skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academia doesn't have the same sort of centralized orthodoxy as the world religions, so I don't think an international coverup from academia is the right analogy to look for. But if you drill down to the level where rigid hierarchy exists--the individual institution--there are many examples.

See the way in which Penn State covered up the years of abuse by Jerry Sandusky in order to try to protect the reputation of their football program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_child_sex_abuse_sca...).

Or the way in which Michigan State was negligent in their handling of Larry Nassar, a serial abuser of athletes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Gymnastics_sex_abuse_scand...).

University of Michigan has a similar scandal of its own (https://www.npr.org/2022/01/19/1074071024/university-michiga...).

Unfortunately, I think there's little reason to believe this dynamic is limited to Big Ten universities.
> provide something of value to the world

Just for a limited time when the purposely made their phones unusable through OS updates.
I don’t know much about marketing, let alone about marketing decades old television shows, but it would surprise me if doing the work to stream all of that were economically viable, let alone more economically viable than other things HBO could work on instead. Ten or twenty “best of” episodes (with “best of” decided by both content, licensing, and the quality of available recordings) might be economically viable, but thousands of episodes?
This is a really weird thread.

It’s an opinionated blog post about relatively minor Makefile conventions with a clickbait title, which doesn’t look obviously self-submitted.

And yet the thread is #1 and has 96 comments, of which like 92 are trashing the poor guy.

Surely there is someone more worthy of an HN gang-tackle than this? It can’t be that slow of a news day.
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know, guess what happened next (2016)
Relevant reading about FoundationDB building a SQL database on top of a distributed key-value store: https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/2015/04/foundationdbs-le...
(That one replaced SQLite's btree, this one puts pages of the btree as values in the key-value store.)

Another approach using FUSE, making arbitrary SQLite-using applications leader-replica style distributed for HA: https://github.com/superfly/litefs (see also https://litestream.io/ for WAL-streaming backups, that's the foundation of this)
Apple Planning to Show Ads in Maps App Starting Next Year
Well, Android has been successful for years now with a model where it is possible to sideload an APK on any device, but it's buried sufficiently deep that the people who shouldn't be using it can't find it.

Why not replicate that (IMO) success?

Because if I understand GP correctly, they are talking about the ability for devs and white hats to install software which enables debugging and logging so it becomes much easier to find stuff like this?
You're only looking at federal funding here. Most public school funding in the US comes from states.

My state of Washingon spent $17.5 billion on schooling this year, on top of that federal funding.
I can ask GPT-3 to generate headlines. Most or all of these will be either incoherent or incorrect to at least this degree. It won't start any wars, because GPT-3 just isn't that influential.

You're not necessarily wrong -- I don't know -- but don't mistake relative influence for relative inaccuracy. I suspect -- but don't know -- that giving Infowars the amount of influence you're citing here would result in a tragedy of at least similar scale.
People naked: ok. Pictures: nok.
Ray tracing tells you what the light hit. PBR tells you what happens to the light when it hits something.

They can be used separately or together. For example you can use PBR with rasterization instead of ray tracing (which describes many modern games), and you can use ray tracing with simplified or non-realistic materials (e.g. toon shading) instead of PBR materials.

Also, the term "PBR" has generally come to mean a set of specific techniques and equations that are still a radical simplification of what happens in the real world. These techniques are a good approximation in many cases but some materials will not be well modeled by the typical PBR equations. There are more advanced material models that can be used. These are often published at SIGGRAPH.
> I strongly believe that choice of language makes a huge difference in your material’s reception.

Not with me, unless you're talking about the difference between clear and unclear language.

I'm not bothered by language that some people seem to class as patronizing or like you know everything or whatever. When somebody is explaining something to me, I don't want them to explain it to me like I know it already. I want them to explain it to me like someone I've hired to explain things to me i.e. like they're the expert and I'm not.

If I think I know everything about make, there's no reason for me to have clicked on this other than an urge to seek out things that confirm my sense of self-worth, or to get upset about things that threaten it.
> Source?

For example the Wall Street Journal. And hundreds of similar articles.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-california-2-2-4-may-be-thou...

> This is such a wild claim it has to be made up.

This is against the site's rules.

> I'm personally hard pressed to find that one person tweeting means that all math teachers everywhere

Funny how you build up a straw man. I never claimed any of that.
Generic office jobs don’t pay that much. At least the kind that require education degrees. And they lack security.
> "Use a recent bash" seems like a matter of preference.

Unfortunately it's not merely a preference; old Bash versions (in particular the one that shipped on macOS for a long time) have had at least one nasty behavior (I think multiple, but I recall at least definitely one) that have been fixed since then, but which cause grief in Makefiles. I don't recall what it was or have a link handy, but if anybody knows, please leave it here; it's a well-known issue.
Is £2,647 per adult per year an unsustainable amount? How much is is OK to spend on the military? On roads? On tax breaks for energy companies?

Don't forget healthcare isn't about you, it is about society and if you don't care about society just think of it instead as having healthy employees and customers, who aren't ruined if they fall ill, and therefore have cash to spend...
Similar to this, I created "HN Faves API", which is an API to fetch a user's favorited posts and comments on HN. Interestingly, HN doesn't have an official API for this.

On GitHub: https://github.com/plibither8/hn-faves-api

You can try it out here: https://hn-faves.mihir.ch
Be like me and keep seeding the stuff that’s going to be obscure in 5 years.

Of course, you’ll need to wait for me to open up my client every couple weeks, but you’ll get it eventually.
Of course you do! Statements like "The more free market it is, the better the results" are not just about things at the ends of the spectrum, so that needs proper backing not handwaving about communist vs. capitalist economies. For example, is Norway more free market than Iceland? What are the criteria?
Wouldn't the displays in the public süaces be a better option.
Silence is unnatural. Most of humanity's ancestors grew up in the wilderness that was replete with noises.
I don't agree that it's zero sum - this is a niche market that, if it could reach a broader audience, would experience an influx of new customers. That could potentially benefit all the players in the market, though of course it would benefit the company driving the popularisation the most.

Personally I think that in marketing like this NordVPN are not trying to convince existing VPN users that their service is better than their competitors'. Rather, they are trying to convince non-VPN users that they need a VPN.
From the article:

'“We are beginning to see the deaths that result from delay and deferment of treatment for other conditions, like cancer and heart disease, and from those associated with poverty and deprivation.

'“These come through more slowly – if cancer is not treated promptly, patients don't die immediately but do die in greater numbers more quickly than would otherwise be the case.”

'The Government has admitted that the majority of the excess deaths appear to be from circulatory issues and diabetes – long-term, chronic conditions that can be fatal without adequate care.'

These deaths are attributable to specific causes - chronic conditions not receiving proper ongoing care - which have nothing to do with the vaccines. Hell, vaccines /should/ be increasing the amount of ongoing treatment for these conditions, and helping people get back to regular checkups and the associated preventative / early-stage treatment. (noting of course that the current excess deaths are an extremely laggy indicator. the 'vaccines help' hypothesis should then be apparent in a year or two as the excess deaths come back down.)
Yes! Write-once + read-many + no-update/delete tables are reasonably-common in databases as well, and some databases natively support a ledger table type that enables updates and deletes while also providing tamper-proof evidence of all changes.
Frankly at this point I'd happily accept it if certbot required docker or k8s over snap.

At least then I know I'll have to run it in a container (and give up then) instead of waste hours figuring out why I get a snap error message when I try to run/install certbot before finally coming to the conclusion it is impossible.
I've recently spent some time sandboxing nginx on my web server by running the master process as the user www-data instead of root, adding some seccomp filters through systemd and writing a custom AppArmor profile[1]. And the hardest part was dealing with certbot actually. Not least because it's written in Python, and so adding capabilities to the script itself didn't do a thing. They needed to be added to the Python interpreter executable[2]. The whole thing seemed more complicated than its worth. I've looked briefly at what supposedly configuring an OpenBSD server with OpenBSD httpd + OpenBSD's acme-client would look like, and it seems so much easier and the secure configuration is the official one, so I'd need to worry much less about updates breaking my stuff.

So I'm considering moving to OpenBSD for my web server. The only thing giving me pause currently is that I saw no mention of HTTP/2 support, so I suspect there is none. Although maybe I don't need it. We'll see.

[1]: That last apart I actually already had, but it needed some tweaking this time, because I moved nginx's PID file to its own runtime directory created by systemd, instead of allowing it to write to /run as root.

[2]: Of course only for testing. I revoked them after verifying that everything works. And now they're only assigned dynamically by systemd when the service is run.
Exposing this sort of capability is very interesting, especially coupled with agents is indeed interesting. Getting this type of functionality added to the core browser seems like a long and complex standardization process. Perhaps a plugin would be one means of doing it?

The semantic web hasn't been adopted, so one challenge would be how to categorize and expose the content to any sort of API. Perhaps such a system already exists.

The emacs ecosystem is a good example, but as you stated, it really requires expertise to utilize. I know of commercial service like IFTTT [1] but the thought of having this type of service be a utility available to any browser user is more interesting to me.

[1] https://ifttt.com
DJVU is supported by numerous book-reading applications, including (in my experience) FB Reader (FS/OSS), Pocketbook, and Onyx's Neoreader.

As a format for preserving full native scan views (large, but often strongly preferable for visually-significant works or preserving original typesetting / typography), DJVU is highly useful.

I do wish that it were more widely supported by both toolchains and readers. That will come in time, I suspect.
The only person you should ever ask if they like your startup idea are potential customers. Share with them the problem you’re tackling and the solution you’re building.

opinions from anyone who is not your potential customer means literally nothing. Be it positive or negative. Friends, investors, strangers on the internet. Nobody matters except for customers.

When I started a tiny design agency [1], I got the same reaction from random people (not scalable, why are you only focussing on B2B etc). We’re doing very well luckily and it’s a joy working with customers who love what you are offering.

[1] http://fairpixels.pro
If the author is reading this, Unreal MetaHuman is very nice. I wonder if they were having performance issues with a large number of human models though.
> The -e flag is only useful because the author likes .ONESHELL mode

Not really. The most common class of bugs I see in makefiles is something like this:

for x in foo bar baz; do frobnicate $x; done

This ignores errors from frobnicate, unless you set -e.
As long as transgressions actually have consequences.
How about just not watching TV?
The install nothing web-based screwing around with datasette-lite is impressive. And there's a ton of easy to understand great examples of on-the-fly quick hacks that came out of it. Really informative write-ups.

Im quite impressed by the transcribing:

> It took two hours for a collective of anonymous volunteers to dive through all of the files and transcribe every single one of them.

Seemed kind of ad-hoc using a Google Sheet for collab but still impressive to me. There's interesting parcelling up/stating-requesting/finding/doing work metaproblems about that keep seeming well served in specific domains & niches, but with scant progress at higher-level solutions/tools.
“Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States were $800 billion in 2018–19 (in constant 2020–21 dollars). This amounts to $15,621 per public school pupil enrolled in the fall of that year.”

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
Or RTFM. Make is ridiculously well documented.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

It's a peeve of mine that folks refuse to read the actual documentation for tools these days, preferring to wing it by copying other people's code.
One of the promises of the web was that archives could live on forever.

What we're seeing is a strong reaction to that promise being broken. It's not about whether you're in the audience or even if you have young kids (or may some day) who might want to watch the archives, it's that the vision of the great comprehensive virtual library is dead.

There's nothing you can do about this except start building private collections again. If you want to make sure you can still have access to something in 35 years, buy it in either a physical medium or a digital medium you can download without DRM.
Running it locally is as easy as downloading and installing. Scaling FDB is a bit more of a challenge partially due to their process-per-core design decision, which coincidently helps make FDB as bullet proof as it is.
We also have a lot of infuriatingly tautological explanations, for example:

“We apologise that this train has only 2 carriages today. This is because the additional carriages failed to enter service.”

Well, yes.
Scanning I2C Addresses
Advertising corrupts even the things you pay for, but more importantly than that I did pay for Netflix and currently do pay for Disney+, but the amount people expect you to pay for their content is way out of the value you get out of it. Typically even the lowest levels you pay for on Patreon for a single podcast gets close to what you pay for Netflix for a month, which doesn't make sense from a consumer perspective.
Why not throw in 15-minutes or 30-minutes of adds in certain part as well. To slow it down and allow the watchers to take to social media upon release.
> It will use the Discovery+ software (which is presumably better because HBO Max is terrible)

i know the new leadership claims Discover's tech is better, but i wonder if that is true. i wonder if it is PR-speak for creating some picture of reciprocity ("yes, HBO has content-- but discovery is bringing something to the party too!)."

i know the HBO Max app gets a lot of well-deserved flack. still, i imagine the underlining infrastructure is much more robust than anything discovery deals with in terms of load, scale, and internationalization.

dropping a new episode of House of Dragon tonight, or the new Wonder Woman movie in 4k HDR/etc. at a specific time must require far more interesting tech than whatever usage patterns the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancee necessitates.
And how do you find these potential customers to ask?
They do still show you ads if you pay them though, which is kind of annoying.
Well, that's a mixed bag.

My son just started his second year teaching kindergarten. I agree teaching is underappreciated and under paid.

I'm from South Dakota, I have a different view of the event she described. In my view, teachers were able to volunteer to score donated dollars by taking part in a light-hearted fund raiser. Accusing the organizers of being monsters assures there will be no further donated-money galas.

My wife also acts as a substitute teacher. From what I can gather, unruly kids who do not understand discipline are perhaps the biggest cause of unnecessary stress.
The world's rivers are drying up from extreme weather. See how 6 look from space
Teachers are changing professions, in large numbers, and have been for a while. TFA discusses that and how districts are resorting to desperate measures to get bodies to teach, like drafting in college kids, cutting school hours, and importing them.

You don’t have one student. You have easily dozens, maybe hundreds. There isn’t enough time to actively teach, and grade all their stuff, and figure out the next lesson plan in the eight hour day.
- Creativity Inc. - Amazing story packed with management / leadership lession

- Thinking In Bets - Hacks for better decision making

- You're Not Listening (Kate Murphy) - Up your listening game to increase the quality of your life

- The War of Art - Usual on lists for creatives but it applies for all (including engineers)
Apple in my experience has a marvelous track record with this sort of thing.

I upgraded from an iPhone 4 to X because it worked fine for so long. This summer I updated my mom’s 8 year old Macbook Air to Monterey and it works great.

And I’m starting to think about upgrading my 2018 iPad only because of memory issues with 3rd party apps dumping context when multitasking.
They never said they were against ads though.
>and are WAY more popular than any anime.

Which is why they can get away with charging less per copy.
Agreed on the point that bad parenting makes teaching difficult.
Two words: survivor bias.
I've always been curious why. Was Final Cut the Excel of the arts? Perhaps it was integrated platform color control? I don't recall PPC being dramatically faster, or supporting much more memory.
I’ve been becoming more skeptical that chronic pain I have is physically based.

Contrary to the article, my best guess is that my psychological pain is not being -expressed- as physical pain, but rather my physical pain is my mind’s way to -distract- me from the psychological pain that threatens to come to the surface.

To see this, notice it’s pretty clear that we distract ourselves in all sorts of ways from psychological pain, i.e. smartphone, social media, hacker news. Physical pain just happens to be a very engrossing form of distraction that takes all your attention and focus.

One can start becoming increasingly skeptical by monitoring how much time during the day you -actually- feel pain. For me, it’s maybe a few minutes, but that few minutes of pain explodes into “I have this massive problem” which produces thought loops and rumination, which are themselves very effective distraction techniques.
For me background noise is good for mind silence so I think people agree with your end but need different means to get there.
Dentistry is a mess because of the funding model. It doesn't pay to be an NHS dentist, so most practices ceased to take NHS patients. If they fixed the funding model, the problem would resolve itself. The problem here was entirely self-inflicted by the NHS in its fixed price lists, which weren't sufficient to run a viable business on. The very opposite of a proper free-market economy. Finding an NHS dentist in some areas is impossible, but finding a private dentist is not. I've used both, and both were absolutely fine. The private dentist was more expensive, but they were charging a reasonable amount to fully cover their salaries, facilities and consumables. As with everything, you get what you pay for.

Regarding competition, the NHS hasn't really tried competition seriously now, has it? Not really. Not actually doing a complete decoupling the insurance funding and the service provision. The "choose and book" isn't that, is it? It's a small attempt, which is better than nothing, but it's not really surprising that it didn't drive a huge amount of change, when it's not really going to have a big impact upon the bottom line.
If you can get a job for $10/pupil/hour for 30 kids for 7 hours a day, go for it. ($2,100 per day)

I don’t think that exists. So comparing babysitting for a few rich kids to teaching full time makes no sense.
Lets go down memory lane.

So soon we forgot the original whistleblower who shared the news of covid to the west and then China censored him..

Many doctors/nurse personnel had medical licenses removed because they spoke against the narrative. Doctors with 30 / 40 years experience being told if you don't parrot what we are saying we are going to make a case that will remove your doctor title. Now we can say 99% of doctor support this.. It was sad seeing doctors twist the truth on tv. As the virus changed trying to stick to the narrative became more difficult.
> If the author is going to make a convincing case his way is "right" and other ways are "wrong", it's incumbent upon him to clearly state what failures I will avoid.

I agree, any claim that you should do XYZ should give a strong argument.

The article here does try to give very short arguments, to be fair. I leave unconvinced by many of them. For example, requiring bash means you can't use dash; dash is less capable but much faster.

I prefer arguments that walk through the key pros and cons. Longer, but in long run more useful.