skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, is there an open source version of BuiltWith? I'm not necessarily looking to use it, but it might actually be an interesting project to work on. I'm sure you learn a lot of interesting things trying to map everything out..and then there's the parsing/extracting and other aspects of this that could be fun if you're into that sort of thing.
> How does one possibly cause $64 million in straight damages per plaintiff? This isn't even the punitive yet.

I think people in this thread are massively underestimating the value of a lifetime of labor. This number is perfectly compensatory for eg a married couple that are both MDs, biglaw lawyers, FAANG engineers, finance professionals, or any number of other well-paying white collar jobs.

Being threatened the way that these families have -- after losing my child -- would absolutely wreck my mental health. There's no way that I or my wife would be able to live a normal life after the type of harassment incited by Jones. Certainly not hold down a job while looking over our shoulders and processing the trauma of losing a child and being hunted down by wackos in the aftermath.

The safe withdrawal rate on $64,000,000 when you're decades away from retirement age is probably closer to 2% than 4%, which puts us at $1,280,000 per year. That's $640,000 per earner. As a Senior at a FAANG -- which probably isn't my terminal level -- my income + benefits are north of this number.

Now allocate 1/3-1/2 of that $1.2M/yr to personal security and the cost of not having employer-sponsored healthcare and retirement benefits and you're already down to the equivalent of perhaps $250,000 - $400,000 per earner. That's fairly believable. And my only operating assumption is that this sort of trauma makes maintaining a white collar career path difficult/impossible.

And there are lots of other recurring expenses even aside from personal security associated with being hounded by a mob of armed wackos. I'd bet we would get down to $100,000 - $150,000 per earner per year of safe withdrawal income after extraneous expenses.

If I had to guess, the judge isn't going that much further than simply compensating these families for the cost of losing a lifetime of two normal incomes and compensation for other things that are necessary due to Jones's behavior.
Thankfully all that data is ever so secure...

Of course it's ultra important for national security that we need all this very important data at all, you know... for security's sake.

Don't you feel so much more secure now we have it and it's being stored and shared with all the other secure departments so securely??

https://www.smh.com.au/search?text=optus
Correct, and there is no problem in any way with what he is doing. He's providing a map - not a formal engineering survey - derived from existing data sources.
From the pic in the post, that’s a lot of desks, monitors, and office space for a single person company
Factorio finally got its hooks into me lately - the first two times I played it I bounced off it. Now I'm hopelessly addicted, scribbling train tracks in my notebook... What a game.
Cheers! A book about Forth, by Chuck Moore, that I haven't read already! Today is a good day.

(Someone has posted it and it's reached the front page now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180796 )
I think they were hostile indeed. At the same time, it's a worthwhile philosophical argument. Can it be considered rude to issue a claim when you don't hold the most basic knowledge?
I tested some of my websites.

While I got accurate results for some projects, it showed completely wrong information about other projects...

E.g. it shows stuff with which I may experimented for one day but which isn't used on the project since multiple years anymore.
> If only one parent had sued, we wouldn't be batting an eyelash at the resulting damages.

This is not really a convincing response to my comment on the per-family damages:

>> Nobody involved had a reputation that was worth $100 million dollars.

You can't lose value you never had.

> How disruptive would it be to my life if that happened to me? Over how many years?

However disruptive it was, the damages could not reach $100 million unless you either (a) spent $100 million dealing with the disruption, or (b) forwent $100 million of earnings in order to deal with the disruption. (Or any combination.) Again, that hasn't happened. You can't deal $100 million of economic damage to someone who doesn't possess assets worth $100 million. That is a major reason for the concept of punitive damages.
I'm not sure - Java 11 was the first LTS in a while and I don't think a new target LTS was decided right after Java 11.
1791 bill of rights baby!
I don't think this is it, because Google has also banned third-party Reddit clients, but not the official one, over NSFW content posted to Reddit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724102
I would be surprised if anyone actually thought the surge in PC demand seen in 2020/21 would be anything but short-lived. Computers don't just become obsolete in the blink of an eye anymore; most of those new computers will still be perfectly servicable well into the 2030s.
Intel suspended stock buybacks in Q2 2021 and hasnt done any since: https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks
Your post corroborates SUSE[0] claims that ECDHE is not vulnerable to this. Default golang TLS server looks like it's got it's head on straight for this.

[0] https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000020510
I shudder to think about what a formal specification of some of the full stack web projects I've developed would look like. They might take longer than the actual coding of it - especially because specifications change mid project as we build things and realize we actually want them different.

Note this is a feature, not a bug, of "agile" development - you learn and adjust on the fly
save 20 bucks and go with a really nice bottle of prosecco
Now try this:

type MyEnum = 'a' | 'b' | 'c';

function test(val: MyEnum) {
return val;
}

// refactors
test('a');

// does not refactor
const testVal = 'a';
test(testVal);

The simple fact is that- as far as the type system is concerned, enums are more than simple strings, and they are useful for those differences.

As for the readability, it gets a little more interesting when you are interacting with libraries or APIs outside of your control; you end up with hyphenated things, underscored, and other oddities that may not be a one-to-one match between a logical, easily readable key and the underlying value it represents.
I agree this sounds suspect.

A lot of people don’t realize what “$14mm ARR” means. The contract, accounting and legal work alone would require a couple of people.

Not to mention Infrastructure, monitoring, QA, etc - all that good stuff.

It costs money to generate revenue.
I think the point here is that it doesn't really matter whether the lawyers call it "compensatory" or not. Many legal terms don't really mean what it says on the tin. But we're talking here from a common-sense perspective: is the intent behind this fine, however it is described, to compensate for actual damages suffered, or to punish the conduct? And for it to be the former, it has to be in line with actual damages.
Saying that a vintage is "great" is like saying a hamburger is "great". Sure, there are plenty of ways to screw up or cheap out, but everything above the "nice" level is 95%% personal taste.
VGA Trainer Program by Denthor of Asphyxia
> the vast increase in regulations and liability around handling data,

Can you elaborate on this or give examples where these bigger hurdles than they used to be? I'm curious to know in what domains this is the case. I've no doubt that it is true, but my sense was that there are still large swaths of "internety" products that are entirely or mostly unregulated and where there isn't much to be said about how you handle data, but I could be wrong. I'd be very interested in any concrete examples you may have had in mind.
>...that your recipient retains your signature, and can encrypt-and-forward it to any additional recipient they please.

So just like signatures made on paper? You can take a signed paper document and put it in an envelope and send it anywhere you want. What is wrong with that? It is what someone living in this world would normally expect. We need more things that work as expected, not less...
Surely there's a Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employment definition somewhere to capture exactly this issue. But if there is, it never seems to come up in public discourse, possibly because it is difficult to understand or for people to directly relate to.
He could try, but he'd lose because he's on the wrong side of the political spectrum.
This seems to be a typical case of the following scenario:

You have been working on a topic for a while. Then, one day, you learn that someone has managed to get a paper on the topic into Nature/Science/whatever. And not because their results are that impressive but because they are from a famous institute and are using fashionable methods. Of course, the first thing you do is checking if you can improve the results with the tools you already have. If you can, you post the results online and start working on a paper.

That happens all the time.
Celebrity alert! Also, your blog is fascinating.
Since we are quoting rules…

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
This is disinformation.
I think that is asking too much. Absence of certification from a licensed surveyor should be enough.

If a schematic needs to be from a licensed professional, the burden is to demonstrate that it is.

Sometimes it is appropriate to require a license professional to certify something, other times it is not
Their post immediately before this one is pretty embarrassing for a developer of an app that supposedly has other devs clamoring to see its source, but otherwise I agree it's not clear they're incapable of building an app (probably a game) that gets some attention.
> A very tiny percentage of PC gamers have the kind of rigs you are envisioning.

I'm not talking about the people buying i7s and 4090s. 100% agree they are a tiny minority. I'm talking about the same modest setups you are.

Even a 1060 (or it's modern equivalent) with an i3 and a 24 inch 1080p panel is more expensive than a PS5/Xbox. And I think it's becoming increasing rare for a family to have a desktop pc unless it's for gaming.
Stocks, bonds, real-estate etc.

Total world gold is like 10T$ vs total world assets of 450T$ ish.

What would you rather hold? A claim on future returns from a factory making chips or a shiny metal with minimal industrial use that certain primates horde?

The horders can only supply then economy with a shiny metal. The chip factory can supply it with chips that run cars, trains, financial systems, street lights etc.
Who cares what a desktop processor plugged to a wall outlet consumes? Seriously, if you care about power consumption, don't buy a K processor.
"Grades" are a metric, not a goal. The goal is to educate and train students.

If you make a metric into a goal, you have already made the metric worthless and are likely to fail to achieve your first goal.
TIL that nail clipping in public is strongly avoided in western worlds. The culture looks funny as a Japanese. (just to be sure, take coffee into toilet is weird)
Does it matter? The founder is wealthy and can do whatever they want in life. Why would he spend a single second working?
"no employees" but the founder is pictured in front of an office with four visible work stations. What's the source for this article?
I actually have more than that, yeah
Microsoft military smart goggles fail 4 of 6 elements during a recent test: Army
Lightly edited title to fit.
Care to share what kinds of things you've built or are currently building?
There was only one Leonard Cohen. Rest in peace, legend.
It's somewhat interesting to use the disclaimer that one isn't a lawyer in a paragraph stating that such disclaimers are invalid.

In my experience, people generally believe that stating one isn't a doctor or lawyer protects against an accusation of practicing without a license.
My personal inclination makes me a natural devil's advocate and skeptic of political movements across the spectrum.

To me, the average supporter of the green agenda sounds like this: We Americans / Europeans are sinful and wasteful with our conspicuous energy consumption, air conditioning and air travel. The only path to redemption is to see the light and worship the planet. Importantly, this means we must practice austerity and poverty, to be humble and pure like the poorest black and brown people of Africa and Asia. The government will tell you, for the good of society of course, what temperature you're allowed to have in your buildings on your property, or whether you're allowed to let your car engine idle at a stoplight [1].

The green agenda is only partly based in science. It has dark corners and extremes of irrationality and hypocrisy. This article's author is trying to remind those who have gotten lost in the political theater that our goal should be improving lives and easing resource constraints. Perhaps we should examine whether we're overfunding solar and wind, why we fear fission and neglect fusion, and whether it's wise to regulate, control and limit rather than innovate, build and overcome.

[1] <politicalrant> Of course, prominent politicians and climate activists travel by air, in some cases private jets, to environmental conferences in the age of Internet videoconferencing. While they're eager enough to embrace using government force to remove freedoms of action from everybody, they balk at voluntarily following their stated principles in their personal lives when the result would be the slightest personal inconvenience. When the price of oil increases due to war, the President's staunch environmentalism disappears in the face of populist handouts to grease the midterms (a thing his party is famous about criticizing the other party for). A true statesman who actually believed the planet was in danger would urge us to seize this moment to let market forces do the hard work of weaning us off fossil fuels; it would mean sacrifices and hardship, but we should endure it to save the planet for our grandchildren. Instead, the President we've got does everything in his power to lower gas prices -- from releasing oil from strategic petroleum reserve, to fist bumping a slicer and dicer of journalists in a process of futile begging for oil. Actions speak louder than words, and in this case the PotUS's observed behavior is exactly what I would expect of a world leader who secretly believes the green agenda he publicly embraces is actually just a steaming pile of biomass. </politicalrant>
I need to know if you are also not wearing pants
The photoelectrochemical reduction of water looks interesting -- what do you think the achievable efficiency of it might be and is there an existing path to commercialize the technology?

Also, would that work in a concentrated solar setup?
Very true. But the fact is that theorists like Susskind are cheap to maintain.
I wrote it by myself, there was a certain program I was using (pirating) and nobody else had the manual for it. And you really didn't scan things into PDFs back then. A disk only held 140KB. So I spent a weekend and figured things out by trial-and-error and wrote it up. Did it in a text editor and uploaded it to my favorite BBS.

Distribution happened lots of ways. A BBS might trade files with a friendly BBS somewhere else. Some people collected them like Pokemon and traded them. Having something valuable that others wanted was a currency. Maybe I sent you my G-File collection and you sent me Dr J vs Larry Bird.

Eventually these files diffused all over the planet and wound up in collections on the internet and CD-ROMs at hamfests. They will spring up in the most unlikely of places.

It's fun to look back on it now, but it wasn't always wonderful. Calling BBSes could get expensive, transmitting files tied up your system for an entire night (no multitasking!) for something that took up less space than a Facebook tracking cookie. The hardware and bandwidth I'm using now would have been incomprehensible back then.
> You can't just say "Sorry, not liable if this widget blows up."

Clearly you can. Every software license has a disclaimer of liability. It's not like those are there for no reason. No, they are not an absolute shield that's effective in every circumstance, but you can and should have one.
maybe a psychological summary for adults involved, but no.. labor and business law is convoluted and many-times very specific, and you can win in court with either, presented competently. "make your fate"
I've certainly worked at companies which used LGPL software without any concern at all. Arguably, they weren't "significant" but they did examine the license and what it meant and felt it posed no risk.
> I still have a habit of touching likely grounds from time to time whenever I'm in a lab.

Me too, it's such an ingrained habit. Before touching any "open electronics", I quickly touch the earth lug on my lab PSU, or a screw from some other (grounded) metal test equipment case. I've been doing it so long and so consistently that my hands feel "wrong" before I do that.

So much stuff has ESD protection nowadays, but some individual components at least still don't, and you only need to break one part to ruin your day (or at least some significant amount of time if you're so lucky that you can solder a replacement).
In most countries that's called "forgery." You can't pass of someone's signature, even if it's authentic, in a context they did not intend.

(It should be obvious why it's illegal, and what's wrong with it -- nobody wants bank accounts opened in their name by unrelated parties. You should then be able to reason by parallel as to why it's not a desirable property in a cryptosystem.)
Genius. Sell this to prisons.
The Carmack talk: https://www.facebook.com/RealityLabs/videos/792254305349862/

Looks silly as fuck. Why would anyone want to watch a half-body ghost avatar shaking like they're high on coke in a cartoonish 3D setting when you can just video stream the real guy?

God, that MZ avatar looks cringe af.
Rivers Cuomo, Weezer frontman, is doing work in Python:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-river...

Model Karlie Kloss has been spearheading an effort to expose girls to programming, and has worked in Python as well, if memory serves.

https://www.kodewithklossy.com/

"Our free (yep, free!) two-week summer program for young women and non-binary individuals ages 13 – 18 will teach you to build real-life apps whether you’ve never written a line of code or you’re a full-fledged hacker. The scholarship is for anyone who's passionate and interested in learning a new superpower. Don’t be shy, APPLY!"
Its not GPL thou. LGPL is very different in how 'viral' it is, which is the general issue that people have with GPL (validly, imo)
Speaking of ammonia, any thoughts to share on an ammonia economy vs hydrogen economy? The former seems a lot more practical.
current AI frequently fail with any hard expectation of structure, like when it tries to genarate human bodies and it doesn't grasp at all how bones work, bending limba in unreal ways or adding extra ones, or creating heads with wrong proportions/spacing. It is pretty good at grasping how to fade textures/colors but it has little grasp on structure and "the big picture".
I'm familiar with monuments | pegs, I'm hoping the commenter clarifies their statement about "stamps" on their property.

I'm not clear whether their complaint is entirely about airphotos and GIS lines not being rectified (annoying but not critical) or if they're actually claiming that visual misalignment of two seperate data sets has caused monuments to have been incorrectly placed.

Here (W.Australia) that wouldn't happen.

FWiW many years back I contributed code to software in this field

( https://download.hexagongeospatial.com/en/downloads/imagine/... )
It's not reasonable to see the disclaimer on the website and then conclude the opposite is true.

Right in the middle of the landing page, the site also states 'Our Site Plans are Non-Certified (Read More)' in the same list as their selling points. And their explanation of what this means is simple and to the point: https://www.mysiteplan.com/pages/certified-site-plans

Users of the site are very plainly advised. And if they submit those plans to local authorities or whoever, the people who evaluate them are competent to notice whether or not the plans are signed by a licensed surveyor. I'm not sure who you think is at risk of harm here.
No I get that all abstractions leak on some level. But some leak a lot more than others. And as an industry we don't seem to have good mental models or languages around that.

More than once I've seen using the abstraction + working around the leaks being more complex than just using the the thing underneath the abstraction.

I have no pithy phrase to describe that scenario, without the "why don't we just code in binary" retort.
When people complained that adding emojis and animated gifs was adding attack surface, Signal (moxie) said that it was required to build the user base, providing more security to all by providing more chaff via moving more people off SMS. And now they want to kill user engagement by forcing people to use a special app? What a boneheaded move. WhatsApp is going to pick up lots of users.
I would like to float an alternate hypothesis to the idea that OP is a fake. What if they've somehow ended up in a small social bubble of highly unprofessional developers that don't really know why their demand is insane, and also don't really know what's worth trying to see the code of? Not that it would excuse the supposed other developers if being little shits, but it would at least explain why they're being so weird. Tempest in a teapot scenario overall.
> But soon his euphoria was accompanied by an insatiable libido. Leonard became a “wild, wonderful, ravening man-beast,” masturbating for hours on end.

Is going for a few hours unusual? If so, I've been in big trouble ever since I turned 14.. (now going on 39)

It just feels really good.

Hmm.
> You need a solid foundation if you wanna have multiple stories.

The puzzle deepens, my brother in physicality. My mouth agapens.

Enlighten thou me, doth this metaphor correspond to anything beyond the general structure of the human body into, say, top and bottom?

Doth it say, helpfully correspond to some unknown musculature that connects one's bicep to their quadriceps?

And most importantly, is your head a third story or are we counting joints on the way up???
The Jason Scott documentary is highly recommended. I knew Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, they were pretty interesting people. (RIP Randy, he passed away near the end of 2019)
Use of the CDC dataset as controls for a non-randomized trial is very problematic. Hard to know what to make of this at all. It has a modicum of bioplausability but I don’t think my posterior probability estimate of effectiveness has changed at all after reading the paper.
Yeah I'm wondering why Dan is replying to so many of these comments. I don't get it :P
My bet is employees here refers to full-time salaried employees.

No doubt they work with contractors and freelancers. The article even says they have "a few people to write content for the blog".
I think SQS encryption was enabled by default (for newly created queues) this week funnily enough.

I completely agreed though - I look at CloudConformity and so many of the warnings are for encrypted resources.
How can both of those be true?