skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a long thread in my comment history of me being comfortable having a reasoned discussion about socialism or communism, and how folks tend to dismiss me without making any effort to understand.

I'd be happy to have a discussion here with you as well, if you'd like to engage in some intellectual exchange.

That said, it does seem to me you are applying the same process to both me and this press release - seeing a few words and making some sweeping assumptions about what is behind those words. Let me know if that's not the case or if I've misread you.
The title is so clickbait-y but man do I agree with most of the stuff in the article.
This demonstrates a clear lack of understanding on the rules and how ports of entry are "special"

> There was a short period of time where the CBP was doing this in droves on Canada land border entries. The way it's generally structured is they ask permission, and if you refuse, they can't really do anything without a court order and can only hold you at most 72 hours.

They can do worse, they can :

- enforce travel bans (starting at 5 years) and issue large fines.

- Failure to grant access to your digital device may result in the detention of that device under section 101 of the Customs Act, or seizure of the device under subsection 140 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The Border has its own special laws, especially entering the US where it is a "constitutional free zone". The US really is an odd case as this extends 100 miles INTO the US.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
I recently tried graph visualization and it was a mess. Might check this out, anything to make it easier.
Asking about the effect of a passage in the Communications Decency Act is a "meaningless question" and is tangential to the Communications Decency Act?
The New Creator Playbook: Jumpstarting Communities Through Tokens
It's always been blisteringly fast when we've used it, and I like the power of the configuration (it has its quirks but so do most powerful systems). But the overhead of setting it up and maintaining it due to having to handle TLS termination separately puts me off using it when other software is 'good enough'. If Varnish Enterprise was cheaper I would have bought it, but at their enterprise prices no way.

I'm keeping a watching brief on https://github.com/darkweak/souin and its Caddy integration to see if that can step up and replace Varnish for short-lived dynamic caching of web applications. Though I've lost track of its current status.
Man, just 10 people working there, couldn't have done that with vc backed funding. Have to grow, then have to add people to grow, then have to add features to try to pay for the people.

But man, if you think about every $25 car/apartment/job post, it's plenty of money for 10 people. Pretty insane.
That might explain why he's read relatively few books in all that time.
Great write up. Color overall is a rabbit hole of a topic. I have been looking into color matching, delta E etc. and it is been surprise to realize that the variances of human vision mean that the field of colorimetry is as much of an art as it is science.
how is that in disagreement? Cost of labor is indeed cheap
Any of the rivers around here would rip that thing to shreds too.

The envelope math on that tells me almost all of his paddling went to controlling the pumpkin, not moving it forward, which makes sense for a round 'boat' and a single paddle. Some cultures have solutions for this but he wasn't aware of them.

Even a little shaping to make the pumpkin more oblong would net you quite a bit of velocity. In particular, the ribs on a pumpkin look a lot like hard chines on a kayak, if you cut open the side of the pumpkin [correction: he already did this, but on a round pumpkin, and then he sat 90° to the ribs] instead of the top. The next fool who tries this I expect to hit 40 miles in 10 hours, and then it's off to the races.
"This question is locked and replying has been disabled." hahahahahahaha
A local media company runs a "classifieds" on their online site. It dominates locally. Craigslist has been worthless for ages here because of it.

However, Facebook Marketplace seems to be slowly gaining traction. Which I hate for all the reasons you mention. I dread the day it takes over :(
Does anyone know of any websites/applications that utilize WebTransport? The only thing I've come across are the Showcase demos from https://github.com/yomorun/presencejs
10-15% could be 50-60% profit for most sellers. Sure they’re beneficial to you now, but what happens when Amazon starts private labeling the same things you sell? Or your supplier starts selling on Amazon and undercutting you? There’s a reason new DTC brands avoid Amazon and that’s cause you’re not building a customer base or your brand, just helping Amazon build there’s.
That's something Matt and I tend to disagree on - I agree that a config file is better almost always because it gives you a better starting point to experiment with other features.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested extending common carrier laws to cover social media. This would essentially prevent them from censoring any legal content, much like legacy telephone companies can't block users from discussing certain topics. Such a change would require an Act of Congress to amend or replace the Communications Decency Act. And there are potential First Amendment concerns in terms of forced speech.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984440891/justice-clarence-th...

So it's an interesting policy idea but I'm not sure whether it would be better or worse than the current state.
that doesn't mean they haven't relied heavily on either re-using Ps code or making an effort to shim between the various OSs and what they already have for Ps.
I recently discovered the Bobiverse series. Very entertaining:)
An aged but still relevant article - "Increase your conversion rate by making your site ugly" is a good parallel read particularly with regard to accessibility

https://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/04/increase-your-...
I think Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross would fit perfectly (Social Network, Gone Girl, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, etc).

https://screenrant.com/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-best-movie-...
My problem with Craigslist isn't that it looks old, the problem is that they seemingly refuse to modernize anything else about the site. Craigslist is chock full of spam and people abusing the search feature. I'm no anti-spam guru, but surely there is a way to cut down on people submitting the same thumbnail dozens of times using as many keywords as they can so their cellphone screen repair service shows up when looking for just about anything.

Craig is no saint, and actively goes after any competition to his site. That, coupled with the complacency or refusal to go after spammers leaves me with a very sour opinion of the platform and Craig himself.
You might find the idea of "cancellation trees" useful. Create a hierarchy of loop data structure of loop iterating variable and loop limit then cancelling any part of the tree cancels its children.

If you have a worker thread that has a hot loop that checks a pthread structure as its limit. You can then send a virtual interrupt to it, or preempt it from running further by setting the loop to its limit.

You can see my C, Java and Rust code of this in this repository:
https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

It can be used to create extremely responsive software without slowing down the system with cancellation checks.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4#120-cancellation-trees
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4#99-register-loop
What does Neo4j use?
> You might not be able to leave the job when you want to

That is something that people love to ignore - vesting periods are created specifically to keep you from leaving for a better job. While keeping the risk for the company fairly low.

Low mobility has been proven time, and time again, to repress income growth in people. (more often linked to owning a home, and not being able to move for a job)
This happened to me, a US citizen, when I was returning to the US from Europe. They stopped me and asked me to hand over my electronics with passwords. I refused and they told me I had to sit in the room by myself until I gave them my electronics. I asked for a lawyer and they told me I am not entitled to a lawyer because I had not fully entered the US yet. After over an hour I finally gave them my electronics and passwords. After CBP gave the electronics back to me I threw them away.
I created a crude site that ranks universities & departments based on professor review data.

https://www.bananacharts.com/rank.html
Would be nice to have SO_REUSEPORT on Nginx optimized - if I read configuration right, it was not used
it costs that little _right now_

Youtube being Youtube will definitely increase it
I tried it a bit and it does seem easier and it renders way faster
I'm actually in a similar boat learning these things to apply to chess but rather than making a stronger AI, trying to learn and catalog strategies to make learning chess more intuitive. Would be interested in talking more if you are! Can message me on lichess.org/@/v8xi if you play there
Rock Auto is another such site. Looks old but is so much more effective than modern sites for finding the right car parts. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Remarkable that a new book hasn't entered his "favourites" (top 100) in 22 years. And that his favourite books are ones he read longest ago - the favourites ranking tracks with date read fairly consistently!
But you're dead. Digital copy of you != you.
Judges can consider detention for "forcible felonies".

In Illinois, “forcible felony” refers to: “treason, first degree murder, second degree murder, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, robbery, burglary, residential burglary, aggravated arson, arson, aggravated kidnaping, kidnaping, aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/illinois-safe-t-act-non-de...
Where’s the best place to actually find these cards? When I see used cards on say Craigslist they always claim “never used for mining” or similar, is there a way to verify that kind of thing?
Facebook Marketplace has completely taken over in most parts of the US. It sucks.
I'm hopeful that I can turn it into a public facing dashboard that others can see. It covers the entire state I live in, monitoring 32 stores and about 8k products right now. Already seeing some weird stuff in the data, like a product that changes price every 30 minutes, $30->$50->$30 repeat.

It's a niche type of store (dispensary) and essentially a state blessed monopoly since they limited it to 40 store licenses total. But I'm hopeful being able to show people the data will help with some of it... or maybe I get my door kicked in.
They sell white noise and whale noise baby products, many parents started using their phones or Echo/Home devices. So yes, anything with a speaker will work, and is likely closer to what you hear in the womb then what one's mouth can simulate. It also still works on adults. I regularly have a fan or white noise going when I sleep.
Yep, this is going in the favorites
> I decided to cut out the middleman. I speculate that Amazon would otherwise take a percentage and I'd prefer to support the small business.

Do you really want to give out your financial information on some shady overseas websites though?
Not sure I have an answer to your question but the most ridiculous thing is the dichotomy between undergrad and postgrad educations. Most schools iirc are ranked based on their grad school programs with is totally different than an undergrad education. And what about institutions that don’t offer postgrad programs..?
If possible it seems the most appropriate for parents to talk to recent grads of the institution they’re considering.
When I was picking colleges a few years ago, I made my own rankings. At the time, I knew more about what I didn't want than what I did want, and none of the tools I found supported searching that way.

The US department of education collects extremely comprehensive data on colleges every year, and makes the data public. I loaded these CSVs into SQLite and made a bunch of queries to filter schools out, then dumped the rest to a spreadsheet. In the spreadsheet I weighted each column and sorted the rows. The weights were tunable so I could emphasize different factors in the sorting. The process was successful in that it turned up some surprising results I wouldn't have otherwise considered!

I've wanted to write a post on my website about this process for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. In the meantime, for anyone looking to do something similar, the data is here:

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data
I've been slowly learning SAT/SMT, but the materials I've found are very academic. Being almost 20 years out of my CS degree and this being a rather niche field, it's tough to learn, so I want to continue teaching myself and help others by creating useful "SAT/SMT for newbies".
Either this entire subthread is a confused reaction to someone who expressed a belief that quick transfer payments for the poor are good, and the fact that they couldn't be done in a bitcoin economy is an argument against bitcoin, or I'm the confused one.
Cosmos really looks amazing when it comes to performace. Besides visual rendering on the GPU, they also do the graph layout simulation calculations on the GPU as well, which is a first. SigmaJS for example uses graphology for the calculations, and WebGL for rendering.

Cosmos is a really new lib, so when we did our initial research it wasn't even out yet. You can read more about our research over here: https://memgraph.com/blog/you-want-a-fast-easy-to-use-and-po...

From what we've understood, it's somewhat limited when it comes to graph styling. But an amazing technology nontheless.
>plenty of money for 10 people

I'm guessing a lot of people here wouldn't consider it plenty of money.
Feels like plane Wi-Fi will end up like hotels, trending to free with premium add ons
Yep, Apache 2.0
https://github.com/memgraph/orb
didn't Apple kill flash by never supporting it on iOS? maybe there is more to the story.
I was there for that! DNA is one of my favorite places in the world.
as soon as you copy yourself you're both, and indistinguishable to anyone else but your flesh husk.
Building a platform that accelerates the construction of protected bike lanes and car-free streets worldwide by connecting citizens, advocacy groups, cities, and urban planners: https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai/status/15705341894974832...

(Backstory: Started a Twitter account in July (twitter.com/@betterstreetsai) posting DALL-E-generated street transformations, it immediately took off, got lots of press, etc. and made me realize how huge the demand for this stuff is.)

Feel free to send me a DM on Twitter if you're interested in helping!
> That's unbelievably obtuse.

How so? A policy that gives better or worse treatment to someone because of a perceived “race” (which is itself non-sense all in the case of homo sapiens) IS racist. Are you disagreeing with that?

We can argue about whether we like it the way it is, whether it is punching up or down, or whether it is a good kind of racism, but there is no way around the fact that this is racism.

> There are several marginalized groups that are still vastly underrepresented in business. Giving them a modicum of preference in hiring and firing decisions is barely making the gap smaller.

So you are in fact saying that this is a good kind of racism, justified by History and the current socio-economical situation.

> In Animal Farm they Orwell was satirizing oligarchy.

Not at all. The story is about oppressed turning oppressors in the name of some form of ostensibly egalitarian ideology. As has happened countless times through History. It is a warning about what happens when you start using your enemy’s weapons: you become the enemy and betray your ideals. We cannot fight racism with racism, or else we just end up another shade of racists.

> The oligarchy in America is still very much white and male.

That is very much a problem. You are not going to solve it by firing white people. This will just give more ammunition to populists.
Uber was allegedly hacked, via Social Engineering
Feds push for BGP security updates, but ISPs balk at mandates
Sounds like horrible experience.
And now they’ve kicked those 50 illegal immigrants out a day later. That’s appalling; how could they not afford to house 50 people?
Might be worth providing way for people to know what the project is and how to use it.
Agreed - it's a mistake though to focus on the upside only.
Well I haven't let go of the idea and am in the process of releasing a GIS data processing platform, but that's a story for another day. My thought is that all data, especially large datasets from the top down only has a few ways it can be displayed and sliced. Relationships, multi temporal (slicing and or playing by time but then also playing back multiple time sections so they can be compared. compute vs. real time, time to exec on server vs time experienced by user, and also finding various time slices to compare. So multi temporal being that your timeline playback isn't just a film strip), and spatial. The ground truth for all data is that it happens somewhere in the world so a graph should be able to be put into a GIS space for display, bonus points for 3D, but then also you should be able to build composite fake GIS spaces and visualize the relationships between them. Like for instance, your products network traffic all going to colocation spaces and to users and back again. That has normal GIS locations and that can provide constraints for graph display but also, especially in a distributed system there may be artificial geography that can be defined, lets call it "The Astral Plane" that has relationships that are important and grouping just like state and country boundaries that can be defined in shape files and put into a spatial database in a projection you just make up or is defined by the graph data and physical locations and you should be able to slide between all those things. That's where I wanna go and still intend to get to.

EDIT: Obviously when I say everything has GIS coordinates I'm not quite talking about outer space, but I think outer space is even covered by the rest of this idea. So is tiny space. This realization came to me when I was reading about people using PostGIS as a database for chemistry simulation. I have no link for that, I haven't thought about it in years, but now that I'm talking about it, I'll try to find it and post a link if I find it as I would like to readdress.
Or 100% when it got hacked.
Absolutely dire film but a good soundtrack.
Is there a public tool to develop on dev servers?
Similar to how development happens at big tech companies like Meta, Google, etc.?
Please move away from email to something more decentralized and powerful. Email is the source of so many lost productivity hours and is now wholly controlled by large entities like Microsoft and Google.
I see that it draws on canvas, and I used to draw on svg. This is awesome!
> C64 BASIC has ingrained 1 evil in me. "goto" Atleast once a month I'll be working on some script and I'm stuck but a little voice in the back of my head will say: "a goto would fix this part you are stuck on!"

goto is perfectly fine if used right. Kernel C code tends to use a lot of goto, to consolidate return points and to clean up resources on the way. A long function with no goto to one common return point, or multiple staggered ones, is suspicious.

The problem that led to the famous paper was rather that goto was abused, used at places where "higher level" control construct like "for", "while" and so on would be better. Partly because the languages just didn't have any, like for example... C64 BASIC.
Mainly or maybe even only in the USA, I think.

Over the in the other significant English-speaking economy, we were a lot poorer in the early 1980s, and as such, anything priced in US$ was too expensive.

So things like Atari 8-bits didn't sell well here. In fact only the budget C64 did, and it was an expensive machine in early-1980s Britain.

Which was a good thing, because it encouraged a flourishing local market in locally-made computers.

Although the C64 sold in the millions, and so is familiar to many, Sinclair's ZX Spectrum was even more common over here. And although we didn't know it back then, it was huge behind the Iron Curtain too, in the form of dozens and dozens of unauthorized clones. Every Communist nation had its own ZX Spectrum clone, or maybe several. Some adapted to display Cyrillic, some built from imported bits and some from Soviet bits, some with discrete logic in place of Sinclair Research's ULA.

And all of the Euromicros had better BASICs than the C64.

Sinclair BASIC wasn't great but it did graphics and sound. The best was BBC BASIC on the BBC Micro from Acorn. Named procedures, with local variables and recursion. IF...THEN...ELSE, various loop constructs, and inline 6502 assembler.

I reckon it's partly the terrible BASIC of the C64 that turned everyone against the language:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/71381.html
Facebook Marketplace seems to have all but killed it, here.

You have to check Facebook anyway because schools, HOAs, businesses, even local governments often treat it as their primary outlet for information, as in, stuff gets posted there first, and sometimes only there. Though IG is taking over some of that (but of course that's still Facebook)

Luckily my wife does that, so I can get away without having an account, but I'd basically have to have one otherwise. If you've already got one and already have to visit Facebook sometimes, may as well use FB marketplace....
How emotionally intelligent are Generative Models (GeMs)?
To be fair, it's not you that becomes immortal, just your copy. From your perspective, you still die.
"Papier ist geduldig" (Paper is patient) would be the german equivalent.

Cheers :-)
> Once the BBC alerted Facebook's parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.

> The rules of the very large group state: "Use code words for everything". It adds: "Do not use the c word, v word or b word ever" (covid, vaccine, booster). It was created more than a year ago and has more than 250,000 members.

> "It was people giving accounts of relatives who had died shortly after having the Covid-19 vaccine", he said. "But instead of using the words "Covid-19" or "vaccine", they were using emojis of carrots.

> The platforms have already come under fire for failing to block or remove emojis of monkeys and bananas when posted as a racist gesture on the accounts of black footballers.

> If the Online Safety Bill comes into law in the UK, the tech giants will face steep penalties for failing to identify and quickly removing harmful material on their platforms. But there are concerns that tools currently in use are not good enough to cope with the sheer volume of content that is posted, and the nuance and cultural differences that can cloud meaning.

Tldr: BBC boasts of asking Facebook to remove a group of 250,000 who shared vaccine injury stories. In the article it equates people who believe they were injured with racists. Then makes the argument that the government will be able to fine corporations if they are not more proactive in suppressing this content.

What exactly is the crime here? Can people not have unsanctioned opinions online?