skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hair thin anything can look transparent though. I seems to be paper thin.

As building products go, I believe rot resistant glass infused wood as a substitute for pressure treated wood is a more useful product specially in humid regions.
You pay with your PI which they market to advertisers to be able to target you with personalized advertising. They use your data to train their AI and build better algorithms which you are not getting payed for. Instead they offer you some free services.
Yes. If you are running to any issues ping me: yonatan@jiga3d.com
Update: After nothing happened, I rewrote the last commit and force pushed to trigger an update. That seemed to do the trick.

I have no inside knowledge, but from the outside it looks like whatever outage they had broke the propagation of commit data from the git repo to to their MySQL database. Maybe they use webhooks for their internal systems as well? That would explain why they first saw issues with webhooks, and later issues with pull requests that might depend on them.

It also looks like after they fixed the issue, they didn't replay the failed notifications. That's why I saw stale data even after they apparently fixed the issue. Then my push to the repo seemed to trigger an update, and now it's back in sync.

I'm curious to hear what really happened, but I doubt this incident is important enough to anyone to warrant a detailed blog post.
Don't do it, I tried it and it's terrible.
F-droid mostly compiles from source. https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_General/#whats-the-differe...
“we have no choice [...] we all rely on Google, Facebook, et al.”

I don’t use Facebook at all, and I use some Google services, but not in any way where it would affect me much if they went away tomorrow. It’s a choice to use these services, and if you use them in a way where you give them the power to hurt you, you have chosen to do so.
I think your critiques of regulation are fair, but I think regulation and competition are closer together than your post suggests.

>Ordinary people like you don't have access to these meetings and by and large don't participate.

Ordinary people have less access to companies' internal strategy meetings and, like government, companies will choose to favor their most lucrative clients over the strategy that outsiders might find more 'fair.'

Edit: A way to think about this is that, in order to 'compete' with Apple or Google on the app store, you'd need to build an entire mobile OS. In the past we've dealt with this by classifying things of that scale as utilities and requiring Goog / Apple / AT&T to sell access to their infrastructure. It's just not realistic to expect a competitor to build up from 0.

>regulations are static [...] which means you get an entrenched group that favors the (regulated) status quo

This is often untrue, many regulations are outsourced to various agencies which are free to adjust policy as often as they see fit. By the same token, reluctance to cannibalize business or sunk costs can hold back private industry (i.e. 'green' energy needed massive public investment even though it was clearly potentially profitable).

> "Regulation" gave us banking[...]the healthcare system

The rest of the world has, arguably, more financial and health regulation and also has no problem moving money 'instantly' or administering care. I think this is unique to the calcification of the US at the moment.

> "Regulation" gave us professionals

This one is actually very interesting! Professionalization is generally a process of a group of private actors lobbying the government for a legal monopoly. I'd argue it's a mixed bag. It's good, for instance, that engineers can be held liable (and be blocked from working) if they design unsafe things. I think, now that we can track individualized results more easily, licensure may be an outdated way of accomplishing this goal, but I'm not sure it was always bad.
For the Europeans among us, I would like to remind you that there's an initiative to opensource all publicly funded code

https://publiccode.eu/

If you care, add your signature and vote for a party during the next elections that considers opensource at least somewhat important.
Were you using the app from ZXing team
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi... app? Because this app was last updated in 2018, has a generic name Barcode Scanner, & has attracted hundreds of reviews like yours saying App was updated recently, & now causes Web Ads.

For a counter point, I am also using this app since 2016, & have all apps on auto update, & have never received any web add popup or notification because of this or any app.
Something to consider: Bitcoin is a consensus network. You can move to any coin/network/currency that aligns with your preferred "governance". That includes stablecoins etc.

There are already services that instantly convert your crypto into another for ease of liquidity. You can quite literally vote with your wallet.
No, but you should not feel superior, either.
A manager (who said anything about people manager? I even explicitly said otherwise) knows what to build because she's coordinated with the groups who spend their entire day focusing on the customer, as well as the other developer groups to make sure everyone isn't working on the same thing, as well as leadership so they know what's being built and how it aligns with their goals and vision into the market (because that's what their expertise is in), as well as within her own team to make sure people are building things that can work together smoothly/cleanly, as well as covering for people who have illness/unavailability, and so on...

Would you rather have developers wearing every hat in an org? When would they find time to code? I know many developers who don't want to have to do all of that work simultaneously, and are extremely grateful for a manager who can take many of these tasks off their plate.

When was the last time you tried to add a recurring meeting to a development team's calendar? They... don't like it, in my experience, and I respect the hell out of that.
The issue with Firefox was that Mozilla didn't want Debian's modified version of Firefox to be called Firefox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...
I wonder if bug tracker and other reports would be part of discovery in this case.
> It looked that way because it was.

Maybe, but I don't think so. It's entirely likely large corporations have fairly similar thresholds for action on such things, especially when reporters are calling for comment on a specific act.

If you go around poisoning the neighborhood cats, chances are your neighbors will all rapidly think you're a dick, even without a neighborhood meeting and vote to decide it.
The original author of actix has a new framework called ntex. Looks like it was a fork of actix and then went from there. One of the differences I was able to spot was that it appears that it uses a (radix?) trie for the router.
> I'd recommend at least backups and your own domain for an E-mail address (even if you just have Gmail continue to host the email).

I've yet to find a good solution for this without paying for Google's business product, which I find way too dangerous to risk. You can't get a custom domain on consumer gmail.
Dang, missed that.
Or an opaque third party (i.e. a spam list) puts you on their lists.
> People don't get information from their friends, television, Twitter, blogs, news websites, email, or radio?

Friendly reminder that conversations with friends & family come via big tech nowadays, because associating in person is illegal. FB and Twitter are well known for blocking links to mainstream blogs/websites they don't like, even in private conversation!

> Also, I am someone who doesn't have a multi-million person audience on FB, and doesn't have the budget to pay for one: am I being censored? Not everyone on FB has that kind of reach - if "being heard by millions of people" is an important criteria, then I am being censored by HN, reddit, and every other comment board where I don't have high status standing / reach.

Censorship is the freedom for all ideas to have a level playing field. Tilting the scales is the antithesis.
I'm going to say Clojure is probably what you want. Via clojurescript, it has very good interoperability with the tools you're already using and it's possible that you might even choose to use it on the front end in the browser. That, coupled with the size of the community suggest to me that it is the winner here.

For the (browser) front-end, there are lots of neat idiomatic-clojure libraries like https://reagent-project.github.io/

For command-line scripting, your program will ultimately mostly access the filesystem or other OS functionality via interop with the host platform (either Java or Node).
Funny how google's attitude on false positives is the complete opposite of what it is for interviews
>The last time I looked, breathalyzers have a ~50% margin of error

Source on this? I know the portable ones are like this, but I thought the actual court-admissible ones are more accurate, and the calibration procedures need to be followed to get a conviction. Also, FSTs are quite good for preliminary screening, a proper HGN test especially. And if you ask for a blood test, they are required to give you one and consider it in court.

Cops have no incentive to make people who aren't drinking take FSTs or the breathalyzer, its just a waste of their time. They don't want to be bothering normal people, they want to be taking real dangerous and irresponsible drivers off the road. You survive by not drinking before driving, or having a DD, its really not that hard.

Implied consent is the reason for the tests, and you agree to it when you sign for a license. And I think its a worthwhile tradeoff if it actually works to reduce DUI deaths.
Not the slip itself, rather the consequences of the subsequent fall.

Brain concussion, spinal injury etc., depends on what you hit on your way down and how hard it is; fences, kerbs etc. may be very unforgiving.

I once slipped on ice on a pavement with enough energy that I almost ended up in the street next to it where cars were going their normal 40-50 kph. (The street had quite a slope, Prague has a lot of hilly neighbourhoods.) I caught myself on a street lamp before drifting out to the danger zone, though.
Obscure mainframe tech and ruby, VB. About 15 years ago.
Ah, interesting. One word can make a huge difference!
It all depends on what you're trying to do. I accidentally stayed subscribed to Apple Arcade. A day after the charge, I called, and the first rep I talked to was able to stay on the phone and cancel+refund the subscription.
I’ll do it for free
I'm sure the existing banking system takes energy+other resources to maintain. But the incentives in the existing banking system are to look for ways to use LESS of these. Each Kilowatt-hour a bank doesn't use shows up in their bottom line.

Proof of works is DESIGNED to waste energy. If tomorrow, you'd make hash computations 1000x as energy efficient, the hashing difficult is designed to adjust to make sure that 1000x as many computations are performed and the same amount of energy is wasted.

Think of it this way: Currently, 900 bitcoins are mined per day. At a price of $40K per bitcoin, whoever mines those bitcoins earns a combined $36M. So miners are incentivized to invest approximately that much money into energy & equipment per day (minus some profit margin). If they invested substantially less, somebody could invest more and pick off their coins.
(And that's counting only mining profits. There are also transaction rewards, and, if you were to control a majority of mining, more nefarious sources of profit).

This means that PoW has some truly perverse incentives:

* Industry wide energy efficiency does not matter, because the difficulty will adjust accordingly.

* The higher the bitcoin price rises, the MORE energy gets wasted (That's a big difference with e.g. Gold. Sure, rising prices lead to more marginal deposits being exploited, but it's not like pickaxe prices for a given prices rose proportionally with gold prices).
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Yeah, the SEO they’re up against is brutal.

I’ve given up searching Google for information on the next season of a show. All the results are gamed by articles with no actual info, but from the search result summary appears to be what you’re looking for.

For example, if you search for “<show name> Season <latest + 1>“.

It seems every result, was updated in just the last couple of days (even if I’m
6 months behind), they clearly use tricks to make Google think its content was recently changed.

The titles are things like “Show name season x release date, details”, but the content is invariably a brief recap of what happened the last season. Followed by “regarding season x, no one has any idea when it’s coming, or if it’s coming, but here is our completely unsubstantiated vague guess...”
The Auto Revolution Is Here
Ah, I misread you -- yes, there are obviously faster adder circuits. My point is that they won't have such impressive clock rates as this serial adder can achieve.
It’s a generally accepted principle in economics/finance that the more risk you take on, the more up-front compensation you can expect. This is less about the risk the reports pose to the manager and more about the risk of the manager position itself and the high opportunity for spectacular failure.
> does take-out still work with a banned account?

No, because banned (not merely "suspended", which you can fix using google tools) accounts are usually banned because of bad content.
To Google's credit, it's pretty easy. Go to your account (from GMail choose 'manage my account'), then go to 'data & personalization', find the 'download your data' option.

They'll zip up all your data for you to download.
How the US Lost to Hackers
Sometimes the expert witness is in the department's own lab. It seems a tautology that they will favor conviction. Every officer bringing in evidence is begging "Give me something I can use to get this scumbag!" The pressure to fudge is enormous.

A fairly simple step is to certify equipment independently, and to do blind testing (one sample is provided from evidence; another by an independent unrelated source). Of course this costs more, but anything else is effectively an experiment without a control.
Haha, remember when FTP text-mode was a common preset? Bad times.
Doesn't iOS have some kind of persistent memory abstraction? It seems more like a single level to me.

Safari on iOS saves tons of tab state going back months, but it's not using all your memory, etc. I have never really done iOS programming so I don't know the details.
Discounting the fact check, accusing the journalist as being biased because of who they worked for is intellectually lazy and a fallacious argument. If you had read the content, you'd see that the fact checks are accurate and well sourced. From the examples I listed and lack of retractions associated with them, it's clear that Daily Wire has no journalistic integrity. They are not in the same ballpark as NYT.
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> OS/400 had a 20 year run; released in 2008, end of life in 2018

Err, setting aside the math inconsistency there, AS/400 was released in 1988, and the 2 most recent versions are still supported..

[0] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/release-life-cycle
What'd you really hope to accomplish with this post?
For there to be competition, there needs to be regulation to help new players enter the market.
https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/preview/966796/FORBES%2...
The title is missing a key word "help". The prize doesn't appear to have been won yet- not sure if the original article changed their title.
Apple Store suppliers ‘squeezed’ by more stringent payment terms
By "regulation" I'm referring to laws which explicitly state that companies can't do something or have to do something - like the GDPR or the Communications Act of 1934.

"Trust busting" is often offered as an alternative solution, by which I mean breaking up a company into smaller, more vulnerable pieces and letting a competitive market handle the rest.

Both methods have pros and cons and there are more than a few comments in this thread already arguing about which is better.
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By 1980's and 1990's, are you referring to the Japanese 5th Generation project?
You should be able to at least opt out of daily emails from Experian. Try going into your profile's communication preferences and opting out?
One issue is see with this metaphor is that having enough sand or pebbles to not have to work for a living (or chose what to work on) would be the most single most important addition to the expected quality of your rocks that you could make assuming you don't sacrifice too much of the latter to get it.

If you consider the life of a person in a poor region, the lack of sand is often the most salient feature that underpins their relation to the world and to others. At the extreme end, a homeless vagrant cannot escape preoccupation with sand and sees their life entirely directed by its lack.

Those already at an enviable position on the Maslow hierarchy cannot see the value of the sand anymore because they've always had enough.
There's a lot of policy to encourage competition that isn't regulation. The USPS helped with early airplane development by contracting out mail delivery to civilian pilots, and grants provided by NASA et. al are partially done to help with competition in the aerospace field (can't find a source for this one but the people I know in the space all agree this is by design).
There is nothing efficient about the blockchain, distributed ledger, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis#The_gra...
Great comment. They probably are closer than I originally said.

I totally agree on your point about professionalization. There might be a legitimate public benefit angle to it. But if you look hard enough, the distinction between a regulated profession (which ostensibly exists for public benefit) vs a union (which exists to advance its members interests) is fairly thin.

Since it is easier to track outcomes directly, it might be time to retire professions, or at least regulate them in a much finer-grained way, than just saying "Doctor" and letting someone do...anything...that falls under that huge "medical" bucket.
> What is happening at GitHub?

They were acquired by Microsoft a while ago, and now the chicken are coming home to roost.

It's pretty much on par with my Azure experience.
doubt it's going to happen this time. the current crop of AI research is producing a lot of real results in all kinds of fields. voice transcription, recommender systems, translation, object detection -- all cases where neural networks have gone from research to widespread commercial deployment.

there might be some kind of a contraction when people realize they're not going to get HAL-9000, or that you can't use deep learning to replace every white collar employee. but the results this time are much more "real".

I don't think we will get another AI winter where the entire world completely gives up on the research area.
Not true universally. In-car breathalyzers are calibrated regularly; have margins much closer to 10%. They are portable and simple to use.

Maybe in the 'bad old days' it was worse. But today its been scrutinized in court so many times, it has to be bulletproof to get deployed.

Now, blood testing may differ from breath testing. Which is aligned with impaired driving? Breath testing may be the better measure. If state laws are often couched in terms of breath alcohol, then they are the only correct measure.
You could use a lazy representation of the Taylor series that will give you as many terms as you ask for and symbolically differentiate that. Then you'll gate an accurate automatic differentiation. When you go to evaluate your approximation you'll get errors at that point, but you'll correctly get that the second derivative of sin(x) is exactly -sin(x).
What did the parent try to achieve?
I wish people would stop using github as a swiss knife CDN (free hosting, hooks, history through git repo, etc) and build higher altitude solution that could leverage git/MD/whatever but with free/opensource/selfhosted/alternative tools (like gitea instead of github and minio instead of S3 for instance).
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> Do you honestly think they just blindly deliver emails and don't take even a single scrap of data from them for their own benefit? The biggest data aggregator on the planet is just ignoring all of that data?

Yes, here is the official statement:

> Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products.

https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

Edit: The problem with google is that they collect a lot of data they can abuse, not that they are particularly known to abuse data. So the danger is that their policies change while still having your data, then there is nothing you can do.
Like the diamond industry, the oil industry, the telephone industry, the Silicon Valley software development talent industry…
Not compared to Elixir. It's hard to beat lightweight processes for concurrency. I've used Rust, but I'm doing my webapp in Elixir.
Good point. It's an attraction thing. Women who are unattractive do not have these advantages.
"Listen to the demo of the upcoming concert from Titanic's resident band. Upper deck, tonight 8pm"
Where did I say we don't need managers? I explicitly said otherwise: Invest in your automators and treat your people managers as a low-value-add cost center.

Just because you treat something as low-value-add or admit it's a cost center doesn't mean you don't need that work to happen!

> When was the last time you tried to add a recurring meeting to a development team's calendar?

Yes, I agree, managers' secretarial and political work is incredibly important to the success of an org. But the 1960s idea that it's a "force multiplier" worth high comp is a mistake.

I'm not contesting whether managerial work is important or necessary or to be respected. I'm contesting the idea that managerial work is a force multiplier for individual contributors, in any sense other than in the same sense that janitorial work or admin assistant work is a force multiplier. The only orgs where I've seen managers to be actual force multipliers were body shops.
The problem with unjustified bans due to some algorithm is also: These cases might not even be a close calls like: “oh yeah this person did something that is in the grey area of what our policies state. I will ban him but he might interpret things differently.”

No if you enforce your policies strictly by (machine learning) algorithms it could just be a matter of misinterpreting a different language, slang, irony or something else. Which makes these bans even more infuriating.
Regulatory capture makes it hard for new companies to enter a field.

It's one of the main reasons there's so much hype about SpaceX.

What seems to happen is that an oligopoly makes the written and unwritten rules so complex that they injure themselves, creating a power vacuum for deregulation or just someone saying "fuck your (unwritten) rules" and either staying exactly within the confines of the letter of the laws, or leveraging their popularity into getting away with infractions. "Oops, didn't mean it!"

That we root for the underdog is in part an expression of our shared pain in the stunted progress that was made up until that point.
Binary Eye is a QR scanner for android that is open source, and available on Google Play and F-Droid.
But they are disallowing things so GP can claim they are suppressing free speech.