skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the common justification, and it's misguided. It turns out that you need to be aware of the "details" every time you look at the code.

No, I don't. I need to be aware of the relevant details, but code in functions with meaningful names mean (1) I can skim a high level overview to see where the details relative to my current interest we likely to be faster and, (2).I can zoom in without distraction to those more easily.

> Use comments to introduce blocks of code that need explaining.

Comments make a wall of code that is already hard to get an overview of because of its size less legible, decomposition did the opposite.
That’s misleading. They talked about considering the problem and creating a team to investigate solutions.They were clear about the fact that they would consider existing projects if they match their requirements.
As documented (among other events) in Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown. The book is online here in various formats: https://github.com/bdesham/the-hacker-crackdown
Don’t forget these peoples ‘senses’ are easily disproved by blind tests. It’s much more of a hoax than you imply.
TV is just a platform. There are good and bad channels.
But did you also stop the habit of consumption? No netflix or other Video-Platform? No Youtube, lurking on twitch or other social medias? Do you embrase now more active content or beneficial things for your life?

There are different ways to use your time. Some are beneficial, some are more for wasting time till the more benefecial parts are back again. Where is your focus now without TV?
if it needs my phone number to sign up then it is not remotely making me more secure. the mere fact they get my phone number makes me less secure in multiple ways
What's even more interesting is that it seems to be mostly (keyword here is mostly) an obsession within the post-renaissance western hemisphere.
>Granted. Japan is the nation where it is mostly relatively closed compared to other far east Asian nation. They won’t give citizenship easily (around 10 to 20 years), they don’t take influx of immigrants, and they care about Japanese more other than non Japanese. All of this is motivated by the preservation of culture and the Japanese way. Japan would rather have their island sink than opening doors to more immigrants to avoid Eternal September that is plaguing the US and Europe.

You should tell the Japanese lawmakers this ;)

Skilled immigration is now done on a point based system where most white collar working professionals could quality to residency with little effort.

Japanese naturalization is now a 5-10 year process, not 10-20. This is in line with the US process.

The slowing birth rates have resulted in Japan opening up significantly more to immigration and naturalization of these immigrants.
China Trade War: https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/finance/how-trumps-trade-...

Vision Fund Round 1 End: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-vision-fund-era-is-near...
You should check out chicken scheme's IRC channel. They taught me scheme and answered all my inane questions with patience. I even found a bug once! Hanging out there has made me a more humble person, really.
I have posted this in the previous post that came up about this but I am quite concerned that the idustry may be currently self certifing its devices and getting phones past FCC regulations that do not meet the requirements just like Boeing and the FAA. We need proper funding for the FCC so they can do that job and not some industry paid company with a conflict of intrest.
Question concerning a potential impl I'm pondering: Are there any realtime/streaming approaches with ActivityPub? Can a chat application be reasonably implemented on it today or is the inbox/outbox federation concept too limiting? Are there any examples of such services out there and how reusable/generic are their approaches?
No, I mean a guild... Closest modern representations would be somewhere between a professional board and a union. Bob was trained by the great Tim, who created Foo and Baz. Tim endorsed Bob as a Journeyman from an apprentice. Steve and Phil (both master level) later endorsed Bob as a Master craftsman.

Bob screws up big time... complaint filed with guild board for review... board revokes Bob's master status (back to journeyman) and notes on Steve and Phil's record.

If Steve and/or Phil get too many hits, they lose their status as well.
What most of us who work for BigTech don't see, and I mean Big as in massive traffic and where throughput/latency is a competitive advantage, is that this advantage isn't that important to businesses not operating in that market. For them the benefits far outweigh the risks posed by putting their data up into leaky S3 buckets. And if it's not leaky buckets, it's the potential of a nation-state "alley" that abuses that trust. Even big companies like Airbus, Daimler or BASF (a few random players as an example) don't actually need the advantages that we (who want to roll out apps to an international audience) would think are crucial to dominate a market.
Why aren't people reading books anymore?
Sounds like the department will soon be dead or dying...
What do you think is the black swan? 9/11 and Lehman were black swans. The business cycle turning over is not a black swan, especially with the majority of finance people predicting a recession this year.
People like war as much as sex. Maybe because of the extraordinary investment in the military last century the world has been a relative safe place.
Hong Kong's Disneyland used by government to quarantine coronavirus patients
As a counter, you have 10 scrapers with the same login code. You find one site has issues when they deploy occasionally and go and add retry logic to it, then next week find the same on another site. You go and copy paste it over all 10 or leave it. You find later the retry causes rate limiting problems so you again have to fix it in 10 places, or maybe someone fixes it in one and not the others because the implementations have drifted despite solving the same problem.

Or, you use the same code for all and if the sites change the login flow then you add a custom one for the site which is different.

Fundamentally, I don't agree with the argument that I should copy and paste code now to avoid the possibility of copying and pasting the same code later.
> imposter syndrome

Absolutely. And that imposter syndrome played a substantial part in motivating me to apply to FAANG :) I found myself in the doldroms for years afterward after starting at G, but I recently quit to do my own thing for awhile and have been so happy to find that I still have the capacity for joy and drive.

And, yes, it was incredibly fun to study and solve these problems. Sometimes I'd end up going on unrelated tangents--cache-oblivious algorithms, a full history of quicksort and all its variations and partitions, how all the concurrent data structures in the Java standard library are implemented--and just spend all day reading about them and/or re-implementing them on paper on a sunny day in Golden Gate Park (and one of my Google interview questions was with a gruff Ukrainian guy who wanted me to implement a concurrent LRU cache, so that went swimmingly!). And so when people talk about how hellishly oppressive and difficult having to learn about binary search trees is, it just doesn't resonate with me. Even if not for the jump in comp, it was just genuinely fun.

My background is math/physics, so perhaps that's part of it? Maybe many applicants just want to build something and just care about the final product, while the part of programming that I enjoy most is the brain teasers and making things work in the most efficient and elegant way possible.
What are the best trivia apps nowadays? Have been looking but haven't found anything great. Still feels like there is an unmet need. I still love Quizup though ...
Failed the last time I tried, which must have been on 7. Will be a strong example for Microsoft dedicating resources to compatibility if they added it for 10 or with a patch update. (both their resources and the users', there's a crazy amount of checking for necessary compatibility hacks going on whenever an executable is started)
Leaving it here without a comment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Full report by BP:

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/c...
> Databases are generally known for their good performance

If the data is on a filesystem, then sed, grep and cut pipelines will likely be your fastest option (Yahoo! processed petabytes of logfiles for decades that way.)

If the data is already inside a database table and indexed well, that could be fast enough. But generally speaking, the ETL is often a bottleneck. And DBAs are $$$$ compared to "the UNIX way."

Source: DBA
You've gotten 7 signups in a month by doing nothing but a couple posts on a few sites. There is nothing wrong with that, because you haven't done any marketing yet. Posting !== Marketing. You need to figure out who your audience is, what their pains are, how they talk about them, and get your name out where they are a looking while using their language to describe their own problems.

The list you posted of what actions you took is not that - it is you sharing a couple posts on sites that are not great for conversions. HN and reddit are good for driving traffic, but that is not the same thing. I have no idea if your product has a market or not, but you'll only find that answer if you start actually looking for the market.
A joke right?

> Because it's written in typescript, you can be sure these hooks are free of bugs.

And useProps?!
A bit rich coming from someone who was promoting their company on HN just one day ago.
I'm not a big fan of Slack for a long list of reasons, but at least I don't have to muck about with finicky undocumented (or semi-documented at best) software just to get a basic usable connection which won't drop any messages.

I think just that goes a long way.

Mattermost might be good (never used it), but being self-hosted means it's a lot harder to set up than just subscribing to Slack. I talked about this before on HN[1]: I think providing a simple hosted SaaS should be a key part of the strategy to displace shitty closed-source products like Slack.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195
I use Cider every day professionally. It is so far from being a rock in any way. Embarassingly inconsistent release to release. Every major release has a new major bug. The REPL lag in Cider 23/Emacs 26 is stupefying. The more text in the buffer, and it doesn't take much, the lag increases exponentially. Google the issue and you will see the angry defendents blame you and your packages. Profile! Profile! Profile! I didn't change anything, Emacs 26 and Cider changed for the worse.
This is a lot of work (especially if you're not already familiar with these tools) compared to pretty much any other chat solution out there.
Uber's 2008 Pitch Deck
Then try 1 hour every day for 3 months, or 1 hour every 2 days for 6 months, or whatever you can fit into your schedule. Do you really have no time at all after your kid(s) go to sleep? I prepared and interviewed with a 1 year old at home, it was challenging but doable. Your situation might be more complex than mine though, I wouldn't know.
One advantage they don't discuss is perhaps lack of toxicity. I used to do Carpentry during summer break and sometimes we'd burn scraps for heat. I was advised not to throw treated lumber into the pile as it's toxic so this would be a good step in the right direction towards less toxins introduced into homes and groundwater.
People want both. Big world and small tribes. People are constantly building new community everywhere for non-technical reasons, even if similar communitys already exist. Why do you think they do that?

Small tribes have better control and more trust. Big crowds are lacking this for the individuals.
I did, I forgot passwords that were long and complex too. I forgot new passwords regularly after thinking okay, now I got it.

I'm just claiming that this is how courts operate, not that it's the best thing ever and that it's infallible.
>• It has survived World War II (1939-1945), ending in the near total destruction of the country.

What part of WW2 resulted in near total destruction of the country? The two atomic bombs were tragic, but the near total destruction of two cities is a far cry from the near total destruction of a country.
Solar can produce up to about 1500 times humanity’s current total power consumption, including heating and transportation.

It is currently in the middle (logarithmically not linearly) of replacing fossil fuels while simultaneously saving money.
Of course it’s entirely possible, but if it cannot be backed up with facts it’s just speculation / rumor.
Nothing as Pygmies and the San are not different species of the homo genus.
Isn't that what all chat apps do? Telegram as t least, and I keep getting notifications of people joining for names I've never ever heard before, so seems like they were a bit overeager even.
Porous rock and ice, with mean density less than that of water ice. The exact density is apparently unknown because of the objects’s asymmetric shape and a lack of natural satellites.
This is wise. Always try to keep your state change points concentrated and legible.
I'm quite happy with the two UK Navy frigates patrolling the area.

The UK has a significantly smaller defence budget than the USA does. Which kinda proves my point.
(In Greece, to be clear)
The paper referenced also defines Gentzen's sequent calculus, an even nicer formulation of logic:

http://www.digizeitschriften.de/download/PPN266833020_0039/P...
Also Tidelift which specialises in supporting maintainers of your stack:
https://tidelift.com/about/lifter
I'm all for it. Poverty and inequality will "never" be solved and a tiny fraction of our GDP going to this, will not be be felt. On the other hand, it may change our life, maybe even short term...money on research can bring results.
Early web did not died, it evolved. It gained neccessary tools and platforms. The web from the early days still exists, it's just not the only face the web has now.
I would encourage you to try to find a low-cost developer in the developing world (perhaps via Fiverr) who could serve a QA function for you. It might take you 4 or 5 tries, but you might be able to find someone very low cost who would be able to work with you on QA and debugging.
Data sovereignty will not impact cloud providers as us companies are already regionalizing data.
No I think he does mean trillion dollar deficit.

The US deficit is over $1 trillion a year. The debt is over $23 trillion.
I recently wrote an editor for this:

https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
If we had the possibility to bring someone back from the dead, it wouldn't matter if they were alive in 16th century or at the time we build the pyramids we live in a science fiction for these people.

Peter Thiel sometimes says random things to sound interesting so he can take a baby step out Elon's shadow.
and this:
https://youtu.be/wGt4XwBbCvA
Shameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
Questions about Disney products sound more like efforts to promote Disney products than attempts at a trendy style.
The Art of Emotional Branding and Understanding Customer Emotions
- Coronavirus

- Bernie Sanders rising in polls

- Unicorn/IPO disappointment; WeWork, Uber, Slack

- whales like MS, Google, Apple, Tesla outperforming startups by a ridiculous margin

What little innovation happening is all coming from the big established corporations. We hit peak VC euphoria. You had kids with PhDs in EE/CS vying to become personal assistants for VCs. More people wanted to become VCs than start businesses and build things. Now it's time to clean house.
It should be obvious that real world antenna don’t behave this way as they are not point sources. But, mathematically you’re correct.
Apparently what seems to be alien life was already observed on Earth a few years back. We just needed sufficiently good radar to see through their cloaking veils in the visible light spectrum. Cool hint as to what’s possible with technology and the laws of physics! As documented in the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
another three good writing from same blog
https://blog.plover.com/math/logic/coherence-spaces.html
https://blog.plover.com/math/logic/cut-rule.html
https://blog.plover.com/math/IL-contradiction.html
People have different stances. I do have archives of all my IRC chats too, all the way from the 90s.
And the same volume has his proof of the consistency of arithmetic:

http://www.digizeitschriften.de/download/PPN266833020_0039/P...
The US hasn't even stabilised its environment, healthcare and any number of other important areas of basic human needs. Money for finding extra-terrestrial life would be better spent on earth fixing the mess.

Or use it to get us to mars. At least that fits with a "plan B" since humans existing "only on earth" is still a bad idea. Same goes for moon exploration / asteroid mining. Good ideas. Raw resources shouldn't be so rare as they currently are.

But sending a message to aliens? We've already done this. For decades. More than a century. Ever since we started transmitting Tv/radio.

They either know we're here or they will. Or we're off limits. Or we're too far away. Or we're too scary. "They live in what kind of atmosphere?"
The fact that Twitter has never made any profit and lacks a viable business model and yet is backed by "rich dudes" makes me assume that it is this vitriol inducing hate speech factory on purpose. There is no sane discourse possible on this platform and that is for a reason and not by accident.

Thus I would rather see Twitter die or fade away than see it succeed.
why? do you think cloud marketing people are hard to find?
> How is it worse than Twitter, which can also ban you?

Who said anything about twitter and worse?? Shouldn't this be better than Twitter?

> What about instances that are mostly spam? What about instances that are dedicated to harassment (eg. Kiwifarms)?

Why is that an issue? You do not get spewed their spam in your face as long as you do not follow anybody?
It has to be the users decision, anything else is doomed to be abused against users.

And if this would become an issue, and one want's to have a more drastic approach to handle bad apples a decision of the a federates instances users, i.e., a conses or quorum, needs to decide.

> you're free to use an instance with a block policy that aligns with your opinion

No, you do not understand the basic issue here. Not only the block policy of the instance I'm on is the issue, but all the others. So how does your proposal solves this?
I hope you’re right. My team have chosen Google Cloud. With every news like this one, the risk that Google will shutdown its cloud division seems more and more likely to happen.
BS. Your argument has two problems: you are confusing ActivityPub with Mastodon, and you are confusing the aggregation part with the content itself.

The early web might have been eclipsed by the big companies, but don't be fooled by availability bias. How much of the internet is powered by Wordpress.org? Quite a lot to be considered "dead".

How many people still use some kind of RSS Reader? Google killed its offering more for a lack of way to monetization than for a lack of users. (Also, I don't remember people saying "RSS is dead, there is no way to discover who to subscribe to.")

Look at messaging protocols, Matrix also is still small compared to WhatsApp/Messenger/iMessage/Slack/Discord/whatever but their are numbers are growing. Far from dead.

Mastodon is people's living rooms only because the current users are mostly refugees from the centralized platforms, and yes, they are making this mistake of conflating instances with tribes. But this temporary and specific to Mastodon. As more systems start adopting ActivityPub and the more pulverized the user's become, the less this will be an issue.
Imagine 10 cars all in a line. Each car can only see the car in front of it, and has a delay of 3 seconds between seeing the car in front of it move and accelerating.

Given these numbers, we would expect car #10 to have to wait 30 seconds or so before they start moving.

As congestion is a feedback loop (lack of car movement results in other cars being unable to move), self-driving cars with a coordination mechanism and microsecond-level control would reduce the problem exponentially.
There is a similar discussion going on about Just A Minute, since Nicholas Parsons died earlier in the month. Can it even survive without him, since the very few shows without him were, well, sucky...
US compagnies still have to follow US laws that requires them to provide customer data when asked by the US government.
Jio recharge plan december 2019: jio recharge plan: list 2020 maharashtra
I am absolutely not informed on the dynamics of these technologies and business agreements so pardon my ignorance.

Q: are you getting paid for allocating such a cache? Or should you feel honoured that Apple thinks you are eligible to freely distribute their content?
Causes of breast pain, breast cancer and treatment
https://signalstickers.com/

Basically has all non-animated Telegram stickers. Easiest way to find is to search by name if you have some favourite packs.
A lot of widely used recent CLIs have been implemented in Go or Rust, e.g. I don't think I would choose C for such a task these days.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

https://github.com/ogham/exa

https://github.com/docker/cli

https://github.com/cli/cli
Check your email deliverability that your emails aren’t going to spam.

Also is it worth trying higher touch engagements? Book a demo type thing where you ask for a phone number and get to speak to some of these people that are signing up.

Lastly, are you sure the signups legitimate signups and not spam bots?
For what it's worth, Mike Bloomberg, a current candidate in the race for U.S. presidency and publisher of Bloomberg magazine, has been hoping that the economy nose-dives for atleast 3 years now.[1]

It remains to be seen if his wish finally comes true.

[1]

Mike Bloomberg: ‘I Cannot for the Life of Me Understand Why the Market Keeps Going Up’

https://fortune.com/2017/09/20/bloomberg-infrastructure-jobs...
Nice. I'd like the other direction. SVG -> ASCII
(b) less likely is, well, less likely. Better but not of use, as seen in the linked issue you can easily "loose" access to 19000 other people, just due to one admin with whatever reasoning, good or bad, they have - in a "Fediverse" it should be never the decision of the admin for the users.

At least if the goal is not having silos and decentralization.
With blockchain!
Not that hard, if you don't care about two things:

- Typing latency

- Access from mobile devices

Many people don't care about those things; good for them. Unfortunately for me, I do.

I can (and do) use a bouncer, which theoretically solves both problems: text entry is handled by my local IRC client rather than every keystroke going through a server, and I can run an IRC client on my phone. Unfortunately, bouncers are a rather poor approximation of true cross-device history/state synchronization; e.g. they don't sync unread messages. And they're generally slow and fiddly for various silly reasons. For example, most bouncers require you to make a separate connection for each IRC network, which is slower, and requires configuring each client device for each network, annoying if you have a lot of networks. Also, long backlogs can overload slow IRC clients, but typically the alternative to long backlogs is losing history, since there's no standard mechanism for clients to request history on demand.

There are also some IRC clients that do "true" state synchronization, like Quassel or Weechat's relay mode, but none with a tolerable iPhone version, last I checked.