skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha thanks for checking out the videos! That company ended up failing. I was almost on Shark Tank again for my company DirtByMail.com (we were talking with the producers of ABC), but didn’t make it on.
Is everyone using the 16GB version of the M1? Or is the 8GB sufficient?
The level of risk is magnitudes more with the waterslide.

Allowing children to use exercise equipment is a Darwin award for the parents. It is just below allowing them to use power tools unsupervised
Lol she’ll love that
I was expecting a little more detail about Kurdistan today vs the history lesson. Although it is important history.
I don't use Snap. The only real "bloat" in my home directory is my Bitwig folder, which isn't that bad considering I use the program on a near-daily basis.
I need a key to start my Sole, and you can attach the key to yourself while operating it (in case you fall off). A child getting mangled under the tread couldn’t have happened with that simple mechanism in place.
It fails the first section ("Barking the wrong tree"). If I install the addon and then run

gl.getParameter.toString()

I get

"function () {
window.top.postMessage(\"webgl-fingerprint-defender-alert\", '*');
//
if (arguments[0] === 3415) return 0;
else if (arguments[0] === 3414) return 24;
else if (arguments[0] === 36348) return 30;
else if (arguments[0] === 7936) return \"WebKit\";
else if (arguments[0] === 37445) return \"Google Inc.\";
else if (arguments[0] === 7937) return \"WebKit WebGL\";
else if (arguments[0] === 3379) return config.random.number([14, 15]);
else if (arguments[0] === 36347) return config.random.number([12, 13]);
else if (arguments[0] === 34076) return config.random.number([14, 15]);
else if (arguments[0] === 34024) return config.random.number([14, 15]);
else if (arguments[0] === 3386) return config.random.int([13, 14, 15]);
else if (arguments[0] === 3413) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 3412) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 3411) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 3410) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 34047) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 34930) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 34921) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 35660) return config.random.number([1, 2, 3, 4]);
else if (arguments[0] === 35661) return config.random.number([4, 5, 6, 7, 8]);
else if (arguments[0] === 36349) return config.random.number([10, 11, 12, 13]);
else if (arguments[0] === 33902) return config.random.float([0, 10, 11, 12, 13]);
else if (arguments[0] === 33901) return config.random.float([0, 10, 11, 12, 13]);
else if (arguments[0] === 37446) return config.random.item([\"Graphics\", \"HD Graphics\", \"Intel(R) HD Graphics\"]);
else if (arguments[0] === 7938) return config.random.item([\"WebGL 1.0\", \"WebGL 1.0 (OpenGL)\", \"WebGL 1.0 (OpenGL Chromium)\"]);
else if (arguments[0] === 35724) return config.random.item([\"WebGL\", \"WebGL GLSL\", \"WebGL GLSL ES\", \"WebGL GLSL ES (OpenGL Chromium\"]);
//
return getParameter.apply(this, arguments);
}"

without the addon I get

"function getParameter() {
[native code]
}"
Do we know what specific week that was? Would like to see it affected trading patterns or the VIX.
Have so many great memories of playing this game with my family.

What an absolutely fantastic project you made for yourself!
Tools can be stolen. In fact, if we're claiming whoever did this was a super-genius, they would have stolen or spoofed the tools they used to point at someone else. Unless they were Russia being so clever they were pretending to be someone pretending to be Russia!

Edit: Your link show Kaspersky labs making the claim that this was the FSB. Yet the West also claims Kaspersky is controlled by FSB! Well, you could say "they should know". Or maybe they want to humor the West so their ban will be lifted. Or maybe they aren't controlled by the FSB at all. But if the West can't figure that out, how do they expect to figure out the true origin of the hack.

"A riddle wrapped in mystery, inside an enigma"
Fedora 32 install everything needed for coqui-AI / TTS at digitalocean
OTOH, I can see not using subroutines with side effects...
Hmmm.. I tried to visualize them both at the same time.. it took some effort, but quickly "oscillating" between the two ended up settling (without a jittery oscillating feeling) on seeing both at the same time. Maybe my brain was playing meta tricks on me though?
Product Person #1:
Hey, here’s a writeup that says if we show too many positive posts to people that it creates bad feelings. Should we show less positive posts?

Product Person #2:
Not sure, wouldn’t negative posts make people feel worse?

Product Person #1:
Wow, I donno, maybe we should try adjusting additional posts people see one way a bit and see what happens?

Product Person #2:
Not a bad idea, how about we try both? You know, an A/B test.

Product Person #1:
Hmmm. Ok, but— when we’re done, let’s have some scientific review of our data just so that we can correct the record and push along the science around this stuff.

Journalist:
This company deliberately made people sad
There's definitely plenty of companies out there that have stopped using LeetCode style questions. I just finished interviewing and out of the 8 companies I talked to only 1 had a single LeetCode style question and it was one of the "coding challenges" at the virtual "onsite" stage. My previous employer also didn't ask any LeetCode style questions.

It's worth pointing out that there are some questions on LeetCode that are absolutely fair game in the interview process. Questions along the lines of can you implement the logic of a rate limiter, can you implement some authorization logic, how would you deduplicate some data in a system, given some request headers can you implement X logic, etc. are all questions that can be closely tied to some LeetCode questions but are also regular day-to-day work. However these are questions where you don't have to memorize "tricks" to solve them in the amount of time you're given.

That being said FAANG companies are known to ask the typical "LeetCode" type of questions, so if you're applying to those companies expect such interview questions.
Nope, but I do use the Wavlink USB 3.0 to HDMI 2K Adapter with a USB-C adapter in one port and a Hgore HG-HB007 adapter hub in the second port. It's a mess of cables, but it works great with two external monitors hooked up. Quite a bit cheaper than a full docking station.
Where is the higher growth? I divided 2019 by 2009 GDP much earlier in the thread for the two countries we are talking about, and got a smaller number for Japan.

Don't accuse me of bad faith when you will not address this point. You keep telling me about higher or similar growth when the numbers do not support it.

As to the debt picture: it becomes more difficult to grow GDP to cover large debt when the working age population is destined to shrink relatively sharply. The demographic squeeze isn't a opinion or theory-- it is a certainty. Even liberalizing immigration policy would not be enough now, and there have only been the tiniest steps in that direction.

I would have been on the opposite side of this argument for a long time-- enthusiastic and optimistic for Japan's economics trends to improve, and a fan of many of the country's institutions. But at this point, there has been decades of underperformance-- yes, from a track to outpace the US's GDP on an absolute level to now being 2/3rds of it on a per-capita basis, with ongoing slower growth and terrible demographic trends.

The dependency ratio is going to be 0.79 people 65+ for every person 20-64 in 30 years, and the overall population will be 25% smaller. The working age population will be 33% smaller. This is a very difficult environment to have significant absolute growth in.

And, again, comparing to Germany is silly... because many of us are also concerned about the same factors-- underperforming growth, demographic shifts -- in Germany.
Bashblog[1] is pretty lean, and doesn't use any dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
Why are you letting your children operate a machine with absolutely no supervision?
I didn't want to argue laptops are becoming obsolete. In fact I think they'll become more important - the share of desktops + laptops is shrinking, but laptops are gaining disproportionally over desktops.

Nevertheless, the importance of the OS shrinks in my opinion. Either you use windows, then you're (still) bound to x86 (yes, Windows technically supports other platforms, but this is mostly history), or you're using a Mac (BSD-based OS, doesn't really care which architecture) or something else (i.e. Linux, which also doesn't care).

Microsoft isn't stupid by far. As soon as the market doesn't favor Intel/x86 anymore they'll pivot to providing a linux window manager (earning money with telemetry and their office platform).

I'm convinced Intel has to play a big card soon (and I'm quite sure they will), or they're history, comparable to IBM in 2000-2010.
Alberta confirms first case of rare blood clot after AstraZeneca vaccine
This is what is wrong with the industry. Like as an older person if I start using these drugs while they will work I'll be dead within a year of use. I had to go vegan cause I was no longer able to digest food right anymore. So employers expect me to literally injure or kill myself for their short term benefit? Its better to never work again than to seriously injure or kill yourself for a job. In your 20s it may seem like this stuff is having no real ill effect but by the end of your 30s you're likely to drop dead from cardiac issues. I have seen this again and again, its absolutely wicked.
Vanquished Vaccines and Vetocracies
Don't most people who pirate these days use a VPN anyways? I don't see how this is going to do anything.
FSF chooses to draw the line between "hardware" and "software" at "read-writable."

Arguably if Alexa's AI was burned onto a ROM, you could argue the entire Alexa speaker was a hardware appliance.

The alternative is requiring a microwave's control software to be fully free.
Really? I have no trouble seeing both at the same time. Nothing special about it, the angles of their respective faces are different enough that it doesn't feel like there's any interference at all.
I loved Flash, deeply, I learned to program in Flash. But I am slowly in the process of doing a 180 on this, where before I felt like we had lost something with Flash that nobody had ever replicated. People have different things they liked about Flash. I liked the animation-centered workflow (and I still think there's room for innovation in this space with modern tools). I miss the ability to export vector animations.

There's a technical hole that I still think could be filled by other programs today. But often, I hear people lamenting the loss of community and the loss of universal publishing.

And on that note, aside from the animation-centered workflow, I'm less certain that the rest of that stuff is actually gone. Unity publishes to websites just as well as Flash did, if not better. Unity even lets you publish to Linux, which Flash never really supported well.

And honestly, I'm not sure the community is dead either, it's just moved on to platforms like Scratch, Pico 8, Itch.io, and Roblox. I see very similar energies when I interact with people on those platforms. It's a different community, it's younger kids with different norms, the old generation isn't as welcome anymore. But I'm not sure the reason for that is because Flash died. Sometimes generations grow up and younger generations go act creative in different spaces.

So yes, there is a very specific workflow for a very specific type of game that no longer works on the web. I've used Unity, and I don't really like Unity, I hate it's resource management, I hate that we're still using proprietary software after so many years. But I think more people are making games with Unity today than were making them back then on Flash. It's more accessible.

I'm very, very slowly changing my opinion on this. Part of it is that Flash is still available today under Animate, and while it is still chained to Adobe I've still never heard a really good breakdown of how it's worse or what features it doesn't support anymore. As far as I can tell, you can still use Actionscript 3.0 with Animate. It is proprietary and expensive, but so was Flash -- so if it's purely a technical problem, then I'm not 100% sure that you couldn't still make a Flash website/game today.

I still think there's a hole here that could be better served by Open Source toolchains, but I'm becoming less convinced that it is as big of a deal as I previously thought. If you're trying to make games, now is a really good time to be alive. It could be better, but if you give me the option of making games in 1999 or making games today, I'm not going back to 1999.

And aside from that, even if Flash is a hole, it's still very specifically a hole for games. Even during its heyday, building static websites in Flash was a sin. Almost everything else you want to use to build a static website is still available. Just not that specific sinful part :)
Yes, indeed, we should all learn not to use our emotions in online discussions. People will say and do things that they would never say in real life, even under their real name, because of the disconnection from the actual person hearing/reading/seeing that.

Funnily enough, this is how I quit Imgur for good. It's amazing. I posted something that I believed was right and got downvoted to hell.

So I started asking people "why, why do you downvote?" and got mostly laughs, memes and people calling me stupid. Except one person, who said "you care way too much about this". Indeed, I did. Thank you random person!

Not sure why but it affected me more on Imgur. Maybe it's the length of the comments? The memes that encompass a thousand words, as they say? Regardless, I just deleted my account and never went back. It's great.

Still trying to quit Reddit and HN, but they're good resources if you ignore all the stupidity. Imgur is bottom of the barrel social media, but it was fun.

And of course, this is used by various media outlets, has been for a long time.

It's all about eliciting emotions, which come from the primitive part of the brain, bypassing any advanced conscious analysis and engaging the impulse to do either what you're told (good for sales) or the opposite of it (good for spreading a message) or something in between, but it's a response that you will remember and most likely take action.

I forgot what I was trying to say. Somehow Facebook never got me, it's just a useless platform aside from contacting people.
You are mistaken. Errol absolutely played a pivotal role in Elon's initial success:

https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/origin-stories/elon-musk

> Since Musk and Kimbal weren’t going to get any funding with a mere proof-of-concept, they had to build out the company using their own capital, and there wasn’t much of it. When Zip2 launched, Musk only had $2,000 in the bank. Kimbal had a bit more, having recently sold his share in a College Pro Painters franchise, but most of their startup costs were covered by their father, Errol Musk, who gave them $28,000 to get going.

Elon's "rebuttal" around this point is highly deceptive. Yes, his life with his mom was hard at times. But his dad did in actual fact have a half share in a Zambian emerald mine for 6 years. He was wealthy before that however, due to his engineering company.

So the truth is essentially "both." Did Elon struggle and have to show some grit at times? Yes. Did he get access to initial capital that many people wouldn't? Yes.
There is no excuse for this. This was a morally bankrupt and exceedingly awful thing to do. I was absolutely furious when this happened and made it a life mission to help other people know this was going on. 99% of people don't know this event happened, still.

I don't trust Facebook one bit. I assume they do this kind of illegal 'experiment' all the time now, and the only change is they stopped bragging about it.

So gross, this whole thing, it makes me mad there were no real repercussions from this. Worse yet is how many people actually support this unethical and sick experiment from Facebook.

Lots of people don't see anything wrong with it, even technical people like those on HN, and that is just as disturbing to me as Facebook actually carrying it out.

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Edit: I'm now blocked from posting on HN (for a while I guess?), so here is my response to a poster below.

@antiterra says,

> That you’d prefer they either stayed ignorant or unconcerned to what changes they made and their effect is exceedingly awful and morally bankrupt.

I have no idea how you reached the conclusion that I would prefer either of those things. There is a massive chasm between 'perform illegal, unethical mass psychological experiments' and 'I don't care about stuff'.

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@chatmasta says I'm not blocked, but I am. I cannot reply to you either. It says I'm posting too fast and won't let me submit any content.
I admit I didn’t read the article because I thought I knew the event it was referring to, but didn’t Facebook actually publish this as a psychology study? i.e. they didn’t just use it for A/B testing features but actually thought they were doing something “good” to the point of publishing a study about it. It’s laughable now lol.
A reasonable attitude, but one that you would only arrive at if you were fortunate enough to pick the right books to begin with. Or the right teachers.
I see it from CVE database.

Naturally I look at GNU/Linux, that is what average Joe gets on their computers.

iOS is not Linux thus not even part of this conversation.
Since we're making a list https://plaza.one is good for obscure vaporwave. I've heard songs that I absolutely have not been able to find elsewhere on the internet.
There must be some demand for this book. You can read it online for free or buy a used copy on Amazon for >$300!!
I’m not presenting an alternative origin of money. I’m arguing the issue is more complex than a single explanation.

Money is a natural consequence of trade in general.
Without knowing your situation, that sounds like job security to me. "If we go the simple route I'm obsolete"
In the video that another user posted the treadmill was already running because the sister was using it and the little child was sucked inside.
How the key would have helped in this situation?
Pity that almost no one uses them as desktop platforms.

Windows store and Windows Sandbox is way more advanced than any GNU/Linux offering, including kernel and hardware sandoxing with help of hardware protections.

Still waiting for snap and flatpak to finally fix their security holes.
My concern wouldn't be with data being exfiltrated, seeing as so much is E2E encrypted these days.

But what if there is a remote kill switch - taking down a cellular network could cause a whole heap of problems in the 21st century.
Probably that ball is what saved the kid’s life.
Yes, they published the paper and publicly bragged about how successful they were in making hundreds of thousands of people feel sad.

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/24/8788.full.pdf

Edit: And it is in their public defense of this paper that they think we all gave 'informed consent' to this kind of psychological manipulation when we signed up for Facebook because it's in the TOS.

They literally define 'informed consent' as the legal text in their TOS. I mean that's insane, they know their users don't read that before signing up. It's not f'ing informed or consent ugh this makes me so mad.

Also what kind of sick company puts into their TOS that they can emotionally manipulate you on purpose whenever they want? Fucked up.
I think the example of table / grid layout is a weak one. Table layouts were not bad because of what they produced, but because html tables are semantically different, and shouldn't be used for layouts. But they still solved the same problem that grid layouts solve.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31881765/
There's a patch to fix this. https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/pull/4137

I'm pretty unhappy with the behavior of the maintainers to the author, though. There are better ways to suggest issues with documentation than just "this is a lie", and better ways to say a function name could be better than "is a horrible name". I also think it's rude to ask for a patch to be completely rewritten and then ignore it after the author does so.
What I learned when I became “CEO” at 20
I love internet radio projects.

Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title.

I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s wooden console radio I picked up at a thrift store for 20 euros. Works great and keeps the illusion that the room is free of computers.
Having built out big infra on AWS and now on GCP, GCP's live migrations really change the way I think about the cloud.

GCP has hardware failures, and if there's a bad enough one it impacts your instance, but you can have instances that live forever and they just move it from physical machine to physical machine and it mostly works.

I was very skeptical about this, having spent 5-6 years on AWS and got used to the idea that AWS might just blow your instance away (normally with notice, sometimes not though if the hardware hosting it had some catastrophic failure). GCP just says, "Don't worry about it, things will get moved" and the servers in question have long lived connections, they aren't just simple stateless HTTP API servers, and it works 99.9% of the time (that last 0.1% of the time is a real pain to debug).

We still treat our machines as cattle instead of pets, but not having to constantly deal with cattle roaming off the reservation is nice.
The article links the Canadian government website for public consultation of these changes [1]

If you scroll down to the conclusion [2] there is an email address that you can email your comments to. Be aware that these comments will be made public.

[1] https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00191.html

[2] https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00191.html#s5
Really good point there. Curious about that too.
This is could a be huge vector for market manipulation.
Czechs expel 18 Russian diplomats over depot explosion in 2014
Isn't it obvious? Goodreads doesn't need to make money on its own. It's a customer acquisition and retention tool for Amazon. The same way as DPReview is. They both are good for communities and don't try to be anything else or overload users with ads. They are just basic communities with tons of content.

To make a better Goodreads one first needs to make a better book store than Amazon, better reader than Kindle, and better audio book service than Audible. Goodreads and these services are in a virtuous flywheel.
If I followed you around for a day, I could point out all the choices you chose to make and could have chosen to do differently.
The ball made all the difference.

He was lucky.
This is an excellent point! Thank you for pointing that out +1
It sounds like you’re trying to relate the ever changing adoption and development of web standards with longstanding ethical expectations in research.

Nevermind the fact that the former aren’t direct actions on customers (Amazon wasn’t not showing https for only certain users) while the latter is a direct, concentrated, understood action on customers.

The two aren’t similar at all.
The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945