skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've noticed an uptick recently on hn popular threads with this kind of rhetoric.

very odd. maybe i'm just more cognizant of it and its always been this way
I usually just ignore comments like this, but I'm honestly curious. What part of my comment are you replying to?
it produces enough food for the people there with surplus for disruptions to food production? because that's a basic part of what i think of as colonization.
You make a really good point on the importance of having a complete iteration at the end of the sprint.

In my experience, the fixed time increments have always felt too constraining.

I think a team can accomplish a similar goal of having regular incremental progress in the form of complete systems by relaxing the fixed-length sprints requirement.

The alternative that I favor is Kanban with defined releases. A release, as a collection of features, is a complete system, but it doesn't necessarily have to be finished in the same time that the previous release was. A larger release may take six weeks instead of the smaller previous release that only took one.

You make a lot of good points, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
In the future, just flag. It's explicitly breaking rules.
self-hosting doesn't mean you have to own the hardware?

Also, "owning" and "being able to walk over and physically whack it with an axe" are not the same thing. Servers can be leased, and there is something called "server housing" which breaks your analogy
I am working on a video lecture series that will step through it and "spell it out". Without it even this code can be a bit opaque for someone who is new to the field and e.g. uncomfortable with n-dimensional array manipulations or the surrounding language modeling concepts.
> sure they don't run stockfish yet

You don’t need to run stockfish on it. Thin client would suffice.
This is but one example of one PAC for one party. I don’t know how many PACs exist, but easily hundreds. Thousands? A lot of money is donated to campaigns and PACs across local, state, and national elections, and a lot of that money is spent on advertising of some form, and a lot of that (as the article describes) has been shifted to digital. I would call it a lot a lot.
I mean, it is expressed pretty clearly in the article; it uses Nix to manage external dependencies, and manages setting link paths and other build bookkeeping.
How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works
You have put a smile on my face today.
The audio on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/care and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/character sound like the same initial sound to me. I've never heard anyone pronounce them differently.
The ways you list are fine for getting a few extra dollars our of tourists. But there nothing compared the millions who commute in and out daily to work and pay no property taxes. And that's without counting criminals or people with mental health issues or 101 other groups who travel in and become the cities problem.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/care

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/character

???
That’s not a problem, nor an invention or the EU. It’s how all perfectly competitive markets work: price equals marginal cost.
Why are you guaranteed to lose your job for the opinion?

Transwomen face very real danger of death and harm[0], for the record, both generally and as a result of targeted doxxing and harassment in online forums. Since KiwiFarms does this, why do you not consider this an intrinsic threat?

[0]
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2019.1...
This is a pretty decent list if you are interested in the concept and looking for examples.

https://github.com/fikrikarim/companies-with-successful-pivo...
Donated! Huge fan of the voter guide!
Zuckerpunch – Abusing Self Hosted GitHub Runners at Facebook
If he doesn't want anyone to read it, why does this announcement say

> Please report any flaws, including any passage that is unclear or hard to understand.

?
Haven't they already been doing that? I swear, they announced this years ago - the last time around Russia was getting blasted with sanctions.

Then again, they probably announced some other more limited thing. But, why wouldn't China want Russia to pay with RMB - why didn't they start it sooner?
For google:

U2F/WebAuthn

paper backup codes (scratch codes)

If only the screen is broken, but the phone can receive SMS, and you use mac with icloud, you can receive SMS on your mac.

Phone call or SMS to a "real" VOIP number, which you can then pickup on ANY phone and/or your computer. Google Voice isn't real enough for this.

You can also not use 2FA.

For other services: hit or miss. To the extent you can login to them with oauth ("login with google") and you don't mind giving away your identity that way (sounds like you don't care much), then always do that.

1) you don't have another password/account to manage

2) your google oauth login will stay valid for quite a long time, giving you lots of cushion to get a new phone, unless you're especially unlucky with the timing
It's definitely a niche market at the moment. It really shouldn't be given the implications of connected devices, sensors like cameras and microphones, and where those devices get taken by many of their owners. I believe we would have a much safer and more resilient society today if the norm had become for connected devices to follow the principle of least privilege and for there to be complete transparency about how any kinds of sensors and any kind of remote communication operated. But apparently the market has spoken (even though in most cases it was only given one "choice" of what to say).
Used to really like PHP.

I liked it because it was my first serious programming language out of college. I worked in it every day at my first job. I followed its progress closely and advocated for migrating to PHP 7 ASAP. I wrote numerous hobby projects in it (including one that ironically helped me get my current job, years after I had stopped using PHP).

I stopped liking it as much after I just got more exposure to all the different languages out there and what they were good at. PHP doesn't deserve its reputation anymore but there are some things it will just never be great at, and that's OK. I stopped liking dynamic languages as much in general, and started preferring statically typed ones.

I learned so much about general web standards and core backend web dev skills by implementing various services in PHP. HTTP, FTP (and its various flavors), JSON, XML, regex, etc.
If you mean "parsing UTF-8 into codepoints", it isn't that complex, and the most optimized libraries already use SIMD intrinsics which are basically assembly instructions.
> * Variables are used to store data, including data of my choosing. Algebra never taught me that.

That's because it's not true in mathematics (or declarative programming) the way it is in imperative programming. In mathematics, variables are sometimes just placeholders substitutable by a particular expression, sometimes they establish relationships between inputs and outputs (e.g. "f(x) = x^2") and sometimes they're even objects in their own right (for example in polynomials).

> * Variables can hold values besides just numbers. Algebra, and daresay math classes in general, never taught me that.

> * Variables can have math operations applied to it, and variables can be not-numbers. Therefore, things that are not numbers can have math applied to them. Literally nothing in math academia taught me that.

Not sure why you're angry at "math academia" here when every undergraduate math degree will teach you plenty of maths that isn't (exclusively) about numbers, e.g. group theory, topology, graph theory, ...

Do you mean "math education", maybe, instead of "math academia"? If so, I would share your criticism, at least in part.
Do you keep your home at 12 degrees(53.6F) in the winter? Or are you just another boiled idiot?
The SF bureaucracy and homeless nonprofits have metastasized into a self licking ice cream cone of immense magnitude. There is no way to adjust downward without someone actually having to suffer a moment of accountability. That will be bitterly resisted indeed.
Easier to enforce culture and policies. Also easier for managers to look busy.
Surely a cutoff in impression #s for hand review would be feasible? Even if the cutoff started absurdly high as logistics were ironed out. And then no cutoff for certain classes of ads, like political.
How should Russia have prevented Ukraine from joining NATO alternatively?
Smart, ethical people-- like the ones here-- can be YIMBYs. Suburb I live in everyone is mad about: "McMansions" (whatever that means), multi-family homes and any development particularly apartment buildings. These people need to be shamed for their selfishness. I am a homeowner and a YIMBY. Join me!
A former housemate is Mexican-American and was looking for a post doc and considering both the US and Mexico. He said salaries in Mexico are like 6,000 usd - not that relevant but just another data point. Presumably this is a liveable wage in that area fwiw (he wound up at a Bay Area university instead)
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly lately, and flamewars are what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What does your phishing email filtering pipeline look like?
Bahaha. This is an excellent take.
This shows the author doesn’t have a fundamental understanding that Google Search and Ads teams are different: “ while search engines do have an incentive to somewhat distort the information retrieval process in favor of their paying advertisers there has to be some baseline quality - otherwise users will stop bothering, and usage and with it profits will go down.”

Yes there may (likely?) be backchannel off the record conversations between Google search engineers and executives at companies, but that’s more limited and not at scale. Google’s not (likely) giving organic ranking preferences to Dick’s Sporting Goods because they advertise via AdWords.

There may be lunch chats between Pinterest and Google engineers, however.
Derivative is used in certain specific applicatiopns, eg boiler freedwater pumps, but generally, yes, avoid.

If you want good fast loop performance without overshoot don't forget the posicast.

Finally, PID loops are not everything, ask yourself "do I really need a setpoint that is maintained to 1% or better, or do I really just not want to overflow the tank?" If the latter, a ratio control can often be simpler, easier and most noteably not pass on as much process disturbance down the line leading to the plant settling out quicker.
I don't know what the OP has in mind, but if you break an ankle, you can splint it and hobble until it heals. If a large animal breaks an ankle, it's not going to heal.
I had heard of caravanserai from the idle/progression Kittens Game. I wish I had looked it up earlier.
> The problem is, Zuck thinks it's going to be essentially VRChat, but that won't be it.

Why not? VRChat is pretty popular, as are other digital hang out technologies like Fortnite and Discord.

I think this space has some legs, especially amongst the youth.
Why that article points out the US spends $12k/capita on healthcare the singles out administrative costs at $1k/capita while ignoring all the other relevant factors is beyond me. They then use the misleading infant mortality stat, ignoring that the US considers vastly more babies viable than any other country, meaning we try to save infants that other countries write off, thus they count against the US when it fails, but not against the other countries that don't count them as viable. It's a really poor article ignoring important nuance in what it presents.

The US pays about twice per nurse or doctor in the system, and part of that is because the US pays nearly twice for most skilled work. So, to get prices like most other developed nations, we would be forced to cut nurse and doctor salaries, which would likely lower quality of workers as future workers went to more lucrative fields, which would likely lower outcomes.

The US can have higher cost or lower quality. How would you make this tradeoff?
Same engineers that designed the firefighting tank with two MiG engines?

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15138374/stilling-the...
You can disable them, but the options are hidden all over the place in Settings, some seemingly buried intentionally to make them hard to find -- using UI dark patterns.
> Why do so many people at the same time get a recommendation for one specific item?

Because of the large audience size for another item that is triggering the recommendation.

Also for “weird recommendations” it is good to know that social networks use a percentage of the recommendation budget for further exploration of your interests (~5%), rather than purely elongating short term engagement.
How is it breaking the rules?
Tangentially related: [1] Zuckerbucks topic covered by the Foundation for Government Accountability.

[1] https://thefga.org/zuckerbucks/
> C is hard, and is supposed to be hard

I don't know why anyone would say that. C remains a simple little language. It is programming, especially the kind C is used for, that is hard.
Not limited to software even, plenty of examples of companies chasing larger valuations by taking on stuff outside their core competency
She actually got pointers pretty easily, but references were confusing since the syntax is the same when you… reference them.
It seems like FB failed to successfully prevent people running political ads in Washington, because on encountering the roadblock you identified, the ad customers just unchecked the "this is a political ad" checkbox.
Yep, just wanted to share it with friends and the link preview thing on Facebook also grabs the rel="canonical" URL.
Did you ever expect that there were discrete and linear stages? I always assumed that these were emotional “attractors”, different emotional states that we migrated through without any particular vector. More like a cruise through a dismal archipelago.
"modern web practices" may be more to blame than the browser. It's possible to make lean fast things running on browsers (within reason), but the culture is nobody gets fired for bloat. It's ubiquitous, same for mobile apps, server side, etc.
The live demo doesn't work for me on Firefox on macOS (FF 105, macOS 12.4, M1) with a "WebGL is not available" error message.

Console error shows:

WebGL warning: readPixels: Format and type RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_BYTE incompatible with this RGBA8UI attachment. This framebuffer requires either RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_INT or getParameter(IMPLEMENTATION_COLOR_READ_FORMAT/_TYPE) RGBA_INTEGER/UNSIGNED_INT.
Average person uses around 375 liters of STP oxygen/day. A liter of O2 is about 1.4 grams.
It's not as cut-and-dry as it seems. Noone leaves 1.3M in an account.
When your account starts generating income, they place a 'light hold' on the account - requesting 'reasonable' information.

During this time, you can still receive funds, and you're promised quick resolution. You provide the documentation. They drag their feet. They request more information. They drag their feet. All the while, your account has accumulated more funds that you can't access.

Then, they'll request something impossible, ie: give us proof of delivery (not shipment) of these 500 orders. Inevitably, there'll be one order that was returned / was delivered without signature / etc.

You'll try to reship the customer, but you've got a 3 day deadline. You miss the deadline, and the account gets perma-frozen for 180 days, but you still believe you'll get your funds back.

180 days later, you'll be notified that your funds aren't eligible for return, because you cost them the equivalent of what was in your account due to the time invested by their legal and risk teams - because buried in their T&C they evoke Common Law allowing for punitive damages for T&C transgressions.

It's calculated extortion to seize as much money as possible.
Related NASA press release (I think): https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generati....

That seems to say it’s for a radiation-hardened design:

“In 2021, NASA solicited proposals for a trade study for an advanced radiation-hardened computing chip with the intention of selecting one vendor for development. This contract is part of NASA’s High-Performance Space Computing project”

They also say:

“The processor will enable spacecraft computers to perform calculations up to 100 times faster than today’s state-of-the-art space computers”

and

“Our current spaceflight computers were developed almost 30 years ago,”

That, for me, also points towards a radiation-hardened design. If it isn’t, 100 times faster than 30 years ago is an incredibly low hurdle to clear.

Also, it’s a $50 million firm-fixed-price contract. I have no idea whether that’s a sharp price for this, so can’t judge how much risk SiFive takes on with this.
There's no desktop standard. Desktop operating systems are either proprietary or niche. Any application you write needs to be ported again to each operating system separately.

The web is the closest thing there is to a ubiquitous operating system. And with the development around WASM, performance and efficiency is getting closer and closer to native. That's along with built-in security and sandboxing.

This is all around a good thing.
The Republicans Have a Peter Thiel Problem
A friend of mine swears by https://zoneminder.com
I thought the purpose of Python was to make development simple and predictable. Needing to track down the compilation and linker flags of every single shared library reveals the fallacy of this abstraction.
They got done on not publishing data that, from my quick skim, would not come from human review. e.g. targeting data etc.

I can only assume Meta feels the risk/costs of fines are less than the bennefit of not disclosing who pays them big dollars for targeting certain demographics. I.e not provide ammunition for law makers to come after them in more costly area.
What? The only ones who got tax breaks were those who moved to Mid Market, a depressed area. Twitter was going to move out of the city when they outgrew their Folsom St office, instead they moved to Mid-Market. It's gotten a lot better now, so the tax breaks did their job.
What percentage of skilled hackers, coders and engineers are morning people?
Are most of them night owls? If you are a night owl can you unlock your full potential when the sun is up or does your brain only start to fully function when it's dark outside?
I agree, though counties have the same issue with out counties and states with other states. This is one of the reasons the US federal government is fought over so much: many many things ultimately either have to be done federally or not at all. This is because only the federal government does not have to compete with someone "next door" exporting liabilities and importing assets.

Just look at the recent big name moves from California to Texas: Joe Rogan and Elon Musk (just two very public names) needed California's support to start their fortunes, now they have them best move to Texas for lower taxes. You can always fly back for the odd meeting, use their educated workforces and infrastructure and save $.
Yes, but only to use the official Bitwarden server. The Vaultwarden project is an alternate server implementation that does not require a license key.
When every other programming language community is trying to build an inclusive culture, well, C can't stop, won't stop being C.

Might want to chill with the gatekeeping, if you want to gatekeep a guide to learn the language. In the long run, that may not accrue to a language's benefit.
I think you make a very good point here - if someone made a website with the exact format of KiwiFarms, but for "collecting info" on programmers who "love nazis" (in the same way that every KF thread's subject "deserves it" because of some disproportionately aggrandized sleight), all the HN users who are currently sobbing about the death of free speech would unite to say that the website should be deplatformed immediately.

>A trans woman who opposes KiwiFarms faces no comparable intrinsic threat

Yeah, man, a real swatting and bomb threat don't compare in the slightest to the scenario you've presented where someone defending KF gets fired, something that's definitely happened.
Thank you for this suggestion. Yes, I can and it is what I have been doing. Just looking for advice before I go too far down a particular route.
They are living The American Dream that Homer Simpson made us all aspire to. It may not last but at least they were fortunate enough to experience it for now. (I wanna be there :/ )
Surely it is implied?

If I can help it, I don't buy the products or services from which the proceeds go into supporting outright hate groups.

Christian Henson made transphobic/ableist remarks on Twitter, now I won't be buying any Spitfire Audio products. Sure, they're great, yes, there's a team of people behind them, but so what? There's plenty of other great options out there, why would I want to indirectly fund hatred?

Same goes for companies that fund racial hatred. Likewise for misogyny.

Are you gay? Are you trans? Are you autistic? Are you non-white? Are you a woman? If you can't answer "yes" to any of those questions, then why are you having an opinion on these matters?

Ultimately, yes, we agree that a product or service should just be a product or service, and that bigots should stop with the bigotry, but using their product or service to fund bigotry should be inexcusable.
Crypto Policy Symposium 2022 Videos: critical discourse on the crypto ecosystem
>cobol, qbasic, pascal, even ada

Except for QBasic, all of them compile to machine code and have features that can't be represented in idiomatic C, but are often trivial to implement on the underlying hardware.
Having used ipfs casually the big draw for me has been the gateways. Running a full ipfs node on client devices is mostly not practical, but I can choose a trusted (or not so trusted since I can check the hash) gateway and that can handle the heavy lifting for me. And even though the ipfs network is slow, the distributed nature lends itself to very heavy caching, so the gateway doesn't have to be any slower than if it was serving me its own static files.

Plus the gateways provide compatibility to www.

Given, things are far from ideal now. But looking over the water it's good to see Mastodon taking off and I think that's largely because you have the option of just choosing a single trusted provider ("instances") from which you can access the rest of the network. The trusted provider does the heavy lifting for you.
Could be for backwards/intergenerational compatibility because and hardware is no longer standardized for a console generation
It does seem mostly theoretical, but it also seems like a natural feature for a privacy-focused browser to exclude. Web browsers have a long history of “mostly theoretical” becoming “effectively practical,” like when some new unrelated change invalidates an assumption underpinning the privacy guarantees of the original feature.

In terms of this vector, I could imagine it leading to history enumeration when combined with CSS, similar to the classic “check the color of the link.” Or maybe some fingerprinting scripts could send signals to server-side traffic analysis heuristics by preloading a specific script based on which region of the screen is visible within the first second of loading the page.

That’s all speculation of course, but clearly the feature increases privacy attack surface, by giving an external observer more paths for potentially reducing your possible anonymity sets.
This really sucks, I was interested in getting one of these when they come back into stock for my country.

Another notch in the "never use PayPal" belt.