skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you get a discount on your whole purchase or just on specially labeled items, which never seem to be something I would want?
To be honest, I think you've got at least part of it backwards.

> But you need to be able to have controversial discussions about "heavy" topics without fear of being ostracised.

Uh, why? People should have freedom of speech, but it feels like a lot of people want freedom from the consequences of the their speech. If anything, I think a lot of our current social disharmony is a direct result of the extremely recent development of people being able to mouth offline with very little social constraints.

Mike Tyson probably said it best: "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
Meh, you can say the same about python, or a bash script for that matter.
This too doesn't exist in a form usable by people outside the anglosphere.
Google has been shitting where they eat ever since they decided to put the answers to questions in the SERP itself instead of just offering search links.
This will be the Amazon phone of payment systems.
US history isn't my forte. Can you elaborate?
shows why simple works
Well, I'll give you a quick summary for why a conservative might be upset. You do not have to agree with these issues at all or their interpretation, but a short list:

1. Anything Trump; because Hunter Biden. You might argue about "whataboutism," but "whataboutism" is what protects us from flagrantly biased institutions. This is also going on today with IRS "whistleblowers" claiming the IRS recommended felonies on Hunter, but the DOJ offered way too sweet a deal.

2. Catholics. Specifically, the memo which targeted "Radical-Traditional Catholic Extremists." It also attempted to define the term by theological distinctions (do they like Vatican II? Do they have disdain for modern Popes?), cited sources that are otherwise banned for bias in the FBI (the SPLC), and advocated "the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development." The memo also did not list any potential crimes that they were concerned such a group would commit. Christopher Wray retracted the memo immediately saying it was "appalling" but has been extremely cagey on answering questions as to how such a memo was even written.

3. The FBI, according to The Washington Post reporting (not even conservative media) admitted that they misused a Section 702 database, illegally, 278,000 times that they know of in just over a year. Did it against all sorts of people - protestors, BLM, Jan 6 suspects, basically managed to piss off everyone.

4. "Pro-Life" Pregnancy Centers were violently attacked over 100 times as of October 2022 since Roe v. Wade was overturned, with firebombings and similar. No arrests were made for any of them. When asked about the FBI's seemingly blind eye at the time in a Congressional hearing, Merrick Garland claimed the attackers were too "clever" by "doing this at night, in the dark." This explanation was not thrilling.

5. Mark Houck was a pro-lifer, and father of seven, who was recently acquitted unanimously after being accused of violating the FACE Act (basically, obstructing access to an abortion clinic). Now, that's a potential crime that does involve the FBI, but the FBI arrested him by raiding his house with a SWAT team for no apparent reason other than to terrorize his family. And that's not my assessment - 22 members of Congress demanded a plausible basis for sending a SWAT team over this alleged crime, and they claim to still not have had an answer. Republicans put him in the audience for the last State of the Union in protest against Biden.
So, is the cost of moving money at the retail level zero to almost negative at this point? I mean, literally, we as a society have invested tax dollars to reduce money movement to something that's damn near minimum entropy.
You could well ask what provision of the Constitution authorized the Federal Government to spend hundreds of billions of today's dollars to put a man on the moon. If the Federal government can spend money on that, what is off limits? Tax money is ultimately taken at gun point, which means it should only be spent on necessary public goods.
Then his example is so garbage as to be worthless. He DID DO SOMETHING OBJECTIVELY BAD by driving recklessly and harming someone else. It doesn't matter after that point what narrative is spun by who, that reality happened. You don't get to absolve yourself of guilt by pretending actually it usually ends up better than you remember"
A good amount of that tech was also designed for ICBM usage. Some of it would may or may not have existed. It would be hard to prove either way as we only have what happened not what could have.
Sorry you have friends like that. If I were you, I'd find new friends.
Newton’s “Year of Wonders” During the Great Plague (2020)
They also did it surprisingly safely. Those vessels were tin cans, with little shielding and just about enough fuel to complete a mission; the chance of them crashing to certain death or not being able to return, every time they went, was very very real. It is half a miracle that effectively nobody ever died as part of actual moon-bound missions, even during testing the fatalities were very low - even more impressive considering it was in the context of a high-pressure arms race.
Seems like it's easier to build a fireproof hydrogen design than get this right.

Some of these proposed designs use an internal metal honeycomb for structural support, but an even lighter weight fireproof honeycomb could just prevent hydrogen leaks / oxygen mixing with honeycomb walls acting as "fire walls" and also reducing the extent of any leaks.
One of the profound contributions of Christianity, corroborated in other wisdom traditions, is the assertion that every single one of us ignorantly does irreparable harm to others in the course of our lifetimes. Recognizing this is the beginning of wisdom, and figuring out how to live life in light of this reality has been the driving force behind many different philosophies and religious traditions passed down over the ages. Pretending other people are the problem is the problem. Of course, that doesn't justify gross negligence, but the human ego is very good at dismissing selfish, entropy-increasing behavior as harmless. May I humbly submit that the approach you suggest here is incomplete.
I know I’m not going to get results from smaller pages when I search google. It makes me think I might as well make a list of 20 popular websites and just search all of those and collate the results
I heard--probably from someone who worked there--that the Apollo Guidance Computer was pretty much the only no-bid system in the Apollo program.
E2EE iCloud backup is generally available since January this year. I have been using it since then with 0 issues. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
I should have bookmarked it but there was an article shared on HN, published in the New Yorker I believe, or the LARB, or some such, where a professional writer was praising some language model as a tool for people who hate writing, like themself and other professional writers. I was dumbstruck.

But, it's true. Even people who want to write, even write literature, can hate the act of actually, you know, writing.

In part, I'm trying to convince myself because I still find it hard to believe but it seems to be the case.
I've never had a smartphone because telcos don't invest in coverage in the valley I live in.

I have had a tablet of some description since 2011 and even use it as a "phone" with Skype. (Can't wait until they try to shush me at the public library and I point to the sign that says I can't use a "phone" except my typical call at the library lasts 30 seconds, like when the mechanic calls me to tell me I can pick up my car)

Most of the time-waster applications exist on tablets, however, except for the ones that have phone chauvinism. Funny how you can sideload about 75% of phone apps onto a NVIDIA Shield and they work just fine with a game controller.
Were they a waste of money? They kind of jump started the personal computer revolution, and the R&D involved as well as the infrastructure built secured the US the place where the latest technology continues to be designed if not built.
The most hand wavy R&D propositions ever, a very common take on Reddit. I hate when people assume the specific ROI gained when developing rocketry, when it was still very novel in the 1950-60s, can be used as a general rule for spending money on NASA or related gov projects today.
Not without a focus.

The mission to go to the Moon wasn’t just a mission to go to the Moon, it was also a mission to come back from the Moon. This was basically a blank check and a massive cross-disciplinary exercise.

Our next focus should be on Mars with exactly the same criteria: get people to Mars and also get them back as part of the same mission. It will be much more difficult than getting to the Moon and back and that’s exactly the reason to do it.
Example: the bank of international settlements (BIS) or: "the central bank of central banks" (confirmed nazi's likely/possibly neo-nazi's).
Wasting money in some ways is not a good reason to waste it in other ways.
Yes, they explained that; but I never sign up for loyalty programs, and didn't much appreciate being shanghaied into one.
I get the feeling that "tech evangalist" is a pretty sweet gig, provided that you can find somebody who will pay you to do it ;)
I’m less concerned about sales flows making repeated contact than the author is.

Spam filtration at all endpoints has become so effective and options to unsubscribe sufficiently effective that the impact as a user to receiving repeated contact is almost nil, often helps as it can be easy to miss contact on one or more platforms if one’s busy, and it definitely doesn’t feel comparable to the harms of stalking.
Yes, and it boggles my mind why C/C++ hasn't come up with a better built-in build system already.

I shouldn't have to specify a ton of flags to g++ something, it should find them within the project directory and pull in dependencies automatically.

Header files should be done with. Poof. Gone. There is zero reason for them to exist. I know exactly why they exist, but it's an artifact of a system where preprocessor, compiler, linker are separate. I should be able to do "import<foo/bar>" multiple times and it should pull in all the classes and functions in "./foo/bar.cpp" or "./foo/bar.so" (whichever is available), just like Python, and cache the ".so" files just like Python caches ".pyc" files.

Improving C++'s build experience would have absolutely zero impact on execution speed.

Yet they're busy adding some stupid spaceship operators and other things people almost never use.
forgot cloud.

an older buzzword but still gets eyeballs
ACH is generally overnight. I don't know the internals, but if I get paid on Friday, I actually get the money in my account on Friday. Perhaps they actually send it a day or two early.
> two moderately paid journalists

"Peter Eleftherios Baker (born July 2, 1967) is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC, and was previously a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baker_(journalist)

I don't know what he's paid, but I doubt it's anywhere near the median for journalists, for US workers, or for the NYTimes.
While I agree on the first part I think it’s hard to separate the economies of USA and Canada due to their proximity and collaboration. I think a fairer comparison would be with Australia or New Zealand. Not sure how close they are in GDP per capita but they are also definitely up there.
Toxic Posts on Economist Job Website Traced to Users from Elite Universities
> If the government wants to tax these transactions - and let's admit it, they do - they'll take it right off the top.

The Federal Reserve isn't the government. Yes, if they want to charge a fee for this service, they could. The same is true of every existing money-moving mechanism.

> Unlike with the banking system where different banks have different prices for wires - or even free under certain conditions - you can't "shop around" for a new government

FedNow is essentially free[0]. If FedNow imposes a higher fee in the future, you can always choose to use other services (ACH, wire payments, etc.). It's a competitive market.

> Further, if a government determines you are not an "acceptable" participant, they have the ability to stop transactions to/from you.

This power already exists. FedNow doesn't change it one way or the other.

[0] https://www.frbservices.org/news/press-releases/012722-fedno...
I know you said you aren't looking for partners but if you change your mind I would like to build something with you. Contact me at t0v2v5njk@mozmail.com
Question: why don't we:

1. put a reference to the decoder into the header of the compressed file

2. download the decoder only when needed, and cache it if required

3. run the decoder inside a sandbox

4. allow multiple implementations, based on hardware, but at least one reference implementation that runs everywhere

Then we never need any new formats. The system will just support any format. When you're not online, make sure you cached the decoders for whatever files you installed on your system.
All I can tell you is that I spend tons of time interacting with commenters, trying to help people understand that line (https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=dang). It looks like that has included multiple explanations to you over the years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759008 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21932634 (Jan 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20456414 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18991797 (Jan 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984737 (Jan 2019)

I've posted thousands of explanations like that. The reason is not just to persuade/explain to individual commenters, but also to give everybody else a sense of where the lines are.

My sense is that if someone really wants to grok the intended spirit and make a good faith attempt to follow HN's guidelines, it's not that hard to do. Sometimes, though, people take the more obstreperous approach of "I don't agree with your rules and I don't see why I should follow them" (<-- I'm not quoting anyone specifically and I'm not imputing this attitude to you). In those cases, arguing about where the lines are doesn't help, and ultimately we don't have much choice but to ban such accounts. Often they then say "you're just banning me because you don't like my views", but that rarely has anything to do with it.

Some of this is cultural, meaning some people have a greater distance to "travel" behaviorally in order to fit the culture here. That may not be fair but there's not much we can do about it; there is a culture here that we're trying to foster, and that's only possible if commenters abide by it.
Modula-2, Mesa, Concurrent Pascal, NEWP all had coroutines support, so actually that is something I like in Zig.
People really do just get on here and confidently say absolute nonsense.

> Don't bother doing something because it will be done eventually anyway.
Imagine if they spent that money on, you know, making a better product.
I guess sometimes, the stupid, unpredictable, irrational, doesn't make economic sense choice is the thing that history remembers.
I am glad that we are in agreement. Your final paragraphs are what I have been saying, in response to you saying "I do not see how you could get a language without a standard into an aircraft."

> Is there FAA/EASA certified rust SW on a commercial airplane above DAL E?

So, I don't work in the industry, so I am not 100% sure. What I do know is this: https://www.lynx.com/press-releases/rust-compiler-support

> Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx) the leader in delivering solutions for the Mission Critical Edge, today announced that its LynxOS-178 operating system and LynxElement unikernel will include support for Rust... LynxOS-178 is a native POSIX, hard real-time partitioning operating system developed and certified to FAA DO-178C DAL A safety standards.

So the interest is there, at least, but given that Ferrocene is currently only qualified for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508, with DO-178C, ISO 21434, and IEC 62278 being listed as "in the future," I am guessing that's something desired, but not true yet.

> If not ferrocene potentially does.

Yes, to be clear I meant conceptually, in a way that the Rust Project does not, and I would be willing to bet money that it never will. Not that it has passed that bar presently.
... the FBI tried to entrap me years ago but I don't feel bad about it. God they are overwhelmed with cyber-crime and need all the help they can get.
I don't think he's using any tech that could not have been produced without a moon landing. Even if some part traces to the Apollo program, there's no reason to think it wouldn't have been developed via another route.

I'm all for science spending, and a moon shot is probably about as good as any other way to funnel money to scientists and engineers. But let's not be disingenuous that this program was the only possible way to spend money on science.
And PyTorch on the M1 (without Metal) uses the fast AMX matrix multiplication units (through the Accelerate Framework). The matrix multiplication on the M1 is on par with ~10 threads/cores of Ryzen 5900X.

[1] https://github.com/danieldk/gemm-benchmark#example-results
My 1st App: Copypanda.co - Message templates w/ quick access
I have 1200 hours in OW1 (thanks to the pandemic). That's $0.05 per hour. You'd have to watch 8 hours of Netflix every single day to match that.
A web app to create message templates, like "Hey {FirstName}, checking in for our morning meeting today. Ready to go?", with the ability to copy them instantly into any input on any site.

Open to feedback.
I think you parsed the comment you're replying to backwards. Like you, the previous commenter suggested that opposition to surveillance is uncommon.
Were the attendees at that dinner forced at gunpoint to pay for their seats?
When I saw the headline, I was hoping this was the ability to tinker with the system prompt, or some sort of switches to enable "Lobotomized Response" or "Not lobotomized response" for people who want "safe" responses, and those who don't want filters. Going to stick with open source for now until there's un-lobotomized commercial offerings
You are already starting to pigeonhole people with your stereotype. I'm as liberal as they come and I find the thought of a CBDC to be an unimaginable Orwellian nightmare. A boot stamping on the face of civil liberties and privacy forever.
Yeah - I think that "commercialization and commodification" is kind of what I've attributed this to. I think the webring concept is probably the best way to get away from this, but it's not trivial to find those hidden gems. The good ones become/became less hidden. The bad ones get/got buried.

But if these are the complaints about Google - "I only see sites that are so good that they constitute the mainstream" - I'm... ok with that? That seems like a good outcome to me. I don't mind using that tool.

From what I understand of your complaint, sometime in the last 20 years, the Google stopped finding outsider art. I would guess that's due to SEO. And with anything that's known to drive revenue to a business, that sort of thing becomes a target. So people target the Google algorithm to place better. I don't know that there's a solution to that. But I don't think it's because of a change inside Google - more like a change in society.
Right, the computers were built for the preliminary programs which ... were stages on the way to Apollo!
Yes, theoretically, but sometimes you need a big bold exciting goal or everyone will say "why are you wasting my tax dollars inventing flight computers? these don't seem very valuable...". The side effects may even be the point of the project, but the goal is essential to getting the politics right.
Feds already get money transfer data without warrants. Recently Chase closed my checking account because I use Zelle so often. Chase knows all Zelle records because they partially own Zelle. I would rather have Feds own the data, rather than banks. When banks own data, they make decisions to close people’s bank accounts without any proof of abuse.
And yet, test developers are paid half or less, test departments are relatively small...

Huh? Your first part seemed to be repeating TDD optimism but then you switch test departments. Just make your claims consistent, I'd suggest you instead talk about tests being written by the programmers, kept with the code and automatically run with the build process.

However, I don't think even TDD done right can replace good design and good practices. Notably, even very simple specifications can't be replaced by tests; if f(S) just specified to spit out a string concatenated with itself, there's not obvious test treating f as a black box that verifies that f is correct. Formal specifications matter, etc. You can spot check this but if the situation is one magic wrong value screws you in some way, then your test won't show this.

there's no need for software archeology, the grizzled old veteran who knows every crack, the new wunderkind who can model complex systems in her brain, the comprehensive requirements documentation, or the tentative deploy systems that force user sub-populations to act as lab rats.

Wow, sure, all that stuff can be parodied but it's all a response to software being hard. And software is hard, sorry.
I like this vein of argument: assume that it is good that the government be able to snoop on your text messages. Why not in-person conversations as well? OK, let's make it so everything you say gets recorded. Eesh.
It's not clear to me how they ensure the responses will be valid JSON, are they just asking for it, then parsing the result with error checking?
Depends on the language, and the set of automatic memory management tooling available.
Yeah and Bell Labs had developed cellular technology in the late 40s. When did we get commercial use for that tech? Oh yeah, nearly 40 years later.
you’re doing someone else’s labor

I'm doing my own labor. Personally I often don't want to have conversations while doing my grocery shopping, especially not the fake corporate kind. Having to have such conversations as an employee of a supermarket was a very unpleasant experience, lacking in dignity.

You make a lot of good points, but others are extremely half baked.
We've all had our denvercoder9 moment, for sure.
Fuck cancer. I picked it up a couple months ago at the ripe age of 50, and spend my days getting nuked with chemo and rads now.
Once, my physics teacher from high school told the class that the only history we should "trust" is the one that we rationally felt and maybe, the one that was told by our parents, while the other historical "facts" are just the result of tons and tons of interpretations of random people that you end up taking as universal "truths".
To my understanding the Martian was originally written as web serial, right?

I haven’t seen the movie. Not personally my type of film although I’ve heard good things.
> ended up generating an enormous number of inventions later used in everyday life, from freeze dried food to flight computers,

NASA has been promoting that claim for years. But it's not real. Freeze-drying goes back to at least the 1930s and was used for medicines in WWII, but cost too much for wide use.[1] Flight computers came from the USAF missile programs of the 1950s.[2] Nor was NASA responsible for Velcro, Teflon, or Tang.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/801137/

[2] https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2190783...
1) Election interference.

2) Refusing to prosecute the Bidens even though they already had to show (via threat) by the House of the vast amount of evidence of all the bribes the Bidens have been doing with countries including Ukraine and China.