skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was never a question if top down rules on speech work, it's if it was a desired. Reddit is the beige wall of community. My experience is choosing between echo chambers, marketing, or ghost towns.

"Thousands of communities, endless conversation, authentic human connection."
Would that mission statement be more true for Reddit, Tumblr, Image boards, IRC channels, random internet forums? and the conversation is boring, its feels just like tech Twitter where everyone has to make sure they thoroughly vet their posts for the sake of their future and avoid getting slam dunked on. At least it's usually up and down arrows and ban hammers instead of verbal assault.

Please convince your communities to abandon ship to self hosted, more intimate communication platforms.
That’s because piano strings are inharmonic. I suspect that the same octave stretching would sound pretty bad with square waves.
How? Google makes the majority of its money from its own properties.
Perhaps, but please don't respond to bad comments with more bad comments. That only makes this place worse. The site guidelines point another way:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Maybe you don't owe another commenter better, but you owe this community better. And if you know some truth that others don't know, you owe the truth better, too: to help people understand it instead of discrediting it and giving them a reason to dismiss it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>There's a gender paradox with suicide. Men die very much more often than women in most western countries, but women have much higher rates of self harm and self-reported suicidality.

I've heard women attempt three times as much as men, but how much of that is explained by the fact that once you complete, you can no longer attempt. Had every one who succeeded failed, how many more attempts would they have added to the total?

It is kinda like the paradox where planes should have armor in the places they don't get shot, because the planes shot in those places are the ones which crash and are never in the data set to measure.
There’s no lack of proof (or commentary, thereof) that FAANG has bought many, many companies... effectively vacuuming up much talent and potential competition (and just businesses in general), transforming whatever they bought into an existing product (line). In fact, that’s partially what Warren’s article is about. This leads to a bit of monoculture because you get so much of the workforce in just a few companies with outsized influence and singular-ish identities.
Robert Macfarlane otherworldly archives: The notebooks that documented Underland
> Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot.

Indonesia is an archipelago of lots of small islands, so getting around is a lot more difficult. Per capita or per land area, it's going to need a lot more polling places than some place like Russia or the US.
Or use one of the CI providers that will test your stuff on macOS (alongside Windows, FreeBSD, ...). Possibly for free, if your stuff is open source. I use that for Windows, which I don't personally use at all, and it finds bugs and problems all the time. I wish someone would provide free (!) CI for some rarer OSes and CPU architectures too, but I can dream.
What for? A lock doesn't sound that useful if it's only advisory.
> In recent years, slightly more than half of farm households have had negative farm income and therefore rely on off-farm income to support their well-being
Running Fast Interactive Queries on Petabyte Datasets with Presto (2016) [video]
Thank you! You can’t self-host 1MB, but we do offer some open source software on our repo at https://GitHub.com/1MB
>a run-down neighborhood with lots of broken windows will normalize behaviors that would be stigmatized elsewhere.

Of course, but...

>... as if replacing all the broken windows might somehow reduce crime. Of course this is pretty dumb

Calling it dumb seems to contradict the first quote above... If broken windows normalize bad behaviors, less broken windows would seem to prevent normalizing those behaviors.

>entrenched normalization of deviance (decades of bad/discriminatory policy) can’t simply be fixed by zealous application of punitive measures.

Why not? Punishing deviance prevents the normalization of deviance.

Curious, what would you think of broken windows policing as applied to high-crime white neighborhoods?
I had forgotten about the people who complain about homeless people (which as an aside I would argue is more of an issue with society than with libraries themselves), but I haven't seen too much of the "we have the internet and they should be shut down" arguments. It seems that those opposed to libraries on this site have likely forgotten the Hacker part of Hacker News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic#The_hacker_ethics
I wish I had the time to contribute to this. Getting Logic running on linux would let me ditch the Apple hardware.

It's usefulness is entirely limited to the implementation of the core library frameworks such as Core Image, Audio, MIDI, Animation, Data, etc...which will be very, very difficult, I think, while maintaining FOSS status.
I have some friends who are small family farmers. God it's tough. I think part of the problem is an ingrained social expectation that success in farming stems from hard work. But work is no match for the efficiency of capital and the economy of scale. As a result, the small farms are being driven under. There's a huge social stigma attached to losing a farm -- you didn't work hard enough.

My one friend pays more for his material inputs (seeds, fertilizer, etc.) and gets paid less for his crop, than the bigger farms. He's got about a hundred side hustles going.

Like you say about the emotional bond, I know at least two people who live on roads named after their families.
Just look at the name...
All good teams revolve around stars. Talented brains can create more value that two hands can do, and the organization exist to help them win. Nothing new.
"oppression in the name of a more just society"

That's how a lot of the worst dictatorships started.
Is an idea only real when shared and appreciated?
I'm thinking about integrating with Amazon Pay because most people have Amazon accounts already.
Perhaps off topic but this was very difficult to read because PC Mag’s advertising was constantly changing sizes. Thank God for Reader View or I’d have abandoned it early
Most people pick Adsense because it’s the de facto service to use. Name a competitor to Adsense for your average small site that doesn’t take a lot of work or pay a lot less in aggregate. It’s not the same as truly voluntarily using it.

Adsense isn’t Google’s main revenue or profit source either. That would be AdWords and specifically ads on their own properties.
There's Google Analytics on the website.
For the API/service, there's no user/usage information being stored, other than aggregated bandwidth/total requests for the entire service, by our CDN provider, BelugaCDN.
You can find the source code, as well as the deployment setup here: https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos
Richard Feynman on Computer Science – Talk at Bell Labs (1985)
Why would I be trolling? The West has been winging it for half a century. It's time for China to step up to the world stage. And I'm saying this as a Chinese-American. I've seen both sides. China is better.
“Dad, do you want to go to Oklahoma? We can spend some time shooting turkeys and feral pigs. It’d be good for you as well as me.”

I was feeling sympathy for these people until I read the piece above. He may as well write something like:

"Yeah, let's kill some wildlife, also we could give a beating to a sodomite or a nr, anything to make you feel better Dad"
From my observations, it seems that the vocal opposition is far outnumbered by the quiet supporters.

My small town library is expanding, not simply for more room for books, but also to make it a nicer space for events and programs open to the community.

The internet situation out here is also pretty bad (I use ubifi), so it's handy for those who are low income to access the internet without using data from their cell phone.
Show HN: My Second Hobby: Woodworking
Furthermore, in Canada (Federal), deputy returning officers are chosen by the party or candidate received the most votes in the last election and poll clerk's are chosen by the party or candidate that came in second in the last election.

In practice though, a lot of folks are hired afterwards through the nonpartisan process.
Great name! Also, seems like a nifty, simple and useful service for quick prototyping.

This seems like a bandwidth heavy service. I am curious to hear how you are thinking about managing/scaling this.
Sure, with a Turing compete system everything is a "you could just". It seems a lot easier to update limit 1 than to involve a subquery. If that is what GP meant it for, of course.
It is. Mistakes take a far longer time to be understood than fashion.
Yeah, but they're people looking for something to do, unlike hospice patients.
> I'm making the case that in a love where sexual attraction is the pre-requisite, that love is not unconditioned.

Ah ok that's the misunderstanding then, because earlier you said "If there's lust involved, it's by definition not unconditional", which is obviously something different so I got confused.

> Eventually, we stop doing the deed, grow old. Now we say we love each other unconditionally. But how can we say that, do we now live in a vacuum that we're going to ignore the entire history of our past and that our sexual attraction (or simply, our enjoyment of each other) caused the dominoes to fall the way they did?

"But how can we say that"....well, that's been my question all along, I was hoping you could explain how it isn't possible to love unconditionally in this situation, or one where lust is involved.

But now that you've provided extra constraints and context (where sexual attraction is a pre-requisite, and that you are speaking from your individual experience) I think the confusion is cleared up.

> I can't say to this woman when I'm old: "I would have loved you even if you weren't hot when we were younger" because this is an untestable claim

Exactly, as is saying unconditional love is not possible in the presence of lust - it would require a means of knowing the emotional feelings (something notoriously difficult to measure) of all people who have been in love throughout history.
Does winning the popular vote mean anything under the current system? It's not hard to assume that many people would vote very differently if the electoral college wasn't involved. For instance, left-leaning people might vote more often in red states, and right-leaning voters in blue states would do the same.
I haven't seen any other image placeholder services that look similar to this. Can you share some examples?
A man who didn't finish high school is over six times more likely to die by suicide than a college-educated woman. However bad things feel for you and your colleagues, they are vastly worse for working-class men.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28756896
Can’t say definitively, but know that these days if your resume has X and they are looking for Y it’s a no-go. Even when X overlaps Y significantly. Hard to even get a job as a programmer in one language with experience in another.
There are tons of highly qualified doctors in other developed countries (EU, Australia, etc) who could earn more in the US, what stops them from practicing here if we have a shortage?
> The men aren't doing great either but that's because they're expected to succeed and are given a disproportionate amount of work. We're expected to fail...

how can you be so dismissive of men? I am a physics graduate student and I spend literally every waking minute of my life in lab. It's really embarrassing to admit, but it's been 3 years since I've had sex or had a social life outside of lab. This is self-imposed - I'm chasing a dream, but surely 3 years of complete isolation, devoid of intimacy of any kind can at least compare to being "left out of meetings"?

also as a Phd student you shouldn't expect to be "given work". You make research proposals and execute them, no?
10 years? Do you not use them? I feel like I replace mine (which aren't bottom of the barrel) every 6 to 8 months because the soles wear out.
And not forget to fire those other managers who never wrote a single line of code.

Or anyone who thinks in terms like 'programmers' and 'resources'.
I believe you are on the right track. It's the iceberg issue, no matter how much the CEO makes it's the factors at the bottom which make the difference, i.e. how much workers get paid in general.

However in saying that we live in a culture and climate which pays people somewhat (mostly) on the value of the services/skills they provide. So if you're a janitor, then you are probably going to get a low salary and it would be hard to justify increasing that salary simply because the cost of living is high.

If this guy earns $660,000 or $66m, the problem at the lower end still exists.
> it is simply not economically feasible (and you would have a hard time securing investors).

So are Romans really behind us, or are we behind them? We seem bound by the forces of compound interest to never make something durable. But somehow they were capable of it.
That matter has caught my attention some other times. I'm aware of dozens of projects where such "hero developer" phenomenon happened and it's really interesting (some I worked for, some I knew by other people).

I ask myself why that happens. No doubt that variations in developers' talents is a factor. But I think there are some social forces operating there as well.

I have become the hero of four projects after the previous hero had left. And I have also already arrived in projects with pre-established heroes.

Despite I've been able to be a reasonable hero whenever I ended in such position, the other times when I worked with established heroes, they were condescending over me and the rest of the team. There has always been that trend to patronize and to be a plain jerk. That was annoying.

I knew I could contribute more and maybe even to help to herorize the project. But, simply put, there weren't minimal social conditions for that to happen.

Maybe the heroing concentration would dilute a bit by improving social conditions.
There is no substitute for caring, and people consistently, dramatically underestimate the difference in thought that happens in people who care and people who don't. Anytime I'm asked why someone should listen to me and not someone else I tell them "because I care". It is really all it takes to separate from the incompetent, so few understand what caring does.
Elixir, which runs on the Beam VM, had piqued my interest for a while, so finally set out to learn about it this weekend. On searching for "flaws" of the language and the platform, I (accidentally) ran into:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42k70Y-yTYY . (year 2017)

Video description:

...What many developers don’t understand is that Erlang is
built on an architecture and within ecosystem
that contains many subtle security flaws.
One such set of flaws allows anyone with the ability to
interact with a remote Erlang node to compromise
that node by abusing the underlying BEAM Virtual Machine
and the services required to run Erlang...

My notes:

* Looks like a deep issue in VM architecture

* It's not detectable at all

* Ericsson was informed 1 year prior to the talk, and their recommendation is to not expose nodes publicly

Speakers argument: Yes, but the threat still exists for another internal project to exploit it

* Speaker's belief: It doesn't look like it is going to be fixed (any time soon)

To me to me this sounds like a very serious
issue - to the point that I have crossed off anything on Beam that - I wouldn't build/learn to build on, wouldn't trust (note: didn't say wouldn't use) another software that was built on it.

Overall, it seemed like a great platform that scaled upto a certain point with good guarantees on latency and throughput and resource utlitization. Not to mention, seems like (probably) only one platform that does pre-emptive scheduling. Heartbroken that after being marketed as "battle tested", this aspect of the VM/lang has gone under radar for so long.
You can't fully test things this way. Not enough to make a serious release anyway. You can easily pass all tests while not being able to even start the app. You need at least one person with the real hardware to do testing.
They aren't really echo chambers. I routinely harass these people for their racist views and they don't ban me. Their Hitler worshipping is really ludicrous. It's a lot of fun to flame someone on the Internet without worrying about getting banned for hurting people's feelings. I think the false belief that the mainstream has gotten everyone into is "racism=nationalism". The stupid people on the right bought into that and took the other side even though that's the narrative of their ideological enemies. I am trying to deprogram from the idea that nationalism and racism are synonymous.
"We're not looking to compete with the free" - this seems garbled. Any guess what he meant?
>That is a staggeringly low opinion of humanity.

When people make sweeping assumptions about the nature of other people it says something about them too.
> But it would definitely be good for the public to understand, at least to dismiss this notion that the internet is a free-for-all. It's not, in itself, resilient against interference.

> And would you want that freedom? I wonder if the individual ultimately would. Maybe there are things governments should be protecting us from. That's a valid discussion that should be had.

Governments, of the past, of the present, have left us with plenty evidence that they are perfectly incapable of protecting their citizens when it doesn't serve either their collective self-interest or the interest of whoever they happen to serve at the time. Imo, there is literally no alternate reality where handing the governments unabated control ends well.

- For starters, the govts don't even get technology.

- As a parallel to the Internet, look no further than the regulations, the standardisation processes that plague the telecommunications industry (who are under influence of the governments world-wide and are actively trying to wrestle the control of the internet away from traditional bodies). It's clear who wins (hint: not the end consumer, and occasionally the governments sneak in backdoors).

There's a reason BigTelco is what it is today (a no-escape surveillance dragnet). It'd be sad if the Internet plunges to such depths.

I'm glad initiatives like tor, i2p, ipfs, datproject, freedombox, nyc-mesh, community-broadband, matrix.org are trying to solve the problems in a myriad of ways. The threat of govts meddling with the Internet irrevocably is real though, esp since a functioning Internet requires quite an expensive yet co-operative infrastructure which is, for all intents and purposes, in control of the BigTech... but I don't see why individuals world-wide should go down without a fight to keep the Internet as neutral as they can, while they can.

--

That aside, I'm interested to know if anyone has seen any huge latency difference between using Cloudflare Warp and using Wireguard behind Google's GlobalLoadBalancer or AWS' GlobalAccelerator (or equivalent StackPath/Cloudflare offering)?
Terrible sure, but why "fallen"? Fallen from what exactly?
What would be amazing is if Darling could join forces with the long-running GNUstep project in order to provide access to the Cocoa APIs. This would provide a means to run Cocoa apps on Linux, which will make Linux a more attractive operating system for prospective Mac converts and may also increase the popularity of GNUstep. Also, with many Mac users expressing anxieties about the future of the Mac given Apple's business decisions under Tim Cook, a combination of Darling and GNUstep would provide Mac users an option to still use the apps they have invested in, just in case Apple neglects the Mac or makes radical decisions that would negatively impact Mac users.

However, the last time I looked into this matter, GNUstep still has quite a way to catch up to macOS Mojave's version of Cocoa. At the risk of going off topic, I still don't understand why GNUstep never seemed to have reached critical mass despite all these years of development. I was just a kid during the mid-1990s, but KDE and GNOME took off around this time while GNUstep kept pressing on. Here's my thoughts: maybe in 1995 and 1996 the OpenStep API might not have been attractive to developers in a world where Windows completely dominated the desktop, but this doesn't explain the decision of the KDE developers to use Qt instead of GNUstep (as well as the decision of the GNOME developers to use GTK+). There may have also been much uncertainty in 1997 following Apple's purchase of NeXT about the future of OpenStep. Such anxieties would be alleviated sometime during 2001-2003 when Mac OS X was released and started gaining popularity, but by then KDE and GNOME (and their respective underlying GUI toolkits) were firmly established in the Linux desktop ecosystem, and to this day they remain the dominant Linux desktops, and many less popular desktops still rely on Qt or GTK.
That's a pretty cool game. Thanks!
Maybe they are so powerful it has taken us 60 years to ready ourselves.
True.

For most projects, it's good enough.

Also, I worked for many shops that had a two language policy, one for development speed and one for performance.

For example, PHP and C or something.

They had many PHP devs and a few C devs and would write anything new in PHP and then later replace the few performance critical parts with C implementations.

I thought about doing this with JavaScript and Rust in my projects, but somehow I never got to the point that JavaScript became the bottle-neck.
I used to play the Violin in school. I learned how to play the drums a little bit when I had a punk rock phase. I tried to build a banjo at one point. It worked...sorta! I bought a guitar and have been trying to learn how to play it, as well. My favorite instrument is the ukulele because I used one when writing the only song I ever tried to record...which sounded a lot better when we were singing it versus what it sounded like listening to it a year later.
The service has actually been around since about 2014, currently, we serve about 400 million images a month, using some 6TB of bandwidth. It's pretty manageable since we use a CDN on top of the service, to cache already processed images.

Hoping to do a write-up of the architecture in the future, but the source and deployment setup is available at https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos if you're interested
> Genetics is not the only form of inheritance.

Only one form is needed to refute the claim that we "have no evidence, quite the opposite" that children's intelligence is correlated to parental intelligence.
This really depends on the tests you're running.
can you expand on how, somewhat, for those of us who may not understand how to move to the next steps / leverage?
Soft promises ("unlimited, don't abuse") make me nervous because they are not clear.

Is making the front page of HN and doing 50gb in one day "abuse"?
Education. The world is radically more educated than in the past.

That's not a product of free speech, it's a product of teaching people how to evaluate thoughts they come across in the wild.
I strongly suspect the name came first.
The missing factor is that when shoe production was completely sourced to a few companies in China (70% of US market), nearly all shoes turned to shit. So Payless wasn’t really differentiated itself from any other value brand.

The end of Payless is just another private equity story, and poor kids will just get a smaller variety of shitty shoes from WalMart, TJMaxx, or Dollar General.

The majority of us get screwed in other ways, as we pay more for increasingly lousy footwear.