skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are building it.

https://qbix.com

https://qbix.com/blog

https://qbix.com/platform

How do you suggest we have people fund our project with their wallets?

Some links to videos of things you can build:

Videoconferencing https://youtu.be/QDqX7EN7ci4

Chat https://youtu.be/QJg3ZwKalmU

People https://youtu.be/ZRfOKuacdqI

Events https://youtu.be/RTFcFGZeCsw

Rides https://youtu.be/QDqX7EN7ci4

Payments: https://youtu.be/Z7Q7IzVv1VU

HTML: https://youtu.be/Z7Q7IzVv1VU
FWIW, you can still do this with the `<details>` tag, though. Have the page background-sync collapsed statuses back to the server and have the server remove the appropriate `open` attribute from collapsed `<details>` on subsequent page loads.
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iOS is probably looked at as well, but has to be done manually since there's no way to just do it with a simple app.
Amazing that on HN standard Nazi apologia is allowed, but warning someone they may be unwittingly repeating such is immediately, within seconds, removed.
Al I can think about is Metallica - One

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
> Do you want to depend on someone to say how many beatings is moral to be inflicted upon yourself?

Regardless of what I want, we currently live in a society where the govt holds the monopoly on violence. You're free to have your opinion that an adolescent libertarian utopia is possible though.
It's hard to consume conspicuously when everything is miniaturized.
Oregon Legislature Votes to Essentially Ban Single-Family Zoning
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One of the founders here. Focus is a big component to why we think Carry can successfully scale in comparison to other ops-heavy businesses, like Fin (when it was an assistant-as-a-service) & Magic. We've done the conservative math, and the economics can work out without a ton of automation but obviously with a much lower margin than we'd like (and tech can also improve the UX significantly).
Forgive me if I’m being callous.

There’s an intersection in the Venn Diagram between burnout and mental health issues, but also some distinctions.

I’ve viewed burnout to be one of two options.

1 - For creatives, a lack of creative fulfillment. Everyone has some creativity but I’m specifically talking about “artists”.

2 - Not being paid enough. Everything is relative. For some people “hustling” even if they’re making 1% salaries is too much. I think that the perspective would be changed if one was a C-suite level or a founder of that same company. We see this in Wall Street too, and nearly ever power law job. Most people, particularly blue collar workers, work physically backbreaking hours doing physically backbreaking work. They can’t afford the luxury of burnout. There’s maybe a large middle class band where people can. For people beyond that, maybe even on the higher end of upper middle class, they’re being compensated enough so the psychological checks and balances compute well enough that burnout doesn’t manifest like how it does for others.

I’d also argue that the optics of “success/growth at all costs” are falsely blamed in SV in particular because SV has a “fail upwards” mechanism that rewards failures.

Lastly, I think that stagnation is not the same thing as burnout.
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Fair enough. C3S has been tracking since 1981, but they've also released a chart using "other sources" that tracks back to 1880.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-temperatures-j...
There's a handy polyfill for that.

https://github.com/rstacruz/details-polyfill
A European startup called Omio is doing this, at least partially. They used to be called Goeuro
It's not difficult to derive why the gravitational potential energy must be negative.[0]

For the cosmological implications of this fact, there's Lawrence Krauss's book "A Universe from Nothing", also "The Inflationary Universe" by Alan Guth, and Stephen Hawking touches on it in "A Brief History of Time."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_energy
The e-Golf is a compromise. It is very difficult to add electrification to a vehicle platform built for traditional ICE cars.

There is almost no space under the floors for the cells, and you can't put them up front either because the additional weight over an engine and ancillaries would create a car with a 70:30 weight distribution. This would make the car handle terribly, cause excessive tire wear and fishtailing under braking.
What I don't understand is why they leave the app installed on the person's phone after the scan if it does not do any further scanning in the background.
> My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

~ Dijkstra (1988) "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" (EWD1036).
Take a look at https://www.skyscanner.com. They have a "cheapest month" feature. All you have to do is choose your destination.

To see it, choose your flight then in the date pop-up choose Whole Month -> Cheapest Month.

I believe they also have the inverse where you can choose a month and a departure city and they'll give you destinations by price. I couldn't find it quickly though but I think they have it.
Ask HN: Why was the VICE video report on China's Uighur situation flagged?
I noticed that this Hacker News submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336543

was (as is usually on Hacker News) silently flagged and removed. The submission linked to this YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ

which is titled "China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World". As far as I remember, the Hacker News submission title was not editorialzed or sensational.

Again as usual on Hacker News, there is no moderator message that says why this post was flagged and removed.

Hacker News is obviously heavily moderated. But I found the moderation to be rather silent a lot, seeing title's changed, link's changed, and comments flagged without any clear information or often no information at all as to why. The fact that this particular post was removed is extra bothersome to me. There are other articles that have been allowed through, including this one:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware

The original video obviously contains political content, but it also shows the repercussions of technology. That is an important thing to discuss. Engineers are supposed to build technology that helps people, and if conversations regarding that goal are silenced, it is worrisome.

At a bare minimum, I would like to see the rather aggressive moderation team at Hacker News be more upfront with the edits they make to submissions.
YES! I really want that too!
Superhuman isn't an email marketing tool, and it's not opt-in email.
I thought that the normal way to have this work without JavaScript would be to have a form tag with the submit button styled to look like the collapse button.
In general you don't need to bring your own unsafe code to the party. The standard library contains most of the unsafe code you'll need to use in your normal code, and a handful of well-supported crates (like rayon) provide the more advanced utilities that the standard library doesn't. In most cases you're only writing `unsafe` if you're interacting with C.

And when you do decide you need to use `unsafe` for a non-FFI purpose, Rust provides the tooling to explicitly define the abstraction barrier such that clients of your code don't have to care (or even know) that you're using unsafe internally.
On a separate note, the US Supreme Court's flimsy justification that "under God" represents patriotism and not religion is disappointing. It very clearly means what it says.
If other bidders are irrational, then bid-sniping can work. It doesn't give others the opportunity to contemplate, "I've been out-bid, do I actually want this item more than I originally thought?"
I think it's the reverse. If you write pure functional components, React is very understandable. It's easily testable, you know that you'll have the same output if you pass it the same props. Svelte templates just take us back where we've been, with the twist of compiling the templates, which I believe some templating libraries already did.
Yet another reason not to visit China.
AwesomeConfig
China is definitely worse than America in that regard as far as we can tell, but lets not forget Guantanamo Bay and America taking suspects to be tortured overseas.
Over 15,000 users paying $30 per month. $260 million valuation. Perfectly scalable. If you'd like to learn why you're wrong, I encourage you read one of the many lengthy, sincere, and detailed articles with the founder of Superhuman, starting with this one. https://www.drift.com/blog/how-to-measure-product-market-fit...
We use a similar YC company for corporate travel, flightfox.com. I can't tell you how much money we save by enforcing corporate policies and letting them use lots of tricks to get the best possible rates.
then why not do it client side and bundle state saving later.
I resonated very strongly with this well written piece. The description of how early decisions become part of your company's "genome" is spot on. This comment in particular;

"When faced with making a product decision that is even mildly uncomfortable, employees often first look towards expressed company principles like “Always put the customer first”, but the next thing they look for is precedent."

It is reminiscent of the "two wolves" Cherokee story of two wolves inside a person one evil, one good. The one that wins out and determines your character is the one you feed. These sort of company decisions, individually small but repeated over time, are food for the ethical wolf and the unethical wolf that lives in the soul of a company. One way to know that you probably don't want to continue at a startup is when you notice they are feeding the unethical wolf more than the ethical one.
SACD and DVD-A have more than two channels (or 4 if you could get a hold of a quad CD)
Go find a non technical person and ask them these two questions:

"Do you care if your ex-girl/boyfriend can tell every time you read an old email s/he sent you?"

"Have you disabled loading images by default in your email client?"

You will see that you are wrong.

EDIT: decided to listen to my own advice and conduct a (very non scientific obvs) twitter poll.

https://twitter.com/harryh/status/1146120438432616450
Hopefully this means Google will attempt to use CPUs from vendors other than Intel on new Chromebooks. I imagine the handful or so of NaCL (not PNaCL) apps were the reason why they supported Intel CPUs on Chromebooks so much.
Google flights[1] kind of does this. If you put in an itinerary, add whatever other constraints you have (e.g. airline, flight times, fare class), and then click the calendar and wait a second, it'll eventually populate with prices under each day for changing the itinerary to that day. The cheapest day is colored in green so it jumps out.

It's not perfect, the calendar view shows two months at a time, and at times it's easier to use as starting point, but it's definitely better than clicking through 100 itineraries on an airlines slow site.

[1]: https://www.google.com/flights
The person you've described seems like they are choosing a person to become. A person who wishes to become better read and more knowledgeable wants to become a different person than a person who wants to read solely pulp mysteries.

Patrick Collison is widely regarded as a smart, thoughtful, and accomplished, and I don't think it's weird to want to know what he thinks is important to know in the future.
This type of insurance does exist. Speak to your broker.
Not totally related, but I subscribed to the Orbital Index newsletter a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed it! Recommend!
Live in MN and have creeping thyme in our yard (was planted in our perennial garden and creeped). It grows very well here.
Reclaiming the Heritage of the Santa Cruz River
My partner and I are going through some anxiety thinking about all of this. We are not having children because of climate change, and are hoping that our friends and family will follow suit. We have decided against any further air travel, given our cats to a friend, and even had some grim conversations about what to do when we are too old to be effective.

I don't know how we can't beat this without removing capitalism or a drastic change and reduction in the lifestyle a lot of the West lives on. When will we hit our breaking point and just say so to the lifestyles that depend on colonialism and exploitation which thrash our planet.
Recording the time that an email is opened with a tracking pixel, is also creepy and not necessary. Stop it.
rather curiously, the submission has been unflagged now mere seconds after i submitted this. it's possible it happened right before this submission, but it had been flagged for many minutes before i submitted this, including just a minute or so before since i checked the link.
I got through the entire set on audiobook. It's a fantastic history of Western civilisation. We might accent some things slightly differently nowadays, but overall it's held up really well.
I've had a good experience with youtube-dl-interactive. It's a CLI tool that allows you to choose the quality/format from a menu without having to first list and choose from every possible quality permutation.
While it doesn't work amazing everywhere, I love skycanner's map feature:
Pick a month and destinations and prices shown on a map.
https://www.skyscanner.com/cheap-flights-map
It takes us back because of pre-funding trades. I dont know what the author means...
> only support entirely Mac-based workflows?

I believe the application is Electron based too, so it's not even a technical reason to make it platform specific.
Also the standard SLA you get will be wildly different from the bespoke contacts negotiated by enterprises. Just depends on your spend.
> consumer/public safety are opposed in some form to a truly competitive market.

I had a relative in the chemical industry, and she was always bitching about this: "small players can never match the big ones in certain areas, because they can not afford the red-tape to certify this or that". On the other hand, these regulations exist for a reason - most legislators don't wake up in the morning excited to ban some obscure compound. I'd rather have fewer jobs and money, if I can be sure I won't be poisoned so that someone else can make a quick buck.
If the US started doing this (scanning phones for islamic terrorism files) to foreigners at the border, would you care? If it was just a scan and no data was harvested?

I believe strongly in the right to privacy, but I have to admit, I do not want anyone coming into my country who has beheading videos on their phone. Unless they are a journalist or something, obviously.
TL;DR: Distributed ledgers don't allow enough circulating cash to make the economy go?
Microsoft Inclusive Hiring for People with Autism
When in comes to the hiring threads, I seldom see Linux sysadmin jobs. Everyone wants a Pyton/GoLang/Java developer. I do most of my coding in Bash and Ruby (Puppet), and write json or yaml config files. It seems that a lot of the people looking for "DevOps" are looking for developers who can use Jenkins and Docker, not serious operations people who can work with dev in the same team to make a high availability and performant product.
Whatever happened to hosting your signature as an image at cutepersonalizedname[.]com and logging the IPs yourself?

It probably wouldn't take much work to use Automator.app to periodically uniquify the src URL in your sig and map Sent Item => unique hash into a sqlite database, later asynchronously updating it with IPs seen from an nginx server hosting your image. Presto, you're a "superhuman".
AwesomeLog
We've been playing around with the SaaS idea that you described, because there are 80k+ travel agents in the US and they are underutilized! We eventually decided that performing the travel booking directly is important because that way we control the user experience, and our level of service is really the main value prop right now

We'd actually love to talk to your corporate travel provider and see if a partnership makes sense! ping me at kashish [at] carry [dot] travel? Otherwise we can get you started as an individual if your company allows it :)
Fun fact

In a previous company we were building a session replay tool, and as you may know it is pretty complex to evaluate the impact of the single script on a page.

The only way we found to test the impact of the script was to execute it on a page with the most mutations on an event, and try to see how much the event was impacted.

The only place where we found a heavy use of mutations was the hackernews page that had more than 100 comments in a thread. And the first time we tested, we tripled the time to collapse the thread
Also reformatted at https://outline.com/7NYFsJ
Brief introduction to unprovability (2006) [pdf]
I think we could strike a balance. Don't put this stuff in the standard library, but have a category for crates that are officially blessed (or even maintained by) the core team, such that if you trust the Rust stdlib then you should be comfortable trusting these crates. Then provide binary distributions for the built crates for all tier 1 platforms at least (ideally for any platform where a binary distribution of the stdlib is available) and teach cargo how to download those. This way we maintain the ability to version these crates and have breaking changes, but without the overhead of having to recompile these crates.
If the lyrics aren't clear to anyone, check out the music video to understand.
Ask HN: For landlords – How do you ask your tenants to buy renters insurance?
Most apartment complexes require tenants to buy renters insurance; while for individual landlords, how do you ask your tenants to buy renters insurance?
As you say it will work just fine as long as your client and server agree, but free-wheeling it with the HTTP spec can come with operational drawbacks.

I've worked with a lot of different internal webservices as a freelancer, and if they're reasonably RESTful and built according to spec, it's easy to just get started with the codebase. Ones like you're describing mean a lot more conversations and reading through code.

Of course it depends on the nature of your team and how often you on-board, but to me the HTTP spec is one of those things like following coding style conventions: sure you don't need to do it, but at the end of the day it's not that much more work once you're in the habit, and it makes it that much easier to work with other people.
How will you scale?

The reason that travel booking is so bad is because once you get too big, you start to eat the (very thin) margins of everyone in the travel industry. Then they get all defensive and, if you don't get acquired, start cutting you off or giving you crappy restrictions.

Are you competing with something like Carlson-Wagonlit Travel?
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Google Flights does this
I imagine the average Joe working at MSFT/AAPL/GOOG/etc. doesn't get such gifts unless they are worth hacking - in which case I imagine the gift-givers would have done their due diligence. Also corporate policies can be pretty specific and strict regarding gifts to eliminate potential conflicts of interests.
For some reason the centre console has an HDMI port [1][2]. Does anyone know what this is used for?

The lack of any USB-C ports is also a strange omission for a brand new car, especially when many of Honda's rivals include at least one USB-C port on their new cars.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/TlvQQ5h.jpg

[2] https://youtu.be/pEKq8jmckz0?t=313
Yes, but you need a token to log out. For collapsing comments it should work though
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUAsU_zQVMo
Wow, this is excellent!

There's a few additional cautions I heard in a talk from a rep of the Xerces Society for protecting invertebrates [1].

One is that some of the new pesticides are systemic and durable. This means that you can buy a plant from a nursery that is supposedly bee- or butterfly-friendly, but if it was sprayed with one of these pesticides in it's growth, it now will actually be deadly to the very insects you are trying to attract and nurture.

Also, many of the bred variants of the plants may look nice, but actually be incapable of growing the nectar, etc. that supports the insects we're trying to nurture.

So, best to seek out the original native cultivars and organically grown (or at least with known transient non-systemic pesticides).

Also check out the Xerces society and its materials -- they're a wealth of knowledge on the subject.

[1]
I don't mind a stack size increase if we can push for better inlining/folding :D Also, stick to one name it's easier.
Founder here.

This is interesting! One of our friends in finance recently suggested this, too. We don't have access to a Bloomberg terminal, but we wanna look into this. Do you (or anyone else) know what it takes to ship an integration on the Bloomberg terminal? Will email you (from your profile) after the HN buzz, too :)

Also, @HN we're currently on Slack/SMS/email but if you have other platforms you'd suggest, let us know here. WhatsApp has definitely come up for some of our friends in India.