skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same productivity hack as the piles of stuff around my house I'm never going to use.
Are there any specific parts of her testimony that you disagree with?

From what I have seen, everything she has said tracks correctly, and does not go outside her realm of knowledge.

She has limited her focus very clearly, for example on FB prioritizing reshares vs a known increased risk of violence.

So she is in perfect position say that FB has chosen to prioritize growth over user safety.
Ask HN: What's the simplest way to make a rudimentary matching algorithm?
An example application for matching would be finding housemates based on shared interests, distance from some point on a map, etc.

Any low-code/no-code tool suggestions to visualize, jerry-rig the matching would be appreciated.
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> it's open source, so you can audit it

Programming languages exist, so you can make your own decentralized encrypted instant messaging app.

There is democracy, so you can be the president.

Everyone in the family has legs, so we won't need a car.
There are many companies that don't want to hire people over 40. I applied to the same company with 2 identical profiles, in one I gave my real age and in one 10 years less, I got invited to an interview on one profile and rejected immediately on the other.

Even my company rejects experienced hires if the job description is not specifically mandating senior-level experience. I just hired one such person that is a bit over 50 years old, I had to fight HR on this.
This disagreement results from your inability to accept a definition to work from (ie.: the premise).
I think it means ‘user-friendly’ cheap which is different than cheap. I don’t see gnome to be user friendly much and don’t even get me started on windows on mobile. iPadOS on the other hand is something 2 year olds or someone who has never used a computer can get used to in hours.
In my experience, a debugger is most helpful when you are unsure of the behavior of the language or libraries or machine on which you are working. It shows you what happens at various levels and validate or invalidate your assumptions or what you were led to believe.

Sitting and thinking on the other hand, is best for dealing with errors in your own thinking. Ideally, we should have a well-thought-out argument for why something will work, so when it doesn't, our argument needs to be refined.
Shouldn't people be free to do whatever they want with their own life? I think that if he valued his principles more than his life, he should be free to do so.
The media. This was a huge international story.
I am not surprised in the least, I think extremely highly of Patrick the CEO as he is very well read and imo is probably one of the most rounded leaders in tech. Just look at his booklist:
https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf

I assume this thoughtfulness matriculates down the organization where these high quality write ups originate.
With timescale you still have to deal and think about database connections, nodes and what not. IMO, a truly serverless database is something like dynamodb which just gives you an HTTP endpoint and they take care of the rest.
Tim Cook’s Staff Memo on 10th Anniversary of Jobs’s Death
All today. I have been trying to carefully craft searches on Google and Stack Overflow. I wish Google Code Search were still around, or that Github code search were better.
The law, in its majesty, forbids both the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges.
Or one tab starts leaking memory like crazy after some time (looking at you Jenkins).
Digital crack is a perfect way to describe this. I'm sure someone clever enough can write some great legislation for this. The issue is that so many industries are beholden to relying on digital crack. You might get one senator who wants this, then 99 others who are getting flooded with calls from every major employer in their district telling them to vote no. I wish we had stronger government that wasn't so susceptible to having anything good for the public exploited to make a few people very wealthy. Then again we've never had this sort of public first government in the history of our nation, its sort of always been like this out of design whenever I learn more about our history.
Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race
Yeah this appears to just be some embarrassing things but nothing outright illegal or really even surprising. What company doesn't have embarrassing secrets they'd rather not be leaked? None that I've worked at anyway, and none of those were evil.
We want ramenporn
my point was, people who work for 2 years at FAANG, in 1 company, far from understand the complete scope. I did not mean she was 2 years into her career

It can take 6 months to just fully understand what a 7 person team does

After 2 years at Facebook, does she really understand the full strategy 4 levels above her? Her leak is super important, but she doesn't have all the answers the media is claiming she does
I'm going to reply with a comment stolen from a different HN discussion:

The fact that people (myself included) have 100s of tabs open is a symptom of just how broken bookmarking is on the modern web. Bookmarks are a miserable way to create a placeholder for your thoughts. It's too static, must be maintained, and generally prone to link rot.

I'm a scientist. I open and read 10-20-100 links for a given topic depending on if I'm coding or if I'm writing my own papers. These pages are often very temporary for me, in the sense that maybe I'm browsing documentation and the exact place in the documentation that I'm visiting changes in time. Or maybe I initially believe a paper will be relevant to future work but I haven't read it and would like to get back to it in some time. I could spend the mental overhead of keeping an organized bookmark system that changes with these workflows day in and day out... or... I could just leave the tabs open. Guess which I choose? I have a laptop with 64Gb of ram for a reason. Although firefox is pretty fantastic these days in terms of resource usage.
Both those groups of people. I imagine, they would either be accused of it being either too complicated or dumbed down, so they do both in the same article.
I can't see her being a coder going forward. She is globally famous for taking a stand (from a very technically informed perspective) on policy issues. A smart company would hire her to be in a very public facing position, that will reflect upon themselves positively.

Obviously, a company that has a huge amount to hide isn't going to want to hire her.
>> It sounds like you think only wealthy property owners should have the right to vote...

> Yes, or something like that....

> And we are at the tail end of it now when all these people not just vote, but can also make use of free speech...

Do you also think it's a bad thing for people who aren't wealthy property owners to have free speech rights as well?
> What will you see? 24-7, Emotionally charged "Breaking News" which is simply a different fruit from the same horrible tree.

Right, but we know what they are showing people. We have no idea what Facebook is showing people. There's no equivalence there. Yes, both are bad, but in the context of these leaks equating Facebook to CNN is delusional deflection.
It’s not the state “deciding” it’s the state requiring compensation for the negative externalities created by the product. You’re more than welcome to smoke cigarettes if you so chose. But that decision isn’t made in a vacuum and it impacts the rest of us in the form of increased public health burden, insurance costs, secondhand smoke, etc. A “sin tax” serves not only to discourage the asocial behavior (we’d have a big problem if everyone made the same choice) but also to pay your fair share of the costs of your decision.
If my employer wants me to use a piece of software then they have to provide the hardware on which it will run. Then it isn't a problem for the employee what hardware it runs on.
I still don't get it. Then again I'm not too much of a bright programmer.

However Elixir has been paying the bills for 5 years now, so... meh.
To stalk a single person is a crime; to stalk a billion is a business model.
>> To clarify, can you specify exactly what law you would like made? What do you want to be done exactly?

Honestly, social media issues are for the most part a parenting issue. If you don't have access to your kids phone, or know what platforms they are on and who they are talking to and what they're sharing, I'm not sure legislating social media is going to do much of anything. New platforms will pop up, more private networks will be started and suddenly, everything becomes to fragmented to really oversee.

I would create laws that have teeth and address issues like bullying, doxxing, SWATING and other ways people weaponize social media against other people. You start to put some teeth into laws where people are facing serious consequences for bullying and pushing people to suicide, then you might see some changes.
> The gaming industry would like to have a word

And I would like to have a word with them. They've been given free reign to turn our kids into absolute digital junkies (this is coming from a self-diagnosed sometimes-addict who realizes these kids are on another level), deliberately dangling carrots that reward 24/7 engagement in the activity.

> digital entertainment isn't as easy to publicly mark as 'bad' as drugs were

Definitely true. We need a way to differentiate between Super Mario Brothers and Mega Crack Force Gacha Legends Online.
zulip, xmpp-based ie ejabberd, and matrix are systems you can pull inspiration from.

For the dead switch, you can `touch` a file weekly/daily/hourly. If that file's timestamp hasn't been updated, run your wipe script.
Hey; what do you mean by "force"? I mean, to me this reads like you don't want to see italic nor bold font in the terminal (due to lag of monospace support in that regard maybe).

But I think having the possibility of italic, bold, bold+italic in the TE is a very good thing. And if you do not want that I think Kitty allows you to just use another font then; please correct me here, but I think that is configurable. Bold text in the TE world is yet another heated discussion. Some people like it bold, some people like the color to be intensified instead when using `SGR 1` (which is responsible for making font intensified/bold).
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I've heard that some of the "free speech" "social networks" are similar ops.
of course if one person can knock down an entire global system through a trivial mistake the problem is obviously not the person to begin with, but the architecture of the system.
OP isn't suggesting what Jobs did should be disallowed. Merely they are expressing disappointment in what was probably a poor decision healthwise.
I’ve never been a course instructor, but I imagine the best would be something where the creators own a slice of the overall pie (share in the company).
It is both good and bad that we don't seem to have more data on near death experiences. I mean actual research on mental impact and so on. I see some articles but the ones I found are relatively old.

Anecdotally, I had 3 NDEs and as the adage goes in the immortal words of Dr.House nearly dying changes everything for about three weeks. And it sounds about right in retrospect. I returned to normality fast. It sobered me enough to survive, but not enough to redefine my whole world around me in terms of domestication.

I don't want to assume, but I think you are extrapolating to a society from a single encounter. It would seem you over-corrected.

Just to further complicate this discussion, as an atheist, I do not yelp 'sweet entropy'. But it goes back to my original point. Things are complicated and you are making them more complicated by pretending they are simple:P
No no no, this one is actually genius. The cost to send an email some one who doesn't know you (and has a real, functioning email) becomes too high to do casually in terms of the base resource (CPU time), I literally could not spam even if I wanted to without throwing absurd resources at the problem, which presumably would also make detection and correction easier if some of these elder-abusing rackets are more profitable than that. But! I could still send you a real email.

It would come down to numbers of course on whether it was actually a good idea, and one of those numbers would have to be "how much work needs to be done before your average spam calling scammer is no longer profitable", but as it stands if there is a number sufficient for that that still allows for regular emails, then the incentive to burn machine time on sending out mass-emails is effectively removed.
I think people have done experiments with gasoline exposed to open air or with a chamber of air and even then it is quite difficult to ignite, especially if the bullet has nothing to impact against, but travels through the vapor.
Internal sabotage. Lot of people inside want to burn the place down.
> Those data centers come in different forms.

It's like the birds and the bees.
These seem like awkward things to encode into law in a durable way. Laws are long-term blunt instruments, banning something like infinite scroll will have all kinds of unintended consequences.
A monad, as thought of in programming, is really something that requires higher kinded types.

The reason they are hard to explain in a language without HKT is the same reason why List[T] would be hard to explain in a language without generics.

edit: The article is impressive. It's just it feels like a different thing to me to than what monads are in haskell. I guess it would have to be.
The money (probably crypto dust) should be burned instead of sent to the receiver. There should be just a proof of payment (or proof of burn). Could also be replaced with a proof of work for some hashing that the computer do.
Sure, ok, if we’ve completely dropped the facade… why not make it a $2 trillion dollar coin? Maybe we get a powers of two economy and my binary skills become very handy outside of embedded programming.
This is great for that particular supplier, but an order for a larger quantity will just squeeze the inventory of every other supplier even more.

The problem is that we are trying to squeeze blood out of a rock. Demand exceeds supply, and it takes years to scale supply up. It doesn't matter if we are using JIT or not, the suppliers for the bottlenecks have all been working at 100% since essentially the start of the pandemic.
I bought The Dream Machine ended up looking for an electronic version because the type in the book was too small.

I highly recommend the book because it really is a beautiful object, but if your eyesight ain't what it used to be, read it on your Kindle. Either way, read it. I'm pretty sure if you like HN, you will enjoy the book.
But is it a publicly hosted slack, or does apple host it themselves?
You can experiment with a self-hosted version for free, indefinitely
Hi Adrein, thanks for the amazing framework!

I used Streamlit to build a small prototype and without any prior knowledge, I was productive within a couple of minutes! Really impressed with how simple and easy to learn you've made it.

I think Streamlit might be a good platform to build internal apps, only thing missing is a way to provide authentication. Is this something on your roadmap?
From the article:

> They’ll be able to vote, too, but their franchise is limited. Residents elect only five of the council’s nine members. Landowners vote for two of the five, with voting power pegged to acreage. Buy more land, buy more votes. Próspera’s founders choose the four remaining council members, and a six-member supermajority is needed to alter policy.

So... feudalism.
>I mean there are infinite rules to play with in that sense. That's what excites me about crypto.

Its pretty clear they also like to think about math, so you can probably answer why they don't 'just' do the thing you're asking yourself.
No. I want to see c-level, senior vp's, and around them start answering questions. Now that its in congress, subpoenas are pretty easy
Android client by "evilcorp.ltd"? Maybe not the most reassuring name.
My nintendo DS from 15 years ago gave me an eye strain warning every time i started it up and it doesn't always cause eye strain, only misuse does and I know that thanks to the informative banner.
Why a coin? It has to be a note because the coin+platinum could be a PR nightmare as people would do the math and realize that the amount of platinum in the coin is not worth 1 trillion dollars.

I know that even for small coinage the value we assign to them is arbitrary, but for the public it doesn't matter because it's just change.

If they want to use this solution they need to print a 1 trillion note, that would be in line with the arbitrarily assigned value to the smaller denomination notes.
"Billion dollar corporation selects and grooms political candidates."

But phrase it as "empowers young people to run for office", and suddenly increased corporate meddling in politics seems great!
I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”.

The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left.

There were misses under Steve like the Cube where there wasn’t a market. But the product was great. Now there is a market but the product is middling like the Watch. Yes the watch was started when he was still there but it has stagnated.
New to Python – How to manage architecture choices
While FB no doubt contributed to the Jan 6 riot, it's too simple and tidy to blame it on social media. There is a complex web of factors, including interpretation of the Constitution, view of history, fear of tomorrow if the other side takes over, frustration with a sense of powerlessness, etc.

Frankly, the Jan 6 episode is not all that different from the BLM riots last year, in that their causes are analogous and the sense of powerlessness led to rioting.
What I want implemented.. Chrome/Firefox whatever... is that instead of unloading and reloading when I go back to the tab I want it to export basically an HTML file and when I click back to that tab, I want it to reload the HTML file instead with some notification/marker that it is a "cached" version. There are times where I'll leave a tab in the background that I don't want refreshed but when it gets unloaded, poof, I lose the original data from that page.

I know about Chrome and its ability to prevent discards, but I want this to be the default or at least a toggle option. I don't mind the unloading of the tab, I just get annoyed when it reloads.
> “It is outrageous that this company would think that they have intellectual rights property to their grandmother’s cells. Why is it they have intellectual rights to her cells and can benefit billions of dollars when her family, her flesh and blood, her Black children, get nothing?”
> It was misinformation to say that the virus COULD have come from a lab.

No, and in my experience this is not how things were presented. It _is_ misinformation to suggest that that is the likeliest explanation or to imply that we have a good reason to think so.

At a higher level, there's also the question of context, and the question of what the appropriate forum for such discussion is, and what is productive or non-productive geopolitically.

But it's not misinformation to float the idea and explore the possibility.
Sounds like they need a "free without uncompressing" feature.
My understanding is that the 1st order disruption is long-over. The factories and ports are all back online, etc. two years out all that’s left is the ripple effects of the original ~6 month disturbance. It’s just that those ripples are amplified by the way the supply chain operates (just in time).
People are genetically programmed to look after children for the long term benefit of the species.

It's so programmed in we think baby lions are cute.
I'm not surprised G+ wasn't brought up earlier. What a failure
Can someone explain why minting a platinum coin is in any way more effective than writing "IOU $1 Trillion" on a napkin?
This is what got me so excited because I ensure my PRs have a user-friendly markdown Added/Fixed/Changed style. Can't wait to test this out for my next release.
Typical for hardware at that time
So, how does it compare to DabbleDB?
IIRC on Linux, it overcommits when allocating, so you can keep mallocing memory beyond capacity and it won't actually fail until you go to use that memory.
The problem is, very often the law is unable to keep up, especially on technical issues. And even when it does, sometimes is way too late. Gates knew it when he asked to implement the AARD code - yes, they were sued, but they settled out of court and made the competitor's product irrelevant. A lot of Microsoft behavior in the 90s was just this: they could get away with it, but it simply didn't feel right.
That is the problem of following the absolute minimum standards in life - we (the society as a whole) have accepted that as long as businesses follow the law, its all good. We've accepted that the sole purpose of businesses is to make money within the bounds of the law. While this makes sense logically, it isn't good for anyone in the long run, practically. Also remember that all kinds of unfair laws can be passed, if you have enough money to buy politicians.

We should strive for higher standards, but who am I kidding - we live in a world of "greed is good" mantra.