skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP:
> They exist because they’re popular and because the currently successful ones acquired or strangled all of their smaller meaningful competitors using investment capital and money from first mover advantages.
Facebook literally copied Snapchat features into Instagram rightaway - Systrom even openly admitted it. That fits the bill of "strangled". Snapchat is in stagnation now, because everything it has is there on Insta.

Instagram and WhatsApp thrived only because Facebook acquired them, else both companies new they would be smothered to death. That pretty much fits the bill of "acquired... Using investment capital and money from first mover advantages".

They don't need you to use your FB account because they cross share data anyways. It's not like it's a painstaking operation to link different accounts, once you have all sorts of device data (which Facebook had, even on Apple devices up until recently).
Thanks for pointing out. I've never experienced that problem tho. Also, I've seen no warning about it from the veterans in the FPN.

In my country, bottled water is very cheap hence it's used a lot in the household. I prefer bottled water for dunking my pens.

In any way, a pen doesn't stay in room temperature water more than 24 hours and inks already have cleaners inside. For a frequently used pen, you don't need to clean it more than 3-4 times a year.

It's always possible to "power wash" a pen with a bulb syringe and some water in 5 minutes but it needs some experience and willingness.
From Amsterdam, dev and founder before, looking into setting up Saas, would love to have coffee
Censoring content rather than refuting its claims is counterproductive. If skeptics are not able to be argumentatively refute a claim, they will not succeed in changing minds. The current strategy of trying to silence view points will eventually fail miserably.

The issue is that when a platform outsources its censorship (“moderation”) to a third party that it still controls, rather than a third party that is actually perceived to be neutral by most people, then you create distrust which further fuels conspiracy theories. Also a conspiracy theory may actually be true. Jeffrey Epstein was not discussed during the 2016 election aside from a few fringe articles. It was too toxic for mainstream to touch. And everyone in Hollywood knew about Harvey Weinstein and even joked about it. These topics were covered up only for so long. Today there are lots of insane and farfetched theories being floated. But the theories being censored today that are indeed based in reality, will eventually become common knowledge and the censors will be implicated in the coverup thereby harming their trust.

Discussion, debate, argument, evidence, analysis lead us towards truth. Mute only appears to work and can be a useful political tool for only so long.

Today our public forum is virtual, but still a public forum. Trump wasn’t allowed to block certain followers because of their right to be in the forum and hear from their president.

So the question is whether governments will acknowledge this fact and limit the power of our big tech group communication platforms and enforce transparency and non-biased appeals process. Or will they cede total control of our public forums to Big Tech out of short term political convenience.
The second paragraph of [0] says about the same, with reasons.

[0]: https://plfa.github.io/Preface/#personal-remarks
Is that you, Bilbo Baggins?
Vole.wtf
The capabilities of using a tiny client for a beefy/flexible server seem to be getting better and more mature as robust clients get cheap and bandwidth get solid. I love it. I’ve been very very slowly using AWS as my “computer” more and more. S3 is a wonderfully cheap infinite hard drive and I never have to worry about migrating scripts. And EC2 is as flexible as computing gets. And since I need to recreate everything every time I boot up, reproducibility is a must, but that’s easy when you have it from the get go.

I kinda worry about the economical likely next steps of using a thin client like a raspberry pi, like everything will become netflix/stadia and you never own the important bits.

But on the technical side it’s really great.
What software stack are you using to get your 3090s working? Any hitches along the way?
> I'd like to know what exactly is so "insane" about pointing this out.

Well, it’s both false on some points and misleading in much of the rest, in service of a false narrative, like much of Greenwald’s monomaniacal campaign to drive a wedge between the Left and the Democratic establishment [0]; the Espionage Act was not passed primarily to criminalize dissent, and the aspects that were arguably intended for that purpose and definitely misused for it have been largely neutralized by subsequent court decisions narrowing their applicability on Constitutional grounds (as, also, have other aspects of the law that address what is more commonly understood as spying), and were not, in any case, the provisions of the law under which prosecutions were carried out under the Obama Administration.

Now, that's not necessarily insane, if, for one example of a scenario in which it would be perfectly rational, Geenwald’s goal is to advance the interests of common opponents of both the Left and the Democratic Establishment

[0] I have no problem with driving a wedge between the Left and the Center-Right Democratic establishment based on the truth, as a Left-leaning pragmatist I recognize that's the only way to get any drive for progress on Left issues. Doing it based on lies and distortion doesn't create pressure for progress, just division and distraction.
The longer they leave it, the larger the unprecedented amout of e-waste will be. The only alternative is to hold off... forever?
I think the UK population, as in most countries and maybe all of them, have a higher tolerance for such things when their own fellow citizens are being murdered and blown up.
Absolutely. In addition all carriers use multi-lateration and sectorization to fine tune location. The better the location the more valuable it is for commercial resale and CALEA sales.

Notice that all of this is entirely legal, above board, and you agreed to it as part of your service agreement.

Source: I worked for AT&T and Carrier IQ
Does that code depend on sun.misc.Unsafe?
Tbf, what also sometimes happens is that you move somewhere, discover that a local business is breaking noise pollution regulations, but when you complain you are met with aggression because "it has always been like this, you should have done your research". And maybe that's true, but we have laws about some of this stuff for a reason - if they are being broken then I don't see problem with complaining.
Initially, I thought, "So what, many computers today run on 16 G...", and then I did a double-take!!

16 MB! Brings back very old memories! This is really an impressive achievement.

I suppose with the hugely reduced cost of memory, our PCs (or should I say, computer users) have also become, I can't think of a better word, less efficient?

I mean, I remember doing so many tweaks to improve speed on those old systems. But I really don't bother with all those things any more.

Anyway, thanks for this.
60s total or each? I haven't tried WSL2 but I had to help people with _really_ bad docker performance running in WSL (php page load took around 60s)
Patron is not obligated to serve anyone (besides protected classes).

You are perhaps trying to imply that patron is such a large monopoly that there is no viable alternative to which I would respond that patrons monopoly should be addressed directly (treat the cause not the symptom.)
Most Beautiful Question of Computer Science (+Math)
You might want to check out MicroConf Connect. I'm a founder of a bootstrapped startup and find the Slack community pretty interesting. https://microconf.com/microconf-connect
am I the only one to think that in the

> Keith
hi
> Tim
...?

interaction, the issue is Tim not answering by "hi, what's up" ? I find that utterly rude
> it also exposes you to corporate risk if it in fact was a sensitive matter with urgency and it's deemed that the necessary communication attempts were made

You're joking, right? I'll print your chat history of a single "hi" and that'll be all the evidence I need to clear my name. That print-out is going on my wall afterwards. You're funny.
> why people who are already breaking one law would care about the others

Remind me not to get in your way when you're jaywalking.

Premeditating a felony firearms offense is one thing. I think the majority who entered the Capitol were probably thinking that most of the rhetoric they were hearing beforehand was hyperbole and were probably expecting to just protest outside the capital, and then got swept up in the moment and committed misdemeanor/felony breaking-and-entering.
I’m banned from Twitter without explanation. I made an account, followed 3-4 tech celebrities like Paul graham, and posted a single tweet similar to “I finally got pressured into making a dumb Twitter account...” The account got banned for community violations within an hour and my support email said that my requests for support would not be responded to. Years later, I’m working on a video game and I’m worried this will make it hard to do marketing coming up in case my ip got flagged along the way.
I am Polish and I haven't watched too many of his programs, but great respect for the quality of journalism.
Are you being purposefully misleading?

People moved in and then the race track tried to get noise restrictions from the 1950s changed to benefit them.(increasing no-muffler days(wtf?) and opening race course on sunday)

From your linked propaganda piece:

> restrictions on use set in the 1950s.

I'd be heavily on side of people wanting a peaceful place to live than to cater to ignorant arseholes who don't want to use mufflers cos they like the sound it makes.
I was involved using Java right from the very start, in 1995 while it was still available as a beta.

I remember being distinctly annoyed that the Java 1.1 broke the model introduced in Java 1.0, in which a JVM which had no Windows showing or Threads running would terminate automatically. When Java 1.1 was created, the event dispatcher thread was created (incorrectly, in my opinion) as a non-daemon thread, which meant as soon as you loaded the toolkit the JVM would never close until you hit System.exit. Here's the bug I proposed a fix with in November 1998:

https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4030718

The shutdown hook never got fixed; these days there's convenience methods to add a shutdown hook to the (J)Frame so that on close it would call System.exit for you.

I've written a bit more about my history here if you're interested:

https://alblue.bandlem.com/2021/01/java-1.0-turns-25.0.html
“rosh katan” vs. “rosh gadol“
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you’re not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, ‘How would I do this if I were a fool?’ Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you’ll never go wrong.”
Write a fuse layer.
> See the “Bernie Bros” who flipped into full Trumpists a few short months later in 2016. I’m sure if you look back at the Spanish Civil War and other divisive historical time periods you’ll find plenty of turncoats that flip from one extreme to another.

This seems like a bit of a myopic, low-dimensional view of the political landscape. Bernie and trump (esp candidate trump) weren't "opposite extremes" when it came to plenty of issues: anti-free trade, anti-corporatist, promises to protect entitlements, complaining about the corruption of the existing political order, even just the populist vs technocrat aesthetic.

For people who prioritize this issue, the notion that Bernie and Trump are "opposite extremes" in every way relative to Hillary is laughable.

(President trump obviously reneged on much of his promises as a candidate and went with many mainstream gop policies, but that's neither here not there when discussing support during the election)
Honestly doubt that he was disabled due to the content of his posts, seems more like an unrelated error on FB's side.
Race tracks usually have established noise limits though, at most tracks I've been to if your car is louder than X you will be kicked out. I don't know this specific case but race tracks specifically have noise regulations attached to them.
The melodrama in this comment reads like Stockholm syndrome. Honestly mate, it’s not that bad. Give it a go, try not using it for a week. Humans managed for thousands of years without knowing what great Aunt Flo thinks of immigrants or 5G every waking second. You don’t need your life validated by someone liking your posts, there’s real life ways of finding actual meaning in your actions.
I think of the major database vendors only postgres uses mmap and everyone else does their own I/O caching management.
If it detects my account as a bot I would say it's buggy, because I've done none of that stuff.
Hi, I am not sure if I fully understood your model:

You said you will release the 1.5 K, 2K, ... features once you reach a monthly recurring sponsorship revenue of that amount of Dollars.

What do you do if the sum of the monthly pledges goes down at some point? Will you make those features private again?

I guess it's a bit counter-intuitive for me that a one-time release of a feature is tied to a recurring sponsorship level.

On the other hand, that's basically the monthly-license-fee subscription model, so I guess it DOES make sense.
I am similar -- I took a small boostraped venture to $1.3m ARR in about 3 years. To this day i almost spend $0 marketing. Email me so we can connect or whatsapp somid3 /\-at-*_- gmail ^dot& com or +1 five-1-zero 499 5497.
Some use neither.
>CTO at a non-tech company (~75 people) that's trying to become more technical.

Can you elaborate? What does this company do? Why did they view themselves as non-tech? What was the impetus behind the decision to become more technical? What are their goals in doing so? What would winning look for them? How do you plan this transition? What have been the problems you faced doing that? What's your experience hiring technical people for this 'non-tech' company; are they excited because everything is to be done or do they eschew it because they'd rather work for a tech's tech company?
Shouldn't your write strategy be resilient to that kind of stuff (eg. shutdown during a partial update) ?
My new favorites are the Sharpie S-Gel 0.7mm: https://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-S-Gel-Medium-Point-0-7mm/dp/B...

I liked some of the other gel pens I've tried but they all smudge like crazy. This Sharpie one writes great and doesn't smudge at all.
> This is something I am interested and considering as a possible future for my career, coming from a math background and starting to dip my toes into ML.

I'm in the exact same position.

I think mathematical explanations and (substantiated) intuition for the things that practitioners discover would be very useful. Maybe an all explaining grand theory of deep learning is possible.
My first thought as well. Also, airports.
Common in farming areas near cities in USA.

People move to be close to nature but the farmers are out spreading manure at 5:30 AM and trucks are going up and down the "quiet country lane" all day.
Telehealth Tobacco Cessation Program
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Stop doing what?
Very well written.

Always thought this was a cool, tidy computer.
And for some reason Crostini still isn't available on the majority of Chromebooks.
It is more so that if a country have maximum sound regulations, then either the law should define exceptions for certain animals, and if it do not, it should be treated the same.

I would assume there are certain maximum sound volume regulations in France as they exist in many places.

“tradition” is all too commonly used as an argument to break the law. I do not believe it should play a factor at all whether something happened in the past, merely whether it violate the law.

If France have nationwide rules about sound levels and the rooster exceeded them, then that is all the diligence a man needs to have done. One may certainly expect that the government upholds the law uniformly throughout one's country.
I don't agree with the BASIC analogy. In the early home computer era, one of the main reasons to buy a computer was as a vehicle to run BASIC programs. Its market penetration was near 100%. It did fade (though there are many VBA holdouts in the real world), but eventually something else will overtake Python as well.
Microsoft one of the largest contributors to subverters of Democracy
I would like to understand what exactly are the features that an alternative to Facebook would need and what would the minimal viable product require in order for people to use it? Any expansion or comments on the proposed list would be appreciated.
While I agree the premise is silly, there is definitely more nuance in the (fascinating) article you shared. The one thibg stands out the most (and is only referenced once, compare to multiple times for their grievences) is that they're not looking to host one event a year on a Sunday, they want to allow racing 22 sunday's a year (out of 52). Given the track is closed for many months of the year, I'm guessing what they're really asking for is every week from April to september. Combined with the move from Tuesday to Thursday unmuffled for 20 weeks, it really means they want to change a race track which is a hobby track into a 4-day series for 5 months of the year.
European-Style Data Privacy Bill Returns in Washington State
> You're joking, right? I'll print your chat history of a single "hi" and that'll be all the evidence I need to clear my name. That print-out is going on my wall afterwards. You're funny.

Counterpoint:

> Director, HR. First interaction with this user.

> 2:30: "Hey, this is a matter with urgency. Got a second?"

> missed call at 2:33pm

> 2:45: "Hey, I've reached out to your manager Taylor J. to resolve the matter."
There's another aide of this coin which is also important. There's that whole urbanism movement which is all about making our town and cities more suited to humans. Making the streets more walkable, reducing traffic, increasing bike infrastructure, increasing green spaces. These are all things that people have the right to request in a big city because it makes living there better for everyone.
Beg to differ, Symantec Visual Cafe was way better.
Propaganda as defined by the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the "dissemination of information—facts, arguments, rumours, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion." While organizations commonly characterized as "Big Green" or "Big Oil" may both have used propaganda-like strategies, that doesn't take away from the fact that an organized Twitter disinformation network definitely falls under this definition, whether "Big Oil" runs it or not.
Objective-C had an IMP pointer, essentially a function pointer. If you needed to send a message to an object in a tight loop, you could extract the pointer before the loop and use it inside.
Skylab was in LEO. There is hardly any decay once you get higher up, you're quickly approach "many lifetimes". That's why the new huge LEO constellations won't be a big space garbage problem.
Measuring process CPU scheduling latency on Linux
imo, instead of developing new theory entirely from the ground up, its more useful to address & work in the context of understanding longstanding open problems/phenomenon. Theoretical insight and the framework should follow.

e.g.

Robustness & expressiveness

Memorization & catastrophic forgetting

Ensembling & ntk & optimization

Double descent

Pruning
[Replying here as you suggested in the other comment.]

The balls in a pool table are 100% quantum, but they are approximated very accurately by Classic Mechanics.

At this level, the position of the nuclei can be approximated to move classically, and the electrons quantically. Moreover, the standard trick is to approximate that the nuclei doesn't move, and then calculate the distributions of the electron with quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%E2%80%93Oppenheimer_appro...

Once you calculate the distribution of the electrons assuming the nuclei are at different positions, you can approximate an effective force between the nuclei and calculate how they move almost like classic objects.

The calculation is too difficult, and the other nearby atoms affect them, so there are a lot of approximations. For big system, you need to use something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%E2%80%93Oppenheimer_appro... that approximate the force between the atoms, with some formulas that hide all the quantumness and then move as if they were classic objects.

So it's a quantum system, like everything in this word. But the apparent atoms that appear and disappear are not explained by weird quantum effects. They can be explained with the simplified classic model when the camera takes too few frames, the objects are moving too much, and the background is too noisy.
It's unclear. I've heard people get the V100 without Colab Pro. Albeit I do use Colab Pro and get a V100 almost each time.

As an aside, if you do get a V100, Colab Pro is by-far the cheapest way to train an AI model. ($10/mo is much, much cheaper than $2.48+/hr on GCP normally!) Although you need to sync checkpoints to off-loaded storage in case the Notebook dies.
I don't have much to say besides Congratulations!

Yes, it's insane (and I've been to less overwhelming situations). But hey, if people were perfectly rational and risk-averse nobody would start anything.

Interested to know more and see where it ends up, alstublieft.
Actually no. You cannot believe in curbing privacy-invading legislation and also cheer on warantless mass cell phone location tracking at the same time. You need to pick one.
More discussion in 2019, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201354
last week:

“they’re a private company they can do whatever they want”

this week:

omg facebook evil. they banned who they wanted
"First, you'll have to consider the prerequisites, which are pretty significant, particularly for RAM. You'll need Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or OS/2 Warp V4, an SVGA display, and, IBM says, 32MB of RAM (with 48MB recommended), at least 45MB of free disk space for the software (with an additional 30MB free disk space for swapping), and lastly, an unzip program"

I think 32MB would have been about what a typical desktop would have come with in 1997, so yeah, it was a hog. I remember my manager buying extra memory for us and having us install it ourselves because he didn't want to wait for IT.
"Generics" (a.k.a. parametric polymorphism) might be terrible for code clarity in a verbose language with subtyping and little to no type inference, but in many languages they actually improve code clarity:

map : (A -> B) -> [A] -> [B]

It's quite clear from the above type signature what this function does and does not do. It can only use the supplied A's to create B's using the supplied function. It cannot do anything else with the A's and the B's. To me, that is clarity.
Congrats, thats some impressive growth in a short time.

If you want to know what not to do, I'm happy to chat, email in my profile.
I've made almost every possible mistake in the last 20 years ;-)
Despite all the mistakes my current company is a couple of stages past the 250k ARR and I'm on the right track.

In the end most advice in this situation is not rocket science, like for example:

- reserve time to work on your business, not just in your business

- build a team, not a group of individuals

- leadership becomes important in this stage, start reading on the subject, there is a ton of information available.

And most important, try to enjoy the ride. There is not one big moment you are working towards, it's all the little moments that mather.