skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropping messages is something that should notify you - in the raw protocol this is entirely possible, so it's just something that needs to be added to the client.

The problem of adding files is something that it would be nice to solve, I think in general the IRC servers themselves wouldn't want to potentially sacrifice the ability to handle text whilst being overloaded with attachments. It feels like something that could be solved with a third party server and a client that supports it, with a short-ish TTL to keep the server freed up. Receiving side it would simply be a case of opening a link or deciding if the content can be displayed inline.

I quite like not being available when I'm offline. I don't want to logon to have a quadrillion messages to read back through - most out of date and don't concern me. We have email for this kind of thing.
Core count for gaming is important until it matches to latest console game hard (now 8core, next gen also 8core)
Notice that there is 0 overlap between in the 9-5 time period between India and the US. Time zone problems like that are extreme and difficult to work with (I worked nearly a year in the US where the other half of the team was in India). I had to start work much earlier than I would have liked and they had to work late into the evening.
Long press any notification and ban the app.
Agreed. One powerful feature of Slack is search. The best thing about it is that it works! You can look for troubleshooting discussions (e.g. code build issue) and usually there’s a solution already. In that sense it’s also a permanent information page like Confluence, albeit less structured, but a perfect fit for info like tedious bug finding thread where people just don’t feel like writing up a well organized wiki for it.
This solution is entirely wrong and doesn’t work for the problem I was trying to solve. You seem to believe every problem is a web application or a web API of some kind. The proxy doesn’t make sense in my use case, and for the simple reason that it’s cost prohibitive alone, I would pass.

Feel free to keep writing more paragraphs. You’re trying to solve problems that don’t exist.

It seems like you start from solutions and hope that the problem will fit. Lambda seems to be your hammer and you write as if everything is a nail.

Good luck!
Big one that comes to mind is a personal pain point. Automatically running sync in the background for non apple backup. For example Google photos has to be opened once to trigger a new back up
This is like saying since diesel cars are dying therefore entire transportation industry is coming to an end.
Actually get work done?
As a practitioner in the field of quantum computation, my advice is to be very careful with intuition.

Quantum computers are among some of the most complex pieces of engineering. They generally require a relatively sophisticated understanding of mathematics and physics, much of which is very non-intuitive (e.g., high-dimensional Lie groups, random probability distributions of probability distributions, low-temperature thermodynamics, ...). Piecing it all together requires careful threading. I think Gil’s notes don’t represent the pinnacle of rigorous care, but it is a useful “punch list” of broad considerations worth talking about.

I am not questioning your or anybody’s intuition directly or personally, but it’s easy—especially for the tech-savvy world of software engineers that frequent HN—to jump to conclusions based off of our intuitions about the mechanics and failure of (classical) systems and make (baseless) conclusions about contemporary quantum ones.
I’ve worked on about 30 different run of river hydro electric projects over the last 15 years. Yes there is some environmental impact but the ones I have worked on have had a team of biologists and years of environmental studies and they would never result in a dead fish any more often that the river would have naturally by itself. If any habitat is destroyed they have to create new habitat such as spawning channels. They probably spend 10%-20% of the entire budget on environmental. These run of river plants don’t flood more than 1000m^2 area, use a weir instead of a dam, leave water in all sections of the river channel, and don’t cause unnatural changes in the river level at a rate greater than 1” per hour which is a very conservative rate compared to what the rivers of this size and nature naturally do by themselves when it rains or melts.

I know you said Dams and not weirs and not run of river plants, and big dams have their issues, but not on the same scale as the oil industry.
> If untrusted code is running on the same core/package/what have you, your security has already been breached.

This used to only be true on x86--IBM and DEC took security seriously and bitched about this incessantly.

Nobody cared. x86 was cheap.

Eventually everybody just threw up their hands and went to superscalar, deeply predicting, out-of-order microprocessor architectures because that got you better benchmarketing

x86 was always insecure. It's just that nobody cared until The Cloud(tm). Malicious client-device Javascript just made it all worse.
You are what you code
Apple’s lost founder: Jobs, Woz and Wayne (2010)
How on Earth is tourism unnecessary? Maybe if you want people to be even more ignorant, sure.
Singapore. Quality of life is far superior than the western world. They have a “Mac” govt - it just works :) the govt actually has a Legal helper program in place you where you can get live in help at a very reasonable cost (which before you get judgmental helps uplift a lot of people out of poverty from neighboring countries). Imagine US having that for their tired masses who barely have any time between both parents working and a school system that is at complete odds with the economic system (work is 8/9-5; schools are 8am to 2 or 3 pm and the govt just expects the kids to manage themselves from 3-5/6 when parents get home or wait you spend more money to have them kept. The masses also don’t demand a change and carry on with this broken system. Cooking cleaning groceries etc is all on top of that. Imagine the quality of life if this sphere could be outsourced for a reasonable amount. Sheep like masses also don’t demand any change but what can’t they do they just don’t have any time. On top of all of that we have con in chief running the country, electoral system from the Middle Ages and partisanship that has started an overall decline of american life at least for a generation before it can get better (at best). Anyways I digressed )

East is where the new opportunities are. Singapore provides developed world life in that part of the world which being extremely safe, high quality of education and a lot of overall convineice of life.
You can start shorting chinese real estate: I was just reading the other day that WTI going negative had badly burned many chinese retail investors. (as for germany, I'd call that an argument against currency unification ... but that's an entirely different thread)

If a country saves too much forex, one can slap sanctions on them for being a "currency manipulator". If a firm saves too much cash on hand, one can find a corporate raider (which the germans and chinese also have) to make a hostile LBO.

However, for thrifty households, there don't appear to be any similar sticks, only carrots. How would you propose to incentivise german and chinese households to consume more than they do?
Not to be insensitive to the people who lost their jobs at Disney, but "train" their replacement claim is a stretch (most likely were being to do Knowledge Transfer of the system/job function, but sorry to say won't quality as training their replacements).

If anything, any restrictions on H1B force jobs to move out of the country rather than resulting in more "American workers" getting hired. With COVID forced WFH transition with no loss of productivity - even medium-size companies without prior experience in offshore employers are now willing to consider remote tech staff (anecdotal), and will be happy to pay 25%. Unless a very protectionist tax regime accompanies this legislation hard to see this going any other way.

Full disclosure: I am on H1B, and am partial to the visa that helped me build my life and career in the US. Now its a real possibility that I, my ineligible to work spouse and my three "very much American" children will have to leave this country due to these attempts by law-makers to find a bogeyman to target their frustration against.
No, really, they have to wait for the counter notice or they are liable too. I’m sure MPAA would love to sue a billion dollar company and not just random people on the net.
I've made a pretty long list, and here are my faves:

- Auckland

- Taipei (Taoyuan and Kaohsiung are very close by HRT)

- Sydney

- Helsinki

- Stockholm

- Oslo

- Amsterdam

- Copenhagen

- Toronto

- Dublin

- London

- Paris

- Berlin

- Barcelona (or Madrid)

- Lisbon

My criteria were things like Gini coefficients, diversity, democracy indexes, gender equality, and LGBTQ rights. Most places in Asia got bumped because of poor LGBTQ rights, and the US got bumped for poor gender equality (representation in government is a big component of the formula). Diversity is just generally difficult to find, even in major cities, and when you do de facto segregation is almost certainly an issue.

I used to live in NYC but left--the COVID-19 outbreak didn't make that easy--and have been plotting on where to settle for hopefully forever. Toronto's at the top of the list, but it's hard to say no to Europe, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. What a privilege to have options like that though, what a time to be alive :).
Issues like the one posted don't seem to be consequences of financial or other neglect from the federal government thought. There is definitely something else going on here.
Letter to a Google Recruiter
> Employees who attempt to wiggle around those compensation adjustments will be subject to “severe ramifications,” he said, as the company needs to account for employee locations to avoid violating tax laws.

I guess it depends on the state, but if you decide to not have any taxes withheld from your paycheck and just make quarterly tax payments, then is particular assertion true?
That's a very cynical take away from a document saying expertise, authority, and trustworthiness are the most important measures of page quality.

I can see how forums would take a hit because users are anonymous, but personal blogs and niche websites should be rated high. Assuming the blog owner has some expertise to back their work, then just listing a relevant Ph.D. or other professional affiliations on the site about page would be more than good enough to fit these guidelines. This would seem to go more so for niche websites as demonstrated expertise should be more apparent.

Note that site reputation was listed as the very least important metric.

I doubt anyone else read all 168 pages, but can you direct me to the page that supports your claim? I didn't find anything that I would qualify as "directly asks raters to boost established sites and downrank things like forums, personal blogs, and niche websites."
I came from tribal origin with nomadic goat and sheep herders recent ancestors. Life is not easy there but sense of community is strong and lifespans are at par with cities with best healthcare despite not having good healthcare facilities there. Not sure how it compares to people who are homless in cities.

Being from the tribal origin I've been conned by city dwellers a lot before I wised up. In tribe we trust everyone, there is no need to be shrewed and sense of community and living together in harmony is valued above everything else.
It's a lot more fun to imagine that they're more like the secret menu at In N' Out Burger.
Starz is an add-on paid cable channel, like HBO. It’s been around for awhile.

About ten years ago, Starz had a deal with Netflix to stream their content next day. I remember watching some of Party Down that way as it aired.
It does help protect American workers by raising the H1-B salaries and thus lessening the downward pressure currently caused by the program.
Not like Atlanta, but surprisingly active considering the metro size. You might have to go to the surrounding cities to realize the full potential of the region (also known as the "Triangle" because actually includes 3 cities - Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill - each with their own contribution to the social/cultural scene).
I have unironically considered moving to, say, Montevideo. It has better weather than where I live (India), is close to the east coast time zone, and I could very easily make much more than most SW jobs here by getting an Americas-only remote job. Only downside would be living far away from family, and having to navigate immigration when I'd not actually be working for an Uruguayan company.
You're doing it wrong or going to the wrong bars. I'm as awkward a wallflower as they come, and I've still been drawn into my fair share of bar conversations and hijinks when drinking solo. And any good dive bar will have at least one old man drinking alone and willing to talk to anyone.
It is! Though DTrace doesn't really work on iOS... Apparently Apple ported it over but they've certainly never released it publicly. https://twitter.com/ahl/status/311883517820809216
Are there actually large tech companies with a ton of SWEs doing ML, in comparable size to web dev teams?
I think no-code is different than off-shoring. Wherewith offshoring you needed domain expert, some kind software architect which maps features and off-shored team, with you no-code you need usually only domain expert.
In progress. Support my project. https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor.
In case you aren't aware, there are a number of active clinical research trials underway demonstrating the efficacy of MDMA and psilocybin, under the support of the FDA:

https://maps.org/research/mdma

https://hopkinspsychedelic.org

In other words, these medicines are being explored specifically through the lens of public health policy. The question of their benefits being a statistical anomaly (when used in appropriate settings) is looking increasingly unlikely.
Been using https://github.com/wildskyf/personal-blocklist
Got tired of most top results being from different pinterest.xzy domains. And when searching motorcycle prices and specs, I'd always get Indian websites.
One minute in and it's already humanity in a bottle. One person draws world map, another writes n-word across the African continent. Sigh.
Time to fix that ESP stuck inside the Casio calculator as well
Starz is a 20+ year old premium cable channel.
>That's not a strategy to get new users though. It makes a social site more appealing to new users, but it doesn't attract them.

This statement appears thoroughly contradictory, unless you're using an unusual definition of either appeal or attract. IMHO most people are going to see those words having almost the same meaning in the context you used them

In 2012, Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder, was honest enough to attribute Reddit's initial ability to attract new users to their fake user strategy first of all [1]. Even while they were doing that, he said, they still needed a few months to get the site self-sustaining so they could stop faking user engagement.

In that talk, Steve Huffman never even mentions influencers. Paul Graham didn't write about Reddit until 3 or 4 months in, after they had retired the fake user posting, though I agree with you influencers and friends must have been a help

[1] https://youtu.be/zmeDzx4SUME?t=28
> Think about it more from the perspective of a jailbroken device being used as a wallet for "cloned" virtual credit cards, transit cards etc. and then using those on NFC readers.

Any reasonable system (i.e. one using public key cryptography) does not allow the attacker to "clone" your virtual cards at all, because they don't have your private key, which never leaves your device. And if they've compromised your device (not their own) sufficiently to extract your private key then the game is over and you've already lost.

Once they have the private key they don't need a jailbroken phone running the official app, they can just speak the NFC protocol directly to the reader and sign with the victim's private key.

> The main point I'm trying to make though is that mobile devices support NFC payments with virtual cards in wallets that are protected by Apple/Google. That's not a use case that is supported on regular PCs, so it's not unreasonable that the security requirements are different.

The difference is that the security requirements should be lower, since it's only used for in-person purchases. Even if the attacker somehow has your private key, to use NFC they would have to show up in person, smile for all the surveillance cameras and risk getting arrested on the spot if the card has already been reported stolen.
"Plaintext and VCS solve all problems" is not very practical for everyone other than programmers.
Yes all of that and one another reason I cancelled my Netflix account for was - it just won't let me successfully hide/remove the content I disliked, didn't finish because I didn't find it good enough, didn't want to see again, and even the content I had actually finished watching! It was almost mocking me everywhere!

e.g. I explicitly disliked a show and anytime I'd open Netflix, for days/weeks, it be on top either a banner or one of the first in one or many categories. Felt almost like mocking :)

If your libraries is shallow (which anyway consisted of mostly r trite subpar content) it's your problem - don't hit me with your pathetic dark pattern. Their support kept giving robotic answers. It was outrageous.
Ask HN: Best Tech for a Web Site in 2020
I want to resurrect the linked thread to the right, but focused on 2020. (Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685905).

I am a competent programmer, and I want to create a website, which I have not done in a very long time. My best language is Python, though I am not against using PHP or some other language. I am familiar with HTML and CSS, but not great with JavaScript yet. In my case, it would be something similar to a community site (like a small social network) with a newsfeed, p2p chat, mailbox, forum (preferably VBulletin) etc. and would need to be mobile friendly. I know that I will use PostgreSQL due to spatial data types, likely Nginx, probably on AWS.

Over the years, there have been many trends in web development such as Ruby on Rails in 2006. Now, there are so many JavaScript front end packages like React, Vue and Angular, and even for back end work like NodeJS. In 2020, I am lost as to all of the options and if all of these decisions need to be made before working on a project of this size.

Obviously, this is a vague question and heavily depends on the use case, but I am interested to hear if HN has suggestions on things to consider and what to think about when deciding. What do you think is the best tech for a web app these days, in 2020?
Yes for multi-threaded code, although not quite for multi-processes code, which is what one should be writing when the goal is security.

Then you are back into the same synchronization issues as in every other language.
What if "you" were not in the picture. I am assuming you are cutting out the work for offshore resources, presumably due to your role as a engineering manager or business liaison. When your company realizes they can be get the work done offshore cheaper (with or without "you" in the picture) they will find a way.
Also Europe you can get very good developer for 5000-7000 euros per month.
IFTTT is better way
I think Matrix/Riot is an example of a successful approach, and when p2p matrix is ready the complexity should be largely invisible to the user (and it also won't require paying for any hosting since the server is embedded in the client).
While trying to understand how lasers seem to 'rectify' energy in space I encountered some very unfamiliar language meant to uphold thermodynamics in this new (anisotropic?) regime. I suspect that the new vernacular could be used to describe some unintended consequences.

I think you are right in your assessment that there is understanding to be advanced.
I'm doing a thought experiment. What if Prof. Kalai is right? The field of quantum computation at this point has people who attained titles like "Centennial Professor" and "Director of Engineering and Distinguished Scientist." People are on their way to make careers that will rival the luminaries of AI (another field that has not delivered even 1% of what it has promised). What would it take for these folks to acknowledge that it's not working out and find something more productive for themselves to do?
Rose-8 on Mac OS 9
The Jevons effect is not especially peculiar to software.
ggp is specifically talking about Latin/South American companies, which have approximately the same time zones as the US.
Trust but verify.

This is vital enough in CS/engineering but also in life. U can't do it for everything but at least for the things that matter to you or things that you can do it for cheaply (time/effort) and can yield greater results.

- Back up plans
- Disaster plans
- Legal/financial
- Second opinion for doctors
Not sure how it compares to people who are homless in cities.

UK data from 2011:

Homeless die 30 years younger than average

The new research found that the average homeless person has a life expectancy of 47, compared to 77 for the rest of the population: a startling difference of 30 years. The life expectancy for women was even lower, at just 43 years.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/homeless-die-...

I think this is US data from 2017:

The average life span of a homeless person was shorter by about 17.5 years than that recorded for the general population.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739436/

In tribe we trust everyone

Yeah, my dad was part Cherokee. I can be sort of stupid at times about thinking the best of people and I've been burned by that.

But I also think my native heritage helped me survive living in a tent for nearly 6 years and helped me profoundly in other ways.

That sense of community is very life giving and it tends to be lacking in most modern American places.
Many modern journalists are activists first.
I think there might be a form of the horseshoe theory here at play where the left-"feel good" side meets with the right-"more people/cheaper services" side

Europe experienced some unchecked (outside of EU) immigration in the past couple of years and it hasn't worked well for the average person on most aspects to be honest (though yes, there are unfairly negative views as well). And yes, I'm aware some numbers look good on paper and some jobs were filled.

But the truth is that during the big immigration waves of the XX/XIX (and earlier) centuries the limitation was technology. And that limitation is mostly gone now (ok not right now, but you get the point).

Sure unlimited immigration and then what? House them where? Let them work where? What are you going to do with the people that have limited reading/writing skills (and no English skills)?
And what happens when Bangladesh (then Pakistan, then Ethiopia, then etc.) becomes developed enough? Eventually you run out of countries and regions to offshore to.
No business I know paid "good money" for that. At most they would get a neighbor's kid (one of them being me) to throw together a few html pages. Fancy ones had a PHP visitors counter.
As a child of two Italian immigrants, I can say that I am definitely not immune to the fattening effects of the typical western diet. There doesn't seem to be anything magical about my genetics, at least in that regard.
About 10 years ago there was a bug in driver to the Intel wireless card, it crashed when it received 802.11n packet. That bug I remeber well, because it was responsible for me stunning Ubuntu. They knew about that bug (it was reported when they were getting ready to release) and still went forward with the release. I'm wondering if that was related.