skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand completely what you are saying ironically.

However, this is a civil war between Eastern Ukrainians that are ethnic Russians, and in the Russian Sphere of influence/control and Western Ukrainians that are ethnically mixed, and in the Western Sphere of influence. It is also a Great Power Competition by Proxy with NATO on one side, and the Russians on the other.

If Russia loses Ukraine, the strategic depth to Russia that enabled them to grind down the Wehrmacht, and Napoleon's army with their prominent allies General Winter and Colonel Mud, will largely be lost. Given how much they have to lose I will be suprised if Russia does not head towards full and complete mobilization of their entire nation.
What did the people do, to whose lifes AirTags have become critical, before they were available?
Not only that but he is incredibly responsive to random people (including me in the past) reporting bugs in Gnus. Years ago I reported something on a Friday morning and he replied directly to me with a workaround by the afternoon.
I had this realization somewhere around turning 30. I had been a touring musician in my teens and early twenties, and those were the friendships I had. I realized at one point that I had selected friends based on the kinds of music that they liked and whether I had partied with them, and that those were dumb criteria for friends.

I vowed from then on I would choose who to hang out with based on how kind, thoughtful, and trustworthy they were, and that I would stop having endless worthless conversations about bands and other products. I could just enjoy the stuff that I was into without making it into a identity. Never looked back.
To get attention and maybe they can actually get enough investment based on attention to actually go into production.
It gets dumb people with lots of expendable money excited
It is a prudent strategy, but will they emerge on the other side or fade off into 15+ year contracts where the only people left at the company are lawyers and managers of the outsourced support ticket farms (where all hope will go to die).

New VMware motto coming up: Retain, Extort, Placate.
> One way to create a shared context is through shared struggle.

Can't agree with this enough. Nearly all of my best friendships have been people I've met through a shared goal that required a ton of work (e.g. some intensive artistic training as a youth, early startup jobs, etc.)

I always realize how lucky I am to have had some of these intense "struggles" pretty early on in my life, as I've met people who didn't have that opportunity and I realize how my network of real friendships has greatly benefited from that.
Snow shovels need to be plastic? I think I was in my thirties before I encountered a plastic snow shovel. Of course, metal was a lot cheaper Back In The Day.
> why do they have more power than the people

How did you conclude this?
Very interesting, never heard of this. I love Hacker News for being able to learn something new from comments. Although I cannot agree with labeling "horizontally nanocoded CPU" as "No instruction set". There are instructions, they are just low-level.

I wonder, can Turing machine count as "Zero Insturction Set"? Technically there is no sequence of instructions.
What a missed opportunity on the styling. Very little resemblance to the original and just plain boring and ugly.
> "Residential houses are not designed to withstand machine gun fires."

If machine gun fire were a daily occurrence for residential houses, they would be. Every other common occurrence that occurs to residential houses, whether it's fire hazards, snow load on the roof, earthquake protection, etc. is part of the design consideration for residential houses.

The fact that software _predictably_ gets attacked when placed online is exactly what means that developers can't shrug their shoulders and pretend it's an unforeseen event.
C++ is not the language for everyone. But most of Alexandrescu's book is more for people showing off than for people doing useful work.

And, much of it is obsolete, supplanted by straightforward core language features. Their usefulness was demonstrated by use in the wild of Alexandrescu's workarounds.
Everything at our school running over the web. This is not a barrier any longer.
Actually I was kinda hoping for just a model or some peer reviewed conclusions.

I'm just not in the mood to devote a lot of time to what sounds (to me) like hyperbole: If the earth stabilised at +8 degrees celcius I find it hard to understand why the entire earth becomes literally uninhabitable.
Same reason we have horror movies about nuclear plant accidents, but none about coal plants that emit more pollution and kill more people.

Mosquitoes aren't just deadly, they're boring, and that's an even worse sin.
But still not easy. Look at the dicey early examples of any Tesla for example..
Why does Emacs startup time bother people so much? It's pretty quick for me and only happens once every few months anyway.
Are you close friends with everyone you served with, though? Isn't there someone in the military you didn't like? ;-)

AFAICT the formula for friendship is pretty simple: time + shared interests + personality/chemistry. The military is a good way to spend a lot of time together, and maybe a shared interest too.
By a pure linear emission like 1 coin per second forever.
That leaves the yearly supply inflation after n years at 1/n,
taking a whole century to get it down to 1% [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
This makes sense if you are working on a problem in relative isolation, that's relatively well known, and who's research has low optionality to other work. However, there are many problems that are either utterly unknown, impractical to work on outside of a major collaboration, or option well into multiple papers.

It would seem that in academia, focusing on the latter will yield better long term career results. If you're a PhD student in a large collaboration, then you can't get scooped. If you are working on a problem no one knows/cares about, then getting scooped is a low risk, if you're working in an area where scooping is common - but you have good equipment/infrastructure - then you can re-use the work for something else.

In hindsight, almost all of my professors work was either part of a collaboration or focused on "high option" research. The few theoreticians and others working on areas which could be scooped seemed to either pick up more teaching/administrative work - or focus on "conservative" research.
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/hackers-balk-at-rules-ch...

Seems like there was a lot of criticism

>Even those who performed well were frustrated. “We had really high hopes … for the contest, but at the end the disappointment and frustration completely took over, even after finishing second and winning a big cash prize,” wrote Michał Kowalczyk on CTFTime.org, a blog where contestants rate and review different capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions. Kowalczyk, whose hacker handle is Redford, is a co-founder for the team “Poland Can Into Space,” which was the runner-up both this year and last. “I wish it was different, but I have to say that this was a pretty bad CTF.”

>Tyler Nighswander of Plaid Parliament of Pwning, a storied team connected with Carnegie Mellon University, complained that “lots of things regarding how the game operated were not explained clearly.”

>He suggested that expectations for Hack-A-Sat were high. “I think all of the participating teams have played in CTFs which were run worse than this contest was,” he said. But given that Hack-A-Sat was backed by the resources of the U.S. military, competitors expected a flawless execution. “There was an expectation level that I don’t think was cleared,” he said.
My theory is it’s because people respond emotionally to drama but not numbers. A shark attack, a plane crash, and an explosion are all much more dramatic but less deadly. What would the dramatic terror scene be? Someone swiping away a mosquito? Very boring. So that’s not what gets made into movies.

Secondly, the Gates Foundation does a TON of work with mosquitos and protective nets! They have saved tens of millions of lives. Whenever I have some money to donate and do research on what is the most effective use of each dollar, mosquito nets rise to the top.
I'm in the EU, yes, but I don't understand that either. Because there are search engines, freely available in the EU, that didn't honour that questionable request about banning websites.

So, for me, DDG is hiding some results while other search engines that I can use in the EU, do not.
I was as well surprised when I found the NGINX website code was and still is implemented in XML + XSLT and XSLS! Have a look for yourself: http://hg.nginx.org/nginx.org/file/tip
> written in clean-looking C++ from scratch

Yeah, that's how it always starts.
When I was in high school, numbers with 0 in them were the worst because of how long they took to dial using a dial phone.
Am I totally misremembering this, or is it a fairly recent change?

I could've sworn several years ago it was perfectly possible to use your sign-in credentials, then immediately change them, because it basically needed an authorization token, but then worked fine.

Now it doesn't. I work for a company with a Plaid integration and if the bank so much as requires any kind of 2FA, you just can't use it at all anymore.
I've had a bit of success with this very recently, just by re-evaluating (downwards) the costs of doing things badly. So instead of doing something in a way that I've convinced myself is the optimum way, I'm more likely to try a different way. I tell myself that the potential benefit outweighs the cost. It's working so far!
Then they'll be A/B tested and possibly even without human moderation since you can filter bad content by just checking with CLIP what it contains.
Goodbye OpenVPN, and Hello Zerotier
I'm going to be blunt here and say that HN is not the place to get help for suicidal thoughts. Please seek out a medical professional.

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
DonutDB: DynamoDB-Backed SQLite Databases
Google doesn't have a track record of long term support for their projects. They readily cancel them when they want to.

I would hate to invest precious years into tech and apps to have the rug pulled out from under me because flutter entered the Google graveyard.

They do have competent engineers, and if they get sufficient community buy-in, I'll be much more open to it.
It seems these are not produced any more? [1] If someone is currently manufacturing a battery/capacitor backed memory card that accepts several DIMM's of the recent memory modules like 32GB+ ea. I would be interested. There should be benchmarks from a popular 3rd party reviewer.

[1] - https://superuser.com/questions/1508905/is-there-a-modern-ra...
That sounds absurd. I can't believe a civilized society would exclude so many floors! In the US where we are completely reasonable and rational we only exclude the 13th floor. I used to work on the "14th floor" (actually floor 13) and I thought this was hilarious.
Not at all.

It has exactly one obviously useful piece of advice: don't make circular dependencies between libraries. In practice, that means organizing in layers.

Most of us don't depend on many libraries where the authors of the libraries know one another, so it is easy to follow, even by accident.

It has lots and lots of obsolete advice, though.
It's also easy to see when you move your hands quickly back and forth in front of a dark background with fingers spread apart, instead of the fingers being blurred you'll see their image repeated distinctly many times (like a fan).
Start simple. Use your non-dominant hand to do tasks you normally wouldn't.

Sounds silly but its a good start. Get your brain back in the habit of noticing a old way of doing things and actively choosing to do it differently. You can then go on to apply this further.

For a more radical approach. Quit your job, move 180 degrees into a polar opposite industry. E.g. work tech atm? Go drive trucks on a farm for 4 months during harvest or something. Spend all your day currently in a dungeon looking at screens? Take a part time job that's front of house customer facing. If you think a task sounds uncomfortable or unappealing....leap at doing it. Think all this sounds too hard or unpleasant? That's just you being locked in your ways! Good luck! Ps start doing yoga. If your minds gonna be rigid might as well make your body flexy.
I think the variance wrt expected work load is way larger in industry though. Plenty of my friends working at FAANG companies have a really chill lifestyle, which is true of very few of my grad school friends. The notion that profs have way less work than industry in particular is crazy to me, their workloads are simply insane (at least for more junior faculty, but often also for senior ones).
Top down analysis of the US News last week shows interesting coverage patterns
The bottleneck on most home labs is the lan. A new spindled hard drive running ext3/4 or ntfs can easily saturate a 1 gig nic. That makes the complications of running an NAS on raid or zfs not worth the time and effort-- unless you like playing with file systems or flooding your lan.

I built my own nas a few years back with a multi disk zfs pool and ubuntu running mellanox 10g nics. Fast as it was, the complexity of it all, especially zfs having its own way of doing everything, made it a time hog. Just wasn't worth it.

Now I run my nas in a Debian Mint VM with consumer grade 2.5G nic adapters. Simplicity and ease of recovery are my priorities.
Right; the parameter that would be of interest is rather L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

Quoting Wikipedia: "Inserting the above minimum numbers into the equation gives a minimum N of 20. Inserting the maximum numbers gives a maximum of 50,000,000. Drake states that given the uncertainties, the original meeting concluded that N ≈ L, and there were probably between 1000 and 100,000,000 planets with civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy."

As I understand it, at the time it was estimated that a civilization would broadcast during its existence, from the time radio communications started until the fall of civilization (thus the Great Filter).

Now, from our sample size of one, it looks like L would rather be on the order of 100 years (in our case, not because we are trying to hide in the Dark Forest, but because we don't want to waste energy beaming Dallas reruns into space for no good reason).
I'm saying that if you have the password and the email address, bypassing 2FA would not be unreasonable, and it's what most services end up doing (for better or worse). Recovery codes are the ideal, of course.

But yeah, this is also why every new Android/iOS device can act as a FIDO2 token - the more tokens people have, the easier it is to recover with a second token vs having to fall back to less safe methods.
I would love to explore something other than Mint, but having 100% of the data collection automated is so nice.
My understanding is that photoresists are actually some of the most toxic chemicals in the process, and their heating/irradiation makes them especially dangerous.

https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Workers%27_Guide_to_Health_and_...
Why is "final" an unsafe feature?
There are endless options. School systems have thousands of employees and administrators; if they can't figure out how to support what are generally wonderfully crafted, complex pieces of software handed to them on a plate, they're not really fit for purpose. We're outsourcing institutional self-sufficiency to Microsoft and Google.
Rolling Rhino Remix (Ubuntu) 2022.05.28 Released
Also hedge funds have different goals for themselves and their clients. It's not necessarily hard to beat them, the question is whether it's worth your time and if the returns hold up when you trade larger amounts. I daytraded for awhile, got good returns but more traditional work is more rewarding and a better use of time, not to mention less stressful.
I don't know of a way around that (short of maybe finding reviews).
I present to you 1994's Mosquito

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_(film)
I mean, a windows installer (or RPM) that doesn't require a background process so that more people can access the value of the software. Even Flatpak or something if we are talking Linux specific.

Having Docker and other "enthusiast" methods of running software makes it less accessible. Having a web-stack as the goto method of writing software doesn't make sense if it limits the audience that would gain value from it.

I say this as someone who professionally maintains a web application that comes with a Windows installer, macOS traditional installation and a Linux RPM. All with desktop icons and it being pretty invisible to the user that it is a web application aside from the HTML-looking UI style.

The software is for personal finance, it isn't for a niche that makes the install/access method particuarly sane. If it were software for managing a cluster of X-thing or something ... maybe.
Hmm, so I am not sure I see why that would be more likely. It sounds like you're saying that exterminators are less effective at detection than lumberjacks--whether by effort or some other reason.

I think you could just as logically conclude the opposite: maybe lumberjacks don't need to exterminate to survive, so they do not put as much effort in, since they are just avoiding us altruistically.

But more generally, this is the sort of problem I have with speculation on unknown unknowns: It's fun to do, but I dont recommend changing any of our decisions based on it because we simply do not know.
I listened to a talk by YNAB's creator last year (about development not the program itself). Didn't realize until this thread how popular it is.
IMO it’s #3 plus the point the poster made below about the homeless-to-not ratio seeming higher due to people staying home. I really haven’t noticed a significant difference in homelessness since I’ve lived in SF (mid 2010s). Not that it isn’t really bad, I just haven’t seen it get worse.
It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.
I think you should quote more of that sentence and then I can say that yes, definitely these do exist:

where he doesn't have to become a team lead or architect where he'd need to speak and present and instead steadily and happily work in his corner, talk to his immediate peers and crank out solutions?

Yes, companies exist, which do not push you out just because you have found your sweet spot of what you can do and are OK with. Of course we're not talking FAANG here and in general I would assume that HN clientele is skewed towards working in companies where this is not possible. However, I can tell you that I've worked at companies personally way back in the past in which I met many such employees that had been in those companies for quite some time.

The big thing here being "talk to his immediate peers". The guy I was describing was completely fine working w/ us, his friends. Put him in front of an audience and he's got a problem. Of course it'd be hard to get a job in the first place, but a lot of places also did exist at least back then where no coding (neither take home, nor whiteboard) were part of the hiring process. Of course you won't make that guy a consultant at Accenture, he's gonna fall apart.
Matt’s Rooftop Receiver Shootout: Round Two
"In the 20th century alone, malaria claimed between 150 million and 300 million lives, accounting for 2 to 5 percent of all deaths."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215638/
> … your real complaint is that…

No.

hayley-patton said the author of "We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js" — "shouldn't repeat misinformation" — and gave this as the "misinformation":

"TypeScript is apparently far more energy-hungry (and we're not likely to use pure JavaScript)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31502504

Seems that hayley-patton misunderstood what they read.
It should have release songs, like openbsd
What this blog post fails to mention is how the urban sprawl is intentional. Dense cities are not easily defensible against nuclear bombs or conventional bombardment. A sprawl makes evacuation easier and sieges harder.

I think a sprawl but instead of freeways, public transport. And abundant bicycle lanes makes a lot of sense. Electric car still need parking which means hotter cities that are not ready for climate change (e.g.: Hurricane harvey was made worse because of all the concrete). Electric cars are nowhere near ready for long commutes either. I had a job that requires 100-200 mile driving around the city. Waiting 45min+queue to charge is not acceptable. Neither is stopping to charge for hours everyday on a roadtrip. The ideal solution would be hybrids with bicycle and walking as the main form of city transportation in short-medium distances and public transport in between. Electric only means the parking structures that are typically larger than the buildings people go to might get bigger for charging stations due to ubiquity, less space for housing/people more space for machines.
Isn't Russian, by occupying Ukrainian territory, is moving the hostile presence closer?
Would you consider 100 trillion dollars spent on a research base 30 millions miles away which is going to tell you how to make better insulation and grooved pavement to be wisely invested?
As somebody who switched careers from construction to software development, I disagree with your criticism. Systems in a house are largely decoupled and easily extensible and modular. It's a routing affair to add a room or second floor. You can replace all the plumbing in a house without touching the electrical. You can easily upgrade an electrical service and add more circuits and outlets to an old house. The nature of stud framing makes it relatively trivial to run ethernet cable through a 70 year old home, or replace ancient single pane windows with the latest triple pane offering. You can swap out your dumb lightswitch for the latest wifi connected smart home nonsense, all without disturbing anything else in the house.

I also disagree that "we're doing the best we can." We're building monstrously complex systems because it pads our resumes, not because it actually solves real problems.
Children today, and their children, will gain immunity over an entire lifetime through repeated exposure.

So it is with all other coronaviruses, which have been around for millions of years and don't routinely kill older/vulnerable people.
The complexity of C++ lives primarily in the fact that it is almost entirely backwards compatible all the way back to the late 1980s, and mostly compatible all the way back to K&R C.

Modern C++, when you stick to the new idioms (RAII, range loops, auto lambdas etc) is almost as compact and succinct as Python with type annotations. One of the biggest differences is readability is that the standard library is not "batteries included" so people roll a lot of stuff themselves.
So you're not going to answer any of my questions and drag up more debunked racist talking points?

Poor people commit murder. Black people in America are poor (because history but also because America is still extremely racist and won't lift a finger to make up for that history.)

> 1/10 black people here are first generation immigrants which is extremely destabilizing to their communities

You're not thinking this through. 1/3 of our non-European immigrants are first generation, so your racist theory would predict that we would have an even higher murder rate than you have.

Actually, only 2.8% of your population is native.
96 percent of deaths are in Africa and 80 percent of deaths in Africa are children below 5 years old..

I do not want to be cynical but that statistic might explain inaction...

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
This is my new excuse - "I'm not fat, I'm working on my Schwarzschild radius"