skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undermining trust? People vote in every election to hand over more and more functions to the government.
always keep a copy outside of your home. my own writing is replicated on almost every device i have. it's the most valuable to me. more so even than photos which are just memories.
Matrix is literally intended to be a successor to USENET (although we haven't got the long-form async messaging sorted yet - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/ gives a hint of how it could work though)
Our code client does not depend on any front-end technology, so you can use it with Svelte or Vue. We have a few examples that use Vue and Svelte here: https://github.com/liveblocks/liveblocks/tree/main/examples

Our most advanced Svelte example is this one : https://pixelart.liveblocks.app/

If there is enough demand, we'll make an official wrapper for Vue and Svelte!

If you're looking for WebSocket without all the state synchronization we provide, there are a few well-known providers like Ably or Pusher.
I enjoy Twitter but I agree with your assessment. Disagree a little about Facebook though. No argument about FB the company being soulless, evil, etc. But FB groups can be a great experience. Especially the smaller ones focused on a niche subject. Those are some nice communities, but it can take a while to find the right ones.

You're correct about the niches existing. There are little corners of the internet that exist as the neighborhood pub. Not just small FB groups and Discord channels. But I also know blogs still going strong with their 200-1000 regular commentators. The only problem is the audience for those blogs is aging. Not exactly a problem for me since I'm aging too. But does make me a little sad for their longevity because they have a problem attracting new users.
Isn't it a chicken and egg problem? The existence of this illegal market can never allow legitimate sales to exist sustainably.

When people can just google " f movies <insert_movie_name_here>" and watch the movie series you mention in HD, unfettered, and ad networks reap the reward of turning a blind eye. . . this makes a sustainable market for legitimate goods impossible because the scale simply does not exist for enough people to subscribe to a streaming service or to invest in paying to watch so the costs drop at scale etc.
What does Cron bring?

Their website[1] shows something that looks nearly identical to the MacOS default calendar app (edit: which is a good design to take inspiration from) but no list of features or much else of substance.

Edit: Their docs[2] contain some more info

1: https://cron.com/

2: https://cron.com/docs
I absolutely am! I'll check it out, thanks :)
I'd use Vivaldi if it wasn't so very slow.
Python’s request is exactly the same (the client is called Session). I guess the go client just uses a global connection pool by default?
Your theory falls apart in light of the fact that there are long running government agencies outside the US that are efficient.

So, "crud buildup" isn't it, not by itself. There is, however, a good case to be made that the increasing politicization makes the job inherently harder. Statements like "I bet if we just clean our house" are exactly that - it is not a proposal that's in any way actionable, but if enough people say it, there will be increased pressure to justify actions, which creates more bureaucracy.

Mind, I'm not saying there shouldn't be accountability. But we must move this discussion away from "Just do <simple slogan>" towards actual analysis, or the side effects of a populist discussion mean that administrative efforts drown in layers and layers of useless ass covering, just to shield from that pressure.

Starting from scratch doesn't really solve - or even discover - the underlying problem either. It might be a tool to address issues, but we don't know until we concretely investigate what the problems and root causes are.

Alas, that requires serious investment. And I really don't see a political climate where any effort to invest large amounts into rebuilding administrative capacity is successful. We're currently very much in a feedback loop. How to break that is, at least to me, ultimately a question of societal stability.
"the managers aren't even in a position to understand the problem or the reasons for it." Which is again the fault of management. It is the responsibility of management to facilitate proper management.
Does it really require Russian involvement though? Starve the beast tactics didn't require Russians, and was the goal not to reduce funding and make services useless?
I wasn’t trying to blame engineers that wasn’t my intention, but someone needs to own establishing the environment that actively encourages or doesn’t encourage curiosity.

Talented people are found everywhere, but hopefully someone with authority over them doesn’t slowly poison the drive out of them.
Are You Smart?
Brown Foods (YC W22) raises a ‘latte’ money for cowless cow’s milk
Yee obviously I can't say Fk you pay me right??
Still watching the vid now :))
Totally against using LeetCode for interviewing engineers.

However, when asking around about why people who use it do so, I found out it does have one irrefutable advantage: it stops people who can't code at all.

From an engineer's point of view, LeetCode is a complete waste of everyone's time because it measures things that aren't factors in successful engineering (as TFA says).

Bu from the non-technical manager's point of view it's awesome because it gives a single, simple score for "how good is this engineer compared to the other ones?" and people who can't code at all can't complete it.

The non-technical manager's worry when interviewing is that they hire a really expensive employee who can't do the job. But because they don't understand the tech, and the tech is complicated and even expert engineers spend lots of time fighting it to no apparent end, it's really hard to understand if an engineer is incompetent and bullshitting them, or actually good but the problem is hard. Having a nice, easy metric that stops the complete bullshitters from getting in solves a problem for them.

What we need, obviously, is a professional association for software dev, that can then properly test us and verify that we can do the things we say we can do. But the industry has a lot of growing yet to do to get to a point where this is even possible.
Spoken like a true armchair quarterback.

You really think the military should forgo combat training?
Reactors may sometimes be shut down at sea to test backup generators and run reactor restarting drills, but it would not be done otherwise. Aircraft carrier propulsion comes from steam from the reactors - if the reactors are offline the ship cannot move. Moreover, the backup generators burn jet fuel, which is convenient because aircraft carriers already have a store of jet fuel for the planes and so don’t have to carry extra fuel for the backup generators, but it’s very expensive, and not something that would be done outside of an emergency or testing emergency preparedness.
Not leaking this sensitive information is almost always done because doing otherwise would create very confusing UX.
Interestingly the Google Hosted Libraries ToS[1] says:

> Our systems are designed to remove HTTP referer information before logging, to avoid associating requests with any individual website using the Google Hosted Libraries.

So they at least are claiming the CDN is not used to snoop on traffic paterns.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/terms
Many websites also do not provide their JS source code in readable form and state the code's license. They purposefully obfuscate it using uglifiers and then build in things talking to Google into their website. Even the usual "isogram" thingy for GA is not readable. Giving this, I definitely hold the web developer and company responsible.
I wouldn't bet against dumb in the short run: see brexit.
"I don't have the bandwidth for unpaid work at this point, sorry"
The most dangerous activity on a military base is... driving a car, same as everywhere else in the US.
Yes, but it's important to remember that Detroit Sucks.
I would think the stuff that coalesces there does so because it has very low velocity relative to the Lagrange point and thus the JWST. Anything moving fast enough to pass through the satellite won't be staying there.
By then, it will be too late.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I was very imprecise. Git is used both for OSS stuff as well as some other stuff. But the norm is development in google3 and even if you've got a layer of git commands on top of that, the actual source and change management is being done by citc/piper.
Oh I'll check the book out :)) Thanks a lot :))
Some FAANGS do this. Amazon has/had their own code evaluation system along with a live proctored exercise.

I think most companies are looking for the path of least resistance.
The "FUCK YOU" part you don't need. The "PAY ME" part is great advice.
The Wikipedia discussion of the mechanisms was interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States...
Vivaldi is my main graphical browser. I don’t use the mail client, but I use the feed reader, which shares the interface. It’s convenient, but clunky. You can read news from only one window, so if, like, me, you use windows instead of tabs, you have to search through all of Vivaldi’s open windows to see which one gives you access to the news feed. The update didn’t seem to change anything. I like being able to click on a button to be able to add a site’s feed to Vivaldi’s list, however.
Vivaldi's predecessor, Opera, actually included an IRC client that I used back in the day. I maintained an interest in Vivaldi because Opera Mail was easily the best client I've ever used, and while Vivaldi Mail lacks a few of the features that I appreciated about Opera (e.g., select-to-quote, default top-quoting/bottom-response, obvious text-based emails), it's still far and away the best current desktop application.
I don't know how it could serve as any meaningful flag. It's normal to merge to main without any review in your own solo hobby projects, and I kind of doubt this badge goes so far as to exclude those kinds of repos.
Really? If Florida wants to leave, who’s objecting to that? Half the remaining states would be on the side of “good riddance to bad rubbish” and the other half would support it because “let’s go Brandon!”

I don’t think the hard part is getting people on board with it. The hard part is just getting a vote on it.

EDIT to address your point: I think if enough people want it, it will happen. The Civil War was about slavery, no matter what some folks will say. The current direction isn’t towards war, it’s towards an indifference followed by dissolution. There’s no energy to keep Florida or Texas or California from leaving if that’s what a large majority want.
One of the biggest complaints I've seen (and I've experienced firsthand) is that because Vivaldi is using a completely custom UI for their browser chrome, it's much slower than other other chromium-based browsers. For me, it takes 2-3 seconds from starting the application to being able to use it, thanks to the rendering is has to do.

Though I still use Vivaldi thanks to all the customization it offers.
I'm surprised how much negative reaction there is to this, what gives? I'm a sucker for a good product shtick and love these badges.
40MPG V8 Lawn Mower Carb vs. 1974 Ford 302 [video]
I can’t speak to this directly, but I’ve heard from a few people in my company that joining their local Toastmasters group really helped them out.

Could anyone speak to that?
Stack Overflow badges are IMO the best example of how such feature should be done. They all make up a great summary of all actions that are considered to be useful in community. They are encouraging to raise flags, upvote questions, visit website regularly. You can quickly learn features that you haven't tried yet from "Next badge" section in your profile. They are just encouraging learning about how website operates in a fun way.
Here is what I recommend for everyone, regardless of role.

1. Make an Excel/Google sheet with 50+ questions you think will come up in an interview.

2. Open Zoom and start recording.

3. Randomize the question list and practice answering each question in 1-2 minutes.

Take a break.

4. Watch the video and critique yourself.

5. Rinse and repeat.

You will get very, very good over time.
didn't Mark Twain say something like "i'm sorry this letter is so long, i didn't have time to write a shorter one". I feel like that with some of my code at times.
No. I'm not sure how I would get that research, or if it's even possible. The problem with preparing for war is that war is fairly uncommon, and even when it happens, certain activities are rare enough with such a huge number of alternate causalities for failure that you might not have enough data for a useful natural experiment.

What I can say with some confidence is that there are perverse organizational incentives for some highly accident-prone training exercises. So, even if these exercises are required for readiness, that's not the (only) reason they're done in such high numbers.
Because transitioning over to green technology is a decades-long project, it's not something you can just snap your fingers and make happen, as many countries are discovering. You still need non-renewable energy sources to fill in the gaps that renewables currently have.
Which is why they were sued and _lost_?

The mental gymnastics you people use is nuts. I guess this is part of Apples PR, is it? Deny history?
Did you use compose.ai to write this post?
I used it for a few projects. Very good for being free.
What you're describing is one approach, the other is that you pay a bunch of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS companies to handle a lot of the workload for you so you and a small team can just focus on the business logic of your particular niche.
> [edit: and RSS feeds. RIP]

Vivaldi has an integrated RSS reader and Reading List.
I've said it and got paid. Experience will tell you when the right time is. Try it on a $30 mistake? Fail. Client needs it fixed yesterday so you're billing $50k...great success.
They were sued and lost. Thus: guilty.
Which IMHO would be a healthy counterbalance to the federalists who successfully increased the power of the central government during the 20th century.
I have mine at the Brazilian river company tomorrow! I look forward to coming out of that experience with lower self confidence
Our administrative capacity is in decline by design.

The American people were long ago sold on the idea that the government was just too big and their lives would be better if less of their tax dollars went to fund all this unnecessary government.

For more than 50 years the Republican party has been actively trying to shrink the government. Some of their plans, such as starving government programs for money have been so effective that their Democrat counterparts had to also downsize departments in order to keep them alive.

Some examples of this starvation are the burdens placed on the USPS to fully fund future pensions, and the continual under-funding of the IRS.
A note about Google Authenticator. There are alternatives which imo are much better, like LastPast Authenticator or Authy. They work exactly the same but they can back up your codes securely. Big plus if you lose or change your phone.
It wasn’t my intention to blame engineers but I agree with the other reply to you, someone needs to be responsible for creating these environments. It’s not like we’re dealing with fundamental forces of nature here, this is all self afflicted.
are you saying that having morals puts one at a disadvantage or that jobs requiring accountability should not pay good because otherwise you'll mostly get people without morals?
A heart warming story of a hacker turned game dev! Nice job.

They offer you a job too?
You have to ask for money. Not only is it good for you, it's excellent validation for your product. If no one is willing to pay for your product then it means you need to go back to the drawing board. If they are willing to pay for it great.
I found this interesting and wanted to share with other tech enthusiasts that might own older vehicles that wish to go green(ish) with their existing pre-smog vehicles.

TL;DW A person took an old Ford and 3D printed a controller enclosure to manage the airflow in a lawn mower carburetor to achieve 40MPG in a vehicle that is arguably sub-optimal for this test.
The opposite is also true for many, namely, lots of university students who were on usenet in the computer labs, and maybe had a TRS-80 in the dorm connected to nothing.
Indeed, but it's not a solution, just a choice of what problem to have.

This is a classic problem of many a swiss bank account, "I have illicit money there and want to spend it here but the state detects transfers across the border". The border may be between countries, between legal entities, between currencies, or the border between a saleable asset and legal tender.

As long as you don't transfer the money/asset to the place where you want to spend it, the state may not detect what you have, but you get no benefit from your money either. So you get to choose which problem you have: Will you lack money because it's inaccessible to you, or because the state confiscates it?
They were sued and _lost_.
$5.00 per gallon gas has arrived nationwide
The nice thing about pensions is you can't redirect the money to increasing your competitiveness for scarce goods or advantages now, instead of saving it.

"But isn't that a reduction of choice, so, a bad thing?" it would be, except that if enough of your peers also don't have that option, it means they can't outcompete you by harming their own retirement, so you don't need to do that in order to simply not fall behind. No more getting outcompeted for housing in good school districts because your peers are willing to live paycheck-to-paycheck and live on cat food in retirement, and you're not. And so on.
How many duplicates tho? Accounts are only tied to emails AFAIK, how can they tell I'd be the same user behind 2 accounts?

Granted, it's kind of splitting hair considering it's still gonna be in the 9 figures, which is impressive regardless of where it is in that range.
What Bosses Lost in the Fight Against Empty Offices: Leverage
EncFS is great to encrypt data in DropBox-like services.
> Your physical presence is optimised for long days of doing fuck all, sitting in the grass, waiting for a deer to pass by.

No, your physical presence is optimized for being active most of the time. If you do "long days of doing fuck all", you'll lose bone density, muscle mass and probably gain weight and a mass of health issues. You'll probably experience cognitive decline.

The older you get, the more rapid these issues manifest themselves and the more important constant activity becomes.
Depends on the criteria. Do automated reviews count?

I set up build+test via GH actions and have GitHub run them on PR's. And make all changes through PR's.

This not only prevents "forgot to run tests" type accidents during regular development, it also helps me when I come back to a hobby project months later, and it lets me confidently do small changes (think version bumps) directly through GitHub's editor, which saves a bunch of time.

And when, against the odds, I actually do get a contribution, the infra is already there and it really cuts down my turnaround time to get it merged, bump the version and deploy the release.

Of course if a single direct push yields you the badge then I guess pretty much every solo dev gets it sooner or later. But that indirectly turns it back into a good badge, right? "Independent enough to have a life outside a standardized corporate process"?
Blind.... but it is geared towards the workplace, and not tech and gadgets in general. It has more unfiltered conversations, as people do speak their mind a bit more. (some eggregious ones, do get flagged/removed though).
No, it was pretty straight forward. Which is why they lost the suit.
> Govt is not so much about helping get things done (think of older projects like interstate highway systems) and is more focused on stopping things (5+ years of environmental reports to do anything meaningful). That's one big shift for better or worse depending on perspective.

This is a political choice (or I guess, an outcome of political environment). Strategizing how to return to a politics of getting this done for citizens is probably more use than any culture war stuff going on now.
I thought their first product photo was the macOS calendar app with spotlight up in front of it.
It sounds like you’re saying: all I need to do is stop, but I can’t! Meaning you are in your own way.

If you have positive cash flow right now I’d recommend finding a therapist, since personality changes like this can take some deep digging. Personally I have found experiential therapy useful, things like EMDR, process work, gestalt, or even jungian dream analysis. Many on HN speak positively about cognitive therapy like CBT. You will need to spend a little time exploring and may not find the right fit with your first therapist. Good luck!
Also worth noting that the UK itself has been perfectly reasonable (at least so far) about constituent countries that want to consider leaving - Scotland had an independence referendum and Northern Ireland has as a part of the Good Friday Agreement a possibility for uniting with the Republic.
.NET 7 Preview 5 – Generic Math
There is a class of engineer who have little performance anxiety by nature. They simply don’t care and are normally blunt types who love algorithms.

And they are, frankly, pretty bad at writing code because they have little empathy for the reader and greatly inflated sense of self worth. They’re the kind to use complicated C++ features or algorithms for little reason. Essentially, smart idiots.

They also believe in silly things like LC being a fair and rational way to evaluate candidates and don’t see the bias at all. “Eugh she’s an ugly woman, I think I’ll give her the LC hard and little help.”

There is another class who realizes how stupid LC is, but are happy to play the game to quickly accumulate power and prestige. They usually have psychopathic tendencies and aren’t great coworkers.

LC is great at hiring these types. Feel free to stick to it if you enjoy having them as coworkers.
maybe - what about the animation and camera action on NFL football games. I don't watch sports but you have to be impressed if you watch what they built. I think of it more like Rome or Las Vegas..
It's seems there is a genuine push to authoritarianism. Australia and Canada are the testing grounds for what is to come for other nations.
Depends on the source. Here's from US News 2022 Computer Science Best Undergrad List:

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-scien...

Carnegie Mellon

MIT

Stanford

UC Berkeley

Cornell

Georgia Tech

UI Urbana-Champaign

Cal Tech

Princeton

UCLA

UT Austin

UW Seattle
#C0C0A5
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Of course not combat training in general. A few specific and specifically injury-prone activities. Sorry for the poor wording.

FWIW, this isn't some crazy take. "Maybe the number and severity of injuries due to this activity is reducing readiness more than the resulting experience is increasing readiness" is a known trade-off.
Yes — and now, to reply to your comment :)