skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on software (member.cash) that bridges multiple decentralized social networks together and recently added support for Nostr.

Compared to the others, Nostr is optimized for innovation - it is easy to build new features on top and we'll see a lot of growth and evolution because of that. I really like that about it.

The problems I see with it right now are
1. Timestamps are easily forgeable
2. Difficult to control spam
3. Little incentive to run relays
4. Difficult to search the whole network

There are ideas on how to solve all of the problems, like POW on messages, like super relays(basically a mempool), there's a NIP for timestamps.

My guess is that it will evolve towards something that looks a lot like a blockchain. Decentralized Social is one of the few places where a blockchain actually makes sense. This will be interesting because the founding group is ideologically opposed to using a blockchain for anything but the holy BTC.
Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Releases Final Report
I think we should shame people for that: A nation is like a big family. You're essentially saying that you don't think that you should be able to talk to your own family in their language.
I don't assume that someone coming out of a sentence is less likely to commit a crime. Isn't it often the opposite, because the US is so bad at rehabilitation?
There's two separate issues at play here. On the left hand, it's true that ChatGPT, while impressive, on its current incarnation sometimes returns correct responses, and some other times it returns seemingly correct hallucinations. Unless the accuracy and certainty is not over a certain threshold, say 95% for example, I don't think it would be safe to use it for critical use cases, like acting as a lawyer, as it very well might hallucinate laws or prior cases, etc.

On the right hand, lawyers see the writing on the wall and see AI as a threat to their really lucrative business, and they'll use any means at their disposal to outlaw it or slow the adoption of AI technologies to replace lawyers.

Hell, I'm a software engineer and I see the writing on the wall too, and I see AI as a threat as well. I also acknowledge the limitless opportunities. I'm at equal parts excited and terrified by what's coming.
No to PFAS
Article: 'The average drug discovery and development process takes over a decade. AI does it in 30 days!'

Also article: The vast majority of the time taken has nothing to do with candidate discovery.
While we're on the subject, if your company uses technology in an capacity, read the book The Phoenix Project.

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
I'm an American living in Norway, in a larger city (for Norway). It's hard to learn, because when I try my burgeoning Norwegian, they immediately switch to English. I don't blame them at all, but I see how someone speaking English could not learn Norwegian in 10 years and be very happy.
It's things like this that take attention away from legitimately frightening privacy issues.

The service you're using has access to the stuff you send through it, yes, well done. If you thought anything different, I don't know what to tell you.

If they had made some claims of respecting user privacy, then sure, bellow away, but as it is, you're putting them in the same category as Whatsapp's privacy statement revision. This results in people not taking _any_ of this stuff seriously. Good job.
We could end the scourge of Chinese junk overnight if we overhauled their status. It's unconscionable that it costs more to mail something domestically within the US than it does for a Chinese seller to mail a comparable item internationally via ePacket... which is then handled and delivered via the USPS. I'm sick of US-based businesses' shipping costs subsidizing their own competition.
Events are partially-ordered. Two events that can't have causal relationship between them are incomparable causality-wise.
>Yes; do nothing and assume no liablity. If you don't want to assume any liability you don't involve yourself beyond providing a platform. Simple as that.

So your solution is to actually do nothing and let the project die? What an awful non-solution.
It just feels like a lot of the internet simply isn't designed for RSS anymore. A lot of people forget it still exists, or think that it died out ages ago. I remember the YouTuber Tom Scott remarking in one of his videos that he misses RSS not realising of course that it is still alive.
> Wrapping legitimate concerns with emotive clickbait

Should be the motto of that page - they've been doing it for years, while often extrapolating suspicions into reality or even being factually incorrect. Doesn't mean that the concerns aren't legitimate, though, Discord is spyware, just like the most other software.
In Star Trek III they jury-rig the Enterprise to fly with a crew of 5, instead of the regular crew of 400.

Though in that state it can't do much more than fly: combat capabilities are strongly diminished, maintenance doesn't happen, post-combat repairs are out of the question, science missions would be much harder. On occasion the Enterprise has transported 150 passengers, so I imagine there's a lot of kitchen staff, security, etc. You only need 5 people to fly the ship, maybe 40 to fly sustainably with maintenance, but to actually accomplish their reglar mission you need the other 300 people.
Oops. Typo. *without* rehabilitation
A, N, M, R, U look particularly egregious.

Looking at M, it seems like the districts don't even have to be a single physically connected area because there are speckles floating above the main shape.

"First past the post" is a terrible way to conduct an election. This kind of map-drawing games wouldn't matter nearly as much if many members were elected from each district as they'd have to be much larger and could more obviously follow existing state and city boundaries.
That wasn't an exchange "malfunction" in the sense that the exchange did not do what it was supposed to, was it?
You are going to post illegal stuff (signed by you) then somehow convince someone to raid my server in the hopes of that illegal thing being on my hard disk. Relays don’t have to store any message on disk, they relay stuff real time over websockets. Even if you store messages you can trivially wipe them every 24h?

Then you are going to convince a judge that the thing on my disk belongs to me, because judges are apparently braindead.

If this is the protocol’s glaring vulnerability then every server in the world has this vulnerability.
It depends on the country, usually there are national rules requiring special prescriptions for "fun" drugs like that.

If you can pick up drugs like that with an ordinary private prescription in your country, a foreign prescription should work.

For further information:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/health/prescription-me...

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/health/prescription-me...
Does the US have McKenzie Friends ? Seems like "No". You should get McKenzie Friends.

McKenzie Friends can't represent you in court, in most cases they're not allowed to address the court, but they can help you in all the other ways you'd expect, like quietly prompting you on what points to mention, keeping notes, ensuring you have the right paperwork. Friend stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_friend
The Unethical Developer's Guide to Personal Success
Here's a satirical blog post I wrote about prioritizing one's own success over the team's, written as a guide for someone who wants to be an "unethical developer".

The premise: sometimes the developer experience (DX) in a project is so bad that we can't talk about "10x developers", but instead have to talk about "0.10x developers", where you cannot get anything done easily. What if it's due to purposeful actions instead of a variety of other factors? The article goes into some aspects that can make the development worse for everyone, should someone prioritize their own success (even at the expense of making others do worse) over everything else.

Thankfully, I haven't seen people who tick all of these boxes, but certain aspects do occasionally pop up, because of others (or even myself) not considering certain aspects or the implications of what they're doing. At the end of the day, we should think about how what we do affects the team and the project in the longer term. Not just whether it will scale, but also whether the current implementation, tools and practices won't make people miserable.

Developers should absolutely be able to try out new technologies and practices, however perhaps not having that first time be on production projects. Only technologies that solve the problems you have is appropriate, as opposed to CV driven development. That's why side projects, pilot projects, hackathons and such all matter, as does continuously learning about ways to do things better. For those, a good environment, colleagues and community all are needed.
There's plenty of companies replacing their CEOs. Just today Toyota announced theirs.
50 bucks a year? I pay ö 20 bucks? I guess you are in multiple queues.
That's simply not true. Minimum wage for a tipped employee in thr US is $2.13 an hour. Minimum wage for a non tipped employee in the us is over $7 an hour. So an employee that is expected to get tips needs to make up that difference to be able to live.
Important note: in another YC post the founder said he was inspired by Termination Shock.
They use English keywords, English documentation, English reference to the standard library, until recently were mostly restricted to English alphabet, and their development is mostly discussed in English.
No its not. CICO, it's that simple. I'll get down voted by the fanatics that say it's more complicated, but it's not. Eat less and exercise more and you will loose weight. A gastric bypass is just a extreme form of this. You cannot avoid the laws of physics.
Congratulations if v3.0.0!
They are the same issue. Obviously lawyers are physically capable of lying, but they have strong incentives not to.
That's because you are visibly American. If you looked more like a southerner, you'd have much better, they wouldn't switch to English. On the other hand, they wouldn't even speak a Norwegian to you.
Everybody forgets about shell scripts! Bash allows dashes in executable names (how it couldn't) and in function names, but not in variable names, at least not without a lot of effort.
This is the first instance of the technology I've seen that made sense to me. Sure, for something like law, it actually makes sense to have AI-assisted — or even full AI — sessions.

Says something about our priorities that _this_ is what gets shut down, but the battle that artists are having trying to stop their work being used for training, is dismissed as Ludditism.
I wanted to look a Discord solution to this problem! Thanks for sharing this here, you came on point.
Yandex cooperates with Russian government, no need for a back door.
Show HN: Connecting GPT-3 to my smart home
If you have processes where there is nothing an employee can do to affect the outcome of the company you successfully built a legacy bureaucracy that is waiting to be disrupted.
The fungal zombies in ‘The Last of Us’ are based on real, horrifying biology
> That's precisely the question, yes.

Don't be vague on purpose. Say what you're implying.

> Court cases aren't about the common occurrences.

Usually they still are. But I'm talking about things being very rare among court cases. Do you think there is a systemic problem of false court transcripts? And I really don't think such a thing is the reason not to allow recording.
if you want to break it just type any symbol
Cruising Through Complex Data
Interesting, I didn't know the website, I'm going to check what it's really about.
This mostly focuses on culture and internal processes, and they seem bad.

But for me, the proof is in the pudding. Valve has failed to ship any successful new games for over a decade. That in itself is damning.

Dota was a sequel to an IP Valve bought and was released over 10 years ago. Newer games like Artifact and Underlords (also bought) flopped. Whatever the culture is, it fails to ship anything. The key exception is the Steam Deck, but that is not a game.

Valve seems to just be cruising on Steam revenue.
This is pretty clearly Apples attempt to create a Patreon podcast competitor & refers to the “Apple Podcasters Program” [1]. It’s not designed to host regular, free feeds in the traditional RSS style, quite deliberately. When signing up it is made very clear that there is no RSS feed & what the perks/restrictions of joining are.

The DRM, the fact there’s no RSS feed, the initial hosting cost - it all stems from the fact this is a service designed to host paid podcasts that subscribers can pay to access - of course it’s going to be closed off and restricted…

The header on the documentation page reads “Join the Apple Podcasters Program to start selling your subscriptions on Apple Podcasts”.

The article is poorly researched at best and likely thinly disguised marketing for the authors service, knowing most will just take them at their word without digging into the specifics of these ridiculous criticisms.

[1] https://podcasters.apple.com/support/892-apple-podcasters-pr...
And what do they understand by "not be losers" in that case? What are the main ideas behind it?
IANAL either but I doubt they would have sued over copyright when there's probably much "better" options. Their "top lawyer" would have probably found some kind of predatory IP transfer ("every idea you've had during your time with us is ours in perpetuity" kind of thing) or non-compete clause in the intern contract. These kind of clauses I hear are SOP and I doubt this guy had the foresight fresh out of school to scrutinize the contract and negotiate anything better.
Many countries (including mine) allow you to renounce your citizenship but then void that renunciation if you don't acquire a new citizenship within 90 days, so as to prevent the risk of (long-term) statelessness.
it can't do accents
It feels like a similar interpretation of checks and balances as Nixon's belief that the President cannot commit a crime.
I don't understand Nostr's comments on trying to be deplatform-proof. On Mastodon, for example, if you get kicked off a node just spin up your own node. If nobody wants to hear you spewing your stuff then you'll soon be screaming into the void but what you post will still be viewable on the web and to those that subscribe to you. So I don't get what Nostr is trying to do.
If something wrong happens and the lawyer is officially responsible, the onus is still on you to make your claim, likely in court.

I'm dealing with a similar issue where an expert is indeed wrong and indeed responsible for his mistake, but the wronged party needs to spend a lot of money proving that they got wrong advice in front of the courts. The wronged party does not speak the local language (as is common in Europe), so that's unlikely to happen.

There's a huge gap between being technically right, and seeing justice.
There is a good reason: not being antisocial to the people in the country you are visiting. Most Germans speak English, sure, but dealing with someone that doesn’t speak your native language is incrementally harder and your friend is externalizing that cost onto everyone he interacts with.
The original question was around spaces in identifier names; let me describe how I imagined that would go and you can pick holes in it:

- on disk, use (brackets around identifiers) so they parse

- but you don't want to have to keep typing those, so...

- have a smart IDE that manages identifier brackets for you

- display identifiers in special colours, fonts, etc

Maybe this is a slippery slope argument, but I think when you do that, you've taken a step towards visual programming, where the code is a special data structure and you can only feasibly interact with it via special tooling. I'm with the camp who think that gives you SmallTalk images or UML and it just doesn't work out.

An alternative would be not to put brackets around long identifiers, just have a smarter context-sensitive parser; but I think that's also a bad direction to go in. Putting lots of complexity into the parser (C++, Perl) is a bad idea and keeping the parser simple and regular is a good idea (Go, Python).

EDIT TO ADD:

The problem is that a tree of directories and files is clearly not a very good abstraction for structuring programs

Hmm, I disagree! It's not perfect, but I think it actually works pretty well. Files and folders map nicely onto modules and packages, and those are a reasonably effective way of organising the code for a big project.
> You guys are https://automat.berlin/contact/ , right? A GmbH.

They work at Automat, or worked there at some point. Have you any information that there is more relation than that? And at the moment they seem to not making any money with the project, so there is a limit to what law demands from them at the moment.
my cards for the source on the leak are more on dissent than outside party infiltrating. If you were brought up on working in open source the last 20-30 years with contributors from all over the world, getting into the friend/foe mindset is much harder.
Breakdancing is coming to the Summer Olympic Games, beginning with Paris 2024
Laws supposedly punish anti competitive practices, yet somehow Apple still hasn't been shut down for owning both an OS and an app store (and with their own apps in there too !) on very personal computers...
> at least 90% of them were immersed in it since birth at home

Bullshit... Maybe at best half of Chinese have Mandarin as a home language - of which half again speak Xinan Mandarin at home which is barely intelligible to a Standard Mandarin (Beifanghua) speaker. So the majority of Chinese learned Mandarin as a second language.

And obviously the writing and ideograms is something that every one of them had to painstakingly memorise over 15 years of schooling...

> Btw. you won't be fluent in Chinese without living in China

I know plenty of people in Singapore and Taiwan who wouldn't even bother to make fun of your ignorance...
Whoosh, stop demanding national responsibility for their own actions.
Are Video Codecs...Done?
1) It's USD which implies, largely, that we're in the US. If we want to talk about global wealth inequality, that's a whole other can of worms. But, fair, $100 is rather high. Calendly is used by a lot of white-collar workers though and who generally make more than $20/hr. But sure, let's redo the math at $20 on both sides. $20 means $40 total, divided by 60 * 10 gets us $6 and change per scheduling, or 3 meetings a month to make it worth it.

2) Yes? I don't know about 20, but

1 project mgmt: Trello/Monday/Clickup/etc
2 if programming, github/gitlab/etc
3 an Office suite (MS or Google Docs),
4 Email (gmail/office365)
5 comms (Slack)
6 web hosting (squarespace/wix/godaddy/roll-your-own on AWS/GCP/Azure)
7 scheduling cal.com/calendly
8 healthcare
9 payroll (gusto)
10 bookkeeping (pilot.com or quickbooks)
11 401k

Those are just the ones off the top of my head. I'm genuinely curious to hear what I've missed!

That's besides the point though. Tools do a relatively specific thing. You can't use Slack to pay employees instead of Gusto, Slack doesn't even have a way to transfer money! So you need a tool that does the job that you need done. If it takes 20, it takes 20.

Just because a particular SaaS company uses that argument doesn't mean you have to buy their service. If you can do without it, then don't buy it!

3) Yes but that small random tool does a very specific job. I don't care if hammers are free and screwdrivers are expensive, if I need a screwdriver, I need a screwdriver and I'll pay whatever it costs. (fine, sure there's some point at which point you can reengineer something to use a hammer if a screwdriver's that expensive, but if you're smart enough to make that point you're smart enough to get my point)

Anyway, my real question is what is it about making tools that makes people so cheap? And not just software either, Harbor Freight has been making everything out of Chinesium which is ludicrously cheap, to Craftsman's detriment. If you go and see a movie you really like in a good theater, you're happy you paid for a ticket and ate the overpriced popcorn, when you could have torrented it for free at home and watched it on your phone. There's something about tools that brings out the cheapness in, at least me, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. Is it simply because we need so many of them?

https://xkcd.com/2347/ is all too true, but then Dwarf Fortress and they became millionaires overnight! Not that I begrudge them that money, but just that like, human psychology is so interesting!
>Lying to a judge is generally not a good idea. You can go from traffic ticket to contempt of court real fast if you start lying in court.

If you knowingly lie because ChatGPT told you to that's on you. If you said something that you believed was true because ChatGPT said it to you then that's not perjury, it's just being wrong.

> You probably don't want your legal representation to become your prosecutor when they use the right type of phrasing.

When the worst case scenario is having to pay the parking fine, it might be worth taking this risk to avoid paying a lawyer.
Ask HN: Is there a more analog alternative to LCD writing tablets?
I'm trying to replace disposable paper notes with something that is simpler and more convenient. There are many lightweight LCD writing tablets like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Boogie-Board-8-5-Inch-Writing-PT01085CYAA0002/dp/B00AFPR68E/

But it looks like those are an LCD display with a touch sensor on top. I was looking for something with near-zero input lag and no visible pixels (like actual paper), like a more sophisticated version of a kids magnetic whiteboard.
> Reinventing UI frameworks from absolute scratch is always going to be janky and playing catch-up, on every platform.

Why? UI framework build from absolute scratch can be build using same low level APIs as platform's native UI framework. Performance depends on framework's architecture and quality of the implementation.

RN can only be worse or equal as the underlying native UI framework. UI framework build from scratch can be worse, equal or better.
Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here
The Saddest Moment – James Mickens (2013) [pdf]
You don't have to worry about scaling- Earth has one moon. And there are just eight planets in the solar system. It seems obvious that any off-earth colony governed by humans on Earth will have at least one time system that attempts to reference Earth time. There may also be a local time scale in sync with the rising or the setting of the sun. But that probably won't be the case on the moon, because a "day" is weeks long. So the humans will use a clock that references UTC. Perhaps a fixed offset from UTC if the Moon base is governed by a single country.

The hard science part is dealing with gravity wells and keeping stuff in sync. But the top level answer will be that clocks will follow UTC, and any communications systems between the Earth and the Moon will be built to tolerate 2.5 seconds of lag.
Last sentence hit close to home. It’s valid for me about anything.
It feels like a wartime-vs-peacetime priority problem.

In wartime you would care about efficiency, build the largest number of subs staffed with the minimum crew. And since training crew quickly becomes the bottleneck you would probably go for the highest degree of automation that doesn't impact production times too much. In peacetime, efficiency isn't as important. What is important is the bad PR of losing one of your submarines in a training excercise or on patrol, so crew safety becomes a much bigger concern.

Losing those sailors in war would have been a noble sacrifice for the cause, losing them to the exact same accident in peacetime is a national tragedy.
You cannot tell someone is fraud because they are keeping some secrets.