skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It annoys the crap out of me when people ask questions that indicate lack of understanding. In the past I would tend to try to give context but people often (usually) think that you’re either being condescending or that you’re wasting their time and why won’t you just tell them the information they need.

You have to be very careful with techniques like the author suggests. For example, the “only ask yes/no” questions. It is really easy to come across as an asshole that way.

I worked at Microsoft years ago and they taught similar techniques as “precision questioning”. It is frequently a humiliating experience for the person being questioned.

Now, when someone asks me a bad question, I usually just ask “what’s the question behind the question” or “what are you trying to accomplish”. Then I can easily provide the right amount of information if I know it.

[edit] fixed autocorrect error
That really depends on the author. In my experience most IT-related people don't care about selling anything, they're just sharing knowledge. Even on the extreme, patio11 who would very much want to sell you stuff, posts threads every day, but not for that reason.
Sorry, in retrospect the sarcasm in my comment isn't apparent enough.
The team there moved on to privacyguides.org.

https://github.com/orgs/privacyguides/people

The old Privacy Tools website is maintained by one guy... so I wouldn't put it past that one guy to take money from VPN companies in the future. By the looks of some of the recent additions he doesn't do any auditing either.

More info: https://privacyguides.org/blog/2021/09/14/welcome-to-privacy...
Is this actually a problem that anyone has -- sending workloads to untrusted servers?

And why does this feel more likely to be used to perform DRM on client devices in secure enclaves?
I’m not sure that you can consider his tweet “making fun”, when it just references comments that others have in fact made.
I'm not familiar with Truth Social except for what I've read in the comments here. What makes you say that building this will cost a soul? How does this differ from other social networks? (Or do you believe working on Twitter/FB also cost one one's soul?). What effects do you think the builders would have?
Using footnotes to add random tangents, rather than clarifications or directly related context, seems noisy. Why do writers in tech do this? I've never seen footnotes used like this.
Not only there is no repossession but almost everything is sold in installments. You can pay in installments even in supermarkets.

In that case what makes the system works is the credit system. When almost everything you buy you must use installments then losing your credit is a terrible situation and the only solution is to pay (or try to).

In the beginning of my career I worked in a small local ISP and usually the middle/high class were a bigger part of the people with overdue payments, while people living in worse neighbourhoods were almost always paying in time. They can't afford to not pay.

Sometimes we live in a bubble that makes we think the way we live and the way things are are the only way things should be. We must be careful to not extend our vision of things to everyone and everything, the world is much bigger than our backyard.

*edit: a paragraph
I agree. It's explicitly an unsigned 8-bit integer (bit field). A 'char' can have a different number of bits on different architectures.
If you don't think Tether, which has been the source of free giveaways by exchanges for years, has inflated cryptocurrency prices, I don't know what to tell you.

There may have been many people that agreed to pay the inflated price but that was without the knowledge that it was inflated in the first place by fake money. Not to mention the pumping and dumping that was done to turn their fake money into real money. That should damage confidence, in Bitcoin especially, but it won't because people are blinded by thinking they will get filthy rich off of it.
It took a lot of US government funding through VHSIC and the VLSI Project to prevent semiconductors from collapsing completely.

What are some specific examples? I don't remember anything like that happening. Japan had Hitachi and Matsushita and Toshiba, but we had Motorola and Intel and NatSemi and TI and countless other dominant players. There was plenty of room in the market for both.
Please don't take HN threads further into political or ideological flamewar. All those flames burn the same, and they're destructive of the place we're trying to have here.

The goal is curious conversation. That means optimizing for interestingness—not for being right, and definitely not for smiting enemies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've done this repeatedly recently, and we've had to ask you multiple times before. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit more to heart? We'd be grateful.
That's clearly a problem with the CTO (who I bet was a junior eng who happened to join the founding team) misunderstanding what a "team" is. An incompetent leader can sink any ship.
Nope. General comedic YouTube japes. Some singing but it wasn’t their primary thing.
> YouTube could do something where the content creator specifies the sponsored part (if it's not straight up merchandising and product placement) and paying subscribers could have that skipped.

Great idea. It would certainly make the videos a lot shorter as well.

> Every time I click an YouTube video on my employer account and get an ad it's such a shock

Whenever I forget to open up youtube in brave or firefox ;-(
I remember flying into Denver in the winter and seeing the inversion of just awful brown haze.

I cried for my lungs on that trip.
Thanks Tim, as the first no-code platform for this kinda thing, we're surprised too!
I lead America’s top-ranked university. Here’s why these rankings are a problem
Plot twist: pg writes the articles to generate this effect and it’s consequences.
How do you know it hasn't happened the other way around?
Windows and Linux can do this already. Not sure why basic power management is such a challenge for Apple.
Vide "macro photography"
Probably never? Even in the unlikely case a cron doesn't get installed by default you could just install it.
Maybe something like https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron or if it's not a rolling time window, just trigger functions that get called whenever some expression in SQL is true.
Why would you expect facebook to share who chooses what a vip is? I can't think of any other vip program that shares this. A VIP program is about creating two or more classes of users what VIP program promotes equality?

The worry most have is the oversite board was not aware of the program which means the oversite board may miss other things.

You seem to be against VIP programs in general. Where do you draw the line? Bulk pricing creates inequality by favoring those who can afford to buy many products at once. Are you against this?
SGX already got used for DRM (it was required for UHD Blu-ray playback on PCs) and got so completely broken nobody will ever trust it for DRM use ever again, so no.
At the latest Q&A Elon said they were not focusing on the energy side of the business because it would require them to not make a number of cars due to being limited on battery / inverter supply.

This becomes exponentially harder as they add more and more power hungry vehicles to their lineup (see Cybertruck / Semi) and market more Mega/Gigapacks to grid operators.

It makes sense for Tesla to try to get as many batteries as possible from as many sources as possible.
I read the article as the author sharing how he was trying to be intelligent instead of appear intelligent. There are a surprising number of people who desire, above all, to be seen as the smartest person in the room.
That’s because Elon is genuinely trying to solve our energy problem, although people love to hate on him
The architecture is ultimately to blame for "you can't log into Windows to fix Apple being Apple" however.
Apparently, animal irises are in their threat model, but with the incentives for operators aligned the way they are - expect them to find a good matching animal quite soon.
Not currently, but we are hiring Product Designers, a Controller (finance), an Implementation Manager, and Customer Success folks.

https://jobs.lever.co/rainforest
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28948984 and marked it off topic.
It seems telling that this post has struck such a nerve within the HN community. I suggest there is a predominant hypersensitivity amongst this crowd to the perception of being "smart", "stupid", or perhaps even worst of all, "average."
The older concept of Noosphere is related to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
I like the option for both! Or even customizable. I had a laptop with a dedicated Nvidia card, and I could tell which programs to run on it, or whether i wanted to always on or always off. I loved it, was super easy to configure out the box as well!
> The best a centrist can do is wait for the courts to fix it.

That is not how corruption is fixed.
It actually has very little to do with me and everything to do with Gab losing the fight against misinformation/disinformation. This doesn't benefit their users at all and doesn't work well for them as a startup, it prevents the network from growing as well as a number of other bad effects. Twitter (and even Facebook) have them beat significantly there. Edit: And even if they didn't then I'm sure you can understand, it's still very possible for a company to make a product that customers say they're happy with but that's also harmful and damaging. Tobacco products come to mind, but vaccine misinformation is also something that can get you hurt or killed.
On the other hand, if I was in a situation where I wanted the computer with the smallest box for whatever reason, I would find it really difficult to ask for that because I would be embarrassed by how it doesn't fit the expected pattern of what I should be looking for. I will often wimp out and not be clear about my preferences in situations like these because I'm afraid of awkwardness. So I do admire the willingness to speak up about unusual preferences.
Have you ever looked at the spouses of Congressional reps? Many are very well employed. Bankers, layers, professors, etc.

And $174k is a solid upper middle class income, even in DC. Many Congressmen live near my parents in Alexandria in lovely homes.
You are not counting popular animals or fake characters or tv show accounts.
I find that very basic navigation like getting to a channel from a video published by that channel is very frustrating on the Roku app. Is this by design, or just laziness?
Ha I love it, I followed a similar path quitting a staff role to do ML and it is such a fun and interesting field.
This change in attitudes was dramatised in 1985's Back To The Future.

Doc Brown (from 1955)

(Inspects the failed circuit)
"Unbelievable that this little piece
of junk could be such a big problem."
(Turns it over)
"No wonder this circuit failed, it
says made in Japan."

Marty (from 1985)

"What do you mean doc, all the best
stuff is made in Japan."

Doc Brown

"Unbelievable."
you can't do that for mobile apps on client devices
None, but in it the list is sorted.

Or rather a reality wherein it wasn't sorted doesn't exist anymore.
>Looking back at Aluminium, it was once very costly - there was no economical way to extract it from clay by traditional metallurgy.

Supposedly Napoleon III had aluminum tableware for his most honored guests, and gold for everyone else.
>also omitting the letter 'e'. Absolutely mindblowing talent.

Unreal! I'm going to have to go read a passage or few. Thanks for mentioning it.
Does that mean if someone was raised in a mine are they better at bare-metal development?
> I hate this, the idea that I should have to explain myself to a random stranger in a shop as if they are entitled to know anything about me.

You sound like someone who has never worked in any customer facing position. Many people come in wanting X. They don’t realize X has many consequences. You know if you just give them X then they’ll come back another day, leave a bad review, or say, “but why didn’t you tell me this?!?!”

I mean, ffs - this happens to me as a customer and I’m thankful. Sometimes there are obscene arcane scenarios that you can’t find out about through regular means that only that service rep will know about. They are mostly fine if you just explain what you’re doing - they’re safe guarding the company’s reputation. They have nothing against you asking for weird shit - they just don’t want your bad shit later.
‘Driverless’ Tesla crash in Texas wasn’t driverless, NTSB says
This is highly dependent on where you are. I had similar experience with ride sharing apps of drivers straight up scamming me driving around.

Uber are concentrated on where it's popular. Good luck finding one if you are in the suburbs, you'll get infinite cancelations and wait forever, where in my experience taxis will never cancel once confirmed and usually confirm wherever you are.
Reverse Interviewing Your Future Manager and Team
Why charge so much to license that no one will bother? Is it sunk cost thinking? Some money from licensing is better than nothing at all isn't it?
10$/month is 120$/year. Plus you have to do more work on top of that to actually build the site and integrate with a CMS.
Assuming all money were uniformly distributed, do you think it would tay that way for long? Fixing systemic inequality requires more than initial conditions. The “dynamics matrix” governing money flow also needs to change, otherwise we’ll just find the same local minimum we’re currently at.
Original report at https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY21FH007.aspx

> With the assistance of the EDR module manufacturer, the NTSB Recorders Laboratory repaired and downloaded the fire-damaged EDR. Data from the module indicate that both the driver and the passenger seats were occupied, and that the seat belts were buckled when the EDR recorded the crash. The data also indicate that the driver was applying the accelerator in the time leading up to the crash; application of the accelerator pedal was found to be as high as 98.8 percent.
Lot's of people have ideas, great ideas even. Ideas are not particularly rare nor hard. Luck, expertise, privilege (for those not born into it) and timing are more difficult. More importantly, to help ensure maximum impact, one needs to want to push an idea into the world, and push hard. Generally there are better and more fun things to do in life (most would agree with me as pg noted himself).

Academics have great ideas and it takes thousands of them building on each other to drive a technological revolution. There would have been another Einstein (or collection of Einsteinlettes), it may have taken a decade but the soil was fertile. Einstein helped develop the ideas behind Quantum Physics but had no further world changing ideas left to contribute once it materialized.

So what type of ideas are we talking about? Capitalist entrepreneurial ideas for building startups with? That seems like a depressingly narrow understanding of ideas and what they mean for humanity.
And neither the WSJ nor Axios say how Tesla is doing what they do, which is the crucial thing to know.
YouTube premium is the very best subscription I have. Why would I want to see ads all over the place anywhere anyone embedded a video (on twitter or wherever)? When I have to use YouTube signed out or on someone else's device it is just shocking how frequent and bad the YouTube ads are.

$15/month for totally ad-free YouTube and ad-free unlimited YouTube Music for my whole family seems like a complete no-brainer to me.
And the API has a huge omission: you can't get a list of all subscriptions! That's something every other subscription API provides and important for many reasons - planning, accounting, marketing, etc. There's no way to export a dump, feed, etc.

I still think I'm missing something, but my StackOverflow question on it remains unanswered (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48606203/list-all-play-s...).
>In Web forums, do not abuse “smiley” and “HTML” features (when they are present). A smiley or two is usually OK, but colored fancy text tends to make people think you are lame. Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless you are more interested in sex than answers.

Wow. That's uh...some kinda advice for sure.
Ask HN: Why am I most focused between 1AM-5AM
I love waking up early and having the whole day, but for as long as I remember I'm at my best (focus wise) during the little hours of the night.

I can hammer down work like no other time in the day, but in turn I feel kinda guilty because I hate waking up late.
At least you still got a nautical metaphor in!
I met Fred in the OG Rainforest “office” many years ago, have fond memories of him being a kind and thoughtful person to talk to. I have been happy to see your success so far and congratulate you on the launch!
Why does their advertising feel so disruptive? Is it because it feels like something just broke for a moment? It seems that an ad will often be inserted right at a key moment. Maybe it is that I feel like I have to constantly hold the remote, ready to "skip" the rest of the ads, except now they are getting less and less skippable. Also, lately, they are running two ads instead of one.

It is so annoying I have been watching less and less.

I do not feel the same about regular TV. Perhaps it is because the ads are run at the points the programming is designed for ad insertion.
Glad to have you using us, and great to hear of the impact!
To add: I want to stress the phosphorus is used by all livings things part.

Plants get phosphorus from soil, animals get it from plants, predators from other animals, and finally microorganisms from our all remains. But it all starts with plants. We cannot grow "low phosphorus" food plants or anything. It's used in ADP and DNA synthesis! Phosphorus sits at the core of life itself. Every living cell on earth depends on what plants can extract from soil.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. I realize the topic has a lot of ideological overlap, but that makes it more important to avoid flamewar and stay focused on what's intellectually interesting and curious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>It argues that increasing EROI has led to decreased economic growth

Decreasing, not increasing. EROI = The amount of usable energy delivered from an energy source versus the amount of energy used to get that energy resource. So if we consume 1KwH of energy to make 20KwH of energy available, that's an EROI of 20x.

Your point about price is partially correct but what matters is the future projection. If fossil fuel EROI is only going down in future, that means price will only go up. If renewables EROI is projected to improve, stay the same, or even decline but not to the same extent as fossil fuel, then there comes a point where you want to be on renewables and away from fossil fuels. Since that transition takes time and re-aligns a whole bunch of major things in our economy and society, it would be foolish to wait for the cost balances to have flipped. And this is the purely economic argument, putting aside the climate change/environmental impact stuff.
Sometimes there are details one doesn't need to know to make a good decision. All of mathematics is built on this.

However this only works when there is enough knowledge to know why the unimportant details won't matter.
> In my experience, in about 1% of the cases, yes, timescale will be a better choice (ex: if you do very small batches of insertions, if you need to remove some datapoints) but in 99% of the usecases for a time series database, clickhouse is the right answer.

I always find comments like this interesting :-). Things are better for different use cases. If you find yourself inserting a lot of data in batches for OLAP-style analysis, then ClickHouse is a better choice today.

If you find yourself performing a lot of time-series related queries, and needing to build an application on top (e.g., where you might want the OLTP features of Postgres), then Timescale is the better choice.

YMMV! And that's OK :-)

> But in 2021, clickhouse vs timescale for a timeseries is like postgres vs mongo for a regular database: unless you have special constraints [*], the "cool" solution (timescale or mongo) is the wrong one.

This is also a funny statement, because TimescaleDB is built on PostgreSQL.

We actually take great pride in being a "boring" option [0] - in fact I think TimescaleDB is many ways is more "boring" than ClickHouse (again, because of its PostgreSQL foundation). But I think that's actually a good thing - because you should want your database to be "boring" - ie you shouldn't have to worry about it!

(Disclaimer: TimescaleDB co-founder)

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/when-boring-is-awesome-build...
Not sure the FSF can do anything, but the mastodon authors can.
Building on my previous comment, I think it's more useful to say not that we caricaturize opposing viewpoints, but that we compress them using our own internal, lossy compression algorithms. And the original viewpoint is inaccessible to us; we only have access to the compressed representation that our minds generate.
Devils Advocate: if I’m a widget manufacturer selling my product on Walmart.com or even the brick & mortar store - do I have a say in what payment method can be used to buy my product?
Gab already did this and the net of it was probably somewhat negative for Mastodon. Fundamentally the users of these systems don't know or care what's under the hood, and the people running these instances are surely not going to trumpet the fact they just used something created by open source communists.
You'll notice at no point am I saying to hate white men. At all. In fact I'm saying that despite people having valid reasons to not trust white men, we should still stand for them and watch out for their interests to. Which in fact, is the complete opposite of fomenting hatred.
Lower barriers to entry mean there’s more music than ever before. In the CD era getting music out to an audience was complex and expensive. Write a song. Go into a studio with an engineer. Record on tape. Multitrack. Mix. Master. Press discs. Get them into shops. Get someone to write about them. Get some radio play.

Now you can write and record in an iPhone and build an audience on SoundCloud. Will that audience come to a live show? Almost certainly not.

I used to book bands and promote shows. People would push artists to me based on “they have loads of Facebook fans…” which normally equalled no ticket sales.

What sells tickets? Major investment by labels and live promoters - and longevity. Artists don’t sell out global arena tours overnight.

The music needs to stick but the artists need to stick - and their partners need to stick.
I would draw a distinction between "pay conservative factions in the Indonesian military to kill a million communists, communist sympathizers, and random unaffiliated villagers" [0] and "don't do business with entertainment firms whose biggest stars say things you don't like". Others might not draw such a distinction.

Also, this Uighur thing is blown totally out of proportion. [1][2] I'm not suggesting anyone believe Chinese officials or media. I only suggest we view USA officials and media with a modicum of skepticism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-...

[2] https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/xinjiang-staying-a...
> Check out the actual resources

If anyone is interested in what's being discussed here and in Strong Towns, I'd highly recommend reading it[0]. I had been a fan of Strong Towns for a long time, but just finally read the book recently.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/strong-towns-book
I never have figured that one out.