skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is revolutionary for the fact that they’ve identified genetic activity associated with what has been suspected all along: inhaler aromatics are carcinogenic.
I came here to say the same thing. What a silly tease. I won’t be making it to NYC anytime soon so no like they’re losing custom…
All fair points, but again, photography did not create compassion any more than photography created any other emotion. Humans have a rich history and our understanding of suffering amongst ourselves surely did not come about in the past few hundred years.
> you thought SAP didn't require advanced data structures and algorithms for their logistics systems? You thought IBM didn't need algorithms and maths

You've read a lot into my words that I didn't say, and you're responding awfully callously to lamentation. I am an engineer. I enjoy advancing my craft. I wish I could have stayed curious, instead of burning out running against business management boundaries.

I would certain never say "IBM didn't need algorithms," and it's disingenuous of you to accuse me of such strawman arguments. All I am saying is that there's a lamentably low threshold beyond which we've too few opportunities to implement sophisticated or novel technology.

My God, what does it benefit you to accuse me of eschewing all of "maths"? Absurd.
This is one of those comical cases where the State and its complicit media has proven to be so utterly untrustworthy that I put more trust on social media reports from people living there.

Note that "more" does not mean "complete".
I noticed this too, but it seems to have dropped off. In the month or so after I migrated from Google to Zoho I had a ton of spam, and was considering other options. But since then I haven't really gotten any more than I did with Google, maybe one obvious spam email every few weeks.

I would mark spam as spam during that initial period when there was a lot, so maybe there's just a learning process for new accounts as to what's actually spam?
It would even include any answers to that question.
Ah, the YouTube face! It's so weird that video creators have to have a shot of themselves making a stupid face to get viewers. Are we the consumers that stupid?
Personally, I don't really understand these water crises in the US. They already had issues in Flint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis) and now in Jackson? Why is so difficult to get safe drinking water in the US?
> I can't think of any country I've been to other than the US which let me withdrawal USD from an ATM.

Have you been to Argentina or even anywhere in Latin America? You can't just visit a country like, say, Sweden and use Swedish Kronas or Korea and use Korean Wons and from there extrapolate that in $country you just use $local_country_currency and it's as simple as that.

In countries where the local currency is unstable, transacting in USD in some manner is just a fact of life. Eg People in Costa Rica who work for US corporations may just get paid partially in USD, as well as in Colóns.

More to the point is that the reason the expectation is there, is that Argentinians used to be able to visit the ATM and pull out USD until currency controls were enacted, and that the surprise is that even US citizens can't pull out USD.
The Racket implementation for protocol buffers. The generated code is just an S-Expified version of protobuf source files, all macros which generate actual protobuf implementation at runtime lol. I don't know why I was surprised.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/generator/index.html

Can't find source code online. I browsed the code in emacs with racket-xp-mode go to definition after installing it via raco pkg install. Could probably use DrRacket instead of emacs/racket-xp-mode.

I had to read the source code to find out what the specific names of the proto creators, accessor, mutator functions would be.
I had a look at the k210 and indeed, completely overkill, but the other RV64 boards are even more overkill. I still have faith though :)
The texts might be enough. But in my experience, if someone wants to fight over it, they will, and regardless of whether they're wrong or right, you'll just end up paying a settlement because it's not worth the fight.

In the same position, what I just do is incorporate a new company.

Not sure how much lawyers cost there, but normally talking to a lawyer is free around here. They charge money when you start dealing with paper. There's often a lot of nuances that doesn't make it into the story, which may change the real outcomes.
I just found the below reference in the YC Library.

I'm definitely not against due diligence, and getting investors to look at our financials, but we're a tiny team, in a pre-revenue start-up. There isn't a lot to look at, and the investors should know that.

It's more a question of are these sophisticated investors? As mentioned, most investors are not asking for more than we are already providing which is our deck, exec summary, and whitepaper with details about research (we're deep tech).

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundr...

> Do not spend too much time developing diligence documents for a seed round. If an investor is asking for too much due diligence or financials, they are almost certainly someone to avoid. You will probably want an executive summary and a slide deck you can walk investors through and, potentially, leave behind so VCs can show to other partners.
Man, this might be my most favorite comment so far as I am reading through everything.

I love the way you put it. We are trying to do exactly that, build camaraderie from day 1 without the leg work. If I join a new team, instantly knowing who else is a Cricket fan is a sure fire way for me to get close to them and fit into the team faster.

Could you please check out www.getparallel.io ?
I would love to get your thoughts on it.
When I took parental leave it was during a "tense" period at my company. The Director and I had a meeting where they didn't understand why I'd be taking leave. I had monthly one on ones with this director, and was frankly expecting to have a tough talk when I got back from leave. As it happened, the director wasn't even aware that I had taken leave when I returned.
God save the crown ;)
> let the Mississippi divert itself away from New Orleans and Baton Rouge

This is perfectly workable, while I understand YMMV

> would be an unthinkable economic (and social) catastrophe.

Not only is it thinkable, it could be done responsibly, today. The ORCS will continue to fail (at irregular intervals), which will cause catastrophe as these events do. At some point, it will be decided that the system is no longer worth maintaining. Might as well rip the band-aid off by setting a specific date and start making a graduated change. If you didn't move out after Katrina[1], I don't think you can be convinced anyway.

[1] there was a 29% reduction in New Orleans population, post katrina
Sauce needed for that percentage. It strains credulity. That’s almost one in five.

Also have to point out that until very recently we had no reliable data. If you stop burning witches and then it seems like everyone is becoming a witch, that is probably not what is happening. What is happening is that people are admitting it.

The best we have from the past are anonymous surveys and those tended to be done by colleges or by people like Kinsey. That is not going to give you a random sample even if we assume everyone on those surveys was fully aware of how they felt and 100% honest.
Yes. It's don't think it's fair to called "a heated discussion". pcwalton made a small correction about a claim someone made concerning the database, and croloris/kristoff_it made a response he subsequently regretted and deleted. There was no heat until he introduced it.
Those are not the same things, and you’re either deliberately missing the point or insisting that something in the law exists when it doesn’t. There isn’t even a punishment attached to this language. I genuinely don’t understand how a law as simple as “can’t talk to kids about sex until third grade” has a bonafide conspiracy theory attached to it here. Is your worry that lots of gay teachers are talking about their home lives with very young children and now this law makes that, in your view, potentially out of bounds?
Never really thought too deeply about it but I would guess there is a correlation with increasing mobility (commuting, etc) meaning more exposure to this sort of thing and less likelihood to feel responsibility or necessity to act.
Consider all those hundreds of thousands of people that tramp thousands of miles just for a chance to get into the US? What do they know that you don't, or are they just fools?

Why is there not an exodus of hundreds of thousands of poor Americans tramping to other countries?

> Generally alongside massive government-directed/-financed social programs, often much higher tax rates than we’ve seen for decades, alongside a powerful labor movement, and alongside substantial regulation like antitrust.

Much of that occurred long before government social programs, high taxes, unions, anti-trust, etc. Take a look at things like height statistics for Americans throughout the 19th century. Height statistics are a good proxy for standard of living - people don't grow tall if they are malnourished as children.

Amazon has scores of millions of customers. They wouldn't be shopping at Amazon if Amazon was cheating them.

Amazon turnover is such that the average employee works less than a year. This is incongruent with being forced to work there at subhuman conditions.
Since it’s a weekend, if people have time, here’s the classic narrative summary by John McPhee of the Mississippi delta and the role of the Corps: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
You should be confused. My thinking was unclear and you are quite right.
I wonder how does this compare to Freedom Box[1]?

[1]: https://www.freedombox.org/
Eli Yablonovitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8-KEdmG-WU

His conclusion is to bury fast-growing high lignin crops in clay lined landfills. Carbohydrates do breakdown into CO2 over time.
thats a ridiculous extrapolation. china makes movies for China that nobody virtually cares about outside because they are so bad and so nationalistic. The same with Bollywood movies thats as much about dancing than the movie themselves.

the exception is Korea but here too they make movies for themselves that also happen to resonate well with western audiences.

nobody is going to take over the place of hollywood anytime soon.
Some more to add to the pile:

- Static IP blocks from their ISP (some still lease IPs for surprisingly cheap).

- Releasing/renewing their NAT boxe's DHCP release on carriers that don't pin assignments (usually these are in pools of /22 or 1024 addresses - though most would be in use at any given time and impossible to randomly get you should be able to get a couple dozen).

- Customers of ISPs that use CG-NAT (cheap wired) or NAT64 (some wireless providers), similar to the above just 1 translation layer deeper.

- IP space you control (that's how I have 23.0.0.0/8 for the moment)

- BGP hijacking IP space you want to control (though hopefully in the world of RPKI this is getting harder and harder to do)
Relatedly, the idea that the notion of a 'self' is an illusion is similarly liberating. It takes work to remind yourself (our vocabulary doesn't help!) that this is the case, just as it takes work to remind yourself that your vision is blinded in the area where your optic nerve pokes through your eye. But there it is.

Plenty has been written about this, dating back centuries. The best distillation of it I found is in "Losing Ourselves" by Jay Garfield[0]

Both of these realizations have impressed upon me the importance of living in the moment. Of being there for others who are in need. Of trying to make the experience we all share here a bit better. Because that's all we have - the here and now.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59576734-losing-ourselve...
LevelDB by Jeff and Sanjay.

https://github.com/google/leveldb
Ha! You're totally right. I read this on mobile and I don't think the title had (2014) in it when I did, completely overlooked it.
Most of America doesn't know that. They equate Spanish with Mexico.
what counts as a book? If a book thats not published is a book, what about a collec5uon of my notes and memoirs on my blog. It got read by loads of people, should it count to the statistics?
While I understand this approach, it's not that nothing matters, it's that the esteem of people you don't admire doesn't matter.

Here's a thought experiment: if you are able to see a the still mostly full moon tonight, and luckier still if you can actually see some stars, when you look at the moon, consider that you are actually looking down at it. You, as a person are hanging over it sort of perpendicularly to the surface of this sphere. Keep your eyes on it long enough that you see it move just so imperceptibly slowly, until you feel a bit dizzy or get a bit of vertigo from the motion. From this vantage point of hanging off the side of a sphere, it's like seeing the moon for the first time, and once you have seen the movement you will recognize in that moment that you are _on_ a planet, which is suddenly finite with an obvious curvature, and the most immediate question is, what the hell is this thing and how is it possible we can distract ourselves from contemplating it?

It is the literal definition of physical perspective, where when you view the moon as downward from you, it makes everything here seem both finite and possible. The stars when you look down or out at them become asymptotic points on a blanket-like manifold. The mistake was that we think these things were merely "up," and things "down" here are the sum of the real. I think when you see how we are situated relative to the moon, other planets, and stars without the narrative filter of a self that looks inward, it's not that nothing matters, it's that anything that obfuscates this sense of clarity you can get about our place in the cosmos just from looking down the hollow space between us and the moon - is necessarily absurd.
The free market is orthogonal to other measures of freedom like democracy. Voting rights are not required for free market to deliver prosperity, as China has demonstrated.

> there’s every reason to assume unfettered market freedom loves social constraint.

I don't know where that came from. I don't see any such relationship.

> where you don’t get dead or put in prison or similarly punished for advocating things you think would improve your life or the lives of those with whom you have solidarity. That’s still true. The free market is an awful vessel for that.

I'm not sure what you're thinking a free market is. A free market, to be a free market, does not put people in prison for improving their lives.
Oh don't point out Switzerland gun control advocates hate it when you point out Switzerland. Because Switzerland shows that it is not the guns themselves but it is a cultural problem.

It is much easier to blame the guns than it is to put the problem right where it lies in a divisive media egged on by politicians that is stoking cultural problems. All for them to retain their seats of power.
PAIP is easily one of my favourite programming books. It’s chapter after chapter of excellently presented programming. Each chapter takes you through a problem, a solution (typically multiple iterations and extensions) with detailed explanations of what’s happening (often with historical details). Also, it introduced me to many different tools I can use to solve programming problems.
This got me wondering that, in practice, how hard would it be to spoof source IP in the internet? I assume it requires some controls on an Tier-1 ISP network (so that the the spoofed package would not be filtered by upstream)?

Though apparently it doesn’t help in this case because it’s HTTP/TCP which requires a handshake
really big game like alaskan bull moose or grizzly bear have thick dense, bone, and very large muscle mass. I would consider AP to be closer to wise than overkill, id have to check the book for regulations im not sure if it would be allowed on a legal hunt.
You need to travel more often then.

You can get USD out of Citibank ATMs in Hong Kong (and many many others too, I just happen to use Citi last week).
They might not notice a huge difference depending on where they use location services. The real accuracy advantage of dual-frequency GPS only become apparent in degraded signal environments, such as next to tall buildings (multipath signal reflections) and under tree canopies. With a clear view of the sky, regular GPS is already quite accurate (especially if the device also supports other GNSS constellations).
linux clone?
I would love to get a manager's POV on what we are doing. Because I agree with you. A manager is a crucial part in culture.

Could you please check out www.getparallel.io ? I would love to get your thoughts on it.

We completely take out the leg work initially needed to build and establish relationships in a work env. We are here to make WFH better. Some of the best work is done when people bond over things that aren't even work.
I always notice that "hate speech" is how people want it defined.

For example, I personally think "toxic masculinity," "mansplaining," "patriarchy," showing men as stupid foolish and incapable in movies and tv shows, and all the rest of the anti-male bashing is hate speech. However, I'm shouted down every time I say one word about this on any online forums. That's because the matriarchy that we live in does not allow me to define those terms as hate speech. There's no corresponding "toxic femininity," "woman-nagging," "matriarchy," or showing women as stupid and inept. Well, there might be a few on either side, but the vast majority of hate speech is piled upon men.
Interesting enough to me, and pretty relevant to a claim like "book-writing is rarely commercially worthwhile". No "points scored" against the publishing industry, but point-scoring is for shallow people.

For publishing, I wonder how many copies of little-bought books are read, and how many are printed -- both probably quite different to the number sold. And I also wonder how the outcome distribution compares to venture capital outcomes, and what predictor variables are useful. "Harry Potter" is a famous case of prediction being difficult (or at least badly done?) but you can probably get some signal from author (writing history, other celebrity), genre.
DALLE-2 can't even do "The quick brown fox jumps over the lay dog" properly: https://np.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/xaxbpv/the_quick_bro...

Context is hard, so not for a while if the tech is to fool people on a full movie scale.
Does it though? I mean we’re really talking about a teeny tiny little startup code to read arg0 and use it to do the equivalent of passing -E or -P.
Fabrice Bellard -- the programmer that makes John Carmack go "whoa, slow down buddy, let the rest of us catch up".
Right.

1m vs 1cm is not a big deal for a rideshare driver. On the other hand, if two bridge spans meet in the middle and are 1m misaligned, that’s a huge problem.
> Maybe you meant “poorly handled case”?

No, I meant adversarial. It's standard languge (jargon if you wish) from mathematical proofs.
Yes. It's your art. AI tools are just tools. When you use Photoshop, no one says Photoshop made the images. The art you make with AI software did not exist until you wrote the prompts. It isn't a copy of anything.

This stuff is all new and will take time to settle in but I have no doubt as a user of Photoshop since v1.0 and DALL-E since the beta -- that these AI tools will be the norm in every artist and designer's toolbox.
> It's not compositional

What does that mean?

> isn't thread safe

True but it's not meant to be. I'm not sure there are many if any valid use cases for forking and not immediately exec-ing and using threads together in the same application.

> insecure by default (inherits env/fds)

Inherits env and open file descriptors by design. It's pretty much always been understood that if you fork in most scenarios you immediately exec. You can set file to close on exec and set a new env if desired, and not do that if it's not.

> and it's also slow with all the state it must copy.

I thought it was mostly COW?

> And at a conceptual level it doesn't work in environments where the nature of a "process" and "address space" aren't synonymous.

Yeah valid argument. posix_spawn man page says:

> "The posix_spawn() and posix_spawnp() functions are used to create a new child process that executes a specified file. These functions were specified by POSIX to provide a standardized method of creating new processes on machines that lack the capability to support the fork(2) system call. These machines are generally small, embedded systems lacking MMU support.".

posix_spawn is POSIX and has existed along side fork since POSIX.2001. So your saying you want every application ever written to be automatically portable to systems the can't support fork, therefore get rid of fork entirely? I guess.
Upvoted for being the first comment with the content I come to HN for.
Your post really intrigued me and now I have to read the book. If anyone else wants to read it as well, it’s available in multiple formats from the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/TheAnimateAndTheInanimate.W.J.Si...
HN could use a serious mobile update.

All links and buttons are freakishly small.
What does "book" and "sell" mean here, following the article's excellent explanation on how those terms vary wildly. Are those figures per year or lifetime for the books?
Your assumption is that government is good. Founders felt it was necessary evil. Without limits it would become tyrannical.

Most of the constitution is about Limiting the role of government. So people could have more freedom.

Look at China. Dozens of cities locked down. People not free to leave their building. Not possible here thanks to high gun ownership. Police can handle one offs here and their. But not a full cities.
Skeleton: Svelte and Tailwind for Reactive UIs
I just looked at it on Google Street View. It needs a few more old trees, but a lot of it is quite charming.
Since those motorized automobiles showed up, there has been a lot less demand for saddles, horse shoes, stable boys and buggy whips. Whole industries are at risk unless Big Horseless Carriage is made to pay up.
Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how do you maintain a professional/social network?
I quit my job a few weeks ago to focus on a business that I want to bootstrap on my own. What was once 8+ hours of Slack messages a day, non-stop emails, and regular meetings has turned to near silence.

I don't miss the constant Slack messages and Zoom fatigue but now I literally have no social contact when working professionally, aside from customer interviews/meetings.

Curious how solopreneurs deal with this? Any communities out there?
Most cars run completely on solar energy. The sun grew the biomass that converted to oil.
That's a very privileged thing to do.

I live in a small rural town in Iowa. All our banks use SMS to send 2FA, are you suggesting I move... because my bank uses SMS for sending a code?
Managing / paying for these things is a local issue. Poor communities are in less position to deal with these things.

Most others do fine.
The "interpreter" in the youtube-dl source is probably safe from a security standpoint.

yt-dlp seems to support running javascript in a full javascript interpreter/headless browser called phantomjs though. Running javascript in a full interpreter like this is a lot more scary from a security standpoint. I am not sure whether phantomjs sandboxes the javascript evaluation from the rest of the system, and if it does, whether the sandbox actually works properly at all. It looks like the project is not being maintained which is another bad sign.

Big projects with lots of manpower behind them such as chromium have trouble keeping javascript evaluation safe, so I would really suggest not trusting phantomjs on untrusted input.