skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you. I agree with your second sentence. But I'm trying to protect HN, not Israel or anyone else. This place is fragile, and when people bring the fires of the world here, it can only take so much.

I wouldn't call that kind of title edit (taking out a country name) a policy. We have an ad hoc bag of tricks and sometimes we use one and sometimes another, depending on what feels needed. Do I know how unsatisfying that sounds? You bet. Do I get how it opens us to accusations of bias? I do, better than anyone else does. But the threads are too complicated to be managed with precise formalizations.
It seems like the only effect of the opt-out option is to smooth over controversy. I wonder who went through the charade of pushing for the opt-out and treating it as a victory.
It's pretty benign as waste goes. It just sits there and gets less dangerous as time goes on.

You could just keep it in a bunker and pay a crew to dust it off and repackage it when needed for the next 1000 years. But no, for some reason it needs to be taken out of the environment, like in the famous Australian sketch...
Most law firms are likely LLP's or PC's which act as a liability shield.
GMs big ev promise was that it would have real competitors in volt and bolt, that kind of didn't get there.
If the Old River Control Structure Fails: A Catastrophe with Global Impact
I found grapesjs recently. Going to be checking that out.

How would you relate your and their projects?
> Isn't this a version of a la carte?

Yes spinning the same content out into more services with smaller catalogs that each cost as much as the old large-catalog service is a verion of a la carte, but its a version that illustrates (rather than contradicts) that the vision of a la carte as cheaper is dead (or perhaps more accurately was always a pipe dream.)
Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers Leak Info of Connected Devices
that this could be used to form the basis for a social credit score, "USA Style", much like bank accounts, SSNs, etc. are required to function in the 'free market' economy?
Any of you notice this seems to have been spiked from frontpage?
You're probably better off with some kind of Penrose graphical notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation
I disagree. Many of the top streamers (Forsen, Sodapoppin etc) are not good gamers. They are fun to watch for other reasons. Some others are decent (Lirik) but far from pro gamers. They are a different category but just as popular as watching the pros.
Ok, so no problem here then? Owning a share of the supply doesn't in and of itself make Disney a monopoly. How is competition being stifled here?
so your generalization is, "people who understand SQL really well would never use an ORM unless forced by their job".

That is, you are claiming those who choose to use ORMs must lack experience. This is what you have observed, in your experience.

Can I therefore claim, since I know tons of SQL experts who use ORMs and even create new ones, that you "lack experience" as well? because your claim is wildly untrue.

edit: i apologize for the snark but you are literally claiming a whole segment of the programming userbase is less experienced than you are, based on their choice of tools, while you aren't considering that perhaps you haven't worked with many of these kinds of tools to know what's really out there and how different ORMs approach the problem.
Meltdown Redux: Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets from Millions of PCS
> Installing proprietary code requires adding proprietary repositories

How is this unexpected?
One group has an interest in making a living by working for multi-billion dollar corporations.

The other group is just the general public, who won't make a single penny from dedicating their lives to understanding the facts as they are presented.
In 2010 the International Panel on Fissile Materials said "After six decades
and the expenditure of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars, the
promise of breeder reactors remains largely unfulfilled and efforts to
commercialize them have been steadily cut back in most countries"
I'm not claiming consistency. For one thing, we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you see a particularly bad post get away without moderation, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We can't be consistent about what we don't see.

There are a ton of other considerations, though, and it gets complicated quickly. I'm always happy to discuss specific cases, but general arguments are another matter. Sometimes it feels like people want us to make general arguments so they can find exceptions and then say things like "aha" and "your obvious bias" and "figures". But we don't have general policies about such complicated things. We have basic principles and that's it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you don't think we've been trying to reduce nationalistic flamewar about China and Russia, you could try looking at HN threads on those topics. I don't know anything I've been working at harder lately. On the other hand, there's 100x more of those, especially on China, so cf. the first paragraph above.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Be mindful that "delete" does not necessarily equate to "shred" [1]. There is no information available to determine if their use of "delete" means "set a Boolean flag that means 'deleted' to true" vs. "literally destroy the data so it can never be recovered" (the 'shred' [1] method).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shred_(Unix)
I wonder if an FOIA request could reveal what metrics/data are actually being stored?
So...you need a bigger mailbox?
We need to split up all the mega-mergers that have happened in the last 15 years. Every time one of these is realized, you are looking at a 10-20% job cut across both companies. Splitting them up will allow for more competition and bring the jobs back (somewhere).
Do you have to check mushrooms and boar for radioactivity due to coal like you have for Tchernobyl? (https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w...)
When those are the only two options presented to them, a lot of people won't be arsed to return the item, which will save Amazon $150.
I'm very pleased that they didn't claim direct correlation, as you never can - regardless - it is a possible outcome and that a marked and measurable increase was seen in that area is important. And goes against your statement in the parent comment. Yes a link cannot be proven but birth defects did increase.

"You might be surprised to know that increased birth defects were never detected in the population irradiated by Chernobyl." was what you stated and I've just shown that is not true. The cause is unknown but your statement is provably incorrect.
The future is with solid-state batteries.
Folding vs. Currying
> you have to just look at the ~30% that is direct from Amazon.

Except due to commingling you might get something from a 3rd party Fulfilled by Amazon instead of Amazon's supply chain.

> And with first hand experience with Amazon's Vendor program they go further than a lot of other retailers in pushing costs onto their vendors such as making them eat returns etc.

I know Walmart is very severe with their vendors, do you believe Amazon is worse?
While I'm glad that kids in Netflix-only households aren't getting bombarded with advertisements targeted at children the way kids my age were in the 1980s, I can't help but suspect that these ad-free kids need to be exposed to some advertising in an educational context so that they learn to recognize when somebody is trying to con them into buying shit they don't need and probably didn't want in the first place.
Neither is Amazon's
Google Disables Intel Hyperthreading on ChromeOS
Vertically integrating and excluding competition is exactly what antitrust covers! The monopoly that Apple has on the app store for the devices it sells allows it to exploit consumers with pricing. That's the case that the Supreme Court has allowed to move forward.

AWS is also a platform but they don't lock customers into only using AWS or AWS-licensed services. This is almost as preposterous as saying, "Someone bought it, so it's not anti-competitive".
Computer Utopias (2015)
I've always wanted my own heliostat(s) as I think they'd be more useful than solar panels (at least for me) - sending concentrated sunlight and heat in through your windows.

But can't find any good design/plans for DIY or anyone selling one.
Academia is a process of finding new knowledge and sharing it.

Industry is a process of commercialising added value.

They both add to society in different ways, and their outcomes aren’t really comparable.
also worth noting:
as a US citizen re-entering the country you do not have to present anything more to a customs agent than your passport.

You are not required to answer any questions at all. Where youre from, where you were, what you did, nothing, however it may result in an inspection of your bags, so it depends on whether your interpretation of liberty is based on personal convenience.

Disclosure: ive done this opt-out twice. The first time I got to sit in a room with a few other folks who had been randomly selected based on their winning complexion, and was let go after 20 minutes and a bag search. The second time the screening room was busy so i was let go immediately. at no point did i answer a single question.
> Code can be communication too. It's really nice to be able to just pull someone's branch (that they maybe mentioned in standup) without having to interrupt them to tell them you're doing it.

But then if they communicated to you (during stand-up of whatever) their branch is ready to be used to build on, then they've made that code public and would avoid force-pushing, which is what I was saying? Conversely if they haven't told you then you wouldn't just randomly pick a commit and start building on it?

> When a dev gentle-pushes new commits and people merge them into their branches, it doesn't cause problems if they resolve conflicts differently, and other people who pull from their branches in turn don't have to keep re-resolving the same conflicts.
> Rebase and force push are two sides of the same coin, let's not argue semantics. I say "no force pushing" rather than "no rebasing" because local rebase before you push doesn't cause problems.

AH so you're fundamentally against ever e.g. having a pull --rebase workflow on any branch you've ever pushed to any remote... regardless of who's working on what, what communication has occurred, whether that branch will even exist 2 hours from now, or whatever. Merge is the only valid approach in your mind, period. Honestly I have zero hope of trying to convince you merge isn't a size-fits-all dogma, so I won't try anymore except to point out that git supports both workflows for a reason, and its own documentation is clear that neither is strictly superior to the other: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing#_rebas...
Glad I'm not the only one. Still haven't been through one of those scanners.
Somewhere in Germany, but hundreds of kilometers from anything worthy - that can happen only in alternative reality where Hitler won and Siberia is now in Germany.
Number of hours still seems like the wrong unit of measurement to me. Shouldn't companies care more about productivity?
Because car manufacturers keeping the systems 'open' was mandated legally in 1990 and 2012.
The single biggest change I'd make would be to add markdown support.
What neighbourhoods do you have in mind?
Parent was not complaining about slow shipping.

Parent was complaining about misadvertized shipping.
Im sorry but 30 to 35 hours a week, especially at a startup is just not tenable for any company except a small lifestyle company

Also i have to laugh at the fact that you "just" want to work at a company thats honest and then you throw in the 30 to 35 hour work week requirement
I believe so, more and more app moving to the web now. I would image most development in the future will be on the web.
Isn’t a passport just a basic photo ID? Seems reasonable to ask for on to check people are who they say they are. Everyone already has a passport.
And what's a good productivity metric?
It's an astoundingly unintelligent "analogy" at best. Discussing nuclear meltdowns and what caused them is always relevant, whether or not it happened today or 70 years ago.

Talking about it is still important, especially because like most things, human bureaucracy and politics played into it. Having more intelligent designs does not solve human stupidity, laziness, pride, etc.

And even if nuclear safety is much better today, the consequences of failing are still grotesque. In the case of other meltdowns, the surrounding areas are still affected, even today. Doesn't matter whether it melted down today or 100 years ago, those areas are still toxic.

I think nuclear is our only real solution moving forward, but we need to honestly talk about the incidents that occurred, and fix the issues that went wrong with it. You don't get that by covering things up.
Glyphs have absolutely nothing to do with it, or do you propose that writing predates abstract thinking? I'd say that abstract thinking is a prerequisite for language. You can't communicate with others unless you can distill the physical world into abstract higher-order concepts. In doing so, you create an abstract model of the world. For example you may point and call that thing a bicycle. In reality, the concept of a bicycle is just a figment of your representational model that happens to roughly coincide with mine.

Maybe an abstract model uses mathematics, but only necessarily in the sense that one could say that I'm using set theory to pick my nose. It's a bit like saying that watching TV is color theory.
This definitely seems like a "competing needs" thing. People repeat the advice that helps them, but different people need to adjust in different directions. "Look before you leap" versus "he who hesitates", I suppose.

There's an interesting result from studying people's prediction accuracy in which they improve simply by being asked to think about their answers and whether they're sure. For me, overthinking often leads me to explain away 'irrational' reactions that were quite accurate, but taking at least one extra look to say "has my first reaction missed something fundamental" is a lifesaver.
I’m surprised there’s a listing based in San Francisco. I’m not surprised many of them are remote.
That sounds a lot like the patch theory stuff from darcs and pijul.
Battery packs weight more than 500kg. An order of magnitude more than ICE cars energy storage.
Google's Algorithms Monetize Hatred
It did sound like a puff piece, since the only company that was even mentioned by name was a recruiting/staffing agency.
If that's true, isn't there some organization in the government that can sue them for this?
Left-handed scissors are worth buying, even if they're really just masking the problem.

(You can buy scissors with the blades reversed, which coupled with better grips make things perfect.)
The Restatements and Black's are, yes. Law review articles - maybe, depending on context. Scientific understanding rarely gets encoded in the law as such, but see Roe v. Wade as an example - the trimester-based legal framework has given legal effect to a particular understanding of fetal viability.

Side-note: I don't really care that my above post has been downvoted, but it seems pretty counter-productive to the HN cultural goal of intellectual discourse for people to downvote input from actual practitioners in the field just because they don't like the answer.
Widgets created
I'll be convinced when I'll start to see people campaigning for building storage facilities in their neighbourhoods, rather than generic claims that storage facilities are as safe as it can be.
So i’m usually the one in our group of friends who makes spreadsheets for festivals and stuff, and this looks super useful – congrats!

Right now we use Groupme, which is a fine group messenger, but I think I would push for switching to this – mainly for keeping everything is in one place, but can you explain how the checklist works? Sounds interesting

Agree that polls are a needed feature--!!
You're casting an over-broad definition of Memetics. Long before Dawkins, we had things like "archetypes" in Jungian psychology, "gestalts" in gestalt psychology, "signs" in semiotics. And many other similar notions that would fit what you're describing. Memes became a "thing", academically, because Dawkins was a successful pop writer. They've had about as much genuine scholarly impact as Deepak Chopra!

That's on the academic side. On the practical side, sure, marketing firms and political campaigns have attempted to hijack image captions, with varying (usually low) success. (It's not like Trump employs a bunch of scientists to post image captions on r/T_D. Love it or hate it, that's grass roots.) All of this would have been done whether people had decided to latch it to Memetics or not. It's not like image macros wouldn't have become a thing if "Selfish Gene" hadn't been written.
I just find it hilarious that they do this on the tail of wanting to ban plastic everywhere.

Why yes, please take these black plastic balls, coat them in a known carcinogen, place them over drinking water, and let them bake over the sun[1].

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls
Hm. All six thousand of them? Kids? Paramedics? Journalists? Do you have any sources for that?
At the moment I spend time researching companies and other related media myself. https://keyvalues.io has been a great resource!

There are some readers of the newsletter that have shared their own employer’s work/life balance philosophies and open positions too which has been great.
Thinking regulation hurts big players like AT&T.
Yeah, Microsoft thinks that Azure can be the backplane/glue binding all the AR ecosystems and the various overlays you may want shared between experiences.

(Which is often an interesting Big Deal in cyberpunk novels; it's not the hardware or the operating system, it is who controls the database connecting the real and virtual worlds.)
This is absolutely true. There's no money in building new websites. Instead, solve problems for people who already have well-established websites (read: a steady revenue stream) and want to go further.

The client doesn't even need to be a business that's larger than your own, as long as they have lots of money. There are websites out there that are run by literally one person and get tens of millions of page views per day. Be the engineer who can solve his scalability problems, and he'll throw at you whatever money you ask for.

I've also found professional associations to be well-paying clients. They're too busy making money in their own professions, if they encounter an IT problem, they'll pay anything to make it go away.

If you go down this path, though, be prepared to read and endless stream of legacy code, write compatibility layers, do live data migrations, and spend a lot of time in general trying to untangle other people's spaghetti PHP/HTML/JS/whatever. It's an established website, after all. You're not there to rewrite it in your favorite framework. Come to think of it, maybe that's why I face so little competition ;)
That the default recommendation is react not angular
I work at an enterprise less than 40 hours a week. I hear from recruiters 3-4 times a week. I don't care about your mission or your culture, just pay me, I do the work, and then go home.

If someone is of the opinion these sorts of orgs don't exist, I put forth that they might not have looked hard enough, and would encourage further exploration to better understand the employment landscape. If you're a startup and expecting workaholics for under market rate with a trivial amount of equity, I can imagine you would be upset your hiring pipeline isn't as robust as you would hope.
And, if technology keeps improving, at some point there will be tech to easily recycle all that "waste". Because it still contains energy.
I'd really like a way to "shuffle" stories, such that if, say, CNN pushes out 10 stories and the Guardian pushes out 10 stories 15m later, that the order of presentation shuffles the two of them instead of just showing one source.

Also, link deduplication, because sometimes articles from the e.g. the CNN Politics RSS overlap with the CNN US RSS
There are home versions of these heliostats too, I always thought it would be a nice home improvement. You could make a new sunny room, sunnier garden, or a warmer patio.

Just googling, $2,000 gets you 1300 watts of heat. Or 115,000 lumens. (100 watt incandescent is 1600 lumens). The mirror part is about 4 feet x 4 feet.

https://lm.solar/order/
What caused Seattle crane to collapse?
We need to stop making generalizations about regulations. Some are good, some are bad, some are both.
The last few times I've returned to the states I haven't even had to talk to a customs agent - but signing up for Global Entry might be too much of a violation of privacy by some standards.
To agree on this inside of a broader context: I would argue that there are so many abstractions in language (“good”, “evil”, “god”, even less lofty things such as “color”, “heat”, “weather”), science ("gravity" would probably an arguable but interesting example as well as one that came up recently with a neighbor of mine), and even basic functional things (including “plumbing”, “electricity”, and even “computers” at quite literally every level of understanding above mathematics), so in keeping all of that in mind possibly our entire sense of being and living in the world would be completely debilitating without making use of an innumerable amount of abstractions.

That said there are always valid arguments against the use of particular abstractions, as they can be seen in practice as being largely more detrimental that helpful. Many make this argument against "god". My High school physics teacher made the argument against the use of “centripetal force.” I myself like to remind people that they probably know far less about the world around them than they think simply because that have replaced conceptual knowledge with a definition and categorical knowledge.

Though at the end of the day, I feel that abstractions in general are quite harmless, as long as you are aware of the fact that they are just that “abstractions.”
If I am still productive at 60 hours and I am being paid a salary, then why not work me 60 hours? Employers care about getting things done, employees care about how their time is spent. Employers need (~)happy employees. I think hours is the right measurement here.

Perhaps the issue is exempt employees? I don't see why I shouldn't be paid hourly.
I prefer ORMs to writing raw SQL in application logic - and that is not due to lack of experience with either. (I notice your criticism is mostly ad-hominems directed against people using ORM's rather than actual criticism of the technology.)

Note that SQL is also a leaky abstraction over the relational operations - it is just a question of which abstraction is most useful for a particular purpose. Linq express the relational operations just as directly as SQL does, and with a less clunky and more composable syntax.

If you are optimizing raw SQL for performance then you are breaking the SQL abstraction anyway. SQL is supposed to work on a logical level, and the query optimizer do the rest. I know it is sometimes necessary anyway, but that does not show a weakness in the ORM abstraction, it shows a weakness in the query optimizer.