skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from this event... game idea:

create a social media site - allow postings, conversations, threads, etc.

Every quarter (or some other period), there is "reconning". You are placed into a complete stranger's account, and now you have to continue it for a week (or some other short period).

Whoever can maintain the quality of the account, in the direction as the original owner, wins a banana (or kumquat, something good but not expensive for anyone).

After reconning period, owner returns and judges. None-participation is default no-win.
Having at least authenticated sections of your site use HTTPS was standard well before 2011.
I just watched the Frontline episode on the Healthcare Divide where US safety-net hospitals (accept anyone hospitals of last resort) have been closing or being sold to vulture investors who buy, trim costs, and sell them at the cost of reduced care.

For-profit healthcare should be like for-profit prisons: illegal.
Yeah but the buyer really wanted that autograph, though.
This is all true if we're talking about supply demand lines on a graph, but when on earth in real life is a for-profit company gonna whoops accidentally build so much that they have to take a loss and then keep building? lol.

I mean the idea is correct, but I don't think we can depend on the private market to deliver on this concept.

Don't get me wrong SF badly needs more housing and needs to approve tons more, I'm just saying there are limits to the outcome. At some point for profit developers will not build because they can't make a return.

Now if we had a not for profit government agency that steadily built housing regardless of the market conditions, say they were working toward a vacancy rate goal, now that could create surplus housing.

You might see friction there though in the private market would pull back.
> From the language-design, performance, documentation, robustness/general codebase quality, and total number of users perspectives, Lua is overwhelmingly better than vimscript.

Even if ahead of Vimscript; from the language-design, performance, documentation and total number of users perspectives Lua sucks very very much.
What fond memories I have of playing and hosting a TW2002 (and BRE) BBS in the early 90's. I find though, trying to revisit those fond memories is a mistake, they never live up to the original experience because the world has evolved, and so have I.
It's not a comedy if you share a border with them, and EU does.
Several of the blogs I enjoy are already linked within this thread, but I recently started reading a coworker's blog after finding out he'd spent more than 20 years consistently writing articles online, mostly about tech and philosophy. The archive has some very interesting articles: https://stpeter.im/journal/

Of those posted, I will +1 daringfireball, jwz, idlewords, filippo, and danluu as people worth reading.
> Moreover, 3rd party developers need to label elements, which they rarely do.

Seems like your approach would require 3rd party developers to build a completely new UI, so this doesn’t seem like a valid criticism of the current paradigm.

It’s also the case that existing designs take into account Fitt’s law. Apple and Google are well aware of these.

That said, I do share the intuition that an information architecture built around cognitive efficiency could be a lot better than we currently have.

I’m skeptical you’ll find particularly easy to achieve - a lot of the complexity of current UI is incidental, but equally a lot is not.
Pre-investment, you should basically balance the administrative hassle and financial burden of incorporating in the US - specifically, Delaware with the decreased friction of fundraising for a US topco.

Cons of DE:

- US lawyers are the worst both in terms of quality and cost
- You may need local sub to employ you
- If you're not in the US you may struggle to open a bank account etc in your local jurisdiction

Pros of DE:

- Everyone knows how to invest in a DE C-Corp no matter how early stage
- Many tax advantages for investors can be maintained (e.g. EIS for UK taxpayers)
- Lots of nice tooling for doing company secretarial stuff (e.g. Carta)

Once you have enough cash not to worry too much about the odd moderately expensive and opaque advisory bill for something you never knew you needed, the US looks more and more attractive strategically. To the extent that some people think there shouldn't even be a debate (e.g. https://medium.com/angularventures/us-incorporation-just-do-...)

(Source: founder of UK startup with US sub, acquired by US company)
Funnily enough; the last time I tried something like that I was 25, had barely 6 months of experience, and somehow convinced a friend I had introduced to programming not more than two months earlier.

Waaay in over our heads.

Since then, I’ve realised it’s been tried and is being tried an inordinate number of times and seems to usually fail for some reason or another.

Kind of a wild goose chase for some (supposed) holy grail.
Asking the same question doesn't help a lot to find cheater with a memory.
Grain of Sand, Meet Infinity
This is the coolest shit I've seen today.

Great take on a webring.

Thanks! — let's adopt this, wow.
LinkedIn page of the creator: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-de-jong-6a15086/
TikTok banned MLMs six months ago
Compiling on an M1 is too slow? ;)
>which presumably has already passed peer review and been published in a top tier venue

So - how many IEEE conferences are there!? Also things change, it was much easier to get into Neurips 7 years ago... but it's not necessarily the case that the papers from this year will have as much impact or be as good as the papers from then. And as Neurips itself showed, the peer review process is somewhat random - papers are rejected by different panels meaning that getting in is likely an achievement but also possibly a bit lucky. I don't think that evaluating the papers based on where they were published is a good way to allocate public money.

As a strong concrete example, paper 13 from Ferguson's group at Imperial is probably one of the most important documents for the last 20 years (if you live in the UK or France), it was "published" on a website...
An alternative narrative to Zhang Yiming's resignation
If unions are good and necessary then let's bake unions into the DNA of every business. Why not?
Amazon’s ad revenue is now twice as big as Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest
- https://www.zenpencils.com/

- https://waitbutwhy.com/
Funny how sidewalks are usually mentioned in terms of mobile people. Every economically disadvantaged wheelchair-bound person I have ever seen has not used the sidewalk. They use the road. It's much less likely to have huge broken up chunks and obstructions, and it's less problematic to have to haul yourself up the incline or potentially crash down the decline.

I wish we could somehow force everyone to live as somebody else for a week.
> Spacemacs isn't a lightweight Emacs

No, it's not. Many people make a mistake, thinking that Doom, Prelude, or Spacemacs are ready-to-use, out-of-the-box solutions. They are more like collections of recipes. You have to judiciously remove things. You need to know how to use the built-in profiler.

> and that I will be giving up on it because of that

And that's okay. I myself abandoned Emacs and moved back to other things several times, until I finally learned how to make it work for me.
Twitter says concerned with India intimidation
Still waiting access for the "open source".
Lots to be learned about the microbiome, and how vaginal birth, breastfeeding and skin contact feeds that. The trend towards caesarian births and formula feeding countervenes this trend in health research.
The War Between Gamers and Cryptominers
Given the implementation is `cookie_write(KEY, my_state, duration:1 day)` I am fairly sure even this example has a bug.
I have the exact same reaction. You never want to shit on somebody's ambition, after all they might be a revolutionary, but at the same time the whole batteries-included thing is just setup to fail.

You have an embedded graph database? Why? This is just a symptom of developers general disrespect for the depth and complexity of databases. There's a reason we have so many different different databases, those differences are important and choosing the correct database can make whole reams of code you have to write disappear though the correct database's functionality. Not to mention despite the great expansion of NoSQL databases, the relational data model and associated algebra is one of the most powerful reusable abstractions for organizing information ever invented. Graph databases can do some awesome tricks but are ultimately reproducing the ad-hoc semantics of object graphs.

Same goes for anything that says "deploy over web and native at the same time!" That network hop between you and the browser is real. Every technology that has tried to shove HTTP down into the bowels of the system and pretend that you're writing local, non-networked apps has crashed and burned.

Lastly, I don't want my code to be robust. Fail-fast is good, fail at compile time is best. Robustness like this is nice for people who just want a one-off script to solve a problem but terrible for long-term maintenance of software. Large-scale anarchic systems like the internet require that level of robustness, but that's not how I want to write all of my software, I much prefer stronger contracts between components.
> Moderators have too much work to do or have serious ego problems

As I mentioned in other comment, the amount of poor questions (e.g. of type "why my code not work"), with bad grammar and formatting on top, far outweighs the number of properly asked new questions.
1. You own the NFT, not the work. You can't copy, display, or otherwise control the work unless the author also gave you those rights.

2. I'm not sure how the rights of an NFT holder could be violated, as they only own the NFT--the cell in a shared ledger--not the work.
Are a list of these places tracked somewhere?
> The thing is, Vimscript sucks. Using a more mainstream language would be great for a modern advanced editor.

Lua sucks, too, and it's hardly mainstream.
it's just a new and exciting way of money laundering, much like real art
Every time I git blame on code that needs to change and realize it's my code. So much for write once, run forever!
Here's their official statement:

https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/written-statement-on-app-bug/

Although I dunno about "According to GDPR standards, only non-sensitive data was exposed." since in the twitter thread someone said:

This is definitely not a test environment. I was called by someone who was logged in to my account and saw all my personal data including bank details, Klarna card etc.

And while I'm told the bank details are obfuscated (I don't use Klarna, I dunno), I would consider the phone number to be a clear breach of my privacy under GDPR.

Although, the twitter account that said that has 0 followers, so maybe its not true. I dunno. I know someone who works for Klarna and he told me: "Full investigation will take time. There's a LOT of engineers working on this. Only confirmation I have currently is that the firstname was visible."

Going by the screenshots, first name and account balance. Doesn't seem that bad from a GDPR point of view. Still bad, of course, but not suuuper sensitive.

EDIT: Nevermind: https://twitter.com/esraefe/status/1397843949985931265
So pretty much the same as humans. Our depth perception doesn't extend very far, so when we're driving, we're not really relying on our stereo vision.
An early, pre-emptive ban shapes a narrative; a late change in policy does little to undo the effects of that decision.
Climate Change Activists Notch Victory in Exxon Mobil Board Elections
I'm not sure if this is what aidenn0 was talking about but I think Australia can be considered an example. The Five Eyes seem to be using Australia as some kind of legal testing ground. Not too long ago Australia introduced incredible laws such as legal requirements for companies to serve as state-sponsored malware vectors. Australian companies are now required to compromise the security of their own customers if so ordered by law enforcement. Presumably the other Five Eyes are watching to see how that plays out before attempting similar shenanigans. If it works, I have no doubt they'll use Australia as a shining example to justify implementing the same changes elsewhere.

My own country is an example. The government really likes to copy whatever it is developed countries are doing. Watching how other countries regulate stuff is a great way to predict what I might have to deal with in the future. We created our own GDPR after Europe did it. Telecommunications companies tried to lobby against net neutrality here citing the US as an "industry standard" example.
> the classroom imperative to “write what you know” has led to dullness, angst and dead ends: cold and bony literary mumblecore.

I agree with this, I think modern "serious" fiction has gone away from the idea that you should write an interesting story[1] and has turned into kind of a dull sludge. Though to contradict myself, I think when some modern writers do tip their toes into fantasy they do a dreadful job[2].

Still Rushdie may just be making excuses, his earliest novels were amazing but his last couple just seemed plain lazy. It's a bit snotty to blame some kind of literary zeitgeist.

[1] By comparison, I think Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner could all write interesting stories that were certainly literary.

[2] See Kazuo Ishiguro
So XYZ parent company thats say mature and public, who hires a French CEO who lives primarily in France should be a French company? Why? What if the customers are in the US? Etc
I donate to my local NPR station. This feels very much along the same lines and I’m down.
Yeah, electron :)
The really weird thing is that a lot of folks simply don't have the option for public transport. Rural? Good luck, even during the day because there is no city-to-city transportation. Medium sized town? Maybe you have taxis, but honestly, they can't really be counted on to get you to where you need to by.

I'm serious on the last one: I lived one area that didn't allow you to order a cab beforehand, and waiting times could be 15 minutes to 2 hours. Good luck getting to and from work, even more luck if you need to pick up children from child care before they close.

Buses can be a real mixed bad: One city I lived in didn't have busses available for folks working second shift (3-11) because they stopped running, nor did busses run on Sunday. One bar had a large van/paddywagon style vehicle to take drunk patrons home.

Choice would be nice.
This sounds very interesting. What happened?
I can remember something similar happening on Facebook back in 2013-2014 (when I was a kid). I went on this app called 'Video Chat Rounds' and when I left the app, I got signed in to a random Facebook account.
>a device explicitly designed to reap the maximum performance benefits of the M1.

>Apple can't just magically increase the wattage of their chip and make it run faster.

Because that is not how it works.

The M1 GPU has a maximum TDP of 11W. That is by design. They could push it with higher Clockspeed beyond their optimal level with higher voltage, but that has other testing and reliability implication with cost. It doesn't matter whether you have a large Fan and heat sink sitting on top of or no cooling. You run at 11W Max. That is part of the design. M1 MacBook Air would allow it to run 11W for a fraction of time before heaving TDP headroom to CPU. MacBook Pro allows it to use at its maximum for longer. Since it has a 25W cooling capability.

You want higher GPU performance, throw in more Core. GPU workload are inherently parallel, the only limitation are interconnect and Memory bandwidth. Both of these are are not technical barrier but cost concern.

On a 10W GPU comparison ( And why would you compare GPU that are running at higher watts ) The Apple GPU are doing fairly well in all Metal optimised benchmarks. Compare to AMD Radeon GPU which also has been optimising on Mac platform. ( Although at a larger node )
Frost Giant Studios Partner with Dreamhaven, Sign Deal with Epic Games
Well, you could, if you find evidence that the obstruction actually happened - and there's certainly obstruction coming from China, not really surprising in a non-free country. China can reasonably be blamed for that.

What you can't do is make up what would have been found if there had been evidence.
The parent may be referring to the Nonhabitual Resident Status exemption, which provides reduced (potentially to 0%) tax rates for different types of income. However, it appears that this may be changing [0]. "Portugal Golden Visa" is a good search to start.

[0]: https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2020/04/flash-alert-20...
ForwardNotifier – Forward your notifications from your iOS device to your PC
I second that statement. I know at least two people who failed their viva in the UK and ended up getting an MPhil instead of a PhD. In both cases the candidates were told by their advisor not to go with the defense but they decided to go for it anyway. I know several more that got “major corrections„ which meant a lot of extra work and another review six months later.
edit: typo
At the individual state tax level (and for payroll tax) it can be a consideration.
Web hand tracking demo: play with a 3D dinosaur in your hand
Open Source Earthquake Early-Warning System
Building a DIY SOHO router, 18 months later (2020)
Our community has developed a set of Iot, Cloud and Seismology tools that generate alerts for communities before they feel shaking. We are already doing this in Mexico and starting in Puerto Rico.

This is now a Linux Foundation project, with support from IBM and Clinton Foundation. We welcome anyone to the community who wants to contribute.
I am ambivalent over generics. I can today write:

type meh interface{ foo() error }

type whatever struct {}

func (h *whatever) foo() error

And still pass []whatever{} to func canihaz([]meh) so not sure how much generics really add to that.

I don’t mind generics but when they are there, I use them. Whatever :)

Accepting interface{} is a code smell. I’d accept that only when dealing with wire data. Never in the business logic.
Sorry those Twitter threads are hard on my eyeballs. That’s the most convincing argument against lab leak I’ve seen so far. By his logic, gain of function could never produce a dangerous virus because any such virus would only be adapted to grow in a Petri dish. I don’t buy it.

I googled lab leak for the first time just now. I haven’t wanted to get involved in the team sports. But anyway my mind is made up. The Seattle times (iirc) has a good timeline of all the developments. Bat infested copper mine workers fell ill with an “extremely similar” virus to COVID 19 back in 2012 and that virus was sampled and taken to WIV. It’s pretty much impossible to deny at this point. Which makes sense because nobody would be talking about it otherwise.
It’s pretty ridiculous how companies like Facebook and Twitter have become guardians of ‘truth’ and how, even now when it turns out the truth they were guarding might not have been true after all, this still is kind of acceptable.

This main stream censorship is dumb and dangerous.
They would presumably also need the correct cryptographic signature.
Is there a theoretical "practical" limit for how fast these things can physically get (in this particular form factor)

My understanding is that NVMe interface is pretty much as close as you can get to the CPU without being integrated. Is there a world where these things can operate as fast as RAM?
That’s quite a flex! How do you anticipate disseminating the results of your research group without compromising the highly competitive position of your financial interests? Will you publish papers on toy datasets?
What country were you in? In the US, a nurse is highly standard.

If you're not getting a c-section, the usual array is: OB/GYN, plus or minus a resident or assistant, doing the delivery and doing any post-delivery laceration repairs; and a nurse who brought in instruments and is on hand to assist with repositioning the mother, getting more equipment, etc. In most places it's 1-2 nurses. If everything is expected to be, and remains, stable a pediatrician will swing by at some point to check in. This isn't generally a major source of referrals for the pediatrician - (a) many people have already established a relationship with a pediatrician in anticipation of the birth, and (b) in many reasonably sized hospitals the guy who drops by is either a hospitalist or a neonatologist, and they don't have an outpatient practice. Anesthesiologist may drop by to start an epidural, but otherwise isn't present on a continued basis.

If in the OR for a c-section, you'll have the OB and a resident or an assist; one nurse just looking after scrub and tools; a second nurse on hand for additional assistance and to receive the kid for the initial clean-up; an anesthesiologist handling your anesthesia; plus/minus a med student or two either holding instruments for the OB or speaking with the anesthesiologist. If everything is and remains stable, peds will swing by. If the kid is unstable or things go sideways, peds +/- their resident will be on hand for the delivery - a neonatologist if the hospital has one.

I've seen some variation in different places of course, but that's pretty much par for the course.

(When I was in the latter part of med school I had a brief fling thinking I'd do OB/GYN, so I did sub-I's in a few different hospitals around the country. Thank god that idea passed.)
Depends on the registrar used for the domain. Global registrars are not particularly obliged to comply with German law, especially when it is not a case of abuse.

However, if the DNS server is located in Germany, they can force that instead.
Developer Uses Unreal Engine 5 to Render 10B Polygons
It appears Salesforce.com has mostly remained a platform.
That is pretty cool to visualize in your head
No. As has been explored to death in recent articles, the last thing you want is the ability to irreversibly transfer ownership of your car or your home in seconds (and potentially accidentally).

When you have a deed to a car, states have well established laws for how the transfer of ownership occurs, and well established methods for dealing with problems in that transfer. If the deed to your car is tied to an NFT, and than NFT gets fraudulently transferred, it's irreversible absent recourse to the legal system to get a new NFT that represents your deed. And at that point you might as well just have had a normal deed.
ah just got notified of this shoutout via f5bot.. very kind of you! i am def still figuring out what im doing with the blog, all i know is its a long term game haha
That isn't the only reason to have a union.
Oh yeah of course, you've already done quite a bit by answering, thanks. I now realize I probably could have looked there first, but quite honestly I only ever go onto StackOverflow.
I’m very interested in seeing how Dokkument turns out. There are too many documentation tools that:

1) have horrible navigation
2) lack a good editing experience / CMS, especially when working with a lot of images & videos. Markdown is actually distracting in this case because I have to break my workflow to upload these assets to my CDN.
3) are not designed to meet the needs of product marketing - they can’t have analytics added or they can’t be branded to match the rest of the marketing website.

Maybe I just haven’t found the right tool yet.
Apple devices support "Switch Control", which stands for a family of devices that translate some signal that the user is capable of providing (blinking, tongue clicks, etc) into a button press. This can be used to select from a menu of options that the OS presents:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201370

Imagine a high tech version of Hector Salamanca's bell in "Breaking Bad": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWso-qRaIlM

I believe there are various levels of such control, depending on how much mobility the user has.