skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love them, it's a good filter for me which signals I should go find a more original source, or at least better analysis, should I be interested in the topic.

Same with intentionally vague headlines. One this morning was "Why you should avoid this large European country after latest CDC update". It's a great signal that the article is full of fluff wording and unlikely to add useful additional insight and if I really care I should go check the CDC news bulletins for the actual news.
There are some other characteristics as well. With pen and paper, you can only move forward. That is, your only real option is to complete the draft. You can revise or rewrite when you're typing it in. Neil Gaiman writes this way; fountain pen and notebook for first draft. Cutting material is much less painful. You simply don't type it in.

The temptation to go back and tweak what you've written is fairly strong with modern tools. An author can waste hours, an entire writing session, on rereading what they wrote and making adjustments. That's an activity best left to after you have a completed draft in hand.
Show HN: Scribe generates step-by-step guides for GUI workflows
It's more a problem of population density vs the cost of setting up and maintaining the infrastructure.
I don’t think you’re engaging in good faith. You can answer your own retorts if you think about it from the view of a modern advertiser.
Machine learning, cryptography and decentralized communications. That's about it. Nothing else really improved that much in the last 10 years, we can just make some 2010's technology cheaper.
I don't want "the utmost privacy". I want something better than raw SMS. I'm not an international secret agent. I encrypt things out of principal more than because I really care if some government force reads them. If a nation-state decides I'm of interest to them for malicious reasons, I'm probably screwed either way.
The messages are encrypted end to end so compromising push notifications doesn't get you anything. That's the problem with this bridge, it adds a new server with access to the unencrypted messages.
Sexy sequence diagrams for agile teams
Another TWO recipe markup standards:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe

https://schema.org/Recipe

Mandatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/927/
The data is being abused by FB too. It's a little too convenient that a public scandal means FB is the only one who can use the data.
I think the answer largely depends on your geographic location. From my also layman understanding, these might count as large scale installations with documentation and stats that you can look into: Guifi[0] and NYC Mesh[1].

I'll leave the other questions to more qualified HNers :).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Mesh
Really cool to see what's possible in desktop browsers these days. Photoshop coming to our browsers is a huge achievement and milestone.

But it also makes me kinda sad that none of the mentioned examples properly work on mobile. If even big web companies can't pull that off, is it impossible? (Mainly thinking about Gmail and Google Docs here). Or have we given up on web applications on mobile?
> Tesla is Apple of car manufacturing.

Can you explain what on earth that means? Apple makes good use of their device ecosystem, purchased app lockin and network effects to maintain an excellent position. Tesla has none of those benefits, other than their US (not EU etc. which is required to be open) supercharger network (which they promised to open to all EVs).

When I read your post (e.g. it's obvious as soon as you drive one, once you go electric you never go back) and both of those sound like arguments for EVs, not Tesla. Tesla may have made those two synonymous for a while, but I cannot believe it will last.

I will ask, are their departures from traditional manufacturing good? Even people I know with a Tesla that mostly has sat in a garage for its life (no need to commute during WFH because of COVID) say it's already showing extreme wear.
And this is why when doing any sort of navigation activity you should always check the publish dates on your maps/charts and act accordingly!
A polite reminder that the (quite extraordinary) Photopea[0] is available which replicates most of Photoshop's features in the browser, and is free - with a paid ad-free option.

0. https://www.photopea.com/
Telling people to reduce their quality of life in order to combat climate change is a fruitless endeavor. It will simply not happen unless a crisis forces us to.

I would consider anything short of new tech that allows us to continue increasing our quality of life while simultaneously improving ecological conditions a failure.
> (a) A fixed line that never moves, such that the angle ('bearing') of that course is always the same

Just to nit-pick your otherwise great comment: This may be true for short, general aviation navigation, but long haul airliners typically navigate via great circle routes, which do change true course throughout the route.
Recycled cathode materials enabled superior performance for lithium-ion battery
The intro serves a couple purposes. It ensured the text of the recipe was "below the jump" on RSS readers, so the audience had to go to the original sites (and see ads). It helps detect and trap plagiarists - it's copywritable, while a recipe isn't. But it also contextualizes the recipe. It's really important for me to understand if I'm seeing an easy weeknight favorite or a labor-of-love Sunday meal.

Beyond just looking at the timing, I want to know how a cook thinks about the dish. If you open cookbooks, the intro spiel is common, and I often find it more helpful than the actual text of the recipe. There's a million places I can read a recipe for pad Thai, but Andy Ricker and Leela Punyaratabandhu have some deep insight that is very valuable.

Certainly some authors are crappy writers and don't add value here - I don't follow those people. Googling for recipes will turn those people up too often.
hopefully it’s not a sample size or test hub for a nationwide rollout like seattle apparently is claimed to be for the rest of the us
Could it be that those people were "dependent" even before their first dose? My argument is that some people want to be dependent. So they work on it.
Ask HN: Questions to ask a startup before taking their offer (new grad)?
Not sure if the new grad angle matters. I guess I can take a little more risk than somebody with a family and mortgage.
> what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond.

That used to be the case. But at this point, you’re really just watching the ghosts of the past emerge in the present. Facebook doesn’t own the future. It’s impossible to own the future if you can’t hire the talent needed to maintain the ownership.

There was a time that Facebook’s employees were so dedicated and talented that one guy went off into isolation and single-handedly wrote the first version of Facebook for iPhone. I doubt the 2021 equivalent of that guy could ever be convinced to join FB. (A+ to whoever correctly guesses who I’m talking about.)
Chess is a hobby, nobody locks you in a gravity chamber the day you decide to start practicing. You are perfectly free to do other things, so "spending years" is rather hyperbolic, I feel.

Is it worth it? Probably not, but who the hell lives life like that? I defy you to show me a person who never devoted a moment of their lives to something fun, yet pointless.
I wonder if someone got intel that we are about to have a pole reversal or it might stop working completely.
Oil tanks are dangerous and unpleasant things to store and maintain, and very dependent on road viability for the once or twice yearly top up. I've known plenty of people in the North East that used oil for heating and they all hated it, and I bet it's easier to get an oil truck to top up your tank in Massachusetts or Maine than it is in Ontario. Oh, and the oil tank is an explosion hazard if you need to do any work on it.

Wood heating is a lot of labor. It's sustainable if you have forest land, but still a ton of labor. Even pre-seasoned and delivered wood takes a lot of work. The general rule of thumb is that you need to envision literally filling your living space with wood in order to have enough to heat your home with wood burning stoves. Wood just doesn't put out the BTUs per pound that oil, coal, or other petroleum products do. Propane seems to be the go-to, but I know very little about storing and running your house off of it.

I think in the future the answer is going to be geothermal, or "ground source heat pumps". They work like reversible AC units that use ground temp water to extract heat from. They're more efficient than regular ACs, allowing you to heat your home with ~1/3 the electricity of regular resistance heating, but the installation costs in suburban areas are extreme due to the deep wells needed. If you live in rural areas though you can use shallower trenches to lay the tubing down below the frost line, making this a much more viable choice.
Populist fuel subsidies that also destroy our planet. Iran has the 8th highest CO2 emissions at 642,560,030 tons
Hey all, looking forward to hearing your feedback on Scribe - a browser extension and desktop app that automatically generates step-by-step guides for any GUI-based process you choose to record on your computer.

Me and my cofounder originally set out to build an RPA tool. Along the way, we discovered that the bigger problem most teams were facing had to do with capturing and sharing each individual’s specialized knowledge. Most of this knowledge wasn’t written down, let alone stored in some sort of shareable format. With hybrid and remote working models becoming the new norm, this struck us as a problem that really couldn’t wait any longer, so we decided to address this need instead.

We wanted to create something that felt quite different to the manual and tedious nature that’s often associated with putting together process documentation or how-to guides. That meant that Scribe had to be able to intelligently recognize the key steps in your process, while still feeling very lightweight and easy to use.

The tool generates instructions and screenshots based on your clicks and keystrokes to build your step-by-step guide--to do this, there were a few key technical challenges we had to solve:
1. Going from a set of keystrokes and clicks to actual steps
2. Recognizing when to take the screenshot (i.e. before you do a key action)
3. Reconciling different DPI screens (pixel densities)
4. Automatically identifying and combining similar (but distinct) steps

We have Basic (free) and Pro (paid) tiers. Basic gives you a Chrome extension to record web-based apps while Pro comes with a desktop recorder so you can record any program on your computer. I’d love to hear your feedback on either. If you’d like to check out Pro, you can use the code HN2021 after you sign up for a one-month free trial.
During an engineering degree in the UK you will not be required (or even usually have the possibility) of doing a non-engineering module
He also posted a video about cleaning up on NileBlue. I appreciate the effort that goes into documenting this process - for anyone interested in working with chemicals, waste disposal is extremely important.

https://youtu.be/7ZUqSncJ5U0
I guess the ship has sailed, but it's too bad these limited programs have taken over the term 'basic-income', which was supposed to refer to an unconditional grant for everyone based on cost of living. It's a similar sentiment, but really not the same thing when you give a few thousand people $500 versus giving a million people $2500 or $3000 or pick your much higher than $500 number. Because no one can live on $500 in the US and there are a lot more than a few thousand families suffering.

I feel like the only really humane thing to do is to have a livable wage as a floor. But also it seems like we will need a new type of high-tech money to make that work.
You just need a diesel engine fill the gaps.
"sr.ht provides mailing lists (and, soon, IRC chat rooms)" what year is this?
This is interesting. You're claiming that the FSD money they collect isn't recognized yet? Can I ask you what leads to you thinking that? I'm sure it's in one of their financial disclosures, but you may be able to narrow it down for me.
$14M grant program for CO2 Direct Air Capture (DAC) [pdf]
> Bitcoin mining isn't fully at that level of sustainability yet, but it's a solvable problem.

No it's not.

These sorts of arguments fundamentally misunderstand the Sisyphean design of Bitcoin's proof-of-work algorithm: difficulty is scaled to absorb any changes in hash power, and expending hash power is rewarded with a chance of minting coins and/or collecting fees.

Bitcoin could be made sustainable and clean today, with no extra infrastructure, no optimised hardware, no new solar panel breakthrough, etc.: miners simply have to turn off their equipment, then difficulty will adjust downwards, and Bitcoin would become efficient enough to run off a solar-powered RaspberryPi.

That won't happen; and for exactly the same reason miners won't stop burning cheap fossil fuels as well as diverting as much renewable power as they can away from useful projects like electrified transport, desalination, aluminium smelting, HVAC, etc.
That's the one. Why I'm at -1 at the moment for that comment is beyond me. It could be because I am commenting on a site where VCs play similar games.

I only deal with facts.
Maybe we just learned different lessons ;) People can become addicts under different circumstances and we can't predict individual behaviour. Just because someone exists that violates a principle does not mean the principle is wrong.
Off topic - probably the most successful piece of "content" I've ever made is the CRDT notes [1] item that's nestled in there. I saw this submission and thought, "I wonder if my repo made it in there" and indeed it did.

Why I find that funny is that I made that repo on a whim while I was doing my own reading, and then did nothing with it. Maybe I tweeted it? But somehow it SEOed well with Google for a stretch and I've been getting a steady stream of stars on that repo ever since. I assume it was because I created it when CRDTs were still early and so it got the clicks.

I'm sure a lot of folks here know what it's like to try to put projects out there and go looking for traction. It's always made me chuckle that one of my biggest successes was the unintentional one.

1. https://github.com/pfrazee/crdt_notes
> Is learning moral judgments from Reddit good?

> It's bad

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+learning+moral+judgments+f...

Well, at least it got that right!
Great, so a minimum of 2 years before we get the rest of the story. At least it's not GRRMartin time spans.
That's not my experience, Monzo, Revolut, Lloyds, my private bank, and Halifax (they even misspelled it) all put my full name on the card until I called them and asked for it to be changed.

I think they should ask you how you want your name on the bank cards
I don't think I'd consider "it's harder to fake" a negative for the project if I was involved.
Not really a CRDT UseCase. Gamedev needs A<=>S and B<=>S, where S is a central server.

CRDT is:

A<=>B
A<=>C
B<=>C
A<=>D
...
Yeah, mix and match types because some of use are in silly countries that use mixed units.
I ran into this a few weeks ago with a PR I submitted. Auto-closed as stale after ten days after no interaction with a human. As someone who's been on both sides of writing and using software, this is not a good way to encourage people to use and contribute to a project.
He's quoting a Telegraph article which misrepresented Haugen's view. She's for end-to-end encryption but concerned Facebook's implementation of it will be closed-source and not open to scrutiny. It's about 2h15 into yesterday's UK Online Safety Bill Committee testimony:

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/cddf75b6-4279-43db...
> I found I identified as a Londoner – a city where the vote to remain in the EU hit 60% (in some areas, the remain vote was more than 70%) – but as to the rest of the country: it suddenly felt like a foreign land that I didn’t understand and in which I was not welcome.

I voted Remain. I've also lived in working class areas that voted mostly for Brexit. I understood a lot of both sides of the argument.

It's a shame the author hasn't seemed to have mixed or talked a lot to people of other backgrounds in areas of the UK. If they had done so, they possibly would have been less surprised and alienated at the referendum result.

I expect they would also have a vastly different view of widely politically held views in Germany and the EU (and the Frankfurt-based ECB in particular) if they were an average Greek member of the public living under austerity imposed by the "troika" after the European sovereign debt crisis.

A good book to read on why people in the UK voted Brexit is Paul Embery's "Despised".

It covers the drastic demographic change immigration brought to Dagenham in Essex, after EU enlargement happened with no restrictions on immigration (which the UK Labour government was actually allowed to impose by the EU, but didn't).

The people who lived there felt exactly the same as the author of the article, but before Brexit: they, too, felt like where they had grown up had become a "foreign land".

They weren't against immigration, the point was it was too much, and too fast, and they were facing pressures on underfunded public services and downward pressure on wages through more competition.

I was shell-shocked after the referendum, but liked to see the high voter turnout. Usually the public is criticised as being apathetic.

Working class voters were continuously told that they were better off being in the EU. But in many working class areas couldn't dream of the funding that London receives.

They also faced more competition from EU migrants, who could work for lower wages, as they would have more purchasing power back home.

There are challenges now, but it's also true wages have gone up for working class jobs, now that labour is controlled.
It's a distraction from the main discussion. And your comments are boring, because this is one of the most discussed epistemological questions and you are bringing exactly zero new insights to it.
How about contact lenses similar to those like for halloween but just don't look creepy? I'm pretty sure you can already buy those and they should generate different hash. Face probably can also modify with makeup/mask/beard etc - after all face recognition is not perfect on iPhone any many times cannot automatically detect faces.
No, just showing output from a tool that uses kernel based HW accelerated primitives on the platform.
Doing it right takes too much time.

It's better to do it twice and have your clients give up and throw it away because they can't use either result.
Are you aware that the biometric data isn't stored or linked with the wallet that receives the distribution?
I don't think we can rule out covering for incompetence by blaming Israel.
Electric car, solar panels on your house, living in the city, family in a nursing home in case they need support.

I think this is very much true, although comparatively richer people use flights much more and they have a worse co2 budget if you price in their consumption of food, clothing or luxury goods in general.
No, the color isn't the same. This is their color: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worthp...
Not working on integrity but really, really interested in seeing this coming alive. I've had a very deep curiosity about this topic for a couple of years, allegedly Facebook's products might have influenced the elections on my home country (Brazil), which has very directly impacted the quality of life of my family still living there.

Looking forward to see what comes out of this and wishing you and the team all the best luck, thank you.
I think you're not understanding the point. Stephen Hawking is on record for saying that humans are "a chemical scum on a moderately sized planet". From the atheistic materialistic point of view, that's the only logical conclusion to reach.

If you're claiming that God sent you with a message, you're going to have to bring evidence, claiming is not enough.
I frankly really hate how these buzzwords get through around. It isn't guaranteed and it isn't a program. We'll all go farther if we just be honest about what it is. You can't get any real learnings when you know it is going to stop in a year.

To be clear, I completely support this kind of pilot. It is essentially needs-based free $500/month for 5000 families. They need the help, so give them the money. But the only way we are going to afford a UBI-like program is to remove all the bureaucracy currently wasted to administer these programs. All so that someone doesn't accidentally get an extra $100 or is eligible despite making $1K/year more than some nonsense restriction. Instead, take those billions (across the US) and start helping people instead of paying people to make sure those who need it don't get help. We can just use previous year's taxes to figure out thresholds if it isn't truly universal with minimal overhead.
In this case if doesn't seem to be anything to do with the tech itself. It's just that this guy is used to using this particular software, there's no more recent software better at this task for him, and it happens to run on MS-DOS.
Linux console gives me the same feeling. It's partly the font, partly the focus (no interruptions), partly the lack of latency. OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware. It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF.

Gotta say though, Dune was a disappointment to me, having grown up with Dune 2 on MSDOS. The old Dune had, you know, deeper characters. There's nothing like eating boys and bathing in blood to set off a character. The new Harkonnen are positively placid. We are in a new "PC" age...
The issue is whether the new majority power gives itself monopoly of violence.
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He doesn't use Wordstar.
I did not liked the old ESP flasher tool much either.

FYI: There's already an official rust based rewrite of it:
https://github.com/esp-rs/espflash
Getting that degree and the mandatory training is FAR more work than a few months of leet code grinding. The leet code thing really really sucks. But it is light years easier than and less tedious than the hoops you need to jump through to become a physician, let alone a surgeon. A more comparable comparison would be if literally every programming job required that you passed multiple algorithm tests, some of which took years to study for, before you could even apply.
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Archaeologists find ‘missing link’ in history of Fountains Abbey
The dollar is highly popular in inflationary regimes, crypto is a popular thing to write about, and a few use it but the main defacto backup currency almost always becomes the dollar. (For instance in Venezuala)
> Why do you need to “check them” in the first place though?

I have this problem; most Android apps send background notifications via Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging instead of rolling their own services. (Signal is an exception to this.)

So, if you're unwilling to use Google Play services (or us an OS which doesn't support it), you're fucked and will not receive background notifications. The primary reason I use bridges with Matrix is not to unify my messaging experience into one app, it's to get notifications on my phone.
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How do you differentiate between long covid and a bunch of hypochondriacs?

If you haven't noticed, people love to feel fear and anxiety.