skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for a little context luke jr was infamous on cryptocurrency forums for being adamant that the sun revolved around the earth, all religions other than catholicism are evil, there is an "ethical aspect to slavery" and that bitcoin's 1 KB/s throughput was too much and should be cut down even further.

https://archive.is/sS5Ml

https://archive.is/DrP83

https://np.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/36w6nw/why_did...

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/490dyi/serious_ques...

I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
The issue is that preventing it doesn’t really cost. Lifestyle change isn’t something VCs can make a big return on. Whole population groups prevent it without taking any drugs. Where is the money to be made?

Whole population groups around the world get it in a really limited capacity and only at extremely old age if they do. We know how they live and what they eat. Groups have been studied in the US who are similar and they get really low rates of Alzheimer’s compared to the surrounding population.

The changes people need to make for this just aren’t those you can get a high rate of return on.
I find I frequently use a combination - use map/filter to setup an iterator, and then reduce it in a loop.
Saying that's fine, let alone for that reason, is so fundamentally at odds with every aspect of my experience of reality you might as well have said សូម សម្លាប់ ពួក គេ ទាំង អស់ ព្រះ នឹង ទទួល ស្គាល់ ប្រជារាស្ត្រ របស់ ព្រះអង្គ.
Then call it Universal OS, because ESXi and eCos/RTEM etc are OS's too.
Might be useful for non-browser VMs? E.g. a microcontroller running WASM.
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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if you want to improve the net intellectual progress of humanity solving inequality will do a lot more than solving aging.
We have the most extensive data available for recent years, though. Ice core samples are also nothing new, they've been extensively studied for decades. Many of these cores are carefully removed and placed in ice cold storage warehouses: https://qz.com/1590747/an-antarctic-ice-core-may-show-1-5-mi...
Why are we selling colocated processing on a piece of mass-constricted ultra-expensive hardware we have to launch into orbit again? That seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Yeah it is, they are more big brother than Microsoft is. What's even worse, it happened in 2016 or 2017 (from memory) and had made quite a big splash in IT. They basically had an issue with a load balancer or manifest server not being properly updated, and it caused their network fast fail code to not bug out correctly which hung all launched applications in that particular region.

If you go searching for it now, they've completely wiped it from the web. Went looking for the article and its gone now.
Agreed. Another plausible reason is that he died.
It would be nice if OPFS (Origin Private File System) allowed reading/writing to an actual SQLite file on the users disk.

At the moment, as I understand it, the OPFS virtual disk is completely isolated from the users disk.

This means you cannot just lightly query a 1GB file without first copying the 1GB from the users filesystem to the OPFS.

Any writes mean you must then copy the 1GB SQLite db file from OPFS to the users local filesystem too.

Is this correct?
Password Store and KeepassXC are great. Don’t use “cloud” for password management. They will always be juicy targets.
That's overreading the situation.

Employees are exhausted and their employers were only one part of the equation.

COVID and other personal issues are the others.

Thanks to healthy savings accounts, many people could afford to quit their jobs. Quitting wasn't 100% the employer's fault.
> 2. Representation matters.

As a well represented person I can tell you this has nothing to do with representation, its just that the vast majority of humans in the modern world have close to zero agency and/or don't think they can actually change things.
Made-in-China labels become a problem for Meta’s anti-China stance
Your link is to an autogenerated content farm. So [Citation Needed] from you too. Here's an actual source:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/calories...

Running at normal sustained speeds is only 240-336, Elliptical is 270-378, Aerobics 300-420, Stationary Bicycling 315-441, etc.

Keep in mind 6 MpH is considered Vigorous, and you're talking about 10 MpH sustained to get good calorie burn which just isn't realistic outside competitive levels or for short sprints (which isn't what we're discussing).
> If they used it to block, sure. Starlink’s advantage is SpaceX’s margin.

As long as Starlink competitors use SpaceX to reach orbit, the advantage is realized on both Starlink launches (as savings) AND on competitors’ launches (as profit). Doesn’t that make SpaceX’s advantage 2x their margin?
I'm in the same boat. Another great reason to use Bitwarden is the ability for my wife to recover my passwords if something happens to me. We share most things but there are certain semi-important things that only I have the password to. If something happens to me my wife can get access to those semi-important things fairly easily.
Impact of funding crunch on India's tech startups, down 35% YoY
I got curious about this and loaded the Met Office data your link cites into a spreadsheet. This particular dataset goes back to 1836, although the UK has data for rainfall from before that going back into the 1700s.

Plotting winter rainfall does indeed show a small trend towards wetter winters (r² = ~0.1). But the plot looks odd. Virtually all the trend comes from a step change starting around 1980. Since then the trend has been tiny (r² = 0.02). The trend from 1860 to 1980 is flat (r² = 0.0018). This doesn't look much like what you'd expect from a continuous process, which CO2 emission has been:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

This sort of sudden discontinuity raises the question of whether there was a methodology change at some point. A quick check shows that there was:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/guides/observations/how...

"As automated instruments were introduced across the synoptic network in the 1980s and 1990s the 5 inch gauge was still deployed alongside the tipping bucket gauge to continue a long consistent record of measurements for climate purposes. In recent years this practice has proved impractical and many automatic sites now only report rainfall amount from a tipping bucket gauge."

So around the time they start introducing automation to the network and switch to tipping bucket gauges, winter rainfall measurements go up a bit and then re-stabilize. Hypothesis: the old network that relied on manual measurements by volunteers was prone to under-measure in winter when people don't want to go outside.

What about summer rainfall? The cited atmospheric effect would presumably hold regardless of season as it's just about warmer air = more moisture in it. But here we see there's actually a slight downward trend, although yet again it's so trivial as to be irrelevant (r² = 0.0036). There is no change starting in the 1980s either, which would weakly support the idea of a problem with prior winter under-collection.

So it looks like not much is happening in this data. To sanity check that I grabbed a Met Office report on rainfall trends. It says:

"An analysis of annual, summer and winter rainfall observations by Jenkins et al. (2008)
shows that annual mean precipitation over England and Wales has not changed
significantly since 1766 when the records began"

https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/rpt_com_...

If global warming is changing rainfall patterns it isn't having much effect, and to the extent small trends in the winter data do exist it's possible that the data set has been affected by methodology changes. Note that if such a problem does exist the common practice of only analyzing data since 1960 would yield a maximally biased trend, as the long period of absolute stability up until 1980 would largely be erased.
He just went home. His mission, for the time being, has ended.
Assuming your doomsday predictions are correct and all this time... then assuming your counter to the prediction is correct.

Ya'know what... go right ahead and try to terraform the Earth to whatever you think is... best.

Your doomsday prediction may then come true actually. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.

God speed in making your artificial ice age.
This has to be revisited as the cost of publishing plausible but unsubstantiated content is driven to zero with AI text generators.

It may not come from the same old institutions, but I predict there will be continued and possibly increased value in stamps of approval for content and information that you cannot afford to be wrong (medical, engineering).
Genuary 2023
Two are very pertinent for me at the moment:

1. The Monty Hall problem

2. The Wason Selection Task.

I read about the first one eons ago and was impressed that Marilyn Von Savant was vindicated. Shoutout to her!

The name Wason was unknown to me but I bought a book called The Oxford Companion to The Mind (new in 1987!) and his 'task' was featured in it (pg. 639 in my edition). I spent a lot of time satisfying myself as to the answer and kind of got there. This Christmas I am reading Stephen Pinker's "Rationality" and the description of both have allowed the penny to fully drop. I hadn't been thinking about these puzzles for ages and then when they cropped up "unexpectedly" I grokked them easily. They "clicked". There is a certain type of wisdom that comes with passed time.
But the documentary was from a left-wing source and claimed that Bolsanaro faked his own stabbing in 2018 in order to bolster public support. It hardly seems that the decision to censor that "documentary" was made to favor Lula.
Not surprising at all, there's lots of even higher-valued opportunities that billionaire philanthropists will be quite inclined to fund. E.g. effective altruists credit the B&MGF with basically removing all possible "room for more funding" wrt. vaccinations in low-income countries, which would otherwise be a very high impact intervention.
> What it comes down to is that once your signal rate is high enough, the speed that electrons move becomes a concern.

To be clear-- the speed that charge moves in the cable. The actual electrons move really, really slow-- often centimeters per hour slow.
I mostly agree with the author in that everyone shouldn't be on one platform and that yes, Twitter, Facebook, etc., aren't anywhere close to ideal sites for actually forming strong relationships and having good discussions. I also agree that the separation of internet self and real self has all but vanished from the internet, despite my own personal attempts to retain it. Additionally, as someone who has spent their formative, adolescent, and even current years being parts of independent communities on the internet, I can assure you that there were people out there who knew what was being lost and what the problems were as Reddit, Facebook, and the others became the hubs for everything.

However, the author makes references to things like MUDs, IRC chats, web forums, and then antagonists like "random internet Nazis" (come on dude) and Gamergate of all things, and I can't help but feel that the author of the article is part of a intellectual group that appeared after things like internet forums, transient chatrooms, and video game servers. It's very popular to try to "dunk" on sowing doubt in a case like this because everyone cites that "Yet you participate in it. Curious!" comic in some way or another, but I think the doubt is warranted in this case.

The author may have been around when those things were active, but expressed no deep interest at worst or a passing interest at best in any of them until centralization became a problem to think about, and SUDDENLY all of those things captured their attention. A HN poster who doesn't really care about non-techie niche communities but puts on big airs about caring because rebelling against centralized monoliths like Twitter is part of (hacker) counterculture/social signaling.

The author didn't have to deal with being a powerless normal user as internet Nazi groups infiltrating communities they were a part of, never had to watch independent sites and projects get absorbed into Reddit and its abhorrent community; it's all just a fun intellectual thought puzzle to ruminate on with a buddy at a bar and philosophical soapbox to stand on with their web blog and Twitter account. The author even boils it down to political pundits retreating to private circles, which completely separates it from the real experiences of loss of and yearning for smaller communities.

We've read this same song and dance here on HN almost weekly if not daily here on HN: everyone's glued to their smartphones, Twitter and Facebook control all online content, return to tradition, yadda yadda. I don't really know how this comment is going to be taken but because of all these things, I find it very difficult to believe the author isn't subject to the tyranny of likes and internet attention himself, and that the post reads more as disingenuous intellectual fellatio than anything else, intended to resonate with those who closely follow hacker culture on HN for traction.
Of course they have the power to affect the whole world in a negative way, but the risk of a second armed invasion when the first one is going very badly is very low. I wouldn't say impossible as history shows there were rulers more stupid than Putin but realistically it wouldn't make much sense.
I'm confused why he even is interested in reaching these governmental organisations. Isn't it the idea of "code is the law" a pillar of the crypto movement?

I don't claim that the person in question did this but as a thought experiment IMHO stealing Bitcoin is oxymoron because the transactions are happening in the realm of zero trust computational environment. The whole premise is that this is a trust-less system which means that we shouldn't even attempt to trust in anything about the wallet movements.

Maybe it was a handshake deal that went sour afterwards?
I love ST the language, I like ST the image but I hate the tight coupling to the antiquated UI. I know there’s GNU ST but I wish there were more options. I also wonder how difficult it would be to create a modern IDE integration with GNU ST with something like IntelliJ, Eclipse, Net Beans or VS Code.
so you can snoop on users pendrives if they make the mistake of allowing USB access from their google-chomeTM browser to your domain. ;)
Does dark sky have its own satellites? Why did Apple buy this
You can't post like this to HN. Maybe you don't owe elderly billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.", "Perfect is the enemy of good", and more generally idioms that sound like either paradoxical assertions or obvious platitudes.

It wasn't until late teens/early twenties that lots of those piece of wisdom went from "cliché phrases you've heard all your life", to (often) deeply impactful aspect of human conditions.

The "road to hell" idiom explicitly didn't click until I had enough experience with counter-productive efforts who looks good on the outside, but actually fail to take into account a more nuanced reality.

It also kinda works with the distinction between "values I believe in" and "arguments articulated around shared values". Being able to disagree on something even when (especially when) it's invoking values I believe in is one of the most important thing I've gained as I matured, and yet it needs experience to 'click'.
This reminds me of a concept that you'll almost never see a scholar and intellectual go senile or have problems with the mind.

I guess it's because the brain is used so intensely it's the last thing to fall.
It's certainly not the cause of this hack, but nobody should be using asymmetric encryption to protect their own stuff. It should only be used for communication with another party. Quantum computing will eventually be a thing.

So use symmetric encryption whenever it's at all possible.
Related : I have a request for the 1 major concept that has never clicked for me --> Can someone help me understand 'productive value' in an economy ?

I have tried hard, and can't for the love of me understand what lies at the bottom of trade, what is the base value of assets / activity. It just doesn't click.

Questions like:

- Can a services based economy work if the consumers of the services weren't producing some non-services based value ?

- How can there be any economic value in middle-men ?

- Is speculation on artificially limited assets (housing) just a pyramid scheme ?

- How is it NOT a zero sum game ?

- Is a Fiat currency just 'vibes based economics' ?
Speaking of paranoid, that link you've posted, isn't that a link to a server that's known to be compromised, and also an apparent watering hole for crypto wallet holders? Am I unreasonable in thinking that's a very scary link?
Pfft. I believe that anyone who read about git, and responded "yeah, duh, it's so obvious" is a dirty, dirty liar.

An explanation of "interactive rebasing" to me might as well been an explanation of quantum entanglement to a learning-disabled ant.

Sometimes it still trips me up. I have an embarrassingly large number of copies of source folders, despite git's safety net of "don't worry, you can always restore it; pinky swear..."
If using GitHub Actions for CI/ CD, Harden Runner (https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner) can be used to audit and block DNS exfiltration. Outbound calls from CI are predictable (to source repo, artifact registry, etc.) and don't change often.
Incase it's of use, here's the layout I've ended up with after around a month's worth of tweaking (still tweaking it, but this is mostly stable in terms of the functionality I use). Some factors may not work for you depending on how small your hands are, but I can reach left-pinky 'caps lock' (escape, with arrow-y layer on hold) down to the furthest thumb key.

https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/DN9zM/latest/5
I remember that we found that entirely obvious (well, most of us) in my high-school physics class.

What I still don't understand, though, is how photons can "wave" or how "long" a photon is (or how they can have any "length" at all).

What I also didn't understand back then was how light can be slower when there is matter present -- or how a photon could somehow know that it was supposed to cause another, very similar, photon to be released in just the right angle when it hit something that, if zoomed out enough, looked like a mirror. How on Earth could the photon know that the photon it was hitting was part of a flat surface and what its orientation was? I even started using that mirror question as a litmus test of physics students once I started at uni (comp.sci.) -- pretty much all of them failed, not by not knowing the answer but by not understanding that this was even a question that required an answer.

I now know that the photon -- the wave(s) in the electromagnetic field -- cause atoms (and in particular their electrons) to move about a bit, which in turn cause waves in the electromagnetic field. And by adding up all these waves, we get the resulting wave which moves slower than c and which might seem to have been reflected at an angle. Why my physics teacher in high-school didn't tell us that, I don't know.
Assuming this physical access claim is truthful (and i have doubts), I would feel at this point its budget letting him down. If your threat model includes "targeted attacks from people with physical access", it's time to run a vm on aws or azure and use the tooling they make available to secure it further. If you want tonnes of resourcing at a quite low budget, there's only a certain amount of "calling out" the group that supplied it that's reasonable.
> the advantage is realized on both Starlink launches (as savings) AND on competitors’ launches (as profit). Doesn’t that make SpaceX’s advantage 2x their margin?

Sort of. Every dollar of competitors’ launch margin doesn’t go to Starlink. SpaceX’s near-infinite fundraising capacity, and thus low cost of capital, is far more significant. (There are also orbital trade-offs between imaging and comms.)
I studied functional programming and I took terms like "expression", "evaluation", and "value" for granted until it clicked that these terms have intuitive meaning when interpreted in colloquial/human terms.

- Expression as in someone expressing themselves, a tentative gesture.

- Evaluation as in scrutinizing something to learn what it's really about.

- Value as in "valuable".

We don't know if an expression is valuable until we subject it to evaluation, or we get an interpreter to interpret it for us.
Considering I might turn it on once per night for a second or less, I’m not concerned. Is the risk that it affects the timekeeping?
Would this happen if his wallet was a hardware wallet like a ledger or trezor?
So your assertion that "It looks like it is just twitter hack" was based on a gut-feeling. You should probably have made that clearer.
Or not doing business in the EU.
Gavin Andresen, a lead Bitcoin developer, sent me a 10 BTC donation ($3000 at the time) when he meant to send $10 worth of BTC.

Yes, I refunded.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720921
At least in the U.K. one-person contracting companies are reasonably common. Though I do find the GP suggestion weird.
Krebs cycle.
I don't think anyone is truly shocked by the notion that Twitter is over-staffed with a lot of fat it can cut. They were not exactly employing a lot of "builders", as they had not updated any new features for quite some time.
Ah, the 4.5% was from a different article and I linked to this one.

Teams is video conferencing software. It competes with Zoom, which is the category leader, Google Meet, Bluejeans, Webex, etc.
> The team deciphered this record using a new ultra–high-resolution method, in which a laser carves 120-micron slivers of ice, representing just a few days or weeks of snowfall, along the length of the core. Each of the samples—some 50,000 from each meter of the core—is analyzed for about a dozen elements. The approach enabled the team to pinpoint storms, volcanic eruptions, and lead pollution down to the month or even less, going back 2000 years, says UM volcanologist Andrei Kurbatov.

How do they know for sure that the ice samples are chronological? What happens if in a given year the top layer of ice melts away?
21 minutes into this video and this is already one of the most interesting things I've watched in a very long time. Thanks for sharing.
It's not exactly Silicon Valley, but UC Davis, which has a lot of Ag programs, is within fairly short driving distance of the bay area (to the point where some consider it potentially part of the 'greater bay area')
And it was fixed in due time.
If he was stupid enough to start a second war without winning the first one, I'd say he'd attack one of CSTO members rather than risking a full-scale world war with NATO. (Yes, I know Finland is not in NATO yet, but it's more a question of when, not if).
> But even then the price wouldn’t make sense right?

Yes, it would, if the price was quoted per bag rather than per unit/case. That seems unlikely, but it's possible, and it would make the initial confusion slightly more understandable.
I am not an ivy league MBA person but my understanding of these sorts of things is that it's not the credential itself that's useful, but the connections you make in the process.
You consider testers dead weight?