skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course most of the 20-something year old American women are obese and mentally ill anyway

Do you not recognize this as misogynist? I can't tell if you're trolling or not.
David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project at Facebook, to Leave Company
So they can (and sometimes already do) insert a SIM card in the TV and use any of the consumer 4G/LTE/5G networks out there which your phone connects to. Why are people hypothesizing that Vizio will ship a $250K 5G base station to your house?
> making money by selling something useful.

This one weird trick venture capitalists hate!
There aren't that many ways to draw the alphabet in that little space.

Still, both looked much better than the CGA did.
I'd still argue for the Seven Years War as a better candidate- it actually addressed global issues (the fate of N America and India), whereas the Napoleonic Wars were very much about Britain trying to maintain a status quo antebellum in Europe.
You can put the SIM in your phone but then you'll only be part of the private network. I didn't see anything about phone calls/SMS.
It’s amazing that Bitcoin still isn’t Bitcoin yet.
Background: to help drive Blender development in the direction of real artist needs, Blender Studio creates short films dogfooding their software

Their latest is Sprite Fright:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE
You're right about the data the parent is quoting, however it's worth pointing out that the national median income for a full-time (35+ hours per week) job in the US is over $50,000 (excluding benefits and other forms of compensation).
You are describing Mastodon [1]

[1]: https://joinmastodon.org
- sequence[-1]

- sequence[start:finish:step]

- no need for "==="

- try/except with specific exceptions

- context managers

- yield from

- "in" on any iterable

- raise from

- every empty object is false, all other are true

- spread work on all iterables, not just arrays

- f"{2:03}", f"{2:.2f}" and f"{date:%m/%d/%Y}"

- / and //

- no need for variable declaration keywords

- 0b1111

- "else" in loops

- := makes for explicit assignation + comparison instead of a footgun

- None instead of null + undefined

- set literals

- matmul operator

- foo > bar > baz

- sorting callback semantics

- dunder methods for operator overriding

- list, dict and set comprehension

- generator expressions

- byte literals

- raise SystemExit() for clean script exit

- raw strings

- automatic string literal concatenation

- positional/keyword only parameters

- can use *args and **kwargs together, as opposed to spread

- docstrings

- typing is part of the language, no need for a transpiled dialect like typescript

- "async for" and "async with"

That's only what I come up on the fly, I'm pretty sure I can double the list. Then of course, do we consider builtin to be part of the stdlib, since it doesn't require any import? Because there is a load to say there.

JS does have some nice stuff too though:

- ? and ??

- futures are more ergonomic than coroutines and awaitable anyway

- more powerful destructuration

- regex literals
YouTube is fucking horrible. I can't fucking stand the "People also watched" results 5 results into your search results. I don't give a fuck what other people watch, I want what I searched for (which is already fucking bad)!!!
Every site that's not an application, just a way to display text and media, should progressively enhance it's function with javascript, not require it's execution to see anything at all.

This tdinh.notion.site fails that very low bar and is just a blank white page. It both fails to communicate it's desired message about GIFs and communicates that it's not a voice to listen to on this subject regardless.
Interesting, is it any different than putting the query in quotes?
The web is polluted by dodgy websites. What is Google doing about it?
I'm a big fan of this solution, and I've used it quite a few times.

Ideally I would like to use drop downs where possible like GP describes, since a > icon (or similar) before some text unambiguously indicates how to get more information, but sometimes the implementation is non-obvious. I've had issues when my data is tabular (like this pricing page). Where should the drop down appear? Sometimes you have a 3rd party table (or template, like this article describes), and the customization options might not be there. At the very least you have to spend time styling both the additional information AND figuring out how it fits into the document flow.

The great thing about a tooltip is that it's out of the document flow. You can just ignore the rest of your application, resulting in (usually) faster development speed. However, as GP points out, you have to consider mobile, and it's not always obvious how to indicate _in_ the context of your document that something is hoverable.

ⓘ is a best of both worlds solution IMO. It's totally unambiguous on both desktop and mobile that hovering, clicking, or tapping will bring up more information, AND you get the development speed of using a tooltip.
> They seem to have especial disdain for scientists, who have a long and stories reputation as the intellectual elite, which might just rub their egos the wrong way.

Doubly so for anything vaguely related to social sciences and other fields where theorising from first principles isn't the norm. "Historical" sciences such as astrophysics and epidemiology often get short shrift here as well. Engineers in general seem to be prone to opining outside of their area of expertise, the Salem Hypothesis that a creationist with an advanced degree was more likely to be an engineer than any other field was noted back in the early days of Usenet:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
> It’s like if first I asked you, what will happen if I hit this window with a hammer? It will break. Now what if I ask you where every piece will go?

I don't like this analogy. A better example might be that if we set fire to all the forests, it's going to get hotter. It's true in the short term but the long term effects can be debated. And unfortunately there's a history of predictions that haven't come true to deal with.

There are a bunch of unanswered questions around rapid warming. Like the doom and gloom scenarios of a tipping point or runaway global warming. The obvious question I have is: if this is a real possibility, why hasn't it happened in the last several billion years? The Earth has been warmer than it is now.

Another is that rapid warming over short periods isn't that unprecedented [1]:

> One of the most surprising findings was that the shifts from cold stadials to the warm interstadial intervals occurred in a matter of decades, with air temperatures over Greenland rapidly warming 8 to 15°C (Huber et al. 2006)

To be clear, I'm not a climate change denier. I'm a climate change fatalist. By this I mean that whatever is going to happen is going to happen and there's really nothing you can do about it now other than finding cheaper alternatives to bad behaviours (eg solar becoming cheaper than fossil fuels).

If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it's that many people are staggeringly selfish and are quite willing to let other people die rather than they being mildly inconvenienced. There's no way people are going to make their lives more expensive or more inconvenient for climate change.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-cli...
Researchers report encouraging news on gene therapy for hemophilia A
It's actually not that bad. It's basically just a payment for providing verifiable wireless coverage to an area. If you want access to the network you buy it with VerizonBucks and people who provide coverage get them.

In this case the only reason for the blockchain is really because global payments are hard.
It’s not the regulator’s job to find other buyers for Gyphy. There’s a million companies who could buy it, doesn’t mean they will. But the goal here from FB is clearly to monopolise data aggregation, which regulators rightly have to stop.
> in my case the working set is small enough and the processes are top-priority so they probably stay in the L2 if not the L1.

Maybe! Maybe not. If it's top priority on core X but something else with a much better (or cache-unfriendly) dataset is on the hyperthread-sibling core then your high priority process can still have cache misses.
Is two income households truly a good thing?

A different perspective is that two income households enabled housing costs to rise, rents to rise. And causes the cost of having a child increase due to childcare costs.

Overall maybe society is better having 1 parent (male or female) stay at home to raise the children. Or re think our North American living situation ideals of 1 family per house.
> The US labor situation is changing on a cultural level big time and rapidly. The working force is taking back the control. Companies are going to have a tougher time exploiting people for cheap labor with no/shitty benefits.

> Unions are going to be a major driving force again

All of those positive changes and benefits you cited are happening without an increased union presence, though. What makes you think unions are going to be a compelling option when the non-union alternatives are rapidly changing in response to market conditions without any need for union bargaining?
decentralization of mechanical infrastructure is irrelevant. decentralization of human control over said infrastructure is all that matters.

one does not correlate with the other.

if anything, the strongest incentive is to mask centralized ownership behind a screen of decentralized infrastructure.

a culture of anonymity helps discourage inconvenient questions about transparency and thwarts attempts to formally analyze the relationship between agents and principals in a blockchain network.

all cryptocurrencies are thus fundamentally based on deception, as the blockchain is designed to expose activity statistics that demonstrate 'decentralization' of agency, but anonymizes the linkage between agent and principal, making those statistics worse than meaningless.
And plenty of people hate traditional media. THere would be wall to wall ads from facebook about how they're being mistreated by the jealous traditional media and corrupt government.
When I owned a consulting firm, I was also shocked at how low resume quality was. If you just spend a bit of time making your resume look good or stand out a little bit, it will go a really long way. There is a such thing as “too much information” or “too detailed.” I never had a problem of “too little information” because, as a human, I was able to fill in the blanks and if something didn’t make sense, I’d often interview them just to hear the story (and in a couple of cases, actually hire).

When I lived on a sailboat, it was often mentioned in my cover letter just to hopefully stand out. I’d get interviews just because I sounded like an interesting person (what these coworkers said later at company parties) and it would get my foot in the door.
Writing anything to blockchain costs money ("gas" on ETH) and energy. And deleting written data is practically impossible. Why not skip it altogether and build Web3 as peer-to-peer based, really decentralized system?
Good question and would be interesting to hear about cases, although at least on-path attacks aren't going to make the news since they don't really reveal any unexpected weaknesses.

But even for off-path attacks, non-DNSSEC cache poisoning countermeasures have everything hanging by a thread and occasionally those fail, eg like this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dns-cache-poi... - this is not often the easiest way to break into something, but it's not exactly good and robust either.
I wonder if an argument could be made that this would actually pay for itself. Given that productive use of search is at odds with commercial use of search, maybe a publicly funded search engine could increase GWP by 0.01% which would be about $87B a year.
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> I am not a lawyer ... This will only make the regulator look foolish.

Look in a mirror. Evading the regulator would require exiting the UK market entirely.
What exactly do you mean by "phone-shaped devices"? People can and do use the Librem and the original PinePhone as a primary phone. Calling, SMS, mobile data, and even MMS work at this point (however, MMS support is very recent). The original PinePhone's hardware is slow, but users of the lightweight SXMO UI report getting good responsiveness. The maker of Librem has software developers on their payroll, and their price reflects that - unlike with cheaper Android devices, you're subsidizing the development of userspace software when you buy a Librem. And you're subsidizing kernel-level development that's done "the right way" (mainlining), as opposed to the cheapest-viable-kernel-with-no-updates approach that most Android devices take.

At $450, the PinePhone Pro with Pine64's keyboard attachment has roughly comparable hardware specs to the Gemini that you link to in the original post. The Gemini sells for $680.

The state of hardware support in regard to the OnePlus is exciting - nothing wrong with going that route if you want more bang for your buck on hardware specs. Personally, I've opted for the PinePhone Pro because I don't need state-of-the-art hardware, and I value the community and the option of using FOSS firmware on its cell modem.
Helium is (initially) focused on shipping a LoRaWAN[0] network with a crowd sourced model for Lora RF hotspots that uses blockchain for to pay incentives to those supporting the network (via hardware, power, bandwidth). LoRaWAN focuses on low power, very low bandwidth, long range devices like sensor networks and simple controls.

Nearest competitor to Helium's LoRaWAN deployment that I'm aware of is The Things Network[1] which has no incentive model and instead people often host an access point for their personal use and sometimes for the use of those nearby.

Helium is expanding to CBRS[2] 5G service which will offer traditional higher bandwidth services, but this deployment is very early and the first units are shipping next month from FreedomFi[3].

Coolest thing about the Helium LoRaWAN offering is that you can buy a $20 ESP32 microcontroller with Lora radio on Amazon, write some software, buy Helium data credits and use it anywhere helium has coverage. No contracts, no special hardware. And if it sucks you could switch your application to use another LoRaWAN offering (The Things Network). That said, I think the coverage of Helium vastly outpaces anything else because of the crypto incentives fueling the madness and growth. [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa

[1] https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi...

[3] https://freedomfi.com/

[4] https://explorer.helium.com/coverage
I think we need to understand the ownership structure post IPO to understand what the future may hold.

If 100% of trading is going in the IPO then I think your predictions will be right on the money.

If the foundation retains the majority share and we're seeing 30/40% go to the IPO then it doesn't really matter how much profit the shareholders are demanding, the foundation can just continue to run things as it sees fit. Though the foundation may worry about the stock price tanking of course and still do what the shareholders demand.
If that's how it's going to work, what stopped nations from making a treaty in which everyone commits to an immutable monetary policy so far? And how does Bitcoin result in whatever it was not being a showstopper anymore?
5G can operate at lower frequencies, from my notes I do not remember where I copied it from.

"In quick summary, the bands work as follows in the real world. One low band (600-700MHz) tower can cover hundreds of square miles with 5G service that ranges in speed from 30 to 250 megabits per second (Mbps). A mid band (2.5/3.5GHz) tower covers a several-mile radius with 5G that currently ranges from 100 to 900Mbps. Lastly, a high band (millimeter wave/24-39GHz) tower covers a one-mile or lower radius while delivering roughly 1-3Gbps speeds. Each of these tiers will improve in performance over time."
Doesn't look like this will give you phone/SMS service.

You have to put in their SIM, so unless you have a dual SIM phone that can intelligently roam, doesn't seem like the right solution.
The blue check, calling card of the Twitter cultural elite, is such a highly coveted status symbol that it's almost incomprehensible to me that Twitter hasn't come up with a way to directly monetize it. It's an incredible amount of value just sitting there.
I agree it's just an anecdote and I have nothing against PostgREST. I think it's an interesting approach which has its uses. Currently at my job all I've been doing lately has been replacing slow ORM-based access with pure SQL queries for performance/readability and I can see the advantages of ditching the layer between the frontend and the DB entirely, at least for queries.

But there are several things I'd like to see an analysis/comparison of, between the traditional approach and PostgREST's approach:

1) what is the cost of a mistake (what if I misconfigure row-based policy vs. misconfigure in the traditional backend)

2) the size of the attack surface (if we expose DB directly, as opposed to having an additional layer)

3) how many developers are proficient in Postgres enough to avoid #1 and #2 as opposed to traditional code-based security policies
Erm... you've told me twice about the amen break.. I saw Aphrodite, dieselboy, and a bunch of other jungle artists live, sometimes in small hole in the wall places before they got big.. hung around the goa/psytrance scene a bunch too, and was idealistic about temporary autonomous zones and stuff for a while.

Not unfamiliar with how the sausage was made. Long time ago though.

Not a musician myself.. I dabbled a bit in Max/MSP, Acid (the program), Fruity Loops, and used to go wild with Rebirth or whatever it was called, but it was all just messing around.

Did have had plenty of conversations with musicians who called themselves composers, esp. as they would make their living composing tunes for video games and film etc. Sure "producers" is the more common term, but it's a bit reductive for you to say "nobody". How about Squarepusher, Simon Posford, and folks like that? Guarantee you they have been called all kinds of things, hehe.

Anyway, when it comes to actually creating original tunes, my experience and recollection tells me it's by far mostly about synthetic instruments and laying out tracks, e.g. actual original compositions. Significantly large samples of copyrighted material play a very small part, in the big picture. Of course there's some notable exceptions, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to original material.

Not talking about DJing. By definition that is literally just sampling/remixing. And of course you have famous DJ's who put out mixes and nobody knows how hard the original music synthesis freak worked to get that fat bass line sounding just right. (Not dismissing the skill of a DJ, I liken it more to a conductor than a composer or the orchestra. Hard and important skill, just different)

Re: fair use, I believe you're wrong. It isn't a hard law but in general the length of the sample is one of the major factors taken into account to determine whether a judge will lean one way or another.

P.L.U.R.
It is a matter of semantics... this is like arguing that you don't have to pay credit card fees because the merchant pays them, when clearly the cost is going to be passed on to the customer.

The point is that being in a union will increase wages more than the cost of the union dues.
All I know is that when I find an actual gif it's really easy to save and share, but when I find a "gif" that's actually a video, shit never works right.

Keep gifs. More gifs, even. Down with videos where gifs would do.

Also, raw size isn't everything. What's memory use look like during playback? CPU use? Higher? Spikier? I know there's hardware decoding for common codecs but wouldn't be surprised if videos still use more CPU than gif, in practice.
> If you've got the same postgres wrapped in a more rigid validation then arguably there are more bugs that need to align for a mishap.

> The reality is people probably tend to skimp on the postgres layer's security if they're burying it deep under other things.

so the reality is, they don't have layers. they'll have one security layer.

best to put it in postgres, where other folks who aren't in a hurry to deploy the feature your boss wants, have tested the security model.
It is not necessary what it can do the problem, but how it does it.

Looking at the page you link for example:
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/expression-s...

<<{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }:>>

<<
Nix functions generally have the form { x, y, ..., z }: e where x, y, etc. are the names of the expected arguments, and where e is the body of the function.
>>

Strange, but let's say ok. But then, in the example, where does the function end?

Then,
<<"So we have to build a package. Building something from other stuff is called a derivation in Nix (as opposed to sources, which are built by humans instead of computers). >>

Looking at that, I say whaaaattt? "derivation" does not mean anything obvious to anyone used to build packages. And then, as the subtitle said, did they decide to use a weird name just to confuse everyone for the pleasure?

Then:
<<
A set is just a list of key/value pairs where each key is a string and each value is an arbitrary Nix expression. They take the general form { name1 = expr1; ... nameN = exprN; }.
>>

So, looking at the code, from far, function, sets, everything looks mixup ...
I have expressed doubt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371613

But even if that wasn't the case, so what? HN is overrepresented by people convinced web3 has no merit. That doesn't seem to be a problem (and IMO it isn't), but presenting arguments in favor is a problem?
- Hey, I have this idea where xyz...

- That's stupid

It's clearly talking about the idea. No one says "That's X" when referring to someone. When someone shows me a painting and I say "That's beautiful", I'm obviously referring to the painting, right?
Sometimes sure; but not “often”. The ones that work against JavaScript are probably written in JavaScript however none of the ones I use commonly are.
> While that is illegal, the State is completely ineffective in protecting workers who file complaints.

I don't know which state you're in, but this is absolutely not true where I grew up. A complaint to the state labor board brought the hammer down ASAP.

The people who enforce these things absolutely love to have something to track down.
How long until Amazon takes on the existing cell companies?
Now imagine a future where every device you buy is connected to the internet wirelessly, whether you like it or not.
I have a public repo on GitHub that just doesn't show up on Google.

Search for "github drv8830pico" - it's literally not in any results.
For me, very definitely. But. I've also turned off all search history etc so am probably shooting myself in the foot...
Interesting that they're running a $75K Kickstarter for this. They must have some cash in the bank to have funded development on this, so is the Kickstarter purely a marketing trick?
When I'm browsing on my phone, I usually find myself opening a site with a "mobile" ui in desktop mode, because the mobile version is usually inferior to the desktop version.
Google now tells us what we're searching for.
If something changes within ~300ms before your click, the only way you'd be intentionally clicking whatever's there now is if you're amped up playing some online game
This is such a dick move. Ex-AWS superstars built https://www.soracom.io/, made AWS folks aware, who balked at a deal. Example 1198170892703973...