skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a lot of people use the term "web3" which in and of itself, doesn't convey too much information. I feel like this question should be asked within the context of web3's components:

- The ability to login to many platforms without needing to create an account on that specific platform (universal login as mentioned by others)

- Being able to use the decentralized ledger as a database -- this is currently only done with art NFTs - but could literally be done with SO much else

- Being able to create dApps that run on their own and are maintained by a community -- i.e., apps that don't pit the user incentives against the incentives for the company owning the apps (dating apps are a good example of this)

- Decentralized storage. Not keeping everything in S3 -- not saying this is better for in-production, but just mentioning with web3 - people are finally open to this type of thing as opposed to just saying "let's just host it on S3".

- Community. As corny and overused as this word is, I know. But specifically finding a project, hopping on their Discord, contributing, asking questions, etc.

Web3 is as much an ethos as it is a "specific thing". It's a rejection of the walled-garden, data hoarding techniques of past platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Google, etc) and a recognition that there is enough pie for a lot of smaller, more niche teams to have a piece.
Dutch Chamber of Commerce turns it services off because of Log4j
To save clicks: it’s a Python command line argument parsing library. Looks kinda nice at a glance if you’re into Python. Ruby fans might check out Trollop instead.
Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case.

What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nightmare that would keep this rolling.
The "youtube vanced" app does that for free.

Dont feed the tech giants dark patterns
http://tiredb.com

A power user tire search with affiliate links. I did make some money off it but got super discouraged when I realized people were using the site to find tires, then searching for coupons or discounts, and my commission was being harvested by shitty SEO sites.
That doesnt make sense. Rockets that go slow take much less fuel, especially when starting and ending in zero gravity.

And if you move the manufacturing to a space station or small moon, you could move trillions worth of material for thousands in fuel.
This solves the “spatial” part, while the actual problem is the “temporal” part: it’s not about many writes at once, it’s about many writes in different parts of code, spaced apart in time.
This reads a bit like a plea to Facebook for account restoration.
Does that calculation change if the goal is not to bring minerals back to earth, but to mine them and use them in situ to build habitats and the like? I imagine a bunch of sand and iron and ice would be quite useful in those circumstances
Multiple of your “senior” developers didn’t catch this in a “senior” developer’s PR? Have they ever read any of the IO documentation, since this is pointed out literally everywhere in the docs?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/trait.Read.html
Happy Holidays everyone.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but is society better off when wrong-doing is exposed and not condemned or when it is hidden but broadly condemned?
If Twitter and Facebook were exactly the same, minus the algorithmic feeds, would they no longer be social media?

If not, what would they be?
Merry Christmas!

And upvotes for all!
This probably means a lot less if you live in a developed country. Malaysia probably has some of the most expensive cars in the world. They're like student loans in the US. People here get very emotional about them because they're "necessary". You can live without a car, but it limits your opportunities by a lot. A car often takes 9 years to pay off, the prices are artificially high thanks to bad government policies, and it'll roughly cost 1/3 the price of a house for that period of time if you're frugal.

An RX-8 back when I knew the guy would cost about 25% of a good tech salary (senior big tech, or tech lead/CxO on a smaller one), on a 9 year loan. It's not a family car. And it's the cheaper of the three.

I bought my first car at 32, with a manager job, and that was with quite a lot of arguments with my wife. It's a cheapish MPV.

I have some emotional anchors to those cars. Partly because I ride with them going to a client's office. Partly because it's the last thing I see from them.

As for partnering with them, there's a longer story and every story is different, but it's not car related. Most had proven themselves to some extent. In some cases they had already had the deal on the table, and just needed a prototype. And somehow I went from prototype guy to only person who cared. It's why I couldn't close some of those deals myself.
It doesn't have enough fuel onboard to go from LEO to the Lagrange point itself.
Hah, my example is exactly the example you listed. A single cpu, 2gb ram, fixed ip VPS for $30USD per year.
Obligatory question here: how are you tuning how you screen for bad apples in your technical interview pre-hire to make sure that over time you have less and less bad apples? Also, what level of scale is your remote eng organization operating at?

Having also had a lot of experience managing remote teams (and to be a little bit hyperbolic for the sake of making a point), saying that remote work attracts "bad apples" at a much higher rate than in-person work seems like a cop out to excuse poor screening hygiene.
What’s to get? “He “dunked” on her in a way lots of people found funny. She comes off looking kind of silly and weak and he comes off looking clever and acerbic.

Now, look, it’s tantamount to a schoolyard spat. I’m not saying it needs to mean anything more than that. But evaluating it as a spat, most people who read that exchange come away thinking he won it.
Really happy with recently moving from DigitalOcean (I had been using DO for eight years or so) to Hetzner's new US datacenter. DigitalOcean's value proposition was already fine by me, and what I'm getting with Hetzner is just that much better (my sense is that I'm getting around 2x the value with Hetzner, give or take). I last used Hetzner roughly a decade ago, and had been waiting for them to open up a location in the US. Their service interface has improved a lot (vs what I had used previously) and is quite smooth and easy to use.

Aldi has come to town. DigitalOcean has a serious challenge on their hands.
That only scales up to a certain degree. There are some really good examples of holacracy failing to live up to hype in the software world:

• HN discussion of holacracy at Valve: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512866

• Holacracy and the mirage of the boss-less workplace: Lessons from the failures at Github, Medium & Buffer: https://medium.com/battle-room/holacracy-and-the-mirage-of-t...

There's also a classic essay, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", that is about parts of the feminist movement but directly applies to holacracy at companies.

If you're anti-manager, a small or single person company or consultancy can be great.
Semantic BS in the article but it's The Atlantic so not a surprise.

Akin to AOC's claim "it's not really theft".
This example is imo not relevant because the G.I. Bill wasn’t “free” or universally offered (recipients had to fight in the war), the order is reversed (I’m talking specifically about an older generation in debt seeing the following generation get to go debt-free), and the amount of debt someone who attended college in the 80s accumulated is far less than that of someone who attended in the past decade or two.

> Sadly I had to pay my own way through college

Without qualifiers, there’s nothing inherently wrong with this. It becomes wrong when “pay my own way” means “convinced when I was still a child by all the adults around me to take out a predatory loan I have no hope of ever repaying.”
This guy really hates sci-fi
I'm using mailbox.org (1€/month) for my domain and I have nothing but praise so far.
In no particular order. Spotify. Lululemon sportswear. Casual wear from Club Monaco. Uniqlo hoodies. Contact lenses. Good coffee. Netflix. Chocolate. Accountant. Gifts to people I love. Travel to see the people I love. Favourite restaurants and bakeries.
Hey @ssss11,

I’ll be writing a follow up post in the new year with more details, but essentially it’s a schema (we’re using jsonnet) that contains fields, their types, documentation, categorisation (e.g. is it personal data, what entity it refers to, etc), etc. We then take that and create resources (e.g. PubSub, BigQuery) and deploy services (e.g. a service to archive to BugQuery, data handling services, and more to come).

As I say, more details to come in a future post!
I just tried VsCode for Java development. Frankly I wasn't expecting much as Java is one of those languages that requires a lot of ide features to be useful. Previously used heavyweights like eclipse and Netbeans.

And you know what? Installing the official Java plugin results in a really nice experience. The debugger is good, the hints and documentation work. Not tried the refactoring tools under anger yet though. I didn't have to touch any of the settings.

Hats off to Microsoft.
>Plus, the current policies of the FSF are completely inconsistent, out of touch with the reality of computing systems today, and based on arbitrary rules that end up reducing user freedom instead of increasing it (e.g. how they promote devices with firmware ROMs - which you do not have the freedom to inspect, modify, or replace with a free version - while deriding devices with firmware RAM and a blob, where you do have those freedoms).

I would agree about inconsistency and say that unless everything is absolutely transparent including microcode and hardware it is not acceptable as freedom respecting solution.

On the other hand isn't FSF do compromise as you wanted when you say: "I do not believe ideological arguments against proprietary software should be used to ... "
Either financial success or irresponsibility.
then you probably may want to talk to your marketing branch, you know, before you may get caught with your pants down … at something like a congressional hearing … or something.
App para contratar profesores particulares
Nos gustaría que puedan colaborar, mediante esta encuesta, con nuestro emprendimiento; el cual busca facilitar la educación en las zonas más alejadas con proyectos financiados mediante las ganancias generadas al servir de medio de conexión rápida y efectiva; entre profesores particulares y padres o alumnos. =)
No. But is very surprising when you see Rust how high-level is as language yet it target system programming.

One major philosophy aspect of Rust is that (almost)everything is explicit and you build abstraction from the bottom.
Yes, and that original source already had a major thread:

Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29658342 - Dec 2021 (187 comments)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Particularly given the launch record of the Ariane 5 platform. I did some quick research, and no modern launch platform has as high a mission failure rate (4.5%.) The Delta family comes close at 4.4%, but that's a 50yr launch history. The Delta 4 iteration has had no failures.
The author assumes we will only ever use raw materials on Earth. There are definitely impractical fantasies about asteroid mining in sci-fi, but the author ignoring the cost of getting things off Earth means the article is just a strawman.
Google sucks. I've also had projects blacklisted, adsense banned, etc.
That has nothing to do with smart features. That’s most likely related to energy saving features.
No need for spying tech when you have legally-binding agreements.
Oopsieban instead of permaban, I'm loving it.
JetBrains IDEs, Hetzner servers, mobifone (3GB LTE for $3 monthly), PCB prototypes, good food :) Samsung SSDs
Spotify. The ads haven't gotten jarring enough that it makes sense.

DigitalOcean. While I'm sure it's not the MOST affordable option, I think the value is pretty good. (If anyone has more affordable option please throw it out there!)

Minecraft. Bought the windows 10 version to play with some friends and check out the new world generation. Infinite creativity for ~20 bucks.
> Engineers are good at spotting when someone has been lying about effort, but managers without engineering backgrounds can often (but not always) be fooled by charismatic remote workers.

Then hire better managers. Really, if a manager cannot spot remote slackers, then that manager is doing a poor job.
In a previous life, I used to work for a game retailer. I couldn't believe EA was charging 20 euro for a handful of maps and that some people were willing to pay for their own community's destruction thanks to these map packs acting as gatekeepers.

Mods = love
When developing large scale applications ( e.g. any app that needs third-party libraries ). You are going to have to deal with developers who either

1. Didn't know about a nuance.
2. Didn't care about said nuance.

Creating magic incantations to achieve typical expected behavior will result in many libraries doing the unexpected behavior. Which means that the typical code that any end user works with will probably do the unexpected thing.
Nothing I said was not true.

The FSF encourages all members to shun proprietary software of any kind - which is why we have Linux-Libre and Trisquel.

Even though, to put it simply, monetizing open source is very rare and the FSF looks down on people (including solo programmers) with the gall to keep their software proprietary.

The FSF is also a complete hypocrite when it comes to firmware. Proprietary firmware which the OS can’t see (because it is loaded from onboard flash) is compliant with their “Respects Your Freedom” hardware certification, which is asinine and actively reduces my freedom to reverse-engineer that firmware or replace it with an open driver.

According to FSF logic, a solo programmer making proprietary software for money is to be shunned. A device with an embedded proprietary blob could be certified as freedom-respecting and tolerable. That’s retarded.
I suspect the deployed structure cannot handle the acceleration required for escape velocity. That also may require much more propellant. Then on top of that, we don’t have the capability for humans to service satellites other than the ISS. So this is all a moot point.
The one I had heard about before is Amplosion, which is currently $3. It was previously discussed on HN. [2] Another cheaper option, with good ratings but many fewer of them, is Overamped. [3]

Hyperweb [4] offers a multi-function extension that blocks AMP and does many other things. It's free to download, though I think they may start charging for some features (hopefully not this one!) at some point. They're a YC company and there are some HN-specific features as well.

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amplosion-redirect-amp-links/i...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678684

3: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1573901090?mt=8

4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571
I couldn't think of a less worthy sector than dating apps and dating websites for a ruling like this. From what I've heard, their business model is almost entirely based on making subscription easy but making unsubscribing incredibly difficult - generally with annual-only subscription and requiring hand-filled forms to be be sent by mail within a very narrow time window to avoid the subscription rolling over for another year. They also tend to ramp the fees and deploy aggressive debt collection services if you try to stop paying.

In this particularly case, I think the Apple tax provides value by protecting consumers from scammy operators.
A little web searching turns up a number of people who believe otherwise. Here’s one I can’t easily classify into left/right boxes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/09/21/jordan-pe...
i like the blobs
> Once the room becomes an active participant and manipulator it becomes what is now a modern "social networking" site, and should be regarded as poison.

Hacker News is one of the most aggressively moderated forums you'll ever come across, the room is very much an active participant and always has been.

And the entire purpose of the karma system (particularly the censorship of downvoted items) is to suggest and promote some content over others. That HN doesn't use machine learning is just a quibble about complexity.
Arguably if you spend a lot of time writing a document it becomes more likely that others are going to read it.

I am a peer-reviewer and an editor on a few academic journals. In my field, a mix of authors use [Xe](La)TeX and Word. There's a definite quality bias towards the TeX articles -- not because of the typesetting per se but rather because it's indicative of a lot of time spent carefully preparing a document to a standard. I'm sure others in similar fields have similar experiences.
As someone who also has a close woman friend who suffered such assault, and as someone who has even discussed the Peng Shuai issue with multiple women, I find your willingness to take a pitchfork to go after imaginary enemies to be sickening.

Okay you know what, this time I'll tell you why I was reluctant to answer.

The first part is: because I don't trust you!

Here, just look at this sentence:

> It's you who support the CCP in almost all your commentary here and on Twitter.

This is a huge misrepresentation of my (much more nuanced and complex) position. If you do good research into my Twitter history will you find multiple points where I disagree with CCP. But the fact that you disregard such facts, and choose to misrepresent me as "supporting CCP in almost all commentary", is telling.

Right off the bat, your suspicious, paranoid behavior gives you away as someone who actively seeks to label people as a propagandist, shill, enemy, criminal, etc. merely for disagreeing with your world view on China. The fact that you continue to stalk and hunt me further confirms it.

The second part is because the Hacker News crowd loves to attack, or downvote without discussing, comments on China that they don't agree with. I have to be careful with not offending the crowd by giving too much wrong opinion. And here you are, zooming in on wrong opinions, which you call "apologist".

I've discussed the Peng Shuai situation in detail in private with multiple people, including women. The opinion among mainland Chinese is, for the most part, very different than the narrative painted in mainstream western media. But why should I say too many things which will potentially cause a flood of downvotes and shitstorm simply because that's not what people here like to hear?

Just think about how wrong this is. For a crowd that loves to preach freedom of speech, I have to fear giving my opinion, in no small part thanks to people like you who continue to harass me and continue to label imaginary enemies. For a crowd who wears the mantra of "we are only against the CCP, not the Chinese people", I have to be wary of giving opinions aligned with the Chinese people. No, having a different opinion on China is not "being an apologist", it's having a different opinion.

So my statement that you are engaging in 1984 thought policing, and actually also in McCarthyism 2.0, is not "irony", it is accurate. The biggest irony is that even though you are supposed to be a supporter of free speech, you attempt to deny others of their free speech by labeling them as enemies, merely because you disagree with them.

You know what, my relatives lives are indeed at stake, and they are indeed being threatened — by a potential US-led war for which its consent is manufactured by anti-China propaganda. So I'm pushing back at that. I can see that you have fully bought into the China threat theory, zooming into anybody who has a different opinion about China, like a drone, denying others of the opportunity to see a different perspective. This is entirely deplorable behavior.
Once upon a time (about 10 years ago), I could turn off my iPad’s screen and still hear YouTube playing without paying Google for the privilege. Used to be HN would never accept such a thing, but here it is on a list of things we are happy to pay for. Amazing how times change.
So the long Covid we’ve been afraid of for our children this whole time has actually been long term immunity? How ironic that our own push to vaccinate and save our children could put them in a worse position immunity-wise. Like rain on your wedding day.
Yes, exactly. And now think of all the limitations of running a PKI.

For many use cases, Crypto doesn't do things a PKI can't. It just does them without some of those limitations.
Do you follow Elizabeth Warren on Twitter? She is one of the most obnoxious political blowhards on the website, tweeting stuff about how high gas and milk prices are the result of executive greed and other innumerate, populist pablum.

I don’t watch Fox News, so I have no idea what they say about her. I do know that when I read what she actually writes she sounds like a disingenuous liar.

As a point of calibration, if I were to point out that she cynically lied about her Native American heritage, would you also respond by telling me that’s a Fox News talking point? Because, again, while I can imagine what Fox News has to say about it, I know better what I am able to conclude all on my own.
The whole issue with LaTeX ia that it renders to PDFs, which aren't appropriate these days any more for most electronic documents because you want reflowable content rather than fixed layout. And (m)HTML is great for that and can include other content types :

https://eater.net/quaternions
You really don’t see a difference between manufacturer installed and advertised feature, on a main screen in the car, that also contains legally mandated functions like speedometer VS 3rd party app on a 3rd party accessory?

Especially if that feature comes from a company that’s known to overhype their self driving abilities?

Comparing that to kindergarten from software is like complaining that when you build new house you need to put right electrical cables in the wall. And that just a sticker on the outlet that says “use only for table lamb with 1 led light” should be enough.
The Ariane 5 is batting 106 for 111 which is pretty good odds and perfectly respectable for a heavy lift vehicle... but not so much so that I don't wish it was launching on an Atlas 5 instead.
Please do not post duplicate comments. It's a big pain when we merge the threads. Plus it adds noise.
I kinda get it -- we've gone a long way to making the earth uninhabitable, and (most) scifi paints a very rosy picture of the viability of space travel. In the US, getting to the moon was an incredibly big deal. The grass looks greener on the other side, and there is a huge emotional investment in this on the pro-space side. On the anti-space side, it looks like an incredible expenditure of resources, dumping tons of CO2 into the air, and for what? So there's a huge fear about the conditions of the earth; opportunity to fix matters being squandered. There's high emotions on both sides, which makes it both more difficult and more important to maintain discipline in discussions.