skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, for example Tumblr never implemented a login wall, and as a result a large majority of tech folks (including most HN commenters) completely misunderstood the product.

It's primarily a social network, but that's never clear if your only exposure to Tumblr is some random blogs, some of which use blog themes that have usability issues. Most of Tumblr's functionality is literally invisible to you if you never create an account. It's a lot closer to "LiveJournal meets Geocities" than it is to WordPress.

However, a login wall was a no-go since it's obnoxious and interferes with users who want their blog to be a public-facing presence, or use Tumblr as a CMS, or as a traditional blogging platform etc.

In terms of the "login wall or no" question, for platforms that combine social networking with public-facing user-generated content, I don't really think anyone's found a good solution yet.
Hah, sounds like you get _(and want)_ more exposure to people than i do. Good on you for being proactive though. I imagine when (if? :( ) i retire i'll become a hermit. I'm already quite close to a hermit, with remote working for the last ~7 years.

If i didn't hate to drive i'd be tempted to follow in your footsteps. I'll definitely think of exposure-retirement-jobs in the future though. Thanks for the insight :)
I've seen some spam on Twitter, but it's is nothing compared to what I see in Instagram comments. Go to any soccer/football post and it is full of bots posing as attractive women.
There are many writeup/blogs about people's experience using these codecs, and typically, I roll my eyes at just another releasing the same info. However, for someone like you, being one of the lucky 10000 TIL types, you're their target audience.

The best way to learn is to just keep encoding. Take a source file and make an output that looks good. Compare things like its filesize, macroblocking, mosquito noise levels, etc. There are PSNR and other similar type tests that will compare your output back to the original. See if you can then tweak any of the settings to improve the PSNR score without increasing the bit rate. Then, keep decreasing the bitrate to see what things you can get away with before it becomes unacceptable. You can spend a lot of time going frame by frame comparisons, but remember, 99.99999% of viewers will ever only see it in full speed playback, so don't forget to take that into consideration. Look for obvious banding from gradients. Does a 10bit encode vs 8bit improve that? Is it worth the limits from some players not being able to use 10bit? How does frame size vs bitrate affect the quality of your file?

Doing enough of these tests, you'll start to get specific questions. Those will have more easily found answers.
Angelers pay govt fees for priviledge to fish.

The government subsidizes commercial fishers.

Add everything up, positive ROI for angelers, negative ROI for commercial.
Biologically speaking, there's just no point for most people sitting at a reasonable viewing distance from reasonable sized televisions vs 1080p. Most people's homes are not set up for theater-scale THX-specced 40+ degree FOVs with 80" screens 8 feet away. Normal adult eyes with normal adult televisions and normal adult living rooms already mostly can't differentiate pixels at 1080p, so publishing and distributing 4k/8k is a waste of money.

On top of that, apparently long-forgotten findings from the days of plasma-vs-lcd (since home plasma displays are now a thing of the past) consistently showed that better color and contrast blow away better resolution every time on subjective experience quality assessments. So I think a better question for you to ask would be why networks keep streaming disgustingly compressed video with crushed black levels. That can only be worsened by packing in more pixels, not improved.
That's an awful lot of words to fail to explain why in 10k+ reviews of companies from the employees that work there, Amazon is a full notch (3.2 / 5 stars) below most other companies (4 / 5 stars).

Amazon 3.2: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Amazon/

Google 4.3: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Google/

Facebook 4.1: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Meta/

Microsoft 4.1: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Microsoft/

Apple 4.0: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Apple/

Netflix 4.3: https://www.teamblind.com/company/Netflix/
oh wow he completely misrepresented that stat.
When I've been involved in a "developer on call" arrangement it's been nowhere near as arduous yours sounds - we were supporting users of our software but not an online service, so "help, the central server has gone down!" was less of an issue.

We had an informal rotation in the dev team so there was always a named person who'd make sure any customer issue got an intelligent first response - up until a certain point in the evening. That was to ensure we were able to ask for data we needed from customers in other time zones, then look properly when the team were in the next day.

I have known people on 24-hour call in companies that had infrastructure that was critical to their business (i.e. "as a service" sort of deals).

(personally, where I see developers are already doing some out-of-hours support work voluntarily, I think overformalising would put people off and be counterproductive)
I've been using it for a number of years now. I have a few groups of family and friends with persistent group chats we have perpetually running on Wire.

The fact that you can make a Wire account with no phone number needed is a great benefit in my opinion.

I find Wire's handling of media (Embedded YouTube, spotify, gifs) to be better than Signal's, which was a key point to win over my family members. I think some secure messengers over look this. Us "privacy people" want strong encryption and all, but good luck getting spouses and grandparents using it if it's no fun.

Wire was pretty flakey in the early days I feel, and I'd have to "jiggle" the client a lot to sometimes get messages to send. Fortunately that seems to have been ironed out, and I haven't had any issues in quite a long time.

It is odd to me that it hasn't taken off more, especially as it was started by one of Skype's founders. But alas.

I do like (and use) Signal as well, but I'm always glad to see mention of Wire on here.
Guy loves keeping people in power in power.

No one thinks crypto will magically rid us of corrupt governments but if they got us by the balls with banks and trade, then we can't make a step in the right direction.
Definitely agree with you on that. Making use of layers of abstraction and delegation is absolutely necessary when working on more and more impactful work.
Maybe not always! Rapid inflation offers innumerable opportunities for ruinous errors.
Noooo, Tanium gets blamed here for everything, all the time. We call it “Tanium got my dog pregnant”

99% of the time it’s not Tanium, but 1% of the time is very much is.
Custom keyboards are neat, but from what I've seen, they can be very expensive. It's nice to see a project where cost is a consideration.
Full disclosure - I have an App (GUI) for App Engine.

I fully agree with you.

a) Want to force people to sign in to access your app? Slap a `login:required' in app.yaml or use the 'users Api'

b) Want to serve different image sizes? Use the 'Images' API to get a url and add a size as a parameter

c) Want to search your data (imagine you have a shopping site and you want folks to search your product)? Use the 'Search API'

I don't have to tinker with any server. Just write code and deploy it.

Another thing I loved about GAE GUI (which is part of the reason I built a replacement GUI when they deprecated theirs) is that it was easy to get 'new' or 'inexperienced' programmers up and running on the web. Click a button and your code gets transferred to Google. Click a button and your code runs locally
Same here. As far as I know this isn't an official rule of any type in the Netherlands, it's just what people do because we have lots of cyclists. And every kids knows because their parents look before opening a door as well.
Ask HN: Many Recruiters Wrote to you in 2021
I was contacted 46 times (with 0 effort on my end) on LinkedIn. I work with React and have 7yrs XP. How many times have you been contacted?
My take on that, was the host creation should be simple enough to only require bash.
The best part about this is that the people above telling us they haven't seen spam on Twitter in years just need to click this tweet and scroll a bit.
What is a rebel then?
> A tiny little bit of GPL3 software won't kill them

Depending on the way the code is hosted or used, there might not be such a thing as "a tiny little bit of GPL3"

There's a reason why the GPL3 license is so vague in parts about its boundaries and why many corporate lawyers see it as viral.
When NASA switched from internal IT to a third-party contractor, their laptops and desktops got replaced with worse hardware that somehow cost more. This is the Republican way.
First result is the same for me, but the rest of it is very different. Strange!

https://i.imgur.com/t7JPARg.png

Looking at some of the results from your screenshot more closely, they appear to be hacked Plesk[0] sites like geocrasher describes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117918

[0] https://www.plesk.com/
If you're not publishing your scripts and you're running your own infrastructure, you probably don't care about portability at all.
I don't know about your experience but refactoring is just not on the menu in most commercial environments I'm familiar with, therefore if you always pick the first solution that cones to find, it is likely you have to leave with the consequences of the hack for a long time (until the system crumbles under its own complexity).
just curious - has this ever shown up on employer background checks?
https://www.skydroid.net/
???

Oh!!!

https://skydroid.app/
they do not need super-user permissions. That would imply that the phone has to be rooted. over-coming certain settings that apply to regular apps? sure. but that's a very android/iOS specific feature-set that is exposed to all app developers.
> I like how you shared how you learned lesson to not share mischievous activities with people in the same post you then go and share more things you haven't been caught for

American public schools are quite adept at teaching distrust in authority, particularly in bureaucrats. That doesn't mean distrust in everybody.
Now there's where we get into interesting territory. The UK significantly relaxed regulations around March 2020, and basically made it very easy to put "Covid" on death certificates. The requirement for a coroner's report in the case of a novel disease (ie, Covid) was also dropped, as well as the requirement to do a Covid test (or even certify the death in person). [1]

As a result, it will never be possible to know how many died of specifically Covid, and how many died of a viral-induced pneumonia.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I don’t think assuming stories as untruthful is using good faith. I think this line of thinking heavily contributes to this post-truth society we live in; if everything online is a lie that leaves the individual to create their own truth from the lies leading to this idea of post-truth. Obviously there is more nuance than this because websites need views for ad revenue and people like lying online for imaginary internet points or attention, but I see little reason to lie on HN unless it’s for a company’s PR.
That would be incorrect. It's not being replaced in the OS with python3. It's just being removed.
My experience says that you might not need much design for a typical CRUD app, but try to write a JVM/compiler/database and you will quickly see that a bad design pretty much aborts the given project and you have to start from almost scratch.

There is no incrementel rewrite between different stack/heap handling as those are an absolutely central parts of the design, which are pretty much impossible to try to encapsulate, as opposed to the 34th API endpoint. So what it means is that certain domains have much higher essential complexity and at that point the average encapsulation given by OOP/language tools are not sufficient to contain these parts, complexity will triumph and the whole program has to be viewed as one unified whole. Concurrent applications are a similar can of worms.
I have a simple one for ya... Use docker and Vmware on the same windows machine.
So I've been thinking a lot about this...

Consider that the application of the word "unamerican" is itself is destructive to national unity no matter where it is applied, and as such probably should be avoided, including in reference to McCartism or even to the very word itself.

Where does that leave us? Not entirely sure. The best I could come up with is "not exactly pro-american". This word does not have stigma (cats are not pro-american which is fine with everyone), yet in a political context it carries weight.
I was punished three times for computer curiosity before I learned my lesson. No good deed goes unpunished, especially when it makes somebody powerful look bad.
Surely if Google owns the endpoint it should be coming from it can mark it as spam if it comes from somewhere else.
Agree. It’s hard to even remember any similarly successful pharmaceuticals. Maybe Lipitor or one of the recent hep c drugs, but I think Pfizer pulled in like 20 billion in the last year alone. Even more “miraculously effective” once you consider that it will be a few times a year drug rather than a “one and done.” Project Lightspeed was arguably the greatest achievement of our federal government since FDR.
I'm curious how much you're paying for business fiber. Do you have IP transit in your home, or is it just a business connection?
NSO is really working to make sure they have no advocates left aren't they.
Not sure what is unclear about this part you quoted:

> Prosecutors announced that they had received new information indicating that Dr. Chen had not been obliged to disclose those affiliations

He had affiliations, but they were of the kind that he was not required to disclose, so the government was harassing him for no reason.
> I think its fair to say computers this simple couldn't really be sabotaged

Maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
I agree that it would probably not resemble our universe. I would think it has to be a universe that's capable of simulating our universe without consuming all of the host universe's resources as it would need at least some sort of species that would want to simulate our universe. At least initially.

I'm not sure what you (and other people) really mean when you say our universe is simulated.

- Do you mean that the entire universe is simulated down to the planck level?
- Do you think there's some sort of optimization going on?
- Do you think it's done by a species that evolved to become curious to see what would happen if you simulate the universe (like us)?

I can say that our universe is simulated too, but I have no idea if this simulation was made by someone or if it "just is".

But if you believe the universe is a simulation in some host universe, then it must be possible to have a universe that "just is" / or is Turing complete as you put it.
You know that this tattoo artist is college age and you have this little bit of context:

> I said it's crazy how little I'm bleeding on this one, and the tattoo artist said "yah, since the vaccine people don't bleed the same way anymore" and shrugged

How did you get from that to this:

> He is putting his own guesses above those of people who know what they're talking about, and you will never know if that applies to sanitary procedures and other protective measures. I would never allow such a person to touch me.

This feels like some sort of social equivalent of cytokine storm. This is a story about a person making small talk about something they saw in their work, seemingly without any judgment in any direction, and you appear to have written them off as a human.
link has a /2 at the end, serves up a generic page. Link is:

https://blog.yugabyte.com/postgresql-timestamps-timezones/
Totally Fungible Tokens – An Art Project
The failure of the richest country is a lack of methods to capture that wealth and funnel it to where it's needed.

Google has offices in Pittsburgh. Want to take a guess at what percentage of Google's tax money went to maintaining a bridge its employees drive on every day?

ETA: the problem in Pittsburgh in particular is compounded by the nature of the major employers in the city.

Often, taxes for things like bridges in town would be paid by real estate taxes. But four of the largest employers in Pittsburgh are UPMC, Highmark / Allegheny Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University.

As non-profit institutions, they don't pay taxes on the real estate they use. It is not certain that a city the size of Pittsburgh with so much real estate out of the taxability space is a sustainable model in any sense.
Python 2.7 was released on 2010-07-03, the next Python major release after that was Python 3.2 on 2011-02-20, therefore there have been *nine* major releases since Python 2.7: 3.2 to 3.10.

Also since Python 2.7 was made EoL there have been 2 major releases: 3.9 and 3.10.

It's interesting MacOS will be the only desktop OS used by a significant number of people to type "python" in to the command line after a fresh install and get back an unknown command error.
Exactly. I would never ever install a bank's app on my phone.

Aside from almost certainly being closed-source it was probably developed by the cheapest off-shore bidder for the project. But who knows? That's the point. They won't tell you anything because they "take security very seriously."
There are two main reasons to take advantage of the Gpu in lattice microbes. It can simulate the stochastic chemical reaction and diffusion dynamics in parallel: one thread per voxel. For instance, an E. coli sized cell would have ~40000 voxels. It’s not quite embarrassing parallel, but close. Second, the simulation is totally memory bound so we can take advantage of fast gpu memory. The decision to use CUDA over OpenCL was made in like 2009 or so. Things have changed a lot since then. I don’t think anyone has the time or interest to port it over, unfortunately.
People are talking about the metaverse? I thought it was just a punchine in the robot clown's schtick.
Cross-fork object sharing in Git (is not a bug)
They don't show you ads based on your phone number's tie in to the real world. That's then problem they want to solve
Do you want to handle the user authentication yourself? If so you can use Appsmith to do this. Here's a doc on how to use custom authentication and build an app. https://docs.appsmith.com/how-to-guides/how-to-implement-cus...
That's a bold assumption giving Twitters track record of terribleness. I don't understand what the line of thought here is, anyway - do you want to convince people that see tons of spam on Twitter every day that they are imagining things? It's not real?

Like, no, I see it every day. Lots of it.
MegaMap: Giving scientists superpowers in the battle against aging
So, just buy another and leave it as a hot (or cold) standby in a different data-center. Or use AWS as the DR site an spin it up only if the local HW fails.

This sounds expensive if your talking one server and vs a year of AWS charges, but is a tiny bump if it turns out you need to buy a dozen servers to replace a large AWS bill.

Plus, I think most people underestimate how reliable server grade hardware is. Most of it gets retired because its functionally obsolete, not because a power supply/whatever fails. Which brings up the point, that the vast number of failures with server grade hardware are on replaceable components like power supplies, disks, SFP's, etc. Three or four years out those parts are available on the secondary markets frequently for pocket change.
In the US, we said "the phone book" to be generic. The specific books were always specific.

As in "Did you look him up in the phone book?" which might be answered "I couldn't find him in the White Pages, but the phone's probably in his mom's name and I think she has a different last name, so that might be why. I think she has a business but I don't even know what industry so the Yellow Pages don't help here."
Molly does not seem to be included in the official fdroid repo. You can also simply add the calyxos fdroid repo to get signal via fdroid

https://calyxos.gitlab.io/calyx-fdroid-repo/fdroid/repo?fing...
That's peculiar. Most people probably struggle more with the idea of a deterministic universe, as it'd leave no room for free will, which would make everything kind of meaningless.

I'm also more in the camp of "quantum effects making the universe non-determinstic." It's a nicer way to live.
tweet> really hard day today, my great aunt died of covid after a long fight

reply> I know we all probably must have heard about Bitcoin but don't know how it works, I tried it in a week ago and i made a return of $10500 after a week of trading, connect with my trader at @SpamBtcAccount1234
Looks like the programmer's version of: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/214064-if-you-owe-the-bank-...
Voice control of ordinary computer navigation and of program writing and testing has gone nowhere in 30 years. https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-04-24
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

-Kurt Vonnegut
> random-walk of the %increase or %loss

If you randomly add or subtract x% at each step the price tends toward zero (100, 50, 75, 37.5, …)
Seems more like all this stuff is tied together in tricky ways. Why bother learning to read if the only supply of written text is people hand-writing it on fragile paper or parchment, so getting even a single page of written text is super-expensive? Why bother figuring out how to make cheap and durable paper when all text must be hand-written by the few who had time to learn how? Why bother making a way to write faster when paper is expensive and nobody knows how to read?

People need to solve all of those, and have some reason for solving each one independent of the others, before the written word can even start to proliferate widely.
Do you really think that our current lifestyle is at all sustainable, without using nuclear power?

So far, you have suggested that we build several 1000 square miles of solar panels, and dedicate 90 billion kg of carbon-containing material annually, just to fuel 5% of the world population's aviation habit. How do you propose we replace the other 94% of that 5%'s liquid fuel use? After that, how about their total energy use (which dwarfs the total liquid fuel use)?
Goldman, Google and Just About Every NYC Employer Will Soon Have to Disclose Pay
Are you able to provide an example query?
When cooking, the rate of heat needed to maintain the same temperature is exactly the rate at which the food is cooling. So heating up a pot and insulating it is roughly equivalent to heating up a pot and continually heating it to maintain the same temperature. If we changed the culture of cooking to recognize this, we could save a lot of energy.
Yes, they're clearly not the same thing, which is why we have different words for them. I would however disagree that any violence is worse than all property damage, which is what seems to be implied. Would you rather be slapped in the face or have your house burnt down?
Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) replies quickly on Twitter, and he works for Google anti-spam. Their Twitter ID: @searchliaison
metamask is a crypto thing, huge amounts of twitter spam are related to crypto nonsense.