skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Why wouldn’t you expect that?

This is so incredibly defeatist. What is your reasoning behind equal pay for equal skill not being better for everyone?
Note that cannabis sold in the danish black market is of unknown quality. No one knows what strain they're getting even in terms of indica/sativa as well as THC/CBD mix. It is mostly illegally shipped from Marocco or Albania. Sometimes it is also dusted with synthetic cannabinoids.

That said, I would love more research on the topic as it is a wild west right now.
That's very much not universal. Some people use moderation, some people go crazy on it. It's always been that way, for anything. There are drinkers who will have a couple of drinks, get pleasantly buzzed, and enjoy their evening, and there's people who get completely smashed every time. Same thing for food--over 40% of Americans are obese now.

It would be very surprising if there weren't (at least) a substantial minority of weed-smokers who have trouble knowing when to stop.
They are too thin because they were designed to be printed, accounting for the spread of the ink on the paper (gain): https://www.levien.com/type/cmr/gain.html
>swatted

By the police, apparently?
> so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots.

Is there any data on this? I'd be interested to see what % of real users they have.

Many times I've visited ProductHunt there's a top 4 app that doesn't seem useful at all that has tons of generic comments like "Great work!", "Can't wait to see what you do next!", "So useful!" (common on Twitter too).

Guessing you could get bots to vote + comment occasionally to build up their reputation and then use or sell your bot army to manipulate the votes for specific product launches later?
> Just curious, why is this comment being heavily downvoted? edit: why was, since it's now back up

Some people weirdly seem to be really, really invested in "Havana syndrome" being psychosomatic/mass hysteria/US footgun/anything besides a deliberate attack.
A useful flow for the overwhelmingly single user computers is to make FDE password and user account password the same and enable auto login. Basically at boot up the user is prompted for their password and when boot up completes they are automatically logged into their user account without further prompting.

For multi user systems one can tie login to mounting an encrypted home but of course you are still required to enter a password twice although in theory it seems like the information entered first could be retained and could be used to log in a user and complete the next step.
Interesting – would love to hear more about what your experience using Tray has been like. Glad to hear that going against that "no-code" trend is something that you agree with, as it definitely gives more flexibility to developers in how their integrations work.

Cheers!
The legendary CERN slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/xzxzxz/atlas-higgs-cernseminar201...
Yeah, I've tried that explanation as well. I think the problem is that privacy as a problem is fairly abstract and multi-branched in both issues and logic.
The market _is_ consumers.
Hey there, I do indeed have an example storefront which you can view here: https://admin.sell.app/

You are right in saying that we are taking on Gumroad. IIRC, most of Gumroad's traction has been organic/word-of-mouth, with little/no money spent on paid advertising.

We're still figuring out the best way to acquire users at scale by experimenting with both conventional (Reddit/Twitter ads) and unconventional (Discord channel/niche forum advertising) methods.

PS: Great suggestion! I'll be setting up & linking an example storefront on the homepage shortly.
If you want "k8s but less" I highly recommend Nomad from Hashicorp and the Hashi-stack in general. It's so damn good.
If You Love Design, It’s Time to Stop Liking It
MySQL does not follow semantic version and there have been features introduced in minor released including some incompatible changes as you can see for example https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-24....
> The vaccine is free, but we generally need to get an appointment through some web site, on our own initiative. Our appointed family doctor did not call us to even ask whether we'd like to be vaccinated. This hints towards an accessibility problem.

Just put walk-in vaccination stands in super-markets/subway stations.

Why exactly is there a need for an appointment to get a 30 second jab + 15 minute observation period?
The X-15 was a rocket.
If people were rational, bigotry wouldn't exist in the first place.
The study is also highly sensitive to the way drug use disorders are classified by behavioral health professionals, particularly due to the changing criteria of various DSM editions. I’d want to look at the underlying dataset to see if they’ve properly accounted for exogenous effects like that.
Created by clumped dust 4.6b years ago when the solar system was being formed.... but it hasn't been part of a larger body, so it is not that compressed, so it is not a chunk of another larger body that split off from collisions.

It contains organic material, which means the dust that formed our solar system, contained plenty of it.

If it arrived yesterday in earth, it still is 4.6b old.

"Identifying organic compounds would support the idea that early meteorites carried amino acids – the building blocks of life – to supply the Earth’s primordial soup where life first began.

“Carbonaceous chondrites contain organic compounds including amino acids, which are found in all living things,” said Director of Astrochemistry at EAARO Derek Robson who found the meteorite and who will soon join Loughborough University as an academic visitor for collaborative research.

“Being able to identify and confirm the presence of such compounds from a material that existed before the Earth was born would be an important step towards understanding how life began.”"
As much as I would love to see the company crash and burn due to how they've butchered Blizzard, they aren't going anywhere. They'll settle the lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed sum, their stock price will take a temporary hit, and in a year you'll never even notice that it happened.
The casual racism on Netflix's Never Have I Ever
Ask HN: Any agent who likes to watch me poop via pegasus?
I like to think I'm important enough to have a dedicated international spy agent, who watches me poop through my phone camera with that pegasus spyware.

Let me know if you are a spy agent who has watched me poop, Cheers!

It's so comical to think about, I would enjoy having a beer with my spy agent watching me poop via my phone.

I wonder how much money has been spent dedicated to the poop patrol.
> That is blatant age discrimination

Which is perfectly legal, as long as the target isn't over 40.
Because they were also kept out of the schools that would give them the qualifications to work those jobs. No cost savings if your engineer or accountant was never trained. So companies hired them for the menial jobs which paid less universally.
Signs you’re working in a Scrum Feature Factory
hey thanks! Nothing special just plain old CSS. :)

As far as our overall stack — we've been pretty happy with NextJS/TypeScript on the frontend and Hasura to power the backend. We use a combination of Vercel and Heroku for hosting!
AI is very useful, even if the pioneers had to give up on the dream of human-level or human-like intelligence. There is quantum cryptography, but other than that I find it hard to find practical value for quantum computers before they reach the limit, maybe around 80 qubits fit for general computation, that they start to be faster than classical computers. Faster for solving meaningful problems, not useless problems designed for the quantum computer to solve fast.
I would answer this, but it would give my potential next employer the opportunity to lowball me.

This would not be the case if the pay transparency that parent describes were already a thing, because I would have the same ability to check the salaries of that company.

But without that mandate happening, whoever moves first loses. That's why salary transparency should be mandated, because otherwise no one has any motivation to move, so no one will.
I might not have the heart to but a rational agent acting in the interest of the entire population would. In fact this is basically what natural selection did to us. If much longer lifespans would have benefited our species we would already have them.

Natural selection doesn't act upon humans for the sake of humanity, nor did it ever asked what humans want or need.

It turns out that the way out brains crystallize as we age and make us better at teaching but worse at changing our minds means our ideal lifespan is not very different than the ones we have. I know individuals can work very hard to avoid this outcome but most people don't.

Citation? I would argue that adults are better at learning languages, because we have the benefit of hindsight, experience, and reasoning.

Whereas children are merely subjected to immerse learning environment from which to acquire languages pretty much every waking hours of their life.
World of Warcraft players are protesting developer Blizzard
> My personal belief is that we do not go quiet into that dark night

I think many do. One of my takeaways from the pandemic is that there are people--intelligent, informed, unoppressed people--who will self select away from benefits. Even seemingly obvious ones.

The fictional dystopias of the last century would have had an immortal elite keeping aging treatments from clamoring masses. I don't think that's how it would turn out. Many people--including leaders--would choose not to get the treatment. Still others would push their societies to ban treatments for everyone.

I don't know how you model this. It's a different form of haves and have-nots than we're accustomed to. But it would undoubtedly feed into and ameliorate the concerns brought up in this thread.
Good question. It’s been a while since I read it, but iirc things like hunger or fear he says they attributed to specific organs (and provides bits of ancient text to support the idea) - personified voices he reserved for reasoning or inspiration beyond bodily sensation.
It seems like it would be simple enough, but it's death by a thousand cuts. Supporting Android means having to keep track of even more screen sizes, OS versions, updates, app store releases and so on. It just adds on more and more. For one developer who is trying to prove out an idea, the work to support the app on multiple platforms just eats up your time and focus when you really should be focusing on features and adjusting what the product is as you get more info from your existing customers.

There are of course frameworks out there to help you build one codebase for multiple platforms, but if you go down that route, if you aren't familiar with the framework, you have to learn it. There are going to be quirks in them that you're not aware of. Maybe framework version X only works with iOS version Y and Android version Z. It just goes on and on. Frameworks aren't perfect either, and things don't work exactly the same across platforms even with the framework.
70 petabytes of anything didn't exist in stored form in the 1800s so that's a ridiculous standard, but...

The value here is genuinely historical. In a hundred years, how will we track the etymology of common terms that originated in this age?

Memes make preserving the internet extremely important. Terms and ideas evolve so quickly that the history of language and thought will become obscure almost instantly. Even now it can be almost impossible to understand some internet terms if you weren't part of the subculture that spawned them at the exact time they were spawned.

Do you know what hunter2 means? Do you know it because of bash.org?

A person doesn't have to read all this material. The material has to be stored because our future society will have descended from this material, and if they don't have it they won't know how they got there.

You know, except for the bit where civilisation collapses over the next hundred years as the planet warms and hot countries invade cooler, developed countries looking for living space.
supposedly, they are practicing on diplomats. the endgame is that it can be used on anyone given relative proximity. any head of state, commander of army, anyone labeled as enemy
What do your negotiating skills contribute to an engineering team that they should be affecting your compensation to the same extent as your skill level?
They really do, and there are mountains of published experiments unambiguously verifying such.
Fair enough, and I'm not saying that BBEdit is wrong, per se, but it is close enough to useable for me (as a very long time Emacs user) that when there's something off, it strikes me as really off.
Not necessarily, but it is probably the most common way it has been implemented in the US, and a potential downside depending on implementation.

Another downside is that it could release competitive information from private companies.
Long ago, I had an interview with a startup in Chicago called US Robotics. They had a Kaypro 2, a complete computer, with a built-in display... and it was portable! So much less stuff than the S-100 systems I was used to. I was in awe.

It turned out they made modems, quite successfully for a while. I'm sad I botched the interview, I would have been doing destructive testing, so much fun! 8)

I still feel nostalgia for the Kaypro 2, even though I have millions of times the compute in a device the size of 2 legal pads.
Add me to the list that recommends Energysage for a basic rooftop solar resource.

You didn't mention your state. The regulatory environment differs significantly between states, and determines what the electric company can do, since they're generally state-regulated public utilities. If you can sell excess electricity back to your utility at retail rates, it makes little sense IMO to buy a battery. However, if the utility will only pay wholesale rates for your excess, a battery can be cost effective, depending on your daily production/use cycle.

Also look up "solar value deflation" and understand that, as more people install solar, the value of it will decrease as net metering regulations and connection vs. distribution costs get shifted. Read up on the difficulties people with solar leases have encountered when trying to sell their home. For that reason alone, I'd recommend buying, even if it means a second mortgage or HLOC to pay for it.

I'm personally holding out for more efficient panels, cheaper batteries, and home-scale bio-fuel production for excess energy so I can size my install to support being truly off-grid throughout all four seasons.
Ask HN: Why Aren't Satellites Hijacked?
Friends who work in the space industry explained to me how servicing and remote controlling satellites works (apparently communication protocols are neither encrypted not particularly secured). I wonder why it is then that satellites (which are expensive to build and launch) aren't hijacked all the time?
David Sinclair is an expert on this and has said otherwise.

Clinical trials are expensive. To fund them you need billions of dollars. Pharmas won’t fund research in anti-aging directly because it’s not considered a disease, can’t get FDA approval, and thus couldn’t be sold.

So, yes, you need to find another route to approval, similar to metformin and rapamycin.
> America shouldn't be allowed to extradite...

America aren't extraditing him - the UK is extraditing him.
you have a deeply distorted idea of these sort of lawsuits if you think they would magically go bankrupt from it
MySQL does not conform to the standard in a number of ways. On the one hand, thankfully you can turn on ANSI MODE. On the other hand if you're using MySQL you've probably got a bunch of devs used to their non-ANSI SQL and turning on ANSI MODE may break stuff they do.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sql-mo...
Still better than death due to alcohol.
Startup Unveils Chemistry of Multi-Day Storage Battery Technology
Sure, but it's not a competition.

My understanding is that GG began due to undisclosed conflicts of interest among some journalists and game developers. This was later used to justify a crusade to abuse people on social media.

Although I think you're correct that the ethics in journalism issue was used as a smokescreen by bad faith actors.
> A few years back, there seemed to be a desire to justify cigarette taxes with a "it costs the state money when you get cancer" rationale.

When you have guaranteed pension funds for an ever growing number of bureaucrats, you HAVE to find new ways to tax. Taxing unpopular things is the easiest thing (and doesn't hurt for reelection).
Online banking and gaming services hit by internet outage
Sure, and the upside is a strengthened position as a prospective employee. As an employee or prospective employee to a new organization, what's the downside?
The future of the office is the clubhouse
I assume they mean non-standard additions in PostgreSQL. A lot of the very handy pg functions are non-standard, as well as the rich text matching capabilities, many data types, and even the RETURNING clause, I believe.
AI firm DeepMind puts database of the building blocks of life online
Nicotine modulating the hyperactive dopaminergic activity of schizophrenics I recall being one hypothesis for this remarkable connection. 90% of schizophrenics smoked tobacco compared to 20% of non-schizophrenics in 2006![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_tobacco_smok...
Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
You do realize that children/minors have phones which have numbers, right? Your conclusion (3) is not valid.
"Usually these things (at least with the government) don't list experience, or educational attainment."

Seems pretty useless without that. Those are huge factors.

"The question is mainly whether you want to be ignorant, or not."

That's not the only question. The other question mostly being discussed here is if you want anyone to be able to know your salary by working backwards from the published list, specifically in small companies.
Either way, it’s not really a risk I want to take
This article seems to be about the economic value gained by reduced health care or something.

If you actually extended lifespans by a significant margin (say to 200 years) there would be other knock on effects that would completely derail the global economy & markets. This study doesn't seem to think about how those things could actually negatively impact economics.

Eventually if you're intelligent and you're trying to self-fund your retirement you build up assets that are growing at a sufficient rate that you can live off the growth without touching your principal. Once you hit that, work becomes unnecessary.

If everyone goes from retiring for 20-30 years to suddenly possibly retiring for 120-140 years things get all kinds of strange things happening, the percentage of the population working would diminish. But then that would negatively impact companies due to increasing difficulty in finding workers, which would negatively impact markets, which would then feedback into ruining the investments allowing all these retirees to live off investments & savings. The current system couldn't work without room to greatly expand the population of living people to ensure growth of the workforce.

I have seen these ideas explored in Science Fiction occasionally, but not many other places.

There is another aspect as well, if you lived 200 years, what if you ended up having multiple successive families? Raise a family, your kids grow up, then you raise another family 50 years later?
(I am the other founder of hotglue) yes, all the end user does is just log in.
> Native macros were never supposed to be used that way. If anything goes wrong, you still have to deal with that, and no IDE will save you from having to invoke your compiler with “preprocess-only” flag to see what you’re dealing with. Been there, done that, don’t want to do that ever again.

~95% of errors from Datatype99 can be observed from the console, I hardly ever run my compiler with -E. What I mean by IDE support is that you invoke macros in the same files in which you write ordinary C code, you can't do that with printf. Imagine that you write your tagged unions (datatype(...)) inside separate files, it's clearly less convenient than embedded definitions.

> Regarding the integration, I’ll take setting up an additional build phase (once) over having to debug C macros any day.

I can't remember the time when I debugged already written and tested macros from Datatype99/Interface99, to be honest.
The opposite is true as well.

A US person can be federally charged for violating a foreign law while overseas. The example used when I read of this was a guy convicted for wrapping lobsters for shipment in Nicaragua in wax paper instead of a bag (or something along those lines).

It was very strange because the violation in Nicaragua was a misdemeanor, but the US law for committing a crime is a felony.
Anyone on the in-crowd who can share a bit about Oracle's motivations here?

I recall a Bryan Cantrill talk about how Oracle is this completely amoral machine that just wants to make money, and how that drives their every decision [0]. Is this no longer the case? Or is it, and if so, how does improving MySQL and giving it away for free making Oracle money? Or was it always hyperbole and Oracle is improving MySQL because they want to be nice?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s, that link starts at the beginning of what's popularly known as "the lawnmower rant", it's delightful.
> I really struggle to understand this equal pay business;

I suspect you are not being truthful here. This:

"Each engineer's pay is the product of their skill level, how they negotiated as well as competing offers they had."

Is an assertion. Or at least, it's an assertion if you make the implicit "and nothing else", explicit.

Regardless on where you or I personally come down on the truth value of that statement, it isn't hard to understand why it is controversial.

In this case some would add gender to your list, and it's not immediately obvious or empirically proven that they are wrong (or right).
Okay, I don’t mean to play this card, but I’m assuming from your username that you’re a dude.

> I have a hard time believing things could be as broadly, uniformly terrible for all women in the company specifically as the overall picture depicted here.

This is literally, like, the cartoonishly shitty response.

The specific allegations in this suit are, like you said, over the course of many years, and across a huge number of different roles. Why on earth would you immediately jump to “well, these many different egregious incidents are probably just one-offs”?

Yeah, okay, every single Blizzard employee probably doesn’t show up to work and immediately spit in the face of the nearest woman.

But if your takeaway from this suit is “it’s probably not that bad all the time,” you are taking away the wrong thing.

Yours is the kind of attitude that allows shit like this to happen. It is, frankly, kind of disgusting. Please reevaluate how you came to this conclusion.
Ok, we've done our bit to counter brick dilution in the title above.
Unlikely, although I for sure don't trust dockerd for my actual clusters anymore. I still use docker, and its dind friend, to build images because the whole world uses Dockerfile and the compatibility story between those alternative tools and the sea of Dockerfiles out there is ... tricky

I would love for something with more sanity to catch on, because Dockerfile as a format has terrible DX, but "wishes horses etc etc."
There is an exception for perjury. Although it’s unlikely that the company does not settle first, you could then try to have the recruiter deny saying so in a sworn statement. The two-party consent laws do not apply when used as proof that someone perjured themselves