skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just read through the features of del.icio.us on wikipedia, you are right about the overlaps.

I suspect that coupling community + search from the start, might result in different outcomes (both positive and negative) as opposed to say just community.

Take reddit for example, it's all about the community, the search is abysmal. But it's fun to imagine what if reddit was mainly about search and the community was a bonus. Surely a balance needs to be struck.
Long-term side effects of drugs, and lack of accountability of these companies is certainly an issue and sometimes takes decades to come out.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/benzodiazepine-use-may-r...
2014 - People who had taken a benzodiazepine for three months or less had about the same dementia risk as those who had never taken one. Taking the drug for three to six months raised the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 32%, and taking it for more than six months boosted the risk by 84%.

https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2019/dementia-slee...
2019 - The study, released today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2019, included a racially diverse group of 3,068 people, ages 70 to 79, who were cognitively healthy when the study began. Researchers questioned the participants about their use of sleeping pills and culled information about them from medical records and tests of brain function over a 15-year period.
Many people have voiced exactly this problem.

And I would agree it should be outrageous and intolerable.

I wonder if there might be some way for a developer to post their own hashes somewhere, but then there's no good way for an end user to use them to verify their phone.

You could post a web page that reports that Apple has not modified the contents of your app, or a site could do that for many apps, by downloading the Apple-repacked app and checking it, but you could only check the copy of the app that the site downloaded.

It would not prove that Apple didn't modify the individual copy of the app residing on anyones phone.

I don't know the details of ios userspace, but I extremely doubt it's possible for the browser or any other app to read some other apps files and uload them to a site to have them checked. So you couldn't make a 3rd party site that says "check my phone".

Maybe such a report could be made by reading the app out of an unencrypted backup?
> It is almost always the case that natural immunity is superior to vaccines.

Do you have a source for that claim? GP offered peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary, which you don't believe, but so far you've offered no evidence at all.
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I am not familiar with DRAM spec sheets, but are manufacturers specifying that there will be zero errors?

Without a specification that says so, I don't think it's necessarily the fault of the manufacturer if they cannot build perfect RAM!

Suppose someone builds a car with one these computers in a safety-critical role, and then someone gets injured because of an error that "originated" with the RAM.
I would like to have this for Hacker News! Then again as far as I know there’s no way to delete old posts other than to email a mod, so I suppose I could just schedule a regular automatic email.
I'm a fan of mailmate for search. Thunderbird eventually got me to switch to it after getting sick and tired of accidentally clicking on sort by subject and hanging for a min or so... that and the search being useless. Search in mailmate is quite fast. Anyway not sponsored or affiliated in any way but I really dig the product.
That the legislature is not following your wishes does not mean that they are incompetent. They could be reacting to the wishes of the majority of the population, which simply does not view carbon emissions as being particularly important nor do they believe there is any crisis to address here.
By definition? Surely finding time in your month for a 3-day conference is a lot easier than finding time for thirty one hour conferences?
> philosophical/legal framework like "reckless endangerment"

You are onto something here, I think.

To avoid ridiculous situations very clearly codify a line, a threshold ...
I have been working since I was 13, since you said "skilled" I will count QA, Project Manager, Sr Manager, Developer, Dev Lead only.

Development for me has the highest cost for task switching. The ramp up also takes longer. If I have 15 minutes before a meeting and I have not started writing code, I won't even bother starting.

If I compare that to being a Sr Manager, the cost of task switching is much lower, so was the ramp up time. Essentially it was a "let me get my notes, or the doc/email/presentation" and then I was set. That's maybe 1 minute.

I think the biggest difference is that as a developer you either have to come up with something that doesn't exist, or you have to read something that someone wrote that has never existed before and then you have to figure out what the mistake was.

The closet thing that resembles that for non developers is other abstract sciences, like Math, Chemistry, Physics or purely creative writers.

So imagine you are a creative ghost writer. You are asked to write Chapter 8 of this fantasy book. By the way Chapter 7 and Chapter 9 exist. Your writing has to match the style of chapter 7 and 9, including character names. Chapter 9 was written 16 months ago, and the guy left. Chapter 7 was never edited, but it will while you are working on chapter 8. You also wrote chapter 5 a month ago, but since then 4 other authors have updated chapter 5 to make it better. Do you think interruptions would help or hurt?

This is why developers complain about losing flow state. The cost of getting it back it too high.
Sorry, I disagree. Serial reading is exactly what you want to do on an HDD, assuming big enough files which are not too fragmented.

The name of the game is minimizing the head movements.

Try the following experiment: find a couple of multi-GB files on an HDD in order to copy them to an SSD.

First measurement: copy the first file then the second (then the third etc...) and sum-up the time.

Second measurement: just drag'n'drop all the files together and measure the total time.

Reboot before each measurement to purge the file cache.
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I've never gotten used to the 'etiquette smile' (I have different internal terms for it) and try to watch out for it as much as possible; I also appear to be physically incapable of expressing an emotion that I do not actually feel so there is no danger of me ever doing this to others. There is a certain shallowness that often accompanies it that often puts me on guard: the larger the smile, the tighter I grab my wallet and the quicker I wish to terminate the interaction.
> - reputation/karma that isn't apparent or chased

The more I think about those problems the more I'm convinced up- and downvotes are a mistake in general. They can only cause damage and are completely useless as they're not even used for the same thing by different people. For example when someone gets 5 downvotes it's probably for at least 2 different reasons, none of which are communicated to the poster. When I get a random downvote I'd really like to know if it was warranted, but there's no way to find out.

If any kind of rating system had to exist I'd vote for something like tags; with users being able to tag any content with any 1-2 words, and frequent ones are visible without some extra clicks. For one this would give more nuanced information, and at the same time it would make tons of content much easier to find or filter.
Ask HN: Can you sell alternative data to financial firms as a side hustle?
* What major challenges did you encounter?

* What revenue model can you use?

* Generally who are your customers: eg small hedge funds, big banks, other data vendors?

I'm curious why this doesn't seem to appear in the usual side hustle threads, I must be failing to consider some things.

I’m sure a truly novel source of alpha is unlikely to occur to little old me, but as far as side projects go, this seems relatively well-defined in comparison to designing an app and finding product-market fit.
This just seems hyperbolic. They aren't a tyrant because you can just leave their platform. You want to use their platform without any of the consequences that come with that usage.

You are walking into someone else's house, making demands, and breaking stuff when you don't get your way.
> Is there even an "Algo"?

There are two main twitter feeds:

- Home: the algo one that twitter wants you to use. Mostly those you follow but not 100%; this will sometimes show very popular tweets or maybe something your followees liked (but didn't RT).

- Latest: which is just the (imo, good) original "everything from those you follow, reverse chronologically".
I wonder who in a foreign country, let's say Japan for example, will be checking on a tourist, to see if he/she/x is doing work while on a coffee shop, or just watching youtube. How can another country prove i was working over there, and not writing code for an open source project or something similar? I'm honestly curious. Is there any mechanism for that?
I don't know what system you are referring to, but I am not aware of a system that requires evidence to exist before research begins. There was an observation that a lab researching a similar virus was in the vicinity of the outbreak; that is a strong enough observation to raise the question and trigger the desire to discuss and research the idea. Some folks just wanted to yell down or shame others for having the thought.
I think it depends how you view the relationship between the judiciary and the rest of government. For example, the judiciary can be seen in part as the voice of the past— they're appointed by previous generations of politicians, part of their role is to apply and interpret the laws accumulated by previous governments, and they're free from having to pander to voters every election cycle.

If the present day government has become ineffective or gridlocked, then it makes sense to me that the judiciary may have a role to play not in setting new policy, but at least in recognizing the intent of past leaders as encoded in existing laws.
I don't think so. See "I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me" [0] and the related HN discussion [1].

[0] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849800
We already have the concept of "future harm" in law, though. You today are culpable if your negligence today kills people three weeks from now.

The only really new aspect in this ruling is the timeframe.
My experience is that two heads are far superior to one for solving coding problems!
This really depends on your lifestyle.
Both beets and sugar cane are old world plants, and maize-based corn syrup wasn't used as a sweetener until the 20th century. It's true that refined sugar is terrible for dental health, but it didn't come from the americas.
Yes! I am a developer and someone working with our local food pantry and even so I can barely make heads or tails of it and it seems to forget the point of the effort early on in the best docs I could find (https://librefoodpantry.org/docs/shop-setup) because it wanders off into how to set up an issue board, etc right away.

I would humbly suggest the best next thing to work on would be someone with (copy)writing experience and ideally they would talk to end users about how the software has helped them. Too often we get consumed with the idea of software for software's sake.
Interesting. I have learned that I work best on 3.5/4 days per week, even when traveling.

Disclaimer: more used to working from different home locations in my home country than being an actual digital nomad.
They're both ridiculous terms.

The USA was and is a warmongering socialist state. Capitalism certainly doesn't prescribe huge spendings and nationalisation.

Russia was and is a warmongering socialist state.
The redeeming factor, and likely what makes "the communist" sounds reasonable, is that the Soviets defined themselves communist
This reminds me of some articles showing smiling Victorians, like this one: [1]

Seeing them helps counter the general impression we get from seeing so many dour-faced Victorians from photographs of that era.

[1] - https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/24/smiling-victorians...
Definitely not misleading. Possibly easy to misunderstand? It did take me a second to realize what was meant.
A conclusion of this paper is that a warp bubble that fits into the categories described requires external propulsion.

I agree, the positive energy, spherically symmetric warp bubble isn't particularly interesting and certainly not a new effect.
The second one is a parked domain. Diff.blog looks interesting though, thanks for sharing. I might be adding it to my daily list of sites to visit.
The problem with both Swift and Kotlin, is that you must use libraries to draw and handle events, which typically makes it tied to a single OS (Swift only really being used in OSX at present). Kotlin might rely on the very extensive JVM libraries, which are horrendously complicated.

I don't know what you mean by a step backwards. This a batteries-included environment like VB6 and Borland Delphi, but emits to the current web app universe we live in, so it is definitely in the now.
The chutzpah of adding an "undo" button as a monthly paid premium feature is just astounding to me.

I assume the next step is to make sure that as soon as you stop paying them the $3/month, all of your undone tweets are republished.
I mean the punchline is: if you heat something up enough then you can get electrons to wiggle. At some level of cell wall thickness, the cost/time/annoyance of triggering a rowhammer exceeds the value of the attack, and other methods become cheaper or more practical.

Ultimately, nothing that an attacker has physical access to can be completely secured, we can only raise the cost in terms of time and money to attempt to breach the system. Even a system with tamper-destructive enclosures have seen attacks (it's just more expensive and difficult than other attacks).

In short, the more annoying/expensive you can make it to attack your system, the smaller the set of attackers becomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo
Most fun i've had in a long time playing a game. Thanks!
I am Polish and I can not confirm that. I felt a sharp decline in "smiles" after my move to Germany where your description fits much more. I see much more people smiling for no obvious reasons when I visit Poland from time to time. Something which is not perceived as something else but friendliness by my German SO though while I've witnessed Germans being perceived as very cold by US Americans for the way they are.

I've been also smilingly welcomed by Russian friends even though they may smile less on the average. I haven't been to Russia yes so I can't tell. Maybe they are just well assimilated here.

Maybe it only is all those fake smiles you get from the US service culture which is so over the top that everything else becomes nuanced.
Do services like Facebook Messenger or Twitter allow you to totally delete/redact messages, or is it just hiding the data from the user's view on one side?
Thanks a bunch for this! I've been meaning to learn ASL but it doesn't usually get fun enough to engage long term online with video lectures.
1. https://community.openmainframeproject.org/
2. https://ibmmainframes.com/index.php
On the other hand - if I poison someone with a slow-acting poison, is that not "future harm"? Are you claiming that this should therefore not be considered a crime?

The court's 'catchwords' summary here focuses on present-day injury to living children rather than the 'future generations' in the HN editorialised title.
> the idea that you can sue someone because of possible future damage is legislating predicting the future.

Aren't the vast majority of laws about preventing potential future harm?

Building codes, speed limits, gun control etc. You don't need to wait for a building to collapse and kill someone, or someone to have a head-on before you stop them and penalise the reckless behaviour.
Yeah, the other team "decided to create a racist flamewar". They met in a room, those angry old white men, and decided, together, that the best strategy is to create a racist flamewar. Someone suggested they should try to handle the problem, but everyone else disagreed. Someone else was like, fuck it, a racist flamewar is clearly the best strategy to get ahead, and his cisgendered straight colleagues all agreed that would be the best strategy. Meanwhile Pelosi, the hero of the piece, boldly went into Chinatown to combat this. Thank you Pelosi for your sacrifice and dedicated service. Your hair looks lovely by the way. A couple weeks later San Francisco went into full lockdown of course, but it was still a good idea she encouraged everyone to go to Chinatown when she did. The incoming pandemic and racism was handled incredibly well in liberal San Francisco, and if anything did go wrong, it was because of the racist and incompetent Republicans.
Thanks, dang. It's like Christmas came early!
> Does an Alcubierre warp drive violate causality?

The original Alcubierre metric does not, but that's because it only describes a single "warp bubble" that travels in one direction, never starting or stopping and never turning around.

As soon as you have more than one "warp bubble", or you let a single "warp bubble" turn around, then you will have closed timelike curves, which violate causality.
My guess for the small companies that don't hire is that it's the incentives. If my outcomes as the hiring person are that a bad hire is a large negative, a no hire is a very slight negative, and a good hire is a slight positive (possibly even neutral), I'm going to prefer no hire most of the time. I believe this is a fairly common decision matrix.

For example:

bad hire lowers managements' opinion of my performance and can be costly to team morale, especially if company culture makes firing difficult

no hire can be blamed on lack of qualified developers rather than a competency issue

good hire is nice, but if current development team can push back on workload, that benefits the company much more than the development team
I use an awesome service called PgMustard [0] for parsing and debugging slow queries. It has saved me a lot of time, and has helped me resolve some pretty big (and complicated) bottlenecks.

[0]: https://pgmustard.com
> How long before they get acquired by Apple

I mean, they're already taking 30% of their paycheck. That's about as "employed" as they want them to be, since they make $2.10/month for every active user on their service.

> and the Mail app acquires this feature set?

Wishful thinking. The Mail developers have dropped the ball for the past 5 years, I wouldn't expect them to start releasing a good client now.
For those saying they wish their email was better, I can't recommend Spark [0] highly enough. It's currently macOS, iOS & Android, and Windows is in the works. It's free for regular use and offers premium features for teams etc.

Spark makes multiple accounts a breeze, automatically groups your emails a-la what Gmail does but it actually works well, syncs accounts between devices, quick actions, and a lot more. Shortly, it's brilliant and I love it. I have no affiliation, I'm just a very happy user, I recommend you give them a try if you're looking.

[0] https://sparkmailapp.com/
gee thanks for the kind words. You wrote one of the best comments i read.
> which just shows how weak the system really is

The old system. Current Autopilot is using the old system. Not relevant to the new FSD beta.
The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."
I've heard different explanations.

Someone told me if someone is smiling to you in Russia, they are probably scamming you.

A smile given away too freely for no reason can be perceived as fake and suspicious.
This style of Logic Programming Gates game first came out on either the TRS80 or the Tandy1000 - I cant remember which, but you had to program robots to do tasks and navigate by doing logic "stuff" Jeasus - I am 46 trying to recall how I played a game I haven't thought of since ~1985 or something.

I can't recall the name of the game, else, I would provide a link...
How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment? With a chemical plant, if it leaks waste and poisons a nearby river, the damages are very real and easy to understand.

Expanding a mine that doesn't directly cause damages but increases CO2 doesn't have direct damages that you measure because it's global. Even with something like Fukushima, you can measure the damage it did to Japan, but what about all the radioactive waste it is leaking into the Pacific? How do you measure that catastrophe? Can you even prove that it has done any damage, even though it's obvious?
Just because you don't like cult around it, doesn't mean you have downplay V8. No, it's not just another interpreter/compiler. V8 is an incredible feat of engineering.
> but the idea that you have to protect people from "future harm" is absurd.

Is it though? It shows up in the legal system in lots of places already.

If you are shown to be professionally negligent, depending on the specifics you can be charged or sued (or both) even if nobody yet was harmed; you've only created a risk.
My personal take on smiles is that they're welcome if genuine, but can have adverse effects when forced. Many people think that displaying a fake smile for example at the workplace would help with interactions, especially professional ones, but rest assured that when I see someone faking a smile, particularly those working hard to look warm and sincere, I immediately feel I could be manipulated and get on the defensive.
...But I speak from personal experience of being shown daily the widest warm smile at the workplace from the same person that a few months later would dig my professional grave, so your mileage will probably vary.
Are they actually overwriting history though? Or are they just adding another record, and hiding the previous version(s)?
I'm seeing this more and more as I interview with employers who are working from home. The atmosphere is a lot more relaxed, I think because they are. We shouldn't spend 8-10 hours a day not being ourselves.
This is a common problem, and I saw it during a brief stint considering involvement in Code For America; too much emphasis on technology and code, not enough emphasis on the outcome/objective.

Most of these nonprofits would be better served by low-code commercial solutions. That might sound bad, because you have to pay, but you also have to pay to host FOSS software, so not so much of a difference. The pantry probably needs email, so they probably have access to O365 or Gmail already. For more complex things, AirTable/SharePoint Lists is often going to be enough, if sub-optimal.

Glancing at the code, this appears to be mostly about apps for ordering and processing orders: https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions

This can usually be achieved pretty well (80% of the need for 20% of the effort) with a Google Form + Sheets + light automation.

Ultimately these are information management problems, so it is best to approach from an IT perspective rather than a CS/SE perspective.
I genuinely love the narrative style of this article: every situation is described matter-of-factly, without artifice - unsmiling, in fact.

It’s a perfect vehicle for its message.
DevOps is like a hybrid, the percentage of Dev vs Ops can vary by person, and company. I am 95% Dev, 5% Ops, others are the exact opposite.
> I can't trust auto pilot anymore- it couldn't deal with a dead-simple scenario of a clearly marked lane getting added.

You are not supposed to trust it. You are supposed to use it as an assistance feature. It's not meant to be autonomous.