skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can't say as I do, and I was there in 2014, so presumably I would remember

if you've been there since 2014, you know that all of their rokos get taken down, in the hope of curating mistakes away from being noticed. most of the people there since then don't know about that, or much of the other high comedy, either.

i would also describe them as having proven that a future ai from a different universe is going to quantum reality travel to this one to punish us for not devoting our wallets to pay for its invention, which is basiliskically hilarious. one of my favorite things in the history of the internet, right up there with timecube.

sure, a person might say "Well they didn't prove that, that was just one user and the founder and a couple other easily scared campfire listeners," but that would miss the point of how comedy narratives work, in the effort to disprove a statement that wasn't actually meant to be factual, but was rather (and somewhat obviously) meant as a ... let's see, victorian voice, "cutting jibe." nobody's really motivated by "the fact remains that it was not a proof."

if they subsequently just-asking-questionsed me to prove roko's basilisk was real, i definitely wouldn't spend the time, because it's perfectly obvious what i'm talking about, that reality is in no way a supporting column in what i actually said, that what they're asking me for is a direct contravention of what i actually said, and mostly because i don't want to set myself up for a later unpleasant to listen to false meta-narrative where someone patiently explains things to me that aren't related to what i was actually saying

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> Link?

if, at the end of my saying "to get to the other side," someone asks me to link them to the road, is sure they don't remember an avenue there, and doesn't remember being disappointed by the lack of available poultry, i'm not going to bother.

that isn't how jokes work. it's just not worth my time

unpopular opinion: 95% of the time, someone asking for a link is just trying to call bullshit without coming out and saying it. much like corporate speak has developed "let's circle back" and "let's take this offline," you know? a way to not feel like you're saying the thing you're actually saying.

this cumbersome failure to interact with natural language does, i seem, feel intentional

at any rate, here i am at the intersection of poe and brandolini. i enjoy your webpage. have a good day
Not really. The only way this ends is if Europe and Russia cooperate to sell gas. Both parties have to agree.

The actual war is related but not directly needed to end the energy problem.

Even if Russia surrendered there would still need to be cooperation to resume gas sales
You're 100%, undoubtedly, focusing your anger at the wrong party. Taking CF out of the equation of your problem won't fix the problem. It won't take the site down. It won't stop their behavior.

What I think is happening: you've exhausted several paths of recourse; the no-name website operators aren't responding; the fly-by-night hosting provider in eastern europe says they won't do anything; but you hit a stroke of luck. In some small, insignificant way, in a tracert or a dig to the perpetrators site, an American Big Tech company popped up. Finally; a name I recognize; someone may listen. Anger is given focus.

CF could act. It wouldn't change anything. Not for the site; not for the artists you support; not for you. I don't know what the right course of action to fix your problem is; I don't have any experience in that domain. I hope you find it, because that situation does suck. But I do know: you can blame CF today, maybe they act, and tomorrow it'll be someone else. You'll be stuck on that treadmill forever.
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is this round free too?? if so, at what point do the governments of the world stop subsidizing covid shots? will a new booster come out ever few months until then?
It's also the worst browser and the bane of every developers existence. It's legit the new IE.
What happens to the ones who don’t cheat?
If there is a curve of some sort they can be screwed even if they are well qualified.
You guys conduct interviews without even seeing the face of candidates?
I've read up on ECS thrice now, (but never used it because I don't do games) and I really WANT to like it, and I feel it does have value in other domains.

But... I realize every time that I forget what an entity, component and system really "is" (i mean to be fair the naming is almost satire of genericness), and the abstraction doesn't stick to my brain in a way that I had hoped. Kinda similar to how monads don't stick, and fades away over time (if you're not doing FP). Usually, this is a red flag for abstractions, but perhaps the material I've read has been poorly written. Does this feeling go away when you're used to it? Does it just feel natural and obvious after a while?
"Seriously, what do you expect him to do when someone says something like that?"

A decent person would waste no time talking to a person like that to begin with, let alone give them a massive platform to be heard far and wide.
it will be faster soon as Emad said there was issues with the ISA for the gpu not being fully ported or something of the sort
> adding extra logging

Were that could be done without altering production code or restarting production services that don’t have any facility to change the logging levels on the fly.

Was investigating an issue today in some code that only logged that an HTTP request was made to a specific endpoint: no details on why it decided to make that request where it was making the request from, what the request is expected to do or if it succeeded. The unit test approach is the only viable option at that level; isolate as little data as possible to replay until it succeeds. But that costs a lot of time and may not be safe depending on the side-effects. Maybe knowing how to snapshot and restore system state should be on the list too?
That still costs you (the employer) money. It's like a DoS attack for your hiring system.

E.g. a nefarious actor could harm a competitor by overwhelming them with fake applicants that it takes time to sift through.
Main_function – A newbie-friendly alternative to if __name__=='__main__':main()
Hello all! I suggested a certain enhancement to Python, and Python developers have directed me to make a package first to see how popular this proposal would be, so here I am.

GitHub - https://github.com/vovavili/main_function

PyPi - https://pypi.org/project/main-function/

This PyPi is meant to demonstrate a decorator-based alternative to the old-school idiom, if __name__ == '__main__': main(). Traditionally, this idiom indicates that a script is meant to both be run directly and be imported as a module, but its (possibly unjustified) prevalence in educational materials nudges beginners to wrap their head around magic methods and how Python works under the hood before it might be appropriate. Purely from cursory overview of beginner-to-intermediate educational content available for free, the idea of using magic methods for this specific purpose does seem to be the biggest source of confusion for people new to Python - as of the moment of writing this, YouTube video explaining what this bit of code does by Corey Schafer is sitting on 1,7 million views (one of his best), and video explaining the same concept by mCoding is at 865 thousand views (his most viewed video ever). Question asking what this idiom does on StackOverflow has more than 7600 upvotes, and more than 3200 bookmarks (second most upvoted Python question). Furthermore, this improvement fits in line with introduction of dataclasses, which is basically a way of declaring classes without writing boilerplate magic methods.

This very telling, self-explanatory decorator provides an alternative for people who don’t want to remove the if __name__ == "__main__": main() idiom altogether, be it for lack of understanding, concerns about future extensibility or any other reason.

Example:

This (following from main_function import main_function):

@main_function
def main() -> None:
print("Hello, world!")

Is fully equivalent to this:

def main() -> None:
print("Hello, world!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

For further discussion that has inspired this PyPi, please see this:

https://discuss.python.org/t/built-in-is-main-function-as-a-...

Please let me know your thoughts, or join the discussion with actual Python developers using the link above.
thanks, always wondered about this!
Wow that’s boss dude! Congrats. That’s winning.
>I used games as examples just because they are the easiest to understand and most popular applications of RL

No, you used it in exactly this context:

"
>How significant are these top 3 things?

They generate billions of dollars of profit
"

and the claim was incorrect regarding example 1.

I also don't think you understand what profit is and the difference between profit and revenue. Regardless, this exchange has become pretty pointless.
Often in these situations, there are a few reasons. Monetization of users isn't always as good as the MAU would make it seem, or those users have significant overlap with Snap and don't represent a net gain to the company. This is especially true if acquisitions are more of a defensive measure (buy a business so someone else can't gain access to the users you already have).

Finally, sometimes in a bad market a business can be worth more as a write-off than a sale. Depending on Snap's balance sheet, they may get more money back in tax breaks than they would if they sold it (and, again, giving a competitor access to users you already have).

This is all hypothetical, of course. I don't know anything about this specific situation, but it's why lots of seemingly successful products get killed.
Perhaps Krebs has chosen to move on with his life. Defending litigation is often expensive, distracting and stressful, even if you think you have a strong case. The law isn't necessarily always as pugilistic as Hollywood might lead you to believe. Perfectly fine to think you are right, say you were wrong, settle the case and move on. Of course, we have no way to know what Krebs really thinks or what actually went on behind closed doors here. We should take the written statement at face value, exactly as written. No more no less.
From the article:

> One letter — dated Feb. 10, 1866, and written to an I.H. Newman — reveals Dickens, a celebrity in his own time, having a mild diva moment as he complains about the potential loss of Sunday postal service in his southern English town and threatens to move elsewhere.

It looks like more like strong clickbait than a real proof of mild diva behavior.
> Movie theaters and video rental places tend to refuse to serve minors for X or R material, and (if they look quite young) even PG-13 films.

that isn't a law, movie ratings are a voluntary system designed to help parents make smarter choices about what they will allow their kids to see. It is not intended to police the actions of adults so that parents don't have to do their job. That's the extent of "Support from outside entities" that exists in all other mediums (with the exception of FCC regulations on broadcast TV and radio which were themselves commonly seen as a mistake which is why we didn't see them applied to cable TV, satellite TV/radio, or the internet)

> t's the Internet's model that's an aberration, requiring parents to take active steps to keep prevent kids from seeing hardcore porn or extreme violence or whatever on the same device they have to use to do homework, rather than having to take active steps to enable seeing those things, as they'd have to in most other contexts. Isn't it?

Nope. The same TV that shows sesame street shows porn, HBO shows both kid's movies and Game of Thrones, the same theater that shows G rated movies shows R rated movies, the same car radio that plays disney songs plays howard stern. It has always been the job of parents to monitor how children consume media. Always.

> I don't think "parents have always had to actively work to keep their kids from being exposed to awful stuff without substantial help from government and the private sector" really holds up, unless I'm missing something.

Having "help from government and the private sector" isn't the problem. There are lots of things the government and the private sector can do to help parents which would be perfectly acceptable. The rating system on movies is a good example. Requiring adults to scan their faces every time they want to access a website isn't one of them. Requiring adults to scan their IDs to every website they visit isn't either.
Vaccine manufacturers would be crazy to stop making boosters until that point.
Um we can still have nice things if people stop being naive. It’s not hard to verify someone actually exists… there are ways.
Thanks for the clarification jeffbee. My sarcasm was unwarranted. I just dislike our governor, even though he does, sometimes, make the call that is more aligned with my values.
Yes, I had a candidate turn up for a physical interview who clearly was not the person on the phone screen.
With most things there's the right way to do something, the wrong way to do it, and the bureaucratic way. Honestly I'm happily surprised that they're going with the Flu system for Covid because the rules for the yearly Flu vaccine are grandfathered in from a time when the vaccine approval process was very different. There were a lot variances in the ways that vaccines can be administered, like "first doses first", that would have made a huge positive difference in our overall response and that other countries like the UK employed successfully but that didn't match existing procedures. Well, except that given years of work the procedures were changed and now we're doing that with Monkeypox vaccination. So yeah, it's stupid but it isn't sinister, it's just a big bureaucracy being a big bureaucracy.
The FBI and other US federal agencies have attributed similar tactics to North Koreans looking to infiltrate particular industries [1-3].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-crypto-job-cand...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/fbi_korea_freelancers...

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-scammer-alert/
Understandable. Appreciate that you all have a monetization strategy already. One of my hesitations with adopting VC-backed open source projects is that a lot of them don’t have a clear business model.

We host Strapi on a server, so shouldn’t be a problem.
I don't understand any developer's that aren't willing to put in the time to learn how to use Git - to me, it's the single greatest tool available to enable productivity and confidence in changing code. There's no shame in using any one of the many GUI interfaces for Git that make the process simple and intuitive but even with the CLI, there are only a small handful of commands that I regularly need to use to do all the work of managing branches, merges, rebases and resets; and a lot of the time, there's more than one way to do any particular operation.
It becomes information-full when you add:

C: The calculation that caused this was probably some black-box political battle that was won by Manager A, and lost by Manager B. It was probably decided based on personal preferences and biases of decisionmakers, as well as on who was friends with whom. Decisionmakers that run private corporations make these kinds of decisions all the time, and any attempts at reading the tea leaves, or the chicken entrails, to try to predict or explain these decisions is likely a waste of your time. If you'd like these decisions to be made in the open, you need democracy and transparency, which is not something that's is selected for in the modern business world. This is not a value judgement of the modern business world, it is just a descriptive statement about it.
It could also be to get the job. People often feel entitled but believe they are disadvantaged by some factor outside their control and use that to justify cheating, believing they will be able to do the job once they get there. Another version of this is people who apply for a job and actually are just posers who can't code at all. In both cases the employer failed to weed them out, even if the first version is a more overt kind of cheating, the outcome isn't much different than the second version
The problem with Blink is not necessarily that Google controls it, the problem is that Blink owns the lion's share of the browser market. This makes Google's control of Blink a problem, since it effectively means Google controls the lion's share of the browser market.
It depends on how many interruptions those people receive during the day. If there's a question once or twice a day, the call could be a pleasant break. If it happens every 15 minutes, the person being interrupted may not be able to get any work done at all.

What I find baffling is that when someone is working from home, they can answer a call any time. When someone is working in the office, they have to find a meeting room before getting on a call. And yet, the office is officially declared to be more conducive to collaboration. When Microsoft still had individual offices with walls and doors, the open plan offices were called "more collaborative" which is 100% incorrect.
Neither of those strategies ever occurred to me. That is… Not encouraging
Insanity. It’s shocking to see so much support here ITT.

Nobody should have to fork over biometrics and government IDs to get on the web.
That is a good business. But the point is still pretty clear that Google seems to make very large investments into products that are then given away for free to many/most users (Search, Chrome, Gmail, the whole Google Workspace product suite, YouTube) with the no obvious business plan other than to drive ad revenue, sometimes in ways as indirect as just having people spend more time on the Internet.
In theory the only thing that matters is the results, not if they actually exist.
awesome, how does it compare to hoppscotch?
you hint at the nuance involved. I did say by general rule. and there are many cases where one does not apply but rather a remote actor reaches out, ostensibly a hiring company.
> Also, you could just be spreading FUD, in which case: shut up.

This seems pretty flaggable.
I was hoping for a Craig’s list price tracking tool :(
> international forum

American site with mostly American-lens topics. Maybe 50% American readers? Rest International.
IANAL

The main issue would be that Snap bought the IP, and the founders signed the irrevocable, interminable, exclusive rights to that IP in any universes known or unknown over to Snap. To replicate the application under a new name would be using IP now owned by Snap.
Based on my kids' usage, TikTok is for passive consumption, whereas Snapchat seems to be primarily a messaging service with content as a sideshow.

So if Snapchat stopped existing tomorrow they'd probably move to iMessage. Until one of their friends gets an Android.
Involuntary Manslaughter.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/michel...
The ports were great, they exposed both input/output pins. Back in the 80s, as a kid, on my Atari 800XL I used these ports to interface to electronics and used my computer to control real things! This significantly influenced what I wanted to do and sent me down the path of doing embedded systems / control systems. Even though these days I mainly do backend/web type things, I still do a bit of embedded programming.

The port/s details can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_joystick_port
Looks like the author is explicitly excluding "Error", "StdDev", "Median", "RatioSD" from the ouput. It's in the setup[0]. I'm guessing the author omitted them for brevity.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance_improvemen...

edit: meant "excluding", not "including"
On the r/bread subreddit, I am greatly irritated by people who post a picture of their failed bread along with the title "what did I do wrong???"

Please, tell us what you think is wrong with your bread, as well as the details of the recipe you followed. Why are you expecting us to be mind readers just so we can help you?
Depending on the startup time, you can use something like AWS Serverless Express and just wrap the application. If startup takes a little while you can store an instance above the handler code which will be kept alive across invocations of that serverless instance.

I've used this to great success in a similar project.
Am I the only one that doesnt read these articles anymore? Its like they are continually trying to force covid down your throats in effort for it to still be a topic of relevance, and for what? Has the world not moved on?
HN is about geeks gratifying our intellectual curiosity- There's some interesting topics brought up by this post.

Science of skincare, underserved markets, sociological phenomena.

But all that aside, plenty of geeks with darker skin found it interesting enough to click, myself included.
Why wouldn’t an open source project announce a change to the place their source is hosted on their own blog? Why would they want to sweep it under the rug?
Exactly. Krebs did it himself (doubling down on his "source" even as evidence began to come to light that the source was not clean) and we as commentators do also (the original posts are filled with "the software sucks because of X, Y, and Z so this is obviously true).
This is the reason why employee recommendation have far higher success rate.
I know. It was a joke.

I'm old, and have seen plenty of rejection, even though I'm "the real deal." But that kind of behavior has been used as an excuse for ignoring me. The icing on the cake, was when I was told that "I probably faked" my portfolio.

At that point, I realized that I am radioactive, and might as well just give up.
I'm not saying this isn't happening, but I want to mention that I often refuse to do stuff that my interviewers ask me to. Reasons being any of: I consider it useless for the evaluation, I consider it doesn't correctly asses my expertise, I consider it would put me in a bad situation etc. Of course, I can do all this because the market allows me to do it.
It used to happen alot with contract bodyshops, even in person.

Usually you’d get weird looking resumes from someone based out of New Jersey or Arizona. In most cases the employees were Indian and would phone screen well. When the person landed, usually they were green staff who would basically send their work back to a more senior person or team who would do the work elsewhere overnight.

With remote, there’s definitely more fraud in this space, from people lying about where they are, stealing information and just grifting.
The goal of calling things FUD is not some automatically pure thing, though. A question is easy to identify. Calling a question FUD is a subjective judgment by someone whose motives we also don't know.
Jus to be clear, I have little hope for the general collective, but I do take what actions I can.