skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your civil and balanced reply.

I don't mind that contrarians like Seyfried exist and ask questions. They appeal to my contrarian and skeptic nature.

What I have an issue with is a medical doctor/researcher like Seyfried stating that cancer is a solved problem but the medical establishment prefers to keep patients sick in order to sell ineffective/toxic chemotherapy. (Yes, he has said this many times.)

I also erase the credibility of a doctor asked publicly (on Twitter) if his "successful" patients are still in remission, he says "Yes", but then you look them up online to discover they are in fact deceased. (True story.)

Any doctor who acts like this has zero credibility, no business being in the medical profession, and can eat sh*t as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, I don't mean to take you to task over this guy's lack of ethics and poor commitment to science. I'd rather not see someone like that boosted -- i.e., someone who appeals to cancer patients preemptively on social media to talk them out of SOC treatment.
Could this also be an open source replacement for Airtable?
Microsoft has also never sold your data to advertisers. And yet I despise them for collecting my data and not giving me the option to turn that off. Apple is now doing exactly the same thing. So I despise both Apple and Microsoft equally.

But hey, at least I can game on my Windows PCs, so...
My friend has has non US paypal account holding USD and it’s virtually impossible to send or transfer this money as USD without being forced to convert it (to native currency and back to USD) first at high fees.
They were afraid, and things got hot, what we normally call in the industry; BBQ Chicken Webrings.
“For years, Google prioritized profit over the privacy of people who use Google products and services. Consumers thought they had turned ‘off’ their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers.”

Cool story, bro. How much of that $392M is going to consumers who were actually harmed? Likely, zero. These kinds of breaches need to be criminal not civil penalties otherwise there need to be actual claimants not just Attorney Generals looking for a pay day.
Fairphone 3 and 4 have broken bootloaders that trust test-keys for Android Verified Boot: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/bootloader-avb-keys-used-in-ro...

And they have similar limitations to what I do here with regards to firmware support, as they offer longer support than Qualcomm actually does for these chips used.

The only devices with proper aftermarket OS support and five years of updates are the Google Pixel 6 and 7 series.
I’m contemplating pushing for it in 3.12, but it’s probably more than a year’s worth of work to implement and shepherd the PEP through. So 3.13 is more likely.

And I’m not sure it won’t get shot down anyway. It’s a big step for Python.
What is a breeder reactor?
billions of years of energy ?

https://whatisnuclear.com/nuclear-sustainability.html#:~:tex....
Absolutely do not do that. You are too early in your career and have too few funds. Once you are unemployed, you will experience fear and panic unlike what you've known. The US is a tough place and this is how many people end up on the street. With the economic situation becoming more precarious, it is almost certain that you will be forced to accept even worse conditions than what you have now. At least with your current job, you can negotiate from a far stronger position.

In short: you are risking either 1) running out of money and accepting a worse job or 2) running out of money, not finding a job, being an unemployed aging adult who lives with his parents, and being rejected by recruiters for an increasingly large gap in your resume.

Look, I get it, work sucks. But the alternative, for those without sufficient funds, is far, far worse.

My advice - apply to new jobs like your life depends on it. Find new pleasures in your life; bring new fun and interesting snacks to your work place; listen to new music while you work; change the color of your IDE; just, overall, find a new perspective and tough it out for a bit longer.
Woodpecker: A low-level cryptography challenge
The first time, but after that, since you'll have zero balance, you wouldn't have to log in again since there's no fee if you have no balance.

And technically, if you really didn't want to log in and if you have any merchants linked to your Paypal that can do auto-debit, you could make a purchase at that merchant to draw your balance down to zero.
> Instances are not guaranteed to keep existing,

What is guaranteed to keep existing in this world? certainly not the Internet....
For small scale PV, the cost is so negligible and the benefit of uniformity is so large that everyone having the same rule is by far the best solution. Just adopting WEEE verbatim would solve it entirely and even if it is flawed, the problem is so simple the harms will be smaller than non-standardization and loopholes.

No reason there can't be a per region method for the wind as long as it doesn't make them vulnerable to more powerful, hostile non-state entities (mining, tech companies, and fossil fuels is a fairly big precedent). The wind turbine industry is still fairly chaotic, but will likely become as centralised and powerful.
I worked on a system once where the majority of time seemed to be in “ObjectCacheMiss.” I’m looking at you, MagicCap!

Needless to say a a cache that slows you down isn’t really a cache.
This. Webrings today would help to find only other sites relevant to the 1st one, something that sponsored results in search engines returned pages made harder with time. Not only they can coexist with search engines, they would actually improve them, although not in the way Google et al. would like.
Very fun! Well done. Played 3 games. Fun that pieces taking each other just change places.
Good to know thanks, I'm in London so might give them a go sometime.
I’ve been working with the Quest for a few years and the Quest Pro for a month or so, and honestly the weight of the original Quest bothered me substantially until I got the upgraded strap. Like instant headaches. The Pro hasn’t bothered me at all because of the different weight distribution.

The untethered form factor makes sense to me too since the cord gets really annoying at times on the Vive Pro, etc. With the controllers not losing tracking behind you like the Quest does, many pro uses are happily solved without the added PC rendering capabilities.

I think people reviewing these undervalue the other added capabilities, in particular the face and eye tracking. Many of us have been waiting a long time for those features in a decent form factor, whereas the Vive Pro Eye + its face tracking module were a total dud by comparison.
> This argument comes with the rather absurd assumption that the only material that's being blocked is that which the community agrees is harmful.

The new orthodoxy requires us to assume that all censorship is in good faith. "What were you doing to make them censor you?" is the question of the day.
This one for React: https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact. Partly because it is great. Partly because it was the first time I sat down and did any course in React, rather than hacking stuff together!

What makes it great? You are given a development environment in the browser. You pause the lecture to play with the code shown by the speaker in real time. He encourages a lot of deliberate practice.
It’s trivial to survive HN traffic with a static site (assuming you know in advance that the site needs to be prepared for HN traffic) - just stick it behind a CDN.
Ah yes this seems likely since they just blundered their queen. Great stuff, thank you for sharing this project. I'll bookmark for later :)
I majored in econ. Friedman is as mainstream as it gets. Not sure why your econ courses ignored the guy. He made quite a few appearances in my 200 and 300 level courses.
I dislike that the shenanigans in the UK affect Canadian politics so much
Just hangs with “Entering chess2...”
> I would point out that the concept is really no different from how ISPs work, and yet the public seems to have wrangled with that one.

If someone could figure out a way to provide internet to consumers so that they didn’t have to deal with ISPs/carriers they’d capture a huge market overnight.
Awaiting the lawsuit against him because of the obvious constructive dismissal going on
This falls apart with any comparison with email. Email is a pure push protocol that assumes all actors are trustworthy. Messaging in the vein of ActivityPub, is pull: you might be able to opt in to receiving messages from anyone, but you don't have to. You can subscribe to people and only get messages from them and those they boost. And you see who's boosting stuff you don't want to see and can stop following them or talk to them. That reduces the problem down to a narrower set of social problems, and social issues are hard, but in a different way: you've just discovered your friend is a jerk rather than them being an open relay.
This already existed. It was called Yammer, and nobody used it, and then Microsoft bought it anyway. Apparently it's rolled into Teams now, but since my last few companies were Slack shops I don't know how many people use the Teams-branded Yammer feature. Probably still nobody. Unlike chat, email and wiki, I don't think microblogging has ever proved to be useful in the workplace.
So much awesome stuff was lost from those days, and was never replaced.
In some ways they're even easier to build than they were back then if you use the right tools. Some static website generators these days are ridiculously simple to get started with and can get you rolling pretty darn fast with a quite professional looking and easy to self-host web site (or VPS host, or other site hosting method). The hard part of it all is writing content folks will want to read. Best if folks do what they did back then and write content about things you're passionate about. If it excites you to write about it, that excitement will often be "contagious" to others of similar mindset and interests.
Use Angular, much better!
> Obamacare, which was forced upon us and costs us $2,400 PER MONTH, did not cover it. We have no recourse whatsoever for this incident and any future care requirements.

Calling this out as bullshit. Show me a reference.

You can get a PLATINUM plan on the California exchanges for less than that for a family--and your co-pay for everything will be under $250.

I would also like to point out that "myocarditis" qualifies as a preexisting condition. Without Obamacare, your child would never be able to get health insurance at all.
Sequoia may have gotten FTT or SRM tokens issued to them as part of their investment. If they did, they could have sold them to bag holders. In theory they could have known that they would profit from their investment even if the company went to zero, making due diligence optional.

I have no idea if anything like this happened. But if it did I don't think anyone has to report it. And I don't think it would be illegal. (But I think it should be illegal.)
For one thing the amount of money is just way too small.
The advantage of VR is immersion, it's great or even extraordinary with games or game-adjacent experiences , but I don't see much interest in the professional world except some very limited use cases of 3D visualisation.
pretty sure chrome provides this? or at least whatever build of chromium I am on, at least for local-unbundled extensions
This is why it's important to go to as prestigious a college as possible. Even if you don't end up getting lots of funding yourself, you might ride a friend's coattails or maybe even take a romantic class for two with Joe Lonsdale in Italy.
yeah but I really hate that it hijacks Chrome's ctrl+f
Everytime Bitcoin-related noise happens, I always ask myself “is it because the protocol is unsound” and the answer is rarely yes. The biggest problem with Bitcoin, one man’s opinion, is that the value of money is really tied to the governments and economies that back it, and so you’ve got to have societal revolution to endorse Bitcoin over the status quo(s).
Reminded me an ultra cycling event in the Pyrenees called 8848 where riders climb an altitude of 8848 meters (roughly the height of Everest) in a single long day (with rest stops, but not sleeping overnight).
Damn I want to play and it appears very dead.
I guess another month or so before google starts charging for maps or Gmail.
Unfortunately not even banks do that. They change their fee structure all the time, only announcing that their new terms will come into effect starting date X.

Then you suddenly have to pay an account fee or pay a custody fee if you keep more than 50.000€ in your account.
Here's a starting point for people who might be interested in understanding why time feels like it travels in one direction even though lots of physics is time symmetric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill. As a teenager, I had messed around with guitar amplifiers and effects pedals, and had made some gadgets by copying circuits from magazines. AoE (plus the professor who taught from it of course) made my understanding of transistors and op amps click. The treatment of electronic noise remains useful to me today, nearly 40 years later.

Transistor Transistor Logic followed by Z-80 Microcomputer Handbook, both published by Howard Sams and if I recall correctly, sold at Radio Shack. These books were clear enough that a teenager could grasp the concepts. Learning a relatively simple processor was a valuable foundation for learning microcontrollers and digital interfacing.

Turbo Pascal Manual, for versions 1 through 5. Those manuals were so clear and complete. They are probably the last manuals that I ever read cover to cover. That was kind of at the point where systems got too complex for any mere mortal to learn one completely.
No, it literally had not happened before.
Not that you guys have it any better (with the ç and two, rather than one, sets of accent marks)
>Well, see, when you use more words to express yourself, it actually makes it possible to understand what your point was.

It's called assuming. You assumed.
I've never really understood this locals-as-utility-monsters perspective. Disneyland is great! We should have more Disneylands, and if a town contributes more to human happiness as a Disneyland than it would as a town, that's something to celebrate.

Long commutes suck (and I'm 100% in favour of land value taxes and legalised homebuilding so that we can build more homes near where the jobs are), but presumably if people are choosing to work in Aspen despite a long commute then the wages or other benefits are worthwhile even without that.
Sorta? There's nothing stopping a spammer from registering and running their own instance+user of @social@elilillypad.com, or any other variation that brandsight hasn't thought to register.
Is that how it works? Imagine your typical 51-200 person company with your, I don't know, mobile, backend, product teams, whatever you call them. Is there some unspoken rule you pick up at FAANG or the Ivy League that the front door is for the unwashed and people in the know use back channels to get an invitation? If someone reached out to me and I redirected them to the careers page, would I be committing some kind of faux pas? I'm joking but only a little, I really don't know how those circles operate.
Wasn’t SBF the previous savior?

If crypto is healthy, it shouldn’t need one.
It just seems worthwhile to note that this isn't coming from an organization with any history of working or studying or caring about public health. The public is free to advocate or believe in these principles, just know where they're coming from. It's kind of like how many engineers get upset when non-technical PMs dictate how they should think about or build systems.
Okay, non-crypto user here.
Just how big was AAX?
There is also CalyxOS
If I know that I am not going to make any new discoveries about it, is there anything else I can do by learning topology?
Right. But hiring freezes are also happening and they are even more impactful.
Ah, i've avoided them for over a decade now - but that does sound very concerning.

Sounds even worse than the issues that made me abandon them originally (seizing on-paypal funds and preventing withdrawal via making verification process broken and obtuse)
Who got fired here? I'm presuming it's @EricFrohnhoefer, but his profile says he's "Still @twitter".
They are taking money from people.
There are a few active webrings I'm aware of, and their participants are pretty active and use them as a way to explore a slice of the web

https://fediring.net/

https://ring.fediverse.radio/

https://webring.xxiivv.com/

Further, one acquaintance has built a search engine specifically for web rings: https://github.com/cblgh/lieu
https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1791
I suppose Elon misunderstood what “build in public” meant.
> The big email providers became big in part because they solved that problem for most everyone.

Yes, and the major way in which they did it also made it hard to self-host an e-mail server.

> I don’t know if it’s just the HN bubble but all people post is why it can’t (or shouldn’t, because, get off my lawn) work. It’s like people have a vested interest in making sure non-adtech doesn’t succeed, almost like their very livelihoods depended on it.

Perhaps it's true in some cases, but I think it's more likely that people here recognize the new federated communication services are structurally equivalent to e-mail, so there's little reason to expect they'll end up in a better state than e-mail did. On the contrary, there are reasons to expect they'll end up worse, because e-mail had the benefit of predating the commercialized web and mass adoption of the Internet by not tech-savvy people.
I prefer the ones outlined by my professional organization, The American Public Health Association:
https://www.apha.org/-/media/files/pdf/membergroups/ethics/c...
When will elon get that this stuff isn't a cool "haha high five bro nice one" moment, and is instead just a sad display of managerial power, akin to sending a dish back to the kitchen in a restaurant.
Absolutely, I was mentioning the whole thing in a summary kind of way. I'm definitely aware that power can shift greatly -- but it does seem to, on balance, extract money from little guys to big guys, even if the identity of the big guys sometimes changes.
Berkshire Hathaway bought more than $4B of Taiwan Semiconductor shares
Tires and rims differ substantially but you often don't need to reseat the tire bead if you remove the valve core and inject sealant through the stem. High volume hand pumps and soap can usually seat tires in place of CO2 cartridges. If you do need to insert a tube, the mess from the sealant makes life absolutely miserable, you're totally right.
Some of his best work was with TuxRadar, now on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/tuxradar-podcasts-mp3

He also did a podcast with Linux Voice magazine and, more recently, as a guest on various other podcasts in his role as Community and Marketing coordinator at The Document Foundation.
I’m willing to believe the engineer of 6 years who works on the timeline is more knowledgeable than Musk here
I don't think either of them are allowed to make a living
Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation [pdf]
How the War Was Won
After the 2008 crash I was at a very low point in my personal life and I was even considering moving away from DC and maybe going away from gov sector work and contract work and trying to find a "regular" job, etc etc.

I read this book called The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow, and it opened my eyes about probability. I decided to get my MSc in Statistics and I reworked basically my whole midgame-endgame strategy for my life.

I look back so thankful for that book and for being in a position to just be at home during that time to read and ponder things. In particular, I remember some walks I went on with my wife and some conversations that I had anticipated being difficult about leaving or staying in DC, but it just all came together.

Recovering from the crash took time, but the purpose I found in pushing myself to get the degree done and to fight for my space here in govland was absolutely, positively instrumental.
Is it ‘we’ or just a cult of people around San Francisco? Lyndon LaRouche was never interested in political power, just in exerting control over his followers. The same is true for Eliezer Yudkowsky. L. Ron Hubbard knew you didn’t need to claim the wealth of a great many people with little wealth, just the wealth of a few vulnerable people who have a great deal.
https://twitter.com/ericfrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410... is the tweet that makes it official
On what grounds? Most of US is at will employment, so the worst that he's subject to is something like california's WARN act which requires 60 days notice. However, AFAIK the employees are still receiving a paycheck, just that they have nothing to do and are locked out of the company's systems.
Eh, i guess if you had a basic level of ability and knowledge of not just HTML, but also the ability to upload files over FTP, register a domain, set up the DNS records to point your domain to your host.

but most of the people building wix or squarespace (or whatever all the youtuber and podcasters are promoting this week), they don't have that knowledge and don't necessarily want to learn it. easier for you doesn't mean easier for everybody.
As well they should, because making them look more interesting would be a waste of effort, and in some cases a waste of money like glass backs.

What matters is the rugged case selection, but unfortunately they don't seem to focus on that as much as they could.
It’s “Continental United States”.
Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.
But is it worth the enormous additional cost over something like SuperMicro? You could pay 1/3rd and give the rest of the money to Earth First.
I should have mentioned that I'm in the Bay Area, so we don't have much stuff like this going on around here. Most devs prefer to stay home, join remotely, and keep work and fun very separate. Lots of board-gaming and Dungeons & Dragons, very little IRL tech.

I'm trying to get an in-person meetup off the ground, but it's all uphill going.
Here we see the ruling class unleashing their serfs against the bourgeoisie, a tale as old as tales.
Effective Python has a great chapter that goes over concurrency and parallelism using threads, coroutines and subprocesses. There are a lot of non-trivial code examples that the author gradually shows how to improve with more advanced language features over the course of several chapters so it's not all thrown at you at once, enabling you see benefits and pitfalls of approaching problems with different techniques. I highly suggest it even beyond learning async features.
There are a massive amount of people doing this with their ads or affiliate programs - I suggest looking at affiliate lab or authority hacker which are paid courses but have a lot of examples and interviews of founders who operate in this space. Also Empire Flippers does write a lot about these businesses.
I do this! I've categorized them, and for many of them I even describe them! http://matecha.net/links/ (also note the http, to allow older systems to connect. https also supported of course)