skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point, thank you. I am a long time Erlang/Elixir user and I've mostly been trying to attract that community in the past, so the docs are very biased towards already knowing the value of that ecosystem.

It's tricky to condense into a short reply, but the Erlang virtual machine and way of programming are in some respects second to none. It is build with scalability, concurrency, distributed computing, and fault tolerance in mind. It's really good at handling high load. It uses the actor model and it's not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of actors in an Erlang programs (in fact the creator of Erlang says that's a "boring" scale) without any deadlocks or fiddly race conditions.

Erlang programs also have mechanisms for self healing when errors arise (bugs, hardware failure, whatever). Kind of like k8s style system but very fine grained and baked into the very language and with 35 years production usage.

This is a bit of an off-the-cuff fanboy-y ramble, but basically it's just a really nice ecosysem to work in when making networked services. I've personally found it makes things a lot easier than most other ecosystems I've worked in.
Wood is a lot better in an earthquake, is easier to modify later, and is a lot easier to insulate.
Hahaha. That's some achievement and perfectly timed response. https://youtu.be/_uMEE7eaaUA
This is quite the caveat. "Its a good book, except that all the testable claims made are false". Shouldn't that discredit the untestable "narrative" claims? Guns Germs and Steel is a Talmudic exercise in making stuff up to support the author's biases. Its only usefulness is as an example of how to make a superficially convincing case for something totally wrong.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qvaxPH3ftUQ/
Hi James! Since you're here...

I haven't had a chance to look at bbqueue, but I recall (wow, I guess more than two years ago) difficulty designing patterns to use DMA due to aliasing concerns over the buffers given to DMA peripherals. What's the state of the art for that today? Did you folks ever find a nice abstraction?

This post also reminds me to check up on embedded async executors. Using interrupts to drive native async code is still a dream that keeps me up at night with excitement.
People aren't asking you "why do you choose to work on ads rather than not work at all", they're asking "why do you work on ads rather than a different area". In that context, the fact that you work to donate is not relevant, since you could switch to a different area and continue to donate.
I agree those are bad, but those don't seem to be unique to user targeting? You would have the same thing with contextual ads (since what page someone is on is still pretty correlated with generic demographics like "is a kid" or "is a radicalized individual")
I think a big reason is because that "1% to 2% base pay raise" gets hidden behind bonuses that (usually, but not always) seem bigger, plus stock-based pay that tends to be bigger every year (until it isn't).

For me, it's not as gigantic of a deal because as long as my raises cover the rising cost of rent--which it might not this year due to where I live becoming even more massively popular in the wake of COVID--then I am fine with this trade because I hate interviewing and I hate change even more. I used to spend the bulk of my annual bonus and stock grants and saving a little; in recent years, I've flipped that.
A practical application of this perspective, and one that has a lot of virtues is:

When evaluating a crazy new idea (particularly something like a product or business), don't bother asking "will this work?" because no one truly knows, but rather ask: "if this does work, then what are the implications?"

Pg has quite a track record here by being an early investor in textbook crazy new ideas like Airbnb, Coinbase, etc. "Will this replace a chunk of the hotel market? Unclear, but if it does, it will be a huge and valuable business."

For folks talking about Mighty, its through this lens that pg is thinking about it. "Will it work? Is it better than alternatives? Who knows... But if the vision does pan out, I think it's more obvious to see how this could be a big and important business."
This essay is a frustrating read, because you can feel his condescension towards critics (oh, they must be envious, or taking cheap shots), and you get a window into his headspace in which he believes that his way of examining the world and arriving at substantially the same beliefs is the only correct way.

But to be quite honest, many PG essays fit this same basic structure, whereby some venture or belief of his is introduced in a slow-burn way, with lots of short sentences light on content as if trying to sound off-the-cuff but way too authored to sound convincingly so, and then a dispassioned but complete teardown of the critics of the idea. A subversion of an appeal to historical authority thrown in for good measure. He always comes across as the understated luminary whose low opinion of the clueless hordes or meddling schemers below him is emotionlessly obvious, and anyone who disagrees is clearly a meddling schemer because of envy or fear or some other existential insecurity, because his seldom-mentioned achievements ought to speak for themselves about the supremacy of his approach.

But what's especially frustrating about this essay is that it's clearly precipitated by the dismissive public reaction towards the Mighty app -- an observation shared by many others in this thread -- but this is intentionally unacknowledged by him, presumably so that he can pontificate about the bravery of weird ideas the envy and fear of others on his personal blog without soiling the name of a business venture he backed. But it's also evidence that with a simple Twitter beef, you can get under his skin -- a sad fact you'd be forgiven for doubting if you hang on every word of his essays.
I'd say DickDuckGo has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better in the past two years. I'd consider the results I get on there to be mostly equivalent these days, and in some cases better, though still sometimes worse. It's finally gotten good enough for me to be willing to switch though.
Agreed. This article can be compressed to:

* Google is marginally increasing security by turning on 2FA automatically for some accounts

* Google's password manager has a new "import" feature

Based on the title, I expected maybe some radical new developments in WebAuthn or similar password-replacement technology, not incremental improvements to Google's products that benefit only Google users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle

It is not an axiom though, but rather an architectural guideline that comes with its own set of trade-offs and must be applied judiciously.
Cash back portals often require click through on affiliate links.
> it won't make them nearly as much money.

Yes. That's the problem. Make less money from ads --> make less content/riskier to make content (same thing). The more money ads make, the fewer of them you have to see to fund the same amount of content (or, alternatively, you get more/higher quality content for a given (fixed) quantity of ads).
>Pretty wild to think about how something we take for granted as never changing in daily life can actually change in human lifespans to things as fundamental as atoms and isotopes. Sure, there's radioactive decay but few interact with this.

Steel rusts. Masonry turns to sand. Wood rots.
Maybe their top influencers were being sincere†. Maybe it was very good and convenient app for them, perhaps because it acted as a good voice recorder / orchestration tool for their podcasts. What they didn't realize is that the listeners have a totally different viewpoint

† I think a lot of it was paid publicity
Rust has the `todo!()` macro: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.todo.html

Haskell has "typed holes": https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_gu...
One can believe things to be bad or to have negative externalities without calling for a wholesale ban. I find all ads reprehensible but I completely agree that banning ads would be impractical and probably effectively impossible. I don't see a contradiction.

> efficient markets require marketing

The problem with ads is that they fundamentally violate consent. I can't avoid seeing an ad, even if I'm not interested. Ads are not the equivalent of a salesman who's pitching his script to me, they are like an unsolicited robocall.
An insane number of people still hold the same creationist beliefs as back then, but I am happy it's not in the public discourse as much.
You are what happens when sunlight shines on a rock with water over time.
This is about privacy and security concerns which should outweigh Apple's need for lock-in. Even BT scanning would be a good start.
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The issue is when the "just asking questions" is asking the same question over and over again in discussions that the question isn't really relevant to.

How many times do you have to answer the same question before you get to say "stop asking this question"?
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> We’ve recently launched our new Password Import feature which allows people to easily upload up to 1,000 passwords at a time from various third party sites into our Password Manager (for free).

But the only way to manually add one password is to craft a custom CSV and upload it.
Great initiative to work on that !
Please stop going on about downvoting. The guidelines specifically ask you not to.
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Not quite as rough as you had it, but growing up with parents in the medical field, they could and would easily recount all the nasty injuries and deaths they had seen in accidents (or homicides).

Suffice to say I am firmly in favor of wearing safety equipment even for "simple" jobs, and trying to avoid pissing people off.
Thanks. I thought there was a citation missing! I'll have a look at the paper.
What happens when Mighty's competitors offer slightly different browser emulations and you now have to build your web app for Mighty and Weakly and Mediocry as well?
Indeed.

https://substack.statuspage.io/
So during their onboarding process they have a survey about your usage patterns.
One of the questions is about speed of switching between tabs and one of the answers is "Tabs are switched very fast (<1 sec)"

I'm sorry, but 1 sec is not fast...
The protection racket so many of my fellow American programmers euphemistically refer to as job security, - or just unselfconsciously don’t refer to or think about at all - has always left me cold. Occasionally it rises to the level of disgust.

One of the important currencies in our industry is trust, and people only trust That Guy grudgingly. Sharing info is often reciprocated, and you have a clearer picture of the whole project. Something very necessary if you ever hope to be in leadership.
Related:

When trying to compare the legal systems of various countries, it is instructive to note that they differ by large amounts. The basics of Law, and the governing principles and assumptions behind Law, vary quite a lot. Even within countries, the law is often not the same everywhere. Wikipedia has a good map of the 'basic' law systems used throughout the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems
Stock overflow happened, check out brk.a in google finance.
Same. That's why I double-checked.
This feels a bit played up. They are allowing short people to apply to be astronauts; I wouldn't consider that championing inclusion and diversity.
> It looks like the browser vendors tried with "system-ui", but screwed it up badly with Windows and designers are afraid to use it now.

Is that still the case? I see that it was an issue a few years ago, I can't find any recent info that still says to avoid system-ui. Safari and Chrome still support system-ui. The working draft for the next version of CSS has system-ui, ui-serif, ui-sans-serif, and more.

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#system-ui-def
You can also disable all unsafe APIs, which is workable if you don't have to integrate third party code into your frontend. Then you don't have to mark anything as safe/unsafe, because it doesn't matter.
You seem to be implying that solutions to problems succeed on their technical merit alone. This is trivially false. I used the phrasing "from a technical perspective" very intentionally, for a reason.

And, in the specific case of microtransactions, it's well-known that consumers like cheap and free things - which causes them to flock to ad-funded services because said services make it as difficult as possible to see what data you're paying for those services with.

The reason why microservices have failed is largely due to the negative externalities (e.g. massive personal information harvesting and sale) being concealed from users. If you showed users how much of their data was being harvested, and who it was being sold to (transitively), how many do you think would continue to use an ad-supported product if a reasonably-priced paid alternative was available?

Edit: to provide a specific example of a somewhat-low-friction microtransaction system (that could easily be scaled to "extremely low friction" with non-architectural UI tweaks) that I've had experience with, I present to you Blendle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle

These are not hard technical problems.
The American left is absolutely centrist at best. The real “left” legitimately believes in socialism / communism at some scale. If actual socialism isn’t part of your policy position, I struggle to say you’re on the left.
Downvoting because of disagreement is specifically allowed here, and pretty much always has been.
There is an essay like that - https://medium.com/the-mission/your-life-is-tetris-stop-play...

And here's my rebuttal to it - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/01/for-some-people-life-is-har...
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> I always sensed the overwhelming consensus among us all (tech people, namely) was that such information should be made free and accessible?

I don't think there is. But that's partly because "tech people" is now such a big tent. Open source folks would probably agree with that statement. Folks pushing startups towards hockey stick growth.. maybe less so.
Thanks for your reply and for citing the law text.

This is an interesting passage.

It seems to me that saying to ALL visitors of the website that the goods and services are not offered to GDPR places should be sufficient to preclude GDPR jurisdiction.
I'm probably too nostalgic, but that's what the web used to be... and it was so much better. Most of the content we would lose I wouldn't miss at all. Clickbait and buzzfeed style sites. Already I'm paying for a lot of sites that actually do reporting, for instance, so I already feel like the content of real value is already for-pay or produced completely for free by enthusiasts and academics.

I remember ~2001 or so a lot of the sites I visited were ad supported, but it mostly just made enough to cover hosting costs. At this point hosting costs are so cheap that I don't even think those style of sites would have trouble existing. Most of those sites existed because some people were interested in a hobby or a subject, and would publish news and have bulletin boards and articles and stuff. Sadly those kind of communities don't seem to exist anymore, now those kind of things end up being subreddits or facebook groups and I never feel like those are quite the same, they just don't have the same curation or community feel.
It would only take 20%

The other 80% would work for them. The 80/20 rule in principle.

Yes, sounds bad, but that the world that we live in.
If you are a woman have fun seeing ads for makeup and fashion all the time. There is a reason female users are hot commodity for any ad driven company, companies are willing to pay way more to advertise to women.

Targeted ads supports the status quo instead of exposing everyone to stuff they might want.
Do you have a new $gadget/$smartphone/$tablet/$whatever? What about your SO/father/niece? (You might not, but I bet a lot of people reading this and agreeing do buy a bunch of stuff they don't need without realizing it).
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/03/large-scale-so...

New York State is 35 million acres. You don't think 0.2% of that, including rooftops of existing buildings, might be useable for solar/wind/battery storage? And again, NY already uses tons of out-of-state energy.
I interpret this as a simple thinko, not unlike the expression "I could care less". As Al Yankovic says:

'Like "I could care less",
That means you do care,
At least a little'
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The way that an opinion is expressed matters a lot :

https://www.ecosophia.net/conversation-as-commons/
Fair enough. You're right, and my response was attacking a straw man argument that you never made - sorry about that.
Depending on how you define star power, it had Musk, Rogan, among 100s of other well known celebrities in the early days. Not sure if any of those stuck around, but they certainly attracted the right people early on.
I agree and find this is the largest problem I face on clubhouse. Room discovery is hard. Titles and descriptions are often poorly written and inaccurate. I also often find the conversations to be far less insightful and interesting than I expected.

I was hoping there would be more interesting discussions and lectures. Instead many rooms often feel a bit like a circle jerk for the hosts.

Perhaps this is an issue in Clubhouse's ability to validate who people are. I have no idea if the person speaking is actually credible. Maybe Twitter spaces will be better since they have the blue check mark system and I can have confidence that the people speaking are known to some degree.
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> Violent attacks based on politics became normalized.

It's always been this way. Police/authorities around the world happily beat the piss out of protestors. This is a not a new situation; it's the way things have been since forever.

> Take a look at the "I punch Nazi's" crowd.

You ignore the whole, "I disagree with fascists, racists, and others who spread hate against people for no reason than the color of their skin. And I oppose them by publicly expressing my thoughts about them." crowd. Which is the vast majority of people.

Punching someone makes them the victim. Which is precisely why you're pretending that everyone who supports trump is getting beat up, rather than look at the truth: which is they are merely get silenced and ignored by people, and are forced to go into echo chambers to express the abhorrent thoughts because most people don't want to hear their hateful garbage.
> Some things are complex enough that they are just very hard to do.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Engineers have the ability to automate some very complex issues. But there will always be a class of issues beyond automation, simulation, analysis, etc. and we just have to accept that the only way to solve them is with slow, hard, error-prone work.
You wouldn't pay $2400 for 20 years of a user-centric search engine that is actively trying to find you the best results, rather than try to consume your attention for as long as possible so that it can show you more ad impressions?

The other side of this is that someone has actively spent $2400 worth of ad-buy to show you ads for the last 20 years.

I don't think the other-side of the argument has been explored well enough; I'd love to see what is possible without these ulterior motives controlling what you see and hear.
Is there any documentation on "Zero cost interop with Erlang, Elixir, etc" mentioned on the home page? I'd definitely be really interested if it can be integrated with eg. a Phoenix project.
Same. Heard much discussion about it at every job, but in terms of actual time or dollars -- nah.
As Earth is in orbit around the sun, everything launched from Earth automatically is also in orbit around the sun. To go into the sun, you need to deorbit from that orbit. Earth's orbit around the Sun has an orbital speed of about 30 km/s, so you need to cancel that to drop into the sun.
Yes, it literally becomes the invisible hand that controlls the freemarket but it no longer free and no longer a market if nobody can get in. Ultimately the value we all get is exchange with eachother at a fair and stable price. The cryptospace could potentially solve this problem when the initial gold rush does some damage. In a way the attention is not bad because more people understand what it is, study it, become savy, vote legislature and deepen the field towards the problems that trully need a solution.

What we want is to basically transfer work/resource tokens and make it resistant against depreciation. Lets add a simplistic example I help someone build a house and receive a fair token for that work. When I need to build a house 20 years later I pass that token, it retains the value such that someone accepts it to do the work I did 20 years prior. Because we’re mentally stuck into an outdated economic model that served ok prior to the digital age our imaginations aren’t creative enough move in the right direction. My thinking is that a direction will emerge, let’s hope it’s as far away from the possibility you talk about.
Gagarin did it before it was cool.
We also invented air conditioning and cars and airplanes and refridgerators and the internet. Global poverty is at a historic low right now. Violent crime, at least here in the U.S., is at an all time low.

With gratitude as a dominant force in ones's life, one is able to step back and see pictures other than what one wishes to see. One is able to stop buying into hysteria.

It is sad that some politicians use military as their play tool for nefarious purposes. Biden sent troops into Syria almost immediately upon assuming his current position. Reprehensible.