skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't have all people working just on most important problems. Many will just waste time doing this (me for example, I don't know how to end poverty), so we have to have people attached to many different problems. Now this problem may not be the most important, but still maybe if someone has time, she should look at it at least briefly?
But the computer itself isn't free, right?
Yes I thought the same. They did not make money with the open source project, instead created a product and sold that.
That won’t handle the number of degrees of freedom a bobsled uses.
He says he’s a bit dopey, but I’m okay with that because he has a girlfriend to take care of him.
This blows my mind – well done and thanks for sharing!
I was hoping to see some examples of the code challenges you offer. The site doesn't give any examples. what makes your library better than the other hackerrank / project Euler sites?
> I don't believe what you're describing is sustainable long term.

I'm describing things that have been happening for millennia: people seeking the admiration of others even at great cost for themselves. Social media is the last manifestation, in line with modern times. It's still the same drug just obtained via different means.

I don't know how sustainable it is, if social media puts us above the sustainability threshold by making this practice more accessible to the masses. But as the article states people have put up with a lot of permanent downsides (e.g. a long uncomfortable daily commute) for the fleeting joy of the upside (e.g. having a bigger bedroom).

On the other hand social media allows people to get that satisfaction with a one time investment. One fancy trip = one big dose of admiration from thousands of people. Your grandparents had to take a mortgage to get this effect. Entire industries were created purely to satisfy such needs, anything containing "luxury" is a good point to start. Of course there are many other implications here but while we can agree it's probably not good that so many rely on this for their daily life happiness, it's hard to quantify how bad.

Anecdotally the worst outcome I've seen from social media induced disillusionment was couples falling apart because the more immature one lived "inside" social media and real life didn't provide any of the same highs. The disappointment took a sledgehammer to what was probably a shaky foundation but still.
It started well, then it completely fell on the corporate bullshit side.

For example: "Some current, common tools in use by teams using agile development".

This is the kind of reason why a lot of people are required by management to use useless overkill stacks for their needs like docker or kubernetes.

Also the "questions to ask" are typical ridiculous agile corporate bullshit like "have you a product charter", or common forced process oriented questions.
I loved the price but the guy at that store was the grumpiest guy ever. That said he was really nice too. He even gave me a few writeable CDs from an open stack when I tried to buy some and they didn't sell them anymore
In 2019 someone from Elastic also tried to highlight the issue and various models at the market right now in a talk https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2019-2463-open_source_as_a_bus...
My main take away was "it's complicated".

Sad story is that in many cases the biz paying for interesting contributions is questionable (Googel, Facebook et al).
In every city I have lived, commuting by public transport means standing so packed that it’s barely possible to move my arms. Thankfully, I now live in walking distance from my office.
There’s a wonderful irony in your suggestion. The current one-price-to-anywhere postal system originated because it is/was cheaper to provide a single flat price, than to compute a bespoke price for every letter dependant on its destination.

Most original postal systems (and I’m primarily thinking of Royal Mail) started by charging depending on distance a letter would travel.

I’m not sure your system of progressive taxes and rebates, and the needed administrative infrastructure would be cheaper than operating a flat price system. Especially in a country like the US which doesn’t have a large well developed welfare system that already performs these types of assessments.
The real issue here is the fact that the USPS is overloaded and requires extra government attention. If you don't properly fund and support you public postal service, you don't get on-time mail deliveries. Maybe that is the issue.

This has little to do with Amazon. Amazon is paying the USPS according to their contract. If the contract from 2013 is unsatisfactory, then it should be renegotiated by USPS. I wouldn't be surprised if it is a 10-year deal, and has hefty fines for late deliveries.

A journalist should be able to request the contract and see why USPS is now overloaded: Is it because USPS is not receiving enough funding from the government, or because the contract with Amazon is really bad for USPS. It sounds like the fact that Amazon is shipping so many parcels is a symptom, not the (systemic) cause of why parcels aren't shipped on time.
If the USPS is to blame, then who made this deal and what were their reasons? Was it a national deal? Why is it a problem now? Why wasn't this anticipated? And how can it be avoided in the future?

Aren't contracts of the government with private parties publically accessible? I mean, you, the taxpayer, pay for the contract so you should have access to it, as well be able to check on the government's workings. At least, that's how we do things in europe.
[Video] in the title
Which he states.
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Smart(er) Cities - publicly available APIs for each city providing real-time access to what's happening where, from traffic numbers to park occupancy, requests for planning permission to refuse collection times for the area, cities produce tons of data and harnessing it would be incredible.
It seems personalization/bubbling is assisting this garbage searches. From my limited observations of close friends and family, different people tend to get different number of useless results for the same query string. I personally disabled all possible personalisations in all google products, including history of searches, youtube views, etc and it seems to actually help, at least I really don't find myself complaining on google quality at all recently.
Yes, bu also number of detainees raped and number of unarmed civilians mutilated.
There are a lot of arguments surrounding this subject. Just came in here to chime about how I miss named arguments in c++. Sure, I can emulate them [0] but at the cost of ide support, runtime and compile time.

https://github.com/nurettin/pwned/blob/770144a15efe7ab96bf4d...
It may be more related to the death count, and subsequent trust in the administration. It's complicated, and a mix of opinions, betting and hedging. You are certainly part right but I don't think it's a majority.
If you’d bought £10k of 35p 330ml cans in 1997 you would now have £27k of coca-cola (95p).
Reading the title, i genuinely thought we were turning the tables on recruiters and having them complete some tests for us developers so we can assess if they know what they're talking about or not. I got excited for a second.
Your work looks really cool and your paper was a great read.

I too didn’t like the syntax of MathML, and I agree the semantics needs to be in the software.

For MathLingua I built a pattern matcher that is built in, but I haven’t tied MathLingua to a verifier.

I viewed these as separate things. This is because one can encode a statement but have a proof as a separate entity (which may be in a paper, digital, or verified form).

This allows one in mathlingua to express theorems and definitions from a book, for example, with references to the proofs in the book even though the results are not formally proven.

A layer on top of MathLingua would use MathLingua to formally verify statements. If this is needed, my plan is to leverage existing theorem provers for this.

Feel free to reach out by email if you want to chat more, or we can chat here. My email is on my github page https://github.com/DominicKramer.
Service tiers make total sense for mail, even under a "neutral" system. Sometimes people need, for example, guaranteed next day delivery. So, if Amazon wants to pay extra for that service tier like everyone else ... what's the problem?

The real issue is if Amazon gets that service at a discounted rate. They probably do, and I can see arguments for why we wouldn't want them to be able to. But I can't see arguments against service tiers.

Besides, service tiers exist under net neutrality. I can choose to buy a 1Mbps connection, or a 1Gbps connection. The latter gives me a clear advantage. Yet that's allowed under net neutrality because _anyone_ can buy those tiers of service.
Exciting news for Docker community. In our organisation we use ECS service to orchestrate our services within AWS eco system.

On a different note, recently I was looking to learn AWS concepts through online courses. After so much of research I finally found this e-book on Gumroad which is written by Daniel Vassallo who has worked in AWS team for 10+ years. I found this e-book very helpful as a beginner.

This book covers most of the topics that you need to learn to get started:

If someone is interested, here are the links :)
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Team License: https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/EpUED

I highly recommend buying this e-book if you think AWS documentation is overwhelming.
If one thinks it might be nice to leave a transcription for the next people who wonder about the stone, try something like:

https://www.nationalband.com/2702-write-on-tag/
Should be fixed now hopefully!
> Also, I think the ongoing trend to slap a thin wrapper on top of F/OSS and sell it as a service (aka "the Cloud") points to a weakness in F/OSS licensing schemes that needs to be addressed as I'm sure that almost all devs working on F/OSS don't intend their work to become part of a lock-in scheme, mass surveillance, or both, all the while not even getting contributions back.

the solution to "not even getting contributions back." exists since 2007 but apparently just writing the letters "A" "G" "P" "L" is enough to make a lot of people screech.
You’re right regarding the convenience point, to have a chance to work it has to be as straightforward as possible to buy and then install your tools.

I understand the difference people expect from GUI vs CLI, I just don’t think it really makes sense to be ok to pay for one but not the other, and I see it as a missed opportunity for tool creators.

Edit: Regarding Linux users as the main target, I don’t know if that’s true. I had mostly macOS in mind (I know I explicitly mentioned APT in my initial comment, that’s just what I had in mind at that moment), mac users seem to be ready to pay good money for their tools, there is a healthy market for GUIs. Something equivalent to homebrew cask but with an economics component may have its users if the tools being sold are considered valuable enough.
Maybe it helps to set the OVERLAP_* flags as described in the glyf table spec?
If net neutrality is supposed to prevent paying for a superior level of service from the provider you directly contract with, somebody should crack down on all the internet providers that offer different bandwidth/priority for different prices.

There’s not an analogue in this instance for the two sides of a network connection; DHL picks up the packages and drops them off. If you want to argue against price discrimination in general, you’re going to need a stronger argument than an analogy to net neutrality.
Greg Brick is notorious for lying about his field trips, often going as far as passing other people's adventures as his own. You can find many of the stories from the original sources on the Action Squad website.
Pagerank solved that, right?
>Falling from 1m and stopping in 1cm gets you an instant reading of 100g. And yet that doesn't sound very deadly at all.

It does though, if you fall directly on your head from that height. Even with a helmet that seems dangerous.
I just uploaded a new logo with twice the resolution. Did that help?
Oh that looks really fun as well!
Which is probably rooted in our need to attract a mate and spread our genes. The trouble is we don't really know when to stop. Even if you are aware of what's going on it's easy to slip back into this way of thinking.

Of course marketers play on these insecurities in rather insidious ways. They will make you believe you can't be a good father without owning a new SUV, that buying a house in the country is going to make you sexually attractive to the opposite sex and on and on.
Scaling the Unscalable
it seems that the web has for at least a decade already been at the point where a search engine that is built to be useful by humans should (ideally, but apparently impossible with the current skewed incentives due to ad business considerations, overheated stock market, over-enthusiastic ML expert workforce, etc.) index only sites that opt _in_, vetted by humans.

there is a clear upper bound on the amount of total legitimate web content, and that upper bound is not prohibitively high -- linear on the total number of coherent-content-producing humans with only so many hours in a day and only so many years of adequate brain functioning (and not on the amount of whatever computing resources that are thrown in to support whatever algorithmic content fire hoses that the currently-dominant search engines contend with).
What if you need money to live on during your year of retirement between 70 and dying at 71?
you have a real baby. that is the easiest kind of kid to have during a time like this.
> because you think USPS is more efficient than a private sector alternative would be?

What makes you think USPS is inefficient? If it wasn’t for the ludicrous pension constraints applied to them of funding all pensions out to 2056 upfront, a requirement that no other federal agency or private company has. USPS would be returning almost a billion dollars of profit every year.

I would call that pretty good going for a public service.
That's awesome! I am very excited
Search engines are dead because public websites no longer carries useful information. Tons of user creations are on mobile now, in walled gardens.

We need hostable websites on mobile phones. Or data will be centralized to few big corporations.
It looks like there is a lot of shared interest in this area.

fspeech, fdej, and others, what do you think of having a Google group, mailing list, or something similar to have a communication channel for anyone that wants to chat more?

If you are open to this (or have another suggestion) I’ll set one up and share the link here.

If you prefer email, that’s cool too.
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I hadn't heard of this institution before, so I was checking out their website. This whole brain injury risk must be why they limit access to women:

https://www.cresta-run.com/ride-the-cresta/ride-the-cresta/

"Ladies will be able to use the Run strictly by invitation, at the discretion of the Committee and under the supervision of the Secretary (or his nominee) on the following occasions:" followed by a few days not even each month.

What a contrast to that Top Gear video linked by someone else (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzxS-3vO6Gw) where the male driver races the British Olympic skeleton gold medalist (skeleton vs car on nearby roads of same distance). Of course the car wins, but least they let her on the track.

/sarcasm
Ask HN: Authentication Service or Library
If you are building a new project from scratch, especiallymicroservice-based, what authentication service or library will you use or recommend to use? And what are their advantages and disadvantages, especially disadvantages?
> why does it need to be a federal agency?

Cause it’s constitutionally mandated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
Why are you wasting all these words on something that is not at the top of your sorted list? What is the most important problem in the world?
I don't believe it. If there were a mastery to this, it would be shared. All that's happening is they are cutting the bottom off and sealing. If I'm wrong show me a method for one of the simpler designs.
Data can sometimes reveal what an expert spent years to learn and sometimes much more. So when used as an exploratory tool, it has good benefits. And to a degree, it can predict future outcomes to a good degree if we have a great theory about the target domain that explains almost everything. Unfortunately, this tempts people to try using data in domains where their expertise doesn't justify their predictions and then it becomes a gamble where the winners get a lot of publicity.
Not really. It is more akin to paying more monthly for more GB of internet per month or paying more for faster internet.

Net neutrality is supposed to prohibit a company from slowing down a competitor or slowing down things the company disagrees with - so, for example, Comcast shouldn't be slowing down Netflix. For the post office, this would be prioritizing packages from one carrier in the same class of mail over another. Now, there is no saying that the mail is neutral, though, nor that the contracts allow them to be (I really don't know: Maybe they need to prioritize just to keep from having fees that bankrupt them).
For a private person it's much better to use something like a private vm or a dedicated server, from Vultr or 1984hosting (Iceland) you can get a vm for just 2.50$ (only IPv6) or 5$ (IPv4 and 6) or a dedicated server from Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway (Arm64) for like 30$, some have unlimited traffic (mostly the dedicated servers) with a 1Gbit connection. NEVER use stuff you have to pay without knowing whats coming (count's for private use an small business)
We rent so I think it's included.

Sunk is more accurate than free, though.
a proper IDE solves that, but i always laugh when getting back to php why they made array_map and array_filter switch parameter order.
+1 yup. I bet it would be super interesting to see which of those "We help screen candidates even before you see CV's" agencies would refuse/fail some simple questions about the field
It's a strange list. For example, "On Computable Numbers" isn't on it.
> To an extent, companies would charge higher prices for performing services that cost more.

Out of interest what’s your opinion on roads? City dwellers almost certainly subsidise the construction of roads they may never need to use, and the US doesn’t pull toll gates on their roads to makes sure they’re charging higher prices for services that cost more.

Any American (or indeed anyone in the US) can use any road for free, as much as they want, for only the cost of their taxes. Assuming they even paid any.
honnold may be a special case. his capabilities of dealing with risk and fear are exceptional.
Gig work is always going to lower the bar to entry and simultaneously raise the amount of competition. The real way to make money is find a niche that artificially prevents competition. Something with a government mandated qualification always helps.
I've come across the term affordances before, but in this context if they'd been referred to as methods or classes or 'ways for safely mixing...' whatever I'd have got it, no problem. Calling them affordances is correct (technically they are) but made me think there was something vital (edit: perhaps .net related) I was missing. Mind at peace now, thanks all.
nice "little" asm exercise
At least a couple of questions for recruiters would be awesome. It is so bad to be "evaluated" by someone that doesn't know what is talking about...
It's a shame they didn't evolved a way to produce quartz shades by themselves :)
> But while Pascal has a "PROGRAM" statement, most BASIC dialects (including Microsoft's) don't. COBOL doesn't have a "PROGRAM" statement either, although it does have an "EXIT PROGRAM" statement.

It was PROGRAM-ID in COBOL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Hello,_world

> Here's a software manual from 1993 – https://books.google.com/books?id=jAqUEgrLBa8C&pg=PA14 – you can see on that page the application is divided into a number of executables – "the core TS.EXE program" and a number of "General support utilities", one of which ("PRINTPCX.EXE") is described as "A program to print graphs". Although the other executables are not explicitly called "programs", it seems clear to me that "program" and "executable" are synonymous in the usage of the manual's authors.

That's a utility and I'd already said "utilities" were a classification of programs. The GPs point wasn't about utilities though.

> That is admittedly an application for MS-DOS, not Windows. But I don't believe there were any great differences in terminology in this area between MS-DOS and Windows.

Anecdotally I remember all executables being talked about as "programs" in the DOS era -- which might also be a throwback to when all software was written as a complete program and all executables were commands (eg pre-dynamically linked libraries so shared libraries would either have to be their own command or compiled into the each executable).

But in fairness, terms like "program", "utility", "application" were, to some extent, rather fuzzy descriptions back then anyway. At least in the context of what we're describing anyway.
They are effectively in C++20 without real penalty (designated initializers).
You can't cross-compile yet, and it depends on WSL. I think proper windows support is one of the v1 (or soon after v1) targets.
I'm working on a command-line deployment tool that deploys to DigitalOcean and AWS LightSail (to start with). This is based on my experience deploying apps.

I expect to finish the remaining work in the next few weeks. Can I contact you to try it out? (My email is on my profile)