skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but how do I pipe to other programs? How do I schedule something and integrate it with my filesystem? Also the syntax is complicated (don't underestimate this, for many of us trouble parsing syntax is a distant memory). Also easy interop between many programming languages.

Maybe when the browser fully swallows the OS but I hope it won't be JavaScript or it would have morphed into something else.
True but even cancelling is a difficult process. My husband had to go in to his old gym with utility bills from our new house and a highlighted version of the paperwork he signed, showing that he could cancel because we had moved.
At this point, just seeing medium.com has a good chance of turning me away from a given article.

Medium tends to routinely be broken for me, be it because of my efforts to bypass the paywalls and run adblockers or just because of how the site is built. I find the article itself often isn't worth the effort.
The stimulus stopped as did some other programs like deferring rent payments.

Others did not though. Many people have private agreements with their landlords for payment, and some cities have their own policies. Some are still collecting unemployment. Many just have never reentered the workforce. For example, many “Baby Boomers” decide this was retirement time and retired en-masse instead of being spread out.

And then there is the whole “Great Resignation” going on for the rest.
Amazon works with private capital and under market laws.

Not with public capital and under coercion, which is how a socialist system works.
While I am not so sure about Lithuania (lower GDP per capita than Bucharest, Bucharest being twice as developed as the rest of Romania, ibm, google, amazon, microsoft all having offices here with pay comparable to germany as a backup plan - could be wrong, but it sure is colder), Malta is now an option considering your comment - had no idea taxes are low in that country. Working from near a beach is the dream tbh.
Maybe! An essential element of designing contracts is figuring out exactly who's taking what risk. From what the freelancer says, it sounds like Upwork is saying, "If you track the time directly with our tool, we'll take the risk of fraud. But if you track time your own way, the risk is on you." I assume that's what the guy actually agreed to, as he didn't say otherwise. So in this case, it sounds like it's something UpWork isn't taking a share of revenue for.
> There's nothing to disrupt.

Can nobody do anything about the crunchy mechanics of printers? My printer goes through the most incredible warmup routine, running the motors seemingly at random or about a minute and then twists the paper through a maze of rollers. Can we not make these things more 'solid state'?
> main problem is that speculators become domain squatters, and buy all the popular domain name

I like the geo-libertarian approach to this. Said squatters should need to keep paying the market value of the resource in rent to remain in control of it. Thus removing the benefit of just squatting and require you to provide additional value on top of being the current owner to not lose money.
That is what what we do now.
Controlled inflation by central banks is really controlled reduction of the value of the currency. ~2% per year is the target. The USA gets a free pass at the moment because USD is "the" reserve currency. If/when that changes we might get a lesson in hyper-inflation. :(

That's why the wealthy don't hold much cash. (unless they see a crash coming)
I don't even know if I like this idea, but it'd be a different ball game if NFTs held legal status. That goes pretty counter to many of the usual benefits claimed of crypto projects,but if an NFT was treated as legally binding ownership that could make them really useful
That's cat's balance is the key here. I tried this with a hairless cat - whom also have very little in the way of whiskers - and the poor thing just didn't have the balance to handle the final steps.
Our neighbor when I was growing up had a cat that would use the toilet and flush. I was amazed as a kid.

Not sure I want to share the bathroom with our cats.

We just got a litter robot last week it's pretty amazing. We set it up in a hall closet to get the two litter boxes out of the laundry room. It should pay for itself in 3-4 months by using less litter than our two traditional litter boxes (yesterdays news litter).
> > but it can still "observe anything in the sky, and get the most detailed pictures ever seen of them".

> That's my point: it cannot!
>
> Not all objects are visible at all wavelengths.

A JWST observation showing nothing is new science. Now we know that object emits no light at those wavelengths even when observed by the most sensitive instrument!

But of course those are exceptions. Most things we point JWST to will be seen in greater detail than ever before, and also in frequencies not seen before.

> If you care about observing very energetic objects like neutron star, you need x-ray capabilities.
>
> If you care about studying atmosphere of exoplanet your best bet is UV light, and this is why NASA is working on LUVOIR.

This feels like deliberate misunderstandings (conscious or not) of my points. I don't think we can get any further in this discussion.
Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
I have a feeling that ProductHunt is only read by people who post to ProductHunt in a sort of pyramidal echo chamber. Is it the case, or does ProductHunt reach further than product managers in small companies?
The only drawback is that insurance companies don’t insure your car inside Albania for whatever reason.
That's the calculation they'd be doing too though. Paying an army of lawyers to defend against my 12.5k claim sounds more expensive than eating it for me.
1.) Boys too.

2.) It is not socialization with active voice chat. That is more like writing letter or something like that. It will do less to make your brain feel like you have social connection.

The thing that is supposed to make difference (according to psychologist that had talk about social isolation) is talking. People who call have similar psychological results as those heavily socialized. if you write mails a lot, you reassemble lonely people more.
On airplanes the parents are told to fit their oxygen mask first in an emergency, as its hard to help your child when you are unconscious. I feel the same applies here.
Then why draw attention by blogging about it?
While some of those guidelines offer some value still, end-user programs dealing with text just aren’t ever going to be a thing.

People expect to be able to paste a photo or screenshot just as easily as they post a sentence. Requiring a second app to do it (posting a link) isn’t nearly as good a UX as simply pasting in pictures.
This is trivially falsifiable by a simple google search - "ice core resolution". You may want to reassess the general trustworthiness of your information sources.

Incidentally, the evidence for AGW, and indeed geologically sudden climate change without precedent, goes far beyond ice cores. Very little in science in predicated on lone observations that can't be cross checked. We have a wide variety of information sources that all paint a coherent picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record

Measuring historical temperatures is not unlike measuring distance. We know, for instance, that the Andromeda galaxy is 2.537 million light years away. How can we possibly make such a precise assertion so confidently? We started by measuring small, earthly distances, and used those to triangulate larger ones. We worked our way up the distance scale by a series of inferences. Thus, we built up a model of how things look at various distances. It's more or less the same type of methodology - yet mysteriously, the anti-AGW pundits don't seem to have a problem with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder

Climate scientists, believe it or not, know what they're doing. It is the height of arrogance to flippantly dismiss their efforts simply because you personally don't understand them, because you can't be bothered to research even basic things like the resolution of ice core data.
Your approval of Thiel. I agreed with your view that your sample was biased.
Long time ago somebody made a very good comparison of aws services and mainframe services here on hn. Unfortunately I can't find that comment.
Could you elaborate? Of course I do have a local accountant, and if what you're saying is true, I am disappointed she didn't mention that; they just said, paying salary will end up being more expensive than dividends.
There are web front-ends to IRC that can mitigate message loss without having to run bouncers. Convos [1] and TheLounge [2] come to mind but there are others [3]

[1] - https://convos.chat/

[2] - https://thelounge.chat/

[3] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
What? For humans they use validated depression surveys conducted by medical professionals.

You can look it up in any of the drug labels.

A 4-week study of inpatients meeting DSM-III-R criteria for MDD with melancholia utilizing Effexor in a range of 150 to 375 mg per day (divided in a three-times-a-day schedule) demonstrated superiority of Effexor over placebo based on the HAM-D-21 total score. The mean dose in completers was 350 mg per day (study 3).

https://labeling.pfizer.com/showlabeling.aspx?id=100#section...
To allow someone a direct deposit they should only need your name and bank account numbers. You shouldn't be giving them access with things like your password.
How our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived today
At least PipeWire is a thing now.
Online gaming too, severely too. Maybe even more. But, it is closer to irl communication.
I don't understand why people try to blame mental health effects on our mitigation attempts and not the horror of covid itself. It's like blaming seasonal depression on wearing coats and staying inside instead of the fact that it's cold and dark outside.

The fact that there's an extremely contagious disease that has a good chance of maiming you and has killed 800,000 Americans is enough to make you depressed all on its own.
> libinput did not need a way to disable mouse acceleration because everyone wants mouse acceleration.

You mean you want a flat acceleration curve? You want to accelerate the mouse, otherwise you need a gaming mouse with the DPI set very high and then keep going into the mouse firmware to adjust the DPI whenever you play a game or switch between different (scaled) resolutions. Libinput has different acceleration profile defaults for different devices, but you can just change it to the flat profile which I prefer as well.

See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pointer-...
So I could setup my own mini-carrier with a VOIP backbone? Seems cool
> Such a thing doesn't happen if the thing offered isn't an improvement over what was before.

It does happen sometimes. GNOME3 and GTK3 didn't offer much to Linux desktop users, yet they were adopted.

And improvement is subjective. Maybe systemd made maintainers' lives better. But it also introduced big nasty software full of bugs that discourages hacking by users. Many users consider that a deterioration of the Linux ecosystem.

I'll take wrestling a bug in a 400-line shell script to wrestling a bug in the systemd C code and compiling my fixed version.
What's the advantage over JSON or YAML?
I agree it's dangerous. But this guy clearly liked and trusted the client, a client that I'd guess is a fast-talking serial fraudster. So in the hypothetical case of the freelancer working directly, I think it's likely he would not be any better off.
Re: Moxie on Web3. On decentralization, servers and cryptography
Writing severely one sided contracts can be cause for a judge to throw them out (unconscionable contracts). My understanding is that lack of bargaining power and understanding is the usual reason for this ruling. Pitting a megacorp with loads of lawyers vs a self-employed freelancer is definitely the right environment.

The freelancer can’t possibly vet clients payment methods. A contract holding them financially responsible for the big corporation’s mistakes that they can’t prevent or even review seems like a textbook example of this.

The question is if this freelancer (or a reasonable person in their position) would sign a contract like that if they knew what it could cost. I don’t think anything would. Upwork certainly would not.
Fauci admits to lying about masks and explains why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXttHlUgK8

Maybe you think Fauci changed his mind based on new evidence on mask effectiveness, but he literally says they advised against masks due to a fear of PPE shortages, and not due to changing evidence. So either way he deceived: either he deceived about mask effectiveness thus spreading health misinformation, or he deceived about why he advised against wearing masks thus undermining public trust in his advice.

Fauci admits to moving the goalposts on vaccination rates and explains it's because of his "gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

I think public health officials like Fauci really shot themselves in the foot by undermining their credibility so early on. Public health officials in a public health crisis should be beyond reproach, but that's not how they've been acting, and continued partisan support of these figures only further deteriorates trust in scientific institutions and journalism.
In the Name of Thy God
Tiny liquid robot runs continuously without electricity
InWith promises first soft smart contact lens
It's a figure of speech. Looks like TFA clarified:

> But the JWST was not designed or tested in a vacuum (pun only partially intended)

It's not the clearest writing, even though they are going for a joke.

JWST was not "designed or tested in a vacuum" [in isolation without knowledge of prior art]". But it was designed for vacuum and its parts were tested in a vacuum, including I believe bringing the whole assembly down to cold vacuum.

Designing in a literal vacuum sounds painful for the designers. :)
In which cities do you think there is the most work in the IT sector?
Also, how do you rent a place? With agencies, do they want a lot of documents and stuff?
Thanks!
Very good point. My cats get wet only. The male I mentioned in my other comment is underweight since he never regained his full appetite after his urinary issues, so at some point I started allowing him to snack on a bit of dry food at night to get his weight up. A month or two later he developed urinary problems. This ended up being caused by crystals in his bladder, which are associated with not taking in enough liquids. Now, I'd rather he be a little skinny than risk that again. Water fountains help, but aren't enough.

There is an issue of Royal Canin Veterinary Focus that focuses on lower urinary tract disease in cats and dogs: https://vetfocus.royalcanin.com/en/-/media/vet-focus/en-us-p...

There are interesting sections on Feline Idiopathic Cystitis and blockage, which talk about water management as well. On page 23, there is a table called "Table 1. Clinical features of cats diagnosed with cystitis with (n = 8,220) or without (7,862) concurrent
pyuria in 2012."

At the bottom of the table are a few rows on diet. ~3.5% of cats in the sample were on a canned-only diet. ~19.2% were on a mix of dry and canned food. 77.3% were on a dry-only diet (percentages slightly varied for those with pyuria).
Ah, I hadn't realised that. I'm really glad to hear that. Obviously I hope PV and other green energy sources will take off, but in the interim nuclear is by far the best established and working green source of energy.
To me is the contrary. Writing by hand slows me down. Typing is a direct connection between my ideias and the text. Typing actually helps me think better.
I couldn't disagree more, I think bash is a horrifically bad programming language. Honestly I'm incredibly surprised anyone could compare PowerShell and bash and think that PowerShell is the arcane one.
Nobody guarantees small businesses the right to exist. Sure nobody can plan for a pandemic but the government’s responsibility is to society at large, not the plight of small business owners.
You don't need an EV to cut your carbon emissions from oil
It does matter, I skip using a lot of airline apps and some bank apps, because of the horrible experience they provide.

It’s easier to do it via their website.
For what it's worth, sushiswap isn't using Infura or AlchemyAPI, rather its own api.sushirelay.com to serve mainnet RPC requests.

Also, a large number of projects utilize TheGraph (GraphQL indexer for specific protocol/DApps). These are run by teams or out-sourced to the lowest cost service provider (staking pools, etc). re: https://thegraph.com/hosted-service/subgraph

If you are interested in using/rolling your own RPC infrastructure, here are the minimal JSON RPC methods required to support most DApps: https://github.com/sambacha/minimal-jsonrpc-dapp-methods

The real bottleneck is reliance on web browser extensions (namely Chrome's V2, which this January is depreciated and no longer accepting new submissions.) for providing safe key management.

Another example is having to poll for RPC updates.
> that we should not lock down even for two weeks because, in their own words, “they won’t let us out.”

> And now that they were shown to be completely right

Only if we define literally any mitigation (like indoor masks, and often not even that, depending on the state) as not letting us out.
...why do you have to have a peer-to-peer network managing a blockchain just to verify membership data? It would be simpler to just have whoever controls memberships sign a user's public key to indicate membership (and then you add some metadata for expirations/membership levels/etc.). A user seeking to assert membership presents that certificate and proves knowledge of the private key.

Really though, I am not sure what problem is being solved here. Why do we need this in the first place? What is the attack scenario we are trying to address?
Did Upwork send a message confirming that "Robin" used another person card, or that is just what "Robin" said?
I can’t speak for him, but I think whenever moxie talks about encrypted mail/messengers he means E2EE. And the state of E2EE for email is not good. SMIME is hard to set up for regular users (dearth of free certificates [0], lack of SMIMEA support [1]), PGP support is lacking out of the box in most mail clients.

And maintaining your contacts’ keys is quite a nuisance, using key servers requires trust (I have no control over who submits keys in my name, revoking can be hard). Regardless of whether you go for SMIME or PGP you will always have to sync your private keys when you use more than one mail client (web mail especially is a problem).

[0] Only one I know is Actalis, supporting catch-all is impossible with it and you need to request a new certificate every year but cannot request before it is expired.

[1] I can’t set a SMIMEA record on Namecheap’s name servers. And mail client support seems hard to check.
But you're expanding the scope now. Yes, LP isn't going to guarantee you always preserve semantics in any change. But hopefully we can agree that it's not going to make it more difficult.

Unit tests or proofs are extremely useful. You should still have them in Literate programs! They're complementary tools.

My Literate system does explicitly assume tests unlike earlier systems I was dissatisfied with. Check out all the tests in https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/main/linux/bootstrap. For example, https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/linux/bootstrap/013...
I would imagine one could tweak the web frontends like Convos or TheLounge to make IRC look and behave like Discord at least in terms of text chat and channel/user visibility. I theorize that's what they are doing behind the scenes.
Looks like the basis of a fantastic clip-art service.
Odd.

Did you use the magic phrase: “I need to issue a chargeback. They charged my card for services not rendered. I called their number to contest it and they did not issue a refund.”

That (or “they charged my card but did not send the product”) has worked 100% of the time for me. I’ve never provided documentation beyond that.

Chase has a strong financial incentive to issue the chargeback (Air Canada ends up paying Chase a fine), and it’s no sweat off Chase’s back if Air Canada sues you.

Card issuers have no incentive to investigate further, and (in my experience) never ask for further documentation.
Even for full native, I try to keep the number of third party dependencies down and limit them to libraries that fill legitimate voids in system functionality or are only light sugar around system stuff for a few reasons:

- Many libraries have zero guarantees as to how long they’ll be maintained or if their maintainer(s) will keep pace with new system releases, build tool changes, etc

- It’s less unfamiliar code that I’ll need to wade through at some point

- Fewer libraries reduces lock-in that can encumber refactors and other major changes

- I don’t have to waste as much time and energy “translating” things between different libraries with related functions

I used to not be as avoidant of a long dependency list, but over the years I learned that for both iOS and Android, each library represents a liability across multiple dimensions that WILL become a problem at some point, probably sooner than later. Mobile platforms aren’t like their desktop/server counterparts where the various APIs have barely changed in decades, and they aren’t like the web where everything continues to be supported for practically forever. Things change, and it’s important to be able to keep up with that.

This is a lot easier to manage under iOS than under Android, incidentally. Cocoa Touch still sees tweaks but it’s quite mature, and very deep and capable. You can build a world class app with just Cocoa Touch alone without too much trouble. With Android Framework on the other hand, much of what’s built in is incapable, with bits and pieces constantly shifting in and out of being supported, making it the norm to bring in a laundry list of libraries for super basic stuff (e.g. everybody uses Square’s OkHTTP for networking on Android while on iOS, not using the built in URLSession and associated APIs is very strange).