skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you suggesting that our legal system should be understandable by the dumbest person?

If possible, on a case by case basis. If it's difficult, we lock people in a room for 8 hours a day from age 5 to 17, and don't let them leave until they understand. If it still doesn't work, we get rid of the law.
Doesn't work in Qutebrowser.
It was a pretty bad question, don’t get all mad when people show you that you’re too lazy to even do the minimum amount of work before asking the question.
oh wow. How did I not see that? Sorry!
The entire post:

> After much thought over the past few weeks, I have decided to cancel my order for the Lucid Air and also stop covering the Lucid Air EV and changes with Lucid Motors. I don’t think I should explain more at this time, I hope you understand.

> If you are interested in taking over this site, please contact me. It would be a waste to let it just die, it has been built up and gets a nice amount of traffic.

> I appreciate all the support I had from many of you but I need to step away from this company, the car, and a very vocal part of the community.
Typo, but now it's got me thinking what could fit that...
Awesome. I had 3 of my friends play it as well and they all caught on pretty quick and beat it.

Suggestions: if you run HakanK's program in this thread(or have your own), you can determine the optimal # of moves and use that to score folks. It would be cool to be able to compare against my friend group that does daily games like this to see who got closest to the optimal number and who got the lowest time. I really enjoyed it!

Edit: I don't care about leaderboards and would never suggest a login. Just something definitive that I could screenshot amongst friends.
Reminds me of “A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason” - GK Chesterton
I thought some of these power users were actually teams of people. Butt I guess that's kinda crazy too.
Rather than worrying about RISC-V vs. ARM let's focus on the big picture: Intel is no longer a relevant talking point in this discussion. That's a tectonic shift from how this industry has been operating for the past 40 years.
That wasn't convincing enough to be called evidence.
My hovercraft is full of them.
As if that would be easy in any framework.
Maybe :) But I would suggest that the abstract algebra and category theory would probably be a more worthwhile investment longer term than learning about Spring Beans.
By the same reasoning, the 7-eyed O has now been used more than once, so it deserves a glyph! So the right way to do this is to introduce a new character for the correct glyph, and also leave the current one (perhaps changing the title). Otherwise these tweets won't make when read by someone that updated to Unicode 15.0
But for each of these markets there is something beneath it. With equities there are companies or at least some form of non-virtual economic activity. With real estate there are houses. With art, there are paintings and artists. With VCs there are startups. With crypto, there is only the speculation since very few people want to spend and use crypto as a currency. The bulk of the interest is predicated on the greater fool mindset.

>In crypto this policy is determined by users. The protocols are open source, development happens in public, and the tech is permissionless - anybody can develop new proposals and contribute changes. This is a far cry from most monetary policies in the world.

Maybe we would need to explore the differences in more detail, but the value of coins like Ethereum will still depend on the will of the devs who end up having the most influence or the users who have influence over those devs. And despite the openness of it only a minority of users have an active role in determining policy, just like in any large nominally-democratic structure.
A Guide to Improving Security Through Infrastructure-as-Code
“No amount of VC money can fix a bad company that doesn’t solve a burning problem for customers.”

From my observation VC money gives companies the opportunity to recover from mistakes (“pivot”) which is something companies without deep pockets can’t do.
Have you seen the book "Web Scalability for Startup Engineers"? I think it's also good for system design. Definitely not as deep as DDIA, but I would say it's a decent prerequisite :)
I would like something a bit more fine grained. Have you retweeted positive things about x, y, or z or negative things about a, b, or c? Then I want your tweet marked with "do not engage" because there will be no point in trying to engage with them
That's actually trivial. The problem is that NO developer wants to read 30 minutes to understand how it work so they bitch online how "its complicated".
So it's a Unicode character that represents a... blob with 10 eyes?

Hordes of Wizards of the Coast lawyers getting ready for the big fight
In principle there's no reason we couldn't have the mortgage equivalent of consol bonds, which are perpetual (infinite maturity date).

In Sweden, once your mortgage is below 50% of the of the purchasing price you don't have to pay it off and you're free to just pay the interest in perpetuity.
From the article:

One should read philosophy because one wants a better mind, a better spirit, and a better life. (Or, at least, one wants a better understanding of why none of these things are possible, or why none of them matter; philosophy leaves no possibility unexplored.)

I'm leaning towards not-possible. Prove me wrong.
In the first sentence, yeah.
Solid work, but I haven't seen too many AGPL projects prosper over time. I'll set a reminder to check back in a year or so to look for contributor growth.
Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
I don't play multiplayer games, but GTA single player are some of my favorite games. As long as there is a good single player campaign in GTA VI I'll buy it pretty much immediately when it's available for PC, as I'm sure plenty of others will as well. I doubt this leak will affect the sales, although I can understand why the developers would prefer to not have their half finished work leaked like that.

According to the thread on gtaforums it was allegedly the same hacker that recently hacked Uber. Will be interesting to read more about this when there's more info out, I assume they have something in common and that more companies are vulnerable.
Pentagon orders review of psyops after takedown of fake social accounts
This should be interesting on how it unfolds...
I'm the author of fgtrace, happy to answer any questions :).

I've also posted a few more comments in this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/felixge/status/1571850160358965249
Awesome, thank-you for sharing!
Sobering and depressing. And yet, people will stay addicted to their mobile phone and the easy escapes it provides.
House numbers are not numbers in plenty of cases. Youy'll probably want to account at least somewhat for international addresses too, since most companies end up dealing with them sooner or later, if only to tell the customer you won't ship there.

I run into this sort of thing somewhat frequently. A multinational food delivery company here had a period for a couple years where it'd parse "1st whateverstreet 123" as an address on whateverstreer with the number "1st", dropping the 123 entirely. This may seem a bit silly but keep in mind that over here "123 Annex B" is a valid house number for instance, which might be a different building from "123B".
This comment displays (almost) all the worst of HN - 1) Fringe opinion (15 year mortgage cap) presented as undeniable fact; 2) Even more fringe opinion (10 year cap) used to intentionally, or perhaps subconsciously, make the fringe opinion appear less insane; 3) Wildly outside the commenter's area of competency.

Two other common ones not true of this comment are using a very young but non-throwaway account with very low karma, and are not responding to any criticism in the replies - true at the time of my comment but I suspect that will change.
Thanks a lot for the feedback, honestly appreciate.

During the weekend added ai-jobs bot to fetch jobs from their feed, so also listing their jobs :)

If you know any cool job boards that you know and is missing please let me know, I'd to include it.

It's the 1st time anyone mention the Wall of Love :D

Thanks again!!!
In an ideal world, we wouldn't need to be bothered with Linux-only software. It's incredibly frustrating not only on Mac, but e.g. on OpenBSD as well.

Docker (and Kubernetes) are a prime example, but it's increasingly bothersome to work around dependencies on systemd, logind, etc. Linux software is starting to feel like Windows software: it's this special other thing that requires extra steps and care to run on your machine, and the user experience is far from smooth, if things work at all.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31842318
Too bad I have to adjust my business cards for ꙮ.world
> Taking a year off to party seems like bad advice.

A year off "to party" is iffy advice, but "a year off to get high school out of your system," i.e. a "gap year," is really good advice.

I walked out of high school a depressed mess, and instead of slowing down and dealing with that, I let my parents pressure me into rolling that straight into college. Five years later, still pointlessly studying anything that sounded interesting, no degree in sight, sinking deeper into depression… it wasn't until I finally flamed out and put my life back together that I could even think about career. I wasn't even aware that the disciplines I would eventually find interesting even existed until after college.

I still rank going straight into college as the biggest mistake of my life.
‘Like Star Wars’: World’s first flying bike, made in Japan, debuts in the US
Never happens, and even were it to happen, it would be like an investment bank CEO saying "we are well-capitalized".
I always wonder why it is so hard in US to make high education free by default. Or at least very small fee like other countries in EU. The US government and states are paying for universities (directly or indirectly) and it might be even cheaper to just make it free/subsidized. Correct me if my assumption is wrong
Miners/stakers get paid for securing the network and that's exactly what determines how much ETH is issued.
For running xcode and building ios apps in a ci pipeline? Eg with darling[1] and godot:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.6/development/compiling/cr...

[1] https://www.darlinghq.org/
Industry incentives create greener crypto mining
Sure there are safety considerations (and plenty of dramatic safety events from BART), but I'd venture to guess even there it's rarely quite so black and white.

I was actually thinking more of day-to-day nuisance problems than anything else. Things like getting stuck at the station while the train's computer gizmos reboot, stop annunciators getting confused (or out of sync with each other), having to position the train manually within a station. Or even software failures as hardware wears out – shit like that almost always fails in a safe manner. Unfortunately even a safe failure can have massive consequences which raises the cost of failing fast and breaking thing often.
>they are doing a mechanized translation from COBOL to C++.

That sounds interesting; do you mean that they are converting the current working system written in COBOL to C++ using a transpiler? Do you have any links to more information on this?
Unicode basic rule is that character definitions never ever change, even when enumerated erroneously.
Oh snap...GTA 4 literally came and went without noticing. At least for me, I don't think I ever really played it.

I remember Los Santos in GTA San Andreas and Los Santos in V
Discouraging Russia and retaking Crimea are unrelated goals.

I don’t foresee Ukraine getting back Crimea ending well for the population of Crimea. Let’s not forget Crimea has tried to be independent since 1991 and Ukraine had to send its army there in 1995. I don’t think a peaceful reintegration is possible.
It’s really obvious when you follow through some of the “people are saying” links - it’s one thing to report on what Musk said, with fifty billion likes and replies already, and another to back up a statement with a link to a tweet with four likes.

Some are obviously “go out and find what you want someone to be saying”.
I have had KDE Neon running on one or more devices the last 6 or so years.

It is built on an Ubuntu base and is almost like Kubuntu, except I think it is set up by people in the KDE community.

For me the difference felt enourmous.
“ I do think that comparing Adobe to Microsoft in general is reasonable though. They are both software companies that make terrible software and have little incentive to improve because of how entrenched they are in the market. I've always thought of Adobe as the Microsoft of creative software.”

And both have been extremely successful as businesses for a very long time. They may not be on the list if “cool” companies but their track record speaks for themselves. Highly profitable and keep growing.
I use xrdp for headless remote sessions, and vnc for remote access to live sessions. I'll give freerdp-shadow-cli a try, thanks!
Between 1989 and 1990 there was an inflation of 3079% and 2314% respectively: [1]

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflación_en_Argentina (in Spanish)
> No amount of VC money can fix a bad company that doesn’t solve a burning problem for customers.

How many SV entrepreneurs actually care about that? What problem is Snapchat solving? Or DoorDash for that matter?

The game is about raising capital, first and foremost. Especially in a system where the amount of money you can raise is inversely proportional to the company's actual profitability.

Losing money hand over fist? Let us introduce you to our pals at Softbank and the Saudi Arabia "Vision Fund".
So if I’m a soldier in Ukraine, you’re suggesting I check my bullet proof flak jacket to see if there are any bullet or shrapnel impacts, and if not I should ditch it?
> The main reason for the verbal atrocity is legislators had to cram a more or less complete description into a single sentence, per constitutional requirements.

Or the other common reason, that they campaigned on getting a measure to the ballot that has voter support, but they don't want it to pass. The first thing you do is come up with a confusing text with extra points for double negatives, and you follow that up with a confusing media campaign.

You may fail, and it passes with 87%, but sometimes if you work hard enough you can get Illinois to vote down a progressive income tax.
If you are past a modest karma speedbump, anyone can hit flag. It right next to the upvote button.

Those articles are not [dead] but the algorithm penalizes them when ranking the front page.
>One, perhaps the only, problem with freedom of speech in academia is that can be very actively exploited by bad faith actors, i.e., people who are not interested at all in truth and merely abuse the university system as a platform for furthering political goals and "whitewashing" their position.

Strong disagree. The problem with "freedom of speech in academia" is that it's a polite fiction.

What happens when an MIT professor puts out a press release saying that the US deserved 9-11 and that more attacks are justified? Or that the Charlottesville protestors didn't go far enough, and more lefties need to be run down in the street like dogs? Will MIT be hiring Holocaust denier history professors? Does anyone truly believe that, if a professor publicly expresses views well outside of mainstream acceptability, there will be no professional consequences?

"Free expression" at a place like MIT still means you need to keep well within the standards of acceptability, just that we want to make sure that the standards include certain things that are now considered beyond the pale.
I ignore them.
Universities should provide a broad education, and there are interesting and important experiences that could be shared by the likes of Snowden, even if it isn't strictly speaking their own scientific research.

That said, the person must be able and willing to discuss a bigger picture than just their personal politics, which is why I specifically picked Snowden but excluded Assange, Trump, and Bannon in the above. That's basically your good faith distinction.
You might find lowendtalk.com and lowendspirit.com forums helpful.
It would be cheaper long term across the whole tax base, but it is cheaper in the short term to give out loans.

If you proposed funding colleges with taxpayer funds and reducing tuition costs, it gets reflected in the budget today, and you get attacked for causing higher taxes.

If you proposed giving out loans, then you can even sell it as lowering taxes because the government now owns an asset that will earn a return.

Same story with deferred compensation like pensions and retire healthcare for government employees. Reduce cash expense now, fudge the numbers for future expenses to make it seem less expensive, promise lower taxes, and win elections. The current voters will mostly only care about today’s costs.
IIRC Uber was hacked via human weakness in multi-factor authentication. It’s actually something a ton of companies are vulnerable to so I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it replicated here.
>I don't think RISC-V rivals you in any market except micro-controllers.

I used to think like this. Then I saw the sad state of mobile SoCs[0], and learned that Cortex-A55 is pretty much still the peak, with full awareness of U74[1] and U74-MC[2], which is considerably better (less area, faster, and more efficient to boot).

Considering that P650[3] has existed for a while competing with ARM's performance-focused cores, and X280[4], basically an U74 with Vector, also exists today, I simply do not see a 2023 without a pack of new SoC based on these cores (particularly, I expect to see X280 pop up everywhere), and phones based on these SoCs. Android was already demonstrated on RISC-V years ago, and a lot of effort is being put in polishing and upstreaming this work.

That's how immediate we're talking about. As for the ARM story we're discussing, it's clear to me: Softbank wants to sell ARM ASAP, and that's about the only thing they care about. They thought that doing this statement is helping them, but I am not sure it is.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ukXDnWlTY

1. https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74

2. https://www.sifive.com/cores/u74-mc

3. https://www.sifive.com/cores/performance-p650

4. https://www.sifive.com/cores/intelligence-x280
This argument made sense when Bitcoin was still a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” as Satoshi envisioned, but it doesn’t make sense under the current “store of value” narrative. If people are just buying and holding, they aren’t creating much demand for block space.
People sometimes treat established fiat currencies as a speculative or at least arbitrage-based asset, but they are a tiny minority compared to those who use it as well, currencies.

With crypto the proportions are reversed. Those who use it as a currency are a tiny minority compared to those who speculate on it.
Language: We Hear More Than Words
Ask HN: Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?
Figma was just bought by Adobe, we all know that. Word "Adobe" brought back to me the memories of early days of my career when I was a Macromedia/Adobe Flash developer and I was working on websites very heavyweight both graphically and animation-wise.

In 2022 we have SVG, WebGL, canvas, sound API and we can practically rebuild many of those Flash websites. They were accessibility disasters, but today we can do much better.

All this makes me think: why Adobe haven't finished yet Flash export to HTML5/WASM which is easy and popular? What's stopping them? Money or technical obstacles? I can imagine the targeting all the browsers both desktop and mobile and QAing all of that is hard, but feels like doable and web platform is pretty reliable these days?

And the final question: can people from Figma help Adobe to make Flash actually work? Figma is one of the best WASM/WebGL apps out there which (I presume) very experienced engineering team. I've read the blog post when they were running JS interpreter compiled to WASM in a web worker to create secure sandbox used as plugin environment. All of it just works. Can they help?
never go full tracer
There was a... "tradition" is a strong word, perhaps "trend" is better. Authors making copies of the Bible or related works in Cyrillic, that the letter O (equivalent to Roman O) at the beginning of the word for "eye" would be stylized to look like an eye. There are a variety of glyphs along these lines: Ꙩ, Ꙫ, Ꙭ. All of them, including ꙮ, were added to Unicode as a single group.

The glyph "ꙮ" was used to refer to an Angel with a whole buncha eyeballs, as one does. In terms of texts that survive today, this specific glyph has exactly one use in a single manuscript from the 1400's. It might have been used more, in texts which don't survive. But it is part of a larger trend, and I bet that its inclusion in Unicode depends strongly on that.

But yeah, in itself the ꙮ character exists solely so that modern computers are capable of a more-faithful rendition of the transcription of a single handwritten copy of the Book of Psalms.
I'm not convinced these kind of semantic disputes matter. Non-Americans don't typically identify as "libertarian", but that doesn't make it hard to express or describe the idea of being pro-business and anti-regulation.
That's what I mean about risk asessment. You should not expect mullvad or any other legally liable organization to resist lawful orders or unlawful coercion, these are not reasonable expectations and your security posture should account for that.
>profit structure

we are talking way more fundamental things here. If all of society suddenly had a ton of humanity major knowledge but no farming knowledge, society dies.

The government is only able to subsidize a luxury like humanities majors because all the other basic needs are taken care of by the miracles of technology created by engineers and physicists. Otherwise, everybody would still be doing subsistence farming to survive and wouldn't have time for the humanities anyway. You can't fake productivity and economic output, it all comes down to technology
Yes, also kotlin is pretty nice if you want to write oop/procedural code with some functional flavor.

- Lot of inline methods in stdlib alleviate the performance penalty of using higher order functions for tight loops.

- It is nice to have everything as expression

- Extension functions, it parameter, operator overloading, tuples are all micro-conveniences that coherently add up to a very pleasant experience.

I think the author's experience would have been substantially different if they used ktor/http4k/vertx with kotlin.
Flagging is done by the community. Anyone with the karma can hit the flag button.
"sources" are taken at face value as well and aren't reported critically at all.

If your personal narrative drives clicks it will not be challenged in any way...whether you're a random poster on twitter or a participant in the story itself.
Recycling data centers' heat could be an environmental win-win
New syscalls and flags get added. The Linux ABI is huge though, even if you snapshot at some “old” 4.x version, say. WINE has similar problems with coverage, and Win32 is famously “stable” too.
> This acquisition is just one more step in the fulfillment of a broad vision to elevate design in every organization.

This very much remains to be seen. Writing that as though it were a foregone conclusion is disingenuous at best (not to call it hollow marketing drivel, or a comforting lie). The only “fulfillment” that we can assume for now is that Figma's founders made a boatload of money. And maybe that's all the fulfillment you can ever hope for.
While true, it's disappointing when you see the insane views parroted back to you by friends who are not insane.