skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My perception of Google has shifted from the kid in the candy store feeling I used to get about anything Google touched. Now I'm skeptical of every move they make and don't feel like they are operating in my best interest. Maybe I was always naive but the Google I knew 10+ years ago isn't the one I know today and it makes me sad.
What makes you think he is building Truth?
Your comment reads as defensive, and as though you are intentionally missing the point. The point is: PG appears to be a dishonest writer. He is not writing with the evenhanded pursuit of truth in mind, but with a very particular, convenient (self-serving) truth to support. He seems to consistently ignore any strain of thought (of which there are many, see: the entire humanities) which would generate a more nuanced view.

GP is saying PG is probably wrong, and probably misleading many people. This is useful, even if its not the same as saying "here is proof he is wrong".

Nevertheless, to indulge you, I will say: PG is wrong. There is more to life and contributing to society than just coming up with new important ideas. Yes new important ideas can lead to more food, more materials, or even in some cases (though certainly not in PGs case) deeper relationships. But there are many meanings to life, and not all of them start with increasing productivity.

PG's new ideas aren't going to raise a kid. They're not going to save any souls, or save a relationship on its last legs. They're also not going to plant any crops, or build any houses.

They are useful, but they are not everything, or even the most important thing. In fact, they're a luxury. They're one of the least important things in my life.
Trump changed perception of reality itself, for millions of Americans. Things will never be the same. The most relevant historical US political figure in decades. He's polling higher than anyone else if he decides to run again. So you're probably way off in your assertions.
I went to the article; the UI is horribly broken, and prevented me reading past the first para (by continuously reloading); but I got that it was about their own staff.
> People commonly make this false equivalence, but as of 2021 it's fair to observe that it's just unequivocally false with respect to the question of respect for scientific consensus. If a lot of republicans disregard science (e.g. believe incorrect things about covid) and a few democrats do it (e.g. believing incorrect things about nuclear safety), people take these unequal examples and proceed claim it means both sides are the same, and believe that they are expressing a sophisticated position.

I guess you’re arguing with ‘people’ then.

You might want to look into some of the other anti-science ideas strongly propagated by democrats. You don’t seem to have a good inventory. It’s not limited to minor false beliefs about nuclear safety. Consider the belief that there is no such thing as biological sex, for example.
Probably Gab, did well for someone who used to work at Facebook.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7abex/gabs-new-cto-is-a-for...
Remember that $174K is typically spread between two households, and cost of living in DC is definitely not low.
Or that which open plan offices most effectively destroy.
What's the reason the Rainforest would need to declare "Left click" before doing it rather than just having the user do it?
LiFePO4 has lower energy density and it's way more durable. Both properties go against the throw-away culture. (Hand held) Tool industry thrives on selling battery packs - every single brand has its own battery lock-in to boot as well. Phones often get disposed once their battery capacity diminishes.
Ask HN: How come within chroot, internet connection is gone off?
Well said. Facebook for example already told shareholders things will look bad in future age months back.

Turns out people care about privacy.
Plf:colony – a C++ data container designed (initially) for games
If one believes that legislators should be drawn from a pool of competent individuals who have options in private industry, you'd look at executive salaries in industry instead of the average US household.

Singapore indexes its government pay to that of the private industry for this reason, but they're also ruthlessly meritocratic and some might say, elitist. Yet also very effective. The two seem related to me, but it might not mesh well with American values.
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No problem. The policymakers will let their trust fund or family members do all the trading with *information that they might have. Are they going to also stop anyone related to the policymakers from not trading? That will be a violation of their constitutional right to own property. There is always a way out for the rich. This is what happens when we have too many regulations.
Turn wifi off for the existing TV (smart or not matters little if you don't connect it) and stick the same $50 HDMI stick and avoid throwing out the fully functional display?

At this point, ads displayed to the users who use it as a smart TV probably subsidize those of us who use such TVs without connecting them to anything. My latest TV is enormous and 4K and under a few hundred dollars. The quality is fine, even if occasionally I accidentally get it to switch to the input that involves agreeing to terms and conditions.

Of course it should be super illegal to ask you to agree to terms and conditions after spending over a hundred dollars, shipping something, installing it over hours, after you finally power it on... but at least I can be one of those rare smart TV customers that never agreed to them and can prove it!
So basically Truth Social can do the same thing and be compliant?
So, OPAQUE stands for what? Or, do we not care anymore? :) Apparently, it's based on "aPAKE" which stands for "Asymmetric PAKE", but I guess OPAQUE is an acronym that sounds cool.
Sure. I'd frame this question of not whether these endeavors are difficult or possible but rather if they're the best way to use our time and effort to serve our customers.

FWIW on the note of OSS, we've made some minor contributions to micronaut and other open-source projects we use. We love OSS and are happy to make contributions and work with the broader community! The community and ecosystem has been incredible for us so far.
That just sounds like corpratese though, the stupid question is much better in my opinion.

With yours it's to easy for someone to switch off and not hear what you said because they think you're talking bullshit.

In two sentences you managed to cram in 5 idioms/phrases that are basically corporate babble.
Of course! The crazy thing is that you could do it while the computer was running and it was mostly fine: DOS and many DOS games would just happily keep working, just at slighly different speeds. But then it wasn't uncommon for the PC to just freeze and then it needed a reboot.

But the best feature, to me, was those PC with a turbo button that also had a seven-segment display showing the current speed. This was looking really cool.
Careful there. They might decide that the problem that the world needs solved is that China and the CCP don't rule all of it. Yet.

China has been moving in a very, very nationalistic direction lately.
I think Hyper-V is GPU-P is great! I think Microsoft's hypervisor team is one of the most talented in the world, and honestly I think I could learn a lot from them.

One of the benefits to using our approach instead of Microsoft's is that our tools are free open source software and (my biased opinion) I think we have an easier user setup. :)

Some day I would love to read Hyper-V's GPU-P code as I think they did a rather good job overall.
I was a year ahead in math as a kid and was bored out of my skull with the slow pace of teaching. Being able to join a class of likeminded kids would have been brilliant.
I'm confused. What reality is remaining if all universes are destroyed?
Senators?

https://fortune.com/2020/03/20/senators-burr-loeffler-sold-s...
No need for complicated pricing tier systems. Here's what I think fairer pricing would look like:

For anything that competes with the platform owner's paid apps (eg. Spotify, Netflix, Sweat with Kayla, Audible/Kindle, Fastmail etc compete with Apple Music, YouTube, Apple Fitness+, Google Books, iCloud+ Mail etc) - they should be allowed to use their own payment service in their apps just like Uber and Doordash do.

Anything else should be no more than a 15% cut.
> However, that charger is allowed to provide that same 1.7A at 20V if it wants to,

Is it? Allowed by the standard where?
The first function (the `n == 0 || !isEven(n+1)` recursive function) has defined behavior for negative numbers. That's probably why it compiled to an even number check.
My contention is that people are learning monads because they’re on a journey to learn Haskell, then when they finally grok them, they turn around and say they’re this big important thing that all programmers should understand, because Haskell showed them how important they are.

But so far, no monad tutorial has made a good case for why they’re actually useful, other than for learning Haskell. And most advice for how to learn them sounds exactly like what you said: “oh if you still don’t get it, you just need to write more Haskell.” You can see why that’s a bit of a disappointment, right?

Basically, you have people making this argument:

- monads are important outside of Haskell
- to understand why, you have to learn them
- to learn them, you should write Haskell

Which I’m sure you can understand comes off as a bit unconvincing.
I think you should look into what Netlify actually does--you seem to be misunderstanding it as a typical hosted compute platform like EC2. With Netlify and similar service it's actually more like AWS lambda but tightly integrated into git/github. You push all your content source to github and setup a webhook that notifies Netlify of any change. Every time you commit Netlify will pull down your content, run your static site generator (docusaurus) in an ephermal container (like a lambda function) and then save the resulting generated content/HTML to their hosting site. At no time are you running or managing or operating an actual server.
> however i'm not sure upto what extent is it standardized in clients to understand that "/path?query" is somehow related to "/path", because originally the request string (path and url parameters) was opaque to the http client, so they should be cached independently. things obviously changed since then.

It hasn't changed. Those two URLs are still cached completely independently by the user agent. The ?time=... cache busting trick is meant to produce a cache key that's never been used before, thus requiring a fresh request. The new request doesn't clean up the cache entries for the old URLs; it just doesn't use them. That's one reason it's better to use etag and such to make the caches work properly, rather than fight them with this trick.

On many servers, if new.html is a static file, the same entity is produced regardless of parameters. But the user agent doesn't know this.
What an excellent video overview!

That does look like there's still a lot of manual labor in the depicted production process... Automation and clean energy.
Because I believe it's bad advice. Web services are never "git and a $5 box", you must preserve them and keep them up to date.

I can trust GitHub with my deploy secrets; Can you trust your $5 last-updated-in-2019 box?

If you self-host, either you're a sysadmin or you must become one.

Plus GitHub is not just git, so I hope you'll also like to you set up "GitHub Actions" on that $5 box.
Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter
Your objection is flat embracing.

He has Degrees in physics, and many people with such degrees end up getting positions in engineering companies and are called engineers. He was accepted at Standford PHd program for materials science. That would natural lead into an Materials engineering position in some company if completed.

Of course instead of doing that, he left and started companies, as a software engineer he was the core developer one Zip2 and early on on PayPal. If that doesn't qualify you as an engineer I don't know what does.

Literally he has been the Chief Engineer at SpaceX since its founding. And the argument that its just an empty title just don't work. They were a small company for quite a while and somebody made all the final decisions. The are multiple stories where he works directly with other engineers on the rocket as well if 'making engineering decisions' is not enough. Multiple former employees have directly contradicted these sort of 'not engineer claim'.

Just recently former lead engineer at Ford with 50 years experience in automotive, defense and aerospace was allowed to sit in on a meeting for Starship. He said he had never seen anybody CEO be that involved in detailed decisions, about manufacturing processes and design choices and so on.

So just because you don't like him or his product, doesn't make him not an engineer. He has the education many other people that call themselves engineers have, and he has the title of engineer and that title has been officially recognized by NASA and DoD.

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Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best.

Former Head of Software Quality Assurance at SpaceX
If you mean login without javascript, that can't be helped. If you mean password slurped from DOM, you can't possibly make it worse.
A microsite with a cms that is neatly integrated with a produce that charges that much per user - sign me up!
"Is Jira replete with nonsensical statuses, tedious UI, and obscure query architecture?"

Yes.
It's also funny that he didn't even put it in the post. I'm not sure it's because of length restrictions, since the post is 4,495 words long. Maybe he wanted to keep under 4,500.

Also perplexing: footnote 2 mentions the car tire paradox. (Traction is determined by weight and coefficient of traction, and those two things only. So why do high performance cars have wider tires, which shouldn't make a difference? Because softer and stickier tires are mechanically weaker and tolerate heat less well, so you need to spread the force out over a larger area.) But it doesn't actually mention the answer besides noting many other people are wrong, and also is separately incorrect and says contact area doesn't change based on tire width?

Like, there's no clever counterintuitive Boyle's law/hydraulics effect where at the same air pressure a tire twice as big deforms half as much or whatever. Just the very obvious intuitive case that wider tires have bigger contact patches, which you can calculate yourself by plugging numbers into this tire calculator: http://bndtechsource.ucoz.com/index/tire_data_calculator/0-2... and the BMW i3 electric car has a crazy thin tire to have a smaller contact patch and less rolling resistance: https://www.bmwblog.com/2015/04/24/bmw-i3s-tires-more-import...

And the css thing... notoriously, everything on danluu.com has been completely unstyled for years. So every time one of his posts is on HN, someone comments about the unreadably wide lines, which could be fixed with a single `body{max-width:600px}` CSS rule.

But the reason everything is unstyled is because Dan installed octopress seven years ago, which had a braindead default theme that used custom fonts for everything, causing a glacial 15 second time to first paint: https://danluu.com/octopress-speedup/ Irritated, Dan ripped out all the CSS entirely, and the site loads in a flash. But now he has a trapped prior,[1] and any time someone says "CSS" to him he thinks, "ugh, that awful garbage which ruined my site" and refuses to touch it.

1: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba...
I've been quite happy to see Apple Pay spreading online, in part for that reason.
Found that odd too. Jumping to conclusions, and moralizing based on that. Not sure what the purpose was. It lead to other users digging into the other commenter, which is somewhat creepy.
Yeah I agree, I'm pretty pro, bury plastic in the ground, but I figure if we need to coke steel rather than digging up coal we can just divert a few trucks.
Doesn't work for Roku/Chromecast, but: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
Will that same system be on the electric F-150?
Not everyone in tech blacklists people based on their politics.
Likely a digital ocean droplet, or other vps for $5-10 per month. Except neither of those Integrate with notion.
I think this is saying your existing YouTube app will work but as a new user you won’t be able to find the app
... to his own foundation, which he controls the money of. He even manages the Gates foundation investment decisions. Oh, to be rich enough to fund my own foundation for tax and PR purposes!
I'm not entirely sure on how wide the vendor support is but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they were upsetting some folks with it. Happily we're just a little team right now making stuff that's useful for ourselves so we don't have all the same pressures big companies have. I hope if we ever grow we'll act in the same spirit (I'll try my best to see that we do anyway).
I can't speak to "Jewish", but I can to "Japanese".

It relates to Japan's industrial rise after WWII.

In the 1950s, "Japanese" was synonymous with "shoddy and cheap". The stereotypical import from Japan was an HB pencil.

In the 1980s, "Japanese" became synonymous with "cheap and reliable" -- think Toyota vs General Motors. American manufacturers responded with racism rather than fixing their problems.

There was hysteria in the mainstream media that Japan was going to overtake the US to become the biggest economy in the world. People who see the world in zero-sum terms made idiots of themselves.*

In the 2010s, "Japanese" seems to have become synonymous with "advanced and very high quality". "Japanese capacitors" on computer motherboards, for instance.

And now that the Chinese are here, we've always been best buddies with Japan.

To some extent this same sequence is happening with South Korea and Taiwan, and possibly Israel.

* There's a famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" which goes some way to describing this zero-sum, win-or-lose thinking in politicians. The first few paragraphs read like they could have been written this year.

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am...
A bit that stood out to me:

> This "Intelligence Community Desktop Environment" (IC DTE) was conceived in 2012 as a single, identical platform for the US Intelligence Community. As such it's the heart of a huge modernization project called Intelligence Community IT Enterprise (IC ITE), under which data will be stored and processed at the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) managed by the CIA and the IC GovCloud managed by the NSA.

> The implementation of the DTE was managed by the Joint Program Management Office (JPMO) led by DIA and NGA, while the software system was built by BAE Systems under a $300 million contract for five years.

> However, in 2018, John Sherman, chief information officer of the Intelligence Community, said they had come to the realization that it no longer made sense to deliver a standard capability to every agency and user given the differing architectures, security requirements and mission needs.

…so we paid BAE a third of a billion dollars to build a software platform that we then threw away in less than a decade, all because of an unrealistic original goal (“a single platform for the US IC”).
Whats the use in this comment? Is the earth flat because I can't see all the way around it? Can't we tolerate a little bit of interpretation, and not require that we only take texts literally? And, why the double standard? You interpreted OPs comment, so why can't he interpret PGs?
I'm one of the moderators of the /r/Mastodon subreddit, and folks are more than welcome to stop by and share their experiences using and operating this software.
Yes. The other major requirement is that Truth Social must also be licensed under AGPLv3.

> c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
> This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that LiFePO4 handles 100% charges and 100% discharge

I don't think that's quite true. LFP cells have a minimum voltage; they may survive being discharged to zero, but it probably isn't a good idea for long-term longevity. (I'm currently working on an EV conversion that uses LFP cells, but I haven't actually done durability testing or anything like that, I'm just going by what people recommend.)

Lithium ion and LFP batteries though don't have voltages that are linear with capacity; on an LFP once you're below 2.2 volts or so there's not much left.

I do agree though that LFP cells are pretty amazing if you're a car manufacturer that wants to make a reasonably priced mass-market EV. I think in the near term (i.e. until there's some cheaper/better substitute), they could take over the non-luxury-car EV market and allow the rest of the world outside of China to start seeing pretty good EVs that are price competitive with equivalent ICE vehicles.
Well, there's a solution for the housing thing too: dormitories or a flat housing allowance. These folks are intended to maintain a life in their constituencies, therefore their homes in WA DC should be treated as transient. Thus, a housing allowance similar to what other Federal employees encounter, and/or a Congressional dormitory, to me sounds like a perfectly acceptable solution. This is a job intended to be for the good of the American people, not a stepping stone to further wealth as it's been treated.
Yeah seriously, bury the plastic really deep away from water tables and forget about it. We clearly can’t recycle most of the stuff. Couple that with moving away from a frivolous use of plastic and I think we are golden. There are a bunch of abandoned mines miles away from substantial water tables. Fill those up.
Not sure where you heard that. Maybe that's a secondary goal that some would like to reach if they're trying to convince someone else to get the vaccine, but for a business the primary goal is to prevent unvaccinated people from entering that business so they avoid getting other coworkers and customers sick. Few businesses seem to want to carry the liability of causing a super spreading event. Edit: I believe some health insurance rates for businesses also go up when employees aren't vaccinated, so that can cause more of a problem too. Being in the ICU for two weeks on a ventilator is not cheap.