skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. One thing I differ from a lot of people on is the idea that faith cannot be evidence-based. Many people of “faith” fake it because they so desire what they do not have. On the contrary, evidence is required for faith. If a lack of correct evidence has led you to a different worldview I won’t argue with that. Surely I’ve been slammed with ugly disappointments as well. But consider what a God worth knowing would do. Among the many things we can come up with, at least one is that he would do what we could not do. Certainly evidence is not out of scope for a God worth knowing, but it may not come in the form we expect. So I don’t argue for you to accept what you can’t see, just that when you see it to keep pulling the thread and don’t dismiss it. In my opinion that is a true walk of faith. Once again, thanks for sharing :)
Link to the actual article instead of Twitter: https://sfpublicpress.org/luxury-event-company-conducts-home...
"the ecosystem"

The truly great thing about java is sun somehow created an ecosystem, a community. Probably by leading with specs, always, and not implementing anything but the core. So, you wind up with a real marketplace and a collaborative development effort. The variety of widely-accepted non-Sun solutions is an indicator.

Meanwhile, in microsoft-land... no spec, no standard. It's just "whatever MS does, that's the Thing." Nothing 3rd party is implemented because (a) no spec, and (b) MS has a nasty habit of cutting 3rd parties off at the knees. (Maybe because they're not happy with what 3rd parties develop, because... no spec.)

The result? Microsoft blinders. "If MS didn't invent it or publicize it at Build, it's no good."

So, you get the absolute ferment of java (and python, same factors, really) or... solutions by MS or MS vendors, which is more limited because a profitability case has to be made to lenders.

MS really did play catch-up with Java, which they were able to do because of the MS tax. Don't make any arguments based on technological superiority, 'cause there ain't none. Java (and the entire web, really) caught MS flat-footed. Bottomless pockets saved them.
Ask HN: Is it me or PWAs are pretty much dead?
It does not make business sense for Apple or Google to allow them for obvious reasons. They get money from in app purchases. If every app was a PWA they would lose a lot of revenue.

Even for businesses that are ad supported they are better of with native apps. You can block ads on a PWA very easily because it's a web app. With a mobile app good luck switching the ads off.

Now, I get the technical advantages of a PWA but it seems to me that it has failed to take off because of the business reasons above.

Is my assessment correct?
Darwin would be proud.
The alternative I'm suggesting is that it is not implemented at all.
Apple watch + Oura ring

Shortcuts on the iPhone to track my weight and water intake.
> In fact, if you have "showdead" on, you'll see a couple of comments referring to furries as "degenerates," which I think comes from this association.

No, it comes from this:

1. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/kero-the-wolf-joshua-hoffman-k...

2. https://ganker.com/discord-has-a-furry-pedophile-problem/

3. https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-furries-are-into-besti...

I don't care how you feel about furries professionally, I would recommend never letting any of them around your kids or dogs unsupervised.
>You can fight spam by refusing to federate with servers which are often spamming

Awesome, so users will naturally gravitate to the servers that spent the most $$$ money fighting spam. You end up with Gmail all over again.

I don't know why you are using Gmail as the spammer in this situation. Arguably the 2nd biggest reason Gmail got so big is at the time their spam detection was lightyears ahead of everyone else. Then as they got larger they killed off smaller servers that didn't do the magic song and dance, and those users couldn't talk to most people as everyone was on Gmail. There's nothing stopping this from happening again on some new federation platform.

This is my biggest gripe with federated services. They all start from the point where "the Internet is centralized" and offer some proto-Internet to undo it. The Internet started federalized and the easiest solution to many of the problems that came with it was centralization. It's always unclear how you prevent this from happening again.
> HyperCard

It is interesting how many analysts and opinion folks have talked about that for decades. But Bill Atkinson was smarter than everyone else in that room (probably put together) and he didn't come up with the web either.

The web wasn't an end-user physical product you could wrap hardware around. Why would Jobs or Apple think of it? Sun could because they sold web servers.
"Sanitized" Twitter certainly has that conflict too - and its relatively accepted there that no, people don't just post about one thing if they don't want to, while at the same time some people do complain about it.
People like to laugh about it, and the emphasis on the sillier aspects are, I think, intentional. They got up to some really nasty stuff.

Anyone not familiar with the program would do well to spend a couple minutes on the summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

And of course it served as the template for how to deal with the Abu Ghraib fallout:

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKUltra experiments, including deaths, may never be known.
This would be an excellent top level comment. I'm really sad to see that it was drowned in a sea of comments lamenting Assange's personal qualities.
Sure thing. Same address.

And if it turns out that there's a pattern of a _lot_ of developers who all recently signed up for first-time Google Play Developer accounts just to monetize Chrome apps, I'd be maybe a little surprised, but more than happy to have helped identify an unexpected trend.
> Encrypting the sender is pretty easy. Deliver the encrypted message+sender at the destination.

That's the point. If the sender is encrypted, what's "the destination"? The IPv4 space? A random ID that represents the sender? How does that change the metadata angle?
Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge
Haha it didn't feel like a prison sentence but I see what everyone means now yes. Time investment obviously, also work into the site.
I was thinking more in terms of the UI/decorations, but this is a fair point. It's curious people don't complain that I talk about trains/coffee/anime among my FreeBSD and OpenZFS tweets. Maybe it is about expectations.
KLM and TU delft's energy-efficient flying-V aircraft model takes to the sky
> Seems like a strange proposition, I take all the risk of creating a new technology that will likely fail, and then if I beat the odds and succeed I'm capped at 150k?

This is more than most employees at companies get for patents. 15% is normal in academia. In almost all companies, the employee gets a bonus (which could be less than $1000), and that's it. It's very rare for a company to give an employee a percentage of the profits off a patent.
The hiked up miniskirt is what takes it into less comfortable loli territory.
The current shape of the internet itself (BGP peering among autonomous systems, a decent number of large tier 1 ISPs, etc) is, on its face, a relatively successful federation. The applications running atop that federation are, as you say, centralized, but much of that is because residential ISPs forbid customers forbid servers and even if they didn’t (they haven’t always) residential customers are prone to accidentally running botnets of various types.
That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24534148, which was posted earlier.

I hope you don't mind - we'll eventually implement some form of karma sharing when a repost gets traction.
What many people discount is how many people would want to do this work for intangibles not quantified in pay. I remember reading a quote by somebody who asked why someone with great credentials would want to work in intelligence. They said it’s for the same reasons people would join the Marines when they have easier avenues to traditional “success”
This is so much better than me doing right click > inspect element > `$0.playbackRate = 1.75`

That being said, Youtube itself is pretty good at this, with the shift+> hotkey, and the recent addition of 1.75 which is the sweet spot for me.

EDIT: What I fantastic extension, has all the options I could want (exclusion list, custom hotkeys, hide by default, etc).
Shamefully I have to admit that I originally created my blog because I thought it would help my career.

But posts like this one here show me that it was cargo culting from the get go.

I have much to say, but to date dismissed most of it, because (oh the irony) I thought I shouldn't make this personal space of mine too personal.
The people who say "degenerate" are the people with a fetish for seeking out targets to hate because their lives are empty.
The moment.js author just said that no more changes would be added, so that's one recent example. People were praising the decision in the HN thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477941
I did. Murders are up 50% but overall crime is flat, including overall violent crime. The percentage is misleading, too, because the raw numbers are still quite low. NYC doesn’t even crack the top 70 deadliest cities in the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci...

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-sele...

Based on the numbers, NYC probably isn’t even in the top 200 of deadliest cities. At some point you have to switch to “safest cities” instead.

Maybe the US DoJ should defund St Louis? Or maybe not because that would be idiotic and counter intuitive.
As a citizen of the UK, I would like to be able to reassure myself of my government's good faith and just conduct in this matter. I'm sure some of my fellows feel the same way.

The fact that this hearing looks crooked as all hell is concerning to me and will inform my politics to some extent.
> The best games now are from independent developers

Some Indie games are great, but there are still lot of really great big budget story based games being made that an Indie studio just couldn't produce.

>This is a more profitable strategy than simply trying to make a fun game that people want to play.

Still loads of high quality, very profitable, games being made e.g. RDR2, TLoU2, HZD, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted, Spiderman, Doom, Gears, Halo, Ratchet & Clank, Cyberpunk2077 (CDPR can't be considered indie anymore), Forza, Gran Turismo etc.

Sony in particular is really delivering with their single player story based, big budget games.
https://archive.is/cNjwN
First EA Games then this, BEST VALUE in gaming hands down for Game Pass!
The economic loss of losing by far their biggest money maker which most likely means bankruptcy.
I made my own, that IMO is a lot more flexible and elegant than these heuristics/look up tables - you just store a Strength s value for each memory in your db/storage system. Then using Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve formula, given Strength S and time t since last studied, you can calculate R, and thereby have your app trigger a notification when the R value drops below a specified value. No lookup tables needed. Plus if you review something before or after the originally specified review time, the dynamic nature of the formula calculates the next best time to review the item.

Also, using the same formula you can estimate the Strength value s in the first place.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

-https://medium.com/p/65135451e06c/ - medium article I wrote explaining the units I made up to measure a memory's Strength value.

- https://github.com/JohnSimerlink/branches_front_end_private/...

-https://github.com/JohnSimerlink/branches_front_end_private/...

^^ I have an implementation in that forgettingCurve.ts file of an app I was working on, but it's somewhat coupled with the rest of my app.

I also have a VueJs component here that let's you experience around with the 3way relationship between R, S, and t here: https://github.com/JohnSimerlink/branches_front_end_private/...

I'm too lazy to finish building the app that my implementation is in right now, but I can explain more over video chat or something - just email me john simerlink @ the most popular email provider dot com. Or linkedin
That’s the type of question I get most often. “What is the rioting like?” Well I don’t know because there hasn’t been any. Everything is peaceful and calm. People are walking around with masks and socially distancing themselves while they lounge in the park. It’s total anarchy.
Yeah, I'll admit that this proposal to decrease energy efficiency in our technology is insanity. One major problem with it is that under capitalism polluters don't pay the true cost of the damage they do and very dangerous technology can be quite affordable. While I understand this proposal as merely listing an option and taking the argument to its logical conclusion, I can see why it could make you not take the rest of the article or website seriously.

I found the rest of the article and website very thoughtful and detailed with extensive sources, so I forgive the handful of batty positions taken because I find everything else to be useful data, historical research, and exercises in lateral thinking. It's clear to me that most people do not take the climate crisis seriously enough and seem to believe that we can continue acting exactly as we always have, while mere technological innovation will solve it. Low-Tech Mag generally advances solutions that are/were designed for a world where energy is expensive, and I find that quite compelling because that is the world we now live in, whether people realize it or not.
So we should make all of it pharmacy grade?
If I'm understanding the timeline correctly, it's not just recent signups but anybody who has wanted to monetize an extension from March until now, who paid under the expectation that the temporary ban would be lifted.
What you just said it's the exact goal of security by obscurity. If you make something more secure by hiding it, it's security by obscurity.

It won't be inherently more secure, the same flaws will still exist, it will just be less visible to attackers, thus obscurity.
Let's conjugate the whole thing, shall we?

I learn new languages for technical development and to stay curious and fresh. You learn new languages for job security. They want to gatekeep the next generation.
> "This was widely recognized as an important decision that improved both product velocity and quality by time I had left a couple years later."

I'm sure that's what the execs say at the all-hands meetings but ask the former MS SDETs who still use MS products and you'd hear a much different opinion. ;)

My standard quip when hitting yet another bug in a MS product, which is an all too frequent occurrence nowadays, is "Gosh, maybe MS should consider hiring some SDETs."
Alternately, you could use a fast CA solution like Netflix' lemur or step-ca or even just openssl, make your own CA, and distribute it to everything. If your threat model is such that that stuff should never connect to the outside world, why risk it by repeatedly moving things in from outside? Just generate a closed CA for your closed environment, trust it once, and move on.
I chose Couchdrop for our SFTPaaS
I'd been a loyal customer of Files.com for a couple years now. Last year they increased our monthly pricing which we were okay with as it was reasonable and worked with the times. This year, they hyped their prices again, and I mean hyped. My monthly billing went from around $200 per a month to around $1200 per a month - without any real change for our use case or any new features. The Couchdrop solution is incredible, I actually wish I found it sooner. It's quick and easy to setup, the team are great and communicate promptly and the pricing is fair and affordable. Additionally, they don't actually charge extra for SFTP or extra users and they ACTUALLY support cloud storage unlike Files.com who claims they do over their website. Highly recommend Couchdrop to anyone who has a need for SFTP, shared files or for our use case; automated workflows.
That struggle is real, especially when grappling with imposter syndrome or a shy personality too. Half the reason I love reading personal blogs is seeing the author's personality.

An old boss of mine said you can't truly fake enthusiasm. That's stuck with me since.
> I get a strong sense of Rust demanding that users subjugate themselves to all the choices and opinions of the architects [..]

I don't really get where you're coming from here, especially with regards to this issue -- it seems like almost everyone, including Rust core team members, agree that `impl Iterator for Range` was an API design mistake, that came out of (IIRC) Iterator existing prior to IntoIterator in the pre-1.0 days. This seems to me to just be an unfixable design flaw due to backwards-compatibility rules, not something that really speaks to the design of the language as a whole.
Some meeting advice that managers over the years have given to me:

- If you are leading a meeting, schedule (at least) as much time to prepare for the meeting as the duration of the meeting.

- Before each meeting, clearly articulate the POP: Purpose, Outcome, and Process.

- Designate a note taker and document all decisions / outcomes / tasks / follow-ups.
>A friend operates one at a granite shop. They use a software that maps the surface and then uploads it to a webapp that lets the customer choose the pattern layout.

That would have been pretty cool. One of the biggest holdups to our schedule used to be waiting for customers to confirm layouts before cutting. They always come into the shop to verify.

We used old unsupported software called stonecam from Park Industries. Only one guy still working there had any experience with the software. We ended up having to recalibrate the camera on the machine while I was there. It involved manually configuring variables in text files with variable names written in a mix of German and English. Apparently the software was written by one German guy who vanished some time ago who never told anyone else how it all worked completely.

They'd switched to officially supporting AlphaCam a while ago. We had licenses for our two routers for alpha cam but they were ten grand a piece and the boss was holding out as long as possible before switching the waterjet over.

>The force is strong enough that it can inject the abrasive garnet into your bloodstream

Oh wow had no idea about that. I figured you absolutely did not want to get your body into the flow, but never heard that.
Thanks for your comment.

To be clear, we're talking about a profit margin cap.

Our bet is that in 2030, we'll be a massive business because of the volume we're driving, which will come from the customer satisfaction that is derived from our continuous reinvestment into the business.

This is Costco's business in a nutshell - satisfaction drives scale, they reinvest the benefits of scale into their customer satisfaction (good products at low prices), and the resulting customer satisfaction drives more sales which means more scale, and on it goes.

Amazon is trying to get at something similar with their 'it's always Day 1' and 'customer obsession' refrains, but this effectively relies on Jeff Bezos staying alive or his successor being equally effective.

We believe that that's a bad structure in the long term. If
we can build the right long-term economic incentives directly into the business structure and then allow it to play out for long enough to prove the benefit, then that should hopefully limit tinkering by our successors.

We are also building some other culture-reinforcing mechanisms into the business, such as ensuring that ALL employees, including devs, execs, office cleaners, etc, regularly speak with customers. It will be part of your contract upon signing with the company that you must speak with X customers per week.

This way, we won't be tempted to make an anti-customer decision, as ALL of us will face the heat on our phone calls for the coming weeks and months.
> Everything on the Internet (including Internet itself) degenerated from federation into monopolistic centralized services for a reason, and somehow people keep ignoring the evidence, and just keep trying harder.

Sure there's a reason federated networks like Usenet died - they were killed off by a combination of the old/new AT&T/Verizon duopoly and various government organizations ( https://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-t... ). Yes, it happened for a reason - the old Bell last-mile monopoly and active government measures to quash it.
Complete non-sense. The Congress has a prerogative of creating laws. It can decide what will happen in situations exactly like the social media case we see now. Executive orders, in a functioning democracy, should be the last resort for situations in which the president needs to act fast, for example, a war (already declared by Congress, by the way) or natural disaster situation.

What we see happening in the US is the fossilization of an authoritarian regime where the president creates de facto laws in the stroke of his pen and the Senate supports his undemocratic behavior, while Congress is kept powerless. The only thing left to check for abuses is the judiciary system, which has not been elected in the first place, and by the way can only limit the worst illegal excesses. It is essentially a "constitutional autocracy" in practice.
Statistics, lies and the virus: five lessons from a pandemic
"... from the cellular companies..."

If it's cell tower location data, then a warrant may be required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
https://couchdrop.io
Hey mate, great post! I think that there's a slight renaissance in regards to blogging and personal websites. Of course, I could be biased as I "resurrected" mine two weeks ago :).

I will be building a new RSS reader/platform soonish. I will definitely think on the topic of resurrecting Technorati.
Methods of meeting people aside , a 1/3rd of 18 -> 34 year olds have lost their jobs

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b9yj/almost-a-third-of-...

Doesn't sound very romantic to me. People's minds are going to be in a very different place right now.
Depends on the scale of the presentation and venue and how technical the talk and topic.

One generally helpful tips is to learn details about the conference venue early, the more you know about the presentation format, the better you can prepare.

Try and discover if there's a teleprompters or a second display output setup to provide notes, a script and/or a preview of the presentation.
Understand if you'll stand behind your laptop, have a remote to control it, or a pointer for the screen, and consider the implications of these constraints. What if you want to show a website but you don't have a mouse to close back out of it, or one video in your presentation is particularly loud/quiet and you can't quickly adjust volume down or up enough.

Even little things like setting expected aspect ratio or maximum resolution can smooth out the process of plugging in devices or properly displaying a slide/demo.
If you can't get this from the hosts, try finding videos/slides from prior conferences to get a reference and review the standard production value and audience level of understanding.
Thank you for your answer, this makes sense! I guess that there must be some tradeoff, right? What I mean is that while in MySQL you don't need to vacuum, perhaps updates would be slightly slower (due to the need to write into the UNDO segment)?