skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I would to make a comprehensive list of everything I've seen it would be depressing.

When I first got to grad school I immediately went to a group that had published a paper "solving parts of protein folding" using a lab-written code. Some 1 year after the paper was written, the PI could not give me that code, "because it had been lost when an SGI was reinstalled". I don't really trust results in papers unless I can see and hold code and reproduce the author's work, or a highly competent scientist implements their own version (I'm no good at reading papers and writing code to implement it, then run through all the steps of reproducing the original paper.)

Another enlightening moment was when a more senior grad student told me: make sure everything you do ties back to medical research, even if the relationship is extremely distant. You can get money from NIH from curing senator's family's diseases (cancer and heart disease).

When I was finally starting to apply for funding on my own through the NIH R01 grant program, I was turned down, without a score (meaning it was worthless and never should be funded). The next year, I was on the study section for that grant section and saw several more experienced PIs submit proposals that were very similar to (likely copied from) mine, and they were funded. I later learned I needed to spend several years reviewing grants before I knew enough to write a successful grant (oh, and make friends with everybody else in the study section, too).

On another study section dedicated to funding moving academic data and compute to the cloud, I turned down several grants because they asked for money for closet (on-prem) clusters. I was not asked to return, because the people I turned down were influential.

Basically, as has been pointed out many times before, the incentive system in academia is perverse and does not help people like me who just want to do high quality research but take our time to get the details right, and not get in competitions with other, more aggressive scientists. Many of us self-select out of science and end up as computer engineers or ML engineers or whatever in industry.
It could be made optional but not required where you'd have a choice of either Category View or Feed View.
Working on my own project has easily become one of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done in my life
Do most watches have ports that are designed for thousands of uses? My smart watch sure does. But of all the possible avenues by which its waterproofness might fail, that connector is #1. I'm pretty sure its custom, as the cable has actual pogo pins to connect.

Strictly from a product design and especially hardware design standpoint, I get the resistance to easy replacement of certain parts. Designing for a replaceable battery means designing your seal to withstand at least twice as many battery replacements as the law requires, or you make sure you have enough replacement seals stockpiled to cover the number that will be replaced, or you use a a commodity seal (think an O-ring).

Apple eventually made ~86 million iPhone 8 and 8 plus. Let's say that's representative of any given model of phone. How many millions (billions?) of seals is that? How much does that cost to store? To distribute? How much does that affect the cost of the phone?

I am fully behind right-to-repair. I won't work for companies that have lobbied against it (and as an embedded hardware and firmware guy, that's significant). But there is a measurable, monetary cost to designing things to be repaired. Either we accept that only the richest n% of e.g. phone manufacturers can afford to stay in business, we as the consumer accept lower performance at the same price point, or both.

All of that said, my point regarding connectors with finite cycle lifespans is relevant. These physical devices themselves have a lifespan. What is the point of replacing a battery when the charging port, headphone jack, physical buttons, touch screen, etc are spec'd to fail well before the average battery does? What about if you have the same iPhone 8 soldering problem, where the phone can't actually survive being put in the back pocket of a decently tight pair of pants? How does government regulation regarding batteries reverse the trend of people buying cheap things because they cost less?
We can only speculate but Abraham is pleading with God more for his nephew necessarily than Sodom itself.
Tauri looks great (Rust, webkit & js)
We tried zoho. Had to move as the servers reputation was awful. Maybe you get your own ip if you do enterprise?
I remember this company called reddit, people for some reason flocked around it, then they pissed everyone off and became irrelevant.

Now if only Twitter would do the same in a prompt fashion. Musk tries hard, damn hard, but not has hard as Reddit to scuttle themselves.

If nothing else so fools here stop posting twit links to twit news. Twitter gets no scripting access here, it doesn't really work anymore otherwise, so for me already dead, just wish others would catch up.
I agree with you. But also, to be fair, I'm pretty sure in that time phone bodies have transitioned from mostly plastic to mostly metal? I'm sure that has something to do with the weight, and I would guess that the metal shell is probably thicker too?
If anyone has not read Ellsberg’s 2017 book “The Doomsday Machine”, I highly recommend it. It covers his work and knowledge regarding potential nuclear war within US policy which was the main reason he wanted to become a whistleblower. Within the book he discuses numerous problems with US command and control procedures for launching nuclear attacks and even calls the movie “Dr. Strangelove” a “documentary” (tongue in cheek) because of its satirical yet accurate highlighting of these issues. It’s a captivating, informative, and frightening book.
This software is pure gold.
I would actually love to give a donation to support its developement if possible.
Caveat: data with trailing zeros will share the same location, e.g., 0.1 & 0.010 . A quick fix would be appending a 1 to all data.
No. Not at all. Watching this feels like a total waste of time.
The fundamental cultural conditions of isolation and low meaning really haven't moved much on the needle since the 90s (look at the writing of David Foster Wallace to see what I'm talking about)

The Internet has just exasperated an already present issue of low empathy, reactionary politics, and get rich quick schemes
Oh, I believe you. Thanks for the references.
I am not sure businesses would trust Meta with their sensitive data. Facebook/Meta brand equity in the B2B domain is severely tarnished, with their long history of lack of respect to data privacy laws and lack of transparency.

I just don’t see how Meta could possibly turn into a success in the B2B software business. They are a great advertising company, but they’ve never been successful in their other ventures…
How is that different from any other capital-intensive industry.
Basically my point is that there is nothing specific to DL in these articles/complaints, people are just jumping on the bandwagon.
You don't need any experience. You don't even need a quality competitive product. You just need a landing page and marketing to administrators. Even better if you have connections to school boards.
Current LLMs are notoriously bad at design.

They can produce code snippets that may even work, but they can't stay focused to make it all fit nicely into a consistent architecture. If you ask it to write you some larger and reasonably complex codebase, you'll end up with a weird junior-grade patchwork.

And even if you talk architecture first, they behave as if they have super-short attention spans, so they mostly disregard it and get carried away. (Of course that's not what really happens, I'm kind of anthropomorphising it, but that how it feels like).
So...devbox adopted flakes before Nix did? lol.
> then not enforce any trademarks (assuming that was what the deal was for)

I don't think that's true - "Reddit is Fun" rebranded to "rif is fun for reddit".
You have the causality wrong. The state and local police forces are necessary to enforce local laws because there are many things are are not illegal at the federal level. They simply aren't addressed at all.

There also may be consistency in the legality but not the punishment. As an example, when I was in college the max penalty for getting caught with a single marijuana joint ranged anywhere from a $5 fine to a year in prison depending on whether you were caught by a city cop, campus police, county sheriff, or state police officer. I suppose it would have been possible to end up in federal prison if you somehow pissed off the wrong FBI agent.
You should study our history better - 1993 and 1996 were very different years, in 1993 communists lost elections to pro-Eltsin party and to LDPR (Zhirinovsky).
As a party they got only 12% seats and this had nothing to do with US at all.

Major problems with economy happened during 1994 (like famous black Tuesday) and communists became more popular, but they were not the same people who tried to start military coup in 1993 (Zyuganov was very much against any military actions).

In 1996 Zuyganov lost because Lieutenant General Lebed supported Eltsin, he was Berezovsky's creature and was much more "brutal" that Zyuganov (who was looking exactly as Soviet era nomenklatura) . I highly doubt that anyone in US gave this idea to Berezovsky, because people in US had very little understating what rural Russians wanted to see and hear.
That's a low effort interpretation.

Every kid in the world understands the concept of 3D games, Minecraft, etc. That's a perfect vehicle to begin breaking it down into relevant simple math concepts.
I know this an odd thing to thank someone for, but his book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" is the only book I've ever read that actually gave me nightmares.
This is true, but when it comes to software projects, I don't think you can ever commit to a "hard deadline for a big project" unless the scope (or the cost of the project) is not set in stone.
Parent commenter, and sure it was opinion, but based in good reasoning.

USB-C wasn't the problem, MFi was. The rumours are that Apple's USB-C implementation will be locked down in similar ways, accessory manufacturers will still need to pay Apple to create certified accessories, and data transfer speeds are going to be restricted to Lightning speeds. USB-C everything is nice, but no non-techies I know like it because it's the new cable that's not compatible with any of their stuff (as much as I advocate for it).

Removable batteries in smartphones just aren't workable. We have too high expectations for battery life, weight, durability, water resistance, and size. It negatively impacts all of these. There hasn't been a mass market smartphone with a replaceable battery in a long time, and if they were that great for customers there would have been. A much better option would be to focus on repairability, it would have almost all the benefits, and effectively none of the downsides.
As per usual.
Without them we wouldn’t have McNuggets.

McDonald’s is known to have almost invented and streamlined cooking to industrial level. But McNuggets were made possible only through financial engineering:

https://tackletrading.com/tackle-today-the-rise-of-chicken-m...

I just finished some McNuggets so it’s even more funny to me right now.
Single charger is lovely: nowadays whenever I travel I carry a single charger; it charges: my laptop, my work laptop, my phone, my noise cancelling headphones, my wireless iems, my book, my watch.
Yeah, I've thought there should be a cash-out mortgage refinancing product for monetizing the difference between my 2.5% mortgage and prevailing rates north of 5%. Unfortunately, I don't think there is.
When people used to talk about the danger of runaway AI, I would laugh. "They're just models that learn patterns from data and then make predictions when they see new data." Now that these systems can 1) write code, 2) compile the code they wrote, and 3) connect to the internet, I'm not laughing so much any more. I mean, all the ingredients are there now.
Obviously not, but you can hardly understand the issue when you have more homes than anyone can have in a lifetime.
> Mozilla makes Google the default search engine in Firefox for all users

Be still, my beating heart! Thank goodness Apple doesn't subtly push Google search on it's users or anything. Otherwise it might feel like you're throwing stones from a glass house.

> they need to be exposed and shamed like any other FAANG orgs

They're not a FAANG org. They are a nonprofit that publishes their code and optionally allows you to use their software.

The parent comment is right - whatever "misinformation + hypocrisy + perversity" you perceive Mozilla to be responsible has been done 100fold by your pick of any Fortune 500 company. If your largest demonstrable harm is "defaulting to Google" then we shall expose and shame every big tech org connected to AWS or GCP.
I was in tech for several years (although not always programming) and it took me an embarrassing long time to grok the "why" of OOP. I read the vehicle/car/truck and animal/cat/dog/makeSound kind of examples many times in school but it never clicked why this approach would be useful. It's only when you start working with other people and dealing with stuff you can't keep all in your head when you get the "why" of OOP.
>If DL costs are unsustainable, it means those other things (SAP, web hosting, and all the ridiculous stuff people waste cycles on) are even more unsustainable, and should be addressed first.

That fundamentally misunderstands the point. If it costs me $XXX amounts of dollars to compute the job I'm trying to replace, which only actually costs $X dollar, then it's not financially viable to use the model to replace the job. It makes no difference what the global percentage of computation that makes up.
Why mention Manning, or Snowden, or Assange and not the former POTUS? Doesn't he also stand accused of violating the Espionage Act, in a way that's regarded by many as politically-slanted persecution?
It’s true that users are anonymous to others, but Reddit still has treasure trove of data on what likes, dislikes, political leaning and in some cases current emotional state/wellbeing of individual users.

Unless they are stating that they can’t process this data, they surely should have enough knowledge to do targeted ads.

Most likely scenario is that they have not invested enough on RnD and BD.
Next he'll chat up Marissa Meyer and ask how he can make his company as successful as Yahoo.
i used this to learn swift myself and wished there was a newsletter to send out a reminder for me. instead, i used this apple script to generate a reminder every day for me. you can open Script Editor on your mac and run this. it will start today and schedule a new alert with the appropriate link :)

```AppleScript

set baseURL to "https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/"

set numberOfDays to 100

tell application "Reminders"

set swiftList to make new list with properties {name:"100

Days of Swift"}

repeat with i from 0 to numberOfDays

set dayNumber to "Day " & i

set dayLink to baseURL & i

set reminderDate to (current date) + (i \* days)

tell swiftList to make new reminder with properties {name:dayNumber, body:dayLink, due date:reminderDate}

end repeat

end tell

```
The question was about the minimum number of "righteous" people required for the city to be saved. Abraham started at 50, then 45, then 40, 30, 20, and finally 10 -- at each point, God said "OK, if there are that many righteous people in the city, I'll spare it."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+18%3A20...
The Browser Company is currently working on a Swift on Windows
Real estate is something absurd like 20% of Canada’s GDP, isn’t it? What may have started as greed has evolved into something vital to the country’s existence. You can’t just crash Canadian real estate without having a major negative impact on the country.
"By the end of 2014, it was reported that sales of the S5 were 40% down on the previous S4 model, prompting management changes at Samsung".

This was the last user replaceable battery mainline Galaxy phone. This was also the same generation of the iPhone 6, which was dramatically thinner than the S5 and it's replaceable battery. The market spoke.
40 years ago, you could know one or several microcomputers well, from BASIC down to assembly. But there was even at that time CAD happening on Unix, VAxes driving CAM, the entire IBM universe (from punched cards to RDBMS), and numerical codes like NASTRAN and LINPACK.

Generalists are more valuable than specialists. But generalists are doomed to never knowing everything, and knowing what they don't know.
DigiCert did not cross-sign Let's Encrypt; Identrust did.
"The total death toll as calculated by the Joint Chiefs, from a U.S. first strike aimed primarily at the Soviet Union and China, would be roughly 600 million dead. A hundred Holocausts.

I remember what I thought when I held the single sheet with the graph on it. I thought, this piece of paper should not exist. It should never have existed. Not in America. Not anywhere, ever. It depicted evil beyond any human project that had ever existed. There should be nothing on Earth, nothing real, that it referred to."

https://apjjf.org/-Daniel-Ellsberg/3222/article.html

He also notes that Finland would have been completely destroyed by the US strike and 100 million would die in Western Europe from the effects of US weapons.
Abraham basically bargained God down to save the city if it had ten honest men, but there were not even ten. So even ten wasn’t low enough of a standard for Sodom to be able to pass.
"But by a negligible amount" the title forgot to say:

"This mechanism is going to help, but in the end, it is going to help lower the global surface temperature by up to 0.02 degrees," he said. "There are so many sectors in this economy. You cannot count on the metaverse to do everything. But it could do a little bit if we leverage it in a reasonable way."

If anything this is an indication of how meager the upsides of the metaverse are (even assuming the massive adoption rate their curve-fitting projects).
I'm still holding out for Xamarin
I started rqlite[1] in 2014[2], FWIW. While I didn't build the storage engine, or the consensus system, I've built the entire "management" part of the RDBMS from scratch. I'm almost 10 years at it, and there is still plenty to do.

[1] https://www.rqlite.io

[2] https://www.philipotoole.com/9-years-of-open-source-database...
Also crazy how California has over 500% more people incarcerated than Canada with the same population and almost double the poverty rate with a larger economy.
Where's your friend? $1300 cad for a 700sqft pad in Toronto is a steal!

I'm unfortunately very serious.
Provably could make a movie out of it
Super fast, full text search, fuzzy search... For command line dwellers: https://github.com/sysid/bkmr
“By two years in Vietnam, I was reporting very strongly that there was no prospect of progress of any kind so the war should not be continued. And that came to be the majority view of the American people before the Pentagon Papers came out."

And yet Nixon handily won in 1968 (even with Wallace kneecapping him in 5 states) and 1972.

While not well covered, Ellsberg would mention in person that his early issues weren't that it was a bad or immoral war but that the US wasn't committing the forces/effort required to win it. That's one of the reasons he waffled for so long.
There’s probably no provider, paid or otherwise that you can be guaranteed to be safe with because they all rely on automated systems that can make mistakes. I would say you have more chance for active support if you go with a paid service like Proton though.

Apart from that, redundancy makes sense - don’t rely on a single email provider/service but have several independent email identities with your mail synced across them. This goes for associated data too - the worst part of having your account locked is losing access to your cloud-stored contacts, files, etc.
Doesn't that still use the trademark reddit?
US Navy, NATO, and NASA are using encryption chips from Hualan Microelectronics
/r/science was already thrash too so biased it hurts, might as well be /r/politics2. Honestly nothing value would be lost with that sub.

Current front page:

>A new study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories

>Being female, liberal, intellectually humble, and having weak party identification are all positively associated with writing more persuasive political arguments

>When house prices increase, homeowners are likely to strengthen their belief in meritocracy
Maybe this is a dumb question, but who are the participants? What is the business they need to get done? What are they waiting on?
I’ve heard beer is actually pretty pricey in Canada
Great news! It should stop electronic waste and bad « planned obsolescence » practices from smartphone manufacturers
I don't see why he wouldn't. Top of the line hardware is in the tens-of-thousands of dollars. He should have the OPEX-budget to buy enough cards to distort the market.
Being watched != being recorded, and there is no sense a human has that can detect the gaze of another human.
India is such an outlier as a country... it's a unique combination of both massive absolute population of 1.4B+ and density of over 1000/mi^2.

We can split hairs about other places, and obviously lots of places have their population/crowding issues. The planet has a lot of people.

But India is just not useful as a data point for blaming social media for these phenomena because it's such an outlier. Practically anything informing the people of India of something somewhere of interest is going to generate a thundering herd of exceptional proportion. You don't need social media's help.
It's like there is a global plan by government for some hidden agenda
Mods are definitely replaceable, but the new ones will likely not be as enthusiastic and the community will suffer.
Oh yes, it is my preferred solution these days. Web crap is annoying as heck to work with though...
In some ways (convenience). I think it will also lead to not supplying the device with a charging / data transfer cable to reduce e-waste.

Lighting connector is actually better than USB-C for a phone charger, there is no little contact to snap off inside a lighting port and it’s easy to clean pocket lint out of the lighting port with a tooth pick.

This isn’t the case with USB-C, it’s more fragile and harder to remove debris with damaging it which is why I think apple use it for iPad but not iPhone.

The battery thing is good though, I have seen way too many people using devices with swollen batteries because they are way beyond their useful lifetime.

I don’t know this for sure but I would hope the software on the phone can prevent this on modern devices.
It's hard to compete with stochastic parrots /s
They definitely undeleted all mine this morning. Waiting to see if they come back again.
1: Spam makers can make far more spam than you would think possible.
1a: Spam makers can make far more spam accounts than you would think possible.
2: Moderators handle the grand majority of that spam before you ever even see it in addition to managing admin tasks.
3: I don't want to have to block 300 posts and posters to see 1 that I have any possibility of enjoying.
3a: In the best possible world, AI would handle the majority of that grunt work, but there's no telling how wrong it can go.
Transparency is not optional - Chrome and Safari don't accept certificates that aren't published in Certificate Transparency logs.

Certificate Transparency logs use Merkle Trees so that if they try to hide a certificate, it can be detected.

The system is designed to resist subversion, even by governments. While there are scenarios where a sufficiently-powerful attacker could successfully subvert the system, they run a high risk of being detected if they try. It's just not as simple as you imply.