skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the founders here. Here's a copy of the response I posted on Twitter.

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A response to @JohnONolan here to clear up some serious misunderstandings
https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/1602330377812643850

First of all, huge respect to the Ghost team. Their open source contributions are valuable, and their approach to theming enables some great-looking things. That said, some important corrections:

Substack is not "powered by Ghost". Rather, we built our own theming API that’s compatible with themes built for Ghost, including those built by third parties.

The Free Press is using a modified Tripoli theme, built by Ahmad Ajmi, under a paid license. This is how this is supposed to work. It's good for the theme developer if we support this – you should check them out here.
https://aspirethemes.com/themes/tripoli

This was relatively quick to build for Substack devs, because the structure of Ghost sites matches Substack fairly closely.

With respect to the search library, this is an open source library that we are using in a fully compliant way. John's own screen shot shows that we don't load it "from Ghost’s own CDN", it comes from jsDelivr
https://www.jsdelivr.com

This is a standard way to use an open source library. It's pulling from the version that the sodo-search maintainers published to NPM (thank you!).

It is a good point that we should lock a version, so that if they accidentally published a minor version revision with breaking changes it doesn't cause problems for us. We’ve fixed that.

We’re grateful to the developer of the Tripoli theme and to Ghost for its contributors to open source work. We’re exploring ways to give writers more customization on Substack. This is one approach we’re considering but it’s too early to know if we’ll scale it up.

And @JohnONolan, thanks for the note at the end about potential collaboration. In our minds, we’re on the same side of an important battle for a better internet. We’re definitely up to chat.
"Liberalisation" is a marginal benefit at best. Does it really matter to me what political regime is in place in another country across the world? Not really.

A much bigger benefit is that globalisation promotes peace through increased inter-dependence. This is the same idea that was used at the very beginning of what is now the EU.

Of course the West also benefited tremendously from cheaper imports and larger markets for exports.
> Imagine an Industrial grade mini-computer board similar to a Raspberry Pi

You can get that now.[1]

But there are too many products in that space. If there were 10-20 standard vehicle electronics boxes for trucks and ag equipment, maintenance would be much easier. Manufacturers would hate it. The EU or China might mandate something like that.

[1] https://www.onlogic.com/computers/industrial/
> I was promised a path to Mars with boots on the Moon two years ago.

We did some work on a camera system for the Artemis project. It will hopefully make it to the moon's surface by the third mission. Also worked on spacecraft going to the ISS.

I don't think people --including most engineers-- have a good grasp of just how difficult it is to make anything going to space, much less anything that involves people.

The simplest statement I can make is:

Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time.

Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things get much worse.

Designing safe and reliable systems to go to the Moon or Mars is complex and hard to nail down to a schedule. This isn't like a software startup where you can deliver half a product and iterate (or even execute a full pivot) over time. You have to get it right or things fail in spectacular ways and people die.

Imagine having to deliver your Social Media, online commerce or SaaS product with a full 100% working set of required features, non-trivial failure tolerance and uptime guarantee, or (to be dramatic) your entire family dies. A bit out there? Not so sure.
Pretty clearly this clothing needs to be digitized (electrified fabrics or screen-like or curvable/bendable screens somewhere) to actually useful and update-able. Using last year's design could mean this year you get caught...

A digitized pendant or pin seems to accomplish the same idea and easy to take with you.
Once the honeymoon period wears off people will start complaining about it
> China has taken all the benefits

I thought Trumpism is not welcome here?

> Globalization will live on, but only for countries who align themselves with the west.

So globalization is just westernization?
Hopefully it leads to a lot of businesses who are overburdened with nonessential trappings of public posturing. Makes it easier for the rest of us to compete by simply executing well.
I am a little bit out of the loop. A several years back Ghosn was a fairly respected business figure in both France and Japan, which is even more extraordinary for a non-japanese exec.

What happened from there, was there actual corruption or did he piss off the wrong people in Japanese business?
Not hard at all. A couple of comments won't make any difference. Here's the minified version of one of react components for example:

https://unpkg.com/react@18.2.0/umd/react.production.min.js
I don't look at fictional sources for evidence about reality.
I do think universities should work hard to communicate with their PhD applicants and students about their job prospects. Among my friends who did their PhD at MIT, which was often one of the top-3 schools for their field, most of them who were having a good experience doing research were able to stay in academia and eventually get professorships, usually at a top-10 school for their field.

But universities that are not in that top school range need to be communicating that the likely outcome for a PhD in their field is work in industry. There are a lot of industry jobs that involve reading research papers and doing research (with variation in whether you publish it), which are the key meta skills that a PhD is intended to teach.

But it's doing students a disservice for a school that's not in the top 10 schools in their field to market to students that they'll have a job exactly similar to their advisors'. It's certainly a possible outcome if you're unusually talented and have a good advisor who has a reputation in the field and work hard for decades and get lucky with how your research is received by the field! But it's an unlikely one, and one shouldn't plan one's life in a way where you're going to be really sad if you spend a few years getting a PhD at that school can't find an academic job.
The reference is possibly to the Green New Deal or to Build Back Better. Both probably qualify as "multi-trillion social programs", but perhaps the former fits the description better.
>Many companies outsource their externalities but Apple isn't a good example of it.

Agreed. In general, "flagships of their economic niche" companies in fat margin industries are generally on the straight and narrow. They can afford the luxury of ethics.

You wanna see bad behavior, look at bottom of the barrel companies in razor thin margin industries.
A response from substack.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cjgbest/status/160237030788431872...

Seems like this is a bit of a clickbait. The theme is made by the substack user, substack is only using a single library from ghost to show search, and the cdn in question is jsdeliver which isn't ghost's cdn, it is basically a cdn for any open source javascript.
In The Wire, Lester sells Bernard tapped burners. It's the only way they could get up on the burners before they were thrown away.

There are a tonne of reddit links on this one so I'll leave it to the Interested Reader.
The Tyranny of the Majority
Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable
Thanks. Happy to answer questions here too.
C++ in 2022 – Survey
It's a deceptive dark pattern not a bug and you know it. How incredibly condescending.
How to die
I said trump because he refused to concede power and admit loss as well as called for termination of the constitution so he can regain power. An unsuccesful authoritarian is still one. He could have grabbed emergency powers but there are none that place him above removal from office by the senate or his cabinet (25th).
The problem with American shills like the above is they don’t understand the difference between what they consciously (want to) believe - like them not being racist - and what they actually do believe subconsciously, eg that anyone who points out their shilling is some “Chinese comment farm”.
Sneaky.

Is it reversible? As in: can you eject the sim, reset the phone to factory defaults and restart the setup process, now inserting the sim card later?
>I can totally understand why Americans would want to silence these.

Oh, it gets better. We also, by default, get alerts for severe/extreme weather. Nothing like getting an emergency alert because a tornado touched down on the other side of the state, or a flash-flood warning while you're at home, 300' above the nearest body of water.
One class of programs. Terminal emulators. That's it (well and like Emacs but that's true on Mac too...). And a lot of them let you change it to C-c,C-v if you want too. You should change the interrupt behavior too but you can.
I agree, but the fly in the ointment here is the behavior of CCP wrt to covid lockdowns. That is making the lives of people there much worse. The good news, it seems the government is finally easing the policies, but it is early days on that.
I would be extremely happy if Terry Tao could pull young mathematicians into services like mastodon. It is hard to overcome inertia, and brand name helps a lot; especially when it is accompanied by extremely high quality exposition and a measured, polite attitude (because it sets the standards and atmosphere of the space).
The part that made me chuckle outlaid was about hygiene...

> The danger of in-flight bathing

> In his diary, John Cook wrote, “We got a quart of bath water, a large towel and soap every other day.”

> On January 12, 1959, after refueling chores, Timm removed his clothes and stepped out onto the platform for a refreshing sponge bath. He started by brushing his teeth. Just then Cook realized that the airplane wasn’t going to clear an upcoming ridge if the platform wasn’t pulled in. Cook yelled at Timm to pull in the platform and later told of seeing his partner struggling to complete that task—buck naked, and weighing 240 pounds, with a toothbrush sticking out of one side of his mouth and toothpaste streaming out of the other. They cleared the ridge but learned to delay hygienic activities until they were over flatter terrain.
I mean, I agree that coin-op journals are a problem in their own right, but most of those coin-op journals aren't considered leading journals of their field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender,_Place_%26_Culture
"leading international journal in feminist geography"

That's the one that published the study claiming that dog parks in Oregon engage in rape culture that won an award from the journal. Inasmuch as the leading journal of the field is a coin-op journal that awarded a hoax paper, I think that is going to reflect poorly on the field.
Certainly fair, if the show was in Alabama and he got a 5 minute standing ovation you think we wound even see news stories and press about it?
Chart toppers are mostly made by the labels. Sure the musicians/performers make the music, but the companies with the plarform/connections are the ones that push things to that level.

I see this going 1 of 2 ways. The big wigs cut out the musicians for more money by using AI. Or, they suppress AI content because they don't like the business model (people don't just listen to the music, they tend to be more interested in the human element, eg concerts or royalties in other media are where the money is made).
No.

"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he's been fooled."

Precision of language is important here.

Where's the easiest place to defraud people? Directly adjacent to the place where it is mathematically impossible to be defrauded.

Uninformed people stored their assets on FTX.

Had they stored their funds on the blockchain, instead of entrusting them with SBF, it would have been impossible for SBF to abscond with their funds.

He could not have defrauded them _by stealing their deposits after claiming he would not_, even if he really wanted to. It's a mathematical impossibility.
You could also turn off fractional scaling under X11. That's been my preference for 20 years (yes, HiDPI displays have been around that long...)
400 is seemingly the total of employees, not the amount of people laid off (reportedly more than 40, 14% or 15% of the 400).

EDIT:

Title has now been corrected, was:

Layoffs affect about 15% (400) of staff at Strava
Doesn't surprise me tbh, although I'm curious if different countries have different policies regarding this. E.G. in privacy-centric countries like Iceland, are there stricter rules / regulations?
I agree banking is a good job and has good outcomes. So does a Phd at a good school in an in demand field.

But my point about PhD students and Tenured Faculty remains the same. They appear to be part of the same job ladder. If you were to view a venn diagram of the skills/background needed for those two roles, there is less overlap than initially appears.
> Money laundering is not victimless unless you can prove that none of the people using the service are using it to hide a crime with a victim.

Is there a presumption of innocence or guilt? Which do you prefer?
What has been missing from most depictions of the digital future
'Firmageddon': Researchers find 1.1M acres of dead trees in Oregon
Will this be streaming somewhere hopefully?
It's more acknowledgement than is required to use most OSS.

If the OSS developers want to generate revenue, there are plenty of paths they can follow.
I think they are neat and will eventually be just as commonplace as using the voice assistant in a box to turn on your lights.
I haven't messed with it too much. I just did a toy project with it when I was first starting out with React and trying to understand alternatives.

My main problems with React have been: (1) I felt pretty comfortable with the object-oriented style of react components and really didn't feel the need for hooks, it's taken me a while to get on top of them because I need to maintain or use hook-based code, (2) A react app can drive you insane with a large number of widget sets that are all leaky abstractions. For instance you might hope that react bootstrap would let you forget about CSS and maybe it does for some projects but you might get into some situation where you have to understand CSS and understand the way bootstrap uses CSS and you might conclude you'd be better off writing your own CSS and (3) applications that call render() a tremendous number of times.

None of those things really turn me off to React but for an application I am developing on my own account (a workflow engine with machine learning training and inference features) I am writing a server-based web app not too different from the ones I wrote in 2001 with very little Javascript.

I find these easier to write than ever thanks to my own maturity and the maturity of the tools I use. With a localhost server it is fast as a desktop application. The #1 issue if I was using React is the extra hassle of a Javascript build system (pypi is bad enough!) and #2 is I could spend forever picking a widget set to use.

If I was interested in something like React I would seriously consider svelte as it has a different model that seems to perform a lot better, even if it doesn't have the huge ecosystem React has.
It's always been the unspoken truth about graduate school especially in liberal arts. There's really no reason to get a PHD in Russian Lit unless you have a lot of money and time or you plan on going into teaching. The issue of course is there are not nearly enough teaching positions to employ all the people with PHDs. Further, while a school might have a well respected program it may not have the cache value that a department wants so the positions seem to go to graduates of schools with impressive names. It's kind of funny when a law school wouldn't hire one of their own to avoid inbreeding but the entire department is filled with people from only 3-4 schools who were taught but people from those same 3-4 schools. It's a slightly wider gene pool but inbreeding none the less
> ... highly addictive ...

I actually agree with most of what you're saying (I never trust any industry to research their own products), but this bit is wrong. As a former cigarette smoker who occassionally smokes weed, it's simply not true to say marijuana is "addictive" in the same sense as other drugs, and discredits the rest of your post.
Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually link directly to the jsdeliver CDN to use the files that get built for distribution in the sodo-search npm library. We make no modifications to the files (including not minifying them anymore than they are). The files actually do have a link at the top to the license file, which is hosted in the same directory on jsdeliver.
Block all of the prefixes that their AS announces too: https://bgp.tools/as/35913#prefixes
When have intelligence services used warrants? They gather evidence illegally and pass it to law enforcement who then do parallel construction.
Depositing $50k in cash is not evidence of a victim. There should be no government imposed search without probable cause a crime has occurred thus it should be illegal (for government) to stop the anonymous deposit outside further evidence.

That one can transfer $50k worth of something like XMR, seemingly anonymously, is the entire point. You get your 4th amendment rights back.
The birds fly south for the winter. Then again, the birds dont have to worry about who owns the land wherever they eventually land.
The Misalignment Between Founders and Investors
Yep, I don’t disagree with many of those points. I find the discussion on “productivity” interesting, as the solution always seems to be to import labour to create growth at a macro scale, but which does not result in a growth in wages - and therefore which does nothing for productivity. I however, don’t like the connotation that it produces, as if the UK is full of lazy people who need to get back to work. The reality is, work does not pay. Immigrants were eager to work in the UK when it financially benefited them, as any sane person would. The solution is not to now tread down on the UK working person/class, but what _is_ the solution? I don’t see one post-brexit.
I spent what felt like 64 days in a Cessna 172 one afternoon. Or maybe it was a 152 :)
I suspect the answer to this question depends on if you are the upper middle class 'knowledge worker' that benefited greatly and achieved the American dream in the 21st century or a middle/lower middle class factory worker that now has a destroyed family legacy(due to drugs/suicide), a destroyed community, and an uncertain if any future.
> No, this does not imply that there is a set proper space between characters or words that will help.

There isn't one 'right' setting for readability — the best choice is to let the user decide via options. Not all apps/websites have enough text to warrant having dedicated readability options. But those with large amounts of text should have some way of doing this. IIRC the Nook app does a very good job with this, offering even more text options than the Kindle app.
We may just need to have them collapsible in the editor to get the best of both worlds.
Isn't that what the media tour has been for?
That is its NeXTSTEP roots showing up.

Steve Jobs was always quite open about his opinion on UNIX, and there are a couple of vintage videos where this comes up.

NeXTSTEP compatibility with UNIX wasn't much different from Microsoft goals in supporting POSIX on NT (initially), only to enter the market and ensure existing UNIX stuff could be ported into NeXTSTEP.

OS X followed the same idea.
Does anyone not have their referer header supressed or faked?
I'm a founder with ADHD and have felt this struggle first-hand. It's like "why can't I focus on this? It's SO simple".

As mentioned in the article, a large component of the struggle is executive functioning, but there are tools like Double [0] that aim to provide a way to get around that struggle by pairing people up to do the same task together. It's actually a really neat concept that extends beyond ADHD![1]

[0] https://doubleapp.xyz

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_facilitation
Yeah - if you take it to the limit, and every small organization can produce/consume everything they could ever need in a local area; then of course globalization will approach an asymptotic “death”.

This is like the “limit” of technology. If ever we got an atomic assembler going, what use would there be for that interaction from a supply/demand standpoint?
Decentralized exchanges can solve some of the problems now plaguing FTX investors, but there is still a big problem that the blockchain can’t solve: on and off ramps to fiat.
Just try some of the polimorphic xss tricks hacker try in order to get JavaScript into a page. Portswigger has a wonderful page of an extensive xss list.
In what universe is that slavery?
I've only ever seen a IBM PC/2 with a 2.88MB drive, never actually saw a disk though.

I remember seeing something about floppies and how the technology just sort of stopped advancing for awhile even though there was a need for improved capacity. It talked about how there was actually a lot of low hanging fruit that just was never picked, like how the obvious idea of storing more bits on the outer edges of the disk (where the circumference was larger) never was implemented.

I remember using spanned zips to ferry MP3s around on multiple floppies in the mid 90s. CD burners weren't super common and wasting a single disk for transferring 10s of megabytes seemed silly. For awhile there zip disks felt like they were going to replace them and did have a heyday until flash drives showed up. Both were tech that felt super late in arrival for how badly needed they were at the time.
They are being oppressed in a variety off ways each day that they are and are not aware of. Are people on China happier today because of additional wealth (but also additional pollution / increased loneliness)?

Surveying them would be like asking citizens in cold war era Russia if they are happier than before and if they are lacking what the west has. They might reject it but they don't fully understand what they are missing.
In theory: 1. Wait until you enable the cellular again 2. push an update to the baseband firmware 3. when you disconnect, the new firmware will tell the OS that the baseband is disconnect, in reality, it's doing nasty stuff.
You'd only notice it due to the battery draw.

You need burner phones to cycle after each usage.

TBH, seems you cranked up the paranoia to 11. The VPN has to terminate somewhere, so if I was a state actor attacking you, I'd figure out where that is. WiFi+BT firmware isn't bullet proof, either, and hypothetically an exploit chain could be found to enter via WiFi and stealthy enable cellular. In practice XKCD #538 applies: https://xkcd.com/538/

For most of us the attacker is someone trying to make some money by scamming, stealing CC or installing a malicious app.
And here we have another cornerstone of the racist hate speech - substituting “Chinese” with “CCP”, same way they used to replace “Jews” with “Zionism”.
Just this year, an uncrewed Airbus Zephyr 8 High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite crashed just 4 hours shy of the time aloft for this crewed record.

It’s 82 feet long but only 166 pounds, and solar refuels it’s batteries. Hardly the same class, but interesting nonetheless.

https://www.overtdefense.com/2022/08/20/airbus-zephyr-crashe...
Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually don't minify or modify the files in question at all and simply link to the versions hosted on the public jsdelivr CDN (which includes a link to the license right at the top of the file)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Copyright_Office... with respect to copyright.