skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, if you have kids not yet in college, how are you retiring?
A lot of programmers I know have no hard feelings about needing to maintain software. My product managers, on the other hand, don't necessarily understand that every line of code has potential long-term cost (and obviously, they ideally also have long-term benefit).
In this case, the population is Parler members. But the instance and people involved are largely irrelevant; it's merely the illustration of a point that will become more and more pronounced as more people realize this power. And it'll be confounded by the fact that no company can be fully up to date with the local foibles of country X and their issues that the company must now decide the truth of and censor whomever they believe to be the bad actors (yeah, good luck!).

Although social media companies have allowed more of us to broadcast to an unprecedentedly large audience, we're not actually ready for the Pandora's box this opens in terms of free speech, corporate rights and obligations, and national sovereignty. The near-term solution will be selective censorship by companies and blocking by governments unhappy with the censorship choices (for both good and bad reasons). But as the decade drags on, we'll be forced to recognize our lack of psychological adaptability to this kind of influential power that can destabilize societies to such a degree (by individual, group, AND state actors), and try to come up with a least-worst solution that we're probably not going to like.

It's not like this is completely new; larger countries with information dissemination advantages have used that power to destabilize smaller countries for centuries, most recently in South America and the Middle East. But it's quite another thing to be on the receiving end, by anyone able to harness a sufficient audience (i.e. not just state actors), and find yourself unable to effectively defend against it.
afaik this is what France did with their government
Yes it seems like a very flawed assumption to assume that the other uses of linseed oil would make flaxseed oil a perfect candidate. I've never tried it. Personally I just use canola oil but it can leave a sticky residue as the author says. It lessens if I heat it for a longer time, but I just store it wrapped in a cloth anyway.
Any thoughts on real estate?
Agreed, would add just don’t scrub off your seasoning with soap/scouring pad.
The original intent was for SCSI to be pronounced ‘sexy’, but you can't always get what you want.
My thoughts exactly, the Donald Chumps will take this up. Good news: Massive influx of users. Bad news: It's all American Fascists looking to hold hands. Saving grace is most are probably too stupid to read hacker news.
I said I was using x264, therefore not using hardware encoding.
All depends on where you want to live.
> Should we not have the freedom of choosing with whom we would like to associate?

So, do you believe that a business should not be forced to serve racial minorities? How about the gay wedding cake situation, should a baker be forced to make a cake for a gay couple? Should I be able to refuse to hire trans people?

If you're not sure about those, then you don't believe in free association as a rule. I'm not saying anything about you personally, but most people only want to involve free association in the cases where it means they get to refuse people they don't like.
William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)
Bitcoin is not in the same category as equities, bonds, or commodities. It should only make up a tiny portion of ones portfolio unless their risk tolerance is far outside normal levels.

Not sure I understand your perspective on “things”. Most physical things depreciate worse than the impact of inflation on cash.
There is no professional opinion on this matter. I find this so entertaining.
Parler tried to start their own service and look what is happening to them.
Sounds interesting :)

Long before Prometheus was a thing I was working on a project to tunnel metrics in realtime over XMPP. I used it for some personal monitoring but never got around to polishing and publishing it.

These days it totally makes sense to bridge with Prometheus or equivalents.
Agreed, please don’t season with flaxseed oil — it doesn’t last. Obsession over the smoke point is unfounded, you just want polymerization and carbonization, which any unsaturated fat coated in a thin layer will do for your cast iron.

I did the flaxseed thing when this blog post came out some years back and ended up having to redo my seasoning on the couple pans I tried it on. The seasoning easily flaked off. Just use canola oil and call it a day.
Aren’t most of these programs designed to prevent unwanted pregnancy? Is it unethical to assist people in preventing a mistake?
The people who don’t hold/own risk assets.
The internship I got for my job was posted on our statewide college job board. My employer posted the position in a city 120 miles away from me. I still applied because I figured I could suck it up and do that for a summer. Turns out they needed someone in the exact city I was in because they also operated near my school as well. Also they wanted to extend it year round as well even though the posting just said "Summer."

When you say it comes down to luck, it pretty much does. I'm fairly certain, if not 100% sure I was chosen simply because I was the only one in my area that applied. All the other positions in the location 120 miles away were filled and nobody wanted to move to my city. So to make things simple, they just chose me, a fresh OOP learned programmer with little to no skills except for writing a basic linked list in java.
There's a great Software Engineering Daily podcast with Elio Rivero [0] (audio and transcript in link) that goes into depth on Deno, TypeScript, JavaScript support. It's interesting that compile time was the (TS) killer.

[0]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/28/deno-and-typ...
Would’ve been my thought too.
Yet look at what happened to EU GDPR cookie rollouts.
Rendering a Sphere on a Quad
Ask HN: Did anyone here had success hiring a “social media manager” on Fiverr?
uncybery describes it well
Looks nice. Sorely lacking image uploads though, just seems like a decentralized IRC that looks like Slack at the minute.
You may be correct. The way I understand it, those extra libs are only there in the desktop versions, not mobile, but it's definitely possible I misunderstood.

Still, even tho it was frustrating and felt like a waste of time, learning to compile a big project like OpenCV taught me alot, and all or part of that will probably be useful in the future anyway :) even as a dot point on a resumé

It improved my shell scripting skills, and helped me understand how C++ links, and what library files actually contain etcetera

Whether cmake is good or bad, and whether it was necessary for my project or not, now I have successfully used Cmake to compile a big library!

I have to statically link it anyway, so compiling OpenCV separately and manually allows me to cut it down and make build changes etc that might be useful, as well as forces me to look at how it's structured and understand it better.

Thanks for your help!
It’s almost like the intention is to divide the world and create more segregation rather than to benefit any one group.

And the brand sounds very pretentious. Maybe “the trust network” would’ve been better. It’s simply a group where we all trust each other. It’s not any “cleaner” tbh.
100% sure that is bullshit. It is already illegal to call for somebody to be killed. If that was a major thing on Parler, it would be a case for the police, not for the Google mods.

Edit: with "universal free speech" I just mean it has to be legal to say things. I am not generally in favor of regulating companies. At the moment they are mostly regulated to censor stuff, though. While I think it also agrees with their own ideology (see Zuckerberg's personal statement), governments have also threatened the social networks if they don't cenor according to the wishes of the governments. (I know about the hate speech laws in Germany, not sure what is the current state of affair in the US).
1. Scientific and rational debate are first class citizens in online communication

2. No speech limitations should be placed on online discussions unless it deviates away from rational debate.

3. Newsfeeds are sorted by popularity AND scientific accuracy.

4. All opinions about an issue, article, or topic are categorized and mapped on a spectrum. Meta data for quick analysis: how does my opinion compare to my peers?
It's not about the absolute numbers so much as the fact how that fictional saver behaved after having a huge chunk of his investment wiped out by each following market downturn: He never sold anything, and that's the key lesson here. For me reading about this worst market timer was actually quite comforting because it's assuming the unrealistic worst-case scenario in terms of timing coupled with level-headed behaviour afterwards.

There was also a study done by Vanguard which showed that historically, dollar-cost averaging underperforms lump-sum investments which was just as interesting to me.
People forget the stock market is just a device to turn money into more money, which creates (and requires) sustained bubbles. There will be a blow off the top from time to time, but this just gives you a chance to buy at lower prices and so get better returns when it ticks up.
Briar only works on Android so it's inherently flawed.

Of course, Cabal being written in javascript is also a major minus. As an oldschool Unix hacker, I don't really get the node.js fixation for command line tools. It's a certainty that they'll never be used by a significant chunk of knowledgeable, expert Unix users that want nothing to do with node.

Finally, there is no protocol documentation anywhere that I can see. This is yet another way that these modern tools fail spectacularly. In the golden age of the Internet, published protocol documentation that allowed for multiple clients to be developed was the norm rather than the exception. Which led to robust, long living protocols and services (e.g. IRC).

Even though we're being drowned in apps, this isn't happening today and we're worse off for it.
There's basically no science -- in the broad sense of hypothesis testing -- around cast iron at all. It's all tribal knowledge. "I do it this way because that's how my grandma did it and it works for me." That's fine enough, but it makes for a frustrating experience as a newcomer with no way to evaluate the credibility of different sources; it's just everyone's word against everyone else.

This is especially confusing given how long cast iron has been around; you'd think that someone would have taken an interest in cataloguing what actually works, by now.

So while this post may not be good science, or very much of it, I still appreciate that it exists.
As you’ve noted, his is an insane asset allocation unless you’re in your 20’s and have no need for money.
When? As I pointed out, the stage was set for decades ago with statements like, "see how hot it is?!"

I said then that it would cause problems and today you have people equally saying, "see how cold it is!"

Neither is proof and now we have a muddle discussion with the media happy to run whatever stirs things up.

The proper move some time ago was to center the discussion around some proxy for global temperature (avg ocean temp perhaps) instead of the variable.

Even now, we shouldn't be speaking about unusual events in terms of climate change. There are more people in more places with more cameras and ability to report unusual weather.
Reading through all of these twitter issues lately I still scratch my head how we got to a place where a medium like Twitter, which I've always found to favour the trite and flippant, has become some sort of semi-official mouthpiece for governments and politicians.
That gets outside of political theory and into practicalities, which isn't somewhere I'm personally prepared to go in any serious way.

But, here's one thought: Texas state legislators are paid a salary of $7,200 per year. Not exactly a lot to live on. So they've clearly got to either be independently wealthy, or figure out some other source of income. "A well nourished Legislature, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to seek and receive graft shall not be infringed." Or something like that.
I'm a simple man, I see a post linking to a J. Kenji Lopez-Alt article, I upvote.

Another good method is outlined in this America's Test Kitchen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suTmUX4Vbk

If you have a friend who runs a Chinese restaurant, you could always try this, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXGJD2xTzQ

I do this regularly and always clean my pan with soap after use.
If you need near-line storage, consider using AWS S3, Backblaze's B2 or DigitalOcean's Spaces. All of these will require some kind of transaction time to do things with the files (we're talking milliseconds to a couple of seconds).

If you need on-line storage, such as for a database, then consider AWS with a big EBS volume or Digital Ocean's Volume Block Store.

All of these can be used with the smallest/cheapest VPS instance types... so you can pay $2/month for a micro-sized EC2 reserved instance and attach a lot of storage. A downside to this is that most providers top out at 16TB, which might be a scaling problem depending on what your business is. Even small image hosts are in the multi-petabyte range.
> What is wrong with your language?

It's an insane amalgamation of other languages with occasional attempts at consistency that actually make it worse. Imagine a library written in C+asm, then with parts grafted on written in idiomatic Pascal, then the whole mess ported to Java without changing any naming or structure. Every other method has a different namingConvention, if_notHybrid, to say nothing of other style aspects or the parts that still aren't really object-aware. English is old/middle english (naturally mutated over time) with chunks of French and German grafted on, bits of latin and ancient Greek tacked on...
Is there a something similar but uses array of bytes as output to application viewport pixels framebuffer? I think it will be way more interesting, especially pixels rendering part. You need implement vector rasterizer (because after you parse ttf font file glyphs represented as sequence of lineTo(x,y) and quadTo(cx,cy,x,y) instructions). You need to implement proper antialiasing (based on area coverage, not sampling, because it gives 256 shades of color not 16x of something like msaa in games). You need to choose some of rendering approaches - for example rasterizing vector objects one by one with blending to background or do some deferring approach with resolving intersection between objects geometrically (to reduce overdraw) and only then walk over pixels and calculate its colors. You also need to implement some dynamic caching and adaptive streaming because you want to zoom big blobs of text and without caching e.g rendering as vector you will not get 60fps and smooth curves without pixelization or LOD changing artifacts)
I like the idea but I think there's probably a few too many chat apps going around already as well.
When I looked for resources about USB, this website is recommended frequently: https://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb1.shtml
seems like a constant long term rise in BTC valuation is what keeps them backstopped in turn, then. well that and conveniently reliable outages in the middle of every major BTC sell-off.
Thanks! At the moment I'm only focusing on soccer because that's what I know best : ) However, I can easily see this being extended to other team sports.

The main bottleneck is obtaining data around the teams that a player played for. Right now I'm depending on wikipedia because the soccer data is very rich and easy to parse. I'm not sure this is the case for other sports. The data could always be crowdsourced if there aren't any good data sources for other sports.
+1, by personal experience, O(n log(n)) sounds about right.

(Actually, n log(n) + a constant offset; i.e. partitioning the code has its limits where it becomes detrimental.)
Providing a link to further information, particularly on the disinformation, would help.
Browsing Fiverr I see all these social media manager gigs.

Can these people really do something useful for a startup?
they seem to more of a publisher/editor of content than a passive platform allowing its users freedom to express their opinions.
Carbon steel gang here, I just cook with it, if the coat flakes then I just keep cooking with it. Run under hot water when I'm done, scraping with a dish brush.

I don't see the point to the perfect coating; occasionally using it in the oven already gets you to the perfect slick season.
You would need a serious dedicated server if it was possible at all. Matrix as a protocol is excessively resource hungry, there’s a reason the default matrix.org server runs like treacle.
Although Kenji: "Whenever someone asks me why their cast iron seasoning is weak or flaky, I ask if they followed that popular (but wrong!) flaxseed seasoning guide [i.e. the linked article]. The answer has been yes 100% of the time."
>Twitter started by fact checking him back in November.

"This claim is disputed", yet the Flat Earth Societies page remained unchallenged. It's clearly political bias more than a search for the truth.
What I observed about myself during lockdown is that when I have chocolate available, my weight goes up, but when I decide not to buy any and don't eat it for few weaks my weight goes down.

For the period I observed this bulk of my calories came from lentils (and similar stuff) with butter and salt. I ate very little meat or fish, and barely any bread.

To be more mobile I bought VR and played Beat Saber and that was plenty of movement for me. Best thing is it's not excercise. It's just fun and you can spend hours with right songs trying to one-up yourself without feeling tired or bored (which is what I feel after excercising in any fashion for more than 3 minutes).

When I'm in unpopulated area I take walks few times a week (6k-10k steps).

I'm 42 living alone in small apartment and not working, with nearly all entertainment comming from my desktop and my phone.

And fit for me means keeping my bmi in normal range and feeling decently after going up three flights of stairs.
The argument that it must be good because the government was elected by the people is not a good one. People elected fascists in Germany. They elect socialist regimes on a regular basis. It's not automatically good because the majority looks for it.

I'd argue that democracy can only work if there are mechanisms to protect the minorities from the majority. Because otherwise democracy always ends up as oppression.
Yes, 24% of all US dollars ever created were created last year. Very little went to poor people.
The name clash with Haskell's build tool is unfortunate...
As someone who owns more cast iron than is reasonable, I just wanted to go a step beyond upvoting this and acknowledge in writing that this is the correct view of things.

You want oil soaked into the metal. This idea that you are trying to build a non-stick surface on top of the metal is just adding extra work that isn't needed.

Wash with soap, dry of the stove top, put in some oil (I use peanut), then take a paper towel and rub the oil around over everything and at the end the metal should look shiny but there shouldn't be any pooled oil left anywhere.

If you are cooking something that doesn't leave a residue or strong flavor, you can skip the washing all together and just leave it there to cook with next time.

If you try to go the whole "never wash this" route, you end up with unhappy results going from cooking something with onions and garlic to cooking something more neutral flavored. No one wants onion flavored pancakes.
Click titles, possibly? Last market dip was Mar 2020, before that was 2008. They talk about it all the time.
Why is the market so high? my theory is lots of people on computers at home that have time and extra money to invest.
What to do? Hold investments that you have and buy more when it drops. I made 14% last year from buying after the big dip in March.
Isn't that exactly the point he's making, that since he's the victim of censorship, he knows a thing or two.

If anything it seems to me that a "democracy" should have less censorship than a "dictatorship", so we should be extra worried.
Really? Can a weak man lose an arm wrestling match to a stronger opponent and truly say "I let you win?"

Either the authorities were capable of repulsing an hundred unarmed civilians or they were not.

I'm unclear how both can be true, but I'm open to ideas.
Equivalently, the challenge in running a search engine is to decrease the divergence between “what makes a website good” and “what makes us rank you higher”.
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I pronounce it "etsy". "et cetera" was never an option for me because I learned that it's short for "editable text configuration". (Also "et cetera" just doesn't make much sense. If anything, /usr is "et cetera".)
I mean, I'm not American, so I don't have much skin in this game, but from the outside, just no.

Challenging the legitimacy or outcome of an election is one thing. Democracy wouldn't survive if you can't challenge it.

They've had their challenges. They went to court 60 times and were dismissed or lost 59 times. Notably, the lawyers never actually claimed voter fraud in court because a courtroom has consequences for lying.

Furthermore - I think you'd be hard pushed to find any civilised democracy where a bunch of armed yahoos storming a building full of politicians is a valid "challenge". It's really more of an insurrection, which is pretty much the opposite of what democracy is about.

As for the actual topic: "Consequences" is nothing to do with your political beliefs or where you live.

There is no law against, for example, a person believing that "the jews deserved it". In most places there aren't laws against them saying it either. But, if they do say it, there's also no law protecting them from every possible consequence of saying it: e.g., being banned from a synagogue, or being called human garbage, or, if you happen to be using a private organisations equipment to broadcast that view, having the mic taken away - be it literal or figurative, such as a social media account.
Part of the story is that the 3% annual income from the Pension Fund (oil fund) covers approximately 17% of the national budget. These numbers couldn't work otherwise.

This is, of course, thanks to the incredible lucky foresight that let us capture most of the profits from the oil industry as a public good. One could of course question the priorities in how this money is spent.

I'm of the opinion that our public sector is too big, for instance. I'm fairly sure that a considerable part of it works more as a jobs program than a necessary public utility.

Another interpretation would be that we in effect already have a massive basic income program going, a priority with which I'd actually agree. We're just not being honest about it, partly due to still being unable to run it unconditionally. The unspoken and un-debated consensus seems to be that there needs to be a bit of a taboo in utilizing such services, or the system would be overloaded.
Probably not. If 'everyone knows' the TOS is merely a conspiracy thrust upon 'us'. Then, it'll cease being enforceable. Respect for the rules is not required. It's merely a courtesy society offers, when the rules are 'fair'.
I've been trying Dendrite for a few days: a single user in the system - me -, being in two, federated, medium (<1k) sized rooms on matrix.org, the memory usage runs between 250MB to 1.5GB.
I still don't know what's wrong with IRC.
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