skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat! I haven’t tried that, and someone above said Monero is actually pretty easy. But people imagine e.g. Bitcoin transactions to be anonymous (they’re not), and zcash is (last I saw) the most private option but also (last I saw) it was extremely nontrivial to actually set up a transaction.

Edit: Going through MobileCoin info it’s not super clear to me how you deposit/withdraw currency but keep in mind that this is historically a plenty sufficient amount of information to put your entire transaction’s privacy at risk (from certain adversaries anyway). I.e. if you are suspected of a crime but the only info available to prosecutors is you deposited $N and then your alleged conspirator withdrew $N out the other end, the fact the transaction itself was private is not going to save you.
... and (2004) should be in the title...
I thought zig has null terminated string literals. What's the difference?

String literals are constant single-item Pointers to null-terminated byte arrays. The type of string literals encodes both the length, and the fact that they are null-terminated, and thus they can be coerced to both Slices and Null-Terminated Pointers

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#String-Literals-an...
«Physics is just “natural philosophy.”»

Used to be but not anymore. The difference is, natural philosophers, like Henry Cavendish, were amateurs, physicists are professionals. They are "Doctors of Philosophy", the professional offsprings of Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy. The switch from amateur to professional occurred with the advance of the science of electricity. Physicists were seen as the experts and they built the foundation of electrical industrial applications. But there is academic physics, which is like fine arts with no rules and restrictions and there is applied physics with strict rules.
He made some anti Semitic comments and I thought his account was banned. Maybe it was just a suspension though.
Aestivation
>The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

welcome to true free speech on the internet. the worst and most abrasive of the bunch drive everyone away.
Twitter has corporate users and advertisers. If it became 4chan, that would all evaporate.

It also has professionals. There’s a point at which unmoderated content drives out all but the trolls, spammers, and haters.
hmm. You and others are totally right. I miss-read my own source. Sorry about that!
please stop adding things not in the original title, there is no need to put article dates in the title (with the exception of the year for things that are not from the current year)
You are 100% correct. It's crucial to understand and manage the failure modes of your system around transient network failures and permanent bottlenecks.

Retries are a must in most systems, but need to be planned, otherwise you DoS your own network or services.
The money doesn't interest me much in itself either, while getting things done and making the world a little better does. (Often that does require money, though!) Thus many of my friends have earned stacks more than I ever will because it is their focus.

I have spent almost my entire working life freelance, and find monthly income regardless of how much or little I have done to be almost annoying! I'm off payroll again from next month as it happens.

You can do make it work, but maybe think of invoicing as what will let you go on helping people the way that interests you?
People are lazy they think that some sort of compensation will resolve all their issues but it’s not.

Everyone knows that these companies control people because they are constantly engaged on their platforms they can push anything they want. Companies will support any dominating regime for their own good it doesn’t matter if it’s democrats or republicans, fascists or communists, etc.
While it's only a small part of the larger vTaiwan process, a few fans of Polis made a video to try to share what feels valuable about it: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSL_F7Lwul2dlI9J6-Nzz9_...

Also, a paper on the vtaiwan process: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xyhft/
Could you post the links to those tools?

I did writing in AsmOne's embedded editor, but since I was just a child, I haven't produced anything meaningful. I still remember some m68k's opcodes though!
I have to be honest I've not used it but it truly sounds incredible that it can do things as well as you say.

So you write tests and copilot generates code you shove into production with little overhead ?

Do you read the code thoroughly (kind of negating having it generated for you?), or just have blind faith in it because tests are green and just YOLO it into production ?

I'd feel pretty uneasy deploying code that:

* I, or a trusted peer has not written.

* Hasn't been reviewed by my peers.

* Code I, or my peers don't understand fairly well.

That's not to say I think me or my colleagues write code that doesn't have problems, but I like to think we at least understand the code we work with and I believe this has benefits beyond just getting stuff done quickly and cheaply.

In other words, I have no problem using code generated by co-pilot, but I'd feel the need to read and review it quite thoroughly and then I sort of feel that negates the purpose, and it also means it pulls my back into the role of doing work I'd hire someone else to do.
reading all these comments like remove the hdd, it sounds like a good future solution may be to get my self an external drive, (or even a cloud drive), and somehow set everything up so all my User data exists on that "partition" or drive or whatever. i wouldn't know where to begin to figure out how to do this on mac, but I'm sure it's possible somehow. then the main device is essentially a dumb terminal with the OS on it, and all the proprietary data / keys / config etc is on an encrypted external drive
Isn't his father being funny evidence of his claim that it's genetic?
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Depnds on how you count. If you consider every ~5 seconds you could have an accident, and a minor or worse accident happens once every 2,000 to 20,000 hours of driving that’s 99.99993% to 99.999993% reliability.

On the other hand if you start talking per trio then we aren’t even close to that.
Beware, it may not be real truffles, but the synthetic counterpart : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dithiapentane
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

Here, you've solved it. "The free market", both users and advertisers, demand content moderation. If you want to attract users, you need a website that isn't a cesspool of 'toxicity'. If you don't want to drive away those who actually pay for your website (advertisers), you'll need to moderate.

Reddit has proved this out - they started out trying to say they're hands off, and they'll only remove illegal content (ignoring how troublesome that is to define for a global website), and they've slowly learned over the years that they cannot grow their website with those policies.

You could say that you don't want to grow your platform, and stay a small niche, which is totally fine. That's what gab and parlor and 4chan are. We have them already!
Are there lots of people disputing him? Or are you just reading into something with no foreknowledge?
Ask HN: How to Become a “Senior” Developer
I am a junior developer with approximately 2 years of experience as an IT-developer (consultant) working for 3 different clients. My background is a Ph.D in physics, but I have switched over to mainly Python developing.

I am trying to set up a career / development plan for myself towards becoming a senior developer. With senior, I am referring to a developer with a very attractive CV which will quickly get new projects as soon as the last one is approaching the end.

From my perspective, I assume skills can be divided into a few groups:

"Industrial development"

Focus on getting a better toolbox working with others: Being fluent in tools like GIT, Docker, Testdriven development and so forth

"A more complete toolbox"

Focus on pure Python-skills as well as Python libraries. Decent skills in databases, front-end languages such as React, as well as other tools many developers meet like Spark.

"Better customer focus"

A client want a person that understand their problems, can come up with solutions and make these solutions.

And of course just be better by writing more code.

I am not looking to specialise in any particular direction yet. What should be on my list of technologies or skills to learn for the next year to be able to become a more attractive developer? What are the minimums a solid developer should have in their tool-box to take the next step?

Thanks for any input
Indeed, and people always (rightfully) complain loudly against the outlawing of these tools, and in many cases they have been successful. Yet here it's the opposite for some weird reason.
I don't know that I completely follow on this comment, in particular how code reuse comes into it.

I think the biggest thing is about deciding whether you have one or many.

There are a lot of cases where having many doesn't just mean there is a list to show.

In a lot of cases, having many means you now need to choose "the right one" to show/edit/action whatever.

This brings up all sorts of complications beyond "just return a list instead of a single item".

Even if you don't end up building it out, I think it always a good thought experiment during the design phase to think about how things would behave if there where multiple of key resources, rather than just one.

Would it have implications elsewhere? Are there low cost alterations to the design that can be made now that make space / allow for this key resources to be a list later on? How hard would it these be to do later?

I'm many cases the conclusion might be it isn't worth it and that's the right choice (yagni applied judiciously), but every now and again this might highlight a valuable early stage change that would have cost a lot to make later on.
You're basically looking for people like Stallman, who is a very rare kind of person. He thinks about the principles he would like to advocate for and then he fleshes out how these principles interact and how to deal with tensions or contradictions.

Most people who declare their affinity for a value or policy or position merely do so tactically; they think that there's a short-term relationship between the furthering of some movement and their ability to get closer to what they want. Such people are allies when convenient.
How have I never heard of this? What is it called because this would be a godsend for some industries
> vase in the Met

Source for the curious?
The fediverse (network of activitypub servers, including mastodon) itself doesn't censor anything at all, but if you don't moderate your instance then other instances might decide to stop federating with you to protect their users.
I wholeheartedly subscribe to this. I was never super smart, mildly above-average in both primary, secondary, high school and university too. You could say I always matched the challenge, but not much more.

All the time, there were people around me who were significantly smarter than me, grokking things easily, learning faster, remembering better. Ie my roommate during whole campus was a guy who passed whole high school without the need to study at home, he just remembered it all and did homework just before the classes. there were tons of guys like him. I had to study every day, not too much but consistently. He didn't perform much better than me re grades on university, but he didn't have to work as much.

But here lies the rub - I could easily surpass people like him, even better ones, by just putting in enough time and learn things. In many topics that didn't interest people like him, I was much better. Much smarter folks than me were fired from university since at some point stuff became too hard to just visit seminars and they completely lacked the habit to spent time to learn hard stuff, even by far the smartest guy in whole 120-member class had to put in significant time to learn it for exams to pass.

I kept working on myself, learned various languages (ie right now battling with french), re-discovered topics that forceful learning in high school made me resent (geography, history, biology, physics) and discovered stuff on my own by backpacking around the world (more history and how everything interacted, cultures, food, appreciation of people sometimes vilified back home like Muslims) and just generally stepping far away of my comfort zone for decade and a half, right after finishing university. Now when I look back (and/or meet some of them), I am much more whole and experienced person, when we meet and their kids come and show me some backward place on globe I tell them some stories I've experienced in that region and a bit about their culture and history (don't want to sound condescending, I love them, and my roommate remained my good friend and has very senior management position).

I completed backwardish unknown university and for last decade work among graduates form best European universities. There is very little difference amongst us.

Its truly what IIRC Chaplin said - success is 10% talent and 90% hard work.
Given how common and wide-spread misattribution of code is on GitHub, I'd say there is a strong argument (moral rather than legal--I'm not an IP lawyer and will leave judgements regarding legal liability up to the professionals) that they can be held responsible for this mess exactly because it is such a well-known issue and that rolling out copilot without addressing this (most likely as you suggest by actually spending more resources on vetting projects and tidying up training data) amounts to gross negligence on the part of GitHub since there is good reason to believe this will exasperate this problem significantly.
It gives me warm fuzzy feeling
I think this makes sense from a business perspective. Social media is actually a surprisingly hard business to make money at - look at Twitter. It's only the superscale businesses that make good money - Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok. And the dynamic is that because these businesses are primarily making money through marketing they need to keep a fairly neutral brand in order to retain an advertiser friendly platform. So what's the alternative? The WashPo business model - find a wealthy benefactor who believes in the mission to fund it.

It doesn't necessarily have to be super expensive to run what is essentially a forum, especially if it's not going to hit massive scale. The only problem is that I don't think owning these platforms will give the kind of cultural relevance that these wealthy far-right types are chasing. So at some point they're going to lose interest and then you're back to the business model problem.
> get back to me when someone actually builds one of your fantasy solar power plants at a competitive cost (which will involve multiplying the nameplate capacity by 9).

Hey! I'm already back with proof positive results!

NextEra energy has installed over 45,500Mw of renewable energy and their earnings per share are 1.30. This all happened while the latest nuclear build put the builder into bankruptcy, yo!

They are - get this - the world's largest utility company.

Their future plans do include continuing running existing nuclear plants. But: they have zero plans to build new nuclear. Their plans do include building LOADS of new solar. Can you explain why a for-profit company would be taking this direction if solar is not competitive? You cannot. Solar is getting cheaper and more efficient by the year. It's the smarter choice if you are into making money. Nuclear is the smarter choice if you want to declare bankruptcy.

Lots more where NextEra came from.

> But we need to keep civilization running until then. Sorry.

We are. 1/5 of all the solar installed in the US was installed just last year. Your beloved nuclear is slowing fading into history while solar plants go up everywhere you look. Sorry! Even France knows the deal and will rely far less on nuclear in the coming years.

Didn't you say we were done here? Twice? What happened?
Ah, a plagiarism checker that can understand simple code transformation and find the original source? Sounds like a good idea for patent trolls and I have no idea about how/if copyright laws can be apply in this case. Does copying the idea but not copying the code verbatim constitutes copyright violation?
This is still not YAGNI enough for me. Why introduce a wrapper you don't need?

The thinking behind anti-YAGNI "future proofing" seem to be that it is cheaper to change something now than in the future. But I reject this premise. Inserting `Wrapper($string)` is exactly as much work now as in the future, but it will add additional overhead to all development going forward.

Perhaps the wrapper is even less work to introduce in the future, since you can add it with a simple search-replace, instead of inserting it manually every time you type a string.
Why so much drug use in the United States?
Strange article (about prices).

AFAIK, at least here in Italy, black truffle is actually more around the 600-1000 Euro/kg mark (often less), but they fail to mention how white truffle (which is the best kind) is more in the 3000-5000 Euro/kg range.
Another benefit of having a separate status field is that you can index it easily. You could technically index the timestamps, but it's a lot of busywork for the RDBMS, as the values are all distinct.
I think the problem lies in the impunity, not in the free speech itself. IMHO people should be allowed to say everything but they must accumulate the reputation for saying it.

If someone is a racist bigot, they shouldn't be physically restrained(deleting posts is like physically covering someones' mouth) from being bigots but they should definitely be known for it. Then it's up to the community to decide how to interact with those people. That's how we do it in real life and works pretty well.

Another thing is the amplification: people pretending to be multiple people. This is also an issue, giving wrong impression about the state of the society and must be solved.

Lastly, we need some kind of spread management. We have the problem of BS getting huge traction and the correction getting no traction. Maybe everyone exposed to something should be re-exposed to the theme once there's a new development. For example, when people share someone's photo as a suspect and it turns out that the person in the photo is not the suspect, the platform can say "remember this Tweet? Yeah, there are some doubts about it. Just letting you know". The implementation of it wouldn't need a ministry of truth but an algo to track theme developments.

IMHO if Musk manages to solve these few problems, which I think he can, a free speech social media is possible.
OpenAi Whisper undocumented translation into other languages?
I am doing some research and using Whisper to transcribe audio in spanish, on several of the recordings when someone speaks portuguese by chance in the first 30 seconds and it recognizes the language as portuguese, Whisper continues to transcribe the audio in perfect portuguese even though the original audio is in spanish.

I also tried when transcribing spanish audio selecting portuguese as the transcript language, and it translated to portuguese with almost no errors.

It may be because of the similarity between spanish and portuguese that works so well?, does anyone else care to check this feature in other languages?
Government announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-brings-forward...
> According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "Some, but not all [Black Hebrew Israelites], are outspoken anti-Semites and racists." As of December 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center "lists 144 Black Hebrew Israelite organizations as black separatist hate groups because of their antisemitic and anti-white beliefs". Tom Metzger, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, once remarked to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "They're the black counterparts of us."

Interesting...
Interactive Language: Talking to Robots in Real Time
Enjoyed working on a personal project; Hacked a solution together for watering my plants back at home from a remote location since I was going to travel for over a month.

I used a RPI 0, MQTT protocol for creating a webhook like behaviour, Appsmith to created a web dashboard quickly and Supabase to store my data somewhere in the cloud.

costed me $100 overall, and lesser if you have the generic electronics equipment

Please hit me with any queries you might have if you wish to set this up for yourself. Happy to help :)
BitTorrent (and, to a larger degree, EDonkey) did and still do that. Who tells you that what you're downloading is indeed what you think it is. You can click on a magnet link that claims to download a Debian ISO just to find out later that it's something else entirely. To make matters worse, BitTorrent even uploads to potentially hundreds of other clients while you're still downloading, so while downloading something might not be illegal in your jurisdiction, uploading/distributing most certainly is, and you can get into lots of trouble for uploading (parts of a) copyrighted wortk to hundreds or thousands of other users
Commerce Implements New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor [pdf]
Others have responded at a high level, but I'll describe both a very low level and even higher level answer.

Low level first. CT logs produce a cryptographic "receipt" for the logged item. This receipt is a promise to report the item to anybody who asks within 24 hours. Web browsers, including Chrome, Edge and Safari, want to see the receipt. They may collect some receipts and check the logs did indeed publish these items. So, technically to make your certificate work in those browsers you need to log the certificate and the log you use needs to publish it.

Very high level. Logging and obtaining receipts, then providing the receipt to a browser is extra work. So, if you sell certificates it makes sense to do this work for all your customers by default and just bake the receipts into the data they have. It's extra trouble to build a mechanism to sidestep this, and so there's often no reason to do so.