skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered something like the mega threads reddit does on like politics? At least the crazyness is contained in one spot. Like there really didn't need to be all the articles rewording parler, Twitter, Amazon news the last week
I'm employed by a FAANG to maintain an OSS project.
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I live in China, I can assure you there are plenty of obese chinese people here in the major cities I've been to. It's not as bad as the US, and the culture is more aggressively against it, but it's not uncommon. Obesity is a problem that most developing nations are facing. You can buy junk food anywhere.

> If one does not live in a modern city center one barely ever walks. Most Americans sit all day - at a desk or in a car.

As opposed to someone in China, where we must do such extraneous physical activities like order take-out delivered to our place less than 15 minutes, then order a masseuse to come give us a massage and finally order a bottle of wine to top the night off, all without needing to get out of bed.
I've had my twitter (and my blog somewhat) open up so many opportunities for me its crazy.

What kind of opportunities twitter create for you?

I blog, and I have a twitter account. My twitter is neglected and it never seemed like something useful. Can you share what made it work for you?
Relatedly, there was just an infographic going around of "Megascale" spaceships from science-fiction movies:

https://www.deviantart.com/dirkloechel/art/Size-Comparison-S...
Nobody's mentioning lack of sleep, that's when your body makes testosterone.
> and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails

Choosing something else - at least if you can do it before getting locked in.
Size Comparison – Science Fiction Spaceships
Lessons from Sc2 for a Startup
Identity Politics in a Cupertino Elementary School
Greenwald's sources for his claim that (initially none, then walked back to no active) parler users weren't involved in the Capitol attacks was an un-named Parler exec, a claim which he published with zero fact-checking, since if quickly emerged there were rather a lot of active Parler users involved.

At this point he's just a laundering service for far-right scumbags.
Agreed, from king of the jungle to a concrete box.
The best way I've heard this described is... Imagine the best painting you can come up with or have ever seen.
Now go paint it.
Worth noting that Lutris' script repository is iffy at best. Moderators hold all the power on the platform, which means they can (and will, as they have in the past) replace entire scripts at random if they believe they have a better solution (regardless of whether it is or not, or even if it works).

Just wanted to point that out before anyone sees this great project and decides to contribute a script to an unknown game.
> I also think a ten year commitment is a very poor concession for the EU to have extracted: It just means they're punting off society being harmed a while. For a company that will likely be around in 100 years or more, IBM-style, that's not a good concession.

I agree, but if they were in the business of extracting significant pro-consumer concessions, I can see some weird incentives building up: imagine a dystopian future in several decades where the only semi-pro-consumer companies are the goliaths that have decades’ worth of accumulated concessions, and consumer startups nearly-universally act in their own financial interest, making them unusable for people who care about their data/privacy/ads/etc., and regulators who are unwilling to burden startups with regulations that restrict them from competing with AmaGoogleFlix.
Been working on this for a few years now, scraping it and starting over multiple times but finally actually have it live on a site. A friend of mine and I are theme park enthusiasts I guess and we're trying to make a freely accessible collection of all things theme parks. Theres a few competitors out there - some wiki style, some scraped content.

The API isn't live yet but the ultimate goal will be to allow theme park bloggers to integrate our data. Still in the very early stages, need to figure out a monetization plan. Have a few ideas but want to build a solid product first and worry about money later.

Tech stack:
- Strapi for the api/cms
- Nextjs for frontend
- Tailwind
- Meilisearch
- willnorris/imageproxy

https://opencoaster.com
Anecdotes in this thread aside this is exactly what you would expect. I believe there is strong evidence for a metabolic set point maintained by the body established after some period of time. If you can maintain a weight for a year or something you body works to keep it.
It used to be Apache 2.0. You now get to choose between SSPL and "Elastic License".
If I were a solo dev yes, as I'm acting on behalf of a company it's a bad look. (As I said, I'm 100% grateful to be in this position, and this being the worst part of my job is a testament to how nice the job is, I'm simply venting a bit)
> Not sure what that snarky (?) remark on semicolon usage was about.

I definitely wasn't intending to be snarky, my compliment was genuine. I don't see people use semicolons properly in sentences often, or much at all outside of coding. I meant no offense, I was giving you an honest compliment.
I just wrote a fb scraper, using a headless browser:
https://github.com/niczem/trawler

Still a d*ckmove from FB, especially considering that a browser plugin can not really be used to scale up. Anyway, looking forward to hear from FB :)
Unfortunately, while I’m very happily married (without kids yet), I don’t think I’m qualified to be a love doctor, haha.
You say this as Google isn't an ad company x).

But yes, i know. I still use it, because i trust those guys to have a good-enough judgement on this. https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

Maybe they're not perfect, but i'm convinced they are a hell lot better than submitting my data to Google. ;)
I mean, I really don't have a spending problem. It's a joke.
I'm working on a robot that can make noodle-based dishes by itself in a food truck. The end goal is to just do a bit of prep work in the morning, turn it on and leave it running all day to sell food in Seattle.
Here's the actual language from SSPL

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service... (license conditions apply)

> “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License.

IANAL, but that seems pretty cut and dry referring to making an Elasticsearch or Kibana service
Yes HN is the entire web, all of media and every in person discussion everywhere.

There is absolutely no other way to express your political opinion.

We have to keep shoving politics down HN readers throats for their own good.
I didn't say they don't deserve to be criticized - they absolutely do. But pointing at a handful of high profile democrats breaking quarantine rules and then saying "see both sides are the same" is extremely disingenuous.
What’s the percentage of food spend in the 70s vs today? If I read the USDA charts, it’s about 13% for the decade of the 70s, declining to under 10% today. So I would expect that as food gets significantly cheaper, people consume more of it.
Some people on HN in fact have salaries under $60K. Not everyone here is an American or works in the private sector, either.

I would be fairly surprised if $60K is top 1%, even if you have the entire world population in the denominator. But when I checked your link, it's not using the entire population for the denominator, (which is correct, IMO) so I don't think it's even close.

In the US, there are about 110M fulltime wage earners, (out of 330M population) with median being ~$50K and top quartile ~$80K. My very rough estimate based on that might be 45M people >$60K. That is a lot more than 110/330 * 1% * 7.8B = 26M before adding in Europe (lower wages but twice the population) or anywhere else.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
I hope this will in no way be interpreted as discouraging or snobbish, just want to add a little perspective. Please understand that I’m very supportive of your endeavor...

> As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space.

In some form or another, all existing languages (other than joke langs) are in this space. That’s why we have programming languages. Ultimately they all prioritize some subset of “problems” that they optimize solving.

That said, in terms of instant feedback I’d look at LightTable and (believe it or not) Chrome dev tools as prior art.
I believe this to be the right answer.

Ive been around this discussion a lot and everyone seems to want to blame the whole phenomenon on some chemical or another, "xenoestrogens" are thrown around a lot. Yes, there are more unnatural chemical compounds entering our bodies than in the past (also important to examine) but addressing the terribly unhealthy lives most of us lead is obviously the first step.
> the stakers only need to make an investment once in the beginning

> The whole system could collapse overnight like a domino if something goes wrong

IMO, these two things are one of the main points of tension which PoS uses to operate. The stakers have put up a significant amount of value, and it's in their interest to maintain that value by preventing things from going wrong.

Not only that, but they are actively pitted against each other -- it's in their interest to find any node that tries to violate the rules, and submit an attestation slashing the offender's stake for bad behavior.

There are also a number of incentives (such as the upcoming EIP-1559 upgrade) which are designed to align incentives so that cartel members are encouraged to break away for their own advantage.
This is fantastic. I spent a lot of time looking into making my own podcast feed with audio of articles but never pushed through hard enough to get it working.

It's working perfectly on desktop but I'm having some trouble on Castbox. When I navigate to the link from the QR code Castbox can't find the feed.
This sounds very cool. I recently thought of another approach for song recommendation due to necessity i.e.: based on how a song sounds. There are genres but they're way too generic. Other methods like similar artists, what else people who've likes a song love etc doesn't always work. Not sure how streaming services recommend but I don't think they do what I want.

I know, how something _sounds_ is subjective but I was thinking something along the lines of how Shazam app does. If they can compute a song signature and compare it against a library, it should be possible(?) to find top 10 closest neighbors.

BTW, I'd love to test your app if that's possible.
Anyone monitoring the traffic outside of Apple can do it, as well. IIRC TLS client certificate information is not encrypted on the wire, but I'd need to review modern TLS protocol negotiation to confirm. This would allow anyone monitoring Apple's upstream, passively, to perform this same location logging that Apple does.

Apple knows this, so shipping systems that leak information in this way is tacit acceptance of the military spying going on on the networks to which Apple's servers are connected.
But isn't there already an official "clean" version of HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
My guess installation on residential roof is probably 10x more expensive vs just dropping bunch of panels en masse in a dessert.
> The old analog POTS phone system wasn't like this.

I mostly agree with this, but POTS starting going digital surprisingly early, before VoIP ever became a thing. And of course digitization back then was typically chopping a huge amount of the high frequencies, making things sound...well, like the phone.
I got my physics PhD in the early 90s. Physics has had a tradition of interest in programming that goes back decades. We've always had "big data," meaning big relative to the tools available at any given moment. We ran out of problems that could be solved by pencil and paper in the 1930s.

Every physics student at my college had to take FORTRAN, plus programming was assumed in many of the other courses, and we also took an electronics course that included digital techniques. And maybe the main thing was simply that programming was interesting and fun.

We've also had a tradition of learning to do everything ourselves, for better or worse. I had no access to a professional programmer.
Nice! As a side note, I think it's very cool that Raku supports multiple quote characters. It's unusual to see that in source code and, while I code mostly in English, I imagine it would be nice for people writing in other languages.
The current open-source Apache 2 license is being replaced by two proprietary, source-available licenses. Of course this only applies to future releases.
That does seem a little concerning. You're right, it seems that there can be a debate on the case where you are a SaaS, for someone to say that the value of your SaaS is all in its use of ElasticSearch, in which case you'd need to release all your code publicly and open source, so basically make your entire SaaS open source as well under SSPL.

So it seems like a copyleft license in some way, where usage of Elastic could result in you having to publish your source under SSPL as well. But it's extreme in that it's not just your changes to the ElasticSearch source, but your entire stack.

Honestly, I feel maybe ElasticSearch just doesn't want proprietary companies using it anymore. Either those need to use their ElasticSearch managed service or the Amazon one, or they need to themselves become an SSPL open source solution.
So...not that surprising
This was my major beef with Pebble... which was purchased by FitBit... which is now owned by Google, meaning all that Pebble data is now Google's.
It wasn't just Apple and Samsung that were killing Fitbit. Garmin also took a lot of the fitness market.
Muneeb here, Stacks co-founder. So it does not use Bitcoin as oracle. It uses Bitcoin as a settlement layer. (Oracles like Chainlink can be, and are being, built using Clarity lang for Stacks blockchain itself.)

For using Bitcoin state on Ethereum, you'll need to implement Bitcoin SPV proofs. It's entirely possible but fairly complicated to do that given (a) Ethereum is a separate network that can fork independently from Bitcoin (Clarity contracts on Stacks fork with Bitcoin), and (b) Eth miners have no native visibility into Bitcoin state (Stacks miners have full visibility into Bitcoin state). Possible but more complicated. Further, any asset generation and transfers etc on such ERC20 asset would have nothing to with Bitcoin vs on Stacks all asset generation and transfers etc settle on Bitcoin and are secured by the Bitcoin main blockchain.
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> Everything we have is because we or our ancestors (whether literal ancestors or the people that built the countries we live in) did the hard work.

1) You can work hard in a non-competitive society.

2) That being said, hard work isn't -- contrary to what you seem to think -- inherently good. An industrialized genocide took place because my ancestors were diligent and hard-working. And I'd wager that a significant portion of modern-day hard workers is complicit in committing ecocide.

3) Besides, the way that you fetishize your ancestors' way of life I surely hope you're not vaccinated against polio and tetanus. And heaven forbid, I hope you are not wearing contact lenses or glasses. Disregard the current levels of automation and manifold other advances, putting in the hard work in a competitive society and eventually dying of typhus is most definitely the way.
> so it results in rich get richer In PoW, the same 'rich get richer' applies - miners can buy more mining rigs and thus it compounds the same?

In theory, if and when proof of mining actually becomes the mainstream vehicle for global financial transactions, simply buying more mining rigs won't be enough. They will need to institutionalize and reinvest heavily into their infra. The mining rig that could find ten blocks yesterday may only be able to find one block tomorrow if the competition becomes fierce. Since it's a permissionless system, if one miner starts doing it and makes a lot of money AND Bitcoin gets accepted as a legitimate payment network, other companies will enter the space and the competition will accelerate. That can't happen with PoS.

> miners invest heavily in constantly innovating and investing back into the network In PoS, is this not exactly the same, if not even more true? Stakers are by definition highly invested into the network

The difference is in continuous investment vs. one time investment. With proof of work (again, assuming when these models actually work as designed), you will need to invest more and more into the infrastructure as a miner to stay profitable. As a result the entire network becomes more and more secure. But with proof of stake, the stakers do not have incentive to compete in this manner. With proof of stake, you can literally throw around money to gain influence over a network. With Proof of Work that's not enough because you have to "keep investing", so you need actual commitment to the future. That's much stronger security than a network made up of people who only care about the present.

> PoW had decreased decentralization substantially to only happen in regions where electricity is the cheapest. PoS prevents this problem.

This is like saying "Riding car is dangerous because people can get hit by a car and die. Walking prevents this problem." There's always a solution for every problem. Even the decentralization. The only reason why that hasn't happened is because the Bitcoin network is not worth that much when it comes to its value as a payment system. That doesn't mean there is no solution. For example, using certain clever hashing algorithm, multiple miners can specialize and only do things that each location is optimized for. Mining doesn't just involve hashing. You can generate revenue through including more transactions in a block, for example.
I’d buy the top-end Apple Watch today if it was compatible with my Android phone; as-is, the slate of compatible watches are too poor for me to bother with any of them.

Though, I’m one person, so that doesn’t invalidate your point.
Did you see much change after the attempt to move the software guys out of Texas?
Except that little thing called freedom of speech gets in the way.
Fast.ai works pretty well when you're working on standard tasks but starts to fall apart when you want to do something more exotic.
Oh I got you, I was just piggybacking for the OP’s eyes if they see it. Because lots of people do end up having budgeting difficulties due to a large number of small, seemingly inconsequential purchases.
SPQR: about the fall of Rome. You will be shocked by the parallels to what is happening in the US.
One idea I started building and never finished was "pseudocode as code".

The idea was to have a compiler for pseudocode used in CS books in place of real code.

There are a few small differences (eg. using = vs :=) but most books and interview-preparing materials use a C-like notation.

Then I started reading papers written by language researchers (which use haskell-like pseudocode) and realised the size of the task at hand.

Probably trying to please only CS students / people doing interviews would still make for a fun hack.
You can't control what the other side of messaging does with your messages in almost any circumstance, no?
Ladies and gentleman, we got him.
I also don’t like these questions. I don’t know who is reading them and some hacks are personal.
I’ve always thought they should put the NFC chip on the bottom of the wrist rather than on the top - that seems like a much less awkward position.
This is great idea and I love the name.

Like some others hear I'm more interested in the carbon cost of purchases. How long it takes to earn the cost is something my brain automatically calculates! (maybe younger folks don't do that).

I recently worked on an idea to try and build a movement to rally people around taking action to benefit the CO2 problem during a specific month of the year: https://march2zero.com
Fitbit is able to export the semi-open FIT file data format.

https://www.thisisant.com/
"We are seeking a permanent injunction against defendants and demanding that they delete all Facebook data in their possession"

Facebook data. Not user data. That pretty much sums it up.
The term has been used utterly consistently across many decades of academic writing. It is absolutely not a motte and bailey. It truly is about how many masculine-coded expectations trap men in harmful behaviors and patterns.
I'm working on the iOS version of Proxyman (https://proxyman.io).

If you know Charles Proxy, you know Proxyman is, a native macOS app that provides better UIUX and debugging features, e.g. Scripting with JS or Automation scripts for iOS/Android.
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.

given that HN isn't an analogue for the world at large, one wonders if this lesson learned on HN translates at all to what may happen elsewhere as a result of the ongoing corporate 'de-platforming' campaigns.
People said that about open source compilers. Where are we now?

You need to give it a few years before you write it off. It's significant that most CS/EE students are now learning the RISC-V architecture.
see my comment in sibling thread. with proof of work, it's not just about money. proof of work mining forces miners to invest through future commitment, which means you can't just bring some one time money and gain influence. For proof of stake it's only about the present.
Wouldn't electrifying the manufacturing process (perhaps with solar and / or nuclear) and shipping process eventually reduce total emissions?
The amount of salt, sugar and other preservatives in that water is probably not good.

Try to cook your own chickpeas, it's super easy, fast if you know the tricks and a hell of a lot cheaper, and I am no vegan, just love them, you also generate less waste.
My favorite candidate is the Chott el-Djerid. A canal to the Mediterranean would create a huge inland sea in a largely abandoned Tunisian desert. The resulting increase in precipitation could irrigate the northern half of the country, boosting Africa's youngest democracy.
I mean, at least in the US, you can buy utter crap in the store at crazy prices. Plenty of stuff that just barely hits the regulatory requirements but doesn't do any good engineering work beyond that.
They most definitely do, using their developer program. Look up Apple vs Epic for a case where they weaponized this.
People conflate the fact with simply desiring that sort of salary; pointing to Levels provides the justification for demanding top-of-market wages. It's not that we deny the existence of lower-paid SWE's, we just place less emphasis on them when evaluating our financial ambitions in the context of our careers. (If I'll be working 40+ hours regardless of company, might as well maximize wages).