skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia Juul was founded in July of 2017, in December of 2018 Altria bought a 35% share valuing the Juul company at $38 billion. So A. I think they would have had some influence and B. Altria just didn't notice all this apparent mismanagement of a company that continued operating until now, 3+ years later?
> My conclusion is that the whole digital circuit design industry is ripe for disruption by open source...

I've seen this claim many times before, but I never see any proposals about exactly how that would happen.

All open source FPGA tools that exist today are good enough for fun hobby projects (I use them every once in a while), but none of them have the additional features that are needed in the real world.

When pressed about it, people point to 50GB downloads, bad GUIs, and bugs in the tooling. Not that these aren't issues, but if that's all you can point to, then I don't see where the disruption will come from? In order to have that many bugs and 50GB of tools download, you need tons of code to begin with, and the functionality that it implements.

Right now, that's not there, and it very likely never will. It's such a niche domain.
Not sure how I'd feel about have 1km ethernet links without monitoring-- in particular, being able to catch pre-fail stats getting worse when it's wet out and being able to TDR the interface remotely so when it fails I've got some idea if it was cut near one end or the other before I go out to fix it.
In the pocket of the same people who ruined the world in 2008

In an attempt to stop inflation, central banks, yet again, ruined their own people

The people with the money probably went investing in Asia instead
case in point why CBDC will likely dominate the "market cap" longterm?

"market cap" because we don't think of fiat that way, more as "amount in circulation"
After that font privacy discussion earlier in the week I set Firefox to render everything using a system font.

Now I want to turn fonts back on just to see the design you are complaining about.

Every site looks Brutalist when you render everything in Courier Pro :)
This is also explained in the footer, though confused readers might not reach it:

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This story, believe it or not, is the very familiar fable of Little Red Riding Hood. This curious version was written in 1940 by a professor of French named H. L. Chace, who wanted to show his students that intonation - that is, the melody of a language - is an integral part of its meaning. The words here are all common English words, but not the ones you'd expect to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
> sad but true: learn "yes" then learn blame other grugs when fail, ideal career advice

This is a big part of the general career skills I teach interns when I'm mentoring. Learn how to not lose the game of musical chairs. When a project is clearly going to immanently collapse under its own weight, change teams before it happens.
It may all be people, but some of those people have spent an inordinate amount of time learning the current state of the art in a particular field, and contributed new information to help advance the state of the art in (mostly microscopic) ways. We call those people “scientists.”

(People without that monomaniacal background and focus still write about science, but they’re prone to making basic errors. We call them “journalists.”)
If it's so bad, you're welcome to write your applications in vanilla JavaScript, with no shims, in flat files without modules calling 1998 era DOM APIs.

There's a reason most people don't, however.
I hope you don't think sex is the only way to make an interpersonal connection...
I use them, purely as the are very convienant and have low annoyance for people around me (smell on myself, smell in the air, smoke, ect).

I have tried but nothing else comes close for consuming extracts When outside my house.
Can't mention any good use cases, downvoter?
>Inclined to oppose vaccine mandates
>Despite triple-shot, got infected

This implies you lack a critical understanding of how vaccines (covid in this case) work, so yes, you are inclined to being anti-vaxx.

The covid vaccine mandates were about lowering the viral R0 to keep ICUs from overflowing, not to prevent you from becoming infected.
Most of the cloud drives work just fine.
grug read one sentence, grug feel smarter already. grug read next sentence, grug feel smart on different subject. grug hope have one sentence in inbox every day. or maybe little bird chirp sentence at grug. but no complex, just many subject.
Have you checked https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/
Or their applications of AI to their products are so transparent to the level where you cannot recognize? I'm pretty sure that their revenue will drop by more than half without their machine learning infrastructure.
Serious question.

With the data that companies have already sucked up on lots of people, there's technically little in the way of them creating such "mimics". Is there anything legally preventing them from doing so without a family's consent once the person is deceased? Given they've already got legal access to the deceased's data (presumably e.g. through their social media subscriptions), who (if anyone) "owns" the person's "tone of voice", "style of speaking", "visual likeness", and "bundle of personality traits"? If such things are somehow copyrightable, then surely every comedian doing an impersonation routine is in breach.

I can imagine someone salivating at the thought of all those rich veins of personalities you could harvest on the internet e.g. your uncle that did that cringeworthy tik-tok that went viral (god rest his soul), who has now been turned in an immortal AI "bumbling fool" for e.g. advertising purposes.

I don't like this timeline.
Indeed, you know those HR meetings that we always pretend to care and believe the company mission, while commenting afterwards with your co-workers how cringe it all sounded? Does that not happen in Silicon Valley?

What I learned is that people in Silicon Valley actually do drink the Kool-Aid. They may come from top universities, be technically knowledgeable, make a million dollars a year but yeah, I can't think of a more charitable word than "moron".
When there are orders of magnitude more people working with C++ compare to Haskell or Prolog, I would hesitate to call it "esoteric." The problem with C++ is everyone uses their own little dialect, ranging from little more than C with classes / nicer syntax, to every new "modern" feature under the sun.
>and probably not even 10% the performance lol

roughly ~60% if you compare the raw Geekbench scores

M2 1919/8928 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15482594

This Thinkpad 1118/5776 https://youtu.be/Us2fSmD99PU?t=401

Just to a comparison the last i7 MBP 1219/4451 https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-13-inch-mid-2...

I'll probably get one cause I love Thinkpads ^^
The main advice I'd give is don't follow the steps about port forwarding and public DNS if you are noob. If you are just playing around with things, you don't need to put it on the public internet, you can just access it over your local network none of those concerns really apply. Other than that, update software regularly because that malicious traffic can only hurt you if you are vulnerable. Otherwise it is just noise in your logs.
> you don't understand how vaccines work and are antivax, full stop.

To quote the GGP: People get applied unrepresentative negative labels because they ask questions, challenge points, have different opinions or simply take principled stances.

Your comment: Q.E.D.

> Their individual effects are far less potent without the herd effects.

Herd immunization was estimated to be reached with 60-70% of vaccination. I'd be totally in favor of as much campaigning as possible to get to those levels. I was rushing to get the vaccines whenever I could just to contribute to this number.

At the same time, I don't think it is morally justified to force anyone to inject a substance in their bodies.

Even if the number was higher, I was still encouraging people to get the vaccine. Even when it was clear that vaccine was not that effective to stop infection or reduce spread, I would still tell people "at least it can help you to build up your own immunity". But I would never defend the idea people should be forced or compelled to get the vaccine.
> ”Complex” code is just as simple to reason about, but being more expressive, it requires more intimate knowledge of the language features and abstractions used.

> Then there is ”bad” code, which is confusing for reasons other than domain complexity.

I've previously seen these two summarized as "the difference between complex and complicated".
Visiting HN quite often recently because I’m working on a HN client lol
This is wonderful news! When trying to explain software to people who aren’t familiar with it, I love to use the example of people editing a letter to talk about edit conflicts, and then a mail-merge to explain objects. Lately, some 20-something started looking at me funny because they had no idea that was a thing. There are other examples, but that one is simple and effective.
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not who, what. grug make fun spirit of complexity, but many time grug git blame who summon spirit, see grug summon spirit. grug humility. everyone complexity sometime. grug make fun frontend, put grug write frontend sometime.
Does anyone have any performance benchmarks of the CPU?
Rust has a great approach to memory safety for plenty of use cases, but I personally believe that the future lies with languages that have a more seamless blend between shared mutability and static analysis. Going all-in on borrow-checked single ownership causes a bit too much complexity, in my opinion.

I would be very interested in any advances in the Rust realms that could address the added complexity! I haven't heard much coming from that direction. Polonius sounded like it would remove some edge cases from borrow checking, but it didn't seem like it would really help with the fundamental complexities from borrow checking.
GMO was banned in France after a study was made on rats showing all sort of health issues: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044955/
This article gives me more questions than answers.

- (1) If neon is produced by fractional distillation of air, doesn't that mean it can be produced anywhere? What's stopping someone from building a plant in the US or Europe or China or whatever?

- (2) If neon's a byproduct of nitrogen extraction for fertilizer manufacturing, surely Ukraine's not the only place that produces fertilizer? Are there other existing plants outside the conflict zone that liquify air to get nitrogen for fertilizer, or oxygen for medical or rocket launch purposes, that could be easily modded to extract neon as well?

- (3) Demand is 500k tons per year according to the article and neon is 1 part per 79000 by mass of Earth's atmosphere according to Wikipedia. This means we must be processing 79k x 500k = 39.5M tons of air per year. I don't know enough about industrial gas processing to estimate how big / expensive / many facilities you'd need to process air at that rate?

- (4) It seems like when separating air cryogenically, you'd get not just oxygen, nitrogen and neon, but also CO2 and coldness for free. Once you distill the CO2, couldn't you capture it for environmental reasons or sell it as dry ice or a fire extinguisher?

- (5) You really only care about cooling the air temporarily to make it separate into its component gases. Once it's separated, you let it warm back up again -- but doesn't that waste all the energy you used to cool it down? Since it's not geographically restricted by resource deposits and can be sited anywhere with reasonable infrastructure (adequate electricity and accessibility by pipes, trucks or trains to haul away the gases), can't you put it next to someplace with a constant demand for cooling, like a datacenter, and then pipe the cold gases past the hot servers a few times before compressing them for storage? That way you don't waste all the BTU's you used to cool down the gas.
People who think simple, easy-to-understand systems are beneath them.
The first author's an independent scholar so I don't think that's right.
I mean, TLS 1.1 isn't a good thing, but which <TLS1.3 bugs actually would have impacted Tarsnap? SMACK, maybe? Probably not POODLE, given the ciphersuites you'd have locked down to. Not BERserk (you'd never use NSS). The TLS BB'98 attacks didn't hit any library you'd actually use. No Triple Handshake, since you wouldn't do renegotiation. No BREACH, TIME or CRIME (they don't fit Tarsnap anyways). No RC4 (lol). No Lucky13, for the same reason as no POODLE. No BEAST, because you don't do Javascript. And now we're back to 2007 (or pre-2007) for attacks on TLS.
Hopefully this is the death of the practice of posting long text on Twitter as an image with no alt text. I can't believe it took Twitter this long.
> Innovation has been able to outrun resource depletion for the last 300 years of industrialism.

It did over hundreds of years of EXTREMELY high growth (both in terms of number of people and wealth per person). If growth falls to a positive-but-very-low level, it will make it a lot easier for innovation to keep up.

Also, keep in mind that apart from Uranium, all the atoms on Earth remain here. We don't "use up" atoms at any significant rate. Apart from the atoms themselves, the main challenge is how they're put together. To rearrange how atoms are put together (to create fertilizer, recycle waste, etc), we primarily need energy. And before energy resoures run out, we should be able to produce suffient amounts of energy using either renewables or fusion.

Now fusion could cause us to face a situation where we run out of hydrogen atoms, but at the rate we currently consume energy, that would take practically forever.

In any event, in about a billion years, the sun will become a red giant.
From what I've heard...

- Most dating sites are owned by a single company

- Most dating apps start with a fake user database because building a two-sided matchmaking platform is hard to bootstrap legitimately.

I would start with basic startup literature and ideas (https://startupschool.org).

What makes your dating app different?

Much has been written about dating apps, have you tried diving deep on the troubles they have encountered?
> _THEN_ I want developers from that company to share their opinions about how they do it.

Beware of survivorship bias.

For every successful company using a technique, there might be 10 others using the same technique but running into the ground.

And not sharing the embarassing failure.

Microservices strike me as a pertinent example. It might fit huge companies very well, but not if your customer base might as well be served by a cheap Raspberry Pi.
I'm sorry that you've apparently only worked with bad PMs.
Physicist here, been with the same company for almost 25 years, developing measurement equipment. We have a lot of older scientists and engineers. My impression is that there's no correlation between age and resistance to innovation. Some of the oldest engineers are the ones pushing the hardest for trying new things.

Other possible explanations for the longevity of workers include: 1) It's rewarding, interesting work. If it's not directly improving peoples' lives, at least it's improving something. 2) It's based on principles that are hard to learn and don't change very rapidly, such as math and physics. The engineers who are given the hardest math and theory problems to solve tend to have the grayest hair. 3) The people who know the value of their domain knowledge and experience are also capable of controlling the pace of work so they don't burn out.
> My conclusion is that the whole digital circuit design industry is ripe for disruption by open source, and I'm rather surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Just build a modern design rule checking (DRC) engine with parasitic extractor. That's all you have to do. I eagerly await your release on github.

I agree with you that open source really is the only valid path forward. However, you have to convince some very smart people to join your cause and they expect to be paid up front.
Yes some of the laid off employees are suing Tesla for not providing the legally required advance notice.

https://www.reuters.com/business/tesla-sued-by-former-employ...
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Thankfully this is not totally correct. I personally found grug English to be harder to understand/read as a non-native English reader.
Your comment illustrates my point exactly, and I think your attitude is why payment processors will always remain as powerful as they are.

My position is that payment processors should not be the arbiters of what is allowed to be paid for by humans. I think that is your position too, but because you don't like the way I made my argument, you reply with a snarky and dismissive tone and treat me like I'm dumb.

That banks and other payment processors shouldn't be the rulers of the world is what we all must agree on and fight for if anything is ever going to change. As soon as you say "well in this case they should because I like when they do it to people I dislike," you are effectively saying that they should be all powerful, just as long as their moral compass aligns with yours.
He admitted to it and said he tried to settle earlier and failed.

But yeah, what’s your Coinbase source? Everyone at Coinbase? Because BAT is still listed on Coinbase.
Mistresses do not have all the legal rights of a marriage.
Seriously how hard must be to flag duplicated content from GitHub, Wikipedia and Stack Overflow? Seriously, last week I had a query that returned the exact same content three times on the same page: the first result was a GH issue, and the other two were spam websites with the same content from GH. Google used to be good at flagging and downranking duplicated content, but now they don't even care, it's a shame.
> all the major controversies surrounding genes and intelligence since 1990 have concerned either race differences or dysgenics. In other words: those who’ve limited themselves purely to discussing individual differences have largely avoided scandal. The last three decades could thus be seen as the era behaviour genetics entered the mainstream.

> Steve Pinker’s book The Blank Slate, which expertly debunked the myth that genes don’t matter for intelligence (and other psychological traits), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – arguably the second most prestigious prize in writing. What’s more, both twin and genome-wide association studies studies of intelligence were routinely published in leading journals like Nature Genetics. It was in era in which you could mention in polite company that, actually sir, intelligence is a heritable trait.

> That era may be coming to an end.
Macbook Air M2 1919/8928 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15482594

This Thinkpad 1118/5776 https://youtu.be/Us2fSmD99PU?t=401

Just to a comparison the last i7 MBP 1219/4451 https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-13-inch-mid-2...
Go is a good example, too. Unlike C++ though, the distinction between something with dynamic dispatch (an interface) is a bit more explicit than in C++ (a class with virtual methods, which may not all be virtual). That said, in your example, yeah: if you just pass a stock http.Client around, you lose any ability to mock that short of spinning up a dummy webserver.
Suggestion for https://webauthn.io/ - right now it has a form front and center which asks me to select "Attestation Type" (from "None", "Indirect" or "Direct") and "Authenticater Type" (from "Unspecified", "Cross Platform" or "Platform (TPM)")

I'm a big nerd, and I had absolutely no idea what to do when faced with those choices.

I strongly suggest dropping those options from that initial demo - pick the most likely defaults instead. You can tuck them away in the "Advanced settings" section instead.
Teleport developer here — sorry about that. We’re aware that initial setup is at times a pain point and are prioritizing improving this. If you can provide more details about what specifically went wrong for you I’m interested in getting to the bottom of it. Feel free to reply here or you can email me isaiah@goteleport.com
New South Wales Government to ban use and posession of encrypted devices
> Unless I've crossed the line for criminal prosecution (which is far from anything we're discussing here), the worst-case consequence of that is .... damages.

This is not how the law works. In addition to damages, if you're a party to a civil lawsuit then a court can order you to do something. This is called an "injunction".

For example, if I write something and you start selling copies of it without permission, and I sue you over your copyright infringement, a court can and will order you to stop. Copyright has teeth like that.

If the thing you were selling was your product -- based illegally on my GPL'd code -- then that may be a lot worse for you than some damages.
Thank you that is exactly what I was looking for.
The whitepaper opens with:

Democracy dies in darkness, a line recently adopted by the Washington Post as their slogan, warns us that unless people are informed with facts and truth, no true democracy is possible. Those who benefit from darkness have always tried to control media in order to control and manipulate public opinion with propaganda. Until recently, propaganda has been the exclusive domain of nation-states or state-sponsored actors through mass media [19]. With the mass popularization of the Web in the last two decades and the subsequent privatization of it by big platforms like Google, YouTube and Facebook, the paradigm has changed. Propaganda is no longer a tool of an elite, but it has been commoditized to the extent that it is as accessible as advertisement, becoming a weapon that too many actors have access to. One must appreciate the irony that those most vocal about the risks of propaganda are those who controlled it in the past.
Nevertheless, the risk of fake-news—a neologism created to mitigate cognitive dissonance—cannot be ignored [5, 6, 30, 33, 36]. It is dangerous for a society if people living in it cannot distinguish between facts, opinions and outright misinformation. Although this danger has always existed, today the situation is dire if only because quantitative becomes qualitative and although all information is theoretically available, in practical terms it is not.

Doesn't this seem a bit overblown for what is ultimately just a tool to make soft white lists for search results? I feel like Brave has this habit of framing mundane software as some sort of weapon in a grand ideological war. You're just letting people filter Pinterest out of their search results. Chill.