skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also things like FTP and telnet had many applications, too. My grandfather is an electrical engineer and he talked about how cool it was that the company he worked for got online in the 1980s because it allowed them to get things like Fortran compiler updates or numerical libraries without having to wait for them to be shipped on floppies. My uncle used online services for his food industry business, stock trading, etc. then too.
Agree. I can’t even come up with an example that couldn’t be done better without them.
You can’t make generalisations about “victims” like that. I’m sure there are victims of crime who don’t care whether their perpetrators are punished or not, but ensuring that a criminal is sufficiently punished for their crimes is a very important element of the justice system. This is plainly obvious, and whether perpetrators are being sufficiently punished is routinely the subject of public controversies. This component of the justice system is entirely about revenge.

For every “I just want to move on with my life” victim you can find, there’ll be a dozen court rooms cheering an excessively long sentence, or “I hope you rot in jail” victim impact statements.
I love this interview where David Bowie tries to convince Jeremy Paxman of the value of the internet in 1999!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg
Lower counterparty risk, and harder to confiscate. Money can sit in a crypto wallet and be used for illicit transactions until favorable circumstances allow conversion out of btc. You can’t do that with cash in a bank.

With the amount of shady alt coins and defunct btc exchanges separating authentic vs bogus transactions is even tougher for regulators.
Apparently "Salmon" is intended to fix this.

> Tor is also working to stop the potential abuse of bridges. In 2016, researchers proposed a system called Salmon that aims to weed out those accessing bridge details with the intent of blocking or abusing them.
Could you consider this a competitor to Ida, and alike applications?
Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287902
Pointing to one or two current storage technologies as evidence that the problem is fundamentally unsolvable is quite a logical leap.

Can we apply the same reasoning and conclude that because existing nuclear reactors are inadequate, no possible future nuclear reactors can be adequate?

Why does pumped hydro have to be close to transportation infrastructure, btw? Can one not build roads or rail lines?
Uhh, renewables are here today. The parent was refuting that "solar wasn't ready" by making the point that the progress in renewables is attributable to increased industrial activity and funding.

Reagan took the solar panels off the White House for a reason, so his buddy James Watt could kill off any alternatives to fossil energy. That regime lasted until the 90s and by then any memory of the oil crises in the 70s was long gone.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ used to build Typescript: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/Gulpfile.j...
> And publicly talking about the case, for example to solicit donations from those you know to help you pay for it, is strongly frowned on my judges and you WILL be likely to lose because of it.

I've never heard of such a thing, despite a lot of people crowdfunding legal defenses. Can you provide an example of it happening?

> you are likely to lose. Even if you are innocent of the crime.

I think this is our fundamental disagreement. I think it's very rare that an innocent person who goes to trial ends up being convicted.

> Fifth, people who are out on bail are very much not free. They typically must suffer arbitrary inspections, follow curfew, avoid being in a variety of places where other criminals might be, and so on.

I know curfews and inspections are ordered sometimes, but are they really "typical"?

> I used to think as you do. But after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz committed suicide, I became curious and learned a lot about the system. And the more I learned the worse it looked.

I thought Aaron Swartz actually did break the laws he was accused of breaking, and the reason that what happened to him was unjust was that the laws he broke were unfair (e.g., violating ToS being a felony). I see his case being an argument to repeal or gut such laws, and an argument in favor of jury nullification, but not to change how plea bargains work.
Dig, but in Rust
Globally, there is no shortage of cheap land for a renewable-powered economy. If locally land is expensive, don't put energy-hungry industry there.

This may mean Europe ends up deindustrializing vs. sun-soaked places closer to the equator. I suppose King Leopold wouldn't have liked that.
This Javascript / TypeScript implementation is still doing table + sparse set iteration, so I suspect cache locality is still reasonable. But you'd want to test to be sure.

https://github.com/jakobhellermann/bevy_mod_js_scripting/blo...

Given how new this effort is, I suspect there are plenty of areas with room for improvement.
But that's the point: for corporal punishment to exist, you already have to have authority over someone by other means.

"Comply and let me inflict pain on you" seems very weird when it's equally true that "comply and be bored for a while" is right there as an option.
I think Helium is a pretty well known, real-world blockchain project.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/technology/helium-cryptoc...
Yeah, I hate that corporation called USSR blowing up Chernobyl.
If you keep money in the bank. You don't own it, the bank does. You need permission to access it and are limited on what you are allowed to use it for.

If you keep cash or gold in a safe place. You are only allowed to keep a certain amount. It can be seized at will.

Your will that declares what assets go to your children. The deed to your home. The lease for your car. Certificates. Art. Tickets. Contracts. Money.

We do not own any of these things without the requirement of having to trust a person, a comp ay or a government.

Blockchain technology allows us to own anything that can be documented on a ledger. Indefinitely. Trustlessly.
Ask HN: Favorite Reading Light?
I have tried several of the LED clip lights, and one that sits on the shoulders.

I have not liked any of them. What is your favorite reading light and why?
Here's a Johnny Carson interview with him, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOcrlJuF9wU
Poor people spend more money on the lottery than middle/upper income. That’s not really a debate?

Anyway I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the term. I am just explaining to you why people refer to it as a regressive tax.
There is an enormous amount of cheap land, globally. Any land that is cheap enough for farming is cheap enough for PV, and land that isn't even adequate for farming tends to be even cheaper than that.
Yeah the closer in gardens in SE tend to be really popular and well taken care of. Buckman, Colonel Summers, Clinton, etc.
The technology has promising applications. It's not clear that it's superior to existing alternatives (at least not enough that we're seeing many big moves to use it and publicize it's use).

The Internet took 30+ years, granted "the start of the Internet" could be debated.

Were we to do some word replacements Internet to radio, and Bitcoin to Internet your words would sound just as accurate following the dot-com bust.

I do think we can agree some of the early decisions have led to disastrous consequences (proof of work power consumption is concerning high).
That's my thought exactly. Handing dead spiders and installing hardware isn't exactly easy.
The compiler uses arrays for lists instead of linked lists. It is a performance improvement compared with how functional compilers usually do it. And the language is designed in such a way that rule writers manipulate whole lists at a time instead of one element at a time. A bit like array languages. It changes how the code is written compared with traditional functional code.
> people can still be revived in that state

Yes, via the American Heart Association:

> Conclusion: Resuscitation efforts to achieve ROSC, contributing to neurologically intact survival, are needed for at least 38.5 minutes in patients with witnessed OHCA.

OHCA: Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.128.suppl_2...
Further down in the thread, they seem to confirm the obvious interpretation—it’s not that college graduates are becoming less intelligent, but that a college education is more accessible, and graduates come from a wider pool. Similarly, high school dropout rates have fallen sharply[1] over the last few decades.

Whether that’s good or not is beside the point—but the title is misleading (although presumably accurate).

1. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_105.asp
I was just responding to the specific question I quoted. More broadly I agree with you that it's a risky idea to immortalize your criminal activity on a public, immutable ledger.
Several product managers I'm familiar with do the bare minimum. Engineers figure this out real quick and will not respect it. This is why they probably don't answer you in a timely manner. Not saying this is you, but some PMs barely understand their own products and simply forward emails between the customer and the engineering team. They are more like project managers, don't understand the details, and very little value or vision is added.

(As for the meetings, just start skipping some of them. Most meetings are useless and could be emails or a couple lines in slack.)
Historical context that I'm old enough to personally remember.

The phrase "predator" to refer to black and hispanic gang members was very well established racist dog whistle back in the days of Reagan and Bush Sr. The phrase "superpredator" was built on the existing term about a year before Clinton used it. You can read the original essay reprinted at https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234335/http://www.weekly.... The author of that essay later reported that the Clinton's met with him to talk specifically about this article. There is no question that this article is where she got the phrase from.

It absolutely was a racist term. Everyone at the time knew it, including Hillary Clinton.

It is only through lacking that context that anyone today can argue that it was anything else.

This is my IANAL opinion. But I'd be willing to stand by it in court.
> This is not true. Even though blockchain is decentralized there could be a single chain/few chains of truth if you want to convert it to real money. And that chain could only be the one that would be approved by coinbase, bitfinex etc

I don't think this is fair to say because what you are describing here is a situation that is occuring off a blockchain or one that is occurring on the blockchain but where the individual transacting has chosen to allow someone to censor their transactions.

Your overall point that a decentralised system consists of centralised links that can and will be attacked by a hostile entity or node(s) is valid though.
Oh, silly me, I forgot that we frequently characterise the US by their 1960s era submarine program safety standards. My mistake. </sarcasm> I don't really know what response you expected, but one Wikipedia link to one program doesn't say a thing. It certainly doesn't sum up the US, who are famous for their huge fireballs and endless disasters - sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional.

1. We don't know how the outcomes compare to the Chinese standards or if the difference is significant.

2. The US has a third of a billion people and the largest military budget. China has a billion people and the world's largest military if I recall correctly. There will be pockets of excellence in both. One example isn't anywhere near enough.

3. Before SUBSAFE they had a terrible record of unsafe subs, that is why they bought in the program. That is part of learning and it'll go the same way for the Chinese with their rocket programs - losing these things is expensive and everyone figures that out fairly quickly.
The link includes an invitation to download the report leading to these survey results:

https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PYMNTS-Cro...
The rationale for not doing so is that it has never been investigated in a controlled study. The benefit would have to be proven to make patients live longer or better lives overall, and the risk of iatrogenic harms from doing ultrasounds at every checkup would be astronomical. Not to mention the additional cost.
Problem is that a ton of random stuff breaks when you "type": "module". Unexpected stuff, like Prettier.
This reminds me so much of MithrilJS, and i also remember how terribly unergonomic it was, a terrible DX. The Vite JSX plugin is nice tho, I can see myself using this for something, but i will probably get tired of the ergonomics once i hit some complex component.

I am currently in early stages of writing a lightweight reactive framework more of the likes of Alpine and there are some things in this source that can prove fruitful. The rendering process is one of the most interesting things here imo.
> Nuclear power has the lowest deaths per unit of power of all commercial power generation methods

This is a poor metric to use. The official death count from Chernobyl was 31. It may be as high as 50. There are probably more deaths attributable through long-term effects, etc but you start getting into subjective modeling to figure out a number for that.

It's almost 40 years later and the absolute exclusion zone is still 1,000 square miles. Treating this as only 31 (or 50) deaths grossly under-represents the magnitude of the disaster.
Hiking headband w/ optional photo gels taped over the top. Why? Because a) it's mostly an ergonomic issue & the skull is great at being stable and supportive of a tiny lamp while reading (the $1 headlamps work remarkably well), and b) photo gels will do most of what you need color-wise if you get something like a sample pack.

Just IMO. Oh and it's a light with a strap on it, so it can do all kinds of useful things. By default it will shine wherever you look, so it assists all of your vision in the dark. But if you don't want it to do that it can go around your neck, or hang from a caribiner in a tent, or whatever.
On the one hand, a repair technician doing anything with anything other than what they're supposed to be fixing is wrong. On the other hand, boards don't last forever, and if you have a rare one for which no ROM has ever been dumped, and you refuse to dump yours, you're a selfish jerk.
Except even the author admits it isn’t actually a viable solution.

“In a sense, debt amnesty actually served to restore society to its ideal state of inequity, so that it would always need the same remedy again.”

“As long as higher education is treated simultaneously as a private good and a job requirement, people will still need to go into debt to get degrees. Then the same remedy will have to be applied again.”
I know. That's why I've been trying to describe it more as a "feeling" than logical?
Technically telegram does have optional e2e but group chats weren’t supported last i checked. Source on operational costs? Dont they have “telegram premium” thing to earn money now?
> Nobody would write a make_appender that takes a span argument, because it makes no sense.

I don't agree with that. If you can guarantee that the data pointed to by the span will outlive your appender, then it's safe. And if you don't actually want to transfer ownership or incur the overhead of a copy, and you don't care if your input is a vector or an array, then it's the correct abstraction.

Replace std::span with std::weak_ptr (or a raw pointer), and replace the closure with a class (e.g. a tree where each node has a weak pointer to its parent), and tell me again that nobody would ever write that code. It's fundamentally the same concept: if your ownership model isn't ironclad, or if any of your assumptions are ever violated, then you can run into use-after-free.
The process being that the people who took inspiration from animals died out and gave way to the people who were better able to adapt to changes in modern technology like the propeller and internal combustion engines?
What is the lifecycle of the collected user personal data that companies sell? Say, it's address and name. Say, persons move every 10 years, on avg.

So the company collects data that in some cases is more (much more) valuable than their main product.
Interestingly, if you bought a 2022 model (for 6k more) chevy are offering you a cheque for 6k, provided you promise not to join the class action lawsuit about the older models.
cargo build --locked

There is a lockfile, even if it's not respected by default. Doesn't help with build.rs being able to do whatever it wants but it's better than default
> No multiple choice.

Yup. That test recognition and maybe recall - never really a fan.
Argentina. 100% of annual inflation. People use crypto everyday to get money in and out of the economy.
During the pandemic, I’ve been able to see my kids and neighbors more while working just as much, by eliminating my commute. There’s no reason to have these white collar workers go downtown every day (and concomitantly no reason to have all the service workers that support them go downtown every day). We can leave that thinking in the Reagan era where it belongs.
Yep. The compiler generates code that works the same way that an experienced C programmer would hand optimise alloc/free calls and manually keep track of shared data by increasing/reducing a reference counter. There is no separate mark/sweep or whatever step.
Looks like a VDOM, but is faster like a compiler; I wonder how it compares to the (well established, excellent) SolidJS?

BTW... docs point out it is written by a high school student. A very, very impressive high school student!
Their disclosed survey methodology:

"The Cross-Border Remittances Report, a PYMNTS and Stellar Development Foundation collaboration, draws from a census-balanced survey of 2,079 U.S. consumers who made cross-border peer-to-peer payments, conducted between June 23 and July 12, 2021. Respondents were an average of 39 years old, and 41 percent were female. Also, 47 percent held college degrees and 48 percent
earned more than $100,000 in annual income." [0]

[0] https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PYMNTS-Cro... (Page 25)

EDIT: BTW I have absolutely no affiliation with either PYMNTS or the Stellar Development Foundation.
Actually I've moved away and don't hang out with the same people so it's unlikely I'd use it now. So it worked out okay.
Why is my phone scrolling at 10fps on this page? Not exactly a great first experience.
Well if you need billions of tuples, you're using the wrong system.
The unfortunate thing is that something like a Tampermonkey script that was loaded in your browser could cause that kind of event, and capture your new password and transmit that to a third party, where the e-mail address and everything else could be changed.

But tools like Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey are the good guys. They tell you when scripts are updated, etc.... Malware versions of comparable tools could operate entirely below the surface, without your ever knowing.
Major breakthrough could end PC overheating worries for good
I’m quite perplexed at how many people depend on work for their social network. Don’t they have neighbors and friends?
I'm surprised Tesla isn't on the list? Do they still collect data to feed their self-driving car initiative?
Excellent decision to cite the company that today was caught lying that Lime and Salesforce were their “real world” customers: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=helium-caught-lying-that-li...
Ask HN: Perspectives for Ukrainian programmer coming to US as a war refugee?
Hello,

I'm from Ukraine and my town Mariupol has been destroyed. I escaped to Russia and now I'm looking for a place to live and rebuild my life. A good friend agreed to sponsor me and my parents via a Uniting for Ukraine program, so that we can come and stay in US for 2 years that the program covers. I don't have wife or kids, and my brother is currently in a different city. I'm 34.

Considering that USA has huge tech market, it seems like a great proposition career wise, plus I know English already. But I worry about perspectives of such move. Will companies want to hire me knowing that my status is temporary and quite short at that (2 years)? Even if company likes me and is ready to propose a work visa it looks like there is a high chance that I don't get the visa. Then what, the end? I go home (to the ruins of it) at the end of 2 years? Is there a path towards longer-term US residence?

Plus, I worry about EAD work authorization with wait times around 6-9 months, which will make it difficult to sustain ourselves during that time. I'm not very clear about possible government assistance and the extend of it. Some of my friends say that going to US is not worth it in my circumstances, and some say that it's easier to figure things out being there and that 'you'll find the way', like build a case for different immigration status or marry, heh. I'm pretty sad and overwhelmed due to the war and my circumstances, I'm looking everywhere, so I wanted to ask HN opinion about perspectives of going to US to try and build new life there.

Michael
Gulp is practical to insert extra behavior if you have a multi-step build process and are allergic to Webpack. Just write a gulpfile and spawn whatever you need spawning, like some glorified bash that is already in JS so you don't need to manage more languages.
> It is their land and you should pay respects, a small ceremony isn’t too much of an inconvenience.

The problem, IMHO, is that it's become meaningless. I mean they say it at the start of some of our meetings at work FFS. I work for a large IT systems integrator! The person just says the words, clearly having never rehearsed them, with no emotion. This isn't helping.

It just alienates otherwise empathetic people who think, "this pointless crap again?"
QLC is 2x TLC (16/8=2).
Isn't this going to be a complete non-starter, just like solder that works well isn't allowed anymore, due to RoHS rules?
It's certainly up to you how to feel about being faced with that. I can't say I fear China taking over. Some may perceive power as a position of relaxation, but it's really about responsibility, and I don't think the Chinese government wants that. They just want other countries to let them manage things how they see fit, and they currently view influencing us as a means to achieve that. Also, the subjugation of China's population is aided by the rest of the world, in a sense, when we make purchases primarily based on price. Not to mention issues with language, etc. China is the biggest country the world's ever seen. That doesn't mean they're about to conquer the world. Not saying we shouldn't be prepared though.
Although this comment doesn't address you point directly, but to the general approach most companies take when they get hacked and the repercussions of it.

Just from a question standpoint of the general approach companies take in situations like this, do you think there should be repercussion from a legal standpoint when it comes to the compromising of user data that a company didn't adequately protect. I believe their are standard approach to protecting user data, which can result in standardization of security as it pertains to online companies.

What are your thoughts, not to hijack your question, but as a side inquiry into frequency of rabbit being hacked?
> When a programming language has 1000x as many developers you simply get a richer ecosystem

Interesting comment given the article. That's the magic of Clojure being hosted, you get the rich Java ecosystem and get to use your Lisp that you love.

The downside is you still need to deal with the rich ecosystem that isn't as nice as if there was a rich one in Clojure.
That is freaking bananas. Thanks for sharing.