skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opener outlines the underlying contradiction in the organization and governance of many social media companies:

"Here’s how you do it.

1. Build a platform which relies on cultural creation as its core value, but which only sees itself as a technology platform. Stick to this insistence on being solely a “neutral” tech company in every aspect of decision-making, policy, hiring and operations, except for your public advertising, where the message is entirely about creativity and expression."
I'll politely disagree with you and illustrate the many many many unicorns that were brought into existence under dynamic languages. And places such as Shopify which are after-the-fact adding typing to previously untyped languages.

Every single bug that has ever existed in static languages passed the type-checker. There are benefits in types to be sure but cornering the market on "growing and lasting" is definitely not one of them. If anything I'd say types let you refactor quicker - dynamic languages let you launch faster.

I should also note that I don't mean dependent type languages which I haven't actually shipped anything professionally but I'm extremely curious about.
Well you did say: “ NodeJS relies on V8, which is perhaps the world's most highly optimised interpreter (/JIT compiler/runner)”

But even in manpower this is pretty hyperbolic compared to Java and .NET. There was probably more manpower in even some of the third party Java runtimes like Azul.
I do these technology-based art projects and it is a struggle to explain them.

When it all works people see something small that they relate to, but behind that is a set of practices that aren't obvious and that often I got to by a roundabout route. Frequently I discover these practices instead of invent them and there is a big element of circularity which makes it hard to put together a story that has just the essential elements in the right order, trying to explain things chronologically is just about the worst I can do.

The answer to that is doing it over and over again, doing a better job each time, and occasionally having the breakthrough where you can put things in a new relationship that makes a lot of sense.
I saw those photos as well, and the presence of steel cables with turnbuckles to reinforce the structure lead me to believe that the damage was known and someone decided that the minimal reinforcement was adequate.

I suspect that if that was the primary cause of the collapse, the NTSB would have mentioned it directly already.

Either way, we'll know eventually.
Video shows SpaceX satellites burning up due to solar storm
Mean income is a statistic skewed towards the wealthy, so that just re-enforces the point.
> Full employment is going great

Is it? I thought we still have a labor shortage and the unemployment metric is skewed because it doesn't tell the full story of people who just left the labor market.
> I think most successful European entrepreneurs will just end up starting companies in the US instead.

If these companies end up banned in Europe, that's not really a problem from Europe's PoV. Europe may end up deciding that US companies not coming is a problem in itself, but that is already the case imo.

Honestly, if this policy is actually enforced, it's very hard to imagine how the landscape would shift. Maybe Europe would be brought to its heels, and be forced to remove the law. On the other hand, maybe the US would be forced to renounce their cloud act, which is a large part of Europe's privacy issues with US companies. A third path could be companies reverse-incorporating in some place that would let them keep in business.

It's a bit hard to predict honestly.
Block Element is a quite a useful feature of uBlock Origin.

You can right click on individual things in a website's UI and make them go away using the "Block element ..." context menu command added by uBlock.

This is useful for not only getting rid of ads, but anything that distracts you or tricks you into clicking on it.

For instance, in Reddit, if you find yourself accidentally clicking on switching to New Reddit (which annoyingly updates your profile to make that choice stick), you can just block that button.
I clear my head with some coding in Processing (it’s fun to make pictures) or Mathematica. Both are 100% batteries included with no effort to start: I just open the app and right away I can just write code. An hour hacking together a little animation feels pretty pleasant and reminds me programming is still fun, even if some of our modern tools make it miserable.
‘Hackers helped me find my lost Bitcoin fortune’
Euclidean distance calculations change based on number of dimensions, for example, in 3 dimensions it is sqrt(a^2+b^2+c^2).
Yeah. Who really cares if these shitty websites go away? I'd very much enjoy it if the web went back to its roots where people made a website because they actually had something to say instead of inflammatory clickbait bullshit designed to optimize "engagement". I don't even surf the web anymore, this is one of the few sites I still visit.
This is a concerning aspect of Ethereum's strategy to push scaling to layer-2 networks: Ethereum is a heavily audited and tested protocol that runs an extremely decentralized network of diverse clients. L2s can be...an AWS instance running arbitrary buggy code. Much of the confidence in the "base layer" that people using Ethereum currently experience will be significantly undermined if mundane transactions wend in and out of different L2s.
At least in one iteration it'd maybe look like what Sao Paulo did [1], which to my eyes looks quite a lot better than the before pictures. No one is saying what is or isn't a worthwhile product, just don't advertise.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
> the great firewall of Europe

It's not Europe who blocks anybody, but plenty of US websites just blanket-block EU visitors because they can't be arsed to create a GDPR compliant website.

Which, as a European, in practice feels like running into a great American firewall.
There are current autocracies too, not only past ones. Also communist, of course.

And I was talking about my government, not yours.
Exactly. TFA is just "wow I can't believe BHPH dealers will buy X for Y" but with higher numbers and higher class.
Same here.

I think the fashion industry is a consequence that a big subset of the industry lives from selling services, books, trainings, conference talks,....

So the need for something new needs to be constantly generated so that the crowds feel the need for new content and buying services.

Then on top of that, most people new to the industry tend not to learn the past, so they keep re-discovering stuff as the "new coolness".
So you're making an argument to the status quo?

I'm not sure are about states granting banks the right to create money. Do you have a source for this? As far as I can tell they do it simply because we all use them and trust them to keep the ledger. The state (meaning, the US or UK) doesn't seem to have much control over it.
I mean, YouTube at least offers a subscription that makes the ads go away. Which is not the case with the cesspool that's the rest of the internet basically. It's such a privilege that a software like this exists, and is offered for free with no strings attached.
The person I'm replying to referred to Trudeau talking about truckers. The trucker protests relevant to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau are happening in Ottawa.
I'd say most Americans see a pickup as a "passenger vehicle".

They're certainly licensed the same in my state.
But people actively go here to look for new products. It's not like if you want to watch a video and you get an ad in your face.
Most people in the world do not live under your government.
I think a lot of this discussion can evolve around definitions.

If we look at history back until the industrial revolution, I would guess that less people had to work on food production and thus could go into creative fields.

Intelligence is better measurable through IQ tests and we can see IQ score rising in societies today. (Flynn Effect)
>Those receipts had your name, date, etc. on them

How, when I buy stuff in real world and pay with cash I don't ask for an Id Card, so why do you think the store needs names on the receipts? Is this something that happens in your country? For buying cars,land you need an Id, if I buy even an expensive electronics no Id is needed I just return the product and the receipt that has no name on it back.

I remember when my grandfather was doing accounting for a bar before Internet days, they papers were about the stuff not about people, like how many bear was bought, how much was sold stuff like that.
Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for the tip I have some reading to do.
Literally no expert said that SpaceX would fail at reusable rockets.

The science behind rockets is literally decades old at this point. The U.S. designed reusable rockets back in the 1980s and never built them due to budget cuts.

Experts said they weren't sure if the cost of developing reusable rockets would be financially sustainable, given that SpaceX started while the U.S. still had a functional space shuttle program.

And...absent the NASA R&D contracts, SpaceX would not currently be sustainable on the basis of commercial launch activity.
Guessing IP would be unpractical. Absolutely. But without random component, it could be "reversed". For example, I would like to retroactively check when and where you, ApolloFortyNine visited my site. All I would need to get is your IP (residential IPs change, but not that often) and User-Agent. I could replicate hashing algorithm and identify your traffic.

The random component prevents that. And yes, there is a trust component. You have to trust that we discard these salts after 24h. We operate in Germany in a legal framework that allows you to sue us if we mislead you. So at a certain point, technology must make place for the legal system.

Because salt is rotated every few hours, never more than 24h, we can, with sufficient probability, determine that two requests are from the same visit/session. So have indication of new/unique visit in short window. Not days, but hours.

If you were to transmit a parameter that additionally attached Personal Data (email, User ID) to that session, then that becomes identifiable and is no longer anonymous. But that is strictly AT YOUR DISCRETION. And we NEVER share it with anyone but you. You will also need to inform your guest, that you associate personal data and ask for consent. But until you do, we cannot identify anyone after the salts cycle.
Philosophically, that's still not convincing.

Lets take the most basic form of advertising as an example. If I put a couch in my yard with a price tag on it, I'm wanting people to notice and desire to buy it, but there's no malicious intent. I have a thing I want to get rid of, maybe someone wants to buy it. If I don't do that, no one will know it's for sale.

So I do think advertising is fundamentally benign, and despite what the original comment said, is absolutely part of supply and demand. People are supposed to generate supply and then sit around waiting for people to come see it?

Of course there's lots of bad stuff going on in advertising. Lies, inducing FOMO, unnecessary gathering of personal data, etc. But I'm not convinced that advertising is morally wrong in it's purest form.
Ancient DNA at the Edge of the World
> A laptop that has a mouse and a touch-screen will in some cases NOT be detected as a touch screen

What you are saying here is the opposite of the comment that I'm replying to, and is the opposite of the W3 spec. Are you sure? micromacrofoot correctly said:

> touch devices with a dedicated mouse can be detected as no-hover devices

"no-hover devices" are AKA touch input devices, and will therefore satisfy the query `hover: none`. The spec says as such:

For example, on a touch screen device that can also be controlled by an optional mouse, the `hover` media feature should match `hover: none`, as the primary pointing device (the touch screen) does not allow the user to hover.

However, despite this, the optional mouse does allow users to hover. Authors should therefore be careful not to assume that the ':hover' pseudo class will never match on a device where 'hover:none' is true, but they should design layouts that do not depend on hovering to be fully usable.

https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-4/#example-3d419780
Sci-Fi Author Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
It was probably me. I really need to get back on my diet tbh
love the idea, hate the fact that it is written in a bloated language that is anything but native or self-contained.
Wow. A tutorial on doing that would be great.

Speaking of "bug bounties", I use the term liberally as a euphemism for hacking these contracts and taking everything for yourself under the observation that company/community bug bounty systems are broken and undervalued for the value they provide. Although seen as a euphamism now, I think the term is accurate especially when looking at how bounty was used in the American frontier or Wild West.

You made $2,000,042 from this without any drama, in a quick timeline even though it was technically outside of the scope of the program! I think many in the hackernews audience would have liked to have known that from the get go. Many people ignoring blockchain would pivot immediately to at least doing smart contract bug bounty research on the side just from knowing that alone, learning the extremely lucrative and marketable skills in the process. If you formatted the article to the bug-bounty timeline to payout format. You should even show some people a material thing that what you bought with it, because many people still don't understand that this is analogous and convertible to money in your bank account especially at these convenient amounts.

How much could you have seized with this bug at the time?
> Converting from Business people's idiot speak to actual technical spec

Isn't that what a.Business Analyst does?
At some companies it will be impossible to advance remotely, at other companies it will be no barrier at all. It really depends on the specific company.

One thing to consider is that you probably also have capped upside in the first place, when you are constrained to working in the Midwest, because most of those companies have lesser engineering quality and a corresponding lesser reputation. It is better to be working remote for a top-tier company than be working in person for a medium company.
(This has hopefully been fixed; the way I added SSL to my website--which I only the night before last--was "ridiculous" and apparently not at all up for the challenge :/. I thankfully had given myself a backup plan--offloading the SSL to nginx--which I was able to switch to quickly, but I should have really pushed my update today with that configuration.)
Respectfully, you're wrong.

Sure, there are a lot of people who own trucks that don't use them as trucks on a regular basis - but there are a lot of people who do.
Would you mind expanding a little on this for me? I'm curious but don't know much about this topic.

If having reserve currency status gives a country a tool of "exporting inflation" and countries are tired of the US doing it, it seems unlikely those countries would willingly put that tool in the hands of Russia or China, whom they presumably trust much less. (Assuming we're talking about western Europe.)

Devil you know or devil you don't?
With no debts and no job, definitely. You're living off savings that are becoming less valuable.
The intrinsic dimensionality of a dataset is also relevant here.

The M-Tree is one of my favorite indexes. It works with data that's embedded in infinite dimensional spaces (sometimes; it's bumping up against an impossibility result that's sketched in a sibling comment).
Why don't more UX Designer know how to code mock ups (html/css/jQuery or Javascript) if their focus is building web apps?
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> School is glorified babysitting

as a parent of a 12 and 9 year old i mostly agree. You really have to augment and reaffirm the material being taught in school outside of the school setting and with a different approach. It takes a lot of work to nurture and grow a love-of-learning vs just "did you do your homework? yes? good.". No parent is perfect though, it takes a lot of effort and trial/error to learn what works and doesn't work with your particular kid.
NFT auction raises $52m for WikiLeaks founder
I've had good luck using containerized development environments along with VS Code's Remote Development features. In short, set up a container image that has all of your dev dependencies and maintain it centrally. Developers can create containers off of this image and work in their private container. When an environment change is needed, someone can make it centrally and then others update their containers.

This doesn't solve the problem of distributing developer-specific configuration, and limits the UI tools that can be used, but if you can live with these constraints then it allows you to treat your development environment as yet-another-service!
How is clicking an ad better than advice from someone who should know? Maybe this is just a weak example but an ad that's like "do shoes hurt your feet for some reason? Maybe it's this! Buy our shoe to fix it!" seems a hell of a lot less likely to be useful than finding out why your foot hurts and getting informed advice on what will help.

Seems like you're just very lucky if the advertised product ends up solving the problem. I get that asking people or looking things up is effort but it's also a hell of a lot more likely to yield good results than trusting a stranger's ad to be accurate and helpful. The world would not end without advertising (or with very limited advertising), and people would not be unable to find things they want or need. They might not as often stumble on that information while doing something totally unrelated, sure, but I don't think that happens often enough to offset the harmful effects of advertising.
Oops! Thanks Tom Hebb!
I agree, but the notion of doing something like this is inspiring. The FOSS movement is full this sentiment and it's nothing short of a miracle.
I couldn’t care less about the actual language. What I do care about is not having to maintain two separate tool chains and package managers, one for backend and one for front end.
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Thats a good point but it depends on the reputation of the person being canceled. If the tweets align with that person's reputation, i'd imagine it would be easier to convince the public that those tweets originated from them.
OpenTelemetry and the Ghost of Provisioning Past
Full Text of S.2710, the Open App Markets Act
With passwords disabled and just using key authentication, is there a big risk of just doing a straight port 22 ssh?

Genuine question, my knowledge of server security is low-to-middle.
Palmer on her interactions with technologists/tech workers:

“These are people who are obsessed with maximizing their impact on the world, she says, but who aren't sure they're going about it the right way. They ask her how they can foresee the repercussions of the things they will do. 'How would the inventors of glitter have imagined that they would poison manatees?' she asked. 'You feel this kind of paralysis.'”
Considering your account age and your 14921 karma, the conviction with which you state a complete falsehood, without any hedging, on a topic that is regularly discussed on HN and in broader society doesn’t make me confident in the future of intelligent discussion online…
> despite interviewing about a dozen over 6 months

Did they really want one? I'd wager that if they took those six months of interviews, job ads and recruiter time and instead took that money, added it to the salary they are planning on offering (say divided by the average tenure in that role at your company) and threw up a post on the monthly "Who is hiring" thread here they could've found someone.

A common tactic is to say "Oh, we are looking for the right person we just can't find them!" when the rest of the team picks up the workload of the exited employee and to keep that up as long as possible. It happened to me at my first dishwashing job at 13 years old and I've seen it a few dozen times since.
Fear of project failure is the signal that the company (= your employment prospects) will be damaged. Frustration with how difficult the work is, is a signal that the current path is unsustainable, and that burnout will set in, thereby damaging your ability to work (= your employment prospects).

It's perfectly rational to be concerned about these things. We are not machines - or rather, we are machines that have mental/psychological/monetary needs that have to be met in the course of our daily employment.
You'd need to be very strategic in how you point that stuff out. Because straight up saying that numbers from those people have been consistently wrong throws the people bringing them forth under the bus and it will make the people who you're giving the proposals to feel like you're telling them that they are doing a bad job at evaluating proposals given that they did give the final approval on all of them.

You're probably better off just playing the game and making up good sounding numbers. You're less likely to have half the company resenting you and making your life difficult.
Companies will bend to the whims of regulators in the countries they do business in. Look at US companies in China.
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>That's a good thing

Says who?! I have zero problems sending my private data to the US. I did it for years and I still think is one of the better places to send my private data to. Definitely better than my own country.
I get that, but when a lot of what they sell is the subscription, and streaming content still takes some work, I think there's a non-trivial amount of tech that makes that happen.
Maybe because the two crimes here are (1) breaking and entering (you have to actually break something) and (2) theft. If the window isn't locked, then you don't have to break in; you can just open the window.

It's not against the law to just walk in; or rather, it's the civil offence of trespass - you can sue the trespasser for damages, e.g. causing wear on your expensive carpet (but you'd have to produce evidence of monetary damages). And you can physically remove them, perhaps with the help of a bailiff. But the police won't help with common trespass - it's not a crime.

[Edit] At least, that's how I understand the law here. IANAL.
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Critically, they want access for for free.

The US does not have to give anything in return to get all the private data from EU they want.

The EU in return gets...nothing.

If you are a politician this is not a great position, you get no money, no jobs and no data.

If they equalize data access, "data sharing" (on an intelligence and on a commerical level) could be a valuable component of future negotiations.