skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of nitpicking, red light energy is around 2eV, while for blue light around 2.5eV, it's not like it's a very sensitive difference.

UV is much higher energy, in the range of 40 eV~.
Some meta feedback to the OP: please test your site on mobile. I wanted to read what you wrote but got tired of scrolling endlessly to the right in the block quotes so I gave up.
It is not a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I’m guessing the hive mind largely lurks and doesn’t post or comment.
The book Infinite Jest is centered around a video that, if watched, renders the watcher incapable of doing anything else but attempting to re-watch the video.

It’s a fascinating work.
That's wierd. Any server I run on wsl side can be accessed via localhost from Windows side. Been like this since the beginning of wsl if I'm not mistaken.
I experienced this too. Thank god for having a noisy HDD or I never would have noticed.

I fixed it by replacing the software_reporter_tool.exe with a blank file named "software_reporter_tool.exe" and setting it to read-only.
You have to know what the businesses are doing so you can emulate their success. Also adjust your stock portfolio.
In my mind, and I acknowledge YMMV: Without doubt, FB and websites similar to FB are responsible for all the evil in this world. I know they are making money - and while they continue to make money, they will continue to be in the business of facilitating evil in the world. Of course there are good things that comes out of it, but nowhere close enough to offset the problems it creates.

Now if FB stops doing what it is doing, another company will take the lead, so I guess ultimately it's a problem that we can never get away from.

Having said that, FB is the current leader in facilitating evil, so I hate them for that and will never work for them. Ever.

Thanks for reading.
This is an article from 2018.
Yeah, it's pretty clear in some financial news stories. One tell is how quickly they come out. The prose is along the lines of:

"Microsoft underperformed the market on Monday while Apple rose 0.3%. The DOW rose 0.6% ..."

It's just statistics dressed up with some word salad.
"While Zuckerberg promised that thefacebook.com would boast new features by the end of the week, he said that he did not create the website with the intention of generating revenue. "

http://web.archive.org/web/20050403215543/www.thecrimson.com...

This is very much like the promise that Page and Brin made in their early 1990's paper announcing Google. How easily the idealism gave way to greed. These kids were never suited for management, let alone leading a large organisation. There was no "business plan". Even today, they still fall back on advertising. Competition is far too challenging.

There is likely no person on the Facebook dole who wants to "fix" the problem of Facebook if it means losing their paycheck, bonus and stock options. On the contrary, it stands to reason these people will be compelled to act in the interests of self-preservation, which means the preservation of "the business" (high surveillance advertising). The reply from the recruiter is perhaps an example of such desperation.

Bill Gates was recently interviewed on PBS News Hour about his relationship with Jeffery Epstein. His answer seemed reminiscient of the younger Gates. Getsuring with his hands, we can see his wedding ring is gone. Perhaps he has come full circle, he is who he always was. He refused to disclose what he knew. He was apparently told to say he regretted having the meetings, which he repeats several times. Eventually after evading more questions, he is asked if he learned from the mistakes of the past, and his reply is "Well, he's dead..." and then he tries to play up his role in philanthropy. His kids are likely afraid to speak out.

https://archive.org/download/youtube-LNAwUxZ5nfw/LNAwUxZ5nfw...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gates-asked-what-he-knew-...

IIRC, back when he was active on HN, PG was a staid Zuckerberg fan. I also recall HN commenters claiming that Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" comment referring to Facebook's early users, his fellow classmates, was no longer representative of the person who made it. I wonder if he can do better than Bill Gates in interviews.
I like to think of Facebook as a niche horse girl forum and analyze all criticisms of it through that lens. Why should we care about how this strange site is run?
"Hacker" isn't an absolute term. This site is what it is (a community). I think it's bizarre to make an appeal to a dictionary definition in order to shift the culture of said community. If you want to see more of X, Y, or Z, submit it. That's it.
Comparing Lebanon to the poorest country in Europe, Moldova, show at least one interesting fact besides the GDP drop.

The defence expenditure is more than US$ 2 billion higher per year in Lebanon while it is nearly non-existent in Moldova.

It seems absurd to uphold that kind of expenditure, but it's likely a direct consequence of the historical conflict in the region.

Source:
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/lebanon/moldova
Everyone wants to break up Facebook back into Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp. I don't think that would really solve any of these issues.

I think we're thinking about this the wrong way - we should break up Facebook the same way we broke up Bell into baby Bells. Make "Facebook" a utility. Split Facebook into five different companies, maybe some not even in the US. Each "Facebook" company would have to provide Facebook service to a subset of current users. Allow new people to run Facebook providers.

Unhappy with the customer service from your current Facebook provider, or with the quantity of ads? Don't like the algorithm that's running your timeline? Switch to one of the other providers who may do things differently. Create competition in this market where there simply isn't any.

Some people will point out this forces all these providers to interoperate somehow, so users on one Facebook provider can talk to users on another. This is a really great part of this plan! Our social networks become based on open standards and interoperability instead of being walled gardens.
indeed. sigh. i'll have to start quoting comments to retain context. it adds noise tho =/
I've never used Facebook but I would never think of naively dismissing their impact on the world.
Nope. You can see a preview of what Jeff's talking about with iOS Chrome, which has already done its own iOS-ification (de-materialization?)

Also, the existing MDC components are already built on top of UIKit - things like MDCButton is a UIButton subclass (with a lot of stuff added on). Same for textfields, collectionview cells, etc. There's no from scratch reimplementation of Apple's UI components that I'm aware of, just extensions to make the Material design stuff happen.
Is anyone aware of an open-source smart plug or smart outlet with a public API? ...That doesn't assume a big-tech integration?
Please read other comments in the thread.
It's extremely frustrating that IT policy in large corporations is the same for say clerical stuff and software engineering. Down to buying the same hardware for ease of management when it makes no sense because of the use cases being so different.
$1B+ project in Queensland to double world's green hydrogen production capacity
> More seriously ... can someone explain the point of this?

According to RMS, a hacker is "someone who enjoys playful cleverness, especially in programming but other media are also possible."

This seems to me a perfect example of the Hacker ethos. There isn't a real point (that I see) except to have some fun. For the record, I have daydreamed of porting a kernel to WebAssembly, however, I have not (yet) "perfected my skills as a programmer".

I don't think there needs to be a "point" to all programming projects for everybody.
Moldova has a "frozen conflict" where Russia is holding a fair fraction of their territory hostage. It's less bad than Ukraine, but still a problem.
Well I just did
This has been in the works since what, the 80s?
Actually, archive.org is already easily downloadable, in that you can already help host the dweb copy.

archive.org, available via webtorrent:
https://dweb.archive.org/

It's pretty slow, though.
"Thanks Brexit"... and not "thanks worldwide supply chain disruption partially caused by a pandemic and ridiculous overreaction to it".
ECS was pretty lame. I remember messing around with the 1280x200 and x400 modes. What a bizarre aspect ratio.
I was trying to find a good life hack for not wrinkling clothes while packing for travel.

One memorable “hack” was to have them professionally pressed when you arrive at your hotel.

I suppose there is a hack spectrum based on income.
If you follow the link, the article that NPR is quoting is more specific: "...the economic and financial crisis is likely to rank in the top 10, possibly top 3, most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century." The rest of the article gives the figures on the plummeting GDP and rising misery.
Lebannon apparently not the examplar of antifragility that Nassim Taleb made it out to be.
If Web3 is the solution, what is the problem?
> “We are supportive of Lebanon as long as they get the
reforms right and they are not a proxy state for Iran,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week"

This seems sensible to me; we will help you if you become a friend instead of an enemy.
> Editor's note: Facebook is among NPR's financial supporters and since publishing her book, The Art of Screen Time, Kamenetz's husband took a job with Facebook. He works in an unrelated division.
KSA subsidized Lebanon for a long time already, but they got fed up with them a few years back.
The Reddit page loads without issues on Android with the Chromium-based Brave browser.

It sounds like Reddit and iOS is a really bad combination.
It is curious to me that it seems okay to defer to the author's assumption that Satoshi is a singular person, while at the same time denouncing how they refer to that person. You are okay with one uncertain assumption but not another. I think if you are willing to defer to the author here that benefit of the doubt should extend to the rest of their writing.

However, if we assume that Satoshi is a singular person, how do you suggest we refer to pseudonymous individuals whose gender and identity are unknown? Again, is it acceptable that I insist on referring to you as she/her without knowing who you are?

Assuming that it is the chosen, gendered name-on-the-internet that matters, if I were born biologically male but then undergo a sex change procedure and then and adopt a feminine name like Jane Smith in my work, would it be acceptable in your eyes to refer to me as she/her by default? Surely in this case, he/him or they/them would be unacceptable, if I follow your logic correctly.
Every comment seems to be Arrington saying “This is why we can’t have nice things”
In what ways is this different than today’s world, where depending on what you want to do (connect with people with similar interests, talk to friends, look at cat videos) there’s a bunch of options for what service to use?
There is no indication that this is due to some recent misbehavior by USDC's issuer, as opposed to an independent decision by the SEC to subject stablecoins in general to its control.
to;dr: no assholes.
Ask HN: Is a 2019 guide for AWS Certified Developer guidebook still up-to-date?
I've been studying the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide for the past few weeks and would like to know if it's up-to-date with AWS.

The book in question is a Packt edition, published May, 2019 (Tankariya/Parmar, Second Edition)

If it's outdated what new resources should I look to? (The book originally cost about $40+, and am not keen on paying for it again if AWS docs can fill in the blanks)

Thank you in advance.
I never said they should pay off all their debts before spending another dime. But managing deficits is important for the reasons laid out. Cashflow management is important in any organisation.
Been seeing a lot more developers jumping from mac to Linux and even windows lately. If something more competitive to M1 comes from amd and Intel we should expect the trend to continue. I think the tide is moving the opposite direction now than 10 years ago.
Yes, the blogpost (and most of the HN comments here) are completely missing the point. This is just about deprecating a library for implementing material design on iOS, not deprecating the design language itself.

It's possible (likely, even) that parts of the design language will become more iOS-y (for example: I would bet that Material 'action sheets' disappear and get replaced with system-default ones on iOS, this has already happened on Chrome for iOS). But the material design language isn't going away.
There is reason to disbelieve it. The text analyses that have been done point at Satoshi being an individual.

Beyond that, if it were a group, they could have used someone as a spokesperson, but then you have a conspiracy of Satoshis, which is less possible. People, and especially geeks, like to talk. Someone would have tripped up by now, or moved bitcoin to fiat.
It's not.

I work with a range of languages - go, rust, python, ruby, and yes even JavaScript. In my 15 years as an engineer most of the engineering teams tasked with a node project I've worked with enjoyed it quite a bit. Those who didn't struggled because they were still learning the more functional patterns used in the node community, and it required some relearning given the languages they came from. In my experience 99% of the time those who express a hatred for node have never programed with it, or lack experience. Now given that there are shortcomings like any tool or language. But hating it - doesn't make any sense to me unless your ignorant of it. It's a fantastic programming environment. By the way if anyone thinks that JavaScript is on the same level as PHP I invite you to visit PHP sadness.
> But first: join our Discord!

yah, no, thanks.
We need a market for content moderation and content curation services.
While blaming Reddit is fair, it is made a lot worse by the closed nature of iOS and Safari.

It seems counter-intuitive that both Reddit and Apple are highly successful companies.
People have been using singular they since at least 1375.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
The issue is that Lebanon is not one coherent socio-ethnic-state, rather a loose conglomeration of diametrically opposed and deeply ingrained mostly-religious-fundamentalists (in government/power).

There is no coherent Lebanon to really even negotiate with, just a bunch of rabid factions playing off each other.

I think it’s actually impossible for ‘Lebanon’ overall to be anyone’s friend without also being their enemy.
YC's SAFE is predicated on the company being organized as a Delaware C-corp. Organization as a Delaware C-corp also provides a framework for the important issues around dispute resolution: there's a board of directors and there are shareholders with voting stock.

A Delaware C-corp also handles intellectual property by virtue of holding (or licensing) it all directly. It handles the allocation of costs the same way.

In a Delaware C-corp, the founders are no more than employees from a legal standpoint. Everything else on the list is properly part of an employment contract and negotiated as such along with all sorts of other things.

Some simple advice: Don't go into business with someone you think you might have to kick out. Don't go into business with someone who you think you will need to lawyer up over their coming onboard full time. If you don't really trust someone, you don't really want to be in business with them.

Good luck.
I'm sure that if not Windows 11, some version further in the future will interpret an inability to phone home as a network disconnect, and warn the user that they are out of compliance with their license agreement and their OS will stop working in 24 hours.
>you are contributing to a system which will grow into being the most effective mechanism, by far, for a bad actor to deploy capital to successfully alter the beliefs, behavior, and choices of your children.

I believe you are actually describing government employees.
The biggest reason newsprint is not going to disappear isn't even in the article.

Newspapers aren't just about news. They're about gossip, infamy, and fame.

Nobody is truly famous until their name and picture has been splashed across the daily newspapers.

Without newspapers, there would be no universal concept of who is famous, and who is not. And everybody needs to know who is famous. That's why newspapers are always going to be around.
… or the other way around. It works fine-ish, better than using Windows directly in any case, for me at least.
Facebook is far less of a gatekeeper than traditional news media.
Astrokelping
Both are still occurring. Either way there are lots of things to dislike about FB but enabling speech isn’t one of them. Mis- and Disinformation are political problems to which democracies are highly susceptible, by design. They’re features, not bugs.
I think it's important to note that the study is not about whether or not Facebook was harmful, but whether the average person thinks Facebook is harmful (or rather if the average registered voter who would volunteer to spend 20 minutes on a survey on Facebook thinks Facebook is harmful). It was just a survey of public opinion.

I personally also think Facebook is harmful.
I'd suggest that even for more mundane problems learning calculus will expand one's ability to think at a higher level. Being exposed to an advanced maths with real theory behind it like calculus gives even the most routine code jockey exposure to concepts and patterns of thinking beyond even the brightest scholars 1000 years ago. Even just the notion of a derivative yields a lot of benefit for basic financial thinking.
Seems we need some kind of decentralized, monetizable (maybe based on crypto-currency) search engine, since this kind of censorship is getting scary.
People were tricked since the dawn of human intelligence, algorithms are just a way.
How else do you think cults or even hitler rose to power.
How do u think Putin is still a president.
How else do u think people are more attached to lines on a map, rather than living in a global brotherhood.
You seem really upset about this. Why does a pronoun choice bother you so strongly?
Maybe you can introduce it to her for me.
I'd say the same goes for scum that work(ed) for other evil companies like EA, too. Don't you agree?
The norm is follow the gender assumption based on the pseudonym. If the person picked a female name, everyone would happily call the person “she”, as it should be. It has nothing to do with the real person’s gender.
Currently, I'd have to recreate my social graph if I move to a different service. With the proposed interoperability, I wouldn't have to.
Vim and Emacs are open source, actively maintained, very capable programming editors.
Please read other comments in the thread first.
Thanks for pointing that out, it's not really in the news.

So both countries have a long standing conflict in common and sadly neither conflict seems to have any chance of being resolved.
Didn’t the baby bells that came out of AT&T all merge back into the new at&t? Notice the capitalizations there representative of their corporate logotype at the respective times in the narrative arc. How could we avoid that happening in 10-20 years?

[edit] Further, im not sure how you’d slice it up horizontally instead of vertically - that is to say Facebook is Facebook for “millennials,” Instagram is Facebook for gen z“. It feels like each of these vertical slices retain the same incentive structure they have today but targeting different demographics.

What could slicing it horizontally look like? An independent infra AWS? A social graph? Curious your thoughts.

I think the problem is the incentive structure - a company goaled on engagement will focus on the most engaging content. That’s hate, division, fear and anger. Without a fundamental reimagination of incentives I think the same beast will emerge. The new T-1000 of corporations - as Colbert referred to at&t at the time.
Gen X Saw Wealth Rise 50% During Pandemic
Multiprocessing requires multiple python processes which are expensive with regards to startup time and resource use. Multiple interpreters give you parallelism without so much overhead.
Agreed, Twitter also brings out the worst of people in short schizophrenic vile without much thought. Reddit’s front page is full of outrage videos. Tiktok sucks people into tiniest echo chambers possible. YouTube comments section is completely insane.

Social media is great if it is limited to say 100 people. When you broadcast to millions, it is toxic.
The services available today don't federate with one another. I can't reply to an Instagram post from my Reddit account, or send a message from WhatsApp to iMessage.

While I'm not sure parent's suggestion is feasible or would solve anything, it is more like the AT&T breakup in that the system is still cohesive, even if operated by separate entities.
Why is the Play Store blocking updates for Termux but not UserLAnd?
I have used and like both Termux ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux ) and UserLAnd ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula ). A while back Termux moved to only providing updates through Fdroid. The technical reasons they provided, I assumed, would effect all similar apps. But recently, UserLAnd started getting new updates. What is UserLAnd doing differently or better that is allowing it to still work and be updated via the Play Store.
Because it’s grammatically inconsistent.
The initial "No" seems unjustified given the author mentions several open versions of the Bible, including the World English Bible.
Upgrade to Windows 11 on PVE
Yes, this tool is very confusing to use. It is hard to tell if the slider has to be red or green to disable something. I have a mix of green and red and with most of them it say recommended "yes". So is my current setting the recommended setting because it say yes or does the yes mean the recommended setting is to disable it? Is disable it then the green or the red knop? This app needs a complete UI redesign to be useful
Yes we should all have such benefactors as the West to seek a means to overspend for the future. Why not borrow a few trillion from a private bank and build a new means of energy.
Ahhh, I see. Good joke, you have my upvote. :)
It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.

I'd much rather read about a startup's postmortem than about some monads-as-a-service library releasing version 14.374.299
to be honest, it seems more dominated by retro-computing and various tech related nostalgia for the over 40 set at the moment.

not complaining at all about this, of course.
Here are some benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows1...

They don't account for disk performance when accessing Windows storage though. If you stick to wsl2 storage paths performance is great.
Yes, but, really, the very pragmatical nature of Le Roux somehow makes me doubt he would have left the initial wallets untouched all these years. He is an interesting character, for sure, but does not seem the kind to not use a big lever at his disposal.
> - Some countries will never achieve prosperity

Which countries these would be?
I've used it without issues for years. I also used Crostini containerized environments on my Pixelbook until I just couldn't stand the terribly inefficient 7th gen Intel processor on it.

At work, we support more than half the team on it. Company gave a stipend to build or BYOD, and a lot of folks opted for Win10 w/ WSL for gaming purposes (afaik, Wine didn't support anti-cheat in several titles until recently?)

For me, being able to confidently use any non-Apple device, have full driver support for touchscreen/wifi/speakers/etc. and maintain containerized development environments, is extremely attractive.