skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many hundreds or thousands of enthusiasts are needed before it's suitable to be a daily driver? I see the fragmented approach on the software side as a major hindrance to the goal of achieving a device that can be used by a normal person as a reasonable replacement for other smart phones.

I check in on it every l every 6 months or so, update my pinephone and give it a few days. So far, it doesn't meet reliability or usability for serious use.

It's a high caliber foot gun of a methodology - if they corralled all of the effort and enthusiasm currently scattered amongst a dozen (!) different os's and communities, they could establish a high quality functional baseline.

The hardware is great. The mission is great. The software is fragmented and scattered and missing the force multipliers that focused collaborative development could bring. There's not enough to riff on, toomuch goes wrong in complicated ways, and so the device is an exercise in frustration instead of a passion project.
Sure there is. In Sweden, no one locks their doors at night. They don't lock their cars, even in the densest cities. It's well known that in Sweden, the only significant category of crime is petty theft, most often pickpocketing, where the thief will remove a small "finder's fee" and return the rest of the wallet, contents intact. (https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rise-of-sweden-democr...)
The big thorn is closures, which show up all over the place in FP. You either need to limit closures vs ordinary functions (as e.g. Rust does), have manual memory annotations (such as e.g. what Swift does) or you basically need a GC. The former two choices are annoying if you really take advantage of functions as first-class citizens.
No, I have set the app to be avail worldwide, may be Play Store issue
Except it's not a realistic goal. Because most of the things you're talking about tracking are 100% subjective and unquantifiable.

To some a hard home life is their parents not letting them drink while to others is their parents kicking them out at 18.

To some discrimination is a rude comment while to others its something that's actually discrimination.

The list goes on.

You have kids that didn't get any financial support from their families because the family couldn't afford it (much like myself) that did perfectly fine in school, while others who came from millionaire parents ended up dropping out. This game of "lets see who has it the worst and then try to help them by making life easier for them" never f*cking work. It's a never ending loop.

The most you can do is make the standards for acceptance across the board fair and then provide the tools required for success to every student.
as somebody with ADHD I appreciate the tool but your pitch should definitely be shorter haha
i'm actually not so sure it does. if elementary school performance had a significant impact, that would imply to me that phds performed better in elementary school than others by a significant margin. i don't know if that's true. another way to put it is that it implies that phds are selected from high performing elementary school students, but i would bet, for some elementary schools, even their highest performing students are much less likely to eventually get a phd than equally performing students at other elementary schools.
There's a difference between training and inference (using the model to achieve a goal).

Training is when you show examples (instances of something) to an entity and it learns to recognize them. Example: doing homework and math exercises.

Inference is when you show the entity an example it has not seen before and ask it to draw form its training experience to make something of that example.

Example : a seasoned cop has had many more interactions than a green cop. However, sometimes People are more intuitive than others and dont need that many years to read situations. Their learning algorithm is different, or they're looking at things others are not looking at (features).

You probably are using machine learning inference on your mobile device when you text and it recommends the next word. This application does not request a server because it needs to be low latency. You type fast, and you need the model to be right there. The same case is to be made for self driving. This poses several challenges and relies on several techniques to get the models on constrained environnements, either to run or get them there in the first place.

Second, for training ? It depends on the problem you are solving. Are you trying to predict something that is so rare that even if you have a year worth of data, it only has happened twice? Is there a lag between influencing factors and the phenomenon ? Say, changing nutrients for a plant and its state not instantaneously changing. This depends on the problem.
It was Guido's requirement that GIL removal not degrade single threaded performance at all, but in the talk I attend at PyCon 2019, the speaker mentioned nothing about qualifications on that. Guido's restriction was presented, quite reasonably, as "no one should have to suffer because of removing the GIL". So a net break-even or performance improvement is fine.

And on top of that, Guido has retired now, and the steering committee may feel differently as long as the spirit of the restrictions is upheld.
I am working with a junior developer who will use the mouse to click on text, click copy, click the new area, and click paste. I don't have the courage to tell him that he can Control/Cmd-C and Control/Cmd-V
And what exactly would be the meaning of the word “practical significance” then? what exactly would it signify?

Because honestly; I feel this secondary meaning is a buzzword transferred from the first meaning which actually has meaning, but in the secondary case it's simply used to use an expensive word without understanding it.
I wouldn't say HN cares "so deeply" about this.

"Why is an overall difference of 17% of major concern, but a 99.2% difference in the other direction between men and women in math/computer science isn't?"

Based on my experience on HN, the community cares more, and discusses more, about the gender differences in computer science than this current topic. I feel they are both deeply related (gender based work preferences).
I haven't read the article yet, but I'd find such trust-busting pretty sexy.
fwiw there are a few people who dip their toes in at that point, and sometimes it works. In fact in my program I think most of the women in the field got in that way (especially because the department was heavily advertising to women -- and really just to anyone who wasn't already into it). The bigger issue, though, I think is that computer-savviness is such a.. skill ... that it's super hard to get _really_ good at it in a college degree; you need to be heavily computer-literate already to excel.

Not as a rule exactly: these days, anyone reasonable savvy person can learn CS well enough to be employed in tech and any math-savvy person can certainly end up in CS research. But it is, I think, _super_ hard to start learning programming in college and actually end up good at _low_-level computing like Kernel/Systems level stuff, which really requires like total immersion in the space, similar to learning a language by living in the country. In my program this meant that the really technical classes were filled with the students who came in already very computer-literate and into programming, and they tended to be 90+% male.
Lending rates for USDT on the major decentralized lending platforms are more favorable than other stablecoins.
Thanks, the fact that you registered just to answer means a lot to me :-)
Can't tell if this comment is missing a /s tag.
I meant to imply that the SEC could check companies' bank accounts to verify the truthfulness of balance sheets and income statements.
I think the MMORPG example is off for a few reasons:

1. The primary product of an MMORPG isn’t access to a social network.

2. The social networks in these games is far smaller than social media platforms (we don’t usually worry about anti-trust for tiny markets)

3. As you mentioned, social media platforms are communications/infrastructure, not recreation.
> and make a PPT telling a room full of engineers and developers how they should be building complex systems.

This is unfortunately not an experience I am unfamiliar with. I have to pretend to eat a big plate of humble pie on the first technical call with a lot of our clients.

Once you learn their first reaction is going to be to reject your proposal on arbitrary grounds (i.e. a new security theater show), you start to present simpler proposals purely for the sake of tripping their initial response. Once you get them to fire their objections across the way, it is really easy to review the impact and build the real proposal that meticulously deals with each point that was raised.
Actually most of the problems you described are relevant and do exist in the objective world. The problem of the problem of consciousness is that there is no aspect in the definition of consciousness which couldn't be explained by objective mechanisms.

Currently, asking whether there is a consciousness is like asking if there is glaxtimbo. What is glaxtimbo, you may ask? I can't explain it, but I feel like it is there. That's the extent to which the definition of consciousness in its unexplainable attributes currently reaches.
it may be true that women are and always have been less interested in pursuing STEM subjects, but it is basically impossible to draw any conclusions about each sex's "strengths" from that fact.

The tech world is notoriously unwelcoming to women, tons of unconscious biases push women away from STEM, societal pressure/general atmosphere tends to encourage women to focus on things other than their career, etc. In light of all that it is hard to say whether women don't want to get into STEM because of some natural disinclination, or simply because all of these other things make STEM less desirable for them.
> Does someone who sells you a PC (HW) promise you that the software you load on it later will be bug-free?

No, but if someone was selling PCs with super buggy software that regularly crashes your OS or prevents everyday functionality from working, people would be returning those PCs en masse, even if the hardware maker wasn't responsible for the software at all.[0] Even if you only "sell" the hardware, customers expect the full package to work.

That's not to say I agree with all the complaints here, though; this case is different because Pine64 has numerous disclaimers and warnings on the website, and they are very up front and honest about the viability of the PinePhone as a daily driver.

[0]: Whenever I hear non-techy friends complain about system instability, they pretty consistently blame the computer itself, not Windows or whatever software is likely actually causing their frustration.
its not a defense, I'm not an apologist. corporations lie. I don't actually find that controversial maybe because we are not 4 years old anymore. this is what happened, they settled, does your passion over how you frame this topic actually matter?
Is there anyone technically competent enough to make use of this who wouldn't easily be able to have located it themselves?
Speed doesn't matter if you're doing the right thing.

Writing code can't be done quick without knowing what you need the outcome to be.

Then speed is set by how fast you type.

But it's a theory, and practice no one writes code without having to put thinking into it.

So speed is not a measurement I would ever count as a good trait in terms of quality. And quality cannot be measured, so we're back to why speed is even interesting in productivity of software creation
I typically use DRF + Django for the backend and then have one “view” that renders an index.html with a context bridge (passed via a global JS variable) so I can bootstrap the front end with enough server side state to load quickly (and do feature gating and whatnot).

Seems to be a great combo to me - you get all the awesomeness of Django/DRF and none of the more archaic html temperate rendering stuff.

The only bad bit I’ve found in Django is lack of real websocket support when it’s needed. Server side events are great to have.
Repeat after me:

"I can be happy and thrive without social media."

Here is how you become a billionaire today-

Step 1: Create some thing people want to indulge in, whether or not it is healthy or good for them (as long as it's legal).

Step 2: Convince them that it is good for them.

Step 3: Acquire anyone else who tries to do the same or squash them out aggressively.

Rinse and repeat.
More accurate title: Ethiopians create posts which are unwittingly optimized for amplification by Facebook's algorithms.
I appreciate the thorough response. I think I see what you are saying - the deflationary and decentralized nature of Bitcoin acts as a stabilizing force in the economy by enforcing a real value to money or resources to money relationship.

I'm not sure I see how that will "make the world more peaceful over time." Wouldn't the same issues still exist at the geopolitical scale (where the wars are)? The primary means of acquiring new or more resources for your nation have been the same for all of human history: trade and conquest. I can see a more stable economy being a benefit, but I don't really see how it changes that fundamental dynamic.
To be clear, I've been through this process as a cofounder, so I'm not disagreeing from inexperience.

> An "exit" is the part where you and your investors get rich.

This is normally a consequence of an exit, but - as is really my main point here - it's not the meaning of the word. An exit is just you as a founder freeing yourself of the company, in terms of leaving your management role and/or converting your equity to cash (in some kind of buyout or IPO).

"Having an exit strategy" may be conflated with "intending to get rich by selling all your equity, and therefore being short-termist in your management", but that's not remotely part of the meaning of the words. And, again, every founder has an exit strategy of some sort. (Either that, or they are floating blindly through their life in some kind of protracted acid trip.)

> Another way would be to not take VC funding, focus on providing a good service for as long as you feel like, and eventually pass the business on, sell it, or shut down.

To wit, the "eventually pass the business on, sell it, or shut down" part is an exit strategy.
If only there were legislation in place to subject those breaching this misinformation to legal recourse

The SSN wasn't supposed to be used for identification at all, at first. [1] But the government decided that didn't apply to them, and then they decided that it didn't apply to anyone else.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-n...
> I don't see anywhere that a citizen can re-assert their right to privacy

Rights depend on jurisdiction. I’m not aware of any right to privacy regarding place of residence or tax returns in Sweden.

A resident is entitled to file for a “protected identity” which would obscure their address, phone number and person number on these types of services. Even celebrities tend to avoid doing that unless they have a persistent stalker, because it leads to all sorts of practical problems when dealing with everyday administration.
> I think that big part of it is due to women being not really interested in tech. I’m pretty sure there’s some hostility there, but never seen anything particularly bad or on a big scale. All women I worked and studied with never really complained on gender discrimination (while quite openly complaining on other things :).

This is not my experience. I know several women that dropped out of the tech industry because of discrimination.
Not just for the allocator. I always thought a main point of a garbage collector was heap compactification (shuffling things around so there is more space), but maybe I am wrong.
And yet, during the recession of 2008 the M2 went up by a 1000 billion dollars, despite the fact that there were millions of houses foreclosed on, their assets tanked, and millions of loans defaulted. Curious how that works.

Tether is much worse than the Fed(or would be if equivalent scale), but the Fed is no sweetheart.
One of my favorites is option-arrow (left or right) to jump between words in the terminal.
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_gambling from a couple of years back was morally dubious to say the least.
Notably the dev proposing this (Sam Gross aka colesbury) is/was a major PyTorch developer, so someone quite familiar with high performance Python and extensions.
online gym is videos that people can work out online rather than going to a physical gym
People can cancel by going to portal at anytime and cancel their subscription
No we did not have lots of chargebacks
> "Despite multiple efforts to report the post, it remains up and live as of this moment," he said.

This to me, is the real issue. Say what you want about "it's the users, not the platform, stop blaming the platform". If the platform doesn't give a shit and will only do what it can to make money then this is what you get (and Facebook doesn't exactly have the most ethical history)
This is awesome, but I got some bad news for this guy:

"If 22 students can design and build a vehicle like this in one year, then I’m sure companies could as well."

22 motivated smart people, guided by profs, with likely a lot of goodwill from manufacturers, are putting in free labor/overtime into a project with no need for profit or even a business-case.

That's not what companies do. But its good to see universities do it.
What about the billions in exchange balances held in USDT? That's a lot of liability for the exchanges holding those, right?
Because your pentium 3 GUI linux had a GUI designed around pentium 3 era hardware. All the linux phone GUIs seem to be designed around the latest in special GUI effects and animations and transparency. For some reason all the people who know how to design UIs for linux are incapable of understanding hardware requirements.
At no point has "monopoly" meant anything other than "A single seller". The confusion comes from people trying to steal that term to refer to "big companies".
And additionally, the switching cost for users to change search engines is literally zero. It takes all of 2 seconds and opening a new tab.

There are no contract cancellations or negotiating or payment loss. It costs zero dollars and zero time. Google owns a huge portion of search simply because they have the best product.
I get goosebumps: https://pics.onsizzle.com/Imgur-1fbc96.png
hard pass
They already enable money laundering using csgo skins
I dont know if this truly is a core problem, boys have a father for role model and many other places in their community they can get one too: church, boy scouts, friends fathers, others. For a long time teacher was only a job for young unwed women, but we did not have this problem with boys, so I am thinking it's not a sole cause.
Performance concerns aside, WASM + WebGL has never looked sweeter. Zero trust required from the user and no walled garden. File this latest incident with the other app store shenanigans.
I dunno

On one hand I get it because having a global centralized media source running bleeding edge optimization algorithms against humans is highly unprecedented till recently.

But at the same time I don't like the trend in recent years to completely "minimize individual responsibility"

It makes sense why these narratives are popular too.

It means I don't have to admit my lack of discipline.
Ask HN: Why isn't all the land south of the St. Lawrence River part of the USA?
Seems like it would make a lot of sense, would have saved a lot of struggle later around shipping lanes, etc.
Parsing layout –  problems with Haskell's syntax
I used to use a recipe site that had a really good search engine but they got rid of it for unknown reasons. I hope this one stays around.

One thing that old one had was the ability to exclude ingredients as well as include which came in handy when I was cooking for jewish friends.
Rails isn't dead and can demand high salaries.
An example from Sweden would be appropriate.
> We can all name famous engineers, not sure I could name a single famous public administrator...

I can think of several female politicians with a doctorate in subjects like public administration.
Ad networks don't naturally form monopolies. That's why Google had to buy the other ones. Anything will form a monopoly if you let every company in the industry merge.

Just because something has a network effect doesn't make it a natural monopoly. The network effect means the network may need a minimum size in order to be viable, but that doesn't mean there can't be a dozen competing networks of that size that are all viable.
> Just imagine how fraught trying to date would be if you were a young man in a university now and had heterosexual leanings.

Not sure what you mean:

- What does the difficulty of dating have to do with the education system?

- My understanding is that the abundance of dating apps should have made dating significantly easier nowadays than in the past. Is that not the case?

- Why is sexuality relevant for this point? The article is primarily focused on gender
It does do a POST when you select a district, but not as ajax/xhr. It just tries to load a new page. It posts these form values:

cpeSearchOne_ClientState: false
ctlYearList$ddlYear: 2022
cpnlDistrict_ClientState: false
ddlDistrict: 096098
cpnlEducator_ClientState:
cpnlSSN_ClientState:
cpnlSSNPublic_ClientState: true
txtLastNamePublic:
txtSSNPublic:

I suspect the real problem is with the page that would be rendered as the results if it weren't currently shut off.
Unfortunately the poor in the US have almost no savings. The bottom 25% median savings was 12,430 in 2020 up from 10,935 in 2017.
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This is the main reason PewDiePie (game streamer) moved out of Sweden.
Counterpoint: The greatest human atrocities in history were generally carried out with the explicit oversight of "legitimate" viewpoints.

I think something should be done but a lot of the suggestions I see seem like "this is something therefore this must be done."

I agree however it does seem that giving everyone the ability to push whatever they want has seemed to cause problems.
Those interested in this debate really need to watch a very fantastic presentation on this exact topic: "Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris, NYTimes" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o&list=PL58Wk5g77l...
For when people could actually travel it was likely worth it.
Some very interesting trends here. Overall, Germany seems relatively equitable looking at the 6 year average.

Though the relatively large jump between 2018 and 2019 seems odd, I assume there's some additional factor(s) I'm unaware of affecting the totals.
I don't see anything elitist. Anyone can learn assembly language, C, and even C++ and Rust with a bit more dedication.

Anyway, much of the work getting these phones ready as daily drivers is in getting apps that run on them mature. There are lots of languages adequate for apps.
I don't disagree with you, but USDC and USDT are identical in their transparency, yet everyone hates USDT.
It is if you're actually looking to get promoted to management (for what it's worth). Promotion may also mean getting higher-profile projects.

I don't know about you but the job-seeking process seems like another job itself. If you're good at that job (esp. while executing on your current job) then I guess the world's your oyster.
If this effort succeeds (and I hope it does) now Python developers will need to contend with the event-loop albatross of asyncio and all of its weird complexity.

In an alternate Python timeline, asyncio was not introduced into the Python standard library, and instead we got a natively supported, robust, easy-to-use concurrency paradigm built around green/virtual threading that accommodates both IO and CPU bound work.