skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should go back to free banking. The current model privatizes profits but shares losses on the public.

There is no regulation that will fix the current system it is broken in its design.

I hope there will new banking through crypto currencies which work also for the environment.

If this was a app/provider outage and we would do a root cause analysis we would determine that monetary centralization is the root cause issue.
I'm going to keep blogging and writing my free, weekly Better Developers newsletter about Python and related technologies. (Not the same circulation as LJ, but more than 13k subscribers.)

I don't know about the others, but I hope they continue writing, as well.
I have the same experience - Xiaomi makes good and cheap hardware, but the software and reliability are bad. And if you want to keep your data private, skip them.
Is Google evil? (2017)
Yes. Seconded. Mod parent up.
> The recent licence changes (MongoDB, Redis, CockroachDB)

And those license changes mean I’ve lost software freedom. People have decided AWS is the enemy and all changes that counter them are good to the extent that when they released a fully FOSS download of Elasticsearch, they were criticized for contributing to open source.
Roslyn-based Code Generation using custom attribute
Yes that's right. Normally for signatures you would do the final encryption with the receiver's public key creating the same issue as solution #1, but in this case you would use the symmetric key:

1. Hash message

2. Encrypt hash using your private key

3. Encrypt again using group's symmetric key

There's obviously good reason why symmetric keys don't work, especially in place of solution #2 - would be great to be enlightened on why by the author.
Because that recession might turn into another Nikkei
Flair Show
I wondered why this was in any way newsworthy when I found out it was a whole $50...then I read that this dude was the 'marketing director of a btc firm' and it all made sense. This is garbage PR bullshit.
Very interesting article :-) I had no idea that the community is this large and that there are only two moderators.

The article could have explained the other part of the moderation better - the user moderation provided by up and down votes. Bad comments are not only flagged but also tend to be pushed further down the page towards oblivion, while better comments tend to be lifted up towards the top of the page.

Anyways, King Canute: He was Danish, not Swedish :-)
> I think the wins of the open camp are real and tangible and they powerfully shape the industry.

Outside mobile: Linux (the OS not the kernel) won the web.

Way back in the 'Linux on the desktop' days, KDE needed something like gtkhtml so KDE made KHTML and Konqueror. Apple needed a web browser and couldn't make one from scratch, so webkit was forked from KHTML. Chrome needed to fork webkit so made blink. Edge adopted blink too.

KDE's code is now in Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The only major web browser not containing it is Firefox (which is also OSS). That's AMAZING.
Thanks to Dan and Scott for their moderation, and whilst the article highlights some of negative aspects of discussion on HN, I for one keep coming here because it's still on average the most reasoned and thought provoking part of the internet I'm aware of - so, thanks to you all for your positive contributions :)
>unemployment hits a low right before the recession

You have your causal link the wrong way around
I can recommend the book "Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us" by Jonathan Aldred - it makes a pretty strong case that the way economics has influenced politics over the last few decades has had a pretty strong negative impact on society:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43267091-licence-to-be-b...
What a bleak point of view. Why is it a battle against tech giants? Just don't use Google shit if it bothers you. There's more FOSS material out there than ever before and it's easier to use too. Why can't everyone win? The consumer that wants some crappy Google service and someone like us that wants to download their stuff from GitHub? Why do tech giants HAVE to lose for us to feel good?
Everyone involved in this article has an incentive to overstate its abilities. The creators will say it is better than it is to get more work. Defense to create a deterrent. Journalists to get clicks.

Given the baseline for government understanding of AI is poor, my prior on how impressive this thing is in reality (as some sort of AGI pathway breakthrough) is pretty low.

I would bet they have some large database and some good, but mostly conventional IT around it.
The "City Of London" (a small part of central London) has something like this. They have a resident population of <10,000 people, but somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people commute there for work. Companies get to nominate some of their workforce as voters for the council (called "The Corporation Of London").

For historical reasons ("The City" is much older than the UK itself), things are much more complicated than simply "People who work there get to vote", so I'm not sure it's a very comparable situation. The best explanation I've found is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
And there are like 20+ popular javascript (or Typescript, CoffeeScript, Dart) frontend frameworks to choose from (Vuejs, React, Angular, ...) several "native" solutions if you also want Mobile apps (NativeScript, ReactNative or even Flutter if HTML is not looking good enough) and there are like 10+ languages to choose for the backend development. And don't forget proper state management (Redux, RxJS, NgRx or Vuex). So if you plan to make a simple admin webpage you can either quickly write 50-line code in PHP or Python or some other lang. Or you can spend months learning TypeScript, webdev tools, js frameworks, Golang (+dependency management), java (+maven, gradle or some other tools from hell) and spend half a year on it. I have spent so much time learnig all that frontend and backend sh*t to find out "yeah it's nice and interactive but next time I should use HTML+CSS+AJAX)". Webapps are for teams of people. Frontend team and backend team. You need like 10 people to make modern SPAs roperly, also with all the proper CSP, headers and caching settings.
> I find myself not adding any value to the team.

If the team is as optimized as it can be, then it may be time to move on from this team to another where you can add value. This sounds like an obvious statement, but without knowing much about your organization this may or may not be a viable option.

But again to my original, what do you want to do? How do you want to grow? What impact do you want to have? If you have the organization structure such that you can make a case to join a new team and help them grow and/or help with strategy for the organization as a whole (which will touch multiple teams), then there is that path as well.

If you want to transition organizations altogether then the above still holds.. in the sense that you need to define your own goals and then find an organization where you can develop them and have an impact.
Show HN: Built a page to calculate specific development costs
Reddit is actually pretty great. It's easy enough to evade the more-less-desireable parts of it. I can assure you some of the best textually-based content the last X years have happened there.
There is a lot of speculation that Google is developing Fuschia because they want to move _away_ from their mobile OS being so thoroughly FOSS.
Tel Aviv has many examples of good 20th century urbanism.
London Barbican is also a great example.
I'm sure there are more but we'll see which ones will be true classics over time.
Poundbury in Dorchester (UK) was nothing but plain grass in the 1990'ies. Now Poundbury is a city that has generated more new jobs than new homes. The price for real estate is 30% higher than neighbouring cities. And they have yet to experience a traffic accident. Beautiful walkable cities is good for business.
The Android emulator can run on AMD CPUs under Windows 10 as of a year or so ago, actually. It now only requires Intel's HAXM on older versions of Windows and I don't think Zen 2 or recent Intel chips officially support those versions of Windows anymore.
MPEG1 Single file C library
Bitcoin seed words in a safe location, with instructions on asking a trusted friend to set it up.
Which is great, except that ctx_new() requires a malloc, which then can fail, and now you can't even explain why the thing failed, as you have no context info.

You also have to worry about all of the ctx objects you've created along the way, to free them up as you recover from the low memory error.
>It just comes off as a "In your face! Racist white people."

It shouldn't, though.

Mentioning gender in relation to a woman's accomplishment is not an implicitly anti-male statement, nor is mentioning race in relation to the accomplishment of a person of color an anti-white statement. Nothing in any article about Katie Bouman was disparaging of men or white people or anyone.

>I'm fairly certain that most sane folk could care less about the gender or colour of the person making progress for mankind.

Meaning no one who disagrees with your opinion on the matter is sane? Yet reacting defensively and interpreting any mention of gender or race as hostility doesn't seem particularly sane to me.
It doesn’t depend on additional hardware, but it’s designed to make it very easy to cross compile. The internal Google tool it’s built on also has strong support for sharing build servers between devs, and they want to enable that in the open source version.

It also doesn’t require a daemon: you can ask it not to do that, so the biggest cost is a JVM warmup.

That said, these are really moot concerns: for almost any project where engineering is involved, the cost of having an engineer in the first place significantly outweighs the costs of having as many hefty CPUs as you really need for build. If you can’t get a decent i7 for a build node, there’s probably a lot more things limiting you, too.
I've gotten into a couple of arguments with dang and have never found him to be unfair, although I do think he sometimes interprets criticism of the site or the community as an insult to him personally.

That said, it's better to have moderators who care than moderators who don't.
>Then my eyes moved down the thread, where a third user had left a new comment. It read: “King Canute was supposed to stop the tide, you couch alluder.”

It seems to me that comment is a joke. Playfully nitpicking word choice while putting in a bit of banter. But the article seems to be taking the comment as a serious argument/insult.
I've been told that 90s-era manuals for SAP systems recommended swap size = 2x RAM size. There's a story circulating in the office that someone remembered this rule in 2012-ish when setting up a bunch of fresh systems with 2 TB RAM each, causing the storage support team to wonder why the fresh filer was already full after just a few days.
A student loan debate revisited
The "Show HN: This upvotes itself" came to mind. :)

But regarding the article: I don't think HN is getting worse. But why it might look like it is is that it has become a very very busy site - which makes it seem hectic and thus might appear "worse".
If you're trying to keep a massive network of balloons aloft to provide wide-area internet connectivity, the logistics involved in topping up the gas mean that the frequency of top-ups required may be a greater concern than the cost of the gas involved.
This article does seem to get at the essence of HN, appreciative of dang and sctb's humanity while not ignoring the problems. Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN's favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.

If there's one critique that I believe is paramount it's that HN has, due to its readership, an ethical obligation that goes beyond making discussions all nice and civil.

Political issues are obviously divisive and it's perfectly fine to keep stuff like the El Paso massacre of the front page. But when hot-button issues intersect with technology, the HN readership is in a position of power, and shouldn't routinely be spared the anguish of being reminded of their responsibility.

Yes, articles about, for example, discriminatory ML do often make it to the front page. But in my impression, that topic (as well as employment discrimination, culture-wars-adjacent scandals in tech academia etc) are far more likely to be quickly flagged into oblivion than similarly political takes that just happen to be in line with HN's prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-<x>).

The article impressively articulates what toll divisiveness takes on the moderators: Even if I read the same ugly comments, I am unlikely to experience the sharpness of emotion that apparently comes with considering the community one's baby, and making it's failures one's own. When such divisiveness is then reflected in the "real world" of mass media, the pressure only increases.

But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.
Google Launches AR Walking Directions for Google Maps
> and some people are very good at digging up and pointing out precedent.

As one of the people who loves being that guy in another community: They're not only very good at digging up and pointing out precedents, they likely have systematic archives of everything that remotely relates to the decisions they wish to see made.
Well, it's more of a design problem of X11. Under Wayland, the compositor could offer a Secure Attention Key like Ctrl-Alt-Del that reclaims input focus from a fullscreen application. As far as I'm aware, such facilities do not exist in X11. When an application grabs the keyboard, it's grabbing the entire keyboard.
claim:

> ...but one of the underlying problems here is chip quality

supposed justification:

> ...every forum pretty much

That's hearsay not actual justification. And intel has a reputation for dirty play.
"Gackle replied. “We can’t stop that any more than King Canute”—the ancient Swedish king who demonstrated the limits of his power by trying, in an ironic spirit, to command the sea—“could stop the waves.""

Canute was King of England, Denmark and Norway. He was not Swedish. I think that The Newyorker is trolling Hacker News by dropping this quote in.
Japanese midget submarines made it as far as Sydney Harbour in 1942:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Sydney_Harbour
> because, well, they're the media.

And because, well, it was true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every person I showed this to was disgusted, as was I. So even if you disagree with the characterization, it certainly wasn't just the media, but also your fellow developers. It was a shameful moment (one of many, most of a similar kind) for HN that reflected horribly on developers, and the media called it up on that, as they should.
I have been the CTO at a startup, the effective CTO at a couple of companies with small teams (< 10 technical team members) and observed CTOs at larger companies. It's a hard job to do well in one phase of a company's life cycle, let alone all the phases. If you want to take the challenge of growing in the role, good on ya! But there's no shame in trying it and the realizing that though you liked the role in phase 1, you don't in phase 5 (or vice versa). They're as different as being a developer and a ux designer and no one would condemn someone for picking one of those roles (rather than trying to do both).

I thought this post captured a lot of the intricacies of being a CTO:

https://medium.com/swlh/the-codeless-cto-471ee6069288
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I think the HN culture is slowly dying. Reflexive downvoting has become very common as of late, the eternal September is brining in more people steeped in political hivemindedness. That isn’t to say all is lost, but this site feels markedly different from the beginning of the decade.
That would leave plenty of room for someone else to take on the android ecosystem...
There used to be similar housing above the arndale shopping centre (which got removed after the bombing in 96)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13378696
Old (PHP 5.0.x) private property prefix hack
That sounds almost exactly like the Eastern Pasila neighborhood of Helsinki. I'll just quote Wikipedia:

>In the ranking of the best places where to live in Helsinki ... Eastern Pasila is ranked 92nd, out of 94 different parts of Helsinki.
I have never seen an inflation adjusted lease in any of the commercial leases I've done.
Probably because I mentioned Trump supporters and -chan trolls as the biggest block of trolls on the 'net and have "Antifa" in my profile. Ah well.
Basic Git Commands every developer should know
Using macchanger? What about changing hostname?
The subscription model sounds pretty great as a player: pay some fee for each new set (up-front or monthly over the time it's legal in Modern), play with whatever sets you have access to in whichever format they're legal in.
EduTerm: a very, very basic terminal emulator
"In a barter exchange one good is traded directly for another. This form of exchange requires a double coincidence of wants, meaning that each trader has what the other trader wants and wants what the other has. Without a double coincidence of wants the exchange process can become exceedingly complex, requiring a great deal of resources to complete transactions, resources that cannot be used for production. In fact, inefficient barter trading is the primary reason that money was invented." - good explanation from AmosWeb
Historical VGA, ACCESS.bus, DDC2Ab, I2C etc. leftovers in HDMI/DisplayPort
I thought using Gaussian copula for CDO pricing was often regarded as being an important factor in facilitating the crisis?
I agree. Unfortunately, I have the impression it is already going in the downwards trajectory. The new redesign contains all the red flags. When "old.reddit.com" stops working, I suspect it's over for me.
This here!
This is what is indeed really frightening for me. They have the entire control over the whole system. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem.

Anders
https://xn--bluetoothhjtaler-uxb.dk/test
I think the argument goes that Medium, the platform, is bad for the internet as a whole and probably getting worse for its users, too.

Articles on Medium range from quite insightful to clickbait junk, as is the way of most open-ish access platforms.
> If you have a favorite 1 hour weekly TV show, that's almost the same amount of time committed.

Right, but very few people watch the exact same episode/series over and over, at the exclusion of everything else. And people who do that are generally seen as more than just devoted. It also means that you have one hour less to discover something new. The Bible is a big book, but it’s limited. I’ve read all of it, and I’ve read parts multiple times (it is, after all, a central part in Western culture). But reading it again and again every day means I’d lose time in which I could be reading (and learning!) other things.

A commenter below mentions quiet time. This is a perfectly fine concept but those Christians (both Catholics and Protestants) that I know don’t spend it rereading the same text over and over. They spend it introspecting. Anyway, I don’t want to disparage the concept: All things said and done even if I’d consider this time completely wasted you’re right that it’s fairly short. I just found it hard to believe because, as mentioned, it doesn’t match my experience at all due, presumably, to cultural differences.
It was an overreaction which, however, was only enabled by absolutely lazy journalism. They basically took Bouman's Facebook post with a photo of her smiling next to the black hole claiming that she produced the picture, blowing her contributions way out of proportion. Some reports corrected this later that day, but by then, the shitstorm and investigation had already started. Perhaps understandably--she did not produce the picture. One could argue that Bouman's reaction was also way too delayed and she did not enough to clarify the situation, but this is perhaps understandable assuming she did not follow social media very closely.

The entire fiasco was mainly caused by the obsession of the media to put women at the forefront.
This is correct, but this also doesn't really capture how significant and incredible of a feat quantum teleportation is. If we have a system in a quantum state A, it is 100% impossible to actually determine A with any precision. The best you can do is say that when you inspect A, you get will get this collection of classical outcomes with these probabilities. The state A itself, while arguably quite real, is fundamentally unknowable. However we can move this state A from particle to particle or system to system, with theoretically absolute fidelity. This is quantum teleportation. It really is quite incredible. This thing that you can't know can be moved around. This is kind of philosophically non-trivial. Theres a pretty solid philosophy of science argument which is basically if you can't actually know something via experiment then what claim does it have to being called real? At first glance this might seem to apply to quantum states, but being able to move them around exactly atomically even though you cant really glance under the hood kind, gives some serious weight to there being something "real" there.
Social Credit System in China- a Thread
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Set New Standard for the Modern Datacenter
In my experience ageism is a real factor. So no matter what's on your resume, once they see your grey hair, if you have any left, the negativity kicks in. Of course they won't actually say that, perhaps "too experienced" for the role? Or looking for skills in a trendier area.

Have you confirmed that people actually end up working for that sort of money after a 12 week bootcamp? From what I have heard few companies will pay that much for somebody with only having completed some bootcamp and having minimal track record. It could all be just marketing spin.

Typically if you want to switch into a new field, then not only would you need to learn the applicable technologies, but also get some experience. For example, it is rare that you could pivot your medical device experience to data science and machine learning and keep earning at least the same or more.
Salesforce announces acquisition of ClickSoftware for $1.35bn
How would an ad possibly steal the token then?

Rephrase: how would one make sure it’s protected.
I would argue that HN culture is evolving within the culture it exists in. I don't recall the beginning of the decade having so many intersections of tech and everyday life. In the beginning of the decade, Google wasn't known to have paid off high level employees for sexual harassment, Facebook wasn't known to have hordes of contractors watching horrible stuff for their job, no one knew the good and bad effects of the 'gig economy' yet, etc.

That is to say, I don't recall the beginning of the decade tech and politics to be so intertwined due to how tech has become more and more a part of people's lives.
If I was a builder, my incentives are
closely aligned with the city

Imagine I've got a fixed-size plot of land, and I'm constructing a 12 space parking lot and a 3-floor building with 3 apartments per floor. 1 space per apartment, plus 3 spare for guests/deliveries/two-car families. No underground parking or anything, just a basic paved lot.

I'm planning to sell all the apartments and move on to another project, so I won't have to solve any parking problems residents or locals end up having.

I have the option to add an extra floor on, so there would be 12 apartments - but no guest parking any more.

What do you imagine my incentives are?