skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wonder how many of Twitter's problem are actually engineering problems versus how many of the problems are more about decisions and direction of the platform.

Though of course, it's good to have talented engineers but I would be surprised if Twitter already didn't have that.

I think no matter where you the platform simply wasn't worth the price Elon Musk paid for it, so it seems to me like it's going to be a very big struggle to recoup that kind of money without maybe coming up with something new. From what I've seen, I think maybe there could be an interesting space to revive Vine which afaik is still owned by Twitter, Vine has a good name and when it closed many people thought that to be a mistake. It would have a hard time competing against Tiktok but maybe you could use Twitter itself to influence the debate a little bit... I mean, you own the platform now.

In that regard, it would be interesting to put people like George Hotz and others in that kind of project; instead of trying to "do something with Twitter". Idk, maybe I'm a little jaded but Twitter just doesn't seem like a product you could improve too much. It kind of is what it is and does what it does very well already and the problem to me seems to be that what it does just isn't all that great.
It's probably true that a well-integrated smarthome would benefit from voice control.

But I'd observe that I'm going up to my brother's tomorrow and he has all manner of timers and other WiFi-connected stuff and none of it has any sort of centralized control and that's pretty normal even for people who have a lot of that sort of thing.

And, yeah, the only smart light thing I have at home is one thing that doesn't have a controlling light switch and I used X10 for it for years before I got an Alexa.
Why the hell is this site not https? Note the first blog post was in 2022. No https in 2022? Red flag. This looks like a honeypot to me

And for the record, z library gets its books from libgen? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was just a frontend?
HTTPS is HTTP wrapped in TLS. The protocol is exactly the same, but with another layer on top.
Same. I actually really enjoy using it for basic functions but I am too concerned about privacy to use one for anything more advanced. I don't know if I would ever trust a Siri or Alexa or Google Assistant even if they claimed to work offline because all providers have had a terrible track record. If the Linux Foundation or reputable open source project had a solid open source solution that promised to work 80% as well and had a fairly straightforward installer, then I'd be more apt to interact with it regularly. One other issue I've found with Alexa and others is their integration with proprietary lock-in ecosystems for calendars, reminders, lists, etc. Ideally with an open source solution you could do things like set a write only calendar that uses your CalDav calendar and CardDav for contacts, or some non-invasive solution for messaging and calling.
Or: pull down for rotate CCW, pull up for rotate CW. Just sum up event.movementY to calculate rotations.

Cons: A little slower than simply clicking, maybe, and makes it easier to overshoot. Need to count rotations instead of clicks.

Pros: Quite intuitive (that's how dials work in most DAWs for instance) and would work well on mobile, even if the tile size is small.
I've worked in infosec for over 15 years. I've built security programs from the ground up at two companies.

I've learned much of compliance/security is cargo culting and/or streetlight effect, if not radicalized.

You can debate the standards, just like you can debate with your retired uncle who watches way too much fox news.

The better solution is to find good enough solutions that let infosec teams check their boxes and move on to more important work.
And parts of Mexico used to be the same timezone as Los Angeles but then daylight savings time changed and the city you referenced has to change.

There’s no way to look at America/Los Angeles and know if that is California or Oregon, and if Oregon were to give up daylight savings time you’d have a problem.
If I recall this is actually because of how ActivityPub works. It's a W3C standard. There's usually some cursed somewhere. ActivityPub just does the cursed in the message interchange format.
It can in latest versions of the standard, but it is still far from what JVM and CLR bytecodes offer in the box.
Go as well.
"Relaxing" and at the same time counting number of clicks right next to Ideal number of clicks doesn't work very well for me :(
Valid Reasons to Hate on Art
Supplementing the Disco Cowboy
Not sure how easy it is to implement, but here is another idea:
hold on the tile few seconds, then you have the choice to swipe left or right (has also some edge cases, when the elements are in the corner)
It has been stated by Peter Zeihan more than once that China has no effective Covid Vaccine, and that is why they have to resort to draconian lockdowns. I don't know if he's right or not, but it matches up with observed behavior over time.

If someone has evidence to the contrary, I'd like to hear it.
34 million refugees from our wars don't want to work on your farm.
It is too complicated, and I do not even think possible.

Tackling problems directly, in the simplest way possible results the least amount of corruption.

Suppose you even “solved“ the discrepancy in parents, now you still have a million other inequalities, such as attractiveness, height, skin tone, accent, etc.

The goal is not to have an equal, uniform society. The goal is to put a limit on the size of the gap between opportunities available to all, and provide the freedom to move up and down within it.

> Do you really assume that nothing can be done to mitigate the potentially negative impact of having the "wrong" parents? I have a family member who works in education and spends lots of time working on that specific problem

Yes, I think certain factors of “success” require generations to cultivate. This does not mean people are not worth helping, but that it is not realistic to expect to be able to bridge the gap between two children from vastly disparate backgrounds just via schooling them in a different way from age 5 to 18.
The author conflate things which are not equivalent to make an emotional reference rather than a rational one.

They take a few real issues, misdiagnose them and then swerve from fallacy to fallacy.

"And who knows more about a job than the person performing it?"
It turns out usually many. A person who thinks their job is pointless isn't usually the best judge of a project. They may be right. They may just be ignorant of the bigger picture. Of course people feel this way but it doesn't make it true.

Starting from the first example of being told to work when it wasn't their break they come off more like a child asking why they have to clean their room or or brush their teeth because they lack rhe oerspective to make sense of it. They then conflate that as being equivalent to several completely different situations, again coming off as if they are a child who lacks perspective or understanding...
Anti Zionist maybe. Antisemitism for a Jew would require a peculiar level of either self loathing or pedantry.
Everybody wants to change the world, but not everybody stops to wonder why the world is the way it is.
My feeble record is just under one minute. But I spent a lot of time thinking about how to represent the cube in a computer. Yes think pieces, not stickers. But for a long time I thought pieces had position and orientation. More recently I noticed that if we imagine each piece of a solved cube being connected to the cube center (an imaginary extension of the piece) it becomes clear that rotation is the only real freedom, and if a piece is in the correct orientation it is automatically in the right position! The reverse is not true of course.

I don't think this is helpful for humans solving, but for computers it largely takes position out of it. Position does determine which pieces are rotated by any given move though.
Unstable Diffusion: the group trying to monetize AI porn generation
I'm technical and I still prefer WYSIWYG for writing documents. I want it to be easy for me to pull in rich content (images, info boxes, column formatting)

It's ok to be technical and not enjoy markdown, heh.
I agree with you, but with reservations.

The existing model asks volunteer academics to rate papers on three principle axes: novelty, importance, and rigor. The journals don't do much here except find these academics and send them a handful of papers to look at. Further, novelty and importance seem to be overshadowing everything else in reviews and they are both extremely subjective and can entrench existing biases in a subfield. Whether this metric is "reasonable" is a bit contentious.

I agree with you that a system of open publishing plus some post-publish evaluation would be nice. But you don't really need the journals for this. Or you certainly don't need journals making billions in profit to do this.
I know, my extended idea is borne out of Alan Kay and his vision. It is very nebulous at this stage to expand further, but I do strongly agree with him now that "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet."
Americans are responsible for the crimes of their state. As are Russians responsible for the crimes of their state. Such is the nature of citizenship.

Are you American? Then fix the crimes of your state. Are you not-Russian? You can do nothing about Russia for as long as you are unable to jail your own war criminals.

The moral authority you claim is non-existent.
> The functional requirement here is to take some HTML, parse it and emit slack flavoured markdown.

That is solved already and not what the article is about

The nonfunctional requirement is a self-contained binary that is not dependent on machine's own libraries or any extra files. That's not just mental excercise but a feature.

That is what article is about.

The "proper" engineering solution might be very well "just rewrite that small part in Go", but this approach is nonetheless interesting.
I live on glacier shit (Long Island, New York). It's called a "terminal moraine"[0]. Cape Cod and Nantucket are also glacier poop.

Glaciers were huge. There's an xkcd that talks about that.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_moraine

[1] https://xkcd.com/1225/
Agree with you completely - I can't see how this would help me, but it's very cool to watch!

And congrats on the records! I've managed to get just below the minute mark a handful of times and remain in complete awe of anyone sub 60 seconds!
ngl your point made more sense in the original sentence.

Using an untethered copy is indeed more privacy-friendly than using most garbage publisher portals and offerings. And yes, piracy can be a problem for the host if she has insufficient opsec.
Jekyll with Minimal Mistakes theme : https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/
Doesn't bacteria break down in activated carbon and release VOOCs?
A QA engineer walks into a bar
I miss YQL much more than Yahoo! Pipes. My memory is hazy, but I think YQL is what ultimately killed Pipes actually, then YQL died because everything that didn’t generate revenue at Yahoo! died.
Did Sam Bankman-Fried's millions buy the media's loyalty?
Is there a book about this? This isnt covered that deep in Dif.Eq. books...
CICERO is the AI, the game is called "Diplomacy". It's in fact the type of game where you win by convincing others that you aren't a psychopath. (If they believe you more than your opponent then you do well) - specifically, if you backstab/lie too often early on you will always lose, so you have to keep track of social capital and expend it when the time is right such that your enemy won't be alive to make you regret it later
Congratulations to the author. It seems like they have excelled at a very fast pace from using third party solutions to building their own in a short time. I look forward to their progress and seeing where this goes, to maybe becoming an excellent open source copilot alternative.
Yes, the Element14 that is selling the Raspberry Pi is a subsidiary of Premier Farnell, which is now owned by Avnet.

Farnell is the giant electronics behemoth that sells just about every electronic component on the planet. Farnell will also sell you just about every ARM based CPU that is freely available on the market, whether you want 1, or 1 million of them.
Espaliering fruit trees is popular even today. Obviously in this case people are just picking fruit off the water sprouts that shoot up each year rather than using the wood for other purposes, but the general idea is the same. The shoots just get trimmed back every year rather than every other year.

E.g. if you look at this pic of a fig tree, you can see that it looks almost identical to the Japanese technique:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/10/10/realestate/06gard...
The article describes the life of a bum/leech. I don't think most people aspire to live their lives as a leech.
Social media sentiment around cryptocurrency plunges 70% in 2022
Since the beginning of 2022, the cryptocurrency market has been impacted by macro factors such as increasing inflation, which led investors to a massive sell-off and stay away from riskier assets. In a recent incident, FTX, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. Against this backdrop, social media sentiment around ‘cryptocurrency’ has plunged by almost 70% and touched the year’s lowest in November 2022, reveals the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Ask HN: What music do you listen to while working?
The title says it all.

This has been asked before, but I'm curious about some current recommendations. My playlists range all the way from movie soundtracks through old school jazz and classic rock all the way to contemporary Italian pop. Occasionally, Bach, too.

What brings you into a focused state?
Short tap for CW, hold for CCW
Wikipedia has a list (of course), it's pretty interesting to read:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
And, as you say, the expensive publishing houses don't do anything to ensure high quality reviews. In grad school I had a paper rejected by a prestigious outlet because one reviewer thought that the experimental setup I used was too difficult and therefore they didn't trust that I was being honest about my results. They stopped just a step short of calling me a fraud. I was baffled that this was accepted by the publisher.

It was only later when I was tasked with performing reviews that I realized that almost exactly zero work is done by the publishers. It is just "well there's one Strong Reject so see-ya."
You must be in a pretty weird spot to be able to put the NSDAP in the left end of the spectrum.
Are there any good, broadly available color themes where the background is actually black? OLED screens are incredible, but for screen maintenance and because it looks incredible you want your background color to be actual black rather than almost black.

Most apps make it easy to tweak themes, but it'd be nice to not have to do so.
I've been thinking about a variation of this: The more important for society a job is, the worse its pay. Society needs to be so sure the job gets done, that huge amounts of redundancy get built in. Society simply can't tolerate workers to make more than minimal demands if the job is important.

So the farmers, transporters, teachers, cleaners, garbage haulers, ... are paid badly. If they stop for more than a few weeks, society is doomed. Nurses are also a badly paid good example, doctors are an interesting edge case.

Top politicians, bankers, CEOs, a lot of management, ... has low or even negative value. Their incompetence and egoism is a huge cost to society, not only monetarily, but more so in health and well-being. They might disappear for months or even years before we really start to feel the impact. Hence, they make a fortune.

IT jobs are somewhere in the middle. IT is a godsend for large scale organization and prediction, but that's maybe 10% of our jobs, and taking away the other 90% probably won't hurt too much. Twitter lost 80% of its staff and it seems to take a while before the hurt starts setting in over there. So while IT is not paid as much as politicians et al, they are paid pretty well.

It might fit with your view, too: A society tries to grow moral compasses that make people do important work for free, as one way to build redundance.
While i agree this comes about for 2 reasons.

Managers who do not really know how to manage people.

Workers who lack the work ethic to be left unsupervised feeding back into the first item.
The alternative is rewriting the code of Go into Rust or vice versa.

And if rewrite is Rust->Go way, also continual effort of porting any bugfixes in upstream lib.

I dare to say more complex toolchain is the easier and less time consuming part.

I wouldn't do it in this particular case (converting with mastodon powered html is probably simple enough) but it wouldn't be a terrible solution in some cases.

What's more interesting is if you use same method for app plugins, now you can compile anything in WASM and as long as it have right hooks it can be used in your app as a plugin
Both Mashup Editor and the fact the name is based off Unix pipes is called out in the Wikipedia article, as well as describing the difference (albeit trivially) between Google and Yahoo’s offering.
It's fairly unusual to have a system where people can write timestamps in arbitrary timezones. Most of the time there's a suitable context where a timezone just makes sense

For example, in a booking system the timezone will be associated with the venue or the destination.

In a scheduler for a trading system certain timestamps (start, stop time etc) will be the timezone of the trading venue.

For past events (logging) UTC essentially always makes sense.
So? That can still be modelled in a RPC manner.

Instead of sending a "query <string>" command, I have to do:

-> get-captcha
<- returns a captcha object
-> solve-captcha <id> <solution>
<- returns a token string
-> query <token> <string>
<- returns a list of results

Very simplified. If HTTP is the transport, the current Authentication header is very good at encapsulating these details without having to repeat them every command.

Point is, HTTP is still too low level and we're paying people $150k a year to write glue code and reimplement API clients until they quit and do the same thing at another company.
> Here and there in the forests around Kyoto you will find abandoned giant daisugi (they only produce lumber for 200-300 years before being worn out), still alive, some with trunk diameters of over 15 meters.

15 meters?? Seriously??
Door-to-door rooftop solar array sales are mostly a scam, it's a high-pressure low-information sales tactic and a terrible deal for the average homeowner.

Installation issues are shockingly common. Lots of new, poorly sealed holes in the roof being the biggest concern.

Here's a review I found of Spartan (employer of the man profiled above):
https://www.facebook.com/dodgyjanet/posts/10158647440200887

In leaving this review I hope to save one family the frustration and financial pain that working with Alex Lake of Spartan Solar has caused us. Please feel free to reach out if you want specific details.
We did not do enough research - and ended up fronting the money for the project on a loan that gave a kickback to Spartan Solar. In conversations with us (and in all their marketing literature), Spartan solar states that you will not pay anything until your solar panels are up and running. For us - this is not the case at all. The project is 10 months old and we are paying both hundreds of dollars a month for electricity and the full monthly payment for the loan (which inconveniently removes any leverage we might have with the installer if we had dealt with them directly). We have been paying both bills for the last six months - Spartan has ignored my complaints about this misleading advertising to date.
Our Solar panels were installed 8 months ago and are still not functioning. This is a sellers market and it is hard to get time with the installer, the city, and utility company - so I’m not surprised about this insane delay- but I am literally doing 100% of the work I was assured I would not need to do if I worked with Spartan Solar. I was assured we wouldn’t need to worry about coordinating these events and the Spartan team would have our backs. Due to communication problems between Spartan and their subcontractors about the need for a new main electricity panel our project was delayed multiple months. Two days ago we finally received permission to operate our panels. When we turned on the switch, they are not working however Spartan have not returned our calls/emails about this issue and we have had to chase the subcontractor to try and fix the situation. The subcontractors are unable to come and look at the problem until next month, and so we are still stuck paying for a non-working solar system and racking up large electricity bills in the hot California summer months.
I’m today’s market, solar installations are a commodity and the most important way to offer value to a customer is through effective communication. Here is where we were frustrated most with this whole experience.
Make sure you do business with a company listed on the better business bureau.
Yes!!

Agile taught us working software over comprehensive documentation, but it also made huge generation of people thinking that all documentation was bad, and not just "comprehensive" (or "overblown").

Documentation (words) is how many complex concepts are communicated.

I've built a requirements management system to handle this (https://userdoc.fyi), and it's made many projects I've worked on 200% easier for developers, project managers, and all stockholders.

I think high-Documentation is out of fashion as a reaction to agile, but things are swinging back the other way.
Sure that is a great working use case of tokens. The ONLY existing working use case though. To summarise it in short form - tokens allow people to avoid law. Any law - both laws in oppressive regimes focused on robbing its citizens, and in the legitimate countries where people are basically washing dirty stolen money, or avoiding taxes. And tokens provide (theoretically) indiscriminate access for such law avoidance to everyone, be they beggars or billionaires.

To paraphrase - tokenbros frame their invention as kitchen knives, sure some people are killing others with kitchen knives, but that's the rounding error compared to the legitimate usage. On the other hand, in my personal opinion, tokens are closer to nukes or bioweapons, than to kitchen knives. Sure, libertarians may argue that if every single person a on planet would be armed with an athrax throwing gun we would be very independent and free. But in reality of course power would quickly coalesce in the hand of neofeudal lords, and humanity will quickly degrade instead of improving. Weapon analogy is about financial impact. Sure, if every person could send any amount of money anywhere without any questions, then at first we will thing it's great. I personally could benefit from it too. But in reality billionaries operating outside of the law (remember - tokes provide equal access) will screw us a lot more, than the benefits gained from a few undeclared and untaxed private transactions.
I believe tech companies are aware of the creepiness factor associated with surprising customers with too much context about them. I think they cripple some of the more context aware features that they could be doing because it draws a lot of attention on just how much data they have about you.