skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20047170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554083

And the one on acquisition by System1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321

It's my choice for "sandbox" browser - as in doing all stuff that I wouldn't want to do on Vivaldi.
> It’s a site run by a private company that you send content to, they analyze it, then they decide what to publish and in what order.

In other words, they are a syndicator.

In the physical world, syndicators remain accountable for what they publish through through their channels. They are not responsible for the material (given they didn't create or commission it), but they sure as hell carry the responsibility for letting the material propagate.

Incidentally, several years back I was talking to FB after they reached out. Visited their office for an informal chat and got to talk to couple of their senior(ish) engineering managers. I asked if they were doing, or planning to do anything like actually educating the users on their platform once they've identified someone having been subjected to propaganda or misinformation campaign. I said that I could imagine working on that type of project.

It's not often that you see a person physically recoil from an idea. "We don't do that!"

As far as I'm concerned, until FB actively fights not only the propaganda being funnelled through their machine, but also its effects on groups and individuals to undo the damage, the company is beyond redemption.
You're right.

I remember two pages of math in a college economic textbook. Reading it, I realized they were doing differentiation by going around the horn. Instead of requiring calculus for the class, they taught it.

Except they never mentioned the words "calculus", "differentiation", or "integration". I suppose they figured those words would dissuade people from the class :-/

The amusing thing is the poor schlubs taking the class would never realize that they'd learned calculus!
Oh great, so Facebook made that genocide happen but I should thank them because they helped me be informed about it after the fact. What a fantastic Facebook world we live in.
...the step from "vaccine requirements on federally regulated transport services" is a hell of a lot closer to "drivers license to operate a car" or "recognized ID to board a plane" than it is to "full China-style surveillance system tracking system that monitor where every citizen is". I think your interpretation of this is hyperbolic.
I'm in a similar position in a non FANG company. I almost made the similar mistake of telling people it was a bad codebase. I did inform my manager though. My manager and I are new hires in the company so it didn't seem like an issue to be vocal to him.

I have seen my manager do the exact same thing as you did. He went to the architect behind the codebase and started complaining and raising hell. Since my manager is on better terms with the higher ups things are swaying towards his end else it'd be a fiasco.

My suggestion is that when you encounter such code bases either go with it or do some small refactors in the smallest of code and say "hey I feel this is a better way to do it. Can you review this?". I have felt this has usually worked for me. Additionally, instead of stating it outright that the code is bad, ask them to explain the code and the reasons behind it. If you are still on good terms and they don't see you as a threat, then you can ask questions and maybe suggest alternatives with a working prototype. This way you still come off as an "honest" person who's trying to do something good. This works in your favor when looked at by your manager and upper management. This is apart from the features that you're tasked to push.

Hope that helps.
I think supporting multiple databases is an antipattern for most software (open source or not). Being able to change the database driver does not qualify as support.

If you really do want to support multiple databases, you need to write code with all of them in mind and test with them, not just leave it to users to find all the bugs when they change the DB driver to something no-one else actually uses.
Resources, and the price per unit.
I'm probably a bit blessed, but I have a voice in all those facets. I think the key for me has been to work on a small product-focused team that defines its own microcosm within the larger org, where the roles aren't too rigidly defined and everyone mostly just does what is needed to move the ship forward.
Personally I prefer good hardware, no installs, no updates, software has a lot of random issues and something like the iPhone doesn't have it, wearing glasses is one and done.
I actually disagree with your read on this.

I think a better analogy to smoking would be "30% of smokers felt that cigarettes caused them to cough chronically" in a survey of people who already had a chronic cough.

That's not the same thing as "smoking causes chronic cough in 30% of people" - rather "smoking makes coughing worse in 30% of people who already had a chronic cough." Maybe they got that from smoking, maybe they didn't, but the data doesn't show that, and it cannot be extrapolated to the general population. More data is needed.

It is in fact a subset of a subset.

[edit] btw 150 people can be enough to draw statistically significant conclusions but you need to properly design your survey and you need a suitably random sampling of your target population. Not sure this has either?
You can have a GUI for that, it's also mentioned in the README:

https://benchtweakgaming.com/2020/11/12/windows-10-debloat-t...
That's fairly constant over time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816110
How do they know that one is not wearing a fake surgical mask then? The obvious conclusion is that parts of the medical establishment are still being dumbasses about masks, two years into the pandemic.
how big is Chia Network, 50 employees? I have a feeling my town's school has more zoom users and provides more revenue to Zoom, Inc then Chia.

It would be very cool if they acquired it tho, and I agree it is a potentially profitable business, but only barely so.
You don't need to, I didn't for a long time with an JS extension (iOS JB). I don't like the layout myself.
Convert base64 string to image flutter
I tried it out, and it's very fast on some websites, but freezes the tab for a few seconds when trying to display others. A bit later (in 15 minutes or so) it completely froze the system toward the end of watching a video leaving the audio buffer to repeat. This is the first time my current Linux laptop has crashed since I got it over half a year ago, so I think it's not a great result for the browser.
+1 to this. You're not going to find a Common Lisp/OCaml/Zig/Derek Lowe thread with 100+ replies ever but you're going to find quality discussion in any thread about them and your questions in those threads will rarely sit unanswered.
You can also replace .gifv with .mp4.

Galleries and albums can be scraped for media; this is pretty much what rimgu is doing.

For social features like comments, you need to use their API which requires an API key. rimgu can be run with an API key to get full functionality or in social-less-mode without.

Let me know if you give it a try :)
because of crap like notepad
I live in a town of 10,000. I have fiber optic internet from my ISP. Less than 500m from my house is a city run fiber network.

I checked the places I've lived for the last 10 years in Vancouver, none of them are eligible for fiber optic.

Rural Canada is much better connected than major cities.

It's not easy to not be trackable in Canada, every highway of any significance has a highway cam. If you really want to live off grid in a tent I suppose you could evade tracking.

For 99% of people, they are easily tracked. Tracking isn't about 100% compliance its about 99% compliance.
* You can't run your distro of choice unless you build it yourself

* Lots of programs don't work properly (citation needed, can't remember specifics)

* You can only run command line programs, although I understand this could be different in Windows 11

My last job mandated windows laptops so I used WSL for a couple of months before I got too frustrated and just ran a virtualbox VM.
True, but poorly designed studies and non-replicated results are also very common. I think if a majority of people find some effect to be anecdotally true I’m their own lives (“using flux makes my eyes hurt less and I fall asleep more easily”) then you should need to meet a high standard of very rigorous science to prove them wrong.
The Cutting Room Floor
> Last I checked on it it had a reputation of being slow and unstable,and its users were mostly people who needed XUL support.

In my testing with it, I found it to be very fast, and a little unstable but the XUL support was a big plus.
> We could also forbid the insecticides killing the bees

It's not so clear they actually are, France banned neonicotinoids in Sep of 2018, but as far as I can tell it has not changed anything in terms of bee deaths in France.

I feel like this natural experiment should be more studied so we can tell if neonicotinoids are the problem or not.
It is 50/50 for me between Carmack and Torvalds. 2/1 if you add Satoshi.
This is a contrived example. Sure yes it can be done but seems hard to work with. It would be hard to debug for example.

For speeding up pure python, the first thing I would do is reach for numpy. It would be interesting to compare the performance of the lua-embedded code with a version using numpy.
Excellent vlog series showing the situation on the streets and talking to locals (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw3AY2PcSIw&list=PLN0FlxE6vY...
You may be on an OS that renders the overline in a not-annoying way.

On MacOS, here's what we see: https://i.imgur.com/c90WOgO.png

I can imagine that this wasn't your intent, and maybe it shows up differently on Windows or Linux. If so, you might want to say so.

(If it was your intent for it to look like that, though, then I agree it's the pedantic equivalent of Zalgo.)
> I tried it out, and it's very fast on some websites, but freezes the tab for a few seconds when trying to display others. A bit later (in 15 minutes or so) it completely froze the system toward the end of watching a video leaving the audio buffer to repeat. This is the first time my current Linux laptop has crashed since I got it over half a year ago, so I think it's not a great result for the browser.

This is very similar to the behavior I saw "random freezes during page load/render" on a different OS.

Overall, it was very fast on my system, except for this specific slowdown activity.
Economist consulting government entities and NGOs on labour and knowledge markets and reforms. No ties to tech other than through hobbies and as a tool for doing my work.

I sometimes wonder if there should be more social science courses in tech studies, seeing that there's a lot of already open doors being barged through by some popular CS papers and discussions... But maybe that's unfair:)
I use "Remote - SSH" to develop on a VM. I try to keep the amount of software I run on my laptop to a minimum to keep it cooler and quieter. I have a VM on my workstation PC at home, which has a much better CPU than my laptop. The VM runs vscode backend, while the laptop runs vscode frontend, slack and a web browser.
It had earlier 64bit builds, but that was then and … now it seems mostly for the niche that are pissed off at the new Firefox tabs and the audacity that Mozilla wants to partner directly with advertisers instead of having Google be the middleman.

Firefox also has some telemetry which Waterfox cuts out.
I recently built a force feedback steering wheel from scratch, and used a 32u4 as the MCU. I started the project a few years years ago, but lost interest in favor of picking up 3D printing. It was a lot easier to finish now that I can make arbitrary 3D shapes. I ended up printing an inline 80:1 two stage gear reduction. Thankfully someone in 2020 implemented the HID PID stack for the 32u4. That dropped the firmware work from probably a month to only a few days. The AVR is a bit long in the tooth; I only get a few hundred loops per second while the USB stack is running. It's plenty fast enough for all the haptic effects to feel good, though. It helped to offload the quadrature decoding to a dedicated IC.

Years ago I made a control panel for Kerbal Space Program, and I used a V-USB based MCU to drive two analog voltage meters as fuel gauges. I also had an Arduino Uno in the control panel, but I used up every single IO pin on it doing a button matrix and LEDs. Enumerating the V-USB MCU is touchy, but once it's up it seems reliable enough to gamble Jeb's life with!
Yes attribution can be hard.

At the same time, if one compares shoveling coal and laying bricks with software, then it'd be good to smash and destroy bricks, throw the coal back into the mine, raze houses. (Reducing the amount of code)

Software would be more comparable to designing the coal mining site, or architecturing a city (but not building it). And then maybe it's simpler to see, that individuals sometimes can have much impact.
Israel beat the US in vaccination rate.

”Israel cast a wide net last year when trying to secure vaccine doses at the height of the pandemic and pre-ordered from a number of companies.”

By April of 2021 it was already giving excess doses away.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/with-enough-suppli...
So the annotation of the slides indicates that the slides have misrepresented the study. For one thing, before pushing any agenda, it would be good to recognize this fact.

(From my perspective, I'm a statistician by training, the misrepresentation is egreggious IMHO. )
"sama" is Sam Altman, who succeeded Paul Graham as the president of YC.
Why did you leave it in the first place?
If requiring a JavaScript extension to make it worthwhile isn't a sign of it being unusable, I don't know what is!

The website is literally unusable - they prevent you from viewing more than a few posts without installing the app.
Trillion*
There's also LibreWolf.
Just take e.g. [0,1]^4 ?
Ah, this article is about visualizing it, ok.
People are on YT literally all day long, for both long and short content. Not true for the other stuff you mentioned.
What makes real Linux by your criteria? Linux the kernel is easy driverless installs of hardware, windows isn’t driverless.
The ORM vs SQL debate is a false dichotomy, at least if you take Hibernate as an example.

You can use a combination of JPQL, native SQL, and object mapping. There's nothing stopping you from mixing and matching.

You can use an ORM to save entities, and using native SQL to retrieve projections, Spring Data makes this easy, as it will do the mapping, if you provide an interface.
An enterprise service bus for node
Governments don't generally pimp you to the highest bidder.[ß]

They flog you to the current Don, calculated to be replaced by a new Don every few years.

ß: Bribery notwithstanding.
NFT Gas Station
Show HN: Snacktime – Photos, videos, and luck
There's an entire book consisting mostly of essays by Mann's colleagues about how crappy the hockey stick is. It's called "A Disgrace to the Profession".
How did Israel gets enough vaccine by April then? Canada had barely started receiving doses then?

I see an awful lot of whitewashing to cover mistakes going on.
What Yelp and Reddit do to mobile clients should get them de-ranked by search engines. It's terrible.
Handling global state in React without Providers and boilerplate
Certainly is neo-EEE as developer "influencers" claim M$ has turned a new leaf
Collect all, decrypt if/when able.
Snacktime is social with a twist. At a random time during your day, Snacktime sends an alert. You have just minutes to capture and share the moment you are in.

There's no time to change clothes.

There's no time for infinite takes to get the perfect shot.

There's no time to run to the beach and pose with a dolphin.

Snacktime is raw, it is messy, it is joyous, it can be sad, and it is genuine.

Can you beat the clock and show the world your authentic side?

My name is Joe and I’m so happy this thing is finally out in the world. It’s been a grueling 3 years of development, 60-70 hour weeks, I learned 8 new languages, culminating in 7 distinct projects and a shocking amount of code written. It is, by far, the largest software endeavor I’ve ever attempted. If Snacktime adds even the slightest bit of joy into the world it will have all been worth it. I can't wait to see how people use it.

Snacktime is currently only available for iPhone. An Android version is coming soon.
It’s not the exact same spike protein.
computer feeding on biomass?

instant memories of Philip K. Dick's novel “The Great C”
Von Neumann was ethnically Jewish and his relatives or friends literally went from respected citizens to extermination in unfathomably short order; so one would not be surprised if his calculus pertaining to collateral damage in decimating the Nazis would be rather unforgiving.
Hard disagree. A global identity network that has end-to-end encrypted chat that can be used for secure authentication in a variety of scenarios and allows users to exchange data is a much bigger market than video conferencing. If anything Zoom should be working on integrating Zoom video conferencing into the Keybase product.
at home unsupervised browsing during working hours versus working in a cubicle, or god forbid, an open concept office, where bossman patrols the hallways like a prison guard.
Lol the phrase "we're fighting to change it from the inside" sounds like every student socialist who gets a job in the bank after graduation.

You have the moral backbone of a jellyfish and you're doing it for the sweet smell of green. Just own it, like the arms dealers and hedge fund managers.
It’s the cycle of life. At one time slashdot was where all the technical people hung out. I’m sure a new place will replace HN at some future date.
One employer had an Apple-only policy which initially forced me into that world, and then I decided to test the Apple ecosystem out. For several years.

It was ok, the level of integration and hardware quality being even excellent, but overall Linux is a better set of compromises for me.
Even without built in options, writing a for-loop over the result of git log or rev-list is more or less two lines of scripting. Same with a walk over rev-parse HEAD^.

Then you also have git bisect but that's more for finding when some metric started to show anomalies.
I'm in the states, and they consider 2 dose to be "fully vaccinated". This is relevant for all laws that mention the requirement is to be "fully vaccinated", and that's 2 dose for Pfizer or Moderna and one for J&J.
No, a compromised intermediary can't fool Guardian Agent with false values for (a), (b), or (c). The client checks/enforces these. The details of how it works are in the linked paper.
Don't you see? The blockchain crypto will disrupt the centralized gatekeepers! Then the crypto tokens will fund early adopters. Clearly new AI paradigms will foster the synergy needed for peer to peer decentralized finance. Combined with augmented VR it'll create a self perpetuating network effect.

It's really almost too simple.
Just pick a different language all together.
That may be their strategy, but "Full Linux compatibility plus Windows Updates!" doesn't appeal to me, so I'll stick with pure Linux.
This is the absurd reality anyone interested in led growing faces. And the saddest part is the uneducated fall for the many led scams out there. Many will advertise as 1000watts but then when you read the fine print they will say equivalent to 1000w. Or another good one they will name the model of the light “1000w LED Light” 1000w being the model of the light not the wattage. On top of it all many of these cheap lights are being sold for much more then they are truly worth to anyone. There are some reputable sellers who actually advertise the actual wattage used by lights but then you are really paying a premium. Like you said tho the reality is if you can solder these are easy to make. And if you live in the US you are really sitting pretty because all the parts are so cheap compared to me in Canada where I have to ship every part from the US. For about $600-$800US you can make a light that retails for closer to $2k.

Here is a very informative sight which goes over how to make several different led grow light builds ranging from 2x2 foot grow tent to an led for a 5x5. https://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-...
There's something a little sad about clicking through this in that most people I can find in the initial submissions and comments have been gone from HN for 10-15 years.

Maybe it's just the way I'm wired but I'd love to know from them directly what their reasons were for moving on and what they did after HN - or maybe I just spend too much time on here myself :-/
Interestingly (I didn't know) the Chinese planes weren't even anywhere near Taiwan. This is an image of their route from Taiwan's defence ministry

https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/144397595657879...

This was a routine Chinese air patrol that got propagandized by the US.
WSL2 in windows 11 is super awesome. I can apt-get install firefox and run firefox GUI app on Windows.

I also have a cheap Intel laptop with integrated Xe graphics. WSL2 allows me to run accelerated training on it - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windowsai/train-your-machine-...

no need to get expensive nvidia machines (of course not as good...but better than pure CPU)
It’s a question of degrees of divisiveness. If the population is divided enough to kill each other there probably needs to be some sort of regulations to temper the extremes.
The Chia community is much much larger than the number of employees working at Chia Network and the community is all on Keybase. At times Keybase has strained under the load from all the users. The #general channel has something close to 20,000 members last time I checked.
An interaction and dialog between equally repugnant parties.
Any specific recommendations for consistently good/high signal-to-noise accounts for tech, philosophy, policy, and politics?
All valid points but there is another perspective to this whole mess.

I see it through my family members who all have Facebook, how they connect with relatives across the globe and routinely stay in touch during birthdays and other events.

I also see it at most social functions around me that organize over Facebook, because I am left out of those since I don't have an account.

My best connection to social gatherings is a friend who also hates Facebook but is a lot more social than me, moves around a lot more, so he hears from all the people with Facebook what is going on through word of mouth.

So that's a pretty neat service they're offering to a substantial part of the population. But of course they're suffering from moderation issues, something we can see on all large platforms like Youtube and Twitter.
Yes, we did a classic JS version first (this was 2014) and it got unbearable from both development and user perspective. We switched to React in 2015 and never looked back once.
mounting network drives is a pain
Infrastructure investments require stable society and trustworthy politician.
Lebanon has neither atm.

The people there need to over throw the current govt, and remove their own religious prejudices that led to the current state of govt in the first place.
Partly false, Microsoft does have its own Linux distribution now.

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner