skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not convinced that we can tell black from white.

I also think that there ought to be a certain level of relativism when it comes to judging political systems.

Is it democratic that an unelected group of 9 people can unilaterally essentially decide the law of the land in the US?
I don’t see anything wrong done here by Phys.org. It’s the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector so I’m happy they’re reporting on its findings. This isn’t some tabloid-level news but making its rounds at universities.
There is also this wikimedia illustration of the history of distributions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
Yes, yes. Thats why apple products score the lowest and place in the bottom of repeatability scores every single time. Its because you never have to fix their products right?

You are picking ridiculous point and creating some ridiculous 'true Scotsman'

>Lots of people use Apple products because they have a long life

Like who? You and other 10 people?
I think so, cheap knockoff products nowadays usually use cheap parts and put them together in cheap but obvious ways. If you dive into Sinclair engineering, it’s contrived and interesting.
What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t have to be this way. There are plenty of companies out there which ARE NOT like this, no matter how much you try to say that employers are not your friend.

I feel you’ve been involved in some exploitative workplaces in the past that have pessimistically shaped your view of business.

With that being said, I’m still youngish and I’m probably naive. Maybe I’ll become a jaded capitalist too when I’m older.
Sounds like you folks weren't around at the time!

I mean the whole idea of making a computer in the UK for educational purposes wouldn't have happened. We would have had the Apple II.

Acorn was founded as a result of Clive's activities. Go read the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
Inflation in the Shadow of Debt
What does this mean? As in, "Pair Programming as a mandatory thing is stupid"? That's sensible, otherwise this is hard to parse. It's a tool/technique, like rubber duck debugging with a person present to bounce ideas off of in real-time. It works for some people, it doesn't for others. Use it if it works for you, don't if it doesn't.
I'll be interested to see if Twitter suppresses this in accordance with their "hacked materials" policy or if that policy only applies to politically inconvenient material
Its so investors can leverage the massive tax breaks available when investing in US based startups. Hence why YC also lets you found in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. Note this is probably not the official reason, as it's generally frowned upon internationally to encourage tax avoidance.
Rural broadband vs. Urban broadband? The US has a much larger geographical area of rural communities than the countries ranked higher. Hong Kong for instance is 1/3 of the size of Rhode Island with 7x the population. Much easier to give good broadband speeds with high population density in a small area. Hell Monaco is one of those countries and it covers less than 500 acres...
Surprising no one ever. I think Family Guy had commentary on this exact point like 15 years ago
Servlet API and JDBC are as standardized as you can get. If you want more than that, in any language, you're reaching for a framework.
Java has JDBC and HttpServer for a rudimentary server.
The Bagel Language
Are we thinking that Elon super fans might do this?
PWA isn't a singular feature (well, beyond ServiceWorker, which is pretty essential), it's a group of loosely connected features exposing more native functionality to the web, and making the web app experience more native-like.

The ServiceWorker API has been supported by iOS Safari for years: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_serviceworker. When people complain about lack of PWA support on iOS Safari, usually the #1 complaint is lack of Web Push: https://caniuse.com/push-api.

In this specific case, the site is working fine on iOS Safari 14, and Safari 15 TP on macOS Big Sur. I'm not sure if there are problems specific to Safari 15 on not-yet-released iOS 15 or macOS Monterey, I don't have an installation of either.
I travel internationally for work. My experience has been that while pockets of Asia (the large cities) are great, once you get outside of those cities it collapses. In europe, Internet access seems to be almost universally "meh". Australia is pretty good (although I haven;t gone rural there, and Australia, while land-mass rich, is still pretty concentrated in a more limited number of rural areas).

The big knock I have is the cost per byte in the USA, especially once you consider caps. That's a huge huge issue. Like everything right now in the US, its haves versus have notes.
> As far as I am concerned, you absolutely cannot have centralized control over something like "all software distribution" without being actively complicit with such regimes

Yeah that seems to distil the problem down to the fundamentals. Will watch your talk, thanks!
A bizarre side effect of global warming? Shrinking animals [1:42 audio]
The funny part is that they obviously planned for much more.
I wrote a blog post a few months ago about Goodhart's Law in my life, titled "Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge".

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/gamification.html

The Tyranny of Metrics is a good book that covers real-world cases of metrics gone wrong.
Surely the aim of the game is not to be left holding the bag when the music stops. In that situation you would need to be making sure your own financial position no longer depended upon that of the continued success of the company.

Not saying that is a good way to run a business or the one I would personally prefer.
I work from home in the U.K. with 50Mbps downstream connection. Slow by these standards and I don’t think I have ever found the broadband speed a limitation.

For me ‘always on’ and low latency are important.
You also don't get "vmmem" process that eats memory and doesn't give it back
That’s…not terrible?

Getting broadband in rural America is rough, and the permissive atmosphere for monopolistic behavior by ISPs is maddening. Pricing for internet access is way worse than in East Asia or western and central Europe. Some folks can’t get real broadband at all, and they’re disproportionally lower down on the socioeconomic spectrum. That’s not fair. These issues are real.

But overall, 12th sounds…pretty reasonable? Those top ten spots will always be filled by nations with highly concentrated, relatively wealthy populations. 5-10 years ago, the US was in a much worse place comparatively.
Graphite-moderated FLiBe salt fuel with air-dump final heat rejection.
Personalized short-video recommender systems
While it's a point that intuitively makes sense, I'm not too sure of its true relevance. The US is just too rich for size to be an excuse. At least it can't be the only reason. It may be anecdotal, but all the complaints I've ever seen about broadband/fibre in the US have been in relation to local monopolies and the general fragmentation of the nation-wide network. In most EU countries, we have laws that force network owners to mutualise (they have to allow third parties to deploy the "last mile" so that people can pick any ISP within three months of a new local). Infrastructure and commercial operations are legally separate. I think the US would benefit from something like this on a federal level, at the risk of being called communism.
Employee options pools tend to be maintained at 10-15% of the company. Unless you are a cofounder, very-early employee, or recruited-big-exec in a growth phase, your equity, AND importantly, ALL the equity from your employee peers sums to less than whatever the VCs+Founders want. Ideally your interests are aligned, and any gain they get your share-in (albeit in a much smaller amount). But things like preferred shares getting liquidation preferences screw with this calculous, as to differing investment horizons.
Limbo-CSS Full reset styles
Mine definitely only gives the reminder if it actually needs to be charged. I don't get the reminder if it doesn't.
Somewhat interesting then, that Github cites the 3x without that context.
Unix way is when you just know what command to type without searching.
In web contexts, we usually shoot for sub 1MB (ideally ~250kb for static sites). The main reason is usually just optimizing for mobile experiences. People expect to wait a while to download a 200MB app, but if you have to wait 5s for a webpage you’re very likely to click away.

Of course it’s partially a function of your target audience. Notion and Retool (for example) are able to ship massive multi megabyte bundles because they’re productivity apps targeted mostly towards people with desktops and high speed internet connections. If HN were to ship a 15MB bundle it’d be virtually unusable on mobile for a lot of people (myself included, and I live in Seattle!).
"I can't believe" isn't meant to be taken literally. It is a way of saying "I am astounded".
so we will make our own DNS system with blackjack and hookers
What I am referring to with factories in particular is that I can have a bean injected in Spring automagically using an annotation, have an interface and an implementation behind it.

Now, I can go ahead and make the concrete implementation dependent on configuration, e.g. by providing multiple implementations annotating them with a condition that is evaluated using the application configuration. I can also switch to a factory method that creates and sets up the concrete implementation for the interface, I have not to change any place in the application that is using that piece, though.

The same should be possible in Go with reflect and an IoC container, but I am not sure if there's a solid implementation for that out there.
I always got a chuckle over how the exploitative, centralized, "productive" hierarchical command-and-control world never got a movement that was decentralized, cooperative, and leaderless. Of course the former asks if the latter "meant" anything, because from the planned-and-controlled point of view, it seemed like it wasn't doing anything. This attitude is the same one that asks what's the point of leaving wilderness areas wild, because, it thinks only in terms of resources to be put to use, and wilderness areas are, to them, places full of useable resources that are just sitting there doing nothing.
"Specifically, officials say the four American firms named in the letter are supporting users to access the Smart Voting website set up by supporters of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, as well as a mobile phone application used by campaigners. Navalny’s operations were branded a ‘foreign agent’ by the country’s Ministry of Justice over links to foreign funding, and his organizations were later deemed to be ‘extremist’ and banned by a court in Moscow." [0]

You can say whatever you want about how evil Google is or isn't, but this article is super misleading when Google simply following the law of the land it's operating in. It's doomed if it pulls the app and doomed if it doesn't.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20210913070717/https://www.rt.com...
This is why efforts at alleviating poverty have not improved actual poverty...
Yet there are/were Monero ASICS nonetheless. ASIC resistance is a marketing term - especially for Monero.
No, it is meant in the true general sense of the term
Congrats! we have gone back to software development pre-1980
I installed SLS. It took me all night to get the modelines right for 1024x768@8 bits. On one side, my how far things have come. On the other, why’s it so hard to get hotplug thunderbolt working. :)
Australian bush fires belched out immense quantity of carbon
> there doesn't seem to be a good way to search one's own post history on HN.

Depends on how you define a "good" way, but surely https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... -- and the possible permutations of search terms and filtering and ordering -- isn't all that bad?
GNU Emacs Org Mode has a TUI for spreadsheet and more.
> Can one make a living selling their Linux applications to end users?

There are companies that do this- DaVinci Resolve, IntelliJ IDEA, Ardour come to mind.
The irony here is that your idea sounds pretty authoritarian!
Perhaps the comment was a generalization and not a attack on your process. Its not a radical claim to suggest breakpoints are not as popular as console.logs
The Website Obesity Crisis was prescient:

> If present trends continue, there is the real chance that articles warning about page bloat could exceed 5 megabytes in size by 2020.

> The problem with picking any particular size as a threshold is that it encourages us to define deviancy down. Today’s egregiously bloated site becomes tomorrow’s typical page, and next year’s elegantly slim design.

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Politicians ran on the promise of getting the troops out of Afghanistan. They chose to leave , the Taliban didn't force them to. You're imagining a situation where the government is choosing to bully the population into submission. There are tools far more powerful than guns that they have at their disposal. Cutting off food / water / electricity / internet is a far easier way to threaten a population than attack them with guns. Likewise the real complex work of standing up to authoritarianism requires organization , thought and planning more so than just guns. Your idea of a militia standing up to a government is essentially historical cosplay.
Cutting all possible connections with China is counter-productive to de-escalating tensions with them and integrating them into a rules-based system.
I would guess that the iPhone autocorrect does this implicitly since it's ML trained.
There used to be an English statesman, Chamberlain Neville he was called.

First, he seen what Hitler did with Jews, and Poland prior to events of the Second World War.

Then, he was quick to observe the same point you do now with Hitler pointing a gun at UK, and US pointing a gun at UK: Save the Jews, and get shot by Hitler, surrender Jews, and get shot by the USA.

Since he observed that both outcomes are nothing good, he decided that the best option is to sit down, and do nothing, and hoping for nothing to happen.

The entirety of mankind now knows how wrong was Chamberlain Neville. Terribly wrong.

The British Empire saw the beginning of the Second World War as the one, and only global hyperpower, which could've squished Hitler with ease if it wanted, and it ended the war as a wreck of its former self, losing half the Empire, never to recover.
A closely-related effect I often cite is the McNamara fallacy[0], which is essentially about the tendency to focus on aspects of a system that are easily measurable, often at the expense of aspects that are not. I see it as one of the weaknesses of the data-driven decision-making movement, since many interpret "data" to mean "numbers". I think this fallacy can partly explain why Goodhart's Law holds: it's the non-measurable (or difficult-to-measure) aspects that suffer most when a metric becomes a target, since measurable aspects could be (and often are) integrated into the target metric.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
Π-LAB: An open source portable laboratory for food testing based on Raspberry Pi
The problem is that if you take an english word and change one letter it will likely become another valid word.
I feel like the key is knowing that your problem domain is fine with there always being garbage collection in the loop. Otherwise there's the risk that down the road you'll have to start tracing the code, rewriting things to reuse objects, etc etc.
This one is the startup you mean (I think): https://bitcoinminingheater.com/
Unless a blockchain based DNS is involved with a blockchain currency, I see nothing to stop the mad grab of all memorable, pronounceable, or legible names less than 40 characters long almost immediately.

If I was so inclined to participate, I'd just grab a ton of blockchain DNS names, back them up, and hope I can sell one someday.
You pretty much copy pasted the Tailwind UI license word for word and replaced a few Tailwind UI-specific words with yours.

Components => download files

Tailwind UI components => FlowBite elements

Tailwind Labs Inc. => Crafty Dwarf LLC

Tailwind UI License: https://tailwindui.com/license

Flowbite License: https://flowbite.com/license/
Bullshit. The Russians won’t be able to stop using iPhones, and with Apple out of Russia, the OS can be free from Russian influence.
I think you're highlighting the huge challenge of American broadband. Every dirt road off every highway that has a dozen or two homes needs broadband -- that is an immense amount of infrastructure that's needed.
I don't see how. How does one get a mortgage without involving a traditional bank?
> We hear about all the IPO’s that made 200 overnight millionaires. But we don’t hear about the vast majority that either fail, have a poor exit, or just sort flag in the wind.

To play devils advocate, most people who intentionally optimize their career focusing on equity rather than TC know this fairly well and have had their fair share of duds. You can also make the argument that overall the EV of optimizing your career for equity is probably lower than just getting a high paying FAANG job.

However, with all that being said, the only way to be the "overnight millionaire" is to play the game. Also, there really isn't any overnight millionaires, those people probably worked for years for sub-par comp compared to alternatives and took a large risk whether knowingly or not to get that payout which may or may not have existed.

There really is no free-lunch if your employee #5 at Uber you made tens of millions of dollars, however you took the risk of being employee #5 at Uber. Look at Snapchat though they paid huge amounts of equity when they were trading in the 10's even after they IPO'd if you were employee #10002 and joined Snap at 100k-250k in equity that netted you anywhere between 600k-1.5m if you held the shares, that's not including cash comp. However, you took the risk of joining a tech company that at the time nobody really wanted to join and may very well have closed the doors.

That being said there very much is an alternative risk of going the safe route of just optimizing total TC. That risk is generally that path is well defined, the salary bands are well published, and overall despite whatever amount of effort you put in that will be around the amount you make. You'll be flogged into a corporate grind if you really want to make more either by job hopping or trying to get promoted. The risk with the defined path is well, its just that linear and well defined, not saying it's a great path and maybe even a better one overall but it means you'll be working for Facebook when the next company that is going to disrupt Facebook is potentially out there today.

Equity stakes for employees means the tails on the right side of the distribution are rich. Assuming you get a cash comp that makes you happy that equity stake my very well be the thing that puts you in the 1-10m+ range if your extremely lucky. If not even if its mildly successful a 50-500k payout with a decent salary of say 150k a year over 5 years netted you 160-250k comp a year while putting you in the run to make potentially millions.

If you work for a "startup" that is a decent place to work and respects WLB etc then taking those "risks" over your career might make a-lot of sense. You'll probably learn way more too, have more autonomy, and frankly they can just be alot of fun.
Railroads, highways, and power/cable lines all go hand in hand. It's an amazing network and they were all built a long time ago with little improvement. The problem is shoveling money to other "universal" slush funds while ignoring actual infrastructure for decades. ISPs should have been a utility and they should treat it like Texas treats its grid. Have a company that manages the actual lines, and have multiple providers that can compete and sell data on it.
Again, specious platitudes that I could agree with in general in an ideal world, but do not apply to extreme politics and disinformation campaigns. The difference between the journal “Nature” and Qanon is not “shading”. One genuinely intends to be true, and the other is purposely pushing information known to be false. One is open about it’s sources and methods, the other is not. One has a repeatable methodology, the other doesn’t. One puts their names on their publications, the other doesn’t. One is comfortable with subtlety and seeks truth, the other is a sales pitch that preys on fear and emotion. Suggesting they’re both shades of the same misinformation with the same flawed agendas and that you can’t get anything but misinformation ever is exactly what the most extreme right wing agenda wants; it has been systematically attacking public trust in science, and it’s working. This is precisely why ingesting it does not increase your chances of seeing truth, it only does damage and add FUD and confusion.
How is the US constitutional system remotely relevant in this discussion?
It would have still been hot and relatively arid, just less so. These camels are native to all of North Africa, Arabia, and the middle east. There's a lot of different environments in that range.
> I'm not sure what "spreading" even refers to

We have code like (stupid example)

something.map( {a, b, ...rest} => ({ ...rest, ...a, ...[b, c, d]}))

I know what it does and how it works, but I argue that's hard to understand if you haven't written it and know the context.

My Python experience is limited to only a handful of projects, but I looked into meta classes at the beginning of learning Python and that was some crazy stuff.
That's extremely good for a country the size of the US that can hardly compete with the likes of Singapore or Hongkong.
> I disagree. I think the problem is that Apple is choosing to support dictators by removing this app.

Is he still a dictator if he would win contested elections?

The polling on Putin in Russia is pretty darn clearcut, don't see how you can look at the numbers I do and conclude anything other than that Putin has the tacit support of most of the population.
Wired broadband in rural America has historically never been socially efficient and is mostly a patronage-based subsidy scheme. I say this as a nominal beneficiary of subsidized rural broadband.

That said, with the advent of starlink, reasonably high-speed internet in rural areas is now socially efficient, or getting there rapidly. I’m currently using starlink at my rural house and it’s great. It’s obviously still subsidized by venture capital, but there’s a very plausible route for it to continue with no subsidies whatsoever (unlike rural wired broadband).
This is an opinion piece, not news or journalism. It hasn't been fact-checked.
Could be...yes.

"Decline effect" could also be mostly due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Goodhart's Law starts out as effective and the social system it purports to measure adapts (some might say 'distorts'), till the measure not longer serves its original purpose.
Okay, so it would be actually more precise if I said "It is irrelevant when it comes to removing CO2 caused by humanity".

It is not overloaded. Trees are not concerned by the extra CO2 in atmosphere.

Biosphere is a cycle, which means that it has net zero effect on the amount of CO2 in atmosphere.

Any CO2 removed from atmosphere is at the same time counteracted somewhere else. Maybe it is burning or rotting or maybe it has been eaten by a breathing and farting camel.

More biomass just means there is more CO2 taken out as well as supplied in.

The only way it can have non-zero effect on the atmosphere is if we are interacting with what is called sequestered carbon.

Humanity is taking out carbon out of long term storage that has been sequestered for millions of years, but there exists no natural process that would counteract it efficiently.

There only exists a number of buffers -- an atmosphere as well as oceans.