skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am hoping someone here can recall the name of the book that got me interested in computers and Computer Science. It was a Microsoft Press book that taught fundamentals of computing. The book started with discussing relay switches, and progressed to how one could build computational units using them. This book was available at my local public library in the mid 90’s.
Don't worry after you install it it doesn't exactly get any better. Take this as a sign :P
By what possible moral judgment would you be entitled to the body or organs of a clone of yourself, any more than the clone would be to you?

I do believe that growing clone organs individually, if it turns out to be possible, would be a solution. But otherwise, slaughtering a living human to save another is never going to be acceptable.
Invading Tibet and occupying - is that black or white?

Invading East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and occupying it - is that black or white?

Shooting missiles over Taiwan - is that black or white?

Threatening other countries with war if they do not let you occupy Taiwan - black or white?
> After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database.

Yes, but several years later, since Amazon bought IMDB back in 1998!
> It’d be interest to compare the knowledge level the person holding the consensus view has about the non-consensus view to vice versa.

That's a great question -- harking back to the idea that for the best incarnation of debate one should be able to argue one's opponent's case to their satisfaction, and then make one's own counter.

The unfortunate problem is that it's often far easier to cook up BS than to bust it, so the anticipated effort tilts the scales massively. But in cases where there are specific/highlighted competing alternatives, it would be very interesting to study this.
Let me try again, since I was snotty and got flagged.

This is not a kosher industry. It reaches its influence into the academic realm and has an epic PR budget. It can take advantage of the obscurity of the tech to promote talking points that seem quite reasonable, but generally mask a desire by energy suppliers to maintain the current means of distribution.

And a good part of that PR budget certain goes into negative marketing against wind and solar, specifically because they are disruptive to the distribution model. Profit. There's no conspiracy theory in profit. We know that's what industries want. And historically, industries are not invested in public safety to the extent that it cuts into profits.

So then, why does anyone TRUST the nuclear industry. And even if we do, why would we EVER trust governments to regulate that technology, given that history of absolutely clear about the likelihood of self-regulation?

All I see is billions spent to keep power generation out of our homes. Wind and solar are ready to deploy and yet people seem to suggest that tech in development, which might not be ready of commercial application for a decade, are the solution to our problems?

I don't see it.
It is. I'd tend to start with Code, but it would work either way
>less about being a database

I do really like the "X-ray" feature in Amazon Prime, which I assume is partially powered by IMDB. I miss it when using other services like HBOMax, Netflix, etc.
I didn't know about this, that's great. And it's an intuitive URL, github.com gets replaced by github.dev.
Climate migration. What happens Europe now/since 2015 is nothing that will come in the next couple of years. And the individual countries and so as the EU is pretty much unprepared. I'd even say that will be one of the cause of downfall of the union.
Thanks. I suppose I am being a bit too vague over all;

In terms of what it is I've grown paranoid about, it's mostly subjectively / paranoid-ly that I said 'everything'. Resolving that was a major goal I had for trying to write personal journals about this.

The other side of that is the more personal: I've lost basically all of my friends, and struggle to talk to my parents. While my emotional issues are getting in the way of trying to write out what I've grown fearful of, I also don't really know how to get in contact with anyone. That was where this post sounded relevant to me.

Moving on from a rank paranoia via internet might require first rebuilding my personal / social life somewhat, so I have something to fall back on. And doing so is blocked by that very paranoia and emotional issues. Catch-22. Being terminally online as I am, may be a help or a hindrance to trying to escape that.
Aside: I love the Discourse UI. It feels easy and thoroughly modern to me. What's janky about it, in your opinion?
how does it work? there can be endless implementations and the IDE/Compiler doesn't know beforehand what satisfies the interface as oppose to other languages ?
It was very obvious to me, it's right at the top of the page.

> Note: This change does not impact regular review comments or other comments made directly on a pull request.
Ask HN: How to transition from a failed startup back into the corporate world?
80% of startups fail, and so did mine. I consciously took some monetary risks like founding capital and no salary for a while.
I learned a ton on this adventure but now it's time to go back to a safe job with a decent salary at a (probably) mid-size or big company.

Did you find it hard to get back into the corporate world after being founding and running your own startup?
One thing that has been frustrating me is how many lights, and bright ones, are on everything I buy these days. A single tiny LED is lighting up entire rooms enough to navigate without tripping on anything in the dark.
If it can give better outcomes wouldn’t it be more unethical not to use it? We should certainly be aware of feedback loops but we can’t let perfection be the enemy of good
Low water levels mean Rhine is days away from being shut for cargo
There is a quite helpful discount code available here: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/promotions/microsoft-par...
> Financial crimes deserve a financial penalty.

Financial crimes, aka crimes rich people commit, to be richer, deserve much more harsh treatment that we give them today. You can go to jail for years for shoplifting (aka crimes poor people commit) few thousand dollars worth of goods. People should be much more often sentenced to go to jail for life for committing millions of dollars worth of financial crimes.
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try them out.
It's “Pascal”, not “PASCAL”.
Albertone in a thread about Italian hand-gestures, there's nothing more Italian than this. Now, all that is missing is some link to a ragionier Fantozzi sketch.
I think it’s just you. I welcome more ideas, but it’s not my job to come up with public health policy ideas.
“Clinically speaking, metabolic health is defined by optimal levels of five markers: blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference—without using medication.“

Things like a high sugar Twinkie diet will expose you to diabetes risk independent of calorie intake.
This is something I have been think about for the past 10 year as well. If we can get enough cheap power production, incinerating toilets seem interesting. And the growth satellite internet is a big win for this area.
Same. But sometimes I like skimming it just as a distraction. There's something so satisfying about seeing these tricks I'm far too stupid to come up with on my own. A couple of times, I've had some breakthroughs when stuck on an unrelated problem, while reading this book, because the "psychedelic hackery" sort of leads me down an alley I wouldn't otherwise have thought of, due to some superficial similarity.
Kickback Podcasts: A Web3 Podcast Player
Podcasts allow us to learn, laugh, and reflect. With crypto technology, you can now connect and be rewarded for your attention like never before.

Read to see why Kickback Podcasts is much more than just a "Crypto Apple Podcasts"
yes, while it is gaining adoption, there are still a couple of major tasks before it really takes off, namely dependency management and structural sharing.
They're still high priests of the machine, but now dressed in free t-shirts & warby parkers. I also dislike programmers, but they are the least of his problems.

Going by his own writings, his zealous consistency on trademark/copyright/credit, the limits of the technology (until blockchain) at the time... any micro-payments system coming out of that was destined to be more Lexis-Nexis than anything resembling decentralization, regardless of whatever Ted's intentions are.

And most of that "locked up" culture is garbage in the first place--the 100th starwars novel, the 25th tom clancy book, the latest nutrition or psychology paper that has been p-hacked to hell and back for the benefit of some commercial interest. Money doesn't attract creativity. Money attracts whores. So in addition to "SEO Experts" optimizing PageRank, we'd have Xanadu Experts gaming that system as well, and it would be just as full of garbage as Google is. Money would surely change hands, but to the pewds & mr beasts of XanaduSpace.
Yeah, thanks to Dmitry returning to work on it, and FreeBSD Foundation sponsoring me, and other developers stepping in to fix something that annoyed them, and Alex tracking down Steam situation and doing epic work on tracking FreeBSD bugs and Linux idiosyncrasies.

Note that the reported kernel version doesn’t mean much, and we could probably bump it to 5. What matters is individual syscalls, and a nice thing about the state of Linux is that because it’s so fragmented, almost every non-portable syscall has a portable fallback.
Managing APIs like dependencies, with a package manager-like developer experience. (npm for APIs). The number of APIs is continuously growing. It's going to be impossible to manually manage API dependencies in the future. I wrote about our approach to solve the problem here: https://docs.wundergraph.com/docs/architecture/manage-api-de... I'm curious what others think of this problem space.
I’ve used CUE a bit and I’m underwhelmed by it. In most cases it’s just another unneeded level of abstraction, it also doesn’t go far enough, most API based tools need to support imperative methods
In chapter 3, the table labelled as „Companies paying 600-1,000 USD/EUR/GBP per week.“ includes German KfW Bank which apparently pays €875 per _day_. Is this a typo (they are in reality paying this amount per week) or are the engineers on call only one day per week (making the amounts per day and per week the same)?
Reviewing is not the cause of the economic problems in academic publishing. The economic problems arise from the car at of copy and production editing. That's where the money goes. See https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20
Please post a "Show HN" when you're done. I'd love to try it out!
Somebody watches Rosies videos? :-)
To not die at 80.

Do be young as long as you live.

To cure people of cancer, heart, lung, liver, kidney, and other diseases. Intractable diseases.

Once it becomes normalized, you'll even see people swapping their bodies for ones they prefer. Gender. Increased height, musculature, or VO2max. Transgenic craziness.

Why not?

Why accept what we have now?
I guess a well and a septic tank? Lived that way for awhile up in the mountains and it was tough
Sounds awesome thanks for thinking about sharing your work!
This is an annoying take that comes up every time. It’s like saying people die because a critical organ stops functioning. It adds nothing to the discourse and tends to imply that it’s lack of will power.
A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1]

It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was that they arrived too late, thousands of regular people were already on the premises. They should have come early in the morning.

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[1] https://f7.pmo.ee/Rur-qzbdJAu0h_EKSRoidSHPFsg=/1536x0/nginx/...
I just felt bad for Melville when I got to chapters where he introduced his classification system for whales. He seemed so excited by it, and it's unfortunately obvious with the passage of time that it was very wrong.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377063 that's currently #2 on the front page.
Arti (rustified Tor) 0.6.0 is released
IMDB originated on usenet. Someone mentioned a hot actress, another person made a top three of actresses... a bit later is was a top 100, and that is how IMDB started. Source: my memory :)
If I understand you correctly you mean that they are really Operations Engineers right?
Black electrical tape to the rescue
It seems we’ve moved into the “acceptance” phase and phrases like “healthy at any weight” and different “body types” have become the norm. We just have no idea what to do.
You don't want computability in your config, and CUE is useful beyond APIs.

You can already use CUE within other programs when you need imperative, there is also the scripting layer where this is possible. There is also a plan to support a WASM runtime so you can have imperative subroutines in the scripting layer, written in any other language.
This is probably not the one you're referring to, but Pat Brown, co-founder of Impossible, also has quite a strong opinion on cultured meat. If somebody figures out how to grow animal parts artifically and reliably, there are much more interesting applications than to eat it. Such as medicinal applications.

I think the main point here is not that we will never figure it out, but that it will take a long time. Time, that we don't have with the imminent climate and biodiversity crises.

It makes much more sense to create meat directly from plant proteins than to try to grow it artifically. Brands like Impossible make damn great burger patties, chicken nuggets, and what not. I'm pretty most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference to animal meat in a blind test.
And suddenly I understand why the worst tech job ive ever had as an Ops engineer was so bad. We really only existed to improve alerting, pipeline and wake up other engineers at 3am.
Stack Overflow should just move to a Wikipedia donation model and we all can declare it is a public good for the world. There’s lots to learn about the open model there that SO could benefit from.
Yeah, no. Neo-Nazis are fighting in large numbers on both sides of this war.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-org...
That’s almost certainly (the first edition of) the book in this post.
I guess you’ve added a backslash in the outer product to prevent HN formatting weirdness. It isn’t an outer product where the operation is ‘scan product’.
Energy? I feel like it's been talked about a lot but maybe not?

Solar panels are dropping in cost at an exponential rate [0]. As of this writing, consumer "new" panels are $0.75/W and used are at around $0.30/W right now (I won't give a link as a Google search will do).

Battery technology is also dropping at an exponential rate. I believe, with a little effort, one can purchase batteries at about $0.08/Wh.

Taken together, one can purchase a 30KWh (daily) solar panel and battery storage system for about $4,200 (not including labor and extra hardware/electronics), which puts the return on investment (ROI) at about 3.5 years if we consider the average house spends around $1200 (in the USA).

Dropping costs will quickly put that in the 2 year ROI range which, in my opinion, is the inflection point where it effectively becomes too good to pass up for the average consumer.

The dropping price of energy comes with all sorts of side effects, like a potentially decentralized energy grid, use cases for excess energy (eg bitcoin mining, carbon capture, hydrogen production, etc.), novel power storage systems etc., which is maybe the "novel" part that I haven't heard too much talk about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
TIL: Just mix two big trends and see what you can come up with. Like:

- Quantum Computing and WFH

- Crypto and Micronuclear Power

- Metaverse and Biohacking

Have fun!
And TCP/IP Illustrated by the same author.
I find it interesting that nowhere in the article did the author write the name of the actor / musician he's referring to, it's only highlighted in pictures. Maybe trying not to add to this guy's SEO?
That's actually pretty clever.
> I've never heard of things like alcoholism pride

Alcohol is substantially engrained in culture, country music or top 40 playlists. Today listening to a country playlist, about 70% of songs mention beer, whisky, or tequila.

And you could say, they're talking about a cool beverage every few days; and then you'll see the Social posts normalizing that a bottle or 2 of wine a night is normal, or that "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" as if alcohol every day at 5 is healthy. But then you'll meet a reformed alcoholic who started from these references. And then you'll hang out with "normals" with a person who is sober or even a moderate drinker and realize that the majority of American adults do have a problem with alcohol (they even feel uncomfortable if someone is asks for a water), it's just normalized
From what I bore to watch, it's a quite faithful adaptation - even if somewhat simplified.

As someone who only read a bunch of those 80s/90s "transgressive" comic books in the late 2000s-early 2010s, thanks to the wonders of the Web (and never saw any sign of anyone else having heard of these particular works in my godforsaken corner of the world, though Gaiman is somewhat known for his collabs with Pratchett), I could draw comparison with "Preacher" and "The Boys" (based on the eponymous works by Garth Ennis), which seem to be doing the whole "comic book to TV show because we bought off all the counterculture and are consequently running out of interesting intellectual property" thing a bit better. Taking more liberties with the source material, too; adding stuff that wasn't in the book but bears the original spirit.

Interestingly enough, those are also more grittier and less "politically correct" tales - even though their protagonists also tend to espouse enlightened views of radical acceptance, and the underlying message seems to be that the real antagonist is not just some entrenched establishment of crooked power mongers, but the mass of NPCs who enable them. Guess violence is timeless and magical realism is only relevant in the context of specific historical moments of cultural transition - who would've known?

Of course, there's comparatively less of that particular conflict overtly represented in the Sandman - it's one of those metaphysical things where most of the action happens in the characters' inner worlds. (Maybe that's why they thought it was such a timeless tale that recasting some of the characters as non-Gothic would be sufficient modernization?) Still, I consider Gaiman's work part of the same campaign of guerilla cultural warfare that was conducted around the turn of the century by teaching the kids lateral thinking, imagination, and of course emotional literacy and compassion. And of course the kids took that and went to become salaried creatives building nostalgic simulacra to mask the terminal disenchantment of the world (no enchantment -> no hope -> workers don't breed). So, yeah, guess we lost that one.

Finally got around to reading William Gibson's "Blue Ant" trilogy, and boy oh boy does the man have a good handle on how the media machine acts to transform artworks and the human experiences that art glorifies into a uniform bland "concept soup". Guess they'll start shooting shows from his desiccated corpus next. (Heard it here first, folks!)

All in all a Constantine/Watchmen tier adaptation. Don't waste time watching it, just torrent the original comic books and enjoy.
>Food donation was considered the highest ideal, even greater than money

That doesn't sound like the kind of norm that would develop in a society where nobody has to worry about getting enough to eat.
Meta chatbot both praises, insults Mark Zuckerberg
Kvochur was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian by ethnicity, and Soviet and now Russian by nationality. And he is a Russian test pilot who has worked for Sukhoi and MIG.

[0] https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=4276
lol, I've done this a bit, but it makes everything look broken
There is a problem:

In socialism, if you have power, you can print money

In capitalism, if you have money, you can get power and then you can print money

Given enough time, both systems evolve into something that cannot be easily distinguished. There are always going to be groups of people destined to be exploited through the similar mechanisms.

People who are attracted to capitalism believe that it is a system of equal chances, that they can participate in the economy and achieve success with their own hard work.

People who are attracted to socialism believe that the system is preventing them from having a chance due to their background that is outside of their control and they believe the state should intervene and help them participate and achieve success.

These two ways of thinking are ripe to be exploited by politicians, divide et impera. Politicians from both sides rather than trying to meet somewhere in the middle, they rather enforce the differences. Like "capitalist" will say "lazy" people shouldn't eat, and "socialist" will say the "Bourgeoisie" is not paying their fair share.

It is also interesting that the politicians who are for capitalism tend to be against social freedoms like gay marriage, abortions and politicians who are for socialism, tend to favour strict regulation of economy, but afford wide social freedoms.

As if they have created this these sort of red lines to further the divide of the society.

For instance, if you want to run your own business your option is to vote for a party that won't get in your way, but you'll have to consider you'll have to mess up with your friends who are same sex and want to get married.

There seems to be no party that would be good for small and medium business and at the same time acknowledge the needs of modern society.

Or am I missing something?

I understand that my comparison is a bit crude, but it's something that fascinates me. This is happening in many countries, this style of politics.
I mean, I grew up with a well and septic tank and my life was literally no different than living in an apartment in the city. It’s not like a radical off-the-grid thing millions of homes are this way.
Of course this very paradigm, combined with the fact that C doesn’t have a proper pointer-and-length type, led to `gets` and around n million other security disasters when bad APIs would just take a pointer without a length and assume there’s "enough" space…

Anyway, the whole "caller allocates" concept doesn’t work too well in the particular case of `gethostbyname`, which as the author mentions, is a complex struct containing several pointers and double pointers, with a potentially unlimited number of different-length allocations one would have to make!
Kvochur was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, he is Russian by ethnicity, and Soviet and now Russian by nationality. And he is a Russian test pilot who has worked for Sukhoi and MIG.

[0] https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=4276
I can't figure out what they're worried about? These chemicals last "forever" because they are chemically inert. I've seen worries about byproducts from manufacturing, but people are raising alarms about levels of PFAS chemicals themselves with no conclusive evidence that they do anything at all.
There needs to be corporate death penalty at some point. I nominate Experian.
Like I said, I get it. (And fwiw '200/4xx/5xx' also sit in the application layer, just HTTP not GraphQL, which is why I described it as like a 'layer 8' (a fictional one above application) over HTTP.) It's just not a good 'DX'.