skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ditto for anyone else in the public sphere currently publishing status updates via walled garden platforms (elected officials, agencies, educational institutions, et cetera)

I like this idea. But I think it's unlikely to happen. Universities often don't even run their own email anymore (at least for students; faculty often have a local Exchange setup for them). I would have thought that Universities would want to run their own services for file synchronization and sharing (i.e., internal Dropbox), audio/video conferencing (i.e., internal but interoperable Zoom/Skype, perhaps set up with SIP), etc. This would enable them to better manage IP and sensitive student information (SSN's, etc.), but they don't seem to have enough foresight to offer those kinds of services until the faculty are already using a freemium service. Then, _if_ they roll out something, the University version is clumsy and error-ridden.

Additionally, the network effects of other social networks likely means it would be a tall order to convince the sufficiently senior administrator that they should dump twitter and go to their own Mastodon instance.

20 years ago this might've been a possibility. That was back when individual departments ran their own email/web/whatever servers. So individual departments within universities that had more agility and flexibility might've tried something like that. But now most universities seem to be clawing that functionality and freedom away from departments and putting it into a centralized IT department. So email stays because it's already embedded in the culture, but it makes it hard to add something new like a federated social network (or even video conferencing, it seems).
>Elite Ivy League universities are where post-modernist theories of all-encompassing privilege hierarchies were initially formed and propagated.

I didn't know there was an Ivy League member in France!
Congrats to Aneesh and team! We (Paperspace, YCW15) are big fans and have been following these guys for a while now!
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
Interesting. I've only seen their gas vehicles in Egypt where they are a popular middle class car. Didn't know they're doing electric.
4:00 is hilarious!
More efficient but less likely to exist next year is not a sustainable niche.
Apple Patents AR Glasses with Foveated Imaging
Never knew I could get PBS on Roku! Thank you!
What is a requirement?

Instead of vague statements about everything in China being state controlled, how about some actual facts? What, concretely, does this control entail? How does it function?
There is a bit of nuance here. IE today still isn’t decoupled from Windows. MS has been shoving it into an ever smaller corner of Windows but IE is the OS provided webview for a lot of old crusty applications that needed to render HTML.

What they’re talking about is IE the OS component didn’t mean that IE the user-facing general-purpose browser had to be the default.
According to some random infographic¹, over 60% of the mobile gaming demographic is female. This kind of game is absolutely being advertised during the Super Bowl. They're just not on the radar of "hardcore" gamers who tend to look down on console and especially mobile players.

¹https://mediakix.com/blog/mobile-gaming-industry-statistics-...
Yes, and such 'crowdsourced' decentralized sites will suffer the same bit-rot as all the other ones, and we'll see all sorts of outrages caused because 5 years ago or whatever a bad actor lived at such and such an address, but the "helpful" repomen/investigators never updated things, and we'll that's just too bad and if you shut down our database everyone will steal a car and won't someone think of the children and (this is the only part I completely, 100% guarantee) no "helpful" person will take a single shred of responsibility for any collateral damage.
I like to drop a few loan words now and again, does that make me a pretentious twit? My wife popped in whilst I was writing that and said "guten nacht", incidentally.

It's always been a thing in our family, in my childhood it was Kswahili and French, the former because of my parents history and the later because of family holidays en France. After German/Russian/Latvian exchange students stayed with us there would be other phrases.

Nowadays I drop the odd "privyet" (RU), or "ca va?" (FR), or "<signing>" (BSL) but it's mostly domestically, sometimes that leaks in to the public arena ... does it offend?

Perhaps people aren't showing off but just doing something they think is fun.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN?

Also, going on about getting downvoted breaks the site guidelines. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Uber granted two-month extension to London licence
Also he took out credit against his shares to buy even more shares! I guess I can't fault him for believing but it sounds like an unwise move to me.
As a UK taxpayer.. buy some BP stock. It's a reasonable investment if oil prices stay the same. It pays a dividend. If Oil prices go up it should also go up in value.
You probably already know this, but you can drag left and right on the “home button” bar, and it switches apps for you!
This is huge! Finally no more need to use IIFE's for top level awaits
A CS degree, especially at the undergraduate level, is mostly conceptual. It takes much experience to develop the intuition necessary to solve complex problems faced on the job.
So a modern RHEL but more stable than say bleeding edge fedora? Interesting
That's true, I've definitely learned a lot, I guess during my time with the company I was able to cover a lot of curriculum on various topics :)

It would just feel bad to me to walk away for free from something I was working on that can be tomorrow sold for couple (tens of)thousands (the value doesn't really matter in this case) for free
I think this about sums it up: https://i.imgur.com/fc6nwzB.gifv
They have an a long-running Oscar the Grouch CNN parody, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E893MS_HZlk
Given there is variation of skill at anything, there will be variation of skill at self-teaching. Not all self-teaching is created equal. If you’re not good at self-teaching, then you get a bad teacher every single time.

Colleges diversify this risk. A few teachers might be bad, a few will have their back to the gigantic lecture hall the whole time, etc. But averaged over all your classes, most of them are actually pretty good, and many TAs, tutoring center employees, classmates, etc., can help a ton. Plus you’ll practice and improve self-teaching the whole time.

Like it or not, college can command a high price for this standardization and diversification of teaching quality risk. It confers a status credential.

Meanwhile, if I see you are self-taught in a complex engineering discipline, so what? If you also have job experience already to back it up, then ok. If you’re asking me to be the first one to take a gamble on whether your particular instance of self-teaching led you to sufficient competency, no thanks, I don’t have time to take that risk.
I have no idea. It was a 0 byte afp.php file. You only really get those when a webserver isn't setup to process the PHP files and ends up sending it out like a download.
I can confirm. My mom is susceptible to internet fear mongering and got on some "peak oil" forums back around 2005. Many of them wanted you to believe that things were going to spiral out of control and that rioting and food shortages were imminent. Of course they could go back and say that they never said that explicitly, but the implication was there and it was clearly meant to scare the shit out of you. It seems that there's a certain type of person that secretly wants society to fall apart because they think it will solve all of their social and financial problems. I'm not sure they've thought it through very well.
I did not care to dig into his first two sentences, but next time you see a comment like that, please ask them for citations and dissect what they said with your own citations.

We need to deal in fact, which requires a fair bit of effort to cite and write. Call out those poisoning the comments with vitrol and insanity, a harsh light reveals their lack of grounding in fact.
One day "legacy" admissions will be abolished.

Not long after, people will be shocked that such a thing ever existed.
https://giphy.com/gifs/the-x-files-3oEdvcPNJJCBxquJz2
I am a long-time dev contractor (not with Google), and I am sick of staffing middlemen that keep 40%+ of my hourly rate and hold the money an extra month, simply because they had access to the client's contractor system. It's robbery.
I thought it's more about the apps.
Subscription gains popularity as new apps let models sell directly to their fans
This is very interesting. Is this an online Masters or is it a free program?
Honestly as a programmer they have a name and reputation for providing nice offices that I can rely on. I recently agreed to take a job halfway around the world (interviewing via video chat), and when they asked if I had any questions about the office I was able to say "no, it's a WeWork and that's good enough for me". Surely that's got to be valuable to that tenant company.
Do you work in commercial real estate? My father does, and would pick them and Walgreens as the most effective scaled siting operations in the US.

Optimizing for absence of failed stores would be an interesting utility function for them to have, but since they own substantially all of the stores (and therefore don't have franchisee relationships to consider, where volatility for a partner might impact you disproportionately to economic loss), that would be a suboptimal utility function. They should calibrate their risk appetite to maximize profits; occasional failed stores are just a search cost.
Filtering is in some sense deconvolution. It makes sense it would be deconvolution.
>We need a protocol, a specification for completely decentralised, carry-with-us social networks.

I know it seems logical that a "social network protocol" is the answer to replace Facebook but after studying the mechanics of social networks, I've concluded that focusing on technical protocols is incorrect.

My suggestion to programmers seriously thinking of new solutions in the social networking space: don't get sidetracked into thinking about the protocol because if you do, your new social network will end up in the graveyard of previous failed projects like Diaspora. Instead, think about the database of real names.

My previous comment on why protocols like ActivityPub & Mastodon are not the answer for a general purpose social network adopted by the masses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18727230

Also, another previous comment on how focusing on protocols is (inadvertently) analyzing the wrong drivers for success: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231960

And another previous comment about how an open and free-to-use protocol like Signal does not mean Moxie Marlinspike is willing to federate with others' servers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20232499

(If you still believe that designing a new protocol is the correct answer after reading my 3 previous comments, please explain your thinking. I'm open to changing my mind on this.)
Whoever said "there is no such thing as a dumb question" never visited Quora.

Worse yet, the site is full of dumb answers as well.
Quora pays people who ask questions, based on how many views their question gets. Now it's full of people spamming as many questions as they can, trying to game it.
They filed an S-1. People who should have very good insight into the business filed a registration form to go public.
If this Labour is communist (they're not), what on earth was Attlee's 1945 government, or pre-Blair Labour?
The Nexus 5X was a disaster of a phone so I don't blame them for sticking to the minimum. I actually switched back from my Nexus 5X after 6 months to my fully working Nexus 4 when I was pleased to find it was continuing to receive all the OS updates. Probably could still finagle a Android 10 ROM onto it if one tried hard enough.

I will grant shitty devices like the 5X is something that happens slightly more often with Google devices than Apple (although the Macbook pro keyboards kind of brought parity).

I still think for the layperson consumer, apps continuing to work even if they are not being actively developed is a bigger deal than continuing to receive constant security updates, from the perspective of device usability past 3 years at least.
You're missing the central issue that the enemy gets a vote. We all want to go home.
I think we'll see a significant ramp up of EVs long before we see widespread CNG/LNG adoption.
I am reading about economics of specific sub-section of entertainment industry:

Boy Bands (and girl groups).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_band

Specifically the ones that are 'fully managed' by talent managers or record producers.

To me it has economic benefits/risks similar to building tech companies with graduates.

There is a lot stamina, creativity and willingness to experiment, that are not present in older/more experienced talent pool... And all, relatively on the cheap.

There are many negatives (copy cats, lack of long term, yet practical vision, lack of experience in dealing with specific business subdomains, relations stability and so on).

However, to me this is a valid business model, for certain market segments, and I fully expect it will spread even more to include participants from well outside Western culture. (and, perhaps, more healthy competition to the few VCs that practice this now).

There is a podcast [1] on boy band economics, mostly covering Korean K-Pop.
https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/what-boy-band-sensat...

interesting bits to me, is how culture/brand exports are incorporated into a larger story (where it is not just an individual band, but they are part of larger 'brand')
This seems like recreating the Mona Lisa in MS Paint. Are CPO's just basically higher order functions or what am I missing? Good read either way.
I assume an example of a "life-simulation" game is the Sims? What are "hidden-object" games?
You added the editorial "rapidly", which doesn't appear anywhere in the article linked because the fall isn't rapid.

It fell 1.1%, which is not rapid, especially for something that was already rated a junk bond.

And without any data on the bond's previous price volatility it isn't impossible to say whether 1.1% is worse than it had, say, the week before.
> I studied economics because I wanted a job that pays well

How did you ever make that connection? Have economists ever been paid well?
Or go into the finder (or iTunes), find the triangle beside the CD name, and left-click it.
Churches in Europe are funded by the people that attend them. At least Dutch churches are, but I think this is true in most European countries. A long time ago, they were indeed funded by tax, at least some churches in some countries, but that's changed with a better understanding of the separation of church and state.
Ask HN: Why don't companies use hand-coded ads?
I personally detest ads and don't see myself ever using 3rd-party ads on my sites, but I have been seeing a lot of "please turn off your ad-blocker" banners the last year or two. I'm curious why companies don't use more hand-coded HTML ads with inline images and direct links to prevent blocking? Is it too expensive? Am I missing something else, ie are they still blockable somehow?
Alright I'll remove the snark. The question still stands though
Yes, we need universities to research social networks, not just the CS departments but also human sciences, so we get something that actually benefits us and society. Let companies provide the hardware, and let government agencies run the software just like in the old days of the internet. No company should ever see or touch any of the data.
Putting Victimhood Behind You
Yes. But I think these things are relevant today. People are forgetting that the newest hot languages die, and maybe if we didn't forget it we'd have better languages, and more measured responses to them.
I did a couple of 'letter to the editor' that got published in those dark and dusty times. I don't recall any editing and there was no censoring, but they did get to determine which letters were published.

It was fun, and I certainly _felt_ like I was being heard - first when I saw my words in print, and again when selected replies would get published a week later or so.

Ultimately, I suppose not so different than posting to $platform_of_choice and waiting for replies/retweets/etc. Just slower.
What happened to Object-Oriented Databases?
How was he forced to take a class on Marx? I have never seen that as a required course at any university.
I'm not really sure how Noms versions stuff. It seems they use a variant of a B-tree index. Or maybe only for secondary indexes?

I think if you can use a simple monotonically increasing sequence number SirixDB has indexing advantages as for instance when storing XML and JSON documents or graph data.

The cool thing also is that SirixDB not only copies changed database pages but it implements a sliding window algorithm for versioning the database pages itself along with well known backup versioning strategies. Furthermore user-specified, typed secondary index structures are also naturally versioned.

One downside is that SirixDB doesn't support branching, even though it would be relatively easily possible to implement I guess, but I'm not convinced that it's needed. I don't want that anyone has to merge merge conflicts. I think automatic algorithms to do this are also not the right thing. But of course it's really interesting and I also thought about it :-) maybe someone has a really good use case? :-)

BTW: Everything in SirixDB is immutable regarding updates of resources in databases. Of course you can revert to an old revision and change stuff, but the revisions in-between will still be accessible.

Keep up the great work on Quilt :-)
Jesus Christ. DIY hostile city design.
Articles warning against buying bitcoins were highly upvoted for years, and bitcoin costs several thousand dollars now.
Advanced C# for Low-Level Programming [pdf]
I heard the idea that the Blackberry devices circa 2008 were iPhone killers more than the other way around
I thought it was common for everyone to lie about their oil production for all sorts of reasons and everyone knows it.

Half the battle within OPEC was over who lies how much and everyone coming to the table to figure that out and come to guidelines about production that are largely general guidelines in practice. Sort of "Ok everyone we're all way off the agreed numbers way too much let's dial it back for a bit." agreements.

I want to say that I've heard representatives in OPEC have openly say such things plenty of times.
Are you kidding? Is there any industry that can not be helped by data science?
What is an IIFE?
You're making my point. The US went through the same process, with the same birth rate interrupted only by the great depression until two generations ago.

There aren't countries, there are humans responding to the same conditions similarly. Economic development will slow their reproductive rate, like clockwork.

If you point to a family in the 60s in the US and a family in India today and find only one of them irresponsible, your thinking is flawed.

I assume you're following through with your convictions and will remain child free?
and who selected the manufacturer?
They claim to detect the neuron action potential (without any physical muscle movements), the relevant section from their demonstration which is pretty cool: https://youtu.be/D8pB8sNBGlE?t=730

So, it's not just the forearm muscles' activity, but the actual neuron impulses.
Why should you trust ProtonMail?
Nothing like the Github repo saying "do not use stackoverflow for help, their answers are out of date"

I love reading the docs and using issues.
>Once the hedge funds, who had handily positioned themselves long some days before the attacks, had taken their profits...

This implication is so far beyond the pale it borders on satire.
> Unchecked IP and currency abuse by China, and unfettered illegal immigration are also "not good for the USA or my fellow American."

Please cite how the USA has been negatively affected by IP abuse or China's monetary policy. It seems quite similar to our prior tangoes with Japanese cars & Taiwan's electronics imports to the USA.

At this juncture we have pushed China into economic stagnation, while slowing our own economic growth.

> unfettered illegal immigration are also "not good for the USA or my fellow American."

We're a country of immigrants, our current "legal" immigration system is only a few decades old. Prior to that it was a free for all with nearly open borders (and no passports/visas), which bolstered the US economy mightily during World War 1 & World War 2.

Open Borders is key to being open for business, our current policy is locking out millions of people that could turbocharge our economy.

> Are you actually trying to claim that CBP is deliberately killing children?

Yes, when you choose to act in a way that you know kills some children needlessly, you are killing children. God doesn't look the other way!
Immediately Invoked Function Expression: (function () { statements })();
Your link (to an obviously-anti-union think-tank) describes government overreach much more than it describes typical activity.

Without knowing more details of the situation, the most glaring problem here is that the State of Illinois asserted that recipients of Medicaid stipends are "state employees". It's wrong to use this situation to ascribe dirty dealing to unions generally.
Immediately invoked function expression - aka an anonymous function that executes as it is interpreted.

(function() { console.log('test'); })();

In old versions of JavaScript, variables had to be scoped to the nearest function (rather than the nearest block) so IIFE where often used for namespacing:

var $ = (function() { this.version = '1.2.3'; })();
$.version; // 1.2.3

This worked because the function would be immediately invoked upon interpretation, scoping it's contents to itself (aliased by the variable name).
he should have said IIAFE actually (immediately-invoked-async-function-expression)

(async () => { console.log(await 'hello world') })()
Lack of explanations for your downvotes, but the CD eject issue you described got me as well.

I’m not sure about intuitive vs unintuitive, but as a desktop windows & Linux server user, the Mac was very unfamiliar to me and took a long time to learn its quirks.
Yeah as I alluded to in this thread I believe most gamers have been female for some time, but somehow for many people (read: many men) they don't 'count' because they're mobile games, or casual games, or not real games. At least that's the responses I've got every time the subject came up in previous discussions.
You might feel that the competitiveness of BattleBots peaked 20 years ago, but combat robots have only continued to get better in the time since. Advancements in battery technology, motors, 3D modeling, and other technologies have made today's combots significantly better than those of your youth.
I can do a 3.5" in less than 2s, but I assume they were testing with 5.25"

Those usually had a lever rather than a button so it was a 4 step process rather than a 3 step process:

3.5":

- Press button

- Remove Disk

- Insert Disk

5.25"

- Turn lever

- Remove Disk

- Insert Disk

- Turn lever

Add to this the fact that 5.25" floppies were less rigid, and expensive enough that you don't want to damage, and it takes a lot longer.

That being said, I think I did get down to just barely under 2s when I was restoring my hard disk from 97 5.25" floppies after getting a virus (the backup program being used bypassed DOS's system calls for accessing the disk, and polled multiple times per second so you didn't even need to press a key after inserting the disk).