skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it’s still noteworthy when it happens and still merits responding with countermeasures (like new terms) to ensure the meaning you want can be efficiently communicated without error.

(Except for the the small part of the population that actively resists such efforts in the belief that they’ll have an advantage over others in correctly guessing the intended meaning, or that those that have a harder time don’t matter.)
Show HS: a website to book dance classes online
I've recently launched HARKALIVE: an online marketplace for dance and well-being classes taught by independent instructors from all around the world.

A kind of Airbnb, connecting teachers with students (rather than hosts and renters) - giving the chance to anyone to teach/join a class, without the need of any middleman in between.

Would love to hear your feedback on the product so far - all classes are able to be booked online from anywhere around the world, and teachers can just sign up in a few clicks.

Any idea or feedback is welcome :)
Let's keep building Ilai
From the HN guidelines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says

Please don't post shallow dismissals
Do you mind sending me in the right direction for more info?

I was around for the infancy of Linux (I remember a friend was running ~2.1.98 because it came out before Win 98 or something like that, even though it was occasionally unstable for them), and then went in another direction, and have recently gotten back in.
Adding to my prior comment above: If I was trying to build a 3rd Ecosystem, this webpage is, even though better than the announcement, still pretty bad.

The top half part is quite good. It's not presenting itself as modern or slick, but as privacy and freedom and transparency. It's a good angle, because hardware is not this phone's strength.

The bottom half is where things go off the rails. "One Powerful GPU?" Don't gaslight me - anyone who has played a game on a smartphone looks at that and goes oof. HTML5 apps because you don't have real apps? Blegh - especially because it says in the description "we plan to." The "competitive chart"? A huge mistake because it gives the competition absolutely no points - which makes it look obviously biased and completely lacking credibility. What other company makes "competitive charts" that don't acknowledge, at least somewhat, the good points about the competition?

And then there's the availability part which is just really bad. 52 weeks? There will be two OnePlus phones, a new iPhone model, and a new Samsung model by the time that thing supposedly ships. Also, if you are really concerned about your privacy - you can't wait a year being no more private than before!
The the answer in the science and medical communities is Almost Never "they're just mice, who cares"

It is rather that this is an important experiment that can't be done any other way and can have large benefit for humans
Being in a situation where you only have yourself to blame, when you can't say "oh if only I didn't have these coworkers and that boss and my family and everything else holding me back (holding you up, really)," it's a different kind of fear. It's probably healthy, but surprisingly intense.

You're totally exposed and get to see exactly what you're capable of accomplishing. It's like that machine in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that shows you exactly how insignificant you are in the universe.
All evidence is ultimately forgeable. At some point a modern day Godel could prove that “justice” in a free society is mathematically impossible.

The law has to operate within a practical compromise and err heavily on the side of reducing false convictions.
I’m not, either — it makes it harder to search for articles on each of those topics!
I'm assuming you are Ryan Petersen.

You put me in the interview loop last time after Sam introduced us via email in 2018. I even told you in that email that I lacked a degree, 2 months later received the following email from someone at Flexport:

>Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications.

>Based on your background, there is no doubt that you will shine in your next career endeavor. In the meantime, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week!

>All the best,

>REDACTED

At that time I was unmarried and did not own a house and was somewhat open to moving to another state to work for you. Now that's not much of an option, my wife is a public school teacher and we've been home owners for a year now.
Steve will happily admit he is a communist.

Considering communism has murdered 100s of millions of people in the past hundred years some of us think that's a bad thing.
The accused party can say anything they want, including airing out the relevant grievances in a more public way if they want to.

Giving someone the option of privacy is not the same as denying them justice. Quite the opposite, it's a mature way of allowing the org (and whichever people are involved in the incident in particular) to choose how public they want to be, and to choose how they want to respond.

But that's the extent of what they would owe, the mod team doesn't owe arbitrary people in the public an explanation that's detailed enough for them to form a hot-take immediately within the space of a few hours.
Sounds like a failed political power grab.
Getting Rid of Passwords for Infrastructure
It is a fact that we could launch light sails, and even heat up Mars a bit. The idea might be silly, but at least it is thinking big. Some other big idea will be better, including several of those listed after the light-sails bit.

The earth-sized radio telescope made out of Starlink transceivers is an obvious winner. Total coverage ground radar using the transceiver antenna is another.
That’s a lot of text to say that bare metal means “no OS” to firmware engineers and “running on a dedicated system” to application engineers.
No one disputes the human rights of black people. What is disputed is whether police killings are racially motivated or whether American police are too often heavy handed irrespective of race (94% of Americans believe that some police reform is needed[0]).

Of course, virtually everyone understands that blacks are killed disproportionately by police, but that doesn't imply a racial motive when we know for fact that there are disparities in the commission of violent crime, rates of police interaction, etc which could also explain the disparity in shootings.

And of course, the particular remedial policies depend significantly on the answers to these questions. In particular, people who identify strongly with BLM are much more likely to advocate defunding or abolishing the police (but are also the least happy that inadequate policing led citizens to defend themselves during various BLM riots in 2020, including the Rittenhouse case).

Further still, there's a lot of controversy over whether violence or non-violence are the appropriate way to seek the reforms one desires, with virtually the whole of the media downplaying or actively justifying political violence (even invoking MLK's "riots are the language of the oppressed" out of context[1]) right up until January 6th, 2021 when political violence abruptly and rightly regained its "reprehensible" designation.

Further still, contrary to the media portrait, a majority of black Americans don't support violent protest or the abolition or defunding of police--like most other Americans, they want sensible police reform[0].

So yes, BLM is quite controversial in American politics for reasons which have little to do with clear cut advocacy for human rights.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-n...
[1]: One of the more memorable examples was CNN adding the "fiery but mostly peaceful" caption as a journalist sporting a gas mask reported against a backdrop of a dozen burning vehicles.
I see I'm about the fifth person to recommend NJB on this post ;)
Unfortunately, 20 years of treating customers like dirt can't be washed-away by hiring one capable security professional. For dirt customers like me, the best way of judging a service provider is past form.

I don't buy from companies with a bad history. It's not some kind of behaviour-modification strategy; it's just self-preservation.
Having been wrong changes few people's minds. Even about whether they were wrong.
Incorrect in the specific context of a scientific or legal discussion which operates using a formalized definition. In normal conversation it is sort of nonsensical to say that the widespread usage of a word is incorrect, as correctness is defined by widespread usage.

The usage in SF stories stands out because often the writer was _intending_ for the word to be using the formalized definition used in science.
Then don’t make a whole big public announcement about it. As someone from the outside this just reads like a post specifically to generate drama and attention but not giving details as to direct it at anyone in particular.
I've never had a customer so I'll take your word for it, it makes sense.

I am trying to get the scope down to the very core value. Then build on that if there is any traction with the basic service.
It's hard to blame the public for feeling that way when space projects run two decades behind schedule and two thousand percent over budget.
Every one of these language toolbox books should come with a disclaimer for new devs up front about how the mark of a good craftsmen is knowing when to use the tools, when to bend or break their rules and guidelines, etc. I know it certainly might have saved me a fair bit of grief and oddly written code.
This sounds like a question they'd ask during a tech interview and when you ask which language or what they mean by "length," the "senior" developer says, "Heh, guess you're not one of us who work for a living. You couldn't even answer a basic programming question. You see, length means how long a thing is. Everyone knows that. NEXT."
We currently have something very similar to Apple's proposed policy (~2 days in the office per week, several weeks remote work per year).

Some like it and will work from home as much as they can, others will come to the office but don't mind the flexibility.

What was interesting was comments from an anonymous poll. A couple of people said they didn't like the policy since it meant they ended up caring for young children almost all the time. Previously, they would split things like taking them to/from school or looking after them if they were sick 50:50 with their partner. One person having so much flexibility meant this became 100:0.

In theory we were flexible before 2020, but its only since 2020 that I've felt doing my laundry was an acceptable reason to work from home.
Check out Don's post in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821030

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That floppy must have run out of space when you were typing up that post - because it did not include the price you paid for it? I am assuming it was a 720K floppy?

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I recall when I was a little kid and got my first 3.5" -- I think it was on my 286? Maybe my 486?

I got a box of the rainbow colored floppies and I would put each one in the drive, do DIR and write down the free space on the floppy label. This was 10 year old me "organizing my files"

Later, I upgraded from 20 then to 40 then to 120 MEGABYTE drive. I was able to store warez on this guy and use the 40 meg drive as a data shuttle back and forth between my friends house and the school where we ran a BBS with a warez backdoor
I also followed the company for years. They are much more transparent than any other company, although still not 100% transparent. All software development proceeds in the open. All code is free and upstreamed. Developers and employees reply to questions on the public forum.

They're having a hard time with the funds now, so they probably have to delay refunds in order not to go bankrupt. Recently they got some inestments, so it should get better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27949435.
Here is the Rust code of conduct: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct

Can you provide an example of something in the code of conduct that you think makes people walk on eggshells?
The blocking feature is SharedArrayBuffer, but it should become available in the not-too-far future.
Even on an individual scale, I suspect it is only a short term amelioration that exacerbates the underlying problem in the long term.

The grand scale ratcheting-up effect is a result of processes that, while not narrowly focussed, most acutely apply to those associated with shootings.

> Very fitting parallel for the greater whole: zero sum

Its not zero-sum (if it were, the grand-scale effect would be neutral.)
Wow, I assumed that the EU was created to simplify things like this. Still better than Amtrak I suppose.
The future of air mobility: Electric aircraft and flying taxis
I'm scraping 2 RSS feeds for each network and then storing them in the db.

After some time the list of headlines piles up and we can check which network mentions thing x and compare it to how often the other networks mention that thing also.

The info button has more details.
Perhaps it would be possible to use liquid carbon dioxide. The change from liquid to gas inside the vacuum chamber might help disperse the energy.
Pendulum Simulation in V (sequential, parallel, animation and full example)
Rich Hickey specifically said that some Lisp groups were extraordinarily toxic, and it's something he wanted to avoid in Clojure. (I think it was in his HOPL talk).

Also, I would say that help-bash@ and the bash IRC channel are pretty toxic.

By "toxic" I mean that there's just a general culture of negativity, insults, hazing, and assuming the worst. There's definitely a thing where computer nerds try to one-up each other, and highly technical or obscure topics like Lisp and bash tend to bring that out.

I have a memory of comp.lang.c being pretty bad too, but I didn't participate for that long, and this was long ago.

Honestly it's funny to me that people think HN is toxic, because it's not even close to those forums in my mind. (well maybe that's because I almost never read the politics threads on HN, but still)
I'm reminded of this mid-2000s example of toxic behavior from Richard Stallman on Emacs, in response to a contributor who didn't have time to work on something because he just had a baby girl: https://tess.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms

> It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of.

> It helps more people, too.
On top of that there are many new small to medium launch vehicles in the pipeline.

Astra just made it to orbit a few days ago. Firefly almost did, and might very well do so on the next attempt. Relativity is supposed to launch next year. And then there is Blue Origin New Glenn , which also may (eventually...) be ready.

The launch market hasn't really grown much, despite Falcon 9 lowering the cost quite a bit. SpaceX gets a majority of revenue from government launches.

I wonder what will happen to all those new companies.
Could you elaborate on what that would be? You're thinking of a Starship with a disposable fairing on top of it?
Using GQty with Effector
The problem is that people want the facade. I generally expect managers to present themselves as first among equals, even though I understand in extremis that's not true, and I wouldn't work in an organization where they do a bad job at pretending. It's my understanding that my mindset is pretty common, although I have to admit that I'm not sure because this isn't the kind of thing I'm comfortable polling my coworkers about.
The comment you link to indeed says that there were 20 countries, so no the number was not wrong.
as a Linux user, i use my iPhone for that.

or you could try this: https://morgen.so/morgen-for-linux
Juvenile court?
Are you saying that some engineering degree are called computer science degree?
Would love to see some documentation on dealing with SSL decryption for those who are in MITM corporate environments.

I've struggled with this as I recently got a new Mac for work and I tried to set it up from scratch with Nix but I couldn't even get it to connect to the nixpkgs channel. I tried every solution I could find online for pulling the CAs and specifying the NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE, but it borked even after I left the office and connected through another network (and wiping and reinstalling Nix didn't seem to fix it, but I probably didn't do that correctly either...).

Eventually I gave up and went back to homebrew and setup scripts.
Which isn't a great place to be, as lay people confuse the two all the time.
In my situation, I used COBRA.
Portugal in particular seems difficult to travel out of by rail. Lisbon to Madrid should be straightforward, but you have to get to Porto first, then to Vigo on the Spanish side, and THEN you can get to the rest of Spain. This also takes 24+ hours of travel. Meanwhile, the bus is only 10.5 hours and direct.
ACA (ObamaCare) is available. Your monthly cost for top tier coverage can be as low as ~$5 a month for a family of 4.

The qualifying income cap is based on you anticipated "Modified Adjusted Gross Income". They don't count assets. This means that if you may have losses that bring your income for the year down to the income limits, then you can honestly say that and get subsidies. If you currently don't have any income, but you can imagine yourself earning the minimum income in the calendar year, then you can claim that. (If you are lower than the minimum for ACA, you will get MediCal for free)

For example, in California, for a family of 4, if you can honestly estimate that after potential losses and potential earnings, your modified adjusted gross income would be between $39,750 - $53,000, you can get top tier coverage for ~ $5 a month, no co-pay, very low prescription costs.

If your situation changes (you start working again) you just notify the state and either pay a higher rate or cancel and use your new company's plan.

Search for "2022 ACA Income limits [your state]"

Here is the 2022 chart for California: https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/FPL-chart.pdf
Years ago, I YOLO quit Apple after my professional development stalled (HN discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14270897) and I felt I had enough in my personal data science portfolio that I could leverage it to get a job in the industry. I had overestimated my hireability but I eventually did get a DS job after four months, and am still at that company.

In retrospect, it was correct from a career standpoint, but I will not quit a job again without having another job lined up, especially since for data science in particular the industry is competitive and would result in another prolonged job search.
The French on that website is so broken it’s impossible to understand. Do you have a link to force the website to display in English? Visiting /en redirects to /fr.
Can you describe why it would be useful in Android Auto?

Google Maps seems quite car-centric to me, and most weather doesn't affect people who are traveling via automobile. Rain would not change my plans; but freeway closures would, and the latter is already present.
900-mile mantle pipeline connects Galápagos to Panama
Every time I follow a qr code pasted on the wall of a restaurant, I think "this goes against everything that I, a nominal computer professional, knows to be a good idea"

Problem is, it's not a big enough deal for me to turn around and walk out, instead my phones download folder is just cluttered with pdfs of bad scans of paper menus.

On one hand, when there was a chance coronavirus was spread by surfaces, I thought this approach was genius. With the appropriate amount of water being under the bridge... Bring back the old menus.
(Aside: if the moderation team themselves treat pull request messages like a message board fit for announcements and general discussion, how good can they be at moderating? Making sure people stay on topic and post in the appropriate venue is something like a base-level expectation for even mediocre moderators.)

> This is a highly mature drama where the arguments are dry, generic and adhere to a strict code of values. No fingers were pointed, and the offended party is taking the high road by resigning.

As an outsider, I see Twitter-esque levels of grandstanding in the linked "post"—hardly mature. Based on observing the Rust community from afar over the last few years, this unfortunately is not something that is surprising.

(FWIW, I agree with all the comments pointing out that zero-context outsiders should not expect to be brought up to speed from a pull request message alone—anyone arguing the opposite is guilty of the same sort of mindset that I'm chiding here. If this announcement(!) weren't deliberately crafted to give the effect it does, supporters of the resigners might actually have a point. The fact that something that should be as boring as a pull request—no matter how controversial the subject—is being discussed in terms of "high roads" taken by any side, however, really throws that argument into the mud.)

Go hole up in a cabin in the woods and decompress by hacking on personal stuff or something and stay away from social media. For some, it has poisoned everything to the point that it has given rise to a new breed of vague status updates that pervade even project infrastructure.
I'll throw nave (https://github.com/isaacs/nave) in there as well.

I'm leery of things that globally mess with my environment. When I run "nave use latest" or "nave auto" (for predictable setup) then it creates a subshell that knows about node. Very self-contained, which I find necessary.
There are many posts here deriding the Swedish "success", claiming that the low SARS2 incidence is either caused by not testing, by only testing unvaccinated, that Sweden used to have a higher incidence and more of such. All these replies are missing the significance of the fact that Sweden, possibly due to the fact that it never locked down, that it never hid children behind masks, that life has been far less affected than in neighbouring countries now may well have a better chance of riding out the "fifth wave" without the spikes seen in other countries. In other words, the Swedish approach may actually have been the better one by limiting the duration of the epidemic. Time will tell but if this ends up being true let it be a lesson for all those who call for stringent measures.
> Isn't internet access at your fingertips a form of transhumanism

Well to some degree. At some stage we will forgo having a smartphone and have Google hardwired to our brain. I think that's where we're heading eventually. Tech companies want to be inside our head (if they're not already). Musk talks about the bandwidth problem of accessing information. If it was super readily available (i.e hardwired to our brain), then we could be superhuman.

This is why we're to some extent already cyborgs, just not in the cyberpunk aesthetic way of being half machine half human, but we're already half-way there with smartphones.
Would be nice if I could zoom out on the entire state of California and see at least a label showing where the fire is and not force me to zoom in to see it.
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