skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fueled | GLOBAL Remote Opportunities Available | Full-Time | https://fueled.com/careers

-- Who We Are -- An award winning web & mobile app dev agency.

-- to Where You Fit In -- You know how to create jaw-dropping websites and web/mobile applications.

-- Open Roles –

VP of Business Development | Remote (US) | https://grnh.se/75d8afc51us

Marketing Director | Remote (US) | https://grnh.se/292c2b521us

Senior Product Designer | Remote (NY) | https://grnh.se/3ee5b2881us

Please apply directly to the links but feel free to contact our Talent team at talent@fueled.com with any questions.
There are many public consultation and petition sites.

They’re very similar to SM In that they support discussions around topic-based threads, invariably with occasional voting features.
Other governments exist. And none of them seem to have done this either. But the "why" is lacking. As is the capability, frankly.
/r/programming is back
> If you say "column oriented" I'm going to ask you to explain why. I'm going to challenge what the load balancer is doing or what you expect it to do, and why.

And I would have happily repeated something from a video I'd watched on YouTube two nights earlier. It's a cram test.
Nowadays I’ve eschewed most media sources beyond three primary ones: BBC World News channel, Foreign Policy magazine, and Wikipedia current events portal [1]

The BBC channel only produces a few hours of news a day but manages to cover everything from the Titan sub to French protests to Israel’s anti-terrorism action in Jenin to Bolsonaro’s ban. They’re pretty much the only news source that reliably covers Latam, Africa, and the Middle East. They’ve got a rather predictable bias and a half hour a day is enough to get a broad view of what’s happening.

FP is great for deeper analysis from the perspective of the neoliberal establishment and its primary competitors. However to stay informed the only thing I feel I really need is the Wikipedia current events portal. Past days are updated as information comes in so I can go back when I have time and grab any headlines that I missed. It’s actually surprising how few eventful events actually happen in the world when you get rid of all the ragebait.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
it will be difficult to pursue this long-term.

My guess is it will be pursued until is starts to apply to Republicans.

Just like the debit ceiling --- it's only an issue when the other party controls the executive branch..
You didn't ask about productivity, you just stated that you did nothing for your software engineering work. This implies you have other types of work, possibly meetings, documentation, helping out others. Did you do those things? Then state that, many of the little things that happen add up and if you get slammed with a lot of that then you may not write any code that day. Did you spend hours troubleshooting some weird bug? Maybe feel imposter syndrome about it like others might be better at solving it and don't want to mention that, I would mention it to your manager. Long hours on tough problems are learning opportunities, things you'll likely remember for a career.

If you are distracted and didn't do any work at all for your employer, just tell your manager you need to put in a day off request for yesterday, got distracted with "life" (bingeing a show, grinding levels in a video game, staring at a wall, etc). Own up to it because if you end up letting it slide, its a slippery slope into that growing to a week of doing nothing and covering for yourself with varying excuses. Sure a day here or there might go unnoticed but eventually this will catch up with you if you aren't being honest with yourself. Then time goes by and someone looks at your outputs and sees next to nothing. A nothing day might be a sign that you should schedule time off every month/quarter, if you have one planned you'll look forward to it more and that might motivate you to get your stuff done.

Software work can be extremely boring at times and being remote has lots of potential distractions. Another perspective could be asking yourself if remote work is a good fit for you personally? It isn't for everyone.
My (& others) core point is that it has nothing to do with technology.

Corruption will always find a way, it’s a result of misuse of power and governmental opaqueness - not the lack of a blockchain.

That’s why I’m making the point around actual justice not being delivered to victims of crypto fraud, despite the traceable ledger. We still need the meatspace to actually catch criminals and reverse (though not exactly possible on the blockchain) the harm inflicted.
Er, individual stock trading is gambling, not investing.
> Results: Parents who read 1 picture book with their children every day provide their children with exposure to an estimated 78,000 words each a year. Cumulatively, over the 5 years before kindergarten entry, we estimate that children from literacy-rich homes hear a cumulative 1.4 million more words during storybook reading than children who are never read to.

This study just says that kids who are read to are exposed to more words. It's basically like saying kids who go outside more are exposed to more sunlight. Sure, this is definitely a true fact. But does it matter? This study says nothing about how reading effects outcomes in childhood or in life.

Wikipedia has a good article on the heritability of IQ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

> Various studies have estimated the heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults and 0.45 in childhood in the United States.

One thing that is interesting is that children have very random IQs that eventually converge to something approximating their parents' IQs. Perhaps this is explained by things like an early-life word gap that eventually gets filled with age.
Because of the Freedom of Information Act. People who start demanding to see posts, messages, logged in time, etc.
Looks like it came back 3 hours ago-ish, from being private as a protest.
Obviously there is a balance and this article/author specifically mentioned long-form articles and books as a better way to absorb, digest, retain, and comprehend information.

I think its probably more accurate to say "click-economy news" is bad for you. It's just so much of our news these days is done with newsflashes, tweets, click-bait headlines, etc that he lumps it all in to "news".

So its not so much that your bury your head in the sand, its that you get your news from quality sources, books, and in more meaningful ways.

I think we are in an interesting period in history where we are transitioning away from powerful information/text in the form of books and print media to a digital based paradigm. "Human consciousness in the digital age, which de-emphasizes the kinds of categorization that marked the age of print, makes us think in a way that is reminiscent of a “medieval peasant.”"
https://commforum.mit.edu/the-gutenberg-parenthesis-oral-tra...

Which is equally interesting and terrifying. (And combine that will subscriptions for all digital goods/services--and not owning anything yourself, a new digital form of serfdom.)
Why would we even want that? The list of issues I see with this is not short.
Where else should you store the passwords?
Would anyone trust or use a Government-Built Social Media Platform?

I wouldn't trust it. I wouldn't use it.
Willingness to participate, and purpose. Is it for fun or civic engagement?
Reading news doesn’t have to make one anxious.

There’s also countless times when lack of knowledge makes on life far harder than it needs to be.

I doubt a mind will be changed by reading that warning. But one can try.

And collective action by informed voters would quickly solve most major issues - but most Americans becoming well informed voters is an unrealistic expectation.
I feel like the author answers his own question- Government is happy to use existing platforms and avoid diverting tax dollars to compete with the private sector.
But the difference is that wait_all() is blocking the thread, right? Or does it keep running the event loop while it's waiting, so callbacks for other events can be processed on the same thread?

If it does the latter, the stack will keep growing with each nested wait call:

main -> runEventLoop -> someCallback -> wait_all -> runEventLoop -> anotherCallback -> wait_all -> ...

The async/await transformation to a state machine avoids this problem.
Lots of options out there. A few from my bookshelf: Bijker's "Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs" is a case-study-centric work that seeks to build a general theory of STS. Nye's "Technology Matters" is less a work of theory than a critique that poses core questions about how society should seek to integrate technical advances. Latour's "Science in Action," "Reassembling the Social," and "Aramis" are great examples of his approach to whole-of-system analysis of sociotechnical systems. Rogers' "Diffusion of Innovation" is a classic work theorizing how innovation is communicated through social networks.

MIT Press has a wide variety of books that cover specific topics in history, most of which have great theoretic interest: Agar's "The Government Machine," dealing with the evolution of technology and expertise within the UK government; Medina's "Cybernetic Revolutionaries," about Beer's Cybersyn project; and Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over," about the cultural development of the "programmer," are all great reads.

Also, you can look beyond pure technology for interesting adjacencies: for example, Schatz's "The Genius of the System" describes how changes in technology and management production radically upended Hollywood, resulting in the studio system that dominated from the 1930s through the 1950s, while Harris' "Pictures at a Revolution" picks up the pieces at the end of that system, discussing the rise of "New Hollywood," driven by cultural and technical (particularly the French use of inexpensive filming technologies to create the New Wave) forces.
All Rabbits Welcome
> but still less signal than a lunch interview

Careful with that line of thinking. There’s a significant body of research showing that people feel like a “chat about tech” interview provides the best signal, but it empirically performs the worst with a roughly 50% correlation to on-the-job performance. You’re better off flipping a coin because at least then you’re not biased.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_A_Flaw_in_Human_Judgmen...
New Horizons might end up looking back at old horizons
The mystery of microbes that live inside tumours
I have no interest in actually viewing twitter, but I might use this to build a scraping tool that dumps everything to /dev/null just because I can.
Anyone doing industrial scraping already knows all the tricks for user agent swapping and making headers, including their order, look like "real" browsers or bots. It's not about pushing people to the API.
A night of sleep deprivation shown to have antidepressant effect for some people
In programming the permissions required not to consume are less than permissions required to consume. This is where the dissonance begins regarding the meme of a programmer.

A program can exist with near zero consumption (a few neurons). A human cannot.

In short, every breath we take is a vote to participate in something greater than ourself.
> (Don't try to jam the American two-party lens onto UK four-plus party politics, it will not help you make sense of the actual situation).

Because the UK has FPTP elections, in practice it's a two party system but which two parties varies by locale, resulting in some weird interactions that aren't really seen in the US.

You aren't going to get elaborate rainbow coalitions under that model, as you might in say Germany.
Not just the 3D but the other effects were pretty impressive too with second reality. It looked like an Amiga demo but ran on a plain old VGA graphics hardware which didn't have any of the dedicated graphics effects (sprites, zooming, color bars, etc.) that Amiga machines were capable of creating in hardware.
I agree but want to correct you on the public school point. Excluding the service academics, there are 2 or 3 schools with sub 20% acceptance rates, and every other public school is above that.

See [1] and [2]. And these are the best public schools. The average of the top50 public schools is probably 40%ish, and the average of all public schools is 70%.

[1] https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/rank/public-colleges/...
[2] https://www.oedb.org/rankings/acceptance-rate/
on a post-it, under the keyboard its safer there
Could you elaborate more on what you mean?

I’d like to hear more of your thoughts on this.
If I concede the fact that I enjoy knowing what's going on around me, does that make it less bad for me?

This article (and these comments) seem to be focusing on some kind of "value", but to me the knowledge is the end, not the means.

Knowing stuff is cool, y'all.
That's sort of untrue; the history of radio and television in the US has a significant amount of moderation that did not run afoul of the first amendment. See for the current day: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fcc-and-speech

Aside from that, you're highlighting a US-specific dynamic. Other nations have different legal standards on speech; e.g. Britain has quite harsh libel laws. My assumption is that certainly some nations (not all) would be in a decent position to offer a well-moderated platform that is in line with their legal standards.
A bit disappointing it doesn't go into other details like being a women. As most PhD candidates are in their mid 20s and often by the end of the beginning of their academic careers they immediately have to decide to either have a family or pursue academia.
Is there any government on earth owning a website that:

-is used by tens/hundreds of millions of people every day to share and view large files

-have an usable UI

-doesn't go down 3 times a week

?
I said someone claiming to be a pony, not someone assigned pony by rando.
oddly specific
Because with context, it reads like an Onion article.

"Local man changes toothpaste, signalling six more weeks before collapse of empire."
One can certainly consume news without entering a state of permanent anxiety. If one does, I think that suggests an independent condition rather than a problem with the news. A healthy stoicism does not demand ignorance.
Choose quality over quantity and don't waste much time even on the quality news outlets, just enough to keep you in the loop with what happens in the world.

Quality means doesn't use clickbait, doesn't try to build outrage, doesn't try to present all kinds of horrors and very rare events like being trivial happening daily, doesn't try to shock.
Interesting. Any resources to learn more about this?
But it really doesn't take much to stay up to speed. I'm with kashuntstva; I stopped actively consuming the news a year or two back, and I find I'm not tangibly less informed than the people I know who leave CNN turned on all day. I somehow seem to absorb everything that actually matters from the atmosphere. The only thing I really miss out on is the sensationalism, the overanalysis from people who've made a career of running their mouths, and the inaccuracies and wild speculation that inevitably comes from reporters trapped in a 24 hour hamster wheel being under constant pressure to hurry up and tell the story before they've even had a chance to piece it together.
That sounds so exhausting. Was it all worth it? Would you do it the same way again?
The choices aren’t k8s or managed cloud offerings.

The choices are k8s, managed cloud offerings, bare vms, or bare metal.

Managed cloud offerings are expensive. Plenty of shops are still provisioning virtual machines from a minimal OS image, or renting cheap metal that can get them much further for a fraction of the cost.

Plenty of people operate in a pre-container orchestration world today and that isn’t going away.
Hey, Twitter lets anonymous users view tweets again!
Does WeChat not count? It seems like the biggest government controlled social media on the planet. Maybe the biggest social media on the planet period.
I could be misinformed, but couldn't a contractor or independent company just partner with government agencies (local, state, federal) and thus do away with the first amendment infringement issue?

IIRC, this is how some tech is exempt from FOIA requests (because the tech is "private" even though the end user is the DoD).
In general, you don't. You store hashes. Exceptions sometimes apply when it's a credential used to access some other system - for example, Plaid's gonna have to store your bank account password to scrape it - but there you'd at least hope for encryption.

Media coverage tends not to get the distinction right, so it's always hard to tell if the company fucked up or the attacker is exaggerating on early coverage.
Social media is relatively new and has really gone mainstream within the last decade. Also, you could argue most social media are partly government-built since silicon valley was created by the government.

The real question is why we don't have a government email service? Imagine how great it would be if the post office had an email service for your official correspondence. Email is many decades old and still nothing.
For a while, before Jassy became CEO, people at the company would sometimes jokingly refer to Amazon Studios as "the loss leader for Bezos's sex life."

Now that subscriber growth is slowing down at most streaming services, the end of the "golden age of TV" is at hand.

Welcome to the "bean-counting age of TV," in which streaming services try to milk subscribers for as much as possible without pissing them off too much.

Going forward, I'm expecting cheaper content, greater restrictions, higher prices, a proliferation of tiered subscription plans, and pervasive advertisement.

Completely predictable.
> I believe nearly anyone could be among "the country's most talented people" if they were wealthy, given access to near-limitless resources, accepted into an elite school.

Sounds like a good investment opportunity. Fund a child into wealth now and take a cut of their much greater wealth created by their talents later on.

Investors have certainly flirted with the idea before, but it has never caught on. Perhaps it isn't the sure ticket you make it out to be?
That makes sense.

Not making excuses for the API—but this does seem like a difficult design space to work in.
And why is there no social-media government?
Or your advisor accepts a job at a company in another state in year 2...
The lines will likely blur until there is no distinction. Even if we wanted to know the distinction it will become impossible just as art is approaching the impossible-to-know state.

We should pay close attention to how AI shapes the arts and creativity as it likely is a signal for is to come for the rest of human domains.

The question I see before us - "Is society on the precipice of falling into the abyss of illusion?"

"Whatever is applicable in the context of art is likely also for the rest of all works, creative or intellectual, by human beings."

from - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-art-challenges-meaning-in-a-w...
Obviously computer-centered, but I strongly recommend "The Computing Universe" by Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay.

While obviously touching Alan Turing's contribution, it doesn't just call it at day, but goes in detail on the history of networking, of memory, of the web, of "personal computers" companies, with tons of little asides on specific contributors, or projects.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/computing-universe/2542...
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould.
This film is a fictionalized depiction of the real-life 1991 University of Iowa shooting. A PhD student murdered his advisors, VP of Academic Affairs, and a fellow student for being passed over for a prestigious prize. There were other geopolitical influences on this event that I'd say make it unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting
Genetics Variations in HMG-CoA Casues Statin Induced Myopathy
Here is the layman's version (Paywall):

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/06/the-gene-...

The fact that this is some "amazing discovery" reveals how little medicine cares about genetic variation and how important it is to look at each person as an individual case.

My family (and myself) have a history of statin induced myopathy and I knew it was from this gene five years ago.
“Green gas”. You mean Biogas?

That isn’t really an option:
https://www.capital.de/amp/wirtschaft-politik/kann-biogas-ru...
Honestly It is more an impression than understanding. Maybe the lack of attention in various petitions, e.g. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601932
Maybe the lack of mentioning of "caveats" of the bill from major news outlet
Would you prefer to trust a company in a foreign country that isn't beholden to your country's laws?

What if it were open-source software, e.g. like farcaster.xyz, with some level of cryptographic tamper-proof assurances?
The Code Book – Simon Singh (1999)

It’s not about technology in general but encryption only, but it covers its history pretty well.
> All of that stuff is irrelevant, you get a new job and all of that stays the same.

I'm glad life is so simple for you that you can just get free lawyers and new jobs whenever anything goes wrong, but others can't and they're concerns and fears that people deal with every day.
A US government run social media site would be terrible. For one, our political parties are extremely polarized, so any subjective moderation would flip with regime changes. To avoid this, it'd just become linkedin. Vacuous virtue-signaling 'safe' garbage.
lets him and borkdude meet
I am an atheist, but thanks God there is no government built social media. This is to much power in government hands.
> Why don't we just design our software in such a way that the interfaces between components are simple so that we can easily remember which functions accept what kinds of input

Good luck in defining 'simple'. For me, a simple function only accepts inputs which it knows how to handle, and performs no side effects. Bonus points if it always terminates. Personally I cannot maintain this level of simplicity without a type checker.

But on the plus side, you're still allowed to remember what your functions accept! The checker only kicks in if you get it wrong.
> “We have seen no evidence that our customer data has been accessed or compromised” - Microsoft spokesperson

So they have been breached. Ok.
Buddy of mine, his advisor died in like year 4.
Well, don’t be fooled by “you can just replace gas by biogas”:

https://www.capital.de/amp/wirtschaft-politik/kann-biogas-ru...
Y'all are really telling on yourselves by shitting on OP. It's all about defending freedom of speech until the speech is a gay furry communist telling the army to fuck off.

Should OP have tweeted as they did, specially while attending an event *on behalf* of their employer? Yeah, it is asking for trouble. Yeah, the company does have a right to fire them.

What should be extremely grinding y'all gears though is:

1. A government employee should NEVER be the initiator of such an event. Even if it's legal, smells A LOT like the government trying to silence citizens.

2. The minute the company says "we'll accept your resignation" and tried to get out of paying what OP was owed, they become the bad guys, doesn't matter how obnoxious OP might be. If you wanna fire someone, have the balls to actually fire them and pay up whatever was agreed to in the contract.

I'll give a bit of a pass on 2, because a lot of HN commenters are Americans, and Americans are brainwashed by their shitty work laws, they lost perspective of what is fair in an employer/employee relationship.

But 1? Reverse the ideologies and this post would've been front page for 3 weeks.