skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there non-obvious sites that will accept a pay subscription, or are you reaching custom arrangements?
I remember having a SS 50, 100 & 200 back in the day. And filling up water balloons the old-fashioned way. Now kids have the automatic water balloon fillers and smart phones. Do most kids even still have water fights in the summer or do people get too offended or are too busy helicopter parenting to let kids have any fun?
I suppose this is a commoditize your compliment situation?
And like Java you might have to take San Francisco just because that's where the money is.
Do you have any suggested reads/videos for a budding writer? I get so overwhelmed with how to even start the process and plan it out and if I'm doing it correctly that I don't ever get to the important part; writing.

I world build, draw out maps, plan characters then never write. Sometimes I wonder if I just enjoy world building. But I think I'm just intimidated.
TypeScript/JS Developers for a Non-Profit Scientific Journal for Young People
Hi everyone! We need young people looking to work with an actual production codebase to help create experiences for article authors and editors.

The Journal

The Young Scientists Journal is a non-profit peer-reviewed science journal for under 21's. Completely staffed by young people (~200 editors, ~10 artists, ~2 devs).

Me

I joined the Young Scientists Journal when I was 15. I was the one of the first developers there, and I helped them move from their legacy Annotum stack to a semi-decent Wordpress setup. I also, more recently, wrote an Article Management System to handle all these incoming articles. I'll be turning 21 soon enough, so it's time to start looking for people who can take over the reins for the software I've been developing.

Role

Maintain the Article Management System

Help write front ends for submitting and managing articles

Help maintain the Wordpress website (Optional)

What we need from you

Be a young person

Have at least one project written in JavaScript

Be willing to learn TypeScript

Be willing to learn how to deploy TypeScript apps

Don't worry if any of that sounds intimidating. When I started, I hadn't seriously used a programming language before. The difference is, when you join, I'll be there to get you accustomed to working with this kind of codebase.

If you have any questions about the position, want to help with something different or even want to submit an article, leave a comment or send me a message.

Thanks to everyone for reading this!

from the YSJ!
Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore
Personal attacks have no place on Hacker News!

Please confine your remarks to substantive issues.

Hacker News is not a popularity contest.

BTW. Wikipedia suffers many of the same bugs as other Internet Social Media. I started the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model. Unfortunately, the article is now extremely obsolete because of Wikipedia censorship. See the following for current information:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418003

PS. It is invalid to criticize a scientist for publishing original research. Instead, publishing original research is a primary activity of scientists.
> He has also encouraged harassment and hate towards natives living in forested areas.

Your own link directly contradicts your statement. He clearly says he wants to increase the quality of life of indigenous people.
I'm not sure I even understand your argument. It's possible we're saying different things? What I'm saying is that if X people try a sport the records they set won't be nearly as good as if 100X people are trying it. Winners are by definition outliers, and the larger your population, the more (and more extreme) outliers you will see. So if there are five times fewer women than men () competing in a sport, that will impact comparisons between women and men, even at the top levels, at least if you want to compare innate ability. Almost certainly, the women's records and top female performances would look better if there were five times as many women trying the sport as there currently are. Do you disagree with that?

I pulled up the most recent Ironman race; there were 5 men for every woman in the competition. So I'm using that as a rule of the thumb. But the same logic applies to any population imbalance at the top of the funnel.
Do shells exist which don't have a fixed maximum argument size, so you'd never need "xargs"? Or is the problem innate to Unix?
Scorpion toxin may help solve the mystery of chronic pain
They regrow them, but they're prevented from reproducing that year. In massively overfished species that take a long time to mature, this seems like a problem.
And I am explaining to you why those 10 families will vote against any of your proposals. Because once you allow more building the next logical step is to force them out to make some money for developers who'll wreck their houses and build those condos.
In a Quantum Future, Which Starship Destroys the Other?
I'm mildly surprised that no one has mentioned [Better](https://better.fyi). Works very well for me.

The pitch:

Better uses our own list of blocking rules, curated and
maintained by Ind.ie. We use the principles of Ethical
Design to decide what should be blocked. This is our
only blocking criteria, advertisers cannot pay us to
compromise our integrity and unblock them.

Better does not block respectful ads. Respectful ads
respect human rights, human effort, and human
experience. For an example of respectful ads, see
The Deck network, winner of our first Cloud of Fame award.
Again it depends on the measuring stick. In terms of nutrition costs and fish are rather similar in comparison to say wheat.
Is Shopify Making a Big Mistake by Competing Against Amazon?
You're right about everything. A LVT would go a long way to solving our problems, but it must also be paired with dramatic zoning reform to actually allow land to be redeveloped into a higher use. Doing that is illegal in the vast majority of San Francisco and the Bay Area at large.

Opposition to Prop 13 is building, and I think we will see meaningful reform within 10 years. Hopefully full repeal within 20. But this is an even bigger political lift than fixing our broken Bay Area governments.

If you haven't already, check out http://thecommonssf.org/, an org based in SF that's centered around LVT.
Richard Stallman is very extreme in his position. I’m just stating the reason why the status quo is a good thing. Agreeing with the way things currently exist is not an extreme position.
This was my take away, as well. Bourne and Bash are everywhere and zsh will be included in macOS updates. I definitely see value in a separate set of text processing tools.
(Heads up: I came here because I have alerts for when Webflow is mentioned in HN [I work there])

I think the idea has a lot of potential. I love how short your "menu" is. I would absolutely love more Indian options for fast food - did you consider a pop up food truck to perfect the process before scaling?

Food business is hard business. Good luck!
All fair points. I've found that radically limiting the people I follow has had a huge impact on the quality of my feed (and it's still not great).

More often than not a tweet provides me with an introduction to a new topic / idea that I can then further explore off the site.

I struggled to come up with good tweets on the spot -- here's my best shot:

https://twitter.com/steveschoger/status/997125312411570176

https://twitter.com/tobyshorin/status/1155965565963399173

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936

https://twitter.com/jmj/status/1114598412375035905

Naval's does feel particularly like an elevator pitch though
What results should you and I see when we search Google for gun control? Global warming?
SF had the working port until the era of containerization, and that plus inertia drove pretty much everything else.
If you can afford to pay more, just get a two-stage or variable-speed air conditioner. This is the exact problem they're meant to solve.

They have compressors which can adjust speed, not just turn off/on like a single-stage AC compressor does. So there's a lot less worry about whether it's sized right because it basically "resizes" itself as necessary.

The two-stage type has off/low/high, so it can get a lot closer to the right size. The variable-speed type is essentially continuously adjustable, so it's like always having the perfectly-sized AC unit for whatever the weather happens to be like today.
Wasn’t Bell Labs innovating before that? Presumably with a smaller budget and smaller head count? Maybe still bigger than Media Lab. But if Bell Labs did some of their impressive stuff at say 5x budget and head count of Media Lab (using only inflation to do budget differences also prob will lead to an uneven comparison that isn’t fair. Not sure which way it would swing though). Then Bell Labs id think would still take the cake.

EDIT: Bell Labs started out with 4K employees so it was always an order of magnitude bigger.

Maybe Media Lab is the biggest innovator for its size. I don’t know if that means much though if it is. Bell Labs gets brought up probably because their influence and what they’ve done far far exceeds the budget and head count advantage.
Not even a mention about cybertron
Is there a point to this? You still go through the same process anyway.
Installing Red Star 3.0, North Korea’s Homegrown Operating System
We know what the issue is--fusion never got a useful amount of funding.

Now, it is entirely possible that even given an enormous amount of funding--fusion might still not work. However, engineers with lots of money are remarkably clever and effective beasts (see: radio, semiconductors, plastics, steel).

Fusion has been funded at "Fusion Never" levels for almost 40 years while we subsidize every other significant energy source to the tune of billions or trillions of dollars every single year. (For example, how much money got poured into the technology that became "fracking"?)
If the problem is that too much capital is flowing from productive investments, like tech, to unproductive land speculation then perhaps part of the solution is to capture part of that windfall gain through a land value tax [1], i.e. a tax on just the land and not the buildings, thereby reducing the speculative component from housing investment without reducing incentive to develop more housing stock.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I would advice most people to stay away from online dating. Especially if you social anxiety or low self esteem. Why would you place the chances of finding love in the hands of a corporation?

In the case of tinder here is why:
After I sign up tinder I started getting constant ads. These ads have followed me for months, to this day. Here is the most recent example: https://imgur.com/a/IJFCG0m.

Most dating apps are owned by a single company Match group. They own for example: BlackPeopleMeet.com, Chemistry.com, Delightful, FriendScout24, HowAboutWe, Match.com, Meetic Group, OkCupid, OurTime, People Media, PlentyOfFish, Tinder, Twoo, Hinge. In fact, tinder's delete account button is very conveniently placed. They don't care if you delete your account... as long as they can shuffle users around. The match group itself is owned by an even bigger corporation IAC. It owns about 150 brands worldwide. For example: TripAdvisor, Expedia, Ask.com, The Daily Beast, About.com, Dictionary.com, Investopedia, among many others.

I have a hard time believing that Tinder have any incentives to make you find date. Why would they do that? You will quit the app and they will stop making money!

I believe they use a lot of dark pattern to try to sell stuff. Here in an example: https://i.redd.it/e13yeek795x21.jpg. When I used tinder they keep the notification "there is someone that like" but they would actually show me the person. Another example of the dark patterns: https://i.redd.it/r0lheira9rh31.jpg. They also shadow-ban users among many other things.
From what I can tell the perceived value of a guy impacts the reaction of him hitting on a girl. If your read the tinder statistics middle eastern guys have it harder (seen as lower socially). If you're a successful rich good looking guy girls will love your attention. It seems primitive but hey were just animals at the end of the day.
At the moment we work with local ISP's and Wifi operators who offer free installations and in some areas discounts on a monthly fee.

Btw on Wifi operators is willing to deploy infrastructure in areas where they considered not profitable before. As part of our partnership in September, they launch a new base station in a rural area of Georgia.
San Francisco (and Oakland) are the only real dense urban areas. The rest of the Bay Area is a suburb. San Jose is mostly houses and shopping centers.

Most of the young people I know who work in tech want to live in or near San Francisco -- it has nightlife, restaurants, cultural events, etc. This is especially the case for people who are not from the Bay Area originally. When they start looking into buying property or having children a lot of them leave San Francisco and move closer to the suburbs.
Rolex and Apple are alike in terms of cost and build quality but quite opposite in terms of fragility.
For lots of brands, the core competency is marketing and every other aspect of the company is outsourced. E.g. Kylie Cosmetics which has 360M+/yr in revenue and uses Shopify.
In regards to using stylus to block a fwe custom elements, you can also use uBO's cosmetic filters[1] instead. Converting stylus' styles to uBO filters is easy enough if all you are using them for is hiding a few elements. I guess this has very limited use to you though if you also use stylus' themes, as it won't let you remove an extension.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...
This is a great opportunity
I use a slightly customized version of the Energized Protection[1] block list, which acts as a DNS sinkhole but is really just a text file that you paste into /etc/hosts. Before that I was using Pi-Hole but I found it too cumbersome to maintain properly. (Additionally /etc/hosts entries are way easier to scan, modify and verify for non-maliciousness IMO.)

In my browser I use uMatrix since it gives me fine-grained control over what websites can do. I have very strict default policies that break most sites but you can set them to whatever you want.

Additionally I've written my own regex-based request blocker[2] for YouTube midroll- and page ads since I don't trust other, more opaque ad blocking solutions that handle those (like AdBlock Plus). It does break all other Google services I'm aware of however. (Which I could patch but I don't really mind.)

[1]: https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ytblocker
If you think you're competitive but your resume is being filtered out. Referrals get you past initial online coding challenges with most companies automatically.
How do you explain zero media coverage of the same issue, in larger scale, in previous administrations? Or about the current wildfire situation in Bolivia and Paraguay?
Canadians tortured while ‘red princess’ goes shopping
I'd consider the extradition bill not-very-democratic, doubly so in the HK is a somewhat autonomous zone, so forcing extradition reduces it's autonomy and therefore it's citizens' democracy.

So how is this false?
I'm tasked with keeping infrastructure up and running. I'm either doing it, or I'm not. If the company is unethical, I wouldn't sneak in and not do this work, would you?

Assuming it's the power of influence you're after... What do you truly hope to influence, the Board? Shareholders? Good luck.
How about a test framework? PowerShell has a unit test framework called Pester which is installed by default in Windows 10 and Server 2012+.

Anything you can script in PowerShell can have unit tests and code coverage and it integrates into CI systems.

I don't really like using PowerShell, but built-in unit testing is something I wish other shells offered. It is a huge plus.
I think gp reversed their verbs accidentally.
Any time the first line of a project description reads "This is NewTool, written in <language>" it's an immediate red flag that makes it hard for me to continue reading.

Obviously it doesn't necessarily mean the project has no merits, but language choice is one of the less relevant details and it signals that the author wanted to make a toy in a language new to them. Good for them, but most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care.

If the project has merits, and this one might, it should talk about them in the intro.
Very tall buildings are technology. People don't like them, but they are the only way to make cost of living cheaper in terms of housing and offices. In cities where lots of very tall buildings are going up, rent is going up much slower or not at all. In cities where that isn't the case, it's increasing as population and wealth grow. Building vertically is the only way to prevent if from being zero sum.
Which, for all it's flaws, is kind of brilliant.

Does Google have the same kind of Old Boys Club as finance, law?

At least everyone has to grind Leetcode, and at some point, some nontrivial compsci knowledge is going to creep in.
No value to users.

I don’t get value out of tracking-based advertising. The best ads are still search-term based where ads help me find.

There’s no to little evidence that tracking based ads benefit the user. (although it’s clear that it makes tons for advertisers)
Because if that land was able to be developed into MDUs, the value of the land would be so high that you'd be a fool to not take it.

For example, here in Chicago the value of land downtown is upwards of $40 million per acre. It has nothing to do with the location of the land or that we're completely maxed out for development. It has everything to do with the fact that you can build 250+ units on that plot of land.
This seems to address a lot of the shortcomings presented here: https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/
You're right that a LVT would help, but the existing regulations prevent people from actually redeveloping their land into more productive uses. When it's illegal to build apartments in over 70% of San Francisco, that's the first and lowest hanging fruit to pick.
Any citations for “Business Liberalism view of the elite GOP members such as the Koch brothers”? Unable to confirm this term
>But the best thing that could happen to this post is that it makes a lot of people, especially myself, figure out how to be more tolerant. Not in the “of course I’m tolerant, why shouldn’t I be?” sense of the Emperor in Part I. But in the sense of “being tolerant makes me see red, makes me sweat blood, but darn it I am going to be tolerant anyway.”

Wow. Yeah. Being accepting and loving is hard. It's one of the hardest things you can do, but only if that person is part of your out group.
The term "Silicon Valley" originally referred to the Santa Clara Valley, which is where San Jose is. Most of the original Bay Area tech companies are there -- Intel, AMD, Apple, Cisco, etc., also newer large companies like Netflix and Google. The startup scene in SF is more recent.
> Have you seen bad functional code? It's an unreadable mess of monads, flatmaps and partial composition where you're not really sure how many arguments a curried function is whitholding.

not yet. can you point to any examples?
At least the good news is with 1001 Arabian Nights is you don't have to buy it. Project Gutenberg has at least one good version.
Yeah Economics has a huge problem with the Fruit Basket Fallacy.
Crispr cuts turn gels into biological watchdogs
Oh and I also changed some defaults in Firefox's about:config to disable some integrated services that are likely to include tracking and tracking-vulnerable web APIs. I do realize that this might make me more fingerprintable though.
If the translation is performed on device then Audible would not be liable, considering non-infringing use (see: VCR).
It's not so much a flaw as a tradeoff. Because it's so easy to produce lines of text, virtually every program supports it, even programs written by hackers who aren't interested in following OS communication standards.
> What unites all these books is that none of them paid the author anything

He's dead. None of the copies do that. I understand that the main point here is about counterfeiting, but perhaps copyright shouldn't last more than 50 years either...
> In my imaginary world everything down to the level of a statement of what is a code file in the real world is a separate record in a relational database,

I think you'd like prolog https://swish.swi-prolog.org/example/examples.swinb
> ban them from advertising bars and alcohol.

Why would they be banned from advertising bars? They're just local businesses.
I agree restrictive regulation are a major part of the problem. But LVT would have the effect of reducing prices even if stock were not increased, leaving rents unaffected.
> This cannot be something that is "taught or learned", as I had years of experience in the field, while they had to learn it.

What? This can't be learned, but they learned it? Why isn't it possible that they learned to write more maintainable software faster than you?
Google's referral process makes you describe exactly how you know the person and why you believe they'd be a good fit for Google. It's pretty hard to answer this well if you've just met, and your likelihood of making it past the initial screen is directly proportional to how well your referer makes this case. After a few too many people e-mailing random Googlers and saying "Please refer me to Google!", they added a checkbox for "I don't know this person" which lets you skip all the free-text narratives, but also means that the referral is effectively the same as if a recruiter had sourced your name off LinkedIn. (AFAIK you still get the referral bonus and they still get hired if it turns out they are in fact good, but the referral itself carries no weight.) I usually recommend that people get referred by the Googler who knows their work best; PMing or e-mailing random Googlers hoping to short-circuit the screening process doesn't really work.
You don’t? They charge a premium over the CC processor as a big part of their revenue. Why would they give that up?
> most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care

Much of the time, HN readers however will. There's the odd software developer hanging about here, some of whom are interested in programming languages, or so I believe.
And the most crazy part that people like Macron are calling for this. France is one of the biggest importers of soya. Greenpeace even physically blocked a ship two months ago demanding France proved no rain forest was destroyed on the account of producing the soya on board.

France will be impacted more severe by climate change than most European countries but has no actual plan to realize their commitment on the Paris accord.

Macron should address the 8 million diesel cars on the road in France instead of complaining about Brazil. Macron should start by demanding a recall of those diesel gate vehicles by the manufacturers because diesel cars have been sold under false pretenses.

European law is very clear about the fact the burden of proof is on the business they actually delivered a product as advertised. Hence consumers in Europe do not have to get an extra Apple insurance in contrary to US consumers because this is already factored in a higher buying price.

But it is way more practical to shovel external costs of ghg emissions to next generations. And make some double speak comments on twitter.

At least Trump doesn't pretend to be the good guy, Macron is such a hypocrite. If Macron was my neighbor I would spank him in front of his children.
I agree. Some are blessed with great connections. Others are not so lucky. This platform just provides more opportunities for those who seek it.