skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Author here. After rereading this (I haven't looked at the list for months), I agree. It should be "who are the users? -> what is the essence of their dissatisfaction? -> what are you building for them?"
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Look at the post history, it's a bot. Always posts something tangential and maybe sourced from forums of a topic that seems close.
What Advice Would You Give Your 20-Year-Old Self?
It was municipal water. Whole town was that way. googles Looks like it came from the Ozark Aquifer. No clue what weirdness was happening to it in between, but it reliably drew a "sniff sniff WTF?" from visitors. Again, you could tell when a restaurant in the area was serving water straight from the tap in by smell, before the water reached your lips.
When the URL of the login form changes, or Firefox doesn't see it, or you need to log in to a mobile app
What, you think Putin is blackmailable? He is already accused of being a murderer in the west, what kind of leverage can you add from that?
It depends a lot on what's in that blank.

If you say "idk, maybe Google 'how to make a bomb,'" then that's not essential guidance. If you say "Google for [list of specific key ingredients]," that's a bit different.
i bought a 6-stage apec reverse osmosis system for about $200 on sale. filter replacements are expected to average about $100 per year.

it's replaced all of my bottled water and brita use, not only for drinking water, but also to make flavored drinks like gatorade (much cheaper and friendlier environmentally that way).
HiFi. Short anecdote: I once went to a tube amp repair class. After about 5 minutes I realized this was only for guitar amps. I just pretended to be a guitar player and sat through. It was awesome though.

Anyway the TubeCAD site looks very interesting. Thanks.
It’s actually far worse than the pirate bay IMHO as they appear legit and pocket a part of transactions—ie profiting over screwing over otherwise moral agents who attempt an honest transaction.
Ah ok, I see your point.

But (and getting even more ridiculous here) the water need not necessarily be returned to the ocean. It could be used for instance to water crops inland or recharge inland aquifers that had previously been depleted.
Except these are not mainstream efforts supported by vendors.. Which means that they're effectively off limits to serious developers are large engineering firms who are the typical customers of FPGA hardware
(I see you edited out most of your comment. Still leaving some of mine in place.)

> I did not read the page as a roadmap...

I'll say again that I fail to understand what's so bad if somebody didn't say something is WIP and claimed it's ready. We're programmers and very far from helpless clueless non-technical users. We can download the thing, try it and see for ourselves.

I am asking: where's the actual, measurable, tangible harm in that?

Can't understand what's the big outrage about V. There have been multiple threads about it on HN lately and the amount of hate and bitterness by other HNers is comical and totally unexpected on this forum which I viewed in a higher regard until just recently.

EDIT:
Additionally, a comment from `dang`, one of the moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251393
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Huh. That sounds so "deep state-y".
Your skeptical because you haven't used both in a meaningful way. Your conclusion is biased because it's based off of heavy usage of one paradigm. To become unbiased to truly know or hate a language you must become proficient in it.

For what you say to have truly any validity you must use Haskell and an untyped functional language.
Just to be clear, you actively maintain a collection (database?) of 10,000 index cards, spread throughout various boxes? Out of curiosity, why do you not store these digitally instead?
Desalination: Expensive, environmentally problematic, but increasingly necessary
I wondered the same thing. Apparently a Scheme to C translator. http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Getting%20started
Searching for "transactional ses" or "aws ses transactional" on DuckDuckGo gives me sendwithses.com easily.

The same searches on Google never find anything.
As somebody who lives in the UK, in most cases (that is - peoples I know) it is small lifestyle changes that have impacted their spending habits more than the ability to spend spend spend. Be that having a phone that works for them for a few years that the need to upgrade every opportunity has become less important. Not wasting money on plastic bags, or filling up the fridge because they can. Giving up smoking for health reasons. Small things, but they all add up.

But in many countries some areas have seen changes. Not all driven by fiscal necessities.
If it makes you feel any younger I started with TRS-80 Level 2 BASIC years before GW-BASIC existed.
The lunar lander was lightweight and relatively fragile, designed for low gravity and low pressure differential. For example the aluminum alloy skin seems vulnerable to distortion and to sharp impacts, because it was 0.3mm, about 3-4x thickness of a modern soda can, though the frame supporting it was much stronger.

I thought the safe take off angle was very limited, but some NASA research says that even up to 70 degrees tilt could be manageable if the crew handled it correctly. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32246.msg1...

That doesn't mean 70 degrees would be safe for landing, though. Maybe it would topple or get damaged by rocket blowback. Apollo 15 was tilted about 10 degrees and that was not a problem.
Considering how the internet is full of questions that could be solved by googling them, you could make the argument that it's essential.

It becomes even more essential if you provide them with the proper search terms that would give them better results. Interpreting what "better search terms" is, is something a good lawyer should be able to manage.
I believe it’s all the links at the bottom represent his fan site.
I feel that's also by design: Boeing went out of their way to minimize the opportunity that the FAA had to catch what they were doing. Providing the experts no doubt helped, but just omitting changes by lying and saying all the changes were minimal to a system that had already passed safety review was their main tools.

Does the FAA have issues? yes. Will this event reduce the influence of the FAA in the future? Probably - we're already seeing the European equivalent adopting a stance of "the FAA is working for the corporations they're meant to regulate". Honestly the various politicians who gutted the FAA are fairly directly responsible for causing significant long term harm to American influence (for good or bad, depending of who/what/where you are).

Is Boeing entirely responsible? Yes. The FAA is meant to be adversarial to prevent companies from choosing money over safety, but fundamentally it was Boeing executives that made the choice to favour hiding design flaws to preserve profit (and hence bonuses). The fact is that any repercussions are almost certainly going to be entirely financial, and only harm shareholders (dividend and stock price) and lower level employees (e.g non-managers: managers, and especially executives, don't get canned when cash is low).
> The XKCD is pretty solid

No, it's full of shit.

Based on tables that estimate the effect of various radioactive isotopes acting for 50 years, people ignoring physiology decided that the average K40 in a banana will produce 0.078 microsievert of damage (rounded to 0.1 because it's close enough for jazz and comics).

The reality is that, due to homoeostasis, the excess potassium you ingest is eliminated the next time you piss, so there's no accumulation inside the organism. Those 50 years become something like 12 hours and the radiation exposure is more in the ballpark of 0.00000213 microsievert.
Root in a container is not unsecure, the user mapping is different between what runs the container and what's running inside.
That might be the case but individuals are still free to refuse to buy items from amazon. I know that they won’t fail anytime soon because of AWS but I absolutely refuse to buy any items from their store because 7/10 times it’s garbage. They might not fail but luckily there’s still good online alternatives
Suter actually (or at least used to ~13 years ago) compromise the CaC / FC systems from the radar point-of-view itself as the entry-point, so it's not necessarily over or via conventional networks (i.e. TCP/IP). Older Russian tech for SAM sites and the such had microwave controllers between the different components (i.e. multi-static radar), and it was possible to intercept/gain access/control from here in a shockingly convenient way.

It was essentially similar to (but via radio spectrum as opposed to light) gaining access to a police speed camera by firing light at the camera sensor, gaining control of it, and then re-programming it to either do nothing useful, or even in extreme cases take license plate pictures of police cars going under the speed limit. Sounds impossible (and likely is for my camera example), but...

I imagine in the mean time more modern Russian systems are now much more hardened to this type of attack, so maybe the situation is different...
Hard to imagine this is a surprise. Doubt/fear historically has negative impact on consumer spending.

That said, lack of population growth also keeps economic growth in check. If you consider immigration a form of population growth (hint: you should) then, again, given Brexit, lack of spending is no surprise.
Interaction should be handled by linking to a site where that interaction can take place. Automatic logins are already handled by services that know how to do it so it's as frictionless as possible.
With the water we save with Sandy (name of my startup) the smartphones of tomorrow will likely be powered with small water wheels.
See the “monad tutorial fallacy”: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
They're testing ant IQ nowadays?
The Aluminum acts as a heat sink...

It’s a dumb idea what you’re suggesting. Sorry, I know this isn’t what you want to hear but you need to hear it.

This is why HN shouldn’t design a laptop.
An Exhausting List of Differences Between Vb.net and C#
I'm curious if the capsules like this are standardized or one-off. The description of the tungsten plug makes it sound like the latter.

In which case a more sane procedure would probably mandate some examination of the capsule, formulation of a plan off-site, then implementation of said plan.
Even competent security is difficult, especially at the scale that large companies operate at. Attackers are very sophisticated, and patient.
When I search for free software I usually put forum in the search terms as it helps filter out the malicious sites and the software where they clearly ripped off the free software but ask for money to unlock the pro version. Plus I get to read why people recommend the software.
Or the site you're already on: HN.
The first n results were not relevant, and Google's were.

Here's what a Google search returns:

* Vue and Svelte — A Lot Alike, But Some Important Differences

* Why SvelteJS may be the best framework for new web devs - Dev.to

* Svelte vs Vue.js | What are the differences? - StackShare

* Svelte.js — First impressions? (vs. React and Vue) – Milosh N. – Medium

* Top 5 Reasons You Should Use Svelte on Your Current Project Right

* Vue and Svelte · Issue #4491 · vuejs/vue · GitHub
This is a really good summary of some of the main reasons - more interesting detail than many of the other comments here.

Now what would really be interesting is if we had the same kind of knowledge about the typical causes of userspace software and distributed systems being slow to start. In my experience, for proprietary software, it's mostly because people inserted random calls to sleep()...
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Some of Sandy’s (current name of my startup) technology is borrowed from my friend Liz’s startup. She (Sandy, not Liz) will be able to diagnose disease and transmit test results via Bluetooth to your phone from just a drop of fecal matter. You’ll be able to say, “Hi Sandy, do I have worms?”, for example. Liz said her technology is not foolproof, but what is in this day and age?
Or a way to make a society function without a marketplace.
> I absolutely refuse to buy any items from their store because 7/10 times it’s garbage.

genuinely curious, what kinds of things do you order? I place 1-2 orders every month and I've never received anything that I suspected was counterfeit.
Google why it is so difficult to orbit the moon.
But Japanese people never make mistakes. They always pay their bills. They are always on time. They are robot gods.

Turns out they actually do do all of the things you suggest, but that's not how they perceive themselves to be, so 'they don't do that'.

True story - I worked on implementing a billing system for a Japanese utility company and when our team asked for the requirements around how to handling dunning when people don't pay their bills the response we got back was "Japanese people always pay their bills."

I shit you not.
From what I recall, Malwarebytes (which is more or less the antivirus package to use if you're on Windows) is written in VB .NET. It using .NET in lieu of a native language gave it a leg up on certain other insecurely designed C++ based AV packages where it was possible for malware to exploit the AV scanning engine as a vector for arbitrary code execution.
Boeing still gives the pilots a lot of control over the airplane, compared to Airbus. Airbus has defaulted to fly-by-wire (i.e: the computer has control and the pilot makes suggestions) for planes made since the 1980's.
Or you could think of it as people spending months underwater so no one will be stupid enough to try to end the world.
If you are on the bleeding edge of the new shiny then you won't have this problem that I am seeing. But the guy supporting your code in five years time might.

To some extent the problem depends on how new and shiny your stuff is.
Slightly OT but I just won a bet with a buddy of mine who works at Wholefoods. Somewhat knowing Amazon for huge variety of products, he assumed Amazon will even add more products to Wholefoods palette. I told him to the contrary - Amazon is a hard core analytics company with simple website [todays standards] and incredibly rich physical delivery network. We bet $100. Yesterday I visited him at work. Year later Amazon hs cut off its 365 brand of awesome organic stuff unique to Wholefoods and is on plan to cut 20% more products according to internal email he received. Whatever didn’t hit “moving average” high enough is getting sliced - no more 25 types of meat, just one vacuum packed not even prepared at Wholefoods. Amazon is on its path to destroy the brand. Soon there won’t be anything there that you canmt buy at Wallmart at 10% discount.
/ rant
Most of reddit does suck. There are still really useful communities—my go-to example is /r/askhistorians, which has some of the highest quality analysis and research on the internet.
If you follow the links in the article you can read the literature.
Oops, I just had removed that section after reading the other thread a bit more.

To "where's the actual, measurable, tangible harm in that?": People's sense of what's fair or not doesn't necessarily match that perfectly. A single project being overhyped probably doesn't do much harm (although discouraging contributors to other projects, taking mindshare from them, ... probably is a minor form of harm, even if hard to quantify), but I think people dislike it because it distracts and it would be a problem if it became the norm. Again, my initial comment in this thread was without the context of other discussions and only based on the article.
Chicken Scheme is a Scheme variant. It compiles to C. => https://www.call-cc.org/
It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks and start over
yes, libre is the root word for liberty; libra is more commonly known as an astrological sign
Airbnb could pull up to 1% off rental vacancies in Canada's 3 biggest cities
As long as they have 3-4 other solid competitors in each market they work, they haven't exactly won. And honestly, Amazon service is less than stellar at times, and most of the services people use them for amount to brokering the purchase or rental of a product. This sounds like a service model that in under 20 years will be completely unprofitable and replicated across all competition. Certainly they'll edge up somehow, but it's unclear how.
A lot of living things would not be seen as moving. Probably even the majority of lawki.
I wrote something along similar lines[1] as the linked article, with questions in a deliberate order to address what you brought up.

[1]: https://maddo.xxx/thoughts/what-the-hell-are-you-doing.html
okay, but that is not the same as being excluded from the GI bill
Will this thing actually accelerate?

The last project was in such a low orbit that acceleration was never possible. At best it could have managed a measurable decrease in the rate of orbital decay. The light pressure was less than the atmospheric drag. As drag is directly related to sail area, and is constant whereas sunlight isn't, is acceleration possible even in a 700+km orbit?
APL can do some pretty cool stuff: http://0x0.st/scHG.webm
I'm sorry to cut into your ongoing conversation here. There is no way around it.

The Republicans were not a force in southern politics until they embraced racist tactics that gave old Dixie-crats a reason to move.

The Democratic party actually had the South locked as Southerners joined in protest to Republicans trying to push Reconstruction through.

Your argument sounds a bit like Dinesh Disuza when you say... The Democrats created the KKK... Not really. Ex-confederates created the KKK.

As the larger Democratic party embraced civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights the Republicans gave the remnants of the old southern Democrats a place to go in protest...again...against modernization.

I'm sorry about the Disuza reference. I don't mean to be offensive, but he had used that line of argument in the past.

EDIT: Also, just because the Republicans were the party of Lincoln doesn't mean that Reconstruction era Democrats were left on the political spectrum. That's also a tactic that today's right uses. The Republicans of Lincolns day were to the left.
Darn I clicked the link, I gave NYT money due to my fear.

Although this doesnt change anything. Given how easy it would be for a competitor Fortune 500 to dump resources and marketing into a competing store, they could never 'get away with murder'.

FAANG has more to worry about the tech bubble, than the world with FAANG.
Eh, maybe. We're a much smaller community and we self-correct quite well IMO. If people start claiming obvious non-truisms left and right we'll ignore them and their projects will never take off.

Thanks for the good discussion. ^_^
I've been looking for a good HN-type OSS for a long time. There have been a number of clones on Github but seem unreliable or unmaintained. Surprisingly, this is the first I've heard of lobsters, and it looks great. I really wish the project description actually contained the words "Hacker News" or even "Reddit" and "board/discussion board" so that people could actually find the project when searching for it!
Journalist or not I'd expect him to be reprimanded under the same laws.

Classifying him as a journalist, though, fits the narrative that journalists writ large are currently under attack (i.e., sympathy vote).

> Why do you feel that it strengthens your argument to say "calling him a journalist is a farce"?

Because I'm an asshole and I find it humorous that he's cowering when he knew full well what he was doing.

> Why do you disagree, and why should your opinion be weighted more strongly than those who disagree with you?

I never claimed that my opinion should be. You did that. Pointing to awards is effectively just an appeal to authority.
You can't copyright facts.

As journalists, we scrape things to collect information used toward transformative analysis. Not straight-up mirroring. Facts, as stated by an entity. So we've never run into a legal issue doing this as long as we used the scrapes to synthesize results into data. For example, map of restaurant closures by the health department, with statistics and graphs of violation frequencies. Or analysis of lawyer performance by cross-referencing a state judiciary database search with their team member lists for success rates and other stuff.

Most of the sites we scraped were county, state or federal government sites and they contained information available in the interest of the general public. However, we crawled tons of private sites as well and as long as we wore white hats we considered it fair game.

We typically tried to scrape things fairly without causing technical issues but to be honest, we ignored robots.txt directives all the time but timed it do happen during off hours, with backoff mechanisms in case we contributed negatively to computational loads. The typical issues we ran into were overeager system administrators who squashed or interfered our scraping attempts under their personal interpretation of appropriateness. Sometimes they sicced misguided lawyers after us. Most of the lawyers couldn't tell you what you were doing wrong, let alone how a site is registered, what a glue record is, how DNS differs from IP registry ownership, how collocated servers work and who owns them. They couldn't prove what we did with any of the data to even imply we violated any copyrights.

So we relied on our legal departments to clear the way in case of issues, but in 15 years of doing this, I've never once had a legal issue come up and put a stop to what we were doing under that operating premise of transforming the information into data. Our legal team never got involved for that sort of thing. There were issues, but they got resolved through communication or by reconfiguring our scrapers. Even when we've also made the raw data available to the public or other researchers, it hasn't come up as a problem.

In one case, a police department figure blocked us because they disliked our coverage. Their pretense was that our geocoding wasn't accurate enough from the information they provided, and rather than circumvent their blocking we had face to face meetings to address those concerns and mollify their concerns, on the record. They ended up providing us with additional information to meet that accuracy. In another case, the CEO of a large private company personally threatened us legally claiming we violated their terms of services for their API endpoint. However, their terms of services mentioned nothing about data retention once something became a data point and we felt we were in the clear so we kept doing it for years and nothing came of it.
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We started using an app called Paprika that parses the page and extracts the recipe.

Although, I will admit, my youngest daughter and I get a kick out of the stories. We even try to predict which theme the writer will go with. Some are like Christmas Hallmark movies. lol.
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False.

Rigorous double blind a/b/c/d tests using real listeners has been performed, and the research has been published in peer reviewed journals since the 80's.

What has happened is that most of the audiophile community saw research as a threat to their revenue streams and actively FUD around it. And the audio engineering community has simply moved on.

Here is a talk that could be very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM

His book is worth a read as well.