skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source of the problem.

It's the War On Drugs all over again.

We understand addiction enough to be able to say that a person's mental, emotional, and psychosocial states are the greatest causes of addiction and not the drug itself.

Social media leads to an increase in a cortisol and dopamine. It also increased oxytocin by a large margin. Behaviors linked to its use are similar to that of other substances that increase those hormones directly.
Show HN: Koffi – low-overhead Node.js to C FFI
I wouldn't expect Deliverr to add much, if any, environmental impact.

The way they work is by partnering with hundreds/thousands of warehouses throughout the US. The merchant sends units in to a few of these, and now the units are closer to the end customer, so it can get there faster.

Whether it's all stored in one central warehouse, and then distributed, or done via Deliverr (& Amazon FBA & Walmart's) way, it still needs to get from A to B. Just now it's closer. There might be a little extra shuffling.

What I love about Deliverr is they have very predictable pricing. I used them for some small units I experimented with adding to my catalog.
"Elements of Pantheism" perhaps? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1920368.Elements_of_P...
The URL encoding problems of .Net Core are pretty amusing. Makes me think of all the strange problems with URIs that make URIs look like a bad choice for the semantic web.
I agree with you too, we should avoid things that have a repercussion long time into the future.

I am especially wary of man made chemical molecules that have a long lifespan (BPC, fluorinated compound, etc)

With technology we make two step forward and one step back at the same time. We create new wonderful opportunities but we also create damage that we often overlook at first.
Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta Released
Laws, ok good one.

You better not own a clothes drier or a set of Christmas tree lights (2 things that use more energy globally than Bitcoin) because in a world hurt by co2, everyone has to suffer the consequence from climate change.
Don't lend more than you can claw back in small claims court. And have a written agreement. The small claims court size limits the potential downside, and the written agreement is proof of intent enough to stand up in small claims, so long as it's SMART (just like goals: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound).
Very nice! I wish I had something like this when having to write papers for university. There are some nice tools but getting a consistent layout was always a problem. Are more diagram types planned?
>Basic Qualifications
> • PhD degree in a field related to Image Analysis, or equivalent work experience

I think I know why.
If you want my anecdote, I've seen it a lot. I'd suggest asking your managers, directors, CEOs if they've experienced it themselves -- I bet they have and that it happens all the time.

Dismissing this as mere signaling (as others here have) is ironically almost as bad.
Apologies for the confusion, I goofed. Parent comment has been edited.
I'm not sure how many interviews you have been, but all of my interviews started with introductions so it was always pretty clear which position they are holding in the company.
Ask HN:Is it more difficult to ideate something or work around the bounds given?
Society medicalizes outliers, the common
'nerd' in 1980's would be labeled as 'aspie'
or autistic today. The cultural status has
changed drastically, since technological skill
became a valued commodity but judgement of
nerds as 'abnormal' remains.
"Autistic traits" ascribed to people without
serious mental deviations are Western culture
rationalizations of intellectual withdrawal
and critical vision of social circles coming
from intellectuals: the social values that
drive this distinction are relics of primitive
societies that focused on biological performance and let intellect be merely a tool
to achieve some concrete task.
This obviously changed with time, but socially
the ranks of 'apes in modern clothing' prevail
in numbers over the intellectual minority,
deciding their 'mental traits' as some troublesome deviation that has to be normalized and streamlined to 'fit in mainstream society'.
It does not occur to them that society itself
is pathological amalgamation of incompatible
and competing cliques/interest groups that
does't have any 'inherent human values' like a corporation doesn't value much from profit
and market share. The idea of social skills
and (enforced) social integration assumes this
is the 'default' state and not culturally-bound complex of psychologically divergent
behaviors that cannot be "normal" as 'asocial'
behavior is right below the surface of
most societies and requires arcane control
mechanisms to suppress and redirect(law, armies,police, education,etc) - the 'normality' of this social structure is never
questioned and people treat this "enculturation" process as some mandatory
part of civilization, that their identity is
based on - they cannot see their individual
worth without social approval and social circles of support, the manufactured narratives and media feeds dictating what to think today. All of which are disgusting and
exploitative controls that keep these 'apes in modern clothing' in line, as bread and circuses continue. Medicalizing me would not change society or improve it overall, it would just enforce another layer of cultural control - training people to treat intelligence itself as symptoms of some manufactured "spectrum" or "complex"(
formally approved by Science™ as 'Broader Autism Spectrum')..as if
Idiocracy was slowly seeping into real world.
Wrt "less than one year of experience", looking at Nikita's CV and GitHub, despite the title, they aren't really a junior developer :)
nim --styleCheck:error c x

This enforces the same capitalization style in your code:

x.nim(1, 5) Error: 'my_var' should be: 'myVar'
> JNCO is already making a non-ironic comeback, so we might be closer to a CEO wearing them than we think.

Can we all, in this comment thread, form a pact to be as successful as possible so that some day we may make this happen?
I live in Canada but have family in the US. When I was there many years ago I ordered some stuff on Amazon and got the option to delay delivery to a more efficient time, and in return was offered some coupons for either future orders or the Amazon app store (can't quite remember).

I order from Amazon somewhat frequently and would be happy to have 'weekly' delivery rather than next day. 99% of the time I don't need it right away.
Azure web apps is pretty similar to heroku and I find it very easy to use. It has had a Linux version (instead of Windows) for quite a while now and it's pretty solid. Haven't had many real issues with it in many years of use.

They also have managed postgres db with very powerful tools.
He is saying that the gay kid can make bigoted jokes about arabs to an extent.
Locally, if you use something like Valet or Craft’s own Nitro tool, it’s relatively painless.

You do need to embrace Composer, though, which is kind of a key element to how it works/is managed.

There are also some Craft-specific hosts, like Fortrabbit (disclosure: Fortrabbit user) that can take the guesswork out of managing Craft pushes.
Creativity is hard to define and measure.

Is the concept of selling water in a bottle an act of creativity?

When I was growing up, bottled water didn't exist as a readily available consumer retail item. When I first heard the concept, my initial thoughts were, "No way! People won't pay for something that is freely available".

My high IQ brain just couldn't conceive of the creative possibility. And yet today, Coke Inc. earns more money selling bottled water than they do from their secret formula for Coca-Cola.
I don't know why people think that the SV no-poaching thing really had a large effect on people hired at Google when it was active. It didn't.

I don't know what "horizontal" RSUs are, but they were options back then, and every year, you got a bigger (more value) pile of them. My total comp doubled without me getting a promotion in roughly 5 years.
Sweden, Finland Win U.S. Security Aid Pledge on Road to NATO
Assigning responsibility and addressing problems. If there's toxic or illegal content, then it can be removed from a node but not the network. You'll just end up with forks for different subgroups. Back to the old days of thousands of individual forums (which, in fact, still exist). That's a fine thing unto itself, but it's not going to be a Better Twitter. It's just something else. It can be successful on it's own the way cryptocurrency has been, but cryptocurrency also hasn't come close to meeting any of its original goals.
For somebody so full of technical vitriol (note: I've yet to form a serious opinion on Web3 so I'm no apologist) this person seems pretty green:

> Unbeknownst to me, modern filesystems write data in "blocks" of a predetermined size.

>Unfortunately, I had to rerun the generator script since I did not include a way to pick up where I left off if I ever stopped part-way through, but with the revolutionary optimization of removing the logging which somehow reduced the runtime from several days to several hours

> With my suspicions confirmed I turned to other cloud services to host the files.
[...] And by "cloud services" I mean an AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance. If you aren't aware it's just another computer managed by Amazon that I'm able to remote into.

> Then I had a realization: IPFS is a piece of shit. Retrieving a single file using IPFS takes minutes to do if it isn't cached by several nodes, which mine weren't since I had just added them to the network.

...then I read:

> Despite having a degree in Computer Science, this was my first time actually launching a website.

We can tell.
Using aliased/bitmapped fonts has been my go to, retina or not: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ati_9x16
I can’t hit the ground running unless the font is crisp and jagged.
Teens are being told the world is terrible by pessimists when there truly hasn’t been a better time to be alive. How do you expect them to feel? This is amplified on social media and shown with "proof" from all corners of the world.

We've evolved from a place where hearing about bad news from the tribe was an advantage. It allowed us to adjust our life to take into account risks _seen_ by other folks in the tribe. On a world scale that is broken, but our brains haven't adjust yet. If you're in the US is little value in knowing there was a shark attack in New Zealand, or a mass shooting in London.

The world is amazing and beautiful. Of course there are atrocities, there always are, but the developed world is living a pretty amazing life. Even the poor relatively speaking.

If someone is living a sad, scared life and projects that on to the youth then that person is the problem (again, social media makes this incredibly easy). Kids are unbelievably impressionable and impressing them with your knowledge about random atrocities in the world does no good for their psyche.
Lammps Molecular Dynamics Simulator
Do you only have 2-3 backups of your workstation?

I have much more backups of my workstation etc., should I now buy dozens of crypto hardware key thingies and constantly switch them around to match the backup disks?

For those who do offsite backups: Is an offsite backup possible across the Internet? Or do you have to physically drive the key to the offsite location?

When I create a new account somewhere, does that mean I have to move N backup keys out of their drawer to the workstation and register each of them on the account?

And how to even create a backup and keep it in sync?

With backup disks, it is a matter of shutting down the machine, removing one disk from the RAID1, and you have a backup (the removed disk is the backup). Or doing "dd if=..." if you don't use raid.

Is something as simple possible with those fancy crypto toys? Or is some arcane magic required to copy them?

Is this perhaps all as usual: An attempt to get more control and tracking of users, disguised as "security"?
This is a great technical write up, I'd love to hear the human side of this story as well! When did you tell the higher ups that you deleted production? Was no one more senior on call to try to fix it? Did they want you to learn how to fix it? Or were you the most senior responsible for this whole area? Or did they don't know?
> If I'm understanding correctly, they're aiming to reduce multi-factor auth back down to a single factor that's "easier" than passwords.

It isn't only easier, it's significantly more secure. FIDO/U2F is basically immune to phishing, because there's no one-time code to type and steal; there's a cryptographically backed signing assertion guaranteeing the person with physical possession of the token is in control. This is so airtight (because almost all account compromise is done remotely, not through physical in-person attacks) that I would even be personally comfortable disclosing my password for accounts secured by FIDO/U2F.
Heroku is heavily connected with Salesforce now with Heroku Connect, I doubt this is part of the plan.
If the plane crash lands during takeoff, all that stuff might catch fire/get in the way of a quick exit for the passengers crawling out
Cloudflare (or your favorite CDN company) for physical goods. That's neat!
Because you're missing the picture that a goroutine doesn't use the stack size, heap from OS data structures, or CPU context switches into kernel code, as a full blown process.

Let alone the detail that the goroutine is full blown native code, while the node/Python process is interpreted, and even if a JIT is used, many C2 level optimisations are out of reach for dynamic languages.

It is no wonder that even with the herculean effort that has gone into V8, for the ultimate performance it needs help from GPU shaders and WebAssembly, both typed.
How to cope with hardware-poisoned page-cache pages
This is really cool, but also not at all surprising. We usually talk about evolution as a thing biological organisms do, but it's far more general than that. Any system, living or not, requires only three properties to guarantee evolution will occur: reproduction, mutation, and competition. In other words, anything that can make imperfect copies of itself will evolve as long as those imperfections change how many copies will be made in the next set. So having RNA with those properties virtually guarantees an evolutionary system as long as they don't immediately go extinct.
I use iOS devices and I get a login prompt using the YouTube for iOS app.
Well, at least now you know you shouldn't assume that.
I was pretty depressed in high school, but simultaneously was aware it was likely to be a transient thing. I was athletic, smart, and reasonably popular. But I had virtually no autonomy and therefore no real social life outside of school. Which, again, was honestly pretty great.

I don't know how common my situation was but I imagine it was fairly typical. And most kids probably felt the burden of greater competition
then again, if deliveries took 5-7 days instead of 1-2, more people would probably just drive out and buy what they want, which is worse for the environment than one truck making 200 deliveries per day.
A lot of autistic people (including me) see this as eugenics - the idea of genetic research is to prevent autistic people from being born, not to improve the lives of autistic people.
I keep an off-site backup at my parents house. Right now it includes a printed copy of my backup codes, so if my house burns down and everything is a total loss here, I at least don't have to start from zero. They live far enough away that my backup offsite backup can get to be a few months out of date but that's usually fine. (If I were to make a major change in something I'd make a special visit)

I don't want to spend a bunch of time when I visit to find that key and add it to all of my new accounts and hope I got everything - I want to make a backup of my current key right before I visit and when I visit, I just put the new backup key in the desk drawer and take the old one home with me.
Or Mermaid, which is less capable but natively supported by GitLab and GitHub.
The story without the paywall
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/larry-ellison-ch...
Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020
I mean you don't have to give it away if you think Google is storing databases of fingerprints for the lizard masters to track you down.

FIDO simply wants to make authentication stronger, you can use hardware keys that have a key burnt into them which is unique and much harder to brute-force than passwords.

Again according to how biometrics are described in whitepapers\industry, we extract features from the fingerprint\face sometimes very little compared to the actual biometric and use it to derive a key.
that key cannot be reversed to get the original features and different algorithms use different features.
What are some cools topics one can learn about that aren't software dev related
I'm a software dev and want to learn about different subject areas that aren't CS related, but don't know where to start or what to look at.

What are some good/cool/interesting non-CS subject areas one can learn about and what makes it cool/why do you like it?
InfluxDB 1.X: open-source Time Series Platform
Step one for me is just educating people on how cloud providers charge for resources. So many people don't understand everything that goes into an AWS bill.

Take AWS for example - everyone seems to account for lambda runtime cost, but a lot of people forget/ignore execution cost, API Gateway cost, bandwidth costs, etc. Or they'll account for S3 storage but not S3 API costs.

While good tagging certainly helps figure out where money is spent, sometimes it's too late since things have been built on bad architectures based on misunderstandings of charges.
Eh, retrieving a key from off-site storage every time you open a new account is a pretty big inconvenience, even for a security enthusiast.
Holey moley, we're down to $400/share - the time machine to 2020 is complete. Is this a bargain yet? Can I buy it yet?

I have really enjoyed the Shopify checkout experience as a customer.
I'd try to do OMAD (One meal a day) a couple days per week, and at first it's hard not gonna lie, but for me the reward was worth it.

The main difference its energy levels. Before it was like a roller coaster of 10/10 minutes after eating, then going low to 5 or 4 in a few hours. With fasting, it's more like a consistent 8/10 across the day.

The main challenge with OMAD, it's probably the social aspect, eating it's rarely around calorie consumption.

Bonus: Is practical only having to do clean kitchen utensils and dishes one time per day. Lot of time saved.
Kubernetes 1.24: Everything You Should Know
I'm in the UK and Amazon has offered this for a while now - they call it Amazon Day. I don't order regularly enough for it to be worth it, but I think the idea is that you order whatever through the week and it's all delivered together on one day each week.
> Slim Pickens was the perfect choice for Maj. Kong; Sellers could not have pulled it off.

I understand they never told him it was a comedy.
UI-UX
https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/437
I had the same thought. Living in the past.
Given the slightly higher computational and energy costs of tracking a moving object with their phased arrays on the satellite it’s seems fair to me.

My only question is if they carry it to the logical consensus after putting it into mobile service on the ground and in aircraft by making it available to people building satellites, given they are involved in the proposal process NASA opened up for replacing TDRSS over the next couple decades, it’s an interesting (if unlikely) possibility that they might just reuse the same phased array based architecture from stationary surface terminals all the way to low earth orbit satellites and space stations.
It's reasonably safe to leave them connected to the devices you regularly authenticate from, unless your threat model includes an adversary willing to use physical attacks.
Military drones are already used for assassinations. Making them "autonomous" is only the next step to that.

But, here's the thing. Current tech-level drones are already extremely lethal to civilians. Given the state of modern AI, including the poor abilities for facial recognition in real-world situations, sending "autonomous" weapons to take out targets in civilian areas will only increase the number of civilian victims.

Not to mention, assassinations, in the first place.

Edit: I get the gist of your comment- that it's already possible to kill (civilians or not) in horrible ways. Yes, but why do we need yet another way to do that, then? The more ways there are to commit wanton murder and destruction, the worse, surely?
Some devices are truly loved by the community and kept alive by people tirelessly adding support for those devices in lineageos. For example, galaxy s4 [1], a phone released on 2013 (Android 4.2 jelly bean), is still supported by lineageos 18 (android 11).

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/jflteatt/
Usually the recommendation is to not start writing the DELETE query first. Write the SELECT query first and see the results. If you miss the WHERE clause, you will see that immediately. Then change SELECT * to DELETE. But I assume you have learned that lesson already :)
Was that (implement sort) the main point of the question? Especially given the 15 minute time window this sounds more like some kind of fizzbuzz-style question (here's a basic idea, can you translate it to code somehow in some language?). Usually when interviewers give me that kind of thing they're literally fine with bubble-sort (which I'd hope anyone could code on the fly), or even just assuming some appropriately shaped sort function exists and writing the rest of the code around it.
I'd be careful with that link. I clicked a link to a similar video where Dave Grohl invited a kid from the audience to play guitar at a Foo Fighters concert. I watched it, and a couple other videos YouTube suggested involving audience members invited to play during pop or rock concerts.

I had never heard of Dave Grohl before watching that video, and had never knowingly listened to Foo Fighters music. I had heard of them, and probably heard some of their songs in passing without knowing it, and that's all.

Nevertheless Google apparently decided I was obsessed with Dave Grohl and for the next couple of months my Google News feed has several Dave Grohl stories per day. Very few of them had anything to do with music. They were almost always trashy celebrity gossip such as who Grohl was seen with or when he was drunk and that kind of thing.

(And no, I don't normally follow any celebrity gossip--I only see celebrity gossip when a celebrity does something outrageous enough to make the national news, so this wasn't simply Google seeing that I liked gossip and adding Grohl to the mix).

I wasn't clicking those stores, and after a couple weeks I started clicking the "fewer stories like this" option, but they still kept almost completely filling up the "For You" part of my Google News feed.

I've never had that happen before or since with any other random link I've followed to a video. Just with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters.
> your raw bio-metrics are never stored anywhere...

Unless you have a drivers license in California where they require inked versions of your biometrics.
I see this often with gangs I grew up around. Black people can call each other niggers in a casual, non-attack way. But as soon as a white person does it, it’s racist.