skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have my own blog with my own domain from 2009-2012. The increasing popularity of Facebook in my country and the waning of my passion for writing blog post, make me abandon it. Currently I still have a blog in a couple of blogging platforms, but they are unmaintained and it has been a long time since the last time I wrote there.

Personally, I want it to go back to how it was before. I want to start a new blog with my own domain. But I don't know if I can write again like it used to be.
This is a bizarre take. Most suburbs I’ve seen is actually amazing for walking in.

Sure if there is no sidewalk it sucks, but if you walk where people live usually there is a nice walking path, minimal traffic, lots of families around. I’ve lived in dense urban centers and walking can suck with the crowded sidewalks, always having to cross streets with cars, the noise.

People aren’t walking in malls because of car culture. Usually they walk in malls because it’s too damn hot/cold outside.
I think it stands to reason that nuclear power plant design and construction efficiency would have progressed far more quickly with continued construction of nuclear plants.

And the amount of fossil fuel usage that greater energy production from nuclear sources would have curbed would have saved thousands of lives via reduced air pollution, particularly from coal usage, without coming at the expense of high energy prices, that increase mortality among the poorest segments of the population, that simply capping energy usage would have brought about.

So I disagree the mainstream environmental movement, that opposed the nuclear industry, got it right. I think they got it totally wrong, as any populist movement, that is heavy on simple narratives and ideology, and light on science, is bound to be, when it weighs in on extremely complex large-scale issues.
What about that is insane?
That is such an incredible example. If Donald Trump doesn't have strong enough if a brand to overcome network effects, nobody does lmao
I said "seems" rather than just "is" mostly to be polite. In view of your response I am regretting that.

I do not know what you mean by asking (I assume mostly rhetorically) "is that why they didn't 'mention' stopping all 'blockchains'?". Why the quotation marks and italics on "mention" and "blockchains"? Why should they have "mentioned stopping all blockchains"? So far as I can tell, they are not in fact arguing that all blockchains should be stopped.

I didn't mean to (and do not intend to) get into a debate about whether in fact public blockchains are as bad for privacy as the open letter claims, or whether it's a bad thing if they are. My only point was: whatever you make of that issue, it is definitely one that doesn't apply to private blockchains, so it is not surprising that when bringing it up they did so specifically with reference to public blockchains, so the fact that they did that is not evidence of any sort of sinister motivation.

How do you know that Adjoint-the-company has not shut down? (To be more precise, it looks to me as if the company is no longer functional even if it still exists as a legal entity. Note that your link [1] shows that the CEO has resigned (and shows no sign that another CEO has been appointed) and that Diehl is no longer a "person with significant control" (i.e., he no longer holds >= 25% of shares or voting rights) and in fact there are now no such people. This looks to me like a failed company in the process of being taken apart for scrap.

If they are no longer offering a private blockchain product, how does that fit with your insinuations that their executives are trying to shut down public blockchains in order to give the private blockchain company they're associated with an advantage?

My question about the "long utopian conquest" stuff was: what evidence do you have that these people are in fact aiming at any sort of "long utopian conquest"? So, indeed, if you think they want to ban all cryptocurrencies and projects, do you have actual evidence that they want that? Again, this open letter doesn't seem to offer any such evidence.
Yes but most of the time the compute abstractions are reasonably accurate that a slight loss of fidelity is still magnitudes better than physical experimentation. For example if you want to build a Boston dynamics style robotic dog, a kinematics simulator coupled with a CAD tool can get you a long way cheaply versus having to build hundreds of prototypes.
This is simply not true, and it was less true in the 80's/90's.
Just want to say this looks amazing, and I’ll both install and subscribe as soon as I get back to my desk.

If this is even 50% as effective on my email writing as CoPilot has been on my code writing, then you’ve got a customer for life.

Congrats on the launch!
I think owning your own platform is a really cool thing to do and I think we live in a golden age for doing it. It's never been easier and you've never had more options.

I also think that placing self-ownership before all other concerns will be wrong for many people. The internet is bigger than ever and for many purposes the very real autonomy and flexibility you get out of self-hosting will be outweighed by using an ecosystem that some company is investing money into.

To me, the key is realizing that hosting is work - but it might be work that you enjoy and / or derive benefit from. When someone else does that work for you, they are deriving benefit from it, but sometimes that really is a win / win.
Free software/ open source licenses are copyright.
Not necessarily, unregistered trademarks exist in the United States at least.

And regardless, I'd expect expect someone asked to stop using a given name & logo to be more willing to cooperate than someone told to stop packaging it entirely.
I’ve walked all over US cities. Hell I’ve walked from one side of SF to the other.
Interesting. How's that differ from PostHaven [1]?

[1]: https://posthaven.com
For me async is about ergonomics first of all. When you perform parallel tasks on multiple threads it is hard and ugly (in cross platform Rust at least) to implement any sort of intricate cross communication, as communication between threads is asynchronous by nature. And it is very much impossible to stop a thread externally.

Async rust lets you implement different combinators on async tasks and cancel them effortlessly.

As for performance, tokio is not exactly a zero cost abstraction. Just run perf on a tokio program to see how big of overhead it introduces. It has claimed to be zero cost from the start, and since then it has done at least two major performance overhauls, to prove the point. That being said I love tokio and its ecosystem, but it is ergonomics, not speed that I love. That being said async-std was much slower for the networking use case that I had, so overall tokio is as good as it gets.
I'm leaning toward scripted. It's a fairly easy set up for a joke.

Like this sort of stuff, they're shorter than that segment but sort of the same idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9hRIjys4Qw
China's population to shrink for first time since great famine struck 60 yrs ago
What? That seems absurdly apologist even for me and I love postgres.

Everyone seems to be downplaying this corruption issue saying it only happens when x or y and it can be avoided by doing complex operation z but… if build anything that isn’t a toy or demo on Postgres you NEED to build indexes concurrently.

They shipped optimization to a feature to let indexes be built concurrently yet failed to perform thorough enough testing to ensure concurrent updates don’t disrupt the correctness of the index? Yikes, doesn't exactly make me confident in using any new Postgres features.

Further, there’s no workaround that wouldn’t cause a production outage due to requiring a table lock until they release the new build which is somehow not as soon as it’s available.

How are we not more alarmed by the impact of this?
I think there's middle ground between "throw away all copyright protections" and "throw copyright infringers into prison for years".

I'm more inclined toward leniency than the draconian laws we have now.

I mean, 95 years of copyright protection? Is society really going to be destroyed if Disney has to release some of their IP under creative commons after 30 years instead? I doubt it.
Felicia Sonmez terminated by The Washington Post after Twitter dispute
Dr Gautam has special intrest in oral aversion,feeding diffulties and tongue tie in newborn babies.
I'm so happy Apple ditched the wedge shape. It was so ugly and I never understood the reason that form took the industry by storm for ultrabooks. Well except for misleading the consumer because the wedge shape is basically an optical illusion to appear thinner.
But not all, unlike communism. That is where you can still have phoenix. Whilst rich man eating Twitter, people can revolt.

Given option out is key, not what is in.
Users don't even venture out of their bubbles anymore because they don't know how.

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
That's not an actual picture of the road in the article. I'm also not sure one should count the feeder or access road as a part of the freeway. If you can't go freeway speeds it's probably not a freeway.
Are those dice fair?
Just out of interest: social history wise, for those more familiar with European modern history, what kind of wine would they have been drinking back then?
>Votes trended toward the democratic candidate across demographically similar counties in all 5 states ,

Categorically false.

Increased and majority number of Republican governors were elected. Republicans increased house seats. Trump out performed himself in all counties he won in 2016.

Democrats did not trend upwards.
Can you explain the difference between threaded messages and what gmail does?
Mexico Makes Software and Hardware Modification Illegal (Including Linux)
The Three Byte Fix
I would prefer the opposite: what can we do to convince companies that this sort of thing is just a cost of doing business, and they should just put up with it and be happy with all the ridiculous profit they still make in spite of it?

Of course, the answer to that is "nothing", because companies will always use every legal tool at their disposal to increase their revenue and profit, and shut down anyone who threatens that even a tiny bit. Well, I guess "nothing" isn't the answer, it's "enact drastic changes to copyright law", but I don't expect that to happen, either, so... "nothing" it is.

> The anti-circumvention aspect of the DMCA is absurd.

I mean, I get it. It's like going after the drug dealers rather than regular drug users. Except where it isn't, since building tools is inherently neutral (screw the idea of "must have significant non-infringing uses"), as it's up to people who use them to decide to use them for good or bad.
At one time, an electronic analog computer would have simulated that faster than an electronic digital computer. Not sure where that falls in this argument — are analog computers “classical”?
A minimal standalone example of diffusion model
I like woodworking because it doesn’t easily forgive a mistake.
So, are you saying Europe’s voter ID laws exist to solve no problem? Because from where I sit, confidence in the electoral process seems to be a larger problem preventing than imaginary racism using real racism of low expectations.
That's true for a lot of stuff. We never need to print another American flag again. So then what, we make it illegal to print Bibles and flags?
I mean at the end of the day we’re products of our environments.

If SWEs can only work on features and do nothing else that is still a sign of poor project management. Just accepting that fate is worse for your growth I’d wager.

But idk, I never worked in an environment that encouraged curious people either. I suppose the closest for me was working at Comcast but that was only one manager with a small team of 4 people and no real deadlines.

I feel like two separate thoughts came from replies to my comment. One advocating for engineers to push back and care about their crafts, the other absolving the choices that were clearly made by people as some mechanized process that could never be changed.

The only thing I’m wondering is what the replies would be like 10 years ago on HN.
I know. But actually, Tesla is selling itself as a technology company, and wanted some less subjective (if that's possible) feedback, from tech savvy people.
Yes I'm aware :). Notice I didn't say, "DaVinci (also free OSS)". I wasn't trying to mislead anyone, but I feel like OSS can sometimes be overhyped just because it's Open Source. Not all closed source software is bad (pretty much every major game is closed source), and not all OSS is good.
Give home renovation a go. Endless tool purchases, all easily justified because hiring out the labour is so expensive!
While the streets are quiet, it’s really not fun to walk in neighborhoods where every house looks the same, and where there’s no visual variety.

Personally I find a 15-minute walk in my suburban neighborhood feels much longer than a 15-minute walk in the town where my college was located.

The other extremely irritating part is the completely ass-backwards design of suburban neighborhoods that makes walking to places much longer than necessary. Eg: there’s a grocery store literally right behind my house, but without a door in my backyard, it would take me 5+ minutes to walk there.
I love Postgres. But when I look at the bug list of every release it makes me scared. The types of bugs they have are indicative of a poor development process.
I own my platform thank you.
This is true in certain American suburbs, but definitely not all. Older and less affluent suburbs, in particular, often have abysmal walking infrastructure.

I'm not sure this fits the prototypical suburb -- but I have spent a lot of time in southern Texas, and look at this amazing pedestrian infrastructure: https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1413614,-97.9581625,3a,75y,3...

They recently (past ~5 years) installed new ADA-compliant pedestrian crossings from which you can walk...nowhere. But you can circle the 4 corners of the intersection all day!

(Incidentally, the restaurant on the SW corner of the intersection is amazing!)
We've changed the URL from https://mikeelgan.substack.com/p/twitter-calls-elons-bluff, which is hard paywalled (re that, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989), to one that Google seemed to approve of. If there's a better (i.e. more substantive and neutral) article, we can change it again.
I get the sense that, because of Amazon's roots as a bookseller, they still like to optimize for people who are a bit more well-spoken and well-read, compared to other FAANGs. At the executive level, PowerPoint is banned and all meetings start by reading a well-composed multipage memo.

Being able to tell a great story might not be highly valued at most orgs, but I think it's part of Amazon's culture and something they desire in their skilled positions.
I get your incredulity, but that's the law as it stands now.

> If someone owns their hardware then you can do any hardware or software modifications you want to it.

In practice, this isn't something you'd get in trouble for. But if you were to distribute tools and how-tos to help others modify their hardware, that's the bit that really gets you in trouble. I believe there's a carve-out for tools that have significant non-infringing uses, but I'm not sure how well that defense usually holds up.

But yeah, overall it's stupid, and disgusting that this has been the law of the land for over two decades now.
Could the diagram on this page be any worse?
Changed now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688885
My 2021 Model Y LR has no panel gaps, inspected the entire vehicle before delivery using the Reddit-provided checklist. Quality is on par with my 2018 Model S and 2019 Model X (8/10 in aggregate, mostly minor issues), would begrudgingly complete my Cybertruck reservation into an order despite Musk’s highly distasteful antics. My Model S is at almost 100k miles having been driven US cross country over the last four years (mostly on EAP flavored Autopilot), and it has been very reliable (X and Y are around town cars). I know I can pull into a Supercharger stall anywhere in the US and it’ll work. No adapters, no down stations, no billing issues, it just works.

When you’re paying to be on the bleeding edge, you’re willing to compromise. Such is life. Thank you for your contributions to the products!

(former Tesla investor)
"App"reciation. The mentally healthy app.
:)
Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too?

It’s marketing. Read the qualification as “good”, and trust it as much as any marketing.
There is also in between solution. There are whole bunch of small providers that would host your website and if you keep a copy you are safe and small provider will not dictate you what your content should be (within the law of course).
I'm passing familiar with this area, but not as familiar as I should be...

How does this compare to something like this - https://github.com/panva/node-oidc-provider

Are they addressing the same need? Is Ory looking to get certified in these area? (Is it already?)
The vast majority of work "culture" is horrible. Asshole tolerance is higher when you can just mute them. Anxiety is lower because you don't have to deal with all the culture crap that interrupts flow.
similar problems exist in vc-land and even public equities. if you owned a s&p 500 fund in 2000, then you owned a piece of enron.
> it is a shared object (SO) library that is loaded into all running processes using LD_PRELOAD

Doesn't seem that stealthy to me, checking `/proc/*/environ` is fairly standard. Or just typing "set".. or "env".. or calling "print(os.environ)" or calling "php_info()"... The linked article tells more about this malware, and it seems it has no countermeasures to such simple things.

And not to mention that all Go programs do not use dynamic linker, so any system tool written in Go will not be affected.
Is there a transcript anywhere that has the context for that quote?
> Because the law is [..] unconstitutional

I agree with you on all the other bits, but I'm curious as to why you believe it's unconstitutional. Not trolling here; I don't think I've heard constitutionality arguments against the DMCA, and I'm curious if there's something there.
I believe it only works with certain models that have some upgraded hardware and software. I think it's 2020+ for model 3, but I could easily be wrong.
Don't plaintiffs usually also sue to recover attorney/court fees from the defendant if they win? And that usually is granted?
The tweet by the lab advisor literally said "new particle" (emphasis was my own to highlight this). I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying that the lab made a grave error.
> I don't really understand why the decentralized internet folks harp on CDNs

For sure, I was just using it as an example on how subjective "owning your platform" can be.

I actually have zero problems with Cloudflare, CDNs, etc. If I did have a problem with it and you disagreed, wouldn't that still illustrate my point that "ownership" is subjective and opinionated?
It feels that way too. I was just hoping it might have been authentic! Either way it is lovely. Thanks for sharing it!
Right, just pointing out it wasn't editorializing. Moderna is the one framing it that way.
Looking at the long list of credits of most recent effects heavy movies I don't think it's quite true that special effects are cheap. Sure, I get that anyone with enough motivation and Blender can making something cool. But at least at the moment, looking at any 3D movie or animated movie, it's 1000s of people for 1-3 years of work to make them. That's way way WAY UP from what it was 10-20-30 years ago.
PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing [pdf]
I think hosting a website in a low powered computer like Raspberry Pi can be an alternative to really own our platform. Granted, it can't handle big traffic, but it is cheap enough to built and maintain yourself.
Unrelated, but one site I rediscovered and was surprised was still around and kicking was Jammer's Reviews.

The absolute best Star Trek reviews, and the site hasn't changed one bit.
Those people who want small government always expand governmental powers when they are in charge. Example 1: Look at what the SCOTUS just did about the 4th amendment having no power for 100 miles inland from the border.
A malicious forged change in a CI/CD chain could cause problems.
Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will be a crime in Mexico
Isn't the current political drama entirely be aide one party focuses entirely on ground truth and anecdotes and presents no coherent connection or policy positions?

...
Comparison of CGHF and CSHF
The early generation of SaaS employee engagement platforms (Glint, CA, Peakon) found their success in replacing legacy consulting providers (who had fantastic services but terrible tech) with faster, better integrated, better designed and more automated solutions. That market was huge and everyone did very well out of it.

Today it is a much more mature market, and as rightly pointed out, a survey platform is no longer enough. But there is still so much room for innovation. Actually improving employee engagement is far from solved or commoditised, and I believe that anyone that can bring an original idea that can be proven to lead to real-world change can still find a place in this industry. Personally I believe that any future success stories are likely to be focused less on customisation and configurability, and more on opinionated takes that suggest better ways to manage and measure employee engagement.

The idea of linking HR initiatives to measurable change is a good one! But it's fairly easy to see that you can extend it to 'events' more widely. Customers don't just care about what HR has been doing; they want to know what impact virtually any event has had on their employees, whether internal, external, global or local. You may have noticed that over the last few years the buzzword 'moments that matter' has become pervasive in our industry, and you can see the majority of providers have delivered some kind of feature to capitalise on this.

One final point is that I would say that the idea that HR is responsible for improving employee engagement is a little dated. I think it is uncontroversial to say that HR does not have the time or resources to actually do anything about employee engagement themselves. The modern role of HR is as enablers, measurers and instigators - undoubtedly a key stakeholder - but ultimately if you actually want to change something then the responsibility has to be more widely distributed.

Disclosure: I was an early hire at Peakon, an employee engagement company, and I ran the ML and DS functions for four years until our acquisition by Workday, where I still work on Peakon today.
> Believe you me, I tried them all.

I'm curious, what issues did you encounter with Thunderbird?

I have found Thunderbird pretty wonderful overall. Using my Gmail as an example, I can select the "All Mail" folder (about 50,000 messages) and press Ctrl+Shift+K (for search) and it shows me results in just a few seconds.

I use Thunderbird to manage multiple email accounts, and it has been a huge time saver having it all unified in one place.
Signal's cryptocurrency relies on SGX for security IIRC. Please use Monero if you want to do crimes.