skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interned somewhere where I wrote a 56k modem codec decoder. That particular codec relies on decompression by streaming bits out, which is something awful. Was able to deliver it by summer’s end.

After I graduated college in 2004, they hired me at 50k.

I didn’t know my value.
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Yes, the post I linked describes how to do that. It took time to learn. Nowadays I’d just do it with GPT!
Sure thing! Just changed it from AGPL actually. It would be ideal if anyone forking it would contribute changes, but I was worried that would keep them from using it to build internal tools or separate products, and all the underlying tech is MIT anyway.
>But the consumer has the choice.

Until they don't. Often times it gets harder and harder to be a luddite or near one.
Design and Disappointment
I see zero problem with having no children and studying evolution. You don’t need to become superconductive to study the physics of superconductivity. You don’t need to become infected by every virus to study virology, and you definietly don’t need to be a virus to be a good virologist. So why would you need to pass on your genes to study evolution?
Lol how to put water on boiling oil.
When I think of American inventions, my mind goes to the airplane, the transistor, the telephone, and more recently, GPS.

When I think of French inventions, the stethoscope, braille, and pasteurization are immediately obvious. Hot air balloons too I believe.

I donno, it doesn't seem like much of a competition to me. Hell, I'm a Canadian - we've got the snowmobile and insulin, to reference, not a whole lot else. I don't think it's unreasonable for one to observe that some countries have been more inventive than others.
So you’re one of those people. I refuse to do business with people who do chargebacks without reason. I wish there was a list of them.
Everything is man made when it’s “them” (communists). And just part of society and natural when things happen in America’s capitalism. The US doesn’t even have universal health care. I don’t know the exact death figures, but it’s not pretty. All deaths that could be prevented from some basic collectivist attitude. Instead of forced individualism.
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'Eschew' is probably the word you want instead of 'eskew'.
Open source my first real-world project, hope you guys enjoy it.

It is built with Next.js, Supabase and OpenAI.
Indeed, AFFiNE is also local-first! Anytype does have a lot of distinct functionality though, and the P2P model is a big plus there over other options..

That said, AFFiNE also appears to be genuinely open source, while Anytype is only source available.
I'm 31 and I find myself agreeing with a lot of what you wrote.
Ok, it's too early in the morning. I can't figure out what you're alluding to.
> “Roblox is aware of a third-party security issue where there were indications of unauthorized access to limited personal information of a subset of our creator community,”

Garbage corpospeech. Who chose the 3rd party provider? Who gave the provider personal data of Roblox "creator community"? Also - who was hiding the incident for 2 years?
Especially in CRUD settings when if people would just bother to learn at least a bit about the framework, they could outsource most of the code to that. It’s not like that filtering you have to implement is some brand new discovery that has never been done before.. these apps are literally fancy excel tables very often.
Surely it cannot be that hard to control for weight when doing a study on testosterone amounts in the body? i.e. we have half the sperm, but that's overall - do people who have a healthy weight also have half the sperm?
I believe you would simply return an html template with an i tag that has class="fa-solid fa-magnifying-glass", for example
Warning: this is not a blog post about all the enjoyable activities you can partake in the company of a norse deity
(Note: I edited my comment to make it clear I'm referring to badfaith from commenters, quote above is from pre-edit)

I'd argue the expectation goes both ways. I won't link to specific comments, but I think it's pretty clear that some of them cross the line to disrespectful.
I've wondered how they can host this cheap in Germany given their very high electricity prices.

Maybe that's not actually the dominant cost, or they've optimized everything else so well they can just eat the electric bill.
Thank you. At last some glimpse of sanity among the freaking complex world of web dev. More power to the Rule of Least Power. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
You would think that the quasi-ailerons would deflect the air to change the direction of flight, but it changes the chord line and aerodynamic characteristics of the wing.
In the case of the economist, he may have the best theories but it doesn't mean it's correct. He is likely saying his theories have too much uncertainties.

In the case of the evolutionary biologist, successful procreation does not require any knowledge of biology.

When it comes to planes, there is a high correlation between the quality of the plane and the quality of the design.
> There are standards, but every major smart home tech company wants to be the controller, not a slave.

This is really the crux of the issue. First, from a business perspective, it makes sense: why sell a one-time hardware device when you can charge rent for its continued usage? From a consumer perspective, how can you justify buying a device that can’t operate without an ecosystem you have no knowledge about?

This is why we need free and open standards of interoperability. It would benefit hardware businesses that now feel compelled to create an ecosystem when they’re only good at making hardware and consumers can buy devices and only need to check if it works with some standard like we do with WiFi now when selecting personal wireless devices. Maybe a bad example, considering the backwards compatibility of WiFi and the fact that there is only one practical set of wireless network connectivity transports.
Yeah. ChatGPT has no expertise at all, just a huge amount of knowledge.

Because there are two parts in expertise: pure knowledge, and a set of weighed criteria to evaluate things. This second part is what I think TFA calls "tacit" knowledge. This stuff is a job for neural networks, but more for Alpha0 than for ChatGPT - although it does probably that under the hood, but it's an expertise used to string together questions and answers. That's enough to give the illusion of expertise, but you still face the problem how evaluating that artificial expert. There are many reports that ChatGPT can be "slightly wrong" that only experts can really spot. You can have ChatGPT do your boilerplate code or bulk work if you are an expert in the field.

I personally think of this part of expertise as the expert's "intuition". This intuition is indeed sometimes difficult to communicate. Sometimes because it comes from various experiences, and describing those experiences in enough details would take far too long. Sometimes A just "feels" better than B because those criteria and weights are subconscious; pretty much like you apply a certain amount of force to lift an object because you have subconsciously evaluated its weight (either with material density and shape, or from memory because you've lifted similar things before) - and sometimes you are surprised because it is magnetized or it the box has been emptied.

However, my criteria to evaluate expertise is still how well the expert can explain something to me - that is, if they are good teachers. This also an unreliable proxy like the "vocab point" of TFA. Not everyone is a good teacher, and impostors or poseurs can make you feel like you understand when they are actually bullshitting you.

ChatGPT could be a good (enough) teacher that can help you becoming an expert (partly because of the fact checking work you'll have to do, something you normally don't have to do with an actual teacher), but ChatGPT as an expert, it is a no-no in my book.
My experience and conclusions are very similar but different. I’m part of an increasingly forgotten subgeneration that graduated college and entered professional life in the Great Recession, amongst additional adversities. That makes me around 20 years your senior. I spent something like 4.5 years unemployed and seemingly unemployable. Now, I make a good six figure wage and my one and only goal is to never again experience anything like that. Doing that is all I could dream of for my life.

And I agree in many ways-men would be as picky. No one owes anyone anything like intimacy. Stuff is frustrating and leads to the incel misplacent of their frustrations. Etc.

Life and the universe have a very uncanny way of being especially cruel. So be kind to each other.
We are not confident in any of that. Which is why we mitigate it with checksums, ECC etc.

So depending on the consequences you might opt to reduce the risk or help mitigate the consequences.

To just state that it is about as likely as my coffee maker being a portal to the future isn't very helpful. Poor entropy sources or bugs are not uncommon.
>what makes people think it's safe?

That plastics are incredibly stable. That is why they last so long.

EDIT: Chem engineer here

I'm far more concerned about the non-plastic additives, added to plastic than the actual polymer.
Einstein did 3 separate and mind bending discoveries each worth a noble-price (and published them in the same year).

More importantly Einstein's peers thought he was above them all.

Quoting Eugene Wigner who know both Einstein and Von Neumann.

"I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi (John) von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything as original."
One of those is not like the other. Can you explain why you see them as similar?
Document Your Secrets, Please
A vulnerability (not necessarily this one, just hypothesising) could be exploited via a payload result from an outbound request to the internet.
It didn't always work that way. Only the people with bookcase style storage had to squint at the spine labels. (-:

There were, at the time (and still are, a quick trip to Bing informs me), flip storage containers that one could buy, meaning that one didn't have to read the spines, just flip backwards and forwards looking at the faces. CD jewel cases are less amenable to this sort of flip-storage, and have a tendency to self-right since they have flat bases.
Because it is unfair in their favor and thus motivated reasoning springs forth.
I never understand people who write stuff like this. Its climate change; we know what is happening and we know how to fix it. We don‘t need AI for it, next thing they‘re gonna say is let‘s use blockchain to fight climate change
Glory days of Wired indeed! So evocative to see the original design in all its 90s wackiness. The issue is scanned at Internet Archive [0], with the article on p119 [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1996-02_OCR/mode/2up

[1] https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1996-02_OCR/page/n121/m...
You could have just answered my previous question with "No, I am not familiar with sarcasm".

Because you clearly don't understand sarcasm, I'll be blunt:

No, I'm not trying to discredit any criticism of this provider. I agree with the comment I replied to, that this kind of failure mode is fucking ridiculous. My response thus is not an attempt to normalise this, but to highlight the elephant in the room, which is that AWS - the gold standard for "hosting" services for many a startup and techbro - *also* has Rube Goldberg like levels of interdependence that cause cascading failures *every time* something goes wrong, and *also* have a status board so confidently green that it may as well be an ad for lawn care products.
There's tons of evidence pointing the finger at microplastics.

Besides, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle dictates that lawmakers should anticipate risks instead of allowing everything "because it's profitable" only to ban it 30 years later.
To all the data inside of it? Sure.

To all of the auth tokens and user creds? Why not.
If he withdraws from Crimea - he's dead. Everybody will see that as a miserable defeat.
Making reusable boosters work was pretty special. No incumbent was going to attempt it because they were unwilling to reduce their per launch profit margin on an unproven risk. SpaceX changed the entire economics of launch services and obsoleted every other player with their plan that detractors were sure would never work.
> The tone of the course materials about justice and power are sort of gross to me,

In what way?

I quite like the precrime cluedo, which will show what the problems with that approach are:

"Department of Police of Clueville, Pennyslvania has contacted you. They received a tip that someone planning a crime used our Eliza chatbot. They think that it was either Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, or Mr. Green. The tip to the police said that the person was really angry and seemed to think that Eliza was a real person. “I think they told Eliza about their plans,” said the tip.

The fakelog.txt dataset is based on the log file from when our class was interacting with Eliza. Your job is to figure out: The IP address of who is planning the crime, what they said to Eliza, and see if you can figure out (a) the room where they are planning their crime and (b) what weapon the planner intends to use. (Hint: Probably mentioned on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo.)."
Saw it on HN.
Great site and I just love that domain name.
Yes. As with most things it’s taking time to get things moving - I’m still raising an initial round of funding, and am at the “I will if they will” on several counts stage, and am working with a local council to get my hands on a large chunk of industrial park on a grant. Not far off the target, and a few potential investors yet to approach.

It’s going to take a while to go anywhere, but in the meantime I’m working with a couple of aerospace engineer friends/family on solidifying the concept. If nothing else I’m having fun figuring out how to make something the size of a skyscraper fly with next to no energy expenditure.
the US and a lot of the capitalist world had the Great Depression and more. Are those “natural”? The country is forcing a recession now and causing poorer people to get squeezed dry.
Any idea how much the dividend pays to these private individuals?
The secret is in the cooling system. They have individual cooling systems for each server. Less heat = longer sustained loads
Those were great a few years ago, but the recipe they use for the noodles themselves has changed and they aren't as good.
That’s actually a very good point!
Yep, that is actually a big problem (benefit?) with Wordpress, were all the code is redistributable because of the GPL license. So paid plugin developers are in this weird limbo were they are charging people for their plugins without telling them that the code is freely redistributable.
Two P2P concepts that ultimately failed:

Lightning Network on Bitcoin: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

Plasma on Ethereum: https://plasma.io/plasma-deprecated.pdf

Interestingly, the Lightning Network and Plasma white papers share a co-author.

Why they're educational:

Plasma helped inspire a workable scalability solution on Ethereum: Rollups

As for the Lightning Network whitepaper: it introduces a really novel and elegant idea for P2P payments that is interesting in its own right.

Moreover, the LN's ultimate failure helps teach one about the practical UX requirements for a blockchain scalability technology to be successful.

Both white papers provide an insight into the tradeoffs inherent in scalability technologies.
As it’s explained in blog, many open sourced projects are used for commercial gain without doing ’copy left’, the license created here essentially covers those concerns and ensures any forks do ‘copy left’ their changes with all the freedom as in ‘free’ of open source software. I don’t see the problem with this

All the kerfuffle related to ‘official’ definitions, did it help open source projects from being copied and commercialised mercilessly by closed source software (essentially legalised spyware) of corporations? I never understand this obsession.

Software should be open sourced and it should have strict copy left clause!

Relevant idea related to problems with copy left explained here
https://www.osnews.com/story/25469/richard-stallman-was-righ...
Regulatory capture. There's no altruistic motive here.
It's interesting as a body of anecdotes, cultural artifacts, and history that shaped my experience indirectly.

For me, it's not something worth the emotional energy of holding opinions over.

I am not unhappy living in the future. YMMV.
It’ll be an RCE. If you are network isolated or have a proxy in front of it, you can take the weekend off.
The fact that most JavaScript jobs are frontend isn't a problem with the community. You're writing the language that web UIs are built in, so there are a lot of those. And every time I look at the market, most of the new jobs seem to be in react, vue or angular, all three of which are old enough and mainstream enough to not be described as trends anymore.

That said, a skill set like yours would be right at home on a large front end team. Most react developers don't really know how to get the most out of node. You need someone in the organization who really understands it. That layer is a blind spot for many, and it's a problem because front end involves a lot of tooling that needs to play right together, and more and more what we do is work I would have traditionally been considered backend.
I mean who would be convinced by an “expert” who can’t explain to a non-expert?

Yes, maybe I desperately need to frobulize the macrowublitz to avoid pracknation, but I’ll wait for someone who can explain why it’s a high priority to achieve my goals.
It affects the result of ==, which is only a reference comparison.
> "Oppy".

Hell no.
CockroachDB does this, but that's the result of over 10 years of heads down hard-ass engineering and it's still slower than Postgres because distributed sync is not free. That means you have to provision it properly and with enough resources.

Their license would require a company like fly.io to pay them though, so I'm sure this resulted in fly.io instead trying to whip up an improvised infrastructure on the back of stock Postgres. I bet this cost them a whole lot more than paying CockroachDB would have, but devs have been conditioned that you should never ever pay for software even if it's the result of tons of deep engineering and solves massive brutal problems for you. I also bet there's some not-invented-here ego involved.

P.S. I don't work for CDB but I would absolutely consider them and we may end up using them at some point. They let you do a ton for free. They only charge for stuff you need if you get really really huge or if you are running a SaaS reselling DB services like fly.io would have been doing.
A lot of Warsaw pact countries, yes, and in Ukraine it was still common a decade ago when last I was there.
> Scope three isn’t mining

Absolutely, but that’s not what I said neither the article I link. Is talks about the emissions of mining itself and the scopes associated of that activity. It’s not mining within another activity scope.

The conclusion is basically : scope 1 and 2 emissions of mining itself is quite small compare to its scope 3 emissions. The reason is mining activity uses a HUGE quantity of steel which -in this context- produce a lot of GHG.

> Most of scope 2 and 3 emissions go away if you decarbonize the electric grid though.

I guess you talk about derived goods “we” consume away from the mines… so your assomption of scope 2 is true but as stated in the article a linked, the mining part of our scope 3 will largely more benefit of decarbonizing the steel industry (the grid won’t have much effect). But guess what ? That’s (very) expensive and the only ones that cares are some smart Norwegians.
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> engineers who think it’s demeaning to explain deeply technical things in business terms, so they refuse

I can, and have, explained 'deeply technical things' in 'business terms'. And people understood. Then made a bad/poor/wrong choice anyway, because... "well... all those things you're saying might happen, they might not. Or... it may not happen for months or years, and we already committed to date X for project Y".

I can tell people the cost of punting on 'deeply technical thing' will be enormous, like... "this will require doubling the dept headcount and stopping all new progress for 6-12 months". Then offer alternatives. Then get summarily ignored, and watch things crash months later, and the dept is then stuck for months scrambling to understand all the problems they could have avoided. The decision maker who decided for extremely short term gain? They're gone (sometimes of their own choosing, sometimes not).

The "risks" can seem wildly out of touch with reality, but many times if you're making poor choices you do hit the "worst case scenario" wall. Colleague has been contracting inside a shop on and off for a few years. He indicated "if we don't do X, we will not be able to do any new feature development for at least 18 months". And... closing in on 4 years later, they've not shipped any substantial new features (some bug fixes, but that's about it).

I've seen this happen once up close, and have seen inside other companies and got the war stories from others.

Does this happen every single time? Of course not. But even if you can confidently and correctly and pleasingly describe deep tech things to business folks in their own language, showing the pros/cons/costs/risks... that doesn't mean they will take your side. Saving face, hitting deadlines at all costs, and other factors weight on decisions, and you can't control that. You can control where and how you work though.
The italic tag is not for icons.
Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?
The system is not a democracy, it's a democratic republic. The undemocratic elements you're referring to are just that - the republic. If the federal government were to capitulate to the states, there would be no republic. They tried that with the Articles of Confederation, the US's first government. You need a strong federal government with its own set of rules. Home rule must be limited to some extent to allow for people to work together. I think in this case for Texas, they've squeezed home rule too hard, but that is always going to be a balancing act.

Also, as an aside, I find it very interesting you mentioned transgender people, but not gay people in that bathroom example - the ban was on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination of all forms, why did you choose to single one particular kind out?
I don't see any mention of ActivityPub or Federation.