skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related:

"A URL Lengthener" https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156106 (1204 points | 4 months ago | 302 comments)

But don't confuse it with

"The World's Longest URL “Shortener”" http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511735 (45 points | March 28, 2019 | 32 comments)
Here's the quote from the report written by the Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?"

https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1442912550815821824
I'm assuming you're talking broadly about social justice types. I don't want to put words on anyone's mouth, but it seems to me there is some extreme group that is basically pranking everyone, intentionally escalating how silly their demands are, and people are to scared to push back, so they keep trying more outrageous things.

There was a South Park about it over 20 years ago (you may remember Lemmywinks)

I don't know what to do about it, but at the personal level you can just ignore it.
Social progress is the opposite of censorship; that about-face is what the article is about.
China is not going to nuke a carrier group sorry but that is insane. The second that happened say goodbye to entire world. There is reason we have boomer subs. One Ohio class sub could legitimately end the world.
How about just not going to Chernobyl rather than repurposing some old scuba and WW2 chemical defense gear into a hazmat suit?
Kernel threads have tons of switching overhead so state machines are still better. Get your compiler to compile clean imperative code into them :)

(okay, by "clean" I do mean littered with `.await`, but it's still structurally clean)
> What the heck?

1) This is stupid on AngelList's part to not say this upfront.

> It's a massive industry and legalized gambling is growing massively.

2) It also a heavily regulated industry and is at the state level. They offer a bank account so it's no surprise they just outright block it. Have you tried to get a bank account for your business outside of this process? It's not that easy.
Sorry about that - pricing is $12/month or $78 if paid annually. We're going to add it back to the site - it was on the old version of the account create page before we added the new survey and we legit didn't think about it.
> How long until the carnal content is algorithmically produced?

I'll go you one further,

how long until sexual function is algorithmically interpreted and expressed? We may reach the point when human sexual function is seen, or even institutionalized, as a useful zone of concern for e.g. meaningful productivity output toward larger goals.

It used to be that you'd watch movies (or work in a place, IRL) where the businessman would work all day and then head to the club. Instant exhaustion relief.

But today's work environments are merging with the club, which IMO has been a pretty nice idea and a good way to build on psychological feedback loops. Early in COVID there were lots of funny WFH videos where sensory home life merged with office life, as well.

And what is sexual interest--what is sexual interest and activity doing for us? Can we learn to constructively stimulate sexual levels of interest toward some species-level goal beyond simple reproduction?

_Algorithmically so_?

(IMO a huge portion of society will not allow itself to consciously access this zone of thought, let alone accept it. Not just for religious reasons, but for overriding preferences reasons. There are big, important things that are more important to them than sex. But sex is still vital to humans, and we can't let one group's preference push helpful things away just because they're not used to dealing with them)

(2. I could see something like a sexual captcha in a mildly-dystopian future. OK you want free access to a few hours of our service, so select those that most excite you, anonymous person? And instead of stoplights or boats or bicycles in this captcha, you get some REALLY amazing images. Some are wholly, overtly sexual. Others--uncomfortable but FASCINATING?! What...? Why...? Nobody really knows; the algorithm is just algorithming, but here is an energy source, is nobody really expected to tap into it?)

Anyway thoughtful post, appreciated
If you setup a free cloudflare proxy fronting your B2 bucket, then download from that, the egress from B2 is free because it's going to cloudflare and the egress from cloudflare is free because they don't charge for it.
If that was a classified plane, do you really think they would be moving it around in broad daylight without being covered?!?!
The random inclusion of heroin addiction, while interesting, seems out of place. Aside from it not being a sport, how do you compare it to, say, Grand Prix? One injection = one race?
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I really don't like the popular concept in the Gemini project of conflating that developer-centric software is somehow _less evil_ than tech megacorps. Software can be user-hostile and be written by individuals, coops, collectives, or corporations. Software can be user-friendly and be written by individuals, coops, collectives, or corporations. Being anti-megacorp doesn't make your software friendly to use or more effective, nor does being pro-megacorp. Gemini is developer-centric and user-hostile while also being written by non-megacorp developers. That's all. Let's stop trying to use "anti-megacorp" to promote software that is developer-centric and user-hostile, when it is simply just developer-centric and user-hostile.

The proof is in the pudding. Most posts on Gemini are all about how awesome Gemini is and ascetic meditations on digital minimalism. Essentially, it's the bouncer at the "plain text cool kids club". I think many of us have an interest in creating non-megacorp-friendly software but the "plain text cool kids club" isn't it.

EDIT: This post has swung wildly in score so there's obviously some interesting thoughts happening here :D
> can’t do this anymore. I was at my wits’ end. I felt like I was going to lose it at any point. Not that I was going to kill myself, but that I was going to be put in a rubber room.

Sometimes I think one of the downsides of remote work is that you can push people until you literally drive them insane while being too far away for them to murder your ass.

Not to say he should have killed his boss, but most of us have a social awareness that kicks in and says "maybe I shouldn't be a massive douche canoe to this desperate person while in striking distance".
“Use a friggin tripod.”
Nobody except Japan maybe UK and Australia is likely to do anything.

US itself is likely to turn tail and run if attack in not nuclear. Nuclear attack might inject some spine into response.
Growing paychecks doesn't mean anything if the cost of things you want and need is growing faster.
> Given that Cloudflare's costs are probably lower than Backblaze for bandwidth, that doesn't seem so unreasonable - but I could be very wrong.

At scale, bandwidth capacity purchases are symmetric - you buy the same amount up as you do down. As a provider of DDOS protection services, Cloudflare has to maintain a huge amount of ingress capacity - meaning they have a ton of egress capacity sitting unused.
and then your filter has a few false positives and you get cancelled as people claim you're anti <fill-in-the-blank>
"We find that most users do not read the article that they vote on, and that, in total, 73% of posts were rated (ie, upvoted or downvoted) without first viewing the content."

My goodness I hope that HN is different in this respect, but perhaps I am just engaged in wishful thinking here.
Thanks for sticking with us! We've just hired someone to help with our Windows app who loves linux, so look for improvements to both of those in the future. Right now we're very focused on new features for our new version. Which you won't be able to try unless you migrate your account. You can do that from here http://www.rescuetime.com/new_rescuetime
(but please note that it's quite a bit different - although you can see your old dashboard after you migrate by going to /dashboard)
Well, ‘a lot’ is relative… But yes, I agree with you.
I’ve had a pretty great experience with Clerky
> the northeast and midwest get really bad snowstorms

I’m curious what the supposed issues around snowstorms are. In the Midwest at least you typically lose a day of “work” (not going into the office) a couple times per winter and that’s only because of school closures. The roads are rarely an issue for more than a couple hours unless it’s REALLY bad storm.

I don’t see why you couldn’t keep running the fabs through that.
What's "real consumption"? I'm getting 1tb egress / day on a $20/mo plan.
Sure, most side projects could be hosted for $5 month (for a VM) + $10 a year (for the domain). Total cost about $70 a year.

However it is clear that a lot of people build on more complicated tech stacks or use cloud services that become expensive once the free tier is used up.
Yeah, it's not accurate. My house has zero Tmobile signal. Lake Nona FL I remember also being completely devoid of signal. Both show as pink shaded on the map.
> Nothing is stopping it from using your camera, without your knowledge

The app needs to be open and in the foreground for it to take photos. On Android at least.
> at the personal level you can just ignore it

But ignoring it gets you canceled.
For either the Windows or mac desktop apps, are they built with native APIs or are they electron/webviews? Now that I run a stupid amount of electron-based apps, for better or worse, my systems are starting to choke. This goes especially for my Windows machine with only 8gb of ram, I can almost literally not multitask.
Most people do not know the technical details of airplane autopilot systems, because they are not technical nor are they pilots. Colloquially, autopilot means fully autonomous to most people.

Tesla's marketing[1] is clear about what they mean when they say "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving":

> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

It's been up on Tesla's site for 5 years now.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
Using the figures on the ourworldindata page, not many more than with nuclear. Nuclear, hydro, wind and PV all have fatality rates two orders of magnitude below fossil fuels' (per TWh generated).

Renewables are about three times as safe on the evidence - the difference between one fatality every 14 years vs 1 every 50-odd years, compared to tens every year for fossils (again, per TWh each year).
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If I've got a dozen projects and most of them get virtually-zero traffic, I'm gonna start shutting some down.
Years are calendar years, not calendar hours.
Was just about to post this myself! What a great series.
The USDA says Arizona cotton farmers make 1,138lbs/acre/year (sorry world, not converting units this time). There are 165,500 acres growing cotton in Arizona, so the 500 we stop to get water for Intel is negligible.

So we are talking about agriculture forgoing 569,000 lbs of cotton per year. Farmers get about $0.60/lb for cotton. The impact on the agricultural industry is $341,000/year.

Buy out the worst cotton farmer in the state. Take his water. Move on.
It was better decades ago when I was a student. We were all white middle- or high-income straight white Judeo-Christian (mostly) able-bodied men. There was absolutely no pressure to conform.
Netflix buys entire catalog Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl
https://github.com/shroudedcode/apk-mitm

Removes certificate pinning from apk files for mitm inspection.
That’s good to know. I was tracking iPad specific keyboard bugs in code-server most of last summer. Not being able to use ⌘-z or ⌘-c was a bit of an issue... Now, if that's working again, I’ll have to check it out. I was really trying to replicate my dev environment on an iPad w/o using screen sharing/VNC.
People never forgive you for telling the truth. Those are some salty "I wish they were wrong" downvotes.
I like your thinking.

I am dubious about the last line regarding maintenance making it into reality though.

Given current track records on "planned obsolescence", "right to repair" and McDonalds issues with their frozen machines I suspect such maintenance will be the new "subscription".
Yes, this apology is made every time people criticize Tesla’s term. But I think it’s misleading nonetheless—what really matters is a layperson’s interpretation of the term, particularly when it comes to something as dangerous as “Autopilot.”
This is simple game theory, when some professors do science and other professors do politics the professors who do politics will win and push the others out. Ultimately we will end up with mostly professors doing politics except in the fields where facts are hard enough to resist opinions (ie hard fields).
This seems short-sighted to me. In my fiction, in 10-20-30yrs we'll all have eye implants ala Black Mirror and we'll be so dependent on them that telling people they have to turn them off will be untenable.

Anytime I see "no photography" signs I can't help but think "living in the past". For example the immigration line in nearly every Airport says "no photos" and yet everyone in line is on their portable camera, um, I mean smartphone. It's like the people that wrote the sign are stuck in the 1970s and haven't bothered to look up at what people around them are actually doing.

It's the same in museums, sometimes there's an area "no photography allowed" and you can see them trying and utterly failing to enforce what is effectively unenforcable. If there are only a few patrons and they have a guard in every room they might stop 80%. But on a crowded day I doubt they catch 30%. It's ridiculous to see them try.
An alarming aspect of this lack of intellectual diversity, for me, is how academia has become a major (if not the major) platform for discussion of issues relating to racial and religious minorities. Being an Asian from a Muslim country, I've been quite surprised to see how often college professors are brought onto, e.g., news programs to weigh in on issues affecting those groups. (E.g. after the Atlanta message spa shootings.)

That makes sense that people would look to academia to learn about unfamiliar minority groups. But as a result, the discourse about and within those groups is heavily distorted by the intellectual homogeneity of academia. Because, of course, you can't get tenure as a professor of Islamic Studies at an Ivy League University espousing beliefs that virtually all Muslims worldwide hold.
They ate all of my cherries this year. Last year I had a good collection, but they seem to have multiplied.
> Why do you need multiple per department?

To employ their friends who graduated with a humanities degree but couldn't find work.
Facebook makes it difficult, but this where the question of "who's your adversary?" comes in. It's one thing to have to change user agent away from curl and rate limit, but when you're a nation-state and can afford to pay teams of people to do nothing else but collect information on your adversaries (in this case, the US military), having an actual person (so the traffic looks organic - because it is) who's full time job it is to just refresh that one Facebook group (never mind actually automating it), paying for a US Visa, a house, an ISP, all of their food needs. Against that level of advarsary (never mind trying to get your spies hired at Facebook as senior engineers), what sort of countermeasures do you imagine is possible by Facebook?
Well I totally want to read your blog, or book, or see you YouTube channel!
Yes! It was actually the lady's former supervisor who tested my dishes back then. She's since moved on, but the new lady told me that neither her boss nor anyone else in the health department had thought to look at dishes. I remember her being shocked and somewhat confused when she saw the XRF reading, and when the swab turned bright red she said, "oh my".

I felt like I was going to throw up, knowing that I'd been feeding my kids off those dishes for years. I've had to really work at putting that burden down and moving on. I never had my kids blood tested, and they seem fine, but I've love it if my experience helps someone else avoid the danger.
How do fintech cash flows work?
It’s a webview that runs a super small HTML page with vanilla Javascript. (No electron!) We looked and it’s not noticeably larger of a runtime footprint as the old version.
Sandwich Data Science 2: Electric Boogaloo
Imagine caring, and keeping a link to your real life and online personas enough to cause real life consequences.
> What kind of a dirtbag unloads the side effects (all of which he's responsible for) of his dying wife's situation directly onto her?

Go to hell. What kind of dirtbag stops confiding in their spouse during a crisis?
Electric Cars Have Hit an Inflection Point
This doesn't seem that crazy to me? I think Facebook is probably bad for these kids, but obviously that's not going to be facebooks perspective, and of course they are going to want to go after target demographics they don't have.
The problem with nuclear is tail risk. This is like showing us how great the financials of Leman Bros. is circa 2007. Okay, cool, I guess, but?…
Grab a Gamo .177 pellet rifle. Enjoy a cup of coffee while you pick the squirrels off one by one.
How is this surprising or offensive? Granted, minors are on the internet. This has been true for decades now. They are segments of the audience. FB is going to last until these kids are adults.

Everyone knows that FB has some utility as long as it remains at a minimum popularity. As it's obvious that these audience segments age out (eg AOL's audience) ofc there is a compelling reason to strategize on how to stave that off.

Why not have documentation about how children are NOT using FB? Seems as utterly innocuous to me as the fast food chain studies or EA/Blizzard looking for why people don't like Heroes of the Storm.
That honestly sounds miserable, I'm amazed people go out of their way to get their Daily Hate.
How certain are you that TikTok only gathers data of any kind when you, the user, ask it to?
I had the same problem with my garage door opener. Tried shading the sensor but it still didn't work reliably. Finally replaced both the sensor and transmitter and it has been good ever since. My theory is that the lens got dirty or scratched over the years and was picking up stray light from odd angles.
Why are radar signature tests made in the open (not a tunnel)? And if you need it in the open, why don't you fly it?
Apply AI to natural language for actionable insights
Pangeanic speeds up and enhances document translation services to extract meaning from large amounts of data.
Who is disputing that you shouldn't share secret information on social networks? TikTok's ties still changes the potential impact of this breach. That's relevant information that gives context to the basic facts of the case that we usually call "the news".
Err.. that’d be 1088. Saracenic education in 1988 would’ve been quite something, I’ll wager!
> Maybe these are the wrong questions. Maybe Apple can find and solve another huge problem

For tech business right now IMO the huge problem is "staying power" and Cook has some of the best natural tools for staying. Anything that needs to stay, economically speaking, put a Cook or a Bezos in charge of it.

This leads to a problem with wealth stockpiles but if you want to make long bets with your economy, you do that on the backs of the leaders who naturally stabilize and establish businesses to last millennia. Looking for dazzling new tech from these quarters is (again IMO) looking for the wrong way to be impressed by what they can do.

Spitballing, I'd guess that the next true Apple-type company in terms of revolutionary presence in a revolutionary industry will come around in about 50 years.
That's not true. There is no content on Tik Tok that gives me positive vibes.
I can kind of see what you mean, but if you make branches do more then it's also quite possible the common actions become more tedious to factor into common code. And I don't think it's good practice to read control statements like that (obviously indented loops can't be assumed optional either).

int pow2(int v, int pow)
{
int result;

if (pow >= 0)
result = v << pow;
else
result = v >> -pow;

return result;
}

Looking at this, both sides of the if/else perform a multiply by 2^pow, you can't take the operation to possibly not happen.

So I agree factoring common operations can be a good thing, but I think it's really a case by case basis and my code is fine.

I would also caution against assuming something may not happen elsewhere in a function just because you see it inside a conditional block. This happens frequently to various degrees and I've never encountered a style policy preventing it or any compiler or linter warnings for it.
Toyota boss says carbon is the enemy, not the internal combustion engine
But nothing is without tail risk. The more CO2 we release, the more we throw the climate out of its historical equilibrium and risk triggering positive feedback loops that will make the planet permanently much harder for billions of people to inhabit.

Renewables are preferable for new energy development, but turning off existing nuclear plants is not good for the planet's future IMO.
I found the Ansible playbook [1] on GitHub extremely easy to use. As long as you know how to configure DNS records and firewalls, the rest is taken care of. This is what I use today to manage my Synapse server.

Also Oracle Cloud offers free ARM instances with 4 CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM, more than enough to run a very speedy Synapse server.

[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
I worked at a place where we used one of Steve Ciarcias circuits - the 8052-AH Basic module and used it as a security controller. We took the circuit as it was in the magazine, and built it and added some optocouplers and it worked, it was unique. Upon thought, I think we also used an 8051 microcontroller circuit as well.
This makes a lot of sense if you're the kind of person who lives under a bridge and terrorizes goats.
>Haven't universities been like this for ages?

I can honestly say that when I went to college people were essentially apolitical. I don't remember anything you might view as a campus protest and the biggest fuss on the main mall were students arguing with a rather obnoxious Pentecostal preacher who showed up every year.

(in case you all aren't familiar with him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Jed )
That is what they want to believe, but it is mostly not true. Even at Google they made it look like it was the case, I worked there during the Damore debacle. But tons of Engineers went against the grain and weren't cancelled, instead after that I noticed that Google started cracking down on the worst SJW types at Google and firing them. It didn't benefit Google to have these SJW types running the show when by far the most common view at the company was pro meritocracy, SJW makes a lot of noise making it seem like they have a lot of power but they only have that power if leaders believe SJW have power. When leaders calls the bluff nothing happens, the company doesn't get attacked etc, things just peter out.
I like the figures in this paper. Does anyone know how they are made? Raw TikZ, or is a template available?
Has the belief that these platforms are survivable ever been tested in a meaningful scenario (ie, a conflict between two carrier-group-capable adversaries)? I get that the Navy does a lot of stuff to mitigate this threat, but it's a hell of a threat to mitigate.