skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great project in a space that I've been playing around for a little while, fun to see it here!

I'm interested in hearing what you think are some of the more difficult problems or bugs you've come across during development. Did you hit any stumbling blocks around handling user code or integrating babel or the terminal? Do you have any insights about preventing errors or crashes in how you parse and eval user code? (My typical test of a while(true) loop crashes this system, but you're still in good company; it crashes replit, browser dev tools, observable and just about every other clientside execution tool I've come across. The most popular solution appears to be the loop timeout transformation.)

I think the examples pages do a better than usual job of demonstrating your system, in particular the ubiquity of one liners and your connections between them. Do you have ideas or responses about the classic "mess of wires" critique that graphical coding systems inevitably receive?

This is such a fun domain to think about, thanks for sharing your work!
I'd like to think that extreme racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry won't be a winning recipe. A lot of the advantages China has in their government is beneficial for competing with other nations but will eventually eat itself from within.
The thing China cares most about is to not be humiliated and attacked by the whites. We sent the 7th fleet to interfere in their civil war and help prop up fleeing Chiang Kai Shek in Taiwan. Curious to see how their civil war will end. The last US administration that drew up invasion plans on China was under term 1 of Obama and they figured that window was closed. That’s why they came up with TPP to economically strangle China (and the Huawei ban started under Obama as well).

Worth watching the whole video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3izbn201s
1Password Secrets Automation
Maybe you weren't all that good with qwerty before? I always felt it's like learning an extra foreign language: learning French doesn't make your German worse.
yes! This is what I'm exploring next, composability. One idea is to make "big boxes" like you describe. The other approach is to make canvases have special input/output pane and the ability to reference/run other canvases.
I'm going to plug this Iraqi-founded and run organization:

<a href="https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org">Ideas Beyond Borders.</a> They're paying Iraqis to translate things to Arabic and expand the Arabic Wikipedia. The idea is to expand the range of aspirations Arabs can cultivate and pursue.

Also, (and I say this as an Israeli): it needs to become easier for Iraqis to land student and work visas elsewhere. The worldwide clampdown in travel and migration, even before Covid it was particularly difficult for Iraqis, and so was keeping them in this pressure cooker.
I wasn't bearish while reading the article, but your comment does make one wonder... :-/
Check out Tangible Functional Programming by Conal Elliott for an interesting take on this approach

http://conal.net/papers/Eros/
> Really? Can you elaborate a bit on the why?

It's the only serious proposal i've seen to replace the DNS protocol. It's backwards-compatible with existing zones (same RR types plus a few new ones like PKEY), with existing governance (the protocol has a notion of global root, which is very likely to be ICANN), and replacing traditional DNS recursive resolution with GNS recursive resolution is not such a challenge.. and in any case most devices don't even do recursive resolution but act as a stub for a recursive resolver further on the network (a somewhat-worrying trend).

So, the fact that GNS can live alongside the DNS for as long as people need is for me a very appealing argument. Also, GNS uses proven p2p schemes (DHT) in a clever way instead of reinventing the wheel or yet another crypto-ponzi-scheme. "crypto" in GNS equals cryptographic properties to ensure security/privacy of the system, not tech-startup cryptocoin bullshit, and i truly appreciate that.

Then, looking at the security properties of GNS, it looks great on paper. I'm no cryptographer so i can't vet the design of it, but ensuring query privacy and preventing zone enumeration at the same time sounds like a useful property to build a global decentralized database, which is what the DNS protocol is about despite having many problems.

Building on such properties, re:claimID is a clever proposal for decentralized identity. I'm very much not a fan of digital identity systems, but that one resembles something that would be respectful of its users as persons. There's FOSDEM/CCC talks about that if you'd like to know more.

> GNS has been around as a proposal for years and has gained no traction

I wouldn't exactly say that. I'm not involved in the GNUNet project so i don't know the specifics, but GNS was at least presented at an ICANN panel as an "emerging identifier", that is one of the possible future replacements for DNS. I'd consider being recognized by ICANN as a potential DNS replacement some "traction" (more than i expected). If you can find the video from that ICANN session where both GNS and Handshake are introduced, that'll probably do a better job than me explaining why GNS is very fitted to replace DNS. URL used to be https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/tJErIuCs-mg3E4GXtgSDB_UqW464f... but now that's not loading for me anymore.
What you did is great, but there is still a part where luck made a role: you are still probably healthy, and you don't yet know how to live together with a chronic disease.

As a person who is successful in terms of money, but sacrifised my health, I suggest you to start taking your health seriously (sleep, nutrition, gym, air quality for you home). The problem is that nobody can tell you when you will start having real problems with it.
Many SaaS pricing plans are quite expensive IMHO, probably because they cater to US companies.

Just out of curiosity, may I ask why you want your own domain for this specific purpose? For SEO juice…?
Bogosort is at best linear, since we have to check if the list is sorted.

Quantum Bogosort guarantees the best performance, since it destroys all universes where the list remains unsorted after the first shuffle.
The question is not really if you want to be taxed to pay for UBI, but if you rather want to be taxed to pay for UBI than some other bullshit that you are currently being taxed for (of which there is a lot).
I don't place any judgement on the author at all. Programming since he was 12, started a company, self taught developer & data scientist. He's been extremely busy, is clearly motivated, and on paper should be extremely hireable. But he's getting dozens of rejections over whiteboard interviews, so he's probably wondering "am I actually just getting rejected for not having a CS degree", which is an extremely frustrating thought when you have the experiences he has.

The digital nomad life is probably somewhat relaxing, but he's clearly someone who values his accomplishments over his experiences, so I'm guessing that's why it wasn't the focus of this article.
Welcome to 5G...
> If you connect your Android phone to your corporate Google account, you will be required to install the corp monitoring software suite, which (among other things) includes both location tracking and nuke-from-orbit features.

My understanding is that on personally-owned Android devices, a work profile cannot specifically track location by itself. A force-installed app on the work profile could, but you can turn off location tracking on the work profile easily[1].

> The company does encourage you to configure your phone properly to keep your private info in a separate non-corp account to minimize undesired data leakage, since the corp side of things is assumed to be observable for security and corporate policy reasons (I can't remember right now if the nuke-from-orbit would wipe the private side of the phone's install also).

On personally-owned Android devices, a remote wipe only wipes the work profile. It doesn't touch the personal profile side[2].

Googler, opinions my own.

1. https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/7029265?hl=en...

2. https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/7502354?hl=en...
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That expire after seven days, just like if you signed them with XCode. And you can only install two or three apps at once, and the wireless linking rarely works.

Apple just needs to have a version of "fastboot oem unlock" (or, for that matter, "csrutil --disable") where I can sideload applications with a big warning on the lock screen/splash screen that says the device is not secure. Besides, as long as the code is running inside the sandbox, who cares?
Why not simply make the pipe explicitly HTTP?

first | second | third

"first" starts up a HTTP server, "second" is a HTTP client which makes a standard HTTP request to "first" declaring in the headers what content types it can support, and "first" returns a standard HTTP response declaring in the headers what kind of content it is sending. "Second" is also a HTTP server for "third" in the same way, and so on down the pipeline. All the OS has to do is coordinate a free TCP port for each pipe. The HTTP client can simply be a lightweight headless Chrome Electron bundle, and the whole pipeline gets all the benefits of HTTP (standard UTF-8 encoding, compression), with only a small overhead of cookie policies, cross pipe scripting, modern auth tokens, 2-factor authentication between client and server, SAML, and a tiny surface area increase for security concerns but only a few dozen MB or so.

Plus the pipeline then has ongoing two-way communication up and down it.
As a new manager, especially with a work culture like you describe, it can definitely be easier to go with the flow and be an asshole "like everyone else"

If you do things differently, you open yourself up to criticism and if anything does go bad, you're likely never going to hear the end of it.

Good on you for stopping that vicious circle and being an example of a good manager.
With the crawler which is part of the SeekStorm search-as-a-service.
Deaths of despair increased though:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deaths-of-despair-during-c...
New leak shows off Windows 10 design update with rounded corners
> we normally verify our educated guesses empirically

Love that quote! That's going to be my standard comment from now on when I see a pull request that doesn't include any test cases :-)
Homefront mobilization is pretty much the same for disasters, wars, or a pandemic. If you can't do well with one, you probably can't do well with any other.
Really late reply so you'll probably never see this but thanks for taking the time to explain.

I was actually wondering a) what, exactly, the ISO was specifically doing, which is kind of a stupid question :) and b) how to, uhh, "un" the "exactly", I'll word it that way.

Hiding things in invisible objects would be fairly easy to detect. I was wondering if maybe the document might for example embed two spaces every X characters by way of identifier, or use a seeded RNG to pick from multiple visually-identical layout methodologies, or even maybe reencode the images with a uniquely-seeded JPEG scan script, oh oh or maybe adjust individual control points and Bezier curves in the glyph tables, or...

I'd probably just do an outline-to-shape or similar type of pass on it. But then I'd start wondering about the statistical probability of recovering glyph offset micro-adjustments, or hinting settings... eep.

Okay, import the whole PDF into a layout engine then re-export it. Hmm, what if... oh you know they might be reordering the paragraphs in the text... hmm, with 100 discrete text permutations, you could tell 10,000 output documents apart if all 100 permutations were left undisturbed and were recoverable. That's... quite a lot of work. They're probably not doing that.

Or are they?
We probably need a blockchain-based commenting system to make sure you can afford 50 upvotes as long as you have enough miners running ;-)

Who cares about sybil attacks when you can run a proper ponzi scheme and get rich! /s
This guide omits an IMPORTANT issue: handling characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). JavaScript, like some other languages, suffers from the UCS-2 curse - that is, it assumes that all characters fit inside 16 bits, even though that is no longer true.

For example, the cited text says: "You can return the UTF-16 code for a character in a string using charCodeAt()...".

Not true. This only works if the UTF-16 code fits in 16 bits; if it's more than 16 bits, charCodeAt will only return a part of the character.

There are lots of discussions about this, here's one:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3744721/javascript-strin...

JavaScript can handle characters outside the BMP, but you sometimes have to aware of the problem & carefully code around it when such characters are possible.
Probably worth noting that given the Cloud nature of almost all the Google apps, the opsec model here is that the phone is discardable. Your photos are backed up to Photos. Your mail is mirrored on Gmail. All your docs are in Drive. Your contacts are in Contacts. And so on.

You don't have precious, irretrievable data on that device anyway, because it's a phone (as in, "There's nothing Google's gonna do to your phone that wouldn't happen to it if you dropped it in a toilet, probably don't keep the only copy of your baby's first words on something that fragile").
Parent specifically stated DNA viruses. From your article:

> Most of these viral genes come from retroviruses, RNA viruses that insert DNA copies of their own genes into our genomes when they infect cells. HHV-6 is unique because it is the only known human DNA herpesvirus that integrates into the human genome and can be routinely inherited.
He means Rust introduced these concepts to him, not in general.
"The incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) varies between studies, but it is estimated to be between 2 and 5 per million per year. A recent study in the Netherlands with comprehensive ascertainment suggested a much higher incidence."
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.0...

So the six reported cases in 6.8 million vaccinations seems low. Glad I read about all this because I got the J&J vaccine 12 days ago. No noticeable side effects so far. I exercise a lot and did a 5 mile hike four days ago that resulted in a slightly strained a calf muscle. I have been taking it easy the past few days, meaning sitting and reading a lot more than usual. So after learning about the blood clotting, have started exercising the legs frequently. My optimistic thinking is that even if the vaccine does cause an increased risk of CVST that risk can be eliminated via exercise.

It will be most interesting to learn if those six cases involved people at high risk, if they exercise regularly, etc.
The author does mention a Haskell/Scala like language missing from their list of languages they have written, but then they do include Erlang which I believe has pattern matching as a fairly core construct? This does lead me to doubt how much Erlang they've written, and in turn how much they've written across all of the languages mentioned.
> [...] FAANGs are all monopolies so there's very weak selection pressure for them to distinguish candidates correctly. They don't get punished for their mistakes.

But they do. You see that happening every time a big company fails. It just takes a while longer because of the inertia the company has built (for example by having made more good than bad hiring decisions in the past).

I understand that good people fly under the radar all the time. Also I understand that there are startups that certainly have a higher skill level than Google does (anything else would be shocking, considering Googles immense work force).

Not all hiring decisions are good. Maybe most aren't. There's just no reason to believe that Google would be any worse at it than Random Small Company, considering that more money and expertise certainly helps when trying to hire the best talent.
Microsoft makes the Surface Laptop 4 official, offers choice of AMD or Intel
It sounds to me like you do agree with them. The OP wasn't saying Americans feel wealthier, but rather that the quality of life relative to the past is higher.
Legalize less damaging alternatives. The cost and risk of the legal alternatives will drop and people will have an incentive to do something other than street meth.
Several years ago my brother got a windows phone so that he had an excuse when people asked him to install apps. It worked very well for him and I'm considering replacing my feature phone with a PinePhone partially for the same reason.
"I think it's fine to wear Stars of David - such practice is well known, for instance."
The era of reusability in space has begun
A pretty safe bet.
Median house prices in the UK are 8x median incomes. Banks will lend you something like 4-5x income on a mortgage.

Low interest rates aren't helping most people, they're hurting by pushing up house prices. Only those with significant capital for a deposit benefit.
To be fair, the alternative presented by the comment I responded to was zero.

Also we're talking 2 out of maybe 6-10 people (and their families/heirs traveling with them)? Not like 2 out of thousands.
The west is in decline because progressive values don't promote strength. They focus on class and are inherently divisive. Ironically, they only blossom in strong societies. The decline will allow other societies with a more conservative philosophy to take over and it will be their turn in a few centuries to succumb to the same tragedy. The baizuo tragedy.
> He wants to control language, not just on matters like saying "GNU/Linux", but also on how trans people are referred to

Also see the current woke ideology. Language is everything to these people.

edit: To further expand on my comment. I agree with you that he is wrong to control what people say, but I don't think he should be cancelled for it.
I think it’s a given at this point that whatever Apple
does, Microsoft is sure to emulate.
We've changed the rules for every single part of life and society because of this massive emergency, with no idea what the long-term consequences of doing so might be. I'm not sure why the FDA should be excluded.
I'm not sure why this comment has been downvoted. It seems like an accurate description of KYC requirements in western countries.

The benefits that society provides (roads, money, safety) come at the cost of not being anonymous (car registration, passports, KYC).
Devil's advocate: I think the idea with the app isn't to figure out if you're in the building, but rather whether you're moving around within the building in a manner consistent with the fingerprint of doing your particular job. A janitor could clock in and then just sit around in the custodial storage area doing nothing, and a card-based system would be none the wiser. But the app would identify that as "not working."

The app isn't to know whether you're on the clock; the app is a digital whip cracker to keep employees constantly working 100% of the time that they claim to be working.

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Which, in theory, wouldn't be a bad thing... if this was combined with a sufficient number of break-minutes per day, to be spent flexibly. Whenever you're not doing the "doing your job" movement pattern, the app could automatically mark you as being on break. If they calibrated the number of break-minutes to the actual average observed productivity of employees in each role across the industry, then the app would have a useful output — allowing employers to figure out who's doing less work than average. (And employees+unions could also use the data as evidence for uncompensated overtime disputes.)

But of course such a system won't be used/configured that way. Employers will instead wrong-headedly assume that their employees should be capable of productive output 100% of the time that they're not on their 90 minutes per shift of legally-mandated break time; and then will randomly punish/fire employees for taking "extra" breaks, even when those "extra" breaks merely bring them to the industry average level of productivity.
Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set
No, there isn't. The best you could do is disassociate from any criticisms you have made about CCP. Better yet, start a pro-CCP newsletter in substack, and hope for the best.
This should be illegal. The crazy thing tho is this tracking is currently possible to do within any building by measuring reflected wifi signals.

I think that's the next wave of privacy concerns when we need to worry about privacy via relative physical measurements not able to be "locked".
CVST normally affects women at significantly higher rates than men.

> Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is rare, with an estimated 3-4 cases per million annual incidence in adults. While it may occur in all age groups, it is most common in the third decade. 75% are female. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_venous_sinus_thrombos....
If there were a macro theme, I would say inferior goods in the west to get exposure to downward mobility in the middle classes, and higher risk real estate in ascendent/emerging economies that China needs resources from.
> If you're concerned about kids accidentally discovering adult content, by all means add a parental control setting somewhere that hides any NSFW content.

For sure! And thank you for the response — I just realized I must've skimmed over this very important detail (emphasis mine): "Additionally, all users on the iOS platform (including those aged 18+) will be blocked from joining AND ACCESSING NSFW servers."

Okay, that's stupid.
Yeah, was also interested. It would be nice to see Typesense take up the same challenge for comparison ;)
Back at home I used to see a schedule on a wall in most toilets(shopping centres, some public buildings) where rows with time slots were filled with names and signatures to ensure constant cleaning every 15-30 min.

Carrying a phone with a tracker is a complete BS.
I managed to subscribe through DiscountMags at $50/yr a few years ago, and they allowed me to lock that price in permanently. It might be possible to get a similar deal during one of their promotion cycles.
And I am betting that CCP will implode within the decade.

If west is in decline please stop sending your top students abroad to study (and stay there). Great job promoting brain drain.

I am tired of this unfounded narrative that the west is in decline. No, it’s not. It’s actually getting stronger by the day especially the US.
Before people get all worked up. This is certainly so that discord can maintain it's current rating "T for Teen" on the app stores. Apple likely got POed since Discord could be used as a work around for parental controls, and here we are.

The right long term policy might be to have multiple apps or a feature to restrict NSFW access within the Discord app akin to Netflix, but to address the issue immediately, this is a reasonable short term policy.

Don't forget an enormous user base are kids from 13-17, so this, in my view, is entirely reasonable until they sort out a longer term solution.
Decriminalization and legalization brings peoples addiction out of the kind of hiding that prohibition requires. This makes it easier and safer for people to seek addiction services, and easier for their loved ones to spot their problematic use earlier. Portugal is testament to this.

Also consider places like the Netherlands or various states in the US where cannabis is legally available. What you see there is that other drug use shifts to cannabis which is relatively safer than alcohol or opioids. You also see declining rates of use among teenagers as it become less mysterious and dangerous but rather common and uncool.
They'll have to start with CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times and their ilk for the countless times they repeated the Russia hoax, the Covington boys hoax, the Bubba Smollett hoax, the Jussie Wallace hoax, just to name a few.