skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a charitable read at all of the thread.

Unpopular ideas are essential, but the tight feedback loop which the former physical constraints offered was still a useful component. It acts as a counterbalance to our tendency to let ideas and thoughts that are poorly developed, more damaging than they are useful, or just logically/factually flawed consume too much attention.

I know when I pay attention I notice that I can think a lot of ridiculous things, and it would take some gymnastics to arrive at the belief that every dumb little prejudiced / biased / flawed / incomplete thought is worth promoting to a global audience.

Sometimes an idea will have merit despite initially receiving bad feedback in the context where it was first voiced. That feedback is still helpful, though, and may prompt some refinement before it goes any further. Many ideas that don't have much merit die here, and that's a good thing.

The alternative is broadcasting it raw straight into the forever archives to be fought over and promoted based, at least partly, on how outrage inducing or divisive it might be, and it's my belief that we're worse off for this becoming more of a norm.
> I don't think weakened viruses go through our protein-making machinery (aka code execution)

Yes they do. They are live viruses, and they attack cells and hijack their protein-making machinery for making more viruses. But the attenuated vaccine viruses are not capable of causing a severe disease, so in time the body's immune system cleans them out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine
Unfortunately it does.
The criteria for the original license were the reduction in deaths and disease. Transmission wasn't even tested in the original phase III trials. The vaccines achieved their primary purpose, they prevented death and severe disease.

COVID was a major threat to a significant part of the population. The vaccines were effective and reduced the threat to those people enormously.

It would have been very nice and useful to stop transmission and achieve herd immunity. But even without that the vaccines were a huge win and saved a lot of lives.
In a roundabout way BASIC on those machines is like modern high-level languages.

Slow and inefficient for sure, but most of the magic is happening directly at the hardware level (sprites, memory-mapped IO, etc.), so there's a surprisingly large amount of stuff you can do with very acceptable performance.
In that vein what institution in the history of mankind ever been fair and objective more than this?
Nobody noticed the bug in the last three years because it’s more recent. You can hear it clearly in real world usage compared to the M1. Harassing Apple over 99% P3 certification is not remotely comparable because that’s neither perceivable, nor incorrect behavior.
It’s clearly a bug, an egregious one at that and it will be fixed no matter what you think about Marcans choice of words.
It's actually worse than that because although LLMs are capable of a lot, they still hallucinate quite frequently and sometimes are just plain stupid.

Recently I was trying to manipulate data in Google Sheets and was using ChatGPT to help. In the beginning is was fantastic, I was very productive because I didn't have to stop and think about formulas, read crappy documentation, or analyze data transformation. ChatGPT just gave me the right answer in a split second, as long as I kept asking the right questions.

Then I stumbled upon a particular issue that wasn't really too complicated but ChatGPT could not give me a correct answer. Unknowingly I spent 3 days trying to fix problems with the solution and every time I got an answer that was slightly wrong, not in subtle ways.

I have 20 years experience as a software engineer and still, I continued to waste time in this loop. After 3 days I decided to apply my engineering skills and solved the matter in 30 min. Now I know the solution and it was way simpler than I thought.

What surprised me was how dumb the whole process was. My questions certainly weren't the problem - as bad as they possibly were, the solution wasn't too far off. Not only ChatGPT had become a crutch but it put me in a situation that no human-tutor would ever put me.

So removing the pain of quick interactions with a tutor has benefits but the technology is not quite ready to be considered as true guidance in forming (or even helping) someone's understanding of a subject.

I've been using ChatGPT a lot for general language but when it requires logical thinking it falls pretty flat.
Yes, but the problem of this thinking is that when communicating we inherently look for shortcuts and shaping language to the context rather than sticking strictly to a grammar and a dictionary, and to be successful at defining a natural language (and that includes diagrams) you need to accept that the job is 90% describing reality and 10% trying to shape it. If that.

UML has been reasonably successful where it described reality, or tried to gently shape things by proposing things that were close to how most people already did things. Much less so where it tried to prescribe a reality not aligned with how people communicates, or where it has not kept up with the way that has evolved. It'd be more successful at being a lingua franca if the focus was more on documenting how people actually use diagrams, and just provide gentle nudges in one or the other direction where use is inconsistent.

I think this is also why so many people hate UML tooling - because it forces you to communicate in this strange dialect that is very different from how most of us communicate with diagrams, and that most people find awkward.
People who regularly exhibit risky behaviour should not be allowed to increase the risk premium of the entire population without paying a proportionally larger amount. Especially for harmful, yet pointless behaviour like driving too fast on public roads, endangering everyone.
Peter Zeihan has been a trumpet for this kind of information for some time now; worth watching if you're into this sort of thing. (Or want to poke holes in it.)
> However, if I ran into this incidentally (not posted to HN for review), I would never use this. I'd see the lack of a github link on the top right, and assume it's a some kind of startup making some prototype hosted tool.

Yeah, it's absolutely horrible when the GitHub link is in the bottom right rather than the top right. Completely unforgivable. Geez.

Do (Free|Net|Open)BSD and GNU tools qualify as open source? No GitHub link as far as the eye can see :)
That was a fairly easy, obvious, and immensely well-deserved choice, to be sure.
Some people wants to consume being low tech and crying it out loud, not just being low tech.
Thanks for treating this as a puzzle. I think it proves the point that you either need to reverse engineer the layout engine in your head or guess and check to get good layouts.
Desire and willpower are actually quite weak tools to affect behaviour. I definitely fall into the camp of people who find it more effective to alter my environment to introduce friction against behaviours I want to reduce, and reduce barriers to behaviour I would like to engage in more.
Such apps are fighting a symptom and won't solve the underlying cause of their problems. It's a bit like the pomodoro technique. It can work for a short-term task but won't solve the problems in the long run.
Watch out there are russian immigrants founding companies all over the place! Some of them have name Sergei.
USA is even trying to attract those russian kids on purpose! What a conspiracy.
the fact that antivaxers never source data but instead require normal sane people to do so will never not make me laugh
Could you tell a little bit about what simulation tools you used to verify your designs?
So, if it is considered inappropriate to join in, why was the thread public in the first place?
> But not too fast: If you can hash too quickly you can launch parallel attacks to find duplicates or break entropy-hiding. For unique ids, the fastest runner loses the security race.

> Cuid2 has been audited by security experts and artificial intelligence, and is considered safe to use for use-cases like secret sharing links.

I'm getting some snake oil vibes from this... There absolutely shouldn't be anything like a random ID that is 'too fast' to compute. You might need a rate limit to stay within your collision bounds, but CPU usage is a poor way to do it.

And there is currently no publicly available "artificial intelligence" that would be useful in a security audit, unless you want to call fuzzers "AI".
This is why I’ll probably just always use a UUIDv7 primary key and a secondary UUIDv4 indexed external identifier… which is extremely close to how I tend to do things today (I’ve been using ULID and UUIDv4)
> being much more easily distracted nowadays thanks to rise of pointless jobs, unfulfilling personal lives, etc.

There's this guy, about 150 years ago, that had a theory about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
+1 for mentionning the best (objectively :-) ) computer magazine of all time (in french, that is).

Et les dessins de Carali...
An analysis of FTC vs. Amazon and why it's a strong case
Text-based versions are much better for accessibility. A screen reader or text to speech software can describe a textual representation of a diagram much better than your WebGL equivalent on a zoomable canvas.
The BASIC code is only in it's full textual form on screen. The moment you press return on it, it's tokenized, and it's stored tokenized both in memory and when saved. Unlike modern systems, the full textual representation of the code is never stored anywhere.
Hopefully they're being objective. I don't think they should not recognize it because of a few loud and obnoxious fringe conspiracy theorists.
This is a garbage-in, garbage-out analysis, akin to saying, "We analyzed 100 cities, and found that those with levies were more prone to flooding. Thus, we conclude that levies offer no protection against flooding." We know mechanistically why levies work: they block water. We know mechanistically why lockdowns work: they reduce transmission. Less transmission means fewer infections means fewer deaths.

You can see this most clearly in the zero-CoVID countries, which had dramatically lower death rates during the pandemic. Taiwan and China had virtually zero deaths for much of the pandemic, because they traced literally every infection chain and capped it off. They reopened after vaccinating most of their populations, which means that most people in those countries had a primed immune system when they first got infected. As we know from numerous studies, that dramatically reduces mortality.
UI programmers have to deal with a ton of ambiguity and their job is literally to understand how humans will use a program. I have no idea how the hell you can come to the conclusion that this would be easier to automate than embedded.
One don't need trust if money are at stake.

My attention is a valuable resource for me, and it is limited. So it should be bought.

We should make sending notifications billable and let users set price for sending notifications to them. And voila - problem solved!
I have nothing bad to say about Apache, and it felt kind of weird that people were investing time in replacing it when so many of the scripting languages that sat behind it were hot-garbage, top to bottom.

I assume that "other" is "load balancers."
I've been using Truecrypt + syncthing since forever. Serious question: why would I move to veracrypt? It seems just a risk that something breaks.
I have worked for employers that would have thought that weird, and probably would have fired the first person to do so. They didn't even pay that well.

It's partly a cultural thing - in both Germany and Israel, for very different reasons, "we own your Sabbath" would not fly. UK/US it seems to be much more normal to assume employees are always available, though it varies by sector.
See also: DBeaver, pgadmin, MySQL workbench, Navicat, MS Access, ...

These graphical database clients mostly end up looking the same in the end.
"Life itsef", a "semi-monastic co-living hub" which is supposed to be "a place for experimentation, exploration, and learning, where people can engage in self-work, creative work, and spiritual practices" yet has only two and a half hours in the morning and three in the evening for unscheduled time to practice these. If I just do my yoga-qigong-kungfu, the morning space is filled, and do my normal morning meditation in the three hours in the afternoon. No time for experimentation, exploration or learning.

There are also in the direction of twenty people on the team with all kinds of expertise. This whole thing smells like the opposite of a monastic space, which usually consists of an abundance of time and space. Here it seems to be overflowing with all kinds of "modernized" practices and ideas about how that time and space is supposed to be filled. The absence of that normally characterises a monastic space.

I am probably misreading it, but I still wanted to post this. The blog post seems like normal psycho-development.
store it in plants and groundwater by using it for irrigation for example. I see this technology a solution in need of a problem to solve.

Using it for electricity production surely needs a lot of water treatment and pumping, a lot of energy investment, but not just submerging some magic membrane into the river deltas. It might have use in medical devices or some special niches, but not in the Netherlandish brackish waters.
> The 6502 processor and its variants are well documented and easy to emulate, and there's a vast library of software.

And newer games developed for those platforms employing the tricks we have learned in decades after these machines were retired are quite impressive. Much like the 8088mph demo, people today do things these machines were never supposed to be able to do.

The Plus4, BTW, would have been massively successful if it had back then the games it has today.
Leaking a monotonic ID could allow outside observers to estimate e.g. number of accounts created or products sold over certain timeframe. Competitors (or traders, for a public company) could use this like a form of inside information on the company (e.g. sell the stock if the rate was falling).
The google founders are american citizens.
I’m the same, but in most workplaces I’d been the odd one out. Many colleagues would check Slack even on holiday, so I had to be really explicit that when I’m not working, I am _really_ not working.

Edited to say that this attitude never got me in trouble. Given the conversation on mental health, work-life balance etc this clear boundary seems to be well respected. I’m in the UK.
Just to present a balanced view for our international audience: a significant number of locals sincerely enjoy Oktoberfest. Within my circles in the Munich tech/startup scene, a visit to Oktoberfest with the team is often considered one of the year’s highlights in terms of team building and socializing. People attend with friends, family, etc. The infamous images of inebriated tourists merely represent the most attention-grabbing outliers, overshadowing the majority who simply have a splendid time there.

Munich does have its share of issues, rent being a notable example. However, most of these problems are likely a result of the general lack of serious troubles, relatively speaking, which in turn boosts the city's attractiveness.
Respectfully, I believe you are in the wrong here.

Covid and climate science denial can be strengthened by having a 'discussion'.

This is because conspiracy thinking is actually immune to evidence. The denialist will subvert your evidence in a way that it proves the conspiracy. In here they will probably complain that 'correlation is not causation' or some other methodology 101 trope, whereas the audience will think "oh, yeah, this is complicated, smart people are debating it, I guess the jury is still out and we don't know for certain if climate change is real or not, and the vaccines are not a silver bullet either, lets just wait until the debate is over'.

But, in fact, the debate is over.

So no, in this case the onus is one the person attacking a vast body of scientific literature proving beyond reasonable doubt that vaccines are effective to come up with something supporting those wild claims. It is not up to me to provide a literature list that nobody will ever read anyway, and anyone who is even remotely interested in finding the truth can google such a list in 5 min.
I just googled Heat initiative and while all results are within 1-4 weeks of the WHOIS registration date of the website(8-16-23), the sources ive seen are the NYTimes, Forbes, PRNewsWire, Wired, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. I tried searching for things like fox news, MSNBC, CNN, even OAN but not much came up.

Maybe those Democratic donors have connections to those specific publications?

Also, I don't know if this could be considered "widespread media coverage" since it is limited to print and only one side of the aisle (or my google searches couldn't pick up the others) but I totally get your point. It seems like there might be an opportunity to "reverse engineer" which groups/people tend to trigger which media orgs to publish something.
> Yes China, North Korea and Russia banding against the rest of the world is a real threat but China has shown it is selfish too and cares more about its economy.

I really want to believe that. But the same logic did not stop the first world war.
The one place I know that is this secure, you hand the thumb-drives to security who scan them and verify the contents are of no risk before handing them back. The same on exit.
There was even a Commodore 900, based on, IIRC, the Zilog Z8000 that ran Coherent, a Unix-like OS. It had a case that inspired the Amiga 2000 one.

Development was dropped in favour of the Amiga.

I wish they at least used Coherent as a base for the Amiga OS. Having every Amiga hacker getting used to Unix would have changed the world.
Would Slate do such a thing?!

No, never mind. I can't fake genre-ignorance about Slate the way they can about fantasy.

The goal isn't to rewrite history, it's to draw rage-clicks and invite proud corrections, in other words waste our time, for their advertisers.
The stored version also uses token code points (single bytes >127), not literal tokens.
There's no study I've seen that says that is true. Especially in a society where speed limits are increasingly NOT being set for road safety reasons but for political ones. Take for instance, Wales' 'blanket' 20mph policy that I think they want to bring in across the nation - there's evidence that 20mph limits don't reduce accidents with any statistical significance[0].

[0] https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/20-mph-speed-limits-hav...
Nearly everything in this README about security or performance is wrong. I'd be very wary of using this.
Dying broke sounds like something only someone without kids or loved ones wants.
lol the JS crowd have fatigued themselves reinventing the wheel a dozen times to the point where they’re now just haters. Good luck op!
Sure. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?&_nkw=nokia+105&_sacat=0

YMMV, depending what cellular bands are available in your country.
~375 kg of emissions per every human living on this entire planet?

I'd call that... "significant".
I guess it wasn't the best time to be living in either. Funnily, one of the older stories that is still told today speaks of a bunch of people that get on a boat, and everybody else drowns.
As a newcomer to Obsidian, I have no idea how to get the svg to render side-by-side.
Apple’s efficiency cores are significantly larger than A5x cores.
For bike subsidies to work a ton of money would need to be put into installation of bike lanes too, though. Where I live a bike would be great, but bike lanes are rare and riding on the road along with gargantuan SUVs and trucks is not an attractive proposition.
Caddy. Broke the ground with QUIC. Amazingly fast.

I jumped from Apache to nginx but the cgi thing continues to confuse me. I hate the inner protocol to pass cgi calls to a preforked engine, fast though it is.
> I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions.

There's an RFP/ITP (Request For Package/Intent To Package) issue for Debian filed in June 2020, but no evidence that any DDs have wanted to pick it up or start working on it. I guess LibreOffice works well enough for all of them that need it.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963070

> It's [...] more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.

I've just had a look at some of the OnlyOffice screenshots, and they mostly look like it has a Ribbon-style interface. It might be that Debian devs are mostly old-school enough that LibreOffice's classic menu and toolbars is more similar to the MS Office they used to use than a Ribbon.

That said, LibreOffice does have multiple User Interface variants (accessible from the "View" menu in the standard UI), including a "Tabbed" option that is Ribbon-like if that's more your thing. (And some others, but I've not explored them much.)
> not long enough to, say, read a full article

> So HN somehow falls nicely in there.

Yeah, I don’t read the article way too often too :/
> If you are a private business that can only operate at a profit with tax payers footing a chunk of the bill you aren’t profitable. Any “profit” being made is simply theft from tax payers. End of story.

I'm not sure that's as much of an argument as you think it is.

Many military contractors are run for-profit, but the tax payer is footing the bill.
Nobody said a police officer free of corruption.
See if you’re able to read the original Yamanaka iPS paper here. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(06)00976-7

I read this as an undergrad and had a blast (inside joke lol). I am considering starting a YouTube channel explaining such breakthroughs while going through the original research. If you’re interested I’ll ping you as focus group when I have some!
Google's business model seems to be the gold standard when it comes to killing products.
then use that for cooling a nuclear power plant, which has meaningful power output. You cannot use this without water treatment and big pumping stations anyway.
There has got to be a way to take this org to court...
Apparently Truecrypt has had development shut down in 2014 and the devs are now telling people to migrate to Bitlocker as it may be insecure: https://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
GPT4 was surprisingly good at generating dot (Graphviz) files when I tried, and even managed to do reasonable visual layout of nodes (it's an interesting test, both because reasoning about visual constraints in text is tricky and because good diagram layout algorithms are complex)
The only way to know what works for you is to try coding without internet, see what problem arises first and solve it as best you can.

Then see what problems arises next and solve that as best you can.

And so on.

Which means it will probably be a bit frustrating, involve a lot of small failures, and maybe even large failures.

But you will learn if you like to code without the internet and will try it again with better preparation or just liked the idea of being a person who codes without the internet but are not (which is ok).

Some people like to camp and some don’t.

Good luck.
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