skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a comment on the following:

> Taiwan, Uyghurs or Tibet, Hong Kong

These are not the types of issues that most Chinese people are upset about, when it comes to their government. These are the types of issues that play well to audiences outside of China.

There's a massive disconnect here. Most controversies, cultural trends, fads, etc. in China receive almost no coverage outside of China, not because it's intrinsically difficult to find out about them (all you need is an internet connection and Chinese language skills), but because the foreign media tends to focus almost exclusively on the types of issues you listed. The vast majority of people outside China simply have no idea what's going on in the country.

This isn't to excuse the lack of independent media in China, but just to point out that the foreign media is also doing the public a massive disservice on this count.
If you think the purpose is to park a car, you're missing the point.
Anglican priest here. (I would guess the only one?)

IIRC, I ended up here during one of my sporadic attempts to teach myself to code for fun. I stuck around for the diverse and interesting content plus the thoughtful and sane discussions. I don’t participate that much, but I always enjoy reading the comments on here.
Sorry, I wasn't suggesting anyone was stupid for believing the hype that founders use to punt their stocks. What I was trying to get at was whether you had an idea of the valuation of the stock relative to your exercise price. If so, and that looked good, what happened to your company for it to sell at a low price?
Sadly there’s one thing I do need it for, and that’s the Oculus Quest.
Love seeing these get brought up. It's a really fascinating system from an era when communications infrastructure was a bit more visible. It's one of those things where, once you learn it exists, you'll start seeing them (the towers/horns) popping up all over the place.

My favorite AT&T artifact, though, has gotta be the Project Offices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Offices

The gist of it seems to be that these are secure, physically guarded, literal underground bunkers built into the tops of mountains along the East Coast, housing troposcatter antennas and satellite dishes. Super cool. As far as I can tell, nobody ever truly figured out exactly what they're for, and most are still operational today. I tried driving up to one once, out of curiosity, and there are some pretty intimidating "stay out of here" signs and cameras, even at the very base of the mountain.

Chances are they were simply just meant for the military AUTOVON network, mentioned near the top of this thread. But I suppose that doesn't explain why they're still operational nowadays.

https://coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/index.html (Funny enough, this website is maintained by the same Albert LaFrance who runs long-lines.net, mentioned in the article)

https://coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/VA01/ATTsiteB.html

This one is actually decommissioned and has pictures of the inside: https://coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/Buckingham/index.html

Super interesting stuff, IMO
You might want to explore https://www.navitime.co.jp/

IMO, best dataset at the expense of a very Japanese-style UI.
You are correct, of course. However, it is a unique away of introducing some GA concepts, rather than the usual "learn to walk" examples.
I have been a user for years now, mostly just skimming through when I get the time. It's been extremely positive whenever I became engaged. I don't knock peoples attempts to money grab. You have to eat and there's money here. However, it makes me cringe nonetheless. What I'd really like to see more of (and maybe it's here and I miss it) is when people do share their startup or something, give the nitty gritty and try in all ways possible to make it beneficial to this community, through learning, some sort of engagement or pure giving stuff away. Give a little and HN will always deliver.
There are a lot of open source scripts and tools on GitHub for accomplishing the same goal (in various state of being out-of-date, abandoned, etc.); I started collecting the ones that appear somewhat active here: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy

I plan on going through them to weed out duplicates and duds. You shouldn't trust any of those blindly, but definitely read through the code; I'm particularly interested in coming up with a list of services and scheduled tasks that can be safely disabled without impacting any of the applications and services I'm using (I want Windows Update, OneDrive, Office, Defender, Store and store apps, MS Account login and Xbox Gaming for example, which most tools want to disable).
Do you think that environment will come back at some point? I think it is powerful to immerse yourself in such an environment and I would like to have that experience at some point in my career.
I don‘t think it will, since flutter 100% bypasses UIKit and renders directly to pixels with Skia.
FWIW I'm working on a tech startup far away from SF, so it's possible. However we're arguably not a startup since we're not really engineered for hypergrowth as much as slowly and methodically building a self-funded, profitable product company. As such issues like raising funding and hiring quickly are not things we're concerned with, which might be why we're doing fine outside of SF. When we do hire it's 100% remote so our location isn't hurting us in that regard.

We feel like this is the best choice for our company as we retain 100% ownership and can focus on a straightforward business model of selling people a product that solves their problem at a fair price. Arguably the possible upside would be higher if we tried to go the VC route and get huge fast, but then the potential downside goes up as well. This way we're working ourselves into what amount to incredibly high paying jobs while also owning the asset that is the company.
> I'd be curious to hear from someone that feels strongly about blocking first-party front end tracking.

3p tracking masquerading as 1p is here already. Ex A: https://github.com/SukkaW/cloudflare-workers-async-google-an...

DNS-based content blocking was always trivial for trackers to bypass. Deeply integrated plugins like uBlockOrigin in Firefox are the only way out. With "Manifestv3", Chrome's making sure that even that level of integration may not be enough. 70%+ of the 4.5B internet users use Chrome.

For mobile apps... well, the writing is already on the wall.
I saw a documentary a few years back analyzing why hydrogen vehicles havent caught on yet. All the major auto companies had working fuel cells of internal combustion prototypes for 20 years. One villain was Obamas energy secretary Steven Chu who emphasized battery R&D at the expense of alternatives. The other was was Elon Musk who denigrated every alternative to electric vehicles, whether there was merit or not. I dont know how valid these arguments are.

I believe the documentary was called At War with the Dinosaurs.
Back around 2012, I made 10k cash + stock that would eventually net me around 30k on a ~50 million acquisition. I had been at the company for less than a year. I was employee #50 or something. This sounds like a much better deal than anything I've seen down thread, and it was actually serious money for me at the time.

Honestly, I think this just comes down to the moral character of the founder(s) in the company. If you have a good way of assessing that in the interview process, then maybe take it into account? Doesn't sound easy to do though.
That link seems to cover only whether it's possible for you to park in a given spot, whereas the OP's link covers when and how far to turn, bumping against cars parked opposite, etc. You'd need a lot more variables for that!
Good luck finding anything but 4th rate betacuck tax cattle in USA.
It’s a piece of the puzzle though. Consider you’ll be at the startup for 8 years before moving on, letting all your ISO’s vest after the IPO. In that time, the current company would have matched ~200k in funds when accounting for yearly appreciation of 8% in it. And of course the marginal tax savings you’ll have from a higher a salary over that time.

So you add that to the formula plus assumed salary differences in that time and whatever income you’ll receive from RSU’s and the increase in the current company’s market cap over the time. You may even consider what your current salary allows you to invest after taxes and how that will compound and if the startups lower salary will still allow that or if you’d have to pause that.

So add that all up and that is what you’re discounting. In essence the ISO’s from the startup need to at least equal that after 8 years (or however many you are assuming until exit. 8 is average) to break even. It’s possibly in the many millions for some people.

It’s a hard calculation with a lot of variables and assumptions. But it’s helpful to see how much of a risk you may really be taking.
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Yeah, I was thinking of this and I thought this was mainly the reason but then they should start being honest about it, IMO. I wonder what modifications this disallows that do not actually do any "reputation ruining".
In my (UK) experience, a 1x liquidation pref seems requested. 3x seems unpalatable. Maybe things are different in the US west coast. (It's certainly easier to raise money there, so perhaps the terms are harder as a compromise.)

You're right that employees with options don't get enough information to understand the value and potential value and mechanisms of their options in private companies. That's what I was driving at (poorly) in a separate comment.
I loved playing that game at my dad's office (he was a graphic designer at a university, so they had macs).

I still remember how proud he was when he got upgraded to a Quadra 600 (previously he'd had a Macintosh II).
The war plans in the 60s against an industialized nuclear power were very different than the war plans in the 40s when von Neumann was advocating this.
Pilots talk about flying a lot for a reason
A boss/friend and I locked horns on pretty much everything. He could see that my designs and efforts were good. But because I couldn't fully explain how I attained them, to his satisfaction, my work was somehow invalid.

Years later, he grudgingly acknowledged, by way of an olive branch, that my abductive reasoning was also a valid strategy. And that'd he'd just let it me do my thing. (Even more years later, he had recreated one of my products, and wanted me to know, after trying a lot of alternatives, my design proved best.)

I was actually grateful for this outcome. My intuition and crazy ideas have been a source of conflict with most other geeks my entire career. I get along great with other types of nerds, like marketing and graphic designers.

I don't know if deductive reasoners can get along with abductive. But I strongly believe most efforts benefit from a mixed strategy.

Deductives are great maximizers.

Abductives are great for busting out of local maximums.

Heh. It just now occurs to me we have a common enemy: the inductives. The purveyors of "well actually" pendantry, FUD, and other forms of bureaucratic sabotage. We'd all be happier if inductives stuck to QA/Test.
Absolutely not ever.
Aviation is like life, just more so
Does AT&T still send you microcells?
The machine is mostly just a question of convenience, as long as the flow rate is right it's the filter that does all the work, and those are relatively much cheaper.
IANAL, but FB never made any direct or implied promise in its EULA that you could mass unfollow everything, and there probably ARE terms against scripting their API in an unauthorized way, so I don't think there is a case.
Worst pandemic, lol. Covid is not a thing...Sars is the disease. Nothing compared to the Spanish flu of 1918...another false comparison...jabs will cure nothing...it's all a power play, always was...if you can't see it, you're blind.

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Haven't used cortex.dev, but looking at the docs, I'd say primarily simplicity and ease of getting started quickly (<3 mins) to get it up and running.
Also with cortex, It's not clear to me yet if spot instance fails, cortex can wait for next spot/replace it with onDemand, to keep training going automatically. If not, that would be the second difference.
So I agree - it’s just energy and shouldn’t really be a liberal vs conservative thing but, we’ll, I doubt liberals are parking trucks in Supercharger spots or trying to drive into our lane when we are passing them like this morning… could be wrong I guess.
This seems to have changed now.

As of iOS 15, gliding is able to type expletives for me if they’re added to the “text replacement” list.
> ”being immersed in a culture of likeminded individuals and going to events all over the city every night to share thoughts with them”

This would be my nightmare. I do genuinely love tech and startups, but talking shop with strangers quickly feels hollow. At conferences I was always looking to escape by the end of first day lunch and maybe go to a local museum instead.
with email address, of course
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I bootstrapped a SaaS business from my kitchen table...it's now worth just shy of $100M.

I thank the heavens everyday that I didn't go the VC route. I can pretty much do whatever I want without this constant growth at all costs pressure. It also gives us a massive advantage against VC backed competitors. We can make decisions that reap benefits 2-5 years out.

This has created a situation were every competitor follows the same trajectory where it eventually leads to an over-complicated, bloated product that users hate. They come to us and it's like a breath of fresh air.
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That’s by design though, the .‘s are optional. You can add more even. Also plus routing: first.m.last+whatever@gmail.com also routes to the same email.
The author made a post explaining the plugin was almost certainly legal, but facebook can exploit the legal system make it too expensive to be worth defending.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
“Coronavirus disease-causing virus”
I recall that when the first Apple stores were opened that they used an overhead camera technology that recorded customers moving about the store. This included customers that walked up to the window, and those that walked inside. The images were rendered as black silhouettes so as to anonymize the customers, but the technology helped Apple understand traffic patterns in their stores.
How do you manage with polination? I read that bees are dying off, all over the place.
I understand where you’re coming from, but this is only a beta launch. I didn’t share this today with the intention of going viral, I shared it to get a little feedback and fix bugs before real launch. Homepage and policies will be finished soon.
> 1x 20x20 MERV-13+ MPR-2400+ HVAC air filter ($20)

That's a MERV-13 filter, not a HEPA filter.

HEPA filters 99%+ of small (0.3um) particles per pass. A MERV-13 filter only filters like 60% per pass IIRC.

That means that a 1000 cu. feet of air through the HEPA filter will result in 990+ cu. feet of clean air. While the MERV-13 filter will only produce 600 cu. feet of clean air.

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A MERV13 filter would be good enough to improve most air, but its not HEPA and shouldn't be confused with it.
There are lots of weird edge cases where your theoretically-dead Facebook account gets resurrected..

When I deleted mine the second go around I manually deleted and unfollowed everything just in case it comes back. Wish I had known about this extension.
There's nothing unnatural about what you're feeling. Sometimes it will be better and sadly, sometimes it will be worse. I think the first step is to realize that it's natural and there is nothing wrong with you.

Second, I'm going to be real blunt here and this isn't going to help me in any interviews but it needs to be said. Ask yourself a serious question, "Is this job worth my suffering?". If you need time away to go on a walk, learn how to paint, read a book, hiking, or just working on a side project, you need to ask for it. If you're lucky enough to be a job that will understand that then take advantage of it. If your job makes it more difficult then don't stress but it might be time to try to find another job. If a company asked me to work 60+hrs a week I would laugh. If I wanted to work 60 hours, they wouldn't need to ask. Also it's very freeing to take your job less serious and in all honesty, I see improved performance when I'm in that mood.

Some people say pick up a non-related hobby... I think it's simpler than that, really. Just think of what you want to do at any given time and go do that in your time off. My problem in the past has always been making excuses to not do the things I actually wanted to do in my spare time.

There's a bunch more I could speak on this but I think this is fine for now. Go do something fun. Do what you want to do.
I have believed this for about a year, based on things I was reading at that time. I thought this was widely known because as you point out, that’s kinda their purpose. This article acknowledges that it was shown to be effective in lab settings and this is mainly about seeing those results in real life settings.

But come on, if anyone finds something that’s probably effective based on science and isn’t going to negatively affect anyone, let’s shout it from the rooftops. If schools had been given funding to improve air circulation and filtration as well as a local gym now does after a $500,000 upgrade, I’m sure many would feel better about sending their children to school.
A neat thing about the job is you probably get to exercise early and save taxes on your equity if it actually pays off.

But yes, it's not worth that much more than joining a startup later, and it'd be foolish to evaluate it differently. It's fun, but if you don't have real founder equity don't trick yourself into working longer hours than you would at a regular job.
> People with intellectual disabilities aren't inherently bad, or morally bad, or necessarily worse that any person without a diagnosable disorder ... all else being equal, nobody should want it.

When you call someone r-, you are saying they are bad because they are acting like someone with intellectual disabilities. You are asserting that it's okay, because nobody should want to have an intellectual disability.
I am not even a professional. I am an uneducated French house-husband in his late 30s. For some reason I have always been considered a "geek / nerd" by my surrounding but I did not really work in "tech" that much except for some web developpement gigs. One of my last job was forklift driver.
I believe I am not part of the typical HN demographic.
I like to create things that involve programming.
I love and follow the demoscene since I'm sixteen. I guess reading HN came naturally.

edit: precision and apologies. I know my English is not that great and I am sorry for that. that is also why I don't comment that much. But I do read a lot.
Which program so you use? I felt that xmonad just broke too many flows and was too big an investment as a user, but I'd like to be able to control my windows without using my trackpad
yeah bro only eastern europeans can drive trucks we totally can't increase wages now or before brexit came into effect to get more supply the only option is mass immigration
As this has got several up votes now, I thought I would share a slightly amended version that I have used in the past.

Comments and edits welcome:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J9hz4UQbQ_3x7FCf3edgTbJo...
sounds like a very cool job. Can you tell us more about your work at Nasa?
What's your fresh air system? My current home (in a mountain state) has problems with CO2 buildup with its central air system, so I'm curious what people with minisplits do to handle CO2.
At higher numbers it is very hard for any whole number exponent >1 to be reached

In any case what year was AI adblock attempted so we can check if this is one of the narrow use cases where exponential performance improvements occurred within computing

“Orders of magnitude” will be more frequently correct and also include “exponential”, whereas “exponential” will be less frequently correct
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Wow - this is a great read, reminds me of the guy on YouTube that used a genetic algorithm to evolve wind turbine blades which outperformed traditional ones.
I did not take the comment in the same light. I think it is great that people are creating such software. Seems useful for many users.

But looking at the broader context npteljes has a point.

Why fight an insecure tool (let's say Windows is insecure for the sake of the argument, I do not have a strong opinion about it) then patch the security on top. Surely the obvious choice is to stop using the insecure tool.

Sometimes people want a technical answer, when the answer is to do the obvious. I don't think that is pessimism.
If you think that a very poor person can rise to a Von Neumann calibre genius, then we have no disagreement. I agree with you that having successful parents can only help the situation.

"As for your edit, extreme intelligence is not really correlated to income."

Ok, the marginal correlation breaks down at the extremes. But it's still the case that intelligence and income are correlated, so smarter kids are more likely from higher income parents.
There's no fixed answer, because "a genetic algorithm" is not one thing -- it's an optimization process, and the details of how you model your problem matter at least as much as (if not more than) the optimization process you use.

In this case, the mapping of a complicated multi-step process involving external constraints to a "gene" is going to be a hack, no matter what you do.
Ask HN: Great Equations Editor
Hi Hacker News,

I’m looking for a tool that will allow me to import some calculus or physics equations, re-arrange/edit them _following some rules_. I know people did work for editing expressions (like lisp) while maintaining correctness. Is there such a thing for general math equations or expressions (some domains)?

I believe one should exist.

Thank you

kovek
I did the same thing a few years ago, but my usage of FB dropped off a cliff after I cleaned up my feed. I am no longer even a daily active user. I can see why they want it to be an endless quagmire of mental junk. There's definitely a correlation between that and time spent on the site
I think there's a time and place for genetic algorithms: heuristics to solve genuinely hard problems. This problem has a known, polynomial-time algorithm. If the headline was "An easy primer to genetic algorithms" then I'd agree with you. But it's "self-parking car in 500 lines" -- not impressive.
Re: Streisand effect effect vs Streisand Streisand effect.
They both work, I thought of it as Streisand (possessive of specific person) "Streisand effect" (concept). Also the doubling on the left seems beneficially sillier
It’s not a technical restriction, it’s a semantic one (think spirit vs letter of law).
Refresh a few times. The page does not serve the same ad scripts every time.
Sublime doesn't use native platform UI toolkits. They ship their own version of Skia (same as what's used in Chromium) and have their own UI toolkit for the editor rendering.
Let’s hope they adopt iOS performance and responsiveness as well.
Drag-along rights, with a waiver of appraisal rights?
Ah yes, “rights”, the privileges of the man with enough wealth to file suit.

History will not look back well upon this charade.