skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the rust issues

rust issues on cars are actually caused by water pooling in inside cavities and rusting its way out over time because they don't dry out. water on the outside of a piece of metal isn't really that serious a threat for rusting its way in (you see lots of cars driven for years with unrepaired body damage and they don't rust away)

I don't imagine the rust he saw was bubbling up through the paint from inside, I doubt it's a problem
Bitcoin specifically is inadequate to act as anything more than a very infrequently traded store of value. Not a currency that is exchanged for goods and services in small amounts by many people.

Someone needs to build a better cryptocurrency, but it everyone is preoccupied with building ponzi schemes and pump and dump scams instead.
How do you handle copyrights for the songs?
> My insurance company doesn't care about the infotainment center in my vehicle

Driving habits and all the data tracking that will be standard in a few years will absolutely be critical to your insurance company, and it stands to reason that they would use any semblance of hacking any part of your car and thus risking the purity of the data (nomatter how unrelated) as a pretense to deny coverage.
Worldwide Public Domain Dedication (WPDD)
What important purpose do they serve?
thanks for the feedback, we will fix it.
I'm not hyped about most of the DRM stuff (and yeah, frog boiling is definitely a worry, though I don't know how we could ever end up with devices that can't boot alternative OSes just cuz of how servers are set up).

But I am personally glad to see hardware-level key stores show up on all CPUs. Maybe this is already a thing and I'm being duped by Apple for thinking it's good, but it feels good to me.
Intel started putting ME in their cpus 12 years ago.
Wait so someone at google added this to gBoard unofficially. We need someone to create an apple keyboard with this too.
Oh, this is great. Thanks for sharing.
While these are typed using emoji, they are sent as images, so they do not rely on fonts.

I would have tested it myself in Gboard, but it relies on the "suggestions" feature which requires internet access, which I will not accept for a keyboard app.
Simple solution: don't care about up or down -votes. Believe me, Internet points are a sham and waste of time. Focus on interesting conversations and connections instead.
interesting that he recommends starting a one-person business but the last section of the article are listings for "featured pragmatic engineering jobs"! do you believe in your own advice?
It says that alloc() is O(1) and thus real-time...but then later on says that advance() must be called k times per alloc in order to avoid exhausting the free space while still having work on the gray list. This makes it not quite real-time; either you call advance() k times inside alloc (which it recommends) in which case it isn't constant latency but variable on the number of reachable objects from the object you are popping from the work list, or you risk running out of heap and have an eventual loop of draining the grey list to flip.

In either case that doesn't seem quite as useful as the claimed "alloc is just a pointer chase" and not much better than other GCs that don't claim to be real-time, and makes it soft real-time (upper bound on instructions) not real-time (exact number of instructions); most other incremental GCs also have a bounded set of work they do per operation.

It also sounds like it requires a mutex on read barriers for multithreaded programs, which is pretty bad and expensive. Most modern GC read barriers are just setting a bit in a card table, which doesn't require a lock.
Remember Citizen, meat is for Party members only.
IG has announced they're switching focus all to reels... Literally throwing the old focus out the window... Photographers are pissed.
The same way that people claimed 20 years ago that cash would be made illegal was "heavy, heavy speculation"?
Here’s a twitter thread about climate companies hiring:
https://twitter.com/a_laplaza/status/1534678203708502016?cxt...
Ah yes, the notoriously computer-illiterate Israeli government will never think to monitor Bitcoin transactions.
Another entry in the list of "What is Bitcoin good for, anyway?"
Why don't some games sell well? How tomarketagame
Very good. Well done. Now go forth and monetize before I do.
Yes, if you choose to use twice the acreage, you can have half the panel density.
You have succinctly described the #1 hard problem in multiplayer games. There is no solution, only things you can do to do better. A good recent example was Fall Guys being basically unplayable due to cheaters and had to up their game with an anti-cheat engine to make it playable again.

The issue is that because there is no perfect solution even if you have a pretty good all server side solution you’ll still improve by adding client side anti-cheat.

Anti-cheat systems are the compromise that allow games to be played on PCs instead of only locked down dedicated hardware.
Designed cities are absolutely a thing in the two states that I've lived in. They'll build a bunch of amenities and a bunch of houses / townhomes all at the same time or near the same time and then people gobble up the town homes and already have a grocery store and a bunch of restaurants in this new, previously unoccupied area.
There's a relevant table on page 7 of this 2020 UK document, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/29941...

Note the goal of zero consumer travel by 2050.

Are private jets and yachts subject to Net Zero carbon restrictions?
Please, HN, tell me again how cryptocurrencies are useless.
I'm surprised that this applies to cheques. Can someone from the region explain this?

In Canada cash transactions over $10k are possible but require a large amount of extra paperwork for anti-money-laundering reasons, but there's no such restriction on cheques since the government can see all those clearing through the banking system already.
Most of the point of carbon credits is that you can buy more if you want.
Eliminate non-fungible revenue and many many forms of corruption are abruptly rendered extinct. It might even repurpose why people enter politics.
The lack of an NSFW content filter is mind-boggling. They have offered an "NSFW" checkbox when uploading avatars for years, but still to this day have given users no way to filter out avatars tagged "NSFW" in game. They could solve most of this problem fairly easily by blocking users from wearing avatars tagged "NSFW" in public instances. NSFW content doesn't belong in public instances and indeed it's a bannable offense already - so why they have not made this a priority is a mystery. Guess the developers are too focused on implementing EAC.
7 transactions a second won't cut it unfortunately[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
Eventually ... if you drive a mate to the airport, and it is a benefit in kind worth $100 say, then they have to report it and pay tax on it.
Public commentary in forums that serve as forges of opinion such as HN are much more than passive statements. It's similar to the quantum effect of observation affecting the state of a system. These speculative comments actively shape opinion. Any friction against the slide towards a cashless society is welcome. Speculation serves to stoke the imagination of a populace that would be subject to these changes if there was no friction for policy makers. An example is the Murderbots video which speculates on a future where small commercial drones are used as domestic political and literal weapons.
Plenty of demoscene productions are like that too. If anything, it's a good chance to educate others on whose interests "antimalware" really protects.

Around 2 decades ago, I remember one company's product detecting all binaries produced with GCC (on Windows) as "suspicious" and quarantining/deleting them, while those produced with MSVC were fine. Lots of "why can't I find the 'hello world' exe I compiled" questions on forums and newsgroups...
Are you surprised that a country built by illegally stealing other peoples land and property would have citizens who don’t respect its laws?
"Interactive" vs non-interactive browsing is spot on,
thanks very much for this.
The way you outline these things (also considering the
code presented in many
of your previous comments) is a pristine example
of Unix-y design principles as laid out by E. S. Raymond.

I would probably be really happy with an internet that
only consists of FTP and email, so I'm definitely in the
"non-interactive" boat, too. But, due to shallow knowledge
(curiosity, but no CS education), the "outside the browser"
experience has mostly been ssh, ftp, and wget'ing things
with some simple
scripts. The code you've posted in your
comments is a huge inspiration to me, really.

It is also interesting how we (or, I) tend to consider a
web browser the beginning point of internet use.
Downloading PDFs, etc -- everything starts from a HTML page
that is rendered to us by the browser.
In your examples, it is the exact opposite: the text
browser or pager appears to be the ending point of
an internet session. Because of your tiny, modular tools,
you can decide "on the run" what to do with the data
during the next step. This is simply following old,
time tested Unix principles, but it is fascinating to
really see something like this in action, in such a
streamlined way, when it comes to web browsing.

Perhaps it is even more precise to say that, by definition,
the Unix pipes
have neither an end point nor a starting point?
It's all just stream of data (text), directed to where you want
in each turn with your helper scripts. Utilizing this with day-to-day
web usage is something people rarely do in 2022, I guess.
So, yeah, I confess being somewhat blown away by your stuff.

Re: (E)Links' shortcut keys: funny you bring this up.
I took a fresh look at ELinks over some years, and
I did think that * and \ are really nice just yesterday.
ELinks does render some things better than w3m,
and my distro (Tiny Core Linux) has a build with zero
dependencies (0.3 MB, just bare minimum of features, no TLS/SSL
etc). With this setup, I'm really tempted to try out the "outside the browser"
internet experience you've described. And that I've been
thinking about for years.

As for the UI, I think I'm really only annoyed by the way
URLs are entered in ELinks, into the curses dialog box in the middle
of the screen. In this regard, w3m's command line feels
more natural. I might try the :ex mode command line again,
and the lua scripting, even though I don't want to have
a big build with nonessential options.

Then again, configuring ELinks via the menus is
actually a fairly pleasant experience IMO. In w3m, I'm
always afraid of pressing some key I didn't remember.
In Elinks, I can always bring up the menu and fix things
when I messed something up by accident. So it's actually fine.
Also, the minimal ELinks build in my distro keeps the menus
clean and simple, there's no "feature creep".

And, obviously, a browsing experience that doesn't include
the (though only barely irritating) lag caused by
"accepting cookies" is extremely nice.
> Maybe this scenario is exaggerated, but carbon tax credit and restricting purchases inbound.

It's funny, in context, because Israel is the largest per-capita consumer of single-use plastics in the world, driven by a religious public that uses single-use plastic to help comply with religious dietary law. Attempts have been made to implement taxation of single-use plastic, but have failed because of entrenched religious party members in the government. And crickets don't comply with Jewish dietary law.

The truth is more mundane. When finding plumbers, movers, painters, etc. it is quite common to be quoted a price "without VAT", which is code for "pay in cash, don't request a receipt, and we won't charge you the additional 17%, thus also permitting them to underreport income.
s/Israel/every country/
Bitcoin is actually worse than this. Bitcoin is easily traceable and doesn’t solve the “anonymous money” problem that cold hard cash solves. Not only is Bitcoin easily traceable the record exists forever and is impossible to erase. There are other crypto products that attempt to solve this issue but Bitcoin is definitely not one of them.
Part of growing up, is the epiphany people can't actually make you feel or care, as this is purely an internal choice one makes for themselves. Accordingly, one can choose to get angry about something irritating, but it is often futile in a business context.

When one meets thousands of people in a year, a very different perspective evolves on what individual behavior even means... After awhile the antics you observe people repeatably engage in become all too predictable, and wholly tiresome.

Nietzsche was a nutjob, but observed people that felt shame about "who they were supposed to be" often masqueraded with a deceptive persona. Thus, never really able to escape the cycle of misery they inflict, and or "playing the victim" to exploit the naive.

Have a gloriously wonderful day. =)
The Power of Dependent Types (Tutorial)
This is basically the New Urbanist plan from the book “Carfree Cities” but with more of a vertical dimension and all the curves of the central railroad unfolded into a straight line. It doesn’t seem totally impossible.
I don't have access, so this is speculation. But I'd hope that, with their publication cadence in mind, instead of just announcing that Omicron exists they'd be able to talk about the emergence of new variants generally and what that will mean for the overall trajectory of the pandemic.
Because the malware they have backdoored into your phone can track what money you have sent/received?
additionally notable— the melody the poem was ultimately set to: a tavern drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song
Doesn't the ground move? How are they going to keep it in ... a line?

They would have to build independent sections that, over time, will shift relative to each other.
They want everyone to have a view of nature, not of city.
The opposite--- they are effectively covering for each other. They (the orgs, more generally) are complicit in allowing this dysfunctional rent-seeking monopoly to continue and expand. This was a political failure long before before the "coding error" took place.
I'm not really worried myself that alternative Operating Systems will be locked out. However, I am concerned that the functionality of alternative Operating Systems will be locked out. If you see the (speculative but grounded) area near the end of the article - imagine if assertion becomes popular for things such as games or digital movies or the school WiFi. Your Linux PC will never be able to do that, and WINE (probably) won't be able to help. Won't stop you from hosting a server, but it will make it much harder to enjoy a Linux desktop. That's an issue.
You get bird videos a lot too?! Lol... I used to have a parrot and IG and TikTok think that's all I want to see now every day... It's really not smart... People aren't all one dimensional.

Their use cases/journeys need a lot of work.

Also, TikTok is not accounting for views properly (Mr Beast reported it on TikTok among many others), they redirect users away from certain accounts when links are shared on web sites, and they even stop certain videos from playing and shadow ban US users if their content talks negatively about the platform... Just like the country it comes from might do.
If I were building this I would leave a large space open on the bottom, I would not have the walls go all the way to the ground.

Aside from sand, it also lets animals, humans, and vehicles pass through.
I’m really struggling to understand the problem - what does out of sync here mean - especially when you are talking about a max 500ms. ntp clock drift can already be as bad as 500ms and if you need something tighter, then you may have already gone the gps route. Either way I can’t imagine anyone building a system that has less than a 500ms tolerance for any arbitrary computer on the internet. At the very least special relativity is going to be one the first road blocks you face in trying to get perfect universal time sync
Make use of dynamic tracing and write/customize relevant to needs.

Potential examples:

https://twitter.com/freebsdfrau/status/1238541870612926465 modify to just focus on cron related stuff.

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-02-01/linux-wakeup-of...

Programming approaches:

ebpf : https://ebpf.io/projects/

Dtrace : https://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html

Ylang : https://blog.openresty.com/en/ylang-intro-part1/

Program example:
Use execsnoop (https://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html ) & add wrapper/filter to feed relevant "live" info to dashboard.
265,000 people per sqkm, that's some nice population density. Cool concept, but I wonder what they mean by "equitable views". I presume not all housing units will be on the edges given that it's 200m wide.
> up-front design like this will never come to be

Paris [1] and D.C.’s cores were engineered. Several cities after WWII were bombed to a blank slate.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...
Or alternately it's about combatting large-scale money laundering, terrorist arms sale, and the stuff that they actually say it's for.

Hmmm.

> I mean, the end goal is also to decide what you spend it on…

Or that might just be ludicrous hyperbole, and the article you linked could be 95% speculation, as it appears to be. The environmental concerns could be more to do with the investigations on BTC and ETH and the wastefulness of PoW.

But no, I'm sure you're right, the US government that is helpless in the face of citizens slaughtering each other with firearms is going to regulate how much beef you can cram down your gullet.
Very cool how he sets the favicon.ico to the new mixed emoji

https://github.com/alcor/emoji-supply/blob/main/docs/kitchen...
Oh, cash is not how you bribe politicians in (relatively) civilized countries. Inside information, bearer shares in offshore projects, and board seats will have to do.
What is to prevent school WiFi from one day requiring a Pluton assertion that your Windows PC hasn’t been tampered with before you can join the network?

Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom. The power of the authoritarian corporatocracy to force you to use only the (entire) systems they control. It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.
Imagine leaving google. It would have to be an enticing offer.
> This is not the right idea. You should not be customizing your hiring process to each candidate. A standard hiring process with accountability for interviewers to follow the process is incredibly important if you want to reliably hire high quality talent as an organization grows.

Yeah, doing a custom interview process per candidate sounds like a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen. I don't know how you could possibly defend against the claim that the interviews are designed to help some candidates and hurt others if you're literally on the record saying you actively try not to use the same interview process for all candidates.
A spiritual / practical successor is Tanka
http://tanka.dev

(Note I work for Grafana Labs who fund Tanka and use it for all production config)
Correct. The problem is users not mentioning they have modified clients when reporting e.g. avatar rendering issues to individual modders. The users aren't being deceptive, they're just non-technical
This is about money. This is about having to upgrade your CPU to get updates to your OS. The Android/iPhone business model.
I definitely agree that the ability to admit when you don't understand something is extremely helpful. My favorite coworkers are the ones that I'm sure understand things because they're very willing to say when they don't.
Those pesky citizens! Meanwhile, https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/3-count-felon-jpmorga...

> ... secret documents leaked from FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a unit of the U.S. Treasury. The documents “show that five global banks — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.”

Trailer for Netflix series, The Laundromat, https://youtube.com/watch?v=wuBRcfe4bSo
I'm surprised this article had no mention of Elon Musk, because he's a great example. Perhaps if this article was written today, it would.

Elon's antics, if nothing else, raise brand awareness of his companies.
If you have a distributed system that requires strict time synchronization why do you care if Google’s time is wrong? Surely if you need that level of synchronization you have your own implementation with gps clocks.

If you don’t, then you already have to deal with standard drift with ntp anyways so Googles time smear is the least of your problems
> What do you think they did?

It really doesn't seem fair to call their efforts "somewhat half-assed" given that they did so much better than other countries, but they didn't go to the extent or take the care that they would have if the virus were more deadly.

The staff at hotels and airports weren't decked out like this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Hazmat_D...) or this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Army_tra...), proper ventilation wasn't considered and staff weren't even being tested properly leading to the virus spreading amongst staff, in hallways, between rooms, and as a result of the generally lax attitude (in deadly plague terms) the virus got out of those hotels and into the public not once or twice but over and over, tens of times!

I do agree that Australia did do a lot to try to stop the virus! The 14 day quarantine was a good idea (at the time), severely limiting the number of people coming in was good too (although I doubt that would have been sustainable for long) and there's no denying that people's shitty actions hurt their efforts, but I just can't believe they gave it everything they had. There were reports that they didn't even have a plan to work from initially, and were just kind of making it up as they went along. That's just tragic, but it means they also had the benefit of writing a plan with our current technology and understanding on the subject in mind from inception. You could have asked a random person on the street decades ago to come up with a plan on how to quarantine a family and prevent the spread of a deadly possibly airborne virus and and you'd get something that looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0-nPOb_KM and while moves are fiction and not sound policy, they'd have had the "protected staff" and "ventilation" boxes checked at least.

It's clear that for all Australia did to stop the virus (and again, I'm not bashing their efforts here which were well above what others were doing) it was clearly not being taken as seriously as it would have if they were dealing with the next Black Death. I'd really like to think that if they had tried their best in this scenario to keep the virus out they'd have been more successful and that while some people will probably always act terribly selfish, that it is still possible in 2022 to let people in and out of an island nation while keeping out a highly deadly virus. I'd really like to think that because one day we might not have the choice to do otherwise. If Australia really can't manage it, what chance do the rest of the nations have?

I'm sure they've since used this experience to help shore up their defenses for the future, I'm sure it was eye opening for a lot of people, but not going all out in their containment efforts while they had the chance to stay ahead of covid was a lost opportunity. The good/bad news is that they're certain to get the chance again with a new virus sooner than they'd like and hopefully the stakes won't be that much higher.