skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in liberty.
Lead Bevy developer here: feel free to ask me anything!
For a messaging application whose intended target audience includes dissidents, location sharing even as an option sounds dangerous.

Especially given this from your comment: Focus on providing security fixes and minor improvements that improve user experience - when UX includes such irrelevancies such as "avoid getting users vanished and/or killed", the guiding principle should be: no footguns.
You have no control over how often clients will poll even if you have webhooks. But it's easy enough to cache /events in cheap ephemeral storage, possibly even at the http level. Use Cloudflare if you want cheap. There shouldn't be much of an engineering cost here.
Everyone has different UI feature desires so ill put that aside for this comment; flexibility is my key reason for Signal losing favor.

What the Matrix solution gives me:

- chat from multiple devices with history upon login (I read they're working on downloadable exports/backups) from any client;

- zero knowledge webapp logins (e.g. the work laptop on VPN, app.element.io in a Chrome tab) just use your Security Key like MFA;

- trivial and easy bridging with other endpoints (IRC, XMPP, etc.) it's not perfect but it works and I use this daily chatting with friends on other networks;

- choice of many clients whether actual apps or web interfaces (yes, it's early days and rough around the edges but the capability is there and happening) unlike Signal;

- distributed (federation) server designs baked in to avoid single company server lock in (Signal is opposed to this, goes hand in hand with using only their clients);

- less trouble and better client experiences about around the above than XMPP ecosystem. I just get annoyed using the XMPP versions of my bullet points above (and I've really tried, honest)

Is Matrix/Element perfect? no, lots of rough edges being worked on especially with the e2ee keys (my opinion). But I see healthy work, continual improvement and a good future ahead.
Have you looked at Toast UI Editor (MIT license)?

https://ui.toast.com/tui-editor

I checked out a bunch of text editors on a past project and this one has worked very well as a WYSIWYG markdown editor.
It's just a stream of tokens, which are either literals or identifiers; it's the only language I know that has less syntax than Lisp.
I recently needed something like that, but didn't want to deal with perl or ruby, so I wrote

https://github.com/kardianos/imapdown
I’m wondering what are the places that didn’t begin with encouragement and availability rather than mandates and “threats of force”?
I've been using this as a personal wiki for a few years now. Thank you so much for making it! I really love it.
Why do we have to die?
Travel is the last thing I would want to do, especially if I'm old, but that's just me.

The rest of it is pretty accurate. My dad lived about 3 years after he retired, half of that he was too sick to do very much. My mom lived another 6 years after that but the last couple of years were not what anyone would really call living.

Don't assume you'll be a vital, active, world traveler at age 80. It might work out that way, it might not.
How do they guarantee that an answer is correct? That requires a small verified kernel in theorem provers. This seems hard to achieve with a neural network. Or is the goal to produce solutions that could be correct / are likely correct?
The environments were small open rooms where developers
had computers lined next to each other. You would bump
elbows with each other.

I always struggled to work in environments like that but always blamed it on ADHD etc. But, there's a lot of evidence that increased CO2 levels have negative effects on cognition, so maybe it wasn't just me.

“why does a tennis ball have felt?”

I know the correct answer(s) because I'm a tennis player but this feels like a really weird interview question. I understand the (highly dubious) point of these brain teasers - it's less about getting the "correct" answer and more about observing the candidate's thought process. But this one feels worse than most because I'm not sure how you could reason about it unless you're already pretty familiar with tennis.

I do like open-ended, "I just want to learn more about the interviewee's thought process" questions in general; I just prefer them to be a little more relevant. Such as,

- how would you troubleshoot particular problem XYZ?

- how would you design the database schema given the following set of requirements?

- what's a controversial/unpopular software development opinion you have?

- what's the best project you ever worked on, and why?

- what's one thing you'd change about $TECHNOLOGY_RELEVANT_TO_THE_ROLE_THEYRE_APPLYING_FOR ?

- etc.
It is more that any search engine that uses your history to skew future results can send you down a rabbit hole for anything related to some conspiracy theory. It wants to send you results that you like, which means it will promote confirmation bias. People using Google to "do your own research" will find all the things that agree with their preconceptions.

This isn't because the algorithm has a political slant, it is a consequence of how it works. Sometimes this thing helps the user: if my search includes the word "unionized", did my previous searches indicate an interest in chemistry or labor activism?
my solution worked ok: sleep at school. it's not ideal, but it also saved me from being entirely brainwashed and prevented teachers from killing my creativity.

let's not ignore the fact schools were designed long ago to 1/ shape future factory workers into well behaved blue collars, while 2/ making it possible for parents to go to work.

before the industrial revolution, most people were farmers. Kids were out playing, stayed home safe or participated to gardening activities.

the issue with school is far more deep rooted into how our society sadly operates. it may be impossible to fix one without addressing the other.
No. Redesigned cars are less reliable.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

> CR’s proprietary analysis shows that vehicles tend to be most reliable by the final year of any particular model run (typically five to seven years), after many of the bugs have been worked out, and least reliable in the first year of a redesign, when freshly reconfigured and often touted as “all new.”
The group seems to be a relatively small Company, and have sold only 19 such machines around the world. There must be other manufacturers producing this sort of tech, I guess?
They're not your fault, they're at most your responsibility. You should be paid triple what your coworkers earn if you're willing to accept fault for what they produce.

Are you perhaps a team manager and insisting that all your team PR's go through you? Might I suggest that instead of signing off on all PR's yourself, setting up a good testing framework may help you sleep better at night?
The picture is a visualisation, but does the telescope have a camera pointing at itself?
Verified volunteers.
I misunderstood the scenario. I thought you were asking for Apple to somehow maintain an iMessage conversation but add an SMS/MMS recipient. What you’re asking is for them to reveal someone’s phone number when they choose to only share their Apple ID. This seems like a real privacy issue and I’m not surprised that Apple does not do this.

The idea that Apple should synchronously hold a conversation waiting for someone to approve this sharing also seems infeasible.
Gerry Adams?

Ah, you wrote about someone involved with the IRA, so probably some other name.
Came here to say the same thing. I have lots of Hostas and they keep getting too big. I will eat a good amount of them next spring!
How does it compare to Brave Search which is supposedly using their own index and not reliant on Bing? [1]

[1]: https://search.brave.com/
Porting a Poker Hand Evaluator from C to Factor (2010)
GiroCard sounds neat. Will have to look into it.

>But no one cares about useful traditional financial products, as you can't create a ponzi scheme fueled by money laundering with useful traditional products.

You can't create a ponzi scheme or perform money laundering with traditional financial products? Really? That's your claim?

I'm not here to defend crypto, but let's keep the discussion factual.
It has not happened yet. See: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

However, the alignment and calibration starts soon, before the l2 insertion burn. It will just continue for months afterwords, too.
When I'm about to travel or no I'm about to go through some experience that is likely to break my habit loops, are usually set a monetary bed with a friend. I call this the bet switch mechanism: By setting up bet and being held accountable, I'm able to change the way my brain thinks about the habit and always stick through over the critical period of environment change.

I wrote about it a long time ago on my old blog when I first started using it, and dug up the link. Sorry for broken images, etc:

https://hackthesystem.com/blog/the-bet-switch-mechanism-the-...
I haven't read the paper, but the obvious question is - how can we be sure that the solution is correct?
Reminds me of the Matrix Tasty Wheat scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEnJfZ9joY (63s long)
Haven't you noticed all the complaints in this discussion that DDG stopped honoring double quotes?
I used to refer to people who behave poorly on the left and right as "extremists" but people then assume I oppose socialist policies, rather than me attempting to reign in behavior. I'm not sure there's better words in a contextual language like English.
You're right that there's a gold rush / land grab happening, but I disagree that there are people who buy NFTs that don't actually want the NFT and see it purely as a speculative asset. I think that the internet world is struggling to define what "digital ownership" means and looks like in the future and there are a bunch of people that are attracted to the idea of NFTs as the answer to that. I think there are lots of motivations for being involved with NFTs, but of course speculation is the most common.
Edible yes, but do they taste good?
Is this what they call giga press ? Seem them in a couple of YouTube videos. Or is it something new ?
When I search for super technical things I sometimes get less relevant results. Also when I remember Something I read years ago and try to find it (in other words it’s not widely linked anymore) I get better results from Google. Not overall I vastly prefer DDG.
Fully agree that these articles often fail to put things in a broader context.

But I'll take it a step further than 'Blockchain is not the answer' and indicate that Web3 itself probably isn't an answer to that much in the first place.

"this either is a problem, or is likely to become one."

Web 1/2 approaches have tremendous advantages.

As the original article stated - people don't want to run servers.

People don't want to manage confusing things.

We want everything mostly SaaS.

Some of those push a bit too far, like Apple locking you out of your Mac - but this is probably best dealt with with legislation.

The privacy and control benefits of self hosting are limited to mostly niche use cases, and of course, blockchains have problems, as you mention.

Web 2 is just a few bits of legislation, a few rational consumer choices, and a few fewer crappy companies away from being fairly ideal.

Don't use iCloud, avoid Google for anything other than search, don't 'depend' on Facebook or Twitter and already you're doing well.

Dialogue and experiments are great, but NFT/Crypto so far is just a lot of MLM noise.
And !wde will take you to German wikipedia, !wes to the Spanish, etc.

Also works for amazon: !a for amazon.com, !ade for German amazon.de, etc.
Definitely you get more flexibility when financing, which is good if you like to keep cars a long time, or a short time. The latter being a surprisingly common situation. Some people figure a lease is a good way to have new cars pretty often, but don't realize that 3 years is still a fairly long time if you are a car spaz.

It's nice, though, to pre-negotiate the end of the ownership experience, selling cars to private individuals is frequently a great big hassle and trading in is a great way to spend several thousand extra dollars just to avoid that hassle.
Not knocking the significance of this, but there are a lot of 'answers' that would get a straight up F for a university test:

> Original Question: Let rands denote the two real roots of x^2−x√(5 + 1) = 0. Then determine r^8+s^8.

> Codex Input: Calculate the roots of $xˆ2 - x \sqrt{5} + 1 = 0. Call the two roots r and s. Calculate z = rˆ8 + sˆ8. Evaluatez as an integer. Use sympy.

> Codex Output:
> from sympy import *
> x = Symbol(’x’)
> r = solve(x*2 - xsqrt(5) + 1, x)[0]
> s = solve(x*2 - xsqrt(5) + 1, x)[1]
> z = r*8 + s*8
> print(z.evalf())

> Solution: 47

If the solution did not have the derivation of the algebra, the solution is wrong in university math. Now solving these problems for application, this is quite interesting and powerful.

Demonstrating understanding of why we get to the solution IS mathematical reasoning (at this level). This paper demonstrates being able to leap across mathematical reasoning, but not the reasoning itself.
The evidence that child activity affects the spread of covid among adults is thin.

> Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus’s spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-childre...
remote is fine for parents who can work from home, but what about others with young children?
A bit off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about how to remember to do something like this?

In specific, I mean as it relates to information management. E.g., a lot of things are solved problems for me, like using todo apps for todos, and some sort of "Everything bucket"[0] system for searching for information (per the link, I use the file system for this).

But things like this, things you want to try and implement, but unlike a todo, you have to wait for the right moment (i.e., use this technique to address a bad habit at the right moment), I can't figure out a way to use to technology to remember to do them.

(I'm aware some people don't like to use technology to solve these kinds of problems, but for me personally, technology has been tremendously effective in solving these problems when a system can be adapted to the problem. I'm just not sure what the system should be for this type of information.)

I've actually been thinking about this problem literally for over a decade, the first app I ever made was designed to address it[1]. This app is no longer maintained, because it didn't get enough users to be worth maintaining. Maybe an app like this is the right solution, and there's just not enough people who think it's a problem worth solving to support the continued development of a software solution? I'm not sure.

[0]: https://www.al3x.net/blog/2009/01/31/the-case-against-everyt...

[1]: https://1percenter.com/review/
I wonder what Apple’s explanation/justification for this is?
Because it’s enjoyable to build things. It’s like solving a puzzle or riddle: there’s no purpose other than the experience of solving it.
I had the same feeling about iCloud before I had a Mac and just a iPhone, but now that I have a Mac and that there are features such as “Sign-in with Apple” and “Hide My Email”, I can’t imagine living without. Apple Books is also a great eReader for PDFs and ePubs on macOS and iPad/iPhone which provides syncing across all devices. Not just the books themselves but also the chapters you’re at, bookmarks, notes, etc.

I suggest revisiting and if it’s not for you, that’s fine. But otherwise, yeah never sign-in with Apple.

At least they are not agressive about it, unlike Windows 10 or even 11 home which doesn’t even allow local accounts.
I set signal to auto delete messages older than 2 weeks. There is zero reason to keep messages of a personal relation longer than that, for me at least. I am prone to nostalgic romanticizing, and not having access to past messages kind of solves that problem.
Happy to jump on a call to give some advice - without seeing you, the product and your approach it’s practically impossible.

I was in your position and decided to make my first employee a salesperson - I learned a bunch from them and now handle enterprise sales while leading a business of 20 people (7 in Sales).

I owe a lot to HN so would love to give back if I can.

Contact info is in my profile.
> Limitations

> Windows Only
No. https://www.space.com/amp/james-webb-space-telescope-no-came...
Pretty cool! I like how you implemented the terminal functionality.
no if you take big enough group it will average out.

But random numbers can and do have "random distribution" which means some high some low, most somewhere in between.

But that only works with large enough sample. With small sample size, randomness can look like not random.
Doesn't the Y from Fremont already have the rear casting, as of January 2021?
By checking it, same way you be sure any solution is correct.
What about debuggers? For Fortran there are some powerful commercial debuggers available, incl. Parallel debugging and even reverse debugging (being able to step backwards based on snapshots).
At any healthy, mature tech company, the ratio of employees with college degrees in CS, unrelated college degrees, and no college degrees at all is approximately equal.

To quote from TFA:

> You can easily make a six figure salary these days without a university
> degree as a self-taught software engineer.
The problem is if you spend all your money when you are young, you won't have any to spend on "material things that provide passive satisfaction" when you are old. Time value of money and compounding gains is a powerful thing.

On the other hand, if you are old and wealthy, you may be too frail to do anything.

It's a tricky balance, with no guarantees.
This is impressive. I wonder how quickly and how well this could be adapted to other domains in science and engineering. It could be a really useful tool for engineering teams
I think it's about the same amount of kids are tech savvy now as when I was a kid. Which is also scary, of course, but I don't think it's really less. It's just that non savvy kids are still immersed in tech; when I was growing up, kids could get through k-12 only touching a computer twice a year, if that's what worked for them/their families.
Check it outside the NN.
Pipelined rendering increases motion-to-photon latency.
Welcome to Europe where small companies you never heard of make hyper-specialized machines and tools that are being used around the world to manufacture your household items.
That is what I meant. Include everybody at Microsoft with an internal email as a “worker” to capture people like vendors and contractors along with employees
Because Apple would sue them. It’s generally not kosher to make a custom client for someone else’s proprietary system. Little players sometimes get away with this, but when large corporations do it, they get sued.

Microsoft tried this with YouTube in Windows Phone. They got shut down by Google. If they had persisted with shipping it anyway (bypassing the block somehow ), they doubtless would have been sued.
If you road trip a bunch, it definitely makes a difference. It was less hassle to road trip my Model 3 than it is to road trip my wife's Bolt.

However, that said, for every 1 time I use a DC fast charger, I charge up at home perhaps 150 times. And that experience is the same for any EV. For one or two mild road trips a year to visit relatives, it isn't a huge factor in which car I choose; the day-to-day experience is much more important.
Correct - depending how the chat is started, a non-imessage number cannot be added. I think it has to do with having one number of the group that is apple id based and not phone number based.

So it is not about the color, but literally about being locked out of the conversation unless you are on an apple device.

Edit: yes agreed that an Android app for iMessage would be perfect. And I'm fine with requiring an apple id. And I'm even fine with the color! But the sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't is ridiculous.
More focused on writing explicit long-form content organized into book-like trees (i.e. book -> chapter -> page), instead of doing things TheWikiWay. It's much nicer for technical documentation IMHO.
There's also a choice to form a union and push back.
Gotta get those priorities straight before "hamburger time" comes.
Big presses/forging-machines are perhaps an underappreciated asset. They open up otherwise-impossible possibilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
But surely that business model has already existed for decades. It's called leasing.
Out of curiosity, what’s your use case for such a high range? 1,000km is 8-10 hours of uninterrupted driving.

You can already go (almost) everywhere in the US with an EV, and the US is more spread out than, say, Europe. Is this range requirement for the Australian outback or something?
yes, you desperately want low latency, but also desperately want high throughput. such is life.
No problem, thanks for the positive message!
The point I'm trying (and failing) to make is that if a solution to a problem is reliably mis-used by its users, then it's not actually a solution in practical terms. The problems in this space are ultimately social, not technical. Success is measured by usage, not passing tests.
To summarize my comment, because something as mundane as money is more likely to enter (and therefore effect) into my relationships with others when we know how much we make.

Its hard to be friends with someone who you know makes twice (or half) what you make. But there are many people who I think are cool and would want to have a relationship with that make a lot more/less than I.

Thats also a reason why modesty in our behavior is important - the wealthier person in a relationship shouldn't keep proposing things that are financially difficult for the other
Of course it has happened and probably will continue to happen. The key is that this isn't a systemic error, but rather providers going against the government's reporting rules (either mistakenly or intentionally). One could imagine mistakes erring in the opposite direction, though nobody is looking for that (nor would it be an easy thing to discover).
AFAIK masks outside in big cities is because people otherwise tend to forget to put them on when going inside (say in a shop). Add this to surgical masks being designed to protect others rather than the wearer, (it was really noticeable to me when after switching from a surgical to a FFP2 mask my ~hay fever symptoms disappeared), and you can see how it makes sense to switch that mandate on when it looks like hospitals are going to overflow soon.
Do you mind explaining why? Near as I can tell it should be the same unless you were already maxing out your CPU to run the game.
Being one of the safest is not the same as being crime free.
There are a couple reasons I prefer docs in Confluence to docs in repo:
- I can update the docs without going through Git peer-review (admittedly this is a culture issue, not a technical one).
- We have "code-tangential" docs already in Confluence and it's nice to have one place to search
- Non-devs (like lawyers) find Confluence more familiar

I've taken to putting a link to the Confluence docs in the README so folks who find the code first can easily find the docs.
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