skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>In Europe pretty much nobody builds stick frame houses today.

Last time I checked UK is still in Europe, and that's how nearly all new houses are built here. I'm from "the continent" personally but when I mentioned to people having concrete floors they looked at me like I'm mad. It's just not done here. The exterior walls are however made from "air bricks" quite often. But nearly the entire internal structure will be just wooden frame.
If it doesn't actually block you, they are simply checking for consistency. If you do not provide a consistent DOB, they will know you're faking it and may block you later.
Supposedly COPPA.
I think this is mostly correct; although I personally wouldn't go as far to say that "racism is the air we breathe", but that's an unimportant detail.

I'm not saying there aren't problems; I just don't see the connection between something like this list and the actual problems, and I certainly don't see a good reason for some of the strong and bold claims that are made about it.
If you think laning is just about last-hitting I can see that you don't like it.
Date pickers and color pickers don't have to be consistent across desktop/tablet/mobile/kiosk/etc. They just have to be consistent across sites, but on the same device.

On Firefox, the date picker is good and I can easily navigate to a year from muscle memory. The same wouldn't work on mobile, so they have different UI and controls. I don't want to use iOS style date pickers on my Android, or the other way around just for consistency.

Many custom date pickers are sluggish and has bad UX, and adds a lot of extra validation complexity with pseudo elements.
Their junior engineers are usually good. Technical interviews doesn't predict management ability though so their management hirings has the same problems as every other company. I don't think there is any large company that has good management culture on average.
How about raising wages to attract employment? Where is the invisible hand when you need it? Is it a workforce shortage or a pay rate shortage?
I take your point, but maybe a more nuanced phrasing is that I don't want to check arduous parts of my safety equipment on every ride. For example, I might bend down and check that my brake pads are still OK before each ride, but I'm not going to unscrew the brake fluid reservoir to check for again or bleed the lines. I do accept that this airbag has a pretty straight-forward indicator that one would easily check before riding, and so it's fair enough to expect a user to check it each time.

However - no one can remotely disable my brakes over the air! So I can get to a position of not worrying about them much. In practice, I probably check the pads for wear every month or so. And that's good enough because I have an expectation that they're not going to change by themselves overnight.

With this airbag, the capability is there for someone to disable it without me noticing. I 100% agree they're not likely to do this intentionally. But it is under software control, as is the warning indicator, etc, etc. It's possible. And it's my life at stake.

Also, re #2 - my phones and computers aren't safety-critical, and no, my car does not have remote functionality. It's one reason I don't drive a car with over-the-air upgrade or CANBUS access functions. The safety benefits of more modern cars do not outweigh the added risks of turning them into internet-of-shit devices, for me.
> According to the myth of the Klamath Indians, Llao, the chief of the Below World, standing on Mt Mazama, was battling Skell, the chief of the Above World, who stood on Mt Shasta in California, about a hundred miles away (Clark 1953). They hurled rocks and flames at each other, and darkness covered the land. The fight ended when Mt Mazama collapsed under Llao and hurled him back into his underworld domain. The large hole that was created then filled up to form Crater Lake.

> This sounds like an eye-witness account of such an eruption, and it undoubtedly is, for Indian artifacts have been found buried in the Mazama ash. The eruption has been radiocarbon-dated to about 6500 years ago on the basis of Indian sandals found in the ash, but had no datable materials been found, this myth alone would have served to date the eruption as post-Pleistocene, because this part of the world was first inhabited by people who crossed the Bering Land Bridge and migrated down through Alaska and Canada into the northwestern United States.

Geomythology: geological origins of myths and legends https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/specpubgsl/273/1/1.fu...
Stopping the Hijackers Who Want Your Cloud
Ah yeah. The Orisa change was actually mostly irrelevant to the meta at the time. The change that actually had an impact was the 2nd of 2 big Hammond nerfs.

At the time, teams were running Hammond/Sigma/Tracer/Echo mostly. Depending on the map, Rush (Rein/Dva/Mei/McCree/Lucio) was also viable. After the change in the patch you referenced, Hammond was no longer optimal so Sigma/Ball stopped being played in favor of almost fulltime Rush.

More recently Double Bubble has become popular (Zarya/Winston), but Rush is still played a ton and the dominant meta.

The patch notes for that patch can be found here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/overwatch-reta...
If F#, Haskell, Scheme, Lisp and OCaml are able to do it and still remain fast compilers (there is more than one backend to choose from), I am sure Rust will manage it eventually.
SpaceX successfully lands a Starship test flight
Here as part of the process to regain your points they made you visit a hospital where car crash patients were treated.
This feels like we've gone full circle here by recreating a centralized model with git.
Business Valuation Calculator
What's so interesting: Outside of HN a lot of people I speak to are super-pumped about W3W.

On HN the general sentiment is quite negative.

I can't reconcile it yet.
Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
I don’t think it’s entertainment any more than reading the news is entertainment. I know that LiveLeak for example changed my view on capital punishment. You can sit in a coffee shop and debate things but once you see a guy cut out another guy’s beating heart in front of his son (before doing the same to the son) you think, “they really ought to execute that guy.”
Income/wealth gap is just a result of the increased savings rate in the corporate sector. There are a billion reasons but most of them are caused by an unwillingness if companies to invest their savings to grow the business.

If you don't employ anyone, the unemployed still have to eat which means corporate savings grow at the expense of the unemployed. Of course, investing your savings into growth is fine, because that will both employ people and net a return for your business.

Why aren't companies growing their business? One problem is that there is not enough consumer demand to justify it. Why is there not enough consumer demand? Because people are unemployed or underemployed. It's a vicious cycle.
Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
> Epictetus, Greek-born slave

Just to clarify:

> He spent his youth as a slave in Rome to Epaphroditos, a wealthy freedman and secretary to Nero.

> Epictetus obtained his freedom sometime after the death of Nero in AD 68

He was a slave to people of wealth and power, that permitted him to study philosophy, and was freed around 18 years of age. So it would be disingenuous to imply Epictetus had the perspective of an impoverished slave when he founded his own school of philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
I hear this argument quite often, but it IS the market’s will. In fact, if the market got what it wanted, many towns and villages would just not be viable.

My point is not that minimum wage is bad, but rather, redistribution of wealth is necessary.
It’s an interactive page, not a blog post
this is an excellent valuation tool. Thanks for sharing.
> even if that's the going rate for developers in Nowhere, Montana

From what I've read elsewhere on the internet stopping the flow of CA programmers would actually be a god-sent to people who were raised in Nowhere, Montana, the gentrification taking place in the last few years has had very annoying societal side-effects for said local people. As far as I could understood Colorado is already a lost case, though.
I keep seeing this argument, but do you get that there's an artificial floor placed by these benefits? You can't really talk about the free market at that point.
This is a free, indie interactive fiction about network troubleshooting.

I mean, it could have been made as a server-side app, but going SPA makes sense here from a practical standpoint.
Context:

In the essay [0], Jobs suggested mobile app development on should focus on HTML5 (which is now called Progressive Web Apps / PWA)

Apple has has been recently been rolling out anti-PWA practices [1].

Probably to reinforce their "walled garden".

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...

[1]: https://ionicframework.com/blog/is-apple-trying-to-kill-pwas...
>create demand for future shock content at expense of human lives

Unfortunately those humans are going to die and be maimed anyway. If those videos are out there, there's a chance of educating people on the danger of not paying attention crossing the road, or using a lathe, or throwing a firework into a sewer, or any of the million other mundane things that people do that don't seem super dangerous on first thought but actually are?
Most of the destruction in the 2010 Chile Earthquake was caused by people themselves: looting, arson and violence.

The Bachelet administration was hesitant to mobilize the army due to the potential political cost (i.e.: bringing back memories of the Pinochet regime), so they took several days to make that decision and in the meantime things went completely out of control.

The same administration was also hesitant to evacuate the residents in the Juan Fernandez Islands, effectively causing many of them to die when the tsunami wave hit.
Thank you for sharing that article on child soldiers. The parts I did read were both enlightening and disturbing.

I’m tempted to search for industrial lathe accidents next but I think that will have to wait till tomorrow.
Memory error checking in C and C++: Comparing Sanitizers and Valgrind
Isn’t it actually an issue that soldiers are so bored in completely remote places for months and months?

People engaging in the army to get some hot action sure would have liked to know more about that aspect, and for better or worse the general public’s perception would also be different when accurately imagining x thousands of trained people stuck in the desert doing nothing 99% of the time.
http://archive.is/L7j7I
I especially liked https://ptsjs.org/demo/edit/?name=circle.intersectLine2D for some reason. There's something beautiful about the simplicity of the code, that lets the objects interact with one another.
Who are we redistributing it from? It seems it is always the not overly secure people who have to have their wealth redistributed.
What are the differences between this and htop, by example?

I know htop can strace processes with the "s" key.
Original ProcMon used ETW, Event Tracing for Windows; the analogous technology (although very different in style) on Linux is eBPF so that’s what this tool uses.
It's a webpage with buttons that take you to another webpage.
The comment tone is way beyond advice and makes some bizarre claims about profit motives. Psychiatry is a hard subject and there has been some bad research, but it's pretty clear he has also done some reading on fringe sites. I understand being upset by shitty doctors and going down that rabbit hole, but it would be irresponsible to not respond to the comment when others on the fence about medication might be swayed.

The key point he is missing is that psychiatric disease can make those lifestyle changes orders of magnitude harder for someone to make than it would be for a healthy adult. As lifestyle gets worse you get a terrible loop going. Medication helps many break that loop - certainly not all, but it is something to seriously consider with your doctor.

If he was able to make those changes without medication that is great for him, but I think his message is kind of analogous to a rich entrepreneur that grew up poor telling everyone else they should just work harder and they'll move up in life. Is it probably good advice for those people to work harder? Yes, but many of them do not have the talent or luck to actually move up much, so it cheapens the message a lot.
Hurray for employers who pay so little that they cannot even compete with the unemployment benefits.
>She told me Google Fiber was so fast that it could damage my devices, including my Smart TV!

How?
How on earth could fast internet damage anything?
I know that video and I think it’s his mother.
> The maps add tons of variety

The maps remove variety because they shrink the possible space of what you can do to a finite number of gameplay objectives. The game tells you that some objective starts in exactly 1:27 from now and if you're not there at that time your team is disadvantaged and probably about to lose. That's not variety, that gets old quick, as a player as well as an audience for a professional league that you'd need to even start competing with any other Moba.
I wasn't saying it's horrible, I was trying to explain why people choose to remain unemployed.

Setting the right level for benefits is hard: Either the basic income is high enough to provide for a good life (why would I get a job), or it's not high enough to pay for food, shelter, bills (why do we treat our unemployed people this badly).

Rising the wages across the board raises prices sooner or later. That probably moves the unemployment money from the former category to the latter via inflation, which does motivate people to get a job, but screws the people who can't get a job.

I have no solutions to offer. This is a gnarly problem, featured for example in the Grasshopper and the Ant, first recorded in Aesop's fables from ~600BC. Enjoying life is wonderful, but if everyone enjoys life, we'll all starve.
For people interested in creative coding and data driven visualizations there is also the thi.ng umbrella [1] which provides a large collection of modular micro utilities.

Many of them are clojure inspired and are written in functional-style typescript.

A lot of these utilities (eg. transducers, multi-methods, stream utilities etc.) are very useful outside the data-visualization space as well.

[1] https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/
Ok, here’s my layman’s take from being in the general vicinity at the time - let me know if this has any merit. Linux was billed as the Microsoft killer when it began to gain prominence, but it never made real inroads in the desktop market. It also turned out that orgs who had implemented MS Server products were not culturally or technically great candidates to shift their back office to a Unix-based OS. However, companies that had invested in top of the line Sun boxes (at a top of the line price point) were very intrigued at the prospect of running something on wintel architecture that may give them 70% of the benefit at 10% of the cost. Those companies were already invested in a Unix-based environment and when Redhat became popular and offered a corporate wrapper to Linux, it was the beginning of the end for Sun. The big data centers also realized they could just string together a bunch of wintel machines running linux and get the same performance as a huge Sun box at a fraction of the cost. The reason I find this ironic is because Sun was one of the largest proponents of open source software and the arguably most successful open source software ended up killing their market.

As an aside, my wife worked in M&A for Sun during the height of the dot com bubble and I attended some amazing acquisition parties all around the Bay.
Probably more related to financial security...
Or simply chose 1st january 1970 as your date of birth
I think people overblowns it.

I live in a rural town in Spain where most people are still farmers ( wineries, olives ).

It means most of the men can take up to 6-7 hours, at minimum, of sun their entire life each day.

Its a small town so we know whenever someone dies. In my 27 years never heard or someone died from skin cancer.

There have been many lung cancers from smoking, prostata, belly...

I dont know where this trend about skin cancer begun, maybe is a think for northen people and not mediterranean that we are more “brown”, and like everything it propagated like fire, trying to sell to you that if the sun hits you without protection youll get skin cancer.

Sorry but no
In France this didn't really work, in corporate jobs anyways, people would just work their old hours anyway, which they then take off as 'vacation days' - typically in the vacation periods where there's downtime anyways. Doesn't seem like it's worked to help increase total employment.
Problem is, those days tend to be far far apart. From one to the next, you'll have forgotten everything, and once saturday morning comes along, chances are the threshold to start again with that thing you last touched 5 weeks ago is so high that you end up bindge watching netflix instead.

Key is to keep the threshold minimal for getting back and making progress.
Plus Codes are a better choice.

https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...
Quantity before Quality – doing more is always the right choice
Modern C and What We Can Learn from It [video]
Libya 2011 and arab spring in general spawned a lot of violent videos that were important for documenting what happened. They must have been archived or stored somewhere too - I know they were on youtube at the time, quickly taken down, and some were trying to archive/stow them.
Table saws will remove fingers instantly. And will also throw things at you if you drop them on the blade.
Rot13 the spoiling text!
As an employer, it's really hard to compete for talent with the company down the street, when the company down the street is paying $300 per week for 0 hours worked. That really messes with the invisible hand.
You need the right chain and an exceptional saw to make those mills work and it is very tedious work to get wood out of those.
I’m glad this reply is not at the bottom of the page, but I’m sad it’s not at the top. I did come here hoping to see it, though, so I’m netting pretty content right now.
I feel there's a paradigm difference here. Classical scientific method says "make hypotheses, test, confirm or infirm". That was the golden standard for 400 years. It works very well, but it has weaknesses (what doesn't). First is that it doesn't specify how you should select the hypotheses on which you want to perform (costly) experiments, and the second is that it's very bad at processing partial data. You can confirm on infirm - with some complicated math on how good the experiment was.

Nowadays we have much better protocols, mostly based on the Bayesian method which is much more robust on getting small pieces of information. One of its principles is actually this: no matter how small and useless an experimental result is, it should still budge your understanding of the phenomenon even if it's a tiny bit. There are some caveats here as well, but overall it's a whole different ballgame from the big, old, clunky scientific method.

So how does this apply to this situation? You have a cycle of 2 weeks for covid infections. A completely-pulled-out-of-my-ass protocol would involve 100 very-low-risk individuals split into vaccinated and control and infected deliberately with various doses. You get some data from this: how well is the vaccine working? how is the disease progressing depending on initial viral dose?

For the next 2 weeks you switch to slightly higher vulnerable populations, again split into control/vaccine.

For the next 2 weeks you ditch the control to lower the risk, and add another decade to the age of the population.

Now you have good enough data to start vaccinating vulnerable population at large.

You keep testing on volunteers, because you're about to vaccinate millions and you NEED extra data, like what's the fastest protocol to vaccinate everybody. Except now you have enough efficacy data to know that you won't kill your vaccinated volunteers, so you start using more mixed populations with higher ages - though the bulk will still be low-risk. And play with whatever variables you need adjusting, like vaccine dosage or booster timing, and adjust the population-at-large protocols based on that.

Compare this with what we did, which is literally last century methodology. We pulled out of the ass a protocol: vaccine dose of X, booster timing of 3 weeks. Then we tested it in a large scale long term trial. We confirmed it worked. And used it as-is, and declared that any change will require another large-scale long-term trial. Look at the definition of the scientific method in the beginning of my comment. It's just not common sense in a pandemic, except for bureaucrats minimizing their personal risk. Which is why my rather justified anger with the system.
"truly based on a story": strictly based on a story somebody else made up
There was a cultural agreement to not use those weapons. Back then the community had to create rules for the game.
I think the idea is pretty good but the execution is terrible.

We had a tyre blow out on a motorway in Scotland and I had to try to describe to the breakdown company where we were. I knew the name of the motorway by looking at Google maps but the area around us was utterly featureless and there were no nearby landmarks I could use to describe our location more accurately.

I had the W3W app so tried to tell them the location using that but unfortunately the wind and traffic noise made it nearly impossible for them to understand the words clearly enough and then I realised they didn't have the app at their end anyway.

The best way to sort out the problems with W3W is for a better system to replace it. That system needs to be open and widely adopted - it's crazy I can't send my location easily to someone without asking what apps that have on their phone.
With the amount of unemployment being disbursed it’s looking like Congress won’t even need to pass a $15 min wage bill anymore. Employers will be forced to raise wages to compete. This is a lever of which up to now I was unaware.
if you mandate higher wages by making firms compete with welfare all you do is create wage-push inflation, because to fund the higher wages companies will have to raise prices. Your average business where low-paid people work, like services or retail or hairdressers don't have some crazy margins where you can magically conjure up money out of the ether.
Sounds like you should be paying your staff more than $7.5/hr if that is the going rate by this company down the street paying $300 a week.
Une idée pour miser sur la reprise des cinémas en Bourse?
> fetishization of violent content [...] few videos taken out of context

it's literally the opposite, it's not for the of violence, it's the unadulterated content: every other outlet either filter or worse, "narrates" hevaily cut snippets out of source material.

and we already live in a bubble as it is. having some amount of "ground truth" was certainly better than none.

and I said as one that steered clear from the site itself most of the time.
Currently loading="lazy" is not supported by safari https://caniuse.com/loading-lazy-attr
>Yes, this is just an ongoing disaster. My sense from their communications over the years is that, when players fly through zones, that hurts the feelings of the artists, which Blizzard doesn't like.

Flying should never have been allowed in WoW, period.

Beyond the whole issue of players skipping content in zones artists spend months building, the mechanism severely distorts gameplay. A player being able to hover, descend to the ground, pick up an item, then immediately remount and rise back up—avoiding monsters—is ridiculous.

If flying had to be introduced, it should at least have been done with some sort of meaningful takeoff/landing process.