skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least the poor, the illiterate and North Koreans don't have to deal with the horror of ad retargeting and listicles is the most HN perspective ever!
> Gmail is good at classifying emails as spam/ham.

I wish they'd apply that discrimination to their SMTP output.
Insisting that people should be more anti-mimetic and simultaneously calling humanity homo-religiouso (fundamentally religious), insisting that people don't read the Bible enough etc...

Oh well. At least this goes into my pile of "read things you deeply disagree with".
What if we could have free public transportation in exchange for an advertisement bombardment? That actually sounds like a great idea (to me). Sure getting on a metro train would make you dizzy and overwhelmed. But we would actually have a metro train!
Show HN: Productivity-Minded Workspace
I'm pretty sure that computers were around 30 years ago, including in banking. While smartphones are a newer development and I do use mine all the time, I can't say that it has any serious impact on my work that would not be achieved with my laptop and a dumb phone.

I think you need to look at the phrase 'truly profound' that you're using and consider what that actually means in context: the world wide Web has had a truly profound impact on human development contrasted to promote media. Colour TV, for example, hasn't (given radio, cinema, black and white TV already existing)
I think ProtonMail (https://protonmail.com/) is the only one that comes close to being "privacy conscious," mainly because it's their entire focus. Any other non-major, non-free provider might be an alternative but they're probably not as focused on being proactive about the privacy element?
Yeah, blows my mind when you see a 2500 with knobbies flying down the highway and you seem them in a snow bank about 5 miles down the road. lol
‘Posted from my RIM BlackBerry’
The part where their salary wasn’t very good in the salary table; you have to play the market, which is currently favorable toward software engineering.

I’m not sure what people are expecting. Eating rice and beans on $100k is still less than $100k savings.
No one wants to work for low wages. That hasn’t changed since before the pandemic.

There is no ‘large class’ of rich people. It’s literally called the 1%.

There are many high income tracks - medical, engineering, legal, financial, trades - pick one.

Anyone can get a loan to finance their education.

The system can always be improved, but there’s a lot of people out there who have the choice to improve themselves as well.
The Complexity of Iterated Reversible Computation
Hello everyone, here is my first app launch and Show HN. I'd love to hear your feedback!
It's a productivity-minded workspace (Notion-like), where you can manage: notes, to-do lists, bookmarks, and read daily news feed.
It allows to deal with everyday tasks and projects. On top of it, you can consume daily news feed and store bookmarks in one tool!

It's an MVP so feedback is really welcome!
This is the Hindu idea of svadharma - one's personal work in this lifetime. As you said, it need not be anything outwardly unique, just that it is what is right for you.
Hey, I posted this since my sister got one recently and I thought it was neat.

I'm not a photography person, but I also don't think it would be a good first camera for kids. I would think of it as a more reusable version of those disposable film cameras - something to play around and snap quick photos with. In particular, there is no screen to instantly review your photos with, so it's delayed feedback (no way to see your last photo sucked and to try again) and delayed gratification as well. That might be a desired feature for adults, but I'm not sure if kids would appreciate it.
The question, 20 years later is, does it matter. All recent wars in the ME have been asymmetric, and in such wars the indigenous "irregular" forces invariably win. Perhaps it doesn't matter that Arab culture is unlike the US counterpart when we have spent a trillion dollars in two wars and lost both.
I don’t know about your country but in my country 500 people a week are killed or seriously injured by cars.
Hells yeah it would! That's really great - it adds flexibility while not clobbering what other people value. What an elegant solution.
Spreading FUD isn't my intention. If anything I am hoping to alleviate the FUD that open-mindedly reading these documents and plans induce in my mind.

I appreciate and read the honest and detailed technical takes on the topic here.

Especially acknowledging uncertainty and a healthy amount of doubt are pretty essential to the epistemological pursuit. And fear may arise when the uncertainty and doubt are not dispelled with reason.
This is key. For small businesses, their web presence must require no ongoing costs, be in the same walled garden that the users look in, and no expertise to set up or edit.

Small businesses that have paid a web developer to make them a website rarely get a good return on their investment.
TikTok always get a lot of negativity because it's a cheap, easy joke to throw out there. Even I am guilty of abusing it this way. If you open a new account you get a lot of retarded videos, but if you stay for a while and let the blackbox algorithm work its magic then you can find some incredibly insightful videos, especially around topics of neurodivergence, mental health and gender/sexual diversity.
It took me longer than I care to admit to "get it".
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
Since it's a scripting language made first and formost for accesibility not for speed it was a great decission. Because you could create nearly all the data structures you needed using just array() and many of them superbly easily.
> This version has some special software that allows it install without repartitioning a Windows PC’s hard drive

If memory serves me right, it was still possible to install BeOS from that booted OS image file onto whole partition, at the same time wiping existing Windows installation.

Also I've run around Be FAQ site:

> Will the BeOS run on the "iTanium" processor?

Was that CPU really named with "i-thing" fashion back then?
Evolutionary outcomes reflect values you might not share
Another user asked but failed to get a reply. What should they do instead?

The old business model failed when people stopped buying physical newspaper copies and this is what they came up with. It was unpopular from the start and lead to many papers struggling, so I'm sure they've thought about alternatives harder than the average social media user. I'm all ears in case you have a good idea though. Remember the goal is getting money to pay the journalists and other expenses.
NY Post demonstrating its value as bird cage liner once again.

The Canadian telcos track cellphones and sell that info to anyone who will pony up the bucks. The data is aggregate and anonymous.

“Canada” did not track the phones, the cell providers tracked them.

Public Health Canada purchased this anonymous data to identify trends and outcomes, both to learn whether policies were effective, and to guide future policies.

Because that’s what a responsible public health administration does.
As I got further into my thirties, I became much more aware of the concept of opportunity cost: by deciding to do one thing, I'm by definition deciding to not do others. Running my own mail server is one task that has not made the cut for being more worthwhile than other priorities in my life.
> Have you ever had a job that works like that?

Yes, for many years. I do drone work on the side even today.

> help to build an expectation circuit that reinforces completion

It’s not a function of what I “expect” of myself - if anything, if I expect to complete something and fail to do so, I could enter a rapid self-reinforcing failure cycle that is extremely emotionally taxing and difficult to break out of.
I don't know where I heard it, but there was a story about a hammer-wielding bicycle gang that smashed up cars that weren't friendly to bicycles. Sort of like https://abc7ny.com/bikers-attack-car-bmw-attacked-flatiron-n.... When the police won't enforce the laws then I guess groups emerge that take matters into their own hands.
I don't know why but I was picturing you in all those scenarios with a pair of sun glasses because you sounds like badass.
Why would I discard my personal experience for someone else’s? Why would anyone expect me to?

It only takes a day to burn the bridge you spent a year building.
> In fact, whenever someone purchases or sells something, there are two objects being exchanged. One is a currency and the other being the object of sale. Supply and demand for the currency affects the price just as much as supply and demand for the thing being sold.

This philosophy of viewing currency itself as subject to supply/demand is literally one of the insights that led to Friedman’s philosophy. For example see the Great Depression where an insufficient supply of money was one of the primary factors.

(See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depressi...)
Ok, but I'm addressing this argument:

> Induction cook tops cost nearly $4k. A whole electric stove and oven for about $600. In NYC you need an expected profit margin of 5% to get a development loan, and that quite high for large real estate projects. Slapping and extra $3-$4k onto each unit just isn't going to work for most projects.

the cost of the cooktop and oven is not increasing by $3600. It's actually only increasing by $500.

Also 5% of a 800k condo unit is 40k.

Also your 5% profit margin is a bare minimum. In reality, I doubt any developer would do start any project unless they expected at minimum 15% margin.
And how did the twins do when one was raised in a culture of beliefs about fixed identity/personality vs a culture of normalized self-reinvention?
If you look at imdb user reviews, then many people seem to be saying it is trash.
Interesting, but that's a particular interpretation of work, isn't it? That's it's toiling at bailing out a sinking ship?

What if work is like growing a garden and the more you do the more you get?
Okay, the cynical quip is "All search engines other than Google's are 'non-profit'." :-) But the reasons for that won't fit in the margin here.

Building search engines are cool and fun! They have what seems like an endless source of hard problems that have to be solved before they are even close to useful!

As a result people who start on this journey often end up crushed by the lack of successes between the start and the point where there is something useful. So if I may, allow me to suggest some alternatives which have all the fun of building a search engine and yet can get you to a useful place sooner.

Consider a 'spam' search engine. Which is to say a crawler that you work to train on finding spammy useless web sites. Trust me when I say the current web is a "target rich environment" here. The purpose would be to not so much provide a search engine in total here, as it would be to provide something like the realtime black hole list did for email spam, come up with a list of URLs that could be easily checked with a modified DNS type server (using DNS protocol but expressly for the purpose of doing the query 'Is this URI hosting spam?' in a rapid fashion.

There are two "go to market" strategies for such a site. One is a web browser plugin that would either pop up an interstitial page that said, "Don't go here, it is just spam" when someone clicked on a link. Or a monkey-script kind of thing which would add an indication to a displayed page that a link was spammy (like set the anchor display tag to blinking red or something). The second is to sell access to this service to web proxies, web filters, and Bing which could in the course of their operation simply ignore sites that appeared on your list as if they didn't exist.

You will know you are successful when you are approached by shady people trying to buy you out.

Another might be a "fact finding" search engine. This would be something like Wolfram Alpha but for "facts." There are lots of good AI problems here, one which develops a knowledge tree based on crawled and parsed data, and one which answers factual queries like 'capital of alaska' or 'recipe for baked alaska'. The nice things about facts is they are well protected against the claim of copyright infringement and so people really can't come after you for reproducing the fact that the speed of light is 300Mkps, even if they can prove you crawled their web site to get that fact.
As a consumer, I am more interested in avoiding my disappointment, than their bankruptcy. I also understand that there are some problems that can not be solved by business alone, some will require changing consumer attitudes.
But at the time that urllib.parse was written, that 1999 spec WAS the official spec.
Don't know why we should casually dismiss these people? Small children in developed countries use the internet. Old and tribes people deserve access to knowledge. And prisoners/those under oppressive regimes.
Sounds like the buddha's middle path (that's a half serious remark). Those books also add that it's important to keep your thoughts, emotions, words and actions aligned, but like you say, nowhere those books say that you should express your opinion unprompted on every corner, and silence is a good answer when truth would only make things worse.
> AR/VR is needed

needed by whom and for what?

Metaverse?
Yes, this needs to be said. What the unvaccinated are doing right now is conducing a DDOS attack on the whole medical system. This is going to cost them dearly, but everybody else will also pay a steep price. Is it really your freedom, if other people have to pay for it with their lives?
Not to feed the trolls but here is one example:

Tumor Treating Fields are an FDA-approved mechanism for treating certain cancers (mostly gliomas). The exact mechanism isn’t understood, but it seems that prolonged exposure to low power alternating electrical fields in the 100-500kHz region interferes with cell mitosis [1]. I haven’t read about it recently but at the time the speculation was that it was basically disrupting microtubule formation by physically agitating polar molecules involved with the process.

The application from Optune and others uses contact electrodes to drive a small potential gradient though the skull and into the brain.

We know radio frequency also affects polar molecules, mostly to heat up meals. Obviously at multi-GHz carrier frequencies we wouldn’t expect to see this behaivor emerge. However, most digital protocols don’t operate with continuous carriers..the break comms into frames and do things like frequency hopping at much lower periodicity than the carrier. If there was something dumping energy into the cytoplasm on a 2-10 microsecond interval, it could have similar effects.

Do i think 5g is going to cure brain cancer? Probably not, but the body is ridiculously complex and can be surprising. I think we just have to find a way to be able to talk about these concerns fruitfully rather than just try to squash them, because that’s generally where the trouble seems to start.

1 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33080774/
s/scooters/cars in your last paragraph describes the vast majority of cities in the U.K
Sports Illustrated recently started sending me their full monthly magazine with my name on it, without a subscription. It also goes straight into the trash.

(For anyone thinking once a month doesn't sound too bad: Sports Illustrated has so many pages it stacks up to almost a centimeter thick)
Most musicians and artist make nothing from their music and art, yet folks are still making it.
3Blue1Brown Q&A
Employers who create full time positions that don't pay enough for people to live on create a social burden that the rest of society has to deal with.

That's the negative externality.
I know that the error rate of the oxford nanopore sequencer depends on GC content (guanine/cytosine nucleotides), and that the Pacific Biosciences sequencer uses a polymerase that gets worn down during reading. So there is some non-uniformity in the chemistry.
"Hackers, game, and crypto developers will enjoy “Resurrections” immensely. The general audience might have a more tepid reaction, since one has to be a coder to really get all the references and insider humor."
Org-Roam: A Year in Review
An archive of the company behind that tech [1], has this to say:

> Each car radio sends out a signal at a frequency higher than the one it is receiving from the radio station. When a car passes by one of the MobilTrak sensors, the sensor picks up on the signal to determine what the driver is listening to on the radio

And US6813475B1 seems to be the patent behind the tech.

If they ever really could find that sort of signal in the noise of the real world, I've got to imagine that improved tech for in-car radios, not to mention people listening to their phones via Bluetooth and SiriusXM, has rendered it even more broken.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020720075012/http://www.mobilt...
I'm starting a “1 year fit challenge”
I do not believe that "more" money will create jobs or homes. The bigger question is why does it make sense for companies to optimize for luxury apartments or mansions, that are well out of reach for most people. Why does our system of capitalism incentivize that? Should it not incentivize taking care of society? Why have workers wages been stagnant over the past decades?

It is clear that the capitalism practiced in America is starting to harm society at a fundamental level. Why does our government allow companies to pay wages that are so little people are basically ostracized from education, health care, and housing? That is messed up. Why does our government allow companies in the United States to benefit off of cheap labor in countries that do not treat their citizens fairly and exploit them? I'm not saying that I have all the answers here, because it is a complicated problem, but it is important to bring the obvious truths to the forefront.
> One possible reading is you were actually intending to defend the laws in the article (not threats), and then had to stealth-edit your racist post to be about threats after I called you out. Now you’re stuck in that position.

Please don’t get heated again. Silly comments about contacting the prime minister and deflecting by calling racism detract from your argument and make you seem quite immature.

It’s both sad and telling how you read “minorities will violently attack you in the street” from that message, rather than “people will call the police on you and you may loose your job or face other societal consequences in response to your speech”.

> One possible reading is you were actually intending to defend the laws in the article

Of course I am. To me it doesn’t make a difference if you’re legally allowed to say something but then immediately face legal consequences from saying that thing, and just not being legally allowed to say something. It’s one and the same.

And the laws are good. I’m ok with them. Unlike the US the UK has a very healthy and diverse press, despite having no constitutionally defined freedom of speech, and the courts are robust and generally sensible.

So whatever, you’ve got to face consequences of your actions. If you want to go and send racist stuff to footballers then you’ll be banned from football. Cool. 100% down with that.
What are some specific examples? The main I could think of would be green belts and parks in the suburbs, not watering state park forests.
Id argue that the telco industry tried, and failed, as opposed to not trying at all. ATT for example sent a boatload of people on training from Georgia tech, invested massively in automation... and couldn't pull it off.

I also blame the industry for missing the point on the whole pivot to virtualization. For those of you not in telco, telcos got together in 2012 and said, "how can we be more nimble like the cool kids?" and concluded that virtualizing everything, was the way to go, as if all it took was a vm and a k8s pod. Really it was about culture and supply chain, but that's a whole other story.
The road outside my house was there on the oldest deeds I have, from 1830. Was that built for cars? What about the roads in town that were mentioned in writings in the 1400s?
So, how long before I can take my DNA "ROM" file and boot it in an emulator that would allow it to grow?
Indeed, in practice the logN factor can only get so big, even if N is taken to be the number of particles in the observable universe.
That's really tragic, and I'm sorry that happened to the two of you. It sounds though like there were undiagnosed issues at hand - ADD won't really give someone anxiety about speeding (if anything, it will cause them to do it more, either from hyperfocus on the task of driving or by lack of focus on the speedo).

I know amphetamines can also nominally 'treat' things like depression and anxiety, by dumping reward chemicals into the brain (but, as it seems happened here, also exacerbate a latent set of bad behaviors). You really don't want to make someone who's afraid of the world / mad at the world / frustrated with the world more motivated, which is the essence of how a lot of ADD meds work.
> Question for you OS geeks: did we take the good things learned from BeOS and implement them in Windows/Linux/macOS?

Somewhat of an aside, but I wish there existed a kind of "encyclopedia" of operating system features (both UI and otherwise, with a special emphasis on "dead ends" like BeOS), that pulled together demos and documentation into one exhaustive reference.

It seems like a lot of good ideas get lost is the sea of lowest common denominator solutions, and an ecyclopedic reference would make it easier to resurrect those ideas.
Once your outbound mail leaves your server, it's destiny is out of your control. And you don't have full transparency into the processes your inbound mail has been subjected to. That's in the nature of email. It's orthogonal to running your own server.
"It's simply not possible for an average person like me to make that kind of money."

Putting these sort of limitations on yourself, from my experience, will dampen the effort that you put in to achieve new levels, if you even try at all. That reduced effort will result in exactly what you predicted for yourself.

So, begs the question, what sort of effort have you put in to increase your pay past the median dev salary.
“It’s okay to take profits and not hodl forever.” Does this make Alex Taub a we
What you are saying is true of only a handful of business units in these companies. The rest of the supporting engineering staff does like 5-30 hours of actual work per week and some of the most stress comes from feeling under utilized or unimportant.
I have been watching it in 15 minute segments. It is pretty good.

Keanu Reeves and Carie-Anne Moss have a nice 30 minute interview on YouTube about making the sequel. I recommend the interview.
Yes, but when you read the reviews, it seems that people who are Matrix fans also don't like it.
Problem is (for me at least), after wearing a VR headset for 30 minutes my face starts looking like a raccoon's. Weight is an issue, especially for battery powered headsets.
Nope, even as a coder for 40 years, worked at and ran startups etc, so get the jokes.. it was …. A bit pants.
In London adverts bring in less than 10% of the firebox revenue. Rather than spend £2.30 on a journey charge £2.50 and you’re set.
Send a Gun to Defend a British Home!

At the beginning of WW2 the British populace had been largely disarmed and civilians had no means to defend themselves against an expected German invasion. So Americans organized a charity drive to donate small arms and ammunition to the British Home Guard. They were expected to continue as a resistance if the military was defeated.

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/vintage-saturday-send-a-gun...
“Decomposition” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “Decentralised”