skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As-needed reminder:

"In particular the entry in Wikipedia is misleading and incomplete, much of its comments seem to be based on a paper from a determined XP critic whose sources are unclear. Certainly its comments on performance are a misleading interpretation of material in my Refactoring book."

-- https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/C3.html
I'm pretty sure this would fail to kill people on almost every place you could try it. And if it works somewhere, it's because there are other problems with the road that should be fixed.

Human driving is full of redundancies, and there is a clear hierarchy of information. People will not rush into a road full of cars going on the other way, it doesn't matter what the signs say.

If your automated driving system doesn't have those same features, it's not ready for use.
> people on the opposite side of the privileged class are barely allowed to exist on those platforms - only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some perceived offense committed off-platform.

I'm having trouble understanding what any of this means
> (The situation of course gets even more complicated when a NH resident is remote to a company that has offices in many states. Why would MA have any particular right to state income tax just because an MA office is closer?)

I do not see it as complicated. Either a state is restricted to being able to tax income from work performed within its geographic boundaries, or it is not. If it is not, then I do not see why every state cannot tax every single employee of any business that has any presence in the state.

Very surprised this Supreme Court declined to hear it with only 2 Justices disagreeing.
The world is a mess. And social media is to blame for a fair bit of that mess.
Longer term, TWTR has not performed well. I got into both FB and TWTR shortly after their IPOs. In 8 years, TWTR bas gone no where, while FB is up 600%. They're not even in the same category.
Hmm. Magnesium is anything but scarce -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium#Occurrence

OTOH, it's not used in huge quantities (vs. oil, coal, iron, etc.) - so it seem plausible that China could kinda corner the market. At a reasonable cost (for them). Especially if they're the ~only country bothering to run a strategy...
> costs hidden somewhere

It's much more perverse than just hidden and externalized costs.

These disasters are extracting billions in additional profits from workers to the 0.1%.

Why wasn't the Texas grid more resilient to cold weather? Because it was more profitable not to weatherproof the system, and then the inevitable grid failure was extraordinarily profitable to the tune of billions of dollars for the owners of energy corporations, at the expense of rate payers and tax payers.

Logistics companies are raking in billions of excess profits due to the shortages of essential products that they themselves caused by not investing in a more resilient supply chain.

Did Texas energy companies intentionally keep the grid vulnerable so they could profit? Did logistics companies intentionally break supply chains to benefit themselves?

It doesn't have to be intentional, it's the natural mechanics of an oligopolistic market system.

When we allow market participants to profit more by running at 100% of capacity than by building in resiliency, and then allow them to profit spectacularly when that lack of resiliency inevitably cascades into catastrophe, then that's exactly what they're going to do.
So did I, after a dozen years on the platform. I won't donate content or attention to a site that decides what I am allowed to read (they censor their search!).
Ethereum is slightly less decentralized than Bitcoin when it comes to node count, but that’s about it. Ethereum and Bitcoin are the only chains with high number of nodes.

Ethereum has 10 different, independent teams working on their own clients, far more than Bitcoin, so we could say that the development is way more decentralized.
> I'd say one of the hallmarks of electronic music was that it wasn't built from copyrightable samples

Yup, exactly. See, for instance, the 1937 ondes Martenot composition Oraison as an example.[0] Other electronic progenitor genres, e.g musique concrete, did use samples but they were widely not copyrighted sounds.[1][2]

Hip-hop, however, would not exist without illegal sampling.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EU0ISo996A

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_fhIKeOX0
Leak or an attempt to get attention since it doesn't seem to be getting much?
I expect the Trump ban to be overturned starting next year. And also Twitter to become lot more neutral. Whatever someone's political beliefs might be, it is bad for business when you alienate good number of users and also result in encouraging other alternatives to the already crowded social media space.

And shareholders expect this which is why shares are up today.
If I try to use the mouse to scroll, it zooms out, which is 100% acceptable and fine, except if I zoom out too far I see the scene upside down, which is funny.
Yes. And especially when listening with headphone, some artists find it fun to have a moving song from one side to the other, in that case I turn my head thinking that there is something near me, absolutely annoying. With mono the sound is always located in the middle of my brain.
It has no third party tool required
Yes you’re rite i shouldn't express my opinion too much in this matter as I am not a specialist. I usually say this to very close friends when they ask my opinion.

Added some actual research to the original comment.
Other claims by this author have been called pseudoscience, so be cautious about this. From Wikipedia: "Scientists and dieticians have classified Gundry's claims about lectins as pseudoscience." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Gundry).
You're missing something: larger companies can negotiate significant discounts when they buy in bulk. This applies even more for a product with negligible marginal cost.
> Dorsey did try to improve the eco-system in a principled way

By blocking any 3rd party use of Twitter and making it impossible to write your own clients? It's more like he Killed the eco-system
There’s no way having hundreds of chrome tabs open is actually beneficial to you.
Can confirm, there's an swf file that was captured in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080226073834oe_/https:/www.toy...

I was able to download and run this in Flash Projector, and it appears to be identical to the current site.
I only have Vivaldi, MS Outlook and MS Teams open at the moment. Memory consumed? 7.49 Gb. What does that tell you? 8 Gb is good for web browsing, reading emails, and attending online meetings. If that's your typical workload then you're good to go.

The HN crowd knows the developer toolsets very well, so you all know 16 Gb is the minimum you would allocate for a developer. The HN crowd may be less familiar with the toolsets of the so-called creatives, such as music production, video production or photography. Long story short, the advice in those communities is to not even think about running less than 16 Gb and seriously consider 32 Gb - especially if you're a professional. The video producers recommend getting as much RAM as you possibly can.

The MacBook Air M1 wasn't designed for those heavy-duty use cases, which is okay. That's why Apple has brought out the MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro and M1 Max. If you don't need it then don't buy it. Otherwise it's nice to have those options available.
About the Italian version:

>Calcolare la lunghezza focale dell obiettivo della fotocamera, la densità dei pixel e vedere le zone della fotocamera in 3D

In actual Italian that would be:

Calcolo della lunghezza focale dell'obiettivo della fotocamera, della densità dei pixel e visualizzazione 3d delle zone di copertura

The current one is understandable, but sounds a bit like native americans talk in old westerns.

And - if I may - you have colours "reversed", I would instinctively expect green to be "good, OK", red "No good", yellow something midway.
Whenever these discussions come up, I often think of a time I was driving on a two-lane road in rural Ohio in the 90s and at one point the center stripe curved into the lane (presumably because the driver of the striping truck pulled over without turning off the striper) and I started to curve off the road thanks to subconscious interpretation of the cue. I caught myself before I drove into a corn field, but human vision systems are also susceptible to these sorts of problems.
Maybe there's some useful situational awareness that can be gained from being the CEO of more than one company. If there's a problem at Twitter, you can see if you have the same problem at Square. Maybe it's a "how humans organize" problem and it affects both, or maybe it's a social media problem, and only affects one. With this data, you can make better decisions.

It's the same for programming projects. It's good to work on more than one, so you can pick apart intrinsic problems that nobody knows the answer to and just artifacts of one particular codebase.

You have to collect this data for yourself because it's not like there's a service you can subscribe to that shows you all the problems that various public companies have.
No idea, I never cared about that kind of thing. I've used it for a couple classes recently, that's it.
Makes me think of how many traditional media outlets had a lot to say about YouTube being "rabbit holes" and whatnot around election times, but have a lot less to say about them now that Google picked up the pace on censoring content and pruning platform capabilities (removing dislikes being a big one).
None of that makes any sense. I get what an NFT is. What I want to know is how the mechanics of taking a "sword of fire" from WoW and importing it into RandomNewGame will work without the developer of RandomNewGame specifically programming it in. And if the requirement is that they program in some compatibility with the WoW sword of fire, will they not need to then also program in support for all the billions of existing and infinite yet-to-be-existing items that someone will want to import into the game? You can spin SciFi tales to a different question. I'm asking for specifics on how this ridiculous idea would work.
When I lived in one part of South London, I never saw this, or at least so rarely that I never figured out what it was supposed to mean. After moving to another, more suburban, part of South London, I see it all the time. shrug
Counterpoint:

The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854592

It likely depends much more on the observer than the conditions of observation.
You think this guy (https://twitter.com/paraga/status/28773976508) is a stooge for the Republicans?
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Twitter is a great idea ruined by terrible UI. It's clear that people do want to listen to what famous people have to say, and they want to hear it directly from the person, not a PR team.

If only the UI let you do things like follow a thread, set up proper notifications, and made at least some attempt at filtering out the spammer/scam replies.
YubiKeys! https://www.yubico.com/ a tool to increase your security. But can be expensive.

His/her favourite programming language or tool as a mug/sticker/tshirt on redbubble.com

Some cool mug that automatically warms up or stirs with a button. Because techies need coffee.

Laptop webcam blocker sticker/shuffle to keep ur privacy.

LED stuff. Like a led strip or something because cool lights are nice.

Smarthome stuff like a smart plug! It shows power usage of devices and u can program it using automations with homeassistant https://www.tp-link.com/en/home-networking/smart-plug/hs110/ - cool to automate ur home with it.
There was effectively zero flu in Winter of 2020, it remains to be seen how much flu there will be in Winter of 2021, but since the same precautions one would take for COVID also stop flu. Beyond that, anytime anyone shows flu like symptoms they're almost automatically sent home for 5 days, until they get a clean COVID test, which basically stops flu cold in its tracks, this is how you end up irradiating something.
Can we have [2015] in the title?

Also, this ignores the main argument against DNSSEC / DANE:

> With DANE, you only have to trust ICANN, the country your TLD resides in, and your DNS service provider. This is far from ideal, but the traditional CA system requires trusting all of those entities and over 600 others.

Those 600 CAs are accountable to browsers -- the bad certificates are detected, and companies which misbehave are kicked out (see StartCom [0] for example).
With DANE, there is no such mechanism. Your TLD provider leaked the key and is denying it? Nothing you (or anyone) can do without losing your domain name. The crypto has been broken and needs upgrades (see SHA-1), but provider does not want to do this? No way to force this.

In the field of cybersecurity, I trust a combination of Mozilla/Apple/Google more than any government agency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StartCom
I wouldn't assume the Trump ban is a net negative for Twitter. Banning divisive accounts tends to make a site less unpleasant.

I think you're right, but it's debatable whether it's a good business decision.
Don't mean to be flippant, but maybe something completely unrelated to tech? I find that when I disconnect/disengage from my tech, I come back refreshed and enthusiastic.

Anyway, I would recommend a small toolkit (or a big one) 'cause you never know when you need to wrench on something and/or a small headlamp since it getting dark early.

Happy holidays.
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal Replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO
I read it differently than "shaping public opinion". The reality is that social media (and Twitter especially) is toxic. That underlying toxicity comes from humans of course, but recommendation algorithms accelerate and highlight it because it leads to high "engagement", and thus more money. These sites already "guide" conversation, just using metrics that can end up being harmful.

A social media CEO that's interested in breaking the cycle there and trying to recommend content that's more constructive than inflammatory sounds like a great thing to me. Yes, there are a dozen pitfalls awaiting anyone that tries, but it's still worth attempting.
Of course not, it's reading the entire program from a floppy disk
If any super villain tries their weather machine without filling this out first expect the wrath of the US government.
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>It would be fairly easy to add poison to a water supply or the air intake of a large building and kill a large number of people.

I used to think this until someone walked me through the logistics of both and made me realize that you would need an agency-alerting level of poison for the water supply and some way to avoid people just shutting off the A/C and sticking their heads out of windows (also a huge amount of gas). Also the news can't exist to alert anyone immediately.
> Actually the conclusion is ...

Don't forget the time component. A lot of c# shops standardized on Visual Studio with resharper when a lot of alternatives either didn't exist or were notably worse (at least in function; resharper was always terribly slow iirc)
Scaling teams like parallel computing systems
Looks like you joined about two weeks before the change happened. So it stands to reason that you might not remember.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
I think a factor that should also be considered in your analogy is that poison is much more difficult to attain than stickers. I have to imagine that if poison was cheaply and widely available as stickers, we'd have a much larger problem than we currently see.
NGINX requires external tooling (e.g. certbot), Caddy's auto-HTTPS is built-in. Caddy's auto-HTTPS logic is much smarter and more robust than certbot or any other ACME client. In general, Caddy sites stay up when other sites will go down due to HTTPS/certificate issues. Certbot+cron is much more brittle than Caddy's embedded handling of certificates. Plus, Caddy has stronger memory safety guarantees than a C program like NGINX.

Caddy automatically staples and caches OCSP responses by default, as well. OCSP responder outages? No problem. This sometimes brings sites down (esp. Must-Staple certs in Firefox) because other servers' OCSP stapling implementations are not as robust. I remember when gnu.org went down for a while because of this.

Certificate got revoked? No problem, Caddy will automatically detect that via OCSP and replace it for you.

Internal throttling and retry logic makes it more resilient to domain validation problems. Caddy will fall back to a secondary CA if your first CA is having trouble issuing a certificate (i.e. multiple default CAs). Not to mention, when using Let's Encrypt, Caddy will retry with its staging endpoint to help avoid rate limit issues.

Plus, deploy multiple Caddy instances as a cluster and they will automatically share and coordinate management of certificates and OCSP staples. (Doing this is as simple as configuring each Caddy instance to use the same storage backend.)

It's very quick to get started and try out HTTPS: https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/https
> I'm still waiting to hear your performance requirements btw.

I suppose this encapsulates why I get turned off of Caddy every time I look into it: Basic concerns (including questions about approximate performance) are met with suggestions that I don’t know what I want and therefore I’m not qualified to make such judgments.
i can't answer it because it made me ask more questions:

- what is their mission?

- how are they funded?

- how are they staffed?

- what is their scope?

- what happens if you don't comply?

- how do they measure success?

- what meaningful actions have they taken during the pandemic and in the past that has made the world a better place than if they didn't exist at all?

In general I understand the case for the "one world health" approach, but my anti-authoritarian instinct is wary of building global governing institutions that bypass democratic representation.

I also want to point out to the people that complain about the Chinese influence .. it's disingenuous to ignore that the WHO was conceived as an extension of USA global influence, and has operated that way for decades. No one sounds that alarm as long as its "their guy" in charge.
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How did dorsey stand up to anything? They are trying to monetize twitter just as much, with extremely annoying dark patterns to boot. They just don't seem to succeed as well. The way they redesigned feeds, made linking to tweets a coin toss because of how often they just show "oops something went wrong" if you aren't logged in, or if you are lucky made it so Twitter threads just don't show anything but the single linked tweet. I'm not sure if trying and failing to grow and monetize like facebook counts

And it's not like he has shown some sort of political backbone either. Twitter is much much more of a political cesspool, and has an odd persuasive influence on real life politics that facebook posts just doesn't have. And that's with Twitter being pretty okay with handing out bans and protecting blue checkmarks (and it's obvious they have a very heavy biais when it comes to who they verify). I'm genuinely puzzled that you can see dorsey as having stood up for pretty much anything.

I know this is very unpopular but while Zuckerberg has obviously no problem with turning his platform into a creepy ad filled universe he controls, he's still infinitely more "backboned". 99% of the attention fb or Zuckerberg are getting is due to their (relatively) unwavering obsession with their vision of free speech and an open platform. Every single major media platform on pretty much both sides has been trashing him and facebook for the past 4 years. He could've gone the dorsey way of just yielding and taking the very easy path of doing whatever to make the controversy go away but he didn't. You can agree or disagree with his stance, but at least he has one (again, I'm not talking about the monetization or ad side). If he didnt, the past 4 years would've been a breeze for him and Meta. Remember, most of the mainstream controversy has been about allowing fake news, wrong think, how the platform is moderated, how meta is totally why the other side won... The privacy/tracking/advertising issues have been mostly ignored in comparison (they probably have been covered extensively on HN but that's an outlier) unless they overlapped with a political tribe issue.
Ask HN: What's your setup for high resolution, high quality audio calls?
I miss actually talking to people, but to my ears, which were trained on old-school landline telephones, mobile phone calls sound terrible, and FaceTime/Skype/Hangouts all sound worse. Do you have a platform or system that works well for you? What hardware do you use?
Servicing does not equal support. It doesn't get more direct than that.
Firefox has a bunch of telemetry enabled by default that phones home usage information to Mozilla without consent.
Yeah, I'm curious about that myself, I've been watching it very carefully.
It's funny that, in the UK, flashing head lamps means 'you go first'. In India, it's the other way around: 'I--and only I--drive around here!'.
Nope, I'm talking about the telemetry that still exists in current Firefox that you can download worldwide today.
Input latency's one potential convenient proxy for this, once you adjust for display latency. "How long does it take the computer to do pretty much the most basic operation an interactive computer system performs?"

Considering an IBM 8088 did way better on that than modern computers, with like 1/5,000 of the processing power (figure ass-pulled but probably not far off), indicates to me that the trend is really damn bad.
That’s unfortunate. This is exactly how I want Twitter not to be. I just want a feed filled with Tweets by the people I follow, ordered by the time posted.

But as seen on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, this is not most effective way to make money.
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Yeah, it's hard for us to hit a performance target that is being kept hidden from the devs.
Every website you've ever used decides what you're allowed to read on their site.
One of the only episodes of Joe Rogan I ever listened to (#1258) was the interview with Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde. Vijaya Gadde would make a good CEO. She seems to have a clear, balanced, and well-informed perspective on both Twitter as a whole and the many micro-communities within.
I'm trying not to read too much into the new variant yet, there isnt enough data to form a meaningful conclusion. But hope springs eternal. ;-)
thanks to the shareholders, i guess twitter will become facebook in no time!
nope, same standard as i have for bitcoin. consensus algorithm barely changed in 12 years. the only known consensus-breaking bug that caused a chain rollback was found long before bitcoin had any significant financial relevance in the world. developers have extreme propensity for slow, gradual, cautious changes, especially when it comes to consensus algorithm, realizing that "moving fast and breaking things" is not a great basis for stable system and a horrible precedent for future development/governance.
The valuation idea was to make implementation simple.

Another option would be a revenue-based approach where any money earned through copyright ownership would be subject to a licensing tax.

This could be more easily spread around to multiple countries taxing within their jurisdiction, but would also get into hairy issues when multiple copyright applied to a single piece of media - how would a movie or game full of 3rd party characters like Kingdom Hearts, Wreck it Ralph, or Ready Player One split the value of each individual IP works within it for tax purposes?