skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But most people send them after the first filter.

I once got sent an automated email after applying to an org with a coding challenge before the first filter. Before even any recruiter/HM or anyone actually at the organization sent me an email acknowledging they received my application.

I initially bristled, and reached out to the generic "recruiting@" email that was present in the HackerRank email for the company, asking if I could at least have a screening call at minimum before committing time to a coding assessment.

They said no.

In the position of "needing work yesterday", I did the challenge.

And was promptly ghosted.
Subreddits are niche subcommunities.

Nobody subscribes to all of Reddit.
> I thought for a while that my memory was deteriorating

not juggling multiple "jobs" but still juggling a lot. i thought perhaps my memory was/is deteriorating... perhaps this is the reason!?
“Labor” usually means unions, not jobs.
Do you want to climb the career ladder?
Synchronization Without Locks
> Cybersecurity CAN be solved. Please don't give up hope.

Thank god there are people like you who still have the courage to
think this way.

My comment "Cybersecurity is doooomed" is actually a little more
nuanced. Here's a few of the issues, as I see it, in a longer form
[1].

Pragmatically, what we now have is a culture aggressively opposed to
the USERS's security [2] under the various veils of "convenience",
"necessary efficiency" and "security". Yes, included in these
"three-little-pigs of broken systems" faux "security" is also key
mechanism for undermining _actual_ security).

To this end, grotesque negligence and incompetence are rewarded in the
name of shipping products, making money, satiating power and exalting
convenience uber-alles.

To take your analogy of money. Quite literally the opposite is being
pushed under the guise of "cashless commerce". Instead of taking $5
from your wallet, you wave a contactless card at an unknown computer
and hope it's "temporary power of attorney over your bank account"
works out fairly.

Yes, cybersecurity can exist. But I don't think it can exist in the
digital ecosystem that corporations and governments want to push onto
society.

[1] http://techrights.org/2021/11/29/teaching-cybersecurity/

[2] I believe, and teach my students, that in the adversarial 21st
century context of unfettered state security and surveillance
capitalism security is a "fixed sum game". For example, the vendor's
security is the user's insecurity, and so on. Any question of security
must be qualified with three further questions:

Security for who?

Security from who?

Security to what end?
I've tried to like Twitter a million times over but "the algorithm" keeps spewing outrage spam at me through recommendations, notifications and basically every free piece of white space on the website. The whole social network looks like one of those ad-ridden top 5 things spam site - I really don't understand how can anyone tolerate this. Especially when clean, beautiful alternatives like Mastodon exist.
Same here. I've had an account since 2007. This will be the thing that nudges me far enough to delete my account.
Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, because this is the first time I’ve heard that a normal public repository should be a treated as a showcase.

Historically, public repos were just where you put code that didn’t need to be private, like hobby code and experiments, just as much as showcase work or supported open source projects.

Has the culture changed so much that this way of using GitHub isn’t familiar to you? How do others here see it?
>People are stooping to his level

I disagree. Musk is stooping to the level of Twitter. Musk's shitposts generate way more activity than any of his SpaceX or Tesla posts.
Transhumanism – Philosophy Tube [video]
Hey, that's really promising.

I think that it's always a net positive to try different diets and see how different you perform with each one. (make sure to keep your macros at the same level.)

I wish that you can stick with it through that period & that it brings you positive benefits.
"there is no easy solution for the NHS. People are living longer and longer, and the required pot of money for running the NHS is getting bigger and bigger. Something will need to change, and I think it will be more private healthcare."

Couldn't a solution be to outsource to countries where healthcare is cheaper? Taking advantage of the cheap flying options like Ryanair or Easyjet...

As for immigration, why not use their (the immigrants) minds and manpower to deindustrialise agriculture and help turn England into a fruit and veg powerhouse... I mean the climate certainly has to have some advantages...

In immigration it's interesting that Denmark is pursuing a similar deal with Rwanda
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/denmark-talks-with-rwan...
"Devil in the White City" is a very fun read which covers the planning and execution of the Chicago World's fair in 1893. It also is interleaved with a tale of a psychopathic murderer who came to town at the same time.

https://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0...
I'm surprised that "Rapture of the Nerds" wasn't mentioned around the "uploaded to the (real) cloud" bit...
FAANG

FAAG

AAG

AA
Barnstorming was at low altitude by slow moving planes. Things have come a long way and we're now dropping planes out of the sky from 3 miles up at 150mph.

I'm thankful the FAA is here to keep this shit under control.
Have you had much luck convincing doctors to go with locals? A doctor who did colonoscopies said that they needed to use a general for their own convenience. Everyone just went along and so that became the standard.
It was a disgrace in the late 90's when I lived there as well - but they tore that one down and the current bullring was a different kettle of fish ... for how much longer though?
> Imo r/childfree to normal people who just don't want to have kids is like r/atheism to normal people who just happen to not be religious. Both subs are absolutely insufferable, even to many of those who align with them on the core premise.

That's an important point. I'm in the "people that just happen to be not religious" group, some people around me are religious and we have no issues getting along. These subreddits are based on a total rejection of "live and let live".
I think the the giga press technology gives them an advantage of 5 years at least (a lot less moving parts, less mistakes made, etc). I have a lot of friends that work for ICE manufacturers (GM) in a variety of positions and every one of the claims there is zero chance GM will convert their fleet from ICE to EV in this decade.

Time will tell, I have a lot more faith in Tesla that the legacy automakers at this point, if that changes, I will sell. If my 5 year lead is correct, I think we will see level-5 FSD by then anyways.
>that home's value has now more than doubled, along with the rest of the homes across almost all locales

That home's price has more than doubled

It's value has only increased if you're willing to pay for it

Technicalities aside, house pricing has been going bonkers leading up to Covid, during lockdowns, and since easing because a lot of people have finally realized you do not need to be "near" work (for many jobs) - and those that you do need to be near to, often exist in lower cost-of-living regions...making those parts of the country look appealing to move to

There's also an increased desire for home ownership among some segments of society, and a relative lack of homes available (see, for example, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOUUS)

Add a relative lack of building materials (and builders) vs demand for housing, and costs going into new construction are up, making the end product (ie the house) more expensive
I think the key points are:

Twitter has 217 million daily active users.

Mastodon has about 250,000 monthly active users out of 3 million registered users, according to Rochko’s estimates.

.004% of twitter’s monthly active users switched

This article seems like a bit fluff to make Elon look bad.
Interesting approach... Just tried it (Elon and Obama) and failed. I could visualise them, tried to think what they would think, but pretty much that.
this is clickbait
I like re-implementing things too! But usually there's a pretty clear difference between "I'm doing this deliberately differently from established-solution X for reasons Y and Z" vs "I'm doing an unrelated task and am using urllib because I'm blindly copying in SO solutions from ten years ago and have never heard of Requests." This kind of thing is the fizzbuzz of ecosystem-awareness.

For an example from my own code— I was learning Rust via AoC a few years ago, and I deliberately chose to do some of the challenges with natural language inputs using Pest rather than just dumb regexes [1]. The regex solution would have almost certainly been shorter and quicker for this limited task, but I would have no trouble justifying this design choice to an interviewer as having been an intentional learning experience.

[1]: https://github.com/mikepurvis/advent-of-code/blob/master/202...
My Mom was part of the crowd that walked over the Golden Gate bridge when it opened in 1937, and she attended the '39 World's Fair on Treasure Island ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_International_Expo... ). Her father had been thrilled by the 1915 World's Fair in the Marina ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93Pacific_Interna... ), partly because his uncle had been an engineer on the Panama Canal.

These events made a big impression on my Mom. It got her interested in "engineering and science". She even had a scar on her shin from where she tripped on the trolley coming back from Treasure Island.

So she brought our family to the '74 World's Fair in Spokane ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_%2774 ). I remember how awesome it was.

World's Fairs have shaped who I am.
>The code I write and push to my self-hosted Gitlab is none of your concern.

Agree and this is a reason I selfhost my own git server and repositories. I still want to use git, but what I personally write is none of a third parties business. I have a bunch of scripts and a few programs in various language's, some side project websites and the like. But none of that is something a potential employer needs to see or start dissecting.
One (late) 90's scifi work that touches a lot on transhumanism but is more depressing than cheery would be the exoplanetary Civilization video game by a philosophy major : ~~Sid Meier's~~ Brian Reynolds' Alpha Centauri :

https://www.gog.com/en/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

(And also the official game-derived books are downright depressing - though also non-canon.)
Notably yt-dlp is able to extract from TikTok well, without using a headless browser.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/yt_dlp/extracto...
Yep, thankfully PHP respects semantic versioning. Much like Python 3 broke 2.x compat, PHP 9 breaks 8.x compat. Although the truly backward compat breaking changes are quite few, and uplifting 8 to 9 will be fairly low effort (and almost certainly something that linting can spot for the vast majority of code bases with near-trivial fixes).

We had to do this when we went from v4 to v5, we had to do this when we went from v5 to v7, we had to do this (but less so) going from v7 to v8, so if having to do this from v8 to v9 as well is suddenly too much work, either you haven't been using PHP for very long, or you took a weird moment to suddenly take exception with codebase migrations. Especially as, of all the version updates so far, 9 promises to be by far the most worth it.
I hope nobody listens to the German government on speech rules and nobody should. There should be a rule that you have to make it through 1 century without creating 2 dictatorships before you can even say anything about allowed or forbidden speech. And no, none of these dictatorships had anything close to free expression like some people hilariously and tragically suggested.
Show HN: Badkeys.info – checking cryptographic keys for known vulnerabilities
Yes of course, the UK could simply print enough money to repay all its debts and that wouldn’t have any harmful or damaging effects on its economy whatsoever…
I have diagnosed ADD and most of your list is very familiar.

The way I things I usually end up binging through the entire book (or series) over several days. If, however, my reading spree is interrupted for whatever reason, I can just forget about what I was reading to the point where I return to it a year or two later to realize that I don't remember anything about it and have to restart.

The same effect tends to happen with any other project or habit I have. Painstakingly form a swimming habit and stick to it religiously for half a year? Doable, though extremely vexing. Then skip swimming for a week for some reason and the routine is just gone. I've had the opposite happen too though, where I just started doing workouts one day and consistently stuck to it for over 2 months with 0 effort (by which I mean I didn't have to struggle with choosing to do it. The actual physical exercise itself is a minor hurdle in comparison). Unfortunately, this habit also evaporated at some point.
Userland frameworks/libs provide those kinds of helper classes already.

And IDEs completely solve the problem of knowing parameter orders by hinting them as you type the functions.

This really isn't that big of a deal.
Interesting, I wonder if VMs would also work for this purpose?
I'm old enough to remember the Century 21 exhibition in Seattle in 1962 (its 60th anniversary looks like the basis of this article). That was one of the few world's fairs to turn a profit, and we still have a lot of infrastructure left over -- the Space Needle, obviously, but also the International Fountain, the Pacific Science Center, Climate Pledge Arena, the Monorail, and many of Seattle's performing arts venues were built for or upgraded for the world's fair and are still in use.
Right, in the context of PHP it makes sense, as bool would imply you might need to handle a truthy value when in reality the return type of several built-in functions is result|false.

Nullable types generally work well, unless you're you have a function that may return nothing, or an error. IE findUser(string $name): ?User wouldn't be able to differentiate between a database error or just not finding a user with that name. Exceptions would work fine here (specifically due to a DB error), but seem a little superfluous for smaller functions.

Personally, I've grown to love the tuple return types of Go/Rust, and I'd love to see first-class support for that within PHP. You can emulate it by returning an array and unpacking it / using list(), but it adds a decent amount of boilerplate and you lose aspects of type covariance in always returning an array.
This... doesn't really work for me. I do enjoy long bike rides, but unless I specifically take steps to focus my thoughts, I will have just as chatty of a mind during exercise as I will at any other time. Probably more so, if my mind is not otherwise needed to make choices. (And, "keep going" isn't really an active choice that bothers my mind.)
Does it mean you're short Meta? Or more than 10y long?
Reading Unfamiliar Code
Amazing? It would be immediately inundated with hateful content, driven by bots more than it already is.

This utopian "free speech" bastion never works out on the internet and always devolves into congregations of hate groups, which normalize themselves and spread. Look at 4ch => 8ch => Brennan's postmortem on the experiment.

Plus there will always be a level of moderation. No censorship of any kind would immediately become overrun with child porn. This has already happened countless times on other platforms.

It simply will never work.
Youtube are a niche collection of youtubers.

Nobody subscribes to every Youtube channel.

So what is your point?

It's a model that work and scales to half a billion users per month.
They dont want to save money, they want to spend all the corporate’s money towards lofty goals and individually sell shares to suckers believing in those goals. Every employee and pre-IPO institutional investors wants to do that.
Please enlighten me on how people and countries differ in the basic concepts of having income, outgoings, and debts
PHP has support for event loops, including libuv. See https://reactphp.org/ you can build performant websocket servers with this.
Without the ads business, Twitter will be operating at huge loss, much larger than recent times. The best way to monetize attention is through ads. I'm not saying that I am happy with that, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that subscriptions will lead to much lower revenue/profit than ads. There's a reason why no other social media platform has ever succeeded through a subscription model.
I'm running a bunch of different read-only sites and APIs on top of SQLite using Cloud Run and Vercel - abusing the fact that if the database is read-only you can package up a binary DB file as part of a Docker container or application bundle and run it on serverless hosting.

This means it won't cost any money if it's not receiving any traffic, and it can scale easily by launching additional instances.

I wrote about my patter for doing this, which I call Baked Data, here: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/

A few examples are listed here: https://datasette.io/examples
This is my first thought of how to do my own VPN in a hostile environment, with the term VPN do you think of consumer VPNs? (Mullvad, Nord, etc.)

When I moved to university, bandwidth was limited in the dormitory to 1mbps/user (in 2016…) This was unacceptable to me, but we had a private link (non-internet) to the campus with virtual desktop infrastructure that had no such limits :). ssh -D immediately gave me 500mbps download to my dorm room, and I guess this sort of thing is probably why I think of ssh -D and running on port 53 etc to evade this sort of thing. Public education in the US can function pretty well as a government out to get you in terms of digital freedom :)
This looks cool, nice work. I was briefly trying to work on a "cloud desktop" system at one point but found it too much trouble to get it working properly.

> Because docker containers are lightweight and run without the extra load of an operating system, you can run many graphical applications on a single kernel.

This is an odd thing to say. Can't I already run many graphical applications on a single kernel even without docker containers? And wouldn't that be even more lightweight?
Wow is the man bashing at its finest.
This is a remarkably uninformed comment. Go actually look at what they post (some of the thousands they've deleted). They lie, slander, misrepresent, and dox repeatedly https://github.com/salcoast/deleted-tweets-archive/blob/main...
Now they'll get fined less than the cost of an ad spot.
Wish F would have left first. Them we'd have AANG. The Avatar state of technology. Yip Yip!
What an utter joy you must be to live with.
The utter lack of any sense of humor is something I seriously hope Elon can continue to reverse. People seriously need to get over themselves and stop seeking out infinite ways to be offended. Live and let live! Life is too short to have sticks so firmly implanted so deeply.
Shhhhhh. We're all having a lot of fun making some cool stuff thanks to them subsidizing the industry.
Rust is definitely as complicated as C++. However its complexity isn't as big of a deal because it's so much safer. If you forget one of the extremely complicated Rust rules you'll get a compile error. If you forget one of the extremely complicated C++ rules you hopefully will get a compile error. Maybe a warning with `-Wall` or maybe you'll silently get memory errors at runtime!
Completely tangential but I had no idea (what I assume to be remnants of) FreeBSD's pf firewall is included, and works, in standard MacOS.
That was fixed already.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params
Ah, this takes me back. I wrote implementations of the Kermit protocol for the Z80, 6502 (both in assembler) and the 8086 (mostly in C, but some assembler for the interrupt-driven I/O). It was a really nice and easy to implement protocol, and very sturdy - you could unplug the serial port connection and then re-plug it, and the file transfer would restart where it was interrupted.

This would have been mid-1980s.
Seems like a lot of theater to me. If you really have that kind of risk profile then you're not running your exit on your own vps. That will singularly identify you and there's no plausible deniability. And you're leaking way more PII in a typical web request over your VPN than than just an IP. I appreciate that people are interested in this stuff and want to do it, but it sounds pointless really.
It seems like when I read something like that, my imagination converts it into a movie scene. So I have a little live-action scene of meeting a person on a street. Its the same as when I read fiction.

The "3 Av/E 117 St" part is a fact I have to memorize with some mnemonic. I think when I was young I would have been able to see it on the street sign, but my eidetic memory gets worse each year, and I'm pretty old.
>> The goal is not to stop talking to ourselves. That would be a bad thing.

This... has not been my experience at all. When the mind is able to be quiet, this is when inspiration and insight is most likely to occur. I have best been able to cultivate the environment for a quiet mind (still a daily practice...) by focusing all attention on one spot in the body, over and over again, as much as possible through the day during any activity.
Did you try to introduce a new measure "MAU excluding bots"? Then over time the company could refocus around that and better policies be made
Mirror: https://archive.ph/hd8fw
I wish 1000 dangs could moderate / set moderation policy on most major platforms
> it's posts videos that are longer than any of their 'true believer' readers will actually watch.

What? How do you know how long they are watched? How do you how long it's watched on Twitter?

> Then labels the videos as evidence of pedophelia/child grooming

Strange way to summarize the captions, the annotations and summaries I've seen were pretty accurate and more specific than your hyperbole.
>The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots

Have you uh, seen "NextDoor"?
> but that's just a fact of healthcare and life.

It's a problem of different goals. In the variants of "Maximize net good/minimize net harm" frequentist statistics are appropriate to reason with. From a individual "maximize my personal quality of life" perspective, I am likely member to many intersectional groups and complexities that render that statistical reasoning meaningless. You can only generalize the results of a study to those represented by it's sampling and the cold hard reality is that a nontrivial amount of people are not represented.

Public health reasoning is entirely self consistent and rational given it's goals (minus perversions due to capitalism and rent seeking).

The problem is that it is actively hostile to most people who are disabled, a minority, or dealing with any long-tail health problem.
This is a project I've been working on for the past months. I figured out there's no easy tool to check cryptographic keys for past vulnerabilities like the Debian OpenSSL bug. The tools from the time the vulns were found are often hard to use or don't work on modern systems.

badkeys.info provides a check for a variety of known cryptographic key generation vulnerabilities. If possible it directly calculates the private key. The backend code that does the checks is available under an open source license. (The webpage code itself will eventually also be published.)