skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the hair salon prices.

I remember well when I was walking past one with a friend and noticed that they charged differently based on gender and I was very confused as to how this is legal, with sad friend being rather confused that I did not know how common it was.

I even went inside to ask, and they said that it was because of hair length, I then inquired whether a female with shorter hair would be given the male treatment and vice versā, but that was apparently not the case either.

I then went home to look it up and apparently no one can explain it. All the lawyers on the matter say that it is flat out illegal by the letter of the law, but they do it, and they aren't prosecuted for illegal price discrimination. — no one understands why this can continue to go on.

As I said in another comment, rule of law has never existed, and every law ever written has been selectively enforced.
This nefarious social credit scheme operated by tech oligarchs who will subject everyone else to it unwillingly brought to you by seniorvn as an attempt to help us 'trust'.

How about no.
NPM v7 Is Out
> It doesn’t matter how good your product is, because if its documentation is not good enough, people will not use it.

Eh docs aren't that important; we've all used badly documented libraries before. Would better docs help? Sure, but let's not overstate their value.

The framework looks like a useful writing aid though.
> But that is only with Audio, the AirPods Max Hardware Design is very much modern Apple and non-Bowers & Wilkins. The weight and comfort issues.

My B&W PX headphones suggest that they have plenty of weight and comfort issues of their own. ;) Sennheiser Momentums were much more comfy, but didn't sound as good :|
I read HN on mobile all the time, what is the problem with it? The only issue i've noticed is being a bit harder to tap the show/hide branch icon but it is a minor issue.
I suspect they meant what they wrote.
Sort of. We had carpenter bees in our deck one summer and they were incredibly agitated and aggressive whenever we tried to use it.
The relationship between genocide, hate speech and censorship
Thanks Apple but I'm just gonna go ahead and hold on to my $30 KPH30i, lol.l.l
> My conclusion was that the Honneywell model is just a vehicle to sell more filters, which are not that cheap in the long run.

This is every air quality device in the industry. I have an old vornado air purifier that uses furnace filters for its media. $30 for the allergen level filters, when I can find them. When the electronics crap out in that thing will be when I learn to repair fans.

I had a prototype I built before I discovered these that used a 12V Molex power supply brick and a bunch of case fans to draw air through a furnace filter. I had it in a triangular box, intending to put it under a bed or a chair so it was dead silent. Then I found the Vornado and that went into storage. Higher cfm.

Unfortunately the Vornado filter was built at the height of the blue LED craze. But at least it’s low lumens.
>Geopolitical entities have been using the Internet to undermine trust in "the West," broadly speaking, for at least half a decade. Warfare has always included disinformation campaigns (they called it "propaganda"), but never has it been so viral.

I mean, you have to understand that the actions of the globally dominant "West" (North America, EU, Australia, and their allies) in the past 20 (and further beyond that) years have done a lot to undermine trust in them also.

Fake news to lead people into the Iraq War (a 20 year quagmire which only cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars for minute changes on the ground), an inability to defeat ISIS which meant the US had to rely on Iranian militias to beat them. On that note, I think the whole history of US-Iran relations is enough to undermine faith in the "West" as it stands.

I'm not saying other axes of power are better, but trust isn't a competition, it's very possible for people to trust no one outside their few close acquaintances. Trust has to be earned, and the "West" doesn't do a good job of it.
self-service checkouts also work well in high trust societies. By themselves, they aren't good enough to prevent shrinkage enough that it is cheaper to use them.
In general I don't want to name individuals, because I don't think that's productive. "Them" is a convenient way of keeping arguments from being overly personal.

In this specific case I guess it is fair to say it's Drew, since he wrote the article we're commenting on. I don't think he's alone in his statements on wayland though.
We started Slyde not long ago and had a ShowHN about a month ago, and we've been growing steadily since. It's not perfect, but we're gaining steam and people seem to like it.

Ultimately solving the problem we knew existed, however hard it was, ended up being the right answer so far. It's just a start but it's exciting and we wanted to share this milestone with everybody.

You can see our original ShowHN post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25267854
Show HN: Snazzy AI – Generate Copy with GPT3
Buying GME at $350 makes you... well it's not a good investment, nor good speculation, nor a good bet.

I'm not sure what's left that is "good".

This is not a normal part of the game.
AWS services don't mesh nice with each other, and the reason "software architecture" exists in the first place is so that disparate teams and technologies play nice with each other.
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Quorum is 150-person startup based in Washington DC that builds software for public and government affairs. Thousands of public affairs professionals use Quorum for their work in Congress, all 50 state legislatures, major U.S. cities, and the European Union.

Called "The Moneyball Effect on K Street" by the Washington Post and "Google for Congress" by the Huffington Post, Quorum's software is used by four of the top five tech companies, major companies like Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Toyota, non-profits like the Sierra Club and the United Nations Foundation, and many other companies, trade associations, non-profits, and advocacy groups.

Our engineers work the full stack using tools like React/Redux, Django, PostgreSQL, React Native, Ansible, and much more (though no experience with our exact stack is required and we're dedicated to investing in engineers early in their careers). We're rapidly scaling our engineering team and have multiple roles available. Apply at https://www.quorum.us/careers/.
Manjaro is currently owned by "Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG". One or two (maybe three now) constributors are hired by this company to work on the distro.

Because of this there is essentially two parts to Manjaro. Manjaro the Community and Manjaro the Company. Manjaro the Company has funds from HW deals with Pine, laptop vendors and merch.

Manjaro the Community has community donations through opencollective. These funds are parts of the community funds Phil (founder of Manjaro the Company, and project leader) had collected privately and forwarded to this collective. These funds are used to pay for laptops and merch associated with business expenses to forward the interest of Manjaro the Company.

You can see how this creates some tensions when the boundary between the Community and the Company is blurry at best.

https://opencollective.com/manjaro/

https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/change-of-treasurer-for...
It isn't, but it's convenient ammunition to use against people you want to get rid of.
Thank you love this
WSB is a game ppl lose simply by playing, IMO. When I read these stories I think of Jesse Livermore-- arguably the greatest trader of all times -- who went bankrupt 3 times on the way (including the end)[1]. The only way to win is not to play.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore
I don’t know what exactly was in these groups, but...

How exactly do you know what huge gathering of people will turn violent in 5 months? That seems like some advanced psychohistory right there...

And “hateful” pissed off people and groups are everywhere, you won’t have much of social media left without some people and groups like that. I mean look at the general sentiment of any trending topic on Twitter...
Tiny Kobalos Malware Bedevils Supercomputers to Steal Logins
If you find yourself one day without a good Wikipedia article to read, I collect (good) articles and their respective discussions posted on HN here:

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
gh repo clone aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
I'm not sure what are the changes in the X11 server implementation you're talking about, but if they do indeed meet every single possible use case, then maybe someone can bring them over to Wayland? I'm sorry to say, but you have to acknowledge these are novelty applications and are really not driving progress right now, the main focus is in getting all the other applications to work.

FYI there is some prior art for poking a security hole in the Wayland server to support X11 features, but obviously not all implementations will want to support this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/b...
> I hesitate to ask -- do we really think people are stupid enough to gamble away lots of money they can't afford to lose?

Oh. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. And it's not just the stupid people. Isaac Newton famously lost a fortune in speculation.

That's the thing about manias. It takes over and so many people all over go broke by the end. They are famous for it: they are a predictable and repeating tragedy.

Recognizing a mania is one of the first lessons someone who wants to do anything with stocks beyond INSERT 15% INTO VANGUARD 500 INDEX should do.
Buying verified twitter accounts is also a non-scalable solution. Sure in the short run you could probably get quite a few, but in the long run there are only so many people.

There's also a built-in compensating factor: To the extent that twitter accounts are worthless, it's easy to buy them. To the extent that twitter accounts are an important part of your identity online, people will tend to protect them. Try getting people to sell you their social security numbers.

Right now they're closer to the "worthless" end of that spectrum. But maybe verification would change that?
Third option: universities are already seeking to be as diverse as possible, so adding extra C-level pressure doesn't move the meter.

Honestly, I think university culture is too diversity/intersectionality/critical race theory etc. focused at the expense of other goals. So it wouldn't surprise me if additional diversity is hard to achieve.
As a regular user of Figma, I am blow away. I did a quick mockup, and it runs as well as figma on my browser. Silky smooth zooms,pans etc.

I briefly played with components, pasted screenshots, and drew rectangles & shapes (80% of UI design is drawing rectangles :-). Yet to play with Prototypes.

Kudos to the team... extremely impressive alpha.
neat. Great way to explore the systems.

For me out of university, it was a co-workers books (some of which I ended up buying) that help me understand the role of UNIX better (I used the alpha machines at university, but was thrown into HPUX/Solaris at work..)

I think this was one:
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

Of course a little out of date now, but a lot of the general concepts are the same.

Unix Power Tools helped me a lot as well.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

How did others learn this stuff?
There were students when I was in university who spent their student loans on Bitcoin. They had to take a year off to do an internship to earn some money.
Twitter doesn't really make enormous profits...

On a side note I read "After quitting Facebook a couple of years ago, I tried to log in..." as meaning that you quit _working_ at Facebook and they still couldn't verify who you were, which is a little more humorous, but probably not what you meant.
The Tower of Babel refers to the story from the Bible's first book, Genesis, in which the hubris of people leads to the building of a gigantic tower, a technological marvel for its time but one that ultimately contains the seeds of its own undoing. People build the tower as a symbol of greatness and unity but in the end are scattered by God and thrown into disunity and disarray. It's an enduring story precisely because it seems to so well encapsulate our relationship with technology and the law of unintended consequences.

Borges' story on the Library of Babel is in conversation with this much older story.
S100 Computers
So what about computational work like using pytorch?
The irony is these tropes have been used by the establishment forever.
From an ideology point of view, this is amazing. Imagine having activist pressure be so strong that you can make institutions create high paying executive positions designed to satisfy your demands.
I love this framework and I have been using before the website redesign when it didn't have a dedicated subdomain.

I have convinced my colleagues at work to use it as well: https://nimbus.guide/
Wow I would not want to be in charge of that cap table.
A ddg site search of "cve" returns zero hits.
Name a cockroach after your ex for Valentine's Day
Because we're genuinely curious how such a large and seemingly well-connected community could have been so mind-bogglingly wrong about something ("how short trading works") that should have been an unambiguous truth.

Now do HN’s collective beliefs about startups...
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
Yes, because avatars and signature blocks (which are useless, I agree), couldn't possibly be designed to be tasteful and fast to load. Especially avatars. A 30x30 image of any kind would be enough to convey more info about the speaker.
They don't even think that.

I have one 1920x1080 monitor and one 1440p monitor. On both monitors, I regularly make it so that each screen is used by 2 applications.

A lot of websites think 960x980 is mobile. *half* of a 1080p screen.

It's bad and a huge assumption on their part that their website should only be seen in full-screen mode, or half of some 4k screen when the most popular resolution is ignored in a productivity usage.
Handing it down maybe once is way better than not.
Nicely ranted.

I'm one who feels that ranting is a kind of art (or can be profitably interpreted that way), and well-formed rant counts as art.

This is a good rant, not great, but heartfelt and sincere with judicious use of curse words and rhetorical flourish.

(For greatness in ranting see the work of Mickens, perhaps our finest performing ranter of the day. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens )

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On a tangent, I've been keeping an eye on the Arcan project https://arcan-fe.com/

> Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments.

> At its heart lies a robust and portable multimedia engine, with a well-tested and well-documented interface, programmable using Lua.

(Nothing against Wayland, I'm just mentioning it to say something potentially useful to someone.)
And no one is talking about neck problems.
I've never seen someone get promoted for leaving something that's already great alone.
I was really hoping Wayland would be a bit like a programming language in that aspect. I.e. in a programming you have the language itself, the stdlib, and then the ability to load whatever other library you want. In Wayland you have Wayland itself and the ability to load whatever other stuff you want. For core use cases like screen sharing this approach has been an absolute pain. I get not wanting to specify screen sharing as part of Wayland itself but that doesn't mean throwing it to the crowd was a good answer.
Isn't that still true in 2021? I haven't been particularly fond of the mobile view of most sites I come across. I force desktop-view on my phone fairly frequently just to get at features/pages I want.
Hey everyone, Snazzy co-founder here. We're excited to launch our new design today. If you've used Snazzy before, we hope you'll find this update cleaner and faster.

We've put a lot of effort into cleaning up results that come back from GPT-3 and some tricks on the backend to make this one of the fastest GPT-3 copywriting tools. We've also added a free tier, so if you've been wanting to try out GPT-3, now is your chance!
Chasing Bugs in a Rabbit Hole Called Android Studio
this job listing comes off too try-hard, you don't have to mention your awards
Introductions. The Divio site itself starts with an introduction yet it's not listed as one of the content types! You could argue that introductions fall into the understanding-oriented category but when I read the guidelines about explanations it's not particularly clear how to write a good introduction, and the goal feels somewhat different. I think the principles of information foraging [1] are probably most helpful towards understanding how to create a good introduction.

Announcements (similar to release notes but focused on a single topic). We do these a lot on web.dev. Journalistic principles can help a lot towards creating useful announcements: answer the 5 Ws [2], inverted pyramid [3], etc.

Case studies. In this case the goal is to persuade the reader to make a change and to do that you need to focus on what's in it for them. The journalistic principles mentioned earlier are also very helpful here.

Code samples. How do you organize a big collection of code samples for easy discoverability? Some projects make small code samples in the spirit of how-to guides (i.e. the code samples only show how to do one particular task), other people do them more in the spirit of tutorials (i.e. it shows you a working end-to-end realistic application). The best approach is probably to do both. Again I think the Divio framework can help guide these decisions, but looking at the Divio framework narrowly, there's nothing explicitly focused on code samples. One might argue that code samples aren't documentation, but in my experience a single good code sample sometimes gets the job done much better than any of content types that Divio mentions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_foraging

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
> My question is, wouldn’t a “dumber” processor be better with a more expressive “API”, with instructions like prefetch, some form of parallelism (so that pipelines can be created with machine code and not just heuristics), since it is probably easier and better to branch predict in software than in hardware?

No. I'll list the reasons I know, but a real hardware designer will know even more.

There are many different ways to design hardware. The right thing to prefetch changes with different implementations. Unless you think everyone is going to ship source code?
I'm biased, as an architect, but you can't be a good software architect if you don't know the domain very well - both the industry as a whole, and your company specifically.
A single comment on Hacker News sent more traffic than Product Hunt
No, they didn't pitch it as a BTC or Tesla. Clearly you haven't been following at all what is happening. The pitch was to cause a short squeeze and then selling when it happens. So that only losers would be the short selling hedge funds.
In my limited experience, it's not just the elderly falling for this stuff.
I am very confident in my views because I'm going all-in on them with all my time and my money. That means making sure that I have the best position possible on the subject, which means lots of reading and research. If I was not certain about this path, I would just have fun and live a simply free life. But I will work towards this instead.

But yes, large positive paradigm shifts are possible. They are also necessary, and we must begin the work. To decentralize production of goods/services as much as possible, to make food and energy plentiful and free for all, etc. We will accomplish these goals and more.
Not really. I took a look at kind of a cable Sennheiser bundles with each headphone from the website:

HD 559: 6.3 mm plug.

HD 560 S: 6.3 mm plug.

HD 569: 6.3 mm plug + 3.5 mm plug.

HD 579: 6.3 mm plug.

HD 599: 6.3 mm plug + 3.5 mm plug.

HD 600: 6.3 mm plug.

HD 650: 6.3 mm plug.

HD 660 S: 6.3 mm plug + 4.4 mm balanced.

HD 800 S: 6.3 mm plug + 4.4 mm balanced.

HD 820: 6.3 mm plug.

So really the 3.5 mm cables are an exception that are also bundled with Sennheiser's audiophile-tier headphones and absolutely everything has a 6.3 mm plug out of the box.
Product Hunt always struck me as a Potemkin village.
Great! Please let us know the site you are going to build :)
But r/wallstreetbets was saying they could take it to the MOON at $9000!
The typical person generates many tons of waste per year. A pair of headphones would not even qualify as a drop in the bucket
Maybe what you mean is “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” ? All good architecture starts with that idea in mind, so you optimize for making things as decoupled and changeable as possible.
This is good info. I'll spin up a VM running Sway or something and give it another go and see what roadblocks I hit.
The tricky bit, apparently, is making the right demands in the first place.
I was introduced to this concept by this amazing video by Wisecrack: Kanye and The End of Reality – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMe0dsxk_Q
Nice work combining the two sources, saved!
The hype had nothing to do with the fundamentals of the company. It was about short squeeze and gamma squeeze. The pitching point to buy the stock was that if all the retail investors buy and hold the shares, then ultimately squeeze would drive the price higher. Partially this is true and more than one squeeze happened for GameStop.

But for other shorted stocks like AMC, Blackberry or Nokia I'm not sure if the squeeze ever happened and I feel sorry for the people who are still clinging on to those stocks. It could take months, or maybe years to sell them with a break even price.
Ok, just 'member all winner's had to play.
I still have a pair of these (in need of that exact new padding)
Yeah, that's one of reasons we went for clojure and clojurescript, to get that smoothness and performance. I'll send those amazing kudos to the team in 3, 2, 1... :)
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Jailed for 2 years and 8 months
I prefer that way, way more than going to, for example, Github and doing a code review and the website refusing to give me more columns to look at in side-by-side view, because they think that the number of lines they've enabled is perfect and want to have the sides of the screen be full of whitespace that you have to modify the layout of the website to get rid of.

Or random blog sites that become a narrow column of text and a *huge* amount of whitespace on either side.
Kind of a shameless plug, but you mentioned wanting to get better at Awk. I had that same desire and created a small course based on what I learned. The course got great feedback. I've gotten a lot of nice emails from people thanking me for making Awk understandable to them for the first time. I love getting those kinds of messages!

There is a video presentation, and a set of "challenges" you can use to incrementally get more complex with awk, starting from super simple.

The challenges repo is on github here: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet

If you want to watch the videos, there are links in the github repo but for convenience:

Presentation video: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY

My solutions to exercises video: https://youtu.be/4UGLsRYDfo8