skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you want to be in five years? That's what I ask myself once in a while.

Read the great books of the field, starting with the Mythical Man Month, because all the others refer back to it.

Do one of the CS courses they mention on here once in a while. Online, self-paced whatever. (Oh, see you've found one.)

Don't rush it, expect it to take several years at a part-time pace to get fully up to speed. Yet, you never stop learning in this biz---don't take it personally. Was telling a younger person recently that there is an overwhelming amount of things to learn as a software dev these days. I had the benefit of learning it piece by piece over a couple of decades from the ground up as it was invented. Not so today, don't be too hard on yourself.
Show HN: I created Twitpic, now I've launched Glue
Hello, HN. I'm a long-time lurker here and this is my first Show HN (be gentle).

I created Glue which is best described as "Twitter meets Tumblr meets Medium" which is longer than just saying another Twitter alternative but IMO not 100% accurate. I launched Glue in mid '21 and have been slowly iterating on it since.

Glue lets you share text, photos, video, audio, code snippets, quotes or break out into a long-form blog post. Posts on Glue are called "Drops".

Glue in action:

- My profile: https://glue.im/noah

- Audio: https://glue.im/shpigford/30482820740681729

- Code snippet: https://glue.im/noah/99641696463097857

- Blog Drop https://glue.im/glue/share-quotes-and-code-snippets

- Quote: https://glue.im/noah/241292351245389825

What makes it different from others?

- Trying to keep the UI simple and clean

- Use your own domain (ex: https://blog.ark.fm)

- Clean urls for long-form blog Drops (see above)

- Working on an API model that works for us and developers long-term

Glue doesn't have mobile apps yet, I think that's the biggest missing piece at the moment.

Feedback appreciated
This was my first major open source project. My main motivation was giving devs a starting point for Blazor that had everything ready for a full stack app. Database, auth, mail, events, queues, cron jobs, and more.

If you are interested in contributing, check out the Github repo. https://github.com/blazor-spark/blazor-spark
Your vesting package is also meaningless unless I can trade my options for cash when they vest and then exchange that cash for goods and services. I value equity in a non public company at $0
Drugs and guns are a lifestyle decision though...
"The < 30 crowd, particularly the 12-20 crowd is fatter and more American shaped."

I am going to rid my vocabulary of the word "fat" and just refer to people as "American Shaped" from now on...
Yeah, that's the point the article makes. My personal favorite is the response to Steve saying

> And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.

which is:

> While I am willing to get hype about the general idea of property inheritance being so anti-democratic in nature that a democratic society must expropriate that property to function, I am guessing Steve Huffman, estimated net worth in the millions Steve Huffman, is not too married to what that implies, and really intends only to speak of inherited authority.
There's the same problem with variables and filenames containing 2+ underscores, resulting in unwanted italics.
I wouldn't call it compassionate. The pets can't have a word on it. I think it's egotistical. Pets make us fun. When they stop being a fun source, we kill them and replace with "puppy-mill" sourced younger ones, while congratulating ourselves for our "piety". We force-sterilize them, for our own convenience. Just like slavery was once considered normal by slave-owners, but now we all see it as a barbaric practice, I think future generations will look down upon us, for the way we used to treat animals.
> but mastodon wants to transfer a lot of problems to whoever runs the server and to the user

I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here - could you unpack it a bit?
very neat, slick graphing, and useful to boot :)
They do. Look at Hubzilla.
Sure, but you are already logged into the machine and writing arbitrary commands, it’s game over. You could write a cron or put something into bashrc. Does that mean cron or bash is exploited?
There are some great moderators on Reddit who are selflessly keeping their communities afloat. There are also those who are power hungry, routinely abuse their power, accept payments from corporations, and generally make the site a worse place. Mods of most popular/default subreddits more likely than not fall in the latter category.
yet maybe ukraine's services are using tor for some of their communications ?
> It saddens me greatly if it's all been whitewashed down to "Dark Ages wrongspeak, Early Middle Ages rightspeak" and "Middle Ages backwards, Renaissance forwards" today because that is so grossly worthless.

It always is alarming how often you see people say "smart people don't say X anymore, smart people say Y now," and a large segment of people jumps on board without any critical thought. It's not that criticism of the term is entirely without merit, but such criticism could be applied to all simplistic labels for historical epochs. Yet you don't see people take such issue with terms like "Bronze Age Collapse," because these comments aren't coming from a consistent intellectual framework, but rather from people mindlessly repeating a shibboleth.
I'm not sure what you mean. Mods have not stopped moderating, it's just that some subs went private
US global megajurisdiction corruption notwithstanding, no. There is a difference between your hosting provider being subject to US jurisdiction and having to take something down, and you personally being subject to US jurisdiction and being liable for having posted it.
It feels empty, like people created accounts then left after a week since there was never the critical mass to support a constant buzz of information. And (this is just my weird very subjective opinion) Mastodon often feels like the unholy child of 2010 Tumblr and Stackoverflow.
Yes, this is true, but sometimes it’s because pointer ownership is a poor fit for the problem. Sometimes dangling references are logically possible and what you want. (There should be a runtime check, though. Generation numbers can help.)

A compiler can only prevent bad things from happening within a system, typically just one process. The world around it doesn’t work that way. A system is often a cache, not an owner, and caches go out of date because the world changed without notice. You want to update on what notices you get that the world changed. You can’t prevent inconsistency, only detect it and react by updating or removing outdated information.

This probably isn’t relevant within a batch compiler, but it would be for a language service in an IDE.

Games often simulate worlds where references shouldn’t own things. It would be a weird form of power to remotely prevent something from getting destroyed because you remember it. Even though both objects are within the same process, they’re modeled as independent systems where pointer ownership doesn’t happen.
One thing I'm kind of curious about is:

> Using an example to illustrate this, if Reddit it came to me and attempted to charge me to moderate my sub, I would say no. If they offered to pay me to moderate, I would also say no because that would come with an expectation, or some kind of SLA or otherwise that I am not prepared to give.

If Reddit came to you and tried to charge you to keep the subreddit running at all – as in, it'd be deleted from the web if the mods didn't pay – would that change the answer here? I have this suspicion that – for at least some smaller subs – it would.

And for bigger ones, I would guess mods might not... perhaps because they guess Reddit is already making enough ad money off their work for that exchange to seem unfair.
Great!

So what do you call that economic system in which individual people volunteer to improve privately owned property and the only “compensation” is simply the opportunity to use/improve private property.

And again, unlike sharecropping, volunteers get zero of the property as fiat to convert.

Preemptively there’s no possible pathway to claim that Reddit is a “Public Commons”, because nobody but the legal owners and their designated controllers, determine the distribution of value or future of the property.
Love the responsive ui on mobile and how quick it is!
Same. Either you chill in West/South Europe or you go the consulstant/entrepreneurship route. Another option is not to be in West/South Europe
Of course. The question here is not one of whether wealth inequality is bad, but if we are living in the period of the greatest wealth inequality in all of human history.
If the healthCARE system cannot be factored into how poor the health of its citizens is, then what’s the point of it?

The truth is that the healthcare system in the US is a massive source of revenue. There is little preventative practices going on because those don’t make money. If you don’t think healthcare is a part of the problem in the US, you must never have participated in it.
Week with Google's foldable phone proves tech is long way from catching on
Here's a paper, the first I found --- it's not about Europe, but it gives a sense of the challenge here: recoding late-prenatal and early-neonatal deaths almost 2x'd Cuba's infant mortality rate. With cites to other papers:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681443/
That low end of 80k is still higher than even most EU countries.
Do you see the article saying that, and, if so, where?
yeah, so now I wonder which it is. Of course it will also depend on the state I guess.
Probably could keep a whole fleet of A-10s in the air for the price of a few F-35s.
Did you come to a different conclusion about the actual content of this article than I did?
> Low income = lower quality diet

I don't buy it. Most of Europe has lower income than the US but the quality of their food is just vastly superior.

Just watch this video
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtzaSnGMIEN/?igshid=MzRlODBiN...

I suspect it's a combination of low quality food and not walking.
Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down
What will be very interesting, as stated in the article, is to see what the factorio creatives in the community figure out what to hack together based on this...

I expect some sort of UE5 factorio-esque battle system...

Imagine a game where you run a factory, and you haveto maintain it - while a bunch of PvP FPS shooter are running through your factory battleing it out and keep dmaging your supply lines and you have to fix them - you can choose to join the factory maintenance team, or be a PvP player laying waste to your enemies and fucking up the factory supply lines for the other teams at the same time.
Before that happens, I would expect some pushback against religions brainwashing/indoctrinating children into believing fairytale characters and scenarios are actually true and actively present in the world.

Some religions take 10% of your adult income. Buying a Zelda game or Marvel movie ticket is peanuts in comparison.
> corrupt

To quantify the statement,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Corruption_Barometer
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A... basically, they use the firmware to enforce compliance with the regs on different regions. If you can load your own firmware, you could make the device no longer compliant.
> if you need performance, don’t use an SPA

you can make a SPA using vanilla JS, without any bundle using plain es6 module and be perfectly fine. I made one such scaffold to showcase people how to do exactly that: https://mickael-kerjean.github.io/skeleton/example/index.htm...
It makes Spez the King, that is obvious. The landed gentry were trying to lead a popular rebellion against the King, so the King reminded the commoners that the landed gentry are not their democratic representatives. This doesn't mean the King is suggesting himself to be democratic, of course he isn't and he wouldn't agree to an election for himself. But since the mods claim to be representatives of the commoners in a popular uprising, they framed themselves as democratically legitimate and in doing so, set themselves up to be threatened with elections they know they wouldn't win.
External css files are render blocking, meaning any content after a <link rel=stylesheet> will not be visible until the css has been loaded.
I've been exploring this concept a lot myself. It's more than just the physical (im)permanence of the output. It's how every letter is a purposeful, even the mistakes. Every mark reflects something about the subject, the creator, or both. The work itself may be recognized as art in some form - poetry, essay, etc - but the physical work is also art unto itself, if you consider art as the output of emotions into a form that can be shared.
in datasets that I’ve worked with it is so incredibly common and so incredibly slow that I’ve previously made a fast library to work with them: https://github.com/williame/TimeMillis

Not as fast as SIMD, perhaps, but much faster than the Java standard library…
It’s bad for everyone in tech because it drives wages down artificially.
> You went from hash functions are invertible to hash functions contain subroutines that are invertible.

No. You misunderstood from the start because you apparently didn't recognize that SHA256 is built from an invertible block cipher named Davies–Meyer, and have probably googled the structure afterwards and then double-downed on the Merkle–Damgård compression function.

SHA256 is built up from an invertible block cipher for a reason. Invertibility has many important properties, one of which is the maximization of entropy while mixing the 256-bits of state into 256-bits of new-state.

Anyone who knows the internal structure of modern hashes knows what I'm talking about. Modern encryption is hugely built from one-to-one and onto functions. Its just the easiest way to prove various features.

Yes, even hash functions.

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BTW: Please pay attention to usernames as well. You're yelling at a fellow poster who is... erm... not me.
While accountability on people to change their lifestyles would be ideal, the truth is that marketing as a domain has such a deep understanding of how to get humans to go towards something. And that something is almost never the healthy and happy thing. You don’t see ads for broccoli. And policy is driven by billions of dollars in lobby money, no way of turning that tide.
What's your take on the surge of UFO/UAP sightings, discussion, etc.?

UFO's: A UFO is anything the FAA or Military of each country can not identify. If I launch a metal disc into the air and a camera briefly captures it but that camera or sensor lacks the speed and resolution to identify it, then it's a UFO. Sensors can also be tricked. There are a lot of hoaxes started this way. People could easily build a large drone, add some cool light and sound effects and fly over a football stadium on a foggy or cloudy night and people would lose their minds. Until it is officially identified, it's a UFO created and controlled by a human prankster.

Aliens: Even if one of them engages with the military or reporters and ultimately does a 3 hour long form interview on Joe Rogan that would not be enough to convince me they are aliens. Humans are slowly making some progress in science and can already make human hybrids that when combined with other species would appear alien. That would be tantamount to a circus freak show and just gets into ethical and medical legal issues. I would just add to this that if there were aliens and if they even briefly monitored us they would certainly never land here. They know we would jack their ride. meaning we would steal their tech and probe or dissect them. If they did land here it would not be at a military base. It would be where there are supplies and soft targets that would not be a threat to them. Probably a warehouse for a hardware store at 3am.

If the "sky people" and the "floating cities" the ancient Sumerians referred to were real and not drug induced hallucinations then we had best hope they do not come back or there would be no doubt about aliens. We would all be slaves and building them more megaliths and/or digging out the existing ones and retrofitting them. Hopefully we were just a stop-over for food and fuel on a one-way trip. I'm leaning towards hallucination as I used to have dreams about these floating cities when I was a toddler.
> Modern medicine and infrastructure has extended the body's lifespan, but no such improvement has been made for the brain's lifespan.

IIRC, it was discovered recently just the shingles vaccine reduces the probability of dementia by 20%.
The mods aren’t even the nobles… they are just serfs with skills like the village miller or blacksmith.
I only skimmed the article so I don’t have anything to say about the broader point. But, $3.4m/yr seems like a shockingly low valuation for the amount of work moderators are providing Reddit for free. That would, I think, be a pretty small fraction of how much they pay for engineering, for example.

If Reddit could just pay moderators that money, it seems to me to be an obviously good deal. But I mostly suspect the number is a pretty big underestimate and Reddit couldn’t just do that.
Octopuses changing skin pattern while asleep may show they dream
Meta will have a hard time doing Embrace Extend Extinguish on atproto.

ActivityPub however, this easily puts them in a dominant position. Meta can put more developers on ActivityPub today than the combined open source projects,all together. They will control AP, the same way Google controls the WHATWG
By the end of this comment, you're talking about the same stuff that Yglesias is, but most of the preceding comment that I responded to was about health outcomes, and part of the thrust of the article is that health outcomes aren't determinative of the life expectancy gap in the US, because that gap is dominated by drugs, guns, and, most especially, cars.

I agree with what you're saying at the end of this comment: if your policy goal is to reduce the life expectancy gap, interventions in health care and nutrition aren't likely to pay off, but interventions in urban design or economic mobility (to combat the drugs and guns) likely will. Which is why, if you believe what this article is saying, you should probably flinch when people write long comments about potato chip advertising in response to it.
> [Reddit] relies on a vast amount of unpaid volunteer moderation labor – $3.4 million’s worth a year, by one estimate.

I’ve noticed the link to a member-only Medium article[1] that serves as a source for that estimate, but I have to ask—is that a vast amount? It doesn’t feel like a vast amount. It’s at most 30 first-world full-time employees (and even that is a huge stretch) or 4e-3 $/MAU/yr (per a 2021 estimate of 900M monthly active users I picked from search results at random). It feels too small to even pay for the maintenance of the third-party mod tools, let alone the actual (far more numerous) moderators.

Does this number seem plausible to anyone with actual domain knowledge?

[1] https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3...
Welcome to Q3 I guess. I'm going to be spending a large part of this time backing up various sites and creators that I want to keep track of, since I feel like this is going to get worse.
I’d say the protocol’s complexity tries to solve a lot of real problems that infest social media today, only time will tell if those solutions are the right ones.
https://archive.ph/Xf5E4
canolcer@hey.com - if you've still got one? Thanks a lot either way :-)
That was the past. Recently Disney decided to openly campaign against one of two major parties in the US, effectively choosing to align themselves against 50% of the country. While this has endeared them to one of the parties, it was an open declaration of war against the other making it much harder to gather the bipartisan support they need to change copyright.

This is also starting to cut into film revenues. While park attendance remains high, it's been some time since they had much success at the box office. They're laying off large blocks of people. They just aren't as all powerful anymore.
calculus = introductory real analysis aimed at engineering and science students. Same material, different emphasis.
From all the drama that has happened in there, there were at least an upside - u/awkwardtheturtle, the mod behind the power trips at r/art (allegedly who took down posts from people who according to said mod were "ai generated art" but actually they weren't), was banned.
Curious if anyone has deployed something prod which uses Redbean.
So what are you proposing? Assisted suicide laws require the patient to be of sound mind. One dementia has set in they can't legally consent.
Drop shipping from a huge number of barely-vetted vendors should be legally risky, yes.
I am a big believer that all approvals are bad. All they do is add wait time and bottlenecks with people who are further from the problem. I think they are a symptom of poor risk mitigation.

code reviews are a discussion and my one exception.
Self-defending JavaScript code and debugger traps
If you're looking for where the 1/3 "comes from", I think using Pappus' second theorem[0] is the way to go. The theorem states that the volume of a solid of revolution formed by a revolving shape is the area of the original shape multiplied by the distance traveled by its _centroid_. The centroid of a triangle is determined based on distances from the three sides, and this is where thirds come from. For example, the centroid of a a right triangle with points (0,0), (0,1), and (1,0) sits at (0.33(3), 0.33(3)). That's a third!

The OP alludes to this with the mention of a solid of revolution in the post. And someone mentions Pappus in the thread there. How did Pappus figure out the centroid was distance to consider? I think that's another mystery, since the proofs of the theorem seem to depend on calculus, which brings us back to the original question.

Anyway, I was looking into the exact question of the OP a few months and this was the most satisfying answer I could find for where the 1/3 comes from geometrically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus%27s_centroid_theorem#Th...
This seems to nail it pretty well

I think the reason people balk at this is because in the case of physical property, you’re talking about literally life and death. It’s hard to make similar comparisons with text on computer screens.

So irrespective of whether or not structurally it makes sense, people I think are fighting with the comparison because the stakes are so different
Coffee burns work the same no matter the year. Get a big cup of black coffee today from Starbucks or virtually any other coffee shop and it will be hot enough to give you third degree burns in less than a second.

The hot coffee lawsuit is like if somebody bought a fancy chef knife and the blade fell out of the handle and stabbed them in the foot. Their lawyers then argue that the blade was far too sharp and also the handle was defective. They win the lawsuit because the handle was in fact defective. But now you have people on the internet saying that knife co made knives too sharp, when in reality any good knife will be sharp enough to stab your foot. The outcome of the lawsuit was correct but everybody took away the wrong lesson from it.
I totally agree. Isn't that quite different than what painkillers do?

Presumably your new path has something to do with a problem that you had. It's not helping you cope with having the problem, it's prodding you to solve the problem.
Definitely end the H1-B program.
Brian Chesky on leadership and organization design