skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interacting with shady exchanges and characters, and the gullible getting fleeced, are pros not cons. They help cultivate the sense of I’m making money by being smarter than everyone else. Gives you a sense of nearby danger that helps fuel the feeling of accomplishment.
Amazing, I purchased it to show support and I love this.
The music is cool too, this will be the game I play while waiting for Unity builds !
Please port to Android/IOS !
> [Damore] argued that biological differences and not a lack of opportunity explained the shortage of women in upper-tier positions.

This is an unfortunate way of characterizing Damore’s argument. It’s technically true in that Damore IIRC was arguing that there was more variation among men than women (more men at the top and at the bottom but fewer in the middle, but Google hires from the top hence more men). So yeah, technically biological differences, but when the average person hears that they’re going to assume he was arguing that women in general are dumber than men in general or some such. That said, this also represents much more earnest coverage of Damore considering the initial coverage overtly lied on many accounts (calling it an anti diversity screed, claiming he sent it as a memo to the company, etc).
Hello! Absolutely, drop me an email any time you like.

I absolutely agree that a lot of science can be done very cheaply. Some of the most impactful papers were done by people who weren't in an institutional framework, even in the modern era (Satoshi being an obvious example). Additionally it seems most of the really problematic fields are ones where the budget gets dispersed over large number of people writing very cheap low budget papers, hence millions of social science papers with tiny sample sizes.

I'm a big supporter of industrial research though. Many great papers come out of industrial labs. Modern computing is practically defined by such research. The big advances all seem to come from big corporate labs (Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, Google, DeepMind, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, etc). The research is powerful because it's funded by people who expect some sort of meaningful results and supervise the work to ensure it doesn't go completely off the rails. Academic institutions have developed this totally hands off attitude that makes research more or less unaccountable to any standard beyond "will it get published", which in turn can be rephrased as "are the claims interesting".
> which makes the grant neutral from a tax standpoint.

Technically, it also makes the grant neutral from the value perspective. They’re giving you something worth $X, and asking you to pay $X for it. Why exactly should you value it more than $0 then? Maybe for the optionality, but ATM option just isn’t worth that much...
> harder to fake a review written in English with pictures and details.

It's also a lot harder to get a legitimate review like that. Instead of 100 reviews where 80 were fake, there will be 3 reviews where 2 are fake and the other was disputed by the seller (or paid off by the seller) and deleted.
Right, ok, that's pretty definitive then, thank you.
Early turbulence and pulsatile flows enhance diodicity of Tesla’s fluidic valve
Romanian here, there were Trabants around here too but I always viewed as somewhat exotic. Typical car was built locally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia_1300

Also had to wait for years to buy one. In fact you had to pay it upfront and then maybe in 5 years you'd get it.
Some people keep refinancing, taking out more money and accruing more debt. They do this every few years, never paying off their loan.
One thing I noticed is the longer someone stays at a company the more they get under paid compared to peers in the industry. The real pay hikes come when you switch jobs. Google is a company that I guess doesn’t see a lot of attrition compared to the rest of the industry. Wonder how much that played a part in this disparity.
this seems like "Zen and the art of Archery" stuff
Very cool. I am definitely going to give this a try, it is something I have always wanted to learn.
for sure!
I disagree. The standard of living increases are attributable to one thing only: the progress of science and technology. Nothing else.

We have achieved better living standards over the years despite capitalism, not because of it.

Meanwhile inequality grows, democracies are backsliding across the globe, and inexhaustible "growth capitalism" has us facing a climate crisis which it continues to refuse to tackle. Inequality of wealth and income means necessities such as housing are ever more expensive, pushing ever more people into virtual "debt bondage" towards the landed class. Inequality of wealth also means inequality of opportunities, as the rich are afforded endless cheap credit and the poor cannot afford homes and cannot afford to start businesses.

But all that's okay, because we get 1001 new models of phones every year and TVs are cheaper than ever.

This is my opinion of course.

> Quoting old ideologies

The myth that Marxism is "old and irrelevant" is what's getting wearing :) On the contrary, it's frightening how relevant it still is, and how much Marxist criticism and analysis applies to 21st century capitalism.

Read his major points (and not just what other people tell you his major points are) and you'll be surprised.

> labour becoming extinct

I don't get it.

> most countries in the world are beautiful democracies

There's only really one country in the world, as far as I'm aware, that truly deserves the label "democracy", and that's Switzerland, with high levels of political participation, a free press, well-functioning institutions, etc. Maybe the autonomous municipalities in Chiapas too :)

All the rest are the bare minimum to keep the people from rebelling.

> imperialism

Imperialism is a major feature of global capitalism. Quick example: the market logic (a weasel-word for violent coercion by powerful countries) dictates that Ethiopia faces famines at the same time that it exports massive amounts of food.
> Would you consider a pricing model to allow self hosting?

I remember I self-hosted a Ghost blog and mirrored/served the content with a CDN. It was tricky because once I changed a post, or altered the blog's code, the CDN had to be manually cache-busted if there was any change on the VPS instance of the blog. I done that a scary amount of times, making me believe blogs & blogposts are never 'finished'.

Some of my posts were picked up by various news outlets and that spiked the traffic. I was thankful I served it from a CDN because my Digital Ocean instance surely would have went offline due to the attention / hug of death.

Does Dynablogger handle traffic spikes gracefully?
If you design and sell a product without patenting it, and I copy the design and sell a competing product, have I stolen from you?

The only difference between the two scenarios is that one involves copyright infringement. Theft means a possession was taken. Potential income is not a possession. There are various ways to describe the harm ("damages" comes to mind) but "theft" isn't among them.
I'm going to press X to doubt since this looks like a load. Too many variables missing up to and including a player just not being good at spot kicks despite their obvious technical ability.
In fact, don't "down the middle" kicks succeed more often?
Ask HN: Often do you have to update your Android or iOS app
I'm debating starting to develop some simple apps for a few of my websites.

I'm going to make each one native, vs with a wrapper.

I've only done web apps since this point and was wondering, when you make an app, presume it's not one full of features.

How much maintenance is required to keep it working on existing/new phones? Is the backwards compatibility good? Or does it require constant maitence.

Reason I ask, if I have some websites that require very little maintenance and want to see how the mobile enviroment is.
That's still some ways of from what I'd call "arbitrary" but yeah you can go quite far.
https://archive.vn/znxqr
That (not so) awesome time the police raided my home
> Marketplace quality is dollar store bargain bin gambling at this point.

I get to evaluate the product physically before I buy it at the dollar store. Some of the trash I get from Amazon I can tell is crap the second I open the box.
Some of the pillars were huge and outdoors. The Wikipedia pages shows one of them in outdoors.
Same thing happens naturally all the time.
Good News, Bad News (An Aging Nation)
Over how much time and how does that variable relate to the actual length of time an epidemic of an (apparently) seasonal respiratory virus is expected to last?

I don't think it's just a nitpicky minor thing. Governments have pretty regularly been making decisions and citing the value of "R" (they mean Rt), or "exponential growth", as a justification for new restrictions, apparently without realizing that by itself these things means little and justify nothing. Exponential growth can only be said to be a problem when taking into account the serial interval, the actual exponent, the starting population sizes, total population sizes, fixed capacity limits (e.g. hospital bed counts) and so on. Yet the scientists advising governments routinely ignore all those things.
Hi! It's hosted in Kubernetes so I can add nodes with one click if needed :) I am getting around 450-500 concurrent visitors at the moment and 2K total uniques since I posted and it's like nothing is happening. So in away this posting is a good test as I am still 1st on the front page I think :)

Static site generators I nice, but I just prefer hit and save to publish immediately. As for CDN and caching, DynaBlogger uses Cloudflare as CDN and does a lot of caching of the dynamc content too.
For anyone else looking to make a game in Lua + Love2D, a developer wrote an entire tutorial for how they made their game, which is also released on Steam: https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH. Both the game and the tutorial are high quality, and provide really useful insights.
A great book on this subject is Chatter[0] by Ethan Kross, he talks about how our inner voice can often be our own worst enemy and also suggests ways to combat it.

https://smile.amazon.com/Chatter-Voice-Head-Matters-Harness-...
Well, HN doesn't like humour. It looked very clear to me.
The AOL walled garden approach that befits the company, and the users who can't deal with 'choice'. Decide for me what is best please!

It won't last, but by golly has it been successful. No wonder, history is replete with examples of this. Only difference is that as money continues to devalue, the nominal financial heights seem ever higher.
as if it is a rite of passage to become an adult engineer, i'm now facing timezone issues at work. no real problems yet, but the utc vs local timezone has to be handled.

Could you please share what did you read on this topic?

Thank you!
There's an easier way: create a zip file with all your .lua files, and just drag the zip file into the LOVE app (which you can download from the website). This isn't for distribution and more for game testing, but it works perfectly fine.
Rossmann is an important voice in the right to repair, however I do feel like he leaned into a certain audience, pandering to them a bit as a reliable target for ad impressions, and it has undermined his credibility. I hear about Rossmann most now when some vicious Apple detractor uses him as an authority on things having nothing to do with repair.

For instance Rossmann did a video titled "Apple watching & logging EVERY APP YOU OPEN with new OS." (which is interesting given that another of his videos is "Why I don't use Apple products", "The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures", "Is Apple using sweatshop labor in the US", etc -- there are dozens of these things) This is so ridiculously outside of his wheelhouse or expertise, but it panders to an audience that lines up to get fed that anti-Apple pablum.

When you see someone posting a Rossmann video, 9 times out 10 if you look at their history it isn't some guy concerned about repairing his iPhone or MacBook. Instead you'll find someone who has spent years calling Apple users sheep and boasting about their Windows Phone.

The guy is monetizing a certain base. Probably doing pretty well out of it.
That has driven job-hopping forever, and rightfully so. It's a good way to manage your own career. Companies don't give raises to make sure you're compensated well -- they raise it minimally enough to retain you.
Some of the information in this article seems pretty inaccurate:

> they would have to be within about 20 metres of the house

Using a directional antenna, they could be substantially farther away.

> to do anything particularly sinister on the home network, the hacker will need to change the router configuration

That's not even remotely accurate. Uploading child abuse images to a message board as in the central story this article covers does not require configuration changes, for example. Trying exploits on other devices connected to the network doesn't either.
What Is Infrastructure as Code? When to Use Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation?
Well Audi V8 and Mercedes S klasse are not exactly people's cars.
What Is Observability
Hi from Argentina! You have less vaccines applied than Argentina!!! (even after correcting by the population size)
I also made a wordpress alternative: http://sprout.rupy.se

It's open source (https://github.com/tinspin/sprout), but I doubt anyone would pay for it if I scrounged up some hosting?

What are the numbers on this project if it's not to blunt to ask?

Also what programming language did you use?
Yeah but it's also not unusual to have shared accounts for manual testing in prod, or to write automated smoke tests that run in prod after a deploy...

I'm not sure how to get around this, actually. Any production service of a certain scale is going to have some amount of fake activity caused by debugging, monitoring, testing, feature demos to clients/investors/internal stakeholders... It seems naive to tell an engineering team "no test accounts in prod ever because it makes analytics harder."
Why would that happen? There's more great content than ever (and a lot of it is completely free). Of course, the amount of garbage has also increased, but the ratio seems to be staying steady.
Even the length of a second is unstable in some implementations:
https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Of course! Firefox never updates itself on my computer, it is a package managers' task to do such a thing.
Hey Gus, thanks for your feedback, that's really helpful. As you can see I am also new to HackerNews :P

I'll definitively work showing the navigation at the beginning, that's a really good point.

Indeed, having some tones of color could be interesting.

The rainbow is done in CSS (have a look at style.css), so you can definitively stretch it to any size. There could be some compatibility issues with older browsers. Here's the CSS color shade of the page background: linear-gradient(-45deg, #C5E5DE, #B1E0EC, #A2C5BF, #95D1C4, #6DC5DC, #8ADCB3, #72BDC2, #8A9BB1, #72C1B0, #FED156, #52BAD5, #66CC99, #F99899, #E3B63D, #F1C40F, #06B3DB, #FEBE12, #98AE60, #1ABC9C, #CC89A2, #EE836E, #F39C12, #64AE60, #78AD45, #2C9AB7, #3498DB, #E8755C, #27AE60, #449A88, #E67E22, #16A085, #EA5B4D, #C26787, #E85C41, #2980B9, #0082C8, #527D5A, #E54B4B, #E74C3C, #DC3D66, #167C80, #D35400, #72616E, #547B30, #D83944, #DB334E, #9B59B6, #DB3A1B, #BD3559, #27695E, #C0392B, #345773, #993366, #8E368B, #16528E, #34495E, #782344);

That's much more concise, I like the title of the page that you suggested.

Thank you so much Gus for your feedback, I am really grateful for it! Really appreciated :D
The same developer authored this game.
WhatsApp client is made by Facebook. It must see plaintext so it can put it on the screen. If it doesn’t send it anywhere yet, good - but it’s borrowed time.
> “The horrible truth about Apple’s repeated engineering failures”

This is totally in his wheelhouse and expertise since he does circuit board repair for Apple devices. You can thank YouTube’s algorithm for the inflammatory title.
Does it have any games ?
Covid Killed His Father. Then Came $1M in Medical Bills
Quick google search found this one:

https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool
Seconding the wisdom shared by u/julienreszka and you.

Stuff like schemas and data dictionaries and reuse are chinese finger traps for us geeks. Exquisite problems we can't look away from.

I eventually decided to treat most data ingestion (ETL) as screen scraping. Honoring Postel's Law. Pull out the interesting relevant bits as needed. Ignore the rest.

There's still an internal model, natch. But it's the smallest, most obvious model to support my immediate use cases. Nothing more.
> your 50/50 split of n is the most aggressive way to interpret that information.

I'm satisfied with that choice.

Given that Google are here quoting this stat in the press (with the 50/50 implication) to defend themselves against an inequality suit, without actually giving us the figures, I assume that this is the best spin that Google can put on it.
https://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/FUJITSU_Enterprise_Pos...
Simple is good. I like it.
Awesome build!

I built a (terribly hacky) pedal to have a push-to-talk system on my laptop [0]. I use it surprisingly often in meetings to not bother other people with the sound of my mechanical keyboard when making notes.

I tried it as a vim clutch, but the muscle memory is too strong (and too fast)

[0] https://github.com/moretea/kludge
Labor is becoming extinct because, automation. Everybody sees the 'working class' dropping down from technical work to office work to road work or point-of-sale (flipping burgers). It employment sure, but now point-of-sale is being automated away. What then? America has 30M in fast-food. They can't all be retrained as Engineers, and even if they could we don't need 30M more Engineers.

What happens to Marxism when the workers can't own the means of production, because there aren't any workers in the plant? That's already true in many, many operations. Automation has been explosive in the last 20 years. Production is off-shore when Chinese hand-work is cheaper then retooling for automation. When a factory 'comes back' from overseas, its because volume has increased to the point its effective to automate. No jobs come back (ok 2 or 3 automation Engineers but not 100 workers).

Today America's largest buyer of automation equipment is ... China. They're 20 years behind us but catching up fast. Imagine another Billion workers put out of a job.

The writing is on the wall. Workers are going to be irrelevant, and not that far in the future. Going on about what the workers are owed is going to be moot. Fast becoming so.

What works then? Not capitalism, I admit, because owning a factory that produces goods quits returning profit when there's few that have the money to buy the goods. The whole system is circling the drain.

But no just keep on about Marxism or workers rights or whatever, irrespective of how that group is dwindling and will soon be gone and the world is no longer an 1800's industrial society.

Oh and that mark about "No True Democracies" is an old, old, tired trope called "No True Scotsman". There's no point in addressing that at all.
This is a fine argument for censorship in general. Sadly, we have centuries of evidence that such an approach is ultimately futile. If you concede that censorship "definitely works better than discussion", you're ultimately conceding the debate.

A far better approach is to draw a hard red line and not allow anyone to cross it - e.g. if you're advocating for ending democracy or free speech - no democracy or free speech for you. Otherwise, you gotta find a way to defeat bad ideas without trying to shut them out. If you attempt to censor (use whatever euphemisms you prefer, but that's all it is), you'll fail, and do irreparable damage to your own arguments in the process.
This is a pretty brute force method for genetic engineering -- and yet it works! It's essentially just pressing fast forward on evolution.

But this is wildly inefficient. Plant genomes are often ridiculously large (e.g., the onion genome is 4X the size of the human genome), so you either have to throw a bunch of mutagen on the plant (which can cause off-target, toxic mutations) and/or plant a bunch of seedlings to get the plant you're looking for.

New methods often include introducing new genes with mutations through agrobacteria, gold nanoparticle bombardment, etc. without needing to actually mutagenize a plant genome. Do your mutagenesis on a specific gene in bacteria, and then test those random genetic variants in plants.

But for me, what is more exciting is a relatively new shift toward targeted mutagenesis directly in plants. For example, CRISPR can be used to target mutations to specific genes in situ (and not insertions or deletions -- useful point mutations through the use of base editors) [0]. I think the directed evolution of plants will be a pretty fruitful (lol) area of research in the future, and I'm excited to see where that field goes. Gotta love new plants!

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-020-00288-9 -- see section "Mutagenesis and directed evolution"
Stolen from the article:

> “So, essentially SCION is an architecture to provide an alternative to BGP”, Adrian started his presentation. “There are some principles which are quite different from the current Internet.” For example, the SCION architecture follows a stateless packet forwarding approach - i.e., there's no per-flow state in routers and thus no opportunity for inconsistent state.

See an explanation of BGP here: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-i....

So in my basic understanding of how the internet works, tl;dr SCION is a different way to transmit packets between computers, particularly over large distances.
Sounds like source routing. It’s an idea that was abandoned early on, but I’d be interested in learning if things are different. Sometimes old abandoned ideas can be revisited due to new approaches, algorithmic or design innovation, or Moore’s law.
I’m imagining an astronaut floating off into the void saying, “The docking algorithm doesn’t always work, but we knew the risks. Thanks for trying! Please tell my spouse that I’m sorry that I forgot to take out the trash.”
Various reasons. One is to check that the driver is not looking at his phone or watching videos while driving (because they have so much downtime, truckers often have a tablet or laptop to watch movies on), i.e. the same reason there are cameras watching the drivers of trains. Truckers occasionally try to bring their spouses along, which is against the company’s rules, or they make use of prostitutes on the road, and a camera lets the company ensure that no one is ever inside their truck but the driver.
Watch Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger mock cryptocurrency at the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/comments/n3c78z/im_alright_on_...
This should really be titled competing with Borland. At this time the Next Software only ran on their own Unix Workstations. I think when they formed OpenStep, it was NT workstations, rather than consumer Windows PCs. They were closer in competition to Sun with their SDKs.

Microsoft and Borland were for the common man that just wanted to write C++ apps. No one was running NextStep in their parents garage.
I don't know how much influence the Democrats have in making one worse and how much influence the Republicans have in making the other better. I tend to think the impact of partisan politics is greatly exaggerated.

But if the hypothesis is true, expect Texas (and Idaho and all the other places of refuge) to look a lot like California very soon.
It’s not really. There’s a big gap between knowing how to repair circuit boards (which is mostly about part sourcing and being good with a hot air station) and understanding the design of a modern motherboard, which is highly complex. He has loud opinions about laptop design, but it’s worth bearing in mind that he’s never designed even a simple piece of electronics in his life.