skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this. A while ago I was doing a fair bit of Elixir in my spare time, so this has given me a reason to pick it up again. Going to give it a go myself
You can keep a private/public company as a company while still restricting some of its activities via laws. This is reality for every company in existence.

There's even precedence when a private company is a de-facto public space (and must follow the governments' mandates on public spaces) in the physical world; extending this to the digital world makes sense.
Ah, the irony
I kinda wish everybody here had forgotten about that option. Was prepared to get some serious heads down time.
> If that ever gets bought, you'll hear about it everywhere and there will most likely be a fork.

In fact, that already happened, and that’s why it’s called uBlock Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uBlock_Origin

> The uBlock project official repository was transferred to Chris Aljoudi by original developer Raymond Hill in April 2015, due to frustration of dealing with requests. However, Hill immediately self-forked it and continued the effort there. This version was later renamed uBlock Origin and it has been completely divorced from Aljoudi's uBlock. Aljoudi created ublock.org to host and promote uBlock and to request donations. In response, uBlock's founder Raymond Hill stated that "the donations sought by ublock.org are not benefiting any of those who contributed most to create uBlock Origin.” The development of uBlock stopped in August 2015 and it has been sporadically updated since January 2017. In July 2018, ublock.org was acquired by AdBlock, and since February 2019, uBlock began allowing "Acceptable Ads", a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptable", and for which the larger publishers pay a fee. uBlock Origin remains independent and does not allow ads for payment.
That has always been my selfish reason for using free/open source software. I agree with the principles of free software too, but even if I didn't I would be using it just so I can be in control of my own computing.
This kinda highlights the real solution. Instead of investing in a product which will eventually get bought up by some monopoly and used to hold the users hostage, people should be donating to FOSS tools and/or paying for support contracts with FOSS companies.

Eventually the FOSS alternative becomes competitive and then outright better. It happened quickly in the SW space given that SWEs could dogfood the tools but it's slowly happening in almost every other industry as well. Blender is probably the best example while Krita (raster drawing), QGIS(GIS), Qflow(HDL synthesis tooling collection), FreeCAD(2D/3D CAD), KiCAD(EDA), Darktable(RAW editor, photography tooling) and Ardour (Audio mixer and nonlinear editor) are all catching up in their various spaces.

And there's a reasonable chance that some industries won't be able to develop their own FOSS tooling for whatever reason. In those cases it may be worthwhile for governments to step in and fund open source tooling (like the EU does) to protect their industries from the whims of a foreign company.
Demos are here: https://www.dflex.dev/demo/lists/symmetric/

This looks worth checking out. Appears to work well on desktops and mobile.
> ... maybe we shouldn't have spent years telling them they weren't allowed to have an opinion because it didn't concern them.

that never stopped women from doing what they want. you are completely brushing past the main issue which is apathy towards privacy which is not remotely related to women's rights portrayed by mainstream media and your language generalizes 100+ years of women, who regardless societal expectations, went on their own because they believed they had same rights as any other human. It's sad that the same spirit is now being used as shields to derail completely unrelated issues that by mere association of gender, calls for a complete review of a certain political lens that we are all familiar with. Save us the grace here honey.
The script linked at the bottom of this page uses sqlite without an index on the table. In my testing if you add an index sqlite quickly outperforms dbm in terms of read performance
Yeah I was on a call when I saw first reports. Call was ok. Few minutes later jumping on another meeting - no dice.
No, that is more diffuse.

Whoever was using this electronics switched to other BTC variants, but in long term this reduced profitability and should harm people using energy in this way.

But sadly no immediate impact, unless there are electronics that could be profitably consuming power for Ethereum and it is not profitable for alternatives.
Breaking Down the U.N.’s Report on Xinjiang
I think one of the reasons I hate Adobe so much is that I genuinely like a lot of their software. They make great (if bloated) products but they make terrible managerial decisions. They’re one of the few companies I think are evil to the very core. They employ dark patterns at every turn. It’s not about providing a product or even a service to customers; it’s only about extracting as much money from every customer as they possibly can.
Someone is debating with a VP right now… “But our whole website is down! We have to update the status page.”

“Nope. Leave it green.”
If the majority didn't want a split, they were free to keep trading ETC.
A lot of antitrust sentiment here. If you care to cajole the feds into action - here is the public service email for reporting antitrust concerns to the FTC - antitrust@ftc.gov
While we're here and probably need a quick alternative, does anyone know of a screen sharing service that allows you to share a portion of the screen and not just a tab/app? I'm on an ultrawide monitor and it's a real pain screensharing.

I've tried tuple, tandem, google meets.. none of those allow it.
>> If a town banned you from the train station because you refuse to give them your phone number, that would open them up to being sued.

Nice example you gave, because this literally happened between 2002 and 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
The No Fly List eventually swelled to close to a million people. There was no one entity you could sue, because airlines had their own algorithms for matching, so even if you werent on the list, but the algo fuzzy-matched you, you were effectively on the list. Matching names is notoriously bad. There was an ACLU lawsuit, but it was a much bigger effort than anything being described on this thread.

In summary: lawsuits against Government systems are slow and not necessarily something to aspire to as a better system.
if you are part of a mining pool, its possible they just auto-switched you to mine another coin (Ethereum Classic, LiteCoin, etc)
- New study highlights noxious fumes danger from interior gas lamps. (Study funded by Right Honorable Brotherhood of Household Chandlers)
Not just you; although now it seems very snappy again of a sudden.
Causation is very hard to “prove” and requires a massive dataset. Particularly at all the skews I mentioned. Each skew requires a multiple more data. I’m not saying they’re bad at their job, might just not be organized properly to gather said data.
Scientists teach a robot when to have a sense of humor
Ah, I was looking at Librem 5 USA. Normal Librem 5 has a 52 week lead time.
> A company like figma could have always just gone public if the founders/investors just wanted to get out.

The company has gone public (or will shortly) and is now at the mercy of the public shareholder. Which is specifically the concern here. The worry is that the public shareholders, who aren't necessarily users and are only shareholders out of interest in profit, will see more value in squashing the product than carrying on.

The users pooling resources would have been the logical buyer, to keep out of the general public with competing interest's hands, but seemingly they didn't want the company, so...
These scaremongering articles about "X is Contaminated by Y" are so tiring.

With the sensitivity of today's testing tools, you can find at least a trace of absolutely anything in tap water if you want to.

And sure, we should study the impact of microplastics on human health in more detail. But these hysterical titles... ugh.

Buy an RO system for your drinking water at home if you're worried. At the very least it'll taste better than the tap.
I think only the netherlands does it better but in the US roundabouts are generally worse for pedestrians to cross.
60k a year for skilled labour is comically overpaid now? What?
Just read the article. A big part of the article that I can summarize is I don't set the requirements, someone else does. Every project is different. You might be fine with just integers. However I've been tasked with much more complicated requests.

There may be exceptions but I guarantee you in most cases the product manager doesn't want the letter e.

My app was built with Rails, and if you enter the value "3.9e3" which represents the number 3900, Ruby will simply use the number 3 and toss the rest of the value away. Do you really want to add special functionality on the back end to covert that value into the actual value? I surely would not.

Also plenty of people use javascript without it being a Single Page Application. Keenforms is not a SPA, we use React for certain pages, but I wanted to keep server side rendering. Using Javascript is not exclusive to SPAs.
I've found it also helps if the infant is snugly wrapped. I think it keeps her from realizing she is no longer being held.
Browser extensions already have access to privileged APIs that websites cannot use, however, so providing this ability to extensions !== providing it to medium.com.

The kind of company that would abuse an extension API like this for marketing is just the kind of company I wouldn't trust for extensions, so even spammy marketing messages would still be a useful signal (to uninstall).
> The mining process provides network security all on its own, transactions or no transactions.

It seems to me that if nobody transacted, nobody would be able to sell Bitcoin, mining rewards would be rendered worthless, and mining would stop.

Sure, you can't point at any given transaction and blame any particular emissions on it, but surely it's reasonable to amortize it and assign a fraction of the emissions during each block to each transaction, considering that Bitcoin has no value without them.
If you put assets in a GRAT you can't borrow money against it
How does Oracle staff its engineering department with such a bad reputation?

I once got an email from an Oracle recruiter, and I did not waste the opportunity to tell him how I feel about Oracle.

Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Oracle or Larry Ellison.
>Their claim was that adversaries are spreading vaccine disinformation. This is backed up by evidence.

Their implied claim was that the comment is relevant to the current discussion. That's insinuation.

BTW, did you notice that the very first reference in your reputable report was to NYT, which says very similar things and in turn cites declassified intelligence. Government citing NYT citing government. Even ignoring its dubious quality, the report is dated August 2020, which predates all the Covid vaccines and vaccine-related policies.
> enough is enough and moved to a country with much higher social inequality?

"screw you I got mine"
That is a fascinating thing to me - I have noticed that a lot of people arguing that the WMF is out of control and needs to cool it are editors.

It really feels like there is a fundamental disconnect between project contributors and the team making decisions at the foundation level. Of course, I expect to some degree that there will be disagreements, and that is why a foundation needs to exist, but the last couple of years its seemed a lot like people are just being stonewalled.

Ultimately, the communications gap is by far the most concerning part of it for me, even to the point where I would suggest the donation campaign is a symptom rather than the cause.
Power demand varies wildly during the day (Like +/-50%, maybe more depending on climate). A 1% change will get lost in the noise of "Oh, it's 3 degrees warmer today... HVAC working harder"
> FED only has a demand-side lever

Mortgage rates are demand side. But rates also influence all sorts of supply-side inputs, from the cost of developer financing to the cost of holding inventory for suppliers.
I've noticed slowness on HN and a few other websites from a Google Fiber connection in San Antonio, TX. It seems like it takes a few seconds to establish a connection then downloads all the content just fine. Google's speed test shows no issues, though. Oddly, my husband's not seeing any issues, but he may have a browser setting where he preloads the top hit enabled.
Very slow for me also in France ten minutes ago; things appear to be better now.
I don’t believe this will be good for the market. I feel Adobe is doing this to kill a potential threat to their XD and other design tools.
I hope Zoom's SRE team has a fallback for incident response coordination...
HackerNews represents just a part of the customers that use products like Adobe suite, so that's pretty normal that majority of people give shit about such things and just use what they were given.

By the way, changing processes and software in corporations is very hard thing to do as there's so much management/staff/human/distribution issues on the way.
Sounds like you are focusing on exceptions like SF Bay Area and to a lesser extent Seattle. There aren’t that many SWEs in the world and there are always professions that make exceptionally high income vs rest. The problem you are describing is most acute in the peninsula because of concentration, lack of new development, unwillingness to densify to meet demands, lack of rapid interconnected public transit and some geographic restrictions (once you leave the peninsula, commute becomes very bad because you either have to cross a bridge or go all the way around the bay).

The WFH/remote is actually good for this problem as it reduced concentration and enables wealth to be a bit more spread out where it’s less impactful to the local communities. Of course, in resort areas we got concentration again (because of shallow supply) and many of the ills came back. Hopefully things stabilize a bit more on that front and a semblance of affordability is achieved.
Never is a long time.
I'm going to say that AGI will be able to drive a car.
AGI is very far into the future but I would not say it's impossible.
Or Joplin (has extensions for Graphs as well).
Ok, I should have read further and posted a full reply. I had seen his data before, and it looked a bit scary, so I am interested, but I also quickly noticed that it lacked statistical error bars and was excluding any data that contradicted his hypothesis.

Would it change your perspective if you learned that the still birth rate in 2022 was still lower than every previous year, except for the years 2019 and 2020 that he uses as comparison?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Does it change your perspective if you learned that the birth rate has been dropping about 2-3% per year, except for the year in comparison (2021) when it was 2% higher than the previous year?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Does it change your perspective if you learned that vaccinated mothers appear to have been slightly more likely to have a healthy, normal birth over this same time period (fig 3-9), though the difference was not statistically large?

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

All of these links are directly from his blog post, so I know he also had access to this data, which shows it was safe and even beneficial to you to get vaccinated, and he apparently chose to ignore it.

> even if it is temporary after one shot

If it doesn't reoccur though, it is temporary, regardless of what else happens. But the data would already have included the effect of boosters by now. In some ways, the blog post also suffers from a lesser known problem of being too-big of an effect. It was >8% decrease when <20% of the population had a vaccine, so now that >60% has had a vaccine, we should see a >25% drop in births. That is too big an estimated effect he's observing in one specific area for it to be invisible to other statistical measures and countries. So that hints something else is wrong with his analysis, failing to account for something, or taking small numbers as divisors to make them look bigger.

I had heard a fun podcast on excess effect size being a possible yellow-flag for statistics, but cannot locate the exact one for you. If I recall right though, it was related to Andreas Glöckner's discussion of the size of the mental depletion effect linked from
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-a-job-interview-how-much.... In that article he shows how the correlation was too strong between "mental depletion" and outcome, that it likely points to there not being a causal-link.
The article's list of technologies, at first glance, seems like it has examples from different technologies. But they are all really the latest pieces of the same line of technology: Personal Computing/Internet.

The author (and I'm assuming a lot of people on HN, myself included) came up when the Internet and Personal Computing was growing. The next technology that people are excited about probably isn't the latest in Personal Computing/Internet, it's something else altogether. I'm in the same bubble you guys are, so I'm not sure what that is. Maybe it's Energy (lots of Solid Hydrogen articles and/or Clean Energy). Maybe it's something else altogether...
African Greys have a brain the size of a walnut...mine is freekin' SMART.
Not to be too inflammatory, but it's always amazing to me how people will ignore a threat as long as possible, then pretend it just appeared once they are forced to acknowledge it.

Not a perfect XKCD match, but pretty close:
https://xkcd.com/743
It's kinda sad what the browser extension ecosystem has become.

Seems like a neat hobbyist / handy tool space that quickly turned into a sorta predatory space.
I always use Tango for terminals. Simple, usable and that colorscheme it's available everywhere.
In that case websites will absolutely show you a banner and/or intentionally make their services more difficult to use.

Any website showing a cookie banner already prioritizes their ad revenue over your convenience of not seeing a banner. So why would they implement any extra work to spare you that banner, if you're one of those customers that won't drive ad revenue?
I decompiled the extension a while back and it is a series of custom JS code for each website or CMP provider with matching rules.

Only checked the bundled version but the code seemed very custom and labor intensive to keep up with website changes. Best of luck to future forks and maintainers.

I didn't spend too much time on it, because a filter based approach seemed more maintainable.
> allows Bitcoin mining to become net carbon negative

Phrasing in this way suggests that Bitcoin is already net carbon negative or can plausibly become it. That is not true.

> Using electricity isn't the problem.

It is, as electricity is fungible and wasting it on bitcoin increases prices for everyone else and encourages greater degradation of shared resources.
Rails to trails is actually a (somewhat subversive) way for rail right-of-way to be legally preserved.

From a practical/political standpoint, it'll be interesting to see the backlash when a railroad attempts to start exercising its right to reclaim some of these properties, which are largely and falsely believed to have become community property.
There's virtually no other ASIC resistant (i.e. can use GPU) PoW coin left to mine. There's the proof-of-work ETH fork, but it only has a market cap less than 2% of than real ETH. So even though they juiced the block rewards, miner rewards are more than 90% lower, which isn't enough to pay for electricity of the previous hash rate.
But why? What is stopping competitors from coming out and beating them?
https://zoom.us/ is back online (here, at least).
> You're confused, in a ponzi earlier investors are paid from the investments of future investors.

so you mean like pre-mine token sales? wait aren't those securities because there is an expectation of returns from the work of others?

what you write here could be used against you, consult your lawyer before you admit anything!
Your comment got me thinking, this concept is not obvious for a native French speaker.

So we have several words that are pronounced "unexpectedly" (What You Read Is Not What You Pronounce). An example would be the name if the physicist Louis de Broglie, pronounced [dəbʁɔj]. OK, that's a family name so there is some history behind.

Then we have words that different people pronounce differently: ananas (pineapple) - some pronounce the "s", some do not. Or the village Avoriaz, same but for the "z". Or Chamonix.

But now that I think about this, what you are saying is indeed a thing. My wife's primary languages do not include French and she did not have, I think, major issues when choosing a pronunciation (she had Himalayas of other problems, though).
It's good enough that I wouldn't really call it a code generator, and I wouldn't put it in a category with other tools due to the performance different from anything else like it.

Often, it creates code that follows the style of the surrounding environment.

Honestly at this point, the copyright concern seems either ignorant or paranoid to me. The program is interactive and generally only creates small chunks of code at a time. You can read and modify the code it generates (I always do). I only operate on it in digestible chunks, none of which are "original" enough to be considered copyright. Surely, you as a developer can easily say whether the code generated is just some non-copyrightable snippet (some simple BFS code) vs stolen code lifted off a codebase (weirdly specific implementations, fast invsqrt, comments that look like they were written for a different context, magic numbers, undiscovered algorithms).

I would argue that if you can't differentiate between meaningful IP and boilerplate algorithm implementations (with variable names conveniently matching the surrounding context), then you have a different problem.

Yesterday I implemented a BFS in about 30 seconds because copilot recognized the pattern and auto-completed. It took 5 seconds to autocomplete, and 25 seconds to read and fix one line that was wrong. That normally would have taken me 5-10 minutes to code + debug (the copilot code didn't have any errors, minus the 1 I easily found). The productivity gains are too good.
Think of the keyboard though. Duodecimal needs an extra 2 keys, 12 in all just for the digits. Seximal can do it with six; easily managed with just one hand on a home row.
Virtues are generally more impressive than a cynical mockery of virtues at least.
There are loads, but they have to ban people too.
Was there any book that converted you from spaghetti coder to a good programmer?
Spaghetti programming = writing code without any structure or thought and ending up with a mess that you can't yourself debug or maintain after a few months.

Good program is something that is elegant, easy to maintain, easy to read and understand, etc.

Is there any book that you read in your journey as a programmer (professional or otherwise) that just warped your thinking model and made you a better programmer overall?

Or maybe a side project that you did that created this paradigm shift?