skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time, industrialization has created the very concept of leisure time. Vacation, travel, two days off per week, much less a 40 hour work week — these would have only been fantasies before industrialization.

Maternal death during childbirth, child mortality, and plagues dominated peoples' lives and offered no escape other than dumb luck before the rise of technology. Superstition provided the only hope of escaping the grim reaper who was omnipresent — could strike at any time and without warning.

Mass starvation was commonplace throughout history, but is now quite rare — due to high tech farming and distribution of foodstuffs.

All of those fears have faded enormously since the rise of modernity and public health advanced tech. COVID-19 would have been FAR worse (especially to the elderly and unhealthy) than it was but for the advancements of modern tech, especially the MRNA vaccines which, through the rapid advancements of tech, were created at an ASTONISHING rate. And it was only through the presence of tech that we've all been able to continue sharing our lives with friends and family during this, the first truly GLOBAL pandemic in history.

No, I'm thankful for the rise of technology EVERY DAY, and it gives we a lot of hope to continue improving everyday life in years to come.. It's the failures of humankind individually to advance emotionally and rationally that I fear. Humans still have a lot of growing up to do before we start responding to the vicissitudes of life like responsible adults still. In far too many ways, we still behave like children convinced the best response to difficulty is to behave badly and tear our hair in despair.

Fact is, living now, with all the plenty that tech has given us, should offer more hope for a better future than ever before. Yes, tech is disruptive, as it always has been. But tech has made the world a far better place in the past 300 years, and I for one expect that to continue, once the public gets some perspective on what life was BEFORE industrialization gave us hope for a better future.
Lofi generator: beats for video / streaming / chilling
> Discord, slack, et al would be doing the world a great service if their tools had notifications etc SWITCHED OFF BY DEFAULT so that they don't disturb other people in the same room as the user.

This is a fun one. What if the new hire doesn’t know Slack? They’ll miss all the messages until figure out how to configure their notifications. Or we leave them on by default and then still tell them how to configure their notifications. There’s no magical way to determine the users preferred setting. You also can’t do something like leave it on for mentions only, as sometimes you need to be in a conversation you were tagged in.

A better solution is to use a hammer on their volume buttons. Or buy a nice pair of noise canceling headphones.

Many of us have tried for many years to complain our way out of open plan offices, with no luck.
Linus Tech Tips “Pirating” OCCT – Answer from the Dev
The best lesson here, is how much tuning the "Politeness" parameter impacts the creation of traffic jams. Maybe public authorities could take the hint, and use it
in public campaigns to reduce congestion?

Edit - The book behind the site: "Traffic Flow Dynamics"
http://traffic-flow-dynamics.org/
Yes, automated posts of pre-existing branded content by pretend users/posters/authors. It's horribly affected the overall experience.
Carter is an incredibly underrated president as well: he appointed Volcker to the Fed Board & he began the military buildup that bloomed under Reagan.
> On the other hand hitting Georgia on 95 south really shows the advantage of adding a third lane. Hard to argue with that example.

Road widening projects are usually pretty easy to argue against, though winning these arguments is usually based on emotions and political clout and not an actual rational perspective.

A couple questions that are always good to ask is:

1) When the road was built or last expanded, was it clogged with drivers right away?

2) Does the extension narrow back to fewer lanes at some point?

Give any road extension a couple of years and drivers will be asking for an additional lane on that same road, and/or you’ll be moving the target to the next ‘bottleneck’ down the line.
Social media giants are like tobacco companies in the 1950/60s.

If the next president ran on a platform of regulating social media as the harmful and addictive product it is, people would probably be receptive. Everyone knows they have an addiction but without collective action the spell can't be broken.

No social media company is going to regulate themselves, but if there was industry wide regulation they could probably find some peace of mind knowing they can implement more healthy practices without fear of a competitor undercutting them.
One absolutely terrifying disease down. 100,000 more to go.
I don't think it's a problem at all, never heard about that to be honest.
Don’t forget about taxes. Most of it is getting taxed at least 37%
- they're not used for understanding a problem, they're used for getting accurate predictions (more accurate than alternative methods)

- they can be useful on their own without providing a path to something much more advanced
> I can't imagine myself buying a pointlessly extravagant car; and, sadly, now is a bad time to buy a car anyway

Get a fun car that can be a hacking project :)

I was suggested a police car by a friend. They are cheap at auctions, more or less well maintained (tax payer money) and have interesting internals (check sites like https://www.dippy.org/upgrade/dipcop.html) especially for electrical circuits where a police-taxi-module lets you hook up to other functions.

And the laptop mount is a geek dream: your laptop right by you, charging, which doubles as a make-do coffee table at the drive through :)
Apologies if I misunderstood the comment and you already know what a shellcode is and just thought it should've been included

A shellcode is a (as much as possible) self contained series of instructions which, if executed in a program (because of vulnerabilities which allow an attacker to inject code and have the program execute it) gives the attacker a platform from which to further escalate control of the machine

It's called like that because it often tries to spawn a shell for the attacker to use

Here you can find some examples: http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/
I subscribe to all my Twitter followings via Feedly as RSSs. It's a paid service but it's the best one I paid for in a while.
not really, no.
I bought the Pixel 6 looking for some approximation of openness, so this makes me happy to see. Does anyone know what significance the specific hardware (Google Tensor) has in this?
Because I fear a ban, honestly.
Hubblo: Measure, understand and shrink the climate impact of digital services
The probability that a random permutation of n objects is a derangement converges to 1/e as n goes to infinity.
> I own the device. The device doesn’t own me.

Doesn’t that depend on who bought the device?
So, PG got lucky once, and now he has the luck to burn on numerous risky ventures until one pays off and he gets more luck. This is basically a humble brag.
Please read this thread to see the pitfalls that might potentially lie ahead: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/c...

It's about winning the lottery but still applicable to some extent, and shows how people's lives go horribly wrong.
That's an even better way to become disillusioned. Knowing how local government administrators operate, I'd be reluctant to call tech companies that give everything away for free a bunch of monsters like OP.
To inform potential applicants to YC or other founders that business plans are not essential/important to raise investment?
Since alternatives are springing up perhaps a good one can emerge, no?
Sure. We can be more specific about which Christmas we talk about. I could have used the USA Independence Day instead (July 4th) as a less universal but still valid example. My point wasn’t about definition of a holiday but about date locality.
You can’t get to the moon climbing progressively higher trees.
I find it even more interesting that people want notifications from arbitrary webapps as well. It’s bad enough the amount of notifications received from installed apps, and we want random websites we go to to have the same ability?
You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Facebook’s (sorry, Meta’s) VR, and then Neuralink, used to suck many people into virtual worlds and keep them “engaged” to feed the profit motive of the Wall St quarterly earnings (capitalism requires platforms to extract rents after all)

But why stop at the virtual world?

Ubiquitous cameras and wifi that can easily track everyone by their appearance, gait, heartbeat and other signatures etc. become commonplace.

Artificial intelligence with access to this info is used to predict all kinds of inconvenient gatherings and movements taking place and nip them in the bud, leading to precrime.

Deepfakes that make any sort of video evidence useless, while AI creates plausible “parallel construction” to win court cases against anyone

Drones become cheap to manufacture, and rogue drones can drop grenades anywhere without any way to figure out who launched them

Swarming autonomous slaughterbots that bring down the cost of eliminating anyone, first by governments, then by private actors.

Guns become cheap to 3d-print while replicating biological agents become cheap to release.

Bitcoin mining rewards make it more profitable to spend kilowatt-hours on using Proof of Work to secure those same 7 transactions per second than on air conditioning and brownouts regularly occur worldwide.

Think this is far-fetched or we can somehow solve these problems? How are we doing with the last few decades of problems:

the anthroposcene

ecological collapse

plummeting biodiversity

(insects, birds, tigers)

non-biodegradeable plastic

greenhouse gas effect

Humanity is like a young teenager that lives on a credit card, that future generations have to pay. We think we are so clever and so much smarter than previous generations, because we know the truth revealed by science. But we aren’t wise enough to use it sustainably.

At best, humanity is building a zoo for itself to be run by a benevolent AI, while the rest of the planet is turned into monocultures and factory farms.

At worst, the AI will not understand human needs and we’ll just all be frustrated all the time, or perhaps countries will just nuke the planet. Where is that nuclear clock?
Worldle – A Country Guessing Game
> Dead people don't commission lavish tombs.

The pyramids.
Would be nice if spoke tension is also measured and recorded. Spoke tension is a very important factor building robust wheels.
That sounds like an unhappy delusion. Life was not magically better before the industrial revolution, unless you were the king. The problems we have now are mostly related to a greatly increased number of people, so unless you want to be Thanos, we'll just have to learn to deal with it. And if we fail, reversion to the mean will do it for us.
Users are. Listings aren’t. Most of my feed is ads for online stores masquerading as local listings. Like legit 10 out of 12 are this. You can search but you can’t just see “what has been listed lately” and their AB testing keeps changing the UI slightly so you can’t always find the right filters anyways.
> Like a subreddit is a nice place for discussion and it's free.

Reddit is cancer. Their karma system is ripe for abuse, and a great majority of their mods have power issues and ban for frivolous reasons. Reddit is just a joke for any real conversation.
Project has moved to https://jasonelle.com/
> Had the issue not been promptly resolved, malicious users on the chain could have exploited the flaw. This means a cyber actor could have gained access to the unlimited generation of fresh ETH tokens.

I am curious, would it be easy to detect an individual who was exploiting this vulnerability?
You mean in bad times when interest rates are higher, you can safely get that much from a million bucks. How during boom times when (at least these days) interest rates are cut to the bone, you’ll have to play the market for any kind of decent return (and take risks associated with).
Democratic party transformation from the party of the deep south, to a hipster, liberal one in just around 1 decade is truly remarkable.

Remember, Carter won the vote in 1976! Just few years after the Vietnam war.
What if a problem is just an incomprehensibly complicated series of differential equations and a formal breakdown is simply impossible but a neural net adds value in parsing it?
Well, yes, that sums up technology VC in general. It is exceptionally rare for a person to truly have seen an opportunity with the clarity of vision to have any real confidence it will succeed. Almost of the successes in this world boil down to the luck of timing and, more importantly, social networking and connections.
NFT marketplace halts transactions due to 'rampant' counterfeiting
Pragmatic Studio has some good courses.
The Cost of a Byte
Chip backlogs stretch to 2 years
What does it mean to be spiritually alienated? I think also you are projecting a large part of your own unhappiness onto the world by suggesting that people are buying the newest iPhone to give meaning to their life.
The dark world of illness influencers
Wow. What an interesting story. I would never have come up with a scheme like that.
You can't just say it could be bad one day therefore everyone should do <x> now - that's just fear mongering not supportive reasoning. For instance it could be everyone falls victim to a hypervisor security bug so nobody should trust VM browsing. It could be everyone falls victim to a firmware big so nobody should trust reusing a device. At some point you have to accept that having the possibility of a bad scenario isn't enough on its own, it needs to be actually weighed and compared.

Sure, there are e.g. certain high security businesses or certain high risk individuals that should consider higher security options (or in some cases regulation therefore). That it's certain conditions is precisely why it isn't for the vast majority though, if it were you wouldn't need to specify corner cases.

Security is about judging how to stay as far up the curve as you can without it costing you more than you'd realistically lose to do so. It is not about closing every conceivable hole in your attack surface to achieve minimal risk.

I'd also add there is a counter to the always increasing cost/reward ratio of targeting: the always decreasing amount of complexity of implementing the security mitigations for the "next level" of security. In a decade browsing via VM may be commonplace for the average user (though probably more persistently for that use case) and not require a thought to use. That doesn't make it any different for today but it points out there is more than "threats have increased" that can change what's a reasonable place to be on the security curve.
Covid-19 Is over (If You’re Rich)
> advances our understanding of the problem not one jot

Do they claim to do this?
First, very condescending to assume a certain wisdom comes with age. Downvoted just for that.

I think you're completely wrong, especially about 1. Human nature doesn't shape our technological reality, it is becoming more and more obvious that technological reality shapes human culture. And people mistake culture as "nature".

Human nature is very plastic, trying to fit any one thing into "human nature" is (this is my humble opinion, please don't be offended) very bigoted.
Tomato firmware seems to jump to a new project every few years, the version being updated now is called FreshTomato with the latest release being from December 2021.
Informatics is an extremely powerful tool that can help with almost any task. It's not a gun.
I think what you are describing is witnessing the passage of time and it's affect on what we consider normal. I don't think technology is ruining the world, I think it's ruining the world you thought you would be living it, but in fact it's just pushed past it. When someone invented toliets, do you think everyone thought it was a great idea? I imagine people that lived without them thought they were an unnecessary advancement in technology.
> Learning is an exercise in creating space in your mind to represent a new map of interrelated symbols.

That might be how you learn, which is a good thing to know, but the presentation of your personal understanding of yourself come off like “this is the way for all”, which gives me the yucks.

For me I need to re-formulate things in my own words (or my own code) until I understand which parts of a system I have blind spots on, then dig into those, then rinse and repeat.

If I can express it in simple language in a way that hangs together, and go into detail about complicated parts of the system, I’m getting somewhere.

The downside of learning a system of human invention fundamentally is that one invariably comes to understand that it is a Rube Goldberg machine that some yahoos figured out how to sell.
pencil paper + google keep ( because of OCR )

taskpaper for notes and todos https://www.taskpaper.com/
Wow, just wow. India is full of such kooks. This is why it will be never be the next China or anything. (Saying this as a Indian myself).
Very interesting! The one-minute videos are really clear, and the interface simple and brilliant, and I went from someone knowing very little about the system to someone thinking "if I built wheels for a living, I would definitely use something like this"!
Is there a way to get the full book in English? It looks like the website and github (https://github.com/koki0702/dezero-book/tree/master/en) only have the first 10 of 60 steps, and the link to purchase (https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4873119065/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_...) is for the Japanese version.

There's another github link (https://github.com/oreilly-japan/deep-learning-from-scratch-...) with the code for all 60 steps, but not the explanatory text.
I hope you find work that's exciting and meaningful to you in whatever industry you like, but you should really consider the source when it comes to the anti-crypto moralizers. If someone accuses you of being a scammer when they know nothing about you or what you do, is their opinion really worth your time?

People will always be resentful of success and even just the attempt of it, whether it's a business growing big or putting a man on the moon. Made an advance in robotics? Given the obvious military applications, someone somewhere is going to call you a murderer. You have to get used to this if you want to accomplish anything great. You can't let yourself be ruled by someone else's morality.

Where do the crypto-haters cluster? With those who praise accomplishment and greatness or those who are resentful of it? My view is that they are clearly in the camp of the latter. You have to start hearing the "constant onslaught" as praise, my friend.
I always wonder if people like this guy have some resources like family money in the background that can rescue them if things go wrong. I could imagine myself dropping out and living a simple life but I have no safety net in the background so I would fear problems if there are serious problems like health. And the older you get the more difficult it is to turn things around on your own.

I think this very similar to risk taking as entrepreneur. It's much easier to do if you know that in case everything goes to hell there is a backup plan. You may never use it but it relieves a lot of *justified) anxiety.
Module reflashing. The effective data rate of a 1Mbps CAN network is about 180kbps of payload. Barely faster than dialup. And CanFD doesn't improve as much as you'd think, because all the overhead still runs at 1Mbps.

If you've ever moved a few meg of firmware over CAN, you know how agnozingly slow that turns out to be in practice. Which is fine enough in development, okay, go get a coffee and chat with the other engineers for a bit, it'll be done soon enough. But in the field, incentives change:

At the dealer, reflashes are usually not paid by the customer, so time is money in the negative sense. Get the car done as fast as possible and go back to work that pays.

For over-the-air reflashing, it's even worse. You have to guess that the car is gonna be parked for a while (or get user consent), and perform the reflash before they change their mind and decide to go for a drive again. A 2-minute reboot on a phone is obnoxious enough, a 20-minute reflash for one module is a death knell for OTA, and if you need to update several modules at once in order for their versions to be in sync, that can well take an hour or longer. Absolutely unacceptable.

PtP is fine because it's just one pair, and you're running back to a gateway module anyway. The gateway module houses the flash memory lake that stages the OTA update packages. When you get the go-signal, blast those out to all the affected modules, finish in 2 minutes, and the car is driveable again.

This is HUGE. Everyone on HN mocks automakers-other-than-tesla for not having OTA figured out yet, and Ethernet is a key enabling technology for it.
Embedded systems: Rust, checked C and other languages or methodologies designed to act as a "safer" alternative to C will see little real impact in the near to medium term future. Code running on microprocessors in medical, industrial and automotive devices will continue to be C99 (at best) for a very very long time.
Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization
Which means it's fixable. I don't want a world where I replace my father and am replaced by my children. I want a world where my father starts acting like a valedictorian again, but with a life of experience behind it.

As we move through life, we inherit bias and experience and no longer have fresh perspective. It's possible to get wiser with age, but it's also likely we will gain experience that hold us back, such as hatred and trauma.

Here's the thing: the newer generations are also going through this process too! They are not necessarily better. They might have less trauma, but they also have less hard won experience.
No recent C++ IDE I know (Qt Creator, KDevelop mainly) has the kind of endemic UI slowness than the others have (recent VS in C#, Electron stuff, Java stuff).
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (2017)
> However, I still wouldn't use it professionaly. the lack of self-hosting (privacy) and archival(bots can solve this pretty easilly) and restricting DMs (see slacks previous issues) makes Discord unsuitable.

Slack doesn’t have a self hosted option either. This doesn’t stop literally every company on it from using it. This argument is a purist mentality. At some point you have to use someone else’s servers, or invent everything yourself.

Self hosting doesn’t even give you control, the app owner can easily put command and control software in the server image and still do whatever they want. Don’t pay your license fee? Good luck getting the keys to your encrypted data store.
Make alternative means better (chiefly faster or overall cheaper) and people will adopt them. People might not all be geniuses, but they’re not stupid.
Ask HN: YC Pro Rata Side Letter
The YC pro rata side letter seems to terminate after the initial "Equity Financing." ("The Pro Rata Right described above shall automatically terminate upon the earlier of (i) the initial closing of the Equity Financing")

Is this interpretation correct? Do investors who use the YC pro rata side letter lose the right to maintain their position in future follow on rounds?

YC describes their own pro-rata rights as continuing though future rounds: "Additional Future Financing Rounds: When you conduct later rounds of financing, we continue to have a participation right to purchase up to 4% of the new money securities."

Does YC receive pro-rata rights that are broader than those included in the SAFE pro-rata side letter?
Isnt that the price of an unbranded jeans?
Why is it condescending to state that certain wisdom comes with age?