skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting discussion at the start about solving specific problems as opposed to paying attention to trajectory. i believe in this wholly, it applies to everything.
If only Fire Eagle had caught on. It's quantization method is much stronger than the way Telegram works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Eagle
We were told Parler aided in the riots, but they did not. If Parler actually did what they were accused of that would be "but Facebook did it too". Facebook and Twitter did it and Parler did not.

>If anything, you're arguing for more legal pressure on Facebook, not for getting Parler their AWS account back.

I am arguing for consistency. Parler was accused of something they did not do. They were found guilty by Amazon, Google and Apple. It then came out they were innocent, but the real perpetrators (Facebook and Twitter) and not being punished.

If what Parler was accused of doing was so serious that removing them from app stores and AWS was the correct move then it seems like if people were consistent they would be calling for the same thing with the real perpetrators. I haven't seen any widespread support for removing the apps from the app stores.

The whole thing feels political and not real outrage which is what I was trying to convey.
So you're saying this tape claim will end up being some new form of CD?
as a user and member of WSB I have been trying to think how one could create a platform that is meant to deal with bots. I think this is going to be a crucial thing in the coming years.

Bad actors are able to easily influence the sentiment of a community with these bots. I even thought after all this is over WSB is dead, it doesn’t cost much for these firms to continue to leave their bots on posting and changing the sentiment of the community and ultimately forcing members to leave.

Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done?
"In news shared on Twitter, 2021 has seen the whale community - investors that hold more than 1,000 Bitcoin - grow aggressively. More than 200 new HODLers have appeared, lending more weight to the narrative that institutional investors continue to see value in cryptocurrency.

Ethereum too had a muted day, after a week of stellar growth. The project nudged up 0.8%, maintaining its position above $1,500 for four days straight."
Technology helped the small guys compete with the big boys. Cross River is a tiny bank yet they ranked 4th after the top 3 banks with staff, resources, and scale beyond Cross River. Yet, they were were able to utilize fintech to rank 4th. It really put the top 3 to shame and shows how limp they are when it comes to innovation and agility.
Second paragraph :

> If you’ve never heard of this feature and you suddenly feel the urge to delete your Telegram account forever, let me stress something very important: “People Nearby” is opt-in. By default, no one can see how far away you are on Telegram. You’ll only ever end up in other people’s lists by pressing the “Make Myself Visible” button. If you choose to try it out, remember to disable it once you’re done.
"late digestive microbiome transfer"

"early digestive microbiome transfer" would be .. bar.. puk..
emetic reflux transplantation.
Is this an issue in practice in more than a rounding error number of Macs? I'd bet lots of money that the vast majority of developers (that is, people likely to be installing Homebrew in the first place) are using effectively single-user systems.
Basic Income is the same thing as Welfare + Taxation, but done more efficiently.

Prominent economist - Greg Mankiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cL8kM0fXQc

Removing the needs assessment also removes the geographic location requirement, and that allows to deflate the land value inflation that is the real cause of inequality today.
> How does Disqus sell your visitors' data with thirdparties without your consent?

> Actually, you give them the consent when you agree to their privacy policy.

I doubt that this is legal according to the GDPR.

Also, didn't Mozilla also have a commenting system? https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/06/mozilla-washington-...
No, I absolutely agree with the sentiment of the post. It was a singular sentence that indicated Mozilla's comfort with intermediating between the user and the content they consume.

>Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

It's an innocuous sentiment, but one with significant long-term implications for the behavioral norms of web-browsers.

I've held my nose at a few decisions pertaining to the general direction of the browser, such as the by-default inclusion of Pocket - which I resented, but could understand their need to find ways to become financially independent, and the browser otherwise improved consistently.
I assume that we could just isolate and culture the bacteria colonies in clean agar agar, solving the problem.
If people didn’t eat cows or drink milk, they’d be like most other large ruminants... extinct.
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The X-37's very long missions suggest that it doesn't really have any uses, and these long missions are just to park it someplace where it looks less like it has just been mothballed.
It's a shame that Clojure only 'officially' supports the LTS versions. That is then reflected in what versions libraries and tools support so things seem to regularly break near the bleeding edge.
That ignores two important aspects: does India's future matter more than its present? and: total GDP tells much less about the people than GDP per capita. India is 3-4 times the population of USA.
pervasive surveillance and tracking -> Advertising
The first edition is a great book, I completely recommend the first ~4 chapters, after that the ROI is not as good.

Personal opinion: I have found "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" to be a better introduction to the same set of topics.
Design Justice – Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
The US government's priorities changed when it became clear those companies could tamper with their election chances. All other concerns immediately became secondary.

> all the new compliance cost

We don't need new compliance costs, we just need the DOJ and FTC to enforce our existing laws and break Google and Facebook up. They're already in violation of the law.
Nevada will allow tech companies to create governments
Thank you this is the exact kind of information I'm looking for. Can I PM you?
>"Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term?"

I assume you know that happened all the time during the Reformation period with Henry the Eighth starting it, with a contrasting bit in the middle where Bloody Mary persecuted non-Catholics instead.
They were bored and the internet hadn't been invented yet.

Once kings and queens weren't in charge, things got a lot more relaxed in that area.
What will the venture money be used for? Marketing?
>Also low latency scenarios

Low latency (e.g. HFT) = no database at all, esp. not on the fast paths. Mostly direct buffers for everything, including interprocess communication via file mapped memory.
Terrascan 1.3.1: Improving Usability, Flexibility
Maybe Steve Jobs did the same berated to himself?
I must thank you for your precise verbiage. The way you put this has given me a lot of clarity about how one can solve this particular problem, and is definitely going to be helpful in any future similiar issues I might face as well. Thanks for writing this out.
It seems reasonable that people in that line of work would get exposed to random folks' germs orders of magnitude more often than someone not working around waste, even if they aren't swimming in it.
Really big thought/strategy: try to avoid talking to HR, and find the hiring manager instead.

HR is a filter for applicants. They want to make the process easy and low-risk for the company, which is a critical part of the role... But the hiring manager needs to want you badly, to hire you... If the hiring manager is saying, "Hire rafiki6 at any cost, JUST DO IT" then HR will help you.

... but HR teams rarely go out of their way to promote a candidate aggressively to a hiring manager.
there's nothing wrong with sharing anecdotes, but it's not science until someone actually does the "proving/disproving" in a convincing way.
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Same here :), but a beauty like 6809 is worth remembering.
Good times. So much nicer to code for vs 6502 and Z80.
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But at the end of the day, the battery can still die. If your car battery dies, the car doesn't seize up and the brakes don't stop working. The power steering goes away and the power braking, so they're harder to press, but you can still get the job done.

Having a curtain come over your eyes is an unacceptable solution.
This message is sponsored by your friendly neighborhood big memory/storage consortium /s

On a serious note, using fewer datatypes is super helpful for any kind of serialization.
> Also, ports for older/ancient versions of OS X are frequently source-only, but since Homebrew doesn’t support such systems at all, it's not really a fair point of comparison.

On an old, unsupported, system homebrew drops down to compiling. just the other day it compiled for four hours just to update one program. kinda infuriating really since there are downloads for those packages still.
Be evil -> Don't be evil.
You'd likely be better off using the library directly and writing your own wrapper. You could probably setup a basic one in 10 lines of code.
Doesn't turning off all this make you stand out more?

Surely if you want to hide your need to look like everyone else and hide in the crowds.
>but no one cares about that long-term

indeed. and i congratulate you on your recent success in predicting the tastes of others who buy equities based on speculative price action. spac management likely makes their decisions largely focused on share price, which i suppose as an equity investor would feel like they have your back. but when you consider the role equity is meant to play in corporate finance, you would concede that in an ideal world management would not pay attention to share price at all, they would be working on making the most money possible using the assets and equity they already had, and then either returning or reinvesting those profits. the equity markets will always have a chaotic bent in the short term, so we should be careful of the ways we let them influence policy. its really a circular dependency if you think about it.
> But what good is it if it won't deviate from Google's vision of the web? It will go toe-to-toe with Chrome at being Chrome, and almost nothing more.

By all means, criticize Mozilla. I'm not even saying people should use Firefox. Like I said, I don't want Firefox to become dominant. People just shouldn't use criticisms of Mozilla as justification for using a browser developed by a demonstrably worse organization.

I've seen a few people respond with examples of poor experiences they've had with Firefox. I haven't shared those experiences, but if people have found that Chrome/Chromium is a significantly better product than Firefox that's at least a valid reason to consider sticking with Google's browser.

If people are comfortable using a completely different browser like Pale Moon with no ties to Firefox or Chromium, that's even better.
I tried codemirror and draftjs. Draftjs was actually much better than codemirror, the api for the former is so difficult to deal with, the latter was a bliss.
> Notice how many companies have dedicated DevOps roles in their ranks whereas everyone and their mother who is a practitioner has been saying since the very beginning that that's now how it should be.

I dunno who says that but they're dead wrong. I'm working as a dev somewhere with a dedicated DevOps finally after years of being dev + ops (+dba +sysadmim +qa) and I can't tell you how much of a relief it is to have other people shoulder that stuff so I don't have to think about it.

I understand your point that devs who have a higher level understanding of systems and deploy pipelines and such are probably able to write good systems themselves, but when it comes to the humans doing the work? I absolutely love having it separated.
Obviously depends on where along the learning curve, and preformed command line literacy, which on a venue like HN is always assumed to be native.

Actually not.

As a hypothetical, consider a Rip Van Winkle situation in which a mathematician wakes from a coma he's been in since the 1970s. Now force him to typeset one of his monographs. He'll do it in MS Word.

I have personal experience pertaining to this.

Before I was a programmer, I was a graduate student in mathematics. I wound up in the early 90s having never used Word or TeX and in a position where I needed to type up a paper. I began with Word, and before long I complained about how hard it was. A fellow grad student said I should learn how to do it in TeX.

It was literally faster, *on the very first paper that I tried to type*, to learn TeX and then type my paper in TeX than it was to try to do it in Word. The visual result was also massively better with TeX. Typesetting math formulas in Word is simply that bad.

I've tried to typeset some simple mathematics in Word since. The experience has not materially improved when it comes to typing real mathematics.

Based on this personal experience, I am quite confident that in the Rip Van Winkle situation that you describe, the mathematician will wind up doing it in TeX. And do it the same way that I did. Try Word because that seems easier. Ask a fellow mathematician when that proves to be a terrible experience. Be pointed at TeX and given a few tips. Discover that it is easier.
Yes, that's the problem right there -- incredible amount of dark patterns when you just want to unsub. This puts me off and I skipped a good amount of subs to popular services because of these horror stories.

That, plus PayPal is ripping you off with currency conversions.
> I mean, we can measure other things like long-term impacts on people's health, prevalence of crime, etc... but one of the questions I was hearing when this idea was first floated was actually, "can these situations be resolved without arrests, or are the police just going to need to be eventually called anyway?" And it does seem like this outcome goes some way towards answering that quest

Yes, but this is exactly the question. Were these situations 'resolved'? We don't know. The article doesn't say. All it says is that nobody was arrested. You can just as easily achieve zero arrests by doing absolutely nothing at all.
You paint with a very broad brush here, but I think that there is a pattern of toxic work culture in the kitchens of many top restaurants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/dining/chef-restaurant-cu...
What about the iOS users? AFAIK, it's more likely the Ahmadiyyas have iPhones since they are a relatively well-off community compared to the rest of Pakistan (or the Muslim world in general).
I love programming when I know I'm actively contributing to something or I have people who want to use my software. I actually lose a lot of motivation to write software if I don't have an active goal or someone to share it with. Being able to help people, get a new tool for my development toolkit, or solve tangible/"real" problems gives me what feels like infinite inspiration to work on programming outside of work.

I'm not built like some of the people on here or Reddit who get thrills from solving interview questions or coding for the sake of curiosity about math problems. When I'm solving a puzzle with code where the reward is just knowing an independent answer, I think programming is just a chore. The feeling of it being a chore is alleviated a little if I have someone to talk to about the problem in question. Unfortunately, that type of person who loves solving code puzzles for the sake of solving them is not only the majority, but that type of person is usually in a position to decide whether or not I get to make a living writing software.
Is this a NCaaS - a notification-center as a service? That sounds similar to offerings like Pusher, that help you build one of the most complex parts of your app.

Whether this is useful will depend on how flexible the system is. Is it possible to define categories of notifications with different behaviors? Can you customize the UI to fit in seamlessly with your app? When notifications get sent by email, can you send them in batches so the users don't get inundated in task assignments etc?
https://youtu.be/x3nFe7EpWAY
So what? You can still share your selfhosted blog article around the internet. Like the olden days. Or the modern days, where right now we are all reading someones selfhosted blog that was shared with us without using a restrictive platform like Medium. You can offer RSS or mailing lists. You don't need all this cruft to fix problems that have been solved 20 years ago.
> What is the value in putting a person through forced rehab when the reasons they are drinking/ on drugs hasn't gone away?

As someone who did exactly this and stopped using because of it, they can be quite significant.
Yes, I think the DS market in general got hit since it's a nice to have for most companies, or most companies have no idea what their DS groups do anyway and were just jumping in on the hype. Also there is a glut of talent from bootcamps and cert programs because every newspaper posted an article in the last 5-10 years about how Data Science is the hot new career where you get a six figure salary for showing up. This industry is going through it's growing pains and I'm finding a lot of DS positions are slowly transforming into ML Engineering, Data Engineering, or Analyst roles, especially as ML gets more commoditized with higher level frameworks like HuggingFace coming about. I think I've narrowed my search towards ML engineering.
Seems fairly different. My tool does not restart the process, it hot patches functions and methods whenever they are modified in the source, like the OP.
Ask Parler how well that works in the new era of FAANG dominance.
And all those hordes of "AI" "engineers" are less useful than a few hundred statisticians. If the buzzwords get innumerate business types to invest in building models, that is great. I just wish they would let people use things that actually work and that a human can understand, like linear regression.

We have seen legitimate revolutions in natural language processing, computer vision, and games. Those things, however, are still a long way from being useful.
It's the link between 8-bit and 16-bit: at least that's what Motorola marketing said, look at the cover of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/MOTOROLA-MC6809E-MICROPROCESSOR-PROGR...
https://www.cnet.com/news/tim-cook-says-privacy-is-an-issue-...

Tim Cook says privacy is an issue of morality
PHP isn't that bad for production performance, if you have the right mindset.

Another way of saying PHP has to bootstrap everything on each request (which is a bit of an overreach; it doesn't reload C libraries, and you can do opcode caching and data caching, etc), is that PHP throws away everything you've done after each request.

That means everything that you build that isn't output somewhere is garbage.

If you spend a lot of time making a sculpture out of garbage, only to throw it away, you'll have poor performance. If you use the minimum of scaffolding to send out the bytes you want to send, you can get pages (or api responses, whatever) with a few ms of overhead in addition to your underlying data fetches. You could certainly go faster with something else, but PHP can be decently fast.

On the other hand, your code won't look at all like what people think of as 'modern' PHP.
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I do when I can. It's not easy to find the hiring manager for every role posted unless the hiring manager promotes the role themselves.
>An impartial cost-benefit analysis needs to be done which is sadly impossible for someone whose funding comes from the deep pockets of Wall Street and institutional investors.

The link is to an academic paper that literally performs an impartial cost-benefit analysis of SPACs based on publicly available information, and concludes that the way SPACs are currently structured are a pretty crap deal apart from those who are able to get in early.

You mention underwriting fees, and the paper makes a big emphasis to emphasize the implicit costs of SPACs (i.e. all of the dilution) that people ignore.

Also, I'm not sure where the idea comes that SPACs are 'anti-wall street'. The sponsors and investors are some of the largest Wall Street Institutions out there (large Hedge Funds)

However, there are different ways of doing SPACs and the paper mentions a recent SPAC that gets rid of some of the excesses that end up screwing over the post-merger investors
You're suggesting that if Apple and Google create an app-loading mechanism that makes it difficult for them to block an app, that Pakistan will simply let them off the hook.

I don't think so. Why wouldn't Pakistan simply require them to block it anyway?

> ...since the people who run the site, including Zafar, do not live in Pakistan

Not relevant. In this case, Apple and Google do business in Pakistan. You can argue they need to leave the market. If so, let's hear it. (Personally, I don't think that would have an impact or be the right way to go even if it did.)
I'm pretty sure that we're talking more broadly about content that's "not allowed today" (according to some decision made by some people) and there's no reason why that decision wouldn't carry weight beyond a few private streaming services. Libraries distribute not just books, but also movies on disc, e-books, and even streaming content.
> Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done?

You can get rid of the automated variety pretty easily. What you can't do is stop people from paying others to post specific content. At that point, it's a human and they can pass any automated bot test you come up with.
Tim Cook: As reported by TechCrunch, he said: "I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be."
I agree and I can tell, I once ported a 6809 program to Z80.
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Your mistake was believing CEOs. The only thing you can count on is the invisible hand of capitalism, and today it requires both:

- operating in (wealthy) oppressive regimes

- denouncing those same oppressive regimes
Mmm, you do realize they’re roughly the same size, though, right? Calling one a “lumbering behemoth” and the other two door sports car (technically true, but you’re saying this for effect, I suspect) is a bit much.
Interestingly, Baidu had been selling moderator rights for boards on its Tieba (which is kind of the same as subreddits on reddit). It got lots of backlash especially after they sold mod rights for some cancer patient support group boards to, well, alternative medicine promoters.
Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light