skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essay specifically says it's not worse than in the past. No one's being burned at stake for example. And by the way, that's one reason I continue to believe in moral progress.

The essay does claim things are worse than 10 years ago. But 70 years ago? Things are better now than during McCarthyism.

> I don't even think it's really a thing with a political valence, I think it's just a human thing.

It's definitely a human thing. However, like I said, if you deny the political valence that currently exists, you're either not a clear-eyed observer of the present or you're part of it. And of course no one is saying "in 2022, the right never cancels anyone" just that present day punishments for heresy in the US are clearly politically-valenced.
No, obvious Holocaust references are Holocaust references.

Just because your favorite Twitter followings love to put that in a quote tweet, does not mean there are no longer any valid Holocaust references.
mRNA is only one of the various classes of vaccines that are approved for Covid. It's also been something that has been under development since SARS, and has been proposed as a drug-delivery mechanism for other diseases (think it's being tried for AIDS).

If one didn't want mRNA vaccines, there are others that older mechanisms for delivering inactivated viruses, protein fragments, etc.

EDIT: it's sorta a dream to have the patient manufacture the drug matter, particularly if it's manufactured in a particular site in the body. This could have applications in cancer treatments or for localizing side-effects. Something that only appears in the screwed-up environment of cancer cells beats the snot out of dosing something that happens to kill the cancer cells faster than the patient.
Isn't a teacher being fired for being associated with the LGBTQ club at the highschool she teaches at? In Texas I think, after administrators started banning rainbow flags and stuff.
I think the point is that some compression algorithms are lossy (the original cannot be reproduced by decompression) and others are not.

You can’t restore a jpeg to its original image.
Serious question: could someone explain what "framework" means in this context? From context I'm guessing something like a daily routine?
The problem is the lack of discipline the author has in the first place will just lead them to turning off airplane mode "every once in a while" until they just leave it off and are back to start.
I use an @fastmail domain. The issue was how they handle RSVPs when your default calendar is an external one. RSVPing from within Fastmail attempted to Accept as my old Gmail address, who wasn't invited to the interview. On the interviewers end it looked like I didn't respond.
> Would there be a better way to implement P2P payments without a cryptocurrency?

There's tons of cool P2P web stuff to do that isn't payments. And I don't want my browser to have a payment mechanism baked in anyway.

Along a different line of criticism, my bet is P2P payments in the long run is a nonstarter because once legislation catches up (which it will) every peer will need to be as compliant with financial regulations as a bank which is no fun to run as a peer so things centralize and we're back where we started.

And Bitcoin is absolutely not a positive. It's incredibly destructive to the environment (and in some cases, national economies and power grids) to the extent even diehard cryptocurrency advocates are warning everyone away from Proof-of-Work in favor of alternative schemes like Proof-of-Stake. Bitcoin is notable for being the one that popularized the tech, but there have been massive improvements on the core idea since then.
It's weird how questioning if an article is AI-generated is a common comment on the internet now.

Web3 should be about AI-driven content, it's much more popular and applicable to the internet than blockchain...
It depends in part on the OS and how easy it is to go from any remote access to full password manager access. On most desktop systems it is very easy the next time the password manager is used, so a true second factor gives you more time to detect a remote breach of your account before getting locked out of all of your accounts. Everything you access between the breach and you discovering it could still be compromised (where compromised can mean the account is gone for good) so it is of limited use in practice but not necessarily useless considering the complexity of software that access the network (of course it can be nearly impossible to detect a breach but often isn't in practice). It would be much more effective at protecting access to accounts if there was a distinct account change TOTP vs. the regular one for login (or, say, one to make small purchases and a different one for larger money transfers), but I've never seen that. If you don't access financial accounts every day it can give you some time to detect the breach if you are lucky.
A phone is just a tiny computer. Everything these days are electronic, so getting by without it is annoying.

Although, I think you could disable all notifications and train yourself to not impulsively look.
If they're available at anything near MSRP I'd be interested. I've been using the same GPU since 2015. I've been interested in upgrading for several years now, but prices have been consistently insane all that time.
I'd look for someone writing from the perspective of "all humans are innately predisposed to prejudice and must work to overcome it", which avoids dividing up the world into "x-ist people / not-x-ist people".

I don't hold out hope that this perspective will ever become mainstream, but because it's an alternative to "us-vs-them", there's more opportunity for redemption, communion, and joy.
> But my ADHD, doesn't allow me to focus on stuff that I don't find fun.

Look, I don’t want to be disrespectful but maybe you don’t have ADHD. From the accounts I have read online, adults with ADHD have a _reaaaaaally_ hard time focusing on anything. Like stopping sentences midway to chase butterflies. I find it utterly incompatible with being an engineer. So it’s not like you can’t focus (you said yourself), it’s that you don’t want to focus.

Truth is everybody has a much harder time focusing on shitty half-baked non-testable legacy software than on greenfield interesting stuff.

My former boss used to say: “remember, if you enjoy it, it’s not work”. It’s a bit effed up to be honest, but if you aspire to go to FAANG and be paid $250k+, you may have to agree to sweat a little.
So I've seen people be hired who were expected to perform poorly but then were fired when layoffs happened to protect the core workers -- because stack ranking and all that.

It's kind of like poker. The moral is: if you can't see the sucker they're going to fire next, it's probably you. Basically, don't be the sucker at any work environment.
I think "ketchup" (also catsup) is one as well.

Derives from kecap (Malay) or "keh jup" (Cantonese). Or my guess is probably both.
Big electricity prefers to send bills “paperless” using electronic mail.
Exactly my question! I would guess the same, but choice of the word 'framework' makes it feel like an AI bot generated article
> Somebody copy pasta the "so you think you can fix email, this is why your idea won't work" thing

The author in this case has also written what was for some decades one of the better MTAs you could run, namely qmail. Granted, I've always despised it for its hostility to administrators not named Daniel Bernstein, and ran Postfix instead for all 17 of the years I spent administering my personal mail hosts. I don't like djb's style, either, and while we've never directly interacted I strongly suspect we would not get along at all. But none of that changes the fact that djb did in fact fix a lot of what was wrong with email, by providing an alternative that at the very least was both a lot faster and a lot more secure than sendmail, back when good alternatives to sendmail were pretty hard to come by.

He's certainly not always correct, but he is at least always worth listening to.
Spotted that even though they tried so hard to hide it by saying "watermark" all over the title and article?

It's invisible to the consumer, not like a pre-burned-in crt. It will apply to a dedicated set of cells, or it will be no different from existing natural wear which is just a fundamental property of the medium no matter what.

It's no different than flash drives reserving some of the cells for wear replacement. You're buying a 5 gallon bucket, and in reality the design of the new better handle means it holds 5 gallons minus a drop. It's not good math to care about that.

You would have to show that it robs 5% of the capacity or performance without also costing 5% less for it to make any sense to even think about it.
The fact that so many devs think react is a fundamental part of browser based applications has really pushed me away from front end. I used it for years and I just don't see it.
That QVGA camera probably needs a lot of room.

Joke, but also not a joke due to different market pressures on components like that vs. the high end ones.
First, this comparison is inapt. We forbid people from discriminating against who can buy housing because a person’s race is something that is part of their identity, they are born with, that they didn’t choose, and has no bearing whatsoever on whether they can afford or deserve to own property. Restrictions in social media, on the other hand, pertain to voluntary behavior that the subject is 100% in control of and should be responsible for.

Second, you can't easily separate the property-rights issue from the free-speech issue; they are naturally intertwined. In this case, that property (equipment, software, etc.) is being used specifically to broadcast speech, and we don't force people to repeat the speech of others (using mechanical devices or otherwise).

Finally, fairness as a platform concept was once a thing imposed by the FCC up till the 1980s (due to the scarcity of broadcast channels) and is now dead. We've replaced that with the possibility of infinite numbers of outlets. There's nothing stopping someone from building an anything-goes Twitter. And in fact, people have tried, as recently as two years ago (remember Parler?), but they end up dying from their own radioactive contamination.
> Yogurt was virtually unknown in the world outside of the Ottoman empire.

You mean the word “yogurt”, I guess, because this is not true otherwise. Some quotes from the Wikipedia article on yogurt (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yogurt&oldid=1081...):

> [yogurt] is thought to have been invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC. In ancient Indian records, the combination of yogurt and honey is called "the food of the gods". Persian traditions hold that "Abraham […]

> The cuisine of ancient Greece included a dairy product known as oxygala (οξύγαλα) which was a form of yogurt. Galen (AD 129 – c. 200/c. 216) mentioned […] Pliny the Elder […]

> Until the 1900s, yogurt was a staple in diets of people in the Russian Empire (and especially Central Asia and the Caucasus), Western Asia, South Eastern Europe/Balkans, Central Europe, and the Indian subcontinent. […]

> Dahi is a yogurt from the Indian subcontinent […] derived from the Sanskrit word dadhi […] Dadiah or dadih is a traditional West Sumatran yogurt made from water buffalo milk, fermented in bamboo tubes. Yogurt is common in Nepal […]

(And so on; I stopped quoting…) It's pretty universal and ancient; mentioned even in the Vedic literature. And a common food too: as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curd_rice&oldid=1... says, it is (with rice) consumed ”at the end of almost every South Indian meal”.
We just asked forgiveness because our governments fired their gay employees on the spot in the 60s and 70s.

It's so frustrating when a cis white male pretends there are more risks associated with opinions these days. There aren't!
Even if I believed his explanation, which I don't, it's an explanation referencing a story in which women are physically marked for what the in-universe society believes is bad behavior. To claim that is what I was arguing for is still unacceptable.

I'm also allowed to assume bad intentions based on his replies in other comment threads here, which you're free to look at and come to your own conclusions.
> Data centres contribute around 0.3% to overall carbon emissions

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y

Compare that to https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
> Many areas in the US still don’t.

In the scale of the US, that's a blatantly false statement.

It's < 50,000 people out of 330 million. Or less than 0.02% of the population. Most of that is because they're living in quite isolated locations far from any population.

The figure is so high the WorldBank lists the US at 100% access to electricity with all the other affluent nations. Brazil is at 99.8% for reference, Vietnam is 99.4%, India is 97.8%.
EasyPodcasts: A Podcasts Agregator for Cubans
Over here that's PBS NOVA "Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day" (2022) with Sir David Attenborough.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/dinosaur-apocalypse-the-...

It says "MAY 11, 2022 AT 10PM". Presumably that's EST or EDT.
As in, would hurt the poor the most?
If so: just split the payments (after accounting for the cost to run the system) equally between the city's residents. The poor people will be the first to share cars, so getting an equal share of the profits, while splitting the per-vehicle tolls across the occupants, should be able to counter the regressive effect of a per-vehicle toll. And making it adapt to congestion would prevent the "I got no one to share the ride with this late at night, and I couldn't afford to not split the toll" issue, at least with something like Uber or Waymo to fix the "you didn't drive to work at noon in your own car for late shift" aspect.

And I believe that if ride sharing is effectively forced through capping the traffic to non-congested levels, there would be a practical solution to the issue of organizing ride-sharing for the trip back home late at night.

Like, some sort of dynamic bus network using normal cars (Uber Pool w/ having to switch cars at suitable "hub"s either end of the freeway portion of your trip, or even along the way if any of the resulting legs of your journey would be too-low-throughput to meet realistic latency expectations of yours), at least for the time it takes to manufacture better-suited public transit vehicles.
Software for this can happen in at most a couple months to get something that works, so just make the tolls under this system take half a year to activate after getting enacted for the region.
If you use Gmail, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through.
If you use Outlook, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through.
If you use Yahoo, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through.

If you use virtually any email provider this is true.
Facebook vs. TikTok: Will Every Tech Company Become a Political Campaign?
Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?
In my experience, HN users tend to have incredibly specialized interests. I'm curious about what newsletters are out there that deliver a depth of specialized knowledge?

For me, it doesn't get better than 'The Prepared' and the 'Future of Trucks' newsletters. Both provide a window into technicalities that I wouldn't otherwise think about in fields that I'm broadly interested in.

https://theprepared.org/
https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter
I do small projects all the time. Most are modules for integration into larger ones, but I develop and publish them as standalone projects. In fact, I’m working on one right now. I’ll probably publish it tomorrow.
I believe the main reason for the terrible on-time record of Amtrak has to do with prioritizing freight rail over passenger rail as they have to use the same lines.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity but reversed.
Gratitude is a good thing, but it’s not constructive to minimize someone’s happiness by comparing their situation to that of others. A shit sandwich with amazing bread still tastes like crap.
Great video, loved it. Perfect example. Figuring out stuff, doing science, equations, technology stuff, is valuable in and of itself. No word on what is the inherent value of colonizing another planet, why a human would need to be on Mars in the first place.

Going to Mars will eventually end up the same fate as going to the Moon. It's a branding effort, the most expensive carnival ride. We'll do it a few times, some young people with a sense of adventure, middle-aged people bored with their families, old people looking for a last hurrah. And once there, only to live in the most bureaucratic, degraded, dependent way possible. In a true anti-state of freedom.

It's constructive to think about this in contrast to the explorers of the 15th and 16th century. They discovered paradise. Mountains of gold and silver, perfect weather if you were lucky, freedom (frighteningly raw freedom) from their lords in the old country, grass plains carpeted with red meat, streams overflowing with fish, ... Technology was not a value in and of itself in any of these endeavors. Current discourse around going to Mars, technology _is_ the value.
If I'm hearing you correctly, your pain is having to configure ESLint manually, correct? Are you wishing for ESLint to be included in Turborepo natively? My opinion is that giving folks the option on their linter of choice is a good thing, even though ESLint is very popular.
I'm not sure how one can answer this, but it is important to point out that when one gets their opinion of "science" from TV, it's the TV agenda that's being followed not the scientific one. Far too often, the technical person's "we have to be worried about x, because of y and z assuming the model is correct" becomes "x will kill us". When more is learned, they say the scientists lied... Nope, just those profiting from the confusion.
Author is 20 according to bio.

It’s probably reasonable to expect GPT-3 and 20 year old tech guys to sound very very similar. The tech will make its way up the age ranges.
I've dealt with some TSA agents that get their job done super fast and I zip right through. That's how I know they're doing absolutely nothing and just wasting tax dollars.

The fastest TSA agents I ever dealt with didn't care about belts, shoes, or anything. It was great. Apparently they were all involved in an illegal gambling ring.
you were just linking to projects on github? or cloning/scraping them?
> More generally, whether the student likes it or not, their parents are their parents and are responsible for raising them. The right thing for the teacher to do in this kind of situation would be to bring the parent into the discussion themselves, so the teacher can support the student directly in that discussion, not to help the student to go behind the parent's back.

I heavily disagree with this idea that the parent should be brought into a discussion involving their child when the parent is a danger to their children. This goes against how abuse should be handled in any other circumstance. A teacher should absolutely be going behind the parents' backs when they suspect the child is in danger or is being abused such that they can assist the child in getting out of the dangerous/abusive situation.
Ensuring that values actually are a specific type isn't directly memory safety, but if you don't do it then you can't even have an exhaustive match without the danger of your program going wild.

I see enforcing utf8 as about on par with enforcing that a boolean be 0 or 1, and not 5.

How do you feel about this list of what's unsafe and undefined? https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
> Like, sure, we could make that argument for any runtime invariant.

One difference is that Rust has a separate type for String-like objects that do not respect the invariant, namely Vec<u8>. So those who wish to write memory-safe code acting on arbitrary bytes can simply use that. Also, it's quite normal for an invariant defined entirely in Safe Rust to impact memory safety in a very real sense; consider Send and Sync. These are seemingly arbitrary labels, but their semantics is nonetheless quite well defined.
Just imagining a future where the AI car responds with something like “Dispatching drone protection unit. ETA 45 seconds.”
I shipped my 'smallest' side project last week[1]. It was someone DM'ing me on Twitter trying to engage with my half-finished website that encouraged me to spend most of my weekend getting it to MVP.

It is annoying to ship something that isn't as polished as I want it to be (order fulfilment is a bit janky). But this annoyance is certainly outweighed by the joy of actually delivering something. The polish can come later is a decent amount of people start engaging with the digital project.

1. https://ddiaflashcards.com/
Honestly, Pinterest could be a great thing. It's only the scummy SEO, sign-up wall, and hiding the origin of images that people dislike.
Creating a TP-Link Router Backup Editor for the Web
Hey! Yeah, we recommend using pnpm. Excellent tool. You might be interested in this feature from 1.2:

"You can enable Turborepo to sign artifacts with a secret key before uploading them to the Remote Cache. Turborepo uses HMAC-SHA256 signatures on artifacts using a secret key you provide. Turborepo will verify the remote cache artifacts' integrity and authenticity when they're downloaded. Any artifacts that fail to verify will be ignored and treated as a cache miss by Turborepo"

https://turborepo.org/docs/features/remote-caching
If rustc uses a dependency that has a bug and this manifests itself as a bug in rustc, then IMO rustc still has a bug.
Not really actually. My team sits in this weird position on the org chart where I feel like other teams in the same department have the most visible celebrations/successes.

It’s a little more than that, but I don’t feel like elaborating on it. I don’t get my current job any more or less than any other job, I just think the way this company is organized, my team is doing a lot of background work for efforts of the teams that do get recognized.
I suppose that would be fine on planet Triskelion, but the thread is about FORTRAN and not Forth.
One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article about how he's unhappy, it could be a reasonable explanation. Unhappiness can definitely interfere with thinking and writing, if it's severe enough. That's just a thought. He also says the idea is "disjointed". Often too, when you are feeling uncertain about your life, it sometimes helps to put down a stream-of-consciousness collection of thoughts to see if anything provides meaning.

From reading this article further, I think this a depressed person trying to make sense of their world and emotions.
EU-style regulations will decrease, dramatically, the likelihood of Average Joe doing it themselves: those regulations will improve privacy, data control, et al. requirements for big tech. Average Joe will feel even safer in using big tech.
This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don't seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I've moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn't apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc) and would have to deal with it for a year.

One of the few countries I've been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.
He can't do this because of the topic of the essay. If he could, it wouldn't need to be written.
This is simply taking the rivalry too far.