skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not entirely true - agencies get sued and loose lawsuits all the time. It would be accurate to say that while most people working for government don't have immunity, it's pretty rare for them to get affected personally* so effectively it is immunity.

Lack of oversight and accountability is the real reason for delays. They get away with it because no one holds them accountable for actually producing something in a timely manner.

*I wish I could find it - there is an example of some government employees who were held personally liable for some environmental violations - despite them complaining to upper management that they needed to be addressed. Was pretty f'd up. I think they were civilian employees in the military (for some reason I'm thinking Air Force but can't dig it up at the moment). So if you are low enough on the totem pole your but may get in a sling - but it's amazing how little the upper echelons seem to take hits.
> this is a great time to find a therapist who can help you work through that

this is probably the best advice i've read so far. Think about how, when faced with a hard technical problem, an SME is a treasure trove of answers. A good therapist is an SME in this problem space.
My heart dropped when reading the title because Russell has dedicated years to BeeWare.

As a non-code contributor to the project (years ago) I'm so happy to know BeeWare will be able to sustain itself for the foreseeable future.

Congrats to Russell and his team. Props to Anaconda for being a good steward of the open source community.
>Hash functions are irreversible; a potentially-infinite number of inputs all map to the same output.

I don't think that's pre-image resistance, or else extremely trivial "Hash functions" like

- Line up the input string into a matrix of n columns, XOR every column into a single bit, output the resulting n-bit hash.

Would be pre-image resistant, but it's obviously not. Given an n-bit hash I can trivially generate a message that hashes to it.

Generally, there are at least 3 notions of irreversiblity that might get confused:

- Non-bijectivity : That just means the set of images is smaller than the set of pre-images, so it's impossible (in general) to tell what input produced a given image. If F(x) == 1 for all x in X, it's impossible to tell which x was evaluated in order to get a 1. This is what you described, and it's - by itself - useless security-wise.

- One-way functions : Given x, its reasonably efficient to calculate y = F(x). But given y = F(x), it's prohibitively expensive to recover x = F^-1(y). The function is easy to compute in one direction, and practically impossible in the other. The inverse might very will exist, maybe even infinite inverses exist for every y, but you would need the computational resources of a thousand thousand universe working for a thousand thousand epoch to even get close to finding a single one.

- Trap-door functions : They are special one-way functions that have the property that : given a special piece of information about x or y (an inequality, a prime factor,....), x = F^-1(y) suddenly becomes much easier to compute, maybe even as easy as y = F(x).
Eh, I disagree. If someone is going to disregard the issue because of some slightly colorful language in an opinion piece, they never really cared in the first place.
> Reduce the scale of your concern to where you can have an impact.

Nice. That’s going in my quote collection.
https://kennethfriedman.org

Handwritten HTML and CSS (no JS required). I've been working on my personal site in fits and starts since 2013, so it's by far the longest thing I've ever worked on.

I'm pretty happy with it (but would love feedback & suggestions!)
Sure this 1.25gb:2500files is not massive - But if this little conspiracy theory is true it is easy to imagine them doing this sort of file padding in other systems as well. A little bit here and there adds up quick.

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

Personally, I think it is likely the padding was created for future use. Maybe tagging or some other meta data.
I mean, the faa has no competition. If they are already incompetent and you cut their budget, won't they just be more incompetent? Is there any examples of a government agency reforming itself under budget cuts to be more effective? It doesn't sound plausible to me
There’s true evil in the world. Truly despicable sins. Calibrate your outrage towards that.

Holy whataboutism, Batman.

Funny how "focus on true evil in the world" doesn't apply to stanning rich weirdos on HN...
Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
I've been using Linux exclusively for ~15 yrs. I've recently started a fantastic new job -- the only wrinkle was that it came with a Windows 10 laptop.

This is my first time using Windows after a 15-year break. This is how it's been going.
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In 360 terms, virtual machines are for dividing the machine into multiple smaller ones, each able to run its own OS. At that time, there were multiple OSs for different things.
Poll: Should Twitter get an edit feature?
The problem is the standard is that lead in any concentration is bad. So folks swarm pink elephant issues like this because they affect a small group of people and are cheap.

If you want to be angry about government inaction on lead, the “hear no evil, see no evil” respect to lead paint and soil contamination is the thing.
The documentation appears good, until you fall off the already very narrow happy-path to just get things working. I can't even get the hello-world program to work following the instructions exactly on a clean Ubuntu VM.

I didn't mean to imply everyone who uses it is a GNU zealot, but there's definitely a subset who are.
I can't speak for AppleMusic, but some online stores are terrible at providing metadata (e.g. JunoDownload often has ALL-CAPS artist names, & turns into &amp;, etc...). Often it's simpler to just throw everything into Mp3tag and get new metadata from Discogs or Musicbrainz instead.
Exactly, I thought lead in fuel was banned a long time ago.

This really shouldn't be determined by amateur pilots preference, or even the FAA, it is up to the rest of us who are having lead rained down on us, to demand change.
The key to understanding this issue seems to be "-movflags +faststart". The TLDR is that Apple apparently isn't "fast-starting" their MPEG-4 files before distribution.

This became a thing when distributing QuickTime Movies on the internet became a thing (it's not an issue with random-access media), because one needed Movie metadata at the front of the file in order to support progressive playback. Because the MPEG-4 file format is effectively the QuickTime Movie file format, the need to put metadata at the front of the file continues if you want viewers/listeners to be able to play files as they're downloading.

That Apple isn't performing this extremely trivial pre-distribution process is extremely curious. It makes me wonder if this "common knowledge" was lost along the way, or if the people who would know this kind of super-obvious production step just aren't the same people in charge of Apple Music standards.

For anyone curious about what fast-start implementations look like:

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/tools/qt-fastst...

https://github.com/kanongil/node-faststart
146mb - 500+ dlls

How can Microsoft offer worse than electron for native windows apps with native GUI library?

That's a shame from Microsoft because this dev seems to be talented and developed a pretty nice app overall

Hopefully .NET 7 and the native AOT compiler team manage to fix this problem, but damn.. even Go would have produced better result
Lack of mental health and illness services is due to a lack of supply i.e. not enough clinicians. How it is delivered (or not) is orthoganal. The lack of clinicians may be related to pay, working conditions, brexit. I mostly believe that in the UK, the idea of 'getting therapy' is not as culturally universally accepted as the US, so has largely not been considered neccesary by society (see 'keep a stiff upper lip'). That is changing, especially amongst the young, but it will take a while for people to want and move into those jobs.

Source: someone who is willing and able to pay for services, but cannot find them
If you want to nitpick, US is not using the imperial system, but the US Customary (and is indeed the only country doing that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
Adding on to this, I heard a rumor (probably here) that iTunes for Windows was ported by Apple porting Objective-C and Cocoa to Windows, which is part of the reason it acted so funny. I have no idea if that's true though.
I've had debt collectors sent after me for not updating my card details on a subscription service, granted it's the exception but it happens and I'd imagine blocking the payment would incur a similar wrath.
Why is the author's sibling comment[0] that answers the parent's question [dead]?

> Hey thanks! It's built with Jekyll and Netlify. The galleries are all driven from a Google Sheet as a sort of DIY database.

Is there some context I'm missing, or was it killed by the system?

[0]: Might need to enable show dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30943675
Yep, or Sirius radio in Canada. Want to cancel? US customer? Click a link. Canadian? Have to phone, so they can force you to wait through a retention sales game. (Where they will offensively offer you a way lower rate than you were already paying, making you feel like a fool for not hassling them in the first place. And then after 6 months it goes back up again because you forgot to call back and threaten cancellation again. Awful dark pattern.)
Yeah, I also interpret it that way, but I cannot understand what kind of system requires such a scheme. Even if the state space is non-ergodic, you should be able to get by with running your sampling on a dozen larger systems in some sense. Or just run on a workstation for a few months to precompute and tabulate the result for all possible inputs.
As I am an educated man, I'll take H.L. Mencken's advice and not take my opinion from his crusading in the Baltimore Sun. So I'll cede my entire political worldview to the Economist.

Nice to scratch one big thing off my to do list
> Still better then spotify though

Surely you are talking about different clients than I have on i/macOS? With Apple Music running on my MacBook, I couldn’t even control the player on the respective iOS app from the couch. It was insultingly trashy UX, and I’m deep, deep into apples ecosystem. My reaction was “what a joke, guess I have to use Spotify”.
Lots of banks already provide this service (spin up as many unique debit cards through an app as you want), at least in Europe and Asia where I've used it. It's often marketed as being specifically for this purpose, along with extra features like locking a card to the specific merchant you plan to use it for, to guard against theft of the card number.
That NI bridge concept was always a fantasy.

With regards to HS2 I'm surprised the whole thing didn't get canned. I guess the sunk cost fallacy worked in its favour.

It is a general problem though, every time I hear about some long term plan I want to know what they are doing this year and next.
I've owned multiple different piston-engined airplanes for the last 25 years. No mainstream aircraft engine has this requirement nor recommendation.
Well into my early 30's now, and can identify a fair bit with this, especially the "dying someday" being an actual time that will happen. Whilst it isn't massively interfering with my life, I do hope some of that dread and sadness stops popping up. It all started during lockdowns so might be to do with feeling like missing things.

One thing that has changed is how things seem more transitory, instead of something being THE thing, it's just the thing here and now, and it will all change before long. Which whilst it always made sense, I never really internalised it.
I wish there was a way to make Gnome respect the Xresources colors (even if it's by just generating a theme periodically.) All my Xlib/Xt/tk apps have a nice dark solarized color scheme but the moment I open a GTK app I'm blinded.
Indeed. It hearkens back to when Linux was punk. I remember booting it for the first time and watching the kernel say thousands of different things authored by thousands of different hands.

These days the scene is dominated by people who think "Everybody listens to boybands so we have to become a boyband too." And shame anyone who speaks up in disagreement.
You should be reading academic computer science papers
The real question is, what happens to the frogs!
Chemtrails are absolutely a conspiracy theory. However, they are not far-fetched given how many programs the US government has run that affected the health of its own citizens and members of the armed forces.
Le monde is considered more of a center media in france, it's true in the other hand the Le Monde Diplomatique or l'humanité [1] are left-wing medias.

Now saying that Valeurs Actuelles is the far right equivalent of Le monde diplo isn't fair. Valeurs Actuelles is the French equivalent of Fox news, politic aside the quality of the articles is usually very low.

[1] https://www.humanite.fr/
> are you sure you aren't dyslexic or lazy?

Thank you for proving my point in one sentence, comparing those with dyslexia and those who are lazy.

> By the way, spell checkers are a thing these days.

I use spell-checkers all the time. To be honest, I think spell checkers are one reason why people complain about this in the first place because offloading the cognitive load of spelling and grammar to software inevitably means that people stop thinking in those terms and eventually lose the ability to communicate perfectly without the assistance of software. And then when that software isn't available in every input on every application, mistakes get made.

I have major problems with third-party browser plugins that read all of your browser input in order to fix your grammatical errors, so I typically don't use them in the context of HN. Since I'm writing a comment into a browser text input and not a word processor, this isn't content that I'm trying to sell or polish. It's just to communicate simply and sometimes mistakes are made. Should we always send texts in complete sentences so that our recipient fully understands the depths of our command of the language? Plus, how many times have you seen a grammar checker get it wrong? I have many times. Spoiler alert: software isn't perfect.

I would understand the argument against grammatical ticks in a context where content is paid for or traded on a professional level. When I buy a book, I expect it to be tight and free of errors. But I'm not paying to be on here, I'm here to exchange ideas, and some of the most intelligent people I've come across in my career aren't necessarily the most eloquent, polished communicators.
can you share more details, because im in teh process of doing the same since having a few terabytes of postgresql / dynamodb is stupid expensive.

for a lot big organizations its a matter of accountability. if they say AWS went down vs our dedicated servers went down, it matters a lot for insurance, clients.

what i dont get are 4 man startups paying thousands to AWS ... because everybody does it.
https://jonathanbayless.com
A pretty simple portfolio/SWE blog site with Jekyll/Github Pages
For comparison, the z16 announcement mere days ago:

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-04-05-Announcing-IBM-z16-Real-...
It’s not technical debt if it’s making you money. I would much rather solve the business problems than managing services myself.
IMHO they should have mandated lead-free decades ago with a 5 year notice so people could upgrade engines and such. What has happened instead is a long road trying to find a replacement for leaded fuel that can be used in existing aircraft engines without modification. That approach leads to corruption, as those developing solutions to the problem want to patent a new fuel, have it mandated and get a nice monopoly of GA fuel. That is not good for the industry at all.

On paper I was a fan of isobutanol but that didn't pan out either.
Almost witty.
Unexpected Keyboard – An Android lightweight virtual keyboard for developers
Why not a mixture of both?

We all have insecurities- I’m sure even Mr Wolfram.

But success also leads to confidence. An entrepreneur has to pitch his brand and “wolfram” is his strongest brand.

Would love if someone massively successful explains what that feels like
We decided on a multi-cloud infrastructure. Now the team is thinking about choosing a tool that would allow you to migrate and do multi-cloud in two clicks. We try to go to not very large clouds, because first we want to support small businesses, and secondly, sometimes it is more convenient for regional legislation. The main clouds are Scaleway, DigitalOcean and your own servers.
For me, it's one of those games that's more interesting to think about than to play. Jonathan Blow is a genius, and it's clear he put a lot of thought into everything in The Witness, but my god it took me less than two or three hours to be sick of the line puzzles. I think the Halo "find a 30 second loop and keep presenting it over and over in different contexts" quote applies here. The contexts in the Witness are among the greatest of all time, but the 30 second loop is less engaging than math homework
americas quarterly is a good publication for latin america https://www.americasquarterly.org/
Nobody knows for sure, but probably not if you combine the UBI with strong progressive taxation.
You NN 'example' is no applicable. Scientist haven't been discussing Wolframs ideas for decades, like they have with NNs. They are not engaging with his research. Bcs there is nothing substantial to latch on to and discuss. Just Wolfram making grandiose claims, citing improperly, and doing what he can to only communicate through venues he control without being a part of the scientific communities of the subjects he claims to revolutionize.

There might be a relationship between CAs and DNNs, but if you find it you can be sure that Wolfram will take the credit for it.
Tell HN: Hacker News has a .news domain
So I wanted to see if http://hacker.news/ was registered, and it is!

Not sure if it's an official YC domain though.

http://hacker.news/
My uncle’s cabin on the Susquehanna River has a rock formation a hundred yards off shore: a low, stacked rock dam with a channel in the middle. As kids we would stand in the channel with minnow nets. Now I learn it was possibly a Native American eel weir (though the eel population is now only a small fraction of what it was prior to the 1950s). It doesn't quite have the classic V-shape, but looks like it may have been a partially natural formation that was then modified.

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheries/dozens-of-ancient-...
"Infrastructure is cheaper than developers(sysadmins)" all over again.
Semi-Professional: https://geekportfolio.com/

Made as per it's name, a portfolio site when I was trying to get a professional gig. Haven't updated it in a long time.

Very-Unprofessional: http://www.dullsville.com/

Emo/cringe site of my youth. Think MySpace-style decor, but way way stupider. Every once in a while I'm tempted to rebuild it as-is with modern techniques, but it's just so bad that I never bother.

Newest-Thing: https://yoloprod.dev/

My version of "how things should be" - I'm working to expand it with more detail, and I even have a #yoloprod t-shirt!
> Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But starting in 2020 with the unexpected breakthroughs of our Wolfram Physics Project we’ve jumped to a whole new level. And suddenly—yes, building on our multi-decade tower—it seems as if we’ve found a new paradigm that’s incredibly powerful, and that’s going to let us tackle an almost absurd range of longstanding questions in all sorts of areas of science.

An author who sets a piece up like that had better deliver the goods - big time. The author does not. You might expect that "new paradigm" of his to have rocked the scientific world. It hasn't.

The big idea is: "Multicomputation." And despite voluminous writing on the topic it's nothing more than noodling cellular automata in ways that have had no effect whatsoever on chemistry, physics, or biology.
Have to admit mine isn't much to look at, https://denner.co
This just reminds me that I need to make a few updates.
It's like the stopping problem or "secretary problem". When you have the time ( 20s, 30s) try as many different things as you can. In your 40s and 50s narrow and cash in. "cash in" doesn't have to mean literal cash but could be a metaphor for happiness or contentment.
https://ketuma.com/
> This is something we can possibly solve by not punishing state servants as harshly if they make a decision and something goes wrong

The way things are going over here in the EU the reverse is true, as in state servants are incentivised to not walk even a millimetre outside of the chosen, legal path for fear of prison time.

Now, one would think that the "legal path" is a very large and broad one, but the truth is that it is all in the eye of the beholder, that assessment all depends on who holds the reins of power and if that state servant is on the "good" side (with "us") or on the "bad" side (with "them"). At least that's how things happen in the Eastern part of the EU.

More exactly, and as a hypothetical example: one cannot just choose the best tool for the job (or the best services for the job) as a result of a public procurement process because it all depends on the offered price.

Doesn't matter if the the opportunity cost savings generating by choosing the slightly more expansive tool/service are an order of magnitude larger compared to said price difference (i.e. between the cheaper but worst model, compared to the more expansive but better model) a state servant in my country can get actual prison time for choosing the more expensive (but better) tool/service.

So what happens for state servants that do actually want to get something done while avoiding prison time is to precisely "manicure" the technical requirements that are part of the public procurement process so that the better but the more expensive product wins. It's borderline illegal (and some other public public servants are using this same tactic for really nefarious reasons) but that's how things are.
lol i knew something was off about my response. Thanks!
> more likely solutions for climate change exist elsewhere.

Anybody who's having kids today sure better hope so.