skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe some universities make exceptions for open source projects, which seems fair. Basically if you want to give something away then you can, though the university will still own the copyright. I'm not 100% sure how patents work at such institutions, but I believe they can potentially be licensed for free to open source projects and their derivatives (e.g. they won't demand that Apple pay royalties if they use your open source software in an iPhone, as long as they abide by the open source license terms.)

If you want to make it closed source/proprietary and sell it, then the university wants license fees (but you get a cut of those fees, so it's sort of a kickback scheme, but the university picks the fee and there is a set percentage that you get.)
So we're doing blood libel now? The sins of the fathers and all that?

Good to see HN is concentrating on the big issues, rather than waving their arms like the rest of society when their side in the culture war gets its nose tweaked.
IndexedDB's ugliness is due to being from a time before ES6+ really kicked into gear and we still had the old crud of weird callback stacks (See FileReader for another example).

As for SQLite, as lovely as that'd be, NOONE wanted to spend R&D on building a "SQLite clone" for the web SQL spec, and I can't blame them, how the hell can you justify that effort when SQLite exists and is crazy well tested and proven?
> academia everywhere is exploitative and toxic

Do you mean "everywhere" in the USA, or everywhere?

I have noticed quite different levels and types of dysfunction in different countries, and again between public/private in the US, but then it's been a long time since I had first-hand knowledge so I could be underestimating the similarities.

At least in some countries the students aren't paying tuition for the privilege.
Black box obfuscation was ruled out more than a decade ago by a simple argument in the same paper where it was formally introduced.
It's somewhere in there if you expand the 80 comments or so.
Hi!

My first post on HN, even though I've been reading it for a long time.

I installed WP. Managed to find .deb files (in german, so learning by doing to navigate the menus). It starts up in an instant on my old Asus Eee PC anno 2012. The only thing I can't stand are the fonts. They dont look pretty. Pixelated, not anti-aliased. Any way to fix this?
Modern Monetary Theory:
- The state creates money and spends it into existence
- The state taxes back money to control inflation, achieve social outcomes and incentivise certain behaviour.

The problem is the population like 1, and dislike 2. But inflation comes later and humans are bad at thinking rationally about future consequences (see: climate change).

So it’s almost inevitable you get uncontrolled spending with printing. Aka ‘brr’.

The other problem is that printing by itself is actually quite socialist. If everybody got equal and the dollar devalues equally across all asset classes goods/services, you end up reducing savings and reducing debts. One could argue this is Good.

The problem is the printing just pours straight into the fat cats of Wall St and you end up with gross inequality.
Feudalism in the Americas in the 1300s
> As I understand it, it is typical for universities to claim ownership of all graduate student inventions.

I'm highly opposed to a lot of what's described in this thread, and to the tearing down of academia in general. But I don't think it's wholly insane that universities own grad student inventions in all cases. Where I was a grad student, for example, we were regular employees on a fixed-term contract. Sure, we weren't paid stellarly well, but quite decently (maybe 20% below the average for an industry job). At that point I don't think it's weird that the inellectual property we produced (in my case just code that didn't earn them a dime) was theirs.
Totally, in London i regularly encounter cobbled streets, my big tyre gravel bike is perfect.
Oh it's not a leaked video, it's an interview of an audiovisual technician done by Project Veritas, who are among the most biased and cynically named outfits in journalism. Cynically named (veritas is Latin for "truth") because they don't try to make their message correspond to reality (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/), but instead go to great pains to twist, alter, edit and selectively curate reality to fit their message. They're permanently suspended from Twitter. In my mind they are enemies of the truth. They were fertilizing the soil for the Big Lie before the 2020 US elections, spreading their deceitful manure into the minds of the vulnerable. Please watch more of their work.

From MediaBiasFactCheck:
> Project Veritas was created by James Edward O’Keefe III, an American conservative political activist. He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters, some selectively edited to imply its subjects said things they did not, with figures and workers in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or allegedly illegal behavior by employees and/or representatives of those organizations. Project Veritas primarily targets liberals and liberal organizations.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/project-veritas/

Meanwhile the person interviewed was a technical director, as I understand it meaning an audiovisual equipment guy, so I don't know why you'd consider him an authority on editorial decisions. That all media has some bias doesn't seem so shocking, but rather mere common sense.
I'm making a dating app. After sending a potentially-fraudulent user to a Stripe VerificationSession, I would like to send Stripe their other photos and find out how well they match the ID. Does Stripe have any plan to support that?

Also, how long does the VerificationSession verified_outputs field remain accessible?
Interesting discussion but mainly from the point of choosing license for the project.

I understand MultiMC author, but they are actively standing against something that they agreed/decided when choosing license. Probably changing license would solve the issue with controlling distribution.
We can simulate few experiences with the sources we have, but it won't be entirely possible to replicate it just like the movie.

At this point of time, The money, infrastructure and amount of work required is damn high when compared to the returns we get from the post work.
The whole VR/AR/XR/MR are at pivotal stage and not that efficient. According to my knowledge you can expect something like that by end of the decade.
Also the title is clickbait of the worst type.
That is what it sounds like, but it doesn't actually say that. Additionally, I don't know how this other country could even be expected to sift out American data, even their soft claim only rules out phones in America.
That highly depends on your problem. I have some scientific code that gets more than a factor 10 improvement on runtime just by turning on some compiler flags (mainly -O3 and -march, but some others as well).
> These databases already exist.

That doesn't matter.
I tried doing online deliveries while at university back in 07-09 and found the whole ordeal so rubbish that i've never gone back to it even during the pandemic. Glad to hear they smoothed it out a little.

I wonder if the US is better or worse for using middleman start-up services where as picking nad delivery here is traditionally done in house.
Cool! I believe quitting it will kind of lower my threshold for instant gratification and increase my patience levels which is what I desire and want to quit it. But haven't been successful in replacing it.

Any techniques, tips or alternatives that helped you in quitting it?

And it would be interesting if you could share what benefits you observed from quitting it?
I like privacy as well, but i can't help but be amused by this whole situation.

I need to go find a copy of the adverts and spec for this product.. i'd love to know how they got around lying to their customers.
We use an auto-throttling algorithm for the crawler to ensure we are a 'polite' crawler!

We also send a unique user-agent with every request, so any host can easily block us if required - luckily, this has never happened so far.
Walking is a great one too, thinking while walking really helps.
Translating requirements into code - is about language and tools as you have to learn the language, as you noted "few people wanted to learn to use those".
Third paragraph is saying about loads of amateur spaghetti code, so turns out it was not that hard.

So third paragraph contradicts things written in the second.

Low-code tools promise to address "problem of the language" so it is easy to translate business knowledge into the tool. Keep in mind low code tool should ideally be used by domain expert, so another promise is that you don't need business analysts and developers so problems with communication or misunderstanding is removed.

Going back to second paragraph:

Good part that was noted, there were loads of spaghetti apps in Access and File maker, let alone all those Excel sheets that are still everywhere. There was no one to maintain them and low code tools don't provide enough means for maintaining complex systems.

Running and maintaining computer systems is 80% of cost for software, maybe translating it into code is hard, but debugging, fixing, adjusting, keeping operational knowledge is much more expensive.

Silly Excel file that architect Jane was using for 5 years and then she quits, you hire John while you can do knowledge transfer - it is still hit or miss just as noted in second paragraph John will be more comfortable doing his own excel from scratch than learning what Jane did.

Even with developers it is the way that everyone wants to do "greenfield" and understanding what other people wrote before in some unfamiliar system is hard work. Low code even makes it harder to understand existing stuff with their GUIs.

Whole DevOps tooling/movement grew just because of that fact, none of the "low-code" tools is addressing it.
It sounded like the purchase of the 5 Pi400s ended up being covered by the library system, but the guy teaching still provided his time and curriculum. I'd imagine getting budget approval for $500 in hardware is a lot easier than getting it for labor. It's good that the library had people there willing to work the system to help make this happen.
You can't compare Webvan to Amazon.

Amazon ended up owning and operating Webvan.com.[1] The people who developed Webvan went on to develop Amazon Fresh.[2] The founder of Kiva Robotics, which was acquired by Amazon, was from Webvan. Amazon's grocery business is directly descended from Webvan.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194049/http://www.webvan...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-amazon-webvan-idUSBRE...
Mutating Cellular Automata until they look biological over 225 generations
Bitfinexed can keep raking in dough(nations) much long than it takes for the average person to see how repeatedly wrong he has been for years now.

It's crypto kool-aid in a murky world of obsessive people with large conflicts of interest. Do you really think it's random people conducting large scale DDOS attacks on exchanges for the fun of it?
The situation is far better in Europe (minus UK) though. A lot of the negatives portrayed in this thread are also happening here (the esoteric character professors becoming fewer and fewer, the paper production labs with little passion or spark for the actual research, the ever-shrinking time for actual research, etc…), but the situation of unaffordable or crippling-debt-inducing tuition is still not the norm here.
This looks interesting, and I’d love to know more, for example what is Cue’s approach to validating sequences?

I’d spend more time trying to answer that question myself but this site wants me to read an awful lot of philosophy before showing me any code. I dislike homepages like this. I’d rather you assume I buy into your philosophy, otherwise I’d leave, so you’re free to just show me what the language is like. When you do that, I’m more interested in examples than EBNF.
What I read is: "80% of IT jobs will now become solving someones convoluted logic in some visual coding tool".
On the other hand if it's a low budget op it will be bought cheaply like buying troll farms or paying "influencers" to promote all kind of crap. In the end you may get the same crap but in a more distributed manner.
Yep, very strange leftish attitude.
Casa Do Penedo – Portugal
https://www.mybestplace.com/en/article/casa-do-penedo-the-ex...
The funny thing is that bubble.io (as one example) does this already. And it does it really well.

And now I look on freelancer.com and there's still people wanting to hire "bubble developers".

I have been talking to my tech illiterate friends what they think about "easy" no-code solutions like WordPress or squarespace.

The answer is always the same. It's all far too complicated and confusing.

If I presented someone like that with bubble.io and said "here is this node graph tool to connect..." I'd have lost them at node graph and they would never, ever learn, let alone like that thing.

Apple famously drive engineers crazy with their UI philosophy of hiding everything at the cost of control or customisation. But I have a feeling it works.

I feel that for many people, tech is this confusing thing that will never not be confusing because they've learned to expect that. At least my friends in their late 20s to 30s have fought with technology all their lives to the point where I don't know if anything can remedy that preset expectation.

So long as these people exist, we as engineers and developers can keep looking at these no-code tools and marvel at how simple things have been made, but I think we have to change our expectations and realise that even the simplest still has to become simpler.

The battle of trying to teach that generation technical concepts is a very hard one, when there are companies falling over each other trying to simplify everything to the point of almost, well, zero-effort? Maybe that's the next step: low-code, then no-code (but some effort involved) and then no-code, no-effort (aka you just sit there passively while a computer reads your brain and works out everything you want)

I say all of this while I'm building a no-code website builder that's looking more and more like it'll be targeting kids, the elderly and luddites, so I've had to do some thinking around this problem space recently.
This has some similarities to how you do 'vectorization' of data processing to avoid branching; you can "make decisions" with conditional expressions (y = condition ? a : b ) implemented as y = condition * a + (!condition) * b. You do have to calculate both branches, but you get the conditional result depending on that decision.
Supermarket floors aren't designed for pick and pack efficiency, they're designed from the ground up for phycological manipulation.

Warehouse trumps Supermarket for efficiency by multiple factors easy.

Just as an example imagine the 50 most ordered items. I can put these in a tiny area closest to my packers in a warehouse. How far to you think you'd need to push a cart between those 50 points in an average Walmart?
Plenty of native apps are terrible, oversized, over reaching in permissions or just plain battery drainers. Nothing stops PWAs being these.

If you're on about features? Ask Apple why they shy away from them on the web?
Hard to justify imposing the 30% cut on a website/app.

Hell, Apple could have lead the charge on "web app privacy", implement the specs they've "missed" for web (notifications, background sync etc), and GATE THEM TO PWA/installed web apps, no more news sites asking to notify you when you just go to an article.

Heck, add keys to the web app manifest so as a developer I need an Apple Dev account and the holy $99 entry fee as well as my personal info in Apple's hands to make sites that do these things, so they have recourse to nuke the bad actors.
Yes, a bit, but you won't want to ever bottom out, with or without tubes. You can snake bite flat tubeless, you can also damage the rim.

Generally you want enough air pressure to have enough air pressure to have a 10-15% deflection in the tire and never bottom out. Thankfully suspensions help with the pinch flat since they basically time average the impacts.
Web Page Conversion Tracking in Huawei Ads and DTM (Part 1)-Huawei Developers
Show HN: Survey of 10k freelancers, their salaries, locations and tools
I can't verify the accuracy of this video (Dr Malone does seem accomplished but also a history of what appears some victimization in the vaccine world). I haven't been able to find any critique or clarification on the claims re toxicity of spike proteins in the body. https://youtu.be/Du2wm5nhTXY
I've found it the hard way when I was trying to profile my own code.

If you're using a few optimized libraries and designed your code for high-speed parallel execution, the compiled thing becomes almost impossible to trace in a practical manner.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27510824
> I read about an approach a few years ago which needed hundreds of milliseconds of computation for simple operations. Has the state of the art improved?

Google still relies on the same group you read about, probably. From the docs:

> This transpiler connects Google’s XLS library to the TFHE library.

On the TFHE website (https://tfhe.github.io/tfhe/):

> Each binary gate takes about 13 milliseconds single-core time to evaluate, which improves [DM15] by a factor 53, and the mux gate takes about 26 CPU-ms.
Oh! Zoom meets email...

It actually sounds pretty neat :-)
Good Luck!
They are actively trying to destroy the network right? What other reason is there for doing all there weird things? They’ve tried to allienate their users by changing terms, taking over channels, banning users and even the whole of irc cloud. Now they have split the network into two sets of different servers and dropped all registered users and channels. I don’t get it. The whole point of a hostile takeover would have been to keep it working under your control. This must be something else, but not sure what.
Most radars don’t get a public tweet saying ASAP, either!
Xsv: A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
The article says that Australia would alert the US. "AFP agreed to monitor them "for any threats to life"."
You have a very gracious view of engineers. At least by C-Suite standards.

To the C-suite engineers are a cost center to be minimized. You are a robot, or better yet, a "resource" (to use the industry term) that consumes money and does some set of tasks. These tasks are tracked in JIRA. The KPI dashboard for the C-suite is like SCADA control but instead of big machines its a bunch of cogs. Like all good, functioning, and regimented engines wobbly cogs (the creative kind!) are removed expeditiously and replaced with more compliant and in-spec cogs.

To everyone BUT engineers, engineers are just the minions that glue existing frameworks together. To challenge this idea is tantamount to heresy. Deviating from the norm costs even more money and considering they still have to figure out how to pay the CTO (most likely a "thought leader" and not an engineer) their extensive benefits this creative detour just ate into that budget.

This is not some sign of a "bad org". It's every org of any significant size. Once you start having actual management creative freedom is just a fever dream. Creative freedom is reserved for an even more exclusive cost center called "Research and Development" which is often cut just before the rest of herd is culled to keep bonuses. Don't worry, none of us will ever see this. It's exclusive to engineers pulled from Top-5 FAANG-likes and the CEOs kids.

The best strategy you can have as a engineer in all but the prime cut positions is to keep your head down, do your 8 hours, and leave. When you get tired of doing that at one place, go to another. Repeat this for 30 years. No MBA-style management strategy will ever optimize for your happiness, or your desire to actually make an impact. Why would you want to make waves anyway? When they hand you your termination papers all of that effort is wasted. There are better uses of your time, outside work, where you have actual control.
I have seen SaaS application owner who was thinking he could do SaaS with low code and cut the costs.

On his place I would be selling "low code" but that guy was severely shortsighted.
Bike more and you will, it's not particularly noticeable while normally biking. But I really notice it on sprints, but it's also noticeable even with smaller increases in effort over cruising.

It's also quite noticeable when you switch to clipless and go for a hard ride, suddenly new muscles will be sore.
Do you understand that there’s an immense difference beteeen silencing those you disagree with and not personally inviting them to spread their bullshit to an audience of tens or hundreds of millions of your own followers?

> Keep an open dialogue and dismantle them. If you can't do that, maybe they have something worth listening to.

Climate change denialism, antivaxers, and flat earthers have all thrived in an environment of open dialogue. Do you believe they have ideas worth listening to?

The gish gallop is a depreddingly effective tool, and not one generally leveraged by people on the right side of a debate.
Watch this yet to be verified video re toxicity of the spike protein in the Covid mRNA vaccines https://youtu.be/Du2wm5nhTXY
Silly stories during GWOT era that seem scientifically impossible make me think of the "Voice of God" thing, about a system to beam sound into a targets head to make them think god was speaking to them directly, or similarly project a hologram of God in the sky to tell opposing religious fighters to lay down their weapons.

But the "radio propagation" part makes me think this isn't the right one.
I once ordered black pudding and received a two pack of chocolate sponge puddings. I think it was Tesco. That was genuinely funny though, and in all my experience has been good.

Also, call me a frugal jerk, but I spent about 2 years adding dots to my Gmail address to get £15 off as a new customer offer every time. It got a bit awkward when the same delivery driver had to give me the 'new customer' spiel and said he was sure he'd been here before.
In case you already have McAfee, you can use this tutorial by John McAfee himself to remove it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
Agreed. All my respect for Mozilla went out the window after finding out they were the drivers for getting WebSQL removed as a spec.

I must admit there's a bit of schadenfreude in knowing that Firefox is almost irrelevant now, while SQLite keeps going from strength to strength.
Section-aware Document Similarity using BERT
On iOS you don't have a choice other than Safari (other browsers are just wrappers around safari die to Apple policies). And most of us can't afford to drop iOS support (and most of us aren't even in the position to make that call).
You get what you pay for though, you don't need to spend hours cleaning up someone else's grubby old laptop, and it's a consistent and open source system.