skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes I never understood this tactic. If you really want citizen support (which is required), you need to show that all citizens are subject to this type of injustice. If leaders just say one group is affected and don't show that all citizens are affected, you won't get change as fast, if at all.

It all makes sense if you start from a cynical assumption that the real point of most political activism is exclusively to acquire political capital, then spend it on acquiring power, rather than fixing the issue. In fact fixing the issue would be counterproductive, as that stops power accumulation and requires finding some new issue.

Of course, you have to plausibly pretend to actually care about fixing the issue. What's the solution? Demand unworkable and absurd fixes, like 'defund the police'. The social engineering in it was remarkable - its planned ineffectiveness relied on extremist demanding complete abolition of the police to make it unworkable and scare people away, while at the same gaslighting opponents of the absurd extreme it's _really_ only about small redirection of funds to health services and similar.

What would a real solution look like? It would try to solve the root of the issue rather than symptoms. One major current cause is that new meth is significantly neurotoxic due to unknown impurities from currently dominating synthesis methods. Good article about the issue:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

The most effective solution would be to legalize meth and ensure only pure, pharmaceutical grade is being sold. Pure meth isn't especially neurotoxic - and in small doses it's actually neuroprotective due to hormesis. Amount of people with damaged brains would plummet, fewer people would be homeless, fewer people would be violent. Which is exactly the reason it's never going to happen - nobody would gain politically.

Same logic for fentanyl and heroin deaths - cheap, pure (consistent purity = much lower risk of accidental overdoses) heroin would reduce fentanyl deaths to near zero, virtually eliminate health damage (pure heroin is relatively safe and can be used for decades) and reduce crimes committed by addicts to near zero (by virtue of being cheap).
Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all
Men have higher risk tolerance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741240/
> If all you do is compose parts that already exist, then anyone can do it and your value add is almost nothing.

Looks like you believe to Marx theories, that anybody could JUST make value. I mean, on such markets, you really could start sells from zero or with very limited resources.

But this is true only for very early stages of market, when competition does not matter.
- On developed markets, competition is very significant, so to make moderate success, you have to use external resources - grants, credits, crowdfunding, etc.

What Marx don't said, that people divided to two big groups - passionaries (mostly entrepreneurs), and ordinary humans.
They different in very important thing - passionaries have from nature need to change world (ordinary does not have such need at all), and on some moment of passionary life, earlier better, he switches to famous circle:
1. accumulate resources.
2. invest resources to some project to change environment.
3. when project on 2 approaches to some endpoint, have strong signs of success or failure, return to 1.

Ordinary people just satisfy their needs of mostly lowest levels of Maslow pyramid, they don't accumulate resources, they don't try to invest, and so they have not any success in projects, even when I agree, that many projects need very little resources to start profitable business.

Only exception, when ordinary human face some very easy to enter and extremely profitable opportunity, which does not include any risks or responsibility, than greed could defeat laziness.

But such things don't happen frequently.
As I said before, most real opportunities include risks, include need to build circle of trust (so people will give their resources for free), or just get somewhere resources with conditions, like credits from financial entities.

So, return to our technical things, you are right, that exist totally free things, which could use anybody, but in most cases, they are not enough to make value, in many cases they are useless or they used to create barrier to enter this business.

I even must accent, I've been involved in few opensource projects, and in near all successful projects, their lead constantly made decisions, which features will not include in free version, to motivate people pay for them.

Most known example of free project, created as barrier - Eclipse IDE, which destroyed really big markets where lived lot of businesses - Borland, Watcom, Tiny C, etc, and when appear Eclipse, they become unprofitable.

So, life is struggle, but I repeat - technically you are absoultely right, in that near anything possible, if somebody else pay for it :)
Yea, three of my male college friends just self-published the same book. What are the odds!
> Nothing you can do will get those lists taken down, even if you're on them.

Wrong.
Don't forget gold and USD.
I would venture that manufacturers should prevent drivers from breaking the law when possible. For example, autonomous cars rolling stops and speeding should not be possible.
That is not a valid citation, it immediately starts off by illustrating it's own political prejudice. The fact that they don't link directly to their sources is also questionable. They say they use Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/data/ (among others) but I don't see any data for some of the numbers they're projecting.

It's also not quite fair to analyze this data without also taking into account the prevalence of violent crime in general at each country in question. Of course a country with more violent crime will result in more violent policing.

I'm not saying that it doesn't make any valid points, but you can literally make any profession or population of people look bad if you cherry pick data-points and provide politically biased commentary while also not explaining co-factors or context.
Ah, fair enough. I suppose I should offer an explicit disclaimer: my descriptions of both companies aren't necessarily 100% accurate, haha.
The animal method would definitely not be flawless though. Trying to eat everything a ruminant eats is a path to not feeling great, or if you're checking if something can be safely eaten by your dog, you might miss out on some great food.
Link to any that have my personal data listed on them?
> Learning Python and then not using frameworks is like saying "I like playing with glue, what can I make with JUST GLUE?"

This is exactly it. The power of Python comes from exactly two reasons:

- The syntax being easy, productive, fun, forgiving, intuitive, and readable

- The immense volume of high-quality frameworks and modules

So many fun and expressive languages have been lost to the graveyard of time, and often (usually? almost exclusively?) this is due to lack of a 3rd party ecosystem.

Python is the Bash pipe operator of programming: it’s useful only in the context of where you’re piping from and to. But that usefulness cannot be overrated.

(A follow-up: Python also has a well-defined C FFI which enables modules like NumPy and TensorFlow. This is a critically important part of the language, but I include it under the ‘frameworks and modules’ bullet)
JS didn't need it either. A dev made the library, shared it, and some developers decided to use it. That's on them. Nothing about JS made it necessary.
It's unreasonable to expect airliner reliability from self-driving cars when cars driven by humans are accepted despite being 100 times more dangerous.
Sounds an amazing achievement but not sure my eyesight / fingers would be up to using it on a phone. Does it run on a Chromebook?
See https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/21/survey-of-rust-gui-l... (2020) and https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/10/24/2021-survey-of-rust-... (2021).

These write-ups don’t evaluate performance, but i assume any of these libraries which use Qt/GTK/Electron are as performant as Qt/GTK/Electron, and the libraries which draw using Skia or OpenGL are very fast.
> Once you've got enough versions of enough libraries that A and B both need C but at different versions, you start to need curation

Node specifically doesn’t have this constraint, though, as A’s C and B’s C can be loaded independently into the same VM, each one hermetic and only visible to its parent. (This is probably half of why Node’s ecosystem became the way it did, now that I think about it; every other ecosystem hits increasing numbers of constraint-resolution conflict problems as dependency hierarchy depth increases, and so limits itself in hierarchy depth to avoid this.)
Most people would say the exact same thing about coding.
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Layoffs in China’s Tech Sector Stoke Larger Unemployment Fears
While Linux has made a lot of progress in terms of being able to run games[0], the article is correct that it is still quite lackluster for a lot of the latest and greatest. In particular, the VR support is terrible according to everything I've read, with only the Index and some models of Vive being supported at all and Steam VR being a bit of a shitshow on Linux. So if you care about VR, it isn't a good option. I don't play many new demanding games at all, but a friend is trying to get me into DCS and is thus far partially successful. DCS is a fiddly enough bitch on Windows, but apparently it's that much worse in Wine.

[0] Linux is such a terrible target for games because of its fragmentation and tendency to break library ABIs frequently. Valve tries to deal with those but if it weren't for the hard work of the WINE community re-implementing the Windows ABIs then gaming on Linux would still basically be limited to emulators, tech demos, and Nethack.
North Korea and China have a ton of bitcoin. China has been farming for nearly a decade, and NK has been a major player in crypto-ransom. Imagine if bitcoin became the most common currency....
Thank you for sharing this. I will give the 30-day trial a shot. I find VSCode just fits my needs on my boxes (Mac, Win, Linux) but I am always open to try stuff.
According to the LessWrong post, the smaller model trained on more data performs better on most of the tasks, but it’s worse on “college level math” questions. I wonder why that is. Is it because the extra capacity of the larger model was used to basically memorize theorems? Or is it because the extra “brain power” let it model the math better? Oddly, one of the tasks that the smaller most outperformed the larger model on is “high school level math”! Very counterintuitive, and I am curious if there are any big takeaways lurking in that disparity.
“How Sequoia Murdered Instacart’s Founder in Cold Blood”
Affinity/aversion to specific design templates is a personal thing. However, I think material design was promoted so much mostly as a result of Google's original design philosophies of keeping their web UX as clean, readable and clutter-free as possible, even at the cost of aesthetics and clarity. If you think about it Google has been against the old Web 1 frilly design styles right from the beginning - the original Google search home page is still almost the same as what it is today.
Show HN: Web app for creating and running contests on TikTok
Amateurs talk about killbots. Professionals train their AIs on logistics.
Given your comments about your Spring Boot 'bread and butter', it looks like you changed to Python & FastAPI. If so, why? Was it due to a reduction in overall complexity (despite the apparent rise in line of code)? Curious, thanks.
Inigo Quilez – Painting a Landscape Using Mathematics
Oops, you're right, sorry. But that's still only four hours storage, and still higher than Thorcon's estimated cost for their reactor, which could actually supply power through the night and through all seasons regardless of weather conditions without extra cost.
> Nuclear economics analysis shows that if you actually have a real industry with lots of people experienced in such plants, they become much, much cheaper and far more predictable on timeline.

All these experts must have retired in France. Half their reactors are out of order for planned and unplanned maintenance.

You would expect nuclear to get cheaper over time, but the opposite has happened. SMRs are betting on turning the tide by reducing the manufacturing cost but they will have to deal with larger operation costs so it is not yet clear that this will make economic sense. The bet size is smaller though, so investors will be more likely to give it a try.

> We could also eat up nuclear fuel waste and (hopefully) nuclear weapons material (as was done in the US with Soviet nukes).

You can do this, but does it make economic sense. That is the question and the answer to that right now is no.
We’re one step closer to Windows in the cloud
They are essentially the same approach, emissions taxes require a governmental mandate while offsets work voluntarily, where for various reasons political action is inefficient, for example in the US.
> and norms among java programmers don't favour using libraries for one-liners like left-pad - meaning there are fewer people in a position to launch a supply chain attack.

Javascript is the only ecosystem I've seen people doing stuff like that. I know this is going to sound elitist, but maybe the problem is that the bar for learning javascript is low, and the incentives for a javascript developer to improve themselves is also low. You can get away with lazy and bad practices for your entire career, even as a senior full-stack developer. Typescript kinda raises that bar a little bit, but not by much.

I don't think there's a solution to that particular problem, short of deprecating javascript once WASM reaches a point where it can fully replace it. But even in that scenario, we'll probably start to see JS interpreters ported to WASM anyways.

Maybe those "No Code" products are the solution? Replace all of those JS web/app developer positions with people trained on specific No Code platforms that require basically the same amount of programming knowledge, but outsource things like security and architectural decisions to the platform.
If you want ~cash very very low risk without deflation buy inflation-protected treasuries. (Aka series I bonds)
It's ultimately Rust's reliance on generic code that forces us to deal with so many packages at build time. In idiomatic C/C++ much of the reusable code you compile ultimately turns into reusable shared objects, that sit in binary form on your fs with their corresponding include files. This is only possible in rare cases with Rust, because the "library" equivalents (crates) don't know how their generic types and code will be instantiated downstream. Everything is the equivalent of a "header only" lib.
With a lot of art just stored tax efficiently, not sure how relevant "enjoyment" currently really is at the upper end of the market (maybe enjoyment of possession?).

Also, people could enjoy holding coins, wouldn't rule that out. Arguably, being part of the crypto community does seem to bring some people joy.
Creating a Minimal WordPress Theme in the Era of Gutenberg (2021)
That's some very loaded phrasing. What are you implying here?
Who gets a license, though? Cruise, the company? The currently deployed algorithm? Each car w/ the software?
> I think Israel will receive pressure from it's western friends about this issue.

Yeah, sure, pressure that they reduce the price for their licences perhaps.
Many believe it was Hal Finney, so yes and I don't see how that would be a conspiracy.
Previously (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25210245
They trained over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion
parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens while staying under a given compute budget. The results are modelled, and they pick the best one. Turns out the having a bit fewer tokens improves performance.
Yes! I've been begging for this for years. It's IMO the biggest enabler of phishing out there.

Every time I give a talk on DMARC, SPF and DKIM people seem generally unaware that any IP address can send email claiming it's from your domain until you have explicitly turned it off.

By default all domains should come with a strict reject policy on email until you intentionally turn it on. I usually go through this example with my fictional pirate themed gym, Slimmer Ye Timbers.

Go turn off email for all of your currently unused domains. If you don't, odds are high that phish are using them.

Just go set an SPF and a DMARC entry. You can look at slimmeryetimbers.com for an example.

_dmarc.slimmeryetimbers.com. 5 IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; aspf=s; adkim=s;"

slimmeryetimbers.com. 5 IN TXT "v=spf1 -all"

Looks like the article goes even further, but I'm not sure the extra steps they are taking are necessary.
Would it make unreasonable demands and then go out for a long lunch?
Bruh, seriously?
I believe that (having headlights on) was locally required before Daytime Running Lights (DRL) became mandatory in the EU some twelve years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp
Yeah, in language design they might be on cutting edge. But in software engineering they want to be close to 90's, 00's cultish software design patterns, DRY principle and so on.
I presumed we were talking about the service part and not the software part. My comment was about running a service and not about offering FLOSS (or no floss) software.

Though I expect the same applies there too, only that "race to the bottom" is less of a negative thing. And could probably be "race to open-source". Where slowly all paid-for software gets FLOSS alternatives that -at some point- offer competing support/features/experience and therefore make the paid/proprietary alternatives more or less obsolete. E.g. while Oracle is still running and offering their database, on the whole, the world runs free databases. While Microsoft still sells billions of OSes, on the whole -including Android- the world runs Linux mostly. And except for OSX, hardly any other paid-for unixes survived. And so forth.
Seems to be the same for alcahol, staying up late, being self motivated for studying, and just about anything else.

If you don't introduce something to your children and give examples of how to use it safely as an authoritative parent, then who will? Of course it can be safer to avoid some things, so I see TFA's point, but it seems extreme to avoid the whole ecosystem completely.
I remember reading articles like this since 2016 or 2017. How come nothing has changed in so many years? Is this issue not important enough? Or is the solution just to expensive/unpractical to implement?
Author here. I totally hear the criticism. I had "Capabilities for nodejs packages" or something like it as a draft title for the post. But its a boring title. And I believe this article would have had far less reach with a name like that.

I hear you. I don't believe the answer is to just sensationalize everything to 110%. But I personally absolutely can't stand boring writing. Like, holding my attention on anything which isn't at least a bit human and engaging feels like torture. My job is 70% researcher, and one of the worst parts of my job is reading academic papers - I just can't hold my attention on a boring paper for more than a few sentences. My old supervisor used to tease me about using 2 weeks in the lab to save 5 minutes in the library. I think he's more right than he knows.

So, I really don't have a good answer. What feels like sensationalist clickbait for you might seem like a catchy title to me, with a promise of engaging writing for someone else. And what sounds like an accurate title for someone else might turn me off completely because of its blandness.

I suspect there's no middleground here where everyone is happy, and at the end of the day when I write its up to me and my judgement. And you, the audience to complain more loudly if you feel like like I'm taking it too far. I need that, because only have my own judgement for calibration. But thats pretty unsatisfying!

Veritasium had a great video talking about this for his youtube thumbnails. I found it quite thought provoking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
what MSRP?
Lots of HOA's will be right up your ass if you don't take care of the leaves on the lawn. That's one of the reasons I won't buy anywhere that has one, but a leaf free lawn requirement with a leafblower ban seems punitive.
It's a degree of freedom of the learnable model. For example in a "vanilla" neural network layer (MLP), which maps from M to N feature dimensions will contain an MxN matrix of learnable parameters that model the connections between the M inputs to the N outputs. Every time the model is updated during backpropagation, the loss gradient which has to be computed has the same dimensionality as the number of parameters. Also, generally more parameters means more operations in the forward pass. Therefore, a model with more parameters in general will require more FLOPs per iteration of training. The main point of this paper is that you can actually do better by training a smaller model for longer, rather than a bigger model for less time, assuming you have a fixed FLOP budget.
I had to read that a lot more carefully than I wanted in order to figure out that it wasn't about something that was terribly interesting.

(I'm not impressed with Puppet, having had to wade through its innards from time to time. Perforce is a fine centralized code repo. In any event: Shrug, CxO needs an editor).
> serious ... celebrities and politicians ...

seems like flamebait
wealth = empowerment = fight back = personal/career risk
I agree. There have been attempts to do that (and more) such as :

https://jjpryor.medium.com/how-statistically-biased-is-our-n...
As long as there is some quantitative criteria on which jobs and promotions depend, there will be people gaming the system.

One solution is to couple this quantitative criteria with independent committees that assess people beyond the metrics, but that requires a lot of human effort and not scalable.

Assessing people in ways that don’t scale seem to be the way to avoid this gaming trap in academia.