skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont know what to believe anymore. Is this author using his ex to publicize his book? Is this woman even alive? Second hand info is suspect. If the wife were alive, she would have messaged him publicly,no?
Denmark doesn't have a testing requirement, nor are people only born with downs if a test failed. (It does have very high testing rates and corresponding high rate of subsequent abortions though)
thank you for that - great list
Ask HN: Electricity Company Privacy Concerns
My home power (electricity) company recently apparently started using a service called "Bidgely" that tracks my usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9D__pRGM6A - this seems like an invasion of privacy to me - is there anything I can do to get out of this?
> People who don't do / build

I can and do frequently advise on certain topics in comments specifically because I do build and can in fact speak of such topics authoritatively. Isn't that what this website is for?

That said, the post you are replying to is perhaps overly dismissive of the criteria that this website operates under. Other comment chains have some really good advice though.
I can't speak for your personal experience, but at least on paper, companies are begging for more diverse hires, even blatantly admitting to breaking the Civil Rights act to do so.

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/132267679726609094-s...

>students who are a member of a group that is historically underrepresented in the technology industry will receive priority in the selection process. This group includes women, ethnic minorities and students with disabilities.
In the United States, law enforcement essentially has read and write privileges over your cloud accounts.
It's not impossible for this to happen with foreign services too but it's at least less likely due to the many more hoops someone has to go through.
Have you looked at Ruby on jets.

Serverless framework for ruby: https://rubyonjets.com/
Its a [football|soccer] match, not game.
The commodore 64 is still so much in the thoughts of people that played, hacked, have incredible afternoons with it, that a few months ago, to help a friend in economic troubles, I started designing (in the CAD), printing (with a 3D printer) and selling (on Etsy) miniatures of the C64 and we have quite a number of orders every week. I never imagined it to be a popular item in the shop, and I was wrong.

If you are curious, this is a picture of the item we ship: https://ibb.co/ZGtL7PY

I modeled other microcomputers of 80s, and have a project to release many models under the creative common license. If you are interested, I'll tweet about it soon.

An argument tangent to that: when the Raspberry PI went out I hoped it could be the "new C64", in terms of something that children could play with, start writing code, but nope, nobody so far nailed it. Yet I fully believe there is room for a cheap computer that will introduce children to programming, like in the '80s, to happen.
The conflation of college with education was natural and understandable until the last 10-15 years, but that appears to be changing.
The answer is simple, you don't need an entire article on that. It's all politically motivated. Accepting it as airborne would force governments to accept the costs of fighting it.

Forget that "keep the 2m distance" nonsense. Airborne means you need N95 required everywhere. Public gatherings are out of question too.

And if you fight the narrative, you can easily be labeled as "anti-science", whatever that means. Did you all forget how the mask guidance was changed overnight around April/2020? All in the name of "new science information".

Take any information from the CDC or WHO with a large grain of salt.
This tells us less about the viability of organic farming and more about the idea that one can change an entire nation's agriculture system overnight by fiat.

Zimbabwe tried that and failed (no organic farming needed there). And now Sri Lanka is trying it and failing.

A more sensible approach would be to phase it in with the right incentives for organic farming and adding the cost of externalizes to the price of non organic farm produce in a phased in manner.
> It is EASY to start your own thing.

Not withstanding restrictive licensing systems that require you to put in X years working crap jobs for crap pay under someone who already has the license to ensure that you've "paid enough dues" you're not gonna go around undercutting everyone once you get your license.
Uploading Files to Google Cloud Storage with an Express GraphQL Server
Sadly I think this is a lesson that we as an industry consistently keep unlearning.
He didn't say throw up your sins onto your shoes — he said be polite, and forgettable.
Yeonmi park had also some interesting points about CCP and north korea. She is a refugee from north korea.
Here are the two leaked files, not on google drive:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmThVcHpJy2fRbU246VcskLnA5H6V3sMBWt9Ztm...

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmc8rPeP8g6MHyvvDLrLvfPV4exmU3kbBRTBr7a...
Australian utility preparing to deploy robotic dog to inspect infrastructure
> “I’m sort of waiting for a light to come on so I figure out what to do next,” he said.

Interesting. Maybe guys who are not super-interested scientifically in a subject realize that it becomes a waste of time. Even their academically inclined peers will struggle since there arent nearly enough academic prospects for the number of Phd graduates. Then also these men grew up watching youtube stars etc. making it big without formal education.

Maybe these men should be encouraged to get their education in europe. Credentialism of Ivy Leagues is becoming increasingly irrelevant, but the academic environment is still stimulating and not hostile to either men or women.
It looks like it's just the same WinForms - they don't seem to share any code.
I'm sure I've heard something like "engineering is solving problems while doing as little new as possible".
Apart from API/ABI changes, notable changes are:

* Changed the license to the Apache License v2.0.

* Switch to a new version scheme using three numbers MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.

- Major releases (indicated by incrementing the MAJOR release number)
may introduce incompatible API/ABI changes.
- Minor releases (indicated by incrementing the MINOR release number)
may introduce new features but retain API/ABI compatibility.
- Patch releases (indicated by incrementing the PATCH number)
are intended for bug fixes and other improvements of existing
features only (like improving performance or adding documentation)
and retain API/ABI compatibility.

See also the project's blog post about the new release: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/09/07/OpenSSL3.Final/
I was young once, and I am white. Yea sure, I understand it. And this is no way new, I had plenty of other white people feeling sorry for me because, "the country is being taken from the white man". That is ooooold, old, old. Fear based racism been around.

But to your weak sauce point, some folks are just going to have a hard go at life, but is it easier being white through life, no matter what? Yea, for sure. No one says it's an easy life, but it is easier being light skinned.

> unwanted, depressed

I think there used to be some organizations that helped with that. Specifically white men. You know, the kind that would give them a purpose, make them feel wanted. You got a hood and everything.
> At the root of this economic catastrophe is a bizarre overnight flip by Rajapaksa’s government on 29 April to ban the import of chemical fertilisers and any other agrochemicals to make the Indian Ocean nation the first in the world to practice organic-only agriculture.

Time and again we see this top-down police push that don't consult key stake holders (farmers, merchants, consumers etc.,) or fail to consider their feedback ending in a disaster.

To top it off they rolled it out 100% (No A/B experiment, so to speak). These big changes have higher order effects that manifest post launch and can't easily be predicted. They denied themselves a chance to adopt to those higher order effects by launching it overnight. The result is not too surprising.
A good read on this topic is "Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal". It's a sobering and surprising book.
I would argue that I need to eat less high-quality food, which has greatly affected my weight, health and energy levels. I can't say organic is always more high-quality (in regards to nutrient my body needs), but I can say I have experienced a difference in quality of life after adopting many organic foods.

And so have many, many other people that are now so sick that their bodies simply won't tolerate (allergic reactions) non-organic food.

I think it's just fine to have 20% less output if you get more out of the food.
> I do NOT want to go back to the times when we had to write and ship individual drivers for each graphics card, sound card and peripheral we wanted to support in our software.

This 1000x - I remember this time and it was quite painful

>Could you imagine having to select the physical port, IRQ and DMA channel of your sound device for each app that wants to output sound? Because that's what had to be done in DOS and screens like this https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/PCI/DS-XG_IRQ_error.png were commonplace. Good enough if you had well-defined devices like SoundBlaster(Pro) or GUS that you could auto-detect without crashing the PC, but a living nightmare with clones that didn't quite behave the same way.

I also remember the application working one second, unrelated hardware change (1), and back to the drawing board all over again
more precisely, fixed cost of fuel and transport has not changed but yield is lower. Hence price's rise .
There are 180 countries and not one will let you create a company that doesn't have to log IP addresses?
Proton should change their description to: "We don't really care so much about your privacy and make fake marketing claims because we are just another tech company trying to make as much money as possible"
Privacy means you don't know if the email is from the pope or gangster. Trying to separate them means no privacy for either group.

China could easily pressure an EU nation to make the request.
That's exactly what we had in mind - combining the ease of low-code with the flexibility of code. And yeah, we may branch out to other languages soon!

Your observation re brms is interesting - do you see a specific use case in that domain? Technically this is definitely in scope by training language models on other domains
It will push food prices higher and make the EU more dependent on other regions for food security. It's shortsighted and dangerous.
This is the first version without the obnoxious advertising clause in the licence. Now it's Apache v2.

It's a shame that OpenBSD and hence LibreSSL don't like the Apache v2 licence. Now, I think (IMHO) that's mainly OpenBSD being silly. But maybe OpenSSL should dual license under MIT OR Apache, just like Rust.
ipfs resolve -r /ipfs/bafybeiamnft57u4lniylffuafzxouf4ocaw5uylahfqoawj6rjnvwthuuu/list/cs.CV/2111/: no link named "list" under bafybeiamnft57u4lniylffuafzxouf4ocaw5uylahfqoawj6rjnvwthuuu
Or you can buy it straight from Simon & Schuster (the publisher), slightly more expensive but you can sleep well knowing you don't support more egoistic space travels:

https://store.simonandschuster.com/on/demandware.store/Sites...
But adding a new server includes having to buy new licenses, which is a consideration you don't have with OSes that under licensing. It costs extra money, and used to be per socket when their infrastructure was conceived.
> Chem-based clearly gives higher yields for a period of 50-80 years, but what happens after that?

You will have to keep moving the goalposts at a rate of 1 year per year, because it turns out that we understand which nutrients plants need and how to give them those nutrients.
As I understand it it is actually not a issue as they have strong enough privacy laws that EU have said good for it. Though when doing business with EU citizens they of course still have to follow the rest of gdpr.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...
>which would easily be resolved by having better/more scientific data

There's already quite a lot of data on the subject. Here's a 30 year meta-study from 2005 for example.

https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...

The problem described in the article is that people are preventing/defunding further studies.
Github1s was one of the most polished projects I came across in HN. When I saw this announcement I first thought of Github1s and searched for any credits.
That works great until you get married and start a family.

I mean, in theory there could be acceptable ways to let a couple with babies have roommates. But the design problems alone seem too complicated to attempt, let alone the cultural problems.

Also, keep in mind that a young couple with kids might have only one income earner. And that couple is in the same apartment hunt with singles willing to share multi-tenant residences. Sometimes three or four of them!

Point being, "get roommates" doesn't scale over time or over the entire population.
Skyrocketing London-based startups to follow in 2021 and beyond
>>Organic/permaculture

Hmm; I've never seen "Organic" and "Permaculture" seen used as synonyms; I am ignorant of the field, but my understanding of "Organic" was that it was more focused on what chemicals are and aren't used, largely due to their perceived benefit to ingesting humans / some level of "naturalness".

I also haven't seen "Organic" as stopping monopolies and oligopolies either. Even if I accept that "Organic" doesn't simply mean "Carbon based", nothing in its modern usage seems to preclude new monopolies emerging.

- As an end-user, what I found is that same companies that offer "regular" food tend to offer "organic" under spun labels, preserving status quo (but at higher price and therefore profit)

- I assume that "Certified organic chemicals" for farmers' usage up the supply chain will similarly have to come from some company or another, and I don't immediately see what makes it harder for those to homogenize and eventually form a monopoly.

[If it's an allusion to Monsanto etc, again, to me that's more of a matter of IP laws, and I don't see what prevents such occurrence in Organic field (I also see GMO and Organic as orthogonal and not necessarily incompatible, but definition of Organic is loose enough and changing enough with times/regions/individuals that I won't stake a big claim there).]

I am genuinely willing to be educated!
Nope, that is what you need to scale to reach their customer support.
>People just won't accept that women can also do that.

Most women just don't want to do that. I don't think it has much to do with acceptance. Women that want to become plumbers are few an far between.
> It would be much better to reduce the cost of college so that it’s more valuable for more people

To do that, would be very helpful if the government stopped giving zero interest loans. This is resulting in costs skyrocketing.
Send me your resume to and I'll pass it along:

taway1343@gmail.com
Nice, I expected something based on XPath (like xpd), but web developers dealing with HTML are infinitely more familiar with CSS selectors, so a great choice!
Correlation doesn't always imply causation, right? For example, there's a correlation between IQ and income. There are several causative possibilities:

* IQ causes income

* Income causes IQ

* Some unknown thing causes both income and IQ

* The correlation is spurious; IQ and income are unrelated

Evidence strongly suggests that the third bullet point is true; socioeconomic class causes both income and IQ. Richer people living in nicer neighborhoods both have better opportunities for income, and also better opportunities for education; education causes IQ. This is why redlining is brought up so often as a root cause of so many of the disparities in quality of life; redlining deepened socioeconomic divides.
Commodore is tragic. They could have been Apple if they were better run. The Amiga in particular was way ahead of the competition in virtually every way at the time. It was like going 5-10 years forward in time.
Maybe we could have once justified the premium charged by US universities. But now you can get excellent education in most of the world FOR FREE. To see how this impacts our jobs at home, just look at the healthcare field. Most new physicians are imported from abroad. They can work for less because they do not have massive loans to repay.
It used to be per-socket for Windows Server before 2016, and StackOverflow's infrastructure and architecture predate that.
Show HN: AirSS – In browser, client side only RSS aggregator
For those who love Swiss "privacy" and security they should read about the CIA front-company from Switzerland for secure encrypted communications:

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

And remember Mark Twain:
“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”
Plausible deniability. My NAT and DHCP leases can be shortened, and not logged. At best you know something came from my network, and I may have many users on my network. For nodes, VPN, etc...

IP's address Internet endpoints, not people using them, yet States, prosecutors, and law enforcement regularly try to create the illusion that an IP has anything to do with who uses something.

IPv6 makes that temptation worse. IPv4 forces you to realize IP's can be ambiguous. IPv6, through having more addresses than people on Earth, checks off the Institutional checkbox for "raw material to contribute to a UUID identity scheme". Just look at China's proposals for a more governable international Telecom network, and the intention to use device persistent addressing as a control mechanism becomes obvious.

Where IPv4 creates enough decentralization and localized namespace unscrambling to provide enough friction via statefulness to thwart these types of efforts, I'm not at all confident IPv6 will do the same. I believe it is just what the Doctor ordered for laying the foundation of coupling IP's and net addresses in the minds of the masses to personal identifiers.

Which is not by any stretch the way we want things to go.
Seems to me 100% their loss, if they don't want you! I'm white and male, but the wrong side of 40. Occasionally I've faced ageist "humour". But anywhere that's unfriendly to older people, women, non-white people, would IMHO suck to work even if you were young, white, male etc. Wouldn't wanna work with prejudiced people even if they think I'm "like them". Working in a diverse inclusive team is far more joyful, as well as more productive. BTW in my current workplace, there's a lady who's both older and black. She's awesome at her job, has a unique set of skills built up over many years. IMHO she's irreplaceable as well as a fun nice person to work with. So thank goodness we don't have something that'd have made her feel unwelcome....
I want the option to use both, like Nokogiri gives you.
Basically, the current promises take a shortcut. If your promise returns a promise, the two promises are automagically combined into one promise.

foo
.then(() => returnsAnotherPromise())
.then(() => { /*only receives the nested promise*/})

The correct solution would not automatically flatmap

foo
.then(() => returnsAnotherPromise())
.then(innerPromise => {
innerPromise.then(() = {}) //now we have access to the nested promise
})

The second API is easier to statically type (creating a type that automatically, but conditionally removes a type is not necessarily0 easy). The second API makes some abstractions easier. The second API more intutitive for most people new to promises (I've seen it done a lot -- especially a few years ago). The second API allows you to interface with other monads without constantly having to do a special conversion any time you touch a promise.

The current API is way more ergonomic for most current developers.

In any case, it seems like there should a way to create your own proper monad promises along with an interface to normal promises when needed.
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Boilerplate job/career options for young men thinking about attending vs not attending college...

1) Enlist in the military. pay is sub-par, but your living expenses are well taken care of. picking a job that has a civilian equivalent is clutch here.. eg combat medic, electrician, plumber, various IT-related fields.

2) Skilled trades - eg plumber, electrician, HVAC-related. These pay from 50k to 150k depending on what type of work you do. The "high end" for example being a new-construction electrician, working for themselves, making $75/hr with overtime. All these fields have high job security - plumbing, electricity, and HVAC are not a 'fad', and are likely to increase in demand over time.

3) Own a "low tech" business, the sort you might already work for if you are a teenager. Eg...landscaping. You can make $15/hr running a weed eater, or with a small investment and some people skills - you can pay other people $15/hr to run a weed eater, and you run the business. This is more difficult than it seems on the surface (management and people skills), but it is not something you need a college education to succeed at.

4) Specialty/niche fields...these are more difficult to break into if you don't know someone already. Some examples are mosquito spraying(for a city), [water] well digging, or roadside assistance for a larger contract(like cell phone roadside assistance, AAA, or dealer contracts). These are easier to break into if you already know someone who owns that type of business, who will show you the ropes so you know what you are getting into.

This isn't an exhaustive list by any means, but hopefully someone finds it stimulating enough to come up with some ideas about work options that do not involve a mountain of student debt.
El Salvador’s experiment does not warrant cross-cryptocurrency price rise
>For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate.

Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly?
This. Everywhere I have been as a team lead has had issues hiring. I don't remember ever having two desirable candidates in the pipeline at the same time and getting one felt like striking gold. We didn't give two shits what your gender or race was.
I wonder also if perhaps avoiding a change of course, despite the costs of not doing so, in the interest of "saving face" might also be playing a role here. As I understand it (and at some risk of overgeneralizing here), this is a big cultural concept that I think might be underestimated by a lot of people in "the West" as a factor here.
"Many of us see this as a net positive, but there must be a ramp, as opposed to an overnight switch."

Yes, absolutely. The move has to be done gradually to allow farming to adapt. An overnight cutoff would surely cause yields to drop.

What isn't clear to me is how much warning was given for the ban. Was it announced ahead of time?