skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because outlawing stuff shifts incentives to favour the most violent entrepeneurs?

Outlawing does not decrease demand, making stuff real expensive, so everyone wants to sell or buy it, but there's no legal protection against fraud or theft, so to meet demand, violence must escalate.

Just look back at prohibition, the drug war, outlawing guns in Britain eskalating knife violence, etc.

The way to handle the problem is not by outlawing products,but by reducing demand for them.

Why do people want drugs and alcohol? Generally to self-medicate. Mitigate the underlying causes,and watch demand evaporate.
Government won't address overclassification because news orgs have been ignoring it since the Carter admin. Most national-desk journalists are willing to twister their reporting, in order to maintain their deference to the NatSec state.
Ask HN: How good is Google's Bard?
I'm wondering if anyone has used it and how it stands up against GPT-3/4? For example, with GPT it's possible to have a "conversation" where the previous inputs/answers inform the current one. Is that possible with Bard?
Your experience seems a bit limited then?

Obviously, you need to account for tolerances, but that accounting does not need to be via an epsilon in your count, it can also take the form of careful numerical analysis. For example, in some numerical algorithms, it is right and proper to run them until an equality test (without epsilon) succeeds. And using any positive epsilon would give a worse result.
> Not that I disagree with you, but me and many others are planning our retirements accounts around assumptions of 8-9% growth.

Actions have consequences. When the entire retirement plan of everyone in the country able to set money aside in a 401k (which isn't applicable for a lot of low-wage employees) is tied to the stock markets, politics is effectively held hostage by the companies in the S&P 500 - politicians simply can't risk enacting any policy that could send these stocks tanking.

The US is in for a really, really wild ride for the next decades as a lot of things that have to be done simply to keep the planet able to support human life will be things that massively complicate or, in the case of anything fossil fuel related, make impossible the business of a lot of large companies, which will send their stocks tanking.
Let's look at it this way:

If you plot all the Ph.D level tech jobs on a map, and then plot all the academia jobs on a map - do you think the latter is way more spread and diverse? I would imagine that for the former, those jobs are heavily clustered on each of the coasts, along with some smaller clusters here and there in "emerging" cities.

Not everyone wants to live in SF/NYC/Boston, and for most people, where you live is a pretty damn non-trivial point.

Second - if you get tenure in academia, you have a pretty safe position. For many it does mean work for life, good pay, and high-risk/high-reward research. If you chose to work in the industry, you are exposed to market movements. They can promise you the moon, but can still go straight out the window every 5-10-15 years.

Some enjoy academia, others enjoy the industry. If your dream goal is to live in SF or NYC and make $500k / year for the next N years, by all means purse industry. If you enjoy the thought of making $100k - $150k wherever, with minimal teaching, long vacations, and selective research - do pursue tenure.

The caveat is obviously that it is hard to get tenure, statistically speaking you have a 1 in 5 shot - but then again, landing a top research position in the industry is probably even more unlikely.
I wonder what a reasonably modern C library would look like, were we to design it from scratch?
Ask HN: Advice for aspiring Engineering Manager?
I've been avoiding becoming a manager since a long time for fear of not liking it but, each day I think I just have to bite the bullet and do it.
I've been a tech lead before but never had the engineering manager title.

Any advice for passing HR filters when applying to EM positions? What would I have to work on? What's the Leetcode equivalent for EMs?
Not that I mind the comeuppances that are coming up, but I do wonder if the new generation of tulip traders could have saved a lot of trouble by labeling everything "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY". Only then you probably run into gambling regulators, who if anything are even more suspicious of their regulatees than financial regulators.
We should all be concerned no matter the radius. This will happen elsewhere if nothing is done to address the issues. And right now, far too many people are silent on this.
These models inherently cannot be truthful because there is no intelligence behind them that can have any sort of intent at all.

It’s literally monkeys with typewriters pressing keys randomly.

Until we get new models which have true understanding, they will never be truly useful.
I recently built something similar. I have a web app which logs json data to a file. Then I use vector.dev to tail the file. Vector has a clickhouse integration so it automatically pushes logs into the DB. I also have it automatically push data to S3 as a backup. The system works remarkably well!
Microsoft needs a search deal with Apple to win the war against Google
That'd be some interesting beer
If someone is fired from a start-up that just has some kind of nebulous speculated future value, it doesn’t mean they lacked skills — they might have been successfully creating some part of it. The market just has decided that what they were working on might not actually have that nebulous future value.

They might be able to for example go work for a company that produces objects, and then sells them to consumers in exchange for money. Then the value of their skills will be a little more obvious I guess.
I think Paxos is probably legit. Their stablecoin was used by Facebook in the last desperate iteration of the Libra/Diem crypto project. I would assume that a company of FB's size and ongoing legal scrutiny probably vetted Paxos's reserves pretty thoroughly. (Then again the FB crypto project was a fuck-up of the highest order right from the start, so maybe they neglected this too.)

However the Paxos-Binance stablecoin bridge business seems shady. Are the BUSD tokens created by Binance really backed by the dollars Paxos is holding? What's the chance there is a FTX-style "hidden, poorly internally labelled account" black hole where the money should be?
>That number seems excessive. There are a lot of numbers out there but the most frequent one seems to be 90% of startups fail.

That's still an endeavor slim 10% chance of success, offered as a "solution" to a fired mid-40s dev looking for a paycheck.

Not to mention that to create and support the startup to success takes money.

And that the 10% success rate is possibly because not every fired mid-40s dev starts one, but only those with some potential to succeed to begin with.

:)
Well the problem is the privacy bait and switch isn't it?

When you install a compiler who's respecting your privacy, and without opt in it starts sending telemetry, you can't expect that to go well.

Now naming people like this isn't going to help either I think.
*Taxpayer funded
So you cut corner A because that has results in disaster, now they've cut corner B and that resulted in disaster?

Do they have an Obsessive Compulsive Corner Cutting Disorder?

Sounds like the 'problem' is irresponsible management and investors that never suffer the consequences of their actions.
My favorite technique for reducing the cost of logging is the same technique that was employed in The Apollo Guidance Computer(though I'm not sure if they did it for cost purposes).

To quote from Annotations to Eldon Hall's Journey to the Moon[1]:
"The Coroner recorded every instruction executed, with its inputs and results, writing over the oldest record when it filled up. When a program crashed, you could punch out a full record of what it was doing in most of its last second and analyze the problem at your ease. I have often wished that PCs offered such an advanced feature."

So essentially buffer all logs into an in-memory circular buffer of capacity N. If a log record is emitted that has a certain severity/level; flush all records from the buffer to disk/clickHouse/grafana/whatever.

The python MemoryHandler[2] almost implements the said technique, except that it also flushes when buffer is full; which is not particularly what I would want.

I also wrote a blogpost[3] about how to log without losing money or context, ~3yrs ago.

1. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/...

2. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.11.1/Lib/logging/h...

3. https://www.komu.engineer/blogs/09/log-without-losing-contex...
Eh I think it is the people getting agitated instead of NatSec council. Case in point that Chinese balloon spotted in Montana. I think Biden admin want to sweep that info under the rug, but since a local publication in Montana publish it, all hell broke loose.
I use only GCC, because it's GPLed, and I don't use LLVM toolchain, because it's not GPLed.
F# does not really support pure functional programming in the sense that Scala does, so yeah. Use Scala ZIO and you will see what I mean.

It also has some other nice features that F# lacks. But F# also has some nice things that Scala lacks. Overall I think it's worth to learn it for learning new concepts, but F# is already great, so don't expect Scala to be way ahead and even worse in some ways (syntax, no type providers, ...)
> If it's state controlled and an accident happens and there is a govt investigation, do you think it'll be more stern than one on a private company? Do you think enforcement of rules is stricter when enforced in house?

At least it's easier to hold public officials accountable - you can get rid of them by voting - than to hold companies accountable.
Aside from the fact that the person releasing the baloon might not be a signatory and thus bound by the convention...

"Article 5: The aircraft of states, other than scheduled international air services, have the right to make flights across state's territories and to make stops without obtaining prior permission."

Seems like you don't need permission for a flyover using a baloon because it's not a scheduled international service...
> RU has said that they will use nuclear weapons if their territory is threatened and UA and RU have territorial disputes.

Ukraine already "occupies" territory which is part of the Russian Federation according to its constitution.

Also, I don't believe Russia ever said this. Russia has a nuclear doctrine, which basically says that Russia can use nukes if the existence of the Russian state is threatened. (and of course to retaliate against a nuclear strike)
As a follow up, if anyone uses `boost::lexical_cast` a lot, try defining

BOOST_LEXICAL_CAST_ASSUME_C_LOCALE

for some performance speed-ups and code size reductions
Opinions quickly changed when this Russian equipment broke down constantly, or flat out did not work, or had key parts stolen while in storage for all these years. It turns out NATO has been equipping to fight the military Russia said it had.
Asking nicely doesn't work in pratice because people willing to answer the question is not a randomly sampled group of people and usually highly biased. You can check how polling works and why it doesn't work.

The problem is always how to randomly sample people and AFAIK there is no good way except randomly sample people (a.k.a telemetry). You can argue that developers shouldn't care that much about their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected, but asking nicely really is not a solution.

APPENDED: PLEASE NOTE I'm saying asking nicely is not a solution to get correct data from statistical standpoint. You can argure the data accuracy is not important in this context.
It must be fun being a General and messing with the media when they ask stupid questions.

General: "We don't know the origin of these objects."

Reporter: "So they are ships sent by aliens?"

General: "Well we don't know the origin of these objects, they could come from anywhere."

BREAKING NEWS: MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN SUSPECTED ALIEN SHIP.
What is very frustrating is that health effects can be slow as in 20-30 years. By then the people who committed the crime are long gone or will claim the statute has expired.

Another thing that is done is just sell the company and then the new owner claims that was the predecessor and that the new company no longer have any liability. Ala Union Carbide or even Monsanto. In fact one company recently said they only by the assets not the liabilities which is absurd (might have been Bayer).
> this is due to arbitrary arrests of US citizens

That's the reason given, although that may not overlap perfectly with "this is due to"
I’m talking specifically about the defense in the article that ‘if they include AGPLv3 in the title then it has to be AGPLv3’ due to the GPL/AGPL being a trademark owned by the FSF (this is argued in the expert report linked in the article.)

That defense somehow would require a trademark issue with the FSF to be remedied by granting a more lenient license to the third party (PureThink, the defendant here.)
Appearently reliable internet and digitilization of public services in Germany :)
This is a sign of depression or something similar. Usually people will suggest therapy in these situations, have you considered it?

It's far from the only path though. There's many possible causes of depression and even more possible solutions. Find one that works for you. You deserve more than shit. As someone who's been deep in that shit more than once, you can claw your way out and once you do, the world is a beautiful place that's worth growing old in. Then you'll end up in the shit again but each time climbing out gets easier.

Personally it took me moving country, changing career more than once until I found one that gave me a sense of purpose, finding a beautiful and totally surprising partner, and lots more to find my present stability.

That's what worked for me. What will work for you? You need to find that out. You only have one life, if it's shitty now them what have you got to lose by making every possible effort to change that? I mean, what could possibly be more important than making that effort? Certainly not a shitty career or a shitty relationship or a shitty family. Leave them if you need to. Nothing controls you except you. And physics, and the law and immigration officers and so on. But there's always room to maneuver.
This saga escalates after the reveal that Balloon Boy grew up into a Marvel villain. Showing myself out now.
From: https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rule...

>Documents show that when current transportation safety rules were first created, a federal agency sided with industry lobbyists and limited regulations governing the transport of hazardous compounds.

I really don't think government owning the company is going to help.
Underlying theory is important, but seeing practical examples that _explicitly applies theory_ has been critical in my particular electronics adventure. There are more ways to apply Ohm's Law (or Kirchhoff's Laws) than you can shake a stick at and seeing someone explicitly do the math and apply it while explaining a circuit that I am interested in has helped me get better at applying it.

I think the hardest things for me so far been (a) getting my head around the idea that everything in a circuit is happening all at once (rather than iteratively like an algorithm) and (b) "input" and "output" are convenience terms, e.g. an opamp can sink current through its "output". Both of these insights have come from seeing real circuits analyzed on YouTube.
I respect an engineers that can code Clojure. Nice job.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. I didn't mean to insinuate that people should be debt free or that its their fault if they have debt.

As you described, we've been handed this system dependent on consistent growth of GDP as measured by a debt-based currency. Going debt free, effictively breaking out of that economic model entirely, takes plenty of planning and commitment - it's not easy by design.

The societal question is so interesting to me because, at least as far as I'm aware, we were never offered the chance to pick this model or way of life. A few key individuals in our history made a few seemingly reasonable decisions that happened to build to a model where everyone is expected and encouraged to live primarily on debt.
Thanks, we seem to mostly agree.

Though I do think 'off-shoring' from California to the Ohio vs off-shoring from California to India have important aspects in common.

For better or worse, agglomeration effects are real, and for some ineffable reasons software people are more productive when located in Silicon Valley, rather than Ohio. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration

However the pandemic forced an investment in making remote-work work. That's not even so much an investment in technology (hardware or software), but more taking the time and effort to figure out what works and doesn't work. It's full of soft factors.
Leaving Google Analytics for more lightweight solutions
May be irrelevant here but I stumbled across a new programming langauge called V [1] that is heavily inspired by Go and does not rely on LLVM rather directly generates C.

Operating system is already a spyware and next arms race is for everyone to arm their compilers. Good going, product managers.

[1] https://vlang.io/
> “SQLite is a successful open source project thanks to the fact that a significant chunk of development infrastructure isn’t open source” isn’t a great argument regarding the sustainability of open source…

To maintain open source over a long period of time, some durable competitive advantage is probably required yes. With such a moat, competitors can be beaten. Luckily, being open source is also a small moat since it avoids vendor lock-in and some businesses need vendor lock-in to survive (I'm looking at your SAP).

> If Richard gets hit by a bus, and the community tries to keep the project alive according to free and open-source principles, then they’re going to face all the same barriers that a corporation would :/

The project sits inside Richard's company and the company has some other engineers working there.
> If I wanted to read the thoughts of some random person who is feeling anxious about something they’re ignorant about, I would go on social media.

It's one thing to ask random Joe on the streets if he's fine with immigration. That's pretty pointless.

But asking someone directly affected from a natural disaster or industrial accident by living right next to it? That's the kind of journalism that is needed, because it points out the answers that experts absolutely must provide.
Then my hypothesis is that if someone actually puts as much effort into the goal as they estimate, they will achieve it in as little time as they estimate.
Admittedly, I did get bored reading about Meta's branding
Actually yes, the technology for mRNA vaccines was largely invented in the United States starting in the 1980s. [0] It has since been refined by multiple international commercial teams.

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
Scala is way different now and tooling is honestly great, unless you compare it with Java tooling (which is best in class).

Compile times got better but are still slower and can be quite annoying. Hope it will be improved further.
your post implies that - even though it's difficult to do - one could perhaps pick a good fund and be better off than investing into e.g. ETFs.

the poster you're replying to implies that this might not be possible at all if the successful funds only are so because of random chance.
Thanks! The ham radio is a very good idea.
A one hour course on Tensorflow basics. You will be building a working handwriting recognition neural network using Tensorflow.
Having seen the same situation in the previous generation in my family, I'm not looking forward to be (perceived as) too old to be employable.
They’ve digressed to arguing about CC and CoC. Yikes.

Stupid proposal. If I wanted telemetry, I’d implement with a trusted party, whose service I am paying to use.
The world was already there, your bubble just burst. In recent decades tech companies and their programmers have done everything they can to collect data about users. Are you now surprised that the same companies apply the same practices for technical users of their software?

The solution, at least for me, is to remove that software from my life. Personally I vowed a long time ago to never work for a company whose business is to track people. It's no big deal for me, but I understand at least some may have hard decisions to make.
I just screen shot the QR code, run zbarimg on it, to get the tokens.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/zbarimg
Hmm. I think just command args.
While true in general, it is really not that necessary to have a representative sample for checking whether your software works. With large enough sample size a convenience sample will find almost all of the bugs that telemetry would have found.
I think lads is only gender neutral in some groups and as a more recent usage. In the UK we used to have 'lads mags' which were magazines aimed at a young and specifically male audience.
But the feature should be opt-in to begin with. Opt-out is an anti/dark-pattern that should rightfully be derided.
Proliferation of plasmids caused the Big-Daddy rebellion.
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines (2021)
ESP8266 web server with React front end framework
Will we see any pictures of these crafts before or after being hit by the missiles?

I guess if they are previously unseen tech from China, thus a military secret, we would not likely get to see any pictures, which would be a shame...
Also see this thread:

“Crypto Firm Paxos Faces SEC Lawsuit over Binance USD Token”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769460

Edit: Coindesk has shared the details of The Wall Street Journal’s reporting:

> “Following the news of the SEC's legal action, Binance issued a statement that it would be reviewing projects in uncertain markets where regulatory uncertainty could cause detriments to its users.

> “The NYDFS said that it had instructed Paxos to cease minting BUSD due to several unresolved issues related to Paxos’ oversight of its relationship with Binance. Paxos said it is ending its relationship with Binance for BUSD.”
Looks like the current news cycle is mostly pushing fanfare; everybody loves a good Alien story. It seems like the pentagon and US officials are also eager to hint that it's extra terrestrial activity - In reality it's most likely US-China relations going sour and each country shooting down the others super-secret not-so-secret-now spy drones. In a couple of decades when we have the declassified info available we'll be marvelling at how the second cold war was going on right under our noses and the pentagon convinced us it was aliens.
I think Slack is mostly getting squeezed by Microsoft Teams. Mattermost is good, but Teams is killing Slack in most enterprises and it is just going to get worse.
It started with the absolute astonishing amount of data that VS Code sends back to Microsoft, now it's pretty standard.

If you really want to see what your devices send back, monitor DNS on your devices.

I installed a bunch of apps on a spare phone (that had no sim card) and was VERY surprised how much background data and requests Tiktok used.
This is great. Those examples are not the best quality, but they're impressive.

That prompted me to generate ambigrams with stable diffusion. The results looked odd, as ambigrams tend to, but the "text" was largely illegible. I wonder when the state of the art will be able to handle that request.
> There were multiple sightings of axles on fire before the accident

In Germany, we have these hot-box detectors as well - and if they trigger, the train is automatically stopped by dispatch. Wonder what happened in this case.