skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked on this thread wondering how high in the comment section would his blog appear.

I'm not disappointed.
Obviously it would be nice if everything everywhere was always free, but docs and opensource suffer a lot from lack of sustainability when based on voluntary donations. Companies simply have no incentives to pay for anything.

There are surely tens of thousands of companies worldwide, whose employees rely on MDN on a daily basis. There are poor startups among them, but many of those companies have pretty deep pockets. If just a small percentage of those employees ask their bosses for this $5/mo. sub, this can improve things considerably. For now everything is free, so no one has an incentive, or a way, to pay.

As developers, we are collectively guilty for never asking our employees for anything which costs $$$. Many of us (me including) assume that asking for a few bucks sub is almost a crime. Or we don't want to deal with stupid bureaucracy and an arcane process to set up the sub.

Personally I hope the experiment will work. Let's see in a few months.

I think the best model would be something like: subscribers get the premium content immediately, other people with a few weeks/months delay. This would keep a healthy balance and keep the incentives in place for people to pay.
Not true, just got access myself today. Applied a few months ago and super stoked to stay up late and play around tonight. Don't know anyone at OpenAI and didn't pay off any Microsoft officials or anything. Just have patience.
I also wrote a regex-to-regex compiler, although in my case it was for a more human-centered regex DSL with a reasonable migration story.

https://www.slideshare.net/AurSaraf/re3-modern-regex-syntax-...

https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem"
Cover topics around software development, math, programming languages, and academia:

http://stuffwithstuff.com/

https://ericlippert.com/

http://thume.ca/archive.html

https://medium.com/@mdwdotla

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/posts

https://computinged.wordpress.com/

https://blog.acolyer.org/

https://blog.sigplan.org/blog/

https://blog.paranoidcoding.com/

https://blog.regehr.org/

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

https://benhoyt.com/writings/

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog.html

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

https://blog.stephenmarz.com/
I do not see your email in your profile. (Not OP, but really interested to talk about starting a research institute)
The problem is that it doesn't give you much to discuss. What can you say about the lab leak hypothesis? They have more information than we do, and still can't come to more than a "lean". We can try to infer things from bits of circumstantial evidence, and that leads into the same reasoning as conspiracy theorists.

I know a lot of people find enjoyment in the process, and if being called names for doing so bothers you, I suppose you can take this as absolution. I don't call people "conspiracy theorists"; rather, I simply ignore them because they're not providing anything useful. I don't think you'd like that any better.
Try walking onto a building site and not wearing a hard hat or safety boots ands high viz.
Thanks, that helped quite a bit! I’m guessing the difference between CS and my situation would be that I should spend more time doing research and studying than worrying about the “name”.
Similarly, Peter Thiel once made a case that if Google ever paid a dividend it would be an admission that they are no longer a technology company and are instead a bet again innovation in search.

That seems silly to me. Google is not paying dividends right now, but they are doing stock buybacks which is basically the same. However, Google also has 100k+ employees there are only so many people who can work on innovation in search at the same time.
Good point. However, those immigrants wouldn't be in a country if it wasn't better than the alternative - which is their country. Of course it's not always the case, sometimes they are forced to which is fucking horrible.

The exploitation of people is obviously wrong but I suspect the unions is not the answer.
An heroic historical effort, imo:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
It's fucked up that "it's wrong because that's what Trumpists say" is considered a powerful argument.

The same as not wanting to publicize the results of the vaccine effectiveness with Trump in office "not to make it seem he should have the credit".

But I fully know that "that's what the libtards say" is an equivalent idiotic argument.

Luckily I don't live in the US and I never felt forced to pick a side. I have always been skeptical about the origins of the virus and even know I am not afraid to say that I don't know. It could be artificial or natural but I have yet to see something really conclusive.

I am afraid what will happen when all Earth will live as a single society under a single government. I see too much stupidity and idiotic dynamics in human societies and I always managed to keep away or change my surroundings. As we become more and more connected this is becoming harder and harder.
Yeah, mentioned this in another commentm, at least SOME metadata is needed, in particular the date, so you know how to sort them. I see that you can search by sender for received messages (not a big proton user), so I guess it does store that unencrpyted as well
This is not for positive intentions. Instagram audience is getting old (like happened to FB) and they need to undercut platforms like TikTok. So they need to get into the untapped, and very promising, "children market". To do that they'll need to first correct everything that is wrong with instagram including features that helped it grow but now are seen as a negative influende on its users. But my guess is that they already know how to counter it with other "engagement acceleration" (aka addictive) features.
Should've done this before they slashed all the staff working on it. Seriously, what the hell is going on at Mozilla HQ - their CEO is a nutbar.
If you were ignoring the collectibles market before NFTs, you can ignore the collectibles market now.

The concept is not that hard, no different than purchasing a pokemon card, or more aptly a ‘rare’ skin in an online game.

Its just microtransactions that everyone can verify if you were first or not. The market willingness to pay a premium just bakes in the lack of need for appraisal or legal dispute over the collectible ownership history. It has nothing to do with actual superior rights conveyed.
“The dictator” has killed fewer people than any of the NATO states since the downfall of the USSR. It’s kind of like scaring people with North Korea, which hasn’t invaded anyone for decades.
It's even better than that, the stock split three times.
I couldn't agree more with the former and less with the latter.

I think external evaluation panels (and in particular, from a third country) are the way to go. We already have good examples, for example, in ERC grant panels. The ERC uses exactly the strategy you mention and it has an impeccable reputation, I know many people who applied with or without success but I know no one who felt treated unfairly.

But I'm against blanket rules prohibiting postdocs or positions at the same place of the PhD, at least from my Southern European (Spanish) point of view. This is often touted in Southern European countries because in the US no one does that so it must be evil, so clearly we should ban it to be more like Americans and see if this makes our scientific productivity closer to theirs. But European (especially Southern European) culture is not US culture. People want to settle down, be near their loved ones, and there's nothing intrinsically bad about that that should be punished. Plus, the job market is much less dynamic so even for those who don't mind bumping around, it can be hard to reconcile with a possible spouse who has a career too. And finally, if you push people in this region to move, most of the time the result will be that they end up in a Northern European country (or the US, Canada, etc.) where they make 3x or 4x more, and never come back - once you have experienced a much better salary it's hard to justify returning, I have seen it plenty of times.

Bring on the external evaluation panels, and then there will be no need for any measure forcing people to move, which would reduce inclusivity and thus the talent pool.
I think you’ll get more traction with this if you speed up the analysis. Probably easiest done by determining an interpolation grid, fill it with values, and return nearest neighbor as the result.

Strictly speaking it could still be just as accurate as the uninterpolated approach, since when a raindrop falls, winds could place the drop on the ground some distance away from its release point.
I love Matt Pharr's blog [0]. He's one of the authors of the Physically Based Rendering book [1] and his blog is mostly centered around that topic, with really well written and interesting articles.

[0] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/

[1] https://www.pbrt.org/
I don't care about the video, at all, but now feel compelled to archive it just because.
It does not say why would i want to try fuchsia ? Is it something different from android ?
I think completing the rewrite[1] of Tectonic[2] (Rust-powered XeTeX) has bigger potential and it's already working in many cases.

[1] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic

[2] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
This is a trash headline and makes it seem like this is unplanned, unannounced / new intel, leaving for a bad reason, and/or he no longer will be involved.

If you're not reading the article or this is news to you, he will transition to executive chairman of Amazon’s board.

He is expected to free up his time. Then will be focusing on Blue Origin, TWP, and his various charities.
I was referring to the comment about FastCompany's trackers. That said, where do you think data brokers get their data? Private companies sell info on their customers all the time.
Although any union is able to represent members at any workplace, it's worth noting that this does affect future claims for recognition (and so collective bargaining rights) for other unions. In particular, if an employer refuses to recognise a union they have a right to apply for 'statutory recognition' through the Central Arbitration Committee - but this can only succeed if there is no other recognised union for that bargaining unit[0].

The GMB are a large, well-established, general union. It wouldn't surprise me if Uber were much keener on having them as the sole recognised union than, say, the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain[1] - who are also organising Uber workers and are smaller, scrappier, and more militant than the GMB.

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/trade-union-recognition-employers/statuto...

[1]: https://iwgb.org.uk/
Are not the red unions the communist one :-)

France has multiple versions of unions based on politics for those that didn't know.
> like in Belarus or Turkmenistan...delusional bubble

Uhh...we don't need to look far geographically and only a few months back in time to see something similar closer to home.
I disagree. I have my strava runs set to private because I've found the dynamic of others liking my runs affecting my thinking. I've also entirely disabled my Facebook wall. I don't have Instagram, but I would enable this immediately if I ever were to join.
> quite low likelihood if the sampling is truly random...

If you're assuming their user base is 50/50 male/female, which for many apps is not a valid assumption.

If I remember how to do math correctly, 50/50 gives 5 random users all being female ~4%. And 80/20 split is closer to 40%.
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A paywall shuts out financially disadvantaged groups and limits the circulation of knowledge. Donations don’t, however annoying the banners are.

Whether overly abundant donations are misallocated is a completely orthogonal issue.

Note that I’m not saying we are entitled to anything; but slapping the MDN brand on a premium subscription service does tarnish the original brand a little.
I am deeply ashamed by some of the things that that President said, especially with regards to internationally policy. Can't we just agree that he no longer speaks for the US, and as such, neither do his Twitter rants?
This has changed many years ago.
Debit cards is more common in quite a few places. My impression has always been that paying everything with a credit card is a U.S. thing.

Here in Finland, It's not uncommon to have no debt apart from the mortage on one's home.
Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up to 14 GB/S
How else do you get recognition ?
Once you logged in once Klarna stores your credentials and then presents you one click buying inside ads in unrelated sites (well Klarna are not doing the advertisements but allow such links).

You can then accidentally click the wrong thing and buy without any further confirmation. At least in Sweden you can ask them to request digital ID confirmation for each buy.

With the current problem maybe I can buy using someone else's name...
Interesting that she located the elements by tapping on the screen at certain positions, instead of using the left/right swipe _anywhere_ on the screen, which selects and reads the previous/next element.

Having seen a lot of these videos before (we've been working on making apps truly accessible), I never actually came across someone who didn't use the left/right swipe as a first plan of action, but hey ho, you always learn.

(I wonder if it depends on mental models, and whether you prefer building a 2D map of the screen to moving up and down in a 1-dimensional vector.)
Normally stock splits (or, more broadly, "corporate actions") are incorporated into things like Google Finance to avoid skews from stock splits, rights issues, stock reissues and so forth skewing the historical results.

So I think the OP is right.
Not sure if https://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Counts because he hires data collectors, but it's one of the most life changing websites I've ever visited.
Why not using Datadog?
What does this have to do with nuclear weapons?
Maciej Cegłowski's writing is wonderful. (He's the developer behind https://pinboard.in/.)

This post is my favourite and had me hooked from the first sentence:

https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
People over in Germany struggle to get access to Fiber AT ALL. This country is so much sold on dying technologies...
It's not a web system but Mac OS messed it up once: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html

Caching could be an issue, if they added a cache for a microservice call of /get/user?id=$USER and ignored the id parameter, /get/user?id=ipsin fetches data for the user ipsin, the system sees the next call /get/user?id=bellyfullofbac and thinks, "Wait, I have the results of /get/user in cache" and returns the data for ipsin again...
It's kind of reminiscent of 4GL languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...). The idea was, too, to have bigger application-building blocks that are composed in a more declarative way.

I think this concept will be revisited from time to time in the future, although I agree with the skepticism about this particular project.
Yes. I'm not sure why this would be celebrated -- it's the first step in turning Uber into a taxi company. That'll teach those low-skilled workers that an independent, self-managed career is just not in the cards for them. Shut up and drive the schedule you're assigned. A sad outcome.
I think its only fair his final statement on leaving should be "I'll be back". ;-)

(Terminator = Orion Pictures = MGM)
Discussion from the initial announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006656
If you can use fiberglass as rebar then maybe we could reuse/remanufacture wind turbine blades as rebar.
Latin has an extremely flexible word order (some of which Old English had too) which allows all kinds of fun stuff for style and communicating status/education. Japanese with its particle system also allows some good flexibility.
Node.js Turns 12
Maybe, but that is difficult when a) the "investors" are split between connected, powerful people who really don't want to see their investments go negative; and families just getting started who could be utterly ruined by an underwater mortgage, and b) the fact that the housing situation is a crisis now; there isn't time to faff around and hope that ten to twenty years the invisible hand of the market does this or that.
> "The Big Pond takes really bright students and demoralizes them."

That's really compelling. Being at a bigger school means more emphasis on the name of the institution rather than what you did there, while with a smaller school, people are more quick to look at your (likely higher in comparison) grades/research/life outside of school.
I don't have time to watch the video right now, but after skimming the language reference I get the impression that is is sort of a modern-ish take on the 4GLs from 80s/90s - not the sexiest thing but I feel like there's definitely room for something like this. Of course, the painful lesson of 4GLs was the consequences of vendor lock-in... I didn't see any links here to the sources.
The comment you reply to didn't mention forcing people to find a new job. As far as I understand, they could apply to the same job. But they would have to apply and earn it again, which means that (at least, if the process is fair) they wouldn't be able to stop caring about doing a good job due to having a guaranteed job for life.
> I’m stating the fact.

How is that a fact? Perhaps you meant 'figuratively falling apart'. How much of the city have you visited? How much do you know about the place and what's going on there?

I think the idea that any (inhabited) city in the world is 'literally' falling apart is a stretch, but if it were to be applicable somewhere, it would have to be a place that was recently ravaged by wars or earthquakes or tsunamis or something like that.

I suspect what you meant was along the lines of 'I was there once and I didn't like it and I don't like that the mayor wants to rename the street, so fuck all the people who live there and their shitty city'. This is why I found it offensive.

> It seems quite relevant in the light of officials trying to ride the hype train.

It is precisely and completely irrelevant. If anything it's an example of whataboutism [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
If this encourages everyone to take cyber security seriously then that would be a good end. Regardless of who is behind these specific attacks, non-stop attacks against everyone are the new reality. We're going to have to learn to live with that.
1) Caching: a cache is used in front of the API for things like product listings, it uses a pattern match like /api/products/*, and caches routes which match. Someone accidentally configures it to cache /api/*, and thus login responses from /api/session return another recent user session, potentially including the cookie such that subsequent requests are authenticated as that user.

2) Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, a variable with global scope within an application server. This is very possible in node.js, which uses a long-running single thread - if you have a function like handleRequest(), you might inadvertently write to a global variable outside it, and that variable will persist across requests from different users. I've seen this exact bug in a PR - luckily we caught it before production, but if it had slipped through code review and integration tests and actually shipped, the result would have been exactly like the one in the tweet.
Yes, this way of care was new to me as I have only lived in India and the USA prior to moving to Denmark. It simply makes sense to have midwives be the specialized practitioners for this normal natural human care.
This was news to me and the headline seemed pretty neutral without any hyperbole.
Nothing about the title implies it "is unplanned, unannounced / new intel, leaving for a bad reason, and/or he no longer will be involved."
Keep in mind that the former president of YCombinator is the CEO of OpenAI. That might help explain a move like this. Also recently a lot of people left Open AI at the same time. There was some speculation that they are going to start a new startup. Maybe this is a way for OpenAI to be able to invest in them.
NatWest launches 'urgent' cryptocurrency scam alert
My feeling is that he was largely motivated by BlueOrigin's weak position. He's 57 and Amazon is a scarily large behemoth firing on all cylinders, what else is there to do there? Meanwhile, the company developing his lifelong passion and obsession is struggling badly. I mean, they seem to be doing well compared to old companies (ULA) and governments, but Starship is going to be a step change in access to space if they pull it off. It'd be great if he can focus on and fix BlueOrigin.
I have trouble understanding NFTs too (article author here).

The closest I’ve come to understanding them is this: an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached. So (in theory) it becomes an easy way to have a marketplace for those rights, and this previously hasn’t been simple for digital assets.

In this case, one of the rights attached to the NFT in the sale is that the counterparty may choose whether the YouTube-hosted video continues to be public. (And, in this case, I would argue that the specific YouTube endpoint is almost as significant as the video itself.)
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic but mufflers rust quite a bit.
I hope Blue Origin works out just so we continue to have healthy competition. Bezos is, I believe, personally dumping ~$1B/year of his personal wealth into the company. Despite effectively unlimited resources I think it's fair to say that Blue Origin has underperformed thus far.

And SpaceX just had their 100th successful Falcon 9 launch in a row.
The solution is to focus on security right?

As much as I dream of a future with nanobots, a hacking campaign could make a nuclear bomb look like a stone-age tool.
Legality of collecting faces online challenged
Mobility data reveals universal law of visitation in cities
> Also I like that even after you came up with "knock something off the table" you felt you needed a seesaw catapult thing and didn't just knock something off that could make the actual sound like a cake tin or bell or something.

It totally doesn't make any sense! I think I might have been fascinated with the idea of Rube Goldberg machines or something at the time. Or maybe I thought I could build a "security system" with it? Also it was summer and I was a bored teenager.
Amazon and other retailers oppose country-of-origin labeling for online goods
US pipelines ordered to increase cyber defenses after hack
This was announced in Feb...
is there any proof the US is behind this?
So this is basically some sort of 4GL language for web dev?
>They're deliberately trying to get people to take on debt rather than just do card payments

So what? It's 0% interest. It's incredibly helpful to have easy-access financing to split purchases across a few months.

>even simple things like buying a book through a web site requires declining several offers for paying with credit.

This sounds so specific it seems like you're taking a bad experience with one website and pretending all websites are like this. Most e-commerce sites I've used in the past year offer Klarna or some similar service and all of them have been implemented as just another option in a set of radio buttons.
And the CEO got another yearly raise.
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