skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to think that free will existed but now I am surprised we even think that.

How about over a longer time period? For example, say you want to pickup a new good habit and get rid of a bad habit. When you start to intentionally make thousands of little choices over time that all add up to a major change in your life, can't you say that you freely chose that path?

Even if each individual impulse along the way maintains a connection to a more materialist/deterministic set of causes, you can still meaningfully talk about your own free will at this higher level of abstraction. What am I missing?
I'm sorry for the ignorance, but why a crypto exchange is expected to keep the money of the customers in case they want to change back their crypto, and it's not like a regular exchange house where you exchange one currency for another currency, and once the transaction was made, they not obligated to exchange back.
Sure, but it's much easier to enter Germany from Ukraine (and currently also Moldova and Belarus, but they have a smaller population), as you won't need a visa and special work-permit, as you would from Russia, Serbia or Turkey, so it's more common to have Ukrainians working in Germany than Russians. EU-citizens have an easier time still, so they make up the lion's share.

The "employer provides accommodation" is common in farming (seasonal work) and some factories, e.g. industrial slaughterhouses are well known for that kind of setup, and for bad conditions.
To a degree. Interop is useful, but you can getby with most of things without it. Long term you will learn interop as it's often times easier to write small piece of code to take java lib, rather than trusting in community wrappers.
At that rate Netflix will have to do some serious selection movies if they want to be ready for the next economic down turn in 10 years or so.
Great product. Once we have more clients, I would totally love to use your product. We find Slack is the best to work with other teams.
Read the source.

It returns a pointer to a chunk of memory of sufficent fore size_t (unsigned, positive whole number of elements) where each of those elements is size_t (unsigned, positive whole number) in size within the limits of your computationally representable chunk of numbers.

No code "knows" squat about the implementation. You can know. You're the programmer, you can read the code. The computer just does. Even if that causes demons to fly out your nose.

Friends don't let friends write code without checking whether it'll cause demons to fly out their nose first. If they ain't your friend though, there's always checking ERRNO.
A Reddit copypasta quote did it for me: your brain is good at keeping you alive, not happy.
Even if you can't use Deno in your project today, it's hard not be excited about the future that Deno is pushing towards (and dragging the Node ecosystem with it).

When ES6 came out but wasn't yet widely supported it became pretty common to add a build step to transpile the backend code to. This brought a whole bunch of issues that transpilation brought with it but was seen as a temporary evil worth the tradeoff because the new language features brought so many productivity improvements, but stuck for so long it became pretty standard. And when TypeScript became popular, it felt like we'll just never get rid of this complexity explosion that build systems bring. And then Deno came.

Just imagine the amount of config files you'll be able to delete once you no longer need to build your backend codebase.
The concept of original sin is garbage.
There was a stretch where phone design went bananas
I think all these failures point to why regulation exists in the traditional financial system. The information imbalance in a free market is sufficiently large that even large actors that "should know better" can be fooled for years.
Great idea! But the problem, now, is on the client side. Readers need RSS. This lets authors publish at their own pace (which we can assume is relatively slowly) and doesn't burden the user with checking for new content manually. Of course, Twitter is a de facto RSS feed for some, and several other services (HN included) serve that role to some extent. But for the personal web, for those readers (and writers) of the web, you need RSS.

The other problem is that a lot of writing is just not very good. Perhaps contraversially, I think that too is a tool problem: I've noticed that good authors take more time with their posts, get more feedback from more people, and even go to the trouble of thanking them in the post - which for very popular authors, like pg for example, is quite effective motivation and reward. But most authoring tools don't particularly encourage this behavior, preferring instead to give the author the least resistance possible to publishing.

So, with either the return of Google Reader or equivalent, or the addition of a great RSS reader in Chrome, plus authoring tools that promote collaboration and revision, the personal web can flourish. Until then we'll have to make do with Twitter, etc for RSS and cobble together our own ad hoc editor networks via awkward emails and/or shared google docs.
Absolutely excellent. Thanks for sharing, I wish I had videos like this when I studied in undergrad.
> So yeah, SBF donated to the dems. We need more regulation to get money out of politics. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking the republican party is immune to this. They are in it. They tend to be more in it.

Fair enough and thanks for the context, but politically connected is politically connected. Can be politically connected to democrats or republicans.
I don't actually remember the title but in the early 90s I was starting on my journey as a self-taught sysadmin, mainly by being the only person at a tech startup that would work for so little money. Before then I was simply a hobbyist.

It eventually became necessary for me to start passing certification exams. As I was studying for the Windows NT 3.51 exam I bogged down in TCP-IP yet again.

Except this time something clicked. I suddenly _understood_ that the subnet mask simply delineated the addresses that were on the local network vs those that were not. It was the single most distinct feeling of illumination and understanding I had ever experienced.

I consider myself fortunate that I was given the opportunity to learn my craft and trade on the job. I have never had a mentor in IT, I have always had to grind it out myself. Remembering that feeling from that one day at the beginning has gotten me through a lot of the other sort of day we all have from time to time.
>The severance amount or any other services provided are irrelevant, because he was implicitly treated poorly by having contract terminated?

Yes, I'm glad you understand that after a months-long period of preparing to uproot his entire life, it is cruel to him to immediately go back on your word.
Confidential Computing 101
From what I'm reading, Ukraine used FTX to facilitate donations to Ukraine. I'm waiting for more details on the claim that Ukraine actually directly funded FTX.
In other funding news- FTX did fund one of the studies that "debunked" Ivermectin as an effective covid treatment. There's definitely a strong political slant to this scandal.
No wonder, at work we noticed all of our Macs collected ad personalization data by default. Even when installing from fresh, there was never a prompt asking whether one consents to ad personalization data being collected or not, it was just enabled by default in system settings

Also we are within the EU, IANAL but to me this seems like an obvious violation of GDPR.
It's not going to be an original take if I say that I absolutely adored the early internet with the personal websites everywhere.

Comparing it with the internet of today it makes me think of the difference between a high street in a small city, full of different shops and cafes vs. a shopping mall, where everything looks the same, is loud, smelly, and obnoxious. (Of course the early internet had a lot of loud, smell, and obnoxious places, but those were much easier to avoid).

I also like the idea of people hosting their own sites. It was IMO much easier to talk about the free speech if you were hosting your own website and didn't have a "connection broker" (Twitter, Facebook) between you and your readers. The whole argument of "it's a private bussines, therefore it can just kick you out" goes out the window (unless you want to go and moles the ISP, but it's easier to argue that they are just an utility provider).
It very much depends on the type of project, the programming language(s), scope and scale.

I tend to focus on things that I'm passionate about and look for reputable and popular open source projects in that area, ie VLC, Audacity, GIMP etc.

This website has several great projects so worth taking a look to see if something catches your eye: https://www.codetriage.com/
It's gonna be super fun for absolutely nobody but the hecklers when he finds out about Lacan.
> Generally speaking: The more independence a technology gives you, the higher its barrier for adoption.

Not at all. No idea where the author got that weird idea from. RSS is nothing like high barrier. IRC neither - list rooms, choose your nick, and chat within 1 minute - no need to even create an account! Everyone who was non-technical was using both of those well before there was anything else.

Ridiculous take.

It's not because those technologies were displaced that they were "high barrier". It's because the newer platforms brought other benefits (and had marketing budgets too, powered by ads).
primo.so (FOSS)
"second largest"? Did they pop out of nowhere? Today is literally the first time I heard of them.
Here you are:

https://youtube.com/shorts/BVjZsLafkz8?feature=share
assuming it's legal to do so, GIL release seems like a reasonable flag to add to possibly-expensive functions like re.()

... or even better, have re. track its own performance and release the GIL if it forecasts that it statistically-might use a lot more computation... a trivial strawman algorithm: if len(input) > MAX then release GIL first.
There is little chance of FSF changing the GPL as long as RMS continues to run it, given his monomaniacal, pathological obsession with software freedom at the expense of literally everything else, including basic human decency.

But he's not going to live forever (thank god) and his successors might try to use GPL4 as a political wedge within the FOSS community. Put in restrictions on project governance and codes of conduct, make a violation unrelated to the software itself terminate the license, something like that. "Ethical source" didn't get anywhere but something backed with the heft of FSF might. (Given how RMS has stacked FSF with loyalists, it's probably more likely that they'd do something to punish "ethical source" than enshrine it. Both are equally corrosive in my view.)

Or it might make FSF even less relevant. We'll see.
It's from 10 years ago but surprisingly explains exactly what the new twitter owner was referring to a day or two ago:

> Rendering even the simplest web page on twitter.com requires the collaboration of dozens of network services speaking many different protocols. For example, in order to render the home page, the application issues requests to the Social Graph Service, Memcached, databases, and many other network services. Each of these speaks a different protocol: Thrift, Memcached, MySQL, and so on. Additionally, many of these services speak to other services — they are both servers and clients. The Social Graph Service, for instance, provides a Thrift interface but consumes from a cluster of MySQL databases.
Successful at what, enabling criminal activity?
This is the correct take, and why American regulators need to address crypto sooner rather than later.
Selection bias? Presumably those higher on the autistic spectrum prefer to hang out less with people.
We’ve already stolen your money, but hopefully as a community we can work through these troubling times together.
Define harmful.
I do actually think it violates the fine print. We agree that the App Store is both part of the operating system (it cannot be deleted) and is an Apple Service. The switch for Device Analytics says the following:

> iPhone Analytics may include details about hardware and operating system specifications, performance statistics

So far, no problem. All of these could be construed to mean the Springboard (homescreen) layer and below. Not apps, even shipping in the OS.

> and data about how you use your devices and applications.

Starting to get concerning. App Store use is clearly "how you use your devices" and is also clearly an application. However, it gets worse...

> This information is used to help Apple improve and develop its products and services.

I believe a reasonable person would interpret this to mean that if the Analytics is disabled, Apple collects no data from you that improves [your phone] and the services you interact with.
Using PDF/a as a Preservation Format
And another one bites that dust. Hopefully this is a sign that the entire crypto craze is collapsing.
> “The media” is mostly just a bunch of 20-40 year olds with liberal arts bachelors degrees, trying to make ends meet and feed their families.

Sounds like the "Yuppie Nuremberg Defense" from Thank You For Smoking, in which a tobacco lobbyist excuses himself by saying he has a mortgage to pay.
um, that's exactly what they do.
The most persuasive argument for Apple as trustworthy on privacy was weak: that because they didn’t monetize data as rapaciously as Google or Meta, there was less incentive for them to spy on users.

But once they introduced new privacy controls, they seemed to suddenly start investing more seriously in their own advertising network. That, and the encryption slight-of-hand with iCloud, makes the cynic’s case for them.

App telemetry, metrics, etc might get handwaved away with a sinister phrase, like “essential for improving user experience.” But placing trust in a company on privacy due to the relative lack of financial incentive seems hopelessly naive.
Sure, without the safeguards. No FDIC. No lessons learned from the history of banking.

I agree it's a banking problem in that they're trying to streamline a new economy by not doing what "legacy banking" does. Which is like streamlining airlines by starting the rule book from scratch. But the rules and regulation of the airlines have been paid for in blood. Discard them at your own peril.

Or, in the case of cryptocurrencies, at the peril of the finances of anyone investing in your experiment.
Animals that change sex: How and why do they do it?
There is such magic in helping a random person. You may never know but a tiny act can have a giant impact. Think about it next time you get angry or dissmissive at a random person at it goes both ways.
Why stop at acronyms? Everyone could add a definition for every word the first time they use it? Or maybe they can assume that since you're reading a webpage you have access to the internet, and could easily look up any words that you don't know.
Who is Matt Mochary?
Samuel Folsom, 102, Who Fought the Japanese Above Guadalcanal, Dies
> Scams put dumb people under the lash of their betters

Continuing this line of thought, isn't the next level of "betters" the people who would readily employ violence to get retribution on those who scammed them? Or even those who would just employ violence to take what they want in general?

I can understand the law of the jungle as-it-currently-is point that boils down to "lol normie rubes fell for advertising", but extrapolating that out into an overarching moral judgement makes no sense unless you're also repudiating the specialization of labor that has led to most of our current prosperity.
Steve Brunton has some amazing videos on Wavelets on his Youtube Channel that are intended to be consumed alongside his book Data Driven Science and Engineering, but I found that they work great as standalone material as well.
Every person who should be aware of CI/CD needs to learn it at some point.
Distributed currency turns out to be too difficult for most people, and a currency that only 5% of the population can use isn't very useful.
Django forms already do that, and because of product requirements around design everyone I know who has used it has found it more of a pain than just doing the forms directly. You're just going to be in the HTML/CSS anyway to make it look right. Only for internal pages, where we didn't have bother with UI design, was it worthwhile.
Terrible headline but very interesting tech.

AI and satelites to generate independant GHG monitoring systems, so you can check on countries you distrust or who don't release any data.

The big reveal seems to be oil and gas production underestimating their contribution, which should have interesting repurcussions.

I submitted the Press Release direct from the website with the data which has more on their methodology here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33587747
New psychology research: your favorite songs reveal your attachment style
Ahhh. We have a plugin repo now and there's a plugin for BigQuery:

https://github.com/marblekirby/budibase-big-query-plugin
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledges to give away most of his wealth
Type Theory and Formal Proof: An Introduction

A ground up walk-through for using dependent types for formal proof. What I liked about this book is that it's presented more as mathematics than as computer science: you can work through the whole thing with pen and paper. It doesn't really have any specific prerequisites, just a general degree of mathematical maturity and exposure to proofs.

After reading this book, I felt capable of understanding how dependent-type-based theorem provers (e.g Coq and Lean) might be implemented.
I've been using VIU for a couple of years and can highly recommend. Good quality acetate frames, decent pricing and good in-store service.

https://shopviu.com/en_int/viu-stores/

My partner previously also used VIU and recently had a good experience with Ace & Tate (who have been recommended already).
Bitcoin’s decline in value is ‘deadly blow’ for El Salvador
Cloudflare Workers scales too well and broke our infrastructure
I think the form "beggars the question", i.e., left the question in poverty, unanswered, is somewhat less misinterpretable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
https://archive.ph/QDCx6
The ‘world’s largest floating wind farm’ produces its first power
And many if not most celebrities happily and frequently turn down jobs to protect their reputations. And that is not only turning down reputable jobs, but jobs for perfectly respectable businesses, because they don't want to sell out. I was literally reading of one yesterday, where George Clooney turned down $35 million for a day’s work on an airline advertisement.

Sure, they can almost always find someone willing to do the advert. But that does not absolve that person of the moral consequenses of doing the work.

>>I would give a pass to any celebrity that was paid to be in advertisements. They are paid to make an appearance and say lines convincingly.

The exact same moral structure can be said about this, even though it is an extreme example:
"I would give a pass to any assassin that was paid to kill the targets. They are paid to accurately deliver lethal doses of bullets or toxins and ensure that the targets end up dead."

Obviously, none of us would consider giving a pass to the assassin because it was a "professional paid job", even if (s)he was doing to feed his/her starving family.

Why should we give a pass to the actors? While different levels and directness of harm, both are taking money to do harm to others.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-clooney-35-million-one...
The t submissions calls him a CEO coach. So I assume one of those life coach, success consulting people that regularly advertise on Youtube? Or on LinkedIn, in case he has a high enough profile?
That's right. Not to mention the transaction fees are so high that moving from a wallet you own to an exchange can cost non-insignificant amount of money.

Add on top of that the general volatility of crypto, people not wanting to deal with maintaining their own wallet, and you have a recipe for people keeping their funds on exchanges.
I second "A Philosophy of Software Design" as a great set of loose principles. Just some really good stuff to keep in mind in a succinct book. Would love for Ousterhout to write some more.
Distributed company, 82 people // 30+ outside the US. SRE team is six folks across Brasil, US, Canada, Europe. Compensation listed in job description, + 6% if outside US to offset US-based benefits. Please mention you saw it posted here and I'll be sure to flag! -Allison
It's unsurprising when you consider the history of Silicon Valley and the Randian philosophy that underpins everything. All problems can be solved by the union of entrepreneurship and technology, and anything that stands in the way of progress is a distraction.

There's an Adam Curtis documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace [0] that I think is relevant. HN (and even at this point broader programmer "culture") is a "fruit of the poison tree" in a sense - the philosophy of individualism and "greed is good" runs deep.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...
That's how they made their money for most of their existence, and how crypto exchanges still do, but not anymore. The NYSE actually makes most of its money now by charging for colocated server space which HFT's use to get super low latency connections to the market.
> "Average federal tax rates for all households

Wait, so you only pay Federal taxes in the US? That's practical if you only cherry pick a part of the data.
Comedians weren't lining up to do college campuses 20 years ago either.
I appreciate that, but that’s not an example. It’s also not a description of embrace/extend/extinguish.
I think the distinction that you may be missing is between software generally licensed under the Apache license and software that is part of the Apache project and governed by the Apache Software Foundation. The latter may choose not to include GPLv3 software in their project, but software outside of the ASF umbrella that's licensed under the Apache license can be combined with GPLv3 software.
As I've noted before on HN the entire concept of people being able to manage their own wallets flies against everything we know about people. People forget stuff, make mistakes, and lose things. The margin of error for a wallet is tiny. It's not rare for crypto forums, twitter, etc to prescribe completely ridiculous processes and systems for securing wallets, backing up seed phrases, etc. There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s.

Plus funds in a wallet require extra steps when you want to trade on an exchange (extra costs via gas, time, possible errors, etc). The use cases for crypto are so minimal for the general population one could argue it's only survived this long through making trades on exchanges - to what essentially amounts to gambling. You can't gamble with funds in a wallet which defeats the entire purpose of crypto for the vast majority of the "users" in the space.
Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
Sam Bankman-Fried donated $40M to the Democratic Party, making him the second-biggest donor of the party.
It wasn't just 'The Morning Call.' It came from the top from the elite, international, consensus making publications like The New York Times and the Washington Post. These are the papers of record that have the resources to still do real journalism. We're harangued by them how 'democracy dies in darkness' every time we click one of their links, and yet they chose to give all these guileless grifters flattering coverage more often than not.