skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So straight off the bat I won't be reading this article.

The title sounds interesting and I think there are insights to be gained, but I had to disable NoScript for the page/tab to load; I had to disable NoScript, the means by which I protect my self online (one of many few layers), so I could render some text.

After disabling NoScript to see that text it looked terrible.

This has led me to believe that a "software craftsman" that can't get text to me over the Internet without JavaScript doesn't really have much to teach me.

Sorry, friend. I'm sure your intentions are good, but the delivery of those intentions was frustrating and utterly pointless.
The website looks good, but you should change the name. It gives the wrong impression that it is associated with them.
I think you will agree this is not a normal name.

I can see a bit of an issue with innocently naming your OS app the same as something else that is already established but you were unaware of. Ok. Maybe that person even is happy to get that information.

That is not the same as this.

Also, some people (not everyone) might not read every single story on HN or do in-depth research before making a comment that is perfectly reasonable .. like the OP.
I agree with this. We have laws against false advertising, and that is not considered infringement on free speech.

During the Victorian era arsenic was known to be poisonous yet "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" were advertised in newspapers claiming that it would remove freckles and pimples. Yet no one in their right mind would argue preventing arsenic from being peddled is an infringement on free speech.

Furthermore, proving deceptive intent is not necessary under false advertising law. The deception of the advertisement is considered alone.

People who are opponents to laws like these on the basis of freedom seem to forget one of the fundamental tenets of it - that your freedom to throw a punch ends where my nose begins.
wouldn't the roots of the trees eventually destroy your wall if they are planted that close?
One thing i'd love to see added here is a blurb about the importance of the location of the video metadata in the file. Specifically that you need to have the metadata at the start of the file rather than the end of the file (which is the default) for low-latency playback on web.

Explained: Freshly recorded MPEG (and almost all other container types) typically saves the header at the end of the file. This is the logical place to store header information after recording as you just append to the end of the file you've just written. It's the default.

Unfortunately having the header at the end of the file is terrible for web playback. A user must download the entire video before playback starts. You absolutely need to re-encode the video with FAST-Start set.

The header location is the number one mistake that i've seen a lot of website and developers make. If you find your website videos have a spinner that's seconds long before the video playback starts check the encoding. Specifically check that you've set fast start.

I've seen companies who have a perfectly reasonable static site behind a CDN spend a fortune hosting their videos with a third party to fix the latency issues they were seeing. The expensive third party was ultimately fixing the issue because they re-encoded the videos with fast start set. The reality is their existing solution backed by a CDN would also have worked if they encoded the videos correctly.
Unfortunately, high speed rail isn't easily compatible with open windows. From what I understand, it's a safety concern when entering tunnels at high speeds or when passing an oncoming train. There's also aerodynamics to consider. I miss the windows, too. And it'd have been an easy (if drafty) way to make travel safer during the pandemic.
Pornhub is bigger and better monetized. They have more to lose. Xvideos would probably catre way less.
A missing fact here is that winters are foggy in Lahore. I live in CO now where winters are fairly dry, and I can go out in 20 degree F in shorts and a t shirt for a while, as long as I have a hat on. Whereas going outside in Portland in January when it is 40 degrees would be hell for me.
The lack of easy access to strong painkillers kills people, driven to extreme by the madness of pain.

Yet we only talk about the evil of drugs, and the opioids epidemic.
> I'm curious about what you mean by a possible better store of value. To me, that sounds like saying we can go colder than 0 kelvin.

Maybe better store of value isn't the wrong choice of words, but better in terms of having the same store of value properties + more resistant to attack, better privacy, easier to secure, easier to use, scalable etc.

There are projects trying to be better than bitcoin on technical fronts, but it needs to be an order of magnitude better to offset the current moment and network effects at this point, unless a real attack on the bitcoin network threatens its security.
When these companies say fluffy things like:

“race/gender/x/y/z is a protective sensitive category prohibited from advertising to directly”

Does anyone actually believe they don’t provide ways for advertisers (including nefarious ones) to do so through inferring it?

Or, that their own internal tools and algorithms to curate personalized content follows these rules? Even if they try and only discriminate a tiny little bit and are continuously working on it how on earth is that allowed or okay?

Enough. It needs to end. Personal data rights now
I wonder at the potential competitive points to Amazon. If you could largely copy logistical, reliability and marketplace features what would allow someone to start competing using a similar model?

- Seller relations and developer experience

- Marketplace and human resource ethics

- ?
Extremely fascinating, thank you!
It's in the press release:

>The FTC is issuing the orders under Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, which authorizes the Commission to conduct wide-ranging studies that do not have a specific law enforcement purpose.
Tylenol is really not to be abused. Much better to go heavy with Ibuprofen and remember the old-time drugs like aspirin as well as new ones like naproxen.

But really a doctor/nurse is critical if the pain is going on for more than a day or two.
My wife and a friend did this about 6 years ago but it was tragic, in a way, that they almost always ended up taking cheap flights or the odd intercity bus instead of the train because it was just cheaper.
Space ships aren't necessarily less efficient than airplanes for intercontinental travel. Yes, they burn an incredible amount of fuel for a couple minutes, but then they can travel through space without using any fuel because there is no atmospheric drag. So in the end the fuel usage is comparable.

Space ships also have the advantage that they can use "green" fuel, fuel that is synthesized from green energy, water and atmospheric CO2 rather than using fossil fuels. (Jet planes could also run on green fuel, but jet fuel is significantly more expensive to synthesize than hydrogen or methane).

Methane and hydrogen rockets also burn much cleaner than jets. The fuel is almost pure, and the oxidizer is pure oxygen rather than air, so there is almost no sulfates, NOx or soot.

Still pretty inefficient compared to an electric scooter, though. :)
As a user of Ignite, we're struggling to find an alternative that matches its feature set. Great business opportunity here.
Could anyone provide a clear explanation as to what this does? I don’t want to give away my phone number. Thank you!
> The only plausible benefit to drawing the lines the Commission has is targeting a number of high profile companies

It's almost as though the majority of the Commission recognizes that its resources are limited, and that going on a wild goose chase investigating a bunch of smaller social media companies would simply ensure that nothing would be accomplished.

Apple isn't even a social media company. I have no idea why they'd be included.

Gab, Parler, and Rumble are all smaller social media sites targeting the alt-right. They're so much smaller than any of the services being investigated that I feel like even mentioning them here is a dog whistle.

LinkedIn is explicitly targeted at adult professionals. That puts it a bit outside the scope of the investigation as well; one of its focuses is "how [these sites'] practices affect children and teens".
Oh, but it did blow up on HN. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989
I think there is one seemingly insignificant difference with big (behavioral) consequences: mails need to be "opened", and they're "unread" until you do that. This gives you an option, even after you learn what the email is about (reading the title, the sender, and knowing some context), whether you want to read it now or not.

On Slack, like any other instant messaging (especially the ones where the fact that you've seen a message is communicated to the other side), you don't have this option. You can, of course, snooze messages, but I doubt many people even know about that option, and a high fraction of those who do know just find it, at that moment, easier to answer immediately then to think about "scheduling" that answer.

Combining this with other characteristics that make online chat more like in-person chat (from simple functions like the ease of sending messages by pressing Enter, to more advanced ones like seeing when the other side is typing), it shifts the behavior, and people feel compelled to respond instantly - both by the expectations set by others ("everyone responds instantly to Slack so I have to as well") but maybe even more importantly by subconscious "burden" of not responding to an "already opened message".
Zoox driving autonomously at the test track
Maybe that was the case in mobile Chrome, which isn't that bad. Many other products have had bewildering UI changes just for the sake of UI changes or have even been completely replaced by other products that look entirely different. Look at the communications products from Google or the music products for recent examples.

Worse, all of these products share a cpetent-looking feedback system that is completely ignored. Recently, I've seen humans responding to poor reviews in the Play Store asking for the feedback to be submitted via the in-product feedback, but everybody knows that's a black hole. If anybody actually looked at the feedback submitted that way, Google would allocate an engineer to combining feedback from the Play Store into that system instead of responding on the Play Store with pretend interest.
Just consuming more than 4g on one day may be enough to start the liver failure, especially if using alcohol or other drugs.

Protip: have some N acetyl cysteine handy. It's freely available on amazon, and it protects your liver from acetaminophen abuse (and helps rebound faster the next day after a night of heavy drinking, but the FDA absolutely hates when people mention that :-)

EDIT: replying here as HN things I'm "posting too fast"

Whenever in doubt, by default, you take it due to its extremely good tolerance.

There are no bad side effects at usual doses, even after 50+ years on the market (well, at very large doses, vomiting, which I think is good in case of acetaminophen or alcohol poisoning)

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

Don't let the FDA make it illegal:

https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/08/use-n-acetylcysteine-the-f...

https://fda.news/2020-08-21-fda-trying-make-n-acetylcysteine...
Pornhub: From 13m videos to just 4m
Many stronger drugs have acetaminophen in them. I've tried oxycontin and had very little benefit. People should know for themselves what works for their pain but never underestimate the damage drugs can do, even if they're over the counter.
Note, this is not Eric Engeström, who works on Mesa and OpenGL - I was confused at first.

Sympathies to the family. 55 is far too young.
Real-time visualization of the global Bitcoin transaction flow
Not sure why you wanted to spend the time to prove "correct optimizations can be combined", but I take issue with that proof. It only works for optimizations that give code exactly the same behavior, which is severely limiting.
GPUs have been extremely successful, so have DSPs, each on their niche. They just don't work well on branchy pointer chasey code. Intel itself tried to move beyond OoO and utterly failed.

There is no conspiracy here.
It's also quite funny that Quaid (who made copywrite) was sued by a protection vendor... but won!

"We hold that: (1) Quaid did not infringe Vault's exclusive right to reproduce its program in copies under § 106(1); (2) Quaid's advertisement and sale of RAMKEY does not constitute contributory infringement; (3) RAMKEY does not constitute a derivative work of Vault's program under § 106(2); and (4) the provision in Vault's license agreement, which prohibits the decompilation or disassembly of its program, is unenforceable."

in https://cyber.harvard.edu/ilaw/Contract/vault.htm

Edit: there is a Wikipedia page for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_Corp._v._Quaid_Software_....
(there is a dot at the end of the URL but HN parser does not treat it correctly)
I am suspicious of this 100ms rule. TVs operate at ~30 frames per second (33ms/frame), and humans can see obvious differences (e.g. when scrolling fast on smartphones or playing a FPS game) even at 60 fps (17ms/frame). The Remarkable 2 digital writing tablet has a 21ms writing delay that is still noticeable (but only slightly).
Is it actually a lambda, or is it just essentially appending statements to the end of the scope?
How else would you phrase someone telling you "I have this bug and will exploit it if you don't pay me X amount" vs. "I think the impact is bigger because of Y"? For me, the first sounds quite clearly like extortion.

The first case would get you likely in trouble. The second case would routinely cause a further review in any decent program, and if there's any merit to it, you get a higher bounty.

Nobody is forced to participate in any bug bounty program. If people feel the reward is too low, they should not partake.
You should check out the new CMMC requirements -- basically a new set of basic cyber security requirements for all DoD suppliers, starting next year.

It's heavily based on the NIST guidelines, so strong on 2FA, and discourages arbitrary password rotation.
I once worked at a (open) office where sales people were constantly berating engineers, asking for a feature or pestering for a status update on a feature/bug in progress. It got so bad they installed a wall around that area.
Why list Facebook, then list WhatsApp, but not Instagram? Is Instagram not part of it then? If WhatsApp wasn't there, I'd assume they're both under FB but listing WhatsApp separately is strange.
So, what's the current take?

Brain is hardware, and sex is software driven by hormones?
To make the same points but get less of a harsh response, maybe try improving your comments by talking in the third person. In short, don't take things personally.
Tesla is 9% of their portfolio. Tesla has a P/E of over 1000. It seems incredibly risky to hold Tesla now.
You want sleeper services to take long enough that you don't end up with interrupted sleep. They're not competing on speed. They're competing on comfort in a scenario where getting there faster doesn't help you.
Great show, entertaining and thought provoking.
> How much Tylenol would a person have to consume over a two month period to permanently damage their liver

Liver damage can occur after a single incident. People have died from single time overdoses of paracetamol. There is a quick fix in an ER of giving NAC which can help eliminate most of the damage, but there is a small window(a day or two) where it is effective.
>Does it help when a 15/16/17 year old uploads their own pictures/videos without anyone knowing their actual age?

Is that even that much of an issue? Why is there such an obsession on this?

>Or when someone's boyfriend/girlfriend records them and uploads it without the victim knowing?

There's really no way to prevent this but to abandon privacy/force verification. It's not a problem exclusive to pornhub.
Its all very clever. Till it doesn't work. A long time ago, we got EA's "seven cities of gold" from my parents for apple.

My brothers and I were all excited but it would start to load then the drive would make a strange sound and it didn't work. We exchanged at the local software store, the next one did the same thing.. We tried on a friends apple //c and it worked there. Our //e drives must have been slightly out of spec.
It was bitter disappointment. But a valuable lesson.

They're now imaging floppies into new formats so the copy protected disk can still run in emulation:

Things like the "Woz" format
https://applesaucefdc.com/woz/reference1/
Probably the simplest description is "Twitch for audio". Anyone can launch a talk radio show on Capiche FM from your phone, and stream it to unlimited people online. And, it's interactive so listeners can send in messages and request to come on air anytime. Happy to answer any other questions!
I don't think Eric told me, and if he did, I forgot. In those days asm was often used for efficiency, as compilers weren't that good compared to hand-coded asm. He knew I'd purposely written the disassembler to produce MASM source code, and thought I'd enjoy hearing about the use he put it to (and I did!).

BTW, this anecdote is one of the reasons that I've strongly resisted adding macros to D.
I was once told: never make the abstraction to something, until you're ready to make the 3rd instance of it. The reason is, that until you're ready to make the third one, you not only don't know if it will ever really be needed, but you also don't really know which parts of the thing really need to be different/customizable. If you abstract it before then, even if you do end up needing another someday, you will find that the way you abstracted it is the wrong way, and you will need to rewrite all the associated code anyway.

Until you're making your third one (of whatever), don't make an abstraction for it.
This comment is baffling... Netflix isn't social media. It knows far less about its customers because your interactions are limited to chosing what to watch.

I don't even know that documentary you mention, and I can assure you it has nothing to do with this decision whatsoever.

(Because it's really a rerun of West Wing that got the FTC into high gear here. "Hell yeah, let's do some governing", someone shouted, and they all started briskly walking)
I've seen probably a dozen people in my high school class die from their narcotic pain meds originally prescribed to them. I only took a quarter of what was prescribed after surgery from shattering my leg, and yet weening off was worse than the pain from the injury.

I don't blame him for the choices he made, having been there.
Can I listen to people without signing up?

Also, isn't this equivalent to YouTube, Twitch, or whatever streaming platform kids are using these days, without a video feed?
I disagree. Requiring a daily charge means I can't miss a power cycle overnight, whereas 2 day capacity means I can limp through day 2. That is a massive difference to me, and it seems to occur precisely at the worst time, when I need my phone.
Thanks for putting it in words better than I could have!
Really sorry about that. Our site is a SPA so it really relies on Javascript. We have put a copy of the article on Medium: https://tinodelletna.medium.com/fractal-architectures-a-soft... I hope that will work
Because management should be rigorously defending devs from being needlessly interrupted with whatever some sales guy thinks is important in the moment? Management can filter out the garbage, condense down the really important bits and deliver them during a time it won't knock dev out of the zone?
Wealthy Romans in palaces yes. But when I wrote "our" I meant it in the more universal sense.

Conversely, some impoverished people in the US today have very inadequate heating systems in their houses, and resort to things like propane heaters, or running their stoves and ovens to heat the house, which can cause carbon monoxide poisoning indoors.
American news outlets generally don't report on issues outside their borders unless it's relevant to them.

But as of late, there's been a lot of noise about FAANGS, and even some political issues around content, it's just odd that there isn't more widespread coverage.

I'm really curious as to the underlying impetus for this, it's not clear to me.

Zuckerberg at 'hearings' being grilled by GOP Senators about ostensible 'bias' - that is understandable, at least politically.

But these FTC moves, I don't get.
Could you provide a demo?
As someone who grew up in South Africa I can confirm it. I grew up in the north of the country where in winter it can dip to just below freezing during the night and early morning. It would be back up to 16 degrees at lunchtime though.

I now live in the U.K. and although house quality and insulation is appalling compared to other places it is still infinitely warmer here in the middle of winter than in South Africa.

Coldest I have ever been was going back to visit family during winter there. My wife, who is from Germany and used to -5 to -10 in winter, would take a lot of persuading to visit South Africa in the middle of winter again.
Was in South Africa in Winter. Your friend is right. Some AirBnBs were so cold, you just wanted to stay in bed and never get up. But the people were amazing, and the food, and the nature.
I was still thinking about this today. "I have all these receipts everywhere..."
Old leak repurposed by newly formed IPAC, basically whose-who of anti-China politicians for anyone following the space. AKA more coordinated mccarthyism propaganda from usual suspects. Nothing much to this but doxxing a bunch of people for red scare.

Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
https://ipac.global/#team
Alexey and Yuliya Navalny might disagree with that assessment.

Among numerous others.
> You could have learnt a musical instrument or developed some other accomplishment that lasts a lifetime.

These "classical" hobbies are vastly over-valued in my opinion. I spent almost a decade learning to play violin, and while the appreciation for music has been valuable, the actual skill of being able to play the violin has been largely useless. I also quit when I was no longer forced to play for school, and probably can't even read the sheet music anymore. It's by no means a life long skill like riding a bike.

Phrased another way, I don't see much that validates being able to play a musical instrument as more valuable than being good at a particular genre of video games. Music has existed for far longer, so it has a certain level of prestige as a long-standing part of our culture. Music can be shared with others, although Twitch seems to imply there are a substantial number of people interested in watching other people play video games.

There are various studies about the tangential benefits of music, there are likewise for video games. I don't know that one comes out clearly ahead.

Video games are more likely to give you real world skills. As more and more of the world moves online, skills that you pick up trying to get games to work or trying to make them run faster can be valuable. Online etiquette is another thing you tend to learn (hopefully, instead of just being toxic).

Learning an instrument is also not without pain. When I played, probably 75% of the time I was playing I wasn't actually doing anything enjoyable, I was working on committing a piece to memory, or practicing a piece, or doing exercises to work on my finger strength or flexibility. I don't feel like learning an instrument is less "grindy".
While reading I have been thinking that u implemented the framework by using some sdk like aws sdk + some interactive shell program that check the current infra and prompts changes on it. This should be well tested and could include a kink of integration test for changes and their impact considering the entire database.

This could be a way to mitigate problems with environment variables rotation.