skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creates an incentive to present the facts in the way that maximizes the payday rather than the public good

Sure, it may create an incentive to do so. However, the facts must prove to be true and enforcement action must happen before the payout happens. So, however exaggerated the claims being made by the whistleblower in question, if it is not borne out by facts and substantiation, they are not getting anything for it. I am not sure I see an issue with that.
It wasn't designed in two weeks. The initial protype for Netscape was, but that early version of JavaScript (it was called oak at the time) is far far from its modern counterpart. This is a particularly poor take as it seems you have no idea what JavaScript actually is or how it's evolved with time. If you want a purpose built DSL then find a framework, not a language runtime.
It's not exactly what you're describing, but The Economist does something fairly similar. They publish a weekly print edition, and articles on their site are posted at a much slower pace than other sites.
I've been playing around with creating a few dapps here and there and I do have to say I really enjoy being able to use wallets as a proof of identity rather than hooking in a dedicated authentication server. I haven't created anything to scale yet but I think simply using wallets instead of relying on oauth for simple applications is really lowering the amount of time I have to put up front into creating proof of concept applications.

Also, I really do think that NFT ownership serving as an access token into a service is a very neat feature that we'll start to see more of as people start getting more creative with NFTs instead of simply being an art asset. There's a lot there and we're barely scratching the surface imo.
Incredibly smart move from MS to buy github.
I think of this as a "knowledge map". The more you cover the white spots on the map, by randomly probing all over the domain (i.e. years of experience), the better you can make reasonable assumptions about yet unexplored territory, connecting the dots. Monte-Carlo knowledge probing -- I cannot get all local maxima, but I have an understanding of the general topography.
I followed a similar path, but stuck out at /. for a while longer. I still pop in every now and then like visiting an old childhood friend.

I'm very grateful that /. survived beta. We've lost so much of the early internet - a completely different place than it is now - that even the evolved /. is still a welcome site for sore eyes.

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Its big thing originally was being a 64-bit port of Firefox. I assume it's still based on Firefox in some way, based on the name, but not really sure what it brings to the table anymore, besides some minor stuff you can already get with extensions.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but how can it be “usb 1.1 compliant” while ignoring “communication errors”?

Most of the devils in the usb protocol, the kind people resort to usb analyzers for are usually related to communications error states and transitions in the protocol that aren’t being handled properly.
Boston is also one of the oldest cities in the USA, and has had much longer to build up a presence of toxins, especially from the early days when people dumped anything anywhere.
Do you ever write in order to learn, or to test your ideas? I do this sometimes. The idea is to assign yourself a project, e.g., to write a blog report demonstrating that hurricanes are becoming more destructive. I think you might find it surprising if you did that and relied on the rawest, most objectively true data you can find, rather than articles by the BBC.
Very few people will ever choose to invest the time necessary to understand how to use cryptocurrencies safely. This means no matter how good or how useful a "Web 3.0" product is it will either remain too niche to make a serious profit in the long term or it will end up as a way to scam people who don't understand how to use crypto safely and eventually sink under a wave of PR disasters.

Web 3.0 is doomed.
Non-disclousre is the state law in Texas, so unless you report it yourself, how does the county know what did you pay in Dallas? I've looked on Zillow and some houses in Dallas do seem to show price per sq. foot on sales (no total price though) and some don't. Same with Austin, I figure if the price was the public record it would have been shown as same as it shows on houses in CA - the price of the house on every time it's sold so I doubt what you say is true. Perhaps you meant it might be set to the listing price?
This doesn’t really align with the reality. HN’s audience is not heavily concentrated in Silicon Vally or the U.S. - less than 10% of the audience is based around Silicon Valley [1]. Most discussion about Silicon Valley companies, individuals and culture is critical and negative.

At any time there are multiple articles about “obscure hacking” topics on the front page. Right now there are 10, by my count - though others may count fewer of course. But when I talk to hacker types about HN, they always comment on the cool obscure articles they find here.

All the content can’t always by obscure, can it? Surely if everything is obscure, nothing is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916747
The tests don’t cover anything released in the past 6-12 months (the exact window is somewhere on the certification site). With the exception of maybe 1-3 products there shouldn’t be too many differences. Focus on your core knowledge around IAM, VPC, S3 etc then skim the product blogs from the last year to find any important updates. A Cloud Guru offers pretty recent online materials for a subscription fee.
I hope the world now learns how bad substance addiction problems feel. Our fossil addiction must end or our wealth and comfort is at stake every time supply is short.
The purpose of my computer is not to protect anyone else's business model.

If there is no way to deal with cheating at games other than relinquishing ownership, disposition, and functionality of my own hardware, that is not my problem, and, it's not true anyway.

Consoles are just the easy way not the only way.
I think news in west is starting to see some direction for news in the future, the weight of main stream media is going downwards. It has created some problem to force them moving towards the extreme of political spectrum to be honest. News is not about reporting the facts only, it has influence and education value, it is like literature, I don't think everyone should be a teacher, and I don't think everyone should be a journalist. Especially many independent journalists would actually need to make a living with their reports, they are more likely to bend facts to please their sponsors.
I think that the Wayback machine supports either an HTTP status code or meta tag that causes it to not serve previously-cached contents.

Therefore I try to save webpages that I care about, but it's getting harder and harder. Not to mention the space it takes - is it really worth the hundreds of GiB of personal archives when I'll likely want - not need - maybe a few KiBs of it decades down the line. And even then, will I be able to find it?

Sometimes I think about just archiving a screenshot and the text of websites, instead of markup and related files.
Broswer compatibility testing
Clickbaity title. F** Bloomberg editors (even if I believed the Chinese implant story). Recession forecasting studies are a dime a dozen.
https://archive.is/EQSDd
Why is it luck? They all result in exposing the body to the exact same spike protein. We would have to be dangerously wrong about what the vaccines do for them to not work fine together.
Monero would be an alternative. Privacy should not be optional. Read this article https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/satoshi-van-saberhage...
Sure, at least today that is more probable and maybe by now they truly did pass on. The range of possibilities are of course endless. But at that time, if we take their statement literally[1] they just moved on to other things.

1. https://plan99.net/~mike/satoshi-emails/thread5.html
Is there a better

Since 2005, the accepted internet convention[1] has been 'repeating of course'

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4&t=71s
This 10x notion really needs to go away. Somehow a very narrow, limited scope metric grew into something that people believe can be a general capability metric of a profession that is supposed to be rather complex. It’s like saying in one study the highest scoring SAT students scored 10x the lowest (say 1600 vs. 160) and now there is a concept of 10x high-schooler. This is just plain silly and juvenile notion.
[Ding] https://web.archive.org/web/20140531074444/http://www.ihealt...

[Dong] https://web.archive.org/web/20140521005122/http://www.jaoa.o...
https://archive.is/az03t
Anecdote-not-data warning:

I gave an Android tablet to a 90-something year old. She got on ok but there were a few frustrations. Stuff would close when it shouldn’t, button here just hard to reason about or get to etc. She asked if it was an iPad, obviously some brand awareness there. Switched to iPad as a bit of a fun surprise, and most issues went away. More stuff was where she thought it would be. (She has a feature phone from 14 years ago so it’s not iPhone preference.) She just turned 101 and you can’t take her iPad away from her. Loves it.

We can all get used to whatever. Try it on the edge cases and your opinion might shift because that’s where the differences emerge.

I’m holding back a lot of iOS rants here :) Selecting a single word is often many clicks. I’d love to be able to forget individual words that it insists on autocompleting to.
I did put the term "organic" in there for good reason. Yes, I know that not everyone cares, but I was trying to go to the opposite end of the spectrum to the "50c" claim I was replying to.
Saying community is in constant decline is such an internet thing. A certain other website with a blue background and trumpets has been full of messages like this for the last 20 years, yet it's still a fun place to lurk.

HN is one of the few places on the internet where you can play devil's advocate and still live to see the top of the comments page because the number of people who read half sentences and instantly flag/downvote is very low. I think this is one of the biggest things setting it apart from Reddit.
It doesn't ship ads in your web browser, unlike Firefox. It allows you to install WebExtensions from any source (even if you don't sign them with Mozilla!), unlike Firefox.

I wouldn't recommend it, but that's just because I wouldn't recommend any web browser right now.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12321

It's frustrating to have to wade through journalistic crap and blog spam and blog post before getting to the real paper. For humanity's sake, it's in the first line of my comment (BLUF and all that).
And who could blame them? I'm sure recruiters at most companies have a litany of responses they use based on the tone of the candidate. They get paid on how many people they can get into the interviews, accept an offer, and stay X months past their start date. Why wouldn't they use form responses on the off chance it works?
No choice but to create content for hacker news
The "inflation problem" is not perceived as a problem by hardly anyone (certainly not by a government agency) since central banks around the world have shown that they are very capable of keeping inflation near the intended target. And the idea that the NSA thinks a cryptocurrency would be a solution to such a non-existent problem is even more bizarre.
I joined ycombinator 5years ago. The website not too great, no fancy UI but the posts and the comments have known to enlighten me more in my career field more than what college could have offer me.
Your dates are a little off. The 70s had little to do with it - Canada’s privatization spree under Mulroney lined up with Reagan and Thatcher. So Connaught Labs was destroyed in the 80s by the Mulroney Conservatives. And NAFTA was ratified in the 90s by the Chretian Liberals, although it was Mulroney’s baby.
The main reason might be that the demand is higher in the US the in the EU but, in addition, both demands have different characteristics.

In my opinion most of EU demand for software developers comes from cost centers, i.e. software departments from banks, utilities, public administration, etc. A cost center has less incentives to pay high salaries, because they don't expect benefits to rise because of it.

While in the US, Google, Oracle, Facebook, Amazon, to name a few, create a different (and huge) type of demand where paying high salaries pays back.
>It doesn't ship ads in your web browser

Well, Waterfox is owned by an advertising company.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso-hsin_Cheng

Also worth reading about the ornithologist who fought this

The animals you’ve devoted your life begin to be killed by the state, and your attempts to sway opinion cause you to instead be demoted to a janitor and deemed a revolutionary. Surreal.
>every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.

Felt like that with articles about Rust as well
Discussion fora are usually dominated by a minority. You won't read about the habits, diets and anxieties (housing, options, politics, tools, city life, commute) of people from berlin , moscow , paris, melbourne, while you learn the people, areas and streets of SF by name. HN is a megaphone for globalizing the SV culture.
That would be something someone would say if they where part of a small noisy group... Scratches chin and looks up thoughtfully
You're right, I should not have asked about the point of it.

What I really meant was: what can you learn by doing this? If the goals are as they are stated in the doc, what's the motivation for trying in a browser context? TFA doesn't say "I was just feeling playful", it lays out some goals and some rationale for them. I just don't understand why, given those goals, you would try to do this in a browswer. Screwing around with kernels is fun, because of all the stuff that can happen (and that you can learn). I'm having a hard time seeing how this would be the case here. I'm probably just blind.
I've found the EFM8UB series to be some pretty interesting USB micros.
Sure, and I'm not saying it's good for privacy. But Firefox in its default setting is also bordering unusable, inserting ads in the address bar!

It's incredible that an advertising company does better than a for-profit owned by a non-profit in this regard.
Also, for more privacy. Microsoft doesn't have to constantly see what you are doing. They got GitHub and O365 with OneDrive integrated in all the big companies, way too much power already..
Ok, here's one. Check out this paragraph, emphasis mine.

> According to Facebook's own annotations of the leaked slides, the finding broadly reported as "30% of teen girls felt Instagram made them feel worse about their bodies" was based on 150 respondents out of a few thousand Instagram users surveyed. They only answered the question about Instagram's role if they had already reported having body image issues. So the finding does not describe a random sampling of teenage girls, or even all the girls in the survey. It's a subset of a subset of a subset.

Can you see how insane this paragraph is? It's like Big Tobacco getting caught with a study that shows that smoking causes cancer. But then they annotate their leaked internal slides saying "well it only cause cancer in 150 out of like thousands of people.. trust us, we annotated the slides." My emphasis is to show how biased the author is -- are we seriously giving credence to the very company that the Wall Street Journal reporting was criticizing? And now we're trusting an employee that has a material stake (stock options, her salary, reputation) in protecting the company? I'm not sold that social media is the "worst thing ever," but NPR really needs to have higher journalistic standards.

> This type of innuendo based commentary is a staple of Fox and conservative media.

It really isn't, and I think this is a really unfair criticism of GP. It's pretty much just being skeptical 101.
I always admired the writing style of that quote.

In the same vein, most if not all of the Jan. 6 convictions are likely plea bargains, since Capitol Police opened the doors for protesters, but those charged likely don't want to spend $20,000 or more on a defense lawyer.

None had guns, and the FBI reported this summer that there was no coup attempt or insurrection.
Even if you were right that killing two people isn't "anything wrong", it's beside the point. This is about Facebook's role in the violence. The event was organized on Facebook.
This video finally made me understand the “why” of hydrogen fuel cell cars: https://youtu.be/hghIckc7nrY

Like a lot of other people I didn’t know they are actually full electric and that they convert hydrogen to water to create the electricity, instead of having lithium-based batteries.

They have the advantage of very fast refueling (because the fuel is liquid) but the disadvantage of not-yet-developed infrastructure (just like battery EVs were a few years ago)

Three years ago, everyone in my home town would mock EV cars with comments like:

What do I do if I have a 100km trip to do and the fueling station is 150km away?
Do I start asking people around, “sir, please, can I borrow a car charger” like it’s a phone?

Nowadays, a lot of people there are considering buying an EV as their next car and some even started saving money for that.

Some want them because they are quiet, some because you don’t pay CO2 taxes on them. Some even like EVs because you can charge them at home (which is another disadvantage of hydrogen cars).

Nevertheless, both battery and hydrogen EVs are improvements that we need in the future and we have to understand that there’s always a transition phase for new technologies.
Here's a bit more information, though i do believe that there indeed could be more clarity about the project's goals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox

It appears that Waterfox is one of the few ways to use the legacy extensions that Firefox removed the support for and to use a browser that Mozilla doesn't have control over.

I'd maybe also look at GNU IceCat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

It's actually curious to see a discussion about a fork of Firefox, since a little bit ago i personally felt that there might just be a rise of more forks and attempts to abandon Mozilla due to their recent behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785896
One day there will be no more 404s or 200s.
Thanks for that, After being told to "suck moose dick white man" yesterday, and "just fuck off and die" today (not on HN), any positive feedback is appreciated. REI forever (I joined in 1981 on my first ever trip to the USA). Play and ride on!
That's only if you equate the recruiter to a minimum wage worker and yourself to their customer. There's a superiority bias in that rhetoric. The recruiter is a well-employed tech worker. And you're not their client or superior.
I don't know that creating an whole new currency can be considered a "practical solution" to the need of having to move dirty money around. Surely there must be easier ways to achieve that goal and with a higher chance of success as well.
Facebook: willingly hosts groups that plan and enact violence.

You: It's a matter of free speech.

Me: Point out that people have been killed.

You: I didn't say it was free speech.

Like, what do you think people are mad at Facebook over if not all the people dying from the misinformation and violence coming from them?
Actually, Fb is/was one of the largest users of RDF, in the form of OpenGraph meta-tags. And the tooling for RDF/SPARQL isn't bad at all, if stagnant since first introduced in 2002 or so. It's just that there was no business case for it when ads are the primary or only means for monetization. And Atom only served to cannibalize RSS.
What's wrong with 2020? Generally the year displayed with a copyright is the year the work was first published. For a website, 2020 is a pretty recent initial publish. People don't just fully rewrite their website every year.
Keep in mind Von Neumann was ethnically Jewish and the fact that the Jews he would have grown up with went from respected citizens to extermination in a matter of years might have affected him. I have no idea if that is the case but the fatalist, apocalyptic attitude you reference is the kind of thing you occasionally hear from Jews profoundly warped by the atrocities of that era.
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If there is existing bot , please point me to it .
yes, and it's imperative you have HP Wolf Security installed!
The US is bigger than the handful of tech centres like the Bay Area, Mountain View and Redmond. If you look at the median average for the whole country it's not that much higher than Europe.
No, I haven't made any Nazi hailing gestures around a politician, and I think it's super weird that Republicans do that.
My corner flower shop has a sign saying surgical or FFP2, just like most shops I’ve seen in my area of Germany. If they can manage it, so should a hospital.
I think that, given current estimates on lifespans and advances in nanotechnology, it's plausible that I'll be around when Y10K happens, and being able to search through my collected writings in a simple, uniform way will be nice. I'm lazy, and would be unlikely to write a script to convert the dates automatically.

I think it is significantly less likely that I'll be around when Y100K hits. I don't particularly care about anything that happens after my death. That's somebody else's problem.
Techies from Berlin, Bangalore, Moscow.. come here to live vicariously (SV culture).
I know he's failed to prove it (embarrassingly), but I feel like it's not implausible that it was him and the late Dave Kleinman together as he claims. The mixing of British and American English and time zone issue then makes sense. Also, that Craig Wright boldly claims to be Satoshi likely means he is involved somehow, as he should otherwise fear that the real Satoshi call him out. It may be that Kleinman was the gear-to-the-metal guy and that's why Wright cannot prove his identity (but is somehow too proud to admit it - he's not entirely right in the head either).

Not everything checks out and everything may not have happened exactly as Wright claims, but I have trouble completely writing him off.
Same here. After religiously following Slashdot since '99 or so, I eventually realized that the links on the Slashdot front page appeared on HN days prior. It was not long before HN became my daily go-to. Just occurred to me that it's been a longer part of my life, in fact, than Slashdot... 20+ years of tech news between the two of them.
Sure, but you'd still need to connect and interface with the SQL implementations - the queries themselves are the smaller piece of the work if you want to support several different database backends.