skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even worse I am having a tough time putting my finger on what the shortcoming of these people is.

I've been fairly obsessed with this general area for several years now, and I have come to a fairly strong conclusion that the(!) root cause is the nature of human consciousness (and in turn, how individuals perceive & conceptualize reality...or, how the human mind ~renders reality to our consciousness).

> It’s not IQ as I’ve seen and met quite a few gullible sheep of this sort who would undoubtedly score high. I don’t see a strong correlation either way with intelligence. It doesn’t even seem to be one’s metaphysics or epistemology. I know devoutly religious people as well as mystics and occultist types who are nonetheless not gullible in the way that this crowd is gullible, and I have seen atheists and people with scientific backgrounds who are. Race, nationality, even educational attainment doesn’t seem to map.

While there is surely some variance by various dimensions like these, I have come to the same conclusion as you, this phenomenon does not seem to have a very strong causal relationship with any of these things, as counter-intuitive as that may seem. That said, I think it is possible to start to make some sense out of it if you (even speculatively, as a thought experiment) consider it from the perspective of consciousness (our "reality rendering/generation engine") being the fundamental or primary root cause.
Software Development Is Misunderstood
It seems like the answer is "no", but … iPhones don't expose themselves as MTP devices when connected to USB?

I'm an Android user, but that just seems like basic table stakes…?
Missing dark matter in a nearby dwarf galaxy
> dependency management is just aweful

There is active work to improve this and make external does a first class feature. It will improve as more external contributors work on solutions and adopt bazel.

> not all languages are equally well supported

Similar to the previous statement. It doesn't make sense to imply "it's not perfect so it will never be perfect". The vision and feature set makes sense to me and I see no other build system tackling this scope.

> and for small shops it's probably stupid to add build files everywhere.

What makes it stupid? If your team is so small that you're only building one binary you only need one BUILD file. Very similar to how Gradle works actually.

Also, build files are mostly auto generated if you wire your source code to standard conventions. It's something you only need to think about or touch when doing something complex (that also is not supported by other build systems). Example: using genrules to automate something or packaging things for deployment.

If you have:

- more then one language

- unit tests

- package an artifact for deployment (Docker, tar, zip, etc)

- can benefit from caching

Bazel-likes are pretty much the only option right now.

There are quirks but there's also a growing community trying to smooth out those areas.
It's not worth responding to the accounts attacking my post. Look at their comment history. They're trolls.
The enforced ~500ms loading time between slides is a killer. Why not preload and display them immediately?
Would a regulated monopoly be subject to community decency rules? Would twitter be fined every time somebody posts Janet Jackson's nipple?
I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit I don't have any computer that low-spec. My most puny device is an Asus EeeBox, which has an Atom N270 (32bit, single-core, two threads) and 1GB of RAM.[0]

The biggest problem in this challenge would be the web, I suppose, as a recent web browser that supports Javascript and all that will easily use more than 1GB of RAM just by itself.

I like the idea, though.

[0] Strictly speaking, I also own a mid-1990s ThinkPad with 24MB of RAM and a 80486 CPU, but that device has no storage except the HDD, no network, not way for me to attach any network or storage, so it's practically useless. :(
Show HN: WebhookTest. Test Your Webhooks
Room?
I suggest you read up on history - particularly the period between WWI and WWII.
Yes but a lot of Java projects start with a J and they must have thought about it.
OP didn't understand why the two countries were so different despite sharing an island.

I explained that they're different because they're comprised of different people with different histories.

This might be obvious to you but in my experience a lot of people assume that the inhabitants of the Hispaniola came from the same seed, as in they were the same group of people who later split when that was not the case. One country was seeded by the Spanish and the other one by the French.

My comment was not meant to be a thorough analysis on their respective economies.
If anyone is on the fence with pre-made UI components around Tailwind I just put out a video the other day reviewing Tailkit (it has 300+ Tailwind components, layouts and pages). The author was also kind enough to giveaway 2 copies which is covered in the video. That giveaway ends Saturday July 10th.

The video is here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/reviewing-tailkit-300-tailwin...

I've been using it in a few projects and it's really nice. There's no affiliate links or kick backs for promoting Tailkit either, I'm just a happy user.
People sell to adults when it's illegal. If you make adults legal and minors illegal, why do you assume that nobody will sell to minors?
Same thing is being proposed for NSW. Pathetic really.
How does that deal with stack-allocated data that gets twiddled by some other code expecting that it will be able to do so, where that expectation outlives the actual stackframe itself?
Because most of the spam is coming from other countries and the cost of tracking down every spammer is prohibitive.
I wonder what is owed Haiti for the profits extracted from the enslaved peoples forced to work to death there.
Agreed. I bought TailwindUI not because I am interested in how the UI actually works or even writing custom components from the start, but rather because I wanted to get a professional look initially and focus on the business logic of the app. UI isn't the most important thing, after all.
If you want to try out only the Oberon language, there are several Oberon implementations for different platforms, including embedded systems, native windows executables, and the Java virtual machine: http://oberon07.com/compilers.xhtml
> The threat model you're talking about neither seems realistic, nor like something npm audit can help with. The attack vector of a contributor sneaking in malicious code is dealt with by only giving the commit bit to trusted people, and reviewing code yourself.

How is this not realistic when it has already been seen in the npm ecosystem multiple times. For an example of this in the wild see the event-stream (crypto-mining trojan) fiasco:
https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

Dependencies are a target for exploit, your package may be safe now and then become unsafe in the future, either intentionally or unintentionally.
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On mobile, the slides switched instantly. On Firefox Desktop it's like from hell.
Is your boss ending remote work? As a CEO, let me tell you why they are wrong
It seems that "competitive" and "anti-competitive" mean about the same thing and it's a matter of perspective. It depends on which companies you support.
I am a senior IT architect. I give you the junior card but in the whole, you don't know at all what you are babbling about. ALL databases have tradeoffs.
Julian Assange Won’t Be Held in Supermax Jail If Extradited, U.S. Assures U.K
HBO licenses more movies. In my week in my hotel room I haven’t watched a single “hbo original.”

So Netflix does have more original content, I don’t care. I want to watch shows and movies and don’t care what studio produces them.

Can you imagine only listening to Spotify produced music? Or Apple Music or something?
Ability to sit and rise from the floor as a predictor of all-cause mortality
It works brilliantly. It's called dumping. It created major businesses like Standard Oil, prior to antitrust laws. Indeed, it's #1 on Wikipedia's list of anticompetitive strategies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices#Typ...

I have mixed feelings about some of the big money SV strategies. Antitrust concerns aside:

- They do allow some types of long-term transformative businesses, which would otherwise be impossible.

- They don't allow many forms of sustainable businesses to exist. If you and I have the same idea and ability to execute, whichever of us raises more money (and in an ideal free market, this means whichever of us is willing to accept less favorable terms) wins. This drains value from entrepreneurs to capital. Perhaps it speeds things up a little bit, but it's a net lose. It also leads to businesses with unsustainable debt and burn rates, and many viable business models crash-and-burn.
You're correct - building constellations is definitely much cheaper.

For an observational/capability platform such as for DoD or NOAA, making a large number in a series makes sense. For a research platform (NASA/NSF) that same idea doesn't apply, since science objectives dominate the discussion.
The 'tweets' displayed there are mostly borderline incomprehensible, and frankly don't really seem to read as Trump tweets most of the time. How is this supposed to be useful?
Seems quite disingenuous to claim low latency and variance based on a synthetic benchmark when the real world p95 latency and variance will likely be quite high with a normal distribution of user geos.

And FWIW I requested the same link on my laptop and then phone and my phone took >1s to resolve the redirect.
If anyone is interested, Mozilla’s Deepspeech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) is also quite a solid open source offline alternative, and runs quite well even on low-end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
Most people who think they need to support legacy browsers don't actually need to. Evergreen browsers upgrade themselves. Clients should also know that running an ancient browser poses a security risk, so you could use that as reasoning, too.
A/B testing can be done without collecting any personal data.
The argument from GG is basically that Congress intimidates Big Tech into deplatforming viewpoints that the culturally dominant party (Democrats) disagree with. The OP references Rep Craig asking Zuckerberg if it's "right" to "allow" her republican colleague Rep Greene to post content on Facebook. The implication is that Rep Craig is heavily implying it's not right, and therefore, if Facebook wants to be on the "good side" of Rep Craig (the Democrats), it shouldn't host Rep Greene's content.

It should be fairly obvious why large companies want to be in the good graces of lawmakers. It's reasonable for Sundar Pichai or Mark Zuckerberg to think that angry lawmakers lead to more anti-trust lawsuits than happy lawmakers.

The problem is actually that both sides are angry at Big Tech, but for opposing reasons. The Democrats don't like that Republican content is the most popular on Facebook, and the Republicans don't like that Facebook doesn't deplatform Democrats engaging in the same or worse behavior as any deplatformed Republican.

Both of their concerns are understandable, and stem from the power of "deplatforming" – ever since the deplatforming of Alex Jones, this situation was inevitable. As soon as the platforms set a precedent for what's "bad," they created future obligations for themselves. Because they need to be consistent, right? So if you took down this "bad" thing, why not take down this other "bad" thing? Well, it turns out people have different definitions of "bad," and so that's where most of this vitriol originates.
> wouldn't load most web pages

This seems to be the biggest challenge to overcome, really. Looking at my daily computer usage, much of what I do is browser-based (email, calendar, CRM, connecting with customers -- heck, even the product my company creates is accessed through a web-based console).

Web pages these days are so much more than just "web pages" -- they're entire programs, effectively, which means they have hefty requirements.

The rest of what I do is console-based, and I can use just about anything with a keyboard, screen, and network connection -- up (down?) to and including my VIC-20.
Early into the pandemic last year I did a rough calculation multiplying out the death rate per age group by the US population by age and I recall it was something roughly around 5% so a number of 4% doesn't seem too far off. Granted the big assumption was infection rate and hospital capacity remained the same (eg New York was at 0% but other states were not).

Taking in data present today and looking at countries that are doing nothing (Sweden), their total population death rate isn't as high as 4% either.
I'm not being intentionally obtuse, but I also don't know all of Google's advertising business. I didn't think Google Analytics did that? What makes you think it does?

(GA sends a message to Google, but I had thought that it was not linked to your behavior on other sites via GA?)
> Making a post on HN asking how people know when it's time for a new job.

This is played off as a joke, but this 100% resonates with me. I always find myself in denial when I know that leaving is the best choice and I always seek advice and validation elsewhere, be it an old mentor or a HN thread. I have yet to regret leaving a position, but I still fall for the same trap every time.
I'm of the age where friends are getting married off and children will be in the picture soon. At least I should be, in my circle I don't see much of that happening at all. There's very little societal pressure towards marriage, and children are practically seen as a luxury item. Either you planned and saved up for them or you got one on an impulse and are now stuck making the payments. I'd like to have kids personally, but it feels like doing so would condemn them and myself to poverty
It's pretty easy to just force the browser to preload images a few early, which would eliminate all of the variable, ~2-500ms delay between frames. This would increase the impact of this presentation.

function preload(n)
var preloader = $('<img style="display:none;" />');
preloader.attr("src","img/vrg_google_doc_final_vrs03-"+n+".jpg');
$('body').prepend(preloader);
}

the js in the source of the page:

var imgNum = '1';

function increment(){
if(imgNum < 141){
imgNum++;
}else{
imgNum = 1;
}
url = "url('img/vrg_google_doc_final_vrs03-"+imgNum+".jpg')";

document.getElementById('pic').style.backgroundImage=url;
preload(imgNum+1) //PRELOADING
}
He means John Coale, anti-tobacco, anti-Union Carbide lawyer,

https://bijog.com/biography/john-p-coale
Here's the thing, you don't NEED social media. It's not a utility. Your quality of life won't diminish if you don't have access to it. I suggest deleting it and not using it for a few months and see how you feel. I 100% guarantee your mental health will improve.
half of these are relevant to small data problem which is not exactly we mean when we say AI.
Doing all my scripting in Go because some people don't care to learn bash seems like a small version of hell.

If I'm using bash, I just need to glue a few tools together and I've most likely decided already that concurrency more complex than simple wait(1p) is unnecessary, and that fine-grained error handling is unimportant.

If I really cared about those things, I'd probably use something like Haskell that actually improves on error handling, unlike Go, or if I'm scripting something for a specific software project, whatever that project's language is.
From my perspective, both advertising and surveillance are bad, and both should be banned.
What do you know about The Indian Act?
I think that's less an indictment of anti-trust lawsuits being effective and more of an indictment of either a lack of knowledge or willful ignorance around how connected the economy was becoming via computers.

Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are all companies that are beyond a reasonable scale - there are far too many eggs in those baskets for long term economic health. Those companies are making GD, Raytheon and Lockheed look like kids playing in a sandbox.
Just because the IP is assigned to the US, does not mean the node was in the US
Have to greatly simplify them. Don’t Hidef displays use 32x32 these days?
Facebook is a company, I am a person. I don't see how this comparison makes sense, since these are very different entities.
The What, Why and How of DynamoDB
A corporation running its own platform in the manner it sees fit is going to lead to the death of democracy? But forcing them to carry speech they don't want to is better for democracy?

The mind boggles at the mental gymnastics some people must go through to deal with the cognitive dissonance.
Better than falling asleep I guess.
Given that the slaves rose up and murdered their slaveowners, who were also Haitian, there is no one left for them to collect from, even if you could find someone still alive from that period who worked as a slave. In other words, those slaves took payment, via genocide, a long time ago. That's one of the problems with murdering all your oppressors and seizing all their assets -- at that point you have no one left to blame when things go bad over the next few hundred years.
Perhaps injecting partisan into it was dumb of me, however, in my experience it was the very liberal people who were the ones who spearheaded some of our largest long-term planning blunders. But you're right, the pervasive attitude in most smaller communities is generally "Everything was great until a shortly after I moved here" which really drives me crazy. I suppose it's just more acute in a town of 3,000.
APFS does NOT checksum the same as ZFS. APFS relies on the SSD controller to checksum/safeguard data. Which is fine so long as all your data is on SSD :p
Maybe not so amazing, or even Emacs specific. But I use a text file to store my browser bookmarks. I type a brief description above each url. I can add search tags.

description blah blah blah
tags: programming performance
http://some_url_foobar

I view the file with Emacs mode goto-address-mode. So all the hyperlinks are clickable with the mouse or a keybind.

I can run M-x occur. To search and get a nice list of matches by tag or description text.

I think it's superior to any bookmark feature built into a browser. Simply using a text-based format, and a few built-in Emacs features.
> you'd still need the coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and maybe the filtration stages of the treatment plant.

Agreed, although lots of people have access to well or river water that's already pretty good if it weren't for the fecal coliforms in it.

> Which is why I fell over laughing when the paper said something along the lines of "it lasts a long time, we tested it after three runs"

Yes! It probably doesn't dissolve to any significant extent (though I'd be interested to know what the lower detection limit for their ICP-MS results would have been) but crap might build up on it. Still, it would have to be inorganic, fully oxidized crap that was in solution at the initial filtration stage and then precipitated on the catalyst and withstood continuous 200ppm ROS attack, which narrows down the candidates quite a bit. Maybe some kind of transition metal salt that got further oxidized into insolubility inside the reactor? But it has to be preeetty darn insoluble at the usual dissolved-solids levels, and then you could probably solve that problem with a little bit of carbonate or something upstream from the catalyst.
A visual guide to how the research study assigned points to the subjects by ability:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9HlxskZjw
Thanks.

What I needed today is for a rando on the internet to call me stupid, a dev who doesn't fully grasp CSS + design.

I use tailwindcss and so do other devs. Many of those devs are better than me and you.

Instead of assuming that everyone who disagrees with your choices is stupid, maybe reflect on popularity of tailwindcss and assume, in an Ockham's Razor kind of way, that it's a good technology. Even if it's not a technology that you personally want to use.
The 4-day working week is a great success in Iceland
That seems like a quibble over definitions. I'm not aware of traditional finance offering exchanges without order books, I think Uniswap is new in doing that. But it is still an exchange.

Speaking broadly, finance involves trades and loans and bets on future prices, and pretty much anything defi does will fit into those categories, even if it does it in a different way; anything that doesn't fit in those categories won't be called "finance."
No, you've got the matter backwards. It's John Coale, anti-tobacco litigator.
I don't know why, but I've had this gut-wrenching feeling for a couple of years now that Something Terrible is going to happen to this before it gets into position at L2.

I really hope not, obviously, but this seems like an All Your Eggs In One Basket lesson in the making.

We need to commodify this tech, make them somewhat disposable, and sent oodles of them up on Starships.
I can make sense of nested Python list comprehensions if I read them as shorthand for nested for loops, in which case you need to define variables in the outer loop before you can define dependent variables in the inner loop.

e.g. with your example above,

for xs in xss:
for x in xs:
x

What's confusing about the syntax is that `x` in your example above comes first, whereas in actual nested loops it comes last.
So maybe:

[for xs in xss for x in xs : x]

Could be alternative syntax that moves `x` to the end?
Measuring Text Readability Using NLP
How is that any different than a company expecting you to work for them for 40 hours a work? The whole point is that they're paying you $$$ in exchange for your work. If your work includes being at the office, that's part of the exchange. If an employee doesn't want that, they don't have to take the job (which is what's happening).
Wow, smear campaign much?
I don't know of anyone who ever injected this plant or did sexual favors for it. What about it makes you compare it to Heroin, one of the most addictive and elicit narcotics on the planet?

I've been taking Mitragyna for years and have no kidney issues. My kidney function is checked regularly and my GFR and BUN ratios are fine.

Secondly, any drug, even antidepressants, have some form of dependency. The withdrawal from Mitragyna isn't bad. With a simple taper, one can easily get off of it. I've done so myself a couple times. Google oxycodone withdrawal, Xanax withdrawal, Lexapro withdrawal..ad infinitum. Most controlled prescription drugs have far worse withdrawals.

Here's one bit of truth I'll agree with: buying Mitragyna from gas stations or head shops is a terrible way to acquire it. And these sources may be impure or tainted and cause health issues. Perhaps that's where your kidney
damage statements come from.

Always buy Mitragyna from a reputable and GMP certified vendor.
The American Kratom Association lists some vendors: https://www.americankratom.org/
That's kind of why I said completely.

Our ability to know how a brain works on the level of how well we know, say, the combustion engine works is severely limited by the fact that we're dealing with living beings and that the state of consciousness of the subject matters.