skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Ask dg what is your plan for censorship resistance on Hacker News?
As Elon Musk has duly pointed out there are issues with censorship and manipulation at twitter:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525612988115320838?s=20&t=6_KScJ9C4UP4B8iLAoc2rQ

These issues obviously affect other systems:
https://twitter.com/Kinnardian/status/1526081603901874176?s=20&t=6_KScJ9C4UP4B8iLAoc2rQ

Have these issues come up with Hacker News?
If so what so and how so?

Do you have a plan for addressing censorship resistance on HN?
Out of curiosity, isn't tv more convenient, since it is bigger and you don't need to hold it or you don't have a tv?
That's not how it works. Angel investors and VC firms almost always purchase equity. It's not really possible to purchase pre-IPO stock on margin (although some wealthy investors can take out loans collateralized by their other assets, and then use that cash to invest in other opportunities).
No C in ZONAL.
File -> Accounts -> + -> GitLab should solve the problem. Otherwise, contact me using the feedback button on the toolbar (or by email) and I'll be able help you.
> huge discontent about the recent pension cuts

I get this, but these are almost all ponzi schemes when "guaranteed" by the government or some form of bureaucracy. We deal with it in the US. Chicago and Philadelphia public pensions are underwater with no way to solve the problem, so elected officials kick the can down the road until it blows up.
My uncle, a Scrabble nut, proposed this exact derivative game to me well over a month ago, it's amazing to see ideas emerge in parallel. Feels like "if you've thought of it someone else has already" is more of a Law then a quip at this point.
Wage shortage, not labor shortage. There's more than enough workers, but not everyone wants to take the jobs on offer for the money they'd be paid for doing them.
I think I noticed more divergence in the level of preparation (although, didn't try to quantify it -- grad student here, limited responsibility/scope/ability to make change, so just informal observations). It makes sense -- with at-home instruction there's less of an opportunity to just passively check in with students, remote lectures are easier to ignore, and it is easier to cheat on tests when they are remote (so, unprepared students can get through more easily).

In particular -- it was a real struggle to get my first year college students to do any group work (an opportunity they'd usually jump at, because 50% responsibility, right?).

If this actually is the case, it is a really unfortunate outcome. I'm opposed to getting kids sick/exposing them to "mystery long-term health consequences." But setting them up for academic regression is also no good.

All in all, 0/10 pandemic, would not pandemic again. Not sure there could have been a positive outcome. Not sure what the least-bad option could have been. I wish we'd done more, though. I think we may have failed.

I wish we'd tried some really out there strategies. A pet idea I wanted to suggest was having the students on campus and organizing them by major into units -- so, your dorm/floor (depending on the size of the building) is all your-major students and it forms a unit. Call it the Harry Potter strategy. You can socialize normally with each other, maybe classrooms are assigned to a given unit. Maybe a grad student is assigned to (live with?) the unit (hard, though, grad students have their own lives going on and I guess they wouldn't want to restrict themselves enough to safely interact in person with the students -- I don't think I could). Lectures could be broadcast to the unit, with some local representative for the instructor. No interactions between units, but at least the students would have some peers to interact with. But I don't anyone would have been brave enough take responsibility for this sort of thing safety-wise (I certainly wouldn't), and I don't know that I'd trust the average school to work out all the details. But if it worked out, it could have been really something!

Actually, I guess we're far along enough to see if anywhere tried that out, and if so, if it worked out.
Holy moly, first thread summary I've seen, very cool! Is this an automatic thing now? (assuming url match I suppose)
Maybe not quite enterprise ready but if you have any tabular data anywhere it's helpful to have an export to csv option. Business folk do love their Excel :)
The NIST Uncertainty Machine
Walter, thanks for NewtonScript! It is still one of my favourite languages.

Dual inheritance for the win... _proto/_parent
Got it, that makes sense - thank you!
The fertilizer that is derived from fossil fuels is ammonia (and nitrate made from ammonia by partial oxidation). More precisely, it's made from hydrogen derived from steam reforming of methane. But any source of hydrogen would do, including electrolysis with renewable electricity. There is nothing essential about fossil fuels for industrial agriculture.

It should also be noted that the total energy consumed in growing food in the US (ignoring sunlight absorbed by the plants) is less than the energy used to COOK food in the US. It's roughly 1% of the total energy used by the US.
We've lost gasoline refining capacity - a few times. While it isn't the only factor it seems to be a dominant one.

ref: https://www.grid.news/story/economy/2022/05/28/the-real-reas...

ref: https://qz.com/2092389/the-simple-explanation-for-rising-us-...
You're certainly not alone in thinking along these lines, but it is another case of "it's right until it isn't." The Fed has said they're going to tighten until inflation eases. Maybe they're wrong about that, but in the past they've been willing to crash the economy to hold down inflation.

Will they this time? Who knows, but it generally pays to hedge a bit.
A uniform distribution makes sense for gibberish, not something I'd considered.

A counterpoint I'd raise is I wonder how aggressive Dall-E 2 is in making assumptions about words it hasn't seen before.

Hard to do given that it's read essentially the entire internet, however someone could make up some latin-esque words that people would be able to guess the meaning of.

If the model is as good as people at assuming the meaning of such made up words, it could stand to reason that if it were aggressive enough in this it might be doing the same thing with gibberish and thus ending up with it's own interpretation of the word, which would land it back in a more targeted concept space.

I'd love to see someone craft some words that most people could guess the meaning of, and see how Dall-E 2 fairs.
It's amazing to experience how this one design change completely ruins the game experience for me. And I really mean that: Totally unexpected before I actually gave it a go. Fascinating.
For yellow squares, the particular order in which they turn yellow doesn't matter.

The remaining grey Ms tell you the same thing (that those positions don't have an M).
Since they say it can be adjusted for any range of forces I wonder if it could be used as a gravity sensor. Or as a seismometer to detect earth movements, nearby vehicles, even people walking. With a few of them it would be possible to locate all the things causing vibration in a large area. The US Army fields arrays of sensors to do things like this:

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

They can even tell what is causing the vibration from the pattern of it. Very hard to hide any movement from a system like this. I wonder if these are being used in Ukraine.
I wonder how we got a cultural thing where coffee is usually expected to be provided free, but other beverages fall into a different class.

I assume that if it was provided from dispensers like at McD's, it would be similar in expense to coffee.
With all due respect, Ford has long experience in manufacturing and they are not meeting demand for the F150 Electric or the Maverick. They also had problems with the Bronco (non EV).
Actually it's expected to be negative.
Simh is not longer a FOSS project · Issue #1163 · simh/simh
I had a client that stocked kitchen fridges with free basic foods - drinks, meats, breads, etc. - and quality, healthy stuff too. That always impressed me, sending a simple, strong message that they cared about their employees and people like me, and it had a positive impact on me when I ate my share (and didn't have to worry about taking time to get lunch).

At one point they brought in a relatively large team of contractors to work day and night on a critical, time-sensitive project. A week after the team started I was there, talking casually to the manager. They told me that there were complaints that they were running low on food in the fridge because the contractors were eating it too. What would they do? Ban the contractors, with only arms-length loyalty to the business, working day and night, and on whom the business's fortunes depended, from the kitchens.
I am going the other way, humorously enough. I know a few people who are, too - people who made their mark in the "private" sector, made enough money via their own small business / startup / MANGA job, and are pursuing a graduate-level degree lazily over a half-decade with ideas of teaching part-time for fun.

Surely doesn't help people who want to make actual money doing the job, but it doesn't seem like that's realistic for 90% of people anyway.
Based on my understanding, the more recent surge in overdose-related deaths (since March 2020) is less related to contaminated supply and more related to a combination of 1. fentanyl becoming a popular drug-of-choice; 2. fentanyl being incredibly dangerous; 3. availability of COVID-related government support funds.

My brother has been an addict for his entire adult life - for the last 20 years. His drug-of-choice started at cocaine, then crack, then heroin, and for the past few years has been exclusively fentanyl. So I have a lot of first-hand information perhaps biasing this point-of-view.

There was a big spike in deaths related to contaminated supply between 2015 and 2018 [1] which led to a lot of media coverage [2], which is completely understandable: many ordinary citizens ("normies" as my brother calls us) partaking in recreational drug use lost their lives during this period and so it created a lot of buzz.

You see though that there's another big spike starting 2020 [1], particularly starting April 2020 [3], which is not backed up by any growth in media coverage [2], suggesting that it did not have as much of an impact of "normies". And during this same period, there was a additional government assistance money available to addicts, beyond the normal welfare payments, which allowed addicts were able to purchase and use more drugs. Overdose deaths are 50% more likely in the days following receiving government assistance [4]. And this makes sense, when you're flush with cash, you can do more drugs. When you're an addict, you'll do as many drugs as you can. When those drugs are fentanyl, you're constantly teetering with death.

My brother claims to use a naloxone kit nearly every day on somebody - all people who are part of the community. And they're used on him very regularly too - even as an experienced addict, he overdoses regularly. In fact, he sometimes does this on purpose, because the high of an overdose is apparently second-to-none. But he says that he only does that when there's somebody else with him who can hit him with naloxone before he dies. This is not uncommon. I know a firefighter at the fire hall: regularly addicts will bash on their door and then immediately shoot up a huge dose, because they know the firefighters will rescue them.

That's not at all to say that a contaminated supply isn't the problem now: I'm just not convinced that it's the primary factor in deaths today.

[1] Page 3 of https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marri...

[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=CA&q=f...

[3] Page 4 of https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marri...

[4] Page 7 of https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marri...
I guess you could say the question isn't whether your idea is unique, but whether you've put in the time and effort to develop it, and whether your execution is good.
I think already HN doesn't allow some discussion types and that's one reason why we use HN.

Please don't be this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgztPP_CWNQ

1000 years from now the last man will be dying on Earth and will be thinking... We could have made it to Mars if Elon Musk hadn't made that tweet about "Pedo Guy".
Combine land use with yield improvements - 10X - 20X per acre since the 1950's.

So the land-use graph, multiplied by this rising yield line, shows a very different curve. A shocking rise in crop consumption that exceeds world population growth by some factor. For industrial uses presumably (cotton, oil-seed and so on).

Make of that what you will.
Here's one not mentioned in the article (currently an experimental feature gated by a toggle): ClickHouse can consume a Postgres logical replication stream. Instead of paying for Stitch/Fivetran/etc, you can get OLTP->OLAP replication for free, with no additional software. It's not as flexible as the commercial stuff, and has several sharp edges, but still it's very useful and just an amazing thing to be built-in.
I would have thought the same until I moved to a suburb of Seattle. We've had two 5+ day periods of power outage in the last couple years. And it's not like we're exactly in the boonies. Houses in our neighborhood are densely packed and regularly go for $2+ million. But there's lots of trees in the Pacific Northwest and when the wind blows hard it knocks down branches across the whole region, so 50k+ people lose power all on the same day due to many downed lines and it takes a week to get to everyone.
False. Over the long run, successful companies return capital to investors through dividends or stock buy-backs. No one else loses in those transactions. For example, if you purchase shares in an S&P 500 index fund then you'll receive approximately 1.5% dividend yield.
Yeah, the lack of comma, and the phrase "specifically fraud", are extremely alarming to me.

I understand that not all developers are native English speakers, but far more scammers are non-natives than devs are; not to mention, there are likely checks in companies like this to proofread any text before it goes "live".
Happy to learn about this.

I'm going to add a shout-out to my lower-tech SF favorite, community-supported KPOO 89.5, featuring a wonderful array of programs hosted by kindly volunteer DJs. Plus, their stream works most of the time. (If you're in range, I recommend sticking to actual FM to be safe.)
Cheap capital raises prices everywhere- for homes, for equities, for land, and certainly for education.

Student loans are cheaper than cheap, they are government subsidized and not even close to their appropriate cost.
And the real value of it is that within "success" there's ranges. The real victory for me is if I can get Wordle in less than 4 guesses, since that's about how fast one can do it with optimal play. I don't really usually have a risk of "losing", but for me it's a bummer if I get to guess 5 or 6.

Not everything has to be pass/fail, and most things in life aren't.
We need cheaper EVs. Nissan Leafs have a 5-month waiting list right now.

We should temporarily abandon car safety requirements, to reduce weight and complexity and get EVs to people earlier.

EVs due to their expense are being purchased mainly by the laptop-class, who work from home now. The production capacity would be better dedicated to the working-class who use their vehicles for transport daily.
Howdy and thanks for sharing that these issues are important to you!

The push notifications issue is important to me. I'm the one who opened #6954 five years ago, when we were first implementing mobile push notifications, and I've encouraged contributors to pick it up a number of times over the years. I appreciate your bringing attention to this -- it will likely make it easier for me to get folks excited about working on this mostly invisible improvement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573940 elsewhere in today's thread has a bit more technical context for those who are curious.

As a bit of side comment, I think how long ago an issue was opened is not what makes it important. About 250/1650 of our open issues are at least 5 years old, and while some old issues are quite important, many of them are still open precisely because they are not important. So while I agree that #6954 is important, my view is that would still be the case if it had been added to the issue tracker yesterday.

I'll post a separate comment about end-to-end encryption of conversations, since that's a complex topic.

(I lead the Zulip project)
I love the twist on the game, as well as the implementation automagically calling out when I've been defeated. Well done!
Hard agree. 15 minutes after my very first tweet about my variant, somebody else announced theirs with the exact same concept! I mean what are the odds?
If you need libraries or packaging, yes. Gulp, browserify, babel, etc. There are a lot of pre-processors, any number of which may end up being necessary to use certain libraries. That can be pretty complicated.
> UV led actually attract males

This might explain why I have sometimes needed to lay the thing over my ear instead of leaving it on the nightstand.

Maybe I should leave a glass of warm seltzer standing by it.
You don't need to do all that. Just run emacsclient with `emacsclient -a ""`.

From the man page:

-a, --alternate-editor=COMMAND
If the Emacs server is not running, run the specified shell command instead. This can also be specified via the ALTERNATE_EDITOR environment variable. If the value of ALTERNATE_EDITOR is the empty string, run
"emacs --daemon" to start Emacs in daemon mode, and try to connect to it.
It's a combination of things - if company takes away benefits and provides no new benefits - you as an engineer lose money. Meanwhile in current market just changing the company means a rise. Why settle for an effective salary cut when you can trivially get a rise instead? The difference between no rise and cut is huge mentally.

Additionally if the company saves money on such a small scale it sends the signal things are BAD.
Do you know/remember if the NCSA Mosaic 0.x/1.x (pre-Netscape) rendering/browsing process was non-async/blocking on X/Unix as well, and not just on Windows 3.x?
I don't see it as unintended consequences of Soda Not Being Free. It's an attribution mistake, not entirely different from how SEM tends to get attribution for conversions it didn't really earn.

The Elves leaving is unintended consequences of the company getting larger, and not finding a way to manage it in a way that retained top talent. The soda exposed it, but it was going to get exposed one way or another.
Glitching and Cloning AirTags [pdf]
I miss soups and NewtonScript. Honestly, it was such a nice little machine that was so close to getting it right. I still think some of the big ideas of that machine would serve us well today. A replicating soup would be fun.
A little known fact is that rental assets depreciate in the eyes of the government. This is why you can deduct depreciation from rental property on tax returns. The corollary to this is that damage to those assets happen against the depreciated value. For instance, if there is a bathtub in the unit and it hasn't been replaced in many years, then the effective value of that tub is 0. It doesn't matter if you actually damaged it or not, the landlord cannot come after you for the full cost of a new tub.
Can you argue that is the source and/or the majority of the people? Maybe the views of a small number of academics have been amplified by those who have opposite political views and a dedicated audience
Show HN: My Smoothie Stack – What are you using to build your smoothie?
Mechanically, it was junk. Aesthetically it was amazing. It was eye catching even before the movie.
I love the station that mixes ambient + SF service radio
Cattle raised on grasslands, and especially "organic" cattle, are an environmental horror.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31477819

George Monbiot: "[...] there is no major farm product as environmentally damaging as organic, pasture-fed beef."
Most recent houses I've seen are using 12 gauge for outlets and 14 gauge for lighting. 12 gauge is mandatory in many locations, since 20 amp circuits are the minimum by code. Either way, 12 gauge is always safe obviously.
You could. I remember doing it (on my Apple IIc, right around 1988-89!)
Huh. Sounds like the attorney's time, too.
I thought it will be doing it locally, it uploads the CSV to server. Please also provide a way to delete the timeline.
It's worth watching the little stuff. When you see a retail establishment with a partly burned out sign, and it doesn't get fixed quickly, you know they're in trouble.
Coffee is a productivity increaser.
My niece left academia for Draper Labs, where she has had a very productive career. Done far more for society than she would have, at a school. Instead of struggling for grants for her basic and applied research, often finding herself unfunded for a term or year unexpectedly, she's funded liberally and makes quick progress on important issues. Never looked back.

Something is broken in Academia.
Maybe you've been called white trash for being bigoted? I don't know.
The failure rate of Honda generators is vanishingly small; not a concern to me. However, when you step up to the 7000W (I forgot that they've discontinued the 6500W in favor of a bigger one) unit, you also get a 240V outlet, which makes wiring it into your house much more convenient. If you get a soft-start kit for your heat pump/AC, it can even run HVAC.
My point was that all the theft from colonialism didn't really improve things much back home for the average folk in those countries later on, as all the stolen wealth ended up in the hands of the few elites, and the working class people were left to sort it out for themselves.

The wealth inequality was absolutely insane. It's not like thanks to colonialism, everyone living in the UK victorian era could afford to prop their feet up, live off free stuff taken from the colonies, and never have to work a day in their lives. Quite the contrary, they were working long hours living in poor conditions.

The working class only saw lifestyle improvements when they fought back for them.
sure, but in the long arc of history, we're past the peak of capitalism, groping for the next iteration to move us forward. to overcome the ossification you describe, it's time to take our positive learnings (assets are ok, wealth concentration not so much) and apply it to a new -ism. the current beneficiaries can come along, stay behind, or we can fight over it, just as in the past. that does mean that this progress likely happens in a different part of the world than "the west".
Years ago i had an option to start an academic carreer (after finishing my studies), and the basic situation back then was publish-or-parish for titles and etting your own EU/locally funded projects/grants and doing most of the stuff yourself, while being limited a lot by paycheck (you're still a public employee) and promotions to tenured positions, because basically, the person there had to die, since it was impossible to remove them, and almost none of them retired voulontarily...

So I said "nope".
Is Oracle all that bad of a place to work? Everyone _hates_ Oracle for product reasons but I've never met any engineers that said it was a terrible place to work or particularly worse than any other big tech b2b companies (e.g. ibm, microsoft, etc).