skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interpretations can differ, obviously, but I wouldn't say that was a borderline call. Your comment was snarky and aggressive on a divisive topic. That's a flamewar comment.

There's an interesting phenomenon where, in responding to moderation comments, people often explain what they originally meant in a form that would have been much better to say in the first place. It seems to me you did that here:

> pandemics are a PvE (Player vs Environment) game, not PvP (Player vs Player) game.

That's an interesting observation which could have formed the nucleus of a thoughtful comment. However, you didn't post anything like that in the GP. The trouble is that you (I don't mean you personally, but all of us) have your meaning in your head, but the rest of us don't have access to that, so if it's to come across, you need to explain it explicitly. Making a snarky comment that somehow presupposes your meaning doesn't do this. That is, it does it for the person speaking (who has access to the implicit meaning) but for everyone else, only the snark comes across, not the argument. For best results, you should include the argument and drop the snark. That's what the site guidelines are trying to get at.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How can they tell it’s a discussion forum? Does the scraped search spam that copies stack overflow content look enough like a discussion it fools their heuristics? Is it a manual process (in which case you can bet it “doesn’t scale” and won’t be built) this is the problem they face. Literally nothing is simple given the size of their dataset, the scope of their user base, and the adversarial nature of the very world around them generating new data they must work with in order to do the job.

There’s definitely an element of “we got our profit so fuck it” with respect to the search engine advertising business and Google’s incentives to make search quality better, but that doesn’t change the difficulty of the underlying problem. If I wanted to pay Google $5 per search for super high quality results, even $50, they can’t just make this product better to get my money, they are fighting an ongoing war against adversarial SEO which prevents this from ever being better than stalemate at best or more likely due to economics, the slow slide into declining quality we see due to the SEO side having more money with which to pay for engineering brainpower.
When the search engine is funded by ads, there is incentive to produce results that people who click ads like.
I like this book related to the subject.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198856/it-was-the-b...
As an African, born and bred who "looks like I came from Africa", I really really hate it when a European person writes about Africa. They tend to end up writing things like the energy and enthusiasm of the African people is inspiring as hell with no clue whatsoever how immensely condescending and patronizing that comes across. Let me transliterate that so you have a little bit of an idea: the energy and enthusiasm of European people is inspiring as hell. I know the poster is probably well meaning yet the post comes off ironically in exactly what the essay is describing - as if the poster didn't read that before saying their piece about "Africa"
“Work will never love you back”
I get this for short haul flights, but I can’t imagine not having to pee over the course of a >12h flight…
> two years should have been enough for the producers to ramp up the production

Along with what Kliment said about not investing in building capacity, I don't think this specific statement is necessarily true. Many of the original factors that caused these setbacks in the first place are still ongoing: everyone is still trying to catch up, and demand is still outstripping supply almost everywhere, for many, many products; worker mobility is still extremely limited (across countries and regions) because of the ongoing pandemic, so it's not trivial to ramp up.

Short of investing in that capacity and expanding into new regions, I'm sure it hasn't been easy to actually ramp up production again, and changes in customer demand and patterns are still shaking out. (And even for those companies which have been investing into ramping production, two years can be the low end to start seeing returns on investments: plants take time to build, resources need to be allocated and transported, new employees may need to be trained, etc.)
The electrical code is surprisingly readable, and building a small shed with power, to code, is not substantially more expensive or time consuming than building it not to code. UF-B and plain THWN-2 wire are not very expensive, especially for a short run. A second conduit is cheap. Ground rods are cheap, although installing them can be annoying. A disconnect switch is maybe $150 and is an extremely polite thing to have if a firefighter shows up and wants to disconnect a structure.

Moldy Romex wire in a flooded conduit next to some random intended-for-indoor use Cat 6 cable with insulation that may degrade when wet is asking for trouble. 50mA leakage into that Cat 6 cable will kill you 100% dead under the wrong circumstances but will not trip a conventional breaker.
No, Apple is at least partially successful because it’s a luxury brand. That’s not the same as more expensive=better. The Apple comparison is also dumb because even if you think they’re overpriced, they aren’t priced arbitrarily high and there’s a tangible difference between an Apple product and competitors. Compare that to wine, coffee and audio equipment that fails to be differentiated in blind tests.
Honda's Y2022 Time Issues
2022... My 2010 Honda car clock reverted back to 2002 and the time is wrong. Its not just me. It seems to get the time from the GPS with no manual override. The car and gps otherwise function normally but the time fluctuates wildly. Remember to test that time field!
I ran a business with similar or better numbers for 20 years with the same attitude. I have a number of disabled family members to care for permanently so my use of profits was very different. Also I was raised in skakey circumstances so I’m insecure.

Bearing those things in mind it was enormously helpful for me to pay off my mortgage ASAP.

The next step is certainly overkill for most. I also bought a farm nearby with cash in case of... more global problems, which have concerned me since my childhood in the turbulent 70s.

The farm is surpassingly tranquil and beautiful. It has made my life much better and has coincidentally extended my working life enough to launch a third career in my 7th decade.

I made all of these choices out of insecurity but we had consciously chosen an economically diverse enough place to live (Seattle area) that they also turned out to be sound investments.
> The world economy was set up to grow which requires a constant growing population. What we're in for is a long term global population decline, maybe starting as soon as 2040. With lengthening life spans (covid aside) you have a younger generation perpetually having to do the work for more and more people as the elder generation ages out of the workforce but still needs to be fed, entertained, and cared for. It isn't "temporary" but could last centuries.

I think the parent is thinking longer term where "centuries" is temporary. Over a longer time horizon like this it's pretty clear that "an economy set up to grow" isn't sustainable in that we have finite resources and thus cannot grow infinitely. Which leads to the opposite conclusion to yours: that we need not to have a constant growing population (ideally over the long term it should be a roughly stable population).
Thanks for the extra options!
I'm interested in helping, I could handle the Laravel part as I mostly use Laravel. What is the best way to get into contact?
If not acacia then a groce of baobab, ideally with a giraffe in silhouette.
Target | Full Stack Lead Engineer - Cyber Security | Minneapolis (Brooklyn Park), MN or Remote (US) Full-time
https://jobs.target.com/job/brooklyn-park/lead-engineer-secu...

New job posting for a Lead Engineer to work in our group. Javascript and Node.js heavy. Vue.js experience is great, but not required. GCP experience also great. Work on new and existing tooling to monitor our internal and external web facing attack surface and look for threats to our org and our guests. It's a role in Cyber Security but no security experience is required. Great role for a developer looking to get into the security space.

If you're a developer who enjoys bug bounties, reverse engineering malicious code, trying to get APIs to do things they're not supposed to, etc this may be a great fit for you. Remote available with minimal travel required (typically just quarterly onsites for planning, etc). Flexible work arrangements for onsite workers.

Very small team that will be moving fast with minimal overhead and lots of room for innovation and testing out novel ideas.
Don't forget that default memcpy() produces a "hard edge", and if you change your audio player to C++ new it will sound better.

https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/11/11997...
There are multiple different biosafety levels for labs. All else being equal, a leak is more likely from a BSL-2 facility than a BSL-4 facility. Perhaps all such research should be limited to BSL-4?
ClassDojo | Senior Engineer (Backend or Fullstack), Director of Engineering | Fully REMOTE (Americas timezones) | competitive compensation & equity | https://www.classdojo.com/jobs/

ClassDojo is a widely loved K-8 communication tool for teachers, children, and families used in > 90% of US K-8 schools. We're on a mission to give every child on earth an education they love.

- fully remote

- small cross-functional teams

- tech: TypeScript, React, Flutter, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Terraform, HAProxy, AWS

- engineering values: https://engineering.classdojo.com/about

https://www.classdojo.com/jobs/
Most comments focus on the technical side of things, whereas I'm sure there are also legal restrictions involved in this. If Google delists a website on the grounds that it's a copycat of stack overflow, or because they have low quality content according to Google's taste, there might be lawsuits filed against Google, claiming that the company is discriminating.
Just give users the ability to blacklist domains when searching; pretty soon you'll have a decent list of what users consider worthless.

And pintrest would die.
From https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/at-will-e...

> Employment relationships are presumed to be “at-will” in all U.S. states except Montana. The U.S. is one of a handful of countries where employment is predominantly at-will.

> At-will means that an employer can terminate an employee at any time for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no reason without incurring legal liability.

Also, retaining a lawyer is prohibitively expensive for much of the workforce (even with free consultations, and excluding public options like filing complaints with labor bodies)
The knowledge of how much you spent on equipment alters the subjective experience of listening.
If I remember correctly, it used to be called About.com - with categorized and human curated links.

It was big during the dot com days, but withered after Google.

Interestingly, I do think that that model may need to be revisited.

Edit: I feel that Reddit is filling some of this need, at least for things like Vaccuum and Espresso machines with dedicated spaces.
Snowflake | Software Engineers, Senior Product Manager | Onsite/Hybrid | Full Time | Berlin, DE (relocation possible) | https://snowflake.com

We're looking to expand our presence in Berlin across our product teams. The Berlin office is one of five engineering centers globally and is growing very quickly. We work on tons of different parts of the core Snowflake platform; however, our mission is to make Snowflake more flexibile and more performant.

In particular, I'm looking to add a Principal Software Engineer to my team to help drive some strategic projects. You'll get to work with some of the best minds in database technology and distributed systems and help drive technical vision for a team of 20+ engineers.

I also promised a colleague that I'd plug the Senior Product Manager role that he has open! We're looking to add a high-level Product Manager to help expand the types of workloads we support. We currently only have one product manager so you'd be part of the "founding" product management team.

Senior Product Manager: https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/5685575002/Senior-Pr...

Principal Software Engineer: https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/5243880002/Principal...

Obviously, we have tons of other roles open in Berlin and across the globe. I'm happy to chat about those as well. Email in bio.
Or more people could grow their own food.
There's a fascinating French video (1947) that presages smartphones and even hints at the accompanying distraction they bring about:

https://youtu.be/ZKfOcR7Qbu4?t=30
Holding back on food is fine, but you should try to stay adequately hydrated while flying, especially longer flights where you may be more susceptible to deep vein blood clots.
How hard is spam, really. If you're Google?
Here's what I would do as a heuristic (uh, not evil?):
We know everything about you and everywhere you've visited and everyone you've talked to in the last 60 days. We know all their phone numbers and email addresses. We even know the girl's phone number you met at the bar, who didn't give you her phone number. So if any of those people email you, we'll categorize that as "not spam".
Also, if it's your boss or a coworker, "not spam".
If it's a major company that's existed for more than ten years, not spam.
Everyone else, spam.
Done.

This is hyperbolic, right? But they can solve spam in a split second, if they just admit they're watching you all the time.

[edit] /s thx for reading to the end, folks.
Thank you for naming the organizations. Keeping them anonymous just allows this sort of behavior to go unchecked (and unverifiable).
Handheld phones and video calls were easy to predict by extrapolation. No-one predicted Twitter, social media, usenet, forums and the idea of things going 'viral' because that requires a complete paradigm shift to 'anyone can publish'. It's a fundamental of how the world works now but it wasn't on anyone's radar 50 years ago as anything possible, useful or interesting.
Dave Plummer CTRL-Alt-DEL: The Secret History of the Three Finger Salute
10 You need to talk to a good CPA, immediately.
20 You need to talk to a good CPA with experience in startups, immediately.
30 You need to talk to a good CPA and tax attny w/experience in small biz, immediately.

Here's the rough picture from my experience as part or full owner of several corps in my career, "S", "C", and/or LLCs (I'm not a lawyer or tax attny, so this is just experience to give a rough idea, not advice):

My experience has been that the profits from LLCs and "S"-Corporations go to your personal bottom line. If you are the sole owner, there's essentially no difference for tax purposes between you being a sole proprietor. So, it doesn't matter where you keep the money (biz acct or yours) or for purposes of the amount of tax you'll owe that year.

To retain earnings in the corp, you'll likely need a "C" corp, and then pay taxes at the corp level. This is often sub-optimal, as you'll pay taxes on a corporate level, and then to yourself as dividends when you later take money out of the corp.

You definitely need to GoTo Line 10,20 and 30. Things will definitely differ depending on what stare you are in, and with your particular situation. There may be many optimizations that are available to you. In your situation, it would be good to talk to several and interview them.

Also, if you continue to do that well, start talking to good trust & estate attnys, especially if you have a family. When I say good, I mean good - seek out the top in the industry. The top ones are fundamentally better than the typical local T&E shops (these will give you a far better plan than nothing, but...).

Congratulations on your good skill and fortune, and I hope you do well!
Transportant | Electrical Engineer | USA | Full-Time/Flexible | Kansas City but REMOTE | $120k-$180k

Transportant provides hardware and software to make k12 student transportation transparent, safe, and efficient for students, parents, bus drivers, teachers and administrators. This includes providing high speed on bus wifi for students, bus status notifications to parents and students via mobile apps, cameras with live streaming audio and video, turn-by-turn directions for substitute drivers, ridership tracking and management, and added safety sensors.

Started by 20 year veterans of the software security, supply chain, and mobile industries, Transportant is a small but senior technical team. Our customers are school systems across USA and Canada and are overjoyed with modern UX for transportation.

We're hoping to meet an electrical engineer to review and help iterate our hardware. This role could be full time or contract.

Responsibilities:

- Assisting in physical product life cycle of our hardware (currently designing v4 hardware):

- Architecture & design (including component selection, board layout, enclosure, cabling, and connections)

- Testing & Manufacturing (working with partners to improve manufacturability, inspecting and critiquing test runs)

- Troubleshooting (identifying problems, down to the component level)

- Monitor, evaluate, and improve production & vehicle installation processes

Requirements:

- Have been involved with product development cycles of semi complex electronics with deployment at scale

- Proficient use of common electronics tools and diagnostic instrumentation

- Clear written documentation skills

- Non-required bonus: skill with embedded development

Application process is fast and simple: initial video conf with founders -> small work sample test or discussion of related previous projects -> offer/decline. No whiteboard tests! Please send an email to build@transportant.com to start the conversation.
To some extent, I worry that the problem with search engines is that there isn't any data worth returning. Yesterday's thread talked a lot about reviews. Writing a review is hard work that requires deep domain expertise, experience with similar products, and months of testing. If you want a review for something that came out today, there is no way that work could have been done, so there simply isn't anything to find. Instead you'll get a list of "Best TVs 2021" or whatever, with some blurb and an affiliate link, not an actual review. That's what people can make for free with a day's notice, so if you write a search engine that discards those sites, that's fine, you'll just return "no results" for every interesting query.

I guess what I'm saying is that if you want better reviews, you probably want to start writing reviews and figuring out how to sell them for money. Many have tried, few have succeeded. But there probably isn't some Javascript that will fix this problem.
Fast and reliable API for Google scraping
I said this in a similar thread yesterday, but I think this is an unsolvable problem because much of the content either no longer exists in website form or is old.

To put it simply, a new generation of the people who used to make the reliable niche websites that not just answered your questions but also helped you learn a particular topic have moved to youtube instead.

Google search is hollowing out as a result with the meat going and the SEO'd fluff that kinda answers the question but ONLY the direct question being asked with none of the wider expertise that more educated people in what they were searching for.

Of course google owns youtube as well.. so perhaps they just see it as an inevitable transition.
I do share your concern... but somehow I (perhaps naively) feel there is a big difference between regulatory mandates like emergency braking, that all manufacturers in the EU has known and planned for since more than 15 years, and stuff like Teslas FSD-beta which is a disaster to happen running on our streets.
Try import in-place: https://xenodium.com/flat-habits-v101-org-import-menu
The option is to get a new job lined up, or just deal with it. There's no incentive for this boss to change. You might get someone like this to change with an ultimatum that you're leaving for a new job but do you really want to stay somewhere like that??
Apples stock actually has a low PE ratio of 30ish, suggesting it's well priced (a tad over twenty but in a market where everything is 30ish PE or worse).

PE ratio is probably the best metric for what is or isn't overpriced.
I don't think his work travels particularly well in the West. It is steeped in symbolism, deep metaphysics and calm, meditative, photography. All attributes that have been essentially banned from the fast food production/consumption chain that has conditioned audiences.

Its a bit like pop music. If all you've ever heard is (basic) western harmony and suddenly get exposed to some weird oriental stuff it does not even register as music..
iMessage's version takes the message and makes a thread out of it, and then inside that thread you are only ever "responding to the thread in general". The good versions are WhatsApp and (now) Facebook Messenger (though I think the UX is still better on WhatsApp).
Careful what you say about movies that put you to sleep like that. I thought the same thing when I first watched Koyaanisqatsi... now I've seen it upwards of 30 times, probably :)
Stability, especially for children, is an unequivocal good thing. Moving often can have a very detrimental effect. 30 year mortgages prevent bubbles and macro financial changes from impacting families and provide tremendous stability. Are they a good investment? Probably but it depends on your situation. Before the existence of the mortgage, you had to save to buy your entire house while you were paying rent. This made it nearly impossible for the working poor to keep a non-depreciating asset and build family wealth and/or retirement. 10/15/30 year mortgages are one of the building blocks of a healthy middle class, alongside free education, Social Security, Medicare, Unions, 401k, 503b, HSA/FSA, etc. These are the investments we make to have a healthy society.
Hi! I used Wanderlog to plan a recent month-long group trip, which was definitely the most complex vacation I've had to plan. For context I am very active when traveling (e.g. multiple activities each day); so not sure how my experiences map to others.

The best part of it was (going to a foreign country) being able to find / identify all the attractions relative to each other, so I could go to cluster A on Monday, cluster B, on Tuesday, etc.

The hardest part of it (and why I needed to create a separate google sheets anyways) was--once I figured out opening hours of different locations, hard-to-book activities with limited reservations--the ease of moving things around more fluidly e.g. cluster B on Monday, cluster A on Tuesday, etc. and having a more information-dense view so I could see larger portions of the itinerary at once.

It would be cool to have an "input everything" --> "input time restrictions / unmovable things" --> output planned activity cluster type workflow.
I don't get your question, do you want to craete art, or do you want to be recognized in the art world? Those 2 goals aren't equivalent... Do you want to be an artist? Just start making art!

If I were a cynic, I'd be wondering if this question, in this forum, is from someone who wants to jump on the NFT bandwagon. Oh wait, I am a cynic!
India Hits Apple with Antitrust Investigation over App-Store Practices