skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I am trying to solve this is by building a different kind of content feed. One that is not optimized for "time-spent-on-site" but for "will you be happy to have spent time on it".

This is how https://linklonk.com works: you upvote content that you found useful and the system gives more priority to users and RSS feeds that posted this content in your future content recommendations. As a result you see content from those who have brought to you useful information in the past - a feedback loop that is better aligned with your needs.
To be fair my attempts at making a blog rarely make it to a list of ideas, they get stuck at picking a static site technology and theme.
Solutionism rears its ugly head
Accredited investor structures are a class-based society which I disagree with. I disagree with "if you are in the club, you get access" which seems opposed to the ideals of crypto in the first place. Let ordinary folks participate in the benefits of crypto, hedge funds, etc.

What are the rules for accredited investors? Right now it's limited to rich people - they're not going do a subjective test on sophisticated vs unsophisticated. It's all based on wealth right now. What if I'm a comp sci PhD who really studied crypto in-depth... "nope, you're out because you're a poor student".

You also imply that it's a forgone conclusion that crypto is a bad thing. People plowed money into tech stocks in 1999, which crashed in 2000/2001. In the aftermath, what if you banned investing in dotcom tech in 2003 and beyond. Google and Amazon stock is only for "qualified" investors?? Crypto could turn out to be good.
I’ve seen the guy immediately insult and block people who disagree with him. Not surprising.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/jeff-reynolds/2017/05/31/things-...
Thank you for the kind words. Hotel tech/travel tech is a crowded and tough space to build in. Rewarding to see things work better for real people though!
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk makes things happen.

Electric cars, space travel, large-scale drilling, Twitter 2.0, etc. This is a man history will remember.
You might have posted on the wrong comment because I don't think anything I wrote could have led you to believe that I am a "a passive fossil fuel lobby repeater." ;).
I like being thin and healthy and I also like Pizza and Beer. If would be great if I could have both things, but in the real world actions have consequences and eating pizza and beer all day will make me fat and unhealthy.

I'm not saying Elon is a perfect CEO and that is impossible for someone to do a better job at Tesla. But in the real world actions have consequences and the current state of Tesla is due to the previous actions of Elon.

For example, he fired a long time assistant after she demanded 4 million dollars in compensation. You can feel sorry for the assistant, for getting fired after doing a great job, but that is 4 million dollars that was then able to be invested into the rest of the business. You can't have it both ways. You can't fire Elon and expect that magically another CEO that you like much better as a person will also produce the same results.
> people who are neither talented nor attractive do not typically become celebrities.

There are a fair few outliers to this rule! Usually as a result of car-crash TV, though not always.
Why do they 'hate' them?
To a small or otherwise degree, all of FAANG do some of the non-cancellable subscription smartness.
Rats, top comments will be impossible to beat. I can probably piggy-back off a top comment, though, those comment threads aren't long yet...
I think this is perfectly natural - some ideas never manifest or are convincing enough to publish, or sometimes you write code and it turns out not to be used - why produce production ready code in this case. I have a python package that I slowly developed over 5 years, step by step [1]. Everytime I use it, I find many things that I could develop, some I do right then, others I leave for later. I also have a blog [2] - you can see three dates for each blog post:

- the time I first started working on it

- the first time I published it

- the last time it was updated

All of these dates are important. Between start of writing and publishing, easily a whole year can pass. Think of doing things more like a process of chained events, not like a one-stop thing.

[1]: https://github.com/Sieboldianus/TagMaps

[2]: https://du.nkel.dev/
Twitter is still having trouble serving Tweets. I'm getting "Tweet unavailable" often enough that's it's becoming a noticeable problem.
i tend to disagree. Africa has some countries with very good GDP growth over the past 20 years, higher than some developed countries (Japan) that are struggling with debt and demographic collapse.
Before Bitcoin, there did not even exist the possibility of programmable money because no unit of account could ever be guaranteed to actually exist since there was no way to verify said existence. After Bitcoin, we now have a fundamental change where programmable money is now a possibility. So what if we have not found all the possible use cases of programmable money? That's going to be a work in progress for a long long time. You can assert that programmable money doesn't have any real use and you are welcome to have that opinion. Personally I think programmable money will have many uses and will allow for the creation of a more robust and more efficient financial system.
The fact that more labor has been specialized makes it harder to maintain a critical mass of unspecialized, informal labor.

If someone helps you paint, it might be months or years before you have an opportunity to really reciprocate.

And simple things have been specialized quite a bit. To do a good job painting (by modern standards) you need to prep the wall surface. It might be cracked or uneven or have bad (or out-of-style) texturing. Then you need to texture and paint, which is going to work out better with the right equipment.

Meal preparation is largely done today before the kitchen. Trimming and slicing vegetables, washing and filtering grains, cleaning and butchering animals, grinding herbs and spices, sauce and broth making, fermenting, etc., are all done already by specialists and machines. A modern dinner party at your home is closer to meeting at a restaurant for a purely social occasion than it is to traditional meal preparation.
It looks like the Republican's that he gave to were moderate Republicans like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins and so likely part of the same overall strategy. Moderates are outliers in the party as they aren't afraid not to vote along strict party lines.

If you look at the infographic on the WSJ article though I think it's much more telling of FTX's bi-partisan influence:

SBF gave $35.9 million to liberal groups

Ryan Salame gave $21.6 million Conservative groups

Both of those are large numbers.
>or at least implying that there weren't any obvious red flags.

Well? Were there any credible red flags? Aside from the standard "all crypto is a scam" rhetoric, SBF/FTX looked pretty clean before the collapse.
Imperialism has a lot to answer for.
> UB is impossible

What? UB is clearly undesirable, but assuming it is impossible and deducing other outcomes must be meant are clearly wrong assumptions by the compiler writer.

More sensible compilers (including older version of clang) do the right thing (TM) here and yield a compiler error.

There were earlier attempts at do-what-i-mean programming languages. They are rightfully buried in history.
The message to the world right now seems to be that you can fire 90% of SJW/leftist trash staff and the website just runs better. Maybe its time to take a look in the mirror bucko
Nice blogpost not withstanding I dunno why anyone would bother with these, all consumer CCTV cameras are garbage as far as the hardware goes and that's what produces the image you presumably want to be using. A nice 1/1.8" or 1/1.2" Sony sensor costs some money, and a high resolution, achromatic (vis to ~1 µm) and fast lens does not stand up to the fractional-penny-shaving applied to consumer products. So you get shitty 1/3" or smaller sensors made by some backwater company with the cheapest lens someone could come up with.
Dear Crypto and Fiat Bros
*potential lawsuits:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/larry-davi...
I've tried all of those workarounds, unfortunately none of them worked for me for whatever reason.
Is there a way to specify a specific version of a language in devenv? I checked to docs and even read the nix tutorial but could not figure this out.

I like to idea of having this in every repository in our codebase. Would make bootstrapping easier for new developers. However, you often want a specific golang or python version. Once you update some tool or language everybody gets the new env. That would be neat. Is that possible somehow?

I guess initially we would roll this out just for dev and keep Dockerfiles how they are but eventually we could then use it as builder in docker.

Bonus question: Can I use devenv/nix together with Bazel? We use that in quite a few newer projects and it also suffers from the local dev env issue.
But you do have insurance. For some of the amount. You just didn’t pick the vendor. Or have to think about it. You are, in a way, making my point.
i mean that kind of makes sense for a security camera, right?
I'm a bit confused. What you said is factually correct, but you're coming off as though you disagree with it.

The first thing I was ever taught in my formal CS education is that the computer is (nearly) always right -- if there's a bug it's the programmer's fault. How is that not the case with a smart contract? How is that not the case in the real-world when there are loopholes in laws and contracts? Obviously you can always ask the courts for remediation in the real-world, but let me please point you to many examples where courts make an incorrect/unreasonable decision.
And what happens if I lose my wallet?? Or forgot the passcode?
Well a lot has changed. Remote work is more common. Many companies shuttered offices. Thus momentum that had been built up that was holding people in the state has ended.
This is a bit like carbon capture from the air.

Yes, energy is going to be cheap, and yes we can do this, and in some cases we may have to. But there's so many simpler ways to just stop wasting the water we do have, this should be a last resort.
&(list + 15) = https://gist.github.com/fay59/5ccbe684e6e56a7df8815c3486568f...
I don't think that he was necessarily talking about the timing of the criticism but the target that triggered it while the groups that are now preaching certain values when they are actively betraying those values in action and coverage in similar scenarios.
Please name some...I really want to have hope. Most times, the countries people name like Rwanda are definitely improving but still far behind on a global development scale. Sure, Japan is struggling, but Japan's struggles seem like paradise to the average African country's struggles.
Ironically the initial story was broken by coindesk, not WSJ, FT, or Bloomberg.
If you don’t fix it… and the code is working… what is the problem?

I leave notes like that sometime as indicators of intention… or invitation to the next reader… but if it never changes and is not causing issues… that’s fine, leave it as is.
> should be regulated in some way, at least up until a certain age.

Its called proper parenting. As a father of little 2 miracles, I can clearly see how easily they get addicted to basically everything-screen, and many more things like junk food. And its 1-way road.

The hard part is going into full relentless battle with your own children who will use various psychological tricks, just like adult addicts, to get their kicks. Almost nothing is off the table. So you often end up with verbal contracts like you are buying next twitter to have some rule of sanity, but kids tend to ignore it anyway.

We personally are +- not there yet, so its relatively easy to manage 1 and 3 year olds for screens. But we see lost battles all around us, kids small and big glued to phones, tablets, tvs, just that parents can have some time off. Not everybody fails, but we see success mostly with parents that simply dont have tv at home and use (rarely) phones more like old nokias (with attached camera) rather than smart phones. You can't expect kids to respect prohobition when parents are clearly ignoring it.

Proper parenting these days is hard, I guess also due to higher bar for parenting success than just 'kids are alive when entering adulthood'.
Even Airbus themselves have powerpoint slides about how they are going to do hydrogen planes etc.

Please don't be with a limited imagination.
I would say the opposite rather, the UX of IRC clients (eg, HexChat) is so polished and refined, it puts all the proprietary chat services (and their clients) to shame.
Title has a typo: it's missing “will never”.
> Africa has some countries with very good GDP growth over the past 20 years

The key question is: just how much of that nominal growth ended up back at the population, and how much ended up in anonymous Swiss accounts or shell companies belonging to autocrats and their families/friends?
I'm curious why you think technical solutions are "ugly." Political solutions seem far more intractable and ugly.
If you're a tech-nerd then of course you can use your expertise to cobble together something excellent in the current milieu.

My point is that big tech FAANG-like corps never seem to sell anything nowadays that's just simply good out of the box without any sleazy scam-like caveats. That's a pretty sorry state of affairs.

It feels like we've taken one step forwards, one step backwards. Like in 80's you could buy a C64 which was just pure excellent right out of the box, but you had to be a bit of a tech nerd to buy one in the 1st place. Nowadays if you're a regular person and buy some popular computer you're buying into some sort of scam. You need to be tech-nerd to avoid the scam and get something good.

In 80's tech nerds had C64 and bbc micro and so on, and everyone else had nothing and just missed out competely on the magic of computing. Nowadays tech nerds have their own pc's and everyone else has iOS and Android and almost completely misses out on the magic of computing.
> use syncthings (https://syncthing.net/), but I might delete a file by accident and lose it forever

Syncthing supports file versioning. The staggered file versioning might be the best option for important files. As always, anything important should have copies kept on different devices (don't rely on this feature for backups).

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html
Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
From your perspective it appears erratic because you don't have the same information.
Forge of God and Eon. Both are excellent and both have excellent sequels that wrap everything up.
For an indoor camera used by consumers? Perhaps they only want the security camera turned on when they are not at home.

Is there any other camera without an off switch, consumer or enterprise?
The most famous example was of black kids who never seen a ruby in their lives in the 50s. But Ruby the name was quite popular. So they got that question wrong. But it is normally used to denigrate Africans who have even less exposure to European norms than African Americans. Despite the genetic diversity of Africans being a lot higher than Europeans, they are often thrown into the same batch of "IQ deficient" groups. None of this is actually scientifically sound.
> ’m starting to believe a lot of the technology we engage with on a daily basis is doing us more harm than good

Who is "us" here? The users of the technology? Absolutely, it's terrible for your mental health. Or so you mean the owners of the technology who deploy it? In which case it's great, it super profitable and barely regulated.

But I expect you mean society as a whole where we have to integrate the above. Good question.
For tools that I develop on I use asdf for versioning. For everything else I want the latest stable version, so homebrew works well.

On Linux I use a rolling release distro for the same effect.
Has anyone used one of the Nvlink switches? That must be a power and heat beast.
> Keep in mind that this scheme wouldn't reward the authors of software -- it rewards the people who create and upload packages. Those usually aren't the same people, and the maintainers that are most subject to burnout are the authors, not the packagers.

It creates an incentive to package software for the ecosystem, which is a pretty good goal to achieve for a package manager -- especially a brand new one where it would be hard to gain traction without a large number of packages.
They should specialize in Forth hosting and call it Forthsourge.
The Unbearable Lightness of BuzzFeed
every non-white country needs whitewash, because whites control the world. It is a fact. That's the reason countries bid for these events, olympic or world cup or any international events. It is sad that many years after colonism ended, developing world still have to put on these acts.
It gets good adoption as a small core for control. Nvidia uses it for internal scheduling in their newer GPUs, and Western Digital does too.
If you get close enough to a CCTV camera that you can remove the panel covering the reset switch and network connection, you can just put tape over the lens.
Although there's no source code, Microsoft's public debug symbol information makes it pretty easy to determine where certain functionality lies in most of their binaries. Then you overwrite the opcodes to get the desired functionality - the APIs are pretty simple, OpenProcess, WriteProcessMemory and you're done. The harder part is finding something to signature match or similar so that each time the DLL is re-compiled your patch doesn't break since the offsets have changed.
> The average house in South Africa uses 967 kWh of electricity per month. That's roughly a 5kw-6kw system, or 12-15 solar panels + inverters.

... what? That's 11.000 kWh a year. Even in Germany, with water heating by electricity (which is rare because it's just so inefficient), homes rarely hit 6.000 kWh.

[1] https://www.energie.web.de/ratgeber/verbrauch/stromverbrauch...
> But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments

Do they ACTUALLY do them, though? I've read about some freakish case when a child was mutilated during circumcision, and the doctor had advised to bring up the child as a girl, but I am having a hard time believing that this is a common practice, that just doesn't pass my sanity check.

> Why on earth should the decision of what sex characteristics to have be up to anyone but yourself.

It's not like anyone actually "decides" these things, but rather has to live with what nature gave you. One can surely try to cosmetically "fix" this and strive for social acceptance, but this won't change medical facts. And theoretically it shouldn't, if we actually distinct between biological sex and gender.

It seems to me that most of all the confusion and the fixation on genitalia comes from people not actually truly believing gender to be an actual social construct.

Otherwise, HRT would be sufficient in 99.9% times and SRS wouldn't even be a thing.
https://archive.ph/8FX5V
> had a huge advantage

anyone could have decided to buy bitcoin when it was cheap. the advantage of bitcoin is that your enemies have to expend prohibitive amounts of energy to screw anyone over, and that protection is accessible to everyone
Ask HN: Best No/Low-code solution to creating a notification service?
Hi everyone,

I'm a game developer with a web/mobile business idea and very little time on his hands due to being a single parent. I'm looking the solution that requires the least effort to creating an MVP of this project.

Summary: "Send push notification when a new software/package version is available".

Parts needed (as far as I can imagine):
- Simple website for accounts/signups and managing of preferences (for which software/packages to receive notifications for).
- Backend for checking RSS feeds, json files, or scraping simple websites to check software/packages' latest versions.
- Payment/billing system.
- Mobile app for users to receive push notifications
- Push notification service

I've played around with IFTTT and Zapier to create some simple prototypes but to glue all the parts together seems like a daunting task, especially considering how little time I have.

I've also looked around on Upwork to find the right 1-2 developers to develop this for me but haven't found anyone I can feel that I can trust.

Looking forward to any advice/feedback. Thanks!
Ouch. We are planning to visit my mother-in-law for the first time since covid in December. Maybe this isn’t a great time, but then when will it be.
> it is not actually required at many or most US medical schools

Source for this? That's surprising to me and a brief Google search tells me the exact opposite.[1]

You really don't understand how reducing the number of years it takes to train a doctor, after they complete high school, will lower healthcare costs? Are you unfamiliar with supply and demand, or the relationship between the cost of production and pricing?

1. https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/medical-school-re...
They aren't opposites, they're different things. My energy hungry lifestyle contributes to global warming and it is comfortable in the short term. What's good now and has been good for me in the past causes something bad in the future. The decline of easy energy is bad for my current lifestyle, and I don't think it can be avoided.

But what would be even worse is trying to avoid the decline of easy energy. Because even if there's petrol and coal and gas left in the ground, we should stop burning it, because we have to mitigate climate change. That's the tragedy.

We're faced with a choice: maximizing short-term comfort by putting back the consequences of reducing available energy, or minimizing long-term discomfort (might be a euphemism) by deliberately cutting down on still available energy.
Note:

> ...or prove sufficient sophistication that they really know what they're doing."

You could extend the standard by other ways which don't depend on how much one owns - e.g. require people to take a test and make sure they understand the basics of the product/ecosystem they are investing in.

Might also be useful to put up limits how much of your savings can be invested. But in a few $1000 play money is one thing, betting your entire life savings or your children's college fund is something else.

I see it similar to driver's licenses. A driver's license is technically discriminating in the sense that it excludes everyone physically or mentally unfit to drive a car. But it does so with good reason, because attempting to drive when you're really not able to do so can have catastrophic consequences.
> Everyone uses brew because they have to, not because they want to.

What?

Homebrew is easily one of my favorite pieces of software. It's the first thing I install on any new macOS or Linux machine.

Almost every piece of software I want to install is easily installable via Homebrew. The versions it has is almost always more up-to-date than what's in apt or yum. On macOS I can install all of my GUI apps with Homebrew Cask.

I have my Brewfile with my dotfiles so that any time I get a new machine it's easy to install everything I need. Just this week I updated my dotfiles to install Homebrew + my common development utilities on GitHub Codespaces. Without Homebrew I'd have a long, long, long script downloading packages from source verifying keys, installing dependencies, and then finally installing some software.

Aside from that, there are alternatives to Homebrew. Install things yourself from source, or use MacPorts.

> Whined about getting asked to do a code exercise at a google interview, bragging about how he made a project in use by X percent of the company's engineers.

My guess is that you support the status quo of software engineering interviews. That's fine, but many don't.