skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are serious disadvantages to this setup for the following reasons(some of which you have already identified):

1. Lack of mentors will be an issue.

2. "Jack of all trade, master of none" problem. This is not a problem at personal level. But this is a problem in an industry where recruitment happens for specific domain or language and not for versatility of engineers.

3. In this age, employees are treated as use-and-throw commodity. So not having a skillset that is transferable becomes a major issue if you had to all of a sudden look for a job.

The problem you have mentioned mostly appears in small contracting/consultancy companies that take projects of other companies.

Other issue to lookout for is not getting sucked into a project that uses some obscure technology that no one else uses e.g. having to work on some proprietary in-house developed language for all the projects.

I have seen all this happen at lot of software consultancy and contracting companies. The founders of these companies start pulling all sorts of project right left and center to make lot of money. But it is the emloyees whose careers are destroyed.
If you have to literally call in the army to enforce your rules, that is a clue you have gone too far.
Check out the title theme from Maniac Mansion. Someone at Lucasfilm Games knew what they were doing with the PC Speaker.

They had great musicians. The dynamic iMuse music in Monkey Island 2 and Tie Fighter (only in the DOS/MIDI version) was incredible.
There's consumer advocate sites like https://www.which.co.uk/ that are pretty cool. I'd be interesting in knowing other trustable sources, mind.
I also feel like some product manager decided that having a blank results page is horrible. So even if I put terms in quotes, and there are no results with those quoted terms, Google decides to show me results that have virtually nothing to do with what I want to see.
Captionfy.io hit 2k subtitle projects for YouTube Community Captions this week
Today is the final day of Itanium being shipped
I think the fundamental problem is that any sufficiently influential system which provides consumer information on products or services becomes an obvious target for those sellers and service providers to try and game.

I think there are basically only 2 ways around this

1) a consumer reports type model were consumers must trust a central authority to be inviolable.

2) legislation that harshly punishes companies who try to influence their own reviews. These would likely be ineffective unless they were incredibly stringent.

Is there a more reasonable model that can avoid being gamed though? I feel like more and more I have to rely on word of mouth about products which isn't great for different reasons.
Rust 1.54.0
The centralization proposal the person you are replying to was done because that API access you are talking about apparently hasn't been implemented in a wide spread manner. So now each Bundesland can create their own database.

https://www.golem.de/news/trotz-kritik-smartphone-ausweis-un...
I wrote a simple editor for this when I got tired of going back and forth to yaytext: https://einarmagnus.net/pages/ustyle

One day when I'm bored enough I'll make it wysiwyg.
People need to to become more informed themselves instead of being ready to click through the first line of result.

May be we need more informed people and less SMARTphones.
Agreed. Let’s not ignore that: different people will have different risk/benefit profiles; that these vaccines are still in fact experimental; that there is no reproductive toxicity report for these vaccines; that there is data showing that the lipid nanoparticles from this vaccine accumulate in the ovaries; the rushed COVID vaccines are responsible for more all-cause deaths than the last 30 years of vaccines combined; that people with natural immunity have no evidence based reason to take these vaccines; that mass vaccination during pandemics create evolutionary pressure for immune escape variants; that there is now data showing that antibody-dependent enhancement is a real possibility due to these vaccines.

This all needs to be followed up on and both these worrying signs and any follow ups need to be accurately and loudly reported to the public. Instead it all gets brushed under the rug and drowned out with “safe and effective. Safe and effective. Safe and effective”.
The reason universal wouldn’t work is cost is an issue. You can’t just say, sure, we’ll pay for everything. Recipe for exploding healthcare costs.

So how to reign costs in? Cut physician salaries? Not likely. Limit procedures? Maybe. Stop paying for the latest cancer drugs the day the FDA approves them? Probably.

Not exactly easy to accomplish.
> Built with box2d-wasm's liquidfun release.

Very nice! How does this relate to the Google official release of Liquidfun, and the mainline release of Box2D?
It's the "if we don't do it, someone else will" defense.
Next.js (and probably its competitors) does this same thing (https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/data-fetching#getstat...), just much more elegantly and modularly, allowing you to work with any headless CMS while still maintaining the benefits of a static, "baked" dataset that gets deployed alongside static code. It just caches API responses at build time into local JSON.

The thing is, no matter how you bake the data, it has to be edited somewhere. That "somewhere" is rarely good as Markdown files or or SQLite for all but the most trivial implementations. In real-world mid-sized websites, content editors want something easier to work with. Having an actual CMS, even if it's just a decapitated Wordpress, makes their lives much easier. And you can still get the benefits of baked data.

With incremental static regeneration (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...), you also get the benefit of post-build on the fly revalidation and "rebaking" without requiring a full rebuild, courtesy of a server that checks for data updates in the background and rebuilds only the affected pages.
Do you understand how physical dependence works and how opioids are some of the most addictive substances known to man?

Most anyone can go a day, week or month without coffee and not end up sweating or vomiting, nor attempting to rob a Starbucks to get a fix.

There are not special drugs, medical treatments, clinics and counseling to help people quit coffee, right? I wonder what the difference in dependence is?
If we agree on the definition of a broom as something that can sweep the floor and say that humans can also sweep the floor, wouldn't you agree that humans are brooms often on a daily basis?
A lot of game music was also composed with trackers, including some big titles like the original Unreal and others using its engine such as Deus Ex. But tracker music is all about arranging digital samples on a multi-track timeline, requiring an audio output that can play digitized multi-channel sound in the first place…
So is Geofoam a contributor to microplastic pollution or not?
The propaganda machine is currently at the stage where they won't admit that there are many break-through delta cases, they won't admit that it's common, and they don't want to loudly admit that vaccinated people are spreading the virus. The CDC & Co. have been trying to hide the explosion in delta cases since May. The intellectual con being put on by the authorities here in the US is extraordinary.

I have a friend that works as a nurse in a nursing home. The staff is tested constantly and all staff have been required to have the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA vaccine. The problem? The 100% vaccinated staff members keep testing positive for the virus - a problem that began recently with the delta spread across the US - despite full vaccination and it's making it next to impossible to operate the nursing home safely. This is the kind of thing they're still keeping out of the news and refusing to talk about (break-through cases are rare, they say; that's entirely a lie).

Authorities are terrified that if they admit the truth at this juncture (that even the mRNA vaccines don't work well against preventing delta infections, and that they only work well at preventing severe outcomes), a lot of the remaining unvaccinated won't bother to get vaccinated. And plausibly they're right about that, it would plunk new vaccination rates lower. They also don't want to admit that common masks don't work against delta, they're close to being worthless. Mask theater is a bad joke and the population has largely figured it out, the authorities here have destroyed their credibility by flip-flopping and lying constantly.
The bots can definitely be frustrating.

I like to stick to smaller subreddits as they tend to be more authentic. Usually anything under 100K subscribers (with exceptions) can be really enjoyable to lurk + a great source of info.
Regardless of actor causing the issue, Google is the party that serves the search results and thus are responsible for what they display.
In Melbourne the hotel isn't just close to the city, but directly in the CBD a couple of blocks from Flinders St Station.
No it wasn't. Take a look at the movie Enemy of the State that was released in 1998, 3 years before 9/11. In the movie the NSA is monitoring all calls, has NRO satellites that tail them, and a bunch of other Tinfoil hat stuff that was confirmed by the Snowden leaks a decade later. The biggest fiction in the movie was their ability to connect the dots and do stuff in real time as depicted.

The NSA director even said they were appalled how the agents were portrayed and went on PR campaigns to defend them selves. They were always spying but not ruthless killers as depicted in the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
Its inert, so its not biodegradable, but it also doesn't break down the way that styrofoam* does. And it can be re-used. I'm not convinced that any of this makes it A Good Thing tbh, but it is possibly less bad than some of the alternatives.

* which is an absolute menace in my opinion

Edit: s/expanded polystyrene/styrofoam
They are pushing 'plus' HARD. Plus is basically the feature set everyone had for years, so it's basically, "Pay to keep features or we'll take them one by one". I have an > 2000 day streak, so I have seen it change a lot over the years and I have 0 urge to pay, I will just stop playing.
If middle ages Brazilians knew how the Europeans were deforesting Europe they'd have probably said the same thing.
Many substances are selectively biodegradable i.e. remain shelf-stable forever as long as they are not exposed to oxygen or sunlight or whatnot.

Also, concrete degrades by itself. In decades it crumbles, pulverizes and goes back into being soil.

But, importantly, it does not become toxic particulate like plastic.

[edit: corrected phrasing, thanks zdragnar]

Same for other sustainable materials like compacted soil, gravel, sand...
Yes it's tribalism, and yes everyone is acting on faith, but only one side has been tricked by the Pied Piper into avoiding a vaccine that could save their lives. I wonder why that is. (You know Trump himself got vaccinated, right?)

Pied Piper to one side. Rodeo clown to the other.

Protect yourself. Don't walk into the trap.
I often search with "reddit" at the end of queries like this to get some good opinions. I'm sure a lot of you know this already though, because "[question] reddit" shows up as recommended search all the time.
"Markets can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent"
"Biodegradable essentially means that an item can be broken down into increasingly smaller pieces by bacteria, fungi or microbes to be reabsorbed by the surrounding environment, ideally without causing any pollution."

So it degrades, but causes pollution, therefore it is not biodegradable. That is my understanding.
Oddly enough both of my leases in Estonia have wanted a hand-signed copy (though both times I also did the digital PDF signature). No clue why, but I can't remember anything else that ever has...
You see, they're all connected to the same body of water. And if the tsunami was directional towards the Japanese coast it would've caused issues there.
I've had friends in their 20s have their GP deny them getting it.
Does full FDA approval make a meaningful difference, though?

If anything, it seems like if someone doesn’t want to rely on the current EUA (because of limited data, incentives, etc.) then they shouldn’t suddenly be okay with the FDA’s full authorization.
Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola trucks, has been charged by the U.S. Attorney
I'm not sure if anybody an Nuremberg adopted the defense of, "Look, they kept shipping in prisoners but expected that none of them leave. We didn't have food or facilities for them all! We had to make room for them somehow!" but this feels along that same track.

The fact that this is an Israeli company makes it a very bitter irony. Then again, many current Israeli policies would make their grandparents blush with shame.
'NSO Founders Defend Revenue Stream'

FTFY.
Is that even a defense? It sounds like something a 6 year old would say after punching their sibling for whining incessantly.
> Geofoam producers and boosters claim that geofoam actually reduces the environmental impact of a project by allowing for shorter construction times, reducing the need for energy-intensive earth moving machinery, and reducing the carbon footprint of the overall project.

I guess they forgot about all the machinery and oil consumed by the manufacturing process. Granted, the oil is not being burned but polystyrene is not really environmentally friendly itself either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene

I see the economic and engineering qualities, especially when building whimsical parks and so on (which is a frivolous use case). But I can't help but feel this is a perverse way to build natural landscapes such as parks. Imagine what happens when a burrowing animal finds its way onto one of these things? What happens when you have to dig under the foam in the event you need to do so? What about tree roots? What about micro-plastics? et cetera.

This line sums it up nicely:

> It can come as a shock to realize that giant bricks of polystyrene are stuffed below the turf, like silicone implants under the skin of a city.

Perfect for the Instagram generation: a fake city with fake tits.
It's true that building the chips is hard, but making it hard to buy general purpose small computers, or digital camera sensors suitable for vision, or rotor blades, or batteries, or antennas, is also going to be very difficult. Proliferation has already happened.

Maybe cheap LIDAR will be something we can keep a lid on? But regular vision is still likely pretty good for lining up a shot or finding a face.
> flame retardant chemicals used to treat geofoam were shown to be accumulating in the ground, which led to their [i.e., the flame retardants’] discontinuation in Europe but not the US

It appears that people are paying attention to the ecological impact. (In some places, at least.)
I came here to say this. Embedding trusted sources like that [0] would a) help fund such useful organisations and b) help drown out link farms.

[0] in fact I think in Germany there is a state-sponsered impartial review body for consumer products.
Well they fell only slightly (surprised they fell at all actually) because Trevor Milton was named, not Nikola. So they let him go and now he personally is getting sued, not the company.
Many games supported digitized output over a DAC on the LPT port. I remember building one myself. There are many tutorials. A moderately fast 486 can output CD-Quality sample rates with such a thing.
Covox had one in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Having experienced both system as well, the Canadian system is much less burdensome, but if I had serious cancer I’d take the US system any day. They throw the kitchen sink and more at you in the US and insurance will pay for most of it.

My grandmothers neighbor is in her 70’s and not great health. She needs a hip transplant and the doctor is basically like “nope, you don’t have many years left, better to prioritize a 50 year old”. Which makes perfect sense from a population perspective but sucks balls at an individual level.
People are actually on board with a fifth lockdown that will be enforced by a military?

They think it will work this time?
I do similar things for "real" reviews.

But it's just a matter of time before the astroturfers start marketing more effectively via Reddit for SEO purposes.
That is an excellent way to phrase it. The only other piece of writing that I know of that has the same "reconsider your unconscious beliefs" effect is the now-dead blog "The Last Psychiatrist".
Did you even look at your link? 5 Eastern bloc countries having independent wars with the USSR in the 80s is hardly a current arena of conflict, weak.

Obviously the middle east or the americas would be a better location, I'm joking obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_th...
> It can’t sequester carbon if it also biodegrades.

How does biodegrading release carbon?
Intranetus – The Space for Team Work
Working on the different projects, you often have to use messengers to report the bugs, show layouts or discuss the week’s working plans. However, the list of actual and completed tasks is stored in a separate service. Task trackers rarely allow you to communicate in the chat format, messengers are not able to record tasks and deadlines.

Communicate more effectively
Intranetus separates business and private zones reliably without losing important information. Intranetus is the ability to communicate, conduct audio and video conferences and collect all working files in one place - without being distracted by a bunch of chats in different messengers.

Manage business
Intranetus coordinates your team’s activities: allows you to manage projects, organize and quickly set up processes for everything from meetings to planning, and takes efficiency to the next level.

Share knowledge
Intranetus is a culture of open teamwork. Each team member makes suggestions freely, shares ideas and receives feedback quickly. All notes, quarterly reports and important documents are collected and stored in the collective “Brain”.
You're contradicting yourself by claiming it's tied to employment and then saying you can buy it for a price.

It's one or the other.

Or you can claim the price makes it effectively tied to employment.

I agree the cultural ties it has to employment ought to end, but that's a peculiarity of the american system, not a fundamental feature of a private healthcare system.
Yes. I find it difficult to deal with morally. Fwiw, I'm not particularly well-off, and I only spend about two weeks' worth of take-home pay a year on my insurance.
I don't know why, but Google seems unable to figure out (or just doesn't care) "who published it first". I've seen it be confused many times.
The planet is on fire, and we're arguing about whether firefighters create too much traffic congestion. Future generations are far more likely to shake their heads at how we destroyed the climate with CO2 emissions.

I'm sympathetic, I really am, but these small harms need to be weighed against the effects of unchecked climate change!
Look at johannes1234321 comment below.
I’m surprised filtering out those characters (and emoji) isn’t more popular.

Most of the time a site allows users to enter arbitrary text, those characters are used for nothing but abuse and undue attention grabbing.
Isn't the fuzzying of the query and expansion of the results, including prioritizing "natural language" querying a deliberate UX choice ? I don't get what the marketers have to do with that part ?
Comic Legend Stan Lee Featured in Limited Edition NFT Tribute on Mintable
Article is from July 25th, probably does not contain much new info.

Previous : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920055
And there's no long-term benefit, since it
just risks teaching people to go straight to
Amazon for commercial searches.

Yeah, I came here hoping somebody would have an answer to this seeming non-sequitur.

Google has been utterly useless for "what is the best X?" product search stuff for years, for exactly this reason.

The result in my case is that I've learned simply to not use Google for these searches. That is not good for Google.

The author says "Google, like many of the other tech giants, benefits from an uninformed user base" but I fail to see how that is the case. They benefit from a happy userbase that finds Google useful and therefore trusts Google with their time and personal information.

Sure, Clueless Cletus or Simple Sally might buy a bike from that clickbait bike article but I'm not sure they're walking away from the experience feeling that Google was particularly useful or helpful and wanting to rely upon them in the future.
> in the same roles in a new company

Aren't the protesters pretty much by definition protesting the most productive actual employees though? If whatever the protesters are saying about the ones being protested is even remotely true, then the people being protested must have been incredibly valuable to remain protected under such accusations - and the protesters themselves are the ones who are viewed as effectively expendable.
Multiple reasons, just like CBP in the US can pull up your photo to make sure the one on the ID and standing in front of them is actually the person the system says it is.

They also compared my old ID photo with the new photo I was submitting when I renewed it recently for the same reason.

Though I've never had this particular problem, I believe the police will also do the same thing to verify they're arresting or ticketing the right person.

Also keep in mind that Estonia is the size of a (quite) small state in the US, so they're storing things like a driver's license photo just like your state would. You actually don't need a physical driver's license with you in Estonia as long as it's linked to your ID card, so it's really an "all your eggs in one basket" kind of system.
Do you think drinking water is free?
I literally just went to a well known department store in my city and in order to get an advertised discount, I was asked to become a member. This required a SSN rather than just email. I don’t trust them with this info and with the SSN alone you can call the bank and identify yourself, the police, and the tax authorities. You can even identify yourself over the phone to healthcare authorites
This is due to the tying of healthcare unnecessarily to employment with discounts if negotiated that way, not a fundamental part of private healthcare.

Said entrepreneur can also buy a plan from an exchange
Biodegrade means that living organisms have decomposed the substance. But it can still degrade in other ways.
I'd like to go a step further and hope for "dumb" search engines that are tailored towards indexing specific subsets of the internet as a whole. As an example, imagine a search engine that is specifically tailored towards programming questions. Or one that specifically omits some of the more annoying SEO optimized results, like Livestrong and USA Today.
Replying to your comment as I can no longer reply to the dead GP comment.

Can someone explain to me why this would have been flagged to death? (As opposed to just being heavily downvoted)

I downvoted both of this user's comments as they were obviously utter nonsense, but I didn't really see anything in there that should be cause for the comment to be flagged to death and hidden altogether?

If a comment gets enough downvotes, is it automatically flagged? Or can it only be flagged to death via the actual Flag button?

I kind of think we should be able to debate alternative points of view, even if they (in my view) might be very wrong. But in this case we've just stopped this conversation dead by virtue of the GP's comments being hidden completely.

Curious what others think...
The popular static site generator Hugo also supports static data in the form of a 'data' directory[1] where JSON files and other stuff can be stored.

[1] https://gohugo.io/templates/data-templates/#readout
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996321