skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. It's easier to build in North Dakota than it is in the Swiss Alps, too, but people do that in part because they like the Alps.

There are going to be people for whom the idea of a frontier life in a place of natural, untouched beauty appeals. We've always had those folks. Some of them find life is harder than they expected; some thrive.
I am exhausted by the use of powerpoint as a replacement for well-formed prose.

I don’t even know if prose would be superior, but I find diagrams to be, almost always, completely meaningless, or at least far more economical to describe with written words, than to create and then present with the ephemeral spoken word.

But go ahead and try writing a long thoughtful prosaic treatise on technical strategy to solve some difficult problem. It will almost certainly be ignored by the people you are trying to influence, and if you’ve been responsible at all with including criticisms of alternative views, it will infuriate people and create permanent enemies. PowerPoint is safe by nature of it’s ambiguity. People look at it, and automatically assume that you are representing their own thoughts. This is how you build agreement on disagreement by abstraction to the pseudo-technical neutral. The project will fail, but you will get promoted. Writing is precise, and contrapuntal, and dangerous to your career.

Edit: Upon reflection, I believe that this has a lot to do with the nature of authority in the business. The company I work for (not specifically my immediate group) currently has a very strong culture of top-down decision-making; very little influence is accepted upward, as well as very little explanation required downward. As a result, everything is ephemeral, and decisions from above change often, so nobody has the ability to break that chain by committing anything to writing.
"But all the other cars were speeding too!!"
If there is a greater incidence of seemingly off-topic (politics, crime, or sports) submissions, it's likely correlated to the fact that tech is more and more inseparable from everyday life and policy decisions, and vice versa. One of my favorite memories from early 2020 HN was someone angrily asking why stories about Covid-19 were making the front page, as if they couldn't imagine how a potential pandemic might deeply affect the tech sector.
We do need more housing, but what’s stopping these same investors from buying it all up?
Ask HN: How do you know the problem you're solving matters to people?
I'm writing a Medium post to try and elegantly describe the problem I've discovered with a certain process and the way I'm going to solve it with my software product (FYI purpose of the Medium post to drive traffic to my landing page when it goes live)

My question is though, how do you know if the problem/solution you're working actually matters to people? Is there any kind of validation system that's worked for you?
But saying /dev/urandom is best effort doesn't change those expectations, in fact it keeps those expectations the same. Saying most apps, "don't work on early-boot stuff" so aren't affected doesn't mean we should risk breaking systems who will inevitably have software that is going to run during early boot.

It just feels like the argument for this change is, this is irrelevant for 99.99% of applications, so who cares? The 0.01% care!

EDIT:

> Switching /dev/urandom to GRND_INSECURE now would therefore be a potentially bad idea

And, again, maybe I'm misunderstanding. The Jason Donenfeld email seems to say this is effectively the behavior we have. Ie, no guarantees of "initialization" or "sufficient entropy" on the urandom device.
not really, a price correction would just reset prices to where they belong.
E.g. Linux can't assume that the system has a writable disk.
I don't see political posts here getting traction very often. The ones that do usually are angled towards the community (anytime censorship bills come up, you get 500+ comment HN threads). Meanwhile, browsing the new section I found that articles that are just blatantly political ("you won't believe what AOC did in Florida!" to make up a title), often linger with few comments and votes.

And even in those rare political posts I find, the discourse is very different from other places. I think that boils down to the golden rule of comments: "thoughtful and substantive". I've noticed the culture of HN is to downvote any comment that does not adhere to this rule, regardless of whether you agree with it or not. Even in comments I've posted about China that ended with a sentence about how I disliked the leader got knocked for being counterproductive.

At the end of the day, you can have the most frought and divisive thread here and the comments are going to all be far more civil and thoughful than on Reddit or Facebook because even thought everyone might be up in arms, all of them are going "well I'll show them! types long thoughtful comment that addresses everyone's grievances"
I don't write so many comments so I can always keep track of everything. Also, HN creates contextual threads for comments, the ones involving you, and I haven't had any bad UX to report so far. The system in its current form works.
This thread gave me the sudden urge to backdate HN on WebArchive.

What's amusing is the post on the front-page:
"Web 2.0 is a bubble for 3 reasons" yet seeing the same for Web 3.0.

HN from 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/https://news.ycomb...

Edit: Strange downvotes...
Yes, always, since it's exaggerated more often than not.
Perhaps this page has an answer for you: https://linmobapps.frama.io/.
I "think", most of those debate ties with technology one way or another. Say Joe Rogan's issue may not have been allowed on HN if it wasn't for Spotify.

And more broadly speaking, what are the roles of technology in an extremely political sensitive climate. Should Telegram do A or B, and what about Whatsapp, Facebook moderation, Apple App Store disallow certain group, is that a curation problem or a political problem? Fake News, Yellow Journalism, none of these are "new". But now they happen on Tech rather than traditional media, is that a tech problem or a political problem? We just dont have any concrete answer.

There are other Geopolitics issues. I mean if WW3 did start surely that is important enough for HN submission. Or China decide to invade Taiwan, so to speak. Surely the threat of TSMC Foundry supply is important enough for submission even if the article itself doesn't mention TSMC.

So while the rule is not black and white as zero politics discussions. I think the moderation is fairly consistent. Still dont know how Dang manages it. To the point I sometimes worry about him leaving YC, and HN may never be the same again.
You're basically describing a policy whereby no new homes would be developed. Who builds new houses for the extra people we acquire every year?
I haven't witnessed the Dutch situation in person, but it seems the "willing and able to serve the market" might be predicated on being able to make the streets squalid, and in some cases displace profitable businesses by burning through speculative VC funds. It seems entirely reasonable that local government would want to stop this.

The libertarian fantasy that each individual or organisation should have unfettered freedom to do whatever they please would be more attractive if such individuals or organisations were also compelled to pay the costs of whatever negative externalities they create.
> Especially as there are no way of rating programmers as fairly as sportsmen.

Oh boy, I guess you don’t follow sports too closely. There is endless debate about rankings and player value and statistics.

But I am digressing.
Or maybe we already have put ourselves in their shoes and realize that they have other options that fulfill their qualms regarding Apple?

>If you only want to use Apple's App Store, great--keep using it the same way you've always been using it. Nothing will change for _you_.

And if you don't want to use Apple's App Store, don't. Nothing will change for _you_ when they do something.
The FED ruined young peoples ability to afford a home. This will have ripple effects across the next generation. Much harder to start a family, and if you do, you have a long road of hard work and stringent saving.

They claimed they were helping the middle and lower classes with all of that money printing, but what they really did is send a 600$ check and then push those classes further into wage slavery. We are watching the looting of the american citizen in real time, communism/collectivism is once again the wolf in sheeps clothing.

There is no free lunch.

Last thing, theres an equation in finance, I forget it, but roughly:

Cost to borrow money (for an institutional investor) and buy a home with that money, is generating a positive return. As long as that is true, they will continue purchasing homes at a rapid rate. This is a monetary issue, money should not be available to buy homes like this. This is incompetence and negligence from the financial elite governing our nation.
And that means federal reform to municipal zoning codes, which are the primary driver of suburban sprawl. It should be legal to replace any single family home with a quadplex.

Oregon did it at the state level in 2019 with HB2001.
I know it's a long article, and the information is buried way down in the 4th paragraph.

And about 81 percent of hospitalized children were admitted primarily for COVID-19, compared with about 82 percent during the omicron wave.

The study itself says:

No significant difference was detected between the Delta- and Omicron-predominant periods in the proportion of patients with COVID-19–related symptoms recorded at admission (87.7% versus 86.9%) or with COVID-19 as the primary reason for admission (81.3% versus 81.6%).
I really enjoyed reading this, thanks for posting. I've been struggling to find a more sustainable solution on my end for all the sensors and buttons I have set up. Anecdotally I feel their battery life tends to be shorter based on whether they're in busy locations or not. I've ordered the CR2477 and CR2450 batteries they use in bigger quantities but I'd much rather be able to recharge them instead. Have you ever found devices of this type that allow them to be recharged?
There are problems that exist though. As a general creative stepping into designing vr environments in unity(which is just a Game) I want a platform to attract users from, I want a demo gallery where a user can step into my world and try it out for a few seconds, like walking around a mall. I think we are still a bit away from that sort of exposure/tooling/marketing/platforming for indie devs.Its just sooooooo much work to create a project like this and get people to experience it. I guess I could be making a Roblox game... But that just doesn't have the freedom or portability.
This isn't an "edge case"

This is the normal case for commenting :: if someone replies, it shouldn't be difficult to find that out
If you throw enough stuff at a wall, eventually some of it will stick.
You're probably feeling it's faster because it's using <Link prefetch> on every link so everything is prefetched before you click the link (when you hover them) which makes the navigation almost instant once you click it.
Preferred Apartment also owns 54 grocery-anchored shopping centers.

I'd read empty spaces in slow shopping malls were being converted into rentals. Wonder if these guys are part of that.
> So the only way to disincentivize this behaviour is with policies that ban it and the threat of expulsion from the App Store if you're caught.

Then despite all of the anger against restrictive App Store policies and behaviors, the App Store is still insufficient to prevent intrusive user tracking.

> Anyway, what's the alternative?

OS-level protections that obfuscate on-device data in such a way that third party apps cannot collect the actual data. Or restricting developer access to that information in the first place.
AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
>>There's other stuff, but let's just say document management is quite important to that business because procedures matter when getting them wrong kills people and / or leaves smoking holes in the ground.

If only other industries took matters as seriously, then an in-house writing culture would (should!) improve dramatically. Sounds like a necessary, yet still insufficient, requirement.
4,6,7,9
My homestead deduction is a few hundred dollars a year while I pay thousands on property taxes every month. Rental properties are still eligible for all kinds of tax write-offs. I think the bigger issue is that the government is there to support the mortgage of those buying multiple properties. The low mortgage rate relative to high inflation rate is the underlying financial that makes the housing market a very attractive investment right now. Taking away government subsidies for low mortgage rates for investors would radically alter the market.
You rebooted the router? Without prior warning?

That's the 2020 equivalent of your parents picking up the phone while you're online on dialup.
25 Jan:

> Russian envoy urges Justin Trudeau to call Vladimir Putin to discuss Ukraine crisis

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-russian-env...

3 days ago:

> Canada to send lethal weapons, $500-million loan to Ukraine as it girds for possible war

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-to-s...
Refurb weekend: Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 teletype
Svelte is quite nice.
I've noticed that same increase in Reddit-style one-liner jokes and references here too. Not enough to become a problem yet, but just enough to worry about setting precedent for more. One good one-liner in a thread can be alright, but it tends to attract a train of similar low-content responses.

I hadn't connected that to a pandemic-induced demand increase, but that could well be true.

As for submissions (rather than comments), it does feel like HN has shifted more towards broader industry and politics news, rather than just tech and programming. I'm okay with this, in fact HN has displaced Reddit for me thanks to the much higher standard of discourse, although I do worry a bit about marginalizing the crunchy tech content for those who come here for that.
I've said this before, but it's particularly notable how free speech Reddit alternatives very quickly end up taking a far-right tone.

What's really funny is how all discussions they host have to be approached from that angle.

So you can't just talk about your favorite TV show. You have to first make a nod to how it features a Jewish conspiracy to push black-white interracial relationships. Only then can you go on to discuss the actual episode.
You can use an RSS reader to monitor for replies. The URL would be something like:

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=greedo

I'm not sure who maintains the site, but it helps me notice replies to my comments. And since I only check it once a day or so, I don't get too involved with flamewars.
Oh, no. I was referring to the conspiracy theory portion of the comment. I've no idea what is responsible for the down time. Could be software tracking at time of, before people start pulling funds in preparation for the freezing of funds as the order went through, or a simple network error. Any speculation, is just that. Speculation. The timing is suspect, though, but that's really all that can be said.

EDIT:
Or in thinking about it further, it could have been thoughts of self preservation on the banks part. In order to keep a decent portion of their customer base from transferring their funds to "offshore" banks, of some sort, they simply closed their proverbial doors for a time, to let the panic die down.
Unaffordable homes _is_ economic devastation. How are new generations supposed to prosper when they cannot afford a place to live?
It's a convenience vs. security tradeoff. The fact is, most people can afford to adopt a flawed security model to give themselves greater convenience, because most people aren't being specifically targeted and attacked. I doubt many people realize that they are making such a tradeoff, but that's more about dishonest advertising...
David Epstein talking to Malcolm Gladwell about his book Range
Nowhere in OP's comment did they imply that Apple provides the App Store out of the goodness of their hearts. Obviously they do it to make money, like every other corporation. They have clearly sat down and said "We think building this 'walled garden' will make us more money." No debate there. Why does it make them money? It makes them money because a lot of end users are like OP, prefer the 'walled garden,' and are willing to spend their money there. You can argue that they are wrong to like it, but that kind of argument tends to go nowhere on the Internet.
They are only buying it up because prices are rising so fast. More housing would mean more stable home prices, which makes the sector less attractive to investors.
Initially I just thought to apply to see my market value, but since the process took so long, I got more invested...
I think I will make Up my mind on an exact number they need to match and otherwise just politely declining their offer. Thanks!
You can run rng-tools to feed randomness from dedicated hardware like OneRNG or TrueRNG, it is substantially slower then /dev/urandom.
I am also having intermittent problems, mainly loading tweet replies or tweets themselves.
You don't have to get to it to affect it. Eight billion very pissed off people can probably figure out how to drop rocks on the rich billionaire haven in an ocean trench.
If you’d like to have a deeper dive, HN has a way to see previous front pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-01-16
Scott left some time ago.
I'm with Apple here. Despite not really affecting me, I would also classify it as another copycat app. It'll exist to increase the scroll bar and reside somewhere in the bottom half of the search queue and sit there relatively unused. These apps bloat the AppStore. I think the few features that differ slightly are likely overemphasized here, and Apple also seems to think so.

What I do agree with is the amount of copycats they let through. If you don't have the history of being rejected and resubmit as a new app, I believe you may have a higher chance to reach your elusive 'Ready for Sale' status. But please, this is simply reinventing the wheel with a very slightly different tread, despite the work put in.
Comp. bio accuracy correlates with sustained development, not journal/citations
thanks for proving my point: I had to go hunting for this submission just to see if anyone had replied/answered

And no one has (as of 1133 EST 17-Feb-2022) provided a real answer for why HN has such an obvious feature missing :)
Wouldn't all of these arguments also apply to Internet Explorer in the 90s? Just because you currently love the quality of the bundled and "approved" software packages doesn't mean that will keep being true or that you shouldn't be allowed to install software from other sources
I'm a believer after watching "The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFiPVGN3J2M
Uh, tons of things went viral. Memes existed online long before "social media", going back to the 80s. Plenty of things had societal impact.

I'm guessing you weren't online in the CompuServe era? Never been on Usenet for anything other than modern-day piracy?

More modern pre-social media example, YTMND was 2001.
Hopefully the silver lining of this is that there will never be Windows in air-gapped secure environments ever again.
I thought Facebook was having people leave their platforms over the last year.
OpenBSD never removed /dev/random - though they did remove arandom and prandom. But I'm not sure how your response explains the reasons for why they avoided OpenBSD's solution.
And you cant do this durring a) the school day when the primary end user is not home or b) wake up at 2am and reboot it while the primary end user is asleep?

Honestly, I think your kid should break out the SLA and check what compensation they get paid for prime time outages.
Maybe more appropriately, it's valuable to point out that socialization (romantic or platonic) is substantially easier in high school and college. We do not appreciate how much harder it is to meet people and form bonds until we've left those spaces.
So, what is the fundamental difference for me as a user between google chat's integration into gmail, and google talk's integration into gmail that they added back in 2006 and removed 7 years later? Both were chat features that allowed me to talk with my contacts.

https://techcrunch.com/2006/02/07/screen-shots-of-gmail-chat...

It seems google has gone full circle and is building things they've already built and killed once before. I don't particularly mind, I'm just not going to rely on any of this stuff because in a few years they will kill it and replace it by something else.
The difference in speed is likely due to the fact that for many actions, data is sent as json and then placed into html markup on the client using code that was downloaded once at the beginning. This probably results in a smaller payload.
> But what should make the search people at google really sweat isn't so much that google has deteriorated a bit, but that Bing and DDG have improved so much that they are now on Par.

I'd say it's both, but the force that has been driving me to use DDG more and more recently is not that it's gotten so much better but that G has gotten so much worse.
I think it makes sense that more political discussions occur on hacker News because tech and the world in general possibly is becoming more political.
Incentives! You have to listen to Nader Al-Naji explain the vision. It gives me goosebumps.
I use the web edition (and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the embedded-in-Teams view) probably 40% of the time I interact with Office documents

Same is true for most of the people I work with
I get what you're saying and you're right but that's overstating it. There's no expectation of zero-risk gains. By definition that doesn't exist.
How do you install win7 on the intel 10/11??
The federal government lacks the authority to regulate zoning, an amendment to the constitution would be required, and a constitutional amendment would be virtually impossible to pass.
"Confront" means that you can actually take it to court and evidence is examined deeper than "this machine generated this alert and the machine must be right".

I get nervous that so many cases in our legal system get pled out, because sure - if the person is actually guilty and owns up to it that saves the cost of a trial. But it also means that an awful lot of tactics just never get put in front of a judge or a public court. This is one of the prime examples.

I've lived in one state that decided cameras couldn't be witnesses, and I've lived in another state that has had scandals related to cameras being tampered with in order to increase ticketing revenue, etc. And in my current state it's fairly common knowledge that if you get a camera-related fine in the mail you just have to contest it because they will never let it get to court - they're just harvesting the low-hanging fruit. All of these policies suggest to me that your particular opinion of this law is far from the settled consensus. The combination of those things makes me very skeptical of how critical an eye has been over the whole system to verify it's working well. It doesn't seem anyone is willing to go under oath on behalf of the system that's fining people. It'll send out fines, people will from time to time find out the fines are wrong, but I just don't hear much about how much rigor is being spent actually proving anything on the other side.