skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's being too cynical. Most people simply don't think in terms of integrals over probability density functions.

We organize our understanding into categories and reason about them using propositions that are either true or false.
No, because Afghanistan is not a member of the Council of Europe and has no jurisdiction there.
The screenshots reminded me of Secret Agent (sometimes rebranded as Agent Sam or Secret Agent Man), and indeed Jim Norwood worked on it, too. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Agent_(video_game)
> Those are just two points out of a long list of actions required in a society. I don't think it really adds that much weight to the argument, even though it is true.

I think it does add a lot of weight. Certainly it casts doubt to the idea that you could observe a primitive hunter gatherer society to rule out any kind of cultural bias.

> It would be a problem for upbringing is that is something adults have agency over. It's a bias that may not need to exist.

This is just restating the assumption. Why is that bad? Culture causes an innumerable number of "biases" to exist, not just between different sexes either. Would there be a problem if people living in one state liked country music and in another liked rap? Should such a learned bias be stamped out? How about pizza vs hot dogs?

> A great example of that is when women were highly represented in computer science as it was initially becoming a field of study, but later got pushed out by boys who'd had technical skills nurtured in them when they were young while the girls did not. Oversimplifying that a little bit, but most of us have experienced it or seen it in action.

I've never heard of it before and I'm skeptical it's true, so I don't know how great the example really is. But let's set that aside for a minute and think about it if it was true it's not a case of a learned cultural personal preference by the women, it was that they got "pushed out". That is the problem.

But that's really besides the point here I think. I don't see why you go to a different situation to claim this one is bad. Because we have the actual at hand, which is that women like working with people and men like working with things. I'm asking specifically why that would be bad, not whether there are any aspects of culture and learned behavior that could be bad (certainly there are many examples that can easily be argued are bad, and many others could be argued are good).
> If your share of the hash power doubles, because your total hashes stayed the same but the overall hash power halved, you’ll ‘win’ twice as many blocks.

This is wrong. Each of your hashes (the number of which in a given period is fixed as you admit) either meets the difficulty target or not. If it does, you win a block reward. Otherwise you don't.

The only impact other miners have on this is how often you have to rebuild your candidate block in order to always mine on top of the latest block.

Please just think this through before replying...
My (lack of?) understanding is that early humans and some of our later pre-human ancestors were big insect eaters.

Finding flowers beautiful makes sense, but I was recently in the desert and I found that landscape beautiful. That feels more confusing?
Attacks on power grids are not new or unique to the Russians. While it's definitely a plausible explanation, it's pure speculation without evidence.
Article says it's on the "dark web", but I was able to find the referenced forum post on the regular Web via Google in 5 seconds: https://breached.vc/Thread-Selling-INDIA-RAILWAYS-30-Million...

Incidentally, it's the same forum as the recent Twitter incident. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125843
I wouldn't think it should matter for most people day-to-day.

It's relevant to understanding society-level metrics and knowing what sensible alert settings for them are, but must people don't work with those very much (maybe if you're the sort to evaluate politicians yourself during election season, rather than just voting party line, or if something comes up on a referendum?).
Same. Fastmail has good migration tools for moving your email off gmail. Probably the same for other similar vendors, but I’ve only moved off gmail once.
He mentioned Invidious, which is an alternate frontend to youtube: https://invidious.io/

Basically the same as the search engines he mentioned that rely on google, but he doesn't use google directly.
Assuming the claim is true: How about those in the dataset who are now EU residents? How about EU citizens?
Or maybe grow up & don’t circulate political manifestos at work?
While I understand the argument being made, the fact that the data was apparently split across two machines with a relatively small number of data points (just over 2000) does suggest that the databases were specifically structured for the task at hand. Therefore, the assertion that the data of the whole afghan population is readily accessible seems somewhat exaggerated, and as a member of the CCC, I would have expected a more nuanced approach in communication. I like linus but since he took over as the defacto press officer all the releases get a bit sensationalized.
Google was already discussing the topic a great deal, no? I got the impression Damore's manifesto was written in response to all of Google's gender initiatives.
check revanced, it works just fine with specific version
str.join("raid","forums")
The truth is most people would operate just fine in any environment, including Nazi Germany, justifying it like you just did. It's plain luck that they aren't.

In this specific case it's very easy to morally justify such data collection to yourself, after all your friend was just torn to pieces by an IED placed by partisans, and another one two weeks ago.

Russians are really "good" at this counter-insurgency game, they simply torture, run concentration camps, ethnically cleanse by sending to Siberia. Worked in Chechnya, works now in Ukraine.
I’m old enough to remember when you had a makefile or even better an rpm or deb.

It was so much better than the windows way of running a random program with little visibility, and so sad when so much software changed away from that method.
The action taken by the user is still "buying", the confusion comes from legacy when the industry was pretending that you are not buying a song or movie but a cassette or a disk.

See, back in the they when you purchased something physical like a VHS tape, that was useful mental model because it resembled the purchase of bread or tomatoes.

Then people started finding ways to reproduce the contents of these physical objects for re-sell or distribution without a license and the illusion of purchasing physical songs and movies fell apart.

People would argue that piracy is not stealing because the original still remained in its place.

Today we experience the act of purchasing a movie or a song in much purer form. No more charade trying to make it look like as if you are purchasing avocados, you get exactly what you are paying for: the right to enjoy the media in the medium.

People no longer can pretend that they purchased Die Hard 3 and they own the movie and they can do whatever they want with it. The producer(and those who hold the rights) still own the movie, you just pay to enjoy it in the form you paid for and you can't do anything else with it.

You don't even own the right to watch it the way you want, just because you payed for a ticked and watched in the movie theater doesn't give you the right to watch it on iTunes or Netflix. You pay for each medium.
German law knows no jurisdiction boundary for german citizens. A german that breaks german law but can't be charged in the country were they did it can still be charged in germany. (Weltrechtsprinzip)
The meaning of words changes and evolves over time. :)
The car infrastructure built to provide you that comfort has very big negative externalities to others. Among them:

1/ The massive amount of space dedicated to cars, taken away from pedestrians and cyclists. Cars are the most space-inefficient way of moving people around, if anything they should be the _least_ prioritized in public space allocation.

2/ Streets become hostile places to pedestrians, to children, to communities. Why do children not play outside anymore? No, its not the phones+internet, its the cars. Phones+internet are symptoms. Streets have been made into traffic sewage.

3/ Economics. If you need a 1500kg / 15000$ machine to carry a 70kg adult to a nearby grocery store, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your city planning. Alternatives should be there by default: walking and cycling infra is the solution. Cars were meant to give us freedom, it seems they took it away from us.

4/ Air pollution. EVs will partially solve it and no I am not going to wait for them, many micro particles PM are from tires wear and tear and engine (I dont have full details).

5/ Inclusivity. Cars are only for adults 18+. Children and teens have no mobility freedom. They are hostage to their parents to go from A to B. American suburbs are the most teen boredom place for a reason. Elderly and disabled are also restricted. Cycles are much more inclusive to all these groups. And cycle infra is not only for bicycles: its for mobility chairs, three-wheeld cycles, basically any humans-on-wheels vehicle.

This is not about bicycles, its about civil rights issue. Bicycles just happen to be one of (the preferred, the most visible?) method of traveling at a human scale.
Can confirm.

Born in 1992, haven’t been using social media in like 6-7 years.
Caroline Ellison 'Knew That It Was Wrong,' Implicates Sam Bankman Fried
How could it be reflected in the real world if we're still encumbered by the status quo? That's like pointing to a lack of EVs and saying see, no EVs, people don't want them. (Talking specifically about women in STEM here)
They could do as Apple with iCloud, where your iCloud login can be any email account.
The issue is that with mobile something has to pop up. So browsers need to make the decision

Back in the day we had buttons in inputs, so a user could either click on white to enter the text or click on a button to see a picker/something. Same goes for type-or-choose comboboxes, search-or-choose object picker fields, type-or-calculate numeric fields and so on.

In addition to that, specifically for date fields in inhouse systems I’ve often added a popup button with most obvious starters. E.g. some reports assume days around today and some are mostly month-oriented, so a popup contains “today (<date>)”, “yesterday”, “start/end of week/month/quarter”, some combination of these. And also “+/- <unit>” buttons to quickly adjust a period in case they changed their mind. Users were happy. Good luck choosing a previous quarter and narrowing into it with these modern ui abominations.

It’s not a mobile issue, it’s an issue with stupid decisions around “stupid” users who still don’t get it, as all our occasional tests on eldery show. These ui patterns are designed for someone who never existed irl.

And what’s worse, these uis are not forced to use by those very designers. We could see a great improvement if they were forced to sensibly pick 50 random dates and other fields before collecting their paycheck.
Why are flowers beautiful? For the same reason rainbows, fireworks and a million other things are beautiful: they have symmetry, vivid colors, etc that we evolved to find appealing for our own reasons, selection of mates mostly, healthy fresh food etc. Flowers are beautiful incidentally. That's my guess anyway.
That's a big assumption citizen!
At the very least make "n" "u", so that it's easier to remember it's a user!
> … which therefore included fighting misinformation.

I fail to see how this conclusion is automatic or helpful in action. Educating people and providing best practices is harmed by taking direct action to shut down criticism and debate.
> Would be a better question to ask why does modern OS needs so much RAM.

Because they can.

Resource usage is not a problem from some time.

Crysis (the game) changed the world. It was the first game to run like crap on latest hardware yet it got very positive reviews.

I guess, in the end, people get what they asked for.
That's not the state of the art but a 5 year old miner, there are now miners with 10x the hash rate of the AntMiner S9[0].

[0] https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/bitmain/antminer-s19-x...
In the US, circumventing DRM includes "avoid" and "bypass", so I'd guess it does violate this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 (though I wouldn't call it pirating).
The debate of a toddler frustrated at having a seatbelt put on in a car.
86box is not at all cycle accurate. It's LLE, yes (as opposed to DosBox which is HLE), and the devs try to make the CPU as cycle-correct as possible, but that hardly means that the whole emulator and all devices it emulates are cycle-accurate
Hunter gatherers eat the whole animal. Who’s throwing out skin and feet?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20200...
I usually can find what I look for, but it doesn't download because there are no seeders. For awful hollywood sequel movies there are 1000s of seeders, but when you look for something that isn't or wasn't a blockbuster (or popular anime), you will find it pretty much impossible to actually download it. I use rtorrent on a server and some things only come in after many months; some things simply never do.

The popular stuff will be available anyway; i'm more worried about the fringe stuff which gets removed (from netflix etc) for reasons of woke-ness etc.
Dev Cowboys are the real heroes in HN. My support!
Maybe you can say: if the company wants somebody who just programs, then you are not that kind of person.

If they need somebody who brings in a vision and holistic view then you might be that person they are looking dor
Of course, these were just the devices they managed to buy on (presumably) eBay. There may well be a big pile of them being held by the Afghan equivalent of CCC or some other organisation that isn't publicising it. If you see a mouse in your house it doesn't mean there's one, it means there's loads.
About a decade ago now, I was working on an app called Songbee. It never went anywhere further than some (dirty but not so quick) prototypes [1], but the idea was brilliant I think (for a 16-year-old me).

It was an app modeled after Spotify, but used torrents for the actual music streaming. Those would get hand picked from actual trackers (so they have seeds already) and matched up with metadata.

There would also be a pay-what-you-want subscription that would go directly to the artists you've been listening to. It would be in Zcash, so that artists can choose not to share their donations with the label they're on. Songbee would take a small cut (I was thinking ~30%, nowadays I'd say 10% should be enough) to pay moderators etc.

I got burned out at the time, but nowadays I think it's an idea worth reviving?

[1]: some are open source at https://github.com/Songbee, some are lost forever but that's for the best
Which ideology are you referring to here? I don’t see one in their comment.
This looks very cool. Can it help Rust / C++ interop?
In case of Amazon just stop selling devices or increasing their price will reduce usage and cost.
For both Amazon and Google slowly degrading quality of service will decrease the usage and cost without too much repetitional damage. They can increase advertisement on their respective services, reduce servers capacity leading to higher latencies, cut R&D leaving only maintenance teams.
The advantage of (Neo)vim is that it lets you create a PDE (personalized development environment) [1] where you can customize every little detail to your liking easily [2] and as a result program and navigate at the speed of thought.

It takes some effort and likely 20-30 plugins, but you get to learn a lot and IMO become a better programmer as a (unintended?) side effect. For me it's part of the continuous improvement to understand your tools.

Last but not least it's just so much joy when you can envision a certain feature (e.g. I wanted to have a function header visible in the first line of editor even when the top of the function has scrolled off the screen) and either find a plugin or program it yourself. This is exactly the kind of primal joy that initially made me pursue the career of software engineer.

[1] The concept of PDE is explained in this video: https://youtu.be/QMVIJhC9Veg
[2] Easily is relative. IMO each little customization is quick, but you'll end up customizing hundreds of things over time.
> It's a maxim that guerrilla wars succeed with a lot of external help and supply, if they succeed at all,

Not true. Show me where in "On Guerrilla Warfare" Zedong - an expert on the American and French Revolutions - claims that guerrilla warfare requires external support.

Guerrilla warfare requires the support of the population (pretty much all US IW joint doctrine highlights this).

Economic power facilitates guerrilla warfare, along with the transition to traditional warfare, but it isn't a requirement.

> Washington had to keep British costs high while not losing, he couldn't just sit.

The only thing Washington had to do was survive.
Google and Amazon could just charge subscriptions. paying for email might be a hard pill to swallow, but paying for youtube ad free, drive, docs, photos and everything else.. sounds reasonable.
Amazon already has prime. just require it for alexa.

i don't know how they can add those fees now but it would have been reasonable if they just started that way instead of crossing their fingers Hoping they'd find a way to monetize in the future
You can have air circulation independent of the heating, which has the advantage of keeping the mildew down all year round. In fact that's the norm on newly built buildings in France, you have radiators for heating and an active air circulation system.
> Misinformation is spread on platforms such as Twitter, so it made sense for the government to communicate with Twitter and let them know what it considered to be a good course of action

This part I disagree with, because what is misinformation is unknownable before serious scientific study is done. It just makes the government look untrustworthy if they flip-flop from "masks are pointless" to "masks are essential" and back simply all because these policies were not based on any real science.

Similarly debate of other aspects like COVID origin, vaccine health effects etc was stifled when the real answers were unknown to science, and by steering the conversation in any particular direction before that it's done irreparable harm to the reputation of government, science and tech.
"fair and balanced"
Ask HN: How to get started on IBM z/OS in 2023?
Hi all. I’m a long time HN reader. Today I work in consulting (mainly enterprise architecture). I am quite interested in the meeting world of IBM mainframes / z Series and how they work, especially in the banking sector. Have any of you successfully changed careers into a being a mainframe architect at a more “mature” stage (I’m 38)?

Whilst I like my job, I’m curious about the platform and I’m wondering if it could be an avenue for sustainable, secure and well paid employment (I could be wrong).
I don't think anything you're saying contradicts the article? I don't see anything in the article claiming that the preferences aren't a result of history? So I don't see what merits the "wtf".

In any case, "a result of history" doesn't seem very useful or specific as an explanation. If we're talking about the history of our entire species, then perhaps a more specific explanation is "a result of our evolutionary history". For example, you say "societies raised women to take care" -- maybe as a result of this, women who liked to "take care" were the women who passed on their genes, and therefore modern women have genes that cause them to like "taking care", on average. That could explain this result.

If you're referring to recent history, you'd have to explain why the preference difference seems to hold all across the world, given that different countries have different recent histories. You'd also have to explain the mechanism by which recent history (e.g. past decades where being a secretary was a top female career) is exerting such a large influence on the present.
Wash trading by the 1% of crypto whales.
This isn't what this is, though. This isn't a monthly Netflix subscription, this is "Pay $X for this specific movie and it is yours forever". (Of course, "forever" is only implied/assumed, and negated in the fine print.)

The "funny" thing is that we were sold on the lie that digital goods would be cheaper, because now they don't have to manufacture and ship physical media. Of course, everything still costs the same, or more. This is most striking when looking at books: often the Kindle version will cost roughly the same (or even more!) than the paperback version. Even when it does cost less (and isn't part of some promotion or sale), the difference certainly isn't explained by the cost savings around digital distribution.
A better question would be "why beauty exists at all?". We could theoretically survive without it, we have other systems driving us towards something (dopamine, hunger, etc.)

We tend to assume our brains as perfectly laid machines, but we know our meat computer is anything but perfect. What if it is "interference" from nearby systems? Maybe our sexual attraction subsystem shares some neurons with recognising striking sky colours and we find them beautiful, with no real evolutionary reason.

That would explain why we do or like many things that are not necessarily useful to survive. And this is also my pet theory of consciousness: it is just a side effect caused by our pre-frontal cortex, its effect on memory, creating a sense of past and the ability to simulate future events. Those mechanism resonate together to create what we call "awareness of the self", but it is not something we have evolved directly.
You're being pointlessly pedantic.

It's pretty clear what "terminal" means in this context. Nobody uses the term in the classical mainframe sense, so "emulator" is implied.

And you brought up "multiplexer". It's neat that you use it for clipboard management, but this tool does much more than that.
The problem with Pypi is the transitive dependencies. You may trust a high profile package but it could pull in any number of projects that are exploited by bad actors.
The printing press made it easy to quickly share finished thoughts, boosting science and bringing the industrial revolution. There should be an equal opportunity for progress when we start sharing unfinished thoughts.

What could change our attitude about privacy? We share code, but only good looking code. We share thoughts, but only finished articles and good looking tweets. This inhibits collaboration on the most difficult part of creating ideas.

AI like ChatGPT can become supportive. But why wait for a technical solution if a social solution is possible? What's better than a to-do list which is resolved or made easy because others just happen to have the necessary resources available?
Ask HN: Upskilling as a Data Engineer
What should a data engineer learn as a part of Upskilling in 2022?

New languages like Rust/Ocaml/Nim.. if yes then which?

I don't think learning an ETL tool will be helpful because essentially they are all one and the same.

Any tips?
The article fell short for me. It didn't give a convincing reason for it, especially when the closing statement is "do it sometimes, but be smart about it".

I read it thinking of the hustle culture people who associate cold showers and other performative discomfort to success, and wondered how they would read it.

I seek discomfort when there is a significant payoff, some unique experience that's worth the pain. Risk eating something completely different, taking the slow route somewhere, talking to strangers, taking the road less travelled.

Fortune favours the bold. It's ambivalent about people who take cold showers.