skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android has similar social features when you're interacting with other Android users (e.g. RCS and Nearby Share). RCS in particular is an open source iMessage competitor and Apple seems to be stubbornly refusing to support it, leading to this "green bubble" phenomenon.
You missed a great opp here, zds.

"dang, thanks for resurfacing these!"
I don’t really see anywhere to go. Google? I just left them tired of their rando product decisions, privacy issues and etc.

Some hacky devices?
This tool falls in the “very tactical” category, and is mostly aimed at startups who want more than Excel and not invest in lock-in platforms.

It basically is an electron app running the observable runtime. It’s got some differences in the layout, but that’s mostly what it is.

But yeah a video will do well. Thanks for the feedback.
Ashley Whillans wrote a post I needed to read and remind myself how powerful and negative inertia can be: "Stress spurs busyness, which creates stress, which spurs busyness. [...] No matter what time affluence looks like for you, the happiest and most time affluent among us are deliberate with their free time."
One of the computers that used RMB was the HP 9845. This computer had a CRT display that could draw up to 4096 colors, which was phenomenal at the time. It was used to do scientific visualizations and stuff; Colin Cantwell consulted on its design, and used it to create the NORAD graphics in WarGames.
Ho Ho Ho, WasmEdge 0.9.0 is here
Geez I replied to the wrong comment, sorry. I will still make a screencast
High school students apply to many colleges, and each student rarely goes on to attend multiple colleges concurrently. That ratio about applications is misleading, and is generally understood to be intended to be social signaling of exclusivity.

Why would a student not want to work part time to have a little income? I found it beneficial.
Wow, so much praise for Kodi, and it's well-deserved.

Been using LibreELEC (which is basically a Kodi OS) on just a RPi3 for a few years now, it's a good enough client for non-smart TV to simply browse stuff from NAS with Yatse on Android. In a bare minimum case not too difficult to set up, just add a source via SFTP and you're done, no need for scanning.
Google investing in payday lenders, doing God's Work there.

Like they couldn't find something else for that money to do?

Like even just giving it away.
Fucking hell, voluntarily running scans on your computers for CSAM? Are you going to voluntarily get a brain wave scan for whether you have anti-patriotic thoughts?
yeah lol, I was surprised the entire country of Albania fit on a single spreadsheet.
The headline is very different from the article.

At the heart of these issues is Shein’s aggressive business model. Comparisons to fast-fashion giants like H&M miss the point: it’s more like Amazon, operating a sprawling online marketplace that brings together around 6,000 Chinese clothing factories. It unites them with proprietary internal management software that collects near-instant feedback about which items are hits or misses
After a chicken coup, they'll form a chicken co-op.
I'm not saying bankruptcy is bad. It's a necessary escape hatch for the credit industry, and shouldn't have the stigma it does. maunder is absolutely right; the consumer credit industry in the US is nothing but predatory. Good for you if you haven't been bit yet, but their goal is to eat everyone. Whenever I see someone brag about their credit score all I see is a mouse begging for the cat's approval.

More and more you can't even opt out of consumer credit. I have attempted to opt out of it by not holding any credit, except I apparently need good credit to live somewhere, or a credit card to rent a car or do some kinds of money transfers.

Telling people they can file bankruptcy, "reset to 0", and have another chance to redeem themselves is bullshit. The only place it disappears from is your credit report, and implying that covers it is a brazen lie. It really doesn't. Fuck credit scores. What about the ability to get a job, or not live on the street? Having a bankruptcy from 30 years ago can negatively impact your ability to do either of those things.

The credit industry is so deluded that they think your credit report is all that matters, and that's how they want you to think. In reality, it's all that matters to them and they can't wait to get you back in the game.
You're making a point about how it was so easy for the perp to get money into crypto while seemingly ignoring the fact that it was equally easy for him to move the money around via the traditional banking system.
Thanks for the kind feedback. This tool runs the Observable runtime. So check out https://www.observablehq.com to see what it does.
> Most “common” art isn’t going to fetch millions, but a select few do. NFTs aren’t any different.

Yeah, but set aside the million-dollar ones for a moment and imagine you found a new kind of art which consisted of the "artist" printing out a single copy of someone's work, and selling the printout for $150-$10,000 each. This copy has not been authorized by the person who made the work. The technology to make a functionally identical printout is readily available, though there's some ledger that tracks it and it won't be registered as the same object as the first printout.

Would you say that the purchaser of this printout is investing money wisely, or foolishly?

Would you say that "artist" is a legitimate actor, or some kind of scammer, thief, crook, or the like?
Which chapter in Gems III has this? I couldn’t find it.
The goal of simile is to afford similarity, not causality.

To the point that that's the etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/simile
> the point I am making which is that it won’t keep growing.

And what I'm saying to you is that nobody believes otherwise. It's all known that diseases are self-limiting, and infection rates follow an s-curve and eventually drop off. This isn't a groundbreaking revelation.
> You can’t escape from their ecosystem without seriously limiting your ability to interact with friends

I've lived 34 years with this _never_ being an issue. Ever.
How we manage programming projects in Basecamp
> I would wear a spandex "onesie" with a lightning bolt.. for about 30 seconds.

Which brings us right back to (very) fast fashion.
How about no? I don't view CSAM, and I don't need to voluntarily run a scan to prove I don't.
From what I understand, going to trial in Japan is mostly determining your sentence, guilt is the default assumption. Getting a not guilty verdict is incredibly rare.
All the truly great tech leads I ever worked with had one characteristic that mattered most of all: they don't panic.

In the face of deployment disasters, team members leaving, management crises or hardware failures they were the rock that everybody turned to for a plan.

I feel like not panicking is partly learned through hard experience and partly a personality trait.

It is however invaluable in bad circumstances: they can save everybodies butt in a bad situation.
I have no idea how it works, but, the app could just report if someone is vaccinated, or cleared by a doctor that they medially can't have the vaccine, without specifying which one.
It’s javascript. It runs the Observable runtime (https://www.observablehq.com)

I’ll make it clearer (in a demo video)
I think this happens when the kernel starts swapping executable images / shared libraries in and out and keeps going for a long time because according to the kernel metrics it is making great progress, even though user space is completely stalled because running code is paged out and has to be paged back in to do anything.

earlyoom kills stuff sooner instead of trying this for a long time. I’ve also heard that some people have had some success by locking base system libraries and executables in memory.

(Please let me know if this explanation is not correct or there are other solutions worth trying)
You should ask for your money back because you were miseducated.
> As for the effect on Native populations; this wasn’t in the book at all. The Fremen are clearly based on Nomadic desert peoples like the Bedouin - people who swept to power seemingly out of nowhere and established their own sprawling Empire.

They're very heavily based off of the people who lived in the Caucasus. Herbert basically lifts phrasing used in the book The Sabres of Paradise to describe the Fremen word for word
I'd argue that it's requisite complexity, with a constraint against excessive complexity.

Complexity affords efficiency advantages, though usually with a resilience cost. Over the period in which that advantage exists, it's beneficial. A sufficient shock could (and frequently has) greatly negated the benefits of complexity.
For your curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hacker+news+algorithm

It's considered acceptable to repost an article for a second try, so long as you don't delete the original. It's mostly just timing, though I have bookmarked a few users' profiles for a shortcut to curation :)
When the Bible, God, and the Devil are overwhelmingly backed by science, give me a call.
If the chicken coup is unsuccessful, they'll end up as chicken soup.
Where would this ”responsive democracy” be built? Libya, Somalia or some other zone of low governance?
Literally all traditional media are like that, yet for some reason it is normalized and few people care.
Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire
I don't think it's true that the only alternative is loan sharks. It's mostly "traditional" payday lenders, many of which are owned by the big banks (through a couple layers of obfuscation to cover up the stench).
I do believe a popular story here of late mentioned Feynman would say things were stupid, especially if it were obvious. I like that approach and embrace it!

For those who fail to see stupidity when manifest, my earlier stupid comment may be substantiated by these new stupid comments:

1. NFTs aren’t decentralized because the thing being tokenized doesn’t actually live on the chain. I do wonder if this could even work given how slow chains can get.

2. NFTs don’t assign copyright, or for that matter, offer any native protection to the materials mentioned in the NFT.

3. On the contrary, NFTs are being used to remove information from the Internet which has been in the public domain. Further, as this article indicates, any material can have an NFT assigned, regardless of actual ownership of the thing being tokenized. This also indicated the “selling of the thing” is the use case, which is highly irrational.

4. Lastly, anything that is proposed to monetize “all the things” is just as stupid as saying all things may be improved by software.

If all things may be improved by software, we’re all in trouble and don’t even know it.
I’m not talking about trying to achieve herd immunity, though. I’m wondering if countries (maybe just the well-vaccinated ones?) might prefer Omicron to Delta given that they’ve all got Delta and are all going to get Omicron eventually.
Sars-Cov2 will happily live in animals without killing them but will still kill humans.
I'm suggesting that HN commenters shouldn't automatically side with Big Tech just because the ban victim doesn't have proof of innocence.
I have zero idea what he's on about, and why it would be affected by apple's decisions. Can someone let me/us know?
Hmm if it's actually impacting screen readers this is an ADA violation probably.
Is there a good resource for a software engineer, but a layman when it comes to window managers like X or Wayland, can learn more about this stuff?
I dearly wish overcommit could be disabled per-cgroup, but AFAIK this is not possible.

malloc failing seems like a much simpler indication of memory pressure than the alternatives like PSI.
Nit: The resources of a state are limited. My first take is that this is an intentional and humorous play on words.
A lot of people will continue to die until we get a robust vaccine.
That's funny, recently there was an article about the magician Teller explaining the foundational rules of magic and illusions. And one of the first secrets is spending a lot of time, effort, or other resources on a method is a good way to fool people.
Cities will probably stay popular places to interact IRL. The odds of VR transforming entertainment like concerts is very small compared to transforming things like meetings.

If you can work from a VR helmet, then any tiny NYC studio is enough to WFH. Cities would be more differentiated in the very long term, where you move to a city that offers a particular weather or lifestyle and not for a career.

The CBDs would get smaller and more residential, as offices get slowly transformed into apartments or other mixed use spaces. You’ll probably see less lunch spots and other businesses that cater to office workers, and more variety of services. Beyond that, no reason to think people won’t use cities in largely the same way. You’ll never go clubbing in VR, you’ll never go to the park in VR, etc.
You could have added your perspective without describing my response as "disingenuous", i.e., dishonest.

I said very clearly I have no specific knowledge on LendUp. I also know little about the space (apart from that it's a nightmare). The only specific insight I have here is on YC's history and ethical track record.

That said, can you educate me and other readers by linking to examples of companies that are doing well in this space (specifically, offering a better lending option than payday loans in the U.S.)?
West coast, Midwest, and north east: Ohio, Rhode Island, Alaska, Iowa

Providence hospitals on the west coast are overwhelmed

Hennepin hospitals are overwhelmed in Minneapolis

Trinity Health with hospitals in 25 states is also getting overwhelmed

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/21/1066093...

“ The troops deployed to hospitals will include doctors, nurses, paramedics and other personnel during January and February as needed, the senior administration officials said. The White House is also deploying six emergency response teams to Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Hampshire and Vermont, the officials said.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/21/omi...
Two active discussions on Reddit.

r/technology: https://redd.it/rlfxa8

r/programming: https://redd.it/rm7nyp
Ask HN: Philanthropic DAO
It seems non-profit organizations are terribly inefficient at capital allocation, wouldn’t it make more sense to connect donors with beneficiaries directly using a DAO that voted on fund allocation and sent funds directly to recipients with virtually no centralized authority or compensation?
I like the stdin/stdout idea from an ease of use POV, but doesn't having each connection in a separate process pose a rather significant constraint on scalability, considering also that WebSocket connections are generally considered to be long-lived?
I can say that San Francisco has an enormous tax base and budget, but most money goes to social services (and corruption) because piers and pipes don't vote.
Geez, I totally procrastinated myself into making that stupid parallax effect (instead of making a demo video). Didn’t think it would cause problems.

Anyhow the image is mostly a teaser. It’ll be clearer once I make a demo video…
I'm not sure exactly what the algorithm is for choosing pairs, but naively it seems like it should be possible to bucket the players in some way, at which point the pairings within each bucket can be generated in parallel, with buckets getting merged if they get too small. The tricky part is coming up with a way to bucket them that's both efficient and will lead to enough pairings, and I'm not sure what the criteria is. If it's completely random, then ideally any bucketing should work fine. If it's based on ratings or existing records, it seems like starting by grouping players within certain ranges of that stat should work (assuming the boundaries can be picked based on the distribution of the players). I don't know enough to know for sure that bucket grouping would work here, but it doesn't seem like knowing the entire set of results beforehand should be necessary (unless there's some standard algorithm for choosing pairings that's very prescriptive).
Noted thanks
Thanks a lot and congrats to you and the team for this big milestone! I accelerated my webdev journey via Codecademy, even learned Python I believe. It's a wonderful platform that I still recommend to folks who come to me for advise.
In the past they would come to NYT and give it money to manipulate people, now they come to Facebook, so NYT is naturally mad at that.
I’m talking about a scenario where Omicron is strictly “better” than Delta. Why would that necessarily lead to more dead people than we’d get with Delta?
Wonderful to see these guys still making headlines on here. Their packaged versions of software have come in handy a ton for me.
Go builds are, in general, reproducible by default. Build stamps do not change this.
> It’s fine if it’s tinder, but what are you gonna do when the same will happen with your bank application...

It's happened with people's banks (or "banks"). Earlier this year the fintech middleman Chime began closing accounts without notice or giving customers whose accounts they closed access to their funds.[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-chime-banking-ap...
They're public and shares are $9, so you can throw any amount of money in them.
is he still active? always enjoyed his output. i see some erlang and elixir influences in potion...

wait, are YOU still active? ;) (I believe I was once a registered user of your app that, uh, downloaded a ton of movie clips into a… catalogue of sorts… you know the one…)

There’s a lot of older tech that deserves more love because it’s still great despite losing that new-language smell (I’m sure `io` fits that bill!). I’ve been messing around with the “es” shell and scripting language after getting frustrated with /(ba|c|z)?sh/ (bourne-lineage shells) quirks for the umpteenth time and finally discovering the “rc” family of shells (ok so was plan9 from the future or something? Because it had waaay more good ideas than it is credited for…)

I forked it but now I kinda want to slap a real test suite on it (ready for contributors…) and rebrand it as something new, maybe name it “holysh” since that was my joyful exclamation after reading the es docs and paper…
That launch exit was not clean at all
IMO, the following will take 5 to 10 years

IMO, VR will skyrocket when:

We have a portable headset that is:

Affordable

4k resolution per eye

Has decent mixed reality capabilities (e.g. see the Varjo XR 3 as an example on YouTube)

Has a good omnidirectional threadml that is affordable (i.e. walking, running and moving should be possible as it is normally). I find the current threadmills that I see (e.g. KatVR) a good step in the direction but still too problematic.

Killer apps are (from concrete to abstract):

Having multiple monitors in your room. Now you can travel with 10 monitors in your backpack.

90% real simulations (try Golf+, Eleven Table Tennis and Thrill of the Fight — those games are already there).

Mark Zuckerberg his vision of the Metaverse, which I interpret as: being able to mix and match hanging out and playing games together in VR (note: more companies than only Meta could work on this). Reasoning: gaming together is simply a specialized form of hanging out.

Software-dizing hardware interfaces. The more stuff we put in VR/AR (especially force feedback mechanisms), the better we can mimic the feel of hardware interfaces. In certain cases it will feel real enough and then you can import the entire hardware device into software/VR/AR and suddenly thr production of such a device is now much cheaper. For example: a realistic electronic keyboard in VR. I don’t know how to solve for the force feedback in this case but I do know that there is other hardware for which this must be easier.

Source: I bought an Oculus Quest 2 a month ago to play around with VR while constantly asking what it is lacking and what will make it awesome.
They can, and do. I do lots of messaging in WhatsApp on iOS.

There does seem to be an in group / our group thing for teenagers and people in their 20s though.

The biggest feature benefit of group imessaging is sharing images/video at original quality. But I feel like that is also a benefit for WhatsApp, in that its compression results in quick messages.
I wonder what other campaigns over the generations have taken place to change the public’s view on history? It is getting harder now days in the digital world but China sure thinks it can.
This ended up being a longer post than I intended, but overall I think your entire idea is fundamentally flawed, requires taking control of a computer away from the owner, and wouldn't even solve the issue.

> to voluntarily run a CSAM scan on our systems

The results of such a scan are meaningless to anybody who doesn't control the computer that performed the scan. If these results are to be trusted by authorities, that implies that we no longer control the computers that you are describing as "our systems".

> nuetral arbiter (ideally something like an online jury of ones peers, but who don't know you) take a quick glance at the photo, determine it's your kids in the bathtub and not CSAM, and click "It's Fine".

Wait, wait, wait. So the response to finding suspected CSAM would be to make a copy of it, then to deliver that copy TO OTHER PEOPLE OVER THE INTERNET!? Every single study about Facebook's CSAM reviewers shows it to be an emotionally damaging job, because you're constantly shown psychologically damaging material. With that in mind, who do you think would volunteer to be on such a review board?

> We would subscribe to updates to a CSAM scanning corpus

This introduces an unnecessary failure mode to devices whose core functionality does not require internet access. If I have a digital camera, a tv, or a picture frame, those fundamentally do not require internet access. Given the prevalence of targeted advertising and surveillance of customers, any device requesting internet access should be viewed with immediate suspicion.

> The whole thing requires "trusting the client" but I bet there are ways to make it work

There aren't. There really, really aren't. You can only trust computers that you control, or that are controlled by people that you trust. Trying to implement these leads to obscenities such as the Clipper Chip, Sony's rootkit, ring-0 DRM, and so on. Every single one takes control of the computer away from the owner and gives it to somebody else.

> defuse this movement toward total black box checking of content

Your suggestions would require implementing a black box checking of content, running on my computer, and not under my control. Calling it "voluntary" in the sales pitch makes it useless, because the person who controls the computer can disable any reports from it.

> presumes that the intersection of child porn consumers and users sophisticated enough to disable a scan like the one I'm imagining is very small

The size of the intersection doesn't matter, because only a single person needs to write a script that disables the scan. In addition, if a scan requires sophistication to disable, that implies that it is an opt-in scan, and that goes against your sales pitch as "voluntary".
A question I always had is wouldn't all sufficiently advanced civs use quantum communication which we wouldn't be able to detect with our usual SETI-style methods?
Well, all of those books are not novel-length. They include poetry, essay collections and fiction.
I have an Android phone. All my friends have iPhones. I have never had issues dealing with them. Wifi passwords can be shared through QR codes. Messaging can be done through apps like Signal if you can't use iMessage.