skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
À une passante

The street about me roared with a deafening sound.
Tall, slender, in heavy mourning, majestic grief,
A woman passed, with a glittering hand
Raising, swinging the hem and flounces of her skirt;

Agile and graceful, her leg was like a statue's.
Tense as in a delirium, I drank
From her eyes, pale sky where tempests germinate,
The sweetness that enthralls and the pleasure that kills.

A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty
By whose glance I was suddenly reborn,
Will I see you no more before eternity?

Elsewhere, far, far from here! too late! never perhaps!
For I know not where you fled, you know not where I go,
O you whom I would have loved, O you who knew it!

-- William Aggeler's translation of one of Baudelaire's poems
In the US people working in national security positions also have to regularly (though not annually) submit financial information too.
The best hiring outcomes I've ever seen was a program manager who hired entirely on attitude. As long as you had programmed something/anything in the past, if you could sit through a 45 minute interview and have a great attitude you were hired. That company went from years of stagnation to doubling over the next two years.

It makes sense. If you have a great attitude about your work you'll learn and do whatever you need to.

The other key was this program manager wanted to be known as having the highest paid tech staff in the area.
History suggests few will care about this and little will be done. Every year cars kill tens of thousands and main many more, and we don’t care because as a society we like driving and consider those deaths to be an acceptable side effect. The concern over self-driving is merely another round in a game that has been played for a long time: the novelty of a new kind of danger alerts and concerns people, and the industry spends vast sums to cast the concerned as luddites and the danger as minimal and fixable.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180956
Peak Oil: A Comic by Stuart McMillen
I am constantly seeing articles about how a market crash is coming and have been seeing them since 2014.
See also https://nautobot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ which appears to be a fork of Netbox https://blog.networktocode.com/post/why-did-network-to-code-...
How about Apple gives more money(in millions) to people who report legit security vulnerabilities?
> Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.

(I am assuming "Bitcon" is a typo for "Bitcoin" rather than some new cryptocurrency or blockchain thing I have not heard of).

This reminds me of a question someone once asked Miss Manners:

> Dear Miss Manners:

> Don't you think that nowadays, in modern life, the old-fashioned custom of the condolence call is out of date?

> Gentle Reader:

> Why it that? Is it because people don't die anymore, or is it because the bereaved no longer need the comfort of their friends? Miss Manners is always interested in hearing about how life has been improved by modern thinking or technology.

People lending money via Bitcoin/DeFi or any other mechanism now or in the future are still going to want a way to estimate the risks that the borrower will be able to pay back the loan on schedule.
I think that example really exemplifies HN's biggest blindspot. A lot of successful companies are built around taking an existing technology, then packaging it in a way that drastically reduces the frictions for the user. The typical HN user doesn't understand those pain point, because they're technically sophisticated enough that they're mostly invisible.

So, you take something like Dropbox. Yeah, it pretty much is just mounted FTP. And the average HN is looking at that and thinking "I could do the same thing with a bash script, what's the big deal".
10 years experience, I've received two 20% raises. If you're a high performer and have a boss willing to go to bat, it's not impossible. But it's much easier to get larger raises when moving jobs, yes.
I mean of course they are worried about local bike-shops: they certainly can't strong-arm Amazon!
Unlike the Z Fold 3 it doesn't kill the camera completely, you end up with a lower quality camera without its post-processing features but it's still usable.
How dangerous is wind?

So many cool concepts failed to just hunker down during wind.

My favourite, the cyclocrane https://youtu.be/CiU71GFs4Fs?t=178

The cyclocrane seems to have targeted a similar market replacing helicopters.
The USA should become a signatory to the Vienna convention on road signs and signals like its neighbour country. That way, people will have even less trouble. More people comprehend the common, global (pictographic) language than English.
Considering the prevalence of clickbait, it is an effective way to prevent wasting time if someone has already identified it.
Colin Jones History of Indigenous Australia Part a [video]
Just FYI - I honestly do not give a flying fuck about how successful and prosperous Apple is. The only company whose prosperity and well being I care about is my own. As a vendor I do not develop for this platform and as a consumer I do not use it. The reason for my avoidance in a first place are various restrictions put by Apple.
Or maybe Tesla should not be allow to call it 'Autopilot' tm with small writing stating that Autopilot is not an autopilot.

If I sell 'super seatbelts' with small print stating that during a car crash you should hang on to the seat by the power of your own muscles because super seatbelts protect only against fender benders and tears in high speed car crashes. I will be in prison the moment authorities hear about my product.

People are morons, and you cannot expect them to know small caveats of all tech. "Its called Autopilot so it auto pilots my tesla duh."
You appear to believe science can't be used to analyze subjective experiences such as happiness or a tasty meal? Consider this - science explains why cilantro tastes like soap to some people. A genetic test could determine if you're going to experience cilantro tasting like soap and therefore not like it. We're just starting to scratch the surface. We may very well be able to do a genetic test and accurately predict/prescribe your favorite meal. I imagine we'll make a lot of progress in this area over the next 100 years.
I used to think this, but there are some serious downsides. Too many bad actors who would take advantage of it. I don't use FB, so I'm not sure you can call it a utility anyhow.

which path is the least likely to enable society to self-destruct?

Perhaps covid could be a good analogy and inspiration for how to deal with social media. Social distancing, vaccines, try to get the transmission rate down...
Leave it to SV startups to reinvent the timeshare.
It's not a defense against universal healthcare. Rather, it points out that the mechanism for universal healthcare _might_ have to just be taxes or state-owned R&D rather than legislating that drugs have to be cheap.

> Altruistic enough to...

There's no altruism involved. US consumers are willing to pay those prices (inelastic demand), and companies are able to charge them (lack of competition, legal barriers). Predicated on that fact, marginally it's also profitable to manufacture for other countries as well, but if the rest of the world didn't exist you'd still expect to see the current behavior.
>I think discussions in the comments here are far ahead of the mainstream.

Discussions on HN and the articles they comment on can buy into the hype of the day to just as large a degree as anywhere else. Go back a few years. How many people were confidently predicting that widespread door-to-door autonomous taxis were just 2 or 3 years out?
This doesn't hold at all.

You not being allowed to drive a car without seat belts has nothing to do with the car, and everything to do with the road.

You own the car. You share the road.

You can drive that car anywhere you want with permission from the owners, you just can't share the road we all paid for together unless you put on a god-damned seat belt so that John the EMT doesn't have to see the 4th smeared human body on the shared road this week when you crash it.
I think it’s more that many of the “leaders” of this community are investors and entrepreneurs who have vested interests and use this site and community for promotion or strategic purposes. This site’s contents and commentary are mostly ads, thus not good at prediction.
Yes—martial law is always the wisest solution! /s
Look at the news the last two weeks, blanket condemnation of the Afghanistan withdrawal despite 70÷ approval for it and the fact that all of these educated news people have been around watching for the last 20 years.

Yet we can't get a microphone, airtime or column inches for anyone in favor of the withdrawal.

I'm free to post pseudonymously though!
No, the reason for E’ is that it doesn’t appear on the keyword and there’s no obvious way to make it work.

You’ll also occasionally see PERCHè for the same reason.

Also non-digital natives don’t really know the difference between É and E’ on paper, they all look the same.
It isn't definitions, it is about safety for other road users. If you don't want licensing or testing or inspections or insurance requirements, you need to accept certain limitations so as to not be a hazard. Riding fast on pedestrian paths and bike lanes is simply unacceptable. You are a different class of traffic, and you're trying to shirk the responsibility that comes with it.
No surprises there. The generous covid-19 payouts is more then minimum wage salaries minus transportation cost.
I also got quite interested some times ago ! A nice paper published about this magic : https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/201509/files/caustics.pdf
I love HR bs like this. Having to make up vacuous accolades to hand out to people doing a fantastic job for literally no reason. Presumably also making these highly productive employees jump through arbitrary hoops to validate their own existence.
You may be referring to Elgazzar et al. as discussed here [1]. That was not a meta-analysis, it was just a single study; the paper I linked was a meta-analysis of many such studies. The withdrawn paper was included in the paper I linked above, but it's been shown that removing its results from the meta-analysis does not change the conclusion (i.e. that ivermectin is likely an effective treatment and prophylactic against COVID-19). Instead it just changes the efficacy and error bars slightly. See e.g. this interview with evidence based medicine researcher Tess Lawrie [2] - they actually recompute the values during the interview using the software used in the study.

For the record, it's worth pointing out that the reasons for withdrawal are disputed by the authors. I have not looked closely at the arguments for and against so can't comment.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...

[2] https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/ivermectin-meta-...
> Why then do we not take income into account in credit worthiness?

We...do. Any significant credit application will look at your employment history, income, and credit score, not just the latter.

> Why do I not periodically upload my W2 or tax return to the credit bureaus in order to show that yes, I'm credit-worthy because my income makes it possible to service my debt?

Credit reporting companies do gather and provide pay data. As fir other data, they don't gather it directly from the people about whom they keep files.

> The entire idea of a credit score based on having had credit and paying past loans off is asinine

No, its not. While past performance isn't a guarantee of future results, it is useful as a guide. And it isn't the only factor considered in most loans.
Benedict Cumberbatch reading Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to the people of 2088
I have a similar opinion nowadays. The promotion process of the company I work for (FAANG) is so complicated that it was obviously created to make people not want to be promoted. I was recently promoted and having to fill dozens of pitch documents for no reason was so stressful that now that it's over I decided that I'm confortable where I am and have no further desire to pursue this mindless hustle game.
People keep saying that based on other issues I've had, yet I don't see anything better. Plus, I'd have to start over since most of my experience is in obscure tech like Neoxam and Filenet.

Basically, all my options suck and this one happens to suck the least. It's a sad reality, but life is full of suffering and overall my life has less suffering than many others in the world.
This is incorrect! If you rearrange certain atoms in ways not approved, you are in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1201. If this improves your financial standing, you have committed a crime under 17 U.S. Code § 1204 and are subject to not more than $500000 or 5 years in prison.

Under the DMCA, if you rearrange the atoms or attempt to describe how to rearrange the atoms in a way not approved by the phone manufacturer, you are a criminal.

Copyright, and in particular the DMCA, has superseded your ownership of the atoms. You must do with them as the true owner of the atoms (Apple for example) permits.
I'm not aware of HN doing any predicting at large. If you mean 'will the average person later act like a given segment of HN people do now?' - then it depends on how good you are at selecting your segment, which makes it no better or worse than using any other sample of people for prediction.

Less abstractly, productisation is what takes things from obscurity (e.g. HN) to mainstream audiences, so future trends might grow out of stuff that you see here, but the people who can figure out whether certain tech can become a product (would-be predictors) -hopefully- also have the means to turn it into a product themselves.
So a timeshare?
I think part of this is media enjoying amplifying clickable stories. A lot of people (myself included) just can't help but click about news like "market crash is comming" "housing prices are about to crash" etc. Current media business models sadly are driven by sensational news.

See also: all those revolutionary stories like cancer cure, that happen to only work in mice for now and will probably never work in humans, but we still click on those
Credit cards make money on the transaction side, so they don't need you to pay interest to make money. Simply borrowing against your credit card (i.e. performing transactions) is sufficient to keep them happy, and they 'reward' you with a higher score as a result.

At the end of the day, a credit score indicates how profitable you will be as a customer for a lender. Showing profitability for a lender in a past indicates that you will likely be profitable in the future as well. Thus, in effect, you do have to buy your score, although the method of purchase may not always be straightforward.
Don’t forget that the US democracy started with a religious fundamentalist regime.
In psychology this is the Just World Fallacy. Somewhat common in religions, and it’s an idea that people tend to find easy to subconsciously accept, despite being nonsensical if you stop and think about it.

You get it everywhere to some extent, but… maybe it’s more of a thing in the US? At the extreme, some US Protestant sects like to blame the likes of natural disasters on the presence of what they think of as sin (often gay people); while this idea is obviously not a majority view, it doesn’t really show up _at all_ in European Christianity or most other religions.
In 20 years you will be the only mainframe programmer left... I've seen many examples of this: people who refuse to learn the next big thing and end up with skills that are dead.

You need to constantly challenge yourself. If you don't want to advance either you need to change your attitude and jump into something that seems hard, or you need to find a new path that you will enjoy.

I don't want to go into management, so I'm trying to figure out how I can be the technical person in the company that is paid more than the CEO. I'll probably never get there, but it is a challenge that keeps me looking to see how I can be better.
Sure, TPUs and other accelerators are also exciting. Dojo is specifically interesting because of the massive off-chip communication bandwidth it has, which I believe is important. But in general, I'm excited about custom AI silicon.

OpenAI seems to believe that scaling transformers can solve many if not most problems, so I'm not alone here.
> The only loan that doesn’t require proof are student loans, and those are essentially impossible to default on.

They are trivial to default on. They are very hard to discharge.
Living in country where we don't have credit score it always seemed massive black box with very strange incentives... Here the loaning is based on income, other loans and possibly registry of past failed payments.

I'm not really sure if more than last one is needed, maybe some overall registry of how much money single person has lend and what part is unguaranteed of it...
Yeah, to be fair I was scraping to find another much-used example of a diaresis. But it’s house style for the New Yorker at least.
Vice President's Flight Possibly Delayed Due to Havana Syndrome in Singapore
That is a horrifying idea... eliminate fixed rate interest mortgages and the banks can target and de-home people at will.
Not nanis but i have been in places where i couldnt say my opposing as persons talked about gun control. Biggest example in past year is corona though, anybody who disagree with lockdown etc. is anti-mask trump loving redneck in some place, one of which I worked.
Do you want the ease of timesharing, the convenience of homeowner associations, the security of subprime mortgage bundling, the property-value-normalizing aspect of AirBnB, and the totally-not-bubbly aspect of MLMs?

Boy, do I have a bridge^W unicorn for you!

Edit: actually this probably is a fantastic company to invest in, precisely because humans are terrible and I have zero hope in our collective decision-making ability, especially in light of short-term profits.
Quiet, yes.

Foreign conspiracy against the liberties of the United States

https://archive.org/details/foreignconspiracy00mors
In a democracy, any configuration can be changed given a qualified majority. If there's such configuration that it can't be changed by a qualified majority, then it's not a democracy.

Indirect democratic republic sounds painfully similar to people's democratic republics. Or infamous Putin's "controlled democracy" in Russia.

How would limited indirect democracy differ from autocracy such as in Russia or Belarus?
They specifically talk about "left handed" rotation for a kickflip and a heelflip being right handed.

However for a goofy skater, the opposite is true.
On Windows you don't even need to type in the password to install something. UAC just gives you a yes/no dialog. Most home users have the permissions for that.

Only if your user doesn't have admin permissions you need to type in a password to run something elevated.
I think the point is noticing the trends, not agreeing with them. If people were criticizing bitcoin in hn in 2013, it means the community was aware of its importance. And they were before the rest of the world did.

That does not mean this is the perfect (or even a good) metric, but I do not think that predicting tech trends is the same thing as embracing them.
i don't think this is a good solution for climate change. it doesn't make sense to offset a major polluter, so they can continue polluting.
Two sentences of truth about the US and Afghanistan
How to sell the vaccine to the unvaccinated, according to advertising executives
As mentioned by another commenter, this article reads like a hit piece. It assumes that the only open question would be how to harm Tesla.
Yes, accidents have to be investigated, and if anything, one can discuss whether the advertisement of Tesla is deceptive. While in several stages, before activating autopilot, the driver is clearly told, that this is not autonomous driving, most of these accidents happened because people did not pay attention. In some cases they even actively defeated the devices to recognize an active driver at the wheel.

What makes the investigation at this point of time a bit difficult is the fact, that Tesla is already switching away from the technology involved in those accidents. They are all related to radar-equipped Teslas. But radar is very bad at detecting static obstacles. Its main purpose is for tracking other moving objects. With non-moving objects, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to pick them out against the background. Radar has not a high enough resolution.

Recently, Tesla cars are shipped without radar and the Autopilot now uses pure optical recognition, based on the new software developed for the planned full self driving mode. This should be way better at recognizing obstacles on a fundamental basis. Also, a in-cabin camera is supposedly watching for driver attention. I hope the investigations also consider the changes to the system already done.
So if the country decides to exterminate a specific ethnic group you just try and use soft power and if that doesn’t work then oh well?
I wonder if this is to thwart the multitude of sketchy iot devices on amazon that require calling back to Chinese servers to even functions (lightbulbs even, ha)
They missed crypto and NFTs. For some reason HN doesn't appreciate the potential of these tech. Even when some prominent Silicon Valley investors do. I wouldn't have expected this from a technical and freedom minded audience.
Yep:

>>To make second home ownership possible for more people — and, of course, make money — Pacaso uses a "fractional home ownership" model. They buy a house, lightly refurbish it, furnish it and then create an LLC for it. They then divvy up ownership of this corporatized house into eight fractions and sell those shares on their website.

>>If you buy a share in a house, you're able to stay in it 44 nights per year, in increments that can't exceed 14 consecutive days per visit.

Edit: Ah, and if you read further, it’s an attempt to get around the regulations and taxes on short term rentals:

>>The county, Brad says, had designated their neighborhood an "exclusion zone," which bans Airbnb-style short-term rentals to preserve the "residential character" of communities. But Pacaso argues that their clients are not short-term renters. They are co-owners of an LLC. This also means they don't have to pay the typical taxes on short-term rentals.
My solution to the author's problem is to use `direnv` with `.envrc` files. From those I set several ENV variables based on where in my file structure I'm currently located. Two of those top level variables are `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL` and `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` which take priority over the global .gitconfig file values. That allows me to easily use a different identity based on what workspace I'm using.
While that is a bummer for advanced and/or privacy seeking users, it is understandable.

I have considered membership in the CalyxOS Institute where you get a Google Pixel 4a phone all set up with CalyxOS. Something similar with the most modern hardware would be better, but the situation with Samsung, is what it is.
Alternative take, people didn’t like Dropbox because it was the repackaging and close sourcing of existing solutions. It was more polished and financially successful but that doesn’t mean it was good for tech. It’s corporate software, yes it became valuable but it definitely represents an anti-user trend that actually would best have been resisted. You should never give closed source software root!
He had no choice in going to rehab initially, I'm not sure "summon the wrath of the rehab managers and then get sent to prison" is reasonably considered a fair choice. I also suspect that getting remanded to prison because of a poor work ethic would not help his case for parole.