skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a @paulg tweet saying that if there are multiple explanations for an event, choose the most boring one. Very much agree

edit: found it on Twitter search thanks to another comment

> Between two possible explanations for an event, prefer the more boring one.
Got it in four, thanks to use of grep with the "enable1" word list and a bit of luck. Nicely done.
I think so as the authentication is the main problem.
It’s my understanding that they mostly just regurgitate NWS data you already paid for and slap some ads on it.
> Facebook have absolutely no problem with that silo

It's less that they don't have a problem with the silo and more that they don't have a choice.

Are you really advocating for siloing European and North American internet?
Well, my productivity just went up.
> Does the US person need to hit the French servers to see new messages, and vice versa? What about quoting?

I would imagine each user has a copy of the other's messages in their own account, and that's what they would be hitting.
Interesting how close our timelines match up, minus the 11 years. Smoked from 14 to just before my 30th birthday, which was 6 months ago.

If I smell it in passing, it smells pretty disgusting. But if I spend the weekend at my parents (both heavy smokers), I quickly fall in love with the smell again and yearn for “one last cig”.

A big problem for me is that tobacco smoke very much smells like home - it’s what home smelled like growing up. And nothing takes you back like a strong, familiar scent.
Counterpoint: I went to an Ivy League school and studied both computer science and a humanities field. I didn't take an intro CS class until my sophomore year and had no prior experience. It was only because of quality/resources - as well as the tremendous effort to cater to folks with any level of background, including none - of that intro class that I continued on. I wish more intro classes in STEM were like this.
Cleanliness doesn't really matter, because space is infinite.

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So long as you've unlocked enough military (ie: shotgun in the early game, or tank in the mid-game), you can just clear out more room and then build there. (Shotgun has significant pierce-damage, enough to kill the alien bases. Tank also has significant pierce damage and impact-damage, allowing you to win against small / medium aliens through the midgame rather easily and cheaply)

Don't even "tear down" your oldbase. Just fully abandon it and move elsewhere. Even without bots, there's no penalty to "just leaving".

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Bots / deconstruction planner is more of a thing if you're tired of cleaning out biter-territory and want to "recycle" your old areas.
Might actually not be a huge feat given the transformer architecture and it's attention component - here was not that related to the rest of the sentence. Still, quite cool...
"FDIC insured"..

I use a GV number for 2FA over SMS as the last mile solution.
>what new insight did this article

author found a trending topic, and is making the mostest
Any of the M$ office apps. They only recently disabled macros from running, and it took them decades to do that, meaning a gaping security hole was unpatched from time immemorial. I imagine this was some secret 'bugdoor' that was intentionally enabled by the NSA and then NSA went all blue team and decided to nuke it (after all the U$ infra got compromised by macros).
Download the nRFConnect app and you'll probably be amazed at the number of BLE devices that are around you all the time.

Anecdote: I used to work for a company that did a lot of wireless wearable stuff and early on in COVID lockdown I had a Linux tool: bluetoothctl, running while I was testing some code down in the basement of my house. The first indication I had that my wife was home was the appearance of a Fitbit device in the scan, followed by a couple of unknown phones as she and a friend walked up to the house.

Not unexpected, but it was that sudden appearance of devices (I live far outside the city) that really drove home how much data we're throwing off all the time without thinking about it.
BYTE magazine claimed the Sphere 1 was the first personal computer.
As soon as I saw the word "consulting" it was all I needed to know. These companies want to bill someone out to the client as a senior engineer while paying them new grad wages. That's all there is to it. If you've ever worked with consultants this won't be a surprise.
Not much to add to the conversation here except that I love my Airtag in my wallet. So many times I've lost it for days and sometimes weeks on end only to find it in the crack of my couch, behind the seat in the car, under a pile of paper etc. Not anymore! Works like a charm within seconds.
Interestingly, Nitter instances are functioning.

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/betterhn20/status/149219509809179...

(Read-only, but ... Feature!!!)
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news...
I don't dispute any of that. I once fell into the mobile game trap myself, it's really bad. I've posted many times here on HN about how these games are deliberately designed to form habits in players and I think they should be illegal.

The thing is I've personally seen opioid addicts do literally anything for a drug. Not for pleasure, just to avoid the pain of abstinence. One guy killed his own mother because she tried to cut off his access to the drugs, he ended up homeless and reduced to crime and was eventually arrested and forced to undergo treatment. The power of these substances cannot be underestimated. As bad as predatory video games are, I'm convinced opioids are worse.
This is why centralized platforms are a bad idea. In case of an outage people have no idea what to do other than panic.
1pm east coast: Just noticed this with two accounts in FF and Safari.

Was working fine this morning.
You have to write it again though!
This is about anonymous foreign money funding political movements.

Is it free speech if a foreign political actor sponsors someone to blow an air horn outside your bedroom window for a week straight? Because that is literally what happened in Ottowa.

If that’s free speech, would you mind providing your address for free speech purposes?
I am not talking about wild ideas in the literature but wild ideas in the interpretation of the literature. There is a pressure to interpret everything with the lens of partisan identity politics.

Eg. Most recently this surfaced outside of the literary community around Sam and Frodo's relationship in LOTR and whether or not they were gay.
Actually support for Pixel phones is good. Not for Gsuite/GCP though.
Why replicate a PDF reader in-browser when it would be really easy to hook it up to pass PDFs to a plethora of system applications?

As for integration with org/roam, I agree — there’s a lot of potential there, and it’s at an ideal stage for people to get involved and experiment with a variety of approaches.
The issue is not having Europeans sharing photos and posts with Americans, but to have unshared personal data like logs, user preferences or non-public PII hosted on European servers without granting the US government access to it since it is outside of their jurisdiction.

Also, if a European citizen shares photos with an American friend, this friend will fetch the image from an European server, so that the US government doesn't have access to the remaining photos, unless they contact European authorities.
> It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held.

Isn't this what happens on every HN thread, people expressing opinions relevant to the topic? Or is it only forbidden when criticizing descendants of the Frankfurt School?
some of the largest and most well known consultancies do this as a matter of practice after they overbook themselves for projects for which they do not have staff on the bench to fill

Been my experience your regular software org does something very similar. Who among us hasn’t had to drop an entire epic’s worth of work to go spin up some MVP (that eventually becomes a bug-riddled production shitstorm) of a component because a claim got made on a sales call that “we’ve been working on it for weeks” and a promise got made that “we could have a demo ready to go just for you by the end of the quarter”? Because you’re “the senior”.

Not saying it’s the norm.

Just that it happens probably more than it should.
credit card matching the User's name/location?
What's your definition of 'intelligence'? Many of the things GPT-3 does clearly exhibit intelligence (just not human level intelligence).
Search for Schrems here on HN. There were a couple of articles recently that in effect have this implication.
I was surprised too.
If they succeed then aren't they an acceptable fit for the role? If it devalues the role then that means the job isn't as demanding as the title makes it seem.
The Material app on Android. Loading pdf in app and it turns out that I can only see the first page followed by endless blank pages
Why pay for customer support when your userbase is so captive that you'll see your profits regardless?
If you make a square and a rectangle into IShapes (with no inheritance hierarchy) you still need 2 separate implementations for GetWidth().

Either way, it's simply not true that you can't treat them the same way because you've made them PODs, there are more kinds of polymorphism beyond subtype polymorphism. Even for the latter modern languages split the data (structs) from the behavior (traits/protocols), see Rust or Swift for example.

If you explicitly need to treat squares and rectangles as a single entity to draw them (alongside other shapes), rather than thinking of each of them having a "draw()" function (likely breaking the single responsibility principle), you should instead have a function square_to_drawable, rectangle_to_drawable etc, where a drawable is also a POD but one that has the relevant drawing data (textures, triangles, whatever). Then a drawing system is responsible for actually rendering these drawables.

That's how it's done on modern game engines. It takes a while to wrap your head around but it works really well. This style is used a lot by modern game engines because performance is way better with this style.
I don't understand how Infosys still exists. Perhaps this is just my bubble showing, but it seems pretty well-known that they're a scam factory.
Twitter is so weird. They have a big technical staff but they never, ever launch features, leading people to believe all the work is being done on reliability and efficiency on the backend, but at the same time they have total outages regularly and don't turn profits.
On a related note, I dated a woman who was promoted to vice president of a small start up when she was in her 20's. She had to hide her title on her resume when she left because no established firm wanted to hire someone whom they assumed they'd need to pay a quarter million dollars to be competitive.

Sometimes grandiose titles can work against you.
> Can’t seem to load threads

Threads should never have been a thing, so maybe people now start writing articles instead on their own platform.
Yeah it isnt working
You should have posted that, since it's the original source. Without that context, and with the small mistake you made in the title, most of the commenters here ended up talking about something that this actually isn't.
Its down everywhere!
Oh, that's a pretty big difference, would be nice if post title was altered...
I completely agree. Literature is just one of the thing it writes about.

I really like its boldness. I love the fact that they turned over an entire issue to telling the stories of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 (the UK's most lethal residential fire since WWII).

They decided to publish 60,000 words on the fire, replacing all of their usual format. That's the length of a short novel [1].

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n11/andrew-o-hagan/the-t...
Not senior, but junior...

I recently started Web Development (well, it's been almost a year now). I am technically in a 'Junior' position, but I've read articles stating that it's only detrimental to list yourself as a Junior.

What are your thoughts? Am I still a Junior after a year? Should I keep the "Junior" label on my resume/linkedin if I'm still a Junior?
Computer Science at my school had two branches, theory and systems. Discrete Math and Algorithms are just two classes out of ~17 in a major. They are the two theory classes everyone takes, but there's a whole world beyond that even in the theory track. It continues to be baffling that people on Hacker News think Algorithms == Computer Science.

Personally, when I chose electives I chose systems electives: Operating Systems, Databases, Networks, Programming Languages, Graphics, etc. In these classes the bulk of the work consisted of programming in C.
I heard this in a podcast recently about people's perceptions of the pandemic driven work from home situation. Some folks we're saying they missed the "commute". The hosts argued that they probably didn't miss cramming into a subway, being stuck for an hour in stop-and-go traffic, or being stranded out in the rain. That feeling they were missing were just those clear points of delineation between on and off work. Also that it did involve a clear amount of time set aside that was not work or open, free time.

That point and one about how a pandemic caused, mandatory work from home scenario where many other amenities around home were not available is a really weird situation stuck with me most. In particular keeping in mind that we can ameliorate many of people's least favorite parts going forward.
How is that VoIP's fault?

The root of the problem seems to be that the POTS seems to demand a ridiculous level of trust of all participants, which does not scale beyond a handful of incumbent market participants.

I like being able to take my phone calls wherever I am, with or without cell signal. Don't blame the technology; blame the broken network.
This is another reason that, while I understand people’s complaints, I still believe CS interviews should include algorithmic and whiteboard tests. I know they may seem “outdated” or “irrelevant” to some, and yes, it is very unlikely that you will need to implement Dijkstra’s algorithm by hand without any reference, but it is more that it shows a general competence in computing which will transfer to other, more relevant areas. Also, another key insight to whiteboarding is whether you can recognize the fundamental nature of the problem as an instance of another problem, which is essential to CS since the entire field is about solving problems efficiently.
Ohhh, than this may be the reason.
IMO, fully distributed companies are the future so all these 'hubs' are on a downslope. It is harder to quantify though so I expect headlines to keep toting some particular city or another.
If you want to add more of the human dynamic to resource management and refactoring, I suggest FrostPunk. While Factorio feels more like managing and scaling code, FrostPunk feels like running a startup. It's rewarding, but very stressful.

0. https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/
I prefer the less obvious version of this one:

> There are only three hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
> You don't need a mobile phone, you can use a friend's phone, or use a landline.

Sure, because what's the chance the friend also has a Google account? And who doesn't have a personal landline, especially these days?

Sorry to be snarky, but responses to the point of "sorry that our systems are horrible, nothing we can do, here are a few hoops to jump through to possibly deal with it" just get me. It's not just in Googles power to change something, it's literally a problem created by Google.
AWS has an identical spike.
It's a single equation taught in high school. I'd expect nearly every adult who'd been through high school to know it or at least have basic familiarity.
A quarter million dollars is what a typical new grad offer looks like nowadays
I speak three European languages at native level (Im ESL. Or is it ETL?) and can get along well enough in a fourth. I have the luxury of choice.

And my problem isn't with Europeans, that is Englishmen, Ukrainians, Russians, or normal people in the EU. My problem is with Europes’ (note the plural, this isn't merely about the EU) institutions, the way they think, the mentality of what a person can do.

At no point in the past two years was I prohibited under the yoke of arrest of going outside. My kids never stopped going to school except for the first two months. My kids don’t have to do security theater or wear masks. No law can, or does, limit my speech. If I had the misfortune of living in a bad neighborhood the law protects my right to defend myself against an intruder.

On the whole, pick any EU country and they all failed on those accounts. Maybe Czechia or Hungary are cool on some of the above.
My bank tried this crap with my Google Voice number and I told them it was my phone number and had been for over a decade.

The rep was able to white-list my number.
Hmm, if the market were the only decider, presumably only the richest could have, say, a large sculpture? Or would businesses underwrite those as a goodwill gesture? I'm not sure that public art is all good, or was even the best use of the money, but I guess on balance I appreciate the impulse.
I'm probably an optimist on Mars travel. I think, with a fuck ton of starships, you could get people living on Mars. But there's some big asterisks on that. You'd more or less have to live in the starships, dependent on shipments from earth, with self sufficiency failing on pretty much every category. Over a very long period, most people would probably die a bit earlier from radiation and dust. Not much would be produced of value. It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, at least. And interest in it would rapidly decline.
No moral panic here, I've got nothing against gambling. I love to gamble. However, crypto is clearly utilized in this case for the trading of unregistered securities via regulatory arbitrage. That's just fact.

Good luck out there, and I hope you win! You'll need it, though, it is after all a mob casino you're gambling in.

This is the classic "I know it's a crooked casino but it's the only game in town" argument. The big issue there is you can't know the odds because the house is playing against you and they can see your hand and they can and do frequently turn the lights off if things start to move against them. This is of course why we register securities and regulate brokerages.

I'm pretty confident we'll recapitulate that in due time.
Meanwhile pissing a lot of people off, turning more against them and making it harder for their own propagandists. Seems like a net negative.
You can access EU-served data from all over the world, that's not a problem. What's in question is bringing data from EU residents outside of the EU to process it.
> If you remove a large component of publisher revenue

1. If you remove Google Ads it doesn't mean other ad systems disappear

2. Google has been caught red handed preventing other ad platforms from competing. https://www.axios.com/google-facebook-conspired-manipulate-a...

3. Google was caught overcharging advertisers and pocketing the difference https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alphabet-and-facebook-ceos...

It's quite possible that if Google Ads go away, it will be a net positive for the system.
The fact that VoIP numbers are declined by so many services just reveals what phone numbers are really used for, these days: Spam account creation prevention.

If this was about security, SMS-2FA would be laughed out the door.
Rust – Build Your First Web App with Poem and SeaORM
I started carpooling with a college and I really miss my time listening to music or podcasts on my commute
Looking at many job posts senior means capable of using React and capable of talking about, but not necessarily using, TypeScript. When senior sounds like faster junior I really have trouble finding what actually differentiates a senior from a junior at these organizations.
Fun fact, the original GPT-3 paper has a whole section on arithmetic as part of its evaluation - https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

Btw as per another comment this is GPT-NeoX-20B,not GPT-3 ; somewhat important distinction
Yeah I remember something similar. It’s not just about coming up with a compliant architecture, but how to get there from what already exists. Of course authorities could say ”not our problem”.
Yea on my Android app, pages such as Twitter and pdf cannot be loaded and displayed properly, and I have to open browser to see the actual content.
Honestly I am at that state right now with HN and Reddit.
Ok, we've reverted the title now. Thanks!

(Submitted title was 'GPT-3's answers to arithmetic questions')
Can we finally stop calling it "drugs and alcohol" and just acknowledge that alcohol is a drug?
Heart muscle doesn't though.

From what I remember from a family members heart attack ... the heart doesn't really heal.

Hence pace makers for a lifetime.

>The heart is unable to regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack and lost cardiac muscle is replaced by scar tissue.

https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiac-repair-regeneration
personally I think everyone's addicted to their phones, or at best has a horrible habit of being on their phones. I used to be the standard modern person, phone always in hand and finding something to do. Over the years I put in work to change that, and now I generally go to my phone if I need it, rather than being on it by default and finding something to do with it. It's incredibly liberating. IMO The experience of using a phone is incredibly cheap and shallow compared to almost anything else you can do, even watching the same videos but on a proper tv or monitor.
Hey, author here. I'm new to Hackernews so my friend posted the link, but I'd be happy to answer any questions.

For some background: Kobweb is built on top of Compose for Web, which is a fairly recent, official, reactive UI framework written in Kotlin. I know that frontend development in Kotlin is still early days yet, but I personally love what JetBrains is trying to do here.

Compose for Web is really neat tech, but there are many decisions it leaves up to the programmer (by design). I'm using Kobweb to add in some opinionated solutions, such as handling routing, client/server communication, color mode support, and (relevant to this post) static site exporting.

Perhaps the best analogy would be I'm writing something like Next.js for React, but in the world of Kotlin.
Related to reading information from LEDs, thought this paper was cool - http://www.applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf (from 2002)

"Dial-up and leased-line modems were found to faithfully broadcast data transmitted and received by the device"

Edit: Also it looks like Loughry has proposed similar work, using lasers and LEDs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00479.pdf