skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random thing. Tridactyl for firefox lets you open the contents of a text box in an instance of $EDITOR. Save and quit and the text box contains whatever you wrote in buffer. I believe several different addons for multiple browsers provide a similar feature. I find this a nicer experience for formatting and editing. It basically just automates what you are already doing.
This has been a wild thread, and I appreciate the thoughtfulness of all your comments.

It's pretty interesting to me the difference between how your comments are seen vs a comment with "progressives" replaced with "conservatives". In my experience, a reply saying "well progressives do that too" (just like every response to all of your comments but about conservatives) would very quickly have several replies claiming it's just whataboutism, or just flagged (like yours was!).
https://sound-force.nl/ make software-specific midi controllers. They provide knob-per-function control of cool software synths.

Interestingly the softsynths they target are clones of classic synths. It gives people the classic interfaces, but with a lot more flexibility with tracking and automation. They seem cool.
I did not downvote this, but I would speculate that factors might include:

1. Poor reading comprehension (i.e. speaking in the present tense, about an implementation that's clearly described as a "predecessor" from 10-15 years ago?).

2. Unnecessary snark (i.e. one "is not surprised" that a web page used HTML and Javascript?).

3. The bizarre possibility that parent might be mistaking the website and the television broadcast, even though the original comment specifies "website banner". See factor #1 above.

4. You are grossly mistaken about there being an overwhelming consensus against Javascript? Or that snarky parent comment "calls it out" in an effective manner?

If I were to downvote, it would have been for #1.
Think of SRS software as an entry point into spaced repetition and not something you can completely offload the repetition scheduling to (which is the common perception), something to just get a feel of the movement.

Once there prepare to detach completely from any software, so much so that all you should need now is a piece of paper stuck on the wall with symbols to help you repeat things.

The final stage would then be to detach from anything but your mind (which incidentally is the whole point of this exercise)

Attach first, then detach.
Polling doesn’t seem to suggest that the positions you’ve represented are held by moderates, so no, I wouldn’t label opposition to them as “radically far left”.

I’d suggest this recent piece as a very cogent breakdown of the lost ascendancy of the religious right in conservative politics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/republicans-relig...
How Emacs made me appreciate software freedom
I was addressing your belittling of California's food production and its importance.

> No, we will not starve to death if California stops growing almonds and pistachios.

California is effectively the sole source of: almonds, olives, peaches, artichokes, dates, pomegranates, raisins, sweet rice, pistachios, plums and walnuts. [0]

[0]: https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/27/california-farms-produ...
Can't tell from the web page: does the "front tiller" control the lift generated by the hydrofoils themselves or is there some other active control?
I miss the days of manuals thick with lore and tidbits and things not directly related to gameplay. You're right, the tutorial can cover bits related to actually playing the game, the controls, etc. Manuals are likely to be overrun by development between the time they're finalized and sent for printing anyway (e.g. I distinctly recall the WoW manual saying that Priests could wear leather armor) but please feed me a bunch of backstory.

I can't count the number of times I read through the manuals for Starsiege, Arcanum, various Jane's simulators, and so on.
It won't happen. There's a lot of demand for media personalities, particularly from lonely people who like to form parasocial relationships with these celebrities. Pithily put: cable news personalities are to lonely boomers what twitch streamers are to lonely zoomers.
Awesome, thanks! Would love to hear if it turns out to be interesting (or maybe even useful!)
Can I just say how absurd it would be to reduce music, art, cooking, literature, sexuality, religions, or fashion down to a simplified one-dimensional spectrum, so maybe we should think twice about doing this with politics, which is equally complex and nuanced as any of those other fields of human endeavor. To do so is to invite confusion, and synthetic arguments not about policy, but terminology.
> Nothing worth doing is easy.

Breathing is pretty easy.

But more seriously, I think what you said only applies in iterations of revolutions. A new breakthrough (e.g. new physics, new invention) could create a lot more low hanging fruit.
At least one of them did it, finally. I griped about this in 2019:

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2019/11/curmudgeonish-2019/#...
TBH, if someone bases their decision whether or not to have children on their ecological impact to the world, I would suspect that they're mentally ill.
"The simplest answer is that economic growth occurred only after the rate of technological innovation became highly sustained. Without sustained technological innovation, any one-off economic improvement will not lead to sustained growth."

I'm also thinking about the future here and even with a deceleration of innovation, as long as more countries start declining in birth rate, it still means better standard of living for the rest of us. Population growth can drive an economy, but it also eats up the money flowing out to people.

Of course there's also the very-unequitable distribution of wealth in societies to consider too.
I hope your day improves!
A camera works fine, FWIW. It's all integrated at API level. Some supermarkets here let you use your phone (and could take payment further, to remove the physical checkout process), and others use handheld scanners which could also integrate with phones for checkout (direct NFC payment, or scan a barcode on your phone to upload your cart, pay for it).

So many options, such glacial movement.

https://smartshop.sainsburys.co.uk/
https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/scan-as-you-shop
To be honest, the fairness doctrine mostly meant that:

1. Every issue had exactly two sides (same as current dogma).

2. Every "bad" take from the "wrong" side would be aired to nobody, in the middle of the night.

It was a political weapon just as much as removing it was a political weapon.

Way back then there tended to be the same news, more or less, on every channel. Sure, you might prefer or avoid Walter Cronkite's "unhinged" op-eds on Vietnam, but that was about as different as it got.

Here's a liberal view of Cronkite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCdXVWsTpSM
With both, a key can be learning how to "swap" two pieces without modifying the others around them - once you have that worked out, you basically can solve it even if not in the most efficient manner possible.
> Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.

I don't know enough about your business. Why does employee mobility hurt you?
A search engine that queries all nutrition databases simultaneously. Many countries publish their own databases in incompatible formats. Why work on it? Our customers want to search and reference this data, and our current solution needs an upgrade (SQLite). Why is it cool? Tricky problem to solve because of different language nuances, spelling mistakes, sample errors. And nobody (AFAIK) has ever done this before.
Halo: Infinite not having splitscreen co-op is a crime, imo.
What Roe vs. Wade being overturned could mean for startups in red states
To the extent that centralized (thin) systems can move faster, they also come with potential lockin and potentially higher switching costs. Some high enough level of lockin/costs can be an antitrust concern.

With Apple, Google, and Microsoft, it all just seems par for the course. They don't have a monopoly on security, privacy or innovation, like they sometimes think they do.
Indeed. In free and democratic societies, the electorate are the root of these problems.
Perhaps build a social system so that people won’t have to resort to crime in order to survive and progress in life
Emigration honestly is the most logical option for a felon. A few nations will accept local background checks in the immigration process, so if you move to a state where you don't have a record you can just get your police report from a place where your record is clean.

Another option is to go live in a Compact of Free Association nations such as Micronesia or Marshall Islands. US citizens are authorized to live and work there without a visa, so once you live overseas there for a few years you can immigrate to most other nations using the background check from your country of prior residence, which is now a country where you have a clear background.
I'd be up for helping with this as well
I actually think most reporters are fairly objective in their reporting. I think bias shows up in editorial decisions on what news to cover, how prominent it should be, and the headlines used to sell it (which journalists don't usually write, if I understand correctly).

Also, the prominent place of opinion "journalism" and talking heads that try to rile people up, especially in visual mediums. Yes, I'm talking about Fox and Friends et al. and some of the hosts on CNN. People spend more time, I think, getting riled up on entertainment, than actually learning about the world. More hard journalism will be a good thing.
It's probably more like the monarch is the disabled root account, and the prime minister has an unassuming username but with ID 0.

The UK has an hereditary monarch with all the pomp and no power as cover for an elected monarch with no pomp and all the power.
That's untrue. It's freshwater that is purposely diverted to streams and rivers to sustain the local ecology. This is what farmers are complaining about in the Central Valley.
Researchers in Japan Just Set a Staggering New Speed Record for Data Transfers
I see you've not met my advisors. Please no. Old scientists sometimes contribute to push the younger generation forward. In my experience though, most of the time they're a liability, due to their incredibly overdeveloped ego and their deep involvement into politics. I'm an academic MD, so this phenomenon might be more marked than in other fields.

See the book "the structure of scientific revolutions".
Your comment reminded me of this old song: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QqnqRD-znfg
Human attention is still a scarce resource.
> The camera is great but the Seek Thermal app is a privacy spyware tracker. It won't run without location and microphone access. At all...

Non-starter for me.

FYI. You can just buy FLIR thermal sensors directly and throw them onto a board then use that as a webcam. There's a whole company dedicated to that: https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/getlab
To add to this, 45% of people in federal prison are there for a drug charge.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

Only a little over 1/3rd are actually in prison for violent crime.
Back to the way it was pre-pandemic. I work for a Fortune 100 company with great pay and fantastic benefits (I am on a 6 week paid sabbatical right now). But whereas before people would stay with the company for 5-10 years, now they are leaving in droves (not because anything bad is happening at the company, we are doing great) and nobody is sticking around.
Whoops - fixed now. Thanks!
>as a user any time a great product hits the market, no matter how much I like it I have to worry if I can trust the company to be around for the long haul and stick to their offering.

I still get upset about what Google did to Sparrow. I'm extremely gun shy when trying things these days. I don't want to like new products or get used to their features, because I don't trust they will be along for the long-haul.

This can be an issue even without acquisitions, as companies can simply go out of business. With the current business model of "take on debt until acquired or SPAC", it doesn't give me much confidence in the long-term prospects of many new tech companies. The first thing I always look for is how they are making money. If they don't have an answer to that question, I generally stay away.
Adding a “Tell HN:” prefix should do the trick.
> Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

Well nothing to worry about then.
The Great Resignation is curious, if I could speculate maybe it was the pandemic bailout and markets bubble (crypto too) making people think "I've got money now!". Now that everything is tumbling down, I wonder if people will start returning to work. Except now most businesses have seemingly stopped hiring yet again (even retail/hospitality?), so I guess whichever way it goes, OP is in trouble.
Same. Richard, you & your startup were one of the most memorable from our batch. So sorry to hear this news. I suspect there are other founders that feel the way Mike and I do.
Rust is hard, or: The misery of mainstream programming
> I don't recall the last time that CNN broke any news.

They just broke some news today, it's on their front page:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/politics/meadows-texts-januar...
Half-Life 1/Goldsrc was the golden age of modding, and I miss it dearly.

Don't get me wrong, plenty of modern games have vibrant modding scenes (Minecraft, Starsector, Rimworld, Elder Scrolls, Fallout) but we don't see massive total conversions like we used to.
this is the math joke for those that missed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
You have a very different understanding of the word "mostly" than I do. You are also presuming that by the parts not covered by "mostly" in my hedge that I mean "positive sum", but I very much was considering and including cases that are truly "negative sum" games where more consumption is actively worse for all players involved. (For physical example: blackouts and brownouts.)

You are also assuming that Bitcoin is a good use of energy, which is also not something that I would agree with. Bitcoin mining is a massively distributed partial preimage attack on a cryptographic hash function of some importance to internet/world security and I have a very hard time seeing that as a good (both as in good ethics and as in good utility) use of energy.
Exactly. I truly hope sowww doesn’t find themselves on the wrong side of the law for the million dumb reasons a person can get arrested and jailed for.
> missed opportunity to build the infrastructure for water reclamation

Unfortunately, Gavin Newsom would rather direct funds to an imagined "surplus" so he can buy Democrat votes. If we had intelligent leadership we'd be building reclamation infrastructure and at least thinking about the unfunded public pension liability.
Stop NtechLab, the surveillance company that works for Putin's regime
This company literally makes 1984 possible in Russia, being of tremendous help to the Putin's effort to stifle any internal dissent [1]. Yet the company itself is Cyprus-based [2] and also their employees advertise their involvement with Russian surveillance tech on LinkedIn [3] as if it's some perfectly normal IT activity. Can be something done about it?

[1] https://archive.ph/Nc8jl https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-00368...

[2] https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.n-te...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=nte...
The Dream of an Automated Highway (2007)
Does advertising your willingness publicly make it harder for him to negotiate?
Twenty dollars for a transfer? I think my bank is expensive because I pay transfers 0.25 euro...
I'm not sure either! Fixed now though.
Who is a good independent journalist/blogger? (I'm not even going to ask "who are some" - I'd be happy with just a single person.)

I've also found myself disappointed by those two, even if they're not as bad as CNN/Fox or whatever. They're "independent journalists" as a profession, rather than journalists who happen to be independent.
Thank you, I'll give this a try when I get a sec!
Title should be “greedy investors and management making life tough for themselves”. Where did i put my tiniest violin in the world…
Tesla purges remote job openings after Elon Musk edict
> The question you need to be asking is the opposite: how can you demonstrate that bias has been eliminated? Sex bias was absolute and baked into law 100 years ago, and it has been slowly getting eliminated, but there has not been any point in time where we can demonstrate it’s gone, precisely because we have evidence it’s not gone yet. (Pay gap still exists, gender disparities between schooling and employment still exist, etc.)

I don’t understand the meaning of the term “sex bias”. So it’s completely unclear to me that it existed previously and that I want it to stop existing.

> We know for a fact that bias hasn’t been completely eliminated, because the ratios and disparities of many jobs including QA are changing quickly, they have not settled, and they are not the same from country to country. That is proof that cultural bias exists and is affecting today’s distributions. You can’t even reasonably ask the question of how to know how much a job depends on sex or gender until after you’ve eliminated cultural bias, because cultural bias masquerades as gender based preferences.

Cultural bias is about people from different cultural having different standards? What is the hypothetical ‘fix’, imposing uniform standards for judgement on everyone at all places in all times?
Do you mean a billing service that connects to some internal project/time tracking software and automatically builds and sends an invoice?
> California "farmers" all live in Beverly Hills.

That's untrue and a harmful stereotype. I personally know farmers who live in and around where they grow in Watsonville, SLO county, and other places, and they are hardly living the Kardashian lifestyle.
Bit sad that Boosts recursive variant isn't mentioned. It has been around for ages and makes this kind of thing a lot easier:

#include <boost/variant/recursive_variant.hpp>

using Document = boost::make_recursive_variant<
std::string,
int64_t,
bool,
std::vector<boost::recursive_variant_>,
std::map<std::string, boost::recursive_variant_>
>::type;

Document d;

d = std::map<std::string, Document> {
{"name", "John"},
{"age", 36},
{"admin", true},
{"hobbies", std::vector<Document>
{"programming", "karate"}}
};
Yes - redefining "fish" is similar to "#DEFINE ONE = 0.99"

It's a landmine for future developers who want to parachute in, understand what is happening, make a fix, and jetpack out again.
Yes.. but we are talking of people leaving after a few days, this is not the great resignation here.
Show HN: I’ve Built a Digital Organ and This Is What I Learned
Well economists have accurately predicted nine of the last five recessions after all!
Ah, the old "if you don't like it, leave" advice.

Well, in life, you might come across some situations where running away isn't really an option. I've got an (American) wife who likes it here, and a kid whose schooling I don't want to interrupt.

Yes. If it were just me, I'd leave. I've made enough millions that I could live quite happily back in my home country, but, you know... Life. Not just your own opinion counts...
The Scientific Method, as classically defined, is a process of reducing a potential problem space to a single variable and testing it six ways to Sunday to prove to yourself and others that you aren't just imagining things. I don't think it's an accident that physics and chemistry are far ahead of psychology and biology. Both are emergent behaviors and emergent behaviors are notoriously difficult to lock down to a single variable. I've been wondering for a while now if we are just running out of 'simple' problems to test and running out of techniques for simplifying problems. That at some point there is only hard stuff left, even by a contemporary definition of "hard".

I just want to state this as context, not as an invitation to tangent into an argument: I think general purpose AI is going to fade from consumer software again, as it has so many times before. But I suspect that some of the tools may find a home in areas where all of the problems are multivariate, and things like advanced techniques in linear algebra can help find signals in the noise when you can't control an environment.

I recall years ago someone discovering that chemo works better on an empty stomach, and not just for the obvious reason of not having anything to throw up. Normal cells in "starvation mode" absorb toxins slower, while many tumors ignore this signal. If we can nail down things like "If you have these genes and your serum vitamin D is > 120 and you fast for >8 hours and ingest 20-40 mg of caffeine an hour before infusion, tumor shrinking is increased by 40%" by mining through mountains of telemetry and then working backward from there to find the causal link.
You gotta mail hn@ycombinator.com with stuff like this; there's no magic that causes admins to get alerts when comments like these are posted.
Yeah I got a big shock lol.. I'm not sure what 70MR is. Sounds like a parole thing? But it won't affect me. Sorry for those whom it does though!
Machine translations are accurate as a trebuchet past 300 yards, just a better than nothings. But they’re great tool so long user is aware.
Sorry to hear. Sounds like a great service.

But curious about this...

> When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.

Why were they leaving after only a few days when before they weren't?
2022 State of Serverless
Going to third the "need more information on this."

Are they job hopping, in which case wouldn't that also be a revenue stream for 70MR? Did they find that it was such a sellers' market that they didn't need 70MR's services to get good jobs anymore?

I never really understood this "shortage of workers / great resignation" phenomenon to begin with, so perhaps this specific situation would be a good one to use as a concrete example.
Does the equation change if we factor in airship’s capacity of carrying cargo?
> However it is very difficult to have empathy with the user when you're trying to produce code.

Not only that, but as a dev you can get into a position where what you decide to work on is based more on ease of development or “fits cleanly with what we have now”.

There should be a balance. The PM should push for the impossible and the engineers can tell the PM why that won’t work. Kind of… maybe not with that much hyperbole in my assertion.