skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a drill is the one tool pretty much everyone could stand to have.
> the difference is on hn, shitposting, trolling and straight up being offensive is strongly discouraged.

you can be deeply offensive on hn if who you are offending is people outside of what hn considers to be its own audience. hn posters will defend the harm their software does to society all over town. people on this site care only about decorum; the syntax of kindness without the semantics.
Sounds more like relativism than nihilism. Relativism is extremely common in mainstream political and moral discourse, especially in mass media journalism. This often takes the form of "bothsidesism" or "false balance," particularly in political discourse. So often, the merits of any claim (about politics, morality, scientific facts, even very basic claims about well-documented events that happened very recently, etc.) are judged by nothing except how strongly people appear to believe in them.

You see this a lot on Hacker News too, like when the discussion touches anything related to moderation, community standards/guidelines, censorship, fact-checking, etc. A particularly popular viewpoint around here seems to be that the government (or sometimes, any powerful corporation) cannot possibly be allowed to be involved in determining the validity of any claim, particularly if that claim is controversial, i.e. there are prominent people on both sides who appear to feel strongly about the claim.
Arturas Kerelis sucks wow
Yes the DOM allows for declarative exploration but that's not a good enough reason to keep it.

It needs to go. It's plagued us for far too long.
Surely it was only a non-refundable credit. The US government is not going to give you back more than you paid them in the first place when recognizing foreign tax?
you should really get these kind of data straight from the source when you can. stastica is sometimes useful for some hard to get metrics. this is not one.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2021/F...

this is their q1 earnings presentation https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/FB...

US/CA arpu is $48.03 for just q1 (just 3 month not for the year). Global arpu is $9.27.

there's no way $3/mo makes any sense.
This is crazy. How are intelligence agencies, with the amount of money and free reign they have, not monitoring the whole Internet for this kind of stuff?
Google Pixel 6 leak just revealed a major upgrade
What was the forum that helped get you into programming?

Regarding slack, you need an account right? Do you have one through work?
Yes, bullet possibly dodged but that still makes it frustrating and a time waster. And these types of interviews don’t expose or test on knowledge needed on the actual codebase. I see it as a cockyness contest which I don’t want to be part of.
I thought the point of SDI was to placate Reagan's ego. But yes, MAD was working such as it was and even if SDI could have intercepted a few missiles - which it didn't - it never would have stopped an all-out attack. I agree the funding was secured disingenuously. But then how big a lie do the warhawks need, and do they really need to believe it?
> I think this would be seen as an excuse to view Firefox as hostile

I think this is fine. We are hostile. Maybe we should just embrace it.

We literally don't want sites profiting off of our attention or personal information. We don't want to enter into a comprimise. That would allow them to continue. We want them to stop. We couldn't care less how much money they lose.

> And it's trivial to actually detect a browser with a different JS and DOM rendering engine.

Right now, yes. I expect this situation to improve though. Curbing fingerprinting for the sake of privacy will necessarily entail normalizing all browsers to the point they can no longer be used as identifying bits of information. That will destroy the ability to detect which browser the user is running.

> Progress is often best achieved through measured steps, not extreme changes.

That's true but there's nothing wrong with a revolution. We have a huge advantage in the form of control over our computers and what software they run. There is no need to compromise.
Hey all, I'm one of the authors of the paper Introducing Physical Warp Drives and a Y Combinator alum (YC W'14). This video does a great job explaining our paper and Erik's as there a few misunderstandings in this forum https://youtu.be/PA66ah9b0U4. We all know each other and all have the warp bug as we now have a path; it's just going to be difficult. If you would like to join our warp drive cohort, please email us a bit about yourself and your ideas for warp at create at appliedphysics dot org. Our cohort is composed of PhDs and engineers from several STEM disciplines, we meet weekly and have more papers in the works, perhaps you can join the fun! https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-model-requires-no-exot...
right, HN only cares about conforming to protocols. If you conform to the social protocol, you can advocate for the most horrible of positions on this site.
> What is Twitter but a reflection of our own society?

Twitter isn't just a reflection, though, it's a feedback loop. It takes a stream of ideas (usually ill-considered) from a ridiculous number of people and sends them directly to the people that it expects will be most emotionally affected by them. Those people then absorb those ideas and either react with anger or support, feeding the system with new material to repeat the cycle.

If Twitter simply reflected society, it would have done no harm. But instead it's amplified the most animalistic part of our collective nature.
Suppose you set off in a spaceship at 80% of lightspeed, or 0.8c, travelling away from Earth. At this speed, according to relativity, time is slowed to 60% of it's 'usual' value. So for every 10 hours that pass on Earth, only 6 will appear to pass on the spaceship.

However, this is only true from the perspective of someone on Earth. From the point of view of someone on the spaceship, the opposite is true. From their perspective, the spaceship is stationary, and Earth is travelling away from it at 0.8c. Therefore, for every 10 hours that pass on the spaceship, only 6 will appear to pass on Earth.

Suppose there was a way of instantaneously communicating between the two. On Earth, 10 hours into the mission, mission control sends a message to the spaceship. Because of time dilation, the spaceship receives the message only 6 hours into the mission, from their perspective. The spaceship then sends a message back, and due to the same time dilation effect, the message arrives on Earth 3 hours and 36 minutes into the mission (60% of 6 hours). In other words, the reply from the spaceship will arrive 6 hours and 24 minutes before mission control sends the original message.
It's way too hard to build evidence for something like that. Virtually all research into PL effectiveness ends up not account for the absurd number of variables.
Wasn't Visual Studio a 32bit application up to now, so that it can't use more than 4GB? I think an announcement for the next version contained 64bit? But sure - some of the sub-processes it starts might use more memory
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your account has unfortunately been posting a lot of flamewar comments and also unsubstantive comments to HN. We ban that sort of account, and in fact I teetered about whether to just ban you now. However, it looks like we've not given you a warning before, and it seems best to do that first.

Would you please review the site rules and use HN as intended from now on? That means thoughtful, respectful, substantive comments in a spirit of curiosity—not ideological or nationalistic battle, not fulminating, and not trying to smite enemies.

This doesn't depend at all on how badly others behave or how wrong or provocative their posts are, or you feel they are. Each user needs to carry their own weight with this.
>I've never been downvoted for making a controversial point on HN. And, I have ONLY been downvoted for making glib, lazy, or intellectually weak arguments. This is exactly how it should be.

That's probably because you don't post any opinions that the HN hivemind finds controversial. Stray outside the lines just a bit and expect moderator censure and downvotes/flags.
> And how do you make sure your getting students on Merit and not on wealth

I hate to break this to you, but if you're rich enough, you can already essentially buy an EB-5 visa by doing the right sort of investing:

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...

Also, the USCIS is self-funded from application fees, so letting a few rich people pay huge amounts could actually lower fees for everyone else.

But yes, overall, the system is hell to navigate as I know from having hired lawyers and filed papers with them myself. It's already quite unfriendly to anyone who isn't capable of jumping through complicated hoops.

For example, recently they started rejecting applications that leave any field blank, so you must write N/A or 0 or whatever as discussed in the instructions.

Except the PDF validation doesn't allow a slash in there, so how do I ensure the system doesn't think I have 5 kids named NA NA NA? And 00/00/0000 isn't exactly a valid birthday, either. And some sections say "only fill this out if xyz" making it unclear whether the instructions to leave nothing blank or those instructions should take precedence.

Oh, and the Adobe digital signature thing is broken, so you can't actually fill it out with Adobe Acrobat... which they specifically recommend and have to find other PDF software.

They also specifically state that height should be entered with a leading zero, their example being 5' 09" ... and the PDF does not permit that leading zero, leaving you with 5' 9" contradicting their own example in the instructions.

Yeah, I filled out what I could in a different PDF viewer, printed it, then complied with the instructions by fixing the problems with a pen because we can lose status if they had decided not to accept the application in time. It worked, but the whole thing is just an exercise in frustration.
YMMV, but that doesn't match my experience with NextJS at all.
Imagine living in a country that isn't
Not surprising, Rails was made for an environment exactly like this.
Yes exactly! This is a much better description than I was able to come up with.
Housing isn't a bubble right now. It's a completely rational and explainable response to low supply, a short term burst of demand (from 12 months of no one buying), expensive materials (pandemic supply chain issues), and low interest rates. It'll work itself out.

That being said, people probably shouldn't be buying houses while waiving inspections.
No, it's not. It's the difference between the FSF version and this GNAT 2021 Community Edition by Adacore. The FSF version is under mGPL, this edition is under GPLv3 including the runtime which is included in every binary.

I mentioned it precisely because people get it wrong so often.
Show HN: An Open Marketplace for Influencers
Not sure which version you're reading but I'm on the PDF and it says most important (on page 27 and also in the caption on the picture after page 24).
I'll give you that a lot of the middlebox problems are because they are garbage, however...

Dismissing the security features they are ostensibly delivering snakeoil is more than a bit unfair. There is a legit security context where absolute transparency & auditability is the right design objective, rather than absolute privacy. I'd argue the greatest failing we've seen with the evolution of TLS was the failure to recognize and address that reality.
HN has basically one moderator. It's just that we've trained an army of downvoters and flaggers that mostly clobber anything "un-HN" almost immediately. There's a community here and it defends itself.
What I did for 2020:

- spend 330+ days per year outside the USA

- specify that I had foreign earned income (based on the physical presence test)

- specified the foreign address at which I stayed the longest

- claimed foreign earned income exclusion

Before I did any of the above, I paid an expat tax specialist $250 and asked a bunch of questions about how the FEIE works. Worth every penny.
Maybe it is just me, but "people-powered search engine" made me think the search queries are sent to humans who look for an answer for you, like an operator.
SerenityOS looks impressive.

Programming in assembly is like playing with Legos. Last year I started creating my own pet OS in a Bochs virtual machine, compiling with nasm. Created the boot loader and UI, but then realized what I really wanted to implement wasn't the low level layer.

For that reason I placed the project aside and moved to the highest level, creating a distributed command-line console in Javascript that connects to Node.js based servers. If I ever complete my dreamed OS then I can either translate it into assembly, or build a JS interpreter.

At this point the console allows creating programs with UI controls, launch processes without blocking the console, and terminating them just clicking a button, as well as connecting to other servers to perform tasks.
Why you may be booted out of business within 6 months?
Some countries (like China as I recall) are strict about getting business visas with a letter of introduction, etc. if you're doing something like attending a conference. But, yes, in general Western countries are mostly fine at least with other Western countries so long as you don't work for a local company.
I'd think this site would be full of nerds ;) Think about the experience of being a nerd in HS. If pop culture is to be believed, I only got the extra-lite version of that in Russia compared to the US; on the other hand, I grew up surrounded by Russia, it's like the same thing on larger scale.

The experience is that you are constantly surrounded by people doing stupid, harmful crap in part because some of them are actually idiots, but mostly because of group/tribal/social pressures you don't care and can do nothing about.

What do you do? You do your thing, take care of yourself (broadly, i.e. your family, etc.) and minimize the damage others' ...unwise actions cause you. If you are so inclined you can also laugh when chickens come home to roost for someone due to their willful stupidity.

This approach works well for climate change, too :)
Did you comment on the wrong article?
I think you are trying to say that STEM could follow an “MD model” as a solution to the shortage of STEM graduates.

From your link, solution 4 is “Introduce two new professional doctoral degree programs for science and engineering built on the MD model. This fourth strategy would also reduce training costs and uncertainties, specifically for those whose career goals focus on professional practice rather than cutting-edge research. Graduates would have a firm grounding in a broad set of skills, understand how their skills fit in with other skill sets, and be able to keep up with the cutting edge. These new programs would feature a structured curriculum with well-defined completion criteria and a definite term, perhaps of four years. Their faculty would be practitioners with other sources of income, as in medical schools. The rapid growth of industrial parks, corporate-like technical centers, and corporate partnerships would facilitate this arrangement. As with existing professional degree programs, students would not normally rely on grants and fellowships but would instead look to substantially higher lifetime earnings to pay their own way. The attractiveness of this strategy depends partly on whether the current employment of S&E PhDs could be partly satisfied instead by holders of these new professional doctoral degrees.”

To me that is just an academic hodgepodge of ideas that reads like wishful thinking.

I suggest that if you wish to make your point clearly, perhaps expand it into a blog article, and back it up with the facts you have access to.
Hmm, I think you're right. Also, I'm probably thinking of their North American market. They probably make less in the rest of the world.
US tax law has become a bit less sticky over time for non-residents. At least today they don't throw tax on your global income for people doing few months stints.

Though, I don't think you can find much people today willing to go to US just for a few months for the sheer amount of paperwork headache.
"Real home prices have never been so high"

yawn... he and others have been warning of a housing bubble since 2013 or so. But prices keep going up, especially since Covid. Even if the market was to cash, it would probably not revisit those lows. What this means is, if you wait for a lower price, you may never get it even if the market crashes. Maybe he along with the rest of the financial media and experts need to admit they are clueless about predicting the future. The useless financial media in jan-feb were certain GameStop would be low double-digits by now...so much for that.
> for folks currently holding clearances just reading that story could put them in hot water.

Can you elaborate on your last point - why?
What’s crazy to me is the argument we should ever stop optimizing anything. Doing things efficiently means we have more resources to do other things, so we can do more things in total. That’s how we got from cavemen to smartphones. It’s the human condition.
It's not just Opera though. Microsoft Edge is using also Webkit. I'm legit worried that if Mozilla ever tanks, we could have a complete WebKit browser monoculture.
There was also an article posted here a while back noting that many American cities are too dependent on population growth to fund their infrastructure projects. They are essentially borrowing against expected growth and if that growth doesn't come, some cities could be left with a huge debt.
A woman turning Kenya's plastic waste problem to solution: Plastic bricks
focus tower? what happened to train of thought?
We built a Serverless Stonks checker app – here's our findings after 3 weeks
Here here! Antisuperluminalists evolved from those who said we'd never fly.
Their metamoderation was innovative but ultimately pointless.

Instead of having one popularity contest, it was like a popularity contest that qualified you for another popularity contest. Theoretically the metamods were "good" posters, but being a "good" poster was ridiculously easy - you could just rack up karma by parroting the hivemind and bashing Microsoft or whatever.
Court rules climate change “duty of care” to future generations exists
See also:
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/02/a-duty-o...

"Eight teenagers and an octogenarian nun head to an Australian court on Tuesday to launch what they hope will prove to be a landmark case – one that establishes the federal government’s duty of care in protecting future generations from a worsening climate crisis."
It’s more that “teach critical thinking” often just means “condescend to an internet stranger about how flawed their thought process is” which, even if their thinking is flawed, isn’t exactly a winning strategy for helping people See The Light and whatnot.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I posted about writing a text-based adventure-game in Z80 assembly language, to run on a single-board CP/M system:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946130
As someone with experience in eBPF and QUIC I can tell you it will be a tough one. QUIC is very complicated and requires some rather sophisticated (and long running) algorithms, and eBPF is [intentionally] rather limited on what it can do.

However there are some interesting use-cases for eBPF in the context of QUIC. E.g. it can definitely be used to route packets by connection IDs.
Parents and Prisons
> at a scale of single digit thousands of servers

On the other hand, at merely single-digit servers, I'm guessing the fixed cost of personnel referenced in the GP comment would dominate.
Alright it's clear you're only here to rile people up. Not sure why you think that's appropriate here.
While I love the concept it seems somewhat flawed. If every URL needs to be manually submitted it is far easier for spammers than actual users. Especially if you need a handful of form URLs, is this intended for readers or authors? Because a reader likely just wants to see it or post it on their favourite form, I can't see them going around to a handful. If it is expected that the author does it than that is somewhat encouraging spamming forms.

That being said I like the idea, maybe submission could be made easier with a browser extension? Or you could crawl popular form feeds and become a sort of form aggregator as a form of crawling.

On the other hand how is this different than Reddit? You are basically aggregating links, except instead of providing a form you are linking to multiple forms. I'm not sure if that is better or just an inconvenience. Of course maybe just providing a functional search is enough to distinguish you from Reddit.
> The crypto bubble is people looking for get-rich-quick schemes because they need them

People who desperately need cash aren't speculating huge amounts on crypto. The speculative bubbles are driven by people with extra cash they can gamble on speculative investments.

Crypto has been pushed a way for the little guy to fight back against wall street, but in reality it's a big business for traders with high bankrolls. Someone investing $1000 into crypto and making 10X gains is phenomenally lucky, but $10,000 isn't going to buy them a house. Many of the biggest winners in crypto are the very wealthy individuals who could afford to gamble $10K or even $100K on an ultra speculative investment because losing everything wouldn't appreciably impact their wealth.

It's also important to ask where the money is coming from when someone claims high crypto gains. If someone bought $1000 of DOGE and sold it for $10,000 later, where did the $9000 profit come from? It comes from new entrants buying DOGE. It's often the casual retail investors who are late to the party, cashing out the early buyers with their purchases.
On some platforms, custom streams or lists can be used.

On the late little-lamented Google+, a set of features converged to give this option:

- It was possible to define what profiles could comment on one's own posts, or whose notifications would be visible. I simply piled all my contacts into two lists ("Circles") called "notifications" and "comments". If someone abused that privilege, they were removed.

- The default Home stream could include "featured" or "recommended" content. Individual lists could not. Obvious hack: don't look at the Home stream, and instead have a primary list. On desktop, I further hacked the CSS to remove any references to streams I wasn't interested in following, e.g., the short-lived "Games" category, and "What's Hot" (an absolute cesspit of anodyne irrelevance).

- On successor platforms, I typically set up about three lists in order of priority, often literally "A", "B", and "C". The highest-quality (and lowest-volume) posters go in A, spillover to B, and especially annoying / high-volume to C. If a profile's contributions are not useful, they're unfollowed.

- Block early and often. Where merely unfollowing isn't enough. https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104371585950783019

- Mastodon has the additional feature of being able to block an entire instance. For large instances (tens to hundreds of thousands of accounts) this may be overkill. For smaller ones with hostile cultures, it's quite handy.

I'll note: HN has none of these features, but it has excellent moderation, and the option of collapsing annoying threads. If I find myself conversing with someone to whom my meagre skills in communication seem utterly inadequate, I collapse the thread and move on. HN preserves those collapsed states (at times this is an antifeature, here, it's useful).

This isn't quite as powerful as the block-user feature, but in the context of HN's other controls, it's generally sufficient.