skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I developed a habit of building these kinds of 'dashboards' from my time in game development, and ended up working on software to generalize the visualization and program data monitoring aspects of them so they could be more easily added to arbitrary programs (always focused on display though, not editing variables—main interest was creating 'ambient' feedback from evolving program data).

If anyone's curious to see this more concretely, I give a demo here of a small one I built for another app I was working on (you'll hear it referenced as "Disk Atlas"): https://youtu.be/TeIgXzvYdpY?t=40

The video also talks about some more sophisticated / general purpose software for doing this (with a focus on creating easily comprehensible displays of data structures evolving over time) called Lucidity (started in 2014, now abandoned).

I've recently come back to the idea, starting from scratch again, this time with less of a focus on showing algorithm execution and more on creating queryable dashboards of dynamic program state.

I threw together a quick demo vid to give a glimpse at the new one, named 'printeff' (you monitor bits of program state by calling `printeff(myData)`): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4l9n3DaZ4

curious if anyone has thoughts :) I'll put out a better video than this before long though.
The fed couldn’t possibly stop a deflationary cycle when the currency/population ratio was determined by how many atoms of non-oxidizing noble metals happens to be in the earth’s crust.
This is also true of npm and yarn, as far as I can tell: package-lock.json and yarn.lock contain the exact version of every transitive dependency.
Never thought I'd see the day when Wacom would use their Linux support as a selling point. Then again I recently played my favorite game (Rez) on my favorite desktop OS (Linux) so wonders never cease. 25-year-old me would be so stoked.
The singularity is not close. We lack a fundamental element that slams the door on AI to be an idiot savant: capable of answers but uncomprehending, unaware and stupid. Despite theater and marketing insisting otherwise. We have no capability for artificial comprehension. Comprehension is the treatment of logical constructs as virtual entities and operating them within our minds; we do this to evaluate the possibility of concepts, because if concepts cannot operate virtually as we understand them, either we misunderstand them or they cannot exist in reality. Comprehension is treatment of abstract entities (concepts) as on-the-fly virtual machines we operate in our imaginations, constantly juggling to compose an entire synchronized world view. This massive simultaneous simulation and evaluation is constant and defines our every belief and our every action. This is sentience and this is beyond human science.
> if you get a 2FA code over text or email that clearly has the line "we will never contact you for this code over phone or text"

I needed a cashier's check recently at $GIANT_US_BANK.

The teller initiated a 2FA handshake. The text said something like "never give this number to anyone, none of our representatives will ever ask you for it".

I figured scammers probably hadn't set up an entire bogus branch with yelp reviews going back years. I handed it over.

The check they issued cleared, from what I can tell.

If you think that's bad, try applying for a mortgage. It's 100% remote these days, with a mix of multiple communication channels, all bootstrapped with incoming phone calls, emails (and, if you're me, phone numbers from government licensing databases, followed by awkward call backs)
One in Five High Schoolers Isn’t Heterosexual, CDC Survey Finds
Wi-Fi latency 5-10 ms typically, and highly variable. I'm on fiber, and my wi-fi doubles or triples the latency to close data centers (about 5 ms from here in Annapolis to Ashburn VA).
That's not correct. You can unilaterally decide to update the version of E without waiting for anyone. Alternatively, if only C for example decides to update their required version of E, you would get that version of E if you updated your version of C (directly or indirectly), without needing to directly do anything with E yourself.

Slightly longer explanation of the mechanics here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30871730

The best complete explanation is probably here: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-principles
I agree. Relying on an external data for interpretation is less impressive. The most impressive would be finding an exact GIF87a file. But, the cheating technique used here isn't a simple task either.

I converted the smallest valid GIF file[1] (35 bytes) into decimal number: 540959129019042423917857241427143195931235689921032801204995597056286563376232988672

It's nowhere to be found in PI :) I couldn't even find "GIF87a". So, fuzzy search seems to be a must.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2570633/smallest-filesiz...
Pfizer asks employees who were overpaid from ransomware to pay company back
"Freedom" is overblown in American discourse. Americans can't even agree on stuff like "freedom to require people coming into my store to wear a mask during a pandemic" versus "freedom to go about my business without restrictions," so it's often just spin, even without getting into the real fun ones like abortion, birth control, guns...
If you haven't saved enough to retire on 800k per year for a few years, something is horribly wrong. I say move.
We don’t even understand how rocks evolved into life, so we will not know for quite some time…
Nevermind the risk that it’s actually a cop sending these requests for their own personal reasons. It’s far from unheard of for cops to abuse these systems to harass former partners and personal rivals; the courts are supposed to provide oversight to prevent these abuses.
Page 283 has a mnemonic for memorizing a knight's tour over a chess board. I did a project on this knights tours on arbitrary sized boards as an undergraduate.
Great share, we need more stories like this - what really matters in creating a great engineering culture. I’ve shared it out as well, thank you!
What happened after that, was it a hassle to unblock things? Though at that point I'd probably just close out my account & switch to another bank's credit card.
Good use case for Grafana illustrating that it’s cool but pointless.

Why does anyone use Grafana with so many better alts? It’s clearly open source astroturf.
I guess I disagree that it's "cheating" - it's more like they're playing a game with no actual rules, and therefore applying rules that are most convenient for their purposes to achieve victory.

I find their methodology for evaluating candidate Waldos to be as sufficient as any other.

What I mean is, they could certainly choose a much harder evaluation criteria and fail, but that's not much of a blog.
The article says: "The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus." That site in Gomel can be found with a quick web search: http://www.rcrm.by/eng/center.html - and their mission is: "health improvement of the population exposed to multi-component and prolonged radiation effects following the Chernobyl catastrophe including other negative anthropogenic and man-caused environmental factors."

So, it's not an ordinary hospital, and if lots of Russian soldiers were indeed taken there, it indicates that they might have needed care for radiation sickness.
The creator of NodeJS talks about how one of the things he regrets is hard-coupling Node to the NPM registry[1]. I imagine this makes it hard to have curated or trusted third-party registries (although note that it is possible to configure private or third-party registries in Node). This is also one of the problems the creator tries to solve in his new runtime, Deno.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
the customer service and attitude towards the ordinary person at average american banks is rivaled only by american domestic airlines.
When CinePaint became a big thing in Hollywood, its major rival was... Photoshop on Wine.
I'm curious as to where you gather the insight that Paul Bloom is pushing us politically towards psychopathy. Personally, I've gather the opposite from my interactions with him; he seems to be rather sociable and empathetic. Here is a quote from him (from the article) that nicely summarizes one of his beefs with using empathy rather than rational, compassionate thought:

>> The second problem is the innumeracy. Empathy zooms me in on one but it doesn’t attend to the difference between one and 100 or one and 1,000. It’s because of empathy we often care more about a single person than 100 people or 1,000 people, or we care more about an attractive white girl who went missing than we do a 1,000 starving children who don’t look we do or live where we don’t live.

Having read the article and briefly interacted with Paul Bloom, I can't say that I share your perspective as to his political agenda.
I feel like modern statistics has taught me that no matter how big you think the moon is, when you have 3 quadrillion of something....

the moon weighs more than 3 quadrillion of the rockets that we used to get there.

space is big, human brains are small
Yeah, I wasn’t referring to Fauci in particular. At the very least, I think it’s safe to say he wasn’t in Wuhan at the time, and didn’t physically have access to release the virus at that time / place (if that’s how it happened).

My objection was to this idea that “death” is so far afield from the realm of reasonable discourse... and that there’s definitely nothing going on and we should just move on with the rest of our lives.

There needs to be the largest criminal investigation the world has ever seen. It should make the 9/11 commission look like peanuts. The possibility that this was done on purpose needs to be taken more seriously than probably any issue in the history of human civilization, because if people are able to do this in purpose and get away with it, then it’ll likely lead to the end of human civilization. Perhaps no one committed any crimes… but millions died and we need to be damned sure that we know exactly why.
While I agree this isn't as bad as log4j, I still think it's pretty terrible.

Spring samples are vulnerable and all you need is one vulnerable endpoint which you can detect. From then on the vulnerability is generic.

The tomcat requirement is a limitation of the current exploit. If you can set arbitrary global flags in the container you can do a lot of things that will impact other deployments too.
I reached this point a lot earlier. After a few years out of college in software and making $250k in the Bay, I also felt "what I'm doing isn't worthwhile but everyone around me would kill to make this $ with the level of effort I do." Ultimately, I didn't get into computers to make the most money possible, I got into it because I found the original problems interesting and was astounded by the amount of impact they have on the world. Like going into college, I again chose to pursue interest, passion, and positive impact by leaving the high pay FAANG job and figuring out something else.
Really fun! Eventually we'll find one with an embedded palette.

This deeply reminds me of Carl Sagan's science fiction novel, Contact.

(spoilers to the novel follow, so avoid if you haven't read it)

The film adaptation missed out on so much, and the treatment of pi is one such unfortunate omission (or simplification).

The novel's aliens were advanced, but they told the main character that even they were stumped by the clear messages left encoded deep within the universe's constants.

It made the ending to the book so much more profound and touching than the film.

Carl was a master of making us feel small, all the while opening up our imaginations to infinities beyond measure.
A fun read indeed. I wonder about the insistence on keeping it less than 20k loc?

Is that the developer basically saying "this problem can and should be solved in less than 20k lines?"
If stuff is being used from a stationary position it should ideally be wired. I’m sympathetic to the notion that wires look cluttered and nobody resents how thick and ungainly Ethernet cables are more than me, but defaulting to WiFi is just a waste of electricity. You get slower, higher latency internet. Especially in crowded settings where there’s a ton of congestion at those radio frequencies.
It is an interesting world where Vanity Fair publishes diligent reporting that reveals troubling information on the origins of ongoing pandemic (they did it more than once[0]).

The reasons might be that it is unaffiliated with scientific community and the editors probably don’t care if they burn a few bridges (it’s not VF’s core topic)—other outlets might be worried of being excluded from information streams and inside scoops for inconvenient reporting that could cost some individuals a lot of money in future grants.

As a non-US resident I also feel like there is an unfortunate consequence of political positioning, where the range of viewpoints acceptable to be held by left- and right-aligned US media is seemingly narrowing (so a left-aligned editor would not want to publish something that counters the conventional bat origin theory, and a right-aligned editor may not want to give even more airtime to the problem of COVID that they may consider insignificant), while most media becomes left- or right-aligned.

On that note, it is possible VF’s research is also funded by somebody politically aligned in some way and thus interested in exploring this viewpoint. Not to say it is mutually exclusive with truth, from what I read VF’s points are consistent and well-supported.

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

Edit: removed note mistakenly assuming TFA is from 2021.
somebody physically manufactured a fake, new card and mailing envelope that was close enough to pass scrutiny and in person physical inspection, and send it to him by US postal, for the purpose of getting the person to call the 1-800 number on the sticker and give the scammers his SSN and other details?
I have a Huion Kamvas Pro 16 that I struggle to get to work with Arch. There are multiple projects out there on Github that have slapdash python drivers with various degrees of functionality. The previous most functional one is no longer in development. I was unable to successfully get OpenTabletDriver working even though it is a supported device. Multiple monitors? Forget it. I had to run the pen display on its own to even have a chance.

Wacom stuff almost always just works.

I really don't want to pay triple the price for (in most cases) a lesser functional device than the competition that is Huion, XP-Pen, etc. Can't wait until the day some form of kernel driver is available.
Yes, like "sockpuppet". Or "RfD".
The superbase side of the announcement received some commentary earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30868849
My Intuos 4 still doesn't have really good OLED and wheel support but it's got a flawless pen interface. I'd just love to be able to easily zoom and rotate the canvas in an incremental way. It might be a question for the Krita developers though.
This delves into the same territory as Peter Singer's short book, "The Life You Can Save" (available free online as PDF and audiobook).

You may see some person in your community in need and your empathy prompts you to contribute to a fundraiser or whatever. Singer points out that while that empathetic instinct is natural, an intellectual approach (or what Bloom is calling compassionate) results in a better overall outcome, often wildly so.

Say you read in the local paper there is a fundraiser for $50K to buy a custom vehicle for someone recently paralyzed from the waist down. Sounds great, I want to contribute! But that same $50K could literally save 20 lives in a developing country, or it could prevent thousands of cases of blindness in children. Most of us (me included) don't have nearly as strong an empathetic response to people suffering 10,000 miles away as we do for someone nearby, someone more like "us." The suffering of people living 10,000 miles way (and will likely never meet) is just as real as the suffering as someone living five miles away. Allocating limited resources based on our emotional instincts lead to more net suffering.

That is the core idea of Singer's book. Much of the rest of the book goes about step by step debunking the usual objections which get raised ("I already pay a lot in taxes for those 3rd world people", and "Why donate to a charity in Africa? It will just end up in the pocket of a corrupt politician", and "There have always been poor people and there always will be", etc)
I think it’s impossible to refloat it without damaging the hull at this point, and you’ll know salvage is the route they’re taking when the containment booms (for fuel loss prevention) are deployed around the vessel.
Tesla Reportedly “Within Weeks or Months” of Opening UK Superchargers to All
What does "make pricing transparent and competitive" mean to you?

I hear this a lot but I don't see people explaining what exactly their desired outcome looks like, and to me, I can see lots of ways it potentially changes things without actually improving them.

Are you picturing a world where before you call an ambulance after injuring yourself you have to get on something like yelp to look at prices for 10 different ambulance services, and ten different local urgent care or ERs? Are you picturing a world where it's obvious that some surgeons and doctors are 10 times better than others, so the rich pay $$$$$$ for 10x better care, and the poor are left with the scraps? Or a world where it's hard to tell, so people compete on price alone, and the doctors who care most about outcomes vs bottom line are at a disadvantage?
Smalltalk OOP is totally different than the Java/Python/C++ creators' ideas of shoehorning OOP into descendants of C. I see value and have interest in one and despise the other.
> And on the other hand I feel incredibly ungrateful and entitled to be even considering giving up a paycheck that's 10x what a lot of people would be grateful for.

How do you feel bad about stepping aside so someone else can have that? It seems generous to let someone else take that job, and you'll go do the same for less elsewhere. (Or maybe just retire)

If I were you, I'd make a plan to leave, and once you have the plan and move along it, you'll likely feel better about the job (because it's a step in the plan) and you can stay longer if you're happy, etc.

If your end goal is to move somewhere else when you have enough money, you need to figure out how much is enough and where you want to be. Of course, how much is enough kind of depends on where you want to be as well.

If you're thinking of moving, you also want to consider when is good or bad time to move for your kids. You probably don't want to move during the school year, if the kids are school aged, and you may have thoughts about what grade you might want to have moved by.

You also need to figure out where your salary is going. Sure, let's lop off half for taxes, that leaves you with $400k/year. Even if you spend half of that on housing (which seems high, but I left the bay area in 2018, so I dunno), there should be a lot left over.

Use your vacation time to visit places you might want to live. Check out the neighborhoods, check out the weather, check out the traffic, check out the food and entertainment, etc.

A sibling comment mentioned remote work. That's something to explore too, but you need to figure out where first. There are also some other areas with lots of tech offices, but maybe not quite as concentrated. You might earn less, but not that much less.

Personally, I left, the bay area is crazy and high stress, but I left to early retire after a windfall; so I don't have the working for less experience, I just don't work.
> the average rural law enforcement personal can barely use Word and has poor or no on-site IT staff.

Maybe this should be a sign that they have no business requesting sensitive information be transferred to their poorly secured computers?

If you let them use insecure computers as endpoints it seems like that there will inevitably continue to be data leaks -- regardless of what sort of security you put on the portal(s) that they use their insecure computers to access. I don't see that a national portal fixes this.

Perhaps a national IT-department that controls all the computers involved would work, though I can only imagine what a nightmare setting that up would be.
gcaptain is not a train wreck, it assumes that the reader is in the maritime industry and uses terminology that is widely known to that specific industry segment. much as a network engineering or software development news site and acronyms might be even more confusing to people who hold 100 ton+ masters licenses.

look at all the weird sounding terms that might be used in an infosec/netsec publication...
It's going to be more than microseconds for point to multipoint Wifi.

Depending on signal strength, contention, hardware quality, WiFi mode, etc, you'll get multiple milliseconds.

Right now I checked and got 20ms+/-5. 802.11n, decent signal strength, very low interference (rural location).
I wanna shout out XP-Pen here. They are much cheaper than Wacom and they also have first-party Linux drivers.
Excellent, simple advice! I don’t believe anyone who calls me with a problem, ever!

Overdue bill? Okay cool thanks, I’ll call back and ask to speak to someone, hang up.

Compromised card? Okay cool thanks, I’ll call the number on the back of my visa, hang up.

(This one happened to me) Relative in another country is dying of cancer and needs money for some obscure procedure and doesn’t want to tell anyone else about it only me so don’t call anyone about it? Okay cool, I’ll check and get back to you.

I don’t care how important the matter is; your house could be on fire! If you are calling me and need any type of personal info whatsoever, I hang up and call you or someone I know related to you or just Google that thing!

Same with door to door salespeople. No thank you goodbye.

Hi, the government is giving $5000 credits for people to add insulation, blah blah blah. Can we do a free evaluation? No! I would have heard of this free money falling from the sky from someone I know.

No thank you, hang up, give zero info don’t even confirm my name, close the door or hang up. Goodbye, won’t phish me.
Time for congress to make some anti-SLAPP laws; it seems to me as a non lawyer that this is a SLAPP that they forum shopped for. Especially since they dont seem to have pleaded anything that would surmount the “actual malice” requirement for defamation required here.
Redox too
> It's pretty hard to believe that being able transfer knowledge between digital brains (something that seems arguably inevitable)

I don't think it's necessarily inevitable. It is not a given that future hardware architectures for AI would be inspectable or copiable, because the extra wiring required to do that is space and energy overhead. It may also be the case that greater intelligence comes through better distributed representations and that it simply isn't possible to cheaply translate knowledge from an inferior representation to a superior one (you may need to relearn from scratch). The ability to transfer thoughts may therefore require a sort of lowest-common-denominator representation, in other words, a language. I imagine that language could be more efficient, though.
I just wish the cultural revolution wasn’t so vapid and superficial.
the largest container ships are too big for even the post-expansion-new-panamax anyways.
Oil Shell Is Being Implemented “Middle Out”
Thank you for this. I was hoping someone would contribute a better explanation than my own vague intuition.
There's routers on the market today that are 2.4ghz only. I've got quite a number of them. They are cheap and since we've got few neighbors, 2.4 is pretty much wide open.
Healthcare costs are controlled in most markets because of the collective system, not despite it.