skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you that you want to keep your project free, but I'd also like to point out that it doesn't matter if your project is open-source or not to use ExtensionPay!

For example, the extension NotionBoost is open source and also uses ExtensionPay for paid features: https://gourav.io/notion-boost
Hahah, neat idea. I can't think of a more "NFT-able" answer than this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
There are a bunch but it depends on whether you want to use a “reall language or a custom in-game language (usually visual programming). For example Baba is You is a great programming game but it’s very different from regular programming. There’s also games with high level visual languages like Autobots, all the way to games about assembly languages like TIS-100 and Shenzen-IO
My Twitter trending section in Ukraine last week consisted entirely of porn related hashtags (pic: https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1397429733126721543...)
iirc, the human neocortex is only 6 layers deep with some interesting vertical connection structures, perhaps similar to skip connections in NN.

It would be interesting to see where the
deep vs wide analysis ends up when many problem types are used. Can a single network be trained on multiple problems at once and perform well on all?
Usually significant low code stuff is more reflective of organizational politics than anything else.

Individual or small team productivity is one thing, the bigger low code monstrosities are usually a way for a vendor to weasel in and sell services under the IT peoples noses. The power automate bullshit cements whatever legacy junk it is feeding into and makes Azure the happy path for modernization.
Is there any evidence that "helping" people by handing out free money actually results in good outcomes? Seems that it usually results in a bigger population of homeless, as they flock in from other parts of the country. Seriously, data-based evidence of how to help homeless populations that has actual real-world testing would be really useful. Vague "provide them help" seems to usually just translate into "spend non-specifically to feed and clothe people."
This would be a pretty interesting exercise. I can imagine using path length/distance across the word2vec space or even just the inverse of an ngram's probability. E.g. "zombie" and "fungus" may be close together, so would "cicadas" and "horror" maybe, but "cicadas" and "sex" probably don't appear together very often.
Decriminalization and Legalization are two pretty different things.
FWIW the iPhone 5s from Fall 2013 is still receiving regular security updates.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212341
Since social media is sorta supplanting traditional news I wonder if that's level of inaccuracy is actually that surprising. How many potential articles come across an editors desk - or as pushed out by a company's PR department - that are just BS?

Social media has democratized editorializing so these topics get put in front of a lot more faces - in the process we are dodging some of the worst components of censorship, but it is a tradeoff and I think which approach is better (centralized or decentralized editorialship) is still an open question.
> recently revealed work that Microsoft has being doing in swaying opinion on hacker news

I'd love a link. Unfortunately "microsoft and hacker<anything>" get's swallowed up in search results by recent attack news.
You're trying to reframe the problem around the people who call it out. That's a good way to distract from said problem but not a way to address it. That kind of drug usage is a manifestation of degeneracy, itself part of a bigger cultural trend. Fixing the symptoms (or rather, absorbing them into legality so they seem less noteworthy) won't get rid of the root cause.

edit: to respond to greyface- below since I am not longer allowed to reply. what you seem to be hinting at amounts to reasoning by extremes, a trite fallacy.
Raymond Chen answered my question. And then blogged about it in Old New Thing.
Another article on the topic discussed two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223925
The futile proofs of high school
I wonder if there are any contentious design decisions left in flakes. I've still new to Nix, but it seems pretty solid (the only thing I've seen is that `nix flake info` is now `nix flake metadata` or something minor). The only missing thing I've seen is how to load a repl with flake contents easily, but I usually do:

nix-repl> builtins.getFlake (toString ./.)

when I'm in the flake directory. It would be nice to have `nix flake repl` as well.
Well, the fact that the one helicopter it got close to was a police helicopter is too unlikely to be coincidence. Maybe the drone operator knew the police helicopter location. Maybe these were other cops doing something stupid with their new equipment.
This is a false equivalence.

Not tolerating mediocrity does not guarantee success or even great, successful products. But tolerating mediocrity is sure to lead to even more mediocre products. Acquisitions are neither here nor there.

People like Bezos, Jobs, Musk are not easy to work with because they are driven and do not tolerate mediocrity (but that still does not guarantee success) and that's why the result stands out.
Worst case just run chroots, or docker for the rare case something really don’t want to run under Nix. But it rarely happens anymore, it has a huge ecosystem with almost everything packaged so depending on how niche is the thing you work on, it can be a really comfortable environment.
That's funny, most of the time I see people call something "degenerate" it's a political slur against a group that does not align the with the users personal ideals of society. Different contexts, I suppose.
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Nope. The management, at least to the director level, does not even discuss this. The company's culture stack makes it clear that it's okay for someone to be content and just to do her job. Stack ranking damages team trust, promotes unnecessary in-fight, and incentivized teams to focus on short-term goals.

To quote some director's words: if you want to compete, compete with our competitors instead of your coworkers.
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> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

Their current plan seems to be a race to the bottom; a new re-design for the default landing page that rewards infinite scroll over in-depth content.

Meanwhile, the moderation tools are still garbage.
I have seen first hand on some lifescience consulting gigs how VB.NET takes away people from R, Python and similar tools.

It is the Excel experts that have outgrown the macros and VBA capabilities, and get IT to install Visual Studio with VB.NET on their computers.

They then double down on their VBA skills and somehow get to produce something in Windows Forms, or an Excel AddIn for the task at hand and then get going with the actual work.

Then one lands on the lab and it is full of such small utilities.
I'd almost prefer the opposite, put a statue of limitations on duplicates so that a new answer can keep up with changes in technology. "How do I move to a different screen in my android app?" is one example of a question with a different "correct" answer every 3-5 years.
The 4th largest mobile browser exfiltrates users’ data even in Incognito mode
I also want to add that 1 standard drink is something defined by the government / health authorities. This isn't the typical drink Bavarians actually drink. It is used for calculation of blood alcohol level or for medical purposes.

Seems that most beers in Bavaria probably approximately equate to 2 standard drinks, meanwhile a small Pilsener commonly found in the North is about 1 standard drink.
Pixel to Hex
Care to define success?
Centralized communication platforms with engagement-incentivization built into the experience are an excellent tool for mass manipulation and propaganda.
That doesn't explain the from address. The .news TLD did not exist in 1995.
New Tesla Models Have “PS5 Level Entertainment Computing Power”
"for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time."

~ https://xkcd.com/1053/
Doge to a dollar, then crash, then reset
My reaction to the title: Everyone knows Stack Overflow, who the heck is Prosus?
Alibaba’s UC Browser Business Is Harvesting the ‘Private’ Web Activity
One can also find lists of prominent non-white composers:

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/black-composers-who...

https://adaptistration.com/2018/06/04/the-composer-diversity...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_composers_of_African_d...
Sure, see my post above. What I'm getting at is that degeneracy leads to many things one of which is drug use, thus reflecting a deeper problem that legalization/decriminalization will not address but only obfuscate.
More weather + high quality services + compassionate policing for the high-visibility homeless.
Innopeak Seattle R&D Center is hiring experienced Android System Engineer
Historically, treating "degeneracy" as a problem to be solved leads to some very, very dark places.
>And if that’s the case… what’s the point of all of this secrecy, then?

Because any one thing isn't enough to reconstruct the full picture, but many pieces combined can provide the bigger picture.

And the problem is way more complex than "let's use a series of blurry pictures to reverse engineer a nuke"--there are more goals than this, like for instance figuring out the U.S. nuke arsenal capabilities, seeing if an adversary has figured out a technology we possess, etc etc

Come on now, this is basic OPSEC.

edit: Like for instance, look at the Snowden leaks. There were some stuff in the Snowden leaks that had very little to do with US public interest, but were accidentally leaked by stupid journos who don't know how to use a computer. And this did lead to actionable intelligence from our adversaries.
yes, i think there is a correlation, but you don't know if that is causative. i think people drawn towards psychedelics are also more inquisitive and imaginative with a fascination for grand narratives behind the scenes.

David Icke, was he writing or speaking about conspiracy before he encountered psychedelics or after? What about Terence McKenna and his intriguing Timewave Zero nonsense?
I think, and this is just an assumption so I might be wrong, but I think you might have missed the point of the article--which is that sometimes the things you incentivize conflict with what you say are your values. What Insider reported as happening at Amazon is an example of it.

It's not even a news piece, it's an opinion column. You're free to disagree with it. That's totally fair.

I'm not reporting on Amazon's internal hiring practices, I'm applying a lesson to what Insider reported. That's not a cop out - it serves an entirely different purpose. In this case, it's a lesson for managers. If you don't feel like I made that point, ok, but I think the core thesis of your critique is fundamentally flawed.
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> it is part of the recently revealed work that Microsoft has being doing in swaying opinion on hacker news.

I'm deeply sceptical this is real because the risk would be high and the reward miniscule. Source?
> Inc. just published a bunch of BS, which would have taken no more than a quick call to a hiring manager to validate or invalidate.

Why would any HM even speak to them?

> The fact that they didn't even try is telling.

How do you even know that?

> There's a conspiracy happening at a scale of a few hundred thousand people

This sounds like a gross overestimate.

This is not an organized conspiracy. Individual HM would come to the same conclusion, which is it is to their own benefit to act perversely when it comes to hiring/firing. This isn't even restricted to Amazon. Time and time again, at companies with poorly thought out policies, managers end up doing really shitty things in order to meet goals.

> who all do highly immoral things but nobody is telling on each other.

And because it's not an organized conspiracy, how would they tell on each other. It's not like they're gonna go around tell each other that they're doing corrupt things.

And even if they were, that usually ends up creating a code of omerta. You see it all the time in organizations where they do terrible things. These places end up creating a us vs them mentality. Police is one example. Another example is how China runs things. They spread out the bad actions across everyone, making everyone complicit. This makes people less likely to rat each other out because now they're the ones doing it and internally, people justify their own decisions.

> The BR has no incentive to partake in the conspiracy, because their track record will show a high attrition rate which is against their goals, but they still decide to violate their specific job directives.

This is the only thing I agree with. It is unlikely that a BR would collude. They have no reason to.
If you have time I suggest watching the videos in this thread shot yesterday by Dr Shellenberger of Tom Wolf, a recovered SF addict, walking around in Venice beach Los Angeles and talking with Garry Featherstone, owner of Homeless Enterprise, who feeds the homeless in Venice Beach and works on the streets there.

It is very revealing.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/13998897983204433...
Reminds me of a factory tour I went on where a big fancy robot was assembling car parts. I was told not to take photos — not because the robot was secretive (and in fact the same one was used in several factories), but because the computer screen beside it showed details about the specific configuration of that robot. There were hundreds of different settings that could be tweaked and that was the competitive advantage.
There is no coordination amongst addicts that harass people.

If someone is experiencing psychosis they should be guided.
Seems like a weird choice. There's plenty of other air bases that are far removed from the public which are meant to be used for testing. Not to mention there's no justification for doing this in a populated area where someone could get hurt.
Germany suspends incoming flights from Russian airlines
I actually wasn't arguing from authority. I think the paragraph stands alone without the author's name attached (in fact it was originally published under a pseudonym, proving this point.)
I think some state legislatures actually predated to federal one. I know some states had constitutions before the US did, but I don't know if they included the legislature structure.

Why only one house or three? What exactly would that fix? Sure you eliminate most deadlock, but how does that representation? Also, is deadlock really a bad thing in all scenarios?
Tariffs and subsidies are tools we can use if we want to make sure that domestic products can compete with those from abroad - but the current wide allowances for lobbying in the US make any sort of move in that direction extremely difficult.
Pure SQL no, but when coupled together with language extensions and frontends like APEX, it surely is.

I have seen departments fully managed with APEX applications.
Drug overdose deaths are worse in other states though.

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths/drug-overd...
nihil sub sole novum, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nihil_sub_sole_novum
I thought the government had to accept the lowest bid that met specs, though one of those specs could be mfg in USA.
Yeah, I used to set mine to Japan, so I literally can't even read the trending topics. Works pretty well, except a bunch of English-text trends still get in there. :\
Ketamine may (or may not, I have no idea) have legitimate medical and recreational uses...but those aren't what worry me. Ketamine has a long history of being a popular choice to subdue a kidnapping victim.
> So instead of requiring a job you want to require the immigrant to pay to stay?

Mostly, no, for immigrant economic visas I’d prefer “pay to enter”.

For non-immigrant including dual-intent economic visas (e.g., replacing things like H-1b), periodic payment makes sense.

> That's how you end up with only rich people getting to stay

Visa categories gated on high-need, high-education job categories, especially when they also come with prevailing wage requirements, also only allow rich people to come or stay. Allowing payment (which can be subsidized by friends, family, or other supportive community) actually weakens the tie to personal wealth, though it does not (nor does it intend to; this is, after all, a proposed reform of economic visa categories, not family-based, refugee, etc. ones[0]) remove it entirely.

> and also using it as a shortcut to immigration.

I don’t see this as a problem.

[0] though to the extent those are capped, i support allowing otherwise-qualified immigrants to pay to skip (and not take up space in) the queue, through a bidding system where the cost per supernumerary immigrant in a category is higher the more are admitted in a year. It serves the purpose of the limit (mitigating social costs of level of immigration) by an alternate means, and reduces the adverse impact of the limit, not just for the people paying but also for the people not paying. It’s a win-win-win change. (A loss for thr source countries, in many cases, though.)
Sounds like Paypal got one of those secret government demands that we aren't allowed to talk about on pain of imprisonment.
Yes it did. Traffic deaths in Colorado have grown much faster than the population and much more than the national rate, since legalization.
The opposition party thinks we will have re-education camps, might as well do it and re-educate people regarding drugs with specific studies instead of anecdotes

Pre-requisite for a driver’s license
I am jealous! I remember learning that such manuals existed but was never able to find one.
OTOH, this is taking away one of the few features still keeping me on Firefox - a separate search bar.

At this point, I increasingly can't differentiate Firefox from Chrome or Edge, which are better supported anyway.

Decisions based on "user data" have been a disaster for Firefox. The only reason any normal person ever used Firefox is because power users evangelized it - they don't get to be the default, pre-installed browser anywhere, and they don't have the world's biggest web properties constantly pushing for them. Power users are it. Obviously, the data will always reflect that any set of power user features is used only by a tiny amount of people.

But everything Mozilla has done in the past few years has been done to alienate power users and appeal to the non-existent normal user who goes out and downloads another browser. At this point with this redesign I'm basically done. If Firefox wants to be Chrome or Edge, I'm just going to use Chrome or Edge.
How has criminalization helped?

Prohibition fundamentally doesn't work. If there are 'armies of drug addicts shitting in the streets', it seems that the drugs to sustain these armies must be readily available.

Prohibition creates a massive disincentive for users to interact or cooperate with the state. This could enable policing in communities where police usually aren't welcome, and this could enable social workers to reach communities who no longer have reason to fear a state authority.

If I'm a woman who has a stash of mushrooms and is a victim of domestic abuse- I'm significantly less likely to seek help for fear of arrest.
Ah the company that requires you to sign a NDA before you can enter their office, and think it still hasn't been voided by them. Not a fan
I think WASM will have a great future in the cloud, giving cloud providers can offer their services in any programming language their users want, running in a secure sandbox.

But i'm not so sure about personal devices. It would be very hard to beat Javascript code on the Web in general. So i dont know about the general purpose target future in that case, i think it will flop, except as a fancy accelerator or to virtualize things that was once outside the web.
Not good advice if you're American as your own government can always hurt you most.
Umm...not quite.

Most US states have at-will employment, so an employee can be fired for any reason, at any time, effective immediately.

For an employee, the implied social contract is to give two weeks notice.
There are some things that software engineering and philosophy have in common. One is that they are both about (abstract) concepts and their relationships. Another is that they are based on languages. Just like software engineers have the tendency to develop new programming language, philosophers of all ages, have come up with new words to represent certain ideas. Thus there must be some similarities between how philosophers and software engineers think.

Yet, I get the impression that many software engineers are rather suspicious about philosophy. (I do not know about the other way around.)

Maybe it is because as a software engineer you have the experience that you are often wrong about what you think is right. This especially comes from debugging, were you over and over discover that your idea about the cause of the bug is wrong when you finally have found a satisfying solution. And even then, you often realize that the fact that the bug was possible was due to some design decision made some years ago, and that an even better way to fix the bug is to revert that design decision.

Maybe it because you have learned that reality is always far more complex than you would have thought at first.

Maybe it is because we as software engineers have learned to deal with situations where the rubber meets the road, while many philosophers did not have to cope with that experience.
I’m not too afraid of a niche being eaten alive by a slightly larger niche :D

Also, I don’t really see the value of flatpaks, they don’t solve the dependency hell problem (nix does) nor they are adequate sandboxes (be honest, linux has non-existent user-space security, it’s frankly terrible. And for some reason even flatpak is written in goddamn C in 2000+ something)
While true, I'm not certain that drug overdoses directly correlates with homelessness, which is what I think the parent was highlighting.
Yes, it's extremely powerful once you truly understand Nix.

There are efforts to improve documentation, but it still is lacking (I think the biggest problem is that Nix is so big, not just the OS but it can be utilized as a build system).

Just with NixOS is not exactly clear how can you for example build your custom image.

I think https://nix.dev/ is approaching the documentation from the right direction.

There are also many pieces that people built that you need to find.

For example some things that I found accidentally:

* https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix

* https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle

* https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse documentation.
> Is there any evidence that "helping" people by handing out free money actually results in good outcomes?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/01/hunger-h...

> bigger population of homeless, as they flock in from other parts of the country

This is the same population of homeless, not a larger one.
No, it does not. Stop reading reactionary right wing propaganda if you care about reality.
>This is the first time we have heard about financial persecution for defending internet freedom in the Tor community.

But they don't know that. Paypal refuses to give details. He describes a second recipent, the hosting company, and there could be more. Paypal's fraud and crime detection is pitiful*, and their silence can cover both incompetence and malice.

[*] https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/paypal-venmo-iran-syria...