skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>500 pages a month is not a serious answer, its dodging.

I agree. That's why I think the focus should be on holding them accountable to a badly formed review process.

I think where we disagree is I also think the answer of "hire 100x the people" is an equally invalid answer. They know that's a non-starter as well. They know they won't be authorized to hire that many and they also know that even if they could, they wouldn't be spun up in time to meet the deadline.

I'd personally rather see an IG/GAO investigation into their process.
The feature that I missed the most after switching to signal was Live location sharing. It is just so convenient to find your friends while going out or going to the street exactly at the time someone is there to pick you up.
That's the statutory limit. The actual sentence depends on the nature and magnitude of the crime, according to the sentencing guidelines.

https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
This whole thing is really about the people. Teens (really, everyone) could change their behavior towarss Apple for how it treats people who use other phones too.

Even though I have an iPhone, I don’t care about the green. So what? Apple made their phone do an ugly thing, didn’t make my friends do anything ugly.
In the US job changes aren't trivial. Health plans impact provider networks and coverage. In some areas employers demand in office with which reduces the pool of available employers.
Yeah consumer panels are routinely 18 - 20% efficiency now. But these are the ideal numbers. To be fair he doesn't derate the efficiency of PV as happens in the real world, so the degree to which 10% is an underestimate is mitigated. I don't think this substantively changes the analysis, it just means less reliance on nuclear in the various models. Additionally, in a gloomy country like the UK the more you rely on solar the more you need advanced storage and grid solutions to deal with the inconsistencies.

And agree that the comment about other countries is not correct. Australia for example will pretty soon be able to meet 100% energy demand with renewables on sunny days and is looking to export power.
Sending messages as I drift off to sleep
At every level when adjusted for local cost of living? No way. Intern/New Analyst jobs paid around half of what you’d get at full tech companies. If you stick with it for 2 years and then 5 years you can get very good bumps.

The cool thing about Goldman as an internship/first-post-uni job is that they provide the opportunity for a lot of very capable people whose resumes would be ignored for SWE roles in tech. And, while I don’t know what the current H1B situation is, banking tech has been a huge enabler for talent in markets like Ghana or Nigeria.
Bangs work anywhere, also on browsers where you cannot use these keywords or on someone else’s computer.
https://reachimmigration.com/en/blog/migrating-to-japan

Great country, highly recommend moving to Japan if the culture and environment appeals to you.
Confluence is terrible in all kinds of other ways. To be frank, it's the worst company documentation software I've ever used. Discoverability is terrible and it's easy to end up in a situation with thousands of pages that quickly fall out of maintenance because features for organization are an after thought. Its own markup is terrible and its Markdown import support similarly so.

Most wikis are terrible at evergreen notes: the only one I can think of that might be moving the ball forward is Athens Research though I wasn't able to get their self-hosted beta running and I host dozens of other services with Compose.

Obsidian might be good too, but they don't seem too keen on supporting large business collab usecases even though enterprise is a cashcow.
I have looked into Meta Machines. They are not what I want.

Meta Machines can be almost as fast, but i just prefer the cache locality of local functions.

Wasm3 is slower than MiniVM when you don't count the GC. Wasm3 is very cool!
Some of the hyper-online left believe some of things, sure. It's way less monolithic in meatspace.
From a food production standpoint, they are still fundamentally sun-powered.

Mushrooms are delicious, but their most interesting opportunity in the food supply might be vitamin D. Shine some UV on them, and they produce high levels just like people.
It is a pleasant and positive report, but a few observations strike me as naive, for example "They were all awesome and collaborative people that I could talk to about my personal life or my career, and they had my best interest in mind."

I can believe that they were all friendly and supportive (one reason being that an intern doesn't pose a threat at all), but I am fairly sure they had their own interests firmly above his.
A good general rule of thumb is never look at anything recommended by an algorithm. Chronological feeds and media recommendations from other humans. Search results are a tricky middle ground. Seems they are trying to make that a source of low value, addictive content as well.
I really can't figure out where all the App Store money are going.

I'm selling Lunar on Paddle and the average transaction there is $19.21 (from the $23 baseline price). So they're taking on average 16.47% and that's including VAT, sales tax, credit card royalties and service fee.

On the App Store, even with the Small Business program where the tax is only 15%, I'm losing about 25.63% from the sales each month (still including VAT, currency exchange losses, store fee etc.)

Oh and I also have to pay taxes for this income to my country's government. That's another 10% off the year's income + 15% mandatory health insurance and 15% pension fund.
Finally! I don't like the name though. but I'll live with it. Well, at least they added it to Enumerable, so you could use it with mongoid.
Strongmen should go to jail and the rest can go on with their lives?
Magnet

Window management /snapping
Banks are incentivized to hold your deposit and and disincentivized to provide you with straightforward ways of withdrawing funds. Zelle is an industry consortium of banks to offer instant payments, but even with this consensus they can’t change their nature.

Hopefully, FedNow Instant Payments will force banks to provide better service and remove the need for workarounds like Venmo.
Exactly this. !g is basically evil in more ways than you'll ever know.
Your conclusion may be broadly correct (of course some of these things help a non-zero amount, but maybe are futile long-term). However, if you want to convince people that a different solution to the shared problem is better, it doesn't sound honest to call them "hysterical", as the favorite insult goes right now.
They're taking a play out of Facebook's strategy book: copy every feature of your competitor as quickly as possible. In this case, it seems they're going after WhatsApp and they're copying WhatsApp's status feature.

This seems like a smart move for them because they can run for parity with WhatsApp and they'd still have one major benefit Facebook has been in a very tight spot to match: privacy.

Most people don't seem to care about privacy, but if they start losing their (privacy aware) friends and family to Signal, they too will consider installing it as well.

If they acquire enough network effects, they could hollow out a large chunk of WhatsApp, unless WhatsApp starts offering features Signal can't offer (e.g. better integrations into Facebook's other properties).

It'll be interesting to watch how this plays out.
You make a good point about the mass adoption mostly happening before FB took ownership. Back then, Whatsapp was definitely a better choice for a lot of non-US places vs paying for SMS, and perhaps it is even now. iMessage has E2E encryption, but regular SMS doesn’t so WhatsApp seems better in that case as well.
It is extremely offputting that Saga doesn't show a single actual product view, the site design makes me think the product is equally ugly, and they require signing up to see a demo?

When a company hides the product that much and forces you to only experience it with a tour guide, it's tacit admission the product sucks.
Great software. Use it a lot. Just wish it had backup and restore within the web interface.
EInk with warm light. Kindle or Rmarkable with good reading light. Or reading outside in the sunlight.
> Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s lead with this balanced and ethical approach.

Yes! For the love of god yes. Finally some fucking common sense.
Curlie – Web Directory
Time to go back to South America
My laptop before I switched to MacBook M1 was a relatively high end ThinkPad Carbon X1. It was okay but the MacBook pro are a lot better despite the lack of a touchscreen.
It'd be awesome if this thing had mermaidjs support. It's native in obsidian and it's such a game changer
Using !g only DDG can identify you. G would see your query so if you included your SSN etc then they could identify that, but they don’t know your IP etc.
Is this actually based on something or just venting?

Having worked on both public and private sides, I anecdotally saw roughly equal amounts of waste.
I‘m fascinated by "current" satellite images. The most enjoyable option I‘ve found is the FreshSat layers available in the Gaia GPS app. Being able to hold it in your hand while out and about and "look over walls", so to speak, is really fun.

They combine the free Sentinel and Landsat images, I think, and a few web services do that too, but none of them seem to work as well.
People are sick of Covid.

We're at 70% vaccination rate and we have double the number of cases we did at the height of the pandemic.

Mask mandates haven't worked, quarantines don't work, locking down entire countries doesn't work.

It's time to accept that this is endemic and not make Covid the center of everyone's existence any longer.
I applied for software engineer job at DDG a couple of years ago. They gave me this page, with the data stopping at 2018, and asked me to create an updated version of the chart showing the projected growth of DDG based on "data" of how I would expect a browser extension to impact their growth. I basically created a PDF of what this page looks like now, but with "projected" data instead of actual, because I didn't have any access to actual data.

Strangest takehome project I ever had for a software engineering position. It was paid though, which is nice.
Instead of controlling welding robots, they control stamping machines?
Thanks! Interesting to hear about the backups and restore being easy, I often hear complaints due to not having in-app backup/restore but the risk of causing issues, over doing that at an infrastructure level (Via mysqldump/file-copies), has always been a point of worry for me when thinking down the in-app route.
Am I the only one who doesn't want to buy "all-new redesigned" cars. I won't want an all new redesigned Operating System.
I guess it’s time to remove all of Marak’s packages from my dependency trees. I’m worried his next one will be a post install script that does ‘rm -rf /‘ or something.
I was thinking about this as well. It also looks like Queen Anne's lace lol. If anybody is going to go forage for this, please learn to ID the poisonous relatives first!
We'll see how things pan out, but this might actually make repairs a better experience over time - fewer types of parts means it's easier to keep them in stock, and likely less time required per replacement.
I'm not the person who posted this example, but functionally the person who doesn't want to sell their house to a person with less wealth could simply raise the price just as the salesperson selling a car to a rich person. As the person owns that asset, it would be quite challenging to prove because the justification could be that demand justified raising the price.

I'll agree that society has normalized some price discrimination in terms of interest rates being based on credit scores and we can debate the merits in relation to loaning someone money. And there are actually a lot of laws in place around how high an interest rate can be, who can be loaned money, etc.

However, first class tickets are not price discrimination because the offered service is in fact different which means it's not comparable to coach or business. In fact, I'm not aware of a service in which they ask you for your income statement when you walk in the door and then change the price accordingly.

Lastly, I find your rhetoric that a wealthy person should just become poor if they want equal treatment to be odd. Who classifies as wealthy? Will it be up to a judge every time? How will that change as the standard of lower, middle and upper class changes within a country?
The problem is the amount of time it will take to improve Mars using just this method.
> Even collapsing comments on HN doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.

But everything else pretty much does. HN is nice in that one can read it (and comment) without JS.
There’s a Walgreens down the block from me. It’s cheaper and better quality than a home photo printer, and only a little less convenient.
> One of the reasons people give for buying German luxury cars is because they only need the oil changed once a year vs the 3-4x a year for American or Japanese or Volkswagen cars.

No clue about American & Japanese cars, but for VW (and Opel) it's definitely just once per year (in Switzerland).
Metal is extremely recyclable
You make it sound like all of it is from North America. There's import from the european continent and scandinavia as well.

Sweden exports a lot of wood pellets. Plenty of woodlands there. Plenty more to grow, if the Union will let them.

Wood pellets are "green" because the source material is replantable, albeit not that much locally for you. Seems like nothing is ever "green enough" though, besides a complete stop in consumption..

The distance from Sweden/Scandinavia/Continental europe is a lot less than from North America.
Crap a google product… it will get discontinued and abandoned before it gains significant market share. Wish it was anyone else other than Google. They kill everything they touch
The whole point is that it is super easy to get going.

I cut and paste the docker compose file, tweaked a few things, and hit the go button. Done.
encouragement rather than mandates were, are, and will always always be better and more effective than the threat of force. it’s the most pro-social option as well as the most ethical, in direct contradiction of the cries of ‘selfishness’ emanating from the mediopolitical apparatus.
You have it right but I do not think the battery is the reason. The battery, while heavy, is mechanically simple.

Suspension bushings, springs, and shocks have a long life but, by the time the battery needs changing, are probably worn out. The wheels have been bashed enough to at least need straightening. The driver's seat padding and upholstery is probably shot. If it has a steel body it has dings and the corrosion protection and paint will need at least a touch up. The windshield is pitted.

This means it's not just a job for the local mechanic. They don't do paint. The paint shop doesn't do upholstery. Wheel straightening is a speciality shop. The only place to do all this in one place is either a bespoke restoration shop, or a purpose built remanufacturing facility.
I share your opinion but the reason is convenience: bangs work without any configuration.

I know people who use ddg only for bangs. They do all their web search with Google by prefixing them with !g.
I saw the start of the Dakar in Buenos Aires in 2011, it's an amazing event, very sophisticated technology.

I was staying there with a friend who regularly ran ultra marathons - the marathon de Sable and other French events in Patagonia, China etc.

He told me a story about Africa where the runners were stripped naked as they ran through a village - all their expensive lycra, camelbacks, shoes etc stolen by locals resentful of western sports tourists.

The Dakar has a similar long history of expensive tech being stolen, held to ransom etc.

https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/38650/that-time-ari-vat...

Never underestimate the risks around exposing the western world to people in the third world. Millions love what they see, make money out of it etc but...
Thanks for the kind words! Always nice to hear happy feedback regarding the API, good to know it's getting some use.
What works in Japan doesn't work everywhere else...common sense is hard to find.
Yes. I have concepts in Anki that I will be promoted to repeat again in 4 years and I've had to repeat 4-5 times in the past two years.
The dakar rally is badass. Sometimes env impact is worth it.
Key word there is neighborhood. Even in the Midwest US there can be very 'safe' neighborhoods right next to very unsafe ones, and the difference in the police resources from one block to the next is palpable.

Forcing construction of mixed income neighborhoods (much like forced busing of students) very quickly improves schooling and policing outcomes, though sadly more affluent folks often move out soon thereafter.
Never knew streamlit now has a cloud sharing platform. The UI has improved so much as well
Organized crime, sure. But what terrorist organizations are you referring to? I live in Vancouver and have not heard of anything notable in this regard.
Wait, this is the same country that has government-enforced weight and size restrictions to ensure people are not fat?

(look up metabo law)
!g redirects to Google, so yes, they get to know these things.
The future is already here
It would never work as well in America.

Voluntary measures tend to work well in places where people have a reasonable trust in their government, scientific and medical authorities etc.

When the government of Japan says "Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent.", they can be confident that the people of Japan will take rational, sensible, well-informed action. A large proportion will get vaccinated purely because the government recommend it.

Look me in the eye and tell me you believe the same about the US populace.
No not really any point in also checking out MediaWiki. Bookstack has surpassed MediaWiki in usability by leaps and bounds. They are not even comparable any more, aside from being able to do wiki edits they are separate use cases by now.
i'll be uploading final ss, on the site.
Since 2017 Germany’s trade surplus has been trending down
In the industry we already have terms of art that are better than just “ECC”. Normally we speak of EDAC, error detection and correction. We refer to them by their capabilities, such as SECDED, ChipKill, or whatever.
Vitalik's Response to Moxie
Isn't DuckDuckGo just a wrapper around Bing search results? I see lots of complaints about DDG search results but those complaints should be directed to Bing, not DDG.

(I understand that DDG does some value-add to the results returned by the Bing API).
A neural network solves and generates mathematics problems by program synthesis
According to NYT[0]:

Japan has an 80% vaccination rate, with 1.7M total COVID cases.

The US has a 62% vaccination rate, with 59.4M total COVID cases.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
outline has a nice rich-markdown-text-editor package for react based apps in case you can re-use it!

I looked into the LaTeX support of it for a science editor projectg
Same for me, though for the garbage results I get garbage from Google too. I will agree that it's unusable for Greek, though.
> You don't need an original art work to enjoy the art either. You can print out photorealistic copies.

Something tells me you don’t care much for paintings if you think this is in any way a similar media.
We're actually not assessing him very differently. But I'm saying being "thin" and "weak" is just as big of a problem as, "fat" and "weak". The problem isn't being fat, it's being "weak". If I'm assessing someone and they have 30% bodyfat, but are as strong as an ox, I'm not worried about their long term health. I use the example of a advanced power lifter in a post, upstream - you know a someone that looks like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ywwZlESOU

Chiseled abs and a penchant for energy drinks isn't needed. If I was to be critical, I'd say that low of a body fat % for long periods of time is counter productive to overall fitness and ugh: the shit you find in some energy drinks.
> Tesla has begun building the next generation of Model Y with singular front and rear body castings.

This is not accurate.

They are using castings for the front and rear chassis along with the structural battery.

Bodies of Tesla cars will continue to be stamped, which makes sense because bodies are mostly cosmetic sheetmetal.

https://www.sae.org/news/2020/06/tesla-model-y-big-castings

> Munro maintained. And “castings don’t repair very well,” he added. “If an impact was severe enough, the car’s a write-off,” he said.
The professor might benefit financially from the sale of the book, e.g. if they're the author. It's quite common, really.
What's the purpose of using non-random data such as time and MAC address in UUID? It increases probability of collision compared to purely random bits and if you need time or MAC it seems better to store them as separate fields - easier to perform selects, groupings, etc.
Knowing how to do something doesn’t live outside the brain.

You can erase entire categories of knowledge by damaging the brain in particular areas. There is no reason to believe the opposite is not true.

Therefore it is a matter of modifying the state of the brain to learn or know something.
I may be confused by what you are saying. What is the point of a company having an ideological stance if "free speech", if they are violating that all the time by censoring? How is that different from paying lip service to free speech like many companies?
> need the oil changed once a year vs the 3-4x a year for American or Japanese or Volkswagen cars

We bought a VW Polo, kept it for ten years, then changed it for a VW Sharan, and recently added a VW Up. Total miles driven must be around 200k.

Based on a sekrit strategy - called reading then following the service manual - can confirm that (at least our) Volkswagens do not need their oil changing "3-4x a year"!
As far as I remember from my material sciences classes, casting is a lot more difficult to model and QC than stamped and welded/glued steel panels. This is also a completely new process for automotive at this scale which complicates it further.

I am sure they hired the best engineers and tested as best as they can, but this seems so new that I expect there to be a lot of problems with the first year or two of production -- maybe a reason why this process is coming to North America last. And given how castings usually fail, I don't expect failures to happen immediately, but after 3-5 years or more.

But then again, I'd have said the same about using "laptop batteries" for electric cars.