skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of raged on twitter the other day that what we call "community" (while online) is sick. I'll take my example of Astrophotography - the "online community" is soul sucking, competitive and not nice at all - sort of hundreds of assholes all competing to be the biggest asshole... Yet, the astronomy clubs that meet in person that are shrinking in numbers and dwindling over the years (the comet just a little while ago was a saving grace here for sure - hope we get more!) are the nicest, most sincere people but they have other drawbacks..

The in human ones tend to socialize around being social in permanence - always meetup at every start party, volunteer, join the board - help it survive - it's hard to do with our terrible work life balance we have today - stay up all night to look at stars and go to work and volunteer? ouch...

But the online communities? All it is is bragging rights - nothing is ever good enough, fun enough unless you dedicate yourself to being "That asshole" - and it boggles my mind that astrophotography has that concept at all... Those assholes are often depressed jerks with more money to burn than anyone else can burn and the "community" loves it up.

It ends up being all about the insta... all about the reddit points... all about the discord infamy

10 years ago, it was all about "how to buy this web cam and modify it for astrophotography to get fun shots"... today its "dump 50 grand to buy this or your spending money on meme gear lol gtfo you dumbass"

how did we get here?

The irony of raging on twitter is hardly anyone replied because twitter is all about playing to the algo and it feels like everyone on twitter who has a following just uses it to complain about burnout, depression, ADHD and other illnesses that to me - seem to be a symptom of the "twitter community" - which isn't as bad as Facebook, but is still largely biased to suffering
> I agree that it's overwhelmingly likely that someone ran the numbers about using DRM at these companies.

I wouldn't even go that far. It's very rare for anybody to run the numbers. Humans are too lazy. At most they'll eyeball it. Unless somebody requires hard numbers and they start digging up your process so that it's easier to actually do it than to fake it, no "running the numbers" will happen.
doing site:pinterest.com or .co.uk. or .ca can be useful because then you can search through the entire album after finding a relevant result on google
> Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world

Why would one assume this?
> If they are constitutional, yes.

And the laws upon which EOs are based have to exist.

Constitutionally dubious EOs (eg: EO12333) could be nullified by the SCotUS, if the political will exists to bring it before the court and if the court isn't overly deferential to those interests enhanced by the law.
There is a pretty big omission which is life before and after the lockdowns. I was not on social media until about a year before lockdowns when I was set back and lost my ability to be employed in tech, and used Twitter as a way to stay plugged into the news and engage.

Enter pandemic, I was isolated in my car and would have had literally had no casual human contact without the T. Couldn't go sit in a library or cafe and chat with people, etc., as I have for most of my adult life. Granted this is an extreme case, but it illustrates an upside of social media during lockdowns at least.

I'm working on the data of this, receipts and Tweet archive, while I seek employment and acclimate to refuge in a new city which shows little trace of a lockdown. I want to be off social media ASAP, don't get me wrong. I could probably quit now but if lockdowns come again then I will be back on, so I'm waiting it out--and I've taken a month off recently.
The programming language and any platform SDKs (like Android) are the least interesting aspect of this. The history behind any existing applications, libraries, and customized frameworks is far more important to consider. Someone who is engaged in learning Android development systems from scratch is going to be less effective at understanding why decisions were made the way they were, and therefore will definitely be less efficient at leading an effort than someone who already knows the platform well.
Oblig: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51390971/im-lost-what-ha...
> How much time would it take for a smart, competent and self motivated person to get up to speed on this new but related field?

This depends on the position; smarts are not a replacement for (domain) experience, because certain knowledge can be learned only through trial and error and/or through long-term exposure to a domain (in other words, experience).

I believe that domain experience is the more necessary the higher level the position is (e.g. seniors who can decide on architecture, leads, architects...).

Having said that, I certainly agree that in the (hiring) industry it's common to be excessively attached to the specific tools used; I also suspect that smaller companies tend to think like this more than bigger ones.
I think the whole underlying theme is virtual is shallow. At least more so than reality. You don't think or feel the same behind a keyboard. Gravity imposes a tax on your brain activity, requires a bit more dirty work, keeps things balanced. You're less jumpy, less entitled about simple principles to get scandalized. I also think the web caught some kind of fever. It feels quite puritanistic around data and science hashtags.
Originally there was a technical reason for that: Google Fi uses several carriers, not just T-Mobile, to increase coverage, and at the time preliminary iPhone support first came out for Google Fi, iPhones didn't have support for connecting to two carriers at once and switching back and forth between them based on signal.

So right now, someone on Google Fi with an iPhone and someone on Google Fi with an Android phone can be standing next to each other, and the Android phone could have great signal while the iPhone has zero signal because T-Mobile has no coverage at that location.

I don't know if iPhones now support that; if they do, then there's no longer any technical reason iPhones couldn't have first-class support for Fi.
>The answer my be that it still isnt easy to build reliable / scalable apps that people actually want to use. But sometimes I wonder if theres not something more sinister going on...

Why would there be anything more sinister? It obviously takes a ton of work and money to operate a service like Instagram. And if 99.9% of people are happy using Instagram in exchange for being tracked and/or giving another entity the power banish them from the network, then the community funded app is going to have problems competing.
> Do this for 7 years while investing most of your salary in a diversified portfolio. Don’t go too crazy with Crypto.

In a bullish market, like last decade. This will work. This suggestion does require you to do sufficient research in financials.
> Companies must also now contribute to expenses that workers have incurred as a result of switching to remote working

What about the savings? No pricey lunchtime sandwiches or commuting expenses. I don't think the above is fair.
Microsoft Patents “Foldable Mouse”
"There's lots of annoying, unsolicited, bad bug bounty submissions" is a useful thing to point out, even if it's probably too boring for Troy's core audience to stand on its own. The phenomenon he's describing is real.

Honestly: if he hadn't brought up that he was called out for this and tried to rebut it, I wouldn't have thought to write about it. But he did, and, like I said, his argument is pretty weak.
Java user here. What is a good book/set of resources on getting started in .NET/C#, possibly this version 6, without knowing the ecosystem beforehand (but with a experience in programming)? Thanks!
Extremely well written article for someone who would like to dig deeper into forecasting, actually giving someone ne valuable links about the prophet tool that i used and recommended. I agree with the author that it is strange that the job posting only mentions the prophet tool, which is rather like a very basic and one particular library that i usually recommend to undergrads for their senior project.
All the evidence of Russian collusion and hacking is almost always presented without any evidence whatsoever. Yet no one in the mainstream media thinks to question it.
I strongly disagree.

A senior engineer that has always worked in the backend won't be able to be up to speed with a complex frontend app quickly and be as effective as a senior frontend.

There's just too much to know about browsers and underlying tech and a myriad it things.

Same for a senior frontend starting to work on a complex backend all with god knows how many interconnected technologies.

Being able to go from JS to TS? Sure. Being able to go from JS to Rust + Docker + (all your backend stuff here) not so much.
Can you distinguish noise from non-linear correlations? I feel like you can never prove the absence of non-linear correlation, but only showing it‘s presence once modelled/detected
In what way is saying emails bounced endangering their sources?
> Makes no sense there is nothing to buy. Win11 is a free "update". Not adding it as update to win10 but give it a new name I purely marketing. Stuff like that happens if new people are in charge and want to have a new thing "made by them". It does not cost the users anything.

Except for the bit that's the entire point of this tool: they dropped support for a ton of systems.

For a lot of people, to "upgrade" to Windows 11 means "buy a whole new PC." This drives additional sales of Windows 11 PCs (of which MS will take a cut).
The thing that is needed is trust. Its by far the best way to do it, it just that going on trust sounds like the worst and most irresponsible way of doing it so people don't dare do it, and they don't dare argue for it.
> Guys... we're humans. It isn't a crime to make small talk. It's not a chore to open your mouth. Most of us consider (or used to consider; and I'm not even old) that enjoyable. What happened?

We are humans, but we are also ambitious. Most people have, in their mind, a clear idea of the profile and type of person they want to be having a conversation with.

Inevitably the person making the small talk is never that type and profile of person.

So there is the double whammy of the disappointment with one's social status and a feeling of missing out on something else (or in this case someone else) which kicks in .

And with all this psychological shit going on in the mind of the person on the receiving end of the small talk....no wonder that a conversation doesn't organically ensue.
I'm probably ignorant to how this app uses IPFS (and IPFS in general), but from what I remember IPFS has a fairly strict code of conduct on copyrighted material. I'm more curious than anything, but what's stopping the legal team over at Protocol Labs from shutting this down?
I think it’s because content by definition is mediocre, otherwise it would be called art.
People underestimate how much wealth can be built using leverage and 100k a year invested income. Yes, markets go down, but over a 10 year time frame you will have enough to retire.
The timing. Just look at two phones that are vibrating for the exact same length of time; they are in the same vehicle.
Notifications and background activities are orthogonal for the use case you mentioned.

Background activity on iOS is severely restricted and mostly relegated to finishing a long or regular upload or download.

Unless you are a phone communication app — and a reason why you may see voice added to apps.
If anything the additional stacks means both app quality and the platform-specific knowledge a senior dev needs has declined, since today you're probably working on a pile of React Native bullshit or something that has very little to do with Android anyway.
Hmm, I looked up "deposition".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition_(law)#Australia,_En...

As I was beginning to suspect, I didn't understand what a deposition is; we don't have it here. Witnesses make a statement, but they can't be questioned by the opposition pre-trial.
Every site that presents content to search indexing bots, but requires a signup by actual users should be shunned into irrelevancy on the spot. This seems like such shitty behavior that the response to nuke from orbit seems like a no-brainer, I'm not sure why it isn't the default.
Philosopher's should be legally barred from talking about AI. You would think after 80 years or so of talking about AI, at least one philosopher would have accidentally gotten something right about AI, but sadly that has yet to happen.

With that out of the way, it is self evident that a super intelligent AI, should one be developed, will likely cause an exponential increase in knowledge and technology and this would likely be an extremely destabilizing event in human history. The truth is the super intelligence doesn't have to go all terminator to likely kill off humanity as I could not possibly see us responsibly navigating a singularity event as a species.
The Most Accurate Hacking Scene Ever (2015)
>Take a $ 500-1000 / day, full-remote job. If you can’t find them, I’ll post a bunch.

lol yeah that is the rub. flagged, sorry. this post is terribe
Oh, so by fuzzy search you mean full text search, not just a simple 'LIKE A%' pattern - it's an entirely different kind of flying altogether (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNtyfZP8bE).

I don't know what kind of internal representation is used to store tsvector column type in PG, but I think GIN index lookups should be very simple to parallelize and combine (I believe a GIN index would basically be a map [word -> set_of_row_ids_that_contain_the_word] so you could perform them on all indexed columns at the same time and then compute intersection of the results?). But maybe two lookups in the same index could be somehow more efficient than two lookups in different indexes, I don't know.

I'm still sceptical about the LIKE/ILIKE scenario though.
"WHERE firstname LIKE 'A%' and lastname LIKE 'Smith' "
can easily discard all the Joneses and whatnot before even looking at the firstname column, whereas
"WHERE combined_firstname_and_lastname LIKE 'A%SMITH' " will only be able to reject "Andrew Jones" after reading the entire string.
I like expanding a good metaphor, but I think the idea is that I wouldn't discourage a prospective tourist from travelling to Odessa, Ukraine* because of the belgian block streets or to Anytown USA because their road infrastructure isn't pedestrian oriented.

*disambiguation added
A good Sr Engineer knows that you don't change things just because you don't like how it's being done. Every change comes with risk and one's personal preference is not enough reason to justify the added risk.
Correct - denoflare scripts are served in a permissionless Deno worker locally - even the Deno namespace is unavailable, just like on Cloudflare.

Developing the worker in Deno brings you the benefit of first-class support for typescript and ESM-modules in your worker, and no need for Node polyfills.

Once you deploy your worker, it runs like any other javascript worker on the magical Cloudflare V8 worker runtime.
“No evidence whatsoever” is quite the overstatement.

Not conclusive evidence, sure.

But there are somewhat compelling arguments based on discoveries from observation, that the space of wavefunctions for a finite region of space, is finite dimensional.

That seems like evidence to me.
Unlike the myth, called antisemitism, that Jews control the world, the US actually is ruled by a minority group -- white men: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/26/white-male-m...

While Jews are overrepresented, their numbers are so low that even with that overrepresentation they don't hold much power in absolute terms. Moreover, Jewish people are more diverse politically than other groups, and so cannot be considered as a cohesive unit. For example, in America, white men lean Republican at about the same rate as Jews lean Democrat, but Christian Evangelicals lean Republican more strongly than Jews lean Democrat.
Doubling the salary wouldn't make more workers with 10 years of experience building bridges materialize out of thin air. It might help recruit entry level workers to the field.

Also, infrastructure construction jobs are not minimum wage.
You don't need vendor specific tools. Especially not on the pi 4 but even before that. The RPi foundation stayed on a 32 bit distro with the proprietary graphics stack forever due to some silly fear of breaking.. something (?) or whatever but mainline linux has been able to manage everything about graphics and display with the vc4 drm/kms driver for ages. CPU frequency has of course been controlled by a mainline kernel driver for ages – heck that's supported in all of the BSD OSes as well.
Pinterest is a walled garden. It nearly wants the data hoarder in me to scrape it using a bespoke script and dump the scraped images on some darkweb forum for a small fee.
Detecting Internet Outages with Mozilla Telemetry Data
My mother is one of the least technical people I know and also a regular libgen user.
> They're all things you can do — provably — without social media.

People who hold this opinion, when asked to define what counts as social media, will invariably draw the line based on "what do I like/dislike." Facebook, Snapchat: social media. HN, WhatsApp: not social media.
Exactly! Most people now just text me if they want to know about me. I realised so many of these ‘friends’ only cared enough to like pictures or make a comment on them. Beyond that they weren’t interested. It’s better to not have such friends than have them as you are getting a false sense of friendship not a real one. I can’t believe people don’t see this problem yet. Not to mention the fact that if I actually meet them maybe by coincidence for example, they have nothing to talk about themselves but still have a profile full of photos. I already know a few people who have completely lost it due to Facebook and Instagram. I hope the damage isn’t beyond repair. This is a very serious problem in my opinion. I don’t think everyone is addicted but I think most of them are and it’s not good.
Priority Queues and Skiing: A Slippery Slope
Microsoft arguably did.

The anti-trust action against them did not cost them a lot of cash directly, but it did lead to heightened scrutiny on further anti-competitive practices. And it wasn't too long after that the FAANGs came to displace Microsoft as the dominant technology companies.

Could be a coincidence, but I personally feel like there was a connection.
Replace ".NET" with "Windows" maybe?

AS a longtime original VB/Winforms developer - MS lost their mind on desktop development and didn't look back.

They chased EVERY fad that could be chased. Silverlight, UPF, XAML, WPF, Islands, MAUI. This is one of those things - imagine if they'd focused on building an amazing and cross platform (ultimately) toolkit with just a basic drag and drop designer? Who cares about "styling" your app and all the rest of the garbage.

How many lost years and peoplehours?
please see this thread for that discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29150164#29150707
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686277 - July 2017 (99 comments)
Few people agree with you on this? I doubt it. Most people would agree — they just allow countervailing values drive their actions.
Titles vary so wildy between companies and even within companies. Titles could be meritorious or it could be based on time-spent at the company, you never know.

Titles are by and large vehicles for promotions, not an indication of skill.
Maybe under UK "judgements widely banned from enforcement" libel laws but it would be basically impossible for ML to fall afoul of it in the US. It could not even be knowingly false. Reckless disregard for the truth would also be hard to argue as it is meant to be a best effort in accuracy.
Seeing how they choose to manipulate the information, I can no longer take anything Intercept publishes seriously.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
Apple-1 computer, 'holy grail' of vintage tech, to be auctioned off
I doubt it, it's clearly batched & a bit lazy
RenTech is also basically the only largest hedge fund that has beat the market by a wide margin for decades. An average 66% annual return in their Medallion Fund since 1988 according to wikipedia. That is pretty much insane and seems to be something only space aliens could do. If anyone is using quantum computers to help trade, it is probably them.
Twitter user id for a user I created(so nothing popular as well). A 64 bit unsigned integer as string here.
One of the criticisms of this device as per the article is that the critics feel that it might entrap marine life. That sounds like a reasonable criticism and is one that is refuted by the inventor saying that the ‘net’ is towed at low enough speeds and it also has various lights, escape paths etc. as mitigations but nobody seems to say either “it was zero caught so pffft to that criticism” or “yes a small amount were caught up but was it a small enough number that the benefits to species x,y,z outweigh the small amount of accidental damage” or (from the critics) “it was a fish massacre”.

I appreciate there might be technical reasons why the inventor is unable to determine the exact quantity (if any) however the absence of any quantities being mentioned at all is puzzling and either a missed opportunity to ‘slay the nay-sayers’ or is something they would rather not mention.

In fairness there may be an exact figure available somewhere out there but wasn’t something a quick dig through the first few pages of search results revealed.
Title seems needlessly editorialized (and presumably submitted by the author). Actual post title is more accurate to the content:

"How to become a millionaire without coding too hard"
This move was a defensive move. Keep any other MEGA-CORP from getting access.
Google prioritizes results from higher ranking sites. This is what PageRank was all about. It's entirely within Google's power to score Pinterest results lower, pushing them down in the search results. Seems like a Google problem to me, not a Pinterest problem.
The world is a scary place; this is basically the same as rowhammer which is an issue in computers shipped today.
This gets 35 points and Einstein's Lost Hypothesis never gets more than 2. Yep, I'm definitely on the wrong timeline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29147658
The Andreessen Solution: Marc's Metaverse
I don't think I qualify for unemployment if I voluntarily left my job right?
Having been interrogated myself, it's incredible how defiant I was until my interrogators threatened my wife, and at that point I told them I'd do whatever they wanted.
Thanks for your report, we’ve updated the settings. We don’t have an official bounty program but we do sometimes offer them if the issue is severe enough. On this occasion it is not”

And that seems to work fine. For ones a little more involved we’ve paid out $50 a few times which they seem happy with and we’re generally ok to pay.

This seems like an extremely reasonable approach.
Different ways to make money on Amazon Active and Passive
Why do you need to be in boring old town? You can be at the beach, in big low-cost city in Latin America etc
they can't leave their tiny allocated stretch of land. their economic opportunities are completely restricted by a foreign government that they have no representation in. They live under a constant threat of violence from an occupying force. What am I missing here?