skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stebe seemed to have a thing for cubes. The G4 Cube is a throwback to the much more famous NeXT case design, though the original black cube running "Next Step" was perhaps a little too on the nose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube

http://www.magicgatebg.com/Books/Aleister%20Crowley/Heart_of...

There's also the 30ft glass cube Apple Store that opened in Manhattan in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Fifth_Avenue
BGP isn't used by end-user devices, so consequently no one outside of those who researched how the internet works knows about it.
A modern version of the Y Combinator library
Pop OS Will Soon Be Available on Raspberry Pi and Other ARM Devices
WhatsApp failed similarly, but I thought it was a poor design decision to do so. Anyone waiting on communication through WhatsApp had no indication (outside the media) that it was unavailable, and that they should find a nother communication channel.

Don't paper connectivity failures. It disempowers users
Sounds like a lot of people don't like the "serverless" term. And I agree, it's not great.

So here's an "RFP" - any suggestions for a better term to describe this consumption-based experience, where you don't need to worry about servers (and ideally, you don't pay for what you don't use)?
“Parent Plane” Patent (2005, pdf)
A 'clearly unofficial' yahoo finance api implementation.

I just got a spam email from them via my work email ('Dear Null' lol).

They've gone a bit far with the naming, clearly a trademark violation.

I'd be interested to hear HN's thoughts on this kind of business model. Wrapping an API around a publicly available website / web service, providing some additional value (even just an api endpoint where none existed is of some value) and charging for it.
I agree, although it's not the lines for me but the boundary of the page itself.
Nano uses dPoS and has worked for years.

Your link is just another Bitcoin maxi with awful logic. No, pumping money into pointless mining doesn't make a coin actually more valuable. It's just a waste. Out of all the real value crypto can bring - speed, trustlessness, decentralisation - mining isn't actually needed for any of it. It just forces things into a pyramid shape.
Or for people who want their math in pie chart form

https://twitter.com/simondotau/status/1444537141413888003
What would they salary band be for this position?
lot of great upcycling and recycled fashion if you can search through your city's flea markets. I am sure by reaching out to those creators you can get a supply side going at least. Doesn't seem like a big category on fiverr from what I can see.

Personally, I like https://theconsistencyproject.com/ (used to be in SF, now in NYC, also ships)
Shoring Up Vaccine Efficacy
> Facebook PR: “Today a Senate Commerce subcommittee held a hearing with a former product manager at Facebook who worked for the company for less than two years, had no direct reports, never attended a decision-point meeting with C-level executives — and testified more than six times to not working on the subject matter in question.”

Where does it mention her character??
> If that was actually the case, a lot of heads at FB should roll over this. The logic is simple and obvious, and if the sysadmins and network admins didn't think about this line of thinking then they're overpaid:

You say "if" as if it's a conditional, but surely the fact that it happened proves that no-one considered it (or, I suppose, that whoever did consider it didn't have enough sway to stop it from happening). There are, rightly, so many laws and regulations requiring that safe egress in case of emergency not be prevented, and I can't imagine anyone actually considering and tolerating even the slightest risk of an Internet issue preventing that egress. Well, I guess I can imagine lots of people doing lots of awful and harmful things, but I can't imagine anyone doing it in such a way that it would be this easy to get caught doing something blatantly illegal.

(Or were there safety measures in place that allowed egress, just not entry? I don't know the specifics, since my source is just the news stories that mention that the door locks didn't work and people couldn't get in—but maybe they could still get out?)
Did you actually like that "UI"?

I personally was annoyed that I couldn't open the books.

And rendering books in 3D is nothing more than a visual gimmick, not really a UI in any way.

It also reeks of skeomorphism which is nothing new and was certainly not invented by Stripe.

If Amazon presented their book catalogue like this, users would walk away. And to test this statement, let's see if Amazon copies this (I bet not).
You are right, I did not understand that you were speaking about support staff and not those in nursing. Obviously nurses and doctors are not trivial to train and replace.
Your original comment does not show that you are one of the few able to just read and understand a simple algorithm. Look around the many comments here where people misread this simple algorithm and readily jumps to premature conclusions. In that light I don't think you can say "there is an obvious intuition".
> I use this algorithm to introduce sorting.

Do you have any (publicly-available) course materials that mention this algorithm? The OP mentions they were "unable to find any references to it", and I've been collecting references I find in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760986#28762275

> What’s non-intuitive or what makes the comparison in the wrong order?

In a sibling comment, 'ColinWright compares this algorithm to bubble sort, which has the comparison in the other direction. Another similar algorithm is this selection sort which differs by one character:

for i = 1 to n do
for j = i to n do
if A[i] < A[j] then
swap A[i] and A[j]

This also sorts the array, but in the opposite order. It's true that seen in the correct light, both of these algorithms can be seen to work, but it definitely confuses people. For example, these three answers on Math Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow are incorrect about the sorting order: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/876452 https://stackoverflow.com/a/61970459 https://stackoverflow.com/a/57118286
How would a high performing 40 year old software developer find a company like this?
Thats future Senator Francds Haugen to you
Oh, that message is a little backwards, but the main bot only accepts challenges from 1+0 or 0+1 up to 15+10 time control.

You can challenge https://lichess.org/?user=chesscoachclassical#friend to 30+20.

Unfortunately, neither of them support correspondence.
Yes, and the paper makes no mention of it, hm. Sorry to be a grumpy gatekeeper, but this really belongs as a blog post, not an arxiv paper, unless it were to cite more sources at least.
Personally, if not for the real world resource usage, I would be extremely supportive of cryptocurrencies replacing the traditional financial system for reasons that overlap with your reasons for opposing crypto.

Essentially, the financial sector has succeeded so wildly in regulatory capture that we have lost any semblance of democratic control over banks and are unable to dispense punitive consequences for large scale criminal behavior in finance. There have still been no consequences for large banks issuing known bad mortgages in the early 2000s and then reselling those mortgages in bundles with artificially inflated default rate claims. This "trick" was deployed by most major banks and lead to disastrous consequences for people far removed from finance. Having a route to opt out of traditional finance for e.g. savings accounts, loans, and basic investments, feels like it actually improves the health of our democracy.
Would that be a bad thing?
> If bakers must bake cakes, this is only fair.

SCOTUS decided in favor of the bakers in that case, even if SCOTUS left the underlying question undecided (in either direction).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
Arguably prior art albeit not for any of the events you mentioned: https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/7m8g37/disable_the_...
Not seeing any "character assassination" in any of the quotes. None of Facebook's defense lines, low quality as they may be, seem overly personal.

For the record, I fully side with the whistleblower's claims. It's just that this article is very emotional, and could have been so much more. This is a fascinating quote the author failed to address fully:

"Facebook PR: “Despite all this, we agree on one thing; it’s time to begin to create standard rules for the internet. It’s been 25 years since the rules for the internet have been updated, and instead of expecting the industry to make societal decisions that belong to legislators, it is time for Congress to act."

Facebook has a point here. We don't even know what Facebook is. A media company? A news organization? A shop? A dating site? And if it does all of these things, and does so at planetary scale, is has the potential to do harm to big parts of the world, in countless ways. Yet there's pretty much zero rules.

I think we vastly underestimate how complicated the balancing act is. If Instagram does mental harm to teenage girls, whilst this very likely was not the original intent, what exactly is the "correct" course of action, in a way codified in law? Should it be forbidden for other girls (influencers) to broadcast their beauty lifestyle? Should there be a maximum time cap for consumers to browse the feed? The China way? Should influencers just be deplatformed if we don't like them, taking away their income?

None of these rules or laws seem very plausible or sane to me, and this is just one example of how Facebook can do harm.

Anyway, to end constructively, I'd say a first step is to force Facebook to give full access to its underlying (anonymized) data. If we've created a planetary-scale monster, we should treat it as a special case.
> A small group of people controlling the money supply is democracy to you?? What do you see as democratic in the fiat money system?

Absolutely. The current monetary system is controlled by the people. The Fed was created by an act of congress and continues to operate at the whim of Congress. Its mandate is to maintain a low, fixed rate of inflation and maximum employment - while being at arms length of the executive itself to provide predictability and stability across administrations.

The ruling class of Bitcoiners act to manipulate the price both up and down for their own personal gain.

[edit] Doge co-creator Jackson Palmer's analysis is spot on. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1415353984617914370?s=...
The Manson Family Murders
Plato at the Googleplex might be of interest to you - it's got its rough points but it brings a lot of his philosophy forward to be more relatable.
Safari's history search has been able to search content for a probably decade now.
LOL downvotes are the surest possible sign of unsettling and upsetting those who are complicit.

Work for them? Quit.
Do business with them? Don't.
Think access to clients and relationships with them depend on participating in this ecosystem? It doesn't.

Break the monopoly.
Apropiate. Also, Burns: "Priceless coins not used in vending machine. Yes, not bad." https://frinkiac.com/caption/S11E12/1184960
> Fundamentally it's the antithesis to democracy.

Good. I never consented to capital controls, property confiscation, drug laws and all the other blessings that “democracy” has bestowed on me. Finally there might be a path to opting out.
As FB opines at the end, at some point, it's a trade-off between power (being able access / do everything quickly) and safety (having speed bumps that slow larger operations down).

The pure takeaway is probably that it's important to design systems where "large" operations are rarely required, and frequent ops actions are all "small."

Because otherwise, you're asking for an impossible process (quick and protected).
In one of the other forums I hang out on, people come in all the time asking if programming is a good way to make tons of money. These people typically dabble for a little bit, get bored, and move on. The ones who just like to mess around, to play with programming, they flourish.
Have you read the comments on youtube?
People think PoS is "the future" of crypto, but don't understand that you have to lock something of value in the network worth staking.

A PoS crypto only works if there is an initial pre-sale (many of the ICO cryptos), or starting with a PoW period (like Ethereum did, there was also an ICO) and then moving to PoS.

Without one (or both) of the above the tokens at stake are worth nothing
> a return to the gold standard after its general global rejection has not happened before

But only because a general global rejection didn't happen before. Remember that the "general global rejection" only started with the Nixon Shock in the US in 1971.
Just keep looking for different niches until you find one that intrigues you enough to get into it without thinking about money. Maybe that niche isn’t even programming.
Except in crypto.
Wouldn't the solution be to educate people and get more people to participate in our democracy? Why do you think cryptocurrencies are better?
Facebook kept to its motto: it moved fast and broke things
The input to these algorithms are usually human understandable and quantifiable signals like likes, text sentiment, maybe engagement history -- and the output is probably a score than can be ranked. Ultimately though even if the algorithm is a black box (entirely possible it's not ML based!) we can still evaluate it in a lab environment.

Some of the signals might be generated by ML also, like photo labels, but ultimately these things are very understandable if you have the model and data.
Haha. Reminds me of a lab where we had to program a 6502 to play some sort of game, rendered on an oscilloscope. My genius friend stayed up all night writing code that rendered the snake by dynamically writing code, rather than the obvious approach of reading the “snake” coordinates and rendering those to the screen.

Our snake code ran at something obscene like 1,000 Hz. So much faster than anyone else’s. The professor couldn’t understand how we did it, so gave a low mark.
hey, I appreciate your honesty - though if you care about those things, you should become more engaged politically.
I turned off autocorrect a year ago. It’s easier to correct typos by tapping them than have to proof read for whatever properly typed word Apple changed for no reason.

The original iPhone had a much nicer cursor behavior and placement was easier with a tap or a hold-and-drag than it is to this day. I forget when this changed, I think it was about a decade ago.
At some level, even comparing ‘a<b’ has a complexity related to the log of the magnitude of a and b. So if you’re doing a comparison sort over n unique values surely you’re going to run into a similar log n factor that the gp threw at the radix sort?
Mozilla needs a CEO for the same reason all companies need one. I find it disappointing how people grill open source or charity projects over spending money on management or marketing like it’s a waste. Do you think every other company spends this money just for fun? Or that it actually provides value to the business and helps them succeed?
Firefox crashes completely at least once a week for me, and tabs crash at least once a day. I had a brand new tab crash the other day, just seconds after I had opened it and visited a text-only site (no JS, no images). I'm running Firefox 92 on up to date Debian on a machine with 64GB of memory; it's not running out of RAM.

I still use it because it's better than Chrome, and I wouldn't touch Brave with a 10 foot pole.
Let's say, hypothetically, that voting for the president was done on a public blockchain, that anyone can audit, and there were cryptographic guarantees that the people voting are who they say they are. Does that not make that voting system more accountable? In this case I think transparency does lead to accountability.
But does it offer an API to do this? No. So it's useless for merchants who'd like to offer it as an alternative payment method.

I believe this would work, but I'm not an influencer:
https://medium.com/@mariusandreiana/open-letter-to-banks-ple...
> I still get mad about it, [...] never done anything as cool as that.

Quite the contrary, you should feel proud. IMHO, the real metric of success in life is not what you have achieved, but what your "students" have achieved, so in that metric you're the boss!
> I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”.

It's probably just a coincidence but I can't help but notice how Apple didn't become a PRISM "Provider" until a year after he was dead, many years after the Googles/Facebooks of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...
That definitely isn’t what happened with alcohol or tobacco! Instead you end up with a significant enough amount of money going to the government that the government now ends up protecting those industries to an extend - ensuring lower priced competition (e-cigs, moonshine) get stomped on and the market gets protected and not eliminated or reduced too much.
Auto discard + tree style tabs = no reason to actually close tabs.
This reminds me of South Park Super Mario Bros [0] by Joe Dixon / Polygon. I think both first and second editions were developed using Clickteam [1] products The Games Factory, and possibly Multimedia Fusion. I recall Enhanced Edition was largely bug free, incredibly polished, and loads of fun.

Avira anti-virus software would complain about adware being contained in the same directory as spm2.exe. I loved playing spm2 so I chose to uninstall Avira instead.

Beware, I haven't followed the download links in [0], and I don't recall Mr. Garrison appearing in-game as is claimed in the writeup there.

[0] https://www.old-games.com/download/2849/southpark-mario-brot...
[1] https://www.clickteam.com/
If just mining was taxed, ordinary crypto transactions would be quite possible.

But regardless by allowing transaction outside of state control, crypto may indeed help some hard bitten business people but simultaneously helps a vast array of criminals, from ransomware gangs to corrupt third world officials expatriating bribes and theft.
Yes, this is called a balance ventilation system where I live, but those houses did not have one of those as far as I remember, those systems require power for the fan and the whole key was that those houses did not have any active components.
In this case, I agree. She's represented by the same PR firm that Psaki used to work for and is represented by the same law firm that Eric Ciaramella used.
Never measure yourself by others. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday. You'll always be happier with yourself than you were yesterday and eventually you'll look up and realize someone is looking up to you.

This is especially relevant now as we have instant exposure to the best of the best of any field simply by opening a social media app.
SingleFile [1] is supposed to be able to do that (more or less) by enabling these settings in the options page:

- User Interface > open saved page in a new tab

- User Interface > auto-close the tab after the page is saved

- Auto-save > auto-save on tab discard

Then you have to select in the context menu of the extension: Auto-save > Auto-save all tabs (or Auto-save unpinned tabs)

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Not to mention the Fed chair and board is appointed by Congress. It's meant to be an indirect choice, but it is a choice none-the-less. It's just like how Supreme Court justices are appointed. They have similarly broad powers fairly far removed from the will of the people, moment to moment.
Sounds like they could use your money on Firefox but then allocate less of their own money to it so the result is the same.
Only recently when I flew backwards through about 50 history steps (entirely different webpages) on my phone did I think more deeply about how impressive it was that it was so seamless.
> Good. I never consented to capital controls, property confiscation, drug laws and all the other blessings that “democracy” has bestowed on me. Finally there might be a path to opting out.

And none of that has anything whatsoever to do with monetary policy. This is a quixotic quest.
Time Machine is among the easiest backup solutions I've ever used. Just enable it, point at a USB hard drive or compatible network share, and it just works. Restoring files or rolling back the state of the whole machine takes just a few clicks. Of course, if the backup media is in the same location as your mac, it's susceptible to theft, fire, etc. And you need to be using macOS.

If you just want to keep files and don't care about your OS, most cloud providers desktop clients work fine - Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. And they have the added bonus of keeping things in sync across multiple machines, which allows for working across multiple devices, and also each instance is another backup of your files (provided it's set to actually download synced files immediatley, rather than on-demand, as OneDrive defaults to).

I have more experience with OneDrive than other providers, since I use it for work.

Pros:

- Two-stage recycle bin. If you delete a file, it goes in a recycle bin. If you delete it from there as well, it goes into another recyle bin & can still be restored.

- Can sync your Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders in addition to the OneDrive folder, at least on Windows.

Cons:

- Doesn't handle large numbers of files well. Syncing 1000+ 500KB files can take the better part of a day.

- Only downloads to the local machine on demand by default (but you can change this).

As a set-and-forget solution with a little more setup effort, a commercial NAS (think Synology, QNAP, etc) & their software for backing up your PC should work well. Many NAS's have a feature to back up your NAS (or a portion of your data) to a friends NAS - and they can back up their data on yours. Buy one for youself and your parents/grandparents, and then you all have offsite backups for the family photos. LTT has a good demo of this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpxBmxj5mP0

I think there is a minimum level of computer proficiency needed to utilise a backup solution. So many people don't understand the concept of files and folders, or a filesystem, and I imagine the managing backups would be a stretch for them, unless they spent some time learning about these concepts. If a university student can't understand that their work is saved in a folder and not in Word, they're going to have a hell of a time trying to use OneDrive.
The major theme in that event is that there was poor communication all-around.

Unfortunately, one of the primary functions of the foundation is to facilitate communication around things like this. It's clearly not done that (and issues highlighted in the article indicate more of the same problem).
>As much as I enjoy this, it's so sad because I miss the other friends.

They're still posting, just on IG probably.
I like “fully managed”, but that doesn’t go far enough to imply the consumption-based model you’re getting at.

To me, serverless is fine. Yes, it’s a buzzword, but it makes sense.
Doing involves a lot of implicit knowledge that reading frequently fails to cover. There's a density of information in doing that reading sometimes lacks.

There are good points and bad points to that.
I think of this is terms of empathy: every engineer should be able to provide a quick and accurate answer to "What do our customers want? And how do they use our product?"

I'm not talking esoterica, but at least a first approximation.
I recall blog posts about web 3.0 after the success of web 2.0. Linear extrapolation does not always work in tech.
It is certainly coordinated. Several of the parties involved are influential and have a PR record in Democratic politics.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-leftis...