skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a consolation prize, I think there are interesting parts of For All Mankind's timeline that aren't better and may actively be worse. I'm not sure how much of that is intentional message or not, though.

The biggest for instance: in our timeline gay rights advances were able to piggy back on other civil rights advances and waves of feminism. In getting major civil rights and feminist victories early in space it seems like not as much happens "on the ground" as it did in our world, especially with regard to follow up rights such as gay rights.

The next biggest and certainly much more obvious is that the Cold War is much, much worse and international politics a bit more fraught and MAD overall.

There's lots of little other things like earlier backslides in immigration policies. There's deep implications that tobacco companies won for longer and there's less EPA power and there's a lot less public awareness of radiation concerns and carcinogens. (Things that stopped, for instance, real world Project Orion from anything like tests in Earth's atmosphere.)

So much of these details are easy to miss in the background, and again I don't know how much is intentional commentary versus accidental bits of world building. A lot of people joke about all the Beatles Reunion Tour of the 90s stuff as evidence that the world building of FAM has overly generously been "super optimist utopia" the show claims to have created, but if you actually pause some of the headlines and stories there's a lot of nasty stuff, too, including a lot of interesting digs into that same Reunion Tour with shades of "aged rockers past their prime who don't like each other anymore don't bring anything new or exciting to label requirement to tour again".

I can't fault the show for being optimistic and it's a big reason I tune into the show because I want that "competence porn" of smart people doing cool smart things. I don't think the intent is "utopian" though, I think the writers understand if all the smart people are busy doing smart stuff in space, there's fewer smart people on the ground and some of that bleeds into the world building and I appreciate that as a viewer.
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I've taken to supporting cross-references across the repo, connecting references of the form ^^{foo} to anchors of the form @@{foo}, wherever they appear (code, comment, docs).

Then I have CI check referential integrity and also surface connections in code review (adding annotations to all references when the corresponding anchor shows up in the diff in changed lines or context, and vice-versa).

In the idealized straight-forward elaboration, then, all docs would live in the repo, but I haven't worked with a team that was on board with that.

I'd also like to see a better tie between docs and tests.
I feel like Mastodon's standout feature is also its biggest drawback when it comes to adoption. The vast majority of end-users don't understand or care to understand the need for different instances or which fediverse they should join, nor do they have interest in setting up their own.
The hypocrisy needs to be called out. Just a few months back US put a lot of pressure on countries like India to not buy Russian oil but now it's ready to buy Russian fertilizers? US media played along with multiple reports on India buying oil when Europe was buying in much larger quantities. Countries like India should buy cheap oil from where ever they can since inflation due to high oil prices can kill people. I am glad India resisted US pressure.
This is a fantastic article, thank you for writing it. Looking forward to part 2!
And again, what happens when people claim that a certain political view inherently demeans humanity of another? This is already the case: people already proclaim that some political views are inherently dehumanizing.

Invariably, those in power will enforce these restrictions against their opponents to their own benefit.
People were gainfully employed during that period, and are receiving generous severance by any measure. The alternative is that those people aren’t employed at all, or working in another job that might be just as risky. Crypto has a lot to do with it: The industry itself is known for its volatility, so there’s some expectation that they took up the role with an understanding of the risks to those tenure.

This isn’t a McDonald’s or Walmart hiring unskilled labour at low rates, knowing full well that people are replaceable.
> since those tend to run at a sustained max anyway

Really? I've never been on the cloud-provider side of cloud computing, but every application I've developed that ran on the cloud was rarely if ever running at a sustained maximum of the resources allocated to it. We always wanted a buffer to be able to absorb load spikes and users performing unusually expensive actions.
A paywall is just someone else's way of telling me they don't want me to read their content. I accept that, and move on.
Not so much stupid as the decoupling from nuclear before moving away from fossil fuels.
You can put a wealth tax on billionaires without putting taxes on poverty level workers ($500/month in the US).

You're making bizarre nonsensical arguments here--slippery slope, strawman, etc.
Why is it whenever someone suggests we should avoid dangerous drugs and crime, someone responds with "But the rich!" as if that is some kind of clever retort?

Elon Musk isn't why you went to prison for assault or selling fentanyl.
Given the volume of the data and previous experience, the disks would restore the computer into the same state as when the were created, including all the user files at the time.
Shit, I'd immediately retire
All of those extra keys, and no left/right/up/down arrow keys. Crazy.
> This says a lot about what these rules are for and what they accomplish imo.

Civil discussion even when people strongly disagree with each other?
This is probably a naive question, but could this be mitigated by fencing a part of code by some “frequency fence” of some sorts? This is of course a long-term mitigation as it may require compiler support, may affect performance and other threads and whatnot, but I wonder what a proper solution would look like.
The teams I want to watch are 6 and 4 hours (3 and 2 states) away.

Edit: Here is a blackout map to see what teams are blacked out where: https://library.sportingnews.com/2021-08/mlb-blackout-map-em...
> which better alternative? It's not like there really is one

The "no alternative" argument is never a good one. We call it "Bad Faith"
in philosophy.

There is always an alternative.

Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre put it roughly as:

Even when you are on your knees with a gun to head, you still have a
choice. You can choose to die.

Few people today have the courage to embrace such a tough philosophy,
but not understanding at least the principle subtracts so much from
your life. Total inauthenticity means living as a shadow, "pretending
to be yourself" (some pale "acceptable" version of yourself).

This article is better than the dry Wikipedia one in my opinion [1].

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201203...
Sorry. not quite sure what you are asking if I took a DHEA-S test or checked my Estradiol levels? Estrogen levels were high, currently taking 1mg of Anastrozole weekly for that.
What happened to all the people pushing organic fertilizers? Why don't they source more of that?
Is this actually real news to anybody?

The so-called disinformation-prone conspiracy-theorists have been strongly emphasizing the problem of plastics and chemicals in the water having a negative affect on testosterone and sperm counts for many, many years. So why is this being reported on more just now?

And beyond the science, what are the real social consequences of lower testosterone and sperm counts? You could look at lower birth rates particularly in developed nations, and less natural male aggression leading to a more docile and controllable population. Just an observation.
Actually people want to know about the street homeless and if they are being housed. You are being holier than thou
That is my reading of the text on the linked page.

>We have demonstrated how a clever attacker can use a novel chosen-ciphertext attack against SIKE to perform full key extraction via remote timing, despite SIKE being implemented as “constant time”.
Their API at least regularly times out for me. Probably half of them are in the server room with a fire extinguisher at all times.
I disagree with your "just talk it out bro" characterization. And the mess legacy companies finds themselves in is real.

>Inspired with a new idea of how this software could be built better than originally specified? Keep it to yourself so you don’t mess up the timeline.

>Bludgeon people with the estimate enough, and they’ll soon learn to game the system. They’ll overestimate complexity to buy themselves more time. They’ll slow down when they’re progressing too quickly so they don’t set future expectations too high. Smart people would be foolish to do any less.

If digital transformation truly matters to a company, the above is a death knell.
quit in terms of US is importing, but the EU is expected to stay strong ideologically.

Look. We all understand that the reaction to the war activistic and ideological. The more time will pass, the more politics will move towards Realpolitik.
Thanks for replying. Which meds? Do you have off days?
Why is the rock yours? How did your family attain ownership of it? If the rock means little to you, why should you have it rather than the cult that actually values it? What if the cult wants to preserve the rock but you want to destroy it even though that will cause great pain to those who care about it? Why should you have permanent ownership of a rock just because your parents had it?
This strawman parable is so elegant in its contrivance that it deserves a Nebula Award.
There is a black mirror episode about this which then extends into a whole robotic replacement for a lost loved one. As with all black mirror episodes, it’s pretty dystopian.
I think there is some confusion. Apple is not making MLS games available as part of AppleTV+ - the streaming service - it will be available as a channel that you pay extra for within the AppleTV app.

And the AppleTV app is available on most streaming devices including the AppleTV hardware device.
> For this it's simple to wrap them at return site in something that offers `HTTPStatus() int` and check for implementing that interface, not any concrete types, in your handler.

It's not though, the return site is inside the go stdlib. I cannot annotate it with new methods.

The only way to figure out how to translate all errors (whether to status codes or to other readable messages in localized languages) is to read the code and figure out what errors it might return.

> you want everyone to return wide error interfaces so you can categorize the entire universe of possible errors as you want. In the end this isn't a technical problem, it's an "I want everyone to cater for my use case" problem.

This is a technical problem. In Rust, libraries define error types and return "Result<T, MyErrorType>", which lets a library author decide what errors are interesting or not. If I think they have not classified an error that is useful for a caller, I can file an issue.

In java, exceptions have types, and I can know what types of checked exceptions a function might throw, and can similarly ask for more specific exceptions, or modify the library to provide them.

In go, _every_ library, due to go's error handling idioms and some mis-features of nils/type-inference, returns the most useless error type possible, the 'error' type, and I have to constantly read docs or code to figure out what types it might be.

I don't see how this isn't a technical issue with the language that, at the type-system level, it makes it an anti-pattern to return concretely typed errors in a way the type system can recognize them.

I don't agree with how you're characterizing what I'm saying as being "catering to my use-case".

Do you just never actually need to classify an error? Is it somehow weird to want to be able to provide a localized error to a user? Doesn't everyone have these problems too?
Yup its easy to add an image in the logseq editor, and have the image included in the bundle where you self host it.
Sorry if I wasn't clear - I don't think Tesla has materially more/less issues than other automakers at this point.

However their approach is to try to deny/deflect/weasel out/muscle through in a way that legacy automakers have largely stopped doing, at least when it comes to safety issues.

This is where I think its going to come to a head, possibly within the current administration that clearly has shown no love for Musk.
100x of the average net-worth in the 50km radius of their primary residence.
That is a major plot point in Margin Call, which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: https://youtu.be/zn2Xf9hAFcE?t=461
As the author of a gist that trashes on fork(), I do nonetheless use it, usually early in daemons' lives:

- to daemonize
- to fork multiple worker processes

And maybe POSIX-ish shells should use fork() for subshells, naturally.

But I think that's about it for good uses of fork().

For all process spawning uses of fork() I strongly recommend vfork() or posix_spawn() instead.
If your cryptographic library is not constant time then it is already vulnerable. This new attack is able to target the even previously unaffected constant time libraries - that's why they call it out specifically in their FAQ, but this is saying that _all_ cryptographic libraries are vulnerable to timing/side channel attacks (when running on processors which don't have these performance features disabled).
Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?
In my experience, the most consistent way to get useful feedback on side projects or prototypes is to engage with people where they already are (Show HN posts for instance, or certain subreddits). My intuition is it would be hard for this kind of site to maintain enough traffic over the long-term for the average submission to actually get feedback. For OP's sake, I hope I'm wrong though!
There is obviously no exact dollar amount. I don't believe everyone should have the same amount, but there should probably be some lower and upper limit. Maybe it is possible to calculate the difference between the two. Perhaps the upper limit would be 10000x that of the lower limit. Just as an example. There being a lower limit also implies some kind of universal basic income. Theoretically partially supplied by the upper limits excess.
Taxes.

You are not getting that much in net salary above certain amount.

Europe is a hellhole if you are a young ambitious individual.
Current goverment policy is to make everyone, beside selected few, poor. So that everyone will be dependent on social programs.

Its terrifying how their every law was to destroy middle and upper middle class.

Its terrifying how polarized and tyrranical their actions towards media and oposition are.

Being totally against immigration is just xenophoby and/or bigotry.
> I've had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance.

You could reasonably ask whether that should be legal at all.
The come-down for me is predictable, short-lived and manageable. Less than an hour of mild deflation and a desire to sit quietly away from company.
So you claim this was the top? I claim there will be an even higher top. Let's see who's right.

> If the former then they haven't gained anything yet

Any asset has risk, including fiat. So no, they did gain already. Or do you expect them to cash out to Bolivar?
Pick at most 2:

Sharing of computing resources

Performance

Security
If you are not using one it is a very bad sign.

All modern cryptographic libraries use various constant time operations.
Subjective, depending how I'm feeling at any particular time.
Billionaires are highly correlated with millionaires, which don't seem to be beyond the pale for critics of wealth inequality. Countries with billionaires rank much higher on quality of life than those without. It hurts to see Bezos and Musk in yachts but the side effect of their wealth is companies like Amazon and Tesla that have a net positive effect on society in terms of products and employment.
If people wanted to get their money out and SBNY had somehow misplaced it, it would seem like the “scam” was the “legitimate, regulated” SBNY, not “cryptocurrency”
I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm saying that you might not be able to practically do so. Anyone who doesn't want young employees will just `s/young/inexperienced/g` and thwart your law.
I'm sure that the techniques used in Whonix can reduce the number of valuable features used in fingerprinting but you can't "solve" fingerprinting without every single user switching over to something like this.
Ask HN: What % of dev effort do you target for features vs. maint vs. bugs?
> but the "no blackouts" thing is big

Wow missed that - very big deal

I have the MLB package and blackouts drive me nuts - I’m not even in the Bay Area, but close enough to not be able to watch Giants or A’s home games,

Than it’s already starting to fragment: some Friday games on AppleTV, some weekend games on Peacock

And MLB.tv doesn’t carry playoff games
Of course. It's also better than solving problems with pen and paper.
Oddly enough I joined AWS not too long ago and while the job itself sucks, my manager is exceptionally awesome. In fact I only interviewed with AWS as kind of a half-joke, but he was so likeable that it convinced me to take it seriously. He has a healthy "fuck em" attitude when it comes to pressure from outside the team, so he's constantly protecting us in a multitude of ways (e.g. during on-call rotations or deadlines being imposed on us). He has yet to do a single thing that I would consider micro-management.
It's a sleight-of-hand to shift blame for NASA's failure to articulate a mission to Nixon.
> cartels preying on the homeless as opioid cash cows

People experiencing homelessness doesn't seem like an obvious source of cash.
If it's the one built into your language stdlib, then you almost certainly are. Crypto libraries that are not constant time tend to not pass audits.
Exactly.

Move fast and break things is a good strategy when your product isn't a few tons of steel, moving fast, capable of breaking people and things.

For things like the infotainment screen, or panel gaps, an annoyance.

For driver input controls and the ADAS software - very very serious.
As one example, SSL uses constant-time crypto operations, so the answer to this question is an almost universal "yes"
A spike in food prices. We can probably weather it OK in the developed world, but last time something like this happened it helped kick off the Arab Spring. Abrupt, large changes in quality of life tend to spark revolutions. They usually get people killed, and often don't result in a more-liberal government taking power.
For the Blue Jays, the blackout applies to the entire country.
And there are certain geographic badluck regions in the US where one can get blacked out from several teams despite not being close to them. Especially when it's a national broadcast [1]

Also, the marketing at MLB used to be really bad a few years ago -- it seemed to be deliberately targeting home team fans and leaving out the fact that they would not be able to watch their home team.

[1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/baseball/2021...

"Currently, six MLB teams are blacked out all across Iowa: the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers. Those teams are not available to watch with an MLB.tv subscription or when they are often aired on national broadcasts. Some of those clubs are not available on Iowa’s main cable packages either."

"Additionally, some parts of Iowa are more than 500 miles from several of those blacked-out MLB teams."
Yeah, I worked at a UK bank and was given gardening leave even when I left to start a (somewhat orthogonal) competitor. Actually, they didn't even insist that I served out my leave before starting work. It's an odd system.
Yes, companies are hiring for competency not tenure or years of life lived while holding job.

Oh I wasn't trying to say that this knowledge was valuable or not. I was just pointing out that you seem surprised that experienced people wouldn't be able to provide a good answer to that question. And the answer is that in many jobs, its not useful knowledge.
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FF on Linux.

Ok in FF on Android.
> The best mindset is that you could be gone tomorrow.

I find this a bit too cynical.., that said, it's also a good mental spot to not let your job define you define your job as much as possible. You try to make everything that you enjoy on a daily basis(hopefully you still have that possibility). Tasks that grow your skillset, new things, any reason.. so that if you're let go.. there's very few days you didn't profit.
Not investing fast enough because of short term costs
It won’t recover for at least a decade.

My opinion/current stance: bearish. Maybe some futures.

Example: short semiconductor. Buying neon futures.

Also: we might see the end of ‘work’ as we know it in America.
In my opinion this is what greed does to people. Doesn't matter your background. Armstrong was here on HN pointing out his vision of free exchange of currency at close to zero rates. He wanted to fight "the big guys", including credit cards mafia and PayPal mafia. What A WONDERFUL goal.

What he ended up with, is obnoxious exchange rates @ Coinbase (triple what credit cards charge), hundreds of thousands of ruined lives, lots of suicides, and $100 million dollar mansion.

What A RECORD.

Don't get me wrong - I would love to live Armstrong's life (although I wouldn't be this shrewd), but as someone who believes in heaven and hell, I definitely would not want to die as Armstrong.
> If you can sell a $1000 item that costs $10 to make, you should deserve the profit.

Why are you viewing it like that, and not "if you can make a $1000 pie for $20 worth of materials, you deserve the profit"? What if the worker could have sold the pie directly for $900, but wasn't given the opportunity because they couldn't access the $10 of materials for whatever reason?

By what possible reason are you putting the entire profit on the person contracting the work?
The 'S' in 'RSA' is Adi Shamir, who has spent a lot of his career analyzing side-channel attacks. It is especially a problem with special-purpose cryptographic hardware because it tends to be within a small multiple of 'just enough' hardware to do the task. It's a lot easier to spot a 2% increase in processing time (or for that matter, current draw) when the hardware only runs one task, and the task is dominated by CPU time rather than other factors.

But analysis tools only get better over time, so the scenarios where they are useful multiply.
He provides no solid foundation from which to work on. It's basically 'just talk it out and figure it out yourself'. Most companies don't have the idealistic teams he envisions where everyone is happy and collaborative. The teams might not even be in the same timezone today.
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The European response to the war is populist and, as you say, self-destructive.

But economies and people can only suffer to a limited extent. EU will return to Realpolitik soon.

Let's face it, the whole bashing of Russia as a "regional power" was idiotic and wrong on the same level as starting the Ukraine war and believing they would win it within a week.

Edit: stop downvoting. How silly are you?