skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there is a lot of awesome stuff that just works. SSB, the entire DAT/hypercore community, tools like syncthing that just do one thing well.

I like the SSB approach of just embracing subjectivity. I was quite amazed when discovering all this at dtn.is (Before I only knew the IPFS community).

But I feel there is still something missing for very wide spread adoption.

What we are trying to do with TLFS is to combine

- a CRDT with strict schema ( Adapted from https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01529 )

- a built in way to do schema evolution ( Adapted from https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/ )

- local first / p2p deployment and operation even for native apps, based on https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p , faciliated by https://github.com/cloudpeers/x

We're not nearly there yet, but ideally it should be so easy to write small collaborative apps that it is a good option even if you don't care about the idealistic motivations for decentralized apps.
> equally outraged by plastic packaging and being willing to pay the extra price for bio replacements

> Also I wasn't even talking about total cost, but relative one. People will definitely cut other things before sleeping in 13 degree homes. Hell, they'd take loans if needed

Yeah, maybe you're right and the outrage will blow over, but maybe not. I can't speak for the national sentiment of Germans or Romanians, but this feels different to me. Maybe it's given our history with Russia, but we sent anti-tank missiles this time, as a "neutral" country. We haven't provided lethal aid to a country since the Winter War, which again was Russian aggression. This is different than plastic bags.
Also, at least in Spain, 80% of the software creation is related to old systems updates. Most of them are based on classic architectures that don't evolve at all, using good-old languages that have been there for decades. Legacy code, as in "paying the bills since 1998".

The set of skills is very different from the list you are presenting. Endurance is one of them, and I think older people will have more of that than younger ones.

Maybe we all have been living in the tech bubble for so much time that we can even forget the fact we are part of a much more diverse world. It happens to me, for sure.
very interesting, good job and thanks for sharing such a good blog.
https://www.dnahrblock.net/
America fascinates me because half of the time things are functionally unregulated, and the other half of the time there's a law about Kinder Eggs and the exact height your lawn must be.
Well, when there is reimbursement (via lawsuits) it is the city that pays for it.

The police should be self-insured, backed by their pension fund. They are granted incredible power with no real accountability.
Thanks for clarifying Dan. I think it might be appropriate for React to console.warn that strict mode is active (in dev mode) with a short description of this side effect, or perhaps the “dimmed” log message could have an explanation after it. Not all users have explicitly enabled strict mode (e.g. in my case I just started a new Next.js project) so this behaviour can be quite surprising and hard to track down why it’s happening.
I lived in Switzerland, Zurich for over 6 years and I hardly experienced the peace and quiet in this city. We had people (not a single person but entire packs of skaters) skating down our street at 2 am and that made a ton of noise. Stay away from Rigistrasse :)
I made one too https://github.com/ccouzens/dns-packet

The differences:

I followed this guide rather than the RFCs https://github.com/EmilHernvall/dnsguide/blob/master/chapter...

Mine isn't as polished. The command line parsing and output is more thrown together.

I hardcoded the packet identifier (it's not production code, and I'm only looking up one at a time).

I didn't use any bit manipulation libraries. I can see they would help because DNS packets don't line up their information with the byte boundaries.
> Do you think we can scale reactor production sufficiently to build thousands of reactors in two or three decades?

Humans can do some cool things when we decide to. And scaling solar isn't as easy as it sounds. What's the cost, in energy and fossil fuels, to mine the materials, build and ship not just the panels but also the massive batteries required for solar? Not to mention having to constantly replace them?

That's something I don't really see solar advocates addressing: if we have to burn every last gallon of oil to build our marvelous solar and battery arrays, then the planet is screwed anyway. Nuclear has much higher energy density. The problem is our economic system isn't accounting for energy output vs input...it uses prices, which are incredibly useless in this particular instance because prices do not internalize costs. Price and cost have significantly diverged, so you can't look at "what's cheaper in price" and assume that it's the optimal outcome.

Why not attack from all angles? Build solar, but also crank out as many nuclear reactors as humanly possible.
So he wants to return it to 2014 Twitter? Oh the humanity!
If I genuinly feel a website is asking me for my consent on which data is stored for what reasonable purpose I have nothing against these banners/modals/etc.

This is however rarely the case. Most sites just add a cookie banner because they think this is mandatory now, the purposes for which they collect my data are still unclear and denying the usage is still often hidden behind dark patterns.

If you are only using functional cookies you should by my judgment (correct me if I am wrong) not need any cookie banner (of course a privacy notice is still needed). Or phrased differently: If you don't collect personal data you should not need to ask for consent.

So for those who really hate these banners: The solution is not to collect personal data of your users.
> 1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”.

Can you clarify why you think so? I think even of the small fraction of Americans that use it, most have no reach.
They said, "I'm against all organ "donations". If it is your time to die, it's your time to die."

I agree that paying for organs creates bad incentives. But I think organ donation after (non-capital punishment) death is a Good Thing, and it's hard for me to understand someone being against it.
> [Citation needed]

> This is one of the silliest things I've heard people make up about Musk.

https://youtu.be/Ebxiu1-RoKI?t=1278

Have fun licking his boot.
The amount of moderation is a completely separate question from whether that moderation is even-handed and the moderators truthful.

Nobody wants bots, but those are not the question in moderation discussions.
It's also possible that knocking the door down is less effective in wealthy places. The reasons to knock a door down are things like flight risk, destruction of evidence, etc. You can mitigate the flight risk more easily if the property has gardens around it, and knocking the door down might make it easier to destroy evidence because an FBI team would take much longer to sweep a big house.

Obviously I don't know anything about FBI tactics, but it's conceivable that they choose what to do based on experience of what works best instead of just applying the same strategy regardless of where the property is.
Just look at how the recent news in how big gaming publishers have announced large NFT / Crypto projects. The latest one being Ubisoft.

The reactions from the broader gaming community has been nothing but pure hatred.
At least in online forums, people seem to think "fiduciary duties" are much stricter than they actually are.

It's as if CEOs are dragged into a fiduciary court and forced to justify raising salaries, lowering prices or whatnot.

Irl, fiduciary duty is more about not stealing or cheating shareholders. There isn't a whole lot of legal activity where officers are sued for grey area fiduciary violations.
Facebook wasn't publicly traded when they did that. It's a different beast after you IPO.
There's a place for meetings, but if you're efficient, they should be rare, small and short.

No, you don't need a weekly project update meeting. I can send you something out of Jira and if there is an issue, you can post a reply to it, or email me. And I can spend time thinking about what you've written and write a careful reply. Only when that still doesn't work, do we do a synchronous meeting, at which point we cover only the points of contention, and with as few people as necessary.

The other beauty of tools like Jira is that the conversation is preserved. Why did we approach the problem that way? Well, go look at it. You'll have someone asking why we can't do a thing and a reply pointing out the problems of that and hence why we have to do it this way. You don't get all of that from the email of the meeting.
Small loss.
>Make your projects small and finish them every time.

The only part I would disagree with. It's also important to know when to kill a project that's not going anywhere, where finishing won't provide any value. Yes, finish almost all your projects, but there are those few that are not worth reluctantly dragging out (especially if you've now found another tool that does the job).
Elon is 100% not filing anything. His time is too valuable to be doing TPS reports. His attorney would have done it.
It’s obvious there has been a lot of tension behind the scenes. There is a lot of passive aggression here. Musk in his typici egotistical fashion is probably trying to dictate strategy and direction for Twitter and it was rebuffed. Again, this is conjecture. Parag seems annoyed and trying to project strength.
All bought titles. His only actual contribution to tesla for example is a single design-related one for the doors.

No, my impression is that he is a very loud shareholder spending his days spewing stupid things on twitter.
Vauxhall apparently impressed a visiting tsar. So it may be a loan word flying West to East instead of East to West.

(A Russian might have to confirm if this is slang, albeit old fashioned, for a railway station)
> Societies with less inequality tend to be more peaceful.

Yes absolutely, but that's not what we're talking about. We are talking about "justice".

> Economic policy and social policy are very much intertwined.

Cause and effect, yes, but economic policies don't (or shouldn't) affect the notion of justice. Laws should not be written as "if you own X amount or produce y units" as they were in the Soviet union.

>Law and justice is by definition the restriction of liberties

I don't agree but I can see the argument. If I were to never throw rubbish over my neighbours fence, then whether or not the law is there doesn't affect my liberty. Neither if there was a law forbidding the dumping of oils in the water supply.. this isn't a "restriction of liberties" but rather the guarantee of protection to the water: or I would put it as "giving liberty to me and others of the quality of the water"

I understand that this is all subjective and slippery arguments so I'll digress from that.. what else are we meant to do in HN comment sections..

But I do hold to my judgement of "little to no brain use" for anyone who tries to support communism or similar measures.

People need to be free, free to succeed (and unfortunately, free to fail).

Laws and justice should protect people from each other, not enforce someone's failure to understand mathematics or entropy.
One thing I really liked about university was catching faint snippets of music being played as I walked around. But maybe this is due to not being bothered by people practicing scales in dedicated insulated basement music practice rooms, so I would only infrequently hear ~full pieces being practised.
There is another alternative timeline were HP and Apple merged.
https://link.medium.com/ya6XVMlk8ob
Which reminds me of the gavagai thought experiment illustrating the inscrutability of reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscrutability_of_reference#Ga...
This is Twitter we're talking about. There's at least seven competing theories that space lizards will attempt an outright takeover.
> The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight.

Every time people re-tell this story, it gets more and more ridiculous.

He wasn't a "rescue operations leader", he was a hobby diver living in the area and acted was an advisor to the actual rescue team.

What got Musk (and others) riled up was not him saying that it wouldn't work, it was him telling Musk "to shove the submarine up his ass" (exact wording "stick his submarine where it hurts") live on a CNN TV interview.

> Then there was a the "fuck California health code, I'm going to keep cranking out cars, who cares if my employees get sick and spread covid" thing a year or so ago.

Except he didn't in fact say anything like that. California had already allowed the factory to open. It was the local alameda county officials preventing him from opening the factory (and other nearby counties had already opened) because they were being slow at approving Tesla's paperwork for how they would operate under Covid. Also other automotive factories elsewhere in the country with even worse Covid were already in operation.

> Then there was the model 3 production meeting where people quit on the spot, to his face, because they were tired of being shouted at.

And that didn't happen.
After a cursory glance, my feeling is that "The Mathematics of Neuronal Networks" would be a better title?

In recent years, the term "Artificial Intelligence" is often used instead of "Neuronal Networks".

I wouldn't be surprised if this will change again. If there is evidence that it will not and Neuronal Networks are for some reason the optimal medium for intelligence, I would love to read about it.
I hate the word misinformation. That assumes a God like external judge of what is an isn't true.
I like this sarcastic piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20180207161304/http://home.pipel...

> After a number of top-secret meetings at the highest levels, the "Ada Project" was conceived. ... Its goal was to divert Soviet attention from truly productive computer languages like Lisp, and convince them that only a bloated, grossly inefficient, high order compiled language along the lines of PL/I could be reasonably utilized in the deployment of military embedded systems. The use of a standardized, inefficient language would provide a one-two punch: it would render super-programmers useless, and it would increase the demands on hardware by more than two orders of magnitude.

> The Ada Project was inspired by the unexpected success of the IBM System/360 architecture behind the Iron Curtain. The Ada Project's wizards {the Ada Project was conceived at Kirtland AFB, NM, near Roswell} reasoned that if the Soviets could be lured into copying the 360 architecture, they could also be lured into copying the Ada language, and if this language were fiendishly designed to make real-time systems essentially impossible to program, then the Soviet military machine would grind to a halt.

> Although Ada would also severely impact American software productivity, it was felt that--just as cancer-fighting chemotherapy nearly kills healthy tissue while it kills tumors--the healthier US economy would be better able to bear the severe burden of an unproductive software industry than the Soviet economy could. Thus, while American geeks were inferior to Soviet geeks, our Elbonian hordes could beat their Mongolian hordes.

Presumably modern Ada is better! Even the sarcastic paper hints at it:

> Now that the Wicked Witch of the East is dead, the wizards have finally allowed Ada to evolve into Ada9X, which fixed some of Ada's more egregious dysfunctions. However, even today the brilliance of Ada's original conception still shines brightly through.
I cant refuse to go to planning meetings, standups and retrospective. Those are core of agile and already take massive massive amount of time. Some of their parts are useful, but they also contain hours of nothingness.

The other meetings are small in number and comparatively more useful per minute.
This would not be possible in this case - it would be a clear breach of fiduciary responsibility and immediately picked up by musks legal team.

Even in facebooks case before they went public, they were sued for this and ultimately settled for $5.5 billion.
The subreddit has 'Humor' in the name, not 'Joke'.

So to me it is not obvious it is a joke because programmers can also laugh at very silly real world bugs.

But the main story here is that news outlets don't bother to fact check. And that's another reason you should avoid news.
Those companies are so different and by that point it was a bit late. Its more likely that they both would have gone bankrupt in 2000. Apple did seriously consider moving to Solaris by the late 90s, had Solaris been Open by then they very likely would have.

I think maybe in the early 90s if Sun had adopted SPARC instead of PowerPC and changed to Salaris giving Sun a real "PC" division. That would have been more sensible.

The more interesting possibility (and more realistic) would have been a merger with SGI. Together maybe they could have both done better. I think had this been done in the 90s putting together the best from Solaris and IRIX (and hopefully Open Source) combined with push for x86 Solaris on PC compatible.

Or more if you want to be really aggressive try to create a lower cost SPARC 'Home Workstation'. Taking on Wintel before Windows 95 might have been possible. Even if only far a small part of a big market.
I am naturally a relatively frugal person, and I don't like to waste resources. I like to reuse and repair things of value. I don't like to buy new things unless I really need or want them. My wife says I am the hardest person to buy gifts for.

I don't regret buying a new Mustang within a week of starting my first job out of school. I'm still driving it 12 years later, and my 3 year old loves it. In 2020 the nerves on my heart failed, and on night 4 in the ICU I promised myself I would waste a bunch of money on building a Zen 3 desktop when it came out. I finally just got a proper GPU for it last week. Playing Titanfall 2 on max graphics settings at 80FPS made my evening.

I have every intention of living well into retirement age. All my doctors seem optimistic that I will, although I'm up to 5 specialists and was just today reading about how my latest medication inadvertently alters DNA to be significantly less UV-A tolerant... As long as I can afford it, I'm not going to sweat wasting money on hobbies or overpriced cups of coffee.
Germany too. You can find noise maps[1] with measurements for all kinds of noise, including car noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise, etc. This allows you to make a more informed decision when renting or buying a new home.

In the area around Frankfurt airport (FRA) there is ongoing noise monitoring[2] to make sure that the noise doesn't constantly exceed the agreed limits. The aircraft can only fly between 6am-11pm daily, in one of Europe's busiest airports. The local residents won a court case against the airport, so they are entitled to free triple-glazed windows, and a device installed into the wall to extract CO2-heavy air from the house interior (important for sealed off bedrooms).

There are restrictions on noisy activities you can do at certain hours[3], such as hoovering your place, blasting your Hi-Fi or car stereo. Initially, I thought it was overly restrictive, but it's the best way of ensuring people can live densely and not go insane from inconsiderate neighbours.

Finally, apartments are generally thick concrete walls with high-quality windows and doors, both interior and exterior. Interior doors are usually solid material, with a rubber-lined bezel creating an acoustic and thermal seal between the door and the frame. I wasn't used to that before moving to Germany, it's quite impressive and definitely improves your living quality in an apartment.

[1] https://laerm.hessen.de/mapapps/resources/apps/laerm/index.h...

[2] https://www.fraport.com/en/environment/noise-abatement.html

[3] https://www.german-way.com/many-kinds-of-noise-vielerlei-lae...
He's pointing out that people in the neighbourhood are politically influent, that's why they are treated that way, not because they are rich. Which I did not get even after reading it. I'm thankful he pointed it out
I've seen this in action with a wealthy old 90+ friend of the family. At the time I was very young and thought it was odd how well timed our visit was, with him dying there only a few hours after, doctor at his side, in his home. (Perhaps it was just a nurse?) I distinctly remember the adults whispering to each other about how he was being medicated to take care of his pain, and his breathing; there was a very long pause before each inhale.
I think that him taking over Twitter would be terrible for everyone involved.

The general public would be better off if Tesla and/or SpaceX actually accomplished their stated goals. What they’ve done is great but they’re not done and need leadership.

Twitter would be way worse off if he turned it into Gab or 4chan with an edit button. Both their product and their financials.

Musk himself is turning into a cringy Twitter troll. If a friend of mine were acting like that I’d tell them to put the phone down and go for a walk. The less he thinks about Twitter the better.
> With a 75% majority, the other shareholders could vote to nullify his shares and make them worthless.

The SEC would be extremely interested in such an attempt.
Can't edit.. that "too" in the last sentence should be "to" of course. Hopefully nobody got confused.
Musk is not majority shareholder.
Of course. If there's an input checking mode, and you disable the checks, then you're guaranteeing that you won't supply invalid input.
There is plenty of evidence they do, can you prove the contrary?
https://www.nwahomepage.com/river-valley-news/fbi-executes-w...

Law enforcement (to include the FBI) mistakenly search the wrong address all the time, and frequently kill animals and people. Despite the fact that they are literally breaking into people’s homes unlawfully and often shooting them to death for no reason, there are basically no consequences to any LEOs involved.
I think that even if the poll is genuine the issue is polling users of the product before you have spoken to your employees.
IBM would have continued Solaris development, maybe not made a major investment in it but would also not have destroyed it. They would have continued to develop it and ZFS in the open.

I simply don't see IBM doing what Oracle did and basically stopping OpenSource development.
That would be so.. oddly comforting to me as a dog owner. I dig that.
> doesn't provide an opportunity of non-verbal self reflection and focuses you into threadmill small task thinking never connecting with the project as a whole.

I agree. Core issue now seem to be that no one ever thinks much about project/module/library as a whole.
> what word was used for the color orange

I once answered this question for Polish [0]:

1. Find the Latin word for the color orange: "luteus".

2. Find Polish words corresponding to the Latin word in a scanned Latin-Polish dictionary from 1644.

3. Find Latin words corresponding to the Polish words in the Polish-Latin volume of the dictionary.

4. If new words found, GOTO 2

The main answer was "fawn", the color of deer. Besides "yellow-red" and "red-yellow", other words were based on red pine mushroom [1], fox, honey, fire, saffron, and gold.

[0] https://oslowach.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/jak-sie-przedtem-n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius_deliciosus
> One thing to consider is that this argument is being used rhetorically to force interlocutors into an uncomfortable position.

That wasn’t my experience. It seems like people are generally guilty in believing what is expedient regardless of their political affiliation.