skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never met my grandfather who died in the late 1980s, but I'm told that US government scientists approached my family and asked if they would donate his body to science. His body would be an interesting study for them because he had survived the nuclear blast in Hiroshima.

He and other WW2 POWs were made by the Japanese to mine coal, and when the mine had to be evacuated due to a supposed earthquake, they ran out of the mine and we're greeted by a mushroom cloud and destruction. The Japanese had the POWs assist with some cleanup, much of which added to the horrific memories he had that contributed to his long-lasting PTSD. It was a long journey between being a Dutch POW In Japan and immigrating to the USA. Shortly after, a lung had to be removed because coal mining had blackened it. As he got older, he complained a lot about body pains. After his time came and the scientists did their autopsy, they returned his head (now buried in Ft. Lauderdale) and relayed to us that his bones were all slightly curved and blue-tinted. One has to wonder if that was somehow related to the mysterious body pains. Exposure to nuclear radiation as an extraordinary life event seems like a contributing factor for an extraordinary biological result.

As for hair, he didn't have any. It could be related to his mixed Dutch-Indonesian genes that included phenotypes from some Indonesian island where people have minimal body hair, even eyebrows and eyelashes. May also be related to the radiation exposure - I'll never know for sure. I wonder if it would be blue-tinted like his bones were.

Back in 1997, there was a nuclear accident near Novogrod. Probably not related though.

Alternatively, it might be methemoglobinemia. It's known to turn skin blue in humans, although hair seems to stay normal. Chemicals and genetic mutations are known causes. Example: https://historycollection.com/the-fugate-family-of-kentucky-...
http://ham.seas.harvard.edu/upload/papers/2021/brain,%20copy...
Facebook is not ohnoing anything here. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if their algorithm boosts posts encouraging this kind of low-effort engagement.
Ask HN: Why did Dropbox fail to dominate the market?
The worst part is that you're effectively not allowed to have any sort of objective discussion, as evidenced by my immediate negative comment score. This has become a borderline religious hysteria.
So, there’s a network of popular accounts that are posting questions and harvesting the comments to psychologically analyse Facebook users and later politically target them and their social networks with disinformation that’s tailored to their psychological grouping? That’s what I gleamed.
I do ~15 km in ~31 minutes on an ebike. About ~1/3rd of the time is spent sitting at stoplights, as measured by Strava (18 minutes moving time, 31 minutes total time).
My guess: on FB, it steers your post to your friends, so you aren't talking to the 1.4M so much as chatting with your friends about a meme that 1.4M people are also chatting with their friends about.

Just a guess, though. I don't actually FB.
5 minutes, huh?

In the 90s, I found a bosses address in the yellow pages in seconds, then called him at home on a Sunday, to chat the end of a football game.

Now I hate my boss and love random folks online.

Weird.
I hear React is planning a version 3, and you might go from zero to a full Jira page in less than 7 seconds (assuming you are not logged in).
I have little faith after watching post 9/11 America. Not sure - maybe it started with my generation (gen x) but freedom just seems to not have the same meaning. Probably because from the boomers on no one really has had the alternative to compare/contrast with. We were born into a country that had it way too good.

For one thing - my grandparents generation never would have stood for the wholesale transfer and consolidation of wealth from small to big business that happened during this "pandemic".

Anyone who thinks masks, boosters or any other idiotic "solution" are going to lead back to "normalcy" are deluding themselves. Every goal post has moved (six weeks to flatten the curve?!?), they continue to move, and yet the majority of fattened cattle seem content to graze on...
Kids need social networks, but they need them IRL.

Instagram and Facebook are a scourge.
Ask HN: Retaking Failed Technical Interviews
About a month ago, I went through a round of interviews at both Apple and Microsoft. I received very positive feedback on my background and experience, but ultimately failed the technical interviews.

Since then, I’ve studied and “grinded” LeetCode obsessively and feel confident that I would pass most technical interviews.

Can I email the recruiters from those failed interviews, asking to be reinterviewed for similar positions now that I’m more prepared?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placing_notes_in_the_Western_W...
A quick point I’d make is that it may not be a mistake (from facebooks perspective) to allow others to exploit a given system as long as they’re gaining enough value from it to outweigh that. If whatever is being exploited doubles how much they can charge for ads, they might accept some of their data being stolen until they could find a way to have their cake and eat it too.
New Ad Tech ecosystem on the blockchain
They are only posting the domain in my tests.
constructive feedback, Jonathan:

Things like

// passing values through check
x do {
check >? 0
check even?()
+ 1
}

appear to be in conflict with stated goal of

"It is an interactive medium for data processing by people who don’t want to learn how to program. For example, scientists who want to process data without becoming “data scientists”. Or people who want to build simple custom apps without learning to program."

[This fighting text with text is indeed a CSFi soap opera :)]
I think a mindfulness teacher would describe what you refer to as flow as absorbed awareness. The alternative would be panoramic awareness, where you aren't just focused on one thing (the problem you're solving) but you are aware of everything that is going on in the moment.
> The interesting question here is whether Facebook is somehow accidentally amplifying it.

Someone somewhere found a way to exploit what FB's engagement metrics do. Is it 'accidental' that FB amplifies things if their system is designed to do exactly what it does when gamed?
Of course those two are still alive and there's no evidence at all that the US would like to assassinate or "disappear" them. On the contrary, it's relatively easy to assassinate or even kidnap someone--Russia had agents spread nerve agent on a target's door handle and shoot another target in the street. Certainly these things are well within the US's capability.

I think you're confusing "extradition and trial by jury" with "assassination" or "disappearing".
And then y'all can communicate in thread too. So it's a little microcosm.
I live next to a private school, and they did not close down at all. It's a pre-k - 5th grade school and the kids have been wearing masks the whole time (still do) even at recess. IDK what other measures they have taken, but they certainly have had in person school the entire pandemic
Hospitals and related services are optimized for efficiency, not flexibility. They don't like having empty beds that aren't being used, or idle workforces. So when something out of the ordinary happens they can't deal with it while maintaining their normal level of service. As a society we don't seem to want to pay for idle capacity. Human nature, I guess. We could have been building more hospitals over the last year, training more nurses, etc. But that doesn't appear to have happened.
Okay, I'm glad we agree.
I looked this up and for anyone wondering, it's called "diff/merge drivers", but there are only a handful of them out there. Some highlights from a few minutes of searching:

- MS Office: https://github.com/lcnittl/DMFO
- SQLite: https://github.com/cannadayr/git-sqlite
- Jupyter notebooks: https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vcs.html#git-integra...

One big caveat of this is that since git doesn't really store just a stack of diffs, despite the fact it presents itself as such to the user, a custom merge driver will not make your .git grow any less than it would normally.
The Space Pigs, known for this demo among others https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3972
I have tried it, but I don't prefer it.

1. Yes it's almost another language, you have to memorize shorthand syntax that is sometimes unintuitive.

2. I need something cross-platform, not a web specific tool. I've moved to RN Stylesheets for both native and web and I don't deal with normal CSS at all.

3. I don't have a problem naming classes, I find it helps maintaining later at the cost of slightly more time upfront. Plus you can compose multiple classes based on states. You can also reuse those classes within the same component. Seems difficult to do that if you inline things. If I did want to skip naming I would use something like JSXStyle/SnackUI instead of Tailwind (direct props, not shorthand strings).

Tailwind is great for web designers wanting to iterate a design quickly, that's about it. I feel you pay for it later though. It's ugly and unreadable at a glance. We just circled back to inline styles.
That's reasonable. Given that compression softwares are likely what typical people would use for encryption though, I'd like to see an actually good encrypted format design in a commonly used archival format. I'm even okay and more than welcome if that'd be just `age` plus some carefully selected headers.
It's a really interesting question. What makes people so eager to respond? I keep seeing friends and family (especially family, older generation) answering these obvious spam questions all the time.
and this is public ledger... imagine what's happening in the banking industry, where you can't see other people's money flowing around
Before being acquired, WhatsApp served a half a billion users on a $1 per year subscription model (first year was free, and they were competing against comparatively high charges for sms), and apparently only a few dozen engineers. Signal manages a similar feat on a handful of (large) donations. It's possible to have a profitable business while charging users a small fee, but once a public company achieves network effects and a captured user base, there is a pressure to milk it for all it is worth.

In a normal market there would be competition and an equilibrium would be reached, but where network effects dominate, it takes something like Signal to make a dent in this regard. That said, there's no reason that a non-profit version of instagram couldn't eventually compete or dominate by charging users a pittance.
It has never been about working hard, what matters is working smart.

What you work on matters more than the efforts you put in.
This is the most abhorrent thing I've ever read on this (or perhaps any) forum. I'm done with this thread.
I think the author's description is a completely accurate description of affiliate networks. The fact the the commercial relationship results in "likes" or "influence" for the affiliates rather than direct monetary compensation from the merchants is just the nature of social media.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal shows exactly what you can do with this data.

Targeted advertising lets you run a campaign that never could be run before... one where you appear to be something different to different people. If you were trying to seize control of three different warring groups, you could advertise to A, "We'll kill B and C!" , to B, "We'll kill A and C!" and to C, "We'll kill A and B!" which you couldn't do in a stump speech without people figuring out the ruse.

By building a detailed psychological profile of individuals, you can build a model that allows you to tie their responses to these questions with the political messages they're susceptible to. Cambridge Analytica paid a few hundred thousand people to do a quiz where they shared their Facebook likes and answered questions about their personality. CA then used that to build a model that showed "People who live in Slidell, Louisiana and like Dodge Ram trucks will be most receptive to messages about illegal immigration and are generally supportive of state violence". Then they can run that ad to everyone in Slidell who likes Dodge Ram pickups.
Ah right, generally I quite like having branch names because I can name the brach aligned to the jira ticket that it's associated with, I'm not a big fan of jira, but atleast it documents the feature request etc. And also you can track multiple different features in flight at once (I know it's not ideal, but sometimes you're doing several different things that need to be merged in order etc)
> We believe building “Instagram Kids” is the right thing to do

No it’s fucking not, you morally corrupt sacks of garbage.
> It's why the Jamstack mascot is the loading spinner.

I know much of the HN crowd loves to hate on bloated SPA applications (and not for good reason, we all deserve better perf), but this comment makes no sense. You can have a fast website with no loading spinners, pre-rendering, static HTML and optional/client hydration running on Jamstack infra.

It's misleading to suggest Jamstack = complicated/slow/bloated and SSR = fast/simple/good ux. Please take time to understand your tools. You can build a brittle/slow/poor ux website with SSR if you don't know what you're doing and/or don't care.

I'd advise others to not worship one technique over another. Choose a stack that solves a problem for your users, demonstrate empathy, evaluate tradeoffs and things will be fine.
>I am appalled, sure, but honestly I also admire it a bit. I feel like there is some threshold of absolute shamelessness that most companies cannot even aspire to, but if you reach it then either you blow up in short order or you take over the world. I’ll probably be working for Ozy in a year.
I've never played the Amiga version but the PC version was very smooth even on my old 286.
14 km/40 minutes is 21 km/h. Assuming you don't live in hilly terrain, if you use an e-bike with a 25 km/h limiter, you can probably go a little faster, but it won't make huge difference.

It will probably will mean that you get less tired and exercise less, which may be good or bad depending on your opinion.
>Looks like there aren’t any results for “”. Try double-checking your spelling or searching for a related topic.

Looks as if it's VERY hidden.
>And what if that prophecy is not fulfilled?

If you've gained no skills vs a fresh person with no experience that you can use to gain a better paying job, then you're doing the best you don't benefit financially from your job being outlawed.

>What if, because you work 50 hours a week but make poverty-level wages, you can't bridge your way out?

If you work 50 hours a week in a capacity where you are offered the most available to you and you are incapable of starting a business that offers any more value, then you're doing the best you can. Many people strive to earn the most they can, and if that is dead end retail that's ok.

In my youth in the wake of the 2009 recession I used to wake up drunk out of a ditch and show up at the day labor agency with a completely unverifiable employment background (read between the lines there) making $17/hr alongside felons and drug addicts moving drywall for the oil worker camps, but I guess there are a lot less enterprising people than me out there -- but I don't think their job should be outlawed. I know there are some people out there that can't even be bothered to wake up drunk out of a ditch and walk to the day labor agency and move some drywall.

>What if you spend four years of your life being treated as disposable trash, and for some reason that has an impact on your self-esteem and work ethic?

What if you choose to find meaning in life somewhere other than work, like your family or friends. What if you find one of the other 10,000 employers also offering shit wages and work for them instead. I used to work at a taco shop for $7/hr, and even though the job sucked the boss at least was pleasant and offered me a shot of tequila at the end of the night. What if you take pride in yourself for not your job or earnings but by engaging with the community, or playing with your children, or worshipping your chosen deity or playing basketball on the corner. What if you sign up to be apprentice roofer, a job always hiring even in the worst of economic times and offering full time plus benefits.

> Markets are doing what markets do, and that is maximize profit, not optimize for human life.

And yet there has been unprecedented life expectancy, total wealth of society, educational offering and attainment, and medical breakthroughs in the past 200 years thanks to markets that optimize for profit.
Not disrespecting your pain, but I'm guessing you never had to do serious work in Lotus Notes.
> these design choices seem to limit its use to relatively small files

1. As a rule-of-thumb, I have been working on functionality before optimization. That said, `tv` is really fast. It is completely false that `tv` only works for relatively small files. I just pushed a 624MB file to `tv`. It ran in 2.8 seconds. With `column` it takes 5.0 seconds. Now, I would love help from programmers smarter than me. I am sure there are a lot of optimization gains to be had in `tv`. I just wanted to make sure potential users are not misled. `tv` is performant.

> Some (most?) tools that output data in columns and fit each one to the largest value in that column need to scan the whole file as a first pass just to start displaying data.

> Not only is it the case with this tool, but from what I'm reading in main.rs it looks like it's also loading the whole file in memory.

2. `tv` reads once, but parse partly. This means that it reads the full file only to grab the number of rows. It only parses(take) the first n rows.

https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/b548f0d19f64438d53f732...

https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/b548f0d19f64438d53f732...
That would work if the moderators of various subs weren't part of it, quite a few subs will hand out temp. bans when you "accuse someone of shilling". Even if the account was created the day a story went public, didn't post anything until weeks later when the story hit reddit and never backed up its attempts to discredit one side of the conflict.

Some fun oriented subs will however happily ban spam bots that just automate imgur reposts if you point one out early enough.
"But it's the only way to make it free" is no excuse when you've been found to have done something illegal. If your business is found to be against the law, then it is on you to get a better one.
Would be interesting the math behind processing all of that data to get some useful metadata out of it.
csvkit’s csvlook works similarly but outputs a markdown table.
DoS attacks against my online game
I don't understand the big risk. They build a profile about the kind of short form videos you interact with. It's pretty limited.
It's a pretty amazing thing, but man, was that video hard to watch. It's like I'm having an averse reaction to the man's mannerisms and expressions.

What I didn't see, though, was how he got that $10 on to the platform in the first place. Is that explained somewhere else? Moving money from one account to another on the same platform is rarely an issue, the real challenge is moving it between companies/custodians.
> What's preventing the average Joe from enjoying 1+Tb/s broadband?

are other responders not seeing the 'T'?

it is the rare home device which can handle 2.5Gbps. 10Gbps switches are common enough. the cheapest switch i'm seeing on fs.com with a 100Gbps uplink port is $3500.

i don't think we currently have the tech to drive 100Gbps through a single port, i think it's done with multiple wavelengths being multiplexed onto a single fiber, and then split back out.

so... at a minimum, joe is kept from 1 Tbps of bandwidth by $35,000, some optical multiplexing hardware, 10+U of rack space, and having absolutely no conceivable way to put the kind of bandwidth to use.

plus his part of the amortized capital costs to build the ISP's end of that.
I currently (temporarily) live in the boonies (3 hours north of SF in the woods) and Starlink can't be available soon enough.

I'm renting office space in town where the best I can get is a 40 Mb DSL line because I can't get anything other than HughesNet at the house. More than a few days of SSH over satellite will make you want to regret the day you decided programming would be a fun profession.

Forgetting about the latency for a moment, even though HughesNet advertises nice speeds, it's very much the same "speeds up to" crap most other ISP do. They're so oversubscribed that you can barely browse the internet in the evening most of the time.
Their algorithm is definitely capable of determing gender and sexual orientation just from your pattern of swipes, and I imagine many other things that could be potentially sensitive. I imagine China could have a shadow social credit profile on every active user, figure out who is most susceptible to blackmail or targeted phishing for state sponsored hacking. Of course this is a massive national security risk.
Funny they list Feynman in the familiar 'cast of characters' responsible for the Los Alamos effort. He was a lowly graduate student at the time, responsible for organizing others in the compute lab using mechanical calculators (if I remember his biography right). Not a shining star. More of a pain in the side - he messed with security protocols and made life hard for everybody.

But its fun to put famous names in the article I guess.
My favorite is questions that appear to be roundabout ways to gather your password reset questions.

Like "Your stripper name is: Your Favorite Color + Name of Your First Dog!". Never fails to get tons of responses.
Brin's book is one of my favorites.

It does seem a little naive in retrospect, but a world where people would be willing to pay a modest amount in a competitive market for pseudonymity, and would trust banks to provide it, sure seems like a better world than the world we live in.
> I wish people would stop making UNIX-like operating systems, we have enough of those to deal with considering just the Linuxes and the BSDs.

Your strong opinions on the matter may be warranted from your personal experience, but there is nothing wrong with doing such, there is zero track to you that someone somewhere on this planet is tinkering with an operating system you do not agree with the design decisions of.

> The POSIX API is outdated and broken in a lot of ways.

Curious if you could elaborate your claims. Is it a case of the old APIs must stand (and the baggage therein), or were there some fatal flaws other OS APIs avoided?
And that the financial power this gives you as a class needs to be countered by political power in your opposition.
It has been this way for years, so it's definitely no accident. Posts that elicit more comments absolutely end up getting ranked higher by The Algorithm™.
I believe Civic is working on a sort of identity verification blockchain integration but I haven't heard much come out of the space as of yet. In fact, I think it might dissuade people who don't want their identity linked to their crypto transactions.
The main issue I see with the “age of first job” question is that there aren’t actually statistically that many likely answers to the question, especially if you have basic information on a person. Compare to make and model of first car, which has a lot of possible options and only slightly correlates to life situation.
In the Google case, it wasn't using the dev license to develop apps for the general public or "end-users".

Basically iOS is a very popular yet closed hardware and software platform and if others want to run anything on them it needs to go through Apple's approval process which might be both good and bad depending on your perspective.
It is mindblowing to see so many people socially active!