skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah collapse is nice, but curious what will happen on collapsed thread which is added to...

i'm also confused, wasn't there already a "saved" section where upvoted items went previously? seems like all which was done was renamed a few items (and added the favorite which allows marking for later, without giving a vote)
Seems like there's potential for partnerships with car-sharing companies like Zipcar, Getaround, etc. Do they currently outsource refueling?
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073806.
Just to add another perspective, I really enjoy puzzles. I've been a programmer for about twenty years professionally in one form or another. However, while I find my puzzle-solving passion is helpful in a lot of programming situations, I do not find those skills per se necessary to programming. I should also add here that I do not like puzzles which have an excessively "tricky" answer. I like puzzles that make me think in strange ways. But for example I have an awful puzzle ("kuku ball") which is kind of a moderately complex lock-type puzzle. That in and of itself I find enjoyable. But for the Kuku ball, you've actually got to apply an enormous amount of pressure to get the locking mechanism to open. Literally people have needed to hit it with a hammer.
This is like the late 90s. Startup bubble. The world is moving to EVs. Not sure how this is a tech startup?
Finally! I tested on you :) The upvote is awesome, there have many times over the years I've mistakingly hit the up/down and wished for a redo.
I'm pretty horrified by the use of Facebook and other social networks to spread all sorts of hateful stuff. Lots of horrible stuff, such as instructions for how to kill Jews in stabbing attacks, has been spread on Facebook. That hasn't been the only factor in the recent wave of terror attacks against Israelis, but I'm sure that it has played a role.

Moreover, a clever set of experiments, in which identical postings attacking Jews and Palestinians were posted on Facebook, demonstrated that the Facebook "community standards" have very little tolerance for saying bad things about Palestinians and Muslims, and a lot of tolerance for saying such things against Jews.

And yet. I just don't see how this sort of lawsuit, particularly in a US court, will hold up. (I should add that I'm not a lawyer, and so forth.) Holding Facebook responsible for hateful speech -- even speech strongly encouraging people to commit horrible acts of murder against innocent civilians -- strikes me as a hard sell. And holding Facebook financially responsible for allowing such postings seems even more far-fetched.

That said, the experiment that I described, in which anti-Semitic hate speech was ignored and anti-Arab/Muslim hate speech was taken down, might make Facebook liable. According to the Wikipedia article cited earlier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...), it sounds like if Facebook is monitoring, editing, or censoring posted messages, then it might be liable to some degree.

In other words, perhaps Facebook is liable precisely because it does try to monitor and remove hate speech. I'm not sure, but from the little I understand, this might prove to be an important point.

I agree that there is a heckuva lot of horrible, nasty, anti-Israel stuff being spread online by terror groups. Whether Facebook can or should be held liable is a different question, and I'm skeptical.
I think its disingenuous at best to say this is the reason most people watch NASCAR... I only know a few die hard NASCAR fans myself, but they are far more interested in the technical skills of the drivers than seeing someone potentially harmed for a little fireworks show.
Is there a reason not to have the mobile version slightly different from the desktop one? You could keep happy both populations.
Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
Cavium allows you to run multiple instances of the Linux kernel- one pinned to each core of their np (you get to have a window of shared memory between them). It would be interesting to try this on Intel.
Is there any way to use the service if your car is kept in a private garage at home and work?
intentionally bad programmers don't need the certification, just to pay the standard $25 play store fee. I think this program will help the quality of play store iff they can get a lot of people through without sacraficing content, such that their certificates actually matter in the market.
3 doesn't ring true - why should I care what anyone favorites?
I have a piece of feedback.

The new collapse button is at the end of the comment. This means that the collapse button's position on the page changes based on username length and duration wording (hours Vs. minutes, etc).

One nice thing about other websites which I won't name, is that you can read and collapse all of the top comments without having to "seek" the collapse button constantly. You can literally scroll and collapse as you read, it is always in the same spot.

The functionality is most welcomed, and I'd take this design over not having it. But it could be slightly better with a subtle design change.
I can't downvote. How much Karma do I need to activate it?
>Why doesn't the fueling vehicle have a full-sized hazmat diamond, like every other fuel truck in the US?

HN generally assumes such regulations are merely the work of corrupt politicians in the corporate pockets trying to slow disruption.
Yes. Another user has argued for this effectively and persuaded us to do some version of it.
I'm making an issue. I'll host one on firebase shortly.
The "hide" new stories feature is awesome. Thanks for rolling this out. High five!
That disk emulator fpga would be helpful for people looking to resurrect other old computers (looking at a couple of closets full of pdp-11/70 boards in my office...) so hopefully the design will be published/open sourced. RK-05s I'm sure are not identical but probably sufficiently similar for the design to be a good starting point.
Sorry, the paper is not yet published, which is why I have been a little vague in describing it.
Yeah a lot of people are running into it. There are jokes that Pokemon GO just killed 2-factor auth for tons of people as a result.

For what it is worth, this isn't a problem with Ingress, so I'd imagine it will be fixed soon.
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False.

'Social Mobility' cannot be compared between USA and small Euro nations.

'Social Mobility' within Denmark, a country smaller than Los Angeles, is pretty good.

What if you compared 'Social Mobility' across the EU.

Do you think that poor people in Croatia, Sicily and Greece are 'mobilizing' up past the Swedish middle class?

No.

Also - America has large ethnic groups. America is really 5 nations: Europeans, Asians, Latinos, Blacks, and 'everyone else'. By almost every measure, America is different for these people, it's tough to compare. I'm not saying it's right, rather alluding to what it is.

Finally - I would say having lived in the US and Europe - that there is without a doubt more opportunity in America than in Europe overall. No question about that.

The elite in most European nations come from pretty good families. They go to the top schools and have their careers guaranteed.

Anyone in America can be successful.

Obviously, that's not a pragmatic statement, as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes - but this is the reality.

Anyhow - the gini coefficient for 'all of Europe' I suggest is definitely lower than the US, and this is because it's nary impossible for poor Spaniards/Greeks/Sicilians to rise to higher than the European upper middle class.
Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity
the irony (to people in this industry) is that if it was a venture funded company you would have made less to no money from that exit
Hydraulic Steering – Principles of Operation (1956) [video]
The two aspects my friend's perception of the Rust community are both a) rewriting existing projects in Rust for the sake of having a version written in Rust[1][2], and b) it seems a frequent trend on Hacker News to see comments about "why didn't you write it in Rust" or "how about porting it to Rust" on posts about projects and "should have written it in Rust" comments on posts about security bugs. As the parent to your comment points out, this is probably a small group in the community who comments often.

As I could see from the way my score, on the post that started this discussion fluctuated, this is clearly a topic some are both sensitive about or like find humor in (or both!).

EDIT: I didn't mean to derail the discussion of a fascinating code posting; but I assume the comment I responded to that spawned this tangent, "Have they considered rewriting it in rust?"[3], was a joke made about the other comments on HN to rewrite things in Rust.

[1]: From a pedagogical standpoint, obviously this is a potentially good way of learning a language so if for learning and not pure calorie burn I personally don't see this as wasteful.

[2]: <<possibly exaggeration warning>> I understand there is some motivations within (perhaps a small part) the Rust community to replace the world'S C-systems-code with more secure Rust code.

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049521
That's kind of the point. If you don't want a smart contract, use the existing systems.

Why would you need Ethereum if the contracts you want to enforce shouldn't be "smart"?
They could give you the receipt or scan it and send it to your phone..
What happens when the process containing the cart data needs to be restarted or the server shuts down?
I got my downvote ability at around 550 or so...
The one thing the web should have had from the beginning: flexibility of what happens to the contents on the client. Somehow this "feels right", given the original Alan Kay's vision of what should be happening on a personal device. Users should always be able to tweak things the way they like them.
This was likely a known limitation when it was implemented and the costs to overcome it weren't considered worth it.
Every journey starts with a goal, mine is two signups a day
We recently completed shooting two online courses (MOOCs) using an Interrotron and I definitely think it makes for a more intimate experience between the subject and the viewer, but as with all tech, the interviewer still matters a lot. It doesn't just magically work. You still have to engage and draw out the subject.
FYI there's a chrome extension for that though not updated in a while and I didn't use it personally

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-unread-comments...

https://github.com/janhancic/hn-unread-comments
PVS-Studio Team: Looking for a Bug That Could Help Machines Conquer Humankind
Would undoing votes be (as) necessary if the UI didn't lend itself to mis-voting? Especially on a touch device, the two buttons are a real challenge to deal with.
500 AFAIK
For me it was 500.
Users could see stories which they've upvoted, but these were not visible to others. Your favorites will be.
The old 'saved' list still exists, but has been renamed to 'upvoted' because that is a more precise name. That list is private—we certainly don't want to publish users' votes.

The new 'favorites' list is for highlighting the best stories and comments you see on HN. That list is shared, because want people to browse each other's favorites. The idea is to help disseminate more of the amazing content that people post to Hacker News, much (most?) of which is only seen by a few readers. And I hope that for dedicated HN users it will be fun to curate your own list of highlights, plus see what others have on theirs.

Also if the most-favorited stories and comments turn out to be interesting, we'll publish those lists.
> nor do I think you can commercially change oil and other fluids in random parking lots

YourMechanic seems to offer that: https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/change-oil-and-filter
It may be a splendid salary in some locations outside the US, it is not in many others.

Americans tend to believe they are wealthier than anyone else. Not so! Apart of the fact several countries in Europe have higher salaries (and cost of living than the US) there's the fact major cities are much more expensive than smaller ones, even in poorer countries.

Case in point: The most expensive cities in the Americas are Sao Paulo, Bogota and New York. You can easily enjoy a higher standard of living earning $70k in most of the US than you can in Sao Paulo or Bogota (I've lived in both, I know it for a fact)
Mods: please consider expanding the acronym (Ultimate Fighting Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Fighting_Championship) for the title. I had to click just to find out what it was about. Thanks.
I would not to say that online video is surging, more like it is being forced. Nowadays, it is difficult to read an article on a news site without having some associated video being autoplayed (with advertisement of course). I want to read an article, not watch it.

On a side note, is there a way to disable these videos? I do not believe in blocking ads since a publisher should have a monetary gain for producing content, but I do NOT want video. Ever. Unless it is Youtube or Vimeo and the like of course.
The tap mixer is ambiguous because the labelling is unclear. A similar device, the turn signal handle in a car, is intuitive because it's positioned as a side appendage of the steering wheel column, and you move it the same angular direction as you would the steering wheel.

It's helpful to remember that traditionally in non-legacy US suburban homes, you'd have two turn-knobs, with Hot on the left and Cold on the right. The tap mixer replaces these with one device, but the plumbing remains the same -- hot on the left and cold on the right. The label, with red on the left and blue on the right allows you to treat it like a turn signal, moving the handle towards where a traditional installation's knobs would have been, but this does require prior knowledge.
There's several reasons, one of the simplest (but not the most trivial) being that I can't share code between the client and the server. For example, data validation. I did a tonne of programming on GWT back in the day, and this was something it actually did well.

Most of the other reasons boil down to Haskell not being Elm --- they work in different ways and solve problems differently. There's always going to be impedance mismatch between the two. (Do I solve this problem with monads or with state-mutation functions?) This is going to use up valuable problem-solving bandwidth which I'd rather spend making the project more awesome.
Suicides are absolutely relevant and should be considered as part of the problem, not separate. Suicide is not a victimless act.
Show HN: Hpak – cli package manager for pentesters with web-interface
Can confirm.

Hopefully, the extension will be updated soon.
For copyright-related lawsuits, given that my site was music UGC.
That the nordic societies are nice, is of course without question.

But the U.S is a different animal. If you want to live a complacent life, squeeze out a few children, work 9-5 for the rest of your life, without taking any risks, the nordics are a great choice.

If you want to create something extraordinary, take huge risks, maximize your potential, tap into unprecedented resources in the form of engineering know-how, scientific capital, venture capital etc, then you are without question better of in the U.S.

There is a reason why the Googles/IBMs/Facebooks/Bell Labs/MIT's/Skunk Works/DARPAs/NASAs of the world are ALL American. Technological and scientific dominance does not go hand-in-hand with a dull society where 99 % are just complacent.
Also, for me it's still unclear how versioning is handled. It always seems like you have to use the latest version of the .d.ts and hope it works with your actual package version.
Royce was juiced to the gills? How do you figure that? He looked as scrawny as ever.
You would be very surprised at what constitutes the welfare of shareholders. Shareholders have sued corporations for failing to take advantage of tax avoidance strategies (i.e. the plaintiffs contended that the company paid too much tax thus diminishing the amount available to the shareholders). The palintiffs lost - I'm at my wrong computer so I don't have the cite handy.

As long as the directors can show they have made a "good faith" attempt to manage to the benefit of the shareholders then they are covered.
Allocation on the JVM: Down the rabbit hole
It might be worth striving for more than "America: It's better than a tin pot dictatorship"
maybe not having land/building investments puts companies in a better position? To apply changes faster etc.
What is your USDOT number showing you're authorized to commercially carry hazardous materials, like gasoline?
Also relevant [0]

0: https://www.yourmechanic.com/
> Remind your friend these comments are only left by a small vocal minority and is not representative of the project or its maintainers.

Thanks for mentioning this, I certainly will the next time. The last time this came up, this was not an attitude I had previously noticed, although did see a bunch on Hacker News the following week

> This is akin to not liking something because you don't like the people who already like it, despite how much you'd like it otherwise.

I would totally agree with this, but at the same time, while not a technical reason, if one works in primarily a single programming language I can imagine the nature of the community would be a legitimate factor to consider---in this case though as you point out, it would be an inaccurate opinion of the nature of the Rust community.
Maybe it's also about what it buys you? Also, https://www.nordisketax.net/main.asp?url=files/suo/eng/i07.a... claims it's at worst 31.75%, not 60%, and that's not even the average. Plus if you're rich, not all or even most of your wealth comes from personal income anyway, so there's that. And ~20% VAT or equivalent seems quite common over the developed world.
Economists have reasons for measuring the way they do, it's not some evil conspiracy or something, the EU measures unemployment similarly. Labor participation rate is complicated by the retiring of the baby boomers so it's hard to use it as an indicator of labor utilization. The measure you would want to look at is BLS's U-6 which includes the normal U-3 unemployment definition and adds "Discouraged" and part time workers that would like to work more. If you look up U-6 you'll see that it's getting back down to pre-recession levels.

In any case, the point is that the US has recovered better then the EU and that is true no matter which numbers you look at.
It was a talk on Wolfram's personal experiences with Feynman so of course it prominently featured Wolfram's interests since those are the areas in which he has personal experience with Feynman.
Thanks, folks, for the great improvements!

1. The time-capsule feature is really cool. Traveling back in time to see what sort of tech people were building / what other things were on the front page when X popular product launched is going to be so much fun. Update: it only goes back about a year and a half. See below.

2. Undoing votes has also been something I've wanted for a long time. I've accidentally downvoted/upvoted more times than I'd like to count when using my phone.

3. I currently use a bookmarking service to keep track of posts I want to save on HN, but native favoriting is much better. :)

Also, welcome, Scott!

--

Edit: I tried to view the front page [1] on the day I launched Breakup Notifier [2] ~5 years ago, but I get an error message. Is there any way you HN wizards can add the ability to go back further in time?

> We don't have this data before 2014-11-11.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-02-21

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2243650
"I look at the US and see a system that seems designed to breed crime, poverty and prostitution."

While at the same time producing the highest GDP per captia in the world, the most number of people with college education, and leadership in probably 80% of global industries?

The US doesn't 'breed' anything - communities 'breed' themselves.

I suggest the US could do a little better with the social safety net, and possibly some basic healthcare guarantees, but having 60% taxes, 30% payroll tax and 20% VAT meaning the average worker putting 75% of their income directly towards government spending is not going to work either.

The 'Nordic Model' can only work in small countries, with small, tight ethnic groups and cultural foundations.

Nordic Countries almost all have Monarchies, State Churches (Sweden gives 1% of it's tax revenues to their Christian State Church - could you imagine that in the US?). I'm not saying 'faith' is an important factor, rather pointing out the relatively cohesive social identity.

And yes, you are right: UK and Germany are sucking up talent like vacuums.
Why Motive.io Loves Pokemon Go
Reddit does it that way, and I haven't seen any of the developers complain about accidental votes.
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217
Coming from HN Enhancement Suite add-on I too found this annoying.
I hadn't thought of BEAM. Apparently it's on the roadmap.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11916096
No, because the risk of surgery and transplant, plus the initial health of the person needing the organ, means it's not 100% certain it will succeed. But leaving the organ in the original person will.
This is a wildly exaggerated calculation. I make roughly around 300k and my effective taxes (both Fed and State combined) was 28%. I also have daughter and she goes to daycare that costs me $1200/month. I also own a 5 bedroom 2800 sqft house in East Bay, that costed me around a million bucks and the mortgage is around 3500 including insurance and property taxes
One day my son will drive.

Do I want for him to face a 1/10000 chance of being killed each year by a human driver?

Or do I want for him to face a 1/20000 chance of being killed each year by an autonomous vehicle?

I'll take option two, for him and for me. I don't give a damn about philosophical questions. And I don't give a damn if it's a different dice I'm rolling.

The only reason I care much about this one death is because it risks slowing down progress. Lives are at stake here. Yours. Mine. Your family's. My family's.

The statistical/utilitarian argument for self-driving vehicles is less compelling than the personal story argument against them. So I want to make the for argument as personal and compelling as we can.
I totally disagree. Most boxing orgs have a 3 knockdown rule. You can be knocked down twice in each round and still continue. That means, you could get 2 concussions per round, until the end of the fight.

The UFC stops the fight when you are unable to defend yourself. That usually means you can only get one concussion per fight. They are much more rare, however, than that.

Also, you can look at the number of deaths per year in each sport. Boxing has around 10 per year. The UFC has never had a death, but MMA has had a few, over the last few years.

The quick stoppages are key to the UFC being less damaging to the athletes than boxing.