skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author does not mention the major reason I care which is that allowing others to know what we are doing, thinking, saying, where we are going.. either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess.. which leads to the imbalances we have today of the haves and have nots of data.

The people who say big tech already has so much data on them so why care are missing the valence of time. What you did, thought, said.. last year is much less valuable and useful than what you are doing today.
ahh brilliant! I was just linking off to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/we_build_muck_s/ which is Jeff Barr's recap of Bezos' pitch at the time
For what it's worth Gnome also has an HIG: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/

And they have claimed in the past to have done UX testing with actual users.
Nukes are themselves ramshackle Rube Goldberg contraptions.

They will all be mothballed by 2050 as their power cost is increasingly and, finally, overwhelmingly undercut by solar.
Yes, I agree, it is 'different'. You phrased it as a hypothetical, and I am telling you that many examples exist.
Kit homes, prefab, premade steel, off the plan all exist. Minimal labour may be close to where we are. Varies by economy how much this is done. Down here in Oz tamawood are selling identical homes from a small set of plans, in germany prefab is huge, it's on "grand designs" a lot: complete wall sections with plumbing and wiring and windows and insulation predicted, slot together.
Does this mean you could use a time crystal to efficiently measure time accurately, by counting the number of cycles? I know we do that with quartz oscillators but those need energy input to keep oscillating.
Look suspicious in what way?
Acquisitions Handbook – Gitlab
Why stop specifically at USSR? Why not go further back in history and call this a unification of Kievan Rus’?
I meant what I said. I don't enjoy having my time wasted. Efficiency is satisfying.
Doesn't this work?

cp db.sqlite3 backup.sqlite3
echo .dump tablename |sqlite3 db.sqlite3 >old.sql
vi old.sql # make changes, ensure pragma FOREIGN_KEYS=off; drop table before insert
sqlite3 db.sqlite3 <old.sql
Points for being kind-of true.

First off, let's establish that the oft-abused H1-Bs have salary minimums that put them in the top 5% of earners in the United States and in most cases the top 99.9(999)% of earners in their home countries.

Second, the visas don't prevent you from seeking employment through other employers, but at certain phases of your status here between visa, green card and resident it will reset your timetable.

Third, while the timetable for people from say India is absurdly long, from many other nations it is much much shorter.

Fourth, at all times visa holders have the loophole of getting married to get a better visa. Most people living somewhere for an extended period of time at least have the social skill to negotiate setting up a family (citation: the continued survival of the human race). Even if you marry another immigrant, both visa-holders have the convenience of opting to use the shortest schedule table between both nations. You'll often see, for example, Indian visa holders marrying Australian visa holders...The current schedule for new Indian applications is like 35+ years while the Australian schedule is ~5.

So yes, there are people in somewhat abusive situations. They stay in them because it's still an opportunity that puts them ahead of at least 95% of the world's population. Is that like indentured servitude or slavery? No, not really.
The content of my comments is highly context-dependent. The poster who replied that it may not be the journalist's bias which led to the formulation, was right. It may or may not be due to bias. I'm willing to cede that I do not know this journalist personally, to be able to confidently say it was due to bias. I would personally bet that there's some degree of anti-Amazon/anti-big tech bias somewhere in the chain that led to the production of this article, but it's something that's hard to know for sure. I can only observe broad trends that usually show these types of formulations always leaning in one direction. This broad 'bias' is a major reason the media has lost so much trust.

Formulation: MAX(Group A) > MIN(Group B) . I often notice that some types of groups/entities always find themselves having the MIN function applied to their case, and others always have the MAX function applied to theirs.

You are also right that deadlines/school pickups aren't the main problem with media. I don't believe that to be true, I was just using that as an example because the poster I was replying to did. When we think about what a better version of the media could look like, those shouldn't be excuses.
This video of the UNIX OS: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0
India bans its government employees from using VPN, Google Drive, and Dropbox
Another use case: verifying natural language requirements. As an example: http://slra1.baselines.cloud
I enjoy a lot of literature. I've just fallen out of love with Ulysses; The more I understood the more I felt the author was just trying to show off.

Clearly it's not worthless or we wouldn't be talking about it a hundred years later. But when you say it's "better," what is your measure of quality?
I’ll point you to my related comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31784639

I understand that your interest is strictly and solely on policing my language. Good job “catching” me being publicly rude! I almost got away with it!

It is genuinely a bummer that you refuse to address the actual topic of this thread, namely the conspiracy to ban somebody from linkedin!
> Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024

robots are the answer. or less consumption. or both.
So I take it you're not a Christian then -- that's fine I respect your convictions even if I do not share them.

After all, Jesus hung out with prostitutes and appointed his disciple Paul, a murder, as a leader in his church. If Jesus could accept a reformed murderer, who am I to judge.
See any HN thread on airplanes, education, historical warfare…
We can probably feed everyone given expected population growth through 2050 with a lot of work, unless there is some huge disaster: https://www.wri.org/insights/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion.... Item 4 talks about encouraging people to voluntarily lower fertility rates and items 14-15 are about fishing.

But we'll have to treat the entire planet as a tool for our use and that's sad, putting it mildly. The ocean used to be brimming with life and now we treat it like a food factory and a road for our ships and talk about dead zones and garbage islands. There's no humane way back but we can mourn what we've lost.
This is why except for very specific cases criminal background checks must be abolished. This way people can restart their lives without people like yourself haunting them for the rest of their lives. And no, I've never been in "the system"
I am actually having to learn about SAT solvers. Is there any newbie friendly resource you think might help?
> The loan was paid back early and did exactly what it was supposed to do (incentivize alternative energy company creation). I think they may have even paid an early payment penalty to be done with it? So it wasn't a bailout at all.

Do you know why he paid back early? In the contract the DOE would have had some ownership in Tesla after the payoff period. He paid it early so that the Tax Payer wouldn't benefit from the deal. It would have been a better deal for the US Tax Payer for him to have not paid it back early. It should be clear to anyone owning TSLA stock that we, as the public got screwed there.

And yes, it was a bailout. The government was trying to create a EV market and Tesla was about to fail. The market for EVs just didn't exist at that point and the DOE LPO had a driving mission to create one. So they bailed Tesla out because they wanted a market (notice private equity didn't believe in Tesla succeeding, otherwise Musk would have raised the cash from the private markets).

This is how governments create markets, by paying for technology until the market matures. This is true of Computers and other high technology.

If the government didn't care to create an EV market, Tesla would have been dead a long time ago. Is this Musk's genius or the genius of our policy makers?

SpaceX is exactly the same story. The government wanted a private space industry and so NASA was given a mission to create one. SpaceX is barely surviving now even with the government help.

And of course we have no idea what kind of bribery Musk must have participated in to get the loans and contracts he did from the government. I'm sure time will reveal them. But It's naive to think there wasn't anything.
Maybe because those 4 countries were run by oppressive dictators and however stupid the invasions were (Afghanistan: 20 years of money burning and Taliban are back in power, Iraq: epic clusterfuck), civilized people weren't going to be offended that much about attempts to topple dictators. But well, let's see you equalize Zelensky with brutal dictators in your reply, or is it because the anti-Russia media's been brainwashing the rest of us?

You seem to have twisted reality so much that your reply will probably just frustrate me because I'm sure you'll manipulate yourself to not understand my point. Maybe it would have been easier to downvote you to put the frustration in your court...
You just rinse them in a bowl of water.
Axios.
Free. More objective than most.
I don't get why it's surprising. Any regular structure has resonance modes: struck a bridge or a violin and it will keep vibrating in a time-periodic fashion. Most structures are leaky and lose that initial energy quickly. Crystals are super-regular, nearly perfect macroscopic structures, so they lose energy slowly, and if the periodic motion only involves electrons in the crystal, the motion will conserve energy almost perfectly and may keep going for billions of years.
I’m not questioning YCs business model. I’m calling out the hypocrisy of people who say that “companies who can’t afford to pay their employees a livable wage and stay in business don’t deserve to exist” while many people here work for companies who are only able to pay their wages even though they work at non profitable companies because they are being propped up by VC funding.
Fork those apps, remove GTK, add Qt.
I thought I had understood moths vs bats a long time ago.

Then I read https://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-... after watching Steve Blank's amazing talk on the Secret History of Silicon Valley. (About an hour long, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo, and well worth it.)

Yeah, moths are designed to be hard to echolocate. But bats find them anyways. The moth knows the bat is coming - they have ears as well. And finally the moth rubs its legs together, making a loud sound to deafen the bat, and then randomly dodges.

The bat knows the moth will do this, but has to guess which way at the critical moment, so only gets the moth half the time.
Contrary to popular opinion, it is possible for an individual to somewhat confidently conclude that X helps them as an individual without checking it against large randomized trials.

It's handwavy about some things but it doesn't assert anything beyond "I did this list of things and I, as an individual, am better now."
Well, yes, it's the difference between punitive vs restorative justice.

But the thing about prisons is that they aren't good as a punishment, either. Indeed, they came about as a supposedly "corrective" alternative to the more punitive approach. In practice, to punish someone by locking them up, you have to make the terms so long that the effects linger in their lives long after. Furthermore, locking random people up with career criminals for long periods of time is a wonderful way to turn them into the same.

If we really just want to punish people, let's bring back corporal punishment and be done with it. Ah, but that's considered barbaric - and yet somehow locking someone up for years is not?..
> Nuclear power does not produce cheap, emission-free and reliable electricity

Fixed that for you. Nukes produce the most expensive electricity of all. Always have, counting subsidies. Their value proposition gets even worse each day, as renewables cost continues on down. They will be mothballed soon as too expensive to continue operating at all, as people choose to buy cheaper power elsewhere.

As the amount of time they can find a market for power declines, their cost per delivered KWh multiplies without bound.
When one of my physics class mates told me he was reading topology at the age of 7, I knew I would never make it with my mere hard work. I still love physics but I’m glad I never tried academia. I would have been chewed up
The trickle-down effects of such a radical move are going to be interesting. All VPN providers are exiting India. What happens to privacy, slowly destroyed due to collateral damage?
There was never any in crypto either. Anyone who thought so is just as stupid as the HN'ers that think cryptocurrencies are bogus. Thinking a few over leveraged crypto companies getting wiped out will destroy cryptocurrencies is laughable.
When the offense in question shouldn't be an offense in the first place, it really doesn't matter.
Lol, not yet it seems
given that TS is one of the most popular languages of all time, i'd say that works :) thanks!

although a website isn't as "permanent" as a blogpost or talk which is kinda what im looking for but hey i'll take anything for my inspo
I’d start doing any kind of hobby that doesn’t involve a screen. You may already have a couple hobbies already but it doesn’t hurt to explore new ones.
where's the "faith" part linked to the threat of violence?
Thereby creating the incentive to punish more crimes with death, since that's how the "law-abiding citizens" will ensure a steady supply of organs to prolong their lives.
China should ban those products.

/s
That would result in an economy with huge deflation: People consuming the bare minimum of apples needed for survival because their gold savings would appreciate each year in value.
No, odds are that you see the world in black and white when that's not how people are.
As far as i can tell from the article, they’re banning the use of such services for doing government business, which seems pretty reasonable
I deeply respect this.

Actually, point of fact - this is one of humanity's most honest historical tomes.
I'm guessing people think this is snark. but I do generally mean it. If something is worth condemning some one to prison for it's worth lawyering it for free.

That no one can imagine some one prosecuting a thief pro bono should be a clue
Seems to me like unemployment is stuck at 10%.
That made me chuckle. You might like: https://keshikomisimulator.com/ from Patrick McKenzie.
1. What would look like progress to you? What are the things in your life that you would like to improve?

2. What do you think needs to be done to achieve those goals?

We will all probably agree on 1. But disagree on how to achieve those goals
No idea what a good score is, got 431160 on my first go. My only rule was attempting to keep inflation at 1%, if it went over I raised, if it went under I lowered.
I never correlated income with punctuality.

I correlated lack of punctuality with overrepresentation in low-wage+low-skill jobs.

There are also plenty of high-social status, skilled, low-income jobs that are thoroughly dominated by the upper classes, like college professors, journalists, rank & file media/fashion, and orchestra musicians. Those jobs are not low-skill and people in them tend to show up to work.
Do they prepay 10 years of naming rights? Or is the city obliged to find a new namer asap if a bankruptcy happens?
Oxfam serves up a lot of dodgy statistics: numbers are more polemic than useful
As a key:value store this makes sense.

However modern data stores need to do more than just store values with known keys. The most popular stores support some sort of query system that implies the database itself can make sense of the data. However when the data is encrypted this is no longer possible as the data store cannot make any sense if the stored information.

I’d love to see something that could support queries on encrypted data without comprising privacy. I just don’t know how that would be possible.
The Death of the Public
We can't look for aliens that are so alien we can't recognize their intelligence. There's little point in waxing philosophical about those theoretical intelligences when the scale of the universe suggests if we exist then there probably a decent probability of other intelligences like us.

We know our solar system produced us and there's hundreds of millions similar to ours. With a limited budget it only makes sense to look for the low hanging fruit, intelligences we have a high likelihood of recognizing.

Just as an example, one of the reasons to look for SETI in the molecular hydrogen bands is the sky is filled with those signals from natural sources. The moment you build a radio telescope you detect those emissions. Anyone wanting to map the structure of the galaxy will be mapping molecular hydrogen emissions. So if you want to fire off an interstellar beacon doing so on a frequency alien astronomers will already be looking at is a very good use of your radio antenna time.
The full article title is "LUMI, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation". It's an irrational response, but I find it difficult to trust an article about a computer "solving global challenges" and "promoting a green transformation". The English usage is wrong and that makes me wonder whether the content of the article is correct.
What is a good score tho, to get some idea of if you did OK or not? A few people mentioned 400-450k, is that average?

Where's the dam leader board ;)
In the specific case of batch processing, I hear you. Machine time is extremely cheap compared to engineer time.

Then there are interactive programs. With a human potentially waiting on it. Someone's whose time may be just as valuable as the engineer's time (morally that's 1/1, but even financially the difference is rarely more than a single order of magnitude). If you have as few as 100 users, shaving off seconds off their work is quickly worth a good chunk of your time.

Machine time is cheap, but don't forget that user's time is not.
Kind of tangential but what we came of Yanis Varoufakis’s study of game world economics?

There was a lot of excitement about it being real and not just a model and real and not being statistical.
Sure, and the beginning of WW2 in Europe was reestablishment of the Holy Roman Empire?! So that was also a "civil war", shut up and take notes!
I think it's mostly pointless to put more than a basic minimum amount of effort into protecting your own privacy (e.g. sensible social media settings). There are too many surreptitious means of getting your info.

Instead we need to focus our efforts on political action. Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets.
Why are there Gym Men on my SoundCloud?
Interesting. I settled on the same strat after a few ticks of seeing what was possible, and got 442524.

I haven't looked at the code, but I guess it's fairly consistent then.
That's true, and there were only the three commercial networks and PBS (as of the 1970s) on which to catch appearances.

Radio was somewhat more open, and Asimov writes of hearing (and not recognising) his own voice coming from the radio in his autobiography (his wife clued him in).

That said, I just searched Invidious for any appearances of Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most notable current science fiction authors, on any of the late-night shows (Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon) ... and there's nothing. Though tons of other videos featuring KSR:

https://yewtu.be/search?q=%22kim+stanley+robinson%22+%28kimm...
It’s fascinating to learn about how deep the game of cat and mouse goes. It gives me deep appreciation for evolution and long timescales.
Now we need more hydrogen vehicles!!
That's an un-nuanced take. The NYT or WP Editorials aren't? I will say things have improved but look at the headlines throughout 2020 and 2021, at least on U.S. social topics, of the NYT. The editorial page spilled outside of the opinion section. Almost every article about any topic, from domestic policies to art to education or health, was about an identity issue. BTW, Brett Stephens almost got booted, as the staff revolted, if you recall.

However I'm not going to defend the WSJ - I'm only going to point out that you're overlaying your own political litmus tests and establishing a spectrum that reasonable people can disagree with. It doesn't matter if you polled 200 articles, because your criteria are debatable (along with Trump = fascism, and I loathe Trump).

Fascism is something you could define objectively with agreed definitions with a historical context: there are philosophical underpinnings and political programs. Fascism as a label is not subject to arbitrary definitions outside of student activist circles.
The big guest Jon for me is, in 2022, why write UI code in C? (I say this as one who contributed to GNOME a little (all icons) back in like ’98–’02 and who writes high-performance C++ professionally.)
Glad to read that they removed this in iOS 11
In and of itself, yes. But there's a real risk (far from a certainty, but a real risk) that it will cause some kind of crisis of confidence in the markets more broadly that could result in a much more catastrophic crash.
All of it will happen at the same time, different places.
How beginner friendly is this course? Any math prerequisites?
Paying people for their work tautologically costs more than not paying them. YOu need evidence for that?
If you know what you are indexing by, you can use a bloom filter. However, this gives an attacker information they otherwise wouldn’t have. It’s trade offs, as usual.
Well, I'll check who gets rid of all undefined overflows first. 2's complement is nice and dandy, but if overflow is still undefined that doesn't buy me much.

Point taken about multi threading.
3d printing technology for buildings already exists and works, good chance of that becoming very disruptive (it's only become commercially viable in the last couple of years AIUI).
Why would this be any different for a legal immigrant?
Along with that, they are also asking all VPN providers to store data for 5 years.

This is a slippery slope.

Next thing you know, to register for your next dose of COVID vaccination, you need to install the government provided VPN service to access the government portal.
> That's like demonizing computer manufacturers because computers are inextricably linked to cybercrime.

Is the vast majority of computer use for the explicit and sole purpose of cybercrime? If so, this is news to me. It's more like demonizing the dark web since its main function is to facilitate crime.

The primary purpose of GMOs is to increase herbicide usage. This isn't some philosophical argument; this is how GMOs are actually used. How can you separate a tool from it's primary usage? To me, an honest discussion of GMOs requires one to leave abstract notions behind and consider the context of GMOs in modern agriculture. This context is overwhelmingly centered around herbicides. If you remove herbicide-resistant GMOs for the discussion, there's barely a point in having it all because what remains is so insignificant.
I'm going to say it is a metaphor for US international policy[1] and if you say, "that's just how international politics works" or "but that's not imprisonment" I'm going to make a face.

1. IMF policy, and the sheer number of US-backed coups in the global south.