skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the writing was on the wall for XMPP once people started chatting on Facebook and Facebook got past their brief XMPP compatible phase. Then Google also deprecated it.

It's a nice protocol, but if you're missing all the conversations it doesn't help. When it was popular, it was the system that let you connect Yahoo to Google to MSN to Facebook to Zephyr to... it's network effects, people have to be on it for anyone to want to use it.
The Rittenhouse defence has requested a mistrial after the prosecution just admitted that they sent the defence only a compressed copy of the drone video.
This whole issue has been rather an eye opener. Really the judge I don't mind being technically inept because his job is to study those huge law books, but there needs to be better use and understanding of the tech in the process.

A detective air dropped the file to the prosecution but then emailed a copy to the defence, and they where all oblivious to the fact that this would compress the video. Originally the prosecution blamed the defence since they where sure they sent the full video, it must have been the recipient who compressed it. Eventually they admitted it was compressed by their side, but they where unaware at the time. The defence did not know that they had received a lower quality video and they argue that they would have done things a little differently had they received the full quality video, so they ask for a mistrial.

The whole thing is painful to watch from a technology perspective. They had to debate for 2 hours about if they where going to let the jury view the videos, should they view them in court room or in private, how many times can they watch them? Do they use windows media player? No VLC player. Ok how do you spell that?

Even the process of watching videos in the courtroom was painful. Like "play video x now, ok pause there, no go back a bit, thats too far, ok play it anyway, stop, can you slow it down and zoom in? No, ok back up again lets review again."

It seems to me thay there is a lot of low hanging fruit here, to improve this process, from evidence handling to court room presentation.
Sometimes mine are horrific though. Like a face in bandages with an eye hanging out. But sometimes they are interesting and nice, like tree tops of a forest.
> ... and the bug that he ran into that didn't let him install steam shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Exactly. If an operating system is offering a GUI for installing software, it should work. If it isn't working, it takes an extreme amount of bias to blame the user instead of the operating system.

> Windows is user-hostile if you don't walk their walk.

Windows 10 is user hostile only if the user in question is sensible enough to understand that an operating system can be user hostile. News flash, most people on Earth who use a laptop or a desktop couldn't tell the difference between Firefox and Edge and why they might wanna use one over the other. For such people, who are used to double clicking on exe files and using them without issues, Linux would be incredibly user hostile. You just need to look at things from the perspective of a beginner, not yourself.

> ... but for me dealing with user-hostile problems thrown at me by a corporation is much worse

Which is why I've been using Linux as my daily driver for more than 6 years now, but I would never recommend anyone to use it, unless I want to see them in pain.
It would also be nice to not have to scroll the page to click the next and previous links on each learning step (pixel 5, msedge browser). 100vh maybe?
I’ve tried writing papers without conclusions, only to have reviewers call out that “the paper has no conclusion.”

As for the comment about bad project names and acronyms: Jonathan is most famous for developing the “Triangle” code for Delaunay triangulation, and “Triangle” is of course impossible to Google. Should have chosen a more distinct acronym! :)
In my view, understanding the human perceptual mechanism was as essential as understanding how to set up good monitoring to doing my best audio engineering.

I left the audio industry a long time ago. I love music, but I don't love audio engineering enough to sacrifice my life to it — and because there's a tremendous oversupply of labor for art-adjacent professions, that's what it takes.
> if a team member isn't performing then you will have to make the call to shield them

That is definitely an odd take. If there is something that will demotivate a team and cause the best performers to quit, it's an ongoing shielding of underperformers. Coaching them to get better and not throwing them under the bus at the first sign of trouble - of course do that. But let this fester and your problem will turn into a bigger problem.
It is amazing to me that Heroku is sitting there letting everyone pass them by. Heroku is still a great platform for a scalable 0 effort full stack application. Yet as soon as you need a CDN hosted static site, you look outside the platform. Which is nuts, because they are such natural progressions (both ways) of each other.
Something like that, sure. Apart from the question of whether the joke is good or bad, I think it's pretty clear from the reactions here that it has a political valence.
DK, congrats on the launch. You are onto something with data extraction. I like that you allow to correct the selectors, so that the data can be extracted more accurately, and typing.

I found the UI slight challenging because of a popup window that opens. Resizing is tricky. Overlay would make is so much easier.

Our team at Bardeen.ai has built a workflow automation tool. We also have a scraper to extract data. But our full automation engine (similar to Zapier/Integromat) allows to tap into the full power of web apps. Like creating a new Google Sheet / Airtable / Notion with the scraped data and then triggering follow up actions.

If you are curious, here is a “live build” that I did for the Twitter --> Airtable use case.
https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/scrape-twitter

Jon mentioned in the other thread automated screenshots. We get screenshots of all of our dashboards from Google Analytics + Posthog sent to our Slack daily.
https://www.bardeen.ai/playbooks/send-website-screenshots-in...

Either way, great job there! Love seeing new automation projects pop up.

P.S. - I saw there is an “input” action. Can I feed your automation tool a spreadsheet of data and have it fill out form? (one per row)
Several museums would be very happy to host the constitution and just pay for the "storage" fees.
Still They Haunt Me: An Ongoing Photo Mystery
>So why be loyal at all?

I got severely sick when I started working there... like 2 weeks in and I was hospitalized with a brain infection for a week + another couple weeks at home recuperating. They paid full wages during my absence.

When my father was dying from cancer they did the same thing as I helped move him to hospice and handle the estate.

There's been other things as well where they've gone above and beyond what an employer should do, and maybe "loyalty" isn't exactly how I should frame it, I do feel "safe" working there knowing I'm not about to be thrown out on my ass should something inconvenient happen.
I think I'd be a lot more excited about this if they had an innovative governance system underlying the DAO, as a way to talk about the future of governance. Considering the Constitution is a document about governance structure, it surprises and disappoints me that their system of checks and balances seems to be mostly missing, with maybe just a phrase of "pro rata" or whoever has the most tokens gets the most votes. Seems not much different than how most corporation voting works. Just seems like there's an opportunity to more deeply discuss what the future of online and offline governance will be, as geographic governing bodies struggle to deal with digital spaces. But memes seem more cool I guess lol.
This is amazing!

I'm excited to see if this will remain available long-term or websites will try to figure out ways to block it, and the limit to data scraping from one script, for example if a twitter account had 1 mil followers could it do all of them in day. I'm going to try it out!
The government dramatically underestimated job growth this summer
I would certainly like to do more technology videos / tutorials on YouTube. It might help with my resume situation, but I imagine it's unlikely to become anything resembling a stable income without quite a few years of input.
show me how this would have happened without crypto. in less than a week going from being a joke in a group chat to a registered organisation with $25m funding and a clear mission statement to take something from private ownership into public display.

people can keep dismissing how strong a coordination and communication tool crypto, is or we can start taking it seriously.
Related ongoing thread:

Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069 - Nov 2021 (100 comments)
L2 companies have liability for the transactions that passed over their infrastructure. I think they will evolve by having their own L1 chains.
Related ongoing thread:

Netlify Drop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254405 - Nov 2021 (86 comments)
Looks great, I'll give it a try for my next scraping project. My favorite of all these types of tools was kimonolabs (http://kimonolabs.com) before they were acquired and shut down.
Yes. And it warms my heart to hear that Elvis openly showed his reverence for BB.
> We intend to put The Constitution in the hands of The People. Additionally, the community has expressed strong preferences for institutions that are free to the public and willing to cover the costs associated with housing the document.

They should lend it to the US Government, it meets all these goals.
I’m expecting “web3” to go the other way: all of those speculators are looking to get their money back at a healthy return and that tends to favor building up barriers to switching. I’d expect claims that being open makes it too hard to prevent spam or slows innovation by adding features which, ooops, they totally slack on making interoperable.
What is a trusted computing base?
Forget your carbon footprint. Let's talk about your climate shadow
Thanks. Your explanation is miles more informative about that than the original article.
If they wanted to "essentially donate" it, they could just donate it. And if museums are jumping at the chance, they could have arranged it ahead of time.
But the pharmaceutical companies still make a ton of money.
> Just live and let live.

...except for animals, right?

This is a prime example of the dissonance that comes from having carnism as a dominant ideology for dietary preference.
Big-O Time Complexities for Elixir Data Structures
> I was running 4 teams with 24 direct reports.

Wow, 24 direct reports. Didn't your management chain ever consider bumping you up from an M1 to a M2 manager and bringing / promoting one level of managers under you to manage an engineering team of that size?
DICOM is also the format used at hospitals for medical images. At least in radiotherapy.
I'd have suggested to make this more challenging and only use POSIX sed, but -y is not part of POSIX cal anyway
> My personal gripe is just the explosion of special purpose pieces that Lego vends today. Less is more Lego.

I've personally been amazed at the possibilities that seemingly single-purpose parts open up in the hands of a skilled builder.

One example is the "stud shooter" -- a utensil for minifigures to shoot out 1x1 round plates. Check out what these folks did with it:

https://www.newelementary.com/2020/05/stud-shooter-15391%20-...

New Elementary is a gold mine for creative uses for "specialized" parts.
> The only brand I even recognize is Finish, and they're a UK firm, not American

Plenty of non-american firms sell products in the US. Like... I don't know, Nestlé?

I watched the same Technology Connections video. He does mention Bosch dishwashers by name. Those are available in the US. It's just that people barely bother understanding how dishwashers work, let alone _very infrequently_ refilling the salt. Heck, people drive without checking tire pressures, dishwasher salt has no hope.

Not surprising that most stores don't bother. It lasts forever too.
As of yesterday, they were only at $5M. To see it jump to $25M today is staggering, and insanely impressive, from a fundraising perspective.
> Like the US Archives aren't owned by the government of the people. Instead this will be owned by a very few ETH holders willing to participate.

The ConstitutionDAO changed their website to remove references to distributed ownership. They went on to clarify that owners of the token won't have fractional ownership of the copy of the constitution.

The also added clarification on the website about ownership questions:

> No. You are receiving a governance token, not fractionalized ownership. Governance includes the ability to advise on (for illustrative purposes) where the Constitution should be displayed, how it should be exhibited, and the mission and values of ConstitutionDAO. ConstitutionDAO is taking donations and donors are receiving governance tokens with no expectation of profit.

So someone will technically own it, but it won't be the people who bought these tokens. In theory the token holders can vote on things, but they go out of their way to clarify that the votes are advisory in nature.

Anyone who buys into this is basically making a donation to this group. The crypto and DAO stuff is just window dressing.
Yeah? Isn't the part before the colon just specifying the protocol? So shouldn't the software that I direct to open URLs be the software that...opens URLs?
Favorite story, at least for today:

When he was a show biz legend, U2 had him in the studio to record with them. Bono showed a song to him, and said "Now in this part, B.B., you just play chords."

King said, "Gentlemen, I don't play chords. I do this:" and then did his signature guitar soloing.
Ok, I've added 'deck' to disambiguate.
Yeah, and I never get asked by US companies to prove my identity with my credit card for adult content (which includes music videos from Laibach?!?!)... yawn ... typical US hysteria about IDs, but commercial exploitation is all fine and dandy.
They are not duplicate if you change something (like, using amend) in one of the preceding branches.
> How much time are you going to spend learning enough virology to make your own decisions in this case?

If experts in various fields could be trusted to just tell the truth about what they've found and not try to spin it or filter it, their information would be much more useful. It's precisely because the average person cannot trust experts to just tell the truth about what they've found that it's so hard for average people to get information they feel they can trust.

Also, being an expert in virology, for example, does not make a person an expert in human psychology; but trying to spin or filter your information about virology (or anything else) based on how you think people are going to receive it is a human psychology problem, not a virology problem. And if spinning and filtering scientific information was viewed, as it properly should be, as a matter of psychology, it would be much more obvious how manipulative it is--do you really want so-called psychology "experts" spinning and filtering the information you get based on their model of how human minds work?

In short: your implicit assumption that I, as a non-expert in a given field, can just trust the experts to tell me what to do is wrong--dangerously so. If the decision really matters to you, you take the time to learn enough about the field to at least be able to apply some intelligent common sense.

> How much time are you going to spend on the tens of thousands of other fields that you need to understand in order to make your own decisions?

You don't need to take time to learn tens of thousands of fields in order to apply intelligent common sense to your everyday life decisions, or even to decisions about something like COVID. Intelligent common sense just about viral illnesses in general, which should be common knowledge to any adult in a first world country in the 21st century, should have been enough to tell people in the US, for example, to wear masks and social distance around the end of February 2020, which is when my wife and I started doing it. If it's really true that a majority of the US population is unable to exercise that much intelligence and common sense, then our society certainly has a problem, but "just trust the experts" is not going to solve it, it will make it worse.

> what do you do for a living? Do you make decisions that affect others?

Not in any way that requires me to communicate information to others, no. What I do does affect others, but only in the sense that my work, which is in a technical field, has to be done right in a technical sense.

That said, I should be clear that my comments about what public officials should do are made from the viewpoint of a citizen, not from the viewpoint of an official.
Insufficient memory to perform operation. Your brain will go to sleep in 5...4...3...2...1...
I actually like win11 but this is such a bullshit move. And fuck the corporate speak. Everyone knows why you're doing it: to boost Edge adoption.
Who do you think you're fooling here? Self delusion?
Best way to turn potential users away from Linux:

Recommend them derivative distributions, with smaller developer and user bases, lower quality and worse support.

Every. Damn. Time.

Ubuntu is the only one in the list large enough it manages to be decent despite.

ChromeOS, might as well recommend Android; it hides Linux completely.

Actual good advice would be: Arch, Debian, Fedora.

High quality. Large developer base. Huge community. Excellent documentation. Great support.

Just my 2 cents.
I have a black thought on this. I would be happy if someone corrected me. When something breaks, sometimes we repair it, sometimes we throw it out. The more valuable the item, the more we will spend to fix it. However even with the most valuable items, we sometimes reluctantly decide that it is broken beyond repair. Are people like this? Are some simply too broken to fix? I feel awful thinking this, but I wonder if there is some truth to it.
It's annoying to edit by everybody. I guess engineers will especially abhor the unnecessary complexity.

This is the proposal of TFA:

export const config: MyAppConfig = {
locale: 'en-US',
timezone: 'America/New_York',
logLevel: 'info',
environment: 'local',
}

And this is how simple it could be:

LOCALE en-US
TIMEZONE America/New_York
LOGLEVEL info
ENVIRONMENT local

The first version has 19 useless punctuation symbols and a few spurious words that are not related to the configuration itself, but are constraints of the typescript implementation. The second version is much simpler, easier to write and to parse using trivial string processing, without depending on any third-party library.

It is beyond me how could any serious engineer honestly find any advantage in the first version.
Sift Acquires Keyless
Mozilla says so.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgJe-Ku4u66JF2D6zha28tSKxPB...

I can't speak with authority, but my reading of PKI issues suggests Google is just as strict, while Microsoft and Apple are less strict. However, that just might be because MS and Apple are less public with their root programs.
Impossible Foods absolutely does not use League Gothic. It's using Tungsten Semibold, a font by Hoefler&Co.
Watchdog investigates tube adverts for Floki Inu (Elon's dog) cryptocurrency
Funds from the winning bid are going directly to charity: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-constitutio...

Very interesting. If Sotheby's accepts the DAO's bid, it will potentially bring much more money to charity than any individual bidder.
its fun. and it demos how these tools can be used for rapid mass coordination.
I must admit that the hype around web3. But, I also realised how powerful the DEFI is. I think banks are waiting for DEFI to be disrupted.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founding members of LongShort Finance. It is a decentralised, permissionless, crypto derivative exchange.
Things of Science 1953-1986
My opinion is based on my experience integrating artifact generators (both code and config) into a build. I recall being funneled into building a plugin by documentation to deal with some idiosyncrasies of the generator. Whereas I just wanted to write a small script. In general I felt like there were a lot of extra hoops and concepts to learn to do basic easy shit. And there really isn't any payoff. For example I recall scripts and plugins have different capabilities. And that some things can't be expressed in untyped Gradle.

I also found that the user documentation was just a skosh above useless. It felt like it was more concerned with not being wrong than being helpful. Reminiscent of older javadocs in the java collections library.

The same could be said of many build systems, I suppose.
I'm not sure where you're reaching 'hundreds and hundreds of thousands', perhaps because there's a big range between zero and thirty percent.

In medical trials, statistical significance is the milestone to reach before broadly claiming something 'works'. Dozens of other treatments were put through trials. Some had promising initial results. Most didn't work.
>Re `git rebase --onto`, the open source CLI offers a recursive implementation to prevent you from having to carefully rebase each branch in your stack

Thanks - you've answered what I've been looking for and I'd prefer that this information was in the marketing copy.

I agree that this would be an useful feature. I don't think this is a product though - I don't see myself doing more than 3 or 4 stacked diffs when this functionality would really shine.
The part where they're forced to provide the EU's alternative version is still compelled speech.

The decision of trusting or not trusting a CA has an expressive character; it's not pure machine math. Some of the decisions are political speech, even: "we don't like the policies of country X, therefore we'll boycott their root certificate". (Roughly characterized)
Feeling smug?

You fundamentally misunderstand both Wand and T-Wand.

I suggest you to read my article and the papers again.

The novelty of T-Wand, is not in sorting the rows on idf, which T-Wand actually does NOT do, but in adding some filtering conditions that are not previously reported in the literature.

You missed that, so you missed the whole point. Smugness hurts.

I see that you work on Facebook Search and I know you are one of the authors in this field, I can see why your feelings are hurt.

It's okay. There are always people smarter than you are, who can come into a completely new field, spend a few weeks, and come up with something new that you could not come up with when you have spent your whole career on.

It's OK. When you are older, you will learn to accept that. You can only work with what life gives you.

Please take my ideas and put that in Faceook Search, because it presently sucks.

BTW, you should have put the PDF of your paper on the Web, then I would have read it, instead of only recognizing your name, put it on arxiv like everyone else, if you want people to read it.

Also, that's why I post it on hacker news instead of publishing first in a conference. Because there will be more people reading it. Not many people read papers.
That's weird, because I have used Bittorrent once, about a decade back, just to see what it was like, for a few movies but no software because, well, malware. I downloaded ISOs from a MS site and bought a key off of a reseller. So, no, I don't feel highly privileged.
It's all fancy shit. But guess what. My 35mm camera from eighties has command back with intervalometer. I can say stuff like in 10 minutes do an hour long exposure directly on the camera. The fact that I cannot do it on modern camera without cables or mobile phones is a travesty.