skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds good maybe for a founder or early in a startup, but otherwise this would probably illustrate the mismatch in priorities that exists between a single person's passion project, and risk-averse enterprise groupthink.
"Thanks in advance" is generally considered bad etiquette as it is directive and, really doesn't add anything. It's just nicer all round to thank in reply.
> you have to learn keybindings,

Are people seriously training their muscle memory to the default vim keybinding that is so cryptic I don't know what to say.

Since the early days of learning vim, I've changed the "go to end of line" bound as "-" which is next to "0" for "go to start of line" which is way more logically placed than some "^" that even needs shift pressed.

If anyone thinks "because default works on any machine", you need to think how you're wasting your brain cycle on unnecessary complexity for no reason.
Some scammers who appear in Musk's replies impersonating him use similar or identical avatars and screen names in order to perpetrate their fraud. Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI". It hasn't happened yet because Twitter lacks the will to do it, for whatever reason.
The risk that continuing buying gas from Russia will cause more war and further destruction is higher than the risk that continuing operations of nuclear power will cause a nuclear accident.

We can call names if we want. Continuing heating the planet up by burning fossil fuels when we have a cleaner option is stupid and history won't look favorable to fossil fuel advocates. There is a mass extinction occurring all over the world, especially in the oceans, just because people are afraid of a once in 100,000 year risk that with modern technology is even smaller risk. There has never been a earthquake recorded in Germany that has been large enough to interfere with German nuclear plants. Utterly madness how afraid people are to something which won't occur.

Conflict resources are internationally known to be a factor in war, in contributing to war, and to prolong wars. It doesn't matter if the aggressor is an IS, some warlord in Congo, or Russia. A major tactic dealing with IS was to cut their funding, and while it did take many years, the effect of cutting IS funding is rarely disputed.
> Not every speech is equal. If you are living in a Weimar-Republic scenario, yes, free speech can be repressive and I can see why people will call for censorship. Personally, I think censorship and speech taboos just keep a lid on certain problems instead of solving them

The problem with this is that it always ends up as “censorship is ok, as long as it’s for opinions I disagree with”.

And with your Weimar-republic scenario, if the implied claim is that more censorship would have stopped either the radicalisation or rise of Adolf Hitler, I think that’s very simplistic and highly suspect.
Well it does not matter if it's alarming or not. They are in violation of their signed NDAs with their previous employer.

Also, if they don't work there anymore, they should've deleted all the code (if they had it) and surrendered/cleared up all the laptops.

But I like your idea, anyway I give big kudos to candidates with their own pet projects.
> People who own single family homes at the kinds of locations where developers are eager to build apartment buildings are among the wealthiest and most powerful ever to have lived.

This is about as far from true as it can get.

Ordinary working class people who just happened to buy a cheap house in a place that many decades later became a hot-spot of real estate development.. are still ordinary working class people. Often very poor, even.
sounds like an AD

kagi? are you willing to repeat the same mistakes?

promoting unknown proprietary software, as if it was Moses, yet again

very suspicious, is kagi made by the people who operate DDG? or it's totally "trustable" set of people?

> The killer feature for me is the ability to up-rank and down-rank sites in my personal results

how does that work? is that feature tracked by kagi? are they using it to train a ML model?
That’s not true. On the way up these funds take 20% cut on the profits. On the way down they give nothing back. It’s a one way function. So they indeed sqeeuzed public money (retail and pension funds).
People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days.

Fuck that dogpile of bullshit.

You've never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse XML have you?
ACLU has been gutted out and running on fumes off of donor class. I'll leave you with guessing who these people are.

Btw, I've never seen my comment go from 6 votes to 0 in a matter of 30 mins. Insane.
I think it's less a criticism of trying to solve problems in hardware vs the _kinds_ of problems they're focusing on.

While CHERI is, from a pure theory standpoint, something that is perfectly avoidable with proper programs (i.e. memory unsafety _is_ efficiently avoidable in software), we ended up needing it we made the wrong choice in software too long ago to turn back (nobody is rewriting the Linux kernel anytime soon). In this way, CHERI is a good optimization because it does something we cannot _practically_ solve in software. ARM-PA plays a similar role in that hardware CFI can be made irrelevant by a) not having memory safety issues b) software CFI, but neither have really worked out in practice and it's cheap and efficient in hardware, so it's a worthwhile tradeoff.

Stuff like Intel TSX and ARM TME are sort of at the other end. Transactional memory is _super_ cool and it's been a common thread throughout architecture papers for the past twenty years. The thing is, we've never had transactional memory in commodity hardware (and nobody buried their heads in the sand about not having it like we did with memory safety) so all our software found decent work arounds eventually. TSX/TME does do what it says, the issue is just that it's not quite good enough when compared to existing software techniques and so the actual added value (cache noise and the resulting spurious aborts included) made it a less good deal. When adding the cost to both update software and the likely strongly polynomial (?) hardware cost of transaction support as core count grows (this is why ARM's Exclusive Monitor performs SO bad on systems with 64+ cores and why they added new atomics just to avoid the monitor), it just doesn't work anymore.
Golly! And it could be driven by understandable human factors like mid-life crisis instead of magic numbers?

You don't say . . .
Why would the likelihood go up under his model? If Musk had only offered $35 and people thought that was only 20% likely to happen (for the reasons you listed) then the market price would have only gone up to $31.
Your reply was insightful until i read the last part:

> As we grow to properly cover more areas, this list will grow. I'm one of the core contributors to Bevy and I can assure you we're not interested in writing "yet another game engine" <3

Rust people gotta be Rust people, that's sad
Probably just Heroku engineer, singular.
And detecting that would actually implement move semantics in the shell.

Isn’t there already a project to bring Rust to the shell?
Agree. I wish it was my company. Of course, then it'd be somewhat less of a company; perhaps just Propeller Pens.
The standard of driving in the US is also appalling because its basically seen as a god given right that you should be able to have a driving license, and so minimal barriers are put in place to get one.

I also know many UK peeps who learnt to drive before 1996 and never have I heard one of them bitch and moan about "how stupid the NSL sign is".

We all know the US is a bit of a nanny state and everyone is constantly covering their backsides to avoid getting sued, and that's probably why the US has explicit speed limit signs splattered at every opportunity. Because if the US had the NSL system, some smart-alec would have a crash and then open up a lawsuit because they were too dumb to figure out which of the four types of road they were on.

I'm sorry. I'll happily bitch and moan about other aspects of UK roads (e.g. not-so-smart motorways). But NSL ? Nah mate ... it makes sense and you know it. ;-)
Based on their incident report, it sounds more like someone gained access to the OAuth tokens used to authenticate with linked GitHub repos, which would actually be both read _and_ write access to all source code of repos linked to Heroku apps.

RE kids or misdirection: as with all things, it's probably somewhere in the middle -- a somewhat-sophisticated attacker and a slow, evolving investigation unfortunately coinciding with a holiday weekend. They say the report was received 3 days ago (on April 13) from GitHub after they noticed suspicious activity on April 9.
They do. They have physical error correction in the form of majority-vote. Whichever way the majority of electrons go, is what the digital signal will be. Then the total number of electrons is above a threshold such that you basically get less than a handful of errors in years of operations if that.
FYI looks like the stolen Heroku OAuth tokens are already being used:

https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u...
Thats not overengineering, its good engineering. It solves real problems with great eye for detail.
I often see this quoted but I don't see how they compete at all? Or am I just not getting a joke?
And the trillion-dollar real-estate investment firms who will happily extract rent from an enormous, new, permanent rental class, in perpetuity?

I’m sure they appreciate your support.
I’ve taught myself coding using codeacademy, freecodecamp and unity (game dev).

Wasn’t hard because I was having fun. But I guess I “studied” for around 12 hours a day for around 6 months. As I had no piece of paper certifying that I could code, I wrote copious number of apps and one of them was a full stack discord clone app which happened to impress the interviewers.

The interview got me into (arguably) the best graduate programme in my country. And I had an amazing team with interesting (albeit over engineered) stack which was an amazing start to my career.
I don't see why you think RISC-V would make any difference. It's still totally possible to get official or de facto RISC-V extensions that turn out to be a bad design and get abandoned.

Just because it is too young for that to have happened yet doesn't mean it can't.
I've see this in ebay prices for vintage tech. Strong uplift in demand in the last 5 years for early Macintosh computers, as everyone starts to have nostalgia for their childhood and now has enough income to engage in the hobby.

I wouldn't peg 30 years as the magic number, but roughly tech products have gone through a process of a slide into obsolescence in the first 15-20 years, followed by a resurgence in interest and price increase over the next 10+ years.
Hence why I said engineering industry. Would you ask a chemical engineer to bring a recipe for a proprietary drug synthesis? The creative industry doesn’t exactly aim to obfuscate its methods.

Even better, would you ask a chemical engineer for their spare time projects? How would that even come about?
Just for clarification, I'm not vimy. But further more, he didn't say he wanted to mock people, but the concept of "non-binary" as presently accepted in our society (and presumably related concepts around gender identity) because he concludes it is nonsense.

Pksebben is not arguing with vimy about whether the concept of "non-binary" is meaningful or coherent; Pksebben is merely making the accusation that vimy is rationalizing his desire to mock other people.

If I say you have an incoherent view of the world, and you claim that I only think that because I'm a mean person who wants to hurt people, then I'm not going to find you persuasive.
Thanks for this, this is wonderful. I used to use bug.n for tiling, but it was terribly slow and buggy most of the time- haven't tried any other solutions since.
Being unable to tolerate drinking alcohol is the norm, not the other way around. There are a lot of people around the world who have an alcohol intolerance or "allergy", interestingly the exact same effect you experience when taking this drug. Trust me, from personal experience you're not going to forget. There's a reason they treat addicts with this.
Need to point out that the disease theory of addiction is hotly debated in the US. Not so much in developed countries where socialized medicine is available, where the theory is widely discounted. Those interested should take a look at the work of Stanton Peele.
Almost every employer will violate their employee's rights without a second thought in ways they consider "unimportant but necessary to the business" ... as long as that continues it should be a 2-way street.
Also at busy roundabouts in the UK it is expected that you will arrive to join the roundabout via the correct lane for the exit you desire.

If you try to join via the wrong lane then you're in for a world of hell. ;-)
And that's what it looks like on Reddit, and probably other popular sites as well.
The key issue here is not content moderation or censorship but the possibility that someone like Musk gaining power over Twitter. Musk wants Twitter because he wants more power.
I’ve been using Render since January, after switching from Heroku for a project of mine with about 10,000 direct users at present. The project is a Rails app that imports hundreds of thousands of rows of data from XLSX files and spits out PDFs on demand from those imported spreadsheets.

I was worried that Heroku would end up costing me a small fortune as demand scaled. Plus the platform seemed to have stagnated.

I contemplated switching to AWS, but didn’t want to deal with the extra hassle of it. By chance, I saw someone mention Render on here, checked it out, and couldn’t be happier.

It’s a bit harder to get up and running with Render than Heroku, but orders of magnitude easier than with AWS. And once you’re operational, it’s a cinch.

And way, way, way cheaper.
Yes, you can't possibly write triggers and checks on columns across different databases to the point you should be doing all data checks in the app if you're going to support multiple databases.

These days, there's docker, so I see less point supporting multiple databases.
My approach involves two steps:

1. Never permanently delete anything.

2. Never implement anything that makes your product worse because of some silly regulation.

So if you “delete” your cat picture from one of my sites, I’ll flip the IsActive bit to false for you and nobody will ever see it again. Then when you realize that it was your favorite cat picture and how could you delete it forever I never told you to do that I’ll sue you, I can flip that IsActive bit back to true.

That situation has happened way more often than the one where the New Zealand Data Storage Task Force Enforcement Division has levied fines against me.

So it’s the best strategy.
Spam on most platform is a complicated engineering challenge. However, for some inexplicable reason, Twitter features a kind of spam that you don't see on any other platforms because it could be caught with a regex.

It's almost never the case that spam issues on popular social networks can be alleviated with some easy fixes, because obviously if they could they would already have done that. Twitter is a very weird exception.
I think I've read something about the brain being able to use harmonics of the frequencies in question to "reconstruct" what's lacking. IIRC this is how Waves MaxBass works. This could be an added effect of your tube gear, which will be generating more harmonic content.
Honestly.. It's not just the desire to clean.

The management has to be set up to allow for this. People have to be able to work towards something as a team; else we are all cleaning in different directions.
When all is over it is only fair that Germans will be the ones who will rebuild Ukraine. This shall put things into perspective about the costs, consequences and responsibilities. It's not that they should enjoy the pleasures of cheap oil for free.
Have you tried https://you.com/search?q=What+are+the+WRONG+ways+to+do+garde... ?
> what more do you want them to impose?

The point of land value tax is to remove all those other taxes (at least, I wouldn't support introduction unless it did).
Like many liberty principles, free speech is a lot more complicated to implement as a ruleset than most proponents like to admit.

Think of democracy. The people rule, right? In practice, it's an endless field of possibilities. You can't really take the democracy principle from one field (eg government/parliament) and just apply it to another, say a democratic company, union or whatnot. You will need to create a different institution embodying "democracy" and it may not be similar at all.

Same goes for free speech.

The Free Speech of constitutions and human rights laws just distinguishes between crimes and not crimes. That is fine for determining who goes to jail or not. It is not applicable for determining how YouTube's recommendation algorithm works, what monetisation rules are, and how comments are moderated.

It's fine to adopt free speech as a principle, ideal even. It is foolish and naive to think this is trivial to derive an actual ruleset from principle alone.

Imo, it's disingenuous at this point to say you're "doing free speech," and treating this as a meaningful statement. There is nothing that's derivative of this statement.

For all the idealistic calls for free speech, I've heard almost no one forward an actual model for free speech that could be applied twitter or some other site.

What about HN. Some things are off topic. There are taboos like middlebrow dismissals. There are bans and shadow bans. Is this a free speech platform?

This stuff is complicated. Simple to criticize, but free speech proponents don't even know what exactly they (we) are asking for.
I think it's important to take a step back here.

I saw plenty of people saying "Covid is less severe in Children" without any issue. The people who had tweets taken down were saying things like "Children can't die from Covid, open the schools, there's no risk at all" but ignoring that:

a) Children did in fact die
b) Children did in fact bring Covid home from school which infected potentially at risk parents/other family members.

See also the lab leak hypthesis (and a good example when people talk about "banning ideas!") - if someone said "Hey, we can't rule out the lab leak hypothesis", that's presenting an idea, not claiming something that hasn't been proven is true and I saw MANY people posting that without issue.

When people said "It was engineered in a lab to be more deadly to humans, and it leaked out" that's stating something as fact that had no definitive evidence, and would likely result in a "This may be untrue" labels.
I'm struggling to think of code examples that would be concise enough to be usable in an interview setting, but that are complex enough to still discern their skillset to code.

If you introduce subtle issues in your code, you're most likely just testing their familiarity with a framework or language nuance.

Big issues could work.

Perhaps just providing a take home codebase that's 80% of the way there, and asking them to take it to where they think the remaining 20% should be is a good middle ground.
This was an absolutely huge amount of memory for an appliance component that costs a few cents. It still is.
Spam volumes are also down dramatically due to conventional means like making it illegal, and taking down bot farms that were sending it. Also the introduction of DKIM and DMARC making it harder across the board to be seen as a legitimate sender, and the fact that many-to-many emails are a huge red flag for spam filters, and not a concept for social media.

Spam is a dramatically easier problem, and has many more mechanism to suppress it both legally and technologically.
Oh, is that a white nationalist? No, it’s a stoplight! Very well, carry on.
This guy's "take" made me cringe a bit with all the cliche arguments presented as if they were uniquely his.
Then that’s your misunderstanding.

To quote myself:
> It’s for their safety and courtesy, telling them that a car is passing because they (the cyclists) aren’t following the rules and interfering with the flow of traffic.

To be extra clear: I’m already overtaking a duo/trio and I’m doing so because they still haven’t yielded or gone single file.
Ask HN: Is Crypto Currency going to save Sri Lanka?
At a certain point... how many hours of your life are you willing to spend working to extend your life by an average of 1 month / 500 waking hours?

If almost all of GDP was healthcare, with costs dramatically increasing with age, then that number climbs for each additional month and reaches into the thousands. I wouldn't make that trade, especially because I'd be spending so many of those hours in my early to mid life.
> rich developers will all be getting a huge property tax break

These proposals would generally be revenue-neutral, so the same amount of total tax would be collected, but assessed by parcel (adjusted for demand) rather than by parcel + improvements. An area where there was demand to house lots of people might still have high taxes because the land would be in high-demand because of its potential to host big buildings, whether the buildings were there or not. In other words: they'd have to build the building to afford the tax, because if they put a parking lot on it or whatever, the taxes would swamp any revenue.

As to small businesses/homeowners: ideally in such a scheme, improvements they might want to make would be more affordable than they are under the current system, because they wouldn't owe taxes on the increased value. Ultimately though, you're right: systems like this are meant to address a circumstance where nobody can afford housing because there's way more need than there is supply, by incentivizing increasing the density of housing in such areas, which means some small structures will need to be torn down and replaced with bigger ones, and people unwilling or unable to do that will be incentivized to sell to someone who can. Their well-being gets weighed against the hypothetical well-being of the larger number of people that might otherwise be housed by the larger structures that would replace where they live now.
Recently I was trying to look for some documentation on TK. I had remembered an older site, the book on TK, all very good information if slightly dated. Took me a decent amount of searching to remember- effbot.org, which also somewhat micro-famously went down recently due to the author's death. Makes me wonder what other very high quality resources will be lost in the next two, three decades as developers age...

RIP shirky.org, your insights then are just as good today
"We believe the 21st century will be powered by quantum computers. We expect these machines will open the doors to an amazing new era where “smart devices” are actually smart, computers can program themselves,batteries are light and powerful enough to enable flying cars, society is able to pause or even reverse climatechange, we have cures for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, and with luck, reverse aging itself(which at my age, can’t come soon enough)."

Reminds me of "Back to future"
Why should a company be forced to carry, host, and service the speech of others?

If Twitter is a monopoly, apply anti-trust laws to it and break it up.
If Twitter isn't a monopoly, then they should every right to decide what their service does, as long as it's within the law. If you don't like the current laws, change them.

I am totally, 100% opposed to privately owned companies being forced to carry speech that they don't want to carry. That itself is a violation of the free speech of people that operate businesses.
Hey, a western guy in Japan thinks his opinion is worth something!