skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regularly used ratemyprofessor back in college, years ago.

We need something like that. Rate my manager/head of engineering @ some large org. Also get a legal team ready for all the lawsuits that will come your way for whoever wants to pursue this idea. I'm all for supporting it though.
In reading through the comments, I wonder which generalizations can be drawn about the US habit of paying by cheque. This paper slip that is covering just .1% of all cashless transactions in Germany these days.

I'm amazed at Americans shaking their heads about using fax machines, while sitting over their monthly cheques for rent, etc.

On the other hand, there was a legal obligation for fax use for signature transactions in Germany until legislation said a scanned pdf is equivalent. And fax is still considered privacy conserving, while email is not, so in medical contexts they wind send you a PDF (could be eavesdropped), but they will send you a fax with e g. your lab report.
Is using less power really better? People are going to use energy and this is driving loads to other sources of energy, typically gas. Most (but not all) people I know are avoiding electrification on economic grounds.
If you're just doing something so simple that "every conceivable problem has long been documented along with a solution." then you're using the wrong tool if you're programming anything at all.

Problems that fall into that space are usually better served by simple site builders (Wix/Square/Shopify/Wordpress/etc).
You need someone on the Internet to tell you why extrajudicial violence is among the worst things a person can do in a society?

Ahmaud Arbery is a perfect example.
it already is, TikTok took over
If the key is on my device, they don’t have access to it. Seriously, this post screams Dunning-Kruger.
I agree, most of the crypto usage is just speculation. I'd even go so far as to say 99.999% of all cryptocurrencies are scams of some sort, either incidental or intentional. I view Bitcoin as pretty different to the others.

I'd suggest looking for news stories or posts from El Salvador. You can find both positive and negative ones, of course.

The low transaction rates and high transaction fees argument isn't really valid anymore. A lot of the transactions have moved to L2 (Lightning Network) and thus current transaction fees on Bitcoin are regularly reaching $0.05. Using LN you also bypass any bottlenecks associated with number of transactions per second and confirmation time.
Tracking jet flight locations of anyone is legal?
Can we track politicians jet movements like Jack Sweeny is doing with the "Elon Musk's Jet" flight-tracking?
Agree, and this goes along with Twitter's desire to curate feeds by showing, for example, tweets that were 'liked' by people you follow. By doing this, they broaden the amount of content they can show you and therefore increase the discretion they have in surfacing content they want to spread. (It's also super annoying — I follow someone so I can see what they tweet and RT. I do not care one bit about the things they like.)

Hidden downvotes are the flip side of the coin — instead of being used to boost the spread of certain tweets, they can be used as an excuse for why certain information is hidden.

Basically, these changes remind me of p-hacking. As more variables are added, you can figure out ways to structure your algorithm so that you promote the information that you already wanted to promote and demote the information that you wanted to hide. This could be for profit-seeking reasons, political reasons, or other reasons. In any event, it decreases transparency and reduces trust in the systems.

edit: added last paragraph
That's a valid risk.

You're asking a cost-benefit question.

The cost of an invalid diagnosis is indeed high.

The cost of no diagnosis at all is also high.

This device will not replace the MR at your local hospital. It will be the first MR device in hospitals that have never had one before.
That's like blaming your parents for you turning out to be an ass hole. I think the manager still needs to be called out regardless and if his boss is an ass then the boss needs to be called out.
> Anyway, you're suggesting that instead of vaccines, omicron could be dealt with with Vit B(complex), C, D, K2, magnesium, zink, potassium, melatonine, R-alpha-lipoic acid, Q10, and probiotics. That sounds a lot of things compared to 1 or 2 vaccine shots per years.

This is a false dichotomy, because you can be vaccinated and still get symptomatic or even severe Covid. Didn't I mention that I was vaccinated? Get vaccinated, I recommend it. Just don't force anyone else to get vaccinated.

What I am suggesting is that you can be vaccinated and still need something else on top of that in order to recover. Pfizer has a new pill, maybe you'd prefer that.

I also would not call my assortment random or "medicine". I am not advising you to take it
against Covid, but I am sharing my experience with it. All substances that I mention are part of a healthy human body and there is a ton of science that backs up their critical roles in bodily functions and the immune system. There just haven't been huge clinical trials that prove that they can cUrE COvId.
Facebook is already unfashionable.
How is this different to https://maizzle.com/?
Under a direct democracy, you should be able to vote that you can't do that.
Founders Guide: MVPs and Pivots (from student entrepreneur)
Changed to the first one from https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2811173. Thanks!
So I should be allowed to fund proper terrorist groups then? Saying that maybe KYC/AML/CFT etc. is disproportionate to its effects is one thing, but going the other way and having no control about who funds what could be outright enemies is certainly an extreme position.

And if a country has no functioning government, no banking etc., i.e. it is broken, then the country or place needs fixing, not some magic crypto sprinkled on top (might alleviate the symptoms, but not the cause). I see this all the time as crypto point, but society building is so much more difficult than that. Once you are in a environment where physical violence is the norm, things are really different.
The working group most in charge of JS is ECMA's TC-39 (TC => Technical Committee) [0]. They've been taking a very deliberate, slow path to expanding the "standard" library because they take a very serious view of backwards compatibility on the web. Some proposals were shifted because of conflicts with ancient versions of things like MooTools still out in the wild, for instance. (This was the so-called "Smooshgate" incident [1].)

This may speed up a bit if the Built-In Modules proposal [2] passes, which would add a deliberate `import` URL for standard modules which would give a cleaner expansion point for new standard libraries over adding more global variables or further expanding the base prototypes (Object.prototype, Array.prototype, etc) in ways that increasingly likely have backwards compatibility issues.

TC-39 works all of their proposals in the open on Github [3] and it can be a fascinating process to watch if you are interested in the language's future direction.

[0] https://tc39.es/

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules

[3] https://github.com/tc39/proposals
See other comments. The nn is used to clear up electromagnetic inference as there's no shielding cage. It's not anything lik a superresolution approach on the processed voxel data.
Basic cryptography – Diffie-Hellman key exchange
We built our data transformation engine with the Wasm runtime
I've finally reached the same state of mind, and there's no other way to live.
Can you do that in Europe?
> Today's centralized system is very much about enforcing government control over the individual on every level.

You're totally right. So now explain to me in this crypto libertarian fantasy world how:

- People agree where internet cable lines get installed

- People agree on how roads should be laid out and

- People agree on who is going to bear arms and defend their sovereignty

Does a blockchain solve all of that?
I highly recommend adding the IzzyOnDroid repository. It's mainly FOSS apps that don't have an f-droid build and new releases are pulled straight from GitHub/GitLab releases, adding over 800 apps to F-Droid.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index.php

Some other honorable mentions I haven't seen yet

- Fennec (Firefox)
- DAVx5
- Gotify-UP
- Joplin
- Link Eye
- Wormhole William
Facebook hasn't been fashionable for over 10 years. Yet here we are.
I came across two which blew my mind away.

1. https://anotherpass.jepfa.de/

2. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.oversec.one/

Droid-ify showed me how much I missed out when I was depending only on F-droid and its default repositories.

Thanks HN!
That's entirely false. Where I live in North Austin there are two places to rent cars within 2 miles of me. The same is true all over the USA.
Anything the kernel does to try to mitigate this would break userspace. It's one thing to do that when necessary to fix a kernel vulnerability, but I don't like the idea of breaking userspace just to try to work around some buggy userspace programs.
Thanks, Reagan.
It's table stakes. If you can't process that, you are guaranteed to understand no more.
It’s the Algorithm: How Your Favorite Search Engine Promotes Racism – HLS
Japan is both the most advanced and the most backwards when it comes to technology it seems. You've got incredible rail systems and smart payments. Then you have ATMs and banks that turn off at night or around new year. Documents that must be stamped. Did you see how during the pandemic that was a nightmare where the stamp was only in the office in a lock box? Fax machines, paper, single use plastic on everything, etc.

It's like the country is trying to move forward, but still do things the old way because of culture.
Interesting that the research completely ignores the impact lockdowns have had when the governments actually enforce them and combine them with widespread testing. Paper literally mentioned China was the first country to deploy lockdowns, then never mentions China again.

All and all, pretty obvious lockdowns work if they’re actually enforced.
I agree with this persons answer, if your goal is to go full custom. If you want all this setup done for you I suggest NextJS. It should be noted that Deno is not a bundler but an entirely different JS Runtime. The question should be do I use Node or Deno.
When individuals report income, they don't report the person that gave them that money.

Example, as a teenager mowing lawns for your neighbors, you just told the IRS you made $x,xxx mowing lawns for the fiscal year. Not that your neighbor named Susan at 1234 fake street paid you $xxx/month to mow her lawn 4 times a month, or that Joe from 4321 real street purchased the upcharged package that includes managing his compost bin.

Cash is the undisputed champion of privacy for financial transactions.
> No manager PIPs someone for just being TOO good.

Eh, in my company, I've seen managers that will use tools to prevent people from leaving. Fortunately, they have tools other than PIP. But if they didn't, I'm sure they would wave the PIP wand.

One guy was senior and core to the team. When he wanted to move, his manager bluntly told him he needed him for another year so he would not let him leave.

One of the orgs in my company famously classifies all employees as "essential" (nothing to do with the pandemic). Because of that, any time someone wants to leave for another org, it has to be approved by the top staff of the org (this org has thousands of employees, BTW). Although they don't prevent everyone from leaving, they do often prevent people - to the point that during internal interviews some of them were dropped by the interviewing team as soon as they discovered the org they were currently with: "We've been burnt too many times going through the interview loop only to have your org block the transfer - we just won't hire from your org any more."

So yeah, I totally can believe someone would use PIP to keep a good performer in a team, if that's the only way they have.
TIL: 'Engineering Consent' was coined in 1955

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engineering_of_Consent

I always assumed this was a Noam Chomsky thing.
What you're doing now is victim blaming.

There are a million things that can and often do go wrong already with our criminal justice system, but it does function, more or less, as a way of arriving at a just conclusion; your suggestion that we throw all of that out is, literally, barbaric.

I can't believe I have to say this, but society is worse off without laws and a just mechanism by which to enforce them.
I screwed up-- there's about 10.2 million people receiving housing assistance, so about 3% of pop.

But your number is off in the other direction: (counts are all households) 2.2 million housing choice vouchers, but another 900k public housing and another 1.2 million households of section 8 project-based housing (and about 400k in other programs), totaling 4.8M households.
It's not "many many times" higher...

It's ~40% more: https://www.comscore.com/ita/Public-Relations/Infographics/i....
Fascinating. Looking forward to when Zuck hits his mid 40s and ends up self-immolating Meta in the most glorious mid-life crisis the world has ever seen.

[Source: I'm in my 40s and could easily imagine cratering a trillion dollar company I created in a quixotic quest to make the world a better place.]
If you're considering just after WW2, you also have to consider that most industrial countries were in ruins
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological battle—on internet forums, that's a step towards repetitive, dumbed-down discussion that usually just turns nasty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The specific satellite referred to in the article is Sentinel 5P, and has a website here: https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentin... .

Technically the methane product is a combination of data from Sentinel 5P and Sentinel 2. It's available via Google Earth Engine: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/...

The resolution is... less than I expected. The GHGSat-D satellite seems to have much better resolution, and has a nice public-facing map here: https://pulse.ghgsat.com/
The US allows monopolistic returns because the country (politicians) benefit from it. If antitrust successfully kills monopolistic returns the beneficiaries of the increase in consumer surplus are the customers, many who are foreign.
Myspace was not such a development powerhouse, was it?
For instance in the context of that question, did they issues framework widely adopted outside of MySpace?
I will believe this when I hear of serious talent retention efforts becoming widespread.
My new response to every Amazon recruiter that reaches out will simply be that post.
> And if they do that you can... issue a chargeback.

This is not remotely a guaranteed thing. It works until the credit card issuer says nope.

Chargebacks are 100% at the pleasure of your issuing bank, they are not your choice in the end. Most consumer banks will more or less have an internal credit score where they allow you a small number before they start pushing back. Depends on how much profit you make the bank.

Chargebacks against small vendors are mostly guaranteed, but once you go up against a large party the tables very quickly turn against you.
I would add: an extended standard library for "common stuff". I don't want to import a third-party library nor write my own "utils.go" to do:

func contains(s []int, e int) bool {
for _, a := range s {
if a == e {
return true
}
}
return false
}
Not only are those charts Bad™, the website also hijacks the back button
^ those are the job reqs for the central recruiting across the company. Thanks 'CFShopify' for posting. =)

I'm a Dev Manager in the Shopify Fulfillment Network. If anyone is interested in talking about the culture or what working at Shopify is like, feel free to hit me up on twitter @tmarthal or email tom.marthaler@shopify
Some of the code is Matlab. I wonder if GNU octave is sufficient to run it. That would be a big savings for studying this.
I think Golang is awesome, but I have two major gripes that I hope can be fixed:

Dependency management:

Go mods is a dumpster fire. `go get` and `go install` is finicky and inconsistent across systems.

It's difficult to import local code as a dependency. Using mods with replace feels like a shitty hack, and requires me to maintain a public repo for something I may not want to be public. I end up using ANOTHER hack that replaces mod references to private repos and I have to mess with my git config to properly authenticate.

I've never used another language that made it so difficult to import local code. Rust's cargo is so much easier to use!

Sane dynamic json parsing:

Having to create a perfectly specified struct for every single json object I need to touch is terrible UX. Using `map[string]interface{}` is just gross.

Again, I think Go should copy the existing rust solution from serde. With serde, I define the struct I need, and when I parse an object, the extra fields just get thrown out.

If anyone thinks I'm misunderstanding something, please enlighten me. I hope reasonable solutions already exist and I just haven't found them yet.
The JavaScript community will have moved onto something else when that time comes. It will still exist in the same way that YUI does (to some degree).
That's not "unfortunate."

Sparse observations save lives. A quicker MR. Less X-Ray exposure.

It's totally valid to worry about validation, but to the degree you can validate image processing algorithms of any kind - AI or otherwise - they absolutely save lives.
Yeah, I’m surprised that this patch is getting traction at all. If it’s a bug in the application, it should be fixed in the application. The kernel shouldn’t be changing the kernel-userspace interface to work around userspace bugs.

There are plenty of bespoke binaries out there with no/lost source code that won’t get the benefit of scrutiny from the kernel dev team. I certainly wouldn’t assume that none of them invoke execve with a NULL or 0-item arg parameter, and merging this patch would break them without recourse.
But react still kind of is.
Here's an interesting reply to calacanis during that time: https://web.archive.org/web/20071011013916/https://bub.blici...

Archived from the original: https://bub.blicio.us/?p=432
I like to use class in JS to have types, some features are still missing in the major browsers like interfaces, some static stuff (I forgot), I miss the private and protected keywords , my IDE can show me errors for using the wrong types or even from JSDoc documentation but JS needs a standalone compiler/checker that will detect type errors at "compile" time.
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I have contributed to the growth and success of two startups (both got acquired) by turning their MVP into a full featured product used by thousands of clients. Mostly dev work, but have worn many hats over the past years.

I have some mobile apps in the app store as well (written in React Native). Mostly experienced in Javascript (Vue/React/Svelte) and PHP (Laravel), but worked with a few other languages as well and I tend to pick up things fast. I have worked 100% remote for about 7 years now, am easy to work with and ready for a new challenge.

Preferably Svelte or Vue, but open for other things.
It will look like the death of Yahoo... It lost relevance very quickly, but was able to survive as an irrelevant zombie company for a long, long time.
Starlink-style in the sense of "there is at least one overhead, everywhere, at all times".
Not copying and pasting that code chunk and wrapping it into a utility function :red-flag: :red-flag: :red-flag:
So you felt good about someone in the streets potentially killing you for the money but the government would need too? Maybe I am just not worried enough about my government.
This is all of course a very rudimentary GB emulator, not accurate at all.
The argument that gun ownership = right to self-defense is a non-sequitur. Self-defense is a recognized legal justification for the use of force in the States already.

What you're really talking about is either one of a few different statements offered up about guns, none of which really add up:

1. "Guns can be used to defend yourself from a tyrannous government" (a wholly impractical proposition - you're not going to stop the third largest army on their own home turf with a small cabal of renegade soldiers. You could even argue this is an irresponsible proposition, because government needs your participation as a stakeholder and beneficiary to improve, not your suspicion. If a civil situation gets to the point where the only way out is to overthrow a corrupt government, you don't need a constitutional right to guns to accomplish that - the original American revolutionaries certainly did not)

2. "Guns can be used to defend yourself from other people in the failure or absence of law enforcement intervention" (sure, but this property is not unique to guns - carry mace or a switchblade, weapons that limit unintended damage)

There's nothing a gun can't do that safer weapons can't accomplish, and nothing a gun could do that would alter the equation in favour of needing them. Perhaps there's a reason why guns are needed as a right that I am not aware of, and I'd be open to hearing it, but on the whole there's nothing really going for them.
Exactly. The phrase "power vacuum" is a good way to visualize this idea. When there is an opportunity for someone to gain power (of which there are many kinds), someone will exert the effort to take that power for themselves.
What was the result ?
Some of the places around me are 'dine-in sometimes', which is maddening, as I can't tell until I go to the door if it's locked or not. So... I've quite going to those places. I don't care to sit idling my car for 3-5 minutes in a long queue.
I have no idea if you're allowed to push the energy back on the grid. You may be better off with batteries to store your excess and use it yourself later. I did that, but I got the batteries for free and did the install myself for less than a hundred dollars.
If you can't find a way to use crypto privately, then it might not be ready for you yet. But you can guarantee that this will change, much like early HTTP had no TLS.

You can find any number of shortcomings, but the point is crypto _does_ solve many of this problems.
> However because of the way Meta share ownership is structured Zuckerberg has complete control

How is it structured at a quick brief high level? Just the common "he owns 50.1% of the company in terms of # shares?"
Archive link: https://archive.ph/cyxRR
Have you tried Deno? if you hate setup and want it all to just work. I highly suggest it.
I was a physicalist (and in some sense still am). In a nutshell your self and everything you experience and can experience is simulated. I live inside a simulation. The simulation is running on a physical brain, part of a physical human which is part of a physical universe.

This can also be probed with science. If we know how the brain wires itself, what it is computing and representing then I think we'll find these patterns in the brain.

This is how I best understand these things. I can also go into more detail how I came to think about this this way and how I got to this point.