skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Men" can't get pregnant simply because they can't, by definition. The roots of the word "man" are biological, and take precedence over the "person", ie the self-image, because it is the physical form and function that the accepted meaning of the word is rooted in.

The meaning of word is as it is between the people having the dialogue and for the majority of the world today outside the insane circles of the demented West the word "man" whose plural is "men" refers to an adult biologically male human being, ie one born with a penis and scrotum between their legs.

E.g. the word "pants" in the US means trousers whereas in the UK it means underwear, just as "knickers" in the UK means women's underwear, whereas in most of the English speaking world it means "shorts", what is essentially a pair of trousers "shortened" to a point above the knees.

How does pointing out to an intelligent mature adult the meaning of a word is as it is accepted by the parties having the dialogue amount to harrassment?

And why do some "men" and their sympathizers insist on interposing/intruding/imposing their meanings of words in the conversations between parties where those words mean different things, not just between those parties but in the societies they belong to?

I would consider intruding on conversations between others to be presumptious, overbearing and pretty ill-mannered, not just in deed but also in thought.

The word "man" in the English language and all languages around the world refers to an object, a physical object, though be it one capable of moving around on its own volition, namely an adult human male, one born with a penis and scrotum, or designated as a male at birth in the uncommon case of being born with inadequately formed male genitals and maintaining that designation into adulthood.

It does not refer to the feelings or self-image of persons designated "transexual males", nor does it entitle such transexuals and those who sympathize with their feelings to impose new meanings to words in the societies in which they live, or claim harrassment, oppression and persecution if the new meanings they seek for those words are not accepted by their societies.

And please don't bring up the point of "vulnerability". Being unable to accept that the meanings of words is as they are understood by the parties in the discussion is a sign of emotional immaturity, if not outright self-indulgence and an insane sense of entitlement.
Hypercard was the more polished and superior product. However html did several things better than hypercard.

An open and simple file specification. I don't know much about hypercard, was it's file format published?

An open and simple network transport system. html pages could trivially be loaded and linked from anywhere on the network.

The client came with source code and permission to modify it. Very quickly there were several competing implementations. for every operating system.
> Java has great professional opportunities

I think they may improve as well. With GraalVM and fibers Java becomes a far better backend language.

If I had to pick I'd say Go, although I'm holding out on really committing to it myself due to a couple hang-ups I have, particularly with error handling. Rust is a great advancement in language design, and I've done some real work in it, but I've found it costly in terms of development time. Until some of the ecosystem issues Rust has get fixed it will not be a go-to language for work-a-day backend programmers.

Get serious about Python. Python matters.
Designing your life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

How applying the principles of design thinking to our life can help us have a better life.
Yup, open source (https://github.com/electric-sql) + managed replication-as-service. Some of our service code (eg: infra, control plane) is proprietary.

Download size depends on the driver (we support different SQLite drivers for different environments). The web is quite heavy as it loads the SQL.js WASM (as a separate file, it’s not bundled). I want to say ~350-400kb total but I need to check and it depends a bit on how you build/bundle and serve it.

One approach would be to look at the network tab of the browser console when running the web example: https://github.com/electric-sql/examples
I will say this; I've been really disappointed with the journalism coming out about this - especially TechCrunch. There was an article yesterday [1] that read like a high-schooler writing about their favourite popstar getting dumped.

Twitter is a cesspool of bots, ads & angry slacktivists - simply too much noise to be usable (I left months ago). IMO - Musk could actually be a really good thing for it, I've definitely thought about opening an account again.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/eu-schools-elon-twitter-wi...
Create two droplets on for example DigitalOcean and try to create a VPN between them. You’ll learn most by just doing.
No problem with such account being marked as Bot, right?
Does OpenSSH use OpenSSL? I thought they migrated to LibreSSL.
I have said this countless times, and I will say it again - it is just marvelous how Lichess provides so much value being completely free (both libre and gratis).

I would love to see more publicity of Lichess though - and seems like this move will help in that regard.

I don't know for sure, but is there any other chess organization in the world of this scope that is truly non-profit? Sure, FIDE itself is non-profit, but profit-motives of its commercial counterparts and allies are controversial, to say the least.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton [1]. A haunting and disturbing account powerfully told and rendered. Beaton is well known for Hark! A Vagrant, but this is her best work to date.

The Kalevala [2]. I am familiar with the Eddas, the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the Finnish national epos was beautiful and refreshingly different. While I'm sure the English translation pales next to the original, it was nevertheless quite lyrical.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59069071-ducks

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elias-lonnrot/the-kalevala...
> If inflation is caused by people having too much money then it is a self-correcting problem because as prices go up people will no longer have as much money. Soon enough they will not have too much money at all.

The problem is a situation of run-away inflation can arise. This happens because the vast majority of the money supply is created by commercial banks lending activities (not central bank reserves as many seem to believe) - i.e. whenever any commercial bank lends, it creates new money.

When inflation goes up sharply, real interest rates can become sharply negative (as they are presently), and this provides an incentive to borrow money at negative real rates, where you profit by not having to repay as much in the future as you borrowed in real terms. This borrowing/lending activity itself then serves to further increase the money supply, until such time as interest rates are raised sufficiently so as to bring the (expected) real interest rate back into positive territory, thereby removing the profit incentive that drives marginal money creation.
BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library
100% right. I just watched an OJ Simpson trial documentary. From that making the small point being famous brings perception then perception management... Which goes fast to nowhere. Fixing Twitter can't start with loc and the new owner reading code. I can guarantee Gerstner never did that at ibm.
The Subway That Sunk
Journal declares an end to accepting or rejecting papers
I think people like the author go through all this hassle just to post photos of their setup online and get praises from like minded users.
That seems over engineered, over-thinked and downright not practical.
Veering radically off topic, Ken, I recently became aware of the US Navy's transistorized fleet-wide fire-control computers of the early 1960s. Is there anybody restoring those and presenting museum exhibits of their capabilities? They were fielded as replicated networked real-time load-sharing multi-processors in 1965! Why didn't the Apollo program draw on that experience?

Also, speaking of Apollo, Hal Laning made the first-ever actual compiler, in the mid-late-'50s, and a real-time multi-tasking load-shedding OS for Apollo, and was snubbed for the Turing Award every year after right up to his death. I never even encountered his name until I read Sunburst and Luminary.

Why do we ignore the real pioneers?
I've read 80+ fictional books so far (mostly fantasy and sci-fi) and these are my 5-star reads:

* "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree

* "Dreadgod" by Will Wight

* "Tongue Eater" by John Bierce

* "The Umbral Storm" by Alec Hutson

* "Soul Relic" by Samuel Hinton

* "The Weirkey Chronicles" by Sarah Lin

* "The Eldest Throne" by Bernie Anés Paz

* "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers (reread)
You need to tune things a bit, but it’s perfectly doable: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/10/23/1700
Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer – obituary
I'm curious about PyTorch but never really found a problem that it would be useful for.. Any ideas?
YC and PG has probably the best content.

My advice would be not to go or try raise from VCs until you know what you are doing if you can. I would try to build something first then see if can get some user interest, then see angels that would be interested. Once VCs start to get interested then start talking to them. The reason I say this is that raising without having any kind of momentum or previous experience can be really hard but it’s very easy if you have good momentum.

The fundamental is basically that the more formidable company you can build, more easier it is raise funding. If you have no connections, no product, no traction, no experience it might be close to impossible to raise.

1. Raise the amount you need (like you need to hire 5 people and pay for some servers). If you don’t need to raise then you don’t have to. Just hack your project and raise later. Some common amounts (SV/US): pre-seed $500-750k, seed $1-4M. Ideally you sell less than 15% of the company. The valuation is then factor of amount/15% and how much interest you can get. Eg: $3M/0.15 = $20M

2. I don’t think you need financial projections at seed. Smart investors understand those projections are fantasy anyway. Obviously you should have some napkin math and make sure whatever you are doing is feasible with the amount you plan to raise.

3. There are trade offs. Generally the more west you go, more optimistic people are and more willing they are to invest in unproven companies and fields. Silicon Valley investors are generally the best and easiest, but might be hard to break in if you have no connections, have not worked in SV or generally understand how things work. Many SV investors like Sequoia now have Europe offices. Europe investors are a mixed bag. There are some smart ones but most don’t understand this kind of blue sky investing. But if you are from there then you might have better chance because you might have someone you know that can do a warm intro for you.
Related thread from not too long ago, discussing Lichess' operating budget:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955204 ("It takes $420k per year to run Lichess")

https://lichess.org/costs (a spreadsheet)
Nothing you are saying invalidates these studies. It's not especially hard to run into this kind of hate out in the streets either, and if you are running an abortion clinic you pretty much have to deal with it on a daily basis.

While we were talking a conservative man went to Nancy Pelosi's house looking for her and attacked her husband with a hammer. This was just one of the many high-profile incidents that occurred since the attack on the US Capitol.

This is a pattern. It's a culture of hate as I said, just in the United States alone at least 10 million people is fuming with hate, ready to snap on a moment's notice thanks to conservative media riling them up with conspiracy theories.

Things are not okay at all. The United States came close to the brink on January 6, 2021. The conservatives and their idea of a Christian theocracy checks all the marks of fascism, and they are not going to abandon it. History likely won't repeat itself verbatim, but it can sure rhyme, and a lot of people will be worst for it.
It's also worth mentioning that being conservative only on the stack, even when moving, is often good enough. SBCL still works that way, and the space and time overheads are pretty tiny [0].

[0] Fast conservative garbage collection https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/pubs/papers/consrc-oop...
This is nonsense. The tax code is complex to close loopholes that smart money-motivated people find in it. Similarly, programs are complex because they solve complex problems. Of course you can write very simple programs, but they simply don't solve the complex problems. None of this is about gatekeeping anyone, all of this is about what value we actually provide.
I'd start here: https://wesammikhail.com/2022/10/15/due-diligence-advice-for...
Also came across this in an article from BBC ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63414324 ):

"There is a risk of Russia using nuclear weapons. Not against Ukraine, but against the West," said Dmitry Suslov, a member of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. "If a single American missile hits Russian military infrastructure inside Russia, we would make an historic jump towards nuclear Armageddon. According to official Russian nuclear doctrine, Russia would launch a strategic nuclear strike against the US and all Nato countries as soon as we witness the launch of Western missiles against our territory, no matter how they are armed. Then the whole planet will die."
Someone else using it might though.
Correlation or causation though? If it's correlation then higher unemployment is not in and of itself deflationary, it's just that whatever causes higher unemployment also causes reduced inflation. A non-causal link makes more intuitive sense than a direct causal link: as we go from monetary stimulus (having too much money) to monetary contraction (having too little money), demand for labour cools, as does the rate of increases in the price level.
"Convenience" is exactly right and syntactic sugar is underrated.

Just like static typing is a convenience. And dynamic typing is a (different) convenience. And unit tests are a convenience.

The computer runs fine without any of these. And none of them are a magic wand that eliminates all bugs. Instead all of them make debugging easier by reducing the search space, usually eliminating fairly trivial bugs. Which is more useful than it sounds because a lot (the majority?) of bugs are pretty trivial and at the same time hard to find because they are often so trivial that they stare us in the face and we can't see them.

But again, all these things are conveniences for the human programmer, they don't make one iota of a difference for the actual computer running the bits.
You have 6 pins on each row that are supposed to each have their own wire coming from the PSU. If you bend the connector and only 5 pins connect then you expect to get 5/6 of the power the connector can handle.

The adapter has connected all four wires to all six pins. Losing one of the four cables is actually irrelevant because that means less power is going into the pins. What matters is that if you are missing one pin, then all 300 watts (single row) will go through the remaining pins. Power density is now 60 W per pin. Lose another pin and you get 90W per pin over the four remaining pins. This wouldn't happen with a dedicated cable per pin.
Ah yes, the "Russian Troll" conspiracy theory. Gonna get a lot of big mad downvotes for this one because people actually believe this nonsense.

The public has been able to be swayed by media for a very long time. The CIA in particular has been deeply involved in it [0]. For some reason this was deemed okay, or at the very least acceptable, by the public. The only difference between the CIA controlled media cited and social media is the lack of US government control.

I do appreciate the irony here. That every other election was so-called "free and fair" yet an absolute wildcard gets in for 2016 and the deepest level of coping by every agency in the union was witnessed. I am not a fan of Trump, but if elections are truly "free and fair" then 2016 was legitimate. If 2016 wasn't legitimate, then why would anyone have any reason to believe 2020 was legitimate? I'm not intending to start a conspiracy theory fight here - but rather raise the question that is trying to be asked. If "foreign actors" elected a president in 2016, then whose to say they didn't in 2020? Or 2008? Or 2004? Who can you believe? I'd argue you couldn't believe any agency who might have an interest in having you believe otherwise. Maybe our elections are actually selections and in 2016 the powers that be lost the information war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinio...
The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS openssh-server package seems to depend on libss3 which is built from OpenSSL:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/openssh-server -> https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/libssl3 -> https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jammy/openssl

Apparently there are some problems with LibreSSL on Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/

(Also, do we know that LibreSSL is unaffected?)
PDP-11 long ints were mixed- endian: high 16 bits, then low 16 bits. But within each half, the low 8 bits, then upper 8 bits. I was sometimes called the "NUXI" format, for how it scrambled the bytes in "UNIX".
You're still attempting to take my comments to the extreme instead of making a substantial reply on any of my points (unfortunately).

In addition, whether a certain moderation approach would "drive away people" is a strawman. This is not the question.
Indeed, many think of GC languages as if GC was the only way to allocate memory.

Java is one of the languages to blame for such misunderstanding, many other languages, even Lisp variants like Interlisp and Common Lisp, provide all the tooling to manage resources like one would do in C and co languages.

Having a GC doesn't preclude those other features.

On D's case, we have the problem that language designers are against moving the GC forward, as they refuse to introduce managed pointers alongside untraced pointers.

So even optimizations that Mesa/Cedar, Modula-3 and Active Oberon were capable of before D came to be, aren't possible in D with its current language design.
Another slant, considering the (is this true btw) the rumor he asked engineers to print the last 30 days of code they submitted: he’s signaling “hey if you’re lazy, I’m going to fire you, so go ahead and leave on your own”. Which might just work.
I went on a kick of reading "competency porn" (think Project Hail Mary/The Martian but not necessarily solving engineering problems). On top of PHM, I read Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City (great dark satire despite the shit ending) and The Goblin Emperor (more on the social engineering side of things, so better characterization than something like The Martian)
WireGuard in FreeBSD
I'll go against a few fellow commenters by saying that I wouldn't recommend an accelerator if you just want to educate yourself about fundraising. You might end up wasting a few months going through their programs, with not much to gain. You're way better off connecting with a founder in your domain who's been through it and asking for advice/mentorship.
Bi-directional links are a non-starter from the perspective of having an autonomous distributed system.

Think about it this way, would you be happy if any random scammer could place links into your web page, well, with bidirectional links, now they can.
The bankers aren’t naive, they modeled this out. Sure it could go bad and I wonder if Elon PG’ed (personal guarantee) the debt, but you don’t underwrite your a default out of the gate. It’s one of the worst faux pas of debt capital markets.
If you have a Quest 2 you're not using, feel free to send it my way!
Code, 2nd edition, by Charles Petzold.
Anthony Trollope - The Warden. Trollope presents us, realistically and convincingly, a decisive figure of modernity: the sincere idealist who, in the pursuit of illusory abstractions, (un)consciously destroys people, undermines communities with tradition and worsens the situation even for those whom he tries to help.
H3 case looks good to me.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-case-type-2/
He also wrote Your Code as a Crime Scene and authored the open source tool, Code Maat. I've found both extremely useful in my current job where I took over a code base with immense technical debt. AFIK, Code Scene is a commercial version of Code Maat.

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat
This is what karma-driven social media drives people to do. Stage (in pictures) something cool for likes/upvotes/thumbs up.

It looks impractical, but the pictures, colours and immaculate arrangement of the desks drive us to click the red heart button. OP feels good, the reward system is strengthened.

One thing is certain, none of those setup look used. They don't look like the desk of someone that has just finished designing or creating something very hard for the past few hours.
GC is a quite rich area of research.

I've implemented novel GC algorithms in firmware. There are some algorithms that are just more compact when GC is available. Algorithms and heuristics that are graph heavy or require pruning nodes with possible cyclic references are just more elegant and code space efficient with GC. However, firmware is highly resource and timing constrained, which means that the GC is specialized.
I always discuss about SLAs when arguing about language X vs Y.

Even if language X loses in microbencharks against language Y, if the application written in X is still within the project delivery SLA for acceptance testing, who cares about the microbencharks.
I brought back my habit of reading this year. New rule, no internet and youtube right before sleep, read instead. I fall asleep sooner and much better.

And I finally read Dune, probably the best book of this year, surprisingly good, I like the writing style.
The covenants on a low leverage transaction are likely highly limited: a)make interest payments, b) make principal payments, c) don’t make illegal dividends, d) don’t cross certain covenants such as EV/EBITDA, fixed charge coverage ratio, or similar, and e) get an audit every year and submit financials to the banks every 90 days.

Not exactly onerous since they were a public company before.
There has not been any detectable simplicity in anything called RISC in decades. Even things that seem simple looked at from outside are fiendishly fiddly when you look closer.
I would rather say it's money throughput, not velocity.

Higher interest rates also lead to less borrowing which reduces the volume of available money. Together with the reduced velocity, this leads to an overall reduced throughput.

That said, why is money velocity, or throughput, reduced when inflation itself is a self-correcting problem?
What’s wrong with ipfs in Golang: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo

IPFS runs on Golang. This implementation is not going to change anything.
If you cap prices for a given company or product, you prevent that company (or producers of that product) from competing effectively for the inputs to that product in the broader market place (bear in mind things like labour and energy are relatively interchangeable between companies), that can ultimately mean that the company can no longer produce anything at all (if the cost of their inputs rise above their sale price cap).

The only way to make a price cap work is to set all prices in the economy, which as you observe, is not possible. The much more practical solution to maintaining a stable general price level is to adequately control the quantity of money that exists.