skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I want to work for Uber given their conditions, who has the right to tell me I can't? Who has the right to tell me I must obey by some group's rules first (the union in this case)? It's bizarre.

I am all for unions. Go and organize people. But unions can't have special privileges granted by politicians (who very often are just bribed by those that run the union), and unions must never be mandatory to join. Mandate to join an union is immoral.
I know, I want to learn how to use it now!
JavaScript for Data Analysis
A little bit scary but also possibly cool. Scary because freemium and paywall go hand in hand; cool because "technical deep dives by experts" sounds good.
Very cool! Now let's find 2 drops, no more than 1 meter apart, one going to the atlantic, the other on the pacific.
Exactly. The best approach is layering, in my opinion. Learn the basics, maybe a couple of tricks, and then deliberately add one more thing to your toolbox which would improve your productivity. Then incorporate that new trick into your flow until it sticks, then repeat. Eventually your toolbox is getting full and you are able to recall all the things naturally.
Valuable skills will enable a decent living for sure.
All of my "buddies" kind of abandoned me pre-pandemic. Much of what was driving me here was boredom, curiosity and solitude.

The CEO/Founder at my old job used to kind of check-in on me from time to time via slack, she thought my work was cool which kind of helped me keep going once I was no longer at the company.
https://blog.openstartuplist.com/ Open Startup List blog
https://tinyprojects.dev/blog tiny projects blog
http://hummusrezept.de/ food recipes blog
https://nav.al/ Tech investments blog
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27296014
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/archive/ - not just one individual but a few. Entrepreneurship, finance, tech.

"Every investor is making bets on the future. It’s only called speculation when you disagree with someone else’s bet.

In hindsight there was as much speculation in the 1990s that Kodak and Sears would keep their market share as there was that eToys and Pets.com would gain market share. Both were bets on the future. Both were wrong. It happens.

Of course there’s a speculation spectrum. But let’s not pretend that others speculate while you only deal with certainties."

https://cryptohayes.medium.com/ - Arthur Hayes blog. Crypto trading mostly.

"I am an arbitrage trader at heart. In May 2013 brimming with my experience as a delta one trader, I entered the crypto capital markets. The first trade I ever put on was buying Bitcoin from Mt. Gox, depositing them on ICBIT, then selling BTC/USD June 2013 inverse futures contracts at a premium. My first trade captured a premium of 200% per annum (PA). When the futures expired, and my PNL matched my spreadsheet calculations exactly, I thought to myself, holy shit, “Bitcoin is LIT!”"
Anyone have any good cleantech blogs?
> "Hot Network Questions" are a distraction and take up too much horizontal space.

Well worth blocking these with an adblocker, if you don't already
She probably has it turned up for the benefit of us who are utterly dependent on visible light ;)
I read the whole article and thought it was worth my time. I liked to broad strokes of goals of anti fragile AI.

I have been thinking of hybrid AI systems since I retired from managing a deep learning team a few years ago. My intuition is that hybrid AI systems will be much more expensive to build but should in general be more resilient, kind of like old fashioned multi agent systems with a control mechanism to decide which agent to use.
When you were making $20k/mo did you not put some aside in an emergency fund? What were you doing with all of that money while you were making it?
There are statistics such as all-cause-mortality that could be correlated to vaccination rollout.

It takes a while for this data to become available, and if it is, health authorities are unlikely to attempt to find such a correlation.

So far, I haven't been able to find a credible analysis, many of the "critical" voices are likely to stay silent due to social pressure.
I'm happy they are finding ways of monetising that don't rely on adtech
To quote an original blogger, Dave Winer, blogs, at best, are 'The unedited voice of a person.' http://scripting.com/2015/02/07/theUneditedVoiceOfAPerson.ht...

I don't read scripting.com much anymore, but it was the first blog I stumbled onto.
too hard, you might have a better chance in your endeavor by forking the web into 2 things.

- A web of apps: A (sand-boxed) VM environment that has the advantage of not having to install the programs locally and with a capability based model. this is already similar to what's already here but once you commit to it you can ditch the DOM and other things.

- A web of documents.
When they laid off a bunch of their technical writers, there was an outpouring of desire for a way to pay for MDN.

Let's hope those voices follow through!
I'm 51 and have been a member since 1997. One of the most active conferences for a long time was GenX, which was set up (I assume) to counter the otherwise pretty Boomer-heavy balance of the service in the 80s and 90s.

I would not be surprised to discover that the overwhelming bulk of the membership is now > 40 or even >45.
You're right, and cache policy issues can be really hard to debug.

As a rule I don't cache personal information for this reason.

Out of curiosity do you have any knowledge on GDPR's stance on caching PI?
Sure, but it's important to recognize that science is dangerous and slip-ups do happen. That is why research has rigorous safety precautions and procedures.
Because they do not scale and they are not required. I would love to go into more detail if you shoot me an email we can discuss.
Dunno about Bosch's implementation, but the Milwaukee one sucks. The drill/impact driver would strip the screw head, jerk your wrist, and then cut the power. I'd much rather have a mechanical clutch than than that one.

We actually had an older drill with the mechanical clutch with a stripped high gear that we kept around for driving screws instead of tossing because the new one was so bad.
Can 4k video even be decoded without something massively parallel like GPU?
It's interesting that you dismiss it because it's completely schizophrenic, and yet mizzack dismisses it because it's neatly organized and long.

And yes, he does talk about gain-of-function. His background is in high risk biocontainment viruses, and his PhD was specifically focused on Ebola-, Hanta-, and Flavi-viruses.
With all the uncountable billions of dollars in the banks of Apple, Microsoft, Google etc, none of them can manage to come up with documentation to compete with MDN which has to go freemium to be viable.

Presumably that’s because they can’t link your identity to it or something, making it nit worthwhile doing.

Apple: “we’re a hardware company, it’s not our job to document the web”

Microsoft: “Internet Explorer failed, it’s not our job to document the web”

Google : “we’re a advertising company, it’s not our job to document the web”.

Facebook... etc

Amazon ... etc

And so on ...
In DC they are just part of the city. I lived across the street from the Tunisian embassy for a while. The bigger ones are mostly back in a part of NW that I don’t think has too many residents.
I hit this bug just the other night, and I think what caused it was accidentally sending NaNs to the audio API. That bypassed whatever clamping functions were in place, and just produced an ear-piercing shriek. Very unpleasant.
I had once contact with Klarna. It required me eight weeks to teach until they accepted the truth - I didn't owed them a cent. Just one of the usual startups around outsourcing, minimum wage and avoiding actual work.

Lesson 1:
If someone want to sell you something and doesn't want make the bookkeeping itself, avoid them.

Lesson 2:
In doubt? Cash only.
An intuitive mind map of WebAssembly on serverless and on the edge
I recently bought an Onyx Boox Max Lumi 13.3" eInk device with HDMI-in port to use as a monitor for my laptop when working on the terrace in broad daylight.
So far I've only used it for two hours (the weather here in Europe is terrible), but it seemed to work OK. These eInk displays have gotten a lot faster in recent years!

This 25.3" monitor would be even better but of course it's even pricier at $2k. Also, it's not very portable. They should make these things splash water resistant!

Why can't we have decent laptops with displays that can be used ergonomically in bright sunlight?
I strongly dislike the idea. It reduces deep knowledge to people who can pay for it. The web should be open for anyone. (yeah, Its already not like this, I know)
If EU really cared about privacy, EU would fully fund Mozilla.
Interestingly, this technology can do 110ms glass to glass for video on generic hardware, but even "gaming" Bluetooth headphones (among those that don't require a special dongle) still cannot achieve 110ms of sound latency from software to speaker.
> What if I don't want to join any unions and I just want to do what I want?

Then you do not join any unions. Union membership is never mandatory in the United Kingdom: https://www.gov.uk/join-trade-union/trade-union-membership-y...
It's not threaded, so no. The conversation in any given Topic is strictly linear.

With Metafilter, I suspect this is one of the last holdouts on that approach.
> "Even a decent-quality chatbot could be applied all over the place"

When shit hits the fan - you want a human being on the other side of the line to help you through whatever you need help with.

Call centers can be expensive - but the chat bots we see today are truly useless, if not harmful even. We call them "bots" - but a lot of them could've been implemented like the dialogue mechanics in an RPG game (a state machine of predefined questions, and predefined answers). There's nothing "smart" about it - it's the same tech we've had for the last 30 years, rebranded.

These things just don't work. GPT-3 isn't good enough - and honestly, it's not even needed.
USPS trucks don’t have air bags or air conditioning. They get 10 mpg
Fabien https://fabiensanglard.net/ is a must on this list, IMO. I really enjoy his code reviews.

I can also recommend the books he have made so far on Wolfenstien 3D and Doom.
Experimental Treatment for Japanese Radiation Victim
Yes. All three. Whining is fine, but a surprised pikachu face from either Russia or China when someone decides to turn the tables is more than I think anyone can put up with at this point.
It's even worse than that. They get other countries to make harsher laws than the US has, then when they try to pass similar laws in the US, they argue that it's just normalizing our laws with what other countries are doing...
Like, for example, an entire opera by Wagner…
I like their approach. Out of all possible options for funding, they managed to keep the core available, independent of other commercial influences, and offer extra quality content to subscribers. This could've gone bad in so many ways, but I'm hopeful for the project's future.
Zeynep Tufecki's (https://zeynep.me/) newsletter is pretty good, and sometimes she publishes elsewhere like The Atlantic but links back to it, which I like too.
It would be wasteful to cut the plants down and truck the felled trees somewhere, just choose long lived varieties and leave them be.
Forgive me if I trust epidemiologists more than some guy at the “American Institute for Economic Research.”
And now we know how inflated the markets are.
https://waitbutwhy.com/ - so good

https://dcgross.com/ - good design, smart guy

http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classic

https://mtlynch.io - love the openness

https://www.gwern.net/ - love the design. very well organized

https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects

https://shauninman.com/ - simple but good

And shameless plug of my own: https://www.hugomontenegro.com/
The docs seem very light on actual examples of writing/structuring syntax or outputs - does anyone know of an example generated site in the wild?
One of our goals with early adoption is to contribute back the things needed to make it stable, performant, and useful for everyone. It might make things more difficult for us at times, but we feel we can manage the burden.

It’s obviously not our only goal, but we are in a position to help make the system better for everyone and sincerely wish to do so.
Does Iran have a good track record for human rights protection? No it is a religious dictatorship that has vowed many times to wipe a nearby country of people different than them off the map.
The Chinese Belts and Roads projects are global. Chinese influence extends from US ports to African airports to New Zealand politics to Canadian telco espionage.

The notion that China's conflicts are only regional is nonsense.
I'm curious about what do you mean when you say "the place is literally falling apart"?
I am using pre-diluted (or mash paste) in some cases, I have no idea how else to do it. I would actually need a mechanical weighting system and that would be really hard to manage. Moda was not really a liquid mixture but more of a paste at this point and I use stops in the vile. For example. Each vile has 5 stops and each stop has a MG associated with it. There are smarter ways of doing this im sure but they involve more ME than I know how to do.
>Nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs content — this content will continue to be free and available to everyone. We want to provide extra value through premium content and features to help make MDN self-sustaining, on a completely opt-in basis. Again, nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs!

Sounds good.
Flagged the story after seeing this comment. We don’t need to be electing new leaders for Hamas on HN.
For my part, HN is the only thing like social media I still use. (Though I'm deliberately not counting things like irc and discord.) And now that I've been off social media long enough for my baselines to shift, I'm realizing I have some similar problems here, too. There's a difference in magnitude, of course, but not so much in form.

So, yeah, you're absolutely right. And lately I've been actively considering canceling my subscription and spending more time just reading books.
Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/
> End goal as of now: assemble a few great minds, give them the space to work rent-free in a region with good academic infrastructure, ideally let them collaborate, watch the beauty of it.

My advice is not to expect others to do the work for rent and a “stipend”.

This isn’t a game. AI done wrong will be the end of us.
I'm getting tired of these we-are-almost-over-the-threshold messages. They are worse than denialism. Catastrophic climate change via runaway greenhouse effect is here to stay. It is clear that the increasingly difficult measures required to avert global disaster simply ain't gonna happen.
And it's probably emotional/biological.. even star wars had a son/father struggle. Who coined the metaphorical 'killing father' concept ?
Ask HN: What underrated GitHub / Gitlab project has helped you a lot?
So I come across these nice projects on GitHub that have very few stars but I believe they deserve so much more because of how well they're written. I personally used projects like IGraphM and swift-emacs in college when they were relatively unknown and am happy to see them do better now.

What are some such projects for y'all?
> Nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs content — this content will continue to be free and available to everyone. We want to provide extra value through premium content and features to help make MDN self-sustaining, on a completely opt-in basis. Again, nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs!
DivCoin ?
Pixelfed (federated network similar to Instagram) made a similar move about a month ago:

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106161269947338845

I missed the counts at first, but after a week or so I stopped noticing.
Can’t do color as people are color blind. Need to do it by number of bands.
Planting trees does do something. There are bigger problems that need to be addressed before tree planting can solve the underlying issue.

Thankfully the amazon reclaims farmland at a scary pace if left to its own devices.
> their residents are somehow genetically more superior to other parts of the country

Those are your words, not mine.

I never said that Chinese people can’t innovate. My point was that Chinese companies don’t innovate, and if you wanted to have an adult discussion about it, I would’ve been happy to clarify for you why I believe that.

But I’m not going to entertain a discussion with someone that tries to support their argument by putting words in my mouth and suggesting I’m racist. A discussion with someone like that will go nowhere productive.
Yep.

> We find considerable evidence that, overall, article citations are positively correlated with tweets about the article, and we find little evidence to suggest that author gender affects the transmission of research in this new media

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

(I've only skimmed the paper, a few months ago).
It's interesting that we are exposing "neo-nazis", but when you are a communist no one bats an eye.
Thanks! There is an FAQ at https://diff.blog/FAQ/. It used to be linked form the left sidebar. But I made a major website redesign a couple of months back, which removed that sidebar. Will add it back soon :)
Same.

On IG, I follow a minimal number of family/friends (basically people I see in meat-space at least monthly, plus a very few childhood friends who I still see when we're in the same town). Beyond that, I follow a few cycling and car feeds.

On FB, I actively unfollwed or defriended everybody but family. 99% of my FB use today is marketplace groups and that's 2-3x week.

I've been much less stressed after making those changes. No more anxiety-porn in the feeds. No more politics. Etc. Just close friends, bicycles, and sometimes cute animals my wife forwards.
America lost Vietnam because they failed to understand how to undertake counter insurgency operations, they threw untrained conscripts (who didn’t want to be there, and fucked up) into it. They also didn’t care about winning hearts and minds of the local population to drive support away from the VietCong, measuring success by bodycount.

Vietnam massively scared the US military for a long time, only really going away with the massive success of the Gulf War. It is always valuable to get the other sides perspective on a conflict.

Ultimately in a civil war, both sides are usually good and bad, depending on the perspective you take. The vietnam war was no different. It is good to see that the wounds of the war are mostly healed.
I like Daring Fireball and read it mainly because it is one of the default NetNewsWire feeds and I never removed it.

That said, some of his political posts are offputting - not because I disagree with them on a liberal/conservative spectrum, but because they sometimes have an "I drank the kool aid" tone.
Sharing paywall workarounds is endorsed by the mods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I just took a screenshot of the site and used the color pipette, it's pixel-perfect #FFFFFF white, not beige.
They should have been paid out of the advertising budget of Mozilla if someone there had the insight that no other campaign that they could have run with that money would have furthered the goodwill of web developers towards Mozilla/Firefox more than MDN did.
“As of February 2021, OWD top financial contributors are Microsoft, Google, Coil, and Igalia”

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN_Web_Docs
Stipulations on being eligible (and thus "restricted") by them. I.e., in your scenario you are _not_ restricted.

I've got to conclude you are deliberately misconstruing the points I've made because you have some kind of "Unions are evil" agenda to push. Otherwise how the hell did you come to the conclusion that an employment benefit that doesn't even affect your fictitious scenario is somehow a demonstration of unions are bad.
Seth Godin has written a short, thoughtful post every day for 13 years: https://seths.blog

Also worth reading is Seth’s top 100: https://seths.blog/top-100/
Awesome technical and programming related blogs:

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration [pdf]
As far as I understand, the MDN documenting the standard (HTML5, CSS, etc.) will stay freely accessible as it is. I prefer this than having trackers & ads on the site... which would be completely contrary to their values anyway.
That's assuming that those companies want outside developers to be knowledgeable. That's a questionable assumption. If anyone here remembers how old Microsoft used to operate and why people went to get MS-something certificates you know what I mean.

"Free" documentation is often designed to give you barely enough info to start using their products, but not much more. And we're kind of used to this by now. MDN, FreeBSD hanbook or the original set of Smalltalk books stand as exceptions and reminders what things could look like if motivations were different.
Yes, and also need to hide the speedometer in cars because my mother-in-law drives incredibly slowly and being a passenger has a negative effect on my mental health.

We also need to abolish the "top apps" features in the various app stores because my apps didn't sell well and it had a terrible effect on me.

We also need to ensure that everyone in the Formula 1 finishes at the same time, holding hands, because the "losers" at the end didn't win and they felt bad....

Where does the madness end?? It turns out that life is unfair - who knew?!
As a born and raised Bucharester I find this idea completely juvenile and ridiculous.

I have absolutely no love for Lukashenko (or for his master Putin for that matter) and I fully agree that what was done is outrageous and should be condemned and sanctioned (as long as the EU finds a way to sanction the elite without harming the Belarusian people themselves).

However, I think this kind of gestures are hasty, puerile and unnecessarily provocative. Naming a street just to spite another country's leader is on par with the kind of idiotic gestures somebody like Rogozin is famous for [1]. What's next, naming a street after Navalny to spite Putin? And after that? Khashoggi boulevard to piss off MBS? This would never end. By this measure the entire city should be renamed to spite all the despots of the world.

The idea of a negative reason to name a street is also extremely dubious. Normally streets, squares, parks etc. are named after people or events we want to praise or commemorate. I understand that Protasevich is a dissident and people like him should be protected and encouraged, but why name a street after him? And in Bucharest of all places? Does he have any connection to the city or the country? Is he a hero of the Romanian people? Does Romania, Bucharest or the 1st district have anything to do with the fight for democracy in Belarus?

The whole thing is ill conceived.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin#Controversy
> The point is, without proper care, the mortality rate of this virus raises from 1% to 5%, give or take.

Incorrect. That's the CFR. The actual mortality rate (IFR) is between 0.5-1%. And that's without any useful treatment.

> And that's without taking into account the long term consequences of the survivors

There is no evidence that these aren't extremely rare.

Of course everyone is panicking when they're misinformed like that!