skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I appreciate its simplicity, private data on the internet is messier than it sounds, and almost impossible _not_ to collect it

Yup 100% agree. One of the reasons I do this is that I used to work in adtech (focusing mainly on privacy, which is a complete joke in that industry, but we all know that), so in most of my projects I try to use privacy-friendly alternatives.

For instance, the Heroku requests will either use umami (without sessions/state) as well as stripping unnecessary headers/cookies from the payload from the network traffic (e.g. credentials: none). The code is available on GH.

I still want to know what's happening on my site, e.g. UX-wise, so I can fix and adjust stuff. But, so far I've never needed to know "who" is visiting vs. what are the general interactions with the content.

Just like oil/CO2 emissions, user data should be considered a burden, not an infinite resource.

Even if your expectations of adtech are already low, I can assure you that some of the shit I've heard considered acceptable is just mind-boggling, and scary.
The E-cores in Intel 12th gen CPUs are basically Atom cores, so very much not dead.
In Germany we have services commonly referred to as "Essen auf Rädern" (Meals on Wheels). A quick search shows that the concept actually originated in the 40s in the UK and has also made it to the US in the 60s [1].

Disabled and elderly people not being able to procure their own food isn't really a new problem and also isn't a problem that most first world societies have ignored.

So I'm not really sure what disabled people using a service have to do with the (allegedly) unfair wages of the delivery drivers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meals_on_Wheels
Looking only at the price is how we have renewable-caused instabilities and need to build up extra plants while having trouble financing stable sources - because by purely cost when the wind blows right or sun shines you suddenly have a lot of cheap energy you want to dump into grid.

We definitely need to start including dispatchability into price calculations.
Raytheon lobbyists find a safe space in NY Times foreign policy pages: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/on-afghanistan-withdrawal-n...

As for this article: His unfounded claim that electronic voting machines will be rigged

Let's see how unfounded it is:

the machines are made in Brazil by Procomp, a subsidiary of Diebold Nixdorf, an American firm [..] Hackers invited by the TSE to test the system concluded that, while an unscrupulous politician would find it nearly impossible to commit large-scale fraud because the machines are not connected to the internet, someone with access to the software, ie, someone connected with [Brazil's supreme electoral tribunal], could manipulate results without being detected. That is because Brazil lacks a “voter-verified paper audit trail”. Congress has voted twice to modify the system so that voters receive printed receipts, which could be checked in case of technical glitches or allegations of fraud. Mr Bolsonaro, in fact, sponsored such a proposal. But in June Brazil’s supreme court struck down a law that would have introduced paper receipts for 5% of ballot boxes. It said the measure would be too cumbersome and expensive to use on a large scale. -- https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/05/brazils-vo...

Known vulnerable machines, created by a foreign firm, whose machines were previously derided as insecure even in its home country [1], and actively resisting even a 5% paper trail? Can't imagine why Mr. Bolsonaro doesn't trust them.

In fact I'm sure that if a Russian or Chinese firm, with a history of security issues, had made voting machines, and the judiciary overturned paper trail requirements, Americans would have no issues trusting the security and legitimacy of their elections!

[1] Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#Sec...
I wonder how the licensing issue referenced in the Wikipedia article is handled in the UK. I imagine Ofcom will have had to approve and license these installations, or will they have made these exempt (I can't find any evidence of this)?
“Easy to understand” goes a very long way towards that.
Switzerland, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Munich, Luxembourg FAANG.
(Re)launch HN: Weweb.io (YC W21) – visually build the front-end of your web-apps
Last February, we launched on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248123 the first version of weweb.io http://www.weweb.io/. Since then, we made a slight pivot and wanted to let the community know about it.

The tool was initially meant to let people visually build static websites' front-ends on top of any headless system. Between March and this summer, we received tons of feedback which led us to turn WeWeb into a visual front-end builder for web-applications, not only websites.

It means that users can build their front-end with a Webflow like editor + add authentication (with Auth0), do CRUD with data from their back-end (SQL DB, REST API, Airtable) and create front-end workflows using custom variables and JS functions.

Also, when setting up collections of data in a project, users can now choose if the data will be dynamically fetched on the client-side or statically stored in the front-end.

It took us 5 months to turn WeWeb into this new version. Although it's still in beta, we think it's time to launch it publicly - and there's no better place than HN to get started :)

Please fire your comments at us, the last launch generated a tremendous response.

We'd love to hear about the difficulties you may have encountered when creating the front-end of a web-app (Time to build? Speed of iteration? Performance issues? Difficult back-end integration? Etc.). Based on your experiences, we could do the exercise of determining whether visual programming could have helped solve these problems.

We would also love to hear your feedback about the new version of the tool. You are welcome to give it a spin at https://www.weweb.io
That's why we can't have nice things in Europe. I second other comments - Wolt customer service is top notch, I'd even say too proactive ;)

What can we do so there is less incentive for entrepreneurs to sell themselves to the US companies? Is the sustainable enterprise model dead today?
How often are drones used for anything of that sort? Any actual examples? Or are you just purely fantasizing?
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a while, nice to see that it's still in development.

I like the alloy language, any time I have to express any sort of logic constraint model I wish I could do it in alloy.
Printers are plug and play on Windows? That's not my experience. I have constant problems at work. Settings resetting, stupid printer driver GUIs nagging about ink, prints coming out wrong and making me go into the detailed settings to fix it. Rare are the days where I can just print the stuff I need with no fuss. I'm fortunate enough to be able to solve problems on my own. Coworkers are forced to call support and waste hours and hours of their time because of these printers. The scanning situation is even worse.
Have one of those too, filled with Manila folders like the GTD book suggested and it is the single part of that book that I more or less consistently follow because it is essy and has great "ROI" for every minute spent.

I got mine free from a friend who hated it. One word of advice: do like the original GTD book wrote and use standing folders, not hanging flimsy ones.
Thank you for the detailed write up!

I have to agree with a sibling comment:

> > I chalk this up as a design system win more than Tailwind. Any well-defined design system would open up these collaboration benefits. I found Tailwind to be an asset to these both for my own DX and for collaboration with my designer.
>
> Yeah, this seems like the real takeaway

And to add:

> Our designer was using the Tailwind Figma file for the redesign with most of the defaults in place.

I never really thought of Tailwind as something that provides design primitives designers could also use for their designs.

If everyone on the team knows how to use Tailwind, I can see how it helps productivity. Everyone's using the same primitives and they're speaking the same design "dialect" (for a lack of better word).

Your example with negative/white space units is a really great, because it illustrates how it dispells ambiguity around units and numbers, and it brings an vocabulary for talking about those units. For example, I really like that `p-3` means the same thing to both the designer and the developer now.

Before a designer would have some systems for managing various design sub-systems (ie typography, colour, spacing), that developers rarely (ie never) spend time understanding, which then removed the system's internal consistency, which in turn affects its perceived/external consistency.

Tailwind kinda leaks the design-system's implementation details, which is great for developers, because now they don't have to know anything about design systems, just use what the designer provided.
I'd listen to TekMol's feedback and made "private mode" default. Marketing privacy while making the client send traceable queries to third parties severely break user expectations.

There should be no reason why all required queries aren't going to first-party servers.
I agree, but you're being a little biased I think, presumably due to your experience and the news you read:

>"I hate how those people live, but I'm not going to try to change them."

This is phrased to sound reasonable without context, but based on your example, it's more like "They are fairly objectively killing/beating/oppressing people for their gender/sexuality, but I'm not going to try to change them." I agree it's probably futile, especially in this case, but we should be realistic about what we are asking people to accept.

As for the domestic example of abortion, everybody I know on the right, friends and otherwise, want it illegal for everybody, and have a pretty deep hatred for people who get abortions (sometimes barring health reasons), in their own state and in all others. On this and other topics, they are all firmly in "dominion" territory, even going so far as to "joke" to varying degrees about killing people on the left for their crimes.

I am not refuting your point though, and I'm not taking a "both sides" stance, just offering a different view on the same conclusion. In general people want to exclude others, and in general the right favors splitting first, and, if that's unrealistic, dominion second, while the left tend to favors dominion first. Both are enormous disasters.
Identification of lipid metabolism-related genes as prognostic indicators in
Microsoft purposefully broke Vscodium.
In a ideal world- adding a simple user-gui, would be simple.
As in- all edge cases and special cases, will not be handled, but just result in a error - that comes along with a suggested fix googled on stackoverflow.
The "simple" program, teaches the users to program. Teaches them to leave an-alphabetism behind.
Not the main point -- and I don't know why a filesystem needs to be in kernel space -- but the swipe at network filesystems is wrong. Of the ones I know, at least OrangeFS can use public keys, if that's what you want (though I don't know if they encrypt traffic for use outside something VPN-ish). I don't know what the current story is on AFS encryption (which was weak), but NFS can use Kerberos 5, not that you use /etc/shadow with Kerberos anyway. I'll defer to Ted Ts'o on whether it's inappropriate these days, but I've used SSH for ages with Kerberos.
For sure! People are in for a huge surprise when they'd find themselves on their deathbed not due to glamorous climate change but due to the old "boring" heart failure and cancer and alzheimer.
SVBR design has been around since 1995 or so. Other than geopolitical issues, main problem is that any mass production would eat considerable percentage of world's bismuth production.

However the design is safe and based on battle-tested submarine reactors from Alfa class attack subs.
Do they deserve to survive? Maybe state could subsidise certain number of positions. And distribute them by something fair like SAT score or proper objectively measured entrance exams.
Show HN: Augmented Reality enriched book generated by Artificial Intelligence
“It's not like we still used vacuum tubes to build tvs in 76.”

Except for the picture tube itself, of course! (Broadening the definition a bit, perhaps.)
I probably wouldn't just rely on SSH host key pairs either outside something like a compute cluster.
That’s mostly because we don’t use a lot of renewables though.
charging stations for building parking don't need to be high speed, so the cost is just putting in an outlet (probably a 240 volt one)
Tons of fun.

It's been frightening alright but I learned so much, and not just about game dev: lots of takeaways that apply to day-to-day development, like finding the balance between quality and getting things done, keeping things ultra-simple, understanding the value in inlining or even repeating code, finding the minimal abstraction sweet spot...

It's OK to be afraid! Turns out it also teaches that you can just let it go, go for it and enjoy the wild ride.
You guys are giving administrators way too much power without any good reasons.

I realize that if they really wanted, they could give up on Chrome and use something else, but for many of them, they will simply lock everything down out of laziness and probably wouldn't without a convenient way of doing so.

An example out of many: why give admins a simple way to disable the built-in password manager? This just enables dumb and archaic password policies for no good reason.
Comparable housing in those places is at least as expensive as in similar US cities.

And to have a similar quality of life to the average US FAANG employee you will still need north of 120k € per year in my experience.

Plus in your list half the positions are exactly what I was talking about, higher than senior IC. You need to be incredibly skilled (top 0.5-1%) or incredibly lucky to get them. Though I appreciate that the other half is there :-)
in the next quarter or so, to 5-10M cells
Macron says things a year before the next presidential election.

Assuming they really set this project in motion, there's plenty of time for the next government to cancel it.
Storage: gas, batteries of EVs

Energy: put solar on every roof, and some land, use 2% land for wind, use wasted energy better, reduce power consumption, ...

There are multiple studies that show a path to renewables for Germany using just renewables.

And it can happen before any nuclear reactor can be used...
Does anyone know what the phenomena is called where you think about something/hear about something and then suddenly you stumble across multiple instances of it in the wild?

Just yesterday I began configuring the textwidth/wrap porperty in my Neovim. I went to bed thinking that maybe a hard-capped width of X*2 cahracters would be better, so I can fit more text "into a square" -- which basically means that I focus on a point in the middle of the text and see X characters left, right, up and down.

Now today, the first article I read is about the same exact problem :)
> Google Maps are the main(and only) map provider for the satnav

Source? I've never heard of this. Maps has no relationship to the car's built-in navigation anyway.

Every car I've used with Google Maps has both, but you have to pay a fee to use the built-in navigation app.
Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis [pdf]
I feel like the Dunning-Kruger effect is not mentioned enough on HN in these contexts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
It’s trivial to fork a blockchain in the sense that it’s trivial to print factorialboy bucks.

It’s harder to fork the Ethereum blockchain in the same sense that it’s hard to convince people to accept factorial bucks over old fashioned USD.
>they are literally just some guy cooking in his basement under a fake restaurant name,

Texan here. You just described every good TexMex place I've been to.
Good point, though i would argue this could be little bloat compared to what we see today. The traditional C ABI is a demonstration that it does not have to have a huge performance impact, though in this specific case at the cost of soundness/safety.

Also, with a project like Nushell specifically, it would be very interesting to explore zero-copy piping. Rust's memory model and mutability rules sound very adapted to making such optimizations in a safe way. Some mutating functions may clone the data at some point to mutate it, but for example filtering could be applied by chaining filtering iterators without requiring ownership.
Adding the link here: https://youtu.be/hFL6qRIJZ_Y
the domain was ~$100k

we wrote the story, project, prices of the rebrand in our blog if you're curious

https://blog.rows.com/p/why-how-rebrand
> There's no incentive for documenting things, writing tests, creating a CI/CD pipeline or any of that

This almost sounds like you're creating a false dichotomy where fixed-fee automatically implies lower quality because there isn't a per-job incentive to do well. But, that is taking the extremely short view — as in, you're only looking as far as your current job.

What about the next job? Is your current client going to recommend you if you do a shitty job? Are you doing a shitty job if you don't write tests, documentation, etc.?

Word of mouth referrals are huge in freelancing. Your best path to success is building up a great reputation as someone who does really good work. Work that people are willing to pay a lot of money for.

Read this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...
How about they make it opt-in? Default to walled garden of today. Give people an option to breath the clean air outside the castle gates if they choose. THATS Freedom.
You are right about terrapower.

But uranium oxide vs mixed (plutonium) oxide fuel (used in LMFBR) is a big difference. The later is made by making plutonium nano particles that are potentially deadly for workers in the factory.

France doesn’t get excited about it but the US doesn’t seem to think it can be done safely.
This same effect is similar when given technical interviews. As someone who has given hundreds of technical interviews, when you design your coding task, give the candidate 3x the time it takes you (or someone else of similar leveling as the candidate) to do. The problem should also be based on a real thing the team has done and then distilled down to remove as much work-context as possible.

So a 2hr assignment should generally take the interviewer about 40min max. And an interviewer should never hand out a question or task they themselves have not solved.

This rule is generally applicable in in-person interviews where candidates usually have 45m-1hr and are nervous and on-the-spot. The question should take the interviewer about 15 minutes, and don't forget to have time to talk through their solution and give time at the end for their questions.

And the last piece of interviewer advice for now: look for reasons to hire the person. Identify what would this person add to the team and company. It is easy to find flaws in everyone.

Anyway, tangential to the article but relevant enough to share I think.
People, corporations and, most important of all, government officials should be held liable for the consequences of any misrepresentation made to the public. In fact, the only excuse for a government official to present materially false information is national security, and, even then, they can usually do the "I cannot confirm or deny" or "I have no recollection of" dance.

What we have is large organizations that profit from misinforming a large population. This endangers democracy and the very fabric of our societies.

The freedom of the press comes from the requirement of an informed population for the functioning of a democracy. When the organization ceases to inform, it should not enjoy the legal protections afforded to the press.
Right, and they can be picked up in a week or two by anyone who has any sort of senior level experience. Literally everything you described is not limited to JS and almost every dynamic language contains their own version of them.

Not to mention you backpedalled away from the original question about browsers and underlying tech and focused on a couple nuances in JS.
It has nothing to do with it.

It was a direct response to the idea that the only people ordering from food delivery services are lazy, which is simply not true. I was incapacitated last year due to an injury and wasn't able to leave the house for a couple of weeks. I would have really struggled without Wolt.
Most ml people (aka data scientists) I've met have little understanding of what a computer is, and it's fine. They understand stats.

The tiny subset of people who build ml systems (say tensorflow core devs, write actual distributed systems, etc) are actually hpc specialists, and have all the qualities you describe.

Of course, you may work somewhere where you're lucky enough to have everyone be good at everything!
Hence the zeppelin action sequence in the last crusade!
> Why can't installing software on mobiles work exactly like on desktop?

A naive explanation is because AT&T (the iPhone's first carrier).

Or rather more broadly, mobiles use the carrier's network and carriers did not want a repeat of demon-dialing, rampant computer viruses (etc.) taking down their network.
Throwing around obviously good jokes on HN is dicey. The local squares may start sending the links to their precious research papers on how "people who think they are funny are not really that funny".
Zillow Sells 2k Homes in Dismantling Its House-Flipping Business
IIRC most were traded into to Apple for a discount on an Apple II and Apple just destroyed them.
Personally I can't get over the overuse of ellipsis.
It's generally the first thing we check for when trialling new software. Does it work in Chrome/FF/Safari and on iOS/Android. If not then we won't continue the trial.
I'd be super shocked if this were the case for, say, Barcelona vs London.

My guess is that the language barrier is the killer. Everybody in IT outside of maybe China and Japan learns English so London is kind of easy mode.
I understand the convenience of delivered food esp. during the lockdowns, but people should not be glorifying these companies that are instituting a modern big-tech-powered serfdom by scraping the bottom of the barrel of gig work. We need a better model for this , not human-robots that carry food to the well-off.
Amazing that anyone can describe the current state of immigration in the US under Biden (or previously under Obama) as “not enforcing borders”. That’s just willful ignorance or plain lying.
Google loses appeal against €2.4B EU fine over its shopping service
Simply just add now.. each word increases the difficulty level by one increment.
the problem with this logic is that "crime rate" depends on what cops see, and whether they already people for it. since cops are much more likely to give warnings instead of tickets to white people, cringe rate statistics aren't very trustworthy.
Thanks for the godot engine tip. > 45 here, always wanted to try my hand building a game but no framework clicked as godot. The getting started guides are easy on me.
It's called Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon
Pyszne is Takeaway.com, they just have a different brand name in every country. The rest of the branding is exactly the same.
If I was renting out an AirBnb in Germany I'd probably just set up a travel router that pipes everything through a VPN in a neighbouring country.