skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It happened so often that I just thought I took more notice of people and I was completely forgettable.

I‘ve felt like this my entire life. The test says I might be a super recognizer, better than being forgettable I guess!
The objection I have to CoC documents is that by design they reward people who litigate language to push agendas instead of participating in the community they are designed to support based on genuine welcome. This legalism empowers people who specialize in exploiting leverage to achieve governance, while policing and alienatating contributors. In this sense, CoC's are an anti-pattern that exacerbates the very problem they ostensibly solve.

In Canada, we have a colloquialism that says, "well, that opens up the constitution," which means that when you open up founding principles for change, every obscure chancer takes a shot at getting their niche interest encoded into it. Builders aren't engaged in political struggles, but political strugglers' whole existence is around finding new communities to exploit and govern.

For Wikipedia to spend time on this seems like bike shedding, and there is literally no upside to appeasing the social litigants who benefit most from code of conduct pseudo-legalisms. Products are not countries and they are not societies. They are things, which people make and take responsibility for. Forfeiting responsibility and discretion to these exogenous power struggles arguably betrays the people whose work makes it valuable.
The demo is just a few boxes, it is not graphics limited. A 4k webgl window might have some sort of bottleneck in your web browser, drivers or gpu. The demo is a physics simulation though. I don't know why you would create a situation where anything would slow down on your computer while having nothing to do with CPU speed and then talk about it in a thread about webasm.
me too, can't view with firefox adblocker enabled, loading forever.

also, I would expect more list items per page and auto filter those useless/meaningless names, because I guess nobody would have time to read one by one, some names just have no meanings.
> If you remove this one situation with Epic its literally never happened.

Apple has removed apps from the App Store and blocked apps from being published or updated MANY times.

Inform yourself.
It's not bizarre. It's the culmination of an unfortunate "democracy is bad" and even "freedom is bad" undertone in the rest of the author's essay.

Plato of course got a lot going for him, but The Republic never really solved the problem of making sure you get a philosopher-king instead of a tyrant. This essay's author declines to mention the possibility of tyrants because he knows it will undermine his argument badly.
>>A better model already exists - thread per connection

> For that you will need a language with good support for threads, which Python definitely isn't (at least not CPython), so Django doesn't have any other option here

The thread per connection is managed by your application server. Why does the language need to have good thread primitives then? In fact I would argue you spawning and managing your own threads make your service less robust.
First thing I did when I clicked on comments is Cmd+F for "Electron". I was so relieved to find your comment. Electron apps are fine, but you have to pay me to use them :-)
Come on, new words are created all the time. What do you call the grade before “1” in old English? Didn’t exist. The word is a loan word from German.

Language changes to suit the users of the language. Taking a hardline “you made words up so I’m going to retaliate to make words up” is no doubt fun rhetoric online but to do so in the real work... just makes you an asshole.

Why calling someone by their preferred names and pronouns is so difficult is beyond me. If your friend said “I’d prefer if you didn’t call me dick, please call me Richard” surely you’d grant such a trivial to you, yet important to them request.

Despite internet memes to the contrary, the use of very new pronouns (such as xie) is not super common. I’ve never seen someone get upset at being called “them”. Or structure your conversation and avoid pronouns: it’s super easy. I can’t remember names so I talk in such a way as to avoid names. Since pronouns and names fit in the same place syntactically, I can also magically talk to someone without using pronouns.
The point is that you still have to make sure those tools are installed on the system, and compatible with the code you wrote. Standard CLI programs we rely on in our Bash scripts can vary dramatically between Linux distributions and OSs. If you want portable Bash code you need to bundle it in a container w/ all of its dependencies, or be very judicious about what programs and program features you use.

I'm not bashing Bash, I use Bash all the time and it's enormously useful. But it has limitations and tradeoffs that make me reach for other things more often.
I would have named it 'Spotless'
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24425039.
Streaming video is the most intense use you'd see these days. Once you hit several mbps more bandwidth doesn't improve it, so yes you would get each user off the radio faster.

You'll get more users if the network is less congested, but that's a good thing.
Yeah I was a bit unhappy but accepted it for what it was when it was announced. I'm glad other people complained. I really like the current form.
I don't think that's true.

I'm specifically talking about the top-down rather than democratic or collaborative imposition of moral frameworks.

Though the creation of this document was ostensibly democratic - though, without proper international participation in my opinion - it was mandated by the board, which dooms it from the start, regardless of the content (which I largely agree with, save for the focus on empathy over correctness, which I find ideological).
Yeah I agree it's not a great phrase, but people seem to have it in their heads.

What I mean is that although Oil is very bash-compatible, and that's how I usually describe it, it's not ONLY bash compatible.

Oil's spec tests run against multiple shells for this reason. I try not to reproduce the bugs of bash unless they are necessary to actually run something. (And this happens a lot -- there are accidental corners that nobody uses.)

For example, the Linux distro milestone in 2018 showed Oil's portability: Debian's debootstrap runs with dash, Alpine's abuild runs with busybox ash, and Aboriginal runs with bash.

But Oil runs all 3 of those scripts by default, unmodified. For example, the Alpine one used alias, which is off by default in bash, but on in POSIX mode. Oil has aliases on for this reason (which makes it more POSIX compliant than bash in that regard.)

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I also test with the Smoosh POSIX test suite, from the Smoosh formal semantics (though that is not the only suite the paper uses to judge compliance.) On that suite, Oil passes more POSIX tests than all shells except bash now. And the differences are mostly unimplemented features, so I think it's inevitable that it will pass more than bash.

So I still believe in the assertion here: Oil is actually a better POSIX. It describes what shell scripts require in practice, better than POSIX does.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#limit-to-posix

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So Oil doesn't have a POSIX mode yet. It might in the future. So far it doesn't seem necessary to run real shell scripts.

But yes I agree that "POSIX by the letter" isn't a super useful property. What I mean is that Oil is designed to run a wide variety of shell scripts, and also help people write portable code.

I think when people say "POSIX" they mean "I want my program to run under multiple shells", and Oil definitely supports that.
Typically, you're right - GC internals aren't usually relevant. That is, until you're fire-fighting a GC-related issue in production. GC internals aren't something you want do a crash-course on while your app burns.
found this lib in the comments, tried it and looks nice.
can be good for finding the xpath automatically and save the manual traversing overhead.
https://github.com/alirezamika/autoscraper
Interesting that asking someone to provide proof to support accusations of racism earns one a down vote these days. I guess it's easier to make assertions and censor requests for proof than it would be to provide proof to support such strong accusations.
I expected better from HN.
Social Commerce Can Be Better Than E-Commerce
I still run Quicken 6 for Windows from around 1995. Runs fine using Windows 10 in VirtualBox on my Mac. Tried newer versions of Quicken and really don't like them. Can't find anything open source that is as simple and easy to use.
A career cold start algorithm
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426389
Although you can certainly read it that way, I don't think that was his intention. From the broader context, I believe he was trying to use it clinically and not as a derisive insult. He was trying to understand the mechanisms which made people have emotional connections with a computer program.

"Maybe it's because people saw it as a tool and people become emotionally attached to tools" you may think. Coincidentally his chapter following that is entitled "On Tools" where he goes into psychological literature on human-tool interaction.

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Also there's an unspoken context here that he gets a step away from a few times without hitting it:

Non-technical people understood computers from their popular depictions; perfect electronic brains; profoundly superior-to-human machines.

Some people likely assumed there was an infallibility to the interaction, as if someone, say unfamiliar with stage magic, saw a magic trick and assumed it was sorcery. People employ whatever mental model they're familiar with that fits best.

The idea it was merely just rearranging your words and feeding it back at you likely seemed just outrageously galling to be the thing a multi-million dollar machine that takes up an entire room and coming from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab is doing. No. It must be real...

Almost as outrageous as someone suggesting your sorcerer simply put the item in his pocket while he was distracting you.

Eliza, in 1965 was a computer version of Uri Geller.

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Another idea relating to Milgram, he never pointed out whether people trusted that a machine would have had safety precautions built in. Of all his variations I'm not familiar with any where he made the machine "malfunction".

Would subjects then trust the proctor but distrust the machine and back off more or perhaps, even more interesting, would there be no difference at all?
I came up with the analogy of 2 pairs of independent dancers on a large checkerboard floor. Lets say the tiles are 10cm^2 and the two couples start out 10 tiles apart.

Every second, the tiles on the floor push away from all their neighboring tiles by one tile width and new tiles appear in their place. The tiles are small enough that the dancers are easily able to adjust their step/grip on eachother to simply maintain their dance routine.

However, even tho the dancers can stay together, the couples drift apart at an ever increasing rate. They start 10 tiles apart, after one second the couples will be 20 tiles apart from eachother, 40 tiles apart after 2 seconds, 80 tiles apart after 3 seconds (a new tile is being inserted between each pair of existing tiles). My tiling math is probably slightly off, but I think this illustrates the exponential increase in expansion.

The dancers are quarks, atoms, molecules, planets, galaxies, etc. Their grip on eachother is big enough to overcome the relatively small adjustment in the space that was created between them.

A few questions using this analogy arise.

Do the new tiles actually appear between the dancers, or is it more a case of the force of friction the dancers are applying to the floor prevents those tiles between them from moving apart ?

So when 'new space' is being created, is it created around strongly bound things and the things simply slide around through this new space to maintain their current configuration, or do the 'strong' forces prevent new space being formed around them ?

If the new space is not being created, what happens to the energy that would have gone into the creation of the new space ? Does it simply get applied to the nearest point where it can squeeze in more space ?

If the space is being created and the dancers pull themselves together to overcome it, where does this extra energy come from ?

As for the big rip, I always thought it was the equivalent to the dancers finally getting tired and not being able to hold onto eachother hence giving in to the expansion of space. ie. It happens around the heat death of the universe when everything has dissipated its kinetic energy so much that the energy of the expansion is more than is left in the system to keep things together.
Woah. Everything but "general admission" is full already.
Borderless with users behind a walled garden where their personal data is mined like gold.

Yeah that’s part of the original vision of the Internet.
Extremely valuable to see how VCs thing. It's interesting to see how the different partners approach the memo differently (some focusing on metrics, others focusing more on product) and also how it evolves over time. Thanks to Bessemer for making this available.
> I'd also remark that perhaps you wouldn't be so quick to comment in such a trite way if Wiki had instead make a statement on respecting people's sexualities. Once controversial, now widely accepted as a facet of who people are, and originally a darling cause of the left. It's recognised as a human rights issue, which is to say it has outgrown reasonable politics. I look forward to gender identity doing the same.

That's exactly the issue. This claims to be universal but it is just progressive western values. I wouldn't expect a Wahabist contributing to Wikipedia to respect sexuality or pronouns, and as long as they are civil why should they have to in order to participate in a universal project?
The name does tap into the psyche though, thanks to the ancient TV show - and Indigenous tales, of course, though those are probably less widely known.
The argument that "if you don't like it, you can go elsewhere" has been shown to work extraordinarily well when it comes to businesses choosing to go elsewhere rather than serve high crime neighborhoods. In fact it's a big part of why people from those neighborhoods lack opportunity.
You won't be able to prove your assertion until there is a known vaccination that helps elderly people avoid Covid. At that point, if these deaths occured in elderly who were probably within a year of dying even without covid, we'd expect to see next year a much smaller amount of deaths compared to average, because so many people died one year early.
It's mentioned in the article "[...]but it could have been edited, turned off or the funeral director may have not allowed it".

I suppose this is a less fragile way of fully executing their client's authentic wishes, with a backup funeral home ready to go if it remains impossible.
Appathon – Prize: $5K and 6-week Incubation Mentorship
If you believe that people should own their data, then the @ppathon is for you.

As a program for aspiring entrepreneurs, the @ppathon will allow teams to develop compelling consumer apps on the @ protocol, a permissions-based protocol that will revolutionize how the internet handles people’s data. You’ll automatically adhere to complex privacy regulations and save time on some of the tedious aspects of coding mobile apps.

You’ll have 3 weeks to familiarize yourself with the @ protocol and form your team. You’ll then undergo a 2-week training period with several mentoring sessions before participating in a 5-day hackathon. At the end, your team could win $5,000 to bring your app to market, along with a 6-week period of mentorship to incubate your idea and hopefully secure funding.
This seems unconstitutional. It amounts to blocking photography in public spaces and using those photos as you see fit.

It also seems very untimely. Portland is exactly the type of city that needs surveillance, to identify and arrest criminals who are committing property damage, theft, and arson as part of daily riots.
Not to disparage your situation, whatever it may be, but that’s a pretty big jump in logic to make with no explanation as to how a CoC would have had meaningful impact.
Meanwhile Russia claims to be working on a multi-km range EMP [1] and it's a constant battle to keep foreign nation state hack teams out of sensitive, increasingly software-driven, weapons development. The scenario of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica pilot worries me.

[1] https://defence-blog.com/news/army/russia-discloses-new-deta...
i really like my GL inet router, which has the ability to be a VPN client or server built in to the router GUI. wireguard, openvpn, and tor (!) are options at the router level.

their router's UI is built on top of OpenWrt, so you can always fall back to OpenWrt GUI as well for configuring more advanced setups.

https://www.gl-inet.com/solutions/vpn/
AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again
This is inspiring. Its amazing that he was able to bust this out for his community. Its mind blowing the amount of perserverance.

I really want to break free from my job and build something of my own. Like this. Really inspiring to see someone that had a metaphorical mountain between them and a goal, push through. I cant imagine anything I will be doing, will be nearly as problem ridden as this project.

Shows what confronting one problem at a time, and not giving up, can result in.
Well, there's other sources for this, becauses it's actually true. I wonder what "armor" you think HN even has as inane tripe like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426407 is glued to #1, while something that actually matters and pertains to the responsibilities of this crowd is, once again, penalized.
> Maybe they cut the line and wait around to see who comes to splice it?

I can't pull them up now, but I've seen a number of credible stories on the internet of Comcast and AT&T technicians going to homes to do service and then intentionally cutting lines of the other company that service the building or nearby houses. Obviously this isn't super common or it would be bigger news, but it definitely happens.
Let me try to summarize everyone’s same question:

- The idea of a stock exchange that allows companies and investors to focus on 5, 10, 25 year horizons sounds great!

- However companies on normal stock exchanges now already try to do this, but it’s hard because of quarterly earnings, pressure for quarterly growth, etc

- How is LTSE different? Seems like: Companies and investors “promise” to have a longer term focus via planning

- seems like that wouldn’t be enough and the same financial pressures would result in the same focus

- We were expecting something like: “investors must hold positions for 10 years”, or, “earnings only reported every 2 years”, etc etc. but there’s nothing like that.

- So, what is the big idea, the teeth, the new rule, that makes long term focus enforceable?
Since most of that discussion is complaining about Zerohedge, maybe we'll merge the rest of the comments hither.
I remember seeing an ad for the 4x200 mhz system on the back page of a MacMall catalog and nearly falling off my chair. At the time we had a LCII, with 25 MHz and a maxed out 8mb ram. The thought of a eight hundred MHz was incredibly astounding— few things ha e matched that level of astonishment since.
Again of course, but it still excludes people without kids. You're repeating the same thing in a different way.
It's interesting if they count people that "have no account" data of which they also monetize.
> Presumably nothing would be stored about you in that interaction

Given how prevalent the tracking of users is, anonymous or otherwise, I'd be extremely pessimistic about this assumption.
There are 2 builds now: the one that runs under a slice of the Python 2 interpreter, and "oil-native", which is that code translated to C++.

Rather than saying Oil is written in Python 2, it's better to say that Oil is written in ASDL + a subset of statically typed Python + an abstract dialect of regexes (similar to Eggex).

In other words, it's a bunch of custom DSLs. And all of those DSLs translate to Python 2, as well as C++. So yes there is a lot of metaprogramming going on!

This makes the code shorter, more correct, and even pretty fast (slightly faster than bash, and it appears we will maintain that, although it may get slower in the short term)

Resources here, happy to answer any more questions:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-it-writt...

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/03/recap.html#mycpp-the-go...
I'm not sure I agree. They have taken some liberties with the dialogue, but many of the quotes in the trailer are near-direct from the novel. Anyways this seems like something that would be hard to tell from what little the trailer offered in terms of talking.

Just from the trailer, this seems like it will at least be more faithful to the source than the Lynch version.
There's no lack of parents or children so none of these points seems to matter anyway. Overpopulation is actually more of an issue.

> Everyone needs parents around, even if they aren't one themselves.

No, children need adults around. Everyone does not need parents around. This is all far off base from what my comments stated and just your opinions about parents.
Consider a democracy without capitalism.
That's a combination I can't recall being tried. I think personal wealth and the associated detachment it gives people from thinking they are part of the masses is a problem for democracy.
I have no problem with facial recognition. It is as, if not more, useful as/than an eye witness. Which means to say, use that as a basis for collecting evidence, but not as evidence itself.

For example, if facial recognition linked a looter to John, then have a police officer manually review the security camera and have that police officer file the report. I would hate for John to be arrested due to the "algorithm" and then try to dispute the arrest, only to be told that there is nothing to be done, the "algorithm" has decided.
This looks incredible! I hope this succeeded wildly.

The current preview video (“A Closer Look”) has some audio issues - the narrator and Haley talk at the same time. I also wanted to see an example of the interactivity, but maybe the time constraints are too short to show there?
Yeah, people should be aware that Newsweek magazine has itself died and been brought back. It’s just a name at this point, I don’t think it retained any editors or writers from its earlier incarnations.

For more on what it looks like at the bottom of the cesspool of click driven “journalism”: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/newsweek.php

> Newsweek has the name and the professional website it has built in years past, but it’s increasingly repurposing the work of others—whether the Washington Post, the outrage fiends at Fox News, or a dozen people on Twitter—and packaging it as its own. Plenty of news sites aggregate, and in many ways the story of Newsweek is the story of the industry. But whereas other aggregators—Mashable, BuzzFeed, Upworthy; the list goes on—built their sites around this kind of internet-first strategy, Newsweek is selling off its own legacy while hoping that readers won’t notice.
We've merged some of the comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426500 and left the ones complaining about ZH here.
I basically don't know much about the nitty gritty of network engineering but this was very satisfying to watch. Especially the anecdote he shared of a customer going "holly, molly" after he started using this service. Very nice.