skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a 20 something and I was subscribed to the local paper for daily news. It was great! The biggest gift is that you can scan most of the newspaper in the morning, get a sense of the big news of the day, and you never felt a "need" to find out more. Like I tend to do when reading news on the internet.

Unfortunately, the local paper gave me no way to unbundle the weekend editions from my subscription - an enormous pile of advertisements containing almost no news!
I've seen a lot of posts analyzing HN content. This would be a very interesting topic.
That's quaint. Post Cambridge Analytica, FB's instagram affecting kids story, ad-tech, alternative data providers, unpersonings, twitter bots, etc. "psychotronic warfare" sounds adorable - or maybe from that time in history looking forward, we could be considered to all be hooked into the global Psychotron now?

The mind does have firewalls, and it filters on the same keyword principles as network ones. The difference in online news sources affects the language people use to express the ideas they affiliate with, and we identify words and even patterns of thought with those tribes. It's like class.

Psychotronic weapons sounds like a cool startup idea though.
You'd need a huge battery to power a camera for that long, as well as enough storage to match.

Let's assume something at the low end of the quality scale, e.g. 1Mbps 480p H.264; that's 125KB/s, or roughly 11TB for 3 years of video. Likewise, take 5W as an average power consumption. 5W for 3 years turns out to be around 130kWh, which is a large capacity even for an EV battery. For comparison, the largest Tesla has 100kWh.
I thought this was more of a Japanese government initiative that Toyota is going along with?
I moved to next.js which is build on react and it’s worth every penny.
Have you had avocado toast? It’ll rock your world, seriously.
Glowing is not cryptographic jargon. It's a word used years ago by the developer of TempleOS in a livestream to describe CIA operators. He said he could tell who was CIA because they would glow in the dark. Users of the 4chan technology board witnessed this and it became a meme.

To say something glows means to suggest the US three letter agencies are interfering with it. If some cryptography glows, it means it's been compromised by US authorities. Glowies are the operators themselves.
Because it's an opinion and doesn't give any useful information to anyone reading the thread/article.
Compare to rundeck after they were acquired by Pagerduty

https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/graphs/contributors
Investigators largely suspect directed-energy attacks behind Havana Syndrome
Me too! It's great. And one of the few samples of this sort of thing that worked right out of the box.
Tcl was briefly used for the monitor and control system for the original 12-meter radio telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona.

The Tcl system was ported from the Very Large Telescope VLT, in Chile.

So that's a couple of weird places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO_12m_Radio_Telescope
To state the obvious, just in case, the old “if it hurts you to do X, do it less” applies to eye strain as well.

If sitting 8h in front of a computer hurts your eyes, taking regular and irregular pauses, changing focus, printing long documents etc. will of course dramatically help and probably be the best effective way to reduce it.
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/75/9/e49/...

TLDR Brief 3 minute daily exposures to 670 nm (energies at the cornea were approximately 40 mW/cm2) for 2 weeks can significantly improve retinal function in those over approximately 40 years of age

Edit: 670 nm is deep red light
Your first sentence is true and relevant. Your second is, in a certain light, false (and a bit mean). pg is definitely a hacker in the traditional sense, and much of the stuff posted here is on topic for hackers in the TMRC sense.

The shift in the last few decades is that hacking is now a thing that can result in becoming an accidental millionaire. That's going to have societal and cultural effects on the community, like it or not.
I find I have to flag/hide about a third of the front page every time I visit to filter out the really boring dreck. Most of it comes from a couple dozen of domains, like npr, guardian, washpost, nytimes, nature, cbc, cnbc, newyorker, atlantic, etc, which does make the filtering easier.

The biggest thing is just that after so many years here, there's very little new to discuss; most topics have been beaten to a bloody pulp, and you know what people are going to say before you even read the comments.
Those hucksters are the price we pay for freedom of expression. In normal times, it's just a clownshow. Obviously it's more of a problem when there's a constitutional crisis, a war, or pandemic.
The sleep part definitely doesn’t line up with my experience.
It’s 7 pages.
https://archive.is/kVRpT/again?url=https://www.wsj.com/artic...

TL;DR: vaccine mandates, people have it too good with democrat spending, proposed spending legislature will do the same thing again. :|
You have to place JVN in his time on this issue. If you were a person with first hand knowledge of the atomic weapons program, access to the highest levels of national security, and a normal person's view of foreign policy (as in you were not a diplomat or experienced on the world stage) it's a coin flip whether you would have argued for restraint or first strike.

I've been learning about the Dulles brothers recently and the most hawkish Americans of this time period were a lot more hawkish than the neocons of today. I am very glad that cooler heads prevailed but I don't know that it should be such a knock on his reputation that he was in a different camp.
I mean there is and has been wide diversity in thought within the hacker community, so there's certainly people who view things only through asthetics.

But I don't think that erases the presence of explicitly moral/ethical thoughts within the hacker community. The philosophical and political manifest in the hacker community in many forms: anarchic, communal, utopian, anti authority, anti centralization, pro equality and merit, etc.

For example: From The Hacker Manifesto

"... You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals...."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Manifesto

also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
Since the virus has animal reservoirs, there was never any chance to eliminate it no matter what we did. The bats that presumably spread it to humans in the first place are still out there somewhere in China or Laos. Many other mammal species now carry the virus. From the time it first spread to humans it was always destined to become our fifth endemic coronavirus.
It's quite heart breaking. I particularly loved the idea of the Keybase Filesystem, sad to see this fall into an abandoned state.

The closest Keybase alternative I've found so far is https://keys.pub/ (on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792)

Welcome any suggestions for KBFS alternatives!
All right Noah, maybe I can shed some light. Economists call it seigniorage, but ordinary people call it printing money. And ordinary people intuitively perceive that printing money can't come without inflation. And they look around in their day to day life, and see inflation creeping everywhere. After only about 2-3 Trillion in printed money (but who's counting?). Add 3.5 T more, and how can inflation not creep up even more?
Firefox phones home to Mozilla all the time due to behavior that’s hard coded with no controls. If you proxy it you’ll see all the traffic. This is just the latest behavior of that type which is visible to users so it’s gotten a lot of attention.
> But it certainly seems the long-term outcomes in terms of life expectancy and quality of life come out heavily in favor of the sanitized and vaccinated life.

For who?

As of October 6, according to CDC data[1], 181 children 0-4 and 406 children 5-18 have died from COVID. Obviously, all of these deaths are sad but it's also impossible to ignore how small these numbers are in terms of the overall population of children under the age of 18.

> Aside from the immediate benefit of fewer deaths due to acute illness, I bet there's a host of long-term syndromes akin to Long Covid that haven't been identified.

You bet? What evidence do you have to back up the suggestion that there are long-term syndromes in children that "haven't been identified"?

Isn't this the same argument put forth by some people opposed to vaccination -- that there might be long-term side effects we don't yet know about? So why would this argument be acceptable in promoting vaccination and restrictions but not in opposing vaccination?

[1] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...
Nocturne is my preferred option, particularly if you have other people nearby sleeping (e.g. college roommates). And you will definitely get sleepy with this setup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/q4yisa/nocturne_be...
It was a wonderfully user-friendly front end to GPG. I used it extensively with some non-technical clients to exchange credentials when they originally wanted to send them via email.
> need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once

In the Dutch WP? Because otherwise I should qualify.
>To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not. [0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
It is of major importance as an embedded scripting language. Most recently Neovim, but also it's now the preferred way to write Pandoc filters. And then there's LuaLaTeX, where you can script TeX's internals with Lua.
> The prevailing wisdom was to get a job after attending the university gauntlet.

I distinctly remember listening to podcast around ~’08 where much the same subjects were being discussed as today - low startup payout probability vs big stable income corp. I don’t think it’s really changed that much tbh
It only has two, doesn't it? Underscore for "any single character", and percent for "any string of characters", AFAIK.
Too hot to handle: the battle over biryani
I subscribe to the Marin Independant Journal.

Why--because it's the only paper that covers my county.

It's always been a subpar newspaper. Way before the internet.

You would think they could have at least ironed out the kinks in their digital delivery?

But no. I got tired of the back and forth emails to their technical support.

You would think they would just open the IP address to long paying customers, so they could view content on devices, especially when they have a buggy subscription service?
This was exactly my path, too! One additional factor after I switched to HN that increased the stickiness for me was the joy of discovering pg’s essays.
Huh? What is the point of porting it to those consoles? Or was this just a troll?
Lebanon's central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue
The gp does say users-slash-customers, usually meaning "or".

There were social media platforms before them that lost despite the network effects, and there are platforms that have appeared after them that gained a ton of users despite the lock-in (some of which they have bought, which is in my view the only thing about them that should be amenable to regulation). EDIT: based on TFA and only tangentially relevant to this thread/the moral crusade, making sure online tools can be modified/scraped/etc. in any normal way is something else I would regulate. EDIT2: based on the rabbit hole of anti-FB articles, what is needed is more of a DE-regulation, removing or significantly narrowing the scope the of the laws FB uses to threaten developers. It's not that modifying a webpage is not protected, it's that it can explicitly be construed as illegal, in part because of the previous moral crusades.

The users derive some value from Facebook. I'd rather we didn't have holier-than-thou people regulate every pastime they don't like... reminds me of moral panics over everything from video games to weed.
Strangler Pattern Done Wrong
As any skilled visual astronomy observer will tell you… you can train your eyes. Part of this is acknowledging that your night vision is best off-center and learning to foveate in a way which takes advantage of that, but a degree of it is also in just patient noticing. Skilled observers will pick up details in the sky people decades younger than them would miss, with the same view.
The novel "Snowcrash" is about something like that. It is great.
I get what you're saying and this isn't my first rodeo. =)

FYI, running it locally would involve buying hardware and maintaining that hardware, at each datacenter (there are multiple). We don't have any server hardware at the data centers.
It seems kind of crazy that they would visit the Greeks, then do another flyby of Earth in order to visit the Trojans. I wonder what the cost-benefit analysis was of doing that versus just sending separate probes to each of those (which presumably would need a lot less fuel)?

Is this one of those things where this really is the best and cheapest option and my intuition of orbital mechanics is just wrong?
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I disagree. At this point, there's no real reason to just not care about security from day one.

There's a wealth of tools and docs, and users are becoming more and more conscious (which is fantastic, for the record!). There's the obvious ethics of keeping the data your users entrust you with safe to the best of your abilities, too.
… but that’s exactly the reason Satoshi distrusted the NSA. All else being equal, what possible incentive is there to design Bitcoin in a way that might theoretically be vulnerable to the NSA?
Also see Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html

In Kotlin you can write a library usable from C/C++/ObjC/Swift/Java/JavaScript.
Anyone can view. Need an invite to post. I just lurk.
> but spending long periods with someone indoors in close proximity.

It's not obvious to me that in-room air filters wouldn't reduce the exposure in this case, as the original commenter claimed? If it reduces the virus in the air, as the OP study finds, it seems like it probably would reduce virus exposure and thus infection rate when spending long periods indoors in close proximity, no?

Sure, just because it reduces the virus in the air doesn't necessarily mean it reduces infection -- like hypothetically the virus could commonny be going right from someone's exhale to someone else's inhale without having a chance to be filtered -- which I think is what the original commenter was suggesting -- but that's not the "spending long periods" scenario at all. I think it's true that while you probably can get infected in as little as ~15 minutes (not necessarily in just a couple minutes), but also clear that the longer you are in the same room, the higher risk.

But sure, we don't know exactly everything. All we can do is build knowledge one brick at a time, AND all we can do is act on the bricks we already have (that we don't have the whole wall yet is not a reason to avoid acting on our best picture (mixed metaphor, sue me) form what we do have)... but reducing virus in the air is a pretty huge brick for a respiratory infection. Based on everything we do know, it is hard to believe what the original commenter asks us to, to believe that reducing viral concentration in the air would NOT significantly lower infection rate.

I think it's becoming increasingly clear we should be spending at least as much attention on HEPA air filtration as people have been on masks.
Fair point, but it's always been this way. It's not new. FWIW, HN is my tech/business news source so I love it the way it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
Facebook Recruiter Correspondence
Apple Tried to Make the iPhone in 1993
IME compressors usually have a thermal cutoff . If you do try to start them up too early, you'll know - it won't turn and the cutoff will kick in. Not great for your motor or premises wiring, but it has been designed for.

To the OP, don't regret doing this at all. Thermostats on air conditioners are generally subpar, since they're located on the unit itself. If you want to use the "auto fan" mode to keep noise down, then there ends up being large temperature swings. I think this is because the air stops circulating, while the air near the unit stays cool due to the cold coils.

I've got a plan to automate a dehumidifier Real Soon Now, and I'm planning on using a plug with current monitoring. This way I can sense when the compressor has shut off on its own and then wait several minutes for efficiency's sake.
No, my eye doctor actually just prescribed me a set only for looking at screens because it increased the sharpness (apparently one of my eyes has stronger visual acuity than the other, and this imbalance is exacerbated when staring at screens but also I was told this is pretty common). I spent a lot of time trying to "hack" a solution for my eye strain and constant headaches, so I tried a bunch of things, including readers.
I assume those floor drains lacked a functional p-trap because I've read with covid that disease would spread through drains without a proper p-trap, but otherwise the p-trap prevents drains like toilets and sinks from stinking and allowing contaminated air through.

P-traps can dry out though, but they stink if they do. Maybe that's what happened there?

Edit: yes, that's the theory - floor drains with dry u-bends allowed the poop air out.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539564/
What's so special about Zoom? If Zoom fell off the face of the Earth, by the next day everybody would have switched to any of half a dozen nearly identical services, many of them older than Zoom. Within another couple of days, everybody would have stopped noticing the difference.
Paul Graham has a million and a third followers on Twitter. He's what you'd call "off-mainstream." Andreesen is off-off-mainstream. RMS, on the other hand, is pretty niche, unfortunately. The world would be a lot better if their positions were reversed.

0.016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅% of the world's population is following Graham on twitter.com, which is a lot of people!

(Edited s/0.00016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅%/0.016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅%; forgot to move the decimal. Thanks, shric.)
We live in a truly remarkable universe and Science is our best method of repeatable, measurable progress. But Science is a method in service of our desires, and incentives drive our economic systems. Science has been put in service of extracting maximum profit and maximum growth. One small part of that is efficiency in production. That efficiency has given rise to the broad material wealth that we enjoy today.

But Science has not been put in service of understanding what is good for humans psychologically, spiritually, or even biologically. To the extent that it has, we are overwhelmed and outmatched by powerful economic forces in service of the profit motive. A profit motive that has locked us into dreams of perpetual exponential growth of a fundamental anti-biological system of roadways, electricity, and food production that has us first harvesting and then paving the biosphere for profit.

And then we get comments like yours, thankfully and rightly downvoted. Comments trying to stir up more shouting and polarization and finger pointing. In pursuit of that cathartic polarization, your comment is really just support of an absurd, extremist viewpoint that must have as a starting point a staggering ignorance about what humanity is currently smashing to pieces in its pursuit of material wealth, coupled with a willful ignorance to reflect on it. The cost we exact on our planet is enormous.
Aggressively. I'm constantly following new people and unfollowing loads of other people. I try to keep a good mix of tech, music, and philosophy in with all the policy and politics. I also liberally mute and block. Only way to make it usable, but the result is far better than political discourse on Hacker News.
Nonsense. Electron is a memory hog and a disk space hog, but perf-wide V8 is incredible given what it has to work with. Definitely within spitting distance of Java.
Have you seen the movie Contact? Like that but in reverse
Not necessarily true based on the locality. In Dallas, for example, assessed value will (usually, unless you buy in all-cash off-public-market) be set to your market price when you buy it.

From there tax basis more or less tracks market value, but it’s possible to protest the assessor to keep it below market value (though it’s time intensive and requires in-person hearings).

To get ahead of any artificial attempts at deflating tax basis, Dallas also maintains a comprehensive public lot value database that assigns a land value for tax purposes based on census tract (initially likely a product of redlining, but now based on average census tract market value) — so, similar to a pure land value tax, even if you’re sitting on an unimproved piece of land, you’ll still be taxed similar to the average home in the neighborhood, which has the effect of setting a tax floor.

Austin is similar, I believe. Most cities have to, as aside from sales tax property tax is their only source of revenue, because any sort of income tax is constitutionally banned.
You’re correct. Today is now pretty much the same climate as it was pre-HN. At least, that’s how I feel each day.

The period was electrifying. Even if one wishes to take a cynical view, that YC needed to fool a bunch of young engineers into gambling on the prospect of getting rich, the execution was marvelous. pg’s essays were the epicenter.

(I don’t buy the cynical take. The engineers that try and fail to build an early startup are well-positioned to transition to a traditional career path with minimal long term loss of income or opportunity cost. The only area where that isn’t really true is probably ads or ML, the latter being a recent phenomenon.)
For a more serious, non-fiction take, I find this article by Nick Bostron on Information Hazards and their typology a quite interesting read too:

https://nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf
How do you apply this theory to minds that follow Taoism?
Or, yes. I worked as a research assistant gathering data for a professor at University who wrote 100s of papers in the area of graphics and computer vision.
No they really are not any good at accomplishing any military objective. The Afghan War was originally pitched as "kill this specific person". Within a month of the start of hostilities, that person had relocated to a different nation. Somehow the war went on for another decade, before an ObL impersonator who had been held by ISI for years less than a mile from PMA Kakul was ceremonially executed as an elaborate reelection campaign event. Somehow, the war also went on for another decade after that.

Of course I know this is all a joke, but I enjoy taking jokes seriously. It seems that only nations who are carbon copies of USA in the very worst sense could harm their own citizens to enforce TOS of American firms. (For instance, no one would be surprised if Australia did this.) I suspect that even a very extensive drone force would fail to accomplish Facebook's goals in Afghanistan.
When I saw this headline I just knew what we would find in the comments.

The reaction on hacker news is basically the same as you will get from someone who uses homeopathy being confronted with a study that says it doesn't work.

If you use something day-to-day it becomes part of your identity. It doesn't matter what some scientist says. It doesn't matter what anyone says. "It helps me so I'm going to keep doing it".
One of the truly amazing things about HN is stuff like this comment. Someone who's actually "been there".

Could you say a little about the motivation behind your LikeBetter?