skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That episode is great, but manipulating an unknown and unwilling alien brain always struck me as too dangerous.

Maybe their Voyager equivalent reached the wrong aliens in the dark forest.
I'd guess that 80% of kids don't have the common sense to avoid really hurting themselves at some point when doing unfamiliar+dangerous things. Like some squid games.
> Why would American copyright law apply in Germany?

It doesn't. Project Gutenberg is an American entity, and operated entirely in the US. This is like asking why should American free speech laws apply in Thailand in regards to Thailand enforcing lèse-majesté laws on an American website.
By just about any measure alcohol is a "harder" drug than marijuana but certainly more broadly acceptable.
Shelf Engine (YC S18) is hiring a Head of Product to help stop food waste
>But what does that have to do with the work she does?

She's doing something that makes it look like she's gaining fans for reasons unrelated to the quality of her work. People will be skeptical of the work of a person who trades on something other than her work.
Pretty mediocre article. Replace “sex toy” with any other IoT device and you get the same thing.

Don’t want your sex toys connecting to the internet? Don’t buy the one with a wifi connection. But really, the end of the article says this best:

“Despite the risks, many continue to use networked sex toys because they feel, correctly or not, that these devices—like social media platforms—give them more than they take.”
I am more concerned about the Ozone damage.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/147776209027688...
Its currently taking too long to load those containers back. Its cheaper to just dock, unload, sail off.

Short-term optimisation.
That second coffee is just kicking in.
It is a simple application that gets article from given source parses it and presents you in a standard format in a private envoirment with no trackers in it.

It is open source: https://github.com/KetanIP/private-article-reader
*A local city mayor who also happens to have one of the busiest ports in the world in his city. The back up is literally in the global news. It doesn't seem unreasonable for him to, at the very least, ask someone on his staff to give him a gigantic list of problems at the port and spend quite a lot of time figuring out which problems he had the power to solve. He probably speaks at least monthly, if not weekly, with who knows how many people connected with the port.

I agree that the fact it was changed so quickly should be celebrated, but it also gives me pause to think about just how many things could instantly be improved if the people with the power sat up and paid attention.
Do they look at the document in any detail to see that to find forgeries at scale or is it looking at certain watermarks and such intended to detect forgeries?
AskHN: Would anyone like to talk about their career to help young people decide?
I have a nephew and niece. They struggled a lot deciding what to do for A levels and then university. I remember it wasn't easy for myself either when deciding what was right for me and what options I had at hand upon completing my degree. So, I decided to create a site which exposes young and mature students to the career paths they can consider, the subjects they should ideally study, the skills they need for the job as well as the pay they can be expected to start at.

I have been asking my contacts to meet them and adding their responses anonymously (with their permission to the site).

Would anyone be willing to contribute please? I can get in touch via twitter/email or through the form below.

https://myfirststemjob.com/contribute/
or melting every container that arrives at LA
How'd That Chihuahua Get There?
There's a market for all kinds of inane, bizarre renditions of the American flag. This article looks at the branding and economics which make them possible.
I am some dude. Perhaps you are some dude. Joe Lonsdale and Joe Rogan (in the same Twitter discussion) are not mere dudes — they are opinion leaders. People respect the opinions of successful founders, and hence PG is quoted all the time. Joe Rogan makes insane money simply by discussing his opinions.

You characterize the statement about paternity leave as dumb and clearly atypical, but is it? Paternity leave still appears to be an unpopular idea in the US, or else why hasn't the US moved towards the EU direction?

IMO this tweet was calculated not just for outrage but also for rallying. Rallying is more important than outrage.
Because incompetence is everywhere. I think most people assume that high level positions are filled by people who know what they’re doing, but my experience has shown that to be an incorrect assumption time and time again.
Well he did go through due process in the courts. In some countries, including my own, going up against a juggernaut only gets you a bullet in the head- in broad daylight - and no one will see anything even if you were in the city square in the capital, a stones throw away from the city council.
I hadn't considered human curation. Yes, that would work and I would use it, depending on the details.
Clubhouse CEO: We Want to Expand to Users Under 18
I'm not the only moderator, and there are a few non-moderators who also contribute to pool selection.

I'd really like to open that mechanism up to the community but it's still not obvious how to make that work well. Most ways of doing it would just recreate the voting system, and we already have one of those.
GP isn't advocating that NASA throw away everything and bet the farm on Starship. They're saying that there needs to institutional acknowledgement that what's possibly coming is a qualitative, not quantitative shift and open up the intellectual space to explore what that means.

What happens when launch costs are $10,000/kg, $1000/kg, $100/kg? What things that we're doing still make sense, what doesn't? Who could be a player that isn't a player now. It's going to happen some day, even if it doesn't happen tomorrow, but it's looking like it's increasingly about to happen tomorrow from a NASA timeline perspective.

NASA is in the business of futuristic speculation, they develop plans for hypothetical future propulsion systems or life support systems or missions and draw out the vision for the future. But like any organization, making plans for what's politically palatable is always easier than politically unpalatable and Casey is merely pointing out that lower launch costs appear based on public actions to be very politically unpalatable and thus, an institutional blind spot.
It's hard to imagine stamp collecting not dwindling as a hobby over time given that email and other digital communication has supplanted almost all personal letter writing. In the absence of that, there's so little emotional attachment left to physical mail and stamps that few will care to collect them.
>Studies published in 2000 considered this hypothetical effect to be responsible for warming events in and at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum,[6] but the distinct deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) isotope ratio indicates the methane was released by wetlands instead.[7][8] Although periods of increased atmospheric methane match periods of continental-slope failure.[3][4]

I'm unaware of continental slope failure being commonly attributed to global warming.
Verizon Partners with Amazon’s Project Kuiper
OneWeb, NEOM Form Joint Venture
Same with me as well but add music with language I don't understand.
Wait, is that a CPU difference or OS difference? I though calling convention was set by kernel, not ISA.
An Annoying Problem
Lyrics

Your wants desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Processed filed and cataloged
Labeled and encoded
Turned into sitcom dialog
And advertising slogans

We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding

The dreams and hopes
That once were yours
Will now be collected and dispersed
So the first to come with cash to spend
Will be the first one served

We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding

Make you think you like to be watched
Displayed on the auction block
Invaded in your own home
Stripped naked on the television
Humiliated in front of millions

We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding

We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain

Your wants desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
went looking for some interesting neurological findings and found a very poor repurposing of a Nate Silver quote that was referring to statistics, not neurology.
A lot of it is statistical fuckery. The set of people hospitalized who are unvaccinated is not the same as the set of unvaccinated people who end up getting hospitalized.

But some of it is certainly true. Vaccination makes a very significant difference in hospitalization among the very at-risk subset of the population. But in the healthier demographics, vaccination status is irrelevant to "net hospitalization" because in those demographics COVID itself is irrelevant to hospitalization when compared to other causes of hospitalization.

Since I didn't mention it explicitly, I mentioned all-cause mortality because that's going to be very correlated to all-cause hospitalization as well (and the fact that mortality itself is something we should care about).
I've done this from my Android phone. Just for short sessions though, it would get tiring after a while.
Population debt can be a useful tool when not abused, but it must be paid back.
Huh? Calling up your local shipping exec for a meeting is most definitely not forming "expert panels"
I'd also never heard of `command -v` until reading this article just now. But then I've only been using *nix systems for about 25 years.
Angular component library best practices
I don't see how that is relevant here. I'm guessing relieving financial stress is really effective in some too.

So what?

It doesn't help all patients, which means that we just can't cure everyone with exercise. Hence, we'd be worse off without them as some folks would suffer more.
Yes, I actually prefer consumer capitalism over a deliberate eugenic extermination of "consoomers".
> It was the proof that if you have too much wind on Friday, you can create hydrogen with it and then use it to switch on your lights, heat a room or power your car on Sunday.

This might be one of the most positive news stories I've seen in a long while. If we can make this work here we can eventually find ways to make this work at scale.
> Why doesn't the mayor of a city with one of America's most important ports call in experts like this the second trouble started? It was this easy and he never bothered to ask the experts?

Because we pay our politicians terribly low compared to other leadership positions.

Our best leaders have gone to Facebook / Google to make better ads. It makes no sense for a 18-year-old going into college to study political theory and become a mayor by 30 or so.

Our political system is broken because there's no incentives to get good leaders into our political system. There's far more leadership positions available in private industry, and they all pay maybe 500% higher.

Remember: Senators are only paid like $180,000/year. Most other positions are paid much much less. In contrast, you can easily get $250k+/year as a VP for... well... pretty much anyone else. (Exxon, Facebook, Microsoft). Reach "3-letter" positions (CEO, CFO, CIO) at FANNGs and you're upwards of $1MM/year.

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Bonus points: a typical VP at Microsoft probably doesn't have to worry about legitimate death threats / assassination attempts like our politicians do. Its a quieter, safer, easier life. You put your family through hell, the media hound you and try to dig up dirt on you constantly. Etc. etc.

Does anyone here actually want to be a politician? Or would you rather continue your path in Engineering / programming / whatever you're doing right now? I'm not necessarily saying Hacker News is the "best and brightest", but... a lot of us are at least _trying_ to be the best-and-brightest in our selective fields. How many of us actually think about going into politics?
I feel you, that does happen. My search usually adds the version number, to weed out that post from 2006 from Blender 2.25 :)
Because the best interests of the current platforms aren't aligned with the best interests of consumers, while with this system consumers are in charge and therefore will pursue their best interest.

To understand this, just ask yourself the following question: if you were a SaaS company operating in this space, how would you market your algorithms to attract customers?

Answer: By telling people (and therefore putting yourself in a position to be able to say it) that your algorithms are not toxic, do not promote fake news, etc... You can also offer algorithms doing exactly the opposite at the same time. The point is that the result will be that consumers will have a catalog of choices in front of them and will be able to decide, instead of being manipulated without being aware of it. This alone is a huge difference.

And it has been demonstrated (for example with the Apple do not track option), that when given the choice, people will default to the healthy option (and may occasionaly venture outside of it, out of curiosity or fun).
It was an adaptive clinical trial with multiple arms, so it wasn't a single hypothesis. Apparently this is considered legitimate in medical trials, but I have some reservations about the concept.
> is the only one worth going into

Sure, when your critical system goes down an RCA is hugely important and ultimately you have to apply a fix that addresses the core issue to avoid it happening again in the future.

But, at the time that the system is actually down it seems like the most important first step (once you understand the problem) is to get the system running again ASAP. This can give you the runway to fix the actual problem.
I know modbus very well. The OP was talking about networking the machines using SLIP over 485 which is completely different than moving around bits and words.
I think anyone complaining about the price is missing something. Anything produced in small quantities will be expensive and I wouldn’t even assume they themselves thinks this product is gonna be profitable. I suspect a lot of the projects TE puts out is more about showcasing their design language to then be able to do collaborations with other brands like IKEA who can take a product to a broader market.

In other words their products are like business cards sold to a niche category of people who like products that look like a collaboration between Dieter Rams and Simone Giertz.
Any company that calls me a 'family' is a hard no from me. I already have a family. Don't need another one.
The bureaucratic rule of only stacking containers of two in storage areas seem absurd when in the rest of the world there examples of them being stacked 9 or even 12 high. Weird government rules should have sunset clauses, at least for man-made emergencies.

Maybe they should travel and see how ports are managed in the rest of the world.

This workflow rule that clogged the port seems to be the perfect platform for a former McKinsey consultant like Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to shine. Yet that thunder is stolen by the WSJ coverage and Flexport CEO tweetstorm.
and in the real world you normally get 4 of these patterns glued together by some informal knowledge. I havent encountered micro-kernels so far
I need to know how airflow works for me to ever consider any case.
As far as I can tell through a few searches, their record of 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes of continuous flying is still unbeaten:

https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/
And most patents are built on top of the work of others who did not patent their ideas. If they did, then those derivatives would not be able to exist.
I agree with the point. Fully. I think this would be a good thing to try and clear up during hiring if the candidate is inexperienced or seems to have trouble with commitment.

However when reading the above the tone seemed ridiculously over the top, which is why I tuned in.
Beware of men who soapbox about masculinity. Often, they lack confidence and are doing it as a result of their own personal struggles with masculinity.

If you value masculinity, look for the "quiet professional" type role models. The ones doing masculine things and not posting brags, rants, and videos on YouTube or social media about it. And do[1] your own masculine things[2].

One positive role model I can refer people to is Pat McNamara on YouTube. He's got tons of "masculine cred" (retired Delta Force operator, killer workout regime and work ethic) but is in touch with his feelings, enjoys gardening and bird watching, and is humorously self-deprecating, which I respect tremendously.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pat+mcnamara+ba...

1. If you want to do masculine things. You don't have to. There are a huge variety of people out there and a huge variety of personal and cultural definitions of what being a man, or their particular identified gender, is.

2. My masculine things are BJJ, sewing, cooking (exploring Thai currently), smoking meats, woodworking, not belittling others, and lifting weights. Yours may or may not be different.
Canada had a renewed interest in stamp collecting among young people in the late 1980s after the TV movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller came out. But it died out pretty quickly as Canada Post switched to printed stamps, and as kids grew out of it.
My theory it is something to do with our senses. Since I have a hearing disability, so that ‘hearing’ sense is not functioning as in turn amplifying my other senses. I am going with the assumption that you are hearing (it a Deaf community lingo for people who have functioning hearings), so you have five senses operating at the same time. For me, I only have four senses operating at the same time. So with the hearing aid, my hearing sense will be “on” which maybe put more work for my brain to process everything else. Without the hearing aid, which my hearing sense is simply off. So, my brain can spend all of the “processing power” into other four senses which made me feel like the passage of time becoming slow. That is my theory is what I have so far. I don’t know if this is valid theory.
Why? Has your workmate said anything about sitting in an armchair smoking a pipe while reading a newspaper? Have you observed him doing that?

If your workmate is taking a year of paternity leave and his wife is working from home, my assumption is that he'd be the primary caregiver for diapers, holding the baby, putting him down for naps, cleaning up around the house, and his wife would be nursing the baby and possibly sleeping with it (which is basically a full-time job itself in the newborn phase). That was roughly how we divided responsibilities when I was on paternity leave.
Cheaper for who? If the state is subsidizing steel, it can absolutely be cheaper for the buyer.
It's like a recipe blog, but for half-baked musings
I too cannot deal with monochromatic icons. FYI, 2.9 did (re-)introduce color to many of the UI icons, which made it much easier to use for me than 2.8.
Calling dibs is still problematic, even with proper documentation... independent inventors often come up with same thing at a later date, because it's obvious, but they are still prevented from using their own invention because someone else had the same idea.
I wonder if there is a market for sex toys that specifically are only peer to peer. These interactive ones require a social component.

On another note regarding the non-social offline sex toy market, I've found that it is unnecessarily gendered that female sex toys are accepted in more circles than male sex toys. ie a single female with a dildo is almost an expected or fun thing maybe initially received by their female friends in a fun way, whereas a single or coupled male with a fleshlight is not seen as a positive thing in any context. I can perceive the supporting toxic culture that reinforces this standard, it is still unnecessarily gendered, and I think that angle at this point in time can help deconstruct a lot of these standards.
Non-hierarchical decision-making is hard work, and time-consuming. There are lots of challenges - it can be hijacked easily by arseholes, you need lots of rules that everyone has to learn, and nobody agrees on what "consensus" means.

Nevertheless, I think that if you can make it work then you get better decisions. Debian's been pretty good at it (systemd aside :-)
Nearly every review of an Android tablet I've read goes to lengths to describe how unproductive the medium-sized-screen Android experience feels. Again and again, I see reviews saying, nice hardware, terrible OS.

I don't know if this will make enough of a difference, but trying to stem that tide of opinion seems semi-mandatory to me.
>If you want to know what makes America’s educated liberal elites emotional, you only have to open the Times. Judging by the coverage of recent years, two things make them more emotional than anything else: Trump and racism.

Basically it's same as it ever was for the elites: classism.

So, any kind of story that makes them feel superior to lesser classes (especially white trash and the majority of fly-over state people is good.

No PoC though, because that they're the sole proprietors of tolerance and pretending to champion -from afar- for poor PoC is part of the charade.

(Of course, like with any other poor people, they couldn't tolerate them for a second if they were to stand in their actual company, and have no qualms about policies advocating bombing them all around the globe).
What I was talking about in the quoted bits of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024069 didn't have to do with topic scope. It had to do with article quality, which is orthogonal to that. I agree with you completely that HN should be broad rather than narrow in scope—that's highly desirable and we spend a lot of time trying to nudge and nurture things in that direction.

Just for clarity, when I was talking about how users are emotional about the front page and react intensely when they see something they don't think belongs there, it was in the context of an experiment we'd run to randomly place stories from /newest on the front page. Users reacted disastrously, not so much because of scope but because the median article's quality is just really low. That's true about in-scope topics like programming as well as other topics. I hope that makes sense.

As for 'who gets to be a member' - we don't restrict that nor want to restrict that. Everyone with intellectual curiosity, i.e. everyone, is welcome. The only requirement is actually using the site in that spirit. This is not so easy, of course, especially when the more activating topics show up.