skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211013191523/https://skipthein... is an archive link for the SkipTheInterview website which explains their attempted design.
A general question: What content should large companies be allowed to decline to host?
Why would that affect women more than men?
While I agree with you completely, I find that ship has sailed. Most web stores pop up recaptchas, and have extremely heavy javascript. I find it utterly unprofessional, but somehow it's acceptable in this new age.

I'd love for APIs, especially common APIs, where consumer-agent software could create one cart that would optimize between vendors on price/shipping minimum/etc. But that's not in webstores' interest for the obvious reason of decommodification.
I don't think this is good example, choke valve just doesn't exist on any "modern" car.
Putting together all the messaging I've gotten recently: Regular sunscreen is bad, zinc oxide sunscreen is bad, getting sun is bad, not getting sun is bad (Vitamin D).
Consistency is great, but there's no equivalent to NixOS for the BSDs -- that I know of.

Am I actually wrong about that? Is there some declarative configuration system I should be using, which I've simply never heard of?
Because when you hear the other side (pretend to) hang up, you need to not be fooled and also hang up on your side. If you don't hang up on your side, then on older phones you actually have no way of telling the call is still going.

On your smartphone, it's easier to not fall in this trap, as the screen is making it harder to type a phone number while the call is still going.
Bullshit. Their job was to check the design and make sure it doesnt have glaring flaws. If they did their job, and didn't hire part-time engineers who worked for boeing at the same time, 500 people would still be alive.
yeah, but that's what I mean, if it's just a side effect then how is it relevant to the whole "illustrious history" of the UK comment which was defended by saying that the colonies are now "freer".

How is that an argument? If I enslave a group of people, force on them my language so they can follow orders and 500 years later that language opens doors for them, how am I "illustrious"? it's a side effect of an inhumane act.

Trying to twist this so my history doesn't make me uncomfortable is historical immaturity.
There's no delete function, heh, so please go ahead and ban this account; you'll be doing me a solid*. Many thanks and keep up the good effort.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28553632
These tires have sidewalls, the spokes are not exposed. Without sidewalls these tires would be very loud on the highway, and would have a much higher rolling resistance.
Came to look for the same. I haven't found current or future projections on revenue to hang something on.
Huawei and Apple have a similar market share profile in mainland China (Huawei sells more, Apple earns more) where government interference is lacking.
In the United States iMessage is almost the default messenger. I don't know anybody that uses WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. iMessage requires no extra setup its already there by default when you buy an iPhone. Asking somebody non-techy to switch messaging apps just isn't going to happen.

With iMessage you can send high resolution photos and videos, which may seem like not a big deal. But it is. Sending a message between Android and iOS uses mms and the photo/video is compressed to an unusable state. I can airdrop a 1GB+ file instantly to any Apple device. How do I transfer a 1GB file to somebody on Android or on a PC? Upload to google drive? then re-download it thru the App? That takes minutes and 5+ steps. When I've already Airdropped the file in seconds on my Apple device by tapping "send".

iMessage/Apple products are about convenience and ease of use. Apple is the best in both of those categories.
Just an fyi, for at least the last 6 years it is very difficult for any kind of migrant to open an account
It doesn't matter. What mattered is it sparked my curiosity in knowing more, above and below my immediate reply as well as the rest of the comments in this post, however true or false they are. Everyone goes somewhere and I (try to) go where they've been with some DYOR.

Some things I never knew until recently:

- PTO isn't federally and legally required yet most companies do it

- Some states have some influence on PTO policy

- Southwest Airlines is a Texas-headquartered company

- Because of claims that MSM are either incompetent or narrative-driven, secondary and tertiary conjectures leading to this headline should be considered as well

- Lastly, a visit to Wikipedia yielded this line:

> If PTO hours go unused, employees may sometimes call in sick near the end of the year so they can obtain the benefit of paid leave before it disappears. Employers may counter this tendency by paying employees for some or all of their unused days at year-end or upon retirement or resignation.[1]
Over the Last 14 Years, iPhone Prices Have Gone Up More Than 80%
This was from October of 2008.
Could anyone speak more about how this decompilation is done from a technical perspective?

This looks nothing like the pseudocode C that IDA/Ghidra spit out, so how would you go about doing this even?

It says in the README:

Tools used: Ghidra, Ida, Visual Studio

What was done:

All structures were populated, globals and locals named.
All subs were decompiled, C pseudo code was converted to compilable C++. Loose (namespace?) subs were assigned to classes.

Which is a bit "Draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl" for me. Or am I just clueless.
Windows, Mac and Linux downloads for those interested: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/6.0

Not making any promises, but it also seems like the FreeBSD community is also making very good progress in landing a proper for port .NET 6 :)
I don't worry about punctures at all, despite living in a country with a shitty roads. What I worry about A LOT is a catastrophic collision of tire with a 90 degree sharp pothole edge, often made by roadworkers before doing point repair, which potentially can destroy tire irreparably. I wonder if these tires are better protected against such impacts, and just looking at them it seems they are - no side walls which are cut in a strong impact. Looking forward to more impact tests of these tires.
These moments are so painful to watch, yet I rarely speak up to my non-technical friends because I wouldn’t want to criticize them all the time.
As someone with a severe photosensitivity disorder, I have relied on zinc oxide as a "physical" blocker as opposed to various chemicals that often seem to be banned in the EU.

But digging into the article, which is a little short on specifics, it appears that the zinc oxide is catalyzing a reaction with the "organic" compounds which also are blockers. Zinc oxide is already a pretty good UVA blocker, especially with a smaller particulate size. My guess is that this is for sunscreens with a mix of organic UVA blockers and zinc oxide, but not so much zinc oxide that you look like you are training for mime school.

My preferred (aka "least objectionable") blend is only zinc oxide, so I may not have to worry.

I wish I had access to a UV-VIS spectrophotometer and various defined particle sizes of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. My suspicion is that a careful formulation -- probably arrived at via linear algebra -- of different particle sizes should allow for a sunscreen that almost has a step function at around 410 nanometers: invisible at longer wavelengths, a complete block at anything shorter than 410 nm. This way, one could avoid the ghost whiteness.
If it’s Google doing something to try to change the internet, it approaches certainty that it’s bad, whatever “it” is.
> but it teaches bad behavior

I wouldn't call it bad behaviour. Why are the users behaving bad and not the interfaces? Computers are meant to serve users.
Exactly. People are always quick to call for a ban on any externality they can blame whilst not spending a single thought cycle on their own behavior.

As soon as principles are really tested, it's crickets.

People have large TVs, ACs, high-end gaming PCs, a ton of devices, huge cars, eat lots of meat, use air travel, and drown themselves in cheap packages from China.

All of this life-style is our natural birth right, and none of its should be banned or taxed. Also, it doesn't contribute to the climate problem at all. It's all Bitcoin's fault. Or, the "industry".
Worth remembering is that Amazon has the metrics to know how useful this change was to end-users.

I'd be willing to wager that a scan of their search logs for how often "http://" shows up in them is a non-negligible amount.
I think a good point to bring up despite it being absurd. It's not that current trends in UX hide "what things really are" because we all decide what the metaphors are so much as current UX trends don't teach users the vocabulary we use to talk about the parts of a UI. You literally just have to know what a "search bar" is -- nothing is ever going to tell you. There's no text on the screen that says "Search Bar."

The fact that people who work in tech have to jump from precise terminology like "open your browser, and navigate to $URL" to stuff like "click the E and then find the bar at the top where you search thing and type..." is 100% our failing. We are the ones responsible for creating a population of people who are tech "illiterate" because we've spend all our time and effort keeping the words from users.
Yes if they can charge a premium, and keep product loyalty. Given they are targeting fleet reliability and up-time i can see it happening.
I used to be able to turn stuff up deep into the web with Google back around 2000–2001 through careful choice of keywords. Google's NLP stuff has effectively destroyed that ability and some of the deep search techniques I used to be able to employ no longer work and while the information is definitely still on the web, it's harder to surface (while web spam rises to the top of Google results).
I don’t think most people would agree that breaking changes every 6 months fits the definition of “stable” for a firewall.
>Do you feel the same way about western society and, say, duels to the death?

Considering how common a form of retribution gun violence is in the US nowadays, yes, I'd say yes.

Could there be a case to be made in comparing American school shooters and Japanese student suicides? Maybe we'd find they had similar school experiences prior to their final moments.
Prince William Tells Billionaires: Forget Space Race and Focus on Saving Earth
Right. I used to think that Amazon was just supremely incompetent, but my opinions have shifted in recent years. I truly believe Amazon is intentionally causing brand dilution to strengthen their value of their on in house brands. It makes sense as the next logical step in terms of growth. Own the marketplace, then own the supply chain, and now they want to own product development. Manufacturing would be next.
In my experience, kids end up with phones when their parents upgrade. So kids do have £400 phones... eventually, when they're no longer £400.
Michelin has been talking about these things for years and has yet to actually put them into production. All talk and no show.
> C.. C++ ... That taught me a lot about how computers work and how the programs are supposed to run, once in memory.

Both langs are terrible ways to learn about how computers works. Only help how computers, that sadly have OS made with C/c++, need to so you interface with it.

I"m unsure if actually exist a lang that ACTUALLY teach how computers works.

I don't remember that a language have explicit ways to code with the CPU cache, or the CPU registers, and the context switches, and the traps, etc. C is not a model of how computers works. Is yet another abstraction, and not a good one.

I prefer much more pascal because is more sane, and Rust today. But not even Rust teach you much about computers.

Instead, you NEED to learn how computers works THEN map that to how Rust/c is and PROBABLY it will work well (In Rust, I have a word: Async. Nope, that is not how computers work!).

For example:

a //if String, heap, if i64 stack

Different if:

Stack<a>
Heap<a>

This is more on line with the idea.
They were around years ago; Michelin's first tweel was developed in 2004.
Why are DoorDash, Instacart letting businesses buy top of search results?
Complete layman here, every 6 months or so for the past decade I see an article claiming someone got air-less tires working. What are the chances this would be it ?
When the GP says "filtered out" the offensive ones, I think he means he filtered out the inoffensive ones and kept the offensive ones, which makes for a much shorter book.
>Does it really? Do you feel the same way about western society and, say, duels to the death? The many old practices regarding marriage and the church all around?

Yes, I would. Such societal norms don't just die, they remain in the "ether" so to speak.

For example, americans might not be as religious, or sticking with the church. They might not even be born in the US, or just be first or second generation. But the culture, and this includes immigrants as they integrate, contains all kinds of protestant ideas.

And it's easier for something like a suicide norm to survice that a practice of the duel (which takes two to survice, plus has the law against it, even if you come out alive).
I think the post was really talking about the limits of human agency. If we could easily and manually move those electrons ourselves, we probably would be vastly more intuitive and able to tailor the best answer for our query. I think having a relatively intelligible URL bar allows people more freedom from whatever the larger agenda those who would have such an advanced search bar that you type in "object" and it automatically directs you to "big co's" sale of that object with no real thought, why encourage people to use less of their capacity to navigate? Overall I think we should be elevating society not abstracting away any effort to the detriment of the human mind.

"As we approach the limit of efficiency, movement because becomes so little that it is practically inert, nothing has to move because it's already there, where it is supposed to be" - me
At the same time, oil changes are more of a hassle that you only need to deal with every year or two. You can get away with not bothering to sort it out (and even if you know how, it might be worth the extra cost to just pay someone to do it faster on those rare occasions).

But if you use a computer to access resources and services on the web, you probably do so much more frequently than you change your oil. I'd liken it more to knowing how the turn signals, headlight controls, and wipers work on a car.

You don't need to know how to repair those items or how exactly they operate. But since that familiarity is something inherent to the operation of a car, you should at least know the basics of usage if you plan to do much driving.
It sounds like they got some commercially available chemical sunscreens and added zinc oxide, which caused a reaction in those components, increasing their toxicity. That seems bad, but in my experience, zinc oxide is used in lieu of chemical components, not in addition to them. I'm not clear this interpretation is correct because the article only mentions zinc oxide, not the components which reacted to it.
Interesting though that Amazon keeps (suggests?) https://ebay.co.uk ;-)
The title of the comic also kind of encourages it.
I see little differently here.

With rare exceptions University professor hardly criticize things that make university money.

General employees criticizing employer are seen as hypocrite when they seem just fine getting their share of money earned by employer's bad behavior.
Family members for me, but they don't understand the difference between the windows search box in the task bar (next to the "start" button), and google. The difference between Chrome and google.com is lost on them as well.

It's a good exercise in patience for me while we go through the steps of describing the differences between searching for things on your computer vs searching for things on the internet, what google is, etc.

They've been using the internet since I was a kid in the 90's.

I'm sure most of us have examples of this in our lives, being the de-facto "computer person" in the family. It is what it is at this point. For whatever reason, if you didn't grow up with computers, it's incredibly difficult to understand them as an adult. Which still applies to huge swaths of the worlds population.
Ride comfort on those?
Every major tech vendor seems certain AR glasses are going to be the "next Smartphone", if you will, in terms of UI and market trends. Nothing else could explain their continued emphasis on AR tools & demos for platforms that suck to use for AR except as a novelty (i.e. all current platforms).
These tires do have sidewalls. The sidewalls are removed for marketing and demonstration purposes only.
> But if you look at people who spend a lot of time in the sun professionally, they rely on long sleeve shirts and pants to protect themselves.

And hats!
Why? This is not a free market, nor a market price that reflects externalities of generating that energy. I'm not okay with 0.5% of the earth's energy being consumed to produce sha sums for the sole purpose of mining speculative assets.
People get old and obstinate. It's sad but at the end of the day, they choose to be like this.
Good video I just found
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0Mkr3dwNU
This Year's E-Waste to Outweigh Great Wall of China
>Isn't it pretty easy to to get a good phone? If people buy line A from brand B and are happy with it, I'd expect that 2-3 years later when they buy the latest A from B, they'd get a phone that's as good or better.

I'd argue that there hasn't been a single phone released since the Galaxy S10 that is an improvement on that phone. Sure it might have better specifications on paper, but they are all worse products due to the features that all flagship phones have removed over time (removable storage, headphone jacks, going down to pentile 1080p screens to name a few). For my needs, the entire phone industry has turned to utter crap while prices have continued to climb to pay for ever more camera modules, increasing Qualcomm prices (with the same crappy upgrade support), and marketing costs.
'There have to be consequences:' Judge ups sentences for Capitol rioters
The big challenge I have with this is that while the Safari bar is at the bottom, search within sites (say, Wikipedia) is still at the top. This ends up making it harder for me to redevelop muscle memory for searches/urls at the bottom
Without going too far back in time, let's say until the 1970's, everyone and particularly people more exposed to sun - tyically peasants, farmers, fishermen and similar - would have been fully clothed (long sleeve shirts, long trousers) and would always, and I mean always, wear a hat when outdoors.

The whole idea of sun bathing is as well relatively recent, I believe going back to the early years of the past century and was anyway limited to very few.

And, as anecdata only - in the '70's - I was a child/kid and when we went to the seaside there were a few rules (carved in stone) by my granny:

1) you get to the beach no later than 8:00

2) you get out of the beach no later than 11:00

3) you can optionally go back to the beach no earlier than 16:00

4) for the first 15 days of holidays you stay under the tent/umbrella at all times except when taking a bath
Makes perfect sense to me. Because GL is open source, it can be easily self hosted, which is great for data residency compliance, or specialized security needs.
My bet would be refraction of the sunlight through the atmosphere. At sunrise and sunset light that reaches you on the ground is taking just about the longest path through the atmosphere that it can, and gradient of the atmosphere's density is definitely going to add some bending to the light coming in from space.
Ironically, the Figma tagline is "Nothing great is made alone"
I wouldn't do this, as this is the mono bundle of fsharp. The blessed/supported way to go now is to install the dotnet-sdk packages[1] and then use `dotnet fsi` for interactive work, and `dotnet build/run/etc` for project-based work in F#.

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-d...
> Unlike chain letters cryptocurrencies provide a useful utility of a medium of exchange coupled with consensus based algorithmic scarcity. This is an attractive alternative to centrally planned fiat currencies that are persistently and intentionally debased over time

Your argument is essentially circular, that crypto isn't a pyramid scheme because it's not a pyramid scheme.

I'm not trying to claim a side here, but some would say that crypto is a pyramid scheme masquerading as a legitimate tool, and that the primary function is for speculative investment. Similarly, imagine a chain letter pyramid scheme that happens to also implement a social network, and claims to not be a pyramid scheme but a networking mailing list where the early contributors happen to receive windfalls.

Whether you agree that crypto is as bad as chain mail is obviously dependent on your view if crypto implements a useful product, or if it primarily exists for speculative mania and the "product" is a masquerade to build legitimacy.
Duplicate story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850852
Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining
Interesting that they say nothing about consumption. I would expect them to be less fuel efficient, but having some number to go by would be nice.
It’s all well and good to claim that PPC offers little to no incremental benefit to brands like Airbnb and Williams Sonoma. But the gaping hole in this argument has to do with small brands. If you wanted to found a new cast iron skillet company you’d be damned pleased to be able to promote your wares directly to high intent purchasers who — so far — are only aware of the Williams Sonoma option. I’m quite certain that incremental benefits of PPC decrease as you scale and become a household name brand, but MOST brands aren’t.

I’ve been in growth for years and while I dislike PPC and find it boring and obfuscatory (FB and Google will both happily claim credit for the same purchase), there’s no denying that in many cases it works. I’ve been at early stage ecomm co’s where we’d pause the spend to see what happened and — what do ya know? — sales would plummet. Brands relying on it for discovery often benefit substantially.

I’d argue that most of the benefits of PPC accrue to smaller businesses (and the platforms, obv). The error in our collective framing is to hate on advertising because we think of it as coming from big brands. But these days it enables vastly more entrepreneurship and competition than I think many on here realize.

And to everyone cheering on Apple’s recent changes that make FB ad tracking impossible — who do you think suffers as a result? Big brands like LEGO can just redirect funds to a Hollywood film or some other high-visibility activation, because they already have their customers’ attention. It’s the small brands paying the price.
As a long-time HNer, I concur with dang.

This is a tech/business site operated by a startup incubator. The things in the first category (entrepreneurship, new/popular technologies, prominent persons) come with the territory. They are the subjects that the primary audience wants (and has historically wanted) to discuss and keep apprised of.

What I find frustrating is the influx of people who come to a tech/business site with the primary goal of arguing politics. By my recollection, this started to get bad five(ish) years ago, and got out of control with the onset of the pandemic.