skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean....really? What's the point of having an open discussion forum then if people are going to tell you to "keep it to yourself"? Perhaps I am cynical, but like I said - I'm not telling anyone what to do with their computing power. Just saying that using the @Home network for minecraft rubs me the wrong way, perhaps the same way using the LHC for developing makeup would. That doesn't mean that I'm right or even correct - but I do enjoy a good discussion, and indeed, my comment has spawned several good points that have made me reconsider my position. Had I just "kept it to myself" I would have never been exposed to those and still held the same view.
I'm curious about what the implications of some of these projects will be for 2b2t. Given that the seed is known, couldn't people start finding bases from screenshots using some of these clusters of 'rotations of textures 'tricks?
I still can't believe that I was actually there during that exact presentation but at the time it didn't have the impact on me that it seems to have had on HN as a whole. Maybe I should review it again, or maybe I'm just not smart enough / don't have the right mindset, IDK.
Ask HN: What are some good online CS Master's programs?
Hi! I'm trying to find a good online program to get a Master's degree in CS.
I'm a competent self-taught web developer, but I have a non-technical Bachelor's degree, which procludes me from getting the work visa and makes job search more difficult.

So I'm looking for a high quality program that will teach me some solid fundamentals of CS I may have missed (algorithms, data structures, etc), and give me a proper CS diploma I can use in my job/visa applications.

Can you recommend some good options? What criteria should I use to pick the best one? What should I keep in mind?

I would really appreciate any help!
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They were not unmarked federal agents, they were all wearing badges. The cars themselves were unmarked, but the people were fully marked and wearing badges. Please read the article before commenting.
> Wiki.js, straight up doesn't load without Javascript

I'm sorry but it's right there in the name
They weren't unmarked federal agents, they all had badges.
> I called water a "mild" solvent because it's not so reactive as to instantly destroy everything in its path.

Ok. But I guess the proper common terminology would be "corrosives" for those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrosive_substance
Dinnerbone has also commented on reddit threads saying they support the project, but they don't think there's anything else mojang can do to help.
That is why they should call them "conspiracy myths". Of course there are actual conspiracies. But most real conspiracies are actually pretty simple and don't involve thousands of people around the word shutting up.

I think the article gives some pretty good tips eveb form normal discussions about things we disagree about. So if you think, Jeffrey Epsteins death is a conspiracy, it's something else than believing, G5-towers all arou d the world are spreading Corona. Epstein obviously was part of a consiracy - that is way he was in jail. Harvey Weinstein was part of a consiracy. People knew whta they were doing and they helped them keep doing what they were doing.

That is hiw I would start. And if I wanted to convince you of a different view on Epsteins case, I'd ask you something.
Early feeding is probably better than later feeding. This video covers some of the evidence:

https://youtu.be/1cAhfZa1Rac
Parent poster clearly meant licensing in the sense of accreditation for the people involved.

I.e. there is no formal barrier to entry, which is great on the one hand, but it also means that there are pretty unqualified developers out there.
I keep a v2 instance running on my Windows laptop solely for taking notes and keeping need-it-eventually information organized.

It's just enough added structure and functionality to make the whole body of notes more useful, without having to learn a formal system or adopt someone else's idea of what my note hierarchy should look like.
Why not wear the masks forever?
> On the other hand, capitalism can only really function in a world where all transactions are bilaterally voluntary

That depends on whether by “capitalism” you mean “the real-world economic system which emerged through the relentless pursuit of class advantage by the mercantile class as they displaced the feudal aristocracy as the ruling class and which was named ‘capitalism’ by it's critics” or “the aspirational ideal that defenders of that real world system rationalized it as striving imperfectly toward to distract from the characteristics of the real world system itself in a perpetual game of ‘No True Scotsman’”.

For the former, no, it relies almost entirely on economic coercion by denying practical freedom of choice for most of the population to serve the ends for which it was pursued by the class that relentlessly advanced it, and the form of commodified chattel slavery which with it replaced the patriarchal slavery of the feudal era fits well within that.

For the latter, sure, slavery is incompatible with that rationalization. But so is literally everything because the ideal is incoherent.
Good points in this post, although I'd add the word "Only" in front of the headline.

IMO, syntax highlighting definitely has its uses, but why limit ourselves to only using colors for that? I'd like to see a future, where depending on whether I'm, for example:

- sketching the structure for a completely new program,

- implementing a new feature to an existing program,

- refactoring an existing program,

- debugging a problem in my program,

- writing tests, or

- trying to find something for reference

I'd be able to seamlessly switch between different highlighting schemes. I don't (yet) know what I'd prefer for each of these different modes of software development. The author of TFA lists some ideas for some different ways of doing semantic highlighting. Maybe over the years I'd grow to like some of them for some of these tasks.
Ah, the new Stripe design.

https://dribbble.com/shots/13676278-Home covers it, and the comments on it are unanimously positive (and also shallow).

Yet I open https://stripe.com and observe a page mostly incapable of hitting 60fps in its animations, which doesn’t scroll smoothly because of this, and which is intensely CPU-demanding (it immediately makes my laptop’s fans spin up, and I imagine it’d be draining the battery far quicker than normal). And that’s what I end up focusing on, rather than any prettiness. I don’t like websites that make my browser slow and my computer noisy, and will tend to close them far more quickly—either immediately, or go in, get the information, get out, rather than perhaps lingering.

They’ve focused on subjective prettiness at substantial and unnecessary cost. They could have implemented something just as subjectively pretty that didn’t perform so terribly, but they didn’t. (Fortunately it’s only the front page that suffers in this way.)

And on Dribbble: this sort of response is pretty standard: when something popular and pretty comes up, people seldom make any critical comment on even glaring usability problems. When something is obviously a catastrophically bad idea, maybe one or two people pipe up as dissenters, but even then their feedback will be muted. And don’t get me started on how people present their web design screenshots, framing them on a background that is essential to making key aspects of the design work, but which will be necessarily absent in the actual deployment—this is rank dishonesty, in my opinion, but it’s also ubiquitous on the platform.

As with Stripe’s popularity, these Dribbble things are a deliberate culture thing (problem, I’d say): the Dribbble community is interested in prettiness and doesn’t want to hear about impracticality or any form of negative feedback. This has probably helped with the platform’s popularity—it lets you feel good, everyone likes what you’ve made. Being largely invitation-only has also helped them create and sustain this echo chamber. (“Echo chamber” is a term too freely used, but it’s quite apt on Dribbble.) Otherwise I might create an account named “Honest Critic” and make a habit of pointing out problems in shots—not to be a downer or to condemn their work, but to help them improve it, and hopefully realise that they should care about these things.
The article was strange because the author said the method doesn't work because people don't hold opinions weakly, i.e. don't update them upon new evidence. And then dives into trying to question what new evidence even means. I've never heard the phrase "Strong Opinions, held weakly" but during my education and work I've always been told "stick to your guns and be confident. You came to conclusions for a reason. But keep your mind open because you can never have the full picture."

As I see it, if the method is wrong because people don't use it correctly then don't throw out the method, update it to be more usable. Which is exactly the systematic tearing apart and rebuilding process that the author actually is engaging in himself. Adversaries to an idea is a good thing.
I don't get it. Author is a programmer, why doesn't he just develop this?
I don't need this and I don't want it bloating my text editor.
Good luck with the negotiations. I guess Albania and North Macedonia have a always had lot more goodwill on the EU side, ever since the idea of them joining the EU was floated, than the UK will ever have again.
This hits the nail on its head:

In simpler terms, ‘strong opinions, weakly held’ sometimes becomes a license to hold on to a bad opinion strongly, with downside protection, against the spirit and intent of Saffo’s original framework.

Beliefs are very hard to change as the human brain has a perception bias in favour of currently held believes. Data driven goals are a much more objective way to test your beliefs and drive business decisions.
This. Thousand times this.

I have been waiting for an online wiki with the usability of Apple Notes that I use locally on all my Apple devices. It works like a charm except that I cannot make it public.

This is why I often take notes rather than write blog posts on my website. If the wiki software was as easy drag and drop as Apple Notes, I’d just take notes and they turn into publicly available wikis!

I am yet to find that tool. I would happily pay for such a tool with one braking condition that it must be self-hostable. I will not write my content into something like Medium or Notion where I don’t own my content.
I would have agreed with you up to few years ago, but now Dublin has a vibrant jobs market in tech with salaries that are equal to higher than London with a less crazy (tho still crazy) cost of living.

Like I said the fall of pound has been spectacular in last 4-5 years.

* Engineer Dublin 2015 - €100K ~£70K

* Engineer Dublin 2020 - €125K ~£112K (5K eur increases per year)

* Engineer London 2015 - £70K ~€100K

* Engineer London 2020 - £95K ~€105K (5K gbp increases per year)

Both engineers start at same pay 5 years ago, both of them think they are moving up in the world with reasonable pay increases per year. One of them is being screwed by falling value of pound against just about every major currency due to Brexit and all the uncertainty.
Invert, always, invert
I find this plugin invaluable for Clojure!
If the world economy falls apart I'd rather be in a place that produces anything tangible than in London
This article was not meant to convince believers in conspiracy myths. It's mean for people who discuss with them - they don't have to be convinced.
Written by an author who had never seen IntelliJ IDEAs highlighting framework.

Yes, it does syntax highlighting, but it also manages to mix it up with local variables, etc.
And the U.K. had unprecedented power and control within Europe, and were willing to walk away.

The press in the U.K. is attacking UN agencies daily - it would not surprise me in the slightest if the U.K. decided the SC was too constraining, their veto not big enough.

Same goes for NATO - the ERG want out, and feel the contributions are an unfair burden. They are right now opaquely “streamlining” the military. How that helps meet the NATO commitment, not clear.

Everyone said {the many things that have come to pass over the past few years} would never happen, that it would be an insane choice.

At this point, the insane choice is the inevitable choice, so I’d put money (actually, I have, I am shorting sterling, hard, as a hedge) on them leaving both the UN and NATO.
I've seen this complaint that using bools directly causes problems (I agree) but the solution is trivial, either turn those booleans into type-safe distinct values:

flushability {FlushData, DontFlushData};
CloseFile(file f, flushability AndFlushToDisk);

or roll the boolean flag into the function name:

CloseFile(file f, bool AndFlushToDisk);

becomes:

CloseFile(file f, bool AndFlushToDisk); // the original, occasionally still needed...

// ...but add, and recommend instead
CloseFileAndFlush(file f);
CloseFile(file f); // does not flush; name does not claim it does

Why is this so difficult?
In my experience this actually works. Very good tips!
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Yes, though technically I didn't ask them to not buy the MIT license option, but rather offered them another option which was cheaper.

Personally, I would have preferred they stayed with MIT because it appeals to my desire to have people people support open source, and because I would have made more money.

I don't think my pharma customers have any desire to distribute the code, other than to their collaborators. It's not so much "close to the vest" but rather that they don't have any infrastructure support for that - no public repos, no public mailing lists, little career benefit for doing so, and little involvement in managing FOSS projects - and a risk that I would drop them as a support customer.

I'm more concerned about academic customers - people who don't want to pay money - who might release the software, and be able to offer "free"/grant-subsidized support, because that's what grad students do.

I agree that I'm in an unusual. Chemistry has always been more protective than, say, biology. I suspect it's because the connection between compound and new commercial product is more direct than between a biological sequence and a new commercial product. OTOH, there's a huge amount of public research money going into bioinformatics, so it's hard to compare things head-on.

I don't know what other fields are like though. If I developed an improved method to find oil, and sold it to petro companies under an expensive open source license, I don't think they would redistribute it to their competitors.
> We can fight it by electing the correct people.

Can you? There are a few problems: firstly, the primaries are controlled by the parties, so you have a very limited menu to choose from when it comes to the actual elections. Secondly, the media is no longer independent. If you are not aligned with the status quo, you will get no exposure, or only very negative exposure. Finally, politicians consistently do the opposite of what they promise on such matters. Take Obama: a lot of people believed that he was the way to fight, that he was the "correct person". He promised to encourage whistle-blowing, and then he did the opposite. This is not a partisan observation, I pick this example because it is the most recent disappointment on such matters.

> But more importantly, I won't be spirited away to a black site by speaking ill about the president.

It is happening right now in Oregon.

> Nor can the government decide it doesn't want me as CEO of my company anymore.

Are you sure?

> Or prevent me from funding the opposition party.

Try funding a radical party and see what happens.

> There's an enormous difference between the West and totalitarian dystopia China.

I agree that there is, but it is scary to see that the difference is becoming smaller and most people seem ok with that. I worry that the future will not be a place worth living in.
Probably that decision was a c-level one, overruling at least the objection of the developers.
So we push a new feature update every month[1], but the main things that we've added since then are:

- friends

- re-designed UI

- drag-and-drop

- command prompt

- archival

- backlinks

- new community forum[2] with SSO

[1] https://supernotes.app/changelog/
[2] https://community.supernotes.app
It's interesting to know about ICP. Are there any apps being run on Dfinity?
Excellent really (Table 1, col 4): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn... (these are not estimates, see the footnote)

2015-2016
Flu: 7,961
Pneumonia: 131,858
All: 1,769,940
Funnily enough a good chunk of the food UK eats comes from Ireland and other neighbouring EU countries.

During this covid virus lockdown working remotely from home with a massive farm size garden growing fruit and veggies in rural Ireland has proven to be better for my mental/physical health than being locked into a tiny apartment in a city
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I'm not talking from the perspective of RobinHood, I'm talking about the broker/dealers who provide execution services to RobinHood. RobinHood is nowhere near large enough to have a client base which represents the market. JPM, GS, MS etc are.
Since it's AGPL it will probably never end up in the same commercial use cases as Confluence does.

Google has some motivations written down from their lawyer department: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

It boils down to 'not worth the risk, do not use'.
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I think it's (as is often the case) a little more nuanced than this.

There's roughly two ways to follow trends "successfully" in the software world:

1. Eager and somewhat blind.

This fits with your comment and follows the kind of innate behaviour we're discussing. And it will bring you some success: you'll always be up on "cool new thing" as long as you're afforded the freedom to jump from project to project and don't fall into a rut where you're tasked with maintaining the last crappy "cool new thing" you championed that noone wants anymore.

2. Pragmatic skepticism.

You look at network effect and community support as rational, technical pros when weighing tech choices. You're successful because, while you're usually up on "cool new thing", you approach tech tentatively enough not to fall into the vendor lock-in hole. If you're ever tasked with maintaining some old thing you made, you're less screwed as you never jumped with both feet.

Of the above two, the first is a much more common success story, largely because the software community loves reinventing the wheel, so most engineers don't fall into that particular maintenance rut. There's no moral hazard with approach number #1, but I still wouldn't go as far as to say it's the right way.
Ask HN: Did anyone manage to create a good Emacs config for React webdev?
Hi! I love emacs, but the deeper I go into react programming, the harder it gets to use.

No indentation or syntax highlighting for GraphQL and Styled Components, web-mode constantly loses syntax highlighting and must be reloaded, unhelpful quotes being added for me where they shouldn't be.

I tried VSCode and it has so many slick and convenient features, but feels way slower and more sluggish than emacs, I don't want to switch, I'm still more productive in emacs despite all the issues.

Did anyone manage to create a good emacs config that works well for react webdev? Can you please share?
I wonder why it's AGPL and not dual-licensed or some different GPL. As it is right now it's dead in the water for any commercial usage unless you're manually installing the thing on a manually installed server somewhere (which you probably aren't).

With automation you'd build images based on their images but run via your own CI/CD with your own security scans and any additions you might need (like additional logging infrastructure). Doing that is not possible with AGPL.
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> Something fundamentally changed about Stripe's support a few years ago, and it seemed like almost overnight they went from routinely having knowledgeable people replying with helpful suggestions to having people who can't even be bothered to read your message before hitting whatever button sends boilerplate reply #74 with platitudes #27 and #53 at the start and end.

That's definitely my experience with Stripe support over the years, too. A definite degradation. Really annoying.
How can one test GPT-3?
I believe that "remarkable" was referring to Adyen getting and seeking little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet having a higher market valuation, rather than its location in the Netherlands.
the code editor in pharo smalltalk does that
The cost of living in London eats up any salary benefit. Once you factor in actually having to live in London, or a murderous commute, there is almost no benefit to living in London unless you're young or work in finance. If you're young there are opportunities in London you can't find elsewhere in English speaking Europe if you're willing to live like a pauper for a bit.
Except as just stated in the above comment, Huawei does not actually buy more SoCs than Apple.
I know, just making the point where Pharo and Squeak differentiate themselves. :)
I'd love to read more about the economics of captchas - what is the "labor" of classifying images worth? What is the marginal cost per captcha of human solver farms, etc. Can anyone point me to some resources?
The Baby Whisperer is the only book I remember reading (part of at least.) The writing style is a bit much but there is some generally good advice such as 'crying baby does not mean bad parent'

The biggest challenge is getting a decent mental break every day. The other advice I have heard is 'you sleep when the baby sleeps' which is really hard to follow.
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My all time favorite is "Mistakes were made"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made
> As it is right now it's dead in the water for any commercial usage

So what? If companies need a certain software, they can pay for it. I remember a time when FOSS was not about providing companies with free work, quite the opposite indeed.