skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revelation mentions the destroyers of the earth as one of those vanquished by God.

Pollution can last millennia. Future generations may curse upon this one for spoiling the earth.

I saw the article about shells carbon capture plant shell game and it kind of reminds me of the common sense arguments against ethanol for fuel.

Environmentalism is a little like feel goodism for the insignificant things we do on an individual level.

But big ideas can make a difference.

I thought of this today; To solve the questions surrounding our impact on the oceans' decreasing ph levels since industrialization began and whatever impact increasing levels of carbon dioxide are having while not having a great deal of impact on the consumption of energy:

First stage:
Sodium metal production from sodium chloride waste streams from desalinization plants. Byproduct: High quality drinking water.

First stage waste cycle:
the byproduct is Chlorine. Some of this is useful as is but there are huge surpluses of it. It would have the effect of making chlorine basically a much lower cost commodity. And what is not used is converted into something inert and benign like artificial chlorite and used for pavement or whatever.

Second stage:
The desalinization plant requires an electric plant to run. The exhaust gasses are fed into a chamber that combines the sodium metal with the oxygen and carbon in carbon dioxide to make bicarbonate of soda and oxygen gas. Oxygen gas can be collected for industrial uses.

Second stage waste cycle:
Bicarbonate can be released into the ocean with no ill effects as long as it it's ph is being diminished faster than it is increased in the status quo.

This isn't a fit all solution but it would be very useful in places that have little fresh water to drink and have a lot of waste salt they have to get rid of. Saudi Arabia comes to mind.
I've been using Tiddlywiki for my technical notes. Before I was using Evernote and Notion, both would format my code blocks and it was just easier to use Tiddlywiki with a desktop app for saving.

But my concern with Tiddlywiki is extracting the data if needed, there was a time when my wiki had some file issues and lucky that I was able to recover without sorting the files manually.
So you don't do it by ignorance as it becomes their responsability?
I see no nuance lost in this translation ;). Seems like you’ve peeved some NFT enthusiasts.
So let's suppose there were an airborne, easily-transmissible hemorrhagic fever pandemic. Do you want "muh freedoms", or everyone following clear rules and not endangering the lives of others? When people aren't being reasonable enough to do what's essential for safety of others, force and consequences are needed to make them learn the lesson. Rule of law.
That's a moot argument. We can use the Iraq war instead and do that same math, amounting to $11000 per tax payer.

Government budgets are well spent when they are used to do things that are impossible, unfeasible or unwise to do by individual people. JWST is a science investment, which is one of the wisest ways to spend public money.
Probably pretty difficult to find too many compelling cases. The bands starlink transmits in are designated communication bands, so interference from other satellites is going to be so high that it will drown out any signals. There are astronomers working on removing this foreground, but it's really difficult! It's actually becoming quite a problem in radio astronomy with the amount of the electromagnetic spectrum that is quiet enough for science.
Nobody knows what is causing the obesity epidemic, unfortunately. There are a lot of theories but no smoking gun.
Exactly. Most moth is not useful at all, even for senior software engineers. I've researched this topic a lot. I'd say the useful math peaks at grade 9/10. You know: Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Graphs. Obviously, for a very small fraction of the population, higher math is useful.
Having done a lot of long road trips, I have often entertained my tired brain by trying to calculate how long it will take me to get to mile marker x, or city y (SPRINGFIELD 400 says the sign) based on how fast I'm going, then how long it would take if I was going 1mph faster or slower, or 5mph, etc. It's relatively simple but to do so entirely mentally seems to take a lot longer for me than I if I could just jot a few notes down. It gets more fun if you try to account for how long it takes for you to slow down for an exit, take a piss and get a snack, then get back up to speed.

I didn't know, for the longest time, what a derivative was. I still don't, not really, though I can bluff my way to a reasonably correct answer using the above analogy and going from dry "rate of rate of change" sort of language into more practical concepts.
Correct, that's why I characterized them as miscounts.

There are popular theories about thousands of such miscounts happening to get more money from the government, but it makes no sense for them to be more than a small minority of mistakes.
Look of art of problem solving's alcumus. It's targeted at children who do competitive math, but leetcode is also easier than high school level usaco problems, so you might find it challenging.

In general, aops has some decent textbooks.
Everything that is a standard was once an idea and not a standard. I can't speak for motivations, but I do like the idea of an image format that handles our current common use cases: JPEG, PNG, GIF. As it is now everyone uses JPEG for too many things otherwise GIF for memes. Gif is a very inefficient video format. There was once TIFF but that was too unwieldy to be of practical use being a 'kitchen sink' design rather than based on usage needs.

My perspective is very simple. Google wants an efficient storage and transmission format as they do lots of both. This is not contrary to the needs of consumers.

Here's an issue thread[0] on w3c/epub-specs that has some of the finer points.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1344
I dont want the FBI providing my internet.

I dont mind local publicly owned utilities providing internet while still allowing private competition, but anything on the state or federal level has too much power over the individual.
Sure, I could end up voted in as the mayor of a small town. That's nothing like making it into congress.

A small town mayor has none of the power a member of congress would.

In democracy the larger the seat, the larger the infrastructure required to get there.

The funding of this infrastructure brings the necessity of corruption.
Do they have cloud budget?
Slow dev machine is a deal breaker for me. I ask about dev machine quality in the interview bc I hate being bound by the machine I'm on. It's hard enough to focus on tasks, if I'm constantly having to take coffee breaks to compile things that shouldn't take that long it would drive me (more) crazy.
Why not find a software engineer job within a vertical that resonated with you. Ed tech, Medtech, web3, lawyertech. Whatever that will
Leverage your experience and apply it into a field that will drive your objectives forward. I am a HW engineer with 10+ years exp who is actively preparing for leetcoding interview. Software engineering is a evergreen career but burnout is inevitable but as long as you can keep updating and have a good focus on life outside work
Maybe we are overlooking the "astronomical expenditure" double entendre.
The last time I checked, we were already recruiting organ donors at the DMV. How do you suppose we go about increasing the (currently small) number without resorting to unethical means?
> All big corps require you to take this kind of training.

I've worked at a couple "big corps" as an internal developer. JPMC, BestBuy, Experian, etc. Never encountered it.

I suspect it's only for those companies in danger (or with a history of being charged with) breeching anti-trust.
It seems to me that you are comparing apples and oranges. If your code has no relevant state or coupling, a pure function. Sure, you can look at it in isolation. You could do the same in a monolith.

I've worked on plenty of monoliths with async style code and have found the stack traces to be plenty helpful. It's never been an issue. At least in JavaScript you retain all relevant scoped data and can dump it all if you like.
Debugging gets much more interesting when there are no obvious such errors, yet error conditions are present.

I'm still not seeing any equivalent microservice tooling.
If people choose to communicate completely off platforms, how do you expect Roblox to be responsible? Even if screenshot is provided as evidence, how do you expect Roblox to check if it's real? In the meanwhile, users can just use Guilded as a communication tool. It's not like there is no alternative. What do you think they acquire Guilded for?
How much revenue did that program generate? That should be the fine, obviously. Alongside the criminal prosecution.
Has anyone considered that there are more job openings now because of how bad it is to be a worker?

Wages are climbing higher, and they’re expected to stay that way for years. Employees can quit a job and likely find better pay elsewhere.

Translation: massive inflation means you have to keep quitting to get paid a market wage, plus all the extra covid controls and other HR nonsense means you can't just come do your putative job, you have to be subjected to all kinds of other stuff.

It's a horrible time to be anything but wealthy with a lot of land and loans that are being inflated away
for that matter, how many people have seen the beginning of Half Life 1 (dated, but still one of the best intros to a game I've seen, althiough it takes a bit to get to the good part)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsTEoGoAxUk
Is this so he can get out of his contract and sell his library to Sony like several big artists recently did?

Edit: Looks like he already sold it off recently. Wonder why he has any say on this anymore.
It's not great that corps get away with paying such small fines. But in a case like this, I surmise that it's a way for the AG to extract a fine that is big enough to be meaningful to some people, but small enough that Amazon isn't going to drag it through the courts for the next decade.
You don't need 12 years "figuring out" that you hate some field. That can and should be done in 2 weeks.
I finally upgraded to Monterey from Mojave this past weekend. I somehow didn’t get the memo that it was no longer getting security updates until my head security engineer said it last week
Actually unintentional but I saw it after and chortled
You’re biased against the seller and even your example of “fair” price is arrived at after negotiations! Where would that come from if there is no haggling?

Even a published price is nothing more than a free option for buyers. It’s a ceiling. There’s nothing that prevents the seller from offering a lower unpublished price.
So perhaps we should add huge qualifiers to all these scary sounding numbers, eh? Because the lack of context throughout this pandemic has created vast amounts of ungrounded, unchecked fear and hysteria.
> Immunity deniers

Let's not do this. When this mess is over we'll all want to work and break bread together again, and that's much more important than whatever any of us happened to believe or say in the fog of war.
You are right! I actually grew up in Canada and the Ramsay kit shipped from Rochester NY if I remember correctly. 1 Watt was very clearly labeled for Export Only, although still not legal in Canada.

I believe they do still sell the 1watt through distributors (I guess downloading the compliance risk?), at least they did 5 or 6 years ago last I looked.
I've tried to write PEG grammars/parsers and found that I am not quite smart enough to figure it out.

Hand-written lexer/parser means you can be dumb as a doornail and just walk through the logic.

As an aside, it also gives you a better ability to write error messages, and an easier time debugging compared to autogenerated solutions.
Isn't Google one major reason that recipe sites act like this? They've long favoured sites with a lot of textual content (which authors then break up with images) and also penalised sites that people tend to reverse out of quickly? A long story fits that because the majority of people need to read down for the content rather than get their instant answer and immediately retreat.

I find it annoying too, but it often feels like people ridicule the authors when they wouldn't get any traffic if it weren't for that approach. I don't think I've ever searched for a recipe and come across a barebones Gantt-chart-style engineer-thinking recipe plan.
This isn't about prevention. It's training to avoid recording damning evidence. The bad behavior can continue as long as it isn't written down. Preferably implemented in pieces that lend plausible deniability.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30092136
I would prefer other ways than inflation to deal with debt accumulation and miserly unproductively money hoarding, such as demurrage. But the 19th century did not do those, so I thus find myself agreeing with the Central Bank.

Also, since its hard to imagine technology process with out debt in a market economy, we have have an interesting interaction here.
that would be "PIGGGGGGGSSSSS INNNNNNNN SPAAAAAAAAAACE". did they ever just say "in spaaaaaace"?
I feel like this is a big deal.
In a week or so whatever they claimed to be 'misinformation' will likely be the new talking point of the CDC and another group of users will have moved on to rumble, gettr, etc. Keep it up Google....
Ask HN: Why don't browsers pre-include popular JavaScript libraries?
I've often wondered why there isn't a standard for browsers having a pre-populated local cache of very popular JS libraries. To name a few examples: jQuery, Lodash, React.

It seems like the benefits of this would be significant for both user and developer - faster loading, lower bandwidth, quicker builds, etc.

It also seems eminently doable, technically. One possible high-level implementation off the top of my head:

- A standard index of the most popular libs is maintained.

- You pull them in via the script tag, with a new lib="name@version" attribute. Older browsers can use the src tag as a backup.

- SPA build systems like webpack et al are aware of the standard and can just not bundle libs pulled this way, while keeping the require() and import syntax.

I do, however, see some pretty big not-strictly-technical difficulties:

- The index would have to be administered by some entity. Who would that be, and who would pay for it?

- Who defines what the most popular libs are? Whatever system is used, how do you prevent it being gamed to the advantage of particular libs?

- Trust and security. A similar set of issues npm faces. Although that being the case, is this really introducing a new problem? It also seems like a much narrower problem if we're only talking about a small set of very popular libs.

- Maybe some issues around licensing, bundling code into browsers etc. But again, if it's a smallish set of only very popular libs, this seems like it could be dealt with individually for each one and its authors, maybe as a prerequisite for getting included in the index.

These difficulties are not insignificant, but nor do they seem insurmountable and also the benefits do seem genuinely worth it.

It just appears to me to be something that should so obviously have been done, that there must be really good reasons why it hasn't been - maybe including those above, maybe technical, maybe others.

Does anyone know if any serious attempt has ever been made at a proposal to do something like this, even if in a non-standard way by an individual browser vendor?
It is totally standard practice, even at orgs that occasionally file CVEs for internal bugs.
Not what you meant, but The Young Ones was 40 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)
Hasn't Speaker's Corner[0] been DDOS'd IRL by radicals?

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner)
A similar trick is the 3:4:5 rule[1] which I have not used for woodworking but that's where I first heard of it. I have used it for general site planning for tents and ensuring fire breaks and similar, though.

[1]: https://www.ezwoodshop.com/345-triangle.html
Creating a Faster Tar Extractor
Nice. If the US had 49 more Bob Fergusons, things would get different a lot closer to tomorrow.
Airpods connected to an Apple device have uncanny range compared to what I'm used to with other bluetooth pairings
Ask HN: Is there an API out there for verifying US citizenship?
The largest Git repo on the planet (2017)
The same source gives roughly 60/40 for hospitalizations and 50/50 for ICU, so the more severe the symptoms the more vaccinations help.
I love this website and its users. You're right, it's an interesting thought exercise. It reminds me of that experiment where a man tried to disappear.

https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/
Ask HN: Is there currently an HN transparency site?
I remember in the past seeing a couple different sites that tracked HN submissions to identify which ones had been flagged, pushed down, killed, etc.

Is there such a site today? If so, can I get the link? If not, it would be great if someone (with the time/motivation/skill) could build a new one and maintain it over the long term. Maybe even push the data to a blockchain or something.

Obviously this should be a feature of HN itself, it's pretty simple, but in lieu that it seems incredibly important for someone to build and maintain it.

Even though the recent complaints about YC/Stripe are not fully founded (IMHO) there is no doubt that YC's dominance over the tech community's conversations is something to be watched very closely. They do very obviously have their thumb on the scale.

There have been shenanigans in the past and there will be in the future. The conflict of interest is simply too strong.

The most obvious issue today is that HN doesn't prevent voting rings for sufficiently large organizations, like YC itself. Why doesn't it prevent them? Well, the answer is obvious: they have a massive incentive not to. Why isn't there a transparency log for moderation? Same answer.

Edit: from dang's post I saw one of the sites I had remembered: http://hnrankings.info/
X failed as a project if and only if X failed as a product or X consumed (hugely) more resources than initially planned?

But what other reasons that people might care about X failing as a project when it succeeds as a product?
Could you elaborate on what definition of "malware" you're using here? I'm not certain it is the same as how the word is used in common parlance, but I would be interested to hear more if you disagree.
Isn't the JWT a multi-national project? But then again, you have this:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/poll-fr...

Propaganda works kids.
Ive never purchased anything but Logitech, to ensure all of my mice work, so they are pretty standardized to me.. but again I may be a minority in this opinion...
> When people are free, they learn the math they need for the problems they are trying to solve.

Citation needed.
Its big enough that someones bonus pool got wiped out.
Well I heard Mister Young sing about her

Well I heard ol' Neil put her down

Well I hope Neil Young will remember

A southern man don't need him around anyhow
2022 - getting the team back together...
Do you wear a seatbelt?

Why do you refuse to get vaccinated? There are plenty of young, slim, healthy, unvaccinated people who also died. Your "choice" is inconsiderate to others in society who may catch it from you, that it may mutate in you and cause a worse variant, to people who care about you, and to the EMS and healthcare workers who you feel entitled to lean on when they're already overworked. This isn't about self-righteous entitlement to your "rights", this is about your duties to others to be a respectable member of a functional community and society.
I do love me a scientific megaproject, but I still do wonder if a glorious $24 billion (and that's before the overruns) monolith is the most effective thing in terms of science per dollar, especially if it also has a limited lifespan due to consumables.

That's fabulously expensive: you could have four LHCs, have enough change to replace Arecibo with 10 FASTs and then maybe a aircraft supercarrier on top just for funsies.

It feels like JWST again: it's so expensive that it cannot be allowed to fail, so it's engineered to near perfection, but that costs so much that it has to be engineered even more to be sure, and so on until it's 1900% over budget, a decade late and muscling other science out of funding.

But, also dayum it's a piece of art.
See Beltalowda's comment upthread.
Yes, important problem. Probably you'd want something like a public benefit corp or class of public benefit corps with damn strong protections from political intferefernce, rather than a literal .gov setup.
First article google search returns today != the first time NYT reported these things including clarifications as they became public which was months after the event around April 2021, and widely reported in detail by the press at that time.

In regards to the underlying events, and my motivation for commenting, it is splitting hairs. Media reported what was established at the time but none of it significantly changes the core history of what happened on Jan 6. The protest was violent with lots of assaults and injuries. This is now extensively documented, even with investigations still well in progress.
The internet? Anybody can dangle their own leaf on this inconceivably large tree.
Arguably the more important outcome than monetary damages is that the offending program is ceased. From the press release -

> Amazon will shut down the “Sold by Amazon” program nationwide.

So in principle the problem has been stopped. Now whether Amazon will make a new "Buy from Amazon" program in 5 seconds that will have slightly modified details is to be seen...
Diet and exercise doesn't work for everyone, and it's not close to comparable to a 15 minute vaccine appointment. You are being dishonest.
They don't ask for your IRA transactions, TurboTax and other consumer products don't even try to work out wash sales between multiple brokers let alone IRAs, and Congress intentionally doesn't fund IRS investigators because they don't want them to actually enforce anything, so…

Similarly, HSAs are taxable in California but I doubt most people know this and it hasn't caused my HSA investment account to offer tax statements you could even use to report it if you wanted to. So…
Gemini devs could have contributed to something else? Sure. They didn't, though.

Historians avoid counterfactual arguments because they lead nowhere. Perhaps the timeline without Gemini is worse. Perhaps it's better. Not possible to say. Best to just live in the moment.

What projects would you prefer them to work on?
How do we know they are giving us the right stats? Sun Tzu said that the basis of all warfare is deception.
Thanks for saying this. Science is dead.
I hear you on this problem and it took a while to find a solution I like. Ultimately, I went with https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop and file syncing tool of my choice. It seems to work well, but you can have issues if you simultaneously edit.
I think you are purposely attempting to divert from the main point. Consider "lousy" to be, say, a 102 fever, persistent cough, and inability to taste anything. And then both test positive, as I stated. The unvaxxed guy is likely to be admitted, at least for observation.
It is a truly excellent vulnerability that hits a weird POSIX corner case, coupled with a fairly subtle coding error.
He said masks were useless. That's why he was banned. The US chief medical advisor said the same thing. But that's ok because he didnt believe it and only said it to deceive the public.
Is the author, by any chance, selling psychological safety training?
wait is this not being compiled to js?