skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earlyish facebook engineer here. Early days FB php was nothing like the php used to template websites. All kinds of specialized libraries to enable a much more sophisticated programming style. Think functional helpers, and asynchronous execution on thousands of cores, spanning trees across data centers using ssh etc. As a tangent a lot of the good stuff I used was written by Evan Priestley, who also did Phabricator and lots of other strong systems.
Can we really say the customers are the greedy ones? I take some offense to that. Most people are just trying to survive with the options they're offered. If someone comes along promising a free solution to something i previously had to pay for, or even better, offering something for free which was never previously offered even at cost. By taking that offer I'm being greedy? What if it actually works, and it's free? I'm suddenly greedy for trying to save up to survive the housing market? Or student loans, or a million other things?

What expectation of knowledge make the average person taking a deal, greedy? And how many people taking that deal meet that expectation of knowledge?
Elected officials are not government employees. It is not, in fact, turtles all the way down. They may be paid by the government, but the government does not dictate when they get hired and fired. It's possible that someone may be both an elected official and a government employee, but that's fairly rare (something like: Congressman and member of the military reserve, in which case they're only a government employee while activated).
Rorschach test for programmers: give your confident gut feeling explanation for this phenomenon.

I'll do mine: there's likely a correlation between needing to maintain a professional conduct which includes forgoing foul language (you're programming at work) and writing code under time pressure where getting a product ready for release is more important than strict adherence to clean programming practice (you're programming at work).

Everyone post your favourite conjecture!
> Is being a manager better?

If a manager is higher on the totem pole, isn’t that by definition “better”?
I increasingly use podcasts much as I use any other informational resource: selectively, and with search as a key modality.

Some podcast apps (Podcast Republic, in my experience) feature a comprehensive search over all known podcast episodes, by both title and description (of the channel and individual episodes). Searching for an obscure reference to turn up related episodes is quite useful.

That's not actually my principle app (I prefer the FS/OSS AntennaPod), but it is useful functionality.

Otherwise, there are podcasts I subscribe to and listen to most episodes, others that I'll pick and choose at, some that I just check out a few episodes on. What I typically do is go through and curate a set of episodes that look like they'll be interesting, putting them on my listen queue and/or downloading those to play later.

As with anything, there's much that's low-quality and/or not of interest. That doesn't mean that the good stuff isn't really good, though.

(Listening to David Runciman right now, who's had a numbere of serial podcasts, one of which I'd discovered through a comment here on HN a month or so back. His discussions of political philosophy and its history are excellent. Relevant, without being painfully topical.)

(And I think TFA's premise is ... ridiculous on its face. Podcasts are appropriate in some cases, completely not in others.)
OceanGate Suspends Operations
That link doesn't work for me - just get a splash page
Threads Android app built with Jetpack compose
Found it interesting that they reached for jetpack compose over traditional android or react native. Seems like the Swift UI/Jetpack compose model is really en vogue.
Selling your code is a great confidence booster. That's what worked for me.
It is good then that people in the UK and Canada enjoy pretty much the same QoL.
Hate to be that guy, but your first example is not that frustrating to me. I liked the 2 sentences per parameter, and the line breaks between them. I don't like the general python idiom of "these parameters are for someone else" where they just pass you off to the ssl module documentation. I understand why they do that, they probably just pass them over in code. The Rust community is better here, they take responsibility for every parameter and type input, both for documentation and for backwards compatibility.
https://www.danliden.com/

At the moment, I post fairly infrequently. The whole site is written using emacs org mode. Most of the posts have to do with emacs and data stuff (often doing data stuff in emacs).
Well that's waffle_ss's point I think.
Tweets load very slowly on my end. So slow I thought there was a js error on my end, you know, like when you get a never ending spinner animation because there was an unhandled exception thrown.
I love Tmux so much. I installed it as a package on OpenBSD before it became part of the base system.

Personally I think Tmux is too personal to copy anybody's config. But the post at least shows one how to get started with customization and developing ones own config.

My config is a couple years old now and is pretty stable. I mostly `scp` it to new systems and edit a line or two. But everyones workflow will be different. Enjoy those differences and make your own space!
Is there a filter that works for this? They drop the report and close with “you probably have forever chemicals in your water” as their conclusion.

Some plan for what to do in response would be…very helpful.
> Pizza predates the use of the tomato.

What makes it pizza specifically at that point?
Lying about an election to mislead voters on election processes (i.e. time, place, and manner) is illegal.[0] "Threats that threaten the public safety or security of the United States" are also illegal. The judge lists several other things that are also illegal, such as malicious cyber activity and criminal conspiracy, so it doesn't seem like that section is intended to contains exceptions to section 8.

[0]https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...
Thanks!

I have added that one-liner to the remote commands page:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html

... although based on some of your siblings, I changed .dump to .backup ...
Except if you look at the number of complaints that were actually acted on it looks a lot less like they were that intimidating at all. From the Twitter files it seems like way less than 10% of the reported tweets had anything happen to them at all.
Are UK and Canada that different of cohorts?
> Why should free speech be a right?

You cannot be serious.
Most countries are able to do standardized testing without shutting down the internet
OK, I guess we are being ultra-literal. Which is fine!

> I'm in favour of more bike lanes in my city but I don't consider that an opinion

...I do not understand why not. To my perception that is very much the definition of an opinion.

But anyway, we clearly have a bunch of different definitions in play here. I think we can safely agree to disagree.
If cloudflare won't touch you, chances are neither will OVH.
Framing things this way suggests that the reason the metaverse is failing so hard is because facebook insists on jumping straight to enshitification without spending time on the stages users actually enjoy.
Authoritarians for decades have attempting to expand "general welfare" far beyond its original remit

In Federalist 41,Madison clearly states that the general welfare clause is neither a statement of ends nor a substantive grant of power. It is a mere “synonym” for the enumeration of particular powers, which are limited and wholly define its content. From this answer, it follows that the primary meaning of the national dimension of the federal Constitution is limited government, understood as a government with a limited number of powers or means.

In short it is about the General Welfare *of the United States* on the whole, to provide means for Congress to have revenue to enforce and discharge the powers granted therein.

It is NOT.. I repeat NOT a general statement of power to provide all individuals all people "general welfare" like people attempt to conflate it to mean in modern day and as your comment asserts.
Hence my main point on expectations. It’s clear yours are very different from mine.
Or we could control the population and stop rapping our ecosystem.
+1 for django ninja. I built a little side project with it a few months back and was super impressed by how easy it was to get up and running. I didn’t want to leave the Django ORM behind so was very pleased to find this project.
> Scroll to the bottom of page four in the original report.

The bottom of page four of the report states the WIV institute's genetic engineering capabilities and that it has likely conducted some engineering of coronaviruses. Does that constitute proof of WIV engineering the COVID19 virus and the virus leaked from the lab?

Not an expert but from page three of the report:

"Almost all IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered. Most agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not laboratory-adapted; some are unable to make a determination. All IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon."
I get exactly what you mean, and I've felt the same thing: this pervasive stormcloud over my head as I wonder "is EVERYthing doomed to an eternal september?!"

However, I think this depressing outlook is an artifact of how much technology is fixated on social capture in a digital space. In that medium, yes, it's all just ebbs and flows. The article put it beautifully: we kept thinking that usenet or AOL or myspace or facebook were going to win, but it has taken a few decades for us to realize that in actuality they are just fashion trends that happen to require some very technical people to knit.

However, that doesn't mean that _technology_ is this way. And in fact, this speaks to the odd word mangling we've all adopted in which "tech" has started to mean "social web oriented silicon valley startups or juggernauts". Technology is so much bigger than that, and true innovation stands on its own and persists through time. An actual _invention_ doesn't need to win hearts and minds, and it doesn't need to set trends. A wheelbarrow is a wheelbarrow, and once somebody conceives it, it will always be useful whenever you need wheelbarrow-like functionality. Its utility will be obvious and non-controversial. It is still possible to use our intellects to think of pure pareto improvement arrangements of atoms and bits that do a useful job. I think the engineering profession and the world has gotten a bit distracted from that truth. Uncharitably, you could blame it on a greedy obsession with taking over the world, which comes at the expense of doing well-defined and prosaically useful things for the world.
I still need to understand the context. The last time I remember using a constant where it "didn't matter" what the exact number was, was maybe 30 years ago when we were manually allocating memory and had to decide to limit an array to an "even" number like 250 entries or to use the maximum that would fit (like 319 or something) and risk having to reduce it in later releases, possibly causing compatibility errors.
Oh ... ye well Knuth makes my point. :)
The web codebase was once written in PHP, but they moved away from that a decade ago.
Agreed - the constraints of a limited set of bricks really forced creativity.

However, there's been a huge paradigm shift in terms of what is "allowed" as far as odd brick placements so the realm of what's possible to build has expanded at least as much as the inventory of brick options.
An honest, basic question for HNers who are much more knowledgeable about this than I am: How much should I care about this? I hear a lot of talk about "forever chemicals" in the news, but I have no idea what the literature really says about what these chemicals are and whether/why I should be worried about them.

My prior here is that human-made industrial chemicals are probably not things I want in my water. But that's about as far as I'm able to go here without a prohibitive amount of research.

Edit: As others here have pointed out, it would also be great to know what, if anything, an individual can do about this contamination.
A bit dramatic right? Sure, it might be more expensive and difficult but obviously you can run your own WAF, DDOS protection etc.
But you don’t even consume this. You can’t even give the experience to someone else to enjoy. They made up a fake person and gave a pretend product to them, and billed your bank account in real dollars. This doesn’t make a bit of sense to me
Discourse goes a bit overboard with the javascript and all the bells and whistles but I don't understand how anybody could prefer PHPbb over it, other than familiarity. That being said I always found PHPbb abysmal to use, even in the early 2000, so clearly I'm biased.

My main issue with Discourse is that I prefer HN/Reddit-like threading for replies rather than linear comments, but PHPbb does the same and there are pros and cons for both formats anyway.
Gonna have to agree to disagree.

I feel it's significantly better to know that someone is doing the spying and all that. Why should they hide that they can spy on whoever they choose? When they don't make clear what happens, we end up in a position where everyone's uncertain. And, as history has shown, it makes things significantly more difficult.

There's no decency in that.
NDA Template for B2B SaaS
Save it and use for later
I played Soul Caliber on a friend's DC. There was also a great tennis game.
Facebook had hundreds of millions daily active users before writing a compiler.
But all things considered their exit is solidly average, not the insane valuations top tier unicorns usually get.
> It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There's the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.

This is an accurate summary. And it’s completely normal to not be excited about this. I love tech, but this isn’t tech. The tech is just bait to achieve market dominance. The new age vultures do everything in their power to eliminate competition, the very fuel that makes markets work. So it’s not even business in the traditional sense either, it’s more similar to political power games.
We know that these chemicals are terrible for human, animal, and plant health. There isn't a debate.

We know which companies are responsible for polluting. They've been doing it for years, knowing the damages in greater and greater detail all along the way.

Why aren't we forcing the polluters to pay for the cleanup as well as the likely-tremendous costs of damage to people's health and the ecosystem? And why aren't these chemicals banned? At what point does the government do anything about widespread problems like this? We don't get much of anything in the way of protection from bad domestic actors (in this case, polluters) for our tax dollars.

It's getting quite tiring to live in a country where the rules seem to be "anarchy for thee, and profits for me".
All that needs to happen for those loyalists to change their mind, is to have the party governing to change to someone they disagree with. Then you will hear how the gov't is killing free speech (that would be a rightful complaint). But we all know what happened to Qwest communications when they declined the gov'ts offer to spy on citizens.
I've described that as Django is fantastic for writing Django apps. If the thing you want to do can be completely modeled in the defaults, it's impossible to beat.

If that's only 99% true, you might want to investigate other options.
My pet theory is that the beginning of the idea of a nation start with Louise de Savoie. The intrigues she ran harshly reduced the power of dukes while giving the royal domain and it's merchants a lot of power. The narratives the French crown drew around itself and its power helped, and the consolidated territories, removing a lot of enclaves and foreign vassals (things other crowns started to do too) was to me the beginning of the 'territorial integrity' idea.

And it's only her second biggest achievement.
Unfortunately for you, that's not how the whole "science" thing works. The burden of proof lies with the people who are dreaming about these doomsday scenarios.

So far we haven't seen any proof or even a coherent hypothesis, just garden variety paranoia, mixed with opportunistic calls for regulation that just so happen to align with OpenAI's commercial interests.
Well, that’s definitely not true. The government can suppress speech when it sends an emergency action alert to commandeer tv and radio stations during an emergency, for one example.

The fact is that the means employed make every bit of difference when it comes to whether or not the content based speech restriction is tailored as narrowly as possible to achieve a compelling government interest.

On the other hand, maybe it makes not difference to your feelings, which is fair.
Yeah, terms like "middle class" and "professional class" exist for a reason.

If you insist on reducing all of us to only two classes, then working vs owning is one way to do it... but not the only way. One could also divide the "paying" class from the "charity" class, for instance.

And a software engineer at Microsoft with a 401k and a portfolio of stock grants has one foot in the ownership class, even if they still work.

General observation: Anyone who says "there are only two X..." is trying to make you view the world in reductionist terms, and they're choosing the terms to make you focus on the issue that they want you to focus on. But the world has a lot more nuance than that, and some of the other nuances also matter.
"If a government decides they want you offline" is quite a big difference from the original "Once you get kicked off Cloudfare, thats mostly it for you".
And do they collect cash from all fines or are they just issued and only some collected?
Sounds like you're suggesting a causal relationship the other way, though. As per this explanation, putting effort into debugging edge cases will statistically cause the comments to swear more.
Absolutely nothing you stated is legal now. The government would not have to intervene asking for censorship in any of these cases. They would press charges and have a court order to remove the non-protected speech.
I mean, as pointed out by a sibling comment, the reason it's so hard to shut those things down is that they benefit a lot of people and there's huge organic demand. Even the morality is hotly debated, there's no absolute consensus on the badness of those things.

Whereas, an AI that tries to kill everyone or take over the world or something, that seems pretty explicitly bad news and everyone would be united in stopping it. To work around that, you have to significantly complicate the AI doom scenario to be one in which a large number of people think the AI is on their side and bringing about a utopia but it's actually ending the world, or something like that. But, what's new? That's the history of humanity. The communists, the Jacobins, the Nazis, all thought they were building a better world and had to have their "off switch" thrown at great cost in lives. More subtly the people advocating for clearly civilization-destroying moves like banning all fossil fuels or net zero by 2030, for example, also think they're fighting on the side of the angels.

So the only kind of AI doom scenario I find credible is one in which it manages to trick lots of powerful people into doing something stupid and self-destructive using clever sounding words. But it's hard to get excited about this scenario because, eh, we already have that problem x100, except the misaligned intelligences are called academics.
I've been visiting sp since 2005, i eventually moved there '09 and lived there till '23. I remember the pre-06 cityscape. You were bombarded by visual ads in the 100s every half hour. It was absurd. Most of the buildings were absolutely covered in low-effort graffiti, callef pixação or pixo (pronounced peeshu). Since then there really has been a flourishing of murals and street art. The quality and quantity are flabberghasting. It added a lot to the sense of discovery while out exploring a new corner of the city and sense of place for places one returns to. Many of the artists like veracidade became close to household names. Overall it was a wonderful change whose impacts subtly changed the atmosphere of the city, making it much more livable. The only problem was in the liberdade neighborhood, home to the japanese disapora of the early 20th century: their local business depended on kanji signs hanging off the facades of the buildings. After the law change the neighborhood's economy sorta collapsed for a while, but is now recovering.
That was a fascinating read that terrified me.
If you trace the conversation thread back up the page, you'll see a discussion about neutrality.

What I can't figure out is why you started talking about protected speech instead, which is unrelated to neutrality.
No way.

The government is still entirely free to post its news, including on social media.

What it’s not allowed to do (at least temporarily) is tell to those organizations what speech it deems unacceptable from US citizens.

This is the entire purpose of the first amendment. This is a huge win for freedom of speech.

The government must not be doing this.
> Make feeds more obvious (say, it was integrated into modern browsers. Some sort of first class “feed detected” icon)

Firefox and Safari used to have this during the web 2.0 years, back when RSS was at its peak:
https://blog.markheadrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/fir...
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/image...

The browsers themselves were RSS readers.
All the negativity! Have we forgotten that Tucker's show is on Twitter?
> Google is so big you often have conflicting goals from different power structures.

In that situation I'd say Google is conflicted on the topic. It's still not all that different from a human being, IMO, I can be internally conflicted on a topic and find it difficult to find an opinion that encompasses all of my thoughts.

I get that it's shorthand and euphemism but I don't think it's all that confusing.
You make an excellent point. Why are you playing video games at all?
Ingenious!
> It amounts to “no one from these 8 government agencies may communicate with anyone working at these three non profits, 20 social media companies or any similar organization”

That's plain false. From middle of page 5 there's the list of things explicitly not banned, it starts with "IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the following actions are NOT prohibited by this Preliminary Injunction:".
RO filters should. It looks like charcoal as well, assuming you replace your filter on schedule.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/hazar...