skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you measure intelligence? Elephants have much better memories than we do!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elephants-never-f...
New platform for micro instances of dev help
Is this at all related to Apple's privacy change? The article mentions FB's recent miss, which was attributed to this issue, but doesn't say whether it was at play here as well.

I realize iOS users are not the majority, but it's likely that they are more valuable for advertisers and therefore could generate more revenue.

edit: as noted below, this was in the article — I had done a search for "FB" and didn't see there was another reference to Apple that was upstream from where I landed.
Well, we're hiring :-) https://talkjs.com/jobs

No deadlines, nearly no meetings, and definitely no pre-chewed tickets. Write your own spec and then ship it (all with help from team mates ofc).

I'm pretty confident that we're not the only company that works like this.

What I think I mean is, if you're appalled by employers that treat people like replaceable cogs, then it might be worth your while to find an employer that doesn't :-)
Is there some reason articles like this doesn't include profits? Revenue is specified along with a number of other key metrics, but not profit.

The overall conclusion seems to be the same as with Meta last week: It's going well, but not as well as predicted. The slower than expected growth is only a problem, because the stock market likes predictability and will punish any company unable to correctly foresee the future.
Fax them a complaint.
The people I asked didn't know.

Pure speculation: Google got frustrated with carriers moving too slowly even after acquiring Jibe. I understand carriers not being compelled by Google's lack of vision for mobile messaging then. Especially given that Apple won't give a damn.

A few years pass and Google decides to pivot their messaging services once again, and that now is the time to push RCS for real. Google managed to convince big carriers on several continents that Jibe is the solution. And they probably think the small ones will eventually cave in.
> Their lack of growth has nothing to do with banning people.

Doesn't seem like that as their competitors that have sprung up are solely from conservatives being banned.

Banning smoking !== banning dissenters, your analogy has a false equivalency for multiple reasons, I wouldn't use them for debates if I were you, just teaching.

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@cheriot: Enough users for you to know about them. Competition starts somewhere. But yes I agree Twitter has a monopoly right now, my point is that monopoly is cracking due to censorship.

@ketzo: So you know of their future competitors? That's a start. Maybe Twitter's monopoly will be dethroned one day. Conservatives make up nearly half of the US, I'd say it's a good guess.

@ribosometronome: HN and Twitter are two different entities. Twitter is used as the defacto communication medium to interact w/ official government accounts, corporations, etc. It's supposed to be for all. Hacker News is a small news aggregator and discussion community.

@shrimp_emoji: har har har JS is bad amirite guys?!

@JaimeThompson: guess conservatives are mad for no reason I guess, they are imagining being banned. Maybe if Twitter had open mod logs we'd know for sure, but there's plenty of prominent people that were banned.
Should Belarus be allowed to arrest a blogger who enters their airspace because somebody else made a critical comment about Lukashenko on their blog?
Sorry I meant specifically public web servers, ie hosting a website or sharing a Jellyfin server with your family without requiring them to have Tailscale accounts.
Scotland's train services nationalised from 1 April
It was my understanding Lattice's FPGAs / CPLDs are more tailored for the smaller (possibly hobbyist scale) EEs out there.

Bonus points: Lattice has turned a blind eye at the open source community, meaning Lattice's FPGAs / CPLDs have open-source toolsets. Kinda sad that "blind eye" is the best we can hope for from these companies, but that's how it is for now...
"protectionism" is morally neutral to anyone except a hegemon. A nation can decide to protect itself from free expression and abolition of slavery just as it can protect itself from unsafe food imports and price dumping. It all depends on who is being protected from what.
Is it possible for you to share a blog or a video demonstrating that?
Please?
Yes, but not necessarily. I have ads turned on for The Register because they cater to a specific market segment, and also because I like to support the site.

The ads are pretty tightly focused on new technology companies, which I'm interested in. BizCoFoo with a new DB technology that turns stored procedures into pimento cheese sandwiches is not going to find a lot of traction on r/SQL except to generate a lot of noise from people who hate pimento cheese.

Ads aren't an "all this" or "all that" sort of thing. I'm not a fan of billboards, because I think they're ugly and hateful, but when I'm travelling in a place I'm not familiar with, it's handy to know that there's a BBQ joint in 17 miles, which may not be featured on Yelp or Foursquare or whatever.

Ads can be great if they directly inform you of something you want, need, or are interested in. The ad-tech companies, though, are terrible at doing this algorithmically; e.g., seeing ads for dishwashers everywhere right after you've bought a dishwasher. They're also terrible because the first instinct, when a Web site's ad revenue starts to falter, is to add even more ads from other networks to pump it back up.

One or two ads on a Web page is tolerable. Ads that show up every time you hit Page Down? Cancer.
Most end-users won't be acting as payment gateways, they'll all have private channels, so they won't appear in the routing graphs. The number of routing nodes would be many magnitude smaller than total number of LN users. It's working fine for now with growing adoption (1ml.com) and I believe it'll only get better with time.
First time I heard about this - I set up uBlock on my mom's Firefox years ago, and it's still there...
The revenue model for ads would be akin to the restaurants giving away the food and charging others to promote stuff to you while you're eating. When you're paying for the product, it's all different.
Desktop environments have nothing to do with that: it's the job of distribution. `gksu` is popular to run graphical apps under root or another user, for example, until it was removed from distributions because distributions don't want to allow users to run untrusted apps as root.
> You are absolutely fragmenting the internet.

It's not fragmenting the internet; fragmentation is the whole point of the internet. It's (re-)decentralizing something that has been decentralized the whole time, until these gluttonous whales decided try to eat the whole pie.
Very much appreciate that, though I'm a full stack embedded dev (EDA/c/++/rust/py etc).
Yeah it would be great and more on brand for this forum to have neutrality

The actual communities for most projects and general crypto are obnoxious, and probably what has helped push or keep this community to negativity, i could see it flipping to neutral though, judging by the emails I get there are plenty builders and educated proponents here
> The EU in return gets...nothing.

The EU gets the services they use....
"Let's solve this by blaming each other and then doing nothing" - America, yet again.
This is not a core part of their business and never will be because there is an unlimited amount of this content available for free on Youtube.
West coast hasnt looked good in homelessness for decades
As far as I can tell, people are still allowed on Twitter.
You dig a hole and when the water flows into it, you will get Free Energy. Thereafter you empty it with windmill-powered pump and repeat.

Water comes from the sea or large lake
It's telling that the vast majority of the pushback on the 'inflation is bad' viewpoint comes from well-off academics, tech folks, and just generally people who are hurt the least by inflation.
Oh I follow you. Yeah no reason at all, at least until the economic incentives become strong enough (I doubt that'll ever happen but when knows.) What would a "dragonslaying" bit even mean in the context of, say, a puzzle game? Seems like the 'problem' (if you want to call it that, I don't) isn't even amenable to standardization. It's like saying you want to bring your signed cricket ball to the local park to use in a game of soccer and claiming the reason you can't is because of FIFA's failure to implement inter-sport ball portability standards.
I think he has, in fact, shown a passing interest in the AGC in the past. ;) http://www.righto.com/search/label/Apollo
Did you look at eset? They have a free one too. I'm at a loss as to how Stacksi is relevant. They do some AI form filling for you. How's that going to apply to security awareness training.
Yes, I think so. Lots of times it's just the daily dribble of in person communication to get up.

It's not bad for a while, or to use it selfishishly, e.g. avoid high cost of living and assets.

But you do lose out on maximizing potential.
It says quite a lot about American imperialism, actually. These developments were basically guaranteed the moment the CLOUD act passed, and after the adventures Microsoft had with the DoE.
It's addressed in the article, though absent specific numbers:

> The company said the impact from privacy changes by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) remained modest. Last year, Apple began requiring apps to receive permission from iOS users to track their activity on apps and websites owned by other companies.

> The Apple changes could impact Twitter in the future as it grows its performance advertising business, Segal said, referring to ads that seek to drive sales or other consumer actions. He said Twitter is working to mitigate future negative impacts from Apple's changes.
So yeah, using HTTP to connect to a server that happened to be in the US...
That's the thing that prevented us from selling in France.

But thanks for lecturing me that "vendor lock in" was what killed our 6-developer team that was developing hardware, and computer vision, and 3D computer graphics, while developing a health care product under the tons of regulation that comes with that.

Your arrogance is just stunning.
Factorio solved this with hierarchical pathfinding: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
> The EU part cannot be owned by the US entity since the US government can compel the US mother company to have it's subsidiary hand over data.

Is this true for ownership by individuals too?

If I, an American citizen & resident, owned and operated a company registered to a European nation to serve my European customers (with European hosting), does that make me compliant? Does an American solo founder have a path to compliance at all, or would I be required to collaborate with a completely separate workforce that has no ties to America?
CrateDB DevRel here :)

> databases providing an abstraction through the Postgres wire protocol

I would not call it an abstraction, if one has a full parser, analyzer, planner and execution engine. It is just a common language ;)
> I now am exclusively netflix dvds and love it.

Thanks for mentioning this! I actually had no idea that there was still the option for DVDs. Looks like a good service, actually! I may become an exclusively netflix DVDs subscriber!
Plenty of people seem to still believe it was leaked on purpose. I don't understand why. It's right up there with the flat earth and chemtrails on the scale of to what end would they do that, and why wouldn't they do something more effective?
As far as I know the commonly accepted meme of neanderthals as dopey slow caveman versions of us is not as well accepted as it once was. I've read that the current idea is that neanderthals were stronger, faster, and possibly even smarter than sapiens but that they were less efficient, suited more for quick sprinting and hard fighting in environments with plentiful food sources and less suited to long distance travel, endurance hunting, and calorie-starved environments.

In effect, we won the evolutionary race by being a honda civic instead of a Porsche 911.
The UK market for digital products won't stop existing just because a few UK entrepreneurs move to the US.

These regulations are the only way to dismantle US big tech monopolies. The US government won't do anything about it on its own accord because it's too profitable. Other countries need to neuter the influence of US big tech first. Then the US can police their own better to encourage intl competition if they want to.
I'm in favour of nationalisation for UK rail simply because privatisation of UK rail has been a mess. This article highlights the lack of detail in the plans though, particularly concerns about fares which have not been addressed.

Can nationalisation work? Back in 2009, a privatised rail service (East Coast Line) was nationalised when the private operators failed their financial commitments. The state-run line was run for 5 years and returned £1bn in premiums, as well as several million in profits to government coffers. A successful example of nationalisation - but simply not acceptable for the Conservative government who promptly returned the line to private hands in 2015. [1]

The UK already has some of the most expensive rail tickets in Europe. Yes, you can book in advance for cheaper tickets, but often there is limited availability, and you have to book at least a month or longer in advance. In short, the conditions which make cheaper tickets available are simply impractical for most passengers, especially regular commuters.

I've posted this before: a monthly season ticket comparison from 2017 for UK and Continental Europe. The price differences between UK and other countries is eye-watering:

- UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £387 (approx $547/€448)

- UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £292 (approx $412 /€344)

- Germany: Dusseldorf to Cologne (28 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £85 (approx $120 /€98)

- France: Mantes-la-Jolie to Paris (34 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61 (approx $86 /€71)

- Italy: Anzione to Rome (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61 (approx $86 /€71)

- Spain: Aranjuez to Madrid (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £75 (approx $106 /€87)

Source: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-commuters-spend-6-times-much-...

[1] "East Coast rail line returns to private hands": https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/01/east-coast-r...
I think no one is arguing that it works. I think people are saying it's unethical and/or "95% manipulative, deceptive crap"
Hey Yury,
Cool stuff!

How do you folks solve the large amount of joins that are the result of graph queries?
Any worst-case-optimal multi-way-join secret sauce :D?

Also, with DBs like Datomic competing in the same area, do you have an immutability/versioning story?
What is the reasoning behind your claim?

Frankly the risk to the immunocompromised does not appear to have been that high. Countries like South Africa, which have nearly a thirty percent HIV positive rate, did not see substantially different outcomes.

Beyond that, we had pre-existing data that masks don't do much. Post hoc analysis and wishful thinking have contributed to a modern round of pseudoscience claiming that masks are effective. When the dust settles, I think we'll see that well-fitted N95s are just about the only effective prevention measure. But, as I'm suspecting you know, this would not constitute a reasonable accommodation. In industries that require it, mask fitting and regular testing are commonplace. Further, fitted N95s can only be worn safely for a short duration.

On the other hand, I think that what the ADA should mandate is proper ventilation systems in these heavily trafficked areas. I do think that this is similar to what we've seen for accessibility requirements for businesses, and frankly a bizarre untackled problem for public health.
In Virginia, it's legal to own a radar detector; but, you just can't use it.

You can actually have it in your vehicle, as long as it's not accessible to the driver/passengers and not connected to a power source. They cannot be sold in Virginia.
A distinction without a difference.

If you repeatedly smoked in a restaurant even after being told no, the next time you won’t be allowed in.

That’s exactly what Twitter does. If you keep breaking their rules they ban you.
Twitter has been an absolute mess over the last few years. Through the explore tab, they aggressively promote topics that I have no interest in: k-pop, fashion, reality TV, telenovelas and birthdays. And there's no way to tell them that I don't really care about those topics, you can't even hide them.

The trending topics used to be a very good way to know what's happening. Being the pulse of the planet was achieved. Nowadays, the trending topics are heavily abused. When a streamer or an influencer does something, there's usually 6 or 7 trending topics all related to that person.

And then there are the spoilers. Every major movie release has the name of the characters or actors right in your home page the very same day of the premiere. I had to permanently hide them in my browser, and I've been reducing the usage of Twitter in my phone. I'm very tempted to uninstall it from it and use it only in a PC, although I don't see myself closing my account.

And even though they're alienating a big part of their user base by promoting topics that clearly drive their numbers, they're still not reaching their goals. I wonder what they'll do next.
No, human life was not a misery until the 1950s
It beggars belief that people don't think the numbers from any of these companies are completely fraudulent.

Has anyone been on Twitter? Bots, spam, etc.
Depending on the size of your team, and whether you just need to "check a box" and say you do it, versus you're actually worried about employee mistakes re: cybersecurity (e.g. you have a big and varied enough team where training is geniunely important), it's pretty easy to design this yourself.

Write up or copy a few page doc outlining security best practices, then require every employee to read & sign an acknowledgement that they've read it. Now every employee has gone through security training.
What, you don't appreciate a pop-up on every web page telling you that cookies are going to be used? XD
Don't tell the 80s that!
Tesla has been selling FSD to paying customers since 2015. I think it is fair to look at the technology 7-years-later and see whether or not it does what it claimed to do.

All this article is... is a bunch of youtube videos and demonstration videos of common FSD errors. Given the video evidence, it seems reasonable to assume that FSD isn't working yet, despite claims made 7 years ago by Tesla and its marketing groups.
This is ridiculous. Of course there are no "haskell jobs". Nobody knows haskell. Looking for haskell programmers is like looking for a four-leaf clover. Actually it's more pointless because a four-leaf clover makes a nice instagram story. So if haskell is so great, why don't you teach a few of your friends to program in it, and increase the number of haskell programmers available?

The only reason there are "python jobs" is because django exists. The only reason there are "ruby jobs" is because rails exists. The only reason there are "javascript jobs" is because browsers exist. The only reason there are "C++ jobs" is because algorithmic trading and video games exist. The only reason there are "scala jobs" is because the JVM exists (and concurrency is hard). What real-world problem does haskell solve that python does not, or what "killer framework" is implemented in haskell? Why not make it and prove that haskell is worth learning?

All of that said, if you really want to program in haskell at a job, find a company that is all-in on microservices. They may allow you to write small services in haskell, as long as they know that if you leave the company, and they can't find one of the friends you taught a haskell for great good, they can find a java dev to rewrite it.
Do you think HackerNews would be a friendly place for the type of behavior that has resulted in folk being banned from Twitter?
I mean, have you ever used a language like Java? Python has a bad package manager story, sure, but it has a package manager story - that's not actually particularly global afaik
Human brain size had been increasing until 35000 years ago and then started to decrease. Modern human is less intelligent than human of old times.
If anything it increases inequality. It hurts the poor the most. The wealthy are more immune because they will have their wealth in things that go up with inflation. When it is caused by the government spending more than it takes in, it is effectively a hidden tax. NONE of these things are new concepts. Even the belief that the inflation won't hurt is new. Many other societies have blindly thought they were immune until they were not.
Yep I use this to block the stack exchange top block thing on the desktop site. I get sick of dismissing it all the time.
I clearly understand that problem. but I'm just going to assert its not what you actually want. nor is it related to accessing ssh where you most definitely don't want to expose the port.

for starters, what you're describing is a load balancer. those already exist and are trivial to setup.
Are we calling Gab/Parler “competition” now? Do they even have revenue, let alone profit?

Seems like a big reach, bordering on disingenuous, to attribute Twitter user growth/revenue slowdown to conservatives mad about being “unfairly censored”. Twitter
I think there are decades of bad policy stacked on top of each other that are responsible for the current mess.
It’s oxymoronic everywhere based on the definition of the terms, and not just in “limited parts of the US”. It’s Orwellian doublspeak. No amount of mental gymnastics changes that.

> Regulation is a firm requirement to a free market, without regulation of any kind

I agree, but there are lines that when crossed either negates or greatly lessens the overall benefit for most people outside of vested interests.

> you will pretty quickly descend into authoritarianism

Moreover, historically speaking - centralized economic planning tends into devolve into tyranny vs systems with primarily free markets.

This is also much less about protecting consumers than it is about protecting old French incumbents who are unable to evolve.
I don't know what they used in depression era cameras, but at least with "modern" roll of film (i.e. 35mm) the "negatives" are one strip of film containing one image after the other. You don't have individual "photos" as individual physical artifacts, they're just one small part of the strip on which they're taken.

So if you're going to develop a roll of film, but don't want to develop everything, you could just mark the shots you don't want in some way (i.e. a hole punch or a marker) and you'd know to skip them.