skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some interesting studies on it, but practically ‘it depends’. Mostly water capture infra, bridges, etc. right now I imagine.

We’d want to capture as much of that water though, most likely.
There is other quote

Don't be data-driven, be data-informed
There was another tool mentioned last week in this space: Glow: Render Markdown on the CLI -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33925741

As I mentioned at the time, I normally just use Vim to look at markdown in the terminal - the point of markdown is that it's supposed to be easy to read as text, all the more so with syntax highlighting

On my wishlist for a tool like this is inline images in the terminal for terminal emulators that support it, eg iterm2
Thank you! This means a lot!
It depends. Privilege escalation can allow rootkits to install themselves. To get a really severe exploit you usually need to combine a remote code execution with a privilege escalation. So this would only be one part.

But you never know if somebody already has another zero day exploit in their pocket and waits for such an opportunity. Some bugs are there for years before they are found. This doesn’t mean that nobody found them before. It only means that nobody used them in a way that it got detected.
Not sure if ironic, but this is literally true. Remember Soylent, the food of the SV übermensch?
Yeah.
People aren’t reading random blogs as much as they’re reading social media
Go re read my posts. I think we should not have the federal or state governments.

But we do have them. So using them as a tool, until we can replace them with something better, is fine.

And indeed, most anarchists are just "be a good neighbor, at scale".
One interesting aspect of how many people view urban planning is that a lot of urbanists like to point to the like of Jane Jacobs who (correctly IMO) opposed a lot of centralized planning, especially with respect to roads. At the same time, she favored organic and community-oriented development which I suspect a lot of people today would consider NIMBY and would mostly be opposed to large-scale housing developments. She did live in the West Village after all.
I see, fair enough. I forgot to switch out of pure functional programming/referential transparency mode for this discussion. Fine, you can take NIL to be one particular (NIL . NIL) that's different from all other (NIL . NIL)s, the only particular (NIL . NIL) that is considered a list of length 0 while all other (NIL . NIL)s are lists of length 1.
Did you even read the rest of their comment?
> MIT ensured every month had at least one holiday by inserting one fake Monday holiday in each month without a holiday, as a mental health break.

They also made freshman year courses pass or fail.
Ways to support open-source projects
Heck yeah. I might disagree with my communists friends, but we're closer together than we are far apart.
iD tech was already floundering before the acquisition. I obviously don't fault JC for taking the bag.

Unreal was always far cheaper and way better supported than iD tech. This is something iD got very wrong from the very beginning. iD was "give us 500k, here's a cd rom, and never talk to us again." Epic was considerably less (I forget exactly but I want to say 100k), and was all "ok, here's the email list, here's the news group, here's the IRC channel, and here's some folks you can talk to when you get stuck."

All the Unreal licenses collaborated and helped each other underneath Epic's umbrella. iD licensees had to do again working around iD's hostility/apathy.

There was no comparison in the quality of the toolchains either. Quake's kit did the job, but with a ton of flaky behavior and horrible UX. The BSP code had so many numerical issues level designers were constantly reworking stuff to prevent leaks. Unreal was an absolute dream in comparison.

Cliffy B sending you unsolicited porn pics over IRC was more of a "perk." /s

Source: was contracted on an Unreal port to the Playstation 1 by Infogrames back in the day.

Again, JC is one of my personal heroes, but I think people are reluctant to point out he got a lot of stuff just wrong vs choices others made. His tendency towards contrarian independence is a double edged sword.
Send me 10,000 bitcoins and I'll send you a pizza.
Only if you have admin permissions. If you don’t have them, you need to type in the password of an admin to become root.
Ahh, that's interesting. I have been wondering why their newest product and design was the most (and only) readily available one.
I really like Scheme, though the Common Lisp type system has completely won me over (especially with defstar).
Because I'm an anarchist, that label is both correct and useful?
> Metrics that give insight on whether users are having a good experience can lead revenue metrics significantly.

Oh, yeah. If you are able to discover those metrics, there's a billion-sized market opportunity to apply them. You will certainly be able to get a share of those.

We have some partial proxies, that stop working almost as soon as you start to make decisions based on them, and a huge bunch of snake oil. But the metrics you are looking for do not actually exist.
I've never seen it either but that's irrelevant. The original guy talked about someone blocking a crap project with good results. That's a positive.

So someone responds by assuming it's a negative: "...applaud an underling who usefully twisted the knife". I mean maybe, but quite possibly maybe not. But some people seem wired to find the worst.
A practical issue with YAML: your schema is not documentation
he wrote Seventy Two Virgins (the book having a character who loved money, had a hocked nose and jewish name) in 2004. he continuously wrote racist, sexist and homophobic comments in his articles since.

His relationship with Jennifer Arcuri and public spending implications was out before 2019.

It was all out in the public domain.

It was the media's jobs to ignore this and pretend the main issue was one case where Corbyn liked a photo on facebook that he later claimed he hadn't paid enough attention to and apologised for (Johnson has never apologised or been called on to apologise)
Apples to oranges. Prodbump is not merchant of record.

If you want to compare apples to apples, you should take a look at Getrevin.
Google supports code transparency attestations in app bundles[0], which allows third parties to verify the shipped binaries.

[0]: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/code-transpar...
Like how twitter is run right now
In most cases, yes, but that's not what the parent meant. In managed environments, it's common to not have root login access, and local privilege escalation is sometimes more critical than normal.
SQLite internals: How the most-used database works
Is it the same FT that wrote about poor Sam Bankman-Fried that would not be able to continue his altruism because of some errors?

Keeping stuff at exchanges is a bad idea if you're not actively trading it and accept the risk. I got burned two times (cryptopia and ftx). I still think Binance is safe in terms of assets. People bring up that big part of the assets is in BUSD and BNB coins. But BUSD is issued by another company - Paxos and is fully collateralized.
BNB could be somewhat a problem if it crashed, because it can be used as collateral in futures trading. That could cause liquidations and more selling, but it wouldn't make Binance less solvent in terms of assets/liabilities.
Maybe you should start up your 40 below Android phone company. Enjoy!
Comparing physical goods to technology is not exactly a fair comparison - technology such as operating systems has moved significantly in 20 years in terms of features, performance, security etc. Running a 20+ year old, unsupported OS is a security concern.
How Public Cloud ate private hosting
I never said that just like no one said "oh no my lazy coworkers might get a bigger bonus!". You seem to insist on mischaracterizing what people say. Why?
A simple answer is that being able to abuse workers allows businesses to move faster.
Popular compilers support popular SIMD architectures through “intrinsic” functions. They look and act like regular functions, but they are built in to the compiler and usually compile to a single specific assembly instruction. In the article, _mm_set_epi32 is an intrinsic function that compiles to the instruction of the same name.

This is a sharp contrast to inline assembly for which the compiler has practically zero visibility into. Inline assembly can’t be pipelined with other work by the compiler. And, the compiler has to switch to a super-conservative assumption that the inline assembly might have done god-knows-what behind the compiler’s back.

AFAICT, the last holdouts for hand-written assembly are people working on media codecs. Even AAA game engines use intrinsic functions rarely and assembly nearly never.
Is a rootkit possible with SIP turned on? Seems like that’s what it is designed to prevent.
Tech, and biotech, have one big major difference, namely the FDA and other equivalent regulatory agencies, which have strict standards and approval timelines measured in years. You see this in the differences in their balance sheets and valuations, and biotech is not generally part of the tech conversation from an investment perspective.
Not on iOS or macOS (unless SIP is disabled), no.
Ugh this sounds like specific reddit spaced and I dont think it did end well.

TBH you land in a situation where you have 40 channels in the company you have to follow and it drains so much energy just to be in the loop.

Super hard to focus on anything if you know you can get pinged somewhere and you have to check or reply in timely manner.

Add to that emails and PRs and you spend 2/3 of your work day just enabling other ppl or answering questions.

Soo tiresome.
Right?? It’s absurd how I sometimes wait three seconds for it to switch the pane content after clicking another settings category, downright infuriating.
Every time I use C it feels like working on wiring without popping the breaker.

A LOT of code just shouldn’t be C or C++.
What about remote teams ?
How crazy is it that getting root on your own device is an accomplishment?

We're not living in Commodore 64 days anymore.

The vast majority of people have to be protected from themselves, or they'd all be following online instructions to delete files in Win32 to free up space.

On HN, people know what they're doing, but for some reason complain as if every person on the planet has the same level of technical knowledge they do. They don't. People on HN like to moan about not being able to hack stuff because they think it gives them street cred. It doesn't.

HN: "This product is awful! It has no security!"

Also HN: "This product is awful! Its has security!"
> But other countries may not recognize the right of the US government to create uncopyrighted works.

I think that's not the right way of wording it. [0] says:

> 3.1.7 Does the Government have copyright protection in U.S. Government works in other countries?

> Yes, the copyright exclusion for works of the U.S. Government is not intended to have any impact on protection of these works abroad (S. REP. NO. 473, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 56 (1976)). Therefore, the U.S. Government may obtain protection in other countries depending on the treatment of government works by the national copyright law of the particular country. Copyright is sometimes asserted by U.S. Government agencies outside the United States.

It might be more accurate to say that US law limits the rights of the US federal government to own copyright in its works, but that US law was only intended to apply domestically within the US, not overseas. However, whether it effectively does apply overseas, is not ultimately up to the US, it is up to overseas legal systems – if an overseas legal system wants to make that US law effectively applicable in their country too, that might not be what the US wants, but there is nothing the US can do to stop them, and the US is unlikely to even complain much about it, just because this is not a particularly important issue as far as international relations goes.

I'm not aware of any country (other than the US) whose copyright laws explicitly mention US federal government works. Instead, I think the situation is simply due to this:

a) The majority of countries, their copyright laws just say that any work becomes copyright automatically upon creation, even works created overseas, and they have either no exceptions to that rule, or else no exceptions relevant to this case

b) A minority of countries, have a rule saying that their domestic law will not grant foreign works greater copyright protection than they have in their country of origin. Under such a rule, a US federal government work in the public domain ab initio in the US will also be in the public domain in that country ab initio. (You could interpret this as "the rule of the shorter term" being applied to the case when the term is zero.)

Neither rule was adopted with US federal government works in mind – such works have rather limited economic significance, and as such have never been a major consideration for overseas legislators. It is just how copyright laws, which were adopted for other reasons, happen perchance to apply in this case. Most international copyright treaties permit both approaches, leaving the choice up to each nation's legislators and court system to decide upon.

[0] https://www.cendi.gov/pdf/FAQ_Copyright_30jan18.pdf#page=17
I'm also still verified. But I also pulled out all my assets. I don't believe Binance to be on the brink of bankruptcy, but better safe than sorry.
One trans woman being a scumbag piece of trash

A) Doesn't make her not a woman

B) Doesn't make all trans people scumbags.

I understand the position of the lesbian woman in that story - she is justified in anger, hate and fear, as sad as it is to say.

You're allowed to not be attracted to someone, and trans individuals have to accept that sometimes relationships may not work out as a result of their being trans - it's just a sad but true fact.

> Push down their own beliefs and feelings in case someone who thinks they are the opposite sex reads anything that may be critical of this?

Isn't the quote "facts don't care about your feelings"? All serious modern research points to trans individuals being valid.

> I read your source by the way, it's very one-sided, and mostly irrelevant to the conversation about speech.

You asked how speech leads to harm, I provided an example. I've also uploaded more since then.
When google started releasing stuff like duplex in 2018 etc everyone soiled their pants over privacy etc. They then had to scale it back or shut stuff down

Now everyone seems to have forgotten and wondering "how did google miss this"
Nothing beats this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3NWKbBaaU
If COBOL is still relevant, does that also mean in 5-10 years we have ancient Java 4, dotnet 2.0 and node.js systems that need to be taken care of - or do systems built on COBOL and similar run in a timeless vacuum and there are really not much more like that?
> Every profession develops their own lingo over time.

In this case, Twitter packages up two objectively observable things, people you follow and people who are popular, along with Twitter's own opinion about who the bad-faith actors are. It's that last subjective part that is at issue here. Yet all three are lumped together under the term "rank" [1], and we are told it is the bad actors who are manipulating, not Twitter.

I'm not calling for the demise of Twitter's former leadership, just calling out corporate speak where I see it. YouTube is at least transparent in this respect. They openly say that they "reduce" content [2].

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-t...

[2] https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-four-rs-of-responsib...
They don't claim it, they started building it.

Anyway looking Arab countries is like looking at everything that's wrong with modern world.

Imagine being so rich you can build any kind of city and you choose to build Dubais, Dohas and this line.

You could literally build fascinating Arabian-style fascinating cities that would make a Disney movie look bad...and they decide to create such non sense monsters like palm islands (not practical, doomed to be sunk by raising oceans moreover) or lines in the desert, pointless skyscrapers in places where there's no lack of horizontal space, this ain't Manhattan ffs.
In the United States it is absolutely true. Read up on CAFOs, where cows stand on hills of manure with no plants in sight.

Pigs are truly awful: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

I have zero objections to eating meat, but factory meat is absolutely complicit in industrial suffering.
I'm even more sure it was not written by Larry Niven. I read most of Heinlein twice but read Niven at least 4 times.
Until OpenAI's logs get hacked and leaked ...
If you live in (or near) a city center, you'll live in a large apartment building. If you want a single family house, you move outside the city center. You cannot have an urban city environment, with restaurants, bars, stores and walkable streets if you only have single family buildings with yards there.

There is a place for everything, houses and large buildings.

Otherwise, I agree with the comment above, that such buildings seem impractical, and can be replaced with separate buildings, even higher, with open space in between them (and greens and parks and benches,...), eg: https://goo.gl/maps/TneCupaRNq3SgQYL7 (imagine this, but with undeground parking instead of cars parked on the steet).
> Like in the US, democracy in the United Kingdom is faltering.

This is unfortunately not unique. India too has seen the rise of the right, and its democracy threatened and at a perilous stage. Many other countries have seen the rise of the right too. However, I feel this is a political pattern that can be observed historically and generationally, where the political spectrum switch between extremes of left and right, with brief periods of centrism. This can be observed in the last century too. The hard question is how long will this political effect last before we see it wane. Another question is how much the internet contributed to this and if we can do anything about it without trampling our rights.
I have a friend who is brown, he told me this happened at his work...

Another colleague had made a joke where the punchline was something about my brown friend being detained by cops. So my friend was saying how it was driving him insane how often jokes would centre on scenarios of him being chased by cops or being a thief or whatever. The colleague pulls the "jokes are jokes, there's no hidden meanings or racism at play" Two or three other developers could overhear the conversation. 30mins later the IT guy came in and asked my friend if he'd stolen any GPUs from the office for bitcoin mining.

I feel the key here is... if a person says they're being victimised by something, whether it be racism or something else. We should strive to reduce this kind of hassling.

Imagine if our significant-other was constantly humiliated by work colleagues for being short or fat or some such... I'm sure most people would be upset.
Arbitrary rate means you can set it up so that you don't have to worry about it in practice.

If I served a site where people could check if their passwords leaked I would not worry if one in a million viewers got a false positive.
https://youtu.be/gF_qQYrCcns
Wow who knew they had so many full time employees? To be honest I assumed it was entirely volunteers & people employed at other companies, like the C++ standards committee.
I'm from the Netherlands but I don't like IRMA. I respect what they're trying to do but they're lowering the barrier.

Right now most platforms don't do ID validation because users hate sharing their details. By making it more privacy-safe more platforms will do it because the barrier is lower. I really hate that, I think the internet should remain anonymous. So I can pick whatever nick and even have multiple.
Or huawei or lenovo or xiaomi or... I doubt there is any brand where this affected a large fraction of users, but those are the brands (besides google and samsung) that I have experience with from myself or (grand)parents (who would call me when that happens).
It is not industry specific though. One one side is benefit to consumers and on the other is a bunch of industry spun bs muddying the waters and tricking people into thinking there is a downside for consumers because the manufacturer's want to avoid the downside to themselves. It really is that simple.
Interview with Alan Miller, Atari 2600 programmer
I'm guessing that a robotics company actually has very few analog-competent engineers. It may well have solved the issue if one of them had built an analog circuit. A lot of engineers don't think about operating conditions when they first learn to build circuits, and run them near the edge of their specified tolerances, so moving the component into a "comfortable" range would fix it.

However, if they were working with a COTS component and took some resistors off that, I doubt it was actually the right fix.
The left of the Labour party seem to hate the centrists in the Labour party far more than they hate the Conservatives.
Currency shouldnt be “bought” it should be used. Earned and spent.
> I do not think this is going anywhere.

It is... someone published a paper on this, and will get to keep his/her tenure in this horrible publish-or-perish world of academia.
> The difference is that stock, at its core, represents a claim on a portion of the future profits of a business.

Wow, that's so real, concrete and down-to-earth :-)

> The business is out there building widgets supplying people with a service

Or perhaps not doing these things, but making performative presentations on how its groundbreaking unproven innovation is certain to bring in a lot of money in the future. Or a mix of the former and the latter.

> Most coins are just hollow marketing gimmicks designed to move money around.

One could argue that some, or many, publicly-traded companies - when one considers the listed trade value of their stock - are 10% real business and 90% hollow marketing gimmicks serving as parking space for speculators' money.
I don't think people who say "UK inflation would have been better in the EU" are basing that on "in UK, it was 10.7% and in EU it was 10.1%", but rather on "since Brexit, wealth generated by export has dropped, wealth generated by import has dropped, wealth generated by EU migration workforce has dropped, ... which obviously means that the crisis can only be worse". It does not mean they are right, but even if UK had a smaller inflation than countries still in EU, you can still say that UK would have been better if you see that all indicators show that the cost of life was at the end globally affected negatively by Brexit.

I always think that comparing inflation or national debt to other countries is meaningless. A big national debt used for good investment is way better than a small national debt while the infrastructures fall apart, and the state and cost of the infrastructure can be very different in each country. And for the same level of inflation, the effects would be very different based on the resources and market characteristics of the country and which measures are taken.

(edit: and indeed, if you re-read the text around the quote you've extracted, this is indeed the reasoning: the author does not justify that with a comparison of the inflation rate, but with a list of where the Brexit made things worse)
There is no failure proof storage. But it's easy to be redundant. Host several copies on several different clouds, in addition to a few copies on drive or disc and a few in a safe deposit box or a relative's house. The likelihood of all of them disappearing at once is incredibly slim.