skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His "save humanity" messaging helped attract talent, something Bezos never learned how to do. But once people get to know Elon, it's clear his idealisms about Mars are manipulations and not sincerely held. He really means Strategic Defense Initiative. Elon is super pro-military technology (a hint is naming his kid after spy planes).

He basically believes his purpose is to build what the US DoD has been asking for for decades.. a space-based defense system, powered by AI to project force across the planet ("for our own good"). People who know him closely are aware. For example Grimes leaked a lot of this.

To be fair, Elon believe he's doing what he's supposed to / what is "right". It's just not the same as what he says to get people to work for him or be his fans. Talented people often won't work on military technology if they know that's what it's for, so he bends the truth.
> once computing became [...] expensive

At what point in time do you think computing became more expensive than it was before? If anything, the cost of computing has been strictly monotonically decreasing since the very first programmable computer.
USA never invaded Saudia Arabia to free its people and spread democracy as they did in Irak, Afghanistan & Co.
Waiting for the law to change doesn't scale. Gotta be an asynchronous call. Just epoll the legislators.
This is from 2015. What happened since then?
> Once a quarter, we had a 3-day event in which the entire next 3 months were planned out,

This is the part I don't understand. What sort of business are you in where you can actually meaningfully predict which will be the most valuable opportunities and ideas that will come your way in the next three months?
Given how many use their powerful computers as if trapped in time with a UNIX V6, working in a green phosphor (or orange) terminal, I am not surprised.
The real question is, did they use hair data to prosecute anyone after 2015?
Not as to doctors: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data...

Nursing (which is a huge industry of course) is the notable exception within medicine. But it’s still subordinate.
Of course that's not a valid defense.
Because a democratically elected government created the lobbying rules. It's the same, somewhat paradoxical, reasoning that allow for governments to systematically put up barriers to voting or to dilute votes through gerrymandering. Since its a elected government, its all good.
Surely you can also understand that selective breeding can also result in bad outcomes?
The title have since been updated to "South Korea Halloween crush kills 120, injures 100 - officials" since they likely got more information now.
Never heard of her until today. RIP.

Having programmed a fair amount in assembly and occasionally in raw machine code, I would estimate at least a 10x productivity increase when an assembler is available. I would not contest if somebody suggested it's more like 100x. A massive milestone in the history of computing, without a doubt.
Behind every no code solution, is a SaaS company making bank off the belief that we don't need code... by writing code.
Ask HN: Will Meta's virtual reality bet succeed?
At the moment, I am skeptical if virtual reality will catch on in general. However, it seems that quite a few companies are working on virtual reality with Meta being the most prominent example. Are there use cases that will lead to mainstream adoption or adoption in some niche at least?
Seoul: At least 146 killed in crowd crush during Halloween festivities
Perhaps I missed it, but I was hoping for currying and application.
>> I was blown away at how effective it was. Once a quarter, we had a 3-day event in which the entire next 3 months were planned out

Yep, you get this, a 13 week PLAN. Just adopting plan-old maligned waterfall can give you a plan lasting years! Unfortunately software development teams are supposed to deliver more than plans.

You can totally do quarterly planning without SAFe, cross-team colaboration can be achieved, and having teams spend time digging into future work is immensly valuable. SAFe leeches from these positives without actually enhancing them, while adding an imense amount of overhead and real costs.
https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/158575518198716416...
s/FBI testimony on hair analysis/FBI hair analysis testimony
Three months!? Is this the stability we expect from companies in our day and age? I would think it's a lost company, one that couldn't somewhat predict what the next three months are going to look like.
If just telling them what you want is all that lobbying entailed, then it wouldn't be an issue. Of course there is more to it than that.
The biggest thing I’ve run into issues with with some new employees is they think previous decisions were dumb. If a new employee approaches it assuming that their new coworkers were smart and made those decisions for a reason, and try to learn why, it works much better than coming at it as “you all did this wrong”. I don’t think that means be as agreeable as possible, but it just means assume good intentions
Indeed. My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.
As do natural gas and other energy systems, as demonstrated in my point that twice as much gas/coal/nuclear generation was turned off during the Texas feeeze.

All generation systems need to be adapted to the weather, Texas energy producers of all kinds decided not to, the blackouts were the result.
Okay so, the chances that someone will suffer as a result of targeted ads is INCREDIBLY small, and yet it's somehow become completely acceptable to use the word "unsafe" as a shorthand for this extremely slim possibility.
> I would suggest most people ignore their equity such as stock

So you're saying... when people make a housing purchase decision... they should ignore the value of their savings?

I'm sorry but that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Stocks are savings, they're investments, they're net worth, and treating them as if their value doesn't factor into your financial decisions is utterly nonsensical.

> But it does not help me to pay attention to prices today or the short term.

It sure does if you need to sell some stocks to finance a purchase today. Because you know when people take money to put a down payment on a mortgage? That comes from savings. And savings should be invested in a diverse set of holdings... that includes stocks.

I can see you're holding stocks for the long-term. That's fine and a valid investment decision. But something might happen where you have to dip into them tomorrow. And I can guarantee you, you're going to suddenly be very concerned about a decrease in the value of your equities. And that's the whole point. They're not made-up funny money. They're value as real as cash.
It's surprising you can live off $4200 / month in Sweden (after tax I presume that's about $2000 / month).

That is below minimum wage in a place like Seattle for example ($14.49 / hour ~ $2,500 / month gross).
If my position is unreasonable, why hasn't the C Standard endorsed garbage collection? Or the C++ Standard? Rust's entire reason for existing is to find a way to make non-gc memory safe.
Yes Jordan Perterson is known to have a similar 'effect' (in a more "moderate" way i'd say).
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Within two weeks I have learnt that bite mark and hair analysis are full of BS. Is there some list of all these shoddy methods?
It doesn't seem that they will take action to prevent failures of a similar general kind occurring again. There should be legislation regarding the quality of forensic analysis of all kinds.
If you or I lie to the court, it is perjury. When it is the FBI, who are granted an additional level of professional authority and trust in their testimony 'because reasons' (even though no testimony should automatically be elevated over other) it's just harmless 'errors made in statements by FBI examiners' as phrased in this article.

Having gone through the system, it's all lies. Let's start with plea agreements. You have to agree in your plea that you were not coerced or threatened into taking your plea, yet everyone know that the prosecutor threatens you with taking the plea or facing an extra 10-30 years as the 'trial tax' (google it) that get's applied if you dare exercise your constitutional right to trial. But the judge, prosecutor, everyone looks the other way and ignores that blatant threat made against you. The judge knows that the prosecutor placing that clause in the plea is being disingenuous, the prosecutor knows they are. If justice is served by a five year sentence in a plea, how is that same justice served and applied fairly when adding 15 years simply for going to trial? Either a crime warrants a 5 year sentence, or a 15 year sentence. But sentencing is based not on your crime, but on the prosecutor and judge being annoyed if you exercise your constitutional rights. There is a reason that plea agreements were considered unconstitutional up until the 60s when the police/judicial state started undermining constitutional rights.

Acceptability of forensic evidence such as lie detector tests is not based on science but on precedence. If a court has accepted it as science before, then it is extremely hard for you to challenge it, even when it was complete garbage like lie detector tests. The current language is 'you can't be convicted solely based on lie detector tests' after a lot of people paid a lot of experts and took a lot of 'trial tax' to try and get lie detectors removed completely.
ZFS doesn't do it as you phase in disks, but once you've replaced all of them you get the extra capacity.
At least the first five chapters of "The Little Schemer" should be read by every developer.
Almost as anachronistic as people using QWERTY consoles.
Lack of activity means lack of activity. Code doesn't evaporate if the API hasn't broken promises like a javascript library does every other week.
It's interesting to see some people are making it work living off these types of projects.

> I created a Patreon back in April of 2019. I felt a bit silly at the time, with thoughts like “who do I think I am” and “what am I even doing” echoing in my head. I still did it though. I was too curious to see what would happen, even though I expected nothing. Amazingly, a couple of people actually signed up!

I'm definitely relating to this experience. Feels hella pretentious and weird to set up donations. Was likewise surprised to actually get people sending me money. I guess the moral of the story is if you build cool things, people are willing to chip in.
If there's room for interpretation, and you say "it absolutely means this very clickbaity interpretation" then yes, you are doing a clickbait, my friend.
What happens externally is not in your control.

What happens internally is entirely in your control.

Your experience of life is entirely internal.

Therefore, your experience of life is entirely in your control.
Working physicians is a trailing indicator. The leading indicator is MD students which have been majority women for years now.
There's an officially-unofficial API for your Tesla: https://www.teslaapi.io/

It's been the de facto Tesla API for 3rd party devs for a number of years now, and Tesla seems to be perfectly fine with it existing.
The UK does the same thing, although they hand out shorter sentences. I'm not excusing anyone, this is absolutely terrible, and Saudi prison is no joke, but it's a bit rich coming from the BBC.
The thread is about private people and groups speaking to one another, that is what my comment pertains to.
What happened when two months in the priorities changed, or when a feature that looked like it might take a turned out to take a month?
I would honestly like to reverse this question...

What sort of business can't look three months ahead?! Seriously, updating business logic rules to catch a trend or adjust for changing external conditions, I understand. But for software development?!
Are you talking about the Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS)? This important system (that Cray worked on) is mostly forgotten, but the book "When Computers Went to Sea" provides good coverage. There's one on exhibit at the Computer History Museum. Apollo did make heavy use of them: the Univac 642B computers from NTDS were used at the ground stations around the world, relaying data to Mission Control.
Open-sourcing the new TypeScript type checker
This could serve your purpose: https://www.goodtheorist.science/ .
OK, now rationalize the ratio of men:women who program as a hobby.
More thorough resource from last week:

Heroku Free Alternatives

https://github.com/Engagespot/heroku-free-alternatives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33300053

(271 points, 134 comments)
A Tic-Tac-Toe Game in the GitHub Readme.md File
Something to consider, as more and more people say things to you, you start to understand the different ways in which people are terrible, which isn't all that bad because nobody is perfect. But then you start to understand the ways in which all people are flawed, that's when you really lose faith in humanity. So words might not hurt, but they offer more and more reasons to disengage, not just from terrible people, but from otherwise "normal, friendly, would-never-commit-a-crime people"
In my experience most tricky bugs aren't isolated, but caused by module A assuming something about module B that isn't true, which makes module C behave strangely.
I've been doing software for 27 years.

Thanks for the advice.

I'll humbly begin studying again how software works.

My fault for thinking that companies that sell the promise of self driving cars and colonizing Mars could solve the problem of making it possible to interoperate with other software products.

I clearly underestimated the challenge and overestimated the abilities of their 10x employees and of their visionaries CEOs.

I wonder how is that even possible that HTTP or e-mail came to be.
Must be some kind of alien technology.
It's on the low-end of average for a software developer salary in Sweden. Sort of thing you'd earn with 5 years of experience.

Cost of living matters a lot when "translating" income.
>I'll let you in on something else that used to be a conspiracy and is now true. They did it on purpose. Between sanctions and tarifs the Chinese economy was being crushed by Trump. They needed a way to reset the world economy.

Who is they? I find it difficult to believe China's government is behind it. They a reversing course on their one child policy because they realize the collapse coming from their low fertility rate. Better yet, they introduced significant incentives in order to fix this rate. Their zerocovid policy is incidentally so crazy because they fear population decline.

Worse yet, this ongoing issue is exacerbating the huge wealth disparity of east-west in china and imminent peasant revolt is likely. China isn't in a spot where they want to do this.

I would certainly see it the other way. the USA was quite involved in the wuhan lab. The USA could certainly have been the 'they' though obviously this whole Meng Wanzhou and Huawei thing in Canada ties together with the winnipeg lab and chinese national sending viruses to wuhan.
I don't know how taxes work in Sweden, but in most countries gifts and donations are taxed at much lower rate than employment income, so I would expect the net income to be way higher than $2k.
A New, Transparent AI Tool May Help Detect Blood Poisoning
> a search engine cannot know the answer to "this is the right link for this software"

You would think keeping a curated list of well-known software projects (and others) would be low-hanging fruit. Instead, it is apparently better to throw money into complicated systems... that can't even catch the most basic form of linkjacking.

> this is a good example of how chicken shit design leads to security vulnerabilities. google probably lets the user post one link and make it lead somewhere else when you click it, as a "UX" feature.

I have always found a bit of subtle arrogance in this kind of thought process. It's like they've never bothered learning the basic functions of the web and how it is meant to work and think they know better than the original creators.
> It is easier for me to picture separation of power or periodic elections as binary concepts than freedom of speech which in its most extreme form might cause severe problems.

There is what you "picture", and then there is what is.

There is also what other people "picture", and then there is what is.

And then there seems to be a sort of phenomenon whereby if enough people "picture" something a certain way, it ~effectively becomes what "is".

Regardless: there is how ~power is described to the population of "democratic" (free, law-based...."all the memes") countries, and then there is what is actually true.

In my experience, the vast majority of people not only believe in, but insist upon not-entirely-true narrative representations of what is going on, as opposed to considering what is actually going on. This phenomenon can easily be seen in others, particularly the members of one's outgroup members, but seeing it in oneself and one's ingroup members is...."not easy".

> However, I think as long as a nation strives for those ideals and consider them when taking decisions, I think it is on the good path to not fall into authoritarianism.

Do you think that "strives for", "those ideals", "consider" are true/false binaries, or spectrums?

Do you consider most Western nations to objectively fall into a non-authoritarian bucket, on an absolute scale? (This one is tricky, it's like the "This is Water" meme about two young fish swimming, and an adult fish swims by and says "How's the water boys?" and they say "Water? What's water?".)
Ask HN: Is there a “jump back” feature in browsers after doing Ctrl-F?
When I’m browsing a long page, if I do a Ctrl-F, it will jump me to some random part in the page, and I don’t know how to get back to where I was

I would like a back button within a page, to go back to my previous location before the “jump”

As I think about it, vim has a notion of this, it’s called the jump list, and you can traverse it [1]

Does such a thing exist? I have the same issue in Mac Preview PDF viewer as well

I’m mostly using Chrome btw

[1] https://medium.com/@kadek/understanding-vims-jump-list-7e1bfc72cdf0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Graphics_Arc... !
Diversification already has lingo for this in the 21st century:

1) Blue sky innovation - most intermittent renewables. They have toxic downsides too.

2) Gray sky innovation - Oil, gas, nuclear, etc fit perfectly here. Much of it is tried and true technology... And yes, it has downsides too

3) No-sky innovation - With space exploration, energy on the moon, mars, spacecraft, etc may be better served with laminar flow rotors using light/lasers... Just another option with diversification.

It looks like stats on 50% of the plastic on the planet have been created after 2006 seem legit, with the trash heaps in the oceans (not to mention plastic breaking down into water system contaminates). Battery technology recycling just looks like another source of toxic groundwater for future generations, since recycling has been gibberish with pretty words thus far.

The reuseable rocket technologies mean that battery technology, nuclear waste, etc can be jettisoned towards the sun after their useful life and that landfills may be a thing of the past.

Know your innovations and how well diversification copes with the farce of "one size fits all". Four seasons still exist in many places.
That's pretty important. When I needed a mortage last year, I wrote a small mortgage app (in Swift). While it's useful if you always need to enter the same set of numbers, a more flexible app would come with all kinds of UX problems: do I make it fast or do I guide the user? Do I try to cram all time based finances in the same interface, or are there different pages? Etc. And all of a sudden, it has become too complex for lay users, and too unwieldy for frequent users. A simple app suits the former, a calculator that only needs a few presses the latter. If everyone has the same device, even better.
practice practice practice. if you're using ffmpeg as a one of project, then you'll never grok it. if you're using ffmpeg as a daily tool doing many things, you'll almost start to think you grok it, but then still learn something new about it. whatever your current need of ffmpeg is right now, it is probably such a small subset of what it can do that you'll forever be amazed at what other people are doing with it.

if you're stuck on something and can't find an answer, keep trying to rephrase your question. i'd put money down that it is highly unlikely you are the first person attempting whatever you are doing, and it is very likely someone else has had issues like you.

sometimes, searching for the exact error message isn't as useful as one would hope, but with enough time you'll start to recognize how/why those errors are what ffmpeg is struggling with but it is actually something related that you need to address.
Often hobbies are at least adjacent to careers in my experience.
Did you experience a permanent shift in body posture, alignment, or chronic tension?
It would be closer to $3000 / month after tax.
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
CT Fletcher was a huge influence on me when I was lifting (I hurt my back and can’t DL or squat anymore, so I just don’t workout), and it went well beyond the gym. When I started trying to break into a real IT role (I was doing POS help desk at the time), I’d wake up every day at 4:30 to watch videos about Linux administration. In three months, I went through about eighty-hours of Linux Academy training (from their intro to Linux course through RHCE, and a chunk of the LFCE). Three months after that, I got my first Jr SysAdmin role.

My point is that if you can take the positive messaging and leave the nonsense behind, it doesn’t really matter whose videos are motivating you. Not in my opinion, anyway. CT’s objectively wrong about almost all of his lifting theories, but he’s right about one thing: it’s still your muthafuckin’ set. He’s amazing, his energy is so inspiring, and I’ve always loved him, even though I think he’s totally wrong about lifting practices (which used to matter a great deal to me).

If some dude talking gets you up and moving, good. Ideally, you’ll move beyond that person and stop helping an asshole get or stay rich (if he’s really a misogynist, he’s an asshole, idk who the guy is to pass judgement, myself), but if he’s helping you get your life together while you need it, do what you gotta do.
Julia packaging scene has the unique advantage that it handles binary dependency (building and versioning) just like a regular Julia package. For example, CUDA.jl will "just work", and you don't need to manually install some specific version of CUDA for TensorFlow etc. which also makes reproducibility more robust. Where in Python the conda.yml doesn't work across OS/architecture, AND often doesn't track binary dependency (despite that's what Conda is designed to do...)
How does DNSSEC help here at all? We're talking about the security of checksums of data on pages. DNSSEC only addresses the name lookup.
Government does:

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/what-we-do/cybersec...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...
Or prejudices.
That just makes DNS the single point of failure. If you own DNS, you can change the checksum and the download all at once.
That is after all how UNIX spread after the UNIX 6th Edition Commentary book, and given how AT&T was forbiden to profit from their research results at Bell Labs.
Germany never went all-in on electricity like e.g. France did, even while building NPPs.

What is now an issue for germany is the move away from domestic or easily replaceable fossil fuels like coal or oil in favour of gas.
Wash your buttload.