skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a good idea ONLY as a fallback. Email deliverability is a very real problem even if it happens to only 1% out of 99% of your users. What happens when a customer emails saying they can't verify their account because they didn't receive any email? It'd be quite seamless to offer this as a secondary option.
In reality there's only a small percentage who are genuine creators. The rest are copycats also because the opportunity to copy exists.

The other side is real world pressure for good grades and when you're young you want to party and experience life. You finished that assignment by copy pasting it. It's better than not finishing it.
However you get that anywhere in life. Why is, sorry, was Stackoverflow so popular?
Why is religion still a thing?
People want easy answers to hard questions.
Just guessing, but ScotRail might be extra-careful about flooding after a flood-related derailment killed 3 people at Stonehaven[0]. So if they pre-emptively cancel a service anticipating bad flooding that doesn't transpire, they'll likely want to be open with the public - those inconvenienced might be a bit more sympathetic if the know the whole picture.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehaven_derailment
Here’s the list of reasons: https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail?sql=select+*+from+ann...

Although there are duplicates for “X”, “X earlier today”, “X yesterday”. Also the page is being hugged to death (perhaps due to SQL queries?)
The people of Reading already had multiple options. As said they've just had an option replaced by a worse option (at least in term of comfort)...

Anyway, no-one wants options for the sake of having options. They want fast, reliable, affordable transport, not options.

Train transport is getting ever more expensive, it's not getting faster, and it does not appear to be getting more reliable.

Now as a tube line in Central London the Elisabeth Line does bring faster commute.
Brute-force solutions are still solutions :)
The problem is that we should not reward these behaviors, yet we have a system set up that does exactly and purely that
That's not what I am saying. Specifically for books. There might be users logged in to look for other things regularly, but Gumroad would not be a place to find readers.
They’re brute-forcing the solution to a mathematical puzzle.
It might just be me, but I'm not sure what substack has over other platforms that offer better commission rates or even flat fees. They have some social graph / discovery features, but it feels very half-baked at this point. Most of the people who're tremendously successful on substack, Ted included, seem to already have an audience outside of the platform itself anyway.

In fact, some of the controls that I have to cede to them just to get my posts pay-walled were just unacceptable to me. Just the other day I realized that it's very easy to bypass the paywall to any substack websites. You just simply have to:

1. Change the useragent to 'googlebot'

2. Clear your cookies, if you'd visited the before.

3. Profit(?)

I get that they probably did it for some SEO optimization purposes, but I'd like to have to liberty to opt out of this behavior for my newsletter, hosted under my own domain no less.
Sam Harris Interview on Triggernometry
This is a series of video essays about Chile's Project CyberSyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Link title massively overreaches. Cybersyn was a few hundred telex machines, aka glorified telegraphs, and one computer that aggregated daily economic statistics. It was in no way comparable to ARPANET or the Internet. The project was an interesting yet abortive effort at top-down socialist economic management. Since it never had a chance to succeed or fail on its own merits, and also since it had a really swanky-looking operations room, it's been the subject of a boatload of techno-utopian projection. Here are reflections by someone who was directly involved:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti...

>The emphasis of these reflections is in contrasting its rather limited achievements with its vision and relevance for our societies today. Its claims were large; it was presented as a project that achieved important results in a short period of time. The paper compares its actuality with these claims.
Bitcoin censorship will most likely come, pt 2 (2020)
Isn’t my GitHub profile mine? Is it unethical to manipulate my own data?

People manipulate their identity all the time, flashy IG posts, financed fancy car, combing their hair, wearing makeup.

But code commit history is the line?
I think "it depends". For someone living in the same city as you, but having both their apartment and place of work connected by a more feasible public transport route, a bike competes with public transport.

For me it augments it: Taking public transport is not pleasant (10 miles at 40m travel time), but I could go to the train station by bike, take the train and then cycle to work (<20m). Only reason I'm not doing that that I have to carry the bike up the stairs (10m height difference) and instead do wfh. By car it's 15 to 20m depending on traffic.
I would say this is because the software world is too big now. We genuinely are looking at a new form of literacy that is changing all aspects of human
communication, organisation and decision making.

It's hard to cram that in any one magazine.

So I suspect that there is a sub-genre of magazine - the Byte for education software and the Byte for legal software and ...

As a technology this big matures it becomes so embedded in each industry that the questions that matter stop being software questions and start being industry questions - it's important that Walmart uses good concrete and steel on its shops, but walmart does not succeed or fail based on construction skills.

(Basically cribbed from Ben Evans)

But AI/ML is still young enough that it's possible to follow the field (JMLR perhaps but I am not an expert)

Finally a sillier question -

If HN started an in-house magazine, what would it look like?
I use mine for tracking things, communications and reading the most.

I've disabled notifications for everything so it's a passive tool, and then use it to track workouts (GymRoutines), steps (Paseo), diet (MyFitnessPal) and communicate (calls, messaging and email), then use it for reading books and articles (Moon+ Reader and Wallabag).
My understanding is that the "network" was a manually-staffed telex operations room:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti...

>Serendipitously, we found a large number of spare telex machines in one of the state-owned enterprises. Their installation followed in plants and enterprises throughout the country, as well as in industrial committees, CORFO and other government offices. A telex room with tens of machines was installed at CORFO. In practice, it was an operations room for the state-owned industry that offered an incipient nervous system for the industrial economy; it was called Cybernet

The telex itself was not invented in Chile, but rather ironically in 1930s Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development
Wow I and my auto-correct would like to apologise.
Next step is to reduce societal harm by removing the token economy.
Unless their sensors become saturated.
Perhaps your issue is that you believe people can be judged based on their choice of social media, or that your reactions here serve as a "reward" for anything.

HN is not Lake Woebegone, where all of the posters are above average.
Yeah, and it looks like that with the Substack and Twitter audience growth comparison he is doing apple and oranges thing while ignoring that he fertilised the orange tree with apples.
Also a permanent stain on Google's reputation.
During the height of the culture wars (probably 2020) it was one of the few outlets with dissenting opinions presented in a credible and well written way.

It is for classic liberals who want free thought, so it seems logical that the site shows up here.
I worked in a 1 Hour Photo when I was in college. The standing rule we had is that any photos of naked adults were not printed (the customer was given their negatives though). In the case of naked children if it was the typical "kid taking their first bath" it was fine but if there was any doubt we had a manager review it. I think we had to call the cops a couple times (more for passing the buck than making an official decision like that ourselves) but there is/was a policy for things like that.
And also that many of the stones are buried deep in the earth.
I’ve heard great things about Google Domains but this kind of story is exactly why I probably won’t be using that service. It’s just too risky if you lose everything at once.
The second video mentions a trucking strike, and that messages were passed between telex sites on alternate shipping options.

Supposedly, this was instrumental in breaking the strike, which was not instigated by the workers, but by the owners of the trucking firms, in reaction to a move towards nationalization of some of them.
That makes absolutely no sense. Either you want to learn the basics of networking or you don’t. It sounds like you are living in some ignorance qualified fantasy of what networking is.

You need to know theory of networking, all of it. What you don’t need are the instructions to configure a router or switch. Otherwise, I recommend giving up and doing something else.
To fix logistics, equipment and munitions capabilities?
Well if you have to meet certain criteria to get a title then "punishment" is exactly what I'd expect to see.

Isn't that the whole point of all this? You can't call yourself a med doctor if you have no idea about being one, if you don't know about the key knowledge areas.

Therefore you're not a doctor and don't get to have that title.

It's about filtering out those who can't
It will be forgotten about by tomorrow.
As demonstrated in "10.69": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTssX2VdKA
https://archive.ph/tL6wk
I was home schooled K-7 (skipped 8th grade). The flexibility was great and allowed me to start taking college level computer programming courses when I was 10 years old. I think I came out of it reasonably socially adjusted. I have two recommendations for anyone thinking about doing something similar:

1. Make sure your kids are involved in a decent amount of outside activities during the elementary school years that get them interacting with other kids. Things like team sports, music groups, etc.

2. Do NOT home school your kids through high school. I knew other kids who were and thought that they had socialization issues. You could easily argue that this point is mostly anecdotal and I couldn't really disagree, but I have a gut feeling that the high school years are particularly important when it comes to socialization.
Show HN: Click the icons to turn history into favorites
https://i.imgur.com/7gXMBT2.gif

This is a tool to go back to often-used URLs quickly

There's 2 modes, Favorites, and History

Favorites are items you save by clicking the icons on the left

History searches the browser history so you can save favorites

History is only fetched when necessary, so it's fast

Type something to filter with a more precise search

Items are ordered by last visit date, most recent at the top

You can use the arrows to select items up and down

You can use Tab to switch between Favorites and History

You can use Shift + Enter to add/remove a favorite

You can use the Delete key to clear the filter

You can middle click an item to open without exiting

Some settings are configurable in Configure

Favorites and Configuration are sync'd to your account
I mean it's not hard to read the source for your platform. On Linux/x86_64/libc++ it's roughly:

- https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/__...

- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=nptl/...

I don't particularly care to comb through it to see if anything has changed, but historically it was a a little spin-CAS to make the non-contended path fast and then dropping into a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex, which is about as good as it gets for staying mostly in userspace but still letting it be scheduler aware so you're not burning up a core busy-polling, which is what often happens when people try to roll their own shit.

Google wants a bit more latitude on the heuristics and degrees of freedom around read/write ownership, so they did it like this: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/synchr... which is quite a bit better commented/legible.

If anyone reading this can do better than the `abseil-cpp` folks, not only would Google take their PR, they'd probably offer them a job.
Why not ECTS for the central section, too?
Yes, and telex machines were nothing new in 1972. They were invented in Germany in the 1930s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development

When you boil it down to the details, Project Cybersyn really wasn't much. A lot of old telex stations, one mainframe, untested hand-wavey ideas about economic control theory, and some very nice Star Trek armchairs.
Ask HN: What is the best back end framework in 2022?
Hey HN,

I want to build and ship a side project really quick. I'm wondering what is the best framework to build a backend fast in 2022?

Second I also want to know what is the best framework to build a backend in Python?
> It's the other way around that can be suboptimal. If some application wants to integrate git it could execute in a subshell (which is frowned upon for good reasons) or use libgit instead.

What's wrong with invoking an executable or using libgit?

It seems you're totally missing the whole point. The problem was never that you could not consume libraries from an executable. The actual problem is that you're somehow expecting to consume a third-party package in a way that the project maintainers do not support, let alone maintain.

Adding a build flag that supports a convoluted and arguably useless usecases of linking with symbols shipped in third-party executables change nothing.
Modern computing increasingly relies on the GPU, and it is disappointing to see that virtualization tools are lacking in this area.
Google has a responsibility, to a limited degree, to turn over to law enforcement anything that they know about abuse that comes through their system. More likely, the trigger for that is set really low as a corporate CYA and to pass the buck. I can totally see Google's point of view on this: We're providing a free* service to you, we're not going to stick our neck out and risk ANY liability of being blamed of storing/harboring/distributing abusive content... we would rather err way over on the side of insane caution and let law enforcement sort it out.
I agree, the network looks like a bunch of modems connected to a single host's tty driver.
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I've been pleasantly surprised at how busy the service is. Coming home at rush-hour I've had to stand for several stops.

I expect that hybrid working will continue indefinitely. But that's likely to mean more people wanting to travel on it for leisure. It's already become annoying that it isn't open on a Sunday yet.
Depends what the purpose is. Any number of frameworks will work; sounds like you already limited it to Python, so Django or Flask seems logical.
Even if they had had the tech: most projects fail, for one reason or another [*]. There has been another "internet", DECnet, but it lost. There's no reason to assume that Chile, not a country known for international influence and mastery of English, would have actually produced another internet.

Cybersyn looked like an innovative undertaking, though. A bit heavy on metaphors, it would appear from the article.

[*] edit: at becoming a success beyond its original domain.
Just want to build a REST API really fast, I'm going to be building the frontend in React. I'm not really limited to Python but prefer it a bit over the others, I'd love to know about frameworks in other languages too.
> I’ve repeatedly dealt with services where the verification email [...] is marked as spam

Spam filtering in email is performed on the receiving side. You're the recipient, so if your spam filter is filtering emails you want, it's your spam filter that is defective and you are the only one who can solve that.
So consultants are people who don't work and get paid for being smartass, gotcha.

I can do that, where do I sign?
An example of this can be observed in the newer Dutch slow trains (called ‘sprinters’). They seen to have changed the recorded voice (“the train to $destination will arrive at $time”) to some sort of a computer assemblage that sounds like they’re constructing sentences from syllables resulting in very strange and sometimes hilarious emphasis and off sounding timing on certain syllables. What a mess
It's not even a 6% productivity increase, it's "6% less time between builds and tests". Is that even a meaningful metric?

It is also not clear to me what the control group was, neither how they were selected nor what they did instead of using the ML model.
Interesting, I think it's perhaps because we don't have so much variability then (or at least not much layman-visible variability), though I have on occasion seen some less familiar ones they're so rare that I wouldn't have a different name for them. Even 'squad units' (cars right?) I would just awkwardly say 'fire.. er, car' I imagine, even they're not that common to be honest. Just for higher-ups and 'chemical response' I think.
Not to confuse you more, but the Elizabeth line is Crossrail 1. There is also a proposed crossrail 2 which would be another cross-London line running south-west to north-east. This hasn’t been approved yet, and given the strained finances and reduced passenger numbers post-covid, I suspect it won’t be for a while. But it may well happen at some point.
> Why should I have to go through all that faff when I have a perfectly good password manager?

If you are not using dedicated special-purpose email addresses with specific services, you're already grossly mismanaging your online safety.

Think about it for a second: how does your password manager help you if your email password gets leaked?
Since the article is talking about Android app development the answer is "yes" because that's what Google recommends for Android app development: it's the language in which you're going to find sample code on Google's Android websites so yes, it's better in that respect. However, it's just one of several JVM languages so it's abilities in general are equivalent to Java or Scala or anything else that ultimately runs on the JVM.
Is anyone else surprised that Sinofsky, who must have made - at a minimum - tens of millions of dollars at MS, feels the need to charge at all - let alone $300 for a pdf - for his memoirs. It’s almost as though he doesn’t want people to read them.
right after that sentence there's a link to a talk that explains one way this is true
This is simultaneously true and not useful: most people use an email provider, and the provider dictates the spam policy. Aggressive policies are competitive, because spam annoys users more than the occasional missed message.
just in case, there's a bunch of named colors here: https://gist.github.com/yunga/c1d3d194c024134703726782ac3eac...
That's at least debatable, I send SPF failures to spam, which obviously catches some legitimate stuff, but at very least that's the sender's problem too.
That's true. By the same virtue, though, Phoenix is big compared to most other Elixir web frameworks - which also get a lot for free from the platform (and even more for free from Plug). Of course you can ignore the vast majority of what Phoenix offers and churn out a 50-SLOC minimal example like that, but then why pull in an extra dependency when you could accomplish much of the same while just using Plug?
For general information have a look here [0]. Also be aware that elements in the control center might even offer additional functionality, e.g. like setting the brightness of the flashlight. In this case instead of just switching the flashlight on by a tap on the button, keep the flashlight button pressed to bring up a slider to set the brightness. Just play around with the other control center elements to find out what is possible.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iph59095ec58/ios
GitHub Topic: Password-Leak
> I bet if you correct for the effect of GDP per capita, they will rank near the bottom among European countries too.

If you start correcting for other variables, you'll have to look at demographics, size and flatness of the country, prices, public transport availability, population distribution between rural and urban areas etc. etc.

Relatively poor Romania has a lower number of cars per capita and if you live in Bucharest like me, you'd believe everyone owns a car (half being Dacias), nobody rides a bicycle.
So far it seems that the biggest passenger growth happened within the leisure traffic segment, and indeed it was already known from previous studies (including some smaller scale recent-ish experiments in Germany) that commuting traffic in particular is more sensitive to reliability and journey time and not that extremely price sensitive.

I'd think that commuting is simultaneously the biggest driver behind the decision to purchase a car or not, so all in all that leaves me rather sceptic on whether you'd really get people to abandon their cars en masse that way.

I'm also sceptical on the political willingness – silently and behind the scenes, some states (Hessen, I'm looking at you) have actually right now reduced their public transport budgets in order to make up Corona-induced budget holes. So the "true national through-ticketing for all public transport"-aspect of the 9 €-Ticket was nice, but beyond that I'd personally still rather see any money that can be scrounged together beyond that to be spent on service and infrastructure improvements. (And what with the staff shortages and energy price increases and possibly a recession on top we might even have to worry about even maintaining current service levels…)
The data can be tampered with in transit.
No need to be productive all the time. I think just limiting total hours is ok...
Why do we even need email verification?

I don't want to allow a website to link my identity to my email address or phone number.

I don't want the website to push me messages.

I am capable of storing passwords, so no need to send me password recovery emails.

Email verification should be optional.
Old Oak Common station hasn't been mentioned, being a HS2 project to connect to the Elizabeth line, but a handy place to have a station.
The threat of a 51% attack still exists on proof-of-stake as it does on proof-of-work, but it's even riskier for the attackers. A attacker would need 51% of the staked ETH (about $15,000,000,000 USD). They could then use their own attestations to ensure their preferred fork was the one with the most accumulated attestations. The 'weight' of accumulated attestations is what consensus clients use to determine the correct chain, so this attacker would be able to make their fork the canonical one. However, a strength of proof-of-stake over proof-of-work is that the community has flexibility in mounting a counter-attack. For example, the honest validators could decide to keep building on the minority chain and ignore the attacker's fork while encouraging apps, exchanges, and pools to do the same. They could also decide to forcibly remove the attacker from the network and destroy their staked ether. These are strong economic defenses against a 51% attack.

Staking-as-a-service will operate as a market of diverse options. The network could decide to fork from an outsized dishonest market participant. It would be controversial, but the validity of the network is generally a common incentive for most involved.
Honestly: don't upload unencrypted content to anyone, for exactly this reason.

I have cloud backups of family photos, but they're all through restic or rclone with the crypt filter applied. Privacy is about the right to put yourself in context.
Because services don't want to be spammed with fake accounts.