skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only imagine, specially back when hardware and drivers were much bigger concerns for many! I find it quite amazing that Slackware 7 released in late 1999 [0] never had an end-of-life (EOL) specified according to Wikipedia [1] but Slackware 8.1 released in mid-2002 [2] received updates until August 1, 2012 [3], over 10-years of support which I find quite impressive for a non-enterprise-oriented distribution! That's not to mention the consistency and minimal interface and tooling changes between releases to this day.

[0] http://www.slackware.com/lists/archive/viewer.php?l=slackwar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware

[2] http://www.slackware.com/lists/archive/viewer.php?l=slackwar...

[3] https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-8.1/Change...
The article doesn't explain how you're supposed to think about, just its mechanics and intentions. I'd say the approach to professional ethics described in the article has been pretty successful in the medical and legal world, maybe it could be expanded to other areas. I do not understand your invocation of the "culture war" shibboleth.
Yep that’s all great but the key to being good at journalism is being a good journalist. Take Matt Levine. His background as an M&A attorney and investment banker clearly informs his journalism and makes it better. But no one would give a shit about that if he wasn’t a good writer consistently writing good, interesting writing.
They explain that: because professional ethics are enforced. If some licensing panel finds you violated the documented ethics, your career in that field can be over… for life.
Meanwhile 37% of Americans lack the funds to cover a $400 emergency expense.
The google garden isn’t much better
Security checklists.
I don’t know about other European countries, but an annual physical exam is not a thing here in the Netherlands. I don’t know any person who’s ever done one here, and I don’t know where to get one if I wanted. We go to the GP if we have specific complaints, not if we feel like getting some test or checkup.
Did you you ever attempt programming anything under PalmOs back then? It was quite fragile because of the extremely low amount of memory on board, which forced the use of relocatable memory handles, a bit like classic mac OS.

https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~michalj/palmos/Memory.html

PalmOS and it's extreme focus on low end hardware was a super weird choice at the time. The one reason for using PalmOS was extreme battery life, which obviously was not a factor here.

There existed plenty better alternatives at the time.
Sure it does, just read the article from the BBC, not a single place does it mention the current solar maximum.
This is a nice perspective from the developer of a single application, but as a platform developer, I'm usually dealing with using IaC tooling to set up multi-tenant environments. I can't just deploy one database because there may be 50 different teams working on 50 different sets of problems, some of them basic research, some of them products, some of them purely exploratory, and there are often legal restrictions on who is even supposed to be able to make a network connection to a particular database, so simply using roles and users built into the DBMS engine itself isn't good enough to achieve the required separation, not to mention they need to be encrypted at rest with different keys. This often needs to be done across separate accounts within the same cloud provider for budgeting and accounting purposes as well, so they couldn't just share a resource even if it was otherwise okay for them to potentially step on each other's work.
typo? do you mean "pay to win"?
Great answer btw.

And yes, that is what I meant. curl hackmeplease.com 57 stack traces down.
Many years ago, I remember a guy working for an ISP saw me using NetBSD, I must have made some comment about how I liked it, and he said "That's what Slackware was supposed to be." I knew relatively little about Linux at the time but I always remembered that statement. (Today I use both on a daily basis.)

What hooked me on NetBSD was that early on I had a experience with a laptop where audio was not working. After a small amount of reading, I edited a file, recompiled the kernel and voila I had audio. The fact I was able to do that as a total novice was what made me a loyal user for the ensuing decades.
Protobuf seems like the odd one out. I understood that googlers created it for their own benefit and tossed it over the wall because "why not". Am I mistaken?
It's silly nerd shenanigans, and I'm fine with a little of that showing up on HN. Although once sites like Kotaku start writing articles about it, the wacky fun has usually run its course.
But you're saying that moats wouldn't exist if the phones cost 1 cent? Why? I'm claiming that the cost of the iPhone in that world is from the included software, and the included software is their "moat". Cheap parts doesn't give you a "blue bubble" on iMessage. That's what the end user is paying for.
The most important word in the phrase is “big” not “tech”.

The problem with these firms is they have too much concentrated power, which they obtained through anti-competitive practices that are now cemented into the business model.

This is bad for society and it’s imperative on society to break up these entities and the power they wield as it’s incompatible with a democratic society.
COVID was one place where their lack of skepticism really came through. Early reports of how COVID spread would have been deemed unrealistic quickly based on a basic understanding of statistics. The early reports of how long the virus lived and how easily transmittable it was should have meant the virus would have spread to a high percentage of the population immediately. Pfizer saying the vaccine prevented transmission even though it is a leaky vaccine should have raised skepticism to incredible heights. Instead, media used these reports to create panic, fear and division. I highly doubt it takes too much work to regurgitate other news outlets, Pfizer, and government organization talking points.
Ah yes, attempting to solve the problems of unfettered capitalism with even-less-fettered capitalism. Cryptocurrency is a scourge.
The vast majority of human history has been the Stone Age. It’s the stable state. What’s doomed is this temporary blip that has resulted from the explosion of free energy.

The human species will survive and will simply go back to the Stone Age and stay there another million years, this time without the risk of stumbling onto vast amounts of easy, free, dangerous carbon-based energy.
That Jon Stewart take on it is pretty funny https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8?t=211, the Hershey factory, gets me pretty good.
I have a close friend whose daughter has it. From what I understand she can’t weigh consequences out beyond about 2 minutes. Current emotional discomfort (like being slightly bored) is over the top painful. She can’t deal with “no” sometimes, like she goes so crazy the police have to be called sometimes. I read that it’s kind of like if you had no skin and thus all your nerve endings were exposed. Sitting would hurt, a breeze would hurt, sunlight and rain would hurt. But she can go from screaming and throwing punches at her parents to being their darling little daughter five minutes later as though nothing had happened. I suspect she can’t relate at all to others’ experiences - it’s just her. She seemed like a totally normal kid until puberty hit.
http://www.dannen.com/decision/targets.html
To skip operator retraining? At least that's how I read team "it's only look and feel, not an emulator". My objection to that would be that a hypothetical outcome of a modern UI with identical menu layout not being good enough would be one of those things that you only ever learn the hard way. But who knows, perhaps it was a new UI that was vetoed out by someone in a very powerful position and then they had to skin it up. But the far more likely explanation is that they had software, were running out of hardware devices to put in projection time until someone tried their hand on running one of the numerous palm emulators in existence on an RPi or similar.
> Anything that's going straight into 400V (I assume)

I think the sleds blind mate to a 55V DC common bus.
I made a terrible mistake with my children at the dawn of social media. I would love it if you contacted me because I think you’re generally on the right course.
Yes it is unsurprising that an IDL designed to be used as an interchange format between different languages (and other requirements such as backward compatibility etc) doesn't perfectly match your specific language type system.

An idiomatic Go structure does not map well to an idiomatic rust structure, and similarly other languages.
Trial and error. Symptoms start back up every-time I go off blood thinners. Visual issues , TIAs, cognitive. Clears up when I start back up. Covid started when I was just getting treatment so lost access to doctors, so no further investigating was done.
It was Slackware 2.1 and the 3.5 floppy disks came in 3 collections (1 required and 2 optional). If I remember right they were the base OS, X-windows and development files. As for the ISP, that idea ended up flopping (heh) and never made it out of the "fun discussions" phase.
> If it is NOT 'Human-Caused' then we really don't have many options.

I think that's the appeal. If there's nothing we can do, then that's a license to keep doing what we as a species clearly want to keep doing. If we're all doomed, then we might as well party until the end, after all.
The only thing that worked for my BPD as a man was DHT (testosterone) cream, unfortunately it became scheduled (illegal) in the US.
Without wading into the literary merits of either author, let me just drop a mention of the Ritman Library of Hermetic Philosophy in Amsterdam, aka the Embassy of the Free Mind.

https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/

Dan Brown helped pay for their digitization efforts and I’m grateful for that. The library is a real gem.
Not exactly. Insurance typically negotiates paying a small fraction of the price that cash customers pay.

Medicare has long had a law effectively saying "you must offer Medicare the cheapest price you offer anyone". I wonder how much of an impact it would have on the affordability of care if there were a law saying "you must offer cash customers the cheapest price you offer anyone"?
Well, on my iPhone being able to activate Siri and saying “Ask ChatGPT” is utility.
> The Republicans absolutely have their own media organizations

Everybody has their own media organizations.

> just as likely to get the facts wrong in a way that's biased towards Republican interests.

This is both the law of averages, and also not relevant even if you had a good reason for saying it. I'm not saying the Republicans are any more honest than the Democrats (god forbid.) The Democrats are generally pushing for the same policies as the Republicans, except in matters that split their bases; we're still living in Reagan's world. Democrats are dominant now because they control nonprofits that are funded by the government and because they are supported by more billionaires. No other reason.

20 years from now it could be the Republicans in that position. It isn't like they don't have the ability; their takeover of state governments and redistricting is basically the same sort of tactic.
> Science only works if contrarians get a voice.

This is more of the rather tired "contrarians are always right" meme that seems to crop up constantly on HN.

Sometimes a contrarian is right and the accepted consensus is wrong. But that doesn't happen only because the contrarian position is contrarian, it's because the contrarians brought receipts. They applied proper scientific rigor and came up with a falsifiable theory that fits empirical observations and is sufficiently predictive. They also set out to disprove their hypothesis.

Not all contrarians need a "voice". It's not worth anyone's time to rebut yet another unfounded and stupid perpetual motion theorem or electric universe bullshit. It's far easier to spam stupid contrarian ideas than to produce real rigorous scientific output.
As the article points out, the diagnostic features of BPD are common to a bunch of different conditions. There have been decades of research trying to establish a reliable "borderline" factor that would set the condition outside existing categories of disorder; they've all failed. What makes that especially pernicious is that, tracing all the way back to the era of Freud, BPD has been viewed as essentially untreatable --- but many of the combinations of disorders that can produce the triad of attributes used to diagnose BPD are highly treatable.

The fact that you've known people whose lives were changed by medication would tend to strengthen the authors point, right?

We're all cognitively adept at identifying patterns and giving them names, but that doesn't make our intuitions about those patterns science.
Ha. I teach an Intro to IT course, and I quite literally open my lecture on encryption making fun of Renowned Dan Brown.

Namely, I acknowledge that the Tom Hanks joints are fun, but then I proceed to clown the terrible "Digital Fortress," which begins with the premise of:

"The TERRORISTS have developed UNBREAKABLE ENCRYPTION and we are ALL DOOMED"
> But out of the myriad of various opinions coming from politicians, CEOs, propagandists, flat out out idiots, and everything else in between, scientists are arguably the class of truth sayers you should be least skeptical of.

If the CEO of a gambling company said, "Gambling is good." Do you think that would be more or less effective propaganda that if the CEO paid someone else, let's say someone in a white lab coat, to say the same?
I think that scientists are more likely to abuse the trust because it's implicit. You can't expect to abuse someone's trust in you (e.g. as a scientist) if you don't expect people to trust you. All the people you listed as untrustworthy are obviously untrustworthy, which is what makes them not a serious risk. Saying "I really want to trust scientists" is the same as saying "If you want to exploit me, use a scientist to do it." I don't think you need to look any further than the Tobacco industry to see why blindly trusting scientists is not a viable mitigation to propaganda.

I don't really have a good answer for how to make a good decision when you're ignorant (trusting scientists would make this easier), and we're all ignorant about most things. Being skeptical doesn't give you good knowledge, it just mitigates absorbing bad knowledge. So you're kinda stuck if you need to e.g. make a risk based decision about COVID and you don't trust scientists.
Minor detail, but the author is female.
I'm stuck to the letters on my keyboard, though I suppose I could change that :p
> Among other requirements, for a license to be Open Source, it may not discriminate against persons or groups or fields of endeavor (OSD points 5 and 6). Meta’s license for the LLaMa models and code does not meet this standard; specifically, it puts restrictions on commercial use for some users (paragraph 2) and also restricts the use of the model and software for certain purposes (the Acceptable Use Policy).

They list AGPL as open source[0]. Couldn't it be argued that AGPL would also fail on these points?

I agree that Llama 2 isn't open source. Just curious if there's a double standard in the assessment.

[0] https://opensource.org/licenses/
Definitely not. I meant he should work on his unfounded insecurity. Its a terrible waste and will eat you alive. I know cause im workin on it too.
Ask HN: Are you using Heroku Enterprise in production?
I'm working with a small, fast-growing SaaS startup running a Rails app on Heroku. Our dyno usage/spend is accelerating ($3k+ per month) plus we're looking at getting SOC 2 compliant this year, so we're evaluating a move to AWS (Elastic Beanstalk or ECS).

We don't have a dedicated DevOps or infrastructure person (small team of 4 engineers) so taking on the complexity and risk with lower-level AWS concerns me (especially considering our SaaS is mission critical for customers). The standard Heroku offering doesn't offer the security features necessary for SOC 2. AWS options would save a ton of $$ and allow us to hit all the security needs, but would require so much engineering bandwidth to set up and manage.

Heroku has their enterprise offering which meets our security needs. I'm curious what others' experience with Heroku Enterprise has been. Has it been worth the increased costs compared to cheaper infrastructure options? Would you do things differently? Have you switched from Heroku to AWS options — what has your experience been with that?
Depending what all the other effects you describe do to food production and communicable disease spread "we'll all be dead" may be only a moderate exaggeration of the effect over say a century or two.
Always a spicy topic here on HN.

I point out to folks that if you look at planets that have high heat load in their atmosphere they also have constant atmospheric storms.

If this planet is typical, what that means is that eventually there will be hurricanes in the mid-latitudes that last for months. Basically one hurricane (or typhoon) slamming into the continent after another. With the higher sea level and hurricane induced storm surge, water levels will have 10 - 30' (3 - 10m) annual fluctuations. Further north and south its just going to be a lot more water during the wet season.

Sadly, if you're reading this it is my expectation you will live to see it happen.
I agree with your analogy to an extent, but I think it's got a very significant flaw.

The consequences of aeroplane disaster are localised in space (to the immediate vicinity of the vehicle and whatever it crashes into) and time (once the crash has happened, it is more or less over).

Nuclear disasters can have global effects, and can last for decades.

I'm cautiously pro-nuclear in theory, but am awestruck by the incredible forces unleashed and the extreme impact they can have when mishandled. It's far more potent than anything merely mechanical.
It's still the same effect. Supply doesn't have to overshoot. Computer chips aren't just stamped out instantly; a complex chip with many hundreds of process steps can take months to manufacture. The latency of design/revision cycle means manufacturers are always doing everything they can not to overproduce.
On a run as in an unbroken streak. Of not visiting news sites.

I am not jogging, no. That would be weird.
On iOS there is Siri shortcut
That sounds less like the exams are the problem, and more like the incorrect handling of false positives is the problem.
Seems to me that the author doesn't approve of how men are currently behaving, and so they probably want them to change, right?

> but it actually suggests something more vital: you cannot talk about the history of music without talking about men actively limiting the musical activities that women were allowed to participate in, sometimes via physical or sexual violence.

> men have continually tried to define what is appropriate for women to do in music.
When you listen to women who have worked in the industry, you’ll see that these attitudes have persisted.
I love the people pointing out a theoretical future wherein deepfakes are so prevalent that only a rube would fall for them.

I can’t imagine reading “22 year old teacher gets fired for no fault of her own” and immediately writing up an explanation as to why nobody should be able to get in trouble for making and distributing deepfake porn of strangers in the future, but I am not so enlightened.
Karens have unlimited capacity for hypocrisy.
Nate Silver has been blatantly wrong several times during COVID, has been schooled by actual scientists and is now on a personal vendetta against them.

He is ready to fan the flames of science-bashing because his fragile yet enormuous ego has been hurt. That tells all that you need to know about him. (Don't believe me? He has never apologised nor shown a little bit of humility after being corrected. That's who he is.)
Richard Feynman – There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) [pdf]
The insurance company pays, but what they pay is not this price. US medical care is littered with dummy sticker prices that exist to give insurance company negotiators something to do besides negotiate good rates. https://www.propublica.org/article/why-your-health-insurer-d...
Americans spend as much public money on healthcare as is typical in similarly wealthy countries. This is a fact; check it yourself if you don't believe me. We pay for an NHS and all we get is this lousy Medicare.

The American system brutalizes poor people because it's cruel and stupid. It doesn't save you a dime on your taxes.
> if I want resolution above 480p, I use a Chromecast with Android TV.

I am one who specifically does not want a resolution above 480p. Unfortunately, some TV services had decided to remove that feature and now it wastes disk space due to the higher resolution. I also want to be able to use an external caption decoder and recorder (in my case, the same device does both), so will use the composite video and not HDMI (which doesn't have captions).

Steven J. Searle wrote: "The sad fact of the matter is that people play politics with standards to gain commercial advantage, and the result is that end users suffer the consequences. This is the case with character encoding for computer systems, and it is even more the case with HDTV."

> keep serving your own content on http (along with https), gopher for retro compatibility, and because they are less prone to break.

Yes, it is reasonable. I think that "HTTPS only" is (mostly) no good, but having both is good. HSTS is no good.
Ezra Klein interviewed Zeynep Tufeckci about basically this because she's had an unusually good track record for a non-specialist on lots of topics, and it really comes down to being statistically literate and putting in the work: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
You run into virtual tables more often in C because you can't build an abstraction otherwise, whereas in C++ it could be inlined.

Example: Callbacks in C are always virtual, whereas in C++ you can take the callback as a template parameter.

Not distinguishing between "virtual" or "function pointer" or any other names for the same concept (dynamic call address).
While he's certainly careful to hedge (much like the scientists he's critizcizing), Mr. Silver's argument boils down to, "I think four scientists published a technically correct but politicially motivated paper, so from now on journalists should consider peer-reviewed publications by reputable PhD's as the equivalent of Johnnie RedHat posting on Twitter".
A lab leak implies that we should cease funding work at WIV — and examine the officials responsible for doing so in the first place.

Perhaps even reconsider our entire approach to pandemic research, if our decisions led to the worst pandemic in generations.
'Sprints' work well if the team has control over what they do and what sprints look like. Normally that isn't the case. Business end up expecting work to be done in X amount of sprints which makes no sense. Architecture is forgotten.
Specifically for multi-choice string enums (essentially dropdowns), I wonder if this would work better if the full (joint/product) probability given the logits is considered when picking the final choice, rather than using a greedy algorithm. This will favor the right choice, as opposed to e.g. one of the choices that contain the most common start token - if a start token are shared among many items in the list.

Of course the probability needs to be adjusted once a subset of the logits goes to zero so it actually makes sense...
But he changed his position, and that's all that really matters. Why he held a different position before isn't actually that important, and I'm not inclined to criticize or shame anyone for stances they no longer have.
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