skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human kind is not able to exterminate itself full stop. It couldn't then, it can't now.
Might as well re-establish slavery then. If there's a better ROI in owning a person outright than in owning just their labour, then by logical inference you should encourage the higher-ROI activity where ever possible.
Surely you didn't comment before viewing the post.
7 Billion people wearing t-shirts vs 2 statues, not the same, sorry. There are laws for offensive shirts though so yes, specific t-shirts can cause emotional suffering and could land the person wearing it in a lot of trouble based on hate speech and obscenity laws.
It’s unfortunate that you were offended by the cartoon shark in the programming article. You are entitled to your own preferences and expectations, but so am I. I have the right to express myself creatively and share my content with the world for free. I don’t have to please you or anyone else with my personal choices. Your feedback is noted, but please be more mindful and respectful of other readers who may like my work and the artists who were contracted to create the art in question. Thank you.

One path to find peace is to kill the part of yourself that cringes rather than try to smother out others who are "cringe". Otherwise, there are plenty of cookie-cutter medium.com blogs and LinkedIn posts if you want something more to your standards.
Thank you very much! You're very welcome to dive further into the Pond if you want: https://youtu.be/ZMklf0vUl18
I am working for a railroad company at the moment, we learned cool stuff during onboarding.

Modern train have an electromagnetic emergency brake system that uses a large magnet lowered onto the rail to stop.

Also the standard braking system using fluids has a clever indirection where it does not activate the brake when pressure rises but when it drops. This is because when a waggon gets loose and the braking line rips and fluids get's out, the waggon should immediately brake as soon as pressure drops.
Minds too small to fathom Goodhart’s law.
25Tb?
"Arkansas’s Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, recently signed a law ending a requirement that fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds obtain a parent’s consent and a state permit before starting work. Linking the bill, strangely, to parental rights, the governor’s office called the permit “an arbitrary burden on parents.”"

Yet... teens shouldn't have access to abortion or other sexual health services without parental consent because... they're children(?). My initial thought reading this was the word 'astonishing' but... on reflection, it's not that astonishing. It's just depressing. Also, more than mildly infuriating.
2002 paper on Audacity: A Fast Data Structure for Disk-Based Audio Editing [pdf]
Of course, Full Self Driving is not fully self driving because it relies on a human to monitor it.

Without a driver monitoring system, what would have been your life expectancy if you let it drive without you monitoring it?

Full Self Driving can only be fully self driving when it approaches the reliability and safety of human drivers.
Within about 5 meters of me I have devices with sockets or cables for USB 2 Type A and Type B, USB 2 Mini (not sure if Type A, B, or AB...), USB 2 Micro (Type AB?), USB 3 Type A, USB 3 Micro (Type B? not sure...) and finally USB 3 Type C.

That's seven at least by my count. I probably have some USB 1.1 Type A peripherals in my closet but those might be USB 2, they look the same so I'm not sure. The only devices I counted were: phone, kindle, laptop, PC, mouse/keyboard, printer, portable HDD, and a GPS nav unit. Maybe I'm weird for still using the last one, but otherwise I don't think any of this is particularly unusual.
Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.
I'm not sure what you're reacting to here. I wasn't presenting an argument for or against welfare payments
3D-Printable Aperiodic Monotiles and Aperiodic Monotile Coloring Book Pages
They will be back. I don't think they will stick to their guns.

They should step up their game if they really want to voice it. Delete all the posts and the accounts. Then if decision is reversed come back with new account.
Sorry it would be a spoiler to reveal this to you at this point
This is actually not at all what I'm saying, but I can see why it would seem so.

I don't see any reduction in free speech in sight for us in the West, and would certainly not advocate for that either. All I'm saying that we have practically no problem with free speech, and implying so or advocating for it is rather boring or outright playing to the hand of the alt right.
You can just as well say: Would you rather have parents force 12 year olds to clean slaughterhouse floors at night, to make ends meet (oh and this happens partly because child labor of course also depresses parents' wages, so let's please not blame the parents immediately), or would you have them study one day out of 10 because the games really bore them?
If we're not moralizing, shouldn't this be if the cost-benefit analysis comes out sufficiently positive then we should commit to scaling it up?
I read that article looking for the glaringly dangerous part and while it seems you could get hurt if you used it the wrong way it didn't seem worse than misusing lawn darts.
Up until the phrase "real estate" this same argument could be applied to all sorts of ownership/rentership dichotomies, e.g. subscription-based services (streaming, SaaS, etc.) vs ownership of content media (buying albums, self-hosting, etc.).

Software and digital media more generally really calls into question the notions of property per se.
yep, exactly. there's voltage negotiation up to 48v going on. though in practice probably not quite that high yet
Do OpenIA et al. even understand it themselves?
He said he wasn’t headed to Russia initially, but his passport was revoked while he was there. If he has a Russian passport now, there’s no obvious reason he couldn’t go to his original destination.
Only in the sense "you're free to say only what I agree with"
No, in fact telnet is worse because it's not 8-bit clean. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179850#36180346 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179850#36180923
I like how you try to cram as many stock photos as you possibly can into the rather sparse project brochure type page. Why no screenshots?

Cool project though. Since it's proprietary I'm less likely to pick it up, but I wish you the best.
The issue is also that the right people need to come.

Generally speaking, the issue with new startup competitors for social networks is that the first people they attract a critical mass of are people who got banned from the other sites for spam or excessive toxicity, and once they’re there they spook potential new people. It’s the online version of the “Nazi bar” problem.
Breathlessly approving tone of a language readme: Readmes on Github, especially for languages, often have a recognizable tone. Look how cool this is! Isn't this so neat!? Why would you ever do it differently!?

Comedic timing (in text): Most prose is written under the assumption that it will be read in order- ie, from beginning to end. For instance, you likely read the word "beginning" before you read the word "end" in that last sentence, and read the word "to" between them. So for instance, while "a lesser shitpost would have revealed that of course the file extension was .db right at the start", this superior shitpost has text between the start and the reveal. This is analogous to how, when speaking, a comedian will maintain awareness of pausing and such to drop funny lines at exactly the right moment.
Three big issues off the top of my head:

* Hosting costs. Reddit was very lucky to have imgur pick up a lot of its bandwidth in its early days, but free image/video hosting sites are cyclical: absent a benevolent billionaire, the costs will rise with popularity, and the site will eventually need a source of revenue, which will introduce friction and start its inevitable decline in popularity.

* Moderation. Always a highwire tightrope act. Most Reddit spin-offs of the past several years have been focused on minimizing moderation, which ends up attracting people who tend to get banned from other places before the site gets a chance to form its own identity and pick up steam.

* Network effects, which are basically a lottery. You can have a scalable service with great UI, and a solid moderation story, but you still need to get lucky and catch lightning in a bottle to take off. This is common knowledge, which makes it even harder to justify starting to develop or use a new social medium.

Personally, I like places like HN, which focus on good moderation without trying to scale up. We are blessed to have dang, but if the site were structured more like Reddit or a forum with different boards, I bet it would become unmanageable very quickly.
That's called a dogma then, and no you can't compare gravity to human-made climate change.
More like 1/30th of that. Because of compounding, 10% monthly inflation is over 300% yearly inflation.
Can you elaborate on "not technically solid"? Or is this notion also based on a single experience?
Ok so it's clear you are not familiar with the vocabulary of this domain. "Capacity" means something specific (if extremely hard to measure precisely) about the informational throughput of a system, not just "the ability to do high-level task X as judged by a naive human observer".

I urge you to study more seriously about the things you seem so eager to speculate about before publishing underinformed opinions in public spaces.
Every time one of these stories comes out I sigh a little and conclude that it's more showing the failure of modern management practices and the legal environments these companies are required to operate in than anything about employee responsibility.

Companies should be judging their people by results. If someone's performance is acceptable then all of these surveillance metrics don't matter. If someone's performance is not acceptable then all of these surveillance metrics still don't matter. If the company can't tell if an employee's performance is acceptable then maybe that's something they should think about first.

Some of the nastier management practices are also CYA policies because of potential liability if the employee does something they shouldn't or suffers some harm personally while working from home and the company is held responsible even if there was little it could or should practically do to avoid the harm. It seems likely that some of our legal frameworks for employment relationships are outdated in the WFH era and could benefit from review. It should be clear what responsibilities an employer has to a WFH employee - for example providing WFH staff with suitable equipment to do their job properly and safely - but I don't think we should burden employers with responsibility for bad things that happen beyond their reasonable control. Maybe some of the perceived need for these aggressive and often covert surveillance measures goes away if some of the arguably unreasonable liabilities for bad things happening are also taken away.
There is nothing special about Mach/xnu here and it is not helping anything.
It's morbidly fascinating to see so many "normals" of the last 50 years evaporate bit by bit.
Why I’m quitting Hacker News
I just shared a post about the world’s oceans setting record temperatures for 80 continuous days. After the post achieved 130+ upvotes and the top spot within several hours, it was nuked. My experience is that every post on Hacker News addressing climate change is removed or downvoted to oblivion. I don’t want to be part of a community that turns away from probably the most important threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Goodbye and farewell!
Many counter examples exist. I've seen with my own eyes US written softwares, Oracle and PTC, that were pure shit.
Qt, KDE and Apache Flink origin is european, AFAIK, and they seems quite decent.
Some early adopters of mastodon have high expectations that the absence of adtech will create a utopia. Ofcourse that wont happen. Online platforms had problems way before adtech. Some also have plain wrong experctations e.g regarding privacy.

You also have enormous inertia and network effects to overcome for people to switch. Many simply disengage or opt for the least bad option. In any case most flavors of the fediverse not ready for mass market from a ux perspective.

What is interesting about the fediverse at the current stage is that it has established beyond doubt the viability of flexible new patterns for how to organize social platforms. An enormous step but it will require many more before its the new normal.
I don't understand the Roblox hate I see here all the time.

As a self-taught programmer who learnt via private game servers, I see the importance of making programming fun for kids.

Roblox also needs to be able to sustain itself financially to continue developing the framework and maintaining server resources.

It seems like a lot of the hate is from people who haven't even checked out this community, they just parrot the same talking point and hate that previous people have said.
I've seen this, too (I think we've crossed circles before)

Generally it's because there are few commercial CMS companies left and media orgs are not software development companies.

So neither solution is ideal and most media companies operate in a 5-10 year loop of dissatisfaction and change.
Italy. WindTre plan.
I don’t have an issue being monitored if it means I can work from home more frequently. I think the data would help highlight that I’m more productive working from home than in the office due to less distractions and wasted commute time.

It would be helpful if firms monitoring productivity mentioned what they consider productivity to be. However, in doing this, it would also make it easy for individuals to game any productivity metrics.

It’s interesting that Teams tracks which device you join meetings on. I start my day on my work laptop around 7AM and my daily standup is at 9:30AM. I typically join the standup on my phone, and make coffee and have a snack. Our standup runs 30-45mins due to how it’s managed and doesn’t provide much value to me. I’m present and engaged during that time, but I wonder if it could be interpreted as me “joining a meeting from bed” as suggested in the article. I see it as a productivity gain as I can have my coffee break while still attending the standup.
This assumes that the secrets are deployed along with everything else in the repository. Even if the same repository contains your app, they needn't be deployed together. And as far as old secrets go, they are at most as sensitive as current secrets.
I mean, quite frankly I don’t care whether you can or not. That was hardly the point; I was trying to show what a bizarre leap the initial claim was.

Based on your process, I would now like to claim this as anecdotal evidence that people whose experience of programming, in years, is a non-prime number are bad at arguing on internet forums.
I know plenty of people who did fine in software development and related jobs without CS degrees. I would recommend fitting in as many STEM, philosophy and linguistics classes as you can and maybe add a minor or double major in one of those subjects instead of CS.
Ask HN: If research is the opposite of teaching, how can profs do both well?
Research is about exploring novel ideas while teaching is about revisiting old ones over and over again.

It seems that the personality type suited for research is exactly the opposite as that suited for teaching.

So how can professors do both well?
I can see the appeal of that, as my last name ends in *in, but .in is a registry notoriously unfriendly to foreigners (as are many ccTLDs), and it just doesn't make sense to build any kind of online presence around a domain name that could be taken away from me at any time for any reason, simply because I don't actually live in India.
could have made a language faster than C in 0.1x the amount of time
> Consumers don't care where the LLMs are run, but if companies can off-board the computing costs onto the consumers, then they will save millions per month

The incentive may actually be the other way around. If it has to be run in the cloud, it has to be a service. And selling a service is more attractive to companies (even Apple nowadays) than selling a piece of hardware.
You know the dumbest part about this ageist attack on youth (in context of climate and social life) is the gerontocrats dictating such are frail, old, and have no ability to feed themselves.

It’s all designed to isolate grandpa and grandma from work; prop up their ephemeral investments and keep producing their potatoes, kids! They earned it!

Sorry but I don’t think your grandma and parents are owed Porsches and mansions at the cost to my kids.
If people come from Mexico and "take your jobs", that's worth shutting down the government. If your neighbors' 14 year old kids "take your jobs"... that's just good old capitalism?
What happens is that the US has other five eyes members spy on Americans, and then they get the data from them.

Also, Snowden reported that the data of Americans WAS being collected, and that was the thing he warned everyone about. Pretending there was no illegal/invasive activity on the NSA's part is revisionism at best.
I do the same and transactions work well most of the time. I use ZFS as filesystem for my DBMS (Postgres), which allows me to do consistent snapshots. Being able to rollback has been helpful for testing complex or large queries as well.
This wouldn't go into a standard library since it's distribution dependent, but you might be interested to note a non-trivial (nor game changing) improvement to leveldb query time even with all the other work that it's doing besides search. Other examples would include things like pandas joins which use primitives like searching for lower bounds and partition points.

I agree because for datasets that fit into memory, the scope for improvement is pretty limited. From a billion elements to 128 billion, that's only around 23% (37/30) more comparisons for binary search, and keeping that constant at the expense of more linear search isn't necessarily all that interesting for cheap comparisons. LogN grows so slowly that log-logN is frequently not that practically interesting.
It bleeds over into ethics at some point.

Microsoft in the DOS days was still fighting hard for market. Microsoft in the Netscape days? Eh... less of a competitive claim. Post ~2005? No claim.

For me, the definition of "reputable" changes when you're a competitor among equals vs when you're a monopoly.
I think there are more things worth complaining about, rather than about this content specifically. Hopefully you enjoyed the article though.
Did you detect this MixPanel or something?
Show HN: CDC-Based Version Control
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Almost all professional game developers use Perforce to collaborate on their games, but Perforce is closed-source, expensive and complicated. Open-source solutions like Git/GitLFS and SVN do not scale with large projects and large files. They are also missing essential features, like file locking, which are necessary when working with binary files that cannot be merged.

Jamsync is implemented using Go, SQLite and Protobufs.

You can try it out at https://jamsync.dev which has more details on the background of the project.

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I think my examples are very clearly related to free speech. They are all examples of excuses or intimidation used to prevent people from speaking.
I think the difference is much more along the lines that the US is a big enough market (without language barriers) that it is possible for US developers to write much more types of software than you can feasibly write and sell in the EU. Same for Asia outside of China and Australia. EU people can write software. They don't because it's not worth it.

And of course, this happens in large numbers. The bigger the market, the bigger the software industry. But even Germany isn't even a third of the US market for software.

The actual people aren't different. You just can't achieve in the EU what is possible in the US, and I don't mean "become a millionnaire", I mean "provide for yourself and maybe a family". Especially since the US has places to live that are far cheaper than the cheapest place to live in many EU countries like the Netherlands, or the kind-of-EU Switzerland.
what for?

everybody out there socialising are doing it either because they like it or for some other goal...you obviously hope to join the second camp, so what is it?
A couple years ago, somebody remarked to me, "oh, you're one of those free speech guys, aren't you?" and I realized it was meant as an insult. Yes, I guess so! I'm not sure what changed, but I doubt that would ever have happened a few decades ago. You might have argued about the practical limits of free speech (shouting fire in a theater, Potter Stewart's obscenity test, etc.) but you would never hear someone say that free speech itself was less than an unalloyed good to society, if not the foundation for it. You wouldn't accuse someone of "being a free speech guy" because everybody was expected to be one. I really hope that's not in the process of getting thrown out with the bath water.
To all the AI hucksters - there was a decades long effort already tried, known as "5th generation programming languages" where they assumed the next level after high level programming languages would be to remove the human programmer completely.

basically, this effort ended up failing because, well, problem solving itself is inherently complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

seems like the exact same thing happened with ChatGPT / AutoGPT / GPT4, and this will keep happening.
Pretty bad take overall. I understand your sentiment. I really do. However we will always have people in exploitable situations. If it’s not poor kids it’s people running from extreme poverty in another part of the world or just falling on hard times at home.

At a certain point we have to say no one should be making less than this. As a society we likely want a floor on what human time is worth. If your business truly can’t function and that floor is reasonable which I believe it is in almost all states your business isn’t viable.
Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child
https://web.archive.org/web/20230115172142/https://www.bell-...
Hosting costs: Let's start with text only.

Moderation: True, that's hard. But maybe piggybacking on HN's karma points could solve it?

Network effects: Do we really need many users to make something useful?
I think the best gem is the ability to delete paradigms.

As for OOP, a bit more realistic would have been to restrict interfaces to at most one implementation.
That's why I suggested piggybacking on HN's karma points.
Now that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, I wouldn't trust them one bit to keep your activity there away from your employer. It would be really easy to correlate your sentiment analysis on Teams/email against your LI messaging traffic.
The days of MySpace losing to Facebook or Digg losing to Reddit are over. We reached a phase where the biggest networks are too big to die quickly. It no longer seems possible to replace these sites wholesale.

Their decline will look like Craigslist's. They'll still be around a decade from now, but having slowly and steadily lost traffic and cultural relevance.

I fully welcome Twitter and Reddit suddenly sacrificing their future for short term gain. It's the only path to being eventually rid of them.

And instead of replacing them with new single winners like Mastodon, I'm hopeful the new trend will be to spread our activity to multiple sites, and to be a bit less online in general.
What about your posts on other topics? Were some of them nuked as well under similar circumstances?
Funny seeing you here, I enjoyed your SandPond videos :)