skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taken a different angle. I work in a non-aggressive sector. It's very niche - my sector is museum technology - but I'd imagine it holds true for other non-profits.

Sounds weird that I can generalise like this but I've got 10+ years under the belt and I can say hand on heart that I've had maybe 3 "slightly difficult" clients in all this time. I've dipped out into the commercial world about once and almost instantly was bombarded with assholes, so retreated back into the place I know and love.

My figuring is this: the people who work for them aren't there to get rich - salaries are pretty crappy - they're there because they're fascinated in wonderful things and histories. So that endless bullshit drive to focus entirely on making vast sums of money is largely (not entirely!) removed. On the whole the sector is thoughtful, kind, considered. As a result (or because of!), it's a sector with excellent diversity, lots of working mums, lots of older people, lots of enthusiasm, lots of drive.

I'm never gunna get rich because museums aren't rich. But I do varied, fascinating work and the people I work with are almost always nice people. That to me is a huge thing and has positively affected my mental and working life.
SenseTime - world’s largest AI platform
Yup, this is a well known secret among anybody who supports Macs - Apple typically supports the latest release and the two immediately preceding it. iOS is a different story though, as they sometimes go back a few versions to fix CVEs.
https://archive.md/isVxz
i feel like there are a lot of industries 'silicon valley' hasn't touched yet, and i'm not sure why.

just been kept at bay by the real powers that be, i would guess.
A friend of my brother is South Asian and grew up in Mobile, AL in the 1990's. Said he had zero issues with race and more racial diversity in his neighborhood than where he lives now in Silicon Valley.
NFT copyright infringement and Opensea – a story about stolen art
This feels like fresh air compared to tons of tools written in Javascript and running in a browser.
My memory of Mac OS 7.1 was that it was rock solid. When it did bomb it wasn’t a surprise — you knew it was coming because you’d been messing around in ResEdit or playing with the debugger.
Awesome.

I wonder if it could also detect and judge pronounciation of a spell - always remember: "It's leviOsa, not levioSA!"
After reading this story I wonder if we are already into deep, deep trouble. So many things depend on timely production and delivery of complex goods and very often that production depends on a stack of badly written and badly used software operated by underpaid and demotivated staff. How long until we literally cannot improvise a solution anymore? When has the last "process optimization" by some MBA consultant put up so many layers between motivated human beings that a problem is unfixable?

Could civilization actually end like this? Not in a big bang but slowly grinding to a halt because no one knows how stuff works besides some nonfunctional web forms?
The farm commodity hedge markets are dominated by players who leverage private access and knowledge to make massive margins. I think decentralizing this market (by anyone and their brother) would certainly benefit producers and end consumers by increasing transparency and thus lowering these transaction costs and providing liquidity. What you are talking about are auctions (like for pigs, fish or flowers) and this is already invented, centralized and corrupted and they set prices for producers and consumers in secret meetings and calls (before that wasnt even outlawed). For distribution, how easy is it to set up an ecommerce shop and for distribution you have a lot of thurd party logistics service providers. By increasing competition between these service providers of distribution etc you would again lower costs for producers and prices for consumer instead of relying on massively vertically or horizontally integrated supply chain players. Few benefits from massive monoculture productions (certainly not producers, consumers or the environment). Do you really think there are no scandals in centralized quality control systems?

Talking about price volatility. Costs for producers and prices for consumers are increasing dramatically because central banks in the western world decided to print massive amounts of currency and buying zombie companies on the stock exchange. How are these currencies considered stable in any way? Look what is happening in is happening in Turkey or Lebanon. Even worse what the US is doing to the people of afghanistan.
i just clicked on the link just how to check how can i remove pinterest from my search results. Then i control-F to search other people looking for remove pinterest and it seems i'm not alone :)
Pinterest is like pihole: it get all the trafic but the difference is that they keep it for them. As other people are descripting it here, it is a nightmare of a darkpattern.
Yesterday, i came randomly (through a french newsletter) to this website https://business.pinterest.com/en/pinterest-predicts/ , they sell that they have 400m users WW and 12 'active' users in France (lol). Meanwhile, their trending dashboard is not uninteresting, and reading it would give you the possibility to see what they do with their data (i'm a curious guy). But having the possibility to delete all pinterest links from my search, forerever it an absolute gain of quality of life
Here's a random link to his Wikipedia page history when the controversy section was still there: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor_Frankl&old...
Why did you opt for WASI for plugins instead of native compiled code?
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It's not that simple. Intermittently rebooting touchscreens make for a bad user experience.

User experience is one of those things that doesn't matter until it suddently does, often when a competitor sells a product that doesn't reboot in the middle of a user operation.
As soon i as i read "private" i cringed

If it was private. That was for a reason. The man had an awesome public persona and shared that with millions freely.

He clearly also wanted to participate as a regular human
A lot of technically sound solutions in this space simply lack the addictive quality to draw in the crowds. Instagram and similarly popular networks, for all their flaws, are designed from the ground up to exploit human nature. If you sit on any form of public transport, you can see this in action. People obsessively checking whatever networks they are on.

Anything lacking that addictive quality is not going to come close to disrupting the established players. That takes more than people geeking out over protocols or raging against ads and powerlessly waving their fists at the big FANG bullies.

Money for example. It takes a lot of cash to get anything decent off the ground. People working on some low level protocols in their spare time doesn't get the job done. Whenever money is involved, power follows. And people with power will raise barriers to protect and nurture that power. That's how walled gardens are created.

The counter move here is to get organized with a foundation and make sure that gets funded properly. That has worked extremely well for a range of OSS projects. The Linux Foundation, the Apache Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, WikiMedia, etc. The list is quite long. But fundamentally any time investor cash gets involved, walled gardens are a foregone conclusion.
> everyone except cheapskates with rubbish PCs

Colloquially known as “the public.”
What a strange hill to die on.

I sincerely wish that every single country in the world had politicians whose worst issue is forgetting to change to the new trendy provider and to set up an HTTPS redirection.

Different people have different priorities in life. You need to be a better person to accept that, however.
That's only a tiny part of a city.
It's fine as long as your sub doesn't blow up, then it turns to crap in a heartbeat.
Exactly. Not all gift cards are created equal.

I got Visa cash gift cards from my employer as small bonuses. The terms sucked - don't use it and you get hit with a fee, it had an expiration date that cost money to "renew", etc.

Amazon's gift card policy is great. The money just sits in your account, doesn't expire, can be used for anything (except other Amazon gift cards) and there is no fee to reload it with a credit card AND you can reload with an exact amount.

So as soon as I got a crappy visa gift card, I'd just transfer 100% of the money to Amazon and spend it down over the next year. It was a perfect solution.
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Twitter Keyword Monitoring Using a Serverless Node.js Function with AWS Amplify
I think either the author is clickbaiting or they literally have no idea what they are talking about. American "progressive" ideas would be at best centre or slightly right leaning anywhere else in the world.
This is a classic example of the HN bubble. Nobody of my "tech" friends uses Pinterest, everyone who's not in that group uses it heavily for finding furniture, clothes or recipes. It's usually the app they use instead of googling for something.
not OP, but i think it makes sense. there isn't that much of a speed difference and you get free sandboxing, some memory safety, a ton of supported languages and more.

i don't know anything about WASI, but it probably solves the problem of having to interface with different native compiled code ABIs.
That is why locked devices without ability to have root access and full control over them is a problem. At some point they simply do not provide software while blocking you from providing own software.

Perhaps it's time to question this practice and discuss the issue with potentially making such devices illegal? At least when company doesn't provide software?

Shouldn't then Apple made be legally obligated to provide root access for the devices it no longer supports?

Otherwise it's what? You buy device then it's not functioning anymore just because they decide so. Doesn't it look like some kind of a fraud/scam ? How it's called then?

I mean if one owns computer/iphone and cannot install own software there since those devices are locked and Apple do not provide their software with security updates what an owner of the machine should do?
We’ll I certainly walked away with an understanding that it was all predestined, which annoyed me to no end because it felt like a ridiculous and meaningless cop out. But maybe I misread something that was actually more ambiguous?
"Debugging the OS" sounds not just a little bit pretentious. Perhaps call it "troubleshooting" instead, because that's what's being done. That the problem was found in a driver doesn't make it any different from faulty shell script or a faulty hard disk.
Sorry I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at. Does this patcher let you use the High Sierra Nvidia drivers in Mojave?
> Once money finds a path, my belief is that the path gets widened

Maybe, but it does go the other way too... I used to pay per sms :)

Disruption can happen... with cars it'll probably happen when all cars are self driving, rented per trip, and yes, maybe we'll still spend more money on cars -- but we'll probably also use transportation more.
> Half of the population is below average intelligence, and giving the wrong people the loudest megaphones has a devastating effect on society.

I don't think humans need a lot of intelligence to not be gullible. Scientific method for example is simple enough way of extracting truth from lies and does not require massive amounts of intelligence to apply to your measurements of the world.

Generally I don't think people believe in a "paedophile ring run out of a pizza shop" because they are stupid. They just see how unreal politicians behave from their tall platform and extrapolate that behaviour to domestic questions.

Working as a software engineer from a poor family I had seen so many times my CEO (or my upper middle class coworkers) being awkward or plain out low-key abusive with cleaners/waiters/etc that I can totally see where people who don't have ability to directly speak to people in power assume things about them which are not totally true. But let's be honest, they have a reason to think this way.
> People (intestinal gas emissions containing hydrogen sulfide)

He who unleashed it tarnished it.
This exposes a bit of something that everyone in the electronics industry knows, but nobody speaks about openly — that the electronic component distributors are IT dinosaurs. Their computer systems are dated and their software not up to today's standards. Most of them haven't realized that it is their software that is their core value right now, not the parts they have sitting on shelves.

I think this market is up for disruption once somebody brave enough appears and enters the market, starting from the software side.
Everything looks crazy when you look at the details but the fact that we could all stay home for months and the world largely kept chugging along with only minor pricing changes and delays should give you an indication of how resilient supply chains are. No food was missing, no essential goods, largely the world stopped and yet all the important goods kept flowing. It's incredible to me how food shortages didn't hit multiple countries for example, which would be an indication of problems.
It’s the OS only though. They wouldn’t have to release their user-land security stuff no matter the license of MINIX.
> Having watched a burly firefighter take three good swings with an axe to bust out a window (to get to the hood release of an unattended car fire), I am extremely skeptical of this claim.

Wrong window. You're talking about the windshield which is a completely different type of glass than other windows.
I think native compiled code is hard for plugin distributions. You'll need to target 3 main platforms Linux/macOS/Windows. You can use github actions to do it, but it would be so easier to just compile to WASI and that's it.

Also, WASI is compelling to me because of the potential of writing plugins in different programming languages.
>That’s just not an option for a regular phone or laptop, which is most of Apple’s market.

Lots of Macs have more than one video card. I disagree, I mentioned it since they make their own silicon, and can do virtual GPU, memory management for the browser would be an issue, but Apple doesn't care, they just use swap on the SSD and it would still be cool to have that as an option for single tabs. All web browsing is just a huge amount of javascript virtual machines, and they have custom hardware to run it faster, they might do it via hardware, all their sandboxing is just OS based, TouchID ran its own OS and took years to crack, and needs hardware tools to do so.
Twitter might ban me, but Africa fares well against Covid because the population is young on average.
>After they had ranted for about 10 minutes while we just sat back and listened, my colleague started to speak - Very softly and slowly as he always did - "I understand your situation completely, there's so much pressure on you guys to perform and you expect the same kind of commitment from your contractors as you yourselves put in. This was a mistake on our part, and one that we have done a lot to ensure won't happen again" ... He kept going for 7 - 8 minutes after which we were all cuddled up in a ball under a warm blanket. Or that's how it felt anyway. Normally there's a vibe in a room that everyone takes part in, but it was very clear that while the room was boiling, he was in his own bubble of comfort - and he managed to pull everyone in to that bubble.

I wonder how do you learn to do that.
Well, calculating those commit hashes is work :)
I'm guessing you haven't tried it. uBlacklist is purpose-built for search filtering, so the UX is far better - It pretty much feels like an official part of Google Search. Next to each result is a single-click block button and the results can be shown/hidden with a button in the top options bar. uBlock gives you all the building blocks, but you have to assemble and manage them yourself.

As for trust, that's a more general issue. Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan and I find the probability of their GitHub and AMO account being compromised quite unlikely since there are far more lucrative targets for such an attacker - including uBlock Origin. I guess there's always the possibility of auditing the code and installing a self-signed version with no automatic updates.
That's not practical in every case, and that's not the standard library. It's a subset of it. I never said you couldn't do your own.
Their review process has been shown to be a theater, it's meant to instill a dependency; the only way to know it's safe is viewing the source code or asking someone to do it for you.
He's hitting the base of the window with a blunt object. You don't want a blunt object.
What is the criteria to meet energy efficient?
I wonder how finely tuned their implementation is to the 12 performance bugs they reported results for. The paper doesn't seem to say anything about that.
Leading upper-case Cynic philosophers exhibited a lot of behavior that might be called lower-case cynical today.

A criticism that is as old as Diogenes (at least Laertius) is that they were essentially a cult of edgelords. They pretended not to care what people thought, but it was just an act, at the same time it was really important to them that people around them knew how little they cared through all the shockingly (lower case) cynical things they said and did. DL has Plato accuse Diogenes of this directly. All this is reducing a philosophy to a trope, but it's not an entirely unfair accusation either.

Speaking of which, a bizarre and entertaining piece of history is Lucian's extremely hostile biography of Peregrinus Proteus.
I'm advocating switching energy sources very rapidly and shrinking the population gradually.

The alternative is literally the death and famine that you are afraid of.
Here in the UK there used to be a website for buying and selling gift cards (called Zeek). As you'd expect, the market value of a £100 gift card depended on the popularity of the issuing retailer. (Amazon vouchers would sell very quickly and for close to face value.) That website has since disappeared, but you can still do the same thing on eBay.
For general knowledge I find Wikipedia's "Vital articles"[1] a good place to start.

They're organized in levels, with the 10 most general articles (e.g. Human, Language, Life, Mathematics, Philosophy) on level 1 and then sort of branching out, level 2 consisting of 100 articles (e.g. Civilization, Literature, Logic, Psychology, Arithmetic) and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level...
Maybe he just wants to bill them for their nastiness.
Everyone had one anyway because they needed a router. It was "free". Used ones were common too.
Can we also analyze these multilaterals ,like the behavioral level, birth rate, natural environment threat, human impact, geography and climate impact of birds from a more systematic perspective?
moreover, the emergence of a phenomenon may be the occurrence of another pain point, or even irrelevant fields, which is a bit like neurons. The pain of a leg may be caused by some brain organization.
Regions near Stalin’s gulag benefit today from his victims
> the hard choice here was to decide to have a child even knowing that [they] will die

Knowing that my children will suffer and die is the main reason why I didn't want to have any. Now I have two.

Funnily, it's the same reason my own mother didn't want to have kids either. Yet, here we are. I suspect it is a pretty common feeling.
Love this look, but isn't this basically the look of SGI IRIX, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX, IBM's AIX, and other Unix-es of that time?
Time to start a GNU Automobile project? :)

But yes, in a future where software is the most complicated part of a car, maybe that's what we'll be paying for.

But, IMO then there should also be competition on the software side.
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>it was somewhat doable on the Pi3 if you were willing to recompile 80% of containers from scratch.

If Pi3 was so popular, why didn't it exist as a binary?
True, but that's why I specified "helpfully" pointing out flaws.
"Gas fees on Ethereum are supposed to be high"

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/981090555697405952
Based on what? There has been a shitload of regression in GUIs since.

The idiotic "flat" UI fad, which is thankfully starting to recede, is a great example. We don't need ridiculous "skeuomorphism," but highlights and shadows on buttons (for example) tell everyone what the state of those buttons is at a glance.
For what it's worth, I was familiar with this technique before seeing this or other non-Japanese articles. It doesn't have much relevance for daily life now which can explain why very few people seem to have heard of it, but I would imagine that people who study tea ceremony for example would be more likely to know about it.
I might be wrong but it seems to me you're mixing cynicism and pessimism. With cynicism you distrust other intentions, but you can still fight to improve your situation or the situation of others.
Lsp support as well ? You have got to be kidding me. How did you add these feature so quickly ?
When the vehicle you're about to collide with is moving slowly, there are good radar returns, so you can use both vision and radar to make the decison.

When the vehicle is stationary, the radar data has to be heavily filtered because radar has poor angular resolution and there are a lot of other stationary objects, many that you don't want to stop for at similar angles, like overhead road signs. That means you're relying purely on vision, which alone has a lot of false positives and negatives, so detection thresholds need to be set much lower.

Doesn't mean it won't work. Just means it's less likely to work, especially in the dark and the rain, where radar would normally be a big part of the signal.
Open source SQL database for processing time series data, faster
European cities are a mix of unplanned and thoroughly planned. High Middle Ages in more developed places already had some municipal bureaucracy and planning offices.

Take a look at Prague, for example. [0]

There is a chaotic maze of medieval streets in the Old Town (around the Astronomical Clock). But the New Town to the southeast, which was founded in 1348, is already much more regular; the king who founded it had a certain vision and the street grid reflects that vision. Interestingly, a mid 14-th century grid was able to accomodate some degree of car traffic of our modern era.

In case of Kraków [1], there isn't any unplanned corner of the city left, the grid in the Old Town is perfectly regular. This was designed around 1260, so a pretty old grid, but a planned city nonetheless.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/1cz13fsr5tPP52AF9

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/CRkLPM9i7MRVH1aK8
I wasn't implying that you need to know the history of eugenics to understand statistics. I'm sure most statisticians today don't have a good grasp of that history.

I was saying that you need to have a good grasp on the history of eugenics to have a good context to understand the history of technocracy, a political ideology, in the West