skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LCP metric is particularly brittle. It's concerning Google is linking it to search ranking thereby ensuring everyone caters to it.

In our case, our hero image (formerly the LCP element Lighthouse picked up) is an animated image illustrating our product. It starts animating very fast for most of our audience and finishes loading in the background as it continues animating.

However, the Lighthouse LCP timestamp is not the time which the image starts animating, instead it's the time the animated image _completely finishes_ loading. So even though the animation starts almost right away and doesn't stutter, our LCP was several seconds or more.

We "solved" it by making the animation bounding box size slightly smaller and some text boxes on the page slightly larger so the LCP was tied to the text box loading.
Interactive COVID Map for Seamen
Show opened and closed sea ports. Seems to be very useful.
Numerical solutions of PDE are hardly studied in a typical technical education in calculus (it requires more theoretical machinery) or statistics (PDEs in statistics is somewhat narrow and specialized).
They didn’t necessarily choose FreeBSD because of licensing. Perhaps if FreeBSD has more restrictive licensing they would have still chosen it and had to upstream changes.
Do you mean "make the kind of money", or "live the kind of lifestyle"?

In order to provide you with the lifestyle you take for granted, several million actions must be undertaken by people around the globe (drill for oil, watch hospital patients, build N95 masks, etc). My question is- how many of those actions could be undertaken by people who consider themselves "brainy", the completion of which would guarantee a similar lifestyle to those same brainy people?

I know this is a little utopian- I don't have a full stack solution made up- but when your street gets a pothole, some man comes out and fixes it in the hot sun. Why don't you fix it? Well, you don't have the tools, or the expertise, or the legal right to do it. Furthermore, you don't have the time to do it, because you work 40-60 hours per week yourself at a white collar job (I'm assuming, given you're on HN during the workday). Many people think that someone's full-time "job" should be fixing potholes, and so people think "well I'd never fix potholes, I don't want that as my career". But wouldn't you learn how to fix potholes if you only had to fix potholes when they showed up near you, instead of for 40-60 hours per week every week?
Remote or Los Angeles

Very early stages, working on a no code product for that generates websites from video content. NLP/machine learning/React/Django/Airflow. Currently working as an engineer at a large tech company til I get this off the ground. Have a past minor startup success. Need a highly technical cofounder.
To be quite honest: I'm not comfortable with my current education level regarding the vaccine considering the pretty aggressive censorship everyone has been doing with information on it.
I read your article several times, because I was incredulous at the tone that was being used in the writing.

This is an extraordinary Goodhart's Law example.
Depending on how "user" is defined (and interpreted by the courts) it might be possible to avoid some of these regulations by splitting a service into two: the first would accept encrypted blobs from its users, and the second would allow its users to search for blobs based on a substring (i.e. a recipient header).

Of course it would be easy to prove to the court that there was some sort of conspiracy going on, but it's not clear which service would be breaking which regulation, especially if there were "unofficial" third party apps for creating and decoding the blobs from and into plaintext, which the "official" apps didn't do.
I had mildly symptomatic covid while my wife had acutely symptomatic covid. Then I had a year+ of long covid symptoms.

Then I got a vaccine dose and was very sick for 4 days and had painful systemic inflammation for 6 weeks, during which time my covid toes and tongue and cough disappeared. My second dose only gave me stomach pain for a week.
Criterion is available in Canada...
agree with your read on the article but not on your conclusion. in general, I don't think fudging the truth for strategic reasons ever turns out well in the long run, mostly because, we're not smart enough to anticipate what the long run impact of our strategic lying will be. secondly, the strategy itself, going out of our way, up to and including hiding the causes of a global pandemic, in order to avoid ever hurting china's feelings, just does not seem viable to me at all.
If you project out USN shipbuilding plans to the end of this decade, and then do the same to for the PLAN, the numbers get concerning. Ships take a long long time to get built, and the PLAN has a very high construction tempo.
Nope, you are missing the whole picture :-)

You're stopping your reasoning at the numbers: some contributions from Google, none from Sony. (At this step you're also ignoring contributions to FreeBSD from companies that do contribute back, but whatever.) The big picture would be understanding why GPL wouldn't affect that situation.
I'd maybe agree that they occupy similar spaces in their respective media landscapes, though Bee being a comedian already makes her a different proposition. But either way I wouldn't say they are the exact same thing. An example: recently Tucker Carlson recently took time in an episode to detail an entirely unfounded conspiracy theory that the FBI was behind the January 6th Capitol attacks. It was completely and utterly false, and easily proven as such. But he has not (to date) admitted that.

If there are examples of this level of disinformation coming from Samantha Bee and/or Joy Reid I'd be interested to see them.
PS4 and first Switch are like 4 years apart and modern (PS5/XBox) load almost any game in seconds.
Oh yeah, I can definitely see doing a lot of small, not-necessarily-easy challenges as a way to improve. Even doing the same one, but in a different way ("now use an array instead of a linked list") would be good.
Restructuring My Role as a Mentor – A Reflection on LeadDev Together
The law likely didn't consider disconnected power plants, as why would such a thing exist? I guess the only reason before bitcoin is a self-contained power plant to run a self-contained facility, and even those (like a datacenter) are often grid tied with the power plant as a backup.
True enough, but a fair few require at least some commitment every day. For some that's not as easy of a commitment to make, but I totally see your point.
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-...

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A: The data to support the EUA include an analysis of 36,523 participants in the ongoing randomized, placebo-controlled international study, the majority of whom are U.S. participants, who completed the 2-dose vaccination regimen and did not have evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection through 7 days after the second dose. Among these participants, 18,198 received the vaccine and 18,325 received saline placebo. The vaccine was 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 disease among these clinical trial participants with 8 COVID-19 cases in the vaccine group and 162 COVID-19 cases in the placebo group. Of these 170 COVID-19 cases, 1 in the vaccine group and 3 in the placebo group were classified as severe.
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Maybe less with more aggressive variants.

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A: Most vaccines that protect from viral illnesses also reduce transmission of the virus that causes the disease by those who are vaccinated. While it is hoped this will be the case, the scientific community does not yet know if the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine will reduce such transmission.

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That said. Results in Germany look like transmission can be stopped but not must:

https://www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/COVID-Impfen/FAQ_Transmiss...

I depends likely on how good your immune system works. Which is expectable.
The real reason for Windows 11 is that they could finally drop the Internet Explorer 11 GUI.
The dangers of typing on an iphone SE :)
I disagree. Yes, Mesopotamia was usually controlled by the Parthians or Sassanids, but everywhere else was squarely Roman sphere of influence. And they never controlled Persia proper. That would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_Iran. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_empires for a fairly stable rough division of geography both before and after they period too.
He tends to temper himself a lot more though. Doesn’t seem quite as aggressive even for instance in that message.

Which is good, although I wouldn’t have minded a bit of old school Linus for the anti vaxers.
Manual for a Facial Recognition Tool Shows How Much the Software Tracks People
I see. So it's about an attitude that lets little things creep in and add up. Interesting!
Maybe I can try to explain the parent comment's point a different way. When saying that rust works on types and not on arbitrary specifications, I think he is saying that rust is more limited than languages that support arbitrary specifications. However, by making this tradeoff it achieves a reasonable degree of safety without incurring a ton of overhead.

I believe the comment that types are aligned with the syntax is meant as a contrast to other languages which include specifications written in a format substantially different from or fully removed from the implementation. This can reduce the friction of using type-based verification when compared to formal verification capable of describing an arbitrarily complicated spec.

When discussing the scalability of types, I think he is saying that because types are coupled to the implementation, and don't support non-local reasoning, it is less likely that you will run into issues with type checking as you try to compose many small components into a larger program. In contrast, my impression is that with full formal verification, it can become extremely difficult to properly verify a large system.

Regarding your comparison to C and python, I think it's clear that the parent was comparing the specific type system and borrow checker that Rust provides vs. formal verification, not making a statement about the general concept of a type system. In particular, I don't think it's reasonable to assume he was saying the existence of types provides any sort of safety. Rather, it's clear he was saying the use of a powerful type system (such as that found in Rust or Haskell) to implement a limited specification of the program functionality can provide a degree of safety.
Hey, thank you for the detailed list of issues.

1. Some of your points surprised me a lot, including "Scrolling the preview would often pan the entire window", "Panning the window was really sluggish", and "It was really hard to drag lines" – these should not happen. We are heavily testing Enso on macOS and these issues are not known. I know I'm asking for a lot, but would you be so nice and have a 15 mins call with me so I could see how Enso behaves on your end?

2. Some of these points did not surprise me – our text editor is really broken right now and this is one of the things we are improving for the next release. That's why we normally do not even tell people how to open it! However, if you had any issues with editing expressions on nodes (cmd + left mouse button), I'd love to know more about that as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity I should say 3rd not 4th.
Placement of a flag on an empty red fort is simply not comparable to a sustained attack and attempt to kill legislators on Capitol hill.
Awesome. I used to rub my forehead to fake a fever on those forehead scanning thermometers.
In this case Spring could solve this. But even so there are things that can be done by developers and others by infrastructure
Show HN: VechaiUI – React components with built-in dark mode using Tailwind CSS
Clicking "this device" shows a diagram of a sort of wide tapered straw... used to "cure" hiccups:

https://www.studyfinds.org/invention-science-cure-hiccups/
I think a lot of those people are joking?
I think this is ignoring the problem of the global market. Studios found that it was more profitable to cater to multiple countries and cultures simultaneously.

For example, even if 100% of America went to see a film, that only represents approximately 1/3 of China's population. As a studio, ignoring that market would be seen as throwing away money. So you will see immense pressure to make your movie marketable in China as well as America.

Even if many American consumers choose to watch a film catering to them that studio would still be pressured to view that film as a commercial failure.

It doesn't seem to matter so much what the local consumers want since their demand is dwarfed by global demand.
Well said. There is also the other extreme, where articles of the kind you described don't "use a more-than-necessary general title" but one that is so specific and narrow that it will never fly on HN, even if the content is otherwise a good fit for a valuable HN discussion.

The dilemma with titles is that most of them fall into one of two categories:

- titles where the author didn't put much effort into

- titles where the author tried too hard

The first category is often confusing because the article doesn't fit the title well. The second category often ends up as clickbait.
I think the hard limit CF imposes is of wall-clock time, not CPU time specifically. The CPU-time limit is a soft limit (i.e. not something that kills your Worker; only something used after-the-fact to determine whether your Worker “gets to succeed”.)

From their docs:

> Cloudflare will bill for Duration charges based on the higher of your wall time or CPU time, with a multiple applied to the CPU time to account for the processing power allotted to your script. We will not bill for wall time Duration charges beyond the execution limit given.

I think what this means in practice (as someone who has tried to implement similar “user workload total-resource-spend limiting” before) is that CloudFlare

1. Start a wall-clock timer, and a CPU-accounting sampler, when the task begins;

2. let the workload run until either it completes, or the timer goes off (and if the timer goes off, the task is hard-killed);

3. If the task was hard-killed, the load-balancing layer is then responsible for responding with a 503 (or whatever error CF uses for this case);

4. If the task wasn’t hard-killed, CF calculate CPU-seconds spent as the area under the curve of CPU-usage * wall-clock-time, and check whether the workload exceeded its CPU budget;

5. If the workload did exceed its budget, then — even though the request was calculated successfully — they nevertheless toss the result away, and reply with a 503 (or whatever) from the Workers control-plane layer;

6. If it didn’t, then they actually forward the result of your request back to the user.

(Meanwhile, handling memory limits is a lot easier — they can just ride the coattails of V8’s own per-ExecutionContext memory accounting, to trigger an OOM event on allocation when area-under-the-curve of GB-secs goes over-limit. But, as a workload might do all its allocations at the beginning and then exceed the memory GB-seconds limit due to the time component increasing, you need to do one final calculation of this at the same time you’re doing the final CPU-accounting check.)
Google did try to build housing but Mountain View wouldn’t let them. [1] I also have been to public hearings where Mountain View and Palo Alto council members celebrate their success in blocking public transit in the South Bay (hence Google Buses). If you think this is the tech companies fault then maybe the local governments shouldn’t be blocking them from trying to help.

https://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2012/07/13/google-housi...
> For the last half decade, if your users are accessing your website through a search query that isn't your site name, you have the wrong audience

Hard disagree on this. How am I supposed to discover rentpath.com if I don't know I'm looking for it? But if I'm looking to "connect with prospective renters by offering powerful digital marketing and leasing solutions," like the marketing copy on their landing page says, I can easily see myself landing on rentpath.com.

Tell me: did you literally type "hacker news" into google in order to discover this site?
And I am curious to know how many such vendors there are.
For sure. Or look at things like Knives Out or Thor: Ragnarok. Solid comedies both and mass-market successes.

The notion that people can't be funny anymore just because they can no longer use particular groups as punchlines is just lazy. A great example is Get Out. It's a lot of things, but it can reasonably be called a comedy: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/jordan-peele-ge...

Or look at Sorry to Bother You: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You

I thought both of these movies were hilarious, and they worked with extremely "challenging" social topics.

As an old, when people start talking about movies were only funny back in the day, I suspect they just imprinted on whatever was funny in their youth. Time moves on, and humor has to move with it.
Hi Wojciech, congratulations!

It's good to see the idea taking more and more shape. I think the combination of a text-based and visual language is the only viable path to general-purpose visual programming.

This is a vision worth pursuing.
KPI's/Goodhart's Law in a nutshell... In theory Lighthouse is a nice resource for finding ways to optimize your site but since it's tied to page rank it means we are encouraged/incentivized to eschew best practices and to use lighthouse practices instead.
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Looking for for a co-founder that can help create a business around the concept, ideally with marketing/branding/social media chops | REMOTE / GLOBAL (I’m currently in Denmark).

I’m building a product to replace Google Photos/Drive/Contacts for people who won’t/can’t store their data in the cloud. Self-hosting is currently a pain with poor UX and more worries about security and backups than most people want to deal with. I’m well on my way to creating an MVP proving that an alternative is possible, and just as easy and sleek as mainstream solutions.

I'm a sw/systems architect with professional experience in consumer electronics, and have the ability to develop the product on my own if need be.

Email: username @ gmail
You sound bitter, greedy and envious. My happiness is related to my own situation, and has absolutely no relation to the situation of faceless CEOs, nor to a potential alternate reality where I have a better situation. You work for a wage; you're either satisfied with this amount or you're not. Being unsatisfied solely because others get more? With your mindset, literally no one can be content in the world except billionaires.
The vaccine doesn't make you more likely to have a walking case, it still provides substantial protection. It doesn't provide as much protection as hoped against that variant.

It is a good argument for the vaccinated to continue to wear masks when mixing with the unvaccinated.
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150% APR? How Are DeFi Yields So High?
I'm talking small business. Hardware would be employee's own laptop. Software in those fields would be a pittance.

If I was a bastard who wanted value for money, I'd hire those part-time mums. From what I've seen, they end up feeling obliged to work out of hours, so you'd effectively get 0.8 FTE while paying for 0.4-0.6. Roles like social media or content writing with scheduling involved instantly creeps into days off. Horrible approach from an employer, but like I said, if I was a bastard.
Luna was really inspiring to me. I'm really interested to see how this goes.

I remember Luna previously having rendering perf issues using a canvas element. How is the perf with Enso?

Small thing, I noticed this typo:

> the ease with which you can ready and write code

On: https://enso.org/docs/syntax
This article agrees somewhat with my pet model of the relationship between intelligence and achievement. That is, (assuming you pass a certain threshold; you aren’t going to be a particle physicist with an 85 IQ) natural talent is only the dominating predictor of performance twice: when you don’t have that much practice at something and when you’re bumping up against the current limits of what can be done (e.g. when you’re late in your chess career or have seen all the gains from practice you can).

Obviously intelligence matters when you’re starting out in a field: if you can learn things more quickly and more completely than the next person, you’ll have a head start that can’t be beat with raw practice. It’s similarly self-evident that it’s necessary when you’re close to the “end” of your field: it’s /hard/ to push boundaries and do things no one has before. Mark Kac’s quote about “magical geniuses” comes to mind.

I think people spend a lot of time in the early stages of a field (I graduated with a math major and I’m still just starting out in math!) and I feel like this tends to bias people towards saying that intelligence is a dominating factor for performance over a lifetime. However, I think this neglects the fact that 99% of a given field lies somewhere between the absolute beginning and the absolute cutting edge.

This is something I’ve noticed: nearly all the high achievers I know are reasonably intelligent people who are crazy passionate. I knew people in my friend group at college who went on to get {Masters,PhDs} at {Stanford,MIT} and out of all 4 of them only one was exceptionally smart IMO (over 1/1000 rarity).

This also leads me to the conclusion that most people you see who seem crazy smart are probably a fairly normal level of smart with effort added to taste. The argument for this isn’t ideological - it’s statistical. There are simply so many more above-average people than there are exceptional people that most of the really high (but not world class) performers come from the former group.
I suspect a fair few of the short to long-term contract positions I see advertised are to cover someone's parental leave.

Content though definitely. I tend to see more short-term/part-time content creation positions than I do eng ones.
Agreed. I’ve suspected that I’ve had some after effects from COVID including some sleep and lung issues but I couldn’t tell you which is from COVID and which is from gaining weight during lockdowns. Chances are that it’s just that I gained weight and need to get back into shape.