skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also on F-Droid/OsmAnd

https://gitlab.com/mvglasow/satstat
Devil's advocate: Why is it a bad sign if the situation doesn't come up often enough for a formal process to have emerged?

(I'll also note that this query will lead to the interviewers wondering things like "Are they trying to figure out if they can game the system? Or are they going to try and get people they disagree with fired? Are they trying to play any games in general?" etc...)
I get a feeling that the news feed was never really what social people wanted. And when they included stories, there was even less reason to post to the news feed.

I think the most social value of Facebook is in groups. There are some amazing groups where people self-organize, share knowledge and generally help each other.

The public FB is mostly about media companies sharing stuff, but groups is where people are actually involved and that part is very much alive.
Your comment reminds me that most sculptors create lots of sketches and small models before starting on their actual work. 3D modelling tools are the most malleable medium to date, you can even undo certain actions, very unlike chipping away at stone.
>The NeoVim design team has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of Vi's core value proposition as well as a total disregard for the fundamental Unix philosophy. The bloated, buggy result is nvim.

Nothing to see here, move along. When you read "unix philosophy" and some need to "progressively learn neovim from vi/vim" you know you're for an unsufferable "You don't know Unix" lecturing...

To save you time, here's the first complain:

"NeoVim looks in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for its configuration files which means that it follows the ~/.config/... location convention that is now the Linux standard. I love this! I love their concern for this standard. Unfortunately, after more than two decades, no one cares because you already are maintaining your Vim configuration in a dotfiles repo and providing symbolic links. Besides, moving the configuration file is downright stupid given the decades of precedent with ~/.vimrc."

It goes downhill from this already low point...
Not true, they add a bitterant but if it's in the US they're still required to add acetone and methyl isobutyl ketone as well.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/21.49

That formula clearly spells out rubbing alcohol and disinfectants under the authorized uses. It's toxic and unpleasant.
> The stack has the requirement that its size must be known at compile time for each function.

Not really. You can bump your stack pointer at any time. Even C has alloca and VLAs. In lots of languages it's dangerous and not done because you can stack overflow with horrible results, and some (but not all) performance is lost because you need to offset some loads relative to another variable value, but you can do it.

What the stack really has a requirement that any values on it will go full nasal demon after the function returns, so you'd better be absolutely certain the value can't escape - and detecting that is hard.
Not the parent, but I suspect it's not better in the outcome, just in the amount of effort you have to go into creating and arranging vs just throwing documents at it and searching later.
Yup. That vagueness is why I asked.
Theres a mobile app; https://github.com/bauerj/paperless_app
It was supposedly the a keeper's nightmare (because of its chaotic trajectories) yet this world cup was the cup with the lowest amount of goal scored in the past 20 years and came with the record of the fewest goals scored by a world cup winner, so we can argue that it didn't have the effect people feared…
That replacement of Him with Them in a (presumably base64) sha512 is priceless.
EV reduces fuel consumption compared to ICE. I don’t think it necessarily reduces depreciation, especially if the price is much higher than a regular taxi to start with. Notwithstanding the recent year or two where cars have actually appreciated due to inflation, in general more expensive cars with more tech depreciate faster than more basic cars.
And another reason is that some devs, like me, don't want to pay Apple $100 year to have apps on the store, especially if they're free apps.
Because it ran the newspapers out of business
It's a bit like infrastructure as code. When you rebuild the infrastructure from code regularly, you don't accumulate in-place changes. Hmm, that reminds me of a biological version...
i suspect most ppl don't know the difference anyway.

mvp is still the name of the game.
Looks like a nicely designed product.

How long have you guys been working on it ?

Customer feedback is a hard space to compete in - there’s a few players in this space.

I’d be interested in trying this out.
> What does it do to bee evolution to take away their instincts and ability to self-regulate their hive ? What impact does that have on how the bees measure the inside and outside environment?

Wouldn't this take at least a few centuries of continued use to actually change something via evolution? Unless all your bees are dead in 2 years, obviously.
... high-level contacts into Google's upper tier sometimes can't even help.
People know they need to find out whether and when they can or must free a pointer. If it looks enough like a file descriptor, they know they might need to call close() on it. For other types, there are no standard conventions.
There is, but it presents its own problems.

For example - junk food, infinite scroll, instagram, many forms of advertising seem to hijack (for a lot of people, but not all) some of the mechanisms that we have evolved (and that are useful 'in the wild') in a way that does not benefit, and often actively harms, the person.

A culture that actively detects and rejects such things can be somewhat effective, as it can make employing such mechanisms unprofitable. It is still unlikely to protect the most vulnerable.

One could legislate and make such practices illegal. But that raises the problems of 'who decides' and 'where do you draw the line', and of necessity restricts human freedoms (and also creates illegal markets with organized crime). See, for example, narcotics or prostitution (which both are good examples of the hijacking I described). Should we go back to something like the Hayes code for movies?

The fundamental question is whether it is ok to do good to someone against their will.
not disagreeing with anything there. i use irc more, myself.

merely noting that the social interaction mode with other users is IRC style.
The risk of being the sole owner of your bank is fairly obvious, though. I'd want multiple owners for central limit theorem reasons. How would you work around extreme variability in demands if you are the sole owner?

Also, how would you earn interest on your money if not by lending it out to others, who would then also be customers of your bank and hence owners?

It sounds to me like what you describe is either

(a) not really a bank in the sense that we mean when we talk about banks, or

(b) not a logical extension of collective ownership but rather that you want a traditional capitalist bank except where you are the owner instead of someone else.
Is this an issue with aab files not being pulled through?
>Computers suck at networking. ... The day you network two computers together is the day you've opened yourself up to a world of hurt.

This is actually a pretty insightful comment, and something I haven't thought about in a number of years since networking disparate machines together to create a system in now so second nature to any modern software that we don't think twice about the massive amount of complexity we've suddenly introduced.

Maybe the mainframe concept wasn't such a bad idea, where you just build a massive box that runs everything together so you never get http timeouts or connection failed to your DB since they're always on.
> No, outside special code it is impossible to know at compile time how many heap allocation a function will have.

Huh?

def foo:
return [new Object, new Object]

That'll always bump the TLAB three times. Why not bump it one time for all objects?

> The stack has the requirement that its size must be known at compile time for each function.

Also huh?

For example a local array that has a dynamic size.
With Little Snitch (and thorough abandonment of iCloud, iMessage, Siri, FaceTime, and the App Store) you can have this once again.

There are about 30 Apple processes to which you need to deny all network access. Then a Mac is relatively quiet. (By default Apple stuff is whitelisted in Little Snitch, you have to go and manually uncheck built-in allow rules.)

Apple built something called the ContentFilterExclusionList that bypassed Little Snitch and VPNs for Apple apps, which was thankfully disabled rapidly (and without an announcement) after a big backlash. Hopefully it will not resurface.

If it does it will still be possible to alter the system boot security level setting and tamper with the signed system volume (and modify the exclusion plist) and the system will still work (and so will the firewall), but it will take some hacking. This (and the work by marcan and the Asahi team) is the sole reason why I just dropped eight large on that chonky mac mini with the twenty cores.

The escape hatch remains. For now. (You still can't buy them anonymously.)
It's a very useful tool. I mainly use it to back up my documents instead of only keeping the paperless ones though.
MagicEarth is based on OSM and their navigation is great, both for driving and walking (haven't tried cycling). I even got better routes suggested when driving vs Google Maps (I compared with a friend using GMaps, he switched to MagicEarth after that :-) ). The only time it messed up was by suggesting a non-existent walking path down a hill in Kiev, which resulted in me rolling down and slicing my arm open, nothing to serious though. Overall I'm happy enough with it to not spend more time looking for other alternatives. If anyone has a better alternative, I'm always listening.
That last part sounds interesting. Can you elaborate?
This is my side project, I'm a dev currently contracting at DfE. This library and the form builder[0] make working with the design system easier for Rails devs.

[0] https://govuk-form-builder.netlify.app/
Thanks - let me know if we can help in any way!

Feel free to email me at elliott@frill.co if you have any questions.
I don’t think I ever met someone I thought was really smart. That leaves me and as for myself, I started 2 companies, 1 was mildly successful.
I've been moving more and more to apps like Devonthink. I use Obsidian and Zotero, which while they different use cases are a similar 'old paradigm'.

My thinking recently has been on the storing items in a way that will last. It seems every year another SaaS gets bought and/or shutdown. Text based storage (Obsidian/Markdown) and desktop/foss apps are one way to combat that.
Linux package managers are great I haven't had to build a program from source in years.

But how do I know the source code I check is the binary my machine runs? Even if I build from source I could have a malicious gcc that takes clean source and outputs a malicious binary.

Unless you are running jit or something you can't really know what your computer is running even if you use open source.
If the requirement has a disparate impact on one of those protected classes, you can run into problems in the US.

So in the case of plumbers, if a plaintiff can show that you are hiring fewer women because women are less likely to have CS degree—then you would need to show a “demonstrable relationship to the requirements of the job” for a CS degree.

However, this isn’t an issue for software developer positions. A CS degree doesn’t have to be absolutely necessary to be able to perform the job, it just needs a demonstrable relationship to the job requirement. There is also already precedent that a degree in a related field does meet that requirement.
i don’t think the case is that gradient buttons are lost knowledge

the problem is it’s not fashionable anymore
That is not, in fact, a nice thing. It is exactly what you would better have different types for, that implicitly do the right thing, and only ever do the right thing.

HANDLE is the worst of all possible worlds.
> I was taught the same in my Electrical Engineering degree!

That's true. I'm not implying at all that in Engineering they do stuff the same way ham radios do, but sometimes we see Engineering building successfully upon certain phenomena, even though the comprehension of the underlying mechanisms is still evolving.

A good example of that are the explanations for how an airplane wing works. It's been 20 years or so that the Coanda Effect is accepted as the explanation (afaik), but that didn't prevent engineers from building airplanes before that.
If anything, the war is showing the weaknesses of democracies. Authoritarian governments can push their agenda without distraction, while most politicians in democracies are fighting a popularity contest. In the race to get elected, politicians will embrace short term economic wins, and avoid hardship at all costs. It took a brutal war for Europe to realize that they have limited ability to defend themselves, and that they've made themselves dependent on Russian energy.

A war with Xi's China will be a wholly different matter. In peace time, democracies shifted a large part of their manufacturing capacity into a dictatorship. And funneled trillions into their economy; a part of which is being spent on creating a powerful military. Democracies will continue to do this, since in the short term doing business with dictatorships may be good for their local economy. And It'll help with reducing emissions, because the factories are out of sight. Doing business with dictatorships will improve the prospects of getting re-elected, and getting re-elected is a politician's job.
Cant dig up gold while taking a nap. Can mine coins.
> Absolutely true. It is a huge problem to have so much power among unelected career officiates.

The problem is election in the first place. Power is delegated to power-hungry sociopaths instead of being exerted by the people directly. Whether an executioner or secret service agent is elected or not doesn't matter: these roles are profoundly inhumane and anti-democratic per se.

We need actual democracies in which no State, no Federal Government, and no secret agency can decide what's best for us and assassinate or imprison anyone who disagrees.
I thought microwave heating had more to do with inducing electric currents in the water and the resistance losses heating the food?

That being why they’re bad at defrosting ice unless there’s already some liquid water present, and why they can heat molten glass but not (directly) melt solid glass?

(I’m neither a chemist nor a physicist nor a radio frequency electronics engineer, so I may be way off here).
https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-...

> On February 17, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a press conference that financial institutions have started freezing accounts and canceling credit cards in accordance with the Emergencies Act, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked earlier this week.

> The powers granted by the act would allow banks to target the accounts of people who have donated to crowdfunding platforms, like the fundraising campaigns on GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, that have fueled the ongoing protests, but Freeland said she would not give "specifics of whose accounts are being frozen."

They can lock anything for any amount and not give any details. Supposedly they have unlocked some, but there's no way of knowing who and why not for others. Typical petrostate behavior.
Computer Science in the Real World: The Transform Matrix
State Department will offer ‘X’ gender marker for U.S. passports
Won’t be watching any of the World Cup as a protest towards the terrible treatment of the labourers there and the corrupt process of selecting Qatar.

I only hope others follow.
It's like the 1920s TV Tropes.
Does Spring4Shell impact embedded Tomcat?
This needs work. Type in "go" in the tech search. Comes back with all kinds of silly suggestions like "hbo go". "Golang" didnt come up either.
"I will never understand the strength it must have taken to do that."

It might have been strength rooted in desperation.
Jabulani wasn't the worst in that decade of World Cups' balls: Fevernova had the crazy curving ability and was significantly faster than others at the time, Teamgeist is the lowest diameter possible and feels like a rubber ball for kids.

To GP: a difference in texture results in a slightly different technique in ball control and trajectories possible due to a friction drag.

As for GGP's comment: a professional football player can adapt to a ball in a couple of training sessions.
Is there a concept for the psychological phenomenon where, after you have identified an assuredly bad guy, you see a good guy appear?

I just don't understand how we can attribute this strength of democracy to the United States in particular. I think it's very clear the rotation of leaders we get all come from the same batch of people, and all of them, within their party lines, say the same things over and over. Pervasive problems in gerrymandering are widely known. The conditions and conciliations under which you can even enter and be supported by a political party to become a leader, seems to preclude a lot of the benefits of the democratic rotation of leaders. Not even to mention the economic requirements.

I think its good to be hopeful I guess, but I just really really don't understand. It seems like so many valid issues with our country have just disappeared from people's mind the past month. Just a few years ago, all these pundits were going "democracy dies in the darkness" and articulating how fragile all this is because of interests ultimately alien to the common person. Now? It seems like we truly manifest the superpowers of democracy. I just don't understand why we can't handle the minimum of nuance such that we don't devolve into naive moral stories about the world.
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What does it mean that "democracy has failed"? In my opinion, the failure of democracy is that it appears unstable, and its superpower of kicking out lasts only so much.

In that light, the surveys showing that people want military rule highlight the failure of democracy: it isn't likely to last despite its advantages.

You'd think that the continuous replacement would make the public opinion more favourable of the system compared to rulesrs for life, and yet some prefer autocracy. Why is that? I think that's the missing question from this article and the real insight to be gleaned.
Seriously, that was an interesting question to research for a moment - is it really an iPhone (from the visual) and if: what type? I think its the version 6 regular size or an SE 2020, because the button until version 5 had a symbol on it and some like the 6s seems to have a different postioning of the power button, others don't seem to have the proportions. And then again, its probably a digital rendering (search for "mockup iphone"). Last but not least the visuals of apple iPhones have been copied countless times to cheap android knockoffs.
> It's bad enough that browsers assume my website, that's made up entirely of free-flowing text inside p tags, won't fit on phone screens unless I add a meta viewport tag.

This anoys me to no end as well. It's especially ridiculous now that mobile browsers provide a "Desktop" mode that can be used as a fallback for those sites that do need a larger page width.
> some crazy hypothesizing

This is crazytalk indeed - but I like it. The role of personalities in society is certainly underestimated and understudied. My favorite "proof" is how certain societies favor certain personality types, i.e. how a certain personality probably won a culture war that took place in the formative years of that culture. Which could explain why som introvert westerners feel at home in in the restraining culture of Japan, and why some extrovert and freedom-needy Japanese feel more at home in the US culture.

And I agree that democracy should better allow for peaceful coexistence between personality types - it is not always the case though, at least not hitherto: even democracy has a history of repression against people with certain personality types: introversion (shyness, modesty) is still regarded as borderline pathological in many western societies.

With that said - there is much more going on in a culture than things predicated on personalities. But it has a certain influence, I'm sure of it.
> but the community as a whole will always have accurate information of what is what

OpenSSL audit would like to have a word with this mythical community. log4j vulnerability, too.
> NeoVim might be installed on maybe 10,000 systems tops.

This made me laugh out loud. Someone's real salty.
Keep in mind that BMW number is probably including a yearly maintenance/tune up at the dealer that includes an oil change, new wipers, cabin air filter, and nitrogen in the tires all for one low price of $599.
And yet despite compromises, Australia still has concentration camps for immigrants on the northern coast. Ask ordinary people if they support such inhumane treatment and they'll tell you hell no, yet your political system still produces and legitimizes that. Australia is not a democracy, and i don't know many democratic systems in the world (except maybe for the Zapatistas caracoles in Chiapas or democratic confederalism in Rojava).

Not judging, i'm myself from a colonial Empire masquerading as a democracy (France). It's just that changing the complexion/conditions of who exerts power is the wrong solution to a real problem: abolishing power is in my view a much more reasonable policy.
I would began from the another end of problem. We, the humankind, do exist and that's mean we have something very rational innate. Then we used to develop the concept of rationality per se, but seems we haven't develop the proper understanding of the human nature. So, I propose you to consider to look at your "isn't rational" as a rational on some higher level which is definitely beyond of our understanding of the human nature and the rest of world's nature.

A little example from my experience: I know that programming on Lisp is kind of one of the most rational things I (as the citizen of world, not as a greedy egoist) can do, especially if the result will be a FOSS software. But also I need to spend time to: sleeping, eating, cleaning my body and house, earning money, having rest after workday, having travels for having bigger chunks of rest, having rest after that travelling, having some another duties... Am I not rational? Potential users of my (unreleased) FOSS application might think that I can be a lot more rational than I use to be, but some other people can say I am enough rational, especial if I have an ability to think about all of that. Maybe your problem is very different from mine, but please do not forget that you do have a lot of rationality which seems to be so rational that you even can not think about it (because it is also rational!)

Hope my example helps you to look at your problem from another angle.
Ask HN: As a coder, do you use deliberate memorization to be more efficient?
Interpretations of I-Ching
divination seem to show the same: you can't gain "useful information", but you absorb background knowledge and understand your own motives better(like rubber duck debugging forces you to reify your mental model)
So according to Google one Beehive can produce 20-30kg of honey per year. For the 24 beehives in this machine that would be 720kg of honey max, selling for around 10€ per kg in Germany. That would make a maximum of 7200€ in one year, while the machine costs 4800$/year plus 2000 for delivery in the first year. Additionally, the Beekeeper has to retrieve, package and sell the honey. I don't see this machine reaching profitability, even if it would mean no work whatsoever for the beekeeper.