skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thing just makes no sense from a business perspective. Who would want this? Who would pay money for this? It just seems like it's an idea that some executive got, and no one was willing to tell them that it sounds like a horrible idea until it went too far and it collapsed. Did they do any marketing research or even a gut check? This seems pretty normal for the type of companies that just hire McKinssey for strategy and neglect and sanity checks.

The average age of CNN watchers is over 60 years old, not exactly a prime streaming demographic. But who would want to pay for the news monthly for a streaming service? Newspapers have enough trouble getting people to pay a bit for text. CNN needs to compete with other streaming services, and all of the free streams out there and podcasts (which are typically higher quality than CNN ).

It's all baffling.
Story time!

28 years ago, I worked for Mietec, a company that had a fab that is now owned by OnSemi.

The mask preparation team told me the following:

One time they received the GDS2 file with the mask layers (that’s the golden file that gets created when you do a tape-out) from a customer, did their usual preparation and design rule checks, and sent it to the mask maker.

A few days later, they received an email stating that they couldn’t process the file due to “the presence of twitty birds and Christmas trees.” And, indeed, upon closer inspection, the design contained these elements.

However the metal vias to make those images were only on one layer, and not connected to others.

The resulting issue was one of “floating vias”. (That’s the exact wording that I remember all these years later, but Google doesn’t turn up anything.) For some reason, these unconnected vias couldn’t be held in place during some steps of either the mask masking process or the actual silicon production step, and that’s why the mask maker rejected it.

A new guideline was issued by my company that designs should not have these kind of graphic elements and logos to avoid wasting engineering resources on something frivolous.

What I don’t understand is why this issue wasn’t detected during design rule checking at the customer’s site or at our mask making preparation stage. But that’s a different story.

Either way: I’ve worked on a lot of chips and for a bunch of different companies, and I’m not aware of there being any graphical elements in them either. Masks were moderately expensive 28 years ago (something like $25k), they’re insanely expensive today (millions.) You don’t want to risk anything…
I believe such a thing happened a fair bit with Newquay until COVID caused services to cease. I live quite near a small airport that flies to Amsterdam. I can actually be in central Amsterdam quicker than London door to door and it's an appealing approach, but the CO2 situation is not so nice.
They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it.

This is my biggest issue with what you're talking about. I get annoyed at the clueless users who happen to share my initials and last name but I can forgive them for their ignorance.

But, IMHO, any company, in 2022, that uses email for authentication, or for any type of business/financial exchange of information, that doesn't bother to do a simple validation of "do you really own this email?" should not be allowed to continue to operate!

I sadly learned long ago that expressing this opinion to their support or security contacts is useless.
I just tried to replicate this issue (because I wanted to see it in action).

I was able to sign up and sign in repeatedly. I never saw a 'RMEPass' cookie set, nor was I able to click 'remember me'.

So it seems like they have fixed at least one part of this issue.
Lisp syntax and simplicity is my biggest selling point for Lisp vs other languages (except for Scheme, which is even more elegant).

Some people hate Lisp's heavy reliance on parenthesis and there have been so many languages that try to make a "Lisp without parenthesis", but to me they're missing half of what makes Lisp great.

I find programming in and reasoning about Lisp way, way easier than other languages. There's very little syntax to stand in the way or remember and the verbose way Lisp is written helps make Lisp programs self-documenting and way easier to understand than other languages.

This is super useful when doing a lot of language hopping or when coming back to the language/program after being away from it for a long time. Because of this I can quickly come back up to speed with the program and it also makes more larger and more complex programs more comprehensible -- that is, of course, if you don't use macros to turn Lisp in to some harder to understand language.
> Servers should never see the actual password.

Are you actually doing client-side hashing in addition to hashing on the server side? Otherwise, yes, the server does see the password. In most applications, a compromised server could just serve a login page that doesn't do the client-side hashing anymore if the malicious actor wanted to collect credentials, so I don't see how this added complexity is really adding any security.

The real way to add more security is to minimize dependence on passwords by implementing a better, second factor of authentication, such as TOTP, WebAuthn, SSO, or even SMS or email tokens. Unless a person is using a password manager to generate their passwords, then passwords are almost always terrible and weak, and usually reused across sites. More of my opinion is shared over here[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30559443
Up until very recently the Chinese Politburo and Standing Committee were heavily weighted with engineers and scientists.
Of course, there's also the counterargument that WFH means you're paying to provision your own office space. To be fair, that argument mostly applies only if people don't have the option to come into an office. Otherwise, they're forced into paying to buy/rent a suitable workplace, pay any incremental utilities, etc. For people with houses, it's mostly not a big deal but if someone lives in a small studio it may be. Early on in the pandemic, this is what a fair number of people were complaining about.
How about we block senators from making inside trades first, and also subject them to the same healthcare plans we have access to, and they have to pay the maximal tax rate they put on anyone? Seems like a bit higher impact.
You’re assuming the status quo will continue. How will a small group in the Supreme Court maintain power if there’s enough of a willing population to oust them?

Your example of King Jong Un doesn’t work either, because it’s still a dictatorship, and father and grandfather were both dictators, and they both died, so why does it matter?

The world is overflowing with detritus because the incentive structures are not there. If people lived much longer they might be more willing to spend the time to clean up.
Is that aimed at Germany/Europe for bankrolling Russia via energy purchases or the common man?
This is kind of crazy. I always think of CNN (at least in its recent form), MSNBC, and Fox as the most unhinged, sensationalist, rabidly partisan of the mainstream networks. I didn't realize they also had quite old audiences--I wonder if this is just a coincidence or if there's some generational or age-related reason?

EDIT: To all the people saying that younger people get their "unhinged" through social media and other platforms, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Singapore: Economic Prosperity Through Innovative Land Policy: A Georgist Succes
This is pretty cool, having the option to get paid out in USDC will create opportunity for many to hold the payout in USD without the cost of exchanging back and forth, provided that USDC is adequately backed and managed, and there are no critical security vulnerabilities.
The recruiters probably got it from a Clearbit type service. People plug it into their gmail accounts to easily find contact info for outreach. It harvests all their contacts in the process.
What's the fun in that? /s

In any event sex in the 80s and 90s is common for people who arrive at that age healthy enough. It's a known phenomenon in retirement homes.

Ecclestone just improved his odds of arriving at that age healthy enough due to his wealth and also the odds of having a young woman to have sex with as opposed to other octagenarians.

with a bit of luck (or bad luck according to each person POV) the end result is a baby.
> The changes you need to make to a Python program to enable it to be type checked result in more bugs being added than the type checker removes leaving you at a net negative.

This claim doesn't make sense to me. Assuming mypy is regularly run as part of CI, why would adding type annotations cause more bugs than leaving it off?
I'm curious about why Standard ML (SML) was chosen for this project, given the track record Jane Street has with OCaml. Do you seen an advantage for using the former in this kind of project?
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Obsession
I fear the generic version would miss on those same optimizations, and that is the real reason it's written like it is. Remember, Go generics use gcshape stenciling, not C++ style templates.
$10K/year. Wow. How does that math make any sense?
> Seeding (actual) linux images...

Ah, yes, I'm now limited by small drives (I have 256G SSD and 1000G HDD) :)

Before, when paid per mb, I created accounting system, and seen very clear, after my hdd seem full, bandwidth usage dropped.

But something broken in dependencies, and I moved from FreeBSD to Ubuntu, and on current unlimited channel it was not need to account, so I just don't bother, but I see difference when need to download ISO :)

Now I just for curiosity thinking about create accounting, make smart reports, etc, but on Ubuntu for this have to do much more work and much less art than on BSD.
I love this idea. I think of gift giving as a grand challenge. Two ideas:

1. Surface creators (etsy, fivrr, etc)

2. Provide reminders that take into account the lead times of the above

e.g. If someone's birthday is May 1st, on March 15th you get a notification saying, "If you want something custom from one of these creators, order within the next week!"

Lead time always trips me up.
Yes, a comet left dust particles on its orbit and Earth moves through the cloud of debris at this time of the year.
> I should have been more clear, the idea of launching flying things out of other flying things is making a comeback

To make a comeback, it would have to have gone away. Launching pilotless flying things from piloted flying things has been very continuously a thing in the military.

(OTOH, recovering flying things to other flying things may be making a comeback.)
Also, you don’t learn about the market after the fact. Spending $300 million requires one to know the market long before. And the executives as CNN clearly didn’t do their homework. Predicting failure can be hard, but creating a paid streaming service for a network already getting hammered in the ratings was pretty foolish. It was like an abused spouse thinking that getting pregnant would suddenly stop the abuse. They should fix CNN itself, build an audience, then try to further monetize with CNN+. They did it backwards.
Then they knew how their customers expected their goods delivered!
Did they record the talks this year?
When you say "built in Flutter", does that mean there is no backend? How does it get updated with new gifts?
I love the positive sum framing in your response. Yes earths resources are technical finite, though I’m not sure that’s true in a meaningful sense.

Humans are already well past the natural carrying capacity of the planet for our species. But we’ve figured it out an have been (mostly) successful. I don’t see why that would change between now and when we get access to off planet resources. Especially if humans live forever - priorities are able to shift quite a bit when you can think longer term (what’s 100 years of effort to solve this problem compared to infinity?).
Yeah, I'm getting kind of enraged just thinking about it.
Young people are lonelier than ever
It's all OCaml, GitHub is just misclassifying it as SML :)
One of my favourite quotes (no idea who made it) is that in all of human history, the death rate is exactly 100%. Outside of people's religious beliefs (Jesus, Lazarus, etc) and fiction (vampires, sci-fi, etc), we'd all agree that no-one has escaped death.

The death rate is 100%, no-one gets out alive. So we should get as much out of this life as we can. What that means for you can differ from others, but to me that's a central question as we enter middle-age.
Maybe it's better to think of it as a team product. That being said, I'm sure there are people who could build something like that on their own by combining the right classes in a good engineering school.
> Either condemn all wars, or stop pretending you care about people affected by wars.

What a weird thing to say. Humans are hypocrites.

We can absolutely not care one whit about the Kurds (or only in the abstract anyway), and then get extremely upset when people that look like us, in a society that mostly functions like ours, get attacked by a country that really should know better

And frankly, until they started this shit, I didn’t feel particularly bad about Russia any more. They shot themselves in the foot so hard…
Direct link to the theme (not sure why they wouldn't link from their icons website) https://tabler.io/ https://preview.tabler.io/
> I do check once a week during my weekly digital chores.

OT, but I’m going to start using “digital chores”. When my partner asks what I’m doing and I answer “paperwork” it doesn’t sound quite right.
We had our first and only at 40. (My wife is two days younger than me.) I retired a year ago, and our daughter is approaching a quarter of a century old. That was a miracle in itself as she almost didn't make it past hour one.

I loved this essay, saved it even. It's how I've lived my life for all of the days since our daughter's birth. I'm reluctant to say it's how I lived all of the years before that, as I wasn't as aware of time and of my mortality. That said, I had a sense my average life would be 75 years, and privately celebrated my 37.5 year birthday.

Paul Graham has at least two essays related to this:
http://paulgraham.com/vb.html
http://paulgraham.com/kids.html

For me, I consider my life as a book. There's a chapter where I would read the Wizard of Oz books to our daughter most nights. We went through the set of 15 books three times, and then it stopped. There's a chapter where I was doing fashion photography as a hobby for eight years. Me?! Yes! I even had two fashion shoots in Manhattan. There are many chapters of me working as a mathemagician, working on air traffic control R&D projects, one where I had to simulate stratospheric balloon trajectories and balloon control and navigation logic. I also had to learn a lot about stratospheric weather, which our in-house meteorologists had almost no experience.

I take essays like this and the two PG essays, and realize I have the chance to live a little more. This afternoon I'll be at the library while our daughter is working from home. I'll be continuing the writing of a story, may work on the migration from Freemind to Freeplane so that I can return to my personal work on the Traveling Salesman Problem. I'll grill dinner tonight for the family, will attend an in-person luncheon on Saturday, have an on-line chat with some folks in Berkeley Sunday night (I'm outside DC.)

The clock is ticking, the sand is flowing through the sandglass (I love that from Tom Scocca's essay!). The meaning of life is what we produce and what we create in the limited time we have. It's our mortality that establishes the context for meaning; it's what we do that is the actual meaning.
Death can't be "solved" because it's not a problem, it's a solution. If we defeat death (and we may) then a host of terrifying problems will arise from that, starting from the sharing of resources, who gets to enjoy that technology, etc.

Defeating death is a great plot idea for a dystopian novel, but in reality it's the ultimate selfish pursuit.
> Unfortunately it's looking more like we'll be heading back to pre-Covid normal, with very limited mixed-mode working offered as a bonus to those who qualify for it.

Is it? Everyone I know with an office job has greatly expanded home working options. Most of them were previously 100% in the office, and now have the kind of 1 or 2 days in the office a week hybrid options that used to be exclusively for tech companies. And quite a few individuals I know have been able to go completely remote only having to go into the office a few times a year and have been able to move cities entirely.
Yes, you have finite time and it's just simply so easy to squander them, playing games, social media, clicking around on youtube, etc. I'm sure many of us do it more than we would like and taking back that control is hard because "wasting" time is just so easy.

For me, visualising this has helped me put things in context and made me make better decisions but that's not to say I don't fall down the whole now and again. I wrote https://www.thismuchlonger.com/ many years ago and have it as a pinned tab in my browser.
Still sad about the demise of JNG all these years later. There was even a "light" version of the spec to address the complexity issues, and someone in bug #18574 had even made a reference library which took up less space than the default Mozilla libpng, and maintained their own browser branch. It was maintained for a few years but abandoned when it was clear Mozilla was all in on APNG.

But, yeah, we had all those things in something that was actually in major browsers, 22 years ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574

http://mngzilla.sourceforge.net/
I've been interested in the idea of collecting ancient coins for a while. The thought of holding money in your hand that was used to purchase goods a thousand or more years ago is exciting. And seeing what is "printed" on these coins can ground you in the time they were created.

Unfortunately, my wife has an archeology degree. She says that most ancient coins have been "robbed". And that it is unethical to buy them. Soooo.... I will probably never collect ancient coins :)
great job. website looks pretty sleek. One suggestion though... is it possible to add holdings data for ETFs?
Maybe not on discord, but here's 100GB of stuff someone found on AWS that NSA left public...discovered in 2017 but created in 2013.

> 29 Nov 2017

> The NSA has been hit by yet another data leak, as over 100GB of sensitive, classified data was exposed through shoddy security practises.

> The leak came from a virtual copy of a hard drive belonging to US Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), an intelligence organisation operating within both the US Army and the NSA.

> The virtual disk image was discovered by UpGuard cyber risk research director Chris Vickery on an unprotected public Amazon S3 server, meaning that anyone who knew the web address where the data was stored could freely access it.

https://www.itpro.com/security/30060/100gb-of-secret-nsa-dat...
> In a practical sense it adds absolutely nothing of any positive value to remind people of this fact... all it does is make the reader's day a little more depressing.

Have you considered that other people may have different takeaways than you? I know that I'm going to die someday but this piece still added to my perspective on life and old age. And I'm glad it was posted. :)

Happy Friday!
Ask HN: Best ways of distributing market research surveys?
I'm in the process of testing out a few ideas and want to get a quick pulse on user needs in a statistically useful and out-of-my-social-bubble kind of way. So I turned to surveys via Qualtrics.

I've gone the usual route of sharing an anonymous link to the survey via social media and asking friends and family to re-share.

What are some other time and cost effective ways of getting the survey link out to people? Taking out ads online? Trying out one of the services like Pollfish or Centiment?
Before WW2 there was a plan to dramatically extend the London Underground miles into the surrounding countryside, far beyond the metropolis. The depression paused that plan and WW2 and the impoverishment of the country ended it. I hope someone writes a similar article about the unfinished transport system that we call the tube.
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> Who would want this? Who would pay money for this?

Who?! Why, all those countless streaming service customers, of course! I mean, have you seen how much Netflix and all these others are bringing in?! Surely if we launch some sort of streaming service they'll throw that money at us too! Right? Right?
"Elder Millennial" checking in. Since moving out on my own (quite a while ago, at this point) I've never had cable at all. Nor have any of my friends, who span from about my age down to the oldest edge of Gen Z. Nearly all my news is radio in the car (NPR—ugh, but at least sometimes they rebroadcast BBC News and that's decent) or from web sites. Practically all video news I watch is either raw footage, or (similarly) C-SPAN. John Oliver on HBO Max if it's late and I've had a few and I'm bored—that's about it for actual "news programs", if that even counts.

[EDIT] I take back part of that—I think one guy has cable. He's into football. He's also the only right-winger in my circle. Maybe a coincidence? Wouldn't be surprised if a fair bit of his "vaccine hesitancy" (to put it in mild, friendly NPR terms) came from watching Fox News, now that I think about it.
I don't actively monitor this, unless stuff gets through my spam filter - there's a few I notice I'm getting spam from though:

* The NDP party of Canada
* Animal Jam - a mobile game that my daughter wanted to play, and I had to provide them an email address.
* Imgur
* Linkedin
* GitHub (although my github email address is in all my commits, so it's obviously public).

The vast majority of my spam comes from someone named Mya who used my gmail address (I assume by accident) to sign up for a job board. After she did that, my spam exploded.
> Either condemn all wars, or stop pretending you care about people affected by wars.

This is not a realistic stance. We are all humans, and it's obvious that some global tragedies affect us more than others (for whatever reason). Just because somebody is vocal about the Russo-Ukrainian war but less so about other wars doesn't mean they don't care. It just means that they are personally and emotionally more impacted by this.

Furthermore, people do what they can. Should I either donate all my money to all causes or not donate at all? Should I either not do any action that has a negative effect on the environment or live in a forest alone without electricity?
Same situation. I've been enrolled in a Canadian girls hockey team, received a recommendation letter for Dayton university, and various tickets for events in Australia. Glad I'm not alone.
With some regret, I agree.

If we eventually become a post-scarcity, multi-plantary species then significant life extension or immortality might work. But in the near future it would be a environmental and social calamity.
Here's a few:

- syntax highlighting
- algebraic manipulations
- optimization analysis of queries seen
- analysis of equivalence of queries
- query rewriting (for style, performance, etc.)
- RDBMS portability layer (implement a common
subset of SQL, port queries to different
engines; see previous item)

I can probably think of more.
Being funny is fine, but comments that are just jokes and don't actually try to contribute to the conversation are seen as off topic and often downvoted.