skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Press (probably) the second button on the right at the gas station pump, it will mute the ad. Still plays the video but much easier to ignore.

For awhile this was apparently just a hidden feature, recently I saw one where the button was labeled.
Last night I was pondering about future "compression" schemes that relied on hyper-powerful quantum computers that can resolve hash collisions very, very quickly, so that rather than literally compressing the data, you'd just share a hash and then this hyper-powerful computer will enumerate possible strings of data that give that hash, and then check them against some secondary condition (another hash?) to find the right one.

I don't know how feasible this actually is, but it made for an interesting sci-fi thought.

edit: Thanks for all of the enlightening replies!
No, they are actual layoffs. You could have learned this with 5 seconds of googling or RTFA.
> Abstractions usually empower their user, ORMs remove power.

That is an opinion. One could also consider that the fact that you can use programming language to model your database provides a lot of expressive power.
You don't have to be a Facebook fan to appreciate that the New York Times has a vested interest in attacking Facebook and that they publish an inordinate amount of anti-FB articles. We really do see them every day here and they don't add anything new to the conversation.
IP is by definition a monopoly.
You need columnstore storage and a reasonably mature query optimizer to get good results on TPC-DS. TiDB is lacking both right now.
When you take this into account it makes me wonder what the motives could be... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440 (bloomberg paying based on market movement)
The AI Supply Chain Runs on Ignorance
You would be surprised. After a couple tutorials I imagine, at the very least, your backend developer will thank you. That's been the biggest migration in the react world -- backend developers to the frontend, because the frontend suddenly "makes sense" due to it being declarative and predictable, rather than imperative.

As far as lightweight goes, jquery is much heavier than Preact, a React clone designed to be lightweight. Only 16kb.
where do I learn more about the isotope composition of coal? does it vary significantly from deposit to deposit? can they be chemically removed on the basis of their current element identity?

similarily are there significant radioactive isotopes related to the manufacture of plastic products? Regardless if they remain in the plastic or another byproduct? How is such a byproduct dealt with?
I've been using Fedora Server for this, for several years. There is no GUI front end for configuring Samba, so it does take a bit of time and hassle to learn enough about Samba to edit the sample smb.conf.example the package comes with.

This suggests a GUI is coming, not sure how it will be supported. I'd hope they'd make it possible to wrap that up as a Cockpit plugin. Cockpit is very cool, and is standard with Fedora Server.

https://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/3534
I once had an employer who was financially constrained and needed to reduce my time on my project to 50%. I was given the choice of working the other half of my time on another project, or simply only working 50% time at the company (along with a 50% pay cut).

I chose the latter and had the time of my life. It felt kinda like my contracting days in the sense that I had a ridiculous amount of free time, except I didn't have to chase contracts or report hours. I still got paid twice a month and kept my benefits.

Some people thought I was crazy for choosing that option, but I typically value my time more than money, and any engineer can live just fine on 50% pay.
I see two big issues.

The first one is about how well it is integrated in the show, or how "respectfully" it is done.

Let's say for example... Car brands are very welcome and a must in the Fast and Furious movies.
It would be pretty silly if they had fake car brands in such a movie, and the presence of real car models can excite and make the enthousiasts nerd out more about them. Overall a victory for everyone involved.

But hearing how great of a family car a Volvo can be, in a movie about aliens... not so much.

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The second is about transparency.
Assuming you do not like let's say Monsanto, or Scientology and you would like to avoid works that are funded by them. Product placement is a form of guerilla marketing, noone says who they took money from. So it lacks transparency and is disgenius to the consumers.

It's a bit like influencer marketing, when influencers "forget" to include the #sponsored hashtag.

User ksdale has left a very nice comment on the subject.
Who knows? Presumably whomever wrote the original story for Bloomburg and made the photos is involved somehow but beyond that it's anyone's guess.

What is Bloomburg going to lose here? Their reputation? They're already considered something of a gossip rag for financial news. FTC action? Unlikely.
World of Clicks
What's needed to be able to do this with our own nginx servers? The article is somewhat light on how it works on Cloudflare's servers.
Ask HN: Any good blogs from solo makers?
Love to discover blogs where indie makers are sharing their thoughts & projects. Any recommendations?
Don't worry, as the EU gets more power, individual countries in Europe will be less able to implement these ideas.
nice, but it would be better to remove the poles too
box.cock.li has always been a solid option for me ;)
> rather than tell me what I should use and what I shouldn't.

You shouldn't be telling the developers what they should or shouldn't be doing either.
Amazon, since you used the words "gamed the system".
It is much safer to put complex software into userspace. If there is an error, you won't get kernel panic.
But that doesn't matter, you still can use tools to help compose the 90% of SQL that is quite boring

Truth be told I think it is the "i write 100% of my SQL by hand" crowd that is still quite junior in their SQL experience. How many times would they like to write a rote INSERT statement over and over against their data records before realizing an abstraction would save them lots of typing and redundancy?

Edit: also note that ORMs most certainly can be used with stored procedure architectures in theory. I'm not sure if such tools exist but if I had to use SPs, I'd be writing tools to both generate the SPs from a given set of models as well as to do the runtime work of marshaling my objects to and from these SPs from cursor.callproc() in the same way an ORM does it to plain SELECT / INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE statements from cursor.execute(). Additionally, systems like PostgreSQL's pluggable SP languages, which includes Python, might even allow SQLAlchemy models to work inside a stored procedure, something I've always wanted to try. Both concepts are things I'd gladly pursue if someone wanted to pay me a few years' salary.
"Natural gas has no place in this long-term."

Carbon sequestration is possibly a viable solution. There seem to be solutions in trial (there are numerous questions around it), and even with added costs of capture, it's considerably cheaper and more reliable than other form of energy - moreover, we have it in abundance.

Natural Gas is as viable for the horizon of our future we're able to predict.

In 100 years, every dimension of our tech will have changed so much it's hard to predict. Maybe we solve the nuclear wast problem. Maybe we get fusion. Maybe we have uber cheap solar. Maybe we have dirty easy sequestration. Maybe we have alternatives.
> At the same time, it is pretty amazing they are remotely logging into your car to review system logs and diagnose the issue, and then pushing firmware updates to try to remedy the problem.

It really isn't if it didn't fix the problem and they used it as an excuse to not follow up with their scheduled appointment.

This would be like if I was fixing a bug, SSH'd into a live instance, didn't fix anything, then filed the ticket as "fixed" and refused to follow up on it. That's not amazing, that's pretty sketchy.
Winning hearts and minds is evangelism. To evangelize, you meet people where they are, show that you can relate to where they currently are, and then lead them in the direction you want them to go. "Pacing and leading" is another term for it.

People are motivated by different things. Telling them the things that motivate you, and then calling them names when they aren't motivated by the same line of thought, is a very unproductive way to win them over.

You can tell people the "what" till your face turns blue, but if you are unable to hook into a "why" that resonates with them, they will do precisely nothing.

My point is that if you truly believe that this is a matter of life and death, you need to be out in the world pounding the pavement just the same as all the street preachers that themselves truly believe what they have to say is a matter of life and death.

In a similar vein, if the arguments most street preachers give falls completely flat for you, consider the reverse and why what you are saying is falling flat to the people you are evangelizing to. To be effective, preaching has to be for the audience, and not for the preacher. And that is exactly what this sort of advocacy is, preaching.
I don't think efficiency, efficacy or even have effects on the correct direction enter on the making of those ideas.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19878917
Sounds like, ironically enough, this might be about the only ad that's safe to run:

https://youtu.be/Prg_SVBfFWw
No, I will not be civil with someone saying, literally, that minorities are less genetically able to do certain jobs. Fuck off.
Motion-triggered guns set up in your house would be more effective against burglars.
Programming Languages Suck at UX (2011)
The reactor that blew up in Chernobyl was because of the design of the reactor itself. Even at the time it was built, the west never would have green lit the reactor design.
>if you have no desire to be identifiable or make connections, that works, but if you're trying to build a social circle

That's true. I don't really use most social media sites (or... really, anything) for that.

Actually, though, it seems easier for me to do that on 4chan than, say, on HN. Think about it: we talk, we like each other (???), and we decide to form a more durable connection -- let's add each other on Discord. On 4chan, it would be Anonymous revealing their Discord handle to Anonymous. On HN, it would be shrimp_emoji revealing their Discord handle to SketchySeaBeast. I've just doxxed my Discord self to the entirety of HN, and I've also given my new friend, SketchySeaBeast, a window into of all of my historic opinions that I've posted on HN, which are neatly catalogued in my profile. Terrifying. (Although this is a non-problem if A.) either 4chan or HN allowed DMing or if B.) I used an intermediate, anonymous Discord account as a proxy to my real one, and the ease with which you can register such an account is a credit to Discord.)

Unless you mean, in the Facebook-cultural sense: I have this profile full of my posts and meal pictures, and a friend of a friend sees it and decides that they really like my posts and meal pictures and friend me and thus my network has been expanded. I find that kind of... passive, advertising-based connection-making repulsive and weird, so I didn't even consider that.
On the flip side, commercials can teach a kid to be patient, and that it can not always have instant/continuous gratification.
From the commenting guidelines:

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you recommend insurance benefits for employees
hey folks,
in the process of building a startup. I need to get insurance benefits for the employees. Can anyone recommend one they use? This is a NY/NJ problem.
>How do those boots taste?

If that's your best shot better keep quiet.
The main reason why paper ballots are a better idea is that they're easy to understand. Almost any voter can sit there and supervise how the votes are counted, but they can't do that for online voting. The voter needs to trust experts for that.
Funny story, I had almost exactly the same idea in 2013 and prototyped it in Mathematica (probably a lot of people have had this idea). Here's a screenshot of some random thread that I happened to visualize (comments were visible as tooltips in my rough and ready implementation): https://imgur.com/a/9xfw6cA (color represents common authorship, size is comment length). I didn't have the Javascript chops to do anything usable, let alone as polished as the linked Chrome plugin; kudos to the author!

Another thing I was doing at the time was visualizing Twitter and Facebook friend graphs, and the first insight there was to deliberately drop the 'ego' node, as it destroys any hope of effectively showing community structure of the friends themselves (it also carries no extra information as everyone is necessarily connected to the ego).

So perhaps a similar thing would be effective for threaded conversations: if you drop the root node, disconnected discussions will become separate trees in the visualization, which will help with efficient use of space, and the tail of singleton comments that no one replied to will become isolated disks that can space-fill the background. Switching to an actual rectangular tree layout as I used in my prototype will also help in that one consistent direction (down) represents nested depth.
I think the basic pattern of how customer service is handled, along with Tesla's selling points, can explain this.

Call centers and customer service departments in general report statistics that are used to measure their performance. Individual employees are instructed to "resolve" tickets and to make sure that no single ticket take more than a certain amount of time to be resolved. This creates an incentive to look at the tickets in a first-in first-out order and find a way to close them. An explanation was selected from a list because that explanation has gone unchallenged when addressing similar tickets. The appointment was cancelled and the ticket was recorded as having been resolved by customer service and software. This is a win for Tesla's internal reporting on the number of tickets that require a technician to physically interact with the vehicle. They can brag about most issues being resolved by software because they're a cutting edge company and are above crude hardware fixes like those other boring car companies. If you show up in person for repairs that means, in their view, that customer service has failed.

In short, this isn't Tesla being exceptionally bad or exceptional at all. It is an example of Tesla doing the same old thing that all the other companies have been doing.

My worst car ownership experience was yelling at the people at JiffyLube for replacing filters that were in perfectly good condition and trying to charge me for it even though I only asked for an oil change (they then made a big show of shoving them back in as violently as possible). As awful as mechanics tend to be, a component being too easy to repair or replace by anyone who can read a manual is better than begging a single entity for repairs.
Your assumption of 1/3 is wrong and the article gives specific amounts per week and per year. It's over 4 hours a day, which is insane. 2.2 hours a day is also a lot.

I think you're also overestimating the amount of meaningful education kids get from TV. Language skills are learned via use. You don't actually converse with the TV. Interpersonal skills are best learned by practice. Basic facts? Maybe the TV can help here, although most kids shows don't cover anything except pretty basic stuff. Kids shows are primarily entertainment, same as adult shows.
The problem with FB is they are too big to impact with regulations. There are too many people who have acquiesced to FB and eagerly handed over all their data without any issues.

What if you take 200 million of their users off the platform? They still have north of 2 BILLION users. That's a huge number of consumers to contend with to get them to willing leave the network or band together to demand better privacy oversight on the platform. Even with additional oversight, nothing is going to happen, period. We are at the point where the only way to change FB is to destroy it completely or break it up into many, many, many smaller parts.

Lastly, the comment by Mark Holmes from California is right, this is capitalism at its best and at its worst. All three companies he mentions spend billions every year to avoid oversight and regulations to continue to monopolize and dominant their industries. Pay a few hundred million in fines? No problem. Come out of any number of privacy scandals unscathed? Sure, no problem.

All three companies should be way more regulated. You can have a free-market and still have sensible government oversight. Our economy shouldn't be untethered capitalism or the over use of government regulations to stifle competition either. There is a balance in there somewhere.
HN is such a cesspool of ignorant fucks like yourself, get fucked and die.
I suspect that you haven't met your own "Dave" then. Fuck you pay me is dramatic, but certainly in lots of orgs, especially smaller orgs, people like "Dave" exist, are generally not making what they could somewhere else, has all the tribal knowledge of everything the company does in his head, the knowledge is complex enough that simply reading documentation will not help fix the problems he's fixing.
Sneaky Fingerprint and IP Tracker with React
80%, if not more, of what you describe is do-able with Raymond Hill's uMatrix [0]. And yes, it does make the web faster and safer, though it breaks certain websites.

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[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/blob/master/README.md
That's true. Maybe the sharp turn the CDU took after Fukushima took them by surprise. I had the impression that back then nobody had a plan or even vague idea if what they were doing. Besides getting voter support.
Ye I got a feeling that shared processor time with strangers is not viable without specialized hardware.
Invisible Web of Trackers Visualised
A trillion dollar tax cut that raises the annual deficit to over a trillion dollars a year can certainly ignite some economic activity. So can lighting a bonfire using the household furniture and next year's crop of seed corn.

This isn't organic economic growth, it is the lowest form of political populism that doesn't even pretend to be an actual economic policy intended to make the US economy strong.
> This is a clearly defined process in the C world

Rather, shared-library mechanisms are platform-specific. ELF shared libraries are different from Windows DLL's, for instance. The LGPL covers both, because it's mum on implementation details.

The abstraction is basically the same. The application has some symbolic references satisfied dynamically by the library, and possibly vice versa.

Shared libraries are not limited to C, but in the context it should have been clear what I was talking about. Most importantly, most Common Lisp systems are not using shared libraries in the way C and languages using C style bindings do.

> The LLGPL is an easy amendment to make those intentions clear.

I wouldn't use it because it's a rare license, and I'm not a lawyer. It's best to use one of the top five or so popular licenses. Licenses aren't programming languages; it's okay to use the popular thing.

I also am strongly advocating not using rare licenses. But they are still preferrable to licenses which do not work as intended for technical reasons. LLGPL is one thing, I would rather recommend a BSD style license, as it is very well known, has no technical problems involved and is actually the license of the original Numpy code. Why choose a different license for a reimplementation of Numpy?
Try to buy an Apple, Logitech, or Samsung product.

Also (not by personal experience) its become quite difficult to get name brand clothing and shoes.
System design interview questions for IT companies
Thanks for sharing.
I'd suggest adding a bit of descriptive prose / "about" / readme / FAQ on the linked page. Also, its layout is suboptimal on mobile safari.
> Your passport or drivers license should be all that is required.

Is that for citizens or non-citizens? I would think it's only the driver's license for citizens, correct?
I don't mean that it would be a fair competition. I meant competition in the same way we compete for fresh water with plants. If there isn't enough to go around we always drink first. My 20% is entirely based on what I think the odds are that single cell microbes exist, possibly in a dormant state, somewhere near a water or methane source in our solar system.
Show HN: "AMD processors sold per year -intel” = snack food
And as always anyone defending them is flagged like you despite this being pretty clear
And the crazier thing is that in my experience SF is much less interested in taking your report than other cities I've lived (even Detroit), so it may even be substantially understated.
I was sloppy with my wording. By far the largest contributor.
Nuclear plants do not 'blow up' this is simply total distortion of reality.

There are ways to help solve the waste issues, and ways to make plants safer.

Given the near infinite latent power in nuclear, and the fact that it's Co2 free ... we should probably be considering this strongly and putting a lot of effort into researching it.
Social media with an ad-based business model inherently incentivises maximizing engagement in both time and intensity. The time incentive leads to addiction. The intensity incentive leads to promoting hyperbolic content. (The latter almost always leads to divisive, angry content.)

Breaking that incentive structure is tough. It would mean substantially re-building the company, perhaps down to its business model, corporate organization and management. (It almost certainly requires breaking WhatsApp and Instagram off as separate companies.)
Is there a reason to believe SF would be wildly anomalous in its propensity for reporting and documenting property crime?

If not, that nitpick is valid but pointless.