skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought that if I left Twitter, I could find a new social network that would give it some competition

I mean, the self-hosted website - where this blog is posted - is exactly that. I don't quite follow his desire to find a third party community. He seems to want a service that meets his standards of what a social network should be without realising that he has complete control of his own content and how people interact with him on his own website. Interestingly, where he disabled comments.
Lol so the bar is asking for independence? Native Americans no longer advocate independence because they've been suppressed for for several generations, they're culture are effectively dead. Same thing will probably happen in China in 50-100 years
Yeah I'd absolutely love to use a golf cart or similar, but I need something street registerable (I live in an inner city high-rise in Australia).

Our local councils get these awesome little electric golf-cart things to roam around servicing things, but they're not legal for us to own, which is a real shame.

Something the size of a golf cart, so it can be tucked away in a corner somewhere, or parked sideways with tail to curb and be no longer than the standard width of a parking spot, would be absolutely incredible. It would only need ~20-30km range, seat 2, and have a small area for storage, and I truly think it would be pretty popular for inner city dwellers. Most people just keep a cheap car tucked away in a back street nearby, or use Vespa-style scooters.
This idea is probably worth a post of its own. I believe that because TypeScript's type system is effectively advisory rather than guaranteed ('unsound'), you cannot rely on it for optimization unless you're willing to unpredictably break programs.
accountability. Using your real name on social media makes you much more accountable than using a pseudonym. Some people really believe in that (I do too, just not on most social media platforms)
Previously discussed when it was published in the New York Times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888777
Microsoft seems to be using UserVoice rather well.
This is very true as a php developer myself I notice that there are a lot of low pay wordpress jobs available to php developers. At the same time you can get more serious jobs with equivalent pay as other languages in php but there seems to be a lot more competition for them.
So I'm just going to drop this idea for all you Eager Internet Entrepreneurs here on HN:

influencers.social, a Mastodon instance for Verified Social Media Influencers.

If you have a Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/etc account with 5x10^6 or more followers, and a thousand dollars per month, then you can join our elite site and know that you are in the hands of our team of moderators, who are on the job 24/7. We use sentiment analysis to catch the abuse before you even see it! Why trust your social media presence to the underpaid minons of the other commercial sites, or to a volunteer running their site as a side project, when you can be a Verified Social Influencer?

Juggle the numbers as you see fit. Pick a better name while you're at it. Decide for yourself if you feel like passing any improved moderation tools back to the codebase of whichever ActivityPub-based social site you fork off of.
This. Worked with large C# code bases that were full of leaky abstractions using generics.

Programmers thought of ever edge case, until you found that edge case that wasn’t covered in the long chain of inheritance of generics.

Point being, I agree with you, I know Go doesn’t have inheritance like C# but I’m pretty sure we, as a community, we’ll find a way to complicate everything Go related.
Apple has 45% in most OECD countries. Even higher in some of them, IIRC.
According to https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-highest-rape-crime/

India is after US and Sweden. I am using DuckDuckGo and this was the third link in search results on crime against women. I will look up the OECD stats as well.
Mobile Data Repositories at the Edge [pdf]
Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market.

I.e. places with defined risk where you will know if you’re wrong if it goes against you by x% while you expect a y% gain if you’re right AND y>x is worth more than the number of times you’re wrong.

The types of Algos that work well for this are edge identification ones - I know this because I am (not as well as I’d like) successfully doing it.

LSTMs haven’t performed so well for me in this task but non-NN algos have. CNNs however were promising but didn’t match what I’d come up with - still searching for the holy grail that’ll make me rich!
Simpler: Hanlon's Razor.

When engineers see 5 different physical ports, they want to consolidate, because there's no good reason for them to be different, and there are real benefits to be gained by having them all the same.

E.g., Stuart Cheshire (Chairman, ZEROCONF Working Group), 2002: "My hope is that in the future — distant future perhaps — your computer will only need one wired communication technology. It will provide power on the connector like USB and FireWire, so it can power small peripheral devices. It will use IP packets like Ethernet, so it provides your wide-area communications for things like email and Web browsing, but it will also use Zeroconf IP so that connecting local devices is as easy as USB or FireWire is today. People ask me if I'm seriously suggesting that your keyboard and mouse should use the same connector as your Internet connection, and I am."

It's a great vision, but unfortunately, on the path from here to there, features get cut. If your product needs to support 5 different protocols, and you have to cut 1 to ship on time, that's still pretty good as far as your own product is concerned (80%!). If every manufacturer does this, though, you end up with a mess of cables and connectors that aren't quite compatible with each other -- and users are more miserable than before this whole exercise started.

I don't think anyone wants their USB-C device or cable to be intentionally incompatible with another USB-C device or cable. They just don't make 100% compatibility a hard requirement.
same feeling. I tried to use TS for several times, but it looks its type system is too complex. So I'm still sticking to old JavaScript now (before ES5) for the simplicity.
I remember Ubuntu coming installed with Amazon links. It certainly did require special knowledge to remove it.

https://www.lifewire.com/remove-amazon-application-from-ubun...

At least with Windows you can just right click, uninstall. That is until vendors break that mechanism too
Also Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

Look at the numbers for India and others then look at the population difference (gigantic) then draw a conclusion.
I've kind of personally adopted a IF regime automatically for the past couple of years. Incidentally I kind of think it started during a bout of depression where I didn't eat enough at all and lost a lot of weight and just looked horrible.

Since then I've gotten better at eating, but for the most part I still don't eat until the afternoon or even dinner, and for the most part don't eat anything afterwards(sometimes a late night snack).

This has had my friends react and tell me I'm crazy and express their disbelief at how it's possible to go to work or some such and not eat anything all day.

I literally have no problems wrt being tired and experience 0 reductions in cognitive ability. I haven't had to take a nap in the afternoon for several years and maintained the same-ish weight while retaining a good deal of muscle mass from my weight training days without having to do much for it.

For me, it just works out better. it's just really nice not having to be constantly focused on getting something to eat every few hours and since I'm not stuffing my face with calories all day I've been able to eat basically whatever I want without gaining any weight.

I've no plan to stop doing it this way since it's just become the natural way to do things for me. The only issue I experience is the occasional loud stomach rumbles for which my coworkers give me odd looks sometimes.
Consider this function signature:

func SomeAdditionFunction(arg1 int, arg2 int) {
fmt.Println("Sum:", arg1 + arg2)
}

This function will only accept a pair of integers. In order to perform addition on floats or int64s or any other number type, you would need a separate function.

Go has the concept of an empty interface (interface{}) which can accept any type. But this is not really a generic because you have to assert that it is a specific type in order to be sure what it actually is at runtime. This function for example, will not compile:

func SomeAdditionFunction(arg1 interface{}, arg2 interface{}) {
fmt.Println("Sum:", arg1 + arg2)
}

But this will:

func SomeAdditionFunction(arg1 interface{}, arg2 interface{}) {
fmt.Println("Sum:", arg1.(int)+arg2.(int))
}

In a language like Java, I could write this function to accept any type for which the + operator is valid, and it would still be type safe at compile time. I would not need to assert the types like I did above.
We had a maxed out one of those in the company lab. I seem to remember that it was on the loud side.

What a tremendous waste of money.
So my local council doesn't even have the money to stay on top of fixing potholes and uneven streets , but will somehow find the money and will to put electric charging points everywhere? Yeah, I don't see that happening.
MQSim:Framework for Enabling Realistic Studies of Modern Multi-Queue SSD Devices [pdf]
Sorry, that should be 4 DML statements...
Did they really expect every cable to have an active chip in it just to support 5 amps instead of 3?

And it should have been obvious that charging-focused cables with no superspeed lanes would exist.

When it comes to different qualities of wire, and Superspeed vs. Superspeed+, I'm ready to blame the manufacturers. But is that actually a problem in practice? Are there 1 meter cables that have been tested to not support Superspeed+?

And the mess of what-supports-what with thunderbolt speeds is definitely Intel's fault.
This is relevant in a way: Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....
Maybe everywhere in urban areas in certain US cities. I live in a mid-size EU city(<500k people) and there's just few charging points around me, which are pretty much permanent occupied.
I often notice interesting but not very useful projects getting a lot of stars because they generated some discussion on HN. I think reviews would be better. I've used the reviews, both the number of reviews and the average, on the WordPress Plugin Directory to decide what plugin to install, and find them to be reasonably accurate. Something like this for other platforms besides WP would be great.
>"Its a good point, if you overlook the fact that the British destroying the Indian & Chinese economy"

I only mentioned Britain because I followed it by compounding China and India.

If we are only talking China specifically, it was invaded by a mixture of 8 nations simulataneously (multiple times), including British, Americans, French, Germans, Russians and the Japanese in just the 19th century (see Opium wars through Boxer Rebellion).
My Camry Hybrid can have 500+ miles of range recharged in a few minutes. That's the "killer app" that electric has to beat, one way or another. Spending multiple hours recharging is like driving 30mph on the freeway.
The last commit to that git repo was a couple days ago, and looking at the log, it gets a new commit every week or so. It may be under different stewardship now, but it definitely seems maintained. The last stable release was last year, but development seems to be proceeding nicely. The full site is at http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/.
Does anyone actually care about copyrights anymore? I've received a few notices and promptly reported them as spam or thrown a letter in the trash.

By the time I was 17 I literally pirated a million dollars of software.
Do stars really "help" that much? This sort of reads like projection more than anything.
It's unfortunate but as you've noted, the TS-80 is QC3.0 only. This means you're going to need a dedicated charger (Though I thought the TS-80 shipped with one?). This means that it doesn't support negotiating with USB-PD devices to get the power it needs even though they'd be otherwise compatible. If they had been able to do QC 4 or USB-PD directly then it'd be a lot easier to find compatible devices (QC 4 added compatibility with USB-PD up to 27W).
Well I’m Danish, and I can assure you that the only political push on this area is coming from the far left and feminists and it’s mainly focused on the fact that people are more body centric because they feel the need to be perfect.

It’s not uncommon for young Danes to spend most of their free time either doing homework or working out.

This is largely because we’ve collectively spent the past 17 years in what’s called “the competitive state”. Here we’ve been told we needed to work hard to survive the global competition. This has brought necessary reforms to our welfare state, but one side effect has been that young people getting stressed because they never feel like they are good enough.

You’ll see similar stories around much of northern Europe.

Sometimes you’ll see anti-immigration parties comment on how immigrants have affected personal freedom for women, like the article states, but then those same parties are pushing agendas to make public nudity illegal. So I wouldn’t say they were forerunners on the issue.

This may be different in other countries of course.
I’m a fellow generics pessimist. Having come to Go from Java some 6 years ago I initially found the lack of generics a curious, sometimes frustrating omission.

After years of using Go daily and reading a long succession of posts on the go-nuts mailing list wherein Rob Pike, et al, repeatedly and staunchly defended the lack of generics as necessary – even beneficial – in the pursuit of designing a small, readable, coherent language, I’ve since come to believe that decision was entirely correct.

Perhaps nobody technically promised there would never be generics in Go’s future, but it’s undeniable that they run contrary to those stated design goals. As currently proposed, they will add considerable complexity to the language in exchange for questionable benefit.

I’m not sure the world needs another kitchen-sink language that eschews clarity for the unrestrained addition of features. If you want that, there are already plenty of options for you.
Gaia: Geo-Distributed Machine Learning Approaching LAN Speeds [pdf]
The reason why it's not more popular in the 1st world countries is that a motorcycle/moped is yet another vehicle that you need to tax and pay insurance on, while you are already paying not a small amount of money for a perfectly usable car - why double your expenses? Not to mention that in a lot of climates riding a bike/moped is a really bad idea in winter without significant skill and gear.
I wonder if the solution involves partitioning the social graph to allow accounts to coexist?

Instead of trying to censor accounts, because I’m going to assume accounts aren’t used purely for offensive content — that’s the easy case — but rather the account is generating ‘mixed’ content.

Bans are a primitive form of isolating a part of the graph. Particularly if they extend to commenting/replying to that account’s posts.

The false abuse reports similarly should carry an extremely high cost to the submitter. If an abuse report is flagged maybe the account is no longer trusted ever to report a post again. Maybe an abuse report should actually have to carry some monetary value (like hashcash).
where are you located that household 3 phase is available? Lots of hobby machinists would kill for that but it just isn’t available most places.
> Email spam has not been a problem since we figured out Bayesian filtering.

My understanding is, this is not because Bayesian filtering solved the spam problem forever. It's because Bayesian filtering solved the spam problem for long enough for Gmail to dominate email.

Google had a ton of data and they were already using it to recommend ads, so they were well-positioned to use it to make the best spam filter. Unlike the things that came before, you could rely on Gmail's filtering. You didn't have to sort your spam folder ever. This was a clear advantage bringing even more people to Gmail.

Now the thing discouraging email spammers isn't any given filter, it's the fact that Google owns email and the cost of messing with Google is too high.

(I am not saying that this, in particular, makes Google evil. Another way to look at it is, Google saved email as a usable medium, by centralizing it.)
My solution has been to use the Fastmail website to accept calendar invites, but use khal and vdirsyncer to manager the majority of my calendar. As far as contacts, I believe Fastmail can import and export to vCard, which can be managed locally with khard and vdirsyncer as well. I use khard directly with mutt to access email contacts and I've been happy with it.
Hehe, too much work.
Ask HN: Office Chair for WFH, La-Z-Boy or Hermin Miller?
I work from home. I'm a big guy, 300 lbs and 6' 3". I need a comfy chair, I'd really like something with head support. I've worked on a Hermin Miller chair (back when I worked for the Government) and they're nice chairs.

Personally I've looked at buying the La Z Boy Delano Big & Tall Executive and wondered how it compares to the Aeron and if it would be a good purchase.

Craigslist often has Aeron's for $350-500. How good is the La-Z-Boy for sitting 8-10 hours a day?
Old News. I saw that video a week back.
And this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel
I think that's what this does:

https://www.tindie.com/products/aroerina2/usb-cable-checker/
It's a mod failure and a tool failure. If you get 60 bullshit reports about a user, ones that aren't even debatable, you should be able to send out replies as a mod to their mods, and if they aren't heeded, defederate.

There needs to be some sort of federated ticket system or something. Federation is like a treaty, and a treaty is basically nothing but a court.
I got a MacBook pro 2013 15” max spec 16gb/nvidia gpu. 430 cycles (not a lot) and if it needs replacing Mac store will do it not that expensively. I paid 900$ u.s. on eBay. Model had a bit of scratches but who cares made it way cheaper . OP just buy a refurbished max spec 2013/2014 15” off eBay .

Only gripe I have is that it sometimes doesn’t ground well with the unibody casing
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My Ubuntu comes installed with Minesweeper and Mahjongg.

Windows historically came installed with Pinball, Minesweeper, Solitaire.

I would guess that a substantial base of Windows users plays games on their PC. It's rare to find a popular game that isn't enhanced by the internet.

I do tend to agree that maybe Professional versions should not come with these _links_, but even a large portion of professional users play games on their company issued laptop. I haven't installed Windows Server before but I would be surprised if that featured game links.
they put in parking meters to collect money. Are you sure they wouldn't put in charging meters with the equivalent price of gas? That's worth maybe 15k mi/yr / 30mpg * $3 = $1500/yr for the average user (assuming they use it regularly.. which apartment users would). That seems like a pretty decent incentive.
When I was younger I was really into CGI, I remember thinking man, If I ever get to work on one of those to do some 3d rendering, that will be something.
It's impossible to defend the lack of generics in golang in the face of the fact that two of the larger open source projects both invented their own generics implementations.

https://medium.com/@arschles/go-experience-report-generics-i...

https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/master/tools/go_generi...
HUGH JACKMAN 'THE FRONT RUNNER 2018' TRAILER
Additional resources:

USB-C for Engineers, https://www.reclaimerlabs.com/blog/2017/2/1/usb-c-for-engine...

An example of USB power delivery, https://www.reclaimerlabs.com/blog/2017/5/16/example-usb-pow...

Twitter thread which observes “ethernet-like” protocol over control channel of USB power delivery, https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1035764804886126592
A shell is supposed to be an interactive user interface and a very thin glue layer for some simple tasks. Once you move beyond a certain level of complexity, a shell is just the wrong tool for the job.

Powershell is too complex to be a good shell, and there are too many bizarre idiosyncrasies about it to hold its own as a programming language. It just doesn't really have a place.
I wonder where they are getting their acid? I mean, it is highly illegal and getting caught with just a few hits can put you in prison, and distributing it is very very serious, probably considered worse than dealing heroin or crack.

The article claims it is popular. It is surprising that if it is public knowledge, that the DEA isn't all over this...do people at places like Google and Apple get a free pass or something?

One point to make, this quote "The cost and the illegality of LSD would make a conventional study prohibitively expensive." makes little sense. LSD is extraordinarily cheap to make, and even when it is illegal can be had for less than a dollar a hit in bulk...it used to go for $60/100-hits (a "sheet") back at Dead shows, and even at that price someone was making a decent profit.

Another point is how poorly researched this article is...I mean what does "1/15th" mean...hits vary between 50ug and 250ug....I can say with certainty that 1/15th of a small hit (3 mikes) would have no effect on anyone, none whatsoever.

I went to college a couple of times on like 1/4 of pretty strong hit (so maybe 30 or 40ug) and I can say I did not like it one bit. I mean I could handle it but the general human race is just so coarse, and acid makes you so sensitive...weed is so much better for dealing with the "real world"...and weed also is a psychedelic. Green varieties (typically classified as mostly Sativa side of the spectrum) can do more for you while allowing you to filter out the bad stuff in normal life. Acid's very nature is annihilating your filter and letting everything in....not always good.
If your are interested in learning hard subjects, I highly recommend Richard Hamming's wonderful course The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn [1], and the related book [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&list=PL2FF649D0C...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Doing-Science-Engineering-Learnin...
> I dunno how well the former will survive with read-only access to the latter. I would not be sad to see it wither and die, though several decades of life on the Internet suggests that's all too unlikely to happen.

In my internet experience, it will be the fun, influential one, and the "civil" one will wither and die. The problem in this case was the abuse of the reporting system, it seems, not name-calling.
For what it's worth typescript is developed by Microsoft. Doesn't get much bigger than that
Uber, Lyft, Lime (rejected), Skip and Scoot (accepted) are all SF companies.

Bird is based in Santa Monica.
He is not in wy