skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you mandate that the insurers can only rate on certain variables (e.g. zip code) and/or you mandate a pooling system so that insurers who have many low risk people on their books subsidise insurers who have many high risk people.
Bad things happening elsewhere doesn't make it ok to destroy this place. If you want to comment here, we need you to follow the site guidelines by posting thoughtfully and substantively. "Fuck these fascists" isn't that, and snark isn't ok either.

It isn't about emotions—there are lots of ways to express your emotions that would be fine. Unfortunately the internet tends to only know one way to do that, and that is to vent flaming rage. This is not ok on Hacker News because it destroys the container we're trying to build here. It's not possible to have flamewar and curious conversation at the same time.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
> These days, I have a 3G ~/.local/ directory. It has become normal again to build stuff locally and just drop it into ~/.local/. And in fact, sometimes it is way easier to do so then to try and find a current version packaged by your distribution.

That's great; now move it to your production webserver where the user the server runs as doesn't have a "home" directory, or you run in to a dozen other reasonable security restrictions that break the tiny world that vendoring was never tested outside of.
None of those planes look like UFOs and they wouldn't move in the same reported ways, either. I don't agree that it makes someone stupid to be open minded.
> often large portions of code are riddled with any types.

Well, there's yer problem! Flow can't help you when you tell it not to help you.

It's true that typing everything can sometimes be tedious, or maybe even require codegen or other tooling. You get to choose whether you want ease or static type checking. The more accurately you represent to Flow what is happening in your code, the fewer surprises you'll encounter.
TAHs: OKRs for Life Planning
"If there were a better product it would win" is really a little naive, it's like saying "if a startup just built a new Jumbo Jet, the would win that Trillion dollar market".

Many industries have huge natural barriers - and more importantly - systematic barriers built by incumbents. Android, Chrome are 'moats' that are used to ensure Google wins. No other search engine could develop enough momentum to build the quality necessary while up against those moats and natural barriers.

"If you give the government the power to decide who a private business has to allow in, that's a power you will probably never get back. "

Right now, you have absolutely zero power over how Google implements their policies, ergo, nor you nor I have any power to 'give away'. While I don't always entirely trust how government intervenes and there are risks, I trust them more than I do large corporations.

Your arguments don't work because they are so general that they also work against every other government regulation. No FTC? No FDA? No FCC and 'Net Neutrality'? No Privacy Laws? No worker regulations?

These basic arguments about gov vs. private practice generally become moot in the face of nuanced reality.

Part of the role of government is to help ensure a competitive landscape, to enforce anti-trust and to regulate where necessary. That's why they exist.
I'm pretty excited about the future of VCSEL technology. Not only is it profoundly useful for lidar and stuff, dense arrays of lasers could also be used for all kinds of display technology.

If we can somehow make cheap VCSELs that emit blue or green light, red, green, and blue VCSELs could even take over general purpose lighting. One imagines a TV where each subpixel is a VCSEL. It would potentially be better even than microLED displays. The spectral purity would give really amazing colors.
The Weirdest Objects in the Universe
Man this post is so gross and I think a good encapsulation of everything going wrong with social/mass media. Hyper partisan, hyper biased, contains no facts, flippantly suggests mass censorship of opposing viewpoints, flippantly puts out massive blanket statements dehumanzing and generalizing half of the population, it reads like pure propaganda.

It's so "interesting" that you didn't consider what the left did this summer a "danger to society" worthy of repercussions, where they spent month after month rioting, burning down American cities, LITERALLY forcefully taken over a large chunk of a major American city and claiming it as their own autonomous zone where they make the rules, personally setting fire to multiple buildings on my block, looting businesses on my block because they were owned by "evil capitalist whitey", making me flee the city I had lived in for 6 years to escape their violence. No, there was nothing "problematic" with that. No, apparently all the politicians tweeting out their direct support for it weren't "inciting violence". The double standards are so sickening.
Wow, I'm impressed by your persistence. Have you worked with him or know him personally?
Note that Wikipedia also does not link to 8kun. Most Wikipedia articles about a specific website link to the site.

Google does index content from 8kun. It just doesn't list it under that shortened name. If you search for 8kun.top the link to the site shows up as top result, and you can use site:8kun.top in your search terms to search content from the site.

They do this to a lot of sites. For example a search for xxx-gay-boys does not turn up xxx-gay-boys.com, at least in the first 10 pages of results. Furthermore, I'd say that xxx-gay-boys.com has a lot more reason to be annoyed by this than 8kun, because those 10 pages are full of sites that are direct competitors of xxx-gay-boys.com. Even searching for xxx-gay-boys.com does not find it, and site:xxx-gay-boys.com does not work.

It's not some blanket ban against linking to porn sites, either, because trying one of those that showed up in the xxx-gay-boys results, boy18tube.com, a search for boy18tube does show the site as the first results, and site:boy18tube.com searches the site.
The gap between white and black piece performance is massive in these top engines if I'm reading it right. LCZero won 0/ lost 4 as black and won 24 / lost zero as white (with lots of draws)? I had no idea the split was so big now. Do human tournaments look like this too these days?
(From https://tcec-chess.com/)
I use Paper and have to say I quite like it - I started using it at my current job where it seemed common and hadn’t heard of it before. The main thing I like it for is quickly putting together group TODOs - you can create checkboxes with [] and can tag people’s names to items and add deadlines. That combined with some indentation is exactly the level of structure I like to organize such things. I’m surprised to find out here that it seems so unpopular.
think pads have pre installed fedora or ubuntu
dells have pre installed ubuntu
system76 was already mentioned with linux preinstalls.
and for those wanting to go a step further into the boot chain (sans chip manufacturer blobs), there is purism https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

personally, I've been really enjoying the Thinkpad 14s AMD - 8 core / 16 thread / 32gb of ram in under 3lbs, shame about the screen though.
yes to an extent, but there is a spectrum. I would count most forums under the umbrella of "social media", but for the most part I don't find them to have that performative aspect. platforms where your account is more strongly tied to your IRL identity and photos/videos are the main thing shared tend to be a lot more performative.
Now that you are not at the top, I can say it:

I have the theory that boys get into programming as a form of escapism – because the external world is frustrating to them. It is certainly my case, external world has all sorts of illogic demands, things that exist but should not be explicited, social rules, or various insults and condescension, some of them because we’re boys (my sister used to tell me boys have 13% fewer neurons, that’s why we’re stupid). So we talk to computers, although they can be extremely frustrating (I have spent hours at 7 years old finding the missing brackets — all of this in 1990 when I didn’t even speak English), but at least computers are logic. And they answer to us. They don’t make snarky comments. At least, when it fails, _it’s our fault_ . And we can fix it.

That would easily explain the gender gap in programming. It’s an escapism from the real world, while girls don’t need it as much because a lot of people are mindful of girls’ problems (notably teachers), or accept to listen to them.

I’d like to see an experiment: Give children 90% male teachers (the opposite of today’s ratio) and see whether programming then becomes more popular among girls than boys.
Voat is dead, but there's Ruqqus and Poal to name a few.
i think the pandemic will spread even more and be more deadly.
Agreed; that said, there's an Ancient Aliens tv series that acts serious but, I think, is mostly recognized for being hilarious...so frivolous I've actually watched it because it's just so laughable.
"Lean in" was popularised by Sheryl Sandberg. It's popular with management types and wildly unpopular with folks who feel that "just work harder" coming from an actual billionaire is a bit patronising.
OneDrive probably works just fine for a personal setting with limited files.

But as of about two years ago when we tried to migrate to it for business purposes.. it was an insane nightmare. It simply could not handle a filesystem with a few hundred thousand files AT ALL.

I think this was still at the time where OneDrive Business was technically a different product than OneDrive personal, and some bastardization with SharePoint (which I know nothing about).

But anyway- unless things have changed, OneDrive Business is not usable with a large amount of files.

Dropbox has been rock solid for years with a LOT of files. Although, recently I have been experiencing issues where dropbox just keeps getting stuck and has to be restarted. I also loathe their windows explorer integration.
Astronomers Detected Gravitational Waves. Now They Want to See the Cosmic Ocean
Time to sign your startup in for the lottery. Your company might be the next Pure Digital or Autonomy Corporation!
Maybe they were doing it to get promoted? Sad reality is often promotions go to the workaholics instead of the people who take care of themselves.
My 90 year old grandfather could do calculus in his head. The math abilities of his generation are just absurd to me. He was educated at Carnegie Mellon, during the war he was an engineer in the SeaBees who helped rebuild China after the Japanese occupation, and he went on to be an engineer at Alcoa, where the family legend goes that he designed the largest lazy susan in the world at the time. All of this was done with a pencil and occasionally a slide rule. The power of learning to do by hand.
I wonder if the omission is due to HN bias of disliking Google, but Google Drive has the largest market share in the segment Dropbox competes in.
If you say there are civilizations thriving somewhere in the galaxy, you're Carl Sagan.

If you say our solar system may have had aliens pass by, you're an eccentric.

If you say aliens landed on earth, you're a crank.

Why is the sanity of the claimant inversely proportional to the distance of aliens from Earth?
Ask HN: How is site able to determine my real IP even with VPN?
I think both of these companies could be successful, profitable small software shops if they stayed focused and lean. But they raise money and need to shoot for the moon, and it becomes all or nothing, and that's how they end up in trouble.
Mozilla has publicly supported deplatforming and called for additional steps, including to “turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation”

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
Openbase wants to be the Yelp for open source software packages
You can get DDOSed with and without a VPN. Your IP does not change. You probably leak your IP somewhere and people then DDOS that.
Couldn't a lot of the Apple pain be avoided simply by ditching the Mac App Store? It's not a requirement for distributing software on the Mac, so why deal with the pain, the limitations, the 30% cut, the slow approvals, if you don't really have to? The Windows Installer is distributed as an MSI, there's no reason the WireGuard installer for Mac couldn't just be distributed as a self-hosted .pkg.

Cisco doesn't host their VPN packages on the MAS either.
You can still use office desktop with office 365
what is a scenario where the employee would have leverage in a layoff? it’s hard to imagine except if something unethical/wrongful was going on leading up the layoff: sexual harassment, discrimination
Tiktok has exceedingly powerful filter bubble effects. As a result, the nearly universally derided "straight-tiktok" (which is where you start and dominated by conventional social media influencers) is fundamentally different than other parts of the app.

My fyp is a combination of good natured dancing, linguistics, crowd sources music, hank green, a few comedy creators who engage positively with mental health and feminist topics, and animals doing silly things, recently a lot of possums. That's interspersed with memes and jokes, but very few that are particularly rude.
I am hesitant to respond since I am not absolutely certain what you mean, but I will attempt to dig deeper.

How would you define hate? I do not want to put words in your mouth. Just please elaborate a little more.
> ...or have access to a licensed copy of the "real" Microsoft Office, the desktop app, which doesn't lag (that much), where all keyboard shortcuts work, drag-and-drop isn't too surprising, and you can use over a slow/metered/non-existent connection (bus, train, airplane), so you don't really care about Office 365.

Microsoft 365 allows you to download the desktop app versions of Office. No need for an internet connection after that.
I think that's a good thing though. The last thing I want is dropbox to 'innovate'. They are already trying too hard by forcing you to have windows explorer integration which slows the crap out of my machine.

I am overall very happy with Dropbox and we use them because of what they are- a file syncing company. If they become more, it will surely be at the expense of simple file syncing which is all I want from them.
You can just chose another server. Can't do with Cloudflare (or Discord).
> We use a logic primitive called the adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP), which has a switching energy of 1.4 zJ per JJ when driven by a four-phase 5-GHz sinusoidal ac-clockat 4.2 K.

The landauer limit at 4.2K is 4.019×10^-23 J (joules). So this is only a factor of 38x away from the landauer limit.
In this paper, we study the use of superconducting technology to build an accelerator for SHA-256 engines commonly used in Bitcoin mining applications. We show that merely porting existing CMOS-based accelerator to superconducting technology provides 10.6X improvement in energy efficiency. https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04641
I'm not really sure if actually doing something will be effective for say learning history. I think of all the odd activities teachers had me do, and I kind of wish they just told me the story, but I'm a guy who now listens to history podcast so may just be personal.

Also think of all the odd physics demonstrations and I'm not sure they really often enhanced my knowledge more than a gif would of especially versus the expense. Does anyone know of any research around this area?
Correct, which is why it's not ideal to allow folks to volunteer for severance as the GP suggested. The company wants to choose who to let go to avoid putting themselves in a worse spot afterwards.
The culture of the companies that ban and report on Parler are predominantly left of center. It is not realistic to expect fairness in any way, including ToS enforcement. In an alternate universe where Parler had been a tech giant and the rest of SV aligned with them, it would be Twitter who got shut down.
> None of those planes look like UFOs and they wouldn't move in the same reported ways, either.

Yet today's pop culture conspiracy theorists tried to raid Area 51 for their beliefs.

Don't get me wrong: I believe in alien life. But I don't believe in conspiracy theorists that are blind to the obvious in correlations of evidence.

Scientific theory is about bayesian reasoning, not about proving to yourself that you're right; which is a likely phenomenon in the thinking nature of conspiracy theorists.
Work is the same. My commute is short, but not having to do it is saving me a lot of fuel expense. Every day I am not on the road is one less day of dealing with crazy drivers. I like the risk mitigation.
Keycloak is much heavier than Hydra. With Hydra, it is much easier to spin up thin OpenID clients. If one has a need to spin up dozens or hundreds of OpenID clients, Hydra will be definitely a better choice purely because one can have multiple Hydra servers running with only a handful of clients each. Think multi tenant environments. With Hydra, there is no reason not to have many Hydra instances with as low as a single OpenID client.

Hydra API is smaller and easier to use than the one from Keycloak. Because of how lightweight Hydra is, it is possible to spin it up in integration tests with docker using something like Ory dockertest.

What the Ory stack is missing is an implemetation of UMA2 and there is no out of the box support for LDAP auth and SAML federation. However, the way Hydra handles accepting an identity from an external authentication source via its admin API makes it fairly easy to add any auth mechanism, not limited to how it would be in Keycloak because of the Keycloak SPI design choices. Implementing the user federation SPI for Keycloak is actually pretty tricky.

What speaks for Keycloak is the completness: user and role management, permissions, resource servers and so on. However, if one wants just tokens and does not mind writing the glue code to Kratos and Keto, Ory stack is awesome. There is Oathkeeper serving as that glue layer and a sort of reverse proxy to all 3 of the components but it doesn’t always fulfil all requirements.
What is the rate of data processing of a human’s sensory organs? Until VR output data at that rate to every human sense being in VR will be less stimulating than being in real space. I think this is especially true of social environments, were subtle body language, facial movements, touch and smell are critically important.

Being around a group of people is easily 20x more stimulating to me than any VR experience I’ve had, and I’ve experience the state of the art in VR. Spending day after day, year after year, going to classes with the same group of peers was very socially validating and helped me be more engaged with my time at school.
> This mentality is somewhat changing, but very slowly and white westerns are still prioritized.
I worked for Huawei in Canada for a bit less than a year before I left, because my boss insisted on assigning me work I didn't believe I could deliver on.

Of course I was only there for a short time, so I could be mistaken, but I did note that 75% of the employees in the lab (in Canada) were Chinese, as were seven of the eight first-level managers. That said, I never felt badly treated because of my ethnicity, and I never saw anyone else treated badly either. While it is possible things could have ended up this way for innocuous reasons, I would bet against it. I'm guessing some informal "good fit" discrimination is going on.

There is also an awful lot of Chinese spoken at the company. They try to run their foreign operations in English, and I have to give them credit for putting some real effort into it. But given the distribution of their staff in Canada and even more so over in China, in practice things switch over to Chinese quite frequently. It makes sense that they do this, since some of the engineers in China struggle to communicate in English, but when it happens the non-Chinese are excluded. And it's hard to object when one is the only blue-eye among a dozen Chinese.

Given what I saw, I would advise any non-Chinese engineer considering taking a job at Huawei to consider alternatives carefully, and absolutely not take the job if they do not speak Chinese and do not plan to learn it.
Reminds me a lot of this document : http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
I think at least early education is better done in person. The classroom experience for little ones is about much more than traditional skills like reading, writing, math, etc. This is where they learn to work with others, learn the social skill that they need to succeed in the future. Little ones need their peers as much as education.
Dropbox actually still has a $9.99/mo (if billed anually) 2TB plan for individuals. Still not the cheapest price-wise, but not unreasonable.
Good for the world, bad for the capitalists. Guess who wins in the end?
Ah, good point. Though this is an adapter that Intel sells to OEMs, in this case HP... And HP does not let you install just any card, it needs to be one that's on their whitelist (embedded in the BIOS).... yeah, all of these companies are pretty bad.
The Macbook air with intel CPU weighs 2.75 lbs, the Macbook air with M1 weighs 2.8 lbs. The macbook pro is 3.0 vs 3.1 lbs.

The weight is a non-factor. Quite frankly until you start cracking 5lbs nobody even cares in my experience. Apple's maniacal focus on making laptops skinnier and lighter has done a disservice to the entire product line, which they seemingly acknowledged with the 16" Pro.
Great choice, Sindre! I hope this kind of leadership will help the ecosystem to move forward.
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to instantly show recipes without scrolling
> as though average informal musings about a random subject are adding some above-and-beyond value to the subject.

The website is called perell.com... I mean, it's his own website/blog, so there's no "value" on it besides "I enjoy writting about stuff and make it public on my blog".

I enjoyed his theories though.
The Myth of Innovation in Canadian FinTech
Anyone whos at a FAANG (or similarly paying company) willing to share some insights into what the work culture is? I'd guess that its mostly dependent upon the team, manager, and project. But as my career progresses and I realize I dont want to be doing this shit well into my 50's or hell..60's I figure I can bite the bullet early at a FAANG and stack so much money by the time im 40 I can tell anyone and their mother to go fuck themselves. With the amount they're paying the EV seems way better than trying at a few startups.
I am curious how much taxes Apple avoided in 2019 or 2020 compared to this $100 million incentive. I have a hunkering that if Apple were to pay taxes they owe it would be more beneficial to society.

And only then can they start patting themselves on the back when introducing various social programs that they pay for from their revenue.
This could explain the extreme push to the Cloud, for example with Atlassian who discontinues its Server products entirely, and only keeps Data Center or Cloud versions. It behaves as if personal computing or server rooms in companies won’t be a thing in 2025.
I don't really want audio. What I'm looking for is to read 3.3V or 5V analog levels, with really low frequency, once a second or less would be fine.
2012 was five years behind AMD making the comeback. If they saw that far into the future and didn't do anything else in that timeframe then maybe firing him was not for missing the strategy.
Do you have any kind of meaningful social connections outside of work? Whether it's family, religion, non-religious social orgs, hobbies or whatever, a strong set of social connections tends to correlate with happiness.

It might also be worth looking into adopting or rescuing a pet, a senior dog tends to be low energy and they typically have low adoption rates. They are often loyal, loving and excellent companions.

If you have a blank check for life, use it for some purpose.