skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Parler et al. had the problem that their initial userbases were actively offputting to their ability to grow because the content is offputting to most people who aren't involved, so it comes off as culty instead of interesting. This is also an issue on a few lefty social media sites.

I think you're right, but the reason they were so vehemently attacked was because they didn't want the normies to go. You can recover when the normies show up. That's also the big fear. Places like rumble will likely super boost up normie stuff for this reason.

>Governments don't have a clue what they're doing in this area. The greatest danger isn't direct government censorship, it's in sousveillance and self-censorship a la Reddit moderator lockstep opinion.

I think part of it as well, anything you post on say reddit will be hosted in the usa and it lets their snowden stuff work. If tiktok were hosted in canada or elsewhere. they lose that ability. which is why oracle and microsoft were planning to host it for them. It's about lawful intercept to be sure.

>It's all related. I have a soft spot in my heart for 4Chan even though I'm far too old for it now. 4Chan was literally founded to be contrarian when it broke off from SA, and that is going to be embedded in its design decisions and culture. It doesn't persist well enough BECAUSE it was founded as a contrarian refuge; it's harder to run a contrarian refuge if people can have sustained identities because it enables things like coalitions and harassment. I think 4Chan and image boards are valuable, just terrible for discussion.

And that's totally why they arent a community.
As a software developer at a law firm, I had to have all of my stock trades pre-approved by the firm just in case there was a conflict, regardless of if I had any actual access to or knowledge of material relevant to the company stock's being traded. Since I invest mostly in indexes, it wasn't much of an issue for me but I had a coworker who had several of his trades blocked without explanation other than there was a conflict. Funny how software developers with no actual access to insider information, just the potential for access, are more restricted than members of Congress who have actual access to such information.
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I'd say that claiming that they want to "Reclaim" Taiwan is linked to CCP maintaining its power. I'm pretty sure that they don't really want to militarily conquer it even if they were certain it would not result in a full scale war with the US. Any such invasion, assuming Taiwan resists, would result huge damage to the Chinese and the global economies and likely result in China completely losing western markets (at least long-term). They would much rather continue increasing Taiwan's economic reliance on China and eventually peacefully take it over (even without necessarily full integrating it into their state). Any saber rattling it basically to deter foreign government's from recognizing Taiwan in any way which would strengthen the independence movement there and decrease it's reliance on China.

>prefer full annexation if they knew NATO wouldn't intervene

You mean of the entire Ukraine? Because it would cost them more than it's worth. No Russian actions since 1991 have so far indicated that they actually want to conquer any foreign area not inhabited by a Russian speaking majority or whose population would be likely to actively resist such occupation.
I've seen "sanitization" used to often mean filtering or removal of some of the input
And yet video.nest.com (Google) resolves to an Amazon load balancer.
Unless something changes dramatically, DeFi will remain a haven for scams. It tries to mimic an actual economy which has loans to businesses to pay returns (etc), but DeFi actually is a giant circular digital economy which doesn't create real world wealth.
I didn't say the case would be dismissed; I said he had a decent chance of being acquitted. The victim testifying in the suspect's defense can have a powerful effect on a jury.
GoRails (https://gorails.com/) is pretty updated
Yeah I’m fairly sure they work their asses off already. Maybe not that gets measured in GDP thought.
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I parked at an airport parking lot that would only let you pay through an app. If a smartphone is necessary for daily life, it's a unfair burden on those who either can't or don't wish to pay that expense.
DB-wise we utilize the usual postgresql cluster setup with read clones in several regions. We could easily partition by course or by org if we had to but honestly we could probably scale up to series C+ before needing to do that.
>Older, mature hypermedia-based technologies like rails, django, and even PHP

Not sure what you refer to as hypermedia.

In the first part of your comment I assumed something like a new version of Flash. Here you seem to simply imply http/hypertext.

But then again, those technologies where never lost (to need to be rediscovered). They're as popular as ever, people just add more stuff on top, at the client JS layer.
I'm pretty sure you're wildly wrong about this. Comparing metaverse to virtualboy is a big mistake. Metaverse is not vision over substance. Substance is already there and driving technology to a more refined vision.

We’re already spending significant parts of our days working, playing, exploring and communicating digitally. Dating is online. Commerce has moved online. Art and creators are online. Entertainment is online. Exercise is an AR experience. Connecting with IRL and new virtual-only friends is online. What is left? Food, sleep, sex, and odors? Important things, but a relatively small portion of what we do during our awake hours.

The substance part of the metaverse is already here and proven. We are in a period of refinement which includes technological advancements in the ways we experience it. More compact wearables (e.g. AR/VR headsets), 3D audio, High res displays and better visuals/graphics and most importantly, bridging these different types of experiences in some way, which is a software problem. These are the areas in which tech is trying to gain control and offer the cohesive experience.

I highly recommend you listen to this podcast episode with Bill Gurley (second life creator): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best-w...
Nah - that's more of a system of control. You can definitely have a poor country where people are not slaves to mortgages. It's called building your own house. Many countries allow that.
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This is my biggest complaint against cryptocurrencies in general.

I'm happy with my bank's fraud protection. How can crypto users protect themselves without recreating traditional banking?

Bitcoin was released ~13 years ago, and wallet/transaction security has been one of the most important requirements since then (along with scalability, but let's not go there). If trillion dollar market caps and god-knows-how-many billions of investment couldn't figure out how to protect consumers after 13 years...
Hosted PostgreSQL on `postgres.database.azure.com` is down for me...
That's 86th percentile for US household income. They can make do. Welcome to public service.
It's subjective. The arrows and circles on lichess really bug me. I much prefer chess arrows.
In an economy where companies prefer to invest in R&D with credit and buy back stock, purchasing equities seems less beneficial than stimulating demand by just buying stuff.
If it has too much magic, try Laravel, it's PHP but it offers the same paradigm
Components are used quite a lot on Windows, specially on devtooling, have a look at DevExpress, Telerik and so on.

The biggest pain with COM is that Microsoft (except for C++/CX) never put much effort like Borland did, or VB 6, on making it a pleasant experience.

.NET was supposed to replace it, but WinDev rebeled against it, so now we have both, with COM still having the tooling stuck in 2000 (C++/WinRT is a regression to those days).

On UNIX side, there are a couple of possibilities gRPC, D-BUS, DCOP, KParts, Android Binder/Intents,...

macOS builds on the NeXT Tooling and also offers XPC in addition to them.

However where BSD and Linux clones fail is having a full stack approach to the platform, thus turning such approaches in mini-silos, e.g. you can enjoy D-BUS alongside KParts as long as you stay with KDE and KDE specific apps.
Backups is of course required. I was talking about Ransomware which also enters your password database and steals the passwords in order to do more harm.

With YubiKey you can make the GPG private key on offline machine and upload it to YubiKey. This way you can always have a offline backup of your private key, and thus you can backup your password database too.
Let's try it.

For example I should like a 1-character password, from the alphabet of A, B and C.

So that's 2 bits. We read two bits (awkward, the random device is of course byte oriented). Now, we have a 2-bit value and we're trying to pick A, B or C. But what do we do with the 4th possibility from our 2-bit value?

We could decide too bad we'll treat it as A (or B, or C) anyway, but now we've introduced a non-random bias to our supposedly random password.

The non-horrible option is to throw away this possibility and read two more bits hoping for a different outcome. The exact same algorithm pass uses, except you've added the extra complexity of reading less than one byte at a time from the device...
But why? You said:

> You could get a simpler, cheaper one. That is not the problem.

Why one person can buy a stupid phone while other people need the government to protect them from doing the same even though stupid phones are cheaper?
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”

-Gordon Gekko

I have zero sympathy for the victims. Stealing from cryptocurrency weenies is almost a public service, like confiscating booze and car keys from teenagers.
I've been meaning to put together a blog entry on our whole stack and will post it on HN probably in the next few months!
Great art, pinning so many pain points.
They didn’t mention the last two years as possibly contributing to less childbirth. There could be counteracting effects there, stuck together with nothing to do, vs nobody to meet and nothing to do - but it at least deserves a mention. This 2019-2021 drop could bounce right back up if people chose to delay childbirth.
F# is practically dead. Worked with a lot of projects that jumped that hype wagon. Do not know of any company that use F# as of today. From a holistic viewpoint F# is complete garbage comparing to C#. Could we have a working pure attribute in C# though.
This is a novel argument to me; a state with a high Gini coefficient has plenty of room for mobility even if GDP remains static.

Mobility is, in the modern world, as much a political argument as an economic one.
On the other hand, asking that question would open very useful discussion, and create a place for clear helpful introduction.

The contextual information you can get to introduce you to a topic is where Reddit really shines. Some subs do this with a wiki, but the redesign tends to hide it.

The only problem is trying to have that question asked few enough times that people don't get tired of answering.
Is AWS lambda really cost effective? It has been many years since I was part of a team that was assessing AWS Lambda as _workers_ but the resource limitations at the time alongside cost calculation made PHP+VMs the cost-effective choice by orders of magnitude.
ruby is mostly picked by people who developed in 00s
> but DeFi actually is a giant circular digital economy which doesn't create real world wealth.

Isn't this true of the entire cryptocurrency cult though?
A small industrial automation shop, 40 total, 5 software people. The "IT department" was some kid who hadn't worked IT before. Spent most of his time learning how to manage exchange by messing around with our live locally hosted exchange server.

Their controls were written in C. The development process was you checked a computer out of the warehouse, installed Windows, then some janky realtime OS addon, visual studio, and MySQL. You wrote the control software on the only computer it would ever run on. To keep it on the up and up, they literally bought a copy of VS for every system they sold. They even paid for MySQL licenses (long before Sun or Oracle was involved).

The version control was a home brew system that you would upload zip files to. It would timestamp them and put them on the only hard drive in the company that was backed up. The backups where a couple of cheap portable hard drives. Once a week the IT guy would swap which one was plugged in and take the other one home for offsite backups.
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> working on other people's projects instead of starting my own feels like losing at this point - no READMEs, no automated CI, no Ansible, no Dockerfiles, no IDE run profiles, no common linting rules, no code static analysis, no local DBs with migrations, no local setup scripts etc.

You hit the nail on its head here, my friend.

When working with others' projects, I try to add tests where I've added/modified features, so that at least I can get a sense of it all and make sure I don't break anything. And for a completely untested codebase, it might make sense to add more integration-like tests (while still using mocks for external dependencies), such that simultaneously a bigger proportion of the codebase is covered, even if at slightly longer test times.
I think the main thing about using an ORM (and I believe that Rails' active record is among the very best ORMs out there) is that you should never just blindly let it run without inspecting the queries it produces.

I'm constantly monitoring the logs during development to make sure it's doing exactly what I want. And the odd time when it's not the answer is usually within ORM api itself and doesn't require me to shift to raw sql.

This is why I never understood the argument that ORMs are for people that don't know SQL (not to suggest you were making such an argument). If anything being proficient at SQL makes you that much better at handling the abstraction that the ORM provides and that much better at examining the resulting queries.
Democrats, as usually, seem uninterested in doing much or holding onto what power they've got.
I got stuck at init
> Perfomance isn't great

I would argue that the performance hit isn't from ruby or the framework, but from people abusing the database with lazy loading in active record. Force people to fetch all the data they need in one query (similar to Ecto), and your performance will improve. There's some config value that disables lazy loading too
Stew, probably.
This is just a way for rich people to park their money in an investment that quite likely will only go up.

This isn't a new phenomenon really or even local to New York city. I live in Delhi, India in a somewhat upmarket locality. Not too far from where I live there is an appartment complex called Kings Court, where appartments were I think in the range of 20-25 crore INR each (at the time of writing, that is 2,623,982.00 USD, something only the 0.1% can afford).

Yet, I have seen very few people actually living there. There are some appartments that have people (as I see people in the balconies cause I have passed by it pretty much daily for several years). However, it is possible that people just haven't bought it but I don't see that as being likely.
Ruby captured a lot of webdev market before python became mainstream, and you can see it in the maturity of the tools around this domain (ruby's way more evolved). The tables turned because python became the de-facto ML language, and everyone and your engineering manager will be afraid of betting on anything other than python in fear of hampering future ML-based optimizations (which is in practice utterly wrong, but try tell that to management...)
I don't pay much attention to what startups - or anyone else, for that matter - are using when choosing a tech stack for a project.

What's popular is not necessarily what's right for the project.
I see articles like this now and then, to me it seems a USA problem that regulators don't want to fix.
In Italy I spend 5€/month for a WindTre 4G connection, 40GB month data cap and no phone call cap, no SMS, literally nobody use them anymore. Other operators offers more expensive plans, but with a much higher data cap (now Iliad has a plan with 150GB/month data cap, no phone call and sms cap for 10€/month).
Most data I use is for streaming, which I suppose is not required to work.
Last year I bought a decent 14" Acer notebook for 600€ (Ryzen 5, 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM).

Countries like Romania has even cheaper plans. Why is this still an issue for world richiest country?
I work in software for manufacturing. We were doing a customer panel and someone remarked they weren’t in the market because they “just upgraded their software”. Follow up question revealed that happened 8 or 9 years ago, so you’re pretty spot on.
The Indian Digital divide has already cost us a lot because students didn't have smartphones to study during the pandemic, and even if they did - there are tons of issues:

- Not everyone has equitable access. Households have a shared phone with multiple kids etc. 20-40% of kids in India didn't have access to a smartphone to study[0]

- Signal quality in India isn't great everywhere. There are multiple reports of kids getting injured or dying because they were perched in high places where signal quality was better[1]

- The cost of data (while among the lowest in the world) is still an additional unplanned expense that many households couldn't afford.

Zuckerberg (just today, at the same event) said that the "metaverse is going to be the successor to the mobile internet."[2]. Irrespective of whatever the metaverse is going to be (mobile-first or not), India doesn't need content that will increase this divide (especially with any AR-enabled devices being significantly pricier compared to the others).

[0]: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pandemic-did-not-p...

[1]: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/odisha-boy-slips-to-de...

[2]: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/403090
> you cannot trade on inside information at all.

Yes, and just for the sake of clarity, "inside" also means non-public. Once it is announced, it is no longer insider info and you can trade on it.
You could make the same argument about the car you're parking--and the plane you're flying on from the airport.
My dad is still mad that they turned off his bag-phone.
I think the way you protect yourself is the same way people protected themselves before credit cards were widely used. By not spending your cash on things that are scams. Somehow people managed to survive before banks offered their rent seeking / fraud protection and I think they'd be OK without them if push came to shove.
If lifespans increases then the population will still grow for some time. And it's increased steadily for the past 70 years.
In 2020, fewer Americans moved, exodus from cities slowed
And Americans will start standing in a ration line to kick Russia out of Estonia? Or Ukraine?

I agree that getting out of Afghanistan was the right call, it was the horribly mismanaged manner of our leaving that I'm pointing out. We left our own citizens and allies in the country behind almost overnight, with the senior leadership rationalizing that the Afghan national army was going to actually fight, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Our leaders just stuck their fingers in their ears and pulled the plug.

I don't see how Eastern Europe ranks any higher in the minds of said leaders, outside of the remnants of the retiring Cold War generation and the dwindling number who still believe in NATO.
If you already labour every day and can just about afford bills, rent, and food (which is the case for a lot of people) then 2-3 days labour is completely unaffordable. They’re just getting by and can’t do anymore.
Oh, sorry, I missed the "you feel" in the grandparent post.
That's a really weird idea of 'ethics'. How would you enforce this policy? You can't ethically take away 'extra' kids, you can't reasonably fine them, nor can you prevent extra kids from being born.

Any system capable of enforcing any of the above methods would inevitably be a severe ethical violation of some form.
This is quite different from insider trading in the private sector. In addition to having information that is not public, legislators also have the power to influence the value of their investments by passing legislation favorable to companies they are invested in or harmful to their competition. Does anyone think lawmakers can be objective when they may have millions of dollars at stake?
Yep.

* We've had 3X murders more than "covid deaths" last year.

* We have people dying on the street - you have to literally walk over them.

* We have human shit everywhere.

* The mayor's ex-boyfriend was arrested by the FBI for stealing money from the "clean streets program".

* They banned natural gas and it is ~40 F right now.

* She repeatedly gets away without wearing a mask (in the hair salon, at the Getty wedding, etc.) while us plebes get violently assaulted for not having our mask on 'properly' in the fucking grocery store.

* The school board refers to Asian Americans as "house niggers" and won't leave until people bribe her with a package of tens of millions of dollars.

* They tried to rename the schools from names like Washington and Lincoln. Why? I don't know Lincoln, a republican, wrote this document called the emancipation proclamation - apparently freeing a bunch of slaves or something.

* You can't enter a restaurant or most any business inside the city without showing your papers - even if you are tripled/quadruple vaxd and you are wearing a mask.

* Oh yeh, I forgot, you can legally rape a 14 year old boy but not a 14 year old girl.

Man, this fucking list is endless. I hope San Francisco is the first city the Chinese bomb with their nuclear tipped hyper-sonics.
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I actually don't think overpopulation is the problem. It's the way we're going about resource usage that's the problem. If people stayed home more, grow food and instead of focus on society feeding them, they feed themselves we wouldn't be inundated with non-stop scale issues. As insane as it sounds distributed technologies seem to be saving tech - it can save humanity too. We just don't train people to be like that. Instead we teach greed and outperforming the next guy.
I think “need” might be too absolutist of a term. But yeah, not having a device connected to the internet (which is what we’re talking about here, not a supplemental device to your MacBook or whatever) makes life a lot harder.

So no, it’s not food and water level necessary but it’s pretty damn important.
Nature has no rotating output shafts.
Ha! I know a current coffee jugging grad student who is in a similar position.

They have some survey software in a game engine which was written by a previous grad student. They re implemented textboxes using a bunch of key capture commands and if statements, in one giant file with almost no functions.

Another program he showed me cleans survey data from excel and is one giant script.

I pray for him every day.
CLMUL is quite interesting. I learned about it when going in depth on how multiplications help with hashing.

A multiplication is in practice:
- a sum over
- a series (i.e. one for each bit set in the multiplier)
- of shifts (where the shift amount is the index of that bit in the multiplier)

The shifting and the combining are great for hashing as they "distribute" each bit around.

CLMUL simply replaces the addition in step one with xor (which can also be thought as the single bit carryless addition).
New York state and city encourage billionaires to live elsewhere for most of the year, since the income tax for those classified as residents of the city and state is high.