skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years

By "removed" do you mean:

a) "flagged" such that only people who are logged in and have changed their preferences to showdead -> yes can see them?

or b) the words not visible even with showdead -> yes?

I'm curious because my setting is showdead -> yes and I see many otherwise suppressed comments. In fact there are people who are "banned" and I still see their comments (but not possible to reply).
If you just want one government owned and operated payment system what does that have to do with having a CBDC?
No, it's always stable. The issue is that pulling back further on the control stick wasn't causing an increase in force feedback at high angles of attack, making it more likely for the pilot to inadvertently stall the aircraft.
Open Source Security Podcast: #309 – The bright future of open source security
Sounds like a good suggestion. Have you considered emailing @dang with this feature request on hn@ycombinator.com?
Thats the usual response. Privacy (and e2EE) depends on threat model and business model. WhatsApp depends on FB (nee' Meta) for sustenance, and it's hard to believe that they will keep their paws off the sweet data nectar. Signal is bankrolled by state agencies and millionaires. MobileCoin adds little more distrust (it's like the Brave model of browser).
Telegram doesn't have a visible model of selling user content.
Signal copied everything from Telegram's features- namely the "secret chats" that don't sync between devices and disappear after a while (depending on the set time). Nothing else. Signal's UI is washed out and the only "innovation" they could bring was the change in the size of emoji.
> - 3.30: Collision with pylon. It seems like the perception system didn't pick up the pylon at all (or if it did, its not rendering on the screen)

Wonder if LIDAR would have spotted the pylon? It sounds like neat tech.
The actual blogpost is here

https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-sto...

basically they use CSS trickery together with server-side stuff.

It's pretty clever.

@font-face {
font-family: 'Helvetica';
src: local('Helvetica'),
url('/signal/(token)/fontHelvetica')
format('truetype');
}

to detect font (which detects OS), and

@media (featureX: value1) {
.css_probe_42 {
background: url('/signal/(token)/featureX/value1');
}
}

to detect browser features (which detects browser)
Odd that you should mention this: tonight my car decided it needed to ABS brake (very alarming when unexpected) while I was reversing at less than 5 mph, apparently because a car >20 feet away was turning into a parking spot, well out of my path of travel. The car proudly informed me it had averted a collision, when in fact the application of the brake was unnecessarily violent enough that it quite possibly did damage on its own, and could have caused injury. Progress!
This is a good resource.

Is there an equivalent to Feynman's lectures on physics but for computer science?

Which books about computer science will remain relevant in one hundred years, when most engineers will probably be using programming languages and frameworks whose creators are not even born yet? I don't work in software, but I like to collect foundational texts in various disciplines. I have some programming experience under my belt, and I've taken a few introductory classes about data structures and algorithms, but my personal library lacks CS texts.
I collated the current numbers, in short 70% people desire to work from home, 30% from the office.
Yeah I was reading that thread. I appreciate you opening it, frankly.

They are pretty hostile to pypi devs with regards to the fact they were asking pypi to distribute their 1Gb+ python packages, rather than trying to modularize their packages to make it easier to distribute.

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/issues/153#issuecomment...

NLTK has a method so the library can be installed through pypi and the data can be downloaded through the following method:

import ntlk
ntkl.download()

So given what I've been reading about cadquery the less and less I want to deal with their software.
For text-only, I prefer Links. I use various versions compiled statically with personal patches.
Despite good news lately I do not believe we're at endemicity quite, or that probably of catching is 1. It will probably take time for governments to discover and adjust to a changing situation.

Aside from that, I have been close to people who suffer psychosis. I'd say you're pretty wrong on that too.
Conflating those concepts may be appropriate here, for many people. I don't think it's only a matter of how strong your social life is outside of work, or a matter of people leaning on forced socialization at work. That's an overly reductive look at it.

I would like to talk about it but I'm kind of sick of seeing the discussion framed in term of people who only socialize at the office.

The fact is, in the office we have many in-person interactions spread throughout the day. Socialization isn't fungible, we can't simply replace interactions in one context with interactions in another context and assume people will be happy with it.
I'm torn between the two.

On the one hand, I feel like working in the office makes me more productive and is better for my mental health. It's a change of environment, and I'm working around colleagues who keep me a bit more focussed (less likely waste 30 minutes watching YouTube if a coworker is right beside you).

Also, on the hour-long commute I tend to read, which is terrific. So many of these books have changed my life for the better. When I'm at home I find I have too many distractions. You make a cup of tea, the cat meows and you let her in, she meows again and you let her out. You decide to read outside. Then you realise it's too sunny and grab a hat. Before you know it you've burnt through 30 minutes.

On the other hand, since working from home during the pandemic I've filled the time saved with a lifelong dream of mine - learning to play guitar! I'm absolutely loving it.

So a mix is a pretty good compromise
When is not wanting to have conversations with colleagues unless there's a prearranged meeting a good fit?
Re instant transfers: https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
In addition, I think it would be very hard to separate the effect of school closures from the effect of kids losing their parents to the flu. Those things might have traded against one another: More school closures, fewer parents catching the flu from their kids and dying or being incapacitated for a long time.
yup, so what? it says that at the top when you click the article. Just saying "2003" like that with no added content has a dismissive tone, as if the date confers a value on it, or diminishes it with time. In fact, this is one of the most concise and well-structured technical summaries I've ever read.
Yeah, my work-life balance has been great as a result, and I've been able to spend a lot of time with friends and my partner. So that's something I'm actually very grateful for.

But at some point I realized that I really missed work people! I got into software engineering because I love talking about engineering with other really smart engineers. Took me a while to realize that was what was missing.
The biggest skeleton in the room was barely mentioned once.

Chip shortage, or, better say, capacity shortage for affordable nodes been there for 5-7 years, and nobody really gave it much notice.

Lead times for average 180nm project were 12 months+ for last 5 years.

There is still a stratospheric gap in between "common man fab service," and the realm of multi-million dollar semi companies, who can afford service on relatively new, (and not decades old) equipment.

All significant chips which went into shortage were using that "common man fab process" on eighties, and nineties era equipment.
that's literally what the CBDC is for, creating a public payment system. Just like you walk into a store and pay with dollars, you can whip out your phone and pay with e-dollars. The practical effect is that it'd replace the for-profit payment industry.
>This form of walrusing

Sealioning[0]. The term is sealioning...

Your poor attempt at sounding smart has backfired and instead you sound like a dumbass.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Also: Discussion from 2020 September (134 points / 46 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520014
Crazy good article. Very interesting indeed. I found it amusing that as I was reading about the JNR president who was forced to resign, the sentence went “he was forced to resign for hiding and diverting funds” and I was like “Oh, classic, embezzlement” and then it went “to the Shinkansen project”. Haha! His crime was secret allocation, not embezzlement. Okay that’s good.
Noise cancelling responds to droning, repetitive sounds, while a big chunk of plastic responds to everything. Not to sound like a shill, but there’s an old headphone model (HD-280 pro) I’ve always sworn by, and I was pleased to see that same model was in Google’s “stuff” catalog for any employee to request.

Another colleague reused his earmuffs and earplugs from the gun range, but I think most of those are pretty uncomfortable.
Ask HN: Best Alternatives to Gofundme?
It's also one of my main used apps. Love being able to search sanely instead of rummaging through papers. I hate scanning documents in though, that's time consuming.
I haven't seen anything yet. And I'm not going to download 1GB of data to deal with a possibly shitty api/app/program when a fraction of that would suffice.
And if you are curious, the answers are below!

0. Emails come from mailer@dailyread.xyz

1. Time zone is determined by the user's browser.

2. Chapter emails are in HTML.

3. Translations are what was available from https://www.gutenberg.org/

4. All from from https://www.gutenberg.org/

5. Hmm, had not really thought too much into this yet. Should be set up to run at a minimal cost, but might add a donation link or something like that if people are interested in making small donations.
> Which was said before quite often, but still many people were surprised what qualified as a critical job - and what not, during the covid lockdowns.

And also what was considered to be a "non-critical" job, often by the workers themselves.

Pre-covid I don't think anyone would've predicted teachers standing up as a collective and saying "We are not essential!". But this was pretty much the case globally and I think it will have long-term impacts on the field.
Block cha cha chá chain.
From what I've seen users themselves seem to be the most policing with flags. Even some technically focused comments by newer accounts I deemed in reasonably good faith and wanted to give a decent answer to have been flagged so badly as to be unreliable even if I vouch. For particular example there was one on an IPv4 thread proposing a form of v4 in v6 embedding and I wanted to point out how the standards have already done a more complete version of the idea but couldn't. The HN moderation team seems to come out more towards tone unless the topic is completely over the top on breaking the rules.

Without a specific topic of what is being censored in your view or why it seems to be the moderators themselves it's hard to say much more. I will say HN isnt supposed to be a general open social platform, perhaps one of the problems here is the off-topic guidelines aren't enforced enough rather than the other way around.
WFH and prefer WFH with one major caveat. I've said this before, but really, I just want my own office. That's all. I'd be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.

First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I came back in for full time (I had interned there with my own office as well), they tell me they're switching buildings to go open office in about a month's time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery immediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.

Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn't even know how much I had missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.

I've since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it's still an open office.

Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.
For fun I rephrased the prompt a little. "Middle bits" is kind of vague; when provided an explicit description of which bits you want to set it does fine:

Prompt:

// Function to set bits 29-34 in a uint64 to 1
func setbits (uint64 x) uint64 {

Completion:

return x | (1 << 29) | (1 << 30) | (1 << 31) | (1 << 32) | (1 << 33) | (1 << 34)
}

It would be nice if it made a better guess about what "middle" is supposed to mean here, of course.
I keep saying this, but at 1pm, if you're trying to find a stall -- some companies make this really hard to do.
Would this be any different than a government issued stable coin?

This has the potential to greatly simplify the entire banking infrastructure.

It would also make it harder to lend what you don’t have. Current banking balances are easily fudged. Stable coins are real records you can only lend if you have them.

I could see this driving up interest rates on savings accounts similar to how crypto savings accounts have decent returns.
> Do you think that would that be of use to you?

Yes, and I would pay for that usefulness. I'd pay even more if it integrated well with existing file-sync systems (one or more of dropbox, syncthing, google drive, onedrive, etc.) such that foldered photos were synchronized soon after taking them onto that same folder structure on all of my devices.
Agree with this. And as day passes, pressure gets built to finish work and if you don't, you can't enjoy remaining day & night. At least with office setup, once you leave it physically, you also leave it mentally but with work from home setup that is not possible. Still it is good to have wfh option for emergencies. so yeah mix of both.
Designing a house to survive a fire isn't that hard. You need a defensible space, pick the right materials (don't go with cheap wood tile that takes 1 oz of burning pine needles to light, like in Paradise CA). If in a particularly high risk area I've seen insurance require things like a watering system for the roof, including onsite water (not depending on water pressure) and pump (not requiring grid power). Not a particularly big expense if designing a new home.

The main problem with these big fires is they can send sparks for a good ways, and most roofs (even with no trees nearby) end up with leaves and/or pine needles collect in the roof, which are great tinder for starting the house on fire. If 50 homes light up within 20 minutes the fire departments are helpless, which then of course starts the cycle anew with a new launch of embers.
Office but not in California because commute
Besides the pandemic, too much work. "Startup life"! I wouldn't mind working really hard, if I had the reward of getting to know my coworkers as a bonus.
I identify with much in this blog post. One novelty argument:

Managing is hard because it embodies the dialectic between capital and workers. Therefore a deep understanding of the Marxist critique (and exposé) of capital will help provide an analytical framing around what an effective manager needs to do. You can approach it from other lenses but they all break down due to the two polar forces most strongly at play.

This has honestly aided me greatly. Your mileage may vary.
Everything you just says is a great advocacy of a hybrid environment. I’m diametrically opposed to ever working in an office again. I’ve never worked in an office where I felt comfortable. I’m wonderful at focusing from my home office and my productivity nearly doubled. I’m literally never going back. That said, it doesn’t work for you it seems, and that matters too. Hybrid is the answer, as one size does not fit all.
See a psychiatrist or therapist. HN is the wrong place for this kind of question. Your kid is 3mo old which most people would consider a good time to take some parental leave if they can afford it, which you can (that would ease the overload of juggling the kid with a job). I'm sure you have figured out stuff like that already: your immediate situation is just fine. So you are experiencing a psychological disturbance that needs a level of help by qualified practitioners who can discuss things with you in detail, potentially prescribe meds, and all that sort of thing. A computer nerd forum like HN can't possibly do that.

That all said, it's completely normal to stress out during life changes. So if this was triggered by becoming a parent, the upset should be a temporary situation that will pass, as long as you get through it in one piece.
Thankfully, Matrix is working towards supporting a non-HTTP low-bandwidth API. It already has experimental support: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/10/low-bandwidth-matrix-an-i...
54, this is my life.

There is so much out there to know and experience and it makes me sad to realise that there is no way that I'm going to be able to do everything.

I've a history of every couple of years diving deep into an interest. Woodwork was a thing for a few years, then wood turning. Gardening has come and gone a few times.

We spend a lot of time travelling and seeing new areas, slowly in a caravan, we never get to see it all.

Recently I've started running a Dungeons and Dragons game for a couple of my kids and their friends, there can be a lot more depth to that than you may think.

I've got to agree with you that you start to see a lot more things that you are familiar with. This is not really surprising if you are staying in the same environment.

Cycles of initiatives at work seem to come back every 5 or 6 years and they always ignore the same problems... sigh. There is truth in the idea that history repeats and the more things change the more they stay the same.

My suggestion for dealing with the feeling that nothing is new is much the same as everybody. If your world is getting boring and feels like everything is just on repeat, just change your world. Even if that means you are stepping into the unknown or you are taking risks, you are still going to change your experience.
Not sure $1B is enough to move the needle in this market.
Neither.

I am most productive working at a cafe or an outdoor sitting area (in a campus).
I think there would by hypocrisy if you had the same people who supported censorship in the past now opposing it, though even then it begs the question of whether that is hypocrisy or simply an evolution of views. But as for parties, in the US there are, for all intents and purposes, only two parties. And as the views of society change, these parties change out of necessity.

To give another example, as recently as 2004 [1] the majority of those within the "US left" to use your phrasing, opposed gay marriage, and as recently as 2012 leading "US left" politicians were publicly opposed to it. Then in a remarkably brief period of time LGBT rights (including marriage) become a fundamental cornerstone of the party's political identity. It's not really hypocrisy so much as the fact that in order to maintain electoral dominance, the parties need to adopt to society. They (the parties) can then do the mental gymnastics to rationalize on their platforms how big war and surveillance is small government, or how censorship is liberal, afterwards.

And this isn't just a contemporary phenomena. Sometime from the mid 19th to early 20th century the parties swapped their positions on nearly everything. And this was entirely organic - it's not like the groups just made an official decision to nameswap. I could illustrate this with details, but it's much easier to just use an example. Abraham Lincoln was a republican, and every single confederate state was democrat. The transition from democrats becoming republicans and vice versa is something you can find plentiful hits online for if you're interested in more details.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same...
I like a mix of both, but since my office is in a completely different state, I am fully remote. Social interaction has been terrible for me, so I am working on finding a cycling club in my city. Also, since pretty much all of my friends are gone (all of them are in different cities), so this is all I really have (I don't count my office calls as social interaction)

So if someone is a situation like I am in, I really really recommend cycling (or some outdoor sport). It really helps with the mood.
> > That's hyperbole. Even if they were fined their market cap, the company would survive.

> Really?

Yes. Even in this unlikely scenario, the company would easily continue on. The idea that this case could put them out of business is ridiculous and I stand by it.

> it would take about 19.6 years of earnings to pay,

You're thinking about it the wrong way...like most people who think that you can stick it to megacorporations. Think about how it pays out over the next 100 years? Because that's much more likely and efficient. While you might think it depends on the terms, it's going to be financed so there's not much to be done to liquidate them. Then think about how many decades before it can lobby (cough legislate) some additional financial tools?

> Market capitalization is, loosely, asset valuation plus X years of projected future earnings.

Irrelevant, at best. Large companies that should fold according to this kind of rough thinking don't fold on a consistent basis. Consider that you're oversimplified weasel calculation doesn't mean what you think it does.

Good luck with whatever.
I can see what you're getting at, and I thought it was the issue for me, but I've come to realize that it's not a loneliness/lack of socialization thing. It's just that I really treasure in-person interactions with the people I am working on something with.

I got into software engineering because I like solving problems, but also because I love solving problems with really smart people. Turns out that it feels really good to do that in person!

Coffee breaks, lunch outings, being able to stop by someone's desk and shoot the shit or see what they're working on -- I've realized that these things are not only enjoyable for me, but critical for both the actual quality of my work and my motivation to do it. Not to mention any kind of whiteboarding / collaborative discussion, which I think is pretty obviously nicer in person.

So far, nothing I have tried remotely gives me the same kind of satisfaction that just physically being with my work partners does. I do think there's something very deeply ingrained in me that's responsible for that, and I know it's definitely not something everyone wants or needs.
Jet Pack
If the plan is building a permanent settlement the travel time is less important than the environment.
No, in fact my manager said I should be working 50 hours at least. I took it as good advice, now I resent it.
Neat, I will give those a shot!
I think it is our holy duty to not be customers of such a company. Every time we pay Amazon(including AWS), we die a little inside.

https://www.geekwire.com/2016/report-amazon-employee-jumps-o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5fj9mh/amazon_e...
Why do you think this is relevant?
Those are back in the good ole days, never to return.