skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the problem is more often than not, I am an employee. I won't come to a company and tell them "you have been using that wrong".

So while correct, your statement is void of any actionable advise
Maybe you just got unlucky with your company. My startup CEO allows everyone to work remotely and we even got LTE USB sticks so that we can bring our laptop and work from nature. I'm currently surrounded by goats. The only mandatory event is an all-hands meeting once per week.
Good science defines its terms. Can you unroll "PC-mob" so we're all on the same page here? You don't sound like an asshole, so your meaning is probably not the usual "anything that leans a little left."
that sounds like extreme stretch, any source for this or it's just your theory?
American cities were utterly destroyed by these kinds of projects.
Kickstarter: tejour – Secure Private Journal
(Is it legit to advertise my kickstarter campaign on HN?)

Hi all,

I created a kickstarter campaign to find out if there is a need for a private online diary. The idea is 8 years old. After I developed C-LISTS I now want to realize tejour. All data is stored encrypted in the cloud. Cost starts at 3 euro / month.

Let me know what you think about it.
I've been using Asus laptops since 2012 (3) and never had a problem. The one from 2012 is still working.
Fair points. It's not a library and it's actually going to be provided as a SaaS product and as you mentioned I think it's best not to share the critical parts of code. At least that's what I'm doing.
Imagine if it was just a chronological order of tweets and retweets from your followers. And that’s it. No algorithm.

Twitter would be so much better.
Oh so I assume there must be evidence of widespread cheating then?
I disagree, and wish it had happened, but regardless, the biggest problem is they failed to invest in a plan B. For example, the options for folks outside of London wanting to get in are dire and could have been solved with several large car parks next to fast mass transit - the two Westfields are perhaps the best options there right now, and those are shopping centres not intended for such use and, ironically, located right next to the expressway projects that did happen (the Westway and the A12 respectively). Maybe CrossRail will help? Park and ride from Abbey Wood, perhaps?

I have a trip to London planned later this year and it's still a toss up between parking at Westfield Stratford or just driving into the city centre and paying the congestion charge.. whereas really it should be an easy choice by now.
Agree. My team is small, but everyone has 10+ years of experience. We can get a lot of research prototypes churned out quickly.

But then for the deployment and maintenance, they hired a large army of cheap inexperienced junior developers.
The proposals for the inner ring are really astounding - it would have gone right through all sorts of lovely historical neighbourhoods, across nice local parks - right through many of the nicest inner suburbs in London. Every time I see the fortress-like sides of Southwyck House in Brixton I'm reminded of it. If it had gone ahead it really would be a completely different city today.
I've just seen some of the pop music royalties - I hope someone doesn't think buying royalties for singer X and then bumping them off is a good way to boost their earnings.
> Unless you reasonably see yourself starting a lawsuit

Vanishingly few go into a contract seeing themselves starting a lawsuit. The option is there for the exceedingly rare occasions it is needed. That option existing is very relevant to how the parties act in their working relationship. If you remove that option, the incentives promote acting in a way previously hindered by that option existing. It's a self-reinforcing loop.
Every satire source runs this risk
Japan doesn't have crime because the police are super involved in the communities they patrol, not because they're homogeneous

Police in the US don't even live in communities they patrol
Show HN: Play DOOM embedded in a tweet.Works in web(chromium) without ad-blocker
Checkout this tweet where you can play DOOM inside a tweet .
Caveats - Only works in chromium based web browsers . Also ad-blockers have to be turned off .
If we permit the fairly recent QOI format[0] we can produce a 1x1 transparent pixel in just 23 bytes (14 byte header, 1 byte for QOI_OP_INDEX, 8 byte end marker):

71 6f 69 66 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 04 00 | 14 byte header
00 | QOI_OP_INDEX
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 | end marker

Similarly the 103 byte png in the article would be [EDIT] This is incorrect, see below

71 6f 69 66 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 04 00 | 14 byte header
fe b7 d0 d0 | QOI_OP_RGB, RGB color,
fd fd fd fd c6 | QOI_OP_RUN for 62+62+62+62+7
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 | end marker

[0]: https://qoiformat.org/qoi-specification.pdf

[EDIT] I realized that we actually run into one of QOI's drawbacks if we were to encode the 103 byte png in the article, as we actually need to repeat the pixel 65535 times, so we'd have floor(65535/62)=1057 QOI_OP_RUN bytes followed by another QOI_OP_RUN to repeat the last pixel. Here it's pretty clear that the QOI spec missed out on special handling of repeated QOI_OP_RUN operators, as long repetitions could have been handled in far fewer bytes.
Your comment amounts to saying that some of the randomly generated data really is consistently over estimating it's performance. How absurd.

Like similar analyses here you don't factor in that DK is about bias. Of course you can't see bias when test score=self assessment. That's because "IF everyone perfectly knows their score then there is no bias in their assessment" is a tautology.
> they told me that I was wrong

What a bizarre response... somebody who isn't the person you intended to email has replied to you from the address you sent the message to. What could possibly make someone think that the person replying is the one who was wrong?
What are we even talking about any more? The post was about some wiki sofware. Of course some people may use it in a private context. So what?
Where are good startup ideas born?
I still miss ChristWire
Companies Big and Small Can Benefit from a Clear Remote Work Strategy
You re making a good case about why twitter is overrated as a medium and should not be taken seriously. the vast majority are crazies, who don't matter. The rich men are interested in controlling it because there is a small minority in it, the journalists, who are using it as a measuring stick and as a way to coordinate their stories. While that's true, those journalists are not a particularly sticky crowd and will move elsewhere if some or other rich man thinks he can control them. I think substack is their next campsite, and it could easily launch a microblog timeline.
If you don’t have an account to deposit a check into, you can usually take it to the issuing bank to cash it. I’ve done this many times at many different banks, the only place to charge a fee was BoA.
I also use unique email addresses per service and most of my spam seems to originate from breaches or websites that have since died. My ISP also uses SpamAssassin so at lot of it gets filtered before it gets to me, so the amount I get isn't in any way overwhelming, esp. given the amount of places I've signed up to.
Red States rights not blue.
Unit testing for bash-scripts and functions
> AI managers who are optimizing transparent objectives

All AIs that I've seen so far just optimize the reproduction of existing biases and/or serve to obfuscate policy decisions by ensuring that no person is left to blame. Are you stating a dream there, or did I miss a development towards practical AI systems that make decisions more transparent?
watever: WebAssembly Text Bundler
The mill guys post one or two updates per year on their forum site. Apparently covid messed up their timeline a lot, but they aren't bankrupt or anything.
You might even call it creep creep. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
I waited until my Gmail doppelganger ordered a pizza, then from the phone and address details in that email I was able to text him and say I hoped he enjoyed the pizza, that his house looked nice from Street View, and please stop using my email address. He did.
How old were you when you needed the bypass?
Produce evidence or take an L. I bet it's not the first time.
Agree. And imagine if, instead of a single “good for all” black box algorithm, one could simply apply custom filters. “See less of this” or “always show” or “no retweets”.

People are obsessed with personalization algorithms and disappointed when this involves giving people control to personalize. As though personal control isn’t magical enough (in comparison to the magic of the algorithm).
Why use an image at all when css background-color exists?
> I disagree, and wish it had happened, but regardless, the biggest problem is they failed to invest in a plan B. For example, the options for folks outside of London wanting to get in are dire and could have been solved with several large car parks next to fast mass transit

encouraging more cars into the center is explicitly an anti-goal, so not sure why you wish these projects had been built?

yes there should be more park and ride on the outskirts, but Stratford isn't really outskirts anymore, and wasting lots of land for parking in Stratford or White City instead of homes also seems a silly waste of their good connectedness.

> I have a trip to London planned later this year and it's still a toss up between parking at Westfield Stratford or just driving into the city centre and paying the congestion charge.. whereas really it should be an easy choice by now.

I guess that indicates the congestion charge could be higher.
Ah, yes, the algorithmic feed does that unfortunately. Sorry for polluting it with iSH daily builds :(
My comment was rather language-agnostic. Are there any fundamental differences in implementation of RSA or EC in various languages?
NNs dont need to be transparent as long as the objectives are transparent
GRUB does this relatively easily (without needing emulation) as I too have done it before on an old tablet.
I am not sure what OS you are using but it should work fine for Linux and Windows although only the prior is easy and just works. On Debian and it's derivatives you just need the grub-efi-ia32 package, and then regular GRUB install process and 64bit loads fine without anything special.
For the unaware, SEH can be used by malware to evade detection: https://marcoramilli.com/2011/11/28/pop-pop-ret-seh-exploiti... , also, X64 uses a table based approach in the PE header: https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm%5earticle=469.htm
Personally, I try to stay away from "lifestyle synthesists" like Andrew Huang, Bo Beats and (to a certain extent) Ricky Tinez. I don't like the feeling that I'm being marketed to by an influencer who is in it for the money rather than for the music itself. Loopop is great for reviews of new gear because he's clinical with his descriptions, but otherwise I try to focus more on channels like Alex Ball, Bad Gear and Matt Johnson, where the music-making process is at the forefront.
I guess you don't understand that your answer actually backs up the reason why it shouldn't be allowed to happen.
GH profiles are geek business cards, these days.

I always look at profiles.

I spent a bunch of time, customizing mine: https://github.com/chrismarshallny
We don't need != We don't only need.

First one means "throw it away". Second one means "add other things too".
> He writes lots because writing little is not his goal

It doesn't matter to write long or short; it matters to write clearly.

The purpose of any art form is to promise a payoff and then deliver on that payoff.

If the artist doesn't deliver, they have failed. If they deliver so late that the public has left the building, they have failed. If they make no clear promise, they have failed even more.

> it is not a great article to retweet to your followers

I don't have any follower, and I don't "follow", anybody. I don't play that game at all. But I am used to great writing from great writers of the past, and this ain't it.
Most of the spam I receive these days comes from DNS registry contact info. I always select the domain privacy option when possible, but certain TLDs like .us do not allow this option.

I’ve been using unique addresses for almost everything for several years now and I don’t get nearly as much spam as I anticipated when I first set it up. There’s one app I used years ago with a custom address and still get consistent spam from different people… I always wonder if the data was sold or stolen.

It is a bit humorous when a sales person asks for an email address and I give them something like theircompanyname@mydomain.com and they’re unsure if I’m openly blowing them off or that’s my actual address.
I have firstname.lastname@gmail.com and my name seems to be the same as a beef farmer in Australia. It was mildly amusing to get Aberdeen Angus bull semen auction details, but when I started getting his loan details from a bank I had to reply and tell them.
* I wrote 3 years ago (June 20, 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231341

>Even when someone is the first with tech and prioritization, it does not mean they succeed in the long term after the field matures. I don't have high hopes for Slack in 5-10 years. Neither do I see Dropbox or Netflix justifying current valuations in the same time period.

Since then NFLX: -40.90%, SP500: +51.14%, DBX: -10.08%

* 2 years ago (Aug 4, 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24054157

>Almost all Netflix competitors (Disney, Amazon, HBO Max, Peacock, Apple ... ) will have other sources of revenue besides streaming so they can afford to keep loosing money to gain market share. Netflix can't cut prices too much.
When anti-semites or alt-right people or other hate groups decide to adopt an arbitrary, commonly used sign (like, the "ok" symbol [1]), is the correct reaction to stop using that sign, basically giving it to them, or is the correct reaction to use it as much as possible in non-racist/x-ist contexts, to dilute the intended co-option? Honestly I don't really know the answer. I completely understand avoiding it to not have your comment or action taken out of context, as the risk of personal damage is high, but on the other hand I don't feel that society should just "give away" common symbology just because some hate group decides to take it. How can this be fought?

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/26/us/adl-new-hate-symbols/i...
I too did a search. So far we have only "I don't want drama"-smoldesu's assertion that this happened.
What is post-libertarian? Was libertarian just a waypoint?
Interesting that you bring up Wings3D. It was inspired by the polygon modeling tools in Symbolics's S-Geometry package.
This post was second-chanced and the timestamp was moved ahead, so this was the first post, the second post arrived, then this one got the timestamp moved forward from the second chance pool.
We know from countries that did go the fibre route that it actualy works out cheaper than trying to maintain a copper network as the copper you replace can be sold for almost as much as it costs to replace with fibre.
If the type system is not powerful enough it will be extra works just to get around the inadequacy..
If c# have some support of sum type and structural subtyping like Python I will be using that... I mean even Haskell does not have proper records.. Python is not definitely the best, but quite nice among the current options.
If LA is anything to go by, building these large elevated highways wouldn't have fixed anything. Tokyo does have a lot of elevated highways, admittedly, and that has a certain aesthetic appeal there, but it's a very different place. If the elevated highways in London had ended up anything like the Westway, it would have been awful.

I do agree that we could do with more Park and Rides though. In the past, I've parked at the O2 because there's always space in the day, then took the Jubilee line in.
What do you think about using SQL views and functions to make composable, modular SQL code?
Most spam I receive are dictionary attacks, or emails harvested from my web site and places where I make it available.

Such as my profile here on HN.

But there some that must have been leaked or sold from specific services. These include, but are not limited to: USwitch, Linked-In, Disqus, and a forum to support LGBTQIA+ people in academia.

There are others where I have strong suspicions and some evidence, but where it's not airtight.
Someone did the same thing with Facebook to a person I know. She finally went to Facebook, selected "forgot password", changed it and deleted the account. Problem solved.
For me, it's just a data point.

Usually, people have their stuff spread around, and the GH profile can be a "gateway" to the rest of their information.

In my case, I have a ton of open-source stuff, so my GH profile is a good starting point.
Side note, with the invasion scare it's been almost impossible to buy any sort of consumer radiation monitors. Everything is sold out or on backorder.
> You need to get your software signed by Microsoft because it wants to be the arbiter of allowed software.

Microsoft is deliberately not handling Authenticode certificates themselves in an attempt to stem this problem.

Those certificates are instead held by third-party CAs.
Threads suck.. They suck a lot.

If you're in a thread and get tagged in another thread then you jump there. Now good luck finding the thread you were originally in. Tabbed threads would work a treat.

If each thread spawned a new tab, that would work. Main channels view, and each thread is just a tab. We live in a browser and an IDE, tabs are easy.
Out of interest, why do you wish that it had happened? As far as I'm concerned, the idea of making London more car-friendly is directly at odds with anything that would actually improve the city itself.

> solved with several large car parks next to fast mass transit

I don't disagree with this concept, but your suggestions are still surprisingly far in to London. Why do they need to be inside the M25 at all?
Employment Opportunities for Applicants with Cybercrime Records
Indeed, this is the correct solution.

Even if you assume that a user has a broken setup that somehow submits weird characters, you're still better off accepting it so that at least they can continue to log in using that weird setup, as opposed to trying to "correct" it and potentially locking the user out.
Allegedly it was repealed so that independent media could use content produced by government agencies. At least that is what some people write. I don't think combating "misinformation" is a good idea though. Too often what constitutes misinformation is in they eye of the beholder.

Perhaps it is just a nudge toward the EU which has the same idea. He might not know how stupid the EU can be on anything digital.

I don't think that you really can differentiate between domestic and foreign information campaigns anymore. That everyone can understand English can be a great cultural boon for English speaking countries. Disadvantage is that everyone can now understand what you are saying...
This isn't a trading desk, this is an internet forum where opinions are worth points, and the points don't matter.

Setting up an account with a broker to do options trading requires a lot more capital or margin and requires a lot of research to understand puts/calls, hedges, etc. Buying stocks of other companies you believe will grow is a perfectly fine approach.

One can have an opinion about a company and not do anything with the stock. One can also have opinions about laws, political candidates and ice cream flavors and not do anything about them as well (at least in the US, other countries may silence political opinions).
Raw WebAssembly Demos
If only journals actually wanted to contribute… They just want to skim.
Yes, the whole point is that you can use sound statistics in bad faith.
I receive emails almost every day for various people with my same name in other parts of the US, the UK, and Australia. For ones that matter, like job interviews, I try to let people know they have the wrong email address.
Robert Moses was successful carrying out many projects like this in the 1960s to add urban highways in NYC and other northeast US metropolitan areas.

It's mostly a big tragedy. Neighborhoods sliced through, where highways created largely impermeable boundaries for pedestrians. And the swaths of destruction where eminent domain was invoked and then dense, culturally rich, bustling, thriving blocks and blocks were bulldozed and paved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
Severance Captures the Work/Life Imbalance
> ARM spends it on pc being wrong.

Heh, having dealt with x86 for years, this is comparatively such a nothing burger. It's always a simple known fixed offset.

> softfloat vs softfp vs hardfp vs vfp

That's something not really unique to ARM per se. Any architecture with options for hardware FPU are going to practically need ABI specs for the soft and hard cases (you don't absolutely need anything more than hardfp since you can always emulate but it will be slow as shit) - and ARM is certainly not unique in having multiple hardware floating point implementations either.

> two incompatible assembly language dialects

Curious what you're referring to here - but I personally wouldn't consider assembly language dialects to be part of a CPU architecture.
It's demographic. Almost all of my SMS and phone spam is from the GOP. For whatever reason, about 15 years ago, they started thinking I'm my grandmother when I was the process of moving across the country and stayed with her for a week, and have been relentlessly telling Dora about the downfall of America if she doesn't do something ever since. Amazingly, she is still alive, but nearly 90, and I imagine they will continue doing this long after she is gone, spamming the wrong number of a corpse.

This was actually the only political spam I got for most of my life until my wife got mad at me for never voting and I finally registered. Then the Democrats must have trawled the public records and they started spamming me, too. I'm so glad to have participated in democracy. Things are clearly much better in 2022 than in 2019 because I voted.
How does it work when parameter value changes plan? Simple example: `where name like ?`. If parameter is 'abc%', then you can use index. If parameter is '%abc', you can't use index.
I was ready to order the book until he writes about Frederic begbeider. Then I cancelled
Interesting to read in the current context of the Silvertown tunnel currently being built despite complaints from both sides of the river and an admission from TFL that it may make traffic worse south of the river.

Not to mention the fact that cyclists can’t use the tunnel…
One does not need to have done social science research to be able to recognize obvious general philosophy of science level problems with the methods used in much social science.

I’d we take your claim seriously then we have to disallow all critiques of the replicatability crisis in the social sciences that don’t come from social scientists, but that would present an obvious new problem: conflict of interest. It’s also just an absurd requirement.
> cheap 5Gbps FTTH

I don't think there is a better way to rub salt into the wound.