skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm, I'm not following you. Historically, employees who "expressed political opinions" would typically support leftist/progressive views that their employer would disagree with; hence why laws were passed to protect their rights in this area (at least in Europe). So I don't think anybody on the left was ever "happy" that an employer could fire someone for their political position, as a general concept.

What might have some support is the idea that an employer could fire someone holding positions that are incompatible with the majority of other employees. We can argue about the best way to regulate this, but it's a different and horizontal view of determining the boundaries of civil coexistence.
Exclusive interview with 'Babuk' hacker group [in Polish]
Love that comic, first saw it like 15 years ago or so (^_^)
GP suggested that they already get paid for that service, and that they're double dipping. You're simply stating that they should get paid, which they would be in either case.

Apple is charging what they are because they can (obviously). But equally obvious not everyone agrees that they are able to charge this because of product quality, but perhaps due to (partly) market monopoly.

Seeing as it's still in court, and various antitrust discussions, it's definitely not clear cut either way and cases can certainly be made both ways.
I think you got your fraction reversed. Writing down the specs in plantuml will be a lot faster and generate much more consistent results at the cost of memorizing the syntax upfront. It is an investment, but if you frequently have diagrams in your docs and multiple people collaborate on them, then it's really worth it.
I don't agree. I think they were pointing out that the issue is more complex than "viewpoint diversity is good per se". Although these discussions are almost invariably terrible in comment sections because they lack the nuance of spoken discussion, so either of us could be right. I just chose to assume good faith and the strongest plausible interpretation of what they said.
Still miss my old Palm Pre 2 for exactly this reason.
I would recommend Dark Reader for Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
> public conciseness

That was possibly an autocorrecto for "public consciousness", but I like how well it still applies.
In a addition to the purely scientific utility, a low orbit space station is also the perfect place for microgravity manufacturing. The ISS already manufactured ZBLAN optical fibre, and there are other promising applications in optics. I wouldn't be surprised if over the years we find a lot of production processes that benefit from the absence of gravity
Yes please!

Dimmed-dark mode for desktop and full-dark for OLED phones.
> my village is not competing with the neighboring village

Aren't they? My village in Poland competes with neighbouring villages in at least the following zero-sum games:

- each village has a football club competing in the local league

- compete in competitions for the region's best decorated

- compete for local government funds for some projects

- during elections, villages compete to put their local candidates in local gov

Within the village, there is noticeable tribalism within groups centered around the Church, the German minority, and the volunteer fire brigade.

These are mostly positive things. I'm not saying competition is always bad. I'm saying that it's at the core of being a monkey-person.

> I don't think so, people are selfish and want the best for their own but I don't think they actually want bad things to the others, for sure nobody sane wants a conflict.

Willingness to go to war is a property of the collective, even if no single person would choose to do so in isolation.

> but do a major number of regular citizens want to screw over the other group ? do they wish bad things for the other EU members ?

Actually, I think so, I'm afraid. A certain single-digit % would like to actively do harm given an opportunity, an even larger % would not oppose it.
What does the "p" in "pmarca" stand for / signify? "public"? "private"?
Sounds like a modern-day version of Luddism.

We don't need to block it. We need to embrace it and make sure it's used properly, safely and with accountability. We're not talking about nuclear warheads here. There has to be a safe and secure way to get the benefits of large-scale and centralized facial-recognition and tracking.
AFAIK Fortnite is not available on Steam (or elsewhere).
If you care about wasted energy - each person fixing it own their own is more wasted energy than one developer building the feature into the website.
The talk seems to be online now as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krSj81thN0w
Here is dang's answer regarding this matter:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

edit: Updated comment and link to dang's answer
Maybe it's hint from your body that you're consuming too much screen and in a non healthly way /s?
I, personally, find the concept of "illegal fiction" super, super disturbing, mostly because "illegal" is very arbitrary, and declaring _fiction_ illegal is literally creating thought-crime.
As a workaround, I have been using Materialistic to browse HN from my Android phone. It has a nice dark theme, which I use by default.

https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
Well I live in Europe as well and there's a bunch of containers(paper, plastic, glass+metal, residual) outside of my house I can throw my trash in any time of the week[1]. No need to keep track of the right day.

So I'd say that's easier than your setup.

[1] Maybe don't throw out glass or metal on the weekend or during the night
Thanks for posting this. About 20 minutes in, and he is talking about how to break google up, at google... nice. To the comment section (first comment):

"To those at Google watching this who don't know the story: Google initially decided, for the first time in its history, to not publish this video to its Talks at Google site here on YouTube after it was recorded. This presentation was given on the second week of September, note the publishing time lag. Giridharadas contacted Google to ask why, and his contact said "I'm not on that team anymore" and was blown off. He then leaked the story to a leading tech journalist, who started calling Google for comment because she was working on a story about why, for the first time ever, a Talks at Google video was not published. They published it the same week -- obviously reluctantly and under pressure. The only reason you're seeing this guys is because power is doing damage control. . Wake the f** up."
I think shame is a really useful thing in the context of society and something I feel a lot of Western cultures would benefit from. I've never understood the "don't X shame me" thing, there are a huge number of things that people should feel shame for that I think western societies have normalised.

I haven't lived in Japan but I've spent a considerable amount of time there. I accept that Japanese people are much more socially conformist, but it's interesting from a visitor's perspective as I've always felt the cities there feel a lot less homogenised in a lot of ways. Tokyo has always felt far more of a city of people doing interesting and creative things than London, to me at least.
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It’s not just the dead who object to Latinx.

> only 23% of U.S. adults who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino have heard of the term Latinx, and just 3% say they use it to describe themselves, according to a nationally representative, bilingual survey of U.S. Hispanic adults conducted in December 2019 by Pew Research Center.

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
Look at the source of https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/. It literally takes that little effort (3 lines) to add dark mode to a simple website. HN is a bit more complex but this is a tractable problem. Let’s not talk about “all the energy wasted” like we’re asking dang to solve the Travelling Salesman problem.
With non-pandemic WFH you can see and interact with other people, in person, regularly, outside of work. Hobbies, cafés, bars, etc.
It isn't the same game as on PC as it does not force you to complete a day to save.

At first it was, but this didnt work well on mobile because the players themselves were mobile and did not have dedicated time to deal with this game mechanic. But by fixing it for mobile with backgrounding and automatic state saving, it breaks the core incentive of the game.

Just my two cents.
Absolutely, but then, the thread itself is a bit pointless, and pedantry is a pastime on HN :)

I agree, in practical terms you're counting two things - pennies and pounds. You need a zero for the pennies counter before you need a two for the pounds counter for sure.

But you don't count 'I have one hundredth of a pound, I have one fiftieth of a pound, I have three hundredths of a pound, I have a twenty-fifth of a pound' and so on.
>my HP 3458A can do a small handful of 8.5 digit DCV measurements per second.

I thought they had like 100k samples a second. Is it really sufficient for 8.5 precision?

Edit: perhaps measurement should be confined only to relative finish between the participants, e.g. finish within 1ms should be considered the same (regardless if they fall in the same hundreds of a second bucket)
They go out of their way to qualify that remark:

> There are also works by Laura Esquivel and Gabriel García Márquez, who would likely be read as Latinx from the perspective of U.S. racial logics, and Kahlil Gibran, who would likely be read as Middle Eastern or North African from the same perspective.

"read as .. from the perspective of .." is different from "identifies as"
You earn the coin continuously for proving that you still have the disk full of random data. It isn't a once-off thing.
Hmmm ... from a person living in an European city where the city planners prevent buildings higher than 4 storeys ...
Which the refutation makes clear: it's not about intelligence, because a sufficiently powerful intelligence will just outwit its objective function in the most efficient way possible (which is closer to "porn" than "destroy the Earth").

Grey goo is powerful not because it can outwit, but because it has so much brute force. On the other hand, intelligence is closer to efficiency of action: not requiring exponential time to solve something that's NP-complete, for instance.

I don't think you can translate computing power like you do (a crypto miner ASIC handles a lot of bits per second, but zero FLOPS as it's all integer math; a nuclear bomb is a self-propagating reaction that alters the mass equivalent of lots of bits, but zero FLOPS).

But apart from that, I agree. And I just think the "beware AI, it will become so smart that it turns into the sorcerer's apprentice" fear is misguided, because it focuses on the wrong thing. It sure makes a good narrative though! That's why it's so popular.
Or, say, your Samsung washing machine detects on your home network your Bosh fridge and try to use any vulnerability to brick it (and the fridge tries to brick the washing machine too).
Appliance war...

If people know this, it would be a incentive for consumer to buy all from the same brand.
If all manufactures knows this, they would need to pay more attention to security (or at least resilience).

Not sure what/who wins in the end
>Ok, so what is there really to disrupt?
Onboarding a new person into an existing discussion
It has to be considered that "the left" has been structurally divided in three parties (Lab, LibDem, Greens) for most of this period, which is a cardinal sin in the British system.

The right had fewer splits, and arguably none of them is comparably structural.
The data was retrieved by mass-upvoting unpublished documents and using an obscure GraphQL feature to extract fields that aren't part of the explicit interface.

I don't think you could do any part of that while assuming it's intended as normal use.
I think this would might better with a slight perspective transformation, at least for some effects - sometimes the 3d is hard to appreciate.

Also once you drag manually there is no way to put it back into auto-rotate mode. It would be great if there was a bit of momentum when you drag - it should carry on at the speed you dragged it.
In England you can write almost anything you like, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Walker, which resulted in a "not guilty" verdict but lots of trouble and expense for the writer.
>Extensions are not the answer, they lack dignity

It's amazing the kind of opinions you'll chance upon on the interwebs...
If I am not a minor now, when would I become one?
select all, it's kind of a blue mode ;)
I'm beginning to get serious crackpot vibes from your comments. Why is it surprising that looted tombs after thousands of years don't contain bodies? (Even though for example the presumed mummy of Djedkare Isesi was found in his pyramid, so "no bodies were found in any of them" is simply a lie.) What has gold and copper have to do with working hard stones? What is it with the Great Pyramid blocks? They are far from the largest blocks manipulated in prehistory.

> Is it not more reasonable to conclude Khufu simply performed maintenance on the outer casings?

No, it's not.

> A 20 year project with a 200 men crew to polish outer casings seems about right to me.

Nobody claims the pyramids were built by 200 people. Egypt had a population of over a million at the time, with a few hundred thousand of that population being seasonally bored farmers available for construction projects.
Makes sense – Google Sheets is a great tool. No problem!
Well, having a mask in a packed train is probably better tgan no mask, so it makes some sense, when there is no alternative. (is home office enforced?)

But I get your point. People doing collective things is not necessarily good. "Hey everyone, lets go to war" Ok.
Now you're just not making any sense. If you define competition as being necessarily unconstrained, then any competition with rules is not competition. A foot race where you have to stay within your lane isn't competitive. A football match where you're not allowed to maim your opponents is not competitive. Weight classes aren't competitive. I don't understand your reasoning.

Your response to 2) is a non sequitur. If what you really care about is competition, then who cares if the outcome is dystopian? Are you denying that Amazon is interally competitive?
It is pretty impressively thorough. I was wondering half way through if it was done by a hobbyist, which would have been remarkable. It’s done by a PhD candidate and a Postdoc, both in Information Science. Still impressive, but explains how they could manage the time to build such a detailed and expansive essay.
The average price of mobiles is $317 currently, which means the median price is quite a bit lower. https://www.statista.com/statistics/788557/global-average-se...

More importantly, though, the average console game is 50 bucks, while the average mobile game is free.
Class enemy is defined in socio-economic terms rather than purely social (which are even hard to define). Responding to your irony on "virtue" - there are certain pre-defined aspects of one's economic activity on others, for example if you are living off by owning private property and interest from this - your interested are naturally against the interest of people you are dealing with. This simple concept seems very hard to comprehend.
"The Fall of Public Man" argues that we actually used to be more political and had to "put our cards on the table" so to speak. This would be as opposed to now, where we are very much able to hide our positions if we so please.

I don't know what polite circles would be, but I suppose some sort of aristocracy? Certainly gentile society in 1780s in France were not scared of expressing heavy political discourse in public. Nor were the rich Romans.

Edit: And just to be clear. Rich people may perhaps only speak politics with their closest friends, but they certainly act politically with the use of their capital. Imitating them by shutting up has no point and is detrimental to a democratic society.
Agreed! When reading late at night (in the bedroom, for example), it’s jarring to switch from a site that has proper dark mode to HN.
I can understand some of the pushback, because at the start ”dark mode” felt mostly like a fad, but in low ambient light conditions, it really makes reading much easier and thus brings quite a bit of value.
Of course it takes a bit of work to do it well, but that’s the case for all UX, and we don’t just ignore UX because ”ugh… work”
I have a cheap Chinese-made doorbell with eight tune settings. The first is Fur Elise, and the traditional "ding dong" is number eight. Any time the power goes off it resets to number one. Needless to say I have given up clicking the button and resigned to my fate as a Fur-Elise-Doorbell-Person.
Also came here to make the same suggestion.

A configurable perspective transform would be brilliant.
You need a smartphone anyway. Console is the third computing device you'll buy (if at all).
These kind of rants have gone really old for me, like the person is stuck in 2009 at the golden age of Pitchfork/Vice/Hipster blogs... music elitism/criticism.
I still nod in disbelief when i see people unlocking with faceid. Apple may be privacy conscious, but they made face recognition cheap and ubiquitous. The pervasive use of face recognition should be considered a mark of a prison state, a country where people don't trust each other and it is only held together under the watchful eye of the prison guards.
This is my bread and butter; and honestly, the entire issue is engineering (or lack thereof). That is not that you have bad engineering, but more the oversight into the level of engineering is where things fall over. The article notes specific example of "low-bid" contractors demanding change notices. That isn't a function of a low bid contractor, that is an issue with the specifications and quality of engineering they are building too. A lot of the issues the US faces are related to soil conditions! Nowhere in the article is there a note that soil conditions are the biggest factor in tunneling costs. When we back up a little too, large infrastructure in the US is very political. The government doesn't deal with "project management" to ensure a project comes in on time and budget, they deal with yearly budget allocations - thats it! So the entire management ethos on public works is so drastically different you can't even compare. Anyway, stoked to see the discussion about construction here.
So .. is this like FileCoin, where people provide storage services and are rewarded, or is it a proof-of-waste scheme?
Somewhat amazing that this can’t be determined reliably. As far as physics problems go it seems reasonably tame compared to other challenges out there
I want you to give me all your money. I also want it in bitcoin. As soon as possible.
Because they'd all gang up on the tourist if he'd asked for his money back.
This is why spouting stats to make a point is dangerous, murky water. Tread carefully.

Stats can give us quantitative views but give no opinion on the qualitative view.
It does make you perceive life as less precious because the constant struggle creates a negative association with everything. Suicidal ideation seems to be a natural progression for long-term poverty.

The observation about falling for scams is spot-on. Nowadays you don't even have to be very poor to find yourself in this situation. Opportunities are so rare that you cannot pass up any opportunity at all, if there is even 10% chance that it's not a scam, then it could be the best opportunity of your life... I'm not even talking about lottery, getting a decent paid job can feel like a lottery when you don't have any money.
Same, it's pretty great. Unfortunately it's suffering from some bitrot and the internal browser usually works for only about 50% of the articles.
> USENET is another one, but well out of favor. Fact is, someone could spiff USENET up and it could very easily come back.

Reddit?
As a new father reading this at 02:49pdt, I second this idea.
Very interesting. Thanks for that link.
Dark mode is a "gateway feature" to more useless stuff.
> You just can't compare the two.

You just did.

I was responding to the claim that Telegram wasn't providing a protocol or ability for developers to author their own clients.
Better Not Awaken Anything in Me: Ted Lasso
The shape of the curves of the spokes doesn't depend on the speed. If you take the picture of the wheel, and fix the aspect ratio so that it is circular, then the spokes will have a curve independent of the speed of the wheel. Speed determination is purely based on the aspect ratio of the entire wheel.

To reason on why this might be true - consider that the bottom of the wheel is stationary, and the top of the wheel is moving at twice the speed. This is the case regardless of the speed of the wheel. If you rolled the wheel past the camera really slowly, the entire wheel would be stretched out horizontally, but the spokes would all be in the same arrangement.

The reason for this is that the camera is a fixed position line scan where the variable is time only. If we switch to thinking about standard video cameras with a rolling shutter, then these have a line scan where the variable is time and space - that is, the camera samples a scan that is moving at a known speed. If you have a video with a camera like this of helicopter blades, for instance, then you can determine the blade rotation speed from a single frame. But with this finish camera, that doesn't work.

So, to determine speed, the best possible action is to pick two points on the rigid body that is moving, and time how long it takes to pass the recording line. The further apart these points are, the more accurate the average speed determination will be. The trade-off for this is that the speed measurement will be the average between the time the first point and the second point passes the recording line, and we are only interested in the average speed at the point the front of the bike passes the line.

What we can show however, as pointed out elsewhere[0], is that one bike was in front of the other when the front of the wheel, the hub of the wheel, and the back of the wheel passed the recording point. When the back of the wheel passed the recording point, the front of the wheel definitely passed the actual finish line, so assuming the two wheels are the same size then the front of that wheel passed the finish line before the other one.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978621
What kind of new features one would expect from a smartphone OS?

There are brands other than computer hardware who play the product longevity, hard to understand why it's rarely the case for electronics. Innovation is not a valid excuse.

In my view, the problem stems from software vendors doing agreements with hardware vendors to use obsolescence to put pressure on consumers. The difficulty is about proving that those products are designed like this.
If I choose to buy a company the price will adjust upwards as well. The centralization of shares in a system does not change the fact that coins and commodities underlie the same market principles.

> It's highly unlikely you could sell $1T worth of BTC without driving the price massively downwards.

Same goes for any stock.
I'm going to be honest, ethicalsystems.org couldn't scream "bad faith actor" to me harder if it had a high-shouldered leather office chair, a facial scar, and a grumpy white cat.

Own your ideology or don't.
I'm assuming it's journalism being biased towards certain political factions.

I can't comment on other countries, but this is definitely true for the UK. If you look at the top 10 newspapers in terms of circulation (which, AFAIK, are also the biggest online news providers) there is little objective journalism there. It's plain political propaganda for the most of it.
I just use package.json scripts as entrypoints to custom JS scripts. Make is a build tool, not a meta-shellscript format; I wish its dependency tracking was unbundled into a separate tool.