skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK there are no "curators". Everyone can go and vote there when they have time. I do sometimes.
Thanks in advance for the advice. Please share a link when you can.
Electric cars are fantastic for many use profiles. Round-the-town trips and commutes with pauses in between.

I'm sure they'll get better for longer range stuff and that will be part of the farther future -- but if you're making regular runs over a certain range, they'll cost you in terms of time and calculation. This is not at all hypothetical, either. I know EV drivers who have to either rule out or carefully manage some activities for this reason, and it's true whether you've got a SmartCar or a Tesla. What's still hypothetical is that EVs are going to meet everyone's needs anytime soon, and it's only reasonable to suppose it'll stay that way until someone figures out battery swap or petro-fillup charge speed.

Hybrids may not be the future future, but they're between here and there.
Twitter and largely social media encourages echo chambers. I try to be a contrarian on HN but in some threads, especially around social justice and political threads, it definitely has a tendency to become one.

When 10 people are agreeing vicariously and there is a sense that any dissent is crushed, time to be the person playing devil’s advocate and challenge them. This can happen in a small context and it usually is harmless. But on Twitter, you’re going to feel the weight of the world when you go against the grain. The mob will chase after you. They’ll become more powerful as bystanders join. You will be crushed. Others will take a note and feel the chilling effect.
I actively try to not create an echo chamber, but sure. I suppose it's something that people do.
So - you can eat whatever you like, treat your body how you like, but that doesn't matter? Its all about the germs.

Why do people believe it is good to say organic food or pure water? If tap water and cheap food is safe, those decisions are nonsense and financially costly.

Your view in the opposite then, is that people should eat cheap food/water as it makes better sense. Disease is mainly due to the germs, and not really to do with the decisions you make re foods and lifestyle.
I couldn't know what it produced at the time. Keyword is "used".
Go such a wonderful language and stack
Look at all these Indian CEOs. Cleaning up the white man mess.
That goes both ways. The hyper progressive echo chambers are just as problematic. Echo champers are problematic in general, it doesn't matter the political leanings.
Bloomberg and CNN did, last year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-29/singer-s-...

(previous link paywalled, outline: https://outline.com/gxqsh2)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/tech/elliott-twitter-jack-dor...
Not a curator (I upvote posts on /new but not sure if curator means more than that) I come to /new when I feel like leaving comments; the chance that my comment will be the first that many people see definitely makes me think a bit harder about what I write. To avoid getting overwhelmed, I press Ctrl-W.
The problem here is that "toxic" is subjective, what I find toxic and disagreeable may not be the same thing you find toxic and disagreeable. Take for example hot button issue of Gun ownership, I believe it an essential right and extension of self defense, others view any talk about guns as toxic that should be banned.

Who's worldview should win? Mine, your's, Twitters?

IMO platforms like twitter should not be making the choice as to what is or is not toxic, they should be giving users the ability to curate their feed's.
Counter argument, I tried c/cpp/cmake development in vscode, but got so fed up with breaking plugins. Configuring… fixing new config options for plugins… Or spell checkersuggesting to rename functions i call… or duplicate shortcuts from plugins…

That I bought clion and got stuff up and running for the biggest part in minutes. I am a looong time pycharm user though. Cmake integration is great for my projects. Embedded mostly.

IDE’s are very personal tools. Im an ide guy, always have been. Do use vscode occasionally though, it is great to test new prpgramming languages, or open big files pycharm chokes on.
Right, but somehow the "situational awareness" argument doesn't fly when it's a developer working at two places. Then it's all "oh no, you might steal our secrets with your brain", even though that's the same thing, just framed differently.

[EDIT] Oh, and:

> You have to collect this data for yourself because it's not like there's a service you can subscribe to that shows you all the problems that various public companies have.

Actually, there is! It's called management consulting. The main value they provide aside from the much-cited blame-absorbing one, is being a normalized and accepted method of corporate espionage. They call it stuff like "industry best practices" but what they're doing is telling you what your competitors are up to, so you can mimic the good parts.
UK founder here. If you post your question I'm sure you'll get some help.
All good points listed in the comments. My view is that most of these depend on the ability and practice of thinking for oneself. I once pondered if/when I had a clearly original thought that wasn't connected or influenced by something closely related. It was surprisingly difficult to come up with strong concrete examples. I did come up with a good one though--back in grade 7 long before the Tau manifesto I came to the conclusion that Pi was dumb: why make a ratio vs a diameter that's made up of 2 R's? It was an epiphany at the time (so was able to remember the actual moment in time and place when we were being shown constructing the area by adding the two semidiscs sliced in wedge ribbons). Clearly a ratio of full arc vs 1 R is more 'pure' in a sense. The fact that so many people can't even imagine Pi being so awesome and perfect today despite the Tau manifesto shows how clearly influenced they are and incapable of thinking differently from the masses (at least on this point).
Yeah, using saves would be pretty cool, I looked into that, but it's much harder getting all the information from the serialized save files, and I'm not sure if there is a way at all without using the original Factorio source code.
He is a CEO and is replacing the first person to hold the Republican president accountable after Jan 6. I think that impacts his decision making, working the refs works dude.

I think neither he nor Tim Cook are stooges for Republicans but they are scared to look anti-Republican. Serious question, do you think the new CEO is going to be more bold in the face of right-wing criticism than your average CEO?

I knew we're not talking about Apple but their last liberal-seeming act was speaking out against a bathroom bill that is clearly unconstitutional; but the backlash shut them up.
> is that these grand projects can turnout to be horribly misguided

This is why instead of grand projects we should have many smaller projects which combined still have a large effect.

Also luckily many of the changes which are good for the climate are (at least in their idea) also good even without climate change. Like going way from coal power plants, which are not just bad for the climate but also bad for the environment. (Through in practice there might be drawbacks in whatever replaces it.)

> just like the drug war looked good at one time.

I get your point, but I'm not sure that this is a good example, the war on drugs looked from the get to go like it was overly targeting certain communities while even back then it was known that it's unlikely to work due to e.g. previous experiences with fighting alcohol during the prohibition period...
Ask HN: What would a reality show for Software Engineers look like?
There are various skill based reality shows that focus on people/teams building stuff along with the usual drama. (like cooking, fashion, crafts, architecture etc).

What if there was a reality show where contestants were software engineers working on projects (like hackathons).

Do you see it happening ?

What else would you like to add ?
Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
But the effective risk would still be doubled?

So if I would have a (unknown) heart condition before, this would worry me. But I do not and now I do not trust the numbers anymore anyway.
Even the pre-dynastic Egyptians didn't turn dishes out of carborundum.

Corundum is aluminum oxide, the material of ruby and sapphire. Making dishes out of it was badassery we haven't matched.
It's just too much work pruning / hoping you find folks who are sort a single topic accounts for me.

Often they fall off the wagon and get into spats and so on. Too much hassle to constantly add / remove folks to keep a feed that isn't "typical social media feed BS".
“Rules for thee but not for me” is interesting when placed in juxtaposition with a famous quote from the software architect and composer Frank Wilhoit:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

That applies to no-moonlighting clauses, but also to no sexual harassment clauses, no insider-trading clauses, and plenty more. It’s not just that the rules don’t apply to some people, but the rules and system are set up to protect them from the rules.

With sexual harassment, for example, it’s not just that HR looks the other way when they are accused: HR often works to protect them from consequences and punish/dismiss/pay off the victims.

Source: https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...
Yes, I'd say hunting and fishing don't have this problem. I have other ethical issues with eating animals, but hunting wildlife is orders of magnitude better than industrial agriculture.
NSIS is open source, seems to be maintained by the community.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be actively being worked on and isn't complete enough for me to use personally (custom themes aren't implemented, for example).

These are the WYSIWYG Markdown editors that I am aware of:

- Typora (great but somewhat buggy).

- Obsidian is working on a WYSIWYG mode.

- Nota (nota.md) is promising but very beta.

- Zettlr

- Bear is working on a WYSIWYG mode.
I think you have entirely missed the topic of this thread: the comfort of obtaining the book. The list of steps addresses exactly that, whereas reading the book has nothing to do with it.
I'll grant you that US interstate borders are mostly imaginary lines, with zero control... But our national borders aren't nearly as controlled as people seem to think.

The United States imports nearly all of the cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl that we consume, and the quantities we consume are vast. Even with the COVID related border restrictions, all of those drugs are at record-low street prices, and record-high purity. That generally means they are being imported with ease, and with a low percentage of lost product along the way.

This trend has been growing consistently since the passage of NAFTA in the 1990s, which had massive economic benefits, but also rendered the US/Mexico and US/Canada borders quite porous. Commercial trucks carry massive quantities of cargo into the US, every day. We've never bothered to devote enough border control resources to subject them nearly the same level of scrutiny as pre-NAFTA trucking. Nobody wants to pay for the infrastructure, manpower, or shipping delays.

I live in Southern California, and drive ~10-12 hours a week on highways. Anecdotally, about 10-20% of our truck traffic is plated/registered in a Mexican state, not a US state. Many of these trucks are visibly used for local deliveries... I believe there are some state & federal DOT rules to discourage this, but it doesn't seem like anyone is really enforcing them.

Anyway, my point is that our national land borders are hardly effective, and that the situation is by design according to our current national priorities.
This is a specious argument. Allow competitors to deploy apps causing lousy battery life, and Safari should win easily on that basis. Apple's battery app makes it obvious when apps use a lot of energy.
Not my industry, but:

Isn't the green for "not so serious" framing, and "not recording",

with red being "recording"?
Carbon fiber airframes are new and have displayed unanticipated failures. Maybe they should have had more testing or more should have gone into reliable inspection and repair. We as a society may come to appreciate demonstrated robustness as much as novelty and efficiency.
Nurdles: The worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
I use my Pi 400 for headless note-taking while driving and camping.

I've written up the details here: https://davidbieber.com/projects/go-note-go/

"Headless note-taking" means there's no monitor. I just type my notes or speak them (I've attached a beautiful handheld button I can push to start an audio recording). The notes are stored on-device until an internet connection becomes available. At that point, the notes are automatically transcribed and uploaded to my central note-taking system. For me that's Roam Research, but Go Note Go also supports RemNote, IdeaFlow, Notion, and Mem, and adding others is easy.

I find this super useful for jotting down thoughts about audiobooks while driving, and for capturing those late-night thoughts when camping or drifting off to sleep.
I got Lazarus (Free Pascal) running on my Raspberry Pi Zero W, which only has 512 MB of RAM. It seemed to work fine.

My better half wants to have a flat panel that shows my photography in a slow slide show... and we have a surplus HD TV with an HDMI input, so it looks like that's what it'll eventually end up doing as soon as I write a little slide show program.
Is this a feature developers are asking for?
In Upstate New York where snow drifts can sometimes completely block visibility at intersections, honking is pretty common as if to say "ready or not, here I come!"
This is actually something I grapple with. There are plenty of examples where the field of medicine wound up being defiantly wrong and a few 'kooks' who knew better were dismissed before the field finally came around. Things like washing one's hands between patients, ulcers being caused by bacteria and not stress, and babies not being able to feel pain.

All that being said, these few examples don't mean the man is correct. Just that medicine can be defiantly wrong until proven otherwise. But that really shouldn't undermine the confidence in all aspects of modern medicine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies
yeah, i was also not sure whether I've missed something. Equating "Technological Progress" to "Increase in Agricultural Output" doesn't make sense...maybe we don't need that much more food, that's why it's slowing down. Maybe the american agricultural output could double in the next 10 years, but is it energy well spent? After all, it's a bit of a zero-sum game, a society has finite capacity for research and must spend its budget wisely.
You put too much faith in humans. Things like stop sign removal have caused deaths in the past. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/21/us/3-are-sentenced-to-15-...
i think that goes for any of the movements today... where its the silent majority, who dont want to say anything in face of backlash of small few with big voices.

not just conservatives
So, it's easy to find a list of the countries with the highest inflation rates, but which of those countries actually forbid individuals from acquiring foreign currency? I assume you have a verifiable example?

Not to mention, for an everyman living in one of these countries, how feasible is it to actually participate in crypto to the point where it is useful in day-to-day living? How much upfront investment will it cost? How much ongoing investment? Will the local merchants accept crypto? Will they do so any time soon?

(I'm honestly not fond of crypto but I also honestly have no idea about these questions, which seem practical to know before buying into an "advantage" of crypto.)

Venezuela aside, naturally. Because the way this statement comes across to me is is that crypto is a viable alternative even without government oversight and/or precisely because of its lack of central authority. Venezuela's crypto has support all the way from the top.
> they have surrounded themselves with people who agree with them making their "movement" seem larger than it actually is.

At least in the U.S., I think that’s more attributable to their enormously disproportionate political power.
You could spray handful of nails in the road and I think there is a big chance it would cause an accident. Or you could just dig up a hole using tools available in most homes. Agreed, it's not that easy, but not hard as well.
Good for Bret Taylor— he's had quite a career over the years, with being an architect of Google Maps, then founding FriendFeed, being acquired into Facebook and ending up in senior leadership at Salesforce and Twitter.
I see a completely different attack vector here.

Lawyers.

If you are selling a product or service that has been trained on a dataset that contains copyrighted photos you don't have permission to use and I can "prove it" enough to get you into court and into the discovery phase, you are screwed. I'll get an injunction that shuts you down while we talk about how much money you have to pay me. And lol, if any of those photos of faces was taken in Illinois, we're going to get the class-action lawyers involved, or bury you with a ton of individual suits from thousands of people.

That link at the bottom about a "safe harbor" you get from using old datasets from the Wild West is not going to fly when you start selling.
Glad to see this didn’t get flagged like the other two submissions. I guess if you care about public health, it would be good to take this and other reasonable concerns into account when evaluating risk and benefit. I don’t see Reddit as a more legitimate authority than the AHA, but maybe I’m too old school. My concern is that if Reddit should be treated as the ultimate authority, doesn’t their karma system and notoriously biased moderation present a bit of a problem? It’s not at all transparent, not that peer reviewed journal article are a panacea.
Yeah we better get used to disappointment. I think the best hope we have is that Twitter becomes the next Facebook and people we read go somewhere else. It's very dangerous but this is a dangerous time in a dangerous place.
Who are these "curators?" I'm looking at "new" all the time but its not a "job", its a high quality link feed. if some goes by i dindt see then i dont feel ive missed something important.

Put unkindly: there's numerous bullshit fountains to sip from. Don't think you need to consume all of any of them. Sample widely. The varied flavors are the best part of the experience.
I agree. Every so often, I just glance at my feed and see if I can KonMari out some people. At this point I follow some decent tech feeds, a lot of art and game dev feeds and some very pleasant and funny people. I find it pretty fun to scroll through the feeds about once a day

It's a huge contrast from reddit where you can follow subreddits but most of the stuff you see is surfaced up and there's a hive mind at work. I won't even bother with FB since I deleted my account months ago
down with the paywalls!
> Plus I'd bet hard cash that even most HN readers wouldn't pay $50 a year for a web browser. Good luck finding 10 million.

I disagree. 50M people (including myself) already pay $12/mo ($144/year) for YouTube Premium [1], basically so they do not see the ads even though a completely free alternative is available. (this also tells us you need just one 'killer' feature)

And a browser, executed right, is arguably a much more valuable product. It is where we spend most of our day in. It is what we use to work and create value for companies we work at. So 10M people at $5/mo should not require such a stretch of imagination. The only question is is Firefox that good as a browser right now, and what would need to change?

Besides what is the alternative for Firefox? What good does its leverage in web standards group bring it? Even at the price of free, it is losing tens of millions of users every year and the death spiral of user attrition will drive its market share to the ground eventually. It clearly signals a need for a radical turn.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22654318/youtube-50-millio...
> You misunderstood then, because what was said was essentially "official benchmarks for servers are meaningless", not that "performance doesn't matter". Do your own testing, for your own usecase.

The Caddy forum thread I linked to above highlighted a Tweet about Caddy being 20X more performant than nginx. This was from the Caddy team.

The frustrating part is how benchmarks are championed as a selling point when they benefit the project, but the argument becomes “official benchmarks are meaningless” as soon as they don’t.

That, and the weird opaque responses and insistence that we debate my performance requirements on the internet when I just wanted to know how Caddy compares to nginx in the most broad terms. Similar performance? Order of magnitude faster? Order of magnitude slower? Why does such a large debate have to erupt when such simple questions are asked?

If Caddy is good for one use case but not for others, why not just say it? Why must it become a one-on-one debate? I don’t literally have one use case for a web server. I want to know when it’s appropriate to choose so I can make these decisions myself without engaging in an HN comment section back-and-forth to figure it out.
/me not a statistician!

I'm not clear how "expected no. of attempts for X" is related to the probability of X. And I seem to be struggling to recall what little I used to know about probability.

I'd welcome a (link to a) clear unpacking of this scenario. I'm feeling rather stupid, as if I've had a stroke and lost a mental faculty. It seems to be a straightforward and obvious scenario, but I've lost confidence in my reasoning about it.
I grew up immersed in the hacker ethos. It's hard for me to see myself clearly, with respect to the rest of society.

As a geek, I was bullied and beat up a lot. It's so weird to me that the geeks won. I can barely grasp it.

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Historian Jill Lepore also has a very interesting take on Stewart Brand. How the counter culture technotopian's views came to dominate our society.

Lepore's insights compliment the views of Neil Postman (Technopoly), Ullman, Mara, and so many others. This article has a fair roundup as a starting point. https://lithub.com/understanding-the-pervasive-influence-of-...

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Most interesting to me is when disconnected trends (cycles) overlap. Especially from 1980 thru 2010, the stretch where I became politically aware and activated.

There's always more to the story. The rejection of bureaucracy, experts, technocrats. How the middle class parted from the working class. How polling broke machine politics. How anxiety due to technological progress and "infoglut" (1980's term) begat a backlash. The economic transition from production to services, especially financialization and explosion of consumer debt. How "disintermediation" actually just replaced one set of gatekeepers with another. How "rebel" cultures are always coopted by entrenched interests.

Etc, ad nauseum.

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Despite everything, I'm actually more optimistic every day.

Society will continue to convulse and spasm for some time. The rate of technological progress, so therefore the disruption to established power relationships, isn't slowing down any time soon.

But with every cycle, the cultural transmission of information improves. So humanity's capacity for self reflection, to learn from experience and each other, continues to improve.

Of course, the inevitable backlash and reactionary spaz attacks will suck. Yet somehow our children and grandchildren will pull thru.