skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one of these possibilities is more likely?

a) it was the incredibly rare event affecting most of the popular content on the page, which the host themselves state it was

b) it was something completely unrelated

I know which one I'd put money on!
India threatened to shut down Twitter, says ex-CEO Jack Dorsey; govt says 'lie'
A real language also presents more foot guns no?

In HCL it’s difficult to break repeatability, for example by querying external sources in an uncontrolled way.
Particles are similar to people that way.
I personally don't want tax dollars to fund corporate lawyering.
The question is: How long do the effects last? Does it fix something?
My friend literally said he wanted to start a alcohol-free beverage company because all the new products are so compelling and there is probably room for many more. Maybe give a couple few more of those a chance. Also, realizing that you don't have to socialize with the same people in the same way is probably a big step in finding drinking-free activities. It's probably way easier said than done but nothing in life worth doing is easy. Good luck and persevere!
It is not the government's job to provide free compliance consulting services. Especially not for VC backed companies awash in cash.
> comparing cryptocurrency to heroin

Which is damn smart given we let regulated persons manufacture and distribute opiates. In this analogy, Coinbase is upset its heroin sales are illegal when a licensed pharmacist can sell a similar product.

If someone is having a strong emotional reaction, substitute any regulated product—jumbo jets, vodka, legal advice—and move on.
1991 called, they want their Gopher back.

Overriding all css is so popular a concept that no Firefox plugin to do that has more than 100k downloads (and firefox users are probably the most likely to fidget with things like that).

A radical idea - people should be able to create whatever they want in whatever colours and fonts they want and have it shown to viewers the way they want, at least unless the viewer explicitly objects.
The main thing here is practice makes perfect. Try doing a bunch of leetcode problems and see how you fare. Most of us flop it first time then keep practicing.

Although I feel like you seem to have a low opinion of yourself, try asking others on what they think how you did in your course and your result will speak for itself.

Becoming a good engineer is a career long achievement I wouldn't expect you to achieve this milestone until you've completed a few professional years.

Also what do you enjoy? Is engineering something you legitly enjoy?
How does it work on busses/planes/boats? Are the screens locked to the cabin? Or the horizon? Or do they just fly all over the place like Quest?
While not the dreamy part you asked for, you can already play the Zero G battle part in “Echo VR”.
I am not an expert, but if I had written an app that was designed like that, the app would have a /debug url that let me log in[0] and then do all kinds of fun things[1], including running raw SQL from the app's context.

[0] And I would be very careful about the security angle, because this is effectively a very dangerous back door into the whole system. Useful, but something to be careful about.

[1] Dump live activity stats, performance info, ability to run arbitrary queries against any database(s), ability to run arbitrary code in the app itself if available in a reasonable way (ex. if the app is in a dynamic language, just an eval(), possibly embed tcl/lua if not).
I think a lot of this is a cultural issue you learn to get over. Outside of pol, it’s just shock-humor teenage boy talk.

I’m Jewish and mentally filter out all the antisemitic stuff without even thinking about it. 95% of the content outside certain pockets is not even antisemitic, it’s just a shock humor phrase used independently of any actual relation to being Jewish like the term “goyslop”.

And yeah, a certain portion of the population does actually hate Jews/transgender people/black people. But when you post nobody knows you are like that. It’s ego-less, you don’t even have an account, so you really don’t even have any reason to care because it’s not directed at you in particular, so it’s just like if you saw something racist on Twitter. Just a very different model compared to the pseudonymous forums/Reddit/hn and fully-linked regular social media.
Basically instead of FROM python:3.9, you do FROM scratch. This represents an empty container with nothing.

It's quite easy to use with statically compiled languages, and a bit less so with interpreted ones like Python, but you need to use a multi-step build with first an image containing your dependencies to compile, and then a stage from scratch copying just the resulting artifacts. That way your production image is extremely light and has no attack surface or stuff to update outside of your own code. The main downside is that debugging live is not easy (if you have some networking errors, you can't just exec inside and do some ping/curl/netstat/etc. to check stuff, because you can't even exec inside due to no shell being present), and requires extra tooling like cntr/cdebug or Kubernetes Ephemeral Containers which will attach a fuller container (e.g. busybox) to the running scratch one to be able to debug.

https://chemidy.medium.com/create-the-smallest-and-secured-g...

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/dockerizing-a-rest-api-i...
I really dislike "enshittification" suddenly appearing in essays everywhere. Why don't we use established words to describe this concept that aren't going to date the piece and make it embarrassing to read in a few years?
I am claming that some compiler vendors leech from clang and hardly contribute to upstream, mostly they only contribute to LLVM and let others like Apple and Google do the needeful for ISO C++ compliancy.

Now that Apple is focused on Swift, and Google key devs went to play with Carbon, the amount of contributions to ISO C++ compliance has decresead and clang has an honourable 3rd place, between VC++, GCC and clang.

On the other hand, the world of C++ compilers is much bigger than only three compilers, so there are plenty more beyond the 3rd place.
That voting system seams overly complex, but an idea worth to be explored and tested.
What is your diagnosis
Terran GM vs. 7 Zerg INSANE A.I
You can just admit you were at Revolver. Only a few of us on here will know what you mean ;)
> want them to decide if I'm trading securities, especially when "this might be considered a security" is in my S1. Nothing more

Investment banks would love this. It’s pro bono legal advice.

If this is important, require a legal opinion or no-action letter prior to investing in the IPO. Coinbase didn’t secure those and investors didn’t demand it. Here we are.
The logical endpoint is "not engaging" by not visiting
Exactly, the adventurers of the previous centuries are long gone exactly because of societal upbringing.
maybe with chatgpt we can get some type of client driven censorship
mms works pretty well if you live in of those parts of the world which still uses mms (some regions rely heavily on them and others have disabled them)
That's a good point. Almost everything you need to do works on Linux now.
Gwern has some good writing on Nicotine if anyone's curious. He basically used it in small doses as a nootropic.

https://gwern.net/nicotine
The science behind the world’s most miraculous nap, or, Nirodha Samāpatti
https://archive.is/zwAUS
> a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income.

Monsters, Inc. comes to mind! In that movie they are scaring children, bottling their screams as energy and selling it as a commodity. The happy ending is our protagonists stumbling upon the fact that laughter is a much better source of energy than screams, and so the staff of monsters become slapstick comedians for children everywhere.

YouTube managed to become the boring-dystopia middle-ground where they make money off both.
Because you’re centralizing power. The more you centralize power, the more you increase the spread and power of corruption. This is why it always fails including with the system we have now. The difference is that in socialism, power is centralized from the start which is why it fails faster and why it takes longer for capitalist systems to fail compared to their socialist counterparts.
> shitty to want an entire sector of possibilities to just collapse and die just because some people are greedy

Crypto could continue as an academic activity and non-commercial hobby.
1. My point was about using upstream software, not about the Audacity flatpak specifically. Audacity binaries downloaded from upstream's website have the problem I mentioned.

2. The Audacity flatpak is maintained by a Flathub dev only because Audacity upstream has not expressed an interest in maintaining it themselves, not because of some Flathub policy to reject telemetry etc. If they wanted to maintain the flatpak themselves they would be allowed to do that, since Flathub policy is to have upstream developers maintain their flatpaks. And that would lead to the problem I mentioned.
Why are people so desperate to seek legal advice from law enforcement?
They work. It's just an approximation series.
His videos are fun and well-edited. It’s usually superior entertainment to a random Netflix show. That’s enough for me. I also really enjoy how his feedback loop has resulted in the videos gradually having reached absurd scales.
> 2) restrict the government's ability to use or acquire through non-market-based means. The claim here is that there's already restrictions on this vs directly surveiling, but I haven't seen directly which specific restrictions those are for buying off-the-shelf info and the article doesn't specify.

This won't happen, our security state is built on private surveillance and partnerships between law enforcement and private surveillance companies.

Whether we like it or not, the intelligence and security apparatus feel like we need China-style surveillance, because terrorists/spies/civil unrest/FOMO/etc, and we're getting it one way or another. It's either outright illegal, or legally questionable, for the government to do exactly what the CCP has, but there's the loophole illustrated in the OP. Private companies are allowed to surveil Americans, and they're free to choose whether or not they share the data they collect with law enforcement.

Now we have companies like Amazon partnering with thousands of law enforcement agencies[1] to advertise[2], deploy and monitor Americans via their products like Ring. Amazon is free to share whatever data they collect from you whenever they want[3]. They can share your data with law enforcement without warrants and they don't even have to let you know that they did so[4].

The article in the OP goes into how phone records are being used to track people's locations, as well. As much as I'd like to, I can't see this genie being put back in the bottle.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22258856/amazon-ring-part...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ring-require-police-a...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/tech/amazon-ring-police-foota...

[4] https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ring-police-videos-securi...
I love this. And I would like to say that I think many of the highest-voted comments have it wrong: I WANT TO PAY for using the app in exchange for good privacy/ethical practices of the app/company making it. I don't even comment here on HN much but I was moved to speak out about your post. (And its the right day to post this, given the protest of so many subreddtits due to their API pricing and terms)

That said, yes you may still get a "network effect" from not enough people registering/using the app. But hey, I applaud the attempt and hopefully it will get some users/traction.

Last question I would have is: how does it compare/contrast/integrate with other, possibly federated, social services such as Mastodon?
I'm not a big fan of the word per se but it has been coined to describe the _exact_ concept that's happening here. What would be an established word for it? Deteriorating? Diluted? I'm not an English native, but the internet has always been a bit of a vulgar place and all that so enshittification seems about right.
JS achieved critical mass especially with the advent of NodeJS; it'll be difficult for a competitor in the same space to take over.

But that's fine; JS is fine for what it's used for, i.e. browsers / webpages and at a stretch rich desktop UIs. I think the main issue that the author has is that for a lot of people it's become a golden hammer.

A few years ago I started applying for jobs again; what I found (but this might have been the recruiter) is that multiple companies were in the process of replacing their PHP backends with Javascript / NodeJS backends. I couldn't fathom why people were starting a new project - building the future of their company - on Node.

I mean it makes sense from a hiring point of view because JS developers are everywhere, but it doesn't make sense from a business point of view, or right-tool-for-the-job.

But maybe that's me being judgmental. I mean PHP is fine for back-end too, if that's what they were replacing.
Fractional CTO
I would just tell the bottom 95% of people they aren't getting anything at all. There is no point just paying somebody their subscription back. Now if you are posting your art regularly or similar, that's extra money that can go to you.
Little black box talking to the government, how much you charge so you can pay your share.
YouTube legal team asked Invidious to take down the service within 7 days
Well, probably not, though even that is debatable (think of the game example). Still, I think the window control elements are pretty close to something the OS should fully control.

On the other hand, I would expect it to use the Ribbon for interaction, and mostly ignore the MacOS global menu bar, so I can still find things where I'm used to them.

Having said all that, scrollbars appear all the time inside other elements of an app, so I don't see why they should be compared to the window close button. If they're smack dab in the middle of my screen, they should look like the rest of the app.
> In other words, why does an apparent conflict of interest in "traditional" finance not actually exist for the crypto industry (or at least why we should be okay with it existing).

In traditional finance a "securities exchange" is like, the New York Stock Exchange. A big centralized thing of which there are barely a dozen in the whole country and most people would have trouble to name three. There are many stocks that are only registered on one exchange. That wants to be separated from other functions because otherwise it would become an abusive monopoly.

Nobody has anything like a monopoly on trading Bitcoins so that doesn't really apply.
Thank you, this is very detailed and valuable feedback. Much appreciated!
Here in the real world that is the software company's problem. Countries do not change their laws just to make some random accounting software company happy, unless they bribe some politicians first.

Accounting software have tons of local adaptations.
> Take the money we'd spend on that and build more renewables; there's still plenty of places in the world (US included) that are still burning coal. Taking those plants offline is a bigger win than storing excess energy that we get for free (minus a longer payback period on the equipment).

> Simply overbuild the hell out of solar and wind. Build it out so that they handle the winter demands

How do you propose replacing coal with renewables without storage?
Here in the EU, in winter there is no way to power national grids from PV (with the possible exception of PIGS) and a few landlocked countries can't have enough wind power (also often the wind just does not blow enough even for offshore production). Currently there is a mix of sources including coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, biomass etc.
There is also a strong national bias so even as a small country you can't be completely dependent on other countries for power.

> So if you have a lot of solar and wind, you'll want to do those at noon rather than at night. Same for other high energy draw activities.

Or we could power night activities with the PV from west, but there is only Morocco/Western Sahara and then the ocean. But people still want to cook food and watch TV in the evening and they will not change that, so we will need short term storage. That's probably not even an big issue though.

> Build pumped storage between two artificial basins

We do have a few here, here is the biggest one:
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cierny_V%C3%A1h_(vodn%C3%...

it's impressive, but also easy to see the limits: you need suitable geology and geography and without that can't reach sufficient capacity.
Disruption. Hell ya. Invented the internet. Hell ya. Think different hell ya. Also permagrift, hell ya. That's a16z in a nutshell. Right now Marc is collecting his money from Saudi.
If it were possible to determine the program name in a way that was portable and not too painful, it would be a nice feature for the library to automatically set a better default, both to save work for devs using it and to save sqlite devs the hassle of their library getting blamed for things that aren't its fault. Now, I don't think those conditions are likely to be met, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice if it were practical.
I was not at Revolver... that particular time. :-)
A better question is, should we wall off autocratic states instead of granting them access to servers to rifle through people's text messages and email as they please?

Why not? Do these autocratic countries obey the laws of the countries they attack with bots seeking to destabilize discourse? Espionage? Harassment? All government-sanctioned.

Also lots of crime.. theft of IP, copyright violations, straight-up fraud, etc.

They should apologize for being such poor global citizens.
I beg to disagree.

Actually at first, as I'm using my phone, I must say that Codepen mobile UX is great. There are three buttons on top that act as tabs. There are no visible scrollbars on phones, there are no visible scrollbars in Codepen. They either programmed that or conformed to the OS, the result is OK.

I switched to desktop mode to get the HTML and result views side by side. I have to horizontally scroll the page but that's to be expected on a narrow screen. There is no visible scrollbar but again, that could be because of the mobile OS. If I were on my laptop with a full screen window I wouldn't mind to have an always visible OS scrollbar at the right of the HTML editor. It's in the middle of the screen but I've got OS scrollbars in the middle of the screen any time I place an editor window to the left of my screen, so what's the problem?
$5M a year, to be in standby during the winter, easily converted to synthetic oil if carbon prices ever becomes prohibitive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlshamn_Power_Station

Which nuclear plant did you want to finance for $5M a year?
It's a human problem really. If you asked an artist to draw a dog you'd have to "trust" them? To control every detail you'd have to tell them every detail, either upfront (whereby the artist night struggle to achieve) or as a series of edits. In the latter case both artist and AI would struggle to keep the look consistent the more edits you make.
I wasn't planning on it, but since HN has it, I don't see why not. I'd have the modify the ranking algo but it is doable, of course.
https://github.com/aethereans/aether-app/blob/master/LICENSE... AGPL-3.0 Only

Had to dig to find the source code repository.
I wish your friend the best, but starting a beverage company seems like such a huge lift. People consume beverages mainly at 3 places:
1. At home
2. At work
3. At a restaurant / bar

Each of these require a completely different distribution strategy. Along with that there are very good alternatives that you will find everywhere. The taste of Coke is liked by most humans in the world, and Coke is available everywhere!

I wish your friend the best!
Likening Goatse to child sexual abuse photography seems akin to likening an action movie to ISIS execution videos (except even in that case the mere possession of the material isn't a crime so perhaps it's understating the case).
https://archive.is/6xEDC
Children really are peak Dunning-Kruger.
It’s not really anthropocentric WRT physics. If interstellar travel were easy, we’d see lots of different species and some form of distribution along the “willingness to be discovered” axis.
I find it interesting, yes. I did not do it for the money; I don't think it's ever been the main thing that motivated me to do the degree (though of course I was indirectly influenced by that seeing how I know lots of people who use that as their motivation).

I also just feel embarassed because frankly, I can tell my class is supposed to be easy. Not drop dead easy, but it's not supposed to be super hard, and I still feel like I struggle too much. My university is okay, it's not ranked poorly (for whatever that's worth), but it is not a top tier university which would subject its students to incredibly difficult work. It very strongly feels that the stuff I am doing should not take too long (were I to do it myself in isolation, with only the internet to help me), but it feels like I need too much help from my friends and other resources. At times I cannot finish in time, and I need to resort to using their help to get through my assignment, and I absolutely hate it. I despise not being able to stand on my own feet. I don't mean I'm unwilling to accept help of any kind, because that's stupid, but I would like to feel that I would be capable to doing some part of things myself -- because I know I won't always have friends to help me.
> I'd love to know if the people that measured and promote these bright, astonished-face, click-bait thumbnails ever bothered to test their effectiveness with different target demographics

They have bothered to test the effectiveness, and found that clickbait does work. (You'll sometimes see a video title change over time as creators try to find a title that drives more engagement.) The reality is that whatever gets more views or engagement is more valuable to creators -- target audience really doesn't matter.

In this world, most of the money you get is from sponsorships and YouTube ad share, which requires raw views. (Something the "intended audience" doesn't care about!) For a creator trying to make money, the "intended audience" is whoever watches your videos. Does it matter to the creator if the "intended audience" is kept away when the creator ultimately makes more money by boosting views through clickbait?
> If I write a book with visionary ideas that promises to change your life (great returns) and continue to work on revisions as I come up with new ideas - should I register it as a security before I can sell my book

Is there an expectation of profit in those buying your book? No? Then it’s not a security.

It’s a multi-prong test. Investor protection laws are substantial; everything is constantly being challenged in courts as a security.
I personally really don't like much Python, I find it as tedious to write as Go but without the added performance, typesafety and autocomplete benefits that comes with it in exchange.

If I have use a dynamic language, at least make it battery included like Ruby. Sure it's also not performant but I get something back in exchange.

Python sits in a very uncomfortable spot which I don't find a use for. Too verbose for a dynamic language and not performant enough compared to a more static language.

The testing culture is also pretty poor in my opinion, packages rarely have proper tests, (and especially in the ML field)
That's very kind, thank you. The following/subscription is not implemented yet, I've been building this on the side, so quite a few features are missing but in the pipeline.
"Wolves and sheep are equally welcome in this establishment."
You likely granted surveillance companies licenses to use and share your content however they see fit, assuming EULAs and ToS are binding.