skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't app.net an attempt to be a paid Twitter?

I don't disagree with this being where things needs to go, but I feel like you either need some critical mass of initial users (what college students were for Facebook), or you need exclusive content (Obama and then Trump really made Twitter the place-to-be for political discourse), or if it really is a "utility", you need it to be a monopoly (like the phone system).

So the real question to me is, which of these will it be? Part of me wonders if the next social network might be something that arises in the halo of a place where people already spend money online to have social interactions— Twitch being an obvious example, but even the non-social streaming services are candidates for this.

Everyone has and pays for Netflix. What if part of Netflix was access to a no frills, bullshit-free social network? That would be a pretty wild pivot, but they have the resources and technical expertise, and they sure have pivoted before.
Arguments Against Hand Labeling
That's very interesting.
Worth moving to Kentucky!
Everywhere else I have visited you need a license, and to follow bag limits. Except for non licensed animals: rabbits, squirrels, gophers for example; or predators: cougars, wolves, bears.
It’s in a snapshot from earlier today: https://archive.is/NR0Zj

> The term picnic is often associated with lynchings of Black people in the United States, during which white spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against Black people.
Apologies on that one, I did correct (and elaborate on) that bit in an earlier comment, but it's pretty easy to miss (Or it might have been a different thread). I'm referring to the use of CRT by the media (not the reporting of CRT by the media), as well as the gradual encroachment of CRT themes into everyday communities and other such discussion spaces.
Obviously, but can we move on already? Covid culture is so strange to me. It’s like some people want to cling to Covid and virtue signal still wearing a mask when they are vaccinated. Perhaps a bit of Stockholm syndrome?
You can pull it back out of the ether if you listen close enough. All your ancestors are here speaking to you, all is not lost.
Any suggestion on HN that Peter Thiel is a shit-tier human and a monster will get you downvotes.

The funny thing is, there is never any verbal defense - just downvotes.
Seven is still a pretty small team. One of the apps I'm working on has commits from 400 different developers over the past few years. It would be an absolute disaster without code reviews.
I’ve found that most people with your reaction typically have little first hand experience with the subject. Out of curiosity, how many homes in poor black neighborhoods did you visit last month? Unfortunately, I get to visit half a dozen or so each month.
How is Facebook's word worth anything at this point? The only thing that will change them is outside government regulation, which is badly needed.
Perhaps it's time to coin the term Tsoukalos's Law of Headlines.
No, large meetings are where the loudest voices dominate. Hallway conversations are where you can approach someone 1-on-1 without being interrupted or spoken over, and often express a contrarian view without fear of being shouted down.
fwiw, one time I went to their jobs page and it was down. I filed a ticket on their Github repo and was able to follow every single step of the resolution in public. They also were quick to fix it.

I don't know if that's indicative of the typical support contract experience with them, but would happily repeat the experience.
If someone’s attention in the hallway is required for business success, it means the process and culture of the company are both broken. Ad hoc conversation are not how you run a scalable business.
Because full legalization would allow for stronger regulation and protections that would disincentivize patronizing of trafficked prostitution.

We can plainly see the advantage with drugs, it's the same thing. At the outset, decriminalization of marijuana increases trafficking from the underworld in the short-run. Legalization eventually leads to a regulated market that circumvents illegal channels, and decimates their market share. This is beginning to be the case with marijuana.

There's no reason to believe it would be any different for sex work. Germany unveiled new regulations just a few years ago, stay tuned for new statistics this decade.
> The project was driven by a Java guy who didn't study Python+Django even the slightest.

Ultimately it's not the language or the framework that matters but rather how fast you can learn what the market needs. A Java dev will be able to be productive in Java immediately, as will node dev in node, as in ruby dev in ruby.
Yeah and we still have video conferencing in remote world. I'm not sure why racism would cease to be an issue over zoom.
Use https://starship.rs/ abs get the same prompt in all your shells. Also it’s written in rust, so it’s faster than a load of bash scripts.
The clear implication here is surely that 15,000 is not enough. Which is maybe not surprising when Facebook claims to have 2.85 billion active users. By that metric 15k isn't really all that much.

> Content moderation at Facebook scale is really, really hard. Even for real people.

Maybe you could even argue that it's impossible. The question then is what to do about it. One answer could be "stop using recommendation algorithms you do not control", but that would harm Facebook's profits.
Sounds like the plot of the three body problem
Ask HN: Why are the majority of Rust jobs in the cryptocurrency space?
It seems a majority of the Rust jobs out there are in the cryptocurrency space. If Rust is truly the favorite languages among developers I'd expect to see openings across verticals.
I had a really rough 2019 & 2020 - not including the pandemic. Multiple health issues in myself and my family + financial issues + the pandemic.

I am 45. Comparing pictures my hair at 43 vs 45 is unbelievable. Almost no white hairs in 2018. Today, half my hair is white.

I had so much stress that I had to create a sleeping video playlist on Plex to drown out the nightmares and get a full night sleep.

Now most of my problems are resolved - I'd really like my black hair back. I'm skeptical that it'll return to normal naturally. Do men color their hair with products? I look ridiculous - 15 years older than I really am.
Totally agree, all this hullabaloo and these arm chair virologists remind me of this scene from the Simpsons https://youtu.be/BNpmJVa10PU
"the gun lobby has secured laws that severely limit firearm regulation in the USA"

The gun lobbies didn't secure laws that severely limit firearm regulation. They didn't have to. It was enumerated as the 2nd amendment in our constitution - and for damn good reasons.

The difference between the American and French Revolutions - the American Revolution started from the place that the people have all rights and our constitution restricts governments ability to infringe upon those inalienable rights. The French Revolution came from the perspective of the states rights and in turn grants rights to the people. I think I prefer the former over the latter.
I don't think so, but I'm open to be educated about a $50 fifty state downstream catalytic converter.

Cali cats are often more $ but, where in the USA is there a $50 catalyst? More over, which shop charges less then $100/hr labor?

The down stream cat cleans up the photosmog producing tailpipe emissions.

California learned how horrible the smog is, we knew about the causes almost a hundred years ago. Letting people install mystery cats, possibly made from real cats, is going back to the era of "west side story"
I think we're all watching too much porn.
This is what happens when you treat the mail as a cost center.
I keep a couple of Sawyer water filters on hand as a "just in case" because losing access to drinkable water is something I don't ever want to experience if I can help it.
Technically the universe is projected into our brain and we only perceive that projection. The problem is that it's a very shitty projection.
I don't believe that ensuring children conformed to the current cultural norm was or is unique to Canadian schools.

My mother was left-handed and was forced to write, etc with her right hand by her Dutch teachers, as were all other lefties. Force included bloody knuckles from rulers wielded by teachers and other corporal punishments. I've heard similar stories from other lefties from other countries.

Schools were (are?) about teaching children to confirm as much as teaching them reading and math, etc - I think that was a pretty universal thing in previous generations. Just because your experience was in Canada doesn't mean there was anything specifically Canadian about it.
Hawaii is an island in the middle of the ocean. Florida is a quick plane right from anywhere on the East Coast and a reasonable amount of time from Europe. It also happens to be filled with other NYC retirees. People care about people.
Probably Notion should not have put them into this situation in the first place? Maybe they should have been more clear on the issue they’re having so nobody has to make a guess? Shortly explain the details of the issue they’re having and give some timelines? Like mature companies do? It would be good enough for me if I were their customer but oof, who am I to suggest.
Do Apple devices use special Apple Electricity? No? Then your analogy is nonsensical, as analogies always are.
It is my belief that their hiring process optimizes for people who get work done and don’t ask questions. That sort of person will never resign in protest —- they don’t see anything wrong and are fundamentally incapable of seeing it.
not done yet, just looking to get initial feedback on the demo version
> Is there a consensus committee that announces what 'the community' thinks?

Science-based activism typically does have a tactic of discussing within “committees” called peer-reviewed journals that which is considered the consensus and that which is not for that journal’s “community”.
PowerShell uses the PS1 extension for it's script files and is also available for Linux for added confusion.

Apparently the extension PS1 is a reference to PowerShell 1.0.0, thankfully Microsoft did not increase the number.

Source

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/2013
Restgis: A free tool/API to get geographic data for any location (GeoJSON/SVG)
There are certainly nasty edges to javascript programming and I'm not trying to say that it will always be near the same performance as a WASM implementation or a statically compiled binary.

What I'm saying is that you'll find more often than not that it gets close enough to not matter. You'll see javascript at or below 2->3x the runtime of a C++ or Rust statically compiled implementation in most cases. That is pretty close as far as languages go. Java is right in the same range (maybe a little lower).
Snopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/
Spidey Sense: An Apple Watch Wrist Band for Affectively Communicating Warnings
Installing ClamAV for File Scanning
Chrome still lets you block third party cookies. Not with an extension or some low level tweak; it's just in the settings.
I dislike fb as much as anyone, but I am not sold on the current political polarization situation being their fault.

They’re a nice scapegoat, but I haven’t seen enough to suggest that they are anywhere near the root cause.
I wrote up a whole page about my workspace.

https://clkoerner.com/tiny-studio/
Yes, Canada has really been showing it's TRUE colors with how the government is handling covid. Fascism and propaganda are close to heart. I feel for all the mennonite communities and pray for them every day.
I’ve heard this advice given before and initially followed it but ‘git branch’ and parsing the output works in a few cases (I don’t recall what they are at this time) that less hackey approaches don’t.
Ads are not that profitable per user. So as companies like Apple show, no-ad services are working great, and have great ROI.
I don’t know about the “low-level” part. I have a feeling you’d get just as much of a win from a HLL statically-typed language, like Haskell.

It’s the static-typing, not the low-level-ness, doing most of the heavy lifting in making code JITable/WPOable. You don’t need to manually inline a comparison function, if the JIT knows how to inline the larger class of thing that a comparison function happens to fall into, and if the code is amenable to that particular WPO transformation.

I would compare this to SQL: you don’t optimize a SQL query plan by dropping to some lower level where you directly do the query planner’s job for it. Instead, you just add information to the shape of your query such that it becomes amenable to the optimization the query planner knows how to do. That will almost always get you 100% of the wins it’s possible to get on the given query engine anyway, such that there’d be nothing to gain by writing a query plan yourself.
Serverless Strapi on AWS
I'm not objecting to the veracity of what you wrote. I'm objecting to the immediate framework of political party in which the conversation started. Once the comment is placed into that box, the nature of the discussion changes.

I would draw the discussion lines more around those in power versus the people and would further argue that this model is really the defining conversation of modern politics today.
Ish. Because, at least in UK, the national government has final say on land use. So even if a development is unwanted by local authorities, the national government can overrule them.
That was due to how horrible it was to program an app for the cell processor.
Yeah, anecdotally it seems more like poor sleep and dehydration than withdrawals after a single night of drinking.
Meanwhile, YouTube continues to force a coronavirus section in my recommendations despite me hiding it over and over again. It's just an annoyance but still.
They do deserve freedom in a broader sense, yes, but the world is unfortunate and sanctions are how we discourage war. Most of the time sanctions are targeted to individuals or corporations, but there are cases where it is country-wide.
1- Personal projects

2- Union work

3- Work work
Vaccines aren't 100% effective. Some are closer to 50%. Wearing a mask isn't that much of a sacrifice especially indoors.
You can invest in many asset classes in a Roth. You can buy a house. What I'm interested in is if Theil offered to invest $100 from his Roth at a $1,000 valuation with a handshake that he would then invest $1,000,000 at a $100,000,000 valuation. Or numbers that make more sense.

Of course, if you're not an accredited investor, you cannot invest in startups. The idea is you could not recover from a loss. So I have no idea why a Roth should be allowed to invest as an accredited investor.
This comment isn't remotely related to the article. Nobody is asking YouTube to comply with any rules - instead, this is YouTube using a contorted reading of their own rules (which they inconsistently apply) to do something that people generally agree is bad.
Google should be barred from making a web browser. The DOJ should come down hard on this behavior.

Not only is this monopolistic, but it's destroying the web and turning our privacy situation into a trash fire.

They're making this 3rd party cookie decision at the behest of their adsense unit, and it's decisions like these that are infectious across product boundaries. AMP, no URL, increasingly unilateral and opaque HTML standards that serve to push ads, ...

Google has been so lazy at innovation in other areas that they can't afford to lose Chrome. It's a key part of their fragile moat. They'll defend it to the death.

Nevertheless, these two products should not be the same company.

I want Google to succeed, but not like this.
Some misanthropes get inspired by his general lack of giving a fuck, but I personally do not think we should look up to the man.
He did no good and possibly quite a bit of evil.
A lesson not taught to any modern software developer. Instead they change things all the time for no real reason other than that they want to change things.
Agreed. My cat is my best buddy.
Wow, they literally must have just changed this, I looked like 30 mins ago and it was there.
> If you can't bothered to be in the same place as the people you want to communicate to, you're signaling that having their time and attention isn't important to you.

As an introvert, I flip that around. If I have to engage in social games to improve things, I am instead just not going to bother and will confine my ideas to my conversations with co-workers laughing at inefficiencies and failures.
It's still painful trying to use any other GUI
Companies also drop cases where winning is simply not worth the money. Owning an App Store trademark doesn’t seem be valuable in the way say iPad is because it’s not a separate product.
This is pretty trivial to research.

https://time.com/5099513/martin-luther-king-day-myths/

> In the 1960s, the vast majority of white people, South and North, disapproved of the movement’s tactics. In a May 1961 Gallup survey, only 22% of Americans approved of what the Freedom Riders were doing, and 57% of Americans said that the “sit-ins at lunch counters, freedom buses, and other demonstrations by Negroes were hurting the Negro’s chances of being integrated in the South.” Just before the March on Washington, Gallup found only 23% of Americans had favorable opinions of the proposed civil rights demonstration.

> Lest we see this as Southerners skewing the national sample, in 1964—a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act—a New York Times poll found a majority (57%) of New Yorkers said the civil rights movement had gone too far. “While denying any deep-seated prejudice,” the Times reported, “a large number of those questioned used the same terms to express their feelings. They spoke of Negroes’ receiving ‘everything on a silver platter’ and ‘reverse discrimination’ against whites.” Fifty-four percent of those surveyed felt the movement was going “too fast.” Nearly half said that picketing and demonstrations hurt the Negro cause, and 80% opposed school pairings to promote school desegregation in New York City public schools.

"You're being divisive!" has long been the cry of the status quo. The arguments made against BLM and Defund - including the "it's communism!" stuff; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Little_R... - are very, very familiar.
I feel as though a comment similar to this appear on every Facebook-related topic. And don't get me wrong, you're absolutely right! I've also cut out Facebook from my life as much as I can and I'm happier for it.

But "everyone just needs to cut out that bad stuff!" doesn't really work on a societal scale. Not to sound hyperbolic but I do feel as though the social media era has caused widespread addiction to the dopamine hits these apps provide and I don't think everyone is going to stop doing it just because someone tells them it would be good for them to do it. IMO society is far better off for the concerted campaigns that were fought against smoking. Maybe something similar is needed here.
How Startups Grew by Platform Hacking
I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare the residential school system to the compulsory public school system. Yes, the standard school system is skewed towards a positive view of the state in North America (note Germany as a counter-example), but they're summer camps compared to the residential schools. You won't be beaten by a teacher for speaking Arabic if you're Afghan for example.
“If people didn’t see manipulative social media posts, they’d go back to believing our manipulative mass media broadcasts.”

There is really no way out of this. The age of information being dictated from a handful of corporations in New York is over.
I'm not a fan of multiline prompts but I do like knowing where I am, so I trim the path and prepend a "…" character.
What I believe parent is saying is that introverts would prefer a different venue for idea sharing than one where "whoever shouts loudest and fastest is heard." Which is very different from not speaking at all.

For example, something where folks ask "please post your papers and ideas to this shared document repository where they can each then be read by the team at whatever pace is required."

A collection of folks read the documents, write about which ideas they like, then make a decision based on the contents raised in said papers, all over text mediums.

Something like that is an alternative to a world where whoever speaks loudly fastest, and to the right people, has their idea taken seriously.
I think having an open, equal opportunity platform not policed by any specific vendor is a good thing. It could pave the way for a mobile OS like Mozilla envisioned with the discontinued Firefox OS. There is of course this massive influence of Google which could steer web innovation in the wrong direction.
I think your comment emphasises the importance of good function and variable naming. I've read some incredibly clear and obvious C code and some incredibly hard to understand Python code that both do the same thing - it basically all comes down to the naming choices used. `TAX_RATE_WY` would be far easier to understand and maintain (especially when seeing other state abbreviation suffixes nearby) and has the added benefit of using the same `TAX_RATE_` prefix for _all_ similar values so is much easier to pick up on when scanning through the code.

The science of reading and literacy would likely be a very valuable course to teach in CS programs.
It looks so much like a theme/skin from a linux distro to me. Can't put my finger on which.
Twitter itself is trying to move to a paid model with Twitter Blue. I'm looking forward to their experiment.

Unfortunately there's absolutely nothing left in Twitter that makes it Twitter anymore. People are writing 20-30 tweet long threads, which are basically a long blog article, but presented in an infuriating format.
next evolution of social media will be to embed it to politics. BigTech being part of the Democrat movement just means they will be replaced.
At a certain point, inability to hit a target becomes a safety issue.
Can't we just go back to Windows 7 UI and UX with modern Windows 10 feature and security enhancements?
Wow, wish I made 200x return!
Sorry for the not very constructive comment but it looks like ass. Like a B grade KDE theme.
Putting the start menu button in the middle of the panel rather than at a corner seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys more or just bad design?
"If the professors don't feel like coming to work" - As if we have much of a say in it! I would love to be back in the classroom. Online teaching is exhausting but we are forced to do it because of COVID regulations. I think blaming academics for the situation is completely unfair and disingenuous.
Question is - what is the fuss about? Everyone and their dog knows that Communism is a torturous system that can't exist without killing lots of people. I was born in the Soviet Union and i know it and everyone out of the couple billion people who lived in the Soviet bloc knows, there is no need to prove it time and again.

What is the value of these videos since we can't do anything with China anyway?
A few bad apples spoil the barrel, eh?

Twice now I've had drones flying over my house with the operators nowhere to be found. I wouldn't mind so much if I could find the operator and ask them not to fly over my house but I can't. That's the fundamental problem with drone: the asymmetry.
But if each node communicated within its 150ms sphere, and you place nodes 10ms (3,000 km?), could this serve as a mesh network?
That's not true, they have your private user data and you may not want them releasing that to the world.
The oil/plastic industry is one of the biggest.

People underestimate the enormous lobbying and marketing power that comes with that.