skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you lying?

> An alarming 25.5 percent of survey respondents said it would be appropriate to “create an obstruction, such that a campus speaker endorsing this idea could not address an audience.” This authoritarian view was held by about 19 percent of self-identifying liberals, 3 percent of moderates, and 3 percent of conservatives.

> Among students who self-identify as liberals, some 10 percent said they hear “disrespectful, inappropriate, or offensive comments” about foreign students at least several times a semester, 14 percent said they hear disparaging comments about Muslims, 20 percent said they hear such comments about African Americans, 20 percent said they hear such comments about Christians, 21 percent said they hear such comments about LGBTQ individuals, and 57 percent said they hear such comments about conservatives. Among moderates, 68 percent said that they hear “disrespectful, inappropriate, or offensive comments” about conservatives at least several times a semester.

> Roughly 92 percent of conservatives said they would be friends with a liberal, and just 3 percent said that they would not have a liberal friend. Among liberals, however, almost a quarter said they would not have a conservative friend.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/evidence-c...

> In Compromising Scholarship, a 2011 book by sociologist George Yancey, some 30% of sociologists acknowledged that they would be less likely to hire a job applicant if they knew he was a Republican. Yancey further discovered that 15% of political scientists and 24% of philosophy professors would discriminate against Republican job applicants, and at least 30% of professors in all disciplines surveyed would discriminate against members of the NRA.

> Other research suggests that liberal professors sometimes act on these biases. Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter found in 2009's The Politically Correct University that socially conservative professors tend to work at lower-ranked institutions than their publication records would suggest. More recently, a 2016 study of elite law schools in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found that libertarian and conservative professors publish more than their peers, which suggests that right-leaning law professors must outshine liberals to reach the summits of their profession.

> These findings are especially striking given that other research shows it is more difficult for scholars to publish work that reflects conservative interests and perspectives. A 1985 study in the American Psychologist, for example, assessed the outcomes of research proposals submitted to human subject committees... The study found that the proposals on reverse discrimination were the hardest to get approved, often because their research designs were scrutinized more thoroughly. In some cases, though, the reviewers raised explicitly political concerns.

https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappea...
Does Norway use most of their oil money for social media adverts?

There is another self-congratulatory norway article on the frontpage.

"Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777672

There was another one just a few days ago.

"Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28629184

There have been so much nonsense about norway peddled online for the past decade that I roll my eyes when I read the headline.
Given that it is 10x cheaper perhaps we will find out earlier...
Please don't pretend that mothers and mothers-to-be don't have any agency in the events that lead up to birth. Marriage has little to do with reproduction. It's a legal construct, not a natural one. The law should not be obligated to compensate for the edicts of biology and certainly not at the expense of another's economic freedom. A woman chooses to incubate, and raise children. Where coercion or duress are not involved, she should bear responsibility for what are all the consequences of her choices with regards to her body.
I am personally rather a pessimist about the whole thing (despite being a fascinating economical quirk), but yeah: people repeatedly demonstrated that they will do anything for profit.

That said, direct coal pit to furnace to mining rig pipeline is going to be developed & prohibited before we see nuclear mining ventures.
User accounts tend to be a central part of any application that stores data somewhere, and is prone to custom logic and assumptions. From experimental todo list apps to POS management software.

I can’t imagine account deletion is straightforward for most of the implementation, even just from a legal standpoint when money changing hands is involved.

I think it’s a complicated enough issue that it should be tackled from the start (which is usually the case) and kept track of as the product/service evolves.
Great story--thanks for sharing! It's interesting how the unexpected, serendipitous moments can have such downstream effects on our lives!

Just out of curiosity: what did you end up studying in university? And how come you didn't study computer science / programming despite acquiring an interest for it earlier in your life?
You don't think that relationships act as mechanism for reinforcing social norms?
Not really. You have to estimate within the deadline. Estimates are often required due to such dependencies.
So many whipper-snappers here talking about their TI-83+ and later models. When I was in high school ca. 1994 my trusty TI-82 kept me quite busy writing BASIC games. We used to share games with the data sharing cable, I wonder if any of mine still survive somewhere. I still have the physical calculator tucked away in some box, but it is certain that the batteries are long since dead, and all of the volatile memory faded away.

In high school, my calculus teacher discovered that I had written programs on my TI-82 to help me solve homework questions. Much to my surprise, he approved! He explained that his objective was to teach us to solve the problems using whatever tools we had at our disposal—writing a BASIC program to solve the problem was not cheating, rather it was making the best of my resources.
On reflection, this is too narrow. Previous lending put more money in circulation, but to the degree people expected that money to be removed from circulation later as the loans were repaid they should (on deposit of the coin) expect there to be more money (ceteris paribus) in circulation at that future time than there would have been sans coin.
I swear HN makes up the majority of users who actually give a shit about that prehistoric Netscape fork.
I don't see "Part of .NET Foundation" anywhere on that page.
Pardon the typo: "many", not "my"
Learning to code and hack on TI 83+’s definitely has through lines to my career nearly 20 years later.

One thing I’m particularly proud of was figuring out how to build an Assembly program workaround for TI’s “testguard” (a tool to force clear someone else’s calculator memory via link cable) in middle school: https://mikeknoop.com/upload/SafeGuard.zip
Thanks now the apology and replies make a lot more sense.
Goodness the scope of the problem just exploded in my mind after this explanation.
this comment thread was not about the legitimacy of mandates but feel free to pivot
To me, that C line is (a) crystal clear, and (b) elegantly describes what I want to happen in a concise way.

The three lines of rust, by comparison, are ugly, long-winded and far-and-away harder to grok.

That’s probably because I’ve been an embedded systems engineer, and if you think C is terse, you ought to try verilog… but then I wouldn’t have the temerity to suggest that something that works well for me is how everyone else should do it.
Energy production isn't going to go away.
Idiots -- like yahoo -- recycle emails.

Also, emails probably persist in some systems as a guid.
Never underestimate a bored person with something that looks to their boss like work.
“Link Global CEO Stephen Jenkins told Gizmodo that this is pretty normal, and the secret-borrowing part was just a side effect of navigating a difficult regulatory landscape. “We run on abandoned gas sites and have been working with the utilities commission to bring them into compliance,” Jenkins said, adding that compliance has been “our main challenge as bitcoin mining is new to the energy regulatory framework and going first can be hard sometimes.” He said the company has “learned a lot” and will apply those lessons in the future.”

Well this is quite important rather than just the clickbait title
What are you talking about? Australia hasn't had a recession in decades. Australia has done well with all the resources it stole from the aborigines. Most people living in australia has never experienced an economic downturn.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-australia-hasnt-had-a-...

Australia hasn't had a recession since the early 90s and you are complaining?
We're stuck in the eternal loop: "Tech Y will save us from ourselves and having to think."
I'll also chime in. Early in high school, went from writing one-line basic programs to reading the assembly and C source code of Phoenix and other games. Wrote some games of my own in C and assembler. Now pursuing a career in CS. A very strange entry point in retrospect, but such a serendipitious one.
"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control." ~~ Noam Chomsky
"To be eligible for a Letter of Consent, you need to be one of the following:

An LTVP/LTVP+ holder who is married to a Singaporean or PR.
An unmarried child (under 21 years old) of a Singaporean or PR, who holds an LTVP.

"

https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/letter-of-consent/...
From Pew [1]

55% of Poles think that Migrants 'are a burden' while 21% believe that migrants 'make their nation stronger' - one of the lowest in Europe.

62% of UK citizens believe migrants 'make their country stronger' while only 29% believe they're a 'burden' - the highest ratio in Europe on this data point.

This data is very consistent and shows that the UK is by far among (if not the most) open and tolerant towards migrants relative to other European nations, while Poland is consistently among the lowest ahead of only Greece, which is facing a migrant crisis.

So maybe it's Poles who think the UK owes them something - and then blatantly lie about national attitudes towards migration ... can 'go fuck themselves' ? (your words, not mine)

"you wanted no foreign workers" - this is total rubbish - that's not what Brexit was about, it's another of the common and fairly blatant anti-Brexit lies.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/19/europeans-cred...
Effective Code Browsing
In case anyone wants some practical advice to harden your github access control to lower the blast radius, a good friend (and disclaimer my co-founder of a relevant stealth mode startup) wrote a nice blog post about it: https://blog.arnica.io/afraid-of-your-source-code-leaking-i-...

It's our first blog post (and we really tried to avoid making it look like blog spam as it's not intended to be blog spam) so please be gentle (but still brutally honest)
I think more highly of people who are honest about their emotions and express them, instead of pretending that the motivating force behind almost all of our personal behavior isn't "relevant." Emotional ≠ unproductive.
Bitcoin is a Ponzi
Data Engineering Project Ideas for Your Resume
Another part of the story is to compare the public mindedness of Farouk Al-Kasim with Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer.
You can also dump the CloudFormation template to a file to inspect it or feed it into other tooling.
The soundtrack to level 1 of Chips Challenge.
Very cool, the beginning has a Weather Report - Birdland vibe to it.
Give it time. I wouldn't be long Singaporean property over the next three years even if my life depended on it.
This looks like legit, no-nonsense gets-the-job-done code that gets updated every time some jerk find a new way to be a jerk to others. It isn't great, but at least not over-engineered, and I'm not sure if Twitch account sign-up volumes and abuse are at the point where they should staff a project to do this more robustly / scalably
I presume you removed V as well? :)
Let me add something to be clear. As I understand it, free software was always happy to let you or your company modify and use software for your own use. The philosophy was always about respecting the users of the software, so the licenses don't kick in until someone else uses it. The problem addressed by AGPL is that someone can use your software over a network connection without running it themselves: a loophole in GPL.
Swiss EV startup Piëch Automotive begins testing of its GT electric sports car
Or designer of the first commercial microprocessor, Intel's 4004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
Reminds me of the black words service at apple that checks for explicit or non printer friendly stuff for iPhone engraving. It was hilarious looking at the advanced linguistic engine they developed to filter out asshole and 30+ variations of it with snarky comments added by devs in the past.
Ive been wanting to dip my toes in these waters for a while, but I've found it too dense until now.

As a software engineer without a math background, I found this read challenging but very approachable.

Great article!
> R2 coming out with $0 egress is somewhere between unbelievable and literal-miracle.

Not necessarily.

A nearlyfreespeech noted when they changed to a charge-by-incoming-bandwidth model, links are still often bought symmetrically and for them the thing that eats the most bandwidth is incoming DDoS attacks, not legitimate traffic.

It seems to me that Cloudflare are likely to be in this situation except even more so.
RISC-V, incidentally, suffers under exactly the noted delusion, so all existing chips lack all of the supposedly unimportant instructions. I have seen a claim that "RVA22", its general-purpose computing platform, will have them, but cannot find any evidence for it online.
I can immediately tell that this was not recorded with the same midi synth as my old win 95 PC.
That is interesting. I cancelled mine by writing an email and threatning a charge back.
why's this being downvoted, even? I mean, (personally "Anti-american" means nothing to me and) while I've developed for OSX plenty, I've got no stake in this game...but this post is not wrong lol. In fact, this sentiment is precisely why I've long-refused to ever own an apple product for anything save for devices from employers.
I quit the website some years ago, though I never posted or commented very often to begin with. Once I managed to get off it for long enough, going back became shocking. Seeing /b/ with fresh eyes made me never want to go back, and I haven't. There are better places.

I have a similar story with Reddit, though that addiction was more recent and harder to break.

Facebook was easy. I refuse to use Twitter or Tiktok because I know what will happen.

I don't think my HN problem is quite bad enough to want to quit entirely, but I do want to read it less. The same goes for Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. Moderation is proving to be much harder than quitting entirely.

I think I'm very lucky because my interactions with social media tend to be very reserved. I almost never post anything anywhere, I just passively consume.
GM says it will double annual revenue by 2030 to be seen more like Tesla
Okay, I'll bite.

I believe ads can exist if I consent to being shown them BEFOREHAND and alternatives, such as paying to opt-out completely are offered. The world is vast and changing with increasing velocity. I cannot keep up with all the possible tech products and services coming out even if I had a theoretically perfect RSS feed combined with other follows/subscriptions to content feeds. If a product is commercially successful to the point where they can afford to throw dollars at a probability of acquiring a new user, there's no fundamental reason why that behavior is necessarily bad/unwelcome. If I visit a news website, I want to be presented (before assaulted with ads) with a notice that provides me the option of paying for the content or seeing ads. Off the top of my head, spiegel.de follows this paradigm. A level further, and within reason for a downloaded/heavily-used/customizable software such as web browser is the opportunity to see ads that are relevant to my interests by affording me the option of indicating my interests to the platform before ads are shown and the ability to easily discriminate arbitrarily against a specific ad or categories related to any ad I don't like for any reason. If I don't like the ads a company shows me, even on the free version, they should not be repeated. If I don't want any category of ads that must be fine, but they company may opt to place a generic request for support of their corporation a-la-wikipedia funding request-- I am using their software for free, after all...

But to say there isn't exploring the full range of UX that can be afforded by modern software systems.

I say this as someone who is deeply disturbed by this latest update and will stop recommending FF as an alternative to chrome with superior privacy settings. Your reply just struck me as horribly defeatist. Ads are not leaving the web, but they _can_ be served with far better motives than they are currently.
Except that on HN I have actually learned a things or two. I have been connected to useful articles on topics that have solved many of my tech problems in recent years. Nobody has ever gotten anything useful from a facebook news feed.

The core difference is that while Facebook seeks to keep our eyes on facebook, places like HN actively encourage people to post links to material outside the core service. HN doesn't try to keep eyeballs on targets. (And HN is so tiny that it loads faster than anything on work connection out in the middle of nowhere.)
There are already all sorts of demonstrable long term effects of COVID. No speculation necessary.

How much time must pass without long term effects materializing before unvaccinated people admit that the vaccinated had a point?
It’s hardly hiding what’s being described, the very first sentence clarifies: In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus.

As to which is better, there are studies showing higher protection from vaccination alone than prior infection, and other showing the opposite. It’s complicated in part because the pandemic has been around for significant periods so the timing of infection vs vaccination matters. Further, infection doesn’t provide a uniform level of protection and of course the details get deep. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31235-6?_re...

And of course from a public health standpoint a positive Covid test isn’t guaranteed to represent an actual infection.
They'd also need to transfer the projects themselves from the DNF's GitHub to the public GitHub repositories they were transferred from.
Approximately 150,000 ex-pat workers (maybe ~10% of the total ex-pat population) left in the 12 months from June 2020-June 2021. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/spores-total...

The SG gov has been celebrating this, with some of them going so far as to say that 'foreigners' are 'ballast to be shed' during tougher times. https://twitter.com/wongdouglas/status/1298802033462394881?l...
My guess is that carrier grade links are generally symmetrical and cloudflare's provisioning requirements are driven by incoming DDoS traffic, which makes the economics quite different than they would be otherwise.
While you're absolutely correct that Australia hasn't had a recession in that time, this hides the fact that there have been periods when GDP _per-capita_ has declined. Or to put it another way: Australia's recessions have been hidden by immigration-driven growth.

Of course, immigration-driven growth is great! But for people on the ground, what matters is GDP per capita, not total GDP.
It makes light of the personal responsibility that they have for the things that they do
I'm glad you can joyfully collaborate on notebooks in real-time. How is that product, or iko.ai, different from pure JupyterLab which has real-time collaboration?

In addition to real-time collaboration, iko.ai is useful for the parts described in my initial reply to this thread (experiment tracking, parametrization, model deployment, packaging, and monitoring. Using your own Kubernetes clusters on different cloud providers and using the billing account on your cloud providers, or client provisioned clusters). In other words, all the problems one faces the minute they start working on a non toy project. If someone is a teacher/student or doing work where the notebook is both the medium, the output, and the outcome itself of the work, then any real-time collaborative notebook will do as they won't need other parts. If someone does machine learning professionally (consulting, or an internal machine learning team in an organization), then they'll need the parts cited above.
I wish I had been on ritalin at school. As an adult I have found my ability to retain, recall, and communicate information is so much stronger when I am on ritalin than when I am not. But, alas, I was not and here I am, decades later, trying to decide whether the expense of gaining a degree would be repaid with my remaining years in the workforce.
Thanks for posting here
Humble Exits
Rendertron – A Headless Chrome Rendering Solution
> Maybe there is a way to do ads well...

At the very least, they should have made it opt-in rather than opt-out. I don't like them quietly sneaking a pre-enabled advertising option into the configuration options.

And they know it's a potential privacy issue, since all the address bar suggestion options are already under the "Privacy & Security" settings.
Get ready for a new selection of mask designs and woke soundbytes for NPCs
> In the mid-to-late 2000s, you either knew, or were, that kid in grade school. You know. The one who could put games on your graphing calculator.

Nit: That was totally a thing in the 90s as well. In junior high, some (actually pretty non-techie) kid knew (I think) a college kid who installed ZShell (http://tistory.wikidot.com/zshell) and some games on his TI-85. Pretty soon everyone else got them via memory backup. Eventually those got boring, and I was the kid who got the Graph-Link kit to get new game.

This article actually seems to be kinda unaware of the earlier phases of this subculture, that were centered on the TI-85/86 and TI-92/89.
Wow. That guy in the glasses looks just like the police sketch.
I was referring to a single instance of classic PostgreSQL running on a single server. Scale-out databases are a completely different animal, it is difficult to compare them to scale-up databases because they make a different set of tradeoffs.

Extreme scale-up database engines are relatively rare and usually bespoke, I am not aware of anything close in open source. They only have one major advantage -- they are easily deployable outside the data center, e.g. at the edge, because it is a single self-contained box and relatively power efficient. Most people opt for scale-out because 1) there are many to choose from in open source and 2) it will work just as well as extreme scale-up for most applications, though you'll need more hardware for the same workload.

I've started to appreciate the utility of the extreme scale-up engines in real-world applications, though I've mostly worked on scale-out engines. They solve a real problem at the edge for data intensive applications but most currently people deploy in the data center so there isn't a pressing need.
The Broken Clock
Is there a vim plugin for this yet? :)