skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use Deno without TS. I use it with plain JS and the code/test cycle is much faster without typescript compilation. Basically prefer Deno for ES6 modules and the good standard library.
>There may be 'blowout' prices on lumber itself, but around here I'm not seeing any 'blowout' prices on new construction in the short term.

Lumber is but one input cost. Labour is another, and it's still in short supply.

>but I think there's simply some "get high prices while you can".

Well, builders are under no obligation to provide services at cost plus.
First time I hear purposefully degrading the UX being excused by it being A/B testing. You know it's disliked but still you do it?

The world is going crazy
No not "most" but some of them. And it's declared stable in FreeBSD13
FYI its "hoi polloi":

- Hos is the Greek definitive article (i.e. "the")

- Pollos is a Greek word, most generally, meaning "many'

- They are used with the nominative plural ('oi' ending)

- In Greek, the article delclines with the noun so "hos" -> "hoi"
Haha! I did actually assume UTF-8 at first, but being a search engine has a lot of older websites, I sadly got a lot of encoding errors doing that, too.
This is one reason why I always look at how support is handled when choosing software. If I run in to this, I'll go look at the next thing on my list.

I'm not trying to downplay the problems you run in to, I've seen all of this and worse. It just seems that you chose tooling that doesn't work well for actually managing support, so you have to beat your users into the right shape to fit your software.

Godspeed, I guess.
> You really think rich people will suddenly start paying taxes because government is more efficient?

Erm. I didn't really say anything to do with that.
So your saying french nukes are definitely, positively, hundred percent, absolutely sure, bet yr granma's health, better than jap ones.
> We cannot be blaming others just for doing ads.

We regulate gambling and tobacco for the same reason we should regulate this. Google and Facebook ads have been scientifically tuned to hijack your brain chemistry for money. This isn't blame, or whining, it's simply acknowledging that these companies weaponized visual stimulus and data collection to sell ads on the internet. No amount of personal responsibility is going to solve a human society level problem.
You make a valid point. I understand why ModernMech doesn't want their work to be used to inflict harm on others, but at the same time, they're enjoying the freedom afforded by the military that protects them.

The sad truth of our reality is that as long as there are people willing to inflict violence against us, we need people who can plausibly threaten to inflict violence in return. It is hypocritical to condemn your country's military in general, while depending on said military for protection. [1]

[1] It isn't necessarily hypocritical to condemn certain militar actions or policies, though.
You are both taking it too literally and not abstractly enough.

The FACT is that you likely have a giant blindspot merely working "for the man" like you do that ultimately and adversely affects the quality of your work. Or minimally limits how far you can (or SHOULD) ever advance without reaching your Peter Principle or Dunning-Kruger limits!
Google created Sidewiki [0] in 2009 and killed it two years later. It was based on a browser extension.

There have been many other initiatives, some listed here [1]; Wikalong was interesting but riddled with spam. Maybe a personal system (not shared) would help prevent content abuse? But then it would probably offer too little value to really take off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation
Wait, you guys are joking? Over in my corner everyone is completely serious about it. My girlfriend wants to buy our first cow in the next two years. I work fully remote so all I need to do is find some land.
Just summarizing based on this thread, why wouldn't Reddit be a much better option?

Forums + chat + voting + flairs.

Automoderation for low quality stuff.

Builtin anti-spam, reporting, etc.

Pinning hot topics ...

Search is ok not great but you could build better search on top if it's critical.

Alt accounts are encouraged and relatively lightweight.

... and you can still have a Discord?

I get it, it's just another big platform but feature wise it's way better for forum migration...
A comment history that shows very brief activity nearly half a year ago, with regular activity occurring well over two and a half years go, doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that you’re the original owner of the account.
The Romans has absolutely no qualms about it. They would leave their pee out in jars for the laundry to collect.
> The same will hold true when Pfizer/Moderna "print" updated vaccines

To this point - why haven't they? In the spring/summer there was a lot of talk regarding the ability to quickly switch to a new variant recipe, yet that doesn't seem to have happened. The plan for the boosters still uses the original Wuhan strain.
I like this design decision. It pays you back for choosing your search terms carefully.
Number 3 (general negativity and naysaying) is horrible and pervasive. It takes a concerted daily effort not to fall too far into it.
ExpressVPN CIO Helped United Arab of Emirates Hack into Phones, Computers
> Its verbosity forces certain programming features to be known

This is why IMO Java is possibly the worst choice of them all (okay, maybe Perl is worse, but nobody is that insane).

Beginners don't start with enough "culture", as it were, to understand why features are there in the first place. The very first program you write in Java is something like this:

public class Hello() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, world");
}
}

That's an insane amount of cerimony and boilerplate. Professional developers know what every piece is for: of course you need the class declared public! Of course the main method needs to be static! Of course it needs to take an array of strings as arguments! But everything a n00b sees is a bunch of garbage on the screen. What's a class? What's a public? What's a static? What's a System?

And it's not like it gets better: what is an interface and why we need one? What is an abstract class? Why is there inheritance but we're not supposed to use it?

All Java does is encouraging people to treat programming as a black box, where the end goal is to learn the correct "wingardum leviosa" to make the magic happen. A good intro to CS does the exact opposite: the first concept we need to get inside people's skulls is how programming is flexible, malleable, composable. How it's "just" a composition of super simple stuff. How you should look under the hood.

It's the CS equivalent of how math is taught in high school: inscrutable, opaque recipes. It's the perfect way to make somebody hate the subject instantly.
Once upon a time, Greg Bear wrote a novel called Strength of Stones, where the inhabitants of a planet built artificially intelligent, self-maintaining cities with the ability to exile criminals to protect the rest of the inhabitants. Then, potential criminals. Eventually everyone. I don't remember the rest of the book; it wasn't very good.)

Anyway, have you realized that cheaper prisons are a bad thing? (No one really cares about the safety of prisoners. Honestly, do you?) Cost is the primary limit on incarceration in the US; making incarceration cheaper simply means more people are kept in prisons. The US imprisons about 1% of the population (2020: 2,120,000 prisoners, 330,000,000 population); what proportion is about right, do you think? More or less?

A comment:

"Ethan, I’m glad you’ve mentioned Morozov’s writing in this post. His essay on “The Taming of Tech Criticism” http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism strikes me as examining the key issues here, particularly his line: “Disconnected from actual political struggles and social criticism, technology criticism is just an elaborate but affirmative footnote to the status quo.”"
Only one reason, Attention span is decreasing.

Too much resources being added every day and month. it is really difficult to filter them. Even google can not do it, when compare the first page result with second page then you will see drastic change in quantity of content.
How are you going to spend them without miners?
> [..] is consistent, long-term, and value-based ownership [..] this disqualifies taking outside investment, either through venture capital or going public.

They should switch to a cooperative co-owned by workers and customers then. It the easiest legal-entity way of ensuring that continuity. (Coops cannot "take outside investment" nor "go public"; Mullvad would be owned by stakeholders rather than shareholders)
Building a culture of trust – with Metrics – at Slack
I work at Mercedes and can confirm that my (company performance based) bonus was great this year for exactly that reason. It's been weird doing so well personally while everything is going crazy.
China, France denounce U.S. nuclear sub pact with Britain, Australia
thanks! how did you make the decision to use hnsw over faiss and other search algorithms?
Most people organize their days such that the first thing they do when they wake up is go to work, and most people also start work in the mornings.
It sure doesn't overrule Taiwan's right of sovereignty.
That is of course exactly as I suspected since an Americentric view of the world is depressingly common.

I think it’s not useful to form universal views of the world based on the status quo in the USA. The prison system is harsh in the USA, and recidivism is high. In some other countries however, the prisons are significantly more brutal, and yet recidivism is low. So it isn’t quite as simple as the the commenter was implying.
Too many people, especially high income software dev's, that government can not spend enough money. So to them them the spending is not out of control at all, they want the 3, 4, 8 trillion spending because they have bought into the government-side economic model that inflation is good, government spending is good, and the "evil rich" (who if you ask them is always someone that makes more than them. They are not "the rich" it is the others....) needs to just pay "their fair share"

of course they will not define what what "fair share" is, just that is "more than they are paying now" however much that is...

I firmly believe even if we had a 110% tax rate it would not be "enough" for some of these people
What "fundamental redeeming quality" about uninstalling AIM from Windows 3.x motivated making that the 3rd result for "dog"?

The 5th result is a tutorial on CSS. This search engine decided it's relevant because it has "dog" in the URL. Is that a better reasoning than Google's? https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/

Core Web Vitals ranks sites higher that perform well. Text-heavy sites that are also optimized and relevant would already perform well.
SÄPO would comply with fourteen eyes directives, no? Is that not what 14 eyes membership implies?
Yes, I also find it infuriating that Indians are using Tinder to seek out conscientious partners.

This is definitely worse than the American use-case of Tinder, which focuses on factors of critical importance, such as a great ass and kinky proclivities.
We're not talking about cancer. We're talking about things that involve human psychology and behavior.

Privilege is why they didn't do "better user research": the person making the proposal doesn't even consider those they would impact.
Maybe so, but that doesn't make it ok to post name-calling rants on divisive topics, which is directly against HN's rules. If you want to do something about false information, there are ways to do that which don't break the HN guidelines. As a bonus, they're also more likely to be persuasive (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I've noticed that when people use phrases like "the spread of false and manipulative information and opinions", they generally just seem to mean "I think X is wrong and I feel strongly about it" (because such comments generally contain no information to disambiguate what they're saying from the latter). In other words, phrases like "manipulative information", "dis/misinformation", and so on, are generally pejoratives that express an intensified feeling. If we take such statements at the level of their components, i.e. "X is false" and "I feel strongly", it's easier to see how to deal with them in the intended spirit of this site:

X is false – patiently provide better information and explain how it is correct;

I feel strongly – take responsibility for regulating one's own feelings rather than venting them into language that blasts the opposing side.

There's nothing wrong with strong feelings, but it's important not to let them morph into aggression towards the perceived source of the feeling, such as by calling people who disagree with you stupid, and so on. We can't have that here because it destroys conversation. When other people who also feel strongly get hit with that, they respond in kind—where "in kind" means escalating, because it always feels like the other person is doing worse. That's how we get a downward spiral and we're trying to avoid that here (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...).

You've done this kind of thing repeatedly before (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192074 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26744307). Even if you feel like you're nobly defending society by addressing others that way, it's seriously against HN's rules and we ban accounts that keep doing it. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I hope Twitter won't ruin this.
I do find the "portfolio" thing interesting, because it clearly puts us in the same category as artists.

Accountants don't have "portfolios", interviewers don't ask to see their spreadsheets. Managers don't have saved video recordings of 1:1 employee meetings for interviewers to look over. Engineers don't have a sample set of bridges they've built [0].

Artists (and by extension, designers) are the only other profession where you're expected to have a portfolio of your work for a prospective interviewer to look at.

I guess what I'm trying to say with "I'd ignore the portfolio" is that if we're going to emulate another profession, let's copy the engineers, not the artists. Artists are typically underpaid and undervalued. Engineers are highly respected professionals.

[0] well, they might have photographs of the actual bridges, but not a sample selection of actual bridges. For some reason I can't point an interviewer at a previous employer's app and say "I built that" like an engineer can.
How do they inject themselves as a man in the middle? I don’t think I have ever been forced to use PayPal to pay for something.
The Scopes Monkey Trial; what we can learn about communicating science (2020)
> There have been several studies demonstrating waning inline with Israel’s data:

You cite three links: the first is self-reported data, which is problematic. Nevertheless, it still finds effectiveness against infection of 74%. This is a bit lower than the other studies (consensus is around 80%), but not dramatically so. If anything, it is evidence that the vaccines remain effective against the most challenging endpoint (infection), with only minor declines in effectiveness that might just as easily be statistical noise.

The second is a news article, referencing the Israeli study. It is not "a study". It is not new information.

The third is the Mayo clinic study (covered in the Twitter thread from Muge Cevik) and explicitly says that vaccinations remain highly effective against infection and hospitalization over the study period, and tries to extrapolate from a fluctuation in infection data in the final month of the study. This is sketchy:

> Both vaccines were highly effective during this study period against SARS-CoV-2 infection (mRNA-1273: 86%, 95%CI: 81-90.6%; BNT162b2: 76%, 95%CI: 69-81%) and COVID-19 associated hospitalization (mRNA-1273: 91.6%, 95% CI: 81-97%; BNT162b2: 85%, 95% CI: 73-93%). However, in July, the effectiveness against infection was considerably lower for mRNA-1273 (76%, 95% CI: 58-87%) with an even more pronounced reduction in effectiveness for BNT162b2 (42%, 95% CI: 13-62%).

Again, this claim is an outlier. When you have an outlier based on questionable methodology, you must be skeptical of the claim.

> The nejm study you reference is great, but it only goes up to 6 months! We want to look at waning in the 6-9+ month period to see if boosters are needed.

The NEJM is just the latest study, not the only study. Also, the two studies that vex you so -- both the Israeli and the Mayo clinic study -- occurred within six months of their vaccination programs.

Essentially, you're projecting doom based on two studies that disagree with the ~dozen others that have been conducted, that have methodological problems, and are inconsistent with known biology. When given evidence to the contrary, you dismiss it, in favor of speculation about what might happen tomorrow. You're latching on to outliers which confirm your biases.
We need a new term to use alongside the now-overloaded "free speech". John Cena was free to call Taiwan a country and was not in danger of being arrested for it. However the CCP and it's horde of nationalist supporters forced his apology for financial reasons related to the movie release. So is that a free speech problem or a capital influence problem?

It is sad to see what has happened to the US. Our captains of industry are tripping over themselves to get bullied by China and let them steal IP, and the government is completely unable to counter China's soft power.
Actually, it was one of the few VPNs that regularly worked to connect past the firewall in more rural China (outside Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen). Don't personally know (or have as much interest) about the state of things now.
I don't disagree, but at my last company, I was always very explicit about these things in business terms.

The real enemy I ran into was the SVPs desire to please the CEO who wanted to please the board who wanted to please the investment PR racket and make sure we could tell Gartner that X feature is ready by Y date to ensure we were included in their Magic Quadrant. The answer to the bosses had to be "yes it will be released by Y date". Saw that pattern repeated, realized "Agile" was just a word for waterfall, quit for a startup.
New homes, certainly in the UK are double-skinned with insulation between the layers. In the past most were double-brick, but some combination of brick and timber has become common.
If you doubled your money by the 1950s, but inflation more than halved your money, then you didn't even break even, and you definitely did not make a "good" investment.

Especially if you have to pay tax on the "profit".

Okay - sure - maybe given the environment, "good" investments were few and hard to come by.
> No algorithms

I don't like this particular lie. It seems like as soon as we find it acceptable to tell it, we get to choose how complex or user-hostile the algorithm gets to be while still telling the same lie.
Study Shows Link Between Using Snapchat and Vaping in College Students
And stop unlimited speed on highways is also a good way to make them angry....oh and telling them that belgium has the better beer (which is true btw).
Read the CIA's Hilarious Parody of Tom Clancy's Most Famous Book
Gotta say, sometimes the results really are nice. I searched for "Land Cruiser 70." The first result is a simple, short blog post about a couple who traveled across Europe and Asia in their Troop Carrier (http://www.destoop.com/trip/1%20PREPARATION/2%20Vehicle%20sp...).

The first results on Google are Australian site for buying a LC70 (news-flash, I can't buy one in the USA). There is also a MotorTrend article about the LC70...also irrelevant since it's only sold in Australia.
It's server adjustable.
Interesting how this news juxtaposes with Mullvad VPN's announcement of staying independent. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/16/ownership-and-future-m... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551960
Try a query on the form site:www.example.com ;-)
> and when I asked them why one of the apps had someone else's contact info at the top of some files, they ghosted me.

So you can know if it's really their portfolio.

Just asking some basic questions about the code in the portfolio will make it clear pretty quickly if it's their work or not.
I mean it's not that dire. I've found uthash and glib's HashTable to be fine to work with.
Wow, I had no idea. I was a longtime PIA user, guess its time to switch again. My only issue with Mullvad is netflix blocks them (potential irony there).
This has already happened. That forum is Reddit, for quite a large proportion of niche hobbies where someone would come in and ask a question.

And it has the same problems of one-way escalating moderator strictness.
> Yeah, that’s really great, I did that stuff all the time. When I was like 16.

Sounds like you learned the boundaries by testing them, and now you don't need to anymore because you know where they are.
I tried them a few years ago on my iPhone and had issues with connectivity when using it as “always on” VPN. Often lost internet access (i think mostly when ‘switching’ between 3G and Wifi.)
So i left them, for ProtonVpn, which has been working great.

Does anyone use Mullvad on their mobile, has stability of the connection improved? (speed is not my first priority.)

EDIT: why downvotes (without leaving a comment…) ?
I wonder if this is partly from lack of workers too.
I watched a carpet guy come in and install carpet in our basement in a day and a half. It was a significant sq ft install >1000. Guy was a machine. He had help on a few things, but did it all fast and very expertly. Impressive to watch someone that really knows a physical craft. It would have taken us 3-5x as long if we did it ourselves.
Is it easier to get past the firewall in super urban China? Why is that?
Good comparison. Reminds me of an analogy I like to make of today's web, which is it feels like browsing through a magazine store — full of top 10s, shallow wow-factoids, and baity material. I genuinely believe terrible results like this are making society dumber.
Firefox on Mac Still Doesn't Support TouchID for Authentication
MobileMe included user-to-user communication (iChat), as well as a Gallery that could host publicly-accessible pictures. If you squint a bit, those were social network features. Unfortunately, MobileMe bombed pretty badly - and very publicly.
Splitting Your Data & Application APIs: Going Further
Well, it's not a rocket science algorithm. But regardless, it's a very bad interview question indeed.
“Conspiracy Theories” by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule(2008)
Working Class Deep Learner
I kinda expected that -- they promise no ads, and they're going to host lots of big photos. How could they possibly offer that for free? I agree though, the subscription model should be clear before signup, without offering a few months for free, they're going to miss a lot of conversions.
> Can sonar cloud track coverage based on a specific test suite or language or file path as some repos have hundredth of modules?

Absolutely, it's very nice.

Did you create this account to defend Codecov? Telling another they don't know how to run tests is childish as you have no idea what I have done.

Again, I went through this with Codecov support, so I'd take their word over yours.
The $80 million price tag wouldn't have been achieved if they hadn't raised $80 million first. When an acquisition sells at the same price as money raised, good sign the company isn't worth that much - it's just the minimum $ amount that would allow the Board to sign off on it.

Sometimes that minimum is too high compared to the company value and so no sale happens and the company just dies.