skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to have to configure anything. I don't want to deal with setting things up. I don't want to deal with the mediocrity of every other company out there.

I just want a phone that works well, works with everything (virtually nobody builds serious apps just for Android and not iOS), and allows me to go about the rest of my day with ease.
We're well pass bitcoin being a mathematical curiosity. There's plenty invested because line on graph goes up & smart sounding person sounded smart talking about it
I had to reread the title a couple times because the article is about crypto leading a surge in a variety of other surges

Sounds more like younger people were willing to report
There's no component of a fifty year old computer I'd want to use today. Maybe when we've reached the limits of Moore's law, perfected display technology, wireless networking, and hit the limits to communication bus performance designing computers to last fifty years will be more appealing. Doing that today would just mean more waste when all the components become obsolete and it's cheaper to replace than upgrade.
I might describe as an Apple product enjoyer; certainly not a hater and everyone seems so polarised.

But objectively: monopoly is a bad thing. We’re still recovering from Microsoft’s dominance of desktop computing.

Once you have a near monopoly it’s practically impregnable to disintegrate. As you have a wealthy company which is actively harming those efforts.
It's very simple to use either, there are loads of example implementations on GitHub.

I used one based on docker, and the bottleneck was actually sending the html, css you want to print (if it's not already served over http). I used a shared docker volume to write to from one process (python) and read from another (the node pupetter).

It all comes down to, load html, wait to load, save to pdf. Very simple, fast, and reliable. More so than weasyprint for example.
The Bell System comes to mind, which had a monopoly on telephone service for nearly a century & tightly controlled which devices could run on their network (so they were kind of more analogous to something like "Apple+{Verizon+ATT+TMobile}"). Toward the end of that telephones were definitely the primary medium of communication.
No. You cannot. You would do it to test on Safari. Except you cannot.

> Apple no longer offers Safari updates for Windows. Safari 5.1.7 for Windows was the last version made for Windows, and it is now outdated.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416

I have a MacBook sitting on my desk that I only ever use to test something in Safari.
...and yet you voted for those politicians?
The internet had existed in some iteration for 3 decades before the business world started using it, and was publicly accessible for one entire decade before that. The first businesses to really adopt it were pornographers.

Why exactly do you think the valuation of cryptocurrencies are so high? Certainly it's not an indicator that the business case for it is nil. Maybe not revolutionary, but it is disingenuous or delusional to suggest that there's no business use for this thing while staring point blank at a world getting eaten by it in real time.
Where to start.. Sex/Gender, Abortion, COVID Public Policy, Tech Censorship, "hate Speech", Who should participate in Female sports, any number of other cultural issues...

Then you have topics like Universal Healthcare, Gun Control, etc etc.

I mean the "context" is literally everything

as to "who" is the authoritarian left, hmm lets start with this definition. Blue Checkmarks on Twitters, and.or has Pronouns in the bio of any social media platform, and.or rides alone in a car with mask on.
Kinda related: I am developing a library for ENS (Ethereum Name Service) name normalization: https://github.com/adraffy/ens-normalize.js

I'm trying to find the best combination of UTS-46, UTS-51, UTS-39, and prior work on IDN resolution w/r/t confusables: https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/report-confu...

Personally, I found the Unicode spec very messy. Critical information is all over the place. You can see the direct effect of this when you compare various packages across different languages and discover that every library disagrees in multiple places. Even JS String.normalize() isn't consistent in the latest version of most browsers: https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/report-nf.ht... (fails in Chrome, Safari)

The major difference between ENS and DNS is emoji are front and center. ENS resolves by computing a hash of a name in a canonicalized form. Since resolution must happen decentralized, simply punting to punycode and relying custom logic for Unicode-handling isn't possible. On-chain records are 1:1, so there's no fuzzy matching either. Additionally, ENS is actively registering names, so any improvement to the system must preserve as many names as possible.

At the moment, I'm attempting to improve upon the confusables in the Common/Greek/Latin/Cyrillic scripts, and will combine these new grouping with the mixed-script limitations similar to IDN handling in Chromium.

Interactive Demo: https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/resolver.htm...

Also this emoji report is pretty cool: https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/report-emoji...
Funny that the TX Hashes are truncated and (of course) not real.

But i've seen those YT live streams since forever, and sorting by upload date shows just how much uses his likeness for unrelated scams / grifting. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elon+crypto&sp=...
Possibly at least in part because the EEG readings they describe are consistent with memory consolidation.

I would like to see more on this, though, on the whole question of the effect of rest.
I realize it's probably too late to respond, but I don't completely disagree.

I really don't like referring to Republican's as conservative or Democrats as liberal precisely because neither party really sticks to those concepts. "Conservatives" as a political unit are not conservative and "Liberals" aren't liberal.

The world is a dumb place.
> you'll need to make sure that your master access to AWS S3 is never compromised

Your master access to S3 should never go into your servers. Create an IAM access with authorization to only PUT objects into S3.

> For the purpose we have, Governance mode is OK

Maybe not (?), since Governance mode allows for deletion of previous versions. One careless mistake handling your access key/secret and you're exposed to bye bye backups.

End note: this is still not enough. An attacker could compromise your backup script and wait for 40 days before locking yourself out of your data. When you try to recover a backup, you'll notice you have none.

Perhaps most attackers won't have the patience and will just forget about you, but who knows?

A naive protection from that would be to store at least one version of the backups forever. But we're still not covered, since the attacker could compromise that particular version and boom.

I can't think of a comprehensive, fully closed-loop solution right now...
“Internet leads to surge in online scams”. What an incredibly stupid headline.
Man it's really coming home to me now. We're training animals to pick up the toxic remains of the toxic drugs that we produce because we just can't be bothered, and now we want to make sure they stay relatively healthy doing it.
A lot more people than just criminals and money launders. But yes, criminals ironically tend to be some of the first adopters of new technology. So the fact that it's so popular with criminals should be the signal that it actually is really powerful technology.

Or do you think criminals are using crypto because they're uninformed reddit HODLRS hoping to moon?
My rule of thumb: By the time I've heard of a crypto, someone is definitely running a scam.
> we can’t forget that the iPhone is approaching >90% utilization by the youth

In the US.

And while I agree that anything nearing a de facto monopoly should be strictly regulated, I think any effort should be directed at any messaging app with a large user base, e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger.
Kudos. With the writer, you're practicing a software packaging and distribution approach that I'd really like to see more projects make use of. From an earlier comment I wrote:

> It would be nice if as part of the zero config effort, programs (esp. programs that aim to be easy-to-use Web-authoring tools) would focus even more on being as close to zero setup/zero installation as possible[...] one should be able to use[...] similar programs by using the browser itself to open and run the program
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29382091>

Any special reason why you're distributing the writer as a ZIP and not a self-contained HTML file with all the JS and CSS inlined? The experience is much nicer in the latter case (no cognitive overhead of keeping track of what needs to be copied/moved, no fragile directory structure that can be broken by a partial copy/move, etc.) I think this format for local software is currently undervalued and stands to be exploited to greater effect.

(In case your decision to stay off the social coding sites is intentional, kudos again.)
Slot machines are heavily regulated to ensure some level of fairness.
> When containers get breached, they diffuse through rock and soil and reach the surface.

No? Unless there's some force pulling the waste up the contents of a container, breached or not - will move with the surrounding rock. And in a subduction zone, that rock is getting pulled down deeper into the crust.
Microsoft is probably 90% of computers already for everyone.
I don't think HN hates crypto itself, at least speaking for myself, I hate the community that formed around it. It is impossible to even have honest conversations about the it because they are drowned out by all the dishonesty and noise about 1000x gains and it being the future of finance which will somehow replace the whole financial system.
This topic of “is leetcode necessary?” and the more general topic of software engineering hiring practices appear regularly on this forum, but this time is the first time I am seeing someone mention panic disorders/panic attacks as part of the interview process. Other people might have mentioned it before here, but I do try to peruse the threads that relate to interviewing.

I am really grateful that you brought up this point as well sharing as your own experience 'ryandvm. My own experience when I fail to think of an answer to a leetcode question is extremely similar if not identical. I would add that my own experience is always a silent panic similar to how I experience going on a rollercoaster. Many people will scream out loud when they are going down a rollercoaster; I just clench the safety/restraining bar really, really tight and look onward while clenching my teeth. I am surprised that it took this long in my career to hear similar feelings expressed by someone else, but I am grateful that it did.

Thanks again 'ryandvm! I really appreciate it.
Yeah Apple are definitely not on the table for more anti-trust action as they have been squeezing out other major companies with large revenue streams based on information coming from Apple devices.
"The documents also appear to confirm that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for Covid infection. If this is true, and these documents are authentic, it raises the obvious question: why did the US Government work to suppress this knowledge and these treatments?"

Uh, yeah, that is the correct question. What possible reason would _every government in the world_, including China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and plenty of other not-on-board-with-the-US governments, decide not to go publicly with well known and widely available treatments, if they worked? It seems, uh, implausible.
Intellectual property rights?
They needed to differentiate themselves years ago. The value prop in the early days was "very light & fast, blocks popups, has tabs, is totally free with no ads". It was a no-brainer to install it on every barely-technical relative's computer a nerd could get their hands on. The only thing that approached it and wasn't incredibly obscure was Opera, and that either cost money or displayed ads.

FF is no longer "very light & fast" (it may no longer be possible to attain that and actually support modern web browsing—Safari is the only mainstream browser that's even close, AFAIK) and does have ads. Their various interface redesigns have made it confusing as hell to my parents. Old-school popups are handled well enough by ~every browser and they just about all use tabs and have for over a decade. Meanwhile they've added... what? To differentiate them? Plugins. But now those are the same as Chrome's. Very good dev tools—but now those are available elsewhere, too.

They needed to go all-in on something radical years ago to have a long-term shot at relevance. Decentralized social networking or chat built-in to the browser. Aggressive built-in ad blocking & unique user-empowering controls. More, not fewer, non-HTTP Internet protocols built in. Something. And clearly not Pocket.

Now I don't think their market share's big enough for even something like that that to save them. In fact now it'd likely just kill them even faster.
> normally you're supposed to actually demand proof that something is a net positive before you start mandating it

Are you unaware of the massive amounts of clear-cut evidence that properly worn quality masks substantially reduce the transmission of covid? Come on.
How does Apple control communication on an iPhone? And the only thing this "regulation" will do is shift control over to the government, which is worse in every way.
The internet connected people on day one. That’s all it did.

> Why exactly do you think the valuation of cryptocurrencies are so high? Certainly it's not an indicator that the business case for it is nil.

Completely irrelevant. Prices are determined at the margin, its most recent price times supply. It’s got nothing to do with how much money is in the system or how useful any of it is. They’re all priced in USDT which has at numerous times been totally unbacked and issued on loans to institutions who use it to control the marginal price.

As for shared delusions, the entire economy of Albania collapsed into a civil war because 66% of the GDP got locked into MLM schemes in 1997. [1]

You must evaluate this from first principles not based on what the other lemmings are up to.

14 years in can you name a single business built on crypto that’s even remotely successful?

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...
In the production issues I've been involved with, I was not forbidden use of Google, API docs, consultation with others, etc., and I did not have to work out anything on a whiteboard.
I am surprised that half of the states have had more deaths than births, but I guess that would almost be exactly what flatlining would look like if I think about it…
The kids are not allowed to interact at school. Their schools are closed arbitrarily. They are taught that they are a vector of disease. We make them eat outside on cold sidewalks in freezing temperatures. The risk to children is very low.

Meanwhile, adults are going to crowded restaurants, bars, concerts without masks in the same cities.

It is all a joke at the expense of our children.

When these kids are running our government and we are the retirees dependent upon them etc. then the bill will come due and we will deserve it.
Top programming languages on GitHub over the years
The majority of visually impaired people who are legally classified as "blind" still have some visual perception and glasses can help maximize that.
FCC approves internet service provider “nutrition label” proposal
I had to use a bit of assembly recently and chose nasm for it. A client had an older piece of compiled code and wanted to be able to use it on a modern machine. It was written in a propriety language and compiled for a 32bit system. The argument passing conventions used by the compiler were unusual. So I wrote a bit of assembly in nasm to create a stub function callable from C, it was really just moving things into the right registers and some bits to the stack. So nothing really being done in the asm. The hard part was figuring out the calling convention.

Edit: Looking back it turns out that "recently" was 18 months ago.
This is the relevant portion of your post:

0.1 out of 1000 of the entire U.S. population has died of COVID just in the past 19 days.

You are the first person to assert “of” COVID. Substantiate it. Cite primary sources.
I feel like I get great value for my Apple One Premier subscription. I already was paying for the largest available iCloud storage. Paying a bit more and being able to host email addresses for private domains, plus having iCloud Private Relay, plus a music service (and my library in the cloud), plus Apple TV+, plus Fitness (use it occasionally but would never pay for it on its own) is a no-brainer for me.
So basically unicode along with c++ are great job security if you do bother to learn them.

There's another word that comes to mind when thinking about those two: metastasis.
Oh, thanks for that. I'll try another then. Weird
it's all about effort/reward. I'm sure "technically" with a police report you can get Amazon to return the money.

I got packages stolen in front of my porch and got my money back from Amazon. Did Amazon go find the thief? Probably not. Will this always work? Probably not. But I had someone to talk to. In blockchain nobody can change the past.
Yes, and this is essentially the same set of rights that all social media platforms claim over user content.
Just my opinion:

> -- start with binary and work your way through hardware and logic gates

I'd consider this foundations of computer engineering.

> -- start off with theory like turing machines, first order predicate logic and work your way up

I'd think of this as more like foundations of computability theory, but, yeah, this seems like another viable angle for me.

> -- start off with a hello world, and slowly iterate over programming (in a post internet world, this is especially popular) with loops, if/then statements and so on

I'd call this foundations of software engineering.
We recently picked playwright for a project because we could do more with the "mouse". With playwight you can click coordinates on the page. I did not find an easy way to do this using cypress. Aside from that, playwright seems to be so much faster.
Sadly, too many smart people are too greedy for their own good.

Stop chasing the easy money. In fact, stop thinking about money all the time.

Stash a little money from your paychecks into a 401k and a Roth IRA and invest in passive, broad market ETFs. Hold no matter how the market is feeling this week. Don't trade on margin, don't stock pick, don't daytrade, and stay away from options.

The buy and forget way to wealth is a much surer path than the risky one.
I keep thinking about about the Hiller VZ-1. Like standing on a blender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee

Which coincidentally, kind of makes an appearance in the opening of Jonny Quest
https://youtu.be/7gNBFmlNUfM?t=38
Yes, they said, a standard transaction can't be reverted and I should talk to law enforcement.
May 16, 2020
Paradise Lost!
> Who is it directed towards?

I imagine toward the people who behave as if vaccines aren't effective, which are nonzero.

> In my opinion, that line is the equivalent of saying "gosh, maybe black people should just stop committing crimes if they don't want to go to jail" or "gosh, maybe gay people should just stop having unprotected sex if they don't want HIV."

I mean. The latter statement is a thing gay people actually DID say, long before the government told them to. Gay people noticed that it was spread through sex and that condoms work. Not even going to touch the former statement since I don't feel like wading into the criminalization of black people. Suffice to say, not convinced by either of these comparisons.

> I am begging you, and everyone else, PLEASE, if you want to make a point, please do it in a respectful way that doesn't assume anyone who disagrees is stupid. If you need to be snarky, go do it on the-site-that-must-not-be-named.

I'd label your preceding statement to be snarky, fwiw.
Just call it web3.14 and add a decimal every time someone makes off with > $1MM in a crypto heist.
#2 and partially #1 are solved by regulation and reputation: banks are highly regulated business, and BankID support requires specific security audit.

Ad #3: FIDO is basically unusable for banking. It's designed for user authentication, not transaction signatures which banks need (and must do because of the PSD2 regulation).
> The best way of fighting scams is intelligent, critically thinking people.

This sounds like "if everyone was a good driver, we'd have less auto related deaths". C'mon - that's not how the world works, this is just wishful thinking.

The problem with crypto scams is there is no clawback. If someone commits wire fraud and I accidentally send the wire for my $100k down payment for my new house to <insert imposter> the bank can potentially reconcile it. With crypto? Nope, you're f'd. Sorry there's no trace.

> intelligent, critically thinking people

Like the Winklevoss twins who store their wallet keys in....BANKS so they don't get scammed. The irony is hilarious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winkle...
Don't forget MobileMe.
> People exist, with college degrees, who cannot in months of lessons, understand the idea of a variable.

They were probably exposed to SICP and prefer functional programming. Lambda calculus, memory safe, concurrency safe :)
What does comedy theater have to do with the real world?
I adore this. It's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to make for myself. The finished product is tiny, clean, and useful, and it's a nice contrast from the huge page bloat you see on so many sites. It definitely profits from using built-in HTML elements over JS. Even scrolling through your README was fun.

If this were combined with a static site generator or CMS it could be a real powerhouse. Great work!
Only 90 percent? Clearly not a monopoly. /s
>you'll find none of them are stable but each is at a different stage in the 0-Bolivaries journey.

2 years ago Argentina had similar inflation to what other South American countries are now. They had just had an election and change of govt and that's when currency controls kicked back in, the blue rate started again etc.

Colombia has an election this year and one of the favourites often gets compared to that guy in the neighbouring country.

I would also expect locally produced and sold cars to be somewhat less impacted by this. Literally can't sell these cars in first world markets due to them being stripped out of saftey features, etc.
I don't think comments like that are meant to convince anyone.

There are vanishingly few circumstances other than legitimate medical conflicts that warrant being unvaccinated. Namely, crippling anxiety of planning/scheduling the appointment, or being misled by trusted advisors (Fox Entertainment or doctors who should have their medical license revoked).

Other than that, I have very little patience or sympathy.
And Argentinians, and Venezuelans, and Nigerians, and the Salvadorian government...

There's flyover country, there's flyover countries, and ignoring the masses that make that up is equal parts condescending and ignorant.
The internet connected mainly CS researchers for the first 5 to 10 years of its existence.
Plenty of cryptocurrencies are private: Monero, Dash, Zcash, Beam, Grin, etc...

I actually prefer using the public ones when I want a paper trail. But I've got a stash of the private ones in case I ever need to relocate to a different country one day in my life.
>Remember porn on the web or spam on email?

>HN's hate for crypto is hilarious.

Really? I don't recall members of "our own tribe" sitting down and cranking out 2 hours of VHS video takedowns of "the web" or "email".[0]

[0] The Problem with NFTs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g