skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What were their conclusions about COVID?

Did they actually have a consensus for their conclusions, or were there just some segment of the site saying one thing, some segment saying another thing, and we now remember only the segment that was saying the right thing?
https://tjcampanella.com
The United States imports more petroleum products than crude oil from Russia
Labelling is one thing (putting a warning underneath posts with the current understanding of a given topic), but the step too far (in my opinion) was the silencing and deplatforming by way of removing posts and banning users.

No company should have unfettered control over the metaphorical "town square" to control population-level discourse.
If your password manager doesn't have a mobile client, you should switch password managers.
When selling your work to a promo committee, building a new shiny thing lowers the communication hurdle.

Personal anecdote, at Amazon, my wife led a very challenging refactor of legacy code and didn’t get promoted, I built a shiny thing barely anyone is using yet, and got promoted.
The Risks and Limitations section is particularly interesting to me. It's like a time capsule of society's current fears about technology. They talk about many ways this tech could be misused, but I don't think they've even scratched the surface.

An example off the top of my head: this could be used as advertising or recruitment for controversial organizations or causes. Would it be wrong for the USA to use this for military recruitment? Israel? Ukraine? Russia?

Another example: this could be used to glorify and reinforce actions which our society does not consider to immoral but other societies - or our own future society - will. It wasn't long ago that the US and Europe did a full 180 on their treatment of homosexuality. Will we eventually change our minds about eating meat, driving cars, etc?

Have they gone too far in a desperate bid to prevent the AI from being capable of harm? Have they not gone far enough? I don't know. If I was that worried about something being misused, I don't think I could ever bring myself to work on it in the first place. But I suppose the onward march of technology is inevitable.
Oh nice, I didn't realize Blender had a visual scripting system. I knew that they had a Python API like Maya, but the visual stuff is a nice feature to have for art teams. I keep telling myself I'm going to force myself to learn Blender one day. It seems to have really matured over the years.

From a quick glance it reminds me of Unreal Niagara, or Unity Visual Effect Graph. Pretty cool.
https://chrissardegna.com

I spend so much time in a shell, I wanted my website to reflect that. Main pages use augmented-ui [0] and concrete.css [1].

[0]: https://augmented-ui.com/

[1]: https://concrete.style/
This only speaks to the academic nature of Fortran, and there's nothing wrong about it.
They did what 'secretly' now? Hm. Not alot of details in this article. But eyebrow raises at FBI supposedly going into private networks to 'fix' stuff.

Maybe they just cut a few key networking pipes to stop the connections to Russia?

Not that I'm against them you know, fighting or defending in the cyberwar, but still feels fishy.
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He needs to create a github site with samples of his work while he finds a job. I think the days when you could just say that you can program in a certain language are long gone so a sample site should be his goal right now. Second, he needs to focus on contract work. Look at Upwork and such to see what employers are looking for and focus on that. I've had to deal with finding reliable contract programmers and it's hard. If he can build a stellar reputation, he will have more work than he can handle. Lastly, ask him not to disclose his age unless absolutely necessary. In the internet, you can be any age. Maybe you, the son, can be the front man and subcontract the work to your father. This will also help with the language issue.

If programming random things to create a sample site is not very attractive then copy apps that are useful and hope that one of them hits while he finds paying work. It can't hurt and it will help him get into the cycle of regular work.

FYI, here's a press release by Upwork on the highest paying languages on their site.

https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/upwork-releases-top-pa...

Edit:
Added Upwork press release
If German troops are malnourished within their own borders and Americans are eating freaking Apple Pie from thousands of miles away, it's hard not to draw conclusions.
I can appreciate what's being done here, but I think a more compelling demo would have had a bit of dynamic rendering just to emphasize the point (since in the real world, a fully-static site like this would be better served by a static-only hosting service with no custom server running at all, even one on the edge). Even something as simple as grabbing the current timestamp and displaying it in the returned HTML, just to show that logic is running on every request.
No and no.

If a hash function is not an one-way function, it cannot be collision-resistant.

And the security in AES assumes that it is an one-way function. Otherwise, anyone could decrypt reversing the function.
What seems to help is that Epic came up with a modular blueprint system. Blender used to have a game engine, with blocks connected via wires, but the entire game was in one giant diagram. Epic blueprints tend to be of modest size.
a cow and a farmer in their field looking at the sky
Exactly, it doesn't matter if Sqrt produces two possibilities, you gain root access by using either root, pun intended.
This would be great for generating Minecraft levels from voice commands.
It is more complicated than that. The issue is really that sometimes you legitimately need to access or manipulate the bits of a pointer, but once you convert a pointer to any integer type then convert it back to a pointer that allows such manipulation the compiler only has two choices:

1. Assume the new pointer could be pointing at _anything_ and so disable all optimizations that might possibly be affected. So even trivial things like deducing that "x == y" can be eliminated because x is never modified is right out the window... after all that random integer could somehow have ended up pointing at the memory for x.
2. Assume the new pointer doesn't point at anything the compiler knows about, causing it to make optimizations that break the program. The "x == y" that it eliminated because it hoisted x out of the loop and nothing modified x... turns out your magic pointer from nowhere was pointing at x and now your modifications are never read. Or maybe it decided to put x in a register so it has no memory address. Programmers get really angry when compilers do this.

Provenance is the compiler tracking that you converted ptr -> x, fiddled the bits, then converted x -> ptr2 and being more conservative around optimizations. The Rust change means by default you would only convert a pointer to an integer type right at the point you need to twiddle the bits and only for as long as you need to do so. The compiler then has a better understanding of what you are doing and doesn't need to assume pointers could be pointing at anything.

You have to remember the compiler is doing various kinds of inlining, code transformations, etc. Normal things we expect compilers to do. A bunch of small optimizations executed, sometimes iteratively. You can't point to any specific optimization and say "that's the one that breaks things" so you can't just magic this problem away.

Programmers hate compilers that make really slow code (#1), then get really angry when the compiler breaks their program (#2), then get upset about the fix slowing down their code (#1) and the cycle repeats. Often programmers assume compiler writers are just psychopaths who refuse to fix such "obvious" problems. They often pronounce exactly how things should work, demonstrating they're at "step 1" of baby's first memory model.

If fixing this problem with pointers were easy we'd have done it a long time ago.
https://www.scottmurray.me/
There are limits all the way down.

ALB with Lambda - 1MB

Lambda - 6MB
Love these threads!

My homepage exists over at https://flamedfury.com

Forever a work in progress and love trying out new ways to automate my collection of things.

Can’t wait to read through all the pages shared
I basically can't stand the comment section of Kubernetes threads. Lots of big teams are getting big things done with k8s, and you would not know it from here.
The problem with this, is that people want action items. No one wants to go to the WHO and find out nothing about the virus. If you wanted to do that, you could go anywhere. So they're encouraged to put something down. That something was wrong.

It happens, it's a group run by humans. It would be great if they got everything correct, but unfortunately they don't, and to make matters worse, it sounds like they're an organization driven by consensus so changing minds means changing a bunch of individual doctors minds. Take it from me that changing doctors' minds on things is a sisyphean task. We're lucky we got a correction in 2 years.

Hopefully they learned something for any further pandemics. But the other factor of this is that communicating to people is difficult, and if you change your mind publicly and loudly too many times people lose faith in you. And unfortunately faith/belief is what people need to have in the WHO for it to be effective at giving advice.
https://mrtno.com/

handwritten html + css. online with this layout since 2012/2013. And it still looks fresh, to me.

hire me if you want something similar, lol.

p.s.: i am absolutely loving to check all your websites and to learn about your lives, very interesting thread for once!
Not much but my little corner of the internet

https://garrettcox.dev/

NextJS + Chakra UI on vercel because why not
For those curious, I wanted to start making my own salt pork —

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdmPIpQZPRg

Effectively it’s pickled pork and can last for a few months. To eat it, you soak it to get as much of the salt out as you can. Good for stews, gravy, etc.

It’s what was done pre-refrigeration for meat.
This is amazing. Well done.
https://bytebucket.co

This has been my ongoing Covid project--I always buy used electronics online, and it's a pain to cross-reference specs and such. So, I was inspired to make a parametric filter/search in the style of digi-key or Mouser, but for computers being listed on eBay (laptops for now, but big update coming eventually).
How to Schedule Your Time as a Technical Solo Founder
I've met someone who, conversely, misplaced a million dollars' worth of original Borges short story manuscripts and thought they had been stolen. (Fortunately, they hadn't been!)
What's the alternative to k8s then?
https://www.codevoid.net

- Page for Storyvoid, my Instapaper app for Windows

- Blog
And uranium
It was disgusting how many people became totally close-minded, hateful authoritarian bullies regardless of who was "right" and even if there were no mistakes or blatant misrepresentation of risks and benefits of certain policies.

- A person's bodily autonomy is the most fundamental freedom there is. Of course there is a balance to be weighed when it affects others, but there is no absolute right or wrong answer.

- People absolutely are justified and right to question authority, politicians, self-proclaimed experts, pharmaceutical and medical corporations, as well as studies, data, and science.

- Even if "the science" around the risk of covid and benefit of lockdowns was correct, the response to it is not scientific. Policy can take science or evidence into account, that doesn't mean it is science. You are not anti-science if you don't believe mandatory lockdowns and economic shutdowns was a good policy.
So Deletion & repost will look like:

1. Copy the old tweet content

2. Delete the tweet

3. Start creating new the tweet (but not finalized)

4. Paste the content

5. Edit the content

6. Finalize the tweet (equivalent of Submit button)

VS

Edit will look like:

1. Press edit

2. Edit the content

3. Finalize (or Submit)
Thank you!

It does not require a computer btw!

(small hint:)
I just used the word 'Cookie' because it rhymes with a word, which, after you discover, helps you get to the next clue!
Psh. People. So judgy.
You also lose people when you change your mind. There's an entire group of news anchors who dedicate themselves to pointing out where people have flip-flopped. It's pretty common.

I agree the not changing your mind is worse, but they also describe this thing as being driven by consensus as doctors, so you're having to change a bunch of people's minds who think they're the very best at what they do. It's a serious failing of that setup. It's somewhat impressive that they ever changed their mind.
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Just wanted to emphasize your point about "worst case hardness" -- even if 3SAT turns out to be hard (due to P != NP), it is only hard in the worst case (for a very small subset of all possible 3SAT problems). Most 3sat problem instances are (probably?) easy.

In crypto, we need to sample "average case hard" problems, where on average, a random problem that we sample is hard. This is in contrast to, for instance, uniformly sampling from the set of all 3SAT instances, which gives an easy problem on average.

A continuation of this line of research essentially looks at turning worst case hard problems into average case hard problems. Asymptotics are already way on the backburner since we are in theory world.

(Note that a One way function is average case hard)
Considering I am still answering this question to every non-ev owner prospective buyer or not, it probably doesn't hurt to have more instances of answers to this question floating around. I agree also about the additional time. Usually you’re needing a food break or two on a 12 hour drive and letting your car charge for 30 min is a nice excuse to stand up and walk to grab a quick bite somewhere. Honestly IMO the forced stops actually make long drives easier.
https://chair6.net - occasional blog posts on various topics, powered by Pelican on an ARP Networks VPS
3 of us :D
Contracting ..

Upwork

Ask friends

Build his own app and publish it to start
https://jeaye.com/ - Pretty minimal site and a blog I so often think about getting back to, but there's always some other priority.

Using Github Pages with jekyll for both the site and the blog. I use some custom jekyll plugins, so I build locally and then just push the generated site, rather than having Pages do the jekyll work.
Yes, you are certainly not alone on that. The headline could be made better. Focus should be more on the composability and tooling side of things.
we already have a lot of fabricated content like that using current photo editing technology (Photoshop) and it's not causing much legal nor moral issues
Thanks! The game here is written in Inform7, and it was so difficult to make progress that it took me three years on and off to finish the game. So if you do it that way, beware :)

Abridged story: https://github.com/statico/the-archive-public/blob/master/Th...

Backend server: https://github.com/statico/glulxe-httpd
How would you simplify this?
Cool idea. I'll add some parsing for that, but you might be the first to use "brute force" as a verb in the game.
Straying further from empty-file-ness, but in a similar vein of low-effort apps in the early days of the iPhone was the controversial I Am Rich, which still makes me giggle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

>I am rich

>I deserv [sic] it

>I am good,

>healthy & successful
There is absolutely no need to do that. You can run any standard MVC framework on Lambda using APIGW proxy integration and deploy the same code to Docker.
Ask HN: People with decently sized internet followings, how is it?
What’s your situation — ie blog, Twitter, newsletter, and approx number of followers or subscribers, and to what extent is your name and/or your face a key part of your online brand, and what have been the most significant or most frequent benefits and detriments?

I’m asking this mostly out of thinking about doing more online writing on my personal name. I’m pretty private, and I’m hesitant about the downsides of being more out there, but also interested in the upsides. Would also be interested in hearing from people with pseudonyms.
relevant?

https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-o...
In 1980, an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian Town- and Revealed Another
yeah if someone proved P != NP --> OWFs, that would be the seminal result of a generation of work in computer science theory.
The only way law enforcement should have access to any civilian network not publicly accessible is with a warrant per the Fourth Amendment. "Secret court orders" to "remove malware" are fascist BS. Who knows what, if anything the US actually removed, or what they added?

Russian botnets and cyberattacks are a legitimate threat to Western countries, especially right now, but a legitimate threat also makes a perfect cover.
> The best example I can think of is how much of an asshole I can be to my family when I'm hangry.

Where it gets interesting is it might not even be “you” that is hungry, rather it’s the collective microbiome that sends signals from your gut to your brain telling it to eat for their benefit.
I would guess because success in war is partly determined by soldier morale and delicious food, particularly ones that bring up happy memories, is one of the best morale boosters out there.
https://abhaynayar.com/

I wrote my website from scratch and it has gone over many many many incremental changes over the years. It seems like I'm not gonna change it much in the future because has reached the perfect balance between being bare and modern at the same time. Also because I don't feel the urge to make any changes like I used to.
Btw thank you for pointing out. Now I've added some hints. :)
If we can make a product work for anyone, it usually works better for everyone
Could definitely do it without writing a new API, but there would be some difficulty. By default requests simply run over HTTP, however, the default transformer used is implemented in JS. You'd need to make sure req/res bodies were properly transformed.

Haven't looked into it much but I suspect it would not be too difficult to use a language agnostic(-ish) transformer that would support Java/Swift/JS.

edit: spelling
Hey I did something similar! https://grantklich.com

I built it with jquery terminal. It's an actual shell you can type on (or just click the links)
https://adithya.dev

I write small posts on things I come across on PHP/laravel/elastic. Nothing fancy and a way for me to document things I'd like to remember.
There are more ways to go about it than I can describe in this reply. In my case, it was a 1.5 year stint, I funded it with my own savings and didn't have external income during that time. So I was paying myself which isn't sustainable long-term, but on the upside I got to do exactly what I wanted without external constraints. It was fun and fulfilling, with some nuanced downsides towards the end. After that, I got a paying job again (though one where I get to do more of what I wanted to do).

If you want more of my perspective, see https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/talks/2018/journey-in-software-... and https://changelog.com/gotime/58. But there are plenty of varied resources on this topic if you just search around.
I use a different monitor but can confirm PBP is great for using multiple computers.

For most peripherals, there are software solutions. I ditched any kind of KVM, and my monitor does not have USB ports. However, I use my monitor to switch inputs and use barrier to use the same keyboard and mouse on multiple systems (up to four). It works well and when traveling I also use it to work on my work laptop, with my personal laptop off to the side for reference materials, calendar etc.
oh no reason, recreational drugs are fine for recreation imo.

But when looking at therapies I don’t know if my grandpa with PTSD is looking to blast off on ketamine for therapy every week. (Although to each their own haha)
I agree with this, which is why I made a search engine that is also one binary: https://www.locserendipity.com/TitleSearch.html?q=Binary

The entire index loads every time, and you can download it. It might be the only truly private search engine because your request is handled in the browser.
Hey, thanks! I accept your praise with reserved modesty. I received some admonishments from public commentators for some of the silly wordplay in that particular article, but I regret nothing [with regard to that article's silly wordplay].
I'm not sure why this particular author is so popular on HN, but he hits the front page regularly.
Created this website from scratch. It's a website which act as my portfolio as a Software Engineer. :) Would appreciate feedback/thoughts!
> “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY YOU USE THE SOFTWARE FOR AN APPLICATION THAT IS INTENDED FOR SOFTWARE OR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES.”

Perhaps I'm just not getting the point of this statement, but isn't this really broad and ambiguous?
Reader Rabbit, and other Scholastic/Learning Company games.
The correct analogy would be suppose I give you a block of an encrypted uncompressed image. And you return K(encryption_algo_with_key) + K(image_compression_algo_with_compressed_image)
Though with memory limited to just 4gb (vs 10gb for lambda and 16gb for cloud run) it may not be viable for my app.

Somewhat frustrating that the ephemeral storage mentioned in the documentation provides no clue as to the amount available. https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/112
Traditional composites are difficult to recycle because of several reasons:
- the thermoset polymer matrix cannot be melted or separated from the fiber in any reasonable way
- the thermoset resin cannot be reformed or reshaped into a useful shape or material
- graphite fiber composites in particular are very, very hard on cutting tools and are difficult to chop up (not sure about glass fiber composites, but on bulk they have similar strength characteristics to some aluminums)

These properties are difficult to separate from composites because we want composite parts to survive the elements, often high temperatures, and be robust and reliable with little fatigue
If it is not financial advice, then what is it?
Lots of people try, but the clue you find wasn't obvious enough. I fixed that and also made the keypad a lot more intuitive. But, no, the entire keypad code isn't shown.
Landfills are not an ecological problem of note; they are arguably not a problem at all. The planet is full of empty space. As long as those landfills are being properly maintained (which, admittedly, is not always a given), then having big piles of trash in the middle of nowhere is not an interesting problem at our current scale of trash generation, nor any reasonable extrapolation of our current waste generation as a species.

On the other hand, climate change is the ecological problem of note and wind turbines are a small but important part of fixing that problem.