skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> No, the point is for code to replace the institutions/people that people trust

Knowing how computing hardware and software works, I wouldn't put more trust in code either - in fact it would be less.
this is what the internet is all about thx :)
Goalposts are racing across your comments. You claim both "freedom is good even if it means exposing users to attacks" (because rest assured if there is an "allow unsafe" button then black hats will find a way to convince your grandma tap it) and "freedom is good but not when it is bad for the user", whatever is more convenient for you at the time.

Apple's freedom is to make their devices as they see fit. User's freedom is to vote with her wallet. Feel free to buy whatever device you like if you want to have the ability to shoot yourself in the foot and get pwned, I like to have it in some circumstances but it's not what I would recommend to all of my non-tech contacts. I appreciate most EU privacy laws but not where it comes close to taking people's choice to voluntarily give up some freedoms for security, it's the opposite of empowering them.

> The vast majority of people have no opinions of whether Android or iOS is more secure.

This is just some random unsubstantiated claim. Apple buys entire billboards in city centers that basically promote privacy. You are saying you know better than their entire marketing department.

Even laypeople pay attention and notice that it's their Android owning friends' bank accounts get hijacked but not iPhone owning friends, etc.

> you can attribute exactly all of that instability to

Whatever you attribute this to, potato, potato, the end result is one has been more stable, more secure, supported for longer, more profitable for indie app developers etc than the other.

So much misinformation
When the mRNA vaccines came out, one of the first things that came to mind was that it would fast-track a whole new class of mRNA based cancer treatment. Without the Covid pandemic, we probably would have been many years away from seeing this happen.
It's not impossible.

I literally gave two examples along with a giant book of where such proof is.

Yes, true stories, that's what I'm asking for. Not fantastic tales inspired from the protocols of the elders of Zion.

Something like the Panama papers or Epstein or the VW emission scandal. There's more examples
too big to ban
For what it's worth, Gumroad actually stopped that program if I recall correctly, similarly with another company called Maybe. It seems like from a management perspective, there's simply not that much work that can be assigned that substantially helps the company at part time levels.
Yes, but crypto didn’t steal billions of dollars. Individual companies did.

A lot of people are still reasonably very excited about Bitcoin and crypto.
But.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQUEq-BilU :)
>"That's what happens when you decide to write your smart contract language in what is basically javascript and your smart contracts are interpreted in a stack based VM."

What was the language and why did running it in a stack based VM lead to this? I'm curious about the intersection of the language and the type of VM it ran in.
I didn't, no.
He had a series 7? Did not know that. But, right, he was a trader with Jane Street, so he had to have a Series 55 and probably the Series 7, which is for brokers.
(Everybody in finance takes the SIE, the "securities industry essentials" exam. That should be required for programmers in finance.)

So he knew what he was supposed to be doing.
So happy this PoS and his crew are getting arrested. May they rot away in prison till they die.
I started reading bout tailnet and still have no clue what it is
> The fusion startups are spending down investors' money with zero possibility of payback (Helion conceivably excepted), because if they did get Q>1, they have no workable way to harness it. ITER will not even try to produce one watt-second of electricity. Its follow-on demo reactor won't start building until 2050, if not further delayed.

You seem to be awfully certain of that. I'm not an expert in this area, but my understanding is that the MIT Arc reactor is planned to use FLiBe as a liquid coolant that absorbs heat/neutrons/etc from the fusion reaction and is pumped into heat exchangers to boil water to run turbines. I mean, maybe there's some details not worked out and maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works, but it seems like a plan to generate electricity to me.

There's no plan to hook ITER up to a thermal plant because it's a research reactor not a power plant, but there's no conceptual reason they couldn't do it. (Not that ITER is a great example; the design is already antiquated before it's even finished.)
Good things often have dubious or downright evil origins (which would never be justifiable a priori).

A relatively recent example: development of cancer chemotherapy began with the incidental finding that the chemical warfare agent nitrogen mustard reduced the white cell count of affected soldiers.

We make progress building on the shoulders of giants, but those giants are often standing in dung.
I'm sure we all expected exactly this to happen in due course, but I for one didn't expect it so soon after SBF went down.
I never understood why Alameda took risky bets when it could just make a bunch of cash off buy/ask spreads assuming trading volume was decent. Running the exchange they can front run any large trades and move the market.
This is interesting because TikTok has the uncanny ability to both do 1 and 2. It brings you content precisely tailored to your interests via the algorithm, and it does so in a fast way (some might say too fast). I guess the general audience wants the same two things except they place even less weight on manual curation.
Yes, but didn't measure it.
I’m sorry, what?
Sony and Apple don't benefit from each other's changes, and neither do users of FreeBSD.

I like that you brought up Android, because the experience in shipping kernels to billions of devices has led to numerous upstream improvements, as well as an ecosystem of devices that support other Linux-based operating systems. Sony and Apple don't enable this by forking FreeBSD.
remember those "experts" who said fusion won't be feasible before second-half of this century?
Another Hacker News thing is the middle-brow dismissal.

It's not really a fair comparison between a centralized product optimized for engagement and a distributed protocol that can be used in lots of different ways. Sure, the world doesn't care about RSS, that's pretty much the easiest strawman to come up with. On the other side though, it's not a foregone conclusion that what the world wants is to be mindlessly entertained by the algorithm of a faceless corporation. At this point TikTok is the new hot, but there is a long history of youth culture rebelling against corporate tastemakers, so it doesn't seem outrageous to assume that the next big thing will involve some measure of curation.
cloudflared
There is an old joke that the US government cancelled the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Texas because it would "cost too much" primarily. Yes, a lot of cap-ex, but it would have also employed an army of Physics and other PhDs (2000+ staff.) The cost was in the single digit billions.

The joke goes that all those PhDs had to find work, and found well-paying jobs on Wall St, created exotic derivatives, and blew up the world. Then we paid hundreds of billions to solve the 2008 financial crisis.
> This whole idea of reparations for things done by previous generations is absurd.

What about confiscated land, taken in the last 100-200 years?

New Zealand is grappling with it and it’s not without friction. However leaving it unaddressed seems completely unrealistic, you just allow the theft and profit at the expense of one race and profit for another?

Here is a recent story on a small part of the grim saga.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/477765/ngati-maru-apology-hig...
Because there's a dumb culture of treating people who left like they're from beyond the grave where you have to divine their intentions like some programming ouija board.

I broke that unspoken rule and got a really intractable problem that held us up for days finally fixed by making a short phone call early in my career and told myself if I was ever causing what we were going through I'd want to make it clear that I'm open to that rule being broken as well.

Apparently even suggesting such a rule should be questioned and to try human solutions to human problems is met with mockery and disdain. Alright, cool.
> Startups love to save the world, but look at the state of the world now—is this what it’s like to be saved? Is the world even a little bit better because of startups like Instagram, Uber, and Peloton? Startups are spaces of remarkable innovation, and they are experts at channeling the multivoicedness of code—just look at the network of voices that GitLab channels (visualized below). But under capitalism, these voices are distorted and constrained, and they cry “growth, growth!” as venture capitalists and founders demand user acquisition, market share, and revenue—in a word, they demand access to capitalist accumulation.

Imagine a world where everyone starts with exactly the same resources and access to identical education. There are no parental differences. Even in this scenario, because of the variability in humans, some will be predisposed to save money while others spend it right away, some will study hard while others spend all day hanging out with friends, some will be natural leaders that organize people and others will be followers.

There is no such thing as equality - none. No two people are equal and no system, even an absolute authoritarian nightmare, can enforce equality. Inequality is natural and expected.

Capitalism is the natural order - it's an emergent phenomenon. People save money, invest it into other good ideas, they get more money, they reinvest it, and on and on. Eventually giant pools of money form to reduce risk, smooth returns, and enable professional investors to act on behalf of less-sophisticated ones. This results in pension funds, sovereign wealth, and a small number of individually rich people.

The best you can do is forcibly take money from people and businesses and redistribute it. The best and fairest way to do this IMO is a straightforwards flat tax, but the tax code always and everywhere results in a Gordian Knot of favored industries, tax breaks, arbitrary taxes to attack some perceived enemy, and on and on.

There will never be a permanent revolution against capitalism, just temporary fits like in Cuba and Russia that eventually die off. Capitalism is a reflection of human wants - the innate desire to own your own stuff. Everything else fans out from the fundamental desire for private property.
Most people who respond to job ads are actively searching for jobs, they usually apply to multiple places simultaneously. If the other places responded quickly then, by the time you responded in a few days, the applicant could be far along the interviewing with several others and might not be considering your vacancy any more or prioritize it after everything else already in the pipeline. If you responded in a few weeks, the applicant might already have taken an offer.
I forgot to add a link to our recent announcement blog post to the project README. I've added that now, and I think it may help explain why we specifically built a service like this on top of Tailscale to take advantage of Magic DNS, automatically authenticated connections, etc. https://tailscale.com/blog/golink/
A lot of people are un-reasonably excited about Bitcoin and crypto, in large part because VC backed companies are pushing the story that there is money to be made there.

A lot of those people will lose their savings and/or their shirts because they are not made aware of the fact that those companies are on the sell side. You can do your utmost best to try to separate that from 'Bitcoin and crypto' but to your average victim that doesn't really mean much.

I've used crypto, I think I understand the main limitations, have mined a single bitcoin back in the day when this was still possible on a GPU, received donations and made donations using bitcoin, in the end I see it is of limited usefulness, mostly related to when people are unbankable for a variety of reasons, but I do not buy the hype.
I've seen this first hand, across datacenter providers. The most common one is some sort of power supply failure that causes the CPUs to under-volt and throttle; the machine won't go down entirely, the clock will just go through the floor. It's common enough we set up alerting to watch for it specifically.
Seems to me like the problem is the pan rate doesn't decrease as you zoom in as you would expect. Panning is fine for me zoomed out, but way too fast zoomed in.
I am of the mindset that non-violent offenders, should not suffer a life penalty regardless of their alleged crime. They played a game and lost, they should not lose their head as well.
James Burke, 1989:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfE8wBReIxw
ANPR: Car Spy Raspberry Pi (2019)
Coindesk says that USDC withdrawals have resumed.
Cutting off the obvious revenue source may be a feature: some people want personal connection, explicitly devoid of commercial interest.

It, of course, limits the medium to, well, social media proper, peers talking among themselves for the enjoyment, not making it a full-time job. It pushes for-profit stars elsewhere.

It of course does not solve the problem of hidden ads ("shilling"), product placement, etc, in more popular feeds.

There is certainly room for strictly non-commercial communication, where the value is in the human connection (talking to friends) or fame (being a local luminary). But certainly it's not going to be a medium fitting for everyone, and for al types of content.
Doubling the number of bits does not double the number of values, but squares it.

2^31 seconds is 68 years, a middling human lifetime.

2^63 seconds is 290 billion years.
The talent + purpose (which drew the talent) was what defined Manhattan. The money came easy when all of the greatest minds in the country were pointing a giant flashing light in one obvious direction.

This is big news but fusion will largely be a product of the people it attracts. The people can do the job attracting money and other talent if it's justified.

I've seen the Canadian gov try to throw money at trying to build a local tech scene and it all went to hucksters, old school finance suits with megacorp resumes, and administrators. While all the tech talent just kept going to SF where the capital was going into high risk ventures... not expensive buildings, events, 'entrepreneur/small business programs', and propping up old school D-round investors. Money is easily wasted even when the pursuit sounds noble and valuable on the surface.
No mention of klogg? It’s a lifesaver when opening huge log files
The biggest takeaway from this is DO NOT BUY domains that are offered with a suspiciously low first-year price, and then can and do get jacked up to some ridiculous price per year ($85, $150, $300, whatever).

the new gTLDs approved by ICANN are the worst.

If you want a reliable domain name that you can trust to not cost more than $12-20 per year, go with something like your local country code, or .net, .org, .com, etc.
The API for virtual tables is tricky, because you don't ever consume the API in Rust: SQLite does it. However, as it is presented the interface is unsafe, I think.

In the sqlite-xsv VTab::open impl for XsvTable [0], you pass a &'vtab XsvTable to XsvCursor. But the means that if open is called again, to create a second cursor, then a `&mut XsvTable` and a `&XsvTable` reference exist at the same time, which is unsafe. Note that sqlite-xsv doesn't actually keep the `&XsvTable`, so it's fine, but it serves as an example where a safety problem could surface.

The same problem also applies to VTabWriteable::update. The fix is to make both of these methods receive an immutable reference and force implementors to use interior mutability. Note this isn't hypothetical, it's actually unsafe, and would appear if you had a unit test that implemented a writable virtual table backed by a rust data structure, and attempted to iterate and update at the same time.

I have an as-yet-unpublished code base that experiments with this. It's not published yet because it doesn't cover everything I want to and I'm trying to avoid publishing something where the API might have to break. My goals are explicitly safety first, performance second. https://github.com/CGamesPlay/sqlite3_ext

[0] https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-xsv/blob/main/src/xsv.rs#L9...
Ask HN: Experience with MacinCloud, Scaleway Other Mac VPS
Anyone have experience using MacinCloud or Scaleway or other MacOS in cloud for development?

I want to do IOS development using React Native. Not a large application. My plan would be to run develop on a linux machine for Android, then rent a mac to build the IOS application.

Hoping to hear from someone who has done something like that. Thanks!
I'm not familiar with what you are referring to, however I would argue that attempted assassination <> losing custodial funds.
Maybe they meant an actual greenhouse, not a greenhouse effect.
Created:
- 100 SEO pages like DoorDash
Used:
- Whalesync
- OpenAI
- Airtable
- Webflow
- Zapier
- Data Fetcher
A couple of the startups that do go links have blog posts on the history:

https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/

https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story
Do we need drinking cups/glasses? (Diogenes, ca. 350BC)

(btw, anigbrowl, in case you haven't already seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942280 )
The other trick is that the simulation speed scales with draw distance, such that once you've zoomed out a full cycle the simulation has gotten exactly 35328x faster, which is the period of the OTCA metapixel.

There's some lovely "engineering diagrams" of the OTCA metapixel on this (sparse) blog: http://otcametapixel.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-does-it-work.h.... It's fun to zoom in on the posted site and identify all the features, like the rule table near the bottom left.

For context, the OTCA metapixel is a large pattern (2048x2048) which is capable of simulating Conway's Game of Life rules (or, indeed, any rule set consisting of neighbour-counting birth/death conditions); it does this by having adjacent pixels coordinate sharing of state (whether they're on or off) and then looking up what to do via a (programmable) lookup table. Based on the current state (on or off), a series of "glider guns" will be conditionally activated, which creates the appearance of a filled center (filled with moving gliders).
>> Are programmers expected to know finance law?

https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/tom-brady-...

I'm surprised that even Football players are being expected to have evaluated the company's legitimacy, which seems unreasonable.
Small correction: hyper-neutrino is a code-golfer and user of Vyxal, but the creator of Vyxal is: https://github.com/Lyxal
You've completely missed my opinion on the matter.

I agree with you and that was my point. Tt was the original poster who thought companies should paint themselves in the worst possible light.

I was supporting another commenter who simply explained why it is that companies paint themselves in the best light.

You need to have read my comments in relation to what I was replying to, rather than in isolation.
The Christmas letter as political manifesto
You have one; it’s called “the internet.”

No one is asking for a universal protocol or language to share cat pics.

Technocrats want to provide the next unicorn that captures attention thereby making a new centralized system.

I use Go, net/http, and oh look, I can share state across the internet.

In physics electromagnetism came together after ditching all the literal knobs and pulleys used prior to get a handle on the behaviors.

IMO computer science needs to do that too; it’s creating tons of jargon as if there’s anything more than electron state in a machine that actually exists.

The simplest option is change laws to require ISPs provide a static IP on request. Then all of jacks goals can be met without over engineering another protocol.
I can sympathize with this attitude with things like a Slack clients, which are designed to run in the background, and which developers probably don’t have much choice over.

But there are plenty of lightweight IDE options. IntelliJ competes to be the most powerful IDE available. That implies using lots of compute resources for productivity gains that might be marginal or not even realized by all devs.
You can just install

https://apps.apple.com/app/id440948110
https://archive.vn/FkrBh
Arrogance, they thought they were smarter than the market.

There are people who make a living playing poker that are not intellectually gifted. Their secret? Do as you say, play boring, safe strategies that will guarantee you will make money in the long run. They might not run up 1000$ to 10000$ very often but they sure do win. However, remove discipline, add intellectual ability and an abundance of overconfidence and you get FTX and Alameda Research.
One of my favorites that I don't see used enough is:

watch -d -n $INT

Watch for delta changes in interval.

I have lots of bad habits on the cli I should correct, now I'm feeling guilty after reading all the comments.
First I’ve heard of your game is via this comment, and as a fan of old Windows 95 / DOS games, this looks great! I’m eager to buy it once I’m able to load up some Steam credits.

I’ve been down your road before, and it sucks, but ultimately it’s why you need to make sure you enjoy doing what you’re doing above all else, with the hopes that others will enjoy it.

Sometimes you just gotta make something because you want it to exist in the world, and because YOU want to be the one to bring it into existence.

Personally, I love that you’re keeping a concept like this alive.

That said, because it’s the internet, I can’t help but add my $0.02 on your marketing efforts.

So, from your brief description of your attempt at Reddit marketing, I can’t help but notice that your game is very much going for the Chip’s Challenge / MS DOS / Windows 95 vibe.

Yet your marketing efforts and description of game length is trying to make a Nintendo Power / Super Mario connection. On a subreddit in which people were upvoting NES cartridges.

I’d say that’s the wrong audience. While there’s plenty of overlap between early PC gamers and early Nintendo gamers, most people tend to focus their nostalgia on one over the other.

You’ve found a cool niche, but I would expect far more resonance with the vintage PC / DOS gaming crowd, and maybe even the Amiga / Atari PC crowd.

But like I said, I’m not any better at this than you, and I also acknowledge that your Reddit story may be just one of many attempts you’ve made at marketing.

I hope you keep at it, and find enjoyment in the process, but don’t be afraid to take breaks, or try something wildly different. Best of luck!
You can have security without the App Store, it isn't a dichotomy. Apple doesn't have the best track record with "security" on the App Store, either, considering multimillion dollar scams flourish on the platform, and the fact that Apple is responsible for distributing a half billion copies of just one type of malware to iOS users via the App Store.

Thankfully, there are more responsible parties and more capable security paradigms than the one Apple forces down users' throats via the App Store, and users should have the choice to use them on the devices they own.

Maybe if Apple actually faced competition when it came to the App Store, they would take the security of users, and not just their profit margins, more seriously and wouldn't let fraud and malware affect hundreds of millions of their own customers.