skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a big fan of "Mix.install" since it was released!

I believe this made me use Elixir instead of Ruby (my natural scripting language) more and more.

I use it on a regular basis for my work on https://transport.data.gouv.fr/?locale=en (which is Elixir-based and open-source), as one can see at https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/tree/master/scripts.

What I like the most is that it helps me start ideas, experiments & data analysis with their own set of dependencies (without much care of "will this impact the main application?"), store those experiments in the same repo at the main application, and maybe later promote some of those experiments to the main application source code.

Concrete examples include:

- data wrangling https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts..., https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts...

- exploring a new tool https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts...

- gradually iterating to create scripts to generate XML queries https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/tree/master/scripts... (later incorporated in the application)

- comparing GTFS (transportation data) files via scripting https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts...

- learning how to compute the checksum of the internal content of a zip file https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts...

As mentioned in the article, I can definitely recommend to check out https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples which has a long list of examples.

One last tip is that you can also use "mix run script.exs" on a file not using "Mix.install", in order to rely on the same dependencies & configuration as the main application (e.g. to run a Ecto query https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts...).
No paywall: https://archive.md/6ZeNh

Alternative source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/jpmorgan-agrees-settle-with-ep...
Curious. At the time, I also made a pretty picture comparing deaths in 2020 to the 2015-2019 average (ignore the drop off at the end, as the data was incomplete at the time):

https://i.imgur.com/X6BKdnt.png

Sweden was the only country where the result was clearly distinguishable from noise...
Thanks for building this and I hope you don't get discouraged by HN's tendency to shoot stuff down. It's best to pretend like it's the hottest new thing, for the highest chance of that actually being true.
But it will look disconnected from every other app on the user's system.

Whatever style the user currently has installed on their system, if the scrollbars on your app look the same as all the other scrollbars they ever use, they'll recognise them instantly and know how to use them instantly, with zero additional cognitive load.

You users might be using enough of their brain to figure out your app (maybe because they're also being partially distracted by their boss/child/phone/pet/music) already, don't make them spend time thinking about your gorram scrollbar as well.
This is like the 20th reason why I need to get a filament in the retro computer beige color.
Whether it's a "requirement" or not is irrelevant (and you'll note that I did not claim it is).
The part that matters is that companies in practice do act to maximize profit and hand that profit to their shareholders.
> aren't possible to comply with for crypto because of how it works

Why is this?

Thanks for the other detail you provided.
you should try and get an API that has full parity with Reddit, an app that does that will replace Reddit because all third party apps simply need to change urls for Reddit to your domain.
It didn't trigger one on my phone...
Salty much FTX Bro? This is David „underscore“ Smith, developer of Widgetsmith and a ton of other successful iOS apps. Genuinely one of the nicest human beings. If anyone has earned the rights to flex its him.
Since Electron can be considered the browser chrome itself, the developer can access to its lower level API to customize those things. You can also set the dark mode in CSS.
Particularly on this issue, I think the mainstream consensus is what Central banks are doing in response to inflation.

Are they wrong at least some of the time? Hell yeah.
Legalize, tax, and regulate.

Regulate includes public consumption: you can't drive while intoxicated, but also if you're nodding off from smoking fent on public transit that should be dealt with a trip to a treatment facility.
mame's stuff is crazy - in a quite positive way ;) +1
> not including tips — the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in…

Hell yeah! Please let this catch on everywhere, tips should be pure gravy for service workers and not part of the base salary. If a business is making any demand of an employee's time they need to be paid at least minimum wage by the person making that demand.

It is silly how bad we've messed up "you want a human for 1hr, this is the rate."
> 1. Free to browse, paid to interact.

This is exactly what I have been pondering recently about maintaining a website with useful content not prone to some of the problems we are seeing from all of the "free to interact" websites. Only serious contributors would pay for the ability to aggregate and interact with a community.

Thank you for your work on this, will be looking into this further.
Historical accuracy is very different than works of fiction whose purpose is mostly entertainment.
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> Once upon a time, location was not a factor in finding a job.

it's kind of like the opposite
Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (2006)
That attitude is what got us into this low-trust mess. It should not be up to the government to determine what debate the public is ready for.

The debate will occur anyway, so if you try to suppress it, you just push it into the depths of the internet with all the associated downside.
Apologies, I misunderstood.

In any case, the i5-1240p is fantastic. I wouldn't prefer any other SOC over it given it's an Intel, an x64 chipset and an absolute animal in power, compatibility and performance (especially multi-core).

Also, their n100 chipsets are insanity for low-end, low TDP computing. I don't think there is anything comparable on the market. As I understand it, this uses all efficiency cores.

An n100 server could handle any task you could ever throw it and only pull 6watts of power.
Looks like the website has been overwhelmed with spam, and, possibly hacked/exploited [1]. It looks like someone has been able to create directories & upload scripts [2]?

I do bug bounty in my spare time so this was an interesting live find.

[1] https://non.io/expoity

[2] https://html.non.io/upload-demo.html
Has anyone found the easter egg yet? ;)
Congress has been far from united on the crypto issue thus far, particularly in the wake of the FTX collapse, and the various drafts of legislation that have been proposed have largely been dead on arrival. But Coinbase has put a significant amount of time, effort, and money into lobbying: in 2022, they spent $3.4 million lobbying the crypto industry (on top of Binance’s $1.1 million spent lobbying in the US, all coming together to amount to around $11.9 million in lobbying efforts from the industry that year).

This seems like very little relative to a company worth tens of billions of dollars?
You can offer censorship to users who want it, everything stays up but some people dont see it
Also on this robot (warning, her blog is full of interesting things):

https://www.windytan.com/2013/02/the-atomic-powered-robot.ht...
Instant Pot was purchased in 2017 by Cornell Capital, a private equity company.

I discovered this just now by when I thought "I bet some private equity company bought them and destroyed them in order to make short term profits" and then googled "instant pot private equity" to see if that was the case. It appears so.

Gotta love those private equity companies. I'm no expert, but this article is a good overview of how they can be incentivized to kill good brands. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/6/21024740/private-equi...
KDE neon used zsync for iso deltas less than 8 years ago iirc
Amazing! There had for a long time been both cheap hardware for hacking, like Arduinos and Pis of all sorts, and also hardware for retro systems emulation that so far hasn't been all that cheap. It's nice to see more projects that that participate in both camps.

Can't wait to try it myself :)
This was posted by a Reddit admin today. Notable for this section, which asks any moderators who do not agree with a sub going private to report this to admins. The implication is that reddit would make those mods the head moderators.

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They can be useful as funnels into smaller, more intimate servers. During the pandemic, a couple of friends and I would play a fair amount of Among Us, which basically requires a full game of 10 people with at least moderate communication skills to be fun. You'd hop into one of these mega servers, join a voice call to fill in your missing players, and often times, if you weren't a foaming-at-the-mouth lunatic, you'd end up being invited to a smaller server to play future games. Once such a server gained critical mass that they no longer needed to resort to randoms for extra players, these private servers would start only growing via mutual acquaintance.

I never would have found the smaller servers, where at this point no one's playing the game we initially met through but are all friends, if not for bigger servers meeting the need of that entrance to the pipeline.
What’s colour accuracy like? I wonder if the controlled environment with no external light etc could be useful for colour critical work.
It's also useful to know that Congress created the SEC in response to the 1929 stock market crash. Their primary purpose is to prevent the conditions that caused that.

> There should just be a letter of the law , analytical meaning branch of government.

I don't think that's a thing that is possible. You can't write laws to cover every possible case, and writing them to be "self-interpreting" would be an extraordinarily difficult thing. Interpretation will always be required.
Which planet do you live on where running a mile burns 300-400 calories???
Agreed, I find this a bit annoying too. Makes me create a module earlier than I'd have wanted (but not too much trouble though).

One can still reuse code with "Code.require_file", which is nice to have.
The Howey test is applied to the current status of an asset. It doesn't take an asset's origins into consideration.

If you believe that Ethereum currently represents "an investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others", then it is a security. If not, then not.
Ah I see it, looks like you're right:

> DIA currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones. The data DIA receives is global in scope and is not identified as “U.S. location data” or “foreign location data” by the vendor at the time it is provisioned to DIA. DIA processes the location data as it arrives to identify U.S. location data points that it segregates in a separate database. DIA personnel can only query the U.S. location database when authorized through a specific process requiring approval from the Office of General Counsel (OGC), Office of Oversight and Compliance (OOC), and DIA senior leadership. Permission to query the U.S. device location data has been granted five times in the past two-and-a-half years for authorized purposes.

It's worth noting that they do collect the data up front, and only querying it is restricted. But I suppose having to follow due process for that part is better than nothing.
Maybe the solution is to have the Fed keep rates high so VC firms don't get good enough returns to invest in social media /s
That’s not the main reason why so many more people are childless now. We have a long road ahead to fix this.
Never said you couldn't have concurrency bugs.

I specifically mentioned thread deadlocks and atomism. You cannot claim locks, so you cannot claim them out of order. JavaScript has no notion of "atomic integer increment" since all variable access is atomic/single threaded.

That is not the same as the straw man claim you asserted for me.

And I reiterate: no deadlocks or atomism concerns greatly aids developers in writing secure and robust code. It does not eliminate all bugs, concurrent or otherwise, nor did I ever claim it did.

If you can find a code example in browser-based JS that triggers a deadlock, I'd be fascinated to learn about it.
National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan for Planetary Defense [pdf]
>The only way to make money is to grow, and the only way to grow is to kill the community

Word.
I like reasoned critiques of crypto. Heck, I think many crypto actors are scammers and should be punished. However, a lot of crypto is legit and this piece reeks of bias. Some examples:

- comparison with heroin - wtf? To extend that ridiculous analogy, it would be akin to FDA approving heroin based products (similar to how SEC approved Bitcoin ETF in 2021) and then going after heroin. What message is SEC trying to deliver? That holding Bitcoin via futures-based ETF is okay but crypto itself is scam? Kafka couldn't have invented a better plot

- scare quotes when saying “tyrannical” Gary Gensler - tyrannical is an apt description of Gary. See the previous point about kafkaesque treatment. Also see the congressional testimony where the dude didn't even have a clear answer about the status of Ethereum, which is bigger in market cap than 90% of S&P500. Talk about protecting American consumers!
It's not that well known, and it's awesome too. I used that last week on "fire rescue production" scripts, and it was quite useful.

I'm glad that my 2 favorite languages have that feature.
I’m willing to give this a try if you can clean it up a bit. UX is rough on mobile. I also prefer subs to hashtags but whatever, I’m easy. I bailed on Reddit like 2yrs ago and there’s really no alternative that I can find except HN.
A community that can support a secret Santa and not have it devolve into a shitfit of scamming and backbiting is still a village. Once it’s bigger than that, it starts to fall apart.
That's a good point. It sure would be helpful if Gary Gensler elaborated on his reasoning, rather than handing down his opinions with no explanation.
Simple. EV charger tax.
They’re removing the GIL in some upcoming version. But in general it wasn’t really a problem. Most people don’t actually need multiprocessing and if they did it was handled by the library they’re using anyway.

Which isn’t to say the change isn’t welcome or not needed. Just that the limitation was overblown in most cases.
Mine’s main purpose is dealing with dinner when I forgot to defrost something the night before. Besides that it collects dust. I know it can do more but I view it as a machine that does everything ok and nothing perfect.
In my case, I blew up my life every couple of years for the past 10 years or so; changing jobs and country. It gave me a good sense of what's out there and how things work on a global scale but it's been a roller-coaster experience without any net gains in the long run.

I'm like a bird floating in the updrafts to conserve energy but every time the wind changes suddenly, I have to start flapping my wings again and it feels harder each time.
Yeah but guess what many don’t have? Any kind of pain killers. I went at like 3AM because of a headache and literally none to be found.
looking at the amount of people delving into their personal fantasies and projecting on to the world is and will always be hilarious
A couple things:

- Censorship is okay. Having a high bar for censorship is what places like HN are founded on. Setting guidelines is a good course of action for that. This is opposed to a code of conduct, which is essentially a pseudo-legal system that assuages some idea of fairness, which you'll frankly never have in social.

- Given the name ZSync it seems like you want to attract techies. I don't think ML or any algorithm which cannot be sufficiently explained is going to work well.

- Tags are not a substitute for subreddits; there's hard separation in a subreddit whereas tags are pretty fluid and usually a filterable option.

- There are so many zsyncs: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zsync and I don't even get what it's syncing.

> HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto.

HN was pretty amenable to crypto when it came about. Over time things soured. I think when things crossed the line here is probably when people started openly advocating removing code hosting for even basic non-grift crypto tech and then were seen advocating for AI ~1.5 months later. I don't think you can pick and choose what future weird attitudes your users will adopt.

> HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits".

HN is geared towards curiosity technically. The community may select for more than that via the flag and voting system; the selection bias will also change as HN gains more users of more diverse backgrounds and as people age into new careers/life. In the short time I've been here I've seen many HNs.

Overall, I applaud the initiative.
The straw man where some dude is like “hey I need your money more than you” and I’m like “could we not?”

Look I get it, it’s annoying to live in a dump where so many people live in public for whatever reason (lack of educational opportunities, structural racism, gender violence, poor healthcare, you name it, I agree it’s important) but if thirty percent of my income isn’t helping I sincerely doubt fifteen percent of my house is going to help much either. Sadly, I just don’t have that much to give.
It's called regulating. For areas that require complex administration, Congress passes laws that express its intent and directs the administrating agency to make rules that implement their intent. Congress can amend these laws to expand, contract, or direct the regulations made by these agencies.
I believe the API changes are not about third party apps or LLMs (at least directly). I think it's all about bots and spam. They only want to do business with real enterprises through their API. This raises the value of purchasing real ads through their platform vs buying upvotes and other subversive ads on grey markets. Once the API access is restricted I think there will be a huge dropoff in spam and bot accounts. You'll have to scrape endpoints and fight the built in anti spam detection on the app/website in order to game the system versus using the free highly available API that has fewer built in protections.
Does firefox ignore this? The codepen example doesn't seem to work for me.
Africans do too. https://www.science.org/content/article/africans-carry-surpr... .03%

The first Europeans are thought to be dark skinned and with blue eyes. I think their modern descendants include Estonians.
how about for-profit colleges . many were forced to shutdown due to lawsuits and major regulation under Obama
Originally well intentioned , I think we are seeing it break down here. I am not a lawyer, but as a layman I am not convinced by the sec and their interpretation of things. I am inclined to think that they will bow to political pressure and what is expedient for the current legislature instead of looking at things in a completely objective analytical manner.
> Gensler's SEC has also been intentionally obtuse about how those securities laws should apply to cryptocurrency.

No. Coinbase’s complaint is that the SEC has been clear, but that they don’t like the clear answer.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/5NRidtW8lvwVEfSHpn...

> Rather than initiate new rulemaking, Chair Gensler has repeatedly stated through speeches and testimony that the vast majority of digital tokens are securities, and has asked issuers and exchanges that offer, sell, and trade them to come in and register. We disagree that the majority of digital assets are securities. For those digital assets that are securities, registration under the current rules is, for many market participants, either not possible or not economically viable given the associated and unnecessary compliance burdens.
On the other hand, I find that starting to learn a language with one-off scripts is a nice gateway drug. This is how I started using Ruby initially!
I upvoted your comment, but presumably the idea is to get to HN-quality commentary mechanically (rather than having a handful of human moderators doing all of the moderation).

That said, I think the highest quality forum is currently lobste.rs. It might just be that smaller forums are easier to moderate, but also I think lobste.rs' moderation isn't vulnerable to some of the exploits that HN's moderation succumbs to. For instance, on HN if someone posts something mildly negative, they'll likely get moderated; however, if they post something that's pretty obviously hostile (to most people, anyway) but with the thinnest possible veneer of plausible deniability, they're not likely to be moderated (and anyone who challenges this plausible deniability may themselves be moderated for violating the 'assume positive intent' guideline). Lobste.rs' moderation lets users flag violating posts and too many flags will result in some moderation--I'm sure this could also be abused, but so far it seems to be doing a good job--maybe there's something Zsync could learn from their approach as well?
Tuna-Fish decides what qualifies as a "discount" simply by shooting out of his ass, unless you have insider knowledge you'd like to share.
The whole thing is weird. Books have some context, the author, the time it was written and so on. It seems bizarre to alter it.
In regard specifically of statues and monuments, we should not erect statues of people but of ideas. New York has a tremendously famous statue, it is not a statue of a person, it's a statue of an idea and ideas are something we can aspire to in a way we cannot and should not for people.

Courthouses often feature Lady Justice, who likewise is an idea. We might erect more statues of Hope, and of Beauty, we have built many symbolic tombs said to contain an "Unknown soldier", again symbolising an idea, not the individual even in cases where a specific unidentified corpse has been entombed.
I’d love a source for that. I’ve seen zero evidence for that - pedo shit is widely treated with the disgust and revulsion it deserves.