skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that all the screenshots have a (typically) female name, and the reporter seems female. Could be chance of course, but a quite low likelihood if the sampling is truly random... Can’t help thinking what kind of bug could cause that. :)
Comments like this (and many others in this thread) are so indicative to me of the bubble a lot of tech people live in. I personally know several people who are extremely vulnerable to the coronavirus (by age, location, and preexisting medical conditions) who are refusing the vaccine based on the premise that it was designed somehow to kill/sterilize/control them. Spend some time sleuthing on Facebook and you'll find groups with tens of thousands of people with this kind of mindset. I think there's a tendency for people on HN in particular to downplay this phenomenon because it directly implicates big tech in a very big way-- social media is a veritable incubator for these ideas.
Probably the same way anyone does.
so the best way to come up with more money is to squeeze it out of devs ?
Delete the cookies for developer.mozilla.org (*) and refresh the page, with a bit of luck, you'll be in the $5 per month/$50 per year group ;)

(*) Keep in mind that this might have unwanted side effects.
Proliferation prevention is applied fairly to all non-nuclear states. However, especially reckless ones get the stick, and those actions are usually multilateral. For example, the “Iran Deal”.
I was a prominent Top Writer and I can give my impression of the consensus of other Top Writers.

It was known all along that Quora was losing a ton of money. They said prominently that their goal was to establish market dominance and then figure out how to monetize it. Several different approaches were tried and discarded, before eventually settling on the standard "put ads in front of eyeballs" approach.

In a lot of ways it just followed the pattern of so many sites (and before that, message boards). Everybody is cheerful at the beginning, feeling lots of elbow room. Then it starts to feel more crowded: topics are discussed to death, resentments build, trolls and spammers move in, etc. Moderation wanted to keep a light hand to maximize the audience, but they would still be accused on all sides of censorship and partisanship.

Really, the question is why it was ever more than yet another social media site. The answer is that they spent a ton of money, and pulled a lot of strings to attract celebrities. Its big early wins were Silicon Valley luminaries, which attracted enormous followings of people who hoped to become Silicon Valley-style rich off of that.

I could point to a ton of missteps that irked its most prominent people, but in a way that's a red herring. What the site wants is to put a lot of ads in front of users, and for all I know it's achieving that. The power users like to think that they're an attraction of the site and that once we leave, others will too. Maybe that's right; I don't know.

I'd definitely put its Partners Program as a point they could not walk back from. They paid people to post tens of thousands of questions, with the goal of attracting people to answer. I assume it worked, since they kept it despite numerous complaints. It's antithetical to what the best writers wanted, and if it worked it was only because those writers had given it a high SEO rating.

I personally gave up after seeing a persistent anonymous troll one too many times. Anonymity on Quora bypassed all of the tools that allowed individual users to block people, despite Quora's "real names" policy, and made it impossible to track people who misbehaved. Since then they've abandoned the "real names" policy (which they never enforced anyway), and if that's a prelude to eliminating its superpowered anonymity, that might make the site more pleasant to use.

Even so I think it's inevitable that a Q&A site will flounder on the fact that Q&A fits a narrow slot between "easily googleable" and "impossible to answer". Sites follow a cycle of "how much fun to re-answer basic questions of quantum physics and philosophy" to "the site used to be better before everybody else got here". Quora just had a higher peak, mostly because it spent money to get there.
In the US, it is hard to recruit postdocs unless you are at a top 10 school (I tried several times). Potential postdocs are largely incentivized by: (1) name recognition of their mentor since their letter and networking will get them their next job and (2) the likelihood of getting top-tier publications. Also, they get a decent salary and health insurance in engineering fields.

A brand new research institute does none of these things for them. I don't see why a fresh PhD would choose this over either FAANG or a university.
I'm sceptical of single study medical research and especially that which involves the crazily political world of birth. It might be better to wait until the Cochrane collaboration does a meta analysis on multiple studies before anyone changes what they are currently doing.
I'm not a mod. I'm just a guy with an opinion.

It does make me curious about their stance on software keys.
You are correct! (as far as I know)
The Grumman LLV's that are still running are often monuments to mechanical genius that are worth studying. Years of "it's got to be rolling tomorrow" inspired hacks stacked up.

If you're looking to find a mechanic's shop to patronize, look for the one that services the area's LLV's. Ask the Postmaster if need be.
Could would should. It'd be great, but there is zero indication that it would actually happen.
Acer: Interview with CEO Jason Chen
This feels more like a service rather than it being a subscription-based donation. It's not called Wikipedia Plus.
I think the author is talking more about running a public community with mostly strangers. I also run my own IRC server, but I would hardly call it an IRC network because it's just me and a few close friends. The author is clearly talking about something on a different scale and purpose than a privately owned and operated server.
> Different responses to different touch and gestures, oriented towards the blind

That's VoiceOver on iOS. It's a screen reader that's also available on the Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch. Android has a similar screenreader called TalkBack.

I work with visually impaired people on accessible apps, and the large majority of them prefer Apple's devices because they have more advanced accessibility features.
I think they made the right decision to replace Bezos with Jassy.
MDN should be a separate company. Personally, I'm no longer interested in supporting Mozilla in any capacity. Their management behaves in a way that's consistent with the idea that it's barely more than controlled opposition to Google's Chrome team.
I find hiding all of these articles behind a walled garden a little distasteful. I remember the times when I couldn't have afforded access to such information. Back then, this kind of stuff would have been published in a magazine, and that magazine would have been on the rack of my local bookstore, where I could have flipped through it to decide if it was worth my money.
Agreed. Looks like black magic to me.
Disappearing Car Door [video]
Look Back: Bloomberg Keyboard
If it's really a reverse proxy / Varnish / CDN / etc. misconfiguration issue like some others here suspect, then it could be totally random. The data of some unlucky person whos data happens to get requested when the cache times out will be cached and then sent to all others.
Every Common Lisp already has vectors.

STARLISP is an extension of Common Lisp. Pvars in STARLISP are basically similar to vectors with elements spread over different processors.
Was the US overthrowing Iran’s democratically-elected prime minister in 1953 about human rights then? He was introducing progressive reforms in Iran.
amateurs XD
The central bank prints money (partially offset by tax). Some of that money could go to basic medical care like this, as it does in most other countries.
Yep, 20+ year learning based on 10.000+ years of wisdom taught from generation to generation. People take both things for granted when comparing humans with "AIs".
Have you ever looked at MS documentation of the SharePoint REST API?
It's not like we will carelessly stumble upon world-ending technology. This is not a sci-fi movie.
I agree. I'd like EU to sponsors Firefox development, but not by directly sponsoring Mozilla itself, especially not the Mozilla Foundation. Reducing reliance on Google and having people whose jobs is to challenge the hegemony of Google and Apple on web standards would be really nice.
This seems cool for a11y development/testing as well. Sometimes I close my eyes but it's difficult not to cheat.

Now I need to figure out how to press `VO-Shift-Fn-_`
They bash the presidential palace for being the symbol of dictatorship and oppression. Ironically, just 100 meters away from it, there’re entire streets that look literary abandoned. Giant potholes, half-destroyed buildings etc. Bratislava and Bucharest were the most depressing cities out of all European capitals I visited. These cities seem to be very poorly managed.
Engineer to Manager, There and Back Again
Gonna be honest - I don't really understand any of this.

IIRC the discussion the other day, where someone shared the terms, it stated they're buying the NFT not the copyright/rights to the video.

So what does deleting it actually mean? The NFT owner can't do anything with it other than say "I own the NFT" (they can't monetise it), and assuming there's going to be some kind of policing around the deletion, it's just going to be whack a mole on YouTube/WhateverTube with uploaders and people that still want to watch a cute video from 2007 (and don't care about NFTs or it being the 'actual, real, original' upload).

Strange times.
$1.73 May 16 1997

$3,293 May 26 2021

He had a good run.
The Italian cable car was really messed up. The emergency brakes of that cart were intermittently triggering, so the operator jammed a piece of metal to stop that from happening.

His assumption is surely, "Relax, what's going to happen, the cable won't break!".
It's funny how quickly people tend to go towards Occam's razor until it doesn't fit their chosen worldview, whether that be political correctness, their trusted press outlets, attempting to protect scientific research, or something else. When two virology research labs happens to be in the same location as the origin of a contagious virus, that's a pretty likely candidate for the origin of the contagious virus. That's a completely separate from whether or not it was engineered and what should be done if the origin is determined, and it should be considered in its own right. It's no guarantee, but it's certainly a reasonable reason. Which makes you wonder then, what is the motive for media pushing so hard that it's not credible or comparable to a conspiracy theory, just to later (like the mask topic) have to admit that it's not so crazy after all? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-...

It's also important to have a healthy amount of skepticism and not fall into authoritarian thinking. The CDC and WHO are not beacons of flawless truth, as they revealed by the CDC unashamedly lying to the public about mask safety, and the WHO doing backflips to appease China and reject Taiwan's status as an independent country. Wherever the virus came from, so be it, whether that's a lab in China or a bat in Madagascar. But always be very careful when entities are invested in making you believe what they believe, rather than helping you be rational and consider the realistic possibilities.
Bridging the OpenGL and Vulkan Divide
Does making yourself sad count?
Yep, the display can be turned off.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
Nice summary of the Oracle vs. Google case
It also is in the US, but apparently it is a common trope by anti-union politicians to act like this isn't already law.
https://madned.substack.com/
What hooked me: https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-... which was on HN a week or two ago.
You mean like how the US president threatened "fire and fury like the world has never seen" against a country of people different than them?
John Romero on IRC (1995)
using midwives is quite common in most European countries. in some countries people usually bear there children at home instead of in the hospital as well.
> I’m not sure why this means we can’t switch away from fossil fuels for energy production?

Because the network won't hold the new extra energy consumption.

Like I also said, this problem is not obvious enough for people who live in affluent and mostly populous communities (like most of us here, or like the stakeholders from the article), hence why it's not discussed that often in relation to the switch to "green energy". There was something of try to address this in the first (or second? not sure) Obama mandate, the whole "smart grid"thing, of which I've heard not that much lately, and over here in Europe Merkel tried something similar in Germany in late '00s - early 2010s but she failed spectacularly.
The company you work for is not your parent, and in fact, the history of labor/managerial relationships in the US demonstrates pretty unequivocally that your company doesn't have your best interests in mind.
I would guess that the new Racket implementation based on Chez has 'fast startup binaries'. Doesn't it have that?
What are the ways you can implement "log in as anyone accidentally"?

I'm imagining it was a case of an SQL-based password check where "TRUE OR" got added to the WHERE clause, and the code takes the first result instead of expecting only 0 or 1 row.

Are there other easy ways to do this?
The DJI system is the state of the art consumer unit basically. With the caddx unit it's especially small (to fit on smaller quads):

https://www.quadcopters.co.uk/dji-hd-digital-fpv/iflight-suc...

The silver box and the camera are the relevant parts, the connection to the other PCB is just to receive telemetry from the flight controller.

Edit: better link to the actual unit itself:

https://www.buildyourowndrone.co.uk/caddx-fpv-air-unit-micro...
I’m stating the fact. It seems quite relevant in the light of officials trying to ride the hype train.
By pennies, I meant if someone can sell a substandard (but "mostly works") cable of any variety and have the parts cost $0.10/meter less, the market will ensure that happens.

Was comparing TB2.995 vs TB3, not TB vs USB.
This is an interesting distinction. I confess that I frequently interchange the pairs.
Not my code, but somewhat related: I almost hurt myself when my friend used a sonic weapon on me in StarCraft.

Back in the ancient days, my friends and I would meet every Saturday and go to an Internet cafe for a few hours of playing multiplayer games over LAN. Mostly StarCraft: Brood War, with a mix of Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena. During the week, we'd all play these games alone, in single player, figuring out new tricks to unleash on each other the next time we met.

One of these weeks, I've learned how to properly play Terrans against the Zerg, and was about to demonstrate my knowledge by steamrolling my friend with an army of Marines and Medics[0]. In that game, my friend went for his usual tactic of harassing me with Mutalisks[1] - an effective technique, as long as he avoided the main body of my army. Well, on that day, he wasn't careful enough.

At one point, he accidentally flew his entire (by that time pretty big, I think 24+) swarm of Mutalisks straight into my M&M army, which was just staging to launch an attack. My units took about 5 whole seconds to destroy most of his force - but the overlapping audio of dying Mutalisks pretty much saturated my headphones with high-amplitude noise. This was so unexpected that I wasn't able to comprehend what's going on around me (both in-game and in real life) for good 30 seconds, my vision blurred and my head was spinning.

Having wasted his entire army, he lost that match. But I keep thinking that this could have been a viable stratagem. If he sacrificed half of his army like this to break my focus, he could've crippled me with the other half. And ever since that day, I kept my headphones at half the volume.

--

[0] - M&Ms, aka "bio", was the usual Terran army composition against Zerg players in Brood War. Zerg armies consist mostly of weak but cheap units - compensating individually low DPS and health with quick, mass production. Terran Marines are also cheap and low DPS, but in 2:1 ratio with Medics, they're healed faster than Zerg units can kill them, so a big ball of M&Ms is unstoppable to an inexperienced Zerg player.

[1] - Weak, cheap, annoyingly fast flying units. Perfect for distraction, but their low DPS makes them completely useless in a straight fight against Terran "bio" army.
For most non-techie people Facebook IS the internet.
Ten or more years ago a web search (I think for something like Python lambdas) popped up something like this. After I solved all the puzzles the payoff was an interview at Google.

However, I would have had to take time off work and get myself to a Google office in another state for the interview, and even if I got a job offer (hardly guaranteed) I'd have to move.

I was pretty pretty pissed off, it felt like a complete bait-and-switch.

I mean, if you're going to the trouble of setting up an elaborate puzzle gauntlet as a recruiting tool, shouldn't you at least pay for travel and lodging to get to the in-person interview?

Not to mention that, as I found out later, my lack of a degree would have disqualified me from receiving an offer.
Some tips on how to improve web forms
The content of the email may be encrypted, the metadata by definition cannot be. If the people orchestrating this "bomb threat" only sent out one or two emails, it's trivial for the email hoster to check the send timestamps of these.
I came to the comment section to better understand what's the opinion on NFTs too :)).
I could see some edge-case uses with these NFTs, but I feel a lot of its usefulness is exaggerated. In my opinion, anything that's digital can't have its access enforced once out in the public. Only laws can restrict an agent (humans, usually) from gaining contact with the digital asset if it's public (or out in the public by any means, be it a copy on the internet or a CD, HDD, card etc.).
I keep thinking my opinion is wrong and there's something magic about these NFTs that I didn't understand.
I _think_ it's intended to be a joke about the IQ test they supposedly administer to applicants.
>When they were found on security cams walking around the cathedral (where Skripal was later murdered at) and questioned, they said they were a gay couple (from Russia of all places!) that were just on a touristic visit.

From what I remember Russia suggested that they might have been a gay couple, a claim which they rebutted almost more fervently than they did the claim that they were spies.

I figured at the time that along with the cringey interview they did were probably both punishments for being shit at their job.

>They even cited that the cathedral is one if the most special because it‘s tower is built in a special way, ridiculous.

It is a decent cathedral to be fair. Salisbury is very much the kind of place that appeals to Russians - hence why Skripal retired there.
It’s a bad habit fairly unique to enthusiasts photographers

I think it’s fine to nip it in the bud, just lets them think twice about responding as they’re not usually disagreeing about the academics or state of technology, just getting into some vendor war
> being a journalist that even somewhat challenges the system

Would be nice to read his articles if there are any. He's a journalist after all. Right?
Apple, Its Control over the iPhone, the Internet, and Yes, the Metaverse
Oh dear Great One, please, save us from this terrible attack on FOSS! Only you can help us!
If anyone is aware of a good resource for how to write alt tags for photos I would be most appreciative. I never know how much detail is appropriate. Is it a photo of “pink flowers” or “pink chrysanthemums” or “pink chrysanthemums in a glass vase on a dining room table”? Or maybe something else entirely? I’m never sure how to balance descriptiveness vs brevity.
Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades
Even the accessibility features of the Apple Watch are impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX1bMqe_gU
SBOMs Alone Won't Fix Supply Chain Security
NetManage! Or WFW 3.1 and win32 extensions to run NCSA Mosaic. Good times.
I have a (mostly abandoned, since I couldn't find an organization to cbe early adopter in the time I gave myself to work on it) side project with this aim. I spent a lot of time thinking about language design, from the perspective of enabling adoption of a new language when an existing one has so much network effect:

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

https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2
https://arachnoid.com (Paul Lutus)
> Electric cars will consume large amounts of electricity

In the meantime poor communities who won't be able to afford EVs just yet will remain stuck on using the old and unreliable networks, hence increasing the societal and economic disparities. As things stand right now most of the poor in the US and Western Europe can still afford a car, a $1000 or 2000 euro beater but one that still works. In the future they won't probably afford SH EVs and they won't have a reliable network to charge them.

Again, this sort of worldview is pretty much absent from the minds of people making this top-down decisions.
The Network Is the Computer: A Conversation with John Gage (Sun Microsystems)
Ok, yeah I understand your issue now. I haven't been bit by this particularily since I seem to just use it a bit differently and don't jump a lot between servers at the same time.

I could definitely see a usecase for creating your own views though where you could tag in specific channels from various servers.
From a quick glimpse on twitter, people couldn't make changes to any of the accounts they were seeing.

This points in the direction of this being a caching bug; you request your homepage, and get the homepage of whichever user was placed in the cache last.

Most of the time in these situations it's not an application-code issue (per-se), as much as a "shared global state" issue.
Malcolm Gladwell makes the case for smaller schools > https://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-...
Kind of feels like the start of a blockchain-specific Streisand effect, doesn't it?
And youre not worried that all youve done is fill in the gaps of their data with your drivers license, etc?

"Delete" is a boolean tag in a databse that never actually gets deleted.
The NATO members and their god complex.
If it's to pay technical writers I don't see the problem. Wikipedia on the other hand ask for donations that seems absorbed by some kind of administrative black hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim...
I'm a long time MDN and Firefox user but I'm struggling to see the benefit of this beyond one free article a month? all of the other "features" are trivial without the subscription (bookmarks, save as pdf...). Seems like a very weak offering.

It feels like this could have landed with a bit more punch and a more compelling sell and it could very well evolve into something very valuable but I can't see the appeal right now.

Another commenter mentioned $10 a month but I'm seeing $5 at the moment. Right now there's just no features I'd consider paying anything for. I would happily pay $5-$10 a month though for something more fleshed out, more regular high quality technical deep dives and some other benefits that justify a regular subscription.
Show HN: Create forms for your Notion Databases
Where do I need to look for declarative examples? This: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa... looks like good old imperative Basic.
Not everything needs to be "saved". We have tons of articles already about this short video and the parents have the right to delete it if they want. The same way I have the right to delete content I own.