skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deeply regrettable that both sides of the political spectrum are so caught up in their particular narratives that they can't see potential erosion of civil rights that these law enforcement techniques bring about. On parts of the left, segments are grateful for these technologies because they allow for the arrest of individuals who they perceive as having attempted to overthrow democracy. Segments of the right are blinded and can't focus on the means and methods undertaken by law enforcement because they can't overcome their rage at what they perceive as an overblown and partisan response to the events of the riot.
> It's the fault of those who push vaccines super hard for political reasons.

> A vaccine we know doesn't prevent infection, transmission, sickness or death.

This does not match reality. The more political right someone is, the more anti-vaxx someone is likely to me, the less likely they would get vaccinated; e.g., areas that lean more towards voting for Trump have higher COVID death rates:

"COVID-19 Deaths Among Older Adults During the Delta Surge Were Higher in States with Lower Vaccination Rates"

* https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-deaths-among-older...

"Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame"

* https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828...

"The Changing Political Geography of COVID-19 Over the Last Two Years"

* https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...

"Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows"

* https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-death-rates...

"How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?"

* https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-dea...
Well, in Forth there isn't much "wild syntax" to begin with, so naturally you couldn't claim the same about Forth.
What about setting a very large font and read on the phone? This way there is at most 1 line at a time
A few things stand out in this story. Tegmark can't have been unaware of Nya Dagbladet’s association with a neonazi party in Sweden. The concept of "longtermism" which sounds all moderate and sensible, has been employed in undermining support for Ukraine, again mostly by hard-right groups. Longtermism is part of a constellation of concepts, the names for which concepts obscure their real purpose, more of less effectively. For example, mentioned in the article, is "ethnopluralism." If you dig deeper into "ethnopluralism you find it is to prevent "population replacement" and “contribute to a healthy population development, and joy and vitality for the people you belong to.”

Ick. This isn't going to get less ugly the more one digs in.
So... I can see using this to dislodge dust from crevices, but isn't the solution to widespread household dust to vacuum it? The point of a compressed air can is the point impact (to borrow a term from other power tools). If this device isn't capable of doing that, aren't you better off with strong suction?

Something about this piece seemed confusing. Reading articles about high-end vacuum cleaners, a major focus is sucking up dust without causing ancillary dust clouds. In this article the author seemed to be reveling in it?
The x265 debacle shows that composing multiple paid licenses does not work very well.
Some studies that infection actually may make it easier to catch it again

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841

and that covid causes immunological dysfuction even 8 months later

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01113-x
I find it’s actually pretty good to compare it to sun protection. Kids used to run around in the sun without sunscreen, still can in some places/times to a certain amount… but we collectively sort of realised the risks and so most people (at least in Australia) use sunscreen to avoid the easiest cancer to avoid, Melanoma. There are people who have a natural immunity of sorts due to darker skin and melanin concentrations, there are people that deliberately expose themselves for perceived benefits like “getting a tan” because “it looks healthy” and there are older people who got lucky and ran around unprotected who think it’s a rip off by big sunscreen and don’t see the point while also no longer needing it due to age and lifestyle changes out of lots of direct UV exposure.
No, but the "worse" technical decision survived because it turned out to be "better" out of sheer luck. If it hadn't, they would have found a fix for ext2 or we would have gotten ext3 sooner, or we would have gotten a different default FS. (Survival of the "bad" decision, not the FS itself, at least not necessarily.)
I’ve used various large `org-mode` tables with great success and no rage, but a table that large means that you need a database, not a spreadsheet. Use sqlite for it instead and you will be much happier. Use the right tool for the job; nobody is forcing you to use Emacs for every single thing.

I find that whenever people complain that Emacs is slow or janky, it is usually because they have configured too much stuff to run all of the time. They got excited by the possibilities and downloaded every single shiny package they could find. After a few years of downloading shiny packages Emacs just isn’t fast any more, and so they blame Emacs.
I think the Andy Warhol appropriation debate is worth mentioning here.
Didn't say anything about an append-only. Blockchain is the answer to exactly 0 technical problems.
Zeno also knew that arrows arrive at their target in finite time. That's why it is a paradox.
according to the grateful dead, there should be no terminating 'g'
Nope. Parsing isn't even necessary for most things I want to do. Moreover, I don't really care for trees: any objects, any structures, any source can be used. There will be a common interface for it (like jump to the next semantic unit or search a lisp object). But any object can have it's own programmatic interface, and not all objects need to implement all of the interface (e.g. a read-only object).

I have expounded the point about structural editing (tangentially) on some other comments here, in this top-level thread (unless you want to read the article [1]).

[1] https://project-mage.org/the-power-of-structure
You want to take a look at Earthly. https://earthly.dev/

This gives you a mix of docker and a makefile.

The best bit is you can test your pipeline locally and you are vendor agnostic.

I'm using it here https://github.com/purton-tech/cloak
Not an historian or astronomer but I guess Copernicus' main work is about heliocentrism, but it uses epicycles.

It has to because in his views planets made circles around the sun and at constant speed.

Indeed Copernicus was aware this only could not explain what is observed so he had to introduce epicycles as in Hipparchian, Ptolemaic system.

Circles with epicycles are just an approximation for ellipses, but ellipses could not be introduced without a theory of gravity.
I don't truly see value in someone else hand-picking a few stories and assuming those are the ones I want to read. HN has a simple, easy UI to pick a few stories to read. If there are topics I don't want to read... I just don't.

Basically, if you are trying to solve the problem of "I don't want to read news", that is a different problem than "I want a hand-picked list of stories".
May I suggest you to take another look at refactoring? I think that if you love unit testing and debugging, you probably would love refactoring too. I like that I don't have to worry to find the perfect name for my functions and methods _on the first try_, and that I can focus in making code that works first, and after that I can worry in making clearer and more understandable.

Now, to be fair, I also like the common practices in the industry too. Scrum or kanban, ticket creation and estimation, and daily stand ups. When you're part of a team you need a lot of communication and effort to keep everybody working in the same direction. Besides, managers want to be kept informed. The how is not as important as the why.
While it is true that a threat model is really needed to inform prioritisation of security controls and other mitigations, there are many secure coding techniques that developers should be using, but clearly often don't.

As a security architect who comes from a dev background, I am acutely aware of the pressures devs are under to ship code. Even so, there are some things you should really try to write securely without a formal threat model.

As a professional you should at least be aware of common vulnerabilities in code and not blindly keep creating them, e.g. know your OWASP top ten if you're writing for the web or mobile.
There are simple changes that don't affect people's lives but can promote protection to those that want to be protected. Longer winter school breaks (instead of summer) could somehow mitigate the flu/cold/covid season. Remote work helps, as does the normalization of wearing masks (and perhaps stop politicizing it)
Or perhaps https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=tick

via https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php which also describes 'Whitelisting Suggestions'.

Alternative: https://github.com/jacklul/pihole-updatelists
It could look like the DRAM is the problem if the data bus was the actual problem, as the DMA would request data via the bus. This is just speculation here obviously. But if you have lots of hardware on a tri-state bus most of which is not of "data centre" quality then it wouldn't be unusual for bus arbitration to go out the window in a fluctuating power condition. So from the DMA through to write operation you have data corruption issues, and you'd think it was probably the DRAM but in fact if the bus arbitration is corrupted then you still get corrupted data. I suspect sure that the vast majority of PCs don't have error detection (let alone ECC) on their data buses (even something as simple as a parity bit), but I could be wrong.
> Why not do make the function that outputs answers also feed itself "is this actually right/are you sure/is this not wrong"? Too expensive? Giant loop?

They do this, with humans. Both during training (they use supervised and reinforcement learning), and now at a much greater scale: it's what the free public access period is for and why there's a thumbs up/down button next to the output.
It's hardly news to people who frequent sites such as HN or follow press releases issued by the EFF or the ACLU but I expect that the general population is surprised at how expansive the data harvesting efforts of law enforcement are. Additionally, the publicity surrounding the scale and scope of the operation is atypical.
> you need a database, not a spreadsheet

Exactly, a custom structure, a custom object. That's my point. And that point is: the ability to specialize on custom structures, which are unavoidable if you are to keep your sanity.
Do you have a spouse or family?

Spend time w them and travel?

Other than that, finishing side-projects.
No, countries do not need to move away from gas even if you're convinced CO₂ is the cause of all our woes. What you'd want to move away from is natural gas, not gas in itself. There are plenty of other ways to get methane - which is what natural gas is (more or less) - which do not add CO₂ to the environment. Domestic waste can be fermented for local production, industrial, agricultural and forest-industry waste for larger-scale installations. Methane is a good energy carrier given the ease at which it can be transported and handled. It is not poisonous, it can be compressed and/or liquefied and it burns cleanly without the need for complex burner designs.
What of the population living day after day in a dangerous world ? Do they prefer civil right preservation or police oversight ?

I get the politicians in D.C. might have trouble to see what's in front of them, but Im unsure the population is so against it.
Can this be (safely) used without an Apple developer account or signing a contract?
3D printing a two-story home
I appreciate your response and being willing to reconsider.

It’s great that you found an approach that worked for you. But yes, I would still suggest humility in assuming that you can identify when the same approach will work for someone else, especially when that someone is a child and the parents, who know that child better than anyone else, don’t share your conviction. There are good reasons to be skeptical about diagnosing young children with ADHD except in very rare circumstances.
And TrueNAS, pfSense and OPNsense
Camp Survivor Describes Life Under House Arrest in Xinjiang
That's exactly what I'm saying. We're talking about FAANGs not your uncle's ice cream shop.
We’re way past talking anuses; we’re in class-action lawsuit territory against being able to market the term “flushable”.

The buyers and users of wipes are changing diapers on little kids and old people, not on-the-go busy professionals. The immense concentrations in sewers are not correlated with office worker productivity. Wipes are convenient to do that in public. Only a few countries have enough trash cans nearby for the occasion.

So, if someone is going to market the term flushable, I want them to be responsible for plumbing fiascos when it is.
Would it do this just the first time? It’s still bad it was doing this silently, but it’s pretty common to test web APIs in a similar way manually. Make a request, check the response you get back looks right (important step) and then save it as the expected value.

Edit: or after reading the article, like in the article.
> the prime directive is "first, do no harm" and that's a very much entrenched principle of public health.

Covid response made it clear that this directive went out the window. Practitioners in the medical industry may whole-heartedly believe and follow this goal, but public health is now much too political for it.

Plenty of examples in the US. To name a few:
Faucci's masking debacle

New York City's handling of elderly patients during the peak of their outbreak

approval of vaccines under the age of 5 after a study with only 30 participants

Biden's holiday speech from the Oval Office attacking anyone who didn't get vaccinated

Initial vaccine trials data bastardized by public health officials, claiming vaccines stop the spread when that was never tested.

The list goes on, but public health has been made a political game driven by few who they know what's best and are willing to saw what they think will get compliance rather than sharing what is and isn't known and doing no harm by fostering another core principle of informed consent.
How hard would it be to make two identical snow flakes?
The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (1821)
That's the condensed version of the answer for here. Obviously id go into the technical details in an interview.

I work for a finance company. The vast majority of the devs, including seniors, haven't released any software outside of work. Maybe 10% have. It seems this is true for other non-tech industries too.

Even on here, do you think more than 50% have released something they made by themself, that is more advanced than a simple Android app? Obviously there's a lot of talent here. I would be surprised if the number is higher than that.
> My recommendation would be to just notarize the app

The problem is that this involves having a developer ID, which costs $100/year — which is the one thing I'd like to avoid. Hence my question. The apps I'm contemplating about would be free and open-source so I won't be making any money on them.
Or maybe the decisions were a form of emergent behaviour; the developers that succeeded were the ones whose behaviour best matched the environment. The accidents ARE the reason it worked; i.e. evolution.
Having memory return a few bits flipped can have disastrous consequences on a running system. On the other hand having memory with only a few bits flipped is still a gold mine for a cold boot attack.
How does a geofence differ from a warrant to search a property? While crimes are known to have occurred, the exact people may not be known.

The biggest difference I see "time". Mostly that it can be done retroactively.

Would a geofence be allowed while the event is occurring?
> Any sample photos we can try to reproduce these errors.

This suggests you are a maintainer or author of the tool you recommend over exiftool. Your other two comments are written in a way to suggest a disinterested preference. Which is it?
> Of course you should care about your customers more than you care about yourself! Isn't that rule #1 of providing a good service? It's all about them, not you.

If you good-service yourself into being unprofitable and eventually bankrupt, it's not good for yourself and eventually your customers as well.
To remove all attributes, just ask user to run `xattr -c filename`.

But I'm not sure if that would remove notarization requirement.
It would be a nice feature to be able to denylist things that you're explicitly not interested in. Twitter, for example.
It looks like you could trivially exploit this with XSS? The example code has glaring vulnerabilities in terms of taking user input and then inserting it into the DOM verbatim.

Anyone who copy/pastes that example is going to have a rough time.
But why are you complaining about that. Who told you that it would be a good idea to use Emacs instead of a database? Why did you ever come to that conclusion?
A lot of funny business happens even when they do, such as charities ran by their kids who get high paying executive roles, or non-profits that do a lot of curious things on behalf of for-profit companies.
This comment just helped me to answer the question of why there's instantly condensation on the outside of the pot when the gas stove is lit. That one had me curious for a while. Brilliant, thanks!
ARkStorm Scenario (2018)
The one that came to my mind was the Bloomberg report about Apple changing their Arcade approach after seeing how much better perpetual play games were at retaining subscribers. https://archive.ph/zm0Th

However, since then they started re-releasing classics that don’t necessarily have daily engagement built into the design.
You are saying a lot for just being very anti social, anti human etc.

No a public health system is not totaliarism. A gov has the responsibility to take care of all people.

This also means that the individual might need to play a game they don't always like. That's how a good stable society works.

And just because you are (I guess) in the position to pay for medical, your neighbor might not. What society would that be that you buy the kids vaccines for yours and your neighbor kids die?

And frankly just because you made it so long on this planet is not just your archiement. It's the school system which exists because of everyone before you, the health system, the road and everything which allowed you to actually drive to your work, etc etc etc.

You are also alive due to vaccines, due to regulations which forces parents to do health checkups, etc.

The only reason you can use the internet is a stable functioning society.

This independent dream of yours is arrogant and ignorant.
I wonder what my life would be like if no one had ever tried to force me to do anything. I'd probably describe myself as deeply unambitious and as such I probably wouldn't have accomplished much without some prods, and I think I agree with you that I resent all of it. All the expectations about wearing the socially acceptable clothing, all the weirdness about expectations from your neighbors about proper behavior and lawn/house upkeep, and all the societal expectations and laws are incredibly stifling and seem like a waste of time and effort. But you probably wouldn't like what people would get up to without them.
A tax-supported social safety net staves off a lot of the worst case scenarios. In the meantime, I think there are a lot of jobs that people could do but we don’t value it enough. With more people free from work, why not hire more teachers to have smaller class sizes? Why not have more people employed to support community activities? Clean and manicure the streets, teach classes, check in on elderly people. The last thing that will be automated is humans themselves.

For more ideas, just think about the things that are worth between $0 and minimum wage to do, and pay people to do those things. Picking up trash on the side of the road for example.
> Assume that we are running at a constant velocity for the entire distance.

Doesn’t this assumption rely on a resolution of Zeno’s paradox, to go from zero to a constant velocity?
Very interesting, than you! I always thought I couldn't be the only one with this basic idea, fascinating to see a related proposal for it.
> For the three years since her release, she has been hounded by Chinese police. Zhumatai cannot visit any public place without an alarm being set off due to facial recognition technology, which prompts hours further police interrogation

About the databases with our faces!
I keep rereading this hoping I'm misunderstanding.

That is cargo cult level behaviour. They know that software with lots of tests tend to have few bugs, so let's automatically have lots of tests!

I just hope whatever you were building wasn't critical to human lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Yes; yes; yes (and got away with it); arguable; more like teslabot - not leading edge, but used to shine-up the image; or a tweaker.
Oh, look! That cloud is shaped like a turtle. (Nevermind, I’ll vote myself down)
> Carl died December 7, 2022 at home in Aptos California

He was the author of the Planner programming language and the well-known Actor Model; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hewitt.
TLDR: indexes make your DB go BRrrrrr
It’s really quite fun. Maddening at times, but fun.

For me, back in the day, it was about power: I wanted a Trash Can Pro for development (I had a fully-specced retina MacBook Pro) but I didn’t want to pay Apple tax; I already had a gaming rig. So I dual booted.
I’ve seen space invader mosaics on walls in London
There is actually nothing wrong with turning down business. No need to grow faster than you can handle. A company in the situation you describe is doing something very right, so maintaining that seems like a good strategy.
What's interesting for ten years is likely really interesting. I often find a better selection of links on the third or fourth page of HN thanks to their algorithms, of stories that have held position for several days. Perhaps these are more evergreen topics than faster rising and falling front page submissions.

EDIT: There is a typo in the word "business".
Well said. These drug-positive articles never appropriately discuss the negative side effects of the lifestyle in a way that seems realistic.

Several people from my youth never made it to adulthood to regret the things they did as a result of drugs. Even "harmless" drugs like MDMA have consequences.
Any luck so far? After reading through the GitHub discussion it seems like it could be hacked into Daedal, some folks in there had workflows for compiling the wasm binary.

Also, big fan of your site and content!
I’m responding to an argument you dismissed with a false equivalency and in turn you now avoid addressing the point I just made.

My brother in Christ, re-examine your priors.
Nice idea!

The '10 years ago' is interesting. Could be fun if you add also 3/5/7/10 years tab. It's always fun reading content from The 'About' and 'Privacy' buttons are not working.

Consider adding 'archive' section where we could quickly see older newsletter issues
The Halcyon (and on) days of youth.

Sorry, could resist the Orbital reference. When I think back to that time that's what always comes to mind for some reason. That and a big smile.
Not much love for Mr Benn, I just though an episode might explain:

https://youtu.be/R3XVJ17uysM