skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You see "both sides" using the exact same rhetoric--"My side is obviously right and X people agree. This other side is hopeless."

The thing is, from a neutral external perspective, when one side claims "there is no climate change, only God's will" and the other side claims "Climate change is man-made and will escalate to the point of irreversibility if nothing is done", then only one side can back up their argument with verifiable facts. And yet, "listen to both sides!!!"-style arguments result in complete bullshit given the attention of millions of people.

Democratic discourse fundamentally needs facts to debate, not lies, propaganda or un-verifiable anecdotes. People who come to a democratic discourse without facts deserve no time of democratic people. Democracy itself is at war with disinformation from all kind of sources, both foreign (Russian and Chinese propaganda) and domestic (corporate or otherwise financially motivated shills, authoritarian politicians willing to grab power).
> There is, of course, Firefox. Brave has a lion as a mascot, there are Puma and Dolphin browsers, and many smaller and historical browsers and projects within the browser space are named after animals

But the wolf name is already taken and on a browser based on Firefox too https://librewolf.net/

Note that I am still mad that librewolf was not named Windwolf or Waterwolf instead.
Here's one, see my comment about: https://www.ideabox.us/
For what it's worth, this kind of argument style / fallacy is called the "Weakman Argument" (vs Strawman Argument), where the view might be held by some, but not many and certainly not most.
Large commercial customers typically pay capacity costs -- i.e. if you need 1MW of power, you pay for that 1MW of capacity on top of your actual demand costs.

If they did this with residential customers, it would make residential energy storage (i.e. batteries, but maybe thermal or other storage) more attractive, so instead of paying for a 200A circuit to meet your peak demand, you pay for a 50A circuit to keep your home battery charged and that battery kicks in to meet your peak demand.

And once you have that battery, you may as well add solar as well.
There are always going to be people who confuse "I disagree with you" with "You're wrong."

Generally, HN trends towards the former, and that's one of the things I love about it! You can make a good point and I can disagree with you!

One of the most counter-intuitive tenets of forum community management is the only winning move is not to engage with bad behavior.

A downvote + not replying to a poorly behaving commenter is orders of magnitude more powerful and instructive than any reply.

(And also, the distinction between "downvote because I disagree" & "downvote because you're breaking forum norms." We're at our best when we promote healthy debate, and disincentivize bad behavior, instead of "bad thoughts.")
There's a lot of innovation that has to take place to get the price down and to have a unit that has everything inside the headset. In fact those are probably the 2 things that have to happen before mass adoption. There is never going to be a significant market for VR headsets that you have to hook up to a gaming PC.

The manufacturing cost for the Oculus has to be far less than the Index since Valve reportedly isn't making much off their headsets. For argument if we say Meta's costs are $400/headset and Valve $900/headset, that still makes the Index over twice as expensive and it still can't run anything without being tethered to an expensive PC!

I don't know how you could seriously try to argue that kind of price undercutting isn't "innovating".
The fact this is at the bottom of the comment pile would suggest your interpretation is unique
> You have to be kidding me. This is your big experiment?

>> You sure like to be condescending.

this place gets more and more like reddit every day...
All fair points, thank you. And congrats on your property!

The comcast outages are far above anything that's 'normal'. And honestly if it was just me, as a decades long 'devops' person, losing network connectivity briefly every few days and for tens of minutes or longer multiple times a month would not be too bad. But my wife does zoom/video professionally all day every day with paying clients, so when comcast goes to crap it's very important for her to be able to reconnect over starlink ASAP.
I think it'd have to be a very different approach (unless it's an electron scan?) I'm not an electrical engineer though, so I'm in the layman camp as well!

If someone made that, I assume it'd use some computer vision to identify the individual components and the connections between them. After that, each component would need to have their individual simulator. (Unless x-rays can see individual semiconductors?)
Regular houses these days are also commonly built with 2x6s for external walls.
I was specifically referring to the subset of environmentalists who believe that salvation lies in converting everyone to veganism and cycling. But there are a lot of people who style themselves as environmentalists who oppose carbon taxes:

* The "personal responsibility" environmentalists described above

* The "anti-market" environmentalists who assume without evidence that markets necessarily make things worse

* The Green New Deal environmentalists who largely want to use the threat of climate change as political cover for social spending ("climate justice").

The last bullet might be too broad--there might be some GND environmentalists who are sincere, but certainly the overwhelming majority of GND policy and rhetoric seem to be more concerned with social spending than decarbonizing the atmosphere. I think there's a lot of overlap between this group and the prior two groups as well.
You're just arguing nuance & semantics.

For an ISP that uses satellites, ground stations are equivalent to satellite coverage. It doesn't matter how many satellites they have, if there isn't a ground station to connect to you don't have coverage.

Inter-satellite links also don't do anything useful if you don't have enough ground stations. Even if you had a ground station with infinite bandwidth there is no way a single satellite can have the entire network linked through it. It's a really neat thing to have a single voice channel connect through a constellation from somewhere like the southern Indian ocean, but you can't really run 100+ mbps pipes like that.

This is completely different than something like a military communications satellite where both ends of the connection are communicating through the same satellite. The 48 states could be totally in the dark (no power, no comms) and a military communications satellite still functions fine.
I see a continuous assault from alt-right and SJW people who want to push anti-vax, anti-woke, complaints about cancel culture and also negativity around race and gender (but never class) that conflate the personal and political with a self-centered and unempathetic viewpoint.

(Not to deny that systemic racism is real: one book about the Watts riot pointed out that many black people lived in communities where they didn't see a lot of white people and thus got distorted ideas of 'white privilege' because they never saw white people on TV who had real life troubles.)

Before Trump I thought the SJW contingent was worse but now the right-wing special snowflakes who think they have something so precious to say about why BLM sucks that they've got the right to shove it down our throats are insufferable.

These sides both agree that: (1) they are victims, and (2) specifically victims of a conspiracy that controls Hacker News. They're terribly offended that their posts get flagged and even offended that their comments get downvoted. If there wasn't downvoting to complain about they'd probably complain that their comments aren't getting upvoted.

Personally I flag anything about "X is being censored by Y" unless Y is the People's Republic of China. In a world where we're overwhelmed with spam, disinformation campaigns and disingenuous communications the rallying cry that "free speech" means somebody has to give you a printing press for free just doesn't ring true.
You are competing with both engineers and the MBA pool for the same job. The number of PMs roles available are a fraction of the number of engineering opportunities. The good APM roles at top companies are saturated with applicants and the average ones pay a fraction of what software engineering pays.
https://archive.is/gMuWf
Can't you get that? I can. In a different jurisdiction, but I bought tools that I need for my work, and write them off. The taxman hasn't protested.

BTW, that Netflix writes off things "more quickly than the equipment wears out and loses value" is probably at least incorrect. That equipment has to be servers, routers and switches, and replacing that well before seven years is conventional wisdom, even in places where the tax code suggests that seven years is appropriate.
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Your app still has to be good
Neither Facebook nor Google “sells user data”. Why would they? There is value in having sole access to the data. They sell access to you based on the data they collect.

In this case, I would say FB is more in the side of the angels than Google. People knowingly give FB information about them
> He says the company now operates the number one podcast app in the US.

Well that's extremely depressing. Please, please, please do not use Spotify if you listen to podcasts. Instead looks at something like Overcast or any other smaller podcast clients. Podcasts should be open and just use rss/xml. Proprietary podcast feeds are the opposite of what podcasts as a medium stand for.

This isn't a "everything should be free" stance, I pay for many podcasts but they all give me a special URL with my token in it for authentication and I can use that in any player I want.
Add to the list the inability to effectively "mute" busy chats in a way where they don't continuously bubble up to the top. At least on Android, you can only pin 4 chats, I would really like to be able to pin as many as I want, effectively defining my own order of chats regardless of chronology.
> It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replication crises in the same way the social sciences do.

But it does! Look, in social sciences there are a lot of lousy papers written by people who doesn't know statistics, acceptance criteria etc. There are problems with "average" papers.

In math there are no problems with "average" papers, afaik. People are following those papers and rather quickly find flows or confirm the result.

In math there are problems with "exceptional" papers. Holes in Fermat theorem proof or abc paper were taken years to find, patch and settle.
> In many places alternate routes were created for people towing heavy things.

That, uh, sounds pretty inconvenient!

So without engine brakes if you downshift in an older diesel does the engine just rev right up and the car doesn't even bother to act like it is slowing down? That has to be pretty weird....
The “next-generation” text messaging standard to replace SMS/MMS. Higher quality images, read receipts, etc. I believe it also supports some form of encryption.
>a lot of things that nobody else tries

Serious question, like what?
The grid phase needs to be maintained as well, and I don’t know how that would happen without a giant, centralized set of turbines somewhere.
aren't vaccine mandates for participation in a shared environment - like work?
> Vancouver townhouse

> enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it

Sounds about right for Vancouver property market.
You won't stay a world power by allowing others to attack you, even at a smaller scale with lesser weapons.
> One example? In Canada we have a standard for air tightness, and more, called R-2000. Houses with this standard have to have heat exchangers, for they are so airtight, that they require air be circulated in from outside. When it is -40C, this change can mean heating costs of 200/month vs 2000!

This *is* what we call a modern and well-designed system.
How much money is enough?
I was thinking about the massive $300 million defi hack, and how having so much money can change someone's life. I know it was fraudulently obtained, but money is still money in the end.

So how much money do you think is enough to be satisfied with one's life?
I don't even think NSO is designing these exploits. They are almost certainly buying them in. Apple just needs to outbid NSO.
This reminds me of a joke Norm MacDonald did on his podcast:

Did you see the Great Gatsby? Did you see it in 3D? It was almost like the sober examination of the unrestrained materialism and absent moral center of the roaring 20s jumped right out at you.
Certainly SV (and consequently YC) in recent years has become perhaps the most politicized it's ever been, along with many other parts of the US.

Many top comments here often have overt political bias on a range of topics, including the pandemic. I find it irritating, I'm sure others do too. As a result I spend much less (20% ish) the amount of time on HN that I used to say 8-3 years ago.
The charm of cryptocurrencies for white supremacists
> I think my tolerance for those not acting in good faith has rapidly approached zero.

That may be the difference. A few years ago, more of the contrarian takes were in good faith, with real thought behind them. You could learn something new from them, even if you didn't completely agree with them. That also meant that, when you were confronted with a contrarian take, you were more likely to expect that it was made in good faith. This led to a different feel for the whole site.

Now it seems that more of the contrarian (and even mainstream) takes are just repeating talking points. They are, in CapitalistCartr's words, "a set of recordings", so they're no point trying to have a discussion.

I don't know how to get back to where HN was five years ago. I can feel the difference, and I prefer the old version.

#OldManYellsAtClouds, I guess...
To clarify, based on my reading of the article: CIG is not reducing the scope of their planned deliverables^[1] for a v1.0 release. Rather, they are going to reduce the granularity of the roadmap info they share with the public so that people will complain less.

^[1] For a game that has been in development for a decade and blown past every planned release date by a comical margin.
What I'm saying is no papers are written about it unless the author made a mistake. In the absence of a genuine logical mistake, no replicability crisis is possible.
Part of my hope with this post is for people to see that all of us are a part of this general descent into sadness (and anger), to hopefully help pull us out of it - or at least help pull some of us out of it.
Don't. Woods need to burn down every once in a while, or they will burn down for good.
> Cryptocurrencies[1] are trying to be decentralized and free of regulation

Without wishing to be seen as unnecessarily snarky, so was Napster.

> it turns out the world is run by people who like regulation

Indeed ... and Napster found that out fairly quickly, too. Although: it was good while it lasted (speaking as an ex-Napster user...)
There's been a lot more political debates and especially irrational American right opinions on Covid issues. A lot of posts that seem to zealously push for things like lab leak theories or Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine studies. There's room for rational discourse, but there's a lot of seemingly emotional pleas and conspiracy thinking.
You would also like jackfruit then!
Make your own country. Being interconnected with the grid is a net positive, for everyone, you included.
It's not a typo because 400A is indeed the highest tier residential service BC Hydro currently offers[0]. 400A is also in the right ballpark for the amount of equipment he describes.

[0] https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/electrical-connecti...
Assuming this is a client side feature, those can be contributed to afaik: https://github.com/signalapp
An idealistic equality of actions using right vs. wrong is not exactly how diplomats look at things.
The project just seems to suffer from an extreme case of scope creep to me. That’s not fraud, it’s incompetence.

I doubt you’d have a case, since there is clearly a game being built, it’s just that the developers have done a terrible job finishing it.
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Ad supported TV broadcasts are a thing and are podcasts that don’t dynamically insert ads.
Strange title. "NASA makes plans for decommissioning the ISS when the time comes"
why do people find these abject squares beautiful?
Prior to 2020 I worked as a software developer in an office.

Post-2020 it looks as if I never will again because my job has gone and been replaced with something else.

It doesn't surprise me that Hacker News is different - _being a hacker is different_.

It's now been seperated apart from other jobs in society even more - you can look at charts and see that software has basically gone all in on WFH where other office-based jobs have been much more measured.
The cap was never really intended to be a fixed price for electricity: the main purpose was to ensure people with an arbitrary supplier (chosen by previous tenants, or the landlord, say) and who weren't canny enough to notice they were being overcharged and shop around, didn't get ripped off too badly. Lots of people who stayed with the descendant of their old regional electricity board paid over the odds, for example, because consumer inertia meant it was profitable for them not to have competitive prices.

That all electricity prices are now essentially at the cap, so it's also acting as a floor, was not intended or particularly anticipated, I think.
Awesome blog post Ben! Question: how did you come up with your list of opcodes?

I ask because while some opcodes are obviously needed others as not so obvious and coming up with a balanced instruction set is somewhat difficult design problem.
Yeah, the two people I have convinced to switch are my wife and someone I know who works in tech and I've known since highschool... so a very long time, lol
There's a lot going on the background, and HN is a respite from it. To even identify the tension and articulate it is to make a partisan provocation that will cascade into a flame war and remove value from the site and the experience. Sustaining that level of meta and abstraction is a heavy intellectual lift that almost everyone is capable of but it takes more energy than a reaction, so asking everyone to make it is probably unreasonable.

What a difficult spot to be in to preserve an internal sense of normal when everything outside it is changing so quickly. I am not neutral at all, and am radical probably in every direction, and nor am I somehow above any of it, but even with the all underlying tension from world events I won't address directly, I don't think any of us will regret any effort we make individually to preserve the relative calm in places like this for its own sake.
"Part of the lack of Federal push is because many individual states/industries have interests in it not happening."

Many individual states had an interest in keeping slavery and segregation alive, and yet they were made illegal on the federal level.
"why" can be pretty nebulous too.

For a larger, widely used project, the question isn't "why" make something internal, but "why not". The safe default is to not semi-permanently commit every half baked bit of code to the public stable semvered API boundary to support for who knows how many years, but to only do so after careful consideration and justification.

To add this disclaimer to every single bit of internal code is to drown your codebase in a sea of redundant comments - none of which are specific to the code, or even the codebase, but are instead rehashing "why encapsulation?" 101. This will only train readers of your code to ignore the low-value low-signal comments, and they will then end up asking the same question anyways, and "read the comment that's right there!!!111oneoneone" will be a fustrating experience for everyone, although they might not be able to articulate why.

The real question I'm curious about here isn't "why are internal things internal" - but why this internal thing must technically be public. Does this predate ES6 symbols? Is there a plan to switch to those at some point in the future? Is there a tracking issue? Or does this need to be accessed from elsewhere in a manner that makes Symbols awkward to use? Where?
> the sanctimonious environmentalists will fight it because it minimizes the need for heroic personal sacrifice with respect to preserving the environment

Any evidence for this? IMO "Sanctimonious environmentalists" only care that consumption reduces. Whether that's voluntary or due to being priced out by carbon taxes is irrelevant. If anything doing it voluntarily, before it was ever needed to make your household budget work, would make them feel even holier.
> You do realize the media can say whatever they want?

Ultimately all of what these "experts" say is distilled by people in the media and shared through twitter, HN, reddit, FB and more.

During this madness, all the biggest doomsday people in my circle of "real" humans would feed me reams of NYT and Atlantic articles as their "sources". If I fed them some academic article that goes against the media narrative they'd dismiss it as "not peer reviewed" or "publishers were doing a flawed study". Ironic considering almost all of their sources had all the same major flaws as whatever I provided.
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Why the custom connectors though?
The name is a little confusing, and makes it clear they are not native English speakers. It's not a bad name, but if someone says to me, "Hey, did you try Wolvic yet?" I'll spell it "Wolfic" or "Wolfik" or "Wolfick", definitely not "Wolvic". Confusing.
What an enormous rip-off...

The difference between the 2nd and 3rd editions was miniscule besides renumbering the problems sets.
Isn’t it somewhat arbitrary to draw lines between “the JS spec” (which might not directly specify any bounds on memory usage) and the actual specifications of any given machine running JS? I’m pretty sure JS tends to run on a 64-bit architecture, for example.

In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not even true that “the JS spec” has no such limits. I’m reading that an array can’t be longer than 2^32. And apparently string length cannot exceed 2^53 - 1.
LOL at this getting downvoted when its literally what the report says. Bandwagoning?
Rabies doesn't spread like covid...
Consider also https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew which is new Show HNs. It's not on the top bar so it's easy to miss. There are fewer articles but the signal to noise is higher and they all have an eager author waiting for a comment.
Rest assured, no unix engineers were harmed in the making of this new post.
So exactly what is the complaint? That Apple have users the choice whether or not to be tracked?
I had a thought after thinking about the publicity of this second exploit: If Facebook says iOS is causing $10B loss of revenue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190216) then it would be in their interest to hurt the public's opinion on iPhone privacy/security.