skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they've historically been doing a pretty good job? Because most Twitter users really like Twitter's moderation? Competitors are already growing at breakneck pace and we just haven't seen it come through into conventional wisdom?

How am I meant to know I'm not an oracle. But displaying tweets is literally the easiest thing that is done on the modern web after displaying a small static site. There is absolutely no libertarian argument that everyone deserves to have their tweet put up with a "Twitter" logo next to it. There is no need at all for regulation here.

You can argue that forcing Twitter to host tweets is a good idea, but that is going to be damn tricky to square with libertarianism. If this market is an example of high barriers to entry then there is no such thing as low barriers to entry. I could probably put up a mastodon instance over a weekend, all the technical work has already been done.
The 300mm refers to the wafer size AFAIK
Oh, did Apple not have any global IM at all before Covid?

This is startling to me. I haven't had a job without Slack or an essentially-equivalent predecessor (Hipchat) in over eight years.
> It's always a tiny minority of activists organizing on slack who are causing a lot of the unrest in tech companies.

This is a common talking point to marginalize political activity in any situation: 'It's just a tiny minority agitating', etc. In every situation, a tiny minority appeals to the majority and sometimes it convinces them. (If a majority of Americans ever protested something, that would be over 160 million people in the streets. Just think of the logistics of food, water, and waste ... cellular data bandwidth ... Twitter, Facebook and Instagram load ...)

That's how change happens; we try to persuade each other. People who are more involved, motivated, skilled, available, etc. do more of the work. If there was an environmental problem in SF Bay, the people who have the knowledge and expertise about the issue, and the communication skills, would inform and try to persuade everyone else. I'm not going to investigate it myself.
The downvotes are unfair for an extremely good question.

(I used to ask questions along this line when interviewing candidates.)

Exceptions are used to communicate an unexpected error. Specifically, an error that the caller doesn't expect to handle during normal operations of the program. These errors can range from unusual situations like a network failure, to even more perverse situations like true bugs in the program.

The example I discussed with job candidates was implementing a database access function called GetUserById. (In C#, pre compiler enforced null checking.) I would ask if the function should return null or throw an exception when there was no user with that ID.

What followed, (with the candidates who passed,) was a discussion about the trade-offs of returning null versus throwing an exception. Null allows the caller to know that there was no user with that ID without the overhead of the exception. But, returning null increases the risk of a NullReferenceException. This is risky, because it's harder to debug then a strongly typed exception with a useful error message. Thus, the "right" approach depended on if it was anticipated that someone calling GetUserById expected the user ID to always be for a valid user.

When there was time, we'd even get into the TryGet pattern that the .Net dictionaries use.

(By the way, now it's a good time to check out how Rust's enum type is used with error handling. It's really slick with no overhead.)
Got it, the name is confusing.
Google, Palantir, FireEye, probably a bunch more...What sort of conclusion should we draw from that?
god no, I want the opposite, turn some of my email into an RSS feed.
10x dilution seems super high to me, even with 845m in funding.
> I wonder how people deal with this.

they don't, and just stick their head in the sand. I know i do!
The pandemic is still going on in plenty of countries other than the US.

Trying to blame a global phenomenon on the politics of one country with less than 5% of the world’s population is extremely parochial.
You can simply click Compare, then pick the other country.

> Unemployment, energy shortage, lack of future perspectives.

Have you been in Russia outside of >500k cities? Even Tver, one of the oldest and most famous, is going precisely nowhere.
Actually the version that's in the App Store does support alternate control servers. It just needs to be configured via MDM configuration (https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/mdm-overview-mdmbf9e668/...).

That's how our larger on-prem customers use the iOS client when they run their own in-house control plane server.
It’s not the same, but majes me remember a question: im really ugly and with an ugly body by magazine standards. If i want to model, but they dont hire me because im not tall enough or good looking, is it discrimination?
By definition, that’s impossible. Can you describe it more throughly?
I completely agree. Trump is the true honest American soul distilled into a single persona. Exposing all of the underlying hate, racism, narcissism etc. that most of public Americans refuse to acknowledge. I never thought that wasn’t obvious?
I've really liked nebula and have been working on a web frontend. Basically define a network and nodes and it uses nebula to generate certificates and has scripts for installing.

https://github.com/symkat/MeshMage
Some discussion in the Tailscale docs here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic/
You mean like India and their hundreds of thousands of cured people?
This deal was initiated during the trump administration.
I have a writing blog.

https://www.dyingtowrite.com/
No company in NL pays FAANG salaries. My former coworker‘s rate as external consultant is around €120/h.
Right. So you prefer getting your life saving brain surgery done by a random person picked off the street instead of a trained brain surgeon who have successfully performed life saving brain surgery for 20+ years? Really?
Was with this author right up until it became another pitch for NFT's.

"NFTs allow us to give value to the things we own so they aren't just data floating around on servers somewhere"

I'm skeptical:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-degraded-blockchain-prob...
Rolls Royce’s All Electric Plane Completes Its First Flight
Is it possible to tag images?

I have images that can change occasionally and when I upload an image I want to find and delete the previous version so I don't end up with many variations.
> I would ask if the function should return null or throw an exception when there was no user with that ID.

My answer would be “neither”. Both of these options are bad. Null is maybe less bad because it at least roughly approximates the algebraic type that accurately represents the image of the function. Ideally you would return some type like Optional<User>. I suspect this is what you’re referring to with the Rust reference.

A slightly more generalized version of this is to use the Either/Result monad, which can nicely handle multiple types of exceptional behavior at once.
That is still provided by error values or error types. The defining feature of exceptions is that they provide a secondary control flow path, and that control flow path automatically flows up the stack until it reaches an explicit catch.

With error values/types, control flow happens normally, and the programmer is expected to explicitly branch on the the value using normal control flow constructs.
Just watch out for that head gasket problem!
> That’s something that the public would do. It’s not up to the corporations.

Corporations consist of people.
> I even pitched who the new VP should be, a charismatic domain expert

So you’re a developer AND you’re nominating executives? Something about this story or the author stinks.
Vaccinated spread covid at a MUCH lower rate. I'll take a vaccine every day if there's even a small chance that my action can spare the life of a stranger. It's not a big deal.

I'll give my kids the shot the moment FDA approves the 5 to 12 year range. I'll also give them the booster if the FDA approves. They need to be kids and play with friends without worrying. People like you who spread FUD are the reason we can't beat this nonsense.
I mean, yeah, it's weird, but it makes sense if the 2nd noun is anything that isn't an OS.

Windows Subsystem for Audio,
Windows Subsystem for Filesystems,
etc
Justin Trudeau has been in power for 6 years and now he finally wants to address a problem that contributes to a percentage as large as 4% of the real estate market. This man will seriously say whatever feel good crap people wanna hear but don’t actually address problems just to hold onto power.

And yet the amount of support he somehow still has in Canada makes me feel reassured it was a good decision to leave, people in this country will vote for whoever’s most woke even if their actions tell the exact opposite of what they said they stand for.
Yes, I think you are misunderstanding.
This looks like an amazing tool for prototyping or a hackathon, but I struggle to see how I might use it to deploy to "production" as is mentioned in the post. What stuck out to me was that any time we made a somewhat-large change to the UI, all of our previously "saved" data just disappeared. It feels like alot of the magic of the syncing to the db is relying on the ID's derived from specifics of the UI fields. I've found that even with full control of the framework, data migrations like these can be tricky -- I would be interested in seeing some more detail on this in the demo. Otherwise the set of things I could see myself using this for is very limited and certainly does not reach "production-ready", unless I intend never to touch the code again.
Does this qualify as a civilian program?

https://www.ansto.gov.au/research/facilities/opal-multi-purp...
GM currently tracks 100+ variables of your car over the life of usage (thanks on star!) and then calculates a resale price and offers to buy it back or gives you a certain deal when trading in.

Ford does something similar but is easily defeated by changing the stereo. The APIM tracks your driving habits locations and ecu vars which is captured and uploaded to Ford when you take the car in for service (don’t know how this works in their newer 2019+ cars since they are also connected 24/7 like GM)
> Suicide

Have you seen motorbikes?

You can tell me that’s not as safe as a full car, but 80km/h is very much reasonable.

Nobody wants to drive at 30km/h, or else you’d see a lot more golf carts on the road.
> then give you a completely different car than the one you thought you were buying

Like the Wagon Queen Family Truckster? Damn fine automobile, beats the hell out of the sports wagon.
I don't believe for a minute that it's pretty much impossible for 1 in 5 people to have a job.
This would be a less bitter pill to swallow if other EU countries made their nato spending commitments (it's only France).

Honestly putting UK as an adversary to the EU is ridiculous. We are all allies. There should be no eschewing.
What an odd time to worry about creative work drying up. Artists and 'creators' are becoming absurdly wealthy nowadays with every imaginable way to monetize content. YT pays ~$5/1k views, twitch, NFTs, substack, insta, affliations, etc. The barriers to being a creator now are so low that anyone can do it as a hobby, which is fantastic. The author is pining for the very systems that already exist.
These shadow IT attempts surface all the time through a vaguely competent SecOps’ team daily work, especially insider threat. Gets bragged about or picked up via MDM or DNS queries. So ya in this case the rule comes with easy enforcement.
One of my contrarian opinions (judging from the number of comments here) is that it is best to avoid posting controversial contrarian opinions on social media, including HN, in response to a question (e.g. Ask HN) especially if the OP asking the question is not a well established user. The OP could be a troll or maybe employed by a government looking for people that should be surveilled.

To be honest though, it is thought provoking to skim though all of these out of the ordinary ideas and responses.
US Department of Defense isn't auditable. I'd say about 75% is the answer to the question.
There are many ways to search one's history on ycombinator - here's one:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AnIdiotOnTheNet+site%3Anews.ycombi...
I wonder if the cat and mouse game of seo is being played out again in “algorithm land” and content creators have learned how to optimize their own content for promotion. I usually blame just the algorithm but maybe i’ve been oversimplifying a larger problem.
Hahaha your comment made me laugh out loud. Perfect :)
> I also feel like we can "blame" Github here, since it (and a few other sites/projects like it) have become the de facto place to host source code and collaboration tools. (Whereas in the past it would have been an FTP/HTTP site and a mailing list.)

Honestly, SourceForge did it first. GitHub just picked off where SF left off.
> If this continues, the US will simply have less allies.

I’m not so sure. We’re in a two super power world now with China being a threat to almost every Western country. Which countries do you think would risk losing support from US intelligence and military in this climate?

The EU just might have to put up with some of America’s BS if you want us to keep China in check when they come after your interests.
I don't trust any studies in psychology, especially social psychology.
https://www.gleech.org/psych
I'll be honest, I couldn't understand exactly what was being proposed there. What exactly does the author want to do?
Most electric cars still have a gear box with gear oil lubricating it. They're usually fixed gear ratios so the wear and tear is much lower (not sliding gears around but on cars it's not normally the motors directly connected to the wheels.
Thats a very expensive opportunity, id rather just argue with people online
700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art
My 2014 Ford is now selling for the same price I bought it for. I have only put 10k miles on it in the last 4 years. Tempted to sell it and wait for the recovery and pickup a new car at bargain basement prices
of course it veers right into a crypto pitch but to ignore that for a second, I don't think we have a lack of art when it comes to the sheer quantity of it. I don't think we have lived in an era with more mediocre creative expression, or cheaper means to do it.

I'd very much be in favor of targeted funding of the arts, in particular in communities that lack access to public art. Reinvest in our museums and libraries in places that have turned into deserts.

I can already see the comments about elitism and how someone selling his meme collection for 50 million dollars on a blockchain is super valuable for society but I don't buy it. Rather than making more stuff, which nobody can consume anyway at this point given that the day only has 24 hours, I'd be in favour of rebuilding some infrastructure to give people access to some of the best art that is underappreciated.
>> Establishing an ecosystem of venture based funding for artists in the same way we fund startups.

Pretty surprising proposal coming from an artist. I mean, won’t the same failures of venture apply - pushing for bigger returns and less niche products (works of art)? How long until all the VCs are chasing the next Damien Hirst instead of supporting diverse and interesting creators who simply make work that will never resonate with critics or get a billion views on YouTube.
Modern finance comes with so many strings attached, this is the only outcome you will ever see. The American financial system is now more about surveillance and filtering than it is about facilitating economic activity. This tends to centralization and rent seekers. You will run into this with any account offering institution legally moving money.
I just had a look out of curiosity, and can 1000% recommend everyone go take 5 minutes.

Also, I was extremely happy to see the Web Archive backed up the Picasaweb album view, *and* the larger view pages, *and* the comments, so you can actually still go see: https://web.archive.org/web/20110411035819/https://picasaweb...

Also, I discovered to my surprise that the Download links still work - in the literal, upstream, sense. You can strip off the Web Archive prefix, request the direct image links from Google, and they promptly download (because of "content-disposition: attachment"). How interesting (at the very least), lol.

Thanks very much for the reference.
That and you can still transmit covid when vaccinated so it's kind of part of the problem to go jetsetting around the globe spreading virus to less fortunate populations.
My point is: you can easily install software in Docker using apt-get

You cannot easily install software in Docker using snaps.

This makes snaps less useful on servers than traditional apt-get.
Let artists sell art using NFT to do away with the middleman and make money via digital sales directly without a 'platform' that takes a commission.

It's a stupid idea for all the well documented reasons NFTs are, but the idea of direct digital sales of art without middleman platforms may have some merit I guess.
Even if it isn’t a legacy project, sometimes you just so happen to have a natural composite key on a table and don’t want to assign a separate single column primary key just to satisfy your ORM.
Tutanota here as well.
Terry Wallace was amenable to a direct connection in town, but the determination of whether fiber losses were excessive was left to that now-Lumen contractor, and somehow, yes those losses just didn't come up to snuff. It might have been a problem for 10 gig, but we were only trying to set up 1 gig, and the county was planning to tear down the "annex" near the Smith's gas station and destroy the route for the fiber anyway. Which the county did.
Yeah, people too often say things like "there's no gaskets" or "there's no gears or oil". There are gaskets, there are usually gears, there is usually a lubricant oil in the gearbox. But the temps and pressures on the cooling systems are much lower, the gearboxes are fixed gear ratios, and there's no waste carbons in the oil dirtying it. So the service intervals of all of these are much longer than any regular ICE vehicle.
You're wildin my dude. Every thing you listed exists to leech value from creatives by selling an extremely peaky reward distribution as linear. But especially NFTs holy heck, that's entirely a vehicle for money laundring and speculation, the artists are just around to give the illusion of legitimacy.
It still basically follows power law distribution. Most are not getting wealthy, only the top 1%. Top 10% maybe make a living.
I feel like dirt is going to completely defeat the whiteness improvement on this within a matter of days.
This is also great, but I personally like more subtle and emotional rendition of Alicia de Larrocha / André Previn.
In classical music performances the ultimate mastery is in the subtle differences, but as rule of thumb more emotional and human performances combined with clarity and precision are always better.
I know for a fact that a sizable portion (if not a majority) of far-right content gets heavily downranked (and in many cases filtered completely from) in the algorithm as "low quality content".

The problem is that the right is much better at producing flashy, low-attention/low-commitment content - the kinds of things that excel in the metrics the algorithm would naively optimize for. Case in point, the lectures you watch are nearly the exact opposite of that popular, easily-digestible content.
(E.g. one where there was flooding from his list)
> lack of historical awareness to imagine that gun ownership in private hands will be default mobilized "against tyranny"

Why is it so hard to believe? You really think the military would drop bombs on cities and destroy infrastructure just to control the populace?

The nature of tyranny is about instilling fear in the populace in order to control them. If you destroy your own cities it defeats the purpose of being in power as a dictator.

The end goal is CONTROL, and you cannot control an armed populace. There aren't enough police and military to take on a city where a good portion of the people are armed. There are millions upon millions of armed civilians, and even the military wouldn't stand a chance. Not to mention that in history, taking guns away is exactly what dictatorships have done.
I'm confused about the suggestion of VC investment into artists. One of the big issues with VC funding is that the pressure an investor can put on a company's direction, pacing, growth, product vision, etc. Wouldn't that be just as bad, if not worse, regarding VC investment in individual artists?
You're not wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(band)
>This appears to be the slippery slope of freedom of speech we spoke about when people on Twitter were clapping when various people got banned. Enjoy the bed you made for yourselves.

I don't know which people you are talking about specifically or who was clapping, but the slippery slope also goes the other way -- when moderators are afraid to ban people for potentially abusive language then it's very easy for the discourse to start slipping and become toxic. Even if you disagree with twitter's stance, please do your part to ensure that doesn't happen, we all deserve a place where we can be treated respectfully and have intellectually stimulating conversations.

>Something you say jokingly today is almost guaranteed to get you banned in 10 years time when political feelings change and context is removed.

I don't understand what the issue is here, if this is talking about twitter, you can just delete an old tweet if it's upsetting people later. The article even shows how twitter has a process to let you delete the tweet and restore your account.
If we confirm that the copies are ‘perfect’ (which is implied when we think about teleportation), then every entity has every right to consider themself ‘the original’, and at t=t0 they are indeed by definition indistinguishable. They all have a self, but of course it has to be separate from the original. The only alternatives are that they develop no self, then by definition they are not proper copies, or they would all share a single mind which makes no sense whatsoever.

If I install the same piece of software on ten identical computers, they will all think they’re the same, because they have the same serial number, hash, etc. but obviously they’re different instances.

I see that accepting this could be problematic if you think you need some divine spark (how are twins reconciled? They’re one individual split in two, after conception). However, I still don’t see a paradox.
Do they supply standard audio demos (mp3, et al)? I see demos, but they all require installing the software first. It would make sense to give demos people can hear before deciding to install the software, but I don't see any.
Here’s the Wikipedia article about the experiment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

And the controversy:

> Controversy exists over the implications of the experiment. Psychologist Jonathan Freedman's experiment recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness, and general unpleasantness. He declared to have found no appreciable negative effects in 1975. Researchers argued that "Calhoun's work was not simply about density in a physical sense, as number of individuals-per-square-unit-area, but was about degrees of social interaction."
NYT on a big tech company, in 2021, is not a trustworthy source. Deserves healthy skepticism and extra scrutiny.