skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks very interesting. Is there any support (or plans) for SSH certificates? They help to manage some of the revocation and access control challenges, as well as the issues around trust-on-first-use and similar. (And also the fragility of syncing around authorized-keys files, or relying on LDAP for login, in infrastructure type environments).

See also - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30788544
It doesn't surprise me that HN is so pro nuclear but I am very skeptical about reactor safety. I know I will get inundated with comments about how modern reactors are so safe and if everything is done correctly then there is no problem. Things are never done 100% correctly and with as seismically active Japan is, I would approach this very carefully because the worst case when things go wrong is very bad. Fukushima would've been 100x worse if it wasn't for brave people sacrificing themselves.
Thank you for trying this, and even more for writing it up.

People talk about bad startups that do happen, but not nearly enough about good ones that don’t. We should be at least as outraged at the systems that quietly steal what could have been.
> Main problem is that the web is amassing complexity everyday, without ever shedding any of it.

Have you ever looked at your genome? It’s jammed full of old stuff tucked away in case it turns out to be useful someday.
The latest marketing tactic on LinkedIn: AI-generated faces
Have you ever tried to write useful documentation? As a programmer you are far to close to the code. You assume things are obvious that are not, while going into great detail describing things that are obvious (or maybe not obvious, but only rarely interesting and so should be documented in a deeper link not the main documentation). Or worse because you have to document it you document the code lines (++i; // increment i by one).

This is a hard problem. I try to make an effort, but too often I get it wrong.
> How is it not 'autocratic'?

For one thing, if it's my ISP deciding, then it has nothing to do with autocracy because it's a private company doing so?

Second, they haven't.

Third, you're lost - this thread is about two Russian TV channels being banned. The RT thread is elsewhere.
> It’s gotta be frustrating to be a (really) rich person when taxes are discussed because, basically, they have all of the money

I'm having a hard time believing that billionaires are justifiably "frustrated" by having a thousand lifetimes' worth of money. They could each lose 90% of their net worths and still enjoy the same standard of life.

Taxing them essentially only takes away ultra-luxuries, like giant yachts or trips to space, and power. The reason there is so much wealth inequality is because of most of those billionaires. They're not impartial, inactive victims. They control the society that makes them rich.

> Can’t get much from hand-to-mouth workers, and not a huge amount from the mass of society trying to get by.

That doesn't stop people from trying[1] every year.

> Life isn’t fair or unfair - it just is.

Life is certainly unfair. I don't believe we can fix it, but there's no doubt it's unfair. And if someone is a billionaire, chances are the unfairness is working in their favor.

> And if you’re a hard cynic, it’s better to willingly contribute than have it taken.

This is true, and yet they still don't willingly contribute. The only exceptions are the few liberal billionaires who poured money into Democratic candidates in the last few years, but they (rich people donating to politicians who would raise their taxes) are a historical rarity.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/23/rick-sco...
You should check out Gemini[1]. That's basically how it works.

[1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
The mining supercalculator could be a cover story for doing black hat stuff (hacking exchanges, injecting miners, etc). Not saying he did, but nobody's perfect.
How does one avoid the inequality, though? One could be working 60 hours a week at fast food joints and not make anywhere close to a part time software developer. As a result, the “lazy” developer is generating more tax revenue. There are too many possibilities to make it “fair”, unless we get rid of the income tax. Even if everyone paid the same amount, it wouldn’t be fair, unless everyone made the same amount of money. Which also doesn’t seem fair.
They need to charge for listings but FB is afraid to charge users for anything. All they care about is engagement and lock-in. The FBMP experience is horrid.
I tend to agree; I don’t really follow news myself. If there’s anything big going on, I’d know anyway.

But IMO there are two blind spots in that philosophy:

- If everybody did that, even the big things would not propagate. You’d only know there is a war going on if you heard the bombs.

- Voting becomes a problem. Since everything you hear is from people around you, it is most likely an opinion, which you will then echo. Also you might miss stuff which would affect your opinion, but which your friends didn’t care for.
Japan is already in the position of having nuclear-tipped ICBMs essentially "whenever it wants". The conservative time period from decision to arm with nuclear weapons and having ICBMs with usable nuclear warheads was estimated by (public) CIA documents at 1 year. That's less than it takes to make a new power plant.
He forgot to put a mark on Catalina.
Ah, but Musk doesn't make that kind of money every day, but the government spends that much every day.

Musk also paid more taxes last year than any other American in history.
My brain is 100% polluted by the power of ADTs. I can’t think about modeling problems without them anymore and it makes development in languages where it’s not ergonomic difficult.
We live in societies that find it unacceptable for people to fail, to varying degrees depending on where in the world you are, and at least personally, that's a difference between companies and people that I'd like to maintain and even strengthen.
I'm not a console user, but ran into this when Modern Warfare 2 brought it to the PC (I think. If not MW2, then one of the early Black Ops titles). I was too young to have my own way to purchase them, but never felt the motivation to pay up, so I'd just get auto-kicked by the system if a lobby started with a map I didn't have access to.

I haven't played Call of Duty in a long time, but when I heard that Modern Warfare Remastered would have some maps locked behind a DLC[0] (along with the rest of the shitshow surrounding its release), I knew that I'd probably never buy another one of those titles again. I think the last I bought was MW2 or BO2.

On PC, in Modern Warfare 1, the maps were made available for free, while they cost extra for consoles. Modern Warfare Remastered 'conveniently' left them out of the base game, but charged a higher-than-original price for the pack, for all platforms. Consider that a remaster is generally supposed to contain all content (i.e. game + DLC), and this was a slap in the face to my younger self.

[0]https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/Variety_Map_Pack
They already have all they need if they want weapons.
BTC cannot die, it can only amass more users. You will see that the wishes of man or government are irrelevant. To kill Bitcoin, you would need to kill every human that runs a node.
Yes, this was my point: that prior, economists had silly ideas about humans which make no sense.
What Ukraine situation? :)
Keep in mind that fuchsia vendors third party libraries, so a decent chunk of that code is third party libraries. That doesn't undermine what you've said, but I wanted to just highlight that not all 3M+ lines of code were written for fuchsia.
Most people who say this mean "this is what AAA video games are". Rocket League is arguably not AAA but is clearly taking its more recent changes from it.

As you say, many new things are being created, and the solution for the most part is simple: Don't buy AAA. It has almost no appeal to me anymore, and even when I hear about some franchise I like or used to like, I just assume the worst if it's making the leap to AAA, and to be honest, that metric hasn't failed me in a while.

I'm late to the bandwagon and just bought Slay the Spire for $10. No microtransactions, no unlocks, no AAA garbage at all. Just money for fun. That's the solution. Don't play games that are just platforms to deliver psychological manipulation to extract money from you when there are games that will deliver the same basic dopamine hits for defined amounts of money, and for goodness' sake, don't pay money for things that are just platforms to psychologically manipulate you into giving them money. And often, frankly, aren't as good at the dopamine hits anyhow since they have to wrap them around manipulation.
Papers Please is in that genre. It's one of my favorite games
I wonder if FreePascal is affected

Looks like they ported zlib to Pascal in 1998 and left it pretty much unchanged:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/blob/main/pac...
Couldn't find a translated version unfortunately.
I'm not anti-voting, but I guess I'm resigned to the "voting futility" idea that I think you're talking about.

That being said, I am a faithful supporter of DSAUSA and have invested (rather than voted for) significant means towards the cause of a more socialistic reality in America. Faced with the size and influence of corporations in the world, I suppose it's the logical end of things that the world revolve around money and the means of "making" more money.

I still vote too, but I guess I roll my eyes a little bit each time.
Even more, those laws were enacted when Nazis being celebrated for marching down the streets was a recent memory. A strong statement "we have a new constitution, you aren't allowed to show support for Nazis or organizations working against the constitution" was perfectly reasonable at the time.
What’s the nearest nuclear plant to San Francisco or is it NIMBY?
> the misshapen web they were imagining

Maybe if they had met us halfway and actually shown us the web they were imagining somewhere somehow it might have been easier to get on board, but whenever I tried to look at any of their standards, it was just endless detail with no explanation of why anybody would want to do any of this.
I wonder if the founder has contemplated reviving and repositioning it?
These days you have a lot more EPOS systems and a vast majority of cashless transactions, especially for high value goods.
Can you elaborate a bit on what kind of "source" you'd like to see? I'm trying to imagine what could possibly satisfy this request and I'm coming up blank.

Generally, slapping "Source?" in a reply to a comment is a lot less helpful and productive than you might initially think.
To clarify, firefighters and such pay a higher rate of income tax relative to the uber-wealthy because most uber-wealthy don't have income. They have capital gains, etc. That being said, just about the entire system is tilted in favor of the elites. They win for more than they lose. It's the inverse for the Team Firefighter.

Point being, another swipe of the pen isn't going to level the playing field. Especially when the uber-wealthy have the means (i.e., lawyers, accountants, etc.) to find the loop holes in any new law.
Also heavily editorialized with a sharp left / European bias
It's easy. Facebook already had the users. Nobody had to sign up for an account to sell on marketplace. You just go on, post shitty pics, add a shitty description.

It sucks because Marketplace is such a piece of shit. The search doesn't work, it always interjects shit that you don't want. It doesn't find all items within certain search parameters, etc. About 1/20 times that I do a search, the entire page comes back blank, or with 30 sponsored listings and no actual results.

It's the same reason that Facebook Groups took over for a lot of forums. Using a forum took some effort. You had to create an account, log in, upload photos to a host. You had to be really into it... and so a lot the low-quality shit was filtered out in the forums, just by being sort of hard to use. Now you just go on FB Groups make a shitty post with some shitty pics, no effort, thought or time has to be put in. Flooded with low-quality crap and repeat questions and topics.

You go on the groups now, and the quantity of the same questions being asked over and over is ridiculous. The search sucks, Facebook Groups are trash.

This is just like how Microsoft Teams came to be. It didn't get popular because it was a good product. It's literally one of the worst software applications that I have ever used. They already had the userbase (all the O365 subs), and gave it away. People take shitty and 'free' over good and costs money. Competition crushed.
Or drug companies
You don't say if you'd been to that country, or experienced anything relevant that you presented, or anything to explain why you felt this way. As such, you give me nothing to ponder on nor any reason to agree with you (or even disagree).

NB: don't take it personally or feel bad, it's just a random interweb guy's disagreement!
Voting does make a difference.

Also, you can contribute to any candidates campaign - so you can money-vote in many places (USA)
Does anyone have practical experience running WASM in long running processes on node, as compared to something like Neon? Writing C in TS doesn't look particularly appealing to me, but node extensions bring their own set of problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695360 was posted a couple weeks ago. Curious if that's sort of along the lines of what you're looking for. It's not exactly free software, but maybe it's open enough?
Pickle Serialization in Data Science
Blog post on the dangers of pickle files in data science!
-> Life isn’t fair or unfair - it just is.

I think this applies only to Silicon Valley/Hollywood kind of self-absorbed bubbles. Societies are what you make of it, not a random algorithm of
lucky winner takes all.
what type of word game were you looking for?
The energy transition show made an episode on it recently: https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-154-japans-nuclea...

Japan really is a country to watch in term of energy transition. They will have to take bold steps to meet their energy demand while curbing their CO2 emissions. I expect them to see some great projects around offshore wind but I think nuclear will have to be a part of the solution if they want to get anywhere close to the paris targets.

Unfortunately, having a majority of japanese backing nuclear is not going to be enough. Last I checked most of the initiatives to bring back nuclear were stalled. The anti nuclear sentiment in japan leads a lot of communities to go to court to try to block building or reopening existing nuclear power plants.
“Should”? Based on what? This phrasing implies some law of nature like diffraction of light or the nitrogen cycle, but it’s just an opinion that you don’t even bother to try to justify. It’s feel-good nonsense with no basis in reality, or for that matter, history.
Thanks!

Does it sound better now?
Project links Android phones with satellites to improve weather forecasts
> bypassing censorship

Back in the early days, people used to say "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it". That may have even been true back then. Definitely not true any more, at least not of the internet as we know it.
I seem to remember a different group of scientists publishing their successful use of this method to make yeast-free bread maybe 5-10 years ago. I cannot find the publication. I believe that it made the news at the time because they put a space twist on it. It stuck in my memory because I remember wanting to ask a rabbinical scholar if the product would count as unleavened bread.
> this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference

Aren't to hold views and to express views two significantly different things?

> seek, receive and impart information

Does information include proven falsehoods like vaccination causes autism?

In general I agree, but people weaponizing this to inoculate against critique is probably not in the ideas of those who wrote this.

Call me illiberal or conservative. I don't care for these weaponized labels.

To me, having grown up in Germany, there are very clear borders to "free speech". Denying the holocaust. Insulting/denigrating/dehumanizing other people. Stating falsehoods as facts.

Exactly as our law sees this. Time and time this imho very sensible approach has proven to be healthy for society.
See also: 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, highly recommended.
If you can maintain a state of focus and actively like your work, you are likely near peak productivity and quite far from possible burnout. Just don't push beyond your reasonable limits or you might end up giving yourself a heart attack.
Nothing is truly renewable as entropy gets us all in the end.

Now maybe someone or something will answer "The Last Question" one day and solve that problem. I wager we wont be around to see it.
Certain types of strata absorb water, and certain kinds don't. Locations of water sources, slopes, etc. will all matter. Some of these things will hint on the surface at what lies below.
This is actually a very valuable resource, similar to https://www.rxlist.com/

Can you apply that to all kinds of medication, is this is a lot of more work or can you plug it in or let a student do the data entry?

It will take a while to gain traction, but if you go to conferences, add more kinds of medications, establish a brand and gain reputation, this could be very successful. The contribution to modern medicine is invaluable.

How many big kinds of medications are there? For the Top20 most common cancers, IBS, Neuropathy, acne, MS, heart disease, hypertension, arthritis and you've got most of the big ones covered. You can also add beauty treatments such as hair loss, skin rejuvenation and you are already in the beauty sector with much lower barriers to entry.

Might be a couple of months of data entry but then you would have this invaluable neural net no?

I wouldn't work on this full-time, but sending out emails here and there, developing it further here and there could be quite fruitful with a very good time spent/impact ratio.
> Do you color code all your English by part of speech?

I would if its function was to express strict logic that will be interpreted by a merciless computer.
I don't believe that US will allow Japan to become nuclear.

Though, russian actions might have made them desperate.
The distinction is that wind/solar arrive for free without any effort. That just isn't true of nuclear fuel. I don't think that is a problem particularly. More that "renewable" is the wrong word.
> every person is basically a temporarily embarrassed CEO

That wasn't the point. The point is that businesses are people, so people are businesses. And while regular businesses can be run by a separate CEO, the business of your own person can only be run by yourself, so you got to learn to think like a real CEO to run the business of your person, even though this business will never have more than one member.
A lot of comments here boil down to one underlying problem: self hosting is very hard (backups, security, and so on).

If self hosting would be as easy as installing an app on your phone the need for a big entity that hosts your service fades away.
To expand the analogy further, your children are the shareholders of course and your partner is the board (:
Just ("4: Have a strong aversion from adding new technologies to the stack.") is worth paying you a couple of grand for every start-up to be that reads this and follows the advice. Large numbers of companies absolutely drown in various stack components, sometimes multiple similar ones within the same tiny team.
I'd love to try it :)

But it seems like the server is not reachable.
It's the same with concerts and theaters and other live venues as well.

I think you might be on to something with this. "Big Art" is out to make sure I can't own anything. At all.

That's why netflix made sure that you can't go to the store and buy movies anymore.
> ask them what the work environment is like.

I've been asked this when i interviewed ppl but i never gave them the truth and I've never gotten any honest truth when i was on the other side also.
I dont read news except cs related because they have no direct impact on my life meanwhile big stuff like covid is big enough that i will eventually hear about it

All that negative stuff you have to go thru when reading news makes it being bad deal
"The cost of servicing the federal debt for the fiscal year 2019 was 269 billion dollars"

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4258513-cost-of-servicing-u...
I forgot about that—an even better value.

Thanks for the correction.
No, Minecraft is obviously not a serious subject, it's a videogame. But even so, there are tons of books with minecraft tutorials out there, and a quick search shows this page [0] with tons of text/diagram tutorials. The fact that you struggle to get paid has nothing to do with the state of tutorials on the web. Other people are making plenty of money selling minecraft books to kids.

[0] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials
> In the US a lot of places used to have so-called "Blue Laws" that restricted what you were allowed to do on a Sunday. Some places still have reduced versions that apply specifically to vices; e.g. where I live in FL, alcohol sales are restricted on Sundays to certain times.

Blue laws around vices (specifically around the sale of alcohol) are still commonplace in the US.

However, Bergen County, NJ, still has the rare Sunday blue law that applies to everyday consumer goods -- you can purchase food and medicine on Sunday (and even alcohol after noon, per a state-wide vice blue law), but everything else is prohibited. If you visit a big-box store like a Costco or Walmart that sells both food and goods, large swaths of the store will be closed down on Sunday.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/assessing-bergen-countys-blue-law...
Open-source, collaboratively developed software that makes governments/societies more efficient, and where standardization helps.

For instance, software for implementing national ID systems, so people can submit their taxes, get health care, etc. and that banks and similar requirements for know you customer (anti money laundering) can tap into.

Or cheaper payment systems, like VISA/Mastercard, but in an open system with more operators, perhaps even national.

I think this is fruitful area because governments, like big corporations, struggle with developing effective software and they struggle with cooperation. You could make a real impact on millions of people.

You need to be able to navigate the politics, though.
Just thought of this idea, let me know what you/others think. How about introducing a parameter that controls what percentage of time the frozen-plan will be used, and the rest of the time the regular optimizer will be allowed to create a new plan based on current data and statistics.

This will allow the users to choose the mix. So if I were to use this feature, I'd set it to use frozen-pan 90% of the time, and 10% of the time the most-current plan. This way, irrespective of whether the most current plan is better or worse than the frozen-plan, my application's performance will usually be as expected. But there would be spikes (upward or downward) on my dashboards, and I'd be inclined to investigate those spikes. Depending on what I find, I would either change/update the frozen plan, or increase the percentage even higher, to reduce the number of spikes in performance.
Just a warning: professor A Dońda in the book “The Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy” (1973, by Stanislaw Lem) made already an experiment in such matter: while transforming information into mass he reached critical mass - what resulted in the disappearance of the contents of all computer data banks and collapse of human civilization.