skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside the technical issues of "what happens when a mentally-ill prisoner breaks every new headset after 5 minutes" aside for a moment.

The pandemic has provided us with a lite version of what Snow proposed. And despite having better conditions (bigger and comfier apartments, no need to live alone, allowed to leave the place once in a while) this was enough for plenty of people to have nervous breakdowns.

I don't doubt that I would do fine in such a prison, but I also don't doubt that most people would come out completely broken. To quote the modern poet Randall Munroe [1], "I've never been that big of a hug person, but it turns out I'm not quite this small of a hug person either".

[1] https://xkcd.com/2419/
Contractor rate for pre-seed funded startup
Hi Everyone,
Got an offer for contract work with a pre-seed startup. They need some coding in React and Python to be done in backend in time for their seed funding demo. Not sure how much I should be charging them as I don't have much experience in either language (less than a year).
The entire point was that the metrics I chose were bad. Furthermore they were such minor differences that even if they weren't bad they still wouldn't be relevant. They were intended to be comically useless.

It means that the hypothetical author of the article didn't have any idea what they're reporting, which is exactly what I was trying to express. The authors rely on the readers' ignorance and the way many people reflexively accept numeric data as true, pertinent, and sufficient evidence of any claim.
Awwww, I forgot about this album. Gonna spend all day relistening.
Yes, in Sweden you have a number of legal constructs to use.

You can organize a company as a cooperation. It is not a specific legal form of business, but a version of a normal limited company. It is used for non-profit businesses, for example a day care.

You can also form a business association - which is fairly common for non-profit organizations. Typically house owners that share a road, have a small pier for their boats etc.

Finally you can create a foundation. The foundation has no owners or members, but has a board. It is typically used to manage wealth, often for charity purposes (which I think matches the term used in the U.S.). The most famous foundation in Sweden is probably IKEA[0].

(INAL etc. And [0] yes, I know that the IKEA HQ is in Switzerland, with foundation operations in Holland IRRC. But it was founded in Sweden - and we get mixed up with Switzerland all the time anyway so... ;-)
I was lucky enough to see this talk in person at the Vintage Computer Festival West this year.

One of the absolute highlights (timestamp https://youtu.be/_1jXExwse08?t=1903) was the incredible work on a custom disk loader that increased the throughput from 400 bytes/s to 7.5 kB/s! A writeup of that optimisation work, which was only published in 2013, can be found here: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index....
Multiple court rulings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia is the first major one.
The most remarkable thing about this article is that there are still people surprised that the lock and key analogy has limited utility. I’d even argue that the new model they highlight doesn’t even go far enough, and that a better model may involve promiscuous binding with receptors, coupled with mechanisms to amplify signals from binding events (through e.g., recruiting extra receptors to the place on the membrane where interaction is taking place)!
Privateinternetaccess was the first VPN service I ever purchased, out of necessity when the internet piracy scene first began showing signs of the predatory mess it is today. They happened to sponsor/fund some things in my sphere of interest and were relatively reputable between my circle of acquaintances. But I am sure if you've been paying attention, you know how that ended.

Since then I have been a customer of Mullvad's and honestly, no affiliation, they're on another level entirely. Being able to pay in cash and have an account with zero information attached to it brings a peace of mind, even though it's totally unnecessary, at least in my humble use case. Being able to use wireguard directly with no weird app in between fits my needs perfectly as well, goodbye borderline-unsupported custom OpenVPN configurations. This is how an online "service" business should be run imo. My only fear is that they'll meet the same end as PIA at some point, or get themselves into trouble with data-hungry law enforcement.
The Bank of England disagrees with you, when a bank loans money it adds a figure to the creditors account (a liability) and adds an equivalent loan to its books (an asset). There's no transfer of funds from somewhere to somewhere else, that's a "common sense" concept that doesn't apply to fiat money, the same as "fractional reserve banking".

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Totally agree. My point was that perhaps the problem is our tendency to vest complete, unquestioned authority to individual leaders within many different institutions.
This comes up every now and then, and I take a look at some research and it always seems pretty clear that it's obesity.

edit: the phthalates comes up every time. Yeah it does seem to have some effect, but the effect sizes found in papers doesn't seem to be that huge, meanwhile the effect size of obesity is very large, and the prevalence of it is observably growing rapidly. You also have to consider that the people with the most bioaccumulant shit like this are the people with large reserves of fatty tissue to absorb it.
How does a VPN help with #3 and #4? Once your data is with a service provider, it doesn't really matter how it got there.
asking candidates to reimplement stdlib methods is asinine. (unless of course your company is working on python core)
The acoustic mode was used to recognize the test cycle and to properly dose Adblue. It didn't impact fuel mixture, that was something VW later did to make the engine generally compliant. The new, leaner mixture resulted in some power losses.

Under all other operating modes, the Adblue dosage was reduced to almost zero. That is clearly illegal. In addition to that, VW did some other stuff especially for the US market to meet California's emission requirements.

What everyone else did was playing with temperature windows, under all operating conditions to reduce Adblue and optimizing for other things. Not ullegla per-se, as these windows kinda used to be legal, but definitely violating the spirit of regulations. Some manufacturers exaggerated more than others. But only VW cheated as clearly, as bluntly, as long and at as large a scale. No amount of VW PR can change that.
Coal topped wind for the first half of 2021. But comparing consecutive half years is misleading because changes may be due to variance. Autumn storms may make it so wind eventually surpasses coal for 2021 for example.

This page shows that the longterm trend is an increasing share of renewable energy in the German electricity mix: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
There's some health and safety risks associated with sex work, but we have a good understanding of how to mitigate them. Shutting down the safer oprions does not do that. Sex work also come with the risk of arrest and a criminal record; which is entirely the fault of current laws and law enforcement.

Amazon warehouse work is highly destructive. In 2019, they had an 8.8% injury rate, with 90% severe enough to interfere with work duties. The working conditions at amazon warehouses have been a national scandal for years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-injury-rate-highest-amon...
Yes. Scroll all the way down on your server list and the final entry is "Discover"
The book both inspired me to go search for hidden caches of weapons, radios, etc., and to absolutely not go search for these hidden caches. The disarming procedure for the KGB's favored Molniya booby trap was a little too exciting for me. "If you don't hear a 'click', do not disturb the package..."
So what to you would be the epitome of outrage, if solitary confinement, hypothetical technology, and optimizing for the cheapest manner of keeping a human alive is not it?
>Wouldn't that depend on whether the test was harmful?

This is a huge topic, for which this forum is too small a place to properly expound on it, but the answer to your question here is a resounding NO! The risk of the test procedure itself is typically not actually the main concern.

The real risk has to do with inducing additional unnecessary testing, treatments, and side effects, costs, and psychological distress. In addition, you can cause profound nocebo effects, perceptions, and negative behavior changes in the "harmless" test-intervention group. You'd likely be surprised how negative an outcome this can actually be on average. The decision to add a screening test to routine procedures is NOT a light one.
I think being smart means you are able to deliver.
You also don't get access to use US military hardware and locations if you don't give DoD final cut of your big-budget blockbuster.

Governments gonna government.
Damn, now I'm stuck playing out how that discussion would go.
For example Firefox on Android.
It is! Wow.

Anybody here still living on it?
I think one of the biggest failures of developers is thinking that tech means anything when launching a business. Tech that works is table stakes. If nobody knows about your product then it may as well not exists, from a business perspective. If you want to start a business, the marketing and customer acquisition strategies are as important (if not more important) than the tech. Someone has to make sure your potential customers know your solution exists. It can be the founder or it can be a VP of Growth, but it is a job that must be done or else you may as well not waste your time writing the code in the first place.
This is great, I like the results. Couple of things I noticed:

- Search results often very old, from the early 2000s (I guess because back then more websites were text oriented). Are you taking into account the age of the page when showing results? It would be great to see more up-to-date results at the top

- I noticed a few results which directed me to websites with security risks, Firefox didn't even let me open them. Is it possible to filter these out from the results?
I live in the PNW, I've been to the area. If spray paint on a police building is lawless anarchy, alright, I guess, but my best friends girlfriend works literally across the street from the police station depicted, and you know what? It's fine. These stories are bullshit meant to rile you up because fear gets clicks.

Some folks have a different opinion, but these folks seem to be afraid anytime they see a houseless person, or a needle in an alley way, and neither of those problems have been solved with the ever increasing police budgets, just pushed it to a slightly different area, where the outrage starts all over again. There's a problem, sure, but the police ain't the tool to solve them, no matter how much we would like for complex problems to be solved with simple solutions.
A couple of communities I'm a part of have switched over to Discourse over the past couple of years, and I hate it.

It's just a mediocre forum, but with "modern web" designs/quirks. It does the whole single-page app thing, tons of wasted space/terrible information density, every single thread is displayed in one giant infinite-scrolling list (I've yet to see an instance with proper "subforums", just tags/categories), and it barely works without javascript (although at least it works).

My favorite modern forum software I've encountered is XenForo, although it's neither free nor open source.
It says "for professional and amateur photographers alike" but I'm not sure most professionals will want to spend 25% of the cost of Adobe's photography plan for a marketing channel that isn't already in the sweet spot between mainstream uptake (where customers and clients are) and oversaturation.
> It's a funny thing being in an industry where people retire not because they can't do the work at a professional level, but because getting a job is such a PITA.

I feel that this is a desired result. I am pretty convinced that folks like to have an "ideal culture" at their workplaces. I hear the term "cultural fit" so often, that I guess it means something that I'm missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
Heat death of the universe is just nature's stalebot.
> Fizzbuzz is one thing. Balancing binary trees, is another

The thing is, companies don't want to employ any random person who can code and meets the minimum bar, they want The Best™ - and that's when things get competitive, and arbitrary.

This is the other side of the coin to a recent HN thread (on pay transparency/whether tech workers are interchangeable[1]). My thesis is if you agree that some are many times more productive, the so-called 10x - and you want to hire those: then you need to test for that in the interview process, hence the exploration of the less-visited areas of Data Structures & Algorithms. If any engineer who meets the minimum requirements will do (i.e. fully interchangeable), then anyone who can pass FizzBuzz and is familiar with the tech will do. Most companies are in the latter group, but tell themselves they are in the former, resulting in the current explosion of "Change this unsorted linked list into a balanced tree with the least time complexity" questions.

> If a candidate has a portfolio, you'd be absolute idiots to ignore that portfolio.

I'm guessing only a minority of candidates have a portfolio before applying for a job. Most of SDE output belongs to their past employers, so expecting portfolios will also filter out a whole lot of people who can do the work, and I'd rather grind HackerRank than hastily build a portfolio just to apply for a job.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28536084
See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy

(wherein Blizzard, a US company, bans a player at a conference for displaying support for Hong Kong's autonomy.)
This is not a lie. This is a shorthand to quickly convey a meaningful feature. Namely, no algorithmic timeline manipulating what you see.

It’s just that, a timeline.

Next you’ll be telling me that calling something “cool” is a lie, because that new T-shirt doesn’t have a low temperature.
This quote sums up the article.

> China seems to have successfully entrenched a new norm where multinational corporations and most celebrities know to preemptively self-censor

The low level society problem is that American business conducts vapid, myopic cash grabs to sustain its self. China has identified this and exploits it.
I definitely wanted them to fail, and I'm relieved that they did. If they'd succeeded there might have been an onslaught of additional clowns you'd have to filter out when looking for work.
I love the artist-provided annotations when they're available, but they really need to take a good look at the low quality of the vast majority of their user-generated content. It doesn't help that so much of it is pure speculation, highly subjective, or plain wrong.
> I see a lot of people moving back to full-time jobs because they pay more for less stress a lot of the time.

If you find that job, it’s a keeper. I find consulting to be less stressful than employment. Not worried about being online during certain hours or the office politics, etc. Also, my code still has to work and be pushed to production. If anything the more levels of abstraction between me and the client just produces more stress and slows down the process.
If I could ask, is there a reason that your development team is hostile to others packaging Home Assistant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277

To the point that they will threaten to relicense their own software: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

And when they ask about it: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi...

It gets delisted.

As the author of FOSS tools, I have worked to make sure things I have developed get packaged and used, and I have even spent a fair amount of time helping others to port it to their systems, even if it does nothing to help my use case. Frankly, seeing tsuch a hostile stance towards redistribution makes me wary of using it.
Right, but if you take monthly pills all summer - there is nothing in your bloodstream to need to worry about in the winter.

And yes, we dumped that vet. Been through like 4 vets in as many years, it's wild.
How browsers run interactive scripts
I'm starting to see dealers sell at, and in some cases above, the cars MSRP. The value proposition of buying new is shaky enough during good years, I cannot imagine buying a new car above MSRP.
Sometimes slow is a feature. For once it's a quality filter. Chats are 1% signal, 99% noise.

Zulip is a better than most chat for that, because you commit to a topic, which adds order and caring.

But it's still fast, so it's tempting to writz anything you thinl about.

When I'm on my phone I stop commenting on HN midway quite often because the effort is not worth it. On a computer, it's too easy to type.
Anybody here who likes Twilight Struggle? Have it lying around for years and keep postponing actually learning it. Should I do it?
This is great, Facebook should add "Two Minutes Hate" feature to the user timeline to address the spread of misinformation by these enemies of the people.
Actually it was an issue where I was making API request for the homepage for rendering some tweets, huge traffic caused the reach to limit, bad decision, it's fixed now :)
I think it is also cultural. Some cultures are more socially engaged than others, particularly through religion, and holidays.

Would the individualism of American culture contribute to loneliness?
Competitive to before there were open websites tracking salaries.
All of the statements or specific ones? That the owners are the one stated can be verified. The business register (a Swedish agency) is here: https://bolagsverket.se/

The registration, books etc for limited companies (aktiebolag AB) are public information. As someone else pointed out, there are also third party information sources like allabolag:

https://www.allabolag.se/5592384001/mullvad-vpn-ab
Wow it's like a straight up shameless Discourse clone.
This sounds naive.

Part of a problem is that people with legislation-changing privileges are on the other side of the conflict.

If privacy-seeking people don't have a practical leverage for a negotiation, they can't sustain the legislation and enforcement tilted in their favour.

For example, the USSR was meant to be a very liberal and democratic state. At the very beginning, soldiers elected their officers! How long ago have you voted for your favorite manager to manage you at work? But given the "network effects" of the armed and aggressive party organization, the power was quickly centralized and pretty soon lowly individuals' needs and lives were worth nothing.
Reminder: Turn off location services/GPS systemwide to opt out of these databases. The subscriber location tracking performed by cell towers is much lower resolution.
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control
It’s harder to trust the random website.

There’s so much automatically generated blog spam, and on so many blogs there’s some annoying pop up about services, or even attempts to hostile takeover of the back button, or paywalls..

I don’t think user attention span is decreasing. People are preferring other long form content like youtube and podcasts. In both mediums, you have more control over the consumption of the content and nobody has figured out how to automate spamming that content out yet.
Personally, I think that has a lot more to do with the fact that Google killed the Recipe Databases. There did used to be a few startups that tried to be Recipe Aggregators with advertising based business models, that would show recipes and then link to source blogs and/or cookbooks, and in the brief period where they existed Google scraped them entirely and showed entire recipes on search results and ate their ad revenue out from under them.
The section at the beginning that hypothesizes the existence of security tags on registers (or rather, on architectural <-> physical register mappings), based on observed performance when reading an "unowned" register, is super interesting.
FizzBuzz is one of those puzzles where majority of experienced programmers won't find the solution easily as it involves the modulo operator in weird ways.

The modulo operator is rarely used in practice, unless you're writing your own hash table or some other internal where bucketizing by some ID is relevant.

Using the modulo within a for-loop though, virtually never happens.

So unless you're niche where using modulo every other day, or you're just out of school where you just learned about "+,-,*,/,%" , you have a good chance at failing fizzbuzz if you don't remember it's "that modulo 3 and modulo 5 silly puzzle"

There are better ways of testing for iterating, iterating through a real collection of elements is already much better than FizzBuzz.
How to attack cloud infrastructure via a malicious pull request
I adore this. Unfortunately, searching for my own name - with or without quotes - doesn't actually find my site.

It does find a handful of references to me from over twenty years ago, though, which I thought was fascinating.
Schools used to contain actual kitchens with employees who cooked and served hot food on site. Now school districts have largely outsourced that work. That saved money and is more "efficient" but made the system less resilient.
The main thing that I notice is the lack of wifi and 2GB of RAM. I think it'd be easy for that to get tight with some of the big add-ons and I'd think the consumer space is exactly where you'd want wifi.

Otherwise, it looks like a pretty decent package, though.
See Shanna Swan and the Count Down book. This effect is already established, many of the mechanisms are established, science is discovering more mechanisms, but we already know enough to start taking public health actions.

The epi evidence is clear and the mechanisms behind several exposure like phthalates have been established in animal studies and human epidemiological studies.

notable are:

1. The question of declining sperm density revisited: an analysis of 101 studies published 1934-1996.

2. Environmental phthalate exposure in relation to reproductive outcomes and other health endpoints in humans
Open source SystemVerilog tools in ASIC design
That is a feature to forum admins, because it means no longer having to deal with sock puppets, or at worst reporting them to Discord who then takes action to protect the platform.

We've had twenty years of pseudonymous identities on the Internet and we've put the social fabric of humanity at risk. The needle is swinging towards "you get one identity, use it wisely" and I think that has absolutely been earned by those who abused pseudonymity to hurt others. No doubt the needle will swing back someday, and I will look forward to that once I've had a few years' break from the tragedy of today.
There is no fractional reserve system or money multiplier in the modern economy though, those concepts only really apply to commodity money, not fiat money. You even say banks create money by lending, which is not how a fractional reserve system works :) A bank with zero deposits can still lend money, although they might have a problem if people want to withdraw physical currency...

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...