skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Along with that, I actually am somewaht using it on the bare metal.

Cool.

> For me, the big draw to it is that it is f# from end to end (for the most part), and that in turn enables FP and type safety. This is, IMO, the 10x value proposition of it. Similar to how LISP and its dialects allow you to do MUCH faster dev cylces. And IMO it does "get out of the way"

I've only played around with F# a very tiny amount, and the majority of my experience consists of noting that its VM warmup time is a tad slow. (I "grew up" on PHP at the CLI, so I'm used to 20-50µs of overhead... woops.) Once I solve the I Have Really Slow Hardware™ problem I expect I'll give F# a proper look (since then I'll have no excuses lol). I've been interested in functional programming for a while.

I was referring to the whole SAFE stack getting out of the way, being that I was criticizing SAFE's vision (albeit without being able to substantiate my critique with any domain-specific knowledge, haha). But if it's just a thin wrapper and a set of conventions, then maybe (I don't have the domain knowledge to discern myself) it actually does that well.

> I know that technical merit isn't really the biggest or even a big factor in adoption.

Sadly :(

> I think of dang as almost uniquely qualified in regards to web stacks, as he also doesn't use one of the common ones. And so he may have a perspective on whether people would be likely to adopt it based on usability.

Well now I'm curious too :P

> Sorry, for this badly worded/thought out comment, I suck at English.

FWIW, I've had both zero issues understanding your points AND zero instances of "...that {word/sentence/thing} doesn't belong there", so... :)
Amazon Mechanical Turk pays less than 40% of US minimum wage, research suggests
Looks just like a slightly smarter insertion sorter, which is a slightly smarter exchange sorter, which is a slightly smarter bubble sorter. I don't see what's surprising about the approach.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this! I inherited a site with PayPal and it uses just a single link that takes you to PayPal and returns you after the transaction. Plus an endpoint to handle IPN pushes. I've looked into updating to the current API but it's just so confusing and awful, it took me a couple of days just to understand the new workflow.
How would you prevent kids from just going on some other, new site? What's the distinction between the internet and social media?

Ignoring whether or not what you're describing is technically feasible (I don't think it is) - ultimately as long as children can use the internet the issues at hand will exist. Furthermore, why give social media entities more data in the form of government backed authentication?
Yeah, in these circles "for fun and profit" rivals the "considered harmful" of the larger community.
Title references "Facebook products" which includes Instagram.
Turn off the algos and do chronology with proximity (geographic and social graph) instead of oh, we see you clicked on an article about Bernie Sanders, have a look at this article about taxing rich people 95%!! Or you read about hotdogs, here’s an article about additives in foods and their impact on mental health!!
I agree that Biden admin is all about censorship. But, after watching her interview, it doesn’t look to me that this whistleblower is.
Just use OpenBSD, so much of that crap just gets out of the way because it was never glued on without anyone asking. For routing stuff like VPNs and routers especially this becomes my first choice, unless we're really needing to hit gigabit speeds... Try fresh air for once!
Well, I teach Algorithms, I think there is an obvious intuition as to why this works and I use this algorithm to introduce sorting.
It seems like a good time to move open source projects off Github.
Dismantle social media entirely. Last few years have proven that we cannot function as a forward thinking society when memes are believed over proper sourced science.

Warning labels are proof enough that folks cannot be left to their own devices.
Gannett and the Death of Local Newspapers
The clearest take I've seen on this: https://www.piratewires.com/p/bombshell

The money quote, in my opinion:

> The thing is, we’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, we’re asking Facebook to control other people.
> Require ID verification

I'll pass on putting my personal ID in the hands of an organization that sells data as a business. No matter how many flimsy laws they put in place to ban selling my PII, you'd have to be born yesterday to think that won't just delay the sale this new treasure-trove of information.
Reading the article, the locals are complaining about:

1. They wanted free stuff (water), and didn't get it.

2. They wanted more free stuff (from robberies), and couldn't get it - security was tightened.

In many of these countries, the reason for lack of development is the local people. Foreign libertarian communities will need complete political autonomy, perhaps even to form their own federation of micronations, otherwise the local population will essentially hold them to ransom in exchange for an increasing share of productive output.

This is why it might be easier to develop advanced human communities on Mars - no locals to worry about!
Good enough is a feast. Just save a lot and live frugally on the long term things, like houses and cars. I have a fucking tiny house in SV but hey my kids where forced to learn how to share. And when the stock gods bless me I save some and travel some, not buy a bigger house. And maybe buy a new iPad. Happiness is what you get divided by what you expect.
Any truth to the rumour that semi truck drive train linkages are unavailable North America wide right now? That could exasperate things quickly.
Why did it take so long to get rid of 3DES? Hasn't it been known as insecure for.. ages now?
Wow. Crazy journey for Eren Bali. I remember when he was a Sr. Engineer at SpeedDate. When I was let go he was casually discussing Udemy around the office. At least the beginning ideas for it.
So you just have to use dropbox, time machine, backblaze, several drive backups and someone's else house to store drives, simple!
Macros are nice when you are designing a DSL for a framework or a library. otherwise, they should probably be avoided.
I checked out your application. Looks cool.

Are you planning to add other languages interactive environments as well?
As was made abundantly clear yesterday, Facebook’s apps also include Instagram and What’s App, which are very much in-scope for this topic.
3 years is a lot, and tox the testing tool is much more used than tox the chat protocol.
> She leaked a trove of internal research and communications showing the company was aware of the ills of its platforms, including the toxic risks of Instagram to some teenage girls' mental health and the prevalence of drug cartels and human traffickers on its apps.

Please read the article next time.
A lot of scaling solutions for Ethereum focus on being fully EVM compatible, and as such are forced to store every transaction on a widely distributed, permanent datastore, which in my mind is never going to be "cheap". Since we just need to move money around, payment channels [0] allow us to move the funds by just committing an entry and exit transaction to the widely distributed, permanent datastore, and once we "enter" this network, transactions can be very very cheap.

In terms of implementations, Bitcoin's lightning network is probably the biggest active version today, but this only allows you to move Bitcoin around, and hence is a non-starter for a widespread consumer adoption.

Which brings us to payment channels on Ethereum. It doesn't feel like there has been as much focus on the payments use case yet, and none of the solutions have as much adoption as Bitcoin's lightning network, but there are a few options I know of. Raiden network has been around for a while, visa is supposedly creating a "universal payments channel" [1], there's xdai [2] (not payment channels, and I'm not super familiar with this solution), and there's connext [3].

There's a long list here [4].

Basically it boils down to - payment channels are the solution, and it'll probably be a mix of self custodied wallets and custodial providers, all integrating with an open standard.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/how-we-built-the-largest-payment-chan...

[1] https://decrypt.co/82233/visa-universal-payment-channel-stab...

[2] https://www.xdaichain.com/

[3] https://connext.network/

[4] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/scaling/state-channe...
I am just glad that all major browsers besides IE now support the input type. Granted, you still likely want compatibility with Firefox ESR. But it is nice to know that the polyfill will gradually become less and less necessary.
I do get the sense that the "feel" in his writing eventually becomes more like "what are you guys smoking, this should be simple!"

It's not just "Am I missing something?"

It's:

"Am I missing something? Why is all this stuff with "runs of characters" happening at all? Why would you ever need to separate the background from the foreground for performance reasons? It really seems like most of the code in the parser/renderer part of the terminal is unnecessary and just slows things down. What this code needs to do is extremely simple and it seems like it has been massively overcomplicated."

Perhaps frustrated that they don't really seem to be on the same technical page?

I tend to think these things can go both ways. I feel pointing out someone's frustration in writing tends to make things worse. Personally I would just ignore it in this case.
Those sound too chilling.

I’d propose banning algorithms for services with over one million users. Users must have complete control over what their feed shows. (And ability to filter)
Whether or not one agrees with articles like these, I always give it extra scrutiny if any of the Four Horsemen of the
Infocalypse are mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Ask HN: Limited to accredited investors for a fractional real estate startup?
I've been told that Pacaso.com works only with accredited investors. Given the high pricing of their properties it seems like a moot point anyway.

But I'm contemplating a similar startup for average people - focusing on undeveloped land with recreational value. The concept is mocked up at https://www.parcelplot.us

The idea is to make these fractional ownership deals open to regular people. Am I limited to accredited investors for this sort of thing? The business is mostly locating promising properties, finding a group of interested individuals, forming an LLC for them (with a custom operating agreement), letting them coordinate via the app.

Ideally I'm not limited to accredited investors because the idea is to make land ownership more feasible for people who only have a small amount of capital.
Wasn’t the genocide in Myanmar primarily spread and encouraged on Facebook?
Ye was hoping to use that to get around our Sonicwall appliance blocking it for "Radicalization and Extremism"
Processing fees have to cover chargebacks. That's processing fees in some industries prone to chargebacks (adult for instance) are eye-wateringly high. 10% or more in many cases.
Could almost just get a patreon together, and then fund a developer from it? Because I think if you put out a job posting, working on firefox independent from Mozilla someone would take you up on it.
Wait till they hear about the values in the Grand Theft Auto games that kids are playing.
Another open source airtable alternative on the top of HN this year.

NocoDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783)

BaseRow (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985)

Any idea why these projects are so popular in HN? What are the big pain points / problems these address?

None have template libraries like Airtable or Smartsheet do, so it’s hard to get a sense of the use cases these tools specialize in.
Best quote of the whole article:

> It’s not called a Zeppelin unless it comes from the Zeppelin region of Germany, otherwise it’s just a sparkling airship.
Sorry, you are very underinformed in this case.

Sudan and South Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq and Central African Republic, just to name ongoing cleanings classified as actual genocides. Surprisingly, the continuously peddled "Yellow Danger" is not a good lens to get accurate information about the world...
To me this is a fake story being promoted as a way to further a political narrative.

Nothing the whistleblower has revealed is shocking or previously unknown. Yes facebook tweaks an algorithm on your news feed to drive engagement and make money.

Yes facebook allows some content that some would consider not to align with mainstream US narratives.

My two cents this is an attempt to force facebook to kowtow to the US and follow googles lead in stopping “unapproved” discourse on topics dealing with covid among others.
Safely Integrating Our Airspace in the Age of Drones
I run a usb cable from the back of my imac to a drive hidden underneath my desk. It is effectively zero maintenance, because time machine removes old backups to make space for the new.

For laptops I would aim for a setup where the drive is connected to whatever dock solution is in place. MacOS would backup automatically while the laptop was docked.
My journey from FF to Safari started back in 2012 or 2013 when I noticed Chrome didn't make my whole system slow, like FF did, so I switched to Chrome. Then I realized that I'd gain like 2+hrs of battery life if I used Safari, and it was even more respectful of multitasking and system resources, so that's what I'm on now. The iOS integration is great too, but I'd switch if someone beat them on overall system resource use (not "speed"—I know Chrome especially has loved that metric for a long time, but I do not care if it runs Quake compiled to WASM at a higher framerate or whatever)

[EDIT] FWIW, FF user since Phoenix & Firebird, haven't loved it since IIRC FF3 (yes, 3) when it started to bloat itself into being the sluggish, huge thing it replaced. I still use it on my Windows gaming desktop, but that's because I barely use the browser on there, and it's plugged into wall power. Safari 15's UI is god-awful though, so I'm primed for a switch.
We're puttin' the band back together.

https://youtu.be/4yECgXi3Y_8
Exactly this. That language, the argument, just :flashing-red-light:.
Smart business people will take this as a lesson about the dangers of zero-inventory manufacturing. Unscrupulous business people will continue running the business at high risk, knowing that they will probably be gone by the time a problem arises. Very smart leaders will use this as an opportunity to think about how to stop their companies from forgetting someone's involvement with a project or process during internal transfers or promotions; the leading route through which unscrupulous business people escape responsibility from secret risk.
So, you missed the news about Myanmar? Or the stories about the First Nation children being found in graves outside of schools (and this is recent, not something from 100 years ago)? Or children being taken from their parents at the US border and 'losing' the records in order to reunite them?

I'm sure there are more, but these were the examples I could think of from the top of my head.
AZ DevOps just threw this up in my face:

https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/265268533

Related? Geography is US.
The reporting on this has been very weird. UK news had massive coverage of deaths in Italy, then when it started hitting the UK hard, it went invisible.

I'm not sure the UK emergency Nightingale hospitals were actually _used_, since (obviously) you can repurpose a building but you can't just find a few thousand healthcare staff at short notice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214
AI that reads and explains complex code naturally, like a human
Wonder why I was down voted then. Lol.
But they are the ones that have enabled the mass accessibility of many-to-many communication. That should come with great responsibility.
Illegal: "we think you're too old to work here"

Legal: "we don't think you have the energy/disposition to be devoted enough to the company to put in extra effort when needed"

Honestly, I'm surprised they even gave a reason. Our HR department has an email template that we must use, which is something along the lines of "we picked someone else, but we'll keep your CV on file, in case anything else opens up". You don't have to give a reason, so if you do, you're only opening yourself up to liability.
>I'll pass on putting my personal ID in the hands of an organization that sells data as a business.

I see this as a win for society. The more friction we insert and the more people are discouraged to join these ad-ware social networks the better.
Kids are still able to buy alcohol by having other people do it for them. They also steal it. During a house break in, the police will often ask if any alcohol is missing which is a tell tale that teenagers were involved.

Kids are not simple, and will often out wit the adults in order to do things they want to do. It amazes me how adults seem to forget the things they did as teenagers, and maybe if they were actually goody two-shoe teenagers they had to have known what shenanigans other teens got up to. Pretty much the whole point of being a teenager is seeing what one can get away with by whatever means necessary.

Edit: some people are reading too much into this. no where did I suggest don't do x because of y. However, if you think x is a perfect solve, you need to be reminded that y can still happen. solving for y is always a problem
There is at least some non-zero chance that widespread expressions of outrage can encourage even megacorps to change direction - the same cannot be said of mosquitoes. The latter are expressing their immutable core nature, whereas the core nature of the former is the aggregate effect of the behaviour of a collection of human beings and therefore subject to change.
you realize that most controversial, negative and divisive stuff is pushed by corporate media 24/7, right?
Mandating vaccination and ignoring naturally acquired immunity is selectively following the science. It is deceitful and reckless to ignore natural immunity and demonize the unvaccinated.
Certificates from Let's Encrypt are free.
Their nonprofit is already accepting donations and they are already selling services. I can't be that hard to "sell" a cosmetic Firefox Premium upgrade, although it might not be used enough to be worth it.
I mean, just respecting users who don't want to use algorithms would be a start.

Does the chronological option still exist in Facebook? It was broken-on-purpose for YEARS, you'd set it and then it would get reverted in the next visit.
Configure SMTP for Outbound Emails (Ghost SMTP Setup)
> Prices range from about $10 to $40 per test,

Ouch. Tests are 1-2€ at the supermarket checkout here.
I read about the early history of the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin. Fascinated that as passenger aircraft, they stayed relatively close to the ground during their flights. I don't know why I assumed they flew at 25K feet like modern jets — I guess I had not thought it through.

But the idea of air travel where you watch the trees, rivers, pass as though you were on some "elevated train" is fascinating to me.
She was probably talking about the cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, where their military did use Facebook as a propaganda tool. Facebook is dominant in Myanmar and almost synonymous with the internet there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Tried it and quite easy to use!
It seemed like that to me, that's why she spit out everything from harming girls self esteem to ethnic cleansing accusations.

She's not a "whistleblower", she's a planted pawn.

Facebook hosts user content, they should just come out and say they want to censor user content.

If this teenager study is so damning and sound, why aren't we asking ALL social media services to disallow children/teens?

Why only focus on the content? (because it's not about the children)
Note that this isn't "the IRS." It's an IRS public-private partnership that people below some income threshold can use for free.
If you intend to work in the field, KiCAD has very little penetration as of this moment. It’s better than nothing, but mot companies will prefer people with experience in Altium.

If you just want to start doing some projects, KiCAD is mature enough and you’ll find more tutorials and content.
The Y10k Problem
I keep saying this but it is so bizarre to me that our knee jerk reaction it to regulate and blame users.

Let’s try regulating the problem corporation first.
Both are a problem
Sorry, I was thinking about the engineer who got PIPd and committed suicide.
Yubico's actual press release is here: "Yubico Launches First YubiKeys With Biometric Authentication" https://www.yubico.com/press-releases/yubico-launches-first-...

Not sure if that's a better link or not, since the article provides a little more context though that one has a few more details.

Either way, happy to see the ecosystem for hardware tokens continue to grow and momentum to build for dropping passwords from standard mutual authentication.
Non-linear career to me means working as a web developer and then working as a mobile developer. Working as a web developer and then working as a plumber is not a non-linear career to me, but two different careers. You are using "career" in the sense of work life and I'm using it in the sense of occupation/profession.

Most people do not benefit from a change in profession -- especially if you are a highly trained specialist.

Getting knocked out of your life-long profession is not something most people want to experience. My original post was about this and what happens to people when they find themselves in this situation.

It's harder on some than it is on other. You seem to be a highly resilient and optimistic fellow so I'm sure this issue is not as much a concern to you as it is to some other kinds of people.
LLVM 13.0
LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!
If there is a real issue with protecting children do you still get to say "think of the children!"?
This is a secondary cause, that while true came much later. The earliest cause is 1 Corinthians 7 where St. Paul indicates that the unmarried state is superior. That is why many of the Apostles, who started out married, embraced unmarried life after the passing of their wives. Matthew 19:12 is also relevant, as I do not want to imply this idea rests solely on the Apostle St. Paul.
+1 on the whole references as a nice introduction. I think the authors overstate the preparation of their hypothetical "pedestrian" (either that or they need to get away from the physics department a bit more often), but a great reference nevertheless. I also got a lot out of sections of Nishimori's textbook [1]. In particular it helps motivate problems outside of physics and provides some references to start digging into more rigorous approaches via cavity methods (which I think, incidentally, are also more intuitive). I am a novice in this area but am sort of crossing my fingers that some of the ideas in this area will make their way into algorithms for inferring latent variables in some of the upcoming modern associative neural networks. What I mean here is that it would be cool not just to have an understanding of total capacity of the network but also correct variational approximations to use during training.

[1] https://neurophys.biomedicale.parisdescartes.fr/wp-content/u...
[2] https://ml-jku.github.io/hopfield-layers/
“We’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, [but] other people”