skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're jumping the gun, I think.

Firstly we need to consider whether the science establishment is fit for purpose. Is it ok for government/corporations/military to be the sole funders of science? Should we trust the provided results when they can be so easily gamed?

To me its clear that there are conflicts of interests. Science is held up as a triumph of humanity - a far better basis than religion on which to base society - but it is also clear that it is beholden to corporate interests.

If you want to re-gain some faith in science, there are things you could consider. I'm not saying these are solutions - just thoughts:

You could make scientific studies open - all of them. So, no need to publish in a journal. If a study provides results that are 'bad' they should still be made available! There should also be space to study things that do not have a corporate, governance or military interest - we get very few studies of health impacts of natural easily available foods, because there is no valid commercial interest. (We do get PR studies from the wine and chocolate companies - I'm not talking about those.)

I'm sure there are other ideas too. But, as a start we have to recognise that the scientific establishment works for those who fund it - its about governance and finance.

In truth, I don't expect things to change, I expect this to get worse. But no, I have no confidence in "science" as the last word.
On Firefox mobile, it's more like 11 characters wide. Pretty much unusable.
> We really need some service like blind where people can anonymously review and score managers

Wouldn’t managers just make a service where they review and score engineers too?
the hard problem of consciousness is just an symptom of logical positivism, which is false in its entirety
dang can you please enforce the rules more? In the last weeks hn is getting overrun with spammy troll accounts splattering conspiracy theories left and right.
Seems like this is suffering from issues around the flag of Afghanistan as well: https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-about-the-afghanistan-flag-...
> It's a nice idea, but in my experience very few people want to do that

Maybe it's relatively few, but they exist, and this is targeting serving their needs. There are other tools serving C/Rust interop use cases, and at a certain point the “this isn't the most common use case” dismissal is just tedious.

HN shouldn't be a place where things targeting real but narrow technical niches are dismissed because the niche is narrow or there is a much bigger superficially related one around.
Why don't you try a pure-Go implementation? Should have enough features implemented for basic use

https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go
If there is net neutrality Verizon has no way to force streaming companies into this kind of contract, except perhaps by paying them to provide worse service.
It’s not so deep. Possibly the manager needed that feedback and forgot until the last moment and doesn’t care how the employee can fulfill it.
Really what you're saying is that there's a whole ecosystem of businesses that depend on unavoidable surveillance.

All Apple have done is allow users to say no.

They haven't even stopped anyone opting into surveillance if they want to. It just turns out that, when given the choice, people don't like being snooped on.
Exactly, at some point code is such a mess that further optimization and features are harder to get merged. And the smaller the number of contributors the bigger the problem gets, till the main maintainer calls it quits and there's need for a completely new library.
Right, like as without those 5B Apple would screw up its products by handing over all search to some guy with a Bing scraping Perl script cosplaying as a search engine.
And if the government doesn't fund science, the only ones who fund it are private investors and companies, which...

a) Are more interested in doing research for their monetary interests. Therapies for a rare genetic disease? Bad luck, not enough money in ~20 patients / year. Better encryption? Where's the money in that? Studies about economic imbalance? Who cares.

b) Are more interested in applied rather than basic research. This is a consequence of a) really, but research that doesn't produce tnagible benefits we can use to make shareholders happy next quarter are not that interesting. Ironically, without basic research, applied research is completely impossible.

c) Are under no obligation to share their findings. Public Research == Public Results. Private Research == Intellectual Property.
Yeah ordering online is sweet in this regard
It is stupid to work that hard on making a rich asshole even richer.
Ford F-150 Lightning can power your home for up to three days
It isn't $5B, it is $10B+. Google's TAC in 2021 was $13B.
>Making $200k is completely out of reach for almost all Americans of all ages.

Even ignoring urban areas that run on monopoly money (SF) a heck of a lot of professions will surpass 200k somewhere in middle age if you don't make a career change that sets you back. Not just doctors and lawyers but all sorts of white collar technical professions, managers of those types of workers and people who are the head administrators (but not owners) of all sorts of medium sized businesses will make that kind of money.

Heck, state police officers who are savvy enough to milk the overtime system routinely surpass that.
Captain Cook's famed Endeavour found off Rhode Island,say Australian researchers
I started using Linux around 2003 when I got into college and when I got my first laptop and at the time the most popular distros were Red Hat (transitioning into Fedora Core which had just come out), Mandrake, Suse, Debian, maybe a few others.

Most of these mainstream distros (except maybe Debian) were starting to go in the direction of trying to become more user friendly. They had graphical installers rather then text based and they had all sorts of new graphical utilities for configuration and made various attempts at trying to automate and sort much of that configuration for you.

Except that they were mostly terrible at that in those early years of these attempts. So the first thing I actually ever tried to install on that laptop was RedHat 9 and I couldn't get my USB DSL modem to work as well as other specific laptop hardware features.

Then some folks I knew were using Slackware and told me to try it and there were guides on how to make that modem work with it so I started using it.

And very quickly I realized that while on Slackware you had to generally do a lot more configuration in text files and through CLI utilities, it generally yielded the results you expected and things didn't magically happen.

Meanwhile in those other distros that were trying to become more user friendly, you had all of these crazy graphical utilities that worked half of the time, sometimes mangled configuration files (the Suse ones were specially amazing at producing completely broken xorg.conf files) or just simply didn't work.

I learned a lot about all of those because as I became more proficient with Linux I kinda became the goto guy in my college for a lot of people who are also new to Linux to help them sort out their Linux setups, specially on laptops.

A few years later Ubuntu came along, kinda trying to do the same thing those other distros were doing but using mostly existing UI utilities (rather than creating new ones) and just made sure they actually worked.

I ended up transitioning to Ubuntu (after a couple of years of Gentoo and Arch) and never looked back until I moved to macs in the early 2010s.
> Languages like Python, Java, C#, are run on virtual machines, meaning you can optimize them only so far.

A JIT compiler can optimize _more_ than an AOT one can. It has way more profile guided data and can make assumptions based on how the live application is being used.
and that's ok.
Rosetta was a PowerPC CPU emulator that allowed running any kind of PowerPC OS X application on Intel Macs.

Carbon was a set of largely OS 9 compatible APIs that allowed an easy transition for apps that could be recompiled.

Classic was a virtualized OS 9 environment available on OS X (up to 10.4 Tiger, PPC Mac only) that allowed running unmodified binaries for pre-OS X Macs. Most things that didn't require special hardware access or precise timing ran fine, but things like real-time audio and MIDI applications did not.
I agree. Some businesses are addicted to Facebook and the data it provides, but they certainly have no right to it.
Minecraft is the most popular computer game in history, it lets kids create and experiment, and I'm genuinely floored by the stuff mine get up to. They play Roblox and want to make Roblox games so are learning Lua in a simple REPL. My son makes custom Yu-Gi-Oh cards, writes his own comics, and composes music. This is all on the iPad, where, believe it or not, you can get Carmen Sandiago, Number Munchers (how is this not too directly educational?), Oregon Trail, and various LOGO implementations. I'm sorry if your kids aren't interested in the same stuff you are, but with all the love in the world, that's your baggage, not theirs.
I don’t agree on double standards. Did you take the cryptographic implementation of both systems into consideration?
I'm not sure if you're shitposting or actually replying. Alphabet pays Apple to be the default search-engine in Safari. Thats it, Google are not exempt from Apples privacy policies. Google dragged their feed after the iOS 15 privacy changes, but in the end had to cave.
I've using Raspberry Pi 400 + PyGameZero + emacs for a 8yo. I miss a good book that keeps complexity very low to give him some independence (I need to constantly supervise his steps and what he is understanding at each point).
5B? Nah, champ. The price is 15B ...
Looks like the French flag has missed an update: https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/15/macron-reverts-french-fl...
> No I don't, because this is a very labour-intensive way of sourcing stock.

fair enough. i recently saw some TV program where an 'entrepreneur' did stuff like that and it annoyed the heck out of me.

ah there's a bit of miscommunication on my part; that second part of my comment was and less about you and more me ranting about what i'm seeing in the system as a whole.
Also because power and status are how you push policy.
If only there were service to listen to music only…
But their own app includes an audio-only mode.
> somehow, people feel entitled to such a lifestyle regardless of their ability to finance it.

How do you think Google and Facebook are trillion $ companies? They run targeted advertising to induce consumer demand via manipulation-as-a-service ("Hey advertisers, not enough people willingly going out to buy your $70 clothes made for $1? Here's the people susceptible to feeling inadequate when you show them how much sexier they'll be after their purchase). The $ they skim has to come from someone's pockets at the end of the day.
And yet somehow indie devs have managed to sell software for macOS for decades before the invention of the Apple App Store. Only the larger software shops are atually running their own payment and licensing backends. Most use payment providers like Paddle or Fastspring. There are also other distribution channels like SetApp for expample.

One thing that Apple has made very easy for devs are In-App Payments. But I think you can argue if that is such a good thing for Apple's customers.
This is unfortunately a remarkably well-documented conspiracy theory.
From Rob Pike on reddit regarding this post[0]:

The and and or functions in the template packages do short-circuit, so he's got one thing already. It was a relatively recent change, but it's there.

Non-deterministic select is a critical detail of its design. If you depend on a deterministic order of completion of tasks, you're going to have problems. Now there are cases where determinism might be what you want, but they are peculiar. And given Go's general approach to doing things only one way, you get non-determinism.

A shorthand syntax for trial communication existed. We took it out long ago. Again, you only need one way to do things, and again, it's a rare thing to need. Not worth special syntax.

Some of the other things mentioned may be worth thinking about, and some of them have already (a logging interface for instance), and some we just got wrong (range). But overall this seems like a list of things driven by a particular way of working that is not universal and discounts the cost of creating consensus around the right solutions to some of these problems.

Which is not to discount the author's concerns. This is a thoughtful post.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/s58ico/what_id_like...
Ask HN: Product Innovation and Colors
I've read somewhere and I can't find the source anymore that, if a product starts selling in a variety of colors, instead of one (usually black) or two (black or white), it's innovation cycle is basically done. You can expect only incremental updates and very few innovative things.

Is it a thing? Are there any studies about this?

It makes sense to me, but I would like some sources.
Very nice. Does anyone know how this works? I'm currently embedding a tiny player on a site I just made www.ridd.im
Harvesting emails from Google search results
> We solved this back in the early 1990s.

I would not call it "solved". Slackware home page is usable. The modern web is a usability disaster.
Something isn't a conspiracy theory just because it's an opinion that you do not like. I personally found the OPs take interesting, though obviously written a little tongue-in-cheek.
Hydrogen storage is the near future – H2 initiatives at the Etzel site
>taught me lessons I’ll never forget.

Don't date women that are easily confused with Bezos in drag?
What I don’t understand is why is this hitting them now? Those privacy features were turned on for awhile.
You know that the U.S. too (and the West more generally, of course) has "tightly-knit academic communities" to discuss things such as the concerns that might come up in high-level state negotiations? In fact, the broad community of "open source intelligence" almost invariably has a markedly better handle on those issues than high-profile parts of USG that ought to theoretically benefit from secrecy and non-public info - despite common claims to the contrary!
Don’t confuse advertising with tracking. I believe that the true advertising business and the people who really understand marketing is going to have a lot of success in the coming years.

The business that will hurt are those who only know how to click around in Google AdWords or Facebooks Ads. Those business but all their eggs in a rather small basket. Facebook isn’t going away anytime soon, but it will fail more quickly that some expect. If 50% or more of your business is coming from Facebook, start making plans for the future now.
> There's a whole ecosystem of businesses that rely on Facebook that are going to start hurting a lot over the next few years.

Good riddance, what a bunch of bottom feeders.
> Anybody have tips on making casual conversation unawkward?

Asking questions by itself is not the problem, it's the way of asking. I usually start by asking where the person is from and their hobbies. From there I try to relate it to something I know, I have read, or even a personal anecdot. When you start sharing, if the person is interest, they should start sharing as well, you're talking about something they kind of have some interest in.
In Ops, I've been in a situation multiple times that I was frowned upon for fixing production outages, instead of working on "The Sprint".

Example: I noticed failing memory banks on the primary postgres server. And got reprimanded for for fixing it (failing over to standby server, replacing mem, etc...), instead of working on the sprint.
What an angry, bad faith reply this is.
Andreessen Horowitz in talks to invest in Bored Ape Yacht Club at –$5B valuation
Hmm, strange. It doesn't have these proportions? <https://memex.marginalia.nu/pics/encyclopedia-mobile.png>

I sadly can't diagnose since my phone isn't powerful enough to run Firefox. Looks as intended on Firefox desktop with emulation mode, though.
> It's not a problem with Go, per se, but it does create non-trivial requirements toolchain setup on Windows, which ruled out Go for me. The whole toolchain just feels a bit... flakey, setting up GOPATH and such (although, that seems to no longer be the case?). Rust's crates, just as an example, are amazing, I've never had a single problem with them (more than I can say for npm..) I know it's just one example, but sqlite3 is brilliant. This immediately ruled out Go for me for that project.

GOPATH is gone, thankfully, and with the introduction of modules. As with many things, crappy tutorials littered around the internet make things difficult. The toolchain itself is pretty damn easy to set up, it "just works" unless you want to use cgo (or one of your modules does), and in that case you're just left hanging. It's pretty clear that go despite _running_ cross platform doesn't particularly care about windows, e.g. the path package basically doesn't support windows natively, the cgo mess, etc.

> Rust's crates, just as an example, are amazing,

Rust has it's own set of problems that you're glossing over here. As an example, many popular crates required nightly last time I looked. Rust's compile times are incredibly painful too, and one of the worst offenders is the #1 json library for rust (serde).
Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode [pdf]
"Does tax" is a bit too broad: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/registering

They help you collect taxes but they don't manage the tax payment processes. You will still need to create a company in France or register for VAT in France, understand the French accounting and laws, them pay the French taxes if you sell to people in France, for example.

It's also only 35 countries. No match for what Apple does.
To me the downside of online ordering is I always feel the need to tip extravagantly to make sure the delivery person doesn't get me rotten tomatoes. It ends up being a lot more expensive than just putting on a mask and trundling down to the market. If I'm in the middle of work I can justify it.

I used to enjoy going to the market. (Well, and a lot of other things that aren't fun anymore).
My philosophy has always been to live with as little money as possible. I think it's not a bad paradigm for the upcoming decades, considering climate crisis etc.
We don't use kernel bypass anymore, it's all XDP: https://blog.cloudflare.com/l4drop-xdp-ebpf-based-ddos-mitig...
Except that flags do not all have the same ratio. It may be useful to assume so for graphic layouts, but it is not really correct.
Open Source Security Foundation launches new initiative to stem the tide of
My pet theory is that people who think that consciousness is not a hard problem are P-Zombies that can't experience the problem.

On a more serious note, as a materialist, I have a really hard time accepting that my self/experience can't be explained materialistically. It's like I have this nice theory of everything, but it fails when I try to apply it to myself. Reminds me of Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
A simple "technical" project that solves a clearly defined issue (a collection of the flags of the world for easy use) but turns out to be a lightning rod for political drama.
The very internet we used got its start as a government project[1] after all.

I submit that both can hold true across time and people: government does good, and government does bad.

The reason, I submit with copious handwaving, is that people don't scale. The Agile ninja team kills it because it's a small group of ninjas.

Throw some zeros behind the team size, make those ninjas into division leads, and watch it crumble.

Many will contend that the number of communication edges in the graph of team members is the issue.

That may be a significant contributor, but consider: people function at scale in military situations, with curtailed individuality and authoritarian control structures.

Indeed, a subset of the population thrives like that. But it doesn't generalize.

Back on topic: the militarized external threat has historically driven much innovation. Was not the internet itself born in the Cold War?

Absent that external pressure, the government has drifted into subsidizing much questionable stuff.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
On the contrary, they do realize that loss of privacy makes life harder for "troublemakers", and they see that as a benefit. Don't make the mistake of assuming that everyone shares your moral code.
FB could surely muster the engineering resources to create a search engine that matches what Google has today.

I think OP is right, it is pride that is holding Zuck back.
Same, I couldn't give two damns if the project fails and burns.

I try to be professional, hard working and I even do some unpaid overtime when deadlines are strict.

But the moment you pressure and stress me to do more it's the moment I say no and all my commitment goes away.

I'm not here to clean up poor management, project planning and low budget.
I also think the raspberry pi 400 is your best bet right now. It has that feeling of being an 80’s computer, but it boots to a modern graphical desktop with lots of open source educational software that they can do explore freely.

If you want your kids to dip their toe into the field of programming, show them around scratch for 10 minutes and let them explore on their own. Set them up with a scratch account and they can work on their projects on any computer with web access. My 10yo started with scratch a few years ago and is now starting to learn javascript. The real challenge to getting them into this stuff is the lack of boredom. Kids have so many options to keep themselves entertained nowadays that they tend to not be bored long enough to start tinkering.
Sheesh, you don't like "selective" data but you just say "0.03%" without a bigger context.

For fiction's sake: if France only had 50 deaths/million and according to your "only 300 more people/million more" the UK would have 350 deaths/million, that's "only 0.03% more" but geez, 7x more deadly in the UK than in France!

According to [1], the UK has so far 2351.99 deaths/M and France has 1868.02. The rate of death is 26% higher in the UK.

And that's 0.186% vs 0.235% rate of death. 0.049% (or even 0.03% from your data) is still a big jump.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Oh yes, that's it. It seems like Google DNS is blocking it too for some reason:
https://dnschecker.org/#A/archive.fo

Weird. I have now switched to my provider's DNS to overcome the issue :)
Right, but that has nothing to do with Metamask. Second, I think at some point the question of "getting the money" out isn't right one. If you are a proponent of crypto and decentralized finance, it isn't necessarily to spend it in "meatspace" or convert it in fiat.
As far as i know firefox has a paid team of managers. Developers, i don't know.
Ads were around for hundreds of years before Apple even existed. The advertising industry will survive just fine.
Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
I cant upvote you enough. This single comment contains many of the contrarian view against HN. It is nice we have these real world stories on HN to balance the ideological fight against ads, where All Ads are evil.
OK so Google pays Apple around $13,000,000,000 per year.

How much does Facebook pay Apple?
If you pay you can get audio only, I don't think you can get it without paying?
Let's burn down the CDC so this never happens again! /s