skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a good take on things. I'm a "decentralization is the future" evangelist, and there's nothing like a solid argument to make you question part of your worldview. It's like finding another stone tablet.

I think a part of the effectiveness of the article is the distilled take on the word "decentralization" and the (arguably meta) viewpoint that being able to use the same thing everywhere isn't decentralization, but centralization that appears decentralized.
We use it at GitLab since a few months in order to manage our development toolchain [0]. Before we had people using rvm, rbenv, nvm, homebrew, system packages and everything in between. Supporting our engineers and non-engineers has been a lot easier since asdf, and the whole version manager related issues calmed down a bit.

The only thing I miss from homebrew is the pre-compiled stuff like e.g. Postgres or redis

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/-/merge...
Sometimes I try to use DuckDuckGo more for this; to exit Google's filter bubble. I have at times thought the DDG search results are worse, but maybe it's just me unused to be served a tailor-made web, and the actual problem here is that I have grown sloppy and need to work on my search keywords from a "universal web" point of view...
When a neural network "learns" something, it ends up with knowledge encoded in the network parameters. If that's not memory, we're using terminology in a different way.
Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro [video]
Never store the password in plaintext. Even with a fast hash algorithm, a strong password can't be cracked in a feasible amount of time.

It also doesn't have to be 64 characters. 16 characters in base64 is 80 bits of entropy. That's hundreds of years worth of hashes on a Bitcoin ASIC drawing hundreds of watts, for one password.
maybe just my old android tablet, but i only see a list of tracks/ thumbnails vertically, with no search by genre, author, tag, length etc.
Is it just me ? Nice idea though. thanks
The real point I got from this is not to use brand new and not battle tested technology in production.

Sure, everyone loves a rewrite, but perhaps Swift wasn't ready for it.
Left-handed vs right-handed coordinate systems. I prefer right-handed, but for some reason most of computer graphics seem to have adopted left-handed.

That was the opposite of fun when I was noodling with writing an OpenGL-based rendering engine for a "fly a spaceship around a 3D maze" game, decade and a half ago.

As to why I prefer right-handed? The lin-alg textbook I had at uni uses a right-handed coordinate system for what it calls "the perceivable room" (yes, it is "the book with the cow on", for those in the know).
A second solarwinds hack deepens third-party software fears
This business is probably spending $0.5m on engineering effort to build a customised version of Chromium, and $9m on marketing in order to get people to use it. The question is why. The feature they highlight in their marketing could be a plugin, but VCs aren't stupid. They're not giving someone $9.5m to spend making a browser if the same business goal could be achieved with something far simpler. That money is mostly going on a plan to take a little sliver of browser market share with some other end goal that they're not talking about.
Or, alternatively, they will spend more (input) to produce the same amount of leads (output)? Practically, their margins shrink while the websites maintain revenue.

To be clear, I'm not saying the above effect will definitely happen, only pointing out that other outcomes are possible. In practice it will be some combination of the two.
> It's alive and kicking!

My bad! I am ashamedly completely out of touch.

> ps. did you know that Denthor is also South African?

Yeah, his tuts were introduced to me by a friend of a friend of his. Or something like that. Durban lad if I'm not mistaken. Never met him though.

> I wonder where the .za scene went after the nineties

Your guess is most definitely better than mine! ^_^
I think WhatsApp strikes the right balance. The sender can delete the message from both devices for a few minutes. After that, only from their own device.
Major GDPR violation. If they do business in Europe this can get them into a lot of trouble.
AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds
Lego White Noise
The suppliers to the markets might be independent farmers, but the entity bringing that market to one place is a centralized point in the whole thing. This is the model that Ebay, Uber, AirBNB and others made their multi billion dollar, industry disrupting business models on: become the centralized infrastructure on which a decentralized market can operate. At that point, are you really decentralized? Every city used to have their own taxi guilds, now every driver and passenger in every city contracts with one company. Which is less centralized?
Context: SM is a professional in the business of tearing down and analyzing vehicles, building an information database on everything there is to know about that vehicle. Eg, screw 52 placed there has these dimensions, this material, fastened with that torque etc. Plate X is from material B, milled in this process at a likely cost of Z usd.

His company's information is regularly bought by automakers to get to know their competitors offering as a form of corporate info gathering and analysis.

IMO it's a good thing - SM is an information creator and broker that enables the industry to learn and get better.

SM recently did a series of youtube videos on Tesla vehicles that got some attention.
Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken.

Amazon was a much better choice.
Pretty cool site, like the simple layout.
Trigger Active Edge actions on Pixel phones
Can we talk about why service is astronomically better in the US than countries with very high worker protections and base wages like Denmark?

I'm genuinely curious what you think the factors are in their difference because when I live in Denmark (as I do now) it feels like the waiter could give less of a s** whether the service is good or not whereas when I live in LA or NYC I feel like I am the golden child of their day.

The mind first reaches to "it must be tips" but I am genuinely curious what you think the primary factor of this yawning gap in service is if not tips.

I mean I even worked for a Danish guy who was Noma's head chef's former sous chef (he had just opened a new restaurant in NYC at the time) and the American staff he employed there was just leagues beyond anything I had ever seen in DK.
The redesign of https://www.rust-lang.org/ removed any trace of actual code from its landing page.
That's describing it short-term at best, as some have pointed to you already.

Also, I don't see the important word "only" in the passage you're quoting, so given the usual MO of profit-driven corporations I'm just going to assume they omit other purposes of which there's at least a ton.
This is how I approach my SaaS business. Long-term sustainability, enjoyable development using technologies I like, dealing with smart and nice customers. Caring for the app.
The amount of money one can sell an advert for to the advertiser is of course related to expected return value for the advertiser of that ad.

The value something provides is relative to other things you might buy instead. If I have an ad budget of $1m, and I can't spend it on targeted ads then I'm going to spend it on the next best thing - if that's non-targeted ads then websites will still get my $1m.
Why does it say “never miss the next music”? Does the music get deleted often?
But it has some kind of direct replacement mode, why aren't there benchmarks for that?

Crickets...

That's not fair. They've published a paper which has lots of details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.04422.pdf

> Performance of the SPEC benchmarks was also unevenly affected by Souper: five become faster and seven become slower. None of the differences was very large.
RSS onboarding is a struggle for new users. RSS, unlike commercial products, lacks a "front page" to explain the benefits and how to get started.

Two things that can help:

1. Have a prettified RSS feed that tells new users what it is, rather than showing raw XML. For example here's mine: http://interconnected.org/home/feed

2. (plug) Link to https://aboutfeeds.com which is a one-pager RSS explainer site, providing links to newsreaders and simple instructions on how to subscribe.
That is a funny question (in the good sense). I would argue the VCs are cargo culting themselves, but of course another could argue that once the VC money has moved into the pockets of the programmers, then the important part of the process is done.

I just doesn't necessarily create any useful software.
What Is a Non-Fungible Token?
Dug Song founded Duo. (you might know that)

https://duo.com/blog/post-author/dugsong

I think he has an account here on HN.

edit .. last post in 2009
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dugsong
Apps used for financial trading ... should come from the financial institution
I've worked as a waiter during my university time and tips were the best thing in the world for someone that did not need any real qualifications. My wage alone would have barely covered my expenses but with tips I paid all of my living costs and could put aside a bit for my future. It was a system I liked as an employee since even when there were few customers I had not to worry too much about getting laid off immediately and the tips I received more than made up for my low wage. People who don't tip out of some principle with no viable alternative at hand other than saying make service employees miserable so that they will change a system that works for them are worse than those that simply are greedy in my opinion, such customers at least do not delude themselves that they are doing Good ™
> Of course, plane manufacturers love being able to blame the pilots when their autopilot engages Kill All Humans mode.

They really should move the switch for that feature a little farther away from the "Cabin Attendant Call" button.
Bookmarklet to Put Emoji in Your Clipboard
Tips even go to the manager and owner very often.
In my experience, after installing a version of nodejs, whenever I install a global npm package I have to manually reshim (`asdf reshim nodejs`) so that bash will be able to locate it in $PATH.
I stopped buying much there around ~2010. The sheer amount of Chinese counterfeit garbage and lack of proper categorization makes it impossible to browse the site. The clothing category in particular is just 100,000 dumpsters full of unlabeled trash heaped into a pile.

If you didn't discover a product name somewhere else, you won't find it on Amazon. Amazon doesn't do merchandising for shit.
It's cultural. You can get amazing service in other countries with little or no tipping culture.

Sure, tipping may be an incentive as well, but most people I know won't go below 10% even if the service is terrible.
My RSS-based social network is almost read for a first public scrutinity (a very pre-alpha version). I'm looking forward to see what other RSS-fans think of it :)
The site claims that the music is available under CC-BY. In at least one case, this is not true. Caveat emptor.
Is Basecamp really the example to aspire to? Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that would be the software equivalent of Peter Frampton, and I mean that in the most positive way.

I think we know that we’re not all going platinum. This article was about just “working on the song(s)” for the enjoyment of it, whatever that may involve, or that’s the way I took it.
Is this designed for mobile only or something?

Anyway, at least the big Get Started button points to some code.
> The phrase was hijacked (by the OSI)

That is absolute nonsense. The people behind OSI worked long and hard to find a term that could be instead instead of Free Software, which they considered to have unfortunate connotations. This is something some disagree with, but that was their cause regardless. Their due diligence of the term took great trouble to make sure it had not any undocumented previous use.

Of course the words had occasionally been used together, but not as a term. That would have undermined their legal strategy altogether. They then failed to secure the trademarks they wanted, but not because the term had any documented previous use.

You may disagree with the outcome, you may disagree with the OSI altogether, but it is wrong to misrepresent history.
Consumers / customers should also be on board with this though; there are plenty of experiments in e.g. the service industry with a "no tips" policy, and especially the older generation has problems with it. The same type that will use low/no tips as "punishment", mind you.
A major issue is that tracking (ie. Getting the laser to follow the route of the written data) is usually the thing that fails when reading disks.

Even if you had access to raw laser data, you can't fix the tracking after reading it...
Because the chance for return is so small with lottery tickets. Futhermore: Most people don't need $50 million but rather 50k-500k. It makes sense to pick a bet with better odds.

10% in a stock that has a 50% chance of better performance than the SPX? Sounds reasonable.

Or an event-driven trade where you do a short-term bet on a thing. These opportunities don't come very often, but once in a while, they do. Why not expose yourself to them?
No I mean that a vast number of the libraries in the Android ecosystem are actually hosted on the free jcenter repository.

Removing jcenter as a source in the buildscript is a trivial step but doesn't remedy the issue as the dependencies are not all mirrored elsewhere.

Complexities of setting up a Maven central account is often listed as the main cause for maintainers simply going for JCenter instead.
Which other countries with little to no tipping culture do you receive amazing service?

Again, I am curious, not combative, so please take care if applying disdain to my comments.
I would agree that "Calc" has worse usability if you're talking about OpenOffice. I find LibreOffice's Calc to be as usable as Excel because it reminds me of Excel 2003 (and older). Additional anecdata: I asked my wife who hates using Excel and she said that LibreOffice Calc was no different.
And also so that customers can dangle a tip in front of an underpaid, overworked employee, only to snatch it away if they don't smile or go to church or insert some arbitrary reason here. It's both consumers and employers who keep the tipping culture and its toxicity alive.

I mean the one time I was in the US having breakfast or lunch at some random place. They had at least five staff milling around for twenty-five customers, probably more (staff I mean). You don't need to have two teens frantically going around with pitchers of water, just plop one down on the table and pay the remaining employees a good wage.

A good wage is not minimum wage either. Minimum wage is a "what is the least I can legally pay this employee", while as an employer your mindset should be "how much is this employee worth and how can I make them feel appreciated"
> Read up the section on parameterized reports and realize you can do the work of dozens.

This was the killer (visual) feature in LyX when I used it to author LaTeX documents. Great to hear rmarkdown has similar support.
I assume you're getting downvoted at least in part because people disagree with you (I didn't downvote FWIW), but you're also factually wrong about Section 230 protections. Section 230 doesn't give blanket immunity to publishing illegal content: it only protects against civil violations, not criminal.
Does the fact that I can change or delete this comment mean you, or hacker news have less right to it? If I delete it are you doing anything wrong by keeping a screenshot or even sharing it?

If I reveal I'm a criminal is it any different? What If it's 10 years later and I've served my sentence? Does it matter if the crime is morally wrong or even illegal where you live?

What it it's personal but not criminal, say I've come out as gay or a republican or a democrat or a communist.

I think we would be foolish to rely on greater privacy than is provided by terms and conditions and logically we will only acquire more favorable terms by requiring them in law. You gave a good example When you discussed being unable to delete data pertaining to your account.

I think on a one to one message your recipient has a right to a record of what you actually said I don't think allowing one side to edit it after the fact facilitates honest conversations nor does it much protect the person who reveals sensitive information to do so. You can already attest to what they revealed or keep a screenshot.

I think on a many to many forum like this thread that people ought to be able to control what new users see but people who already received the initial version have a right to the information imparted to them.

Basically I view a message as belonging to everyone who received it and the service ought to retain it as long as one person whom it belongs to wants to keep it.

I can see good reason to selectively remove content that is illegal say child or revenge porn but I feel like further restrictions ought to fall on the ethical reasoning of the receiver not technology to answer the complex moral implications.
The service you get in the US is very annoying to people not used to it. Fake-smiling at me especially.
MadVR – high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)
A $10 USB microscope is a lot of fun for children.

Try pointing at at your fingerprint, then try to control a sweat gland (which sits between the ridges) with thought alone. With practice you can do it!

The first time you see a sweat gland erupt with sweat you'll be disgusted..
The public cares about privacy, yes. But only as long as its presence doesn‘t inconvenience them in any way.

People hate the GDPR pop ups. Most are badly designed (probably on purpose) and make it easy to accept all and difficult to customize/reject all. Most people are just going to click accept because it makes the box disappear faster.

Let‘s say we have the new Apple opt-in rules for Facebook. There‘s a pop-up some day asking users: „do you want facebook to be able to track you?“ many people will say no. But only because it‘s really easy/frictionless and the app presumably functions as normal.

So primarily users want to do want users want to do. They don‘t care about tracking/ads as long as avoiding them isn‘t completely simple.
Wow! That is such a surprising fact. I’m not going to post my guess because that would influence this for others, but... do guess and click that link.
This is a beautiful analogy.

One of my favourite quotes is from Jane McGonical: "we are as human beings designed to do hard, meaningful work". If you enjoy gardening, it doesn't feel like work. You do it because it's... meaningful.

Ikigai is that perfect spot in which the work you enjoy doing also creates value from someone else. You are in the zone, doing what you love.

This concept, together with the one about optimising your area of luck that was posted a few days ago, are all you really need to craft a successful - and joyful - career.
An entire section of society so precariously clings to financial stability that they'll smile at at any customer's joke...
Both http://www.pouet.net/ and https://demozoo.org/ have video links for many of the productions. You also have channels like https://www.youtube.com/c/DemosceneTV/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDemoTube/ on YouTube
I am sorry in advance if I misunderstood your sentence.

Are you claiming there is a large subset of neurologists how do not believe in long-term potentiation and other plasticity processes driving long-term retention of memoranda? If so, could you please show me to these crowds?
Open Source, Standards, and Technical Debt
Elon Musk is pumping DogeCoin hard on Twitter
In the last hour, Elon Musk has twitted 7 times about DogeCoin. Anybody has insights into what's going on?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357236825589432322

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357241340313141249

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357244295091208193

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357248331387441153

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357248581581889538

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357231313376456708
I hear this argument a lot. Yes, you can turn off third party cookies, and I have as well, but the power to control the default behavior is very important. What we should be asking ourselves is "Does the average user turn off third party cookies?"

This is the same reason Facebook is throwing such a fit over apple's new prompt. It makes it easy and likely for the average user to disable something without having to dig through settings.
I get you, I just already had people try to come after my job because I was complaining in public...
Isn’t Reddit pretty much proof that, at least of you allow users to self-select into groups, this doesn’t work?

Arguably FaceBook is too.
I wanted to learn about rendering and graphics for a while.

Almost every modern source however uses engines or big frameworks and skips the parts I actually want to look into. Compiling a reading list or figuring things out myself of course would have been an option, but I guess others can relate to the problem of having too little time for hobby projects :)

Big bonus points also for trying to remain programming language agnostic!
I immediately preordered your book and find it hard to express my excitement, can't wait.
>If it's any consolation, it is just as bad in other countries, when using Huawei equipment.

Except it isn't though, not by a long shot. With the exception of maybe Italy and Portugal, pretty much every other European country has better internet than Germany, especially Eastern Europe, like Hungary or Romania where you can get Gigabit fiber to your door in any neighborhood of any big city and they all use Huawei and ZTE almost exclusively.

Germany's infamous terrible internet is not due to them using Huawei equipment, it's due to the monopoly of a few players who bought the outdated copper infrastructure from the government decades ago and resorted to a rent-seeking business model to maximize their return as it's more profitable than updating the infrastructure.

It's the same in Austria. The government privatized the national telecom operator to their crony buddies, claiming that would lead to better deals for customers, when in fact, the minute the investors took over the national infrastructure and the customer base, instead of investing and creating competitive deals, they just resorted to rent-seeking to recoup the acquisition cost they paid to the government; who could have possibly foreseen that lol.

When the goverment asks them why they're not investing in updating the infrastructure, the telcos' response is always something along the lines of "Building infrastructure is the government's job, ours is to make a profit for our shareholders LMAO." So the taxpayers end up being shafted form both sides, once by paying for expensive services to a monopoly and once again for shelling out cash for updating the infrastructure that will be rented out to them later by the telcos for $$$.
The Hoyle State
Sending money around the world – 11 countries, 6 continents, 1 minute, 0 fees
Well at the moment I can block 3rd party cookies, can I block the Privacy Sandbox?
You (probably) don’t need ReCAPTCHA
You did well to retrieve that one from the memory banks! Must’ve left an impression.

I think I read it too.