skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Don't taunt the hungry tigers in our pants and expect 24/7 self control.

I probably shouldn't even bother responding to this comment, but i'm sorry, as a man, yes control your fucking dick. That's the way of it. If you can't control yourself, that's on you, nobody else.
I did something similar! It shoved lab results into a SQLite DB and ran some simple queries for them. Before it was all being hand imported into excel. I thought it was neat throw away work but turned out the entire lab team migrated over to it.

Something about people actively choosing to use your work with no pressure, marketing or mandate just hits different emotionally.
In this case it's more like "would you allow a group of 18-20 year olds to voluntarily deliberately expose themselves to the same risk of death presented by driving 7,500 miles in order to save the lives of a million people?"
If epic were to win, any estimate on how long that would take?
Assuming there is a large bubble, what is the best course of action for your average middle class software developer? Stay the course for retirement accounts that are decades from maturity and diversify personal investments a bit to be less stock-heavy?
I'd love this if it was a CSS thing like when people embed Twits. I'm just not sure when you would want an image of code. Most likely use case seems like a README on github or your product page but then you'd want it to be plain text right?
Buying a phone just for a game is the solution instead of actually being able to install whatever you want. Are you even thinking before hitting "reply"?
you somehow managed to describe the pictures without showing them
Check out children's beauty pageants if you want to see another example of this kind of horror.
Yeah, technically better, at the cost of huge complexity.

CommonJS was easy to implement anywhere and dead simple. We only need static analyzers and tree-shaking optimizations because the JS ecosystem went wild on dependencies. I honestly think we were better off 10 years ago.

> NodeJS never attempted to be compatible with the Web

It goes the other way around? Node caved in and support modules now, what has been done in tc-39 for web modules to be compatible with node (considering it predates all of it)?

There is no “JS community vs Node community” btw.
The actual problem is not them doing those things, the problem is them not doing their job

That's where the demands should lie, not on "bottoms on seats"
Where can I hire somebody for $3/hour?

Surely this is an exaggeration?
So R Kelly just erred by degree?
The issues gave me a chuckle as well:

- Repository not deleted #20 https://github.com/microsoft/DeleteMe/issues/20
The setuptools documentation says: "All python package must provide a pyproject.toml and specify the backend (build system) it wants to use."

What is the build system which indicates the heritage build system?

Oh, I see. That documentation conflicts with PEP 517, which states:

> If the pyproject.toml file is absent, or the build-backend key is missing, the source tree is not using this specification, and tools should revert to the legacy behaviour of running setup.py (either directly, or by implicitly invoking the setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__ backend).

I find this whole thing frustrating. Eg, the setuptools documentation mentions 'setuptools.Extension' in passing, while talking about Cython, but does not document how Extension() is used??

Regarding setup.cfg, https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/declar... seems to say that there is still a setup.cfg but it "has limited compatibility with the distutils2-like setup.cfg sections used by the pbr and d2to1 packages".

So far I haven't found a PEP 517-compatible build system which handles C-extensions. The closest is "bento", mentioned in the PEP, but it hasn't been updated since August 2014.
There are cases in ML where python isn't performant enough, so much so, that the state of the art for a while converged on how to circumvent Python. This happens when the model interacts with the outside world (environment) a lot or when you are limited to non vectorizable environments. Python simply adds too much friction to the mix.
Historically he's right and these great liquidity windows move in a sin wave.

But it's also true that sometimes the new normal is 10x+ the previous normal, after seismic breakthroughs in technology.

Are we about to see a crash or are we in the early innings of one of the greatest bull markets in history? I'm not sure. I can see arguments for both (the arguments for the latter being this: https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1360283046147067907/p..., as well as new digital currencies, and the booming space, self driving, green power, tunnel boring and wearable industries). If you believe someday humans will be an intergalactic species then we're still a lot closer to 0.1% than we are to 100%.
Floating bridge is a thing tho https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-....
I worked for the movie industry only for a couple of years and on very technical low-level roles, almost apprentice level. Think data tech or in color grading and only as a side gig.

I also frequented movie festivals.

Don't take this personally but I think you were at the wrong parties. Good signs to tell if you are "in" or not: do you know how to get illegal drugs on set? have you ever been to a private event in a hotel room or AirBNB before or after a ceremony? have you ever been in the same room with an A list celebrity or actor when they are using an illegal substance?

If the answer to all those is no then yeah it's probably that you are in the wrong parties.

If you've been there and like never witnessed a movie level epic orgy then that's great for you. I know they are not usual on some circles, I've heard Disney and Netflix try to keep their staff on a tight leash. Honestly I wished my experience was more like yours because I liked the industry and it was a little bit of a dream of mine to be more involved with the movie creative process, and one of the reasons I didn't get more into it was that I was not comfortable mixing illegal drugs and orgies with work in the way it was usual.
Light Used to Detect Quantum Info Stored in 100k Nuclear Quantum Bits
How does that password scheme even work unless the plaintext pin is being stored somewhere?
It is annoying how every PC game company tries to be a social network and persistent advertising daemon. But a launcher is not necessary to keep an app updated. Look at Chrome -- you install it, and it stays up to date. Blizzard could do that for their games and Epic could do that for their games, but they want extra money from putting ads in a launcher. (Actually, they seem to always be "house ads", so they aren't really making money, they're saving money. But at a Fortune 500, saving money is basically the same as making money.)

In-game chat could be XMPP or a more modern alternative, too, and then you wouldn't need a separate IM client for each ecosystem.

Finally, I don't think anyone really dislikes the app stores themselves. They are annoyed that they have to pay a 30% tax. If it were 3%, I doubt anyone would be complaining. Apple took a big gamble by being as restrictive as they are -- if they win, they get free money for doing nothing; if they lose, they get $0. I think history will show that they lose; app developers have caught on. But, I could be wrong.
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Did you ask them? Many women find hypertrophied muscles off-putting.
Now we need Steam and other companies that "sell" you digital products to do the same.

I don't want my Steam library to go to waste when I die.
Why are Swedish towns banning masks?
>I'd rather have a choice than not.

Then get an Android if you like that experience?
> In the past, boycotts were aimed at corporations. Not buying or consuming a specific product, or protesting that company. Cancel culture is more aimed at individuals.

This isn't remotely new, though. For one very visible example in our industry, Lynn Conway got fired for coming out as transgender. Similarly, Turing was canceled for being gay. Politicians have been getting canceled for marital infidelity for most of my life (and, wow, Trump really modernized the Republican party on that one). Not to mention the McCarthy era, where people got canceled over suspected affiliation with leftists.

There's a huge panic about how cancel culture is destroying the world... but the difference is that people today are getting canceled for exhibiting intolerance and bigotry, instead of getting canceled by the intolerance and bigotry of those in power. And, yes. There are certainly cases where the cancellation is disproportionate to the offense. But compared to Harvey Milk, Martin Luther King, and many many others canceled in the past... there's nothing new here, and historically speaking, this sort of cancellation is pretty soft.
As someone who has called 9 of the last 2 recessions I do t know where to go with this sort of prediction- even if (I do) I agree with it.

There is "too much easy money". Well not in my pocket, and despite my privileged position both professionally and as an HNer I cannot easily see how to raise a series A to grab some.

And when we do see Treasury bills reach 2%, then what will I do - close down my startup ? resign my job?

Winter is coming. Keep farming, build a grain store perhaps, but we will keep farming.
“It's likely we'll see another pandemic in the next 20 years”
It is probably 2560x1440 with four different colour subpixels per addressable pixel, giving you an image resolution of 1280x720.
I’d you’re young, keep buying at regular intervals. No one can time the market, and in 20 years this asset bubble pop will be a minor price correction.
Hmm, maybe achievements aren't as popular as I once believed, but I do think there's unnecessary friction to joining a friend's game with Epic's half baked model. It's one of those things that nobody notices until it's missing.

I'm not saying you need a full social network on every platform, either.
> How does not allowing devs to sell subscriptions on their website help with this arguable safety?

By making sure the user has a single channel for dealing with payments and complaints.

Deliveroo did an update their software that wiped out my login settings. They didn't support apple login, so I lost access to my account. They won't recover my email because of a special character in it, and so they continued to charge me for their "plus" service every month, and avoided any emails I tried to send asking to stop (asking me to "log in" to change my payment settings!).

Requiring apps use Apple's channel would have protected me from that experience.

> Don't bullshit.

If you're not trying to be persuaded, why are you arguing?
As much as I felt this guy had some unreasonable thoughts (how hard is it to not swear at work?), This really hit me. Many of tech employees are entitled, same with University students. I don't know why people are like this but it always rubs me wrong.
We have a documentation hub at work, but the permissions used to be such that, for a while, you could create and edit documents but not delete them. People would rename stuff to "DELETE ME" in the hopes that this would one day change, but no one in charge of the permissions really used the hub all that much anyways. The hub is being abandoned now in favor of another one.

There's no moral or anything here, just another fun story.
Human understandable, yes, but the details of particular changes might only make sense to humans familiar with the system.

But yeah, the product manager view / documentation of intent sounds generally reasonable.

I do wonder how useful that would be to the news orgs in practice.
On top of the many other points raised in this thread, this bit struck me as really odd

> After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users.

What? Respecting the privacy and info-rights of your users provides zero value? BigCorp's data policies exist for a reason, one important of which is the law. People (aka his users) clearly valued these things enough to make them the law, so how does complying with what they want provide zero value.

This perspective (along with the others pointed out in this thread) betrays what I suspect is a disconnect between what the author defines as "value" and what I and I hope most reasonable people believe makes for a better world. If things like privacy, the ability to take personal days, not having to listen to biased or offensive speech from a superior, etc don't have value, then what does? At a deeper level, it's sad that we have to fight against this all the time. Somehow our society has come to so highly reward these sorts of narrow-minded "value-creators"to the detriment of everything that they don't consider "value".
Put it inside a textarea, and don't break the textarea styling.
He basically said, "Everything that has a beginning has an end." But with way too many words.
As a developer I just don’t like the precedent that if I’m too successful at creating a great product that I therefore lose control over the very qualities of my product that made it successful.
If FB and Google are the only two on the naughty list, does this give opportunity for smaller startups to take advantage, or have they made it clear that startups can easily be added to the list as well?
That's a pretty sanguine take. I'm not so sure that it will end well at all. I think we're still in the winter of the 2008 crisis but now we've burned all of our firewood.

But it's worse than that, actually, because we've exacerbated the situation. The low rates have ballooned debt and any correction means defaults start to cascade, creating a domino effect of credit defaults. If that happens it will be quickly followed by a liquidity crunch; no one will have cash/precious metals.

I'm a little bit furious that the central banks have been experimenting like a doctor from the 19th century with our collective economic health. We're being "bled out" to save us from the common cold with potentially disastrous consequences.
Taking a Fall
Ask HN: Why isn't supporting GMOs more taboo?
Companies like Monsanto have taken enormous steps in destroying our environment and the lives of many farmers around the world. The promises offered by GMO crops seem to almost always fizzle out a few years later, when the dependence on pesticides, herbicides, and GMO seeds increases and output decreases.

Yet, it seems that when I talk to science-oriented friends of mine, they seem to uniformly believe that GMOs work and should continue to be pursued and put into the world.

Where are the good examples of GMOs that:
- Continuously increase yields.
- Lower dependence on further artificial inputs.
- Don't contaminate nearby crops. (In historical cases, Monsanto has been given ownership of crops that their GMO crops have essentially raped through pollination).

In a world where not believing climate change will get you crucified in almost any public setting, why do intelligent people continue to let GMOs run rampant?

(While my views may be obvious, I am genuinely curious to see what others think about this -- and whether their beliefs are driven by evidence or a general ethos of "belief in science".)
What should we be concerned with even more, in your opinion?

And how would someone who spends money reduce their complicity?
The creation of multiple stores doesn't mean you have to use them...

Just vote with your wallet and stick with that store. Android has a half-dozen stores available, but how many people are using stores outside of the official one?
New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs
Presumably they meant to write Parler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler
Posted/flagged an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170025
And they verify many transactions each time they mine a block.
Right. The normal way we see it written here, like with the CAP theorem, would be:

CA~P + C~AP + ~CAP

The way it's normally phrased would be: choose 2 of the 3 that you want, the other will be absent from your system. The alternate phrasing would be: choose 1 of the 3 that you can sacrifice, the others will be present in your system. But both phrasings describe the same logical expression written above.

For the right arm, left arm, leg example it's similar. You're being asked which one you would sacrifice so it could be written as:

RA LA ~L + RA ~LA L + ~RA LA L

Offering two phrasings: which do you want to keep or which will you give up?
This is odd - I am not using code blocks, I am just typing in the text box to reply. I thought it looked like code as a way of showing my comments. I really don't know why it happens, I will look and see if it's somewhere in the settings.
You can’t have both a secure platform and a platform where anyone can arbitrarily run code without a gatekeeper.

Apple is that gatekeeper because I, the user, want them to be. Apple has shown me, as a user, that the trade off they make between giving developers open access and protecting users from malware to be a sane one.

Does it make it harder to monetize an app? Totally, but for many iPhone users, that’s a feature, not a bug. The developers are not apple’s customer, so they’re not building a product around their needs — which we honestly need more of in tech. If I felt more strongly about Apple being a gatekeeper on its own platform, I might use Android in some flavor. But I just want a phone that works and has the apps I want to use without a bunch of garbage cluttering it up.
If you're seeing many people building the same thing, it's probably because there's a need that you might have overlooked.

Here's one: people want to share formatted snippets on Twitter. They often post a link to the code below the pic, but being able to see it within the tweet is quite useful.
Trading in Atoms for Bits
When it comes to geopolitical spheres of influence, which is what digital sovereignty is about, it doesn’t matter. Switzerland is part of Schengen, the European single market, the EFTA, ... It’s Europe.
Australia is a backward nanny state and this is just another manifestation of this fact. The rules and regulations in this country are just over the top. They advertise themselves as "laid back" but there is nothing laid back about how this country runs. Still waiting for NSW to allow electric scooters.

I do admit though, with all the progressivism going around being conservative in some aspects can be very beneficial. For example closing the country to flights from China and in general when corona started was a pretty good idea unlike in the US where everybody called Trump racist for trying to do just that.
The case for opsimaths
> You know what, I actually agree, and I should note that I myself would never use such words outside of theoretical discussions.

Good.
Azure was originally Windows Azure, but that was changed a month after satyan became the CEO.

(MS employee; I work in Azure, but didn't become an MS employee until 2019.)
Traditional media companies vs big tech oligarchs.

Not sure which I dislike more. Liars and thieves the lot of them. Can they both lose for our sakes?
That's about tax and R&D right? This is about a new funding agency, a very different thing.
Indeed, and apparently ethics boards find it preferable to wait for hundreds of thousands to die rather than kill one, but it's not entirely unreasonable.

Also, I think the number of total deaths in both branches are about the same, as they're only waiting for 100ish people to get infected on either arm.
I think I have the honor of being the first person to post a 'lastweekinaws.com' url to HN.

I've enjoyed his perceptive comments about AWS for years and hope he keeps going. Fun and a bit weird to see him in the mainstream press, though.
Thanks for this. These sort-of argument catalogue comments are very helpful in these discussions.

And your call out at the bottom is good wisdom :)

Edit: this->these
How to Drive Traffic to Your Site Using Pinterest
Nobody tell the author about Japan.
By that statement, you can claim TaskRabbit and the like are also rent-seekers.
I'd also vouch for the near indestructibility of the normal USB-A variety - mine is still humming along despite being subjected over several years to no end of mishaps and abuse that would've killed any regular USB drive several times over
Story by Robert McKee seems to be the classic.
The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne looks promising as well, though I haven't finished it yet.
You’ll never predict how, when, why, or even if a “bubble” will pop.

Realistically there’s trillions of dollars tied up by the 1% in the market and I’m sure they’ll do everything in their power to keep it from crashing down.

I would say hold the course, if you have enough extra money and you don’t know what to do with it, ask a financial advisor what they think you should do.
Honestly, first and foremost, I expect a firehose of documentation, if Google isn't lying about making dozens of changes to it's algorithms every day. News companies might need a full-time guy (or team) just to sit there and read through them all.

But on the other hand, a bunch of journalists will have a ton of never-before-seen information about how the world's most powerful companies affect every other company on the planet. That alone is going to be worth some major exclusives.

Also, by the mere nature of being forced to share it, Google and Facebook will have to clean up their acts, they'll have to assume any change they make that could open them up to legal scrutiny will be found.
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to be honest, i'm slightly concerned that we are basically re-enacting the 20th century almost-beat-for-beat. pandemic, roaring twenties. Then the not-fun parts arrive: a Great Depression and then a World War.
Why would it need access to my Google account?
What makes you think that submodules will improve? I've used them for the last ten years or so (when I was forced to) and haven't seen any advances in UX.
That's not political correctness. I'm talking about a culture of fear around discussing topics like algorithmic bias.

BTW: A manager who's secretly a racist is still a racist. PC doesn't make this any better.
There is a long history of people who have been fired due to public outrage. People have different (and a greater number of) means of communicating that outrage today, but the general mechanism hasn't changed.
If they dont get lost, forgotten or seized to be destroyed.
I'm not justifying it, only saying it's not realistic IN PRACTICE. Requiring 24/7 discipline on that doesn't scale. Most men are friggen horny by nature. It's like telling everyone to diet and exercise to not be obese. It doesn't work, half the population over 30 is obese. Or to never gossip. How many will follow that?

Realistic advice needs to scale and work in practice. Platitudes without that won't actually fly.
Dual characters.
No, the Sovient program was doomed because the military lost any interest in funding Korolev's trips to Moon after they got what they wanted from the program - a fully working ICBM capable of reaching USA.

After that the funding was heavily curtailed and redirected to other near-military projects like spy satellites.

The fact that the program itself was ruinously expensive for USSR (which was still less developed than US) and was burning precious R&D resources was also not insignificant.

Korolev by James Harford is a rather readable insight into what was going on inside the Soviet space program: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213301.Korolev
Objective-C based dynamic dispatch allows you to call private, internal APIs from your code effectively bypassing the iOS sandbox.

App Store review process specifically checks for this.
Ebooks with illustrations/graphs? Text books and graphic novels come to mind.