skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. CSS-only solutions are extremely attractive. Avoiding use of JS entirely is one my team's core values at this stage.

We never got rid of 100% of it, but we did get really damn close using Blazor. Only ~180 lines of javascript interop is required for our entire solution last time I checked. This isn't trivial stuff either... We hand-rolled large file upload/download w/ progress, get client rect, get/set cookies, etc.
The cost per capita for healthcare in the US is $11k/person. Next highest is about $6k. This counts both public and private spending.

We’ve picked the worst of each approach in the US and combined them.
Are you making the argument that "people who think it's a good idea to start restaurants" are representative of "grown-ups?"

I think you're right insofar as you point out that opening a restaurant is a fraught enterprise, but I don't really think that refutes the comment you're responding to - the overwhelming majority of adults don't open restaurants, even though there are always plenty of dreamers who think it's a good idea.
The french original: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/communiques-de-pre...
>I often find it "justifying human exceptionalism" presented as science. The unstated assumption is that humans are somehow better than chimpanzee

You find it unscientific to observe that humans are exceptional for being the only known species with the ability to dominate and shape any environment, create, process, and communicate abstract thought, practice science, generate art, communicate across the planet instantly, travel to the bottom of the ocean and to space, with technology that other humans conceived of, designed, and built?

If that isn't scientifically provable exceptionalism, I don't know what is. "Better" is a loaded term because you can weasel in talk of destroying the environment and what not - but I don't think there's any argument against obvious and overwhelming human exceptionalism, the origin of which unquestionably begs exploration and explanation.
That's a long time; thanks!
The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late
People will naturally continue with their existing behaviour, but I think the GP was saying that once people have adopted a behaviour to aid cause X they sometimes stop looking for other "gooder" behaviours addressing the same issue.
Well, that’s how we do it. Senior devs make arch level decisions (how could you expect ownership otherwise?). It’s also not made over others’ heads but by involving them in the discussion, hearing their input.
> silicon valley leftist elites

Outliers like Peter Thiel aside do we actually know the personal politics and beliefs of people like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, or Marc Benioff? They all seem perfectly fine on the PR-positive side of any issue and likely skew fiscally conservatives privately on matters that concern their personal fortunes.

Sure their companies skew "progressive" with LGBTQ inclusion, some diversity hiring (YMMV and some of it appears to be purely projection), and the banning of hate speech, fake news, and calls for violence, on Twitter and the de-platforming of Parler - but is that leftist or just doing the right thing?
Edit: My bad. I misread the parent comment. My original response preserved below for posterity.

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I’m on mobile so I can’t dig into the source, but they claim it’s using semantic HTML and the data is accessible. If you disagree with those claims, perhaps sharing your specific objections would make a better case than just vaguely crapping on the project.
Your site does not work in Firefox.
Yeah, it can be a flip depending on implementation, whether you can beat something that is just pixels and GPU with the DOM + browser rendering engine, which has more layers and unpredictability.
Didn't Instagram recently ban reposting of watermarked TikTok videos? I see them reposted on YouTube all the time. EDIT: Not banned, then y just won't promote them [1]

Allowing easy downloading of videos had allowed TikTok branding to spread virally on its competitors.

As soon as TikTok feels the need they will pull up the drawbridge that allows access to the walled garden, much like twitter did with the API.

[1] https://lifehacker.com/think-twice-before-reposting-your-tik...
Imo, most of the evolution science of today is about inventing a cool story to justify the very little data we have. We have what, a bit over ten thousand years of definitive history with solid data, and based on this tiny slice of history we invent grandiose theories of where the man's intelligence came from.
I agree with your criticism.

Still, I'm trying to figure out exactly what my issue is with evo-psych claims that I don't have with e.g. physics claims.

There seem to be some commonalities between the two fields: developing models to explain empirical data. And when working with their models, they're willing to assume a certain degree of causality.

I wonder if my issue is that evo-psych is a lot more like history than like physics, in that it's really hard to do repeatable experiments to vet their theories? So when we hear an evo-psych theory stated with confidence, it discredits the speaker?
Hey there HN community

I'm Sharath co-founder at Shoutout. This is my first posting a product on HN so I'm pretty stoked at the same time heavily nervous about it!

Five months ago, I had this idea of gathering all the shoutouts I get on Twitter under one place, and I thought it would be cool to launch an LP and validate it with everyone. As a no-code maker, I shipped the LP in less than 24hrs, got 120+ signups, and saw people saying we need this! I then shipped a no-code MVP, tested it with few close friends who asked for more features. The signs were so clear that I went ahead and put a bat-signal on Twitter searching for a co-founder. Curtis Cummings from nowhere approached me, and we clicked in our first meeting and started building a fully coded product.

We launched our private beta 2 months ago and got the opportunity to onboard some iconic creators like Jack Butcher, Julian Shapiro, Lenny Rachitsky, and startups like On Deck and Knowable. We've iterated on our early believers' feedback and made a product that delivers value to creators and startups!

A month ago, we launched Shoutout to the public and on Product Hunt and secured #3 product of the day. We now have 36 paying customers and got Product Maker Grant Recipient award.

Today, I'm pumped to announce Shoutout to the Hacker News community! We truly believe creators and startups should leverage the social proof they are getting on Twitter, and our mission is to make it easy for everyone!

Shoutout lets you tap into your existing social proof and turn it into a beautiful "Wall of Love"

How does it work?

Curate and Organize: With an infinite feed that is constantly updating every second, tracking social media shoutouts* is an invaluable task! Shoutout removes the tediousness and spotlights all the high-signal tweets in one place.

Customize and Design: We believe in personalization and value the importance of custom branding. Shoutout quickly turns the bunch of tweets into a beautiful wall within minutes. Rearrange these shoutouts according to your need and add custom colors that represent your brand.

Showcase and Embed: Share your public wall or embed it directly on your site without any coding. Our embeds are blazing fast, so they won't slow down your site. As you update your wall, your embed will show all of your latest shoutouts, making the experience frictionless.

What's next: We are not stopping here, and this is just the beginning of our mission to help creators and startups to leverage the social capital they gain on Twitter! We are excited to launch many more features based on your feedback and look forward to delivering more value to you constantly!

If you have any feedback, feel free to comment or say hello to us on Twitter @shoutoutso_!
This is brilliant. It's all done with clip-path and CSS variables.

That said, it's a bit of a hack. The best kind of hack, the crazy smart kind, but still a hack. And as such, there are some visualization glitches here and there you wouldn't get with Canvas or SVG.

Still, such a cool idea. I love stretching technologies way beyond their original intent.
Having a chart as an SVG grow or shrink in size based on the size of the browser windows is radically easier with SVG than CSS.

Dynamically growing/shrinking a piechart in CSS is much more difficult to implement. Where as with SVG, it just works as-is and no additional effort needs to be done to make it work.
>Maybe he meant he'd like to be able to speak the language in question

Or she.
Thanks! We're excited too. It's always fun building software where it needs to exist, then thinking what new things that enables.
Another thing to be cautious of is that brain volume is only a proxy for e.g. neuron count, which is itself a proxy for intelligence.

Volume may be the only archaeological data available, but whales (8kg) and elephants (5kg) have brains many times larger than ours (~1.3kg), and even adjusting for body mass doesn’t make humans top of the pile — famously, the brain-to-body mass ratio of shrews is higher than humans’.
> Nothing is freely available. Somebody is paying for it. In my case, I pay 800 euros per month, and then we can use it "freely". What you surely meant is universally available for all.

In the US, most health plans include co-pays for various services, annual deductibles that delay the point that the insurance actually starts paying for things, and lifetime limits on the total amount the insurance can be required to pay. So people in the US usually have incentives to avoid using medical services unless they absolutely must. These incentives magically morph otherwise reasonable insurance plans into rather expensive versions of catastrophic insurance plans with a prescription benefit.
Anything worthwhile in fully homomorphic encryption yet? I keep seeing the tools get faster but security is still relatively unknown compared to modern symmetric/asymmetric ciphers. There's also several interesting papers on anonymous/garbled circuit evaluation that I'm assuming will lead to even better untrusted third-party computation services. What I'm waiting for is FHE/circuits/something that can selectively decrypt some of their own outputs.
Nothing makes me happier than a UI library with a billion examples.
I agree that in many cases an extra dollar of battery capacity provides more utility than an extra dollar of solar charging.

But I did have one of those niche applications a while ago: I used to travel for work and often left my car parked random airport lots for months at a time which meant I occasionally came back to melted cassette tapes and a dead battery. In that case $100 of solar panels to run an exhaust fan and/or trickle charge the battery seems like it would have provided more utility to me than $100 of additional battery capacity.

I wouldn't be willing to add thousands of dollars worth of solar panels like the Sion and even if I did I wouldn't consider it a replacement for charging via the electric grid. But if my next car comes with an optional/after-market "solar package" that can integrate solar panels into the roof that seems like it would provide some value to me, at least more than the fancy wheel or audio packages they currently offer.
Careful. Some cultures in Asia have a strong culture of appearing to work hard solely based on time spent in the office.

The Japanese salaryman comes to mind [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman
Great point re storage, I'll be sure to add to the FAQ. To answer your question it's SSD block storage.
I agree with your larger premise, but:

> Can you see the Milkyway? No, not really

This is not my experience. I have seen the Milky Way very clearly from a few locations in the US. None are particularly remote -- all are just a few hours drive from the large cities I've lived in. Winter months are clearer than summer.
Hum, it requires to think a little bit deeper but it could work:

- Agile has: "Burndown Chart"

- This could be offensive to people that were burned.

- Let's cancel Agile...

QED
"Words matter" is also the reason the other side of the debate fights so vociferously. Perhaps this is the fault of our educational system, but many cases for renaming would lose much of their steam if the involved and onlookers knew more about homonyms, etymology, and what the actual common usage of these words were in classic literature. Language prescriptivists can't get past their perception of renaming as indulging a slippery game of schizophrenic word-association.

My extremely liberal grandmother who was a NYC English teacher and penpal of many authors despised email, Twitter, pop culture, and Trump for what she thought was the degradation of English. Earlier as an optimistic techie, I thought she was being ridiculous but I recently started seeing her point now that society lines up on both sides of daily culture war arguments over miscommunicated non-existent strawmen and red herrings.

On the other hand, language is not prescriptive. If people start to see words differently, for whatever reason, and thus change their usage - that is nothing new in the history of language and is how languages have evolved since the dawn of time. I can see the utilitarian trade-off of simply realizing this is just that and if it helps more people's psyche than it hurts then maybe we should just go with it (as long as that benefit is proved statistically in the population at large, and isn't just an ivory tower assumption).
> Application software such as this shouldn’t be free

Who are you to tell someone how they should or shouldn't spend their free time?
> enabled more efficient hunting of medium-sized and small animals—until these populations also dwindled

This means humans have been decimating wild animal populations for a very long time, we are accustomed to it.

But we need to stop it now.
I hate to be "that guy" that does this, but 1984 is a good view on this, albeit an extreme one. For those who aren't aware: in the book the government control the language used by its people, by reducing the number of words in their dictionary.

Instead of "alright, great, amazing", there's "good, plus good, double plus good". Because these people have less language to express themselves with, they are less likely to protest the atrocities that their government is doing.

This new control-as-a-language is called Newspeak[0].

I think language has a key role in how a society develops. I generally agree with the sentiment that moving to using "people with has-a descriptions instead of is-a descriptions", to quote another user in this thread[1], is a great idea. It allows us to view people who are blind as just that, a person who happens to be blind. Using the same language for all human people, and then adding "has-a descriptions" (or properties, if you wanted to use a programming term) puts us all on the same playing field, while acknowledging that some people do have differences.

If everyone just treated everyone else with common decency, the world would be a much better place.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26490318
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Oh, you're the person he's responding to.

Ok. Weird.

Trump was pressuring Georgia to overturn and invalidate votes. He was interfering with the election.

To suggest that he wasn't doing that is what knowaveragejoe means by peddling the Fox/OANN/Newsmax line.

So while the Washington Post may not have gotten the exact words right. It's not like they were wrong about what was occuring. The worst that could be said is that they were paraphrasing.

It's like you're suggesting Trump should be let off the hook because of a technicality.
>(Master of Ceremonies, Master of Arts, etc.)

Its the master/slave dynamic that is considered the issue...if there were Slaves of Ceremonies and Slaves of Arts as official titles, we might eventually take a second look at the naming too.
Singapore scientists create device to 'talk' to plants using electrical signals
Just the icing on the cake that the monitoring system is hacked up from a barbecue thermometer. Amazing!
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I work at an ayahuasca retreat center and personally think your practice would be a sort of super weapon when combined with the right medicine. Fully agree with you otherwise- we all carry an incredible amount of hidden traumas and they can very sneakily hold us back from our full potentials.
If you need a challenge code it's because you're connecting to something, so it's a given that internet connectivity is present. Which means you could also receive an email, far more secure than SMS. Or the site could just use TOTP.
In two days. I feel like a failure
There are at least a few use cases that can never be commoditized. My wife's ex used to do work for Wood's Hole developing firmware for acoustic routers intended to network submarines. Somewhat ironically, he thought it was just for scientific use but the US Navy was actually funding the development. This paid reasonably well for 15 years ago.
What are some of the more cohesive distributions? Elementary comes to mind
I prefer using packages over apps too. My rule of thumb is, use packages unless the code is reuseable, then it can be an app, but if the code is reuseable it makes no sense for it to be in my repo, so should be extracted to an external repo on pypi.
> The $100 a year ensures that trash doesn’t litter the App Store

And yet I found a half of a dozen Chinese knockoff BonziBuddy clones on the Mac App Store.
Most people aren't careful about what information is collected on them in the first place. Are people going to stop sharing things on Twitter because they're afraid of giving up one more tidbit of information to big data? I don't think so.

It's besides the point anyway. Any mechanism that primes or prompts the sharer to be mindful of accuracy before sharing could help reduce sharing of misinformation, according to the results from the article.
No problem! There are hardly any wild animals now. Their body mass represents 4% of the world total animal body mass. Humans are 25%, and our farmed animals the rest.
Any program only lasts as long as funding for it exists. It seems easy enough to design the program so that it has a defined start and end goal and target end date.

The Yellowstone herd in the US is a special case. According to USDA numbers released this month, the US is free of cattle and swine brucellosis in all 50 states.

The program has been successful in eradication with the exception of an occasional case in the Yellowstone area. Work is in progress to ensure containment of cases which mainly seem to affect the elk in the park but also affect bison.

[USGS Brucellosis](https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock/science/brucellosis?qt-s...)

Since the program to eradicate began in 1954, brucellosis in domestic cattle and swine has been eradicated in all 50 states as noted by the USDA. Spending has ramped down accordingly to the point where less than $1 million dollars was needed in 2010.

[USDA Brucellosis](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_an...)

There are active monitoring efforts in place since cattle are routinely trucked across country to pasture on better grass and since cattle do come across the border from Mexico, which still has a problem with control in some areas.

With that in mind, it took the years from 1954 to 2010 for it to be officially eliminated.
You sound like the The Peacemaker.

You should try and see how websites like this facilitate technological excellence even though they make you uncomfortable.
If you want longer exposures than your lowest ISO can handle you can also use neutral density filters, which go over the lens and reduce the amount of light hitting the sensor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral-density_filter
Sorry, but I can't really agree
Has Linus or another early Git developer commented on this? If not, what matters is how people actually use Git today, to the extent that it should matter at all relative to other more significant things.
the point is that it was identified as an area of change at all, when given the reasons for doing so it is completely vacuous and existing in the absence of other change, but being used to satisfy a checkmark of change and self-congratulate.
SMS is far less secure than a code via email.

Also often less accessible, in the circumstances where those SMS challenges show up most often (traveling, for instance).
Steady ramping up production of a manufactured item lowers per unit prices. So, sure considering the price drop is relevant from an adoption standpoint, but manufacturing capacity is what’s at issue not cost.
I’m building a recommendation engine for cigars.

There’s still no UI but testing it on a few users on reddit seems like it’s working quite well.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/m3mfbo/looking_for_...
From the looks of it you can put all the data in a table element without having to use javascript. If it was pure SVG you would have to mix the data and presentation, and it would make accessbility trickier.
Why is numerical analysis still a big issue? Hint: it's the speed
Better yet how about vertical alignment?
No, it's not true that slippery slopes are automatically fallacious, that's a misunderstanding of the fallacy.

The fallacy pertains to people who argue that a causal chain will necessarily play out, or that a particularly implausible chain will play out with high probability.

The fallacy does not assert that slippery slopes don't exist, and the mere act of arguing that a plausible slippery slope has a nontrivial chance of occurring is certainly not the Slippery Slope Fallacy as it's formally defined. Saying that slippery slopes are inherently fallacious may be aptly labelled the "Slippery Slope Fallacy Fallacy".
Your first point is correct. It is hard to break into tech. For almost anyone. That does not make the fact that having a background that on paper makes one appear "smarter" makes it easier to break into tech any less true.

Your second point is also true. But when getting your first job is the hardest part many people would rather do 3 months to a year under someone they wouldnt want to work for and then move to a better role than continue being a waiter or actor for the rest of their career while they hold out for a first job that is ideal.

I agree that persistence is the key but it is easier for some backgrounds than others.
This guide is nicely written, and mostly useful for tips on labelling, but some of the advice on choosing chart types is bad. There are several examples of column charts used for categorical data, e.g. https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/b...

It's OK to use column charts where each column represents a category if and only if there's some ordinal nature along the x axis, i.e. if either of these are true:

A) The categories have a natural ordering (e.g. 'age group'), OR

B) The categories are ordered by their value on the y axis (i.e. the most popular 'reason for visiting the UK' is the first column, and the least popular on the right)

In other cases, a horizontal bar chart is preferable, as it does not lead the reader to mistakenly infer some ordinal relationship between the categories.

For learning how to choose a chart type, people should just buy Say it with charts (https://www.amazon.com/Say-Charts-Executives-Visual-Communic...), read it and complete the exercises.

BTW - another thing that bugs me about that chart: the y axis is labelled as 'thousands', but then the tick marks are labelled 2,000 to 16,000. It would better to use 2, 4, 6, ... for the tick marks, and label the axis as 'millions'. Even better would be to use percentages, and just mention N somewhere in the title.

Which of these charts is clearest? (top-left is the version in the linked guide, bottom-right is my preferred option): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JO2RXDQBJffWQ34QIi79...