skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it was made legally possible for states to secede, I doubt it would help much - we're all too mixed up with each other. The Bluest states all have a lot of Red in their more rural areas, and the Reddest states all have a lot of Blue in their biggest cities.

If such a thing were to happen, the states that ended up on each side would probably end up doubling down on the oppression of those in the other tribe who are still in their state, to encourage them to move to a state that's on their side.
Yeah, I agree. I still occassionaly read some people I follow on Twitter, but I rarely comment and never read notifications.

I also entirely stopped using Reddit for the same reason. IMHO it's even more toxic than Twitter.

And don't get me started about Facebook. What is it about politics that takes relatively sane friendly people who you've known for years and transforms them into raging psychopaths? When my own sister found out I didn't think Trump was a literal Nazi, she then proceeded to call me a racist, with all her douchebag "online friends" cheering her on. And before Facebook, we used to get along really well. But now it's like Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.
In the past I was so severely depressed I couldn’t attend school for several months, and what I feel now is nothing compared to that. Nonetheless, it’s hard to describe my current mood as anything other than depressed.
Sorry if that was not clear, I was replying to
i_am_new_here, who is not in Iran.
C++ 106 algorithms in less than an hour
Neither side is being factual or unbiased.

There are now two realities as a result.
> And you should care because...?

Because your peers will only get their side of the story while they're criticising you.

> This isn’t high school.

Sorry not sure what you mean here. What does school have to do with it?
The spork has existed for some time.

Soldiers and campers have had mess kits where they cooked and ate their food from a compact portable system for at least 100 years.

If anything, modern be silicone has increased the portability and utility of mess kits dramatically in the last 2 decades
Yes, you are too late. But if you retrain and become a data critic, you are definitely ahead of the curve ;) The robot armies of AI experts and big data scientists are doing incredible harm to society. There is a real task for you there.
Food delivery from my neighbor (or within my apartment building) is easy. Food delivery from arbitrary locations to arbitrary locations is complex, especially given the product being delivered is time sensitive. Unless the customer is cost blind (i.e. wealthy) and taste ignorant, there is no way to make this work profitably other than inventing a transporter beam.
Read what is inside a link without having to load the whole page
Also 38, also married, also two daughters, also have depression.

I can't tell you what works or not for you but I can say what helped me go from suicidal over a failing business to functional enough to interview at 20+ tech companies and land a job I like.

I firstly spoke with someone. Dealing with depression totally alone is not easy. I don't know your wife (ofc) but if someone married you they (probably?) care enough to hear more than just good news from you. If you really can't afford to share with your wife then damn, that's rough, but do share with someone who knows your situation and can advise your doctor, a therapist, a parent, someone.

Deleting contacts on social is a symptom of depression. I did it and my counsellor raised it. Ask yourself if you'd notice if someone unfriended you first? It's not like FB notifies you. Your friends and family care, they do, but they also have their own lives and also let's be honest, a lot of people hardly check FB in depth these days anyways. No one is going to notice their friend list drop down by 1.

> I eat the cheapest fast food lunch alone

I'm gonna be dictatorial on this one and just say 'stop'. Don't do it. Junk food is a treat, like ice cream. You wouldn't incorporate ice cream as a regular part
of your nutrition.

> then it gets late and I have no more energy to do anything useful

That's true for any parent, especially those dealing with stress and depression. You're not alone on this one. I get done with the day after tucking my kids in and I literally have like 1-2 hours to maybe learn something tech related to advance my career or veg out with my wife and enjoy a TV show. It sucks, but that's life, no parent I've spoken with differs in this regard.

> I have no idea how to spend my free time.

Another symptom of depression. Loss of interest in things we used to enjoy doing or withdrawing from hobbies. So what if you have 1000 games, they're there to give you joy not anxiety. You might have 9000 grains of rice in a 1lb bag in your cupboard but you don't worry about when you'll eat each individual one. Let them be, not playing them is as valid an option as playing them. Probably more so if you're time poor.

> Every time I'm asked to give an estimate for something I feel like I'm pulling a random number out of my ass.

I think software has this problem regardless, some of us are better at estimating some less so. I wouldn't worry about that. Unless you're repeating a development task you've done before many times (write a new rest controller, develop a CRUD web app) it's heard to give an estimate on something you haven't done before.

Pick a language you like and which advances the career you want and just start reading, hacking, messing around with it. Python's a great one for work and play tbh, but the important thing is to start. Most of the great coders I've worked with just get stuck into something new, they don't seem to care too much whether what they're learning will be obsolete or is non-optimal. I myself struggle with this one which is probably why I only know Java :)
Just to expand a little

- If you are the moderator and both sides think you are biased, you are probably in the right zone.

The problem is do we as society, really want a handful of private companies deciding what the rules are - deciding for example if a Philipino politician can use FAANG to talk to his electorate (because the electorate is all on facebook, say de facto facebook are garejeeping this)

Society does not particularly want this, Zuckerberg definitely does not want this.

So we need to find a way to have regulations that deal with a set of poorly defined globally circumstances (Philipino election law as well as German hate speech laws), some areas of which are the companies problem, some are individual, some are societal and some a mixture. And we want those solutions to be technically achievable, auditable and not constrain us in the future.

That's quite a lot for a few thousand human moderators in poorly air conditioned offices to deal with.
I’m only a very light Twitter user, but I cull and curate my feed. It’s mostly funny, positive people in fintwit now, and it’s a good experience. I almost always learn something while flicking through.

But yes, I’ve found that without careful curation, it quickly turns into a depressing cesspit. Then again, that’s not unique to Twitter. I culled my contacts in the real world when in high-school and college for the same reasons and to the same effect.
This is how the internet is supposed to work. Encounters damage, routes around it. Censorship is damage, and people are routing around it.

As someone who never engaged with FB/Twitter from the beginning because I thought they were terrible ideas (all the rules, risks, and challenges of elite-level competition with none of the benefits), I was very glad to read this because this kind of divergence is precisely what creates growth. The platforms were becoming a ceiling on growth, and their policies have created the critical mass to start new ones. This will be a great time to be in tech.
Sourcehut's Second Year in Alpha
My first thought is that this would plausibly explain the recent appearances of mid-altitude jetpack sightings by airline pilots around LAX.
The British Twitter Stasi
Very sensible conclusion. I like open-source products, but they're not sustainable business models and require huge community effort. If you're a solo maintainer trying to make money, then a pure SaaS business is probably a better choice for everyone involved...
Community to promote ad-free website?
I created an in-depth hobby/ tech blog, that does not contain any ads (no pop ups or login required).

https://john.soban.ski

I consider ad-free sites to be beneficial in that I would appreciate any blogs that do not show ads. (I do not consider Medium as "ad free" - since I get a "pardon the interruption" pop-up at random intervals.)

Do you know of a community or platform to encourage and share completely ad-free blogs?
Tho that was not what was tested, this is about having additional thrust to regain altitude and fly longer distances:

> “I found the idea of being able to jump from my local mountain wearing the wingsuit and land in my garden fascinating.”
I've gone the opposite way to this. I will usually answer as soon as I can, possibly immediately with some kind of response. The last thing I want is to have people announce my work is "dead" or "unmaintained"

Perhaps I've gone too far with it. Ignoring sounds like a powerful tool.

I'm also starting to offer alternatives to get "paid attention" and support https://www.openfaas.com/support/
That’s why we started https://radish.coop.
Given that the M1 is a full node ahead of Zen 3 and two nodes ahead of whatever Intel has to offer, one would think that when on same node, Intel and AMD will be just as capable.

But the truth is comparing to future offerings is bullshit, and we have to stick to what's available today. Impressive power/performance and all that, I have to say. We will see how sustained load looks like and how it runs non-optimized software. But to put in perspective 1 CCX of zen 3 performs better on 7nm (but draws up to 65W). With approximately the same die size (although w/o GPU and other things, the M1 has).
You need to get you some better Twitter follows, oof
> If you are interested in developing, you will be getting early access to an ambitious Free Software mobile platform and you can help contribute to Plasma Mobile and get a headway designing new apps that you can test and deploy right now.

Any link to this? How do I make a simple hello world in Plasma Mobile :)
Hmm. A meta-tutorial. Of second degre.
Hijacking the top comment because it's plain wrong.

1/ No there's no "incredible harm" to the society, not more than any technological revolution in the past and it's bringing more good than bad, like any technological revolution.

2/ You can perfectly do a data scientist formation (or preferably a ML formation), there are thousands of free courses on the net but if you get into a reknowned formation it's better, and go find work. Also try to find a niche such as embedded systems, or robotics, or whatever is scarcer than doing "image recognition" lol
From your README.md:

> pydis is an experiment to disprove some of the falsehoods about performance

and your comment:

> The point I am trying to make is that, Python with C extensions can be as considerably performant as C code for network or memory bound tasks.

So your point is regarding the falsehood belief that python with heavy use of C extensions is (not) much slower (in this case ~60%) than C? I don't think that such a falsehood belief exists and therefore pydis disproves nothing.
A collection of ripples throughout a bunch of seas stacked on each other.
"AWS's Serverless Application Model explicitly supports local testing."

It doesn't provide any additional capability that was already there. Ie, I could already run my arbitrary function from the CLI by building a simple wrapper that reads a JSON file and sends it in. Or wrap it in a simple HTTP server.

The debugging story using that tool is worse than how I would already do it pre-SAM and they don't even have documentation for every runtime they officially support:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...

It doesn't allow you to test any of the interesting bits, which is what the blog post was alluding to.

- What happens if I have an SQS Lambda with 100 concurrency and a few of the containers get into a bad state? Do the other ones keep going or does the whole thing grind to a halt?

- What happens if I have a Lambda that consumes from 50 Kinesis shards and some of the containers get into a bad state?

- What happens if my Lambda throws an exception, what happens to my SQS message or Kinesis record?

If you outsource the plumbing you can't actually test the system locally you can only test "units" of it and in a lot of cases you either have to do remote tests with print debugging to figure out what's going on or what is more common is blindly assume the plumbing works how you intend, ship it to Prod and then fix problems as they occur.
It takes balls to fly it... I'll show myself out
I suspect that part of the issue is the idea of delivering a single hot meal being do-able at reasonable rates.

It isn't and thus you've got all the VC cash making up the difference.

Something like Hellofresh seems much more viable. Not heated & more than 1 meal per shot.
Texas passing laws to benefit Texas residents, thank you for a laugh this morning. I am glad to no longer live there.
Bugs can also be categorized over time. Sometimes the solution becomes clearer over time with multiple related examples. In other words, it's easier to fix by accumulating issues instead of digging around with a debugger. This is facilitated by having no obligation to fix it now.
https://reason.com/volokh/2018/01/17/the-united-states-is-bo...
It's precisely regulation that creates this situation. Creating and operating a delivery platform wouldn't have to be so costly if they didn't need an army of lawyers and lobbyists to simply exist. In a free market, food delivery platforms could be a thin convenience layer charging a small premium instead of the gargantuan 30%+ they are able to command now due to artificial lack of competition.
That's a Strawman with some truth to it.
Well, a century later maybe he would have had a slightly different position.
I like your bot and have implemented similar rules in Derek to help out with the openfaas project. It's not quite as configurable as your version, but if folks are interested they can find out more at: https://github.com/alexellis/derek/blob/master/USER_GUIDE.md

There are automated actions when people delete the issue/PR template, and when they don't sign off commits for the DCO. This saves me a lot of time personally having to go and comment and explain every time. I'm going to take a closer look at your bot going forward. Thanks for sharing it.
Java gives you a decent way to build guard rails, Rust gives you a somewhat better way, JS doesn't give you any way at all.

A more sophisticated type system gives you more elegant ways of expressing constraints, with increased language complexity. Java falls in the middle with a fairly simple language and type system. Any code which you do not know how to structure within Java's type system can be written with some Objects/Maps/Collections and a bit of runtime logic - basically giving you what you'd do in JavaScript, though Java's type system is sufficiently powerful for 99% of real-world use cases.

The main issue I see Python and JS programmers face when coming to a statically typed language like Java is the additional complexity of a type system. Saying that a more complex type system would somehow be more familiar is just backwards.
> Do other folks agree with PG that the economy is a rounding error compared to the quality of the founders?

When I was in YC (in 2009, a few months after this essay was published), I remember PG saying that plenty of VCs, (specifically Marc Andreessen, as an example), pay just as much/more attention to market/macro conditions as they do to founder talent, but added that this is a luxury Andreessen has when all the very best companies want to be funded by Andreessen, so he can pick companies that have both great founders and favourable market conditions.

> I think it's his job to believe in the "great man" theory, and to not credit circumstances, luck, etc

PG acknowledges often that luck plays a critical role in success. But the point is that weak founders with all the luck in the world won't achieve much, whereas great founders with only a little bit of luck can be hugely successful.

He also points out that it's a long journey, much longer than a downturn will last, so better to start now when you're inspired, especially when the downturn can bring favourable conditions (like cheaper talent, rent, services, etc).

YC is also quite happy to back founders a second time. Off the top of my head, Stripe, Twitch and Cruise were all founded by 2nd or 3rd-time founders. So YC's approach is to find founders with potential, get them into their network, then support them for as long as they need to find success.

> Is there a statistical analysis of YC and PG which shows they choose effectively?

Some people have tried to evaluate this quantitively or qualitatively, but most miss the point, or can't evaluate it correctly without knowing YC's financials, which nobody outside YC management and their investors knows.

YC's approach isn't to try to "choose" only the good founders. Their approach is to cast a very wide net, to invest in a huge number of companies including some very crazy-looking ones, knowing that only a handful will win big but that will yield big enough returns to more than pay for all the losses.

So the question is not whether they chose good founders and rejected bad ones, but whether they backed a big enough and broad enough pool of companies to get a significant number of huge winners - like, say, Dropbox, Airbnb, Twitch, Segment, Cruise, Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Brex.

Answer: yes, evidently.
Obligatory MonkeyUser: https://www.monkeyuser.com/2018/implementation/
Yeah my dad is in the same boat. Ugh.
Given that both sides managed to provide senile old men I don't think anyone is in a position to point fingers.
SAM is able to run AWS Lambda functions locally and to emulate some API Gateway behavior. It doesn't allow you to run all the other services like DynamoDB, SNS, S3, etc. locally. As Serverless applications often rely on such additional AWS services, the ability of SAM to run AWS Lambda functions locally doesn't really help for running such applications locally.
Data and compute are the largest hurdles. I only have one GPU and training one model takes 3+ days, so I am limited by that. Also, scraping from YouTube takes time and a lot of storage (multiple TBs).

Mozilla Common Voice data is already used for training.
Fraud detection has gotten really good, the specific restaurant and even the waiter can be identified if they do this regularly.
You aren't benchmarking a Redis implementation, you are benchmarking a Redis wrapper
We have a bit of documentation:

* Plasma Mobile dev documentation: https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/

* General Kirigami documentation: https://develop.kde.org/docs/kirigami/

* API documention of Kirigami: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/html/

The documentation could be better, so if you have any trouble don't hesitate to ask questions in our Matrix channel: https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#plasmamobile:kde.org
Anything involving full-res video or 3D requires beefy hardware.
Amusingly America is really, REALLY good in applying its rules to the rest of the world.

I'm honestly a bit jealous of that. The EU should grow some balls and make life hell for anyone who violates EU rulings.
I have heard it does not support decentralized services as it requires a central entity?
I'm building a stable and veterinary practice building for my wife (who is a horse vet), 22x10 m, 2 floors. She wants several types of lighting in the stable part which should be switchable from several locations. Switching a light source from 2 locations can be done easily, 3 is doable but more than that requires a separate switching circuit with momentary switches and a contactor to do the actual switching. It is here where a system like this, especially a wireless one can help by making it possible to have switches anywhere you want them without having to pull loads of cabling (which by regulation has to be mounted on the walls instead of in them in agricultural buildings). For now I've settled on 2 switching locations for most of the lighting so as to avoid any "smart" solutions, should she insist on having to be able to switch the "mood light" in the stable from the observation window in the office on the 2nd floor I'll have to go that way with all the problems that come with "smart" electronics on the countryside - power failures, lightning, etc.
Why did D never take off?
I just received a Pinephone Manjaro Comunity edition. 10€ is given to the project edition. Had I known KDE was next, I would have waited a bit! I already use Plasma on my laptop, it is a great desktop environment.

I replaced Manjaro by Mobian, it works way better for me. KDE Neon did not work too well, unfortunately (it could not turn off the phone screen, and it didn't work correctly with an external screen), but I have hope.

I'd especially like to install Plasma Mobile on Mobian, I really trust Debian's stability and trust KDE better than Gnome on getting UX just right and be more lightweight too.

Phosh is good, but they apparently have decided to remove auto rotation (which I need!), having to tap on the status bar instead of swiping is a bit strange, having to click on a X to close apps instead of swiping vertically is a bit strange too and by the way closing apps is unreliable. They prevent windows from being moved with fingers, which is fine if apps are entirely designed for mobile but this gets really annoying as soon as the world is not perfect, which it is far from being. I have the same feeling with Phosh as with Gnome, that things look beautiful and attention was paid on the appearance, but Plasma overall felt more intuitive and lightweight. I might contribute to the project at some point.

Congratulations on being the next Pinephone's Community Edition!
The article isn't clear at all on how this compares to existing paper cups.

Papers cups basically all have a wax coating on the inside so they don't absorb your coffee. Otherwise they'd obviously get soaked pretty much immediately. And wax is biodegradable.

Has anything prevented a waxed bagasse cup from being made before? Does the bagasse+bamboo combo still require wax, or is the advantage that it doesn't?

And if the bagasse is already being fully utilized as fuel, is this really going to be an environmental benefit? What will the sugar processing plants use as fuel instead? If it's oil (or coal), would this wind up being worse for the environment overall?

Technically this is interesting... it's just very unclear to me whether it's a good idea.
Huh. Well I guess that's the problem. It's hard to have a forum with productive conversations if you aren't willing to filter out "noise", but not everyone agrees with what the noise is.

But one could argue (and I'm not arguing that it's the case here), one could have different rules around what's allowed versus Twitter, and it could be a more open forum, but still censored (trolls, deaths threats, "fk you" posts).
I’m going to have to take a look at this, this sounds awesome thank you!
Six years ago, I had a something of a mental break-down, followed by a near-death experience. It changed me and made me re-evaluate what I was doing my life. In short, I sold my small company and stopped doing things to impress others or to 'fit in'.
Serverless for web apps have one big issues. The cold starts of lambda(s) can be over .5-1 seconds at peek times (us-east-1) any way.
Yeah Panera food is decent but it is not cheap, I am sure they have good margins.
Having to buy two computers, spend the time to maintain them, making them seamlessly work together, etc. is not a good solution.
Tilapa are herbivores, and some setups grow all the fishes food in the tank. Whether that is scalable is another matter.