skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you tell me

Anthony Fauci, the entire CDC, and even the White House presented that as an initial timeline. When "the lockdowns" started that was the official position. After they were in place it quickly slipped to three weeks, then we don't know, then "long enough to flatten the curve" or maybe "until everyone gets a booster."

> specifically which experts

Let's not devolve to senseless parsimony over this topic again. All of this is well documented and if you actually wanted to know you could have easily found it yourself.
Public perception of healthcare is far worse, so far fewer people would attempt to limit transmission and protect vulnerable populations. On the other hand, we now have experience in handling respiratory disease pandemics and would likely fare better at actually medically supporting patients (avoid early intubation, etc.). So overall, probably much worse since population dynamics would flood our healthcare system, even if it has improved.
> I take offense to the idea that you wouldn't trust anyone who said they were motivated by "the betterment of the average person."

I'm afraid no offense is on offer (and it's rude to take things that aren't offered to you).

But to the point, anyone who said such a thing is either (a) lying, or (b) is projecting their own notion of what's better/best onto other people without those other people's involvement. Neither case reflects a trustworthy individual -- the first is motivated by malice, and the second is motivated by arrogance.

> My free time is dedicated to projects that I believe have the potential to improve the world for the greatest number of people.

Would you stop working on those projects if you were convinced they wouldn't improve the world for the greatest number of people, but were still interesting and useful to you?

If the people who you thought they were going to benefit didn't agree with you, and didn't want to use what you were offering them, would you accept that, or would you resent them and begin contriving ways to get them using it anyway?

Do you acknowledge that there's at least a little bit of arrogance inherent in having any beliefs about what's better for other people without those other people's own input?

> Examples include messaiah.ai, consciousness.social, multizoa.com, and dex.thesacred.xyz (though that one may not be functional anymore)

Again meaning no offense, but I'm going to be completely honest and tell you that I find all of these to be more than a little bit bizarre and creepy, and I think there's a great deal of hubris involved in presenting your LLM chatbot as unironically messianic.

> One of the reasons why I became a software engineer was to be able to bring to life projects that I believe have the potential to lead to "betterment for the average person," so...joke's on you :p

A lot of us did that. The OP article is precisely about how those exact intentions of a couple of decades ago have had quite different outcomes to what was intended.
It's a plugin, not a modification of WordPress. Wordpresses license is irrelevant.
Can we just link to the thing: https://wordpress.org/plugins/secure-custom-fields/
I really wish I hadn't replied to you.
Must be one busy robot.
I had a quick run with Starlette/uvicorn: similar results than node/uws, a bit faster actually but not significant enough to be meaningful. So I would expect similar results with other modern/fast libraries.
I also found that the "websockets" library is a bit slower (25% or so), all with the default settings of that benchmark.

The issue with Python that the author faced takes 2 minutes to identify and fix: raise ulimits.

Finally, one can question the value of such benchmark in real world applications, especially when the supporting article is so poorly researched as other already pointed.
I feel like Americans are all over the place. The top echelons of business in the US are very blunt and direct. The lower levels tend to be very indirect with lots of toxic positivity. I think this works out for capitalism and exactly fits the Gervais Principle.

Brits are even worse than Americans at all levels (hence, the largely incompetent government and the fact most businesses are poorly run - it's literally The Thick of It at all levels).

Indian/Asians are the absolute worst in terms of directness, these are all very strict hierarchies of business that only succeed if the top person is a genius, since they will never be challenged by anyone.

Europeans definitely are most direct of all, so they don't put up with wage slavery, so business leaders can't maximize their extraction of value from labour, but they tend to have better quality of life all around :).
I wouldn't call them "being upfront" at all.

They promote their savings accounts with opening bonuses, offer bonus rates for high net worth account holders (up to 0.04% instead of 0.01!!) etc.

Transparency would be not calling these terrible offers "savings" accounts (or sometimes even "high-yield savings accounts!") in the first place.
How can a static disassembler be detected? It doesn't actually run the process it disassembles.
> Well Iran sponsors Hamas terrorism in Israel

So two wrongs make a right?

> how is "Syria bombing Syria" suddenly justified

It's not. Nowhere in my statement did I attempt to justify it. I explained the context so that people wouldn't walk away confused as to what that short sentence actually means.

Apparently that context being added irritates you. That is interesting in it's own right.
In a good area of "suburban hell" you can find things like clean streets with lots of greenery, a 2% poverty rate, public schools with an average SAT score at the 91 percentile and 71% AP enrollment, over 80% of households with married couples and almost 50% with kids. $1M can buy you a 4000 sq ft house on 1 acre.

Working remote is the point. You can live somewhere nice for families instead of a big city. Just don't live in places like California.
I have a fundamental problem with the Hutter prize stating that intelligence is related to compression & then sponsoring a prize for lossless compression. Intelligence is related to lossy compression. Lossless is mainly a mechanistic act.
But "sufficiently-sick people go to the hospital" is always true, surely? You don't get loads more people in hospital unless loads more people are getting sick. A biased sample's informative if you know exactly how it's biased – in fact, it can be more informative. (If you want to study popular music, you look at the charts, not a random sample of tracks uploaded to SoundCloud.)
"乇乂ㄒ尺卂" looks like "EXTRA", but it's (meaninglessly-arranged) Chinese characters with a purely coincidental relationship to the Latin.

Did they find a bunch of these artifacts, with a variety of inscriptions? If so then sure, I buy it. If it's just the "CHON" fragment - that could well be coincidence.
Give it some time.

Bluesky will be old and busted, monetized and enshittified.

Then all of the "interesting" people will pioneer some new proprietary platform instead of building their own websites and DMing each other on Signal, though some might try the Fediverse again, only to abandon it because (like Lance Ulanoff) they couldn't find William Shatner there.

I'd love to be wrong about this, but we'll see.
How is your view closer to reality?! We saw fucking legions of people flood our ICUs overnight, and those were not all people that 'would have died anyway', far from it. How many deaths do you need before it becomes part of your reality?
The community already seems to have established a policy that copy pasting a block of LLM text into a comment will get you downvoted into oblivion immediately.
A friend worked on something similar for historic maps of Japan

https://stroly.com/ja/search?keyword=History
That's not true in the US generally (FDIC "pass-through insurance" is a thing).

The problem here wasn't a lack of FDIC insurance, but rather a lack of record keeping that allowed attribution of insured balances to individual beneficiary account holders.
Planning and "extreme care" makes sense if you're building a bridge. Professional software engineering is more like a demolition derby. If you want to be successful you should focus on building fast and breaking things. It wouldn't make sense to blow up a bridge right after you've constructed it, but with software you can do just that. For example, I was just using American Fuzzy Lop a moment ago to break my symbol demangler. It was able to find eight ways to make it crash in a minute. So I fixed all those and let it run for a couple hours and it found another. Tools like this are a superpower. It's also fun to write torture tests and DDOS your own infrastructure. If you don't break it then someone else will.
> The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong.

It was never real.

Anybody in any of the tech companies mentioned (and many others) has always known.

You can buy groceries and social status with a fat paycheque and stocks. You can’t do the same with “just” a clean conscience.
It also becomes a good deterrent against useless requests. You get pinged on Slack at 10pm? Just ask them to file a ticket with a page-worthy severity. When its not nearly as important as that, even external managers will hesitate to do that since they need to explain if the ticket was worth 150% base pay for 3 hours plus the extra PTO next day.

Significantly reduces the number of pages.
PG appears to differ [0].

From my pov, this is the best hacker story in recent times. A small group of protocol nerds are overtaking Zuck and Musk, the most powerful people on the planet. This is hacker af. [1]

[0] https://x.com/paulg/status/1858122600934752464

[1] A dev team of 20 people are the #1 app in App and Play Stores, while open source and fully remote. Heck yes. This is an amazing story. It should be front page every day.
Never a good sign for a physics theory when the headline says it's "not dead".
I think this is an example of a different issue. It sounds like your managers listened to your feedback often and even let high profile disruptions slide.

In general I think honesty is a good policy and management should be receptive to hearing out problems and possible solutions but that's not the same thing as implementing all feedback.

Maybe you're right or maybe your pet peeve just isn't a priority or can't be done for countless reasons. I'm not saying you did this but something I've seen often is employees confusing being heard with taking the advice.

As professionals I think it's our job to give advice and respect management's decision to take it or not. That's it I also think it's management's job to explain the reasoning.
> Imagine that you can read Latin, but not Greek, and you're confronted with some inscriptions in Greek. Should you call them writing?

Not sure if this is good example since we know that Greek alphabet really is writing.
I'm far enough away from the sun that I want an RTG rather than solar.
Skill issue.

20mph residential streets makes so much sense from literally every other perspective other than your own.
> Still using ancient MBR and legacy boot because, well, OpenBSD.

OpenBSD supports UEFI.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but distributions for Windows would be really popular. A server distribution of Windows would help its adoption a lot.
The myths that made Elon Musk
Ehh.. Only pages between 18:00 and 09:00 count for extra pay. Which means it affects your free / personal time. Where I am, the people care a lot about work not intruding on their personal time, so the perverse incentives are reduced.
Fantastic! Except you can't know in advance. So, the intelligent thing to do is to be prudent until you know what you're dealing with. Otherwise, by the time you decide it's dangerous enough to do something, you've already got an uncontrollable spread on your hands.
But Rancher Desktop does the same too (and is also open source).
Nope. FFS2.
where would this area be located on
a map?
https://archive.is/f3tMW

Bit of a clickbait headline, maybe the byline would be better?: Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump is part of a worldview that draws on Silicon Valley’s wildest frontiers
You also provided one example, yours haha. I think we have concluded this anecdotal conversation.
Databases are for saving state, no?
> Anthony Fauci, the entire CDC, and even the White House presented that as an initial timeline. When "the lockdowns" started that was the official position. After they were in place it quickly slipped to three weeks, then we don't know, then "long enough to flatten the curve" or maybe "until everyone gets a booster."

Your timeline makes no sense. Fauci or anyone would not have been talking about boosters for _years_ after lockdowns started. Booster of what? No vaccine existed.
You'd have to define what you mean by luck which would be equivalent to choosing some pattern that your compressor can recognize in a random stream of bytes and then computing the probability that pattern appeared in some random byte sequence. It's not a winnable game in any practical sense because whatever compressor you choose the probability of getting a sequence from your opponent that will conform to the patterns recognizable by your compressor is essentially 0.
I replied above due to a post limit.
I agree, they are both good and expensive. Audiobooks are in general, which is unfortunate although makes sense considering you need, in this case, so many people producing 10-20 hours of content

Audiobooks.com can be much cheaper, click through from Google shopping
Docker Desktop on Mac is a handicapped, underprivileged mess. Docker cli for Mac with Colima is still underprivileged, but at least you can skip the bs license and Docker's gui. On Windows you can at least use Docker on WSL which works great. Why use Docker Desktop is beyond me.
The specific place I have in mind is in Tennessee. I know there are some nice suburbs in Arizona as well. I'm sure there are more all over the country.
I just use colima on macos, its a far better experience. Much lighter weight
I have never worked for a company where people building the software and people supporting it when it is critical were the same. The idea is weird to me.

Plus any large enough company should have team in spread out timezones eliminating the need for on call if it’s correctly managed.
It also says:

> I don't think any centrally governed platform at global scale is capable of doing the work, even if they hired the best and sharpest people I know. Even if they put real effort into humanist upstream product design, rather than tossing loose change to trust and safety teams sent in to clean up after the fact.

>

> Local norms matter too much for global governance of the social internet to make sense; the flattening of global diversity to fit the norms and interests of any given American techno-culture—corporate or otherwise—is both a baldly colonial aspiration and one we should scorn for the same reason that we leave the idea of effective, monolithic, planetary-scale government—benevolent or otherwise—to underbaked science fiction. Home rule and genuine resilience both require the existence of many places, many of them at least partially interconnected.

That’s what confused me, given your cited context. It doesn’t sound centralized. Things that are not centralized are decentralized, no?
The elephant in the room: how many of these tactics are used by US companies, considering (I presume) our relatively lax data protection laws?
Isn’t the intelligence shown by compressing lossless the scheme you use? Applying the algorithm is the easy part, the proof of intelligence is inventing the algorithm which compresses.
Much worse. The incoming health person is a vaccine denier. Which could put the US in the spot where we will not develop vaccines and lots of people could die.
Ok, but I think the gravity of normal folks bends the industry whether we techies like it or not.

To further subdivide the techie contingent, lots of them have no problem using Windows even though Linux/FLOSS has been viable for a decade or two. So even most techies don't care about the problem.
>> who isn't as politically inflamed as you are

Saying that it’s okay for bonafide anti-intellectuals to meet the fate they’ve crafted for themselves despite all evidence is no sign of political inflammation. Be serious.
Docker for Windows and Mac are both bloated pieces of software, outperformed by Rancher Desktop and Orbstack.

Docker's only real innovation was the OCI format, which it had to give away for it to become an industry standard, and now doesn't own.
I have provided dozens of examples. You have provided one.
It was 1998, the world was much different then…
Not too different than an armed gang robbing someone on the street.
Specifically, the polite kind of robbery where three guys walk up and say “Hey, let me see that watch.”
Premium Bonds are quite a popular savings product especially in times of low savings interest. What I find interesting is that NS&I, being government backed guarantee the security of all money in their accounts across all products, well past the ~£80,000 obligation that banks have.
Even if the GPL does apply to Wordpress plugins, one of the comments in the linked Reddit thread notes he’s stripping out WP Engine copyright notices in this hijacked plugin. The GPL does not allow him to do that.
I've been out of university for a couple of decades now, but I will admit that the "business model" was bothersome even in my time. That is especially true since it is more important to the success of a person than that diamond ring is to the success of a marriage or the viewing of a movie in theatres is to an individual's enjoyment of life.

At least with your two examples of businesses preying upon the vulnerabilities of people, those vulnerabilities are entirely optional. People can, and do, choose other ways of expressing their commitment to their partners. People can, and do, find simpler (and non-commercial) ways to find pleasure in life.

That said, I also think that people have to step back and look at what they hope to gain from their post-secondary education. Let's face it, universities are institutions that largely prepare people to work in institutions (may they be academic or business). For example: you don't need to go to university to become a scientist, but you do to work as a scientist in a university and many businesses. Granted, there are exceptions to that. Your chances of becoming a medical doctor are pretty much nil without attending university.
> Scripts offers up the entire contents of the linux operating system and this could allow you to use operating system files as partial data.

I also thought about this, but when thinking more about the argument by the challenge creator, I understood that the data in the OS doesn’t help you.

If you’re given a file with 100 bits, there are 2^100 possibilities. If you want to compress to 99 bits, there are only 2^99 possible compressed outputs. So when generating and trying to compress every 100 bit file, you’re not going to be able to compress half of them. The external data doesn’t help you unless you get to modify it after receiving the file to compress. If you can get patched merged into the Linux kernel, you could use the data, but if the data is fixed, you can’t reference the data with less data than the original file (for some cases atleast).

Edit: actually, when thinking about it: you could actually use the OS as another few bits of out of band information you get for free, which makes it possible again. If you have 8 different OS to choose from, you could use their differences to compress any file. At least theoretically, the 3 bits you gain practically probably aren’t enough to make a difference.
Hi Ken! Your work is extremely interesting to me and I admire the effort your pour into these articles. It's been very cool to see your die analyses ramp up to more and more complex chips over the years. The Pentium is an especially neat target since it represents a major shift in the x86 architecture towards the modern chips we have today. Never a dull moment when I see a righto link!
Finality. Does the seller or creator having a say in what you do with something after the transaction? If so it’s not a sale.

If the dealership can still repossess the car you haven’t bought it yet. New house requires being an HOA member? Not a sale.
If he really wanted to make sure he kept the money, he could just use a hardware RNG. I don’t know how common they were in 2001 but you could probably even generate some practically unpredictable random numbers using radio noise.
That story in Gladwell about the (IIRC) Korean Air having to switch cockpit languages to English in order to escape the intrinsic layers of deference built into the language was hardcore. They were going to get delisted in Canada if they didn't do it.

Yeah, better than crashing into a mountain. That cockpit voice recording was really chilling. Gladwell gets a lot of flack, but he's told some interesting stories.

And your further point about businesses needing it too should be expanded to organizations of all kinds. This is a human problem, which means it's an ego problem, on both sides.
Normally researcher will make a statistical distribution and compared it with the existing deciphered alphabets for example the most popular is the yet to be deciphered Indus script against the popular Egyption script or Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Indus script research findings on it being a script was so controversial that the researcher had a death threat upon him based on the discovery.

I think the OP article author is wrong by claiming it's the oldest while it should be the Indus script but perhaps they considered the latter as symbols like Chinese characters not strictly alphabets [1].

[1] Indus script:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script
Reminds me of the Monster 6502. Not quite what you're suggesting, but still a large discrete monster of a board.

https://monster6502.com/

Instead of a hedge maze maybe we can have VR "walking through a 8086 or 8088" chip style maze in the future.
My main dev machine is Linux so I use Rancher Desktop but I also have a MacBook Pro m1 machine. Orbstack is so much better than rancher and docker desktop. I know they are a small company but hell if their product isn’t significantly more efficient and better.
Marriage is a social construct, but that doesn’t make the word meaningless.

Buying a fork isn’t a marriage.
I got the DIY AMD FW16 a few months ago, coming from a 10 y o ASUS. There was this issue where it froze up after running a couple days and the boot time was pretty abysmal (seemed to be a firmware thing, as it would stick at the BIOS stage, but I only did 1 firmware update), but the issue seems to have resolved itself (I just left it and continued using the ASUS). Haven't had any further hiccups, and otherwise it's been a great machine.
Why wouldn’t the same speed of vaccine development be possible with protein vaccines?
I think there’s almost no chance we’d lock down like we did before, so the health impact would be a bit worse, but the economic and social impacts would be much less bad (almost nonexistent).
I'm guessing the idea of going from a passenger car to a truck but that's not exactly uncommon, especially because Rivan makes an SUV and plenty of people use SUVs and even 4 door pickups as everyday transportation.
not enough to house significant influx from urban areas without become one itself
I didn’t quite get the method used to „compress“ the data from the article, maybe this rephrasing helps someone:

You basically split the file every time you encounter a specific character, and your compressor just combines all files it finds with the character you split by. If you split at every „X“ Char which might occur 1000 times in the file, the compressor only needs a small script which joins all files and puts an „X“ between them, which is less than 1000 bytes. The „trick“ is storing the location of the Xs you removed in the file sizes of the individual files.