skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you make a general purpose tool, sometimes people use it for harmful things, but the overall effect of telephones is clearly positive.

On the other hand, when you make a decentralized encrypted tool in a space where other options already exist that handle the most common non-criminal use cases your balance of how much you are facilitating harmful vs beneficial use is pretty different.

This doesn't mean that you should never create secure distributed tools, but it does mean that the trade-offs around them look pretty different from something like traditional phones.
Yes, Alex and his team(s) are out there in the front pushing what's possible but its not off the shelf he has a lot of talent. Big fan of his Heavenue work on live rendered VR/XR/3D shows & the one they did for A Christmas Carroll is still state of the art theater.
Investing: Super Passive Goes Ballistic; Active Is Atrocious
Just for pure insanity value, I wonder how many copies of an old 8 bit game you could run at once.

Maybe you could run them like an ensemble model. All randomness in every game unique and user input delayed by 0-25ms on all of them. Instead of losing a life you lose a parallel copy, specifically one of the ones you died in.

The display shows them overlaid all at once.
> - First hydrogen fuel cell: 1842

> - Earliest li-ion battery: 1965~

You just limit to lithium-ion to mislead. Battery vehicles predate all of that:

> The invention of the first model electric vehicle is attributed to various people.[7] In 1828, the Hungarian priest and physicist Ányos Jedlik invented an early type of electric motor, and created a small model car powered by his new motor. Between 1832 and 1839, Scottish inventor Robert Anderson also invented a crude electric carriage.[8] In 1835, Professor Sibrandus Stratingh of Groningen, the Netherlands and his assistant Christopher Becker from Germany also created a small-scale electric car, powered by non-rechargeable primary cells.[9]

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...
Nah 486 computers had way more RAM thatn 512k and larger drives than 2MB.
Coding speed is absolutely not the problem that needs solving. What is needed is how to do more with less code. Long term maintenance of massive code-bases is the hard bit that eats away at productivity.
The conclusion I got from everything I've read on relationships is this: friendships are built when like-minded people spend meaningful time together.

The time spent together is significant and often underrated in my observations. No: I don't believe you can maintain, even less build, a friendship with only a few hours of occasional monthly talks over coffee. This is no surprise why BJJ courses are renowned for being so efficient at creating and solidifying friendships; you have similar people meeting regularly and struggling toward improving a specific skill.

The amount of time spent and the quality of that time will vastly influence the likelihood of friendships forming.
What makes her better that other fired people with positive performance reviews?
I thought it was super mind blowing to learn that percentages were reversible, apparently that's obvious to people who know math well.
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You have misunderstood, or misremembered.

You don't take "3" from the first, you consider three, but choose something that's not "3", so the number you are constructing differs from that first number.

Then in the second place you don't take "5", you choose something that's not "5", so the number you are constructing differs from that second number.

And so on. So every time you have a list of real numbers, it cannot contain all real numbers ... you can always construct many, many, many numbers that are not in your list.

But I'm not sure how this is related to what we've been talking about. If you understand what I've said here and are still confused, maybe you can be a bit more specific. If you have not understood what I have said here, perhaps you can ask more specific questions.
Iceland with 80% of immigrants would not be Iceland any more. Its language and culture would be completely marginalised and replaced with something else.
I don't have ADHD. But I do have a bad Guardian habit, and I spend a lot of time following HN links (I have time to spare). Most of the things I want to do never get onto a todo list, because I don't want to clutter my list of important things to do, which I try to restrict to no more than three items.

I doubt it's about ADHD, mate.
> The generation price of solar energy is ~$0.02/kwh. Even with 33% overall efficiency hydrogen could be very competitive at $0.06/kwh electricity. , But overall efficiency is a red-herring. The important thing is COST. With solar, the cost of energy itself is the smallest part - providing it at the desired time and place are the more expensive parts.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Hydrogen produced with green energy necessarily also includes the price of that green energy. So hydrogen produced with solar has a price floor of the solar energy with all the inefficiencies of hydrogen electrolysis and use of hydrogen in a fuel cell on top of it.
All of the best and longest lasting relationships in my life have been from a shared experience or challenge...school, a band, sports, sometimes work (those seem to maintain a work barrier though).

These things tend to occur less naturally later in life for most people, so you have to go out and find them. I'm just approaching the age where my kids will be entering a school system and sports of their own soon, so I expect some relationships will form with other parents through that shared experience. I'm fortunate to have maintained great relationships from high school and college though...not everyone is as open to adding new people to their circle at this stage of life.

tldr: find other people to share passions / challenges with. Don't worry about moving on if it doesn't click.
> In general you need to recompile the subclass if the superclass changes.

If you are using "in general" in the sense of "in the general case", you are right. But if you are using it as "typically", then that's not true - it's very common for example for a library to be compiled with Java X while subclassing at least a few standard library classes, and then to keep using the same compiled classes with Java X+1, X+2, and to expect them to just work.

The Java Standard Library actually takes quite a bit of care to make sure modifications to its (non-final) classes are backwards compatible even for subclasses.
Strange:

> A solution to this are IPv6 privacy extensions (which Debian enables by default if IPv6 connectivity is detected during initial installation), which will assign an additional randomly generated address to the interface, periodically change them and prefer them for outgoing connections. Incoming connections can still use the address generated by SLAAC.

* https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.ipv6.html

* https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/ifupdown/interfaces.5.e...
I stopped bookmarking long ago. I almost never read bookmarks, and if I still bookmark something, and never return to it, I don't feel any guilt. Such the way it is.

I, however, still sad that I don't have energy and not bright enough to do quantum computing research (I am trying, but my applications to Xanadu, CERN and LANL were rejected), and many other things. FOMO is inevitable.

But letting things go is inevitable, too.
Hey everyone, Retraced is an audit logs OSS product, that was initially built by Replicated and it has been enhanced by BoxyHQ.

With it you can now give your users the superpower to track every critical event within your product, and get full visibility over their account’s activities on your app. You will also allow them to send security-related events to their SIEM. It would be great to get your feedback.

Key features:
- Compliant audit logs for your product
- Record user and system activities
- Admin UI to view logs. Also embed the viewer anywhere in your product
- Export events to CSV or security systems like your favourite SIEM
- Cryptographically guaranteed immutability of logs with a verifiable digest
I'm also interested in them!
Linux on embedded devices is not sunshine and rainbows, especially when it comes to GUI. It is one of those messes that developers instinctively want to throw out. Companies like Google can afford lateral moves where the immediate business case is not there, but opportunities may pop up down the road. Of course, missing deadlines can easily get such moves killed.
Fear of missing out, FOMO.

The simple fact is, humanity is producing more content than you can consume, even if you dedicated every moment of your life to consuming it.

So stop dedicating every moment of your life to bookmarking things you plan to consume. You won't.

Trust that cream rises to the top, check the front page, read as many articles as you can, then forget about the rest. That's all anyone can do.
As far as I understand, both these languages are subject to data races whereas (safe) Rust is not.

Now, Scala is a JVM language and so presumably you get Java's rules, you aren't Sequentially Consistent but the damage is constrained - however human programmers still can't successfully reason about this state in non-trivial programs.
> It's one thing to spend a few million funding some climate change denying think tanks. It's a whole other level of deception to spend hundreds of millions on a technology in the hopes that others will fall for it.

First, anti-science campaign they’ve run is on the order of billions - there were individual “no big deal” ad campaigns measured in millions. It’s truly hard to appreciate the scale of that half-century committed effort to influence the public and politicians around the world, so I would urge extreme skepticism before relying on any of their claims which hasn’t been validated by truly independent sources. Their later green campaigns have been well-publicized but the actual work has been a tiny fraction of their total R&D expenditures.

One of the big things to keep in mind is how often they’ve talked about carbon capture or sequestration far in advance of what the actual technology is capable of. They do that because it allows them to say they’re doing something but just can’t stop business as usual until it’s ready. A key part of this is that they often fund genuine research where the academics involved are really trying to make progress but it’s just a hard problem.

What I would worry about with hydrogen is continuing what we’ve seen since the 1970s: big promises but no meaningful impact at reducing use of fossil fuel. That comes in two forms: the most obvious is simply that there aren’t many hydrogen cars you can buy and the logistics are daunting so most people don’t buy it (or literally cannot because e.g. they don’t live near one of the few dozen stations in the entire state of California). Things like storage and transportation still have significant unsolved problems before they’re ready for mainstream adoption.

The second would be more subtle: currently, almost all hydrogen is produced from hydrocarbons. It is very easy to imagine a campaign selling the image of solar powered electrolysis but relying on fossil fuels “at first”, where the companies know there’s a huge gap before the process doesn’t depend on things which emit CO2. That’s the scenario I had in mind, where there’d be a likely legal defense that they were just too darn optimistic about being able to switch.
Not to forget, you can try to be good friend to someone else.
Interestingly, these are exactly the traits that make podcasts appealing to me.

It's fun to hear people talking about what they're interested in, or I get to hear people's personal experiences on a subject I care about (entrepreneurship, neurodivergence, software development). I'm here less for structured content than to expand my perspective on general experience and challenges of being in a given situation.

For what it's worth, there are also lots of other formats besides "two dudes/dudettes talking": scripted drama, documentary, unscripted/situational comedy. I even listen to a guy critique classic computer science research papers.
Well it would be great if people were pushing for reforms that actually would prevent these problems (basically however you’d define them) from happening again.

Namely: TESTING so we have actual data to make decisions with, immediately and continuously.

We were completely flying blind when big, big decisions had to be made.

It’s a stupid argument to ask whether the blind decisions we made were right or wrong when we could focus on not being blind next time.
I completely misread, utter flame blindness.

There are so many online 3M/Dupont blame shifters that I completely jumped the gun.
Not calling it displaycer is a missed opportunity.
I've managed to get up on the red roof :)

https://imgur.com/a/0uZHhwg
Yeah, that is not the axiom of choice and even if it were their conclusion is not correct. You can't characterize a set as non being described by finite symbols.

On the other hand, it's always refreshing to see someone pushing us to think in this constructs.

Logic is hard!
What’s Next for Sketch?
> This leads to everyone getting poorer, as there are no more immigrants to exploit.

I'm an immigrant to the UK. No-one exploited me. I had a choice of lots of countries to go to (EU passport) and chose the UK voluntarily.
I wonder if clicking "Optimize" will use Duff's Device in some cases ;)
> Why this fixation on Leopards?

They run on diesel, are easy to operate and close to Ukraine.
Somewhere in the Oort cloud, perhaps.
All the same nostalgia but for Sims 2.

It was really my daughter who played it with her friends and I got sucked in because I had to install the expansions and made sure it ran.

I mostly remember the godawful load times.

And woo-hooing the mail carrier with cheats.
Split who you know into two groups. Those who you know would enjoy hanging out with you, and those who you know wouldn’t.

For those that you know would enjoy it, get a rhythm of regular correspondence, and that should turn into quality friendships.

This rhythm IMO is the missing part
Is there any kind of protection against termination while being pregnant in the US? I know there are very few protections like that, but this does seem like a case that would come up more often in the situation "fired because they got pregnant". Which is something that only affects woman, so it does get into territory like protected classes where there are some rules even in the US.

And why is this getting flagged to death? Google and these layoffs are certainly on topic here, and this case does reflect on Google in how they perform the layoffs.
So the guide consists of using Wine, just like you would for any other game. What is the interesting bit here? I was quite disappointed with this article, was hoping for some insight in game internals.
Which kind of begs the question why pro-compliance people don't work to weed out what are effectively the white collar equivalent of clipboard warriors within their ranks since they reflect so poorly on and cause headache for the people who actually know anything.
Breastfeeding works as a natural contraceptive, so I highly doubt it - babies would need to be on solid foods without breastfeeding, and that was much harder in the past then it is now.
Buildings always lose value over time unless they have exceptional historical value.

A small, new apartment next to the old, big apartment I live in is much more expensive than mine. And mine was considered high end when it was built.
Cpp offers thread safety but rust insists on it.
Ask HN: Is it wise to be 100% honest when resigning?
I'm planning to quit my job due to a new member of senior management that joined our team. This is partly because of a difference in engineering philosophy (he seems focused on box ticking rather than robust engineering) and because he treats engineers like mindless drones. I no longer enjoy going to work and dread our interactions, so have decided to move on.

I am very wary of explaining my justification for leaving in case the information gets back to him because it's a small enough field (in this country) and he is already better established in the field. I expect he could make my life difficult should he choose. Also, I worry that mentioning these reasons could somehow be perceived as sour grapes.

That said, I also feel compelled to be honest as he is earmarked for an even more senior position if the project is a "success" (i.e., boxes ticked) and I feel bad for those left behind who have to maintain a system that was slapped together under the leadership of a manager who couldn't care less about them.

Are you 100% honest when you resign or do you fob them off with a generic justification because the cons outweigh the pros?

PS I'm not alone in my read of the situation. At least two others are also looking to leave our relatively small team.
Spotify lays off 6% of the workforce.
Physicist here. You are correct. The uncertainty principle doesnt turn space into some sort of voxel grid.

While we still don't know what spacetime looks like at the smallest scales (we're still waiting on a quantum theory of gravity), quantum field theory measures spacetime using continuous real numbers
Not knowing how things relate to one another can be frustrating. I suggest learning Category Theory to gain a sense of balance. Ingesting knowledge without an outlet is not a healthy practice. Use what you learn. To know and not to do - is not to know.
I personally never really got into podcasts. I just get bits here and there from them. They remind me of the old AM late night radio shows. There are a tons of interesting items out there. Sometimes they get someone who is actually interesting to listen to. But many I see they are talking to themselves and/or reading tweets/blogs/other articles then reacting to that. There is an audience for both types. But I am not sure it is that big. Big enough for a small production crew to care about, but not big enough for any meaningful sized audience. There are of course exceptions out there of the 'big names' but most are very small audiences that enjoy that niche content.
For what it's worth, the word "Rust" doesn't actually appear in the "A call to action: ..." document. It does appear in the original NSA document, but not in the part of the text that Stroustrup quoted. Not sure if this was intentional or not, but if read carefully the Slashdot post does appear to be misquoting him.
I would agree.

@evbrogue I’m not sure if you know of the current tech stack direction… meta feeds so you have a blockchain of off blockchain content. This is the delete « fix »
That get us to the obvious theorems that are actually false https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/820686/obvious-theo...
By definition yes.

"Average age of people who gave birth include people who never give birth?" or "Is a selection bias to include only people who gave birth in the selection of people who gave birth" sound completely different if asked this way, right?
It's not just regulations and earthquake resistance, thermal and noise insulation too improve over time, following economic growth.
Congratulations for your side project! Probably quite similar to you, I'm also a PhD guy that uses Python for quite some time, and I've been lately interested in starting a side project like yours (courses, tutorials, books, etc.).

I see that you are mostly focused in processes/threads/etc., which is quite an interesting niche (for me, I teach those things in a Operating Systems class). It seems rather risky to pursue a niche as it may be too small! Do you have any tips, like why did you decide to focus on multiprocessing/multithreading? Also, any other Python niches that you think are valuable to focus (for courses, ebooks and tutorials like you do)?

I'm really interested in establishing myself an an online "educator", but I still do not know which kind of topics I should aim to. If I focus on introductory topics there's too much competition. If I focus on a too small niche, I may have no "spectators". Any tips would be greatly welcomed! :)
Thunderbird can also automatically select the reply from address based on the original to address but afaict only for addresses you have configured and not for whole catch-all domainst - I guess that is something the extension allowed?

Sometimes I wonder if Mozilla don't realize of what their extension API redesigns are costing the world or if their just don't care...
Empty commits are important! They help when you want to write your thoughts down in a commit message before making the actual code change.
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fired while pregnant != fired because pregnant
I would pick Chaitin's constant.

It is not only transcendantal like Pi, it is even uncomputable, so it would be part of his counterexample set.

(Pi is computable, so you can describe it with an algorithm (finite number of characters))
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I’m not a mathematician but I wonder why the Lowest Uninteresting Number paradox can’t be resolved by simply adjusting the definition of “interesting”? After all that’s a purely human concept. If we say a number isn’t interesting simply due to its proximity to other interesting numbers, then we can draw the boundary.

It seems a bit like making a list of important cities. Borders are very important to countries, but not every border city is economically or historically important. It’s not unreasonable to say that a city must meet other criteria than simply being close to a border.
> the set of numbers that cannot be described using any finite collection of symbols

Not clear that this is a well-defined set.
> make it possible to write better, safer, and more efficient C++

Right, but is it still possible to write bad, unsafe, inefficient C++ that looks indistinguishable from the safe kind?
I see the list here has less frameworks and more programming languages: https://docs.kodezi.com/basics/language-support
Reading HN via an RSS reader on my phone has helped my ADHD. Using the Feeder app I can skim headlines, find ones that interest me, pin them for coming back to later and bookmark for saving for posterity. Feeder lets me bulk mark posts as read so that I don't have to see old posts again. Navigating RSS feeds from my phone not my computer means I separate work and procrastination more effectively.

https://gitlab.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
To my knowledge this kind of practice is illegal in Australia. It’s crazy HR departments in 2023 would even remotely consider it it, let alone do it.
This is something my pre-teen son had as a requirement for friendship. The best advice I could give him was those sorts of relationships take time to foster; they generally don’t happen instantaneously. Have plain old friends and see if they grow into best friends.