skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>private corporation and government institutions are getting more controlling and totalitarian

At least I have a voice in government. I don't get a voice when Experian (or Google, or any private company) decides to blacklist me arbitrarily.
Is properly burying waste plastic underground and ensuring it doesn’t pollute water streams or break down into micro plastic a good way of long term carbon storage?

Liquifying or turning it into syngas seems counter intuitive as we’re releasing a long chain carbon store back into atmospheric co2
One Cheer for Social Conformity
The same way it keeps your files, photos, and any and all state of your devices. Signing out is not the same as deleting all information from the account.
Not only confirmation bias, but also they're essentially polling a very specific subset of the population.

This is a segment of the population that would be replete with model train enthusiasts, RC plane hobbyists, and HAM radio operators back in the day. So, yeah, things of interest in the tech space would be of even more interest to people on HN.

But yeah, they also picked the "winners", they really have to filter for all topics discussed by HN and then find out how many of those became "future tech" and how many fell by the wayside. Because if it's 1 in 100, it's not a really good predictor.

And if something becomes mainstream, then of course it'll be talked about. That's kind of how it works.
"... the absolute least they calculate will keep you working hard."

I'm not sure it even keeps people working hard. Its discouraged me from working hard, especially after filling roles above my grade for a couple years.

When the company does the bare minimum and employees realize it, they do the bare minimum for the company.
Basically. Obviously, assigning ownership of a house to an LLC is not a new thing either. It is a traditional method for skeezy landlords and the wealthy to hide the identity of the actual owners.
I didn't mean it as an argument. Just throwing an additional fact out there. It seems to be relevant, given the impact that covid has on people over 60/70/80/90 years old.
Remote work is so obvious to the hacker news crowd that there’s no need for it to trend here. What’s artificial is going to an office to use a computer there. There better be food to make up for the traffic.
1. humans aren't produced in response to job market demand

2. even if they were, they have a huge time to market (at least a decade), which leads to feast/famine situations as supply/demand lags and fails to match demand/supply. You also see this other industries, eg. semiconductor manufacturing. It takes a lot of money and time to set up a fab, so they'll keep pumping out NAND/DRAM chips even when the market is drowning with it, just so they can recoup their investment.
According to Wikipedia, "the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a conservative non-profit association that promotes medical disinformation, HIV/AIDS denialism, the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis, vaccine and autism connections, and homosexuality reducing life expectancy."
I didn't bring EBITDA into the conversation; free cash flow is a useful metric for both personal finance and corporate finance and isn't comparable. EBITDA is too adjusted to be useful for personal financials.
I'm pretty sure Ford would be in serious trouble if it deliberately bricked the entertainment system when you change the oil outside of a dealership.
Confusing headline. The story seems to be:

There's a new startup called Pacaso selling timeshares. Like most people who sell timeshares, they loudly claim they aren't timeshares at all. Unlike most people who sell timeshares, they also ignore all laws against timeshares.

Because we live in the dumbest timeline, because they claim to be a tech company and not a timeshare company, this means they are now worth a billion dollars.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised; timeshare promoters are well known for sleazy tactics and lies, so... (Mind you, they might well be an unusually good timeshare company, if you actually like timeshares for some reason.)
I searched around in the AOSP source code but nothing jumped out. Can you link to the code?
Doing this can reduce your performance by 10%
I'll vote for the regulations because I know it's so not a big deal that it's actually a net positive. You on the other hand seem to have a "no pain, no gain" attitude to this, that we all have to suffer to sort this out. Who told you that? How does banning out of season fruit help? Who would vote for that?
Both crypto and NFTs are strugging to find productive real world applications; predicting those are like predicting which toy will be the "one to get" this Christmas or the Beanie Baby fad.
If you mess with the central electronics of the car I'm sure the car could choose to disable itself and they wouldn't owe you a cent.
finally we'll be able to run multiple electron apps on our pc's
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As I said, I'm not placing any value judgment myself. There has been some debate around the energy consumption of crypto mining. Some are arguing that there is some environmental impact to that. I'm simply asking what this person's thoughts on it are.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/21/the-debate-about-cryptocur...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
Yeah. I was on my eskate on a 4-lane road recently, riding 1m out from the curb due to gravel and debris (killer for those tiny wheels), and I had a car honking at me to get out of the way even when there was a whole other lane to change into!

He eventually did a half lane change, buzzing me as he went by, then got stuck at the next red light while I caught up. Ridiculous.
Literally bought my house for £250k, completed 11 days ago. Sold previous house for £240k a few minutes earlier.
I tried cloning it and running it but I'm missing a module; there is no requirements.txt either. :(
Swipe Left, Swipe Right
Imagine if the wrapper for a ream of paper said "by opening this wrapper, you agree to pay us $5 if you print double-sided on any of this paper". That's what EULA/ToS on things I already own feel like.
Pizza, Payments and Product Market Fit
An unlikely tech incubator serves it's most innovative dish to date
are you kidding? this is basically a blog for a group of politial scientists
Neither growing forests nor any other approach I've heard is carbon-negative on a scale of more than a few decades. Maybe someone could usefully deploy the credits to fund the science necessary to know how to properly use them.
It's surprising they couldn't vaccinate more given such small population. May be earlier successes created false security like post Indian first wave (and all the world thought their second wave was due to pure incompetence while in reality its due to Delta).
A Tale of Mankind’s Demise Told by a Chatbot
I honestly would love if we stopped trying to square the circle with speech recognition and just built a phonetic signal based system for computer interaction. Words are overrated, I'd rather whistle at my speakers like I'm R2D2.
If you want to code up some holograms try a Looking Glass Portrait
There are many extraordinarily dickish aspects of the narcissism smear.

For one, he deserves praise and a bit of ego, for outstanding service to humanity. Many times over. And he doesn't even actually blow his own horn about it that much - TO be fair, it's hard to, when in prison for revealing embarrassing war crimes.

Two, they _really were_ out to get to him, and we know that for a fact.

Three - many of the journalists who repeated this smear did so after their media orgs profited from his disclosures; ie, NYT, The Guardian.

Four - since Assange is on the ASD spectrum, lay people might actually believe the smear, confusing awkwardness for aloofness. Here's a handy guide to telling the difference between narcissism and ASD - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/narcissism-vs-aspergers-how... . Reading that, it's abundantly clear why such a calculated smear was employed.
Hacker returns all $610M in cryptocurrency stolen in cyberattack
Not after devs upgrade their workstations to these
Good guess, as I couldn't come up with how such a diverse collection could be in the same list.

Having categories would be nice too. (Section headings, don't mean the FP kind.)
> Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi "grandmaster" Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets.[16][17] The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong

So it's a system that's created by the government to make people aware of unpaid debts, but it's the same government that decides to impose debt on said people whenever it wants.

Coolbeans.
> Do they hold ownership over a digital token that (according to the project's creator, and according to social consensus) represents part of the CryptoPunks art project? Yes.

The social consensus says what? Obviously the NFT promoters want the public to believe that the NFT is part of an art collection, and this is why they use this ambiguous language that is intended to create the false impression that the NFT and the piece of art are the same thing or at least are closely connected with one another, and indeed the uneducated public will tend to believe that, but this a belief that is founded upon a lie. Anyone who actually knows what an NFT is is very unlikely to agree that these NFTs are part of an art project or have an artistic intent.
Clearly there are numerous markets supported by this model so I'm an outlier. My wife and I have considered fractional ownership of boats and vacation properties on several occasions. The things that turn me off every time is the inability to put a nail in a wall if I feel like it and the hassle overhead involved. I want to be able to whistle my dog into the car, hop in and go without having to coordinate with anybody else, knowing I have a toothbrush at my getaway spot.
I think a lot of people on HN are already working remote (I've been 100% remote since before the pandemic). It's a business process and business management issue that doesn't really come up on Hacker News except in productivity discussions.
> I think herein lies the crux of difference in our opinions. Most immigrants I know don't immigrate just for mere job opportunity, they go in with the intention of changing their lives and settle forever. They are not treating this like a Working Holiday Visa

I don't think I've ever met highly skilled immigrants like that. Many people first move to a new country in search of better life and then become highly skilled there, but those are not the kind of immigrants this discussion is about.

The highly skilled immigrants I know switch jobs once in a while, and sometimes the new job happens to be in another country. While they are building new lives in their current country of residence, they are not truly committed to remaining there. Some stay long enough to get citizenship and some even retire in the country, but the reason to move again may come at any time. The first international move is usually the hardest. After that, you have accepted the idea that switching countries is possible, and international moves are no longer that different from domestic moves.
I have no ties to the US and very little knowledge of it's history but I thought the ideas around the separation of church and state can be traced back to the founding of the US?
I heard you cannot remove the seatbelt.
They also pay a fraction of US jobs so tech talent doesn’t hang around those areas
One has to already bend heaven and earth to bring people who don't care about Privacy from WhatsApp, Messenger to Signal.

Only reason someone is able to do that now is because WhatsApp, Messenger gets into some legal trouble and the media advertises Signal.

Preaching about significance of interoperable protocol and suggesting apps which use them is beyond the capacity of even those media.
It's not easy to live in the modern world without an iPhone or an Android. I know, because I chose not to have either one.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to choose "neither". I expect some day I'll be forced to do so.

By your description, that will be a failure of capitalism.

When do you think it will happen?

When I can't charge my car because all the charging stations require an app that only works on Android and iOS?

When I can't easily get food because the restaurants switch to app-only sales, or smart phone payment?

When it's difficult to buy a good quality local map because everyone uses in-phone GPS?

When I need two-factor auth for a site that only supports a cell phone as the second auth?

The list gets longer and longer.
The Android example is from a comment, not a submission.
So you're saying we shouldn't put networking equipment of the sort in LEO? I don't understand your position. Switches in datacenters and deployed to provide internet to consumers are thrown away very frequently, and LEO satellites don't pollute their orbits with debris since unpowered flight at these altitudes regresses due to atmospheric drag (that's a desirable outcome). The timing works out.

I prefer this to an alternative where a failed constellation would be left as garbage to orbit the planet for decades/centuries. And I'd bet a few thousand satellites in space (including fuel used to put it up there) has an overall lower impact in the environment than the sprawling equipment and cabling needed to do the same coverage if using ground technologies (including all the resources used to install and maintain said equipment, and ecological damage).
In NYC construction workers are having their whistling curbed because most of it was the of sexist kind or at least a sufficient number of recipients didn’t want them.
Question vaccine safety or efficacy in a public forum and you'll see soon what censorship means.
Let's face it, that is not going to happen. I can barely get bluetooth audio to work on my desktop, a truly functional purely linux ecosystem for phones that my mom can use is at least a decade away (if possible at all).
The Mad Story
Exactly. Or at last a comparative analysis with similar news feeds. Would reddit tech posts not yield similar results? If not then perhaps one has an edge in term of early discovery future trends.

The variety of tech subjects submitted by hacker newsers is very large, and mostly about the most innovative and financially rewarding domain: tech.

So sure, hacker news does predict every upcoming trend since someone will be posting something about each and every plausibly promising thing.
Can you give us a link we can actually read/
You have to admit though that maternity leave from day one which often comes with obligations like keeping the position open (so you have to fire someone who has already being doing the job for a year+ if the mother comes back) is a ridiculous requirement. Sure, it makes sense for a huge employer where those things are just cost of doing business and you can afford to hire enough people to cover for that. It absolutely kills small businesses though.

Fortunately people find ways around those laws and governments in developing countries don't care much but it puts you in position to fight the law from day one.
The culture in Europe needs to change if we want people trying their hands on small businesses more.

I own a small successful business. I will never hire any employees. That's why I avoid working with anyone in my country and will not open an office. Frankly I would prefer to close shop and enjoy the rest of my life in an unproductive way than to deal with the burden of government regulations when it comes to employing people.

Hiring someone just for them to go on maternity leave after 2 months and then coming back (or not, not allowed to ask when) in 1/1.5/2 years and me being forced to find replacement while keeping the position open? Seriously, for a company which would have at most several employees and where everyone has their distinct role?
We’ll find a creative new stack of shit to run on it that will make it miserable again in about five minutes flat.
Yeah, the lockdowns in the UK were interesting, particularly were they would announce them ahead of time, giving everyone time to travel and/or bar hop.

I also thought it was interesting that the delta wave seemed to disappear in the UK without the benefit of lockdowns. The same in India. The same in India. I've been wondering if these waves of infections come and go without much regard for typical lockdown measures (outside of full-on communist China and New Zealand lockdowns, which may not be practical in most other places).
<font> elements! It really is from 1996. I haven't seen code that outdated since the frontend of Hacker News.
I can't help thinking that the correct "malicious compliance" strategy for legislators to tackle this is to pass a law that says any time a user is required to agree to an EULA on a device which is capable of playing audio files, the device should have to play an unskippable audio recording of the EULA being spoken out loud by a voice actor, at a normal talking speed.

Adding a 30 minute wait before someone can use your product or your website would ruin the customer experience, and would encourage at least some companies to question which clauses are actually needed.
I was surprised to see you downvoted. Did people forget that "digital nomad" was trending years prior to the pandemic?
Comparing specs between Linux and Android is an Apples vs oranges comparison IMO. I think a lot of people are unaware of the huge overhead that Android (and even iOS) has.
The mechanism for a kick flip and a heel flip are different, it’s not about the spin of the board in relation to the earth, it’s the spin of the board in relation to the skater.

A kick flip uses the front toe to rotate the board towards the skater. A heel flip uses the front heel to rotate the board away from the skater (you’re basically pushing it away from you by sliding your heel up and out off the edge of the board).
No. This is just confirmation bias.

The author didn't control for what was on the front page, how many points the article received, or the amount of discussion on the topic. Not to mention the myriad of technologies that are on Hacker News that fizzle.
It definitely catches a lot of clickbait, but there's a lot of false positives if the post goes against the hivemind
Packaging is meh, but you can use my repo if you want to generate your images using the CLI, a discord bot, or an IRC bot with your own hardware: https://github.com/luc-leonard/clip_generators. It includes vqgan+clip and guided-diffusion models
How to Rename a Helm Release
No, pretty much the opposite.
Ok yes, it would technically only turn your camera into a potato instead of disabling it completely
Same here. Was out of the nest just after turning 19 and have been on my own (or with partners) ever since.
I think there is a German ISP called SNAFU, so there's that.

Anyway, I call dibs on trainwreck.io!
Sensors and AI to watch Dorset social care patients
Why is your work situation relevant? If you meant it as a "this is what my bias is" then it further weakens your argument, which may or may not be desirable for you.
State of Urbit • Blog • Urbit.org
That was almost physically painful to read.

How can such things exist in a civilized country. Where I come from and where I live I think what is described would qualify as modern slavery.

See:

- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

- UN Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29): https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/blog/document/forced-labour-con...

- See Article 4, European Convention on Human Rights: https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/convention_eng.pdf
crashes happen every ten years or so. Predicting them shouldn't be so hard.
I've seen it multiple times.

I also understand that it is fiction, and it is exaggerated, and it is highly silly.

It is not a prophecy, it not a guide to reality, it is a silly film by a guy from Monty Python who was annoyed at bureaucracy, a very simple and shared part of human experience.
"Common computer these days" will eventually have to go.

And it probably will be much sooner than trans-Earth English language dominion.
Airbnb to help house up to 20k Afghan refugees – Airbnb
>Not in the Unicode guidelines as they currently stand ':).

I know, I'm just being humorously facetious. (Or at least I'd like to think that I am.)
It was definitely a trend, fully remote companies were coming into vogue long before the epidemic.
and tesla's on autopilot are ~9x safer than human drivers (humans get into a car crash every 500,000 miles, teslas on autopilot every 4,500,500 miles) source
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/01/tesla-autopilot-acciden...
Specifically to reinvent the timeshare while celebrating the purchase of a Lake Tahoe vacation home. I know it takes a certain level of delusion to become an entrepreneur, but things just seem to get more and more absurd.
What is the difference between no code api and your service?
"Samsung's 512GB DDR5 memory module is exciting, but it's aimed towards the data center and server market. Consumer DDR5 memory will likely top out at 64GB."

No-one could possibly ever need more than 1TB of RAM.

[EDIT: this was a winking reference to Bill Gates' famously misattributed quip that "640kb ought to be enough for anyone". Truthfully I don't know what to do with 1TB of RAM either, but I'm sure there'll be something!]
The Internet Needs Fungi
1. "Deuteronomistic Logic"

There's this arc in the Bible. Near the beginning of the Old Testament (say, Deuteronomy), there's a lot of "God will reward you in this life for righteousness" (heaven wasn't even invented yet) and "look how many cattle and wives he has; surely he is righteous; don't you want to be like him?" It's only later that this starts to change. You see this change a little in Job, where a righteous man is punished by God. And then it kicks into overdrive with Jesus, who is a reformer.

So it's not like the "Prosperity Gospel" messages aren't there -- they are, in the Old Testament. But they miss all the subsequent reform.

2. "The English Civil War"

One weird thing about all this is that the Calvinists (who I think of as aligned with Cromwell) went north; they became Puritans and went to New England. Their descendants also ended up, later, in the Pacific Northwest. They became abolitionists and such.

And the English who went to Virginia and the Carolinas, and who practiced slavery, were more aligned with the royalists. The plantation was like an exaggerated bizarro version of the English "country home".

Which then makes it strange that a lot of this Calvinist, Cromwellite stuff eventually ended up "on the right" in American society, with the "planters".
There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certain Reddit content.

I suppose these angry Reddit commenters bashing Twitter aren’t seeing it because they’re logged in to Reddit.

Just as with Reddit, there are workarounds to bypass this login requirement if you really want to. The users in that thread have some tips for using uBlock to disable it.
Hacker News, like any news aggregator, pops up new stuff all the time.

The hardest part is keeping an open mind for jumping on early. Hard because 99% turn out to be dud anyway, not to mention our crowd are skeptical bunch.

My biggest "regret" is ignoring Bitcoin/Ether.

Saw Bitcoin posts when it was $5.. nah it's a scam.

Oh it's gone up to $10.. nah it won't go up further.

Went up further.. nah won't buy bcoz already too expensive.

Ether announced.. lolz nobody going to buy another coin since there's already Bitcoin..

Ether goes up.. WTF.