skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this going to be a political thread?

If so I really don't like Trump, but having said that:

Fauci says in person voting with masks and distancing is safe: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-says-in-person-electio...

Absentee ballots are more secure than mail-in voting: https://www.dictionary.com/e/absentee-ballot-vs-mail-in-ball...

And yet the Democratic party is pushing for mail-in voting.

Facebook and Twitter have announced they won't allow Trump to claim election win.

And CNN's Fareed Zakaria released this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo52ra7PuXE

Explaining how Trump would win on election night, but over the next several weeks mail-in voting would change the result. Which is odd since typically old people use mail-in voting, and they tend to be Trump voters.

Basically even as a left leaning person the above terrifies me.
Does grouparoo need to deal with GDPR? If so, how is it handled?
> what are corporations not doing well?

This is a fair question, but it should be accompanied with another one: what do the corporations do well? Will our alternative option make some things worse? What's our criteria of success and what's our backout plan if the criteria of success is not met by a certain timeframe?
How We Scaled GraphQL in the Enterprise [Glassdoor, PayPal, Expedia and NYT]
Also r/synthdiy.
I think they were trying to see if you could get away with 0 power/cooling infrastructure and how well it'd work if you could. Pumping vast amounts of water may be better than running a vast amount of active cooling but neither is as 0 as dumping it in the water and seeing what happens.
A stiff dose of LSD on a beautiful day away from a big city would probably do.

No, seriously -

We are destroying not just other species' natural habitats; those natural habitats are our own, that's where we evolved. In billions of years of natural history, we and our ancestors have led a "modern" way of life for a few thousand at most.

We're so adaptable that we can thrive in highly technologically altered environments as well; but I'm quite sure that anyone can experience the feeling of recognizing that those aren't truly home for us.
looks interesting, will give it a try!
> Contacting Facebook about such scams/hacks is a challenge on its own: there is a support page but in all my attempts I was unable to click the "email" icon. The "chat" icon always says "chat unavailable"

This is both incredibly frustrating and incredibly unsurprising.
Shutting down my failing SaaS – NavHere
This is broadly true, but qualifying exams can be wildly different even within faculties, let alone across schools - enough so that I can't imagine a meaningful comparison of "results". They are also often pass/fail.
Extreme life extension looms large in my mind and I don’t have much trouble imagining that many people hope for this as well. My gut tells me that it’s possible but my mind says we aren’t the ones to get it.

I feel like the barrier here is more of a political one than being a matter of research or feasibility. I never quite understood why we are not throwing money at this issue. I mean I get that we collectively have doubt it could happen but the alternative is the big sleep anyway so why the hell not try?

Every day we feel tantalizingly closer to solving each of these problems but each decade seems to pass by quicker than the last. Perhaps we are a terminal species.

Maybe the real big problem lies in social science or psychology. Better stewardship or collective modeling. Maybe we should start force-feeding lsd into people who actively vote against and stand opposed to scientific progress. There’s got to be more in life than just withdrawing a paycheque or not and dying eventually. Sinking into the past and eventually erased from living memory. I once saw a picture of a guy in the 1920s who bred horses in the Greek mountains. This vague memory is all that’s left of my great grandfather. I don’t even know his name.
Or you just read the printout until it says fetch first ;)
How do you find your own vulnerability sweet spot
> In social terms it doesn't matter if he believes in dinosaurs or not.

Yes, I can choose not to bring up that topic. And I choose to ignore it because I don't know what else to do. But, I can't completely let go of the idea that a person who doesn't believe in dinosaurs is voting on things like whether or not schools teach about dinosaurs or whether or not kids should be vaccinated or whether or not masks will cause co2 poisoning.

I don't know exactly where to draw the line. I don't know how to put this without people reading something into it that's not there but, I'm perfectly ok with someone having arguable reasons for holding an opinion different than mine but I'm not so okay with them having nonsense reasons.

To give an example, for some reason my my dad stopped believing in evolution in his 40s and will spout nonsense reasons like claiming eyes are impossible because it's too big a step which is logically false. You can easily name the steps. I'm not saying I require him to believe in evolution, I only want him to give valid reasons. A valid reason could be "because god tells me so and to ignore all other input" but valid reason is not "because evolution can't make eyes"
Does Earth's atmosphere ever spill out into outer space?
Is it possible for an asteroid to pass through our outer atmosphere, and then fly on to hit Venus?

In some ways humans are simpler than the cells they are made off. Yeah, you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I find it fascinating that complexity goes up, when you zoom into a human. And cells exhibit all these behaviours.

There was this video I watched once, where a white blood cell was chasing a bacteria around. And it looked like a game of pacman. I would have never expected that a cell has some sort of self awareness, and is able to navigate its environment.
I'm honestly surprised Paypal is still in business. Everybody hates Paypal.
Why not continue with the shared drive of files and spreadsheet method?

It can grow pretty well to manage a pipeline of thousands of employees if the people involved care deeply enough about making it work.
You're forgetting Infoseek, which was a dramatically better search engine than anything else out there (including Google, Excite, and Yahoo), until it was bought by Disney/Go and was emasculated before finally being dumbed-down literally to the point of uselessness.
I wasn't complaining about the achievement gap. I think we're placing far too much emphasis on academic performance at the expense of the individual families and certain social classes and cultures, all the while pretending that the very significant moral questions around this approach don't exist.

If we're going to have the state effectively raise the children of certain social classes in the name of academic and economic achievement, we need to be clear as day and openly state exactly what we are doing, and why we think it's the right thing to do.

My guess is that we haven't had this conversation thus far because to do so would reveal the arrogance of the educated classes in the U.S. and show folks just how little the elites think of them and their families.
Should have waited with launch until Saturday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pira...
> I mean things that will actually make a huge difference, not just telling myself I am making a difference by doing little things like not having a car, or re-using and recycling.

I think if we all do more to make a little difference, we'll make a big difference as a group.

I've been making a focused effort to buy food produced locally. Details on how this helps here: https://www.terrapass.com/eat-your-way-to-a-smaller-carbon-f.... Lettuce from across the country costs the same, and isn't as fresh.

We moved for a better quality of life, and part of that was reducing our commute. We were able to cut the commute back from 3hrs a day to about 30min a day per adult, if that. There's a calculator here that can help you figure out the carbon savings: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/household-carbon-footprint-...

When our water heater failed, I did some research and realized the state where we were living at the time would pay for a replacement tankless combined water heater and furnace. That saved us about $4k from the cost of the system, plus it is super efficient so our heating and cooking costs dropped, plus we had endless hot water for showers.

I realized one day it's like working on legacy software: if you look at it as a whole, it looks like a completely intractable problem. But if you start making incremental changes, over time you can change and have an impact.
Conservation of habitat as a survival hack when we are in the middle of the sixth extinction event...I ASSURE you..isn’t a ‘sci-fi’ fantasy.

CRISPR would have been a ‘sci fi’ fantasy years ago. And it’s now reality. Environmental stewardship as fantasy is the sad reality we face now.
Despite the resemblance to the "idiot in a hurry test" not really any more than the police mistaking flour for cocaine means that grain mills are massive criminal enterprises that through some sinister alchemy have managed to transmute wheat to cocaine.
Do you think he’s just lying about it?

When I was a younger worker I certainly did slack off on Friday and Monday when I could get away with it.

I’ve worked in more than one office where people started drinking on Friday afternoon in the office when the CEO was out of town.
It seems their repo conveniently neglects to mention that there are, in fact, about 60 copyright holders:

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/AUTHORS
That's pretty awesome. Good community. I don't follow speedrunning much anymore; i was heavily involved several years ago (i'm in a Salt vod). Shoutouts to SimpleFlips
You lost your life with facebook and that do not disturb you ... so thanks for the 4K ;-)
I'd expect them to iteratively learn the facts of the topic, just as the people who first discovered those facts would have had to. Many areas of knowledge are traditionally introduced that way. Of course it can't be the only teaching strategy, since many things couldn't be learned within a human lifespan without explicit instruction on the facts, but it plays an important pedagogical role.

The replication crisis indicates, frankly, that confidence in the process of science should be eroded a bit. Many people I know treat scientific studies as true until proven otherwise, and the replication crisis demonstrates this isn't an accurate assessment.
> I've tried the deep dive thing a few times and always come out frustrated.

> Generally as a [hobbyist] ...

It sounds as though you expect that reading or doing something once will confer expert status. Instead, try to think of it more like a lifestyle.

If you study something every day for ten years — constantly trying out new ideas to test the limits of the field and your understanding, and teaching others how to get started to develop a deeper intuition and understanding of the basics — you will most definitely be an expert at the end of those ten years.

At no point will you necessarily _feel_ like an expert; that's just a label people give to those who live/breathe/dream a topic deeply for many years.
> The focus on renewables is depressing, and the memes around the solution to climate change to be "use less, consume less, focus on more clean energy" are equally so, since they creates a cynical belief there is a tradeoff between energy use and conservatism. We can have both.

Many climate change activists aren't even countenancing nuclear power, known to be sustainable as well as much safer now than even in the recent past. I strongly agree that we can have both, we just need to build it.
> It seems like the important stuff that differentiates the expert from someone with casual knowledge isn't documented.

It isn't documented because it can't. The difference between an expert and a novice is that an expert has been exposed to and working with a particular subject for so long that there are higher level abstractions that have become "chunked" or "codified" in their mind such that they look at the problem differently than novice people.

Example

`for(int i = 0; i <= list.length; i++) { ... }`

A novice will see this and after parsing the pieces can tell you that this takes a counter i and does an action until i is the length of the list.

A more experienced person will see this as a for loop iterating through a list.

An even more experienced person may intuitively map this to the need of the program to operate on a list data structure and begin to immediately start asking why we didn't use a more functional approach, what effect will this have on the program when my list has 0 items, is there a way I can simplfy this code? Etc

The expert knows this not because he has read it in a book or because he followed design docs, he knows because he has practiced 10,000 hours, which includes doing something evaluating what went well, what did not, what could be improved, looking for new knowledge and new ways to do things.

In contrast too the man who has practiced 1 hours 10,000 times that has mindlessly written this block of code and continues to repeat this abstraction because this is his go to and familiar tool.
I get that, but they haven't actually arrived at zero. They've arrived at their version of zero, and thus have incentive to get to actual zero, since they're already at "zero".
Older workers have experience. Experience is expensive. You can generate a lot of revenue with workers with less experience, even factoring in mistakes, lower productivity and output, etc. Age discrimination is rarely punished, and when it is, the penalties are minimal.

Incentives matter.
Wrong, the paper says they compared exit scores for universities which have common exams, but different (public vs private) colleges.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467635
Ask HN: Any good examples of early marketing materials from startups?
Hi HN, I'm marketing my SaaS product and I'm realizing I don't have any examples of what good early stage marketing materials look like. How professional are they? (i.e. Sandwich Video) or do most people go for something lower-fi?

Totally feel free to sell at me!
We need NPT dropped, that’s all it takes I think(given everyone can still be nice after which is a big if)
Ok, slight exaggeration. The dependencies get quite huge though, especially when you are using something substantial.
The transcription of the full episode appears to be available from a button next to the audio player on the article, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/376084137
If you open a browser window, there is going to be some things that can't be faked 100% accurately, e.g. on iOS there will be a link back to the app at the top left, there is going to be an animation, and so on.

It could be faked 95% accurately, but that's moot, because like I said, the user hasn't necessarily learned what "trusted UI" is in the first place.
> carbon offsets are utter BS

You seem to be mixing green energy and carbon offsets.

I'm not convinced that offsets are complete BS, even though a lot of bullshitting and optimistic metrics are likely involved.

"Additionality" and accurate measurement are usually the big questions. I'm pretty sure many "offsets" are just getting extra money from credit-selling for measures that would be taken anyways because they make economic sense, but in theory, additionality (e.g. by pushing something that wouldn't make economic sense into economic feasibility through the added reward from selling credit) is a requirement for offsets (or at least "high-quality" offsets).

Let's say you go to a third world country where people are cooking with wood on open fireplaces, and start handing out stoves that need 1/3rd of the fuel. (This is actually a real offsetting effort). You've not only improved the lives of those people, but you've also reduced the amount of wood that will be burned (and potentially forest that will be cut for it), which creates a calculable impact.

At least that's the theory. The carbon savings from all of these projects are estimated, and of course everyone involved is incentivized to make the project look successful by overestimating. For example, the cookstove projects' effects are disputed: https://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/08/10/are-carbon-mark...
Not in Vietnam
I think it could be more precisely defined as: the value of any copiable and spreadable asset is inverse proportional to the amount of available copies
i mentioned this in another comment, but there are two kinds of gambler.

the stereotypically "male" kind wants to take risks, win big, prove they are skilled, etc. and will tend to play games like roulette or blackjack, or poker, or bet on sports and horses.

there is a different kind, associated more with slot machines and female gamblers, where they're not playing to win, they're playing to keep playing -- the slot machine produces a mental state that they find compelling and difficult to leave.

from the way people describe it it's comparable to "one more turn" in video games.
You get diminishing returns holding it down there for 5 years for no reason.

If not much has happened after 2 years we're good to go. We need to get into the future as fast as possible.
they haven't, that's the point, and why I had the zero in quotes.
That certainly sounds plausible.

I wonder if a 30% cost for big players is considered acceptable in money laundering. North Korea laundered $81 million (that they stole from banks) through Philippine casinos [1], so it isn't an outrageous idea that an app could be used for money laundering.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-03/a-baccara...
> I've tried the deep dive thing a few times and always come out frustrated. It seems like the important stuff that differentiates the expert from someone with casual knowledge isn't documented.

What the experts know is the things that aren't documented. Some of those are things that are hard to document, because the right thing to do requires situational knowledge, others are things that experts don't realize aren't obvious.

The way to become an expert isn't solely by reading documentation, it's by trying to do the thing, and figuring out what works (and hopefully why). For software, that often means diving into the source code, as well as the source code of the environment the code runs in (and sometimes that environment, etc --- prefer less layers and simpler systems, because it's easy to dive down to the bottom)
I think at least two people in the thread pointed out that you can use /dev/stdin as a file.
Neocities is both free and community funded, 1GB storage, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoCities

> Neocities (a portmanteau of the prefix neo- and GeoCities) is a free web hosting service. Offering 1 GB of storage space and no server-side scripting, the service's expressed goal is to revive the support of "creativity and free expression" provided by GeoCities
Fancy this GraphQL query? I'm on my way to build it
But the details of that phase out are nowhere to be found. Given today's electric car sales and vehicle fleet turnover rates, if they started in 2030 and were serious it would require not only making all ICE cars illegal to buy, but it would also require seizing and destroying cars that were already in existence, to speed up the turnover rate.

Given that electric cars require new factories and supply chains to scale up, the chances of this being achieved by 2030 is minimal. Not only can't the cars be built fast enough short of some Manhattan-style program (very expensive for all but tiny countries), but neither can the factories that build the cars.

And this evades the whole question of people who like or want ICE vehicles for whatever reason.
Isn’t that the essence of Netflix’s point? That Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc are far worse for you than Netflix.

It’s hardly an unbiased position, considering Netflix is bidding on attention just like TikTok or YouTube is
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The smart-phone form factor is largely determined by the rectangular screen, and for the cameras to be useful, they have to be on the back and/or front.

The keyboards are very different in design between Google and Apple, and many phones don’t have home buttons. Some even have more buttons.

Conversely, there’s nothing about ear-buds that force you to use white plastic with black grills for the holes, EarPod-style stems, or metal tips on said stems, nor a white round-rect pill box to store the things in.

The lazy OnePlus people chose to copy those features, making their product look like Apple’s.
Twitter Post:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1305536068842...
The internal grokking of knowledge is a side effect of forging a path through life. Can't make expertise an explicit end goal, there's too much to know.

The sharply refined ability to learn, internalize and execute knowledge work looks like expertise to everyone.
If the money left your account because you did a thing, even if you did the thing because you were defrauded, a bunch of banks are going to decline to repay you.

Here's news about a new protection scheme in the UK. But this is new (only came in last year), and it doesn't cover all banks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48385426

> New protection for individuals tricked into transferring money to fraudsters has now taken effect - but not all banks are signed up to the scheme.

> Some 84,000 bank customers lost money - sometimes tens of thousands of pounds - last year after being caught out.

> Only a fraction of the amount lost was refunded by banks. Now a new code should mean more will be reimbursed.

> The refund will come from a central pot in cases when neither the bank nor the customer are to blame.

See especially this bit:

> Some of the more elaborate frauds see the con-artists using social media and other avenues such as data breaches to gather information about their victim, making it more likely that potential victims believe they are genuine.

> In all these cases, the individual authorises the payment. Banks have often refused to refund these frauds as a result.
My first thought is that Chamath lacks empathy and his nose looks like a mouse pointer.
Treating antifungal drug resistance with caffeine
To be clear, you don't want to breath the acid for more than 10 minutes but we're stipulating a breathing mask here.
On a side note, I really like the theory behing NPR's plain text option, but it's only occasionally that it directs me to a plain text version of the actual story. Often, as with this, it redirects me to the homepage. Does anyone know the reason for this? Does the author have to explicitly publish a text-only version?
Yes, pretty sure. It wasn't an oauth screen but the actual FB login screen.
I’ve used github pages for my personal website with custom domain for years. My site is fronted by cloudflare. This was initially done because github pages didn’t come with SSL. It’s honestly worked really well, and was great for a student with no budget.
Ok, thanks for your reply and perspective.
The order seems arbitrary, why not put the best options first?

If I were building a static website in 2020, I would expect my provider to not only host the static files, but build from source when I `git push`. That narrows down the list to 5 so I would put those at the top.

Second, I would expect the products that don't come with static hosting out of the box to be at the bottom of the list.

For example, number 4 says "Heroku is free for non-commercial apps. It doesn’t offer hosting for static websites out-of-the-box but need some hacky tricks".

Disclaimer: I work for Vercel, one of the static hosts in this list :)