skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bandaid that avoids solving the harder problem of trust/spam. It is such design patterns that make a fundamentally open/federated protocol more centralized, exacerbating the problem.

Personally, I think the use of proof-of-work like methods can mitigate the problem by a large extent, making it computationally expensive to spam users. This was one of the original goals of what has now become the "blockchain" revolution. Is anyone aware of any projects that are still implementing similar (open) systems?
I don't disagree with this. SQL keeps the world turning.
True, I feel like removing 90 percent of my non-work internet usage would be very helpful.
I've changed the title above to try to say what the article is about, using your wording here (but edited to fit HN's 80-char limit). In cases like this we try to avoid references to personalities. (We also try to avoid acronyms where possible, which is why I said 'multi-page apps' instead of 'MPAs'.) If there's a better title, i.e. a more accurate and neutral one, we can change it again.
I want to know which countries had the biggest rise in laptop and desktop computer users.

In many 3rd world countries people only use the Internet to access Facebook and WhatsApp on their smartphones.
Cryptocurrency is meant to be analogous to physical cash.

Cash is not designed to prevent theft, most theft of monetary instruments throughout history has been through confiscation of gold or cash. They exist as physical quantities in the physical universe -- anti-theft features (as opposed to anti-counterfeiting) measures do not exist, nor can they. It is just a rock or some hemp-cotton paper. Likewise, cryptocurrency exists in the computation universe as a state in a peer to peer consensus, and controlled by knowledge of large integers in the integer universe. Anti-theft features do not exist, nor can they. Its just an integer.

Its not about a positive or negative aspect, they do not apply, anti-theft as a concept is an out-of-band mechanism. Primarily a state violence backed model. It works for most.
Cash, Gold and Bitcoin, its just a boring token of value. It is the ecosystem around it that provides the ability to enforce 'anti-theft'.
This was one of my favorite recent reads.

The most tangible tech related thing it made me think about is Google News. There are reasons to dislike the service (or the beast behind it), but at the end of the day, it’s a great way to help break your own personal political ethos bubble. Read the headlines of CNN right next to FOX. Consider the angles. On that point, I’d love to find a non-FAANG alternative that does the aggregation as well as Google. Anyone have suggestions?

Separately, I will quibble with this:

“ I’ve never understood why the debate our education has focused so heavily on the type of school (private, public, parochial, charter, etc.). Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the quality of education?”

He’s grossly glossing over the socio-economic subtleties. Those ARE ultimately meant to be debates about quality — and about how quality education can be delivered at mass, fairly and justly.
I grew up in Atlanta Georgia, a place that is notoriously bad at dealing with snow [1], and never thought I would live in a place worse at snow than Atlanta. Then, after nearly a decade in New York City (a place that has snow on lock. In Brooklyn, it’ll snow 18 inches and the sidewalks and roadways will be clear by 5am. And the city is even better!), I moved to Seattle.

Seattle is worse at snow than Atlanta, something I didn’t think was possible. I avoided most of the 2019 snowpacalypse because I was in Australia (I smartly changed my flight and flew to LA early so I wasn’t stranded in the airport when the snow really hit like some of my colleagues…spending a day at Disneyland instead of worrying about making my connection to my 15-hour flight to Sydney was one of the smarter travel decisions I’ve ever made), but I was in Bellevue of all places before it really came down for a work-offsite, but it was icy and there were drifts, and it was shocking to me how poorly even the commercial areas dealt with ice and snow. I had to have my husband bring my snow boots from NYC to where I was staying 12 miles away (at The W) so that I wouldn’t break my neck walking across the street from the hotel to the venue of the off-site. I understand the lack of infrastructure, but it was again, worse than Atlanta. And Atlanta is a city that doesn’t have mountains/ski resorts nearby.

Last year, it snowed a bit and they were downright negligent about clearing out the snow and ice in front of my luxury apartment building/the busy sidewalk, making it nearly impossible to even leave (even by car, let alone if you were trying to walk). A lot of that was on the building owner, but the city was equally negligent with its lack of attempts to make streets accessible by foot or by car. A girl at UW died in 2019 because the school both didn’t put out proper signage for ice and didn’t do the rational thing and try to de-ice campus.

Like I said, I never thought I’d see a city handle snow worse than Atlanta. But the PNW (and Seattle especially) certainly does.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/atlanta-snow...
Back in the day - I used to mod the non-EE versions, but now I just play the EE ones.

'Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!'

NWNEE looks good, I played also Tides of Numenara, which is a 'spiritual successor' of Planescape Torment.
Often this deeper analysis is done on children and the 15 minute thing a quick initial screener :)

I had a bunch of assessment in early childhood but I didn't figure out what exactly my set of issues were until I got assessed by a very good neuropsych later in life. I really wish I knew about this stuff in late childhood, would've explained a lot more! It's also sad that there are not many good neuropsychs out there and it's hard to evaluate who is good for most people.

One thing for the other intelligent people out there, your intelligence can often mask that you are not performing to your full potential, because it compensates and makes you perform 'good enough'. Unfortunately our medical system is more orientated towards fixing the people who's lives are in a mess vs people who are just OK, so those who hobble along often don't get the help they need. Sometimes wish there was an equivalent of doctor that focuses on making people perform their best vs. good enough sometimes, kind of like a coach.
> When snow falls in western WA, the fall at the start gets melted by the ground, and the refreezes as the following fall hits it. This results in an ice layer covered in snow.

Which is why cities that competently deal with snow begin salting immediately when it starts snowing.
Who is “we”, though? This information used to be available in school libraries in Poland, and didn’t result in anything dangerous. If “we” is US, then it’s obviously not working.
You are forgetting about aquifer depletion.
> Read Foreign Newspapers

Depends on which ones... gets a little dispiriting to realize I just labored through what was actually a Japanese translation of an article from Reuters originally written in English.

In a wider sense, if you're actively trying to go against the grain of society, they've already got you, in a way.
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis is a starting point (book), but iirc it was able to show most common indicators aren't able to reject the null hypothesis.
Discussed a bit a long time ago:

Ask Hacker News Weekly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157700 - Jan 2011 (8 comments)
Yeah, chaos would have been a better word to use.
How do hedge inflation?
I grew up in Michigan where snow is a regular occurance. Driving on ice at any speed feels safe, right up until the point it isn't. A lesson that is learned by dozens of drivers every winter who line the ditches of I-94 in their 4WD vehicles that lack 4-wheel stop on ice.
Sounds like a fediverse project?
That often it's enough ?

You don't need jumbo jet to deliver pizzas locally.
It was brought up once of the possibility it was intended to support matrix URIs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rosx5i/comment...

I hope they didn’t fix one bug without considering its impact to other features.
I also have serious doubts about Google's spam fighting. While they catch a lot of spam in the spam folder, they are simultaneously overzealous, catching normal emails that I receive and read regularly, and underprepared, as if putting myusername@aol.com and sending the email to Gmail servers isn't totally obvious spam.
Austin, TX long ago passed a law that said a billboard can be used to advertise only for the business on the parcel of land where the billboard is physically located. Thus, a car repair shop could have a billboard advertising themselves, but they are not allowed to lease it out to advertise, say, a tanning salon that is not on the same site.

At the time it was passed, any existing billboards were granted an exemption, and can be leased to show arbitrary ads. There has been a trend to replace those billboards with digital versions. Austin passed a law to prevent such conversions, but it has been challenged up to the Supreme Court, as the advertising companies which own all those "analog" billboards claim their first amendment rights have been violated.

https://www.kut.org/austin/2021-11-09/austins-billboards-sup...
I don't change my own oil anymore, but I imagine that it's just barely picked up some color-- Honda specifies synthetic and it's only a few hundred miles per change.

Pretty soon I'm going to be out of warranty and I'm going to stretch the oil change interval a bit beyond what they suggest-- 16 mos instead of a year. It just feels wasteful.
Desmond Tutu views were incredibly consistant and technical, rather than emotional. Policy of Israel is driven by the need to maintain a Jewish majority franchise, should not need to explain why, however the simple demographics of the Arabs would quickly create Arab majority in Israel if Israel were to acknowlege soverentiy over the occupied territories or even permit the return of refugees.

An outcome like the above is of course clearly completely unacceptble, locally and in the west.

However Israel cannot allow even those territories to become independant because that would require giving up security control, control over valuable land and other natural resources like water. No nation gives away its territory easily!

So current status quo with the territories must be maintained!
Same way secret “security courts” are just what’s called kangaroo courts when it happens outside the US. Yet another example of double standards.
> each request starts with an empty state

Strange place to post such a … misguided stance. HTMX regularly brags about how it’s meant to be used to mutate the DOM the user already has loaded, thru custom HTML attributes handled by their JS framework.

You’re just arguing in favor of HTML, but HTMX is trying to have their cake and eat it too. JS-level state is clearly easier to manage than DOM-level.
AGES 0–17 IN THE UNITED STATES
You are free to leave the internet.

But most people who did not used the internet, probably had other reasons for not being online, yet.

So why not give them a chance to explore the internet as a tool and not addiction?
I'd love to see a study comparing the attention spans, anxiety level, and overall mental health of that 37% relative to the other 63%. They might be slightly less informed, but I'd bet significantly healthier (mentally).
I wasn't actually suggesting people do that. I'm saying that many people who claim to know how to drive in the snow come from places where it snows a lot, but they don't have Western Washington hilly terrain and their streets are regularly plowed, sanded, etc. Hence, they have not actually driven in the snow. The safest way to drive in the snow is to stay home.
Yep sorry. Autocorrect.
Americans pay more in taxes to provide subsidies that make beef cheaper. https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...
My bad for getting the title wrong. This one: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Age-Statistical-Inference-Ma.... You can pick the student edition too if you’d like exercises.
>By silencing others you’re simply depriving yourself of your own right to hear them out.

Why do we need to hear racists and bigots out? Their garbage opinions are neither novel nor of value to society, and the groups they target are well aware of the prejudice exists against them.
that guy is a genius
Don't forget about the Ogallala reservoir in the mid west.

http://duwaterlawreview.com/crisis-on-the-high-plains-the-lo...
Oh it wasn't an accident of marketing, it was meant to fool and confuse people on purpose. Mission Accomplished.
>Yes, this post will be about Virtual Reality, which will change the whole computing world. Wanna know how?

Not really. It's just another hype, out of dozens peddled over the years... It's not gonna "change the whole computing world" anytime soon, any more than "voice interfaces" did (a previous hype).
> 40 is not an adequate sample size. Not even close.

Last time I looked for a study of a similar subject (I think I was looking for speed comparison between T9 and multi-tap input), it was something like that too: 30 or 50 students given a short exercise. And then subdivided in several categories (T9 / multitap x novice / average /expert), which brought the size of each group way below 10. The measuring criteria were also a bit weird, concentrating on the number of errors and not on the time to get a correct result. They were surprised that they were getting sensibly different results from a former study they were quoting, which was also using ridiculously low sample size...

I didn't find a proper study on that subject. I thought it would be easy to find, as it didn't seem to be a niche subject at all: on something that was in use by 100 of millions people... I was a bit appalled that such crappy papers were published, but even more by the fact that no good one was. No-one decided to run a proper one after seeing the poor ones. And don't get me started on 'meta' studies (there was one) which push the limits of laziness even further since they do no study at all and even don't reproduce or improve a former one; packing a variety of crappy studies doesn't make a good one, no more than running bloody abstract statistics over figures which were not harvested using similar methodology in the first place.
Can crunch impacts small breweries
You'd be surprised at how many software companies' testing is "clicking around in the app", deployment is "upload to store/ rsync to server" and containers aren't used at all.

Not only that - a non-dockerized, bare-metal, but otherwise cleanly coded "rsync to server" app can be -- compared to the usual non-spec'd, undocumented cluster-f hairball shoved into a container, with a shiny layer of CICD thrown on top -- can be surprisingly joyful to maintain.
The tech for perfect VR already exists: it’s called “the real world.” Seriously, go outside once in a while. Stop trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
> If you want these people to replace their 5s cars with hybrids you need to offer 5s hybrids.

These are readily available.
yes. if you wanted to annotate your genome you could “easily” do it on your brand new macbook (this is ram intensive, you probably need 32G). you’d need a reference genome, like https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/genome-bottle

then you’d need a program like bwa http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/ to map your data.

then use https://samtools.github.io/bcftools/howtos/variant-calling.h... or something else to produce variants from the mapping results.

then compare your resultant vcf file to something like dbSNP: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/

at this point you can start generating a raw version of a 23andMe report.
Totally! It’s 85 and 75 and 316!

What bothered me more was how one chase scene (I can’t remember which one) went in like the wrong direction. I love the film, but seeing them get so many details about Atlanta almost right and then get location/direction stuff wrong was pretty funny for someone born and raised in Atlanta. I imagine it’s how LA people must feel all the time!
Quoted before income tax and employee national insurance (50%ish) and after employer national insurance (13%). Most people seem to forget about that extra 13 since it disappears before the 'gross' number on the payslip.
Yep. Though it does not snow a ton here in Western Washington, we go skiing in the Cascade passes. So I have deducted snow tires for our vehicles. They are the biggest difference maker in my opinion.
Defense forces in some places serve in other defense capacities outside of military conflict. I would say they are quite desirable even in places you mentioned
Where I live all the pubs have outdoor areas and table service, and frankly that's a nicer experience for hanging out with mates than being cramped in line at the bar anyway.

Not mingling indoors does not preclude pubs, socialising or hanging out with people in person.

I see from your comment history that you really enjoyed the commutes, going to an office job with others in the s/w industry. I'm like you in that regard: I was excited to start a job commuting into London on a daily train, because I really enjoy that part, the travel, the people, the vibe of the crowds. It's an excellent time to break out a book. I'd spent too long doing WFH and wanted a job in an office.

But things changed. You don't know my circumstances, but suffice to say my family faced a realistically high chance of death or disability if they got Covid due to particular pre-existing conditions. So of course I'd be a selfish arsehole if I carried on a commute in those circumstances.
Unemployment and Social Security are insurance programs. You didn't "do nothing", you paid premiums (either directly as with SS, or indirectly through your employer in the case of UI). Would you say that receiving an insurance pay-out if your house burns down is being "given money for doing nothing"?

Unemployment in particular is normally only available if you are laid off through no fault of your own and are actively looking for work. "Looking for work" does not mean you have to accept absolutely any possible job that comes along, you are allowed to continue looking for jobs that suit your skills and experience.
How you say what you perceive as the truth matters a lot. For example, saying “I believe this to be true” has a different effect then saying “ this is the truth.”

Providing the reasoning behind conclusions can also help- “I believe that unlimited migration is harmful to those poorest of those already here and that the rule of law is incredibly important, so I’m opposed to extending a path to citizenship” or “all human beings deserve the same dignity and from a practical standpoint an undocumented immigrant that has been working, paying taxes, and staying out of trouble is
more worthy of citizenship than many who gained it simply at birth, so I support a pathway to citizenship.”

Both statements may still be problematic depending on the circumstances (where depending on the circumstances, the best option may be to say nothing) but they are far better than saying “illegal immigrations wrong” or “giving people a pathway to citizenship is the right thing to do.”
this might not be the best site to start that particular argument on because you will find a lot of people who would sign exactly what you're trying to say sarcastically, namely that cars are a menace to urban life and cities that get rid of them should be applauded.

And if you've never been annoyed by scooters you are lucky, because when that craze started in my city not only were people driving them like maniacs, they left them on sidewalks to the point where people were so pissed off they just started to throw them into the river.
1. Not sure. There are likely some cost savings if you don’t need road hardware and use temporary trailers or flatbeds to move them. You also wouldn’t need the water and waste tanks. Maybe some of that could go towards better insulation.

2. Yep, absolutely.
> It's easy to forget that you have to drive two displays. Double the resolution, half the framerate, double the nausea

nVidia had rendering pipeline optimizations for multi-view VR for years: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/turing-multi-view-renderin...

It's safe to assume that a future VR-focused product from Apple will support similar features
https://isitsnowinginpdx.com/

The site owner doesn't enforce HTTPS for some reason but supports it at the same time.
Make it open source and syndicate it. The goal is to get people to contribute both resources and code. Think about the Shopify as the model. Where many people contribute to create a huge shopping place. People care about their shop only but ultimately they create a useful shopping area.

Also setup a foundation to guide its development and be able to hire a management team.

The real challenge is not the code development but setting up an organization that will outlast all the challenges that will appear. Wikipedia is the model to follow.
Yup - it's probably the most resilient innovation in software out there, right after assembly language.
Taking the book example further, I’ve often found that doing something I don’t like in the moment can more than make up for it in long term happiness or skills gained. Skiing is a good example for me. I hated skiing, hated learning it, hated driving out to the mountain to do it. After putting in a lot of work, now I absolutely enjoy it and look forward to it seasonally and treasure all the memories I have created.
What is to say you can't have both? Cameras and overlaying the display with the real world is already being done. Simply throwing up a work env as a HUD around the real world isn't at all beyond the reach of cures t tech.

So you can see your dog and natural light, and have everything overplayed by an HMD as AR around you.
Obviously you'll buy two and switch between them whenever they die.
Maybe in research for disease or other things, but in my opinion labeling people doesn’t turn out well. Communist, socialist, fascist, etc. Disabled, gay, straight, white, brown, black; those labels don’t help much. Even labels like engineers vs. developers causes friction. Sure, medical doctors can use labels to separate people so that they can then investigate within a group what’s causing some disease, but a hundred years ago they used to label certain people as having a disease where today we see was incorrect, like labeling promiscuous women or labeling someone we might see today as autistic as having a problem with their brain that caused them to be inferior. You can’t always just take the rational approach that labels don’t cause real issues, since not everyone is rational. Labels cause problems when applied too liberally, and making sense of the world isn’t always necessary in that respect. We need to focus on what’s important, not always categorizing every little thing based on our idea of importance we assign to those labels. Labels have a way of sticking, and mislabeling things can’t always be corrected.
Nice! Thankyou for the links. I will research all of this.
I agree, we interviewed some potentially skilled people that just didn't interview well. Even when I interview, I must have someone give me several warm up interviews.
HOWl is a good idea.. either it will catch on and make web development fun again, or it will at least force the JS ecosystem to wake up and fix its terrible tooling and bloat.
Bankrupty process is well understood. Let someone else pick up their physical assets at a good price and build back better.