skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend to listen to her interview by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa on his Rebuild.fm podcast: "Monads Are Not Required For My Job" (June 2020)

https://rebuild.fm/271/
"a description of an important plot development in a television show, movie, or book which if previously known may reduce surprise or suspense for a first-time viewer or reader."

Why would it have to be nonfiction? I don't understand your viewpoint at all. Do you think nonfiction can't have a plot, or something?
That kind of flag can be useful to let test users and internal dev accounts get specific unreleased features or behaviors.

There are other ways to deal with specific users, but flagging accounts doesn't seem outlandish to me.
Hi romzmr,

The concept looks interesting but it just doesn't seem to work. I typed shoes but I got animals, movies and Companies. I think it's broken.
Shame on you then for violating their privacy.
Nice. Does it just show the most recent or pick some oldies from the archive too?
Smart Contracts always have their source openly available on the chain, so it’s not that easy
Great question. I feel like we have two kinds of social networks right now parasocial (tiktok/instagram/etc.) and social (facebook/reddit/etc.). And there is a huge lack of good second ones. A spectacular social network for me would focus on social relationships and do something to facilitate making new ones online.
My company is currently using a Starlink as the primary internet connection (with vdsl backup) for a new office we’re setting up in australia. It works great, consistent 300mbps with peaks up to 500. Anecdotally, the system is working great for us and is actually more reliable than the vdsl connection we use as the failover.
I can’t imagine a more important question to ask. That jumped right out of me too.
In most of those places it's not even a Google fiber path in the logical sense, where Google doesn't have a DWDM chassis at the Regen hut, site or an iru in any dark strands there.

Starlink is buying transport circuits from the traditional telcos who operate on the route to get to a major city with a Google POP.

Like, if you go out to the Prosser Regen hut site and starlink earth station, that's all legacy level3, now lumen.
In The Netherlands they are sold at 0.1mg at the lowest granularity. I used those to test it. Eventually, after figuring out my dose, I now resort to a comfortable yummy (it's sweet, helps with placebo effect :P) 0.3mg melatonin + 1mg CBD tablet.
VSCode shows the staged and uncommitted files, and navigating between files with Ctlr-P is pretty neat, and running commands with Ctrl-Shift-P is also helps with keeping your hands off the rodent device.
Consumers do not want to wear glasses.
Blame Telemetry and Rust are both fair here since they added complexity that resulted in this bug slipping past testing.
I like the idea. Introducing teslacoin, also crypto-powered climate control, and also real-time right of way auctioning.
Haha totally. I don’t bookmark anything anymore.

I use Pocket so that if ever I’m out of network I’ve got a collection of interesting articles to read but rarely remember to do that either.
Turns out that playing Wordle against the clock makes it significantly less fun for me.
> can someone present an argument that making a website accessible for a wider audience FIRST makes good business sense?

In more than 80% of cases accessibility is free if you know what you are doing. The best business case there is a competence filter on hiring front end developers.
I have no clue what you're on about and why you insist on telling me things I already know that are unrelated to the topic.

Indeed this conversation is not helpful for either of us, I still don't know what you're trying to discuss. If you're under the impression that I claimed OS providers have no power over their own platform, I never once claimed that.

I claimed they cannot enforce their crap as a standard outside of their platform (sometimes not even on the platform, UWP died for all intents and purposes), which is demonstrably true.

Were you under the impression that I was not aware Microsoft Teams is an Electron app? And how its old non-native notifications work and how Electron wraps OS APIs that aren't web standards exposed in Chromium?

Honestly you've not only repeatedly insulted my intelligence in this thread, but you've also ignored all of my attempts at having an on-topic conversation. Normally that would make me label you as a troll, but you've had many valuable contributions across this website so I'll just assume you had a shitty day and leave it at that.
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> What matters is the order book. How many bid/asks are there on it. The contracts and debts outstanding in it

That's the central insight of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years . If you want a good picture of how money works, it's essential to look beyond the Austrians.
Yep, I read that one after I found my dose and had the same thought.

I don't want to use melatonin either but when I got off of it, I don't fall asleep. My situation is simple: either don't get sleep, or use melatonin. It's fragile but currently my only seeming option that I have, so I have to take it.
That would be significant extra engineering effort without much clear benefit. It's always possible to look back and say "if only they'd done that", but this bug was a freak coincidence and it's not possible to foresee things like that, nor is it worth the engineering effort to try to avoid them with hammers as big as "move all telemetry to another process". You'd need a much stronger reason than "what if telemetry happens to trigger a longstanding bug in the network stack" to decide to go with that.

In this case, that the problem was triggered by telemetry was a coincidence; it would've been triggered by other bits of coden in the future as they moved to Rust.
That’s true for me, but I’ve found that the easier and more streamlined my note-taking apparatus is, the less effective it is at helping my memory to congeal. I just keep a scrap of paper handy and jot stuff down occasionally. I’m trying out a Techo this year, so that’s a step more sophisticated. Handwriting seems to be the important bit for me.
Hugepages FTW
What does the future of Apple and Google look like decades from now? If you believe that AR/VR will eventually be a trillion-dollar market then even a second or third place position for Facebook will bring them billions in revenue, they just need to be in the market when that time comes and they already are with Oculus.
Shell re-routes oil supplies after cyberattack on German firm
That's the point: if you want to put the website on your bookshelf, you can pin it.

Storing websites on your hard drive tends to break URLs; content addressing solves that.
I think however that if you do use a 2nd component and it's not required it will flag it as such.
Hotz makes his own company making self driving using vision only https://comma.ai/
A crucial part of Ribbon, as implemented by MS Office, is a search interface.

It could be nicer like intellij, but I suspect they hit some threshold of changing keyboard shortcuts and end user reaction.
No, that's just the bridge where you can actually transfer tokens they took down. Their main website is https://wormholenetwork.com/
Despite the recent Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan dispute and subsequent exodus of a few artists, Spotify remains world's leading streaming platform. It turns out that Erlang/Elixir and Phoenix LiveView have contributed to its success.
In my new article, I examine how adding them to the company's tech stack impacted the platform's artist advertising service, as well as what it took to advocate for it at the company. Enjoy.
That first sentence sure has a lot of unnecessary hedging. Just looking at prez elections, Mississippi hasn't gone Democrat since Jimmy Carter.
I am rather sure I've seen this episode already.
You could also contribute and suggest some better options...
What service did you have as a kid that was "cool" but didn't engage in dubious marketing practice nor sell your data around ?

My personal favorite is Chevignon selling cool clothes for teenagers for years, to then enter the cigarettes market because why not.

Some might argue Facebook/Meta is on another scale, but everything is on another scale, I think we'd need to adjust expectations like we adjust for inflation.
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I think this discussion is a bit off, moving the root of trust from the mathematicians to the computers is the thing that will not only kill mathematics but also our civilization (and I will try to argue this overstatement now).

People have a hard time understanding things on extreme ends of the scale because they just assume everything is within some reasonable bounds of effort, this is a failure of imagination.

Mathematics is not a reasonable amount of effort.

What's more it is depended on by literally everything else we do (as a civilization).

Theorem proving software (so far) makes the fatal mistake of just trusting; the machine it is running on, the operating system it is running in, and several other things that can subvert assumptions. The correctness of a proof is justified by the trust we place in the heavily audited kernel which will check the proof script outputted by compilers for the human (textual) interface but that kernel is just another program on your (mostly) proprietary platform.

Mathematics is a religion that currently dominates the planet (and as with most religions, it is totally ambient to people in that they don't realize to what extent they base their behaviour on it) but it is not without competition and the thing we must realize is that this competition is as motivated, ruthless and mission-driven as anything else on the planet.

Just as we have people sitting around learning to recite the qur'an or the bible from memory we also have universities full of mathematics students reciting proofs and theorems by memory, trying to keep the knowledge that brought us this far alive.

Computer memory is inherently volatile and we do not have the same conventions and procedures in place as we do for safeguarding the legitimacy of written texts. These take time to develop and are usually motivated by tragedies (such as the loss of our "prehistory").

Try to imagine the amount of effort it would take to re-assess every piece of information that we have (at current time) because we accidentally let the entropy into our libraries.
Where does Reddit fit in all of this?
I suppose it's like, they're not going to be able to buy TikTok are they?
> About the 2000 election: I regret even mentioning the butterfly ballots, because the real point is that it took TOO LONG to recount the votes, BECAUSE it was paper ballots, and thus GWB was elected because the Supreme Court stepped in. Paper ballots and their inefficiency have consequences and downsides, you just might choose to ignore them in order to not have the debate of pros and cons vs electronic form.

Germany counts 50 million ballots in a single night (from 18:00 CEST to ~06:00 CEST). Even if the US had the same number of people counting ballots as Germany does, the US should be able to do a full recount in 36 hours.

Paper ballots aren’t the issue. The US just fucks it up in multiple different ways, and would find a way to fuck up electronic voting just the same (if not even more).
Here we have a textbook example of gaslighting. Dismissing victim's concerns as childish - check; dismissing victim's pain as irrelevant - check; logical manipulation in order to persuade victim that they are the sole source of their pain - check; creating impression that help and support is not available - check; that nobody can possibly agree or align with the victim - check.

Whether it is intentional abuse, or the result of genuine delusion, does not matter. It is wrong thing to do in any circumstances.

Unless the abuser already established that the person is prone to this kind of manipulation, the outcome will most likely be the opposite of what they intended. Be extra careful, people may react to gaslighting in completely unpredictable way.
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The downvoters are anti capitalists it seems. If you don't like me, don't downvote me, just leave it as it's. I never ever will downvote who loves socialism in HN.
It's pretty cool .. I got matched in like 1 min with a guy in europe and we had a friendly conversation for like 5 mins. Worked pretty neat I think
Flemish port companies under cyberattack due to Ukraine's woes?
No, there’ll still be plenty of reasons, even if they have medical marijuana.
Good to play with a team!
Haven’t played it yet, but I was thinking the same thing while I was watching the developer play it when it was about completed at the end of his twitch stream..

Seems super stressful to play this so fast..
Did you get to the horrible destruction and millions of people dying part?

Not that astrophage wouldn't be cool!
I don't agree. You yourself describe it as a challenge - if it wasn't hard it wouldn't be a challenge.

Of course it's long, it's something you start often in your 20s or 30s and hopefully do for the rest of your life.

Of course it's emotional. It's one of the largest life experiences many of us will go through.

Of course it can be draining at times. It takes a lot out of you, and it can be hard after

Painting people as helpless and pathetic because they're finding something hard and still doing it and while seeking help to improve seems ridiculous.

Perhaps the issue people are having with this is that they're inserting "and not worth it" or "not rewarding" at the end, which isn't there. With "but worth it" added, would so many of you disagree?
The difference between Facebook and Big Tobacco is that Facebook still feels entitled to lament the correction of an otherwise harmful practice.
Following the chain of thought, where any modifications of my legal copy of somebody's work is piracy, tearing a page from my own book is a piracy.

It sounds ridiculous, because it is.
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Hi bilater,

The UI looks nice and it remembers me of a game I had on my old phone. Do you plan to add different difficulty levels ? Would that be based on the number of tiles only or also the image itself ? It looks much harder for some images.
Crypto platform Wormhole hit by $320 mln hack
Love the name of it.. has a great ring.
As people commented already, meta / facebook will be a enormous cash cow for quite some time. This raises the interesting question of whether it could actually reinvent itself in some way.

Having an almost 100% concentration on a business model that is (thankfully) increasingly seen as a socially detrimental aberration, it means that they would need to diversify into more conventional tech business models the way, e.g., Alphabet/Google is trying to do [0]

The problem is, of-course, that honest tech business models are a well occupied ecological niche and in the absence of some regulatory/political granted monopoly the competition tends to turn lethal.

They could launch a cloud business for example, with the unique selling point: we know best how to collect and monetize your data, so we know best how to protect it :-).

[0] I am dismissing the "metaverse" thingy as some sort of smoke and mirrors that seems to be necessary to provide cover for precisely the kind of news now being discussed
I dislike both companies but I hate FB more so this is good.

Does anyone know if FB provides a revenue and profit breakdown on a per app basis?

Like how much does IG, WhatsApp, FB, Messenger etc individually make?
1ms in a frame that lasts 16ms is already huge in gamedev. We often optimize processes so that they last less than that. I will always prefer 1ms in rendering, physics or audio over memory management. And the fact that it's not 1ms every frame makes things worse, because it might make miss a frame irregularly which will make the framerate jittery and the game feel very unpleasant.
That’s pretty normal anyway - it’s a spike in total count, but there have always been folks who couldn’t handle life who act out in ways directed at public servants. It’s unfortunate, but if you attend any city council meetings you can’t miss them.

The reality is, we can’t stop that and we can’t let everything else stop because of that either.
E.U. labels natural gas and nuclear energy ‘green’
Increase in Home Delivery Service Usage During Covid Pandemic Unlikely to Last
100% agree with your point. I don't believe in a broad VR future. A movie, just as an open-world video game, lives of its content and storyline. I watched Avatar in 3D and it was great, but not because it was 3D, because it is a good movie. Even in 2D this would be very enjoyable. Same holds true for video games. I don't think Witcher 3 would have significant more success if it was in VR or the experience would be orders of magnitudes better just because of VR. Same as any shitty game with bad story, unlovely crafted characters etc. will not be good just because it is VR.

If the Metaverse means I can watch hatespeech + antivaxx posts, pictures of peoples lunch on a 3D canvas or cat videos, I pass.
Awesome, very addicting! Love how smooth it works.
Spend time to design the defaults.

Make sure that most users won't ever have to change a thing, but always, always have the settings, and always mark what the default value is, so if someone messes it up, they can find their way back.

Forcing the user to make decisions because it was hard or annoying to find a good default decision is why some people have come to hate settings.

I hate being forced to create a configuration. I love being allowed to change one.
this is killer.
Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel
I work in a big consulting firm that really believes that the Metaverse is gonna be the future, and are even creating a team just to develop aplications for clients in the Meta. I don`t think this is what going to save the company. PAssing all day with an VR device in your face seens very uncorfotable to me, and I can see works adopting it.
> I think they could have focused on building Whatsapp into a payments (etc) app

Yep, I am surprised they didn't do this many years ago. WeChat does this pretty significantly in China.
Jason, leader of the Argo-nauts :)
But that's not a crisis of math, it's a crisis of business trying to use math that is not made for it. It's the Post Office Scandal all over again. Overreliance on shitty models, lack of quality assurance, etc. (Or if we look at it like the O-ring debacle of the Challenger accident, or the usual problem of one-off creations, like the Hubble, JWST, or any other public project that is late and over budget. And the F35 is also in this category, because it's also the problem of forcing a model on people that has so many free parameters that it's an endless argument about nothing.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
* CryptoZombies is a good entry to Solidity that is pretty gamified and enjoyable.

* The solidity docs are very good - dry and daunting but not too bad to get through.

* Ethernaut has some great CTFs you can play with.
I think they will wear them anyways
I am both a fan of blockchain and VR. I also have a strong cynic inside of me that trashes on both of them whenever it can. It's fun being me I suppose :)

Blockchain is IMO in a much much much more questionable state of relevancy and usefulness than VR.

Why?

I workout in VR (supplemental workouts by playing Eleven Table Tennis to the max).

I boardgame in VR (Demeo).

My GF picks up my headset and plays Beatsaber.

You can have multiple screens in VR. While I'm not the biggest fan of them, I will be if I'd travel to another country, not being able to bring my monitors.

Oh, and I've convinced quite a few of my friends to do the same (workout, gaming, productivity).

VR is already here mate. People game, people exercise, people get new experiences by watching VR videos (I got better at skiing because of it), people are using its productivity apps to design stuff (think about designing game in Unreal Engine using VR). There are certain use-cases in which VR outperforms anything else (and in most use-cases it doesn't).

VR has tons of uses!

It's not perfect by any means, but we're slowly getting there. 4000x4000 per eye is the hallmark I will be patiently waiting for. Better omni-directional threadmills are something I will hope for. We already are beginning to have haptic feedback suits from owo. I'm not a fan of haptic feedback suits, but others are.

VR is here to stay. It won't replace anything, it will augment how we are going about our daily stuff.

Whereas with blockchain, well, it's mostly used for speculation and I still haven't seen people use it as a legitimate currency. And this includes myself! Like, I used bitcoin to buy a bitcoin wallet, but does that count? I don't think so. The current use of blockchain in terms of cryptocurrencies is speculation (at the moment) and I am hoping it will change, but I wonder if it ever will. And I am a fan of the whole thing, but let's not kid ourselves. I hope the unbanked will use it. I hope people in super high inflationary countries will use it (because as volatile is bitcoin is, it beats any currency with hyper inflation). Unfortunately, I don't have any insights on the unbanked.
The first part of your reply doesn't line up with the second. In what way are 3D TVs a healthy niche? They are mostly dead. I also can't remember anyone actually using their 3D TV or buying a TV because of its 3D capabilities (most TVs at that time had the feature anyway). Whereas stores stocked up on Quest during the holidays because of demand. I don't think your reply accurately describes reality.
I think Microsoft is also almost an essential product company. You can either get a PC or a Mac. Or Linux but even that requires getting a PC anyway. Chromebook market is still tiny.
I thought this would be about the year 2000
Ways That Trees Survive and Thrive After a Fire
Have you read the post we're discussing? That weightlessness part? Of course, Fury Road is a modern movie, and of course it absolutely does take advantage of modern special effects technology. However, nothing in Fury Road feels weightless (maybe except flying cars in the storm), because the core objects we see are shot in an old school way, with stuntmen and practical effects.
Most of the draw was that you could design your own avatar. There were a lot of furries.
Bacteria Study Reveals Our Car Interiors Are Dirtier Than the Average Toilet
I personally don't think VR is a good play. Personally, I just can't binge on anything with VR. It's just not comfortable. But maybe we haven't had enough hardware innovation yet.
Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?
I have a BS and MS in computer science and I have been working part-time on my PhD in compilers for four years now. My research is about attribute grammars. I love my PhD research topic, it's challenging, fun and novel but I don't see it being used for any practical applications. I teach basic compiler course part-time as an instructor at my university as well. I work full-time as a backend software engineer at Microsoft.

My goal is to actually use the concepts I spent so much to learn in my PhD in my career. Where should I start? What tool/library/framework is a must know for a compiler engineer? What are the companies that do exciting stuff in compilers?

I appreciate any help. Thank you