skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The endgame for any living being is maximize return for as minimal effort.

I’m a cynical person but this is way beyond what I think. You don’t have to go far to see counter examples where someone has done something pretty great for which they get little return but spent a lot of effort. Skimming the front page on HN today has some examples.

The examples I found: the WLED link, the large format camera blog post and the thing about Tolkien.
We already have footnotes for information that is not intended be shown by default.
So, two years after the Snowden revelations, someone’s surprised the US govt uses planes for mass surveillance. And the «secret» program turned out not to be even classified. This is not really a story.
If you release of a cover (ie a performance) of a song someone else wrote you own the copyright on the recording of that performance and are entitled to compensation for use of that recording.

There's not real any intrinsic difference between a recorded performance of a song someone else wrote and recorded narration of a book someone else wrote. The audiobook recording has its own copyright, which can be owned by the narrator. It's usually not though, being recorded for hire with the narrator ceding all rights.
You're entirely right of course, the vault data as accessed in the breach need not necessarily be in the same format as what is transmitted to the client.

And yes, the whole repository is from 2018, but I checked again today and it seems only 3 additional fields were added. In particular the same fields are unencrypted as before.
There are a few US states with medically assisted suicide options.

>My problem with euthanasia is how do you know if the patient actually wanted it, or if they were pressured into it by medical personnel in order to cut costs?

It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure.

>In the USA, we don't have a public health care system,

What is Medicare? Medicaid? Who pays the hospital when someone with no means to pay walks in and EMTALA requires them to receive healthcare?
Ask HN: How to make a simple business website?
A plumber friend has asked me how to make a basic website for people to see on Google search results, which as a SWE of >10 years lands right in the middle of "Things it sounds like I should know" and "Things I don't know". I'm just not sure which DIY tool to recommend.

I can look into this, but figured you all would know best. What should we use?

Thanks!
https://archive.ph/runDV
Ah, the old Schienflug shuffle... I rarely ever corrected perspective distortion even though I took a lot of pictures of buildings. I can only think of a handful of times I changed the focus plane and some of those were for a tabletop assignment at school. What I used a lot of was the shift, rise, and fall. Of course the only reason those were so useful is because the camera was such a pain in the ass to move around to reframe. Oh, and make sure you aren't using some fancy telephoto lens with its focal point out in front if you want to do front movements! They tend to have pretty small coverage so the amount of movements would be limited in any case I suppose.

Now that architecture and tabletop photography are no longer dominated by large format I'm not sure how much sense it makes to spend extra money for more movements on your camera. The most common uses for LF photography these days are landscape and portraiture. Landscape photos will need, at most, fairly modest movements and portraits not at all. Most LF photographers these days would be fine with a graflex or other type of more or less a box with a lens camera.

Of course if you really do want to go nuts with movements, monorail cameras have never been cheaper!
Tesla has already dropped 24% since we last talked ;)
Hey unrelated to current thread but just wanted to reach out, I'm very excited about your slowsocial project and so are some of my friends on twitter. 29 people have friended me so far after posting about it. Hope all is going well and that the project is still under development. Would be happy to help in any way that I can.

https://twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/status/1606329084019179521?...
Well, you could go buy and read Fundamentals of Semiconductor Fabrication (I did). This should give you understanding comparable to reading The C Programming Language. Yes, it is shallower understanding than what you would get by writing a C compiler yourself or working at TSMC, but it definitely is still understanding.
How do MJIT and YJIT differ?
All other things being equal (including quality), high school is actually better than college at doing the "comprehensive education" thing. College level gen-eds are almost universally reviled as a pointless box-ticking exercise that gets in the way of specialized education. This particular dysfunction has effects even further out; U.S. college education pushes things out to the grad school level that are elsewhere part of the later years of undergrad.
> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do.

It's trivially easy to think of counterexamples to this statement.
I would rather shoot myself or jump off a bridge than have some bored nurse kill me in the cleanest, most cost-efficient way possible.
>on top of a Wayland emulation layer

As per release notes, for time being it uses X11 layer instead for features and performance.
> Whether you believe a person has a "right" to choose to die or not, people are fully capable of making the choice, and whether you believe they have to right to or not, people are going to do it.

It's one thing to be able to do something, it's another thing to inform the person of the ability to do something and put pressure on them like this (a real conversion in Canada between a patient and hospital administrator):

> “Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”

And also jumping off buildings or in front of cars is a relatively uncommon way of committing suicide
Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–Ca. 1883)
I was recently sent a message that I was going to be unsubscribed from a list because they thought I hadn't opened my emails. I did read the emails but just don't allow tracking pixels.

At first I thought it was nice of them to unsubscribe me, but then I realized that they are probably doing it because keeping me on their list makes their stats worse since I don't allow them to track me.
Thank you so much!

Yet more evidence of the HN community's friendly helpfulness.
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Because looking back at the decades of your work while being retired is just a sweet ethical exercise with very few direct personal and financial consequences.

If you are an engineer employing dark UX patterns _today_ you must look at yourself and evaluate the ethics of your work _today_. This will likely have direct personal and financial consequences.

So the stakes are completely different.
Everyone has the Ape right do kill themselves at any time.
But you should really do it yourself. If we were more virtuous, there would be little need for these laws- or rather, those who need a man in a coat to tell them they're allowed to die are emotional children.
Look I'm not going to bat for NeXTSTEP as a user nirvana, but at the time Apple bought it it was hugely advanced compared to BeOS, which still had not reached R3. A few things that NeXT could do that Be could not do at the time: run on an Intel PC, burn CD-Rs, and print.

BeOS R4–the first revision that did useful things users actually wanted–came out two years after Apple agreed to acquire NeXT. The current BeOS at the moment was "DR8" as in "developer release".
> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do.

Well this was poorly thought through. I guess I’ll never need to tell the truth under oath, hand over alimony checks, wear clothes, avoid being drunk on the street at noon…
You can't rely on one tool, different ones catch different things. No one tool is best.

I usually use "-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic", the GCC static analyser "-fanalyzer", cppcheck, and Clang scan-build.

That's good enough for my personal projects.

I have a couple of blog posts about this:

https://superjamie.github.io/2022/05/24/c-static-analysis-to...

https://superjamie.github.io/2022/11/04/c-static-analysis-to...
As others have said, this is for a hired engineer role, not a CTO. Maybe they hope to grow you into that role, maybe not - those skills are very different than being a builder! CTO or first engineering hire should be 1-8% depending on your contributions and when you join.

Honestly, I wouldn't bother with the equity. They want you to write code - think of it like a job - you are not a co-founder.
Well switching to a new architecture is still probably extremely expensive which would permanently shift price/performance in favor of ARM unless RISC actually provides something unique.

Freedom from licensing etc. shouldn't be a problem for Apple unless maybe if they want to sell their chips to 3rd parties which doesn't seem too likely.
the entire pretending they need money thing is a psyop to try to make it seem like they are independent and unbiased when in reality they just parrot whatever the MIC shits out in propaganda rags which they refer to as “reliable sources”
Ask HN: List 3 companies doing Web3; new companies
I Built an AI Language Speaking Tool Using GPT3 and Whisper
Hey Everyone!

I wanted to introduce my new app, Speaking Club AI, which I created to help me improve my speaking in a foreign language. As someone who has always struggled with language learning and has been self conscious about speaking a foreign language in front of others, I understand the struggles and fears that come with trying to improve your speaking skills.

That's why I developed Speaking Club AI, a tool that helps users practice speaking with a virtual conversation partner. It's just an MVP but in the future the app will have a variety of conversation prompts and topics to choose from, so users can practice speaking about things that interest them.

The app is built using GPT-3, Whisper and DeepL as well as AWS Polly.

I hope that Speaking Club AI can help others who may be shy about speaking in a foreign language, or who simply want to improve their speaking skills. If you're interested in giving it a try, you can check it out at https://speakingclubai.com

I hope it can help you or someone you know improve their speaking skills!
Bell X-14 – a VTOL aircraft in the 1960s
As an example of this, Oregon's had the 'Death With Dignity Act' since 1997. It allows a process for terminally ill people with a prognosis of less than 6 months to live to see a doctor and be prescribed a lethal dose.

There are numerous safeguards (you have to ask, wait 15 days, and ask again; the doctor can refer you to psychiatric care if they think your judgment is impaired; and others).

The state government of Oregon has a FAQ about the law at: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/providerpartnerresources/evalu...
Not taking away from the rest of your post, but the reason you'd trust strangers more than peers for random packages is that the strangers are often some of the best in the world at what they do and your peers are most likely not.
+1 for this comment. Calculus, i.e., Calculating with mostly finite numbers and (usually) a known set of well defined rules is only a part of mathematics.

As a student that currently learns Analysis and linear algebra, it is far more complex and abstract than calculus. It is not neccessarily harder to learn but different. And adapting to this paradigma takes time (and effort).

It is similiar to learning Assembley as a Python developer. Knowing Python will help with Assembley. But the levels of abstraction are obviously different and will require a lot of learning.
Can Your Spam-Eater Manage to Catch Seventy-One Percent Like This Other Service?
A question on IRC I had to answer. Also with nicer formatting but trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/can-your-spam-eater-manag... #openbsd #spamd #measuring #metrics #effectiveness #greylisting #greytrapping,
You are mistaking the Steam Link hardware with Steam Machines which were real computers made by several 3rd party vendors (Alienware, Asus, Gigabyte etc.)

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20151008050254/https://store.ste...
For what it is worth, there is Muon, a third-party implementation of Meson written in C99 [1].
Haven't used it myself yet, though Muon has been in steady development over the last few years, and the developers claim that they implement the vast majority of the Meson core features.

[1] https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/
It didn’t used to be, but now it is quite common. I think that, as listening to audiobooks has become more and more popular (as per this thread), folks have tired of saying “listened to the audiobook of” and are switching to just “read”. Pretty standard linguistic evolution following subject frequency.
>I never said that mathematics "is about computation."

But programming is about computation. If mathematics isn't about computation as well, then they are not alike.

>What I did say is that writing down mathematics is equivalent to writing software.

It is not. That is plainly false. E.g. mathematics considers objects which are not computable and makes non-computable calculations with those objects. I am aware that you can encode certain formal mathematics into certain software, but that is like saying cooking is like programming because you can encode recipes as a program.

>Both require the use of a formal system.

So what?
If Software Engineers operated at parity with other Engineering fields, the conversation could be quite different.

"I will not sign off on your design as specified. Change the design, or Do Not Operate". Any attempts to implement and operate without sign off will be reported to the authorities, because the Public's Interest, and my continued licensure are more important than your empire building."

At this point, I think I'll suffer the burden of licensure to keep unethical groups/impls in check.
R3 could actually run on Intel PCs; it was the first release to have that option available. The other two you are probably right about, I'm not actually an expert in BeOS history pre-R5 :)
Is "force" in play here?

"Refusing to assist someone in doing something" seems to be different from "forcing someone to do whatever was already going to happen if they didn't do the thing you refused to help them do" to me.

It seems to me that it's not "force" unless there's an alteration to the natural course something takes by default. So in this case, "continuing to live for awhile" is the default natural course. Refusing to assist someone in altering that natural course isn't the same as "forcing them to continue living."

Likewise with pregnancy, the default natural course is to remain pregnant until miscarriage or birth. Refusing to assist (or allow someone else to assist) someone in altering that natural course isn't the same as "forcing someone to remain pregnant."
Beyond the nostalgia: are there any other reasons to keep contributing to Haiku? Like critical infrastructure that is reliant on BeOS/Haiku. Or anything you can plausibly do best on Haiku?
>In the US, "nitrogen homebrewing equipment" is the dual-use dog whistle for AS supplies.

This is the first I've heard of this, and I've been in the homebrewing scene for awhile now. If someone told me they got nitrogen homebrewing equipment, I'd be pretty stoked because nitro beer isn't that common at all among homebrewers. Got anything to back this up?
Could this pose a threat for Google?
It's already happening in Canada: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin...

Sometimes the slope really is slippery.
Bootstrapping is something I care about a lot, too, and keeps me on GNU Autotools. Have you found any other options?
At 15 years old, you are not a kid any more.

Chimney sweepers used (often sold to them) boys, 5 to 10 years old (sometimes as young as 3) to climb in the chimneys to clean them (quite dangerous work).

A minimum age of 14 (then 16) was put into place in 1834, and started to be enforced in 1875.

(Note that this might have taken much longer if innovators hadn't been lobbying for child-free technics to do it.)
Also check out FreeCAD with the Arch plug-in.
I used WLED to make an RGB LED effect-laden scarf for my wife, and then decided to add the same setup to a Santa hat. Now, as long as one ESP32 can access the other (either over the built-in access point or any shared WiFi network) the effects she chooses on her scarf sync to the brim of my Santa hat :)

I love WLED so hard.
Through what means would I (as a lay patient) learn about any given medication X or procedure Y?

I think my doctor(s) should be able to advise me on any relevant medical matters, not just those that prolong life.
Important to consider that most books range from barely readable to trash. I think the book distribution of quality is more concentrated among elite authors, whereas music is a lot more linear -- the average musician is a lot closer to elite musicians.
This comment might be confusing - I misread what the question was

I feed the cat for good karma

The picture stuff was to get a notification to tell when it was coming to eat
Yeah, terrible convention, especially because on and off both begin with O. And memory-aid stories don’t help: “those symbols meant open and closed respectively on the vents” - hang on - is O like an open vent or does it mean off?
It's just a fun OS
This makes so much intuitive sense to me. I love society of mind, I wonder if it bears a relationship to how the human mind works
I've found that the language with the largest refactoring suite for vscode is Rust, not typescript. rust-analyzer has a silly amount of refactors available, (probably because the primary author used to work for Jetbrains).

I definitely miss the rust-analyzer refactoring experience when I am doing typescript
I hope they debate a bit more vigorously than they did in Canada, where they no longer require a person to be terminally ill or even be a legal adult.
> of ARM's insane license restrictions

You're assuming high end RISC cores will be available for free and or under much more favorable licensing than ARM cores. Which seems unlikely, why would someone sell their cores to a competitor for less than a company whose only business is designing them?
What I have learnt helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants etc.
If the choice were between {evolution, exorcism} and {}, I think I'd take the extreme catholic set including evolution, not the extreme protestant set, denying it.

I'm also pretty sure Francis doesn't have any problems with a 4,5 billion-year old earth.
That’s it, thank you so much!
It's wonderfully written. I'm a big fan of both Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan personally.

However the book was last updated in 1988 and I prefer C99+ for almost every feature it adds. If I'm going to recommend just one book it will be something newer.
I wonder if you could shake up enough Guinness bottles to create enough nitrogen?

I always thought nitrous oxide would make a great fizzifier. Talk about giggle water! And it is much more soluble than even co2 so you could actually make it bubbly.
If anyone's seen UAV development programs for 'serious' things run by the US feds in some extremely rural areas, this isn't secret. Anything flying around emitting ADS-B isn't secret. It's maybe slightly obfuscated with corporate ownership/lease of small aircraft.

Go look at something like the data that has come out (ten years ago, now!) about the RQ170 program if you want "secret".
I don't remember any CEO of BMW, Audi, etc. ridiculing a group of people on a daily basis because of who they voted for... The idea of spending 50-70k on a product that will make the richest man (ok 2nd richest now) in the world richer, who is essentially ridiculing/trolling you on a daily basis for your voting decision is just a no-go for a lot of people.
Sparq aims to make the DevOps side of Mastodon easier
Sparq will be a Go-based server which implements the ActivityPub protocol, meaning it can be an "instance" within the Fediverse.
Guns are /not/ an extremely effective suicide method. The mortality rate of a gunshot wound to the head is only 90%. This leaves around a 1 in 10 chance of surviving with injuries that will make the remainder of one’s life far more miserable than it was prior to the attempt.

I would encourage anyone who is interested to review medical literature on the subject. Even a shotgun wound to the head is survivable if the weapon is not suitably oriented. In the least fortunate cases, both of the eyes, nose, and/or jaw may be removed, along with the rest of the face, without resulting in death.

It is not without reason that qualifying individuals are willing to pay aid societies in Switzerland thousands of US dollars for assistance in ending their lives. The required lethal dose of barbiturates is incredibly difficult to obtain legally.
I feel the same way, yet I see what's happening in Canada as a very slippery slope. At what point is it suggested not because it's what's best for the patient, but because the government wants to save a few bucks?
Number zero, Linux lacks usability.

I've got Ubuntu on my home machine and it is an absolute buggy mess.

I tried to right click and format on a flash drive yesterday, the button did nothing.

No errors.

No pop-up messages.

No little spinning wheel.

It did literally nothing. Did not respond, tried to click it multiple times, continued to do nothing.

I have to open up the partition manager and reform at it through there.

I've tried before to drag files from my archives into the window manager, and it doesn't work. The program's not talk to each other so you can't drag and drop between them.

I've tried to use network paths as a folder on tons of different programs, and they rarely handle it well. Best can be a problem on Windows too, but it's so much more common on Linux.

The user experience on Linux is just so incredibly buggy, you have to dig down into the command line at times to fix things, and so much stuff just doesn't work so often, or doesn't work with each other.

Linux on the desktop needs a team of like five people to actually use it every day like a normal user would, but no understanding of the command line, and then constantly complain to the developers so that all of these issues get fixed.

Until that happens Linux on the desktop will not be able to compete with Windows, no matter how many features it has. Because at the end of the day I want my operating system to just work.
Please present them instead of coming with a (bad-faith) shallow dismissal. I'm sure many here would find value in the perspective, even if only to try and find flaws in the argument.
Teslaquilla and the surfboard were from Tesla. Anyhow, it's probably straight from Ali Express and the only Tesla resources were the web intern who had to build a page for it.
I might be wrong, but I always lean towards this being the result of prioritization. Most engineers know the difference but prioritize other aspects than ethical. I am not even judging that, just describing. After all, implementing a dark UX pattern that will inconvenience some unknown to you users is not as high priority as providing to your own family.
That looks like a ton of authors to me (about one per page). But they took the idea pretty far, which is neat.
It's common knowledge their are planning to replace some of their low-end embedded cores with RISC-V ones.

RISC-V is probably 5-10 years behind on the upper end though