skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point here is that it's better to not need a library in the first place than to have tons of choices.

As an extreme example, consider NPM's left-pad that caused such a huge mess when it was pulled by its author. It's not good that JS has a left-pad package, because it just shows a gaping hole in what should be JS's standard library.

Slightly more abstractly, Clojure's data-oriented paradigm makes a lot of libraries from other languages redundant, because you can simply map and reduce and assoc Clojure maps instead of writing boilerplate.
2022 seems like it will be a great year for Haiku:

- They have a (one) full-time developer working on the general stability of the system and better hardware and general driver support (and many more things)

- X512 still tackling graphics acceleration, compositing, multi-monitor support and occasional cool stuff like this

- ARM/ARM64 port seeing active commits

- Much better Intel graphics hardware support merged already

- QtWebEngine already ported and opening the way for working web browsers

- Native WebKit port preparing for upstreaming and WebPositive again seeing fixes after a long time

If the project had better financials, it would greatly help securing the project's continuous development.
My Hypothetical Day as a Substitute Teacher: Raytracing Is Fun for Everyone
All failed companies. ;)
There are actually a lot of causes. Barkley (2018)[1] says:

> The reduced ELE linked to ADHD was found to
be a function of the first order variables of less education, less
annual income, greater consumption of alcohol and tobacco,
diminished sleep, and poorer overall health status relative to
the control group. Moreover, ELE was also shown to be a
function of the second order traits of deficient behavioral inhi-
bition in daily life and, much less so, of low verbal IQ, greater
interpersonal hostility, and deficient nonverbal fluency.

and:

> For instance, besides ADHD-C itself, this study showed
that behavioral disinhibition (as assessed by EF ratings in
daily life), verbal IQ, the comorbid psychopathology of
hostility, and the EF of nonverbal fluency (and its associa-
tion with nonverbal working memory) all uniquely contrib-
uted, in descending order, to variation in life expectancy.
The largest percentage, however, by far was contributed by
behavioral disinhibition.

Nigg (2013)[2] says:

> ADHD is clearly associated with worse physical health outcomes across multiple domains. These include unhealthy behaviors and outcomes like smoking, illicit substance use disorders, accidental injuries, obesity, and even suicide attempts and completed suicides.

----

Basically, having ADHD means you have less self-control, engage in riskier behaviour (including riskier eating habits, substance abuse, driving, sex. It also means you struggle in life, resulting in suicidality, aggressiveness and anti-social behaviour. You sleep worse. You're more likely to smoke because nicotine is a stimulant which has a medicating effect on ADHD symptoms.

[1]: Hyperactive Child Syndrome and Estimated Life Expectancy at Young Adult Follow-Up: The Role of ADHD Persistence and Other Potential Predictors, Barkley 2018

[2]: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and adverse health outcomes, Nigg 2013 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322430/)
I like her.
Oh, Axie Infinity. They're a Ponzi scheme in the crash phase. Their players grind to earn Smooth Love Potion tokens. Here's the chart for SLP.[1] Down over 90% and still crashing. There's also an Axie Infinity token.[2] It's only down 34%. There's some kind of 65-month (!) vesting period with that token.

Don't hold Axie Infinity up as a success.

No, Roblox is not getting into NFTs. They're planning on having no-copy transferable items within their own ecosystem. Second Life has had those for years. They're a minor portion of the object market, especially since SL got rid of gachas ("loot boxes") for regulatory reasons.

The main use of NFTs that makes any kind of sense is monetizing popularity. It's a new form of celebrity merch. This is great if you're a celebrity, but not otherwise.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/smooth-love-potion/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/axie-infinity/
I read the term "fundamentals" so frequently, but so rarely see them enumerated and defined.

What are 'the fundamentals'? K&R? SICP? Someone once answered 'knowing your data structures and algorithms' but the only thing I see more than 'fundamentals' is a derisive attitude toward leetcode (which seems to be about par for 'knowing your data structures and algorithms').
Meanwhile, Hastings, Nebraska reached -30 degrees Fahrenheit, its all-time coldest temperature, and the South Pole shivered with an average temperature of -78 degrees over the last six months, the coldest on record according to the Washington Post.
Crystal was fun to learn for Advent of Code, especially as someone who has zero Ruby experience. Felt weird, but in a good way, and ticked off a lot of the boxes I like in languages (decent type inference, static types, good standard library, reasonable toolset, etc.)
Trauma is always there, time and new experiences help. Also old memories and such are better dead, kill connections, toss out reminders, etc.
That article was really very optimistic about NAT traversal, while being very pessimistic about solutions to avoiding memorising IP addresses, which I think says something about their perspective going in.

NAT is a nightmare that has directly lead to the crappy world of every "IoT" device relying on some remote service that can shut down any time, instead of just... connecting to your device. Also every game having connectivity issues when trying to do peer-to-peer play. Not to mention a reliance on NAT as security, something this article advocates for, despite being a job it isn't good at.

The obsolescence of NAT is the bit of IPv4's demise I look forward to most.
They have short cuts to the 128 bit. I think there will be a lot of unused space for a while.
Roundup of Bootstrappers Breakfast Events in January 2022
https://archive.fo/gIyHn
1. Publish
2. Turn 30
3. Be the fittest I've ever been
When I first got my own car insurance I went with the agent who had previously been handling insurance when my car was on my parents' plan. It was through a State Farm Bureau, and the agent kept trying to push me to buy coverage for things that didn't apply to me. He told me I would get better terms by having my parents' history grandfathered into my account. So I held that insurance for a few years until I got married and moved in with my wife. I added my car under her insurance, which represented a savings mostly for having both on the same account. Notified my agent, who told me I would receive a refund for the remainder of my term (annual term, would expire 3 months after I cancelled, so this was maybe several hundred dollars.

I start getting renewal notices saying I would lose coverage, and every time I received one I would call the office and the assistant would offer to stop the message, since my account was closed. Then I would receive a voicemail that "why don't you tell me about your situation, maybe I can get you a better rate." Told this to the assistant the next time, and she would again promise to get it cancelled. After several months I just gave up because my account was cancelled. But I would still receive a mailer from the lobbying arm of the Farm Bureau, and warnings that, without paying the annual Farm Bureau membership I could not receive insurance coverage. So I started calling the office again, same runaround.

I got fed up enough that I finally emailed the Farm Bureau complaint department, detailing the mail I continued to receive that all vaguely suggested I was delinquent on insurance. The next day I got a worried voicemail from the agent, offering to immediately cancel my account, and he could do it retroactive to the date I originally gave him. Based on the communication I got from the organization it must have gone straight to his supervisor, who have him an earful. I hadn't even mentioned the rebate I was supposed to receive.

A week later I received the refund in the mail, and I have been pleasantly free from the Farm Bureau's bills and propaganda ever since.
> It’s about making them a certain way because it sounds cool” is an interesting statement to make. It assumes my mental state and motivations.

It was snarky comment about book title. Which is super clearly about sounding cool. Unless it has stuff about how to indoctrinate kids into beheading enemies without feeling of guilt or some such. Nothing to do with your motivation.
Yes. They refer to them as "mobile service".
What are some realistic alternatives?
> ineffective

I don't think it's clear evidence of this, but you could definitely say it's not 100% effective. Whether it is useful is not something that you cannot determine from this story alone.
Interesting headline choice leading to the sentence “No severe symptoms have been reported as of yet.”
Oracle says oracle is best!
No, not privacy for the poor, but from the poor.
You'd still have rich travellers visiting poor countries and taking photos of the locals like they're some roadside attraction.

Rich people and people in power have been able to invade our privacy whenever they wanted.

Making everyone capable of having digital cameras has enabled so much. With regards to cops, it's let the general public document and share examples of police brutality, in ways that would never have been possible before.

I think it's clear from your comment where your political biases lie and what your ethnicity bias likely is. You may subsequently argue that it's irrelevant, but you're also not walking in our shoes as minorities. Cameras have been a huge boon to being able to share our plight.

Emmett Till was a profound moment in Black history because his image could be shared in person with others. Similarly George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery etc were defining because the cameras were there...
givedirectly.com

Cash for those who lack it, to use in whatever way they see fit
I know this is an awful RL story, but I love the Kafkaesque tone of his writing.
OP identified themselves as "from Missouri".

Last time I checked, Missouri lies almost exactly smack dab at the midpoint between the sierra nevada and the (eastern reaches of the) appalachia mountains.

But that's not even really the important point. The attitude that the Midwest is full of humble salt of the earth types and the coasts are full of arrogant elites is itself... well, astoundingly arrogant. Believe it or not, the midwest has plenty of arrogant folks and many of the nicest and most humble people in the world happen to live on the coasts.

Just think about what you're saying here. How is it any different than the ostensible coastal attitude you are critiquing here? "I value X and people from those other places don't have X." Pot, meet kettle.

In a thread where you're attacking someone for being geographically arrogant (incorrectly, no less!!!), you could at least refrain from being geographically arrogant...

To be quite blunt, I meet WAY more Midwesterners who make asinine and negative assertions about people on "the coast" than coastal folks who have any strong feels at all about the interior. Being a dick about where you live is, increasingly, a distinctly Midwestern thing.
Nobody is excluded. It sounds like you have no problem with what the teachers did.
So is it just people shouting out to the void, and no way to respond to them? That makes it a neat tech demo, but doesn't seem very useful as-is.
Non paywalled, anyone?
Very clever...
Being weak isn't shameful. Recognizing that you have a weakness and doing something about it is a strength though. If you need glasses to see then wear them with pride, same with quitting social media, if it distracts you from more important things then quit and be proud that you had the strength to overcome your weakness.
Per the comments: looks like author meant 31/12/2021 not 2022. And the company has given an official update confirming the issue, and asking users to retry later in the day or in the next year (2022).
TIL Belgium has an Antarctic research station.
I’m not so sure; respectfully disagree. This only talks about process stricture, not efficacy or process compliance/lapse. Plausible hypothesis, but needs more data.
Cool to see such a comprehensive guide! At the same time, are people seriously still pushing OAuth2 for first party auth? Shouldn’t everyone know by one that OAuth does not solve:

* registration
* account recovery
* profile management
* 2fa
* …

and is generally completely overblown for first party auth? I always to cite from the abstract of the OAuth2 RFC:

> The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework enables a *third-party*
application to obtain limited access to an HTTP service

Yet somehow all of these proprietary software companies (FusionAuth, Auth0, …) cling to the only „open protocol“ to push „portability“ of protocols. But the problem of portability is really a problem of data (you user’s data and migrating that data from system A to B), not the way you exchange or validate tokens or cookies.

I think it’s exciting to see new open source projects like https://github.com/ory/kratos or https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core that finally break up this misconception!
I love Kurzgesagt’s animation of The Egg.
Highlights: roundup includes two face to face events and 8 that are online. The
Las Vegas chapter has scheduled a face to face meetings at CES
I’m a trader by profession, so fulfilling a market need because it exists for whatever reason isn’t something I struggle with. These threads aren’t about whether or not there is demand for the things you mention. Nobody disputes that.

The discussion is more nuanced about scale and longevity and that demand.
>> No, the leaf in the photo isn’t fabricated by iOS. No, iOS didn’t copy a leaf from elsewhere in the image to continue the pattern.

> Those two things are exactly what everyone was assuming happened.

What? Look at the other discussion thread:

> The cause of this is image-stacking.

> The phone takes ~20 frames, over 0.2 seconds. In that time, lots of people and things in the frame move.

> Optical flow is used to track all moving parts of the image, and then 'undo' any movement, aligning all parts of the image.

> Then the frames are combined, usually by, for each pixel, taking something like the median or throwing out outliers and using the average.

> When the optical flow fails to track an object in more than half the frames, the 'outliers' that are thrown out can in fact be the image content you wanted.

> It happens with leaves a lot because they can flutter fast from one frame to the next, so tracking each individual leaf is hard. A few bad tracking results on more than half the frames, and all you end up seeing is leaves where there should be a face..

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29742539 )

There was nobody arguing that the phone hallucinated the leaf. The problem is that the phone removed the person's head so that it wouldn't pull focus from the leaf.
Shouldn’t be too hard to pull FlightAware data or similar and just not ever shoot within n degrees of aircraft… if it was really much of a concern to start with. Big sky theory.
It’s something how they are audaciously unsubtle about it isn’t it.. I mean, only Oracle would ever write these sorts of articles
> I know the doctors can't say "let's not save this one. we could keep them alive, but it's better for everyone to not do that".

They absolutely can, if they know that that's what you would want and someone from your family isn't actively trying to stop them. That's why it's important for people to have DNRs and/or make their wishes known to multiple family members.
This is an excellent question.

This is different from a website like Hacker News or Reddit which aim to be social media websites and avenues to engage in discourse.

Applause, instead, is as you might say, a tech demo, but also aims to, through UX and feature, create a different kind of environment than general social media networks. Instead, when a user engages in the act of 'signing' something, people can either agree in whole or not. If they agree in whole, they actually sign the original message itself. It's closer to a "shouting out to the void in a certified manner, and others can join in the shout" versus "shouting out to the void and debating."
My son is in the top 20, I believe.
He spends a lot of time on it, but I still look at him like a baby :)
Why did you keep interacting with Brenda? It takes like 2 seconds to call up an insurance company and have them write you up a policy. If you have a mortgage, many insurers will take contact info for someone at the mortgage company to negotiate the change in policy.
Your outgoing messages are probably not fed into the spam filter.
Good News Stories You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2021
Much of the Earth's surface has always been permanently uninhabitable for reasons unrelated to nuclear accidents. Closing off a few more small areas per century is an acceptable risk.
Sure, that's annoying too, but I don't see how it's relevant to the topic at hand. IPv6 isn't some shiny new tech, the original RFC just turned 26. It's also not just a superficial re-write of some existing tool, it fixes a real problem which clearly needs to be addressed (no pun intended).
I’d recommend— “Hack”. I use octal and hack and switch between them frequently. Back is very polished
I believe some tech censorship hurts society more than it does good. The video in the OP appears to be a good example of this.

Can someone give a good argument for why China’s Great Firewall is good? Tech Censorship and China’s internet censorship appear to be the same.

I can’t picture a future utopia with the direction tech censorship is going. Who can?
That’s what’s interesting. My state has a law going into effect soon that covers requesting the removal of facial data, but at the moment it hasn’t started yet. Presumably once it goes into effect, Clearview would be legally obligated to remove my data.

Also, forgive me for asking this dumb question, but what do you mean by send a letter with a CD? What does CD stand for? Is it some kind of certificate of receipt? I tried looking it up, but didn’t find much about it.

Also, in terms of asking what they have on me, I have basically been unable to have any communication with them. Others seem to have the same issue. In general, Clearview takes months to respond to any sort of email (at least for me). I sent one semi-recently from a different email address. Hopefully they respond to that.
Hell yes, I remember going to Macworld in the late 90's and being blown away by BeOS and BeBoxes. It's about time that stuff starts to get some respect. Very happy to see a "429 Too Many Requests" on haiku-os.org right now :)
Credit card points & loyalty programs.
> not useful...

Its usefulness, like most things, depends where you fall along it. I'm sure those at the top find it very useful to get the things they want.
If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
How would that look like to an end-user? Do I need to tell my browser which scripts are contained in my emails? What would happen if I start typing in a different script?

> there are very few natural strings out there in the world that consist of half-a-dozen languages just mishmashed together

...in your experience. What is an almost-absurd exception to you, is every day life to others.
If you discover that you have a nuts allergy, would you continue eating nuts to prove that you are tough? Same with social media - if it hurts you, ditch it.
It does not, but I have taken on projects that took weeks to build because the one developer who wrote it only built it on his personal computer with a nest of undocumented dependencies and unknown versions, years old.

So before fixing other things you need to be able to build it.
As a kid I discovered trash talking as a strategy and adapting my behaviour to be more like the others helped me. But growing older this is not such a great option anymore. Also in a competitive workplace only being kind doesn't get you far, at worst it leads to burnout. I think one needs to find a balance.

Also in my school class the most nerdy kid just played air plane during class and recess and that is why he got bullied really badly. That kid also did some fun things sometimes but loudly playing his solitary games was just completely out of place. Thinking back it makes me wonder why teachers didn't mention that to him.
It wasn't paywalled when I clicked it just a moment ago.
I've had this happen to me too. Boot up an old Windows 7/8/10 machine, tun updates, it takes an unusually long amount of time. It seems like Microsoft does a bad job testing cumulative updates, and they hang or something. I have my main PC running all the time, so I get updates when they're released. This process seems to be much faster, the longest update I saw recently was about 10 minutes.
what is the purpose of this site?
Human error/non-compliance is a thing, to be honest. Although, this can also mean the procedures do not work as well.
I live in tandem with a nihilistic part of myself, the blackpilled part of me. It likes to secretly collect evidence for why it should be dominant. When it has been in control is when I have felt the freest, the most authentic.

What's more, it is so developed that I can name it. I don't know the name of what society wants me to be. Domesticated citizen? Good boy? Effectless stranger?

I have a project in my head of outlining my "core beliefs": "Better living through chemistry", "All knowledge is accessible through language", "Brains over brawn", etc. The shadow part of me slips things in: "If God exists, God is evil", "Life is meaningless", "Humans are untrustworthy", etc.

If I could go to a doctor and point at some part of my brain, or at some chemical imbalance, it would be amazing. As it stands, I feel like each of our personal psychological maintenance entails us little individual people picking up boulders and moving them to other parts of the neurochemical pit. Sometimes we get help with big machines like lithium or whatever. It just feels like we're still in the dark ages of human neurochemistry, and we can't help piling on more confounding variables.

Anyways, I just wanted to share. I don't have any answers. Or at least, the moment's struggle with my shadow occludes them.
Pharo is a good pick, if you are interested in know what is like to program in a very supportive environment typical of the Smalltalks, with their productivity enhancing tight feedback loops. There's a MOOC on it: https://mooc.pharo.org/
> but what threw people off was the blurry and dark halo surrounding that leaf which looks like manipulation artifacts.

That halo is pretty clearly what's left of the subject's head after the phone has tried to get rid of it. It's difficult for me to understand how this wouldn't qualify as "replacing someone's head with a leaf". Sure, the leaf is there. But the head used to be there too, and in the photo it's been removed.
Thank you! I'd prefer it to be faster too, I sort of rushed this one out as a POC. The next one will be a tighter.

I used Final Cut Pro, but tbh I didn't like it very much. I'm going to try Premiere next. I recorded it in IntelliJ with the built-in mac screen recorder (QuickTime). I used a plugin for the presentation-mode theme, but I've since got a new computer and I can't remember the name of it right now...
I thought in American prisons visitors mostly talk through glass? But maybe that's just something used in movies. Never been to an actual prison even here lol.
I probably do look like a terrorist somewhere. The problem isn't identifying that person and associating them with me, the problem is treating that information as significant, and that's on the FBI (in your hypothetical scenario).
They just asked how. They didn't say it's impossible. The question of how is interesting. The question of whether is also interesting.
How does one tell if Indians are Brahmins? Is there some trick to decoding firstname lastname?
It’s very common in the online messaging I’ve seen in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian.