skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm being facetious, in a humorous attempt to deflect any criticism against piracy. Nintendo sold Amiibo cards in blind packs, then later discontinued them. Some of those cards are rare and sought after. I have no problem with people downloading a few hundreds bytes of data to unlock parts of software they already paid for.
tiling is one of those things that always look cool to me on project websites but I would never, ever use myself. I admit I just can't convince myself that people actually use these projects in their day-to-day. Are they just neat projects? Do they just make great screenshots?

I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and Win+Right key combos). Anything smaller, such as giving a page just the lower-right quarter of the screen as in the screenshots, would just be way too small for any modern pages to render in a useful way.

Ok so making one split may technically be tiling, but I don't think that's what anyone really means when they are talking about tiling. They're talking about at least three subdivisions.

Surely I can't be the only one like this.
But ATT execs are too stupid to know how to make money, so they keep pissing it away in these stupid and, in this case, harmful ventures.

I have no idea how that C suite continues to be given the liberties they are since they have not made a single smart move since locking up the iPhone to ATT in 2007, and have made multiple boneheaded acquisitions and strategic moves since then.

All that money wasted could have been invested in the mobile and fiber networks, from which they could have extracted even higher rents, but they want to let Verizon beat them in that arena and instead play around in Hollywood.
I've personally found that when I look at the studies used to show the negative effects of Facebook, the data used is pretty poor. Often Facebook isn't part of the study - sometimes it's 'social media' and it's effect on teens, sometimes it's more broadly 'screentime'

Also I've never seen any comparisons to teen's mental health pre-Facebook. I saw a statement once that 'as many as 2/3 of teen girls feel bad about their appearance'. If that's accurate it is a vast improvement as far as I can tell. Back when I was a teen I'd have called it at least 4/5ths. I could well believe it was 9/10ths. I've been delighted to see the change in clothing ads to cover all sizes, colors, and other imperfections. I thought I was forever blighted by my freckles, now I see freckled models everywhere.
> Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe.

Technically, with GDPR you only need to visit the EU to delete your account... So I suppose one might a vacation out of deleting Facebook, LinkedIn etc accounts?
It seemed to me like the author was not actually a cofounder, he was an early hire working under a freelance contract who was retroactively named a "late-cofounder", whatever that means, once the whole thing started to go off the rails. And it also sounded like he was a victim of wage theft and other abusive management behaviors. The CEO may not have displayed such toxic tendencies in the beginning when things were going well.
For anyone on android, "Reddit is fun" is hands down the best I've used.

I seriously don't see how people put up with the main app + non old.reddit.com site. It's just miserable and ad filled.
> Which explains why grid-scale hydropower, solar power, wind power, etc. have all failed, new construction has all but ceased, and existing installations are being closed down...?

This is news to me, this is not the case where I am, but sucks for you, just goes to show that people don't want to solve the problem. Where I am hydro power works well and most of our power comes from that, but that does not change the fact that many people fight as hard as they can to stop new hydro from being constructed.
Ah yes you're totally right! I suppose the majority of fires I've seen have been caused by spalling or something similar as sandworm101 points out.
Things I liked during Q3
It's the end of Q3, which means it's time for a quarterly review. Here's the mass media that got my wheels spinning, turned my crank, yanked my chain, etc: 90 day fiancé, horror movies, crypto, and youth sports.
Barclays do this in the UK and it's awful, no idea why they don't just go through GP when everybody else does.
If you build it, they will take it away from you. That's the European market for you and compounding legal issues like this make it a difficult one to foster innovation in.

This strikes me differently from the App Store issues. There Apple is dealing with 3rd parties and trying to create a playing field where they allow competitors on their platform, i.e. Apple Music and Spotify. Here Apple built their NFC chip for their own use and for their own product. If another company wants to provide NFC capability for credit cards, they can and the actual credit cards already do.
Yes. The instant I get access.

This plus CloudFlare Workers might replace quite a few AWS S3/Lambda projects.
Nothing gets better by installing Apple as a gatekeeper. And the EU has been pretty good against bank transfer fees and roaming charges and the like.
"I heard of some nefarious characters" is code for "I used my Android phone to write NFC tags and I will do it again".
That's one of the complaints in the article that they were about to. It seems like the discussion is ongoing. I appreciate the clarification.
> Pebbles representing bijections to wares like sheep (called calculi like in calculus) occur earlier than counting marks and much earlier than anything resembling numbers.

How was this determined? I wouldn't expect that using pebbles this way would leave any distinctive marks or damage or residue on the pebbles that would allow an archaeologist several tens of thousands of years later to tell that was what the pebbles were used for.
Part of the US electorate wants their own Brexit which is basically a closed border with Mexico.
> How's such a low limit good for the consumer?

Because having it in hardware means it fetches faster. That’s why I use Apple Pay. The other apps are slower than swiping.
I used them last year to mount a climbing hangboard to a plaster and lath wall. I used about 6 of them and I'm roughly 180lbs, it feels absolutely solid. I'll definitely be using them in the future for high weight situations.
Standard Oil had gone from >90% market share to < 60% by the time any legislation related to it was enacted. The legislation hurt their competitors, who were catching up using similar business strategies, more than SO.
I would like to see stats of how this affected book queue wait times and loan patterns, particularly for books which an entire metro library system only has one or two copies of.

They say it increases return rates overall. If that's true, it's good, but let's try to understand why, and what secondary consequences there might be.

Nothing was stopping those people from returning the books and walking out without paying their outstanding fines. They could use the exterior book drop (don't libraries still have those?)

The idea seems to be that the experience of going to a library with fines outstanding is a kind of intrinsic aversive punishment; you feel guilty slinking into (or around) the library with overdue books, so you try to avoid that by not returning the books. You might even try to hide the books in your house so you don't see them and aren't reminded of your guilt. But it's not the doing away with the fines that matters, it's changing the social dynamic so that nobody ever feels guilty; it's no longer a faux pas not to return books when you should, because there's no longer any punishment. The interaction becomes entirely positive: without fines to think about anymore, you queue all the books you want to read, when one or two become available the cost of checking them out is returning the books you've read and have delayed returning.

A typical reason someone might get stuck in library fine purgatory: they queue up a bunch of books, none are available before their old books are due back, and they simply didn't have motivation to go to the library solely to return their existing books. Once they have a fine they don't want to pay and they can't check out the new books, there's no motivation for them to ever return. Historically, there would be: people tended to have a sense of duty and shame so that they'd do the right thing and return the book even if it made them feel bad and they couldn't afford the fees and couldn't use the library anymore, but now I guess nobody has that kind of super-ego anymore.

Removing fines encourages those people to re-engage with the library system, but I expect it messes with book queues and makes them worse.

Libraries were already struggling to budget book acquisitions. Increasing demand by changing policies so more people use the libraries will only make it more difficult to fund book acquisitions to meet demand.
I find this pretty funny - I can't imagine carrying more than two cards around with me on a daily basis. In fact one is just a backup.

I do of course have many more cards; one of the downsides of the credit system in the US is how you have to game it to improve your credit. But for the most part those stay in the drawer.
It might give somebody enough information to decide not to work for that CEO.
Now when people get mad about one AT&T own property, they can consume the other AT&T owned property to feel agreed with.

This is like turbotax selling tax software while lobbying against simpler tax setups. Or Facebook boasting about being a townhall while optimizing for being a barbaric colosseum.

Business as usual for unfettered capitalism!
> Also, if by hearing the oncoming traffic you mean that you've tried ANC headphones while driving

I don't drive. I meant avoiding being hit by a car because of the tire noise being cancelled.
It does show a lack of care though.

I think OP's point is that rather than some authoritative oracle, this guy is just a guy.

He makes interesting points, but take them all with a grain of salt.
I’ve always formatted my SQL like this, but I don’t remember learning it from anyone else or seeing anyone else do it.
I don't see how they could make it work other than banning surveillance cameras in public spaces. I think it's hard to prove someone is using facial recognition - he might send data over a network, into the cloud, and analyze there. Web apps are black boxes, you don't know what's going on in there.
Curious if any of these are enterprise- ready, with KMS/BYOK, log shipping, tenancy, and SSO features required for fintechs, etc.
> If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media?

A community, or if you prefer, a community of communities. That part is essential.
Do they have an allowance? Let them "deposit" it with you in return for interest.

Or let them "invest" it, in return for a greater allowance in the future.

Make it clear to them that if they do certain specific chores, you'll pay them for it. Do not force them to do the chores, simply make getting paid for doing it an option.

Bring them in to the monthly discussion of the families finances

Basically you need to gamify personal finance.
It means there is a higher probability of being stupid.
This is unfortunately quite true. My wife is hard of hearing. Thankfully, the devices are covered by insurance, but that is arguably part of the problem as it just subsidizes extortionary pricing. We're talking near ten grand for something that is technically impressive, but not any more than normal ANC headphones, and they haven't improved much while all other audio processing devices continue getting better. And insurance didn't cover it until a little over a decade ago, leaving her functionally deaf for most of her life when she didn't need to be.

This kind of thing has a serious chilling effect on people, too. I can see it in the way I entered the software industry and decided to become an engineer after leaving the Army. I skyrocketed past her within a few years to the point I'm earning more than double what she does now and she's been doing it for 20 years. I puzzled for years over why she seems to so consistently get ignored and doesn't advocate for herself until I realized the obvious reason. She's been sitting in meetings and having face-to-faces with people for decades in which she couldn't hear what they were saying and she learned to just stay quiet and nod along, so no one has ever noticed her. It's a lifelong habit now leading to self-doubt, low self-esteem, peers thinking you're stuck up or unfriendly or even stupid. None of it had to be that way.
For price & ease of use, https://divjoy.com/ would probably be where I'd start. The community and support are great.

https://nodewood.com/ Is another option that I've come across. I've seen usegravity previously but the price is outrageous. As a developer I don't want to pay that much of a premium for stuff I could do myself. Saving a little bit of time, sure. But not at that price.
That's not for data you Will actually use. You are only including one of the many cysts ( egress and retrieval) + it's really slow.

Cloudflare brings R2 to the edge.
You don't defeat alcoholism by giving up a type of liquor. You can't quit Vodka and switch to Tequila and expect to have a different experience. Quitting Facebook/Instagram hurts FB but doesn't do much to help yourself when you do the same things on TikTok.
"By the grace of God almighty, and the pressures of the marketplace, the human race has civilized itself" -- Roger Waters, /It's A Miracle/, _Amused_To_Death_
> substantial programs (thousands of lines)

Well, yes, with incredibly tiny programs like that, it's possible to be bug free. With real world programs that often run to 100x-1,000x that size, you aren't going to completely avoid bugs just by thinking carefully about what you write.
Do lots of devs not re-read the code they write? Darn, I re-read my code probably 10 times.
No but it does if you are writing a essay on the economy. And since this is a service that provides "snapshot" articles on the world, spelling is important.
You have "like 20 different credit cards"? I live in Europe and I don't know anybody who would have more than 4-6 cards total. Granted, it's an anecdotal proof, but I really have hard time imagining any of my friends having more than 8 cards in their wallets. Is it somehow a US thing?
The title says "Reuters Special Report", but it really means "Launch of Pressure Campaign against AT&T to Cancel Bad-guy News Channel".

OAN is also a competitor to Reuters (origin of the hit piece) and Mediate (booster of hit piece in the article). Whatever you think about OAN, and even leaving the ideological differences aside, there's something so perfect about using your own news channel to bash your competitor as a "self-styled news channel" and "far-right" that needs to be taken off the air.

A alternate-universe mirror image of this article basically writes itself, delineating how the US government funds "far-left" NPR, or how various foundations and venture capitalists helped build whatever other news sites that have reported falsehoods or incited violence, and that they all need to be defunded.
Are you guys (other commenter) are professional pentesters? How do you become one? Do you freelance or work full time 8-5?
This article asks:

> What information would you intrinsically not want anyone else to find out about?

And then injects a "subscribe" nag that says:

> my email address is...

I thought this juxtaposition was funny.
Why? One word: Money.

Facebook pays their engineers well, and the lifestyle from that salary is too good to give up.
When you can no longer transparently explain the reasoning behind a decision made based on the statistics, and instead have to just shrug and say “because the model told us so”. Accountability is very important in this issue.
How do you balance that with the cases where Governments (extra-US/federal/state/local) have been implicated in correspondence with private businesses to obtain takedowns of politically unpopular positions?

This gives the appearance of a Freedom of Speech issue, but it is actually more complex than that.
F11 in Firefox gets rid of all of it.
Gopher =/= the web
The addiction process has a mental component that in some people is stronger than the physical addiction. This seems more a thread on addiction and bad habits vs aligning the technical specs of each issue.
Yeah, agree. I'm arguing for disintermediation of the community from the corporate entity attempting to squeeze as much value out of the community as possible (and in the process, being a hot potato from one company to the next). Communities deserve better (Stackoverflow and Wikipedia come to mind), and the technology primitives are stupid simple. Perhaps I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow lately!
Nothing really, I think people are turned into politicians because most of them have no idea how to run a campaign as its pretty specialized knowledge. They rely on campaign managers to really do everything. Again, while I like Yang or at least the platform he espouses, I am not going to vote for his party because I expect massive change or some sort of feel good reaction. I just want a viable third party to balance the other 2 parties that I currently am very much not a fan of. A third party will optimally bring the other 2 parties closer to center which is where I am. Right now I just vote for the party I dislike the least. If the end result is a 3rd party I dislike but less than the other two then that's an improvement.
I'm surprised this doesn't start with qemu on a Real Computer for building/testing.
It sounds like you're big on churning/optimizing rewards but I believe that you represent a tiny proportion of the population. The average US consumer has 4 credit cards (I only have one), so 6-8 slots seems like plenty.
Facebook: Hey, did you know that anger creates more engagement?! I'm so brilliantly evil!

AT&T: Oh please. Wait until you read my book "Destroying Democracy for Profit".
I interviewed with Wasmer a few weeks ago. It wasn't enough time to get a real inner view into the company but I saw enough to give me pause. They set up an interview for 3 hours, which stretched into 4 hours. During this interview both interviewers had to leave at points to attend other meetings.

After this, they wanted another interview. Sure, I guess one 3 hour interview isn't enough. They first scheduled it in the middle of the night my time, but meh time zones are hard. Most egregiously, the interview was to work on the wasmer runtime and fix a bug. Put politely, wasmer is an evolving codebase at a startup. Basically, it's not in the most clean state.

This was a bug involving a virtual file system using WASI. I was fortunate enough to be somewhat equipped to handle this bug. I've sat in on WASI meetings; I remember my file systems; and I've touched a lot of raw WebAssembly. It was still freaking hard as hell. Not to mention, the bug turned out to actually be two bugs sitting next to each other, and partially caused by an unused variable which Rust should warn you about, except for some reason they turned that warning off. Oh yeah and the CEO tried to argue with me about whether Rust warns you for unused variables. Yeah dude, anybody with half a second of experience in Rust can tell you that.

That interview took 2 hours stretching into 3.

After that fun experience, they asked me for yet another interview. I'm sorry but if you're a seed startup hiring anybody with qualifications, you do not get to give me two, 2+ hour long grueling interviews, then ask about a third. You do not get to give me a question that you only solved in the middle of the interview. Your job is to convince me to work for you as much as it is my job to convince you to hire me. Don't waste my time. If you think I'm stupid or lazy or whatever, just reject me.

Maybe it was because I was tired and irritable, but the spirit of the interview did not feel like a collaborative "let's solve this together", but more a "let's see if you're as smart as me". Which just sucks man. I want interviews to be encouraging and emotionally healthy, not just grueling beat downs.

One last petty tidbit, I find it really disingenuous how the CEO markets himself as a "mathematician". I asked about it in the interview and the dude had an undergrad degree in math. Maybe this is my elitism showing but an undergraduate degree is not enough to call yourself a mathematician. There's so much damn work that you need to do to get a PhD. I got pretty damn far in undergraduate math and I still only know a fraction of a fraction of what a PhD knows.
It is actually about freedom. Basically when you have more choices, marriage is not something you do automatically when you reach the age. Marriage is stronger when people are financially weak. In poor countries, marriage can happen in very young age because of the financial benefit of it.
> Purportedly, the unnamed inventor of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) brought a drinking bowl made of the material before Tiberius Caesar. The bowl was put through a test to break it, but it merely dented, rather than shattering. The inventor repaired the bowl easily with a small hammer, according to Petronius. After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man executed. He feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
He writes further down that he was handling founder-level responsibilities. That’s actually part of his complaint about his workload.

If he has the title of co-founder within the company, describes himself as co-founder in his blog, and was responsible for founder-level activities then I think it’s clear that he was, indeed, a cofounder.

I sympathize with his experience, but I also think we need to be careful about letting someone claim the prestige of a cofounder title while disclaiming the responsibilities that come with that title.
Apple should give everyone equal access, no special deals with special companies to access private APIs.

If an Apple application can access an API then this API should be accessible to competitors.

I am expecting some comment asking about security, the answer is Apple should have the money and talent to handle this(though with latest reveals security needs more attention). Applications can access your clipboard, your files, your photos , you tell the user that say "This Sudoku game wants access to your photos" and the user should answer but it would be even a better experience if the review process would actually work on those dudes won't just complain about links colors and other superficial shit.

Imagine your reaction if "Only Microsoft can create antivirus,firewall, browser,VM software for Windows because security and think about my mom)