skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they tend to be careful to not offend each other

Do they? People are consciously holding back internal floodgates of offensive ideas that would otherwise flood their peers? I don't think artists and genuinely creative people are doing that among their own group.

It's encouraged and celebrated when artists express original, challenging ideas. That's the whole point of being an artist. It's why social groups among artists, writers and musicians are so much fun because of the inherent acceptance and good will associated with "risky" ideas.

Artists are adventurers, stomping new ground. They are not egg-shell treading, well-behaved clones.

As for solitude, obviously it has benefits. I don't think it matters though. Each artist or creative person finds their own ways and methods.
Current grant agreements already include a provision for licensing to the government; however, they also offer a 12-month embargo before being made public. This seems to be the "paywall" they are speaking of. The policy change is to eliminate the embargo period, so it can be made public immediately.

https://www.engadget.com/white-house-says-federally-funded-r...
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> Everything has risks, including stumbling around in the dark trying to put a baby back in its crib.

These are not remotely comparable and it's dishonest to argue otherwise. In-bed co-sleeping mats are banned in many countries. Cribs are not.
The degradation of the Academy should, by all logic, create an opening for a competitor. What is that competitor and what does it look like?
Just add another layer of tinfoil.
I agree with you. For me, at least, there’s something to be said about the expectation of being reachable: if you happen to be somewhere remote without any service at all, there’s simply no way for someone to reach you. If you go somewhere everyone knows has service and just turn off your phone, you are perceived to be actively ignoring people.

Others on this thread are discussing the safety aspects, and I don’t disagree that there’s some value there–I like to go out solo in the backcountry, and lead trips with groups of inexperienced people, so I own a satellite phone for that purpose. That said, only a few people have the number for it, everyone else knows that when I’m out there, I’m offline. Even if others had the number, it only sends texts, and very slowly, so it’s not a true connection to the real world, just a lifeline.

I used to feel the same way about getting on a plane. Flaky as airplane wifi can be, it’s no longer the disconnect it once was.
Season passes for ski resorts are a similar concept. A one-time payment can get you unlimited access to multiple resorts. They've been doing this for decades, so they've proven the concept works.
Current policy is public after 12 months. This is just changing that to 0 for future grants.
This user might have some ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CliffStoll
> On display in any jam session is thousands of hours of (solitary) practice, study, and reflection.

But not necessarily. Some musicians exclusively learn to play through being taught and jamming with others. I admit it's rare, and even as an extrovert it's not true for myself.

However, for a more damning condemnation of this "creativity requires solitude" viewpoint, we only need to venture into the world of improv theatre. Almost everyone in improv is unleashing non-stop creativity, but they've almost never practiced improv alone. It's the total counterpoint to this unnecessary association between artistry and isolation.

Highly extroverted artists exist. They rarely create alone. They rarely practice alone. I urge people to acknowledge that this is a worthy way to be a compelling artist, rather than acting like the preference of the introverted artist is the only worthy way of doing things.
I have indeed started a company, but it was different then - we didn't have VC money to spend, so we built it from literally nothing. Our product has to calculate numbers, in a specific time frame. Failure to produce results on time, or excessive numbers of errors, (or excessive errors) can lead to significant issues for customers resulting is serious financial implications. That is my context.

I feel like the main thread of replies to my comment focused on the speed. Whereas perhaps I was commenting more on the "break things" aspect. We did, and still do, move quickly at times, and slower at others, but we work quite hard not to break things.

Our customers need our software to be reliable. It impacts them, and also (in a big way) their customers. They need it to work, not be broken.

That's my context. In my context breaking things is not OK. Your context may be different. My path is not necessarily good for you, your path is not necessarily good for me.

So I say it again - all advice can be useful, or harmful. Context matters. Make sure you understand your own context, and the context of the advice giver in deciding if the advice is worth anything.

Indeed, if my context is not your context, then my experience is of no value to you. So I agree with your first question;

>> have you started a startup yourself,

Discovering my context helps you understand my advice. That is a good instinct to have.
2026. By then a new administration could come in and nix this rule.
I'm confused. I don't know how to recognize when FSD is active, but: the video shows the accelerator pedal isn't pressed. Why is the car (visibly) accelerating if the pedal isn't pressed and FSD isn't active?
Heh, my family is mixed Lutheran and Catholic, but that's not the line it split along. My mother and her sister are Lutheran, while their husbands are Catholics. I'm aware of this social schism only in the academic sense; it's not something I've ever personally seen or experienced.

These are people who more or less believe the same sort of thing, but disagree about which party will best implement it. It's a difference that used to not matter very much; my cousins were raised almost identically to me and my siblings. There is no real difference in social or economic class, lifestyle, or community. Simply partisan affiliation.
The video here shows that the accelerator pedal isn't pressed. What is making the car speed up if FSD isn't active? https://mobile.twitter.com/RealDanODowd/status/1559245760054...
Hi Owen - I'm a moderator here and would first like to say that you are welcome on Hacker News and I hope you find lots of interesting things here for years to come.

Here's my suggestion—I don't know if it will help you become one of the best programmers ever [1] but it will be helpful in general if you can pull it off: when encountering hostile/critical/uncharitable comments on the internet - don't respond. It may not look like it, but the way the internet game really works is that the first person who stops reacting wins.

It's not easy, because these comments sting. The trick is to learn to feel the sting and absorb it, i.e. let it run through your system without responding until the bad feeling goes away and you have no more need to respond. At that point you are free. If you think of it as a kind of training challenge, it might get easier.

By the way, a lot of HN users used to be precocious kids whose self-worth got bound up with how good they were at being smart-while-young, and also with being the "smartest kid" in their world. That's my own story, and it's the story of a lot of people here.

When someone like yourself comes along, who's obviously smart and still very young, it can trigger insecurities in people like us, even decades later. The solution is to realize that it's (a) not your problem, and (b) not interesting—and then (c) to focus on engaging with people who actually have something interesting to teach you. Fortunately there are a lot of those here, too!

[1] It might, though, because it has to do with focus.
Likewise here. I learned to program in high school, finished freshman year of college, and got a summer internship at a computer facility. I gave myself a budget of $1000 for a complete computer with printer, that would let me do word processing and programming. The Sanyo won out. It got me through college.

It ran MS-DOS but was not "PC compatible" meaning it wouldn't run PC software that was hard coded for the weird IBM PC memory map. But my dad got me a copy of Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS, for my birthday, and it ran on my Sanyo, so I was perfectly happy with my setup.
I've seen that xkcd before. Maybe I made the wrong association because so far most wrecks which have been used for that were in deeper waters. Which when one thinks about it probably is for the simple reason that there were more fights at sea, than in rivers.
I drive car wagon with a large spacious rear area. I limit my shopping trips, I buy in bulk.

You have to be very disciplined to get as efficient with Amazon. It's probably not really possible.
I came to The Cuckoo's Egg in somewhat indirect fashion - it was mentioned in Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier by Markoff and Haffner, which was one of the first books that got me interested in computing. Not the very first mind you (I think that would be The Soul of a New Machine) but certainly one of the first. And so of course I immediately had to go out and find a copy of The Cuckoo's Egg after reading Cyberpunk and things just carried on from there.

Next thing you know I'm beige-boxing COCOT's at remote rural gas stations at 2:00am to call into the Hacker's Haven BBS to download Tone-Loc and other nifty programs, and newsletters by groups with names like "Cult of the Dead Cow" and "Phone Losers of America", etc.. Aaaah, the good old days. :-)
I’m sorry that the city noise makes it hard for you to sleep. As someone with tinnitus as well I know how it can be. Personally, for me I like to have the background noise of the city because it sounds like life to me. The loudest, most distracting thing to me is to be in a sealed up house with climate control and no outside noise, it makes the tinnitus really bad. Last time I found myself in that situation I had to find a way to open the windows, to at least hear the wind and the insects.
Yes, this is what LAFitness and others do if you cancel the credit card.
> Some of them will make you literally call them up to cancel.

In France, a new law was just passed to fight against unsubscribing hell, called "3-click unsubscribe". It is due to come in effect at the beginning of 2023.

It basically says that if the business offers an "easy online subscription", then it has to offer an "easy online unsubscription" option. This doesn't apply to companies who only take subscriptions by some other means. However, it does apply to a subscription taken by other means if it's also possible to subscribe online.

Google Translate source: https://www-tf1info-fr.translate.goog/economie/abonnements-e...
Style and subject:
Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick

Subject:
Worm, Mark Bowden
Countdown to Zero Day, Kim Zetter

Style:
The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
All the President's Men, Woodward & Bernstein
Aside from one planned and well-notified migration, I have not had any Linode downtime that I haven't caused myself.
Apple could partner with SpaceX and T-Mobile, like they did with AT&T and the original iPhone launch instead of trying to compete with them.
Imagine the confusion that would result by future CRISPR modifications to adults that would increase intelligence by replacing genes found in less intelligent people with genes found in more intelligent people. Imagine if those genes are only found in certain races. I guess we can't have that according to the journal's rules, can we? You will simply not be allowed to research or publish that because it would break the "blank slate" narrative even though it would provide a huge benefit to humanity.
I think I explained the "special skill" pretty well at the top of the thread.

You insist "this can't possibly work." That's funny; it's working for me. Maybe you should try it out?

Or keep paying. It's up to you.
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That seems to be a reflection of our society, rather than a reflection of our nature.

Civilization is highly alienating and dislocating, but we evolved in an environment in which we were near-permanently embedded within a tribe (or village) of people we knew extremely well. Strangers were relatively rare.

Rilke confused his alienating environment for a fundamental truth.
Some people have claimed that their reddit accounts were banned after linking to the site or referencing it directly, hence the use of various nicknames and euphemisms.
Ask HN: VM hosting that could start under a second?
I have a use case that requires starting a VM (or Docker image, though less ideal) in under a few seconds, using a pre-setup image.

I need to run them for 1-2 minutes and then kill them, i.e. looking for a hosting provider that charges in small increments (seconds or minutes).

What are my options?
It's like they jotted down what they heard from a bullhorn at a protest and typed it up.
>disingenuous and ill-informed vitriol in this thread.

"Why are people mad when I want to censor science and make it worship my false idol ?? it's so unfair"

>These guidelines are very like existing ethics guidelines found at universities and research institutions around the world

Show me a respectable university that tells scientists to "Consult with advocacy groups" before they publish any results, and I will show you a university that used to be respectable but now isn't.

>If that causes them to second guess whether the research they are conducting is worthwhile

Ah yes, it's all them second-guessing themselves. This won't be used to censor scientists at all, those scientists will just, spontaneously, see the error of their bigoted and heretical science, and refuse to publish it by themselves.

>How about large scale human vivisection?

Nice try, but this is about research methodology. The posted censorship guidelines is dealing with the final results of research, the papers, not the used methodology. We had ethics board since the 1970s and 1980s, you're not inventing anything useful.

It's amazing how desperate some people are to try to justify their nonsense.
That's the system we had in the 1970s (government owned the patent to government-funded research). And what happened is that the government didn't know what to do with the patents, and the inventors, who were best positioned to commercialize their invention, could not justify spending time and money to commercialize something that they didn't own. So the Bayh Dole act of 1980 allowed universities to commercialize their federally funded inventions. The result was an explosion of startups, especially in the biotech industry.

Example: John Adler received some government funding to develop Cyberknife (image-guided radiation therapy). But he couldn't get follow up funding to commercialize this revolutionary new technology. So he took out a second mortgage on his house to commercialize the invention. And now image-guided radiation therapy is a standard treatment for many types of cancer. There's no way he would have taken out that large personal loan, if he didn't own the intellectual property.

There's a large gap between a patent, and a commercially viable product. And if you showed the patent to "experts" in the field, they would likely tell you that it's worthless. Great ideas are only obvious in retrospect. The inventor has the vision, motivation, and knowledge to make their invention a reality, but they can't quit their job and get external funding, if they can't own their invention.
> It would be like putting a human in a small 3'x3' box

I get that you're trying to make a point, but this kind of hyperbole only discredits it.

> Orcas have committed suicide while in captivity, by intentionally and repeatedly ramming their heads into the concrete walls to cause brain hemorrhages

I think you mean AN orca did this (Hugo), and it was after being kept in solitary isolation for 12 years, something that SeaWorld thankfully doesn't do.
Use https://cyber1.org/index.asp instead and avoid a bad actor.
Yep I was thinking of Not Just Bikes. He puts a lot of effort into those videos.
From my reading it looks like Agrawal might deserve some jail time... this is egregious? Thoughts?
> The earliest known manuscripts of any biblical text post-dates Jesus by 300 years.

It's easy to make bold statements, but that definitely doesn't match what most historians, Christian and secular, claim. (And I believe several of your other claims have been largely discredited, even by secular historians.)

Bart Ehrman, a New Testament historian who is well known for his critical eye on this stuff (he was a Christian but later became an atheist), dates the NT books between 50 and 120 AD, and from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament, the latest date scholars give is 150 AD. Other scholars date the NT books from between 70 and 90 AD.

The 300 AD date you're referring to may be when the New Testament was approved as "canon" by the church. Again from that Wikipedia article:

> The earliest known complete list of the 27 books is found in a letter written by Athanasius, a 4th-century bishop of Alexandria, dated to 367 AD. The 27-book New Testament was first formally canonized during the councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397) in North Africa.

See also the first answer here: https://www.quora.com/Was-the-first-gospel-written-300-years... and https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/how-new-testament-w... which notes that:

> By the time of Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165 AD) and Irenaeus (ca. 130-202 AD) we find extensive quotations from New Testament books; while the First Letter of Clement, addressed to the church in Corinth, quotes Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians.
Its con men all the way down.
I really hope that's not true. Ooph.
"Twitter data centers were fragile, and Twitter lacked plans and processes to “cold boot.” That meant that if all the centers went offline simultaneously, even briefly, Twitter was unsure if they could bring the service back up. Downtime estimates ranged from weeks of round-the-clock work, to permanent irreparable failure"
They could have defined `z-index: omega` to be on top of all other natural number z-indices. And they we can have `z-index: omega+1`, `z-index: omega+2`, ..., `z-index: omega*2`, `z-index: omega*2+1`, ..., `z-index: omega*3`, ..., `z-index: omega*omega`, ..., and so on and so forth.

And then maybe next year they will propose a new syntax for setting z-index to epsilon zero.
The display is not a great indicator of what the car "sees". Ideally the display would reassure the passenger, but you could totally solve self driving without solving this UX problem.
Remember the Facebook phone? A slam dunk, right? Or the Fire Phone? (More like Fyre Phone.)
I have less RAM than that. I use psi-notify to get a warning when GNOME is starting to use too much RAM. That is usually early enough that I can close a few apps to avoid the crash, then logout/reboot to regain the RAM.

There is also a GNOME/FreeDesktop memory PSI notifier thing but it isn't in Debian yet.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/low-memory-monitor/
https://www.hadess.net/2019/12/gmemorymonitor-low-memory-mon...
https://www.hadess.net/2019/08/low-memory-monitor-new-projec...

I really wish there was a way to debug where all the leakage is coming from, I don't think it has always been the case :(
Thank you! I appreciate the insight + data backing it up.
The Orwellian bit comes once the quality gates are in place and get subverted for political means.

But even if that doesn't happen, I disagree strongly. Extremism doesn't need scientific backing and never has. They'll take it if convenient, but they can quite easily justify their actions without it. Truth and critical thinking are the solution, not the cause.
Ordered Input/Output pairs of meters, seconds, bits = biggest jobs
Please help me figure out if this 1 page document makes sense or not
Show HN: Reccy – store, discover and share your favourite places
Direct app store links:
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Pre-warm spots on aws and kill/propagate as needed and your bill will be a sine wave
This document feels out of place to me. It's addressed to various regulators, and at a surface level it has the form of an affidavit or other legal document. But the language is far too familiar to be writing for that audience - they refer to Mudge consistently as Mudge rather than, say, "Mr. Zatko"; they make liberal use of superlatives; they add emphasis using bold text. This is kind of like writing a cover letter where you explain why the job would be great for you rather than why you would be great for the job, it's going to sound wrong to your intended audience, and it will degrade your credibility in their eyes (rightly or wrongly). This isn't the style you would adopt if you wanted such austere organizations as the SEC, DOJ, and they even mention _Congress_ to take you seriously.

This leads me to believe that this is a document for public consumption adopting the aesthetics of a letter of concern sent to regulators, and that this document is being submitted to the court of public opinion. I don't doubt that Twitter executives are borderline fraudulent and may have crossed the line into outright fraud - I'd be unsurprised to learn that about any group of executives at any large company. But this document has more the feeling of propaganda than a serious appeal to regulators.
The associated book by the same name and author is very, very good. It's an excellent introduction to both the content specified by the title and Prolog. It shows the power of declarative programming in Prolog, where you basically right down the constraints of the problem you're trying to solve, and then it solves it for you.
Actually a repost from an article by a Paige Carlson from Drovers: https://www.drovers.com/news/industry/peanut-mms-are-healthi....

"However, considering the Gates’ standing agenda for meat alternatives, it’s no surprise to see many animal agriculture meats fall to the bottom of the list."

Cowardly. The article should come right out and accuse Dr. Dariush Moaffarian, "cardiologist, nutrition researcher and dean at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy" of academic fraud, and publishing lies for money if that's what they believe, rather than bury the lede at the end.

Drovers, meanwhile, remarks
"We are relentless stewards and advocates for agriculture’s present and future", so, burying the lede myself, one could argue that they have their own biases :)
Ask HN: What is the new term for 'slashdotted'?
Slashdotted itself might be 20 years old, and the wiki page suggests that farked and drudged have made appearances, but is there anything more generic? A different, better way of saying, 'my site is getting a monumental amount of traffic because i tweeted something that went viral'?
Very cool! What're the differences between this and something like Replicache?
> Maybe in another 30 years, we will have gained the technological insight to be able to figure out how to have a team full of people to work on a single server at the same time

Single repository, yes. Single development environment, no.

Development environments should be isolated, so developers don't step on each other's toes...

Also, centralised cloud development machines are by definition, a single point of failure, with small gains in consistency in development experience...

> all connected to a network over an internet connection, with some crazy interface that keeps their shell session alive even if their internet disconnects.

You know what's better than this? Not relying on the internet connection at all!...

Decentralized development on local machines is simply a better experience and relies less on a giant cloud infrastructure
> "most likely" and "I would expect" mean basically the same thing

And so does just saying the claim with no qualifiers. Of course when you’re making a claim you’re expressing that you expect it to be the case with high likelihood. That’s what making a claim is.