skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentioning the Christchurch massacre is interesting. The Kiwi Farms had nothing to do with it other than re-posting the video after the fact -- the video that was live-streamed in its entirety on Facebook, a billion-dollar platform that supposedly has paid moderators.

Kiwi Farms was dropped by Cloudflare due to "imminent threat to human life". You know what that threat was? Some shitpost saying the poster called up some lads to place bombs at all the poutine places in Belfast. That post, which was very obviously nothing more than a joke in poor taste, was downvoted by the community as being dumb, and was removed within 15 minutes. Cloudflare used it as justification to permanently drop the entire site. Yet Facebook can actually live-stream a massacre (how's that for an "imminent threat"?) and continue operating. Hmm.

As for the suicides, that's something that gets repeated constantly, but is rather spurious. The supposed victims had messed up lives that they intentionally publicized online, and the Kiwi Farms did not cause their issues just by laughing at them. How do you "directly attribute" a suicide to a site, anyway? If I post saying someone is ugly, and that person kills themselves, am I directly responsible?

Also, one of the supposed victims is most likely still alive and faked his suicide, as the only confirmation is that a journalist claims to have called his employer, which is a weird way to confirm someone's death. No official reports or any other confirmation.
> - Send the mailing list an email with a url for your repository. Request that they pull from it. We call this a “pull request”, rather than a “Pull Request”, but it’s the same thing.

This is the 'we have PRs at home' point of view.

It's not WRONG, but I think it does miss the point. 'Just do everything different from what tons of other folks are doing day in and day out' is not the best answer.

The project is well within it's rights to do so, but, there's a reason GitHub specifically is super popular, and it's mostly to provide structure and avoid the pain in the neck that the 'do it by email' and 'just use these different things' approach while collaborating.
Using a random port for SSH (or even "better", port knocking) is a "clever trick", until you forget the one you used for that server that quietly runs on which you log once every two years. Then it can range from minor annoyance to major PITA.

Security by obfuscation has the potential to confuse some (mostly dumb) attackers, but it has also the potential to confuse your future self, for VERY minor benefits (since everyone agrees but most of your security should not come from security-through obfuscation anyway).

Hence, avoid.
This almost certainly depends on the size of the company.

Two years is plenty of time to make an impact at a startup.
An allegory of partnering with big tech companies.
Sure, with 14 fingers and 3 ears. Someone could also use photoshop and get a better result. This is nothing new in terms of risk, just a new tool.
You’re looking at this backwards. Understandably so, but still backwards.

There’s no platonic “considered normal” there’s employee and employer incentives and how they play out in combination.

If there’s a high probability that you are going to think my team is bad and not worth sticking around for, why would I want to hire you?
Tweet is about SF but the core issues are probably relevant to most US cities that designed their downtown cores around wholly commercial business office instead of mixed use and which are now increasingly desolate as WFH continues to grab a significant share of workers and doesn't seem to be going away.
(gamification) an expression of paternalism from the C_suite, who believe coders are basically ungrown children, and encouraging that for their own benefit IMHO
I think to call a big machine a material is very wrong.
Sure, but you'd have to be relatively close to the launch pad. The advantage of doing it in orbit is you can do it from the other side of the world.
You could have used minimal apis in C# and gotten a better throughput
For scale, that’s the going price for a two bedroom condo in downtown sf.

I was more alarmed by the 3M sticker price reported for the outdoor education center at the Lawrence hall of sciences, across the bay. It consists of some nice landscaping, a handful of picnic benches, and some covered awnings. I’d have expected this to cost $100k-200k… with the upper range cause we are in the Bay Area. 3M!?!?

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/06/20/lawrence-hall-of-science...
Yes, an acquaintance from college went through ECT. The guy was previously brilliant. Yes, his illness was part of his later problems, but he was wholly convinced that the ECT was a much larger problem. So much so that as soon as he got out of the institution, he commenced lawsuits against his parents who had set up his treatment (as far as I could tell for legit reasons; it wasn't one of those horror stories of abusing treatment to 'get' someone, just that it went so wrong).

I hadn't thought about that in years, but it was my first thought when I saw the headline, I was thinking that was just so obsolete. Indeed, longevity of effect, or specific studies and who paid for them.

Yikes.
"GitHub removed two counters from developer profiles that tracked their current and all-time longest streaks of uninterrupted daily contributions"

Those the least significant aspect of gamification on GitHub. Stars, visits, downloads and maybe forks are what developers are interested in. And - strangely - the article seems to ignore them.

"GitHub has gamification elements in the form of badges for projects."

What, that stupid shark and cat icons? They're just embarrassing and I don't even remember what they mean. I found out I can turn them off and they were gone for good.
Your comment seems orthogonal to the point made in the article.

PMF is when your customers push or pull you along, helping accelerate your product into a market. Lack of PMF is when you are trying to push your customers - no acceleration - no help from customers.
> what if you lose access to your key?

Social recovery: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html

> The other day someone suggested making real estate NFTs.

Looking at the current implementations, it is a terrible idea. But it doesn't mean that the problem can not be solved.

> What happens if the "owner" of some real estate loses their key?

Just spitballing here: take the idea of social recovery further to include the current legal institutions as a backup instead of the main authority. For example, a contract that manages such high-value NFTs could require a set of government-sanctioned notaries who would have permission to transfer the NFT to any new address. So if you are the owner and you lose the key (or you get hacked), you could be made whole by presenting some type of "real world" legal evidence to the notary.
At least it is not Microsoft, Google or Meta providing the monopoly! For now…
Is it possible that, given the information your employer has, they can determine you are worth no more than a 4% raise? While, on the other hand, the prospective new employer does not have the same information (the experience of actually being your employer) and risks a 20% premium? In the end, maybe the market is actually operating efficiently?
It’s fine as long as you don’t have a history of short tenures because then you’re the common factor.
Impact? I've had projects get cancelled when I was less than six months in. Often there's no space for impact.
It seems like a universal term in my experience.
They all think what they’re doing is magic and impactful but “crud with layers” is IT
Thanks, but so as far as I can tell from that, Amazon is the only company to have made this change, and it's pure speculation as to why.

I just checked my e-mails, and Target and Wal-Mart still include an itemized list in your order confirmation e-mail. So does Best Buy, J. Crew, GAP, Shopify, eBay, and literally every other store I order from.

So a single company made this change, and nobody knows why? That's not a phenomenon or trend.
Yep, many people forget GitHub was trying to be Facebook but for coders from the very start. Back in late 2000s when FB was the hottest startup everyone was trying to do "the Facebook of X" knockoffs.
People do ketamine recreationally; the symptoms really aren't intolerably bad, I'm led to believe.
Disastrous promotions notwithstanding, didn't Dyson eclipse Hoover by developing a greatly improved design (bagless/cyclonic, which has since become a popular standard design for vacuum cleaners?)
In the Mac universe, there are several:

- Eastgate's Tinderbox
- Zengobi's Curio
- Momenta's Agenda
- I think Bear app does this too.

In the case of Eastgate, a subscription is about $90/year, and well worth supporting a great tool and cool developer.

As I've said, I'll happily spend money for good tools, but I want to use said tools if my subscription expires.
You must be a long way from the edge :-)
> that we would vomit on seeing

Even their own vomit…
> seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa

List of countries with same or more restrictive laws for abortion when compared with Texas abortion laws.

Europe - None

Asia - Afghanistan, iraq, syria, Yemen, Burma, Papua new Guinea, Bangladesh

Africa - Somalia, Mali, Malawi, south Sudan, Congo, Niger, Nigeria, Madagascar.

America - Venezuela, Haiti, Suriname, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, tiny Caribbean islands.

Your use of the phrase "seeing as how it’s illegal in two dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa" would have been a great example of propaganda, especially considering that no country in Europe is as restrictive as Texas. Especially, leading with "Europe,..." instead of leading with " barely 2 dozen non European countries across the 200+ countries in the world".

But as we all know wedge issues and propaganda don't exist. So, my previous paragraph can actually be deleted because it is a non-sequitur.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abortion_Laws.svg
This paper is cheerless — gamification for good should be celebrated!

If we can make contributing to open source projects as exciting as playing Factorio or watching TikTok, that's a huge benefit to society.

And even if we don't care about the benefits to society, it's also much better for the developers — they can be part of a community, know they're making an impact on the world, potentially get a better job through their passion.

Is there a potential downside, that people build fewer human connections, spend less time with their family, delay finding a partner — sure. But is it more of a risk than with video games or their job? I can't see how we can draw that conclusion.

So let's give contributors more status, and if that means more badges on GitHub, great.
The headaches and muscle pain are temporary. But the memory loss is severe and while not truly hindering, definitely life altering. Years are just blurred together. Some things and people just aren’t there and it’s really hard for me to remember on my own. It more changes the relationship you have with your memory.
Anecdotal reports from recreational use (higher doses than medical) are that the dissociation, vertigo, and double vision only happen while you’re high, not after it wears off.
> How many houses, without preservatives in the wood, would rot and be rebuilt, compared to 100% concrete/rock housing?

This isn't a great comparison, as unreinforced concrete is not used for structures. If you're speaking about steel reinforced concrete, they usually have a lifespan in the 100 year range for something protected from the elements like structural walls (assuming the aggregate is well chosen to avoid sulphate attack). For comparison, much of the housing stock in my area is stick framed and is of a similar age - ~70 years.
I had semi-short tenure at my last few jobs… a couple of startups and a couple of genuinely awful places to work… no real pushback during the interview process and think I landed somewhere GREAT.

average tenure at last 4 jobs or about 18 months?
Made from dog in poop?
Just so we're on the same page, I agree to the necessity for words like Hydrogen or Helium. And not gonna lie I get a kick out of using fancy words that in today's English-speaking world serve the dual purpose of implying that I'm part of the educated social elite (although I like to imagine this is not the reason why I like using them - I digress).

> but anyone capable of working out the minimally complex language needed for any given topic likely doesn't need to be told this.

This is where I (and I think Graham) disagree with you. In my opinion, this is very not easy. When I write - especially about complex topics - I feel more comfortable complicating my thoughts.

If you don't mind the anecdote, in middle and high school I thought I was hot shit because my classmates would struggle to write enough to meet the page limit and I would struggle to not go over it. As it turns out, this is not because I had more to say. It's because I would use twice the number of words to say it. But it was certainly complex prose that used fancy language - sometimes, I'd argue, parts were even well-written.

I do still think there is an aesthetic to language, but I've grown to believe that simple language possesses beauty too. I can appreciate now how famous writers like Hemingway could agonize for a day over a single sentence. Especially because I look at the four paragraphs I wrote in response and think to myself, "man I bet this is way more complicated and rambly than it needs to be."
Which empire are you imagining is in decline?
> "non-free" (not GPLed)

These two terms are not synonymous. Only proprietary software is "non-free". Software under free software licenses other than the GPL (whether copyleft or pushover/"permissive") is never considered "non-free".
Nancy Pelosi used “Poo poo” so I don’t think the urge to choose a gentle tone is limited to children.
> They might not be currently capable BECAUSE we're arming Ukraine but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't if they could...

The botched invasion of Ukraine by Russia shows that it was never capable of successfully invading a NATO country (though we hardly needed the example to know this). It is conventionally outmatched by NATO and you cannot take a country using nukes. With Sweden/Finland joining NATO, there is no candidate for a successful invasion except possibly the one I mentioned (Moldova).
It depends on how much koolaid you've drunk.

A NN implemented on a digital computer is a fixed way of varying the electrical field of the CPU (etc.) given (eg.,) an SSD state which produces a fixed way of varying (eg.,) a motor.

This is very (very) far away from adaptive motion at the "tissue" level.

The semi-mystical notion that a NN is a kind of "programming of reality" is false: just as a NN running on a CPU cannot perform nuclear fusion, it likewise, cannot produce material adaptation.

It is an open question whether any non-organic material is adaptive, and I'd bet against it.
I'm going to buck the comment trend thus far and state that I enjoy the gamified experience.

Getting an achievement in recognition of the open source work that I've done feels great, and honestly it's more positive recognition then I would normally receive for that same effort.

I also appreciate the activity chart and graph, since they double as a way to monitor my productivity and therefore my energy. If I've felt that I had a bad week and the charts contradict this, then it's easier to stop myself from feeling down on myself.

I am just a social mammal, after all; and a life long gamer. This works for me, but maybe not everyone.
But now Oracle has your financial information. I would rather give my Social Security number to a Nigerian prince.

There's a reason Larry Ellison owns an entire Hawaiian island, and it ain't nothin' nice...it ain't nothin' nice (#QTip)
If you hire a John Carmack or Jeff Dean (or equivalent) and they can't make a difference in your company within 2 years, your culture is broken and needs to be fixed first.
As a maintainer for two less popular repos (3K & 5K stars), I'm very happy to get small PRs with incremental changes. Many of our large contributors have started this way.

We have a robust test and linting suite on both, so we often don't need much human engagement for reviews — code looks reasonable, tests pass, smash "Merge".

Out of interest — do you find they're not actually improving the code? Or it's just not worth the time to review it?
I miss Fry's Electronics, but they were definitely a practitioner of "free after rebate" and other rebate-based discount schemes where they took your money up front and claimed that you would get some of it back from some third party sometime in the future.

In spite of the obviously scammy nature of such promotions, I still took the bait a few times, averaging probably a 50% rebate success rate - somewhat better than I would have predicted. At some point there was a web site where you could check your rebate status, which seemed to help a bit.
Looks great! Amazing resource for newcomers (mug is still mandatory, though).
On mobile, the virtual keyboard would be super useful (doesn’t seem to work on iphone).
So you are comparing 3 very different businesses, particularly in terms of market size and economics of distribution.

I'm going to assume you lack the background and expertise to make any meaningful assessment of these businesses in the general sense, let alone with regard to specific challenges they each faced.

And even if true, the opposite of under-promising and over-delivering is not "immense amounts of fraud".
I once had an interview where the guy genuinely complained about me skipping around jobs. My average tenure was four years.
IMHO, when I use AWS I feel like I spend a lot of time dealing with the infrastructure. For example, you have to create the bucket, add IAM users that can deploy to it, set up CI that can do that deploy, configure CloudFront, etc..

With CloudFlare Pages you click a couple buttons in the UI and push to GitHub. When I tested it, I didn't get bogged down managing infrastructure which I've always struggled with (overthinking) in the past. I was almost instantly writing code that solves my problem(s).

The advantages aren't as huge with a purely static site, but they're still there IMO.
By the time you get to ECT for depression you've tried else for your more intolerable depression.
The user presumably wants to know what kind of content they're going to receive from a given endpoint - foo.html, foo.pdf, foo.jpg, foo.mp3 and foo.avi suggest quite different experiences, and it's nice to include that hint in the URL (where it's visible on mouseover) rather than the user having to go in blind. I also like being able to reassure the user that they're receiving the same piece of content however they access a given resource, rather than the possibility of invisible content negotiation changing the site's behaviour.
This sounds similar to the old Server Side Includes [1] .

In the 90s I was using SSI to build dynamic, but static sites

-- header --

-- hierarchal javscript menuing --

-- content --

-- footer --

-- tail --

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
My company constantly tries gamified stuff. It doesn't matter if you turn it into a game if I know the game is rigged.
Yeah, I should benchmark streams. In my experience streams are rarely faster, though, and are instead something you should reach for if 1) you can't fit the file in memory or 2) you might stop the enumeration early.

Regarding GenServer, I'm not so sure about that. I suppose I should benchmark it, but intuitively I expect ETS to be better here. There's more overhead in getting the data, but it allows you to concurrently read it from different processes. A GenServer, meanwhile, could respond to a given message faster, but now you're serializing the (e.g.) 50 concurrent virtual users through a single bottleneck. I could have multiple copies of the data in several GenServers, I suppose, at the expense of much more memory use.
Iranians smuggle Starlink receivers into country for a backup internet
Japan’s accident was entirely preventable and a similar scenario couldn’t happen at any facility in the US. Needing to build an ice wall to contain radioactive water pumped in from the ocean was a huge portion of the cost and truly unique.
Mnist VAE Clock
Digital MNIST clock whose digits change by traversing a VAE latent space.
you're describing how most startups are founded: find a problem, build a solution, find users. from what you're describing you're doing an excellent job at it.

PMF is only needed when you're trying to build a certain type of company. if your goal is to build the next AirBnB or Coinbase, then you absolutely need it. if not, then you might not need it. you can build a "successful" company (in quotes because I learned that ppl define success wildly differently, sometimes) and wealth without needing PMF
Sounds like the management should be fired and replaced with people who are more interested in doing things instead of protecting territory.
> They urge caution: gamification can steer the behavior of software developers in unexpected and unwanted directions.

Adding streak counters steers behavior towards maintaining streaks. That’s unexpected?
Over that decade did they see a massive increase in tooth decay? If not, why even bother with fluoridation at all?
Lots of tech companies give a stock grant that vests over 4 years. Then each year an additional “refresher” grant that also vests over 4 years. So your comp increases each year because of the stacking grants (a lot better than 4%) then drops a lot after year 4 when the initial grant expires.

Obviously many circumstances can change the equation.
> Is your ego more important than moving the company forward?

I can see why the poster's use of the word "disrespectful" might make you wonder about that, but the full context seems to make it clear that it's not a question of ego. "Presumptuous" might have been a better choice of words for the BIG red flag raised by the "friend's" action.
Upon searching I find there are at least 4 popular commandline interfaces, 3 of which are called "lab". Sorry.

I'm pretty sure we use this one: https://zaquestion.github.io/lab/
i seem to remember that i have seen them vary in length, and i have the distinct impression that the length variation is dependent on the suggested speed. that is, shorter dashes if you should go slower, longer dashes if you can go faster. the specific details probably vary from country to country.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33292353
Ditto for Chrome on Android 13 on Pixel 6
How exactly are you measuring impact such that you think you have it characterized with 4% error bars?
Also, "revolt" doesn't have to mean "completely overthrowing the government". Social unrest can eg. make for a less-cohesive society, harder-to-govern citizens, less-effective economy, etc. These things are valuable to those in charge; a leader would have to be really dumb to not factor them in at all in their calculations. So it's all about tradeoffs: what it would take to appease people vs what would be the social costs if you don't. Finally- protests signal to fellow citizens too, not just the people in charge. They can be contagious.

All of which is just to say their impact is never zero, even if it's small
lol, I was 50% sure that you were being sarcastic about using GPT-3, hehe

But if anyone is edgy enough to use AI as a shortcut, I guess it would be the guy who did telemetry ingestion on a t2.micro :D

Regards Jonas,