skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to LOVE LOGO as a kid! I used Microworlds EX as my interpreter, and made many games with it. Unfortunately I was not very clever, and my games kind of sucked in hindsight. I might reinstall it and see if I can make something better now that I have a degree
> my password manager auto-logs-in for me. Various tools will automatically find and click the "unsubscribe" link on a mailing list website.

Those tools work by making assumptions. For example, your password manager looks for text input fields with the name attribute set to "user", "username", "login", "email", "account", etc. Create a page with a login form, but name the user field some gibberish, and I bet your password manager won't be able to auto-login.

> Scalper bots buy and resell all kinds of products by navigating web stores (unfortunately). etc.

And each of those bots will need to be written for each store. ie, a bot written to scalp products from Amazon won't work on BestBuy.com.
Did it melt or did it buckle because of expansion?

Title says "melt" but the only quoted source in the article says "defect".
As a counterpoint, I avoid adding a revenue figure to some of my businesses. Why? There’s certain niches that you can make a killing on for short periods - the last thing I want to do is attract attention.

As an example, during the last refinancing boom I stumbled into an opportunity and a couple weeks later I had an MVP. Very quickly we had customers willing to pay 5 figure sums for our product. There’s no incentive for me to go around bragging and attracting copy cats.

How do I know this? Because I have no shame in launching a competitor if I see someone’s making money and I think I can outcompete them.

As a second point, most indie hackers are cycling through ideas until they either give up or stumble into something. If your business fails, you quickly move on.

Across 5 years you could have tried 10 things and only the last one made money. But it doesn’t matter since business revenue follows a power law. So (theoretically) you retire on the last idea while your batting average remains below 10%. Not necessarily a bad outcome?

Regardless I do agree the overwhelming majority of indie hackers are wantreprenuers that will never make a dime. Just don’t discount the professionals.
On the other hand, women gained economic (true) freedom. Daycare is also $2k per month per child at the higher end, for infants, in high cost of living areas. SF/LA/SD/SEA/NYC might be a little higher, but the vast majority of the US will be at $1.5k/month or lower.

What probably happened is women having opportunity other than having kids and being a housewife brought out the costs of having kids that women were previously eating on behalf of society. Now the costs are more explicitly and society needs to pony up to make it more attractive.
Original post author here. Thanks for taking the time to write this---it made me realize that I should have discussed the nature of tasks I was working with in my post, especially because different tasks/datasets have different behaviors under the same model choices.

The overfitting phenomenon I've seen at the companies I work/have worked with are all doing some kind of ranking. None use auc to evaluate---in fact, I don't see many production models evaluated with auc because usually some threshold is fixed before deployment, or the client has their own threshold they will act on.

Re: hparamaters varying the metric---a point on the ROC can change a lot while the auc stays relatively the same, especially in class imbalance settings.

Re data validation---at large companies with 10s-100s of models with hundreds of thousands of features, often data gets corrupted. Alarm bells do go off but there is alarm fatigue. Furthermore, not all Task MLEs are Platform MLEs and vice versa...a lot of people have to build tools to monitor ML pipelines they don't own.

Anyways I really appreciate your comment & it made me realize how ML people have vastly different experiences. I will clarify assumptions on the task & evaluation next time I write :)
I remember going to a computer club talk by Woz where a significant portion (certainly the important parts) of the conversation were all in 6502 assembler. I was so lost, and at the same time inspired.
I would say just go take your kids on a nice hike in a state park or something. Go ride bikes. Much cheaper!
A reasonable test of interop would be converting boost to carbon. Then you'd hit an enormous amount of edge cases and really be able to understand carbon's shortcomings, no?
How the quality of Disneyland has evolved is... tricky to evaluate. The rides are almost certainly safer and probably a bit more impressive on a technical front, but the experience itself? I'm not sure and, given that I'm a middle-aged man, I have no desire to go to Disneyland ever. Still, I imagine it was a better experience in the 1960s because it was less crowded. That's not Disneyland's fault, of course. It has gone from a place where a few devoted fans went a few times in their lives to a place where a much larger number of people go only once in their life (because it's just not worth it, in terms of headache, to go more than once, especially if you don't have kids under 12).

The general problem is overpopulation--but the good news is that there's a countervailing force built in: the more people there are, the more stuff of value there can be. New York's too congested to live in? Go to Chicago. Chicago becomes full? Live in Minneapolis, or Madison, or some up-and-coming artsy small town most of us have never heard of. So, the problem we actually experience is not overpopulation itself but, rather, the weighted overpopulation that is created by extreme inequality (i.e., by some people having 1,000,000 times more votes and more choices than the rest of us). When some rich douchebag can play the high school bully and buy hotel rooms for $1000 per night (or even buy out the whole hotel) it means everyone who can't pay $1000 per night for lodging suffers. We don't actually need to depopulate the world (although, and I hate to say this, I think traumatic and unplanned depopulation is a high likelihood in the next 50 years) so much as we need to do something about the astronomical footprint of the rich; we could support the global population that exists now if only the world were run by better people and the resources better organized.
I would recommend discussing anything related to compensation before starting at a company (definitely before signing contracts). So would recommend sooner rather than later.
My brother, the 90's were thirty years ago.
Watching the kid read his turtle-themed story – about a turtle mother who had a freakish triangle child – reminds me that kids really haven't changed that much.
The thing is, "paying Brazil to not raze the Amazon" has already been tried and failed. The government sees it as a way to fleece rich environmentalists and has no interest in abandoning their meal ticket.

Even if the government was aligned on keeping the Amazon as it was, they have their own enforcement struggles. Once an illegal developer has razed a plot of land, there's not really much the government can do to stop them. The damage has already been done. Even worse, by the time the government is even aware of a particular section of illegally cleared land, it's already been sold off, developed, and has people living in it. The only option now is to either:

1. Grandfather in the illegal land

2. Forcibly evict and ruin the lives of people who bought into the illegal purchase so that the scarred land can remain fallow for decades

Overwhelmingly Brazilian courts have chosen #1 over #2. Enforcement is too far behind land development to make any sort of "pay to save" scheme work.
Google will let European developers use their own billing systems
I would expect that they are puncture resistant, so able to survive > 1 atmosphere change, and I imagine if you're at 0 atmospheres if you can smell the bear spray it's probably not actually your biggest issue.
In terms of the energy you want to consume in a form factor you can utilize - food, coal if you want electricity today, plastics in tour phone, Amazon shipping, etc. - it's very much not constant.
Well it's a tradeoff right? Zero hassle, zero control. Lots of hassle, lots of control.

Part of the complexity is that the effects aren't all immediate, and humans aren't good at thinking long term. People put code on GH for years and then Microsoft took it and undermined those same developers. So it might seem like zero hassle right now, but it's probably big destruction later on.

Personally I'm growing an allergy to these kinds of "no catch, we promise" services. What they usually mean is "we sell your data to other marketers, governments, and potential bad actors", "we try to hypnotize you with ads", "we aren't actually giving you this thing and we'll delist it whenever we want", or worse.

I know this doesn't respond to your issue, my weak effort there is that are a fair number of hosts for things like nextcloud and gitlab. My brother runs a substantial suite of services all through Docker and admins it almost not at all. This stuff is possible, but I agree it's harder than signing into GH with SSO and pushing code. All I'm saying is that there are other costs, you just don't pay until way later.
Social goods are often the inverse of individual goods. I'm not going to make anyone an involuntary advocate.
Of course. The local tribes are fighting the invaders since 1500.
indeed, everyone misses the fact that, for any solution to be cost-effective you need an experienced team that have built thay before, that means:

1 - all powerplants should be identical, so you can work out problems on reactor 1 and have no probpems by the time you are building reactor 55. The US model of private companies building random shit doesnt fit well. Thats how wind and solar work - they build thousands of identical solar panels and wind turbines

2 - you cant start and stop construction - if you stopped building for 10 years, your engineers have left, retired or died. Now you build a new reactor, and you are goong to have inexperienced people making the same mistakes. you have to have an institution that is building non-stop for 20 years, like china does.

thats also why wind and solar works - the same teams of people were installing and servicing turbined for decades

3 - factory made - manufacturing of wind and solar is automated to a large degree. Automation in construction is ~0%. Whether you are building a house or a reactor, they are expensive manual labour. Some of this might be solved with prefab buildings, some might be solved with Small Moduper reactors, but approached require large investment and long-term commitment
On the road map they have Broaden participation so no organization is >50%, so this has a good chance of not becoming Swiftoogle-Lang.

Also, under "Why not Rust?"

If you want to use Rust, and it is technically and economically
viable for your project, you should use Rust. In fact, if you can
use Rust or any other established programming language, you should.
Carbon is for organizations and projects that heavily depend on C++;
for example, projects that have a lot of C++ code or use many
third-party C++ libraries.
No, Steve that is not accurate. You didn't build MongoDB, Docker or Go. They were all wildly successful before you came on board. It's dishonest of you to insinuate that you built or helped build the core products. I can speak first hand for 10gen. For Docker you were not even there for a year, and for Go Rob was pretty clear who helped build it - Ian, Russ, Adam and a long list of people. You were ancillary involved around the periphery of all these.

Having worked on all these should be good enough you don't need to embellish and constantly overstate and lie about your contributions. Let other people talk about how great you are.
Hacker News 15 years ago
Is it just me or is there a growing appeal to science coupled with a decreasing literacy in science?
Maybe, and this is a big maybe, we should think about whether some countries have a disproportionately large access to, or responsibility for, resources relevant to all of humanity.

Specifically, I would like to question if Brazil can or even should be trusted to handle the Amazon forest in a responsible manner. Over the past decades, objectively, it has shown that the country, or maybe primarily its government, doesn't: The forest is continuously decimated, ever faster, with full and open support by the government itself.

Considering that the Amazon is of broader concern than just Brazil's jurisdiction alone, would it -- and I'd include other, similar areas around the globe here too -- make sense to move administration to a more responsible body, the UN for example (not specifically the UN, but you get the idea)?

This may sound offensive to you for all kinds of reasons, especially if you're Brazilian, and I sincerely apologise for that. But please consider that maybe the challenges ahead of humanity as a whole require new solutions, new ways to think about who "owns" land?
That's true. But I use VSCode every day. FWIW, I tried the de-Microsofted version and it worked well for almost a year. But then the plugin store split happened and it just made life more difficult than sucking it up and going back to vanilla VSCode. So I'd be a huge hypocrite if I said Github is a step too far.
Besides that...

From Wikipedia:

> BitChute is an alt-tech video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It describes itself as offering freedom of expression, while the service is known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hate speech.
My guess is that it's pretty much all about 2. They say explicitly in their FAQ that you should be using Rust, or any other well-established language, if not constrained by the need for deep, complex interop with C++ code bases. They're not positioning this as a "more approachable" alternative to Rust, only as one that sticks closer to existing C/C++ coding patterns.
I agree. I have been using Oracle cloud for free for about a year now for a side project that is used in production with paying customers. I had my reservations at first, but figured it was worth a shot to save me the $15/month I was paying Digital Ocean. So far so good.

FWIW, I have a close family member who works for Oracle and they claim that they're sincerely trying to be developer/start-up friendly in hopes to gain traction in the cloud space. I get that the default is to assume there is always a hidden agenda with Oracle, but it is possible they're trying to show some good faith here.
flooding the runway would temporarily deal with the heat but also render it unusable for a different reason.
You’re arguing against a straw man. I’m not advocating sacrificing safety. Nuclear in the US is regulated to a level of safety far more stringent than any other industry and out of line with the actual danger. Moreover the regulations change frequently and safety reviews of new designs get rejected without comment or feedback. Many of these regulations were written and devised by people specifically trying to tank the industry. We could take an approach that is more neutral to nuclear and base regulations on probabilistic models of risk and it would be much cheaper and just as safe.
See https://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation...
Google Faces $1B UK Trial over App Store Pricing
They, allegedly, bought ads like anyone else would have. Did that ~$100k ad buy stop Hillary from campaigning in the Mid West and visiting Wisconsin?
see also: the entire airline industry
Autodoc is great when you want to know "how do I use this function" but I find that projects that rely on it inevitable fail to answer "why do I use this function" which is usually the harder question.
If I remember correctly the problem was the new models were imitating (with software) the old ones to avoid having to be certified again.

When it was time to fly there were slight differences and this caused the pilots to react in the wrong way for the new model's behaviour.

While I understand the reasons you mention, I do not clearly follow the distinction between cutting on costs and cutting on quality. It seems like two sides of the same coin.
I noticed lately that even NPR is mentioning nuclear. As in "renewable resources, solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear".

Guess they got the memo regarding the impracticality of going without either fossil or nuclear fuels.
They could have planned for upgrading infrastructure to cope with expected warming trends beginning 35 years ago or so, but that would have entailed admitting that the science of atmospheric CO2's effect on climate had essentially been settled since 1980.

Send BP and Shell the bill for the infrastructure upgrade, since they spent so much time and effort on science denialism in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s.
> Ignoring the folly of the automobile being the only way to travel...

Thing is, if you drive 10 people, you drive one van. If ten people take the train or the bus, you buy ten tickets. Even if there were much better public transportation in the US, the economics push toward driving with larger family sizes.

> ... and that independent mobility is all but dead in the United States...

Not sure what you mean here?
Other countries are already trying to control US companies. Thats already the situation.

So there is no need for you to bring it up, as a possibility, when it is already happening.
There are some hints as to how to do this with Gitea in this issue[0].

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very easy to do w/o running a CI task or something like that.

[0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/302
> Germans don't like nuclear because "what if Fukishima happens in Germany", so instead they gas themselves with coal/gas fumes which are thousands of time worse in every single aspects, there is no "big boom" possible with gas/coal, it's a slow suffocating death, which apparently is not as scary

Great then that the alternative is renewables without the negative side effects of either fossil fuels or nuclear!
while we have you here, may I ask why is it called Carbon? It is because the symbol for atomic carbon is C ? :)
Physical and psychological safety is a far more primary concern when it comes to a living space for someone. One’s home is, for more people, a place to relax not a place to challenge social dynamics.

LGBT people regularly move across the country to find safer spaces for them to be themselves, because there isn’t much in terms of safety or community for them where they grow up.
> Rusty syntax is objectively superior to almost everything else we've come up with, there's no reason it shouldn't be copied.

You mispelled "subjectively". Rust is a hideous looking language, despite its many other benefits.
It's showing on my mobile phone?

And I just checked a company where I know it happened.

No warning.. so no idea why and how they show it..
Is this legal in the United States? If these listings constitute "housing" then you may fall afoul of HUD regulations[1] regarding discriminating against anyone regardless of sexual orientation. i.e., if I am straight you may not be able to prevent me from using your platform to acquire housing.

I'm curious to know what advice you've gotten from your lawyer on this.

[1] https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/h...

> The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing and housing-related discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), familial status, and disability.
I eventually found my dream WM, and it's Awesome:

https://awesomewm.org

It's pretty far from suckless philosophy, which for me is a good thing. I think this makes it way more flexible and usable. Great documentation, loads of features, and infinitely extensible with lua configuration. If you aren't bothered by your WM using a few megs of memory then I think it's the best choice.
Huh looking at that page and saw Kate Gregory is involved. She's someone who, as a mostly outsider who dabbles in C++ occasionally, seemed incredibly dedicated to seeing C++ thrive and people come to understand the language. Her involvement here seems like a huge positive to me, but maybe that's coming from a place of ignorance.
Safe nuclear power is an engineering problem, whereas Russian gas is a geopolitical one. Germany has more faiths in Russia being nice than German engineering. It is a shame.
China is not the US.

China's kompromat and industrial espionage policies differ from those of the US.

It is off base to compare while ignoring intentions and impact, because they're Very different countries.
GitLab team member here, thanks for sharing!

I'm using the Web IDE to take notes in most of my projects, work and personal, and publish the notes with MkDocs and GitLab Pages to a searchable frontend/domain when needed. Editing also happens in Gitpod with live preview in the browser.

You can find all resources for o11y.love [0] and opsindev.news [1] in the GitLab projects, including .gitpod.yml configuration, mkdocs.yml setup, .gitlab-ci.yml deployments.

I have been writing lots of documentation in my past OSS projects, so I am used to Markdown as markup language, taking notes very fast. Learning Markdown requires some practice, and can be helped within Gitpod and the VS Code extensions, if the default preview is not sufficient. [2] [3] You can also sync the notes repository offline into VS Code as desktop IDE for example.

Using Obsidian.md to take notes and publish with GitLab pages [4] looks promising too; I have not tried it yet.

[0] https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/observability/o11y....

[1] https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/opsindev.news

[2] https://www.gitpod.io/docs/ides-and-editors/vscode-extension...

[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown

[4] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/15/publishing-obsidian...
The "nationality" of a company is basically irrelevant here. Foreign governments could obtain this data from an "American" company in numerous different ways.m The most obvious vector would be a subpoena, but they could also negotiate payment for the data or infiltrate the company.

There's a shitload of data for sale from brokers. So foreign governments might not even need much from a company like FB. Perhaps just enough to confirm the validity of data purchase from other sources.
That aligns roughly with my experience. What I mean is that even post 2010 most people haven't read the material and continue to promote weird frankenapis which they call RESTful based on scrap anecdotes or secondhand messageboard info, or hermeneutical readings of other API designs.
The Russians have funded far right, far left and the greens in the West. For them anything would do if it can destabilize the other countries.
Idk... a lot of companies "secret sauce" seems to be squeezing the life and passion out of employees to make as much money as they can. Sounds like a trade secret they'd need to protect.

/s
A lot of homes and apartments already have AC. They are heat pumps. Just use them in heat mode.
Unfortunately, in most cases, the reason you have to do this is because >50% of reservations no-show.
Is there any centralized place for all peer reviewed articles?

As a programmer (and not as an academic person), I have no idea how to check if an article was peer reviewed or had harsh response from academic sources.

I wish it was like npmjs.com who provides me an audit tool for their Nodejs packages in the same npm CLI.