skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is like saying SARS1 was as bad as a modern pandemic could be... of course it's not.

Of course its not. Meaning "of course it's not like saying <insert false analogy here>".

> but with some bad luck, it could be substantially worse.

Funny how bad operators + most powerful recorded earthquake in Japan's history + tsunami isn't bad luck worth considering because there's always worse luck around the corner.

> that we should be clear-eyed about the actual tail risks while designing them.

We are: the greatest disasters involving nuclear power plants have shown that they are incredibly safe. And yet, the perception is "this is just waiting for bad luck to be so much worse".

Strangely enough when we look at other sources of energy by deaths from normal operation (coal plants) or historical disasters (Banqjao Dam, 26 000 dead from flood, 145 000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless), somehow no one goes "oh you cannot look at those and state something".
The definition is not about conservatism vs liberalism (or progressivism, or some other -ism). It's only about defining conservatism.

Off the top of my head, I couldn't find any examples that contradict it. Maybe you could?

I mean, if your goal is to prove it wrong, why not find at least one example that contradicts it?
> IPFS is an open network. Putting it on there would be like putting it on a public FTP server, which would be way simpler

Not that I agree this is a good idea but IPFS decentralizes storage and provision of the content. A centralized server means the company can still arbitrarily block you.
Did you miss what happened with facebook in the wake of the 2016 election and brexit? They took the blame for all the misinformation that was flying around, being a vehicle for russian troll farms, etc. A lot of that was rightly so, imo, but even if you don’t think they did anything wrong the perception that they did something wrong hurt them financially. You may believe that a company like twitter or fb should act like a dumb pipe - but they’re operating in a capitalist system - they have a huge incentive to avoid things that will hurt them financially. You think they did it because they wanted to swing the election dem, but i don’t believe that for a second. I think they were motivated by wanted to not be seen as swinging the election at all. That means suppressing any sketchy stories.

Personal politics may have made them a little more skeptical of a story sourced from rudy guiliani than one from a sketchy source on the left - but honestly if you’re not deeply skeptical of stories sourced from rudy at this point, I’m sorry to say but you are biased away from truth.

If you want twitter / fb / etc to be dumb pipes you need them to operate outside of market forces. Either by being regulated by gov as a common carrier, privatized by someone with high minded ideals enough to resist banning anyone who criticizes him and doesn’t mind losing money on it, or by being run by some non-governmental foundation. Under capitalist motivations, you’re not going to get a dumb pipe.

So far none of those things are happening. Expect twitter to continue to be not a dumb pipe, not a zone of free speech, just biased in a different way under its new management - less about maximizing $$ and more about protecting its owners interests.
A portion of the NFT resale $$ goes back to Trump. Can Trump avoid campaign finance laws somehow through this?
It's Suspect that adjacent cities have such divergent trends. For example Novato vs San Rafael CA.

Novato: http://publichealth.verily.com/#Novato,%20CA:SARS-CoV-2

San Rafael: http://publichealth.verily.com/#San%20Rafael,%20CA:SARS-CoV-...
Several people at my work refuse to install work software on personal phones so the company bought them yubikeys to use instead.
What kind of book did you put out? Do you feel like it was bloated as a result of going the traditional route?
> For less I was able to find an office space that was closer to my house, owned and operated by a local company, and was larger.

Any tips on that? Currently looking for a place locally and it feels impossible. But this could be due to market size (city of ~200k).
> Lots of ML/AI stuff wants to your sign some sort of license

What's the point of this MIT license, then: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken/blob/main/LICENSE
Here is one example: https://nceo.umn.edu/docs/presentations/nceo-lep-iep-ascdhan...
Well, I'm banned from AdSense (when I was something like 15 y.o I used bots to farm clicks...), everything else in google ecosystem works fine, and they even send me gift cards for ad sense that I can't use.
It has not shifted. In this case both law and moral agree on the same thing.

Elon Musk does not and should not get similar privacy protection as Joe Doe.
(under the law or sane moderation policy by any corporation)
Yes, it’s much more democratic than the status quo in traditional online payment and digital asset systems. Users forked and had the choice to follow the DAO-revert chain. Another hard fork happened recently: PoS. There is still a PoW chain, for the small minority that wants to use it.
What OS are you using where you can get the vendor to implement kernel features to fix obscure driver issues?

I'm sure there's an amount of money you can throw at Microsoft to get something done. I don't know how much it is, but I'm guessing it's more than it would cost to find a vendor to do it for Linux.

The serious answer to " What is the point in having all of the drivers be open sourced and mainlined if we're not willing to fix them to support this?" is "There are many points to this, but one of them is that it's possible to fix them to support it, if someone wants to put in the effort. It's worth something that it's theoretically possible if you really need it, even if no one else has done it yet.".

The answer "You can do it yourself" is meant to help them understand "Anyone can do it, someone needs to step up to the plate. But it's also true that it costs resources. If you're wondering why no one else has done it yet, it's the same reason you haven't done it yet".
Then why haven't they done that already? "Hold your encryption key in escrow" is perfectly feasible without a national ID system.
Literally yesterday I set up Emacs on my new laptop, the Doom Emacs distribution. It took around 10 minutes overall.

The thing that surprises me most is the fact that people don’t want to learn the tools. I get the point that Emacs/Vim ecosystem is difficult to get used to because of well, multiple reasons. But it worths the time because these tools are amazing. You need to invest a couple of hours in Vim, probably some more in Emacs, but it’s just one time investment and then you have an instrument (or two) to rely on.
Show HN: Elevate your routes with OR-Tools, the library trusted by Google
The "rip and replace" costs far exceed maintaining an existing Oracle stack for many businesses.

Nouveau DB projects and tech companies undoubtedly lean towards FOSS options.

The IBM solution is aimed at those maintaining an existing stack.
Designing a Simple DIY Wallet (+ Multitool Card)
It's almost as if the spirit of the people was broken as Germany drifted more and more leftward.
and this article will now be much more higher in Google results for the next person searching :)
I don’t think that many people would complain if shoplifters were forced to return legitimately purchased wares. After all, we fine people for shoplifting. Money is fungible. So the effect is similar.
The high cost of free products: Agones on Kubernetes
This text mentions Agones, which runs on Kubernetes. But this is relevant to Kubernetes itself. I feel there's not enough discussion about how expensive is it really to run and manage your own Kubernetes cluster.
Hello OP here,

Link: https://multistopopt.streamlit.app/

- Recently I found out that Google Maps doesn't automatically reorder points. One has to manually do the optimization. So I decided to use Google's own wonderful optimization library OR-Tools to do this. This seems to work :). Feedback is highly appreciated.

- Along the way, I found that there are paid services that do this. Well here is my humble attempt.

- One of the most surprising things I observed is that you can only place 10 points in GMaps for routing and apparently GMaps work for only up to 25 points (by manipulating the URL). Beyond that, no paths are shown between points. Apparently, there is an open issue [1] for this since 2014 :). For more than 25 points, I have added the functionality of printing the ordered coordinates.

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35824756?pli=1
The previous POTUS was able to leverage Twitter to win the office. While imo, the left and media played a critical role in that by amplifying his messages and starving his primary opponents of any way to compete.

While I think all this attention is exactly what EM wants and would play into his hands if he was a true 4D genius, I don’t think he is. But this is an ideological crusade with big outcomes so it’s hard to figure out what the right path is.
Good point. I've definitely seen follow ups to books that did well that just felt more sloppy. The sequel to Shantaram is a prime example.
I appreciate that they’ve recognized they have choices, and are being supported in the choices they’re making.

It’s not a choice I’ll make (I lived that life without a choice for several decades; I’m good), but I still like that they can.
Wastewater surveillance is a pretty crazy technology. My neighbor works on projects using it for wildlife tracking, and they can get startling amounts of information about what is going on in a given watershed. What (e.g endangered) animals are present, what animals humans are eating, etc. And all the way down to the viral level, obviously.
Surely it would be more of a conflict of interest for the funders if the main subject was maple syrup and not honey? /s
> Earlier, the rise of manufacturing and factory employment helped able-bodied male laborers who had an enthusiasm for physical labor.

I'm sorry, I know it's completely offtopic, but the sentence "laborer who had an enthusiasm for physical labor [in a factory]" completely cracked me up. I guess it's part of deeper enthusiasm for not being unemployed.
I understand why society looks down on price gouging essential items like bread or toilet paper. But for things like GPUs and trucks it is really weird how we refuse to use the normal price discovery mechanisms
>But not constantly grabbing for a phone and staring at a screen... priceless.

And once the spell is broken, you find yourself staring at people stumbling around, tied to their tiny screens.
A SqueakNOS (a Squeak without an operating system but with a few device drivers written in Squeak Smalltalk) can run on SiliconSqueak microprocessor hardware. We are making a <$1 microcontroller, manycore FPGAs and a Wafer Scale Integration[1]. Contact us if you want to help or help fund.

[1] morphle {at} ziggo {dot} nl

[2] https://vimeo.com/731037615
> Would you want someone to have an account tracking your location?

I wouldn't want nazis to be given megaphones, that sort of thing tends to end with blood in the trenches, but he's doing just that by unbanning Stormfront, et al.

If potential harm[1] is why elonjet is banned, that same argument applies to that filth, as well.

[1] A rabbit hole so wide and long, you can drive a traincar through it.
I often close Slack when I need to focus on something. And I'll spend hours of the day with my phone on do-not-disturb

If you're needing to be urgently-reached multiple times a day, there's something seriously wrong at your company. Almost any message should be able to wait a few hours

You mention "tickets piling up", which sounds like it goes beyond Slack. If these are actual tasks piling up faster than you can complete them, that's a whole separate problem with the company and has nothing to do with you or your adhd

If the company does have systemic issues that are making it hard to function on the job, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. Or at least talking about it with your manager
Can't wait for the next government drawn food pyramid.
How TV left 12,000 children needing a doctor
There were a number of systems designed for composers in the 90s (also continuing through to today) designed for the workflow of converting a sound to a spectrogram, doing visual processing on the image, and then re-synthesizing the sound from the altered spectrogram. Many were inspired by Xenakis' UPIC system which was designed around the second half of this workflow: you'd draw the spectrogram with a pen and then synthesize it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC

Edit: my favorite of all these systems was Chris Penrose's HyperUPIC which provided a lot of freedom in configuring how the analysis and synthesis steps worked.
I don't think I've seen a YouTube badge on a README before. I like it!
wow. You won the award of the most stupid comment on this post.
I'm happy to see this. I came out embarrassingly that Germany was spied on by the "ally" US. They already did not trust MS Exchange, probably for good reasons. So they either trust the Swiss (Signal), the Russians (Telegram, prolly not), the ..., or they roll their own, or they use open source. I'm stoked to see they seem (yes: seem) to be doing the latter.

Why do I emphasize "seem". Well there have been several German initiatives for using open source, but non of them stuck very well. Munich's going Linux comes to mind, but there were others. And I'm afraid that this may be another such "attempt", while I hope it this time different as their national security is a at stake.

Telling everyone to communicate with GPG-encrypted emails has shown to be too hard on users, who then simply use one of the many less-secure channels. You have to do something, or you know they --the US mostly (WhatsApp, Twitter, GMail/Chat) -- will listen along with everything.
I prefer making Etoys apps on top of Squeak
Yes, due to quantum physics, the end products of comubstion weigh slightly less than the starting products. But this change is so minisqule that you can basically ignore it.
We can't hold self-defined conservatives/people with no internal consistency to any standards. We can't expect them to feel any perform any introspection, either. That's the core to their whole being.

(Corrected a typo)
One of the big things keeping me from going down this road is the need to carry around a phone for 2FA purposes. Is there anything that can fill that gap?
Not optimized, perhaps, but not unreasonable given the metadata over a nearly-500MB file I would think?
That’s at 98 cents per minute, I suspect at google’s scale they would have massive cost savings.
I had a couple of years stint with windows, and I had a couple of these "evenings" as well. Maybe Mac OS is immune, but windows never was and isn't now.
Maybe they could sell the space at the beginning of each call and run an ad there?
He said he was better than Lincoln and Washington. That's somewhat an insult
The PCI resource allocation code is fairly intricate and everyone is scared that changing it may cause regressions. Sergei's patch set is quite intrusive and it would be necessary to somehow break it up into smaller pieces that are slowly fed into mainline over several release cycles, always watching out for regression reports. So, the problem is known, but the engineers working on PCI code in the kernel are given higher priority stuff to work on by their employers, hence the issue hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.

Actually I forgot to mention there's another solution: A PCIe feature called Flattening Portal Bridge (PCIe Base Spec r6.0 section 6.26). That was introduced with PCIe 5.0. It's more likely that FPB support is added in mainline than the pause/unpause feature. It's supported by recent Thunderbolt chips and it's an official feature of the PCIe standard, so companies will prefer dedicating resources to it rather than some non-standard approach.
> 2. There is pretty extensive rebuttals so the most notable example used in your PDF, including that the car in question didn't even have have FSD purchased and that even if autopiloted was purchased, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have.

I mean the PDF is about a series of cars. I'm guessing you didn't read the 4 pages.

Given that Tesla is not anywhere close to level 5 self driving it's definitely expected for the self driving features to disable themselves prior to a crash as Human intervention was required (this is by definition, a crash occurred).

> A father had the vehicle his child was in attacked. He's upset and afraid of the welfare of his family, and you decide to compare this behavior to that of a dictator? Cool

Penalty should fit the crime. If you jaywalk across the street I shouldn't be able to arrest a random person because of it. Similarly, if somebody attacks a vehicle located away from an airport on a day that a twitter account doesn't post a message you shouldn't claim that twitter account's (lack of) posting is responsible.
Amazon has a lot of problems, but at least you can talk to actual humans who speak fucking english.
This is awesome, hadn't seen it before, thank you!
My opinion of Neumann has varied from total contempt to amazement amd grudging respect at his abilitu at conning vast quantaties of cash from VCs.

Overall though his contribution to massive capital mis-allocation is a huge net negative for my opinion of him.
The CEO of SoftBank Masayoshi Son (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son) also had really bad bets during the dot com bust and lost a tony of money. He got a second chance by betting early on Alibaba.

> As of September 2022, Son ranks 73rd on the Forbes list of The World's Billionaires 2022,[9] despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).[10]
I paid for Synergy, but couldn't get it to work across all of the OSs I use. Synergy provided a refund, which was nice.

Barrier worked fine for my multi-OS use case (Windows, MacOS, various Linux distros).

For some reason, I had to restart Barrier periodically when I was on mesh wifi (by Vilo), but when I switched to a different wifi AP (Starlink's actually) Barrier worked consistently.
> Notes For 'Notes On “Notes”'

Classic rpg.
I have wondered if the reading of Don Quixote serially was a very different experience from reading it as a novel. It was a serial satire, so I could see reading the "new episode" every week being funny. Before I got side-tracked, I was reading it like any other novel and, while any particular episode is set up comedically, Don Quixote's mostly harmless delusional actions being given exponentially more brutal responses I found increasingly depressing.
His former base is largely turning their backs on him, which is a good thing IMHO.
They have to execute at or better than the national best bid and offer so you are getting at or better than the price you'd get if you posted a marketable order to an exchange. I don't see how they are front-running.
Is this more of a teams app (Slack, Teams) or more of a chat app (Whatsapp, Signal, Messenger)?
The Republican party progressive and the Democratic party is incredibly progressive. We do not have anything resembling a regressive party in the USA in any real sense.
Simple stuff. If I need more than basic static HTML, I'll reach for Flask and postgres.
I will tell you honestly, that I believe you are the one letting your smugness cloud your view of reality, not the other commenter (indeed, I read their tone as matter of fact, not smug). No one is obligated to share their mother's personal information in order to prove a point to you. When you say you're presuming good faith and then include a string of insults in the same breathe, it's pretty unconvincing. Were you not entrenched in your position and holding other people's views in contempt, I think these observations would have been obvious to you before you hit "submit".

I hope you'll consider taking a step back and reflecting on whether this is how you want to interact with people and what it is that brought you here.
Ghostwriter was one of my favorite shows as a kid
‘Post-Avatar depression syndrome’
A centralized organization like EA, you mean? That is what parent is pointing out: you don’t own the assets under license.

If you want to see an example of decentralization in the context of a game, look at Dark Forest.

https://www.designboom.com/technology/dark-forest-one-of-a-k...
I highly encourage anyone who feels comfortable enough to not participate in this ruse. When I get asked to please see my receipt, I say "no thank you" and keep walking. I understand it comes from a place of privilege to feel safe in doing that, and I would never want someone who doesn't feel safe to do it, but we've got to put a stop to this idea that a business has any right to "inspect" your goods after a legitimate transaction is completed.
Keyboard shortcuts for all those thing exist in MacOS.
Milk chocolate is more likely to make you heavy.
Well that's depressing.. Honestly NFT's in general feels like the grift that keeps on giving.
First digits of the credit card tells you what card it is and who is the issuer. Detecting privacy.com is just a matter of knowing their ranges.

They also themselves will prevent you from using those cards to break ToS if they can detect it (i.e. multiple sign-ups for known service).
The comment I replied to had already lost any sort of higher ground at:

> stop thinking like a poor person.
My main problem with books and videos getting shorter every year is that the context that provides the insight for wisdom is missing.

Sure you can understand a concept because it is reduced in its most basic form or as understood by AI. But you don't know why it is important.

Even if you re-read the same concept multiple times in a book where it "could've been a blog post", you are training your ability for insight because you constantly enter the flow state while you're focusing.
I've loved your comments in this thread. Very well put
In my personal experience, I never read HN (or other forum) posts on India because the headline style of Indian news media is too obscure. I'm sure it's quite meaningful to Indians, but not to me.
The comment here is addressing that, in this scenario, Wallmart would be able to come to your home and "claw back" physical goods like a table or couch that was paid for legitimately IN THE PAST due to THE LATER theft.
Fire departments and police departments began as private companies; see the history of NYC. They were nationalized to limit the massive corruption associated with private fire departments (i.e., fire departments deliberately setting fire to rivals' customers).

But to the point: a U.S. state can't nationalize a private company. It simply lacks that power. The closest it can get is buying a private company, or creating a public agency or public-private partnership, all of which California has done before.
This title is breaking the HN guideline about titles: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In fact it is doing all three things we ask people not to do: it's editorialized, it's linkbait (sensational/indignant), and it's arguably misleading because it's making a general claim while the linked article is the narration of (one side of) one example—and note that its title never claims to be otherwise. When a HN title is more linkbait, more misleading, and more editorialized than the corresponding title on Reddit, that's probably a bad sign.

More generally, I don't think a $BigCo horror story on Reddit is likely to be much of a basis for a substantive HN discussion. There just isn't enough information—all it will do is evoke people's pre-existing opinions and judgments (not to mention indignation). The comments will be generic and repetitive of previous discussions in the same bucket. This is mostly what we're trying to avoid on HN.

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