skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that might explain why I get dizzy and get headaches. My head is probably too big for the HTC Vive. I max out the adjustment.

Is it a generation shift or could you play Vive and release Occulus too?
Many companies have to spend big dollars on their trademarked terms or company name to get it listed as the top result only via a paid ad.

Google artificially pushes down those company results to keep forcing them to pay big bucks for the top result only via advertising. Pretty slimy business Google is in these days. Like paying the local thugs to protect your grocery store.
I think a distribution is just much more convenient, mostly because of package discovery and the time it takes to set things up. Other people take care of making your editing experience nice, and some things just take a long time to get working otherwise.

That said, it's true that you can in principle do the same thing yourself :)
> EVERY network basically requires either an RFID card or a smart phone app

My Mach E isn't a Tesla and charges on EA stations by just plugging it in. I don't have an EA app. There's a standard protocol for this negotiation. Lots of chargers don't yet support it, but the technology exists for non-Teslas to have a plug and charge experience.
IMHO, it less scary than living in New York, Washington, Beijing, Moscow, and so on. They are the main targets.
That's only true if you have no issue with habitat destruction to make more room for farmland, which is happening all the time.
Interesting product. Congrats on shipping!

I'm wondering about the use case of developers actually wanting to send out contracts (on behalf of their employer, I assume). Is this something that your clients who are software developers are asking for?

Disclosure: I'm a lawyer and software developer.

Edit: Correct a brain fart.
Adblock Plus, uOrigin, and ghostery lite don't require basically any configuration. Just install the browser extension and enable it.
Did you not see the interview?

It’s related in that it’s a humorous synopsis of those whose ideal society is that of the article title.
> Whether you believe in welfare is a separate issue.

I actually disagree. I represent that the social safety net is the state's interest in avoiding the bankruptcy of it's citizens.

In an economic model that advocates for free risk taking and falls back on a welfare system, you're privatizing gains and socializing risks. Tempering risk taking while providing a social safety net seems like a reasonable balance to me.

However, I appreciate your perspective!
The full version of Brin and Page's classic paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" [1], which describes the early architect of Google and is an interested read in its own right, literally has "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives." Highlights include:

-"We believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a
competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm. "

- "We expect that advertising
funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

- "A better search engine would not have required this
ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it
could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer
advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the
advertising supported business model of the existing search engines."

To be clear: the "we" in these quotes are the founders of Google.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

As an aside, I've been reading a bunch of academic papers about early web crawlers and search engines. It's a fun and interesting subject. Mercator [2] (which became Alta Vista) is another early search engine and one of the few that discusses its architecture in detail.

[2] https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-173.pdf
We are slowly loosing ownership of our things. Cars don't work without cloud updates and roadside service when we get a flat, we can't play music that we've bought 3 times over on 3 different media's in our car without paying for it yet again, we can't even repair our own tractors.
https://archive.fo/4WdUH
>"This is really getting out of hand. "Right to repair" should include "right to dumb down"."

Yes! Especially with cars - Toyota backed down but they are full of crap; they fully intended to do it until people objected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLlzAv2GTdc

I love how the only people that were going to be exempted were peoples who's cars cellular modems already didn't work. How convenient.

I hope I can be buried in the cars I currently own. And if I have to buy a new one if it won't work with the cellular modem being pulled out I ain't buying it.
Yeah I think this is getting closer to the truth. The bang for the buck isn’t there and the corruption in the department is rampant, even with oversight.
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Check out the FAQ there, helpfully answers these questions. tl;dr yes these are legally valid digital signatures.

(former lawyer here and didn't know the answers either!)
Here is the author's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/p12tic
Very nice concept! Bookmarked, wish you the best with this.
For something that is already resistant to antibiotics, the training phase seems prudent. Exploiting evolution as part of the treatment leads to greater success.

The emergence of phage-resistant pathogens should not be encouraged, as we have encouraged antibiotic resistance.

I think it's a change in mindset, as well as a change in procedure.
It's easy in a lab, in a city with potential for fairly arbitrary reverberations hitting the microphone at fairly arbitrary timings it's right up there with forensic fire analysis and other crap like that.
If our government subsidizes investment in greenhouse, would that be sustainable?
"The Giant Pyrosome is a free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter."

Nope.
There is more to it of course ...

Yes, most rechargeable batteries will degrade over time just sitting there --- without any "cycling".
I bet! I run an adblocker and it's a cat and mouse game with YouTube ads slipping through. Last breakage, before I reinstalled it, I was getting ad interruptions for the same two stupid adds literally every 45 seconds.
As to the reason it's worth it, here are a couple of reasons:

When legacy media companies sell ad space, often they do not do so through an auction mechanism but through a direct purchase model. That means someone paid anywhere from a few hundred to thousands to be on that page. That gives them more of a client relationship and so they can feel more burdened to make sure advertising clients get 'visibility' and bang for their buck.

Also, they can sell ads in their videos with estimated view/impression counts. If they autoplay, the view count goes up even if you're not watching the video so an unsophisticated ad consumer thinks the ad spend is justified.

I don't run ad campaigns anymore, but I did for eight years and I always preferred no autoplay because intentional viewing is much more valuable for what I was selling.

Use adblock.
And oat milk preferable to almond milk.
The ads themselves are an attack vector.
I like Clojure, but it's really the exact opposite of the sort of "boring technology" that this post advocates. If MongoDB costs you 2 innovation tokens, Clojure costs at least 2, perhaps all 3.

The cost of innovation is not so much in the core of Clojure itself, but that once your company gets larger, you will want to integrate with more and more things that have not put effort into Clojure compatibility, just because the language is not very popular. Also hiring.
All input is error (so we make it impossible to give correct input).
Hasn't Tesla sold more EVs in the US than every other automaker combined? Even if literally every other automaker uses CCS, wouldn't Tesla's connector still have more market share?

And their connector isn't it proprietary. They offered it freely (under terms quite similar in spirit to GPLv3, actually) to anyone who wanted it, but they just didn't get any takers.
I've had a mixed bag of results on this one, but as someone who works in data, the sudden crunch to bring a company's architecture into SOX compliance can certainly be stressful enough to warrant leaving.
I have this moment when I have to use Youtube on my phone for some reason (such as a tutorial for how to fix something), and get blasted with 3 ads for a 1 minute video. I would never use it for long periods without an ad blocker.
Mozilla could do the right thing and endorse/review critical extensions so we know they are safer, but I don't think they have the guts to do it, or mention the word "adblock".

As a power user I also set JS off by default and whitelist specific sites, and also use garbage websites in private mode so their garbage tracking is hopefully purged.
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Tibco is owned by Private Equity, not VCs. Very different type of companies. VCs own a company on its way up, PE onws its way down. Some times a company is sold immediately from VCs to PE. In some rear occasions a company owned by PE can go public: e.g. Dynatrace, TeamViewer.
Thankfully, with android, firefox still has addon support so ublock origin can still be used regardless of price point.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

It's particularly important not to do that when the thread is fresh, because threads are so responsive to initial conditions.
Creating my own non-trivial minor mode was what really got me to start understanding Elisp and Emacs as a whole more under the hood.
Why would that kind of sanitization be a good thing?

People, e.g. do not need to be protected from the fact the Hitler was a pretty good painter, lest they think in classic black-and-white disney-villain stereotypes, and give the next Hitler a pass just because "he can't be that bad if he's such a good painter".

Equally, I have no trouble celebrating good works by people who were later found to be objectionable, as long as the works themselves are worthy in isolation. Human nature is flawed, sometimes deeply so, the good can coexist with the bad, and there's no better reminder than this.

And I haven't even touched the whole "every hero is some other guy's traitor (and vice versa)"
There were also targeted attacks against AT&T infrastructure in the Bay Area:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/more-california-...

It was fiber optic cable so you can't blame copper theft as the motive, sabotage was clearly intended.

In this case, Oakland being Oakland, it could just as well have been hoodlums trying to show off their marksmanship.
Remember that viewing ads at all has also been an attack vector. As ever, make the judgement that best fits your situation.
Show HN: Visualizer for Collatz conjecture a.k.a. 3n plus 1 problem
Using plain text as the storage medium is not a bug, it's a feature.

Anyway, Martin is working on v3 which is moving the core of the parser into a complied language, in order to make it even faster when parsing large datasets.
Isn’t “ugly” produce just canned or used in manufactured foods like jarred sauces or jams? If that’s the case then it’s already on store shelves.
We can already feed the world with our current farming infrastructure. You glossed over the “getting the food to stores” which is the hard part. Fresh produce, meat and dairy is expensive to transport at the speeds and temperatures required to keep it fresh. So you get food deserts in areas where the baseline transport cost isn’t profitable. This is also why most of the food in grocery stores are canned goods, simple grains, cured meats and cheeses, or frozen. Every foodstuff manufacturer that can avoid spoilage cuts down on the bulk of their cost.
Then you get 4x as many people eventually.
Cattle mostly eat what humans can’t digest — grasses, not grains. That energy would go to “waste” otherwise. And the water consumption stats often include rain water (“green water”).
Same experience here. This can’t be right though. Surely we are the exceptions and there really are idiotic committees forcing manufacturers to include eco settings that don’t work - rather than the other explanation of some dishwashers being crap?
Additional data to support my perception.

Israel was quicker in rollout/receiving vaccines, because they also paid more than the US: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/pfizer-pf...

( And were willing to share countrywide data)
The race to reconnect Tonga (undersea cable)
I wonder if there are other things we'd do with land if the price of land came down

Maybe we'd see more communes (or charter cities)?
I know for a fact there are people constantly looking for places to buy and if things were cheap enough they'd jump on it.
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Many CMS's have limitations in what they allow you to style. The needs kind of clash, the system wants simple templates that every page should follow but writers may want to be able to put some extra styling here and there. For full freedom you basically end up with a programming language. Otherwise the more advanced things gets really hard to do (iterate over each news-blurb and show it but paginate it to only 5 items per page).
Just allowing the user to add a few images to a page and have them show up nicely is pretty hard if you don't control the layout hard.
I feel zero guilt about ad blocking. There was some period of discussion on the subject back in like 2003 but the ad companies went to war against human civilization and there's been no going back. It corrupts and twists everything it touches into a constant hustle for eyeball-cash and an entire generation has now reached adulthood knowing nothing but that hustle touching every bit of media they ever interact with. Who even knows what they'll do with that.

In 2005 or so there was a bunch of trojans going around for IIRC Blizzard games to steal account creds on various sites and my first response to that was "huh, that site has ads?"

People give Brave grief over BAT, and maybe with good reason, but it's one the few efforts to try and bring some sort of involvement to the public side of it as to where the money is flowing that seems to have a chance of going anywhere.
Ad networks seem like a significantly larger attack surface to me...
I think this has been explored quite extensively here on HN and other places. The viewpoint a few years ago was that you could transform what it means to be a refueling station. Like chargers in places that gas stations can't be.
With Chrome's crippling of adblockers via their Manifest V3 mandate, I wonder if Chrome users are in for a rude awakening of how hostile and repugnant the ad laden web has become.
> Disclaimer: I'm a lawyer and software developer.

I'm surprised to see that common misuse (that I'd usually try harder to refrain commenting on) from a lawyer!
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The four different polls we found in that thread found that, in the US, 24%, 27%, 45%, or 62% supports affirmative action. None of these is "a small minority", though some do fall short of being "broad popular support".
My rule of thumb when someone says "Language X is dying" is to move on. I don't even use Clojure, and I can immediately come up with https://github.com/logseq/logseq and https://github.com/athensresearch/athens as funded companies making popular new products with Clojure.
I feel the same when I accidently open the stock app instead of Vanced.
> I’m not trying to be controversial, but traditional mathematicians are decades behind the best computing scientists when it comes to crafting formalisms.

Could you provide examples? The Dijkstra article doesn't seem like a marked improvement.

> Perhaps mathematicians enjoy the intellectual exercise of holding all those concepts in mind?

Mathematics is not symbol manipulation. I wish it was as easy as that. Mathematics requires you to hold all the concepts in mind while studying and working.

> Perhaps they, like many guilds, appreciate the barriers to outsiders that they feel increase their own prestige?

I am incapable of finding an example where the barrier to outsiders is the notation and not the concepts themselves.
Yeah, the Walmart burner phone will literally end up burning
What really scares me is that in Wayland programs must do their own window management. I realy hate when a program decides that it shall change position or shape on the screen or when it decides to draw on the titlebar making window operations like maximizing a pain.
"Canceling" someone for what they said/claimed in the past is a double-edged sword.
When hiring / recruiting Clojure devs, there are quite a few second-order effects which are quite unintuitive.

Clojure devs are much more senior - they've typically been burnt by at least one tech stack, often more (Java, JS + React, Fortran, Cobol, punching tape, etc.). Clojure devs also tend to be really passionate about, you guessed it, Clojure, which commonly turns out to be a good thing. People passionate about that level of language-detail tend to be meticulous about many other useful things, like choosing the right tools and building simple and maintainable applications.

There's sometimes a slight tendency towards over-engineering which is understandable. People who dive deep into other programming languages and go through the pain of learning lisp sometimes tend to lose focus of the actual (business) problem to solve. But I wouldn't say this tendency is significantly higher than elsewhere. Still, sometimes, the pragmatism of a rails dev just churning out code is missed.

Also, because Clojure jobs are scarce and there's a high number of "secret Clojurists" (people who code Clojure at night and secretly dream of using it at their day job), you actually get a much higher number of applicants than you would have estimated based on the most recent Stackoverflow survey.

Also, you get a real shot at hiring rockstar devs. This is huge and cannot be overstated. If you're hiring for a standard JS / Python stack, you're suddenly competing with FAANG companies and their salaries. If you're hiring for Clojure, you're hardly competing with anyone. And you get a good pre-selection of senior devs. Like, those which were burned at a FAANG company, who finally came to their senses and now want to code Clojure. What's not to like?

I guess a drawback would be that you couldn't instantly hire a local team of 100+ devs, even if you take secret Clojurists into account. But who would want to work at a place which hires 100+ devs in a short amount of time?

(I interviewed around 200 people, many of them for Clojure roles, sometimes even comparing Python and Clojure applicants for the same role)

Relevant talk: https://youtu.be/kNiGu_VaoTg?t=1566
Of course they can learn new languages. But it takes some time to become really proficient in a language. The question is how many languages do you want to support in your company? Because it's not realistic to think that developers will not need to move from project to project. And in fact when things get busy they may need to swap from one project to another and back on the same day. It's not ideal but that's life. The inefficiency of swapping between languages will often outweigh the efficiency of the new language.

Google were notoriously strict for limiting languages at the start and I think it was very frustrating for some of the developers they hired. If I had a boring technology checklist then "Language we already use" would be top of the list.
Globally yes. If you look at the United States it is 10%, of which less than half is animal related.

You could solve this without reducing consumption as well. Food additives exist which bring down methane emissions to practically nothing.
> biases for non-breaking changes easing long term maintainability

So, not ElasticSearch.
Whatever your opinion of Rogan's ideas - I find this to be misleading. Joe is 100% trying to be controversial, it's why he brings these guests on. It gets listeners. Howard Stern followed the same formula.

"I'm not trying to promote misinformation, I'm not trying to be controversial," Rogan added.
This very much depends on where you live. In SF or NYC, sure, housing is very expensive but that's not the entire country and even there it's exaggerating to say you can't live near transit for less than $1M. We definitely need more attention to urban housing availability and improving transit considerably (i.e. not treating it as a last resort for the poor / disabled) but there's also a lot of inertia and assumption driving those comparisons which leads people to think it's cheaper to live further out even when they end up spending the same amount or more (at least hopefully for a preferred lifestyle choice such as a large lawn).
> Many student believe that 1 plus the product of the first n primes is always a prime number.

Wow, pretty sure I read this in New Scientist magazine in the early 2000s, quoting some "cryptography expert". Guess he wasn't such an expert.
What would you recommend for a GUI interface to authoring a site based on Hugo

I put together a Hugo site, where the site is automatically deployed to Render (similar to Heroku) whenever a commit is made to the GitLab repo.

While I am "ok" using Obsidian + WorkingCopy (iOS git client) on my phone to update the site - its clunky but works- is not acceptable to less-technical people.

I want the benefits of a site based on plaintext Markdown, but want something that approaches the ease of jamming out a doc on Google Docs, Notion etc, dropping images into the content, etc.

Suggestions to check out?
I have friends who still don't use some sort of adblocking, no fucking idea how they browse websites without it in 2022. Anytime I've had to use a computer without uBlock Origin, they are horrible to use.

Now I just recommend everyone Ublock Origin :)
Bring it in. Screw hoses onto taps. Plug into electrical socket. Check level. Done. That's usually the entire process. Why would anyone want to complicate such a simple thing?

Only the absolutely lowest end student slum apartments where I live (in a very not-rich state) don't already have a washer hookup/tap. Any home a person would actually purchase would have one already, so no effort.
Because folks in rural areas never get drunk and shoot random shit that isn't theirs? When I worked at Boeing, we had a recurring problem, that airplane fuselages were shipped by rail, and they were frequently pierced by multiple bullet holes. This is one of those instances where the urban/rural crime gap is partly explained by the reliability of crime reporting.
You're probably right about that, and I appreciate the extra context.
With extensions it was possible to get a functional desktop up and running, but nothing short of a hassle. GNOME 40 is just a desolate wasteland of poor design decisions by comparison, if your family thought GNOME 3 was bad, they'd be flabbergasted by the newer releases.
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Regardless of the reason for these "ineffective cycles", I use them. They work well. Not sure what the big deal is.
This is usually used as a "I'm speaking from this context" instead of a "legal" disclaimer.