skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enemies?

Sam has a lot of power. We've seen over the last few decades how speech influences a lot of Sams and completely changes society. Society is the sum of all Sams and Sams have a lot of power. Sam from around the block is the Sam that used to report or burn the witches in the 1500's.

Now LGBTQ isn't necessarily the dearest topic to my heart, but freedom is and this is just one aspect of it.

Racism and bigotry are all over the place. What do we do about it? I would argue that those mindsets are not that dissimilar then those causing issues with governments and corporations.
Ask HN: Building a Desktop App in 2022
I am looking at building a relatively small desktop app. It would handle confident information that I don't want to have to handle for other people and storing it on the web might in fact deter some potential users. That's why I want to build it as a desktop app rather than a web app which would be where I have the stronger skill set.

The app should be lightweight, since it won't do that much (think fancy note taking for a few specific use cases), but ideally it also would be cross-platform. An Electron app would give me the cross-platform, but it's definitely not lightweight and might even feel sluggish. I know everyone here loves to hate Electron. Right now I am inclined to just write it in Swift and make it only support the Apple ecosystem where it also would fulfill all my personal needs, but miss out on lots of potential monetization (which realistically will never happen if I look at my past side projects). Another option would be Qt which I used to write 20 years ago, but it seems very expensive.

What other options would you look at for building a desktop app in 2022?
Because >80% in single-family zoning. Let them build denser there and they will tear down single homes instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Multi-Programming_Executive
Thanks. I'd understand I guess if you made an argument to the contrary, but this reply comes back to me as the one good thing about my angry shitpost. -- I think all I wanted was to hear someone else say this.
Nothing makes me feel older than seeing Windows 98 and 2000 being classified as vintage :-(.
Is their tech a commodity? I knew one of the principals (who was hired away by Uber for an ungodly sum of money) who had spent years writing a lot of proprietary networking code. I don't think that IP is a commodity, is it?
Lol … I like the part about the Caucuses being in the USSR, so being Caucasian meant being Soviet.

I once told a friend from west India to put “Aryan” down for race, but then stopped him and apologized after I realized that was mean-funny, not funny-funny.

I was really an asshole in my 20s.
I don't mean this as any kind kind of criticism, but being a swede with an American friend who was partially brought up in Sweden during the good ol days of Swedish social democracy I wonder if Americans really know what they mean when they talk about Scandinavian social democracy. These days they're a lot more conservative than they used to be. Mostly I imagine their stance on immigration control, and crime wouldn't be what Americans have in mind. Or maybe you do! All I'm saying is that it's interesting hearing it come up a lot in American discussions as if it's its own thing when really they're quite the moving target.

EDIT: but i guess for you guys it might be more single-payor healthcare and reasonable taxation in which case, yeah, some things haven't changed :)
As mentioned elsewhere, the file descriptor table is an array and a bitmask - finding the next fd is a matter of finding the first unset bit, which is extremely efficient. And that's before we ignore that the file descriptor table is read-heavy, not write-heavy.

Should you want to have per-process file descriptor tables, you can do just that: Just create a process without CLONE_FILES. You can still maintain other thread-like behaviors if you want. I doubt you'll ever sit with a profile that shows fd allocation as main culprit however.

> If the spec says iteration order is not guaranteed, but in practice people can rely on it being the same in some specific situation ... This actually happened.

If Hyrum's law held, the API would already be "ossified" at this point.

Instead, the Go developers decided to make a statement: "The language spec rather than implementation is authoritative". They broke this misuse permanently by making the API actively hostile, not by making it "match the spec" as it already did.

While one could interpret the current implementation as "anti-ossification", I interpret the action as anti-Hyrum's Law by choosing to break existing users in the name of the contract.
There used to be more discussion about the topic from the pro-diversity, anti-racist perspective until it was temporarily banned under the euphemism of "politics."
great piece. Shortcuts are pretty cool, I find the ssh function super useful.
> The derailleur has never failed me, has always been reliable and is built better than most contemporary equivalents.

Why are you comparing your name brand derailleur from a reputable company (from a time when there was basically only x3) that you say is still better than contemporaries, with the absolute worst of those contemporaries, as a way to somehow imply this particularly bad contemporary is worthwhile?

Wild train of thought.

Interesting how you assert 1x setups as a fad for mountain bikes, and then go on to talk about how it's not a clear choice for... long distance touring? Gravel biking? What are you talking about lol
I am also from the Indian subcontinent. A lot of this derives from the fact that the British uprooted a bunch of existing monarchies, replaced them with Governmental institutions run according to Anglo-Saxon norms, and then left rather suddenly in 1947 saying “You run it” to a set of countries with geographical and population size comparable to Europe; with equivalent if not more linguistic and cultural diversity.

I think colonialism gets blamed because it's the closest external thing in time that can be blamed. Counterexamples like Singapore get bandied around, but the difference between a state the size of Singapore and something like India or Bangladesh is staggering enough to make the comparison essentially useless.

It is an interesting thought experiment to imagine what the consequences would have been of a more gradual transition away from British rule in the Indian subcontinent. My imperfect amateur historical study makes me think it would have been a net positive, but potentially would have led to partition into at least 5-6 different independent states before they did leave for good.
I don't think they hate netflix, it's just that there are so many competitors to netflix at this point that it is hard to afford/use all of them and this amount of competition might hurt netflix in the long run.
Hi thanks for the feedback! About my writing style in general: I usually write as if I'm writing to my younger self, telling him what I wished he learned faster. Perhaps I should be kinder to him. I'll be careful not to mean to others next time. However, I don't feel like we have to be nice to the 'web thought leaders' who have cashed in their tokens for real money already. They're the grifters. The stories from people making real money from selling crypto are to be found everywhere, but obvs that pyramid scheme/lottery situation means that lots of others lost their money. I hear too little from them.

I was genuinely pissed off about all the time I put in trying to read all that techno babble various blockchain websites only to find out that most of them are just a scheme to turn tokens into money. I'm disappointed in the tech community for not being more vocal against the hype. So I wanted to put out there what I learned, so that others can see things not through the lens of 'next big thing', but 'possibly made by someone who wants my money'.
Not more than a month ago I spent almost an hour trying, unsuccessfully, to google that Michael Levin talk, having forgotten his name, the title, the forum, etc.

Thank you, thank you for the link!
I appreciate your comment to clarify the original comment.
Ironically enough demand for cars went up during COVID. I can't tell you why, but I know it's a fact. Lack of supply is certainly a factor but I think there's probably more going on. Go check how insane the market is right now. It's nearly impossible to buy a new car, and used cars are selling at way above the notional blue book value.
Ask HN: What is today's version of Scientific American's “Computer Recreations”?
Ok. So FB ends up getting the top spot, which needs to be discounted by the utter hate for the company on HN. (They're called Meta btw) :)

But, surprisingly Netflix seems to ending up on second place. I think that's shortsighted and not taking into account how deeply they're integrated into the film production industry by now.

It's one thing to build a streaming platform and acquire some customers. It's a whole different game to do this and create great content.

PS: My bet is google. Just look at their deteriorating search results and the missing other revenue streams.
I would fully expect this trend to continue - each new generational cohort will latch onto a new social network that is separate from the ones their lame parents and older siblings use.

This poses a massive institutional risk to any social network. They either need to aggressively pump out new brands to try and capture that themselves, or buy promising startups, but it wouldn't be too difficult to fail at both of those and just completely skip a generation. A few of those misses added up could be a terminal failure.
Yes, but there is a reason. Typically all the race and gender of people being interviews was usually "white" and "male" to the exclusion of other voices with a different perspective.

The push to equality (and we are not there yet) requires change and that change can be ignored unless you track it.
I wonder what doctors analyzed the video at YouTube — I have become impressed by the teams that social media giants have amassed who can factually check the top researcher’s, of our society, studies.

It would be interesting to see a list of these people’s names and credentials.
There was a controversy, but the controversy was never over whether it was appropriate to ask for your honorific on a form, just what the options should be. E.g. nobody thought it was weird to ask if you went by Dr.
No contract between the front and back end is obviously an extremely tight coupling. I’ve seen this end really badly when you have to cleave them after the fact (particularly with embedded JS in server side templating). For a small product without much velocity, I’d be OK with the approach.
This is me. This sounds like the worst designed algorithm ever. When I read it the other night I uncontrollably moved to shout “WTF?!?!” I literally can’t imagine the circumstances that would lead to that solution. When is the only option for saving a date string to encode it as a 32 bit int? To quote The Princess Bride “Inconceivable!”
But surely it makes more sense to peddle old movies and TV shows because you've already made them. Isn't that why content creation is so lucrative - you make it once and then sell it for years and years?
My only problem at this point with going back to piracy is that the torrent sites I used to rely on are dead, and if there's a modern replacement for Covenant that actually works then I don't know what it is.

Covenant on Kodi was the first and last time I actually felt like TV was in the future.
That's the way you make money on the internet. Count on slow frog boil syndrome and decreasing expectations of your clientale. For example there was an app I liked a lot (free game) . At first there were no ads, just a donate button in the settings. Then a sliver text ad. Then page ads between screen loads that were enforced at about 15 seconds each (or so). And then ads you had to click off randomly as the game would stop and pop them up seemingly randomly. Obviously I gave up the game.
I'd politely push back a bit. It makes sense that trans people don't want someone else assuming their pronouns - I wouldn't like it if someone called me something besides "he" - so the question in good faith is reasonable, unless someone is offended to be treated in a trans-friendly way.
What would be in your opinion the best historical example of a inequity that wasn't righted by moving slowly and one of an inequity that was righted by overshooting the target?
I don't think that you can build a new semiconductor factory for $20 million (2e7), especially not when there is a chip shortage happening and you need factory equipment containing such chips.
This is your brain crying out for adderral. You could probably show this paragraph to your doctor and get an ADHD diagnosis... ;-)
The precise definition of the pejorative 'woke' can be debated, but I think we all can agree that "we know it when we see it".

And it is far from useless. IMO it accurately labels people who are either: 1. Taking liberal talking points to extremes for the sole purpose of attention seeking or 2. Naive, coming of age youth bumping against reality for the first time in their lives and use the distraction of politics and remote injustices to avoid confronting the "hard work" which will be required to thrive in the adult world.
Depends on who you work for - I've had plenty of full-time and contract positions that had no restrictions against other work aside from a non-compete.

I've also worked plenty of places that only claim ownership of IP created on their time/equipment and not any/all random side projects you work on.
> (perhaps impossible on a properly-implemented site?)

Well, "proper implementation" would prevent a lot of attacks. But there's nothing stopping you, as a web server, from making state changes in response to GET requests, and it's far from unheard of.
It does, but Netflix is the one provider (that I know of) that's decided to entirely opt out of Apple TV integration, so I can't add any of their shows to my universal queue and have to specifically switch to Netflix to see what I'm in the middle of or want I to watch next.
I think many people underestimate how much of a foothold Facebook has outside of the USA with Whatsapp and Instagram.

Especially in countries without net neutrality, social networks may be included in your phone plan even when real internet isn't -- forcing many local businesses to interact with their customers over instagram, whatsapp or facebook messenger. (Having a website is pointless if most of your customers cannot reach it).
> You're allowed complain about us, I guess, but not in front of us, and we're all around you?

That's a roundabout way of saying "No, you aren't allowed to".
Facebook seems the most likely but that’s only if what they’re trying to do with Meta fails. Google on the other hand seems to have entirely lost their ability to innovate and it’s not clear to me that they’re even trying to do anything of significance at all. So I’m a bit torn. But I’m going with Google because I’m the long run I think a lack of effort is probably the worst thing to have
I recall a friend was relieved when Red M&Ms went away, because she had an anaphylactic reaction to them. Though I guess the real reason was the old color turned out to be a carcinogenic. It was years before they added them back, with Red 40 instead.
I want to say it was either 24 or Heroes that had some scenes where you could see things like this in the widescreen release
I do not understand why Facebook ranks at the top when they have near monopoly in internet social networking industry. Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok combined do not have market cap even close to FB plus FB has plenty of space and time to further monetize Instagram and WhatsApp. TikTok is only real competition to FB so far. I voted for Netflix; too much competition and original content is expensive to make.
>used to be a society of strong independent and happy individuals, capitalizing on their strengths and trading with each other in search of prosperity

(if this were even the reality) that excluded those who didn't fit the perception of who deserved such independence or happiness
There's probably money in helping these companies realize when they have left large portions of their content unlicensed in entire geographic regions.
Could it also be due to reduction of public interest in blogs over the past few years? Most stuff are now published in the form of vlogs instead of blogs. I do miss the good old blogs era, tho, and I wish there were still high quality blogs around.
As are Pharmacy companies aware of all the other metrics they can game and game them with bigger deeper pockets.

What’s your point? That pharmacy isn’t gaming it but one man is?
Is this hobby worth putting on a resume? I don't put hobby and non-work stuff on my resume but my college experience is there.
It's the hacker culture that has enabled this. The potential of internet has awoken an abhorrent greed that leeches off anger and polarization, and can only sustain itself by creating more: from facebook and twitter to reddit and tumblr, they're all guilty. The main-stream media has lost their cash cow, and now simply follows the money. Denying responsibility for this is like saying "guns don't kill people."

Well, if that doesn't get your blood boiling...
Linus Tech Tips, a reputed YouTuber made a video about this a while ago, where he explains it really well. If you're interested, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4yk-P5ukY
I'm not sure I could answer that question in a satisfying way.

Digging into my memory of QBASIC, I think a procedure (called a subroutine?) doesn't have local variables and doesn't accept arguments, whereas a function does?

There are also probably FP languages that distinguish from between a pure function and something that might have side effects?
Whatever happened to FlexOs from Digital Research?
Please don’t take it personally if you live there, but I find it so absurd all the bullshit you need to go through to vote in the US.

Why on earth is a home address needed to vote? Of course you need to vote where you are registered, I cannot vote in another city beside mine too, but even if I lose my house today I can keep voting in my city until I have a document that proves my identity, eventually for all my life.

Pardon my rant, it is not towards you or your comment, but some policies in the US are simply crazy.
My armchair take is that if I really wanted to drive out (as opposed to walking - I don't know if I'd be confident enough in my walking pace & distances to make the call to abandon the vehicle) I'd try to rig the 2CV in car form. Fewer unknowns, I think. A broken drive axle (there are 2) could be wedged up to restore drive to the other wheel, and a wheel with a broken swingarm could be replaced by a makeshift skid made from a bumper.

A diagram of the 2CV drive system can be found here: http://www.lightauto.com/fwd8.html

I wasn't there of course.
Hard not to see Facebook declining as they bleed their younger audience. Part of me wants to see a new AR paradigm with lightweight glasses and a fully augmented reality but it seems fuzzy/far away with lots of ways to get it wrong.
The dependency hell is not the kind of dependency hell where it's difficult to work on the code because including something might break something else. The dependency hell described in this email is to do with headers including headers including headers, eventually including a large quantity of text (which now has to be parsed) most of which is unnecessary. The only problem this "dependency hell" causes for out-of-tree modules is that builds take a bit longer. The fixes to this dependency hell are not going to make out-of-tree modules work better, they're likely going to break them in a lot of ways due to the many implicitly included headers they happen to have.
My two cents is that people are dramatically under-weighting the possibility that Zuckerberg is a visionary with his AR/VR plays. I am extremely bullish on FB solely because of that.

I think people will be as wrong about his VR plays as they were about the Instagram acquisition.
Malone's been bootstrapping this "cancelled scientist" grift in plain sight since his appearance on Weinstein's podcast.

It's a formula you see over and over again.
1) Say enough shit to get your hand slapped
2) Do the IDW podcast tour to whine about the "establishment" and plug your Patreon and/or supplements.
3) Get bankrolled by Thiel.
But paid results do not always, if ever, answer the search query better in any shape of form.

So this would end up with displeased users and bounce backs.
All racial classification schemes in the Western world are running against the wind of interracial marriage. Mixed kids of the "25 per cent Lithuanian, 25 per cent Arab, 25 per cent Mexican and 25 per cent Japanese" type are becoming ever more common and the narrow racial classification into old fashioned racial boxes is unable to categorize them with any kind of precision.

In that case, either you revert to the "one drop rule" of the Old South and start classifying anyone with any non-white ancestor as a minority, or run into untenable contradictions.
Cost of hosting a free video platform is not a solved problem. If it were we would see many many more video platforms
That’s what I am building, except both native and web apps work seamlessly together: https://www.greenfield.app/
https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
https://twitter.com/FriedChicken/status/1420671685485867014?...
What search software do you run?

What sort of memory and space do you have on the single server?

What's the average document size that you index?

Genuinely curious on how doable a modern search engine is on modern hardware.
A streaming subscription is much cheaper than a cable subscription, no? If you're a very heavy consumer of streaming video, doesn't it make sense that you'd pay more? I don't see why anyone should expect to get to stream everything they could want for a minimal monthly fee.

Having to switch apps is a trivial inconvenience. Seems to me that price-point is what we should be focusing on, and I'm fairly confident things have improved greatly.

More generally, I'm sceptical of any argument that laments the lack of a monopoly.
Thanks for sharing these! I see what you mean now. And it's especially unfortunate that Android needs an entirely different OS build.

iOS works a bit more like I expected, though they don't list the instructions we might use to scramble the tags for a block of memory like the ARM paper's STG instruction does. I wonder if that might be possible one day.
Hum, do you actually agree with the idea that people care about how others perceive them? Are you saying that the only way we should get to communicate that is through crude things like the way we dress or our bone structure? I don't know, sometimes stating pronouns and the like can seem a bit much I'll admit, but I'm not sure what the good alternatives even all
> Google must also compete or they lose their free users followed by their paying users (ad buyers).

I have no idea if that's even possible. The number of people who (a) Google pays to be the default engine for and (b) aren't even aware there are other engines is huge. If the various google search domains went offline, the number of people who wouldn't even be able to find facebook is probably a double-digit percent, let alone those who cannot figure out to fail over to bing, ddg, yahoo, whatever.
Yes, there are craters with water ice in them that are permanently shaded near the poles. Solar concentrators could be moved out of the shadows and redirect light, generate electricity or heat.

I think we could be less than 5 years away from landing a Starship in a crater on Mercury.
Among “races”? I think that’s debunked, but among populations?