skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't seem like a joke, it seems like a guy outright spreading misinformation. Not sure what was the point of the UUID preamble, his "joke" has nothing to say about UUIDs.
> My comment was in reference to flying

Oops, I missed that.

> Although I don't know what the pre-Katrina traffic looked like on that route

I don't know either. I didn't live in the area at the time, and I wasn't easily able to find any numbers.

> Though of course you're competing with a not terribly long drive.

Very true. I've driven part of it a number of times. I-10 can get bad with traffic in some areas at some times of the day, but I suspect the total driving time from New Orleans to Mobile to be around 2.5 hours normally. I'm certainly not authoritative, though.
You can't tell me they didn't have enough time to switch to an alternative. Such environmental regulations takes time and don't just show out of the blue.

Maybe we should be asking how toxic is this coolant that such a plant was forced closed by new regulations?
> Capitalism means tolerating the emergence of independent centers of economic power

I'm sure the CIA would be surprised to hear that.
The catch is that no units have actually been built yet and the things that work well in theory may not work well in practice. Take it with the same tempered optimism as a startup pitch for a great new battery or solar cell design.
My cat tells me when she wants to play. She will scratch a specific spot on our engineered wood floor where the top layer is flaking off. As I have no desire to replace a piece of flooring in the middle of the room, this action gets an near instant toss of whatever toy is nearby.

Interesting that female cats form more social, cooperative groups. I wonder if this explains why our female cat seems more sociable and human while our male cat is more aloof.
Fine, but it is strictly better not to need to look.

For information more detailed than can be delivered by ambient channels, of course, you need to get it some other way. But audio will often be better than needing to focus on a little display, even if with red backlight.
I wasn’t aware of this service until someone mentioned it in this Ask HN question I posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30977112 . Thanks for sharing as it is a good solution to comment reply notifications.
When you start executing a binary, it becomes a procoess. As long as the code in the binary allows for it, there can be multiple instances of it. So a exe/binary is more along of a regular class than a singleton.
> The ios being exclusive to MacOS is an Apple made problem though. So you're paying double in hardware cost ...

You're right, it is. However knowing that doesn't change it.

I don't believe that you're paying double the hardware cost though. To get a halfway decent non-Apple laptop you need to be paying close to the same price anyway. The current Macs (especially Apple Silicon ones) really are much better quality than virtually (perhaps literally) anything you can get for half their price.
The amount of “news” reporting that is simply reporting that something was said on Twitter or Reddit is getting out of co trol.
same. these days it seems the only way i can avoid mistakes is to swipe slowly
It is actually not about selling weapons. It is about getting access to natural resources such as oil and rare earth metals for things like chips. For that, you need stability in order to do business. Constant coups and armed insurrections is counter productive, which is why these types of conspiracy theories fall apart.
I don't. In fact to keep some sanity I only login to comment, then log back out. I found myself being too karma obsessive, annoyed if down-voted, etc.
> If there is an overwhelming public interest, the rights of owners can be limited

Eminent domain exists everywhere. Berlin’s politics are more extreme than the norm. Most homeowners would pay a low single-digit percent of their home value to insure against expropriation in that environment. Taking a property off the rental market is analogous; sacrificing a cash flow to safeguard the investment.

We can go back and forth on theory all day. I’m m reflecting what people I know are doing. Being flippant with (or even demonising) owners’ interests circles back into affordability crises worldwide, from Berlin to San Francisco.
POV-Ray <3 Been a while since I used that. I think it's a shame that they stopped developing it. They say things are better, but are they really? The scripting language for it is really cool IMHO.
> Typically, they are highly corrupted, wealth amass in a tiny sliver of the population, they are hemorrageing their youth and their brains

These things have long been super typical of growing middle-income countries on their way to First-World country status. It's misleading to evaluate one by the standards of the other. Also, why no mention of comparative success stories like the Czech Republic?
I remember reading something similar with China’s dominance of rare earth elements - the US has plenty of mines but it costs too much to mine them and the entire rest of the supply chain is in China, so there’s not much domestic demand
"In the process of reversing much of..." does not mean that things are worse than in the 70s. It means that things are being undone.

The right to abortion has been threatened more now than in the past many decades, for example.
Exactly. I agree with the perverse incentives involved in harvesting their organs at all. But I see no difference between anesthetyzing someone and removing their heart, and giving them a lethal injection. The former may well be less painful. (Strongly against the death penalty in any form.)
Can't you see the irony of your statement accusing PG of not tolerating criticism on his business' online public forum and under the topic of one of his essays and with a thread headed by your unequivocal rejection of his views on the issue at hand?

I sincerely can't see your conclusion about the immunity from criticism that PG purportedly enjoys in all of this and that's the root cause of his disapproval and denouncement of cancel culture.
Getting strong flashbacks to that West Wing episode 20 years ago^ where Albie Duncan touches on this:

"'Free trade is essential for human rights'. The end of that sentence is,
'we hope... because nothing else has worked.'"

^ http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTransc...
Lots of plastic junk comes out of China, but the good stuff does too. I checked where a newly arrived superconducting magnet was made when purchased from a German vendor - China.
Mmmmh… Organ harvesting as it is called is not quite the humane thing to do, even if the subject was a convict.

Unless of course he is a DONOR.
I guess so. My favorite problem with singletons is testability. How can you properly mock/observe/etc it inside a test case, if lots of test-cases are executed in parallel. With a real global object it can be tricky. But if the object is not global because an IOC container might still create a fresh one per test, it wouldn't be an issue.
Only if people take seriously the posts random anonymous strangers make on r/programmerhumor. The real source of disinformation here is whomever decided to repeat the dry humor without the context of it coming from a joke subreddit.
It does feel more like a hoax/prank than a joke, but I’m not sure I’d call /r/programmerhumor a “programming forum”.
“If we refuse to do anything, they’ll have to back down.”
Most of these "dissections" online simply omit his references, which gives a very misleading impression of the actual paper. Strength of effect is always minimal in psych and social science: you aren't going to find any seven-sigma results. So this is a biased criticism as well.
We use Slack extensively at work (all remote company), and we have a dedicated channel for "Props", where we can call anyone out on doing a good job, being helpful, going above, etc. especially on stuff related to our Core Values.

This gives visibility to everyone in the company, and is also highlighted in our monthly email newsletter, as well as during our monthly all-hands.
White people articulating what they view as universal principles is vastly preferable to the current trend of white people complaining about other white people and speaking on behalf of minorities.
The fundamental flaw with wind power.

Prosperous economies require reliable energy when needed, so power generation must be dispatchable on demand. Intermittent wind and solar source generators can temporarily supply low-cost electric power to the grid, but with a capacity factor of about 30%. This has created demand for redundant natural gas turbine generators to provide “back up” power when there is no wind or sun.

The wind does not blow on demand and, currently in the Pacific Northwest, they store the wind energy in batteries! The neighboring hydroelectric dams can back up water when demand is low (e.g. at night) and increase flow when demand rises (e.g. during the day).
Has anyone else found that swipe typing works poorly on a dvorak keyboard? My guess is that because all of the vowels are clumped together it's harder to guess the swiped word.
Tools for Knowledge
I like the concept. I plan my week in a similar manner with Notion: just add headlines for every week day.

My issue is that the tasks often overflow and I rarely clean them up consistently.

How does this app solve the problem of overwhelm?
IIRC Julius Caesar's or the Egyptian's
take on the calendar have been around longer than Swissmiss' app.
I’d prefer that.
Adding up the metropolitan areas around the NE corridor, there are ~40 Million people living there, around half of Germany. The NE corridor includes 611km of electrified track (or 1500km for all electrified rail in the US, adding up all the numbers mentioned in the Wikipedia page).

In Germany 20000 km are electrified, so around 25cm per inhabitant. In comparison to the NE corridor with a number of 1.5cm per inhabitant, this is a huge difference. To account for other railways inside the NE corridor, we can also just use all electrified rail as a reference and arrive at 3.7cm per inhabitant).

And Germany hasn't been great about electrifying it's rail.
And his link to the Google collision was not an accidental collision, like the rest of his ramblings were discussing.
How did Lia Thomas change your mind? It's not controversial that she was born male. If you just google Lia Thomas there's almost overwhelming voices against her.

> JK Rowling is castigated because she makes a distinction that the more aggressive people try to pretend doesn't exist.

She does way more than "makes a distinction". She is actively against trans people. If you go on her twitter it's almost an anti-trans crusade. This is her main preoccupation these days and so will naturally garner hate. In practice, most people "makes the distinction", and this is normal and isn't heresy.

> The math thing probably refers to dumb policy in SF to remove algebra and standardized tests (the latter spread to some universities too which MIT recently reversed). It'd take longer to dig into this - but there are nuanced non-racist views here that would definitely get you into heretical territory pretty fast.

I still think it's too much to say it's anti-math, what it boils down to is education and access to education. Framing it as anti-math is very right-wing. There's no way a "pro-math" view would be heretical. MIT paused standardized testing because of covid not because they were anti-math, that kind of framing is really done by media commentators who are more interested in disrupting civil society than having honest discussions. Unfortunately it seems like people on HN are still susceptible to paying attention to those miscreants.
Heat pumps are either impractical or very expensive and time consuming to install in apartment buildings, which is where most of the European population lives, so there's that.
It is genuinely bad.

In the US we don’t even need the free-organ incentive to sentence innocent people to death.
It's a very poor pretext. NATO doesn't threaten European countries to join it and doesn't invade them if they don't. It's the countries themselves who choose to associate with the West, Russian aggression being one of the contributing factors.
People with sleeveless shirts exist, who cares? Its so normal these days I can't imagine all the things I would have to cover first. "Hey son, brace yourself, some people prefer broccoli over cauliflower."

It doesn't even make sense. Teach your kid curiosity and general respect for those different from you and let the rest fall into place. Politics only tarnishes your ability to make this common sense observation because regardless of truth you have discarded half of your audience.

Except pineapple pizza people. They deserve everything they got coming to them.
Just because it is not news means we should not discuss it? I find such comments lacking any value other than stating this has been happening for a while.
UK police also collect "non-crime hate incidents" and give these records of heresy against the rainbows to people who ask for your criminal record. Mind you: Incidents. These are mere accusations that haven't even been verified, and as the very name implies, there has not even been an accusation of crime. It's just a record of non-criminal wrongthink.
And being helpful to readers is helpful for getting your point across.
You're against organ donations from willing donors that save lives? Are you against other forms of life-saving medicine as well?
> For a Jr remote SWE position, I would expect heavy pair programming the 3 first months.

No question about that. We ended up pair-programming well more than that and things just weren't clicking.
> The team also appeared to look for all listings of vacation properties being listed on Craigslist, and emailed the owners to list also on Airbnb. Yes, it’s spam. But yes, it worked.

That was arguably expressly disallowed on CraigsList since very early on. (Post pages would have a checkbox for whether people could contact you for other purposes, and displayed/scraped posts would indicate how the poster answered. I don't see how "growth hackers" could've missed that.)

CL was built on a Californian flavor of warm-fuzzy, and it was a shame to see Californian-style startups then abuse that. (Well, when CL grew mainstream, the anonymity and hookups attracted sketchiness, but was another corruption.)
also: https://jahtari.bandcamp.com/album/meanwhile-deep-beneath-th...
It is a very cool abstraction that makes lots of things possible, which are (to my understanding) impossible to do in other languages without the explicit safety contract.

Like this: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/, and I quote: "In C/C++, getting a confirmation from the maintainers whether certain behavior is a bug or an intended behavior is necessary in bug reporting, because there are no clear distinctions between an API misuse and a bug in the API itself. In contrast, Rust's safety rule provides an objective standard to determine whose fault a bug is."

People bring up `unsafe` Rust as an argument against the language, but to me it appears to be an argument `for` it.
The GOP's national platform still says that they intend to overturn Obergefell. Laws that explicitly target the LGBT community (both gay and trans people) are being passed in numerous states, which are uniformly red states. And it isn't hard to see a partisan split in the Supreme Court on the topic of gay rights, even if individual Republican-appointed justices have been on the right side of several cases.
Seems like hitting a magma chamber would simply shorten the depth you have to drill to, or am I missing something? Geology and drilling are decidedly outside my areas of expertise.
Tragicomedy. Too tragic for tears. Too comedic for laughter.
Unit 731 did not use any while doing vivisection. For China, looking at the practices being discussed here to ensure "high quality" organs, would the practitioners suddenly grow a conscience?
I think it’s a reasonable assumption that once they were breathing it, there was more of it concurrently raining down, so the description seems fine to me.
Career Growth Speed, Deconstructed
Anker products as well.
They could all be running operations in Mexico. That could have become the North American SZ.
> I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here

Yeah this bothered me. His stance on this seems so defensive and personal and he gives very few examples of heretical ideas. It makes this essay more of a boomer diatribe than anything else imo.
What do you mean by lack of mobile support? Mobile app had been working fine for me since its been released, at least for me. I only use it to access previously written stuff or quickly capture something to be properly edited later on my laptop though. So I’m not exactly power mobile user.
To counter that, there were likely other people with smaller contributions not listed as authors. Some of the leadership are likely earning 2-3x my estimate salary.
I wish there was a good high density client for matrix. Like an IRC client.

All the ones I've seen emulate Whatsapp and signal. Big avatars, lots of spacing everywhere. This doesn't work well if you bridge lots of other networks with many channels. Discord, slacks etc.

For now I still bridge that kind of network to IRC, and I use matrix just for my personal chats. Because there's just no good client that doesn't become a huge mess with that many channels open.
It's a very simple weekly planer. There is going to be columns with weekdays and in those list items. There are a lot more than these two apps in this space. I personally enjoy https://tweek.so/

The privacy and locally hosted angle seems like plenty of differentiation.

Other than that I'd have to squint very, very hard to make it look "exactly" like TeuxDeux (which I find a lot less appealing, visually)
We've come to the consensus that large language models are just stochastic parrots... What makes us think that we can achieve a higher level of intelligence by putting them in conversation?

I think the next step in NLP will be a drastic innovation on today's learning model.
We just had 4 years of an identity politics Republican president (which party has totally succumbed to its idiotic, tribalist, identity-driven, populist base, discarding a lot of good conservative ideas and values in the process), so your spin on this as being "entirely the current thing wrong with the left" is disingenuous.

Dems are holding the line far better, though they too will fail, and the progressive wing will take over the party, and I'm personally not keen on that, even though I agree with them on some things.
A lot of people are talking about “perverse incentives.” I guess they mean “people being sentenced to death simply so their organs can be harvested.”

It would be nice to see some evidence that actually happened.

I’m not an admirer of the CCP, but it doesn’t seem trial judges are under any pressure to give death sentences simply to supply organs.

China has a very large prison population. Including many “lifers.”

Many of the prisoners have perfectly fine organs.

Yet there doesn’t seem to be pressure to move any of these prisoners to death row to get at their organs.

One good argument against it is that it stigmatizes organ donation. In fact, it really should be called “organ confiscation” or just plain “execution.”

It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing.
I was also worried about filenames, the database, custom ids and all that. It all felt over-engineered for my modest purposes. In true Emacs spirit, the logical conclusion was that I had to implement my own Zettelkasten system:

https://github.com/tmalsburg/mwk.el
All the plugins from desktop version sync to mobile too.
Sure, it worked in Central-Eastern Europe during the early 2000s.

"As of late" we're getting democracy-flavoured populism with the governing party restricting free media and repeating divide and conquer campaigns to create a voting bloc that gives them absolute majority.

Hungary and Serbia are probably a lost cause at this point. Poland is slowly getting there.
This has been a problem for a long time.

Almost ten years ago, I maintained a joke Twitter inspired by the Atherton police blotter: @mvpoliceblotter. It was just silly nonsense, until one of the tweets about someone walking into and breaking a store window while watching YouTube on their Google Glass got retweeted by an ABC 7 reporter. SJ Mercury wrote a story (later retracted). It got a ton of attention, even though your can't even watch YouTube on a Google Glass. There was no broken window. The was zero evidence except for two sentences on Twitter. Nobody did any fact checking whatsoever.

It's not a new problem, but it definitely feels like it's gotten worse.
What I do is, for the few threads where I think it's useful, I keep a browser tab open with only the specific thread I want to watch (click on a comment's timestamp to open only the thread below that comment).

Alternatively, you can use the second menu item "Threads" for an easy overview over all your comment threads including replies to your comments.

This also has the advantage over notifications that you decide when to look at the discussion, instead of waiting for notifications (immediate discussion thread notifications - a great evil of our time).
There's a quotation that "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." I think the problem is that PG is determined to demonstrate that he has a great mind, and must therefore discuss only abstract ideas. Lowering the discourse to include events or people is not an option. Unfortunately, the essay isn't exactly about heresy, it's about accusations of heresy, who makes them, and if the incidence is rising. So the essay can't really get to its subject.
Your wording is a bit odd, so let me make sure I understand what you're saying.
You feel that it's ironic that, on a post about how Graham doesn't like it when people like him are criticized in specific,
I criticized him, and told someone else that their particular criticism - one which is completely different from that which Graham is discussing - doesn't make sense?

> your conclusion about the immunity from criticism that PG purportedly enjoys

Not "PG ... enjoys"; a kind of immunity that people _like_ Graham _used to_ enjoy. That I can call him a dickhead on the internet with no repercussions is exactly what he doesn't like.

> cancel culture

Saying I don't agree with an essay on HackerNews is not "cancel culture."
I came here to say the same thing!

Frankly it’s a great concept and I might use it myself.
Element has an IRC mode, at least for the messages
Deplatforming does not violate freedom of association for all parties: you seem to be forgetting that the platform also has the right to freedom of association, and would be exercising that right by refusing to associate with the individual(s) being deplatformed.

I'm yet to see a convincing argument that broadly, one person's free speech right always trumps other's freedom of association when the other doesn't like your speech, for any reason.
It would be great if you could dig up more information to back up this assertion instead of just assuming motives and facts not in evidence.
Creating a new option, certifying it for different processes, and getting it into full production takes a long time and costs a lot of money. The semiconductor industry has made a variety of inconvenient changes (I.e. photoresists) in the past for the purpose of reducing toxicity.

I suspect that this is a more challenging problem than you think.
This was pretty interesting at the time, but AFAIK it never got any followups or provided detailed benchmarks of humans/AIs, which was too bad. It was an interesting approach, and training DRL agents with that as a curriculum would be even more interesting these days.