skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, dataclasses are pretty darn useful and were added in 3.7. I can't imangine writing Python code without them now...
Let me say I don't have children of my own, and I want to send you positive vibes and encouragement. Stay attentive and positive with your kids, and I hope we can stop the monopolists from monetizing our children.
I'm feeling super pessimistic about this. The amount of brand recognition and power that Instagram holds over twenty-somethings is insane, and it seems like a given that they're here to stay.

I actually like VSCO a lot more than Instagram because it doesn't display follow counts, and there's no concept of likes. All in all, a much better experience and a lot less addictive. I just wish you had the option to go private, since I really don't like the idea of not knowing whos viewing my photos.
California Weighs ‘Equitable Math’: Goal of Obtaining Correct Answer Is Racist
> but they're so few and far between that you can probably list them off the top of your head in the tech space.

I disagree. You can't name them because they aren't worth billions of dollars and they don't make any headlines. They're usually called "lifestyle" businesses on here, and while sometimes this site discusses them most discussions are about building the next Google.
> Unless they start asking for a government ID,

Instagram started asking some accounts for ID 8 months ago.

https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-n...

Facebook has asked for ID for years now.
Not sure. I feel like I've seen this situation play out before. Parabolic spikes of activity then drops.
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To those who are worried about this test or concerned about ecological impacts - please let my share my context which I hope will make your position more flexible.

My personal context is that my grandfather was president of the Florida mosquito control board, who sprays enormous quantities of pesticides into nature in order to protect human health, and my mother, who works for the CDC on infectious diseases in sub-saharan Africa and South America.

The subset of disease carrying mosquitos are the most deadly disease vector to humans worldwide, and have no consequential energy contribution back to the bottom of the food chain. If you are worried about the food security of an animal or insect who only eats these disease carrying mosquitos, consider the magnitude greater number of insect species pushed near extinction or vastly reduced by our use of pesticides for mosquito control.

With this work, we move one step closer to being able to eliminate disease carrying mosquitos, leave the rest of the mosquito species alone, and finally stop spraying so much pesticide (that causes untold ecological damage) into nature and near human habitation.

While contrarianism is a valuable american (and human) trait, in this situation it is misplaced, mis-informed, and dangerous. An educated man's anti-vaxx, if you will.

Imagine the equatorial portions of the world without malaria, west-nile, yellow-fever, and dengue. Eliminating the largest amount of untold human and animal misery since the invention of anti-biotics, while stopping the indiscriminate use of devastating quantities of pesticides that destroy and distort ecosystems.

These diseases do not only kill, but physically main and mentally injure their hosts for the rest of their lives. In the developed world we are lucky not to have these issues due to pesticides, medicine, and a generally cold climate.

The equatorial countries are often impoverished, and the people who live there suffer from these diseases much more than we do. The contribution of persistent mosquito borne diseases to poverty is enormous and difficult to quantify.

I believe it is only from the most sheltered contexts and outlooks that one can oppose this measure of progress. If you oppose this test think twice - please reconsider. If your opposition is effective, people will die and suffer needlessly.
Why is the assumption that it's an either-or thing? We can have responsible parents AND people being outraged at zuck's moneygrab-at-the-expense-of-children move.

With this said, I don't exactly understand how an instagram for children can possibly hope to NOT run afoul of COPPA. All it takes is one child uploading a single photo of themselves or their siblings, or referring to a friend by name in a comment, or heck even just using their real name in their username...
Sounds like a market opportunity for something like OCW but pre-college.

Could even feature some YouTube content that's vetted by teachers, re-uploaded and properly monetized of course. Uploads being ultimately restricted to teachers holding credentials and peer-moderated.
Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React (2015)
My wife’s low trim (EX) 2018 Honda CR-V has lane centering and adaptive cruise control. Basically the same thing as what Tesla’s have but it’s a single button on the wheel to turn on lane centering and a single button to turn on cruise control, no clumsy touch screen needed. We use it all the time.
We pay less than Uganda, more than all of Europe. That's what's important here. Complaining correctly.
But they're not identical up to isomorphism. That's the point of my comment. You cannot round-trip (r = Inf, theta = .123) to a cartesian representation and back.
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"Commercial free childhood"

Every comment here seems to be around social medial. That doesn't seem to be their ploy. They object to commercials.

Did everyone else here have a different childhood? I'm 40+ and i've been bombarded by commercials since I can remember. How is Facebook the biggest offender and not

- Video Shows (TV/Streaming/Insert anything that needs sponsorship)

- Any Visual media

- Food

- Toys

- insert anything that is sold.

I'm not seeing anything here except go after "big target we don't like based on things we think are right" were all of these are very subjective...

For X sake... the US has an obesity crisis, and we are worrying about screen time?...
Tell that to a roadie. Hardware fails all the time.
There has always been gambling and speculation. I don't know of any evidence that speculative behavior has increased because of these internet bubbles. The pandemic and very low interest rates might be the main driver of these hype cycles, and we won't know for sure for a few years.
> We can and have been testing this process in isolated cases

Anytime you jump from the lab to the real world it's going to be different. And each ecosystem in the country and state will be slightly different.

> if anything unexpected happens we can stop the process and reintroduce the species

Has this been done before with insects though? This sounds a lot harder than reintroducing wolves at Yellowstone that are small enough in number that they can be monitored.
> a number of parents not savvy enough

This is an important factor that extends into all aspects of tech that I've worked around. Us tech savvy people take a staggering amount of knowledge for granted, I think - partially due to how technical knowledge can compound and transfer so well.

People use the term whitelist - why not supervise kids with a whitelist? I understand that idea (I've written the behaviour into software), and I'd even seek it out if I wanted to protect my kids. But to some people, this concept won't make sense at all. They'll ask things like "Why does the phone know what my kid can see?" or "How can the phone know what each app/website is?" – questions that almost make no sense if you know how these things work. But, that's the world we live in. I personally think it's my responsibility as someone privileged enough to be technical to help those who don't understand. Whether it's my kids or their grandma or the people I work with. Most people learn these concepts readily, but they have no idea where to start or what to look for to learn. It's not really their fault (not that you or anyone suggested it is).

> games that you purchase vs games that are free don't have anywhere close to the same tilt toward addiction, ad feeds, timed rewards, etc

Absolutely, it seems analogous to watching a movie vs watching T.V.

> Social stuff though...zero chance. None. It's a disease.

100%
Shopify is amazing for merchants. For developers, it's the anti-Stripe. The APIs barely make sense, the documentation is terrible, the system design choices will make you wonder what they were thinking. The whole thing feels janky and put together with duct tape. You'll rarely get dev support as a partner.

Shopify does not give first-class support to its public APIs - they use a separate set of private APIs to manage stores using their dashboard so they have very little direct feedback about public APIs.
The problem with objectivity is that "good high schools" tend to be cram schools for admission to prestige colleges. Not to mention the admissions consultants who will tell a student what to do to maximize their chances for a target school.

THE FOLLOWING IS MADE UP AND IS NOT ADMISSIONS ADVICE: The consultant says "Harvard, help rebuild a clinic in El Salvador, but Yale, tutor poor kids in Oakland instead, be sure it's Oakland, the admissions committee has never heard of Richmond."

Also geography. I'm sure that Princeton could fill their entire incoming class with students from one or two zip codes on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, for example. They don't want to do that, so they must specifically spread out admissions.

Considering the school: Suppose a kid from let's say Gunn High School in Palo Alto, whose parents are a surgeon and a Stanford professor, takes only two AP classes. Hmm, maybe just a doofus who will bust out of Princeton within the first year.
This species of mosquito isn't native to Florida in the first place, so I don't see how we can wreck the ecosystem by removed this non-native species.
CakeML is interesting, but I don't think any language can guarantee a SIL.
There are lots of smaller less well known companies you can start at and then work your way towards your ideal. Try to stick at each company 1-2 years minimum.
Not exactly Tiny Desk Concert, but close enough, my fave was an appearance by Steven Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields). This NPR series was called "Project Song"-- the challenge was to write and produce a song in two days.

https://www.npr.org/2007/11/04/15859351/stephin-merritt-two-...
Building a Modern D2C E-Commerce Tech Stack
What's the issues with floats? Everyone is casually talking about this issue like it's common knowledge. Online searches of floating point panics doesn't really bring up any information beside bug reports.

Is it something about floating point operations not actually being fixed-sized?
For those in certain countries, even finding affordable mental healthcare can be a problem.

It doesn't help that mental health help is seen as 'weak' and 'for wusses' and that they just need to man up.
Instagram feed only shows you accounts you follow.

Search tab on the other hand shows you any accounts IG thinks are relevant to you.

This makes me question the veracity of your comment, unless you meant the Search tab (and even then it's based on your interaction in the app - if you don't click on half-naked people, the app won't show them to you).
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Ask HN: How do you unstuck with your newsletter as a tech writer
I have around 13 year of web development (mostly front-end) and finally decided to do some tech writing as well. I feel comfortable to do so now. I have a self-hosted blog.

The problem is my personal newsletter. It’s growing very slow. Are people overwhelmed with such newsletters? Or is there any working strategy in conjunction of creating great content?

I am feeling a little bit discouraged after one year of writing. Posting monthly. That’s my maximum.

Have you been there and is a common trap? How do you cope with that situation?
I will appreciate any advice from writers able to unstuck.

My blog is https://webup.org/blog
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This sounds to me like such a non-problem that is blown out of proportions. Somewhat typical for American way of handling politics. Back at home for example (in Romania), there is an SAT equivalent (that is also much tougher). The universities can each choose to use just that in the admission, or they can choose to give another test on their own. These admission tests are usually setup around the country such that large universities don't have it on the same day. For the top universities the admission tests can be quite difficult, a top 1% would be at the bottom 25% if they don't prepare specifically for those tests. The tests are usually given for Math, so they're pretty fair and easy to score. And if you prepare for one university it's pretty much the same for all, with slight differences.

That math is hard, but at least you know what to expect. And if you prepare properly, you kind of know where you stand. I don't understand how US admission is acceptable: very wishy-washy, essays, extra-curricular activities, references...who decides what matters most? It's by design unfair and unpredictable.
Society is made of individuals. Leave the decision to an individual and the equilibrium of right will be reached quicker. We don't need one huge entity to tell us what's wrong or right. We don't need governments to babysit us.

Let's use an example. Let's say now the norm becomes to allow kids to drink alcohol and smoke weed. Would you allow your kids to do it? Same principles, in my opinion, stand with Instagram or any other tool / toy / gadget.
That’s so cool! Simply amazing. And so much through lisp and its dialects. Thanks for sharing.

Do you find Lispworks superior to SBCL / Emacs?

Any tips for other programmers on what to do / what not to do when it comes to production level lisp programs?
happily and "statically link c++" don't match together well.
Indeed, and in fact, I'd like to see the press stop reporting on elite schools as if they represent "education." That attention distorts the rest of the education system. I also understand that something scarce is inherently scarce, but don't believe its scarcity is something that the public needs to support. Let 'em do whatever they want, and tax 'em up the wazoo.
My guess was defrauding Chinese as they were the major investors in it.
Long ago, when I was a child, there was an excellent pizza restaurant in the nearby town. Food was great, but it was kind of run-down and not advertised at all; sometimes it would be inexplicably closed for a week, sometimes not.

One very hot summer, when we did not want to be cooking in the kitchen without AC, we had pizza for dinner one night. The next night it was even hotter, so we did the extraordinary thing (for my family) of having takeout two nights in a row.

Well, when dad got to the pizza place to order a pizza, he discovered that it had been converted into a coin-op laundromat, literally overnight.

Moral: mob front businesses are weird; enjoy the surprisingly cheap pizza while it lasts!
Wars are not biological, unless you subscribe to some very meta-thought on population control.

Pandemics could be argued to be a biological control on population, but I think mosquitos would be of more naturally-recurring consequence that make it a "normal" form of population control.
This works for Brave, as Brave enabled user agent change for DDG: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56459333/1459669
>That's better than most devs who want to shove their favorite language/framework down the throat of their poor customers.

This is exactly that.
It was for someone.
>Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere?

That could actually turn out to be worse. Take a look at a lot of federal bills. They're written like:

'In 8 USC 552(b)(ii) strike the word "foo" and insert "bar baz"'

You then have to go cross reference everything for every line. It's a nightmare. If the bill was written in a computer readable diff format instead, that could be better.
So should a person's mistakes be held against them for the rest of their life? Especially given what he did, which seemed very mild compared to the reaction.
> I've found there are plenty of cool people who still socialize

Maybe it was just the circle I made, but people were exhausted from work and trying to survive. They barely managed time for self care.

Could be an American thing.

But I find it fascinating that everyone complains about loneliness and then when anyone makes an initiative to do something, people have a 100 excuses.
This is absolutely fine. Until you realise that your kids are absolutely miserable because all of their friend groups are arranging to meet in the park or whatever via WhatsApp.

You’ll get really sick of downloading every. Single. Minecraft redstone tutorial for them.
Does Amazon make any significant revenue from Goodreads? I can see how it might be something that boosts their kindle sales but other than that they probably have a good reason not to focus on it like... because it isn't a business breadwinner. Why work on Goodreads when you can make more money on AWS? Does anyone really believe they are going to become the next hot social network because they nailed the market for people who read books in the most transparent/ community accessible way possible?
It depends on your situation. When inflation hits, is your income also going to go up? Is it going to go up as the inflation hits, or after the inflation hits? Do you have enough financial slack to survive until inflation makes the mortgage cheap?

And in fact, one could argue that the inflation is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. It's in financial assets - stocks and real estate, and maybe Bitcoin, but not so much in everything else.
He's arguably the greatest comedian of all time. I think there's definitely a thing or two to extract from his wisdom.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HWIN
Malaria used to be endemic all the way up to Maine.

Improved sewage and later millions of gallons of pesticide fixed that.

I don't think millions of gallons of toxic pesticides is the best solution. This is worth trying, and other similar experiments have shown it has been safe and effective.
> I hope this can be worked out. PEP 649 looks promising. Maybe PEP 563 should wait for python 3.11. And pydantic and fastapi are great! But this is, simply put, a shitty way to treat volunteer open source maintainers at the absolute busiest and most stressful time of the release cycle.

Updates from the fastapi maintainer (https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1383041351160369154):

"Quick update, the Python steering council, and core devs are fully aware of this and supportively helping figure it out. You can read all the conversations here and in the issue, but please restrain from commenting, tagging, or writing to them directly about this, it's already being handled with care. And [my] Tweet is already causing more extra work for them than helping."

And the pydantic maintainer (https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues/2678#issueco...)

"I only heard about the debate about PEP 649 on Wednesday night, and given the extremely narrow window to get my point heard, I banged the drum in every way I could think of. The lesson here is "careful what you wish for", my message has been amplified more than I expected. I'm sorry if that has wasted anyone's time, even more so if it reduces the chance my request gets a positive reception. You're also right that i should have engaged with python-dev long ago about this, I'm sorry I did not. Lesson (hopefully) learnt."

(More detail and explanation in his comment, but that's the bit that's salient to the point I was making in this thread.)
Yeah my low expectations for life consistently come in handy.
Ser Davos has some thoughts about your comment.

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> Shopify's market cap is $146 billion, so any acquisition would certainly be them buying.

Not that I know anything about this specific instance but the story can be... complicated. For example, would you say CenturyLink acquired Level 3 or did Level 3 subsume CenturyLink?

If you read the news headline, you'd probably say CenturyLink bought Level 3.

> https://archive.fo/rdNYn

> CenturyLink to acquire Level 3 for $34 billion

> Telecommunications company CenturyLink is upgrading its network with the acquisition of Internet backbone provider Level 3 Communications in a deal valued at $34 billion.

> In the cash and stock transaction, Level 3 shareholders will get $26.50 and 1.4286 shares of CenturyLink stock for each share of Level 3 stock. At $66.50 per Level 3 share, that represents a premium of about 42% over Level 3 closing share price of $46.92 on Oct. 26. Included debt brings the deal to $34 billion, the companies said.

> When the transaction closes, expected by the third quarter of 2017, CenturyLink shareholders will own about 51% of the combined company, with Level 3 shareholders owning about 49%.

However, the new CenturyLink/Lumen CEO is the Level 3 CEO.

> Jeffrey K. Storey (born May 12, 1960) is an American business executive whose career has focused on the telecommunications industry. He was the president and chief executive officer of Level 3 Communications between April 11, 2013, and the company's acquisition by CenturyLink in 2017, at which point he became president and COO of the combined company. He became CEO of CenturyLink on June 1, 2018.
A study finds gender bias in music recommendation algorithms
And that's going to further mess up the housing supply for people who want to buy instead of rent.
If someone is low on experience, mass resume sending is exactly what works.

If someone has a few jobs under their belt though and is stalling out, I would suggest finding a recruiter.
Disclaimer: I don't know much and I'm probably wrong.

> CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)
(In thousands)

Doesn't that mean they're not profitable? Or am I reading that wrong?
Interesting thoughts about "trauma."

I like "healing." Perhaps "a healing." (While it's certainly not an opposite to trauma) it also reminds me of "catharsis." Although I guess catharsis is a letting go of feeling; "a healing," I suppose, would be closer to wabi-sabi.
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> but it doesn't take an indicator to know that elite-exclusive college has been getting more exclusive.

Or maybe there are just a lot more “reach school” applications.

I agree that the overall applicant pool is improving, but it is not improving nearly as much as the admissions numbers alone suggest. The number of applications from applicants who are very unlikely to be admitted are increasing substantially.
Or, please cover Earth's surface with plant, which may already cover more than 1% of the surface, and can convert sun energy to something we can use.