skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not favoring any religion, but the absence of mythology and superstitions. Isn't religion and all magical beliefs against HN science and intellectual-first curiosity? If not, wouldn't that reveal HN has an inconsistency and may not be summoning the courage to say "All kinds of deity worship is an ancient holdover from before the scientific method"?
Super interesting read. I wish there was a 2020/21 version of this article.
Animals poo and pee. Their feces increases nitrogen levels in ground. Which, if done en masse, is terrible for the soil. Look at the problems The Netherlands is facing. Veluwe is deteriorating.
Top budget-friendly European cities for digital nomad founders
What's the problem? They have both "Sign in" and "Sign up" next to each other. Same color, opacity and the only difference being that there's a border around "Sign up".
I really love seeing laser products without any eye safety features. Especially weird when it has range of 120 cm. Why not to use simple and cheap ultrasound sensor without eye safety problems?
Was that in capital bold letters on the product package ?

In the EU, EULAS that are either too long or too hard for normal people to read are not enforceable.

Also if you bought it, its yours and you can do whatever you want with it, like resell it (and Apple is being sued for not allowing users to resell AppStore apps..).

Also, the EU is going to ship a right to repair law that will force companies to make sure their products can be repaired after support ends. And that includes software. So any mac that apple sells will need to be fully usable / repairable / etc. just for the case that apple goes out of business.
Like eBay asking over and over for me to trust the site for payment transactions. No, no. I have a separate paypal account with 2fa enabled rather than giving you my credit card for a reason. Asking 1,000 times will never change my answer, but eBay remains ever hopeful.
> And at some point, the technical skills of the company become negative. And what does that mean? That your company knows so little about what it does that if you would ask a random person on the street for advice on the thing that your company makes, they are more likely to provide correct answers than the people that actually work for the company.

This is a scary thought, but one that is regulated by capitalism and economics. Sometimes it's cheaper to hire smart people when needed, rather than keep people around just for their knowledge...
Salesforce was brought in by many sales teams, initially, because the internal systems were too slow to write and the sales teams could just setup salesforce and get going!
It's highly improbable that your heartburn was caused by the fat in a single avocado. An average Hass fruit weighs 140g and thus contains about 23g of fat, and most of this is unsaturated. You'd consume about the same amount of fat if you'd eat a single slice of bread with butter and cheese.
Hey it’s Arthur the c++ blogging pumpkin guy
I will definitely try that again, with the dose you suggested. :-)
Does that work for you? Meditating?

Do you have any more specific advice you'd want to give someone who would like to be at peace with the thought of it?
Telecom companies could have been the best speech recognition companies out there. Instead they did nothing until recently. Your perspective lacks imagination.
I wanted to use Geojango and Postgis, the framework for GIS apps. I chose Cloud Run, since it allows me to install system packages in container, can scale down to zero, can scale up to meet demand. But I had to mess with Docker etc. I wonder if a much simpler PHP stack can absorb 5-10 RPS without an autoscaling containerized setup, be cheaper than a VPS and can still interact with Postgis in a concise way as Geodjango. I wonder if I'm pragmatic or wasting massive effort.
>Why do we insist that we are moving around the sun, and not the other way around if everything is relative?

Try to express the trajectories relative to earth of other planets in our solar system and you will quickly understand why we use a heliocentric model.
> 270 mW/m^2 would still be way more than any known biological system could sustain, right?

It's negligible compared to our sun. All this from the top of my head (so double check if you really care ;) but our sun in winter at surface level is roughly about 100W/m^2 and in summer about 1kW/m^2.
Make no mistake: Google could have page metrics used in search ranking years ago. The reasons they introduce these now isn't because of the kindness of hearts or because they changed their minds.

Most likely (one, or some, or any of these reasons):

- there's a potential court battle regarding AMP, and Google wants to get ahead

- publishers are leaving the platform

- there are new advertising opportunities that bring as much money to Google, or more, than AMP (or are better than potentially losing money on courts and to publishers leaving)
"Chinese astronomers recently published research on 591 high-velocity stars in our galaxy [2, 3], and 43 of these were hypervelocity stars, moving at relativistic speeds and destined to eventually escape the Milky Way entirely."

All of those stars have velocities < 1000 km/s relative to the Milky Way, which is less than 1/3 of one percent of the speed of light. Calling that "relativistic" is just hyperbole.
> It's an AI problem now, to make sense of the data.

Not a neuroscientist, but it seems like the problem is more involved than just training a DL model on a data. We need detailed maps of the brain before we put any electrodes in it. Meanwhile, full mouse brain map is likely a decade away [0]. Humans have a bigger brain, imagine how long it’d take. It’s just a lot of manual labor which takes incredibly long time. Keep in mind that you also need to map thousands, if not millions of brains to model population heterogeneity.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02208-0
How can we stop all the flag killing on HN? It's 90% censorship.
I wonder sometimes, what if we focus on producing native JS VM hardware, would it perform same as or better than WASM? Let's run everything on JS.
I really wish we had a more robust solution to the “free vs paid” problem where you can trust the free solutions don’t do anything nefarious or shady. Maybe this is already the ideal model and there’s always going to be some downsides, but I long for the days when some filecoin-esque or subsidy option is available.
Doesn't that mean that they're not deciding what to keep feeding us, but rather that we are?

Not exactly. Think about fast food. You are genetically programmed to enjoy fatty, sugary, salty foods because these were hard to come by back in the day. Now they are easy and companies push them on us, by exploiting this evolutionary development in a harmful way.

Similarly all your social instincts like FOMO are baked in, and Facebook targets them ruthlessly.
Another entry for the Google Graveyard.

Kind of depressing when you think of all the money and engineering hours that went into trying to make websites work with AMP that could have been spent on just making their existing code less shitty...
> it is far more interesting than 90% of the stuff a lot of your FAANG companies are spending R&D dollars on

Yup. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
My objection to this phrase is that it is tautological. By definition, there's never a time when you should be using the wrong tool for the job!

It is good only if the phrase is followed by a discussion about why tool X is right for the job.
Thanks for the suggestion re:screen time - I have attempted this multiple times, and even got my partner to set the passcode. However I just bypass it and reset it via forgot passcode and my Apple ID password
Then again, probably most of them wouldn't have bothered anyway given what the rest of the mobile web landscape looks like.
Yeah, what ever happened to Create account/Register and Log in?

Why have two very different options with almost the same label?
Wow, had never heard of them!

I found this that ships carefully packed boxes of unripe ones (within US only, so no good for me.. but maybe someone in the US might like to try this?):

https://mimiavocado.com/2014/11/does-bacon-avocado-taste-lik...
Yep, even worse on mobile. You have to open the hamburger menu and then scroll 4+ screen heights down (on a OnePlus 8 Pro) just to find "Login".
We should all throw a massive party to celebrate the death of AMP
It’s in a conceptual prototyping stage, jeez. Criticism is fine but you gotta let the bud flower, come to fruition and then put regulations. That’s how literally every single world changing technology is invented. If Elon’s ideas don’t work out, fine. It was a boondoggle on his own dime, what’s anyone’s business in slamming down on the efforts?

Risk taking is amazing. I’m not sure if I want to live in a risk averse world where ideas are nipped in the bud by CEOs of GE and Honeywell.
Users have always been able to disable IDFA tracking before iOS 14. It’s just that with iOS 14.5,

1. Technically, apps will have to prompt the users to enable it.
2. Policy-wise, Apple says that when disabled, apps should no longer track users. They can’t enforce this of course.
I'd say they could if wasn't the EU parliament, but that would be a very bad move as the EU parliament would hit them harder if they tried that.
It in response to a post in which the author said they wanted to revisit joining Neuralink because hopefully now their culture is more in line with Musk’s public persona. And the post ended with praise for Musk’s projects.

That doesn’t read as “haters gonna hate” to me, but rather as a narrow criticism of just the one aspect of Musk’s businesses that was brought up.
You can wrap it in plastic and this is a non issue
i'd like a service that doesn't make me upload anything elsewhere, but serves the data directly from my computer. and only uses a server to help the sender and receiver find each other and potentially bridge the connection if a direct connection doesn't work.

bittorrent does that, but it is to much effort to create and share a torrent. i'd like to click or run a script "share this.file" and get back an URL with a key, which i can share by email. then the recipient clicks that link and downloads the file without needing any software except a standard browser.
I got it, and indeed if you read it at “talking speed” it works ok.

By the way, I also appreciated the post. I’ve been in similar situations in several occasions and never quite figured out how to avoid stigma and bad feelings for stepping on other peoples’ ego. I’ll give your technique a try
FreeSurfer: Open-source software for processing and analyzing brain MRI images
Yes, basically agree, i'm just saying that men are trying to avoid responsibility for their actions by behaving like a child. Im not saying this is right, it's just how people behave. Boys just do stupid things to avoid admitting defeat or losing face in front of the group, and these stupid things include disobedience, provocation or bullying.

The other direction is - if you can't go this path and have your way by forcing, then play a victim, accuse others of harming you, being bad abusers or bullies while maintaining you're innocent. This also removes your responsibility from the situation so why not.

And my perception is that women will more often go with strategy #2 while men would first try #1. Is it sexism? I dont know, i dont have the knowledge necessary to tell. Maybe ask divorce lawyers, they have many real world cases.
My point is that thesse kinds of behaviors are wired in humans and cannot be elliminated. You should identify bullying and harrasment at work but not by single incidents that always happen. If the negative behavior is repetitive, comes from the same person all the time then it's justified to call it abuse.
However most of the time it's not the devs making the decision on what needs to be done for a site.
Agree, I always use incognito/private mode and maybe that’s the reason I see this more often than others.
Ethereum is pioneering a new monetary policy with EIP 1559 (which is going live with Berlin fork this summer).

Under EIP 1559, each block will burn ETH — the amount of ETH burned increases as blocks fill up. The ETH burned can offset & exceed the ETH block issuance.

Over time, if ETH block space is full, the amount of ETH will decrease.
> On the other hand, fiddling with nature in this manner has never been good for anyone involved.

It’s also unnatural to live in mega-cities, fix your teeth and survive many infections. Also, surviving past childhood.
Thank you. I am undergoing CBT and Exposure Therapy for my contamination based OCD (this isn’t linked to the phone usage) however in times of anxiety caused by the compulsions I head straight for my phone, and will get into it any way possible
The USA was founded on the idea of limited government. It was very successful!

Government only gets bigger over time. Even early 20th century America had a tiny fraction of our budget and regulations today.
It's possible that in some fields, the PTO focuses on patents because so many of the innovations are patented.

But this doesn't fit my experience, having worked for well over a decade in Silicon Valley (first as a lawyer, and then as a founder). I could be wrong — this is just the sense I've gotten from talking with patent prosecutors at my old firm, and from talking with my outside counsel about our prosecution strategy.
Random Identity Generation in Linux
No Qt runtime is needed to run the (native) Android app (the needed libraries come with the APK of the app).
There is also no Qt runtime needed, if you run the Webassembly version inside a web browser. The full WASM binary is downloaded from the HTTP server.
Thanks for the suggestion I have turned on the grayscale filter, and I think it may dull my interest in the device
re:screen time - I have attempted this multiple times, and even got my partner to set the passcode. However I just bypass it and reset it via forgot passcode and my Apple ID password
Surely you're either joking or implying that 90% of the people live in poverty.
it'd be interesting to have data supporting or refuting this. sounds like a supply chain version of trying to restart a power grid after a complete black out of all generation
Why can't Google get a grip on rip-off ads?
I think slow vaccine rollout was caused more by logistics issues. It’s just not easy to produce billion doses on a whim.
I know of the drawbacks of the approach and wouldn't chose it for a lot of my projects, but I would say it is very scalable in those cases where I would. Put the DB on GitHub Pages for free along with your HTML/JS code and you can scale to whatever GitHub is willing and capable of delivering. Yes, your users might transfer way more data than needed but you pay nothing for it and do not have to maintain servers.

In the standard scenario for personal projects (not enterprise) I would have a small VPS/Dedicated server with a REST service running - that would be hugged to death immediately if a link would make it to some site like HN. And also, I completely share the experience of the Author that after a couple of years you have moved on, the VPS is dead etc and you don't want to invest time.

Again, before considering using solution, be sure to understand how it works and the resulting limitations or you will likely chose wrong.
IMO silent majority has pretty balanced view of him and just doesn’t care to participate in a holy war praising or hating on the guy. Social media and regular media bias towards the polar opinions, as with anything else.

History respects Edison, Jobs, Tesla, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Hughes for what the accomplished while acknowledging their individual flaws. I think Musk will be remember similarly. Depending how successful his ventures are over the coming century he might even be remembered more than any of them.
Here is my take on converting coordinates into 3 words: https://freews.org/location-to-w3w and the reverse: https://freews.org/w3w-to-location

This is based on Python code I found on a previous post about What3Words: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196402
Thank god and I am honestly surprised it took this long. If it was ever purely about page speed (which we all know it wasn’t but play along) then given the choice between “analyzing a one-time metric per page” and “inventing a new parallel HTML, CSS, and JS standard and still analyzing pages for usage of this standard,” I think it seems pretty obvious the former is better in about every way. Site-specific functions like login/auth still work, there’s only one URL for a given page (not to mention the countless amp.google.com/blah links scattered about forever now), less caching required on Google’s part, and you put the power of the web to express yourself back in the hands of the sitemasters. I don’t know what possessed Google to think they knew page design better than publishers but AMP pages are seriously ugly. Good riddance!
> AMP also came with the unfortunate requirement that publishers let traffic sources such as Google cache their content and serve it from their domain, such as google.com.

At least with Chrome, one related performance advantage will remain, given AMP pages will remain preloaded from Google results pages, whereas non-AMP pages won't be.

Why is this related? On mobile, Google preloads AMP pages in the carousel that are in the Google cache, which will obviously give them a page-load time advantage. Why not do that for more sites? Avoiding third-parties (i.e., third-party v. the Google results page) from being able to detect when they appear in search results and getting data (like IP) from the user regardless of whether or not they click on the result.

Is this insurmountable? Can you outperform it? Sure, but it's inevitably going to be harder as a result.
Have you seen any data on whether or not user sophistication does indeed outpace dishonest tactics?

In my humble experience, the opposite is true, and the gap ever widens
In Rust you can just add `#![deny(missing_docs)]` to your code and compilation will fail if you have any undocumented items.

Of course that can lead to developers just adding a single line comment with the name of the type ... but it's still a nice feature.
I might be mistaken, but isn't this how some BBQ propane tank exchanges are done?
Technically true, but outside of crises interest and inflation are heavily correlated. Have a look at e.g. the historical federal funds rate: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate and historical inflation: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi (you have to set both to "max" manually).

In other words: You won't get high interest without high inflation.
Lotus notes was single process bound. I worked at a company that I believe is still using it today, really sucked when you started a search in one tab and then the whole program became unresponsive until it completed the search.
I think it's something like Holy Emperor. Or maybe some special type of volt like the Redbull energy drink.
Sarcasm aside, there are a lot of mistakes made by electronics engineers when they use a "power source" of 5V or current source of 12V. Details are tough.
I am not sure, that the interface tech with brain invasion is the best route going forward in the space. There is work on non-invasive alternatives, that promise sooner results for some use cases, e.g. https://www.mindportal.com
Whenver i am trying to share a news article with a friend, and Google throws up the AMP page at me, I take the time to select the original article link and share that.

Websites deserve their own traffic, not Google's.
So cool! What else good is missing? Maybe customer service like chat (Drift etc) or CRM (free tiers)?
Great suggestions here thank you. The anxiety caused by my OCD is so great that I will find my way into my phone, and getting it back to “normal” ASAP - screen time I just reset passcode, or override via ‘forgot passcode’ feature. I’ve used my phone as a crutch for my anxiety for soo long that in times of “need” or even when things are going great and I think I can allow myself a bit of freedom with the device. It always ends up running away from me
You are correct.

However, one could use this approach: download as usual, and in a streaming fashion process the data and if it's a progressive JPEG, you can close the connection before you have received everything; and then you can cache the prefix and later download the rest if needed.

Fast clients will just swallow the whole file, while slow clients would be able to benefit from it.

It wouldn't work for pipelined HTTP connections though without cancelling the whole pipeline, so maybe not a very practical solution given the performance benefit that already gives. And HTTP/2 maybe doesn't support cancelling a transfer either, so.. ?

Maybe a direct "Accept" or "Prefer" header to indicate that it's enough to send just something useful for an icon would be a more ideal solution, but it would require server-side support.
Interesting idea. What do you imagine would happen to the global health correspondent when there's not a pandemic going on, or the war correspondent when there's not a war going on?
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I notice ConEmu sometimes display my Linux terminal (connected via Cygwin's SSH) strangely after being resized, I would try to edit a file in Joe and trying to navigate would just update the 1st line of the console. I could scroll down in a less window but going up garbled the display...
Ask HN: Blog article linked here about good vs. bad developer processes?
A top-rated comment was posted here just a few months ago linking to a blog where an experienced consultant was comparing "successful" versus "unsuccessful" approaches.

He used a style of writing like: "At Successful Org, Suzy comes in every morning to check the logs from the live production system."

The key differences he mentioned were daily check-in, daily prod rollout, direct access to prod logs, automated workflows... versus multi-week delays, scheduled CAB meetings, manual rollout, etc...

I thought I had bookmarked it, but I guess not.

Did anyone else bookmark the article?

I could rewrite it from memory, but the original made the point very clearly and that's hard to reproduce...
If I had to guess, this doesn’t need to be much more powerful than the lasers at supermarket checkouts. Never heard of eyepro for those.
"We use a calendar.....that nobody else uses": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
> The potential is there with the electrode technology he's built. It's an AI problem now, to make sense of the data. Supervised learning mostly. You can measure what the brain does when certain things happen.

This is an unproven hypothesis. Since we do not know how computation actually happens in the brain, we can't say for sure that electrical signals can be matched to the actual computations happening, even if they are correlated. It is still possible that the electrical signals we are measuring are just byproducts, and that the real compatation happens at a chemical level or inside each individual neuron or even in microtubules as Penrose believed.

The nice part is that this means that neuralink's attempts could be extremely useful to our understanding of the brain even if they fail - it would actually be an amazing discovery if they could show that you CAN'T deduce the brain's intent from observing electrical activities.

We do know for sure though that you can use electrical signals to interface with motor neurons, so at least improvements in prosthetics should be something that neuralink can realistically deliver.
We in purgatory can communicate with each other it seems.
Yes, that's pretty much the definition of incorrect.
No. I'm saying Google is able to offer more than an upstart company with no VC backing in part because it, like everyone else, receives IP protection in exchange for publishing methods. Sergey and Larry weren't born rich.

By the way, I see you comment once every 3-5 years. Are you an alt?