skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, my internet in San Francisco is worse that it was... in San Francisco in the 90s.

My symmetric DSL then was faster than downstream-DOCSIS is now. I also have to keep a backup line, because Comcast here (SOMA) goes out about every other month, and I work from home. So I pay another $35 for MonkeyBrains, which is much slower, but more than nothing when Comcast is dead.

To paraphrase Gandhi, I think American capitalism would be a very good idea.
It was painful for me at first. Many struggles with the borrow checker. I dropped it for a year or two and came back, and, weirdly, my return met smooth sailing -- the borrow checker and I were a well-oiled cybernetic machine. It was like the lessons of my first time burrowed into my subconscious or something.

At this point, I kind of feel like, if you're writing safe C or C++, being mindful of where the data goes and why, you're pretty much writing Rust that compiles.
> Broadly, it seems that in a world where LeCun's architecture becomes dominant, useful AI safety work looks more analogous to the kind of work that goes on now to make self-driving cars safe. It's not difficult to understand the individual components of a self-driving car or to debug them in isolation, but emergent interactions between the components and a diverse range of environments require massive and ongoing investments in testing and redundancy.

That doesn't bode well for a technology where the failure mode includes human extinction.
With the growing army of opensource developers (and also for benefit of commercial ones) we should coin the new term - MX (Maintainer experience, analogous to developer experience), who would devote all their time to make daily life of sole developers and maintainers easier.
Those who want an education and would benefit from getting one are not allowed to even try - as designed by the system.

Those who are in a position to easily walk into a situation where they can get one, are well off enough to not need one.

So, if you have the possibility of getting one, it won’t matter if you get it or not (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc etc). If you can’t get one, then it probably would have changed your life… of course “you’re not qualified to try” so don’t worry about it.

Just don’t be born poor. That is the best solution.
If Starlink is in your area, this is an option worth looking into.
I'm not sure if it's because I have my browsers set to generally "do what I say" or because I'm using a filtering proxy, but Firefox doesn't seem to try again if I just put "wixsite.com" in the address bar --- it gets a Host Not Found from the proxy and stops.
I'm sorry, but what? I still don't understand the difference between top grain and full grain leather.
The ‘Scenic’ GUI library written in Elixir handles all these problems very elegantly, and Elixir is completely functional (no traditional OO, classes or objects)* and immutable.

*of course Elixir/erlang is actually OO done right (actor model) but that’s another story
What a nightmare. What if we had to do this for everything. Hey everyone hook up to my rainwater collector. Don’t forget to refuel the generator. Sorry it’s so loud. Keep digging, we have to put the trash somewhere!

The Internet is a utility.
This. Honestly, I’ve always felt that Genie was the better GNOME successor to Boo; but Vala has long since become the “de facto” GNOME language.
Does Vala have any use outside of Gnome? I remember my buddy writing it circa 2008ish and it seemed pretty niche back then.
> the world had a particularly sucky year or two

For me it was okay. Much of the western world lived in fear, so that sucked for them.

In terms of world history, times have been worse. We aren't that special.
I should have add "in unstructured interaction with the 'real world'", 'cause that's the context here.

Computers exceeded human chess capacities without any AI as such in 1999 or so. Computer exceeded human addition and multiplication capacities as soon as they were built - that's what they were built for.
I got lucky, the subdevelopment I live in has been upgraded from classic Centurylink DSL to “Spectrum” fiber (1gbps fiber line to the house for $60/month, no contract and no equipment or setup fees. Growing up a few blocks away, it was a comcast subscription or a 1mbps DSL line(~10yrs ago).

It’s awesome when a competitor can enter the market.
I witnessed this situation firsthand, a critical support person quit, and their notice period was basically them trying to teach the PM their job. I remember them laughing as they walked out "he isn't going to remember half of what I do." And low and behold, noone could pickup where he left off.
I feel a limited palette can push creativity. Not only when it's literally about color palettes.
I just hope the FCC will make it 100 symmetric. I can already hear the army of Comcast lobbyists calling their friends in the government. Look closely at who opposes that.
Not every culture is the same as yours, and yours is not correct in all occasions.
What is "data leakage"? Do the authors define it? They reference Kaufman et al, but that makes it sound just like "errors". But what are the errors?
True, 2015 Teslas are much different (read: worse in some ways) than 2018 Teslas. That’s why I waited for them to improve the technology haha. Been following them since the Roadster’s R&D. I remember having to convince everybody back then that electric cars were going to be viable soon - no one believed Tesla could do it back then. Crazy how things have gone since.
> Trying to look quickly for a hard number, it seems that the usual estimate (perhaps one study being widely reported rather than hard estimates) is about 5-10% of works surviving.

I suspect the actual value is much smaller, probably less than 0.1%. Those estimates are based on surviving references and indices, and there's no way to know how complete they are. Fundamentally we're all just guessing - if something's completely lost, there's a very good chance that it's impossible to know centuries later.

> In the modern day, I think we are doing a better of job of preservation and archival than existed in Classical times.

I hope so, but I have my doubts. When Sumerian libraries burned, the clay tablets simply hardened.

Today, most modern data storage systems only last a decade or two, they require copying for the data to be readable... and we have no idea if future generations will make those copies. Also, increasingly data is stored in dynamically-generated pages on websites and in single page applications (SPAs). If the website goes down, a lot of the data is essentially impossible to get.

I really appreciate efforts like the GitHub Arctic Vault: <https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/>. That has a fighting chance to be recoverable in two thousand years. But the Library of Alexandria showed us that if all the archives are in one place, they can all be simultaneously lost.

I certainly would like to this we're doing a better job of archiving. I want to be proven wrong :-).
> One trick for better AT&T support here on the Peninsula may be to sign up through Sonic instead of directly with AT&T. In some areas like SF, Sonic runs their own fiber, in others they are an AT&T reseller - with the wrinkle that Sonic handles all support with their own local staff. I have been told that they have better insight and connections into the internal AT&T systems than AT&T's own support team. I haven't had much need for support, so I can't vouch for that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

My experience buying DSL from Sonic about a decade ago in San Francisco is that if you run into a problem with AT&T equipment (e.g. lines upstream from the point where POTS enters your building) you're just done because Sonic won't actually get AT&T to fix their stuff. I was never able to get more than 1Mbps down and eventually just quit and switched to Comcast.
That's interesting: it seems the writers were American and the animators were a Japanese studio.
Also so they can upsell business internet. I'm pretty sure most ISPs still have a clause in residential service agreements that you won't "operate a server" and everyone knows that the only reason you'd be uploading a lot is if you're running a server. /s
lmao one of my mates has a starlink terminal in the outskirts of los angeles just to get work done because spectrum's gigabit plan is like 1.2MB/s upstream most of the time and in the subkilobytes during peak times

it's comical how bad this is

edit: how we found out about this was also amusing: he sent a group snapchat of the arrival and setup in backyard and we were all "did you move or go traveling?" "no, spectrum is godawful"
Hahaha, not for long; not on the front page of HN…I can see it’s got the old ‘Hug of Death’, but I’m curious to how long it lasted and how loud the result was.
The emphasis on a behaviour being genetic in origin is frequently absent in common use of "evolutionary psychology". A trait being the result of evolution, even if not darwinian evolution, is quite useful to know, and is usually clearly the case when we can tell the adaptive purpose of a behaviour, see it replicated across cultures, and so on.
His own arguments in his defence and his nominated penalty suggest that perhaps he was not mentally fit to stand trial. I think a modern defence lawyer could certainly have made that case. And there are other aspects of his life that suggest possible mental illness, including his belief in eudaemonia and his apparently poor standards of personal care.
Russia prepares new laser facility to blind satellites in orbit
> Is there anything stronger than blowfish?

I think you mean bcrypt..

Both Argon2 and scrypt win over that:

https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2
https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
This is a very rare example of an anime where I prefer the dub to the original audio. Not only was the casting and acting excellent, but they even went the extra mile in the mixing and environmental audio, which was fine in the original but even improved in the dub.
It's really not inheritance that's the issue. The issue is that in Rust it's difficult to have a data flow between objects that goes in multiple opposing direction, ie, a graph instead of a directed tree.

Inheritance is a way of doing that, but not the only one. Rust is capable of every OOP design pattern except ones that require this kind of dataflow inversion which become cumbersome.
Ask HN: How much money do you expect to be earning in 5 years?
And explain your reasoning.

If you expect to be living off of investment income (because of retirement or time off), please say how much that will be.

And please state numbers in 2027 local currency, so factor in how much inflation you think there’ll be.
> What subset of expected text control functionality is provided?

Missing from this otherwise great list, is basic system-standard text navigation and editing. I get so annoyed when basic stuff like ctrl+end or ctrl+v doesn't work like they should.
And! When you lease a Comcast modem + wifi equipment, you then become an Xfinity wifi hotspot provider. Mind you, they don't tell you this. But to charge the customer money to expand their hotspot availability (and marketing bragging rights) is shite.

But like you said, often there's no choice. But even when there is - in my area of NJ - aside from new customer deals both Verizon and Comcast are wildly expensive.
The fact they would do this at all is what stopped me from using the browser the first time around. More for the reason, what else would they do to make a profit.
I don’t disagree. What I mean to say is that FSD is not worth $12k or whatever insane price it is today and there’s no sign that it’ll ever be worth it in the near-term 2 years. And when I say FSD I mean the literal FSD that’s supposed to navigate everything (city, highway, weather, etc) from one address to another address cross country with zero interventions.

With that said, yes I agree, highway driving with Autopilot is worth somewhere on the order of $1-2k to me personally. It’s made long highway drives a lot more pleasant — just used it this past July 4th for 500+ miles of highway driving.
I think there is some confusion here between programming, which is a skill; and engineering which is the application of knowledge.

Of course programmers don't need degrees, the same way that good builders, carpenters, electricians etc. Don't need degrees. In fact, I've always believed there should be trade schools for programming, that programmers should unionize etc. etc.

Engineering is typically a different set of skills altogether. It's about understanding how to analyse reality, combine them with ideas in your mind, and guide those ideas back into the real world.

Civil and Electrical Engineers working in construction never lay a brick or run a wire (in fact, often there is legislation preventing them from doing so). But a construction project could never proceed without the careful analysis that engineers bring to the table.
It's not over yet - the micro-meteor strikes so far have been at a FAR higher rate than expected, and unless they turn out to be a statistical outliers, the lifespan of JWST is drastically reduced below expectations.

This could still turn out to be a big disappointment if it goes offline within the year.

I wonder how hard it is to launch a shield to protect it.
Politically, it's a popularity contest. If you're friendly and responsive, even if not particularly effective, you'll win.

Maybe raincast is less noisy, but if they're jerks and expensive?
It’s a system that exists in a society that established that system.

One need only look at the differences in police departments across various countries to see that the context in which they exist matters.

It’s right to question the rules, but overly simplistic to reduce the problem to “cops”. You’ll need to zoom out a bit more.
Russia also promised not to invade or threaten the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons, under the Budapest Memorandum.

You cannot have it both ways, and say that Russia is allowed to threaten Ukraines sovereignty because of a USSR era declaration, when Russia itself is violating declarations that they gave too Ukraine.
> get express informed consent that indicates that their data will be public and that it could be linked back to them.

10~20 years ago I could see it. Nowadays it’s a tough ask that would severly limit the number of people participating. This could also steer away most minority groups, which would make the research not only limited, but also misleading (we’d still draw conclusions from them, and decide policies accordingly, even as they come from grossly biased participant pools)

Aside from just the public aspect of having ones data in the open, there is also second/third order discoveries that would happen from there (e.g knowing someone’s cooking habits could be enough to deduce overall health status, potentially chronic illness, ethnicity/religion, relationship status etc.)
Love it! I'm keen to add more keyboard shortcuts too. Is there anything in particular you wish had keyboard nav?
Meaningless vs the most important change the FCC could make for home internet:

"Common carrier"
Coincidently a couple of hours after this comment, MLB reached a $185m class-action settlement with minor league players over unpaid wages[1].

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-16/mlb-agree...
It is frightening for patients who are already on vancomycin, and makes it harder for new patients to try it. The AASLD wants to see randomized controlled trial data; there have in fact already been two small such trials, but obviously not enough to satisfy them. I do think a better trial could be designed, and I'm actually trying to do that now. Finding the funding is a challenge because vancomycin is a generic drug. There are entities who would be willing to carry out such a trial if funds can be found.
You're also more likely as a civilian, on a per capita basis, to be killed by a gun than you are as a cop.
You are making the assumption that they care about their kids. A sociopath thinks only of themselves.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Apple's useless online "support" forums. Apparently they decided to follow Microsoft's approach of incentivizing unpaid idiots - or possibly robots - to copy-paste completely uselss non-solutions to every problem.

However, I've had mostly good experiences with their in-person support in Apple stores, probably because they are actual humans who have some training or relevant experience and are actually paid.
CotEditor – Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
>the epitome of unintended escalation

And right about now we are witnessing another. Against an opponent with nukes.
I would advocate the government to protect nuclear plant construction from frivolous litigations, environmental rereviews, and local political challenges, as well as reopen the storage facility in Nevada.

The construction isn't the big cost - it's all the nonsense that we do to interfere with those trying to build the plants.
20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD
Thank you and I wish you the best. There is a lot of exciting research being done on IBD, especially on the gut microbiome. I am optimistic that the coming years will bring significant advances in treatment.
This was pretty clearly (I thought) covered later in the same comment:

> Setting the actual expectations works great. Some people respond simply by saying that they won't put slack on their phone, or will turn notifications for slack off and I'm fine with that (having their number to call for actual emergencies).
BBGO: A trading bot framework written in Go
what's the obsession with 4k? 1080p abd 1440p are way more common.
Successful people toss coins in games where the odds are in their favor. Saying if they win it's just luck is pedantically true, but if you keep playing those kind of games you'll win. Keep playing the lottery, and you will lose.

Successful people I know don't buy lottery tickets.
If I was going to exfiltrate classified data, I'm not sure whose credentials I would use but I am 100% sure they wouldn't be mine.
Know-nothing know-it-alls are the scourge of these "support" forums.

At some point Apple/Microsoft/etc. seem to have decided "let's incentivize know-nothing know-it-alls to copy-paste useless non-solutions to every problem in the hope that our users will just give up and go away."
Either seem awkward to me, esp. when written, I'd prefer "didn't always support".
Thanks! I might add that explicitly, but meant it to be included under "keyboard shortcuts according to platform human interface guidelines".
When I type up my handwritten stream-of-consciousness notes, I indulge that obsessive editing part of my brain so it usually is my final draft before I send it to my supervisor for revision. Because of that I usually go straight to LaTeX (or sometimes LibreOffice Writer).

A more productive strategy would be to write up a first draft (Markdown is a great option here so as not to fuss about presentation), go through a round of edits and tightening sentences/paragraphs, then formatting.

But honestly I really haven't the patience for it. One step at a time haha

I do aspire to become that person, though!
All tee does is write its standard input (a single file descriptor) to a file (a single one) and its own output. xargs is the thing running multiple processes (and they inherit the same standard output, your shell's).

What you're seeing is Linux being able to handle multiple processes writing to the same file.
c'mon, "coup" is a bit of a ridiculous way to describe a few nutcases trespassing on government property. I did worse as a teenager.
That's a people problem though, not a technology one.

Surely you can resolve this by talking to the person, then their manager?

If it still doesn't resolve it, mute them and advise you've done so due to abuse of notifications, and their issues will always be looked at when you're next looking.
Want to tell if you're being exploited or enslaved? Leave.

If a gang of armed men kidnap, brand, and return you, you're enslaved.
Unix has lots of weird cruft littering its dark corners; for instance you can use : instead of #! and, if I remember correctly, the OS will use "the default shell".

Similarly, you can have your shell in the GECOS field be null, and again, you'll get the default shell. I think I had a bug report in with Sun complaining that XDM or the fancy XDM replacement didn't work correctly with a null shell value. Or maybe it didn't work if you had the character "ctl-l" as your password.

It's been a while. In any case, don't do these things.
lol

There was a slight month-over-month decrease in typical home values from May to June for five out of the top 50 largest metro areas: San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Austin and Seattle. Matt Kreamer, data spokesperson for Zillow, said the main theme among these areas is affordability.

'slight' you can hardly see it on the accompanying chart. Talking about a tiny hair of a decline. Bay Area homes have not been affordable for decades and i don't expect this to change.
It was still created by its citizens. Any country can do it if its citizens have the will to. There's no law of nature preventing it.

Modern Americans have a sad habit of trying to reframe the Founding Fathers as villainous.
If you shine a light on a detector, you measure the time it takes to travel both legs. What is being said is that all we can know is the average time from when it leaves us to when it gets back to us (i.e. the sensor results).

It could well be the same magnitude each direction or it could be instantaneous one way and 1/2 c back the other or any other combination of values as long as the average of the two way measurement is c.

Final note: the value that we put as c is only true in a very specific environment. It depends on the characteristics of the medium through which light is traveling as to what we will measure as the average two way speed. This is a consequence of the permeability and the permittivity of the medium through which the light is traveling. This is standard electrical engineering fare.
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