skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the modern examples of how information systems can affect people's mental health, I think it's reasonable to assume that an unencrypted network has the potential to be quite dangerous to anyone that happens to come under attack.

That is, perhaps unusually, why I think it could, under some circumstances, be far preferable for (some? most?) network traffic to be more transparent.

(and yep, totally agree with you that identity and integrity are important to maintain)
> It really feels like the American society (now including the courts apparently) is losing its relationship with objective reality and any semblance of a shared set of ground truth facts.

Actually in this particular case things are getting better because less and less shit is getting through into the court without reporting and scrutiny, due to the efforts of media and groups like the Innocence Project. Bite mark analysis, hair comparison, blood splatter analysis, lie detector testing, even breathalyzers are getting their due scrutiny and criticism where they haven’t been in the past.
I definitely am still going to be tackling replication and clustering. There is a single-server mode already available, although with no replication or clustering that means no high availability yet.

As the main contributor, it's hard to say that I'm "focusing" on those aspects, however. Advanced server modes are on my mind constantly -- but so are ways to add more powerful queries, relationships, and more. It's a large project and one of my goals of this coming year is to try to attract more contributors.

Thank you for your comments!
Your solution sounds like we should try nothing,

> There are kids who cannot be reasoned with.

Are you familiar with an approach that can help?

The approach I mention has been around for over 70 years.
Very cool project, and i want that hardware badly... But... Please add some margin on your article before someone gets hurt
As @fsflover noted, there is Linux as an option...But i'll do you one slightl;y better: try Ubuntu Mate. This is a specific "type" of Linux. This is a distribution of Linux named Ubuntu with a desktop environment named Mate...And the Mate desktop environment allows for a layout - named Redmond - that resembles the typical Windows UI: https://guide.ubuntu-mate.org/#panel-layouts-redmond

In other words, you get more power (and yes, freedom but i won;t dive into that aspect now) but the look-and-feel resembles Windows that it sounds like you are familiar with/prefer. Full disclosure: i am a diehard linux user, so am biased in favor of linux. I invite you to explore Ubuntu Mate (or any other distribution of linux)! Enjoy!
I'm going to be cynical.

Energy usage: Software can't fix this; rewriting your workload more efficiently doesn't matter if during that rewrite, a hundred companies wrote workloads that cost a hundred times more power did. The issue is that electricity is too cheap. Raise the cost of electricity and it will force the big consumers of electricity to use it more efficiently. Also ban proof-of-work blockchain technology.

Software cannot prevent armed conflicts, that's a political problem. That can be solved by voting or assassinations, to be blunt. Politics is broken, and software cannot fix that, revolutions can. It doesn't matter that you can vote remotely on the blockchain if you're in a two-party system where your vote is for the lesser evil. Ban nukes. Stop voting for oligarchs, authoritarians, and fuckwits.

Poverty is a political problem too. The free market didn't work. Raise the minimum wage, give people money if they can't work or are between jobs, give everyone an education for free (it pays itself back within a few years through income taxes no problem), give people health care (and control the prices). Yes it's totalitarian, but we tried the free market and the illusion of free choice and it didn't work. We're rich enough to give everyone a happy life but we refuse to because "I got mine".

STEM training, see above. Make it free for anyone to attend.

AI is not needed, it's used to sell you more stuff. I've yet to see a beneficial application for AI. I hope it can be used for medical science at least but a lot of it is gimmicky.
Basically every system we operate under is a collective delusion, after you strip away the layers.
AFAIK most of it works with Wine nowadays.
As key goods grow more expensive 'demand destruction' threatens global recession
You mean letter spacing? It looks like there is no kerning going on.
Boeing is the ultimate "too big to fail" company, judging by this and other scandals.
My parents bought my first computer (Commodore 128 with printer) from a store in Queens. That singular act got me started down the road of programming and to some degree engineering.

I also believe they purchased an Apple IIe from them far earlier but I can't be certain.

I do remember when the PSU for the C128 failed, they gave us a new one no charge.

Oh the memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6S2yiuSWE
It looks like you typed in Spanish and did google translate on this (given you are talking about Chile). The translation output does not make a lot of sense. I think you meant "immoral marketing techniques" while the translation says prostitution. Looks like it is a Chilean idiom that does not translate well.
First chicken-free egg white product reaches US markets
It could only be gamed if dogs aren't accurately finding bodies.
Soviet computer:

https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/project-sphinx-when-t...
To a beginner they're not really able to make that determination, neither would have the patience to stay interested checking SO hundreds of times
With a free-floating exchange rate, the buyer wants to use the weaker currency and the seller wants to accept the stronger one. The seller can set prices in each according to his preference, and the buyer can decide which to pay vs. which to save according to hers. The market will discover an exchange rate between the two currencies accordingly, but no economic law dictates that one will drive out the other.

Gresham’s law applies when the seller is bound to a certain rate of exchange between the two currencies. The buyer will therefore pay in the currency she has the least desire to hold for the long term. As a result of everyone doing this, over time all trading will be done in the less-desirable currency.
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Are you a parent? And if so, did you use your approach? It would just be anecdata, but at least some real world experience.
The article states that leasing caused an increase of $10B over non-leasing, so isn't Boeing still reeling in $5B more profit than necessary? I mean $5B is a drop in the bucket, but it still seems like needless waste.
I guess the question is really whether JS takes advantage of these facts.

Will JS, at runtime, realize that X is an int and optimize 2 * X into a bit shift operation?

Will JS recognize that Y and Z are perfectly represented integers stored in floats and so use integer instructions when adding Y + Z? Would such a thing even save time with all the casting back and forth to fp?
Commit small, commit often. The smaller the commits, the less you'll lose when you do forget.
They have done statistical analysis on diving for water and it didn't go well for the diviners, so of course they made up a bunch of excuses.
Wait, you mean they could go deeper into debt to pay off their debt? I'm not sure that helps.
We have this. Patreon, Kickstarter, Wefunder and countless others.
SpaceX ending production of flagship crew capsule
Hmm… I have a friend who has made millions buying and selling domain names if you’d like an introduction.

1,000 names is what, $10k? You could just sell 1 of the names, but the domains, and then get someone to sell them.
I don't think this is ownership crisis. I think this is crisis of human nature.

The problem has name - passionarity. The best source I know, Lev Gumilyov work (unfortunately in Russian, but google translation looks good enough, begin read on caption "Passionarity levels")
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пассионарная_теория_этногенеза

Gumilyov does not write numbers, but current statistics say, in population there are 1.5%-5% passionaries, who usually demonstrate entrepreneur behavior (and in democracy countries, registered as self employed or run small business).

All others people have very low level of passionarity, and just avoid to show initiative, mostly because this lead to responsibility.

That's all. Without initiative, nothing will work. Except of fraud or theft schemes, where stakes so high, that even absolutely passive people could show initiative to get so high gaining.

And what differ modern world from times look better, those times where one of two things, either power where extremely concentrated, so most resources where in hands of those 1.5%-5%, or exists some extremely powerful resource, like oil 100 years ago, which where good enough so passive people show initiative.

Now resources distributed very wide, and barriers to enter business like oil are too high, so very few passive people try to enter there.

Some countries show even worse things, because they for some esoteric reasons define passionarity people as enemies of normal people, and they make economy by robbing passionarity people and share loot with passive.
And all these schemes end in one - they just try to rob other countries, mostly neighbors, and when on some moment fail - break apart, what exactly happen with USSR and now happen with Russia.
Fair presumption but no, I agree it should be fixed. I just don't agree with the authors idea of how important it is to fix it, as it's highly unlikely to be exploitable in the wild.

Even without any proxies/WAF, PHP is always run (except in development environments with `php -S localhost:4124`) behind a web server, usually apache or nginx. Not sure about apache, but nginx defaults to a limit of 1MB for the request size (via `client_max_body_size` https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#cli...) and I can imagine apache have a similar default as well. Even if you allow requests to carry 1GB of data, this is still not exploitable, and if you have that large requests anyways, you usually find another way of doing the transfer than using plain HTTP requests.
This isn’t just in America. I googled “Australia bite mark analysis” and it looks like cops are using bunk science in Australia too.
Thanks, I'm fixing it asap
Someone needs to solve online identity and reputation (in a privacy-preserving way) so that you can accumulate trust on one site/service and carry that over to another. Ideally such a system shouldn't devolve into trusting just a few large American corporations to decide who is and isn't allowed an online existence.

It feels like we can't have nice things because if you want to put a user-editable resource online, you first have to solve the Sybil attack problem. The more valuable the resource is, the more friction you need to put in the way of users to make them prove their humanity and divulge more of their offline identity, and this takes up engineering time which could have been devoted to making the resource itself more useful.

By "resource" I mean anything that accepts and displays user input from the internet, whether that's a wiki or a poll or a form or a multiplayer game or an online review or some completely new type of content that hasn't emerged yet because innovative creators have given up after their first bot raid.
The "long and messy" python error messages are python tracebacks and often intentionally displayed by borg to ease locating and fixing bugs.

Of course we could also display shorter error messages (and we do that at some places, if the cause of the exception is well known / expected), but be glad to have the long form and not just "something went wrong" (which is very pretty, but completely useless). :-)
Typically we'd call this feature "goto definition"
I would say the main argument of the article is that the US Military Industrial Complex is corrupt and that the taxpayer is getting scammed by corrupt procurement officials into paying for things they don't need. I feel like this is pretty clearly a persuasive piece.
“To be fair, it's likely those mental health problems were there with most generations but went undiagnosed.”

Unless you don’t believe self surveys of the children themselves, it is unequivocally worse now.
The economic incentive to fix your problem, or many of the other areas in which people perceive AI has shortcomings, is very small. The economic liability for failure is also astronomically different in both cases.
We already have calculators and spreadsheets for enhanced mathematical ability, and rich people have had assistants and advisers to enhance their knowledge and help them work more efficiently.

The interesting thing about AI and machine learning is it's actually becoming available to everyone very democratically. We all have access to Siri and Google Assistant because the best way to extract value is through massive scale. Developing a billion dollar AI and then only letting one person benefit from access to it is absurdly inefficient, partly because access to more people and more data and interactive usage it can learn from at massive scale is actually necessary to train the AI. Keeping it private also cripples it.

I know what you mean, you're thinking without any external mechanical interface like keyboards and such, but those things don't matter by themselves. A direct brain interface might provide an incremental advantage in latency, but we've had incremental improvements for ages. Unless it provides some sort of sudden multi-orders of magnitude advantage it's really just more of the same.
The tests that were done were with pipes buried in an area. The 'divinators' (I do not know how they are called in English, the ones that find water with a stick) agreed that the test is fair.

They did not find anything that wild be above statistically expected results.

I will add a source if I find it, but it is at least 20 years old
What Is the Matrix Inverse?
Thanks for the reply, even with context his comment is just odd. I've been a Spanish speaker all my life and that does not resemble translated text, that resembles coffee, cigarettes and the "real story" of what happened to JFK and Jimmy Hoffa.
It is spelled grammar.

My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics. But I was a linguistics major…

I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.
I've seen conjecture that there is a real science behind this, but it doesn't involve the sticks per-se. In order to use them, there must be a focus on the thing you desire to find. This creates a sort of meditative trance with the sticks as the "focus" when in reality, the meditation is freeing up the conscious mind to not ignore the very subtle signs of an area being disturbed.

The fact is that they do indeed find bodies this way. The chances of randomly digging up a body by pure guess are vanishingly rare. We're talking at most around 10 square feet (often just 4-5 square feet) while there are 43,560 per acre or 27,878,400 per square mile. Even if you buried 1000 bodies in that square mile, your chances of finding one would still be a fraction of a percent.
It amazes me how many people in the U.S. get an email or phone call claiming you need to pay the IRS or FBI with a 7-11 gift card and believe it.

It’s depressing that those people vote!
The "author" started the blog one day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the theme in many of the articles is the usual triad of arguments from Russian bots:

- The West is to blame, Russia is innocent!

- Russia is strong! Western sanctions can't hurt Russia!

- Western sanctions are provoking Russia and will lead to nuclear WW3!

As an European with many Polish and Ukrainian friends I'm happy that isolationist American techno-libertarians are confined to Hacker News and r/Conspiracy. It would be a terrifying world if American libertarians had a say in foreign policy and defense policy.
It's fun to see this story get rediscovered every 3-5 years. Electronics stores, like car dealerships, appeared to need showboating to stand out, and that appears to be the starter-drug for fraud in a surprising number of cases.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> what happens when rich people are not only richer, but also fundamentally smarter and more efficient?

Even right now, people who are fundamentally smarter and more efficient are likely to be richer.

This is just an extension of capitalism giving an advantage to those who are already ahead.
Dogs aren’t accurately finding bodies and are often deployed even when cops know no body is present (such as a car). Now what?
> power user build of Windows that doesn't include all the builtin cloud nonsense and other useless distractions.

Windows Server?
Thank you! I knew from experience that I needed to have a way to explain what BonsaiDb was in nearly every post I made, so I used a shortcode in Zola (the static site engine the site is powered by) to allow me to put that blurb at the top of each post as desired.

It takes a lot of pressure off when trying to figure out how to start a post.
I believe the long-term goal is for it to replace Linux as the kernel in Android.

The technical reason, I'd say is that the access control model in Android is a kludge on top of the Linux kernel, and it is more difficult to sandbox apps. Fuchsia was made to support Android's model, and in a capability-oriented OS you get sandboxing by default.

A political reason is to not be dependent on Linux, but I'm sure that other people have opinions about there being more.
> Strangely, Crazy Eddie’s fraudulent history gave it an advantage. To provide the illusion of quickly increasing profits ahead of the IPO, the Antars simply reduced the amount of cash they were skimming.
Why is that? A system that requires users to hold one key depends on less user vigilance than a system that requires a user to hold hundreds of keys.
That was nice of you to ask him to reflect.

Some psychologists suggest that kids fight because they subconsciously know it gets their parents' attention. So when a parent breaks up fights it can unintentionally reinforce that behavior.
I'd recommend you to have a look at https://80000hours.org/ or at least their job boards: https://80000hours.org/job-board/

They focus on the very problem you're asking about.
It seems to be the most common item people buy (because it can actually slightly affect your performance as it better matches the hitbox, and it is the most used competitively). I know a lot of people who never bought a single item, except for the fennec.
Intel 80286
Were you born after the 9/11 attacks?
Clearly not, but this is a circular argument. As companies expand in size they naturally increase both their needs and their resources.

Are you arguing that using SaaS developer tools like the ones in this journal entry consumes a greater proportion of engineers' capacity than self-hosting does, and that this cost difference becomes proportionally greater as a company grows? If you're right, perhaps some cloud-based startups and also larger businesses will be eaten up by more nimble, efficient self-hosted competitors.

(I work for a cloud host)
Cadaver dogs were used to locate the remains of murdered journalist Kim Wall, which were in plastic bags at the bottom of Køge Bay. I'm pretty sure smelling a body across the street wouldn't present a challenge. Dog noses are insane.
Courts work on procedure and appeal to authority, not science. Hopefully there is an overlap, but it's not required. Diligent application of appeal to authority by the more well funded party results in better outcomes.
A.I. can generate a million art pieces or a love song, but it won’t feel the same as a just one from a human. At least not yet.
Australian startup eyes disused mine shafts for gigascale gravity energy storage
Marketing people aren't necessarily developers. This is a case where you should let a sane developer do the marketing.
But again, it's not "just" a binary. You provide the interfaces to it that actually affect the world. I agree with the general implications of using a dependency though.
I still get mails for bugs that I and dozens of other people already submitted working patches for over a decade ago. Let me know when drawing tablet pen pressure finally works correctly in a released build.
In the case of NPM consumers of wasm libraries, it often isn't realistic option "as-is", since they won't have the toolchain needed to build the code. Rust is a lot more well oiled than C/C++ in this regard but it's a bit of a hassle to line things up and keep things reliable and reproducible. (Good luck if the blob is not only C/C++ but uses 3rd party dependencies on top of that, which often require even more hurdles). If you don't use the pre-built blob you'll often have to 'insert' it otherwise into the library, somehow, which is its own chore. So it's all a bit chicken and egg at some level. Now, it's not like a lot of these packages ever followed best practices in this regard (I'm reminded of many Ruby, Python, JS packages that love to ship random .so files, and often do it incorrectly) but it is what it is.

That said I generally agree with the premise, and even with sandboxing you should vet dependencies like these where appropriate if you can. A good example of this is something like an image decoder versus a database library (both of these being real scenarios; e.g. using a pure-Rust implementation of some SQL protocol.) The first one I probably wouldn't worry too about much, you're just giving it pixels in and getting pixels out. But the second one is likely worth a bit of scrutiny since it interfaces directly with a sensitive component.
I live in Los Altos Hills but online correction software sees the zip (which we share) and corrects it to Los Altos, the next town over. This often causes confusion.
It's an interesting doublespeak to use for someone who is effectively interred - a prisoner, basically, but extralegal in that they weren't convicted to them. I think anyway, I'm sure there's plenty of these camps that actually are court mandated.
>>it can be a fluke

It was a fluke
Alternate link: https://leaderpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/spacex-ending-produc...
The real question is what is the correct risk tolerance, there are many degrees in here with trade offs. If I mostly trust the other programmers then I'm just concerned about mistakes. If I'm running code that might have been written by some evil cracker trying to do some evil then I need more protection.
Finnish guy installs a diesel heater in his electric car
zero banning, full freedom of speech.

How to do it: user selectable curation/filters/moderation without requiring an account (explicit web pages or/and URL parameters). Actually, an "official" curation/filter/moderation could be the default, and users would have to take up steps to go no curation/filters (https://www.freedomofspeach/forums?zero_moderation=on)

There is always the issue of children/young teenagers: the only reasonable option is proper parenting regarding internet access, and we all know it is easier to say than to do.

Obvious side effect: if you keep all the trash, you will need bigger technical resources and very probably, ppl won't turn off the default curation/filter/moderation and this trash will be sort of technically "costly".
How to Deal with Optional Things and “Undefined” in TypeScript
Yes, although the script incorrectly calls it "radar". And needless to say it was not a realistic depiction of the technology or its capabilities.
A past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10751450
Term limits and limiting lobbying won’t help.

US Military is a massive jobs program and supports a huge section of the population if you include all it’s vendors. This is especially true in the heartland. Unless the amount of non-defense jobs all over US expand to such a level that people aren’t as dependent, they will always have people’s support and politicians will keep funding these.
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