skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My conclusion: Hacker News is typically ahead of the mainstream, often by a few years, but you would need to be paying very close attention to catch the early mentions of a new tech trend. Most of the linked posts and comments have very few upvotes and probably wouldn't even make it to the front page."

That's a long way of saying "no".
You are making my point exactly!

Assumption: Democracy is good.
Counter: Look at what democratic countries did to Afghanistan in the name of democracy, when it really was just about some a-holes enriching themselves.

Conclusion: Spreading democracy by force make a mockery out of it. We should spread it by proofing that it is better, by having a better quality of life, a fairer system, more freedom, less injustice and so on.

No wonder people in those countries don't trust democracy, they have only seen the perversion of it!
Probably they worded it this way (assuming good intentions, of course) because whistle-based language forms were created as a tool to combat communication hurdles in a challenging terrain. With the development of long-range communication, I would dare to say it is amazing that there are still practitioners of whistled speech.
This is some eugenics shit; I expected better from HN. How can you tell who is black from who isn’t? There are light skinned people who pass for white, and dark skinned people who don’t. Sometimes this is even within the same family with the same parents.

What percentage of “black” DNA counts as “black”? Is it 25%? 10%? How can you actually measure that (the “ancestry maps” you get from sites like ancestry.com are pure fantasy with a loooooot of questionable assumptions baked in if you look into the actual science behind them).

You can have African ancestry without being considered black. You can have dark skin and have a majority of European ancestry as well (which is true of many dark-skinned people in the US given the propensity of slave owners to “make their own” new slaves). Which is more important — the African ancestry or the European ancestry? Are genes associated with dark skin more powerful or something?
All the UI code. It is a legacy created for text-terminal. It works in a graphic environments due to hacks, but it is sad.

If emacs was built on top of a decent ui-toolkit, with nice widgets, like checkboxes, buttons, menus, scrollbars (i do not know how to use emacs' scrollbars). With panes (windows in emacs' terms) resizeable with mouse (one more pain point: I need to resize them maybe once per month, and I never quite remember how it may be done).

UI of emacs is bad, it is terrible. It missed completely 30 last years of UI progress.
I do exactly this. In my case it's just the email I want to vary so it looks like this:

[user]
name = My Name
useConfigOnly = true

You get an "Author identity unknown" error when committing to a repo the first time and then you just run this once to set up that repo:

git config --local user.email "me@email.net"
Love the visualizations, I would also want to compare against false positives though. From my time here, I feel like there's been a lot of flops that never broke into the public conscious.
Or use the print to make a mold for casting food grade resin.
> Nobody has any trouble understanding them.

People who don’t speak English perhaps.

Traffic signs are something the Europeans did well and are just part of taking a driving license. Crossing a country border won’t mean you suddenly can’t read traffic signs.

Meanwhile in Thailand I find the occasional full-Thai sign I have no idea of what it means. Maybe it means turn left on red allowed, maybe the opposite. Good luck, everyone else.
The oppression of men that you have described, has predominantly been from the hands of men.
Presumably, this should be linked to https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1430166260965380096 which confirms the outage.

The site is back up for me.
Australia may already be there. Seriously, watch this 2 minute news report. They are handcuffing, fining and publicly shaming teenagers for "being outside without a reasonable excuse".

https://twitter.com/CharlieEmmaUK/status/1429471216260235266
If you work for a large company or a small company using most payroll processing services, your pay is probably easily retrievable by any creditor.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/how-to-opt-out-of-equifa...

Even though the article is old, I saw my last few years' pay history in the links provided there.

Opting out feels like a devil's bargain: credit will presumably cost you more or be harder to get as a result. But there's no fine-grained way to choose who gets the info.
Neat. Great share, thanks.

FWIW, that's a reprint of this OC [0]:

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/petrifying-climate-change... [2021/06/03]

TLDR: Uses electrolysis to extract calcium and magnesium from ocean water, which can then be used to extract carbon from atmosphere. Happy by product is hydrogen.

Question: This is similar to the desalination systems, right? Can future infrastructure do both?

One plausible scenario is to have off shore wind and solar farms powering these devices. Drop the limestone into the ocean. Pipe fresh (treated) water back to shore. Bottle up the H2 for collection.

What could be easier?

[0] It KILLS ME when articles omit meta data like timestamps, bylines, links to legislation being discussed, etc.
>Is there a bunch of AWS sales people who just became instantly "Fuck You Money"-rich as part of their sales commission on this deal?

No. Do you think "Fuck You Money"-rich people are being minted every time a billion dollar government contract is awarded?
By debating "tough" vs "soft" on crime you're already buying into their framing of the issue. "Tough on crime" in America is code for "feed people into the prison industrial complex for life for low-level crimes" thanks to things like Biden's "three strikes" policy. It's also rooted in racism, as typically the people the system is "tough" on are people of color.

To give but one example of the difference in mindset: Portugal has had great success by decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction as a mental health issue, whereas America prefers to throw people in a cage and ruin their lives because "drugs are bad". That's part of what America means by being "tough" on crime: lack empathy, don't look at individual circumstances, and treat mental health issues as crimes to keep feeding a for-profit prison industry and ever-increasing police power.

Edit: I wonder if the downvotes are partisan over my mention of Biden’s role in our current state of affairs. Just trying to help explain America’s peculiar pathology that led us to the shameful statistic of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
1. For things like remote work, it only became a trend because of the pandemic. You would have needed to predict the pandemic to predict that management would permit remote work. It was not really a trend, but rather an emergency measure that morphed into a desirable benefit.

2. This only looks at successful things. We must examine unsuccessful things to see if there is any real predictive ability.
You don't indicate a political slant, but this is an alt-right take on American politics if I've ever seen one. I would counter with:

For a couple hundred years, Americans insisted 2+2=5. It was even enshrined in law for the first hundred or so years. We eventually agreed on a compromise, 2+2=4.5, but some of our lives depend on the answer to this math problem, so we're not going to stop fighting for 2+2=4. Sure enough, if you work as an engineer, you're going to be fired if your answer isn't within tolerance.
No-Code ML: Build Models in a Few Clicks
That's a good point. I am Austrian, living in Germany. Perfect examples of how to do nation building after a war. Maybe we should have tried that in Afghanistan.
I believe the solution to this is to classify errors properly. Any "internal error" as in HTTP 500 Internal Error should be generating a stack trace. Most other expected errors (like your case) should not. I codified this practice in a library I created for Go called errcode [1] which is designed to attach error codes and other meta information where errors are generated.

[1] https://github.com/pingcap/errcode
Earlier than that, it was about only closing travel to China but not Europe, which was having a completely uncontrolled outbreak.
I thought I read that they do that already when they can. They don’t go out there scouring the internet but they do cut it off for TOS violations when reported.
HN commenters famously dismissed Dropbox when it was first posted. I would love to see a variant of this based on sentiment analysis and whether the conclusion would turn into "yes, but not the way you think".
FICO credit scores aren't intended for tenant assessment - it's just a lazy option some landlords do. The credit companies have dedicated products for such a use case (https://www.mysmartmove.com/).

Realistically, paying off a loan rarely hurts credit scores. And realistically, someone with years of paying off credit cards on time is going to have a high credit score (at least high enough for things you describe), outstanding debts or not.
And someday they probably will have that chance. Each time one ideological group gains an edge in power, for some dumb reason they become convinced that they'll hold that edge forever. You can see this constantly here on HN with people gleefully celebrating the smiting of their ideological opponents by private corporations and their government string pullers. Each time I mention that this could be turned around on them someday, they always claim it's different this time because "we're on the right side of history" which of course is what every ideologue believes.

What should scare them, and everyone else, is the distinct possibility that things won't simply swing back into a previous state but rather some new state will arise and use this power against everyone else. When the woke crowd loses power, and they will, it might not be "the alt-right" that gets power but something along a completely different axis that no one is even imagining today. And they'll have all of these tools of control and oppression ready made for their abuse.
Can't forget the famous dropbox dismissal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I'm almost 50, and have never gotten a substantial raise without moving to a new company. On the contrary, once you are in, there is a lock on your position, especially in larger companies, where you have a specific salary range your role falls in. Raises not only try to stay within the range, they are smaller as you get closer to the top of the range. A promotion bumps you up to the next range, but that is incremental improvement. You have to leave to throw that all out and reset the numbers.

Also, 3% is a mediocre raise just for year-over-year cost of living increases. Getting a raise that small with a promotion is a slap in the face.
> Organizations are allowed to be incompetent.

Only up to a point, though. Restaurants can be shut down when they have too many health violations. Private medical practices can be sued into the ground. There are lots of types of incompetence in finance that can get you shut down / sued out of existence.

> The real problem is they have buy in from other industries with major decision making abilities and the government has provided us no protections from them.

Which is why I'm being vocal, where possible, about how incompetent these organizations have become.
After reading their license I would not touch it with the wooden pole. Too bad as it seem to be a good tool. I made couple of demo projects to get familiar but did not proceed any further as I did not want to end up paying one of the most exorbitant license fees for a general development tool.
>maybe a pop-up on the password change screen

That requires people to actually read and process that information. My time doing customer support made me realize that a significant percentage of the population will click buttons to make things go away without actually reading or understanding anything.
It's entirely unconstructive to make comments like yours without sharing your sources. As I said above, there is this toxic attitude exhibited by many where there is an assumption that those who disagree with you are idiots and you need not waste time explaining your arguments. This gets us nowhere. For what it's worth, take a look at the results discussed here [1] which show that those refusing vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 are both the least and most academically qualified. Not everyone on that "side" is an idiot, and you may not have read everything they have (and nor might they have read everything you have).

[1] https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
This is exactly what I complained about in past threads and nearly nobody agreed with me there. Seems like the tide has changed!

This is my only complaint. I don't care what you do on your own cloud, don't try and force my device to do the heavy lifting especially when the activity is not in my own interest.
Ok, I’ll indulge you. What is the 2+2=4 for you that you are prevented from saying?
There weren't merely sunset towns -- Oregon wrote the sunset clause into it's state constitution!
Maybe an app that changes any spoken recording into a whistled one?
Usually (at least where I live) properties that were at code in maintain that status through "grandfathering" even if the code changes.

We have an old elevator in my building. It gets inspected year to year. If replaced it has to be up to code. A new up to code elevator, won't physically fit in the space the old one is). We're also in a "historic" district which is another entity of denial.

You are right that upgrades can become a nightmare of codes/regulations.
At least in the US these entities are controlled by a government we in theory elect so its at least partially our fault. Also at least in the US, when the government "takes" or changes a rule that destroys value, there is always the threat of a lawsuit for the value destroyed.
Ask HN: What's the closest to hands-on job for a software engineer?
I'm looking for shifting to a job where I can utilize my comp.science background and experience as developer in a more hands-on job working on products or things where success is self-evident so to say. Any tips? I don't want to spend time coding much. Maybe oversee pipelines, supply chains etc
But new trends are typically discussed here, before they hit the mainstream, even if they are dismissed.

Hacker News is good about surfacing new technology; Hacker News is bad about figuring out how that technology will be leveraged.
> Is it OK to just say, "I'm happy doing what I'm doing"?

Imo yes, totally. But you can always try to be a bit better in what you're doing, especially in software development...the craft has a lot of room to grow. But if someone is happy being a dev or whatever else that should be totally cool, maybe even celebrated.
I love the lilt of that whistled buenoooo.
check out also Algorithmic Botany, that tries to use algorithmic creation for research http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/
Oh the AirBnB of home ownership. As it sounds, they are one regulation/ruling away from going bankrupt. Silicon Valley is full of Snake Oil buyers. I wish I had the tenacity to sell some.
> Yet data from Israel suggests that the vaccinated are six times more likely to get delta

Ok, well I've cited two studies that say the opposite, and one of those studies looked at antibody responses over time from matched individuals. The "on the ground" results in Israel are completely confounded by who is an isn't vaccinated, with at risk people (including healthcare workers) being significantly more likely to be vaccinated.

> it's been known for a while now that ...

Oh my. Did you read that study? It shows nothing of the sort. It is a mathematical Markov simulation of what happens assuming natural infection is stronger than vaccines.

The kicker is in the discussion:

> Under the plausible assumption that protection against influenza infection lasts longer after naturally acquired infection than after vaccination, we show that ...

This is literally begging the question. The authors make the assumption that naturally-acquired immunity is stronger. Then they write a model that repeatedly exposes people given that assumption. Then they "show" that, surprise surprise..... people with naturally-acquired immunity catch the flu less frequently.
Yeah that whole article just seemed like a weird opinion piece.

I had to laugh at this part.... yes things will just suddenly change because Biden had a bad bicycle accident one time.

>Advocates have had high hopes that President Biden—a cyclist who has endured a personal and horrific experience with a car crash—would revitalize the federal government’s commitment to road safety, especially with the aggressively multimodal Pete Buttigieg at the helm of the Department of Transportation, of which NHTSA is a part. So far Buttigieg has said all the right things, but his department hasn’t offered significant new protections to vulnerable road users.

Edit: apparently it's referring to a crash that doesn't even involve cyclists. Which makes the whole reference even more off topic.
Income is required for any loan ranging from a personal loan, to a car note to a mortgage. Even renting an apartment requires proof of income! The only loan that doesn’t require proof are student loans, and those are essentially impossible to default on.
Israel is 63% fully vaccinated, 68% at least partially. Far from 100%.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_W...
People don’t realize how much cars weigh. A mid-size SUV is around 5000 lbs.
Which regulations does Amazon violate in their warehouses?
It's intentional, the 13th amendment explicitly allows involuntary labor for criminals.
> I've almost been fired for saying something like this (that my goal was to perform well in my current role).

Find a better job, that place sucks.
You just spouted the most popular response and opinion posted to HN.

For an actual unpopular opinion, if you want to stagnate and work applying the same repetitive skillset over and over again, work for a company where stagnation is not only fine but more than welcome. Those include government jobs, non-profit organizations, and very large companies that have little to no risk of competition, such as telecom, large banks, or various zombie tech companies that have not managed to produce any significant innovations in more than 2-3 decades... like IBM or Oracle.

Most other companies in the tech field simply do not have room for stagnation and a company that has stagnating workers will find itself highly vulnerable to disruption by a company that prefers to hire people who have a genuine interest in constantly keeping their skills up to date.

It also causes major productivity issues for a company that has stagnating employees because it inhibits the ability of experts from distributing their knowledge. The majority of the value from senior most experts does not come from their direct output but rather from the distribution of their knowledge and expertise to people less skilled. All of that potential gets lost if there's a substantial group of people who simply want to stay put in their skillset.
> Why do we have to rehash a decade-old conversation

Because there's new people in the world every day and they need to hear this important conversation, which is new for them. If you are already aware, it does no harm to you to just ignore the conversation.
> 1) we don't know the long-term effects

Of what? Vaccines?

> 2) There is no FDA approval (although there is now!)

Which is just a matter of bureaucracy. The emergency authorization and deployment is a de-facto approval.

> 3) There is no recompense for people hurt by the vaccine - even if that number is 0.

And? There's also no recompense for many things.

> but we can setup funds for people with side-effects.

The problem is that this makes no sense. Why would you set up funds for people with side-effects? What about funds for people who die in car wrecks on the way to get their vaccines or trip and fall down a flight of stairs?

> 1 is an argument from ignorance.

Ain't that the truth. Can you articulate the exact long-term effects that you're worried about or that anybody should be worried about? Why are you (or anybody) concerned about these specific unknown and unknowable long-term effects? What's the likelihood of those effects and how do they compare against the likelihood of contracting and dying from COVID-19?

It's like all of a sudden there's these spooky and mysterious "but what about the long term effects!1!" without any scientific justification. Even if there were potentially long-term effects, those effects are equally likely to be of no-consequence as they are to have us all turned into zombies or something. The search space of "effects" are unknown and have an unknown probability distribution.

The only purpose of talking about "long-term effects" by any pundit or layperson who can't even describe the mechanics of an mRNA vaccine (why not take the JnJ one if you're worried about that anyway?) is to introduce fear, uncertainty, and doubt either out of ignorance or malice.

If you're a virologist, by all means educate us. If not, stop spouting bullshit and hurting people.
> > A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place.

> You're right about this. People's access to necessities like housing shouldn't depend on whether they are making money for the finance industry. And developing countries' access to the resources needed to improve the quality of life of their citizens shouldn't depend on making the development process profitable to US/European institutions.

While there's definitely issues with how credit scores are implemented, it's absolutely essential for something like them to exist. People who habitually default on their debts shouldn't be able to keep borrowing money as easily as the rest of us.
The fact that the IMF thinks your choice of operating system should impact your creditworthiness is something I've been warning people about for months because it shows why we need cosmopolitan software. Since it's nice to have the ability to pick up and move our apps elsewhere should we discover we're using the "wrong" one. Because political winds change, but good engineering endures. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/jukebox is a pretty good example of lots of its capabilities glued together. It's also my go to tool for gluing live audio things together
You might have replied to the wrong comment, this thread is about the value of domains, not OP’s link. I agree keeping the domain is silly, but perhaps the guy is rich enough to not care.
iPad shipments in Western Europe up 73%; Mac up 11%
> One basic pillar of contract law basically everywhere is that one can not be bound by a contract that they didn't read, even if they signed it.

Wait, there has to be more nuance to this, right? Like, I can't just sign a contract and say "I didn't read it" when a term I don't like comes into force. Is there a precedent for where that line is?
This only looked at submissions it seems. I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments. I think discussions in the comments here are far ahead of the mainstream.
That's a good point. The device with the key would still have to forward the results.
And? The rate of admissions is the important part. Considering there was no testimonials by nurses and doctors about exhausting ICU capacities and whatnot, or at least I did not hear about it, I do not see why that is relevant.
The exact message: https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/142987887069458432...
Of course, this is a technique HR created to give folks the appearance of career growth while controlling cost.

There is nothing your company is doing for you, that isn't the absolute least they calculate will keep you working hard.
In the US it's being done to convinced criminals and in China it's being done to an entire ethnic group. Not the same by a long shot.