skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an issue with the suffocating IP regime (videos being copyright stricken for simple use of works, DRM, rent seeking, patent trolls, etc). And if non-Western countries want to construct or use their own notions of intellectual “property,” then so be it, if it is their own software and their own creations.

But Russia is specifically saying you can pirate software from countries supporting sanctions i.e. Western software made under Western ideas of IP and an expectation of profit for their work. If Russia wants to allow pirating Russian software, then I don’t see the issue. But to buck another country’s legal framework is a step over the line. If Russia wants to use Western software (Photoshop, Microsoft Word, cloud providers), they need to respect the Western terms of use.

Take the .cat domain for Catalan. It is Catalonia’s right to make the terms of use of that domain such that the user must support Catalan translations. If you don’t want to agree by these terms, it is not your right then, to say “well that’s a Western idea of cultural integrity and I don’t agree with that and I’m gonna use the domain anyways.” It’s their domain, their software, not yours.
Fair enough. While I understand that there may not be any body which perfectly represents the infosec community, I would be curious if there are any surveys or even statements by somewhat authoritative bodies (something like NIST?).

No doubt that Linus is antagonistic. I haven't heard anything that suggests security researchers as a collective have taken it personally (I would expect they, like most people, understand that this is a personality quirk).

> None afaik. It just all jumbles together to paint the 'garbage' picture.

It seems pretty meaningless and unhelpful to categorize all C software as "garbage". Programming language isn't the only factor in the number or severity of vulnerabilities, and indeed you could have a Rust (or whatever) kernel which has more numerous and/or severe vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel. To deserve the "garbage" designation, I would expect some supporting evidence that the Linux kernel development process lacks rigor.

Moreover, "secure" is relative, so if you're going to call the Linux kernel "garbage" then it seems like you should have some kernel which is not "garbage" (and personally my minimum qualification for a "non-garbage" kernel is "production grade" i.e., not a research project).
Simple, Russia has.
>Indeed, we're basically watching the real-time implosion of a super-power

Aren't we basically watching Russia conquer Ukraine?
It depends. I think you’ll need more work to find the right customer/market who values what you’ve built and is willing to pay. Potentially it could be a lot more than what your current price is, especially businesses.
Embeddable WebAssembly Parsers
Back in college, my roommate at the time worked for a custom car stereo place that routinely entered these competitions. Their car had plates that read "IDOSPL"
That's awesome.

As consumers, we really need more independent benchmarks.

Reading bullshit like "AWS FOOBAR MAKES RUNNING MACHINE LEARNING IOT FINANCIAL MEDICAL APPLICATIONS 20% FASTER" doesn't help me to architect systems.

I was looking for side project ideas, thanks for providing one.
What I got from that, is “Nothing much is changing, but we won’t listen to Western corporate whining, while pretending to care.”
The itch.io response here is uniquely abrasive in the field (although undeniably a sentiment some hold). I hope we don't think that's a good example of dialogue.
This doesn't make sense.

Russia is more than just a petrostate to become vassalized. They have the largest nuclear arsenal and an advanced Military-Industrial Complex. Its true that they will be more dependent on Chinese financing but its unlikely that they will be beholden to China the same way Saudis are with the US.
Can you paint a plausible picture of how will we deescalate the situation?
He hasn't contributed to Yearn in over a year. Yearn is not shutting down, yearn.finance is very much still alive and has dozens of full time contributors and hundreds of part timers.

Yearn.fi, which is a UI wrapper made by Andre, is though. However, it's open source and can easily be forked and redeployed on a different domain.

A lot of these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. Bitcoin's founder famously quit one or two years in. Most of Cronje's creations will survive without him, as much as we hate to see him go.
The second issue I hear is that you care about your customers, and I think you feel like your company's culture isn't correctly prioritizing quality. There are definitely some steps you can take to improve processing and make these sorts of things less common, but they won't have as big an impact as they could unless everyone "buys in" to them.

Let's talk about the cultural aspect first. You said:

I have casually asked my boss how they feel about all the random bugs in our product. They feel that as a startup of our size, our number 1 priority is making sure we have enough features. Our prospective customers tell us things like "we can't sign up until you support X number of features," and my boss and the founder believe that our number 1 indication of success is the downward trend of X. I understand what they mean (it doesn't matter how bug-free your code is if you run out of funding and go out of business) but I still feel guilty.

I think you're on the right track here. You're recognizing that the people "above" you in the organization have different motivations, and allowing the possibility that you may just be wrong in how you view this because you are operating with a different perspective on the system as a whole.

That said... "we need to prioritize features over stability" is a huge red flag to me. In my experience it generally means that the people in control of the company are measuring the wrong things; they're prioritizing increasing the effectiveness of your sales funnel by trying to satisfy everyone when they should be either focusing on ARR (annual recurring revenue) by making your existing customers happy or changing their customer acquisition strategy to get potential customers with the "right" problem into the funnel in the first place.

Basically, de-emphasizing stability in order to grow will quickly lead to problems with retention. It's a totally valid choice to do it for short periods, but if you go too far it's very hard to come back.

My boss also is correct when they say that these issues happen less than 1% of the time. I don't feel like I have buy-in to make any changes to this process. Alerts are ignored, and some people don't even have PagerDuty set up, their alerts go nowhere.

I don't feel like I have buy-in to make any changes to this process. Alerts are ignored, and some people don't even have PagerDuty set up, their alerts go nowhere.

My gut says this is the heart of the issue here. I think you care deeply about the people who use your product, and that you feel like the people around you don't.

If I were you, I would start preparing to leave the company if necessary. Once I was confident that I had a place to go, I'd stretch myself and try to influence the people around me to improve quality and change the focus to sustainable growth. It might work. If not, while it's possible they'd just fire me because of the pushback, it's much more likely that I'd just get to the point where I realized that this wasn't the place for me.
I think that what they are saying is, if we remove the heat losses from the 1 hour boiling time and instead boil it in a burst of 5 minutes using a battery you would need significantly less energy overall. As a result, using a battery instead of directly utilizing the bicycle's electricity, would take significantly less time.
I have never heard of any of these entities. Were they big?
In Brazil we have a saying: done is better than perfect (o feito é melhor que o perfeito). In terms of code, I write code that works and polish it later.
I categorically disagree with this false equivalence. Copyright infringement and theft are not the same--no matter how much knowledge workers would have you believe otherwise.

Actually, I find it a little ironic that you backed up your statement using someone else's intellectual property.
Any other blurred video is fine too.
I've actually experimented with a couple of solutions but nothing really works.
You can remove motion blur at best, certainly not reading blurred text.

[Not] asking for a comrade
That may be part of it. There's also this trend in TX to find alternative means to raising taxes, often in the form egregious speeding tickets, but that's harder to scale up to larger municipalities.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this—they are very clear on the point: if you have evidence, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. If you don't, don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Someone having an opposing opinion is not evidence that they are trolling or any other variation on that theme. The overwhelming majority of such comments are coming from users just like you, who happen to have a different background.

If you want explanation about this, you can find years' worth among these search results: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Here's one in-depth example: mhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725
How did we go from relatively peaceful in the 90's to a maelstrom of insanity in less than 30 years?

It depends on your values for most of the words in this statement. For example, sure things ebb and flow, but I don't think we can say things were relatively peaceful in the 90s. So, for most values, the answer is likely that things haven't changed as much as you think; you're just more aware of everything now. You can life by the adage, "ignorance is bliss", or live a less blissful life aware of everything going on, or even try to take advantage of those who are living blissfully.
> Nuclear will be what we start deploying only when we're working on the last 20% of capacity and trying to wind down the old fossil fuel generators
> Nuclear will never appeal to market producers of energy. It's just too expensive.

It seems to me that these two sentences contradict. The first implies that Nuclear will be appealing for 20% of the energy market, which is still a huge market.
I think learning Real Analysis from baby Rudin is like learning Probability Theory from Wikipedia. It's so encyclopedic that if it's your first look at real analysis, it will be too dense to understand, but if it's your second or third look, you will find beauty in its brevity.
Zelensky calling for a no fly zone is not even close to him expecting it to happen.
What do you see as the application to GNN / Transformer tasks? Both of those networks are best suited for different tasks, and GFlowNetworks seem well suited to quickly approximating the partition function of say an Deep RL reward distribution, something that MCMC is ill suited for because of the incredibly high dimensional space. I see these all as different techniques, perhaps the ideas will combine at some point but GFlowNetworks are not an evolution of GNNs or Transformers.
Loudness and volume are not the same things.

Volume is a pure measure of energy output, primarily controlled by a volume knob. Loudness is a psychoacoustic effect that measures our perception of loudness. Compressing the dynamic range of music makes it sound louder at all volumes, compared to music with a wider dynamic range.

So the loudness wars is an apt name. The deliberate compressions on music made the music sound louder, without people turning up the volume of the music, but in the process destroys any nuance in the music. Turning down the volume knob doesn’t reduce the effect in a meaningful way, sure it reduces the energy output of your speakers, but it won’t restore the nuance of the music, or eliminate clipped peaks where the music has exceeded the bit-depth of the digital carrier.
he made $2 billion in 2 years and fucked over a huge amount of people
> On a pocket calculator, you have one keyboard layout, and you simply ignore the keys you don't use. Has this ever been a problem?

Yes. There's a reason they sell basic stand-alone calculators, too, and it's not just price. There's a reason the ones for various tasks don't all look the same or have the same keys (a typical office desktop calculator is usually very basic, for instance). I'd bet money most calculators that exist are the fairly basic variety, not a fancy scientific calculator or whatever. Exclude the ones that were only ever used in school and never anywhere else and I bet it's an absolute landslide in favor of simple calculators. People are confused by the extra buttons, and don't want them.

[EDIT] Not to shit on this calculator, mind you, but this is another specialized one that won't be for everyone, not a universal solution.
Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021
The poster you replied to was not talking about Republicans, "the party", but of Republicanism, "the political structure". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
> You are feeling guilty because you care about your (your app) customers, this is not (IMHO) an issue, it is only you being a "good" person (like hopefully most people).

Yep. Perhaps an unpopular opinion but developers should care. They should feel bad about their bugs. At the same time, recognize that shit happens and you're not going to be perfect. But take that negative energy and use it at motivation to reflect on how you made that mistake and what steps you could take to avoid it in the future.
I do it when I'm reading something, but my attention isn't fully (or is difficult and requires back and forth with references) on it to mark either the paragraph I'm on or the sentence I just finished reading.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of Putin's office when it finally dawns on him that this is all he's accomplished
> Despite the sanitized name, "economic sanctions" are violence and collective punishment.

Ok genius, what should have the west done? Intervene in Ukraine and risk nuclear annihilation for humanity? Or simply look away and let Ukraine be plundered?

PS: These are not “sanctions” but “special economic operations”
I have a neighbor that has added some boom to their ride. Most of the time, they are cool with it, but every now and then (mainly weekends) they come home with the tunes kickin. It's not a regular, so I attribute it to a night out having fun and forgot to turn it down vs I'm an inconsiderate asshole.

At the same time, I find the loud pipes save lives people to be much more annoying as they don't ever give a damn about what time it is or what kind of sleepy neighborhood they are currently riding.
"supposedly offensive" is a little too much editorializing for the link title, imo
If you really don’t like the product, the right thing to do would be to stop using it, not steal it.

If the cost of a product exceeds its value to you, you just don’t buy it. It doesn’t mean you should get it for free.
I found myself doing that a lot (especially with being at home now), but recently, I've started using that "dead" time to play the guitar like practice a scale or something straightforward. That allows me to feel less guilty for getting bored while still getting a bit better at a skill that I value.
Also, so this isn't just about politics, I think astrology is...interesting.

I mean, rationally, it's hard to take it seriously. So, what, you mean to tell me that the planets, which are an unfathomable distance away from us, somehow impact human personality and how we behave? Doesn't exactly help things that the stars over our head are not the same stars as the one's over the heads of the ancient Babylonians.

And yet, once I took the time to actually look at my full star chart, I found that it described who I am to uncanny levels of accuracy.

Rationally, probably just a coincidence that my personality actually happens to align to what my personality "should" be, astrologically speaking. My alternative theory is that when enough people believe in something, that something becomes, well, "real-ish". So even if astrology is a bunch of made-up nonsense, it becomes real-enough simply because a lot of people believe in astrology.
How to Create an Information Architecture That Is Easy to Use
> Eastern countries are inching closer to NATO

You got this exactly backwards. Countries don't move, but NATO membership does. NATO has been expanding eastwards and Russia has been consistently & explicitly clear that is unacceptable.
I would prefer if we had at least 1 rifle per civilian like US.

I fear EU politicians that lobby for billioneres to make EU authoritarian China like than I fear China or nearby countries.

At least in US they can vote with bullets if things go off.
FWIW: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-bike-ge... is much easier to read. The current link is the version of the site where the server runs off of solar power.
Happy, as always, to answer any questions or discuss any comments here.

Thanks again to Allan Jude of Klara Systems and Luke Young of bored.engineer for their very interesting comments and explanations.

(these tech notes were published in March of 2022 - they are backward looking to the events of Q4 2021)
> Why is ZFS requiring scrubs and understanding the limitations of it's RAID implementations okay, but btrfs requiring scrubs and understanding the limitations of its RAID implementations "hidden gotchas"?

It read more like btrfs corrupting data despite good scrubbing practice; hosing the file system on the good drive instead of letting it remain good, for instance. If that's a misreading, that is where my position came from.

Regular scrubs and understanding the limitations of redundancy models is good on both systems, yes.

My own anecdotal evidence though: btrfs really does snag itself into surprising and disastrous situations at alarming frequency. Between being unable to reshape a pool (eg, removing a disk when plenty of free space exists) and not being safe with unclean shutdowns, it's hard to ever trust it. It even went a few good years where it seemed to be abandoned, but I guess since 2018 or so it's been picked up again.
Usually moderators are quick to change titles here to more accurate ones, especially in sensitive topics like this. I wonder why this one hasn't been changed.
This was a pretty good write up on the issues with crypto, it also encouraged me to research proof of stake vs space, as I had conflated the two. It didn’t occur to me that someone had designed a “crypto” system that was essentially just an interest payout system and as such the only way to “earn” significant amounts is to already have significant amounts.

Of course Chia has already demonstrated that all the pro-environmental claims of proof of space were also nonsense (of course at least it still isn’t as bad as bitcoin+with, but it’s still pretty terrible).

The core problem with crypto as I see it, is that by design it cannot scale, and by design any increase in value requires an increase in energy cost - however unlike rare metals or what have you, the value/watt seems simply horrific.
Leaving Russia for Morals or Money
And what is the SoTA for biological intelligence? While not exactly this, it seems to be pretty similar (even between members of the same species).

Snark aside, with a few nuances, you're mostly correct.
I don't care what they're looking for, absent a warrant this is unreasonable search and seizure.

I get that Canadian law may differ on the topic, but it shouldn't. It's a natural right and any just government would respect it.
By separating who we are from what we do. Our jobs are our jobs, not us. Our projects are our projects, not us. Our perfectionism exists because we've been taught to define our worth according to how perfect something we create is. As such, separating ourselves from our creations is a step towards overcoming that perfectionism.

There are other things to consider: our attachment to other people's opinions, perceiving failure as a lesson and investment towards our success, knowing that perfect is the enemy of good, and so on. But that will naturally come when we remove our ego from our work and not give it power.
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure
You haven't been watching the war, have you? Russia can't even take Kyiv or Kharkiv even though they're pretty close to the Belarus and Russian borders...
It's an interesting hypothesis.

But many things could happen..
Badger's Law
Indochina was invaded by Japan.
I think this feeling goes away over time as you gain more experience and see how others are doing in the industry. There's a never ending tension between not breaking prod (having bugs) and shipping. In most places, you can't stop shipping, so you have to find how much stability you're willing to sacrifice for your feature work. Then you need to accept the casualties as being part of the battle you're waging. Of course it's better if there's no casualties, and it's better if you minimize the risk of casualties, but if you stick you're nose out there, you need to accept the risk and live with it.

With experience, you can learn ways to minimize the risk you take when you ship, by writing code in better ways, by organizing things with more backstops, handrails, fail-safe patterns, but it's always at the detriment of shipping. But the better you get, the lesser the impact of the safety tax will be.
I like identifying debate as a dirty word, or at least one to be very suspicious of. Reminds me of a Chomsky quote I'll never find again about how the acceptable parameters of a "debate" can be infinitely more important than the debate itself. Who defines them, what they are and how those parameters are enforced. (queue matrix soundtrack)
We are watching them attack Ukraine. Whether or not they'll be able to conquer it is up in the air, and seeing how things are going, I'd bet against it.
In a way less successful way than expected and while getting their economy squashed in response.
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A grid-tie inverter will be quite a lot more expensive.
You very much know that many people think that “when you get in a higher tax bracket” that all of your income gets taxed more.

You’re just being overly pedantic.

That’s also not how any economist thinks of it.
See also recent HN discussion on "Unlearning Perfectionism".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223559
As little as 10 years ago, the most common solution to hotlinking was swapping out the hotlinked images with something different/offensive to shoo away the hotlinker. Or various anti-hotlinking scripts. Or maybe even check request headers against your own domain at the server level. Now the solution is a 7 figure cry of foul enforced by the FBI? Was the offense more egregious and involved hotlinking of novel IP, leading to more aggressive enforcement?
Solidity is the dominant language to write smart contracts. See https://github.com/ethereum/solidity