skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d also add, go pay $45 to a real hair stylist and mention to them that you’re “new to the area” and looking to meet people. Hair stylists know an incredible number of people and many people use their hair stylist as therapy sessions. As long as you’re not creepy and you come across as a “normal enough” person, they’re more than happy to make some introductions or tell you where the cool people are.
That's a super niche application, not a mass market use.

And yes, I know about the supposed use for people in countries with unstable regimes but I'm not convinced at the moment. Plus that use case, being that of people generally having low disposable incomes (barring China) absolutely doesn't justify the market value of crypto at the moment.
Wheres a good place to find "DevOps"/SRE type people in the EST timezone in LatAm?
Having worked with people in remote latin american offices, the cultural gap isn't as extensive than the other ones actually. The barrier is purely a lack of numbers in this case.

The tech industry is VERY used to working with people from multiple cultures and backgrounds. Teams where people are immigrants from 5 different countries is fairly common.
If you wire money to a Nigerian prince, it's gone too. Doesn't mean a bank is not a safe place where to put your money.
The configuration method is really interesting. I wonder how robust it is
As someone who works on west coast time, it’s easy for me to forget that Latin America is largely east of the continental US. Not an issue for remote work, but something that caught me off guard when I started working with people living in that continent.
Anything in particular? Its something I have searched the web before, but not much information on the topic
> Have economists model how these things will actually effect the markets with the goal of turning residential housing into a bad investment and dropping prices.

I don't think we need to model that... we have plenty of examples of what happens when cities don't build enough housing.
In the US they've stopped teaching cursive, at least in some areas.
The problem with “just raise taxes solution” is that there is no guarantee that money from taxes is going to be evenly and correctly distributed and spent.

This might work for relatively small and single-nationality countries.
I'm going to suggest a radical approach here that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. Sounds like you have enough self awareness to notice that you are living outside of traditional social norms. You're in your 30s, aging and not settling down to start a family and pay mortgages off with the other normies. You're an outsider.

You have 2 paths:

1. try to play catchup and fit into the norms that you have neglected and let bypass you. Sounds like you've already made an attempt here and are struggling. You know what it takes: self improvement, shared hobbies, therapy, talking to strangers, personal growth etc.

2. embrace that you are an outsider and lean into a degenerative life style. Really give up on fitting into the social norms. Embrace that you are a social degenerate and have fun with it. Start hanging in anti-social circles and engaging in risky non-normal behavior. Get a motorcycle, join a biker gang. Start frequenting punk rock bars and meet other outsiders. Pick up a casual drug habit and socialize through shared usage. Blow all your engineering salary on strip clubs and sex worker experiences. Is this "normal", no. Will you have more fun ? yes.
I'm trying to address this in good faith but it's difficult to see any serious participation on your end. I imagine you're fully capable of reading and understanding the comment you replied to. My comment said in no uncertain terms that I was fine with the concept of freedom of association. I also completely understood that black people and racists aren't going to want to spend time together. The claim I made was that when picking between minorities and bigots, excluding bigots is 100% fine. I said in my top comment I've yet to hear a good argument for making bigot-friendly compromises, and your meritless "This claim is self-refuting" and then changing the subject without addressing my point is very much an example of bad argument.
Quite. I’m just proposing a mechanism. The solution could quite well be psychotherapy rather than communism.
There is a difference between physics and economics/social “science”.
Working well for what? It's useless as currency.
Disabled code is still an attack surface, sadly - and the false sense of security might make it a net negative. A different os build would be better.

Sadly, the biggest surface, aside from the users themselves, is likely still the web browser. With them being nothing short of mini OSes, I am not sure one can make a secure modern phone. If you have secrets, design your opsec around the assumption that your phone is easily hackable.
Not sure if it’s allowed here but yes, people have been dumping even the most recent arcade games: http://www.emuline.org/forum/28-arcade-pc-dump-loader/
Nice, well done. I'll bookmark that one!

Let us know how much you make with those Amazon ref links while being HN's #1
> Skepticism is part of the scientific method; but just saying “hmm it doesn’t feel right to me” isn’t really useful.

Have you ever been a scientist? Scientists react this way to published research all the time, especially in fields like psychology where epistemic and empirical methods are weak.
This piece reads like a celebrity drama article. It's so much back and forth between Loeb and his detractors, plus fitting in plenty of colorful emotions like "his anger boiled over..." Not much intellectual stimulation here.
Past related threads:

Lisping at JPL (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113434 - Aug 2021 (9 comments)

Lisping at JPL (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087419 - Jan 2020 (307 comments)

Lisping at JPL (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051503 - May 2018 (1 comment)

Lisping at JPL (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13626074 - Feb 2017 (37 comments)

Lisping at JPL (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989328 - July 2014 (19 comments)

Lisping at the Jet Propulsion Lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773087 - March 2012 (1 comment)

The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212211 - Feb 2011 (36 comments)

The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=304736 - Sept 2008 (72 comments)
Yes that is true, I even worked in brazil with a west coast team for a couple weeks. But it's wayyyyyyyyy better than europe, india or china time zones.
As a quick note, this is 4 year old news.

The security group at HPE called everybody that they could identify at that time to help them fix this.
If I understand correctly, reading [0], in C99 (or later) you can do that with

struct MyStruct foo = {};

This has the effect of initializing all members to zero (or, more precisely, the value which is the same as for objects that have static storage duration [0]).

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html

See also Stop Memsetting Structures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19766930
What is direct lighting (next event estimation) in a ray tracer?
It's not "no more landlords", but removing many of them from the market, reducing competition. Many people want to own but are priced out of the market, and many people who do own end up leaving very large chunks of their incomes as bank profits. I'm focusing on the middle of the market where people would buy if prices were more affordable, not edges of the market where people would only buy if housing was basically given away.
Why stop at education? Basic health coverage and housing when not accessible add up to the overall stress level of a low income family and affect their life quality and capacity to dedicate to a profession.
This phrasing is already conceding half the battle.

A computer or “algorithm” doesn’t decide goals and values on its own.

The computer executes an algorithm that efficiently implements the values of decisions of the people in charge of developing and deploying the software (and their bosses).

Businesses have done a great job of laundering controversial and sometimes illegal decisions through “algorithms” as though they were some kind of independent entity.
You aren't wrong.

A sober look at how society judges people should remove all surprise surrounding this topic, unfair as it may be - men are judged primarily by financial / dominance success / physical indicators of dominance (e.g. height) and women are primarily judged on their appearance / youth.
A privilege that few are offered.

Most families have to sell the house before the parents die because the parents can’t even use the house anymore. Maybe it’s more common but it seems most parents die in a facility or some other special housing for end of life. They have to use that money they got from the house sale to pay for the end of life care.

Basically, end of life care siphons off any chances of generational wealth unless exceptionally well off.
Oh I didn't know this. Thank you.
Too bad this GUI framework doesn’t work on the most widespread end user OS.
I have been trying to get US companies to hire from Eastern Europe (mainly south eastern europe). My company would act as a middleman (essentially outsourcing), pay money to the devs which would work directly 1:1 for that company. The devs would be working for us, yet, we would not manage their day to day activities - we'd just act as an HR/recruiting/legal middleman. I have tried with two major outsourcing companies, yet, they were never that interested. For 100-120k a year, you could get top tier devs with 6-8+ years of experience from Eastern Europe.
There is no or next to no empirical correlation between school funding and outcome in the US. I’d go so far as to suggest this proposal has cause and effect reversed. The push to send everyone to college at literally any cost has been a generational disaster. The value of a college degree has steadily declined while the cost has increased faster than any other sector of our economy. It’s very hard for me to imagine more education is the solution.
Probably. If you should look at the python implementation and the standard libraries it uses and the kernel you are using they are all primarily in C and in rare cases of other languages they are setup with FFI that favors the thought process of a C programmer.

When I look at a language like python or PHP I often just go down to the C code they call and use a tracer to watch calls to solve a problem without actually using the higher language.
Even better, these could be generation systems hooked up to an electric motor and energy buffer (battery). Put the prop on the motor, keep the whole transmission system electric, and stick one or more of these somewhere else making power.
You sent me down a Glassjaw rabbit hole too. I’d never listened to them but I’m a fan. Thanks friend!
It’s kind of incredible that we now treat income inequality as this impossible to tackle problem with insurmountable difficulties, as if we don’t have over a century of experience of how policies can increase and decrease inequality in this country, let alone in other countries. We’ve literally done this before.
I don't think so. If it does, I believe it is just semantics.
> Poor people send their kids to poor schools that don’t give their kids enough skills to make it in life. Fund these schools, through taxes, so that every child gets a stab at a good education.

That’s a very American attitude - that money will solve everything. The school itself with great teachers (assuming money buys great teachers) cannot be enough. There needs to be parental involvement and a culture of advancement to push these kids to their actual capabilities. That’s in addition to everything else in their environment. If parents are stressed or there’s food insecurity, no one is attempting to get to grad school. If gangs are all around and violence is everywhere, few will make it to college.

Culture is the most powerful force, and that has to come as a collective set of ideals. It also doesn’t have to cost anything.
Also it's not clear how to "do this correctly". The us spends more per Capita, inflation-adusted on education than it ever has in the past. Outcomes are not really getting dramatically better. The places that spend the most per pupil are often the worst school districts.
There is no reason for him to deny it. Your first reason (some nebulous government regulation point) is completely null and void because there are no modern example of cryptocurrency founders being arrested or anything for simply writing and distributing a codebase like that. In the case of E-gold, the founders explicitly set aside a fund that allowed them to encourage the currency's use for illicit activities, which lead them to being tried on criminal charges. Bitcoin has never had that, much less a centralized ownership scheme in the first place. If Elon Musk admitted to writing the Bitcoin code, even in 2012, there would be no basis for legal consequence.

Your second point, that SpaceX and Tesla are priorities for him, also makes no sense. Bitcoin is entirely autonomous, if he announced and proved that he designed the Bitcoin protocol, very little would change vis-a-vis his own responsibilities. In fact, if he was able to prove that he was Satoshi, he almost certainly would have done so before selling billions of dollars in his own stocks last November. To insist otherwise would be to accuse Musk of pissing his own corporate value down the drain, which everyone knows is the last thing he'd do.

Furthermore, I don't even know what you mean by "sufficient public will" here. If Musk wanted the public to universally acknowledge him as Satoshi, as I stated, there are several ways that he could prove his unequivocal authorship of the Bitcoin code. Your "extraordinarily specific commonalities" are that he knows one of the most popular programming languages in the world and lives on the west coast. That's not extraordinary or specific at all. You're basing your entire argument off of a few coincidences that could apply to hundreds if not thousands of people, and you're simply choosing the most popular person who fits the description.

Elon Musk had every opportunity to step forward, and he still admits that he had nothing to do with the creation of Bitcoin. Insisting otherwise is a waste of time and credibility, as I'm sure other people will remind you of if you continue to espouse this theory that is undeniably deranged.
Sorry, Unity was the first that came to mind, I forgot it was closed. Good call.

Though, I should clarify... the missed opportunity with Flash is that there was no good reason for the .swf format to be closed. IIRC, there were a few attempts made at making non-Adobe Flash players, but they were always terrible because of the necessary overhead of reversing the format.

Even if the initial version was built on Unity, as long as the creations were saved to an open and well-documented file format, alternative players could be written which would be a boon to the ecosystem.
Very much in the spirit of Jeff Huang: https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

I have to admit that I like the 'bare' feeling of Markdown...it just looks a little bit 'cleaner' to me (quotes here because that is super subjective).
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Society of the Spectacle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083411 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

The Society of the Spectacle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800216 - Dec 2019 (69 comments)

An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311770 - Aug 2016 (20 comments)
In the right hands and with the right practice, cursive is beautiful and a work of art.
There’s also the right to be forgotten. How can they ban you if they have to delete all information that can be used to identify you?

Even hashes of your email address or payment data should be something you should be able to request they must delete.
Do we? When was the last time a country decreased its Gini coefficient?
My personal machine is on Arch Linux (which recently moved to 3.10 without any major problems) and I know about yt-dlp, so I’m not having any particular problems here :) It’s just that the great-grandparent asked for plausible scenarios for using obsolete Python, and Windows 7 support immediately came to mind.
The Apple Music web app was just flat out broken and unusable when I tried it about a year ago. Like you would click play and a totally different song on the page would start playing. And then the discovery features sucked on AM. Switched to Spotify and have been very happy since.
I wrote a message in a bottle when I was young. I still have very dim memories of being excited at the possibility that somebody in another country years later would find it. According to my folks, however, there were some issues. First, I was four years old and couldn't write, and second, I threw the bottle into a small pond. But my parents didn't want to dampen my enthusiasm at the time.
How Software in the Life Sciences Works (and Doesn’t Work)
OP here---true dat; that's the MathJax script. To be honest, I haven't yet come around moving away from it, but this thread mentions some alternatives.
> One of the things modern tools left behind is how the code and UI were bound together

That seems wrong to me, unless I've misunderstood your comment. It's more like there's a saturated market full of such tools.

Microsot Power Apps, Quickbase, Mendix, Salesforce Platform all provide "no-code solutions" that let you drag and drop and customise with code. Then there are Bootstrap generators that you let you control layout. I've seen plugins that integrate React components into a WYSIWYG editor. Even PowerPoint has easy to attach custom actions for desktop presentations.
Although a huge ParEdit fan (LW has a primitive copy of it now), I tend to agree that some of the more advanced structural editing concepts are not that necessary. The basics LW already has

That said, I find Emacs to be a powerhouse, stable text editor. LW has a decent editor, but it is really hard to get to the same level of Emacs in many of the smaller aspects that you end up taking for granted and don’t want to do without
Parent means regression from MC to windows explorer and MacOS finder. I agree, both have added tabs in recent years but I miss the dual directory view in MC. And for that matter, in many tools from about 20 years ago.
It's risky, but I've seen people use similar hardware to retrofit knicknacks like flashlights and Gameboys.
https://archive.is/TbfYq
+1 to CrossFit. It pulled me through the birth of my youngest daughter, three job switches in a fairly short amount of time and the pandemic. Like others have said, it will not solve all your problems, but it will definitely make you feel better about yourself.

I actually came to CrossFit through reading Tucker Max's book "Mate" (ISBN-10: ‎0316375365) which I also recommend you read. Good luck brother.
A fellow supporter! Maybe you like my manifesto from the 'olden days:' http://web3.14159.annwfn.net/

I was full of vim and vigour then, now I'm only full of `vim`.
Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven” Visualized by AI
Thanks, I didn't know that. I haven't worked with Aleph much and when I used it I didn't have any negative examples so I missed the problems with false/0.

Yes, SWI will probably complain of an attempt to redefine a static procedure if false/0 is redefined. It's actually defined in the system module (or a module imported therein) so I guess that an error will be raised even if the negative examples are declared in a module.

I wonder then, how does Aleph work around that? Or does it?
No, this is not how informed consent works.
Please do this, also start a blog about it, I’ll read it for sure.
Where I saw it was in the Healthcare field where several million of funding was required for series A and most of the founders were senior MDs and engineers having worked years on early development . When faced with choice between being highly unattractive for investment or being able to develop, they made the hard choice to put product over profit.

My point was mostly to shed light on the fact that most VCs want few founders and diffuse ownership can cause investment challenges.
Well, to each their own, but I find the starter plan with a single platform deployment at 7.99 per month pretty OK.

I must say that I see a lot of value in LiveCode. I have a standard plan with lots of deployment options, enabling me to ship software for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android and iOS. It is not cheap, but I'm OK with it as I use it for professional work. LiveCode is a small company and making money on niche software development languages is quite hard. Sometimes selling cheap licenses is not a good option when your market is quite small.
Is anyone here concerned about an eventual "great salary reset" driven by remote work? Companies don't need to cover Bay Area CoL because they can get people from the midwest to do the work, so avg salaries go down. Then, they can get Canadians to do the work, avg salaries go down again. Then, they'll get Chilean software engineers to do the work, and avg salaries go down even more.

In the short term, we're having a fun little arbitrage event by working remotely with the top salaries, but why would that continue to last in 5+ year timeframes? Of course if you like in person work it won't be an issue, but I don't plan on being in an office for the rest of my life.
In 2019 they were at at all time low. I’ll still take it over Portland where people treat me like I don’t exist or as a means to an end.
I've done something like this. It worked well with the caveat that even when working as FTEs most Eastern European devs still preferred to work like contractors, e.g. "tell me exactly what to build and I'll build it". It worked best when pairing a senior engineer in the US or Western Europe with a team of 2-3 devs in Eastern Europe.
Yes, you can speak against freedom of speech, that just isn't what's going on here. Saying "I don't want to be associated with a company that is associated with this person" is not "speaking against free speech". Saying "this person should be kept from speaking anywhere" would be speaking against free speech, but that's not what's going on here.
So many British musicians, including two of my favorites, The KLF and Imogen Heap, were using STs in the 80s and 90s.
Show HN: Miniflux Cleanup
I love when I do something that comes back around years later after I’ve almost completely forgotten it. Probably my coolest version of this was on a popular run/race in Arizona where I bumped into someone who remembered a software project I did a decade earlier. As I finished a segment, they gave me a high five and left a bewildered but soon amused runner behind.
This really only works when you fit in with the local demo. If you’re not white in an all white town - it doesn’t tend to go over well! Same for if your interest are different than the mainstream for that region.

For instance - I wasn’t into guns, hunting, or pickup trucks. Social outcast immediately.

At least in cities there are more groups of people. You might not fit into one group but it isn’t the only group.

The educational opportunities are also a joke. I hear what my coworkers at big tech had growing up even in just plain suburban areas and it’s incredible compared to what I had. I feel like I grew up in a developing country compared to them.