skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is calling everyone who doesn't agree with him about Faulconer's notability a "troll" (and more times than one in the article).

>> In the spirit of Wikipedia procedures and reliable source documents, I want to add a few endnotes to this article.

>> TROLLS (Par. 3): Here’s my conversation with Faulconer on the use of this word:

>> Ted: People may question the suitability of the word trolls here—some of these trolls are Wikipedia editors
>> Bruce: When they act in this way, they behave like trolls. So it’s a fair word.
>> Ted: Yes, that’s my considered judgment too.

That's not a "considered judgement". That's just a flame. Very disappointing.
I would wager that a lot of these senators were available for purchase.
Does he actually have a point in amongst the rambling name dropping I gave up hope somewhere around the Swedish Souffle anecdote and abandoned the article.
And all that Silicon Valley is doing is funding young 20 somethings for the next social groupcrap over and over and over. It's not exactly like Silicon Valley is being innovative.

TikTok is just making Silicon Valley mad because they finally met a bigger VC (the Chinese government) running their own playbook and they can't beat it.
> The philosopher Gurdjieff and Zen philosophers say we drift though life in low awareness and in mental ruts. They propose mental exercises to improve this.

Then it's quite ironic that the philosophers are among the easiest ones to emulate by the computer.
Thank you, still early indeed but the project looks promising. I am really hoping for the Return of the Desktop in which episode Rust defeats C++ and we all have a sane, safe, free and memory abiding computing experience.
Siemens' new home EV charger adapter ends need for electrical panel upgrades
> Demand for semiconductors is overwhelmingly not created by the military

That may be true, but semiconductors are absolutely crucial to the military. I suppose the military has their own fabs locally located in partnership with Intel, AMD, IBM, TI, etc...
Thanks for this comment. It is the essence of why for me the Wikipedia project can't die soon enough.

The criteria for notability on wikipedia are not clear and documented. They are a joke, with a camp of zealots deleting everything they can delete - maybe they see it as a hobby, maybe they need it to feel powerful. The criteria do not matter as long as such people are allowed to wield power. And the english Wikipedia is actually the good one in this category, the german is already completely broken because of this clientele.

You are right, it could be forked, but in practice it's unlikely humanity has the capacity to run two such projects. Thus Wikipedia - if it does not course correct - will sink slowly into irrelevance, be flanked with better wikis for specific topics (sadly often proprietary platforms/commercial projects) and then, hopefully, what you describe will really happen and a new Wikipedia will be forked, learning from the mistakes that are completely obvious to everyone outside of that current in-group of contributors.
However, if you can't get far, there should be some way outside of work to build up your broad skills. "A" you can build up on free time, but it's also mostly isolating. "C" is harder to come by outside of work especially as an introvert. I think we have enough bootcamps and such for A. Workshops for how to be influential in professional settings would be beneficial, because reading books about the subject is still no substitute for face-to-face office interactions.
Why do they have to be unique?
well depending on the language an argsparser can trash quite a lot of memory and become slower than necessary when there is a big argument list.
as others said if this cli is also used as a component than it might be important that it is fast.
and since claps is so easy to use and has basically no downsides it's stupid to even not at least try it.
as said compared to other tools it's really really simple
Amazon went years basically making no money because they were reinvesting and in a growth stage. Intel could do the same. They just need to convince investors of the new narrative. Wall Street doesn't demand profits if you deliver promises.
Quantum entanglement provides a key to improved security
Think of it like code in an active open-source project. Someone needs to maintain the article

No, they don't, no more than Google Maps needs to "maintain" older versions of their imagery for access through Google Maps Timeline.

Curation should be directed towards informing the user and allowing them to make their own judgements regarding the content, not towards excluding content based on someone's completely-arbitrary opinion of "notability."

No matter how much hand-waving Wikipedia does on the subject, that's ultimately what notability comes down to: someone else's opinion.
I just created my own site - https://walterbright.com/ - where I decide what goes on it and what doesn't.
When you can hedge against inflation with insider trading, no. It's not your problem. It's just a problem for the little people.
I think it's this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/databasedevelopment/
The title is not great, but the Q&A is very explicit:

> All data controllers using Google Analytics in a similar way to these organisations should now consider this use as unlawful under the GDPR.
Casacading !== inheritance. These are very different things. I wish we had inheritance (or traits) in CSS.
> Dr. Lovelock caused a sensation in 2004 when he pronounced nuclear energy the only realistic alternative to fossil fuels that has the capacity to fulfill the large-scale energy needs of humanity while reducing greenhouse emissions.
Wonderful insight that I will print and keep at hand. This is SO helpful.
Another good read on ESG's shortcomings is Woke Inc. [1]

1: https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Inc-Corporate-Americas-Justice/d...
I have used Supernatual quite a bit and as far as I know, the product completely dominates the fitness category.

A successful acquisition will put it in control of two top apps in fitness, the other being Beat Saber (which though more game-like, is often included in fitness app lists).

I would be surprised if meta allowed either company to release a version optimized for Apple's headset (or Samsung or Snap etc), whereas an unaquired Within would likely target availability on any and all platforms it can reasonably compile for and support.

All that being said, I think Facebook has a massively uphill battle to climb in VR versus Apple and they need Supernatural to bootstrap their fitness and music licensing effort.

And beyond that Supernatural as a product (while the best right now) still lacks a lot of professional finish in its content and software design.
Cocoa shown to reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness in real-life study
Neat! Because it's a thing I do[1], the hash algorithms in use:

Fleur (and DCSO/bloom and DCSO/flor): fnv

bloomd: a combination of SpookyHash and murmur[2]

[1]: https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/ (I'll update it to add bloomd and spooky)

[2]: https://github.com/armon/bloomd/blob/23c19a7f5cbb35d7c3d970b...

[3]: I have a vague recollection of somebody telling me why combining two hashes in the way bloomd does for k >= 4 is a good idea but I can't remember - anybody have a good reference for me to link to? (edit: nvm, I already link the paper on my page! sheesh)
> You say there is nothing wrong, but then go on to list things that are in fact wrong.

They say there is nothing wrong with the technology, but then go on to list things that are in fact wrong with the not-technology.
Corel Linux (1999-2000): Exploring how easy it was to use [video]
I'm not an economist and don't really understand your refutation. To help me understand your viewpoint, could you explain in simple language why government spending or policy is the only source and cause of inflation? Please correct me if that's an incorrect interpretation of your statements.

Going by what I see as an individual, there are lots of things happening around me that drive prices up that don't have any strong relationship to my government's policy (e.g. bird flu raising poultry prices). I also don't understand how this can be the case simultaneously across multiple governments around the world.
I wish to pay my respects to this great intellect and person as I don't know where else to do it. Rest in peace.
I'm all for free public education for poor kids. Is it really necessary to give free public education to all Palo Alto kids independent of financial status?

Snark aside, the answer is: it's much simpler to manage a program that offers the same thing to everyone regardless of income than it is to manage a program that has to work out who deserves it. And offering it to all avoids stigma.
They do but they have explicitly given up the game of competing to be the first to the next fastest smallest digital logic (i.e. cutting edge nodes).

Micron is still pushing DRAM and NAND tech but it's more for cost cutting since they are strictly commodities. The work it takes to be a pure-play fab like TSMC is pretty different - lots of working with fabless vendors to bring up their chips. Even Intel isn't any good at this (yet). It's a collaborative process.
> The state is supposed to pass laws that represent the will of its constituents. If the majority of the people living in the state are opposed to such a program, then they shouldn't have such a program.

You're ignoring that gerrymandering districts allow politicians to enact policies that don't reflect the will of the people.
I keep asking the same thing about why it's necessary for malloc to give so much memory to Electron, but they are way less friendly on the glibc mailing list to that argument for some reason.
A supercomputer in China ran a ‘brain-scale’ AI model with 174T parameters
This movie was released after 9/11, presumably (based on not having the towers) also set after 9/11. I don’t get the original complaint at all.
> The answers are suprisingly easy. And the people to blame are obvious. There's little nuance to be had and no "historical context" is needed beyond "it's been fucked for a while because spending has been fucked for a while".

I obviously disagree with this. Whatever else our differences are, I don't think anyone thinks "the answers are surprisingly easy".

> There are many political situations where information is scarce and there's room for honest discussion. In this one, there is none.

I... well, I'm glad you have this level of certainty that you think there's no room for honest discussion.

> I just hope that the only person stating basic truths over there looking and acting like a clown doesn't ruin your chances of not becoming another Venezuela.

I'm afraid I know who you are talking about. "Basic truths" :facepalm:
>We need stronger privacy protection against big tech corporations.

... We need stronger privacy protection;

... be it corporations, governments, or individuals.
Already done. Speaker of houses husband bought 5 million dollars of Nvidia stock right before this bill.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/23/nancy-and-paul-pelosi-are-trad...
If we wanted local control then local towns/cities and counties would have the most power in our system. Instead things are reversed so smaller units of government have progressively less power.

This makes sense because we want people to freely move around the country without encountering wildly different systems in every small town.
It's hard to assess economic stability because big crises are low-probability events, but it doesn't seem obvious to me that Bretton Woods US (01944–01971) was systematically less stable than the US after the switch to fiat money in 01971.

Certainly it was far more economically prosperous; the change to a fiat currency coincides with a widely-remarked drop in the GDP growth rate and an even more dramatic growth of inequality, to the point that the lowest quintile in the US has famously seen no real income growth since the switch to fiat money.

But that could easily be a coincidence, because many other things also changed. For example, the Bretton Woods period was a historically anomalous period during which the US was by far the world's dominant economic power; all the other advanced economies had been bombed to smithereens, the PRC and Russia were additionally crippled by communism, and the former colonies in India, Africa, and Latin America were only beginning to recover from colonialism. The dollar itself enjoyed the exorbitant privilege of being the backing for all other currencies. Plausibly the US's dominance during this period allowed it to strip resources from weaker powers in a way that dramatically enhanced its own economic growth, a way that is no longer possible.

Also, you could reasonably quibble that, rather than being a natural division between systems, comparing to Bretton Woods amounts to historical cherry-picking: it's been 51 years since the US transitioned to a fiat currency, and the preceding 51 years include the crash of 01929 and the Great Depression! Any period of world history is economically stable compared to a period embracing the Great Depression.
Hedge funds also aim to beat their competitors
> and then create a separate TikTok competitor? And a separate Snap competitor?

They did, it was called Threads and no one used it.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...
Poor children are still eligible? Nobody is going hungry
This seems like a great place to ask:

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good alternative for old-Instagram (e.g. just sharing photos)? I only joined originally because of their cool map view that had pins around the world showing where each of your shared photos were taken, and they removed that feature a few years ago; I haven't found any other app than Google Photos that does it well. However, Google Photos does it for all of my photos (there's a lot!) and I'd much prefer a separate app just so I can edit and curate a very small collection for the map instead (1-2 photos per place), and ideally be able to share that map with other people.

Anyone know of a good photo-sharing app for that?
this is easier and relays changes by storing a diff
Surely “humans” are very unlikely to survive long term precisely because of evolution. Intelligent life probably will. But it might need to reboot from closer to the soup again.
> If I don't have 15 minutes to shit, I'm overscheduled.

... yes.

Of course in the previous comment I talk about a... proper shit, when everything works. But again, different folks have a differnt needs.
I never heard of Everything2. Regretfully because it seems great. I see it has new articles and Wikipedia lists it as active though everybody here refers to it in the past tense. Why is that?
I was not, but I did choose JavaScript cynically with spite.

Spite is a great design decision.
Stop blaming users for problems introduced by massive tech companies.

Yes, I know how to find my subscriptions, that's how I know the channels I like are dying; they are posting "my channel is dying videos" and only a subset of their users are finding them.
Thanks for the reminder—I often forget about Google's various less-prominent tools and services.
> They want to beat their competitors

Not quite. They want to satisfy shareholders. Beating competitors is second-order because the shareholders will be happy (read: get more money) when that happens.
The example given by the other poster is rural Hubei.
> How exactly can a company price-gouge in a free market?

We don't have a free market.
States Government don't have the taxing power of the Federal Government.

The only way to solve this equation is to drop Federal Government taxing power to as close to zero as possible and zero may not be enough as states power is likely to drop.

If economics was a harder science, it would be about mathematically proofs of these possibilities.
> a relatively simple front end with huge versatility in server apps and back ends

Define "relatively simple"?

Nesting and scoping in CSS don't make frontend any more complex. CSS has had problems with it's flat top-level structure since the very beginning of its existence. Approaches like BEM didn't appear out of thin air.

> CSS nesting is clearly serving the use case of components in web apps, as opposed to mere content-driven web sites.

Even a content-driven web site has a plethora of repeating and/or complex elements that are a pain to define and maintain.

> Would solve 99% of use cases" also sounds like famous last words

Google has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into web components whose primary use case (that is, what they are being used for in reality) could've been solved by scoping and nesting.

Same goes for all the CSS-in-JS abominations.
Most likely only those who need it will take it, and making it available to everyone makes it simpler to manage.

I went to a public school in Uruguay and we had a daily free meal (not really lunch, it was more of a snack, school ran 13 to 17 for me) and I never went to get mine, but I always had a couple of classmates who didn't get a square lunch at home and they went to get that.
I won't be surprised the day that Silicon Valley finally sees a real correction. We are due for one, big time. Just look at what Google and Meta have been doing compared to the ability of newcomers like TikTok. China will win, and when reality comes knocking, it will be too late and suddenly that easy money is going to vanish.
I haven't used either of those so I'll have to give them a shot to compare. I use cmus for my local music files (that I sync via Dropbox), and I use Spotify for everything else.

I've been wanting to try out one of the CLI-based Spotify apps, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Do you do most of your music listening locally?
America is short more than 5M homes
It's not that crazy if you think about the fact that most senators never went to public schools, are from wealthy families, went ivy league, mostly hang around other wealthy people.

Completely out of touch is probably the right mental framework.
https://glass.photo/
To be honest, I have played enough of these games where they ask you "was it $RANDOM_FAMOUS_PERSON who said this, or Hitler?" that I know how terrible it would be to actually extract any conclusions from this game. It's not that $RANDOM_FAMOUS_PERSON was close in thought to Hitler (what these popular games inevitably try to claim). It's not that you suck at distinguishing people from Hitler wannabees (which is also often claimed). It's just that if you select the quotes well enough, most speeches have large swaths of what coincidentally amounts to the same writing. It's like the birthday paradox of prose.

That does not mean that most speeches express entirely the same thoughts, much less than most famous persons all have the same speeches, all the way from Hitler.

The same ML model would not even approach passing the Turing Test. How can anyone claim it can "impersonate" a famous philosopher? This is just absolutely misleading clickbait.
With big companies, it's often the case that we're all the 85 year old grandma.
> Camera software is an area that is frustratingly closed off

Then build an open source camera body? We have the ability nowadays.

I'd guess they only real problem is getting a decent sensor. But I'd be surprised if you can't get something comparable out of China.

If no one is doing it, well, then that's a data point in and of itself, no?
Cool! What are their yields? What are their costs?
I have a few friends at Google, all of whom got in many years ago. They all claim the interview has gotten a lot harder, and that there's no way in hell they'd pass the current level of scrutiny.

Although FWIW, they also say they also would not have passed the interview for the time period they got hired if they had to do it again a second time.
Yep.

In the US, a lot of the time support for one program or another is given not on the basis of ideology, but rather on the basis of whether or not the beneficiaries of a program provided commensurate, um, "campaign contributions".

Pretty sure impoverished school kids contribute pretty much zero to political campaigns.
Take your upvote and wipe.
Corporations need to eat too!
I am suggesting you compare 1776-1971 vs 1971+ which is the opposite of cherry-picking. Ignoring all US history prior to 1944 is going to give you a very distorted view of what’s normal. Especially as Brenton Woods was a mixed system.

The degree to which these differences are a function of various monetary systems is debatable, but it’s very hard to argue that fiat is worse on those timescales.
Show HN: Volcano Editing Mode for Vim
Hi HN,

I made a simple POC journaling mode for vim, it's not really functional.

When I am stream-of-consciousness journaling, I like the text to prepend at the top of the screen, as opposed to appending to the bottom.

Was just curious if this resonates with others, or if others have had similar ideas, or have other tools they use to accomplish this!
One of the most pernicious myths about this situation out there is that there is a single "One China Policy" shared by everyone on earth. This is not the case. The One China Policy of the US is different to that of the PRC. And I quote:

- The United States did not explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan in the three US-PRC Joint Communiques of 1972, 1979, and 1982.

- The United States "acknowledged" the "One China" position of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

- U.S. policy has not recognized the PRC's sovereignty over Taiwan;

- U.S. policy has not recognized Taiwan as a sovereign country; and

- U.S. policy has considered Taiwan's status as unsettled.

Next time you read a news story about this issue, take note of the fact that PRC officials use the term "the One China policy" while US officials use the term "our 'One China' policy".
I'm in this age group and I also have no intention of leaving my hometown. I've lived here my whole life, and I've never been away for longer than a week or two. Everyone and everything I know and love is here. I have a decent job and a comfortable life, though I probably won't ever be able to afford a single family home in the area.
The PHP based “CPanel” of the early 2000s is of course also serverless!
Never underestimate programmer machismo. So many people seem to rule out SQLite because of programmer lore that it's not fast enough or doesn't scale. But ofc Postgres is a real database and therefore is the automatic correct choice.
For most creators, the though of moving a volume of videos to a new location is terrifying. Also, a lot of the content on Youtube is formatted and made only based on YouTube (logos, watermarks, screen format, etc..).

Right now YouTube uses downgraded storage for less-viewed content, that's why a lot of older low-view content takes time to buffer when it's played... If they delete stuff, creator hell might break loose.

Instagram also has a strange infinite scroll that greatly impairs and discourages users from looking into older content... Facebook does it too. I wouldn't be surprised if they are planning on switching to these new formats as a springboard/catalyst for eliminating tons of older content posts, and that will also be a big problem, it's not just pictures of grandma that will be lost.
Instagram's biggest failing in trying to copy Tiktok is their feed algorithm.

Tiktok has nailed the delightful "stumble upon" effect of getting users of all ages to keep going to the next and the next video. I don't mind how each new piece of content is paged because the content is better for the format and it doesn't feel clunky when I do want to skip to the next one.

Instagram couldn't switch their algorithm because people think they still want to see the content they've been seeing... otherwise they'd just be using TikTok.

In insta, we are used to scrolling really quickly until something catches the eye and THEN we engage. That is because the content in the insta feed is not as good and there are more ads. The new scrolling/paged UI in Instagram feels terrible because I can't fly through bad content to engage with what I want.