skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a hot take for you, HN: this all started with the maniac known as Alex Jones. Everyone was okay with him getting deplatformed because he's a cooky conspiracy theorist that genuinely spreads insane misinformation (and was hurtful to Sandy Hook victims). Now, we're going after literal radio personalities. Tomorrow? Musicians? Authors?

Book burning has never led to a socially-uplifting culture. I think being a free speech quasi-absolutist is the only viable position (apart from obvious edge-cases like yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater, fighting words, etc., which SCOTUS is very careful to delineate).

Folks really need to read some John Stuart Mill. It's a shame to see such vitriolic response to a right our ancestors literally died for.
I love Jürgen's home-page. It has that "old web" feel to it. I look at this page and imagine I could spend days or weeks clicking around, following links, reading, and absorbing stuff. It's positively tantalizing...
I work out every day using the Workouts app. I often bike or run outdoors so during a workout GPS, Bluetooth and the heart monitor are all active. At night I use the AutoSleep app to track sleep. I charge the watch just before sleep.

I get the 10% low battery notification a few times a week.
"Bizarre pastiche" describes the training material as well as the output. Well played!
A lot of people would find _any_ song by Eminem offensive.
You’re in Kyrgyzstan? Thats awesome! I want to visit the central stans and Mongolia so much.
> Household slaves could buy their freedom from their masters. Then they became freedmen, still allied and somewhat subordinated to their former masters, but their children were already full Roman citizens.

And that may not have been the perk it's sometimes made out to be:

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

> However, the master could arrange that slaves would only have enough money to buy their freedom when they were too old to work. They could then use the money to buy a new young slave while the old slave, unable to work, would be forced to rely on charity to stay alive.[62]
Getting Started with Axon
Show HN: Maintain alignment of elements while increasing touch targets
Apollo 11 Trailer
And yet Facebook still manages to hire good engineers.
Agreed. Nice perspective. Our first home computer was a Windows 3.1 machine, which had 16MB of RAM IIRC... Even if I recall incorrectly, it definitely wasn't 48Megs.
Rogan apologized too. No need for the "gotcha" act.
The comment misrepresents the content of the article in a way that's trivial to see if you simply read a few paragraphs of it (it's about the effects of infection, not vaccines). The flagging is merited.
Ask HN: What are some recurring web development pains that you've had?
Hi HN, I am currently sourcing ideas for an open source developer library or tool to tackle some ongoing/recurring problems that come up with web development. What are some problems that come up for you during development of websites/apps? Any particular pains with a particular frontend framework, devops, database, or server architecture?

Any input is much appreciated! Thank you in advance.
My understanding is that the likelihood of adverse vaccine side-effects is greater after a previous COVID infection than in a "naive" immune system.

This study shows >2x risk for previously infected healthcare workers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313055/
>350k is ... not that much in high cost area like Bay/NYC/Seattle

Yeah it really still is. Living in the bay area as a single 20 something making that kind of money you are approaching 1% status. Rent is a little higher sure, but what really is the difference between $2k/month and $4k/month when you're bringing home $20k+/month? And everything else in California besides housing is the same as anywhere else really in terms of cost of living.
> remove the cells

I was under the impression that laptop batteries usually have on-board memory for holding charging parameters and such, and if you remove the cells, the memory contents gets lost and you cannot charge the battery anymore?

EDIT: More questions: Do you need a spot-welder for this? And how do you get the battery pack open, since they are usually glued shut?
Were you acquainted with Lyman Sheets (RIP), or possibly a co-worker at some point?

I was very sad to learn about his recent passing.
The police guilds are lobbyists too. They fight tooth and nail to keep chokeholds, qualified immunity, extremely high bars for prosecution etc. And when they're not happy, they strike, which puts people in danger.
And? Spotify is apologizing partially because Rogan used the N word. Some people consider it offensive so they apologized. Why not apologize over the others who did the same thing?
The CEO should have instead come out at the start and said hey we're a platform for music and content for diverse tastes and interests. Some people might find some content undesirable. Period. Full stop.

If employees really can't handle diversity of thought and expression, they should seek new, fresh employees (with hiring filters to screen out intolerant minds).
i have a list on notion to track upcoming tools which i update regularly with suggestions. epoch converter was on my list, but i increased its priority to "high" with your suggestion. thanks for the suggestion.
Indeed. I have a soft spot for 1960s-1970s SF paperbacks and always end up with a few when I visit used book stores. These look uncannily like the covers of those.
There are those that do so today. Given we have no real mental health facilities, those people simply wind up in jail on drug possession charges. It's inhumane, yeah, but I don't think replacing things with UBI would make it more so. Maybe one of these days we'll actually get our act together to help those that need it most.
with Nix .. there is no "transition" .. only "do"
Antitrust law does not come into play simply because of market share.

> Apple is abusing its market share to force people to use only the Apple store

This is not an abuse for customers though. Having a single App Store allows Apple to collectively bargain on behalf of users against developers. It allows Apple to introduce things like privacy scorecards, sign-on-with-Apple as a privacy friendly alternative, and the use of Apple Pay integrated across apps.

> is very similar to what Microsoft did with Windows and their browser

Don't think it's similar enough to draw a comparison.
The Psychology of Dating Apps
Daily. It's a blast to scribble on the wall anytime ya want.
The stories! Bet whoever works that line has some great ones!
Arguably targeting the highest profile spreaders of misinformation and disinformation has the greatest impact, independent of the specific information.
Does anyone have any good references, preferably a book but a good detailed website is fine, on cryptography, hashing, public/private keys, tokens, encryption, etc. as it relates to a software engineer? I don't necessarily want to know all the nitty gritty details of how these things are implemented. Rather, I think I would prefer simply understanding them and how to use them, piece them together, etc. to build something out of them.

I just have very little knowledge in this area. I'm going through a how to build a blockchain book right now, and I find myself struggling a little bit where I'm just calling some library functions but not necessarily knowing how to compose things properly.
>it's still probably better than getting chopped up.

It also seems much better than how Iraqi 'extremists' and civilians were treated in Abu Ghraib.

The suspicious shift of the US/UK to all of a sudden 'caring' deeply about specific groups of Muslims may give some objective observers whiplash.
> I suspect you don't want Trudeau's leadership in any case.

There's no such thing as "Trudeau's leadership" in any case. BTW, where's he?
One of the most depressing things in the 2022 is the amount of seemingly smart people from most developed democracies in the world who desperately want more censorship.
Actually this kind of thing, whether intentional or not on Google’s part, does grate on me a little. Assuming you’ve correctly configured your domain’s SPF, DKIM, etc, then failing to deliver your emails properly could potentially be viewed as an abuse of a monopoly. In other words, their actions unfairly punish independent self-hosted SMTP users and thus make it more likely that the market will favour a larger provider, including of course… Gmail.
> […] but once you step outside the distro build systems it gets impossible to actually compile them in any standardized way.

FreeBSD Ports allows you to specify GH information to pull down code/tarballs in a standardized fashion:

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/SimpleGithub

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/makefiles...

Then you'd list build- and run-time dependencies.
In this case, the speaker of the words apologized for their offensiveness. Maybe we should take his word that they were, in fact, offensive.
>And yet Facebook still manages to hire good engineers.

How do we know they aren't just average or mediocre software developers?
I don't know about the Windows world, but afaik Macs can't drive anything larger than 6k currently, so taking a 5k monitor and adding horizontal pixels to it doesn't work.

LG and Dell make a 34" 5k*2k monitor, but on MacOS you can't drive it at 2x because again that would be more than 6k.

Hopefully in the not so distant future the high PPI ultrawide dream will come true.
The long road to electric cars in the U.S.
At the risk of starting a flame war, if people see something bad, even if it is {popular to hate thing of the month}, should nothing be done about it?
You've always been able to burn all your cash.
How about no phone number at all?
So Spotify is only going apologize if somebody who says the N word also apologizes. Since all those musicians who used it aren't apologizing then Spotify won't?
Bug bounty hunter to working at Microsoft
In 2014 a Princeton study posited that the US is more of an oligarchy, than a democracy.
I understand. But there are strong feedback mechanisms in place so that a casino will actually pay your (unlikely) winnings and a surgeon will actually cat your face, which have to do with scrutiny, penalties for bad behavior, and the cost of entering a highly regulated market requiring lots of customers to recoup. They provide the service they claim.

The story is about companies whose business model is simply to take investment money. They do not try to provide the service they claim.
Yes perhaps. I think they would have liked to avoid the current controversy but in a month's time it may not matter.
It was just a lazy metric to measure effort and engagement, and that relieved the lecturer of the need to read the paper himself to see if you'd absorbed it and analysed its relevance correctly. I can't say I'm unsympathetic - the guy had 50 students to mark. I'm guessing this is standard in academia but if they'd said "read and include relevant papers" I'd have done a good job on half a dozen and the lecturer probably wouldn't have been overburdened either.
I enjoy Matt Levine's pieces and I understand this is meant to be humorous and far from serious, but it's also instructive to think about how such a scheme could go wrong, because it illustrates how hard incentive problems are. I think the big problem would be if the "Certificate of Dumb Investment" by happenstance didn't seem so dumb anymore (a couple of lucky, high-profile investments really take off and are in the news for weeks) and then say a million people (< 1% of the U.S. adult population!) pile in to the next dumb investment and get all their money stolen.

No matter what they've signed, that's still a million people who've gotten their money stolen and they'll be out for blood, communicating on forums, in-person, etc. Beyond the brute fact that a million people have had money stolen, which is bad, there's the secondary problem that if just another 1% of that million still complains to newspapers, there's no way that the government could arrest 10,000 people at once without major public backlash, especially if those people play their cards well and can spin a media story of "victims of financial fraud further being punished by the government." If you've got 10,000 examples to choose from, there are bound to be sympathetic stories which capture the public attention.

And then at that point, if the government chooses not to prosecute those cases, the floodgates are loose and the "Certificate of Dumb Investment" has lost most of its power and purpose.
You can use wire instead
He doesn’t even seem antivax… listening to the controversial podcasts… he just sounds more curious about it… asking questions and talking to people shouldn’t be a bad thing…
Switch to Home Assistant. It takes a bit to learn and setup, but I’m much happier with it.
Right or wrong (I think right, personally), a lot of people have a lot of time on their hands because they're sitting at home due to a pandemic (while loved ones are getting sick). This is different than normal "cancelling" over a bad joke; it's about being tired of misinformation being spread that is elongating this virus and causing countless deaths.
Valve depends on indie devs and atm Valve's Steam is by far the best platform to release, distribute and manage your indie game.
There are a lot of instances of it, not just that particular video. "Planet of the apes" is probably more racist than even saying the "n-word"
just my humble opinion - i believe aapl has crossed the threshold into the territory which steve jobs famously described as the hallmark of the Scully era[0] - their endless pursuit for revenue has pushed sales and marketing people to the front of the line and product people operate in their shadows.

of course in a company as big and wide ranging as aapl, there are so many competing priorities and things to focus on but, IMO, tim cook is a real life paperclip maximizer. early on in his tenure there was some criticism that he was a "bean counter" and would ruin things cause he wasn't Steve, but rather than cutting costs as a traditional beancounter type would, he has been ruthless in pursuing what works to continue the endless revenue climb.

there are certainly many things they could work on but choose not to, or could do better, but when you're in Cook's position and you are the preeminent Elephant (far larger and less capable of dance than Gerstner could have ever imagined), you have no choice but for changes in direction to be slow but large in magnitude.

and at such a massive scale, while aapl could stumble out a new product/service and vacuum up tens of $millions, there are fewer and fewer opportunities which will clear their IRR. Taking some liberties interpreting here, but hence why they feel the need to extract value from App Store payments, turn a blind eye to scam apps, Google as default $earch, etc; their gravitational pull is so powerful that, as a proper paperclip maximizer, they would be derelict of responsibility by not simply sticking their hand out the window and siphoning incremental revenue. I imagine Cook in Ballmer's sweaty Oxford shirt yelling "Services! Services! Services!".

back to the OP, all that is to say i see aapl's future as rocky, since there will be less and less of a cohesive product vision going forward as emphasis skews back and forth across revenue categories. Not to mention navigating the regulatory waters.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
Is it crazy to think dividends should be a requirement for companies after so many years or face delisting? Along with flipping the taxes of capital gains vs dividends.
Lock in Cost (2019)
> For example, this[1] is a technique to achieve a movable joint that I used to chain together to create things like arms, animal tails, etc.

It can only revolve a little before the next "button" hit the fork, right?

EDIT:
Nvm it should be able to bend alot. I am going to steal that technique. =)
Slavery and "slaveowners" are such a loaded terms that it is almost impossible to have rational discussions about them. Many instantly equate "slave" to recent versions of slavery in US history. But the definitions used throughout history are remarkably varied. A Roman household slave was not the same as an African slave in a US cottonfield.

One very interesting line of thought is whether modern soldiers are enslaved. US caselaw has two exceptions for the 13th amendment: Prison labor and military service. Why are they not slaves? There is no logical reason beyond the courts says they aren't. The concept of forced labor by people who are not "free" remains a cornerstone of modern society. We are not as far away from the past as we sometimes like to think.
"Sequelae" of a certain virus and "sequelae" of a vaccine related to that same virus being discussed in the paper seem pretty tightly related to me.
Yes, if he was the one using it. This should be obvious at this point.
I do wonder if it's feasible just to use some cheap off the shelf (COTS) general purpose ARM cpus like in Rasperry Pi computers and some code to perform the same calculations that Yamaha did in an ASIC in 1980's in real time. Even PIC microcontrollers today have a decent amount of computation for a couple cents.

Being latency sensitive here is definitely key.
Wow! Ty.
Tristan Harris Congress Testimony on the Hidden Risks of Tech
For that I like this one: https://cryptobook.nakov.com/
It also follows his own "fibonacci web design" style [1]

[1]: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fibonacciwebdesign.html
The ironic thing is that the most popular podcasts today grew with no investment or marketing. Anyone can start a podcast for free! If the content is good then it will go viral and there's no need to spend $100M.
I doubt they’d ever charge for email. It’s one big source of data to feed to the mothership.
I don't think Facebook created the news cycle. That was more of a product of the 24-hour cable news channels
> All his did was use it while quoting someone else or talking about the word himself. Crass, sure but hardly racist or transgressive against anyone.

An awful lot of people disagree with you very strongly on that point.
"advice" that's root to why majority of startups fail:

1. Build a MVP trusting your "gut instincts"

2. Buy traffic slapping your MVP on anyone who types in keywords that you think people type when looking for your product

3. Rabidly iterate on random feedback from "customers" who need just "1 more feature" before they can become paying customers.
IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
I don't know what Spotify will do. I am saying that we should take Rogan's word for it when he apologized for being offensive.
..except that no one uses a smartphone the way you (used to[1]) use a laptop or smartphone.

[1] I find the overlap goes the other way: I'm using a laptop to write this, but I could have done so with my phone. Laptops and desktops are being used like smartphones.
i'm not an economist or a game theorist so i don't remember the details but this paper talks about how certain market designs lead to untruthful bidding

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/vickrey.IJEC.pdf

but in the context of second price auctions.

lpage might be alluding to something having to do with their proxy bidder implementation but the above paper actually discusses how proxy bidders themselves lead to untruthful bidding (so maybe lpage is suggesting their implementation is better?).
It's fun when you read an article about lego changing and realize that the author is old enough that the "new" legos he's talking about are actually the legos you played with when you were ~6-7 years old.

Take it from an adult raised with "new" legos, if your kid has some imagination, it does not really matter if the kit is made with simple bricks or more complex pieces with a rudimentary mechanism, I had ton of fun with those.
Ask HN: How to raise funds for rare disease research?
If that’s okay I would like to ask the HN community for their advice on a personal matter.

My beautiful daughter Nil (3yo), has a rare genetic disorder called Kleefstra Syndrome (KS). She cannot walk or talk at this point. Doctors believe she will walk eventually, but speech they are not so sure about. KS involves partial chromosome deletion (or sometimes mutation) of a particular gene, EHMT1, which in turn causes a protein called GLP not to be produced. Moderate to severe Intellectual disability, limited/absent speech are some of the symptoms.

KS was first “discovered” in 2010. Thanks to “whole genome sequencing”, it is now possible to diagnose KS with a single draw of blood. Maybe that’s why we are hearing about KS kids more often in our community.

We have a non-profit foundation based in the US ( https://www.idefine.org ) to improve awareness and lead/fund potential research for KS. Also, there are already two active pieces of research that provide potential improvement for these kids. One explores drug repurposing ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12947-3 ), the other is about supplementing the missing proteins ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210921100245.h... ). Both have very promising results but are not close to clinical trials yet.

Still, several potential treatment modalities need to be explored in depth. Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy (ASO), gene therapy (CRISPR), drug repurposing are a few modalities to name.

Known KS individuals sum up to only a few hundred patients so far. When the patient count is so low, pharmaceutical companies are not interested in pursuing research for that disease, so patient organizations are forced to fund their research themselves. This has been done by several rare disease patient organizations before. Batten Disease (Beyond Batten Disease Foundation funded $35M research), Angelman Syndrome (Fast Foundation funded $26M research), SMA (Cure SMA funded $35M research), all funded successful research and managed to reach clinical trial level.

Sorry about the extra-long intro, but I wanted to provide context for this relatively “new” genetic disease which is hardly known. Since HN has members with extensive digital marketing experience, I’m hoping you would share your ideas with us. Long story short, if we can manage to raise several million to kickstart multiple types of research in parallel, then we can offer these kids a chance.

My first idea is about co-hosting a series of Instagram live streams with celebrities to ask for donations for research. I’m not sure if this is already a solid fundraising technique? Also, I don’t know the first thing about finding celebrities as well.

A second idea is, recording a youtube video and promoting it using google ads grants.

At this point, we want to leave no stone unturned about fundraising.

So here we are. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Given Joe Rogan was given 100 million dollars, and is constantly pushed on the front page of my Spotify account, and his show continues, in what way is he being deplatformed, or silenced?
Gonzales vs. Raich held that the Commerce Clause lets Congress prohibit intrastate marijuana production. It's a messed up decision, but it's precedent now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
They managed to recruit semi-famous computer scientists like Simon Marlow and Bryan O'Sullivan (well, buy his company and he stayed), both of whom could get jobs at basically any company.

This doesn't mean that the average engineer is any good there, just that they do have exceptional ones too.
Supplements with evidence of boosting serotonin are worth a try. It costs about $65 at Whole Foods for 2 months supply of Tryptophan, 5-HTP, L-theanine, St John's Wart. Also consider saffron extract and fish oil or falxseed for Omega-3s.