I took a week to refactor some nasty crap a few months ago. No customer noticed it.

I was rather happy to lower the estimated time for a bunch of other tasks from weeks to days/hours after doing it.

Now you can argue that was not "absolutely crucial", but then we'll just disagree on what that means.
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This explains nothing. I don't think you do yourself much favours here. Because there's a subculture of people like you, it's OK to be half naked in front of kids?
The problem isn't brainstorming, as codeflo said, it's important trick that brainstorming establishes a shared understanding that the group came up with the idea.

The problem is what is coming after brainstorming, the execution is the problem. We all have ideas, individually and as a group, but after idea is born, validation and executions are next crucial steps. Then you can conclude that you had a successful brainstorming.
After that one gets into philosophical ethics rather quickly. In practice people not having human rights degrades into much suffering quickly. You said something not-so-nice about the government? Now we throw you in jail! So, why is that wrong? I am sure one can talk pretty endlessly in a philosophy course but in practice there does not seem to be much point. Also, we should keep history in mind. In fact, there is reason for severe trauma surrounding this area. Horrible events in history like nazism and communism, both with a body count in the 100 millions are a reason to hold some principles sacred to the point of refusing to discuss them.
I don't know how actual asymmetric KDFs work, but I was thinking more along the lines of secret -> private key -> public key, i.e. the public key doesn't contain information about the secret.
"N.W." is much less specific than "Naomi Wu", and your title is too long for HN anyway.