skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our org is a very small team. The biggest boon is the capability to create cohesive experiences and UI in a small handful of applications that are in isolated codebases by sharing Component libraries. I also use it for improved DX with up-to-date scrubbed and sanitized production data to ensure we aren't breaking things utilizing simplified test data.
Towards an improved data model for OpenStreetMap
Ibonds my friend. Ibonds.
Thats well said.

Curious, are there good examples of companies that were able to delay the "pick 2" problem for a long time?

Im assuming such company would need to be a dividend-paying machine bc otherwise the profits would go into retained earnings (vs staff growth or R&D expense, etc) and that would make investors really unhappy.
People have been predicting the upcoming recession every week since like 2012.
If it’s not government, it’s private sector
And the "meowmeowbeenz" episode of Community. Also does not end well, but is very funny.
What I need from this is to be able to select text and just have it translated in a tooltip (or whatever.) This is what I'm using the Simple Translate Firefox add-on for but unfortunately it sends data to Google.
Youtube can actually be useful. Fixed my HVAC using it. LinkedIn I use to keep in contact with past work mates. Never had the Facebook, the Twitter, the WhatsApp, the SnapChat or an Instagram. I don't watch TikTok. Frankly they have never been missed and I cannot understand why someone would spend so much time staring at their phone. My son is constantly distracted by it. Now that he is older he is starting to spend more face time in the Real.
FreeCodeCamp: Code Your Own Heroku Clone with Python
You can ask, and they may tell you, but most if not all banks will have a note saying "we could sell servicing or the loan itself at anytime" - the question being what they actually do as opposed to what they could do.

It's a minor thing, but's also the kind of thing you might not find just interacting remotely.
Seems like their special status is more of a burden today.
That's incredible. What a meaningful event, and a great inspiration.
Yes it does, try making a company that does all business in Indian Rupees or bitcoin or whatever other currency. you will find that you produce less. The unit of account absolutely matters
The key is to just not buy as much house, but that often involves compromises people don't want to do.
The favicon privacy issue seems quite mild to me, but the libreavatar integration should've been listed more clearly.
Simple programmable status banner for web applications (join waitlist)
Owned by Kape, and only accepts data demands when they come from the U.S. or Israel.

When it comes to VPNs, stick to the ones that are wholly owned, based, and operated in the EU.
They missed an opportunity to name it the ThermoKlein.
Primary/Secondary implies a replacement relationship.

Master/servant implies different levels of authority and control.

Personally - I find the later much more compelling from a descriptive standpoint for this use of passwords.

Honestly, there are a ton of alternatives that I think make more sense - ex
- Control password
- Premier password
- God password (although this probably violates some other policy...)

etc...

but primary is more familiar and and they probably liked the alliteration. Really - this just feels like marketing, though.

It's a reason to make people think & talk about Mozilla that's.... drumroll... once again not actually a compelling product or experience.
It’s not alive. It’s an observation of the reality of the thing that Tesla has actually shipped. Dangerous, prone to failure, beyond untrustworthy. Don’t be fooled by the easy cases. No one ever believed that the easy parts would be the problem and Tesla has made zero progress on the hard aspects.
I mean, yeah this approach probably is flawed for various reasons, but oh boy:

> The customer service experience of criminals isn't the right thing to optimize

Not sure where to even begin with that statement. Police interact with tons of citizens, and many of them may end up with civil penalties or misdemeanors, but would you consider someone getting issued a speeding ticket for going 15mph over the posted limit to be a criminal? Also, are you worried that someone being arrested for armed robbery is going to use their phone in the back seat of a police vehicle to give a fake bad review?

I think if this program helps encourage officers to interact with citizens more cordially it is a win. And of course this data could be gamed or misused, it's more about what we decide to do with the data. Imperfect data can still be useful though.
That does sound annoying. Though, in our reality it is only a half dozen evergreen projects and applications which are incorporated this way. I do imagine it will grow over time.
HN commentary exactly matched what I expected.

Master means master, that’s the point - that for you there is no lord/serf, owner/owned, etc is irrelevant.

For a fairly large, non-zero portion of the world there is a strong negative connotation, and there is literally zero cost to using terminology that lacks any negative connotation.

The only reason to be resoundingly opposed to this is the standard reactionary anti-wokeness people have come to expect from people who see acknowledgement that others have been subject to such as being an attack on their identity.
Totally fair - it's a pity that how RTS games are presented Vs how they play is very different. I was going to say grand strategy games are probably more what you're looking for. I'm a fan of stellaris and the total war games, and they do lend themselves to min maxing but fatless so than many other games!
Oh, I see. Thanks. I'm not sure what to do then - I have a Huawei phone so I'm only using fdroid for apps.

The Fdroid version of FairEmail doesn't support gmail with oauth because of "Google security features" (??). It's only supported on the Google Play version.

I'm vaguely aware that there are sites out there where you can download apks, but that seems unwise.
Henrietta Lacks and the fight for genetic justice
He's talking about the perverse incentive LEOs will have to get good ratings, which will be hard when you spend much of your day bringing in guys for beating their spouse, who by the time you arrive has decided she just wanted you to make him stop hitting her, not take him away to spend the night in jail.

Small town cops generally know all the regulars by name, I could see a QR code program working better in a larger city where there's more anonymity to the reports.
Can you do that without rebooting? Rebooting nations tends to be a messy affair. Just ask France.
For the most part, I like her. I'm sad that she hasn't been able to keep all her kids in line. They (the Royals) need to get back in touch with their actual purpose in the 21st century - to act as a check against the wild excesses of democracy. They're the safety valve to keep stuff like Brexit from happening.... oops.

Also, it would be awesome if one of them studied forensic accounting and looked into all areas of Her Majesty's government.
> An exception to normally bad behavior, and the first instance of a genuine change in approach, look identical.

No, they probably don't. Take for example this example prank by the Yes Men:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI

The beauty of the prank was that the company then had to send a real spokesperson out to explicitly state that "Steve, yes," was the wrong answer to the question, "Do you now accept responsibility for what happened?"

In fact I'll boldly claim you have never seen a genuine change in approach from a company of this size that wasn't forced by a settlement with the government or criminal prosecution(s).

Edit: I'll go ahead and admit I'd love to read about the exceptions to my last paragraph, but only in terms of companies the size of Google.
You could even agree with the decision but it’s not presented as a decision at all.
Me too. But it will be 397 pages long and most of us still can't stop using it because we live in a society.
Unrolled:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1532402654218964993.html
Speaking as someone who has met the population that gets arrested, they are no more or less scumbags than the population that doesn't.
I agree that most people are inherently good. But I add a few points of skepticism toward anybody who chooses a role that comes with inherent authority by default: clergy, legislature, law, etc.

Not saying they're bad, most aren't, however, you wanted to be the guy with the power- There is possibly a reason for that.
You clearly have 0 trust in your life. Might want to work on that.
Is Ethical Advertising Possible?
Sounds like you're casting some sort of sarcastic doubt.

I've mixed with a population of about 500. Spoken to many, intentionally and otherwise. Very familiar with their culture. Trust me, 99% of the arrest population is scum.
An untested idea/suggestion...

In the first Open Problem, maybe the generator tweak for random Hamiltonian paths is that two grids are needed: one for the eventual H-path; and one of points that are the centroids of the first which is used to draw a random tree starting from some point, subject to some rules about distances to unconnected nearest neighbours being acceptable (hunch e.g. of length >= sqrt(2)). Then draw around that tree on the first grid to get the H-path. (Grid graph duality use.)

I'd guess this can be generalised to 3D by drawing the H-path on each 2D plane slice, and some simple rules about choosing the degree of interconnection between those planes.

It seems like all the tools for tuning the shape of the initial random trees already exist in MJ, based on the examples shown.
It's even more complicated than you think! The theoretical distributions you list are just that: theoretical. No real-world process generates values exactly according to a theoretical distribution.

So you're not even dealing with a somewhat countable list of distributions -- everything has its own unique distribution!

Fortunately, you don't need to model things exactly. A very rough approximation often gives me miles better results than plain gut feeling.
Do you consider any of these technologies web3?

> Tech Stack: Pytorch, Typescript, Next.js, React, Rust, Redis
How have conditions changed at all in the past 4 years?
Thanks for the advice! Do you think the mods would mind a double post?
Because the purpose of the fine isn’t the money, it’s getting you to be more safe. If they can achieve that with a friendly chat then isn’t that better for everyone?
This is awesome, but...

> This set of requirements posed a number of technological challenges to the team: the translation engine was entirely written in programming languages that compile to native code. We needed a way to streamline the distribution of the project in order to avoid the overhead involved in providing builds compatible with all platforms supported by Firefox — that would be impracticable to scale and maintain.

Does Firefox really support so many different platforms and archs that CI builds are unrealistic?
How easy would it be to make that entirely useless. A leather jacket maybe or some body armor. How about a broom to smash it to the floor. Not mention this will only address the situation after the mass shooting has occurred.
Here in Oregon it's the policy of the DMV, Department of Transportation, and police departments to educate drivers. After enough warnings or you're acting like you don't care you will get a ticket.

Interestingly enough, I've been pulled over several times but always by a different department it seems like. They obviously don't talk to each other or I would have gotten more tickets by now.
The contact discovery services leaks the fact that you are using Signal. It is not optional. It's clear why that is, so I won't spell it out.
I feel the same gut reaction when I see projects like a cyber deck, or people building old pentium computers but I also do the same thing, I seem to keep rehashing things (variation of a note taking app). Only thing I can think of is the joy of doing it.

Expanding further, it's easy nowadays to get a pi and attach some HDMI screen to it and battery source. Gets the job done, do I need to personally write a graphics driver for it to be impressive idk.

In the long run I am trying to learn harder things though so my skills are not commoditized.
> without most of the obnoxious TSA theatrics.

This is theater that easily could have been applied to trains. And the TSA really fought to be on them, but the CEO at the time was really stubborn. They were able to get away with the same attitude since[0], but government pressure was high[1], and the new guy seems to be ideal for the internal security force hammer to come down[2].

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[0] "TSA Administrator: No need for airport-like security for rail travel" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/tsa-administrator-no-need-fo...

[1] "Lawmakers push TSA to strengthen Amtrak passenger security" https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/288502-house-lawma...

[2] "Former CSX executive becomes new Amtrak CEO" https://wtop.com/business-finance/2020/03/amtrak-names-forme...

"Amtrak CEO asks Congress to expand TSA’s ‘No Fly List’ to rail passengers" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amtrak-ceo...
Use a wire transfer. It's faster than mailing a cheque and only costs like $20.
The best experiences I had were working on products I cared about deeply in a way a PM should AND there actually was a PM involved who did care about them. In fact everybody involved should.

However, in a project there is a bunch of stuff you need to do that's mainly specific to product management. Tracking the feedback, talking to users, coordination with other product teams, covering the nontechnical pieces, etc. Every stakeholder does their thing. The PM in most cases doesn't code, a legal or compliance stakeholder doesn't try to talk to users or come up with product feature roadmaps, the engineers don't create the artwork etc.

The shittiest experience is when you work on a product with a formal PM but you wonder what it even is they are doing, not engaging in shaping the details just signing off, not talking to stakeholders, etc. and you, the engineer, has to fill in. Buuut you also cannot just do whatever because the PM exists and needs to be consulted.
If interpretation of the policies were consistent, to the point where I could reasonably guess that the violation was in something I changed recently, I would agree with you.

However, both platforms' policy enforcement is often wildly inconsistent. Rules get ignored and then suddenly enforced. Some reviewers are more persnickety than others. Something that's been passing under the radar for years might be suddenly interpreted as in violation of a policy while they're reviewing a minor bugfix. In that situation, "you violated a policy" is useless for figuring out the problem in any reasonably large app.

(That said, it sounds like this dev did get an explanation.)
I agree. To me, it’s like the old hot rod adage - “the only substitute for cubic inches is more cubic inches” - applies in camera sensors, bus replace cubic inches with “surface area”. Physics is tough to beat, and if the mirrorless cameras let us down on the computing power then phones will win. However, looking at the Nikon Z9, and extrapolating into the future, I don’t think they will.
It's less a question of balance and more a question of whether the feature actually properly fits the rest of the game. Factorio is designed around the attack waves being a motivator to get better tech quickly - you want to bee-line flame turrets and develop the tech to get self-refilling turrets and self-repairing walls... In satisfactory the enemies only exist to gate off certain map areas and they do that very poorly with sky bridges, instant building (to box in enemies or give yourself cover) and other mechanics that can't be trivially removed clashing heavily with combat.
Unfortunately physical metaphors about “bursting bubbles” don’t correspond to reality. People at 18 and their parents are scared to DEATH of failure. They WILL pay exorbitant tuition at any decent university
I don’t have the pleasure of working closely with him, but he occasionally presents to my group. I agree, he’s very cool :)

That’s one of the better parts of working at Esri - it is a diverse company with lots of cool people, often with very different backgrounds from the typical software engineer.
I often ask these questions as well, and mostly it's just to find something common, doesn't have anything to do with the social totem pole.
You could allocate only "software update" capability to one group, "execution" to another, and have a permission system for deciding who can do what.
It actually makes a lot of sense to merge the two. Why have multiple video chat solutions when you can have one. Now I don't need to pick. As long as they can keep different UX needs satisfied it makes a lot of sense.
>> buy young firms that might challenge them

This is not the worst outcome for a startup
If I ever have an interview on a Linux system I'm going to ask the interviewer if I'm allowed to cheat.

At least that's how I plan to get myself to remember this command.
create a problem and then charge people extra for 'support' to solve it.

i dont even blame you.
Yeah, I would be interested to hear from others how they accomplish this. I played around with Nx and it uses TypeScript project references. It is a lot of boiler plate to set up every time you want to create a new app or library. Fortunately, their generators do this with one command.
Even small fines come with a large serving of shame, at least for a lot of people. Receiving an inconsequentially small fine can be the kick some people need to sort themselves out, if they perceive the social denunciation implicit in the fine.

Of course, some people are shameless.
"Nice app you have here. It would be a shame if something bad were to happen to it."
Create Your First Node.js GitHub Action, a How-To Guide
Highly plausible stuff right?
Hah. So, China's social rating approach on all citizens as the starting point
If anyone hasn’t recommended, you should join IndieHackers.com’s community.

You’ll find people on a similar path.
Pedantry: "Hear, hear!" is the phrase, unless you're pointing to a specific location. :)
I'm unable to read the article due to the paywall, but if the first paragraph is indicative of the thesis, then it is "startups that build incremental functionality on top of existing products are upset when the company improves their product with the same functionality". I'd say there are two issues at play here:
1. The large Tech companies are too big and do too many things. They should be broken up for no other reason than to protect the public from their eventual collapse or abuse of power.
2. As a startup, don't build an incremental product that can easily be scooped by a competitor, especially if that competitor is a mega corporation.
Creating artificial intelligence that acts more human by 'knowing that it knows'
Yes, and I'll tell you how to do it:

1. Stick to facts

2. Don't collect metrics

3. Don't force people to opt out

Basically, read Edward Bernays and do the exact opposite of everything he ever did or recommended.
> It’s kind like human rights - the majority of people who are at risk of having them infringed are unpleasant or unsympathetic characters.

I think some people have a view of "human rights" that fixates on and elevates "unpleasant or unsympathetic characters" but I don't think it's intrinsic to the concept of human rights.

> I’d argue a cliché “upstanding law-abiding citizen” type doesn’t generally have that much to fear from a police interaction. They are generally being dealt with on a presumption of good faith, and have at least some access to leverage and ability to push back against unfair treatment. Someone who’s already been identified as a “scumbag” doesn’t, and that is why their treatment is more illuminating.

Illuminating of what exactly that would make their view more "important" (as stated above) than the views of law abiding citizens?

> There are many of them and they vary by region. Police very observably interact differently with richer versus poorer groups, for example, or with groups from different ethnic backgrounds.

I think if you break it down more granularly, you'll see that what police interactions vary more within, for example, ethnic groups, than between ethnic groups, based on characteristics such as past criminal history, etc.
the amount of data Google and Facebook have isn't talked about enough in this context, they most likely have internal tools that allow them to project which startups are becoming successful and either copy them early or just acquire them before the startup itself realizes how much potential they have

Instagram acquisition for 1 billion as an example was a steal in hindsight, I bet facebook had more accurate forecasts for their growth than Instagram itself. I know Facebook did get some bad PR for collecting user data via a VPN app, but they didn't face any legal consequences- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

This doesn't even address how at a societal level these companies can basically create self-fulfilling prophecies by manipulating what stories and information is shown to people

also makes me wonder about AWS/Amazon and what their policy is around copying some of their customers. They obviously fork or outright deploy managed open source projects to compete with them. I know Walmart doesn't let any of their suppliers use AWS either.
Agreed.

Marketplace sucks compared to other alternatives out there (Craigslist has never been big in the European countries I've lived in so can't comment on that in particular).

Groups are a horrible alternative to forums. An algorithm decides which posts are "hot" and posts die over time. Forums can provide highly informative long-running threads (which FB groups and Reddit cannot). Sure, manually moderating a forum is hard work but the end result is so much better.

Messenger? There are so many better (and encrypted) alternatives to communication.

The only thing FB has going for it is that almost everyone is there. It's super easy to hook up with someone you just met the other day just by searching for them on FB, sending a friend requests and then you can be chatting within minutes. You don't even necessarily need to know their name, you can go through list of friends of a common friend and look for them by face. All other solutions practically involves having to remember asking someone for their phone number. This is also why marketplace/groups are "successful", due to the sheer number of people already on the platform.

As products they all pretty much suck.
> Because of Covid, it seems that for now, coach passengers are not allowed in the dining car, only those with roomettes (not 100% sure about this). I've read blog posts that on some Amtrak trips, meals were only served in the roomettes, so the dining car not in use (easier to keep clean, I guess?)

Check out https://www.amtrak.com/onboard/meals-dining/dining-car.html to see which services have traditional dining available.

I've used Amtrak in California & Ohio, and I don't remember the dining car ever being available to passengers traveling in Coach class. The closest thing I can think of is this: On the Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), the Dining Car was available to passengers traveling in Business Class.
I had a somewhat similar discovery once using GNU parallel. I was trying to generate as much web traffic as possible from a single machine to load test a service I was building, and I assumed that the network I/o would be the bottleneck by a long shot, not the overhead of spawning many processes. I was disappointed by the amount of traffic generated, so I rewrote it in Ruby using the parallel gem with threads (instead of processes), and got orders of magnitude more performance.
One would think Google taking 30% of the app sale would be enough to entitle a developer of a paid app to "premium" support, but I guess not.
"Uploading the contact list" is not a reasonable description of requesting a favicon from a contact's domain.