skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lot of negativity considering that when companies shut down products there are often many outcries of "just open source it so at least someone else can work on it if they want to". Shutting down like this should be applauded and encouraged.
I was homeschooled and I credit much of my success in life to it. It taught me to think logically, taught me to honor my parents, taught me the value of tradition, morality, spirituality. It taught me the value of hard work, of loyalty, of kindness. It kept me out of vices that many of my public-schooled friends and peers got pulled into.

In my experience, homeschooling can create well-rounded, upright people at a ratio above traditional schooling. It insulates kids from many of the extreme elements and moores of society. Homeschooling is an excellent tool to pass on values from one generation to the next.

Lack of socialization is indeed a problem. Homeschooling parents need to make a big effort to get their kids in homeschooling groups and co-ops, youth sports, etc.

I have three kids myself now, but we send our them to private school rather than homeschool. What stops us from homeschooling is, my wife didn't feel like she had the skills to homeschool. She's not a teacher and feels she doesn't have the patience for it.
Because home schooled children never see anyone else at all?

I think you'll find that is not actually the case.

Also, I would argue that the distorted "society" produced by public schools is more harmful than beneficial.
Ask HN: A Steelmanning Institute
Hey, everyone! This is not a rant or an amusing story or a snarky comeback (for once). It was inspired by a post yesterday.

I have an idea that would cost me some money: a "steelmanning" educational institute. It would become a 501(c)(3) eventually, but of course it costs some money to get there. We would teach people how to do it, possibly with contests where experienced lawyers, judges, and debate coaches judge the contestants. What do you think?
I actually think I may have a potential solution for you on this one. It was clear to me when I started that sifting through religious curriculum to find secular stuff and making sure it was accurate and mastery-based was very hard and time-consuming for parehts.

Over the past three years, I’ve poured over thousands of resources in 50 different subjects to help families learn at home with kids. From these, I selected the best resources that were secular, accurate and mastery-based. I’ve also conducted dozens of intake interviews with parents helping them choose the best digital app, workbook, or nature-based curriculum for learning at home, that their child would love and fit their family’s needs. With our curriculum planner, you can answer a few questions about your child’s interests and your preferences around screen time, budget, etc and it will recommend core curriculum, math and literacy tools to support your child’s education

I’ve been iterating on it and find most people find it to be a helpful starting place

https://modulolearning.typeform.com/to/VBJmkLTu
I completely agree with the sentiment of this article. I would add the additional point that making content for your own blog is the only way to actually accrue a stack of writing that you actually own. Commenting on new.ycombinator/stackoverflow/medium/etc is fine but others own your content and all you get are internet points. On my own site, what I write is mine.

I have an extremely low traffic blog. Its nice to occasionally get a spike in readership but that is not the point.
I can't agree with you more. I switched to Python's logger off of my janky thing about 6 months ago, and I'm hating every second of it. I still have no clue how to turn it on, turn it off, get it to fork output (stdout, stderr, file), nor how to override its behavior.

It's literally easier to just have an IOBuffer laying around.
We destroy it in an active cement kiln! The Montreal Protocol has a Technology and Economic Assessment Panel outlining approved destruction options[1] and this is one of their approved technologies. It's great for a few reasons:

1. Already operates at negative pressure with a high enough temperature and long enough residence time
2. Alkaline environment neutralizes the HF and HCl that are produced when the refrigerant burns.
3. Already consuming massive amounts of energy so the marginal energy use is negligible.
4. Allows use to use an existing facility instead of building our own -- great for developing countries where building infra is harder (but cement plants are everywhere).

[1] https://ozone.unep.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/TEAP-DecX...
You should research to tontines, as they are somewhat related. You pay a lump sum along with a number (10-1000) of people of a similar age to buy an asset - say, a property - and then you each receive an equal share of the income each year. As people die off, the income is shared across successively less people until at the end it’s only one person who receives the income of the entire asset. At the death of the final recipient the asset generally cedes to the administrating company as payment for their administration over the life of the tontine.
Much appreciated! This sort of interaction is exactly why I love HN. Thank you
Or 56% lie to themselves about it.

Sometimes people don't realize what they will decide until they're actually faced with the decision.

It's like asking someone "Would you pay money for [product or service you're thinking of selling]?" And when you have the product or service and ask people to pay, most people turn you down.
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No. Just because you aren't seeing them doesn't mean they're not there. They show me crypto ads because I enjoy watching the insanity and so think I'm a mark.

So what? Is Youtube OK because they only show scams to people they think are vulnerable to them?

Google and Facebook are incredibly evil companies, all in all, and it's purely the money that makes people in tech pretend otherwise. As a group we'd "well actually" defend Enron if they paid well and had a good cafe.
> The great part is that tech (and other white collar) workers used that small window of opportunity where they had tremendous bargaining power to push for policies that will make it even easier to replace them.

Any examples of those policies?
You may be thinking of liqueur.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur

> a usually sweetened alcoholic liquor (such as brandy) flavored with fruit, spices, nuts, herbs, or seeds

vs liquor

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquor

> a usually distilled rather than fermented alcoholic beverage

see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amaretto

> an almond-flavored liqueur

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello

> Limoncello (Italian pronunciation: [limonˈtʃɛlːo]) is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy
Ask HN: Who designed the website for your software project?
...by which I mean, open-source projects that aren't tied to a full organization with a budget for these things, but still want to present nicely. Esp programming languages, libraries, etc.

Did you design it yourself? Contract a designer with your own money to do some mock-ups? Did you use an off-the-shelf template?
I thought that the variable and linear compressors could use a smaller system because they’re designed to run almost constantly instead of in bursts.

They’re also more efficient, but more expensive. So I wonder how much of the price differential is the refrigeration loop, and how much is using more expensive processes to offset the lower tonnage for the system.
Travel + Leisure | Software Developer | Remote, US EST-PST Required | Full Time | Starting 90K

Travel + Leisure is looking to hire software developers to meet our rapidly growing needs. You'll work on mostly API integration to our existing code base and updates to "legacy" code (still in 4.5). We are in the hotel/travel industry and have continued to grow.

Software used: Smalltalk (Pharo), C#/.net (4.5ish) and core. DB Layer is MSSQL.

Hiring Process: Initial Interview, Small assessment that should take 30ish minutes. If both are good, a final short interview with your actual boss.

Any questions, if you would like to start the process, email me at christopher.sterling [@] allresnet.com

I work directly with the company, we were acquired by travel and leisure in 2019 and continued to grow during covid.
Qube Cinema - REMOTE / INDIA

We serve the movie industry at Qube. Once a movie is made and mastered it’s a 300GB stack of encrypted files, and the product that I work on sends that movie to thousands of theatres all over the world. Over physical hard drive copies, satellites and broadband downloads (ask me what our bandwidth bill is when you interview). Multiply that for many movies each week and trailers and ads as well.

Then we use asymmetric key infra like HSMs to securely receive and re-encrypt the movie’s keys targeted at each specific device that’s playing the movie. All done so not even we ourselves can compromise or decrypt the movies we’re sending.

We also design and make the servers that play the movies themselves; along with more public facing systems like high volume ticket booking, box office systems and movie databases.

Our tech stack is Go and React, with a little bit of Java, Ruby/Rails and Node. Databases are Postgres and Redis, with lots of AWS services like SQS+SNS, S3 etc.

I posted a couple months ago and wanted to apologise to everyone who applied from outside India - we’re not equipped legally to hire globally just yet.

Simple no-bullshit work-from-home culture with good work life balance - we’ll set OKRs periodically and you’ll be left in peace on work with weekly checkins, with the option to ask for help at any time. We do have an on-call rotation, since thousands of theatres stop working if we go down, but we jealously guard our time to make sure we only stay up late or work weekends in real emergencies.

Many of us have kids and families, and we respect each other’s time and boundaries. We also have an almost even gender ratio and don’t discriminate on any basis, although written and spoken English is necessary to work effectively.

Get in touch at sudhir.j@qubecinema.com
For a fictional connection:

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

Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hunt with a stand-out and very deservedly academy award winning supporting role.
So you can build missiles that fly extremely quickly to a part of the sky where the target is no longer occupying?
Do you have an option to use a .csv from url, e.g.: https://csvfiddle.io/?url=https://foo.com/bar.csv

If not, could you implement it?

I ask because I'm working on a web-based file manager (https://filerion.com/)

One of the feature ideas I have is letting people to view CSV files.

I don't want to implement my own csv viewer and would rather integrate with tools like csvfiddle.

I.e. the user would right-click on a .csv file in my file manager, one of the options would be "View in CSVFiddle".

When chosen, I would create publicly visible, CORS-compatible url for the .csv file (so that you can fetch() it) and launch cvsfiddle.io?url=<url> in a new window.
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Résumé/CV: 20 years career software developer . Resume available on request. I am also the creator of fabform .io
Email: irishgeoff @ yahoo .com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-callaghan-ok/
That's simply an appeal to authority, right in the title. I'm an programming professional and most react videos I could make about the art would be better served in another format. Not to mention it's tailored to clickbait.
If it says, "milk" or "cheese" or "beef" I absolutely should not have to read the label. These things were made by farmers thousands of years ago, and have fairly simple "recipes".

If you want to sell some vegetables or vegetable oil to vegans, I would have thought that vegans would go for it without the unappetizing association with dead, smelly, greasy animal carcasses.

Why does vegan food have to resemble the things that vegans avoid?
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Technologies: Elixir/Rust
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I get that. But what makes people think this has not been going on -- with many other governments (plus Russia) -- since Google and Facebook ads became a thing?

I am pretty sure it was happening for a long time.
NextEra Mobility | Software Engineers, Engineering Manager, Q/A Lead, UX Designer | REMOTE or San Francisco | Full Time

Annual emissions from U.S. fleet-operated fossil-fuel cars and trucks:

* contribute ~1Gt CO2e, or 2% of the world's total GHG emissions [1]

* kill ~10,000 people [2]

We can save lives and abate climate change by replacing these vehicles with clean equivalents. Our team writes software that plays a key role in deploying clean vehicles and new renewable electricity generation at large scale. [3] We need:

* Software engineers, especially a front-end lead: https://jobs.nexteraenergy.com/job/San-Francisco-Senior-Soft...

An engineering manager, a Q/A automation lead, and a UX designger (JDs to come; email me for now).

Join us! I'm the hiring manager; you can reach me directly at samuel.penrose at nexteraenergy.com We are remote-first with a great San Francisco office where we gather quarterly (-> occasional travel required).

[1] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

[2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00424

[3] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/31/daimler-nextera-and-b...
Fyi, here's a probably legit traditional jungle building channel (that clearly inspired the ripoffs, down to the no talking, shirtless + shorts):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
It may not answer your question directly, but I've used python with JAMstack to show (semi) updated information.

In my case, I needed to show real(ish) time inventory. Our inventory was stuck in an ERP system without an API. So I wrote a scraper that would pull out our inventory, write it to a bunch of markdown files, and push it to Netlify to rebuild the site using Hugo. This was on an hourly cron job.

Since then I've used python to build JAMstack sites from data in Google Sheets.
I find that to be a happy medium for projects where there is no user input and I need to update the info somewhat regularly.
"might be"
Sprawling bureaucracy is a byproduct of what you get from investing the government with additional functions. Every office you open whether Civil Rights or Agriculture or Patent Office needs staff. If we had a single payer system, there would necessarily be an enormous bureaucracy attached to it, most likely an expansion of the existing Medicare/Medicaid bureaucracy.

You just don’t get one without the other, even if you cut the staff down to the bare minimum that can still efficiently manage government programs you still end up with a sprawling bureaucracy.
Rational thinkers don't consider beliefs just because they haven't conclusively been "disproven".
It's definitely sad that there isn't built-in context support, but if you're looking for a solution to this, it is actually very easy to attach context to logs using threadlocal and a logging filter.

When running a webserver though, an even simpler trick is to add middleware that sets the current request's info as the current thread's name, and then including threadName in your log format.
Breadboard | Design Technologist / UX Engineer | New York, NY or Remote US | FULL TIME

We’re on a mission to revolutionize the global electronics supply chain.

During the pandemic, we saw how the inefficiencies in electronics manufacturing can have a massive global impact. From over $200B lost in car manufacturing to delays on laptops, gaming systems, and much more.

Why work with us?

As the first design and front-end specific hires, you will be partnering with the CEO and CTO to set the foundation for the design of the operating system for the electronics supply chain.

You will be continuously engaging with users and UI designers to gather feedback, measure and iterate on Frontend features and experiences.
Work with proven, bleeding-edge technology that keeps your skills relevant and constantly growing.
You are an engineer looking to apply aesthetics in all that you do.
We’re a tight-knit, intense team and you will have a ton of end to end ownership.
Work with seasoned founders who have had successful exits.

Apply here:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3149235627/?refId=1thL8zF...
I want nothing to do with Autodesk products. OpenSCAD and FreeCAD are my tools.
I'd welcome more tools to enable home after-schooling and home summer schooling.

A lot of the after school/summer school in person offerings are pretty expensive and usually pretty sports centric.

Full home schooling I feel could easily burn out even the most hard working parent - as there's little time for getting groceries, etc. done. And lack of socialization in the childs cohort is an issue.

I think more online tools for prepping for science fairs and other academic competitions would be great.

More tools like Khan academy would be great - I'd love it if there were resources that were able to introduce real biology, chemistry, physics prior to high school.
Our Trip to Antioch
It seems likely that no one in Russia knows how many working nukes they have.
Bullshit. That quote came from Baum in a 1994 interview of Ehrlichman. Baum was writing a book about the war on drugs, so why did the quote only come out in 2016? Why not put it in the book?

> "because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author."

The worst lie I've ever heard. The quote is gold for a backroom discussion.

Then Ehrlichman dies, and the quote comes out more than a decade later, when he can't dispute it; with zero corroboration except Baum, and no recording! (No recording for a book background interview of an influential US political actor?)

The quote is reddit-catnip but only spreads because of low-integrity operators in the media. Golden rule: don't put words in people's mouths after they're dead.
> Borders are no longer sacrosanct

But this is already the case, due to the US-backed push for open borders/open societies, at home and abroad. Just yesterday there was a submission on using media manipulation to subvert politicians that want "sacrosanct borders": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937756
> I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie').

Those are exactly the ones I'm talking about

> You find them so terrible?

Yes. All noise, no signal!

If you want to watch videos about Navy pilots doing their jobs, go right ahead. Why watch Navy pilots "reacting" to a Hollywood movie?

The average Navy pilot must know as about as much about filmmaking and acting as Tom Cruise knows about actually flying a fast jet (as opposed to being filmed sitting in the back seat and not being allowed to touch anything[0]) ?

[0] https://fortune.com/2022/05/26/top-gun-maverick-studio-paid-...
Changing the World to Change Yourself
I'm not sure you understand what's going on in Hong Kong.

Politicians getting arrested simply for holding primary elections: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55555299

Newspapers getting shut down and journalists getting arrested because they criticize the government: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009582208/hong-kongs-apple-d...

While I agree that the UK policing bill warrants concern, I think your comparison is insulting to the people in Hong Kong that now face jail time for simply printing or saying anything that is perceived as anti-government.
I was hoping for some actual lab testing and data showing how these emissions controls affect power, mileage, and emissions. Instead, one video makes wild claims with absolutely no data, and the other video takes a very subjective approach to extremely limited testing outside of controlled conditions and admits part of the desire for the change is aesthetic (sound). I would love to see real testing in a controlled environment with repeatable testing and real data being collected. You know, what auto manufacturers spend a lot of time and money doing.

Rolling coal isn't a harmless smoke screen. This can literally harm some people. Sure, losing visibility can result in a crash. Asthma also exists. Some people have ended up with permanent lung damage and reduced lung capacity from covid-19. And before reaching for the cabin air filter preventing problems, motorcyclists exist, and some people like rolling their windows down on nice days or don't have a functioning a/c. To some, this isn't just an annoying problem, but can actually cause real harm.

I won't argue whether there's benefits to be had making these modifications. It's absolutely true. However, at what point do these benefits outweigh dumping substantially more toxins into the environment?
That's basically an endowment policy.

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

Any insurance product someone is willing to buy exists.
Glad to see people building in this space! One thing that would make us more likely to take the leap is a popular online community where 'everyone' goes to organize in-person events and meet kids with similar interests. I think there are enough similar homeschooling-curious families where I live (Silicon Valley), but I just don't know enough of them. If I knew 3x as many interested families, there's a good chance I'd have given homeschooling a try.

It would also be great to have some knowledge base-style articles about how to navigate the bureaucracy, how to get whatever funding is available, etc. I know this varies by jurisdiction, but presumably this could be crowdsourced and validated for many areas.
Global nuclear power capacity needs to double by 2050 -IEA
> The anti-legalization thought is simply: Cigarettes and alcohol are already bad enough, let's not add a third substance!

Which is a stupid thought given that even when completely banned and carrying harsh penalties people still partake in drug usage. Draconian laws may diminish the ratio of users but they are still there, and draconian laws only make those people become pariahs in their societies, pushing them into deeper holes.

Singapore, Japan, Sweden, Philippines, etc. still have drugs and users, no matter how draconian prohibition is...
Good luck with that attitude when your company depends on highly skilled labor that comes from a very small pool of talent (relative to all labor in the country). The game industry, and game engine programmers in general, are a small group and if a company isn't good to their employees they are going to have a very, very difficult time hiring and staying competitive. It's not like they can just grab bodies and throw them at projects. Even hiring the very best and brightest cloud engineers from a FAANG is going to see them flounder and waste time ramping up to game engine development.
My point is that you state "VCs love risk" and I'm trying to help you clarify the way you think about this. VCs don't love _risk_ at all, they love _things that are an technical execution risk but would sell immediately if they can be done_.

Business risk stuff - does the market exist? is a new pricing model possible? etc. - is not at all on the list of risks that VCs like.
I'm clowning on safety culture. It is not very dangerous to disassemble a microwave. Many people have died from eating salad, because fresh greens arrive liberally coated in goat shit. Also, you do not need to cook pork to 160°, that is an abomination.
I suspect Google's buganizer is now tracking an issue "Automate sanction discovery and response."