skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, as an italian i find the quality of fanpage journalism to be pretty low. It's mostly clickbait and "let's send a leftist to a right-wing protest and see if they get beaten up or catch somebody doing nazi salutes".

I'm still happy they exist and are succeeding, but i feel that real investigative jouranlism is dying in Italy. With the fall of newspaper sales most outlets are just incentivized to publish low quality clickbait, or government propaganda if they live off of government grants.
Modern society is pretty much designed to give people with college degrees an advantage. Yes, you can have a good career in the trades but a college degree is the safest bet. Life is much harder without.
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How public forums work is each person can chose to participate or not.

What that means is you can determine when you are "done here". You don't determine when "I am done here" (unless you somehow control access). It's a lazy attempt to shut things down and have the last word so as to appear correct.

You point to a fact checker, a "trusted news source" for one month, that says the number of deaths claimed for the month is not exact and say "see, not proved". I'm sorry that is very weak.

There has been a massive uptick in VAERS reporting since the introduction of this series of vaccines. Massive. Now, understood these vaccines are being administered widely all at once so they may or may not be more dangerous then say, the flu vaccine. And in raw numbers, so far, the risk of taking them appears very low.

But they have a risk profile. The manufactures admit it. The CDC admits it. Myocarditis has been observed. Is it unreasonable to suppose that the corresponding (very large) uptick in deaths reported in VAERS might be responsible? One would have to be willfully blind not to acknowledge that.

You never address unknown future risks. It's obvious it was unknown (or unstated) that the vaccines would only be effective for such a short time without continuous boosters and exactly how effective the vaccines would be. What else don't they know or are not saying?

You never show, nor has anyone else, that "others around me" is a valid consideration in the context of transmission. So I take them "for the common good". How long does that last? Not a year apparently.

"Straining medical system". Not on my part. That's a very weak argument. It's largely untrue in the extreme and perhaps points to larger problems with the medical system if the 500 or so people currently hospitalized (with not from Covid) in my state with a population of millions is breaking things. What other things might be "straining the medical system"? Can we start mandating on that too?

You haven't "disprove" anything as you claim, just more "you are dumb, Q nonsense" and lazy attempts to circumvent. Yes people have died from the disease no need for the emotive funeral home spiel.

You can leave off statements like "ignorance and self-absorption". You don't see me saying "scared, cowardly, unperceptive, and prone to authoritarianism".

This is apparently a highly emotional issue that makes people on all sides not be as objective as they may be in other contexts. I've made my points and don't have much else to say in this thread. I don't fault you for your point of view and assume you have good reasons for it but do not agree it's objective.
Estimates are mostly wrong, while retrospectives have hard numbers to work with, and valuable lessons to learn from them. Yet the emphasis is almost always on the former while retrospectives are what gets overlooked for "lack of time."
> What's better, a gallery exhibition of 20 photographs or 2000? It doesn't work that way.

Yes, it doesn't work that way, the number of frames you have and the number of pictures you select for a gallery exhibition are two totally different things, the only thing that they have in common is that both are a number of pictures. Unless you consume video content by pausing and watching it frame by frame, which I doubt you do. And even in that case, a lower framerate doesn't equal more "work" being put into each frames, which would be the case for the gallery exhibition, but isn't the case for "livestreaming", since you don't have the time to do that when doing something live.
Still way too broad...
It's an incredible effort that he's put into all this. I'm very thankful for it and the video reviews are well done, some of them funny as well.
For what purpose?

Their issues stem from emotional disturbance, not some high-minded difference in ideals.

Self-righteousness that seeks to subjugate others is a disease.

Only someone with deep emotional problems would choose to vehemently proselytize some notion vs. simply going for a picnic and enjoying the sun.
I can see that my country is on the list of countries that support this, but I've never heard or seen anything in media about this.

Some year ago there was talk about using Google Glasses for such purposes. Here is one video about firefighters using Google Glasses to see car diagrams.

https://youtu.be/0JKbtjWH_PY?t=52
> This page will only work with JavaScript enabled

I guess the average HN user has Javascript enabled by default, yet I expected a longer and more informative page than that. ;-)
I'm eagerly waiting for certificate training with minecraft. Might make certificates like LPIC more accessible and ease the initial barrier to entry.
Or tax incentivize final manufacture of finished goods in the US for high value and strategic goods (semiconductors, electronics, mechanical equipment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agricultural equipment, etc.)

Make a policy like,

"""
Companies that onshore will pay the following taxes
for the next 25 years if they follow our onshoring
program:

company profits: 0% tax rate

CEO capital gains: 1% tax rate

shareholder capital gains: 2% tax rate

Also, companies can transfer international profits
back to the US at a rate of up to $10B a year with
no taxation.
"""

First make it apply to 10% or some low critical threshold of products, but then ramp it up annually. Over ten years, the percentage should be closer to 50% for companies to remain in compliance and to receive the tax advantaged status.

Don't punish China and make them angry. Reward US manufacturing activities handsomely.

Call your legislators and ask for this. They'll be into the tax thing.

An interesting side effect: companies that manufacture in the US will be worth significantly more. They can use their valuation to make continued investments: loans, acquisitions, hiring, etc.
Yes but it differs from model to model.

I get as low as 80% and as high as 99% on my face.

Fit is a big deal because it's personal and hard to communicate. I think it was Amazon that found when scanning their workforce that they discovered 29 different face shapes!
yes, sending a strongly worded letter is exactly what the EU would do. And then it will send another letter. And it will try to work out a diplomatic solution with the UAE such that they enforce respect for eu citizen rights, or even better, join the growing number of nations that have data privacy as a fundamental right. They may even threaten some sanctions if the whole thing is big enough.

What would your country do to protect your rights?

https://www.dataguidance.com/news/uae-uae-enacts-new-federal...
My family has a friend who had his catalytic converter stolen while eating at a restaurant with his wife in the afternoon. Brazen?
> You can't get 15% of a case of severe COVID.

Getting Covid or not is binary, yes, but the severity of the disease is on a spectrum. I can surely get a 15% less severe disease thanks to a 4-5 month old vaccination. Just like the severity of the disease depends on the viral load you're exposed to.

Of course there's no way of knowing what the exact percentage is for me personally, so in that sense you're right - it's just an average. But it's surely indicative, which is why you should be getting boosters after a specific amount of time, if you're in a risk group.
I have managed people for decades and I would never disrespect a new hire by asking them to work before their start date. I say huge red flag.
Frankly, almost every country has an army, which is a in a since a vehicle that sacrifices some people to save others (young people, too).
This one seems to be mostly performance related with no/few functional changes.
Ask HN: A website that has a graph of (all) animals and their food
I've been an avid enthusiast of everything living, and especially since Corona started. I've been thinking a lot about how the entire ecosystem around the world is more or less shaped as a directed graph with animals eating food, be it other animals or greens, or anything. In addition they also produce all kinds of things like poo and urine which give live to other forms of live.

I think this is something that a lot of people had thought of as well, so I can only imagine something like this already exists, and probably in multiple forms and shapes as it's nigh impossible to get entirely completely. Yet despite the presumption of such a graph existing, I cannot find it.

So I come here: Does anyone on Hacker News know of such a graph or ongoing effort? I'd be happy to contribute with my knowledge regarding visualizing graphs, mangling the data and creating insights.

Something that is somewhat related is the graph in onezoom.org that shows the (almost entire?) relatedness of all species on earth.
I’ve been using the Nightly for years.

Help with the testing so they build a better product.
For Haskell, maybe it's:

"What if everything was immutable?"

Which I guess doesn't really include the language itself.

But it seems more fundamental to Haskell than first class functions, which exist in many other popular languages.
Having uBlock Origin and NoScript in a mobile browser is amazing.
> for the next unityped trap

Many languages are unityped and carry the same problems, yet they are hyped rather than bashed (e.g. Python, Ruby).

> If you know why you shouldn't use `==`, you know enough so that even if you don't go for `===`, using `==` safely is the least of your problems.

You have some weird false dichotomy going on. I'm personally in the state "I remember why == is bad (type coercion ...)" but I don't remember all the details to be able to use == correctly. I bet many people are in a similar situation.
This info is not entirely correct: the sources they cite (in French and Dutch) say Brussels airlines is planning to make 3000 unnecessary flights. The mother company Lufthansa published this news themselves, I presume they also hope the rules get changed. Not that one should have sympathy for the airline, but it’s good to keep the facts straight.
How can this be patentable ? Is amazing.

If given the typical job of implementing this coarse desire of a spec to 100 engineers and 90 can implement it with no problem then its just work, nothing original about it. This company was only the first to actually want to sell 2+ speakers and implement the app control with it instead of an IR remote.
Now they have better review processes.

Its pretty clear what happened, Intel doesn't have an aggregate stance on anything, US legal saw the new US federal law regarding Xinjiang and wanted it included in US securities regulatory risk statements and also needed that in circulars. That happened, then reality set in that there are consequences - something lawmakers are shielded from - and at that point Intel took a look at the circumstance holistically and reworded it.

Companies are going to have to hire geopolitical experts to play cross cultural word games now that they are being saddled with it the consequences.
> The fact that the Rust project resists standardizing too early — which could lead to being stuck with a bad design — is in my opinion one of its virtues.

I think the same way, and was enthusiastic of async Rust at the beginning, but right now I think it has caused a mess in libraries. Maybe they did the standardization way too early? Maybe they could have waited until the async libraries can be separated from runtimes, which I think they are now planning to do.

If you start to dig through otherwise useful libraries you see a divide to those who async and those who don't, and top of that which runtime they have chosen. Mixing and matching between those is painful.
Deno by Example
If you're wondering, this falls under the rubric "Graphic Design" more than it falls under the rubric of "Chocolate".

I was pleased to learn that there is a name for this.
The problem with fingerprinting is that Firefox's market share is so low that using Firefox is a pretty unique fingerprint in an of itself.
Show HN: Auto-generate “Link preview” thumbnails for your site’s content
Hey folks I posted this a while back when I had just a small MVP and a had a little bit of feedback from here. It’s my first-ever “SAAS” app built on my own, after years of doing it for others in the agency world .

It’s a small “API-like” tool that lets you easily auto-generate “Link preview” thumbnails (og:image) for your website's pages, based on HTML/CSS templates you provide. This way, when links to your site are shared on the internet, a nice standard picture with relevant information can be shown instead of a generic image or nothing at all.

I cleared some time to work on it in last november and have been building it on my own since. Last 2-3 weeks, holidays got basically cancelled because of the pandemic where I live (Montreal) so I had a lot of free time to work on it, so it’s starting to look pretty good now!

Some of you folks on HN seem pretty experienced, so I’m hoping to get some feedback/roast if you check it out! Do you think it’s a good idea? Does the pricing make sense to you? Would you / not use it? Why?

Thanks so much!
> We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.

Where can I find out more about this?
You are thinking continuous relaxation which is a lot less thight as entanglement enforces additional rules.
Another thing I’m currently realizing as I’m building my own completely local smart assistant (based on Rhasspy): Those black boxes are a lot cheaper. Just the hardware I need to replace an Echo Dot (and excluding the Pi 4 that does the heavy processing) could buy me 2 - 3 Echo Dots from Amazon.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt makes this nicely clear. He claims that liberals mostly value fairness and harm avoidance. More conservatives in addition also value authority, ingroup and purity. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind). To me this rings intuitively true and strongly validates your point. To me ingroup, authority and purity are at best suspect if not actively negative, so there seem to be natural limits to how much over can get on the same page without deep, small group discussion of every topic.

Edit: typo "find" -> "rings"
Okay working on this now.. thanks for the suggestion. I should note that even N95 is extremely effected by fit. I've gotten as low as 80% filtration on a flat-fold N95.
The Marvel research institute has a whole series about it.
I know there was "more to it", but this claim of the patent could have been invalidated. It seems like the court's interpretation is that Sonos owns the entire process of grouping speakers and changing the volume for that group, which is a very obvious claim.
> Intel shareholders can now vote to ensure Intel takes a stand against China, if they choose. But it seems those individuals do not want that.

Good question, who are Intel shareholders?
We aren’t talking about current laws though, but philosophy/moral ones. Of course animal experiments are legal (if they pass an ethical examination)
"whois jvns.ca

This will usually give you the right answer, but it might be an old cached version."

Is that really ever a problem? Who changes authoritative nameservers for a domain? This is by far the easiest way and the whole blog post could have just been six lines long.
> We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.

What does that even mean?
Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent in-house implementation compatible with uBlock-style lists) in a browser by a company that claims to care about privacy.
> Yes, let's throw out logic and reason in favor of internet satire

Arguing the boundaries of arbitrary semantic categories with no significance isn't something “logic or reason” plays a whole lot of role in in any case [0]; what is on display is a whole lot of emotional attachment backed with a abusive language, not “logic and reason”.

[0] Which is, of course, what the site is satirizing.
That's all good and right but how is it actionable? Do we stop judging stuff as being undesirable and just accept everything?

I thought about this subject quite a bit and there's really no way around conflicts. You just have to have them and try to win them. The party that is the furthest away from reality will lose eventually. Warning: the _realistic_ party will win, not the right party, the good party, the moral party, etc. You also need to accept this.

Or you can put on the pacifist hat and basically accept you're going to lose every time. History is full of conflicts and only conflicts changed the world. Be them military, artistic, ideological, philosophical or whatever. If you can't survive the contact with the opposing side think what reality will do to you.
I thought hardware acceleration is not even turned on by default yet on Linux? That said, I've been running hardware accelerated firefox for several years on 3 different computers with different graphics cards, what hardware are you using? Have you reported a bug?
These are good points. Working on rewording this now.
Have been an active Firefox user for 15+ years and not had much trouble, even running on preview builds.
I'm curious - what is the compensation like for a SWE working in med-tech? i.e. software that drives mission (and life) critical things during surgery, etc.?

I would hope such people would be compensated and treated very well, but I fear I would not be surprised at all of they were paid significantly less than a SWE working on optimizing better ways to post kitten pictures online.
You can self-host https://github.com/nextcloud/bookmarks
The Firebase suite has been _fantastic_ for developing our app, to quote one of the app developers: "[...] but from start until now, I feel we have saved years of shitty bugs, and that it is one of the best decisions we have done".
We still use Firebase for the app, and that's probably not going to change in a long time.

We hit some snags when we started requiring a performant API, which is why we don't use Firebase for that any more, although we still use Firestore and a lot of other stuff for the platform.

As every other technology it's choosing what pains you want, and the current Firesbase pains are quite easy to live with.
> The world didn't used to be like that. I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread.

While I do agree that this seem to be very correlated with the montoheistic religions (wrote about exactly that here):

> Monotheism makes it really hard to consider the arguments of the other side because it doles out the addictive sweet nectar of moral superiority

https://piszek.com/2022/01/10/monotheism/

I don't agree with your conclusion that this is something you have to fight.
We can do exactly what they did before the spread of montheism - live in the world where it is perfectly normal to have multiple points of view or even value frameworks. Rome thrived in that setting.

The choice between us vs them is itself an illusion. You don't have to subscribe to the entire package, but then you don't get access to that righteousness Fix
My point in a nutshell:

Good enough is usually an excuse for vague and ill-defined practice. If you don't have a well-defined "good enough" you probably don't have a mature process. If you don't have a mature process, you probably shouldn't be writing critical code. Hence my original comment that it's not a good mindset for high-risk applications.

Well defined "good enough" often looks like a standard. Those standards should be risk based so that one person's biases don't result in a different level of risk mitigation than another person's. That risk is what contextualizes what is "good enough". I'm sure if you asked the Boeing managers, they felt their CST-100 software was "good enough", but the relevant safety standards say it wasn't "good enough". Since both sides can use the term, it makes the term somewhat useless. Like you say, there is no singular "good enough" so the question becomes: Good enough...for what? Good enough to meet schedule, or good enough to not risk crashing into the ISS? My main issue is that "good enough" often means "undefined". When people say "good enough", I've found it often means "we don't know what we need, but I'm sure we'll know it when we get there." I think that can be a bad approach to software development when the risks are high because it opens one up to cognitive biases that lead to subjective and poor decision making.

If you're saying "good enough" is precisely defined and based on risk, then I agree. But that is not how I've ever seen the term used in practice. It's almost always a nebulous term which means you've only vaguely defined the risk. Poorly defined, subjective judgement belongs more to art than engineering, especially not safety-critical engineering. "clunky, cobbled together, expermental or just plain stupid" as the OP said, just doesn't cut it on critical applications, even if the developer claims it's "good enough" and doesn't strike me as a professional mindset.
> I can't think of a time before that when people killed each other over political ideals

The Wars of the Roses (England, 1455-1487) was primarily political rather than religious. It was caused by a succession crisis, rival political units and changes in the structure of feudalism.

The numerous wars in Rome between rival emperors had very little to do with religion.
using volume buttons to control volume... I don't even... why didn't they just grant Sonos a patent on buttons?
Calcification was what happened with my grandmother; due to other ailments and QoL (she was 85) she declined getting a new valve.
The funny thing about that is, with original star trek going through all kinds of crazy situations, thinking outside of the box and changing the simulation was probably the correct solution to an unwinnable problem multiple times, in some cases literally.

In this case it solves a slightly different problem, but for many situations that may be enough.
USD a bubble is a huge stretch - you discount all your other comments with a comment as far reaching as this. If you are trying to insinuate that the USD has a higher value than its intrinsic value due to required demand as a result of a being a reserve currency than maybe you have something. That is nothing to do with being a bubble.

The USD is a reserve currency which has many profound effects associated with that it is not a "bubble" asset class at this point.

When the USD expands its currency base it actually does reduce the the USD valuation relative to other countries.
Just to point out that Stross's blog is running off an elderly PC in his office, so no surprise that when it makes the front page on HN (twice in two days now) it gets slashdotted.
Who do you think taught them how to do that?
Accelerando is geek bait. His best work is the Laundry series which he's still working on.

Disclaimer: no idea what his opinion of his work is.
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A real world system of "all co-owners" would be my first guess but I will be honest I am not as educated on this overall topic as I would like
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