skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People choose to pay their taxes, therefore people want taxes. People choose to accept EULAs before they use software, therefore people want EULAs. People choose to stay with spouses with whom they occasionally fight, therefore people want fighting in their lives. People choose to navigate complex civil bureaucracies in order to get things done, therefore they want bureaucracy.

Or, people can suffer through a certain amount of bullshit in order to get to their goals. The word you're looking for is "instrumental" -- there's your missing interpretation.

At some point in the past ten or so years, the cultural discourse has devolved to such an extent that people cannot think even one move ahead. Zero tolerance manicheanism rules everything now.
What I'm saying is why choose a skin tone at all? If you used the default then there's no room for interpretation.
Show HN: Simple physics WebXR audio experiment
Are you wanting to remove class attributes from tags, or remove tags by class?
A quick experiment to play around with the WebXR API (currently working only in Chrome Android 81+).

It's impressive how it is now possible to build full-blown AR apps straight into the browser, using just frontend stack. We built this using three.js in just a few days for fun, and the whole website with 3d models and sounds is ~15mb.

Source code: https://github.com/oio/bouncing-band.
that doc dollars is interesting, propublica does good work.
Good question, but I didn't try (I should have). After some simple debugging to understand the nature of the problem (is it a problem with my home equipment or external problem?), I just straight up called the ISP.
Sure, but this seems way more space-friendly. I don't know about the available space in Japan, but I'd have nowhere to fit a boat that only holds ten people, and I live so close to the water I can see it from my window.

Edit: I've also seen five drunk people capsize a dingy boat just trying to board it. So I'd hate to take my chances with anything that could capsize in a tsunami, where fast moving debris could crush or trap you the second you hit the water.
Which of these is isolated to agriculture pollution, but not industrial pollution?
Even in the super unlikely case that we institute a (much needed) carbon tax, I just can't see nuclear ever being competitive in a free market. By "competitive" I mean no insurance subsidies.
Having been on HN long enough, what I look for during any idea/startup launch is polarization and intensity of viewpoints. If people are reacting to the idea (for better or worse), it means its had an impact. Those are often the products that find success. A no-comment launch is far worse than one riddled with criticism.

IMO HN's classic "skepticism" is usually just engineering nerd insecurity projected outwards, with enough techno-jargon to maintain plausible deniability. Folks feel threatened by a great idea so it's safer to find some way to tear it down. Not to dismiss all feedback as projected insecurity of course.
> How would you recommend which emoji color I should pick?

Think for yourself, pick what you want to pick
That is the most stupid product I've seen.
Local jurisdictions have to compete with each other. If one town has a 40% tax rate because it's giving half the money to the mayor's brother and the town down the road does not, everybody starts to move out of that town and the economic decline ousts the corrupt politician. When the same thing happens at the federal level (with the money going to Lockheed and drug companies), "move to Canada" is a lot harder than "move 5 miles to the other side of the town border where you're already still a citizen."

This doesn't imply that small governments are never corrupt -- you can certainly find examples -- but it keeps the corruption in check. It adds vote with your feet as a means to avoid corrupt governments.

And the idea that everybody is paying attention to what happens at the federal level is contrary to evidence. Remember "we have to pass the bill to see what's in it"? It's too easy for lobbyists to sneak language into multi-thousand page bills that nobody is ever going to read before it becomes law. Whereas at the local level you shouldn't have multi-thousand page omnibus bills that have to address every edge case for everyone everywhere.

It's also easier for local muckrakers to prevent corruption when they find it, because federal corruption tends to have coalition support. The F-35 is a boondoggle but the people in the districts who receive the trillion+ dollars in tax money are very in support of the program and you're not going to convince them to cut it because the money comes from outside their districts. That doesn't happen at the local level -- the recipients are in the same local jurisdiction as the taxpayers -- so once anyone identifies the waste you can build support to eliminate it.
> but what if you want to add a database, a cache, a logging service?

I... just add it. How do I add it in heroku where everything is "just create an app and push it" and everything is separate "dynos" (whatever that is), each with different pricing, storage, bandwidth etc.
I don't understand what you're saying. Do you mean because I used the word "think" that I meant "assume"?
I'm writing solutions in a couple of languages. It takes time, but helps to solidify concepts. Writing Python in a way that is compatible with statically typed languages doesn't take advantage of what Python offers but my run results lead me to believe perform better for that reason.
This is so common, we even have ethics training at our mega tech corp and we are supposed to report any such activities. A lot of time kickbacks are subtle though like unpaid internship at vendor for CTO's niece. Or sometimes it is a bit more bold like a consulting contract that vendor need to sign up with CTO's brother's firm etc.

The most obvious and legal form of kickbacks is just regular sales process that involve a lot of nice dinners or even trips to conferences on nice resorts. One of my old boss owned his company and it was so normal for him to go out for 4 hour lunches with clients.
Which, by the way, has a plagiarized premise from an older book
> Also, even worst-case scenario like Chernobyl ultimately wasn't that bad.

The problem with statements like this is that we don't actually know what a worst case scenario truly looks like. The day before Chernobyl, the worst-cast scenario, by definition, not as bad as Chernobyl. Similarly, the engineers who built Fukishima were aware of tsunamis and earthquakes and built the plant to withstand what was considered the worst case scenario at the time. Then an even worse case scenario happened.
The question is does this model work for potential civilization-ending technologies like AI, nano, geo-engineering or gene-editing? Should research that has a very-very low (but non-zero) chance of ending us all be regulated? Would that regulation even lower the chance?
So did Trump make any improvements on this score? Not from what I’ve seen. It may be more no shooting wars lead to degradation.
This is a significant pain point. I'm involved with a number of SaaS companies and I can see this being very helpful for them. Nice work.
Really? Just spend the billions to build them directly and cut out the bloat.
Pfizer earned $3.5B on Covid-19 vaccine in first quarter
Exactly, people who bring this up don't understand the different one-off reactor designs used in maybe a handful of vessels, or that the Navy reactors are meant to go without refueling for up to 25 years. They are also made by third-party contractors, not hand-built by the Navy itself.

The complexity, capital costs and liability risks make commercial "small nuclear" unfeasible. It's "go big or go home".
Is Tesla the best example? This was from an American plant:
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/314871-tesla-model-y-own...
I've hated every Telco I've ever used, except the first. The first was a small local cell provider that kept my prepaid cell phone in service for months after my funds expired. Since then I've been plagued with terrible service (customer and signal), random outages, near fraudulent billing practices, sketchy offers, high pressure sales in stores, overage fees, arbitrary fees, continuously increasing bills, etc.
Rarely does a week go by without me wishing (for a few seconds) those js methods were all lazy.
In the absence of a carbon tax, the next best approach is a subsidy that only applies to non CO2-emitting technologies funded from general taxation.

Since there is not sufficient political consensus for the former in the US, the latter is a good interim solution.
> when they cut corners for profit and pollute with wild abandon leaving us with Superfund sites

The military doesn't have a great track record on Superfund sites i.e:

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0...

However, I agree that at least the military has the culture that will follow orders if asked, and more importantly, it's the only government program that the US population is willing to put unchecked amounts of money towards.

As Reagan said: "trust, but verify".
That's awesome. Y'all are going to crush it, especially since I saw that lots of companies have an appetite for adopting new backends, especially dbs that can work in both on-prem & in cloud.
> it's just their rockets are smaller.

That's actually what's important here. We don't really care much about re-entry of things that burn up. We care if a giant hunk of metal lands on Earth. The Long March core stage is about ~7 times as massive as the Falcon 9 second stage.
> Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it.

We can only re-balance the power of manipulation through developing technology that values identity and transparency over fraud and misconduct (or social acceptance aka likes).

Currently, the economics behind misinformation are only feasible for a handful of institutions; and that unbalanced the power of acquiring knowledge online.

The Web has failed us as a technology, in the sense that its intention liberated knowledge to the people at first but then gradually pushed control over its discoverability and "trustworthyness" away from the people.
LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO
what could you possibly add to a debate that is altered by an emphasis your skin tone before you bring it up?
We too are also doing something similar. We've just started the move to timescale for real-time energy and sensor data from industrial assets. We have a single customer with about 10TB of data and growing from 2 years worth of real-time monitoring which is stored in a mixture of table storage and SQL. Timescale on PG seems like blessing for our future plans :)
We have come a long way since the RBMK reactors in use at Chernobyl. Generation III reactors are significantly safer than the older nuclear reactors. They are now passively safe, in that they shut themselves down without operator intervention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety
After trying various “spin bikes”, all others feel cheap compared to a Peloton. The production values and instructors are also the best, and IMO is one of the big selling points.

Having tried the Tread+, it was easily one of the best treadmills I’ve ever used that feels most like natural running.
What makes you think this is about anonymity? I would guess it's more about the author's identity and being represented in technological evolutions since we absolutely have the technology these days.
Totally agree with everything you said! Why are their Peloton brand Heart monitors so unbelievably shitty? And can you recommend a better shoe that works with the bike? I didn't come from the world of cycling so I didn't know anything about bikes before Peleton.
I've read plenty of books on Communism and agree with the GP

A couple recommendations: Road to Wigan Pier, written by a socialist, and The Gulag Archipelago, not written by a socialist
Chinese rocket is hurtling back to Earth after space station launch
Google search might be becoming less useful, but YouTube search is becoming more useful in my opinion.
I did write a physical journal for a couple of years (and tried to start last year again briefly), but it just takes so much time compared to digital. The year I wrote all digital I spent half the time but more than double the detail and word count (like the difference was ~45,000 words a year versus ~123,000 words a year). For the physical one I would spend up to 90 minutes a day sometimes (I can write 2-3k for a single day sometimes) and have terrible hand cramps afterwards.

And also as a safety measure I ended up transcribing the physical version to digital anyway.

Most of it is notes in regards to studying and coming up with my game designs, but there are also personal life events and last year, some pandemic commentary I included in part just to document parts of this crazy period of time I lived through.

2020 was actually a bad year for writing though, and I only wrote about 47,000 words total last year (and 2021 even worse, I've still only written a couple of entries for this year). Pandemic screwed up my morning 'Go to Starbucks and write in the diary while drinking coffee' habit.

But one thing I'm planning to do for the digital years is to (eventually) print out a copy via Lulu or something, so there's still a physical copy somewhere. Also my digital version is in Markdown plain-text on my Dropbox, so it's in the cloud and on every computer I've got.

Also eventually I'll probably burn that plus some video/board game files onto a gold archive disc, so it will have a decent chance at still being readable 100+ years in the future, assuming there are still means of reading optical discs.
But I don't think that actually is an honest statement of their motives. Many of Facebook's political enemies have active Facebook accounts, and use them to spread messages Facebook doesn't agree with.
What languages did you use on the ST? I cut my teeth on STOS, GFA BASIC and DevPac 2. Learning assembly language, which I was trying to use to write games, proved to be very useful when I later worked on embedded systems. Though I never managed to produce a properly playable game in assembler.
Which ones are those? As far as I can see, ALL “clean energy” has some trade offs.

Mining lithium is a horrible, polluting process that wastes tons of fresh water. One thing to put small quantities into phones and computers. Another to suggest that they should be used for all cars (unless the end goal is to have only the super rich driving cars).

Solar panels involve mining coal (so much more moving away from the coal economy) and quartz, and will pile up as toxic junk after 10 years or so.

Wind turbines can’t be repurposed after their useful and short (comparatively) life and will pile up as junk.

It’s not even a question of “don’t have catastrophic outcomes”, it’s a question of a slow-moving guaranteed catastrophic outcome, or the possibility of a fast catastrophic outcome.
This doc literally just says its bad because its bad, I don't see even an argument of harm here.
Just because it's a bad idea technically doesn't mean it can't be a business success. VHS beat Betamax.
Hi, I am a hydrologist. Would love to hear about what you have done using TimeScaleDB
Based on these numbers I’m almost surprised they were resistant to regulators calling for a recall in the first place because it put them in a bad PR position over only 2% of their units.
My understanding that is wind/solar are significantly cheaper than nuclear is on a cost basis. The costs required to build and safely dismantle nuclear plants are major cost contributors. The downside of course is lack of baseload, which nuclear can cover quite happily, albeit at a higher cost.
Let’s say I have a closure `fn() -> Option<T>`—how do I turn that into an Iterator? Maybe it’s possible with the stdlib and I’m just not familiar?

EDIT: I think this is it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27050861
I've been ardently pro nuclear for decades now.

> Renewables + batteries will NEVER supply enough energy

NEVER is a long, long time. We definitely need nuclear to step in for quite a while, but it's plausible that we can be completely renewable and non-nuclear some time in the future.
I’ve gotten some great use out of it, personally.
You are correct. And there’s other good research going on too, but people like this won’t hear it.
Show HN: Mezon Router is up to 699 times faster then Danny VanKooten Router
I know there's a huge "It depends",

But how much does a nuclear plant actually cost?
I'm not the parent poster, but I hear where their coming from.

I'm not visually impaired, just in need of bifocals; I zoom HN to 150% and it works fine.

But I am kinda surprised when I turn the zoom off. Even 25 years ago that text would have looked small to me.
Fully agreed on having that SQL experience guiding you on a totally reasonable solution.

However; our problem space is not high cardinality data; it more closely aligns to the first performance comparison with 10 devices and 10 metrics. The ease of getting high performance with pre implemented functions is great for us. Reliability is obviously a concern, and I can agree that if data is sacred, then choosing something built on Postgres is going to be a better thought.

Again, this is just our problem space; small scale deployments on many machines with no preexisting RDMS, low cardinality data, etc. I think it’d be a different story if we were huge, but for us, InfluxDB provides some seriously handy feature and is worth consideration if your problem is similar.
I lived in Fredericton for about 7 years and have been around the province a bit. The air in Moncton is definitely unusual. I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with it.
EU4 newest DLC with 7% rating because bugs
Believe it or not, I agree! But raising awareness and acknowledging that the information is readily available through the UI is not mutually exclusive.

After reading updates from both sides, I don't think Signal intended to deceive readers with this blog post, it just sounds like they jumped the gun. It seems like whoever authored the post doesn't understand Facebook's advertising tools all that well.

https://twitter.com/joeosborne/status/1389770672172318720
Yes by far. I've got the bike. It's well engineered, the software is good, the classes are good, and even though it's expensive, it's still cheaper than a gym membership for my wife and I. Would buy again.
Wasn’t that bad. Wow. Maybe in a Excel spreadsheet kind of way it wasn’t that bad but what a horrific experience for those involved - humans, animals and the environment.
Oh wow, yeah, I think that’s it! Thanks very much!
Hey at least it has a power dry toilet.
PlayCanvas is an amazing engine that is totally underrated.
Experts: CDC’s Summer-Camp Rules Are ‘Cruel’ and ‘Irrational’
There are some political ramifications to admitting that you use plutonium from civilian reactors to make nuclear weapons. It's possible that they're doing this without admitting it and that's the reason reactors that consume rather than produce plutonium are disfavored. But in that case you still don't have a "waste storage problem" -- you know what you're doing with the plutonium, you're just not admitting to it.

But I don't think the scale adds up for that. We don't need this amount of plutonium to make weapons, even if that's what we're doing with some of it. So still destroy the rest of it.
I think the essay that got Professor Hughes in trouble https://4w.pub/fantasy-worlds-on-the-political-right-and-lef... is good.
It's not clear to me how current market prices contain enough information to support or refute the assertion that renewables won't be able to supply enough for a hypothetical future where fossil fuels are no longer used even for transportation. I think you need to also demonstrate that renewable energy prices can remain low even when required to scale up significantly beyond current levels, and that we won't run out of locations amenable to cheap and easy deployment of wind, solar and hydro power.
Western companies in China succumb to Stockholm syndrome
Probably very little? Modern reactor designs do not have the same risk of catastrophic failure that older designs like the Fukushima plant had.
As others have mentioned, it does depend on what exactly you're defending against.

Preemptively opening the link as the sender will send a request to TikTok, but they're not really gaining any useful data there since you just watched the video, hit share (this is what they know so far), and now you opened the link that you had generated. So their database only learned that you shared a video with yourself, which you immediately opened.

The more valuable data is when various intended recipients open the link, allowing TikTok to associate you with them to serve more targeted videos based on implicit social graph, etc.

Moreover, opening the link yourself to get the "canonical url" protects yourself if you're sharing the link broadly since others can't obtain your name [and potentially more?] from the shortlink.

Now, if you're the recipient, there's not much you can do to avoid the tracking link, besides opening it up in as much of an anonymous environment as possible. But interestingly enough, I find the privacy threat greater to the sender. The sender has a TikTok account to aggregate data quite straightforwardly, unlike the recipient. The sender is also being associated with a number of recipients, vs. the recipient with only one sender, and again only through cookies, IP, or something of that sort.
What was he stealing from Netflix?
I agree with that. That is why there are "Billing Alarms" in big letters on the billing page. But that wasn't the point of the reply: the person above me was complaining that there's no way to tell what services are being billed, which is bunk.
> most obvious solution is to go back to enforced monogamy. Nothing repugnant about that...

And there it is. Yes, that stance is awful. Going back implies removing the right of women to choose who they partner with. Enforced monogamy removes the ability of folks to choose how many partners they have. And who gets to define 'monogamy' and who does the enforcement?

It also completely ignores the poly folks out there, or the folks who are not interested in long term relationships.

It's at best, a narrow and puritanical view of human sexuality.
I have writing samples from second grade.

My writing was much more legible then.
The emoji is literally named "Man in Business Suit Levitating" by the unicode consortium
The amusing bit about the controversy on this thread is that almost no one would agree to automatically add a footer to their messages that specifies their race, but that's sort of what this does and some people are actively advocating for it.
Ask HN: Reasons for missing mobile Firefox features?
The last three years I tried to take more care about my privacy. Can someone tell me the reason why the mobile Firefox app for iOS has such a limited set of privacy settings?

Example on the desktop:

I drop all cookies at the end of a browser session. Only a specific whitelist is kept (Google, Netflix, Facebook, and some more), but most of them are assigned to a container. And opening another website outside the container URL will get a fresh session.
> Thanks to white supremacy

How about "Thanks to Racists, what should not matter actually does matter quite a bit"
Yes, for ten years we should mine lithium in massive quantities and dump the toxic dirt into the waterways surrounding the mining sites.
This is great, thank you!

Setting a firm limit on radiation release ahead of time, rather than one based on economics like ALARA just seems like it would be far safer. The other examples also seem like they are bad regulations that don't help safety or construction either. Would be great to see if they could result in more efficient construction.
While there are a lot of folks using very low power on WSPR, there are also a lot on HF doing so with 100 watts, and even more in some cases.
Indeed, one of the best development experience for Web first development.