skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> small dirt roads with no shoulders

...on which cars are limited to very low speeds and make a great deal of noise. Bicycles are barely safe on asphalt even when they have bike lanes.
A gene drive doesn't work if there's no chance to pass the gene(s) on through reproduction
Fear of missing out. A lot of people are very confident that it will blow up.
Why are people so focused on this straw man?

A strawman is an intentional misrepresentation of a proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

So where's the strawman? People do get degrees that many people and the labor market itself finds useless. Lots of people get them! No strawman.

The problem is the cost of higher ed and the number of people going to get a degree that is effectively a certificate to work in the US economy

The cost of higher education has been driven by the misguided attempts by the government to make college affordable. As for a degree being necessary to work in the U.S. economy - I know first hand this is not the case. At all. But trying to convince someone with a PhD and "a few masters" of this fact is going to be as successful as trying to convince an 80 year old life-young devout follower of a religion that they're wrong about their religion on their deathbed.
If Github was legally bound to suspend these accounts and that is how their suspend is implemented then yes, it was the only option.
Python has been strongly-typed since its inception.
Ah, that’s a cool idea. I had originally thought of this idea when working on another cryptography project; it would be cool to integrate with existing PKI.
I know of a similar company to N26 where not a single customer flagged up by the AML system ever managed to get a payout of the money's in their account. There were literally thousands of frozen accounts. The phone customer service people were told to reply "I'm afraid the issue is still under investigation and we can't discuss it further until the investigation is complete. [Hang up]". Letters got similar replies.

Their account was just frozen forever. Apparently that's the lowest risk thing for the company to do to not get in trouble with authorities for facilitating money laundering.

The filters that triggered this were laughable too - things like having an unusual unicode character in your name could trigger it.
I guess I'll never know whether I am the asshole. I typed my tale and submitted. There was no response and no way to know what had happened.

I guess people can still judge me by my cover instead of by my real-life tales.
Yeah, and the key idea here is that the sequencer is soft state that can be recovered from the log at any time. It acts to improve throughput while it's up, but if it's down the system can still make progress. The key to this is that the log is the ultimate ground source of truth, and individual entries in the log are write once. This means racing writers can detect and work around each other in the absence of a sequencer, via the hole filling protocol.
As opposed to a freezing ball of fire?
Not intentionally… I am arguing that “Almost seems to challenge the common assertion that execution is more important than a great idea” is not the case. Because these ideas were executed.
At some point people need to realize that building a platform that primarily enables hucksters and scammers is not a good thing to do.

Unless there is a reason to believe that somehow the scams will be outdone by legitimate use cases, the platform should be abandoned.
> I'm pretty sure there is nothing in the organic statutes of these entities giving these bodies the power to declare and evangelize a "shared culture" or "consensus morality"

Children spend easily half their waking day with their educators five out of seven days a year, about eight out of twelve months. The power is there by default because the school has to have a functioning micro-society out of the immediate purview of the parents of the students. For example, classrooms can teach stealing is wrong (and enforce it via code of conduct). They're not brainwashing the youth with a belief in the value of private property and societal protection of it when they do so. Nor are they brainwashing the youth into believing in the correctness of division of labor if they hang one of these in the classroom (https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Helping-Hands-Pock...).

Similarly, if it comes up in conversation that someone has two dads, a teacher isn't brainwashing the youth when they say that's okay. It's certainly not conduct where a private lawsuit is appropriate against a person doing the job they've been entrusted with.

> That's exactly what people are afraid of.

That's an excellent concern for parents to have, and school boards are usually excited to hear feedback on the curriculum if there is a perception that students are being taught a morality that clashes with their parents'. Building a curriculum that benefits students as much as possible is a collaborative exercise.
There's got to be some AI magic that can make sense of it. It'd at least be cooler than seeing a teddy bear riding a skateboard in times square.
I don't see the divide. Among the very smart CS people I know both working in the software sector or in academia I'd estimate 90%+ think web3 and crypto is bullshit.
This statement is on the same level of nonsense as saying the Ukrainians are thrilled to host their Russian neighbours presently.
This must be an American thing. Here, in Romania, I can walk in any cafe and I have free Wi-Fi at broadband speed. Actually in any place of business where you can sit at a table (malls, bookshops, even mom&pop shops have this).
Process automation is broad for sure! I kept the question broad to get a wide range of answers though I’m focused on documentation and business processes.
The package was called iText on .NET 5.

The goal of the project was to read millions of PDFs (something like 9.7 million) and pull some of the text content from every other page.

> Did you try implementing what you did in C# just like Go?

No, but I'd be willing to be that it would be about the same. In hindsight, I created a strawman argument benefiting Go since I've only used C# occasionally for the last 7(ish) years and I'd never used iText before. Regardless of whether people thought Go was "better" (which wasn't my intention) the team opened up to the idea of looking at other tools/languages. Not long after when we started a new projects people asked questions like "would this be better if we used C++ or Rust"?
Which side is which? As someone not on twitter I’m constantly bombarded with anti-crypto stuff while almost never organically see pro-crypto pieces. I’m assuming you see the opposite? Gotta love algorithmic echo chambers.
Its just VCs. Its the same playbook they (some of the same ones) did for Web 2.0, which was just as cringy at the time. Keep repeating it enough and it becomes normal.
I just finished reading the case, he was actually very careful with how he went about it: https://adflegal.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Meriwether-...

When the union got involved and the adjudicator laughed in his face over his religious claims I think that was the final nail in this case. Put that in front of a jury and he wins hands down.

I think he was belated the student continued to complain after the compromise was made because he knew he'd win this in the end.
If I let my child go out on his own, he would get hit by a car almost immediately.
Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu is a lower cost alternative to Purism 14 and you get some possibly totally false mental guarantees about quality and linux integration via the Dell base.

The touchpad, at least on my model from a few years back, was horribly sensitive to palm touches. There were some config changes I made that may or may not have done anything, and I don't notice it anymore but definitely type a bit differently.

The other aspect is a 13'' screen is a bit small for dev work.

A purism is next on my list fwiw.
The comparison graph breaks down: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=w... but I feel it was around the NFT time, and "web3" was a way to market "blockchain" solutions without using the words "bitcoin" or "blockchain" directly.

Everyone focuses on the big scams, but there's lots of "small-scale" attempts to get funding from big players who don't want to "miss out" - some may not be scams, but they're all filled with "true believers".
Amplify – Helper functions to extend any command in bash
The fraud is a tiny issue compared to the massive massive waste inherent in the system.
> Dare I say it, but it was better when a uni education was the preserve of the elite few.

I agree, but there is fundamentally no reason this level of education need be restricted to the elite few today even if we ran the clock backwards on everything related to university. We live in the information age now. I can have access, for free, to all the educational material of any university in the world. I can't have access to their equipment[0], and I can't have access to their professors[1], but the only real problem with that today is that I don't get a piece of paper at the end that says I got a piece of paper from a university.

[0] Could be solved with some kind of rental program I guess, at least for equipment that isn't ridiculously rare and valuable.

[1] How much access do the students have these days? From what I hear, TAs do a lot of the actual interacting with students part.
It was a several months long ordeal when a neighbor reported me and my siblings playing "unsupervised" in our own front lawn when I was a kid. Looking back on it, the caseworker was very obviously trying to seperate us from our parents. The kicker: I was old enough to be a babysitter at the time.
Ask HN: Starting to get disillusioned and confused as a generalist
I don't know if this is just a phase or something, but it's starting to get to me.

Not too long ago I asked HN "I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?" [1], and got an overwhelming response (to which I still haven't gone through completely..!). It really got my brain going and got me out of my slump, and I'm more eager than ever to pursue this line of interest. However, more recently, I'm starting to get disillusioned and confused about the social aspects of being a generalist.

It's a bit confusing to explain (because it is confusing me): Before that Ask HN, I've only been pursuing these interests privately. Since then, I've met several like-minded individuals through HN and it's all very very exciting. But now my idealistic brain is starting to wonder, where else can I find more generalist intellectuals? Is there some community out there where we all gather around and discuss over-arching themes and ideas?

Up to this point, the only places I know with smart nerdy people are all highly specialized. For example, academic spaces for "real/published academics", subreddit for specific interests in philosophy or psychology, etc. There's no place where people with general interests gather, other than maybe clustering around particular individuals (eg substack newsletter followers).

I know there are many "learning communities", but those are not really what I'm looking for. (Maybe I'm arrogant but those feel very... uncritical...). The best place so far, is the HN crowd.

But, then, with HN, there's no good way to have sustained conversations on particular topics. And for most of the cross- or interdisciplinary problems that I can think of, there's a real need for sustained discussions.

Am I dreaming up something that doesn't exist? Are small clusters the best we have?

Or maybe (I think this is the "answer"), there are only networks of these people and interests groups, rather than one single centralized community. And because every individual generalist and every individual general interest group are characterized by a unique assemblage of interests, only networks can connect these people together. Am I on the right track here?

Come to think of it, spaces like academia isn't one big community either, but networks of individual researchers and research groups, each independently publishing their own line of inquiry. Did I just answer my own question..?

Sorry for the stream of confusion. I would love to know what you all think.

[1]:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928105
Straightfoward to tune, but given the dataset size it would require a substantial amount of compute, more than what a Colab can provide without timing out.

The comments by the creators imply they used some sort of SaaS for both training and deployment.
Why crypto gaming is not the future
Sometimes you want a bad movie, though.
>> If the EU and the US alone said, "In a month, we'll consider every crypto transaction to be criminal in nature, and we're going to enforce it," the market would collapse

> True. And yet, cryptocurrencies would still remain useful! A market collapse is not the same as it not having utility.

(Genuine) Q: How many market participants are interested in "the utility" vs the (potential for) "getting rich"?
> AFAIK it'd take a monumental effort to wipe out a species this way

Which is why I suspect this is an early-stage experiment, with the far goal being a gene drive that can locally wipe out a species more efficiently.
> There are dozens of us!
Off topic: Are there any countries more hostile to pedestrians than the US?
>Passing errors around manually when the machine could do it is a waste of time however it's dressed up.

You, the writer, pass around errors manually so that the reader, who interfaces with the code 10x more than the writer, is able to reason about the code. Go's errors handling sucks, but I don't think everyone has the same opinion on why it sucks; I personally think that sum types should be added to the language making it impossible for errors to be silently ignored.

Exceptions, while convenient, require too much discipline to use cleanly.
I put "getting hurt" and it gave me a 50/50 split, I think you need to be really explicit for good results
There's many people who are smart, know that it's all crap, but also know that there will be a greater fool they can dump their coins to while using their clout to hype it up in the meantime.

After you sell your crap just in time, people will either forget your stance or you say "but nobody knew it was all crap back then!"
I asked: I'm a woman and did a thing my boyfriend did not like.

I got

>NTA. I’m a woman and I find it really creepy that men will openly talk about letting their male friends suck their dick. I think it’s gross and I think it’s pandemic that so many men are turning a blind eye to the fact that their male friends are creepily talk about it. It’s just gross, icky, and creepy. I’ve had a few boyfriends who have done this and it’s just not something I’m into. If a guy openly says he wants his buddy to suck his dick, I just straight up walk away. I don’t care if it’s a joke, I don’t want to be around that

The training data must be wild lol. Because I don't think this happens very often!
Thanks for that, obviously I've not been keeping up with recent developments.

When I asked some of those who were supposedly in the know (radio amateurs) a few years back if there had been any effective (actual) earthquake warnings they resounded with a define 'no' so I reckoned that it was a fair assumption that there were still insufficient monitoring stations listening or that no one was transmitting on suitable frequencies to detect any such signals/earthquake detections.

I've not heard anything to the contrary since then (published in Science, etc.). So far, I've only had the most cursory glance at your links but I didn't see any references except for a short comment to the effect that there was 'nothing conclusive yet'.
godoc is not a built-in command, even for Go users. So your comment is not especially useful.
But the other way around, since russians are Ukraine's kurds. The number 2 ethnicity that nobody ever talked about.
No, I'm looking for an app which will be secure, as in, lack backdoors or obvious security issues. I understand that OS can compromise it, but I more or less trust my normal OS, and it seems weird to use a "secured" OS, because that's where I'd expect all the backdoors to be. Not to mention the fact that if your threat vector is "Apple looking through you photos", you probably don't even need anything special in the first place - popular Linux disto with some Matrix client will be just fine.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp):

> Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt". In April 1917, an ordinary piece of plumbing chosen by Duchamp was submitted for an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, the inaugural exhibition by the Society to be staged at The Grand Central Palace in New York. When explaining the purpose of his Readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."...

> The work is regarded by art historians and theorists of the avant-garde as a major landmark in 20th-century art.

So here's a major artist, saying that a urinal can be a work of art, needing only the artist's choice to make them so. And here's a major art movement agreeing that that "art" piece is a major landmark.

That doesn't quite claim "there's no such thing as beauty", but it pretty much says there's no such thing as art, other than an artist saying so. But then, who is an artist? Whoever says they are?

And if all it takes is the artist saying so, then a urinal is just as much art as the Mona Lisa.

But I think this does somewhat trace back to febeling's point. If nature is all there is, and nature is deterministic, then art is just what deterministic people do. It's not intrinsically different from non-art. And when people believe that, they act like what they do is just the same as the Mona Lisa, when we can look at it and tell that no, it's not.
ActivityStreams over XMPP
How? It would take forever to type out and most people don't even have it memorized.
ICLR 2022 blog post track
It's funny because you'd think this watchfulness + technology like Nextdoor would let kids be more independent, e.g. if anybody tried to snatch your kid they'd be reported by half a dozen busybodies watching through their windows.
We have a process called Hardware Independent Restore (HIR), which injects drivers into Windows before booting it in the virtual environment. If you Google "datto HIR" you'll find some resources (e.g. https://help.datto.com/s/article/KB217259206), but it's obviously a lot of secret sauce, so I can't talk about the details.
Alright, then allow me to explain.

Before, there were a multitude of reasons not to develop in a VM: Poor support for accelerated instructions on laptops; Slow CPUs; limited RAM; slow file-sharing between the host and guest.

The M1 architecture solves most of the issues.

Modern laptops almost universally support accelerated instructions now. This means less overhead, so doing everything entirely in the VM is worth it now. So no more dealing with slow file-sharing.

The speed of the M1 also means you're not limited compared to your desktop. Depending on the benchmark (especially any benchmark relying on CPU cache size), it may be faster on the M1 air than on a 5950X. Even in workloads where the laptop is slower, it is now fast enough.

Running docker containers in a VM on a 16GB *non-M1* machine is untenable. The M1's RAM is not only higher bandwidth and lower latency, but the compression and caching has improved so much that you can fit much more in that same 16GB.

In use-cases where you need more than 16GB, the M1's NVMe disk is so low latency that swap usage is indistinguishable in performance from RAM usage. So the laptop has no memory limit, for practical purposes (though the wear on the disk is increased in this case).

In addition, ARM architectures were a pain to deal with before, so most people emulated x86_64 and assume that you'd still have to do that on the M1. Nowadays, there is no reason not to run an ARM Linux in the VM. Most programs run just fine, and the remaining holdouts are a few Docker containers that haven't been updated. But even those aren't a problem because recent improvements to Docker greatly simplify running x86_64 containers under QEMU.

Combine all of this with the Mac app ecosystem (which has its problems, but is generally OK to use, especially if your other devices come from Apple), improved battery, the return of the good keyboard, and greatly lowered TDP, there really isn't a choice to make anymore.

The remaining reasons not to use it are basically as follows:

1) Compatibility with external devices, or work on embedded controllers

2) Anything requiring significant GPU compute (ML, etc.). But this would likely be done on a desktop rather than a laptop, which wasn't the scope of the question.

3) Disk capacity requirements (though external NVMe over thunderbolt mostly solves this)

4) Extremely multi-threaded work (video editing, etc.) where a desktop CPU outperforms the M1's multi-thread score.

Less pointless now?
This is about kids sending each other nudes, not the broader iCloud scanning thing that was all over the news a while back.
Why? The ports don't need to be independent host-side channels. Worst case the addition of one extra embedded USB-C hub should allow almost any number of ports and devices to be added.
The same reason most of us can't address customers and colleagues as idiots.

Employers fire employees who speak offensively even outside of work. Free speech doesn't mean speech without consequences.
I feel like you're understating the awesomeness of a teddy bear riding a skateboard in times square, though.
I'm pretty sure the tethering is for us. The (living) fish wouldn't care about maintaining a central position in a tank.
Pay once read forever is the latest scam. Pay once read until it stops working.
> The only thing that changed was people became more fearful.

Well for one thing this happened; and received a lot of national news:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jacob_Wetterling
Videolan.org robots.txt
Try a blind test for your cocktails (you could follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea ). The results may surprise you.
Probably for the very simple reasons of convenience and wanting to use a mobile device to communicate? A clunky laptop with low / no state is not that.

We all know 'it doesn't have to be this way'. There is nothing special about your personal OS needing to phone home on you. I think people are more likely to use something like LinageOS vs something like tails if they want 'more secure' communications than to drag a laptop around with Tails.
This is uncalled for. You might not agree with his comments but please keep it civil.
Getting a relevant job I guess? I work in data domain so I'm thinking about working for say medical team to solve their data pipeline issues. However it requires 1) I get a deeper understanding of data engineering, which I just moved in since last job and have about one year of experience, and 2) TBF a job in such a team, which is definitely more difficult than getting one in say gaming or ads domain.
I used to think the same thing until I realized that I can't remember the last time I actually sat down in a coffee shop to drink coffee. I always buy it to go, and I imagine the vast majority of people do that too.
Can you expand on that? I sort of divorced myself from golang right as the final generics implementation was starting to bake.
You can still use encryption with JWTs if you use a symmetric key. I believe HS256 just uses a symmetric key HMAC with SHA256. If you go beyond JWT, Kerberos only uses symmetric cryptography while not being as centralized as other solutions. Obviously, the domain controller is centralized, but it allows for various services to use common authentication without compromising the whole domain if any one service is compromised (assuming correct configuration which is admittedly difficult with Kerberos).
Is growth linear, not exponential?
Before jumping to conclusions? On HN?!