skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think the author's children are not successful? According to her Wikipedia entry, they are: CEO of YouTube, Professor of Pediatrics and researcher, and co-founder of 23andMe.

I have not read her book to tell what she defines as successful.

Google Books preview says she regards "success" as something akin to "passion". 'I think it's time we define "success" as "passion".' (p74)

She uses it in the context of a career, of a child soloist at Carnegie hall, "personal success", "all walks of life", "at Stanford" and "citizen of the world."

Looks like pretty standard upper-income white-collar class American aspirations.

I still regard it as like a diet book - there's a bunch of these things, and lots of different audiences.

Still, certainly having the money to get an M.A. at Paris-Sorbonne University, be married to a Stanford physics professor (and sometimes department chair), and to live and raise children in Palo Alto .... probably didn't hurt.
LMAO I'm sure that sounded great in your head, but if that service was actually worth 10mm, both parties would have to pay taxes on that income when they report it to the gov't for inclusion in GDP. Yes this applies even if no money changed hands: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420

And yes there are workarounds, but clearly it's not that easy to manipulate GDP. If anything, you want to underreport these numbers so you don't owe as much.
You have a very "positive/optimistic" outlook on how this would go down;

My immediate thought was that an implementation of this platform would be using legal identification to prove humans, allowing for one a huge depository of highly-accurate personally identifying information; a security and privacy nightmare in my opinion.

This already happens in many places, but those are regulated companies, banks etc, I couldn't imagine a social platform holding the crown jewels like this ever not being a disaster.
Ask HN: Whats stopping Matrix.org from adding a Twitter-like user status feed?
The idea of an aggregator of tracking individuals’ “status update” timeline only requires a known focal point, the operation of said locale need not be predicated on centralized control.

Matrix being a known, agreed-upon protocol means that it is a potentially viable “mindshare locale” , while the transmission of which being entirely distributed and self-hostable.

People can simply follow @<username>:<server> handles just like @<twitterhandle> following as it currently works.

So all it requires to create the functionality is to add a dedicated “Matrix Feed” room to each user profile by default. The user mindshare will gradually come as people seek greener pastures of uncensorable platform, while moderation is entirely self-policed by individual communities curating their own list of persona non grata.

What considerations have I missed that could possibly stop Matrix.org from picking up what seems like a low-hanging fruit?
Or in general. Living in sparsely populated country with what in other places would qualify as towns. Driving motorway towards one of the at night. Like tens of kilometers out in middle forest you see a clearly lighted up horizon. The light pollution is real.
That would take years.

I use Debian Stable.

I think Plasma has something like "Decorations" - can a custom decoration be used? Can one use scripts in the "Decorations"?
I think the argument still applies even if you don't go past the land itself. The land itself is the primary cost of housing. This is why we were able to build most of our most famous skylines in much poorer economies than the the people currently struggling to afford to to buy or to rent those same properties.
Ty have been looking for something like this
same here, but not about MFA, to complete transaction using one of Indonesian payment gateway only allowed within 1 minute XD slow phone opening OVO app + slow internet would sometimes failed, receiving push notification, loading app took 40s total hopefully entering pin and submitting within 20s

even other payment gateway have 5 minutes at least
One could argue that liberal democracy offered a solution by making everyone have the same rights and focusing on making sure every one individual's right are protected in front of the majority.

The idea that everyone has the same rights and noone can legally break them was the pre-political basis of our democracies.

One could argue that, as of late, we've been focusing more on collectives and less on individuals.

Collectives can't be all equal (i.e. per definition they might have different size, us vs. them) leading to them causing an unhealthy imbalance in social power dynamics, that wouldn't happen if we focused our attention to the individual.
I'm too old to feel embarrassed over what other people think about me.

And I already gave up the game of trying not to offend people. I say what I think, and if it happens that I offend someone, I'll consider it when it happens and apologize or ignore it, depending on if it makes sense to me.
Attributes exist because HTML is a markup language where text is the primary content and markup adds structure and metadata.

Eliminating attributes would mean metadata should be expressed as text content, which in turn means it is not really a markup language anymore, just a generic data structure syntax like JSON or s-expressions.
Fractions always get people confused.

Going from 80->90 is cutting the error rate in half. That’s quite a jump.
The most disturbing part of drinking to your mental faculties is how it effects your sleep. It leaves you in a haze and that accumulates. Once you stop, sleep will help you get back on track again. You still have time to recover.

My father did the same thing as you are doing. He's recently stopped. He's sharp as a knife again after a very short amount of time after years of being, which I can best describe as, out-of-sync with everything.
The incentive to pull off this kind of move, running the clock down a bit

Having spent several years playing amateur football in my youth, I can attest that the game would be vastly improved if the clock never stopped and the teams had set time limits between the end of one play the beginning of the next. Christ I got so tired of the dicking around.
The average American is much more likely to die from Covid than from murder (and, in the recent past, Covid was the far more likely fate), so this doesn't seem crazy on its face.
Just going from Python to Java or C# will give us a 95% economy in energy. Going from web apps in JS packaged for desktop or mobile to C or C++ would yield a similar gain.
>my personal Google Voice number for the authentication code

A lot of financial institutions do not allow gv/voip numbers anymore. So, I've had to add one more layer to this, namely forwarding sms from phone to gv, which then goes to email. It looks like there aren't great solutions for forwarding sms to email directly on android, but there is an sms forwarder app on f-droid that works for forwarding to gv.
It's a fork of Plan 9. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617036
There's an OSS fork of Chromium for Android called Kiwi that enables installing extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
In general, sure, for things like web pages etc. In fields like robotics people are always desperately trying to improve the efficiency of their algorithms but it really seems like we just need way more powerful silicon.
Attempting Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
So with forwarding on, if you receive a garden variety SMS (green in iMessage) it will forward on as a normal (blue) iMessage over IP to other iOS devices on the same account?
So now the PC vs Mac commercials will also feature who has the best ads?
It's not neglect though; as the person you're replying to stated, its outright hostile by design. It was _designed_ to keep you _off_ the web, and only in the app.
What they are doing now is trying to separate power and data, so that they approach the die from different sides.

But the memory bottleneck cannot be solved so we are stuck with the CPU performance per watt we have had since Ivy Bridge around 2012.

DRR3 has lower latency than DDR4,5,6+

GPU is also stuck.

The ONLY solution is to code vanilla Java (no/few external deps.) on the server and mostly C with ++ compiler on the client.

Forget Rust, Go, WASM, etc.
> DNR is not yet available in Firefox. Firefox retains WebRequest blocking in MV3, which can be used in place of DNR. When DNR is available, simple request modifications can be moved over to DNR.

I know a lot has been said about DNR for Chrome, and while retaining WebRequest is a good step, I wonder how much Firefox's DNR implementation will differ from that of Chrome. As an extension developer, I really like the idea of write-once extensions that run everywhere, and unfortunately today, a lot of that simply means building for Chrome-* browsers and managing Firefox as a "special case" :/
Understanding the Bitcoin White Paper Published by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008
How kooky is this theory? It's a proposed unified theory based on knotted spacetime.

https://knotphysics.net
As someone working on a massive migration from MV2 to MV3 (where the benefit to the user will be minimal) it does feel like browser makers are waging war against us extension developers. Mozilla's plan is to release a slightly compatible API, but not at all compatible, and yet highly limit what can be done? Do they really think this will increase the effort invested in their ecosystem?
- "highlight comments from particular people"

Would client-side uBlock work?

ycombinator.com##:xpath(//a[@href="user?id=d23"]/parent::span[@class="comhead"]):style(background: linear-gradient(to right, darkorange, gold, #f6f6ef, 50%, #f6f6ef) !important)
I tend to pay for independent news when there is an election season. other than that... RSS feeds that I mostly skim the headline and ignore
Instead of taking away power from users, Firefox should rather inform users.

Let them modify the browser in any way they want. Let them write plugins that can do anything. But inform users who install a third party plugin what that plugin can do. Like "This plugin wants the right to read all data on all websites you visit. In theory it could capture your bank login and transfer it to some other server".

Another bad decision by Firefox to limit users ability to do what they want is that they don't support the File Access API:

https://web.dev/file-system-access/

This gives Chrome users the ability to build simple web pages that can be used like native applications.

An empty html page with a textarea, load and save buttons and you have a text editor!

I hope Firefox will notice that they lose market share because of restricting users freedom. And turn the ship around.
If everyone has side wheel, it would get boring fast. The one that can hug the wall first win.
Why haven't the Maori conserved the other ones?
> A lot of times something like this is how you form some new regulations - it's truly one of those "You know, this was excellent but we can't do it again" situations.

Reminds me of an England v Italy rugby match a few years back where Italy completely abused the offside rule that resulted in England, seemingly, wanting the rules changed after that match (though Eng still won).

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/26/england-sugges...
Almost certainly not. Nobody can match Youtube's payout of 55% of revenue to creators, or come anywhere close to it; Tiktok's monetization model is both worse at the outset and destined to continue to get worse still over time (creators are paid fractions of a fixed pie, so with more creators, each creator's share diminishes). Tiktok also has a notoriously opaque moderation process that has a reputation for censoring much more aggressively than youtube (doing things like banning profanity, which has never been a problem on Youtube).
Nothing is going to replace Twitter. thankfully. We're heading toward smaller communities with 1000 max member forums, about narrow topics, hosted by regular people and not startups. Centralization needs to end.

Twitter barely made any money and VC aren't willing to invest in these projects, again.
I had to chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf because my resolv.conf would keep getting truncated (as in empty) every time I restarted an lxd container. Rock solid my ass.
Is it really all that different then from buying products locally where labor is cheap?
> But for you it might be a nightmare to have to learn a new domain specific language.

Not particularly for me :) Just seeing value proposition for Windows AD - in Linux world, you have to glue together different and competing things for good or worse IDK, but windows just bring that integrated experience OOTB. But good that there exist options in Linux world. It is probably twice++ the effort to manage Lin along Win desktops, so I see why corps don't bother... because you still have to have those windows boxes. And that translates into MS AD for easy management and vast, better or worse, talent pool. I see Windows corps, where appropriate, deploy Linux Servers within infra, for example webservers as that translates into saving $.

Samba, yeah, it just really works and good that we have it. But it is only a part in corporate management toolbox. Even MS Active Directory is a part in corporate management toolbox as you still need something like InTune to manage endpoint installs, still some parts must be scripted, monitored, etc.
There should be a version of "rule 34" about DSM-IV. If somebody says "I am.. " then it's probably in the DSM.

This is basically "capgras" syndrome, often related to brain injury.
I'd love to know this also, my wishlist is to have this feature as browser extension, so that I have highlight something on random articles or hn comments to find out what something really means
>Twitter very likely won't become Elon's X app,

Elon has experience with Paypal. Payment and identity management is the core ingredient for an X app. Twitter gives him the user base, and he has overspent enough that everybody is aware of Twitter to easily acquire new users.

Somehow it became normal that big companies don't role out new features very often. That's not a given. Elon can reshape Twitter and turn its NASA-like development structure into a SpaceX structure. If Twitter runs like a startup it could be reshaped within months.

However, Elon could also create something like the Vegas tunnel which supposedly doesn't have the safety features to handle a fire very well. [1]

[1] https://reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/yeni5w/elons_boring_t...
> The ONLY solution is to code vanilla Java (no/few external deps.) on the server and mostly C with ++ compiler on the client.

> Forget Rust, Go, WASM, etc.

Why?
It really doesn't take much for anything to get on the HN front page. And upvotes are often done as a way to bookmark a thread before even knowing the quality of it.

Ben's conferences are low in number because the audience he's targeting is smaller. Peter Thiel co-hosted the Stanford Singularity Summit in 2006 (which is where I happened to meet Ben G in person for the first time). There had to have been at least 1000 people there. In 2006.

It's not about the content, it's how you sell it. But at least we can both agree that the linked article is useless.
Given its provenance I won't touch it with a long pole.
There's the nostr protocol that could be a good censorship resistant decentralised alternative [1]

Jack Dorsey (ex-Twitter CEO) is also working on a protocol with similar properties [2]

Neither can really replace Twitter right now, but they're interesting alternatives coming down the pipeline.

[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
[2] https://blueskyweb.org/
One of my biggest pet peeves with NPM is that the packages aren't reproducible. Even if somebody links a package to their Git repo, who knows what commit correlates to a given release? Even if somebody pushes a "tag" for the release, there is still no guarantee that it's actually the same code. (especially if there is any type of build step.)

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe this is an area where Golang is doing better (code references a Git repo directly).

Are there any other languages that focus on "reproducible builds" for packages? (Ideally via Git)

Edit: I just want to add that this is a major frustration for me with Java too. Everything on Maven barely has any metadata to go back and audit the source code!
This has not been my experience - you cannot have data enabled outside the US for extended periods of time, but leaving SMS/voice enabled seems fine.
Something that doesn't delete a file that I accidently deleted at source.
Having some more syntax for things like maps and destructuring (like Clojure) goes a long way to remove the worst offenders (((like these))), but as others have mentioned, you get used to it, and then you miss it in other places.

You are working with shapes of data, not lines of text. Using tools like Paredit you can get into an incredible flow akin to that of Vi/Emacs mastery, with the added layer that you are moving entire blocks rather than single words (that may or may not end up being valid code).
I found i've stepped away from reading breaking news and its helped my sanity a lot. I read a weekly newspaper (in my case the Economist) that keeps me informed about what is going on in the world.

It's like reading classic literature - the stuff that stays around is more likely to be of relevance. Filtering out the news from daily newspapers means I miss out on opinion, poorly researched facts and stories that turn out to be garbage before the weekend. Sure I occasionally read about a major story as it happens, or if something is important to me.
Even in aggregate, there's a great deal of slippage between the two things. Making a small number of cars for very rich people might attract more revenue than making a large number of cars for regular people, even if the latter would be more useful overall. Manipulative advertising and predatory salespeople might mean you can sell cars for more even if those cars are less useful. A car that pollutes less, or is less likely to kill pedestrians, is certainly (all other things being equal) more useful, but since the buyer doesn't benefit they are unlikely to pay much extra.

In a theoretically perfect free market, prices might be equivalent to usefulness. But very few real-world markets achieve that, and the differences are important.
I think it would be driven by curiosity, but once you colonize another star system, it's a fully fledged civilization without meaningful contact to the mother system. Including to visit the next star system.
You can use the voice call method of MFA on Teams, send it to a Twilio number, and use a Twilio Studio workflow to automatically pick up and press # a few seconds later to confirm.

(Yes, I've done this.)
This is a common technique used by such blog authors. An enticing title, an intriguing opening, followed by brag, brag, brag.

Unfortunately, modern day blogging is more about building one's 'brand' and boosting one's reputation, than imparting wisdom.
The missing thing that's critical for most multi-core performance use cases is memory bandwidth. Maybe not easy to summarize on a graph like this, but for any workload that can't fit within L1 cache, you're unlikely to get close to linear performance scaling with cores. Sometimes a single core can fully saturate the available memory bandwidth.
> working in a functional language and claiming they don't need design patterns because they're the same as having first class functions

The point really was that you need different design patterns in a functional language, and most of the GoF design patterns are useless in a functional language, as they either deal with state, or they deal with something that had some better solution in a functional language (e.g. through algebraic datatypes, which were built-in).

So if you amend "we don't need design patterns" to "we don't need most of the GoF design patterns", it's actually a true statement.

> Monads? A design pattern.

Exactly.

And now the pendulum has swung back, and instead of providing primitive language features that would make using the Monad design patterns easy, we have half-assed async/await implementations in lots of imperative languages, just because people didn't realize async/await is just a particular use of the Monad design pattern.

> This means they go through their career building up all sorts of design knowledge, but rarely naming and sharing it at a useful level of granularity.

Which is really sad, because the GoF book really emphasized this point.

But for some reason programmers seem to have a desire to turn everything into some kind of cult...
Google pauses the enforcement of In-App billing in India
> Those "gentleman's agreements" were not that great if you happened to be a woman, gay or any other minority.

You just say that like it's a fact, but... why would that be the case?
Going from pointing out CPU and memory hardware problems to declaring, forcefully, the solution can only be Java, of all things, is one of the more bizarre comments I've read here lately. Especially because there is nothing backing up the claim.
UK-backed battery firm Britishvolt considers entering administration
Not sure I fully understand this argument. Can you expand? I'm not familiar with nohup and its role.
>Yes, the paper says that the Transformer model is superior because it is more parallelizable and requires less time to train.

"Superior because it is X" is not the same as "superior while also being X". GPT-3 has managed to say both of those things within your short session, only the latter actually being correct.
> if you want copy a config file to target, you must use some tools like `scp` or do some hacking

Maybe I misunderstood, but I use copy (1) for this in Ansible. This is standard, and you shouldn’t need scp?

(1) https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/...
Personally, I don’t think we need a twitter replacement. Mastodon is nice, but ultimately suffers from the same problems but at smaller scale.

I think it’s more likely that users will move to smaller communities - Discord, Telegram & WhatsApp groups etc.

I’m surprised that Whatsapp hasn’t developed better community functions.
I want to say "this could be a false correlation" and recommend against believing the study's suggestion, but the damage is already done. Most of the thousands of people that read this article and the handful of people that read your comment have come away being convinced of something that could very well be false as if it were scientific fact because it was in the Economist and it's a "study".
I think that Twitter's problem is more bots, shills, and manipulation than centralization. I would like to see another centralized platform which takes bots more seriously with maybe some other features like up/down vote, rather than just "likes."
A colleague of mine has some inheritance in a European country; he's been taking trips out there every few years to try and get hold of it; every time he does, the new guy who runs the place needs _some other_ document, some dozens of _other_ documents later, still no money.

This is in part because said country's process requires a document that literally doesn't exist for the home country of either party in this inheritance; they won't give him the money, and they won't take the money, so it just sits there indefinitely.
High performance computing will drive demand for faster hardware, for example in machine learning. It is extremely computationally intensive and expensive to train large NLP models. The big companies in this game have a lot of money to invest in bringing those costs down, and in turn train better models.

That said, I don't see a reason why speeds will increase significantly on personal devices. We're seeing a situation now where personal devices are really 'fast enough' for normal use cases. Instead the focus is more on improving efficiency and battery life.