skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don't understand the distinction. Why one is out of our control? Certainly we could stop injecting extra iron into the atmosphere just as easily and dismantling a solar plant.

It seems like a lot of people conflate "out of control" with "I don't understand it".
Oftentimes there's some optimization that it'd be really nice if you could perform, but it's possible to write code that the optimization would result in a miscompile of without analysis that's too hard to do without killing compile times. (And often, popular large frameworks do all these terrible things hundreds of times per second!)

By compiling to a VM like the JVM, you expose the opportunity for speculative optimizations to run and be falsified at runtime without affecting correctness. This isn't a silver bullet, but can certainly be useful for an optimizing compiler developer.
It needs to be designed by someone outside their system that won’t make any money off of it, but I don’t see that happening.
send a support ticket into DeleteMe - we'll help pro bono.
Wow...finds a way.
Have you tried Locals? Not a penny a post, but $5/month per board. Can't say there aren't any trolls, but it's definitely more "real" than most social media.
No, I'm more saying that the treatment of this article, and dang's explanation for it, seems to suggest a weirdly arbitrary and paternalistic mindset on the subject.

I'm not sure what "weirdly hung up on the content of the piece" is supposed to mean. Isn't the whole point of Hacker News to share and discuss interesting content? If it's not about digging into full, long-form content, then we might as well take this to Twitter.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "this one had significant discussion yesterday, last year, and also the year it was published." The article was posted on Friday, April 29, 2022 - today, to be precise.
> “Frankly, I'm so tired of the pervasive low-grade harassment and de facto exclusion of disenfranchised communities on HN…”

Would you care to elaborate? I am genuinely interested, in part because of curiosity and also because I haven’t experienced this personally.
Eventually the job does become much harder without those things, though
I mean tbh we just have a paradigm difference. IMO there is no such thing as not enough parking lots. They're wasteful eyesores that encourage a horrible externality.
"Email as ID" is a great idea. But will it survive the pressure to monetize the service? If you ever want to sell the business, buyers will want more reliable IDs.

One big thing I've been wanting from such a service is subscription to users I find interesting. Someone has posted a great insight? I add the user to my list and my daily email now includes whatever that user has posted yesterday. The email has links to unsubscribe from users. As a side effect, this breaks echo chambers: unusually motivated users won't be able to spam your subscriptions, and won't be able to ban you - the only ban is when others unsubscribe from you.
Gentile here, an atheist at that - so is the Talmud like the xkcd's what-if :) (okay, this maybe completely inappropriate but it sounds like).
Just FYI, the parent commenter is the Founder of Optery! So I think they’d recommend it, though I appreciate their light touch. It does seem like Optery is the only legit offering in a sea of scammy opt-out services/schemes.
I'm always curious about the reported 'homeownership rate'. As far as I'm aware, this is actually the 'living in an owner-occupied home rate'. It includes adults living with parents while saving for a deposit, housemates of a homeowner, etc.

Is there a truer measure of home ownership?
Radiopaper is both empowering and requiring every user to be a content moderator. Let's say Alice and Bob sign up and start holding interesting conversations. Then Nasty McNasterson starts sending hate mail and death wishes to Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob can stop Nasty's messages from showing publicly, but first they have to see the never-ending stream of abuse. What can they do to stop this? Can they block Nasty from sending them messages? If enough people block Nasty, can Nasty be kicked off the platform? On the other hand, if Nasty and an army of sock puppets (or a brigade of chat buddies) block Alice and Bob, will they get kicked off instead?
Threatens no one? Toolkits for democracies threaten illiberal autocracies like China, Russia, and North Korea, they present it as a threat to their sovereign power and they threaten retaliation against everyone else in response. With the recent ongoing war against nuclear Russia in the spotlight, with China's looming threat to swallow Taiwan into its totalitarian police state, it's surprising to encounter such ignorance to what's at stake. Strategic advantage is more important than ever.

If you want to be as brave as Alan Turing and his colleagues, then have the bravery to be thoughtful and discreet as they were. They weren't afraid and worthless. Alan Turing had the bravery to do what you now call cowardly, but I can think of worse insults to describe ignorant & reckless vigilantes in the high stakes theatre of geopolitics. If you want to prepare, the US govt (and other democratic countries) is hiring.
print “hello warld”
+1 for RSS feeds!

Also, is there a blog or some way to follow¹ development and know when new features roll out?

¹ Preferably via RSS!!
The code that I just finished writing is perfect and beautiful. It'll be crap next week when I forget that I wrote it.
That's not a natural word, it's a brand. In that case, of course Google decided to make Gmail look more like a word, because they want it to look natural when it's used.

For it to be a counterexample, it would have to have occurred naturally at first and then lost the hyphen.
Confirmed, Perl still only does reference counting. No cycle collector.
I've watched students change majors because of, or regret taking, C++ tracts in college versus tracts that used Python or Java. I think the potential complexity that C++ offers can scare beginners away from programming, as they might feel overwhelmed even when learning its basics.
I struggle to understand how you think your personal preferences represent the market as a whole...
The next social media unicorns will be baser around user controlled moderation.
Example: If a man falls off a roof and accidentally penetrates a lady next door, he is liable to her for physical damage, but not for her shame — that requires intent.
You are showing a bit of naivete and entitlement - if you are visiting a foreign country, you often have to apply for a travel permit. If you are applying from Russia/China/Mongolia to UK/US they ask you for bank statements, evidence of having a stable job or holding any property in your home country, you travel itienary, and ask whether you are a person of good character. Lying on the application form results in a 10 uear or lifetime travel ban.

After all that, when you arrive at the border, they ask questions and US border guards in particular may ask for access to your phone and laptop.

So it does happen all the time, it's just thay typically rich tourists from America are subject to less scruitiny than folks from poorer or politically messier places
Probably due to a pattern of Very Confident Statements from people who know a little bit about the subject. There may be things you are expert in that are similar.
things became quite, i think the main reason was that they fixed the economy, for a while.

However you have a point, media is very potent factor; You see that in Russia, where the state has a monopoly on the press, and old TV managed to persuade a majority in necessity of this senseless war, which is going on right now.

The new media thing is creating a kind of monopoly on information for your own tribe, because it trains everyone to discard any info that comes from the other side of the fence. So there is a strong element of social control here. (don't know if Mr. Musk will manage to change that, but he seems to be trying...)
For reference, I thought it was amusing that he seems to police jackass anti-google comments quite a bit (FD: I'm also an anti-google commenting perpetrator).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31122835

Wish there'd be more policing of the nastier abuse on this site, such as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31162979

Some of the accounts such as that one are perpetually 100% abusive. Maybe not worth spending time on because they're a lost cause.
After some confusing decisions, ReasonML ended up splitting in two. The JS side got rebranded as Rescript: https://rescript-lang.org/
Sounds like it worked? What happened with the project? Not enough mass of attention?
For the FBI or bloomberg?
> Frankly, I'm so tired of the pervasive low-grade harassment and de facto exclusion of disenfranchised communities on HN

You mean exclusion of moderate to right leaning opinions right? That's my experience. If not (or even if so), I've seen lots of discussion on HN where everyone thinks their pet viewpoint is getting unduly picked on. That's probably as good a sign of neutrality as one can find (not that I think HN reader moderation is neutral)

Edit: maybe I'm misunderstanding the replies but my point is that many people seems to feel like the overall forum sentiment is against them. I'm not saying HN has a demonstrable left-wing bias. People seem to be trying to refute that for some reason
An additional 25,000 riders was a big deal in New York City.

“Amazon is Coming, Can NYC Transit System Handle It”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/nyregion/amazon-new-york-...

The deal fell through and now everyone has to drive to the new Amazon headquarters.
The official explanation is that he was hit with light machine gun fire which has higher velocity than a service rifle, making the range seem shorter.
According to Sturgeon's law[0], not _all_ code can be crap, 'just' the 90% of it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
"The Owen Wilson Wow API is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Owen Wilson, or any of his subsidiaries or affiliates."

That's just sad. Interjecting myself into a movie star's position, but if someone made a site like this based on my work in a fun light hearted manner like this, I'd endorse it. It's only an ignored request or a polite no response away, or a full endorsement. You just gotta ask (assuming there was no ask and this is just a boiler plate CYA bit of text).
> The last two years have shown younger generations that JIT is not resilient.

I'm a millennial and I worked for 2 of the big 3 German Auto manufactures in Supply Chain and Logistics and then went to work for a US megacorp, I can assure you: many of us of from all ages have been sounding the alarm since of an imminent crisis since at least 2016. No one cared, the MBAs in collusion with the executive board were too busy asset stripping and optimizing business models for short-term gains and massaging PnL sheets to make it look like the future was filled with endless profits.

The reality is that accounting displaced it's responsibility on to the SC and Logistics side to the absolute limits to the determent of accurate forecasting and modeling in order to keep the 'make believe' narrative alive.

> Each community must grow some amount of food locally or their continued survival is reliant on there being enough food to make it profitable to ship food thousands of miles.

To be fair, 2020 marked a high-water mark for CSAs in the US [0] due to the COVID shortages, sadly it was soon forgotten afterward. People have short-term memories, and the appeal of outsourcing this vital component of keeping Society functioning has little effect on people until it's often far too late.

0: https://www.small-farm.com/wp/2020/04/24/2020-csa-shares-sol...
Sock-puppet bots are definitely a risk for us, as ordinary bots are for other sites. Our core mechanism is complemented by, and does not replace, the standard anti-spam, anti-bot techniques.

Additionally, other users on Radiopaper will understand the mechanism. So, if they see a controversial post with 100% fawning replies, they're going to understand what's happening, and discount the credibility of those replies accordingly.
I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion.

My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?
This analogy doesn't work at all
All code? Nah.

Other people's code? Of course. /s

Most code? Yeah, I kind of think so, actually.

The demands of business will always be at odds with engineering, and everyone is at different levels in their coding journeys, and everyone's got different opinions on what code should be. It's a tug of war where no one actually wins but everyone gets a consolation prize that hopefully makes it worth it.

Code sometimes surprises me, in a good way, and it also disappoints me a lot of the time. I can't really say that My Way TM is better. The disappointment mostly comes from a lack of will from the rest of an organization to not take steps to make things better, even when the writing is on the wall that they will have to sooner or later.

In short, yeah, it's kinda bad, but it's also not so bad. Something we all need to do, I think, is accept that what we were taught that coding would be like is fantastical. I guess I was influenced early on in such a way that I believed that one day the code would actually get better. With a handful of exceptions, it usually doesn't. Unless one is lucky, our job is to make it work and to figure it out when it's not working.
That 25,000 tons figure sounds really controversial. Even the article mentions

> David [Keith] thinks it is going to be easy and cheap, and I don’t agree,” says Robock. He estimates that several million tons of sulfur would have to be injected into the atmosphere annually to offset doubled levels of carbon dioxide, but if the particles clump together, “it could be many times that.”

I found a review of sulfate injection geoengineering studies[0] published in 2017 and with a quick read I can't find any mentions under millions of tons annually.

[0] https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/17/3879/2017/acp-17-3879...
figlet is the classic tool to generate these:
http://www.figlet.org/

toilet is a slightly more modern reimplementation with some added features (like color): http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
Indeed it's complex to do the submission but I understand why Google needs some of the details to process with fidelity and consideration. Sadly, simple privacy is now complex to achieve. We have to start unraveling 25 years of unfettered data collection somewhere. Google here is no worse than the data brokers red tape processes and corporations hiding behind consent managers with ID verification etc.
could you clarify why it's a conundrum? it seems that two different animals is just two different animals, both mammals or otherwise.
I contest this claim. I'm professional and I know I'm not alone in buying an iMac 5K with 16 GiB or less explicitly to later upgrade to much more with 3rd party (like Crucial) memory for vastly less than Apple asks.

That said, if the memory is fixed like on the Ultra, then sure, we'll buy what we need (and a bit more).
When you say it would kill Surface, are you 100% sure that all those corporatey types would stop buying those machines?

Kill is a strong word.
I work in management consulting and design and assure complex IT systems for large public sector organisations, acting as an intermediary between business stakeholders and technical teams. The work requires strong communication skills, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and technical skills. Solution architects typically have a background in software development and have extensive experience working in a variety of industries and technical domains. It's massively unfair to suggest that Solution architects just "talk about" things as suggested by another commenter. In the public sector especially, problems are big and unwieldy (think legacy systems, poor interoperability, multiple stakeholders, regulatory requirements, multitude of use cases, technical governance etc.).
Name -> address lookup being secret doesn't really make sense. Once it's out, you can't undo it, but you share it with all your friends and lots of organizations. I'd say something else in society needs to be fixed if that's become a problem. We used to have phone books, afterall.
You were just visiting more chaotic places.

All European cointries have records of your entry/leaving, and if you overstay you will likely end up with a lifetime travel ban. The only exception would be like a medical emergency.
> this just seems blatantly, clearly, obviously unconstitutional and yet there's been nary a peep about that aspect of it.

I think you could say much the same thing about a for-profit corporation running its own private government.
I would if the content of the PR were complicated. Not in this case.
OK, thanks for the validation.

I think the next step, then, is to observe that I don't see how this can be characterized as a case of Robinhood getting out over their skis. Gamestonk looks for all the world to me like it was a black swan event that nobody could have anticipated. And the amount of reserve money Robinhood's clearer required is, realistically, set by the clearer. I suppose technically Robinhood could have held more, but that seems like the kind of thing that no consortium of mere humans would ever actually do, right? Just something a monday morning quarterback might say they should have done.
> I guess I've been living in the US too long because I just don't understand some (not in this article to be clear) like to shit on Crossrail.

The reason why Crossrail got shit on for their estimates is because they were still pushing the "on time and on budget" slogan just a month or so before it got delayed which was just a few months before it was meant to open.

Everyone expects large projects like this to overrun a bit, but if you start bragging about it then you better be right.
Because that's not Google's business. At least this is a step in the right direction. That IS the business of privacy removal services like DeleteMe which i am a cofounder of. Like in many things in life the advice "follow the $" can be helpful here ;)
this is the first modern social network i immediately signed up for. great job!

i am kinda confused on the email thing. when i use the email of someone i know and they are not on the network, do they still get the message in their email?
Modern java is still pretty poor. I don't like coding in Go but it is better than Java. Peer into the abyss https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...
Yeah, that's why I said only for a brief period and it has to be guided projects that are simple.
You look forward to mozzarella? That’s a very good thing to do, probably best food ever! :)
For the piano - I think it's perfectly reasonable to end the lease if the tenant violates the terms of the agreement. The owner may want the piano to remain undisturbed for sentimental reasons, personal belief, or playing the piano might degrade it. The question of how the owner knows the piano was played may be a separate wrong doing (either the owner falsely claims the piano was played or is improperly spying on the piano or tenant) but it shouldn't change the arrangement or consequences of violating it.

For the doctor, assuming the doctor intentionally lied to his patient and this wasn't just a coincidental mistake, then I would say the doctor is guilty of murder by way of the felony murder rule. My logic being that tricking someone into believing they have a terminal disease constitutes (or should constitute) felony fraud. A person dying (by way of suicide) as a consequence of your felony means the felony murder rule applies and you are responsible for the death that results as a consequence of your felony.
I was going to post something similar, but you phrased it better than I could.
Make files are prolog programs in drag.
See for example:

https://melissamcewen.medium.com/a-guide-to-hacker-news-for-...

That author advocates that HN stay how it is — or rather, she advocates changing it from within. But I don't think it's possible — I believe that the "assume good faith" proposition leads to toleration of unlimited low-grade hostility that does not rise above the threshold of flagging. The result is that outgroups flee the platform. Have you not noticed the gender imbalance around here?

From what I can see it's pick your poison:

* "Assume good faith" — outgroups don't participate. Exclusion may not be the intent, but it is the de facto result.

* Siloed: outgroups can and will meaningfully participate, but debate is more constrained.
It seems every few years I read about another KVS (half of the time from academia) purporting to have desirable properties previously not found.

As someone who's never had to work with distributed data structures, I'd love to see an article comparing and contrasting them. There seems to be a whole lot of these things, so they can't all be the same. Off the top of my head, there's RocksDB, Aerospike, FoundationDB, ZippyDB, Harvard published "Monkey", which is apparently an "optimal" key value store, and I'm sure many more. What is it that keeps improving?

I'd also love to read something about other distributed systems/datastructures. Surely we need more than key value stores?
Blame the "patch after sale" culture embraced by Microsoft. Most software houses are perfectly fine with shipping bad code, and then patching it once enough customers complain.

I come from a culture of space-flight software where it needs to be right the first time or the mission fails. Good software is possible, it just costs more.
Asperger Syndrome is autism spectrum disorder. It’s an outdated term but would have been the label used when Elon was diagnosed as a child.

The existence of fanboy armies is entirely orthogonal to any discussion we’re having here. Their existence should have no bearing on how Elon is judged by a neutral observer.
There is an estimate of 3000 homeless people in Austin, compared to the 18000 in SF.

So 6 times worst.
> But I don’t think Bluetooth blocks for an ack of each packet

It definitely does, at least for unidirectional/"music" audio (i.e. using A2DP).

A2DP uses ARQ and additionally introduces some buffering to make transmissions more robust in adverse radio environments, at the expense of latency.
I'm basically an expert in retail automobiles being heavily involved in car racing, selling cars for Audi Porsche for over a decade, and have a mechanical engineering degree. The amount of misinformation I see on Jalopnik articles, and the comments, is staggering. I attempted to post civil replies and corrections countless times. I was never 'ungrayed'. Not only did I eventually stop using the site, I can only imagine the thousands of people that missed out on useful knowledge.
As others have argued, this has still many opportunities for abuse. I believe that the major problem all online social media faces isn't individual comments - it's that it's incredibly hard to have persistent consequences for bad actors.

Most of them, you just sockpuppet around. Yes, you could enforce "real" identities, and that comes with a whole host of different problems.

I love you're experimenting in the space - we desperately need improvement. I just think you still have a few experiments ahead of you (and I hope some of them center on the idea of community instead of individual interactions)