skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a proxy that sat between your web browser and the internet, transparently recording to your local storage everything you've ever seen, in context.

Imagine Google, back when it still worked, able to search ONLY the stuff you've already seen. That would be incredibly useful.

A decade or so ago, there was an intriguing story on Slashdot about a covert operation prior to Desert Storm that simply recorded the waveforms of the power feed going into the Iraqi enrichment facility, and how that simple dataset allowed all sorts of things to be inferred.

I've tried more than once to find that story again, and simply can't, and I have pretty strong Google-fu.

If I had a log of everything I've seen, it would be trivial to find.
By OC, you’re probably referring to me. I never wrote this anywhere.

So in addition to personal attacks, you’re using straw man defense.
I disagree that naming something correctly always takes no time. Sometimes a useful and correct name is non-obvious, or repetitive, or you're trying to name something abstract or generic.
He also was not the candidate, did not have a chance of getting a government position like his predecessor’s children, and there was no public interest in seeing his acts. It would have been newsworthy if they’d tried to hide the story of Hunter’s addiction but it was public knowledge already along with Joe’s desire to help his son get treatment.
Thanks for taking the time to lay out your situation so clearly.

Based on what you've said, three immediate questions spring up to me:

1. Do you have any non-career goals you would like to pursue? If so, it might be a great opportunity to drop down to part-time and explore those.

2. Are you curious about other roles within the software world? Developing software is only one part of the supply chain and every link is interesting in its own right. Exploring is a career-enriching move that gives you exposure to other styles of work.

3. Have you considered consulting work of some kind? Consulting is far more people-oriented, but you still get plenty of chances to do deep work. It could be an interesting career pivot if you're that way inclined.
Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences (2014)
The world’s in a ‘polycrisis’ – looking beyond GDP
This.

The main challenge for building a game is the content - the art, level design, enemy design, terrain, story, etc. The game engines and coding tend to be (a) more portable between games and (b) have more people interested in contributing relative to the need.

I was part of a game design group in college, as an extra curricular. We had tremendous unmet needs for art and sound design, which really limited the games we could make - maybe one or two game the 6-12 projects each year actually had the skills they needed. Part of that was probably the group running out of ACM and thus just having better ability to attract CS than art types, but I got the sense it was partly the type of people interested in building games for fun.
Huh. I was just thinking something about how terrible that seemed, when I got to "Modern Latin script" which points out that we do this with ex. domain names - thisisanexample.mycompanyname.com is intelligible without spaces, even if it does take a bit more work to read (also a decent example of the problems with it - glancing back up, my brain tries to pick out "i sane" or something about a SAN before deciding that "is an" is the right segmentation)
"Commonly understood" by one political camp, which has hyperbolically defined terms to shore up the ranks. See my previous point.

"Lockdown" evokes an idea of being uniformly unable to go out at all, which was most certainly not the case. Rather, the business and institutions that were closed were closed for specific reasons. For each venue we can debate those specific reasons - some were certainly ridiculously overbearing [0] - but grouping it all into "lockdowns" accomplishes nothing besides encouraging people talk past one another.

[0] Non-controversial example: open air parks that were closed.
If these measures had actually lasted for only two weeks we'd hardly still be discussing them in the waning days of 2022.
Sorry, are you suggesting that people without a college education are too ignorant to make judgements about their own health and that it's therefore ok to lie to them?

This sort of high handed paternalism is exactly the attitude that has destroyed faith in institutions.
Bless her, and you
I guess this was the usual time for os/2 to boot on a 486 back in the day!
> What I don't follow is the jump some people make from reasonable moderation like this, to fascism. They see internet platform moderation as a gateway drug to a physically oppressive government. I don't see how this jump is possible. Am I missing something?

You should watch the movie, The Pianist. It put the rise of Hitler's regime in a completely different perspective for me. Nobody in Germany at the time thought that the small things mattered too much. They all slowly shifted with the times until one day they were actively killing millions of innocent people. It's also interesting that a lot of Hitler's propaganda involved blaming the Jews for common health problems[0].

I'm not saying that any of this is comparable to Covid, because it's not. But your comment seems naive. There is no jump from a free government to a "physically oppressive government". There's a series of small compromises made by the people to give the government more power that ends up culminating into something nobody ever saw coming.

[0]: https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/propaganda-poster-jews-a...
> promote misinformation and silence real information

"misinformation" and "real information" as rationally believed at the time or only with 20/20 hindsight? It's an important distinction. Also, what about the recommendations that did stand the test of time, or the misinformation about vaccine risks and alternative treatments that was rightly suppressed because it was false and harmful? If this is to be anything but an exercise in anti-authoritarian self-congratulation, people need to own up to their own mistakes as well.
Python and Ruby are implemented in C, not interpreted languages

CoffeeScript simply compiles code and does not perform static analysis

tsc is implemented in JS and performs static analysis which makes it (unsurprisingly) slow. I suppose you can make the argument that tsc should have an early exit for empty files but that's just unnecessary bloat to the code base.

Surprisingly, tsc doesn't have an option to skip type checking [1]. The best you can do is run using --skipLibCheck to skip checking node_modules.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/29651
Most of the losses were from earnings multiples reverting back to historical norms… which is healthy.
> People died in RL not only once because of issues with the C language. I think no other language carries a real world death toll around.

Can you link me info about those bugs? I'm familiar with the radiation software bugs, but they don't appear to have been written in C.
Many people felt they couldn't even question the pharma/big gov narrative without being branded "internet weirdos and agitators" or anti-vax.
Maybe the worst comment I have ever read on HN.
SF has a waiter shortage due to housing prices etc.

Going regularly to restaurants might be a thing of past like live-in servants. Their existence requires a certain amount of inequality that doesn’t exist during a population collapse.
>not quite sure how to reconcile this with inspections of migrants around the turn of the 20th century, even if those were more focused on public health and stuff

More than public health. Every single migrant who came through Ellis Island and other US border stations had to

* Pass said public health examinations

* Prove, to the satisfaction of inspectors, of disaffiliation with a variety of subversive organizations/ideologies (Communism and polygamy being two prominent examples)

* Provide proof of financial support in the US, whether by oneself or from a US financial sponsor

Don't pass any of these tests? You're on the next ship out of the US. Shipping companies were responsible for return passage (just as airlines are responsible for paying the way of those who do not pass US border entry today), so had incentive to make sure that their passengers would pass scrutiny.

I am a migrant to the US. I am very much in favor of restoring and enforcing such rules today.
Except this setting reverts back to the default if you haven't visted Twitter for some time (48h or so IIRC), which works as another gravity to let you habitize it.
Wikipedia itself is not listed as a reliable source
This looks neat, but as someone who doesn't use Linux on the desktop, I'm typically fine with

macOS (zsh/bash):
command | pbcopy

windows (powershell)
command | Set-Clipboard
You could still get in your car and drive wherever you wanted, right? There just wasn't much to do. People were dying and we didn't know anything about the illness, though, so that wasn't that bad.

It's like claiming you were a prisoner of war because the theme park was closed for maintenance when you wanted to go.
Nothing happened at TMI
> It's simply the nature of the job, I'm certain I'd feel similar with almost any desk job where I toil in front of a screen day in and day out.

This leads me to believe a lateral move to something coding-adjacent wouldn't bring you fulfillment. Perhaps carpentry OP? After all, every software engineer eventually turns to carpentry at some point, or so it would seem :P
So, in your book, the US is under a regime now? A junta?

I belive actual underlings of oppressive regimes around the world would beg to differ.
Do you believe Japan and South Korea would put their populations at risk to interfere in a Chinese civil war? I highly doubt it, they are smarter than that.
Oh, I could see that. In the US, for domestic sellers, I could see it having some positive impact.

(For work, occasionally I had to look into some sellers of diverted goods on various online marketplaces. The info from business names and addresses was helpful. And if it were fabricated/false info, there's a good chance that could be figured out, and the fact that false info was given would also be helpful.)
No, I’m suggesting exactly what you’re concluding. Many of them probably have the same issue.
If I'm out at night I want to see if my friends text me. Fixed hours for silent notification are stupid and only work for people that don't have a social life.

In the early days of Android there was an app which was able to set my phone to silent based on nearly unlimited inputs, like location, time, app notification, weather, etc. The relevant API was patched out with Android 5 or so, one of the most stupid decisions ever.
> the Ozic secret

Can you expand on the origin of this? I tried googling, but it failed me.
> Encouraging people to not get a vaccine we decided is harmful speech.

Who is "we"? I sure as hell haven't decided that. The supreme court hasn't either, unlike in the examples you mention.

And my only discomfort with your example sprung from its severe lack of adroitness. My prior response could be roughly translated to "try harder".
Dark Sky gave me a fast look at what I needed to know. The new Apple weather app is overloaded, too busy, and not particularly great to use. Steve is not amused.
Side effects you say? Obligatory reminder that millions (maybe over 10 million) of anti-vaxers have long covid.
You missed this bit:

"The poll, conducted March 14-15, shows that 64% of Americans currently express an unfavorable view of France, while only about half that number, 34%, have a favorable view. "

That's the kind of damage such a thing does, silly idea or not.
Monetary Policy in a Shortage Economy
It's a maxim that guerrilla wars succeed with a lot of external help and supply, if they succeed at all, throughout history. That's fact. The French were financial supporters from before the shooting began; and supplied high tech gunpowder that meant that from the start the colonists' muskets had significantly more range, no small thing. Without France, nothing. The French ended up bankrupting the state due to extreme overspending on the Americans' war, and sliding into revolution themselves. (Although weather wrecking crops after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano was a large factor as well.) The Americans deserve great credit, but they owe tremendous debts of gratitude, too.

Washington had to keep British costs high while not losing, he couldn't just sit.

Mass conscription is difficult if you can't pay or properly feed or clothe the army you have and a big portion of your own population opposed to you.
If only Instacart would follow along on this. Really annoying getting a buzz for every order I make (I do about 3 per week). And then I also have to dismiss a bunch of screens prior to the next order.
Does spoken language have word boundaries? In my experience learning foreign languages (at the simplest levels) it sure feels like part of the difficulty comes at picking words out individually, and the pattern recognition only really kicks in around the phrase or sentence level.
A few classics cited in one comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29771594

Recommendations by many, 154 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
Introverts Tell Us How They Party Without Letting It Wreck Them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cleanerfish

These things are incredible. (Or incredibly mean?)
Interesting. We should not forget that social media creates this cozy safe place for everyone, so even if you personally realize that, your friends and acquaintances may not.
In my own experience, since around 2010 and with the rise of social media and streaming services -especially after covid- people are more inclined to spend time at home instead of hanging out or doing stuff "in real life"
Backblaze for backups

GIT for version control. Young folks have no idea how awful it was storing source code backups in zip files on floppy disks. GIT is like magic.
This is from a reel owned by youtuber TechnologyConnections.

Short clips of it appeared in his recent video about his film projector.

After that video went up he made a YouTube community post that reads:

Merry Christmas, everybody!

If you're interested in seeing the entirety of that programming film, I've uploaded it on Connextras. This is the only reel I have, unfortunately, so I can't show you part 2 (or three? maybe? don't have a clue how many reels there were).

Anyway, enjoy!
Those events also happened in patients reporting full isolation.
I think for older millennials it’s sort of like moving on to high school and encountering middle schoolers. You get this icky feeling of what you once were. Like geez, you guys are really into that? Yuck.

It’s a form of self loathing. One has to understand that everyone goes through these phases and when you make it out, leave it behind, and don’t judge those in whatever phase of life they are in. As lame as it is, and as much it reminds you of how lame you once were.

I don’t know what’s wrong with all the dick riders on social media. I just accept that it’s a phase ( a long one ) for a lot of people.
Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
Does any OS allow that?
>The one talking about fetching data recommends a 3rd party library to make it simple but tells you how to avoid certain issues if you want to go the route of implementing your own fetching.

yeah, making it into a custom hook lol.

When did something that was originally worth 5 LOCs turn into 20 LOCs
> Algebraic data types, which none of those languages have, are incredible for representing states in your program. They help reduce our eliminate the type of logic bugs that often show up in UIs and such.

> The lack of null and using Options instead is one such example.

> Rust has fantastic libraries like serde which make de/serialization fast without a need for reflection.

Well, sure. But I'm completely unimpressed.

I'm a Scala developer. I have those features available mostly since "forever".

(Modern serialization based on compile time macros is "only" about a decade old, so quite "new" in Scala).

> In short, the Rust ecosystem has a tendency to produce amazingly helpful abstractions.

They do what they can and the results are OK-isch. But Rust is lacking features. Especially when it comes to abstractions.

Rust would need at least HKTs (higher kinded types) and "context abstractions" ("implicits") to come even close to what's possible in Scala. But Rust type system is still rudimentary in comparison.

Also the meta-programming story is very weak in Rust. I was shocked as I learned that Rust's macros are only on the level of Scheme. That's a shame for a new language, imho.

The only really interesting part about Rust for me is its raw performance. I have to admit that I'm really envious in that regard. (Scala has powerful features but you pay usually a high price for them as the compiler still isn't able to compile that stuff away. The annoying part is that nobody really cares much. They're more concerned with compile times; even Scala compiles at least an order of magnitude faster than Rust).

But actually it's not bad at all that Rust is a small and simple language. It's easy to pick up. (At least if you already know things like HOFs, ADTs, type-classes, Option / Either & Future monads, working with immutable data, and all that).

The other languages with comparable performance are mind twisting and full of bobby traps in comparison. C has no features at all and is outright crazy. C++ has features but that stuff is even more crazy. But Rust is nice and clean! (At least regarding semantics. The syntax is a different story. Rust is one of the ugliest languages. Everything seems patchy and irregular. But OK, that's "only syntax". One gets used to it quite quickly; and they wanted to attract C/C++ programmers, so I can understand why such an ugly syntax was chosen).
The context is in the article, which that image is pulled from. The image itself directly contradicts your claim: "The people posting on Twitter are just riling up, a virtual riot. You want to discuss it, do it calmy and write soemthing well thought out with sources", as an example of a well thought out, sourced, discussion that was nonetheless prohibited for not aligning with Central Authority's directives.

My argument, as it has been this entire thread, is that the Government should not be pressuring companies to prohibit such discussions. Since you asked, I recommend you respond with a counterargument supporting the Governments prohibition of the linked content.

That said, this is already too much beating of a dead thread for me. I don't expect to be able to convince you that the Government shouldn't be in control of how people are allowed to talk, and you certainly wont convince me of the opposite.

Good day.
I don't know about censored, but from what I remember there was a bit of an about face on masking. This timeline seems to mesh with what I remember: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

And I think some platforms (specifically, I believe YouTube and Twitter, but maybe others) prevented or de-funded etc., content that was contradictory to CDC guidelines.
You are right, what I described was just a prototype. ChatGPT was just a gateway drug for me to dive into the OpenAI docs and look for other providers and existing solutions. I've been reading up on approaches to 'package' context (example: https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/posts/cop...).

My take for now is that this kind of packaging is very context specific to the point where it's going to make sense for engineering teams to craft their own version of 'gather context before the prompt is created'. I'm testing out approaches using toy examples for now (how would you create a chatbot about a book?; podcasts, etc).

I don't have an answer but I'm highly confident we're going to replace a lot of junior-level work in the next year or two.
The Congress is obviously a completely different entity than the FBI.

Please make up your mind!
I agree with Twitter's decisions but... where did it get us? Covid denial still exists and now it has a bonus persecution complex due to Twitter's moderation. Clearly debating with crackpots doesn't work but shutting down the debate doesn't work either.
There should be a basic right of people to control their own “attention” akin to posting a private property sign.
US Department of State Travel Advisories
Actually A while ago, it was discovered Atheros ath9k and ath10k based wifi cards have a spectrum scan feature. There was some work in reverse engineering the data format. I'm not sure if theres been similar developments for recent devices.

https://www.bastibl.net/ath9k-spectrum-scanning/
It helped for awhile but the obvious methods around it work fine (buy something dirt cheap and get feedback, then scambid later)
I didn't notice this at all. My close friends are part of my finsta and I am part of theirs. That's two different accounts most maintain. I haven't posted on my instagram in forever but I post a story every once in a while. Most of my friends are the same way. Some of my friends have made their twitter completely professional, but most use it to shit post. Everyone I'm close to uses the 'close friends' feature on instagram, the standard stories are much less frequent.

In certain groups we have shifted to using discord for group messaging, not just a group channel, there's one for meme, new papers, food eaten, tv shows, we even had a world cup and did a group voice call during the finals. I don't know what member count would be considered social media vs . I am in small private ones and also huge, 2000+ people public ones. Arguably my friends are a healthy mix of millenial and gen z kids because I was born on imaginary border between the two. What size should be considered the limit?

I don't think 90s kids are happily less connected. I know friends that take breaks, sometimes for months, but they always come back and generally post holiday stories/posts. I know in the past, my "break" has been just looking at stories like once a week and posting stories but not opening stories.
Assuming the US, if someone dies without a will, their estate goes into probate, which is a legal process to determine who inherits.

I suppose it would depend on jurisdictions, but I’m not aware on anywhere where an employee would inherit anything.
Washington lost most, if not all of the major battles that he fought.

His opponent, General Howe, obviously had sympathy for the American cause, as he stayed the hand of destruction many times.

It was only when General Nathaniel Green was unleashed that victory favored us, ripping Tarlelton and Cornwallis' forces to tatters, giving us Yorktown.
You can but this is a trickier version of the 'package context' process (see my reply to a comment above).

Speaking to others who are playing with this stuff, it seems people who use opinionated libraries (Antd, Mantine) get better results out of the box.
Great. But can you run Gnome Desktop environment on the same machine?
"Some people are really smart and productive and a credit to their profession and also awful to women and/or minorities"

But if they are awful only to white straight males, they are ok?
Pentagon Cloud Computing Enterprise Finally Moves Forward
As much as I hate the price, I have to agree on it happening. There some areas where innovation will only happen if the investors can get their investment plus profit back. The real win is that there will be a cure for a terrible disease and after the patent expires it can be copied and sold at a reasonable prices vs not having the cure at all. It's a long term investment.
Well, it's always been annoying for Canadians, I can tell you that. Harmful? No, it shows considerable narcissism, which ain't incorrect; so let's say it's more of a valid indicator giving foreigners a bit of a heads up about what they'll be dealing with than a harm.
Was def some sort of psyop.