skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS has Elastic beanstalk and other services like (CodeStar or AppHero? I forget the name) that directly compete with Heroku. The UX is not as great as Heroku, but the price difference makes up for it. Heroku is still a great choice though. If only Saleforce were more aggressive... by keeping the service quality up while reducing the price.
Would it be possible to run WhatsApp in a sandbox, and let the sandbox perform the messaging through an API which other (more secure) chat clients can use to relay messages to/from the WhatsApp network?
Mayawell's prebiotic sodas are fire
That's a great tip, thanks!
I think there’s a bit more nuance to it. React (and other vdom implementations) try do be as efficient as possible when diffing / reconciling with the DOM. Sometimes this can result in improved performance but there are also use cases where you’ll want to provide it with hints (keys, when to be lazy, etc.). https://reactjs.org/docs/reconciliation.html

Above all I would pragmatically argue (subjectively) that the main advantage is enabling a more functional style of programs w/ terrific state management (like Elm). This can lead to fewer errors, easier debugging, and often better performance with less effort.
No, we do support storing secrets and securely delivering them to the running application. See `encore secret set --help`.
It's only during when the .. "person" talks. Which makes it quite noticeable to me because it starts and stops. It is rather faint, so i might not even notice it if it was consistent.
I have literally bought mini-usb cables on 3 different occasions to use my OP-1. I lose them all the time, as I have about a thousand (no joke) USB cables and 3-5 mini-USB among them.

I bought 20x mini-USB as my new mobile phone uses it now and I didn't want to keep not finding them when I need them.
Interestingly, I currently have devices which use mini-usb and type c cables, but I have no use for micro-usb.
Not sure about YC, but Andreessen-Horowitz seems to have made about $14B from their $2M investment? Assuming I'm reading this SEC filing correctly. And Union Square Ventures appears to have turned $13M into about $7B?

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021...
Europe != Obscure department of the European Commission issuing unsolicited opinions
Here we go, it didn't take long... Anyone still thinking ML won't be regulated? ML licenses to purchase GPUs next?
There's no need to put Exxon in jail. Exxon is what the C-level executives make it. If they decide that Exxon is going to break the law (or permit it to happen), and are held personally responsible, that is all you would need to do to see a large change in behavior.

Shareholders are too far removed from personal responsibility, and holding them responsible beyond the financial risk they already carry would basically destroy the rationale for the existence of limited liability corporations.
Simple genetic modification aims to stop mosquitoes spreading malaria
The green energy used by bitcoin miners would be used by others if bitcoin didn't exist. Instead those others use dirty electricity.
The C-like syntax is a bit depressing.

There is a syntax debate I respect. While I prefer austere syntax, deeper thinkers like Bill Joy note that programmer productivity increases with more information on screen at once. Syntax that improves both code density and clarity is a good thing. I love Haskell and Ruby in actual use, even if I want to prefer Lisp without parentheses (an easy preprocessor if one thinks it through).

I cannot respect perpetuating C syntax just to attract users who would otherwise be challenged (that Apollo 13 astronaut who "never trained in the LEM"). Rob Pike once gave the only justification I can understand: Code used to need to survive communicating through channels that mangled whitespace.

That is no longer the case, and modern editors all support syntax highlighting. (We've reached the point where one should develop an editor language server in parallel with any new language.)

If your editor can figure out your language's grammar, and then you can with the editor's help, then one achieves greater code density and clarity at once. Some people do love terminals, but most people use graphical user interfaces. Why is language design stuck in terminal pre-history? There is no excuse in 2021 for lots of stray punctuation that's just ground glass in programmers' eyes.
Yes. About 20 years ago I heard him speak on his idea that the underlying structure of the universe was 2D cellular automata. How this coupled to the observed physical universe was not clear. He now seems to have generalized the cellular automata model to something much more complicated.

Who's evaluated these ideas?
EU wants to ban use of AI for surveillance
Yes, professionals use OP-1.

It's one of Jean-Michel Jarre's favorite synths[1].

JM Jarre is one of the godfathers of electronic music. You probably heard Oxygene part IV some time in your life[2].

[1]https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2012/05/jarre-synth

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIMVnPA994
Originally it went for $700 i think, when they stopped selling it people put theirs up for thousands
> They do, and would if asked!

Today I learned I must have fatigue and brain fog...

What delusionally contrived nonsense.
Y en el lado ibérico, si ponemos el murciano o extremeño
igual invocamos a Cthulu con cada excepción.
Show HN: Khuro, a Private Social Network
> Prior to 1970 or so, Congress used secret ballots. [...] A new law changed that in the name of "transparency".

No, that’s not true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have information like this, the breakdown of votes by members on the 1964 civil rights act.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182

It may be that prior to 1970 or so the number of bills (or the number of bills salient to major donors, or whatever) passed by voice vote rather than recorded vote was higher, that’s a harder claim to assess. But it is certainly not the case that Congressional votes either (1) were ubiversally nonrecorded prior to sometime around 1979, or (2) cannot be by voice vote today.
Spotted Portugal. The Man using it here https://youtu.be/fSVwJyxeVYI

EDIT: turns out I'm response number 1000 – read someone else's comment.
I'm a fan---I even own a copy of the gorgeous hardcover edition of A New Kind of Science. However, this should be understood in context: Wolfram has been claiming that this approach would generate revolutionary changes (a paradigm shift, to use Kuhn's now hackneyed phrase) to how we understand and approach the universe for at least three and a half decades. He's brilliant, and has made some very important contributions to complexity theory, chaos, theoretical comp sci, discrete mathematics, etc. He also has a Bobby Fischer-level awareness and focus on his own superiority, and whatever the exact opposite of debilitating impostor syndrome would be. Still, that's true of many people that I admire but would probably not enjoy having dinner with (Nicholas Taleb, I'm looking at you.) Probably best to take some of his claims with a grain of salt until he proves them (which is not entirely unlikely in Wolfram's case).
Guess again:

> 1) Non-white non-males are given less ability to grow in the "STEM/Entrepreneurship" fields as students and/or children by society.

> 2) White men are able to outperform those other groups by some inherent quality.

> Nevertheless, 1) seems to be partially disproved

Unless I misread, the claim that is being made here is "white males are inherently superior"
Do you care to share a link then?
They do some folding, but I don't remember the "raining superstrings" part. In any case, it's an incredible trilogy. I loved it and I recommend it.
Also, it would mean you usually would not recover anything since a corporation usually has deep pockets and your average employee is not even worth suing even if you could win.
This may have a chilling effect on communication wherein sharing is more akin to bringing up a thing you want to talk about rather than making a definitive statement. A big problem is that a baseless lawsuit can still cost the user tens of thousands of dollars.

Also if the purpose is to reduce the amount of blatant lies and misinformation I don't know that it would be very helpful as it seems like most of it actually has a byline just not one that any reasonable person would trust.

Forcing users to check for a byline and nothing else to avoid accidentally opting in to financial destruction wouldn't help much. Your idea needs expanding.
I noted this in another comment, but if they _did not_ update the code in production, they ran with known vulnerabilities in the server side for many months: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3432529f9c...

There's no good option here.
For the front ones, maybe. But for the back ones Old Swedish went through "stora vokaldansen" (the great vowel dance) leading to "ut" (out) being pronounced /ʉːt/ rather than /uːt/.
You're blaming the qualitative difference in the observations on sample size when Denmark, Norway and Germany all observe the same effect to differing degrees - namely, rare blood clots approximately an order of magnitude more frequent than data from Europe as a whole indicates.

You should at least acknowledge that the UK has a per-capita Covid lethality of 15 times that of Norway, and that this might also be a relevant factor in these decisions.
What a self-hating looser. I pity you.
It's a good thing that it is brought into the light and discussed though, because most people probably don't realize how much power "automated decision making" already has over their lives, and it will only get worse if tech giants and oppressive governments have their way.
The GPLv2 rightsholder can independent of that elect to sue and seek damages for the duration of the copyright violation, but once one come into compliance again, one can re-use it, and the GPLv2 rightsholder cannot stop that.

We might be arguing semantics here. I am trying to convey the idea that the rights holder can sue for damages after the duration of the violation, even if they can only sue for damages that took place during the violation. That is, once you are in compliance with the license you don't retroactively have a license for the time it was revoked.
Also with VBA for MSOffice where even damn Excel functions were localized. Useless crap.
This is pretty amazing.

Gary Tan made a YT video about his experience backing them very early and getting a 6000x return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5YApjnTG10

It's remarkable that Brian Armstrong gave up what would have been very valuable options in Airbnb—the most valuable YC company at the time—to found a new company that surpassed it.
Even a simple what's good/bad about each one would be fine. I'm okay wading through a list of 12 items if there is some way for me to tell what distinguishes them from each other.
That's what everyone thought about Bitcoin back when it hit the crazy high of $800.
the only outcome of this is that Europe will fall even further behind the US and China. How sad.
Esperanto > Rust
I still don’t see what the upside is to their valuation? It’s all baked in AFAICT.
> Not literally, but it was still a lie:

Very well, I can actually admit fault, unlike others in this conversation, and I was indeed mistaken when I claimed that no one is mandating it.

That said, this entire conversation was only tangentially related to Epic, there are people beyond them who want third party app stores on iOS, and not all of them want them to be first class alternatives, nor is Epic's case the alpha or the omega on this subject. Epic does not get to shape this conversation, even if they are the ones pushing the court case. If anything, Apple willingly ceding some power to non-first class third party stores could potentially defang Epic's complaints, as it could increase both developer and consumer goodwill and expose Epic for the power-hungry empire builders they really are.

> I’m sorry you feel attacked. I was genuinely impressed.

Passing off an insult as a compliment? Have you considered writing for an authoritarian politburo?

> which means that users would be forced to use a range of stores

This point is unsubstantiated and does not match current reality in other software markets.

> so the fact that some security focused stores might exist is moot

It really doesn't, as users can choose to use those security focused stores if they want to. Similar to how users who value security or privacy may choose iOS over Android already, users can choose security-focused stores over the App Store in the future.

> you’d be able to provide an example

I did.

>That is debatable, and discussed throughout this thread, including in my own comments:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799453

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26799283

> I think you fully stand behind what you are saying.

I think assigning personal motivations and intentions is not conducive to proper conversation.
Why do they have to curb anything?
My bad, I was referring to this comment [0] and didn't notice it was not actually owned by google.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157480
mRNA is a decade in the making, which is why they were able to target/isolate a COVID-19 vaccine is a very short time. Two weeks I believe, someone please correct me.
Thank you ! I have started meditating recently, it has helped me calm down my nerves in these situations.

> The problem with confidence is that it's a side effect of knowing and trusting yourself, and that takes real world experience.

I think this is one of the problems for me. I don't trust myself enough and start feeling like my knowledge is lacking which creates a negative feedback loop.
I think this would be great if you can bind them to an IDE's Debugger Shortcuts. Step In/Out/Thru.
Well I don't know about you, but I am merely a temporarily embarrassed founder
You could say it's special pleading on my part, but for the continuation of homo sapiens, sex is required (at least for now).

> violence, incest, tribalism, and other undesirable evolutionary behaviors

None of the explicitly mentioned things in this list are similarly essential to the continuation of humans and human civilization. Like violence may in reality be unavoidable, but that doesn't mean it's strictly necessary.

But I do agree that appeal to nature alone isn't very strong. Like to me, I guess it's moreso what seems like extreme impracticality in trying to control people's sexuality to a finer degree than is already in place.
It is a single matrix multiplication to predict probabilities of all possible outputs. For example, with a hidden state of 1024 dimensions, and 8 bits output, it is 1024x256 parameters. 10 bits will need 1024x1024 params.
Yep, very nice illustration.

And deliciously cringe inducing!
Epic Games raises $1B to build the metaverse
I do this too (running it in a docker container on my server to mutualise usage across several devices) and it suffice for catching the main errors and typos. Quite happy with it.

Can indeed be recommended as substitute to grammarly free.
I'm not aware of any important contributions made by Stephen Wolfram to theoretical computer science. What are some examples?
So let's negotiate the true value? How else are you going to know if you're delivering technology thats useful?

You said there are other reasons, what are those reason? I've gone to restaurants to meet friends... and ultimately we all eat to satisfy our hunger.

My point is that tasks are derived from functional requirements, they aren't context free, and if you make them context free then we're just doing what ever we want? To analogise, why do you have relationships in databases and indexes? An index is a flat map to speed up lookups on known queries, you don't get at the meat of your query in the index, the meat of what you want is in the row and it's relationships. You have an object graph for a reason, and yeah it was the hard part, but it's what makes a model useful.

... and to counter the quote... What's the point of your users experience if it's not to get them to where they are deriving value?
I turn off wifi and cell service if I want to open the app surreptitiously. I’m not sure if it reports “last seen” in that scenario but at least there is one way to check the app without reporting.
It seems to be a common opinion, I see a lot.

What many do not realize is the 'build your own' is going on (I can name at least 4 YT replacements, some better than others). But they are dismissing them with the same reasons they are kicking the creators off the 'mainstream' sites. So you see a lot of YT refugees and many existing YT creators 'splitting the difference' basically they upload it to both YT and several other sites. There is almost zero downside in doing so really.

Eventually someone will click it all together in the right way and create a decentralized uncensorable thing. At that point the internet will become a lot more like 4chan.

The old adage is 'the internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it'. It just does not happen overnight though.
Careful with that though, as we saw with the covington kids, if powerful interests want to slander AND libel you, they will drag you kicking and screaming into the spotlight. Now you are a public figure, now you are fair-game, but they've always seen you as fair-game, they just needed to manufacture justification.

And that's just how minors are treated.
ai need training data. Its not just a technology play.
Not every wealth creation activity requires the consumption of wood. Some require nothing but time. The wooden spoon was merely a simple example of how someone can make wealth. Time is a resource that appears to be infinite--at least until an extinction level event that wipes all humans off the face of the planet (time would still exist, but our time to make wealth would be gone).

We have gone down a rabbit hole, and it sounds like you (and I too) no longer wish to dig any deeper. The point is when the rich get wealthy it doesn't demand the non-rich to get more poor.
At $875 in 2013, it was somewhat cheaper, but not much.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00CXSJUZS
Stephen is really fun to listen to. This is from the Event Horizon podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpK1d8mTEhI
For the uninformed, what mathematical guarantees does POW have that POS doesn’t?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26806506.
Ian's Awesome Counter
Having spoken with him briefly, this is the best description I've ever heard of him.
Redundant Against What?
Show HN: Tic-tac-toe without any JavaScript
Advertisers asked to not have their ads on certain content, because normal people complained to them when they perceived the advertisers to be supporting the content they didn't like.

Advertising is the problem.
Behavior DB, let's call it that way :Ð
If you mean histogram, yes I reset the histogram for Fauna.

If you mean deleting Faunadb internal events, I do not know how to do. Can you guide me?
This already exists, e.g. invidious.tube (YouTube proxy instance) or wago.tube (PeerTube instance).
Thank you. Too many commenters here, years removed from being a beginner, aren't getting it.
That's all still in the "research" phase.
> then the question is whether you actively participated in

There is another important question: intention. In the US, "for a public official (or other legitimate public figure) to win a libel case in the United States, the statement must have been published knowing it to be false or with reckless disregard to its truth" [1].

It seems to me that most of the problems come not from having the defamation law to begin with like you said, but from the law applying even to defendants who believed the information they were creating or disseminating was true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
Offloading the problem solving to courts doesn't fix the issue, it just removes your involvement.
China Launches Hotline to Report Online Comments That ‘Distort’ History
The publication to follow is the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) monthly reports. There's a report from January and one latest is from March 1.

So far no statistically significant adverse events have occured for either pfizer or moderna vaccines. I follow them closely.
Just wondering, what phone do you have that still uses mini-usb?
I think I read 10 somewhere but as I’ve said in the sibling comment it’s hard to know if these were all weird cases like the one who died or if they fit a pattern at all.
I once packed up and moved to another city to try and help get over this.

Ultimately I think the only way to really get over it is to seek some counselling.

Losing a job is hard. Losing jobs repeatedly is really really hard. Don't face that challenge alone if you can help it.
It's the mechanism by which Occam's razor works. A monstrous spaghetti codebase could absolutely produce the universe we see. The problem is that many, many such codebases fit equally well. If you wanted to you could say that the universe just is the way it is, specifying the state completely. But you could always say that, no matter what the universe is!

As it turns out though, huge swaths of the universe's behavior can be produced without all that individual specification. There are massive holes in our understanding, but at pretty much every turn for the last few centuries we've gotten better at predicting more stuff with fewer equations. Does that mean it'll continue? No idea! But that's why there's a real sense that a simple universe is more 'probable' than any particular complicated one. Now maybe no simple universe can possibly fit ours, in which case we're just kinda fucked.
My friend is doing course in Lambda School.. occasionally asks for my help with some of the course work. Almost all of the Lambda school's sample code is terrible. They proudly claim that their bootcamp enables people from other trades (plumbers, janitors, etc) to become programmers. And their example data to teach the concept of array/index would look something like array=[1,2,3,4,5], index of 1 is 0, and index of 2 is 1. The concept of an index starting at zero is so native to regular programmers, but for someone who has done their first helloworld in their life, imagine the confusion caused by the above example code.

I get furious when looking at each of their examples. At some point, I advised my friend to dropout of course, but Lambda School has penalty of around $20k-$30 if she drops out in middle of course. I wish they either update their course to be beginner friendly, or just get banned for ruining the fun of learning programming.
Previously in metadata: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854593
Their cash balance, debt, or equity raise. Or they go bankrupt. That would be part of the risk of doing something that got your company this punishment.

To be clear, I’m not advocating these shutdowns as a good idea, there are a lot of implications that I haven’t thought through.
In case someone isn't aware, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a very good introduction to distributed databases, even if it doesn't specialize in them.
Very little. This is a result of the private equity market growing so large that companies can put off going public for very long (Coinbase raised $800 million and the last round was "Series E").

10-15 years ago, it was much more difficult for companies to raise this much before going public, which forced companies to go public much earlier, before all upside was realized by private investors.

The result is private equity and VC funds benefit from the early gains, and by the time the company becomes public (and is accessible to retail investors) there's typically not much of a lucrative near-term upside opportunity.

The same thing will happen with Stripe once they finally IPO. They'll debut at an insane valuation, and there won't be much upside opportunity for retail investors to benefit from. Because if there were, they would be able to more easily raise the capital from private investors rather than the public market.