skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ops, I've taken annual salary as monthly :D

I wanted to have 150k per person, thus "well-paid".

This way it is even more ridiculous since

4 000 000 000 / 150 000 = 26 666 engineers!

but, 1.8 mil is definitely well paid!
Even if there was a business here, it is not a good _startup business_.

Startups, especially if any hardware is involved, mostly need to be companies that are leveraging an entire stack of off-the-shelf, on-the-market, mostly commodity components into a product or solution which is mostly, at least at first, a packaging exercise on the HW side and perhaps novel go to market (AAS, for example), UI/UX, etc. experience on the SW and solution side. Very few startups are going to work outside of these guide rails, and even when they do the exit/invested is pretty poor at this point and has been getting poorer for at least 20 years. You get to tweak the last 5-10% of your tech stack in HW and had better have something really compelling as a result.

There's probably _business_ in SST but between the tech stack, the dependencies, and just plain practical business issues like liability/etc. not a business that you get to as a startup.
It’s slower.
I made a post that said, "sounds like HN lmfao" and I got shadowbanned lmfao
How far do you think a 5W USB C cable will get charging a 16 inch laptop?

The USB standard is fine until the unsuspecting consumer who left the USB C cord to his MacBook Pro 16 goes to a random drug store to pick up a standard “USB C” cable and wonders why their laptop is still going dead after a few hours of heavy use not knowing the cord is incapable of delivering 100W of power.

Or the hypothetical iPhone 16 user goes to the same store because he wants to watch video on his TV and buys a “standard” USB C cable and finds out that the cable doesn’t support video over USB C - which is part of the standard.

Not to mention the unsuspecting tourist who wants to back up the pictures and video from his phone to his computer so he won’t incur roaming charges and finds out the USB C cable he purchased is power only.
I do worry about being killed by the government. I worry about everything related to government abuse of power and surveillance. I wear my tinfoil with with pride, thank you very much.

On a more serious note (in case it was not clear that I was being facetious), you are absolute correct that an important theme (and, arguably, the primary / key message) of 1984 is to highlight the horror and dangers of a totalitarian government, and to push back against the very, very pressing danger of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

But one of the great things about sci-fi / dystopian / utopian fiction is that it lets us look at a potential future, ask ourselves if thats a world we want to live in, and if its not, we can think about what it might take for us to go down that path, and what steps we should take if we want to avoid it.

You are right to point out that we dont live an a totalitarian surveillance state run by elites without respect for the rule of law. But my point is that we could, and that we currently do live in a surveillance state. It just happens to be a democratic surveillance state run by elected representatives of the people with a strong culture of respect of the rule of law. But its a surveillance state nevertheless.

I wont suggest you re-read 1984, but I would suggest taking a look at this opinion piece by Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova: https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2l... (or i guess https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/navalny-russia.ht..., but I suggest the onion link)

Or at least the last paragraph: "Our president has only just recently had the law changed so that he can stay in power until 2036, but his program of repression didn’t start out this blatantly. These things happen in pieces, bit by bit, small acts. And each one may even seem relatively benign at first, perhaps bad, but not fatal. You get angry, maybe you speak out, but you get on with your life. The promise of our democracy was chipped away in pieces, one by one: corrupt cronies appointed, presidential orders issued, actions taken, laws passed, votes rigged. It happens slowly, intermittently; sometimes we couldn’t see how steadily. Autocracy crept in, like the coward it is."

Persistent mass surveillance is not mentioned. Abusive government surveillance tends to fly under the radar. But one of the lessons of 1984 is that you ignore it at your peril.
Smoking to lung cancer has a very direct delivery mechanism, inhaling tar into the lungs. The effect size and sample sizes are big. The hypothesized mechanisms here - unfavorable social comparison is far more tenuous, and the sample size here is number of universities- not number of students.

These 2 are vastly different situations.

To give an example. Establishing causal effect between nicotine and lung cancer is an open question, even as the causal effect of smoking on cancer is very clear.
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I'm a little doubtful about applying a story about the behavior of people whose brains have been surgically split in half to the rest of us who still have a corpus callosum. It's probably stretching my point but you could even say that's a confabulation which in the context of the article seems to be a made up plausible story with no demonstrated basis in reality or even consensus reality.
It's interesting to consider the "full body" deepfakes, but wouldn't the limitation of face deepfakes be even more constraining here? The proportions of limbs' length vs torso, hip / shoulder ratio etc -- it seems like a more effective approach (and something already in commercial use) would be mocap + models -- and that's just for still images.

For motion, there's yet another layer of fakery required (and this is something security / identity detection systems tackle nowadays) -- stuff like gait, typical motions or gestures or even poses. To deepfake a Tom Cruise clone, you need to not just look like the actor, but project the same manic energy, and signature movements.
But what did Google do that's worse than what Apple did? It's a bit ironic that by making their OS opensource, they somehow are more guilty than Apple for keeping their OS locked down.

Android allows hundreds of companies to have a business and make millions or billions, many of which are in EU and wouldn't exist if Android had gone the Apple way.
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> No one's calibrating their prototype roll-out according to how big or small they think they're going to be.

I don't think that statement is true at all. My impression (mostly from being a long-time reader of HN) is that VC's are primarily/only interested in investing in startups that have some chance of becoming billion dollar unicorns, so if you're looking to get VC funds you pretty much have to set your goals at that level. Some little web app with 10000 paying customers will never get you there, but it might be enough to make a decent living.
CosmWasm provides a smart contract execution layer for Cosmos application blockchains.
The last-but-one presidential election was affected by various states illegally throwing large numbers of legal voters off their voter rolls, but it’s impossible to say whether it would have made enough difference to alter the outcome, and there’s no convincing evidence votes were directly changed. (It would be a good thing to have a verifiable paper trail for every election; in some parts of the USA it is impossible to effectively investigate any alleged shenanigans.)

The bigger problem in that election was Russian-intelligence-stolen (and possibly tampered with) documents being released to the press in the lead up to the election in coordination with the Trump campaign (with the FBI keeping its investigation of that secret), and then the FBI director making an unprecedented and (we found out only afterward) unsupportable statement attacking Clinton immediately before the election, after being pressured into it by a handful rogue FBI agents who were friends of Trump’s campaign threatening insubordination.

And perhaps the biggest problem of all, an entirely too credulous mainstream media who didn’t put those developments in context, leaving voters to draw mistaken inferences, and giving oodles of free airtime to Trump’s rallies without making any effort to dispute outright lying in real time.
Banning porn in the US is a huge issue in the national conservative camp, at least if you listen to a little bit of their discourse around long term goals. If that camp comes to power expect restrictions in the US which would probably require enormous scale Internet clampdowns.
Sivers is referencing well-known/-docomented neurological phenomenon and behaviors related to split-brain conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305066/
"Popular" and "still used a lot" are two very different ideas.
Got one under Ubuntu 22.04. My only issue is that some transitions are frustratingly slow, much moreso than on my 2014 XPS13:

* Getting out of sleep (deep RAM sleep, not hibernate)

* Handling password/fingerprint authentication once out of sleep

* Wifi rescan frequency

* Occasionally, plugging/unplugging external screens

And I've got no idea why. Once woken up and plugged to whatever I need to use, it's a really good laptop.
https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
I've seen the same with Matrix as well. (Also IRC, though fewer and fewer people seem to be using that.)
True.

Best bet is if you want an alt account, make one now, use it on a few small subs, then let it sit an mature a few months.
Is only one side of the brain able to speak? Is the side of the brain that read the text internally screaming about the wrong explanation coming out of the mouth? How did both sides of the body operate the limbs to close the window if only one side of the body knew it should close the window? I'd love to learn more about this.
The corporate captured government will only protect their privacy and profits. The quicker people realize this, the better.
The backlash only matters if you get caught. Low key charter is a luxury good. I've never done it, but I know a lot of younger co-workers who have "splurged" on chartering for destination vacations/weddings/etc. at $10k each or whatever.

That kind of diffuse luxe stuff will not get cleaned up by pushback.
right, but it's been nearly 100 years and nobody is confirming his theories in a quantitative way and updating the way we treat cavities. I guess we can just blame Big Teeth for that?
> It's not a coincidence that leaks and behind the scenes articles and videos pop up when something new is launching.

Can't leak something after it's been released though
This would be a terrible precedent. These are private companies, who is the government to tell them how to operate without funding them. If you don't like what you read, or if you read things that are not true that is on you as an individual to make appropriate choices. The government shouldnt meddle with social networks. They are just that, social and voluntary.
Pickle is fine (in a pinch). It's not meant for untrusted data.
Welcome to the natural consequence of social networks becoming important to just do daily business. The phone companies, and other utilities, operate under strict rules. I do wonder how many and type of companies will become internet utilities?
The main reason behind Java's success has always been the community and it's ecosystem. Once you learn basics you literally can code very good things with ease using a huge number of examples/solutions present on web.

The user base kind of helps the developers find the fixes way too easily compared to any other language.

I doubt it is ever going to lose it's popularity as Java is very good to accept good changes(although slowly). The best thing about java is it provides code stability and backward compatibility and this is the reason it will thrive even more.
I wanted to add to this, but the edit window has ended so...

To go even further, if you have gigabit internet and the data center that hosts your drive is in the same city as you, then putting your swap in cloud storage could potentially be faster than storing it on a hard drive!

Obviously, this is making a lot of assumptions, like your ISP doesn't do any silly routing (I'm in Portland, and for a while a couple years ago, my ISP routed all my traffic through Seattle), assumes the cloud storage provider is using solid state storage, and all the code involved in retrieving it doesn't add more than a couple ms of latency.
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> what about fungus

https://jgi.doe.gov/news_12_06_28/

> The comparative analyses suggested that around 290 million years ago, right at the end of the Carboniferous period, a white rot fungal ancestor with the capacity to break down lignin appeared. Prior to that ancestor, fungi did not have that ability and thus the lignin in plant matter was not degraded, allowing these lignin-rich residues to build up in soil over time.
Why would this be huge for you?
The ability to use this to plausibly deny any real evidence is more chilling than the fake evidence that could be created.
I have a question for those of you who have worked on java..or considered working on java ..and ultimately did golang or something.

what would make you choose java :

1. is it a better framework than spring boot

2. is it a better tooling like heroku or something for java

3. is it better community & programming paradigms ? I once asked a question "can i write a java api using all variables as public" and got flamed pretty badly. Do people want an alternative to the MVC/DAO/DTO structure ...where the community doesnt flame them ?

4. is it something else ?

Because based on docker pulls, java still is probably just as popular as nodejs or something.

what would make java sexy again ?
What's the account?
Exactly why I consider Facebook to be a monstrously overgrown malware that was allowed to become a corporation.
> Preemption would be an enormous mistake

It creates a national standard. If we’re still debating the solution, sure, devolve to states. But if we’re near consensus, preëmption provides scale. This is American strength in a nutshell.
Does anyone still use facebook? I mean, I'm 45 and just my mom uses it.

Are they sure the mental health impact is not just senility?

/s
> Sweden and the usa are quite similar for gun homicide. Moreover, they are for exactly the same reason.

Eh? Sweden has 1.2 intentional homicide per 100,000 people. The US has 6.3 [1].

France and the UK have 1.2, Germany has 0.8, Japan has 0.3.

The US has 5.8 homicides using firearms only [2].

Fun(?) fact: in the US, about 1,000 per year are killed by police [3], which amounts to about 0.3 per 100,000. An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United...
MP3 was not "an open standard", it was a patented technology, owned by the Fraunhofer institute and lead to hilarious lawsuits against people putting MP3 capabilities in both hardware and software without even knowing they had to pay license fees, until Fraunhofer gave up and gave MP3 to the world. And not "way back when", this is a story that didn't have a happy ending until 2017. And then only because technology had passed it by with the industry having mostly moved on to newer, better codecs.
It was horrible how government officials in collaboration with teacher's unions inflicted collective punishment on our children by closing schools and then imposing mask mandates. There was never any high-quality scientific evidence to justify such policies. And we clearly see in retrospect that they were unnecessary: Sweden kept schools open without mask mandates and they ended up with a lower death rate than the USA.

In most cases the actual classroom teachers that I talked with didn't even support those policies. It was the teacher's unions which did most of the damage.
Well, Ötzi (* 5,000 BCE) had cavities. I think you’d need to go back to before the Neolithic Revolution. Shipwrecked sailor Steven Callahan also noted in his book “Adrift” that, after 73 days adrift at sea eating nothing but fish and sea birds, his teeth and gums were healthier than ever before. So there’s something to your argument.
Thanks for the chuckle :) Reminds me of the old adage about how Washington DC combines Southern efficiency with Northern charm.
That meme has been throughly debunked for years[1]. With comments like this, havkernews reaply seems to be falling to the lowest common denominator.

[1]: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/28/viral-imag...
https://imgur.com/a/JRorpqY

My little collection
So you're talking about a preview/beta/new feature (TemplatedString), and use that as the reason it's "still" popular?
Effectively the worker shortage of 2030 is very real.

Why the war in Ukraine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Cross

They already have the problem. Population decline is going to wreck Russia.
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It does if the two peers can negotiate a connection successfully which happens in webrtc signaling
I don't think it's so simple and none of this is black and white. Stigma around pornography is bad because it unnecessarily restricts what adults may freely do with their bodies, but not all pornography is produced with full and uncoerced consent. Making an excuse to ban free speech by banning unharmful pornography is bad, but unrestrictedly producing fake porn of someone without their consent is also bad.
> t's also disingenuous to talk about how Sweden's rape definition is broader. Do you know that? Have you reviewed rape definitions throughout all of Europe, or are you just repeating what Sweden's crime council says?

Appendix 1 of the 90 page document I linked has exactly this information.

They also discuss it in detail, with citations of sources:

> Eurostat’s definition of rape is broad: there is no need for force
to be involved for the sexual act to be defined as rape, only a
lack of valid consent. However, many countries lack the
prerequisites for specifying how many such rapes are reported,
as they have a narrower definition of rape in their national
legislation. According to an analysis by the European Institute
for Gender Equality (EIGE) from 2016, only seven countries in
Europe had consent-based legislation. However, most countries
did have various forms of exception to the need for the use of
force, such as a victim who was sleeping or heavily intoxicated
at the time of the incident. In one third of the countries
analysed, some form of violence or threat was required for the
act to be classified as rape. The European countries also differed
in terms of the sexual acts included under rape in their national
legislation. In 17 of the 30 countries encompassed by the study,
only sexual intercourse was included in the definition of rape
I urge anybody using a C family language to become familiar with AddressSanitizer [1], a tool that (with support from the compiler) detects an impressive variety of memory bugs at runtime. The scenario you describe would result in the program immediately crashing with a read-after-free error, along with stack traces for the most recent calls to malloc and free that involved that address. It's remarkably useful and straightforward, and Apple's tooling has good support for it, along with Xcode integration [2].

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/diagnosing-m...
Java can get the job done, but the language is certainly dated in a way that's impossible to fix without breaking changes.

Similar to C++ getting replaced by go and rust everywhere, Java's time has gone. It's just running on momentum at this point.

The JVM will likely continue on though
Entirely reasonable either they are publishers and thus have free speech and carry full penalties for all the content they allow. Or they are carriers and thus should have no say, but also no risks of content.
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The real problem as I see it is that people think the path to safe C++ is to tell everyone "you're holding it wrong" (just use modern C++), when it fact being able to hold it wrong is regarded as a feature (C++ maintains backward compatibility) by the C++ community.
I think they meant philosophically, not geographically.
Project Astoria had weird timing, considering Microsoft initially submitted an amicus brief in Oracle v Google on Oracle's side, i.e. supporting the notion that APIs are copyrightable - which was awkward as Astoria implemented Android APIs. Sometime later, after both sides appealed, MS submitted another amicus - this time on Google's side. Possibly after seeing the light with WSL and Astoria
None of the videos on this page really look convincing. In terms of generating static photos existing "photoshops" people have been making for 25 years are far better. I don't see the need to clutch pearls and call for new laws to put people in prison quite yet.

But even the failures at temporal coherence have their own aesthetic appeal. Like all of this stuff has been it's very "dreamy" the way the clothing subtly shifts forms.

Beyond the coolness I'm glad that individual people are getting access to digital manipulation capabilities that have only before been available to corporations, institutions, and government before.
Private companies are regulated all the time. Look up the rules for any utility or communications company. They banned politicians, so that's going to get laws passed.
Probably because his ideas and opinions are actively censored. It's no secret that social media has a heavy bias.
Facebook was already caught using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting, and they have also collected biometric data without consent for years, so you can fully expect that picture of your face to be eventually used in illegal ways by Meta.
I agree and we should classify the underlying Internet service providers, that social media providers depends on, as common carriers as well!
I think that has more to do with who was running the DOJ in the 90s vs. the early 2000s.

> Now all platforms are bundled with browsers and plenty of other software.

This is an interesting question. You could take it as Microsoft's argument before the DOJ being correct, that browsers become an inextricable part of an OS. Whether or not they would have been had they not included it, it seems like we can say in hindsight, of course it would have. But surely Microsoft's decision to do so influenced the way the market went.
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GitLab team member here.

Thanks for sharing, I have posted the project in the forum topic collecting artifact cleanup resources [0]

If you need a way to generate lots of artifacts for testing your script, you might find this small CI config helpful. [1] It uses matrix builds, and dd to generate blocks of artifact data, with no extra dependencies, and can be included as a remote include in your test projects.

[0] https://forum.gitlab.com/t/remove-all-artifact-no-expire-opt...

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-de/job-artifact-generator
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Are you exposing full node or archive node? Because Archive node is several terabytes :)